texts: All apple devices, and only apple devices, suddenly unusably slow on home network wifi internet

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Starting approximately 24 hours ago all my apple devices (macbook air, iphone 6+, ipad original (ios5)) all had an internet connection so slow as to be unusable. Nothing's miraculously changed overnight unfortunately.

2 windows laptops & a windows smartphone are all fine.

Took my iphone and macbook air into town and connected to a wifi hotspot okay yesterday afternoon. This tells me it's probably some random combination of apple devices and my router (or ISP I guess). ISP is skinnydirect which uses Spark network. I'm in New Zealand.

There'd been no software updates applied to any of the 3 apple devices recently. The ipad can't be updated. The iphone now has the latest update and it made no difference.

We're rural. We have a Huawei wifi router with a 3g sim to provide our internet connection. It's the simplest router you can find I think though it's a little old now. There's been no recent updates to the router available or installed.

I've tried turning everything off, then resetting; forgetting networks; resetting networks on the iphone; changing the channel on the router; changing the dns servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4. All random suggestions from others with similar problems but none have made any difference.

Scratching my head over what to try and how to fix this so any ideas will be welcome.


texts: Log individual users out of a period of inactivity?

texts: There is a setting under Security & Privacy -> Advanced, to "Log out after X minutes of inactivity".  However, this is a system wide setting.  I just want to have my kids account log out after a period of inactivity, but leave my account logged in.  Is that possible?


texts: What, if anything, has changed regarding retrieving an older version of an iOS app from a local backup?

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In the past, I know that there was a procedure that allowed one to delete an iOS application from an iPhone and then restore on that iPhone the version of the application that is stored on a backup.  This is quite handy when you've upgraded to a new version of an iOS app only to find it behaves worse than the version you already were using before the upgrade.
I have made use of this, so I know that it was possible at least at one time.
Clarifications about how this is not certain other questions:
No, I am not asking whether one can get older versions of an app from the App Store.
No, I am not asking about restoring just the associated data for a single application.  (And if one can only get the stored version of the application without stored data, then I'd be welcome at least that much.)
No, I don't want to reset all the applications and data or go back to the entirety of a backup.
Yes I do want to get back the earlier/older version of a particular iOS app that has been on my phone.  I do remember that the process started with deleting the new version of the app off the iPhone.  The result is that the app is Not on My iPhone.  Then the process went on to restore that app from the local backup.
I'm running Big Sur 11.1 on a MacBook Pro with an iPhone 7 running iOS 14.2. The last backup is stored on the MacBook Pro (not on iCloud).
If this is no longer possible with Big Sur, then (as in the Title) my question becomes "What changed and when did it change so that it became no longer possible?"  Since I've done it before, I know that it used to be possible.
Thanks in advance!


texts: How can I connect two VGA monitors to a Mini using Thunderbolt and HDM adapters?

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I am running one VGA display using Thunderbolt/VGA adapter from Apple and it works fine.

Trying to connect second VGA display using HDMI/DVI adapter which comes with the mac using an additional connector DVI to VGA, but nothing happens!

I only have VGA monitors, so question is can this be got to work in some way ?


texts: apple mail 4.5 max. mbox export size limited to approx. 4.7GB

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following is a problem that we have been trying to solve for a while now...

we are attempting to archive a couple of rather large mail folders from within apple mail, they contain in excess of 20000 emails and the actual folders in...

~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes

... are around 14GB in size.

the problem is that if we archive these from within mail, the export only generates mbox files of around 4.2GB, which do not contain all emails from the original folder.

is this a known limitation of the mbox format or more likely apple mail?

the obvious alternative to the above approach is to directly backup / archive the actual mbox folders in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes?

ds.


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Yes, time machine missing backup folders/files has been asked before and gone unaswered. I can't touch those threads as a new, reputationless member.  It's very dissapointing to discover missing folders and files from full time machine backups.

I look forward to answers on this. This is by far one of the most disappointing feeling about Apple and a well recommended way of backing up.

Imac(21.5-inch, Mid 2011)
Processor 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i5
Memory 8GB 1333 DDR3
Mac OS 10.7.5

Folder missing folders and files:

/Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/


texts: Run Automator App conditionally at system startup

texts:
i have build an Automator app working every time at system startup.
But sometime i wish to do not run it. There is a way to avoid (like holding a key at boot for example) Automator App runs when it do not need?


texts:
Google only allows image search from the camera directly (and not the gallery), but doesn't allow iPad users to search by uploading an existing image or typing a specific URL.

How can I search by image from an iPad?


texts:
I have a VNC Viewer installed. Is it possible to make it the default VNC client?

I would like to get rid of the built-in Screen Sharing app and automatically open VNC Viewer whenever I type

open vnc://server:port

in Terminal.


texts: How to get to know which app causes the "would you like to install java?" dialog in Mavericks to appear?

texts:
I have apparently had Java installed at some point and Mavericks removed it, which is fine by me. The problem is that some unknown app is constantly trying to run Java, causing this dialog to appear every few minutes:

How do I find out what app is causing this? I know it's not a website, as no browser needs to be running in order for the dialog to pop up.


texts: Use different profile for a specific Terminal

texts: When logging into remote server with Terminal, I need to use different profile. Is there any way to make the Terminal displayed with different profile? Better still, is there a way to recognize the login access to display with different profile automatically?


texts:
In order to deploy files the the apache server running on OS X host I want to ssh/scp to it using the _www user.

I do not want to use root because I want to be sure that I always put the files with correct permissions.

The problem is that I am not able to login with _www. I did change the password for the account but ssh login still fails after asking me the password two times.


texts: How can I hide a local disk in Finder at root level?

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I want to hide some local disks from left pane (Devices section) in Finder.

I want to remove them from the list of all disks at root level.
What is the command in terminal?

PS: I can't unmount them because they must be accessible for the system.


texts: How to unsync an iCloud folder without losing the original source

texts:
I have synced both my Desktop and Documents folders on my iCloud. iCloud is now full and I no longer would like to keep them in sync. According to this page (section called How to stop syncing Desktop and Documents Folder to iCloud Drive in macOS Sierra) you just have to uncheck the Desktop & Documents Folders in iCloud settings. When I do so, I get the following warning:

But what I aim to do is the opposite. I would like to keep the files on my current Macbook and unsync from my iCloud to free up space there.

When I manually navigate to my iCloud via Finder and remove the folders, the original files are removed with them. This is slightly confusing.

I just want to unsync the folders from the cloud. It's very straightforward in Dropbox.


texts:
Is there a way to change the shortcuts to mailboxes?
Since I don't care usually about VIPs/drafts (see attached fig.), it would be more helpful to have rather trash and archive, for instance.


texts: Is it possible to use custom fonts in Mobile Safari?

texts:
I need to install a font in iPad2, and Safari must be able to use it. Is it possible?

Solution:

I'm developing a iPad2 app using a web wrapper (PhoneGap) and a JS framework (Sencha Touch 2). I need to use custom fonts, for that I need to convert my TTF file (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator) and link the stylesheet.


texts: Can we hide Photos/Videos on iPhone 6s and higher?

texts: I want to hide photos and videos on my iPhone 6s. Can I do that directly or I need any apps for that?


texts: How do I type the power icon on an Apple Keyboard?

texts: What keys do I press to place the power icon into a Word document?


texts: How do I reset link between iPhone and iTunes on a Mac?

texts:
Quick problem:

My wife takes videos with her iPhone 5S (with iOS 7.1)
She downloads the videos from her camera roll to iPhoto and removes from the phone
She tries to sync the videos back to the phone through iTunes on her Mac (iTunes 11.1.5, Mac OS 10.9.2) but they won't sync

Yes, "Include videos" is checked and the specific album that has the videos in it has 47 videos on the Mac and shows 47 in iTunes but when they are synced to the phone, we see 27.

This happens with brand new videos taken with the iPhone, synced to iPhoto, deleted, and then synced back - they don't make it to the phone. I perform these exact same steps on my phone (same phone, same version of iOS, same iTunes, iPhoto, Mac OS) and the video syncs to my phone.

I've gone back and forth trying to fix this problem and it seemed like I fixed it after messing around with the sync settings for a long time but we had to restore the phone because her work wiped it when she left and I'm not able to replicate what I did this time..

At this point, I'd really like to just reset the connection between iTunes and the phone and try to sync again like it's a brand new phone. Is there a way to do that?


texts:
I have a NAS that broke and it used linu_RAID as its format type. How do I mount this in OS X?

Similar to this one...
https://superuser.com/questions/307639/how-can-i-mount-a-single-raid-1-disk-partition-as-ext3


texts: Target Display Mode from a 2016 MacBook to a 2011 27" iMac

texts:
My Google-fu has failed me. Is it at all possible to use Target Display Mode to connect a 12-inch MacBook (early 2016) to a 27-inch iMac (Mid 2011)?

Thanks for helping.


texts: Is there a way to use my iPhone 5's unlimited data on my iPad mini Wi-Fi without the expensive hotspot option?

texts: I am grand-fathered in the AT&T unlimited data.  I sometimes like to stream Netflix, Hulu, etc while on lunch break.  Is there a way to airplay it over to my iPad mini, or do some type of internet sharing without paying the ridiculous data rates for sharing and AT&T?


texts: Updating 4th generation iPod to iOS 6.1.5

texts: I would like to know what could happen to my iPod if it can't handle the update to iOS 6.1.5. It is currently on version 5.1.1 (9B206).


texts: is the keyboard layout for all macbook pro the same?

texts:
I have never used a MacBook for professional use and I find myself on a position I might acquire one over the next 6 to 12 months. Though I understand all it's benefits from a technical point of view, I never actually needed one. For all intended purposes, I still don't, as a matter of fact!

My current work laptop is a 3 1/2 year old Dell and I'm running Linux on it and from a professional point of view it suits me just fine.

Right now I live in Brazil and am moving to Europe. So I'd like to know if the keyboard layout is localized (i.e. en_US, en_UK, pt_PT) or it comes only in en_US layout?


texts:
Configuration:

Late 2014 MBPr - Loaded (1TB SSD, etc.)
Mavericks
Bootcamp with Win7
Paragon NTFS driver

I think my SSD may be failing. Recently, some files have started to go missing.

Specifically, I'll add a new file to an Xcode project, and things seem to work fine for the most part. Occasionally, Xcode gets in a mood where it is constantly saying that a specific file has been modified outside of the environment by another application - even when nothing else is running.

