texts: Brightness and volume controls delayed when using internal speakers

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This is clearly related to Delay when using the volume buttons, but that was about a wireless keyboard and many generations of macOS ago.

Problem:

When Internal Speakers are selected in the control panel, adjusting volume OR brightness via the corresponding keyboard keys can be hugely delayed: I just measured a 58 second delay for both. And when adjusting the audio, there's no audio feedback.

But when I select "Display Audio" (I have a Thunderbolt / Cinema display), adjusting both volume and brightness respond promptly (and for volume, I hear the audio feedback.)

(I find it especially interesting that adjusting the brightness is affected by the selection of audio output.)

Any thoughts on a cause and a possible fix?

More details:

OS: macOS 10.15.1 (19B88), aka macOS Catalina
HW: MacBookPro11,2
Display(s):

Built-In Retina LCD (2880 x 1800 Retina)
Thunderbolt Display (2560 x 1440 (QHD/WQHD - Wide Quad High Definition)


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Someone dropped their iPhone near my door. The neighbor picked it up, phoned me, and told me it has my number in it so it's probably someone I know.

But now, the phone is dead, and I don't have an iPhone charger to charge it. How can I turn this thing on?


texts: Looking for a monitor for my 2012 model iMac

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I know there are many of these types of questions, but the answers for the later models do not directly help with the newer iMac model that just came out in December 2012. I'm having a HUGE issue finding a second 24" monitor that my iMac doesn't have to calibrate and give me multiple blue screens once turning that second monitor on.

I've looked at this question and it's answers
iMac second monitor alternative

and a few more however I'm looking for an answer, hopfeully from another newer iMac owner.

There was a Gateway monitor on sale through the holidays however it gave me that unwanted 5 seconds of blue screen on my iMAc when I turned it o (every single time). So I took it back and I've used 2 older monitors from Asus (unfortunately, not my own but from friends) and they work no problem. So I set out to buy an Asus. However this Asus monitor I have hooked up to it now is worse and give me multiple blue screens that last longer than the first once it's turned on.

Is there an individual that has faced this before with their new 2012 iMac and did you find a monitor that just turned on normally (with no blue screen interruptions)?
I'm not looking for the cinema display, I'm not looking for that at this moment (although it is in my wish list for the end of the year, but after purchasing this new iMac and can't afford that right now. I'm just looking for an overall decent monitor I can work on when it comes to text documents, videos & surfing.)

I appreciate any help and hope that this is a valid question.


texts: Time machine restoration frozen at "Preparing to restore "Macintosh HD"…*

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I am using Time Machine to restore a new MacBook Pro 16″. I am using an encrypted HDD that's connected with USB 3 for the restoration.
However, since about an hour the Mac is frozen at the step "Preparing to restore "Macintosh HD"….
Is this behavior normal? How long should a restoration take? Or should I restart the Mac?


texts: Transfer an App Store app to another machine without internet access

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I have a Mac, running Mountain Lion, which does not have internet access and cannot be given internet access. I would like to take an app, which is only available on the App Store, and install it on this Mac. I do have another Mac with internet access and can purchase the App on it. However, when I try to copy and install the app on the other machine, the app won't launch.

How can I accomplish this?

I have no intention of using the App on the Machine on which the purchase was made.


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I am trying to sync my Mac (macOS 11.2.3) "Pictures" folder with my NAS using Synology Drive. I receive an error message stating that photos.sqlite-shm cannot be synced due to missing access rights or because the file is in use.
However, I cannot even find this file. What is it and where is it? It sounds like it has something to do with iOS. Thank you!


texts: How do I change my display settings if I can't see my screen?

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I have a macbook in clamshell mode that's plugged into an HDTV for display output.  Yesterday, I changed my display settings via the System Preferences.  However, I inadvertently picked a setting that is not supported by my screen, and now I can't figure out how to undo the change.  The screen is blank.

I can open my laptop and go to dual-screen mode and change the settings there, but as soon as I switch back to clamshell mode the system picks the broken display settings again.


texts: A way to disable the SMB signing mechanism at the Apple Time Capsule?

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Apple Time Capsule related technical question.
In short, - does there exist a way to disable at the Time Capsule the SMB signing feature?
Regarding the original SMB1 protocol, the signing mechanism is slowing down the overall performance extremely. For example, writing to the Time Capsule network share is over a Gigabit LAN connection at around 15 MB/s and goes down to around 2 - 3 MB/s when a lot of smaller files are transferred.
This behavior is SMB1 related and is therefore present on different operating systems and (older) NAS network devices. Newer SMB2+ versions have a different, more efficient, design which results in much reduced overhead in conjunction with the signing feature. I can confirm this for several older Windows 7 computers where their (SMB2 based) network shares can handle transfer speeds up to 100 MB/s.
The usual solution is to disable the SMB signing. This can be done on macOS (and other OS) quite easy: https://dpron.com/os-x-10-11-5-slow-smb/
In my case, however, it is somewhat more complex. Regarding the Time Capsule -- I had to do this at the "server side" which is effectively the Time Capsule. I have experimented to deactivate the signing at the client side (Mac OS, Windows 7) but it shows no effect. The SMB1 network share speed is always very slow because the SMB1 signing remains active.
So, my idea is to find a BSD command which deactivates the signing at the Time Capsule. The earlier Time Capsule models (up to the fourth generation) are NetBSD 4.0 based. The last model, the fifth generation, is based on NetBSD 6. There exists a non-official way to access the Time Capsule through SSH. ;-)
And finally, a switch to the Apple AFP protocol is not a real solution because the Time Capsule share is also used under Linux and Windows. AFP is therefore only a solution for macOS based systems. However, Apple itself regards AFP as deprecated. It is no longer supported with the new APFS file system. Apple uses for APFS based network shares newer SMB versions.


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I'd like to spend some time aside from the IDE for a bit and use command line gcc, g++ compilers.

When i use my terminal, they however, can't be found.

How can i install them?

I honestly am surprised why these two don't come standard.

Please let me know.


texts: I get a bash syntax error message every time I open Terminal on macbook

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-bash: /Users/admin/.bash_sessions/720116FC-4C25-4FFA-AC15-00D5C843C15F.session: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ('
-bash: /Users/admin/.bash_sessions/720116FC-4C25-4FFA-AC15-00D5C843C15F.session: line 1: echo Restored session:

Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Macbook Pro 13" Audio In/Out Port Adaptor

texts: I have the most recent Macbook Pro 13" and on the apple website it says that the audio port is in and out. I just ordered a headset that has two separate 3.5mm plugs and was wondering if there is any sort of adapter that would let me use both the headphone and the mic, or if it has to be one or the other, since there is only one port.


texts:
So I've just got an iPhone 7 and noticed that a few times that a random sequence of app icons on my home screen are blinking or appearing to be pressed or tapped for a second when I update my apps in the App Store.
Anyone else experienced the same on their devices? Know what it is actually?
Im kinda new to iOS, its my first iPhone as well. Thanks in advance for the informations!
I”ve also found an older video showcasing what im talking about, it looks exactly like this:
https://amp.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/9mezif/blinking_icons_with_ios_12/


texts: iPhone setting to turn off auto-detection of phone numbers?

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In Safari and the Notes app on iPhone, wherever there are strings of numbers they get linked and treated as phone numbers.

I'm sure there was a setting to turn this off but I cannot find it. Where is it?

(Note: I'm not asking for how to prevent this happening on web pages as in this question, just a setting for my phone.)


texts: Make iMac file structure more like windows

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I am a web developer that works for a company and I am looking to make my Mac feel more like windows. I am having trouble navigating the file system, I am colorblind and the files are all blue and small (I am most sensitive to blue when it comes to not seeing right).

How can I customize my Mac for increased visibility and increased font sizes?


texts: Apps randomly lose ability to make HTTP requests

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I've started experiencing this issue where apps lose their ability to make HTTP/HTTPS requests. It happens at random, and it's happened three times in the past 2 days. All browsers, including Safari, Chrome, and Firefox fail. Other apps that can make HTTP requests like Paw, also fail. The same is true for iTunes, Spotify, and other apps that rely on HTTP calls to work.

I've determined the following:

CLI apps like curl or wget still work and successfully make requests.
It's not DNS issue. I can resolve domains normally using dig. Also, requesting sites by IP on browsers fails.
I can ping IPs normally
I can connect to a VPN from the network menu, but apps still can't make requests
Rebooting does not solve the issue
The issue persists even if I boot in safe mode
I've tested turning the os firewall on/off
I have LuLu installed (and had it for months), but it's been disabled for a few weeks. I don't have any other third party security apps.
TCP saturation doesn't appear to be the case. lsof -n -i TCP only shows about 25 connections (also remember curl works..)

I discovered that deleting the Ethernet adapter and re-creating it from the networking menu fixes the issue immediately. However, it doesn't stop it from happening again.

I suspect this is related to a recent macOS update, but I don't know how to isolate the problem.

This is happening on an iMac Pro 2017 with Catalina (10.15.2)


texts: Why are Photo Stream process running, but photos only loads when iPhoto is opened?

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I have a process called Photo Stream running, but I have been discovering that my photos in my photo stream only loads when iPhoto is opened.

Why?


texts: Outlook 2016 unable to connect to Exchange 2007

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I have just been hired at a new company that does not seem to have much of a Mac presence... yet.  They aren't blocking Mac's specifically(as far as I can tell and others have told me).

On my company supplied PC I can get Outlook 2010 to work inside and outside the network(without VPN), so Outlook anywhere must be running.

If my PC can run Outlook on the outside via Outlook anywhere.  I need some help understanding my my Mac cannot.  Any thoughts on what may be blocked or preventing me from connecting?


texts: How do I jailbreak iOS 6.1.2 without installing Cydia?


texts: will jailbreak cause any damage to the device

texts: Is it possible to cause any damage to the hardware due to jailbreak? Also, will it void the warranty attached to the device?


texts: removing write up protection from micro sd card

texts: My micro sd card suddenly got locked and i don't know how to remove the write up protection using my macbook air nor the disk utility. How do I remove the digital write up protection from my card using my mac?


texts: What other materials, apart from flesh, can you use to interact with an iPhone Touchscreen?

