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We have an older-ish network laser printer which unfortunately doesn't support Airprint (previously mentioned) and have been looking for ways to enable our family of iOS devices to print from it.

The best idea I've come up with so far is to purchase an iMac (planned anyway) and physically connect the printer to it - would the iMac then be able to act as a print server for, say, an iPad? I have used print sharing in the past but am unclear as to whether it supports iOS (although it would make sense for it to).

Thanks!


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In Gmail, I can go to a web page, highlight web content, compose a Gmail message, and paste the HTML content into the email message. It works in Mail.app as well.

But what app can I use to just paste the HTML content and then save it as an HTML file?

Microsoft Word will accept pasted HTML content, but I don't want to save as gross weird Microsoft Word HTML markup. Is there an OSX app where I can easily paste and save copied HTML content from web pages?


texts: iPad: Newly installed apps don’t show up on Home Screens

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I am on my fourth iPad - and just as many iPhones — and I have accumulated a very large number of apps. I would like the luxury of going through them one by one and deleting the ones I don’t use. But it's taking a while to get around to it. In the meantime, when I download any new apps they just never appear on my screens. I can locate them using Spotlight search, but the icons don't appear on the Home Screen.

Since I want to organize them onto my first Home Screen, I need to be able to find them to move them. I have tried restarting, hard resets — I even tried the recent suggestion on how to add another Home Screen by dragging an icon to the right to create a new page, but it won’t work. I am on an 12.9” iPad Pro running iOS 12.1.2.


texts: Folder that automatically creates aliases

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I like to save inspirational imagery in my dock. Since my Downloads folder is always a giant pile of files that I hoard and enjoy to go through every once in a while.
Now to save space in my Dock I’d have to have a folder as a stack where all those aliases to inspirational files are stored in. It would be nifty to be able to drag files into that folder and have the folder automatically create an alias of the file instead of moving it to there. That way I wouldn’t have to use shortcuts etc. and could simply drag files into there without actually moving them.

Understood? Maybe someone knows a solution. I’m guessing an AppleScript would be required. Let’s work together on this to make it happen.


texts: Are there steps for troubleshooting Time Machine on Snow Leopard that I have missed?

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I have had ongoing problems with TM since installing a new HDD in late May. The problems have been varied, and for a while all backups were taking about 2 hours. Now things have "stabilized" and backups take between 15 and 20 minutes, tending towards the latter.

TM always runs two loops according to each backup log, which creates two files each time. Assume the time is 10:35-ish a.m., and I will have one as "in progress" with a time stamp of, say, 10:25 a.m., and a "completed" with a time stamp of 10:30 a.m. That is not a typo - the "in progress" is always older than what is listed as the most recent backup. I'm out of troubleshooting ideas, including zeroing out my TM drive, losing lots of precious backups.

I have read Pondini's excellent site exhaustively, and am at my wit's end. I am about to reinstall 10.6 at this point, but would rather not.

Hardware: late 2008 MBP running 10.6.8, WD My Passport Elite 500 GB External


texts: How can I configure Lion to use PHP mail() locally?

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I'm doing web development with PHP on my mac and need to be able to use the mail command locally (on localhost). What do I have to configure to get the PHP mail() command working?

PS: On Windows I used hmail for this.

I mean how to connect PHP with mail server on my mac, i noticed when i type mail on terminal, it seems mac already come with Mail Server.


texts: I connect to the internet and randomly my proxy settings, 'web proxy' and 'secure web proxy' are checked which results in a very much slowed down connection. Each time it happens I go in and uncheck and 'apply' and after that it's good until next time I connect and it happens again. How can I stop this?


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Now that One Note as come out for Mac I was trying it out but already have a problem in that all the images I insert do not render - I get just an outline and a red cross)

Tried jpg / png
Via Copy/Paste and insert option

This is the result

Am I doing something incorrect or perhaps have some setting I could change to fix this?

Update:

Now I tried something else. I when to the online version and insert the image there. Now the app keeps crashing trying to sync.

I think it's just to soon to start using this. It's sad because the notebook/sections/pages concept is really good in my opinion


texts: Does Fantastical support viewing free/busy information from Google Calendar?

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Or said another way, can I see availability of invitees (and resources would be even better) when creating a new event in Fantastical. I don't see it in the interface anywhere and it is critical for me in scheduling meetings with coworkers.

Mac OS 10.10.5, Fantastical 2.1.5.


texts: Setup didn't migrate much from Time Machine. Should I run Migration Assistant now?

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I set up a new MacBook Air, asking it to migrate everything (or nearly everything) from a Time Machine backup on SSD of a 5-year old MacBook Air (both on Mojave).

After configuring lots of settings, I noticed that Migration Assistant didn't copy in user settings, documents, or applications after all. It did get the user name from Time Machine.

Q. Is it a good idea to run Migration Assistant now to overwrite the user account? Is Migration Assistant likely to work after silently failing the first time?

I assume it will copy in settings like WiFi credentials and discard the work of fresh settings including Touch ID.

See: How to move your content to a new Mac.


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I'm running Mountain Lion on my Retina MBP and whenever I use Quicktime to fast-forward and then return to normal speed, the audio is skipped and doesn't work properly. The only fix I found(which isn't a fix) is to reopen the file, and not fast forward.

Have you encounter this problem?


texts: Can malware skip the administrator password popup if it already knows the password on macOS

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I have two accounts on my Mac: standard and administrator. I always use the standard account and when I need to perform an action that requires the administrator rights I enter my admin credentials into the popup window.
I got curious, is it possible for a malware that was installed in my standard user scope to gain the admin rights skipping the administrator credentials popup if it already possesses the admin password and username for some reason, in other words, can it enter the administrator password in the background so the user won't notice anything?
Generally speaking, is it possible for malware to do bigger harm if it knows the administrator credentials somehow?
Thanks!


texts: Unable to start computer after using sudo crontab -e

texts: I've set it so that my Mac will forcefully shutdown at 12:00 everyday. But I try to turn it back on, it shuts down again right after.


texts: Audio level in video different between Mac players and other players

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I ripped a dvd of a family event using HandBrake, and increased the gain setting to maximum since the audio on the dvd was extremely quiet. Now when I play the resulting m4v on iTunes, Quicktime, or Mac's spacebar preview, the audio is fine, maybe a little on the quiet side. However, when I play it with VLC or import it into Audacity, Blender, or even iMovie for editing, it's far too loud, and much of it is clipped. Any ideas as to why this is?

Maybe this would be better in an a/v forum, but since the problem seems related to mac players, I thought I'd give it a try here.


texts: Mac turns off randomly and has lines on screen

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For some reason my iMac keeps turning off around 5 to 10 minutes into boot.

Also just recently it turns on but has shaded lines going down the screen. I have not installed any weird programs and i have not used it in around 3 months.

Any ideas on what the issue is, i don't have any other information about the issue besides whats happening when i use it.
 The image i'm showing you was found on google but this looks exactly like mine does.

The model of my imac is the late 2011 model.


texts: Using Multi-Output Device Freezes My Computer

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I've been trying to figure out a way to capture my Mac's desktop audio to stream it with OBS. Every tutorial tells me to use Soundflower, iShowu, Screenflick Loopback, etc, and route it through Audio MIDI Setup as a Multi-Output Device. I've tried all of the different drivers.

The problem here is whenever I enable "Multi-Output Device" as my output in the System Preferences > Sound control panel, the audio gets completely muted, and the Audio MIDI Setup application and the Sound System Preferences panel stop responding. I have to wait around 2-3 minutes to switch back to the Built-in Output. This renders Multi-Output Device useless on my computer when I have two outputs setup through the Audio MIDI Setup.
Is this a Catalina problem? There seems to be no other threads I can find with similar problems.


texts: Best practices to move macOS Mail.app storage to an external drive?

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I have a system with fairly small internal storage (500GB) so I have attached a reasonably quick external storage device (256GB) that will be constantly mounted. To free up space on the internal storage, I would like to move some data to the external can be formatted as either "MacOS Extended Journaeld"/HFS+  or APFS. The Mac itself is running macOS 10.14 "Mojave".

The simplest thing to move would be the Photos.app library as that can be done by just option-launching the program and selecting the library on the external, however the library is too large (around 300GB), and constantly growing, so that is not an option. Splitting the library into two is an option but then involves futzing with two libraries, and working with images in two libraries is not very well supported by Photos.app.

Email storage on the other hand is just the right size! However I am unsure exactly which folders are important, and the best way of providing the linkage so that everything works properly and is not frequently broken.

The following folders in the ~/Library folder seem to be Mail.app related:

~/Library/Mail
~/Library/Mail Downloads
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail

~/Library/Mail Downloads seems to be old with nothing inside it dated after 2013 - I gather that sometime in the 10.9 Mavericks era this was moved to inside ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail folder, so it can probably be ignored or even deleted after I look through it to make sure there is nothing of value inside.

So that leaves the two other folders. If I copy them to

/Volumes/external-drive/Mail-Storage/Library/Mail
/Volumes/external-drive/Mail-Storage/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail

and then make symbolic links at the expected places in the ~/Library folder will everything continue to work properly?

Would macOS aliases be preferred over Unix symbolic links? I think that if the name of the external-drive is ever changed, the symbolic links will break but macOS aliases would continue to work. The downside to an alias is that some lower-level Unix stuff does not know how to deal with the macOS alias. With that said, it looks like ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail is filled with all sorts of macOS alias files, so Mail.app does seem to be able to handle all of those.

This discussion Access to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/ denied makes me think that Mojave's "entitlements" might make it challenging to move the entire ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail folder. Perhaps I should move the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads folder instead, since it seems to contain the majority of the data in the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail folder.

So my inclination is to copy the two folders

~/Library/Mail
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads

over to

/Volumes/external-drive/Mail-Storage/Library/Mail
/Volumes/external-drive/Mail-Storage/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads

and replace the local folders in ~/Library with macOS aliases to the folders in /Volumes/external-drive/Mail-Storage/Library/.

