texts: Does the DNS service need to be on in order for the caching service to work on OS X Server?

texts: I didn't think that caching needed the DNS service to be running in order for it to work. Is this true/false? I've been reading a lot of forums where it says you should get the server DNS right in order to make sure all the other services work but I just wanted to make sure.


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I'm new to macs so please bear with me if I say something dumb.

I recently switched over to Mac, and purchased a new MacBook Pro, but found that the computer did not have enough ram for everything I am doing (large photoshop files etc.) I was wondering if there is any way that I could get external ram or some type of upgrade for my computer.

Essentially, can I get an external ram drive, or should I go back and upgrade the computer itself?


texts: Sierra: can't change Magic Mouse scrolling speed

texts: Since one of the recent updates I no longer see the option to change the scrolling speed of my Magic Mouse. It's way too slow. Any way to speed it up?


texts: App for Blocking Website in Safari (For Productivity Purposes)

texts:
Are there any apps on OS X that can block certain websites ('time-wasting ones') for a certain interval?

Preferably works for Safari.


texts:
I need another network card for my Macbook Air because of virtual OS which cannot use same network card as Yosemite.
My friend says that he has Thunderbolt network card which he can use to connect to two internet through two OSes: one default and one virtual.
I would like to get the similar tools.

Which are options to get second network card for Macbook air or similar Mac?


texts: I have to delete fm iPhone memory 2 network names and settings, not removed by “forget this network” how can I ?i


texts: How to change the url of a Chrome app shortcut?

texts:
I have 2 Google accounts (personal/work). If I go to the Google Calendar site, on the work account, in Chrome, I can go to ... / More tools / Create shortcut..., which will create a Google Calendar.app file.

I can then add it to the dock - but, this goes to the wrong account :(

If I do Show Package Contents I can open the Info.plist file, and I see the url inside:

    <key>CrAppModeShortcutURL</key>
    <string>https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r</string>

Now if I change the url to https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r (which is the correct way to choose a specific Google account), I would expect it to work.  But in fact that doesn't change anything.

But actually, even if I put any random website here, it will still go to Google Calendar so basically I think this has no effect at all, which is surprising.

Ideas?


texts: How do I get https://outlook.office365.com/ to stop notifications in Google Chrome

texts:
I get incessant notification sounds that do not respect macOS 10.14.6 settings and there is nothing seemingly relevant in Chrome or Outlook
settings either.

For some reason privacy in macOS settings does not have sound output devices listed so that I can whitelist some (or blacklist some.)


texts: How can I reset AirPort Express to factory defaults?

texts:
I tried the, press reset and power it down without success. All I got was to make it do yellow blinking. If I release the reset the blinking slops, anyways it stops even without releasing the button after 30 seconds.

The problem is that AirPort utility is not able to detect it and no Wireless is started.

What else should I try to reset this white brick?


texts:
As soon as I upgraded to macOS Sierra a few days ago, my Bluetooth playback has been so choppy/buggy that it is entirely unusable. Playback will be as normal for 2-10 seconds, then cut completely for a few seconds, then cut back in, and so on.

I am connected to a Sony Bluetooth speaker, to which I can confirm that other OS X (El Capitan) and Android/iPhone devices can stream audio to without incident.

I do not have any other Bluetooth speakers to test on, but I strongly feel it's the fault of the macOS Sierra machine, not the speaker.

I am not using any 3rd party or custom audio routing internally, it's literally just routing audio output to the Bluetooth speaker as normal. I've already reset SMC and PRAM, doesn't help whatsoever.

Has anyone else encountered this? If this is a genuine bug in macOS Sierra, it seems like a massive oversight.


texts: QuickLook doesn’t work with Chat transcript files

texts:
Trying to use QuickLook for Chat transcript files isn’t working anymore on my machine.

First it takes >10 seconds to load (for files <20KB) - and then when it does finally load, it’s just an icon. I can’t actually read the chat.

Anybody else having this experience?

I’m not even quite sure what to try resetting! Deleting the QuickLook plists does not seem to have changed anything.


texts:
I have a 6th gen iPad (v13.1.3) and an iMac 27 2019 (latest 10.15) on the same wifi network. I can choose my iPad from the dropdown of the sidecar menu, but I always get "Unable to Connect to “iPad name” error message while connecting. I tried it with both wifi and cable without any success. Previously about a week (and few versions) ago I was able to connect. I can see any options to set or debug the connection.

Any idea how can I fix this?


texts: Select font when converting .txt to .pdf from command line

texts: I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the "standard Unix" fonts. I'm particularly interested in the AmericanTypewriter font. Is there an existing tool to do that or perhaps an Apple Script? If not, are there any other ideas?


texts: Is it possible to run Snow Leopard (Server) inside VirtualBox on a Mac running Lion?

texts:
Is it possible to run Snow Leopard (Server) inside VirtualBox on a Mac running Lion, as a means of continuing to run legacy PowerPC apps (Eudora, Quicken, et.al.) under Rosetta, even on new Macs (Lion only)?

The EULA seems to allow running the OS in a VM on Apple Mac hardware.

ADDED:

If so, what VirtualBox configuration and/or settings should one try?
How big a virtual HD should one use?

(My goal is to run authentic vintage apps, if possible, not work-alikes).


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  2 Apple IDs on one device?

I was planning on getting a new iPhone and I want to give my old one to my younger brother, both of us have different Apple ID. The question is, can I retain my old apps on the old iPhone while syncing/installing my brother's purchased apps in it?


texts: Never allow speakers sound during specific hours

texts:
I don't want my computer play any sound through it's own speaker during work hours in weekdays. But I want to be able to listen to music using my headphones.

I guess something can be done with Automator to schedule a bunch of commands in order to do this.


texts:
Two days ays ago I closed the lid of my macbook pre for the night as I have done for the last 2.5 years but when I opened the lid in the morning the screen didn't show. It seemed to be 'alive' (ish) i.e. the volume buttons made a clicking sound but when I tried to do a restart with keyboard shortcut there was no response so I had to shut down with the power button.

When I tried to start up again it got stuck on a grey screen with the laptop running hot. I powered off again and tried to boot recovery partition but got a scrambled blue screen with that. Tried to boot bootcamp and got a dead screen like the laptop was off. Tried to boot from a usb blue scrambled screen again.

I reset smc, pram etc. but nothing made a difference.

After trying the various boot options a few times of these I plugged in the power cable and all of a sudden I was able to boot into OS. Problem was that if the laptop went asleep the same thing would happen again and only after numerous restart attempts would it boot but once up and running no issues.

Possibly unrelated but maybe not, today all of a sudden the laptop got really hot so I loaded activity monitor to see what was going on but I couldn't open it as it kept hanging. Two restarts later and the problem disappeared.

Unfortunately the boot issue and the dead OS after sleep remains an issue, any ideas whats going on?

A few details on my setup - I'm running an early 2011 MBP with OS 10.9, I have 16GB RAM, a Crucial M4 SSD and the original HD in an optibay in place of the superdrive.


texts: iPhone: WiFi, Bluetooth and cellular network not working

texts:
I have iPhone 3GS and suddenly it's gone away. I mean WiFi, bluetooth is not working, and I can't make any calls.

Here's a screenshot:

Any help will be appreciated!


texts: Scripting the unhiding of Library folders on Time Machine disks

texts:
Here's the context: I have about 400 students with Time Machine backups from Lion computers. We wiped and re-imaged their laptops with new software AND with Mountain Lion. We just discovered that you can no longer use Time Machine to "Browse other Backup Disks" in Mountain Lion. (The option is there, but the functionality is broken.) The students will have to navigate in Finder to their most recent backup and manually drag the files to their new computer.  However, the Library is hidden on the disk, and they can't access it without unhiding it.  I know how to unhide the folder using this method in Terminal:

cd ../../Volumes/WhateverTheyNamedTheirBackupDrive/Backups.backupdb/Student's MacBook Air/2012-07-30-192502/Macintosh HD/Users/StudentsUserName
ls
chflags nohidden Library

Does anyone have any idea how I could script something that unhides the mounted backup folders' libraries? I'm struggling with the extreme variability of student backup disk names and folder names within a Time Machine backup. (And I can't exactly expect 400 kids to get it right in terminal.)


texts: Is there a command line interface to Keychain's / the system Password Assistant utility?

texts:
When creating keychain records, changing your user password, and various other security-minded aspects of the system, there is a little key icon you can click on that opens the above Password Assistant utility. It is a very simple utility that has a small handful of Password types;

"Memorable" (pictured)
Letters & Numbers
Numbers Only
Random
FIPS-181 compliant

Then you choose a password length, and it gives you a random password, whose dropdown can be expanded for other suggestions matching your requirements.

This utility is straight-forward, and incredibly helpful, ESPECIALLY the 'Memorable' generator type. Is there a means of directly invoking the Password Assistant alone, either via the command line alone, or a command line command that launches the assistant, then returns the selected password on the command line?

The "cleanest" way I've found so far is to open Keychain Access.app, ⌘n, then click the Key icon to open the Assistant dialog. However, the mouse-centric nature of this is a nuisance to me when I just want to generate a password.

This does not appear to exist under the security Keychain command line utility as far as I can discern from its man page, any place where you would create an entry using security it prompts you for a password.

I've never seen any other generator that creates a pleasant 'Memorable' mix as this utility does, and I'd like to delegate to it's capabilities directly from any integrable aspect of MacOS systems.


texts: Macbook randomly shutdown 4k external monitor

texts:
I have a Macbook 16inch connecting to Dell 24inch 4k P2415Q with Moshi USB-C to Mini DisplayPort, bought from Apple.
After 1-2 hours the monitor just shut down like there's no signal, macbook still running. I have to turn off and turn on the monitor to reconnect but it keeps happening all day.
I've done these things so far:

Open / Close lid while connecting to the monitor.
Switch between ports.
Reset NVRAM, PRAM, SMC.
Tested with Macbook 13 (2016), same problem
Tested with my gaming desktop, same monitor same cable, working well, no issue.

Has anyone experienced same issue before ?


texts:
I am using iTerm2. I would like to have a keyboard shortcut which runs a command and types the output at the current cursor.

