texts: Is it possible to automatically turn vibrate mode off at night?

texts:
I usually have my iPhone in "vibrate mode" (ringtone off, vibrate on). However, I'd like to additionally have it turn vibrate mode off automatically between for example 11 PM and 7 AM because I don't want to be awakened (or have my wife woken up) by some spam mail that arrives at 2 AM.

Some apps allow to define periods where notifications are suppressed, but it seems the Notification center (or at least the Mail app) does not. Is there any way to achieve this (on a non-jailbroken iPhone)?

I know I can turn it off manually in Preferences, but that's cumbersome, and I'm going to forget either to turn it off or to turn it back on.


texts: macOS did not apply new time zone settings

texts:
I live in Turkey and recently Turkish government has opted out of Daylight Saving system, locking the country's time zone into UTC+3 permanently. If there wasn't this change in action, time should have been adjusted -1 hour into UTC+2 today midnight. But since the new regulation, there shouldn't have been taken any action by the OS and it should have stayed at UTC+3 (time shouldn't have changed at all). But it did on my Mac.

My iPhone didn't change time time (correct behaviour) and now it is 12:26 as I'm writing here in UTC+3. My Mac adjusted itself to UTC+2 and now it's 11:26 on my Mac (incorrect behavior).

I've updated the time settings (sudo ntpdate -u time.apple.com), I'm sure that I'm in the right time zone:

Yet it's still at the incorrect time zone.

How can I fix this problem (without manually adjusting my Mac's timezone to some other country's with the UTC+3 timezone)?


texts: Why can't I see the cellular/battery status on my hotspot iPhone?

texts:
It just looks like this. My Mac isn't receiving that info for some reason.
The phone is iPhone 12 mini, the Mac is MacBook Air M1.
Also, the hotspot doesn't show by itself in the networks list. I need to first enable it on my iPhone. Even tho both devices are connected to the same iCloud account.


texts: I label my emails as spam or better "Junk email" in my iPhone and MacBook Air but the emails continue to stay in my inbox. I want to get rid of them without removing them so I can later improve my spam filtering with SpamAssistant in my server. How can I hide spam emails in my inbox of OSX Apple Mail app?


texts:
Is it possible to keep the photos on the iPhone and iCloud in-sync? So if I delete a photo on the iPhone, I want it to be deleted on iCloud and vice versa.

Is it possible to configure the phone/cloud to do this?


texts: How much disk space is already used by the OS and included apps on a new MacBook Air

texts:
I'm considering getting a new MacBook Air, and wondering whether to get the extra diskspace that the 256GB model offers.

128GB seems like it might be plenty but then I remembered that the OS takes up some space the pre installed apps also take up some space. So an upgrade from 128 to 256 would actually more than double the usable capacity of the machine. But by how much?

So my question is on a brand new, straight out of the box, July 2011 MacBook Air 13" if you right click on the mac disk and Get Info how much available space does it report.


texts: OS X El Captain - Terminal shortcut is not working

texts:
I defined a shortcut for opening a Terminal, but it isn't working.

Any ideas?


texts: Macbook Air - battery drains while sleeping (but not when shut down)

texts:
My macbook air (13-inch, mid 2011) battery drains from ~100% to ~85% over night.  The problem only started a few months ago.  I'm currently running yosemite, but the problem started while on mavericks.  My battery cycle count is ~130.

I tried completely discharging the battery and then re-charging, but that seems to have had no effect.  I've also read through apple's battery documentation, but I can't find anything there either.  Unfortunately, most of the forum posts I've found are about batteries going from 100% to 1% overnight -- I'm having trouble finding anything about losing ~15% overnight.

Results of pmset -g

Active Profiles:
Battery Power       1
AC Power        2*
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         4200
 standby              1
 womp                 1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 darkwakes            1
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 sleep                10
 hibernatemode        3
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

Here are the results of syslog | grep -i "Wake reason" for the last 24 hours.  I put my computer to sleep yesterday around 6pm and woke it this morning at 9:56am.  Over that period, the battery went from 100% to 85%.

Nov 18 09:51:00 prime kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)
Nov 19 09:56:57 prime kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC2 (User)


texts: Keyboard Shortcut For Entering Screen Saver

texts:
How can I enter Screen Saver without wating few minutes? Is there an application I could run, keyboard shortcut maybe? I'm using rMBP running ML.

EDIT: All I found was using Hot Corner as explained here: https://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#quickscreensaver

Basically it means I have to move my mouse cursor into a corner and maybe comine a key such as command to enter Screen Saver. I don't really like this solution.


texts: Mail app Keeps opening, can't find notification options on google calendar

texts:
I know, there are a lot of peoples asking this, and I followed every single guide, but I REALLY DO NOT found the "calendars link" and so I can't keep following the guide...Has google changed the layout or something else, I don't know.
But I really need to fix this mail problem, even apple support has said to me "There is no solution for this problem at the moment, keep your macbook up to date".
Really thanks to those that can help me.


texts: Is there a problem with GeForce 750M performance on gaming?

texts:
I play games on my Mid-2014 retina MBP, which has both Iris Pro and GeForce 750M 2GB. One of the games that I play (League of Legends, which has a 'beta' OS X client, but I highly doubt that this is the reason) sometimes runs slow on graphics-intensive scenes. Today, I forgot my GPU on 'Integrated only' (I use gfxCardStatus) and entered the game. Interestingly, the game almost never slowed down at all, even on graphics intensive scenes, running smoothly on 60FPS. I've upped the settings and it was still running smoothly at settings which severely affected GT750M's performance. I've doubled checked the active GPU and yes it is Intel Iris Pro. How can this happen? How can integrated graphics perform better than a GT750M on gaming? I know Iris Pro is a great 'integrated' card (compared to other integrated cards), but I highly doubt that it does better than 750M. If it really did, then why would it co-exist with 750M anyway?

Why would this be happening?


texts: How to partition a pen drive with Disk Utility in El Capitan?

texts:
I've a 16 GB pen drive and I want to partition it like this:

two MBR partitions:

FAT - 1GB
default (HFS Plus journaled) - remaining.

How to do this in El Capitan?


texts: Negotiated link speed considerations for SSD choice?

texts:
If my negotiated link speed is 3 GB (instead of 6 GB), does this still mean I'm using SATA III on my early 2011 Macbook Pro 17-inch laptop?

I ask because I'm currently upgrading my HDD with an SSD for this early 2011 Macbook Pro 17-inch model; does my negotiated link speed affect what kind of SSD's I should consider?  For example, are there any SSD's that I would need to steer clear of?

Also, can someone explain the difference between installing the SSD in the main drive vs. the optical drive?  What is the difference exactly and how can I take full advantage of it to maximize the performance of my early 2011 Macbook Pro?  For example, if I put a Crucial M500 into the main drive bay, would updating the optical drive bay as well make absolutely any difference in my performance?

Here are a few links I considered (and a few others like it), but it did not help answer my specific questions: Is there a way to tell if I can use a SATA III SSD in my early 2011 MBP 15"? and What is an SSD drive's negotiated link speed?


texts:
I deleted a file last week (a PDF in this case). While I'm able to reconstruct the information I need in this case, I'd like to take precautions against this happening again.

Is there anything built into the OS that will let me recover files? Will enabling time machine allow me to do this? (I don't want it to be taking up lots of room on disc.) Am I best off purchasing a program such as DiskWarrior, or are there free options to do this?

How can I set up 10.6 so that it'll be easier for me to recover deleted files?

Edit: "Deleted" means I emptied the trash.


texts:
I was given an iPhone 6s by a friend. It was completely reset and the sim card was taken out. Every time I try to sign into my Apple ID, it says "Could not sign in."

My steps -
"Set up manually"
"Set up as new iPhone"
"Enter Apple ID and Password"
"Agrees to Terms and Conditions"
"Message pops up 'Could Not Sign In"


texts: Is there a data collection app that exports CSV to Dropbox?

texts:
I'm having some serious issues finding a data collection program (Spreadsheets?) for use with my Dropbox account. The application should be able to export CSV files, and automatically upload them to a Dropbox account that I specify.

Does this app exist on the iTunes Store?


texts: Quickest way to "destroy" the contents of a drive?

texts:
Consider a drive protected with the latest iteration of Filevault.
If I wanted to make the contents of the disk unrecoverable, I could of course do a security wipe of the entire drive - which would undoubtedly take a while.
Is there a quicker way?
Can the key material be irretrievably damaged instead for example, in such a way the encrypted contents are useless? For example dd'iing over a specific offset of the drive?


texts: how does FileVault get the key to unlock an encrypted drive?

texts:
I an trying to understand how FileVault (specifically the later version used in recent macOS releases, i.e. FileVault 2) stores and retrieves its encryption key.
This is prompted by two specific questions/observations:

When you boot up a device with FileVault enabled, it goes to your login screen and shows your username, and a place to enter a password. When you do log in, it is extremely quick. This implies the disk already was decrypted. Assuming that the encryption key somehow was derived from your passphrase, this should be impossible, as you have not yet entered it.
If you create an alternate OS install, e.g. another copy of the latest (Catalina) or a beta (Big Sur), in another APFS volume, you can encrypt it. Assuming you want similar convenient behaviour, the encryption key you provide should be related to whatever encryption key is used for your other volumes. Of course, it is possible that the read-only OS volume is not encrypted and only the read-write Data volume is encrypted, but that is not what appears in the various utilities.


texts:
In a previous version of macOS the Preview app opened a box at the bottom of the screen and allowed me to click the A (type tool) and place the cursor where I wanted the text, then click to create a starting point.

The current version does not automatically create a text box when you selected the Text Annotation tool.

Can I change the way the current version of Preview works, to match this old behaviour? I don't like having to move the text box where I want it and highlight the word text to begin typing. It was so much easier and faster the old way.


texts: Formatted APFS in Mojave shows file format in system report as MS-DOS

texts:
just fitted an ssd to my Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave enabled, working ok but when I looked at the system report it says the file system is ms-dos, is this a problem? the only option I had for formatting the ssd in disk utility was APFS which I chose

Thanks Ted


texts: How to hide app store updates in macOS Sierra?

texts:
I tried right clicking the updates to see if it would show me a "hide" or "ignore" option without any luck.

