texts: AppleTV makes horrible noise on startup and when waking up from standby

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I have an Insignia 25" LCD TV and an Apple TV Gen 2 connected to it via HDMI. When I wake the AppleTV up from sleep mode or boot it up from being turned off, it makes a loud, white noise-y sound. You can listen to the noise here.

The noise is most likely from the AppleTV, since the TV doesn't make the noise when it is on the DVD player input, and the noise starts exactly when the AppleTV light turns on.

Has anyone had this problem? If so, are there any known solutions or workarounds?


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Whenever I (re-)mount a SMB share, Mojave prompts me for my credentials. I faithfully enter my data, hit the "store in keychain" checkbox ("Password im Schlüsselbund speichern" in German), and the share is successfully mounted. Next time, for example after a reboot, it will ask for the username+password again.
My username consists of a domain and login ("mydomain\MYUSER"). Interestingly, when the dialog box opens, it only displays "MYUSER" in the form field, without the domain, and I have to type in the domain.
In the Keychain app, I am seeing an entry for this share, where everything seems to be fine. The domain is included in the account name there.
How can I debug or investigate this more? Or is this a known issue?
EDIT: Deleting the entries from the key chain did not help.
EDIT2: I connected through a LAN instead of WIFI, and I believe it did not prompt me for a password. I'll have to test that again though...


texts: Downloading videos and saving to camera roll?

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I need a tweak like "Download Manager pro", which allows you to download any video you play.
The thing is, it saves to its own private storage (and not camera roll) so I can't share them with anyone.

Does anyone knows a tweak that does this job?


texts: Just a little time, my mac has some problems when start. a prohibition logo appear and it's so slow until the system run... My mac run on yosemite 10.10.2


texts: What exactly is meant by PPM002, PPM003, PPM004?

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My Macbook Pro's Apple Diagnostics currently reports PPM002, PPM003 and PPM004 error codes, which are associated with the on-board memory.
Apple's page on this topic is not illuminating.
Is there a technician's or engineering manual somewhere that documents these?


texts: What was the first version of macOS to ship with the Vim text editor?

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Since macOS (originally Mac OS X) is a variant of UNIX, and has been POSIX-certified for a while, I assume it’s always had the vi text editor available. In recent versions, it has come with Vim. Has the system always shipped with Vim specifically, or was there a time when macOS shipped with a different variant of vi?

This capture by the Wayback Machine shows that Vim has been included at least as far back as Mac OS X 10.6.6. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have deleted a lot of old documentation (or at least broken all of the links) so I’m not sure whether you can get older OS versions’ man pages online in this same way.


texts: Will items that are supposed to download to a folder that has been changed to a symbolic link download to where the symbolic link is linked to?

texts: I'm trying to put the downloaded content for Logic Pro X on an external hard drive. I created the appropriate folders on my external and put corresponding symbolic links in the appropriate applications support folders. If I try to download more content through Logic Pro X, will it get downloaded onto my MacHD or onto the external hard drive?


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Before submitting to Apple I'd like to know if anyone else has this problem on an iOS7 device

The images is in Dutch, but the visual should be clear.


texts: Time Machine Changed My External Hard Drive's to MBR and now I can't access it!

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On Yosemite, I was using Bootcamp to install Windows on a part of my internal hard drive. When, bootcamp was finished (before booting into Windows), Time Machine popped up and asked me if I wanted to use the 500GB USB external drive as a Time Machine backup disk... I told it I did NOT... Despite my answer, I'm now receiving "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer". I have the following per terminal:

    Kelleys-Mac-mini:~ kelley$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS MBP                     215.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                34.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                       0xEE                         500.1 GB   disk2s1
Kelleys-Mac-mini:~ kelley$

It's disk2 that I'm panicking about. That had ALLLLLLLLLL of my backed up client data as well as purchased software installers.  Is my data lost?  Or is there a solution someone  can PLEASE provide?  I'm absolutely scared to death this can't be fixed...


texts: How do I select a song in a playlist in my library in iTunes 10?

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In iTunes 9 and earlier, I could go to a playlist and hold down option and click the small arrow next to the name of any song in that playlist to select that song in the main library instead of the playlist. This was very useful, for example if I wanted to remove a song from my library, I could use this to "reveal" the song in the main library and remove it from there.

(This little icon, when clicked on without option, would open the iTunes store for purchasing the selected song)

In iTunes 10, there is no more arrow for me to option click on. How can I select a song in a playlist and go to that same song file in the main library in iTunes 10?


texts: How to use Finder's "Open With Application"?

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(Apologies in advance if the menu names aren't exactly right -- I'm not using Mac OS X in English, so I'm guessing at the translations.)

I was curious what the "screen sharing" shortcut had in it, so I opened up my ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing/ folder, right-clicked on the "VNC Internet Location" (*.vncloc) file there, and chose "Open With Application -> Other".  Then I chose TextEdit.app.

I thought this would open the file (which looks like an XML plist) in TextEdit.  Instead, it switches to the Screen Sharing app!

I switched to TextEdit myself, and used File -> Open, and found the *.vncloc file, and it opened as a plain XML file just fine.

Am I misunderstanding how the Finder's "Open With Application -> Other..." works?


texts: Is it possible to enable 1.5x scaling using HiDPI on OS X?

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I use a Mac Mini on a 46" 1080p TV and using native resolution the UI is too small, and using HiDPI the UI is too big.

Is there a way to hack the OS X to enable 150% scaling instead of 100% and 200% ??


texts: result returns just new line \n not whats printed after command is run

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Ultimately I'm trying to catch some errors that are popping up but aren't getting returned.

Here's the command I'm trying to run.