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The other day I was in my car and though I'm a little unsure about what candy bar wrapper I used but I believe I moved my screen using a candy bar wrapper.  I keep thinking it was a York Peppermint Patty wrapper, but I could be wrong about that, either that or a Laura Bar wrapper.

I'm told an iPhone has a Capacitance Touch Screen which is different from earlier models of touch screen which relied on clicking or something else, but it's clearly not the same thing.

Using the old screens you could use a paper clip or whatever to interact with the phone, but with an iPhone it's the tip of your finger, and apparently a few other materials.

In particular I'm interested in being able to tap with it.


texts: Remap ESC to Option-ESC in Office (Excel, Word, etc) with karabiner-elements

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When I am using Safari in full screen, and I press ESC key it's minimized. So that's why I started using karabiner-elements.

I install it, I use the first option in this page and the problem is solved.

Now, I want to know if in Office (Excel, Word, PorwerPoint) I can use the same settings.

In the page I mentioned before I didn't find the option I want.

In the video that I attach, the screen is minimized when I press ESC.


texts: Turn off blurring on Mac Book Pro with Retina display

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I think it's already known issue that old applications look blurry on the new retina display, but some look ok, just worse quality. As an example I want you too look on the image below:

It's clearly visible that an upper text uses squares of 2x2 pixels as a one big (non hi-res) pixel. And the image below is 'blurred' so each pixel has it's own color an this allows smother gradients, but for me it's harder to look at the blurred text. So does anybody know if there is a possibility to turn off this blurring and see pixels just 4 times larger?


texts: iPhoto '09 referenced library - modified files are saved locally?

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I've been trying to organise my photos better on a NAS (QNAP) that is exposed as an AFP share. I've copied all the JPEGs into an organised structure on the NAS volume manually. I'd like the files on the NAS (RAID5) and the library on the MBP. They have a direct gigabit connection and jumbo frames are enabled.

I created a new iPhoto '09 library, changed preferences to NOT copy the originals to the library, then imported a directory hierarchy of this years photos. I then proceeded to do some face recognition, tagging and placing as a test.

I then looked at the external NAS files and the internal HDD files and can see many, many files duplicated within the Modified folder of the new iPhoto library

My question is - is this the expected behaviour? Is this avoidable somehow? Can iPhoto be made to save modifications to the original files in the referenced location?

Note: I would prefer to use iPhoto but I also have Aperture if that is usable in some way. Or open to other suggestions


texts: How do I set the homepage of my Safari 8.0.7 or, even better, customize it?


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I have connected my Playstation DS4 controller via bluetooth to my macOS 10.15.5.
How do you capture the key presses to make a program?
I have seen Controller Lite, which are able to capture controller inputs, and tried an example Xcode project based on GCController also without success.


texts: How to make script out of focus in AppleScript?

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I have an Automator Service that is comprised of a single "Run AppleScript" action. The AppleScript basically consists of a series of dialogs.

In the middle of the script, the script relies on keystroking ⌘ command + C in order to get the selected rich text into the script as the clipboard. This copy command must fall in the middle of the script, as the user might want to paste the real clipboard into the initial dialog.

AppleScript dialogs in Services are by default pinned on top of all windows; you cannot change this.

AppleScript is only able to keystroke ⌘ command + C when the underlying app is in focus, which makes sense, considering that it is the underlying app -- not the script dialog -- that contains the selected text.

So, I'll put my question inelegantly: Is there a way to make the top part of the window immediately behind the Service dialog gray and thus make the top bar of the Service dialog white, while still not moving the script dialog out of view?

I cannot go by the title of the window or the app of the window, because these variables will vary. The constant is that the window that I want to bring into focus will always be immediately behind the Service dialog.

The following is an example of what I'm talking about:

-- Back up original clipboard contents:
set savedClipboard to the clipboard

set optionList to {"Uppercase case"}
set dialogBoxChoice to choose from list optionList with title "Change case of selection" with prompt "Choose a letter case:"

-- Copy selected text to clipboard:
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using {command down}
delay 1 -- Without this, the clipboard may have stale data.
set theSelectedText to the clipboard

-- Makes the selected text all uppercase:
-- From: http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/171196/184907
set theModifiedSelectedText to (do shell script ("echo " & theSelectedText & " | tr a-z A-Z;"))

display dialog theModifiedSelectedText

-- Overwrite the old selection with the desired text:
set the clipboard to theModifiedSelectedText
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down}
delay 1 -- Without this delay, may restore clipboard before pasting.

-- Restore clipboard:
set the clipboard to savedClipboard

If you put the above code in a keyboard-shortcut-triggered Service, you will see that the script will fail to tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using {command down}; thus, theSelectedText will be identical to the savedClipboard every time.


texts: Cloned OS X to new HDD, startup starts same programs each time

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Recently I changed my HDD, and used SuperDuper to clone the drive. Each time I boot it up, however, Terminal and Chrome start once I hit the desktop, no matter what programs I had open when I last shut it down.

At first I was worried it was booting to the same state again and again, but new files I create are still present on the system if I shut the computer down and start it up again.

Is there any way I can stop my computer from booting up the same two programs as though nothing has changed since the clone to the new drive?


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There are certain menu items in the Safari 6 Debug menu which I want to understand.

First, I’ll list the menu items; then, the information I would like to know for each of the items; and finally, I’ll post screenshots of the Debug menu and its submenus for context.

Specific menu items I’m interested in:

Use Buffered Windows
Use Single-process Windows
All items under Drawing/Compositing Flags ►
All items under Miscellaneous Flags ►

Wanted Information

what the menu item does
use cases where it would help performance
use cases where it would hinder performance
use cases where performance would probably not be affected

Screenshots of the Debug Menu

Screenshots from Safari 6.

Debug:
(submenu) Drawing/Compositing Flags ►:
(submenu) Miscellaneous Flags ►:


texts: Why are my iPad landscape screenshots rotated the wrong way?

texts: All my iPad landscape screenshots end up rotated to portrait view. In other words, they are 90 degrees turned the wrong way. It's annoying. No I don't have the rotation lock on when taking them. I am on 4.2, but it has always done this even before 4.2 update. I am jailbroken, so it may be one of the jailbreak apps. Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas?


texts: Macbook pro 2009 update not taking effect

texts: I downloaded the update for OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. I restarted when it told me, but the update did not take effect. When I manually rebooted, that didn't work either. How do I solve this?


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I need to print some SMS messages for a legal action. What tool does Apple provide to print SMS messages with their time stamps and other metadata?

This is similar to Need to print out iPhone text messages, but I don't need to transfer them to a different email account.

I don't want a third party tool or jail broken the device. A third party tool or jail broken device might not produce material that satisfies the "best evidence" or "accurate representation" rules. If the evidence produced does not satisfy the rules, then it will likely waste time and money in the action.

Does Apple make such a tool for their devices?


texts:
Guys I'm kind of hopeless after weeks of searching. My problem is the following:

When I created my Apple ID years ago I was young and didn't really understand the way Apple ID worked. I used shared it with my brother and it was perfectly fine except that he managed to mess up my iCloud mail to look like "mybrothersname@icloud.com" instead of "myname@icloud.com". Years passed and now I would really like to use the email service offered by iCloud, but seems like there is no way to change the mail address' name.

Before telling me, I know I could use an alias, but it just annoys me. I would like to have my own name on the @icloud.com mail address generated with my ID. I would simply make a fresh Apple ID, but I just managed to buy tons of apps that I'd miss. I'm open for any kind of solution. Would also transfer my purchases to the new Apple ID, but I found out that's also not possible. Merging two Apple ID's would be also nice though not possible. I'd even hack my own account if I knew and it was possible (if someone knew how, I'd give the right to).


texts: Is macbook pro 15 inch over-heating fixed?

texts: I want to buy a macbook pro 15 inch with i9 processor but I have heard that it has unacceptable over-heating problem. To what extent is this true? and is the problem likely going to get fixed? or am I better off to wait for next year where the issue is completely resolved.


texts: Macbook Update to High Sierra unbootable

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I updated my late-2013 MacBook Pro from macOS Sierra to macOS High Sierra this morning.
The update ran fine and I got back into my system everything looking ok.

Then I shut the MacBook down to go to work.
When I tried to boot it up again I end up with a black screen and nothing to happen further.
(In detail: The screen turns on (apple on back is bright). I hear the boot up sound. Then nothing happens. The screen stays turned on even if I remove power and close the lid. Only pressing power button for a view seconds turns the MacBook completely off. Another interesting thing: when I let the MacBook stay in this black screen state for a while I start hearing the cooling ventilator running at low power which suggests that the MacBook is making use of its computational power but does not display anything)

Any ideas what to do now?
(of course I have a Time Machine backup on an external drive but I don't have an idea how to make use of it at this point)

Further information:

The macOS partition was encrypted with FileVault and a modification:
only he root user can decrypt it
Also there was a Boot Camp partition with Windows 10
It seems like pressing Option key works and booting the Windows partition works!
When I press the Option key I can select between Windows and Macintosh HD. Menu works fine. The second I press Enter on the Macintosh HD it seems to freeze. So maybe it's related to the encryption?
I managed to boot into my time machine backup using the boot menu with connected backup drive. Using the Disk Utility I found a crazy fact: It seems like the macOS partition is gone. Not sure if this is normal (could be because Disk Utility can't read the encrypted partition?)


texts: I know how to Create a shortcut (.txt) File in Finder, but I want to take it far a little bit [coding help]

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I've followed John for creating a new filetext and have it pop up with a shortcut. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/129702

But once I hit my shortcut, a window opens for renaming the file, then I'll have to go  to desktop to open it. I was wondering if I could add a line in the code to have the file open after renaming it immediately?

 try
  tell application "Finder" to set the this_folder ¬
   to (folder of the front window) as alias
on error -- no open folder windows
  set the this_folder to path to desktop folder as alias
end try

set thefilename to text returned of (display dialog ¬
 "Create file named:" default answer "filename.txt")
set thefullpath to POSIX path of this_folder & thefilename
do shell script "touch \"" & thefullpath & "\""


texts: How to reinstall Snow Leopard on my MBP?

texts: I've been installing some applications and some things are not working properly. I want to reset my MBP to factory settings. How do I do a clean installation so I can start from scratch?


texts: How can I open a Google Maps URL in Apple Maps?

texts:
Is there a way for me to convert a Google Maps URL to an Apple Maps-friendly format so it opens in the correct place?