My OCD is not pleased. I don't want to see a number on my pretty App Store icon :p

Am I missing anything or did Apple just remove that option? If so, may Steve Job's ghost haunt them until they are all driven crazy.


texts: I want Show my own App icon in the lower-left corner of iPhone Lock screen?

texts: can please give me some Suggestions? Like this


texts: My phone transformed into my dad's phone HELP!

texts: My phone was charging on our family laptop and my phone said "Restoring in process" I didn't press anything but I also didn't think anything of it. Well when it was done restoring everything changed and then I realized it was my dad's phone due to the contacts and pictures. Although, my phone still has my number connected to it instead of my dad's.  How do I transform it back into my phone without losing contacts on both phones?


texts: How do I share sections from the notebook via e-mail in Microsoft OneNote for Mac?

texts: I am utilizing Microsoft OneNote version 15.2.2 on a Mac.  Is it possible to share sections from the notebook via email as an attachment that can be edited, instead of only in the body of the email?


texts: Mainly i want to update youtube-dl on my mac. I have used Linux so for that updating any app is very simple: apt-get update youtube-dl. But how to do it on Mac using home-brew. Is there any kind of general command or something which will work for all the apps?


texts:
Is it possible to permanently overwrite the 'Hide Toolbar' and 'Hide Sidebar' setting in the Finder, particularly in DMG images with downloaded Applications, so that the toolbar and sidebar are always visible?

That way it would be possible to drop applications directly into the Applications folder.


texts:
I have been trying to install BitTorrent and µTorrent on my Macbook, and it's been 3 days I am unable to install it and error is "Could not initialize a installer". I have searched multiple forums and applied whatever they were suggesting. Following is the screenshot attached I have been receiving.

What I have tried so far

Tried the "JFX14" comment,

Disable your Firewall by going to System Preferences>Security & Privacy. Click the Firewall tab then click the lock icon at the bottom of the window this will enable you to turn the Firewall on or off.
Be sure you're not connected to a VPN or Proxy. < (I was able to install the latest uTorrent when I disconnected from my VPN).
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5818206


texts: can't boot into windows 10 bootcamp but partition is still good

texts: I have a Macbook Pro 15" 2018 running High Sierra and I installed Windows 10 using bootcamp. I had duet display installed on both HS and Win10, and I installed Parallels Desktop 14 on the MacOS side and had it run the bootcamp partition instead of installing a new instance of win10. I think duet display caused some problems because the MacOS version was trying to mirror with the ipad at the same as the Win10 duet display running duet display (that was dumb, I know. it was a careless accident). It crashed/stalled and I couldn't shut down or suspend win10 in Parallels. I ended up force quitting Parallels using activity monitor. Now I can't boot into windows by holding option on bootup. However, I do have the Paragon NTFS for Mac that allows me to view NTFS partitions and all my data is on there and now backed up. I'd rather not have to reinstall everything if all it takes is fiddling with the EFI partition. Any ideas?


texts:
I am using a normal german keyboard and am well aware of the different keystrokes, to insert different diacritic characters as œ or Á.  But being a programmer, I desire to be able to insert some diacritic characters directly, instead of using that key as dead key.  For example, I would love to insert ^ by only tying the ^ once.

How to get rid of those dead keys?


texts: How to print duplex with Epson AL-MX200 printer?

texts: It can't print both sided as the duplex select on the print window is grayed. It works fine on Linux. How to tell the driver that the printer is an actual duplex printer? Thanks.


texts: Why does fish shell create a hidden process in iTerm2

texts:
I've moved from bash to fish shell in iTerm2. However, whenever I start iTerm2, I receive the following error message:

  A session ended very soon after starting. Check that the command in
  profile is correct.

After looking around, I realise that whenever I start iTerm2 for the first time, it creates two processes:

40776   ??  S      0:00.41 /Users/admin/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2
40778 s000  Ss     0:00.03 /Users/admin/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --server login -fp admin

The first process terminates when I quit iTerm2, but the second one remains. I have to manually kill it.

I don't have this problem with bash or even zsh. So, why does fish shell create an additional and hidden process, and how to stop it from doing so?


texts: How do I copy music from iphone 4 to iphone 5s and windows computer?

texts:
I have three devices:

1) iPhone 4 synced with old computer whose hard drive failed

2) iPhone 5s not synced with any computer

3) New windows computer

All of the music (most of it not purchased on itunes) is on the iphone 4.  I want to copy it to the windows computer and the iphone 5s.  I am signed into the same itunes account on all three devices.  When I plug my iphone 4 in, it doesn't let me sync because it is still tied to another computer.  Sadly that other computer is dead and I lost all of the music and it only exists now on the iphone 4.  I tried backing up the iphone 4 and then restoring it to the iphone 5s, but the backup does not contain music.

Any ideas on how to transfer the music off the iphone 4?

Thanks


texts: How Do I Get Testers for my App Submissions?

texts:
I submitted my enrollment in the Apple Developer Program a couple of days ago. I'm waiting to be approved.

I have Mac 3D Puzzle apps that were created as .app files using Unity 5.3.2. I plan to create iPad versions from Unity which create Xcode projects. I would like to take advantage of the TestFlight Beta Testing program for this app but I don't know anyone to invite. Many of the people I know are iPhone/iPad users but are not technically inclined where I would invite them to test my apps. Can I use this program?


texts: Removing ACLs from files... can I do damage?

texts:
Can I do any damage to files if I remove ACLs from them using something like

chmod -RN /directoryWithABunchOfFiles

What is the purpose of these ACL attributes?


texts: I've seen pictures like this for iOS 7, where in notification centre you get driving instructions to locations, I don't have this, however I do have Frequent locations recorded (quite a few) as i've had iOS 7 on a 5S for about a week. But still no driving instructions to work! Any ideas?


texts: Safari does not work (iOS 9.3, iPhone 6s)

texts:
Suddenly Safari won't work on my iPhone 6s. I cannot open links either.

The whole thing freezes.

How do I solve this? I updated to iOS 9.3 a couple of days ago.


texts: NetBoot Server Alternatives for macOS 10.14 Mojave?

texts:
Apple has removed, among many other things, DHCP serving and NetBoot Serving from their 'server' app in conjunction with the new OS. This won't affect 99.5% of people but I'm in the minority. I fix Macs for a living and have been using Netbooting for 10 years as my faster, better version of booting a customers Mac off a USB utility disk. I use NetInstall images too for installing the OS but I primarily use Diskless NetBoot images to diagnose and repair disk problems. I run this on my laptop, plug into someone's network, and BAM. Or what is more often the case, on wifi-only networks, I just plug in directly mac to mac and use DHCP service also running on my laptop.

Well both services are gone. DHCP is easy enough to replace I'm sure, but NetBoot serving doesn't seem as straight forward. I did some googling but only found solutions that support NetInstall, and not diskless-NetBoot images. I need the latter more than anything.

I know Apple may be working towards killing NetBooting entirely, but it's not dead yet. And I tend to work on older computers more than new, so I still need NetBoot for years to come. I am currently playing around with running 10.11 in a virtual machine on my laptop. But that's not an ideal solution, i'd rather run a direct, native server.

BSDPy does not support diskless netbooting, so that option won't work.
I was eyeing DeployStudio but its not clear if that app IS it's own NetBoot server, or if it just works with Apple's NetBoot server?


texts: Missing emergency sos on iPhone 5 (iOS 10.2)

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 10.2. The recent update included a setting which allowed users in India to make emergency calls by clicking the sleep/wake button five times. I seem to be missing that setting completely. My question is:

Is it a build issue or a device issue?
Is it not available for the iPhone 5?

I have verified the countries this setting is available in. It clearly states India in them.

Further, are there any solutions you can suggest which could help me resolve this issue?
Thanking you in advance.


texts: Remove bucketing by date in Finder results

texts:
I have sorted by Size but Finder still sub-buckets by Date: e.g. Previous 7 Days Previous 30 Days etc.  I need to have that sub-bucketing removed: how to do this?

Update  I am on Mojave and the Finder | File menu is as follows:


texts: video resolution of iMovie app export in iPhone 4S

texts: What are the export resolutions of a video shot on iPhone 4S and exported from iMovie app (after editing)? Also, is there a way I can export original resolution, (1080p) video to youtube from within the iPhone app of iMovie.


texts: Data Not Backed Up, Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

texts:
I was trying to install Linux on my MacBook for class when I bricked my computer, which now in an unbootable state.

I made my partition too small, so I was going to delete and create a larger one. However, Disk Utility did not allow me to delete the small partition. I followed the instructions from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/238088/236252

However, not only was I still unable to delete it, but upon restarting I realized my primary partition (located on the same disk) changed into FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF, and I had no options to boot.
(I am sure I performed the command on the correct disk and partition)

I saw some similar threads, but my main bootable drive is the one that got corrupt.

I don't want to lose any data. I'm not the most terminal savvy, so ANY help is appreciated, and I will kindly provide any additional information!

(Disk 0, partition 2 is my main partition, and that only one I care about)

Below are the results of
$ diskutil list and $ gpt -r show disk0.

UPDATE: :
I have followed @klanomath 's instructions. At the last step I received the following error:

Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition's size
Checking the EFI system partition's file system
Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting
Error: -69766: The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's file system
Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

FINAL UPDATE: SUCCESS!

I just wanted thank @klanomath for helping me through this entire process. He spent 11 hours TeamViewing with me until not only my files were accessible, but until I could access my computer as could before this whole debacle (and this was after 5 hours of email correspondence).

To any future reader with this problem: PLEASE don't give up, it can be fixed!


texts: Application level volume control in OS X?

texts: I recently switched from PC to Mac and one thing I miss is Windows' application-level volume control (i.e. mute Firefox, turn up iTunes, turn down Skype etc). How can I achieve the same on a Mac? Or better yet, I want volume settings based on location (using HTTP location API or WiFi network name) and time of day or day of week etc.


texts: How do you do command-line video screen capture on OS X with libav?

texts:
On linux I can do something like:

avconv -f alsa -i pulse -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1400x1050 \
  -i :0.0+0,0 -vcodec libx264 -threads 4 \
  -acodec libmp3lame video.mkv

but of course the alsa and x11 driver should be different on OS X. How would this work to do command-line video screen-capture?


texts: Setting up signatures with different font in Mail.app

texts: I am trying to set up signature blocks to attach to emails sent using mac mail.  I want part of the signature block to be in script, but using the font option I cannot get it to a script.


texts: How do I ensure iphone wont use cellular data?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to stop an iPhone 3G from using cell data, ever?

