texts: Previous shutdown cause 0 on Mac Pro 2008

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'Previous shutdown cause 0' would appear to be 'power disconnected', from grg's Shutdown Causes.

I would have assumed this would only apply to laptops if they ran low on battery, or a desktop if there had been a power cut.
Standard indicators of an actual power cut - flashing kitchen clocks or other computers rebooted, there is no sign.

However, I've noticed my sleeping Mac Pro 3,1 has rebooted mysteriously with this cause twice this week. I heard it boot at 7.13 this morning & after investigation found another similar even from 4am two days prior to that.

This machine is used as a media player & so really the only thing running is VLC. The indicator, if I don't hear it start up is that VLC's playlist is empty - so I can pretty safely say it's only ever done this twice, as I rely on the playlist knowing where it is every evening when we sit down to watch TV. It's the kind of thing you notice if it's empty.

From previous questions, pmset details as follows [I'm currently remoted into it, preventing sleep]

pmset -g
Active Profiles:
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 hibernatemode        3
 womp                 1
 networkoversleep     0
 sleep                30 (sleep prevented by screensharingd)
 Sleep On Power Button 0
 ttyskeepawake        1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 autorestart          0
 disksleep            10
 displaysleep         30

OS is 10.11.6
I've reset the SMC, just in case, & run AHT, short & long tests, no errors. I would be keen to hear if anyone has any other ideas as to how to go about diagnosing this.


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Is there a keyboard shortcut to fully hide all windows, showing only desktop?

(I know that the trackpad gesture four-fingers-up will sweep them all out of the way, i think it's an expose function. I was hoping for a full "hide" of them all instead.)

thanks!


texts: Alerts set on shared calendar events (not alerting the share-ee)

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I have been searching for this and can't figure it out. If I create a calendar event and set the alert - my family gets notified of the event and can see it in their calendar. However, the attached alert doesn't transfer. I assume that is by design but in our case we'd like the alert to transfer with the event.
Anyone know how my family can get an alert-already-set event on their shared apple calendar?


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How can I set up a dual Thunderbolt on a 2012 Mac mini server? I daisy chained them but the second stays black.

Do I need a Thunderbolt to HDMI adaptor, from which vendor, how can I not lose resolution?

Or does this setting work only with the non-server Mac mini with the AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics card?

http://www.apple.com/macmini/features.html


texts: Photos won't let me edit anything / Same problem on Sierra

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So (my mom) is trying to edit photos in OS X El Capitan's Photos app and can't seem to do so, all the options are just greyed out. This is true of all the photos in the app.

I looked around online and found a couple of people who had the same issue but no-one ever seemed to have solved it.


texts: Need to know if I've bought a used iPhone? (multiple Apple IDs connected)

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I recently bought a new iphone se 64gb. I turned it on, signed in to my icloud account and selected my previous iphone's backup from icloud. After this, a screen displayed a message: Setting up your apple id. The screen after this message, displayed a prompt for password of an unknown email account that I have never used or known! This prompt suggested me to :

Enter the Apple ID password for unknown_email to use for store purchases (including the App Store, Itunes Store and iBooks Store).

I clicked the back button and switched off my new iphone se. Contacted apple via email, chat and telephone and even went to an apple store. Over telephone I was suggested to setup as a new phone and then reset it completely and then try the backup option again... the problem was still there. After that I was suggested to restore it via itunes. I updated it and restored it via itunes, and still the problem remained.

I had bought this iphone via Amazon India and I tried returning this iphone via the amazon website and was told to contact the apple support number for returns.

Please could anyone recommend me what I should do?


texts: How can I correct dead Macbook Air camera sensor pixels BEFORE other applications use it?

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My Macbook Air's camera has a handful of broken sensor pixels all clumped together near the middle of the image. They're dead -- always black. When I'm on a video conference or a Facetime, this tends to end up making me look like I have a gap between my teeth or some small black thing stuck to my chin. It's irritating. Replacement will be expensive. I know it's possible to do dead pixel correction in post-production for images or videos, but I can't find a solution that allows me to feed the sensor output through the pixel correction before it gets used by other apps (e.g., Facetime or Skype or Google Hangouts or Slack call or something).

How can I find or adapt or build build a software solution for doing dead pixel correction on the sensor's output BEFORE it gets used by other applications?


texts: How to make Preview render PDF docs with crisp fonts on MacBook Air (without Retina Display) in Mojave?

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Hi have a Macbook Air (previous model, no retina display). Ever since the Mojave update, Preview renders text in PDF files quite blurry compared to Adobe Acrobat.

For instance, here is a screenshot of a file rendered in Preview:

Here is a screenshot of the same file, but rendered in Adobe Acrobat:

You can see that the top image is noticeably blurry compared to the bottom image.

I've tried the tips suggested on this website, such as:

Enabling or Disabling Font Smoothing in Settings
Enabling Font Smoothing in Terminal
Adjusting Font Smoothing Settings With Defaults

However, none of those suggestions fixed the blurry text rendering in Preview on my Macbook Air. Apparently, this is due to a change in the way that Mojave handles anti-aliasing compared to High Sierra. Is there a fix for this?

Here are the specs for my machine:

  Model Name:   MacBook Air
  Model Identifier: MacBookAir7,2
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i5
  Processor Speed:  1.8 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 3 MB
  Memory:   8 GB


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This question might have been answered somewhere but have not been able to find it. So, I have a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro where I am still running OS X Yosemite since I forgot to update to OS X El Capitan when it was on the App Store before they changed it to macOS Sierra.

If I try to install macOS Sierra through the App Store it doesn't let me because it says that:

"This version of macOS 10.12 cannot be installed on this computer."

I started looking to see if I can find OS X El Capitan but there is no result through the Mac App Store nor Apple Developers site. So my last resort was through Google, where I found several options on where to download OS X El Capitan version 10.11.

So, my main question is if I download from these third party websites, can I install on top of my current OS like it is done through the App Store or do I have to do a clean install?

Would appreciate any help.


texts: After Installing El Capitan I Will be Logged Out Frequently

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MacPro late 2009 with 3 monitors. OSX 10.11.1
Will run great on 1 monitor without screen/system freeze or logouts. At times it is an instant logout, other times, the primary monitor freezes, or is filled with weird graphics. NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB
Began with 12 G Ram and upgraded to 24 after having problems with El Capitan. Suspected OS memory leak.
Then did full erase and OS install, but before restoring my data, created new user and used Safari to test. On each monitor, a Safari tab streaming news videos. Ran for hours, but when I started using the system, it had video problems and locked up or logged out. Don't remember which.
Then restored all my backup data and settings.
Activity Monitor shows full 24 G installed, but the Memory Used and Cached Files never go above 12 G
TechTools 8, all test pass. Memory, video, temperature, fans etc.
Apple Care 2nd level tried to no avail.
System performed flawlessly until El Capitan install
System now is totally unreliable.
I installed 10.11.2 yesterday and am hopeful that fixed it for me as it has many others. I'll update.
It appears that 10.11.2 has fixed it. This was the first time I had an update go bad, thankfully. Communication would go a long way, but results are always appreciated. I still feel they (Apple) are the best horse in the race. BTW here is the Apple Support thread on this; https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7252069?start=0&tstart=0


texts: Can the name under the Bank Account be different from Account holder?

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My sister made an iTunes Connect account and signed up for the developer program (she is over 21). I am the developer of the account; i'm just not exactly 18 yet (will be in a couple months).

In setting up the agreements/tax/banking, can she input my bank account information, since it has a different name than that on the developer account? If not, is there anything she can do (add me as a developer or something) to be able to?


texts: Automatically delete files older than 3 hours macOS

texts: I have a camera setup up to take an image every few seconds and then the image is processed and is no longer required. Can anyone help me to write a script/service that will delete files/images in a folder that are older than 3 hours? I'm trying to do this as it takes a ton of space if only purged every 24 hours using Automator.


texts: Creating folders in the Applications folder

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I like to keep things neat in my computer, so when I started to have too many apps, I decided to create subfolders within my /Applications folder and move tings around.

Sometimes, I got asked to enter my password.

Sometimes, softwares upgrades won't work. Or sometimes they create duplicates. Sometimes things seem to get messed up.

I guess my question is, is it considered good to create folders there? What's the best way to handle this?


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On the Find My iPhone app, I have locked my Macbook so no one else can get on it. I have the Messages app opened to receive my iMessages, but someone turned the Macbook on, it connected to wifi, and became locked.

Will I still receive my iMessages from when it was locked?


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Is there and app or something that gives Yosemite the functionality that Ubuntu HUD has - search menu for items?

I am switching to Mac from Ubuntu. Even thou I was on Ubuntu Linux for only a few weeks and originally came from a Windows background, I got super used to the HUD  functionality. I would like to take that with me if possible.


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This is a MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 with FileVault enabled.

In my case the problem is that at the login page, when the computer starts, the admin user account doesn't appear but after logging in as standard user I see that there is an admin. My brother who created the admin forgot the password.

I was thinking to press command + S when the Mac starts , in order to create a new admin, but with FileVault enabled single user mode does not work.

Is there still a possibility to recover the admin password?

My question is slightly different than those for which it was marked as duplicate because in those answers are explained:

Single User Mode(Command+S). As I have explained in my question, with
FileVault enabled single user mode does not work.
Recovery Mode(Command+R) . When in the terminal, in recovery mode, I type
resetpassword I have not the possibility to choose the admin account but it's
choosen standard account and i think that if I reset the password in this way
I will reset the standard user password and not the admin one.


texts: Unable to create Guest Account after enabling FileVault

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After upgrading to Lion, I tried creating a guest account and it worked.

I enabled FileVault on Lion and went through the process of encryption. After that, when I am trying to create a Guest account, the option itself is disabled.

I am unable to create a Guest account on Lion . I wanted to check if this is the usual behavior with FileVault enabled Macs since I could not find any related articles on this .


texts: Triple Boot Mac/Win10/Ubuntu: how to restore original copy of Windows EFI to ensure boot to Windows still works

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Not a duplicate - this is a new, sub-question regarding the steps in the answer here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/375863/4018

I followed the steps in that question, however, after completing them,  selecting the Windows drive on the standard mac boot menu no longer works, what happens is that the screen goes blank and it never boots into Windows.