One extra thing to do is to make sure that the alias at

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail

which normally points to the folder

~/Library/Mail

properly resolves to the folder

/Volumes/external-drive/Mail-Storage/Library/Mail

which it might not do if it is not corrected.

Is that the best way to do this? Have I missed any issues?

I guess I should encrypt the external-drive so the data is safe if someone walks off with the device using either the Finder to encrypt all the data currently on the device, or using Disk Utility.app to reformat the device with encryption - details on both are here among other places.

Thanks in advance for any insights you can offer.


texts: Why my Mac OS X Startup Disk used space is around 30 GB

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I just bought a new MacBook Air 128GB SSD. This is my first MAC. As on Windows, I want to create a separate partition for my Data. The Default partition shows around 30 GB used space. Why is it so? I suppose Mavericks takes up around 10 GB only.

Secondly, what is the recommended size for Startup disk. I will only use it for development purpose - XCode, XAMP, Qt etc.


texts: What does it mean if a USB drive takes very long to eject?

texts: On a MacBook, I dragged my USB drive to trash icon, and it took at least 5 minutes to eject. It also often takes multiple tries to eject. Does this mean it is corrupted?


texts: Shortcut to copy text to clipboard and then search it on safari?

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is there a shortcut for this:
I'm on Safari and see a term I'd like to google. Maybe an obscure term or something I want more information of (gadget, e.g.)
Now what I do is:

I copy the text
open a new tab
paste the text
and press enter.

Is there a shortcut? Like copy+search key combination?

Thanks!


texts: Change name of program associated with file "kind"

texts: Is it possible in Sierra's Finder to change the name of a program associated with a file kind? For example, when in list view, a PDF lists the file kind as Adobe PDF Document, could this be changed to simply PDF?


texts: how to have an active display but keyboard locked

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I have found much information about locking screens on MAC's but what I cant find is how to have the display continue to show whatever is on it, but to have the keyboard locked and require a password to allow the computer to be actively used, not just as a display.
This is so I can have a live status screen displayed but the laptop cant be messed with without 'unlocking'
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks...
Stewie


texts: Will the hard link file consume the same size of origin file?

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already known that the hard link is just another name for linked file.
But what upset me is that when select both the original file and the hard link file the size finder shows is doubled.
So is it just a illusion or a real case?


texts: how to set afplay as default media player for wma files in mac OS

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Hi I am using a vim plugin named eblook which turns vim console into a dictionary. The problem is that the implementation of the plugin is using a default player for WMA file to play the sound file (for example pronunciation of a certain word in the dictionary).

I would like to use afplay as the default media player in Mac so that when I use the plugin, all sound can be played without need to use iTunes or any other UI based media player (due to overhead of iTunes or any other UI based media player)


texts: Want to delete UBUNTU 18.04 LTS from MacBook Air 2017 model

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I'm completely new to using a Mac, and recently installed UBUNTU by following some YouTube videos and it worked fine. I added 50GB for the UBUNTU partition and 8GB for the SWAP partition. I now want to restore my 58 GB back to the MacOS partition and want to delete UBUNTU.

Can someone please give me a detailed step-by-step process on how to delete UBUNTU and reFInd and retrieve my MacOS back completely. Since it's a new Mac, I'm not worried about data loss and there are no important files.


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I recently set up my iTerm and have been really enjoying how smooth and functional it is out of the box. I installed the Prezto zsh pre-config and set up Powerlevel10k as my Prezto theme. I also use solarized dark with Inconsolata for Powerline and Menlo for Powerline as my font, both of which have this issue.
When I cd to my root director (cd /), I see an odd question mark box on my powerline. I also see the same box when I activate my virtualenv in a python code directory.
Below is a picture of this happening with the root directory. When I activate the virtualenv, the same thing happens but ON THE RIGHT SIDE beside an indicator with my project name that comes up when virtualenv is activated. What do the question marks mean? What is failing to display? I have no idea what is going on and would appreciate help in troubleshooting.


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I tried previous suggestion to have my MacBook to read PDFs with speech. I tried Edit -> start speaking in Preview. I also tried the regular way of of using a shortcut key preset in System Preferences for a highlighted section. Nothing happens.

I checked to make sure it reads using other documents and/or screen text.

My eyes need a break and I would like to get speech to read aloud the PDFs. What other suggestions do you have?


texts: IOS 13 Blurry low resolution photos in gallery

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Has anyone noticed that since upgrading to iOS 13 some photos are low resolution and blurry when viewing them? On my phone it seems to be about 50% of them.

If I click the edit button the images are clear and very sharp again.

Feels like it’s some sort of optimisation that’s buggy.

They are not stored on iCloud as I have 256gb iPhone XS and same happens offline.

I can’t see any settings for this. Any ideas or am I alone with this?

Thanks in Advance for any suggestions


texts: Ghost/phantom notifications and other sketchy things

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my girlfriend's phone started doing something strange recently – after Airdropping three photos from a slightly older iPad Air, the notification center has been acting strangely. Every time she opens it, an animation plays that looks like the back end of the animation of clearing all notifications – just a couple empty bubbles disappear upward. She did a hard reset, and noticed a white horizontal line on the screen appearing during the reset, which is also new.

The iPad is also acting up now, which is new. When I go to the Photos app and try to open the camera roll, it opens, scrolls automatically up to the top, then closes and goes back to the grid of albums. This happens both with an internet connection and without, and has never happened before. It also switched to the Find My iPad app on its own, which is a little freaky.

The iPad is not password-protected and hasn't been for a couple years, but the battery has been dead for at least a year – she only charged it back up yesterday and started using it today. We're concerned about malware somehow getting onto the iPad, and then from the iPad to the phone. Our wifi network is WPA2 password-protected, and as far as we know, neither of us has downloaded anything sketchy onto the phone or the iPad (or anything else). These issues haven't been happening on any of my Apple devices. Is there a chance something might have somehow gotten in? How do we fix it? Even if it's not dangerous, the notification thing is pretty annoying and I'd like to fix it for her.

Thanks in advance for the help. I used to be really good at spyware removal and such up until a few years ago, but my knowledge has atrophied since then and I'm pretty much useless now.


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The new OS X Photos App allows to hide photos. Hidden photos will only appear in the Hidden album (or in any album which you explicitly added them to).

However, the Hidden photos keep showing on the iOS Photos App. iOS detects they are hidden, but it merely hides them from the image picker controller on third party apps. They can still be viewed in the main Photos App on the All Photos section. Is there any way to hide them from All Photos as well?


texts: MacBook Pro login screen stuck keeps pressing a key into password field forever

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My MacBook Pro (mid 2014, Sierra 10.12.1) sometimes gets stuck after waking up after sleep. Some key seems to have stuck and keeps pressing into the password field forever, filling the password field and making me unable to type anything in. If I select all/delete, it refills again immediately, just like I'm pressing and holding a key on the keyboard. I've pressed all the keys as maybe OS thinks one is stuck, hoping that it will fix, but pressing all keys didn't work either. The only solution for me is to restart (and even if I press esc to sleep again, it immediately wakes up in a second as its "pressing" a key), if I close the lid, wait a minute, and open it again, it's still the same.

If I restart, I lose the work inside my apps. Usually nothing serious, but sometimes I've got apps open doing work in the background etc (e.g. batch image processing, neural net training, or any stuff that I can't save properly until the end) and they are all gone. This happens rarely, but when it happens, it causes me to lose data.

Why would this happen and how can I prevent this?


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I just bought an HP m201dw printer, and while I can print wirelessly from my desktop wired to the router, I can't use AirPrint even though it is advertised as supporting it.

When I try to print a document from my iPad, I get an error message saying, "No Printers Found."

Hardware:

HP m201dw printer, initially configured to a Windows 10 PC through USB to select wifi network, but now running wirelessly only on the main network on a dhcp-given ipv4. All default protocols enabled, including AirPrint, Bonjour and IPP. Tried enabled IPPS, disabling ipv6, switching ePrint (web services) on and off, but none of those made the printer show up in AirPrint.
Windows 10 PC connected to router on ethernet. Prints to the wireless printer just fine. No issues accessing printer config wirelessly using either HP toolbox or web browser on DCHP-given IP. Also, the Bonjour Browser utility can see printer services (screeenshot below).
iPad Air running iOS 9.3.4. Cannot see printer when connected on the main wifi network. However, I can see and print using AirPrint when connected to the printer's own wifi network when "Wireless direct" is enabled on the printer, however that's not very useful - AirPrint is supposed to be available from the main wifi network on which all devices are connected.
ASUS RT-N16 router running TomatoUSB firmware v1.28.9054. All relevant devices (PC, iPad, printer) are visible in the list of connected devices, along with their 192.168.0.1xx IP addresses.

I don't really understand how AirPrint works and what it wants. Any insights on how I can start using AirPrint from my iPad?


texts: Prevent pages form automatically linking to email addresses and urls

texts: Is there a way to prevent pages from automatically turning anything that looks like an email address or a url into a hyperlink?


texts: Macbook Pro 2015 15" Bootcamp does not allow ISO file option - requires USB

texts: I want to use Bootcamp for Windows on my 2015 Macbook Pro. After downloading the Windows ISO, however, Bootcamp is requiring a USB install instead of allowing me to choose the ISO file from on my computer. Is there any way around this?


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How to kill Google Drive File Stream process in OSX?

Using sudo kill -9 <PID>, the process appears to keep itself alive. Every time I try to kill it, the PID changes in Activity Monitor.


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It is not clear to me how the file system in iOS 8 works. Consider e.g. the Dropbox app, when I open a document in another app, what happens?

It looks to me as:

copy of the file is created
file handle to the copied file is passed to the other app
other app edits the file
other app keeps the file

A few question regarding this:

Is this how it works?
Where is the new file stored?
Does iCloud work the same way?

This seems rather messy, as I just want an app that can edit e.g. pdf documents IN Dropbox.


texts: For some unknown reason my Mac deletes permanently when I hit ⌘+⌫. Normally ⌘+⌫ is to move to Trash and ⌥+⌘+⌫ is the one to delete for good. Can't figure out how to make it work 'normal' again?


texts: Questions about permissions, specifically across machines

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I've got a couple of external HDDs and I've noticed the permissions on them are differ, which has got me wondering how a few things work.

