texts: Can I gather the associated email address from an iMessage that was sent from a phone number?

texts:
Imagine this:
I exchanged my phone number with a nice lady on the street. I have iMessage activated, so does she (when I text her, I see the "iMessage" text).

An hour later she sends me an email. The email I used as an username when I activated my phone.

Questions:

How did she extract my email from my phone?
Is there a service that I can use to extract email from a phone?
Why can't I extract her email?

BTW, googling the subject gave me nothing - not even another person asking the same question.


texts: Mac OS X 10.10 doesnt recognize 1 and 3-finger gestures

texts:
I have Macbook Pro 13" 2014. Everything was working fine. But suddenly it stopped recognizing some gestures.
I was always using built-in trackpad. But now my computer doesn't respond to tap or physical click. 3-finger gestures are not recognized as well.

A few hours before this, the computer was working fine. Then I left my laptop open for about 40 min. When I returned, it looked like the mouse button was clicked and stuck in the clicked state (I don't have a mouse, it is just how it looked like). Of course, I tried to stop it, but nothing helped... The laptop was unusable at all, so I just restarted it by holding power button.

When I connect a standard PC mouse, I get the same outcome - 2-finger tap, zooming, swiping work. But not clicking.

If I go to settings and set the secondary click to be the click in the right bottom corner of trackpad - this click is recognized.

Clicks are also recognized in login screen, but not recognized in recovery mode.

When I log in - clicks are detected, so I am able to log in. But it stops responding to clicks after that. Even when I log out, the clicks doesn't have any effect. I cannot login back!

I believe this is not a hardware problem and I can fix it as soon as possible.
But how? I cleaned it, performed reboots, cannot reinstall OS though - simply cannot click "next"!

On the forums say that it might be a battery problem, but from the outside I don't see anything abnormal. And I cannot open the laptop and look at the battery.

How to make my laptop recognize clicks? Please, help me!

UPD: I added a few details.


texts: Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this System: 10.10.3

texts:
Any changes in Finder gives the popup window where I am asked to type my password. I can delete files so not that earlier discussed problem. Any file taken out of finder is just copying, not remove it. It started after updating to 10.10.3 and both on iMAC and Macbook Air.

Tried everything so far....repaired my disc's permissions in reboot mode, checked terminal and compared with the empty trash problem... but nothing worked.
An solution would be much appreciated, thanks


texts: How do I change streaming buffer size in iTunes 10.5?

texts: I want to change the buffering of streaming radio in iTunes 10.5.  Every help document I've found online says to go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced Tab.  I see no such buffer option there.  I'm running on Windows XP Service Pack 3.


texts: Error: "Failure to find application" on launch

texts: This morning I got the following error message on launch. I have not removed any applications since last launch. Google did not help.


texts:
I have developed an iOS app, and I am using a service called TestFlight to distribute the application to some beta testers.

Here is an image of the service:

What is an iPhone4,1?

If it is referring to a normal iPhone 4, I suppose it wouldn't include the ,1 there. So what is this? Perhaps some model number?


texts: Google Calendar sync not working in Mountain Lion

texts:
Last week my OS X Calendar stopped syncing to Google Calendar. Past events are still there, but new events aren't pushed to Google anymore.

I already tried deleting Calendar's/iCals Cache and Settings, removing the Google Calendar entirely and adding it back again. No success so far.

Does anybody know about a way to debug CalDAV syncing on OS X? Is there a issue with Google's servers?

Any help is appreciated.


texts: Wireless or bluetooth stero for streaming from imac?

texts:
Looking for info from mac users who stream audio from imac to a stereo in the home.

after a bit of research, I have narrowd my choices down to
Soundfreaq SFQ-1 (bluetooth) or the Pioneer X-SMC3-S Music Tap AirPlay Music System (airplay)
Can anyone tell me the difference between airplay and bluetooth for streaming audio  (only about 10 feet).


texts: macOS LaunchAgent service runs duplicate processes

texts:
While running my UI application as LaunchAgent I sometimes get dual running processes on the same user instead of one (which is reflected on the screen by duplicated identical windows). I guess this happen because of a race, I manually load the agent while it can also be monitored and executed when the related plist file is created inside /Library/LaunchAgents.

How can I enforce single/unique process per user. perhaps there's a dedicated plist flag for this demand ?


texts:
Quite simply, I'd just like to modify the right command key to escape and that's it. Keep the left command key as is.

The only tool I've been able to find for this is ControllerMate but I'd rather not pay $14 to map one key.

Can anyone suggest a free alternative?


texts: Photos not appearing under Media->Photos in file upload dialog box (Chrome)

texts:
Ok i have a new Mac. New Mac user here. I have a samsung phone and have imported photos from my phone onto my Mac (I assume they are in the filesystem now). When i open "Photos" application i can see all my imported phone pics there.

Now i am using Chrome and I'm attempting to upload photos from my Mac into my wordpress blog. Same situation with facebook or any other website. When the finder dialog box opens and i go to Media->Photos there are no photos showing.

Is this some kind of permissions issue where the dialog that opens cannot access the photos in the photos application? Are the photos presented through the photos application actual files on the drive in the regular filesystem? I am not hooked up to iCloud.


texts: How can I set the background image the same on all master slides without editing each master slide individually in Keynote?

texts:
In PowerPoint the master slides have inheritance, so you can set common elements on all the master slides easily. I don't see anyway to do this in Keynote. For example, if I want to set the background image on all the master slides then I need to edit the background image on each master slide.

How to set the background image the same on all master slides without editing each master slide individually?


texts:
Snow Leopard came with HelveticaNeue.dfont (Truetype).
iOS5 also came with HelveticaNeue.
Presumably, a Keynote document created on the Mac, using this font and shared by iCloud to an iPhone will display the same.

But what happens if I install and use the large OpenType font HelveticaNeueLTPro from Linotype?

Conflicts? Flames?


texts: Found mail message in Outlook for Mac, but want to find the source folder

texts: Because I find that Outlook's internal search is sometimes unreliable, I occasionally use the Mac's spotlight search to find a particular mail message. This allows me to locate the message, which I can open, but I cannot find a way to determine the folder in which the message is stored. (I think my question is different from "Outlook for Mac 2011: How to find the folder where a message is stored?" because the user there was using Outlook's internal search and getting a list of emails in an Outlook table of messages. My problem is that my external search only goes into Outlook once I have opened the single message I am looking for, and so there is no table listing all messages found according to the search criteria, with columns that allow a "folder" column to be displayed)


texts: OS X 10.12.16: "URLs with the type 'afp:' are not supported"

texts:
I am mounting an AFP volume hosted on a FreeBSD server using netatalk. I am able to successfully mount the volume using mount_afp. However, I am mounting it for the purposes of Time Machine, and it seems that unfortunately mount_afp changes the permissions of the mount directory to 700, root:wheel so that the user is unable to access it.

So I am trying to mount the volume normally from Finder, unsuccessfully, with the above error code.

The URL I am using to mount it is
afp://user:pass@server/VolumeName


texts: Disable the iTunes import finished sound

texts:
Often I'm listening to the songs being imported during the import, using the new tracks in the library. When iTunes completes the import there's an annoying finished chime that sounds loudly because I'm listening to music.

There doesn't appear to be anything relevant in the prefs dialog. Web searches weren't helpful, and I've looked around in itunes prefs files but nothing looks useful there either.

I'm hoping that there's an undocumented plist pref.

I use iTunes on a Windows 7 machine.

EDIT: @daniel-lawson approach seems to be the only way to solve this.

Searching for filenames beginning with complete in the iTunes directory, I found: C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.Resources\complete.wav
If you might want to reverse this in the future, make a copy of complete.wav
Truncate/Empty complete.wav somehow.
No more Import Complete sound.

Alternately just delete complete.wav. I prefer to keep the filename in the directory; maybe this will prevent a software update from re-creating it.

After looking around a bit more using the filename, I found this issue addressed on forums, and the answer seemed to be: delete the file. Also, someone has written a GUI around this that probably just edits the file: I Hate That iTunes Done Chime!


texts: Numbers 2: Create a new header cell, listing once the contents of a column

texts:
Not sure how to search for this question, and moreover I rather think that what I want might not be possible, but just in case I am asking it here.

I am looking for a way to create a new table where its headers will get their contents from the content of a column of another table, without duplicates though.

Example, the content of my column in Table A is listing countries codes.
FRA, GER, ITA, ITA, USA, FRA, UK, CA, FRA, FRA, USA, FRA, GER, FRA, USA, BRA, ITA, USA, UK etc.

What I want is a way to fetch a country code, if it is appearing just once, and create a second table (Table B), with headers the countries code.

So based on the above data, I should come with a table with 7 columns and headers:
FRA | GER | ITA | USA | UK | BRA | CA

Would something like this be ever possible with Numbers ?


texts: Time machine stuck in 'waiting' when trying to restore

texts: I recently updated to El Capitan and now when I enter my Time Machine click on past backups, it just sits there stuck 'waiting' and no files are visible in the backup. Any ideas what to do to be able to access them?


texts: Will a text that is stored in iCloud get deleted from iCloud when you delete it from your iPhone?


texts: How to setup iPads to be shared by multiple users?

texts:
My school has iPads for use for students. Currently, each student has their own iPad, with their own password, and own files on it.

But I've seen other schools instead have laptops where students can log into any laptop (or desktop computer in the building), and use it. They just enter their unique username and password, and they see their own desktop settings and files. Only an Internet connection is required.

