texts: How can I switch Dock configurations when an external display is connected?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro that I use in two different 'modes', mobile and desktop.

Mobile is for when I'm using just the MBP with the integrated trackpad, keyboard, and display.
Desktop is for when I'm using it with external displays and an external keyboard and mouse, usually in clamshell mode.

A couple of facts have led me to look for a way to configure a different Dock to appear in each mode:

The resolution of the external displays is higher than that of the internal display, so I have more room for extra apps/folders/spacers in the Dock.
I generally use a different set of main apps in each mode.

So, is there a way to configure two different Docks in OS X and switch between them either automatically based on the presence of an external display or manually?


texts: How to stop the launch agent from repeatedly launching a given AppleScript

texts:
I'm trying to create a launch agent, which launches an AppleScript whenever a mouse is connected. Similar to these two questions:

LaunchEvents key unrecognized in launchd plist (detecting USB device)
Execute an application on Mac OS X when a particular type of USB device is connected?

However, once I load my launch agent (via launchctl load), it keeps getting started every 5-or-so seconds. How do I ensure that the agent runs only once, when the mouse is connected?

Here is my agent (plist):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.automations.switchscrolldirection</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>osascript</string>
        <string>/Users/lirik/Documents/Automation/SwitchScrollDirectionOnMouseEvent.scpt</string>
    </array>
    <key>LaunchEvents</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.apple.iokit.matching</key>
        <dict>
            <key>com.apple.device-attach</key>
            <dict>
                <key>idProduct</key>
                <integer>49277</integer>
                <key>idVendor</key>
                <integer>1133</integer>
                <key>IOProviderClass</key>
                <string>IOUSBDevice</string>
                <key>IOMatchStream</key>
                <true/>
                <key>IOMatchLaunchStream</key>
                <true/>
            </dict>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

The AppleScript in question:

on gamingMouseIsAttached()
    tell application "System Preferences"
        activate
        set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.mouse"
    end tell
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
        repeat until exists checkbox 1 of window "Mouse"
        end repeat
        tell checkbox 1 of window "Mouse" to if value is 1 then click
    end tell
    tell application "System Preferences" to quit
end gamingMouseIsAttached

on TrackpadIsAttached()
    tell application "System Preferences"
        activate
        set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.trackpad"
    end tell
    tell application "System Events" to tell application process "System Preferences"
        repeat until exists checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window "Trackpad"
        end repeat
        tell checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window 1 to if value is 0 then click
    end tell
    tell application "System Preferences" to quit
end TrackpadIsAttached

tell current application
    delay 15
    set internalTrackpad to (do shell script "system_profiler SPUSBDataType | awk '/Trackpad:/ { print \"Internal Trackpad\" }'")
    set gamingMouse to (do shell script "system_profiler SPUSBDataType | awk '/Gaming Mouse G502:/ { print \"Gaming Mouse\" }'")

    if gamingMouse is equal to "" then
        if internalTrackpad is equal to "Internal Trackpad" then
            my TrackpadIsAttached()
            return
        end if
    end if

    if gamingMouse is equal to "Gaming Mouse" then
        my gamingMouseIsAttached()
        return
    end if
end tell


texts: Get audio files from onedrive onto iphone

texts: I have a large number of audio files in a folder on my onedrive that I want to listen to on my iphone. I have the onedrive app installed, I can see a way to listen to individual files, but what I want to do, is get all of them onto the phone so that I can listen to them as a playlist. How can I do this?


texts: I am keen on installing Windows 8.1 or 10 on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013). Some say Windows don't work well as OS X interferes with it. Is it so ?


texts: How do I turn of all notifications at once on my iPhone 4S on 5.0.1

texts: How do I turn off all notifications at once and then turn them back on later (like if friend is playing game?)


texts: Where can I change the region settings in the iOS file system or otherwise tweak them when jailbroken?

texts:
Apologies if this is not the right place to ask this, but I feel that an audience who jailbreaks may know the answer to this.

I am trying to hack files right now to change my region settings exactly how I want them on iOS, hopefully being able to sideload it somehow without jailbreaking. In effect, I want the US region still set with the ability to keep News, Apple Pay, etc. with everything as-is on the US region except for date formatting. Right now I am on Singapore, since I write dates as day-month-year.

A few examples are necessary since other region formats have leading zeros, don't use slashes, write years as two digits only, or have other oddities compared to simply switching the number placements from US conventions. Using today's date as an example:

8/9/2018 (in short form with no leading zeros)
8 September 2018 (in longer form again with no leading zeros)
Saturday, 8 September 2018 (the longest form with weekday added)

Singapore is the only region that currently works for me, as it

Keeps AM/PM spaced and capitalized how I want (for example, 8:31 PM).
Uses $ as the currency symbol.
Keeps English number format convention, e.g. 1,234.56.

Those can be viewed in Settings > General > Language & Region. However, there are some undocumented changes that occur if the region is changed. The following is not exhaustive but gives things that I have noticed in a few days' worth of typical use:

My Google searches redirect to Google.com.sg (for Singapore) rather than staying on Google.com. This would be fine if I were there, but I'd prefer for it to use regular Google. (I can't find a way to change this; however, in the past when set to US as the region, it would automatically be overridden if I were connected to the internet via a foreign IP.)
The News app is completely gone. A widget remains accessible from the home screen, but it only shows news articles from channelnewsasia.com which I have no desire to read.
Google Maps defaults to metric measurements. (I can change this in its settings and also don't have a problem with it as it forces me to internalize them, but I would prefer it be in imperial units just in case other apps are expecting it for some reason.)
The holidays available in the default Calendar app show as those in Singapore, not US holidays. (This is probably a non-issue as I don't use Calendar much.)

It is bugging me a bit that iOS is intentionally nerfed this way to force you to conform to (any country's) standards when Windows has a simple dialog box that can basically change exactly what I want without affecting anything else. (I think macOS also offers something like this.) If anyone can offer suggestions as to what file or files to edit to modify the region settings, or if anyone knows of a jailbreak utility to do it, that would be very appreciated. I have access to an iOS 10 IPSW that is currently extracted, but searching through every file for relevant strings has been fruitless (no pun intended).

Please do note that I am looking to tweak this on the system level and not just in the status bar or anything else, for example. This should be able to tie into the settings in Language & Region, modifying one that already exists.

Thanks!


texts: vba split() not working in Mac Word 2004

texts:
I was trying to run a Word macro on a Mac. That macro contains the split() function. When I run this it is throwing an error saying function or sub not defined.

StrArr = Split(InputString, ":", -1, vbTextCompare)

I searched on the Internet and found that Mac Word 2004 is supported by VBA 5 and split() is introduced in VBA 6 only. I'm unable to find the proper solution for this, please help me.


texts: When will app reviewed from apple after rejection of app due to metadata rejection?

texts:
I have submitted my app on August 20th for apple review. But my app was rejected by apple on 29th of august due to metadata rejection .On 30th of august again I  have submitted my app for review..

So My question is when will apple reviews app usually, if submitted after rejection.

Any help is appreciated

thank you


texts: How can I recover notes missing from the Notes app?

texts:
I recently opened the Notes app and found that about a month's worth of notes are missing.  There is a gap between August 5th and September 3rd.

(This time period includes a note I wrote while in an airport listing the names and desks of air staff I dealt with while trying to handle a canceled flight, and now I've failed a complaint with the airline and need those details.  A few hundred euros of compensation might ride on having these details.)

I found one question about restoring deleted notes by using a program to read from the iTunes backup, but my iTunes only seems to keep one backup, the latest, and the notes are not present.  I synced before noticing, and of course iOS syncs over wifi now so it may have synced before then anyway.

iPhone 4 running the latest iOS 5 (and latest iTunes etc. I am still using Lion.)
The phone is synced with iCloud, which is also synced with my MBP and iPad.  I am signed into the same account on all of them.
I do use GMail for email, but as far as I know not for notes.  I could not find my missing notes in any account.
When I wrote the note, I had no data connection (overseas) but did a couple of days before and after
I do not know when the notes vanished, but only noticed the hole in the dates when I looked for this specific important note.

What do I do?


texts:
Ive got 8 email accounts which i manage in mac mail.

The largest one of these accounts is 30GB and the others are each c. 5GB. So 65GB in total. Most of these are google apps for business accounts, and one is a private imap system.

I feel that the size of the email accounts is making the mac mail programme slow.

Is there anything i can do to make mac mail run better with these large files.

I have seen some other email clients that have a feature where you can only sync the last X years of emails to the desktop client whilst keeping the rest of the older emails on the email server, dose mac mail have something similar ?


texts:
As a Linux/Windows user, I am used to switching temporarily to Overtype Mode when using the command prompt.

As a new user to the Mac world, I do not know how to change text input mode from normal (i.e. Insert Mode) to Overtype Mode.
This is of particular use to me at the command prompt, but also in text editors (eg TextWrangler or Sublime).

Anyone know of ways (using the keyboard only) to toggle between the two modes? (Solutions involving a mouse are not solutions, because I could simply select the text using the keyboard and re-type...but this is not what I am asking).

Any help appreciated.


texts: Can't reinstall the Camera icon on my iPhone

texts:
My daughter accidentally deleted the Camera icon from my iPhone 4. I have since reinstalled everything, updated to IOS 5 and have sync'd the phone via iTunes etc. But I still can't see it and can't find a way of adding it to as an app, if that's what I need to do.

How to get the Camera icon back?


texts: How do I Export Apple mail database to Outlook 2016 for Mac?

texts:
I don't like the series Mail/iCal from Apple, reason why I bought Outlook 2016 for Mac. I was able to transfer the contacts but I am facing difficulties transferring the email database. It seems that outlook doesn't support the email format of the apple mail.

Is there a way to transfer all the emails with their categories from Apple Mail to Outlook 2016 for Mac ?


texts:
I have an application for mac and I use the following applescript code (exported as an AS app) to start that app periodically:

on idle
    tell application "System Events"
        tell application "MyApp"
            run
        end tell
        return 7
    end tell
end idle

I use [NSApp terminate:self] in MyApp to terminate itself after it finished its work.

The problems is that the AS script displays a "Connection is invalid" error message when it tries to run MyApp the second time and onward. The error does not show up in the first launch.

