texts: I deleted my Bootcamp partition but can't resize my OS X partition

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I didn't realize this would cause issues, but I used Disk Utility to delete my Bootcamp partition and then tried to resize my main partition to fill the disk. This causes an error and I searched for answers only to be told,

  You're going to have to reinstall Mac OS X (that's the only solution).

  You should have removed the Boot Camp partition in the Boot Camp Assistant.

What?? I Didn't see any warning in Disk Utility.

  If you delete this Bootcamp partition you may not be able to boot Windows anymore.

I saw this but figured it was ok -- I didn't want to boot Windows anymore, I wanted to delete it.  So now what am I supposed to do?


texts: Updating to a newer macOS version - how can I avoid potential pitfalls?

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I'm running a Macbook Pro with macOS 10.7 Lion. I've already checked and it can be upgraded to the latest macOS version (Mojave). However, I want to keep as much as I can running the same (like applications), and I don't particularly care about which OS that I upgrade to. What should I look out for before I upgrade?

And if it turns out that upgrading would block me from using certain applications, would upgrading and also keeping a separate partition of macOS Lion be viable solution?


texts: Is it possible to disable Wi-fi on a Time Capsule device and use it only wired ?


texts: I've tried Firebug Lite for Safari, but content wasn't editable. Is there an alternative to edit HTML, CSS, etc?


texts: Is there ANY way to edit, or at least view a MobileMe gallery on iPad?

texts:
So I have a MobileMe account.  (Yes, I know that there are free alternatives; my wife hates change.)

So I post galleries of photos on MobileMe, and then from a computer I can either:

Log in to my MobileMe account as the owner, where I can see my gallery, and edit it (delete photos, etc.)
Go to the public, shared, gallery url, which allows me to view or download pics, but not edit the gallery, just like the folks I share the link with can.

But from my iPad, I can't really do either:

If I try to go to login to MobileMe (at me.com), the MobileMe site sees that I'm on a mobile device, and won't open, routing me instead to the app store to get the mobileme gallery app, which is for the iphone, and scales pictures in a totally ridiculous way on the ipad.  There is no option to open the "normal" full website.
If I try to go to the shared gallery url from my iPad, I can see the pics, but the thumbnails on the side use some kind of web tech that the iPad doesn't have, so I cant scroll.  I can only open the pics from the thumbnails that fit onto the ipad screen.  (Yes, I tried two finger scrolling.)

Any ideas?


texts: Why is my new Apple TV suddenly not showing my purchased TV shows?

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A few days ago, my new Apple TV stopped showing me my purchased TV shows.

When I select the TV Shows app on the home screen, and click on the “Purchased” tab, I get a spinner that never goes away.

When I do the same for the Movies app, I see all my purchased movies. I can also see my purchased TV shows in iTunes on my Mac.

I also just get an eternal spinner if I try to purchase a TV show. Interestingly though, if I search for a TV episode that I know I’ve purchased (e.g. “show me Star Trek The Next Generation season four episode one”) and click on it, it will play. And I can purchase shows from iTunes on my Mac, and immediately play them on the Apple TV using the above method.

I’ve tried restarting the Apple TV; signing out of my iTunes and App Store account, and my iCloud account, and back in again; and re-setting the Apple TV, all to no effect.

Anyone else getting this?


texts: Prevent app re-adding itself to "open on login" list

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I have an app ("Android File Transfer"), that adds itself to the System Preferences → Users & Groups → Login Items list. If I delete it with the "minus" button, the app re-adds itself next time it's launched. There is no option for controlling this in the app.

Is there any way to prevent an app from doing this?


texts: How to extract MS Office for Mac keys from my Mac OS X 10.6.8?

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I have an old Mac Air 1,1 that has Office for Mac 2011 installed on it. I paid for the software and it installed the version on my machine. I don't have access to my live.microsoft.com account anymore and there's no way for me to get MicroSoft people/support to give me the keys again.

I need a way to extract the keys from my current installation of Office on my mac. For instance, in Windows, the keys used to be loaded in the registry at a certain place, under a certain key. Some programs could fetch them for you. Is there any such way I can do it for a Mac?


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I'm using Microsoft mouse software with either a trackball or the Explorer 3 mouse. Sometimes, when I middle-click, instead of the new tab opening on button-up, it happens on button-down and button-up. Sometimes it happens twice on button-up. This means if I middle-click a link in chrome, I might get from 1-3 tabs opened. I can't figure out how to eliminate this behavior.

I am using a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 on a 2014 MBP 15" running Yosemite 10.10.4. I'm running the intellipoint 8.2 drivers, and "mouse wheel click" is set to "Handled by Mac OS". At one point I was using USB overdrive, but I uninstalled it. Removing/inserting the mouse doesn't seem to help. The behavior is inconsistent - it seems to come and go in bursts.


texts: My friend has a problem getting Snow Leopard to run because the disk is completely full. I suggested getting into command line mode (CMD+S on boot) and delete some things, but it didn't work (nothing happens) - is it because of full disk as well or because the OS is older? What can he do?


texts: Disk ejected but still show up in Disk Utility?

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I have this external (USB) drive that can't seem to be disconnected correctly.  Whenever I eject the drive, it won't disappear from Disk Utility.  Afterwards when the drive gets re-connected again, it cannot be mounted. At this stage, I would need to reboot the Mac to get the drive to mount again.

Ejecting from the Terminal via diskutil eject /dev/disk2 returns a Disk /dev/disk2 ejected message and unmounts the disk.  However the disk still shows up both in Disk Utility and diskutil list.

Furthermore even after the USB cable is disconnected, the disk still shows in both Disk Utility lists — GUI and command line.

How can I solve this?

OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.1 (18B75)


texts: How to have Chrome cover everything except the dock when double clicked?

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So I have recently switched to Mac from Windows and I like to have the dock always visible when I'm using programs (probably because I'm used to the Start button toolbar in Windows). I don't use the green full screen button, I just double click the title bar to make the window cover everything.

Unfortunately, this does not work in Chrome. Seems like the default shape of the Chrome window is set to be a square and when I double click on the title bar, it expands into a square, leaving space on the sides. I have to manually drag the left and right side to cover the screen.

Is there any way to change this?

EDIT: Option + Maximise does not work. It still leaves space on the sides.


texts: How to watch a movie I rented on my Macbook on my iPad?

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I rented the documentary movie Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine a few hours ago, and was able to watch it on iTunes on the Mac.  When I tried to watch it on iPad, I do not see a Rental tab in the Videos app.

According to this page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201611
this should be the way to do it:

But the 2nd line says: find the movie "on the device you used to rent it"... so does that mean if I use my Macbook to rent it, I can't view it on my iPad?

I can find it in iTunes store on the iPad, and if I tap rent, it will ask me if I want to pay $6.99 to rent it again.


texts: APFS - Is it possible to install 2 macOS versions inside one APFS container?

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As you might already now, a single APFS container can have multiple APFS partitions inside. Their advantage is the free space is shared between partitions.

Today I decided to try out macOS Mojave Public Beta and was about to create a second APFS container, but thought "why not use an APFS partition instead?" but I didn't want to risk my main macOS High Sierra partition being erased so I decided to ask it here. Is it possible to have multiple macOS installations inside a single container with multiple APFS partitions?


texts: Unkillable process: what does this PS command output mean?

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This process couldn't be killed.  I tried kill -9 and it's still hanging on by the skin of it's teeth:

What does ?E mean in the status column?

I think I have a systemic problem with this on my Mac but I'm struggling to diagnose it!

 $ ps -efl | grep -i juc
  501 12992     1   0 Fri01pm ??         0:00.00 (Projucer)           6086   0  0        0      0 -      ?E                  0

I can't attach a debugger to it either:

 $ sudo lldb -p 12992
Password:
(lldb) process attach --pid 12992
error: attach failed: Error 1

Also this non-exiting starts to affect all the processes:

  501  1548     1     6084   0   0  0        0      0 -      ?E                  0 ??         0:00.00 (Skype)          Wed11am
  501  3017     1     6004   0   0  0        0      0 -      ?Es                 0 ??         0:00.00 (com.apple.appki Wed01pm
  501 12992     1     6086   0   0  0        0      0 -      ?E                  0 ??         0:00.00 (Projucer)       Fri01pm
  501 36351     1     6004   0   0  0        0      0 -      ?E                  0 ??         0:00.00 (TMHelperAgent)   4:11pm
  501 37977 37926  1006006   0   0  0        0      0 -      ?E+                 0 ttys000    0:00.00 (lldb)            5:36pm
  501 38053 37997  1006006   0   0  0        0      0 -      ?E+                 0 ttys004    0:00.00 (lldb)            5:39pm


texts: Problem downloading photos from iPhone Photostream to Windows

texts:
Why doesn't my iCloud panel on my Windows 8 computer always download the photos from Photostream on my iPhone?

I have an iPhone 5, on iOS 7.


texts: Upgrade os snow leopard to mountain lion without time machine

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My OSX is 10.6.8 and i want to upgrade to the last lion mountain version but i dont have any external disc drives, so i am not able to do a backup with the time machine.
Is it very risky to do the upgrade without the time machine backup?
Tanks,


texts: On many operating systems if you want to undo something you can press Ctrl+Z. I tried this on Mac OS X and it does not work. What is the suitable equivalent?


texts: Installing old OS X version and the "It may have been corrupted or tampered" message that can't be fixed by changing the date

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I am trying to install OS X Yosemite on a dedicated partition of a MBP 13" mid 2012 running Catalina (I need dual boot).
I downloaded the file from the official Apple page and followed these instructions to get the .app file and, using createinstallmedia, I created a bootable installer on the new "Yosemite" partition.
I then booted my Mac choosing the Yosemite partition mentioned above and started the installation, however I got the error message mentioned here and here.
I see that most of the users fixed the problem by changing the system date, I have tried many different dates but I always get same error message. I have also re-downloaded the file, but by checking with diff it seems identical to the first I downloaded.
The hdiutil verify method proposed here generates a "valid" output.
Is there anything else I could try?
Thanks.


texts: Does "Erase All Data" feature on iPhone disable "Find my Phone"?

texts: I have the "Erase All Data after 10 failed passcode attempts" feature turned on on my iPhone 4S. I also have the "Find my Phone" app installed. If my iPhone was stolen, and the thief triggered the "Erase All Data" feature after failing to unlock the phone, would it erase the "Find my phone" app meaning I couldn't locate it through iCloud?


texts:
I'm trying to diagnose an issue with a Mac Pro Early 2008. When I received it, it just doesn't boot: when I pushed the power button, it started for less than a second, and then it automatically shutted down. No chime, no gray screen, no apple logo.