Is there a way to setup iPads to be used in the same manner?


texts: macOS Utilities doesn't recognize internal ssd (but normal usage is working fine)

texts:
I own an early-2015 Macbook Pro and by trying to format it for reselling purposes I've got faced with a curious and annoying problem. macOS utilities does not recognize my internal ssd. Be it by accessing macOS utilities's Disk Utility section or the "Install a previous OSX" one, my internal storage just isn't listed at all.
This is particularly weird given that the computer is working fine, and whenever I access the regular OSX's disk utility, my internal storage unit is being listed properly. Not only that, but the computer is working properly, so I know for a fact that it is no hardware issue that is causing it. I wouldn't even have discovered this issue hadn't I had to reformat this computer.
Does anyone have a clue on how can I get Macos utilities to properly track my internal SSD?
Thanks in advance


texts: Wifi password is too short on Mac Air in Lion

texts: I have MacBook Air with Lion which has problems to join WIFI network which password is 7 chars long. Basically button is grayed out until i add more chars. Is there a way to force Lion to ignore this behavior or the only way to go thru is to change WIFI password? It's not my network so it's not so easy.


texts: What's the PCI Compatibility for Mac Pro, Early 2008?

texts: I have a Mac Pro, Early 2008, (MacPro3,1) running Mojave. I'd like to add a PCI card for USB 3. Lots of USB cards advertise Mac Pro compatibility, but don't get specific as to models. What do I look for to verify that a card will work with my machine?


texts:
Is there a way to use Emacs 24 in fullscreen mode? The Emacs wiki seems to imply that it has been disabled, but that there are some workarounds / patches.

It doesn't have to be "true" full screen, but I like to work without having the OS menubar  on the top and launcher at the bottom.

In the end, it is not clear how I can implement these patches or workarounds, which one I should use and / or if I should just install emacs <= 23.3.

My current .emacs includes the following (which allows me to use F11 to toggle fullscreen under Emacs 23 in Linux)

(defun fullscreen ()
 (interactive)
 (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen
              (if (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen) nil 'fullboth))
(progn
  (if (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode) (tool-bar-mode -1))  ;; no toolbar
  (menu-bar-mode -1) ;;no menubar
  (scroll-bar-mode -1) ;; no scroll bar
  )
)

(global-set-key [f11] 'fullscreen)


texts: iPhone Mail displays the wrong number of drafts

texts:
I recently cleaned up my email drafts folder.  I had 62 messages, and now I have only 6 email drafts saved.

My iPhone, however, still shows a count of 62! Only the 6 that really exist are available, but the count is still off.

How can I force the phone to re-count the number of drafts?


texts: How can I run Final Cut Pro on an 2011 MacBook Pro?

texts: I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro running high Sierra (the latest operating system supported) and I needed to get final cut pro. you can't natively download it from the App Store without an error. so I bought and downloaded it on my friends 2016 15 MacBook Pro running Catalina and put it on a usb drive to copy to my computer (I did the same thing with iMovie so I was confident that it would work) once I plugged it into my computer and copied it to my applications folded and tried to open it but when I did it said it required Mac OS 10.14.6 (my Mac can only support 10.13.6) I tried editing the info.plist file and it didn't work. I really need this software on my computer please help.


texts:
Since I do a lot of non-focused BS over the day I want to find out how much of it I actually do. Therefore I want to record my screen and finally or maybe directly make a time lapse of it. That's my X problem. My current Y problem is that I can't even record a simple screen cast without a time lapse on my MacBook with the recent macOS.

ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i 1 -framerate 10 -capture_cursor -capture_mouse_clicks -pixel_format 0rgb -t 60 ~/Desktop/screen.mp4

Complains:

ffmpeg version 4.2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple clang version 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.59)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.2.2_3 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --enable-avresample --cc=clang

...Removed irrelevent bits

[AVFoundation input device @ 0x7fd835c15ec0] Configuration of video device failed, falling back to default.
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400] Selected pixel format (yuv420p) is not supported by the input device.
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400] Supported pixel formats:
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400]   uyvy422
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400]   yuyv422
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400]   nv12
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400]   0rgb
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400]   bgr0
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400] Overriding selected pixel format to use uyvy422 instead.
[avfoundation @ 0x7fd83600c400] Stream #0: not enough frames to estimate rate; consider increasing probesize
...
[mp4 @ 0x7fd837809200] Frame rate very high for a muxer not efficiently supporting it.
Please consider specifying a lower framerate, a different muxer or -vsync 2
[libx264 @ 0x7fd837819a00] MB rate (20340000000) > level limit (16711680)
...
      cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/0 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: -1
More than 1000 frames duplicated
^C^C^C
Received > 3 system signals, hard exiting

To me this looks like ffmpeg ignores the arguments in the command line. What is the problem?


texts: How to record audio from terminal in macOS Mojave?

texts:
Since macOS Mojave apps now need to ask for permission to record audio. I want to record it from the built-in microphone of my Macbook.

This means that a lot of old tools are broken. For example, sox and ffmpeg don't work anymore.

With ffmpeg I tried ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i ":1" -t 10 output.mp3, which results in no file being even created.

With sox I tried sox -d output.wav, which produces a file but with no sound in it.

So does anyone have a workaround or other CLI utility that can do this?


texts: Menu bar icons smaller than they should be

texts:
I've tried replacing the stock menubar icons in both Meteorologist and Butler with icons of the same size as the ones they were to be replacing and in both instances the replacement icons appeared significantly smaller than the originals. Neither enlarging nor reducing the size of the replacement icons had any effect on the tiny size with which they appeared. Meteorologist uses .tiffs and Butler uses .pngs. Completely different icons were used for both apps. Butler even includes a submenu function expressly to allow the user to change the icons.

Can anyone explain to me why my replacement menubar icons are appearing half to even a 1/8 smaller than they should be and how I can fix this?


texts: I can't remove alarms set with old apple mail app

texts: I set some alarms using older mail program that came with OS X 10.6. During all upgrades, the alerts were preserved, but now I want to remove them and I can't find where they are defined. They are not in reminders, not in calendar, not on mail program. I'm now running on iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)


texts: Why when I wake my new iMac from Sleep, I have to scrape away a layer of screensaver or Lion linen to log in?

texts:
I have a strange problem. I am very good with Macs and all Apple products, but this one has me stumped.

I have a new (4 months old) 27" iMac (2.7 GHz Intel Core i5) with Lion 10.7.2

and it works beautifully, but it does one thing that drives me crazy. After it has gone to Sleep, and I wake it up to use it, the screensaver pic or Lion Grey linen image stays on the screen and I have to scrub away some of it with my pointer/cursor to see the user login screen, almost like scratching away some frost to be able to see through my car's windshield in the winter.

What is causing this? And what can I do to get it to stop? I have had Macs forever and have never had this problem.


texts: MacBook Pro Internal speaker has just stopped to sound (but startup chime sounds)

texts:
The internal speaker of my MacBook Pro suddenly stopped sounding. I just tried PRAM reset, but it doesn't work.

The audio works when I plug in earphones and goes when plug out.

I don't think, it's a hardware problem, because, the startup chime sounds when I start the computer. (correct me if I am wrong in this point).

Anyone have any idea why this may happen and how to fix it?

Image : It also disappeared from the output list:

  Not a hardware problem: Some people are referring this as a duplicate of a post, which has a hardware issue, I already mentioned above, the sound works for me while startup (startup chime). So it's not a hardware issue. (Pls explain in comment, if I am wrong in this point, other than marking as duplicate without any will to help).


texts: What is the difference between Full Disk Access and Files & Folders access in Catalina?

texts:
From security preferences pane we see below info:

What is restricted internally for each of these?

  Files and Folders access: Allow the apps below to access files and folders.

  Full Disk access: Allow the apps below to access data like Mail, Messages, Safari, Home, Time Machine backups and certain administrative settings for all users on this Mac.


texts: I deal with a lot of external servers where the firewall must be configured to allow SSH access.  I frequently need to know my external IP address, and it changes often.  Does anyone know of an application that will determine my external IP address and display it in the menu bar?  preferably with a copy to clipboard option?  I'd write one myself but Objective-C is not my thing.


texts: Right-click context menu not consistently "sticky"

texts:
I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a 2008 MBP.

The right-click on my mousepad activates the context menu.  A single right-click displays the menu, and it stays visible until I make a selection or click away from the menu.

For the last several months the right-click is no longer consistently "sticky." I.e., the context menu will disappear unless I click and hold.  This is a hassle because it means a more complicated multi-touch manipulation of the mousepad.

I've scoured this forum as well as Google without finding an answer.  All help is greatly appreciated.


texts: Yosemite problem with Xbox 360 Controller Driver

texts:
A few months ago, I downloaded this Xbox360ControllerDriver, which I believe it was the .11 Version and was working fine by the time.

Recently, I bought a new wired Xbox 360 controller, thinking that it would be the easiest and fastest to hook up with the iMac. When I first plugged in the controller into the computer, the Xbox360ControlllerDriver recognised it very well. Although, the program I was trying to use the controller with didn't recognised it at all, which led me to download the new version of the Driver, the .14 version.

After downloading and installing the Driver, I've got the following error:

 `Preferences Error: Could not load XBox 360 Controllers preference pane`

Obviously doing this was not the solution; I downgraded to de previous version of the Driver, the .11 version which did not give positive responses and upgraded back to the .14 version. After several failed attempts, I started a research on how make it work with the Yosemite. Turns our I did the opposite.

Somehow by surfing in the internet, I found what appeared to me the solution to my problem, which include some terminal codes like sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1" and sudo kextcache -m /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions

Without success, after applying all the previous codes and rebooting the computer for several times and also deleting the previous version of the software before installing the new one and more, I come to you wise people hoping for a solution.


texts: How to enable foreign/accentuated letters popup on ukelele (.keylayout) custom keyboard keypress?

texts:
I have created and installed a custom keyboard layout with the ukelele application.
This keyboard is installed here :
~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/my-custom-layout.keylayout

When the default english Mac OS keyboard is selected, I'm able to press a key and have a popup with accentuated variations of that letter.

This is not the case when my custom keyboard is selected.

I have seen that I could edit the Keyboard-**.plist files here :
/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/PlugIns/PAH_Extension.appex/Contents/Resources

But I don't know which one should be used in my case ?
In the System preferences, this keyboard appears on the "Others" section...


texts: I've lost my HDD which is unrecoverable on my MacBookPro 5,5. I don't have any Mountain Lion installer or disk. How can I install Mountain Lion after i put brand new disk?


texts: Mac Mini 1TB HDD being 100% full - cant mount, cant boot

texts:
I just unburied an old 2007 Mac Mini Server which I had put a 1TB drive into. I had kinda forgotten why it broke, but after a while I remembered...the hard way.

