texts: What is the maximum number of tags supported?

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My concern is that this answer on Superuser implies that there is a bitfield of a fixed size in the HFS+ extended attribute that is used for storing tag flags. Or maybe that just for the first N tags, and it has some way of handling the overflow case?

What is the maximum number of unique Finder tags that can be created? I am interested in the answer for OS versions 10.10 - 10.12


texts: Time Machine: What files and folders are affected when excluding System Files and Applications?

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When you put System Files and Applications in the exclusion list, it is not clear what specific files and folders are being concerned.

Is it just the /Applications and /System folders?

Are /private or /opt also excluded? How about /Library?


texts: How to change the default font and size in Notes on El Capitan?

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Editing DefaultFonts.plist doesn't seem working anymore on the pre-release build 15A279b of El Capitan:

sudo vim /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/DefaultFonts.plist

It still shows that the file is readonly. I guess it's because the new System Integrity Protection feature.

Is there another way to change the default font in Notes app?


texts: Windows resized after sleep with external display connected to Macbook Pro via DP to usb-c

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I have an external display ASUS VG279 connected to my MBP 2018 via Display Port to USB-C cable by moshi (sold on Apple's website). I use 1080p resolution for the display and my macOS version is Catalina (10.15.4). When my laptop wakes up after sleep, all my windows resized (smaller than should be) and I have to manually adjust it every time. My laptop is always on a charge.

How can I do so the size of windows kept to the external display resolution after sleep?

The issue doesn't happen if I lock my computer manually and then unlock it, only if it was put to sleep according to the schedule in energy saver preferences.

UPD: I don't know what happened but now after the laptop wakes up I see my windows minimized and a small part of them picking out from the right side of the screen, it's like I have a two display setup and the windows were on the right screen even though my laptop lid is always closed.


texts: Authorization plugin for package installation

texts: Is it possible to allow installation of specific packages/profiles without admin credentials by modifying authorization rights?.I was able to allow installation for all by modifying the installation right in authorizationdb.Is it possible to receive any information about package requesting for installation inside auth plugin so that i would be able to evaluate and allow.


texts: How to change selection color in appearance?

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I usually use the "graphit" appearance in Yosemite. With "blue" I don't like the selection color. However I miss the red-yellow-green colors on the left from the "blue" appearance.

Is there some (cli) tool where you can customize the appearance and mix both themes up as you desire?

Bodo


texts: Where does the iPhone store deleted apps' notification settings?

texts: Basically if an app is allowed notifications, it never asks again even if the app is deleted and reinstalled. Where is all this data stored?


texts: Will turning on two-factor auth require me to know my security question answers? (because I dont)

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Current status, signed in on several devices to iCloud services etc.

I was prompted about using two factor auth and thought it a good idea. I also want to change the email address it uses so I used the https://appleid.apple.com site via a browser in my laptop to sign in and sort out both but it asked me to answer the security questions I set up 15 or so years ago.

Knowing me the name of my best friend at school will either be something like My cat (I should've tried that), Lord Vader, or e1e7ec2204d600993d9c18a1ec675504.

Now the password settings via my phone are asking the questions.

I know I can ring Apple to try and reset it. What I want to know in the meantime (because I'm lazy so I won't get round to doing it soon) is:

Will I be automatically logged out sooner or later because I failed the questions?
Can I set up two factor auth without needing to answer the questions?
If I can, will the questions stop being asked? That would be a convenient way to solve the problem :)

So, in short, should I press the "Turn on" 2FA button in my phone just yet?


texts: Picture-In-Picture (PIP) feature in Apple TV 4K (5th gen)

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Does the Apple TV 4K provide PIP feature so I can share the screen between two apps both running at the same time?

If so, how to engage?


texts: Apple Mac OS X & Chromecast AirPlay Mirroring

texts: Is there a way to use Chromecast same way as Apple TV - Apple AirPlay Mirroring? I'd like to do display mirroring from OS X via Chromecast.


texts: How to restore calendar events from iCloud?

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We use a common iCloud Account. One of the users has deleted this account from her iPhone and this has caused all the shared events disappear across the iCloud account.
How can we restore this Events?


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I have an IKEv2 VPN set up in my network preferences. It works fine, I can access any desired computer in the remote network by the IP.
Also, I added our DNS server to the VPN connection though Advanced tab, as well as the Search Domain. The DNS server works also well.

The problem is, the DNS does not work at after I connect to the VPN. I can ping the DNS server, I can dig the server, but OS X does not reflect it at all.

The DNS server is not listed in scutil --dns.
dig <hostname in VPN> @<IP of my DNS server> returns correct answer

I wrote about this problem in another post here.

Why it does not work?
What I am doing wrong?

To be honest, I'm starting to be sort of frustrated about this, because, according to Google, it seems like this never worked for anyone and this topic appears to be very ungrateful for some reason. Is this a bug/feature of OS X or what?


texts: iPhone: Safari password manager does not work with Hotmail anymore

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Having a Microsoft Hotmail account I used to login on my iPhone Safari browser using the Safari password manager.

But since Microsoft changed the login screen to a two step procedure (first the username and the password on the next screen, aka "progressive login procedure"), the password manager cannot fill in the login name and the password anymore.

How do I use the Safari password manager on iPhone to manage my password for Hotmail login (http://login.live.com) again?


texts: Diskutil can't find Core Storage Volumes

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My OSX Mountain Lion will no longer atart up. After the logon screen it spins forever (the Apple logon is replaced by an error sign).

When I run in single user mode I get a "still waiting for root device" that repeats every few seconds.

I suspect the problem is with core storage. Although I have encrypted the osx partition, the system can't find it (from recovery):

diskutil corestorage list
No corestorage logical volume groups found.

fsck_cs will however report a corestorage:

** Checking volume.
   Content Hint for disk0s2 is not Apple_CoreStorage
** disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
** disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
** Logical Volume Group D4B301AF-3633-418B-980D-4CADB2DA6B0B on 1 device
** disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
** Logical Volume Group has a 16 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
** Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
** Load and verify Segment Headers
** Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
** Load and verify Transaction Segment
** Load and verify Transaction Segment
** Incorporate 1 newer non-checkpoint transaction
** Load and verify Virtual Address Table
** Load and verify Segment Usage Table
** Load and verify Metadata Superblock
** Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
** Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
** Load and verify BE7E7CD3-AB97-45F3-AC3C-B4AE8D73E22F
** Load and verify C418ACC5-E2D4-4EDE-84D7-2366A261A08E
** Load and verify Freespace Summary
** Load and verify Block Accounting
** Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
** Load and verify Segment Cleaning
** The volume D4B301AF-3633-418B-980D-4CADB2DA6B0B appears to be OK.

Any ideas on how I can repair this?

Or at least mount it to get at a few files?


texts: Need to force close suspicious tab/dialogue box jamming everything

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Need to force close suspicious tab without accepting a download from a dialogue box that currently has the whole browser stuck.It wants me to click "OK" to unfreeze things. The screen shot (for those who can't see images) just shows the open, blank tab - from a site called theboxfile.com, in the middle there is a dialogue window where the only option is "OK" but clicking that accepts a download of what is claimed to be a new Flash Player (um, sure it is)

OK, so, I was uh... on the high sea - h'ar matey.. so, in browsing around for treasure, ad windows/tabs open. I accept that because the ad revenue funds the fleet, so to speak. But this one tab opened and I can't close it without clicking "ok" in  dialogue window. I know not to click that stuff. Clicking things will open a gate and you end up with your visa number pinged in Phuket.

I tried command + W. Nothing except that thud noise when the imac says nope. I tried moving to a different tab - thud. Is there a way to close it without accepting the download?

I'm thinking I could bookmark the tabs and then just reopen the rest after I close the entire window... NOPE. That doesn't work either. Can't access the bookmark menu options on the drop down.

I'm on a iMac, Yosemite 10.9.5 and using the most recent update of Safari (which it won't let me look at the version # atm).

Answers most appreciated. Please don't scold me for the "high seas" you don't walk in my shoes.


texts: rMBP early 2013 15'' fan noise with 4K display?

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I own a MacBook Pro with Retina display early 2013 with Intel HD4000 + GT 650M 1 GB.
I'm looking for a high pixel display, and narrowed it down to two options:
21:9 34″ LG 3440x1440 or 28″ 4K display.

I'm currently using my MacBook Pro with 24″ 1920x1200 as a secondary display for work with Ps, Ai and Ae, and Mac is beautifully quiet even with 8 virtual desktops, Ps, Ai, Safari with ~30 tabs, which I love most about Macs—I start to hear the fans when using Ae and rendering/saving to RAM which of course is understandable.

Is my MacBook going to be quiet with 4K display with at least browsing internet through Safari? It's ok to hear fans when I do some work, but I would hate it if the idle Mac connected to the external display would buzz like a vacuum cleaner!


texts: How to prevent iMessage syncing without access to device

texts: I foolishly logged into someone's iPad with my Apple ID. This person is now receiving my full communications on iMessage. I know I can remove my account from that iPad but I don't have access to it. How can I stop the device from getting my iMessages without physical access?


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OS X newbie here.

Many applications come with their own uninstall icons - like CS5.5, which adds three of them. Those are installed side-by-side with the application icons themselves.

To me, they clutter my Launchpad and program folders unnecessarily, but I can't seem to be able to remove them: dragging and dropping them to the recycle bin does nothing.

Is there a more elegant way of getting rid of these uninstall icons than placing them in a separate folder? I'm a bit anal about my launch bars and would like to avoid even that.

Can (and should) I get rid of them permanently somehow, or do they fulfill some special function that just dragging and dropping the application to the recycle bin doesn't do?


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I'm looking for an iOS app that will offer features similar to that of Instagram. This app should be designed specifically for the iPad.

Feature I'd like to have are:

apply filters to photos
take photos within the app itself
export photos to social networks or camera roll

Can you recommend such apps which have been made specifically for the iPad?


texts: Preview search not highlighting instances of the word

texts: I am using OSX Catalina. However, for quite some time, do not remember from which OSX, Preview stopped highlighting instances of a searched for word.  As suggested in the answer to the post Preview does not find words correctly, if I choose `Table of Contents' in View, the sections of pages where the searched for word appears are displayed in the sidebar but the word is not highlighted. Also, in the top right corner of the Preview window, below the search box, there are two arrows to go forward/backward through the search results. These arrows remain greyed out and do not work. These issues are rather irksome. Is there any way out?


texts: How to find a backup of my iPhone contacts?