Example: I have a function branchName which returns/prints the current folder's branch name. I want the branch name to be written to the shell (iTerm2) by pressing cmdB.


texts: Can I use a Macbook (or an iMac) as a Bluetooth Player?

texts:
We all know that iPhone, iPod, and iPad cannot act as bluetooth players since they only have the hardware to act as a Bluetooth server. My question is if Macbook and iMac are similar.

If not, I like to set up a home network where multiple of my computers can play the same audio stream at the same time.

The reason that I do not use wireless audio system is because my apartment is jammed with wifi channels. There are around 200 wifi channels around me and wireless audio system doesn't work - same goes with airplay. I tried all the wireless system, only bluetooth works.


texts: Chrome: Keyboard shortcut to go to Address Bar?

texts: I just recently switched from Windows and *nix to OS X, and I miss being able to hit F6 to go straight to my Address Bar. What's the OS X equivalent?


texts: Catalina partition turns into type FFFFFFF/unbootable and unmountable "disk0s2" after Mavericks install

texts:
I'm having a similar issue with this (MacOS partition formatted FFFFFFF etc after bootcamp install), but I got confused while reading the comments.
I thought it would be a great idea to dualboot Catalina and Mavericks on my laptop, and I already had a Bootcamp-ed Windows 10 partition that was unused, so I wiped that, installed Mavericks, all went fine until it restarted and my Catalina partition didn't show up in the boot picker.
I assumed it was just simply because Mavericks has no idea what APFS is - it just showed up in Disk Utility as "disk0s2". I created a Catalina installer, booted into its disk utility and it doesn't even show up, until you go to the partition menu.
As I said earlier, I got lost unfortunately with all of the guides. Any help is greatly appreciated, especially for keeping the data in disk0s2 intact.
This is what gpt -rf show disk0 gives me:

It's this classic FFFFFFFFF partition type again.


texts:
My ical has recently started to default to GMT as the timezone.
I have my correct timezone selected in the top right drop down of the ical, but every meeting goes in as GMT and has to be manually changed back? Would appreciate any tips


texts: How to identify a strange item on my menubar?

texts:
After rebooting recently, I noticed a new, unknown icon showing up in my menubar (I'm on Mac OS 10.15.7).  Right clicking / double tapping on it does nothing.  When I open Activity Monitor, I see icons next to processes but none matches it.
Any idea what process or application this is, or how I can identify it?


texts: How to make the terminal auto-complete from the command history?

texts:
In Linux, I had managed to set up the terminal in such a way that if I type part of a command and press the arrow key 'up', it would auto-complete with the last command that started with what I had typed.

I tried to do this following the instructions on http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031026174236860, but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to set this up on a Mac?


texts: Mission Control not working (Mac OS Catalina 10.15)

texts:
I'm running Mac OS Catalina 10.15 and all of a sudden my favourite feature, Mission Control, has stopped working. It does not work with the touchpad gesture, touchbar, Apple Keybpoard or even my Apple Mouse. I've seen other articles for earlier issues where you update hot corners and/or use "Killall Dock" but none of these made a difference.

Any ideas?

Djuro


texts: How can I choose to unrar with the default application?

texts:
I recently installed unrar for Mac Os X but i found it useless sometimes and bug-full.
So i uninstalled unrar. Now if i open a .rar file, another application (VLC) open it.
But i want the default unrar application to manage .rar files. How can i do that? If i select the "Open with" options and i look for that application in the applications folder i cant find it.


texts: Why are email replies sent from iPhone not threaded in Gmail?

texts:
I noticed that when replying to emails from my iPhone, they are no longer being grouped as a conversation in Gmail.

If I receive an email and reply via my iPhone email app, it will show up in my send folder on my desktop.  But not grouped in the conversation thread like it should.

Until recently, no matter where I replied from, the reply always ended up as a reply in the same conversation.

When I reply from my desktop, it does show properly as part of the conversation. Why?


texts: How do I fix this Smart Folder problem? It keeps switching off of "This Mac"

texts:
I created a Smart Folder in the finder called "TV" which searches for files of type movie created in the last 7 days. When I created the search in the first place, I clicked on "Search This Mac" to find all files anywhere. But now, even when I have new files that I've downloaded nothing will show up in the folder. When I click on Search criteria on the top it will say

Search: This Mac   TV

and TV will be selected. But, remember, I saved it as "This Mac"

Why won't it stick to "This Mac"? Why does it keep going to "TV" which doesn't make sense anyway, if there's nothing in a folder, then it can't find files in that folder of the type that it's supposed to be searching for...


texts: Automator Help: take Fixed-Position Screenshot, click "Next Page" and Repeat (that's it!)

texts:
I don't know code which is really embarrassing for simple tasks like this one.  All I'm trying to do is to make a Quick Action in Automator for this:

take a screenshot based on two fixed points
click a "next" button in an app (in my case; Kindle for Mac)
Repeat X times

Caveat (if relevant): my screenshots capture in JPG format (not PNG).

Though my "watch me do" was not successful, the recording process did capture me depressing the app's page-advance button which I see is called "Next Page."

A workaround would be to use CliClick to push the advance button, if which I already have installed if "Next Page" might not work for whatever reason.  The repeating screenshot would be a pre-defined pair of coordinates based on upper-left and lower-right (which I can get via CMD+SHIFT+4).

Thanks so much in advance!  Any method to pull this off in Automator is fine by me.  Cheers!

EDIT 1: added code for @ankii below here
EDIT 2: deleted what was added in EDIT 1 (no longer relevant)


texts: How can I download files from Linux to macOS only using the existing SSH connection?

texts:
How can I download files from Linux to my Mac OS using only the existing ssh connection?

I know if I use the Windows System, I can use lrzsz to down files:

yum install lrzsz
sz file // there can use the `sz` download file to windows

but this is not apply to macOS.

If macOS is in a public IP address environment, I can use the scp to copy it, but there is a NAT, I can not do it.


texts: iphone showing strange dates in all apps

texts:
This issue is being faced since quite a while on my iPhone 5c since iOS 9 upgrade. All the dates wherever applicable are getting displayed are something not-in-human understandable format. I tried complete restore, waited for updates till 9.3, also have asked for apple authorized service center. None helped. They said, its not a product fault.
Attaching screenshots. these screenshots are old, but the issue still presists.


texts: Independently change Lock Screen and Login Screen background image in macOS Mojave

texts:
First of all, this question requires some terminology.

I'll refer to the Lock Screen as the screen you see when you lock the screen.
I'll refer to the Login Screen as the screen you see after a restart before you login.

This answer gives a great method for changing the Login Screen background image. I've found other sources that give the same answer. However I've not found any way to change the Lock Screen background image to be something different from the Desktop's background image. Is there a way to do that?

Furthermore, when I choose Logout [user], I see what I have called the Lock Screen, not the Login Screen as I would expect. Is this the intended behavior?


texts: Network Drive for backup (and archive and iTunes)?

texts:
I have several Macs (10.6) on a wireless home network and want to add a network HDD, primarily as a drive for Time Machine to back up to. Having heard bad things about Apple's Time Capsule, I'm currently looking at buying a Western Digital 1TB NAS and connecting it via ethernet cable to a wireless router on the network. I have no experience using Time Machine, although it looks pretty straightforward.

Before trying this, I'd like to know:

1) Will this actually work? WD claim their drive is 'Time Machine ready', but how should it be formatted/partitioned? Has anyone had experience doing this? Is there a better make of drive for around the same price?

2) Assuming it's ok for backups, can I also use part of the drive to store my iTunes library (and take the pressure off my iMac's little 80Gb HDD)? If so can I use the same partition as the backup? Ditto for manual archiving of some old movie files...

Thanks.

Edit: I've just seen this other post, which has some good things to say about the Western Digital MyBook World Edition...


texts: Can the 4th gen Apple TV access apps/videos in different languages?   Using the 3rd version of Apple TV I'm not aware of how you can access for instance Disney Jr Francais.  Can the fourth generation do this?


texts: Can't figure out what is taking up so much space

texts:
When I cd /; du sudo du -h -d1 I get a total of about 160 GB (this is on a 256 GB drive). However, when I look at Disk Utility or About this Mac -> More Info -> Storage it looks like I'm using a solid 230 GB.  This is on a late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina, OS X 10.9.2.  I suspect the problem may be with mobile backups (I'm not hooked up to an external hard disk for backups).  I've tried, several times, running sudo tmutil disablelocal but that doesn't appear to fix the problem.

Here is the output of df -h after disabling local backups

/dev/disk1      233G  212G   21G  92% /

After re-enabling:

/dev/disk1                         233G  212G   21G  92% /
localhost:/ebh4eOBPvo122KL1TUyqlO  233G  233G     0 100% /Volumes/MobileBackups

Output of ls -l /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/MyComputerName

total 1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 16 17:55 2014-07-16-175518
lrwxrwxrwx 0 root wheel   0 Jul 16 17:55 Latest -> 2014-07-16-175518

Output of sudo tmutil delete 2014-07-16-175518

Deleting: /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/MyComputerName/2014-07-16-175518
Error (-36) deleting: /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/MyComputerName/2014-07-16-175518
Error (642) re-linking Latest for machine directory: /Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb/MyComputerName
Total deleted: 237.4K

Any ideas?  I know very little about Macs, if that's not obvious.


texts: What's the best way to recover data from corrupted iPhone 6s (iTunes not working/iCloud not used)

texts:
What has happened... the timeline:

29 Nov around 23:00 :   iPhone 6s full backup encrypted

30 Nov around 07:00 :   iPhone 4s synched (backed-up automatically in the process / incremental backup)

30 Nov around 18:30 :       iPhone 6s full backup encrypted

Around 30 Nov 22:00  :      Need to recover the iPhone 6s

29 Nov backup not visible on the backup list !

30 Nov 7:00 can be used but it recovers 4s backup onto 6s (included 6s app and some - not all - 6s data)

30 Nov 18:30 visible but when try to recover it says its corrupted operation failed (seems like my backup got mixed up)

I also have backup of iPhone 6s from 27 Sep, it works as well but when used I get again everything. I recovers iPhone 6s data and applications and iPhone 4s (applications)!

I can clean up the Sept 27 recovery but really need notes from Nov 29/30.
Is there a way to move them (backup files to a backup that works from 27 Sep)

If not are there tools to recover data?

I have found:

https://drfone.wondershare.com/ios-data-recovery.html

https://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/register/

Are there reliable/clean?

Appreciate any help!