That Mac's hard drive is so full and loaded that it pretty much literally has not a single bit - not byte, bit - of free storage. As MacOS tries to extend the disk journal when mounting, it hits a limitation and fails to mount. I realized that during Target Disk Mode when I was hoping to get in there in order to hopefuly just erase some stuff off it so it would boot properly again.

It does actually go into the boot, but it does NOT actually boot - it just hangs up, and stalls.

I am currently considering to try and breach in using GParted - but I am actually not sure if I had encrypted the drive with FileVault... So just in case, here's the question:

How can I possibly resurrect that old Mac Mini Server from my own Mac? I can see the drive as /dev/disk3 and especially the mount voluem as /dev/disk3s2. But with each mounting attempt, a new disk node pops up, eventually even growing beyond 10 (disk10, disk11, ...).
If I can not do that from another Mac, is there something else I can do? Like, I had considered to utilize GParted, but I bet there are also other solutions. Which ones would you recommend?

I also can not absolutely - although its not very likely - rule out that the disk itself is broken too - either the reader or the motor. Any way that I can figure this out?

Thanks!


texts: How can I enable pinch to zoom in Finder on OS X Lion?

texts: After upgrading to Lion the pinch-to-zoom seems to be gone in Finder.  Didn't even find an option for it in system preferences. Any ideas?


texts: Airpods connect to iPhone perfectly but disconnect from MacBook after a few seconds

texts:
Wanted to share as none of the usual troubleshooting tips helped me. Basically, my Airpods worked fine with my iPhone, but when I tried to connect them to my MacBook, they would connect (Bluetooth icon shows a device connected, Airpods play the connect sound), then disconnect a few seconds later (also playing the disconnect sound). In those few seconds they never showed up under output/input audio devices.

I tried without success:

Re-pairing Airpods with the MacBook
Un-pair and factory reset the Airpods (hold button until amber light flashes)
Delete the Bluetooth plist file on the MacBook

What to try next?


texts: How can I fix a Macbook Pro when the Touch Bar doesn't work?

texts:
I have a 13" 2016 Macbook Pro with touchbar and the touchbar is completely disabled.

The Touch Bar settings in the keyboard settings are gone

The touch bar agent in activity monitor is missing.

The system is running in macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Here's a list of everything I tried:

I've tried running this in terminal:

pkill "Touch Bar agent";
killall "ControlStrip";

and

sudo pkill "Touch Bar agent"; sudo killall "ControlStrip";

Starting in Safe Mode
SMC reset
NVRAM reset
Apple Hardware Test (booting while holding D), resulting in "No problems found"

However, nothing seems to work.

I don't know what else to do besides a factory reset.

Does anyone know what could be the issue?


texts: How do I stop the search helper from popping up in my browser?

texts:
I'm trying to select text in chrome, and half the time I get this weird popup while selecting the first word, It's really annoying and I'd like to disable it, at least in chrome.

I've never experienced this behavior before today, I'm on a newly issued rMBP at work, I haven't seen this on my personal laptop, or other OSX devices, or windows or linux for that matter.  I'm just not even sure where to start in terms of disabling this.


texts:
I currently have a jailbroken 3Gs iPhone running 4.01.

I've really used the jailbroken part, but it's good to know that I can tether my laptop to the phone should I ever need to.

Having said that, is it worth it to upgrade the phone to 4.1 (which hasn't been jailbroken yet)?  Does it fix the sluggishness issues that were caused by the upgrade from iPhone OS 3.x to iOS 4.x?


texts:
i'm new to mac os x. i read that homebrew is a good packet manager and i have tried it.

i have also read that to install opencv 2.4 i have to follow those steps:

install cmake via homebrew
download opencv
cmake, sudo make

and i have done it. now i have fully python wrapper in my mac os x. but now if i write brew doctor i have those warnings:

brew doctor
Warning: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig isn't writable.
This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
by Homebrew.

If a brew tries to write a .pc file to this directory, the install will
fail during the link step.

You should probably `chown` /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_calib3d.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_contrib.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_core.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_features2d.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_flann.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_gpu.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_highgui.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_imgproc.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_legacy.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_ml.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_nonfree.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_objdetect.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_photo.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_stitching.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_ts.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_video.2.4.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libopencv_videostab.2.4.2.dylib
Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .pc files:
    /usr/local/lib

/pkgconfig/opencv.pc
Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar
Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on
those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run `brew link` on these:

    git

why?? what's wrong? what to do?


texts: How to open an image file from bash in Mac?

texts:
I am fairly new with a Mac (Mac from work), and get more and more disappointed. Now I am blocked again, because I did not find an EASY way to open an image from the command line...

Here is how it works in Linux (simple, no installation required):

eog test.jpg

How to achieve the similar thing on a Mac?


texts: iPhone turning off on 10 - 20% and battery percentage not showing right

texts:
I have an iPhone 5s running iOS 11.0.3. When it's down to about 15%, it dies completely.Can I do something about that?

Also, when It's at around 15% and I plug the iPhone into the power supply, it often goes up to 25% instantly.Why is my iPhone doing that?


texts: How to fix 403 in Mac OS X built-in Apache?

texts:
I'm trying to set a local environment on my new MacBook Air 13": built-in Apache with my own DocumentRoot, PHP, and MySQL. I usually update /etc/hosts just to run my local websites with a pretty permalink: local/example. For references, I usually check:

How to turn Mac OS X Lion into a web server?
Enabling Apache in Mac OS X Mountaion Lion
Apache permissions

This time I'm simply getting a 403 Forbidden error every time I hit 127.0.0.1, localhost, or local. First I saw through the terminal that both Apache and PHP are running (even though I can't view PHP pages); then I updated all permissions according to Apache permissions; now I'm just desperate. Here are the relevant Apache configs:

/etc/hosts (view file — added one line)
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf (view file — updated the DocumentRoot)
/etc/apache2/users/joao.conf (view file — created this file)
/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf (view file — updated VirtualHost)

It looks like Apache is somehow denying me access to my DocumentRoot (which by the way is ~/Sites). Because ~/Sites is actually a symlink, I then tried to update DocumentRoot with the following paths (all pointing to the same directory):

~/Sites
/Users/joao/Sites
/Users/joao/Dropbox/Workflow/Sites (the original directory)

Still throwing 403. Any ideas how to fix/debug this?

Quick update — here's what my /var/log/apache2/joao.pt-error_log looks like:

[Sun Jul 07 12:50:45 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Sun Jul 07 12:50:45 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied
[Sun Jul 07 12:50:45 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied
[Sun Jul 07 12:50:45 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied
[Sun Jul 07 12:50:47 2013] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Sun Jul 07 12:50:47 2013] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Sun Jul 07 12:50:48 2013] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied
[Sun Jul 07 12:50:48 2013] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied


texts:
I used bootcamp to create a new windows partition. It works fine, but I can't see the mac hard drive in my Devices and Drivers in windows. I know that you used to be able to read files from mac os.

I read this stackexchange question (How can I make Mac Partition visible in Bootcamp (Windows 10 Anniversary Update)?) but it didn't work. I had Bootcamp 6.0, but I installed the drivers from a site I found anyways. (It didn't work/change anything, I already had the registry keys) When I set "H:" to "\Device\HarddiskVolume2", it shows up as "Local Disk (H:)" instead of "Macintosh HD" or something. No other hard disk volume works; volume 1 is the 200MB partition, volume 3 is the windows partition, and no other volumes show up. When I open the Local Disk (H:), it asks me to reformat the hard drive.

In my disk management, my macos partition still doesn't show up as HFS, even though I have all the right drivers.

What's the problem? I'm on windows 10, version 1909.

Edit: Forgot to add, whenever I click "Restart in OS X" in windows, it tells me that it failed to locate the OS X boot volume.


texts:
I am looking for a convenient method to navigate safari (mainly clicking links) using keyboard only. I'm already familiar with the Tab key (or opt + Tab), but I noticed that in Chrome and Firefox you can ctrl+F, type the text of the like you with to click, after highlighting the link, you can click esc (the link keeps being highlighted) and press return to navigate the URL.
Is there a way to configure this in Safari? or any other way of being able to click links?
The problem of the Tab option is that many times it requires clicking on it many many times until getting to the desired link.


texts:
How can I set my macbook pro to type the French accents by showing them on top of each vowel instead of pressing option keys?

On a English keyboard.


texts: Can I stop Dropbox from automatically updating itself on OS X?

texts:
Dropbox seems to auto-update itself on OS X. Problem is that the latest version of Dropbox doesn't support OS X 10.10.0 which I have to run for compatibility with other apps.

I tried re.installing an older version of Dropbox, which then works for a few minutes before it updates itself again.

Is there a way to stop Dropbox from updating itself so I can stay with an older version of Dropbox?


texts: Long term effects of iPhone left in the sun?

texts: I accidentally left my iPhone 5 a few hours in direct sun and it overheated. Obviously I put it in shade to cool down but my question is will there be any significant damage? Long term? It was really hot when I found it.


texts:
I'm assembling my workplace and I'm looking into Mac Mini MD387LL along with some 4k monitor like this one, Samsung 28-inch UHD.

Problem is that I'm not sure if the Mac Mini will support this humongous 4k resolution. Does anyone has rock solid information on that?


texts: How to convert my music to ringtones for the Iphone 5

texts:
I am trying to convert some of my favourite music files to ringtones on my iPhone 5. It has been pretty confusing maneuvering iTunes to do so, so I'm looking for a much easier way to do so.