When rebooting, or waking up, the new file tends to be either corrupt, unreadable (with a "input/output error" message in terminal) or completely missing.

If I reboot into Win7 - Bootcamp, not a VM - and try to read the file - from an NTFS volume - the file will show up in a directory listing (command line). If I try to cat the file, I'll get a "The file does not exist" message. After that, the file no longer appears in the directory listing.

If I then reboot into OSX, the file will also be missing from the directory listing.

This seems to be happening more and more frequently lately.

I've tried removing the Paragon NTFS driver. I still get read errors on some files.

I suspect that the SSD is failing. Is there any cheap / free, reliable SSD diagnositic tool available that runs under OSX? I'd rather not have Apple send this thing off for repair for a week as I need the machine to do my job.

Help!


texts: Can I delete an iOS game and retain my progress?

texts:
I want to delete a game from my iPhone in order to make room for other apps. If I try to do so, it warns that all of the app's data will be deleted.

This is a game which has stages that you need to unlock in order to play them again. If I ever reinstall this game, I don't want to have to go through the entire process of unlocking stages. I want to be able to retain my progress and start from there. Is there any way to delete the game from my iPhone but have it remember my progress in case I reinstall it later?

I know that Game Center stores information about high scores and badges, but does it also save my progress?


texts: Remove bundleId from Personal Team on AppStore Connect

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I have a strange problem with Apple Developer account and I don’t know how to solve it.
Today I purchased the licence for $99/year for the first time ever ))
I was working on 2 apps and defined the bundle identifiers (com.company.appname1 and com.company.appname2) and had them registered on Personal Team (under Signing & Capabilities tab in Xcode). The problem is that I can’t re-register the same bundle identifiers under the newly created team with payed membership.
Did you encounter this issue previously and how did you solve it?
I just sent an email to Apple Support, but I’m in a rush with the launch and can’t wait 2 days to get an answer.
At least I need to know if it’s possible to remove the bundle ids from the personal team to make them available to re-register


texts: I would like to upgrade my iMac 2017 4K Retina 21.5 inches

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I read the answers for the post (How can I speed up my new (but slow) 2017 iMac?).

Is the iMac still under warranty if internally upgraded (RAM & hard drive)?
Is it possible to do it myself or I need a professional technician?
Could you evaluate the cost of internal upgrade compared to external solution with SSD drive (without RAM)?


texts:
few days ago I wanted to split partition but obviously I can't read and I chose "partitionDisk" option, basically I did:

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk1 GPT JHFS+ New 100g

That was a mistake. It didn't ask me anything about erasing data, but still its terminal so I don't blame it.
Now I've got an empty partition, but I want to recover the old one.

Is there any way to to such thing? I tried with testdisk, but it's kinda hard to use this soft, tried also deeper search, I saw there about 100 of rows with multiple partitions, but couldn't preview any because of HFS+ I guess.

However I believe the last option would be to use Photorec and recover files one by one...

Is someone could help I would be grateful.


texts:
Mac Grapher has is a keyboard shortcut for entering superscripts: use the ^ key.  For instance, you can type x^2 to get the expression x2.

Once I've entered superscript mode, how do I leave superscript mode?  For instance, if I want to enter in the expression x2 + 3, what do I type?  If I type the characters x^2 + 3 on the keyboard, I get the expression x2 + 3, which is not what I wanted.

I couldn't find any description of this in the help pages for Grapher.


texts: Is there a way to show a badge icon for Reminders app on iPhone?

texts:
Maybe it is possible but I'm doing something wrong.

I want to know the total number of reminders for the day by just glancing at the icon. Do you have any suggestion?


texts: Restoring a Snow Leopard time capsule using Leopard DVD boot? possible?

texts:
So I have a time capsule of a few machines.
The one i did last (Snow Leopard) doesn't seem to be showing in the list.
I don't have a snow leopard DVD boot handy only Leopard.
Is this why this isn't in the list?


texts: Menu display issues after upgrading to Sierra

texts:
I just recently upgraded my Mac and it's having some issues.  It freezes for a few seconds, and when it resumes operation, things just go crazy.  Among other problems, some text is missing, some text is not showing up in the contextual menu.

I thought it might be a font problem or something, so I went to Font Book, tried to validate all the fonts there, and all seems fine.

I hope the screenshots I attached might help.  Thank you.


texts: How to add a specific file to Firewall Exceptions list?

texts: I have to add /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm to the exception list. I tried to find  and edit com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist but I didn't found such file anywhere. How can I manually add a specific executable to the exception list?


texts: Will getting a new battery fix my dead Macbook?

texts:
My Macbook (2017 - 12 inch) just died on me. The screen went black and it shut down without warning. I've tried all the suggestions on the Apple help website: tried different power cords, resetting the SMC etc, holding the power button for 10 seconds etc. But it's showing absolutely no signs of life.
Something that does happen though is when I have the laptop plugged into power I can feel underneath the laptop that the battery gets really really hot. Starting from being completely cool, within 15 seconds of being plugged in I can already feel the battery getting very hot. And if I leave it plugged in it keeps on getting hotter and hotter until it feels dangerously hot.
I know it's normal for batteries to get hot when being charged, but is it normal for it to get this hot while switched off and to get hot so rapidly?
If my laptop can be repaired simply by replacing the battery (around £200 in the UK I think) then this cost seems worth it compared to having to buy a new laptop.
However, the fact it's showing no signs of life and the battery gets so hot when plugged in, is making me think the problem with my laptop is deeper than just "a 3 year old worn out battery" which needs replacing. Is it more likely that the problem lies with the logic board?


texts: Will Swype ever be available for iPhone?

texts: Swype has been rumored to one day become available for iPhone.  Does anyone know of any concrete plans?


texts: Need help with applescript and wolfram alpha interface

texts:
Okay so here's my code... My question is, can I determine what type of data it is before grabbing the text, because if I search something like "how many tablespoons in an ounce, it just gives me a bunch of useless code and doesn't grab the right text. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

    tell application "Safari"
    quit
end tell

set defaultAnswer to ""
set cancelButton to "Cancel"
set buttonResearch to "ReSearch"

display dialog "Query: " default answer defaultAnswer buttons {cancelButton, buttonResearch} default button buttonResearch cancel button cancelButton with icon 1
copy the result as list to {button_pressed, text_returned}

tell application "Dragon Dictate"
    set listening to false
end tell

if (button_pressed is buttonResearch) and (text_returned is not "") then
    set a to "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i="
    set b to encode_text(text_returned, true, false)
    set c to a & b

    tell application "Safari"
        activate
        open
    end tell
    repeat
        if application "Safari" is running then exit repeat
    end repeat
    delay 1
    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke "m" using command down
    end tell
    tell application "Safari"
        tell window 1
            set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:c})
        end tell
    end tell
end if

say "let me look that up for you now"
delay 6

tell application "Safari" to set theString to (source of document 1)

(* Strip the text and only return the last line*)
set input to do shell script "echo " & (quoted form of theString) & "|sed -n \"/stringified/,/mInput/p\" | sed '$!N;$!D'"

global answer

set offSet1 to "\"stringified\": \""
set offSet2 to "\",\"mInput\""

my strip(offSet1, offSet2, input)

set mywordcount to count of words of answer

if mywordcount is greater than 50 then
    display dialog x
else

end if

tell application "Safari"
    quit
end tell

tell application "Dragon Dictate"
    set listening to true
end tell

on strip(offSet1, offSet2, thedata)
    (* Use the offsets of the pattens to match the text # thru # *)
    set textNumber1 to (offset of offSet1 in thedata)
    set theData1 to text -1 thru (textNumber1 + (count of offSet1)) of thedata
    set textNumber2 to (offset of offSet2 in theData1)
    set textString2 to text from word 1 to (textNumber2 - 1) of theData1
    set thedata to theData1
    set answer to textString2
end strip

-- encoding high-ASCII characters:
on encode_char(this_char)
    set the ASCII_num to (the ASCII number this_char)
    set the hex_list to {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
    set x to item ((ASCII_num div 16) + 1) of the hex_list
    set y to item ((ASCII_num mod 16) + 1) of the hex_list
    return ("%" & x & y) as string
end encode_char

-- TEXT ENCODING: encode spaces and high-level ASCII characters (those above 127)
-- encode_URL_A = encode most of the special characters reserved for use by URLs.
on encode_text(this_text, encode_URL_A, encode_URL_B)
    set the standard_characters to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
    set the URL_A_chars to "$+!'/?;&@=#%><{}[]\"~`^\\|*"
    set the URL_B_chars to ".-_:"
    set the acceptable_characters to the standard_characters
    if encode_URL_A is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_A_chars
    if encode_URL_B is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_B_chars
    set the encoded_text to ""
    repeat with this_char in this_text
        if this_char is in the acceptable_characters then
            set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & this_char)
        else
            set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & encode_char(this_char)) as string
        end if
    end repeat
    return the encoded_text
end encode_text


texts: Every time I try to open the .dmg to install XQuartz, a window pops up saying the following disk images couldn't be opened and the reason shown is not recognized. I don't know if I need another application to open it or if the file is corrupted, or if it's some other problem entirely.


texts: How to record audio from an application/audio device?

texts:
My nephew is gonna be on the radio tonight. I'd like to record the stream either from iTunes or from my web browser.

What are my options to accomplish that?


texts:
So, I think I've found a misspelled word in the Mac OS 10.8 dictionary.  This is not a word that I've added.  I double checked in \Library\Spelling and don't have it added to any user dictionaries.  When I look up the word the dictionary even states it is a common misspelling.

The word in question is "espresso" but if I type "expresso" it's not underlined in red.

Is there anyway to edit the system dictionary?  Or is this something I should submit to Apple as a bug?

*If I double click to select the word and then right click, I don't have the "Unlearn Spelling" option.


texts: I have a Perl script written in Windows and an AppleScript written in OS X. I want the AppleScript to invoke the Perl script that is residing in Windows. How can I do this?


texts:
On my mac book (OS X 10.12.4) I have two libpng.16.16.dylib: one in /opt/X11/bin, for which otool reports

/opt/X11/lib/libpng16.16.dylib:
    /opt/X11/lib/libpng16.16.dylib (compatibility version 43.0.0, current version 43.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1226.10.1)

and another in Users/me/anaconda/lib with anaconda's python installation, for which otool reports

/Users/me/anaconda/lib/libpng16.16.dylib:
    @rpath/libpng16.16.dylib (compatibility version 44.0.0, current version 44.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)

In my start-up script, I set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /opt/X11/lib.