I'm guessing [NSApp terminate:self] is causing the conflict with the AS somehow, but why?


texts: No 'Software Update' option in iPad from iOS 4

texts:
I'm helping my Dad over the phone to upgrade his iPad. He's a senior, and definitely not tech savvy.

When we go to Settings > General, there is no "Software Update" option. His current version is iOS 4. Where can I find the option to update the software wirelessly on iOS 4.0?


texts: Can I make my Mac OS X Terminal color items according to syntax, like the Ubuntu terminal?

texts: I want it to have all the colors for syntax folders, etc... How can I do that?


texts: Airport extreme base station won't turn on

texts:
I did something stupid, and I think it broke my airport extreme base station...

My airport extreme base station was working just fine. I was using a cheap USB hub to share a few external hard drives on my network. I was doing some changes so I unplugged the power to the external hard drive and the power to the USB hub. While reconnecting, I accidentally swapped the power cables and plugged the external hard drive's power cable into the USB hub while it was still connected via USB to the AEBS. I think it was too much power and it overloaded the AEBS. Now it won't turn on (no lights, can't find it with software).

Is there a way to fix this? In case it matters, the model number of the airport extreme base station is A1354.


texts: I just bought a cracked Apple Watch to try and repair.  When I put the watch on the charger, it turns on the Apple logo for a couple seconds then fades to black.  When I remove the watch from the charger when the Apple logo is showing it will immediately turn off so I'm guessing the battery is toast.  I don't want to take it in for repair as that would defeat the purpose of me repairing it.  Anything I should try before getting a refund from the seller?


texts: Recovering data from an Encrypted iTunes Backup that's missing the Manifest.db

texts:
Is there a method to recover from an encrypted iTunes backup if it's missing its manifest.db file?

I have the backup password and everything. There's a couple of third party tools that can read an encrypted iTunes Backup, but they fail if the backup is missing its manifest.db file. (iMazing, iPhone Backup Extractor)


texts: Recover data from partition showing as FFFF

texts:
How can I get back my data from the FFFF… partition which is ~350 GB by fixing the partition table?

   977105059           1                     Sec GPT header
Riccados—MacBook—Pro:~ Riccado$ sudo gpt —r show /dev/disk0s2
       start        size        index        contents
           0   683645536
Riccados—MacBook—Pro:~ Riccado$ sudo gpt —r show /day/disk0
       start        size        index        contents
           0           1                     PMBR
           1           1                     Pri GPT header
           2          32                     Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600             1       GPT part — C12A7328—F81F-11D2-6A46-00A0C93EC938
      409640   683645536             2       GPT part — FFFFFFFF—FFFF—FFFF—FFFF—FFFFFFFFFFFF
   684055176     1269536             3       GPT part — 48465300-0000-11AA—AA11-00306543ECAC
   685324712    49224610             4       GPT part — OFC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
   734549322         694
   734550016     8073216             5       GPT part — 0657FD6D—A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
   742623232   233212248             6       GPT part — 53746F72-6167-11AA—AA11-00306543ECAC
   975835480     1269544             7       GPT part — 426F6F74-0000-11AA—AA11-00306543ECAC
   977105024           3
   977105027          32                     Sec GPT table
   977105059           1                     Sec GPT header
Riccados—MacBook—Pro:~ Riccado$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Unmount of disk1 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted
Riccados—MacBook—Pro:~ Riccado$

The disk is 500 GB in total. 350 GB is assigned for macOS, 120 GB for Windows and 30 GB for Ubuntu.

This morning when I woke up, I tried to boot my Mac but it didn't boot successfully as it is just showing the prohibitory sign. So I tried to fresh install macOS, pressing command ⌘-R when starting the Mac to enter Recovery Mode. But only the Windows partition (120 GB) is showing to reinstall macOS on instead of the original 350 GB partition. I reinstalled macOS on the 120 GB partition. Now I don't know how to retrieve my files back from the old 350 GB partition. They all are in same disk. Linux is not booting now too.


texts: running XQuartz: display background is black after screen is unlocked or awakened

texts:
I use XQuartz 99.9% of the time I'm on my Mac. When I lock my screen (using Lock Screen in the apple menu) -- or the screen saver kicks in -- and the screen remains locked/darkened for more than a few minutes -- not sure what the minimum amount of time is for this -- the screen background is often black when I unlock the screen or wake up the display. I am still able to see and use everything on the desktop -- mac icons, mac apps, X window apps, etc. -- but the screen background is black -- really hard on the eyes! If I exit XQuartz, my screen returns to normal but this is not a solution since I then lose all my X applications. If I lock the screen and immediately unlock it, I don't see the problem.

I'm running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and XQuartz 2.7.11. I have had my Mac (it's a work mac) since May, 2017. The Mac came with Sierra and I installed High Sierra early last fall but did not start having this problem until January. It mysteriously went away for a few months but has now returned.

Any ideas or suggestions? I'd be happy with a reasonable workaround that doesn't involve killing XQuartz.


texts: Change permissions of a folder with cronjob

texts:
I have a scanner that can "save to folder" only with FTP or CIFS protocols.

I managed to set it up with CIFS to save the file to a shared folder on a Mac, however although the folder has read/write permissions to all users, when the file is written to the folder it only has read/write permissions to the user that created it (scan). This means even the local user can't open the file unless we change the permissions of the file. Applying the permissions to "enclosed items" solves the issue until a new scan is made.
I don't know how to create a cronjob so that permissions are changed every minute.
Would anyone be able to help me with this?

Thanks!
Miguel


texts: Lost my "Keyboard Shortcuts" (and I had a bunch) when switched from 5s to 6s - anyway to get them back?

texts: I got myself a new 6s and I noticed that all of my keyboard shortcuts (now called Text Replacement) are gone! Sux. Anyone else have this issue and have you found a way to restore them?


texts: Is there any cloud clipboard which allows copy pasting between windows laptop and ipad?

texts:
The closest app which I find is ALT + c
https://altcopy.net/
but they only support between anderoid and windows and their ios app is in development


texts: Dedicated SSD/HDD to install Windows on a MacBook

texts:
So I have a Late 2008 unibody MacBook. I recently bought a caddy to replace my optical drive with so I can fit a secondary drive in the laptop.

I have a 256 SSD in the main and a brand new 128 SSD to go in the caddy. Ideally I would like to have a Boot Camp install, but really don't want to go playing with the 256 SSD in the main drive with Mac OS X on, for more than one reason - but mainly as I do not have the space on there for the required partition.

Is there anyway to get a Boot Camp setup where the Windows install is on its own disk?


texts: I've brought a load of music on my iPhone and have now just purchased a MacBook pro. What is the standard way of transferring songs from iPhone to Mac? Do I need to download all these programs or is there an easier way that I am missing?


texts: Unchecking "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" doesn't work

texts:
Unchecking "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" under
System Preferences -> General doesn't work - for example, when I re-open an app (e.g. Preview) it restores a window (call it 'PDF 1') I had open before quitting that app. (At least when I quit it by logging out, even with 'Reopen windows when logging back in' unchecked.) Any pointers?

I've found people describing similar problems, around the web and on StackExchange (in answers/comments, but not dedicated questions). But no answers that work for me. I've tried the solutions suggested at Disable resume for all apps in Daniel's answer (after which ~/Library/Saved Application State/ has stayed empty) and joelseph's comment on his answer.


texts:
I write a maintenance script with different commands.
the script has sudo commands inside.

Now I want to use crontab, but my first problem is:
How can I use the script on user level without root privilegs?
Is that possible?

After that I want to copy the script on /usr/local/maintenance and want to use crontab to run the script every first thursday f.e.

EDIT:
ok, I decide it now for launchD. Now I have a plist in Global Agents, it works fine. But only the user files.
How can I use launchD for sudo commands?


texts: Purchasing music with two Apple accounts

texts: I purchased some music from iTunes some time ago but recently made a new Apple account when I bought an iPod Touch 4Gen. Now the music purchased on the old account will not play on the iPod set up with the new account. Any idea why? Is this because of some type of permissions issue?


texts: Assigning shortcuts to particular keyboard layouts

texts:
Is there any way to assign hotkeys to switching to particular keyboard layouts directly, without having to cycle through them one by one?

I am quite new to OS X.  On Windows (which I used before) it is possible to set keyboard shortcuts for witching directly to particular keyboard layouts.  For example, I set it up so that Shift-Alt-1 switches directly to English, Shift-Alt-2 switches directly to Hungarian, etc.  This is very convenient when one has several layouts installed (I regularly used 4 different ones on Windows), and much faster than having to cycle through layouts one by one, especially when writing multilingual documents and needing to switch often.

Is there similar functionality in OS X?  If there's isn't by default, is there a hack or third party program to set it up?


texts: iPhone 5 stuck on "your iPhone is being restored"

texts: I got an iPhone 5 and restored it from the iCloud backup of my iPhone 4. Now when I look at the iCloud backup settings for the iPhone 5, it says "Backup options will be available when your iPhone is restored from this backup." It seems to think it is still restoring, but I believe it finished yesterday. I can click "Stop Restoring iPhone", but I'm afraid I will lose some data; is there any way to check what's going on?


texts: Can I use Spotlight to search for files by name?

texts: My most common search pattern is to search for files based on their name. When I try this in Spotlight (cmd-space) it rarely works. Is there a way to make Spotlight search for file names, and to place those results on top?


texts: Brand new MacBook Pro flagship behaving strangely

texts:
Today i got the newest available MacBook Pro flagship model. After setting up some basics, installing Photoshop, JRE, XAMPP and NetBeans, i started to use the machine a bit, doing some basic coding.

While using Netbeans, the fans rev up in an abnormal fashion. Of course i checked the CPU usage in Activity Monitor, but nothing abnormal showed up - merely just 7%-10% usage varying. There was simply nothing running, that would use up the CPU. I have owned a 2014 model previously and it never showed such behaviour. In fact, unless NetBeans was scanning a huge project and the CPU usage went up to 100%+, the fans were not even noticeable at all.