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My phone accidentally was dropped in water. I tried to sync it on my Mac with iTunes to save my contacts. Next day I connected it to my Mac again and all the contacts were gone.

I have tried libraries/mobile sync. I located the backup folders but it only has 4 contacts. I need my old contacts and I have tried iphonebackupextractor. But it also shows only 4 contacts.

Were can I locate my earlier contacts of the first sync? Or has it been overwritten the earlier contacts?


texts: Why does my battery drop with 1% within a minute after removing the charger?

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I just got a new iPhone 5S a week ago. Works perfectly aside from the fact that the battery tends to act weirdly. As mentioned in the title, when I remove the charger the battery percentage drop by a single percent, sometimes instantly and sometimes after a few minutes.

However, if I reboot my phone the percentage goes back up to 100% and stays there for a more normal amount of time. Not the biggest issue in the world, but still, annoying :)

Any suggestions?


texts: MacBook Pro MiniDisplay to HDMI, Detects external display but the monitor is not getting input

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I have a mid 2012 Macbook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.4.

When I plug in the external monitor it detects the display however on the external monitor screen it say no input.

I have checked all connections and tested them they are working fine.
MiniDisplay to HDMI cable tested and confirmed working on other another mac (mac mini mid 2013)

I checked the console when I plugged it in and am getting this error:

[ERROR] - Driver bug - rowBytes too small. Display 0x42732c0, ioModeID
0x8000100a, ioModeDepth 0x0, bytePerRow = 5120, width = 1680, bitsPerPixel = 32,
minRowBytes = 6720 stored width = 1680. Forcing minRowBytes (possibly still wrong).

also

[ERROR] - Unable to find display pipe for IOFB service: 18203

Can anyone explain this error to me? Could it be a driver error?

The monitor I'm using is a Hitachi LE24K318A

This question is different from the others because the other questions don't show console outputs. I'm also not getting a "blank screen", I'm getting no input and errors.


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I'm trying to change about 50 file names using a CSV format. My CSV file is setup with Col A as Old Name and Col B as New Name. I'm running the following scripts in terminal:

I followed this guide: Renaming files/names in bulk, any smarter solution?

But it wasn't working for me. I kept getting the error:
mv: rename Screen Shot 2020-03-10 at 3.03.00 PM.png to Test 1.png: No such file or directory.

I was in the correct directory and the file was also in that directory, so I'm not sure why it couldn't find it.

Is there an alternative way of bulk renaming in MacOS?


texts: Can humidity affect the display on my Macbook Air

texts: For the second time now on our annual trip to the Keys, my 2012 MacBook Air's display has gone blank and only flickers on occasionally. Same thing happened last year. The problem disappeared completely on our return to Michigan and had not resurfaced again until I returned to Florida. Another possibility is higher voltage here? Could it be a bad charger?


texts: Application to control phone call volume independently from main volume

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Simply put, if I accept/receive a phone call or FaceTime audio phone call, then I prefer the volume to be louder than what it usually is at.
This does not sound problematic. Why not just adjust the volume before and after, right? The problem is when I am listening to music or watching a video. Then, since I increased the volume for a phone call, the volume of the music or video blares very loudly immediately after ending the phone call.
So, I was wondering if there was an application, service, etc., that would solve this issue.


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I have an app which sends specific packets to a server every time I press a particular button on the app, the problem is that I need to press it every 30 seconds during a few hours and it's annoying. Is there any way to script it so that the packets are automatically sent every 30 seconds to the server?

I thought about a macro tool but it's not possible since I can't jailbreak.
Any ideas on how to approach to a solution?


texts: How can I determine the manufacture date/age of any iPhone device? If there is any way for this, please suggest one.


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We build and sell a SaaS application, our clients have asked us to produce apps which allow this application to be accessed from their phones.

We have developed and submitted to Apple a version for the iPhone and this has been rejected as it should be distributed as a custom B2B application via the "Volume Purchase Program".  Having reviewed the "Volume Purchase Program" this is far from ideal due to a wide range of reasons:

Clients want the iPhone version of the app for personal phones, business phones are largely Blackberrys.
As our clients don't already have an account it will be necessary for them to register if their meet the requirements of the program or are able to due to internal policies.
It will then be necessary for the organisation to purchase (a free app) and manage the distribution of the app internally via a spreadsheet.
We will also have the overhead of granting additional clients access to the app.

Has anyone got any suggestion to over come these issues?


texts: Disable Notification for specific Account in Messages

texts: Is there a way to disable the Notifications for a specific Account in Mountain Lion's Messages App?


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I found instructions about MacBook battery care, but it made me confused. I received my MacBook Pro yesterday. After unboxing, I used it for some time and then I fully charged the battery. I will be using this laptop as my primary device.

So, my question is, if I use my MacBook about 7-8 hours a day with the charger plugged in, will it be harmful for the battery? What is the recommended way?


texts: How can I download an older version of OS X/macOS?

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Sometimes it's hard to search for older versions of macOS & OS X  on the App Store.

This is an attempt to provide the canonical QA for this issue, as per the Meta QA -
Where is the list of canonical questions stored for Ask Different?
I expect it to be modified over time to hopefully become a complete information resource.

How can I get any older version of a Mac OS to be able to run as a VM, or to reinstall on my Mac?


texts: In Apple Numbers I want a cell to have 4x8x7 (or 4*8*7) to show the detail of the volume, and in another cell I want that volume calculated 4*8*7=224 based on the first cell. But it doesn't consider the first cell as an operation. Which formula can help ?


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I am using my early 2015 MacBook Pro as a desktop by connecting it to an external display, thus, it needs to be plugged in to a charger all the time.

Does charging my early 2015 MacBook Pro all the time damage the battery?
Is it a bad practice?


texts: OS X stopped opening .jar files through Finder

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Yosemite 10.10.5

I have a .jar file that I was able to execute by double-clicking it in Finder.  Today, if I try that, it won't open.  Sometimes something will appear briefly on screen but disappear before I can see what it is, and then nothing happens.  There are no error messages.  The Console records nothing.  The same thing happens whether I double-click the icon or use right-click > Open with > Jar Launcher (default) (15.0.0).

However, I find that I can open the file successfully, and with no error messages, using the terminal ($ java -jar filename.jar).

The only thing I've done since yesterday is install Anaconda and Git.  These may have added items to my PATH, but I don't think that could be the problem, since I can still open it from the command line.  Since discovering the problem, I've rebooted the machine, but the problem persists.

What happened, and how do I fix it?


texts: Is it possible to script what applications should open certain file extensions?

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I have a new Macbook Pro and I'm reminded that my development environment isn't tailored to what I setup on my previous Macbook. I was curious if it's possible to create a script in either AppleScript or Bash that I can run which I can define what file format should be designates as the Open with application, for all applications I usually use.

For example, when a file is right clicked, Get Info, Open with for HTML it's set as Safari. I know I can manually go to Open With and choose Visual Studio Code but I'd like to write something that will change all files throughout my system.

Is this possible? How do you target the Open With application?


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We all know running tracker apps, such as Nike Running, RunKeeper, Runtastic etc. But i need app with a bit difference in functionality.

My ideal running application should track and report it to me (by voice) my speed every 30 seconds or 100 meter. (May be i can change this factor in settings).

Do you know some apps with such feature?


texts: mSATA SSD via IDE-adapter in PowerBook G4 12”

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I have a beautiful PowerBook G4 12” 1 GHz PowerPC ((A1010 (EMC 1986)) here with a dead hard drive which I want to replace with a SSD.

Is there any reason why a mSATA SSD (with mSATA to IDE adapter) would not work on this device?


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Using a MBP running Catalina 10.15.6 I am unable to print to a networked Xerox printer.  It discovers it just fine with Bonjour, connects, but when I print anything, it instantly pauses the printer, and in the printer job list dialog, it fails saying Ready to Print - 'Backend' failed, 2 pages.
I've tried re-adding the printer, Reset the printing system with the right-click in the printer list, rebooting the machine.  I have an old iMac also running 10.15.6 which can print to it, so I know the printer works.  Any other ideas?


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A little while back I updated my OS to El Capitan 10.11.6. Ever since upgrading from Yosemite the OS has not been able to detect any audio device. In safe mode, it can detect so them and runs no problem has to be a software issue (as identified by apple). I don't want to manually add everything back to a new system to find the issue.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!


texts: hi I am an iPhone 5s second hand user. When I update my phone, it is locked and I don't know the original owners icloud ID and password. so it is locked and can not open my phone right now. so please tell me the steps to unlock the icloud . I have search in the Google and YouTube but the answer that shown in that is completely fake. so help me


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I'm trying to create a phonegap app but when i run cordova platform add android, I get the error:

Error: An error occured during creation of android sub-project.

/Users/chrisruno/.cordova/lib/android/cordova/3.3.0/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error: Please install Android target 19 (the Android newest SDK). Make sure you have the latest Android tools installed as well. Run "android" from your command-line to install/update any missing SDKs or tools.
    at /Users/chrisruno/.cordova/lib/android/cordova/3.3.0/bin/lib/check_reqs.js:80:29
    at _fulfilled (/Users/chrisruno/.cordova/lib/android/cordova/3.3.0/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:798:54)
    at self.promiseDispatch.done (/Users/chrisruno/.cordova/lib/android/cordova/3.3.0/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:827:30)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/Users/chrisruno/.cordova/lib/android/cordova/3.3.0/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:760:13)
    at /Users/chrisruno/.cordova/lib/android/cordova/3.3.0/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:574:44
    at flush (/Users/chrisruno/.cordova/lib/android/cordova/3.3.0/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:108:17)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)

    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/src/platform.js:282:30
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:641:7)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)

I had run brew install android-sdk before hand.  I also ran android and it said I was already on 19.  I'm installing 20 and 4.3, 4.2, 4.1.2, and 4.0 now to see if that will meet some kind of dependency.