Now, when I want to import matplotlib from ipython3 (of the anaconda distribution), I get an error

ImportError: dlopen(/Users/walter1/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/matplotlib/_png.cpython-36m-darwin.so, 2): Library not loaded: @rpath/libpng16.16.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/walter1/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/matplotlib/_png.cpython-36m-darwin.so
  Reason: Incompatible library version: _png.cpython-36m-darwin.so requires version 44.0.0 or later, but libpng16.16.dylib provides version 43.0.0

So it appears that dlopen tries /opt/X11/lib/libpng.16.16.dylib rather than the one under anaconda.

Is there a way to avoid this w/o changing DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH? I cannot remember why I set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH like this, but what would the effect be of omitting /opt/X11/lib from it?


texts: Recover partitions or data after partition map becomes corrupted (HFS+)

texts:
So back story about my hard drive. I bought a USB 3.0 enclosure and a well rated and trusted brand WD 2tb hard drive to put in it. For many months now it had been running flawlessly on my iMac, formatted 100% as HFS+. After I decided to sell my iMac, I made a complete backup image of my iMac's hard drive as a single image file onto this external. It worked great and under Windows 7 with Macdrive installed, I could mount and access my old computer completely as if it was still running. (Note that the image file was 257gb in size, and I have about 1tb worth of self ripped movies, music, and my professional photography work.)

Now here's where I went wrong (as this is all my fault). My Windows machine has a vast library of games running on Steam's gaming platform. About 200gb worth. And I store those files on a separate hard drive than the boot drive of my Windows machine. The issue is that drive had some bad sectors and when Steam began to access files within, Windows would hard-lock on me and I'd have to cut the power. After it happened a couple times, I decided to make a backup of my files and try to fix the drive and reinstall Steam. Well I got as far as half the backup. You see, instead of trying to find what games would lock the system (by individually selecting a game and verifying the files in Steam to see which ones lock up the system) I just went ahead and ran the backup tool to place all the files onto my trusted external.

Halfway through the process the computer locked up and I had NO CHOICE but to cut the power and reboot. Upon entering Windows again, I'm greeted with a "you need to format this disc before you can use it" dialog. Great. Further inspection with Disk Management revealed the entire disc was not partitioned.

(Info about the working setup; I had one partition that spanned the whole disk but because it's a mac it had a small EFI labeled partition at the beginning. It is a 2tb drive partitioned at about 1.8tb. HFS+ filesystem of course, journaled.)

I attempted to run testdisk in Windows to find and restore the old partitions. First attempt found the correct partitions on quick analyses and the write function actually wrote it. Unfortunately no files appeared. So I rebooted with a gparted live cd to see what happened and decided to get rid of the partitions I just restored. I don't know what I was thinking...

Long story short, it was my fault and I'm desperate for getting my info back. Running testdisk from a Mac reveals HUNDREDS of found partitions in a deeper search.

My next thoughts are; would it be a better idea to format the entire disk from a Mac, to restore a standard disk layout of an EFI partition and the main partitions, and run a data recovery wizard? Or is my data long gone? I haven't written any information to any part of the disc except the partition map.

Some recent updates; I have located the correct partition and restored it with TestDisk. Unfortunately the partition is unable to be accessed still even though I know it's the correct partition. Do I need to restore the small 200mb EFI partition that Mac formatting creates? If so, would it be a valid solution to format the whole drive on a Mac (quick) and remove the large partition it creates and restore the partition I know is correct using testdisk?

Essentially I'm looking to restore the partition as if nothing went wrong. Where all my data is just up and running again. I am not adverse to recovering the data however, I don't have a large enough secondary storage solution to transfer recovered files to.


texts: How can I make notifications larger, so less text is cropped?

texts:
I am using Monotony to see news headlines as notifications. I have set it to "Alert style" so they are slightly larger and stay there until I click them. However I would like the notifications to be a bit larger so that less text is cropped. Right now too much is cropped to even read a headline.

Is this possible, either through the default notification system or by installing some other notification system?

Following screenshot shows that a typical headline and article summary are not readable:


texts: Can Apple Watch faces display reminders other than the scheduled list?

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Some of the faces available for the Apple Watch 4 allow me to set "Reminders" as one of the displayed complications. Unfortunately, all it ever shows is "NO REMINDERS" because none of my reminders are scheduled.

I can't seem to find any settings at all for the Reminders app, either on the watch or in the iOS Watch app. I just want it to show me the top item in a particular list. Is that possible?


texts: I have a mac with single user on it (who is Admin). I see tutorials which ask for the root password, is this the same as my user password or something else?


texts: Connect dual Monitors to a single USB-C Port

texts: How can I connect dual monitors with DVI or Display Port or HDMI to my single USB-C Port on my 2016 MacBook?


texts: Gmail lock screen notifications don't appear on iPod Touch, but the device still wakes from sleep

texts:
I've got the Gmail iOS app installed on my iPod Touch 5. Also, I have set the app to only show notifications for "Important" emails (which are indicated with a yellow tab in the web version of Gmail). Sometimes, when I get an important email, the email will show (as expected) on my iPod Touch's lock screen as a notification. However, sometimes the iPod Touch will wake from sleep to show the lock screen, but no notification appears.

Is this something that I can fix on my end? Or is it a bug with the Gmail iOS app itself?


texts: How do I get AppleScript to open another script file

texts:
So I'm working on a script and I want one of the buttons to open another script file. I have:

    tell application "AppleScript Editor" to open "Fallen_Order_Intro.sctp"

When I do this, it says that it can't open "Fallen_Order_Intro.sctp" because it is a text document, (which it isn't).  Am I going about it the wrong way? Is there a different way I should be trying to open a script file? Thank you


texts:
Now that Amazon has sunk the usability flagship among e-readers, Stanza, I am looking for a replacement but it turns out to be very difficult. It seems every app praises itself beyond reason. Every forum peddles whatever app has their fancy. How can I find a good e-reader app without installing and testing them all? Many aren't free and it would be silly to pay for many of them, only to find them all lacking.

My requirements, roughly in order, are the following. Basically, this is what made Stanza so amazing to use.

In-app download from sources such as Feedbooks. (This is what's now broken in Stanza, and won't ever get fixed because Amazon doesn't care. This is the reason I'm looking for alternatives.)
Easy to search for and download free books.
Configurable font size, font color, and background color.
Configurable font size, font color, and background color - in night mode.
Configurable without having to dig deep into settings.
Easy to select a book from the library.


texts:
[Specs of the iMac, the iMac already have 8GB(Should be enough to handle Yosemite)]
[1]http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i3-3.2-21-inch-aluminum-mid-2010-specs.html#macspecs1

Yesterday i bought this iMac, it's took around 45mins to boot up and it's unusable due to the slow response. Each click takes around 15mins to response. So i done a clean installation of yosemite and updated to the latest version. And it's now become normal(boot up around 3mins) except the temperature is high at around 110C. I open up the iMac and clean the dust inside(All three fan) but it's still running at around 100C.

But, when i try to copy VLC from the dmg, it's become slow again suddenly, though the boot up time didn't reach 45mins, but the OS become so laggy. I did not install any software except iStatMenus Trial and the VLC.

Any idea what is failing in this iMac?Could it be the HDD?
One more question, does putting on new thermal paste help cool down the iMac?


texts:
We have two Mac computers running iTunes, mine and hers.

I sync my peripherals to my MacBook Air and my iTunes account, while she syncs her peripherals with our home iMac. Historically, we each maintained separate Apple IDs and iTunes accounts.

My computer belongs to my former company and is going away, so going forward, "sharing" will not be an option.

How do I move my music over to the family iMac?
How do I avoid creating duplicates on the family iMac?
Is there a way to eliminate multiple duplicates? (the one at a time fix will take forever)
Is there any other advice?


texts:
I have a iMac G4 that doesn't boot, so I'd like to check the HDD for faulty sectors.

Are there any utilities featured on the Leopard installation disk I can use for this purpose? For instance, can dd be run in any way to report all faulty sectors?

Alternatively, are there downloadable binaries for PowerPC that can do this? I have TestDisk for PowerPC, but I don't know if it does sector testing. I can't find it anywhere in the menus, at least.


texts: Does the iPod touch have a GPS? If not how, does it know where it is and how dependable is it?


texts: My volume is greyed out with a (/) on it

texts:
I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8.

The output of sudo killall coreaudiod and sudo osascript -e "set Volume 5":

Last login: Fri Nov 25 09:13:21 on ttys000
Daniel-Jensens-MacBook:~ danieljensen$ sudo killall coreaudiod
Daniel-Jensens-MacBook:~ danieljensen$ sudo osascript -e "set Volume 5"
2016-11-25 09:14:30.662 osascript[173:e07] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types:  dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
osascript: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax" declares no loadable handlers.


texts:
I have 7000 important notes on Mac notes. I once moved them to iCloud to back them up.
Recently, I tried to log out of iCloud briefly to fix a bug, and it almost deleted all my notes.
I really need a way to get them backed up on either a hard copy, or on my mac's hard drive. How can I do this?


texts: Sync multiple macs together (which is better iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive?)

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I have 3 MacBooks and I made a Time Machine on one of them e.g macA and then restore it on the others macB and macC. Now I want to keep the 3 Macs in sync where if I did some changes on any mac (added files, deleted apps,...) then it will be reflected on the other two.
I have checked and there are many options like iCloud, Dropbox, Google drive or OneDrive. and I read some links but it’s confusing to have a summary of the pros and cons of each one and which one is the best, so it will be appreciated to know from experience of people here what they think is the best option? since it will be good to have some advice to try avoid choosing one and having to switch to another later on.

I've been looking into this and I was testing how iCloud sharing works and found out that if I shared a folder to anyone with read only access they still have to create an iCloud account which is very inconvenient since many people who are not Mac/iPhone users don't have one. But also the good thing with iCloud is that I have an iPhone and backing it up with iCloud is a convenience. So I am really confused with which option to go with could people please advise me with what they think is best from their experience?