/usr/bin/dscl . -change /Users/admin NFSHomeDirectory /Users/admin /var/admin

when it runs successfully it returns \n
when it comes up with an error I get \n and

<main> attribute status: eDSAttributeNotFound
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -13134 (eDSAttributeNotFound)

I know why I'm getting the error and I'm actually making it happen intentionally so that I can (hopefully) get terminal to write the next two lines out to a file or (eventually) send it using CURL to another computer.

So when I run the command with either > tomytextfile.txt it writes and empty file or using my POST request like so

echo "result=`/usr/bin/dscl . -change /Users/admin NFSHomeDirectory /Users/admin /var/admin`" | curl --data-urlencode result@- http://172.16.26.251:8080/script

I get this as the response on the server where I'm sending the curl POST request.

{ result: 'result=\n' }

If anyone has any ideas, I'd be super grateful.


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I was cleaning my MBP out the other day and found chess.app in my /applications folder. I tried deleting it and Yosemite gave me this error:

Is this safe to delete? I was able to delete the DVD Player application just fine. So why can't I delete chess.app? Does this have some system files hidden inside it? Could I simply delete it by doing sudo rm -rf /Applications/Chess.app? If it is safe to delete then why doesn't it let you do it by finder? I mean how many people who use OS X use chess.app?


texts: How do I get a Windows ISO to set up Boot Camp?

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I have a new Macbook Pro. I have an external USB Superdrive. I have a Windows 8.1 DVD and legal product key. I have a blank 8 GB USB Drive.

I'm trying to set up Boot Camp and install said copy of Windows onto my new Macbook Pro. In order to do so, it seems I need to create a USB installer from an ISO of Windows; it won't allow me to just use the DVD. I've found Microsofts site to allow for downloads with a product key, but all require the use of a .exe download manager application that I can't run without another, separate Windows computer available.

How do I make an ISO out of my Windows 8.1 DVD to allow the Boot Camp assistant to create a USB Installer?


texts: Should I buy the 2 year Apple Care, for my Macbook Pro with faulty butterfly switches?

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The class-action lawsuit is ongoing

I have a late 2017 Macbook Pro that has various stuck butterfly switches, since I use an external keyboard most of the time, I didn't even attempt to get it fixed and ruin my life

But my 1-year warranty is about to expire, and I can't decide whether I should purchase the extended warranty or not

There are many things to consider:

1) Lawsuit could miraculously fail, I would be out of warranty

2) Lawsuit could succeed, a fix would be impossible, they would replace the devices, then, would the extended warranty apply to the new device?

3) I purchase the warranty, waste more money on Apple - so better not purchase it


texts: How to connect a mini DisplayPort Windows PC with a Thunderbolt iMac

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I want to use my mid-2011 iMac as a secondary display for my Windows PC.

My iMac features a 1st gen Thunderbolt port, running on macOS Sierra
My Windows PC has a Mini DisplayPort, and is running on windows 10.

My main concern is that (if I understand right), the 'Mini DisplayPort Source to Thunderbolt Monitor' is not guaranteed to work with any kind of cable, and after lots of googling I haven't found a case where it worked.

I know that there are several related answers for this topic, but there are lots of caveats (OS compatibility, Mini DisplayPort to Thunderbolt port limitations), and I'm still not absolutely sure about some details:
- Is it possible?
- What kind of cable do I need to buy?
- Do I need to use some specific software like AirDisplay?


texts: How to set a refresh rate in a Subscribed Calendar

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using the ical on the iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad how can I set the refresh rate?

or does it pick the refresh rate that I had set up in the Mac iCal App?

If no refresh rate was given in the Mac iCal App, what is the default refresh rate? 30 minutes?


texts: How does the iPhone handle connection priority?

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Suppose I'm in the range of a wifi network and I check my email on my iPhone.

Will it try to use the wifi network first and only if that fails attempt to connect to 3G? Or will it always use 3G (with the charges that carries) regardless of other mediums?

Is it automatic? Do I have to manually disable 3G connection if I want it to use wifi?


texts: How to move iMovie library to external hard drive folder?

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I would like to move all iMovie (iMove '11) events to a specific folder of an external hard drive. Apple documents a means to do this, but without specifying the folder; iMovie files are created in the root of the mounted drive, in a folder called iMovie Events.localized.

That's great, except my wife would like to do the same thing on the same hard drive. Since we want to keep our media libraries separate, having everything dumped in the same folder would be problematic. I could move everything manually, of course, though warnings abound that iMovie data should be moved only from within iMovie itself. Is there any way to tell iMovie to use a specific folder when moving the iMovie data for projects/events to an external drive?

Note: I tried to mount the appropriate user directory of the external drive as a separate volume using bindfs without success.

[Edit: As per a suggestion in the accepted answer, I am creating a disk image for each iMovie library. Please see the comments in the accepted answer for further details.]


texts: Apple Mail refuses to accept correct login

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After a hard disk crash and restore from Carbon Copy Cloner, Apple Mail refuses to accept known correct passwords. Connection Doctor logs say "Authentication aborted by client".

I have removed the Keychain. I have, successfully, logged in as a different user and made the account there.

Two other symptoms which may or may not be connected;
1. Internet Accounts will not delete or modify accounts
2. I can't log out of iCloud.

The accounts in Mail are a mixture. The two I'm focussing on are a Gmail account and a POP account. I have tried adding the accounts again.

I would even accept destroying all the accounts and importing them all again but I am unable to even do this.


texts: Boot from different drive without using Alt/Option

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My 2011 27 inch iMac will not boot, it plays the startup sound and then freezes on a white screen. I am fairly confident I could fix it myself if I could get it to boot from a USB drive or external disk but holding Option ⌥ during boot does not bring up the boot selector.

Is there another way to get it to boot from a different drive without using Option ⌥?

For example, if I attach an external drive with OS X installed will it automatically boot from it?

edit: I found this page which sounds exactly like what the problem is. So I am looking for another way to replicate what they are accomplishing, by disconnecting the cable, without having to remove the glass.


texts: Implementing virtual currency is against latest apple guidelines?