On the hard drive that seems to be normal, it has the following permissions on machine 1 (as seen in the info panel):

myuser1 (Me) - Read & Write
staff        - Read & Write
everyone     - Read only

Now when connecting it to my second computer, the user I'm logged in as still has write permissions. When viewing the permissions again I see:

myuser2 (Me) - Read & Write
staff        - Read & Write
everyone     - Read only

1) I the reason that this second computer has R&W permissions because myuser2 is also a member of staff?

2) If so how is the staff group on one machine determined to be logically the same as a group named staff on another machine? I.e. security wise, how is this secure?

How are users and groups referenced in the file's permissions, in a way that is "secure", yet somehow works across 2 completely separate machines? Is it done by name? uid? gid (for groups)? Either way, as these aren't UUIDs, how can this be classed as secure? One could simply ensure a user is created has the same uid as is required to view a file that they're not supposed to see, and they'll have access!


texts: Recommendation for an iOS & Mac app suite with iCloud support for editing RTF files?

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I'm looking for an app suite of iOS and Mac apps for editing RTF files (originally created with TextEdit) and which allow sharing the files through iCloud.

I considered getting the WriteToGo suite of apps. This seems to do pretty much what I want. But I noticed in iTunes that these apps were released in 2013 and haven't been updated since. I'm hesitant to pour money into what seems like old apps with little developer support. So I was wondering whether someone can recommend this(*), or recommend another app suite?

There's a related question on finding an “editor for both iOS and Mac OS X designed for writers” but, as far as I can tell, the options mentioned there don't use RTF as their native file format (being able to convert from/to RTF and the app suite's native file format is not what I'm looking for).

(*) If anyone is using the WriteToGo suite, I was also wondering what the difference is between the two different Mac apps “WriteToGo knapsack” and “WriteToGo pro”?


texts: External display resolution - cursor gets lost

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I connected my new K272HUL display to my Macbook Pro Retina 15". The issue is that the resolution that the monitor displays seems to be too large (2560x1440) and my mouse gets lost in the display. My menu bar is completely hidden and I can only see a little bit of it if I hover over it.

Any clue on how I could fix this?

Thanks!


texts: What does it mean when it says enter a phone number where you can be reached it will be shown on this iPhone after it has been erased does it mean that the iPhone will text my all contacts


texts: Can you disable toolbar by default in Finder?

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In Yosemite, opening folders in a new window by default is extremely difficult.
You can press CMD as you click (not optimal) or right-click/option-click the folder to open in a new window (not optimal).

The solution that seems to work best for me is to hide the toolbar whenever I open / create a new folder, because folders inside windows that do not have a toolbar will always open in a new window.

But the toolbar always reappears whenever I create a new folder.

So, ideally, I would love to have it ALWAYS hidden by default, and on rare occasions when I need it (to look at external drives, or drag an item into the application folder for example), I would shortcut-make it appear, ta-daam.


texts: Disk Utility Partitions Wrong Part of Fusion Drive

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I have a question about my iMac 2015 Fusion Drive. I replaced my spindle with a SATA SSD 512gb drive. Here are the commands I used from an online instruction set to remake the Fusion Drive:

diskutil list

And saw that PCIE SSD was disk1, SATA SSD was disk0 so I ran:

diskutil coreStorage create Fusion /dev/disk1 /dev/disk0
diskutil coreStorage createVolume [lvgUUID] jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" 100%

Where [lvgUUID] was the unique Core Storage ID string

This worked great, I installed macOS and everything was grand except when I went into Disk Utility, I tried to make a partition, I am limited to making one the size of my tiny 24GB SSD and when I do make one under that size it uses the PCIE for the partition instead of the larger SATA drive. This is making it impossible to get Bootcamp up and running, since the Bootcamp Setup Assistant will not let me make a partition claiming I don't have enough free space.

Will it work to just switch the order of disk0 and disk1? Any thoughts greatly appreciated!

diskUtil cs list output:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 7D87AFDD-C64A-4AC2-B8E4-6C098F67A384
    =========================================================
    Name:         FUSE
    Status:       Online
    Size:         534804156416 B (534.8 GB)
    Free Space:   176128 B (176.1 KB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 9A2B9DD4-3C79-46C2-BB4F-886B5A6B9C73
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     23037939712 B (23.0 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 3BE6757D-AE99-4C70-A0B3-CC16725BA627
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     511766216704 B (511.8 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 8AB4FCEE-8DDF-487E-A9B9-F351BE591D2E
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 45E7132B-2676-450E-85D6-636EA3DFDC4F
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          526809563136 B (526.8 GB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse

diskUtil list output:

Charles-iMac:~ tinyhouse$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage FUSE                    511.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         24.0 GB    disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage FUSE                    23.0 GB    disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Macintosh HD           +526.8 GB   disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2
                                 45E7132B-2676-450E-85D6-636EA3DFDC4F
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive


texts: How to make a safari webpage portrait mode while keeping the iPad landscape mode?

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The title is a little weird and complex, so here is an example.

That was photoshopped, but is there a way to make that actually possible in an iPad? Trying to make the webpage portrait mode, and the iPad is still in landscape mode? Anything helps!


texts: I want to play my guitar via iRig through my computer with my iPhone 4. The earphones are uncomfortable, and the wires keep tangling with the guitar. I've connected my iPhone to the computer, but what do I do now?


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I am having performance issues with my 2009 20" iMac. The wifi signal is not what it used to be, meaning the signal never dropped or loaded blank pages. Have tried Google Chrome and Firefox but both exhibit slow loading pages. I
was wondering if anyone knew of an upgrade for the airport card?


texts: Macbook Pro running Mojave dropping bluetooth devices

texts: I'm having a strange bluetooth problem: my mid 2015 MB Pro connects to my bluetooth magic mouse and keyboard fine. After a few minutes of use, both disconnect (I get the "connection lost" icon for both mouse and keyboard). About 10 seconds later, both reconnect. This entire cycle happens every few minutes. I've looked all over for help but haven't found the same problem. Could this be interference? I've tried all the usual bluetooth debugging but can't work out what's happening. Any help much appreciated!


texts: macOS Safari not playing Facebook videos in HD

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I have uploaded a few videos to my personal Facebook page.

They are all 2720 x 1530, H.264, AAC

After the upload, if I try to play them in Safari the HD icon is disabled and I can't switch the HD on, so they would always play in SD. However, if I play the same video in Chrome, Firefox etc.. it plays normally in HD.

What is going on here?


texts: I have an iPhone 4s 16 GB. I realized my photos took up a lot of space so I put most of them on my USB drive. I only kept 94 of them on my phone. But they still take up 463 MB of data. I looked at each photo on my laptop and they all took up between 100 and 600 KB each. There's ONE photo that takes up 3 MB but that's it. The rest are only a few hundred KB. I tried using that Phonecleaner thing and it did nothing. Also restarting my phone. Plus I have nothing saved to icloud or any shared photos or anything synced from my computer (I've never even signed into iCloud. EVER.). Just my normal album. 94 photos. Is there a reason why it's taking up so much storage space with so little photos?


texts: How do I do a clean install of Yosemite?

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I'd like to start from scratch with Yosemite. I have Mavericks running on my iMac now but I'd like to just wipe the system and start with a clean Yosemite install.

How do I do a clean install of Yosemite on my machine, not an upgrade install?


texts: a PDF reader which can read notes on PDF

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I am looking for a PDF reader on iPhone which can read notes on PDF.

I tried Adobe Reader(see below), which does not work in this way.


texts: iPad memory used if far higher than sum of all App's memory usage

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I've got two iPad Air, one 64GB the other 16GB. Both on iOS 7.1.2.

On my 64GB iPad, the sum of memory used by all Apps very closely matches the memory used figure above the list of Apps (40.3GB vs. 41.2GB). On the 16GB iPad, the sum of memory used by all Apps amounts to ~720MB but memory used is reported as 7GB.

How do I find out what is using the ~6GB? It can't be iOS itself, is it? I guess, I would expect to see a ~6GB difference between the numbers on the 64GB iPad, too, if it was iOS.


texts: Macbook AIr Running OS X Catalina - suddenly started installing / boot loop?

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My wife got a new Macbook Air (rose gold) a few months ago and when she opened it up this morning and tried to log in, the computer suddenly went black, to apple logo, and then the progress bar. Then it went black again. She hit start (wasnt sure what else to do) and we see black screen, apple logo, progress bar, saying 43 minutes remaining (as tho it were installing something). Then the screen goes black (I think it was screen saving) and we see the login screen. We log in, and we are back to the progress bar with less time remaining. When it "finishes" things seemed to go back to normal.

What the heck is going on here? The computer worked fine last night though we had to reset the password (Zoom wanted to reinstall/update something, and we ran into problems giving it permissions, so we just reset the password on the computer, and everything seemed to work)

So we close the computer last night, open it this AM, and we get this weirdness.

Apple OS X Catalina seems to do this a lot. Random restarts, or SMC problems, or whatever. It's just about the buggiest upgrade ever.


texts: How to batch download and process camera roll

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My camera roll is taking up way too much space on my iPhone, but I like having all my pictures.

Every time I connect my iPhone to my computer, I would like to download/save new photos on my Mac, batch downsize the images to something much smaller and then append them to an album.

How can I do this?


texts: Connect a Thunderbolt display and a DisplayPort display to the same MacBook Pro

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I'm trying to connect the old generation LG UltraFine 4k Display (USB-C DisplayPort) and the old generation LG UltraFine 5k Display (USB-C Thunderbolt) to a 13" MacBook Pro from 2019 (with 4 Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports).

Here's what works:

If I connect just the 5K display through its Thunderbolt USB-C cable, it works fine.
If I connect just the 4K display through its DisplayPort USB-C cable, it works fine.

Here's what doesn't work:

I can't seem to daisy-chain the 4K display of the 5K display as there's no incoming DisplayPort/Thunderbolt port on the 5K display.
If I connect both displays to the MacBook using two different ports, it just registers and uses the one I plugged in first.