I want to know the best option for me if this is what I am looking for:

Easy smooth syncing of folders across my Macs (Documents, Desktop, Photos,...)
Share files and folders with other people without the need of them to create a new account on the cloud platform so they can just download it, which I think is not possible with iCloud.
I can backup my iPhone to the cloud as well (with iCloud it can be easily done), but it's not mandatory.
The are all laptops so they are not on the same network so I guess a cloud based solution is best
The sync is done instantly so that I don't have to start it every time I open one of the laptops.


texts: Backup iPhone pictures that are not using local storage but iCloud

texts:
Until 2017 I took pictures with mi iPhone using local storage, and then I saved them to my Macbook using Photo.app. But since 2018, I started to use on the iPhone the option to store pictures on iCloud. Since then I did not use  Photo.app backup and now I want to do it.

I wonder if I will have some sort of problem since on my iPhone and using local storage I do not have all copies of my pictures, but they are all supposed to be on iCloud. How should I do this so that I am sure that all new pictures are transferred to Photos.app?


texts: With AppleScript how can you check if spctl is enabled?

texts:
I'm familiar with running the AppleScript command:

do shell script "sudo spctl --master-disable" with administrator privileges

to allow the ability in Security to select Anywhere but is there a way in AppleScript to detect if spctl is enabled or disabled?

Edit:

Running the do shell with:

do shell script "spctl --status"

will throw a Script Editor in Script Editor:

Is there a way to get the status without it throwing an error?


texts:
I have bootcamp loaded with Windows and would like it to boot and login at startup through VMware Fusion instead of starting manually after OSX 10.6.7 loads.

Any ideas on how this functionality can be turned on or off?


texts: Is it true that any external hard drive made for the PC, can be used by a Mac running Lion?

texts: It seems like Lion supports NTFS (by plugging in a USB Flash drive which is NTFS).  So for hard drives such as the WD Passport or Toshiba 1TB, which are made for the PC (running Windows XP/Vista/7), they can be used on the Mac running Mac OS X Lion as well?


texts: Is there a way to turn off an external Apple Cinema Display remotely and continue to use the computer?

texts:
Here's the situation: I often access my Mac Pro remotely using Screen Sharing and sometimes TeamViewer. The problem is that when I do this, everything I'm doing can be seen by those near the physical computer. It also uses a considerable amount unnecessary power to have the displays on but not actually being used.

Is there a way to turn them off and not just blank if possible, while still using Screen Sharing or TeamViewer Free?


texts: How do you install playground books on iPad?

texts:
I found a playground book from Apple online called "Talking To The Live View". It's an updated playground from the 2016 WWDC. I want to install it on my iPad and try it out. Further, I want to experiment with building my own playground books and installing them on my iPad.

I'm a licensed iOS developer, and know how to install apps on iOS devices, but despite searching for a couple of hours I have not been able to figure out how to install playground books onto my iPad other than the ones that magically get listed from Apple.


texts: Many programs notify me that "grep/sed/uname/... not found"; some run, some don't. My system(?) path is damaged, how do I go about a diagnosing it?

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Some manifestations of this problem: macports won't install, MATLAB won't run, BTT works but incessantly spams me with " not found" popups, and emacs shell does not work.

My interactive shell PATH is fine, so this is my '/etc/paths' file:
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/Users/sambo/bin

where that last one is my own personal scripts. Could I have damaged it just from appending? Anyways, that's problem and help would be appreciated.

EDIT: With echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}, I get

/Users/sambo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin
/Users/sambo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/bin
/Users/sambo/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin
/Users/sambo/.rvm/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/Users/sambo/binsr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/X11/bin
/usr/texbin
â
/Users/sambo/sox
/Users/sambo/bin
/usr/texbin

/Users/sambo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin:/Users/sambo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/bin:/Users/sambo/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin:/Users/sambo/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/sambo/binsr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:â:/Users/sambo/sox:/Users/sambo/bin:/usr/texbin

is it OK for these ruby bins to be upstream of the system bins?
could that junk cause any trouble?


texts: How to turn off animation while navigating browser's history

texts:
Is there is any way to turn off animation while navigating through pages in safari (using one finger  swipe left/right gesture)?

I know, that it is a subtle different thing comparing to what we've accustomed to call navigation, since clicking back/forward history buttons works as expected.

But as for me, it is really annoying, eye straining and time consuming - to see animation each time you use mouse gestures to navigate.


texts: Open file in Sublime Text tab via AppleScript

texts:
Using the following AppleScript code, I can open a .txt file in a new window of Sublime Text:

tell application "Sublime Text"
    open "Users:me:Desktop:foo.txt"
end tell

Is there a way to open this file NOT as its own new window, but rather as a new tab of my existing window of Sublime Text?


texts: What applications would be expected to setup a network interface "stf0" and "gif0"

texts:
I've recently noticed that I have the following network interfaces setup on my mac:

Ethernet
Airport
Firewire
vmnet1
vmnet8
gif0
stf0

Obviously Ethernet, Airport, and Firewire are enabled by default.  I think vmware setup vmnet1 and vmnet8.  Where did gif0 and stf0 come from?  I'm sure I did not setup these interfaces myself, so now I'm getting paranoid about spyware.

What applications might have automatically setup these interfaces? How do I disable networking through them?  Or is this a common setup and I shouldn't worry about it?

/edit: gif0 appears to have the ip address 55.4.0.0 and stf0 appears to have the ip address 57.4.0.0.  Neither one of those is even remonetly similar to my actual ip address.  What's going on here?

/edit 2: ifconfig reveals that neither interface has the flag "up" so they are not in use.  Thanks for the help jjungnickel.


texts:
I put some alias commands in my .bashrc file, so that they might be loaded everytime I open a new Terminal window. Yet this doesn't happen.
I have to select run script: in the Terminal>Preferences>"MyDefaultTheme">Shell prefpane and add:
source .bashrc && clear for it to work...
This seems odd since many tutorials only say you just have to add to the .bashrc file and all is good.
Note that I don't run in bash when using the terminal, I like the other (default) one (don't know what it is) better, because it show me where I am all the time eg:
>>d54c6b47b:~ romeo$

in stead of:
>>bash$

In bash all is loaded as should be.
So my question is, why didn't my .bashrc file load automatically and did I have to add the option to call it everytime?
Also some tutorial told me to do something like:
$alias la=’ls -la’ >> ~/.bashrc

which should write the alias to my .bashrc, this doesn't work either...
Note that I'm a UNIX novice, so be gentle.


texts:
I was changing the fonts and accidentally selected all the content of the note which got overwritten. Command + Z doesn't seem to work and I have no backup. Is there a way to recover?
I have tried the solutions in Overwritten Mac note but it doesn't seem to work.


texts: How to partition 128 MB space on El Capitan?

texts:
I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu with El Captain MacBook Pro mid 2012 following this guide: How to Dual-Boot OS X and Ubuntu

I want to partition a 128 MB space called Ubuntu Boot Loader along side my main partition but, when using Disk Utility, this task seems impossible. It will create another untitled partition (half the size of my drive (128 GB)) and then when I hit accept it will only create that Untitled 128 GB partition (but name it Ubuntu Boot Loader) and it will fail on creating my 128 MB partition. I have no idea how to simply make a small partition, is there an easier way to do it on Mac without dealing with all the BS introduced by Disk Utility? Can provide pics of whats happening if needed.


texts: iPhone calendar: How do you set up an event for next year?

texts:
I want to set up a reminder for 1 Aug 2021, but there's no way to set the year. All I can do on the scrolling wheel of dates is set it up for this 1 Aug 2020 and add a "repeat annually" to the entry.

Surely Apple haven't missed this off?


texts:
I grabbed a forgotten MacPro 3,1 2008 Quad 2.8 and brought it back to life it had a ATI GPU but this turned to be dead.

It's running pretty smooth after total clean up, but since I run with non-apple GPU- EVGA 760GTX 2GB, I can't install any other OS on it since I can't see the EFI OS Loader.

No refind, no refit, no nothing- I either see a black screen and then normal macOS login window, or - when trying to hack around legacy bios boot I see a gray background and a blinking cursor. Great.

I managed to install Clover (which normally is used to spoof mac hardware, irony) but it won't detect any usb sticks with installers and I cant start the normal macOS through it either.

I managed once to boot Manjaro from USB but I did that blindly and well, I dont want to do boot an OS blindly in 2017.

Currently my salvaged MacPro 2008 3.1 runs on El Capitan - but I want to install Windows on it and I simply can't figure out how to do it since it won't boot on that GPU with any Video output.

There must be a way to force to init the GPU, since, bootcamp does it and clover does it to.

Any Ideas?


texts: iPhone won't turn on and I am unable to put it into DFU mode

texts: My iPhone 5C has no battery and won't turn on, I've been told to put it into DFU mode to reset it, however I can't do that because I need to hold down my Home button which is broken! Anyone know what I can do? 😨


texts: Why isn't my iPhone 4S charging (apparently) only in some places?

texts:
I charge the phone at home using the Apple wall adapter that came with the phone and an Amazon basics 30-pin-to-USB cable. I have been doing so for over a year (i.e. since I purchased the cable).

I was charging the phone at work with the Apple 30-pin-to-USB cable that came with the phone, connected directly to a port on my work computer. I have been doing so for at least a year as well.

About a week ago, my iPhone stopped charging at work. It continues to charge at home.

What I've tried so far (to no avail):

Turning off my phone.
Soft-resetting my phone.
Replacing the 30-pin-to-USB-cable with a third-party, yet certified, cable.
Replacing the 30-pin-to-USB-cable with another Amazon basics cable; the same cable (per Amazon) that works at home (tho not the actual same instance of that cable).
Connecting (all of the three) 30-pin-to-USB-cable(s) to a wall adapter.

I have not update iOS within at least month of this issue.

I'm upgrading iOS to 8.2 (from 8.1.x) now.

EDIT – it will charge at work if I turn it off.

EDIT1 – I tried plugging the wall adapter into (a) the surge protector into which the power cables for my computer and monitors are plugged-in; (b) an outlet in my cubicle; and (c) a wall outlet in my office. None worked.

EDIT2 – I tried all three cables, and the wall adapter, that I had at work, in the outlets I use at home. None of the cables worked. The wall adapter worked with the lone cable I have at home that works. In summary, even using a (working) wall adapter, I can't charge using any of three cables at work. I can charge my phone with those same three cables tho if I turn my phone off! At this point, I'm worried some aspect of my work environment caused, directly or indirectly, damage to the cables, so I'm loathe to bring my lone working cable from home to test it.

But the cables work if I turn my phone off!