This is what my ~/.profile looks like:

export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/22.6.2/tools:$PATH"

I also tried it with just this:

PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Eclipse/Android\ SDK/platform-tools:/Applications/Eclipse/Android\ SDK/tools
export PATH


texts: Sharing Internet with Mac and Buffalo WHR-HP-G54?

texts: I have enabled internet sharing with ethernet. I try to share the internet with "automatic DHCP" to my Buffalo. I can access the buffalo but I am unable to share the internet from mac to buffalo and from buffalo to other machines. How can I do that?


texts: Why does me.com always redirect to Find My iPhone?

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I changed my Apple ID, and I have to confirm my old mail @me.com to my new id. But the https://www.me.com/mail/ will always redirect to "find my phone" (maybe some issue with my last iPod touch that was stolen).

Now, how can I access my mail in me.com to confirm for my new ID? Or, why it's redirecting?


texts: How to change or modify the macOS notification's sound?

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I know there is the sound effects list in Preferences->sound, but this will change only the alert sound - that I like. What is annoying to me is the notifications sound. I like to work with headphones and music, and I wish to be notified when a new message came in by freechat, for example. But the sound is loud and annoying, maybe another sound or just lower volume...

I have looked and it seams there is no way by the easy way, the Preferences->notifications panel only allow me to decide if I wish the sound or not, there is no other option. But this sound must be in a file somewhere, maybe there is some definitions in other file...

Any ideas?


texts: FileVault2 command line commands in Mojave?

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I've been reading about using the fdsetup command to manage FileVault2 from the command line. But I can't find it in Mojave (or High Sierra for that matter).

Is there a command line interface to FileVault2?


texts: Upgrading OS X from 10.5.8 to at least 10.6.8 to update my iTunes

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Recently purchased an iPhone 5c and was trying to upload my music and apps from iTunes. iTunes could not upload music because iTunes needs to be at least 10.6.8 to update. On my 2006 iMac I am currently running OS X 10.5.8, therefore I can not update my iPhone 5 with music and apps.

Reading your response from a similar case what would be the process of updating my OS in order to update my iTunes? And is it even feasible considering my iMac is pretty old?
Below is my Hardware Overview. The computer runs strong, but I hear from others (don't know if I can trust) that it's time to upgrade my iMac but I am trying to avoid buying a new iMac if I can.

Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM41.0055.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.1f5


texts: What is the feature called that brings you to the file name by typing the first few letters?

texts:
This is not a profound question, but I don't know the answer.

What is the name of the OS behavior that brings you to the file name in a finder window by typing the first few letters?

"Search as you type"?


texts: How to turn off the spellchecker for a specific document?

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I'm in Canada, and I use my mac to write documents in both English and French. Generally, I find that the built-in spellchecker (on 10.7.4) does a great job of automatically detecting which language I'm using, and makes language-appropriate corrections (i.e. it recognizes misspelled French as misspelled French, rather than misspelled English).

It fails at this task, though, in one specific TextEdit file which is my "new vocabulary list". In this document I write down new French words that I've learned alongside their English translations.  Since the two languages intermingle so closely in this file, the spellchecker often gets confused, and ends up "correcting" legitimate French words because it thinks they're misspelled English.

This is annoying. Does anyone know if it's possible to either

turn off spellchecking completely for this document only, or
specify to the spellchecker that it should only use one dictionary (i.e. French) for this document.

(If I had to choose one language for the spellchecker to work in in this document I'd prefer that it used French, since that's the language I'm less comfortable with.  If it mangles my English I'll notice and be able to make corrections; if it mangles my French I might not.)


texts: How to read and manipulate ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.finder.savedState/data.data

texts:
Due to a bug in MacOS i've identified that this is the file that is being edited when I make a certain change in MacOS finder.

"~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.finder.savedState/data.data"

Right now it is kind of garbeled when opened with TextEditor.

I would like to be able to read this file, and possibly later write back to it.

This file is modified for instance when CMD + I in a finder window and make changes to sort by kind.

That info is not stored in .DS_Store but Finder is saving it in this data.data file.

I would like to write my own stuff into that file.

Is that possible? What tool? plutil could not read it. It is not a plist file.

Other applications are writing similar files so I think it is possible:

Please try to stick to the question so we don't get into various discussions on why I think I need to edit it.


texts: On iOS, is there any way to see what the “Documents & Sync” system service is using cellular data for?

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I’m using iOS 13.2 on an iPhone X, and would like to drastically reduce the amount of cellular data my phone is using. In less than a month, my phone has used 10.7 GB of cellular data. 8.5 GB of that is from “System Services,” with 7.9 GB coming from “Documents & Sync.”

Is there any way to see what is using all of that data, or to control what happens over cellular vs waiting for Wi-Fi? My battery also dies quickly, and assume that is related to how much cellular data is being used in background.

What I tried:

I turned off iCloud Drive syncing over cellular network yesterday morning and then reset cellular data usage statistics. Since then, Documents & Sync has used used 1.0 GB of cellular data .
I’ve had “Low Data Mode” turned on under Cellular Data Options for the entire month, which doesn’t seem to be helping at all.
I tried erasing all content and settings and restoring from backup. This may have helped slightly, but it still seems to be using large amounts of cellular data


texts: Messages no longer sorting by most recent message

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A few days ago my messaging app started acting really weird.

All old conversations have lost all but 1 single text (I think this was the most recent text but I'm not sure )
New Messages are coming in but he preview message is showing a much older message.
Messages no longer sort by date they seem to be stuck in the order they were in when this problem began, eg if I get a new message it doesnt appear at the top of the list.

Specs.

I am running 10.02, I have tried to update to 10.3.2 but everytime I try to install it verifys the update and then tells me something went wrong, I have tried to to delete download and do again with same problem.

I was having trouble with storage on my phone and at one point had 0 bytes free until I deleted some photos, at the same time my GMAIL app got itself stuck in a non working loop, so had to delete and redownload.

With any other app I would delete it and redownload it but you cant do that with messages.

I could turn off imessages  but am worried I might loose the few messages I have (though it probably makes little differnce now).

Does this sound familiar to anyone?  Is there a fix?

Update

I spent about 5 hours backing up and restoring my Iphone 6+ 64GB.

Upgrade to 10.3.x No change to message app sorting incorrectly
Full reset back to factory settings.  Messaging App sorting correctly
Restore backup of my phone.  Messaging app not sorting correctly again.

Anyone know where I might be able to log a bug ?  LOL


texts: Delete Login/Crash History on Mac OS Yosemite

texts: I have an older iMac running Yosemite and I'm trying to delete the most recent login and crash history. When I type last and my username I see a bunch of crash reports but no option to delete them in Terminal.


texts: My Mac doesn't remember my password anytime I try to login to my computer. I always use my recovery key to open the Mac each time I want to use it. I have tried reseting my password but it ends up forgetting my password again. Please what can I do?


texts: External Harddrive is showing in System Information but not Disk Utility

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My harddrive crashed last night and since then I have not been able to access it on my Macbook Pro. I've restarted both my computer and hardrive multiple times and I've experienced the same result. It does not show up on my desktop (yes, external disks is checked in finder preferences) nor in Disk Utility but it shows up in System Information. The harddrive is also still blinking its light per usual and has not made any abnormal sounds.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Mac OS partition type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF after I tried to remove Linux partition

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I have Mac OS (catalina) with Linux Ubuntu and after I tried to remove the Linux partition my Mac can’t boot anymore ( I actually have no option to boot).

gpt -r show disk0
diskutil list
dd if=/dev/disk0s2 count=3 | vis -c

I read about this problem a lot but I just want to be sure that no data will be damaged while solving this issue because I don’t have any backup

What I’m going to do is

diskutil umountDisk disk0
gpt remove -i 2 /dev/disk0
gpt add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 461916744 -t apfs  /dev/disk0
diskutil verifyDisk disk0
diskutil verifyVolume disk0s2

Please tell me if I forget anything or I miss understood some commands, I’ll really appreciate that


texts: Why do I get AutoSave Clipping.txt files auto generates on my desktop screen

texts:
I don't know how but I get to see a lot of auto clipping files being generated on my desktop screen.
This is how my desktop looks


texts: Removing XCode while keeping the command line tools (on El Capitan)

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As by subject.  There are a number of links, such as this that deal with the issue but are not El Capitan specific and/or are just not that on the subject or are not up to date.

Is it possible to Uninstall XCode 7 while keeping the Command Line Tools (and still being able to get the CLT upgrades)? Should I just uninstall everything and reinstall just the CLT (how?)?

Any other way?


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I have a 12" PowerBook with no HD and a dead screen. I'm trying to determine if the actual LCD is broken or if it is "just" the graphics card, without taking out the screen and transfering it to another computer (which I intend to do if the screen is working). I've tried connecting the computer to an external monitor, but, since there is no HD, nothing happens. The same nothing happens when I connect my working 12" PowerBook to the external monitor.

Is there a secret keyboard combination that tells the laptop to throw some characters onto the screen (from BIOS or something), and to mirror or output to the external monitor?


texts:
Attempting to use a VIM syntax highlighting plugin for editing nginx config files on El Capitan. It doesn't take.

It asks that you place these files and add these directores:

~/.vim/syntax/nginx.vim         <-- the plugin itself
~/.vim/filetype.vim.            <-- additional config file

filetype.vim contains just this one line:

au BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/nginx/*,/usr/local/nginx/conf/* if &ft == '' | setfiletype nginx | endif

The default nginx config files directory, in os x (via brew install), is

/usr/local/etc/nginx

I assume the comma separated wildcard paths in filetype.vim are all the paths with which to look for nginx configuration files (.conf).

No manner of editing filetype.vim will take. I've tried adding /usr/local/etc/nginx/* both by itself and as one of the comma separated arguments to the au vim scripting command.

There are no error messages. Has anyone ever used nginx.vim on os x? Much thanks!


texts: How do I sync podcasts added in the iPhone's Podcasts app to iTunes on OS X?

texts:
I added some podcasts from the iTunes store to the iPhone Podcasts app version 1.2.3 on iOS 6.1.3.

My iTunes 11.0.5 sync settings for this phone's podcasts is sync podcasts, and automatically include all episodes or all podcasts.

However, iTunes does not copy the podcasts from the Podcasts app into iTunes.