I connect my iPhone (iOS 6.0.2) to a PC running iTunes 11.0.1.12.


texts: How to know if a MacBook Pro 15" screen is genuine?

texts:
I bought a used MacBook Pro 15" 2016 and suspect that the screen was replaced and the replacement is not genuine. I went to terminal.app and checked using this code:
system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType

I got the result below, but I don't know whether the information verifies that this is a genuine screen or not because I couldn't figure out what it means.
Graphics/Displays:

Intel HD Graphics 530:

  Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics 530
  Type: GPU
  Bus: Built-In
  VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 1536 MB
  Vendor: Intel
  Device ID: 0x191b
  Revision ID: 0x0006
  Automatic Graphics Switching: Supported
  gMux Version: 4.0.29 [3.2.8]
  Metal Family: Supported, Metal GPUFamily macOS 2
  Displays:
    Color LCD:
      Display Type: Built-In Retina LCD
      Resolution: 2880 x 1800 Retina
      Framebuffer Depth: 24-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
      Main Display: Yes
      Mirror: Off
      Online: Yes
      Automatically Adjust Brightness: No
      Connection Type: Internal

Radeon Pro 455:

  Chipset Model: AMD Radeon Pro 455
  Type: GPU
  Bus: PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width: x8
  VRAM (Total): 2 GB
  Vendor: AMD (0x1002)
  Device ID: 0x67ef
  Revision ID: 0x00c7
  ROM Revision: 113-C980AF-908
  VBIOS Version: 113-C9801AP-028
  EFI Driver Version: 01.A0.908
  Automatic Graphics Switching: Supported
  gMux Version: 4.0.29 [3.2.8]
  Metal Family: Supported, Metal GPUFamily macOS 2

I went to bestfirms.com to check the screen resolution for this model and it says 1680 x 1050. That's why I question the authenticity of the screen.


texts: I've used my Sony PlayStation Eye with several desktop apps. Why doesn't iChat see it?

texts:
I have a Sony PlayStation Eye USB camera and microphone.

I have successfully used it on my Mac Pro desktop with several video application (iShowU HD for example).

However, although iChat will recognise the microphone it will not work with the camera, see screen shot.


texts: How to delete a folder that has 65535 links on it?

texts:
Somehow a folder from /var/folders (/var/folders/2j/8_50ggln3wz21k4gmfx86drh0000gn/T/ on my machine) got 65535 links to it. This caused my machine to not boot anymore.
I managed to fix the booting issue my renaming it to something else (mv T X) in recovery mode.

The problem is I can't get rid of it (rm -rf or even ls on it hangs).

ls -tahl ~/.Trash
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+    67 <user>  staff   2.1K Nov 30 00:30 ..
drwxr-x---  65535 <user>  staff   139M Nov 29 22:14 X
drwx------      3 <user>  staff    96B Nov 29 22:01 .

And if I try:

rm -r ~/.Trash/X
...(hanged, does not return)


texts: Can I reactivate my Peggle Nights in-app purchase on my new iPad without being charged again?

texts:
I own Peggle for iPhone and bought the Peggle Nights addon from within the app. I installed Peggle on my new iPad, but Peggle Nights isn't available.

I've seen other iOS games (like 100 Rogues) that have a "check for purchases" feature alongside "purchase", but Peggle doesn't have this. If I click "purchase", will I be charged another $4, or will the app just reactivate my purchase?

(After a few back-and-forth emails with PopCap support trying to get them to understand my question, they punted and suggested I ask Apple.)


texts: how to move windows between desktop screens

texts: I like to use three fingers swipe right and left to move between different screens. But how should i move currently opened windows to particular desktops of my liking?


texts: Can I manually update my display driver?

texts:
I've recently acquired a MacBook Pro. It's a 13 inch model which comes with an Intel HD Graphics 3000 display card.

I've had a few issues lately (such as flickering graphics in certain games and on youtube when hardware acceleration is used), and what I would do on a Windows machine is simply download and install the latest drivers to see if that helps.

Is this even an option when using a Mac? Or is this something I can't (and don't need to) worry about?


texts: How can I prevent Safari from removing first words of tabs' titles?

texts:
Safari has a feature which removes duplicate first words of page titles from tabs, which is useful when sites' pages all begin with the same word or two. "Site Title | Page title 1" and "Site Title | Page title 2" show up as "Page title 1" and "Page title 2," for instance.

However, this can be annoying when two pages have the same first word, but are different, such as the two Ask Different pages, "Ask Different chat - chat.stackexchange.com" and "Ask a Question - Apple - Stack Exchange." These become "Different chat […]" and "a Question […]," which isn't very smart of Safari.

Is there any way I can control this to whatever extent possible?


texts:
I want to create a virtualenv but it doesn't find the command.

$ virtualenv venv
-bash: virtualenv: command not found

It is installed:

$ pip install virtualenv
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): virtualenv in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Cleaning up...

What could be causing that?


texts: Processing videos through iMovie increases file size by 70x

texts:
This is just a curiosity of mine. I screen recorded ~5hrs of video using Quicktime, split up into roughly 10-20 minute segments. The folder which I saved them to is 4.73 GB big.

However when I string those videos together using iMovie, add about 5 titles, and attempt to export a file at best quality, it estimates 332 GB!

The next step down is a lot better, but still nearly 10x bigger at 45.4 GB.

Even low quality is still more than 3x bigger than the original files

Where is all this extra data coming from?

EDIT: Even weirder, my screen recordings have no audio data, and I haven't added any in, so why is it still big when exporting audio only?


texts: Can I tap to define using third party apps?

texts:
I recently came across this forum post which showed someone highlighting a word and searching it on what looks like a third party app: Naver dictionary. I have searched everywhere but I am unable to find anything about tap to search/define/translate with dictionaries other than the in-built apple ones instead of using installed third party apps or on the internet.
The image is the first one on this forum post: https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10015&start=10#p132355
Thank you in advanced!


texts: Direct download link for iTunes for Microsoft Windows (not from Microsoft Store)

texts:
I wish to download iTunes for Windows 10. I am looking for a direct download link on Apple’s website rather than downloading it from Microsoft Store. When I visit Apple Support - Downloads page, and click on the download link, It redirect me to this page:

https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

There it says I need to get iTunes from the Microsoft store.

I cannot use Microsoft Store at work as it is disabled by IT, but I am allowed to install and use iTunes.

Is there a direct download link for iTunes for Microsoft Windows 10 hosted somewhere on the official Apple website?


texts: Printing from Sierra to a shared printer on Windows 10

texts: I want to print to a printer attached to a Windows 10 machine. I tried setting up a workgroup then selecting the Windows tab for adding a printer, but this does not seem to work. It can submit a job to the print queue and I can see it on my Windows 10 machine, but it immediately disappears. Is there another method that I can use instead?


texts: How do I find out which application is sending me this Notification Center alert?

texts:
It appears every 10 minutes or so, and it's driving me nuts! Nothing appears in my notifications slider (the black translucent drawer from the right screen).

Macbook Pro, 10.11.3 El Cap

For googlability: the text is:
AUTH_NOTIF_TITLE
AUTH_NOTIF_MESSAGE

Options:
Close
CONTINUE


texts:
Is there a way to have it so I only get messages and texts sent to my cell phone on my cell phone and only iMessages sent to my email on my Mac?

For instance now if someone sends me a message to my email address, I get it on my Mac AND iPhone.  For that particular message I would only want it on my Mac.

Conversely, if someone sends me a text message to my cell phone, I only want that to show on my iPhone.  I got this part right by going into Messages preferences and deselecting my cell phone number.

However, if I try to remove the email address from Messages on my iPhone I get the message that "You will no longer be able to receive iMessages at _____ on any device".  By device do they mean iPhone, iPad etc or does that include Macs?


texts: Command line equivalent of Disk Utility, which is not diskutil, to obtain UUID

texts:
Following on from the answer to Can you make OSX mount just certain partitions when you connect an external HDD?, all of the sites that I have checked (CNET, OSXDaily, Apple Support community threads) say that you have to use Disk Utility (or the command line diskutil info /dev/disk<X>s<Y>) to find the UUID.

Is there a command line equivalent that will give me this information, which is not diskutil? In particular, one that will work in single user mode?

Why diskutil does not work

In single user mode (at least on Mountain Lion) after running:

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

running:

diskutil info disk0s5

gives the following error

Unable to run because unable to use the DiskManagement framework.
Common reasons include, but are not limited to, the DiskArbitration
framework being unavailable due to being booted in single user mode.

Background

My issue is that I have a dying partition on my internal disk, which only holds an out of date Snow Leopard OS, but is slowing down my Mac (unbearably), as the console is (repeatedly) reporting:

kernel: disk0s5: I/O error.

I no longer boot into Snow Leopard as I boot Mountain Lion which is on an external FireWire disk, so I would like to leave the Snow Leopard partition unmounted, using the line

UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX none hfs rw,noauto

in /etc/fstab.

However, to obtain the UUID of the faulty partition, I have to open up Disk Utility and have the faulty partition mounted, which is a torturously slow process (it takes Disk Utility about twenty minutes to open).

TL;DR -
Can I obtain the UUID of the internal partition, when booting into single user mode of an OS stored on a partition which is on an external FW disk?


texts: How to quickly reduce video file size of iPad and iPhone videos

texts: I discovered that the majority of the space, taken up by photo library is due to videos I have made with my iPhone and iPad. While I like preserving some of these video in original format for HQ viewing, I don't mind loosing some quality for others. Is there a quick way for doing so or do I need to import each separate video into a video-editing program and then export it again with the appropriate settings?


texts: VMWare Fusion Pro macOS Host to Linux Guest Keyboard Mapping

texts:
I'm running a Fedora (also a Ubuntu) guest in VMWare Fusion Pro 8.5 on macOS Sierra. I've got a problem that's been bugging me for a long time: the keyboard keys don't map across correctly from the host to the guest. I've got the UK, Macintosh layout set in the guests, and the keyboard map shows the correct layout. But, as an example, when I need to type ~, I actually have to type ±, etc. Yet the @ and " keys map correctly.

I've read lots of advice about using the Keyboard and Mouse settings in VMWare Fusion to map the keys correctly, but as far as I can tell, these options only relate to shortcuts (am I missing something)?

Also, given that Fusion is designed for the Mac, how is it that it can't detect my MBP's keyboard layout and correctly map that to a Mac layout? Is it just me, or is that crazy?


texts: Can I set up domain filtering on an Airport Extreme?

texts: I'm wondering if it is possible to set up domain filtering on an Airport Extreme based home network. Specifically, I'd like to block just rad.msn.com, and I need to do that at the network level.


texts: Unaccent Special characters and bulk-rename

texts:
Background

I have a workflow that collects documents from various sources, converts them to PDF, OCRs them, compresses them, extracts their contents and annotations, uploads the files to a server and makes the corresponding mysql entries in order to provide a full-featured index for my web-based search engine.