Also, there is not option shown in the apple boot manager for Ubuntu - video to follow.

Possible lead to explore: instead of step 6 using mv Linux command to rename the Windows EFI folders - to stop GRUB altering it, make a copy - cp -R EFI EFI.win, for later to restore back at end of steps, instead. My theory is that macOS bootmanager doesn't find Windows on a subsequent reboot after I did step 6, it adjusts itself to ignore it. By having the original there, it wont do that - AND - at the end we can restore the copy, overwriting what GRUB did. I haven't tried this yet. I also haven't tried bootrec yet.

I don't know how, yet, to solve the other problem whereby the option for booting into Ubuntu is not shown in the Apple boot manager.

Machine: 2016 MacBookPro 15" touchbar, 2.9GHz Quad-Core Intel i7, AMD 4g graphics, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD.

Running: macOS Catalina 10.15.2

Windows 10 Pro 64bit installed OK with BootCamp

Attempting to install 3rd operating system, Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 64bit, to be an option along side macOS and Windows in the standard Apple Boot Manager boot selection screen. DO NOT want to use reFind.

Here are my screenshots of some of the key steps I followed in that answer (from above):

Differences in my setup:

that my partition name identifiers are different from the original question, but I believe I've worked out the equivalents for my case
My Bootcamp Windows has only one (1) partition, unlike the (answer mentioned above) which has three partitions.

Screenshots from step 6

steps 08-13

steps 15,16

Step 16

Step 17


texts: Automator Help: copying and renamig files from one static folder to one created dynamically

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I am curious to see how can I achieve this action.

So far, I created an automator that asks 3 questions: a ticket number, the name of a project and the type of project.

That creates a series of folders with the name "ticket x - project a (project type) - assets", and a subsequent set of more folders that change the last bit to accommodate recordings, lists and so forth.

We are good there. But now, I have a separate folder that always lives in the same location, with some formats that I need to place inside those newly created folders, and hopefully rename them (later).

I can Get Specified Finder Items to locate the first format, but when I want to Copy that Finder Item to the folders, I encounter that all those paths to the folders I created dynamically cannot be accessed, because the Copy Finder Items TO: does not take existing variables, only new ones.

So, can I save those paths somehow and then pass them to the recipient folder? It's the same when renaming. I can only pass text to the dialog box, not a variable that I just created.

Any ideas?


texts: prevent doubleapple files creation when tarring directories (Snow Leopard)

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I'm looking how to prevent tar from saving or creating .AppleDouble shadow files and preferably do it in an automated manner. There are a few questions asking why this happens, but I want a solution that helps me prevent this in practice.

What do I need to do using terminal when I tar a directory to prevent these files from being generated?

The duplicate (linked above) as it has been pointed out shows a whole bunch of lines which I do not understand. I'm pretty new to working with Terminal, so that is probably the reason why I don't grasp it.

$ xattr -l file.jpg
com.apple.quarantine: 0002;50d20c48;Tweetbot;
$ tar -cf 1.tar file.jpg
$ tar -tf 1.tar
./._file.jpg
file.jpg
$ COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar -cf 2.tar file.jpg
$ tar -tf 2.tar
file.jpg

I just cannot imagine that every time I want to tar a directory I need this bunch only to achieve not getting duplicates.

Regarding the solutions given below in the comments, does it mean that every time I want to tar something I have to use that whole line? Or is there a way to tell the system to set this as the default behaviour when tarring files?


texts: iOS how to read bluetoothd service logs in the console?

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I’m debugging a Bluetooth app on an iPhone. When I connect it via cable to a Mac, I see that Apple logs output from “bluetoothd” service in between my app’s output. The logs contain central/ peripheral events, incoming requests, rssi info, etc.
Where can I find documentation to understand what is happening with bluetoothd ata hardware level?
I’m looking for information like “this hen I see packet X, the connection state is Y”, or “this message means the device has reconnected to a service Z”


texts: OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. What do I need to exclude?

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OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume.  (It won't boot.)

What do I need to exclude?

I've been able to compress large parts of it, but then I had to restore after I compressed too much.  I guess I can try to answer this via trial and error.

(Space is extremely tight on my boot volume.)

I'm guessing that these need to (or should) remain uncompressed:

/mach_kernel /sbin /dev  /bin /.??* /private

/private includes

 /etc /tmp /var

I would guess I can get away with compressing most if not all of

/var/folders /System /Applications /Library /Users /usr

(Educated guess; include the stuff needed to bootstrap the system.)

At some point I may try to figure this out via trial and error, and answer my own question, but why reinvent the wheel when there's StackExchange?


texts: People keep recieving facetime calls from my phone but I have not called them, Also when when they answer it is a different person. what has happened?

texts: I have received texts from people saying they have missed facetime calls from me when I have not called them. Also, today y girlfriend received a facetime call from me and when the call connected there was a woman staring back at her. She immediately hung up and when it called back she ignored it. It says on her call log that it was me who facetimed her. how could this have happened?


texts: Which Linux Distro installs on a MacBook (13-inch Early 2008)

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I have a MacBook (13-inch Early 2008) and need to stick with it for some more time, but Apple doesn't give support anymore to it, so I'd like to install an operating system to keep it alive and kicking with low memory usage.

What is your suggestion for a lightweight and compatible operational system for my old MacBook?


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My Mac decided to delete all but 19 fonts, which is fairly annoying. It didn't really delete them, as in I still have the original files in the /Library/Fonts folder, but they've disappeared from Font Book, so I can't use them.

Now, Apple says that you can select a folder to install all fonts in that folder, but when I try that, the spinning wheel (not the beach ball) comes up in the lower right hand corner for a few seconds and then leaves, without installing any fonts. The same thing happens if I use the + sign in the menu bar, select multiple, or if I try validating and then installing (actually, that installs one font).

Is there any way to mass-install these fonts or will I have to install them one by one?

System info: Mac OS X 10.5.8 running Font Book 2.1 (123).


texts: I installed the Google Play Music app on my Macbook (Sierra 10.12.4) then uninstalled it. Now my Touch Bar music controls no longer work with iTunes. How can I reset it?


texts: Can I change some but not all Apple keyboard function keys (dim vs F1, bright vs F2)?

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I want to override F1 and F2 behavior, since I have external display and Mac can't control display's brightness. The rest of the keys should retain their non Fx

I know about "Use all F1-F12 keys as standard function keys.", but I don't want to change all of the keys to be F when pressed, just some of them. (For me single press music and volume control is necessary.)

Is there a way to pick some of the function keys to default to numbered function instead of the "Apple" definitions system wide?


texts: Use of the requested audio unit(s) require lowering the security settings

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I just started getting this alert at seemingly random points in Finder:

Use of the requested audio unit(s) require lowering of the security settings for "Quick Look UI Helper". Are you sure you want to proceed?
[Lower Security Settings] [Cancel]

This appears even when the selected item in the Finder cannot be quick-looked (e.g. AVI files).
Does anyone have any idea what it means and what causes it? This hasn't appeared before the latest software update and no search results match the alert text, so I'm suspecting this is something new in the OS update.
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.4
Hardware: Mid-2012 MacBook Pro


texts: Creating a bootable Windows USB drive when Bootcamp is already installed

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I just upgraded to El Capitan, and am now having issues booting directly into Windows. I need a bootable Windows USB stick to repair my bootcamp partition, but I'm having a difficult time making that happen.

I thought I would simply be able to use Bootcamp Assistant to create the bootable USB drive (as I did when I first install windows through Bootcamp on Yosemite), but I no longer have that option:

As the above image shows, the only option I have is to remove my bootcamp partition, which is not what I want.

I've tried to manually write the ISO to the USB stick by using the terminal according to this question (multiple times), but it never shows on the boot menu. I've also tried using Rufus, and that shows as a bootable drive, but then I just get a black screen after I select it as the boot device.

How do I create a bootable Windows USB Drive when Bootcamp does not provide me that option? This is on a 2015 MacBook Pro, originally shipped with Yosemite and just updated to El Capitan.

UPDATE:

I was able to create a bootable USB stick by using Rufus with the following settings:

Partition Scheme: GPT partition scheme for UEFI
File System: Fat32
Cluster Size: 4096 bytes
Create Bootable Disk using ISO Image

Standard Windows Installation

Since Rufus is a Windows program, I'll keep this open in case someone can answer how to do this in OS X.


texts: Can anyone tell me how to batch repack a bunch of mkv files to mp4 keeping the same file names using the Mac command line.


texts: Does Spotlight index content that resides only on iCloud Drive after local storage is purged?

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I want to use iCloud Drive to sync the Documents folder. When I run out of disk space macOS will free up space by removing old content on my SDD.

My question is, will that also remove Spotlight's knowledge (that is the meta data) of these files?


texts: Message: not enough computer space for iphone backup

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My iPhone 4s won't backup. I receive the message:

  not enough space on computer.

There is plenty of space on my mac, 220 gigabytes free.


texts: How to stop two phones that are synced together

texts: My and my daughters phones are synced together. We're sharing the same storage. My phone continually tells me that I don't have enough storage space. How do I remove my daughters contents off my phone and quit receiving her stuff from her phone?


texts: iPhone 5s calendar won't delete all events of the repeated event

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I added one of my classes to my phone calendar and repeated it to every week.

For some reason I think it synced with my iCloud or uni site or something so all the details such as what room the tutorial is in, my teacher, what subject it is, etc, is all filled out in that event.

I had no problem with this in fact found it convenient. But the time of my tutorial has changed to a different day and now it seems that each of those class events are individual and not repeated.

When I delete one it doesn't prompt me to delete all future events.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem and delete all of these events at the same time?


texts: Printopia (AirPrint): turn it on/off via command line?

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I love Printopia - this allows my iDevices to print to a printer attached to my Mac. The problem is I usually don't leave it on all the time. Whenever I want to print from my phone, I'd turn it on via System Preferences app.

Question: is it possible to do so via command line? This way I can ssh in my Mac and turn it on/off (or even better, write some simple script to automate the process).


texts: Is it bad that my MacBook Air is passing me electricity?