What i tried

After some research, i reset the SMC, but the issue remained. Instead of working flawlessly, after resetting the SMC and rebooting the machine, then running it for a few minutes and then opening apple.stackexchange.com in Google Chrome, suddenly the entire screen turned white and the only thing that was still there was the mouse pointer, which i could move around, but otherwise the machine was unresponsive.

I rebooted and checked the log, which under System Diagnostic Reports now showed a file prefixed with Kernel which said:

Event: GPU Reset
Application: WindowServer
OS Version: Mac OS X Version 10.10.3 (Build 14D2134)
Graphics Hardware: AMD Radeon R9 M370X
Signature: 0

Followed by a huge chunk of dump data.

Sadness fills my being.

Could this be a hardware issue? Badly applied cooling paste? Would you send it back and buy a new one, or try to get it fixed?

Specs:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), Core i7 2.8 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Intel Iris Pro 1.5 GB + AMD Radeon R9 M370X running Yosemite 10.10.3


texts: I'm having an issue where the Mac version of nl will mark a new line after 2048 characters.  I tried it on Linux, and it doesn't do this.  Any idea why it does on Mac, and how to fix it?


texts: Unhide application from switcher and menu bar

texts: Recently one of apps is not showing in the Application Switcher, the Dock or even in the menu bar. The only way that I have found to get to it is via Mission Control or Launch Pad. And even when I do this it still does not show up in the menu bar so I can't access the menu items (preferences etc.) The application in question is Fantastical 2 (an alternative Calendar app).


texts: Reset used Apple Pencil in preparation for sale?

texts: In preparation for selling a used Apple Pencil, should it be unpaired or reset in any way (so the new owner can pair it with his or her iPad Pro)? Is the Apple Pencil tied exclusively to the iPad Pro it's been paired with? If it does need to be reset, how?


texts: MacBook Pro 13" 2019 won't display @ 75hz with 3800 x 1600 resolution (Acer XR382CQK)

texts:
I have my MacBook Pro hooked up to the display via the Apple Thunderbolt 3 cable.

However, the refresh rate is locked to 30hz, despite the monitor supporting a 75hz refresh rate at its native resolution.


texts: MacOS Mail cannot access folders on external drive via symlinks

texts:
My 2012 Mac Mini is running High Sierra, and I have copied older mail folders to a partition of an external drive. In the User mail folder, I then placed symlinks. In Finder, the symlinks show the complete hierarchical contents of the folders; but, while the Mail program sees all of the folder structure, it does not display the messages within.
Any clues will be appreciated!
Edit 01/28 – Permissions look Ok; wonder about "Sandbox" – can't seem to find about that.
I found these similar questions, also relevant, but older OS versions:     Moving individual Mailbox to external drive and    How to move all of my mails to external HD and make them appear only when its connected  and
Transferring Emails saved on Mac to generic folder  and
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7001081
2/2/2020 - Ideas, anyone?
11/28/2020 – add Move mail boxes data to external drive on Mac Mail on Mavericks to the list


texts: How to enable dictation by voice on OS X?

texts:
I want to be able to say something like, "Start Dictation," to turn on OS X's Dictation feature, instead of having to double-click the fn key.

In System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Dictation, there is an option to "Enable the dictation keyword phrase." Here is a screenshot of this menu:

I have enabled this option and tried various phrases and the dictation has not been turned on once.

I'm not sure if this is related, but I have installed the "Enhanced Dictation" data:

Within the "Dictation Commands" menu, I have all "System" commands enabled, including the "Start Dictation" command. Screenshot:

Incidentally, the "Stop Dictation" command works perfectly.

Has anyone managed to Start Dictation by voice command?

(2013 rMBP) -- (OS X 10.11.3)


texts: Upload to iCloud Photos without adding to Recents album?

texts:
I'm trying to upload my photo album from my Hard Disk to iCloud, and make it accessible from my iPhone.

However, all the photos uploaded to an album are automatically added to my "Recents" album on my iPhone (in addition to the album itself).

I would like to use iCloud as a cloud storage service and be able to see the photos from my iPhone but without having them in "Recents" album.

macOS version: Catalina
iOS version: 13.1.2

Can this "Recents" album be suppressed / disabled or otherwise made not so prominent?


texts: Move library existing Itunes library to Apple Music

texts:
I deleted my local iTunes Library since I assumed I could listen to the music anyway using Apple Music. After deleting my music files by emptying home/music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music I have three types of tracks, based on the column iCloud download:

Files with this icon : I can play them without problem.
Files with this icon : These won't play, which is expected, I have already accepted that these tracks will have to be added manually.
Files without an icon: If I try to play those I this popup

and the exclamation mark is added in front of the title of the track. If I choose Locate I get a Finder window and the option to point Apple Music towards the local file, which is expected. However, and here is the rub, if I choose Cancel the song plays, the exclamation mark disappears and this  icon  appears after the title of the song. Which is unexpected but nice.

I'd have to execute the steps under 'Files without an icon' about 6000 times to be able to play most of my tracks again.


texts: How can one user be faster than the other?

texts:
On our 10.6.8 Mac Mini Late 2009 Edition, we have 4 users, 3 of which are in regular use. One is mine, let's call it 'a'. The second one is someone else's, let's call it 'b'. The third one we both use, let's call it 'c'. a and c have administrator rights. The unused is the owner.

So, the 'a' account is kind of slow sometimes, but it's what you'd expect after almost 5 years of usage. But here's the deal. 'b' and 'c' often behave much slower than that (takes 2-5 minutes to complete login). Sometimes they're as fast as 'a', but that's seldom.

So yeah, whaddya think about this? Why does this happen? And if you know why, how can I fix it?


texts: How to stop iTunes from automatically downloading purchased TV shows?

texts:
I was running out space on the drive where I stored my iTunes media, because every time I opened iTunes, the application would immediately begin downloading TV shows I had purchased on my Apple TV.

How can you stop iTunes from downloading purchased TV shows whenever you open it?

See my answer below

Note: Though it may or may not be entirely relevant to the problem (this bug has bit me across versions of iTunes and OS X), the bug was reproduced and eradicated using iTunes 11.1.3 under Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Possibly related detail: I write possibly, because I've modified where my iTunes media lives outside of the iTunes defaults.

This is a common thing to do, when you realize the space on the meager 128 GB drive that came with your computer will no longer suffice.

This detail also warrants mentioning, because the use case deviates slightly from the norm, and pathing often emerges as the culprit in software-related bugs.

Another possibly related detail: I've moved the location of my iTunes media a couple of times, but didn't delete the old location's directory, which is also a parent directory of my current iTunes media location. I've been meaning to re-organize, but there were music files I didn't want to lose at the time I made to the decision to change the media location a second time.

I mention this, because as a software engineer I've run into stupid bugs and relative vs. absolute path issues simply because a user chose to nest directories awkwardly or carelessly.

Good luck!


texts: Where can I find the terminal on a MacBook Air 2011

texts: I'm using a borrowed laptop- a MacBook Air 2011- and have no idea where to find the terminal. It's not in Applications, or the side bar...


texts: Client SSL certificate failing in Safari (and what is SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle?)

texts:
I'm having difficulty using an X.509 certificate to do client authentication from Safari (9.0.1, as on OS X 10.10.5).

The symptom is that I go to a https://... site which does client certificate checking, but Safari appears to simply hang as if it were waiting from a response from the server.  In the error console it reports Failed to load resource: cancelled (and on one of the servers I've tried this with, which I have control over, the relevant logs report that the browser appeared to abruptly close the connection – there's no other indication there of a protocol botch).

The certificate is valid and has a good CA signature, as verified by openssl, and by the fact that it works as expected with Firefox, Chrome, and curl.  Note that Chrome and OS X curl do use the Keychain, and Firefox doesn't, so there's no common factor there.  Also, OS X curl is built against SecureTransport as opposed to OpenSSL, so is, I think, using the same SSL library as Safari (I don't know about Chrome in this respect).

This isn't a server-side problem, because others using the same version of Safari can get to the same URL with certificates from the same CA.  Also, I can connect straightforwardly to that site using Chrome, which of course also uses WebKit, and which uses the same certificate, via the Keychain.

The nearest thing to a diagnostic I can find is that a message appears in the Console whenever I do this, saying

2015-11-13 18:43:53.329 Keychain Access[1373]:  SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 58

(the final number increments each time).

I have been able to find nothing at all relating to that string, apart from passing mentions in a few clearly puzzled forum posts.

I have tried deleting identity preferences from Keychain Access without success, tried deleting similar (expired) certificates from the keychain, and tried exporting deleting and re-importing the relevant certificate; all without effect.

I'm stumped!  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Since this appears to be a Safari-specific problem, I'm asking here before trying on the security SE.


texts: How to find empty folders using smart folder

texts:
I need to find all empty folders using smart folder.

Is there a way to do so?


texts: In iWork Numbers, why is the command Hide Column greyed out? What format do I have set up that does not allow me to hide that specific column? I have un-merged all the cells.


texts: How can I share a saved search for Console.app?

texts:
I'm using Console.app to debug an iPhone app that my team is building. I've customized my view of the events in Console by filtering to exclude noisy libraries, subsystems, and messages.
While I can copy and paste from the search bar inside Console.app and back into the same, I can't seem to share this filter in a way that someone else can paste it into the Console app on their machine.
When I paste the contents of the search bar, I see the following:
process:callserviced
message:Require cycle
library:libnetwork.dylib
library:libboringssl.dylib
library:CFNetwork
library:libusrtcp.dylib
library:AudioToolboxCore
subsystem:com.apple.UIKit
subsystem:com.apple.bluetooth
subsystem:com.apple.hangtracer
subsystem:com.apple.coreaudio
subsystem:com.apple.PlugInKit
subsystem:com.apple.UserNotifications
subsystem:com.apple.runningboard
subsystem:com.apple.corehaptics

There are two issues here.

All but the first are excluded from my search, yet they appear as though they should be included.
When attempting to paste this into Console's search bar, it all runs together into one line, and doesn't work.