Best regards,
Damian

PS. All backups are local iTunes based.


texts: Sound default problem (can't mute internal speakers)

texts:
Basically, I am having problems with the sound always finding a way to come out of the speakers, which is annoying, in a work environment.

I've removed all external audio devices and set the volume on the internal speakers to 0.

I've then connected my wireless headphones. Sometimes, they lose connection and then the MacBook defaults to internal speakers, but with full volume...

It's a weird one, where this default state doesn't allow for volume adjustment (the volume icon is greyed out).

Any way to prevent the internal speakers from firing up the office? Other than going in there with fervour and installing a physical cut off switch in the speaker wires, which I am THIS close to be doing...


texts: Permanently enabling volume control for audio interface that doesn't support it

texts:
I use an audio interface (namely a Roland Edirol UA-5, but that doesn't matter) which does not support volume control. I can only control the volume with the physical volume dial on the audio interface.

Now, by combining two freewares from RogueAmoeba, Soundflower and LineIn, I am able to enable volume control on any audio interface by:

Selecting Soundflower as my primary audio interface
Routing Soundflower to my Edirol UA-5 with LineIn

Thus enabling my native volume to control my audio interface.

This is my question now: is there a native modification I could make to OSX (a flag somewhere, a special kext) that could make this process easier?


texts: Where does brew get all its binaries from?

texts: Is there some centralized place were people just put their binaries and brew just queries that? Or do people submit their binaries to Brew? If so how do I go about submitting my binaries to brew?


texts: Connect DualShock 3 (PS3 controller) and MacBook Pro 13" late 2013 on Mavericks 10.9.2

texts:
The steps I have taken to connect my dualshock 3 controller with my MBP are shown here: http://theultralinx.com/2014/02/connect-playstation-3-controller-mac-os-mavericks.html

The controller doesn't show up as PS3 Controller in my devices list ever. Just some cryptic hexadecimal numbers flagged with 'not connected'.

Here is a log from when I

-> turned on BT

-> connected the controller via usb

-> disconnected the controller from usb

-> pressed the ps button (at that point the 'enter passcode for ps3 controller'-window comes up, but nothing ever happens thereafter)

Mar 28 03:43:52 Otzebook kernel[0]: **** [IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport][SuspendDevice] -- Resume -- suspendDeviceCallResult = 0x0000 (kIOReturnSuccess) -- 0xb000 ****
Mar 28 03:43:52 Otzebook coreaudiod[279]: PowerState:1 bluedXPCConnection:0x7f83b07419e0
Mar 28 03:43:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 28 03:43:52 Otzebook blued[11079]: hostControllerOnline - Number of Paired devices = 0, List of Paired devices = (
    )
Mar 28 03:43:52 Otzebook coreaudiod[279]: PowerState:1 bluedXPCConnection:0x7f83b07419e0
Mar 28 03:44:22 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 28 03:44:32 Otzebook kernel[0]: en0: BSSID changed to 1c:7e:e5:95:9f:46
Mar 28 03:44:42 Otzebook blued[11079]: Removing Bluetooth configured device: 00-1e-3d-de-ee-38
Mar 28 03:44:42 Otzebook kernel[0]: [0xffffff80203a5700][free]()
Mar 28 03:44:42 Otzebook kernel[0]: ### ERROR: opCode = 0x0406 (Disconnect) -- send request failed (err=0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))
Mar 28 03:44:42 Otzebook coreaudiod[279]: XPC method:BTDeviceDisconnected
Mar 28 03:44:42 Otzebook kernel[0]: en0: BSSID changed to 1c:7e:e5:95:9f:46

The controller just stops blinking after some time and is still not connected / paired.

Has anyone any idea on why this doesn't work? Or some further ideas on how to debug this problem?


texts:
I am on macOS High Sierra (Version 10.13.3) all recent updates are installed.
The open executable is not in the /usr/bin folder anymore.

Is there anyway to repair the system so that I can get it again?
I have no clue how this happened in the first place, maybe after the last macOS update. Did I miss something in their release notes?

To clarify, this is not a path issue, the executable just is not there anymore.


texts: How to copy MP3 files from my PC to my iphone? I have many Mp3 on my PC but  some Mp3s I want to copy in iphone to listen from iphone. How to do that? I'm having itunes account and itunes software on my PC but unable to copy MP3s to iphone.


texts: Emptying the trash failed with "can't copy" on Yosemite

texts:
While using empty stack securely under Yosemite, it halted with the message:

  You can't copy the item InfoPlist.strings because its name is too long or includes characters that are invalid on the destination volume.

What's the matter and, more important, what can I do about it?

PS. It might be that the InfoPlist.strings is located on an MS-DOS (FAT32) partition on an USB disk. (On which I lost 130 GB because I deleted that data.)


texts: How to activate new iPad without disclosing credit card number?

texts:
I bought my mother an iPad 2 as a gift for her birthday, hoping that it would enable my toddler son to do Facetime with his grandmother.

I tried to walk her through the activation process (over email) by having her download iTunes to her Windows laptop, etc.  She managed to do that much, but when the activation process asked her to create an Apple ID and give a credit card number, she refused to proceed.

I can't imagine that she would even buy an app, or music, or a book.   I thought the device would be worth it just for mobile Safari, Facetime, and the other built in apps.

Is it possible to activate the device without creating an Apple ID?  If not, is it possible to get around the credit-card number field?


texts: Does Parallels Desktop support hardware virtualization for the client VM?

texts:
I have a new MacBook pro (I just switched from PC), and an older scanner (a Mustek A3 USB).

The scanner comes with drivers for OS 9 (I assume that's a non-starter on OS X), and Windows XP.

I have Parallels Desktop 6 running a Windows 7 installation on my MacBook.

Windows 7 comes with "Windows XP mode", a Virtual Machine running XP. This is what I used to run my scanner previously, on my PC.

However, Windows XP mode refuses to start inside the Parallels-powered Windows 7, complaining that the host machine (ie. Windows 7) doesn't have hardware-supported Virtualization. Whichis Parallels Desktop's "fault" as it's providing the virtual, simulated hardware.

Is there any way I can get Windows XP running on Windows 7 inside Parallels Desktop? Is there some setting I can change?

I guess simply creating a second Parallels VM running XP directly would be a workaround, but I don't have a separate copy of XP handy, and would like to avoid having to buy one.


texts: Macbook pro stuck on boot - "AppleUSBHostPort::interruptOccurred: overcurrent detected"

texts:
I am trying to reinstall OSX on a MacBook Pro Mid-2009 but it hangs on startup.
I have used several disks but now when running in verbose mode see that it hangs at
"AppleUSBHostPort::interruptOccurred: overcurrent detected"
and loops here.

Image of messages during startup:


texts: Apple Mail: move message to another account or local folder and delete from the original account

texts: When I move a message from one account to another (by dragging, or "Move to"), or to a local folder, I expect the message to be deleted on the original account. However, what Apple Mail does is archiving the original message. Is it possible to realize my desired behavior (e.g., via a rule or a script)?


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Due to a health issue I have very reduced hearing in my left ear. Because of this I often listen to music in mono instead of stereo. The macOS audio controls (under the accessibility settings) allow me to select that the stereo output be converted into mono, however this doesn’t seem to work with the the DAC I am using the Schiit Fulla 2, which stubbornly continues to output in stereo. It works fine for the built in audio output.

Is there a way to get a mono signal to my external DAC instead of stereo? I mostly need this for iTunes but would prefer it be system wide

Thanks in advance

EDIT: I know This can be done with apps like Audio Hijack, but I was hoping to do this at the system level and not have to have an app running when I want to switch output to mono.

Also I tried my DAC in iOS and it work with the accessibility settings to switch the output to Mono so it looks like a limitation of macOS at this point.


texts: What do the Photo Stream settings in Aperture do?

texts:
I understand that the iOS 5 Photo Stream is a collection of all of the recent photos taken on all iOS 5 devices in a given account, synced with those devices through the cloud. It is not clear to me, however, what the Photo Stream settings in Aperture do.

It appears that "Enable Photo Stream" simply connects Aperture to the Photo Stream and makes it available as a source for viewing and importing into Aperture; but it is not clear to me what "Automatic Import" and "Automatic Upload" do.


texts: View / sort Podcasts list by subscribed status

texts: I have roughly 50 different podcasts that, at one time or another, I have subscribed to.  Only about half of those are currently subscribed to.  When I look at my list of episodes in iTunes, the whole list always appears in alphabetical order. I do not want to delete my old unsubscribed podcasts from my library, but it would be really nice if there were some way to either hide (and later show) the unsubscribed podcasts, or sort the list so that subscribed podcasts appear at the top. Are either of these possible?


texts:
If I install High Sierra on a 3rd party SSD, will the main volume's file system be converted to APFS?

The hardware is a Early 2011 13" Macbook Pro with a Crucial M4 SSD.


texts:
The Mac OS X Internals book states that the maximum process identifier is 30,000 and after that the kernel will start re-using pids.  But checking on my own system, via:

ps a | grep ps | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'

I can see that I have pids that go higher.  Does anyone know if there is a pid_max explicitly set somewhere, like in Linux?


texts: Sum of all processes' real memory not equal to used memory?

texts: I wonder why the sum of all processes' real memory listed in Activity Monitor is not equal to (MUCH less than) the used memory?


texts: How to set a double press key shortcut on Mavericks? i.e. double-press option-key for mission control

texts:
I was wondering how can you set a double press key shortcut on Mavericks? i.e. double-press option-key for expose. I've search everywhere without a clear solution. I haven't even found an application that could do that.

Thanks


texts: How to get iTunes to stop trying to download purchases

texts:
I purchased a TV series season last year to watch on my Apple TV. My Macbook still tries to download all the episodes every time I launch iTunes.

I read online that you can delete everything in the itunes>media>downloads folder which I have, restarted, and still when I open iTunes a black download button pops up and when I click it, it tells me that I have all these pending downloads. When I click to see what they are, it automatically tries to download all the episodes.

I have purchased movies, but it never tries to make me download any of them. I watch movies and tv shows purchases generally on my Apple TV. And I like that I can view my iCloud purchases in iTunes, and decide to download something if I want to. But I do not like that it keeps trying to make me download all these episodes that I have no reason to want to store on my HD.

Is there a way to perminately tell iTunes to stop trying to download something?


texts: Symbolic linking to Photos from another user

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I am running El Capitan Beta, but this question would also apply to Yosemite.