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Whenever my MacBook Air is connected to the AC power and I have my hands on the palm rest, I feel it passes some electricity to me. If I unplug it from the AC power it stops doing that.

This has recently became obvious, when other people can feel this tingling by touching my skin after I've been working for a while.

I have two questions:

1- Is this normal in unibody Macs?

2- Is this harmful for my health in the long run?


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I have two iPads laying around, and I would like to play Angry Birds on them. I realize that Angry Birds 2 is likely an inferior offering filled with dark patterns and ads, but I don't seem to have much choice so here we go.
One of the devices is iPad mini MD537E/A. It says it is on 9.3.6. Says it's the latest one for that device. App Store will only install some old version of Angry Birds 2, which will display splash screen, ask to log into gaming center (or whatever) and then tell me that I have to upgrade to newer version. Newer version needs iOS 10.0+. I guess this device is too old and it's end of story here?
The other one is iPad Pro 12,9" 2nd-gen MP6G2RU/A. It is on 14.4, which makes it look like a better prospect. However, this one performs even worse: it will start a splash screen, offer me to log in to gaming center, and then nothing happens. Splash screen just stays here. It never goes further.
This iPad previously belonged to a relative and sometimes it pops up a prompt to login into the old account, despite being more or less moved to a new one. Maybe it affects the outcome somehow.
What do I do? How do I actually get some of these devices to play Angry Birds for my daughter?


texts: Revert or reset permissions of extensions

texts: I accidentally approved the request of Weather extension to access my location info on macOS 10.14.6. I want to revert or reset this. How can I do that? Is there a way other than reinstalling macOS?


texts: looking at buy MacBook that needs OS installed

texts: I'm looking at getting a MacBook, and the seller did a Factory Reset and said it just needs the OS installed. Is there anything I should look out for?


texts: Time Machine separate backups across 2 drives

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Is it possible to have time machine backup different drives separately? So I have 512GB internal and 1TB external working storage that I currently backup to a 1.5TB external. I'd like to add another 1TB drive to make a redundant backup of just my internal drive (because it doesn't have space for both internal and external work drives).

I'd guess this isn't possible but perhaps there is a way to hack it? Perhaps with tmutil and a shell script?


texts: Remove Dropbox "Send with Transfer..." item from Finder context menu

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A recent version of Dropbox has added the new menu item "Send with Transfer..." when right-clicking any file on your Mac, not just files in Dropbox.

I know that Dropbox's Finder Extension can be disabled entirely. But this disables syncing badges and all Finder integration. I want to keep the Finder Extension enabled for the Dropbox folder itself... I just want to disable the global menu items when outside of the Dropbox.

The similar outside-the-folder "Move to Dropbox" menu item can be disabled individually:
Remove “Move to Dropbox” menu from Finder context menu

Is there a similar setting to hide the "Send with Transfer..." menu item individually?


texts: Comfortable mouse tracking speed not available in system preferences

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The mouse section of the OS X version 10.8.2 system preferences has 10 different tracking speeds for my mighty mouse.

Unfortunately, the 4th fastest option is too slow for me, and the 3rd fastest option is too fast for me.

I've recently converted from a 21.5 inch iMac to a 27 inch iMac and I cannot recreate the mouse speed I've been used to.

How can tune my mouse's tracking speed, beyond the speeds available in the system preferences?


texts: Terminal "open" any image results in "Preview quit unexpectedly"

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Whenever I hit open blah.png (any image type) in my terminal, I get a message "Preview quit unexpectedly" from Mac OS X. The solution is to just open the folder in Finder using open ., navigating to the file and opening it from there. Preview seems to work fine then. However, this is annoying.

Any ideas why I can't open images from the terminal?

My OS X version is 10.10.5 (14F1808). By the way, when I hit ``open receptor.png'' (where receptor.png is the filename), the terminal now also says: "LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/asdf/receptor.png." I don't know why I didn't notice that before.


texts: Terminal/iTerm Autocomplete "greyed" functionality?

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Not too sure how to describe this... but I saw this on a person's computer a cafe today and didn't get a chance to ask him what plugin/application he was using --

I think it best to illustrate with an example:

Say there's a directory with three folders, 'kitty', 'doggie', and 'frog'.

Typing cd f would make the letters rog appear after the 'f', but rog would be in a lighter color of text (a greyed color) -- it was a sort of "visible autocomplete", not sure what else to call it. Anyone know how to achieve this? Thanks.


texts: Why do I occasionally get the message "could not activate cellular data network" when opening the sms app?

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It pops up a message telling me this which means I have to tap 'OK'

This is seriously annoying, does anyone know why this happens and what terrible event it is supposed to help me avoid?


texts: I downloaded iTunes 10 but now it won't update my iPod Touch software

texts: I downloaded the newest version of iTunes because it said it couldn't update the iPod Touch to 4.2 without it, but after the download I went to update my iPod Touch and iTunes said it couldn't contact the update server. This happened when I downloaded iTunes 9 and tried to update, but I never fixed it. Any help would be appreciated!


texts: gmail account emails only appear in iCloud Inbox

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This has apparently been going on for some time but I didn't notice it until today.

I use Apple Mail (Sierra) as my mail client.  Any emails I receive to either of my two Gmail accounts, are only visible under the iCloud Inbox folder.  They are labeled as existing in that folder when I do a search, and I can see them as long as that's what I'm viewing (or have rules based on that Inbox).  But if I go to the actual Gmail account inboxes, none of the messages are there.

Why is this happening and how can I stop it?  I tried removing a Gmail account and re-adding it from scratch in System Prefs, but nothing changed.

To add some clarity, here is a picture showing my Inboxes - 1 for iCloud, and 2 for Gmail.  All emails sent to or from the Gmail addresses (via the mail.app client) appear under the iCloud Inbox (or sent mail) and do NOT appear under the appropriate Gmail Inboxes.

If I scroll down further, I see the second image, which clearly shows that the Gmail Inboxes don't even have all the usual Gmail folders below them, only Important and Chats, but nothing else.  So what gives here?


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My iPhone 6 won't let me download iOS 9.0.1. I tried downloading it once and it said error occurred, failed to update as it said preparing update.

So I did it again and deleted some storage in case it was that but its still not working!

How to resolve this issue?


texts: iMac 2013 (late) as external monitor for PC

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I have an iMac 27" with two thunderbolt ports, and a PC with DisplayPort output. In order to use the iMac as a monitor, it appears that a thunderbolt display output at the source is required (https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/ins-outs-imacs-target-display-mode/), and using a DP-mDP cable did not work (Target DisplayMode on the mac using cmd-F2 doesn't respond).

The question is, is there anything I can do on the PC side (a new graphics card, perhaps? or some sort of a converter) to make this happen?


texts: "Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar" setting not remembered

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I see no keyboard & character indicator on the menubar panel, and trying to enable "Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar" in  System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard tab, that has no effect and, after closing and re-opening that settings window, Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar is still NOT ticked.

I use more than one keyboard layout and I need to permanently see the active one on the panel, and switch between them from there (at the present I can only switch from shortcut), like in this image I found on the internet:


texts: Using Existing Time Machine Backup over Time Capsule

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I have an external 2TB drive that I've been using for Time Machine Backups directly connected to my Mac. I've recently gotten a Time Capsule and would to continue backing up with the existing backup, so that I keep the history I already have and do not need to start from scratch.

I'm able to see the drive and can see the Backups.backupdb directory, as well as the subdirectory that contains my backup, but if I try to backup, it starts from scratch on the drive in a toplevel directory (/Volumes/T2/mbp instead of /Volumes/T2/Backups.backupdb/mbp). This also does not look like the same type of content of the backups made from the direct connect drive.

Is there some way to use the existing backup and continue from where I was?

Is this a safe and reliable method for using Time Machine?


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Today I dropped some juice on my iPhone 4 and since the iPhone's keyboard and others tones aren't working. The calling tone works however.

I keep getting the following message:

  This accessory is not optimized for this phone! You may experice noise caused by cellular interference and a decrease in cellular signal strength

How can I fix this?


texts: Issue with iPhone for playing music in the car

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For the past 2 days, I haven't been able to play music from my iPhone in my car with bluetooth, nor with a USB connection.

If I connect the iPhone with bluetooth, the phone-calls work well.
I have always listened to music from my iPhone in my car (Bluetooth or USB) with Spotify App, but it doesn't work without explication.

It seems that the multimedia options were blocked.

I have tested in other car and the problem is the same.
I have tested with a iPod via USB and it works well.
I have tested with a bluetooth speaker connected to my iphone and it works well.
I have restarted my iPhone and restarted the bluetooth connection. unlinking bluetooth and reconnecting car and iPhone.

So I think that the issue is with iPhone - some option or something blocked.

I dont use CarPlay.

Can you help me?
Someone who has happened it?

Thank you!


texts: OSX EL Captain customization and themeing

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I don't like the new dock, I don't like the new folders, I don't like flat or may be I am bored of looking at same stuff. But really I still miss OSX Lion/Mavericks 3D dock and a more lively user interface.

I am a big fan of Ubuntu, Arch Linux. I go to noobslab every once a week to customize my pc. I easily get bored of looking at same think for a long time.

What am I already using for customization:

1) LiteIcon for changing app and custom icons which I usually grab from DeviantArt {disable SIP}

2) cDock for custom Docks {disable SIP}

3) Xtra Finder & TotalFinder for more enhanced and shortcuts {disable SIP}

4) iTerm and Oh-My-Zsh for a better shell

5) Alfred in place of spotlight with custom themes

6) Irvue for OSX to grab Hi-Res wallpaper from unsplash automatically

Are there any suggestions for creating better User Interface , customization, Personalize better? Any cool app for widgets, any kind of amazing stuff.

NOTE: This is not just a question. This post is more of like a Wiki. Everyone can post there cool, customization apps, tweaks, scripts, anything here. This is an effort to grow the apple stack exchange community and make it more fun. Thanks.

Request: Please don't downvote, keep on hold as personal opinion etc. You can however edit this question. I am still asking for better customization apps.

What is SIP?

How to disable SIP?