I suspect that the Mac somehow either can't handle or don't understand running both Thunderbolt and DisplayPort at the same time - but maybe it's a configuration issue? I haven't been able to find anything online about this.


texts: Booting a Mac clone from a partition on a usb 3 external drive

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I'm unable to boot a MacBook clone from a partition on an external drive.

I'm in the process of finally upgrading the OS of my mid-2012 MacBook Pro from Yosemite to Catalina, and need to make a bootable clone backup of my Yosemite machine.

Using this youtube vid as a guide, I followed this process:

repaired + verified the MacBook HD  with First Aid in Disk Utility and ran an Apple Hardware Test. Everything a-ok.
I created 550 GB, OS-extended journaled, partition on a Seagate external HD with a GUID partition map scheme to house a clone of my MacBook's internal HD (~500GB)
Holding cmd+R, I started my MacBook in Recovery Mode
In Disk Utility  I selected the 550GB partition from the left-side menu, then Restore... from the Edit menu
In the "Would you like to restore to '550GBpartitionName' ?" dialog,  I selected my internal Mac HD in the "Restore from:" dropdown menu, then clicked the "Restore" button.
After a long time, what appeared to be a clone of my internal HD (both had the same name) appeared in the partition of the external drive.
I restarted, now on internal HD, and in System Preferences>Startup Disk I selected the external disk partition (the only other option besides the internal HD itself) from the list. Despite this, upon restart, the Macbook booted again on the internal HD.
When I restart and hold down the option key, opening Boot Manager, the internal Mac HD is the only startup disk option available :-/

thanks for any help!


texts: Mojave + USB ethernet adapter. kext wrong headers? Lib declarations?

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Following this question it should be possible to install a .kext for either of my USB adapters.
However, after disabling SPI and fixing file permissions in the kext directory, kextload fails and kextutil informs me that the various drivers are all built against the wrong headers. But I'm running Majave 10.4 and the driver from ASIX is listed as compatible on the download page. I've tried the other kext linked in the question above too.

Notably, I also can't use the pkg installer for the ASIX driver.

MacBook-Pro:Downloads user$ sudo kextutil AX88179_178A.kext
Disabling KextAudit: SIP is off
(kernel) kxld[com.asix.driver.ax88179-178a]: The super class vtable '__ZTV20IOEthernetController' for vtable '__ZTV7AX88179' is out of date. Make sure your kext has been built against the correct headers.
(kernel) Can't load kext com.asix.driver.ax88179-178a - link failed.
(kernel) Failed to load executable for kext com.asix.driver.ax88179-178a.
(kernel) Kext com.asix.driver.ax88179-178a failed to load (0xdc008016).
(kernel) Failed to load kext com.asix.driver.ax88179-178a (error 0xdc008016).
Failed to load /Users/user/Downloads/AX88179_178A.kext - (libkern/kext) link error.
Check library declarations for your kext with kextlibs(8).

edit:
I believe that the driver just isn't compatible with Mojave but I'd really like someone to confirm this for me please. I think the dev made the mistake of selecting the o/s version XX.XX and above but didn't actually use the older version of Xcode to build it.


texts: iPhone is not discovering available devices in Bluetooth settings in iOS9

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I have the following devices with me:
iPhone 6 (iOS 9.2),iPhone 6 Plus (iOS 9.2),iPhone 6s (iOS 9.2), iPhone  5c (iOS 9.0.2), iPod Touch (iOS 8.3), iPhone 6 (iOS 8.4.1), and MacBook Pro(OS X El Capitan 10.11.1).

I have turned on Bluetooth in all devices(including MacBook Pro) in parallel, none of them are showing the other devices except iPod Touch (iOS 8.3) is showing MacBook Pro and MacBook Pro is showing all other devices.

I expected every device should display all other devices in the bluetooth section in the following picture. It's not working for some reason, but it's showing some other unknown device.

Is it the expected behaviour of the iOS devices in the latest iOS versions? or Am I missing something? or Is it a bug in iOS9?.
I reset the settings in the all devices, rebooted and turned on & off bluetooth multiple times, but I found no result.

Is anyone facing the same scenario?
How it is working in your devices?
Please share your experience and thoughts.
Thanks.


texts: cl date function working differently in Intel and M1 machines

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I have a shell script to calculate the number of days from a particular date:
echo D$((($(date +%s)-$(date +%s --date "2018-01-01"))/(3600*24)))

On my 2019 MBP (Intel), it works. On my 2020 Mac mini (M1), it doesn't.
The error:
date: illegal time format
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
/usr/local/bin/days: line 1: (1614815225-)/(3600*24): syntax error: operand expected (error token is ")/(3600*24)")

The man pages are different. On the MBP it's
DATE(1) User Commands DATE(1)

On the Mac mini it's
DATE(1)  BSD General Commands Manual  DATE(1)

What's going on here?
How do I get back the old functionality?


texts: How to disable iMessage on a broken iPhone?

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How can I disable iMessage for a phone number if the iPhone it's attached to has been destroyed? My sister dropped her iPhone in the bath, so she is now using an older non-Apple phone. Whenever I send her a message, it gets sent as an iMessage (and even says "Delivered"), but her device never receives the message.

The only information I could find was this Apple knowledge base article which states the following:

  If you plan on transferring your SIM card or phone number from an iPhone to a device that does not support iMessage, turn off iMessage in Settings > Messages first. If you do not, other iOS devices may continue to try to send a message using iMessage first, instead only using SMS or MMS.

However, since this iPhone was destroyed, we can't get into the settings to unregister her phone number.


texts: Transfer Live Photos to another folder on Macbook

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I am able to upload Live Photos from my iPhone to Macbook. I am able to view the Live Photos within Photos.app. However, when I transfer a Live Photo from 'Photos Library.photoslibrary' to another location only a still .jpg is saved.

How can I transfer Live Photos to other locations on my Macbook - keeping them Live?


texts:
All,

I have Gmail and I'm currently using the Sparrow application, but I wanted to see if Mail.app was able to handle what I need.

1) Archive AND delete functionality side by side. - Yes, I archive some things I want to search later and delete other things. Last time I checked, it was only one or the other.

2) Labels

Basically, (almost) everything that is available in the web interface.


texts: I set the red tag for the folder ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData but if I search all files or folders with the red tag, this doesn't show up.


texts: Where are my photos in this 60GB iPhoto Library folder?

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HELP!!

59.4GB "iPhoto Library" folder only contains a few folders (see attached screen shots), none of which seem to contain any original photos or even any image files?

The "Versions" folder was my best bet but it doesn't actually contain any images. None of these folders do.

Can't seem to find any information through Google on whether my photos are somewhere within this supposed Database folder and the folders within it. Not sure why it is 60GB if it doesn't contain any hefty files, just a bunch of system files or whatever.

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.


texts: What causes "Removing unsupported user-only MDM profile"

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I have a macOS 11.2.3 device enrolled in an MDM using Automated Device Enrollment. Besides the MDM's enrollment profile, 3 other configuration profiles are sent to the machine: One is used to connect to the WiFi network, one binds to an Active Directory domain and the last allows fast user switching. All profiles have PayloadScope set as System.
Occasionally when logging in as an Active Directory user all profiles apart from the MDM enrollment profile are removed from the machine. This prevents the machine connecting to the WiFi network and requires local access to fix.
I have tested with multiple MDMs and have had the exact same issue. I have confirmed the MDM does not send any commands to remove the profiles. The profiles have PayloadRemovalDisallowed set as true, so it shouldn't be possible to remove them - even as root. I have also had the configuration profiles looked over by multiple people who weren't able to find any problems.
The logs from mdmclient show Removing unsupported user-only MDM profile when the profiles are deleted, followed by Removing obsolete profile installed by MDM for every profile installed by the MDM:
Removing unsupported user-only MDM profile: MDM Enrolment Profile
[ERROR] Attempt to remove non-removable profile: MDM Enrolment Profile
[ERROR] Removing unsupported user-only MDM profile failed: Error Domain=CPFAccess Code=101 "Profile is not removable."
Removing obsolete profile installed by MDM: WiFi
Removed configuration profile: WiFi
Removing obsolete profile installed by MDM: Domain
Removed configuration profile: Domain
Removing obsolete profile installed by MDM: FastUserSwitching
Removed configuration profile: FastUserSwitching

I haven't been able to determine what causes the profiles to be removed. It appears to occasionally happen when logged in as an Active Directory user.
I've tested for several hours on Catalina and haven't been able to reproduce the problem. I've decompiled the Catalina version of mdmclient and couldn't find any reference to some of the errors which are logged, so it's possible the issue is specific to Big Sur. The issue occurs on both Big Sur 11.1 and 11.2.3.
I haven't found any documentation on what causes these errors and Apple is unwilling to help as I don't have AppleCare OS Support.


texts: Is a downloaded OS X installer from the App Store tied to my Apple ID?

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At work I use an iMac which I'm going to have to reset to factory settings after my job ends. Since I only have access to slow, unstable internet, I thought it might save some time to download the El Capitan installer from the App Store in advance and create a bootable installer drive, rather than using internet recovery.

After I (erase the drive and) use the bootable installer to reinstall the operating system, will the resulting installation be associated with my Apple ID in any way? Or more generally, will it have any personal information associated with me? I'd like to leave a completely fresh, un-personalized installation of OS X for whoever is going to use the computer next.


texts: MacBook Air - Upgrading from Mac OS X Lion to macOS Sierra

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I have a MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I wish to upgrade it to macOS Sierra, but it requires at-least OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 which is not available anymore in the App Store.

Is there any other way to update the OS?


texts: When shaking my MacBook I hear a strange sound, like a wobble

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I recently bought a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).

When I shake it vertically, some slow sounds come from it and it sounds like something wobbles in it.

Is this normal?


texts: App gets in commandline parameter "-psn_0_nnnnnn", why

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I installed an app which is compatible with OSX 10.10, on 10.8 app shows warning about incorrect parameter:

-psn_0_176171

Why app shows this? it is installed from Dmg file, it's .app file - on desktop.