How should I do this?


texts: How to move archived Outlook for Windows Files to Apple Mail?

texts:
I have some old archived Outlook for Windows files that I want to move to Apple Mail in order to look into some older files. I don't have any access to Windows systems, I run Apple Mail on my Mac Book Pro. I tried looking online for a solution but the methods explained the result in nothing. Seeking for help on this forum and hoping to find the best possible answer.

Thanks


texts: $PATH looks corrupted, is my hunch about the fix right?

texts:
I'm looking at my $PATH

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/Users/gpiuser/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:/Users/gpiuser/Library/Android/sdk/toolsHOME/.npm/bin

And noting that last directory is not a directory. I'm guessing it should look like

      tools:Users/gpiuser/.npm/bin

instead of

       toolsHOME/.npm/bin

and that something went wrong with a node.js installation at some point.

So I look at my .bash_profile:

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin

export
PATH=${PATH}:/Users/gpiuser/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:/Users/gpiuser/Library/Android/sdk/toolsHOME/.npm/bin
export
NODE_PATH=$HOME/.npm/lib/node_modules

and I THINK I should correct the file to reflect the above change and run source ~.bash_profile

Am I right?


texts: Unable to create a new playlist in iPhone

texts:
I am unable to create a new playlist for my iPhone4. When I right click the iPhone in iTunes the option 'Create New Playlist' is greyed out. I'm using the latest version of iPhone OS & iTunes.

I can create new playlists in iTunes itself just not on the iPhone.

Any ideas on what this issue is ?


texts: Upgrade from Leopard (10.5.8) to El Capitan (10.11) without passing through Snow Leopard (10.6.8)

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I have an iMac(Early 2009) running Leopard (10.5.8). Now I want to upgrade my OS to El Capitan (10.11).

The situation is this one:

✔ my iMac version is listed under the upgradable devices

✘ MacOSX 10.6.8 is required to be installed (due to Mac App Store introduction) on the iMac

Official solution (or what I undestood reading Apple website)

buy the DVD of Snow Leopard (10.6) from online Apple Store and install it on 10.5.8;
update the OS until 10.6.8;
use the App Store to download and install El Capitan.

Said that, after some search, I found this macworld article showing alternative methods to upgrade from 10.5.8 MacOSX version to a more recent one. This reading brought me to another solution:

Alternative solution

use a Mac of a friend of mine which runs El Capitan to download El Capitan from Mac App Store;
create a bootable usb stick from it;
use it to do a clean install on my iMac (erasing all disk content before choosing the HDD in which to install El Capitan)
configure my iMac creating my Apple ID

Questions

Will solution 2 work?
Is solution 2 legal?

Note

The linked article hit my questions' topics but I did not deeply understand nor the configuration of the Apple ID on the fresh installed El Capitan nor the legal aspects of the solution.


texts: Mails sent from my work gmail come back in my personal gmail

texts:
I have two accounts that are hosted by Gmail. One is my personal account with a gmail domain, the other is a work account with our company's domain.

When I send or reply to mail from my Mac using Apple's Mail.app, replies to those messages always go to my personal account.

I looked in the obvious places - Accounts and Preferences. The only thing that seemed related was under the Composing preference, which was set to "send new messages from account to selected mailbox", which I think is the right one.

Can anyone offer some insight?


texts: Command line tools and Xcode installation coexistence

texts:
I believe the following to be true, but am not sure how to confirm.
I'm running on Catalina, but also testing Big Sur.
I have the option of installing the command line tools (CLT) and/or Xcode.
If I install CLT as a standalone package, my tools seem to work just fine.
When I install Xcode, I'm asked if I want to install additional packages.
Is Xcode overwriting my initial installation of CLT?
Is CLT and Xcode an 'either or' proposition - meaning - I can have one or the other but not both?


texts: How to fix Dictionary look up text color in Dark mode?

texts:
In macOS Mojave dark mode, the Dictionary app became unusable because of coloring issues: in application itself some of the text is white on white, and in definition popup that appears if you right click a word and select Look Up (or use force touch or three-finger press) the text is black on a dark grey background:

How can it be fixed?


texts: Avoiding all apps reopening when OS X crashes

texts:
Sometimes my computer will crash and restart due to unknown errors. It usually happens when I'm working on something so a few apps are open. OS X has this annoying feature where it tries to reopen all apps when you restart. You can disable it when manually restarting, but it still does it if the computer restarts after a crash.

I think this feature was built to save time, but all it does is waste more time than it's worth, because whenever the computer restarts from a crash I usually just restart it once more (this time with "Reopen apps" disabled) just to get to a workable state. The problem is it'll keep spawning apps and preventing the restart from happening.

Disabling this feature would prevent me having to restart after a crash altogether. Is there a way to stop OS X from doing this?


texts: What can I do to speed up a Mac that is running slow?

texts:
My mac seems like it is running slower and slower. While I am thinking abut installing Lion from scratch, I figure there has to be stuff I can do now to help. I have reset PR RAM recently, I have run the verify disk utility, and fixed permissions. I have seen mixed references to running a disk defragmenter. Could that help? I am on an iMac that is about 2 years old now.

I regularly run Windows XP in Parallels, Chrome, Mail.app, and iTunes.

Update: I have about 90 GB of free space. I run Onyx every month.


texts: Apple said we can use iMovie to make App Previews, but I can't export the correct size using iMovie

texts:
I'm trying to create an App Preview for an iPhone app.

I recorded a screen capture of the app in the native resolution of the phone.

Then I imported the video in iMovie and used iMovie to add transitions and text, and to arrange the clips.

According to Apple, App Previews should be 640x1136 for the iPhone 5 portrait size, but the export menu doesn't support this size or any custom sizes.

Apple said we could use iMovie, but this doesn't seem to work. How can I change the export size?


texts: How do I close Chats tabs in Skype for Business for Mac?

texts:
On the Windows Skype for Business client, to the right of each tab there is an X that allows closing the tab so it no longer shows in the list.  I have not been able to find a way to close tabs in the Mac client, despite extensive searching.

(It is possible to re-use exiting tabs when continuing to talk to someone, but if they start a new conversation with you or switch to a different device, it creates a new tab.  After using the client for one day, I have 5 tabs from one co-worker. I'd like to make the old ones go away.)

OS X 10.11.6 / El Capitan and Skype for Business 16.0.3638


texts: iPhone 1 gen , slide to unlock is not responding

texts: I have an iPhone 1 gen and the iOS version 3.1.1 the latest for 1st gen iPhone. Suddenly I am not able to slide the slider which unlocks the home screen.


texts: Can I re-purchase an app with a different apple ID?

texts: I have a development machine that another employee (who has left) purchased Xcode on. Now I want to update Xcode, but I don't have that employee's apple ID information. I signed out of the App Store and back in with my account, but it won't let me update or re-buy the app because it was originally bought with his account. Any ideas?


texts: How do I stop my Mac from trying to open new tabs when I make normal clicks?

texts:
Yesterday I was using musescore and was playing around with keyboard shortcuts and eventually my mac is now acting weird.

Every time I click on something it opens a new tab (on all my browsers) and I figured out it was NOT a browser issue because when I click on an app on my Dock instead it opens the finder at the application folder which is very bizarre. When I click on icons on top right it doesn't even opens them.

I tried restarting my computer in the hopes that whatever mode I got stuck on would refresh but no luck.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this?


texts: How do I play sounds from my iPad to my Stereo wirelessly?

texts:
Is this possible to stream the audio played on an iPad to a Stereo wirelessly ?

My stereo is connected to my iMac via BlueTooth. So If I can play the audio from my iPad on my iMac this will do what I want. But maybe there is another way to do it...

Another question is : Can I transmit the sound to my mac using the simple connector cable ?

What I really want to do is to use for instance GarageBand and hear the sound on my stereo. Wirelessly would be the best, but, as a second choice, I can handle the fact to be forced to be connected with USB.

And please, I know the ultime and last choice to use the mini-jack output on the iPad...


texts: MacBook Pro 13 2020 cursor freeze for 2 seconds after sleep

texts:
I am wondering if that behaviour is normal and intended. I didn't had it on my older MacBook, that's why I am asking.

When I close my MacBook when it is on and then open it up after like 10 min, it turns on automatically without pressing anything. When I then try to move my cursor, it is frozen. This stay for like 1 or 2 seconds. Then the trackpad is working normal.

Is that normal, anyone else experiencing the same? I can reproduce this issue, but only if I keep the MacBook shut for a longer time like 10 min. When I am opening it after 30 seconds, it is not frozen. It looks like it is fetching the Trackpad before I can use it.


texts: Macbook Air 13 inch (256 GB/ 8 GB/ i5) along with Windows (Using BootCamp)

texts:
I am completely new to the Mac and I am planning to buy MacAir (256 GB/ 8 GB/ i5) model and want to use Windows 7 along with it using BootCamp. I have no problem with MacOSX but need to use Windows (Visual Studio 2013 specially) because of my job demand (.Net Developer). I want to use Mac mainly because of Battery Life and Performance. My question is that Can I experience the same when I will use Windows?

Apart from that I also heard that Windows reduce the battery life. So Does it mean that my battery life will be affected even when I will use MacOSX. Thanks in Advance


texts: Can a Lenovo T430s with Thunderbolt use 2011 iMac in target display mode?

texts:
I just purchased Lenovo T430s laptop with Thunderbolt and I'm wondering if I should be able to use my 27" 2011 iMac with Thunderbolt as an external display using target display mode.

So far, no luck.

What I've done:

I connected computers to each other with Apple's Thunderbolt cable.
I booted T430s and made sure that Thunderbolt is enabled in BIOS

What I found out:

iMac says that there's nothing connected to Thunderbolt
Pressing Command+F2 to enable target display mode does nothing
Windows 7 in T430s does not detect any additional displays and there's not a word about Thunderbolt anywhere in Windows.
Windows device manager is not showing any devices that are not functioning properly or missing drivers

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.


texts: Is there a native terminal in OS X, without having to load the desktop, window manager, etc?

texts: FOr example, in linux you can boot to a terminal, you don't have to load a desktop, window manager, etc. Is there something like this in Mac OS X? And like in Linux, is it possible to switch to one of these from in the desktop?


texts: Is there a simple To Do app that works on iPhone, iPad, and Macbook Pro?

texts:
I am looking for a simple To Do or Task app that will sync across iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro automatically.