I want another account's (account B) "Photos" app to link to my primary account's (account A) Photos library without moving my library to an outside drive without permissions.  I can't point the Library from the Photos App in account B to to the Library in account A.  I have added Account B with full permission read and write with extended ACL permissions to account A's /User/AccountA/Pictures folder and Photos Library.  Verified with ls -le.

So... the best solution I see is to create a hard link from /User/AccountB/Pictures/AccountBLibrary -> /User/AccountA/Pictures/AccountALibrary so that it always points to that inode.  Can anyone see a reason NOT to do this or a better way to link the two without moving my photos library on Account A.

Edit: Well for one - you can't hard link a directory (which obviously pictures libraries are)... so to reword my question - What about soft link? (Symbolic) (Thanks fd0).  And now I can see - It produces the same error (because it isn't a hard link).  So... can I accomplish this?

The goal is to not duplicate photos (I use iCloud photo library, but I don't want to duplicate even "optimized" photos).


texts:
Is there a simple setting to allow a MacBook to continue running with the lid shut?  All signs that I found pointed to no supposedly due to concerns about overheating, but when docked, a MBP is able to be used if the monitor and keyboard are plugged in.

My use case would be running a terminal command that takes awhile, leaving my desk, locking my account, and closing the lid to keep nosy people out.


texts: I am still running MacOS 10.6.8 on my older iMac because of software issues-some of my most useful stuff won't run on systems past Tiger.  Can I use the patch published by Justin Meyers in "Every Mac Is Vulnerable to the Shellshock Bash Exploit: Here's How to Patch OS X" on my Mac?


texts: How to preserve Time Machine backups and start over with a new one?

texts:
I make my Time Machine backups on an external hard drive. Recently I upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. Now I need the ability to freeze those old backups I've done with Mountain Lion in case I need to go back with the hole system.

What I tried so far:

Stop Time Machine and rename backup folder on the disk. On Mavericks the Time Machine folders can't be renamed or moved.
Remove the external drive from Time Machine preference pane and read the drive - Time Machine backups continue on same folder and in some time in the future overwrites old backups.

How can I achieve what I want?


texts: Making Messages report that it is a different client

texts:
My company recently upgraded their XMPP server for internal chat, and now require the Jitsi client. I don't know if Jitsi is nice on Windows, but the Mac version is like having bleach dripped in my eyes. After Apple's Messages app, Jitsi is a travesty.

Messages connects fine, does everything Jitsi does, but gets disconnected with a "this is an unapproved client" message.

My XMPP admin, a hacker at heart, wondered out loud whether there is a way to make Messages report to the server that it IS Jitsi. I've learned that this is usually a hint at what I should google to get around various IT roadblocks, but in this case he may really have been just idly wondering.

XMPP is all XML. Surely "the client I am" is just a field in the message document. Anybody have any idea how I could spoof my client name?


texts: How does data get "imported" into ML's new features?

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I'm a little concerned about upgrading to Mountain Lion right now because I'm not sure how some of the data I have on my machine will get shoehorned into Mountain Lion's new apps and features.

Does "Notes" start out clean? Does it import your To-Dos from Mail (the way Notes would sync before iOS 6/ML)? Or does it import notes from Stickies?
What happens to all of my Reminders in iCal? Do they automatically get imported into the Reminders app? Will I end up with duplicate Reminders resultant from iCloud issues?
I have the iChat setting turned on that saves all your chat logs. Will I still be able to open them in Messages? Will my iMessage conversations start to get saved in the same logs? (Is chat logging even still in the Messages app?)
I know Gatekeeper is enabled automatically, so what happens to always-running processes that I have set to start when my Mac turns on? I don't know if apps like Dropbox, LogMeIn, f.lux, or any of the others that start up as soon as I boot my machine, are signed with an Apple Developer ID, so will this cause big issues when I update and all of these unsigned apps try to run at once? (I plan to disable Gatekeeper minutes after upgrading, but I don't want it to cause issues that might keep my machine from booting up at all.)


texts: Minimum disk partition for Windows installation increased to 48 GB?

texts:
I am currently on Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6. Boot camp assistant is not allowing me to reduce the Windows 10 partition size to a value lower than 48 GB. I only have a 256 GB SSD and 48 GB seems to be a lot. I read online and watched a few videos on Boot Camp and most of them stated that Boot Camp requires a minimum of 30 GB. (They are probably outdated?)

Microsoft's minimum system requirements indicate min disk space as 32 GB. Is there any way to override Boot Camp assistant to allow for a lower size partition? Is 48 GB the new minimum space requirement?

My only intention of using Windows is for playing games off my external hard disk.

I am also considering to install Windows 7 or 8.1 to save some space while maintaining compatibility with games. Thus, allocating 48 GB is not optimal.


texts: If I move an app in Launchpad and then I "killall Dock" from the terminal, the Launchpad sometimes gets its previous configuration so my changes are lost. How can I restart the Dock without losing the Launchpad configuration?


texts: Am I missing something by using outdated data cable and wall charger?

texts:
My wife has iPhone 3G and I recently bought iPhone 4 for myself. Since we can easily manage charging for both of our phones from just one wall charger, I actually never unpackaged mine and data cable is still packed as well.

But few days ago I noticed that my phone refusing to sync with even older data cable (from 3rd gen iPod nano) although iPhone 3G does sync with it.

So that got me thinking, do I missing something by not using updated accessories? Faster charging time or data sync maybe? Any thoughts?


texts:
How to change Gmail notification sound on iPhone is question a lot of people ask.

So did I.


texts: What is a good chess app for an iPhone 4?

texts:
I am interested in learning chess better, and my past experience with chess programs is that if there are multiple difficulty levels, they go very quickly to "I can usually beat this" to "Cut to the chase and resign." I haven't been able to find a rough area I can beat 30-70% of the time, get a little better, knock the difficulty up a notch, and win 20-60% of the time. (And then bump things up when I can beat the new level 30-70% of the time.)

Are there any good chess trainer/chess iPhone apps that are out there? (Are there good chess trainers to recommend on other grounds?)


texts: I have an iPhone 4 with an iTunes account. My husband got his own iPhone 4 today. Is it better to have one or two iTunes accounts, but not have to rebuy apps.


texts: Can FileVault protected data be accessed if the hard drive has been NON securely wiped?

texts: I had my hard drive protected by FileVault before I started having major software issues.  I have plenty of Time Machine backups so I wiped the hard drive using the disk utility in recovery mode.  However, I never overwrote the whole hard drive or used any kind of "secure" wipe program.  When I set up my new accounts over the wiped drive, I did not use FileVault either.  I gave Apple the password to my new account which barely had any new data on it (and changed my password to "hello" before doing so).  I'm just wondering if the information that is technically still "there" when the drive was wiped insecurely can be accessed despite having been protected with FileVault prior to being wiped?


texts: How to force Disk Encryption password on boot for ALL users?

texts:
I want my MBP to be unlocked with Disk Encryption Password before getting access to the login screen. (read : I want to have two passwords prompts before the MBP can be used)

Therefore, I made a clean (re)install of High Sierra and chose APFS Encryted. However the subsequent created admin account has a security token, which seems to be my issue.
Now on startup I have the choice between the admin account and the Disk Encryption Password for others accounts with a disabled Token.

I tried the following :

Tried to remove myself (aka admin) from having the Secure Token with sysadminctl -secureTokenOff admin but I end up with the following error :
Operation not permitted without a secure token unlock.

However I do well have a one (sysadminctl -secureTokenStatus admin shows ENABLED)

Tried to remove myself from being able to unlock the disk with fdesetup remove -user admin but as I'm the only user, I got the following User could not be removed because it's the last OS user on the Volume

In short, how can I force the Disk Encryption Password prompt for ALL users, including admins ?

It makes echo to this post : Prompt for encrypted disk password on startup

Note :
On a buggy install of HighSierra, I ended up with an admin account without Security Token, and it worked as intended. I had to go through the Disk Encryption Password prompt before anything else.
However I re-installed MacOS because this situation made me unable to access the terminal from the MacOS Recovery (I had a error message saying that no admin with the correct statuts (read Token) with was found on the system)


texts: How can I erase all photos on my iOS 11 device that can't be removed with Image Capture trick?

texts:
I have over 17,000 photos sync'd from my Mac on to my iPhone running iOS 11. As seems these days, the synced photos do not give you the option of deleting them from the phone (yes, I understand this wouldn't delete them from my Mac). The problem is that I don't want all these photos on there, I only want the last few weeks or so but I think iTunes and the phone are confused as I'm not sure how to get rid of the extraneous photos.

To be clear, the photos in question are ones previously sync'd to the phone from iTunes on a Mac that runs the Photos.app; there are no photos in the camera roll. Photos that have been sync'd do not give the option to be deleted, that privilege only exists for those in the current Camera Roll. As well, the Image Capture trick suggested does not work because that method only addresses pictures in the Camera Roll; it does not see the sync'd photos.

In the past, I should have been able to simply uncheck the "Sync Photos" box and accept the "Remove from Phone" button, sync and then see the photos disappear from the phone. However, that doesn't do the trick - the photos are still there. I've tried re-enabling and sync'ing with a subset of photos which appears to complete successfully, but then when I try to uncheck and "Remove from Phone" and sync again, they still don't delete.

In the past you used to be able to go into the Settings app and under storage for Photos you could press a button to delete all photos from the phone; it doesn't appear to exist as an option anymore, only "put everything on the cloud" which is something I do NOT want to do. It just seems that iTunes sync doesn't try to remove the old photos like it doesn't understand that they're there.

Is there any way to delete all the photos on my phone or do I have to completely wipe my phone and start all over again? Strangely, the last backup iTunes took of my phone was nearly 3 months ago and the button to manually do one is grayed out thus I'm a little hesitant to do the restore.


texts: Backup camcorder using Final Cut Pro or iMovie

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I have a Canon Vixia HF11 HD camcorder, Synology DS213 NAS, MacBook Air, iMovie '11 and Final Cut Pro 10.0.9.