EDIT3 – To add more confusing info, I replaced one of the three cables that wasn't working – the one that's the same (as far as I can tell) as the one cable that does work – and the replacement doesn't work at home (while my phone is turned on). Maybe the dock connector in the phone is damaged but somehow (???) the one cable is damaged in some particularly complementary manner that the phone can still charge (while turned on) when connected to it. The same cable for which one works and two don't (while my phone is turned on):

AmazonSmile: AmazonBasics Apple Certified 30-Pin to USB Cable for Apple iPhone 4, iPod, and iPad 3rd Generation - 3.2 Feet (1.0 Meter): MP3 Players & Accessories


texts: On my Mac Air, the return key sends the message, rather than moving my text to the next line. How do I move my text to the next line or can I change Preferences so that I can use the return key to advance to the next line and another command to actually send the message.


texts:
I went through a lot of articles on how to create bootable os x install partition but eventually I ended up with a need of making resize of my system partition - unfortunately DiskUtility shows this option greyed out. Any ideas why? I don't want to loose my existing system installation.

Properties say that it is a physical volume and it's not using CoreStorage.
This is the output of diskutil list command:

And it seems like I managed to resize this disk0s2 partition with:

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 480GB

command. Still don't get why this option is absent in DiskUtility. It used to be there. And unfortunately this is not what I was looking for. After I resized this volume DiskUtility didn't allow me to create a new partition. Therefore I think the problem is in that I didn't partition drive properly from the very beginning. diskutil splitPartition doesn't work at all - it says that it cannot unmount disk. Any ideas other than to wipe HDD contents out and install from scratch? I don't want to install Snow Leopard first and update it to El Capitan.


texts: Firewall denies sshd-keygen-wrapper despite configuration

texts:
After upgrading to Lion, I cannot connect via SSH.  I get a timeout:

$ ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 not.my.actual.hostname
ssh: connect to host not.my.actual.hostname port 22: Operation timed out

In /var/log/appfirewall.log I get this:

Firewall[541]: Deny sshd-keygen-wrapper connecting from 192.168.1.1:49380 to port 22 proto=6

I have specifically added sshd-keygen-wrapper to my firewall rules and set it to "Allow incoming connections", but I still get the same message in the firewall log.

If I disable the firewall, I can connect without issue, but I'd rather not disable it completely.  What am I missing?  Thanks.


texts: How to start Apple hardware test on Catalina OS?

texts:
I need to check something (answer below)

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/374656/207453

and I would like to run the Apple Hardware Test. As far as I know in order to get this menu I need a moment when I turn my Macbook on hold D button or Option + D (actually I have the same result on my Macbook).

The first image that I saw was this one

Then I was asked to choose Wifi and fill in the password and after a few moments I got such message

What am I doing wrong?

Feel free to ask


texts: Apple Books won't download any books/files saved in iCloud only on Mac (macOS Big Sur)

texts:
I can't download any books/files I saved with iCloud in the Apple Books app on my Mac anymore (it worked before though). Books from the Apple Books store will download fine. I can also download all books saved in iCloud with iOS without problems.
There is no error message, instead the Download will apparently start as indicated in the sidebar:

However, the download will never process at all (again, every other download works without issue).
Things I tried that didn't work:

Rebooted the system
Logged out and back in with the corresponding Apple account
Disabled and reenabled syncing for Books in the iCloud settings
Removed all ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.iBooksX.* folders and rebooted
Removed ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks folder and rebooted


texts: How to find the process listening to the localhost on OSX?

texts:
In my Mac(10.11.5), I find a strange php server is listening to my localhost:

$ curl -i localhost

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:05:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Unix) PHP/5.6.23
Content-Location: index.html.en
Vary: negotiate
TCN: choice
Last-Modified: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:53:14 GMT
ETag: "2d-432a5e4a73a80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 45
Content-Type: text/html

It works!

But I can't find any php process:

$ ps -ef | grep php

  501   724   500   0  6:06PM ttys000    0:00.00 grep php

And any suspicious process listening port 80:

$ lsof -i:80

COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
Google    526 Sona  202u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf523ff9      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49823->72-165-119-59.dia.static.qwest.net:http (CLOSED)
Google    526 Sona  219u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf521c19      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49827->72-165-119-17.dia.static.qwest.net:http (CLOSED)
Google    526 Sona  226u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf510e09      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49808->pixel.quantserve.com:http (CLOSED)
Google    526 Sona  236u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf523701      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49824->72-165-119-59.dia.static.qwest.net:http (CLOSED)
Google    526 Sona  237u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf522e09      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49825->72-165-119-59.dia.static.qwest.net:http (CLOSED)
Google    526 Sona  238u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf522511      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49826->72-165-119-59.dia.static.qwest.net:http (CLOSED)
Google    526 Sona  239u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf53ee09      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49828->72-165-119-17.dia.static.qwest.net:http (CLOSED)
Google    526 Sona  240u  IPv4 0x9de3b88faf53f701      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49829->72-165-119-17.dia.static.qwest.net:http (CLOSED)
QQ        640 Sona   11u  IPv4 0x9de3b88f96e3fff9      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49717->123.151.10.189:http (ESTABLISHED)
QQ        640 Sona   13u  IPv4 0x9de3b88f96e3fff9      0t0  TCP sayakiss-mbp.lan:49717->123.151.10.189:http (ESTABLISHED)

My question:

How to find the process listening to localhost?
How to find the file which returns by php?(As you see, php returns something contains It works!, so there must be a file contains that text...)


texts: Using Applescript to paste the current date into a range of Excel cells

texts:
I have a simple script written that successfully saves the current date in the format I need. I also have saved a destination range in the active sheet. I just need syntax to paste/insert it into that range of cells.

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    get active workbook
    tell sheet 1
        set ReportDate to do shell script "date '+%d/%m/%Y'"
        set range_value to value of used range
        set firstUnusedCellA to (count range_value)
        set DestinationRange to "G2:G" & (firstUnusedCellA)
        get ReportDate
        paste special on worksheet active sheet destination range DestinationRange

end tell


texts: Syncing multiple iOS devices with the same iTunes installation on Windows 7

texts:
I have two iPhones and two iPads. They need to sync with the same iTunes. They have different e-mail, contacts, sync information, but use photos, audio, and video from the same multimedia library on my PC and NAS. How should I set that up? Currently I have problems with the iPod Photo cash and there might me more issues that I have not discovered yet?
Thanks.
Thomas.


texts: Menu Bar Display icon has disappeared from the macOS Menu Bar

texts:
The Display icon has disappeared from my Menu Bar and I cannot figure out how to get it back.
The ability to add it to the toolbar has disappeared from System Preferences > Displays

I found an excellent article that contained instructions on how to add it back in this scenario:

For one reason or another, some menulet options remain hidden in
System Preferences by default. Interested users can find the full
collection in the System folder: Open a Finder window, from the menu
bar select Go -> Go to Folder..., and then navigate to
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras.
Some of the extras in this folder are pretty obscure, but one or two
might come in handy – like Eject if you use an optical drive, or Ink
if you connect a graphics tablet to your Mac, for example. Just
double-click any that look useful and they'll be added to the menu
bar. They can be removed just as easily using the Command (⌘) key
method described above.

When I try this method, the Display icon does indeed show up on the Menu Bar again...
BEFORE:

AFTER:

However, when I try to click it, it immediately disappears.

What am I missing?
I'm running Catalina (10.15.6) on a 2015 Macbook Pro.


texts: Easy Way To Switch Between Apps Similar To Alt+Tab or Command+Tab on iOS 6 Using Bluetooth Keyboard

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Switch Between Apps With Alt-Tab / Command-Tab on iPad using Bluetooth Keyboard

Previously I asked if it was possible to do something similar to alt+tab or command+tab using the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard to quickly switch between apps like one might do on a desktop computer. That question related to iOS 5. The short answer was no.

Now that iOS 6 is out, is there anything in iOS 6 that would make this possible?


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When my computer wakes from sleep, it tries to reconnect to my VPN network before the Wifi connection is fully established. The result is that nearly every time I get this message, "You were disconnected because the PPP server is not responding. Try reconnecting."

Is there a way to disable this message or prevent OS X from reconnection on sleep (automatically of course).


texts: Reformat exFat with specific Device Block Size and Cluster Size

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I have an 512 GB SSD on my MacBook Retina with one of the volumes disks0s6 formatted with exFat to use it on both Mac and Windows.

diskutil info disk0s6:

   Device Identifier:        disk0s6
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s6
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      Basic data partition

   Volume Name:              WORK
   Escaped with Unicode:     WORK

   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/WORK
   Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/WORK

   File System Personality:  ExFAT
   Type (Bundle):            exfat
   Name (User Visible):      ExFAT

   Partition Type:           Microsoft Basic Data
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 PCI
   SMART Status:             Verified
   Volume UUID:              40CF8BFC-3143-3BB9-B659-DE1A62DCA9E6

   Total Size:               54.1 GB (54117007360 Bytes) (exactly 105697280 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        36.1 GB (36128292864 Bytes) (exactly 70563072 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         No
   Ejectable:                No

   Whole:                    No
   Internal:                 Yes
   Solid State:              Yes

I have lots of small files in that volume and my small files took to much physical space so I want to reformat the volume with a minimum Device Block Size and Cluster Size so my small files won't take any additional space. How can I do that in OS X?

Here is an example of files in folder bower_components which is 46.1 MB taking 9.75 GBspace on the disk (printed from windows):

UPDATE 1

I didn't found a way how to check cluster size on Mac so I boot in Windows and run chkdsk on that drive:

As you can see 131072 bytes in each allocation unit - that is my current cluster size being created by Mac DiskUtil default

UPDATE 2

Just booted back to Mac and run the command sudo newfs_exfat -N /dev/disk0s6:

Reformatting existing ExFAT volume
Partition offset : 871407616 sectors (446160699392 bytes)
Volume size      : 105697280 sectors (54117007360 bytes)
Bytes per sector : 512
Bytes per cluster: 131072
FAT offset       : 2048 sectors (1048576 bytes)
# FAT sectors    : 3328
Number of FATs   : 1
Cluster offset   : 6144 sectors (3145728 bytes)
# Clusters       : 412856
Volume Serial #  : 0227bd88
Bitmap start     : 2
Bitmap file size : 51607
Upcase start     : 3
Upcase file size : 5836
Root start       : 4

So looks like chkdisk showed same 131072 bytes per cluster


texts: 16G memory or an SSD to upgrade a Macbook?

texts:
I'm deciding on whether to spend the money to upgrade my RAM or add an SSD to my Macbook Pro.  Here's the stats...