Any suggestions?
P.S. I am also open to solutions using the Terminal. I found an old thread on hints.macworld.com which suggests one can use the syslog -C command to view these logs: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120528025400312
Unfortunately, that seems to be replaced by the log command now, and I don't know where to start with that.


texts: How can I stop OS X from automatically connecting to an NFS server on startup?

texts:
I upgraded to Lion today, but was having the same problem on Snow Leopard. When I start up my Mac and login, it automatically connects to an NFS server. I know this because I see the server in Finder in the Shared section. I'm assuming I connected to the server at some point in the past, but I'm not sure how to make it stop connecting now. Where can I look? Even after ejecting the server, it reconnects on the next startup. What can I do to make it stop?

Further information - here's what my /etc/auto_home looks like:

#
# Automounter map for /home
#
+auto_home  # Use directory service
#
# Get /home records synthesized from user records
#
+/usr/libexec/od_user_homes

And running /usr/libexec/od_user_homes produced no output.

The mount doesn't show up in Disk Utility or the Directory Utility, and running lsof doesn't show the mount (/CIFS). df does show /CIFS and indicates that the Filesystem is x-browser:

Here's /etc/auto_master:

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master        # Use directory service
/net            -hosts      -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home           auto_home   -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers    -fstab
/-          -static

And the output from mount:

/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
x-browser: on /CIFS (nfs)
localhost:/gWMIVnK_1WG9ZzUq0q3qb7 on /Volumes/MobileBackups (mtmfs, nosuid, read-only, nobrowse)


texts:
I created a index.php file under my phplessons directory:

before I used the phpStorm to open the directory, Apple's Text Editor opened it, now I have phpStorm open, but there is a ._index.php file alongside index.php file.

I don't know what's the ._index.php file is, but in it I find a string com.apple.TextEncoding.

What is this file and what is its purpose?


texts: Apple Numbers program, weird thing with unix time code formula

texts:
Hi I have applied the unix time code formula

=(((A1/60)/60)/24)+DATE(1970,1,1)+(-5/24)

And it works! But the result I get on my column only shows the date and not the time. Does anyone know how to fix this? I attached an image to show what happens.

Thanks for your time.

The box on the top is the formula, the box on the bottom left is the "Formula Result" but the box in the row is the actual result I get.

I want the timecode too not just the date to appear in the rows.


texts: How to check if MacBook screen is genuine?

texts: I bought used MacBook Pro and have suspicion that screen was replaced and the replacement is not genuine. Is there a way to check that?


texts: Using VMware Fusion on Yosemite, how can I prevent crashes with sleep wake failure?

texts:
I am using VMware Fusion 7.1.0 on Mac OS 10.10.1 Yosemite. Every evening, I send my iMac to sleep. The next morning the mac usually sits in login mask - so it has rebooted. After login, I get "sleep wake failure".

How can I mitigate this? Are there any known workarounds?

I had this problem before with Mac OS 10.9 and VMware Fusion 6 but found no workaround. It seems, that with one of the updates of 10.9 the problem went away or was way more seldom.


texts:
I’m a Mac OS 10.11.
I've tried to build a bootable images USB flashdrive on 2 of my flash drives, now I want use them as a storage again. I want to format them.
But they seems to stuck in 200 MB EFI mode partition or something like that,
and no matter what, I can’t seem to format it back to it original size (32 GB).
I’ve tried MS-DOS, and ExFAT. Both give me same result. :(
How do I force format my flash drive back to its original size on a Mac OS X 10.11 ?

Result of diskutil in Terminal
/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           +499.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 5866A45F-D1A4-43E9-9719-881FBA5840F6
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        +205.1 MB   disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Google Chrome           205.1 MB   disk2s2
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *32.0 GB    disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data USB 3.0                 31.8 GB    disk3s2

Updated
I've format it to ExFAT.
Mac OS X
When I plug that drive into a Mac, I got it to display fine with full capacity.

Windows
But when I plug it into my Windows PC, I kept seeing this EFI partition - not the other one.

What is the cause of that ? How do I prevent it ?
I'm running out of ideas now. :('''


texts:
The Terminal app is slow at reacting to input, lag is very noticeable when I press and hold Enter. When I type bash to create a sub-shell it becomes much faster.

I believe this behavior started when I updated to Sierra, but I might be wrong.

Does anyone know why this happens?


texts: Restore Backup can this still be done after choosing setup as new?

texts: I want to Restore my iPad, I have already created a backup on my Windows 7 PC using iTunes. When I restore my Ipad, as far as I remember from some tutorials online, you will have to choose to restore from iCloud/iTunes or "As New" (Something like this). So when I select "As New" and later after the restoration, I connect my iPad to my Windows 7 machine with iTunes and choose "restore iPad", will it give me back my backup data? Even if I chose "As New" above?


texts:
I have been setting up my new terminal on both of my MacBooks Pro and I noticed that UTF-8 glyphs are way smaller on one of them. This holds true in every application and I can't find the setting that differs between the two laptops so I can get the big glyphs on both. Here are two pictures showing the difference:

I thought it would be related to the locale variables but no: LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" and LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8".

Any help is welcome!

PS: I work on Mac OS Sierra


texts: High fan, No battery symbol, Battery not charging on Macbook Pro Mid 2009

texts:
Recently, my MacBook Pro has had the following issues:

If the battery dies, I need to do an SMC reset for it to even start up. When it does, the fan is running at high speed and there is either no battery symbol, or one with an x on it.

If the  power cord is unplugged, the laptop dies within a few seconds.

If the MacBook Pro is shut down properly before the battery dies, the SMC reset is not necessary to start it back up.

I have tried the following:

Swapping the battery
PRAM rest (in addition the the SMC reset)
I ran the Apple Hardware Test (AHT) and it came out with no issues.

Does anyone have options on what I should try to look into? Thanks.


texts: How frequently is Photo Stream synced to Aperture?

texts:
I've been experiencing considerable delays between the time I take a photo and the time it shows up in Aperture's synced Photo Stream. Specifically, the photos show up on other devices that consume the iCloud Photo Stream, but Aperture seems to lag them substantially.

Is there a way to force Aperture to refresh its Photo Stream so that it matches the Photo Stream on iOS devices (and thus, presumably, its state in iCloud).


texts:
Is it at all possible to create a DMG file which will run a few terminal commands when opened? These are examples for the commands:

create a new folder with specific name.
Place it in a specific location.
Download a few files from my server and save them into that new folder.

What I've done:

I've created a file which include a basic script to create a new folder on my desktop and named it file.command and then opened my terminal and typed chmod +x file.command and then double clicked the file and it ran.

But I don't like this process. I want to be able to bundle a few processes in a DMG file so I can distribute that to my colleagues who are not the tech savvy. And they can simply run that DMG file and it executes a few scripts for them.

Now I'm not sure whether this is at all possible because I have never tried this. So I'm looking for some advice.


texts: Can i store and access iphotos library on external hard drive (and still have it backup to my cloud network)?

texts:
I have two questions regarding Apple photos library.

Can I store my large Photos library on an external HDD?
Is it possible to set this HDD to backup via my computer to the same local network attached storage that my computer backs up too?

Notes: I am using a 2015 MacBook Pro running Big Sur, I am backing up to a NAS drive using time machine


texts: Cannot download app from family sharing (app already downloaded)

texts:
I have recently configured Family Sharing (2 accounts are currently part of it). Most of the apps download just fine, but there are some exceptions.

Example: account A has Twitter in its purchased list; if account B tries to download Twitter from the store, the little cloud icon appears (and this is expected, since the app has indeed been downloaded by a family member already), but the download fails with an error message that says that the app has already been purchased by another user.

Is there a way to solve this?


texts: How do I prevent iTunes from syncing 400 apps to my new iPad?

texts:
I just got my new iPad and installed the apps I wanted without first syncing it with my computer. When I connect it to my computer and choose to sync apps, iTunes wants to add all my 400+ purchased iPad apps to the iPad, and I don't want that.

Is there an easy way to deselect these 400 apps that I don't want from within iTunes? They are arranged on the last screens after the apps that I actually want.


texts:
My friend just played around with the admin account settings of her MacBook Pro and now the account is damaged She cannot access the desktop; after entering the password just the desktop background appears and she cannot do anything.

Below is exactly how she damaged it.

She wanted to change her username.
She went into System Preference -> Users & Groups, and entered the "Advanced Options" of the admin account.

She disregarded the "WARNING".
She changed the account name , full name and Apple ID to another E-mail

What should she do now to fix that?


texts: In the iOS 5 Music App, some songs have a circle with small square beside them

texts: I would like to know how to remove the songs with this shape next to their title because they seem to mess up the song play. When they appear the music app stops playing music.


texts: How can I swap the contents of my two MacBooks?

texts:
I have two MacBooks (an old one mid 2009 with a 150 GB drive (128 GB used) and a newer from 2011 with a 300 GB drive (30 GB used)) and a 1 TB Hard Disk.

What is the easiest way to move the content of the 2009 MacBook to the 2011 model and the content of the 2011 model to the 2009 model (so that basically the content of the the two MacBooks is swapped afterwards)?


texts: Which is more future proof for external HD, USB-C or Thunderbolt 3?

texts:
I'm considering to get a new external HD for my Mac setup. While I have an old MBP 2013, I'm planning to buy a new Mac this year (possibly iMac).

Which is more future proof? USB-C or Thunderbolt 3?


texts: Why might more memory be wired in safe mode than in normal mode?

texts:
Maybe more noticeable in Lion and Mountain Lion, than in Snow Leopard and earlier versions of the operating system:

in safe mode, an unexpectedly large amount of wired memory.

Question

Why might more memory be wired in safe mode?

Example

Screenshots of Mountain Lion in safe and normal modes on a MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory:

with a safe boot, more than 5 GB is wired after login
with a normal boot, less than 2 GB.

Links

Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?

What is wired memory?

Mac virtual memory: how to make OS X create swap (page) files as freely with a normal boot as it does with a safe boot (swapfile1 etc)

XNU questions in Stack Overflow


texts: Can't install Windows on Boot Camp (Retina MacBook Pro, mid-2015)

texts:
Running High Sierra (APFS, unencrypted) with up-to-date Boot Camp Assistant (6.1.0) — clean OS install a couple days ago.

Running into trouble at every step of the process, with both Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 8.1 64-bit (clean ISOs downloaded directly from Microsoft).