Travelling overseas and would like to take the iphone only for wifi purposes. I have heard horror stories of people rackin gup huge bills for roaming charges, so how do I ensure the iphone won't use cellular data/3g?


texts: "Too many files open" error when syncing an iPhone

texts:
For the last month or so, every time I try to sync my iPhone XR to iTunes (on a Mac) I get an error:

This started happening when I tried turning on Wi-Fi sync between my phone and my Mac. I have since turned it off, but the error persists. I have rebooted my Mac and my iPhone multiple times since then to no avail.

Other devices (an iPod Touch, two different iPads) synchronize just fine to the same computer, and my photos are able to transfer from this iPhone to Photos as well.

Any idea what's going on and how I can fix it?

There are several threads about this on the Apple discussion forum, but all of them have gone unanswered for many years.


texts:
This is about a MacBook running on 10.10.5 whose disk has recently been repaired (to try to solve the present issue) using Disk Utility. I created an alias as follows:

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ ls -ld
drwx------+ 13 erwann  staff  442 Jul 14 12:41 .
$ touch foo.bar
$ mkdir baz
$ ln -s foo.bar baz
$ ls -l baz
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 erwann  staff  7 Jul 15 11:02 foo.bar -> foo.bar

Next, I use Finder to 'Show [the] original' associated with the alias created in 'baz'. I get:

  The alias “foo.bar” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found.

Any suggestion to fix this?


texts: When my external display is on, my Mac thinks it's off. When it's off, on

texts:
Hardware details:

MacBook Air, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter
Standard HDMI cable
Famous Maker 23” Ultra-Slim LED Display, 1080p

Yesterday everything worked fine. Today when I connect the display to my laptop or turn it off or on, I get a blue screen on the laptop for a second, but then it goes back to normal.

The weird thing is that in the System Preferences > Displays preference pane, when the display is plugged in and ON it doesn't detect it, but when it's plugged in and OFF "Gather Windows" appears right beside "Detect Displays, and you can drag windows off the screen where the display should be.

The "Gather Windows" button allows me to see the Displays window for both displays. I've used it to play around with the resolution but this did not work.

Any idea what could be going on?


texts: I would like to print a PDF document, so that four pages of the docoument is printed on one A4 page. (It is 26 pages all in all, so I want to have 7 papers printed having four pages from the pdf on each and having two on the last one). How is it possible to set?


texts: Looking for alternatives to QuickTime 7 Pro for OS Catalina concerning audio mapping

texts:
I've been using QuickTime 7 Pro (until recently) in order to QC multi-channel ProRes files. Now, I am unable to QC 5.1 plus Stereo Comp files like I use to.

Is there another app out there that will allow audio channel assignments like QuickTime 7 Pro did in its Audio Settings/Show Movie Properties?


texts: Import old OneNote .one files into OneNote for Mac

texts:
I have some old OneNote files (with .one) extension from those long ago years when I still suffered from Windows.

Additionally I have some current template files with .one extensions.

I no longer have (or want) access to a Windows machine with or without OneNote.

Does any means exist for me to import such files into my new OneNote for Mac?


texts: I'm taking my 2010 iMac in for SSD installation. What is best way to secure my iMac?

texts: I have a mid-2010 iMac running High Sierra and I'm taking it to a local shop to get my fusion drive replaced with an SSD. I of course have sensitive info in the Notes App and elsewhere on my computer. What is the best way to ensure the security of my iMac? Is there any way of doing so without deleting everything?


texts: Safari on ipad, how to tell browser to ignore mobile stylesheet

texts:
How can I specify through the browser when to use the mobile stylesheet for a website, and when not to.

This is a specific issue for me on the ipad running Safari.

If this can't be done through the browswer, are any generic User-Agent spoofing tools for ipad that I can employ to accomplish this?


texts: How do I get icloud to stop emailing me about my google calendar events?

texts:
iCloud, iCal and Mail integrates pretty well with Google Calendar, even though they are not both from Apple.

But I have a hassle when it comes to Calendar Notification in Mail App specifically.

I get notifications correctly on OS X, iPhone, about Google Calendar. But, my Mail.app keeps trying to send me emails about my notifications, so I either get duplicated emails (from both Google ou Apple) or, nowadays, I get hundreds of Draft in Mail since I've got 2 SMTP address from both accounts in Mail and it prompts me in each to decide which server show be default.

The thing is. I don't want either. What I really wanted is that Mail could stop sending me mail alerts, but keeping Google Calendar and iCal/iOS calendar in sync.

Thanks!


texts: Why does the built-in ssh-keygen on M1 Mac run significantly slower

texts:
This is not a critical issue. I am just curious about the reason.
On my M1 Macbook Air, ssh-keygen can take several seconds, sometimes more than ten seconds or even dozens of seconds, to generate a public/private rsa key pair. This is much slower even than my outdated android device(One Plus 5) with Termux-app.
❯ time ssh-keygen -f /tmp/tempkey -P "" > /dev/null
ssh-keygen -f /tmp/tempkey -P "" > /dev/null  3.47s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 3.493 total

However, running ssh-keygen under Rosetta is significantly better and reasonable.
❯ rm /tmp/tempkey*
❯ time arch -x86_64 ssh-keygen -f /tmp/tempkey -P "" > /dev/null
arch -x86_64 ssh-keygen -f /tmp/tempkey -P "" > /dev/null  0.82s user 0.30s system 78% cpu 1.420 total

Here's info about my 'ssh-keygen`
❯ md5sum `which ssh-keygen`
e884655150b3fe3ad676c84357a00b95  /usr/bin/ssh-keygen
❯ file `which ssh-keygen`
/usr/bin/ssh-keygen: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e]
/usr/bin/ssh-keygen (for architecture x86_64):  Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/usr/bin/ssh-keygen (for architecture arm64e):  Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e

I tried compile three binaries from source for arm64, x86_64 and universal version(created from arm64 and x86_64 binary with lipo). All of them run significantly faster than the built-in one.
Then, why does the built-in armed ssh-keygen run so slow ?


texts: How to downgrade to OS X Yosemite 10.10? (Have not yet upgraded)

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I have a 2015 iMac 5k running OS X Yosemite 10.10.x. I've always been nervous about upgrading an expensive machine. Now I am curious about upgrading, but I would like to find an option that would allow me to roll back to my current set up if I did.

I am aware of several options referenced online, and which I used to be familiar with, but I wonder which are relevant to me and which really would support rolling back to OS X Yosemite 10.10.

Time Machine: I take backups to an external USB, but I am not clear whether this keeps an OS backup, whether there is an option to restore the OS and, if so, whether that would also restore files. I suspect an OS downgrade is not possible and that Time Machine's forte is file and app backups.
Recovery Partition: I recall, from an exercise with a MacBook Air, the notion that my machine might have a Recovery Partition. Does it? If so, which OS is stored on it - e.g. The one shipped, or the current one? If I upgrade, what does the Recovery Partition then contain? How is it restored and, again, can you restore only the OS underneath files, and/or would this erase the whole disk?
Recovery Disk Assistant: I recall this and I think I did it with a MacBook Air - the idea that you can make a bootable USB disk containing your OS, and can restore it. This seems to appeal as it seems to be a way to snapshot my current OS. But is it still a thing? I recall reading it was Lion-specific (?). How is it made/restored - through?
OS X Recovery/macOS Recovery: I believe booting to this contains options "Restore from Time Machine Backup", (see above) "Reinstall macOS" (really, only the OS, and from where?), "Get help online" and "Disk Utility" (for manually erasing the drive and then picking one of the aforementioned options?)
Bootable Installer: Now I see pages about creating one of these for Mavericks or Yosemite. Looks more technical, on the command line. But again seems to employ using an external drive to make a backup, and restored via macOS Recovery after selection via Startup Manager or Startup Disk preferences (?).
Over-the-Internet OS download - I can't recall in which scenarios an OS version would be pulled from the internet rather than from either a partition or a USB source, for example.

What is right for me?

I am concerned about upgrading to Mojave or lower (?) and having no way back. It is often the case with Apple that, whilst docs make clear something is possible, there is a catch - eg. Not being able to roll back THAT for, or a feature supported/deprecated only for a particular version. Which of the above options are supported by which OS version is a bit of a black box, in my opinion.

Ideally, I'd have an option to roll back the OS underneath the files or, failing that, to roll back to a snapshot of both.


texts: Why do my Macbook Pro's WiFi speeds drop significantly when paired with Bluetooth devices?

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NOTE: This question is NOT a duplicate of Bluetooth and Wifi interfering with one another since Yosemite. That answer pertains to 1) The 2.4 GHz band only and 2) Yosemite only.

Background:

Though currently I’m running Yosemite (10.10.3), I have consistently experienced this issue since purchasing my Macbook Pro (Late 2013, originally running Mavericks). Whether it be a bluetooth mouse, headphones, or even iPhone, whenever I pair a device with my Macbook Pro, my Wifi speeds (running on 5 GHz band) drop by at least %50. I can reproduce this issue repeatedly. It only occurs when a device is paired via bluetooth to the machine. It does not occur when bluetooth is simply enabled on my computer.

At this point, I just don't connect devices via bluetooth anymore since the WiFi drop is noticeable. I am using a Logitech nano receiver mouse (and using up one of my precious two :( USB ports in the process) rather than using a Bluetooth mouse.

Machine Specs:

Model Name: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro 11,3
Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
System Version: OS X 10.10.3 (14D136)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.3.0

Speed Tests1:

WiFi speeds with Bluetooth-enabled, no devices paired:

WiFi speeds with Bluetooth-enabled, any device paired:

Troubleshooting:

I’ve ruled out my LAN set-up:

I use a TP-LINK Archer C8 Router connected to a modem provided by my ISP (running in bridge mode). I use the 5 GHz band exclusively. To rule out any band interference, I’ve tested the WiFi speed on the 2.4 GHz band as well. The same drop occurs regardless of the band.
I’ve used my ISP’s modem as a Gateway to directly connect to the internet (to rule out the TC-Link Router as the cause). Same result.

I’ve isolated the issue to that of a Wireless one.

There is no speed drop when my machine uses a wired connection (Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter > Ethernet Cable > WAN)

I’ve ruled out a specific Bluetooth device as the cause:

Originally, I thought the issue was with my Logitech M557 mouse. I tested my Magic Mouse instead. Both yielded the same drop in Wifi speed. The same has gone for any device that I paired with my MBP - Apple brand or not. Sidenote: I’ve unpaired the devices after testing. I only have one device paired (though not actively connected).