I opened it, removed one of the memory risers, and kept pressed the diagnostic button when I started it. After doing it, the Mac booted properly. When I reinserted the memory raiser, it just won't boot, but the power led stays on anyway (not shutting down after 2 secs)

So, I returned the mac to the owner and it worked by one day. At the next day he had the same trouble. I instructed him to open the case, press the Diag button, and it just started again.

But, I have a few questions: is this related to the SMC? As i seen before, letting the computer unplugged for 15 seconds is "enough" to reset the SMC, and Mac Pro, from Early 2008 doesn't have a SMC_RST button. What I'm doing when I press the Diagnostic button then? Why it boots when I do that?

And, on the other hand, where can I find a place to interpret what diagnostic leds are telling me.

Thanks guys!


texts: What happens if I update an app using its built-in ability that I built/installed through MacPorts?

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Will I break MacPorts ability to manage and update that same app?  Would it even allow me to do so?

For example, both MacVim and iTerm2 have a "Check for Updates..." function built into them.  If I built/installed those apps through MacPorts, and then updated them using the "Check for Updates", would I lose the ability for MacPorts to manage the app's version?


texts:
The tool I was using to block #hot-network-questions is now blocked in Safari 12.

I can see some ad blockers are still allowed, but I cannot find one which allows custom blocking specific content.

Can anyone recommend a way to block specific content in the new Safari 12 world?


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Using Apple Configurator 2. I connect an IPad and hit prepare. It says that the device has already been prepared.

I erase the device, it restarts and goes through all the steps for setup (even though I chose to skip all steps for prepare).

On the apple configurator 2, during the restart process it tries to "Downloading activation records for device" and keeps going step 1 of 2, then 2 of 3, 3 of 4 etc.... It continuously fails and won't see the IPad as prepared.

The device restarts and appears like a regular device that I can setup as one usually would from the store.

I have no idea how to get the ipad to prepare so I can run it in single app mode.

Update
During setup it states the iPad is linked to my account (it was setup once before as a normal iPad).


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my printer (it is samsung ml 1640, if that matters) exhibits random failures since updating its software. the update went through apple software update. it worked fine before update. so, obvious fix would be uninstalling the offending package, i suppose. how can this be achieved? i must confess i have no clue... i'm running os x 10.6.6 on a 2006 macbook.

thanks


texts:
I have an application where I am building a macOS native Wi-Fi wrapper using bash commands, when I reached the point to do the disconnection from a Wi-Fi network I found the following command which allows me to disconnect from a network:
$ sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport en0 -z

The only problem is that it asks me for my password when I use it, so I cannot include this inside my application.
I have been looking at the networksetup command, as this is the command allowing me to perform a Wi-Fi connection in the selected interface, but I cannot find any command to do the disconnection other than just turning OFF the Wi-Fi using the command:
$ networksetup -setairportpower Wi-Fi off

Is there any option to disconnect from the connected SSID without having to provide the system's password or turning OFF the Wi-Fi?


texts: Edit URL in address bar when title matches in Safari

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In Safari 6.1, under Mac OS 10.8, if I type a text in the address bar that matches the title of a page I have previously visited, that page is listed below. I select it and would then like to slightly edit the related URL. Instead, it only lets me editing the page title, and when pressing enter it performs a web search with the edited title. How can I change this behaviour?

This still applies in Safari 10.0 under macOS 10.11.6.  Pressing the right arrow key after the page title matches only takes you to the end of the page title.  The URL is displayed to the right of the cursor, but does not appear to be editable.

Here is a screenshot of a matched page title, before pressing the right arrow key:

Here is after pressing the right arrow key.  Note that further presses of the right arrow key do not affect anything.


texts: Can internet sharing (Ethernet->WiFi, 10.6.8, iMac) extend an existing WiFi network from an AirPort?

texts:
I want to leave my AirPort Extreme (version 76400.10) at one end of my house, and use my iMac with Internet Sharing activated at the other end of the house. Ideally, I would be able to walk around the house with my phone and seamlessly connect to whichever access point has the better signal. I was told this could be done if both networks have the same network name and password, but I'm having trouble setting it up. I have both Airport and iMac set up with the same WEP password (WPA not available on iMac internet sharing).

Still my phone insists that there are two separate networks and doesn't magically stay connected to the internet as I walk around without manually switching.


texts: How to launch Google Drive in another user's session?

texts:
This is basically a follow up of a very similar broader question.

Say I have two users, foo and bar. Only foo is logged in. If I manually log bar in I could set up Google Drive to auto start under System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. In fact, it's probably already set up there, and this is what I currently do to achieve what I want: have 2 google drive sessions running simultaneously on my machine.

But, without this, how could I launch it without switching users from foo? And would it be possible to launch it even without logging in bar? If not, how could I automate logging in foo and bar after reboot? I'm just looking for ways to automate this process (of having to login another user) and keep Drive working even after eventual random failures.

Now, the similar question does have a very intersting answer suggesting using launchd's bsexec and a trampoline-like process on bar, which would be quite complicated to achieve even with a script. And it does say "Apple Engineers do not recommend its general use", whatever that means.

If it were dropbox, I could be using dropbox cli. But Drive doesn't have such an option...


texts: So I know how to create a webpage with dashcode (3.0.5).  If I start a new project I can create a webpage/website by simply using the GUI, drag and drop items, resize WITHOUT coding.  However, if I open an .html file with dashcode after I create a site the code opens.  I cannot figure out how to edit the page as I can when I first create a page.  I'd like to use the IDE that allows me to drag and drop things with ease, not manipulate the HTML.


texts: iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2805 Looping chime on booting

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I am in trouble with my imac. Let me tell our story;

My imac was too slow and I decided to change HDD with a SSD. If I just be changed HDD, There was no problem. But I want to clone my HDD to SSD hard drive.

I cloned my HDD to SSD with follow this video. I used Carbon Copy Cloner app for clone, and I did something with Multibeast like in video(I guess problem start this point, I wish I had not Multibeast).
I changed HDD like this link
Open my Imac and came a boot screen I never seen ago;

I choose one but screen freezed, I waited for hours but there was no progress.
And I close Imac use power button.
Now my Imac looping chime on booting like this macbook

Notes:

If I unplug Screen cable, Chime sound come only one and fan running.
I try thunderbolt output for display but not working.
I try PRAM reset not working, I removed PRAM battery even but not working.
I try reinstall macos with USB or direcly with HDD but not working.

I think Multibeast corrupted EFI Flash So I learned Multibeast using for Hackintosh after this incident.

How can I fix my Imac? If problem about with EFI Flash, How can I reinstall EFI on rom.

Thanks in advance


texts: My iPod will not work, trying disk utility but now stuck

texts:
I went to use my iPod yesterday after putting some new music on it and it said there was no music on it.   When looking at my iPod it said it was full. I tried to restore it on iTunes and it said it was corrupt and I got error 1430.

When I tried to take care of it with DiskUtility I may have worsened the problem.  I attempted to erase it, because it would not let me select repair.  That did not go through, but then it did let me try to repair it.  I tried, but that would not go through either.  I then looked at it in iTunes and it said it was empty.  I tried DiskUtility one more time and it now is giving me this:

What can I do now to get my iPod back? I don't care if I loose everything on my iPod.


texts: Using Apple Developer as proof of sales between two companies

texts:
We are currently negotiating with a company where that company will use our technology (image recognition) to create an iOS app. We will receive a Royalty based on sales and we do not know the company enough to feel that we can trust them. Neither me nor my co-workers at our start-up are Apple developers.

We want to specify in our licensing-agreement that they should show us their sales via documents from their Apple Developer account. What are the possibilities / do you have any input on what kinds of documents we should specify?

I give the three ideas I am thinking of so far:

Include us as receivers in apple-emails if they are generated on a monthly basis on sales.
Send us PDF from sales-reports from Apple.
Give us special login-password once a month to check.

Is there any better that I am not aware of?

All the best
Duran


texts: Planning to test our web application in Safari/Windows 7 instead of Safari/OS X & iOS

texts:
We got a recommendation to test our web application in Safari for OS X and iOS (iPad). Instead of using a MacBook/iPad will it be the correct way to confirm the compatibility of Safari OS X and iOS if I install Safari in Windows 7 and do testing?

Or do I really have to use OS X/iOS only instead of Windows 7 to confirm Safari compatibility?


texts: Unable to determine meaning of status bar icon

texts: I have a status bar icon that does nothing when you click on it. I have no idea what it does or what it means, it just appeared one day.  Does anyone have any ideas on its meaning?


texts:
I recently bought a new iPhone. When setting up my new device I restored the backup from my old phone using iCloud.

When I look at my iCloud manage storage settings it says the old device backup is 7GB about and the new device backup is 4.5GB.

If anything the backup size should be larger.

At first glance everything transferred over to the new device. There were a few apps such as Google Authenticator where data didn't transfer over. But for the most part all of my data got transferred over.

I also can't remember deleting any major data since restoring the backup. Could be wrong about that tho.

Is there any reason why the new backup would be about 3.5GB smaller then the backup I restored from? Do you think it's safe to delete the old backup?


texts: Is there a way to use the Intel GPU when running Windows 7 from Bootcamp?

texts:
Alright, so the problem I'm currently facing is that when I run Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011, 15" 2.2GHz CPU) with OS X 10.8,

I used Bootcamp 5 to install Windows 7.

Windows does not recognize the Intel HD graphics 3000 GPU but it does with my second GPU AMD Radeon HD 6750M.

The Error is:

  "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing
  the software."

I tired following without success:

I downloaded all of the drivers I would require for me, and moved
them to my flash drive. Contained on that flash drive is the driver
for the Intel Graphics chip, though when I run the setup it displays:
"This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing
the software."
Also, I have tried to add the hardware from Device Manager with no
luck. I just find it hard to believe that apple would supply the
driver, but not allow access to the Intel GPU.
Resetting PRAM and SMC has no impact.


texts: Add files to Home Videos without physically copying the file

texts:
I have a wifi based disk on which I have many movies. I can access this disk from my mac finder and see all the files.