What app will do this?


texts: How do I export a Pages document on my iPad to PDF and save it in Files?

texts: On the Apple Pages iPad app, you can export a document to PDF. When it creates the PDF, it gives you the option to “Share” it. There are many apps you can share it to, including Gmail, Notes, and Books, but you cannot just share it directly to Files. Is there any way to do this?


texts: When renaming files, how do I use keyboard to rename the next file?

texts:
Using Windows, pressing TAB will finish renaming the current file and start renaming the next one in the list. This is the behaviour I'm looking to replicate on macOS.

Enter > Down > Enter would not work as the first Enter would likely alter the file's placement in the list. Assume that batch renaming is not applicable here.


texts: My Mac show a login screen on a spinning cube which keeps on spinning

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My 2009 iMac with Lion keeps on getting stuck everytime my son's limited time ends and the computer subsequently wakes up from sleep.

How to reproduce

In other words, my son has a limited usage timetable set with parental controls. If he does not log out in time (e.g. if he forgets and walks off), I predictably find the Mac in an unusable state when it wakes up from sleep.

This is what I see

Instead of seeing a normal login screen, I see the login screen projected on a screen-size rotating cube. The cube rotates a few degrees and then gets stuck, then restarts, etc. The HD spins wildly. The mouse is the spinning rainbow wheel.

The only way out is to shut down by holding power off for 5 second (and I don't really like to do this while the HD is clearly very busy!).

What I have tried

I've googled to no avail: the most similar report I can find is this and has no solution.

This happened with Snow Leopard and also with Lion.

The question

How do I prevent this?


texts: Taking care of the hard drive in my MacBook?

texts:
Is it bad for my MacBook if I simply close the lid and pack it up? Will this impact the hard drive?

What about using it in a moving vehicle, like a car?


texts: What's the right way to backups photos when using iPhoto?

texts:
I have a folder called My-Photos where I have all my family photos.

Now I opened iPhoto app and import all those photos. Then I have the photo file in 2 places: My-Photos folder which I have created and in user/images/iPhoto Library which is the location where iPhoto storage all the information.

My question is. which folder should I backup to be sure that the originas photos are backup?

If the answer is that I have to backup user/images/iPhoto Library then my question is which folder, because there are many folders in it... and some of them have a huge size.


texts:
I have a powered USB 2.0 hub which suddenly started acting weird. No new devices or anything. It is the same setup as before. All connected devices are still working, except one. The one device (a driverless sound card) did work when connected directly, and it is not USB-powered.

Same problem on two machines, one running 10.9, one running 10.10.

After a lot of disconnecting and reconnecting, it suddenly started working again. I then discovered through System Report (About this Mac -> System Report ... -> USB), that the name of the USB hub didn't say [Safe] anymore, so it apparently was in some weird state at some point.

I've attached an image showing how it looked in System Report.

Has anyone had similar experience?


texts: Connected to Ethernet but no Internet access

texts:
I am having a very frustrating problem. My 2009 iMac is connected to our network by Ethernet, however it cannot access the Internet.

All my other devices work fine, and local adresses (192.168.0.1 for example) work fine. Things I have tried so far:

Restarting Router and iMac
Connected to a different network, same results
Changed DNS, flushed DNS-Cache and tried to open IP's directly in Chrome
Removed Network completely, deleting "SystemPreferences" Folder

Pinging IP's in Terminal results in timeouts, pinging hosts in "cannot resolve: Unknown Host".

At this point I have spent several days of searching through forums and trying everything I can think of.

How do I resolve this issue?


texts: Convert .png image icon to .icns file (MacOS)

texts: What command can I type in my BASH shell to convert a given icon in png format into the icns image format required by Apple .app directories?


texts: How to make USB drives connect again in OS X

texts:
In the following I'll try to explain and ask in the best way I can. I couldn't find any solution for my problem using Google. So if there are any solutions, please point me to them. If you need more information to help out please let me know which information you need.

I don't have lots of information on my problem as I come from a Linux world and don't have experience using OS X. I tried to add a line to /etc/fstab in order to permanently mount a network share.

I added a new line to OS X Yosemite's /etc/fstab using vi.
After reboot /etc/fstab disappeard.
Consequences:

Internal HDD (second drive) didn't mount anymore.
USB drives didn't appear on Desktop.

Thus I made some research and learned:

Used vifs to edit /etc/fstab.
/etc/fstab is depricated.
Disk Utility does not help.

Show usb-stick but cannot mount. Error: 'Mount failed. The disk "" could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting.'
'Verify Disk' says everything is ok
'Repair Disk' also works fine

It is hard to find information on this topic.
If I mount drive manually using mount as root user, drive appears in GUI and seems to be fully accessible (ex. can be "savely removed").
My problem could be somehow related to /etc/auto_master and /etc/autofs.conf.

$ cat /etc/autofs.conf | grep -v ^# |sort | uniq

AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS=nosuid,nodev
AUTOMOUNTD_NOSUID=TRUE
AUTOMOUNT_TIMEOUT=3600

$ cat /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
/Volumes        auto_custom

I managed to create an entry in /etc/fstab so second drive mountes again.

My Questions:

What shall I do to make USB drives mount again using GUI only?
What happend? Why did /etc/fstab disappear?


texts: How do I uninstall python 3.2.2 on Mountain Lion?

texts: How do I uninstall Python 3.2.2 on my MacBook Pro? I’m using Mountain Lion. Any answers greatly appreciated. I’m a beginning programmer.


texts: Where can I buy a spare power cable for a i5 Mac Mini?

texts:
I don't see extra power cables for the i5 2011 Mac Mini in the Apple Store Accessory section.

But this power cable looks a lot like black ones I've seen that go between a power brick for a Lenovo laptop and the outlet. Is this the very same cable?


texts: Regain access to Apple ID protected by 2-step verification after losing access to trusted device

texts:
I have not used my Apple ID in a while and would like to resume using it. The Apple ID in question is protected by two-step verification. Unfortunately I have lost access to the linked SIM card which was used to receive verification SMS.

In the absence of the SIM card, I am unable to access the account page, neither am I able to perform account recovery. It is not possible for me to regain access to the SIM card.

How do I regain access to my Apple ID in this case?


texts: Documents where the viewer can adjust features such as size colour font easily

texts: I'm currently working on an assignment for teaching and learning strategies for students with a very broad range of disabilities that can inhibit reading literacy abilities. I'm thinking of an interactive PDF with audio to accompany text. However, because of the nature of my content I would also like the document to be presented in a format where the viewer can easily adjust font size, background colour, typeface in order to best suit their own visual needs. but I have no idea how to do this? any advice?


texts: Is there a way to mute internal speakers on startup without unplugging headphones?

texts:
Some backstory: I use my MacBook at odd hours and don't want to disturb anybody with the loud startup chime. As you may well know, you can mute that by pressing the Mute key before shutdown with the headphones unplugged (otherwise, you'll just be muting the headphones). That's fine if you'll never need to use the int. speakers but I switch between them and my headphones during the day and sometimes I'll belatedly remember the need to mute but I've already plugged the headphones in.

So is there an alternative to mute the startup sound independent of having headphones plugged in or not?


texts: Does the iPhone support TRIM for flash memory?

texts:
I'm asking if TRIM is enabled on iOS because, ever since I ran out of memory on my iPhone (have since cleared a few GB back), it seems to be slower than it was before. My suspicion being that, with most flash memory "sectors" now partially used, every write operation now takes longer…

Relying heavily on flash memory, I wonder if the iPhone implements TRIM (or any "trim-like" feature) to maximize flash memory performance and specifically if that will let me troubleshoot a slow phone and/or know if I would want to jailbreak the device to enable TRIM or otherwise control storage more tightly than iOS is delivered.


texts: I do not have "Install macOS Sierra.app" anywhere on my computer yet when I open the app store the button on macOS Sierra reads "open" instead of download. After I click open, nothing happens. I removed the cache folders of the app store and restart, the problem sticks.


texts:
Some days after installing Mac OS Mojave my quick look startet showing the spinning icon in the finder sidebar and when i press space on media files (.jpg, .png, .gif, .psd, .pdf, etc.).

Here what i tried so far:

Rebooted in safe mode (no effect)
Deleted com.apple.finder.plist and relaunched finder
The approach suggested here Quicklook not working

When trying the last approach my termnial freezes when i try to force reload the list using qlmanage -r.

I then tried to generate a preview of an image, and got this error

I'm thinking maybe one of these apps could be causing trouble, but they didn't do in High Sierra:

Dropbox
Adobe Creative Cloud
iCloud drive (synced with desktop)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, for now i'm using Adobe Bridge to search files.


texts: What's an effective way to proactively spot runaway processes?

texts:
Sometimes my Mac ends up with a runaway process; a process that's hogging all the CPU. Often it's Firefox, but I've had a few others recently. Normally I don't spot this for a while until I notice my fan is running like crazy. This can kill battery life. Is there any way to effectively be proactively be notified about these processes?

Bonus points if the solution doesn't involve paid-for software. Extra bonus points if I can use an inbuilt facility of OS X.

Note: I'm not looking for how to locate and kill runaway processes; I already know how to to do that with top once I suspect there may be one. I would like to be pro-actively notified that a process has been chewing more than X% cpu for Ys time.


texts: How can I know which Wi-Fi protocol my MacBook is using?

texts:
If I have a router that supports 802.11 N, G, and B, how can I know which one of these my MacBook is currently using to connect to the router?

I'd like to see proof that it's connected using the fastest protocol available, rather than hoping everything is working correctly. For example, the N protocol may not be compatible with the MacBook (if it's an early draft), so it would use G instead. Another situation may arrise if the N protocol is disabled on the router via its settings, which would also cause G to probably be used. Thus, rather than assuming that it's using the fastest protocol, I want actual proof that shows which protocol is being used.


texts: Why is Apple telling me to change my password after receiving a password reset email?

texts:
I received an email telling me that someone requested a password reset for my Apple ID.

  Dear ___,

  You recently made a request to reset your password or unlock your Apple ID. Please click the link below to continue.