I might be in the minority, but where I am, Apple Maps offers vastly superior driving directions.


texts: How can I move my MS Office license to a new Mac?

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I have purchased a new 64-bit iMac and would like to move my version of Office for Mac 11 to it from my older iMac that is a 32-bit machine.

How do I uninstall so that I may use my existing validation codes on my new iMac?


texts: Is it possible to undo the last digit entered on my iPhone's calculator?

texts: I use Apple's Calculator iPhone app all the time. Being human, I regularly make mistakes (or maybe my fingers are too big) and end up entering the wrong digit. But the iPhone’s “undo” function doesn’t work with the Calculator app. Is there any way to undo the last digit I’ve entered? Or do I have to clear everything and start again?


texts: No sound from iPhone speakers when connected to a dock with line out

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I've bought a (very cheap) dock for my iPhone 4, the dock has a line out jack on the back.
I have noticed that when the phone is in the dock, the sound comes out only from the line out and not from the internal speakers.
This makes impossible to use any third party alarm application because no sound plays without connecting some external speaker. Only the ringtones play, so the default Clock app works and plays the alarm sound.
Is there any software option to force the iPhone to use the internal speakers also when connected to a dock with a line out?


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I have deleted an information in a note I need to recover. The note is purely local (not synched in the cloud or on any other device).

I'm using Mac OS X El Capitan V10.11.3 and the Apple app "Notes" Version 4.2 (549.10.1).

I do have several Time Machine backups available.

I did find several solutions on the internet but they seems to apply to older version of the Notes app.

If I open the Time Machine backup and go to:

/Users/<my username>/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library

The subfolder "Notes" has an old databases "NotesV6.storedata" but not modified since my upgrade to El Capitan so it's an old version.

Note that this database could contain the info I'm looking for so a solution to my immediate issue may be to find a way to read it...

The subfolder CoreData/ExternalRecords/NotesV4/6003A0A6.....401 contains many subfolders, among them the ICNote/_records/O/ that seems to contains the notes, but this is all 0 byte size files that, when looked at in finder contains the current version of my notes, so it seems they are some kind of pointer to the notes location rather than a backup of the notes. (In the console they are not symlinks.)

Doing a grep with keyword that are presents in the notes did not help.

So the question is: which files should I restore from Time Machine to recover my notes?


texts: Prevent iTerm2 from opening new terminal from dock

texts:
I just switched from TotalTerminal to iTerm2, and the feature I used the most was the visor. When I used my shortcut key (option + `), it'd drop a terminal from the top of the screen that i could tuck away with the visor shortcut again. Alternatively, if I clicked the terminal button in the dock, I could pull down the visor (or if I had other terminals open, I could go to those).

Is there a way I can have iTerm2 not open a new terminal when I click on it in the dock, but to just go to the most recent active terminal (which may be the visor)?

I'm running Mac OS Sierra (10.12.5).


texts: Fix Blank Icons in Dock Stacks and Grids

texts:
I use Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and here's my problem: Stack and grid views of folders very often look like this:

These empty boxes are not very useful for finding files quickly. When I open a such a view, I notice high processor usage by processes

QTKitServer
diskimages-helper

I assume that they are busy with loading/generating icons and previews for my files. These processes often use the CPU for minutes, but very few icons are generated. Icon and preview generation never seems to get finished for a folder. Does anyone else experience this? Is there a way to fix or speed up this process?


texts: Parental Controls Always Allow does not work

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I have enabled Parental Controls on my son's MacBook Pro (OS X 10.8.1, Mountain Lion) and have restricted the applications his account can use. Everything works fine with the exception of Minecraft (of course the application most important to him). Minecraft is marked as an application that he's allowed to use in the parental control settings.

When I try to start Minecraft under his account, a message pops up saying that he's not allowed to run it, giving the following three options:

Always Allow
Allow One Time
Cancel

When clicking Allow One Time, I have to enter the admin account username and password and the game starts without problems. But when I click Always Allow, it asks for the admin account as well, but then pops up the same message again. I have verified that I'm using the right admin account username and password, but it's still refusing to run the game.

When I disable parental controls, everything works, but the moment I turn it on again, it fails, despite having Minecraft in the list of allowed applications for his account.

In the Console application, I can see the following weird error message whenever this happens:

com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[148]:
([0x0-0x11c11c].com.Mojang Specifications.Minecraft.Minecraft[1216])
Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 13

Has anybody else experienced this or knows how to fix this?


texts:
I have some weird fan issues with my iMac. It sometimes goes to maximum speed but only for a couple of seconds and then goes back to normal. Without doing any heavy processing. The hardware test tells me there's an error:

4SNS/1/40000001:VH1R-0.000

What could that be? I found nothing on the internet.


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When I open my internal hard drive, which is also my start-up disk, Finder lists my account (I’m only user) as taking up 123 GB.

I double-click on my Home folder and sort items by size. Adding all folders containing over 100 MB, I only get about 22 GB. That leaves about 1 GB’s worth of files.

Where are the missing 100 GB?

I ran df -h under my Home folder, which shows about 101 GiB occupied. However most of that is taken up by the Library. What is this folder and why is it so large (93 GiB)?

I also ran Daisy Disk to map my drive. In addition to the 92 GB in the Library folder, it reports that iCloud Drive is using 55 GB and that a section it denotes as 'hidden spaces' is using 80 GB. Why does the iCloud Drive use 55 GB on my disk and what could 'hidden spaces' possibly be?


texts:
When I try to use Ctrl-D in Terminal for EOF, it doesn't work.  Instead it starts Mission Control, moving all my windows around.  I have checked under System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts and Ctrl-D is not defined as a shortcut there.  Mission Control is the default Ctrl up arrow.  So why is this happening and how can I make Ctrl-D function as EOF character instead?

I'm running Mojave 10.14.4


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Occasionally, I use Spotlight to quickly compute some expression because I'm too lazy to do it in my head, on paper, or fire up some program. Sometimes I would like to view the result again, but when hitting ⌘-Space again, it has disappeared. I'm not sure if this happens only when you search for something else in the meantime or also after some period of time.

The question is, can I somehow cycle back through my previous searches?

System info: OSX 10.10.4


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I would like to list all files on my system from command line.

The provided BSD find command, with the following command line

sudo find /

lists many of the files twice, under the root and under /System/Volumes/Data.

The GNU find command, installed with Homebrew, with the following command line

sudo gfind /

does not list files under /Applications, /Users, /Volumes and others.
The command

sudo gfind /*

lists more file, but I am not sure if they are all.

I would like to list all files once and preferably with GNU find, because differently from BSD find has a -printf command with many output formats, like inode, size, separated path and filename, unified timestamp and others.


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On my 2018 15-inch MacBookPro, when I boot into recovery partition, I see Startup Security Utility, but whatever changes I make are not persistent.
I no longer have Recovery Partition on my internal SSD, so I am booting from USB stick.


texts: I would like to stop receiving alerts every time I sign into find my iPhone. How do I turn off email alerts for find my iPhone?


texts: How can I add more then one calendar from a same google account?

texts: I have my default google calendar synchronized with my iPod-touch, and I would like to add other calendars from the same account, is there a way?


texts: iPhone app that allows disabling upcoming alarms

texts: In Android, it's possible to dismiss an upcoming alarm before it goes off (for example, because you woke up before your alarm). Is there an iPhone alarm app that provides this functionality?


texts: Iphone out of space due to duplicate podcasts?

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My iphone 4s (iOS 7.1.2) is out of storage space.

After spending time pruning old podcasts from my iTunes manager, I began to 'browse' my iphone.

I can see on my iPhone many identical podcasts.  These are in read-only mode, I cannot do anything except to play them. For example:

There is only one iTunes entry in the Career Tools podcast for Resume Update 2014, and there are 17 on my iPhone.

Does anyone know how to remove these extra podcasts for all that I subscribe to?


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Target machine: MacBook Air, 13-inch, early 2014, MacOS Sierra 10.12.6, used for 4 years very carefully without any problems.

Battery has only 70 cycles, condition reported as "Normal", and still works good on long flights.

However, yesterday I faced a problem, when the battery was about 50%, system just performed hard shutdown. I tried to turn it on twice, it kept shutting down after 2-3 seconds after the system boot. After plugging in power it works without any problems.

I doubt if I can reproduce the problem, it means I should work from the battery in the moment of shutdown (and lose work results)

Does anyone met the problem? How to detect the reason, is it hardware or software, or just system settings (I believe, it should be warning and regular shut down, never drained the battery before)?


texts: How to Make Catalina Macbook WiFI Connect to Specific Access Point / BSSID

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I need to connect to a semi-public WiFi (Optimum's WiFi for their customers) and I keep associating with the "wrong" access point.

Here's the issue, I'm running Catalina on an 2018 MBP. Running Wireless Diagnostics Scan you can see that there are two SSIDs both named "optimumwifi" both on 5GHz frequency.

One has a BSSID ending in :d8, which has a steady Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of around -42db on channel 44
The other has a BSSID ending in :98, which has an SNR of -85db on channel  157

For some weird reason my MacbBook's Airport card always connects to the AP with the :98 BSSID and the terrible SNR; the performance is dial-up speed, if it even connects at all!

I can't figure out how to force it it to connect to the more powerful signal. Googling the airport terminal commands; they have all been disabled in Catalina.

I pulled out my old 2012 MBP running El Capitan, and it connected to the correct AP automatically and got respectable speeds and a steady connection. I'm currently using Internet Sharing via two Ethernet adapters and a cable to share the connection from the 2012 to the 2018.

This is a very convoluted setup; if I could only connect to the proper access point from the 2018 in the first place!

Does anyone have any ideas on how to force it to use the AP/BSSID I specify (the one with the much lower SNR)?


texts: How to install Windows on USB drive on MacBook?

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The hard drive in my MacBook has only 128Gb of space. I therefore wanted to install Windows on an USB drive. The Windows installer doesn't allow me to select the USB drive however. Questioning the internet it seems to simply be that way. There was some Media Creation Tool mentioned somewhere to create a Windows USB drive, but that requires Windows to use.