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I am on Mavericks and have my facebook account set up correctly as i get notifications for new comments and messages but for some reason the calendar app wont get my facebook events.

I am presented with "Enter the password for “my@email.com” in System Preferences.

My password is right as the other notifications work and everything seems to work on my iphone.

Any idea how to fix this?


texts: Force the resolution on a headless mac mini server

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I have a Mac Mini server running Mavericks.  It has no monitor connected.  I use Remote Desktop on my laptop (also running Mavericks) for I/O to my server.

When I use Remote Desktop and go Full Screen I get a 1280x1024 screen sitting in my 1680x1050 screen.  Is there any way to force the client (Mac Mini) to use a setting of 1680x1050 so I get a real full screen?

I tried holding down the option key while clicking on Scaled in Display -> System preferences.  All I see is a new button in the bottom right that says detect displays.  Clicking on it does nothing.  The only resolution shown is 1280x1024.

My Mac Mini Server is a late 2009 with an Nvidia GeForce 9400 graphics card.


texts: How to know if (and when) a shutdown occurred due to power outage

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I have a Mac in a remote location that operates as a server.

It's configured (from Energy Management) to automatically power up in case of blackout as the power comes back.

How can I tell if a power outage has happened (and the mac self-restarted later) and when ?

I guess I can inspect the console, but what should I search for?


texts: macOS sierra 10.12 screen captures - how to edit system files?

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Is there a possibility to edit the following files in macOS 10.12 Sierra:

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/ScreenCapture.strings

and

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist

I want to change the following things of the Screenshot-Files:

Filename
Location
Date and time Format in file name (no, that could NOT be done via System Preferences!)

Previous naming scheme: Screenshot 20161004_162222.png

Naming scheme now: Screenshot 2017-08-07 um 17.02.08.png

I want to revert to the previous scheme.

My problem is, that I can edit both files, but only on the second I can also save them.
BatChmod nor chmod in terminal can change permissions on first file

ls -la /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/ScreenCapture.strings
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1390 Feb  2  2017 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/ScreenCapture.strings

sudo chmod 777 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/ScreenCapture.strings
Password: ***
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/ScreenCapture.strings: Operation not permitted


texts: Show attachments as icon by default in Mail OS X El Capitan

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I would like not to show attachments previews in the app "Mail" in OS X El Capitan, but just show icons.
Following the guides, I have tried this command in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

but is seems that, for El Capitan, this doesn't work properly, since in the Inbox folder, attachments aren't shown as icons.

Any suggestions?


texts: iPod Classic 160GB deletes all files and isn't recognized on PC

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I purchased a 160 GB iPod Classic last year. Regularly throughout the year I found that the iPod would often freeze and need to be reset every time it was plugged into my computer. Formerly an Asus running Windows 7 but more recently a Lenovo G780 running Windows 8.

Last night after syncing music to my iPod (roughly 86 GB of the 160 are used), I ejected it from my computer. The iPod started to reset itself, which I figured wasn't too different as it still needed to be reset before syncing every time. This time however it brought me to the Language selection screen, once picking English the date said December 2000 and all of my files were gone. Luckily everything is backed up on my computer, however once plugging in (didn't need to reset this time) it connected without showing up in Windows or iTunes. Everytime I disconnect it resets itself and takes me back to the Language selection screen again.

When I try to open any files related to the iPod (My Computers, iTunes, etc.) the program on my computer freezes as well I'm noticing today.

Any idea how I can get the iPod even to restore it to factory settings?

EDIT
I was able to get into diagnostics mode, but don't know what these numbers mean:

Retracts: 9
Reallocs: 32
Pending Sectors: 136
PowerOn Hours: 249
Start/Stops: 22492
Temp: Current 32c
Temp: Min 57c
Temp: Max 241c


texts: Is there a way to make Dictation the default type-in method instead of the Keyboard (iPhone)?

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Each time we want to use the dictation option (on an iPhone at least), we need to click on the microphone button on the keyboard

Is there a way to automatically use dictation when we want to type-in something ? In other words, make it the default type-in option. Needing to click on the microphone each time is really annoying, that's why I'm asking.

Thanks for your support !


texts: High Sierra user trying to set up a new user for Rails, without interfacing w/ previous users

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I'm getting this error when I'm trying to use Rails. It seems there are problems with using local files.

pasting below to show the versions of ruby and rails

~ $ ruby -v
ruby 2.4.2p198 (2017-09-14 revision 59899) [x86_64-darwin17]
~ $ rails -v
Rails 5.1.4

pasting the common error when trying to use rails or ruby

~ $ gem uninstall rails
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0 directory.


texts: Is cron command supposed to work like this?

texts: I've set up cron to run a script hourly but when I reboot cron does not work. Does this mean that I should run cron whenever I boot into my Mac? The cron command which I use cron 5 * * * * path/to/script.sh. Is there any problem with cron or I this kind of behaviour expected?


texts: Can I transfer 100 PDFs files from Windows to Acrobat Reader on iPad without going through iTunes?

texts: Can I transfer 100 PDFs files from Windows to Acrobat Reader on iPad without going through iTunes or transferring the file one by one?


texts: Can I run Yosemite after I install the Mojave firmware updates?

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I'm very hesitantly getting ready to "upgrade" from Yosemite to Mojave because I worry that it will break things I still need. So to give it a try I've decided to install Mojave on an external drive first.

Before I do that, I need to know if I can run my current Yosemite installation after I let the Mojave installer update the firmware. If I install Mojave on an external drive and suddenly can't boot my current Yosemite setup, I'll be hosed!

Can anyone confirm the firmware updates won't break Yosemite?


texts: Mac OS not appearing on option boot after installing Ubuntu on separate partition

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I'm a beginner at Linux OS's and thought I'd start learning. To do so I decided to install Ubuntu on a partition on my late 2013 15" mbpr, currently running mac os 10.13.

I followed this guide:

https://www.lifewire.com/dual-boot-linux-and-mac-os-4125733

and all was well until I realized I needed 16.04 not 17.10 (for ROS). In an attempt to re-install ubuntu I erased the partition I made for Ubuntu, but already at this stage the disk manager was showing strange things. The Ubuntu partition was grayed out, and when I removed that partition, my Macintosh HD partition ended up as an external drive.

I thought this could be solved by a reboot, but upon booting a broken GRUB interface turned up (I have rEFind installed as mentioned in the tutorial). I managed to re-install Ubuntu using the USB-stick I had prepared prior to my reboot but I can't seem to get access to my mac OS partition. To clarify, this was not an issue prior to fiddling around in the disk manager.

What I have tried so far:

Booting using the option key: Shows "Windows" (not bootable) and "Boot EFI" (Ubuntu).
Resetting NVRAM: No change.

I'm thinking I need to mount my mac OS partition again somehow.

My partitions look like this:

Device         Start        End    Sectors    Size  Type
/dev/sda1         40     409639     409600    200M  EFI System
/dev/sda2     409640  764763055  764353416  364,5G  unknown
/dev/sda3  976842880  977105023     262144    128M  unknown
/dev/sda4  764764160  976842751  212078592  101,1G  Linux filesystem

where sda2 is my mac os partition.

Any suggestions? I'd very much like to avoid formatting the mac OS partition without gaining access to the documents on it first.

Regards,
Cressell


texts: When I type my email and password and then click the login button, after a few seconds I am returned to the login button and not logged in. Please help ASAP.


texts: macOS Big Sur creates duplicate versions of files

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Several times in a day, I notice duplicate versions of my files being created. Refer to the screenshot - empty.html.erb was duplicated, and a new empty.html 2.erb was created.
What is causing this, and how can I stop this?

I feel like this might have something to do with TimeMachine and backups, since it only started after I enabled backups to iCloud and moved my files from ~ to ~/Documents/


texts: iOS Mail Turns off SMTP Server if two or more are listed

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iPad iOS version 11.2 (latest update).
Two different email accounts on this device.  We use third party SMTP providers (mailgun/sendgrid) for email deliverability/trackability stats.  Each address should have its own SMTP credentials.  Am able to successfully set up SMTP for each address.

However, here's the problem:  Set up the first address SMTP, set to primary server (on).  Then, go to second email address SMTP, set up, when this is set to primary for that address, the first email SMTP is turned off.  Reversing the process produces the same result.

Even if no primary is designated for each of the addresses, and setting a alternative STMP ON to a corresponding email, the behavior still occurs.

SMTP accounts with identical credentials have been tested and working on Linux, Windows Outlook and Android with no problems.

Any workaround for this?  SMTP manager app?  Other ideas?


texts: How to install command line tools without error that is not currently available on Software Update server?

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I am using maverick, and have Xcode 5.0.2.

I am trying to install command line tools using xcode-select --install, but I get message that is not currently available on Software Update server.

What may be wrong?


texts: Macbook Pro - bottom part of the screen partly mirrors the top

texts:
Making the computer sleep will remove this symptom for a while.
Tried disabling hardware acceleration (GPU) via setting or gSwitch, resetting SMC and PRAM/NVRAM, and rebooting. Apple diagnostics has not been identifying any issues.


texts: Script to make the x red button kill the app

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Quick background: new mac, long time windows user; not scared by linux and scripts.

I am currently using RedQuits to make the x red button quit de app, not just close the window.

It is a great program, but has one small problem (for me): one can not select which apps should maintain the default behavior (x close the window, not the app).

So i found a very old (2006) app called Stoplight that does exactly what i want: select which programs should not be affected.

Unfortunately, Stoplight does not work anymore.

So, i tried to see what the script does (it's a .bundle), but looks like it's compiled.

To the questions:

is there a way to decompile the script, so i can make it work again?
if not, anyone have an idea about how to make a whitelist of apps that should not be closed by RedQuits?
again, if not, where should i start to build my own script to intercept the signal that closes the windows and make it kill the app?
any other hints are appreciated.