I want to add these files to my itunes home videos folder without physically copying the files from the wifi disk.

I thought the right way to do this was to open itunes movies -> home videos then drag and drop the files from the finder on the home videos.

but in my case, it starts physically copying 100s of those files from the wifi disk to the local storage of the computer.

I don't want this.

I want itunes to just use the wifi disk. I know this is possible and I have done it from other computers.... but right now I am not able to do this.


texts: Requirement when submitting app to Apple

texts:
When I try to set up the app in Apple iTunes Connect to submit my app, I was asked to provide the support url.

Can I use my blog website for this?


texts: Endnote app icon persists in Macbook launchpad after deleting all files

texts: Please help with the above. I uninstalled the files but the icon won't go away! I tried the terminal, went into Applications and I can see both "EndNote Cite While You Write" and "EndNote X8" (without the .app in the end and with spaces between words, which is unusual) but when I try to remove with rm -rf, it says "files do not exist". How do I get rid of it , please?


texts: I'm using git+notational velocity and want to know how to commit after I exit the program

texts: What I'm looking to accomplish is have something trigger a git add *.txt and git commit -m "Automated Commit `date`' when I close Notational Velocity. I'm guessing I could probably accomplish this with an AppleScript but I don't know the language well enough. I looked into creating a launchd plist that would watch the main database file and that didn't seem to cause it to trigger a commit at all. Does anyone know of a good way to accomplish this?


texts: Is putting the computer to sleep while it's in a hot car a bad idea?

texts:
I know that keeping the battery of a MacBook Air in a hot environment is a bad idea. But sometimes I have to leave it in a hot car. Are there any recommendations as to what to do in this kind of scenario?

I'll usually close the lid, which puts it into sleep mode, but I just realized that the battery is probably still being used in that case; and using a battery while it's hot is worse than storing the battery in a hot environment. Is this right? And would the recommendation then be to shut off the computer? What other things are recommended?

According to Apple's webpage:

  Hot Tip
  If you use your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or notebook in temperatures higher than 95° F (or 35° C), you may permanently damage your battery’s capacity. That is, your battery won’t power your device as long on any given charge. You may damage it even more if you charge the device in these temperatures. Even storing a battery in a hot environment can damage it irreversibly.

Notice the relationship for bad things to do with a hot battery:

  Storing < Using < Charging

In other words, the worst thing to do is to charge the device at a hot temperature. Then comes using it, followed by storing it (i.e. storing the battery is the least damaging thing you can do).

So the question is when the device is sleeping in a hot car, is the battery usage (i.e. to keep the RAM data) significant enough that I should be shutting down the computer rather than sleeping it?


texts: How can I change the priority of number and symbol keys?

texts:
I am a programmer and I use symbols more often than the number keys. I'd like to change the priority of the top row keys so that hitting "1" gives me "!", and holding shift and pressing "1" gives me "1".

I'd prefer a built-in solution even if it requires more effort.


texts: How can I change the refresh rate of a 2014 retina MacBook Pro? System Preferences doesn't have this option, so I guess it must be buried in a plist somewhere. I want to use 72hz for video playback because its a multiple of 24.


texts: How can I have Spotlight Comments actually get indexed by Spotlight?

texts:
I'm running the latest OS X (10.8.1). Yesterday I discovered the Spotlight Comments feature, so I went through many of my Applications and put useful comments in that field. For example, on Music Manager.app, I put the spotlight comment "google music", since it's Google Music's manager app and I would want that to appear in my search results.

It's been at least a day now and I still don't see it when I do a spotlight search for "google music". What am I doing wrong? How long does it take for Spotlight to realize applications have comments and index them?


texts: Using a .raw file to create a BOOTCAMP partition

texts: How would one go about using a .raw (hard drive image from a .vdi) file containing an installation of Windows 10 in the creation of a BOOTCAMP partition (for Windows 10), on the latest version of OS X?


texts: Why is my Early 2014 MacBook Air's Trackpad Uneven?

texts:
My Early 2014 MacBook Air's trackpad is uneven; it's hard to click on the top left corner of the trackpad but it's easy to click on the bottom right corner.

Is this supposed to happen, or is there a problem, say, something is stuck under the top left corner of the trackpad?


texts:
I use Apple Mail Version 4.6 (1085) under OS 10.6.8. From time to time I find this kind of thing in my Inbox:

--_004_366988BF4C7E3E47BD2D208797A90F7E01662044FD892008SERVERL_
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="_000_366988BF4C7E3E47BD2D208797A90F7E01662044FD892008SERVERL_"

--_000_366988BF4C7E3E47BD2D208797A90F7E01662044FD892008SERVERL_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

W2NpZDppbWFnZTAwMS5qcGdAMDFDRUFCMEMuQ0U1Mjk5NDBdDQoNCkRlYXIgUHJvZmVzc29yIEVw
c3RlaW4NCg0KV2VsY29tZSB0byB5b3VyIGxhdGVzdCBMTVMgZS1VcGRhdGU6IDYgU2VwdGVtYmVy

All my mail goes through my university and is forwarded to Apple Mail. I don't think anything is changed by the forwarding process, though I'm not 100% sure about this. When I look at the same message using the university's webmail system, the message has been correctly interpreted and I can just read it without further ado.

Have I got some setting wrong on my Apple Mail preferences, or is Apple Mail unable to deal dorrectly with messages of this kind. I suppose that the message may not adhere totally strictly to the correct protocol.

Any help to get my Apple Mail working as I would like would be much appreciated.


texts: How to boot from USB when no bootable drives show up?

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I bought a 2012 iMac about 3 years and immediately upgraded to an SSD, but the read/write speads maxed out at about USB3 speeds, so I just booted it from USB the whole time.

Fast-forward to about 6 months ago, I bought a new laptop and planned to sell the computer, but I wanted to keep the SSD and just sell it with the internal drive.

The internal drive booted up one time then died, but it apparently set itself as the primary boot drive (??). I don't know about that, but booting it with the SSD plugged into USB stopped working after that–never had an issue before, it just always booted as if the external drive was the only one.

It's been sitting in storage, but we're moving so I really want to get rid of it. No matter what drive is plugged in, I just get the grey screen of death, and hitting option button doesn't bring up bootable drives like it should. I also can't restart in safe mode or recovery mode. I thought maybe it was that the bluetooth keyboard never properly connects, so I went out and bought a USB keyboard, but still never got it to work.

The SSD works just fine and I've had no problems booting my laptop from it and using it as extra storage.

Is there anyway to give it priority to boot from over the internal drive? Something I can control from another computer? Is there some other way to open bootable drives other than the option button on the keyboard? Or some other way to force-boot from external?


texts: Are third party chargers for iPhone bad despite having government agencies' certification stamps?

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My usage history with Apple: iPhone 3 (2011~2013) and iPhone 8 (2018~present)

I sometimes used chargers purchased from convenience stores. Although all the chargers I got had government certification marks on them, so I thought they were 'originals' sanctioned from the manufacturers themselves, they were actually manufactured by third (usually Chinese) parties.

I did ask the government agency about this and the person in charge said that they were indeed safe(although I think there was a miscommunication such that he took the charger to be something else).

I also asked the Apple service desk for advice and they said the iPhone battery was designed to ward off overheating from unsuitable third party chargers.

Can an expert verify any of these answers here? Was there any danger in using these(in particular the danger of being electrocuted or damaging the smartphone).


texts: How can I bind a multitouch gesture to open a file with a particular application?

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I am running Mac OS X Lion. What I want is a way to open an HTML file with a particular application based on my action.

For example, the default application is Safari, so it will always open in Safari if double clicked. However, I want to add another gesture, (such as tapping on middle top of the trackpad) while the file has been selected (highlighted), such that it will open in TextWrangler.

Is it possible? I am also using BetterTouchTool.


texts: Open "Screen Sharing" tab in System Preferences > Privacy using terminal

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I have been searching for a way to open System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Sharing using a script. I'm a systems admin and I'm trying to deploy TeamViewer to my users in the easiest way possible, but PPPC creates an obstacle; I can't remotely enable Screen Sharing and I want my users to click as few times as possible.

So far I have this:
open "x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy"

I'm so far unable to find the correct ID for Screen Sharing. If I insert
...?Privacy_Photos" or any other number of options, it works, but I cannot find the ID for screen sharing. Is there an ID for this? Or is there a better way to do this? How is TeamViewer able to do this using their GUI?


texts: How can I install getent on Snow Leopard?

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I have several scripts which require the utility getent. In addition, I've read several handy tips which use getent.

getent is a Networking utility which is widely available on Unix, *BSD and Linux-based systems. This tool is commonly used by Sysadmins and power users to lookup network information (IP addresses, etc). As far as hostnames go, getent is one of the few tools which use both /etc/hosts and DNS.

As Wikipedia says:

  getent is a unix command that helps a user get entries in a number of
  important text files called databases.

The important thing here is that getent will search the same name services in the same order as would most applications on a unix-like system. This makes it invaluable when debugging system or application trouble.
Tools like dig and nslookup specifically look at DNS only, while dscl expects you to spell out the name services you want to search.

I would like to use getent for two testcases:

Parse /etc/hosts before querying DNS. For example, if I add testhost.example.org to /etc/hosts, then getent hosts testhost.example.org should use the entry from /etc/hosts before querying DNS.
Query LDAP using getent

MacPorts does not seem to provide a package providing getent.

Does getent exist on Snow Leopard?


texts: My Mac died and I can't access iPhoto on my external hard drive

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My Mac died.

When I connect my external hard drive to my laptop I can't access my iPhoto – it says iPhoto won't open because it's a machine backup.

Any ideas?


texts: Mail app 7.0: what does "Check for new messages" "Automatically" actually do?

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After upgrading to Mavericks, I see that the Mail app has been upgraded to version 7.0, and that the setting for "Check for new messages" has been changed from my previous setting (every minute) to a new "Automatically" option.

According to the help screen, this means that "Mail varies how often it gets messages, based on whether your Mac is plugged into an electrical outlet".  My Mac is plugged in, and I've been keeping an eye on the Activity window, and I've seen intervals of 20 minutes, 7 minutes and 9 minutes between checking for mail.  It is, of course, possible that I missed an update - I haven't been obsessively staring the Activity window.