Is my only hope therefore to find a Windows Computer to create my Windows USB drive? Or is there some way to install Windows on an USB drive with my MacBook?


texts: Browser issues - gets redirected to adware

texts: When I open web pages, the page automatically redirects to "youradexchange.com" or some other ad web site. Not been able to resolve the issue.


texts: How to scan a folder for subfolders, and copy a file to every output

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I'm having a little bit of an issue here.
Here's the situation: We will be deploying a new application soon, and the server configuration resides in a simple XML file, located somewhere deep in the ~/library/Preferences. I want to create a bash/shell script that will basically copy the XML file at the right place, but for every user folder that exists.

I was able to use the below script for Windows, but I'm wondering if there is something similar for Apple.

Here's the Windows script:

$sourceLocation = "C:\Users\suptech\Downloads\TEMP"

$targetLocation = "C:\Users"

$result = @()

$result += get-ChildItem $targetLocation | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer}
$result | foreach-Object { copy-item $sourceLocation -Destination "C:\Users\$_\AppData\Roaming\TEST” -Recurse -Force}

Could someone help me ?

Thanks in advance! :)


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I share a Macbook Pro with another user (we are both Admins). The other user has a Microsoft Office 2016 account, and I do not.

I work with a lot of CSV files, and it's extremely annoying that MS Office insists on being the default for loading CSV. I keep setting SublimeText to be default for CSV, and LibreOffice or Numbers for XLS/X files, but Excel doesn't get the hint. I have changed the settings to allow Apps from any source to open files.

To make it worse, I can't simply Force Quit on the toolbar icon, I have to X-out of the Excel pop-up.

I'd like to do one of the following:

Remove Microsoft Office for my account
Disable Microsoft Office for my account
Reliably set another program (SublimeText) to be my CSV editor, and LibreOffice to be my XLS/X editor.


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I bought an audio book on my iTunes account, using my iPad. Now I can't transfer it to my macbook. From my macbook, it does not appear in my purchases.

Is there anyway to transfer it?


texts: How to enable Google Translate on text selection in iPhone?

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Android offers integration with Google Translate. You can get translation of selected text right from Google Translate in any app you're in currently:

Select a piece of text:

Get the translation:

But in iPhone, I only have Look Up option available in the context menu:

which opens dictionaries built into iOS. It is not bad, but it can't translate text.

Is it possible to integrate Android like Google Translate features into iPhone?


texts: How to run an AppleScript from a Mail rule when screen is locked

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I wrote an AppleScript to send an email with a hashtag in the subject to trigger@applet.ifttt.com and I created a Rule in Apple Mail to run the AppleScript when a new mail is from a specific sender and the subject contains a term I entered. The rule also marks the email as read and moves it to the trash.

The rule works great when I test it by applying the rule to selected messages, but when I receive an email that matches the rule over night or when I’m not actively using the computer, the email gets marked as read and is moved to the trash, but the script doesn’t appear to run or somehow otherwise silently fails.

My computer is always logged in and is never set to go to sleep. As proof, long running scripts I run on the command line run continuously regardless of how long I’m away.

So I’m guessing that Applescripts are suspended when the screen is locked or else Applescripts will not launch while the screen is locked? Or perhaps the Mail app (which the AppleScript uses to send the email) will not send emails when the screen is locked?

I’m not sure when the received email is marked as read and moved to the trash, but I know it happened at some point. I assume it happened while the screen was locked or else I suspect that AppleScript would have run correctly as it does when I test it.

Does anyone know where the rule is likely failing and how to make it work regardless of the screen lock? I need it to happen immediately upon receipt of the triggering email.


texts: I am trying to compile Varnish caching on my Mac OS X

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When I do (as root):

./autogen.sh

I get this error:

+ glibtoolize --copy --force
./autogen.sh: line 44: glibtoolize: command not found

And then when I do this:

./configure --enable-developer-warnings --enable-debugging-symbols

I get this error:

configure: error: Package requirements (libpcre) were not met:

No package 'libpcre' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PCRE_CFLAGS
and PCRE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

I tried installing Varnish with homebrew and I got this:

sudo brew link pkg-config pcre
Error: Cowardly refusing to `sudo brew link`
You can use brew with sudo, but only if the brew executable is owned by root.
However, this is both not recommended and completely unsupported so do so at
your own risk.

This was recommend that I do before installing.


texts: How Does Time Machine Check for "Runtime Corruption" and How Do I Reset It?

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After working quite happily for months, Time Machine running with a NAS as a backup destination has suddenly decided that my backup is "corrupt" after failing a check for "runtime corruption" and is insisting that I must delete the entire (4 terabyte) backup and start again!

What I want to know is how Time Machine determines "runtime corruption", and can I in some way reset or disable this check?

I have already checked the disk image itself using the following commands:

hdiutil attach -nomount /Volumes/Path/To/Backup.sparsebundle
diskutil verifyDisk diskN
diskutil verifyVolume diskNs2

Substituting paths and disk numbers where appropriate, and have found no errors whatsoever. So what exactly is Time Machine checking?

I've also checked almost all of the most recent backup (using shasum, ignoring files with newer modified times) and everything is fine; I can't find any evidence that anything is corrupted in any way, certainly not any of the files I care about most.

It's laughable really, as the only processes to touch the bundle are Time Machine and related components, there has been no sign of any kind of network connectivity issue, no other errors in the logs, and every other backup for the same day was completed without issue. Which means that any "runtime corruption" is most likely the fault of Time Machine itself!

It's also even more ridiculous that the only option presented is to wipe everything, rather than perform a deep traversal to compare the contents in detail (to find anything that may indeed be corrupted and replace it, not that I believe there is any corruption at all).

I don't want to have to discard 4 terabytes of backups for some vague, unspecified "corruption" that doesn't even appear to exist, so is there some way I can remove whatever data Time Machine is using to detect its mythical "runtime corruption" (a check it doesn't even appear to do with direct attached drives) so that I can just continue backing up?

EDIT:
So I've gained some new information, which is that the Time Machine "runtime corruption" check is actually just running fsck_hfs -q, which has nothing to do with corruption whatsoever, it is merely a test of whether a disk image was unmounted "uncleanly", which is no guarantee of corruption (as I have already confirmed).

Unfortunately despite managing to clear the "inconsistent" bit (which indicates an unclean unmount) using fsck_hfs -p time machine is still refusing to use this backup, despite the runtime corruption check no longer failing. Meaning some other data must be stored somewhere.


texts: How to use TL-WN823N USB adapter on Mavericks

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So after a long search on the webs I've found some questions regarding this specific USB adapter on a Mac. It appears some people were using the driver of a D-Link and other guy made it work by using the drivers on the Tp-Link website.

The problem is that when downloading the latest driver from the website, it doesnt work! the Installer asks me if I want to install for all the users and then the "Install" button is unclickable.

Also trying the "Standard Install" returns the same result:

Hope anybody can help me.


texts: How to export Excel 2011 keyboard shortcuts?

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I customized my Excel 2011 shortcuts on my MacBook Pro and just wanted to have the same productivity level on my Mac Mini.

Is there a way I can export my Excel 2011 shortcuts or will I have to manually set them a second time?

I customized my shortcuts using System Preferences (I already manually set these 3 keyboard shortcuts again in Excel 2011 on my Mac Mini) or via the Customize Keyboard Shortcuts pane ( the one in the Tools menu if I remember well).


texts: What is "usernoted" and why is it eating my CPU?

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For the past couple of weeks, a process identified as usernoted appeared to "take over" my machine after a few hours of use, eating over 99% of available CPU.

Force quitting the process doesn't help; only a system restart puts usernoted to sleep for a while.

What is this process and how do I get it under control?

I am running OS X 10.10.5 (build 14F1021).


texts: Is it okay for a brand new 13" MacBook Pro Retina to not sit flat?

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So I've got this new 13" MacBook Pro Retina... a beautiful machine by all accounts! Here's the thing though: It doesn't sit flat. As in, if you put it down on a flat surface, all four of the rubber feet on the bottom won't touch the surface. Only three will (just like a wobbly, uneven table). It's not really a big deal except:

When I rest my palms on the palm rest areas to type, the Mac wobbles and makes a tapping noise, and...
I'm worried that if the casing is bent or just not straight that it's putting stress on something internal or that it's an indication of poor build quality and there might be other problems.

Am I insane? Should I just shut up and enjoy this beautiful Mac? Or is this a valid concern?

P.S. I assure you, I'm testing this on a truly flat surface.


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I use Apple's slide-to-type feature (swiped from Swype) on my iPhone. Somehow I've mistakenly trained it so that when I am trying to swipe-type "the," it interprets that as "there."
I am wondering if there is a way to edit the gesture:word associations to undo this.


texts: MS Office: Retrieve documents saved to "User Templates"

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Sometimes, seemingly at random, when I go to save a Word document I'm working on, the "Save As" defaults to "User Templates" instead of "Docs". Sometimes I don't notice its done that and I just hit "Save". Now I can't find those docs.

I found them once a while ago, but I don't recall how, and I need some of those docs for clients. How do I locate them?


texts: How can I monitor an employee's activity on a remote Mac?

texts: I have a remote worker for my project and I am letting him use the Mac with the source code on it. I want to monitor his every activity, if that is possible.


texts: personal folder in outlook stored on network share available on iphone?

texts: I am looking to swap out a BlackBerry for an iPhone from Verizon. On the BlackBerry we use an older version of the desktop synchronization software and I can access personal folders (Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007) stored on a network share. Can you do that from an iPhone?


texts: How can I determine plist changes while changing System Preferences to automate them next time?

texts: I am trying to automate the process of setting up a new laptop as much as possible. There are certain changes I always end up making manually on a new Mac, such as enabling screen zooming with the Ctrl modifier and setting up keyboard shortcuts to map ⌘⌥← to "Select Previous Tab" in all applications. I’m sure there is a preferences.write equivalent to do this, but gosh darn it, I have no idea how to determine what it is. Can I somehow monitor or "diff" my preferences after making the change manually, perhaps?


texts: Can I receive messages sent and received from another iphone on my account?

texts: Is there any way that I can make it to where I can receive the messages that are sent and received from another phone on my account? And will the other phone be notified somehow?


texts: Only move one page in double-page view | iBooks

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I like reading books in double-page view in iBooks. But I always can only move two pages in this view, like in RL.
Is there a way to only move one page, for example to compare images on different pages and still keep the double-page view?