I have disabled SIP but why shouldn't you disable it? Know what you are doing. I am not encouraging anyone to compromise his/her security


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I just updated my iPad to iPadOS13.1.2 and can't find some of my apps.

I used to use Find Friends - but it seems to be missing in action.
I can't even figure out how to search on the iPad


texts: Does “Expired” certificate gets removed from the Apple's Developer Portal automatically?

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Does "Expired" certificate gets removed from the Apple's Developer Portal automatically? I had a certificate for Development and Distribution on Apple's Developer Portal, but it expired, and now I can not see it on Developer Portal.

Does it get removed itself or somebody removed it (No one from my team mates deleted it) or did Xcode removed it, as we can now automatically handle Provisioning Profiles from Xcode?

Can we get a history of our Certificates on Developer Portal?


texts: How do I show hidden files in Finder with a keyboard shortcut?

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What is Ubuntu's CTRL+H equivalent in OSX Lion Finder to toggle display hidden files?

My all searches point me to use: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE which is not exactly the same and its effect is somewhat permanent.


texts: Is there an image editor like Windows' Paint for OS X?

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I tried out several image editors mentioned on this site but some of them (like Pixen and Seashore) were very disappointing. These apps were too simple and low level.

What do you suggest for a (preferably free) image editor on OS X?

P.S: I was using GIMP on Linux and also know that it was released for OS X too, but I want to find new good applications.


texts: How to remove special character from a folder name?

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I am creating a folder like

mkdir -p ../service/target/static

but windows creates it with some special character static. I need to explicitely remove that special character using shell script.
I tried with rn and mv commands but doesn't seem to work and rename command giving error command not found.


texts: iTunes U plays previous video when trying to open reading material

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I'm having a strange problem with iTunes U (in iTunes). When I click on a non-video item in the lecture feed, it simply plays the last video.
The item I'm trying to view is clearly not a video, as indicated by the book-symbol:

But in this example, when I click "Reading: The Rest of Swift", it simply plays "9. Scroll View and Multithreading".

I'm using a mac running OSX Yosemite, so there shouldn't be any problems with that.
Why is this happening then?


texts: Excel Formula using substitute function to replace quotation marks

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Substitute formula is substitute(cell to focus on, text to replace, text that replaces it). 2nd and 3rd inputs need to be in quotations it seems to get the function to work.

So how would you substitute a single quotation mark in a cell.

None of the following work:

=substitute(A1,""","%22C")
=substitute(A1,&char(32), "%22C")
=substitute(A1,"&char(32)","%22C")
=substitute(A1,"\"","%22C")

Any ideas?


texts:
Reading this documentation
http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/ i get that Lion support only openGL2.1

This is a 6 years old version, the current one is the 4.2,
Please tell me that i'm not in right and that we are at least at the version 3.2 :) this would be a really really really big problem for me :P


texts: Software for managing Word files (doc, docx) archive

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I have an archive of .doc/.docx files, which I'm frequently using to pull some information. I'm looking for some software that would allow me to search through the content of all these files (Mac OS X 10.7.5).

Note: I haven't tested Spotlight because I've turned it off some time ago (because of power consumption related to file indexing; I also didn't need it before).


texts: I just had Yosemite loaded onto my laptop and there is no Photo app (nor iPhoto). I do have ImageCapture, but I would like to work with my albums in either Photo or iPhoto. Can't find it at the AppStore to download... How can I get one of them? Thanks.


texts: Swap CMD and Alt only on external keyboard

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On my external mechanical keyboard the Super/Windows/CMD key is between Ctrl and Alt, but on the Mac keyboard it's between Alt and Space.

Can I swap CMD and Alt only on the external keyboard?


texts: Where does macOS store information about Time Machine history?

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If you look in System Preferences » Time Machine, it will show you the Oldest/Latest/Next Backup times/dates, as shown here:

Does anyone know where that information is stored? Is there a .plist file somewhere that has it? Is it accessible in some other way other than opening the System Preference pane for Time Machine?
I tried googling for this but everything I found was just telling me to look in System Preferences for this information, and nothing about where it might be found in the system.
Update
It appears that the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist contains a list of “SnapshotDates” which includes the first and most recent backup times/dates.
I could not seem to locate “Next Backup” time, however.


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I manage several Macs in an office which run a mixture of 10.10 - 10.13 (all latest sub versions).

I'm looking for a backup solution / workflow so I can set automated backups for each machine to a Synology NAS on the LAN.

I've heard using Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner with the backup destination as a NAS can cause issues. The following quote is from a MacWorld article:

  When you use a network drive for your Time Machine backups, you can have problems. (I’ve heard of this occurring on an external, connected drive, but only rarely.) You may see an ominous dialog saying “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on diskname. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.” When this happens, you lose all your existing backups. You may have years of backups on your drive, and they’ll all disappear.

Source: When backups go bad: The problem with using network drives with Time Machine

Carbon Copy Cloner have also advised that backing up to a NAS is not the best option as instead of a bootable backup the backup is a diskimage, which isn't bootable and can become corrupted.

I'm not so fussed about the backup being bootable, as long as I can copy my /documents folder from the NAS I'd be alright. But obviously if the whole backup is corrupted that would be a problem.

Is there another piece of backup software or workflow which is better suited?

One of the things to consider is some of the devices are laptops so they may be taken off site at any time including mid backup, under those circumstances we wouldnt want the backups to become corrupted.


texts: Installing windows on late 2009 iMac 27"

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I've sucessfully installed Win 7 x64 twice on my imac before. However the 2009 iMacs had faulty HDD, I had it replaced and after that I have trouble installing windows. I know about the display drivers needed to be present during install, I have those but I'm still presented with a black screen with blinking cursor while booting Windows - the Windows logo doesn't show.

Found out in mutiple threads that running these:

Bootrec.exe /FixMbr
Bootrec.exe /FixBoot
Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd

will fix my booting but I'm unable to get into the repair windows section from the Windows installation disc. It tells me that my verions of Windows is not supported with the disc I have. Found out that it's like that and if I disable other HDDs from bios to make it work, but macs don't have BIOS.
Is there any other way to execute these commands? Did 5 windows reinstalls already without sucess. I'm pretty desperate.

Any help would be greatly appriciated.


texts: Is it possible to do a factory reset of iPhone 5 and keep iOS 6?

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I have an iPhone 5 that is currently running iOS 6. I do not want to update the phone to iOS 8, but would like to back up the phone's texts, reset the phone, and restore the texts onto the phone.

I don't want to restore the phone from a full backup since I only want to restore texts and contacts, nothing else on the phone. Is it possible to use iTunes to do this without updating the operating system and if so is there anything I should watch out for? Otherwise, is there some other third party application that I could use instead?


texts: Recover backup set up of two external hard drives

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My backup set up consists on two external hard drives. They are named HDD1 and HDD2. This kind of set up what originally started by another question: Second HDD backup for OS X

External HDD1 is now broken, it's not working because I dropped it. So now what should I do to built external HHD1 from HDD2? I had a look into the data that is inside HDD2 and seems to be fine. Seems a simple copy paste to a new HDD1 would be enough at least to get started again. However, a better alternative would be to have everything as when HDD1 and HDD2 where both working.


texts: MacBook tries to connect to colleague's Apple Watch

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My colleague's Apple Watch keeps asking if he wants to accept pairing with my MacBook Pro. I have never had his Apple Watch connected to my MacBook (or tried to do so...), but I did have his iPhone connected through a USB cable, to launch an iOS app on it (through Xcode).

I cannot see any sign of the Apple Watch on my MacBook. I have no idea why it tries to connect with his Apple Watch. I do not own an Apple Watch.

How do I stop this? It is quite annoying for my colleague.


texts:
I'm wondering about privacy aspects of Safari extensions, or which pieces of information active extensions can obtain about my web browsing activities. Should I expect that an extension will generally be able to collect information about everything I'm doing in Safari, or are there any restrictions on what extensions can access? The question is it possible to disable Safari extensions when using Private browsing? seems to indicate that there may be privacy issues when extensions are enabled.

More specifically, I'm interested in the Google Scholar extension that installs a button in the toolbar. Should I expect that this extension communicates information to Google only when I'm actually clicking the button, or can it communicate more?


texts: How to remove water which has into the screen of my iPhone?

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I have Apple IPhone 6 and it accidentally fell into water and some of water went inside the screen,

I got no problem with touch screen, even at the places where I got water touch screen is working well. I tried one more thing, I took the screen shot and send it to the other phone, and I found there was no water mark when viewed in the other phone.

Is there something I can do to remove that water mark from my screen?


texts: MacBook Pro Retina running Bootcamp with 2 external 27" monitors

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I am wanting to buy a MacBook Pro Retina but am currently really nervous about doing so. I've read that everything seems to run well on the Retina and is usable as long as you have the latest graphics drivers and you bump the font to 150%.

All this is fine, but I'm worried about what happens when I plug in my 2 external 27" monitors. The main question I have is will Windows want to run those 2 monitors at 150% font as well or can you set it up so its only on the laptops monitor that the scaling will take place?

Also wondering if drivers improved with Mountain Lion?


texts: What camera does the 6th-generation iPod touch have?

texts:
Given that the 6th-generation iPod touch gets its A8 processor from 2014's iPhone 6, it seems likely that other components were improved as well.  Was the camera upgraded to the component used in the iPhone 6 (including the sapphire lens, even?), or is it carry-over from the 5th generation (released in 2012 with components from the iPhone 5)?

I looked at Wikipedia and the iFixit teardowns and I'm having a hard time reconciling the apparently contradictory information.  Anybody able to make some sense of this?

5th-generation iFixit teardown
6th-generation iFixit teardown

iPod touch (Wikipedia)


texts: What GUI or framework should I use for both 2D and 3D applications? I'd like to use C++ as much as possible versus other pseudo languages such as Objective C. I'm confused so if this question makes no sense, just please let me know.


texts: Why does iTunes only recognize some songs from a purchased album as being purchased?

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Now that iTunes in the Cloud is available, my iPhone (iOS 5.0) and my MacBook Air (10.7.1 / iTunes 10.5) will show me lists of all the songs I've ever purchased through iTunes. It almost works great: I even found an album I'd completely forgotten I owned.