Does anybody know what the intended behavior of the app is, when the "Automatically" option is selected?  If not, is there a way to increase the log level to try to work out what the app is actually doing?  I've looked in the Console and there appear to be no log events associated with the "Fetching new mail" activity I see in the activity window.


texts: App to remember open app/file & browser window and their placement

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Is the an app or utility for the Mac (Mavericks - in particular) that will allow me to save everything I have open (apps w/files, various browser windows & tabs) so that they can be reopened later?

I do a lot of research for various projects. Many times I can't complete the research in one sitting and have to try to remember what apps and more importantly what search rabbit trail I had gone down. It would be so much easier if I could take a "snapshot" of what is open, where it is at, save it as a profile / task group / desktop config (saving their size and location on screen) - call it what you want, then reopen it later.


texts: Can I connect more than one external monitor with only one thunderbolt port?

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Mid-2011 iMac 21.5 inch
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600S CPU @ 2.80GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB

Right now, I connect an external monitor to my iMac using the one thunderbolt port that I have. Is it possible to connect a second external monitor? If so, how?


texts: How do I delete just the videos from my iPhone?

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So I'm running out of space on my iPhone (iOS 4.3) and the quickest thing to do is delete the videos that are already backed up in iPhoto.

How can I do this quickly? That is, without scanning through the 4000+ items in my Camera Roll and looking for the video icons.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not looking to delete all the videos, just enough to free up some space.


texts: Image annotations that remain changeable

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I want to edit images with annotations (text, arrows, ...). Preview does offer a nice set of tools but after saving they get embedded in the image and are not clickable/modifiable anymore. Using Time Machine to reset changes is much too cumbersome.

Do you know of any similar tools where i can easily alter annotations after saving (like Skim for PDFs).


texts: Time Machine is recording *diminishing* amounts of bytes

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Many issues are concerned with insufficient storage for Time Machine's disk. Mine is the opposite, it would seem that available storage is ignored.

MacBook Pro: 15-inch 2018
Memory: 16GB 2400MHz DDR4
MacOS Big Sur Version 11.1
Time Machine disk: Seagate Backup Plus Drive, 8TB
Time Machine works correctly. I can explore material back to 2016.
Encryption: I started it this week. It's at 18%. I recognize that
it's a slow process.
Automatic backup is turned off in order not to delay encryption.

Yes; backup not an archive -- but I like sometimes to be able to explore ancient material.
Using info last night I saw 940,570,304,512 bytes used; call it 940,570 MB. I did a (manual) backup. The amount used diminished to 939,733 MB. A succession of further checks showed 939,800 ... 939,816 ... 939,818 ... so increasing ... 939,906 ... 939,908 MB. I shut the machine down. This morning, upon start-up, that figure is reduced; it's now 939,760.
It's as if a limit of 1TB is somehow set -- yet I have an 8TB drive.

Has such a limit been set somewhere?
If so, where?
How can I see it?
How can I reset it?


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I had the Facebook and Instagram apps installed on my iPhone (latest iOS).
I deleted both apps and checked that there was no data from either app stored on iCloud (I went to Settings - iCloud - Manage storage and there was no mention of them storing anything on iCloud). Then I reinstalled Instagram, opened it, clicked on Login and the page still showed “Login as MYFACEBOOKNAME”.

How is this possible? How can I delete my FB login info once and for all on my iPhone?


texts: How to use movie files in both Photos and iMovie without having duplicates?

texts: I want to upload videos to my computer and have it available on both Photos and iMovie. Do I need to upload it twice, which seems very inefficient, or is there a workaround?


texts: How can I change a file's creator code on vanilla Snow Leooard?

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When Xcode is installed your best bet to change a file's creator is SetFile.

I only found AppleScript. Unfortunately, while the type is set correctly, the second line silently fails on my 10.6:

set theFile to choose file
tell application "Finder"
    set file type of theFile to "TEXT"
    set creator type of theFile to "iDAT"
end tell

How can I change a file's creator code on a vanilla (just installed) system, even when Xcode is not installed?


texts: I can use  Ctrl ⌃   and the left/right arrows to switch individual desktops on a multiscreen system but can you switch all of them at once?


texts: Which database is music app on ios 8.4 querying for artist pictures?

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I wonder, which database apple uses for artist pictures in the music app on iOS 8.4 and how missing pictures for certain artists can be added?

Pretty sure it's something internal, but then again, that would make things even more complicated to add missing artist pictures.


texts:
My Disk Utility is showing me some Weird Stuff.

My current startup partition is showing as 155 GB, with (I was shocked to discover) 344 GB of unpartitioned free space:

I can try to resize the first partition by removing the "Free space" section, then hit "Apply", but then I get this error:

Actually, if I try this a few times, I get variously different errors.  Sometimes it even says it succeeds, but the partition size doesn't seem to have changed.

When I retry this same sequence after booting from my recovery partition, basically the same result happens, except that now I have two "Free space" partitions, both showing 344 GB, in addition to the 155 GB startup partition.

What's going on here, and how can I take advantage of my full 500 GB disk?  Or do I not actually have a 500 GB disk??

Here's the Disk Utility info for the physical disk - notice that it says it's 500 GB, but the 155 GB partition takes up the whole blue bar:

I'm using High Sierra 10.13.6, on a Late 2011 MacBook Pro 13".


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I am unable to login to my main account. This is pretty bad because that's the only account on my computer that I know the password to. I'm posting this as root. The user doesn't show up on the login screen or in the switch-user menu. You may think this is a duplicate, but I'm not supposed to delete/make a user. So this doesn't apply. This Mac also has a firmware password that I don't know, so I can't use Recovery Mode. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.1.

EDIT: I should note I can su to my account.


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I have an iMac, and because I program I prefer to use the extended USB keyboard.

Just as the batteries to my wireless mouse died, my USB keyboard inexplicably stopped working.  I've been using this keyboard for months through previous mouse battery failures without incident.

Here's what I've observed:

The USB keyboard works fine when connected to my MacBook Pro. (The keyboard works.)
My iPhone charges when connected to the USB ports of the iMac. (The USB ports work.)
The USB keyboard works fine when connect to the USB port of my secondary Thunderbolt display, but only one of the three ports. (?)
When the USB keyboard is connected directly to the iMac, sudo dmesg produces two lines like this:

AppleUSBHubPort[...]::FatalError - Port 2 of Hub at ... reported error ...
while doing setting port power

Where's what didn't work:

Rebooting in safe mode: sudo nvram boot-args="-x"
Deleting the Bluetooth wireless keyboard device and rebooting
Rebooting while holding Command-Option-P-R

I have an iMac running OS X 10.8.2 with a secondary Thunderbolt display.


texts: Is there a way to see the amp levels while charging my iPhone?

texts: I'm told that different amp levels charge iDevices in different times. Sometimes I plug into my laptop, sometimes into a car converter, and other times into the side of a flatscreen TV for charge. Is there a way to see on the iPhone (or iPad) what the amp level coming out of the USB port are? Perhaps an app?


texts: Why did my MacBook Pro just lose 30gb of space after I cleared out 37gb and hour ago?

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I freed up some space on my 2017 MBP this afternoon. I had 7gb so I deleted 30gb to make some room. Came back to my MBP a few hours later and 30gb of space (and counting) was used up again. How does this happen and how do I stop it? I am watching gb drop at a steady pace and I don't know why. Help is much appreciated, as always.

Now my available storage has dropped to 1.82gb - what is happening???


texts: is there any alternative OS to give more lifetime to an older iPad?

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I have an old iPad that was stranded in my possessions a while ago. It has iOS 9.xx installed and won't update any longer. Also more and more Apps are stopping to work because the newer version won't run on 9.x OS anymore.

Considering the state of the planet on the whole it would be nice to being able to install any sort of alternative OS to such a technological masterpiece in nearly mint condition and likewise give it a few more years of being useful.

Can anyone advise whether there is any project that would be worth looking at in this regards?


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Twice now I've been in a situation where I remove my two USB-C Digital AC Multiport Adapters while running in clamshell mode and found that nothing I could do would bring my my display. So, alas, hard reboot.

Each time this has happened though, my fingerprints appear to have been evicted from the machine.

Is it expected that TouchID forgets all registered fingers after a hard shutdown? Or is this some peculiar combination of the multiport adapters?


texts: Terminal command ls/cd not finding any files on external harddrive

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I'm having a bit of trouble with my external hdd and terminal. I've been able to access files on it via terminal in the past, but since I upgraded to El Capitan I can't seem to find anything on my external hdd. I can navigate through it and use stuff from it fine using Finder.

But then when I try to find anything using Terminal:

I'm really confused here — this has never happened before. Any ideas?

edit: did ls -l /Volumes:

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    1 Oct  4 22:05 Macintosh HD -> /
drwx------+  2 Shan  admin   68 Oct 11 17:29 ShanStore
drwxrwxr-x  17 Shan  staff  646 Oct 29 21:41 ShanStore 1

Not sure why it's showing two external hdds — I only have the one


texts: Is there a way to trace the reason 'fseventsd' process hogs CPU?

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I run Mac OSX 10.6 and noticed that a process 'fseventsd' was taking 100% CPU and 1.5G RAM. Doing a google search, I found that this could be tied to Time Machine.
However, I do not run Time Machine on this computer.

Is there a way to trace the source of the resource hog? Does it log to anywhere? A restart 'fixed' the issue, but I'm sure it will come back if I can't figure out why it began in the first place.

Thanks in advance.


texts: I am using a MacBook Pro Retina with US international keyboard layout, latest OS. Is there a way to change ˜ to produce ~ without pressing the space after it? And is there a way to configure ' to work the same way? Like I don't need accents so If I type 'a I want to get 'a and not á without the extra space key press.


texts: What's the trivial difference between the 15" and 17" versions of the MacBook Pro?

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What can I ask on the phone to a Mac user who has a MacBook Pro (Alu), but doesn't know if it's a 15 or a 17 one (and don't have a tool to measure the screen)

What can I ask him to look at to tell me what version it is?


texts: How can I correct the screen going blank whenever I run nettop?

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I'm running the latest version of macOS and always just use Terminal. Not iTerm or anything like that.