  Reset Password or Unlock Apple ID >

  If you did not make this change or you believe an unauthorised person has accessed your account, go to iforgot.apple.com to reset your password without delay. Following this, sign into your Apple ID account page at https://appleid.apple.com/gb to review and update your security settings.

  Sincerely,

  Apple Support

The part highlighted in bold seems to be saying that I should reset my password. Why?

Here is my general understanding of password reset procedures:

Someone requests a password reset (any person can do this for any account)
An email containing next steps is sent to the account holder's email
The email from step 2 is required to actually perform the password reset

Therefore, unless my email is compromised (which I have no reason to believe), there is no reason to think my Apple ID is at risk, based on the information provided so far. Right?

I also asked @AppleSupport about it on Twitter:

And so they said:

  If you did not request this change, for security reasons, update your password.

Given that anyone on the internet can request a password reset for any account, and given that to do so is futile without access to the account holder's email, what security reasons could Apple possibly talking about?

An example of why I think this could be a silly suggestion, let us suppose somebody wanted to annoy somebody else: all he would need to do is send repeated password reset requests. Should the recipient then feel obligated to change his password each time, "for security reasons"?

So, why is Apple saying that I should change my password? And if the answer is "security reasons", what are some examples?


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Is it possible for a third party app to access macOS's clipboard content?
I am asking in relation to copy & paste sensitive data such as passwords and sensitive file content.


texts: I have a pair of earpods and when I connect them to my MacBook the sounds is more bass-y that it should.. The fun fact is that if I don't plug the mini jack completely into the port the sound is 'as it should be'! But when I put the plug correctly for 1 second the sound is ok an then it turns to very bass-y again... I presume that something is wrong with configuration or something?! When I plug it into my iphone is the same effect.. Anybody knows what's the problem??


texts:
Is there a way to run stateful bash scripts in automator?

I'm trying to run something depending if a file does or does not exist. With bash script alone in terminal the code below works and will show the correct output, depending on wether the file exists or not.

Only one line of output per run of the script is displayed either way.

FILE="/Volumes/Canvio1TB/EyeTV Archive/sync.ffs_lock"
if test -f "$FILE"; then
    echo "$FILE exists"
else
  echo "$FILE does not exist"
fi

When I run this in automator as a "run shell script" action the output is:

/Volumes/Canvio1TB/EyeTV Archive/sync.ffs_lock exists

/Volumes/Canvio1TB/EyeTV Archive/sync.ffs_lock does not exist

Regardless of wether the file exists or not, the script generates both lines of output.

If there's a better approach I'd be open to using it - I haven't had success with the syntax of applescript running a command based on the (non)existence of a full path & file.


texts: Find only podcasts from a single country / language

texts:
Is there any way to make iTunes (or some command line tool, perhaps) show podcasts only from one particular country / in one particular language?

Or, to put it differently, to hide all American podcasts, because they are so many and often completely drown content from other countries.


texts: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED on browsing to one website

texts:
I have a 2010 MBP. Just in the last day or so, whenever I try to browse to Facebook (www.facebook.com), I get a ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED error.

This is what is displayed in Chrome, however I cannot connect in Safari, Firefox, nor curl -o fb.txt http://www.facebook.com from the command line.

As far as I can tell no other websites are affected. In fact, developers.facebook.com and graph.facebook.com work just fine.

Things I've tried:

What Chrome tells me to do.
Deleting the browser cache.
Restarting the computer.
Shutting down the computer, and rebooting.
Clearing the DNS cache.
Using a different Wifi network.
Using a wired network (and turning off Wifi).

Running Wireshark shows that the Facebook server (173.252.110.27) is returning a "Destination unreachable" ICMP packet whenever I browse.

No other computers or mobile devices on my network are affected, just the MBP.

I'm at a loss as to what to try next!  Any suggestions appreciated.

I'm wondering if my network stack is somehow corrupted?


texts:
I am planning on backing up my pictures

When I got to ~/Pictures it shows 168.57GB Size and then two libraries iPhoto and photos as shown below.

I thought these were just links so total of all my pictures should be just around approx 90GB but not 168.57.

So now if I backup ~/Pictures to an external Drive is it going to consume 168.57GB and have duplicates?

Please suggest if I am thinking incorrectly.


texts:
I am partially deaf in one ear and require the use of the accessibility feature of "Audio Balance" when using headphones and over the past 48 hours I've noticed a big problem with my iMac 4K.
Whenever I turn the volume up or down it's changing the balance level with each click of the volume. So when I turn the volume up it's moving the balance further to the right and away from the left side instead of leaving the balance level as I selected and then changing the master volume which in turn allows me to listen to audio centred at any volume.
I know it's nothing to do with my hearing as I have the exact same balance on my MacBook Air and it is not having the same trouble of moving the balance when the volume is turned up or down.
You can see in the photos below that the balance slider is missing from the "Master Stream" section and the Master Volume is greyed out and it's just adjusting to left/right volume, while the bottom picture is what my MacBook Air which has the balance working perfectly and leaving the balance as I selected and just adjusting the master volume while leaving the left/right volume untouched.
iMac 4K

MacBook Air (Balance Working Perfectly and has Balance Slider In MIDI App)

I have no idea how this changed, I've tried restarting, resetting SMC/PRAM and just this morning did a full clean install and Time Machine backup and it's still there. Does anyone know how I can get it back to way it is on my MacBook Air.
I've installed no new software or anything like that the only thing I've done in past few days is installing the latest 11.2.1 update.
I am using the exact same headphones in both examples so I know it can't be that. I've also noticed that it says "External Headphones" for the MacBook Air which is working perfectly, while the troublesome iMac 4K has the headphones listed as "Built-In Output". Could this be contributing?
Any help is greatly appreciated as this is very annoying for someone with partial hearing loss.


texts: Right click selected text on a link, but only copy raw text

texts: I select the text of a hyperlink, but when I right click on it, there's no option to simply copy the text. It only allows to copy the link itself. How can I achieve what I desire?


texts: How often should I remove the charger from my rMBP?

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I want my battery to remain healthy. I used to charge it full then remove the charger after it's done, then put it back on when it goes down to 10% .. However this is becoming hectic and I was wondering if I can keep it plugged in the whole day and probably remove just an hour or so before going to sleep.

What is the best way to charge and discharge my Retina Macbook Pro while keeping the battery healthy ?


texts: Is there any way to print to an old Diablo-command-set parallel printer from a modern Mac?

texts: This question is mostly about software. There exist many hardware adapters that allow one to connect a parallel printer to the USB port on a Mac, but I can't find any way to stream text to the adapter such that it actually prints. Has anybody been able to do this?


texts: Does Facebook's "find friend" algorithm get data from the iOS app?

texts: When I download a Facebook app on my smartphone (e.g. iPhone), what data does Facebook then access? Names? Telephone numbers?


texts:
I have a Fritzbox acting as WiFi Access point and handing my home DSL connection, DHCP etc. I also have an Airport Extreme connected via network cable to the Fritzbox, only creating a Wireless network.

The wireless networks on both the FritzBox an Airport have the same SSID, password etc. I can only see one WiFi network SSID when I search for available WiFi networks.

This appears to work okay, however I haven't figure a way to Airdrop from my phone which is often connected to the Fritzbox WiFi network, and my Mac which connects to the Airport WiFi network (due to location in the house).

Is there a way to set this up so Airdrop (and probably bonjour?) can see devices on both WiFi networks?


texts: Show github notifications in Mountain Lion Notification Center

texts: Simply put: Is there a way to show the notifications on github in the notification center of the new Mountain Lion?


texts: Can I jailbreak a 3G iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.5?

texts:
I have a 3G iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.5. I wanted to jailbreak it but most articles point to 4.3.3 and the downgrade isn't applicable to my model .

I wanted to know if it is possible to jailbreak my device?


texts: macOS Catalina 10.15.1 suffers from extremely high application start up time

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After I reboot my computer, it will take a really long time to start up applications (e.g. chrome, pdfexpert) for the first time, maybe about 15~30 seconds. This delay disappears with subsequent re-opening of these apps, which takes less than 1 second.

I am using macOS Catalina 10.15.1 installed in APFS-encrypted mode, and my device is MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013).

I wonder to know if the problem is that, my device is almost outdated and has no specific hardware like dedicated chips to do decryption, which then leads to an extremely high app loading time for the first time?
How to profile and debug it?

More, is there any way to migrate the file system to unencrypted version without pains?

One more thing, in macOS Catalina 10.15.0, the delay of app's first start up time is also perceptible, but not as high as now's. So maybe there are some hardware problems with my device?

Thanks a lot.

I installed macOS Catalina from clean slate, which means I made a bootable u disk to install the system after erasing the full disk on macbook pro. The apps are all up-to-date.

My laptop is the 13-inch one in late 2013, which is upgraded to i7-4558U and 16G RAM. It has a 256G SSD with about 200G unused.


texts: Can I upgrade RAM on an early 2014 Macbook Pro with Retina display?

texts:
I bought a Macbook Pro with Retina display (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) in April.

It keeps freezing and about every 3 days, and I need to upgrade the RAM.

Am I able to upgrade the RAM on this machine to 8GB or 16GB?


texts: How to package and distribute a Keyboard Layout

texts:
I'm using Ukele to create a new keyboard for my language.

I can't find information regarding how to distribute it so that users can easily install and use it.


texts: Windows on a Macbook Pro with integrated Intel Iris Pro only

texts:
I've been wondering about this since the last refresh of the Macbook Pro range...I have a need to run some Windows-only software, and I've read in the past that many people complained about lower battery life running Windows under Bootcamp on their Macbooks. This turned out to be the result of the Discrete Graphics Card always enabled for Windows, with no way to only use the integrated GPU.

I see now with the last refresh, that Apple have a Macbook Pro Retina with an Intel Iris Pro only option (no discrete GPU). Would it be reasonable to assume that I could get better battery life out of this new Macbook option under Bootcamp, than with previous Macbook Pro iterations? I'm certainly aware that Windows is nowhere nearly as optimised as OSX, and hence will not not be able to claim the same battery sipping status of it.