But I've noticed that at least one album (Muse - Absolution, which is still available on the Canadian iTunes Store), despite having purchased the entire album way back when, only registers a single song (Blackout) as a purchase.

Update: Having looked at a bunch of other albums (and testing downloading one) this is actually rampant across my collection: sometimes all but one, sometimes only a couple of tracks are available from albums that I've purchased, and which are still in the store... Ironically, one of the few albums that will let me download it in its entirety is not in the Canadian iTunes Store!

Update: Sounds like this has been happening since beta, and is still going on.

I received an update from iTunes "support", by which I mean someone they've hired to read pages from their support site to me. The response: tracks which have been removed or modified can no longer be downloaded. Well, many of my tracks haven't been removed, so they must have been "modified". When I asked for clarification as to what modifications cause purchased tracks to no longer register, they provided me with this helpful explanation:

  The item has been modified since you purchased it, and no longer
  available for download. It is not possible to redownload items that
  has being modified within the store.

Thanks for clearing that up. I'm going to start over with another ticket and see if I can squeeze anything useful out of them.

Update Update: As of today, the Muse album I mentioned has been restored; I can now download all tracks. However, the other affected albums have not changed. Is this because I complained about this album in particular? Do I need to do the same for every other problem purchase? Will this slowly resolve itself over time? Who knows?

Update, Nov. 13, 2011: As of tonight, all my purchased music is once again available. I did not open a case with Support, so I can only chalk this up to fluctuations in the Store that have been resolved (perhaps as we approach the launch of iTunes Match). It's unlikely we'll ever have a definitive answer to this question, though the comments here may be useful to future visitors.


texts: Keyboard shortcut to decrease playback speed on YouTube doesn't work with Chrome (on german keyboard layout?)

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The playback speed on youtube.com can be manipulated by using keyboard shortcuts < and >.
However, on my MacBook only the > for increasing playback speed seems to work while < does nothing.
What do I have to do, to make < work as well?
Is there a way to decrease playback speed with another key?
Edit: According to the keyboard shortcut list on YouTube Shift+, and Shift+. should increase/decrease playback speed as well. Both combinations do not work either.
Edit2: As @Tir Dy pointed out, it works in Firefox.


texts: MacBook Air 2015 MagSafe charger is too hot to touch

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In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed my charger connector (the part which connects to Mac) is too hot to touch and also there are some pins a bit burnt (it is happening slowly but getting visibly worse). Charging ability is unchanged but I really like this machine, otherwise, it is working fine.
I have tried to clean the patches. It is extremely hot only when not fully charged when fully charged it is normal. What could I do? I guess it is not exactly harmless for the machine.


texts: Why does the calendar app require access to my emails?

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I recently ran an update to Mojave 10.14.4, and following this update, I was prompted by "Internet Accounts" to re-authorise access to my Google account.

Notice that I only wish to syncrhonise Calendars and Notes in this panel, and not my Mail or Contacts. My concern is that, when I proceed to opening Safari and enter my credentials to authorise access, this is what the permission request looks like:

As you can see, the request includes full access to my email account. I have tried disabling the synchronisation of my Notes, but this does not seem to change the request.

It would appear then, that following the update to Mojave 10.14.4, "macOS" requests a blanket permission to my Google account regardless of my sync preferences. I would like to know why that is, and if there is any way to only give access to what I would like to sync, and nothing more.


texts: Korean file name changes to symbols after downloading

texts:
file name in a webpage:

file name after downloading:


texts: Error executing AppleScript through Launchd - "Service could not initialize"

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I've written an AppleScript that turns our CenturyLink modem's wireless radio on or off. It works when I run it manually with osascript, but now I'm trying to get it set up on a schedule with Launchd. I keep getting the following error in the Console log:

10/11/15 3:10:03.178 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.highintegritydesign.wirelessgenie[25674]) Service could not initialize: 14F27: xpcproxy + 13421 [1402][AD0301C4-D364-31CE-8BA7-B5DBECE64D0A]: 0xd

The script is called wireless-genie.scpt and it's in my home directory, with permissions 755 and owned by me. I can successfully launch it manually from my home folder with:

osascript wireless-genie.scpt mywirelessmodemadminuser mywirelessmodempassword

The plist is called com.highintegritydesign.wirelessgenie.plist, shown below. I've placed that into /Library/LaunchDaemons, and it also has permissions 755, and is owned by root.

I've run 'plutil -lint' on com.highintegritydesign.wirelessgenie.plist and it says the plist is A-OK. I loaded the plist with 'launchctl load com.highintegritydesign.wirelessgenie.plist'.

I'm stumped why the script won't execute. Any ideas?
Thanks.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.highintegritydesign.wirelessgenie</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>osascript</string>
        <string>/Users/north/Documents/sites/wireless-genie/wireless-genie.scpt</string>
        <string>mywirelessmodemadminuser</string>
        <string>mywirelessmodempassword</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>10</integer>
        <key>Hour</key>
        <integer>15</integer>
    </dict>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/var/log/wirelessgenie.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: My contact list does not display the entire phone number. It displays (xxx)XX... or if the contact has been named, it will show part of the person's name and then ... How do I set the phone to show the entire number? I would like to easily see the number. Thank you.


texts: How to copy text from iOS to MacOS with Bluetooth only (no WiFi network at all)?

texts:
I'd like to be able to copy text from iOS to MacOS with Bluetooth only (no WiFi) — or, worst case, by plugging the phone into the Mac.

I often find myself generating text on my phone (in various apps, it doesn't matter, the text can be copied to the iOS clipboard) while offline and then wanting to transfer it to my Mac for further editing. I can't use Universal Clipboard because that requires both devices to be on a WiFi network. There is an iOS and companion MacOS app called Scribe that enables copying text via Bluetooth, but only from the Mac to the iOS device. I want to the other way around.

Is there a way to copy text from iOS (latest version, iOS 12.3.1 on, in this case, an iPhone 8) to MacOS (Mojave 10.14.5, on a 13" Macbook Pro) with Bluetooth only (no WiFi network at all)?


texts: How do I separate my email and my husbands emails from a shared iCloud account?

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Back in 2007 when we first started an iCloud account, my husband and I used the same one.  As a result, our emails all come into the same INBOX, but we each have our own email address with a mac.com ending.
I want to move my email address to be under my new apple ID.  Can I do this?


texts: Run a particular Python script as a Service

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I've got a Python 3 script going that will overlay a particular transparent PDF file on top of another for the purpose of watermarking.

Copying and pasting the file location of each PDF into the script each time I want to watermark something is a bit of a headache though. The whole thing is not very flexible despite its great power.

from pdfrw import PdfReader, PdfWriter, PageMerge

ipdf = PdfReader("/users/me/Desktop/meetingminutes.pdf")
wpdf = PdfReader("/users/me/Desktop/private.pdf")

wmark = PageMerge().add(wpdf.pages[0])[0]

for page in ipdf.pages:
    PageMerge(page).add(wmark).render()

PdfWriter().write('/users/me/Desktop/meetingminutes.pdf', ipdf)

I would ideally like to be able to right click on a given PDF file in Finder and apply the watermark script to it as a service.

I've done a little bit of tinkering already but the most I've been able to figure out on my own is that I need to run the script as it is (right now) I can make an Automator App with the "Run AppleScript" droplet as the first step.

on run {input, parameters}
    do shell script "/usr/local/bin/python3 /users/me/Desktop/script.py

    return input
end run

It'd be wonderful to scale this up to work on any given PDF.  The actual "watermark" image PDF would be at a fixed location on the hard drive and the files on which the service is applied would not be renamed or moved/copied elsewhere (ideally).


texts: How can I change the Messages notification sound

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I'm trying to change notification sounds for apps like messages. I've tried to copy the .caf files using terminal, but it gives me "Operation not permitted"

Does anyone know a way around this? I'm running macOS Sierra

Update: I have successfully moved BoxeeBox.caf to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AlertTones/New, and it shows up in that folder

It is not one of the options that messages gives me now though

Do I have to change the name of BoxeeBox.caf to one of the other files in AlertTones/New's names? Or is there an apple script file that I need to add BoxeeBox.caf into?

Update: it works, I needed to put BoxeeBox.caf into AlertTones/New and replaced Bloom.caf with it, but now I'm trying to change the sound that it makes when you receive a message when that chat is open. I have already replaced ReceivedMessage.caf (as seen in the first screenshot), Default.aiff, and Recieved Message(in Applications/Messages/Contents/Resources), but it is still making the origional sound. Is there a different file that I have to replace?


texts: What features have been added to the Files app since it was introduced with iOS 11?

texts: As far as I'm aware, the Files app was introduced in iOS 11 and replaced the iCloud Drive app - what I can't seem to find, however, is how functionality of the app has evolved from iOS 11 to 13. Could somebody explain how the app has added features across iOS builds - for example, what changed from iOS 11 to 12, and from 12 to 13?


texts:
I downloaded Google Voice on my iPhone and the app downloaded without error, but anytime I open it there is already a Gmail address displaying. All I have to do is swipe over, and it enables the account.

How do I remove the default account that is showing that is NOT linked to anything on my iPhone?


texts: >console login on macOS High Sierra 10.13.5

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In attempting to log in using >console, I am met with a black screen and no terminal prompt, I eventually need to reboot into the GUI. I have successfully used this in the past (say, Mavericks). Has anyone been successful in >console login using High Sierra? I would rather not have to dual boot into linux. Disabling SIP does not solve the problem. The command:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist "DisableConsoleAccess" NO does nothing. To update this, I contacted Apple regarding this and have a macOS engineer working on a fix. When I hear back, I will update the OP.


texts: Manually managing songs and deleting from playlist

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I want to be able to delete songs off my iPhone by swiping in the Music.app. I know having 'Manually Manage songs' lets you delete songs without them returning after you re-sync everything, but I want it to delete songs from the playlist I have.

I have a playlist for the songs on my phone because I don't want to go through thousands of songs every time I reformat the phone. Manually managing songs just removes it from my phone but not from my playlist.

Is there any way around this?


texts: Apple mail with multiple accounts, sender not correct

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I have multiple accounts set-up on my iMac.  I'm running the latest OS X Sierra.