I’ve ruled out third party software:

The issue persists without any third party kernel extensions loaded. Additionally, with no other third party software running (Dropbox, for example).

I’ve ruled out a specific OS X:

This issue has occurred since purchase, in Dec 2013. Across OS X Mavericks - Yosemite. Additionally, the machine has had a clean install of OS X from a fresh Yosemite image.

I’ve ruled out my Macbook Pro’s hardware:

I ran the Apple Diagnostic Test, repeated times, with no error codes. On a separate issue (blown out builtin speaker recently), I had brought my machine into Apple. I had them run their in-house diagnostic test to confirm no BT related hardware issues. Additionally, as stated, this issue has been a problem from Day 1.

My Question:

Why does my Macbook Pro's WiFi speed drop by 50+% when paired with any Bluetooth device? Is there a solution?

1Courtesy of speedof.me

UPDATE:

Screenshot of detailed Wifi connection with a BT mouse paired. The SNR and Tx Rate are good:

In fact, nearly identical without BT device paired:


texts: iphone 4 verizon cdma unlocked in india and uprgaded to newer version cydia not installed

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I have an iPhone 4 (CDMA), bought it to India and unlocked unofficially by jailbreaking.

Recently I upgraded to iOS 6.1.2, and now Cydia is missing. Everything else is working fine; I can make calls, use internet and Wi-Fi, however is gone from my phone.

How can I install Cydia again? I am afraid of Jailbreaking my iPhone again in case it will lock the phone again. Is there a method of installing Cydia back without reverting the unlock?


texts: Microsoft Word does not respond to keyboard shortcuts

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I have a MacBook Pro with Microsoft Word 2011 installed on it.

For some reason, all the editing keyboard shortcuts - such as Cut: Cmd + X, Copy: Cmd + C, and Undo: Cmd + Z - does not work in it.

My friend who also has Microsoft Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro has his keyboard shortcuts working fine.

This situation really hinders my work, what could be the problem?


texts: How do I limit Gmails access to my phones contact info, specifically pictures?

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I recently added/updated some pictures for my contacts within the built-in phone app. Gmail now somehow has those pictures, 1) how is this possible? 2) How do I limit Gmail's access to my contacts info/pics?

I am running an IPhone 7 with the current iOS. I do have the gmail app installed, but it does not have permission to access my contacts AFAIK. The settings for my gmail account within the built-in mail app has Mail, Contacts, Calendar all set to enabled. My understanding of that contacts slider switch is a "one-way" deal. My phone has access to my gmail contacts not the other way around, but maybe that understanding is flawed. 3) Is my understanding on this matter correct?

I greatly appreciate input from anyone with direct knowledge on what controls directly pertain to gmail's access to my phones contact pictures.


texts: How to mount an APFS formatted volume created on macOS 10.12.1 on macOS 10.12.2?

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According to this thread from Apple Developer Forums, an APFS volume created on macOS 10.12.1 is not mountable on macOS 10.12.2, because of the incompatible changes.

I put some important files in my external drive formatted as APFS, and now I would like to access the data. I tried this:

diskutil apfs list

This:

sudo fsck_apfs disk1s2

And this:

diskutil apfs addVolume disk1s2 APFS MyVolume

The error message is similar to what mentioned in the above thread:

$ diskutil apfs -IHaveBeenWarnedThatAPFSIsPreReleaseAndThatIMayLoseData list

======================================================================================================
ENUMERATION OF ALL CURRENT APFS OBJECTS
   apfs call: sizeForContainer: err=-69808="Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup"
   apfs call: freeSpaceForContainer: err=-69808="Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup"
|
|-- APFS CONTAINER REFERENCE = disk1s2
---------------------------------------------------------------------

$ sudo fsck_apfs disk1s2

** Checking volume.
** Checking the container superblock.
error: nx_incompatible_features has unsupported flags: (0x1)
   Container superblock is invalid.
** The volume disk1s2 could not be verified completely.

My questions are:

Is there an official utility that help me to mount the volume?

Or to upgrade the old APFS to the new APFS?

Is there any way to downgrade my macOS 10.12.2 to 10.12.1?

I don't have "Install macOS Sierra.app" in hand, is there any "secret" way to download a previous version of macOS? (I mean previous versions of Sierra, not El Capitan or earlier releases)
I don't have Time Machine backups or similar. I would like to fresh install macOS 10.12.1 on my old MacBook, mount the volume, and copy it elsewhere.

Thanks!


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I need an Automator/Applescript to move a file to a certain folder based on a specific tag it contains. The input would be the file. Anybody have any ideas?

TIA, Jake


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Model: MacBook Pro (13", Early 2015, 3.1 GHz)

OS: High Sierra (10.13.4)

Printer: Canon MF4890dw

Problem: Whenever I try to print from an app (Preview, TextEdit, etc.), the dialog takes ten seconds or more to load. This does not happen when printing from Chrome, which seems to have its own print dialog. Once the print dialog opens, it functions normally, and printing functions normally.

Tried so far:
- Shutting down
- Deleting and re-adding printer  in System Preferences
- Turning printer on and off
- Resetting SMC
- Boot volume first aid/repair

Any idea what might be going wrong here?


texts: How can java application request access to network volume?

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My app is completely written in java (we moved to java11 from java8) and was running fine under High Sierra.
new RandomAccessFile(file_on_network_volume, "rws") gained access and execution continued.
With Catalina it fails with
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Volumes/messages/xyz/FILE.xdt (Operation not permitted)
I understand that any application trying to access a network volume needs a special permission, I reviewed them in System Preferences and they can be removed with tccutil reset SystemPolicyNetworkVolumes [bundle_id] for proper testing.
How does the java code properly request the access right from the user so that the processing might continue?
What I did so far:

changed the code to
AccessController.doPrivileged((PrivilegedExceptionAction<RandomAccessFile>) () -> new RandomAccessFile(file, "rws"));
That caused a JUnitTest run with IntelliJ to request the right by a dialogue

then the test succeeded to do the required operation on the network volume.
The effect is the permission indicated in system preferences as expected:

added in the Info.plist the entry
<key>NSNetworkVolumesUsageDescription</key> <string>@@bundle_name@@ benötigt Zugriff auf ein Netzwerkvolume.</string>
corresponding to the text in the dialog displayed to the user

But still something's missing. The app does not request the permission and consequently the operation fails. IntelliJ does something right that I didn't figure out so far.


texts: Invisible pictures in system applications

texts: While just browsing through apps like the CoreServices in both Mac and iOS, I found that most (all?) of the pictures have sizes and memory, but don't show anything when I quick look or open them. What is going on?


texts: Select word under cursor using a keyboard shortcut?

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What is the keyboard shortcut to select a word that your typing cursor is currently on ?

For example, if the word I want to select is World, while the typing cursor is between one of the letters of that word such as This Wo|rld is huge, what do I press to select only World ?


texts: Can tables from Pages be reused in Numbers to create graphs?

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I created a table in Pages '09 and pasted it into Numbers '09 to see if it worked, then I created a graph for it, still in Numbers, but the graph displayed no data as you can see from the screenshot.
So is it because the table came from Pages or there's something I must do before it works ?
I'd like to know if it's safe to create tables in Pages or if they are going to be trapped in it, in that case I'll prefer to create them in Numbers and then paste them into Pages.


texts: Why does it take so long for the Application folder to open?

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My computer is pretty snappy, and the UI is typically silky-smooth. However, for some reason, on virtually every Mac OS X computer I've used, opening the Applications folder takes an inordinate (>5 s) amount of time before any icons are shown in the window. Does anyone here know:

What the heck is the computer doing?
How to speed this up?


texts: Cut shortcut (cmd+x) doesn't work if I use the left cmd key (cmd+c does work with left cmd key!)?

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Perhaps similar to Command+C (copy) with the left command key does not work, but (left) ⌘+c DOES work for me.

They keyboard is an Apple US (with the 10-key), wired. I am using a razer mamba mouse (i only say this because it shows up in the Select Keyboard dropdown that i can set the modifier keys for in the Sys Prefs->Keyboard->Modifier Keys... menu)

I've already tried resetting the default keyboard shortcuts.

Update: I also cannot type a capital W using the left shift

Update: I have tried this with 2 different keyboards, but both are the apple US QERTY [sic] with 10-key. I have tried this on my laptop (rMBP) and on an iMac (both on Yosemite)

Update (with thanks to @bjbk for continued comments/questions): To clarify, I am saying that both systems (2 separate Macs, an rMBP and an iMac [incidentally, both with the drivers for the razer mamba mouse]) exhibit the same behavior described above. The builtin keyboard on the rMBP does not behave this way.


texts: How can I maximise the life of my iPad battery?

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Possible Duplicate:
  What is the best way to recharge an iPod Touch battery?

Since the iPad battery cannot be replaced, how can I make sure that it lasts as long as possible, preferably years? E.g. should I always keep it charged, or always let the battery run to 0% before recharging?

Note: not the same as How can I make my iPad's battery last longer? which is about battery life during use.

Update: this question looks very much like: What is the best way to recharge an iPod Touch battery? (sorry, only found after posting this). This is slightly more general but perhaps is a duplicate?


texts: Is it possible to share a keyboard physically connected to a Windows 7 PC with an iPad 2?

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I have an iPad 2 and a Windows 7 notebook.

Is it possible to, without jailbreaking, share the notebook keyboard with the iPad?

Maybe some application installed on Windows could expose keyboard through Bluetooth?


texts: How can I tell if my iMac's hard drive is dying?

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A couple of days ago, my three-year-old iMac locked up.  When I rebooted it, it only displayed a folder icon with a flashing question mark.  After a couple more reboot attempts, it booted. I ran Disk Utility, which told me that the file system was corrupted and needed repair.

I booted with my Snow Leopard DVD, did a repair with Disk Utility, and now everything seems fine.

My questions: Should I be worried about my drive?  Should I go ahead and replace it now, or wait to see whether there are any more problems?

(FWIW, I've already purchased a replacement drive, and plan to replace it at some point. I'm really wondering whether I should do it as soon as possible, or whether it can wait until I have nothing better to do on a weekend.)


texts: Is there a way to block all incoming phone calls except in your area code?