Thanks.


texts: iPhone: Set recurring reminder to get off an app

texts: Instagram has become a major distraction for me. I will spend hours upon hours mindlessly scrolling, allowing what little time I could have spent doing things I enjoy to slip away. I don't want to delete the app since I sometimes use it to message people. Is there a way, perhaps using Shortcuts, to check if I'm on Instagram, if so, set a reminder (e.g. "Get off!") to pop up every 10 minutes, and once I'm off, delete the reminder?


texts: Restore Macbook 2009 backup from Timemachine

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How do I restore the latest backup from the Time Machine and get all the data/desktop - in fact all the files including the OS Yosemite?

Genius support installed a new battery so working off a clean install. The automated Restore from Time Machine / Macbook only installed basic version and not the applications such as MS office or any document files.


texts: Who sets the BROWSER environment variable in macOS?

texts:
I noticed I have BROWSER set to open in my environment variables, but I can't figure out where it gets set by the system.

When I run env I get this output:

USER=xxx
PATH=xxx
LOGNAME=xxx
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=xxx
HOME=xxx
SHELL=xxx
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=xxxx
TMPDIR=xxx
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=xxx
XPC_FLAGS=xxx
BROWSER=open
EDITOR=nano
[...]

It doesn't seem like something on my user configuration, is it standard to have BROWSER=open in macOS (10.15.3)? Where can I find the configuration file that sets it?


texts: Google Exchange service and missing calendar events

texts:
I have my iTouch (4th generation, up to date) syncing with Google's Exchange service, and mostly it works fine.  The problem is that some of my calendar events just seem to disappear, sometimes eventually coming back if they're events that are set to recur.

I have found no rhyme or reason to which events refuse to sync or when, but this is a problem I need to resolve somehow.

I do have several calendars syncing through the Exchange service, but I'm not missing entire calendars, just some events from various calendars, including my main (default) calendar.

Edit: My bounty expired without a solution, and I can't really place another. Please, someone help me. I'm desperate for a solution!


texts: Listing in Terminal the last mounted volume

texts:
Attach(1)ing different copies of the same dmg file create in /Volumes folders representing each image. Let the first image be called Image; the subsequents will receive an incrementing number in their tail, e.g. Image 1, Image 2 and so on.

However, detaching Image 1 and then attaching another instance will recycle the the numerical id, so that my last image will actually be Image 1.

This means that I cannot rely on ls(1)'s output (by default sorted lexicographically) to determine the last mounted image. I don't seem to have more success with ls -U or diskutil's output either.

I may very well be missing something. Is there any way to reliably determine in bash the latest mounted image? Thank you.


texts: Delete Photos from my MacBook, not iCloud

texts:
I have a MacBook air 2013. It has a 128GB M.2 SSD with 16GB of photos.

I'm trying to delete only the photos from my device.
I want all the photos to stay on ICloud but be gone from my MacBook


texts: After I have enabled FileVault the computer won't boot anymore at the scheduled time. Is it normal or has something gone wrong? If it is normal, are there any workarounds?


texts: Can the M1 MBP drive a 4K display at 60Hz when not in clamshell mode?

texts:
I have an M1 MBP. I connect it to my external display (DELL S2721QS) using a HyperDrive Viper hub.
When my MBP is in clamshell mode, the external display works at 4K 60Hz resolution. When the MBP is open, the external display only works at 4K 30Hz.
My hub and HDMI cable are both capable of 60Hz, as shown by the fact that it works when in clamshell mode. Does anyone know if the M1 MBP is capable of driving a 4K display at 60Hz when the laptop is open?


texts: Does "reset network settings" on iPhone enable me to change mobile carriers?

texts: Say, for example, if I have the iPhone 4S, and I select "reset network settings" in "General", would that enable me to change mobile carriers from AT&T to T-mobile?


texts: Can I use iPhone 4 3G services outside of my native country?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4, bought at my home country and I have a data plan with a local telco carrier. My phone has never being unlocked. See, I am such a nice citizen in Apple's walled, seclusive and closed Kingdom!

Now, I want to travel overseas and I am prepared to get a local sim card with 3G data plan wherever I go. My question is, can I use iPhone 4 with 3G services? What should I do to do so? Do I have to unlock my phone first? Will that render my warranty invalid?


texts: How to open a fixed URL + what's in the clipboard via a script & bind it to a shortcut?

texts:
Will this applescript work?

Tell Application "Safari" to open location
"http://www.site.com/"
end tell

Tell Process "Safari"
   Keystroke "l" using command down

Tell application "System Events" to key code
124 using command down

Tell Process "Safari"
   Keystroke "v" using command down
   Keystroke return
end tell


texts: I have setup a bunch of saved searched via spotlight.  Is there a way that I can access them from command line?  Ideally I'd like to do an "ls -l [my search name]" but that doesn't really work.


texts:
When I connect my macbook air (2012 early I think) to a DELL U24-something display through a DVI the colors on the display are really weired: it is like all the colors are really desaturated and low-contrast and some selected colors are very saturated and strong.

I tried changing color profile but then it only got worse.. when I have a Windows PC connected the colors look great.


texts: How to read .awz ebooks on Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8)?

texts:
How to read .awz ebooks (Kindle format) on Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8)?

Can it be converted to PDF with hyperlinks properly supported?


texts: How to find the "configure" shell script in MacOS Catalina?

texts:
In order to compile Grace-5.1.25 I need to run configure first.
But configure does not seem to exist. In earlier versions of MacOS I used configure several times.
Does anyone know where I can obtain configure ?


texts:
I noticed it is common for programming languages to utilize /etc/localtime when determining the current time to display for a user. In particular, I know that Ruby relies on /etc/localtime if the "TZ" environment variable is not set. I am able to read the contents of this binary like so:

$ zdump /etc/localtime
/etc/localtime  Sun Aug 12 16:53:50 2018 EDT

It seems, therefore, the time used by programming languages is Eastern Time North America. It makes sense, I am in the East Coast of the US. However, how can I change this file to UTC so that the programming language and software on my computer uses UTC rather than EDT time?


texts: A process called "accountsd" has over 200% of CPU usage - MacBook Air 2020

texts:
Apparently for no reason this process takes a lot of cpu resources and makes my mac unusable(battery drops, overheating and performance drops).
I upgraded the operating system to the latest version but that didn't help.
Would anyone know how to solve? Thank you.


texts: Best way to transfer iphone contacts away from Exchange server

texts:
The primary location for my contacts currently is with my company's Exchange server. I've sync'd with this since I got my first iPhone 3G in 2008. This is my last week with this company and I need to start using my contacts elsewhere.

I've exported a copy of my contacts using the OS X Addresses app as a backup.

Options that I can think of are:

Starting to use my iCloud account (which I've never done before)
Transfer to my gmail account -- but that'd get mixed in with a huge mess of less useful contacts
Simply copy to use locally without an external syn. Is this possible? easy?

Are there other strategies that I should consider?


texts: Can't find "Download and keep originals"

texts:
I want to download the photos from my iCloud to my iPhone se, iOS 10.

This is the message I got from apple:

"To download your photos and videos to an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iOS 8 or later:
1. Connect to a power source and Wi-Fi.
2.  Go to settings, tap on your account, tap iCloud and then select Photos.
3.  Tap Download and Keep Originals."

I don't have the option "Download and keep originals".

What to do?


texts: What's wrong with the Weather widget on OS X 10.10 Yosemite?

texts: I have a little problem with the Weather widget in Notification Center in Yosemite. It appears to be missing some of the info from the server.


texts: iPad 2 battery is not draining completely

texts:
Over the last couple of days, I found that my iPad - whilst functioning as expected in all ways - is not able to discharge beyond 14%; it would simply turn off as if I had drained the battery down to zero. I've been using this iPad for almost two months now and it is only in the last couple of days that it has started behaving in this way.

I can think of several reasons for this:

The battery indicator is out of whack (14% actually means 0%) and needs to be calibrated. If so, how do I do this?
There is something physically wrong with the battery such that the charge beyond ~14% is unusable.

I found someone with a similar problem here but there is no resolution reported.

When I recharge the iPad, it is able to charge back up to 100% but would subsequently drain down to 14% as before.

Does anyone know what's the best thing to do in this case?


texts: How to jump to album in iOS 8.4 Music app?

texts:
I've updated to iOS 8.4, and on the revamped Music app, I can't jump to artist. In previous versions, I could be playing a shuffle playlist and whenever I'm on some song and I wanted to keep playing from that album, I could simply tap the top right button and it would jump me to the currently playing song's album. Now, when I'm playing a song in a shuffle playlist, I see that button has been placed next to seek controls (previous, play/pause, next buttons), but when I tap that, it doesn't take me to the album anymore, it takes me to playlist.

How can I jump to album when playing a song from shuffle? It was a feature that I was using passively, but now I can't find it and I'm having quite hard time jumping to song's album, which I did a lot.


texts: Is there a dashboard widget for Microsoft Outlook/Exchange calendar?

texts: Does there exist a dashboard widget which displays my Outlook/Entourage and Exchange calendar?


texts: "Appears to be corrupted" error when opening old iChat logs in Messages

texts:
When I try to open old iChat logs (circa 2005) with Messages on Catalina, I get the following error message:

The chat transcript “file name” could not be opened.
This file appears to be corrupted and can’t be opened.

If I try to open the same file in Visual Studio Code, I get the following:

The file is not displayed in the editor because it is either binary or uses an unsupported text encoding.  Do you want to open it anyway?

When I choose to open it anyway, I think I can make out pretty much all the text, but there's a whole bunch of gobbledygook in there that makes it a pain to read. Here's a sample:

typedstream��@���NSArray��NSObject��i����NSString��+AIM����������NSMutableArray���/����InstantMessage�����
Presentity��Person�������  vp������NSDate��d�A�X�m  ؆����NSAttributedString�����
you there?��iI
����NSDictionary������NSColor�����NSColor��c�ffff�����NSBackgroundColor�������?t���?^�߃=��������NSFont�����NSFont���[28c]��Helvetica�f��������I�������������anem�������A�Xә3�φ�������yup������������������?f��?���?=���������������������A�Xӷ
G���������just checking in�����������������A�XӷZ�?��������where are you?