I just backed up my camcorder using Final Cut Pro and ran into a couple problems:

The backup came out to 50gb total (the CANON.fcarch was only 25gb)
The backup included render files and original media (i.e. .mov files of each clip)
The backup can only be saved to my MBA's hard drive (i.e. can't save to my NAS)

My questions are, using Final Cut Pro or iMovie, is there a way to:

Only backup the camcorder's compressed AVCHD video (i.e. just the .fcarch file) without
transcoding/rendering everything out to .mov files?
Backup the camcorder directly to a network drive (i.e. my NAS) instead of my MBA's SSD?


texts: Apple Font Tools cannot install on Catalina

texts:
I am trying to install the Apple Font Tools to be able to use the command line to edit font ascender via command line:

ftxdumperfuser -t hhea -A f Tajawal-Medium.ttf.ttf

I tried to download Font Tools for xcode 11 and install it. but command is not working. I get `Command not found
Then I tried to download OS X Font Tools and install it,
    following this guide: install-apple-font-tools.sh

Now when I run the command I get:

dyld: Symbol not found: __ZN11FTExceptionD1Ev
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ftxdumperfuser
Expected in: /Library/Frameworks/FontToolbox.framework/Versions/A/FontToolbox
in /usr/local/bin/ftxdumperfuser

How can I fix this? and run the font tools on macOS Catalina? Or any alternative way to be able to fix font vertical alignment, with ascender and lineGap?


texts: How to display network statistics in the menu bar?

texts:
I already know how to view network activity using Activity Monitor. But today I saw someone with network statistics displayed in the menu bar:

How is this achieved?


texts: How can I verify that an iOS app has or has not been updated?

texts:
Today I noticed that an app needed to update. Updates is set to be done automatically, but did not update as it normally would.
When I entered the updates list it just started blinking between the Update- and Open-button, and mostly as Open. After reading the question "Can't update apps in iOS App Store; can only Open" I force quitted the App Store app hoping that could do the trick, hoping the app would appear again with the update. When the App Store restarts the update is gone and has still not appeared in the list after an hour.

The app in question was the Facebook Messenger app. I know by looking at the information in App Store that there were in fact a release of the app today.

How can I verify that the app has or has not been updated?


texts: can i safely use a 60 w adapter on a 2009 macbook pro computer

texts:
I received  a 2009 macbook pro desk computer and did not get power cord.

Need information on correct adapter to not burn out the battery or the computer which will be in constant use daily.


texts: Where does iBooks store current position within a book?

texts:
To be specific, I am speaking about epubs that I manually added to ibooks, not ones from the store. For an example, I download and import an epub, I read a few pages, I delete it. Some months later I import that same file again and iBooks remembers the exact page I was last on.

To try and localize this data, I think I have  such options to store this position in the cloud disabled and I tried logging into multiple different accounts both store and icloud.

Where is this positional data for iBooks on iOS stored?


texts: Mac mini built in speakers do not play all of sound

texts:
I've a rather odd issue I've noticed while playing this song on Youtube:

When using the built-in speakers I only hear the background singing (a bit hard to describe: sometimes I hear almost nothing, sometimes the high-pitched choir, at some parts mixed with lower voices). However the moment I plug in earphones they play it just like it is supposed to. The same happens in both Chrome and Safari with both HTLM5 and Flash players, even when playing the Youtube stream in VLC, heck even when downloading the song and converting it to low-quality MP3: same result. I've never noticed that before on any other music file nor can I reproduce it with another song. Is there something left, that I might have overseen?

Version information: Mac OS X 10.7.2 on the new Mac mini 2.5 GHz i5


texts: Pages: Change Body Style for Entire document

texts:
I'm using Pages 5.5.3 on OS X 10.10.4. I can't figure out how to change the size of the Body style for the entire document. If I try to increase the size of the Body text it only changes the size of the text where my cursor was last - the rest of the document is unaffected.

Thank you in advance.


texts: What if the wifi server has "Security Recommendation" next to it and it will not connect to internet?

texts: Is there a work around or setting change that will help if the wifi server has "Security Recommendation" next to it and my iphone 6 will not connect to internet?


texts: How can I set multiple reminders for a contact’s birthday?

texts:
I want to setup my iPhone send me two reminders about my contact’s birthdays. One reminder a week in advance and a second reminder the day before.

So for example, if my friend’s birthday was set to March 20th on my contacts list, I would want one reminder on March 13th, and a second reminder on March 19th.

I’ve tried changing default alert times on the built-in calendar app, but I couldn’t find a way to set multiple alerts at once.

How can I make my iPhone send multiple alerts about a contact’s birthday?


texts: Can I resume an interrupted download of Mac OS X Mountain Lion?

texts:
I have a slow internet connection. I want to download Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) from the Mac App Store and resume the download if it gets interrupted because of my internet connection.

Does the Mac App Store allow resuming broken downloads?


texts: iMac G4 fails to boot - dissolve to white screen

texts:
Anyone seen this before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGbHLSrdS5Q

Basically, I replaced the hard drive as the previous one had started throwing errors, and making knocking noises.  Is the white screen like that indicative of a video card error?  Did I crimp the video cord upon reinstalling it?  Any ideas?

I've reset pram (2 chimes), and attempted to reset nvram (cmd-opt-n-v), but I'm not sure the nvram reset takes.


texts: Why does my iPhone shift the screen downwards?

texts:
My iPhone sometimes shift the view down by about 1/3 of the screen in order to reveal... nothing, just the blurry background image.
How can I prevent this from happening?


texts:
Well after using QS for quite some time, it no longer works...Even when loading it on a clean SL build with latest Apple updates.  When I set up a trigger they will only work until I reboot.  At that point none of the trigger action works.

I heavily use(d) custom triggers and I am not having any luck finding a alternative to QS with that functionality.  Do custom triggers only exist in QS or are there alternatitives?

EDIT

Just thought I would add the problem descibed with triggers is known with b58 and now with the latest b59.  So if b59 is not even on blacktree's site and only on qsapp.com (as someone posted), meaning brand new I guess the next hope is b60.  Who knows when that may be available though.


texts: Sync my husband's Exchange with my iPhone 7 plus

texts: I am trying to get my husband's exchange calendar synced with my iphone 7Plus.  Can someone please explain the steps to accomplish this? The tech people can't seem to figure it out, either.


texts:
I am trying to set up iMessage correctly, but I see no SMS / MMS options.
I do not see an option to use my phone number associated with the Apple ID.
Am I missing a simple step in the set up?


texts: iPhone: Is it possible to gift paid app to another user?

texts:
Is it possible to gift apps to another iTunes account ?

I want to accomplish the following:

Select payed application → Gift to friend → Payment of app → Send to friend → Friend can download it as a gift (for free)

Is that possible ? And if yes, how can I do that ?

Please provide me some links or detail for this idea.


texts: Disable Shutdown prompt or solve it that it won't show

texts:
Shen shutting down my computer, I see a prompt with information that another user is logged in and that this user could lose data when I shutdown computer:

I am almost certain it's because I installed OS X Server and I connected to it with Xcode. I have it on my MacBook for work. How can I fix this? What causes this, and have I set something wrong? I just don't want to write my credentials everytime I want shutdown the computer but I don't want to lose any data.


texts: Do not show iMessages on iPhone when using Messages on Macbook

texts:
Is it possible to somehow temporarily disable iMessages on iPhone when using Messages app on Macbook, I don't like my iPhone to vibrate and wake up on the table all the time when someone sends me a message when I'm chatting through Messages app on Macbook?

I notices, that sometimes it vibrates for 1-2 messages and then it stops for the rest of conversation, but now it's showing almost every message on iPhone


texts: Weird Wi-Fi related issues affecting "Now Playing", media keys and the Maps app

texts:
This is my first post here because I'm out of ideas. I'm running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 on a MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2018, i9, 32GB RAM, Radeon Pro 560X.

I believe all of the following symptoms are related to some weird Wi-Fi issue my MacBook Pro is having:

My Maps app can't locate me even when I'm on Wi-Fi.
If I turn off Wi-Fi or don't have a Wi-Fi connection, the "Now Playing" Widget on my Touch Bar and in the Notification Center do not work at all, not even for playing local media files.
When my "Now Playing"  widget does not work (as per 2 above), my media keys/headphone controls controlling iTunes also don't work.

So far I have tried:

booting in Safe Mode
resetting the SMC and NVRAM
turned  location services on/off
restarting my router

For the record I don't have Spotify or Google Chrome installed, nor do I have any extensions installed.

How else might I troubleshoot this issue?


texts: 2013 MacBook Air 13" won't boot - green MagSafe LED

texts:
I have a 2013 Macbook Air that suddenly won't boot.

It was working as of yesterday. I woke up this morning and it wouldn't start. At the time, the Magsafe2 Adapter was not lit up.

My wife has a similar laptop, so I was able to test my adapter on her Mac and her adapter on my Mac. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the adapter itself based on that.

After moving where the adapter is plugged in, I am getting a green light from the Magsafe2 in my MBA, but it doesn't appear to be charging. I tried:

pressing various keys and moving mouse.
power button
doing an SMC reset (doesn't respond in any visible way to ShiftControlOptionPower)
Leaving it plugged in for a while, etc.

Any suggestions?

There's no fan noise and no probable cause for damage.

To add a further detail, I can get either

Green light if I switch cables with different mac in a short amount of time.
Green light if I remove and then reattach the cable in short amounts of time ( approximately 2 minutes or so)
No light if I leave it unplugged for a bit and mess around with trying to turn it on unplugged for a while

(I don't know if any of this is relevant or should be considered relevant)


texts: Order of the VPN connections in the VPN menu

texts: Is it possible to change the order of the VPN connection in the OS X VPN Menu?


texts: Macs can’t see each other after upgrading to Mavericks

texts:
I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro. I recently upgraded both of them from Mountain Lion to Mavericks and now neither of them can “see” each other, despite both having File Sharing and Remote Login enabled in the “Sharing” section of System Preferences.

I used to be able to SSH into the other Mac, and the other Mac would show up as a device in Finder, but no more. Is this related to the SMB issue I’ve seen around the Internet?

What can I do so I can browse between my Macs via Finder and SSH again?


texts: How to change "Nov 9 03:21:11" to yymmdd mmhhss using AppleScript/Unix?

texts: How to change string "Nov 9 03:21:11" to yymmdd mmhhss in AppleScript?


texts: Two different announcements from the same iPhone with the same iTunes connection

texts:
Last time I connected my iPhone to iTunes and I received two different announcements while restoring the iPhone:

first:

  Last archive: Today 21:53

second:

  Last archive:
  Your iPhone has never been backed up to this computer.