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I am the sole Mac user in a Windows shop (graphic designer / video editor) and as such mount a Windows share to store all my working files on. I'm experiencing horrific lags from time to time (not always, and not immediately replicatable), particularly when I'm using anything from CS5 (although it's happened when loading MS Word files or moving items through the finder, too). I get the beach ball of doom for up to two minutes (on rare occasions I have to force the application to quit) when I'm loading / saving / placing files (anything where it has to go out to the network share).

I'm reasonably certain that the connection to the windows mount is what's causing the problem as when I move the files to a local firewire drive and work from that I don't have any of these issues. I have 1G+ right to the desktop, and it's not a consistent thing(sometimes I can work all day from the network share and sometimes I have to literally force applications to quit and work locally).Web connections generally aren't affected (I had a separate issue that was fixed by turning IPv6 connections off.

Local IT guy is a Windows fanboy so he's not a lot of help; since it's my personal machine I've sort of taken the view that it's my problem, but I am wondering if anyone here might have any thoughts. I'm connecting using smb; I believe everything (DHCP, firewalls, etc.) is being overseen by a Server2008 box.


texts: Does OS X have a Windows Shift + F10 equivalent? I need a keyboard shortcut to open the context menu without a mouse.


texts: Internet connection no longer reliable after installing Mountain Lion

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I installed Mountain Lion yesterday and find that when my 2 year old iMac comes back from sleep it finds the router and connection but fails to allow internet connection.  In other words it indicates the machine is connected but I cannot access Mail or use any Internet browser.
I have two PCs in the house that have no problems, so I assume the problem is neither with the modem or the router.  There was never a problem when I was running Lion, it began only after installing Mountain Lion, so once again I assume the problem is with the new operating system.  My iMac is circa early 2010. My son's iMac (2012) is not demonstrating the same problem.
The most reliable way to establish an internet connection is to reboot my router (NetGear N300).  When the computer reconnects after the reboot, it invariably finds the Internet.  I have occasionally been successful Turning Wi-Fi off, and then back on, but most times not.
I see that other users are reporting similar difficulties.  Even if no one has an answer I hope that this is brought to the attention of Apple Engineers and a fix is quickly forthcoming.


texts: Connect Two Dell 27" 2719H Monitors to Macbook Air 2017

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I'm trying to connect two Dell 27" P2719H Monitors to a Macbook Air from 2017 running Catalina 10.15.4. The Macbook Air has an Intel HD Graphics 6000 graphics card. This model also has a Thunderbolt 2.0.

Is this possible to do? So far I've successfully connected one of the monitors to the Macbook using a Dynex HDMI-->Thunderbolt adapter. I've also tried to create a daisy-chain, but it did not work.


texts: How can I download and install macOS 10.12 SDK?

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I need to download the macOS 10.12 SDK to build and run ispwDownloader (because there were no built downloads).

How can I download and install the SDK? Searching the Web has not been helpful with the solution.


texts: Where to see kernel startup messages after boot?

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I set my kernel to boot up verbose using

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

These logs are what I wanted to see, but how can I view the log after booting? I searched all log files without success.


texts: How to tell when Magic Keyboard or Trackpad are charging from bash

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So I just registered and have not enough Kharma to comment on the original post (but I can ask a new question and this makes no sense to me; go figure), but I got this excellent script from Will Cain from here (Get low battery notifications for mouse earlier), and I modified it a little.
The intention is to keep the battery between 20 and 80%, but I don't want the messages to keep appearing, for example, if the battery is lower then 20% but is already charging; or if the battery is highter then 80% and it's not charging anymore.
I'm pretty noob when it comes to bash scripting, though. But here's the general idea:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

# actual battery level
BATT=`ioreg -c AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService -r -l | grep -i keyboard -A 20 | grep BatteryPercent | cut -d= -f2 | cut -d' ' -f2`

#Device is charging
CHARG=`ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0 | grep -i "magic keyboard"`

# defaults to warn at 20%; accepts other number as 1st argument (useful for testing)
MIN=${1:-20}

# defaults to warn at 20%; accepts other number as 1st argument (useful for testing)
MAX=${1:-80}

if [ -z "$BATT" ]; then
  echo 'No keyboard found.'
  exit 0
fi

if (( BATT < MIN )); then
  osascript -e "display notification \"Keyboard battery is at ${BATT}%.\" with title \"Keyboard Battery Low\""
fi

if ((( BATT > MAX )) && ((CHARG != null))); then
  osascript -e "display notification \"Keyboard battery is at ${BATT}%.\" with title \"Keyboard Battery High\""
fi

(Updated to reflect last version, as suggested by @mspasov in a comment,  but which throws a syntax error at line 25 (the last "if").


texts: My MacBook Pro 15" battery has a black X in the battery icon and the indicator lights on the side do not light up when button is pressed. What could be the problem? It runs fine when plugged in


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I am using a Mac with OSX Snow Leopard.
Sometimes I am playing some media through Safari and my Mac freezes. I basically cannot do anything. The trackpad does not work anymore as well as the keyboard. The only solution is to restart the system.

The question is:

Why the system suddenly freezes? Is the any way to prevent it? Or is there any way to avoid restarting the system every time?


texts: Sync 6th generation iPod nano with iCloud Music Library

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I have a 6th generation iPod nano wit 8GB memory and I've recently subscribed to Apple Music.
Whenever I sync my iPod with iTunes I get this error message:

But in the iPod settings I can't find any "iCloud Music Library" to turn on. Also all the songs I would like to synchronize have already been downloaded locally on my PC.

I don't understand what's wrong.


texts: How do remove administrative rights if the checkbox is disabled in Users&Groups

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By default in the second hand MacbookPro, I have a user called admin. Then I created another user, let me call it myadmin for example. Now, I want to remove the admin rights from the user named admin.

Screenshot:

I've rebooted, logged in directly with the new myadmin user and unlocked the preference pane. But I'm still unable to remove the admin rights from the admin user. How can I accomplish this?


texts: How is there storage when I haven't signed in yet? Just reset phone

texts: Lots of problems with my iPhone. iTunes music skips like messed up cd, websites timeout, some apps click to download but they do nothing. Restrictions are off. Factory reset phone and I wasn't allowed to create a new Apple ID but before signing in my iCloud storage already showed 1.99 GB being used. I set up as new phone and not logged in any account prior to this. Hmmm. Any help?


texts: I have a factory unlocked, not yet jailbroken iphone 3g. I am running ios 4.2.1 and firmware 5.15.04. My problem is that the edge connection keeps getting turned off randomly (rather frequently) and I need to keep toggling the airplane mode to get it back to work. I already tried resetting network settings, resetting all settings, restoring to factory settings and creating a new profile. None of it seems to work. Other iPhone users on Airtel (a carrier in India) are not having this problem. Please let me know if anything could be done?


texts: Can someone tell me what size icons I should be including in an iPhone app.  Can I assume also that I should include two resolutions?  Any help would be great, thanks.


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I recently learned about subpixel rendering, and was fascinated by how it works. On my mac, I can turn it on and off in system prefs - general - LCD font smoothing, which implies to me that it is handled by the OS, not by individual applications. My first question is, is this assumption correct? How is subpixel rendering handled? On my friend's computer with a retina display, the LCD font smoothing did not seem to add colors to text like on mine. Do retina displays handle it differently?

Since I was curious about the process, I tried turning it off and back on again. I noticed that some applications took a while to accept the changes, but restarting usually applied them. However! I've turned LCD font smoothing back on, and it works everywhere except this website. This is true in Chrome and Safari. What's the deal with that? Did I mess something up, or does the website somehow prevent subpixel rendering? How and why?


texts: Advanced WiFi network settings are not per-network?

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Like most people, I move often with my laptop, and thus I also often switch WiFis networks. There is a WiFi network I often connect to which requires the IP to be entered manually.

So I opened Network Preferences, picked WiFi, clicked Advanced..., TCP/IP, and I told it to "Configure IPv4: Manually". I entered all the info and it connected just fine.

But now I am back home, where I always get the IP using DHCP. To my surprise, the "Configure IPv4" stayed at "Manually". Why didn't it revert to DHCP?

In short, why isn't the "Configure IPv4" option per-network as it should be? What's the idea behind making it a global setting for all networks?

And finally, can I make it a per-network setting?


texts: Is there a way to determine what program is calling a sound randomly on my Mac?

texts: I'm currently having an issue with my Mac running Mountain Lion making the "lockOpening.aif" and "lockClosing.aif" sounds apparently at random. I'm looking for a way to narrow down what program or setting is causing them to be played and what action is occurring when it happens. I've seen elsewhere that there was a program that could be used to determine what sound is being played when, and what program is calling the sound, does anyone know of a way to do this?


texts: Wrong contact synchronisation with 2 iPhones

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I bought an iPhone 6 and I gave my old iPhone (the 5c) to my niece. Had it done at the AT&T store. The sales rep changed her # to my old phone and my old # to my new phone. I jumped on the iCloud and was able to transfer all photos, messages, etc onto my new iPhone.

The first time my niece plugs in her iPhone 5c (which was my old iPhone), all of a sudden, all of her contacts replace mine on my iPhone 6 and now we both have the same contacts - hers.

I logged into the iCloud on my laptop and all that's there is her contacts. Mine aren't there. Did I lose all my contacts? Is there any way I can get them back?

All my text messages are still on my new phone, but the vast majority of them only list a phone # not a name. So maybe I can figure out (in most cases) who these texts were with but it's still a major chore to re-enter everyone's name - not to mention other things I kept in my contacts for my friends such as email address and street address (all of which I will have to ask for or remember).

Is there anything I can do?


texts: 21.5" Late 2012 iMac | Display or GPU issue

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I purchased used iMac over auction. The iMac seems to show no picture. Could this be the display pin issue or it has the like of faulty GPU?
Since these iMacs don't have screen mirroring by default, is there any way to do that to see if its GPU or display issue. I am attaching the pictures below:

More then half screen is black.


texts: Why is removing hard-linked files so slow in Lion?