Use Boot Camp Assistant to create partition (122GB on 1TB SSD). It downloads Windows Support files, but 9 times out of 10 the laptop crashes at the step of “Saving Windows Support files” – but force restarting allows me to alt/option-boot into the Windows installer anyway: great.

Boot into Windows 10 installer, format Boot Camp partition, select Windows version (have tried both Pro and Home) — it gets through copying, expanding, installing Windows files… but then I get an error every time at "Installing Updates” – error code 0x80070002, can't find drivers compatible with this hardware — Windows will restart (doesn't restart, just goes to a black backlit screen and stays there until I force restart).

Ok. Delete the partition, download the Windows Support Drivers to a FAT-formatted USB drive, then repeat all the above. Same exact thing.

Ok. Delete, repeat, but once booted into the Windows installer, first click "Load drivers" and select the OSXRESERVED partition: shows up all the driver folders, but shows no actual driver files when you navigate to any of the folders. Un-check "Hide drivers that aren't compatible with this hardware”, and a few drivers show up for each piece of hardware — install them all. Proceed to Windows install – no dice, same error at “Installing updates” stage.

Ok. Delete, repeat, “Load drivers” but check the USB instead of OSXRESERVED — same thing, folders are there but drivers don't show up unless I un-check the ‘Hide non-compatible drivers’ option.

Ok. Try again with Windows 8.1 instead of Windows 10, and older version of the support software (Boot Camp Support 5.1.5722) on the USB.

This time Boot Camp Assistant actually completes the “Saving support files” portion of the automatic driver download, and asks for admin password for restart, instead of crashing. Great. Boot into Windows 8.1 installer – it requires a license key instead of having the “I don't have a license key” option, but find one online to get me to the next step. This time it hangs indefinitely at 24% of copying Windows files.

Anyone have any advice? Am I missing something obvious here?


texts:
Is there a way to remove some occurrence of a variable within a text without knowing where the variable is in the text ?

e.g :

  IP= DA, null,

  var to be removed from the text : ", null,"

I know in this actual example I could trim using this

set newText to text 1 thru -8 of var1

Or even with a text delimiter, but I need to remove the variable from a random text without knowing where the variable is within the text


texts: How should I set up the firewall and DHCP with an AirPort Extreme and Lion Server?

texts:
I'm trying to set up a network using an AirPort Extreme as a router (connected to the WAN on one end and the LAN on the other). I understand that out of the box I will have a hardware firewall, and the ability to set up DHCP, but am unclear on what the best way to add the capabilities of Lion Server, or if there's even any advantage to doing so.

Specifically,

(1) I'd like to use Lion Server, rather than the AirPort Extreme for DHCP, mostly because the UI is much easier to use and provides finer control.

(2) I wonder if there's any reason to use Lion Server as the firewall, instead of or in addition to AirPort Extreme (or if that even makes sense).

Is there a best practice on how to set this up? Any suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated.


texts: What is the best way to export iphoto library to a certain folder structure?

texts:
I have done a lot of processing to my iphoto library (organizing events, etc) and I want to export my iphoto library to a external hard drive but I want others to see the files so i don't want to just store the iphoto library package.

Is there any ability to export in certain patterns like

Photos / [Year] / [EventName] /

or something similar to this?


texts: I am going to purchase a 15.4" Macbook Pro by this month. I have a Windows laptop at this moment. Can I transfer my data from from a NTFS formatted disk on my PC to a Mac?


texts: Disable boot chime on late 2009 MacBook without macOS installed

texts:
I would like to disable the boot/power-on chime on a late 2009 MacBook. However, my system does not have macOS installed at all. Is there a way to do this without reinstalling macOS?

The machine has Linux installed, though it often runs FreeBSD as well.


texts: Is it possible to get via CLI the commercial name (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, ...)

texts:
At the moment I'm using both uname and sw_vers

darwin_version=`uname -r`
osx_version=`sw_vers -productVersion`

But if I want to display the commercial name (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, ...) I have to manually maintain a list of osx version - commercial name pair.

I'd like to avoid that manual mapping and rely on system data. Is it possible ?


texts:
Every now and then I get an annoying gong sound while I'm working. I could turn the sound off, but I would prefer to find out what is producing the sound.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks


texts: How can I enable Mountain Lion Spellcheck in Google Chrome?

texts:
Chrome's spellcheck has become cumbersome as of the new auto-correct spell check in Mountain Lion. I love that I don't have to go to the mouse and use a context menu for spell-checking---EXCEPT IN CHROME.

Is there any way to replace Chrome's spellcheck with Mountain Lion's?


texts: On board / internal display works intermittently / randomly

texts: Macbook Pro Mid 2012. Original board and display. About 2 months ago, laptop screen cuts out. External display used to prove everything working normal, including passing Apple Hardware Test. Take to store, conclude the "display is dead", but all logic board components functioning correctly. Take home, hook up to external display, use for a week - then, randomly, the laptop screen starts working. Works until I reset laptop, stops working. Tried all different configurations of plugging in external monitor / power cycling / diagnostics / PRAM rest/ display resolution changes / external display change while power cycling to try and trigger the laptop screen to work again. Fails. 2 days pass - laptop boots up with screen on! Alas I'm forced to restart, and it goes away again. Then comes back in a week. Then I have to power off... and its gone. I'm currently at gone. I don't know what to do - it seems like I either have to buy another display and hope that works properly or replace the logic board, which I can't afford. Displays are ~$78 on ebay. Ideas? I'm about to conclude that it's a poltergeist and I should just pawn it off as a possessed artifact(jokes)


texts: Why am I not getting notifications from the App Store about available updates?

texts:
I have an iPhone 7 (32GB) with iOS 10.3.3 and it seems like I'm not getting any notifications like "This App was updated" or "Some Updates are available" or any kind of Badges of available updates on App Store.

I have turned on All Notifications for App Store in Settings including Banners and Badges. I had my iPhone reset like 3-4 times (including Restore via iTunes) and it just didn't work. I have to manually go into the App Store every time and push it down to check for any available updates. Why can't it just happen automatically. I have seen updates badges on many other iPhones.


texts: How do I paste or type without moving the insertion point? (10.8.x)

texts:
How do I paste or type without moving the insertion point? I am currently on 10.8.x.

I want to be able to type where the insertion point (blinking I-bar) doesn't move but the text I type goes in front of it.

So for example imagine that | represents the current position of the I-bar, and I have the text "[$path.'/to/my/folder'] = ." in the clipboard.

Then I have the following situation:

$myPathArray| = '/rest/of/path';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path';

See, I want to be able to place the insertion point where the | is above, then paste and have the text get inserted so that now I would be in the following situation without having to move the | myself:

$myPathArray|[$path.'/to/my/folder'] = '/rest/of/path';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path2';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path3';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path4';

That way I could just press down arrow one single time after pasting and be here:

$myPathArray[$path.'/to/my/folder'] = '/rest/of/path';
$myPathArray| = '/rest/of/path2';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path3';
$myPathArray = '/rest/of/path4';

How can I do that?

It would also be nice to be able to type stuff in so if I typed "kcab" at the insertion point I would go from this:

|wards

to this:

|backwards

I am using various text editors like PHPStorm and BBEdit but I would think these two types of text modes would be OS-level features.


texts: Is there a user font for San Francisco in El Capitan?

texts:
I thought the new Apple font was called San Francisco, but I cannot find it in the font list of the Keynote.app for my Mac. Is it called another way or it is not available for Keynote?

I am currently using OS X El Capitan.


texts: Apple Photos face recognition: cloud or local?

texts:
I am using Photos on:

iPad Air 2013 A1474 / iOS 12.4.6
MacBook Air 2013 / OSx Catalina 10.15.4
iPhone 7 Plus 2013 A1784 / iOs 13.3.1
MacBook Pro A1989 / OSx Catalina 10.15.4

All devices are set to synchronise iCloud Photos "Optimise Mac Storage", with the exception of the MacBook Pro, set to "Download originals to this Mac"

On the MacBook Air I have imported thousands photos from older folders on disk. It took a few days to upload to iCloud and sync on other devices.

Once done, for some unknown reasons,

on MacBook Pro, people and pictures are set and done. No curation
on iPhone all pictures available, people search doesn't work (empty) results when selecting people
on iPad it took days to build thumbnails, people search limited to few results
on MacBook Air, people recognition is not working yet as it is 4 days the computer is "Curating" (tried to reboot twice, still curating): "5.114 photos scanned photos will continue scanning your remaining 24306 photo when you're not using the app and your Mac is connected to power"

I wonder why such a different behavior...
Is face recognition performed in the cloud or locally on each device?


texts: Why can I not backup my replacement iPhone after restoring an iCloud backup?

texts: I replaced my iPhone 6 with an identical phone, restored the most recent backup from iCloud.  I now cannot backup to the cloud without adding more storage.  Why?


texts: Why does Skype 5.7 on Lion require Adobe Flash?

texts:
Does anyone know why Skype requires Flash? Is this new? Are there any "recent" versions of Skype that do not?