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Iam thinking about implementing virtual currency for my book reader app . But before implementing the virtual currency i did a few r&d and still am not clear about the apple guidelines for virtual currency and its itunes review .

After a some googling works i found this which now confuses me a lot .Because am not using bitcoins or any other accepted virtual currency . Am using a virtual currency built for my app alone . Which can be used to buy paid books .

  Apple announced at the Conference that it has updated its its App Store Review guidelines, adding a new rule will allow apps in the App Store to use virtual currencies, as long as they are legal.

My question is :

Will apple reject if i implement a virtual currency for my app ? If it doesnt reject how can i implement restore purchase for my app . My app is a book reader app which has a login page via which user can login into the app (not the itunes login) and read their downloaded/bought books.


texts: Restoring iTunes/iPhoto Libraries After a Clean Install

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I have an iMac i7 that's got a collection of files, settings, etc. that's the culmination of being transferred from past machines (originally an iMac G4, then a PowerMac G5).

I finally decided to start from scratch, erasing the harddrive and doing a clean install of OS X Lion. Everything was backed up to a Time Machine backup on an external drive, but I didn't want to just bring it all back over, re-introducing all that crap back into the clean install.

I want to selectively move some stuff back, and I know how to bring apps back selectively (as long as they were a drag-to-Applications type of install), but what do I need to do to bring my iTunes and iPhoto libraries back completely?


texts: Terminal keeps asking for password and sometimes showing "keychain cannot be found to store" error

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For example if I pull from a git repo it keeps asking my for the username and password and if I use oauth2:xxx@xxx it says "a keychain cannot be found to store oauth2."

I can see system in my keychain access.


texts: iMac says that macOS High Sierra is installed but is still running Mavericks

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Recently I have downloaded and installed macOS High Sierra. Downloading went well, installing went well, no problems during that process. Only when my iMac started back up I saw nothing new. It looked like it didn't install anything at all. So when I checked which OS it was running it said 10.9.5 (Mavericks).
I thought it might have been an error and I tried to reinstall the new OS. However, when I wanted to download the installer again in the Mac App Store, it said that it the OS had already been installed.
And so began my search on the internet to find a solution. I came across a post on the Apple Support Forum. It said that I should look in my applications folder to see if I still have the installer. Fortunately this was the case. Only when I ran the installer it told me that it had failed to download the necessary information from the installer. In other words: it could not run the installer.
Maybe something interesting I found online;
I came across this reply from deontaifromroseville on the forum. Here's the most important part:

Listen... I have been at this computer all day and night. Starting at 10:30a on 1/16/2018. If you see the downloaded or installed on Sierra in the App Store WITH A GRAY TAB YOU CAN NOT CLICK. It is because you have DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED.
OPEN APPLICATION. CLICK ON LAUNCH PAD. YOUR INSTALL SCREEN OF SIERRA WILL POP UP AFTER.

However, the solution he found did not work for me. But it's still interesting because I have successfully gone through the entire installation process. Maybe it is installed but there is something else at play?
So, I still have not been able to get the latest macOS. Does anyone know more about this problem? Has anyone else experienced this same issue? Is there a solution? All information is helpful.


texts: The cheapest and reliable way to unlock iphone 5?

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What is the cheapest and reliable way to unlock iphone 5? Is there any reliable free solution?

The phone is now locked to U.S. Sprint service.


texts: What is the source version of Final Cut Pro?

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I recently downloaded Final Cut Pro Trial and then after using it for a while decided to get Final Cut Pro from the App Store. Whenever I open Final Cut, it still shows as the trial. I think that the problem is caused by the source version in version.plist. Does anyone have any idea what the source version of Final Cut Pro is? It is stored in /Applications/Final\ Cut\ Pro.app/version.plist. Thanks!

Also, if it helps, I am on macOS Catalina 10.15.


texts: Possible to build an IPA file on Linux/Window?

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Is it possible to build an IPA file with XCode on a non-Mac OS like Windows or (preferably) Linux and preferably without the use of a VM? If yes, what is required to do so?

I did do a basic search and even posted a question on Apple support forum (forums.developer.apple.com/message/11494#11494). I did not find any recent information on this so hence my question hoping you guys would provide faster answer than Apple.


texts: Turn off Safari 9 blinking in web inspector?

texts: The web inspector in Safari 9 seems to have added this new "blinking" thing which I find somewhat annoying although it can be useful. How can you turn it off and on? Here is what I mean.


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I have recently moved my blog to another hosting company.
The problem is that I cannot access my blog from my macbook pro although at the same time I can see it from my sony vaio.
Going at the terminal and running : nslookup blog.myblogname.org I get the following results:

Server: xx.xx.x.xxx
Address: xx.xx.x.xxx#53

** server can't find blog.myblogname.org: NXDOMAIN

(Server is my isp's domain name server)

Any ideas how to fix that error so that I am able to access my blog from my macbook pro?
Thank you!

PS : My operating system is MAC OS 10.7.4


texts: Where to find documentation for `whois` command options?

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macOS has whois command available. Running it without any argument shows the following:

usage: whois [-aAbfgiIklmPQrRS] [-c country-code | -h hostname] [-p port] name ...

Here, the -c, -h, and -p options have description. However, no description is available for the rest of the shown options -aAbfgiIklmPQrRS.

How can I find the documentation for the same?


texts: Is there there an iOS equivalent of Android's "Delete app storage"?

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For many years Android has had a function which allows one to wipe a certain app's data by going to
Settings -> Apps -> (select app) -> erase app storage.
Most of the time, this will reset any data stored by the app, as if it was freshly downloaded.
Is there an iOS equivalent of Android's "Delete app storage"?


texts: Non-official usb-c dock station detects 2 external monitors are a single one

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I bought this dock station USB-C JF68  and everything works besides HDMI+Display port simultaneously.