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$ ln src/* dir
$ rm dir/*

If src/ contains a few hundred files, the rm operation takes many minutes. If I open the directory in Finder, I can see the files vanishing one by one. This operation used to be virtually instantaneous in Snow Leopard, but is excruciatingly slow in Lion. If I copy the files instead of hard-linking them, removing them is still instantaneous.

Can anybody tell me what has changed to warrant this slowness?


texts: Lock Mac mini but keep secondary display running

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I am configuring a dashboard on a TV display to show latest sales stats, etc. and am running this off our existing build 'server', a Mac mini. The Mac mini is connected to a standard monitor and a TV using AppleTV. What I'm after is a way to keep the Mac mini running in the background, with the standard monitor, USB keyboard and mouse disabled but to keep the main TV on showing a chrome browser with our dashboard app in it.

I'm pretty sure I'm asking for something impossible but I wondered if anyone had any suggestions?


texts: How do I get iTunes to play the albums of an artist chronologically?

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I use iTunes all the time in the grid view, showing artists. If I click on one, all tracks of this artist are displayed, grouped by albums, sorted after the album name (alphabetically).

Now I click on the table header to sort for year instead and start playing one album.

After the last song of that album has played, the next album that will play is not the next one in the list, but the next one alphabetically.

Example:

Album A, 2003

Album B, 2010

Album C, 2005

When playing A, I want iTunes to play C next, then B. But it always will play B, even if I have it sorted after the year.


texts: MacOS Bug Sur can format drive but can't mount it

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I have an USB-stick and I can format the Stick but when I try to mount it following error occurs:
The error is on german, it means "Mounting of "Ohne Titel" has failed. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter -Error -119930873)"

I can't find any solutions online and don't know what to do.
There are no data on this stick so I can easily format it.


texts: Cannot reset password due to does not match any of last n passwords requirement

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I've recently added some rules using pwpolicy. When I restarted the mac, it asked to reset the password after I input the current password. But I can't satisfy the does not match any of last 3 passwords requirement.

The mac used to have no password policies, so I think it is probably failing because it has no history of old passwords.

Anyone know of a solution for this?


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I attach pen-drive to my Macbook-air. It is detecting and I can also copy from my pen-drive to my Hard disk. But I cannot copy data from Hard disk to pen-drive. I tried with different pen-drives, but got the same result.

What could be the reason for that? I have searched on web a lot but cannot know the reason.

Thanks in Advance !


texts: Did the 64GB iPhone SE ever ship with iOS 10 installed?

texts: I want to get an iPhone SE with iOS 9.  I think any new, never-used 64GB iPhone SE will have iOS 9 on it since I don't believe they ever shipped out with iOS 10 pre-installed, but I'm not certain.  Does anyone know if the 64GB models ever came with iOS 10 and if so, when that began?


texts: How do I disable private browsing in Safari

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One of my friends has a child who is being overly sneaky online (imagine that). She wants to disable the ability for her child to select "Private Browsing" in Safari. In her opinion, Parental Controls are too limiting for a teenager, but Private Browsing is too permissive. Is there a terminal command or other way to do this on OS X?

(Of note: I did see the trick of using Interface Builder to edit the NIB file to delete the option from the Safari Menu, but I think it would be beyond her tech ability to perform those steps. I also doubt she'd want to install Xcode).

Thanks for you help!


texts: Copying Time Machine backup, destination takes more than original size, are hardlinks being expanded?

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I'm copying the backup folder of Time Machine, but it's taking too long, the backup is 90GB and the copy already reports 160GB and there's 60% to go yet, so I suspect it's copying hardlinks as different "solid" versions of the files.
(which would take up much more space than I have avaible, which is 300GB)

I tried making a partition of 120 GB to fit it by restoring from disk utility, but it said there wasn't enough space.

Also tried to restore to a sparse bundle on a partition with 300GB free, but didn't work either.

Is there a better or smarter way of doing this within my 300GB space?

edit & PS: The only alternative if this doesn't work is keeping only the last backup and saying bye bye to the older ones.

PS 2: Time Machine just recognized the old Backup folder and resumed from it even when the OS was freshly re-installed.


texts: How do I capture the log output from Airport Utility?

texts:
I'm using Airport Utility 5.6.1 on Mavericks (installed from links here). I'm trying to figure out how the Advanced > Syslog Destination Address setting works...

What kind of value is that field anticipating? just an IP address of some machine running OSX? a full URL to...what?
Has anyone reading this ever used that setting before?
Is there a better way to access full debug logs for the Airport Extreme or Time Capsule?
Does Airport Utility 6 offer any log access? I'm not seeing anything...


texts: Prevent Mac alerts when plugging in iPhone

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I have a MacBook Pro running High Sierra, and an iPhone with iOS 13.

Sometimes I plug the iPhone into the MacBook's USB to charge it. Whenever I do this, I get two popup alerts.

One says "A new network interface has been detected" and gives me the option to open Network Preferences to set it up. The other says "A software update is require to connect to Barry's iPhone".

I can easily dismiss both of them, but is there any way to suppress them in the first place? I'm not interested in upgrading my OS at the current time, I'm happy with what I have (I think I have some applications that aren't compatible with the newer).


texts: MacBook Pro 2019 suddenly dead and does not turn on

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While I was doing a heavy task using my MacBook pro 2019, it got freeze suddenly (the color wheel keeps spinning). Then after 1 or 2 seconds the MacBook Pro suddenly shut down. Now it is not turning on. There is even no screen indicator or no chime when I plug the charger. Also, I did SMC reset and NVRAM reset. But still no luck. What should be the reason for that and what are the possible solutions?

No errors in the screen
No sound


texts: What can be done to fix a 2011 iMac that will not boot past the white screen?

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I have now tried opening the iMac and removing the cables to the SSD, it still gets stuck on the white screen. I tried again, removing the cables to the HDD as well and the same thing occurs.

No idea what to do from here.

I've done quite a bit of troubleshooting and this problem sounds like mine except that I have an iMac, not a MacBook.

While using Windows 7 (via Bootcamp) I shutdown my 27 inch 2011 iMac. After it was shutdown I pressed the power button to turn it back on, it proceeded to play the startup sound and then froze on a white screen. There is no cursor or anything else on the screen.

I tried unplugging all cables, including the power, reconnecting only the power and attempting to turn it back on with the same result.

It does not respond to any key combinations. Holding Alt while it boots does not bring up the disk selector. Holding T does not put it into Target Disk mode. Holding Cmd-Opt-R-P does not have any affect. Holding Shift does not put it into safe mode. Holding Cmd-V does not bring up verbose boot.

I made a copy of the OS X Recovery Disk onto a USB but am unable to use it as the Mac won't boot from it (and won't bring up disk selector to select it).

It was working fine minutes before I shut it down and then suddenly refuses to boot and I am at a loss as to what to do. Sadly, there are no Apple Stores or Genius Bars in my country, so feel free to point to any and all self-help resources I might use.


texts: How to download all iTunes Connect screenshots for an app?

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I want to make small changes to the screenshots for my iOS app and have misplaced the original files that I uploaded to iTunes Connect.

Was going to download them back to my computer, but the interface of iTunes Connect is acting up and only shows me the iPhone 6 screenshots, without any way to change to iPad and other phone sizes. That was also puzzling because it would also not allow me to upload any new screenshots for other screen sizes either :(.

I found RMConnecter to help with the uploading process, but it still does not seem to have the ability to download existing screenshots.

Are there any other ways to get the screenshots that are already attached to my app? Do I have to wait for iTunes Connect to get back into shape, whenever that may be…


texts: How can I use a Keyboard Shortcut to tag files?

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Short of using a script, how can I create a keyboard shortcut to tag files. I used to use Quickeys to do that which worked well but they stopped supporting the program and I moved to Keyboard Maestro. I've yet to figure out an easy way to do that with that program.

Ideally, I'd like to do this without a script but I'm not sure it can be done. Any ideas?


texts: How to fix LaunchAgent scandir: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted error?

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<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
  <string>/usr/local/bin/backup.sh</string>
</array>

Running /usr/local/bin/backup.sh requires access to ~/Documents.
My gut feeling is I have to allow an app in "Security & Privacy", but which one and is that secure?


texts: Python3 script runs fine in Terminal but not as a crontab job

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Using an iMac, Catalina. Recently changed ISP and need to know when feed was swapped over. New to Python scripting. I managed to get this running in Terminal, But not crontab.
Crontab reads:-
@reboot python3 terminal.py
Python script to give loud waring when internet connection is lost:-
#internet.py
import os
import time
import subprocess
from subprocess import call
var = 1
while var == 1 :
    rep = os.system('ping -q -c 1 -W 1 8.8.8.8 >/dev/null 2>&1')
    if rep == 0:
        #print ("Internet is UP")   #This line can be removed for no on screen activity.
        time.sleep(60)
    else:
        #print ("Internet is DOWN") #This line can be removed for no on screen activity.
        call(["osascript -e 'set volume output volume 100'"], shell=True)
        subprocess.call(["say","Lost Internet Connection"])
        call(["osascript -e 'set volume output volume 15'"], shell=True)
        time.sleep(60)  #Set to check connection every 60 seconds.


texts: OS X Lion: app.log file in Applications Folder

texts: I noticed a file 'app.log' in my Applications folder. I delete it but it reappears after a couple of days. What is this and can I get rid of it?


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This is not a "I use OS X, do I need Anti-Virus?" question.

I am looking at comparison and user opinion of existing AV products.
I know I can avoid most (if not all) threats by being careful on the sites I visit, and the emails I download. But I need an anti-virus, for a variety of reasons - mostly to prevent my Mac as a carrier for viruses. (Many friends' USB drives turn out to be infected).

I was looking for the "Best" of the anti virus software out there.

I am looking prominently at anti-virus. "Internet Security" and the like are not important, and would try to avoid them if it would save money or not make my mac slower.

By "Best" I mean the best combination of detect-rate (or whatever that is called) and performance.
I don't intend to run it always in the background. Maybe I would do a onetime scan of my system and hard drives, and then it would be mostly on a need basis, especially on USB drives/portable hard disks of friends.
So primary objective: High Detect rate

I have used Norton Antivirus for Mac and Virus Barrier (got this with one of those software bundles sometime before, not the latest version) and had problems with both. Both sometimes hog my CPU, and somehow "lock" my USB drives preventing me from Ejecting it (I had to force eject them or just pull them off from the port) (thought off late Norton seemed a little better)

Ok, thats a long one. But my question is simple: What anti-virus do you recommend for the Mac?