I'm guessing it requires it solely for it's "Skype Home" section, which is pretty annoying since I don't need that section in Skype and it makes me have to run flash (which in turn makes me sick and my battery unhappy).

thanks!


texts: osx port install of php74 crashes with Illegal instruction: 4

texts:
I have an issue with php74 compiled by macports that is crashing with illegal instruction 4 when i run phpunit for unit testing my project.
uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:07:06 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64

sudo port selfupdate
Password:
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.6.4 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.6.4 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree

I use this computer for website development with php74, apache 2.4 and mysql8.
This was working well and i was able to run unit tests on my project using phpunit 8.5.4
The other day the computer locked up and was un-responsive so I powered off and on again.
After that, the unit tests (phpunit) running php74 (7.4.15) command exits with illegal instruction 4.
Other php commands, executed either via apache, or from the CLI work ok, it just appears to be the phpunit commands that break php74.
i re-installed an earlier versions of php74, (7.4.14 & 7.4.13) and the compiler complained that MacOSX11.2 was missing.  using the earlier version of php => same error.
i tried another version of phpunit (9.5.2) => same error.
i run the disk utility to scan drive errors, none found => same error
i tried copying the /opt/local/php74 from another mac to this computer => same error.
i have:
completely removed xcode.
removed macports and uninstalled all ports.
re-installed xcode 12.4
symbolically linked the 11.3 SDK to 11.2 ie:
ls -Al  /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   14 24 Feb 11:08 MacOSX.sdk -> MacOSX11.3.sdk
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  256 24 Feb 11:09 MacOSX10.15.sdk
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   55 24 Feb 14:49 MacOSX11.2.sdk -> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX11.3.sdk
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel  224 24 Feb 11:08 MacOSX11.3.sdk

this link removed the macports warning, not sure if it was correct, but it appears to work.
re-installed all ports
and the error remains.
./phpunit --group Jobs_model
PHPUnit 9.5.2 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Warning:       Your XML configuration validates against a deprecated schema.
Suggestion:    Migrate your XML configuration using "--migrate-configuration"!

zsh: illegal hardware instruction  ./phpunit --group Jobs_model

sudo port installed | grep -e php -e mysql -e apache
  apache2 @2.4.46_1+preforkmpm (active)
  mysql8 @8.0.23_0 (active)
  mysql8-server @8.0.23_0 (active)
  mysql_select @0.1.2_4 (active)
  php74 @7.4.15_0+libedit (active)
  php74-apache2handler @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-calendar @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-cgi @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-curl @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-exif @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-fpm @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-ftp @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-gd @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-geoip @1.1.1_0 (active)
  php74-gettext @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-gmagick @2.0.5RC1_0 (active)
  php74-iconv @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-igbinary @3.2.1_0 (active)
  php74-intl @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-ldap @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-mbstring @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-memcached @3.1.5_0 (active)
  php74-mysql @7.4.15_0+mysqlnd (active)
  php74-opcache @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-openssl @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-soap @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-sodium @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-xdebug @3.0.2_0 (active)
  php74-xmlrpc @7.4.15_0 (active)
  php74-zip @1.19.2_0 (active)
  php_select @1.0_0 (active)

my question is, what is recommended to fix this?
I really don't want to wipe the mac, but it is sort of moving in that direction.
here is an example stack trace from the error console.  https://pastebin.com/td7Xi4EL


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My IPhone 4 has some carrier features I would like to disable:

When ever I miss a call this thing opens and I have to close it. If I do not close it(say for ex. a missed call at night) the screen will stay on with this thing till I close it. It will often even drain the whole battery.

I'm using IOS 7 on a jailbroken(I did this hoping I would find a solution there) iPhone.


texts: iMac fails to complete boot from main drive with flashing black screen

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Immediately after updating my Early 2009 24" iMac 9,1 to OS X 10.11.6 from 10.11.5, it no longer boots properly. Partway through the loading bar completion, the screen goes black (but remains on) and flashes occasionally very briefly with the normal boot screen. Booting in Verbose Mode shows the iMac appearing to post. Everything goes fine initially before returning to the Apple screen, then once again the command line where upon it begins the same flashing behavior, with the following displayed on the screen.

Booting into Safe Mode fails to solve the issue, though a spinning wheel (such as the one on the boot screen from old OS X versions) is overlayed on top of the loading bar. Booting into the recovery partition works fine (though the name is strangely “Recovery-10.11.2”.) Booting onto a clean installation on an external drive works as well.

Due to a series of issues, I can’t run Apple Hardware Test. My iMac cannot boot to it from the internet as it’s too old, my go-to third party GitHub repo of images lacks the one for my board model, the disc drive on my iMac is broken, and I lack the original disks.

I've run First Aid on the boot volume which repaired broken hard links, but didn't cure the issue, and no longer returns any issues.

Resetting PRAM and SMC did nothing.

I have recent backups of all data, though I would prefer not to restore such a massive volume of data. Booting from the Time Machine backup also fails.

What steps can I take to diagnose/fix the issue?


texts: Photo Library Organization With Catalina

texts: What happened Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters after upgrading to Catalina? It appears to have been replaced with originals and reorganized by uuid or something that obliterates dates in the folder hierarchy?


texts: Access Keychain Access password generator (password assistant) via Terminal without the user interface

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Is it possible to access, the "password assistant" also known as the password generator located inside the Keychain Access via terminal or otherwise?

Steps to access in UI:

Launch Keychain Access
New password item
Select padlock item (generate password)
Create random password according to security level


texts: "Unchecking" tracks playing music on iPhone

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My audio intake from iPhone outweighs that of my Macbook by a double-digit ratio.

Sometimes I encounter an audio track on-the-go that I would like to delete, remove from the playlist, or at least remove the track from the rotation. In iTunes, I would delete the file from the library or uncheck the box next to the track's name.

How can I remove a track from rotation on my iPhone?

iOS 7.1.2, iPhone 5s. jb solutions welcome


texts: Time Capsule user account password change

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I installed a Time Capsule at my office to handle backups of all Macbooks (8).

To ensure a minimum of privacy, via Airport Utility-->Disks I created One account per each user (Changed Secured Shared Disks-->With accounts).

I used a default password so each user would then sign in via Finder and then change it to something else.

I've been trying to figure out how a regular user with no access to the Time Capsule main password would go in and update his own password.

When I connect from finder to the Time Capsule a modal comes in to sign in and there's a button to change password.

Clicking on change password triggers a new modal to input old password, new password and verify.
After I click Change Password I always get an error like this:

If I sign in with my assigned password, I can access to my Shared disk account without problems so it cannot be an invalid IP or server name because I can access, I just can't change the password.

How do you change a user password on a user account within Time Capsule without using Airport Utility when you know your current user account user & password but you don't know the device password of the Time Capsule.

Thanks!


texts: MacBook Air M1 battery drain when sleeping

texts: My new Macbook Air(M1 Chip, Big Sur 11.1) uses a lot of the battery during sleep mode I talked with apple support regarding this issue and I have been told to reinstall macOS. I reinstalled macOS and the issue has been left. Again I called them and they told me I should give the laptop to one of MacBook resellers to check the computer. I gave my new MacBook to Macfroum and I received this answer after five days: " The Battery drain somewhat when in sleep mode, but nothing out of the specifications Apple has published. Apple diagnostics report no issue with the battery."  However, Macfroum thinks drain battery 1% percentage every hour is normal!!!. I called Apple support again and they recommended asking Macfroum to reinstall the OS via Apple Configurator 2. Macfroum restored the firmware, erased, and reinstalled the OS via Apple Configurator 2.  I checked again the computer and I had the same issue look at the following picture. All applications were closed and did not install any program on the laptop.  I compare it with my old MacBook Air and the old one just lost 2 % battery with many open applications.  I had the issue from the first day that I bought this new MacBook Air(M1) and it is around two weeks I am trying to fix it and had contact with Apple to fix the issue.


texts: recover/restore files with specific extension from Time Machine with OSX

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I would like to recover/restore only *.GIF files from my most recent backup. They were accidentally deleted from everywhere in My Computer instead of just the intended folder. I currently have only 6 GB of free space (they took up about 1 GB, and only ~4000 files).

If I try selecting the most recent backup in Time Machine for recover, it starts by counting up to >20,000 files and then quits saying there is not enough space and stops. If I try to specify the Users folder, and kind:GIF in the most recent backup in Time Machine, the files remain gray color and not selectable.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this not possible?

Let me know if more info is needed.

NOTE: I edited to change "recover" to "recover/restore" - I didn't stop to think about the difference in meaning. If possible I need them back where they belong and there were so many locations - including applications and webpage downloads - I doubt I could figure it out myself.

Here is my most recent backup. Is Seagate Backup Plus Drive the drive name? With spaces?

This seems to work:
david914s-MacBook-Air:Volumes david914$ cd "/Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Backups.backupdb/"

But adding this, doesn't:
david914s-MacBook-Air:Backups.backupdb david914$ cd "/Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Backups.backupdb/david914's MacBook Air/"

-bash: cd: /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Backups.backupdb/david914's MacBook Air/: No such file or directory

Hmm... I've deleted --dry-run but still it is not adding files back to my computer.

david914s-MacBook-Air:david914’s MacBook Air david914$ rsync -av --include=".gif" --include="/" --exclude="*" "/Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/Backups.backupdb/david914’s MacBook Air/2015-08-30-221221/Macintosh HD/Users/david914/" "/Users/david914/"
building file list ... done
./

sent 81 bytes  received 26 bytes  214.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
david914s-MacBook-Air:david914’s MacBook Air david914$


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So, this is me, after two days having tried almost every possible solution from the internet and the Apple Support team.

I have a 2016 Macbook Air. It has worked greatly for all this time. And until wednesday (four days ago), I haven't updated since El Capitan. I thought updating to Mojave would be a good idea. Yesterday in the morning I turned on the mac. Forbidden sign. (Circle+Slash). Restart. Again, and again, and again. Cmd+R. Recovery mode. Trying to reinstall Mojave: the Macintosh HD is encrypted and asks me for the password. Dialog box opens for me to type and...
JUST CAN'T TYPE.
Can't click over the text box. Nothing. I restart to the same point to see if there was a keyboard problem. Try Terminal. It types. I try Disk Utility. In order to make any change, it asks me the password, but the same beautiful dialog box in which I can't write anything. I create a partitioned APFS volume from the same disk. It works. I install Mojave in it. I start it correctly. When I go to finder, it states that the Macintosh HD (the other disk) is encrypted and blocked. In order to unlock it, the same dialog box in which, I CAN'T TYPE.

I google and google. I chat with the Apple Care team. They call me. Then they connect me with their manager, the superior service. They ask me to restart, to create a parallel startup disk in an external drive. I do it. I install Mojave in it. The same loop again. I try

resetpassword

in Terminal in recovery mode, for the Macintosh HD. It's possible. I do it by connecting to icloud. (It was encrypted and accesible to get the pass by icloud). Now it appears 'mounted'. I try

diskutil apfs unlockVolume /dev/disk2s1

(this solution) Can't.

I try reinstalling Mojave in the disk when 'mounted' by resetting password again. It fails. Forbidden sign again. Now I'm trying the kernel solution from this question, but there's something I might be doing wrong, because I can't get to the list of the kext extensions.

I am lost. And I need to recover the data from the last three weeks before my last backup. I can't lose that info. If I could just recover that, and lose all of the extra stuff, It won't be a problem.