When I draft an email I select the account and this updates the sender email address, all is good.

However when I send the email, the email is sent not from the sender that was displayed whilst drafting the email but from the first account in my list.

Why?  Can I fix this or is it a bug?


texts: Get nic name and interface via command line?

texts:
What I am trying to do is to get the interface name and the nic name (description) via command line in OS X.

On Windows the following command gives me the result I am looking for:
wmic nic get name, index (this outputs for example: 11 Realtek blah )

On OS X I would like to see: en0 Realtek as the output.

Thank you for your help and sorry for my explanations (its late at night and my english is not so good)


texts: What do quotes mean in iOS8 predictive text?

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In the new iOS8 predictive text feature, three suggested words appear above the traditional keyboard.
The left hand word is frequently, but not always, surrounded by quotes.

What do the quotes mean?


texts: In Which Cases Is Linux Bootcamp justified?

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To be on the safe side, I know I will be doing a Windows Bootcamp because there are some programs in my field that don't have a Mac-specific version out yet.

But for, say developers, are there any reasons behind having Linux Bootcamp on your Mac?

Or are the Terminal apps identical in all respects? For command-line users. In that case it might be completely superfluous. Right?


texts: Cloned and changed HDD; now almost every program crashes on startup

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As the title suggests I cloned my mac hdd using CCC and bootcamped and restored win 7 on the bootcamp partition.

It would seem that everything worked out as planned but the first thing I noticed was that chrome wouldn't launch. It would crash instantly. So I re-installed it which did nothing. I then proceeded to remove the application support folder for Chrome and then re-installed. Nope.

I then noticed that NONE of my applications that aren't from Apple (apart from Unity3d which actually runs) will start. They all "quit unexpectedly". I have tried to repair dependencies and I have controlled the integrity of my drive. It repaired a bunch of dependencies but couldn't find anything wrong with the disk. I have a hunch it has something to do with when I restored the windows 7 installation but I can't be sure of that.

Anyone have the slightest idea what's going on? How would I fix this without having to wipe the mac installation?

Thanks for reading!

Edit
After having a look in system.log I can see something that might indicate that something is bad with the partitioning. Every crash looks like this:

Jun 28 14:47:53 MacBook-Pro ReportCrash[3461]: [CrashReport _extractBinaryImageInfoUsingSymbolicator] caught exception: Called memoryAtAddress: 0xa0a5b794, which is in an unmappable portion of [0x0 -> 0xffffffffffffffff] in PID# 3457. (0x1005cb796 0x100b750f3 0x1007b4ec6 0x10000494c 0x100004fc3 0x10085c362 0x100848b7a 0x100004ac0 0x100005956 0x1008477fd 0x10000541c 0x100007fb4 0x100008aa0 0x10000ad72 0x10000ab4f 0x10095f9dc 0x10000a256 0x1009534f6 0x1009533a9)
Jun 28 14:47:53 MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[295] ([0x0-0x9e09e].dk.Otee.Unity_Unitron[3457]): Job appears to have crashed: Bus error
Jun 28 14:47:53 MacBook-Pro ReportCrash[3461]: Saved crash report for Unitron[3457] version ??? (???) to /Users/phil/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Unitron_2011-06-28-144753_MacBook-Pro.crash


texts: How to recover data from formatted encrypted external hdd?

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First I formatted an external HDD with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) with password "Psw1".

Then I add some files (*.jpg, *.txt) to it.

Then I reformatted the HDD with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) but with password "Psw23" without wiping.

How can I recover my files if I know my password?

*I've already tried some recovery software (Stellar, EaseUs, etc.), but was unsuccessful.


texts: Replace Recovery HD with a “bootable drive” formatted partition?

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A while ago, I had the idea to use the bootable Mac OS X USB drive-making procedure on a hard drive partition, so that I could basically have a version of the “Recovery HD” that doesn’t need to download Mac OS X every time. Then I realized that since I have that partition, I have absolutely no use for the original “Recovery HD.”

I was wondering, is there a way to actually turn my new partition into the official “Recovery HD”? As in, invisible during normal computer use but boots when ⌘+R is held during startup?


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I'm having an issue with my 1st generation iPad. I intended on resetting it back to its factory settings since it was acting up in a lot of different ways - apps crashing, occasional freezes and just not very usable anymore. This has been going on for a while and gradually getting worse. Its quite old so I thought resetting it is probably worth a try.

Anywho, upon having done so, I was prompted to plug the device into my PC and start iTunes. This is how far I've gotten - all PCs I've tried simply do not even recognize a corresponding USB device.

All of the online tips for this kind of situation, e.g. installing the newest iTunes version, did not help since the device does not seem to be communicating at even the most basic level.

I'm not familiar with the internals of the iPad - is there a dedicated USB controller on one of the logic boards or are the signals routed directly to the CPU? I'm close to simply cracking it open and having a look, but I thought I'd ask for advice first - in hopes of someone having had a similar issue and possibly a better solution.

Cheers, Shibby


texts: How do I delete files from a timemachine backup

texts: So my mac was acting very slow and so I backed up all my files to an external hard drive using time machine and then proceeded to restart the entire mac. Now that I plug in my hard drive with my back up I dont really want to put it all back since my computer is running so much faster. My question is then how do i delete some files on that back up. Every time i press delete it says files can not be deleted from this back up time machine?


texts: Finding original files in the Mac OS X installer

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I messed up my Apache config file, httpd.conf.

I followed this article, http://emresaglam.com/blog/1035, to try and find the original httpd.conf inside Install OS X Mountain Lion.app.

The article says that the Bom files ("Bill of Materials"), "describes what is in this pkg file and where they will be written to."

Install OS X Mountain Lion.app -> Contents\SharedSupport\InstallESD.dmg -> Packages\***.pkg -> Bom

However, the Bom files don't seem to be a complete listing. I extracted the contents of the Payload for Essentials.pkg and there was more to it then listed in its Bom.

Is there a better way to navigate and find the file I need from the installer, besides extracting the contents of each pkg file's Payload? Any tips or resources would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!


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All my notes are synced to my gmail account and can be accessed. Now if I delete all my notes on my ipod, would it also delete all my notes in my gmail because it syncs.
I do not want the notes in gmail to be deleted.Thanks for the help.


texts: How to reduce MacBook Air 2013 1.7GHz CPU power consumption?

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I'm seeking a way to reduce MacBook Air 2013 1.7GHz CPU power consumption -- or any MacBook for that matter -- to save battery life.  I want to vary the CPU power consumption variably, so that I can get "full speed" when I want and "better/best power savings" at other times.

Something akin to Linux's cpuspeed command (to reduce CPU clock frequency) would be helpful, but could be anything.  Note I'm seeking CPU-only power-consumption tips.  Please do not clutter answers with tips for non-CPU things like display brightness, avoiding Adobe Flash, employing different web browsers, etc.


texts: syncing favorites from computer to iphone

texts: I can't sync my favorites from my pc to my iphone 3G through icloud, they say it will will do it through the air, yeah not happening? Please HelpI've tried everything even deleting and it goes back to the origional computer that I set it up on??


texts: Controlling audio output's sample/bit rate on OSX from command prompt

texts: Is there a way to limit the output format of a soundcard on OSX, apart from Audio MIDI Setup? I have noticed that OSX has a bad habit of resampling audio while it is not needed at all (say the output from Spotify or Tidal). I would like to systematically prevent such a thing from happenning, while still having a choice on the output format. The solution can use shell or Apple script, so that I can run it with a shortcut.


texts: Are the changes to Lion's screen sharing documented anywhere publicly?

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I am looking for a general technical overview of the changes Lion brought to screen sharing (VNC).

Specifically, the server now can differentiate and communicate the difference between dropping in and observing whatever user is presently logged in as opposed to starting a new and completely virtual loginwindow process and environment independent from the physical screen.

If you can write the book here detailing all the changes, awesome. If not, any pointers to articles, resources or hints of what changes actually shipped with Lion would be most welcome.

I am not finding any relevant documentation or discussion on the googles, the blekkos, or even the Apple developer site. (other than pre-release discussion that change is coming and the numerous VNC is now broken threads)

I love screens on iOS as it works well with the Lion changes - I presume their screens for Mac handles these changes as well. Lots of other clients seem to be not so happy with the Lion changes:

VNC Vinagre to OS X Lion
VNC from Windows gives blank login screen
Why isn't the multisession login in Lion's VNC server working properly?


texts: How do I configure Gmail Sync Accounts for iOS post January 2013?

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At the end of January 2013 Google dropped support for Gmail Sync for nonpaying Gmail customers. I understood this drop in support to mean that no new devices could be setup, not that I could no longer configure existing devices. However, if there is still a way to affect the configuration of existing devices I cannot find it on Google's sync website.

Am I missing something? Is there a site I can visit to make configuration changes for devices?


texts: Can I connect a microphone to a retina 5k iMac?

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My 5K retina iMac has one audio port.  On my MacBook pro that only had one port, it was possible, in System Preferences, to state whether to use it as an input or an output.

Is it possible to use the one on the 5k iMac as an input?  It is, perhaps, some weird connector that takes a regular headset or multiple signals, two for stereo audio out and one for audio in?

I recognize that there is a built-in microphone, and there are USB or bluetooth devices that can send in audio data, but it'd sure be handy if I can plug in an audio source as I used to (especially as I have a contact mic that goes to an instrument that I'd like to plug in.)


texts: iMac HDD fan running full speed. What is wrong?