This post from 2011 on Apple's discussion forum appears to refer to a similar problem, but doesn't offer up any solution.
Any way to open these in Messages to be able to read them normally?


texts: Disk Utility says that my external harddrive is not mounted, zero space used but zero space available

texts:
I have a Windows PC and used that to format this external hard-drive to exFAT. I plugged it into my MacBook Air (MacOS Mojave version1 10.14.6) and it won't show up in Finder. When I open Disk Utility, the above screenshot is what I see.
It doesn't say that it's used at all, and says it's unmounted.
How can I fix this? I reformatted as exFAT before because I want to transfer things from this laptop to that PC.
The external harddrive is a Seagate 5TB.
Things I've tried:
Using first-aid - no error.
Clicking on "Mount" - no response. It's like I didn't click on it.
Using another USB port - same result.
Thanks.


texts: Is it better to use ePub or mobi files in iBooks?

texts: I've purchased some books that make epub and mobi versions available for download. What are the main differences and which is better supported in iBooks?


texts: Can Apple developers see app uninstalls?

texts: I know that Apple developers can find out how many users have downloaded their app(s) from the App Store. But I would like to know if developers can also find out how many users have uninstalled their app(s)?


texts: Where can I see ITunes connect fiscal calendar without access to iTunes connect?

texts: My iOS developer enrollment is pending. But I want to see the fiscal calendar to get an idea about payout schedules etc for every month. Is there any place where the calendar is published?


texts:
How do I use the --cookies option to youtube-dl to download a Youtube video?  Can anyone provide a worked example of how to obtain the relevant cookies for Youtube and put it in the appropriate format for youtube-dl?

Context: I want to download a private Youtube video.  For various reasons, the method of logging into my Google account is complicated and involves two-factor authentication and not supported by youtube-dl's existing command-line options.  Therefore, it seems the best way is to log in manually in my browser, obtain the authentication cookies somehow, and use the --cookies option -- but I can't find a worked example of how to do this.


texts: How do I enable Time Machine local snapshots on an iMac?

texts:
I have an iMac with a Fusion drive running High Sierra. Time Machine is enabled and backs up to an external disc.

Time Machine takes daily local snapshots so that you can go back to a specific day, even if you don't plug in your backup disc every day.

Unfortunately, this feature is enabled only on laptops, as the aforelinked page says.

How do I tell Time Machine to enable it on my iMac? I plug in my external disc only once a fortnight to backup, but I'd still like to go back to a particular day's snapshot, say if I overwrote a file.


texts:
Everybody seemed very confused by the story and extra information I gave so I will simply ask a very straightforward question.  Irrespective of your personal opinion on the utility of doing so; how does a person change the root password?

Also, the apple help page that I linked originally, and that some of you additionally linked to does not actually say how to change the root password, it only says that it can be done.


texts: Inexpensive AC charger for iPod 3rd gen / 4th gen

texts:
I have a couple of iPod Touches, a 3rd generation and a 4th generation. I would like to get an AC adaptor so that I can plug them into the wall to charge. The Apple charger is $30, which seems quite expensive to me (the cheapest 3rd-party USB charging units are just a few dollars).

Is there an inexpensive AC charging unit for these iPods? Or am I stuck in the Apple happy place?

As a bonus, I've also got a Garmin Nuvi GPS unit that would be nice to charge with the same device.


texts:
I'm using Postfix to forward emails from my Mac through smtp.gmail.com.

Following recent security update (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208221) Postfix fails to forward emails with the following errors:

smtp: warning: Digest algorithm "md5" not found
smtp: warning: disabling TLS support
smtp: TLS is required, but our TLS engine is unavailable

Here is a snippet from Postfix main.cf.

relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic
smtp_tls_security_level=encrypt
smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = plain

Any ideas how to get this working again?


texts:
I have an Iphone 5s that appears to randomly ignore calls from certain numbers.

Other numbers appear to be able to connect, but most just ring out as if I just left the phone untouched.

If they leave a voicemail it pings immediately.

This is on O2 in the UK (I called their tech support and they say that it is a problem with the phone).

Any idea of what could be done to fix this? Do I need a new handset?


texts:
I can open the iTunes app and it seems to be working as normal, but whenever I try to sign in it gives me two error messages, one after the other.

first - "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred(-50)."
second presents immediately after dismissing the first - “ We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred (-9836).”

I'm using an early 2008 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 that is fully updated but not upgrades past Lion.
Is this a server issue or something with my Mac?


texts: How to search only FREE apps on Mac App Store?

texts: It isn't an option in the App Store itself, and the AppleSE answer from 2012 is no longer valid.


texts: Ability to give away iOS application, usually for sale

texts:
I am wondering if it's possible to do "mass giveaways" on the AppStore, without lowering, changing or otherwise changing the listed application.

Is it possible to distribute hundreds to, potentially, thousands of promo codes, legally, while still leaving the "normal" distribution channel of purchasing the app open?

An example of the above would be selling physical items in a store which have a bundled digital component available. Essentially you buy a product in a store, which comes "bundles with a free app" (BB and Android have already been dealt with, iOS is unclear). It would be nice to give the option to have a promo code in the box, that the user can then use to get the application for free. Is this possible?


texts: The Magic Trackpad 2 seems nice... except it's upside down. The tall part of the device should be closest to the user, not furthest. As built, it's a finger torture machine! How can I switch the default orientation 180º?


texts: How can I send a tweet without taking my hands off the keyboard?

texts: If I'm typing a tweet in Mountain Lion's new Notification Center panel, is there a way to send the tweet without moving my hands to the trackpad to click the "send" button? I've tried return, enter, ⌘return, and other key combinations, but nothing obvious sends the message.


texts: How many additional numbers can I set in one contact?

texts: As the title says, how many additional numbers can I set in one contact? I was playing around with a script and I was able to get even 2000 of them in on an iPhone 6 simulator. However, would like some official response about what is the max.


texts: Can I password protect/childproof iPad apps?

texts:
I have ordered an iPad 2. I was wondering if I could protect applications that I don't want my 7-year old to muck about in.

It's stuff like Mail, Things, Evernote, and perhaps some games not suited for a small child.

I'm OK with paying for it if there are good third party solutions but it should be able to protect any app.


texts: Why does music keep playing during videos?

texts:
Why does music play when I'm watching videos?

Sorry re lack of detail.  I have a Mac Air. I use Firefox.

It first happened maybe a year ago when my son sent a little home video taken on iphone. There was this slow dirge-like repetitive music playing in the background--loudly, too, so that I couldn't hear the voices on the video. When I lower the volume, the background music also decreases, along with sound on the video.

That continued for several months and happened for videos from the web as well. It then stopped for a couple of months and today it's back.  Watching SNL iconic episodes on Yahoo.

I should add that this same tune plays continuously, whether a video is playing or not. So I keep the volume muted when just using the web.


texts:
Since a few months, iTunes is listening to the track-pad fingers command previous and next (3 fingers swipe) even if it's not the active application (ie: has focus).

This is extremely annoying when browsing the web and listening to music. How can I disable this shortcut that I didn't set up ?

I've searched in the trackpad settings, the itTunes ones and the keyboard => shortcuts but didn't find the solution.

BTT screenshot:


texts:
I want to put a folder called, say, Fonts in the Finder sidebar. Normally, putting a folder there gives you a generic folder icon (see the Fonts folder below):

However, I want to change the sidebar icon of the Finder folder to something like a stylized f. How would I do this?

One possible way would be to change the generic folder icon into the stylized f, but this would only really be viable if I wanted to put one folder there. Is there a better way?


texts: com.apple.WebKit.WebContent spawns itself periodically stealing focus

texts:
Ever since I switched to Mavericks I experience a problem with keyboard focus when using X11 based apps (that's at least how it manifests)

I have narrowed it down to Safari's com.apple.WebKit.WebContent process launched for every tab. It periodically (every ~60 seconds) seems to spawn itself launching another WebContent process for a couple of seconds before terminating, and in the process stealing the focus from X11.

This happens even without an open tab. I have removed ALL but three plugins and disabled all extensions.

Not only does this behavior make working with X11 based apps if not impossible but annoying at least, now I am wondering why Safari would be launching WebContent processes by itself.

Does anybody know what is going on?

(as reference I included https://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/58 which has a link to a very interesting python script that monitors every focus change)


texts:
I can't delete the shell history in macOS Catalina. I use rm ~/.bash_history.

history -c all command fields. I need to delete the command history.


texts: What hardware do I need if I need to frequently adjust the height and rotation of 2 Thunderbolt monitors?

texts:
I have a small apartment and have one Thunderbolt display, a retina MacBook Pro, and am considering a second Thunderbolt Display.

I plan on purchasing VESA kits for each display, but am getting hung up on what kind of hardware to buy to handle the rotation of screens and what I should do with my MacBook, and still make the small space aesthetically pleasing.

What options are there to rotate a monitor 90 degrees (so I can view long documents) and to rotate it back so I can multitask or watch videos?

What should I look for in a desk that would work well with this setup?


texts: Time machine backed up size keeps increasing

texts:
This is the first Time Machine backup I've done after factory resetting laptop (Macbook pro 2019 Catalina 10.15.6).
The backup started off displaying a sensible amount of backup to run (e.g., "backing up 0 MB of 20 GB"). Then after hitting or getting close to that total, the backup size increased, i.e: Backing up 22.00 GB... Backing up 25.00 GB... and continues like this infinitely.
How can I solve this issue?


texts: Create a bookmarklet for Safari iOS to print page?

texts:
Is it possible to create a JavaScript bookmarklet (or other link) to be used in Safari (iOS) that will automatically print the current web page to the default AirPrint enabled printer? Ideally without asking the user to confirm printer and quantity.

The use case is to set up an iPad at a theater that can let a customer fill out a form and then have the final page be printed to give to a staff member to assist them.


texts:
My iMac has a 2 TB Fusion Drive. Our PC IT guy seems to screwed it up. Now I only have 1 TB of usable space. I tried formatting, repartitioning, but nothing works to gain that 1 TB back.

I don't need the data in it as this is a new iMac.


texts: How can I clean Unknown item of kind Unknown from my Account startup items system preference pane?

texts:
I was running some beta apps that try and insert themselves as log in items and now need to clean up the mess they left.