Whenever I run nettop, the screen goes blank. Sometimes it happens immediately, and sometimes after I press an arrow key.

How do I keep this from happening?

I just tried r to redraw the screen, but that didn't help.


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I will zip a file with a password. Then, I will write a script and ask:

if (have the password saved) {
   unzip file
} else {
    ask password
    save password
    unzip file
}

I want the user write only one time password in that computer. So what is the best program to save and restore a data. Use a file is too obvious, it will be a little more secure.


texts: How to batch combine mkv and srt files to mp4 with ffmpeg

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I'm trying to get an applescript to combine .mkv's with .srt's after i added those files to  a folder.

I've managed to do the automatic conversion from mkv to mp4 and add them to itunes.
The only thing that I cannot accomplish is to get the srt automatically.

I also can do this in the Terminal window, one "mkv" at a time. The command that is working fine for me to do this, is:

ffmpeg -i movie.1.mkv -sub_charenc WINDOWS-1252 -i movie.1.srt -vcodec copy -acodec copy -scodec mov_text -metadata:s:s:0 language=por movie.1.mp4

I have the mkv file with the same name as the srt file.

The apple script I'm using to do the batch conversion is:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application "Finder"
    set fold_name to the name of this_folder
    try

        repeat with i from 1 to number of items in added_items
            set new_item to item i of added_items
            set the item_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of new_item

            if name extension of new_item is "mkv" then
                do shell script " /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i " & item_path & " -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac " & item_path & ".mp4"

            else if name extension of new_item is "mp4" then
                tell application "iDentify"
                    activate
                    open new_item
                end tell

            end if
        end repeat
    end try
end tell end adding folder items to

I'm a newbie in the applescript, and the thing why i don't get it to work is, that the script returns in the end a file called movie.1.mkv.mp4 created from the movie.1.mkv.
That means that I'm not abble to get in the variable "item_path" only the filename without the extension. Perhaps it's very easy, but i didn't manage to do it.

Can anyone please help?
Thank you


texts: I have a MacBook and 2TB hard drive with the format exFAT. I formatted on Linux and tries plugging it on my MacBook and I am unable to mount it. Please help


texts: I have a iPhone 4s as soon it reaches 30% or Lower it goes off anytime sometime immediately and sometime at 20% what should I do


texts: 2019 Macbook Pro, Thunderbolt 3 and monitor daisy chaining

texts: Is there a way to make it work? I have Asus 27" VA279HAL and was considering buying Dell 34" U3419W. Dell monitor has USB-C with DP 1.4 Alt Mode, but no Thunderbolt. I've now realised I wouldn't be able to daisy chain them. Would any of the screens with Thunderbolt work?


texts: Pictures are not deleted from "Photos" iphone app when deleted from "Google Photos"

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When I delete a picture from "Google Photos" on my iphone it is not deleted from the "Photos" app. How to fix this?
Thank you


texts: Possible interaction between `brew doctor` and Java

texts:
I was doing some cleaning earlier with brew doctor and deleted a file from /usr/local/lib with a .dylib extension. Now, whenever I log into a new shell, I get this error:

Error: Could not find or load main class global

Googling points toward this being a Java error, but only when trying to run a Java program - never when simply logging into a shell. I've reinstalled Java, but to no avail.

What could be the source of this error?


texts: Im new to Iphone.  Love it except that I have forgotten the previous saved wifi password for my iphone 4s.  I needed to delete some apps to make room for more and my friend did a reset.  Now I have no password to re-download what I need.  She also did this to my daughters Alcatel Fierce One Touch phone.  So I'm effectively screwed. Im really not phone savvy and have no idea how to find the password I've had saved for a year.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.


texts: What's the easiest/cheapest way to replace my battery? 2009 MBP

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I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (5,5);  also identified as the A1278 (EMC 2326). I can spend about $150 either taking it to the Apple Store and having them replace it or buying all the stuff from iFixit.com and doing it myself.

Is there any cheaper/easier way of doing this? Would an independent Apple repair shop be any less expensive? Are there any reliable third-party batteries? I have some crucial RAM and would be comfortable using a Crucial SSD (if I didn't already have a stock one), I'm not particular to an Apple-sourced battery if there's another one that's equally reliable.


texts: Consequence of using both filevault and cloud encryption

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I am using a macbook pro with filevault turned on. I am planning to start using a zero-knowledge cloud service (sync.com) for all my files, to have a secure backup and as a way to share certain files with others. I was wondering if the two types of encryption will work alongside each other. If so, where in the process does the cloud encryption engage, and where does filevault take over? Will there be unnecessary redundancy in the two encryptions (perhaps with longer waiting times)?
Just trying to picture what will happen. Thanks!


texts: What the font: the letter i used in Apple's information button


texts: Return Mac permissions to factory defaults?

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I messed up -- and followed some internet advice a few days ago without totally understanding the ramifications.  Specifically, in trying to stop the Finder from asking me to verify every time I wanted it to move or delete a file, I went to my home directory, looked at its permissions in Info (Read/Write for me, Read Only for Staff and Everyone), thought that looked like what I wanted everywhere, so I then selected "Apply to Enclosed Items".

I've recently realized that I probably shouldn't have done this, as various things have begun failing at an accelerating clip.  Yesterday, iTunes refused to back up my iPhone and iPads; and ClipMenu started reporting that it can no longer save my clipboard history (not a huge problem, but a good example). Today many of my preferences no longer work, and I can't set/save them (e.g., Mail "forgot" my password and can't seem to remember it when I set it, Finder preferences don't stick, etc.).

So ... is there a way to reset the various file and group permissions back to their original settings?  I've tried Disk Utility -> Verify (and Repair) Disk Permissions, followed by restarts, to no avail.  Note that I'm obviously not a guru and not nearly as smart as I'd hoped, so any help you can give probably needs to be "dumbed down" a little.

Thanks,
  Ed

P.S. BTW, in regards to preference problems, one message I get is 'Group differs on “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.', which goes away after the repair, but comes back again after I've tried (and failed) to change a preference.

--- EDIT ---

The "problem"may not be permission-related at all, but a corrupted keychain!

I used the Keychain Access utility to verify and then repair (eventually, after several attempts) the keychain, and all of the symptoms seem to have disappeared, for now.  I don't pretend to understand any of this, but I'm glad it seems OK now.

Thanks to all for their patient and thoughtful replies.


texts: Is there a way to stop inline video clips from playing on mobile Safari?

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This question applies to the mobile versions of Safari, either as proper content (for example, supporting a news story) or inline video ads. Mobile means iPadOS and iOS on the iPhone and iPad. The macOS version of this question doesn’t provide mobile solutions.

Is there a way to disable auto play of video using a setting, configuration profile or third party app/content blocker?


texts: How to identify the iOS version from the Hello screen?

texts: I would like to identify the iOS version of my iPhone 6 from the Hello screen. Is there a way to tell the iOS version from the design of the Hello screen or from the MEID, IMEI or ICCID?


texts: I enabled FileVault, now my desktop background reverts to stock at each reboot?

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I'm on a Mid 2012 MBP with Mountain Lion. I recently enabled FileVault on my boot SSD drive as well as encrypted my other hard drive I put into the optical bay. So far, so good.

However, each time I boot my desktop background reverts back to the default "galaxy" background that shipped with my MBP. Both my boot and secondary drive have their passwords stored in the keychain, so after logging in OSX should be able to see my background image.

I've tried placing the image on my primary and secondary drive but neither made a difference.

Is there some sort of trick I'm missing to get my own custom background image to stick after a reboot? I've even tried changing to a different default background image that ships with Mountain Lion, but even that reverted back to the default galaxy image.

Any Ideas?


texts: Where are the states of opened/closed folders saved in OS X?

texts:
I have a windows-server that is accessed from a bunch of computers with OSX, in list mode, if anyone opens or closes a folder, that folder stays open for any other users. I would like all folders to always be closed on the server.

As the server is windows-based I assume finder is saving and reading this info from somewhere, maybe that setting can be changed in finder or that file be removed with a script on the server.


texts: Wi-Fi won't turn on after upgrading to Catalina

texts:
I upgraded my early 2015 Macbook Pro to Catalina and I can't turn on Wi-Fi. I opened Network settings and there was a "do not lock" button for a few seconds and then it changed to "Turn Wi-Fi on". I clicked on it and nothing happened.

I tried restarting Mac and SMC and NVRAM/PRAM resets but it didn't help. I also can't run Wireless diagnostics -- I click on the app and a window pops up for a second and then disappears. In the Network app, the Wi-fi interface isn't listed in the interface options for a new surface ("+" button).

What do I do to resolve Wi-Fi connectivity?  I don't have other connections to the internet (only through Wi-fi).


texts: Collection of albums in iTunes? Essentially a playlist of albums?

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From within iTunes (or Music on iOS), is it possible to make a collection of full albums that is separate from my main library? So, essentially, a playlist of albums.

I know that I can put all songs from an album into a playlist, but that's not exactly what I need to do. It comes down to the fact that I have a fairly substantial music library. I'm an album-centric music consumer... meaning I tend to listen to full albums as opposed to individual songs. I want to be able to group albums in my collection based on mood, genre, release date, theme, whatever. So again, a playlist of albums is really the best way to describe it.

Maybe I'm going about this all wrong. Open to suggestions!


texts: How to clone user accounts via Apple Remote Desktop - Mountain Lion

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I am trying to configure a middle school lab of 25 new iMacs running 10.8 Mountain Lion. I would have liked to have cloned them over the network, but we don't have a Mac server. Right now they are all turned on and configured with a basic Admin and Student account. I want to synchronize the preferences and parental controls on the student account on all of the systems.

My question is this: Is there any downside to simply copying the 'student' user folder from the properly configured system to all of the others? It appears to work, but I'm not sure if it will lead to any problems down the road, I don't have a lot of experience with this.


texts: How do I boot from a Windows USB with a Mac?

texts:
I'm trying to get my Mac to boot from a USB flash drive. I know the drive works and is bootable, because it works with my friend's Windows PC.

Specifically, I was running Windows 7 on my Mac to create the bootable disk, which has Windows Defender Offline on it. I have had the same issue trying to use the Ultimate Boot CD on a USB, various Live USBs for Linux, etc.