Early 2011
MacBookPro8,1
i7 2.7Ghz
8G RAM
STBD1000400 Seagate Hybrid 1TB drive

I could spend about $130 on either...

16G RAM
250G Samsung EVO 850 SSD (replacing the DVD drive)

The machine is mostly used for coding, compiling, web browsing, watching movies and listening to music.  It is rarely CPU bound.  The OS and applications and home directories should fit easily into 250 gigs with my media going onto the 1TB drive.

Thoughts?


texts: Looking for a way to set the MacBook screen dimming delay

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What I need is to extend the delay before the display dims. I will often read a page full of text and the screen will dim, and I have to touch the trackpad. It gets annoying when trying to take notes or do homework.

This is for a 13" 2008 MacBook Aluminum.

I am aware of the pmset halfdim switch. That switch corresponds to the automatically reduce the brightness of the display before sleep in the Energy Saver preferences pane. But it's not what I need. I do like the feature, but I'd just like to extend it 15-20 seconds.

Thanks.


texts: OS X: Is there an open source screen recorder?

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I need a screen recorder. However, I try to avoid using closed-source software whenever possible except from major vendors like Apple and Skype.

I am wondering, is there an open source screen recorder for Mac OS X?

Or if not, does Apple include such a thing with the OS? Or how about using Skype? I'm running Snow Leopard.


texts: Can you upgrade your iOS device on a computer that it is not synced to?

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My wife never syncs her phone to her laptop, which I rarely have access to, but I would like upgrade the version of her phone's iOS when updates come out.

Is it possible to plug her phone into my computer (a MacBook) and upgrade the OS whilst preserving all of her settings/music/etc, even if her laptop is a Windows 7 PC? Further, even if this is possible is it advisable?


texts: How to copy pages/sections from one Pages document to another?

texts:
I have read here that you can simply copy/paste pages between documents. When I highlight a page, there is no option to copy and nothing happens (except the typical warning sound) when I hit cmd-c. Drag and drop doesn't work either.
I have the newest OSX and pages versions.
Is there any solution?


texts: How do I share an entire album in iCloud photos? Not just individual pictures

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I have several albums with photos taken on an iPhone, which I view and work with at https://www.icloud.com/photos/. I can select individual pictures and create a share link, and I do this all the time.

But when I select an album, all the share links ghost out.

How can I use iCloud Photo to share whole albums with others?

PS: I'm aware of How can I share an iCloud photo album? but this recommends to use iCloud Photo Sharing which isn't available from iCloud Photos.


texts: iPhone 4 stuck in recovery mode after restore

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When I went to restore an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1.2 with iTunes, I got it stuck in recovery mode.

I believe the device has been restored, since it has been reverted from 'Mike's iPhone' to just 'iPhone'. But now I'm stuck in recovery mode.

I used the Reiboot tool on my Windows 7 laptop, but that didn't work, so it prompted me to download the firmware, since the software was damaged. I did, but I have to pay to begin the process with Reiboot. Is there any free way to fix this?

Note: I've also tried to use the 'Tiny Umbrella' tool on my laptop, and that won't even start. I do have an old computer tower running Windows XP, maybe I could use Tiny Umbrella on that?


texts: How can I stream tv shows on my iPhone 5s (without downloading)?

texts:
I've looked everywhere for an answer to my question but I can't seem to find one:

I'm trying to watch a tv show on my iPhone 5s that I bought on my account via the computer. However, the only way it lets me watch them by downloading the episodes, and I want to just stream them on my iPhone because downloads use too much data. How do I fix this problem? Is it possible to stream tv shows on your iPhone?


texts: I've just updated my Mac to Yosemite and now I can't open a .numbers file

texts:
I have just updated my Mac to Yosemite and after that when I try to open .numbers file, I couldn't, and it gives me this message "edit 1.numbers can't be opened".

I do not know why and I really need this file.


texts:
Whenever I type l/ in terminal on OS X (Mavericks), it replaces it with a blank space. I can't seem to find any relevant problems or fixes on Google and I have no idea why this happens.

For example, if I want to type:

cd Documents/clinical/

It would do:

cd Documents/clinica

I have tried tab completion and it just does the same thing. This also occurs in ZSH.

I have tried this though, using test folder names:

mkdir clinical
cd clinica (automatically turns clinical/ into clinica  )
mkdir specl
cd
cd clinica  spec  (it's turning the l/ into whitespaces for clincal/ and specl/ )

…and it does put me in the directory of /clinical/specl/.

So I'm really not sure how to get around it … it's kind of frustrating.

Any advice?

$ stty -a
speed 9600 baud; 32 rows; 120 columns;
lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl
    -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho pendin -nokerninfo
    -extproc
iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel iutf8
    -ignbrk brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk
oflags: opost onlcr -oxtabs -onocr -onlret
cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd hupcl -clocal -cstopb -crtscts -dsrflow
    -dtrflow -mdmbuf
cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
    eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V;
    min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = ^T;
    stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W;


texts: location based automation not triggering when set to home

texts:
everyone.
I have set up a test automation to play some music when I arrive home. Unfortunately, it doesn't trigger.
However, when I'm not using "Home", but instead enter the same address manually, it works.
I can't leave it like this though since this would only work for me and not for anyone else in my home.
Interestingly, when I select my "Home" address in the "Home" app, the map doesn't update so it looks like it doesn't seem to know what address to use(?)
So when I e.g. add "New York" first

and then select "Home" again, the card doesn't update with my home address. (Which isn't in New York btw, I just used that as an example)

I suppose that my address is correctly set-up in my contact card and location services are on since location based reminders seem to work.
Or which address does the "Home" app use as home address?
Thanks, everyone in advance!


texts: Terminal opens with "-bash: /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh: No such file or directory"

texts:
I tried to install OpenCV through Homebrew by following the steps given in http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/12/05/macos-install-opencv-3-and-python-3-5/ but after installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper I updated the path as given. When I source it I get the following

-bash: /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh: No such file or directory

I have macOS Sierra 10.12.6, Xcode 8.3.3.

Then I closed the Terminal and reopened it. Since then whenever I open the Terminal I see the same line in the second line of the terminal. I made a small change and installed virtualenv using

pip --user install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper


texts:
I have a Early 2011 Macbook pro. A few days ago, I turned on my computer and it was on the lowest brightness setting (almost pitch black).

FYI, about a year ago I spilled beer on my keyboard and a few keys stopped working, including F2. Therefore, to fix it, I plugged it into my external monitor and readjusted the brightness from the System preferences. Nothing changed!

If I look closely at the screen, I can see that it's still working. I'm thinking (hoping?) it's just a bug. Any ideas on how to fix it?


texts: Cannot enable FileVault on macOS High Sierra

texts:
I've just got a new MacBook Pro, currently running macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra. As I'm the only one using it, it only has one user account, which does have admin privileges. However, I'm encountering some problems attempting to enable FileVault 2 disk encryption.

If I try the standard method of going into settings -> security & privacy, then clicking "enable FileVault", nothing happens. No error message, it just doesn't respond.

Going into terminal, I've tried running sudo fdesetup enable, which returns the following message. Error: A problem occurred while trying to enable FileVault. (-69594).

Based on a previous answer I saw on here, I then tried booting into recovery mode, and running sudo rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone.
This tells me that the sudo command is not recognised. Alternatively, running without sudo returns /var/db/.AppleSetupDone: No such file or directory.

Basically, I've no idea what else to try, short of wiping the computer and starting from scratch. Any ideas (preferably FileVault, but I'll accept other full disk encryption methods), or is that my only option?


texts:
I'm slowly coming to terms with the black magic behind the APFS system/data volume split. Today, however, I found an artifact that I just don't understand: files that simultaneously exist and do not.
The question is: in the sequence below, why do ls and find see a merged view sometimes and not others?
For example, we know that /usr/share contains entries from both the system volume (high-numbered inodes) and one from the Data volume (low-numbered inodes, specifically snmp):
# ls -li /usr/share
total 8
...
1152921500312798809 drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel    64 Jan  1  2020 skel
            4054997 drwxr-xr-x   28 root  wheel   896 Jan  1  2020 snmp
1152921500312798811 drwxr-xr-x    6 root  wheel   192 Jan  1  2020 tabset
...

It makes sense, therefore, that inspecting the Data volume only shows the Data entries:
# ls -li /System/Volumes/Data/usr/share
total 0
4054997 drwxr-xr-x  28 root  wheel  896 Jan  1  2020 snmp

As expected, find sees all of the files through / and only the Data files through /System/Volumes/Data, regardless of -x:
# find /usr/share | grep '^/usr/share/' | wc -l
   14956
# find -x /usr/share | grep '^/usr/share/' | wc -l
   14956
# find /System/Volumes/Data/usr/share | grep '^/System/Volumes/Data/usr/share/' | wc -l
     179
# find -x /System/Volumes/Data/usr/share | grep '^/System/Volumes/Data/usr/share/' | wc -l
     179

Here's where things get strange, however. If I do the same find from one level up, all of a sudden I get the merged view both ways:
# find /usr | grep '^/usr/share/' | wc -l
   14956
# find -x /usr | grep '^/usr/share/' | wc -l
   14956
# find /System/Volumes/Data/usr | grep /System/Volumes/Data/usr/share/ | wc -l
   14956
# find -x /System/Volumes/Data/usr | grep /System/Volumes/Data/usr/share/ | wc -l
   14956

You can see the same behavior if you compare the outputs of ls:
# ls /usr/share
# ls /System/Volumes/Data/usr/share
# ls -R /System/Volumes/Data/usr

I've been digging through the code for find and fts, however, and I don't see any trap doors for firmlinks.
Interestingly, the Gnu version of these tools do not see the merged view, so it's something in the Apple version.
What am I missing?


texts: Can time machine or iCloud backups overcome ransomeware encryption of your hard drive?


texts: Is there any way to open a recently closed tab in Safari in iOS?

texts:
Is there a way to open a recently closed tab in the Safari browser in iOS? I am specifically looking for a solution that works on the iPad.

For reference, here is this question for the Mac.


texts: Why are some PDFs scrambled when opened with Preview on Mac?

texts:
Consider this PDF file for example. The text in this file appears scrambled when opened with Safari or Preview. However, the PDF is formatted fine when opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC or most 3rd party web browsers including but not limited to Gecko-based Firefox and Chromium-based Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera.
I wondered if it is because of some of the embedded fonts in the PDF file which perhaps I needed to install on my mac. So, I searched for these fonts and installed them on my system but to no avail. Perhaps it is a bug?
How would you deal with such PDF files when you want to primarily use Preview?