Thanks.


texts: How do I prove I own/am the developer of an iOS app?

texts: I am currently in the process of trying to secure a visa for overseas work. I recently developed an iOS app and need to provide proof or ownership or that I developed it. Is there a way to go about this? Can Apple provide a certificate or something? Any advice on this would be really appreciated. Thanks!


texts: How do I transfer the cellular service from one iPad to another?

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I have a first-generation iPad mini with Verizon LTE service and I’m replacing it with a second-generation mini. What do I need to do to “transfer” the cellular service from the one to the other? (In other words, I want the new device to seamlessly replace the old one as far as the carrier is concerned.)

Is it a simple matter of moving the old SIM card to the new device, or do I need to get the carrier involved?


texts: Macbook Air (13" 2012) Fails to wake from sleep

texts: The Air doesn't wake up from sleep mode when the lid is closed. Have to do a hard restart by pressing the power button for 5 secs which isn't nice. Tried to select the startup disk from system preferences but it isn't helping. This behavior seems to have started after I started using the PGP disk encryption but I am not sure if anyone else has experienced the same problem.


texts: Can't relaunch Finder and the menubar is missing

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I booted up my MacBook Air (running Mac OS X Lion) and the desktop doesn't have a menubar.  I used option+right-click to relaunch Finder and there isn't an option to relaunch it.  When I launch an application the menubar shows up.  When I cmd+q to quit the application the application's window closes but the menubar then defaults to the last currently open application.  Even if it's on a different virtual desktop.

When I reboot the computer I notice that the keyboard is no longer backlit by default.  The keyboard only becomes backlit after I correctly enter my password.  I don't know if this is related to the problem stated in the first paragraph.  It may or may not be relevant.  I don't know.

Any thoughts or ideas?  I've never seen a desktop in Mac OS X that didn't have a menubar.

To recap: No menubar, no date, time, Spotlight icon etc. when all applications are closed.  They show up when I launch an application.  Option to relaunch Finder is gone.


texts: Just got a new iMac and it is making an alert type beep every 30 secs. I have tried turning everything off in notifications but this isn't stopping it. The only thing that helps is turning the volume off completely which I don't want to have to do. Can anyone help please?


texts: How does one make screen captures with a shadow?

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How to do beautiful print screens, with shadows on the border, like this image?

Is the shadows automatic? A Mac tool? Do I need to manipulate the image in other programs like Adobe Photoshop?


texts: After I upgrade to Mojave I have a major error

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Sandbox: iyEyOGTe(93) System Policy: deny(1) file-write-create /Library/Updates/.dat.nosync005d.Q5RrXv

My laptop is loosing hard memory, in 4-5 hours 35 GB and it heating


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I have encountered this problem when I was trying to help my friend who want to learn iOS programming but at the moment cant afford to buy a Mac.
I have Macbook and Mac mini.
I was avid use of linux in my past and I have used XSessions on linux where I was exploiting multiuser service from a linux machine and had my personal GUI or XSession.
As Mac is basically unix based system.
I am wondering if it is possible that I can setup my Mac mini such a way that my friend can connect to his personal xSession over the internet to my mac mini and start coding on my Mac mini.


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I would like to never worry about losing any of my data while I'm traveling, away from an internet connection and at risk of losing or damaging my iPad.

Is there an app on Cydia or otherwise that will backup a complete 1-1 copy (or archive) of my iPad's files such that it can be easily restored and just as easily browsed on a PC to find a particular file?

Obviously the app should only copy files that have changed since last backup.

This is of course assuming I'm using the Camera Connection Kit with an SD card.


texts: Looks like Apple made another bug in iOS 11.1.2 and if you type 'it' or 'is' they are being converted to 'I.T' or 'I.S'. How can it be fixed?


texts: Does MS Word on Apple has any command line interface?

texts:
I wonder if  MS Word on Apple has any command line interface?

I tried the following:

$ "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word" --help

but no help.


texts: Disabled OS X Server still appear on localhost

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Before when I entered localhost into the browser there was my localhost from MAMP, basically directory for my web repositories. Recently I installed OS X Server, and now when I enter localhost into the browser there is:

How to disable OS X Server and bring back to my MAMP localhost?

In OS X Server everything is turned off:


texts: Is it possible to use an Apple Watch to authorise sudo in Catalina?

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MacOS Catalina let us do some higher privilege actions on our Mac by authorising through a press on our Apple Watch button.

Would it be possible to use that feature to authorise a sudo command in the Terminal?


texts: Screen artifacts that show up in screenshot

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My MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) running El Capitan (10.11.1) intermittently displays screen artifacts. I thought the issue might be with my screen connector, but the artifacts are captured when I take a screenshot. The artifacts are never the same and are always located in different parts of the screen.

Any ideas?


texts: SOCKS proxy environment variable ignored by command line applications

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I have a SOCKS proxy that is accessible at 192.168.0.17:1080 in my local network. I redirected my internet traffic to it in my Wifi System Preferences. This works fine, GUI applications use it. However I'm not able to use the proxy inside the terminal through environment variables. Only setting it explicitly works.

In other words, this works

curl --socks5-hostname 192.168.0.17:1080 https://apple.stackexchange.com

But this doesn't work

# exports are also in ~/.zshrc
export HTTP_PROXY="socks5://192.168.0.17:1080"
export http_proxy="socks5://192.168.0.17:1080"
export HTTPS_PROXY="socks5://192.168.0.17:1080"
export https_proxy="socks5://192.168.0.17:1080"
export ALL_PROXY="socks5://192.168.0.17:1080"

curl https://apple.stackexchange.com

This is not just the case for curl but also other applications such as git.


texts: Overcast Podcast App: How to Play from Oldest to Newest?

texts: With the Overcast podcast app (from Marco Arment), is there a way to play episodes within a single podcast from oldest to newest?  The default iOS podcast app does this, but I prefer the other features of Overcast.  I just don't see any way to do this.


texts: After updating my iPhone to iOS 13.5.1, I can't login to my Apple ID - "Verification Failed '' error

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I had this problem after updating my IOS device iPhone 6 to 13.5.1 - I have not used this phone for about 4 months and I'm trying to get it working.
Internet is fine but my emails and Google service also stopped working.
I wanted to wipe the device but I can't since I have to turn of the 'Find My iPhone' option which I couldn't since I can't pass the Apple ID verification step.


texts: How do I unhide and remove disk mounts from Login Items?

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Some time back I added some network disk mounts as Login Items for my MacBook Air (Mountain Lion).

When I'm away from my network, though, I'm constantly bothered by warning boxes saying "Can't connect" to those mounts.

I went to my Login Items screen, and rather than deleting them, I hid them. I failed to understand the +/- buttons and the checkbox.

Now I can't find a way to "unhide" those disk mounts from my Login Items, and successfully remove the automatic mounts.


texts: Chrome Helper process...without Chrome running

texts: Recently I've noticed instances of Google Chrome Helper remaining running in my activity monitor long after I've shut Chrome down completely. Are these just hung processes because Chrome Helper is buggy like that, or should I be worried? They don't show as non-responsive, just... running all by themselves without Chrome itself.


texts: Sending unknown callers to voice mail automatically?

texts: It's gotten to the point with spamming phone calls here on the West Coast of Canada that I'd like to set up my iphone to automatically send any caller who's not in my contact list to voice mail.  Is there any way to do this?


texts: QC 35 paired with MacBook and iPhone simultaneously audio stops

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Recently I have been having these issues with my MacBook and iPhone wherein if I press the play/pause button on my MacBook to stop iTunes it "mutes" all audio and switches to my connected iPhone.

Only when I reset my QC35 does it reset and behave correctly (where in pressing the button stops iTunes but leaves audio connected to my MacBook).

Any ideas how I can solve this permanently or can someone guide me in the right direction?

Update

Little late but thought I'd add an update. I simply contacted Bose and they ended up replacing my headphones and even gave me the gen 2 headphones


texts: Hacked Gmail-reset pass-fowarding to Icloud

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Srry for my bad english.

Hi, i need to ask for help. Iff someone hacked my gmail, but i reset pass(log out all devices) after 2 hours(and add sms verification), but i didnt notice that is IMAP-turned on. Can someone still recieve emails from my gmail to his Icloud? or after reset pass(log out all devices+ add second verification) he coulnt recieved it ? Thank a lot for help.

he sync gmail with his apple mail/icloud and he could recieve all my email to his mail/icloud and storage it. And after i reset my gmail pass if there some chance that he could still recieving my emails or he lost sync with his icloud to storage it. ( i dont understand exactly ho working imap between gmail and apple mail/icloud ..changed gmail pass reseting imap to sending emails to apple mail/icloud or ? there is still sync?) Thank a lot


texts: keynote equations in latex : change to a sans-serif font

texts:
I just realized that Keynote seem to now allow to type directly some latex (Insert > Equation).

I'd like to change the default font to a sans serif font (easier reading on a beamer).

More generally of course I'd be very happy to be able to write my own preamble for what's being compiled. Any chance someone would know how to do this ?


texts: iPad iOS6 built-in Notes app - where are the notes stored?

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I was thinking about migrating a majority of my text-based notes from Evernote to the built-in Notes app.  Evernote wants 4.99 a month to store off-line notebooks on your mobil e device.  I currently use a Macbook Air but was thinking about consolidating my notes onto my iPad so I'm not referencing two devices.

But I don't want old notes that were sync'd to the application to disappear or somehow be lost to me.