So, what do I have to do to get my Mac to recognize and boot from another OS on a USB flash drive?

Or maybe a better question, if there isn't a simple answer, would be what does Bootcamp do to allow booting from a Windows install DVD or to allow Windows, once installed, to boot?

EDIT: I was able to sort of get results using the bless command in Terminal. Specifically, I used

sudo bless -mount "/Volumes/WDO_Media32/" -legacy -setBoot -nextonly

and then did a restart. Boot was slower, but then I was presented with the normal log-in screen. The log in screen, though, was much slower than usual, as if something else was happening in the background. So, I seem to be effecting something with that command, but I still can't boot from my Windows bootable USB drive.


texts: How can I restart an app game from the beginning

texts: I would like to restart two games, bubble safari and bubbleseason, from the beginning. When I delete the app and reinstall it from the App Store all my old data is on there and I start from the same level I left it at, I want to start all over from scratch.  Is this possible?


texts: macOS Server VPN (L2TP) speeds choking on Mac Pro, but not Macbook Pro

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I have a MacOS Server (10.12.6) set up running a VPN server at one location (site A). I have a Mac Pro (10.12.6) and Macbook Pro (10.14.5 beta 3) running at a second location (site B). Both sites have symmetrical gigabit fiber internet (and yes, I am getting full speeds on each end). The two clients at site B have a VPN profile for the site A Server, which specifies all traffic be sent over the VPN. My Macbook Pro (wi-fi) is getting great speeds: ~300Mbps symmetrical up/down. My Mac Pro (wired) is getting great download ~350Mbps, but terrible upload speeds (~60Mbps). Using speedtest.net, I noticed that the speed starts increasing from the start (~20 Mbps) to about 1/10th of the way through the test (~40 Mbps), then chokes, drops back down, then slowly increases until the test stops around 60Mbps. I have tried deleting the VPN profile and recreating it. This speed difference is very important, as I am shuttling massive amounts of data (hundreds of gigabytes) across this connection.

What could be causing this and what can I do to get full upload speeds out of my client?


texts: OneNote for OS X, How to type a dash then a space without turning it into a list

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I am currently using OneNote for OS X to take notes at college.

I currently need to do maths when using OneNote. Whenever I type a - then a space OneNote automatically turns that into a list, when I disable the list it then removes the '-' which I made. This means I am unable to do what I want. Here are some examples on what I mean.

I want to do

  0111
- 0001
------
  0001

However OneNote turns it into a list like this

   0111
    -   0001

As you can see, this is rather annoying, I then remove the list buy chasing list style none however that removes the dash, if I was then to do a space at the beginning it would be turned back into a list. Is there a way I can prevent this from happening?


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Now I am using iChat, have set my nickname to be Ben Potter, yet for some reason I always show up as "Jennifer Potter"...

do you know how to fix this?


texts: No Default Zoom in Private Browsing on iOS?

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How can I set the default zoom level in Safari for private browsing? (iOS 14)
When I go to settings, Safari, Page Zoom and change it to 150% it works in the "non-private" mode but is apparently ignored in private mode.


texts: Why does my volume adjust bezel not show properly in macOS Catalina?

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I recently updated to macOS Catalina (10.15.3), and the "volume adjust" bezel that pops up in the center of my screen when I adjust the volume via touch bar no longer looks correct.  Specifically, it is missing the ticks that demarcate the volume level, instead just showing an empty bar.  Other similar bezels (e.g., display brightness) have the same issue.

I have already tried restarting, as well as disabling the bezels entirely and then re-enabling them.  Any other ideas how to fix this?


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I can't rearrange full screen spaces in mission control.  When I drag one to move it, it never seems to stick back onto the mission control bar.  If I drop the space on the bar the animation shows it going back to the dock and it disappears from the mission control bar.  I can drag the space from the bar to the desktop.

It tends to leave behind a semi transparent image of the full screen view (similar to the one that can be dragged around in mission control) and this persists even after mission control is closed.  The only way to get rid of it is to restart my machine.

What's going on and how can I fix it?


texts: How can I erase the history of passcodes on the iPhone4?

texts: I have an iPhone4 running version iOS 4.3.  It is not jailbroken.  I want to re-use a previous passcode (the 4 number code to unlock the screen).  How can I get the iPhone to forget all the passcodes I've used in the past?


texts: Is there a Notification Center icon cache? Trying to change Apple app icons but they change to default app icon

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I have tried unsuccessfully to change the Apple system app icons (Mail, Messages, Reminders, etc) in LiteIcon on macOS Sierra 10.12. After applying the new icon, the Dock icon and the main icon seems to change, but the icon shown in Notifications does not (see images below).

When I finish changing the icon in Liteicon, I select the menu item: 'Clear Icon Cache and Log Out.' Also, I have tried these commands in Terminal:

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \;
sudo mv /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store com.apple.ic

…and I have tried copying image content into 'Get Info' and I have tried replacing the app icon in 'APP.app'/Contents/Resources. Neither of these have worked.

Any suggestions for clearing Notification Center icon cache, or what I may do so notifications display the correct icon?


texts: Open and edit Markdown files with Google Drive iOS App

texts: Is there a way to open, edit and save back files from the iOS Google Drive app? I've tried some Markdown iOS apps, but I can't seem to open the files from within the Google Drive app. Are there any Markdown apps that can read/write form iOS Google Drive?


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I've realised that all new contacts added since replacing my iPhone over a year ago have been going to the wrong account (a non i-cloud one) and therefore not syncing.

There are 203 and so it will take hours to manually recreate each one and delete old one.  Any clever ideas to move them over?
Thanks!


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After upgrading to "macOS High Sierra 10.13" "Finder Preview" (QuickLookUIService? the space bar feature) will sometimes show a blank window when navigating with the arrow keys. I used to use this feature to verify I was uploading the correct images.
Is this a known bug, and are there any workarounds?


texts: What software provides a code editing environment on iPad?

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I am seeking recommendations for code editing primarily in Java, C, C++

My research shows these as candidates to meet this need:

Coda - iOS app for code editing and SSH (runing the code on remote computer) - it’s not clear how C or C++ would fit in coda, though.
Blink SSH - iOS app for Mosh or SSH to control a remote computer (I can use git for moving the files), look like linux terminal but this means I’m not using iOS as the IDE and just as a window to remote to another computer

Am I missing options to have an actual environment for editing on iOS bu restricting myself to these two options. Coda as an IDE or SSH (there are many, but they all end up needing a connection to a server)?


texts: from where can i download el capitan image other than mac app store?

texts: In my college mac app store is blocked so can someone please provide me a link to direct download el capitan from web?


texts: Weird restart - need help troubleshooting

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I restarted my 2011 iMac running High Sierra and after entering my username (this field was blank this time whereas it's usually pre-populated) and password, my desktop came up but I was presented with a dialog box saying something along the lines of the library must be repaired for your computer to run properly with a password field. I restarted several times with the same thing each time. finally, I entered my password and the same dialog came right back up (not the wrong-password one where it shakes).
This happened several times but finally stopped and all of my preferences seem to have been wiped. from there I attempted to open Photoshop and got a message saying it couldn't continue due to application errors. I went on to start in recovery mode and ran First Aid on each volume. No luck there either. I started in safe mode and got the same results.
I'm kind of at the end of my rope here. If anyone could lend any insight and/or suggest any additional troubleshooting, I'd be most appreciative.


texts: Can I direct audio from a single app to a particular output?

texts: For example, I would like for iTunes to play thru my iMac's speakers, but iChat's notifications thru my headphones.


texts: OSX: /tmp Not Writable : Operation not permitted

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My /tmp directory became unwritable yesterday, I believe that the permissions are all set correctly:

$ ls -l /
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel   11 Sep 22 16:05 tmp -> private/tmp
$ ls -l /private
drwxrwxrwt@  3 root  wheel   102 Oct 17 15:04 tmp

$ ls -leO@d /private/tmp
drwxrwxrwt@ 3 root  wheel  restricted 102 Oct 17 15:04 /private/tmp
com.apple.rootless    0

However, I get an error when I attempt to write into this directory, even with sudo:

$ cd /tmp
$ pwd
/tmp
$ sudo cat > test
-bash: test: Operation not permitted

I'm using OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. Any help is much appreciated- thanks!

Edit: after following fd0's suggestion, it looks like the directory might be rootless, which I suppose is related to SIP and may be why root cannot make changes. I note that the contents that I see in the /tmp directory appear to be related to App Store automatic download to be used to upgrade my Mac to Sierra if I request it in the future: perhaps something broke during this App Store process? I'm still not sure how to correct my system, though.

Edit2: I solved this problem by upgrading to Sierra. Probably the steps linked to by Slava below would mostly work but it sounds like the extended attributes would be lost so I chose to upgrade instead.


texts: Freeware includes ssh terminal and file transfer support for Mac OS?

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I am looking for a freeware (like Bitvise SSH Client on Windows) that keeps track of servers/connections via a GUI and support some features:

SSH terminal.
File transfer (FTP, SFTP, SCP ...).
Port forwarding .

In the absence of any freeware that meets the features in section 1. I will choose the most suitable software (cost, features, utilities ...).
I have tried the free version of the softwares below:

Royal TSX
Terminus
sFTP client

Would you like to share your experience with me ?

Thanks for anything helpful.


texts: During Dictionary Attack, how can I Capture the attempted usernames and passwords?

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I have several nefarious individuals attempting to gain access to my servers constantly with VNC, presumably using some kind of dictionary attack against the password.

Is there a way to get a log of the actual attempts being made inclusive of the VNC password or in this case the macOS username and password being attempted?

I can see the logged attempts at the connections in my firewall software... just not the actual data from the attempts by 45.115.39.125, 185.148.147.101... (the most persistent two).


texts: Keynote animation to scroll text box content

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I have a long set of lines within a text box extend beyond the height of the text box and slide.

I wish to create an animation that will scroll to the bottom of the contents of the text box.

I have seen this before in presentations, but have been unable to figure out how to reproduce this effect.

Note: This is not as simple a movie credits effect achieved with a simple Move Build. Although that may work if I could figure out a way to mask the text box bounds.


texts: A way for the Command+TAB app switcher to continuously cycle instead of stop at the end

texts: Is there anyway to have the Command+TAB app switcher continuously cycle instead of stop at the end when you hold down command and tab like it did pre Mavericks?