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I want to block all incoming calls on my iPhone that are not from my area code so that I will not receive any unsolicited calls from out of state, particularly related to my resume.

I read that one can block phone calls using a range of phone area code to block by adding them to a blacklist. I was wondering if you could do the opposite, block everything except phone numbers that you "whitelist" in an address range.

If iPhone does't allow it, then maybe it exists as a third party option?


texts: Using the same Apple ID on private and business iPhone

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I have a private and now a company iPhone. I like to have two phones to seperate business and private.

I need to install an app from the Apple Store on my business iPhone, so I need an Apple ID on this phone. Obviously, I already have a private one.

Currently, I do not sync any data with iCloud (but Google, which will not be configured on my business device), so I wonder if there is any disadvantage of using my private Apple ID on my business phone?

My company allows the use of a private Apple ID. In particular what I want to know, if I use my Apple ID will my company be able to influence or monitor anything on my private phone (iPhone search, etc).


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Today I have run into issues with Keynote v5.3 (1170) running on MacOS X 10.8.5, all current updates installed. It is reproducible most of the time when saving documents in iCloud and sometime when saving documents to the local hard disk.

First, I get error messages of the form "Couldn’t save image". The images then disappear from the presentation slides and get replaced by gray frames, but they are still shown in the previews on the left hand side.

Second, an error of the form "The file has been changed by another application." occurs when saving. Keynote on my Mac was the only program accessing the file at that time.

Third, the issues seem to get worse whenever working with iCloud, but even when saving the file to the local hard disk there are still error messages every time I open the file. There seem to be some "temporary" folders on iCloud related to the file I'm working with (the name starting with the name of my file and ending with a random combination of characters). These folders contain a file named "index.key" of size zero.

If the temporary folders are any indication then it is possible that the error did not appear prior to my MacOS X 10.8.5 update since files accessed a couple of weeks ago and older do not show any problems.

Update: Other users have observed similar problems starting as early as August 2011, see here and here. It seems that the problem has been around for some time now and that there is no fix in sight.

Question: Does anybody observe the same behavior and has a solution?


texts: Contact photo not showing in Messages after update

texts: I updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 10.2 and after the update my contact photos are not showing in Messages. Even the bubbles are not showing the contact photo just the name. What can I do?


texts: How can I configure fail2ban for use with OS X

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I've seen instructions for configuring fail2ban on BSD using pf but I'm not sure how these can be adapted to configure the fail2ban rules that ship with homebrew to configure Yosemite's firewall for safety.

What changes do I need to make, and to which files, to enable fail2ban safely on my OSX server?


texts:
I set up the screen saver to a folder containing some of my photos.

How do I get the screen saver in Mavericks to display them full screen?


texts: How to update Python on a Mac with Unix commands

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After giving up on doing a disk partition and getting Linux, I decided to try and install Python 3.3.2 on a 32 bit Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I did pretty much everything the official website says, but it isn't working at all.

First of all, I downloaded the installer for Mac OS X 6 and later, which should supposedly put a folder called MacPython 3.3 with IDLE, PythonLauncher and a Build Applet tool in my Applications folder. What I have instead is a folder called Python 3.3 which does contain (aside from the documentation and a command to update shell profile) IDLE and PythonLauncher, but no Build Applet tool; I typed 'python' into my Terminal window to see if 3.3.2 was installed, but it said Python 2.6.1 even after restarting my computer. The ReadMe in the disk image that contains the installer says running the installer should also 'put the underlying machinery into the folder /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework'. I did every search imaginable and apparently there is no such folder anywhere in my hard drive.

Basically, I want to install 3.3.2 and run things in programme mode rather than shell mode, which I find to be a huge pain in the bottom. Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: found the Frameworks folder. Python.framework contains 4 folders named 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and Current, which has several other folders inside – all for Python 2.6. The official page says I shouldn't delete any of them because they already come with Mac. How do I put 3.3 here?


texts: How can I switch to an open tab in Safari using osascript?

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Trying to switch tabs in Safari with osascript. I have tried multiple versions of the following:

osascript -e 'tell Application "Safari"' -e 'keystroke "2" using command down' -e 'end tell

Tried replacing "Safari" with "System Events and "2" with "-2". But nothing I do is working. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?


texts: Hard drive constraints and operating system for 2009 13" macbook

texts:
I was given a 2009 13" macbook, but it needs a new hard drive and operating system.

What is the most current OS it can handle and how much space does that OS take when freshly installed?


texts: Obtaining windows menu from the dock with a quick click

texts: In OS X (and in Mountain Lion, in particular) when you minimize a window and you want to retrieve it, you can press on an icon in the dock and wait 1 second to get the menu with the opened windows. Is it possible to change this setting so that this menu opens on a mouse click immediately (preferably, the menu would appear when there is more than one window and, as it is currently, the click maximizes the minimized window if there is only one window instance of that program)?


texts: Bootcamp Assistant thinks SSD I'm booting from is an External Drive — help?

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I'm trying to get Windows 10 on my computer but since I have a small internal storage space I want to put it on my external Transcend StoreJet 500GB SSD.

I installed OSX on this SSD and booted from it, and am now trying to use the Bootcamp Assistant to format this drive for mostly Windows, but when I try to run the program I get this issue:

I'm confused.. Since I'm actually booted on the disk that I'm trying to install Windows 10 on with Bootcamp Assistant, isn't it technically not external? Isn't this the same as trying to Bootcamp with OSX on my Internal HDD?

To clarify, I am not booted from my Internal HDD right now, I'm on a fresh OSX install on my 500GB USB 3.0 SSD and trying to bootcamp from that.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm very confused here..


texts: What does Shift-Command-Space keyboard shortcut do?

texts:
Apple's macOS Human Interface Guidelines shows that action for the Shift-Command-Space keyboard shortcut is: Varies. Apple Reserved.

Does that mean that Apple is reserving it for future use?


texts: Can the OS X keychain juggle two accounts for the same site?

texts:
I have a different passwords for:

www.example.com/foo/login and
www.example.com/bar/login

It seems as if the keychain only saves the passwords in relation to the sitename as it does not make distinctions by the subdomain.

When I visit www.example.com/foo/login the keychain will save the password correctly, but when I visit www.example.com/bar/login afterwards it uses the password of the first page and doesn't let me create a new password for the subdomain.

Is there any solution to this problem?


texts: (Custom Build) Super Time Capsule - am I missing something

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I received an interesting request today. Namely, is it possible to setup a networked Time Machine to backup the Desktops of 11 workstations on a LAN.

While I'm familiar with OSX, I haven't attempted to setup Time Machine until today.

I work with a group of professional photographers/videographers/graphic artists that regularly produce a large volume of products. They already have a large (ie 30+TB) NAS they use to archive old projects but there are cases where some deliverables were accidentally deleted prior to backup.

The Hardware:

A Mac Mini loaded with Mavericks
OSX Server
5TB of SAN

The Setup:

Load OSX Server on the Mini
Mount the SAN via iSCSI
Partition the SAN with 2 Volumes, Storage & Backup with a 3:1 ratio
Setup OSX to backup using Time Machine
Create one folder for each workstations desktop on the Storage volume
Share the Storage volume via SMB

Note: iSCSI allows the OS to transparently mount a networked SAN as a local disk.

On the workstations I'll create symbolic links to replace the user's local Desktop folder with the Desktop folder on the network drive.

Then, if a file is lost somebody can remote into the Mac Mini and wind back the Time Machine to recover any lost files.

The Mini will be dedicated to this and sharing printers alone so I don't think the backups will overwhelm the server. The SAN will be configured in a of Raid50 array with 2 drive redundancy. This setup will reside on a trusted, private, air-gapped network so security isn't an issue. All network connections are hard-wired.

Are there any special Time Machine quirks/limitations that I need to look out for before I invest the time and effort to build this beast?


texts: How to force preview to open window in current desktop

texts:
I am facing a super stupid problem which is completely killing my productivity.

I have my laptop attached to an external monitor. Desktop 1 is on the laptop and desktop 2 is on the external screen.
From desktop 2, I open a PDF file with preview.

Instead of opening it inside desktop 2, it automatically switches whatever is full screen on my laptop monitor and opens the PDF on desktop 1.

This is driving me mad. Why isn't the default behavior the obvious one? (namely open the window exactly where the open command comes from)

Is there anything I can do to make it behave in the logical way?

Thanks!

ps: MacOs 10.14.4 Mojave

edit: adding picture regarding comment


texts: How to type in the tilde character '~' with an apple international keyboard?

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I am a French developer, used to the French keyboard layout. Being a developer, I invested recently in an Apple international keyboard.

Having a french keyboard, typing in the tilde '~' character was quite simple since it was printed on a key as far as I remember, although I don't remember where.

Now with my new International keyboard, the layout is very different, missing accents and other special character (which is ok since I use that keyboard only for development on my mac) but I am facing the issue that I need to type in the tilde character very often, and I don't have any clue on how to type it in in a simple way.

(PS: To type in the '~' character, I am actually using the  "character display pane" coming with Macosx, which is quite cumbersome when you need it often ...)


texts: How delete an application that is bundled with macOS?

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Backstory:

I am running macOS Sierra and use TextEdit a lot. The problem is that I hate the Versions save schema that causes the universal Save As shortcut of CmdShiftS to instead create a copy of the document. I also hate how Auto-Save makes permanent changes to documents I don't want to modify when I'm tentatively modifying a work-in-progress. Since the introduction of these nuisance features in Lion I have always backed up and then replaced TextEdit.app with the legacy 1.6 version from Snow Leopard.

The problem:

Today when I tried to delete TextEdit.app from my Applications folder using this Terminal command

sudo rm -rf /Applications/TextEdit.app

I got this error

rm: TextEdit.app: Operation not permitted

I was surprised to find that I can't kill it, even with sudo.

How can I actually get rid of an application that is bundled with macOS?

What I've tried so far:

I followed the instructions in this article, but it didn't work. I also read this SE answer, which almost accomplishes the same solution by means of disabling Versions and Auto-Save, but then I don't get the benefit of legacy TextEdit's temporary backup saving feature. See the part in the answer stating "This effectively disables the old-style, pre-Lion autosaving completely".

So I think deleting the newer TextEdit v1.12 and replacing it with the legacy v1.6 is still the best option, however I can't get my system to delete it. Any help appreciated.


texts: How is it possible to remotely access photos on iPhone?