To display PDFs within the search engine, I use PDF.js from mozilla, which can, in some cases, not load documents with certain characters in the filename.
These critical characters include german umlauts (Ä,Ö,Ü,ä,ö,ü), brackets ((),[],{}), french accents (é,è,à) and spanish accents (Ñ,ñ,Ó,ó,Á,á,É,é,Í,í,Ú,ú).

Every file that gets processed in applescript 'checks in' to php/mysql using curl. It would be no big deal to determine the new filename with PHP, but I have troubles to rename files which have the mentioned characters in their filename with AppleScript to a standardized name.

Question

I would like to implement a function that standardises filenames containing the special characters mentioned above using applescript.

The following filenames should become their corresponding values on the right

Riñón.pdf               --> Rinon.pdf
Ergänzung.pdf           --> Ergaenzung.pdf
Übersicht.pdf           --> Uebersicht.pdf
Système impérmeable.pdf --> Systeme impermeable.pdf

In short, german umlauts become expanded (like Ä --> Ae, ü --> ue) and all other accents become their 'unaccented' corresponding value (like ñ --> n, é --> e) and brackets become spaces ((Ergänzung).pdf -->  Ergaenzung .pdf)

Thanks for any advice


texts:
macOS's default terminal shows the current directory as an icon in the titlebar (called a proxy icon). I can use it to navigate up, or drag the icon to another window to insert the path.

Is there a way to get this icon with iTerm2?

I tried to use various escape sequences, but the best I could to is to get the title set to the current path, but no icon.


texts: Is there a way to select text squarely or vertically (not just in Preview)?

texts: I want to select text in the browser that is grouped in columns, it would be useful to be able to just select text (or objects) in a certain column, but selection is done horizontally only. I know that in html all content is organised hierarchically, but maybe there is a tweak or something available that would allow me to do this.


texts:
How to upgrade a jailbreak iOS without loosing Cydia applications?

Are there any additional steps required in order to keep you configuration and applications between iOS upgrades?

itunes backup
itunes upgrade
jaibreak (probably using redsnow)
restore backup using itunes


texts: Is there a way to disable the command+up/command+down key combinations?

texts: Command+Left and Command+Right are both incredibly useful key combinations. By contrast, Command+Up and Command+Down are incredibly irritating. I almost never actually need a shortcut to the top of the document. 99 times out of 100, when I press Command+Up or Command+Down, it's by accident, usually when meaning to press one of the useful combinations. Is there any way to switch those two off?


texts: Using Charles web proxy with iPhone hotspot

texts:
I've been using Charles to sniff the requests that my iPhone is making for some time now. I've always got it to work by connecting both my iPhone and my MacBook to the same wireless network and then entering my computer's local IP address along with port number 8888 in the proxy settings in my iPhone. But, my internet is down and I need to use AT&T's hotspot on my iPhone for internet instead of my apartment's wireless.

After looking at my Mac's system preferences, it appears that I'm connected to the IP 127.0.0.1 with my Mac. Does anyone know if Charles can be used to sniff traffic with a person hotspot?


texts: Applications and preferences on USB drive

texts:
Is it possible to have applications, plugins and preferences installed on portable media such as USB drive?

I have two identical computers, one at work and one at home, and I'd like to have the exact same setup on both. Example on applications I use:

Firefox (with extensions)
Sublime Text
Linux programs in Terminal
uTorrent
Alfred


texts: How can I generate a password-less version of a protected PDF?

texts:
I have a PDF file that has been password protected.  I know the password.  The password's only use, in our case, is to protect the PDF during email transmission.  Now that I have the PDF, I'd like to remove the password, as it is annoying to have to look-up and type it in every time I want to use the PDF.

In a pre-Lion version of Preview, I was able to print and "Save As PDF" to create a copy of the file that didn't have a password.  However, when I try the same maneuver in Lion, the "Save as PDF" entry is greyed-out.

Is there some other software (preferably free) that would let me save the PDF without the password?  Some other thing I can do to the file to enable Preview to "Save as PDF"?


texts: Fortnite for iOS reports insufficient space on my iPhone

texts:
I just downloaded Fortnite for iOS and it needs 3.017 GB. I have 16GB but it still says I don’t have enough space? It says I only have 2.435 GB space.

I have deleted every app on my iPhone and it still says the same thing.

How do I get around this issue?


texts: AppleScript to Add Multiple Files to VLC From List Results

texts:
I have a FileMaker Pro database of music files which uses AppleScript to pass it's search results into an iTunes playlist.

I would like to use VLC instead of iTunes to play the audio files since I have a number of FLAC files which iTunes will not play.

I haven't been able to figure out how to pass the AppleScript results to VLC. It's easy to use AppleScript to get VLC to play a folder of music using:

tell application "VLC"
    OpenURL "file:///Volumes/NoDoubt/Music/Rock Pop/PQR/Pink Floyd/Wish You Were Here/"
    play
end tell

However, if I wanted to instead play a mix of songs from a variety of folders I need to be able to insert each file path into the VLC player.

This is what the AppleScript returned search results from FileMaker Pro looks like:

{"NoDoubt:Music:Rock Pop:ABC:The Beatles:Abbey Road:01_come_together_alac.m4a", "NoDoubt:Music:Rock Pop:DEF:Fleetwood Mac:Rumours:01_second_hand_news_alac.m4a", "NoDoubt:Music:Rock Pop:MNO:Van Morrison:hymns_to_the_silence_disc_1:1-02_i'm_not_feeling_it_anymore_alac.m4a", "NoDoubt:Music:Rock Pop:PQR:Pink Floyd:Wish You Were Here:04_wish_you_were_here_alac.m4a"}

How can I pass the search results of these individual tracks to VLC to play?


texts:
Homebrew has been working fine for years...until today. Anyone know what's going on and/or how to fix it?

$ brew --config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.4
ORIGIN: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
HEAD: cce7d7a441a7b699d4c1cc6d9726e325d09e0e12
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
CPU: quad-core 64-bit ivybridge
OS X: 10.8.3-x86_64
Xcode: 4.6.2
CLT: 4.6.0.0.1.1365549073
GCC-4.2: build 5666
LLVM-GCC: build 2336
Clang: 4.2 build 425
X11: N/A
System Ruby: 1.8.7-358
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/bin/python
Ruby: /Users/meltemi/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby

$ brew update
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
    Library/Aliases/fishfish
    Library/Formula/aamath.rb
    Library/Formula/abcmidi.rb
    Library/Formula/agedu.rb
    ...
    Library/brew.rb
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
    Library/ENV/pkgconfig/10.9
    Library/Formula/cctools-headers.rb
    Library/Formula/dyld-headers.rb
    Library/Formula/ld64.rb
    Library/Formula/libunwind-headers.rb
    Library/Formula/osm2pgsql.rb
    Library/Formula/proxychains-ng.rb
    Library/Formula/rbenv-aliases.rb
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting
Error: Failure while executing: git pull -q origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master


texts:
As far as I understand there's no way to make Time Machine with SMB/CIFS; you have to connect using AFP.

Is that true ? Is there a way to make it work ?

I'm using OS X Lion.


texts: How to promote dictionary result vs web search in spotlight

texts:
When searching for word definitions since Big Sur, spotlight shows safari first

How can I make the dictionary result the first result?


texts: extend the press and hold app to other keys

texts:
Thanks to this question: Customize accents when holding down a key

I know understand how to customise the press and hold app a bit to letters. But I'm wondering, could I do the same trick for other keys. For example if press the > (shift + .) I would like to get a pop up where I can choose to select → or ≥. Would that be possible ?


texts: How to speed up my iMac after upgrading to Sierra?

texts:
I have this:

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
2,7 GHz Intel Core i5
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB

Some days ago I updated to Sierra 10.12.6, and all my apps. My HD currently have about 350 GB free space.

Still, it runs quite slow after upgrading from El Capitan to Sierra.

Any of you had the same issue? How to solve?


texts: Lost everything after iPhone sync--How can I get it back?

texts:
I plugged my iPhone into my computer last night and opened up iTunes.  It said I needed to sync and download the latest version. I clicked ok.  After all was done my iPhone has been set back to Decemeber.

Therefore all my photos since December are gone.  All my contacts - gone!  All my conversations on Messages and WhatsApp - gone!! This is a major issue as my iPhone is part of my work scheduling.

What has happened?  Can anyone tell me what I can do to get it back?
Also why did it do this?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What Window Management Options exist for OS X?

Is there some keyboard shortcut, mouse gesture, or add-on I can install that will allow me to maximize terminal windows vertically?

When I press the green button on a terminal, it maximizes vertically and horizontally. I want a way to maximize vertically only.


texts: How do I add cells together on OS X numbers app

texts:
What format should the cell be? This can not be added and only gives a exclamation mark - "the formula contains a syntax error.
OS X and numbers v3.5.3


texts: Available space not equal to the sum of space taken by all the apps listed on iOS 9

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I have one iPhone 4s 8GB version which I updated to iOS 9.3.5 and when I see the storage available, I got 4.2 GB after installing some apps. When I counted the sum total of storage consumed by all apps, it was only < 300 MB. But, it showed that the usage is 866 MB.

I tried hard resetting the phone, (Erase all content) and after restart, I selected Setup new iPhone (instead of restoring from backup). However, I have restored backup of WhatsApp from WhatsApp app itself.

The iCloud backup size of WhatsApp is also 5.1MB only and that of the entire phone is < 100MB only. I have gone through this post and did the same way, but still iOS available space doesn't add up and also from iPhone available space: significant difference between iTunes and iPhone but still, there is 500MB missing somewhere?

I don't currently have Windows OS/Mac to install iTunes, I use Linux Mint and iTunes doesn't detect iPhone in Wine (on Linux) and I also can't install VirtualBox due to some reasons.

If the solution to this problem requires iTunes, then I may need to install Windows.

Edit: I updated my iPhone from iOS 7.0 to 8.4.1 and then finally to 9.3.5. After that I erased all its contents. Are the iOS downlodaed installation files still there on my iPhone?


texts: How can I make my Mac shutdown a Windows PC when my UPS signals power loss?

texts: I have an APC UPS connected to my iMac that's set to shutdown after 1 minute of running on UPS power. I also have a Windows 10 PC plugged into the UPS that I'd like shut down as well. Is there a way to send a shutdown command from my Mac to the Windows 10 PC telling it to shut down as well when a power loss is detected?


texts:
Is there anyway from disabling the hotkey that swipes between windows (alt+left or right arrow key)? I am using excel via remote desktop and when I use this shortcut Mac also reads the input and my window switches.