I'm speculating something went wrong while trying to follow this and this solutions in order to add 'launch at login' functionality to my app.

Now I have many unknown items in there which are not removable.  I was able to retrieve the 20 items only by running this code:

let loginItems: NSArray = LSSharedFileListCopySnapshot(loginItemsRef, nil).takeRetainedValue() as NSArray

However the LSSharedFileListItemRemove method is deprecated and I can't remove them programmatically on High Sierra or later.
Furthermore, now when I click on hide in any of unknown login items, I get another unknown entry below duplicated. I had only one, but when clicked many times(not believing that such a bug can be in OS X) on hide/unhide I got 20 of them. This means attempts to clean one item grows more from the UI.

Checked with no luck:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/StartupItems
...loginitems.plist
...loginwindow.plist

Is there a way to nuke all the items in this list to get a clean start?


texts: iPhone storage too far from its actual total amount?

texts:
It appears that the storage space on my iPhone4S is not adding up to 16GB. I know 16GB is just the theoretical storage space, but currently, the total space seems too far away. Here's a screenshot of the storage status of my phone:

As you can see, 1.8 + 11.6 = 13.4GB. Where did the other 2GB go? Is this normal? Or are there residual files left on my iPhone that can't be cleaned up properly? I'm running out of space and so this means a lot to me.


texts: Syncing Contacts and iCal between multiple Macs and iOS?

texts:
I have a two Macs, an iPod Touch and an iPad, so 4 devices in total.

I wonder if there is a way to sync contacts and ical calendars between these devices automatically (or in case of the iPod/iPad when they are connected to a mac).

So far, I'm seeing these options:

MobileMe - seems really expensive for what it offers and stores data in the cloud
Mac OS X Server - requires a dedicated machine and is also not cheap
Syncing with Google Contacts and Calendars - requires the data to go to the cloud, but is free

Is there anything that simply allows me to sync from Mac to Mac to iOS through my local network?


texts: How to display favicon on my Safari Tab?

texts:
I want to display favicon on my Safari Tab :

I am using Yosemite 10.10.
I've tried Glims, it doesn't seem to work with Yosemite.

I'm wondering if there are other way around to tweak this natively or with a third party tool.


texts: I lost my iPad somewhere, and was silly enough not to password-protect it. The device has direct access to my gmail and facebook accounts. Is it possible to disable its network usage remotely, maybe through iTunes or some other Apple service? I'd like to do something such as whenever that particular iPad connects to the Internet it would be either shutdown or disconnected from Internet.


texts: How to browse files for uncompleted iOS backup

texts:
I have an old iOS backup but it is not a complete backup (I dismounted the phone while taking it and never made a new one.)
There are 15GB of files but since it is not a completed backup, the Backup software is not able to browse it.
How I can browse these files and get some data from it?
I used the backup tool from Finde.r


texts: I have been using nano a lot recently to code on Python. I have been flying by on it all until this little stump, no color... it makes it harder to know if you got the syntax right and harder to code! I'm not the best at code so please be nice and use step by step guide.


texts: VirtualBox slows down when I move the window on a secondary monitor. How can I fix it?

texts:
HOST MACHINE: Macbook Air 2017
GRAPHICS: Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB
MACOS: Big Sur 11.2.3 and later
VIRTUAL BOX Version 6.1.19 and later
Intel HD Graphics 6000:
Type: GPU
Bus:  Built-In
VRAM (Dynamic, Max):  1536 MB
Vendor:   Intel
Device ID:    0x1626
Revision ID:  0x0009
Metal Family: Supported, Metal GPUFamily macOS 1

On my primary display, every VM runs very well. But as soon as I move the window on the secondary display, every VM becomes very slow and unresponsive sometimes.

If I unscale the resolution of the VM, let's say I set 800x600 => the VM becomes responsive even on the secondary monitor.

If I close the laptop lid and use the second monitor as the primary display, I can use the VM with no problem even at maximum resolution (in my case is 1920x1080x32 @0.0)

I tried different software to emulate VMs and the problem seems to be correlated to VBox only.

MOST IMPORTANT
5) If I go to Display settings -> Arrangement and switch the menu bar to the other display, the second display becomes responsive and the primary becomes laggy.
What could be the problem and possible solutions?
I tried to unscale the resolution, use different settings for the VM (different video adapter, memory size, processors...) but with no success.
Furthermore, I also tried to monitor the CPU, GPU, memory usage both on the host and the guest machines and nothing appears to be abnormal.
I tried all the possible VirtualBox version macOS Big Sur compatible and even software to use the iPad as a secondary display and the situation is the same.
Please, any help would be very appreciated!


texts: Does the TouchBar have its own GPU, CPU, or Ram?

texts:
I want to know if the touch bar uses a miniature iOS-style CPU and processor, or does it share CPU, GPU, and other aspects with the main computer?

Can I (in theory) offload tasks (GPU/CPU,etc) to the touch bar?


texts: Quick Look a URL via a script (Applescript, Automator, Shell…)?

texts:
Lion added the ability to Quick Look a URL in an application (like Mail.app). I would like to use that functionality from a script.

Is that possible?


texts: Why won't my Time Capsule extend my wireless network?

texts:
I'm trying to get my 2009-era Time Capsule to extend my home wireless network (broadcast by a non-Apple router). I reset the Time Capsule and AirPort Utility can see it on both my iPad mini (iOS 6.1.3) and my Mac Mini (OSX 10.8.2). In both cases, AirPort Utility will happily allow me to set up the Time Capsule and have it join my existing network. When I go back and tell AirPort Utility to have it extend my wireless network, the Time Capsule tries to update itself and then just fails. It tells me "An error occurred during the update", and then AirPort Express can no longer see the Time Capsule:

At this point, I restore the Time Capsule using the tiny button on the back and lather, rinse, repeat.

The Time Capsule hadn't been used in a few months, so I tried this both before and after updating the firmware. There has been no change in the result.

Where do I even begin to troubleshoot?


texts: Cannot kill Bitdefender process after uninstalling it, no launch daemons found

texts:
Recently, I installed Bitdefender Antivirus. I wanted to remove it after the trial period. After uninstalling it via CCleaner, moving all stuff from Librar, I found there is still an agent up and running and I cannot disable. I cannot kill that process even as root:

bdagent - pid 65

sudo su -
kill -9 65
-sh: kill: (65) - Operation not permitted

Killing it via Activity Monitor doesn't work either.

Output of ps is:

root# ps -ef | grep defender
    0    65     1   0 11:08PM ??         6:49.98 /Library/Bitdefender/Central/Agent/bdagentd
    0   211     1   0 11:08PM ??         0:00.40 /Library/Bitdefender/AVP/antivirus.bundle/BDUpdDaemon
    0   212     1   0 11:08PM ??         0:08.25 /Library/Bitdefender/AVP/antivirus.bundle/BDLDaemon
    0   213     1   0 11:08PM ??         0:00.23 /Library/Bitdefender/AVP/common.bundle/BDCoreIssues
    0   224     1   0 11:08PM ??         0:00.12 /Library/Bitdefender/Central/Agent/bdcredentialsd
  501   513     1   0 11:08PM ??         0:01.13 /Library/Bitdefender/AVP/AntivirusforMac.app/Contents/MacOS/AntivirusforMac

The Bitdefender folder is:

drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel   128 Jul  2 19:32 Bitdefender

I cannot remove it, even as root, I cannot chown, nothing.

Is there any way to just remove this?


texts: iphone, itunes store app: how to view text hidden by "..."

texts:
I just went to look at the next album by Tune Yards and I can see it says "Pre Order: expected J..." but there appears to be no way to view this text!

Anyone know how to expand it or get it show the full text

I've seen the non expandable "..." before and it's annoyed me enough over time to post :)


texts: Can iPhones with ActiveSync use Exchange shared mailboxes?

texts:
I have a team that all have privileges configured in Exchange to give them read/write access to the Inbox, and send-as privileges, for a shared mailbox.  This works great on Outlook, where they can log in with their credentials and just pick "Open these additional mailboxes" in Outlook's account settings.

There doesn't seem to be anything precisely parallel to this in the iPhone, and the Googling I've done suggests that the easy way won't work on the iPhone.

But where things get really odd is that I don't seem to be able to add another Exchange mailbox on the iPhone with the shared mailbox's username and password.  Every time I try to authenticate, I get a password error, despite validating the server settings and the password repeatedly.

How can I get this team the ability to receive, move/delete, and respond to emails for this shared Exchange account from their iPhones?


texts: Selecting a minimized window in Expose via the trackpad two finger swipe gesture

texts:
Normally when you invoke expose, you can use the trackpad's two finger swipe gestures (up, down, left, and right) to highlight a window so that it has a blue border around it. You can then select the window by tapping your third finger down. I really like this method, since it is much quicker than moving the cursor over the window you want and tapping it.

The problem I have noticed is that when you have a minimized window, it will appear below all the other non-minimized windows, separated by a horizontal line. Depending on where the cursor is located (above or below this line) the two finger swipe gesture will only highlight windows within that section (e.g. if you are below the line, you can only highlight minimized windows). Moving the mouse above or below the line will allow you to highlight the corresponding windows.

Is there any way to highlight a window in the opposite section the cursor is located in, without needing to move the cursor?

For example, I want to be able to invoke expose and no matter where my cursor is, I want to be able to select any window I want, using only the two finger swipe gesture.


texts: Create an automator/applescript service that opens a file in an external program

texts:
Just wondering about some automator/applescript help.

Basically: I download a MP3 file from an artist (for example)

It is saved to my Downloads folder.

From there, I want to open it automatically in an external MP3 tag editor such as this one.

Then, I will edit the tags and save the file.

When the file is saved, I want to have the newly edited MP3 moved to a folder (my iTunes "Add Automatically" folder, Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ Steve ▸ Music ▸ iTunes ▸ iTunes Media ▸ Add Automatically to iTunes.

Currently I have an Automator workflow that Filter Finder Items and Move Finder Items the mp3 into the iTunes folder, but I want to be able to edit the tags first. Here is a picture of what I have set up right now.

Any ideas?