Do you have any input? Trying won't hurt me :) Thank you!

EDIT:
When starting pressing Cmd+S, these are the errors:

BuildUser(): error building a user of type 0x20010008
ERROR: no panel or special users!

End OpenKernelRootVolume
ERROR!!!Load prelinked kernel with status 0x800000000000000e
Error loading kernel cache (0xe)


texts: Can I build an OS X Image with preinstalled software? (Or, please help me move back one OS X version.)

texts:
My MacBook Pro with Retina Display is a year old, and I'm in the mood of a fresh install. (I've got random stuff lying around, etc.)

For compatibility with some software I'd like to run, I'm moving back one version. This means that I need to do a fresh install. In doing so, I don't want to forego all of the installed apps that I use. I've made a list of the apps I'd ideally like to keep.

The process that I have outlined now looks like this:

Manually move over all of my images and documents to an external disk drive. (Music and TV shows live with iTunes in the Cloud.)
Completely wipe and reinstall my OS.
Install all of the apps on my list, one by one.
Move my files back.

I suppose I'm looking for a shortcut, or a good way to manage this process. If it helps, I've got a white plastic MacBook from 2010 with Mac OS X 10.8 on, which I can probably use to create a fresh image.

Is it possible for me to modify an OS X installer so that it installs a set of applications for me?  Alternatively, is it possible to move my files via Time machine and ignore the rest of the OS? What I'm really looking for is a tool do create some sort of starter image for me to work with, like what they do to deploy in enterprises, libraries, schools, etc.

What imaging tools do sysadmins use for this kind of thing?


texts: How many QHD displays can I connect to one side of the 13" MBP 4 TB 2016?

texts:
I own a CTO 13" 2016 MBP w/ 4 ThunderBolt ports and I am in the market for 2 QHD (1440p) external displays.

While the displays themselves are not USB-C / Thunderbolt compatible I was thinking of also buying a "Satechi Type-C to Dual HDMI Adapter" which would also charge my Mac and theoretically send video to the 2 external displays.

But now I am wondering if the one port strategy provides enough bandwidth to power the 2 displays at full resolution.

If it matters I don't intend on using the internal display at all with this setup.


texts: Incorrect hostname keeps appearing in sharing preferences

texts:
Problem:
I've got two macs in the same network. One of them is often not discoverable via the Finder or Apple Music (shared library). I noticed that this mac has incorrect hostnames in the sharing preferences. When I change the hostname in the text field to bestHostname, the blacked out parts won't change. Instead they show something like phils-imac.domain.
The other mac is always discoverable and sharing preferences show up the correct hostname.
What I tried:
When I type sudo hostnameinto the terminal, the correct hostname appears (the purpled out one). I even tried sudo scutil --set HostName bestHostname to set the hostname via terminal, but system preferences still does not change it.
I even restarted the mac. Nothing helped.

Any ideas on how to fix this?


texts: Formatting an external harddrive with TrueCrypt as NTFS?

texts:
I've been trying for a couple of hours to figure out how to encrypt my external harddrive with TrueCrypt. I need it to be formatted as NTFS, however TrueCrypt doesn't let me choose any other filesystem than HFS+ (Mac OS Extended).

This is how the TrueCrypt window looks like upon trying to pick the filesystem:

I've got both Tuxera NTFS and MacFuse installed so I can perfectly mount, write, read and format disks as NTFS via the Disk Utility. I just can't seem to encrypt it via TrueCrypt. The reason I need it to be NTFS is that it needs to be 100% Windows compatible with as little hassle as possible, otherwise I would have settled with HFS+.

I'm using OS X 10.8.5 on a 2011 MacBook Pro, the external harddrive is a Western-Digitals 1TB drive.


texts: Deleting files and empty trash does not increase free space

texts:
I have a MacBook Air running macOS Catalina 10.15, upgraded from an older version.

There's only a few 10s of megabytes free on the disk, but deleting files and emptying the trash doesn't change the amount of free space.

I've tried:

looking for time machine snapshots that can be deleted, but there do not seem to be any (tmutil listlocalsnapshots /System/Volumes/Data does not show any snapshots to remove)
running disk utility first aid after booting in recovery mode on the Macintosh HD - Data partition.  This produces an error...

Checking snapshot 1 of 2 (com.apple.apfs.purgatory.115b2)
error: btn: invalid key order (1) oid 1742762 / oxid 0 / level 2 / flags 0x1
previous key:  [...]
current key [...]
next key [...]
snapshot invalid
the volume /dev/rdisk1s1 could not be verified completely```

disabling SICP using csrutil disable and rebooting
running fsck in single user mode:

fsck -f which yields:
error: container /dev/rdisk1 is mounted with write acess
but trying to umount /dev/rdisk1 tells me that /dev/rdisk1 is not currently mounted.
Running fsck -f /dev/rdisk1s1 produces the same message.
same with running fsck_apfs -f /dev/rdisk1s1

I'm about at my wits end here.  Anyone have suggestions for further things to try?


texts: It is required to have a mac to build iphone application or we can use VirtualBox to emulate the MAC OS X platform?

texts:
It is required to have a mac to build iphone application or we can use VirtualBox to emulate the MAC OS X platform and do the same task ? Is there any license restriction ?

Thanks.


texts:
I am running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.5 on a Macbook Air.

Recently, on two occasions, I saw the Launchpad icon in the Dock jumping up and down a few times and then it stopped.

On that moment I was not active on the computer.

What could be the reason?


texts: How do I get LibreOffice 4.0 running on an iBook G4?

texts: My brother just got an iBook G4 running 10.4.2 (Tiger), and we were trying to get LibreOffice 4.0 (the latest version) installed. The machine insists that the LibreOffice package is damaged or incomplete. However, my MacBook Pro, which runs 10.7.5 (Lion) runs the same package just fine.


texts: Is there an iOS keyboard that writes a blank after a comma?

texts:
I haven't found a single keyboard app yet which comes with that handy option.
Already tried Gboard and SwiftKey.

SwiftKey for Android can do it, but not the iOS app.


texts: work-around for the absense of "save-as" in OS X 10.7

texts:
Is there a more convenient work-around for Apple's decision to drop the "save as" command than clicking on duplicate, then save the copy which then displays the file structure?

I have tried the app "Default Folders" and it does not solve the problem (at least in my hands).

thanks for your assistance


texts: How do I add all Tweets to the Mountain Lion Notification Center?

texts: I love the Notification center gesture and would love to be able to glance at my full Twitter stream that way. How can I put all of Twitter into that notification area?


texts: What is a software or app that extracts old flip phone data to a Mac via USB?

texts:
UPDATE, here is how I got the photos out.

I'm looking for a software, preferably free, that can extract old flip phone data to a MacBook Pro. I have some photos and sound recording saved on my Samsung AT&T SGH-a687 phone with a broken gpu (so I can't see anything). These are not saved on the SD card.
The manual of the phone doesn't seem to have an option to transfer photos and sounds out. So I would like to have a software that can extract all those phone data for me via USB onto my computer.

I tried downloading a trial version of DataPilot, but that appeared to just be an updater, not the actual DataPilot. (I also hope it isn't a malware.)

If there is nothing free, what are the software you'd recommend me using? I'm willing to pay up to around $50.

Btw, I have a backup PC, if there's an extraction software for a PC, that would work too.


texts: Putting iPhone passcode into Xcode, so I wouldn't need to unlock my iPhone for every build?

texts:
Is there a way that I could put my iPhone lock code into Xcode, so I wouldn't need to unlock my iPhone for every build?

It gets really frustrating that I need to physically unlock my iPhone before every build.

I know for developing on android they allow you to put the device in dev mode, which restricts the device from sleeping.


texts: Updated to iMovie 10.1.6: Movies and projects missing

texts:
(MacOS: Sierra 10.12.1 , iMovie: 10.16)

UPDATE:
I see now I have TWO iMovie folders, one on my local drive (with some valid projects and movies) and another on my eternal drive (where everything was supposed to be).  With iMovie, I can only see the final movies only on my local drive. No Movies are found or visible that are on my eternal drive. So questions are:
1. I am simply unable to see, open, find ANY final movie via iMovie that resides on the external drive.  Where are my movies?  iMovie is really inconvenient to say the least.
2. How can I move/merge my local drive projects, folders, and etc into my external drive folder?

ORIGINAL:---------------
I am missing movies and projects once I update to 10.1.6. When I attempt import from standard folders, the individual clips are imported into the wrong events and other projects aren't showing anyway.  It seems every time I update iMovie a huge mess is left behind.  Any thoughts on how I can proceed?  Thanks!


texts: How to tell if your key hinge (retainer clip) is broken?

texts:
I own a MacBook Air 2013 and I recently broke my "comma" key.

I had to pull it out to clean underneath and I think I was a bit rough, so one of the hooks in the key cap broke. I put it back on and it seems to work but the key pops out often. My concern is not with the key cap, I'm worried about the hinge. How can I tell the hinge is not broken? How can I know if I didn't break it either?


texts:
I am trying to set up a Google Apps account on Yosemite. I can log into the account, up until where I select which services to active. It will only activate Contacts and Messages. Mail, Calendar, and Notes will not activate with a very generic error message: An unknown error occurred.

As part of a migration, I first tried adding the account next to the 'old' account, which gave all kind of errors pertaining to Yosemite not liking it that I wanted two accounts for the same email address. Maybe there still are some remnants of that, that I should clean out, but I don't know how.


texts: TRRS lavalier mic not recognized as input Macbook Pro

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 2015 (running MACOS 10.15.5 Cataline) and I recently bought a lavalier microphone that worked for a while. Now, all of sudden my MBP won't recognize it as an input device. This microphone has a TRRS plug.

When I plug it in, the MIDI Sound menu switches the "build in output" icon from a speaker to a headphone.

The microphone is working, I can use it on my cell phone, I can record audio on a Windows computer.

I tried this answer here but it didn't work.

Sometimes when I'm lucky my MBP does recognize it properly and recording works fine (and it used to work for a while).

Is there a way to force the plug to a certain pinout, instead of relying on the autodetection?

The microphone came with an adapter to a regular TRS 3.5 mm plug. Using the adapter makes no difference.