Why it happens like that? The second one is not true...


texts:
Following the setup instructions for Tunnelblick I want to open the renamed .tblk file

After opening it nothing happens and no prompt in the tunnelblick app
I suspect this is because I am not opening it as administrator and it is a file downloaded from the internet.

How can I fix this?


texts: Sierra stuck on "Setting Up Account" for hours

texts:
Last to last night, I was upgrading my Macbook Air 13" from Sierra to High Sierra. During the installation (when the software was upgrading), the Mac was taking a lot of time, so I closed the flap and put it on sleep mode (which was a huge mistake, I know). When I opened the laptop again, it was showing the blinking folder with a question mark icon, indicating that the Startup Disk was not found.
After having talked to Apple Care for a long time and looked online, I started the laptop in Recovery Mode, and tried to find my Startup Disk in the Apple Menu but did not find it, so I ran First Aid on my Disk using Disk Utility, it ran perfectly, but I still did not see the disk.
The only solution was to reinstall MacOS. I did this using an external hard drive that I erased and renamed to "Macintosh HD". I then went to Recovery Mode again and cliked on "Reinstall MacOS", and did this from the external hard drive to install High Sierra. I then synced data from the backup external disk (which acted as a Time Machine). Finally, there was an option to sign in to iCloud, and then I got an option to change password of my user account. As soon as I did this, this is what I got:

This has been happening for hours now. What do I do?


texts: does command-option-click on app icon in dock still hide all open windows?

texts:
This apple article explains it.

But it no longer hides all open windows for me under 10.7.4. What could be causing this?


texts: Is there a limit to the number of newsstand apps I can have installed?

texts:
Newsstand seems to be a fancy folder, contianing specific apps. Normal folders on iOS have a limited number of apps which they can contain.

Does newsstand inherit this limit, or does the scrolling shelf bypass this limitation? Is there a hard limit to the number of apps that one can have installed in Newsstand?


texts: QuickTime Player won't save edited file: The operation could not be completed

texts:
I've edited an MP4 movie file in Quicktime Player Version 10.5.

When I try to save the edited file, I get: The operation could not be completed.

Does anyone know what causes this and/or how it can be solved?

macOS Mojave 10.14.2 / Quicktime Player 10.5 / MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)


texts: Why isn't iPhone syncing Calendar items with Outlook?

texts: I am trying to set up a new (Verizon) iPhone to sync Contacts and Calender entries with Outlook 2007 on a Windows Vista Ultimate PC. The Contacts sync both ways, and calendar entries created in Outlook sync to the phone, but calendar entries created on the phone don't sync back to Outlook. I only have one calendar in Outlook. How can I get the calendar items created on the iPhone to sync back to Outlook?


texts:
Converting string to int doesn't work properly in terminal.

I want to find how much time specific string occur in a big string.

if ((echo "iOS/i" | grep -o iOS/ | wc -l | bc)>2) then echo "ThreeOrMore"; else echo"TwoOrLess"; fi

result

ThreeOrMore

But the result actually should be TwoOrLess

but inner part works well

echo "iOS/i" | grep -o iOS | wc -l | bc

result

1


texts: Is it possible to use an iPhone without data?

texts:
I recently started at a new job and now work at home four days a week (I only go in to the office once a week for a company meeting). Because I'm no longer commuting regularly and obviously have wifi in my house, I'm using almost no data on my iPhone 4 anymore. I'm already on the cheaper $15/month data plan with AT&T, but I don't even max that out anymore; as of today, which is halfway through my billing period, I've only used 26 MB out of 200.

So what I'm wondering is, is it possible to just get a Tracfone SIM or something and use that for voice, then disable all 3G/data services on my iPhone? I already use almost no voice minutes as it is (I got the iPhone primarily to use data), and I'm now on wifi almost 100% of the time, so I'd lose basically nothing compared to what I have now - it would just be a fraction of the cost.

I'm assuming there's some catch here that prevents me from doing this, otherwise probably lots of people would be doing the same, but I figured I'd ask!


texts: How do I join a Microsoft Active Directory Domain in OS X?

texts:
I'm having some problems trying to join our university's Active Directory.

Some of the errors I'm receiving are:

  The plugin encountered an error processing request.

  Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation.

  Unable to add server.

  Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation.

  (5202)

  Unable to add server.

  The plugin encountered an error processing request.

  (10001)

Any ideas?


texts: How to retrieve a deleted voice note from iPhone 5s?

texts: I recorded a 5 minute voice memo on my iPhone 5s and when I tapped "stop" I was prompted to give the memo a name. I named it and then I tapped "Delete" instead of "Save", and it disappeared! Noting that I was connected to my MacBook at the time of recording / naming the voice note.  Can I retrieve this recording?


texts: Can I "put" an open tab/page on my iPhone from my Mac?

texts:
I recently, stupidly, deleted all my Safari data on my iPhone and in the process lost all my open tabs (191 in total, yes, that's how I do things).

Anyway, I managed to get to my Mac before it synced and took a backup of the CloudTabs.db file, so I have all the URLs.

So I would like to get some of those tabs back onto the iPhone. Is there any easy way to do this? I have tried copying or dragging URLs into the iCloud Tabs list, but it's not possible. You can only seem to open or delete the tabs on another device.

  The long way would be to open all URLs in Safari on macOS, and then open each one individually in iOS.


texts:
I just noticed today that the icon and name for /Applications/News.app is greyed out in the Finder.  The appearance is consistent no matter which view I use (icon/list/column), and it persists after restarts and system updates.
News.app is the only app on my system that has this appearance.
I can still launch the app, and it seems to work, although it doesn't load any stories.
Why is News.app greyed out in the Finder?

Screenshot


texts: Are Mac OS images (eg. "OS X El Capitan.app") digitally signed? Safe to install from torrent?

texts:
So, I've upgraded OSX to Sierra, but I need to downgrade (long story), and OSX won't let me because I didn't create a Time Machine backup before upgrading.

So I have downloaded the Install OS X El Capitan.app image using BitTorrent.

I assume Apple are wise enough to digitally sign their OS images, such that this is safe. But I would like to know for certain before proceeding.


texts: How can I force my keyboard backlight to turn on?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro. When it senses the ambient light is low, the backlit keyboard turns on, and there are keys that let me control its brightness.

But when enough light reaches the ambient light sensor, the backlight turns off and I can't adjust it:

In some settings the screen may be illuminated, but the keyboard is not well-lit and hard to see, so I'd really like the backlight to turn on. Is there any way to force-enable it?


texts: Output device changed but not getting sound output

texts:
I am using macOS Mojave v10.14.5. After I plugged in my headphones (while the MacBook is not plugged into power and opening KMPlayer to listen music on speakers), I was unable to get the sound output my headphone. Still the actual sound came out from MacBook Pro speakers instead of headphones.
Any idea on this issue?


texts:
I have a long image that's about 8 inches wide by 20 inches tall. It's open in Preview. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get the top half of the image to print on one sheet of letter paper, and the second half to print on the second sheet.

Every time I try, it prints only on one sheet of paper. If I select Scale=100%, it prints a zoomed in part of the middle of the image on one sheet of paper, ignoring the top and bottom of the image. I tried Googling for an answer but the results are bad due to the generic-icity of the words "preview, print, mac, pages" - most of the results I saw were about printing multiple images on one page.

How do I print a PNG across multiple pages?


texts: Sierra installation not starting after download

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 2014 with El Capitan and I tried to upgrade to Sierra. It seems to have downloaded fine, but when I click on install, nothing happens.

In system log, I see the following message:

  10/9/16 10:58:00.621 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.InstallAssistant.Sierra.338272[624]) Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9

Not sure what is going on.


texts: The scenario is that I have a computer whose screen is being projected and visible to an audience. Is it possible to start a Keynote presentation without showing the editor (and thus all the text on the first slide) to the audience? I know Microsoft Powerpoint lets you export a presentation so that opening it immediately starts the presentation. Can Keynote do this?


texts: Backup photos from all devices to iCloud, but do not download them to all devices

texts:
I’ve recently purchased a new Mac Mini, and I’ve been importing my old pictures into the Photos app.

I want to have these photos backed up to iCloud, along with the photos currently on my iPad. I then want everything synced to my Mac Mini, but not to my iPad, which has limited storage capacity.

Is it possible to have the Mac Mini and iPad set up to backup to iCloud, but only download backed-up photos to the desktop?


texts: FaceTime with 2 Phones (work and private) & 1 Apple ID

texts:
I have 2 phones, one is for work and one is private. I use the same Apple ID on both as I don't want to pay for my movies, apps & music twice. When I'm on the plane/train to another one of our offices or a customer, I really want to have access to the movies and music. My problem is I want to separate FaceTime and iMessage on the phones.

Basically what I want is this.

Work phone

FaceTime: Uses my work phone number as Caller ID and can be reached via that and my work email.
iMessage: Uses my work phone number.

Private phone

FaceTime: Uses my private phone number as Caller ID and can be reached by that and my private emails.
iMessage: Uses my private phone number.

Is this even possible?


texts: Why does my terminal open with "Basic" settings

texts:
I have a laptop running OS X 10.9.2 and 10.7.5.

On both I use Terminal extensively.

I have Terminal set up open with Homebrew settings on startup on both 10.7 and 10.9.  The issue occurs when I close all open tabs and Terminal windows with ⌘ + w, so that the app is still running but there are no windows visible.

The behaviour of Terminal on 10.7.5 is as I would expect. When I open a new window with ⌘+n the new terminal window opens with "Homebrew" settings.

The behaviour with 10.9.2 is not what I would expect (maybe I need to have it explained).  Again if all windows are closed but Terminal is left active and I start a new window using ⌘+n the new window has "Basic" settings instead of "Homebrew". I have checked this behaviour and it is consistent on both a MBP and Mini I have running with Maverics.

Is this behaviour normal?

If so, is there a way to modify it, so that Maverics behaves like 10.7?


texts: absolute path to directory accessed by right click 'Show Package Contents'

texts:
In OS X Mountain Lion when you right click on an *.app icon you get an option to 'Show Package Contents' leading you into 'Contents' directory.

I'm having trouble figuring out the absolute path to the 'Contents' directory for a given *.app

Thanks for Help!


texts:
In any computer, there is a bottleneck. The processor, the amount of memory, the bus to the hard drive, etc.

I just ordered a 2010 MacPro, 12 core, and although the 12*3.33 GHz cores should give me more than 3x the performance of my quad 2.8 GHz, I understand it probably won't. I am wondering what the weak link will be and how to improve it. The first thing I'm considering is a PCI card with 2 SSD RAID 0 to run the OS. On my old Pro, I saw amazing boot times from a shift to SSD.
The Mac will have 32GB of RAM, I'm assuming that's enough.

Update - One example of an intensive process is video encoding. How do I find whether writing to the hard drives is the slowdown, i.e. that raid 0 for the hard drives would help the speed?

Any other advice? How do I identify the bottlenecks once this machine is running?


texts: Storing Photos library on Time Machine external hard drive with partitioning

texts:
I have a Photos library on my Mac, which I want to move to an external hard drive in order to save space on my computer's internal hard drive.

I want to move the library to the same drive I use for Time Machine backups.

However, this link says it cannot be done: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201517.

  You can't move your library to a disk that's used for Time Machine backups.

But I assume that means the same volume. If I were to add a second partition to the disk, just for file storage – leaving the first partition for Time Machine backups – would I be able to move the Photos library to this second partition, as well as other files like iTunes library and documents?


texts: How to make keyboard shortcuts work with dual keyboards?

texts:
So I decided to experiment with two keyboards for the ergonomics, which it accomplishes fairly well (so left hand on left side of left keyboard, and right hand on right side of right keyboard). However, it does break the intuitive nature of keyboard shortcuts.

For instance, let's say I do my capitalisation by holding down the right shift key, which would now be done on the right keyboard. If I then press a key of the left keyboard in addition, say the letter Q for instance, then it remains lowercase. If I pressed the left keyboards shift then it would have worked fine, as all held keys are on the same keyboard.

The same applies for pressing cmd on the left keyboard, and space on the right keyboard, spotlight will not appear. As such, modifiers only work on the same keyboard, not across keyboards.

Is there a way at all to have keyboard shortuts take into account the state of all connected keyboards? As otherwise, the inutility of keyboard shortcuts under this model would outweigh the benefit of the ergonomics.


texts: Why can't some contacts be moved between accounts?

texts:
Using the El Capitan Contacts app, I was able to drag and drop several contacts from an Outlook account to a Google account. However, there is one contact that I am unable to drag and drop. It has a bit more information than the others did. The green plus sign does not appear when I drag this contact over the Google account, but that green plus sign does appear when I wave this contact over an iCloud account and another defunct Exchange account.

What is it about this contact that makes it different, and what can I do to drag and drop this contact from my Exchange account onto my Google account?


texts: Mac Mail 11.4 mark as read delay - High Sierra

texts:
Is there a similar solution for Mail App on High Sierra as it was on older versions (I think, Yosemite Mail App). There was a command line to adjust the mark as read delay. See this (for older Mail Apps):

defaults write com.apple.mail MarkAsReadDelay 5

I want to achieve that mails won't be marked as read, directly.


texts: I installed rEFIND Boot Manager, got mysterious Legacy OS thing that doesn't work

texts:
Is there a detailed way to fix and prevent this?
and how do you completely install the 0.11.2 version of rEFInd?
for further detail, it was installed on USB flash drive a few months back. and even now I still can't figure out how to completely install it the right way and keep having uninstall it to reinstall it because I'm honestly lost.
 here is a screen shot after hitting disk util list.

can you see it at bottom?

first thing I tried doing was following and doing these steps here in screenshot. and I got a message telling me at bottom copying sample files and to edit the file to configure refind. I forgot to take screenshot of that but oh well.

but that got nowhere so thought I try mountESP script right after doing step 4 because I didn't get a installation message or, nothing like it, I don't remember seeing one at all. and ESP wasn't mounted after I typed mkdir /volumes/ESP and typing sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/ESP

and still didn't mount. I have screen shot showing message telling me /volumes/ESP is not currently mounted when I tried to unmount it.even tried using mounts script and that didn't even get job done, it didn't mount.I even use a MacBook Air and it's version 10.13.6 because I just a short while ago updated my OS X firmware.

I also tried these commandlines from the answers to a person's question post asking "How can I completely remove rEFInd from my Mac?" before getting that message telling me it's not currently mounted, then I decided to try LibreBowski YouTuber's method afterward thinking I got refind completely removed and uninstalled, I didn't, ran the command lines the youtuber recommended and then drag and dropped the refind-install script and got this:

Messengers-MacBook-Air:~ messengerm$ sudo mkdir /volumes/efi
Password:
Messengers-MacBook-Air:~ messengerm$ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /volumes/efi
Messengers-MacBook-Air:~ messengerm$ /Users/messengerm/Downloads/refind-bin-0.11.2/refind-install
Not running as root; attempting to elevate privileges via sudo....
ShimSource is none
Installing rEFInd on OS X....
Installing rEFInd to the partition mounted at /Volumes/efi
Found rEFInd installation in /Volumes/efi/EFI/refind; upgrading it.
Copied rEFInd binary files

Notice: Backed up existing icons directory as icons-backup.
Existing refind.conf file found; copying sample file as refind.conf-sample
to avoid overwriting your customizations.

Messengers-MacBook-Air:~ messengerm$

also by the way, I did Install refind directly on OS X and still got legacy os zipper icon with an extra real OS X boot icon with small bootable disk logo over OS X(it appears as bootable X icon)

and I should add I mistakenly corrupted my internal apple hdd on Mac mini I previously used. I got other stories about it but I'm not going to mention it in this post.

I honestly used somebody's youtube video for removing refind boot manager utility then after... dumb ol me I got curious, typed
cd /volumes;ls and cd ./efi;ls just to see a minimal text editor pop up because I never saw it before.
sorry.

so my question is how can I truly completely wipe rEFInd off of OS X so I can get it installed completely and successfully so I can add things to it(optionally) and move on to installing another OS?
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texts: How can I add an audio menu in the Finder?

texts: What is the easiest way to add menu item to finder that switched audio from internal to external(headphone). I have to switch back and forth often and going into control panel every time is a pain in Snow leopard. Is there a way to do this with Applescript?


texts: How to benchmark a NAS from a Mac (Neither fio nor bonnie++ work)

texts:
I want to test the performance of a NAS before and after I change its setup. I have found two tools for this, fio and bonnie++.
The problem is that they are both broken on Mac right now (and have been for some time it seems). fio doesn't compile (Due to changes in XCode 8?) and bonnie fails to complete successfully (it fails on machines with more than 1 GB memory and also fails when it tries to clean up the files it created).
How can I test the performance of a NAS on a Mac? I am mostly interested in the relative performance, that is, how much the performance change when I make this change in configuration that I am about to try out, which I assume makes it easier?
(Or does it exist some static compiled fio/bonnie that works on current Mac OS?)


texts: Can I run a terminal on IOS with sandboxed filesystem (w/o jailbreak)?

texts:
Can I run a terminal app on IOS with a sandboxed filesystem (no jailbreak).  E.g. is there an app that allows me to locally install linux on an IOS device (without jailbreak)?

More precisely: I am not looking for an ssh client, but for a way to install locally on IOS e.g. something like homebrew, e.g. to use arbitrary programming languages or emacs or vim or latex or clojure or haskell or etc ;)

So, it would be totally fine, if such an app has its own unix-style file system and only commandline, i.e. no GUI.


texts:
I have a 2 year old iphone 10 - it's never had any major drops or anything, just normal wear and tear.
In the last week, I've noticed the touchscreen either stops responding to taps or seems to be randomly be picking up taps that I didn't actually initiate. This has caused me to 'accidentally' respond to messages, other annoying mishaps, rendering the phone unusable at time.
Is there a diagnostic I can run or some well know remedy. The screen is clean and free of anything debris.


texts: Application appearing on all spaces in Lion

texts:
I had a couple of applications set up to be on all spaces when I was running on Snow Leopard, but now that I'm on Lion I want to turn that off.

I can't work out how to do it. Does anyone know how? There doesn't seem to be an option in System Preferences for it. Perhaps there's a plist or something similar I can edit?


texts:
How can I stop a program, for instance Slack, which can have some significant loading time, stealing focus when it's finished loading?

If I start Slack, then switch focus during its loading time, the program steals focus when it's done loading. It drives me nuts.

Is there a way to prevent this behavior?


texts:
I installed the Security Update 2020-001 for High Sierra. As a result of this, I am no longer able to use sudo. It just exits with the message

sudo: 4294967295: invalid value

As requested, here are the two id results:

> id $(whoami)
uid=501(my_username) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),
    61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),
    98(_lpadmin),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),
    100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),
    398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh)

> id root
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),4294967295(nogroup)

The culprit seems to be root being in the nogroup group which has an "invalid" id.

Having a look at /etc/group, the group has an id of -1.

> grep nogroup /etc/group
nogroup:*:-1:

Figured out how to list group memberships on macOS:

> dscl . read /Groups/nogroup
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default
GeneratedUID: ABCDEFAB-CDEF-ABCD-EFAB-CDEFFFFFFFFF
Password: *
PrimaryGroupID: -1
RealName:
 No Group
RecordName: nogroup
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Groups

The group does not have any members. And I don't seem to be able to find the root user on this system:

> dscl . read /Users/root
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14136 (eDSRecordNotFound)

New question: How do I remove root from the nogroup?


texts: Individual terminal tabs running emacs become buggy/corrupted over time

texts:
I generally work with a terminal window with a half-dozen tabs open, and that window lives for a week or so.  Every once in a while, tabs (running emacs) become corrupted or something [every other line is missing, new text appears as blank spaces, first few lines are missing, etc] --- where emacs no longer accurately displays what's in the file, and modifications don't appear correctly (while the files themselves always seem to be fine).  Only individual tabs are effected, and I've only noticed problems in emacs.  New tabs always work fine, so closing the tab and opening a new one effectively works-around the problem.

This has only happened since I upgraded to Mountain Lion.

Has anyone had similar problems?
I'm having trouble even coming up with directions or search-terms to try to investigate the problem; does anyone have any suggestions?


texts: how to install ubuntu 12.0 on MacOS with multi-boot menu

texts: Hey guys I need to install ubuntu on my Macbook but I have not got the ideas how to separate hdd disk in right order (size and disk formats and of course utilities). At now MacOS 's installed correct. My final goal - installed correct two OS with multi-boot (mac is primary one) Please give some correct steps how must i do it. Many thanks


texts: How can I run multiple Skype accounts in one computer?

texts:
I would like to run multiple Skype accounts in one computer at the same time. Is there an option to do that?

It is just to separate personal Skype from business Skype.


texts: How to determine original location of file that is currently in the Trash?

texts:
Suppose some file "Any File.pdf" is in the Trash (aka ~/.Trash).

How can I determine its original location?

By "original location" I mean the folder where that file would be moved to if one were to apply the "Put Back" command to it (but without actually doing so)?  (See figure below.)

(I had hoped that this information would be available through running "Get Info" on the file, but I did not find it there.)


texts: Positioning of items when repeatedly pasting in Keynote

texts:
Keynote has a really nice feature that I often use. If I (1) copy a shape, (2) paste it, (3) position the pasted item one centimetre to the right of the original (for example), and then (4) press CMD-V again, a new copy of the item will appear one centimetre to the right of the copy. This is great, because it makes it easy to make a nice line of copies with even spacing...

...except that it only happens about half the time. The rest of the time, pressing CMD-V a second time will produce a new copy in a different, unpredictable location. Clearly there's something that I'm doing differently in these cases, but I can't work out what it is.

Does anyone know if this feature has a name, and whether there's any specific instructions for activating it? I know there are other options for creating aligned copies of an object (e.g. Arrange -> Align Objects), but I find this way to be a particularly useful one.


texts: Is there a way to use iCloud photos as mostly online (reduce local storage usage)

texts:
I'm helping a friend switch from Google Photos to Apple Photos so they can use the tagging features and have a more seamless experience across phone, ipad, and macbook.  I am working on importing 200gb of photos into the Photos app (didn't realize there was a way on the icloud website to upload directly).  Their hard drive is getting full, and I can't seem to find a setting that tells the Photos app to delete local copies and only download as needed, similar to how FileStream works with Google, or using the google photos app.
Is there no way to do this with iCloud and the Photos app?  We both assumed they could continue having most items archived in cloud storage.


texts:
I need to stress my rMBP components (e.g. CPU/GPU/RAM) without loading any additional software tools.

Background - My rMBP has a hardware fault (similar to this issue) which causes system freezes that only manifests itself once it has been in use for hours and is under daily load (freezes 4/5 times a day on average) - I can use geekbench which causes the system to freeze quite quickly but want to reproduce the error quickly with no 3rd party software installed so to show genius team that the problem can be reproducible of a fresh install of High Sierra & without any 3rd party software installed just to speed up the process of diagnoses & eliminate user error.

Currently I'm watching 4K youtube videos & visiting greensock.com to get Safari to stress & trying to open photos but the machine isn't even noticing the extra load!


texts: When backing up many Macs to one hard drive, must the hard drive be partitioned for each Mac?

texts:
I'm getting a 5TB drive which I plan on using for backing up all my media, and my OS/config for my machines. The backup tool is Carbon Copy Cloner. I currently have two Macs but may get a third one and I'm wondering:

Since the laptops have different OSs and configurations, do I have to partition my 5TB drive for each of these like this:

╔════════════════════════╗
║ 500GB - Mac #1 Backup  ║
║════════════════════════║
║ 500GB - Mac #3 Backup  ║
║════════════════════════║
║ 500GB - Mac #2 Backup  ║
║════════════════════════║
║                        ║
║                        ║
║ 3500GB - All Media     ║
║ (movies, music, pics)  ║
║                        ║
║                        ║
║                        ║
╚════════════════════════╝

...Or, is it safe to put all three machine backups onto the same partition like this:

╔════════════════════════╗
║                        ║
║                        ║
║ 1500GB - 3 Mac Backups ║
║                        ║
║                        ║
║════════════════════════║
║                        ║
║                        ║
║ 3500GB - All Media     ║
║ (movies, music, pics)  ║
║                        ║
║                        ║
║                        ║
╚════════════════════════╝

I'm suspicious that the former is necessary for the purposes of restoring from a backup so the partitions are "bootable," but I don't understand why this may be needed. If possible, I'd like to use the latter partitioning configuration and just use folders to differentiate between the various Mac backups. Then if something goes wrong, I have the files that I can just drag into place on the machine that I need to restore.

Note that I am using redundancy with two other 1TB backups but I don't want to rely on those for restoration, only for storing duplicates of my media.


texts: Mac completely freezes when waking up from sleep

texts:
When I wake my MacBook Pro 15 inch up from a long period of time (2-5 hours) of sleep, my Mac shows a black screen (there is clearly some backlighting, so its on, just showing only black), and my Touchbar is on. However, it responds to absolutely no input: the trackpad, keyboard all have no effect. The Touchbar and the screen are both completely frozen.

A restart does seem to put everything back to normal, however. I should also add that in the events that my Mac had these sleep issues, the case was open. Whenever I shut my MacBook, physically, and leave the lid down, I notice no issues whatsoever. I've left my mac on sleep with the lid down for hours at end (traveling, or when I'm asleep) with zero issues whatsoever. Statistically speaking, I only experience issues when the lid is left up the and the Mac falls asleep.

I should note that I've already asked a similar question before, where my screen was instead showing a repetitive pattern, rather than a black screen. The link: 15 inch MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave woke up with blue screen from sleep

As of that previous question, I have run a diagnostic with no issues found.

I don't know if the problem is hibernation or anything like that, but here is the relevant info:

❯ pmset -g
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 standbydelaylow      10800
 standby              1
 womp                 1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 proximitywake        1
 powernap             1
 gpuswitch            2
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 sleep                1
 hibernatemode        0
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 tcpkeepalive         1
 highstandbythreshold 50
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

❯ pmset -g assertions
2019-06-15 23:03:12 -0700
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 354(useractivityd): [0x0000042d00018358] 00:00:01 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "BTLEAdvertisement"
    Timeout will fire in 58 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
   pid 352(sharingd): [0x000003c70001834e] 00:01:43 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "Handoff"
   pid 100(hidd): [0x0000002900098145] 00:00:00 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968616.3"
    Timeout will fire in 600 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
Kernel Assertions: 0x104=USB,MAGICWAKE
   id=504  level=255 0x4=USB mod=12/31/69, 4:00 PM description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.14300000 owner=USB Receiver
   id=505  level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=6/15/19, 10:56 PM description=en0 owner=en0
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

More information on my system:

Hardware: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4, Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB, Radeon Pro 555X
Software: I have Xcode installed, and the apps running in the background were  Spotify and iTerm.


texts: Download all music in Apple Music library (iOS 10)

texts: I just got a new phone on iOS 10 and I have an Apple Music subscription. I have the setting turned on to automatically download music when it is added, but all the existing music in my library hasn't downloaded. Is there a way to make it download everything, or do I have to do it manually album by album?


texts: Gained My Daughter's Contacts... Lost Mine!

texts: My daughter gained my contacts on her iPhone.  When she noticed this she deleted all of my contacts from her phone and now I find that when she performed that, I lost all of my personal contacts and am left with only the contacts on her phone.  If I restore how do I know I am not restoring back to her contacts? How do I make my phone the primary and RESTORE to get my contacts back and not hers?


texts: Can't connect to Samba Share on Linux File Server as a Guest user

texts:
I have a File Server (Linux, Mint) running Samba which allows Windows machines on the network to connect as a Guest and read / write files to the shared folder.

I have a Mac book running El Capitan. This is unable to connect to the server and on trying to do so gives the following error

There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.0.7"
Check the server name or IP Address...

I have tried using all of the following connection strings

smb://192.168.0.7
smb://192.168.0.7/share
smb://user:password@192.168.0.7
smb://user:password@192.168.0.7/share

cifs://192.168.0.7
cifs://192.168.0.7/share
cifs://user:password@192.168.0.7
cifs://user:password@192.168.0.7/share

But without any success.

I can successfully connect using a username and password and am able to read/write but I am just unable to connect as a guest.

The windows (xp) machines on the network can connect as a guest and can read/write without any issues.


texts: The Safari app has disappeared from my iPhone?

texts: I can't find the safari icon on my iphone 4?  I have tried resetting home screen layout and that doesn't work.  My restrictions button is 'on' and it asks for a password for this button.  I don't have a password.  Can you help? Thanks,


texts: I need to swap a colour with transparency

texts: I have an image and I would like to be able to make white transparent, is this possible using Preview in Mac OSX Catalina?


texts: How can I run homebrew from an automation?

texts: This is my automation script, the commands work fine when I run them from Terminal.


texts: How do I prevent TGZ archives from being automatically un-gzipped upon download?

texts:
I use Safari on Mac OS Lion, and one behavior I find rather annoying is that it insists on automatically un-gzipping TGZ archives when I download them. It doesn't untar them; it just uncompresses them, which is virtually useless. Ideally, it wouldn't uncompress them at all, but if it would uncompress and untar them I could live with that.

I'm aware that I can uncheck the "Open 'safe' files after downloading" option in Safari to false, but that also means giving up such niceties as PDFs automatically opening when I download them. Is there a more tailored solution?


texts: Can I daisy chain Thunderbolt to FireWire 800 to FireWire 400

texts:
If I had a FireWire 400 DVD drive connected (via a FireWire 400-800 cable) to a FireWire 800 hard drive that was then connected via a Thunderbolt to FireWire 800 adapter to a Thunderbolt hard drive, that was then connected to a Mac, would I be able to use all the drives?
And would I get Thunderbolt speeds on the Thunderbolt drive and FireWire 800 speeds on the FireWire drive?
Also all the drives are powered externally.


texts:
I want to change the colors that appear in the dropdown here:

If I open the Colors window and select another color, nothing changes. The steps outlined for older versions of Keynote don't work.

Thanks!


texts: Better touch tool disables three finger drag. Why?

texts:
When both better touch tool and three finger drag are activated, the three finger drag becomes unresponsive sometimes.

The issue is resolved by restarting better touch tool, but it occurs again around a half day after.

I love both better touch tool and three finger drag feature. Does anybody know how to fix this?


texts: How to restore bash history function in macOS Sierra

texts: I installed Sierra OS on my iMac without any troubles. But, when I open Terminal, I can't scroll through the bash history when pressing the up arrow.