I have already looked under System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts and didn't see it listed under there


texts: How to screen capture audio from multiple programs into Quicktime via Soundflower

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I'm trying to set up Soundflower with Quicktime so I can screen record with audio coming from a microphone and multiple programs at the same time.

I'm using a MBP with a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40, I have a mic plugged into the Pro 40 and I need to record sound from iTunes, Plex (via Safari) and a music notation software called MuseScore.

I've installed SF and set up an aggregate device which has the Pro 40 and SF(2ch) ticked, I've also set up a Multi-output device with the Pro40 and SF(2ch) ticked.
I've then set the Mac's audio output to Multi-output device and the input to the Aggregate device.

When I launch Quicktime I set the audio input to Aggregate Device,

When I record, everything gets captured and I can hear the Mic, iTunes and Safari in the headphones but MuseScore, despite being recorded isn't sounding through the headphones so I can't hear it's output in order to be able to talk about it in the video.

In MuseScores I/O settings I can choose from all the available ins and outs but none of them allow me to hear the output that Quicktime is getting.

What am I doing wrong?

Should i be using the 64 channel SF...if so, how can I make it work?

Another option that I have is to take all of the audio into a DAW (Reaper or Logic) and then somehow send the mixed output to Quicktime....but I've no idea how to do that either!


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I know that OS X uses the Launch Services.framework to manage the file-extensions. But the icons which belong to the file-extension are part of the Info.plist in the package contents of the 'default-opening-application' of that specific file-extension.

My 'buggy' file-extension is *.cpp used by Xcode as default. Normally it should use the icon given in /applications/xcode/contens/ressources/XXX.icns.

But it doesn't! It's using another cpp icon, which i couldn't find in my whole system - in the Xcode app neither.

After I changed the XXX.icns mentioned above with a custom .icns file and cleared my Icon cache, logged out and restarted my mac:

For roundabout 2 seconds I could see my custom .icns file as the standard icon for the file-extension cpp. This is actually what I want to achieve permanently!

But after a few seconds the icon changes by magic into the other cpp icon, which I can't find on my mac. What is wrong with my Mac.

Little Conclusion:

1 icon that is not to find in any lib or app
1 icon that is default in Xcode for example
1 icon that I want to use for an extension

The (1) icon is shown. But it shouldn't. It should show the (3) if I did everything right, otherwise it needs to show (2).

(1) is the icon shown in the finder (2) is the icon shown in the inspector:

Here is the icons I want to use:


texts:
Is it possible to connect my MBP with a Thunderbolt port to an old CRT TV? I think the TV has composite inputs at least, and maybe S-Video too.

I'd also like to use other computers with the same TV, including one with a Mini DisplayPort and one with a DVI output (I think).

I do video-editing and it's helpful to see my work on a TV.


texts: App from app store taking too long to download, and it won't let me stop the download

texts: Over 10 days ago I tried to download a game on my mac, within about an hour it read 2.65/2.65 GB downloaded, but it still is not finished downloading. I've went to my app store purchases and pressed the cancel button, I've dragged the app into the trash, I've tried to go to "~/Library/Application Support/AppStore" but it says "folder cannot be found." I don't even care about the app anymore, I just want to completely stop the download.


texts: Will VOX music player change anything in my iTunes library?

texts:
I've downloaded the free VOX music player from the Mac App Store after reading a recomendation in some site.

The program asks me for permission to acces my iTunes Library but a splash screen hints of some lenghty process is going to happen is I do so.

Has someone used VOX, and what does is do to my iTunes Library ?
Does it create its own library of sorts ?


texts: I wonder if there's an App which helps me to easily switch to another wifi network without going through the "settings" screens of my iPhone. Nowadays more and more cars provide their own wifi network which you have to login to to give commands to the car. So an easy temporary switch to the car's network would be great.


texts: Can you chain a USB hub off a USB port on a Thunderbolt display?

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I'm considering getting a display with thunderbolt connection, to use as extra screen space and as docking station (on a macbook pro 2012)

Right now I'm using a USB hub for all the peripheral devices (music keyboard, soundcard, external harddrive, printer etc.)

If I plug that usb hub into the usb port on the display (or directly, without the hub), will it all function as it did before?


texts: Prevent a key from turning keyboard backlight back on

texts:
I have a 2018 MacBook Pro running 10.15.3, and I'd like to be able to turn the keyboard backlight off (without simply turning it all the way down) when watching a full-screen video, but allow it to return if any key other than the spacebar is pressed. The ultimate goal is to make the keyboard backlight less intrusive when watching a video, and allow pausing and un-pausing of a video without activating the keyboard backlight. However, if a key other than the spacebar is pressed, this 'mode' would be cancelled, and everything returned to normal, until the user again chooses to (provisionally) deactivate the keyboard backlight. I can't find any ways to do this in the OS or with any third-party software, including Karabiner (which I don't use, but can't find references to backlight) or through any preference or extension to VLC.

The "Turn keyboard backlight off after [...] seconds of activity" setting in Keyboard within System Preferences would need to remain unchecked.


texts: Can you boot an internal HDD with OS X as an external drive on another Macbook?

texts:
I have a broken 15" 2011 Macbook Pro and am waiting for the replacement to arrive. (It'll be another week; I'm on an island and on a budget.) I know the HDD is fine, though.

A friend is willing to lend me her 2010 17" Macbook Pro. My work environment is complex and I don't want to riddle her system with my updates and patches and shell scripts (and I'd like to avoid the 6 hours plus it would take to set up on a new machine). However, she doesn't want me to replace her MBP's hard drive with mine.

Can I take my HDD (it's a Samsung SSD), get an external USB or FireWire enclosure (I suppose it should be FireWire for speed), and boot OS X from it right away on the 17" MBP?


texts: Can you disable Today's Date in the Today View in Yosemite Notification Center?

texts:
While it's possible to remove the Today Summary from the view you cannot remove the date. It's superfluous while using a calendar app such as Fantastical.  Any way to tweak this?

Thanks.


texts: Create custom keyboard shortcuts in GBoard in iOS

texts:
I know it is possible to create custom keyboard shortcuts with the default keyboard (General > Keyboard > Text Replacement). Can the same thing be done on GBoard for iOS?

For example, per this tip, I would like to set @@ to autocorrect to my email address.


texts: 2006 MacPro - Worth upgrading for use as a VM host?

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I have a MacPro 1,1 bought in early 2007. Earlier this year I was about to recycle it but tried installing an SSD as a boot/apps drive. It has been a great success, it now feels like a new machine and I'm contemplating souping it up to  16GB of RAM and using it to run Windows VMs (I'm a .Net developer) in Parallels Desktop or VMWare or similar.

The RAM is going to cost < $50. I was wondering if this is a good idea in 2014 or if I'm going to hit a load of constraints imposed by the age of the hardware. Any comments or observations very gratefully received. I cannot and will not pay thousands for a new MacPro.


texts: Show Active Connections to "Internet Sharing"

texts: How can I view a list of devices that are connected to my Apple laptop via Internet Sharing (when it's enabled)? If a list doesn't exist, does Internet Sharing log DHCP requests and if so, where? Thanks.


texts:
Apple ID sign-in is not working from Linux OS browser (Chrome, Firefox...tried both with new session cookies cleared, and incognito). I can browse apple.com without issues. I needed to check Apple ID after getting what appears to be a bogus security alert on my iPhone about a FaceTime sign-in on my table.

I've tried to login to Apple ID page from 3 different public IP addresses (cities) and Linux based desktop & laptop computers with latest updates. Login works fine from a Windows computer.

I spoke with Apple Support and they said:

  we are only trained on Apple products so we are unable to help you with that.

When they said they could escalate it to one of the engineering teams and get back to me, I offered to give the Chrome and Firefox versions along with the OS information and again I was told:

  we are only trained on Apple products. That information will not likely be useful to our team.

I can't imagine telling one of my customers that when questioned about a cross-platform compatible product/service I provide. It's specifically a bad gateway reported by Apple server and only happens when trying to connect from a Linux computer.

This has never been a problem for me in the past. I figure since the error is reported directly from Apple servers, they made a change in their firewall. I'm not sure what else to try with Apple Support. How do you resolve this?


texts: Helping to manage my amazon ec2 servers on my ipad

texts: I am looking for apps that would help me to manage my amazon EC2 servers on an iPad. Are there any apps like that?


texts: I have 4 kids and they all have games on their iPads that are the same games.  How do I get the accounts squared away so they are no playing each others game?  For example, everyone has "Clash of the clans" on their iPads and they all play the same game.  How can we get it so each person can create their own world in the game and not interfere with each others' game?


texts: No disk visible when installing OS x Mavericks

texts: I wiped my Macbook Air and am trying to reinstall the OS. I had Sierra. When I install, there is a message stating I do not have prebooted APFS volumes. But when I try to install OS X Mavericks from internet, it shows no available disks. I do have Mackintosh HD mounted (clean) and created a new untitled drive too as someone recommended. I am a complete rookie in this. No access to something like Genius bar due to lockdown.


texts: I've made an Automator application that runs displays a notification and then runs a shell script. Works fine. However, the notification centre doesn't display the name of the application, but instead shows some garbled code. I'm using Mavericks. How can I fix this?


texts: Does restoring from an iCloud backup enforce installation of the latest iOS?

texts: I accidentally deleted a lot of text messages on my iPhone 5 and would like to restore from iCloud by choosing "Erase all content and settings" and then restoring from a backup made last night.  However, my iPhone is running iOS 6 and I would not like to update to iOS 8.  If I restore my phone from the iCloud backup using "Erase all content and settings" will iOS 8 be installed or will it restore the iPhone with iOS 6 as it was last night?  I would try it out, but I would prefer to find out before rather than after...


texts: I've created a playlist of a selection of Voice Memos.  I want to use it as a kind of audio flash card system.  However, when I press "Shuffle" on the iPhone playlist, it always plays the same voice memo and it never plays more than one.  I want it to play all of them in a random order.  Is this possible?  If so, how would I do it?


texts: New Magic Trackpad Anomalies? Pairs fine, Trackpad Preferences can't find it

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New Magic Trackpad Anomalies?