I work a lot on Magento and Drupal site development, and occasionally develop the odd nopCommerce (.NET based) project under Windows. I also make use of Adobe Photoshop CC for slicing up web designs handed over to me, and fool around in Sketchup every now and then. I don't play games on my laptop...purely work. So I believe that my graphics processing needs are very small.

Ok, I've gone off course a little, but getting back to the main question - Would it be reasonable to assume that I can achieve slightly better battery consumption by choosing the Retina Macbook Pro with Intel Iris Pro only option?


texts: MacBook Pro flashing question mark but I can't repair because hard disk not found in disk utility

texts:
Today my MacBook showed up some wheel of death and I waited and waited and then after a long time (10 minutes) decide to force shutdown.

Ok, I know its not a good idea but I've done this before and then put in the installation disk and with Disk Utility I could easily repair the boot, if it's crashed.
But this time Disk Utility could not find my hard drive.

I believe its not a physical issue, once started from a forced shutdown and no noises with the hard drive. But how can I repair my hard drive if even the software cannot find it?

Ps.: I have already opened my MacBook, disconnected the hard drive, and plugged it again. You know, just in case, but no effects.


texts: How can I get persistent Dictionary popups to go away?

texts: In some applications, such as nvAlt, the Dictionary popup (accessed by double-tapping with three fingers or by using the Look Up command in the context menu) won't go away once called. The only solution I've found to make it close is to quit the program. Is there any way I can do it without quitting the application?


texts: Safari (iPhone, MacBook) gives NSURLErrorDomain:-1017

texts:
I face the issue that Safari returns the error: cannot parse response (NSURLErrorDomain:-1017)
I tested it on different iPhones and one MacBook.
iPhone XS & 11 (iOS 14.3). MacBook Pro BigSur.
You should see the same error when visiting https://gamerino.de
Google Chrome does not have this issue!


texts: Why does my Mac have Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD1?

texts:
I have a VMWare virtual machine of 256GB. The HD capacity on the Mac is 750GB. In terminal under the Volumes folder, I see Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD1. About 300 gigs seem to be wasted.

How do I cleanup the hard drive and why do I have 2 HDs?


texts: Iphone “ringing” in the middle of the night in do not Disturb mode

texts:
I have sleep time/do not Disturb on every night.
This morning at 2:30am I was woken up by the ringtone “Opening default” going off on my lock screen with no push notification.

Nothing has that ringtone set in sounds. There are no missed calls or apps that used it. It’s freaking me out.

Device: iphone 7 plus
Fw: 12.4.1

There was no alarm set at this time. Any ideas???


texts: I uninstalled an app. How do I get it back?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How can I find out which apps I have already downloaded on my iPhone?

The knowledge base mentions that you get to reinstall the app for free... once you find it again on the store, which is no easy task. There are dozens of apps, all alike the one that was installed.

Is there a way to have a list of apps you have bought? At what point of the purchasing process does this dialog appear? Does a price tag appear for already purchased items? If so, does this message appear after you single tap on the price tag, or do you need to risk a double tap?


texts: How can I remove Photo Library from iCloud without deleting the photos stored on the iPhone, so that photos will be included in an iCloud backup of the phone?


texts: Does a battery's remaining power drop consistently regardless of remaining charge?

texts:
how does the remaining battery life when plugging in factor in to the overall amount of usable computer time?

E.g., with a full-charged deep cell battery, a fully-charged laptop, a power inverter, and a laptop charger, suppose I decide I am going to use my laptop until I no longer have any power left in both my deep cell battery and laptop battery. [How] Would the total amount of computer time possible vary across the multitude of combinations of laptop charging vs discharging over time?

OS X 10.10, rMBP 15"


texts: How do I change containers from Matroska to MP4 without modifying the stream data?

texts:
I want to take some Matroska (.mkv) movies I have (h.264/AAC with subtitle & chapter tracks) and change the container to the more iOS friendly MP4 container, but without re-encoding all of the media streams. What tool is suitable for doing this?

Other info: I'm using 10.5 PPC.


texts: How do I enable VirtualBox guest to access USB 3.0 if the option is grayed out in the settings (after installing the extension pack)?

texts:
I have created a Windows virtual box with no problems. I'm trying to write to a USB (See at the end more info), but keep getting an error. The Host is a macbook, and the USB is connected through an Apple multiport adapter (like this one). I installed the extension pack successfully but now I can't switch the VB to USB 2 or 3, because the option is grayed out!

As far as I can tell, I need to add USB 3 or 2 to support this USB. Any help?

More info: ultimately, I'm trying to create a bootable USB to install windows in a new machine. As far as I can tell, this cannot be done from OS X anymore (Older solutions included using Bootcamp, which doesn't work anymore or copying the .iso directly to the USB which doesn't work anymore because it contains files larger than 4GB, which is not supported by FAT32).


texts: What's the difference between the swedish and swedish - pro keyboard layouts?

texts: There seem to be two layouts for Swedish (not counting Sami) and I don't understand the difference.


texts: Using iPhone 4s camera to record video live on OS X

texts:
I have a late 2010 13" MBP. I have OS X 10.9.5 installed. Also I have iphone 4s. I would like to record video directly from my iPhone's HD camera to my computer since I can't record long videos because I only have 8GB on my iPhone. I tried to use iMovie but when I select the iphone camera, it only shows the videos I have on my iphone. I want to record from the camera directly! However choosing the iSight camera from iMovie, it allows me to record. This is very strange.

Any ideas?


texts:
I'm looking for a solution that would enable me to install Ubuntu and run it as a virtual machine under OS X but still be able to boot directly Ubuntu.

If possible I would like to test both scenarios: Ubuntu guest on OS X host and Ubuntu host and OS X guest.


texts: Application crashes; 'Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion' returning 10.9.2

texts:
I'm using Sublime Text 3, and I've got its icon in my dock. However, when I try to start it by clicking the icon, it immediately crashes with the following error (in Console);

08/04/15 16:57:11,828 Sublime Text[1397]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.2 instead of 10.10.2. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
08/04/15 16:57:11,829 Sublime Text[1397]: 0   CarbonCore                          0x00007fff8986ed9b ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 113
08/04/15 16:57:11,829 Sublime Text[1397]: 1   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8f9c9c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
08/04/15 16:57:11,829 Sublime Text[1397]: 2   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8f9c9b26 dispatch_once_f + 117
08/04/15 16:57:11,829 Sublime Text[1397]: 3   CarbonCore                          0x00007fff898173ca _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 987
08/04/15 16:57:11,830 Sublime Text[1397]: 4   CarbonCore                          0x00007fff89816fb7 Gestalt + 144
08/04/15 16:57:11,830 Sublime Text[1397]: 5   Sublime Text                        0x000000010863519b _Z10os_versionv + 29
08/04/15 16:57:11,830 Sublime Text[1397]: 6   Sublime Text                        0x0000000108613397 _Z16px_create_windowP23px_window_event_handlerP11px_window_tddPKcj + 605

It seems to indicate an issue related to OSX Yosemite vs OSX Mavericks. The documentation I find online w.r.t. this problem seems to concern a wide variety of programs, but none of it consistently. There's a discussion on the Apple discussion boards, but it holds no answers.

For my specific case, the weird thing is that I can in fact start the Sublime binary (i.e. via the Terminal). This seems to indicate that something is going wrong in the .app wrapper

What could I try?

EDIT: I'm running Yosemite 10.10.2, and have upgraded from Mavericks. However, this has not been broken from the get-go, and Sublime Text 3 is the only application I'm experiencing this with.


texts: Is there a way Spotlight indexes my Skim bookmarks/notes ?

texts:
I find Skim is a great pdf file reader and want to spend a great deal of time adding notes and bookmarks to some of the pdf files I have.

I know Spotlight indexes pdf files but it doesn't seem to index my Skim bookmarks.
(I just created a bookmark in Skim and search for that bookmark in Spotlight. No results).

I may force Spotlight to index net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks.plist (it is where bookmarks are stored) ?

What do you think ?
Thanks in advance.


texts: How to make brew install a package only if it is not yet installed, and upgrade otherwise?

texts:
I found it surprisingly hard to make brew either install a package (if it is missing) or upgrade it (if it is already installed). Is there no simple command / arguments to do that?

Based on this answer, I ended up doing (at the example of the git package)

brew ls --versions git && brew upgrade git || brew install git

after doing a brew update, obviously. However, that still seems clumsy to me compared to other package managers.


texts: Apple's "Mail" does not show when opened

texts:
I just upgraded to Yosemite and opened my "Mail" programme, and at first everything worked fine but when i closed it and wanted to open it again at a later time the app tells me its open (by showing me the nr. of unread emails and via a small dot beneath the app sign) but it wont show me the inbox..

can someone tell me what happened and/or how i can fix this?

thanks.


texts: Problem setting up Exchange server on Outlook 2011

texts:
I have an Exchange server account which works fine on my Windows Vista pc. I have set it up with no problem on my iPhone. However, on my MacBook Pro it does not work: the icon under "Default Account" (next to the account name) remains yellow.

I tried setting up a Gmail account on the Mac Outlook and that worked with no problem.

What could be wrong?

I have set up:

Account description
Full name
E-mail address
Method (User Name and Password)
User name
Password

Under "Advanced" I also entered the Server.

The OS is Mac OS X version 10.7.1.


texts: Why is there so much outbound traffic from Airmail 3 (from Bloop)?

texts:
I have been using Airmail 3 (highly regarded email client from Bloop that you get via the Mac App store) for some time now, but I am not sure how trustworthy they are.  What concerns me about the app is how much outbound traffic there is.   I use the Little Snitch firewall so I can see how much traffic is coming out of Airmail 3.  What I see is close to 1GB over a period of one year.  This may seem reasonable at first blush, but I almost never use Airmail 3 to access email.  My email provider is Gmail and I access this service through the mail.google.com website for 99.9% of the time.  So the question is what is all this data that Airmail 3 is sending?  Is it just from the handshake protocol of Airmail asking Google if there is new mail in my inbox?

Of asked Airmail 3 support and they claim to not store any user data (except under one exceptional condition that I did not trigger).