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My iMac (27" Mid-2010) and the HDD fan is spinning full speed with a measured HDD temperature of 50 °C. I have removed the dust and dirt from inside and it is pretty clean. Nevertheless even when at idle it starts at 48 °C.
I've tried to use software to control the fans in order to decrease temp but the lowest it gets is 47 °C. I checked every single connection inside and everything seems to be ok. I also tried resetting the SMC and PRAM but with no luck.
Specs

27" Mid-2010
2.93GHz
Stock HDD 1.5TB Seagate st1500dl003
OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 and Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp


texts: Touch pad on remote control for AppleTV 4K getting slower to react

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Our AppleTV 4K remote control is getting clunkier, getting slower to react to touches and swipes on the remote control.
When choosing an app, I make a swipe-swipe-swipe to select the third adjacent app icon. And I wait. Sometimes the wait is half a second, sometimes more.
Inside apps, selecting a program from a list of icons is similarly slow. YouTube may be the worst, but other apps show slowness too. The selection of an app might take around a second. This is aggravating, as the user thinks the pad did not register any swipe at all. So you swipe again, and suddenly the selection ring jumps two icons over rather than the intended one icon.
Oddly, using the remote while plugged into a USB charger seems to restore some speed, at least for a while. But of course using a corded remote is annoying. And a weak battery charge is not the issue, as the slowness occurs whether the battery level is at 46, 60, or 100% charge.
We routinely restart the AppleTV as a desperate attempt to avoid this problem. Each user does a restart before and after usage, and often does it while using the AppleTV. This seems to help for a short while.
The AppleTV has the latest version of tvOS, with regular updates occurring.
When originally purchased, the remote control was instantaneous.
During this Covid season, we have been wiping the remote control routinely with 70% isopropyl alcohol as recommended by Apple. This definitely makes the remote control go crazy with wrong inputs, but a restart of the AppleTV always straightens it out.
➥ Is there anything to be done about the AppleTV remote getting slower to react to touch?


texts: Find My iPhone/iPod: Does offline mean no WiFi, or can it mean asleep?

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My daughter lost her iPod. I do not believe it was stolen. She has tried the "find my iPhone" app, and it tells her the iPod is offline. She last used it about 27 hours ago.  The volume is turned off, but the iPod was not. It would likely be "asleep". Does offline mean for sure that it is away from WiFi signal, or could it means asleep?

I need to narrow down a search. It could have fallen out of her pocket on the yard - so away from WiFi (too far from the router) or it could be in her friend's house, in which case it still has WiFi. If it hasn't been used in several hours, will it be asleep such that it will not register "online" even if close enough to WiFi?


texts: BootCamp cannot partition disk please run first aid error

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I'm trying to partition my disk and install windows 10 but I keep getting this error message:

”Your disk could not be partitioned. An error occurred while partitioning the disk. Please run First Aid from within Disk Utility to check and fix the error.”

I use a macbook pro retina 15 inch late 2013 with the latest Big Sur 16 GB RAM 2,4 GHz Intel Core i7
I tired running first aid several times, didn't work. I turned off auto time machine updates, turned off file vault, tried starting in single user mode, internet recovery mode and ran some fsck_apfs and diskutil codes that I saw on some previous forum posts.
Years ago when I first bought this computer, I have installed windows xp and windows 7 with bootcamp several times without a problem but eventually removed them. After removing windows I erased my whole drive maybe couple of times. I also checked that my disk has only 1 partition right now but nothing worked.
The only 2 things I need windows for are Revit and Sims 4 (the version I bought only works on windows).
I'm not very knowledgeable about these stuff but usually I just try doing what I can find on forums and somehow make it work. This time nothing on forums solved my problem, I hope you can help me. Thanks!


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I have an iMac(27" from 2010) and while running Lion I tried to HiDPI modes that gives me 1280x720 and larger text. I did change back to 2560x1440 long before upgrading my system to Mountain Lion.

If I use the screen saver, or switch to the "select user to login" main screen, and then back to my user account, my windows are resized to fit inside a rectangle that looks like 1280x720. This behavior happened in Lion too and the upgrade didn't change that.

Any idea on how I can get rid of this behavior? I haven't found any .plist file to delete that seemed relevant.


texts: How does a family with multiple idevices and multiple laptops share music and digital movie copies?

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My wife and I both have our own laptops with our own iTunes accounts. Then we have a shared desktop. In the past, this was fine as all we had for iDevices was an iPod each.  So we just managed our own music.

Now we each have an iPhone, and we have one iPad and we are looking at getting my daughter a iPod. So we still have our own iTunes accounts, but now we are getting digital copy movies which can only be associated with one iTunes account, and as you know a iPhone or iPad can only sync with one iTunes account. However, it would be nice to have our selection of movies and be able to say, hey I want this on my iPad for now, but have the option of later not having it on the iPad, but then on my iPhone.  I want to stay legal, so I would only have the movie on one device at a time, but want to be able to move them around.

Now I know if I associate all my devices to one shared iTunes account that is easy enough to do. But what if we want to maintain separate accounts so I have all my iTunes music available on my laptop instead of our shared desktop?

Then if my only option is to have one shared iTunes accounts, can I merge our accounts so I can get all purchased music and apps from each account into one?


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I have two Macs, a MacBook Pro of 2006 and an iMac of 2012. The second one is used by my parents for work, the first one by me for studying.
The problem was that the laptop was okay but needed a format and so I did.
After the formatting it says, with the installation of the OS, that Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (last supported version for this laptop) is “At the moment not available”.
With a search on Internet, I have read that I need the installation DVD/CD (can’t find it anymore) or a bootable USB.
What I have done: I have downloaded a 10.7 Lion dmg file (don’t say that it’s piracy, I have paid the laptop!), but that it does not contains the InstallESD.dmg or SharedContent folder... Another search on the net said to me that the 10.7 Lion dmg file is the InstallESD itself (all I can say is that the file is downloaded as 10.7 Lion .dmg and after opening it is showed on the Desktop as “Mac OS X Install ESD”).
So I have prepared a USB 16GB Mac OS Journaled on my iMac of 2012 (updated to Catalina).
When I go on Disk Utility and then I click on my USB, and then I click on “Restore” and I select the InstallESD/10.7-Lion .dmg file, it starts the operation but then says:
Validating target
Validating source
Validating sizes - Operation not allowed
Impossible to complete (OSStatus error 1).

What can I do?


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My iPhone 4S keeps getting stuck on the boot logo. It has never been jailbroken. When I try to restore it in the latest version of iTunes I keep getting this:

How can I resolve this?


texts: What features in iOS 8 make a difference?

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Share your experiences on exploring iOS 8 with us..

Whether you found hidden or little-known feature of iOS 8 or can explain how a big feature makes a difference, we're looking for objective reports of how the new OS affects your workflow.

Also provide details on how to achieve that feature, and if possible, include a relevant image too (hold Home and Lock for a screenshot on your iOS device).

Please post one tip per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted in favour of the original answer on any given topic. To search answers for this question use inquestion:145371 (or inquestion:this, directly from the question page) in addition to your search terms in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page.


texts:
I accidently deleted the ~/.Trash/ folder. How I fix this?

I do not want to:

Restore files currently in the Trash can
Restore files emptied with the Trash can


texts: How to stop a YouTube process running in Chrome?

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I have many tabs open in Chrome, and when I reboot it starts opening all the previous tabs, and when they contain YouTube videos they all start playing.

How can I find which tabs are running YouTube, so that I can pause them?

In the process list, there is no trace of YouTube, since it is running inside the browser, and only the tabs related processes are visible.

After reboot, it can happen that I have a YouTube process running and no corresponding tab from which to view it (I can just hear the audio).


texts: MacBook Air 13" Mid2013 94% battery drain overnight

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Two days ago I noticed a strange battery drain so I decided to check for some solutions online. I used the sudo pmset -b tcpkeepalive 0 method and last night I charged my MacBook Air to 100% and then I closed the lid until this morning when I checked it and it showed a 6% battery charge.

This is the log that I get from the pmset -g log | grep ' Wake ' command:

2020-05-06 21:39:51 +0200 Wake Requests         [*process=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance deltaSecs=7200 wakeAt=2020-05-06 23:39:51] [process=powerd request=UserWake deltaSecs=371893 wakeAt=2020-05-11 04:58:04 info="com.apple.alarm.user-visible-Weekly Usage Report,464"]
2020-05-06 23:38:50 +0200 Wake                  Wake from Standby [CDNVA] : due to EC.PME/User Using AC (Charge:100%) 41 secs
Sleep/Wakes since boot:151   Dark Wake Count in this sleep cycle:1
2020-05-06 23:39:34 +0200 Wake Requests         [*process=powerd request=UserWake deltaSecs=364709 wakeAt=2020-05-11 04:58:04 info="com.apple.alarm.user-visible-Weekly Usage Report,464"]
2020-05-07 10:25:15 +0200 Wake                  Wake from Deep Idle [CDNVA] : due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open Using BATT (Charge:6%) 44 secs
2020-05-07 10:25:15 +0200 Kernel Client Acks    Delays to Wake notifications: [AppleIntelFramebuffer driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(385 ms)]
Sleep/Wakes since boot:152   Dark Wake Count in this sleep cycle:1
2020-05-07 10:26:16 +0200 Wake Requests         [*process=powerd request=UserWake deltaSecs=325908 wakeAt=2020-05-11 04:58:04 info="com.apple.alarm.user-visible-Weekly Usage Report,464"]
2020-05-07 10:26:19 +0200 Kernel Client Acks    Delays to Wake notifications: [com_apple_driver_AppleUSBCardReaderDriverNub driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(447 ms)]
2020-05-07 10:26:24 +0200 Wake Requests         [*process=bluetoothd request=Maintenance deltaSecs=895 wakeAt=2020-05-07 10:41:19 info="com.apple.bluetoothd-blueavengers"] [process=powerd request=UserWake deltaSecs=325899 wakeAt=2020-05-11 04:58:04 info="com.apple.alarm.user-visible-Weekly Usage Report,464"]

The only thing plugged all night into the MacBook were my headphones: is it possible that they caused this huge battery drain?

Power Nap has always been disabled. The Mac is updated to the latest macOS official release.

From pmset -g this is what I get:

Currently in use:
 standbydelaylow      10800
 standby              1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 gpuswitch            2
 powernap             0
 disksleep            10
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 sleep                1 (sleep prevented by timed)
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 hibernatemode        3
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         2
 highstandbythreshold 50
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1


texts: App for fitness videos requiring merging, trimming, changing audio and speed adjusting in Instagram videos for iPhone?

texts: I want to create sport training videos like here that requires trimming, merging and audio changing. It would also be extremely useful to change the speed in videos. How can I do them?