EDIT:
I am using macOS Catalina 10.15.6 and Preview 11.0. In the attached screenshot, the left rendering is by Preview and the right one is by Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.


texts: How can I set the user picture from a file in Mavericks?

texts: How can I load an image from a file as my user image in Mavericks?  The interface changed so the Mountain Lion instructions aren't applicable, and the Mavericks instructions don't cover loading it from a file.


texts: Keyboard / Trackpad not working in Mac OS, but works on boot screen and in Windows

texts:
Have an issue with Macbook Air 13 (Mid 2013). Both trackpad and keyboard work fine on the boot screen, also in Windows 10 bootcamp installation, but in Mac OS X neither works (not even Caps Lock LED). External keyboards and mouses work fine.

Tried clean re-install wiping all existing partitions (Yosemite and El. Capitan) - no difference. Actually, even during Mac OS installation, input works fine on the boot screen, but as soon as Mac OS setup loads, both keyboard and trackpad stop working.

SMC and PRAM resets didn’t help.

EDIT - Some additional info gathered during troubleshooting: (Thanks Tiago Ferreira)

Internal keyboard and trackpad work fine in Diagnostics Mode.
The only warning on Diagnostics page is that battery needs servicing.
Keyboard and trackpad do not work in Safe and Single User modes.
When booting into Single User mode, there are bunch of errors related to AppleHSSPIController
Disabling Bluetooth doesn't help. Apple Bluetooth mouse works fine.
EFI and SMC Firmwares are up to date.

I strongly suspect it must be a hardware issue, but why it works in Windows and in certain Mac OS boot modes?


texts: How can I simulate repeated keystroke on Mac?

texts:
I am looking for a method that allows me to press and hold down a key, for example "X", and instead of pressing just once, I want it to be read as multiple presses in a very short period of time. So for example, 0.1s delay between the presses, and the pressing per say, continues until I release the key.

Custom apps to do this are fine.
Scripts and automation of any language are fine (I can install frameworks or languages if it gets me to my goal)
Third party scripting apps are fine.
Third party accessibility apps or hardware solutions are fine

I am trying to target the Firefox process for these repeated key press bursts.

Here's my research showing how close I can get with a script, and tried modifying it to apply to my situation, opened it via "Automator" but the functionality is wrong:

tell application "System Events"
  delay 0.1
  keystroke space using command down
  delay 0.1
  keystroke space using command down
  delay 0.1
  keystroke space using command down
  delay 0.1
  keystroke space using command down
  delay 0.1
  keystroke space using command down
end tell

Moreover, I wanted the script to work on a "X" key, but this particular script sends space bar requests. And even if this worked, it would just press 5 times (or as many times as I would copy and paste the 'keystroke' line), but I want to have it stopped when I release the key. (If this is not possible, I am okay with having certain amount of presses as well, somewhere around ~20 would be nice)


texts: pwSafe on the Mac now giving error when trying to use iCloud based safe (version 4.8)

texts:
Since version 4.8 of pwSafe was updated on the 8th (Mac OSx El Capitan), whenever I try to use one of my existing safes stored in iCloud, I get the following error:

The document "(null)" could not be opened.

I can easily open any of the safes stored in iCloud on my iPhone or Windows (yes, completely different apps/OS's, but mentioned as its obviously not the safes themselves).

So far I've tried uninstalling (both with and without app cleaner's assistance) and reinstalling, but with no success.

Anybody else had this problem and know of a solution, other than to wait for App77 to update their application?


texts: How do I encrypt emails using Apple Mail?

texts:
Gnu PGP was integrated into Mail using this project, but it appears to be dead (only supports old versions of OSX) http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html

Is there any other way to do it? Or do I have to use Enigmail for Thunderbird?


texts:
Periodically my screen sharing stops working.  When I try to connect nothing happens.
telnet 5900 connects but I don't get the normal "RFB 003.889" prompt back.
reboot seems to resolve it, but it stops working soon.
I tried killing SCreenSharingAgent and it restarts, but still doesn't work.
Any advice on how to make it work remotely via ssh?

(11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2)


texts: Sorting in finder giving unexpected results when using numbers and letters

texts:
I have a folder with the following files, and when the setting is to sort by name I would expect them to be in the following order:

01-a.txt
01-b.txt
01-c.txt
02-a.txt
02-b.txt
...
09-b.txt
09-c.txt
0A-a.txt
0A-b.txt
Etc

However, what I get is

0A-a.txt
0A-b.txt
01-a.txt
01-b.txt
Etc

If I leave of the leading zeros it sorts as expected.

What is the reason for this, and is there a way to make it work as expected?


texts: What is the best option to keep Laptop and Desktop user account in Sync?

texts:
I have a Mac desktop that is not always on and a Mac laptop that is usually on the same network. I have a new Synology drive that is always on and I'm considering making use of the LDAP server on it for the Mac accounts. Ideally, I would like to have the laptop and desktop's home directory syncronized through it as well. I'm aware of Portable Home Directories, but I don't have Mac OS X Server installed and my desktop isn't on all the time to sync with the laptop.

Are there any other alternatives for keeping accounts on two computers in sync similar to Portable Home Directories?


texts: How to make ntfs-3g drive visible in Finder

texts:
I was using Tuxera NTFS for a while on my external drives but then my trial ran out.

So then I installed ntfs-3g from macports.

When I connect my external drive, OSX automatically mounts it, but it is read-only.

But if I unmount the drive, and use ntfs-3g to mount the drive in a terminal, then I can get normal read/write access to it.

The problem is that Finder doesn't list it in the list of drives that it sees.

How can I get Finder to recognize the drive?

How can I get OSX to use the ntfs-3g program that allows read/write access instead of whatever it normally uses when connecting an external NTFS drive?

If I let OSX automatically mount the drive and type mount, this is what I get for the external drive.

  /dev/disk2s1 on /Volumes/Expansion Drive (ntfs, local, nodev, nosuid,
  read-only, noowners)

The problem is the part that says "read-only." How can I remove that?


texts: Can you make Bluetooth hardware work out-of-the-box in Boot Camp?

texts: I have a Bluetooth keyboard (the Microsoft Surface Ergonomic) paired to OS X. When I boot into Windows, the only way I've found to get it to work is to manually put it into pairing mode again and pair it through the Windows Add a Bluetooth Device option. But then when I reboot back into OS X, the keyboard is disconnected and I have to re-pair again. Is there any way to keep it paired to both?


texts: How do I change $PATH and set it to the default directory?

texts:
For some reason when I run echo $PATHI get the following directory: /Users/<home>/Library/Applications/.

How do I set it back to its default location so that I don't have to run this command, export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin each time I want to run commands in Terminal?

Thanks for the consideration


texts: Photos disappeared from messages (iPhone 4s)

texts:
My iPhone 4s has suddenly deleted all photos that were in my messages. Instead I see a blank space with what seems to be a file number which is underneath a question mark.

They have not gone into my photos that are in my album or anywhere else that I can see. I installed iOS 8 a couple of months ago. Could this be a part of the problem.? I would really appreciate any help I could get with this and because I am not that up on technology.


texts: Problems with duplicate photos on Photos app

texts:
I've been trying to shrink my Photos Library with no luck. I have some duplicate photos, inherited from the iPhoto days, as the result of syncing my iPhone photos via iCloud and making a local copy of those same photos "just in case" on an iPhoto album. Now, I'm facing the task of deleting one of those duplicates using PhotoSweeper X, which is pretty handy, but I can't see where those duplicates come from. For instance:

One of those photos is actually on an album called "iPhone security copy", but I can't see the real path on the app. Is there any app that can detect duplicates, and also show the real album for those photos?

Thanks in advance.


texts: I've previously connected to a WiFi network on my iPhone but I have no way of finding out the password. Is there any way to recover the password after resetting my device to view saved WiFi passwords on the iPhone?


texts: How to set up new iPhone without deleting its data?

texts:
I had my first iPhone synched with my Macbook, then I bought a second iPhone, a 3GS, and I still haven't synchronized it with my Macbook. In fact, I'm not sure I set this 3GS up with any computer at all: I don't remember setting up this new 3GS with any computer (is there any way I can doublecheck this from the iPhone itself?).

I have been using this 3GS for months, and now it's full of vital data that has not been backed up anywhere. Also, its iOS has never been updated. For these reasons, I'd like to synch it with my iTunes, so that I can back it up, and update iOS.

When I connect the 3GS to my MacBook, iTunes 10 warns me that:

"This computer has been previously synced with and iPhone or another iOS device"

I then have two options:
1) "set up as new iPhone"
2) "restore from the backup of" (here I see my first iPhone's backups)

Obviously I don't want to overwrite my current 3GS data with backups from another phone. Also, I don't want to erase or loose any data currently present on my 3GS.

My question is: how can I backup the data from this 3GS without loosing anything ?

I strongly fear that choosing "set up as new iPhone" will erase everything currently present on my 3GS.


texts:
I have extremely high CPU time for Finder use after updating to El Capitan version 10.11.0

I've tried:

Rebooting the Mac
Resetting SMC
Resetting NVRAM

The machine is borderline unusable with 100% CPU usage taken by Finder.

What can rein this in or diagnose the issue?


texts: Over the past couple of days, my 2018 Mac mini has been randomly restarting/shutting down after I’ve stopped using it. When I power up my Mac mini, it says that it’s been restarted because of a problem, and the report shows it has to do with something called Bridge OS 4.4? I’m not sure what that is or how it would cause a restart. My Mac mini has a Time Machine backup drive plugged into one of the two USB 3 ports, and a powered USB hub plugged into the other. I also have two 4K Monitors plugged into two Thunderbolt 3 ports, along with an external SSD plugged into another one. It’s hooked up to Ethernet, not WiFi as well. Not sure what to do here. Tried plugging the power cable in and out of the wall and the Mac mini which helped for a while, but the problem consists. I’ve never had this problem until the last week or so.


texts:
I tried updating my new MBP from macOS Sierra 10.12 to 10.12.3 using the App Store. I can see that the download of the update file finishes in App Store. I also get the prompt to restart. The machine restarts after approving it and it starts the update process. The update suddenly stops and shows an error message:

  "macOS Sierra Update" could not be verified.
  You can try updating again in the App Store after restarting.