So I don't know what is going on, but I don't like all this outbound communication.


texts: Upgrade to High Sierra failed and I cannot restore backups from macOS Server

texts:
I tried to upgrade a MacBook Air from macOS Sierra to macOS High Sierra. It rebooted and entered a black screen while the machine got very hot for about 30 minutes. I ended up turning off the machine and my drive was no longer bootable.

Before I did this, I made sure I had two backups on our macOS Sierra Server, configured with the Time Machine Server. We have a two Drobos attached to the server and our Macs backup to each Drobo in round-robin fashion.

I also did a "Backup with Consistency Check" on each of the two drives and I did a "Verify Backups" and all was fine.

Since I could not longer boot the MacBook Air and I was sure I had two good backups, I wiped the Mac and installed macOS High Sierra from the recovery partition. It installed fine.

However, at the point where it asks if I wanted to transfer from a backup, I chose that option but macOS won't find the backups. I waited 8 hours, and still it didn't find them.

So, I chose "Other Location" and I specified the server and SMB share name, and it added it but then said the share was unavailable. I don't have the exact error messages with me, and I'll update my question later with the exact errors and possibly screenshots.

I completed the macOS High Sierra installed, mounted and authenticated to the Time Machine server, and accessed the Time Machine backup sparsebundle. Then I launched the Migration Assistant. Again, it did not find the backups. Plus, if I add them, I get the same error (I will provide later).

How can I restore my MacBook Air from a Time Machine server backup?


texts: What is the max number of hard links in OS X (10.11)?

texts: I have a file that I keep linking to.  It's up to 45 links now. Does anyone know how I can find out what the maximum number of hard links is in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)?


texts: How Do I Know When I am in Private Mode?

texts:
Using Chrome, there is a little icon indicating that I am in Private mode. Maybe I am missing something, but how do I know in Safari?  I don't see any indication.

Thanks.


texts: Function performed by a shortcut in Pages?

texts:
I'm writing a lot of text with Pages. Upon typing I'm not always staring at my keyboard and from time to time when using the space bar I inadvertantly type command functions.
Most of the time I can easily recover this typing errors by looking at the dynamical 1st entry of the Edit menu which suggest to undo the wrong command (shortcut ⌘+Z). But this isn't always possible.

Now I just inadvertantly typed ⌘+E.

I don't see an immediate and total collapse of my actual page.

But I would like to know if this modified my document somewhere else
before saving a damaged document.

How may I find what this shortcut is doing?
How may I find what any shortcut is doing?


texts: Can one create an iTerm / Terminal (MacOSX) Secure session?

texts:
I use iTerm for doing things such as creating passwords by selecting random words from /usr/dict.  I prefix the commands with a space so they aren't saved in the shell history.  I discovered to my horror that iTerm2 keeps recent paste, commands and other history.  See Session > Open Paste / command / ....  Its all there in plain text sqlite db file.

I found that these are saved to ~/Library/Application\ Support/iTerm2/ and I simply deleted these files.  However this is not a very good solution since everything is deleted and has to be done every time.

My questions are - is this data saved anywhere else and is there a way to create secure sessions so this doesn't happen?


texts:
I am using MBA M1 with macOS Big Sur v11.2.1.
Recently discovered that the program mpv is now available natively for M1 macs through brew. When I do brew install mpv then mpv is surely installed and it is indeed native to M1. But the problem is that there is no .app for it and everytime I want to run a video I have to necessarily open terminal and do mpv \path\ to\ file which I want to avoid. So, searching around I found that the new way to do this is to use the --cask option. But when I do an install using the said option, mpv is the Intel version.
How do I get the native version to work as a regular app? As I understand it, cask option is merely combining all the files into an .app format and it should not really affect anything. In fact, one should be able to do this fairly easily, without using cask, given the right kind of information. Please help me get this working.


texts: Sparrow mail app seems to make my imac act funny

texts:
I was wondering if anyone has experience with Sparrow mail app? I've just downloaded Sparrow and it seems to do something funny.

First the volume thing self disabled and when I tried to flip the screen to another screen back and forth, it enables itself again then it disable again and like that on and off for some period of times and I've tried to restart it like 5 times and now the volume problem seems OK now.

But the wifi is acting funny. It kept disconnecting on and off I've restarted it twice now and still the same. When I quit Sparrow, everything is ok. I've tried to open Sparrow an hour later, it did the same thing again with the wifi.

Why is that? Is it because of the Sparrow app? I'm running latest os x lion 10.7.3.


texts:
I'm working on a script that reads the header of some files (medical images), filters the data and then creates a file directory based on that data.
But there are millions of images and I need to make it faster in a task.
After reading the image, the script creates a block of information that I need to filter, swap the letters accented by normal letters, swap any space for an underline, and then delete any character other than "AZ, AZ, 0-9,_)( ][-".
At the moment I use the SED and Tr commands as shown below, Is there a faster way to do this ? TIA

BLOCK=$( command to read the images )
FILTER=$( echo $BLOCK | tr 'ÁÉÍÓÚáéíóúçÇ ^\' 'AEIOUaeioucC_:' | sed -e 's/[^A-_a-z0-9() -]//g' )


texts: Change Click Firmness of Apple Magic Trackpad 2

texts:
I just started using a Magic Trackpad 2 with my 2013 Mac Pro running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6). I expect to be able to change the firmness required to click and activate Force Click. However, in my System Preferences Trackpad preference pane, there's no slider for the firmness, only for tracking speed:

According to Apple's online documentation, there should be a slider in that blank area in the lower left for firmness, like so:

But, as shown in the first screenshot, the slider for click firmness doesn't show up on my Mac Pro.

How do I adjust the click firmness on my new Magic Trackpad 2?


texts: Which Power Adapter is the correct one for Powerbook G4 15inch FW800 - 45watts or 65watts

texts: I have a Powerbook G4 15inch FW800 with a 45watts Apple style power adapter. Recently it would not boot up. I removed the battery and it did. However after a shutdown, later on it did not boot up without battery. Only after I reinserted the battery and after waiting for a few minutes did it boot up again. I heard that I should use a 65watts Power Adapter and not a 45watts. However, when I search for a power adapter based on my Powerbook's Apple Order number: M8981LL/A and/or the Model Number: A1046 - I sometimes get a match with a 45watt adapter and other times with a 65watts adapter. So, which adapter should I use with my Powerbook?


texts: Is there a way to change the gesture that invokes Launchpad?

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i use launchpad quite a lot, but find the 'finger & thumb' pinch rather awkward.

i never use mission control, and would love to use the 3 finger vertical swipe for launchpad instead of mission control.

in the trackpad section of system preferences there appears to be no way to swap these out, which seems rather limited to me.

Can it be changed?


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I have a very large iPhoto library and a part of it is old and doesn't have to be modified. To distinguish this part from my whole iPhoto library I will name it "2000_archive".
The version of iPhoto I'm using today is iPhoto ’11.

I would like to access and protect this 2000_archive.
I want to avoid any modification I could made and wouldn't detect immediatly so as to undo it.
This is the kind of event which happens regularly on huge documents which don't provide a clear modification status. iPhoto doesn't provide such a clear modification status.

My iPhoto library is already backed up by Time Machine and
some folders of it are already exported on DVD.

The key function I'm looking after is a library I can select occasionally and open but on which any modification will be blocked. I want a read only separated iPhoto library. Hence the term of archive here.

How may I make a separate iPhoto library of this 2000_archive (I'm here talking of a few hundreds folders)?
How may I make a read only archive of this separate iPhoto library 2000_archive?


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I have a Bootcamp partition with Windows 8.1 that I rarely use. Last night I was in OSX, closed the lid, and when I opened it this morning it was in Windows and I cannot get out.

Booting with the option key down does nothing (still boots straight to Windows)
Going to Advanced Boot Options in Windows shows Mac OS X as an alternative boot device, but when I choose it and reboot, it still goes into Windows.
I've read that holding X on boot forces to OS X - never heard of that before, but also tried it with the same results as above.

I've reached the end of what I know how to do - other troubleshooting paths to take?


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I used to have an extension that hided the toolbar completely (which I installed from a website, outside the extensions market) giving a minimalist look, but it suddenly got removed from my Safari for some reason, and I can't find it back in Google.

Luckily I had a screenshot of the extension running:

Does anyone knows how was this extension called, and probably why it got removed without any notice?


texts: Reinstall a clean copy of Mavericks AND migrate my Apps and Settings?

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Background: I bought a new laptop with Mavericks installed and used Migration Assistant to restore my environment from a Time Machine backup. It worked fine except that all the bungling I've done trying to get a working Python dev environment set up also got restored, along with a bunch of other system level junk I've installed.

Trying again for a clean system, today I wiped the drive, reinstalled Mavericks and made sure not to check "Computer and Network Settings" in the Migration Assistant dialog but I still ended up with a bunch of system level stuff I don't want (e.g. Python framework installed in my user 'Library' folder (not Apple's Python in the System/Library but what got installed from Python.org installer).

My question: I'd like to be sure I am starting fresh. Is there any way, short of rebuilding my settings and environment manually to get a clean Mavericks install?


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How would I remove the password requirement from a passworded pdf using an iOS device?
I know the password.
I want to save the pdf such as it won't require password.


texts: What app has this blue penguin in the Social category?

texts: Could someone identify what the app with the blue penguin is?


texts: MacBook Pro Connects to Wi-Fi but not the Internet

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I am on a MacBook Pro 2012 running macOS 10.11.

Recently, I have been having a problem with my Wi-Fi. Specifically, whenever I disconnect from one Wi-Fi network and attempt to connect to another in a different location, I get no internet. The signal says I am fully connected to the new network, but I cannot access the internet.

Restarting the computer solves the problem, but it is a pain to restart the computer every time I want to connect to a different network as I travel with my computer a lot.

I recently installed VPN software and suspect this may be the root of the problem because I never had this problem before the VPN.

Can anyone give me some ideas to fix this?


texts: How can I kill Finder if it's not responding?

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I have some Finder windows that I just cannot close. They are completely unresponsive, and have the rainbow wheel whenever I select any of them.

Force Quit / Relaunch doesn't help, because the windows just get reopened again and they continue to be unresponsive. They also don't respond to e.g. Command + Option + W.

Other applications are fine, it's just Finder that's stuck.

Is there a way I can force quit Finder without reopening all the windows?