Bizarre problem here with my new Magic Trackpad with Force Touch. The trackpad pairs via Bluetooth no problem, and shows up as actively connected in the Bluetooth connection window, as you can see in the screencap below:

As you can see above, the trackpad is connected properly.

But the trackpad preferences console fails to find the trackpad, thus displaying the message below for two hours now.

Yes, I've tried turning Bluetooth and the trackpad off, and removed the batteries from the old trackpad. Still, however, it renders the trackpad basically useless; it works, but lags at a slow speed and has none of my preferred gesture settings.

Anybody having similar issues? A fix?


texts: Do MacBook Pro displays degrade over time?

texts: I work on MacBook Pro (15", mid 2010) pretty much every day for at least 8hrs. I remember my previous (non-Apple) laptops displays used to darken over time. Should I expect something similar happening to my MacBook Pro?


texts: How to mirror my iPhone 6s on and iPad Pro

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I have developed an iPhone app and would like to present it to a small group of people using the larger screen on my iPad Pro.  The app does not run on iPad, so I would like to mirror my iPhone screen on the iPad.

Can this be done?  If not, any suggestions.


texts: Album covers from songs bought in iTunes won't show album cover on iPhone

texts:
I restored my iPhone 5 from an iOS 7.0.6 jailbreak to iOS 7.1. I restored to a backup. During the syncing of songs from the backup to my iPhone it accidentally got unplugged. I plugged it back in and synced my songs manually (not from the backup).

Now 5 songs that I bought from iTunes have all lost their album cover on my iPhone. All the other album covers from other songs are still there. It's not a big deal, but I like to have all album covers filled in.

While I was typing this I remembered that it helped to completely delete the album covers and download them again, I did this, now only 2 albums are naked, so to speak.


texts: Sharing and Permissions - always shows "Fetching" instead of the user name

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I am a basic Mac user, so please bear with me.
I have a WD MyCloud EX2 to store large files and videos - over 10000 files, so searching is critical for me. The WD NAS, the iMac are connected via ethernet cables to a simple TPLink network switch and the internet - all works fine.
I can access/open/play any file stored on the WD NAS - no problem.
I can see all the filenames when I open the folder...

When use Spotlight search, no files stored on the WD NAS are ever displayed in the results. For example if I search for 'holiday 12.mp4' - a file that I can see in the folder, the search returns 0 results.

Spotlight search works for files on my iMac, so spotlight is working.

Investigating further, I opened the 'Get Info' file for 'holiday 12.mp4' - in the sharing & permissions section it shows 'Fetching" next the icon for administrator. All files on stored on the external NAS show this. All files stored on the iMac show the correct administrator name.

There is no 'lock' button in the sharing and permissions folder of files stored on the WD drive, allowing me to change this setting. There is on any file which is stored locally on the iMac.

Finally if I look at a file stored on the iMac - where I can see the Admin name, and I can search normally... and move this same file to the WD drive, in sharing and permissions, the Admin changes to 'fetching' and I can no longer search for the file.

Maybe the two issues are not linked, maybe they are - all (simple) advice welcome. Thank You.


texts: Where is USB -stick automounted in OSX? Not /media/usb/something like in Ubuntu

texts: Ubuntu automounts USB -fs to /media/usb/something. How is this in OSX? I cannot find anything in /media below.


texts: Wifi Problems when Notebook not connected to power source

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 2016 that is connected to 2 external monitors via Thunerbolt. When my Macbook is not connected to power supply, I can connect to the wifi with good signal strength but loading websites (or sending a ping) takes forever.

But when I plug in the power supply, the websites suddenly load instantly.

The problem does not occur when my 2 external monitors aren't connected.

Any ideas why this problem occurs?


texts:
I have an early 2011 MBP and opened it's back more than once, to replace RAM, HDD and 2 weeks ago I installed an SSD. For some time already I hear a faint ticking noise from the body when the laptop is running, laying on a flat surface. First I thought it's the HDD's head hitting an end position, that was part of the reason I replaced it. Now with the SSD I still hear the noise sometimes.

I could not figure out what it depends on, sometime it comes and I hear 1 tick in irregular intervals form 1 to 5 secs, sometimes I hear a lot short after each other, and some other times the noise is not audible at all for hours.

I have the impression that the noise comes from somewhere below the trackpad, around the place of the HDD, now SSD.

Any idea what that could be?


texts: Is there an application like Clipper for Mac?

texts:
Is there any software like "Clipper" for Mac?
I am looking for an application like this.


texts: Is it possible to export safari's reading list on Safari 5.1?

texts: Subject sums it up. Just curious if there is a trick to be able to export your reading list from Safari, any format. Where on the HD is the info stored? bookmarks.plist?


texts: Creating a new folder in finder doesn't highlight "untitled folder" for renaming

texts:
I have a trivial but annoying finder bug and I'm wondering if I am the only one?

If I hit command-shift-N in Finder to create a new folder it should automatically highlight the default name untitled folder ready for renaming. It works as expected in icon and list views but not column view which is really annoying because I use column view all the time. I am running OS X 10.8.4 (12E55).


texts: Homebrew - Somehow it happened there is no executable openssl

texts:
System Version OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.5

I installed homebrew and rvm. However, when I try to install anything with rvm (ie. rvm install 2.1.1), it says:

Somehow it happened there is no executable 'openssl',
run 'brew doctor' and make sure latest '' is installed properly.
RVM autolibs is now configured with mode '3' =>
  'Allow RVM to use package manager if found, install missing dependencies.',
please run `rvm autolibs enable` to let RVM do its job or run and read `rvm autolibs [help]`
or visit https://rvm.io/rvm/autolibs for more information.
Requirements installation failed with status: 12.

When I run brew doctor it says "Your system is ready to brew". I tried to change the path for Open SSL using export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH and then brew link --force openssl but it still gives me the same error message. When I do which openssl it still says it is located here: /usr/bin/openssl.

Any ideas on what I can do to get the openssl to work with Homebrew?

Full Terminal Below:

Last login: Sun Jan 15 20:36:34 on ttys000
Laurens-MacBook-Pro:~ laurensylvain$ rvm install 2.1.1
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/osx/10.11/x86_64/ruby-2.1.1.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for osx.
Installing requirements for osx.
Updating system....
Installing required packages: readline, openssl.
Somehow it happened there is no executable 'openssl',
run 'brew doctor' and make sure latest '' is installed properly.
RVM autolibs is now configured with mode '3' =>
  'Allow RVM to use package manager if found, install missing dependencies.',
please run `rvm autolibs enable` to let RVM do its job or run and read `rvm autolibs [help]`
or visit  for more information.
Requirements installation failed with status: 12.
Laurens-MacBook-Pro:~ laurensylvain$ brew doctor
Your system is ready to brew.
Laurens-MacBook-Pro:~ laurensylvain$ touch ~/.bash_profile; open ~/.bash_profile
Laurens-MacBook-Pro:~ laurensylvain$ source ~/.bash_profile
Laurens-MacBook-Pro:~ laurensylvain$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/laurensylvain/.rvm/bin:/Users/laurensylvain/.rvm/bin
Laurens-MacBook-Pro:~ laurensylvain$ brew link --force openssl
Warning: Refusing to link: openssl
Linking keg-only openssl means you may end up linking against the insecure,
deprecated system OpenSSL while using the headers from Homebrew's openssl.
Instead, pass the full include/library paths to your compiler e.g.:
  -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
Laurens-MacBook-Pro:~ laurensylvain$ which openssl
/usr/bin/openssl


texts: How to display currently playing iPhone song on Mac

texts:
I sit there with MacBook on my lap and iPhone in my pocket listening to music from the iPhone with headphones.

Is there a way to display the currently playing iPhone song on the MacBook?


texts: macbook pro stuck in boot loop - recovery mode and safe mode not working

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I have a macbook pro 2015 (8gb ram, running macOS mojave) stuck in the loading screen with the apple logo and the loading bar 100% completed.

I tried leaving it for long periods of time.
Resetting the PRAM and SMC didn't help.
The machine wont go into safe mode using the shift button.
It also won't go into recovery mode using command+R.
Internet recovery also does not work either. After the globe finishes loading in internet recovery, it goes back to the boot up screen with the apple logo and stays stuck there at 100%.
when I run the AHT (Apple Diagnostics) by holding down the d button, the test runs smoothly and exits with the message "no issues found". When I click "Get Started" it starts booting the os and freezes again in the logo screen.
I successfully entered the MacOS Utilities Screen by using a bootable USB drive with macOS mojave on it, but here's what happened

The Disk Utility was unable to load any drives or partitions, it only displayed a spinner and pretty much hangs on startup. However the machine didn't hang, I could still exit the Disk Utility. Here's a link with an image of the disk utility: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/MxfSna8
When I click "Install macOS" nothing happens
In the terminal, when I cd into the Volume "Macintosh HD", then ls, the terminal process hangs.

What's odd is that in single-user-mode, lsing around the internal ssd was not a problem.

I ran fsck from the single-user-mode, it exits with the message:
The  volume /dev/rdisk1s1 appears to be OK. I put a link below of a photo showing the console output of the fsck process.
When I use the exit command to exit single-user-mode the machine hangs. I put a link below with a photo showing the console output following the exit command.

Log output in single-user-mode:
https://imgur.com/a/YPrmtbG

Log output when starting in verbose mode:
https://imgur.com/a/6BAQdR8

Result after booting into AHT:
https://imgur.com/a/aipanxz

Below i go into details about what I was doing prior to this issue:

I ran 8 consecutive node.js processes, to write about 11 GB of randomly generated data to an external SSD.
each processes was given about 8gb of ram with the flag --max-old-space-size=8000 (the machine itself only has 8GBs of ram, and there's usually about 3GBs that are always occupied)
each process was pretty much writing to a csv file using a for loop and a node fs write stream
each processes was followed by a killall -kill node
after the processes were done the os started doing unexpectable things so I shut it down. (unexpectable things such as the desktop background image was changed, and all terminals would restart every time I put the macbook to sleep).
after shutting it down, when I turned it back on the external ssd was still connected, so I unplugged it right before the apple logo appeared, that's when it hanged.