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I recently did a complete wipe of my late 2009 MBP and restore using a Time Machine backup, so I would have uninterupted space at the end of the drive for creating a Boot Camp partition. The Boot Camp tool runs fine now, so I insert my Windows 7 DVD when it tells me to, reboot the computer, it appears to start running off the DVD… but then I just see a black, blank screen. I left it in that condition for over half an hour with no changes. There shouldn't be anything else weird with my system.

Has anyone else experienced this? Apple's website has a downloadable fix for an iMac attempting to install Windows 7, with the same symptoms. I tried that fix even though I have a different Mac, but it didn't work either. Help?


texts: Can't resize macOS partition (APFS error code 49187)

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I'm unable to shrink my APFS macOS partition in Disk Utility or by using diskutil. When I try with either method, I receive error code 49187. There appears to be no reference for these codes and I can't find any information online. I have tried deleting Time Machine snapshots and that made no difference. First Aid on my disk reveals some kind of corruption in the partition map:

I tried what it said and First Aid only lets me scan my macOS partition in Recovery Mode. Using diskutil gives me Error starting file system repair for disk0: Invalid request (-69886).

Is there any way to fix this? I'm trying to add a FAT32 partition to my disk.

This is on macOS 10.13.3.


texts: Has Apple added universal TRIM support with OS 10.8.4?

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I used to enable TRIM using 3rd party software, and I had to do it all the time Apple released a minor upgrade. Recently I installed OS X 10.8.3 on a SSD and when I was ready to install the SSD in a new MBP, 10.8.4 came out. I installed the SSD in the laptop and upgraded to 10.8.4.  To my surprise TRIM was enabled.

Anybody else with the same experience? My SSD is a 512 GB Samsung.


texts: Recording screen and user inputs (gestures) on iPad

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I need to perform an usability study of my application running on an iPad and would like to record the screen (video showing what is going on) as well as gestures (where and when users tap their fingers on screen).

Tools like Quicktime Player X, Camtasia or ScreenFlow can record the screen video, but not gestures.

Do you know any solution, please?


texts: Change Between Open Documents, SPANISH Keyboard, LibreOffice Chrome

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I found this article:

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/09/13/quickly-change-between-open-documents-mac-this-keyboard-shortcut/

According to changing between multiple opened documents in LibreOffice and Chrome.

But I was testing in macOS Sierra with Spanish Keyboard and was not Working on LibreOffice and Chrome.

Here the video of my result testing: https://youtu.be/1oz0OlNmw2E

With this answer:
How do I change the selection in BBEdit's Currently Open Document pane with the keyboard?

Is not working.

Where I Can set a new Key combination alternative (different to WITCH)?


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There's a coffee shop network I connect to fairly often.  Usually it works fine, but sometimes it gets into a state where the connection repeatedly fails about thirty seconds after connecting.  Once it gets into this state, nothing I can find will allow the connection to stay up short of rebooting my laptop completely.  This is extremely annoying.

To be specific, when I open the Network Diagnostics panel, I get green status lights on Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Settings, and Network Settings, and red lights on ISP, Internet, and Server.  All of the below cause ISP/Internet/Server to briefly turn green, then fail again 15-30 seconds later.  If I'm quick, I can load a web page in the interval, so network connection is happening.

Things that don't work:

Turn Wi-Fi Off/On from the menu bar
sudo ifconfig en0 down/up
kill mDNSResponder process
waiting and hoping it will just fix itself

Thing that does work:

Rebooting the computer

What else can I try?

(I am running El Cap 10.11.3 on a retina MacBook Pro.)


texts: Is there any tools to copy text from video's or images?


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Is it possible to use the migration assistant to transfer files from my old PC to a new Mac (OSCatalina) more than once? I've got around 300gb of data on my old pc and transferred just 50gb to start with so that I don't have to wait for days to finish, but now when I open the migration assistant it says that the migration is "complete" and does not allow me to conduct a second transfer.

Is there any way to do another migration?

Thanks!


texts: Use IR sensor integrated Mac to listen to IR signals

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I am trying to understand if under the hood of my MacBook Pro I can have access to its IR sensor (the same used for Apple Remote)?

The goal is to read/listen to IR signals, for example a TV controller or my child's remote control car controller.

Are there any tricks or software I can use to achieve this?


texts: How can I dump my bootable ssd to inspect the dump in HEX editor

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I am on macbook.
I have encrypted bootable volume.
I know my password and can normally log in to my profile on macOs.
I need to make byte-perfect dump of encrypted partition in it's decrypted state to search for a specific bytes sequence.
Steps I did:

log in to recovery mode
mount partition via diskutil
run terminal and trying to read /dev/disk1s1

It shows following error:

cat: /dev/disk1s1: Operation not permitted

I also tried with hex editors and sudo mode.

Is there a way I can access unencrypted raw bytes sequence on internal ssd of my macbook?


texts: iPhone - Whats the matter with the Passcode?

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I'm just thinking about the passcode to unlock the iPhone. You have to retype the passcode regularly. Winter is coming - so wearing touch-gloves are fine for using the iPhone. To unlock the iPhone, Touch ID doesn't work with gloves, so you have to type the passcode again. Some other situations e.g. you got sweaty fingers, Touch ID doesn't work, passcode again.

I guess the passcode is part of the encryption. So I believe you should use a strong passcode instead of 4 easy digits. Besides the fact that passcode can always be used to unlock the phone, it's obvious you should use a strong passcode.

I couldn't find a lot of information about the passcode on the Internet. So I'd like to ask here. Does anyone know more about it? Are my guesses correct, or does it simply make no change to use a less strong passcode?

Update: My passcode is probably pretty strong. So typing the passcode is hardscrable for me.


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I have MacBookAir and all my downloaded files are going into Download dir. I see that there are nothing older than June 1, 2019 in the Download dir, however. I have important document that i downloaded in March of 2019 and i can't figure out on how to retrieve it if even possible.
It is my conclusion that the files are being archived by the Mac automatically.
How do i retrieve the files older than the June 1, 2020 or any info would help on how it is being automatically deleted/archived?


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As a web developer, I need to make a domain redirect to localhost. I modified the hosts file to do that. But I don't know why it always took so long to do the lookup.

How can I solve this?


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Whilst trying to format an SD card through terminal I noticed that a "strange" volume named UNTITLED existed in /Volumes/ as shown below (line 7):

sh-3.2# ls -al /Volumes/
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@  5 root  admin   170 Oct  2 14:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  35 root  wheel  1258 Oct  2 13:59 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin     1 Oct  2 13:59 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx   0 root  wheel     0 Oct  2 14:31 MobileBackups
d--x--x--x+  3 root  admin   102 Sep 24 13:11 UNTITLED

However, when I perform a diskutil list, it is nowhere to be found (UUID voluntarily zeroed out in line 12):

sh-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            499.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +499.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
                                 Unencrypted

When I perform a df -h it only shows me what is inside /dev/disk1, so the information there seems useless in this case.

In order to gain access inside this volume I had do sudo su hence the sh-3.2#in front of every command results shown here. An ls -al gives the following:

sh-3.2# ls -al
total 0
d--x--x--x+ 3 root  admin  102 Sep 24 13:11 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 5 root  admin  170 Oct  2 14:31 ..
drwx------+ 3 root  admin  102 Sep 24 13:11 .Spotlight-V100

And inside .Spotlight-V100 there's this:

sh-3.2# ls -al
total 16
drwx------+ 3 root  admin   102 Sep 24 13:11 .
d--x--x--x+ 3 root  admin   102 Sep 24 13:11 ..
-rw-------  1 root  admin  4683 Sep 24 13:11 VolumeConfiguration.plist

3 questions so far:

Does anyone else have this Volume?
How to know what space it occupies?
Can I reclaim used space (even if very small) as suggested in the response of this question? (in other words: sudo ls -laOR /Volumes/UNTITLED)


texts: Is it possible to stop the execution of a script temporarily on macOS?

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I have a Python script that learns a Deep Learning model. It takes so much time to execute (usually more than 6 hours).

Now, the problem is it is MacBook Pro and I frequently go out with it, and sometimes cafes lack outlets. In such cases the Mac is going to run out just in 90 minutes even from 100% battery, as the Python program uses all the resources available.

I would rather like to stop or at least restrict the program while I'm on cafes without charging the laptop, and later make it start learning again. Is this possible in macOS? I use High Sierra.


texts: Removed app is still available - how to remove it?

texts:
I just removed Calibre app via Finder Cmd+Backspace. The app cannot be found via F4 key now. But it is still available via context menu "open with", even two versions there. So how app can be really removed?

macos 10.12.6


texts: node wants to use the "Local Items" keychain

texts: Every so often when I open my computer, that message appears. Can anyone tell me what node is?


texts: Notes on a different account (@gmail) and have icloud account. Unable to see the notes on icloud

texts: I have notes on my iphone. However the notes are in different account and not on the icloud account and I am unable to see the notes when I login to my icloud account. I have notes back up turned on. Is there something I am doing wrong?


texts: How do I move a window to my secondary monitor above the menu bar?

texts: I just bought a second monitor which I've placed on a stand above my macbook. It seems to be working great but I can't move any application windows on to it because it's also above the menu bar. Is there a way to be able to move windows above the menu bar to the secondary monitor without having to put the menu bar on it too?


texts: iPhone storage is full and stuck into a restart loop

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My iPhone XS's storage is full and I removed a couple of applications to free up space, but I thought that a restart could help to delete its cache files... And well, it entered into a reboot loop.
I tried to activate the recovery mode, with no success — is simply continues to reboot by itself and the MacBook does not detect it at all.
Is there any hope to recover the data I have?


texts: unable to pair my 2014 Muse headband to my 2015 macbook pro

texts:
On macOS 10.13.6, when I select to bluetooth pair my Muse 2014 headband, I see this ...

Notice that the device is showing up but the "connect" button does not appear next to it. I am uncertain what this means.


texts: "Watch Me Do" workflow succeeds in Automator but not as app

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I have a 1 action automator workflow. This workflow is recorded to produce a "Watch Me Do" action. The action is to click on the "VPN" menu bar item, then select a particular VPN from the menu. This workflow runs fine in automator. When I run it as a standalone app the mouse moves correctly (clicking on the menu, selecting the correct VPN), but I don't actually connect to the VPN. I'm clueless about what's going wrong, so any help at all would be good!