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Is there any software to do so, and what would it take to install it?
Another person had physical access to my phone, so I suspect the possibility of installation of such software.
Even photos which I immediately deleted and those, which went straight to application got in other hands.

I have an iPhone 4s. It was not jailbroken (at least, by me), and it did not appear such: no Cydia app or other oddities.
Photo Stream and iCloud backup for photos were also off, and I never used them.


texts: iMac-to-iMac Migration was interrupted; Now, source iMac is reading as 0.0GB

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I attempted twice to migrate my iMac (2006) to my iMac (2009), first via wireless and second via LAN. The connection was interrupted both times, but the second time left it unable to 'resume from previous migration'.

Then, I figured that I would avoid interruptions by using a firewire cable instead, so I tried it all over again that way, but the target computer is now incorrectly reading that that source computer has '0.0GB', thus making the migration impossible.

Both computers are running Snow Leopard, and both have an updated version of Migration Assistant.

Can anyone provide some insight as to what happened and, if so, help me get this done?


texts: When dragging a window to another screen, it snaps to the top. How can I stop this?

texts:
Mac OS 10.10.x

As in title.

I find this very annoying and want the OS to stop trying to think what I want to do - especially in this case.


texts: "Wikipedia" dictionary does not work even when proxy is set

texts: I'm in China, so wikipedia is blocked. However, before the English wikipedia is blocked, using wikipedia dictionary already gives "wikipedia server is currently unavailable". The wikipedia dictionary still shows "wikipedia server is currently unavailable" when I turn on a VPN, configure a proxy, and went to school where wikipedia can be opened in the browser (so unblocked by a VPN). Why is this the case? How can I fix this problem?


texts: I have an iPhone 4S. I schedule all my appointments through the iPhone calendar app. Typically I receive an email with all the pertinent information  and in turn, I have to transfer all of the information from the email to the calendar. When the appointment comes around, I have to search through my email files in order to locate any additional information. Is there a way to link emails to the calendar in order to easily access them when my appointment date comes up?


texts: Is there a way to completely reset / regenerate Quick Look preferences (system-wide)?

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Quick Look fails to work on many file types that actually have Quick Look plugins and I fear that some file clobbering has occurred during my last two OS upgrades.

When Quick Look fails, the Quick Look preview is a blank page with:

foo<TITLE></HEAD....

Has anyone else run into this issue?


texts: Mail.app removes text after inline attachment

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Whenever I send an e-mail from Mail.app to someone with Outlook, they can't read any text that is placed beneath an inline attachment.

When I send an e-mail to myself from Mail.app any text that is placed beneath an inline attachment is attached as text-files.

This is very annoying, does anyone know how to fix this problem?


texts: Is it possible to upgrade my Time Capsule hard disk and keep the backup(s) from the original?

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Can I upgrade my Time Capsule to a larger internal drive and keep my original backup(s)?

I'm aware you can drop in the new disk, the restore it as a new TC using AirPort Utility, and I'm also aware you can migrate backup(s) from an existing TimeMachine drive to a new one - but I want to do both: I want to replace the 500gb drive in my Time Capsule (2nd gen, 2009) to a 1tb drive, and I want to keep the existing backup(s) from the 500gb to the new drive, so everything is as it was, just with a larger internal drive.

I understand it's not as simple as swapping the drive, restoring it as a new TC and then using CCC to copy the data from the original drive, so is there a solution to what I want to achieve? Basically I want to upgrade the original TC drive to a larger one and not lose my previous backup(s).


texts: View Keychain from encrypted IOS 8.2 backup?

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Is there any way to access the keychain from an Iphone 5 IOS 8.2 backup?

Here are the hard facts:

encrypted backup where I KNOW the password
device is lost

So far I could restore all the (important) files just fine, however I am stuck on how to view my saved passwords. Apple support sites only show me how to restore a backup, but not how to read it. After searching for quite some time
I found two possibilities:

Decrypting the iPhone keychain from backups

This requires me to have not only any iPhone (like the Apple support pages) but even the original one, which I have the backup of. So that's not possible.

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker

This seems to work. I downloaded the demo version, which shows which passwords are saved on the backups, but not what they are. However, the cheapest version for OS X is 199€.

Isn't there any other way to access my data for free?


texts: Disabling a specific system notification?

texts:
My Macbook Air 13" (macOS 10.13.6) has a USB problem which triggers a warning notification every five minutes:

Looking in the Console, I see lots of "overcurrent detected" warnings; testing the two USB ports shows that the left one seems dead while the right one works. Visually, the left port is fine; no schmutz that might be causing problems.

Clearly I'm going to have to replace the left USB port (actually the I/O board), but in the meantime is there any way to disable this specific notification? (I really don't need both USB ports; if I could stop the messages I would probably skip fixing the hardware.)

Edit: I wasn't clear: these messages appear even when nothing is plugged into either USB port.


texts:
Hi when I pressed the up arrow to see the previous command, it rewrote the current command from half.

Example:

21 /usr/local/sphinx/etc >  /usr/local/sphinx/bin/search --config /usr/local/sphinx/etc/sphinx-blog.conf php

and when I press the up arrow, it shows:

21 /usr/local/sphinx/etc >  /usr/local/sudo /usr/local/sphinx/bin/indexer --config /usr/local/sphinx/etc/sphinx-blog.conf --all

and "/usr/local/" before SUDO is from previous command. Do you know where the problem would be? Here is my prompt setting:

PS1="\# \e[32;1m\w > \e[0m "


texts: Where do offline synced google docs get stored on Mac OS X?

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If I turn on google docs/sheets/drive offline sync through chrome on os x and activate "Make Available Offline" for some doc, where is the doc stored locally on my machine?

I am not talking about google back up and sync - I am talking specifically about activating offline docs sync through a browser (in this case chrome).

This answer gives the answer for PC, Android, and Linux but not mac. I looked in all the typical Application Support folders as well as in Chrome Developer Tools --> Sources --> Filesystem and also Developer Tools --> Application --> IndexedDB but I cannot figure it out. IndexedDB --> GoogleDriveDs --> Offline shows an entry for offline synced files (and not others) but it doesn't help me find it locally on my disk.

Thanks!


texts: How can I enable Internet sharing without using the GUI or AppleScript?

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for some rather strange reason my sharing preferences tab crashes (it's a long story and there seems to be no good solution for it, it's looking for a ui object that no longer exists).

Anyway, I want to enable internet sharing to share my macbook's internet connection with my iPad but I can't find a way to do it without the gui or apple script (which basically calls the gui).

The problem is I need to both (1) set up and (2) run the internet sharing daemon. Running the daemon is easy but I can't configure it.

So far I am thinking I need to 1- enable routing 2- run natd 3- make sure firewall is properly configured 4- make a peer to peer wireless network on wifi.
Another option is to use sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist the problem is I need at least a valid Snow Leopard .plist file for this to work.

Another solution I tried is to use a virtual machine (I use an Ubuntu VM in Parallels) to do the connection sharing. It works but it's too much work.

(In case you are wondering, when I click on shring in the preferences tab it crashes and in console I get an error like "unknown Class 'AppleSharing_NatManager' using 'NSObject' instead")

Any comments?


texts:
I have a 2nd gen iPod touch (bought around 3 years back)...Off late, I am facing some issues with it; Date/Time gets reset on a few ocassions even though I charge it regularly (mostly seems to be a battery issue)

But the major issue is with AppStore downloads. Most of the apps just do not download. After I enter my username/password, it shows the icon with Waiting for long time, but the download never starts. I know a few might be bcoz of compatibilty issues, But this happens for almost 90% of my app downloads.

Please let me know if it is time to get a new iPod touch OR if the issue can be rectified with some minor corrections. Thank you.


texts:
I've found the link below which provides useful info on how to configure Time Capsule for remote connection.  I've followed this and am able to connect to remotely manage the TC (via Airport utility) but still cannot connect in order to access files.  I'm trying from a Windows PC.

How can I access my Time Capsule remotely?


texts: use Apple Remote to run arbitrary commands to use for alfred.app

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I use Alfred.app to rate tracks in an music app "swinsian" (double cmd on keyboard gives 5star rating..globally..nice)
I would like to trigger that kind of command to alfred via apple remote gen.1 (infrared) on macbook pro 2012
Can that Apple remote trigger any app (including Alfred) running on macOS high sierra?


texts:
I have two virtual disks:

Main macOS disk
Bootcamp windows disk

When I use diskutil listin command line, it shows me:

So what the /dev/disk1 is? Should I delete it? And what is EFI EFI disk0s1 is?
P.S. No fusion drive, only one SSD physical drive.


texts: How do system services modify protected directories with system integrity protection

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I am running macOS High Sierra.
I was wondering how system services (e.g. Time Machine with the protected backup directories) could modify the directories that root cannot access.  I was trying to modify the backup directory premissions to allow Read/Write access to all users (with root) and got this output (I had to replace my computer name with asterisks for privacy reasons):

*****:Time Machine root# chmod -R 0777 Backups.backupdb/
chmod: Unable to change file mode on Backups.backupdb//.RecoverySets/1/com.apple.recovery.boot/boot.efi: Operation not permitted
chmod: Unable to change file mode on Backups.backupdb//*****: Operation not permitted
[...]

However, Time Machine can tamper with the files even though root can not.
I know that in the Get Info dialog is says that the user system can have Read/Write access.
Is is even possible to have a user be able to access a file when root can not or is is just Apple indicating that the system can access it?

UPDATE:
I have been notified that Time Machine backups are a different story altogether with Time Machine Backup Protection.  However, I still don’t know about how System Integrity Protection doesn’t block other things (e.g. Updates from the App Store).


texts: Why does decreasing the brightness cause the brightness to increase occasionally on the MacBook Air?

texts:
I have a MacBook Air Late 2010. I notice that sometimes when I press the decrease brightness button, it causes the brightness to increase and only after subsequent presses it starts to actually reduce the brightness (from this now higher brightness setting).

I was just wondering why this happens, and if it's related at all to an ambient light sensor similar to the one that the iPhone has.


texts:
I kind of hate it when applications, which I start, at first search for updates. It's not the updates. Well I fire up an app because I want / need to use it (now). I liked the centralized, system wide update which Linux offered. And SoftwareUpdate just checks Apples software.

Is there a way to centralize the updates of the third party applications?