I took a screenshot.

After pressing Restart, the machine restarts and macOS Sierra version is still 10.12. I tried several times to update again using the App Store but it gets stuck with the same issue. Any hints how to complete the update to 10.12.3?


texts: Which OS is faster for my iMac Early 2009?

texts:
I just got a new iMac Early 2009. It's running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I was wondering which Mac OS X version it would be faster to run on since it cannot run the latest macOS. As a developer that is new to Mac, I want something that will be fast and compatible with my current hardware situation & Development Tools. I was thinking Yosemite 10.10 or Mavericks 10.9. Any suggestions on what I should do?

Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo running on 2.66 GHz.

2Gb of RAM

Model Identifier is "iMac9,1"

If you need anymore specs just let me know.


texts: Recover Text within iPhone Notes (seeking advice other than "shaking" the phone)

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In my iPhone notes, I had created a "note" and had lots of text typed in there. By mistake, I deleted most of the text I had typed inside of the "note". Is there a way I can retrieve that text? I did not delete the whole note, only text inside the note was deleted, so what I want to know is if I can recover that text or not.
I have attempted to use the undo function by shaking the phone. Unfortunately, this feature will not recover the text. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.


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I am planning to purchase an iPhone 6s (unlocked) from the US and use it in India. Since Apple does not provide international warranty for phones rather than the iMac etc, I came across Apple Care+ (That covers warranty for 2 years of hardware & software issues). So, I am planning to get Apple Care+ along with the purchase of the phone.

If issues arise with the iPhone, will it be covered by Apple Care in India?


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I have a rMBP (late 2012 model) that I recently installed High Sierra on and enabled FileVault (this has apparently been known to cause some similar issues on older version of OSX, but I found no work around with High Sierra).

Currently when I try to log into my standard user on boot up, I get a progress bar that get to ~75% progress and then freezes (I have left it in this state overnight with the hopes that it was just slow - no luck).

Restarting the computer in recovery mode (cmd+R) causes a similar issue, where the progress bar gets to about 50% and then freezes (again I've let it sit here overnight with no progress), meaning I cant use the disk utility to repair the disk.

Safe mode (shift on startup) also doesn't do anything - progress bar freezes at ~75% on logging in.

Resetting the PRAM and SMC also don't appear to do anything.

Booting in single user mode (cmd+S) lets me attempt to repair the disk manually using:

/sbin/fsck -fy/

But it repeatedly returns the error:

warning: apfs_keylocker.pr_block_count is zero for encrypted fs (0x403)
** The volume /dev/rdisk1s1 could not be verified completely.
apfs_vfstop_unmount:1405: fake mount <ptr> going away

Running verbose mode (cmd+V) on startup runs until it reaches:

en3: promiscuous mode succeeded
IOConsoleUsers: time(0) 0->0, lin 0,lik 1,
IOConsoleUsers: gIOLockState 3, hs 0, bs 0, now 0, sm 0x0
Setting BTCoex Config: enable_2G:1, profile_2g:0, enable_5g:1, profile_5g:0

Where it locks up and freezes.

I have also tried reinstalling OSX from a bootable USB drive and via WiFi. In the case of the USB installer, the progress bar, once again, gets to ~75% and freezes. Using the WiFi method, I get a grey screen to appear with a pinwheel that spins for about 3 seconds before freezing and crashing.

From reading various forum posts, it seems like either my harddrive has finally died or FileVault and High Sierra aren't playing nice together. Ideally there is some work around that I've missed, but I do have backups, so I'm okay with wiping the harddrive completely, but as of now, I don't even see a way of doing that.

Any/all advice or input is appreciated and thanks in advance for any help!


texts: Copy-pasting text from MS Word to Mac Mail does not preserve formatting

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A letter I've composed and formatted in Microsoft Word 12 point type does not retain the 8 1/2 x 11 letter format once copied and pasted into Mail.  Instead, the type looks to be 6 point and stretches all the way across the screen, appearing as though I don't know how to format and compose a letter.

I've selected the correct font and type size - 12 point Times New Roman, but I cannot seem to effect any formatting on the mail page itself.

Can someone help?


texts: Change to QuickTime player in Mavericks?

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It appears Apple has changed the QuickTime player in Mavericks.
You can no longer extract music from a video.
Previously you could run a video and when you saved, it gave you an option for audio only. This seems to have disappeared.
Anyone have a solution?


texts: How do I stop folders automatically opening on my MacBook Pro 2014?

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When I try to move a file into a folder, let's say Folder A, from another folder, let's say Desktop, how can I stop Folder A automatically opening.   I only want to move the file into it, not see the contents.

Is there a way to stop this?

I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.5.


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The APNS worked fine for various month until few weeks. Every time we send Push Notifications the connection aborts with the following error:

  PHP Warning:  fwrite(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages:
  error:1409F07F:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_PENDING:bad write retry

If I reconnect and resend or only resend the message to the Apple server I get the same error. Sometimes I can send to all devices without any problem. But sometimes it aborts at the 900th device, or at the 2000th device. It's not the I-have-not-collected-the-devices-from-Feedback-service-and-set-all-the-devices-to-inactive-Error. I'm connecting to the Feedback Service at regular intervals. It's another kind of error I don't know. Something has changed with the SSL connection. Can it be that Apple changed something with the SSL connection? Apple said it doesn't. And they doesn't support PHP.

We use PHP 5.3.3-7+squeeze3 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jun 28 2011 08:24:40). This is the newest stable PHP version for Debian Linux Squeeze. This PHP version uses OpenSSL 0.9.8o (01 Jun 2010) on our server.

Please help.


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When my Dad died last year we put his iphone away in a drawer for safe keeping, because his music was very important to him and obviously we didn't want to lose it.

The phone is getting hard to hold a charge now and I'm wondering if there is a way to put his music into my iPhone? I bought a 64gig iPhone to have enough room to fit it all on but now I've realised it isn't as easy as I first thought.

Is there a way to do this or do I just have to hope the battery never completely fails on his phone?


texts: How to change zoom/"green button" behaviour

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Since Yosemite, the green button in the upper left corner on each window activates the fullscreen mode. By holding alt, it works as before (Mavericks). Is there any possibility (Terminal?) to change this behaviour back to "normal"? For example: holding alt for fullscreen mode?

Update

You can change the behaviour back to "normal" with BetterTouchTool.


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After some drive juggling [cloning to HFS+ then re-cloning back] to fix an error on my APFS boot drive, I'm now in the position where I no longer have any partition with a Recovery volume.

Carbon Copy Cloner offered to create one when I first made the clone, but as I was squeezing this into a tight space on a drive with several partitions on it already, including one with an MBR wrapper, the operation failed.

Due to further, unforeseen issues, I also had to sacrifice my Time Machine drive, so I now have no direct source to copy a Recovery Partition from.

I'm on a Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 macOS 10.13.5, which will not boot to Internet Recovery.

Is there any way to create one, hopefully without reinstalling the OS?
Alternatively, will running the OS installer directly from the App Store "live" [ie launching it from the running Finder] over the top of the existing OS do the trick?

I will, at that point, have 2 bootable OS partitions on 2 separate drives, so potentially I could run the update to one from the other, if that will gain anything.

There are many previous questions on Ask Different regarding this, but none recent enough to cover APFS.


texts: Is there a way to hide/remove the drop box folder (not dropbox.com) that is inside of public folder?

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Inside Public folder there is a folder called "Drop Box" (I'm not talking about dropbox.com) which is used for network/sharing purpose. Since I only use the machine locally, I would like to delete that folder, but doesn't matter how many time you delete or hide it, it keeps appear again.

Any tip?


texts: How do I recall the last sent message in Colloquy?

texts: In many chat clients you can get the last typed message by hitting the up arrow. It doesn't seem to work in this client. Is that not an available feature or is there some way to do it?


texts: Can you get SL "Today" folder behavior in Lion?

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Snow Leopard had a default smart folder called "Today". This folder was awesome! All "Open" dialog boxes could easily display all of the files you've worked on "Today" (which are probably the ones you want 'right now').

I've been googling around and so far there's one result:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=128907

This doesn't get the same behavior though.

When creating a new smart folder based around file timestamps you have three options:

Date Created
Last Modified Date
Last Opened Date

The smart folder system doesn't seem to have OR syntax; each filter you add creates a narrower intersection of files.

Date Created, and Last Modified Date both produce a mountain of cruft. The stuff in your browser cache, email signature images...garbage.

The Last Opened Date option is super close! Buuut, if you create a new file, save it, and close it, it doesn't count as Opened. You would have to open it again to be included.

Hopefully the Last Opened Date behavior is just a bug. Otherwise, I'm not sure how to get this huge timesaver back.


texts: Can the MacBook Pro 13 inch early 2015 model output to two 4k displays?

texts: I have a Apple MacBook Pro 13 inch early 2015 model. It has the upgraded 3,1 GHz i7 dual-core in it. Is this possible to output to two 4k monitors on my macbook?


texts: Cmd+Tab switches to the correct space, but doesn't bring app up to front

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I have a problem (bug?) with application switching on Lion.

I use two Spaces. Say one has Postbox open, and another has Firefox and Vim.

Vim is in the foreground, and Firefox's window is behind it.

When I Cmd+Tab from Postbox to Firefox, the space is switched correctly, but Firefox remains in the background.

If I Cmd+Tab to Firefox again, or select it in the Dock, the window comes up front normally.

The bug isn't limited to Firefox only, seen it with many apps.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Boot into Big Sur/Catalina from Mojave WITHOUT keyboard access?

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I've got a separate Mojave boot partition on my headless Mac Mini running Big Sur.
Under System Preferences > Startup Disk I can select the boot disk and restart into Mojave from Catalina or now Big Sur. However due to changes made in Catalina/Big Sur, their startup partitions are not detected in Mojave's System Preferences > Startup Disk.
Unfortunately starting into Mojave from the Startup Disk panel changes the default boot disk to the Mojave disk and all subsequent restarts load Mojave.
I can restart into the Big Sur holding down option on restart to bring up the boot loader, but this requires I hook up a keyboard (and often a monitor, otherwise it's a bit of a pain without).
Question: Is there any command or startup parameter I can set from inside Mojave to have the computer boot into Big Sur?
Alternatively: Is there any way to boot into Mojave from Big Sur without a keyboard and without changing the default startup disk?