The site claims this thing supports MacBook (I'm using 16" Pro). And it also claims that it supports 2 video outputs in extended mode simultaneously. Giving the fact that Macbook also claims that it supports 2 video outputs from a single thunderbolt (on each side of the laptop) I rely on that this station supports my Mac.

But when I attach both ports together I get mirrored output to both of my external displays (I mean both of them work, but the image is exactly the same). Nevertheless, they are still extended from Macbook's integrated one. If I get to Display arrangement settings in macOS I see that it only detects both displays as a single one. here's the image the display with white border is my integrated one, and the right one is actually both of my external displays.

I use HDMI->HDMI cable and FDP->FDP (Full-size display port). So there are no intermediate parts. The both external monitors run at 1920x1080@60Ghz (Acer v226hql (HDMI) + MSI optix g24c (Display port).

I'm running MacOS Catalina 10.15.2, which I updated yesterday, so all drivers are up to date. I'm not sure if they're some official Azdome driver because I haven't found any.

The interesting part that this exact adapter outputs both displays in extended mode ok for my MSI laptop which runs Archlinux. So the adapter is definitely working. The issue is probably with drivers. I also asked apple support they say that they guarantee that their software drivers only work on official adapters that I can only buy on apple.com.

All of the other things work ok (ethernet/USB/power delivery/ audio). I also tried to plug off every other thing from the adapter and tried to run only with HDMI+DP connected but it just doesn't matter.

I also have another cheap adapter usb-c->hdmi+usbc+usb which when I connect to the same side to the same external monitor works.

Well, that thing described above only works like that only ~50% of the time. Another 50% MacBook just doesn't detect both screens at all. (I mean display arrangement tab is missing from display settings, and they are both black). In all 100% cases all other interfaces from this dock station work.


texts: How can I sync and store data for offline access on an iPad?

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I am asking a question which, despite tons of Internet research and trying out many different options, I can't seem to find a solution to. I am a software engineer by the day, and a musician at night. I recently purchased an iPad with the goal of keeping my entire sheet music library on the device. I just can't figure out how to keep the music "synced" on the device! Here's what I'm looking to do:

I have a folder (with subfolders) filled with music. I can share these using basically any protocol: web-dav, ssh, FTP, Dropbox, you name it. I primarily use rclone to move files around and it's easy for me to set up a server with whatever protocol makes sense.
A requirement is that the data remain on my iPad offline (don't want to depend on Internet access at a gig!)
Also a requirement is to be able to sync an entire folder, rather than selecting files individually.
My preference is to self-host my data, rather than relying on a proprietary service. If I have to use a service, I do not want to pay a monthly fee just to be able to sync. This is why Dropbox Pro doesn't work for me - I don't mind paying a hosting provider to store my data, but don't want vendor lock-in.
I don't mind paying for an app to do this.

How can I achieve the above? This is what I tried on the iPad:

Dropbox: Would work beautifully, but I would have to subscribe to their Pro plan (in perpetuity!) and I'd rather pay monthly fees for a system without vendor lock-in.
Google Drive: You have to select individual files for offline mode, not a folder.
Nextcloud: I used to use it but found their sync to be very buggy! Maybe it has gotten better in the past 1 or 2 years.
Amazon Drive: Does not have an offline mode.

What should I be trying that I haven't yet?


texts: Are iOS 14 widgets animated / distracting?

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I'm concerned about updating to iOS 14 mainly because widgets have moved from their own screen onto the home screen. I get reminded of Windows 10 active tiles which just don't know when to stop moving.
I use widgets often in iOS 13, but I really don't want to be distracted by them because they're...

Animated
Not out of sight

Are they animated? As in: are they allowed to animate in perpetuity?
Is there a solution to #2 other than putting them on their own home screen page? If so, are they accessible from within apps as they are in iOS 13?


texts: How do I exit/cancel Mac recovery mode password page?

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I had some problems with my work MacBook Air that runs MacOS 10.14.6. I read that it is easy to fix this problem in recovery mode, so I tried to get into recovery mode for the first time.
I restarted my computer, and held down command+R. Now I see that it's asking for a password that I don't have.
I'd like to cancel and go into the normal log in screen. How do I do that? Is it safe to hold down the power button in this state? The only things visible on the screen are a lock icon, password bar, an enter button, and the mouse cursor.
This is a related question: Forgotten recovery mode password. I think that one is focused on getting in to recovery mode without the password, and it doesn't have an accepted answer.


texts: WhatsApp Web is active even after putting Mac to sleep

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I got a notification messages on my phone saying "WhatsApp Web is currently active" even when my MacBook is supposed to sleep and not check for messages. Power Nap is not switched on and I have set Do Not Disturb to On when the display is sleeping.

I am concerned about the impact on the battery life of my MacBook. I am not sure if the WhatsApp Web app just prevents the laptop from sleeping, or if the MacBook is in some form of modern standby similar to Power Nap.

I am using the official WhatsApp for desktop application on macOS Mojave:

WhatsApp Desktop

One option to solve this is to quit the application every time before putting the laptop to sleep. Is there any other workaround to fix this issue?

Note: Here's a screenshot of the Energy Saver settings:


texts: How to have character accent menu _and_ key repeat

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So it seems you have an either/or choice for the character accent menu or normal press-and-hold for key repeat behaviour.

Surely it's possible to have press and hold bring up the Character Picker accent menu, then - after a set delay - start repeating? Is there any way to enable this behaviour?


texts: Is this app doing nasty things if an unrelated calendar certificate won't verify?

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I recently downloaded and used Stamp to import my Spotify playlists into Apple Music.  The app instructs me to favorite an iTunes track and press "OK", in order to give the app access to an iTunes cookie.  During this process, a notification popped up saying osascript wanted my password, which I then gave it.  Soon afterward, my calendar was unable to verify the certificate of one of its accounts, making me wonder if my Mac had been compromised.

Can I verify whether this app has compromised my Mac?


texts: Is there a shortcut to change tabs on safari?

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch tabs on Safari?


texts: Displaying Accents on Touch Bar not working anymore

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For some reason, a long press of a letter doesn't bring up the accented letters anymore on the Touch Bar (MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2018, US keyboard). It does bring up the accented character menu, so that you can chose by pressing a number.

I spent couple of hours on the phone with Apple Care folks trying to figure it out but still don't have a solution. I don't have Webroot or any such other program installed...what's really annoying is that I created a second test account, and there it works fine. Has anyone figured out a solution to this???

Edit: This is a different question b/c it's not an issue with Webroot or some other anti-virus software. I don't have those installed.

Also, I tried a PRAM and SMC reset and no help. It doesn't work in safe boot either - not on the main account at least.

Edit 2: Added image. This is what should be happening on the Touch Bar. But it doesn't.


texts: Using "New Terminal at Folder" with tmux?

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I like to use tmux with Terminal so that I can easily split panes, switch off of long-running tasks, or just close the Terminal window and re-open it to find myself exactly where I left off.

Although there's one feature of OS X that I noticed stopped working when I started using tmux:

When I click this button it opens up a new Terminal window, but it attaches to my tmux session and I'm in whatever folder I was in last time, not the one I just tried to open.

Does anyone know a way to fix this?

In case it's part of the problem or cause, here's my tmux config:

# Use 256 color (if supported)
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

# Increased scrollback history
set-option -g history-limit 100000

# Vim key bindings
setw -g mode-keys vi
bind [ copy-mode
bind -T copy-mode-vi v send-keys -X begin-selection
bind -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-selection
bind -T copy-mode-vi R send-keys -X rectangle-toggle
bind ] paste-buffer
bind Space choose-buffer

# It makes no sense that the "first" pane is on the far right
set -g base-index 1

# Split panes using | and - (visually representative of splits)
bind | split-window -h
bind - split-window -v

# Switch panes using Alt-arrow without prefix
bind -n M-Left select-pane -L
bind -n M-Right select-pane -R
bind -n M-Up select-pane -U
bind -n M-Down select-pane -D

# Also switch using Alt-vim keys
bind -n M-h select-pane -L
bind -n M-l select-pane -R
bind -n M-k select-pane -U
bind -n M-j select-pane -D

# Also Ctrl+B followed by vim keys
bind h select-pane -L
bind l select-pane -R
bind k select-pane -U
bind j select-pane -D

# Enable mouse control
set -g mouse on

# Don't rename windows automatically
set-option -g allow-rename off

# Leave sessions alive until manually killed
set-option -g destroy-unattached off

# Reload config easily (since zsh means we're always in tmux)
bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf

# No delay for escape key press
set -sg escape-time 0

# Update status bar more frequently (for CPU / mem stats)
set -g status-interval 2

# Show computer info on the status bar
set -g status-left-length 120
set -g status-right-length 120
set -g status-bg colour7
set -g status-left "#(~/.tmux.d/left.sh #{client_width})"
set -g status-right "#(~/.tmux.d/right.sh #{client_width})"

# Enable copy/paste from tmux to GUI
bind -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe "pbcopy"


texts: Possible to use two HCI controllers concurrently?

texts:
I have a 2011 iMac with Bluetooth 2.1, and recently purchased a Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongle required for my new wireless mouse.

The dongle works great - I paired my mouse and keyboard to it without issue and used the following terminal command to ensure macOS uses the dongle instead of the built-in 2.1 module:

sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=always

(Source: Force OS X to use Bluetooth dongle instead of built in controller)

However I've noticed when I reboot or shutdown my Mac the login screen doesn't respond to any input from my wireless keyboard, so I can't enter my password to login. After logging in (using a wired keyboard) my wireless keyboard and mouse work perfectly fine. I suspect this is because I have FileVault enabled and the USB dongle's driver is not loading at boot?

It seems to me the best solution would be to leave my keyboard paired to my iMac's built-in module and only pair my mouse to the USB dongle, since I can login without needing my mouse, but I can't seem to find a way to use both Bluetooth modules concurrently. Is that possible?

Alternatively, is it possible to configure macOS or my iMac's EFI to load the USB dongle driver at boot? Replacing my iMac is not an option for me at this stage but I'm open to any other alternative ideas too. Thanks.


texts: What does this button do in the iTunes device sync status bar?

texts:
When an iPhone is plugged in and syncing, the status bar shows a message like:

  Syncing "Phone" (Step 2 of 6)

On the left side of the bar there is this icon:

It darkens when clicked, which implies that it's a button. If I had to guess from the icon alone, I would say "rotate clockwise", but that doesn't make sense in this context.

Hovering does not display a tooltip. Clicking it does not have any visible effect.

What is this button?


texts: Can you upload programs you write to the iPad without involving the Apple store?

texts:
I understand that you need to pay $99 and get the SDK to write applications for the iPad, but do you really have to upload them to the store to get them to work on the iPad, or is there a way to get them onto your own device for "testing purposes?"

Failing that, I understand that Apple now has some way for corporations to distribute enterprise applications without involving the Apple store.  What if you wanted to write an application that is to be distributed to a handful of people in a corporate environment.  Could this alternate mechanism be used without involving the Apple store and its approval process?


texts: Installing Python 3.5.6.1: python contains a recursive dependency on itself:

texts:
I am trying to install Python 3.5.6.1 with:

$ brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/f2a764ef944b1080be64bd88dca9a1d80130c558/Formula/python.rb
$ brew switch python 3.6.5_1

But this gives the following error:

==> Consider using `brew extract python ...`!
This will extract your desired python version to a stable tap instead of
installing from an unstable URL!

######################################################################## 100.0%
Error: python contains a recursive dependency on itself:
  python depends on sphinx-doc
  sphinx-doc depends on python

How can I install it ?


texts:
In linux the command install has these options (among others): (from the man page)

-d, --directory
          treat all arguments as directory names; create all components of the specified directories

-D     create all leading components of DEST except the last, then copy SOURCE to DEST

On the mac manage there is this option:

-d      Create directories.  Missing parent directories are created as required.

I am attempting to install a library using a makefile and am getting this error on the mac:

install: illegal option -- D

This is caused by the command install being used to copy a .h file.  Would the -d option work the same?  Or is there a way to do this that would work on both platforms?


texts: I can access iCloud online on my Mac, but can not sign into App Store

texts: My Mac is running on Sierra 10.12.6. When I try to access App Store on my Mac, it requires a username and password. I am able to login to iCloud online using my Apple ID. However, I can not sign in to App Store using the same Apple ID and the password. Can you pls help?


texts: Safari has some menu items that are dimmed and won't work. Is there a way to make them active?

texts: I'm running High Sierra on my older iMac. I use Safari as my browser. Under several of the Safari, menu items are certain options that are dimmed out and can't be run. Specifically, under the History menu is an option to open all windows from the last session. This could come in handy but that menu item appears to not be active and clicking on it has no effect. Is there any way to use these menu items?


texts: Clarification on Apple version identification?

texts:
I want to know the exact version of an older iPad.

After looking up the serial number, it states iPad2,2. I know it is a second generation iPad, but what does the number after the comma identify?

Does this mean this is iPad2 second generation, where iPad2,1 would be iPad2 first generation?

I thought the generation was the first number, so iPad1 is 1st generation, iPad2 is 2nd, and so on.

How do I properly identify iPad2,2 and other iPads?


texts: Cannot make a disk image with disk utility Status 27

texts:
I'm trying to take a disk image of a MacBook Pro 2012 with an SSD and OS X El Capitan installed.
I went into Recovery Mode and selected my partition and the target is an external HDD.

First I got error status 2, but then I remembered to unlock the drive.
Now I get error status 27, I searched a lot to find about this error, but couldn't find the meaning of the error.

I want to take a full backup, reinstall a fresh OS X and then later I will format it again and restore my old system from the image.

Edit:
I now tried to take an image only of the user folder and got operation failed with status 107.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: What is the difference between Apple's "Safari Technology Preview" for the public and the Safari beta download for developers?

texts:
It is my guess that the Safari Technology Preview (STP) is updated less frequently than the Beta for Developers (BD).
I wonder if Apple publishes an explainer on the differences between the two, apart from the observable update cadence difference, and the marketing to different audiences.
April 15, 2021 - I see that the last BD release was on April 6, 2021. I speculate that STP was last updated in early March 2021 based on the tickets in the release log.
Safari download page


texts: Installation of Office 365 on 2008 Macbook with OS -X 10.6 failed

texts: I was installing Office 365 on 2008 Macbook with OS X 10.6  and about half way through the installation a pop-up said to close Safari to continue installation. When I did, I received another pop up that installation failed. Was I suppose to X out of Safari which is what I did?


texts: Is there a way to download the iOS 13 public beta IPSW?

texts:
I'm looking for the public beta IPSW (specifically, the iOS 13 public beta 4), so I can update my iPhone via my Mac, instead of over the air.

https://ipsw.me does not seem to have them, and Apple Developer Portal only shows me the Xcode beta as an available download.

How can I download the software bundle?


texts: Access iCloud on my Mac without my phone?

texts:
I left my phone at home, I'm on my Mac. I go to icloud.com. It tells me to enter the code sent to my devices. Normally a code pops up on my Mac but it's not this time.

How do I access icloud on my mac without my phone?


texts: 'Unable to verify account name or password.' when connecting Office 365 account on MacOS Mojave

texts:
I am struggling with the same issue raised here - "Unable to verify account name or password" on outlook.com Exchange server (browser works). It started after I updated MacOS to Mojave this week. For me everything worked fine (even after upgrading the OS) until the first restart. At that point Mail started complaining it could not verify my credentials.

Here's what I've tried so far:

Confirmed my credentials still work with my @hotmail.com/Office 365 account.
Created a new user on my MacBook Pro and tried to connect to the account as an Exchange account.
Reset my keychain.
Reinstalled Mojave.
Changed my Office 365 password.
Tried every esoteric solution reported on the internet that I could find.

I was able to connect Mail to my hotmail account by adding it in as an IMAP account. However, this only works for Mail and not for the calendar and contacts.

Any help in trying to find a solution would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Safari's 'Shared Links' in Notification Center

texts: Safari has the option to subscribe to RSS feeds, so you can watch them in the 'Shared Links' section of your browser. I'm wondering, is it possible to receive "push notifications" for this in the Notification Center?


texts:
Is there a way to pin desktops to monitors like you can pin app windows to desktops?

Specifically my problem is I use a macbook and plug and unplug my external monitor a few times a day. Rearranging my desktops and full-screen apps every time is a pain in the rear end and so I hope there's a setting for that that I just can't find.


texts: Unified Switching between Keyboard Layouts in Various OSs

texts:
I have a Mac with VMWare installed and run Windows- and Ubuntu-powered virtual machines there. The problem is that in each of the operating systems I have to use different keys to switch between keyboard layouts (English->German->Russian).

Does anybody know whether there is some way to unify the layout switching key combination in all the OSs? For instance switching the layouts using Apple/Windows key and Space Bar.


texts: Strange networking issue: good software/hardware troubleshooting tools?

texts:
I'm posting this question with the hope of getting some guidance from others because at this point I'm completely stumped.

I'm trying to troubleshoot a mid 2011 iMac (11,2) running Mavericks that is unable to ping or communicate with any other host, despite appearing to connect to my home router without issue (it associates and gets an IP address from DHCP).  The router is an Asus RT-N65U with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios.  Wireless clients mostly connect to the 2.4GHz radio since it has better range, WPA2 authentication is used on both.  There are numerous other devices on the LAN - both wired and wireless - that all work fine.  Furthermore, the iMac in question seems to only have developed problems within the last couple of days though nothing has changed on the router and nothing has changed on the machine either...or so I'm told.

After some initial troubleshooting I went ahead and reinstalled Mavericks from a USB stick I had on-hand, figuring that would eliminate any software related issues that might have otherwise been hard to track down.  However the problem persisted even after the re-install, which made me think the wireless card was flaking out.  I'm skeptical of this however because

The machine doesn't have any problem establishing a network connection
The signal strength is what I'd expect to see
I ran a packet sniffer and that showed link layer packets going back and forth, but IP packets of any kind are ignored (as far as I can tell).
I set up an ad-hoc network with the iMac and joined it with my MBP, both machines could ping each other.

The only thing I've seen that seems sort of suspect is an error message from the kernel in the wifi log: Unsupported ioctl 181 but I haven't been able to determine what this means beyond the kernel asking the wireless driver to do something it can't, so it may or may not be significant.  The other potentially significant thing is that at one point this machine was restored from a time machine backup of a completely different computer (a MBP).  It's my understanding that time machine backs up the entire drive, so restoring a backup from a different hardware configuration seems like it could break things, but nothing that a clean install of OSX couldn't fix.  I've tried to do the built in hardware test but it doesn't work for some reason, maybe because this machine has an after-market hard drive upgrade (the original failed).

So this brings me back to wondering whether it's a software issue, particularly something to do with the router but that seems strange since nothing has changed on the router and I'm the only one who could change anything to begin with.

This all brings me to my question: what else could I look into that could provide more info to work with so I narrow down what's going on here?

UPDATE

Some more info and clarification of some things:  When I say the machine "connects" to the router, I meant associate.  It associates to the wireless network, but will not ping the router's IP address.

I have not tried a wired connection but I did try one of these and it works flawlessly, so this is specific to the built in wireless.  Are there any other tools for testing the hardware besides the Apple diagnostics?


texts: iPhone iOS 12.2: music star ratings aren’t saved

texts:
I’ve had this problem for a while, possibly since the start of iOS 12.

I have Show Star Ratings switches on and can access the star rating for songs in the Music app. I select Rate Song... from the action sheet, tap a star rating in the alert view, then tap the Done button. However the rating is not saved: if I open up the rating alert view again, it’s back to 0 stars.

This is happening both for music I’ve purchased from iTunes and other music I own.

Has anyone else experienced this? How can I fix it?


texts: FileVault - One account can unlock but preventing full login and forcing logout and login again with other user

texts:
When I installed macOS I was able to do it on a newly formatted and APFS encrypted disk.

That worked fine.

Then installation went forward and on reboot I was asked for a DISK PASSWORD.

Installation rebooted a couple of times and disk password was prompted each time.

Until you add a user. Then that user password will basically automatically be able to read the decryption key it seems which is really NON ACCEPTABLE in a non-infiltrated Apple.

The original key should be the only key capable of decrypting the disk and that key should not be stored anywhere on the system.

Nonetheless, I proceeded to create a secondary user which will be able to decrypt as well and I revoked the first users ability to unlock FileVault because I wish to minimize the original exposure of the password I type 5000 times a day.

The disk decryption password should really only be entered once. When the system starts.

  How do I prevent a full login from the FileVault enabled user? Is
  there way to have the account password be entered once and then never
  fully logged in?

Side questions:

How did the disk password (in diskutil) become accessible from any user added to the system? For system to be able to do that, the original decryption key which is in my memory only, has to be encrypted with a user password, and then when the user provides a password it is decrypted and used to open the disk. Meaning the password is on disk in one way or the other once the disk is unlocked.
When I add a new user, that original password which might be in memory or disk is encrypted again with user password and then decrypted to reveal real password which is used to disk unlock.
Would it not be better if Apple just allowed DISK access? Why introduce this vulnerability which allows you to access main disk just by introducing a new user to the system? When creating a new user, apple is accessing the clear text disk password and encrypting it again. That's a problem since it must be that Apple is able to read the decryption key while system is running, and really allows anyone the ability to who gains access to any user on the system capable of adding users to grant disk access.
Is Apple here actually storing the original disk password in clear text in memory/disk or in some encrypted form with decryption key readily available when a new user is to be added?

Anyway. Main question is how to prevent full login.


texts: Remote installation of Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 as an upgrade, not a fresh install

texts:
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions (or know if its even possible) to remote upgrade a fleet of Macs from 10.6.8 to 10.8 remotely. I presume I can push the installESD through ARD, but I want it to run completely unattended.

If it is not possible through "traditional" methods does anyone know of any tools that might help automate this process?

Thank you for your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions.


texts: how can I use my macbook pro as a primary display for my mac mini?

texts: I want to use my Apple Mac Mini without connecting a monitor through the VGA, I have also a MacBook pro and an iPad. I want to know how I can use the MacBook pro (ideally wirelessly) to act as the display and keyboard and mouse for my Mac Mini.


texts: What deficiencies in Classic Mac OS led Apple to replace it?

texts:
In the movie "Steve Jobs" with Michael Fassbender, it is implied that Jobs started NeXT, not to sell hardware, but to develop a new OS and have Apple buy the company, only for the OS. We all know the history and know that this is exactly what happened.

Now I am diving a little into Apple OSs and find that the OS Apple had/developed while Jobs was away, was the "Classic Mac OS". In the movie it is said that Apple "really needed" a new OS.