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Is it possible to insert GRIDLINES (not guidelines) in PowerPoint 2011? If so, how can this be done?
Edit:
I'm looking for gridlines, as outlined in this post.


texts: Does iTunes put my iTunes account information in track files when I import CD albums? I never shared any music because I prefer to buy original CDs but if someone stoles some files of mine can my account be traced back? I imported my CD collection last year.


texts: Caps lock to change input language disabled by Spotify.app

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I use caps lock to change input language, but when Spotify.app is ON caps lock behaves like normal caps lock.

Any ideas how to get def macOS functionality back? I looked through Spotify.app settings and couldn't find key mapping options.


texts: Within Photos, delete the RAW file from a "RAW+JPEG" linked pair?

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I shoot using the RAW+JPEG capture option on my non-iPhone camera.

When I import these images via Photos for Mac, the RAW+JPEG files are added to my iCloud Photos Library as a linked pair. They are given an overlay of two stacked icons, with "J" on the top.

The tooltip of the little square "J" says:

  RAW+JPEG: Jpeg is Original

I want to continue shooting and importing using this workflow:

Shoot in RAW+JPEG
Import and backup to iCloud Photo Library as RAW+JPEG
At a later date, decide to delete the RAW file

Eventually, I'll sort through my photos. I might notice that some of my RAW files are unneeded and want to keep only the JPEG version. I will do this on a case-by-case basis for each image.

At that point, how can I delete the RAW file from the RAW+JPEG linked pair?

I would prefer to do this entirely within Photos. I do not want to "re-import" the images.

Is there any way to discard an iCloud Photos Library RAW file and keep only the JPEG?


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The NTP configuration file is in the location /etc/ntp.conf. What triggers the modification of its values?
ntp.conf
server time.asia.apple.com

Everytime I awake or restart my computer, it sets to a different value.
What triggers the change of value of the NTP configuration file?


texts: Microsoft Word: copy paste doesn't work outside of application

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I have:

Microsoft Office 16.45 installed from Mac App Store.
MacOS 11.1 Big Sur

I am trying:

Copy anything from any application except Word itself
Paste inside of Word application

The problem is it doesn't work, it seems that copy/paste buffer is locked inside of application. Is there anything I am missing or is it a bug?


texts: Possible to boot Linux on MacBook Pro in screen mirroring mode vs dual screen?

texts: Looking for a “bios” toggle to tell HDMI output to mirror display vs split screen (at hardware-level vs OS-level). Not sure this exists…


texts: Issues with Screen Scaling on External Monitor

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I am using a 2011 Macbook Pro and a horrible Dell Display for some extra space. Because the resolution is horrible on the extra screen, the windows are larger then I would like and Mac OS X does not let me change the scale for it.

Is there an app of something else I could use to solve my problem?


texts: Is there a reason Finder opens separate Info window for group of files/folders I have selected?

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In most of the cases when I select couple of folders and want to get info on them, I want to know how much space do they take. I was surprised that Finder opens Info window for each selected file/folder instead of give me info on what I selected in one window.

I know that I can use Summary Info after pressing Control, but what is the use case for default behavior?


texts: Move programs and games to external storage

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I want to move some programs, games from MacBook Pro SSD to the external HDD. With Xcode it was no problem. Because Xcode was under Applications and I could copy it and create link to it.

But I have some games that are not asking about installation path. And that are installed in many different places on my SSD. For example under User->Documents etc.

If I move it simply to an external drive - it doesn't work. I think they have some internal references, maybe under config files, to each part.

I want to move - GarageBand (with all additional sounds etc.), WarThunder and World of Warships from internal to external drive.

Are there any general solutions to move the programs and games
that are not stored under Application?

Or maybe guides, articles etc.


texts: Is it possible to choose language for spell check for each individual mail?

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I commonly write mails in different languages and would like to have the spell checker function with that. Previously I have been using Thunderbird on both my macs and linux machines, but recently I have decided to give up on Thunderbird and try Mail.app instead (since Thunderbird isn't actively developed and apparently lagging behind).

In thunderbird you can have a combobox that allows you to choose a dictionary with which the software checks spelling. Is something like that possible for OS X Mail.app? I know the "Automatic detect" function but it doesn't seem to work particularly well beyond English (at least in my case).

Are there any plugins or anything like that?


texts: Why does OS X Yosemite - Disk Utility has no options for me?

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I want run a First Aid on my hard drive, but Disk Utility does not allow me to provide permission to do this.

System Information
MacBook Pro 2012(MD101)
Running Yosemite


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Is it possible to move a dashboard widget to a specific coordinate? I looked in google, and there's no specific answer to it.

I asume that there should be some plist file somewhere with the numeric coordinates of each widget that can be programatically set using automator or something.


texts: Gluing the cover of an Apple wireless keyboard

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Every one of the pins on the cover of my Apple wireless keyboard has cracked. The ones still there are holding on with an edge. Given the keyboard's age, I can't say these pins have a flimsy design. Lifting the keyboard to clean the sides of the buttons with a Q-tip is all it took for the cover to fall off.

I'm about to use super glue (it's not quite epoxy, but it's the closest to epoxy on the market) to glue the remaining pins in place. Before re-attaching, I'll wait 2-3 hours for the bond to cure to be sure I'm not gluing the cover back to the keyboard.

Have you tried this sort of thing? The easiest solution (just gluing the cover on the aluminum case) is not interesting, in case some maintenance is needed one day (plus, having replaceable batteries is kind-of a nice feature compared to sealed custom batteries). Can you suggest another solution, or confirm super glue works all right?

Please don't suggest to use scotch tape, unless you can suggest a brand that will detach cleanly, even two years from now.


texts:
I downloaded MPlayerX from the App Store and I would like to use it to play a video in loop.

Is there a way to do that?


texts: What advantages do Macs offer designers?

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I'll try to make this not be an opinion or a preference question. I am previously a PC owner and I am looking for a new computer. A school of thought around Macs being better for designers than Windows computers keeps coming up on various Internet sites.

I'm looking for some concrete technical evidence of this. Take Photoshop, for example. It runs on both systems and, looking at the Adobe web page I can't find any special features on the Mac version that aren't on the Windows, etc.

Is the idea that Macs are a better choice for designers a myth or are there concrete advantages?


texts: Headphones makes noise when i touch the jack. (MacBook)

texts: I have a MacBook Pro 13" and have plugged the iphone 5 headphone into it. When I touch the jack they make some noise, I doesn't matter how gentle I touch they always make a noise. They seem to fit tight into the jack receiver. What could the problem be?


texts: Problems with Google Calendars and iCal in Lion

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I'm not sure WHY it is so hard to get calendar syncing to work right, but it does seem to be one of the problems of our age. I thought maybe finally with iCal 5 syncing with google calendars would finally just work, but no luck.

Main issue:

Everytime I delete an event, I get the message "There was an error saving ical data. iCal encountered a critical error while saving to the database, and recent changes may be lost. More information may be available in the console."

Console tells me:

iCal: CoreData: warning: An NSManagedObjectContext delegate overrode fault handling behavior to silently substitute nil/0 for all property values for the object with ID '0x7fd8fc768b90 ' instead of throwing as recommended.

This despite the fact I can't actually display my delegate calendars in iCal (they show up in the delegates tab, but I can't click the checkbox to show any of them), so the event I am trying to delete is in the "Main" calendar.

If I delete from the google side, it disappears no problems.

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TLDR: gcal and ical won't play nice after Lion upgrade. Trouble deleting some events. Trouble adding any delegate calendars.


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The login screen to my iMac is now half black every time it starts as shown here. Once logged in, the display is fine and I can view the whole screen. :s

Any ideas why this might be and how to resolve this?


texts: Make iPhone use GPS-only location services

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The question is as simple and clear as it sounds.

When celullar data and Wi-Fi are turned off on my iPhone 6, location services work great and I get my location in a moment with a precision of 1-2 meters.

However, if I turn my celullar data on, it takes 10-15 seconds to get my location and, usually, it is pretty incorrect (+- 200 meters and it randomly moves around while I am standing at the same place). As some of my friends have the same problem, it looks like it is mobile network operator issue (Altel 4G, Kazakhstan).

Why does iPhone prefer to use cell network-based or wifi-based location services while GPS is doing good? How can I turn off cell network-based and wifi-based location services, so it uses only GPS services and doesn't work at all if GPS is not available.

Now, I have to turn my celullar data off in order to get my precise location and turn it on later. However, it makes playing some games involving both location services and celullar data impossible.


texts: I want to film myself with my iphone, when I'm drawing. The iphone is not moving, and are about 30 cm ≈ 11" above my desk. My paper is on my desk, I sometimes change paper. But when I do so, or even when my hands are moving, the camera "zooms in" on my hands, and then the drawing gets blurry for a second. That's not nice to watch. So, is there a way (or an app or jailbreak) to disable this?


texts: How to save as into a customized destination on macOS?

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When I try to saveAs a file on macOS (like in a browser such as Safari or Chrome), the only destinations I see are "devices", "favorites" or "recent places". However, how to save in a different location?
Is there a short key to go inside folders? Or what is the trick?


texts: How to install pgAdmin 4 in server/Desktop mode on Mac?

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How to install pgAdmin 4 on Mac using python wheel.
I found a help for Ubuntu https://askubuntu.com/questions/788457/how-to-install-pgadmin-4-in-server-mode-on-ubuntu-16-04 but I did n't find anything for mac.

Followed the instruction which is mentioned in the pgadmin site. But getting the following error

Thirumals-MacBook-Air:Downloads Thirumal$ python ~/pgadmin4/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

python: can't open file '/Users/Thirumal/pgadmin4/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory


texts: Use SIM card on international roaming only for voice calls (sans mobile data)

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I would like to know whether I can use my iPhone 6 with Pakistani SIM card to make and receive phone calls while roaming in UK. I would not like to consume any mobile data (for Internet/background activity).

I wish to use the SIM card solely for making and receiving phone calls. I would only like to use Internet via free Wi-Fi whenever it is available.

Is it possible to use my SIM card on international roaming on my iPhone 6 this way? I wish to minimize international roaming costs.


texts: Fill rectangle with diagonal lines (stripes) in keynote

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I want to create a rectangle in keynote which is filled with diagonal lines, like shown in the example image.

How can I do this?