I appreciate your help!


texts: Is there a Byte-By-Byte Duplicate File Removal app for Mac? (not SHA-1 or MD5 hash!)

texts:
I recently switched to Mac and spent way too many hours on PC trying every duplicate removal app, eventually discovering that byte-by-byte checking was necessary to get accurate (safe) results, and finally then settling on AllDup as the best app for this purpose.

Mac options seem more limited and I have not found any that do byte-by-byte checking, they don't even necessarily state on their website what algorithm(s) they use! Any tips? Must also work on Yosemite.


texts: How can I stop my device open being reset to iPhoto

texts:
When I plug in my Camera (Toshiba Camileo H20), it always opens in iPhoto. Because I want a little more control over the import process, I would like Image Capture to be the default app for it.

When I open up Image Capture to change the 'connecting this camera opens' drop down, and select another app, as soon as my mouse has left the selection, it reverts back to iPhoto. This is regardless of which other option I select.

The computer is an iMac 2009, with OS X 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard), and Image Capture v6.0.1 (428). The Camera is connected via USB, and appears in Image Capture as 2 Mass storage devices (internal + the card). The card device (2nd) is exhibiting this problem, the first device does have Image Capture set as its default when connected.

Other notes - each device now has a different name (Not just NO NAME for both).

How can I stop Image Capture reverting my choice for behaviour when the camera is connected?


texts: Repeat DNS flushing required on El Capitan

texts:
I have a mid-2011 Mac Air running OS 10.11.3 and I repeatedly have to run a DNS flush to resolve issues connecting to the internet. This seems to be a recent problem and I don't know what has caused it. Is there a better long term solution than just having to occasionally run a DNS flush?

[edited to correct a typo in OS version number]


texts: Why is iTunes 64 bit running as 32 bit application under Windows?

texts:
I've downloaded the 64 bit Version of iTunes and I'm wondering why it's running as a 32 bit application under Windows 7 (of course 64 bit)?

Any Ideas?


texts: A'About this Mac' will not open anymore. How can I fix it. I have only had this computer a month and it was working before.


texts: Apple Mail, how do I hide the Archive folder?

texts: I like a very lean Mail system and have been searching for a way to hide the Archive folder in Mail. Is this possible? If so, how?


texts: Web-based wireless login: remember password

texts:
When connecting to some wireless networks, the first webpage that I try to load redirects to a login screen.  It becomes possible to access the internet only after logging in.  I'm sure most people here are familiar with the situation.

It seems that OS X is smart about this and it brings up this login screen in a separate window as soon as I connect to the wireless network.  I don't need to open a browser and log in separately.  The system show me the login page as soon as I connect to the network, which is quite convenient.

Question: is it possible to coerce this special window to remember the username and password, like browsers are able to?


texts: Is there any more way to squeeze out some performance out of my mid 2009 Macbook Pro 13"?

texts: I still like my mid 2009 13" Macbook Pro. It's solid and running quite well. However, since Yosemite things are getting really laggy and slow, so I guess that my hardware is getting a bit old. Although I swapped the old HDD to a 3rd party SSD and upgraded to 8 GB of RAM, I still see lots of lag and slowness especially when my 27" Cinema Display is hooked up via mini display port. Is there anything else I can do, in terms of hardware upgrade, to increase performance or is this just the end of the road for my baby?


texts: How can I make reminders show on the lock screen on iOS 12.01?

texts: I'm on iOS 12.01 with my iPhone 6s and I need to set a reminder and I want it on my lock screen but I can't figure out how to put it there, any help please? It's preetty urgent


texts:
I have been having sporadic crashes for 2 weeks now; mouse simply disappears from screen while surfing the net and everything locks up; BUT, the restart causes the big problem: I get the pink screen while the apple logo is displayed, but then when the screen turns gray, no mouse icon appears and everything freezes. The Apple Hardware Test shows this fault:
4SNS/1/40000000: VD0R-18.711
But I can't find out anywhere what failure that signifies. HELP please!


texts:
Is there a way through command line to know what keyboard physical layout a macbook has? I cannot find that specific information in system_profiler. I want to know if the computer has a US, UK, ES, etc keyboard layout. The aim is to script it, upload it to my MDM so I can run it in all the company's laptops and find out that information.

Running the terminal command system_profiler SPSPIDataType it shows this:

SPI:

Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:

  Product ID: 0x0278
  Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
  ST Version: 8.96
  MT Version: 4.69
  Serial Number: FM7741701QVGN41A5+RNZ
  Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
  Location ID: 0x01000000

I run it in two different macbooks, one UK, one ES. I was hoping that the Location ID would show something different but that was not the case.


texts: How to use a wired headphone AND a mic at the same time on the Macbook Pro Retina?

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I'm surprised that the Macbook Pro Retina has only one 3.5mm audio jack. It seems that port can be either headphone or mic in depending on what's connected but I need BOTH at the same time for Skype! My Skype headset has 2x 3.5mm jacks - one for output (headphones) and one for input (Mic).

How is Apple expecting us to use Skype on the MPBr? I've tried:

in-built speakers + in-build mic: The loudspeaker throws feedback into the built-in mic => unusable
headphones + in-built mic: Keyboard clicks and other ambient noises are picked up => unusable
microphone + speakers: Works but I can't use this unless I close my office door (i.e. only person in the room). I can't use this in coffee shops, campus areas, shared office environments etc
Bluetooth headset: Its a pain to make sure the headset is fully charged before the call and that it doesn't kill my WiFi (which it sometimes does).

How can I get a real wired headphone and mic to work with the MBPr? This thing is killing my conference calls ...


texts: Applescript for deleting desktop files upon logout

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I'm completely new to Applescript and currently very busy at work. I don't have time to learn it, I will once I find some free time, so I decided to ask you, the experts, for help.

I need an Applescript that will delete all desktop files upon log out. I'm currently running a Mac Lab with 40 iMacs and our students constantly save filed to Desktop, which creates a lot of clutter.


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Setting up a new MacBook Pro.  In App Store, on Purchased tab, selected most of the apps I had bought (or got free) on the old one.

When they finish downloading, the button changes to "installed" for some of them, and "open" for others.

Why?


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Is there a quick way to switch between iTunes accounts in AppleTV?

The Apple TV Software Update 5.1 supposedly supports 'Save[ing] multiple iTunes accounts and switch quickly between them.'

You can save multiple accounts, but going into settings doesn't seem to be a quick way to switch?
the KB lists the feature ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4448 )- but I can't find any other mentions?


texts: Will the quality of my JPEG images taken by my iPhone deteriorate if I rotate than on my Mac?

texts: Can I safely rotate JPEG images on my MacBook or would this be lossy?


texts: How to enable hardware virtualization on MacBook Pro 2020 M1?

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I just got a new MacBook Pro 2020 M1.
I installed the VirtualBox and tried to create a new VM to install Windows but is show me an error that says: "System Acceleration Settings: The hardware virtualization is enabled in the Acceleration section of the system although it is not supported from the host system. It should be disabled in order to start the visual system.".
I'am going to the Settings, System, Acceleration and there when i try to untick the box "hardware virtualization" it doesnt let me, so I probably have to enable in the host system but I don't know where I can do it.
The VM is off so that wouldn't be the problem.
Can someone help me to solve the problem?


texts: All Inboxes in Mail app showing only five messages

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Despite the fact that I have tons of mail, the All Inboxes page today displays five messages only. Whereas when looking into the individual mailboxes the problem is eliminated.

I've tried restarting and quitting the mail app but nothing worked out.


texts: Automatically open mounted volumes in Path Finder

texts: I may just be missing some simple setting, but if I mount a volume in Path Finder, it never switches to show me the contents of the volume.  I have to manually click the volume in the sidebar.  Is there a way to have it immediately switch to that volume after I mount it?


texts: Spontaneous logout while playing a game on steam

texts: I was playing Don't starve together with a friend on Steam on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019, Mojave 10.14.6) when I was spontaneously logged out of my account at exactly 11pm. The same thing occurred the following evening at precisely 11pm. I'd been playing the game in full screen mode for at over an hour on both occasions. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How to remove my daughter as the AppleID organizer

texts: My daughter is the organizer for our family Apple account.  I'd like to remove her, my credit card is attached.  Can I do this without accessing her phone or do I need to cancel my credit card and create a new apple account?


texts: Connecting MacBook Pro to multiple monitors, one in portrait (vertical) mode

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I‘ve got a 2015 13“ MacBook Pro and want to connect 2 external monitors. One LG ultrawide (resolution 2160x1080) and a Full HD Monitor rotated to be vertically upright (resolution would be 1080x1920).

My question is: will the Mac render a 1080x1920 image if I select resolution: 1920x1080 and set the rotation to 90 degrees?


texts: How do I configure dynamic DNS when my router does not support it?

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I have a MacBook which is connected to the net via an ancient DSL router (NAT enabled). I want to SSH into the server from elsewhere, but my ISP assigns new IP address every once in a while.

I would like to use a dynamic DNS service for "finding" my Mac, but the router does not support any dynamic DNS functionality.

What (lightweight) option is there to update the DNS service with current IP info anyway? I remember installing a clunky menu-bar app several years ago, and I would prefer something configurable from the terminal.

NB: I feel it could be a problem when the MacBook is moved to a different network (friends, company) temporarily and attempts to connect to macbookaddress.dynamicdnz.tld suddenly hit their network. Correct?


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I am using a mid-2012 MBP 13in with no retina display, running OS X 10.8.3. Everything was fine until I was watching a video clip on Facebook. Everything just froze, except the mouse pointer can still move, but I can't do anything else. So I was forced to long press the power button to shut the machine down. After that, the whole system was ridiculously slow.

I can boot into my own account, but starting/running/closing any program takes ages. Also, when I tried to mount a .dmg. I was given a error message like "No suitable file system." I know I can just re-install the by booting into the recovery partition, but I'll take that as my last resort.

Here are more screenshots of the Activity Monitor: