texts: Run bash command with current URL as parameter from Firefox and/or safari

texts:
I'd like to be able, without much hassle, add a video to my Miro Download-queue.

From bash I can do this by entering

open -a Miro.app http://vimeo.com/24398084

Now I'd like to do this from within Firefox, preferrably a one-click approach. Is there a firefox addon I could use? Some automator mechanism I could trigger?


texts: Move "Favorites" font collection to another machine

texts: On my old laptop I had a moderate-sized collection of "favorites" fonts that I've set over the past few years. The laptop is now gone, but I have a disk image with the entire contents of the hard drive. Is there a way I can copy the fonts that were in the "Favorites" collection to my new computer? Put another way, is there a file I can copy from one machine to the other which contains my "Favorites" fonts collection? Thanks!


texts: How can I install Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) on a Mac without a DVD drive?

texts:
I have an iMac G3 that does not have a DVD drive, which was gifted to me along with install media for Mac OS 10.0-10.4. When I received it, it had Mac OS 10.4 on it, but I have since wiped the hard drive and am installing my way back up to it (I'm currently on 10.3).

However, I'm not sure how to install Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) since it comes on a DVD, but this iMac doesn't have a DVD drive. The original owner said something about how they put Tiger on an iPod to install it, but didn't remember the details. I could probably scrounge up an iPod if I need to, but I'd also be interested to know if there are other ways to install Tiger on a Mac without a DVD drive.


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Provisioning profiles are available in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles.

But, when creating a Certificate Signing Request, where are the public and private key stored on Mac OS?

Meaning, what are the exact location of these (i.e. the path)?


texts: Time Machine drive doesn't mount; exit code 8

texts:
My Time Machine backup disk is borked. Normally, I'd just reformat and re-run the backup, but that disk also has a folder of pictures separate from the Time Machine files that I need to recover.

The Seagate "FreeAgent" 1.5 TB external HD doesn't mount. DiskUtility reports "File system check exit code is 8." and suggests repairs. Repairs (via DiskUtility), of course, don't work, so Disk Utility tells me to "Backup as many files as possible, restore the disk ... [etc.]" I'd love to, and am happy to reformat, if I can pull a single folder of pictures from the drive.

My Google-fu is weak with this one. Some pages have suggested ddrescue, but that's a bit beyond my ken, and I only need one root folder recovered, not the entire backup drive.

OS X 10.10.3


texts: Any way to have file-specific spelling and grammar checking in Pages?

texts:
I often have several documents open at the same time in Pages: some technical and some more typical essays.
I'd like spell check to be ON for the essays and OFF for the technical docs.
Is there any way to have the Check Spelling and Grammar preference specific to a certain file? It seems to change globally when I select it in the menu, no matter which document is in the foreground.


texts: Toggle Show Date and Time via AppleScript

texts:
How can I toggle the "Show date and time in menu bar" option via AppleScript. I'm using OSX 10.10.4.

I am looking for a working example in AppleScript.


texts: 4SNS TCBC - Which Mac Pro sensor is that?

texts:
Briefly my Mac Pro (4,1 Early 2009 ) stopped booting which I eventually traced to the plastic clip holding the north bridge down failing. Seems to be a common issue.

Replaced the clips and now it will boot again and is stable but refuses to run the 2nd CPU. Kernel boot messages show it's there but disabled.

Apple hardware test gives error of 4SNS/1/40000000: TCBC-252:000 which from various sites on the net I understand to mean

4SNS - Sensor
TCBC
|----- Temperature
 |---- CPU
  |--- CPU B ?
   |-- C ?`

Any idea on the numbers ?

Can anyone help me diagnose here, is it new Heatsink time or new Logic board time. Neither is great but a heatsink is much cheaper than a logic board.Is it something else that's fixable ?

Both CPUs verified good in socket A.
All RAM verified good in Socket A RAM slots.
No diagnostic LEDs lit.
New thermal paste everywhere
SMC reset
PRAM reset

EDIT: RAM Clarification
EDIT: Things done
Thanks


texts: How can I get Final Cut Pro to reload my Motion projects without restarting it?

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I often switch back and forth between working on a Final Cut project and working on a Motion generator or title I use in that project. If I make changes to the Motion project, I have to restart Final Cut to see those changes reflected in the instances of the generator or title already in the timeline.

Is there a way to get Final Cut to reload the Motion files without restarting it?


texts:
My iMac abruptly stopped making any sounds while I was using Garageband. I think I had a microphone and headphones plugged in at the time.

I have tried everything that is written online: Safe mode, rebooting, fiddling with the output port trying to find the "switch", even launching, creating and saving projects in Garageband (because somebody said that worked). But the problem remains. The computer makes no sound, not even when I plug headphones in. When I go to System Preferences > Sound > Output, the only option available is "Headphones", although I don't have headphones plugged in.

Any suggestions?


texts: Is there a solution for Quick Look's audio playback 'fade in' issue?

texts:
Playing the same audio file twice in Quick Look often adds an annoying "fade in" effect which makes it impossible to browse samples and comparing sound files by up/down arrow keys. This is especially problematic when dealing with short samples (like hihats for instance), in which you may not even hear the sound the second time you're playing it.

Again, this is mostly affecting Quick Look when using arrow keys. If you play a file, then hit space (closing Quick Look) and wait for about a second, you might hear the full sound once again. But this whole flaw is really making Quick Look less useful for previewing short sound files.

I'm either looking for a way to 're-engineer' Quick Look (though I don't know if there are any settings or something to alter), or any 3rd party extension/plugin that might alleviate or fix the problem.


texts: Colors by file type in terminal (running bash)

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I'm new to Apple (coming from Linux) and have been stymied in every attempt to use my .bash_profile to get my terminal to color files by their extension (a process which was a single line in my .cshrc file!).  I've had some promising leads via google searching, but all end up having a fatal flaw (e.g., requiring dircolors, which in and of itself has led me on several seemingly doomed google searches, or tweaks on "export LSCOLORS" commands which don't seem to get any further than coloring directories, etc).

I'm on OS X 10.9.2.  I've installed coreutils and MacPorts.  Can someone point in me in the right direction?

Edit:  In case it wasn't clear, I'd like to be able to specify that, e.g., .tex files appear red, .txt files appear green, .pdf files appear blue, etc., when viewed in a terminal via ls.

Edit2:  Just to show I've done my research (or some research), here's the superuser question and answer which addresses this for Linux.  The coreutils idea for replicating this on OSX does not seem to actually give me dircolors, or suggest an option for progressing in its place.

https://superuser.com/questions/468966/colouring-output-of-ls-according-to-file-extension/468969#468969


texts: Select different credit card for work related App store purchase

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I'm using my personal laptop & iCloud account for my work as a software developer. My company would pay for a separate laptop but I choose to use my own for convenience. Also, saves me the trouble of not having to re-purchase some of the 100 or so apps and copy over settings, etc.

Going forward, is it possible to add a new credit card to my iCloud account (my work spending account card) and choose this card when I buy apps strictly related to my work and my personal card for all other purchases?

I'm trying to avoid having to create a new iCloud account just to keep the purchases separate. If that's the only way, would it make sense for me to add my own work account as a "family account" so that I can share purchases with my original account?


texts: Is there a way to view just symbolic links that I've created?

texts:
I've noticed my iCloud storage is full even though I only have roughly ~2GB of data in there. When I view my iCloud storage I notice that both my desktop and my documents seem to be listed twice - once on the sidebar under 'iCloud' and also within the 'iCloud Drive' itself:

Is this normal? Or have I tried to be clever and add a symbolic link to these folders, even though I didn't need to?
Thanks )


texts: Plugging in external monitor "logs out" (crashes?) user session

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When plugging a second external monitor, macOS Sierra "logs out" (crashes?) user session. I get presented with the login window. No error message.

It's not just "show login window", because all apps load anew after logging in (which takes a very loooong time, killing my productivity).

macOS Sierra 10.12.3 (16D32).

DisplayPort external monitors.

MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013, 13".

I don't recall this happening on El Capitan. I upgraded to sierra yesterday.

There is no error message, like "was not closed normally", therefore I believe this is not a duplicate of After Installing El Capitan I Will be Logged Out Frequently (and mine is about Sierra).

I do not see anything interesting in Console logs (although maybe someone could point me to where to look).

What could be causing this?
How to prevent this from happening?

What diagnostics can I do?

Edit: Some other considerations:

I was fiddling with SwitchResX for custom display modes (HiDPI on external displays). As described in: 1280x720 HiDPI resolution for 2560x1440 monitor
there is no corrupted graphics like in the other question(s)

Edit 2: The main monitor is: LG 27UD88-W Monitor 27" UHD 4K USB-C USB 3.0, connected via DisplayPort

Edit 3: The problem also happens when I unplug the monitor (or switch the monitor, in its own menu, to use another input cable)

Edit 4: Also posted on Apple support: https://discussions.apple.com/message/31686056

Edit 5: Also uninstalled SwitchResX (via their menu). Problem still happens!


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My parents are getting on in age and live 100 miles from me so I try to fix their mac issues by logging in remotely use Apple Sharing - screen sharing and file sharing, so I turn it on and leave it on on their iMac. However, after a period of time this fails even though nothing is changed. I get the dialog "There was a problem connecting to the server "iMac".

When I got one of my parents to tell me what was the setting said, it said that anyone can access using the IP address (or VNC or SMB) but gave a local network address, not a full internet address. It seems that its only set for LAN network connections? Any idea how this is fixed?


texts: Macbook Pro camera not working green light flickering

texts:
I am the culprit, I heard my camera could be accessible to hackers, so used code in the Terminal to turn the camera off. I never needed the camera until today!

I've tried:

sudo killall VDCAssistant & AppleCameraAssistant command, returned - no matching processes were found
Reset the SMC
Rebooted macbook in safe mode
Repaired disk using Disk Utility


texts: Is it possible to select Terminal output by using keyboard keys?

texts:
Often I like to copy output from the terminal into the clipboard.

Currently I'm using the mouse. Select the text so that it is marked. Then "command" plus "c".

In a text-editor or text-processing software you can use the "shift" key (keep it pushed) together with the arrow keys for selecting text. So one needs the mouse less and can keep the hands on the keyboard.

On the terminal that doesn't work. Keeping the "shift" key pushed and pushing the arrow keys just creates this: ;2C;2B;2A;2D;2D;2D;2D;2D

Hexadecimal numbers obviously. Does anyone knows the meaning?

But my actual question is:

Can one select terminal output via keyboard?

Similar to what I have described concerning text-editors.


texts: Does there exist any free software to play multichannel WAV on macOS

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I'm trying to play a 4-channel WAV to 4 speakers (L&R of 2 USB soundcards).

It is possible to use Audio MIDI Setup app to create an aggregate output device.

Supposing I have such a .WAV file, how to go about playing it?


texts:
I am thinking of purchasing a 13" rMBP. It has two cores. My question is, are two cores enough ? there are other laptops with 4 cores at much cheaper rates available. How does apple seem to pull it off with only 2 cores ? will the performance of a rMPB and a quad core(similar specs) have the same performance?

and, is it worth buying the 2 cores ?


texts: Are Passbook Passes Available Outside the Sandbox?

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With Third Party software, or manually mounting the iPhone to your computer, it's possible to access a limited amount of information. Music, Photos, and App Data. Without breaking the Sandbox, you can never get to the OS itself, and certain data stores.

Are Passbook Passes accessible within this Sandbox? I'd be awesome to see what data is actually contained within them.


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below I give a strange linker error that I am receiving with Xcode 11.2.1 on macOS 10.15.1.

Any thoughts on the error?

Some similar errors reported online suggests this is a problem that can be rectified by completely deleting Xcode and installing fresh.      As far as I know, I only have the developer tools installed. Can someone tell me the complete steps for complete removal of Xcode 11.2.1?
Then I would like to either reinstall Xcode or replace the Xcode developer tools with replacements from homebrew - is that possible?

0x1057be198  __assert_rtn + 127

1  0x1057023da  ld::tool::InputFiles::findDylib(char const*, ld::dylib::File const*, bool) + 740

2  0x1056797e4  generic::dylib::File<x86_64>::processIndirectLibraries(ld::dylib::File::DylibHandler*, bool) + 76

3  0x10570369d  ld::tool::InputFiles::createIndirectDylibs() + 307

4  0x1057045a9  ld::tool::InputFiles::forEachInitialAtom(ld::File::AtomHandler&, ld::Internal&) + 651

5  0x105713016  ld::tool::Resolver::resolve() + 44

6  0x1056a1044  main + 794

A linker snapshot was created at:

/tmp/DDCPPoisson-2019-10-14-174419.ld-snapshot

ld: Assertion failed: (counter() < 0xffff), function nextCounter, file /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/ld64/ld64-520/src/ld/ld.hpp, line 313.

clang-9: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

make[3]: *** [bin/DDCPPoisson] Error 1

make[2]: *** [bin/CMakeFiles/DDCPPoisson.dir/all] Error 2

make[1]: *** [bin/CMakeFiles/DDCPPoisson.dir/rule] Error 2

make: *** [DDCPPoisson] Error 2


texts: iTunes "smart" playlists - unable to limit filter to any other existing playlists

texts:
Someone has already asked this question about a month ago, and he did a fine job of explaining it and it is EXACTLY what is happening to me. Here is the link to the original post.

I am posting this here now (I'm sorry if you consider it a "duplicate") because I want to add more info to his problem and it's not allowing me to comment on his post since I'm a brand new member.

My new info - I have tried everything - deleting, moving, uninstalling... NOTHING has worked. The last step I tried was to completely remove EVERY single piece of Apple software, AppData, user files, etc. from my machine. No dice. I'm using the latest Windows 10 with iTunes 12.5.5.5.

I also had my Apple pro buddy try and help me since he has worked at the Apple Store in Tokyo forever, and he couldn't figure it out. But that may likely just be because he's been a Mac guy his whole life and has no Windows experience.

And now my smart playlists that WERE working using the playlist filter are gone forever... Thanks, Apple...

If anyone can help I will be extremely grateful.


texts: How can i turn mobile data on without going into the settings?

texts: I have recently purchased an Iphone 5s, when i turn the mobile data on and off i have to go into the settings. Is there any way i can do it easier? I have tried flicking up from the top and bottom, however cannot find an easier way.


texts: Do /etc/resolver/ files work in Mountain Lion for DNS resolution?

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Can anyone tell me if adding a file under /etc/resolver will work for DNS resolution using a DNS server other than what is handed out via DHCP ?

My issue is that I want to use OpenDNS for a clients home DNS resolution in order to take advantage of the filtering and anti scam capabilities but the massive disadvantage is that here in Australia things such as Apple content are delivered by a CDN (Akamai) which will then server content using a US based delivery point.

What I want to do is have the DNS server address handed out via DHCP to be the local router address (DNSMasq using OpenDNS DNS servers) and then, for example, place a file called apple.com under /etc/resolver with the following line:

nameserver 203.12.160.35

The idea is that any DNS request to apple.com would be resolved by a TPG (my ISP) DNS server rather than the local routers DNSMasq daemon using OpenDNS servers.

So I have done this and the output of scutil --dns is:

DNS configuration

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : harland
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.10.1
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.10.1
  if_index : 4 (en2)
  reach    : Reachable,Directly Reachable Address

resolver #2
  domain   : local
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300000

resolver #3
  domain   : 254.169.in-addr.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300200

resolver #4
  domain   : 8.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300400

resolver #5
  domain   : 9.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300600

resolver #6
  domain   : a.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 300800

resolver #7
  domain   : b.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  order    : 301000

resolver #8
  domain   : apple.com
  nameserver[0] : 8.8.8.8

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : harland
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.10.1
  nameserver[1] : 192.168.10.1
  if_index : 4 (en2)
  flags    : Scoped
  reach    : Reachable,Directly Reachable Address
macbookair:resolver

Now the output of an nslookup on apple.com is:

macbookair:resolver ilium007$ nslookup apple.com
Server:     192.168.10.1
Address:    192.168.10.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   apple.com
Address: 17.149.160.49
Name:   apple.com
Address: 17.172.224.47

macbookair:resolver

So I am not using the TPG DNS server - I am still resolving against 192.168.10.1 which is the local router. Does the order of the resolvers matter ? ie. the entry created after I place the apple.com file in /etc/resolver is resolver #8:

resolver #8
  domain   : apple.com
  nameserver[0] : 8.8.8.8

I would really like a way to make this work - any help would be appreciated.


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I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday. Today, all my contacts suddenly vanished. They were working in iOS 7 this morning, but have since disappeared.

I'm not syncing contacts with an external system (Exchange, iCloud, Google, etc.). All of the contacts were on my phone only. They are still in my computer's Address Book, but when I sync to the phone and check the Contacts box under "Replace Information on This Phone," no contacts show up on the phone.

Phone favorites and text messages still exist, but as numbers only.

I could manually reenter them, but if there's an underlying problem, I don't want to spend the effort and then lose them again later.

Most Googling has returned no help for the current version. And solutions are to use things like iSync, which doesn't exist on Lion.


texts:
After installing an add-in (.xla) which worked once, I'm trying to remove it so I can install an updated version.

So far I've:

deleted the .xla
removed the check box in Tools > Add-ins
removed it from the list
Quit Excel completely
reopened Excel.

I get an error that Excel can't find the plugin, it's back in the Add-ons list, and the Add-ins toolbar is still there with the Add-ins buttons.

Did all the same stuff again, this time with a reboot thrown in. No change.

Where is it storing this?
I looked through the plists in the Excel bundle, but couldn't find any references.


texts: How to setup FTP server in Mac OS X Lion Server?

texts:
I found that there isn't any FTP options in Lion Server. How can I setup it up? I would like to restrict .....

Which user can login with FTP server?
Which folder can permitted user access?

I found that I can install vsftpd via homebrew, but I can't find the vsftpd.conf file...

Would anyone here kindly tell me how to do these? Thank a lot.


texts: Connecting external monitor at 1440p to mid-2012 MBP 13"

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Recently I bought Dell S2719DM monitor, which maximum resolution is 2560x1440. I'd like to use it with my mid-2012 13 inch MacBook Pro, so I got Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter - it uses HDMI 1.4 and supports 4K resolution, but when I connect my laptop via HDMI cable included to the monitor and this adapter, the maximum resolution available is 2048x1152.
What's the problem here, should I buy better adapter? If so, what HDMI or DP version should I consider? Will that adapter work in 1440p with my computer?


texts: Cannot delete or merge old boot camp partition in El Capitan

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So i've battled with this for quite some time, look up various topics with various solutions, however i have yet to succeed with merging my partitions into one. I had previously installed windows 10 on it, but after i partitioned for a mutual accessible drive (for dropbox), windows stalled and i had to reformat it, resulting in a sort of "locked" partition.

If i click on "Partition" in Disk Utility, there are two major partitions, where neither of them have the "-" option available(greyed out). I have tried to partition DeleteThis into both ExFat, Fat and Journaled OS X, with no difference.

diskutil list reveals this:

and gpt -r show -l /dev/disk0 shows this:

I've also tried to reboot into recovery mode and use the Disk Utility there, with no different result than from normal.

EDIT: I have of course also tried using Boot Camp Assistant, but it just says "The start disk cannot be partitioned or restored as a single partition".


texts: Poor performance on high-end iMac 5K Retina (October 2015 model)

texts:
I've got an iMac that is performing quite poorly. The specs:

OS X El Capitan
4.0 GHz quad-core (i7)
16 GB RAM

I've tried everything possible to figure out what's going on, to no avail. Typically the machine has a few Adobe apps running (Photoshop, Illustrator), and Google Chrome with a bunch of tabs. Performance becomes horribly bad, rendering Photoshop almost unusable. The odd thing I noticed is that swap starts going up (to 10 GB in some cases) even though the physical RAM is only half exhausted.

Unfortunately I captured this after Photoshop was closed (which seems to help some). But while Photoshop is open, "Mem" is up to about 9-10 GB, and "Swp" can go as high as 10-12 GB.

The Activity Monitor shows a relatively low memory pressure (still in the green), so I'm not sure what the issue is. This is a pretty high-powered machine that shouldn't be exhibiting this behavior. I'm not sure if Adobe is the problem, or there's something wrong with this computer. How do I start to troubleshoot this?

Just to elaborate on the poor performance: simple things take way too long, such as nudging a layer over, or zooming in (as in, over 8 seconds for a simple operation!).


texts: How can I change iTunes country of region when having some credit in my account?

texts:
I moved to Canada and I want to change my country of region from USA to Canada, but when I try to change it ( by click on my account in the iTunes Store and going to my Account Page) it showed me this error:
"You have a store credit balance; you must spend your balance before you can change stores"

I must mention I have redeem 100$ to my account but I don't have any intention to spent it now, what is my option?


texts: How to delete email messages from Spotlight search on iPhone?

texts:
I have a iPhone 4S running iOS 6. Spotlight seems to find deleted e-mails on iPhone, how can I delete e-mails permanently from Spotlight results?

Could this potentially be a bug in iOS 6? I am thinking it sounds like a bug.


texts:
I have downloaded these apps to conveniently shutdown or restart my MAC from spotlight. Usually I used the shutdown app which worked great. Today I used the restart app. Since then my MAC is restarting gives me the login screen, I type the password, the desktop starts to show, and before it finishes loading, boom, another restart.

I noticed that when logging in, the preview app is opened again (it was open when I ran the restart command), so one idea I have, is that somehow the OS is relaunching the restart app, causing a new restart. Yet I'm not sure, could be totally bug from Apple, or anything else.

I did use the restart app in the past a few times without a problem.
The same problem was about two weeks ago, but only one restart happened, then the computer worked fine. I'm not sure, but I think that then I did not use the restart app. But I'm very vague with my memory on this one, because it was only one restart, so I didn't think there is a problem.

I tried, while being on the login screen, to not type the password but press the restart and shutdown buttons at the bottom. Also tried leaving the computer not connected to the electricity for about 3 hours. Nothing changed.

What can I do to get it working again?

In case it makes any difference:

Mac Mini (mid 2011)
Yosemite (updated about a 5-7 weeks ago)


texts: How to change the Mail “Archive” folder for email accounts in El Capitan

texts:
I have set the Apple Mail "Archive" folder to something custom in the past with the help of this question.  However, the  folder that I was previously using is "stuck" as the Archive folder, and my efforts to set them to a new year (I use Archive/{year}) make no difference.

In El Capitan (10.11) it seems that they've changed how settings are stored so my changes to the ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist appear to be being ignored.  I've had a good dig around the new(?) ~/Library/Mail/V3/ and resulting ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/ folders, to no avail.

Unfortunately I'm poking around blindly, so I hoped that somebody here might help.


texts: Sending ePubs from PC to iOS iBooks via iCloud Drive?

texts:
So my goal is to use iCloud Drive to hold all of my ebooks and organize accordingly. On my iPad and iPhone, I have enabled iCloud Drive and by iBooks in Manage iCloud Drive, toggled that on too.

From the PC, using the iCloud for Windows iCloud Drive interface (which essentially looks like Windows Explorer), I dump all of the ePubs into a folder named eBooks (that’s what I named it, but would not be opposed to any other name, really). The ePub files don’t show up in iBooks. If I navigate to settings and iCloud Drive, I can navigate into the ebooks folder and see them that way. Is there something I’m missing?


texts: User accounts broken (in an odd state) since kernel panic in ML

texts:
MBA 11" 2012 model, ML upgraded from Lion

User accounts:

admin
admin
normal user
guest

Working fine for a week or so. Was logged in as 3. (a regular user), and asleep.

When trying to resume the next day, it showed the desktop and just as it became interactive it crashed with a kernel panic - first one I've had.

At the login screen, where all four accounts used to be visible, now only 1. and 4. are available.

In the users & groups system config dialog all accounts are present and look fine. I can log into accounts 2 and 3, but only if I switch user whilst logged into account 1.

Any ideas? Very confused and I don't know enough about how user profiles are built in osx to know what to look for.


texts: Create an automator script to create folder + move files into created folder

texts: Looking to create a service in Automator so when I select multiple files in the Finder, I can in one right-click create a new folder and move the selected files into that newly created folder. This action could include a step that will ask me to name this folder but it's not mandatory. Any idea?


texts: Can I share Ethernet internet connection through Thunderbolt cable?

texts:
I do not want to use WiFi but need to share my iMac's Internet connection (with incoming Ethernet) to my MacBook Pro, using a Thunderbolt cable.

I've connected the two in Network/sharing settings, can share files/screens etc, but the MacBook Pro does not pick up any Internet connection.

I switched on Internet sharing on the iMac, Ethernet → Thunderbolt, but no joy - any ideas?


texts: Can I clone an ESD.dmg file to an external disk without having admin password?

texts:
I have one Mac running 10.7.5 and another running 10.6.8 that can be upgraded to 10.7.5. Unfortunately, I don't have an admin password for either, because the previous owner of the first died suddenly and the owner of the second -- that's me! -- can't remember the password. I'm trying to create a bootable external volume from an ESD dmg file but when I follow the procedures for doing it using the Disk Utility Restore option, it demands a password even though I'm not trying to modify anything on the computer.

Is there any way of getting around this using, perhaps, dd?

If I borrow access to another Mac, does it matter what OS version it's running if I want to use Restore? (I couldn't run the installer on a Mac running 10.11. It said something about operating system incompatability.)


texts: Is there a tweak that lets me delete any photos from my iPhone - including the ones uploaded with iTunes?


texts: Xcode will not open after updating to Xcode 10

texts:
I am on OS 10.13.6 in High Sierra. I just updated from Xcode 9.4.1 to Xcode 10. It now opens the application and instantly quits without me being able to do anything. I am unable to open any projects, playgrounds, files, or even the application itself without it instantly quitting.

Based on these posts: Xcode doesn't start, XCode Hangs at Startup, and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3830815, I have tried the following, but nothing has worked.

Restart my computer
Delete Xcode 10 and redownload from the App Store
Delete Xcode 10 and redownload the .xib from developer.apple.com
Delete Xcode 10 and redownload Xcode 9.4.1 from developer.apple.com
Delete ~/Library/Developer/Xcode
Delete my Xcode preferences from ~/Library/Preferences

After updating to Xcode 10, something must be corrupted as I can no longer open even Xcode 9.4.1.

I have not tried to use a guest user yet as I would like to keep all my projects on my profile. What are other possible solutions to try and get any Xcode running on my computer(, but preferably Xcode 10)?


texts: Mountain Lion email share option opens a secondary Mail application

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I am having a weird issue when I use the share functionality baked into Mountain Lion. Whenever I have a file highlighted in finder and choose the email option to share a file with someone, it decides to "re-open" Mail. Now this is a problem for two reasons. One, having to start Mail up is an unnecessary waste of time if its already open (I always leave Mail running in a side space), and two, some of my accounts wont refresh because there are two simultaneous connections.

Here is a screenshot to better illustrate what is happening:

I select the file, hit share and chose email.

A second Mail app opens and begins to launch displaying the compose box (with the file attached)

It is also visible twice in mission control:

As you can see, Mail is open and running twice. Does anyone know why this is happening? It would be nice to find a way to prevent it.


texts: iOS 11: Voice Control doesn't get turned off completely

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I recently updated my iPhone 6s from iOS 10 to iOS 11.2.

Together with the update the device started really annoying me by turning on Voice Control on headset button press. It gets turned on approximately in 30% of the cases. May be it reacts on a longer presses, but anyway I'd better turn this off.

I used to use this button to play/pause music and it worked perfectly with iOS 10. I also didn't change my habits - I press it in exactly the same way like I did it before.

Voice Control itself is turned off on my device. I used the "Turn off Voice Control on your iPhone" article from the apple documentation to ensure I did it properly.

There is also quote in the documentation:

  If you're using a headset, and it unexpectedly activates Siri or Voice Control, make sure that your headset is fully inserted into the device.

But it is not my case - the headset is fully inserted. I'm also using the headset provided with the device.


texts: Did the shell ( terminal ) change in Catalina?

texts:
My login script is behaving oddly since I moved to Catalina.  Particularly this line:

# set cursor to display path and command count
PS1="<: \w | \! :> "

Now my cursor actually has a \w and a \! in it.  Before in my older Mac from about 4 years ago it would show the path and command count.

Also this command stopped working:

history -c

and gives an error.

I looked at the default shell using

echo $SHELL

and it gave

/bin/zsh

and the current shell using

echo $0

and it gave

-zsh


texts: Installing extended offline dictation fails without error

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I'm trying to download the offline dictation files but I only see the download window (screenshot) and after a while it disappears and the next time if I want to use dictation the same thing happens.

Is there some cache that I can try to clear so that it would download everything from scratch?


texts: How can I use Logitech Options to lock my screen with my MX Ergo?

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On Windows I'm used to locking my screen via a Logitech Mouse Gesture. Unfortunately, I cannot select "Lock Screen" in the menu on MacOS. Is there still another way to lock the screen?

Given that Logitech Options allows me to launch a specific app, is there an App that I can launch to lock the screen?


texts: Airpods microphone is noisy on Macbook (input format: 8 Hz, 1 ch 16 bit, SCO codec)

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Airpods microphone has very poor quality on my Macbook (input format: 8 Hz, 1 ch 16 bit processed by SCO codec):

As a temporary solution, I use the built-in microphone but I'd like to find out how to fix it on Airpods side.

Device info:

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
macOS Mojave 10.14.4
AirPods 1


texts: Why is my iCloud storage full, even after deleting videos?

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I have recently been recording long videos with my iPhone (3 hrs/day). When I've come home, I have transfered the videos to my computer and then deleted them on the iPhone.

Despite this, my iCloud storage has gone from half-full to completely full in a very short time. It doesn't feel right, and while I can't prove it, I think that the long videos haven't been deleted but are still counted.

I have:

Emptied "Recently deleted videos"
Made sure that the long videos aren't present on iCloud on any connected device (including in the "Photos app" on icloud.com)

I do not back up my devices to iCloud – so it can't be that they are lingering there. I also haven't taken any other images except those videos.


texts: Connect Apple 30" Cinema Display to new MacBook USB-C

texts:
I noticed in this thread the OP successfully managed to connect a 30" cinema display to the new Macbook Pro USB-C, with full resolution:

Connect New MacBook (USB-C) to Apple Cinema Display 30" (Dual-Link DVI)

I have the official Apple dual DVI adapter, going to a displayport > USB-C adapter like yours, however the screen does not fire up.

I then tried a multi adapter instead of the single displayport > USB-C, which worked but only at 1280 resolution:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074362CZC

Would the official Apple Dual DVI adapter not work?


texts: How to enable true color mode in an OS X Terminal?

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NeoVim recently added support for True Color mode in terminals that support it. I've tried both Terminal 2.5.3 (343.7) and iTerm 2.1.1, and neither one can display more than 256 colors by default.

This is a script used for testing terminal color capability. When I run it, the 3-byte color mode section at the bottom is just black and green, indicating that support is absent.

Is there a way to enable True Color mode in any OS X Terminal application?


texts: What is the source of air pollution data in the Weather app?

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I'm in Mexico, and today I looked at my phone and saw this:

It's the Weather app that came with iOS 13. Is there any way to find out what the specific pollutant is? If there is no way within the app, does anyone know where the data is from, so I can go find details?

There is an icon for the Weather Channel down in the bottom, so I went to that web site (weather.com) and searched for the city. I don't see any pollution data.

I searched the web and found this: https://aqicn.org/. But they have no data for this particular city, so that's probably not the source either.


texts: Use Time Machine disk as regular disk without deleting all the files

texts: I have a disk that was a Time Machine backup for some photo files.  I now want to use that disk as a regular disk.  Can I do that without erasing the photo files?


texts:
I installed Wine Mono from its Git page (by git clone), their README file says

To build Wine Mono, use the msi or bin target.
$ make msi

So I go to the directory (cd) then do make msi it outputs:
GNUmakefile:54: *** 'wine' command not found. Please install wine or specify its location in the WINE variable.  Stop.

so I follow the other option make bin
GNUmakefile:54: *** 'wine' command not found. Please install wine or specify its location in the WINE variable.  Stop.

so I try make /bin, and the sane happens.
Am I doing something wrong, also I may not have one of the dependencies, I do not know what are

libgdiplus, to support Mono's resource compiler.
The dos2unix command.

And I use a macOS 10.15.7 so I may not have (I don't know what is autotools, and I can install CMake again if required)

All of the dependencies of Mono for your native (presumably Linux)
system, such as autotools, CMake and a C++ compiler.

EDIT: It also throws errors about libgnutls, like this:
0009:err:winediag:gnutls_initialize failed to load libgnutls, no support for encryption


texts: What is "Television" in System Information report for an external monitor (that is not actually a TV)?

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The System Information report for Graphics/Displays on my MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2013) shows the following info for the internal screen and for an external Acer monitor.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M:

  Chipset Model:    NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
  Type: GPU
  Bus:  PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:  x8
  VRAM (Total): 2048 MB
  Vendor:   NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:    0x0fe9
  Revision ID:  0x00a2
  ROM Revision: 3776
  gMux Version: 4.0.8 [3.2.8]
  Displays:
Color LCD:
  Display Type: Retina LCD
  Resolution:   2880 x 1800 Retina
  Retina:   Yes
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display: Yes
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Built-In: Yes
Acer H236HL:
  Resolution:   1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz (1080p)
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Display Serial Number:    LX1AA0034210
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Rotation: Supported
  Television:   Yes

What is the meaning of that last item, Television: Yes? This hardware is not actually a TV, just a display with HDMI, DVI, and VGA inputs.

I understand that modern TVs are indeed just monitors with an OTA tuner and speakers implanted. But I wonder, given the lack of a tuner, what the meaning of that item in the report specifically means.


texts: See other months on Apple Watch Calendar?

texts: How can I see months other than the present one on an Apple Watch in the built-in Calendar app?


texts: How to not have thumbnails overlap in Finder?

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How can you drag thumnails around in Finder so that they can't overlap other thumbnails.

Even when "Snap To Grid" is set, thumbnails just snap on top of other ones.  I don't quite know how this would even be useful.

What I'd like is the typical thing where as you drag it to a spot it opens a hole in the grid for it to be and everything to the right of it is shifted over


texts: Where are images metadata and album data stored on iPhone? and how to extract them?

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I am trying to connect to my iPhone via iTunesMobileDevice.dll and other libraries provided by iTunes. So far I am able to reach the file system and copy images from iPhone. However images are stored in directories titled 101APPLE to 109APPLE and the filesystem looks something like this:

...
/PhotoStreamsData/.MISC
/PhotoStreamsData/.MISC/Incoming
/DCIM
/DCIM/101APPLE
...
/DCIM/.MISC
/DCIM/.MISC/Timelapse
/DCIM/.MISC/Incoming
...
/PhotoData/Metadata
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/109APPLE
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/108APPLE
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/107APPLE
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/106APPLE
/PhotoData/AlbumsMetadata
...

Now I need to extract the Album data as well and rearrange my images in the related albums which I have made on my iPhone.

My question is that where the album data (and other metadata about images like time or ...) is stored? and how is it possible to extract them?

Extra Information to Clarify My Question:

I need information about iOS File System. Specifically about how and where iOS keeps data about photo albums, i.e. which photos belong to which albums? the date that photos are taken, etc. Finally I need to be able to rearrange the folders which are like above into what we see on the iPhone Gallery. something like this:

Photo Gallery:
- Album1:
    -IMG_001.JPG
    -IMG_002.JPG
    -IMG_003.JPG
- Album2:
    -IMG_002.JPG
    -IMG_004.JPG
    -IMG_005.JPG


texts: How to take back control of screenshot functionality from Dropbox?

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I have dropbox installed and it forces all screenshots to be saved to a Screenshots folder inside the Dropbox directory.

I have checked the options that are available when you press Command + Shift + 5, but it still says screenshots are being saved to Desktop. This is however in practice not the case.

Dropbox has hijacked the process. How can I take back control, short of uninstalling dropbox, which I do not wish to do?


texts: How to PRINT web page in larger font type?

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I need to print a web page for a person with bad eyesight. I don't want to change my Safari font settings, as I can see web pages just fine. I only want to print the web page in a larger size.

I have upscaled the font size in the print settings to a larger percentage, say 150% for example - however, the result cuts off the edges into different printed pages, rather than actually scaling the text and fitting it to the pages properly.

For example, this web text appears in the normally scaled print size as:

However, when scaled to 150%, page 1 of the print preview shows:

And, page 2 of the print preview shows:

You can see how the text is cut off on the right side and moved to the next page.

What I want is the text to be enlarged and scaled so that even if only a few words fit on a line, say, the print will still flow downwards appropriately:

  "Cabbage leaves are stuffed with ground beef,
  rice, then simmered in tomato soup. Works
  great in the oven or a slow cooker. Serve with
  ...

  -the image might flow down to here-

and so on...


texts: I have deleted all my pics including from recently deleted and i have 45GB in icloud but still my photos are taking up a lot of space even though there is nothing in the photo album. Please help urgent issue!!


texts: How to change lock screen wallpaper in macOS Catalina?

texts: Is it possible to change lock screen (not login screen, I mean the one triggered by Ctrl+Cmd+Q) wallpaper to different one than desktop wallpaper?


texts:
I'm soon planning to build a iPhone 6, but before ordering random parts, I've made a list of parts needed to have an nice overview.

A list of what parts are needed:

Housing
LCD Screen + digitizer
Motherboard
Battery
Volume button flex
Power button flex
Home button + flex
Volume, Power and Home button spacers
Vibration motor
Audio and Dock connector
Front camera, sensor + flex
Back camera
GPS

Am I missing some parts for the build? I so, can you please let me know. Is there maybe a list of the iPhone parts somewhere on the internet?


texts: enabling javascript in Chrome using an AppleScript

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Is it possible to enable Javascript in Chrome aside from manually scrolling through the View menu?  I tried scripting it, but it didn't execute or list any errors:

activate application "Google Chrome"
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Google Chrome"

        select menu item "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" of menu 1 of menu item "Developer" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1

    end tell

end tell


texts: Google Chrome keeps opening at login even after turning 'open applications at login' setting off for Chrome in Big Sur

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I'm only facing this issue in Big Sur as this problem didn't occur before in Catalina.
I'm currently using Mac OS version 11.0.1


texts: Linking my mac to a monitor but my backlight has gone

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The back light on my mac screen has failed and I have the correct cables/connections to link to a monitor. The signal is coming through fine as I can see my wall paper. All my icons and files are to the "left" of the monitor screen, off screen but there. I can not get into system preferences to make the necessary changes as it is off screen.
Does anyone know how I might be able to get round this problem. Thanks. Scott


texts: Messed up fonts on Mavericks retina Macbook Pro secondary monitor

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Just got my first Mac and am loving it except for the extremely annoying fact that fonts get messed up on my secondary monitor.

The strange thing is that when I drag a window over from my laptop monitor, the fonts look fine on the secondary monitor until I finish dragging, then they get all messed up... some kind of driver issue?

Here's some samples. In both images the left hand side shows how the image looks on my secondary monitor while it's in the process of being dragged over from my laptop monitor, and the right hand side shows how it looks after I drop it:

Any ideas what the hell is going on here? I've tried changing the font smoothing with defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int <1-3>, no dice.


texts:
I want to sell my MBA 2011 (13"). So, of course, I want to wipe the SSD to reset it to the factory settings.

The MB came pre-installed with Lion (but without restore media) and I purchased ML from the AppStore. Now, as far as I know, it is not allowed to pass on a copy of OSX that was bought off the AppStore (correct?). Also, if I try to re-install ML from the restore mode (CMD+R on boot), it asks for my apple id which I definetely do not want to enter here.

So, I seem to need to downgrade to Lion. I tried internet recovery (CMD+ALT+R on boot) but to no avail - it failed with a "-2002F" error.

What should I do?


texts: Complete list of App Store review rejection reasons

texts:
I am iOS Developer. I have seen and had very bad experiences with App Store approval process.

We have developed an app according to Apple standards which are defined on Apple's official site. Despite this, our app was rejected 2-3 times for different reasons.

Why does Apple not give all reasons for an app rejection?
Where can I find more information about the app review process?


texts: Does Windows Server 2012 R2 work with Bootcamp on MacbookPro running Mavericks?

texts: I am trying to figure out if I can run Windows Server 2012 R2 as a boot camp partition with Mavericks. What drivers should I use? Are there any issues?


texts:
I was given a script to automate some processes. This script gets executed on a Mac in Terminal. The script is a bash script.
However, Terminal is showing
syntax error near unexpected token `('

in
ManagerDaemon="/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.graphisoft.PortalServerService-v24.0(Manager-2020-07-21).plist"

What could be the issue? How can I remove the error?


texts: New TimeMachine backup on the same drive

texts: I have recently successfully cleaned my hard drive and restored data with the TimeMachine backup. Now I would like to prepare backup of "new" system. Do I have to clean the drive first?


texts: Local backups keep coming back: how to disable it permanently?

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Although I disabled local backups on my laptop, they keep coming back!

I disabled it with

DarkMax:Test yvesleborg$ sudo tmutil disablelocal

The local backup drive and processes reappear after a sleep, after a boot, and a number of other unclear circumstances. Is there a way to disable that permanently, as in never again on my SSD?

P.S. running El Capitan, for another good while until I push a stack in production.

MacBook pro, intel core i7, mid-2014
I first notice this while running tests on a stack i develop. Servlet response times increase significantly. When that happens, sure enough, there is an extra volume mounted that is 100% capacity, same size as my SSD (with a guid-like volume ID). I re-disable local backups, the disk eventually dismounts, and my response times get back to usual


texts: Last Opened not clickable in Applications folder View Options

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I’m trying to sort my applications by Last Opened column, but the option is not clickable (is grayed out) in the view options (⌘+J) panel (see image below).

Why and how can I fix this?

(I’m on Snow Leopard 10.6.8)


texts: Problems on Big Sur with Magma Computer Algebra System crashing

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This question relates to the MAGMA Computer Algebra System based at the University of Sydney (not the other MAGMA about Matrix Algebra on GPUs).
I originally posted it on StackExchange, but someone there correctly pointed out that it is really a Big Sur question, and that I would more chance of an answer here.
I have used MAGMA on Mac OSX for many years, but recently, I am experiencing crashes on very simple code that previously worked.
My experiments have led me to suspect that it is a recent update to Mac OSX 11 (Big Sur) that is behind the problems. I have prepared a MWE of the problem and tested it on about 5 Macs, and it has always failed on the ones running Big Sur, and never failed on the ones not running Big Sur.
I detected this problem when I was using one of Magma's databases, in this case the lists of transitive groups. The error, however, seems to be very low-level and much more to do with the system than MAGMA.
So here is the definition of a test function that simply creates each transitive group in turn, and then returns true. It doesn't actually do anything except read in and create each of the transitive groups in turn. Any code manipulating transitive groups will have a similar loop at its heart.
function testDeg(deg)
  for i in [1..NumberOfTransitiveGroups(deg)] do
    g := TransitiveGroup(deg,i);
  end for;
  return true;
end function;

If I run this function for degree 24, by calling
testDeg(24);

then after creating some number of groups, it crashes.
> testDeg(24);

testDeg(
    deg: 24
)
TransitiveGroup(
    d: 24,
    n: 1194
)
In file "/Applications/Magma/package/Group/GrpData/trngps.m", line 18, column
51:
>>     return TransitiveGroup(TransitiveGroupDatabase(d), n);
                                                     ^
Runtime error in 'TransitiveGroupDatabase': GetLibraryRoot() is set to
/Applications/Magma/libs but the file GetLibraryRoot()/data/TrnGps/trans.dat
either does not exist or cannot be read (Interrupted system call).

In this case, the crash occurred on group number 1194, but this number will be different if I re-run it.
This is definitely not related to a capacity issue - there are 25000 transitive groups of degree 24, which is tiny compared to what MAGMA can hold in memory. It is my more recent, larger and higher-powered Macs which are running Big Sur and crashing, while the older Macs have no problems.
The error message is claiming that a certain file - trans.dat - does not exist or cannot be read. However the file certainly does exist, because the previous 1193 iterations of the loop have each used the exact same file.
So somehow, while MAGMA is trying to read this file, something goes wrong and generates an "Interrupted System Call".
I have contacted the MAGMA developers, but they cannot replicate the error because, of course, it works perfectly on their old non-Big Sur Macs.
What I want to know is whether this is a widespread issue definitely relating to Big Sur, or just something to do with my setup.
So if you are a MAGMA user on a Mac, then I would be very grateful if you could run the above testing code and just let me know (in the comments) whether it crashed or not, and which version of OSX you are running.
Of course if anyone recognises the same problem arising from other software, then I'd like to hear about that as well, especially if there is a known fix.
(This morning I just updated from OSX 11.1 to OSX 11.2 and the problem still remains, and I have updated Magma to V2.25-8).
Thanks in advance


texts: How do I merge multiple dates backup from Time Machine?

texts:
I can't seem to find an answer for my question regarding this subject. Pardon my ignorance, but I have an External hard drive which I use as drive for my Time Machine backups and I realized that Time Machine makes multiple backups, but there's a lot of duplicated files (as it organizes by dates).
Is there a way to compile or merge all the backups in just one?
I'm sorry if that's a dumb question, but I don't know a lot regarding this subject and would be very greatfull if someone can help me with that.


texts: Replace windows installation on Macbook pro with Ubuntu

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I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) running OS X El Capitan with dual boot Windows.

I would like to replace windows with Ubuntu 18.04.

The command disktil list shows:

#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS SSJony                  127.0 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                128.2 GB   disk0s4

I would like to increase the size of the Mac by half, to around 192 GB and the rest for Ubuntu. How can I do this?


texts: How to find which shared library is loaded by a process on OSX?

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I am trying to compile and use a shared C library as a python module and I am observing that depending on the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH my code works or it crashes with a cryptic error message.

Jul 24 02:44:44 master
$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib  python -c 'import opengm'
OKAY

Jul 24 02:45:41 master
$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH= python -c 'import opengm'
python(86214,0x7fff70ccdcc0) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff70177500: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Abort trap

I have tried to manually inspect which libraries are common between /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib and /opt/local/lib but I have not been able to find the cause of the crash. One way to figure out the cause of the problem will be to figure out which dylib files do the two processes use? I was not able to figure this using opensnoop or dtruss but maybe I was using those tools wrong.

How can I figure out the cause of this crash?

DISCLAIMER: I posted this same question on SO 2 days ago, where it did not receive any replies and only 8 views.


texts: MacBook Pro built-in keyboard and trackpad not working, PRAM reset needed

texts:
The keyboard and trackpad of my MacBook Pro 2015 suddenly stopped working. I searched the Internet and did a SMC and PRAM reset with an external keyboard.

The PRAM reset (I reset the PRAM with command+option+P+R as explained here) helped solve the issue: I could use the keyboard and tracked again, so I think it is not a hardware issue, but after a restart it stopped working again.

I tried Apple Diagnostics (as explained here) and it returns No issues found. Reference Code: ADP000. So I confirmed it is not hardware issue.

I also tried reinstalling macOS, but it didn't help, the problem persists.
This reinstallation kept all my previous data and settings

Do I need to reset the PRAM every time I start my Mac? What is the problem with my MacBook? How do I permanently reset the PRAM? And what about Wipe all data and reinstall macOS, will it solve this problem?


texts: Is there a better way to manage Text Messages?

texts:
Looking at the space distribution of my phone, I see that Messages account for 7 GB.

There are a lot of photos and videos that have been sent over the years and I am assuming that locating and deleting them would free up some space.

However, scrolling to the top and tapping Load Earlier Messages is really tedious, not to mention that it becomes ridiculously slow after the 20th tap or so.

Is there a better way to deal with getting rid of some text messages?


texts: Favorites disappears from sidebar in Finder

texts:
Running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 I find that after a recent reboot my Favorites have all disappeared from the sidebar in Finder.

Finder > Preferences > Sidebar shows a number of boxes against Favorite folders, but these can not be selected


texts: Is it possible to create a bootable installation partition for a PowerPC mac using an Intel-based Mac?

texts:
I had a hard drive failure on my old PowerPC G4 Mac. I need that old Mac to be able to run OS X and OS 9, because I can't retrieve and convert some of the files from the secondary hard drive unless I can run the old programs on the old OS (Like the old Hypercard stacks).
I've been trying to load an image of the installation disk (.dmg) onto an external firewire drive.
I did it using Terminal and the "sudo asr" command, copied that .dmg file, and the partition on my hard drive looks like and behaves like an installation disk (formatted the Hard Drive with Mac OS Extended, Journaled, Apple Partition map format, not GUID).
When I hook it up to the firewire port and boot the G4 holding the "Option" key down, it doesn't bring up anything on the screen where you would select which drive/volume you want to boot from.
Is this an issue with trying to build this from an Intel-based Mac? I'd love to just run the installer and put it onto that hard drive on a partition, but I can't run that installer on an Intel-based Mac.
EDIT: PLEASE DO NOT SUGGEST THE OTHER SIMILARLY TITLED QUESTION, IT IS NOTHING CLOSE TO THE SAME.
I need to do the following -
USING AN EXTERNAL HD with a FireWire port -

Have a bootable installation partition with the OS X 10.4 (or 10.5)
on it.

Be able to build that partition using an Intel Mac.

Have that external HD be recognized by the G4 PowerMac when I boot
it up and hold down the Option key.

I then want to be able to run the installer and load OS 10.4 or
10.5, and OS 9 onto other partitions on that external HD with FireWire and designate it as the startup volume for that machine.

If no one has any insight, I'm considering the possibility that the firmware for the external drive case FireWire port is somehow not readable by 2001 or so G4 PowerMac. I know that an older Intel-based MacBook Pro running OS 10.6 won't format or partition that when hooked up via USB, and indications are that the error has to do with the USB interface. I'm going to get a couple SATA to IDE converter cards, load the installer disk onto one of these SSD SATA drives, plug it into the internal drive interface and install onto a second, empty one.


texts: External Monitor is not Working with Windows 8.1 64bit (MacBook Pro Late 2011)

texts:
I need to connect my Macbook Pro Late 2011 to external (LG) monitor via Minidisplay port to DVI. I have the latest drivers for my Intel HD Graphics 3000 and the latest Bootcamp as well.

Can anybody help? I went through a lot of forums, but nothing helped me.


texts: How to backup Bootcamp partition via Time Machine?

texts:
I just started using Time Machine for backup of my late 2009 MBP.

So far it's backing up only OS X partition and ignoring Bootcamp partition.
I also see the point Time Machine completely ignores NTFS and FAT32 partitions.

Looking for solution/ hack to include Bootcamp partition also included in my Time Machine backups.


texts: So I have an iPhone that's connected to wifi. I forgot the Wifi password and want to connect a device to my phones personal hotspot, does it cost extra money if I do?


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I have just installed a lion server on my home network. I want to use it as a .private. Domain. I have implemented the VPN connection for external users via port fwd on my apple time machine router. The time machine provides dhcp services for e network and my dns severs are set to Comcast dns.

When I try and access the server using the .private domain name the server cannot be found. The server does show up in finder.

My question is this.

What do I need in terms of Dns. Should I point the router to the sever and what records would I need in the server dns config and how would I get DNA requests passed out to the main network for everything els.

Best regards

Mark.


texts: Options to download Garage Band app for macOS unsupported in App Store?

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Apple dropped support for my Mac Mini Late 2012 to upgrade to BigSur.
With it I can't download GarageBand (I already have iMovie) software compatible with my macOS version Catalina.

"We could not complete your purchase.
Garage band can't be installed on  because macOS version 11 or later is required."

Apple forums say you can't do it. SOL:
I never purchased Garage Band for High Sierra 10.13.6 and now I would like to install it (MAR 2021)
What official (or unofficial) options do I have to download GarageBand for macOS unsupported in App Store?


texts: MacBook Pro 2016 (Touch Bar) in “Critical Update” loop

texts: So my MacBook Pro has been experiencing some weird issues after an unprompted and unexpected shut down. When I turned it back on, it claimed there was a “critical software update” and asked to choose a WiFi network. So I did so and it installed and after two minutes it was done. However, the USB C ports on the left side had stopped working. I was using a satechi adapter and removed it to find that the charging cable only works on one of the two ports now. The right side ports will work with the adapter usually. I did a SMC reset and reinstalled High Sierra, so before I do a full wipe I want to see if anyone can give me an answer.


texts: Citrix Receiver expand to 2 out of 3 screens?

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Is there any way to get Citrix Receiver to use two screens when maximizing when there is a total of three screens?

If I check "Use all displays in full screen" then it will always cover all three screens.

If I try to just position the screen to span over two monitors, it shows on only one and is cut-off at the edge of that monitor.

Is there some magic option I'm missing somewhere? Perhaps a way to fool Citrix into thinking there are only two monitors?

On Windows I can drag the app to the top between two screens and it will maximize to those two screens. Also I can stretch a non-maximized window across screens. That seems not to be the case on my Mac.


texts: Highlight all instances of a search in Preview

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When I use Command+F to search for a word or phrase in Preview, it finds all instances of the search in the document, but only highlights the matched areas when I click on a specific page on the lefthand sidebar (that lists each page with a match and the number of matches per page).

Current behavior: I search for a word, and it finds a match on pages 1, 2, and 3. It brings me to page 1 and shows all instances of the word highlighted. If I scroll down to page 2, none of the page 2 instances are highlighted. However, if I click on page 2 on the left sidebar, it will then highlight all instances on that page.

Expected behavior: When I scroll to page 2, all instances will be highlighted without me having to click on page 2 on the left sidebar.

Is there any way to do this?

(I'm using Mac OSX 10.7.5)


texts: Limited FaceBook friends show up in Contacts app in Mavericks or Yosemite

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I configured my Facebook account in OS X (both Mavericks & Yosemite) using following article >> http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18993

I have 200+ friends on FB, but on Contacts app it just shows 38. Remaining are missing, I don't know what I have done wrong.

Moreover, I have allowed events and birthday calendar to sync as well, but not all birthday events are showing up in OS X calendar app.

Help much appreciated. Thanks.

p.s. I followed following article ( http://www.scrubly.com/blog/how-to-mac/how-to-set-up-social-media-accounts-in-mavericks-and-why/ ) as well, but result is same. Not all FB friends show up.


texts: Automatically press a key every 60 seconds

texts: Is it possible via Automator, an app, applescript, etc. to automatically press a key (i.e. "g") every 60 seconds?


texts:
I am not talking about connecting a VGA monitor to a Mac. I'm referring to plugging in a VGA output in to my Mac. I want the VGA to show up as a video device, so that I can run a projector's feed through UStream.

What hardware is needed to digitize a VGA input in real time to send for broadcast?


texts:
I have verbose mode turned on always so I can see if a kernel panic or some error happens. After having it on for a few times, I started to notice that most of the boot was happening after the login. I can't show a picture as it is in boot, but the login screen loads before most of the OS. This is only after a cold boot but I can't seem to find any information on this. All I want is some information on this.
EDIT:
Basically, the machine starts to boot, the apple logo pops up, a small box of text scrolls down, where the rest of the monitor is not used, it shows the login screen, and after I type the password, the login screen goes away. now the whole screen is used and the rest of the machine boots up.
EDIT 2:
There is no firmware password. I have not locked the firmware.


texts: How to Automatic Backups of a MySQL Database

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I am using the version of MySQL that came with Snow Leopard Server. I am running Time Machine on that server, but I know that it's not backing up the MySQL databases due to strict permissions issues.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a non-commandline, easy, clean method for automated backups of MySQL data?


texts: Macbook Pro fails to reboot during updates

texts:
Ok, this is a bit confusing and has been happening for at least the last 5 macOS updates I've done (both public beta and full releases in Sierra). Here's what happens:

I go to the App Store and tell the computer to install the update from the updates tab. The computer gives me the 60-second restart warning, I quit app store and manually hit the restart button on that notification. The computer begins installing the update. To this point the process is normal. Here's where it gets weird.

The update never finishes installing. For example, on updating to 10.12.5 beta 3 (from beta 2), it was stuck with the loading bar at 16 minutes left for about an hour. I resolved this problem simply by holding down the power button for 10 seconds to force a shutdown. Then I pressed the power button again to turn the computer on. Not only does the computer turn on, it has also successfully installed the update. This has happened at least five times. It always appears on the screen that the update has frozen, but it seems that the update completes successfully, but fails to tell the computer to reboot.

A new twist on this occurred last night. I went straight from 10.12.5 beta 3 to 10.12.6 beta 3 (I'm generally better about updates, but I needed to have the computer running without shutdown for 42 days). Yesterday night I followed the same procedure I outlined in the second paragraph. Instead of showing the loading bar, the screen went to computer black (black screen, but backlight still on). That's the same state I discovered in this morning, 7 hours later. I did the trusty force restart, and now am successfully running 10.12.6 beta 3.

My question is two-fold: What could be causing this to be happening, and how can I get my computer to update normally? While the manual reboot step doesn't bother me, I am afraid that one day an update will fail, and as it takes ~12 hours for this computer to restore from one of my backups, it is something I would rather not have to deal with.


texts: getting "out of memory" error when trying to load specific websites (am not out of RAM)

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UPDATE: Rich's solution (with the checkmark) solved my problem! I also posted an answer with a workaround that may help if Rich's solution doesn't work for you. The answer that received the bounty was the best at the time, but it doesn't have an actual solution (though it helped with troubleshooting).

I'm having a problem where my computer (Macbook Pro, 8GB RAM, OS 10.8) will not to attempt to load certain websites. Nothing fixes it except for rebooting. This occurs when nothing else is obviously wrong with my computer or internet connection, and when other sites load without problems.

When this occurs, here are the errors I get:

Chrome: Error 13 (net::ERR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)
Safari: "The error is: 'The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory.'  (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:12)"
Firefox: No response after entering the URL and pressing return (no error message, no throbber to indicate that it's loading or trying to contact the site).
ping:

PING google.com (74.125.224.135): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Cannot allocate memory
ping: sendto: Cannot allocate memory
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
ping: sendto: Cannot allocate memory
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

(after which I canceled out)

The first time I noticed this, it occurred for one or two sites I tried to visit. I was still able to use facebook and google. Later in the day, the error extended to facebook and google as well. After rebooting, those sites became accessible again, but later on I became unable to access other sites (stackexchange.com, surveygizmo.com).

Some other notes:

I can confirm that this happens on multiple wireless networks and VPNs.
At the moment this was happening I had 2 GB of RAM "inactive" and 500 MB "free" out of 8 GB total, so I'm not actually out of memory. Other websites and applications are responding snappily and there's no sign of excessive swapping.
The response from ping seems to suggest that the problem doesn't affect DNS (though the IP address could have been cached somewhere).

I've only found one other reference to this problem, in this Apple support thread. No solution was found except for rebooting.

NOTE: This is not a problem with running out of RAM

Activity Monitor shows plenty of free / inactive memory. There's not an excessive amount of paging going on. Other websites load without problems. There may be some other kind of memory allocation error going on, but I can't imagine any way that a plain old RAM shortage would disable certain specific websites, with no other impact on performance.


texts: Mac Hangs on boot, Macintosh HD partition intermittent failures

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I have the following problem: My 2016 MacBook Pro (El Capitan) hangs on boot. The progress bar loads to near completion, after that it stops. The laptop heats up and eventually shuts down.

What I need to do: Recover important data from the partition, then reinstall. No Time Machine saves are available.

What I attempted:

I booted into recovery partition (Using CommandR  ) and launched Disk Utility. On first launch the Disk Utility app freezes. On second launch it works, displaying only the recovery partition.
Reset NVRAM, reboot and - Using the terminal, diskutil list command I get Macintosh HD partition listed.

However If I run the command again, it is not longer listed. If I try to open Disk Utility app, its not listed there either. In order to see it again, I have to shut down, reset NVRAM, reboot into recovery mode and run the same command.

I do not understand this intermittent  behavior.

While I suspect disk failure, I am hoping that its simply an issue with the partition table.

This is what my output of diskutil list looks like:

(at boot)

-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +2.1 GB     disk0
   1:             Apple_HFS OS X Base System             2.0 GB     disk0s1

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                      *121.3 GB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                   209.7 MB     disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD          120.5 GB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD           650.0 MB     disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Macintosh HD         +120.1 GB     disk2
       Logical Volume on disk1s2
       415411E3-C54B-44FC-BFE5-DF71AF55E7C1
       Unencrypted

(and when I run the same command the second time)

-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +2.1 GB     disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS OS X Base System        2.0 GB     disk0s1

Output of gpt show disk0

    start     size  index  contents
        0        1         PMBR
        1        1         Pri GPT header
        2       32         Pri GPT table
       34        6
       40  3924400      1  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  3924440   262151
  4186591       32         Sec GPT table
  4186623        1         Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2#


texts: Monitor Words Per Minute on the background?

texts:
I'm looking for an application that can run on the background and would monitor my average words per minute as I go about my day. At the end of the day (or week) I want to see a recap of my performance and the features that I am expecting it to have are:

My WPM
Total number of words I typed.

Is there an app that does something like this? The idea came to me awhile ago when I saw a vanity USB gadget that you can plug in to your laptop and will monitor your average WPM count.


texts: Auto Delete Hidden File when USB Connected?

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I have a MacAir running El Capitan with all updates. I use a USB stick to move movies from Mac to Samsung Smart TV. The TV writes a hidden file " .device_info_*** " (long abstract filename). This file keeps details of movie folders in it... but does not update. So when I delete a movie... the folder stays hidden on the stick in this file and shows again when connected to the TV. I have created a work around by showing hidden files and deleting this file... the old folder info disappears when viewing on the TV and the TV writes a new file when USB is reinserted. But the whole process starts all over again.

I want to have an auto script that deletes the .device_info_*** file every time the USB is connected to my MacAir - without any user interface or questions about "are you sure, etc" . The asterisks in my example are wildcards because the filenames created are different every time (after the .device_info_ part of the name).

What script would do this? And can wild cards be used as part of the filename in the script?

I am not a script writer but am pretty savvy.


texts: Safari update message on my Mac, why is it there for four days?

texts:
When I click on Safari I get message telling me:

  "Safari is being updated... Safari can not be opened while it is being updated"

When will updating Safari be finished on my computer? I need to use it and it has been updating for four days now. What do I do now to use Safari?


texts: How can I type Lithuanian stress characters (e.g., ą́, ė̃, m̃)?

texts:
This is an obscure use case, so I'm not surprised that there's nothing about this online. I already know how to type accent marks in general, and how to change keyboards. However, I was not able to find any way to type e.g. m̃ using the Lithuanian or ABC Extended keyboards. I thought option-N followed by M would work in ABC Extended, for instance, but it doesn't. Here is a complete list of the characters I would like to be able to type:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.693.9500&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Note that only a subset of these pose an issue. For example, I can obviously type é, ȩ, and č in either of the keyboard layouts above.

Any advice is appreciated. I would prefer to not have to pick characters from the symbol selection table.


texts: How do I know if I have purchased an iphone app already?

texts:
How can I tell if I have purchased an app before I try to download it?

(I so wish iOS5 would hurry up already)


texts: macOS sometimes can't connect to WiFi hotspot that's really working perfectly

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Every now and then, my Macbook Pro running the latest macOS won't connect to my WiFi. It just keeps insisting: The Wi-Fi network "Ubiquiti UniFi" can not be joined.

This happens both at home, and work, and on other random locations. It's only occasionally, it connects just fine most of the time. But when the problem shows up, no matter how often I retry to connect, the error keeps showing up. And then later that day (like a couple of hours later) it randomly connects by itself as if nothing is wrong.

Something I noticed: normally when connecting to a WiFi, the connection thingy in the top menu bar in macOS shows an animation with the bars in the WiFi icon lighting up one after another, like this:

Now whenever this connection problem occurs, I noticed the bars do not light up. The animation doesn't happen, the entire icon just stays dim. It feels like it's not even trying to connect, but obviously that's just my interpretation from not seeing the icon animate.

Also whenever this happens and I try to connect with my phone (Android 7) or iPad (iOS 10) instead, it works fine all the time. So the WiFi access point itself is really working absolutely fine.

Also my signal isn't blocked or weak or anything, I'm literally sitting 2 meters away from the WiFi antenna, with no obstacles in between. And there's not a ton of other WiFi stations nearby that might be disturbing my channel (sometimes I see two or three other SSIDs in the list with weak signals, sometimes I see none).And there's not a ton of devices connected to the same network either. Usually just my laptop, sometimes also my phone or iPad, maybe a phone or laptop from my wife at home or colleague at work, but that's about it.

I have even tried resetting my Mac's NVRAM and the SMC, unfortunately to no avail.

Any suggestions what the hell could be causing this, or what I could do about this?


texts: Malware? .systemRootModeFile in ~/users/me/library

texts:
Non-techie person asks:

There is a .systemRootModeFile in ~/users/me/library.

Is it malware, something horrible?

In the hidden library folder in ~/users/me I have a folder named .f5cd.
Inside that is a folder hierarchy of .java/.systemPrefs/_!%... - the last one being a string of about 25 characters - and the folder name is in bold.

Inside that is a file prefs.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE map SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/preferences.dtd">
<map MAP_XML_VERSION="1.0">
  <entry key="EXPDATE" value="4994"/>
  <entry key="REGVER" value="2"/>
</map>

and also within the .systemPrefs folder are two more files
.system.lock and .systemRootModFile.


texts: Use OneDrive and iCloud Drive to back up the same source

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I have OneDrive on my Mac because I want to have full interaction and integration with Office 365. The downside to this is that anything backed up into OneDrive will not back up into iCloud.

Is there a way to have both iCloud and OneDrive back up the same source? I would say using hardlinks, but they are no longer viable in the APFS format.

I would remove OneDrive if Auto Saving was possible though Office without using OneDrive.


texts: Message from voicemail yet no missed call on iPhone 11?

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I recently got an iPhone 11 and today I noticed I had a voicemail message stating I had one missed call. However, in my recent call list this number didn't show up. How is this possible?

This was during the day, my phone was not muted or in airplane mode, unknown callers are not silenced, there are no numbers in my blocked call list, and "do not disturb while driving" is off.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Edit: as mentioned in another comment by myself, reception is excellent here and I've never experienced a loss of signal. We've got a cellular antenna basically on our roof (figuratively speaking, of course).


texts: Updating to macOS Catalina gets stuck, when trying to update from OS X Mavericks

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I'm trying to update a MacBook Air from early 2014 that runs OS X Mavericks (desktop) to the latest macOS (Catalina). I downloaded the installer for macOS Catalina from the App Store and when going through it, it gets stuck at the following screen:

I click 'Install' and the color of that arrow icon turns from black to the grey you can see in the picture above. Then nothing happens. I waited for several hours (thinking it might be slow), but nothing ever happens.

I also restarted the machine several times and attempted this installation again and again, but I can't seem to get any further.

Any ideas of what else to try? I would prefer to keep the data that I have on the machine, so just updating the operating system, not doing a clean install. I did make a backup with TimeMachine before attempting to update.


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I've made a mistake of moving my .vimrc file from my home directory and now I don't know how I'm able to locate it. I'm still new to Mac and navigating and finding files seems so foreign to me.

Instead of making another copy of my .vimrc file using 'cp' command in Terminal, I've dumbly issued the 'mv' (move) command. This is the command I've issued in my home (~) directory:

mv ~/.vimrc .old_vimrc

Now I can't find my original .vimrc file and can't even locate the '.old_vimrc' file.

Any idea where I can find it? I've wasted hours figuring it out and to no avail.

I'm trying to understand the 'mv' command I've issued above? Did it renamed the ".vimrc" file to ".old_vimrc"? Is that it?


texts: Copying iOS autocorrect custom dictionary among devices

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Is it possible to create a file of autocorrect entries for iOS devices and deploy it to all my company iPads (8 of them right now)? There are about 150 autocorrect entries that we'd like to setup on all the iPads.  Ideally, we would find a way to manage them centrally.

We tried textexpander on the iPads (love it for the Mac - its indespensible), but on the iPads its actually slow. The keyboard lag led to riots among my staff.


texts: How to open Google Drive links directly in Google Drive app

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Is there a way to do this?
Currently, the GDrive links I click in my emails open in Safari.

Is this currently a limitation of the app (or iOS 7)? Is there a configuration I can change?


texts:
I'm looking for a way to perform relatively high quality stereo line-in recording on iPhone. Unusual and third-party hardware is acceptable, but jailbreak is not. I am aware of the following options:

Griffin iMic paired with Apple's Lightning to USB Camera Adapter

Pros: Well-reviewed, USB interface.
Cons: Lightning to USB Camera Adapter is not supported on iPhone.

Blue Mikey Digital

Pros: Works with iPhone.
Cons: Requires Lightning adapter, line-in quality reportedly poor.

Neither of those satisfies my requirements. Is there some workaround I'm missing?


texts:
Apparently Chrome Beta for OS X is supposed to be 64 bit.
(e.g. http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/08/29/chrome-38-beta-arrives-new-user-switching-profiles-guest-mode-64-bit-default-mac/

I have the latest Chrome beta Version 38.0.2125.77 beta but it is still 32 bit. I have reinstalled.

The dev channel is 64 bit on my Macbook Air (2013).


texts: Computer playing sound from a TV commercial. How does this happen

texts: This just started happening tonight on my iMac running High Sierra. About every 15 or 20 minutes my computer plays the sound track, or part of the soundtrack, from a common TV commercial. This Capitol One commercial is probably used on many websites but I don't know that for sure. I don't know how or why this is happening but I'd like to turn it off or stop it some way. I've had this happen when I have a web page open and a commercial is played but I have closed all browser windows and quit all browsers. But that didn't stop it. I don't see anything happening on my computer when the sound starts playing. I ran Malwarebytes but it said my computer is clean. How does a sound play without an application? Can someone tell me how to find what is going on?


texts: MBP can't connect to Starbucks Wi-Fi, only restart helps

texts:
Tough question to frame ;) .. but I have a situation that plays out often: firing up the laptop (latest MacBook 15") at Starbucks will often never connect unless I restart the entire box. This tells me there is something amiss somewhere, to which I have no clue. I run nothing out of the ordinary and see no pattern.

I wondered if there was a terminal command that could somehow "reset" network settings. The Wi-Fi is seen properly, and attempts the connection but sits and sits and sits. It eventually connects but it is far faster to restart.

Tough one perhaps, just thought to ask.. thx..


texts: Bonjour/Airplay in restricted College Network

texts: I am trying to connect my iPad (running 4.3.3) with my Macbook (running Lion) in my college dorm room using my college's Wifi. It uses 802.1X Authentication. I can't ping my iPad from my Macbook. Is there any way I can make Bonjour or AirPlay work? Is there a tool that proxies or routes the Bonjour service somehow?


texts: Twitter app on iOS 9 doesn't connect through proxy

texts:
I'm connecting to a local proxy to access internet on my iPhone/iOS 9 but Twitter app seems not using the global proxy i've set for my wifi...

Other apps like Chrome & Safari are working just fine!


texts:
So I've searched for a while and found several answers but I don't want to take a chance with the wrong command and wipe data so I'd like instructions specific to my case please.

I resized my Windows7 partition with GParted which left 12Gb free. I then used a command in Terminal to reclaim that space in the APFS Container, operation was successful but then the volume briefly appeared under "External" ... I rebooted and now its gone.

Current state :

disk0s2 is the High Sierra volume, is it possible to reactivate that partition without losing the Windows one ?

UPDATE : So klanomath fixed the problem with the APFS partition but the Windows one while visible remains "unbootable". I ran a Windows RE a few times which fixed things supposedly (last pass it said everything was fine) but when I press Alt at startup the partition isn't showing. When I select the volume from the Startup panel in System Preferences it just reboots to a black screen (no error just prompt)...

New state :


texts: How can I administer my Lion Server from a Mountain Lion client

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I have a Mac OS X Lion (10.7) server, and I would like to administer it remotely from a client running Mountain Lion non-server (10.8).

I naively assumed that I could install the freely downloaded Server Admin Tools 10.7 on Mountain Lion, however it does not let me install Server Admin Tools 10.7.4, and does not let me run Server Admin Tools 10.7.

I have downloaded OS X Server for Mountain Lion. When I run the Server app and try to connect to my Lion server, it says "Server requires OS X 10.8." and "The server you’re trying to connect to is not running OS X 10.8. Install OS X 10.8 on the server and try again."

Screen sharing works, but I really hoped I could administer my server natively and locally like I used to be able to from a Lion client.

It really should not be this difficult!


texts: Is it possible to use Intel AMT to manage MacBooks?

texts:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-active-management-technology.html

I've heard MacBook intel chips are AMT-capable, but AMT isn't ever enabled so you can't actually use it. Is this true?


texts: Change the way how finder truncates file names

texts:
Finder truncates file names (and other things). Is there a way of changing this behaviour?

example: i have a file with a names

long_file_name_that_i_do_care_about.txt
long_file_name_that_i_do_not_care_about.txt

but what i see is

long_file_..._care_about.txt
long_file_..._care_about.txt

So my main question is how get Finder to cut off only the end of the file so i can actually see the difference? And why is Finder truncating dates and file sizes too?


texts:
Is there any reason why the installation of a RAM, larger than recommended, cause MBP to slow during startup and during normal working?

I am trying to understand the cases I didn't foresee when I went for higher than recommended RAM.

I have:

mid-2012 13 inch MBP;
running macOS Sierra;
recommended RAM for this machine is 8GB but I installed 2X8 (aka 16) GB RAM replacing my earlier 2X2 (aka 4) GB RAM.


texts: How do you find the UDID for an iOS device?

texts: How do you find the UDID for an iOS device on Mac and Windows?


texts: Is there a way to download Screen Time data from iPhone or other Apple iOS devices?

texts:
I am a data analyst and would like to look at the underlying data that is the basis for the relatively simple screen time reports. I want to be able to look at my phone usage data in more detail and beyond the 7 day report period that is usually reported.

Has anyone figured out how to access the data or create more in depth analyses?


texts: Fully charged MacBook Air turns off when power cord removed

texts: I have a MacBook Air, 2009, with a recently replaced Apple battery in December 2012. Recently, when power cord comes off, the computer shuts down. Also, it usually will not restart unless power cord is attached.


texts: I just got a new iPhone 6plus my text messages are only saving one screen full. I have no "load earlier messages" prompt. how do I view a message from a week ago?


texts:
If we submit the App Preview in the MOV format, will it be compressed on the Apple side to a shorter format (e.g. MPEG4) or will it be streamed to the user as MOV?

In another word, do we have to convert the recorded MOV to MPEG4?

As we all know MOV are very big and not good for streaming.


texts: iTerm2 doesn't read com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

texts:
I am iTerm2 (1.0.0) user. I know how to create profiles, by using iTerm settings or modifying com.googlecode.iterm2.plist file.

For convenience, I will use .plist to indicate com.googlecode.iterm2.plist file.

There are some profiles already to connect my dev server using a command. (i.e. ssh 192.168.1.1).

I want to modify and add more profiles to iTerm. So, I wrote a Python script to do this. The procedure is like below.

Convert iTerm2 .plist file to .xml. (i.e. plutil -convert xml1)
Write several profiles to this file using plistlib in Python.
Convert iTerm2 .plist file to binary format that as it was. (i.e. plutil -convert binary1)

The procedure above doesn't work. iTerm2 didn't load my profiles created from my Python script.

So, I checked if there is no .plist file, how iTerm load the profiles.

I quit the iTerm2 program.
I deleted the .plist file from my disk, which is located at ~/Library/Preferences/.
Run iTerm2 program.
open Profile Setting by typing ⌘ Cmd+O.

I found there are profiles even if I deleted the .plist file. What happened here? Is there any backup profiles file which I don't recognize?


texts: Macbook 13 pro 2019, trying to connect 2 monitors

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I'm using a "TBI Pro Adapter Adapti-13 Mini USB-C Hub" on my macbook 13 pro (2019)
And I wish to connect my 2 PHILIPS monitors (243v5) they are the same but from diffrent years.
I connected them both thru the adapter one with VGA and the other with HDMI and the mac sees them as one monitor, but I would like it to be separated\chained with the macbook lid closed
another this is the adapter is "shooting down" for time to time can it be because of the adapter or maybe the mac book can't hold to "allot of things connected at the same time" (gaming keyboard, mouse, 2 monitor and sometimes ethernet)

Thank you all for your time :)


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In Photos.app, I have the special Favorites smart album and an iCloud Shared Album called Shared Favorites. I display Shared Favorites as our AppleTV screen saver. The issue is that when I favorite a photo, I have no easy way to reliably add it to the Shared Favorites album.

I was hoping to create a smart album containing photos that are a favorite and are not in Shared Favorites. But iCloud Shared Albums are not listed as albums.

When I tried dragging all of the Favorites into the Shared Favorites album, I wound up getting hundreds of duplicates.

Any ideas for a workflow that lets me just add new favorites to a shared album?


texts: MBP - have to re-enable Wi-Fi every 30 mins

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I have a MacBook Pro running on El Capitan (but the issue was already present before the upgrade, so it's not related). I have the Mac since a bit less than a year.
It is still running perfectly but since a couple of weeks, the internet is really weird. It's constantly completely blocked and just not working.
The wifi works well: on my iPhone it is never down, but every 30min or so, it just blocks while I am browsing (but the issue is there on all the apps used, from Xcode to my FTP client, and so on), and it doesn't work anymore.
When I just turn the wifi off and on again, it works well for some time, and then the issue comes back again.

I tried changing the DNS (by using this software that indicates the fastest DNS to use) and I thought it worked at first, but the issues are back again.

I have tried deleting the wifi from my keychain and adding it again the problem is persisting.

Obviously I have restarted the modem a couple of times too, no difference.

Any advice?


texts: Why do some calendar events shift in time when daylight saving time goes into effect?

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Recently the UK changed from winter time to summer time, I have noticed that the timing of some of my calendar appointments (Google Calendar via Google Sync) have also been shifted forwards by an hour, whereas some have not changed.

It could well be that the split is down to events created on the iPhone and those created on the Google Calendar web interface.

Does anyone know a work around for this, that will stop me turning up an hour early to things when the clocks change back in October?


texts: OS X Internet Recovery doesn't see SSD drive

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I wanted to do a clean install and booted from OS X recovery partition. In disk utility I selected "erase" option. SSD was working correctly before that.

Now, if i startup, the only way to proceed is with Internet Recovery  since I cannot boot from hidden recovery partition. After I wait several hours for the recovery image download, I cannot see the SSD either in disk utility or OSX reinstallation.

In terminal

diskutil list

Shows only recovery image 1.8 Gb or so.

So did erase option destroy my ssd?


texts: How to save password for AppStore on mac？

texts: It seems that the setting doesn't work. It's unnecessary and annoying to input the password for free APPs times and times again.


texts: How to transfer a file from iPhone to computer when there is no Internet?

texts: I have a word doc saved as an attachment in my inbox. I can read it using my iPhone 4S, but I can't edit it, and anyway, I want to edit it on my MacBook Pro. But there is (was) no Internet where I was, and so I couldn't access the file on my computer. Is there any way to transfer the file from my phone to computer using USB?


texts: Is it possible to move from an old mac to a new mac only selected applications and documents?

texts: I would like to move from an old mac book pro to a new one only selected applications and documents. I set my old mac using an older one mac so I have very old applications that I should uninstall. I run migration assistant but with this program is not possible to select the application I want to transfer. Is there another way to do this? Both mac (old and new) run Mojave 10.14.6.


texts: Apple ID password compromised - 2FA rescued - What next?

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I have a Mac, iPhone and an iPad. I use my Gmail account for the Apple ID and one day, I received a notification on my phone that someone is trying to login with my gmail account. The two factor authentication message popped up and I chose Do not allow. So, it didn’t even come up with the 6 digit code (2FA is fantastic!).

I then later changed my Apple ID password to something long, complicated and to something which I don’t use anywhere else (nor used in the past).

The whole thing happened because I had reused a password (bad, I know and it is my mistake).

Now, when I login to the appleid page, I see only these three devices (MacBook, iPad and iPhone) and nothing else.

Does this mean that my account is now safe?
Is there an activity page to see where my Apple ID is being used?
Should I now go about resetting the passwords which are part of the keychain?

Please advise.


texts: Is there a Subversion 1.7 GUI Client for OSX Lion?

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We are looking for a Subversion client for OSX Lion that support version 1.7, but we cannot find one.

Is there "an app for that"? :-)


texts: How to stop some devices from receiving my iMessages?

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I want to receive iMessages with my iPhone and iPad. I have one small issue being that my iCloud account is shared with my family.

How do I make sure my relatives don't see all of my iMessages appearing on their devices? Is there a way I can select only my iPhone and iPad to receive the messages?