Thank you.


texts: What is the difference between MDM and third party services for distributing the app from Enterprise Developer Program?

texts:
am asking this because I really need to explain it to my client. My client wants to distribute apps only to his employees for business purposes, like in-house application. He wants the feature like TestFlight which is acting like App Store where we can update the app and install the app every time the developer update the app. He doesn't want to submit his app to App Store. In order to make his employees to use easily, he also said, his employees can install the app easily and show the update easily like Testflight without expire date or limited testers. I found hockey app , but it requires testers to be Hockeyapp members.

Any Help?


texts: AppleScript to change resolutions on my monitor

texts:
I have reviewed multiple scripts that address primarily changes on a retina display.  I have a standard monitor (iMac 27").  The line of code that seems to give me trouble is:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to tell window "iMac"

I have substituted the name of the window containing the parameters of my monitor (see picture).

What am I doing wrong here?  Thanks.


texts: Does macOS ship with software developed by third parties?

texts:
I know in the days of Classic Mac OS, Apple had a habit of shipping the OS with pieces of software, often useful little utilities, that while on the face of it look like any other piece of bundled software, are actually written by third parties and simply paid for by Apple to be able to be included with every installation.

Is this practice still followed? To clarify, I don't mean software written by a company which is then bought out by Apple and their software shipped; but software written by a company which remains independent, but is shipped with Mac OS.


texts: Is there a good automatic time tracking tool for Mac OS X

texts:
I'm searching for an automatic time tracking tool for Mac OS X. I regularly mess up manual time tracking with timers etc., so I want something more automatic:

The application should run in background and track more or less everything I do - which applications are active, which sites I browse, how long I'm idle etc.

It would then list all the things I do in a timeline and let me specify filters like "Xcode in foreground", "browsing developer.apple.com", etc.
Using these filters, I could check how long I worked on what after I left work.

Is there an application which does this? I'm aware of a website and a client for it, but I'm absolutely NOT comfortable with putting all the things I do on some random website.


texts: iPhone Accessory warning - without any accessory

texts:
I am getting following error:

Previously I connected iPhone headphone/handsfree. It was working fine. Now, I disconnected my headphone/handsfree & my iPhone started giving warning as follows.

I am not sure what's wrong with the phone. I have restarted iPhone many many times, but anything didn't work. I am not able to talk with iPhone without handsfree. iPhone forcing me to use handsfree.


texts: charging my Macbook Pro (85w) with my Macbook Air (45w) charger

texts:
seeing if anyone as done this. Has any used a 45w charger (like the one that comes with the Air) to charge their Macbook Pro? I left my Pro charger at a friends house and will not be able to get it before I leave town for a work trip, where I'll need the Pro. I'm  thinking that I can shut down the laptop and use the Air charger to charge it over night.

Has anyone done this? I'm worried about damaging the battery on the Pro.


texts: Upgrade to High Sierra fails leaving the Macintosh HD unbootable

texts:
I just tried to upgrade my Macbook Pro 2016 from Sierra to High Sierra, and the system hung in the upgrade process (screen was black, but keyboard backlight was still on).  After I rebooted the system, it booted directly into the Recovery partition.

The Macintosh HD volume shows up greyed out when I start the disk utility, but I'm able to mount it (after putting in my encryption password).  However, when I set the Startup Disk to the Macintosh HD and reboot, it still boots into the Recovery partition.  Holding down the option key during boot only shows the Recovery partition as an option for bootable drives.

I'm able to access my files by booting my Mac in Target Disk mode, so at least I can recovery my files using another Mac as a last resort...

Any idea how I can recover my system?


texts: Disk Utility does not show OK message after Verify Disk

texts:
Rebooted and Verified Disk twice. There is no OK message and stops here:

Is it a new behaviour under Mavericks, or something wrong? How can I fix it?


texts: Use mdfind to identify all encrypted dmg?

texts:
Can someone suggest a clever way to identify all dmg that are encrypted?

My only idea is rather complicated. use mdfind '(kMDItemFSName=*.dmg)' and then test the response from hdiutil imageinfo and log the result of those that ask for a password. Thanks to the answer and comments, the following command runs all the dmg through hdiutil, but I can't figure out how to identify the ones that give an error. Any ideas?

mdfind -0 "kMDItemFSName=*.dmg" |xargs -0 -I{} -L 1 hdiutil imageinfo {}


texts: What are the ways in which installed software can negatively impact OSX speed over time?

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Applications installed on macOS are not always completely self-contained. Sometimes they write files in multiple locations outside their .app bundle, taking up space that they sometimes occupy even after we uninstall them.

What I'm more interested in with this question, is understanding the ways in which an application (even when not launched), can slow down the OS (eg. boot time, shutdown time, GUI responsiveness, app launch time).

I know that applications (both malicious and not) install:

kexts
Login Items
LaunchDaemons
LaunchAgents

Beyond these four, what are other ways in which installed software can negatively impact the performance/stability of the overall OS?


texts: Crash with error "No more room to grow table"

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For the past week or so my computer has been crashing at least once a day with the same error.

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8018318b7f): "No more room to grow table: 0x0xffffff8018ab3e00 size:262142, used:262141, requested elem:1"@/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-3248.60.10/osfmk/kern/waitq.c:594
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff802e83bd60 : 0xffffff80182dab52
0xffffff802e83bde0 : 0xffffff8018318b7f
0xffffff802e83be60 : 0xffffff8018316122
0xffffff802e83be70 : 0xffffff80182d43ac
0xffffff802e83bee0 : 0xffffff80182d1bb8
0xffffff802e83bf10 : 0xffffff80183b8eca
0xffffff802e83bfb0 : 0xffffff80183ecd86

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Google Chrome He

Mac OS version:
15G31

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 15.6.0: Thu Jun 23 18:25:34 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.60.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: B5AA8E3E-65B6-3D0E-867B-8DCCF81E536C
Kernel slide:     0x0000000018000000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8018200000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff8018100000
System model name: MacBookPro11,5 (Mac-06F11F11946D27C5)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 12138432578219

I've wiped the drive and re-installed El Capitan but I'm still getting the same issue.

I use this machine for software development, so there's a good amount of CPU and memory intense operations, a couple virtual environments, and I run Chrome Canary, Chromium, and Chrome which I know are big hogs as far as browsers go.  However, when running low on memory before I recall there being a dialog window that "Your system is low on memory" and I was able to close programs before a crash.

What would be causing this issue?  Hardware failure?  Memory leak in a program?

I notice that last process name is Google Chrome He so maybe it's just time I switch browsers...


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I want to delete all my photos from my iCloud (ca. 2500 Photos), so that I have no photos in the iCloud.

I have gone into my iPhone's Photo app and selected all 2500 Photos and deleted them. Then I deleted them from the "recently deleted" album in the Photos app. It said that this would delete them from all devices connected to my iCloud.

Now, my iPhone's Photos app is absolutely empty, which is what I wanted.

However, 24 hours later, on my other iOS devices, as well as on iCloud.com (accessed through my laptop), the Photos are still visible, even though it says "Updated".

Does it just take some time for the deletion of all photos to sync to all iOS devices/iCloud.com, or is something not working as I expect it to work?


texts: How can I change OSX's spinning beachball pointer animation?

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I want to change the spinning beachball pointer animation used in OSX to indicate an application is not responding to system events, to something else, like a funny GIF, or maybe just a different icon. Is anyone familiar enough with the operating system to know where files for that animation are stored? Is it a script? Is it just a GIF? Is it even possible to change it?

Here's the image I mean:


texts: Changing the Logic Board on the Macbook, does it changes the serial number?

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I have changed the Logic Board from my Macbook, is there any chance that the serial number is another different one from the original Macbook?
I really need help.
Thanks!


texts: Why can't I disable my iPhone's (iOS 5) new mail sound?

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I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.

In the last month or so, it has developed an annoying habit. When a new mail arrives it makes a "boing" sound and a vibrate.

It does this, even though the New Mail sound setting in Settings is switched to None. It does this, even when all sounds are switched off, via the mute button!

It is very annoying! Does anyone else see this bug, and does anyone have a suggestion (short of a clean install) to fix it?


texts: macOS 10.12 Sierra will not forget my ssh keyfile passphrase

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After creating a new encrypted id-rsa key file with ssh-keygen and using it for the first time, I cannot get macOS to forget the passphrase. This is similar to how to make OS X not remember ssh key passphrase question but worse.

I tried rebooting, killing the ssh-agent, locking all my keychains but it still seems to be stored somewhere. However, I cannot find it in any keychains. This seems to be very insecure. The answers to SSH private key password never removed with Keychain/ssh-agent also do not help.

In fact, the dialog that used to appear asking you whether you wanted to store the passphrase or not does not seem to exist anymore.


texts: Is there a command-line BitTorrent client preinstalled on OS X?

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On a "bare" OS X 10.8 install, what is the easiest way to grab a largish torrent from the command line (MacTeX, 2.3 GB)? I can't use GUI-only clients, it's a headless system. If no such client is preinstalled, which one would be easiest to install and get running?

EDIT: To be more specific, I'm looking for a command similar to wget or curl that would get a torrent and serve only this torrent while running, then exiting when the download is complete.


texts: Conflict between devices in call log if we have the same Apple ID

texts: I have iOS 9.0.2 on an iPhone 5s and my wife has an iPhone 6 with the same iOS version. We have the same Apple ID and we have issue after upgrading the two call logs are the same now. If she has a call I will find it in my log.


texts: Issue with Secondary monitor attached to macbook pro/ air

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I have following mac laptops
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) running high Sierra
MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2012) running Catalina
I use Asus 24' monitor as external display with these laptops. Recently i've noticed that both laptops stopped working with the monitor. External display is not detected under settings. When HDMI is plugged, and monitor is switched ON, laptop screen blinks (goes black) and then comes back to normal and nothing shows on external screen.
Since both laptop stopped at same time, my though problem is with external display. To verify i connected a video streaming device to the same HDMI port using the same HDMI cable and it worked.
I'm a bit confused why both mac stopped working with external display when a video streaming device still works on the same HDMI port with same HDMI cable.
I also tested both mac's with my TV HDMI port and they were able to use TV as external display without issues.
Is there something that i can debug or check?