So far I know about Macports and Fink which update quiet like Linux, but I also use e. g. iTerm, Transmission etc. which would still be left out.

I also heard little about Appcasting, which uses RSS to announce updates, and which is used by some apps I use, but I don't know any URLs.


texts: Is there a way to code sign ad-hoc iOS apps for longer than 7 days in Xcode?

texts:
I know, on Xcode, you can create an iPhone app, and test it on your own phone via USB cable, but this expires after 7 days.

I want to create a swift app just for my iPhone and not have it expire so quickly. What are my options?


texts: iCloud keychain authorisation sends sms to old number

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I want to set up iCloud keychain on my apple devices. To do so I went to settings > iCloud > keychain and turned it on and a button 'Approve with security code' appeared. It asked my iCloud security code and after it asks for 6 digit verification code that has been sent to my old phone number that I no longer have access to. After trying to find where I can change my number. I already went to settings > phone > my number and entered my current number but the phone still has sends the verification code to the old number.
I am using an iPhone 6 with iOS 8.1

Also tried to set it up on the a macbook with Yosemite but it also send the verification code to the old number.


texts: Mid 2009 MacBook pro cannot download osx

texts:
I have a mid-2009 MacBook pro in which I replaced the
HD with SSHD a few years ago. It was updated to El
Capitan and runs fine. Now I want to get it ready to sell. I have successfully erased the SSHD but cannot get OS X of any version to download.  I have tried the original OS X CD, snow leopard
CD, internet downloads, all to no success.  When running from the disk drive it will start through the process and stall out.  Via internet it also starts through the process and stops, I get a message that it could not be installed and "no packages are eligible for install" I can restore it via time machine and have done so and restarted the process per Apple instructions but cannot get it to work. Help.


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My MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2019) keeps on shutting down overnight. When I come to it in the morning and try to turn it on, it takes at least 10 seconds of holding the power button to turn it on. If I check the kernel logs, among the normal codes, like 5 and sometimes 3, I see this:
kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: -59
I've done some looking, and can't find the code -59 anywhere.
Could anyone help me with this?


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I basically installed Homebrew as described at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation.

However, my user account ist not an Administrator account, therefore I substituted my user identity with the one of user admin (su - admin), who is an Administrator. Then, as user admin, I installed Homebrew by executing /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)". Moreover, I installed giter8 by running brew update && brew install giter8.

Now, as user admin I can run command g8 which is installed in /usr/local/bin. However, using my regular restricted user account, I cannot run this command, as its permissions are too restrictive:

$ ls -la /usr/local/bin/g8
lrwxr-x---  1 admin  admin  29 Sep  2 11:12 /usr/local/bin/g8 -> ../Cellar/giter8/0.2.0/bin/g8

As you can see, g8 has permissions 750 and is owned by admin:admin; so, as regular user, I have no chance to run g8. But, what is even more strange, some crucial folders have similar - too restrictive IMHO - permissions:

drwxr-x---  3 admin  admin   102 Sep  2 11:12 Cellar
drwxr-x---  7 admin  admin   238 Sep  2 11:12 Library

Thus, even after fixing the permissions of symbolic link g8 (readable and executable by all users), regular users cannot execute commands / run programs installed via brew install..., as regular users cannot access folder Cellar, nor folder Library, which both contain crucial files for most programs.

Is this by design, or is this a bug?


texts: How to open a port for the public ip address in Mac OS High Sierra

texts:
I see that I can find the public IP address for my MBP using

Current IP Address

I wish to open a port in my machine to run a servlet. I see a link

How to open a port in MBP

However, when I open the port, run the flask based service in the port and check if the service is visible,

<public IP Address>:<Port Number>/service?file=<file>

I get

  This page isn’t working

  IP Address didn’t send any data.

  ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

I wish to know how to make a service accessible to the web from my machine with an open port.


texts: Slow and laggy Macbook Air 13" mid-2012 (A1466)

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I've had it since it first came out and they're finally starting to give way. Maybe it's because I was rough with them, but I hoped they last me a little longer (or at least until after university). I use them mostly for work now (Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop) but I did game on them lots when I was younger, so that's probably where the damage comes from.
Its performance now:

It stops 3/4ths of the way in the loading screen, it takes 30 mins to boot up.
Even after it's booted up, applications take ages to load and the cursor lags hard. Typing takes a while too.
More than half of its RAM is empty, trash is empty.
Did Apple diagnostics and EFI/Drivers/TestSupport.efi can't be loaded.
The battery appears as an "X" and won't last a second without a charger plugged into it.

How should I go about fixing it? Where should I get the parts? I'm not really in a position to send it to repair -- I do want to learn how to fix issues should they happen again.
Thank you very much. Any help would be very much appreciated.


texts: Tasks needing admin password (Finder, Installer) hang with beachball for minutes

texts:
Taks needing and admin password, like deleting certain files in the Finder or running an application installer, hang for minutes with a beachball. After a couple of minutes the dialog asking for an admin password appears finally.

Once the window finally appears it also takes a minute to be usable. After I entered the password everything works just fine.

The same also happens when trying to mount a disk image with a password. It takes minutes for the password window to show up.

I can't see anything happen in Activity Monitor. CPU usage is low and RAM is plentiful. Other applications continue to run quickly.

OS X 10.10.2

MacBookPro11,3 2.8 GHz i7 16 GB RAM


texts: How do I remove authenticated Open Directory binding to itself?

texts:
In attempts to solve my file sharing issues I have at some point on macOS Mojave + Server, using Directory Utility, bound the Open Directory server to itself using Directory Utility (I was quite desperate). Now, with all the changes I made I was able to get the client machine use authenticated binding to the server machine and now SMB file sharing works. So far so good, but I cannot change the passwords of users anymore. When I try, I get the following error:

existing connection is not authenticated and the old password is not present: password change denied

DNS is ok. What I can find is that in the past one could 'rekerberize' the server but that information is old (Mavericks) so I don't want to try.

I was looking at removing the local authenticated binding on macOS Mojave Server. But in Directory Utility that is greyed out. And I do not dare to remove/recreate the LDAP server with Directory Utility on a production server yet (very scared).


texts: How to mount certain SD cards to a specific mountpoint in El Capitan?

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Desired behavior:

When SD card1 (LABEL=NIKON D60) or SD card2 (LABEL=NIKON D70) is put into cardreader, it automatically gets mounted to /media/digicam. I run a script, which copies the files to my SSD, renames them with timestamps and rotates them if necessary.

What I tried:

Both cards are formatted in fat32.
I tried to create a /etc/fstab with sudo nano /etc/fstab containing the following line:

LABEL=NIKON\ D60 /media/digicam vfat rw,auto

After rebooting the card still gets mounted in /Volumes/NIKON D60 automatically.

How to stop the automount to /Volumes/... for those cards and get them to mount to my desired folder?


texts: Bluetooth speakers disconnecting since move to Catalina

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I've found my old Bose Mini Sound Link bluetooth speaker keeps dropping the connection to my Mac Mini since I upgraded to Catalina BUT my Apple keyboard and mouse are rock solid so I think it maybe the software in the speaker.
I've a speaker cable from eBay wending its way but I wondered if anyone has any more ideas than:

Deleting / recreating the link in Bluetooth Preferences
Removing the connection and recreating in option-bluetooth icon (assume its the same as above)
Resetting the Bluetooth module (shift-option-bluetooth icon / debug)
Resetting the SMC (not hard on the Mac mini - pull power, wait, plug back in, was, power on)

The main culprit seems to be YouTube - I can connect, start safari, hit play - drop.
Any thoughts or am I condemned to be cables for ever?


texts: Will I be able to re-download Mountain Lion by using my redemption code in the future?

texts:
Apple gives a free upgrade to Mountain Lion if a new Mac is purchased in a nearby time frame.

I got a redemption code.

Will I be able to download Mountain Lion again next time, for example in two months from now, will I need it?


texts:
I've just downloaded and installed the Mountain Lion update from the Mac App Store, but when I can't find it in my applications folder.

I want to copy installESD.dmg to be able to perform a clean installation.

How can I find "Install OS X Mountain Lion" (installESD.dmg) in the applications folder?


texts: Moving notes and lists (in reminders) from iphone 7 to iphone 12

texts: My new phone has my photos and my music, but not my notes or my reminders. The sim card has been moved to my new phone (if that is important). How do I copy these items?


texts: How to get 3 1900x1200 monitors working on a 2010 Mac Pro

texts:
I have a new Mac Pro with a single ATI 5770 card installed. It has two mini-display ports, and one DVI port

I have tried the following configurations:

All 3 DVI connections: This results in one monitor always being black
2 Mini to 2 VGA and one DVI - This results in the VGA monitors having a max resolution of 1920x1080 but defaulting to 1600x1200 due to the aspect ratio. All monitors have a 1920x1200 resolution, but only the DVI port is giving this resolution
All 3 VGA with a DVI to VGA converter on the DVI port - Same result as #2. The monitor plugged into the DVI->VGA port has full resolution. The two Mini->VGA are limited to 1920x1080

My question:

Is this even possible without Apple's dual link adapters?


texts:
I used Spotlight to look for Atari800MacX to upgrade it. It shows me it is located in a folder called Games.

Well, where is this Games folder? No idea. Spotlighting "games" shows other folders called games, but not the one I'm looking for, and I'm not sure where any of these other ones are either.

Right-click does nothing, you can't select objects in the results (only open them)... is there any way to open the folder or otherwise figure out where the heck it is?


texts: Playing movies off our iPad at the cottage

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Our cottage does not have broadband access (even 3G/LTE is really marginal) so I'm trying to find a solution so we can get some movies at home and then watch them. At the cottage we have an Epson projector and a TV with HDMI.

We purchased a Lightning->HDMI connector, but when we attempt to play movies we downloaded to the iPad from iTunes, it states this is not allowed. I honestly don't recall what happens when we try the VGA input to the projector, but I seem to recall is says the same thing. And I tried getting the non-HD versions and that did the same thing.

So is there any way to do this? I know there have been licensing changes recently, does it effect any of this? Is there a setting I can use or some other type of connector that allows this?


texts: iPad LTE edition and SIM from smartphone

texts:
I am thinking if it is possible to use my phone's SIM card in iPad's SIM slot?
This because I need the 4G just only very few times, so when it will be necessary to use it, I will move the SIM from my smart-phone to the iPad.
It is possible this scenario?


texts: How to re-activate my Command Shift 4 (for screen captures)

texts:
I need to re-activate my Command+Shift+4 (for screen captures). I somehow lost this ability on my MacBook Air.