Are the notes stored locally? Is there a limit?


texts: iPad to control Mac Pro computer audio system

texts:
Technology
Mine

MacPro macOS
11.0.1 Big Sur

My wife's

iPad Pro
iPadOS 14.2

Stereo system
MacPro has a hardwired digital connection to my stereo system's DAC.
No other available inputs (wireless or bluetooth) into the stereo system.
So, I can not send music directly from any other device to the stereo system.  The stereo has no other inputs remote or otherwise.
I use Apple's Music app.
Works perfectly.
Goal
Enable my wife's iPadPro to remotely access my Mac Pro's Music app.
So she can play music on the attached stereo system.
Note: She has a different AppleID than I do, but I could let her use mine if it would help.
Thoughts appreciated.


texts: Formatting issues resulting in overlays of text from Pages to Word (either version)

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I've drafted a contract in Pages and exported it to Word for a back and forth redline exchange (track changes). I cannot use pdf as my colleague states that he does not have editing capabilities in Adobe format. When I view the exported document on my display it looks perfectly formatted; however, in the smaller "view" window, it looks as if some of the text is overlaid upon other text. I cannot tell what portions are doing this or where,because when I open the exported Word doc it looks fine and the view window is too small to see clearly and it is not zoomable. I sent to a colleague to ask if it looked as I suspected based on the view, and alas, it does.

If anyone knows how I can fix this (w/out using pdf or redrafting) or knows what is causing it, it would be much appreciated.

I am using a font shared by both (Pages/Word)programs and this occurs whether I export to .doc or .docx.


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When I am working with 10 – 15 open windows in Preview I often accounter the problem that I can't open a new PDF-window. Instead I need to open it in iBooks to make it work. I have no other PDF viewers installed.

Has anyone else had this problem and does any one know what I can do about it?


texts: 2015 MacBook Air (13" - 256 SSD, 8GB RAM) Boot problems

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This is my Wife's Mac, and she has been complaining of general slowness for a while now. And I confirmed it and did the normal things: Safe Mode, clean caches, check the disk for errors, run the hardware diagnostics, zap the PRAM/NVRAM. The result: nothing found, still slow.
So time for a new Mac for her (a new MBA) and I scrub the drive on the old MBA clean of all data with disk utility, run first aid and (try to) reinstall macOS (Mojave)in the hopes that a clean reinstall will do the trick.
Internet Recovery mode errors out when trying to install Mojave from Apple's servers (and a 30 minute boot), so I make a Mojave installer on a USB-3 flash drive and boot from that.
It takes almost an hour to boot the flash drive and even then the progress bar completes but nothing happens. So I built another installer and verified this one will boot an older Mac Mini I have. Works fine, but on the MBA same as before: an hour to complete booting but I never get the Install MacOS Mojave screen. It sits, completed on the black screen with a filled progress bar.
So Diagnostics finds nothing, disk first aid finds nothing, zapping the PRAM/NVRAM does nothing, and now I have an old MBA with no OS that won't install a new OS and stumped as to what is going on. Not sure it is worth taking to Apple for repairs as repairs would likely cost more than the Mac is worth.
Any suggestions or even ideas what it might be?


texts: Does disabling Gatekeeper also disable code signing signature check?

texts: If I disable Gatekeeper on ML (I mean I allow apps from anywhere) is code signing disabled too or the Mac App Store will continue checking if apps are unmodified preventing from upgrading them if they don't pass the signature check?


texts:
Is there a way to enable two finger double tap on Trackpad to zoom not only in browsers, but also in anywhere else on the computer? Currently it only works for browsers.

I am running osx El Capitan.


texts: Can not get the phone to accept a password

texts: My 5s is driving me crazy.  I can not open Apple of iCloud because it always rejects my password.  I'll go to Apple or icloud via my computer and change it, and then try opening it a few times.  Always works OK.  BUT, then I try to open it with the phone - and it is rejected for incorrect password.


texts: How can I copy application settings from one user account to the other on the same machine?

texts:
I have two user accounts (a work and personal account) on my MacBook Pro 5,3 with OS X 10.11.6.
On both I use the same Logitech MX Master mouse in combination with the Logitech Options application.
I would like to keep the settings (scroll speed, pointer speed, etc...) in sync such that I do not have to do the setup on each account.
How can I copy settings stored by an application (Logitech Options in this case) on one account to the other?
Attempts
I have looked in ~/Library/Application Support/Logitech/Options. There I find 4 .xml files. However, changing a setting in Logitech Options does not change the Date Modified of these files. Hence I think these files do not store the settings.
I have also run lsof | grep -i logitech when Logitech Options is open. Unfortunately I only find files in my user directory related to the saved state of the application (~Library/Saved Application State/com.logitech.Logi-Options.savedState/). My understanding is that these relate to the window state of the application, not to the settings stored by it.


texts: iPhoto export shrinks images (and shows inconsistent file properties)

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I have several images at 5184 × 3456 (confirmed by the info panel in iPhoto), but when I Right-Click + Show File, it opens a version in finder that is only 1296 × 864. The path it's taking me to in Finder is obviously not the original.

In iPhoto, I can also zoom in to the actual size, but when exporting, it only exports that smaller size. This is even with the "Original" and "Full Size" options selected in the Export.

How can I simply get the full size image out?


texts: Alternative Method to Acquire El Capitan Upgrade

texts: Is there a way to acquire a copy of the El Capitan upgrade without downloading it first via the App Store, for example via a USB Drive? I know you can make a USB Drive after downloading El Capitan, but I am trying to skip the download itself.


texts: How to use a MBP with broken graphics chip as a server?

texts:
I have a 2012 MBP and the graphic chips gave up and the repair costs are huge.

Is there a way to use it as a Unix server somehow? It is still a powerful machine and if I  could boot into a mode without using anything that needs graphics that would be great.

Thanks!


texts: Is there an app embedding the Flash player? I don't want to install the flash player in osx. I just want to use this app when I need it. Does it exist?


texts: Can someone reset my iPad without knowing the PIN or having the "Find My iPhone" account access?

texts:
Just a hypothetical question. I'm using an iPad Air with a PIN to unlock it and a Find My iPhone set up on it. If I lost it, can someone simply reset it and start using it like if it was a new iPad without knowing the PIN or having access to my iCloud account?

PS. I see videos like this, as well as many posts on this site, claiming that if put the iPad in the DFU-Mode it can be reset. So what's the point of setting up the Find My iPhone feature then?


texts: How can I force a window to remain 'active' with Mojave, without disabling SIP?

texts:
Afloat and AfloatX are two options that might work, but one of them requires SIP to be permanently disabled with Mojave and the other one requires installation through Macforge (which also requires SIP to be disabled). Not only that, but it seems they only keep the window on top, as opposed to keeping it active.
Amazon's Kindle app gets some of the lowest-scored reviews in the App Store despite holding the #1 spot in the Reference category. That said, it has plenty of things broken about it, e.g. only one narration speed and the inability to continue narrating if interrupted by literally anything. I want to be able to multi-task and have the Kindle app on top with the narration running, and work on another window while it continues. It's like a disgruntled storyteller that won't tell a story if it doesn't have its audience's full attention.
Instead of looking for an impractical solution like rewriting the software, I took a more logical approach: Find a way to keep any application active while I interact with other windows in the background.
I do NOT want to display a window on top and have another active behind it; that would deactivate the application window, and in the case of the Kindle app, interrupt its reading process. I want to choose an application to have remain active (not necessarily on top) while still being able to interact with other windows.
Is this doable? Perhaps in Terminal?


texts:
I want to schedule Airplane Mode during the night (10PM–6AM) on my iPhone.

How can I do that?

I used to turn off my previous phone (a non-smartphone). I do that especially to save some battery life.


texts: Automator script to paste each word on clipboard followed by tab key

texts:
The contents of my clipboard are a series of 10 words separated by spaces. I would like to paste them into an application which requires each word to be entered individually into text boxes, where you can navigate to the next text box by pressing the Tab key.
How can I create an Automator script to split the contents of my clipboard on space, and then paste each word followed by the tab key?


texts: See sender's email-address in Google Inbox for iOS

texts:
How do I see a sender's email in Google's email-app Inbox for iOS?

I cannot click the displayed name or the photo, either while reading the email or when answering it. It just shows, in this case, an unknown first name of someone.


texts:
I'm at work and I'd like to call one of our suppliers, Acme Corp.  I've already saved the contact for our current Acme rep on my iPhone.  Today our rep is Pete, but recently it was Susie, and in the future it might be Phil.  I don't remember what the rep's name is off the top of my head, but I do care that they're the person to call for Acme.

How can I see the company name in my contacts list while still recording the rep's name?


texts:
I have an Apple TV (4th generation). Since this is a true iOS device, I suppose it has system log like every Apple device. The device has some issues with waking up and I want to know the reason why it does. I hope this can be found in the logs.

My question is: is there any way to watch the log files? I know, that I can see the output in Xcode when I connect the Mac via USB and run Xcode, but this goes only for what's happening right now, and there is no way to scroll back to the time before I connected it. (I obviously need that.)


texts: What are page up/ page down keys on Macbook for TextMate?

texts: In other apps I use Command-UpArrow / Command-DownArrow, but those go to beginning/end of file in TextMate.


texts:
I have a complex drawing in Keynote, which I need to resize. I can do this by making the drawing into a group, but unfortunately it contains many text labels, which do not resize when I change the size of the group. I can change the font size, but it's quite hard to get the new font size to look the same as the old one. What usually happens is that the new text is slightly larger than the text boxes, so I end up having to manually resize each one in order to make it readable again.

Usually I get around this by taking a screenshot and inserting it into the presentation as an image. However, in this case I need the image to have a transparent background. I tried using Keynote's Instant Alpha feature, but it left white in the interiors of letters like "O" and "a", and manually removing that is just as much work as manually resizing all the text boxes.

So is there some kind of method or workaround for resizing the text of a keynote drawing along with the other elements, while keeping the background transparent?


texts: iMac logging out whenever seemingly stressful programs are launched

texts:
Recently my mac has been mysteriously logging itself out whenever I attempt to launch any resource-intensive programs, such as games (roblox) and 3D applications. I have looked at many solutions to similar problems online, such as resetting PRAM and NVRAM, and have even gone so far as to reinstall MacOS. Yet the problem persists.
When I open said applications, they work for about 2-3 minutes and then suddenly freeze before the screen goes black and a small loading icon appears and then it takes me to the login screen.

Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?

Whenever it crashes, files such as this pop up in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticsReports

Kernel_2019-10-29-124911_Username-iMac-7.gpuRestart

And the content:

That's what I get when it crashes with blender, but I'm also getting some WindowServer logs too.


texts:
After upgrading to 2.2.1, VLC videos plays in a separate window, but I want the controls to be in the same window as the video (just the way it was before I upgraded).

Am I missing something?