In the console, the only thing I see is:

Oct 19 20:19:18 vonnegut Application Stub[7148]: Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Oct 19 20:19:24 vonnegut Automator Launcher[7153]: Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle

I'm running on a MacBookPro5,1 with an apple keyboard and a standard 2-button + wheel mouse attached.

I'm not really sure how to tell whether a connection is attempted. Nothing changes in ppp.log which makes me think nothing gets that far. If I try to connect manually, that's fine.


texts: Can malicious software meant for Windows affect a Mac through Wine?

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If I install malicious software (which is meant for Windows) using Wine on my Mac, will that malicious application be able to affect my computer at all? (For example, see/do things to files outside of the .wine directory, slow down my computer.)

If a malicious application can do this, is there a way to sandbox Wine?


texts: My partner gave me his iPad mini but I cannot use iMessage as it is linked to his account and I cannot change accounts. Is there any way of doing this?


texts: Why am I getting an “invalid active developer path” when attempting to use Git after upgrading macOS?

texts:
After upgrading to macOS Big Sur, I tried to run git from Terminal but it kept giving me the following error:
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun.
How do I fix it?


texts: Autocomplete not working in Terminal local to folder

texts: When I go into any folder via cd and then press tab a whole list of options is displayed. How do I make the autocomplete local to the folder?


texts: Will Adobe CS5 with Java SE 6 runtime work on 10.11 El Capitan?

texts:
I am running OS X 10.10 Yosemite which happily runs my Adobe CS 5.0.  When I upgraded from 10.8 to 10.10, I had to install Java SE 6 runtime.

In parallel, I also run the latest Java, with browsers set to ask before running it. All seems to work ok.

If I upgrade to OS X 10.11 El Capitan, is Adobe CS 5 likely to continue working?

(I totally depend on my legit copy of CS 5, and I don't have the revenue stream to support ongoing Creative Cloud membership.)


texts: After installing High Sierra, preferences do not stick: PhotoShop images default to open in Preview

texts:
Since I "upgraded" to High Sierra, the text program (Tex-Edit Plus, v14.10.4) always reverts to the default preferences of opening two windows I do not want open: "Enable Quartz anti-aliased text at startup" and "Enable TSM (Text Services Manager) at startup" windows. The DOC preferences open text at 10 points, and in the Save preferences not including the .txt extension when saving files. I then must manually change the preferences since I use this program every day. Mac used to save my preferences; it apparently no longer does and does not explain how to fix this.

Also, I am a graphic designer and Use Adobe Photoshop all the time, and when I make a screenshot of something, or even have a .psd file in layers, High Sierra now often still reverts to opening Photoshop files in Preview. The ONLY time I use Preview is if I want to reduce the file size of a created PDF file. I Get Info for the image, and when I set the default app (it shows Preview) I use the down arrow for other apps and it doesn't even show Photoshop. I have to search for it, tell it to use Photoshop, and then to do this for all similar files. On average, about 10 minutes later it STILL opens Photoshop files I am working on in Preview again.

These little glitches in High Sierra make it time-consuming to do the exact same work I did before getting High Sierra. Is there any way both of these problems could be fixed so I don't spend time telling high sierra over and over again how things should work on my computer?


texts: How do you write the command to carry out a double click with a mouse at a specific location in AppleScript?


texts: Applications assigned to All Desktops loses focus when moving through desktops

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If I assign an application  to all desktops like this:

It loses focus after moving to another desktop and moving back.

Step to reproduce:

Assign an app to All Desktops (let's say iTerm).
Switch to another App on the same Desktop. Let's say Numbers.
Switch back to iTerm. Work on it.
Move to another desktop.
Move back to the original desktop where you was lastly working on iTerm, expecting to work again on iTerm.
When the desktop appears on the screen, the iTerm app seems to have the focus, but after <1 second the previously used app on that desktop (in this case Numbers) get the focus.

This is very annoying. Any idea how to fix this? I'm not sure if is a bug in OSX, I"m using high sierra.


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since I was not longer using the Server options on my mac mini I wanted to install os x mountain lion, so I downloaded the app and selected the appropriate hard disk. now, after it booted i'm stuck on the grey fabric background.
there's no signal of life and nothing printed on the screen.

I have several macs around here at the office, how can I try to finish the installation at this point?

the mac mini is the 2007/08 version i think

thanks!


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I need to find a reliable way to save and restore the contents of NVRAM.

Would this be correct?

Preservation

nvram -x -p > ~/nvram.xml

Recovery:

sudo nvram -x -f ~/nvram.xml


texts: Hard drive on latest macbook pro 17 accessed too often

texts:
I have the latest macbook pro 17 and it seems no matter what I do, particularly noticeable when I simply scroll up and down on a window, I hear the hard drive tapping away like it's being accessed or written to repeatedly.  I used to also get frequent pauses with that ever annoying spinning color cursor until I upgraded to 8gbytes ram.  Now the pausing happens a lot less frequently (though it still occurs), but I still get that hard drive craziness for everything I do.

I run intellij, chrome (maybe also firefox), sftp client, tomcat (with low memory limits) and not much else.  Even 4gbytes should've been plenty.

Maybe what I'm hearing is not the hard drive?  I'd be very surprised...  What's going on?  Is there a good tool for diagnosing this?  top tells me I have plenty of memory free.


texts: I need what format did it used to use to revive my old Macintosh Plus. So I'm doing a research on what format did old Macintoshes used. (on hard drives or hdds). What I mean with this is what format did old macintoshes use back in the day, like a primitive version of hfs+ or something like that.


texts:
Sorry if the title is confusing, I do not know how to describe it better. Perhaps an example will help you understand:

When I download a 1GB file (it's an example) the appstore I notice that the download is quite fast, or I do not down 1GB, the application gets 1GB only after installation.

So I was curious, the application before being installer is:

Compressed source and compiled in the installation

or

Pre-compiled and compressed

Would any of these? Or is it something else?


texts: There is no option in the Bootcamp wizard to choose the Windows ISO.. Any ideas?


texts: How do I tell iTunes to NOT mark podcasts as "Skip when shuffling" by default?

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I have a Smart Playlist that selects a set of music and podcasts for me to listen to throughout the day. However, iTunes decides it's a good idea to check the "Skip when shuffling" checkbox for all podcasts the moment it downloads them:

My current workaround is unchecking these manually for each podcast, and does indeed include them when playing the playlist, but this is obviously not a permanent fix. Is there any way to tell iTunes that is's OK to play podcasts when shuffling by default?


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I'm having trouble with my Fusion Drive. I was trying to reclaim a 100gb partition that I used BootCamp for. I was unable to delete the BootCamp partition using the Assistant, so I used the Utility Disk to reclaim some of the partitions. I'm now left with 2, but I'm also missing some space from my main Macintosh HD drive (about 200gb) Somehow, it went from 909GB (previous allocated amount) to 700+.

I was following this guide, although I didn't get to any of the resizing section yet. I'm not sure what happened, and was hoping someone could help.

Here's my logs from diskutil list and diskutil cs list:

UPDATE: I tried I following the instructions and below and ran across a couple errors.

First, when I tried to mount the physical drives, it said: disk0s2/disk1s2 is a FileVault or Fusion Drive physical volume; use 'disk utility coreStorage list' to find its logical volume, which you can then unlock and mount.

I tried the resizing, and it seems to have started the process, but I left it overnight (roughly 8 hours of run time) and it still wasn't finished with the process. I restarted my computer, and tried running the resizeStack command, and it now says "the target disk is too small for this operation".

When I look up diskutil list, my Macintosh HD drive is still at 773gb, but the deleteme and NO NAME EFI drives are all deleted. I'm just not sure how to reclaim that space.

Any thoughts?


texts: Can't open bootable copy of old Imac with Mountain Lion on New iMac with High Sierra

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I made a bootable clone of my iMac with mountain lion using Carbon Copy Cloner.
This bootable clone opens fine on the old Mac.
I tried to open it on my newer Mac with High Sierra, but when I click on the drive I just get a circle with a bar through it and it doesn't load.
Is this because there is a different OS?
The reason I want to clone the old hard drive is in case that Mac dies and I would like to be able to access the old data and run the older OS as I have software on it the won't work on the newer OS.
Is there a way to do clone that drive so that it loads with mountain lion running on my newer Mac?


texts: Issue with Hard Reset the iPAD (9.3.2) that is in Single App mode

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I have an iPad application that runs in Single App Mode. Now if I Hard Reset(Home + Lock button) the iPad there are two different behaviours that I came accross while testing the Single App Mode in different iPads:

In some iPads after hard reset, the same application starts on the device and the device remains in Single App Mode.

In some iPads after hard reset, the same application does not starts and the iPad is no longer in Single App mode.

So which one is the correct behaviour and how can I achieve same behaviour on each device.

Please let me know if any further clarifications are needed regarding this.


texts: Finder freezes when showing images quicklook preview

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On OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F27), when I want to see the preview of an image (JPG or PNG, but I suppose it will be the same with other formats) the wait spinner appears and the Finder becomes freezed, I have to relaunch it via "Force Quit Applications".

I already tried these things:

Delete all the plist related with Finder and Quicklook I've found inside ~/Library/Preferences.
On terminal qlmanage -r and qlmanage -r cache, but in both cases I had to ^C to abort because after half an hour nothing happened.
Hard disk permissions repair.
A general clean using CleanMyMac 3.

I don't know what more could I do besides reinstalling :( Do you know what could be the problem?

Thank you so much.

UPDATE

I tried the @Tetsujin solution but stills the same. Anyway, I'm seeing this in the system console.


texts: My Developer Account cannot be activated because I used a relative's credit card

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So now I have an "identity cannot be verified" message whenever I activate it from the activation code Apple gave me via email.

Is there anything I can do about this or is my $99 "doomed"?


texts: Making an AppleScript that holds down a key

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So I'm trying to make a script that holds down a key like Left option. But I don't want to use something like

tell application "x"
    keystroke *keycode*
end tell

I tried doing that, but the app I'm trying to make it work for won't accept it.
So I thought of trying to make a script that just holds down a key (specifically a modifier key) for an indefinite time.

Is there any solution?