How can I do it?


texts: Is it possible to change the default duration for a new event in Calendar from 60 min to 30 min

texts: I know I can adjust it while I'm creating the event, and I can always change it afterwards, but I'd like the default to be 30 min, as that works best for me.


texts: Is there a way for Spotlight or Launchbar or Quicksilver or similar to just return matching folders not files?

texts:
I frequently need to just get a finder window up that's a ton of folders deep.

There's only so many favorites you can put in the finder sidebar.

I'd happily configure a dedicated launcher to just get me to folders by name and use one of the others for their normal purpose.

I just can't figure out if any of them can be made to do this.


texts: Mac seems to ignore the result of local DNS for local hosts

texts:
I have a server (running Ubuntu 16.04) on my local network, which amongst other things, runs DMSmasq. My local domain is njj.chickenkiller.com.

Running on my Mac, if you query the DNS, it returns the LAN address of various machines on my network. E.g.:

beethoven:~ nick$ dig serv2.njj.chickenkiller.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> serv2.njj.chickenkiller.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36867
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;serv2.njj.chickenkiller.com.   IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
serv2.njj.chickenkiller.com. 0  IN  A   192.168.2.4

;; Query time: 82 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.4#53(192.168.2.4)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug 11 14:22:39 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 61

and in this example, my Mac can correctly resolve, using the default DNS, the address of serv2 on my LAN.

However, when I use other commands (e.g. ping) sometimes they correctly resolve:

beethoven:~ nick$ ping serv2.njj.chickenkiller.com
PING serv2.njj.chickenkiller.com (192.168.2.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.2.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.832 ms

other times, my Mac seems to ignore the result from the local DNS (which is the only name server it is configured to use) and somehow manages to use the WAN address (that you would get if you queried an other DNS):

beethoven:lib nick$ ping serv2
PING njj.chickenkiller.com (90.255.91.177): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 90.255.91.177: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.140 ms

As far as I can tell, the local DNS server works correctly -- it always returns the LAN address (192.168.2.4) and never returns the WAN address (90.255.91.177). I also have both Windows 7 and Linux machine running on the network when I use the ping command (or any other command) they always use the LAN address (192.168.2.4), so I assume that this is something specific to macOS.

Why is this important to me? The router I have from my ISP discards packets from the LAN attempting to access machines using the WAN address. This means that commands accessing other machines on the network fail. eg:

beethoven:lib nick$ ssh serv2
ssh: connect to host serv2 port 22: Connection refused

I am using macOS 10.12.6

Any suggestions as to how I should configure my Mac so it only uses the configured DNS to resolve hosts would be gratefully received.

EDIT:
Whats my search domain?: On the network setting page the DNS server is shown as 192.168.2.4 and the search domain is shown as njj.chickenkiller.com

EDIT 2: Output of commands:

beethoven:bin nick$ networksetup -listallnetworkservices
An asterisk (*) denotes that a network service is disabled.
Wi-Fi
*Bluetooth PAN
*Thunderbolt Bridge
beethoven:bin nick$ networksetup -getsearchdomains  Wi-Fi
There aren't any Search Domains set on Wi-Fi.

EDIT 3: dnsmasq.conf (from ubuntu 16.04 host, "serv2")

# Use google open DNS name servers (avoids the risk of a router attack)
server=/#/8.8.8.8
server=/#/8.8.4.4

# Do not use /etc/hosts, but serve hostnames from /etc/hosts.dnsmasq
no-hosts
addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.dnsmasq
local-ttl=105

# expand unqualified hostnames to suffix njj.chickenkiller.com
expand-hosts
domain=njj.chickenkiller.com

# turn on dhcp (limit leases to 12hours so updates dont need a restart)
dhcp-range=192.168.2.10,192.168.2.99,12h

# and redirect all gateway requests through router
dhcp-option=option:router,192.168.2.1

# and offer a time server
dhcp-option=option:ntp-server,192.168.2.4

# and we are the *only* dns server
dhcp-option=option:dns-server,192.168.2.4


texts:
Is it possible to somehow see the cached files by QuickLook?

I have found that some data is stored in

/private/var/folders/xx/xxxxxxx/x/com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache

In here I found a index.sqlite which lists the path of the file (where it was when viewed) and a fs_id which looks like:

/.file/id=1234567.123

And then I got stuck...

Can I find this cache file somehow and view it ?


texts: Catalina Beta 5: Quicktime Audio Recording Not Working on 2018 Macbook Pros

texts:
Starting a Quicktime Audio recording with Catalina Dev Beta 5 on 2018 or later Macbook Pros outputs files with no sound (Macbook Pro Microhone selected). Example file here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ib67k0vg8cm93fn/test_no_audio%20%281%29.aifc?dl=0

During the recording recording Console shows this error:

"CMIO_Unit_Converter_Audio.cpp:590:RebuildAudioConverter AudioConverterSetProperty() failed (1886547824)"

We have an application that records the screen and audio at the same time using AVFoundation and the resulting video files also do not have audio. However when inspecting the CMSampleBuffers, they seem fine: https://gist.github.com/paulius005/faef6d6250323b7d3386a9a70c08f70b

Is anyone else experiencing this issue or possibly have more visibility if it's something Apple is working on?

Anything else that I should be looking at to tackle the issue?


texts: OS X Lion Recovery hangs on "Downloading additional components"

texts:
Booted into the recovery partition and attempted to reinstall. First pass, nothing happened. Second pass, same. Backed up and erased the install partition, tried a third time. Seemed to be fine until ~90% and now it's stuck at "About 2 hours and 25 minutes remaining". Can still access menus, the bar is animated, display dims after X minutes like it should, but it's clearly not downloading anything.

The closest thing I've found to a fix is mention on the Apple forums where multiple users mentioned RAM being the problem. How in the hell can increased RAM break an OS install?

And if it's not that, then what? What else can break a clean install?


texts:
I am running OS X Lion.  I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:

//darren:q@acid/home   /acid   smbfs   nodev,nosuid,auto

If I run mount -a, the share mounts correctly, but if I just reboot the computer, the drive does not mount.

The drive in question is an Ubuntu SMB share.

Can anyone advise?


texts: Full-screen applications on 90 degree rotated external monitor incredibly laggy

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I have a 2018 MBP running 10.14.3 -- it's connected to a dock with 3 external monitors. Two are through display port and one through HDMI. The dock connects via USB-C.

I have one monitor that's rotated 90 degrees. On this monitor, if I have a full-screen application, the UI of that application lags immensely. I've tested multiple applications. If I drag the full screen application to my other external monitor (both are DP), the UI is snappy as expected. Both monitors are the same model. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that one monitor is rotated 90 degrees and the other isn't.

Is there anything I can try to resolve this? Some Notes:

The dock has updated drivers (third party displaylink)
I've tried rebooting
It doesn't seem to happen for the entire application

For Outlook, the mouse is very responsive in the reading pane, but lags when I hover over my folders.
For Slack, the entire UI is laggy


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A while back my Macbook Pro battery started acting up. Now I pretty much have to have it plugged in all the time otherwise it'll turn off. Also, I am getting (replace soon) battery status. I'll change the battery ASAP.

But, I've just noticed that my electricity bill may went up so much because of this. So, Is there a way I can estimate the amount of power I've consumed last 30 days? or is there anyway I can check and estimate?

Thanks


texts: When I type single quote with symbol a and ' replaced to symbol á. How can I solve this problem?


texts: iOS app for simultaneous reading and listening to a (audio) book

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I'd like to read books in a foreign language while listening to its Audiobook version. Is there an app that can do that?

Notes:

This is what Amazon calls Immersive Reading. It's available on their Kindle Fire tablets.
A plus would be if I could tap a word to see its translation.
It does not so much matter what books are available. I'm happy as long as there are some Public Domain books.


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This issue is only happening at startup (right after I put the password); it does not happen if the Mac was sleeping.
My hardware/software: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) running macOS Big Sur 11.1
My issue: After the first login, the screen shows - for half a second - colors strip much like you would get with a malfunctioning screen, it looks little bit like this, but static and more random. Everything works just fine. It doesn't seen to be a major problem, more like a bug (never had this when it was running Catalina).
Anyone has had this same problem? It doesn't effect performance or anything as it just happen for a brief moment after login, but I mean, it wasn't supposed to happen.


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I'm trying to create a bootable USB for Windows using Disk Utility on OS X 10.8.4.  Downloaded CentOS 6 for 32-bit and tried to use Disk Utility to create a bootable USB drive. This method failed with one of the two following errors:

"Could not restore - Invalid argument"
"Could not restore - error 254"

None of these solutions worked:

Convert the .iso to .dmg
Change permissions to rwx+ugo on image
Download image from another mirror
Use "minimal" image vs "full"
Change USB stick
Restore the "/Volumes" image (i.e. dragging from Desktop, not left panel of DiskUtility)

UNetbootin appears to burn the image to the USB, but testing on a Windows box shows that the disk image is missing.

For more on the Disk Utility errors:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1389072
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1507263?start=0&tstart=0


texts: Will running the fans at maximum rpm all the time hurt the computer?

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I installed Macs Fan Control and I like to make both fans in my mac work at top RPM available all the time. The sound does not annoy me at all and I really like that the computer runs cooler.

Will this hurt the computer in any way?


texts: Connecting any device to wired Keyboard USBs makes it stop working

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I have an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad and a MacBook Pro (early 2015) with Yosemite (10.10.5).

This keyboard comes with two 2.0 USB ports, which, as per own product description, states:

  enable you to connect your mouse as well as a high-speed peripheral such as a digital camera or printer.

Every time I connect anything to these ports, the keyboard stops working (and of course, the connected device won't work either in almost all cases).

I tried different USB flash drives from different brands and sizes (1GB, 8GB), 1TB external drive, charge my headphones.. nothing.

Is there anything to be done in order to make the USB ports work in MacBook Pro (a hidden "use full power on usb" hidden feature perhaps)?

Oddity: One thing I discovered while testing was that if I plug iPhone on the right slot then the external hdd on the left, keyboard will work while hdd mounts and iPhone charges. But if I only plug one of them (hdd, headphones, etc), keyboard dies. I tested once in iMac and worked fine though. Is it broken perhaps?