This all made me wonder: what was so bad about the classic Mac OS?


texts: Erasing partition doesn't give me free diskspace

texts:
I'm using a Macbook Air and until today I had two partitions on it (not counting the restore partition). I had my OSX partition and an Ubuntu partition.

As I don't use Ubuntu anymore, I decided to remove the partition and resize my OS X partition to use the whole SSD again. However, this didn't go as planned.

After backing up my Ubuntu files to an external HDD I restarted my mac with Cmnd + R to go into restoration mode. There I erased the Ubuntu partition in the hope that would allow me to resize my OS X partition. Unfortunately, I don't see any extra space showing up inside the partition manager so I can't enlarge the OS X partition...

While searching Google I came across someone with the same problem. It was suggested to empty the trash and also searching your harddisk for .sparseimage files and removing them, however I found none.

Does anyone have any other suggestions I can try? I desperately want my space reclaimed :(

Edit: Some screenshots to clarify my situation:

Disk Utility with SSD selected

Disk Utility with OS X partition selected:

As you can see, the SSD has a total size of 120 GB. However, the sizes of the two partitions on it don't add up to this number (by far). So I must have some free space somewhere, but I have no idea how to get to it...


texts: Ownership of the .config folder in home directory

texts:
Who is supposed to be the owner of the .config directory under user's home folder?

On my machine it appears to be owned by the system user and it is only readable by that user.

Several programs, like Homebrew and git (which should be allowed to be used without root permissions) complain by producing warnings as shown below:

warning: unable to access '/Users/andrea/.config/git/attributes': Permission denied

Perhaps the ownership of my .config folder was changed in mistake? Who should be the owner?

And if system should be the owner, is it safe to make it readable and writable by other users?


texts: Using GarageBand + Jam Packs in commercial games for iPhone

texts:
I already read this : http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201808

But I have a question...

1.Are we allowed to use sound effects from GarageBand as sound effects in our game without any modifications of original sound ?

For example I need an effect when button is clicked, or bullet is fired, or coin is collected, or I just need background music and for some of those effects I don't want to create new ones by myself...I just want them as they are already. Can I use GarageBand for that just by simply purchasing an app and use it's predefined effects, or loops, in my iPhone commercial game ? Also how does the same thing applies to Jam packs??


texts: How to set permission for an external hard drive formatted in Hfs+?

texts:
i've formatted an external hard drive in HFS+ using Ubuntu, and i've copied into 600 gb of data's.
Now, i've connected it to a Mac OsX Lion and shared it to a lan with 4 mac's.
The problem is that users can't create, copy or change any files!
So i need (i think) to change all permission and owner of the hard drive files: but how ?
The problem is that i try to change it (chmod, chown etc) but no change's is possible.
All files and folder remain as admin:staff !

How to do ?

Thank you!


texts: Missing CoreAudio process in Activity Monitor

texts:
I have always had the buzzing audio issue that comes with the 2018 MacBook Pro Models (I'm still convinced its an audio buffer size mismatch error). Up until now, I have always used the Kill CoreAudio in Activity Monitor trick to reset the audio and stop the buzzing.

Recently I have discovered that the CoreAudio has actually gone from my Activity Monitor! I still have audio and still have the buzzing issue. I'm just concerned that something will trip up along the ways because the CoreAudio is missing? Can someone shed some light on how to get it back please?


texts: How do I get bash with readline support from Nix?

texts:
I am experimenting with the Nix package manager on macOS. The bash package I got from Nix doesn’t seem to have readline support enabled:

$ nix-env -i bash
installing ‘bash-4.3-p46’
building path(s) ‘/nix/store/468xvd20nj86yr6k16g2918849f3w7pn-user-environment’
created 119 symlinks in user environment
$ bash
Restored session: Thu Nov 24 14:21:31 CET 2016
$ foo^A^K

How do I get Bash with readline from Nix?


texts: How do you silence Mojave "Your Disk is almost full" notification?

texts:
This question is over 2 years old and doesn't work with the newest version of MacOS (10.14.2).

I've tried clearing cache space, and I have almost 5GB free but it still feels the need to notify me every 3 minutes which is both distracting and unhelpful.

This is also not helpful at all.


texts:
I followed the simple instructions on Homebrew's homepage:

Paste this at a terminal prompt:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"

But I get the following permission errors.  What is the proper way to install Homebrew on Mac OS X Lion?

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/Formula/...
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/...

Press enter to continue
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod o+w /usr/local
mkdir: /usr/local/Cellar: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/etc: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/include: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/lib: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/Library: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/sbin: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/share: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/var: Permission denied
mkdir: /usr/local/.git: Permission denied
Failed during: /bin/mkdir /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/etc /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib /usr/local/Library /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/local/var /usr/local/.git
$


texts: I have an iPad retina display (4th gen) and my mom has iPhone 5S. We use different apple ids. Can we use iCloud sharing so that the photos that I take can be viewed in her iPhone?


texts: How to correctly pipe output into "say" in terminal

texts:
I realized that the say command can be great when combined with another command/program because it can read you the output. I tried to pipe the output from leave to say by typing the following in terminal, but it didn't work.

leave +5 | say

What is the correct way to do this?


texts: Why does the Citrix Workspace installer fail on macOS 15 (Catalina)?

texts:
I tried to install Citrix Workspace v2002 on a new MacBook Air running macOS 15 Catalina. I think the owner of the computer had used Migration Assistant from an old MacBook Air running a significantly older OS.

The installer failed without a user-facing explanation. Other versions of Citrix Workspace and Citrix Receiver also failed to install.

Has anyone else experienced this?


texts:
I'm using a webmail account(NOT Gmail: hate its interface), and I DON'T want to use the mac's Mail app(must maintain double contacts lists for one thing).

I use Google Chrome and have set the internal mail handler, so when i click a mailto: link, it opens up the url for my webmail.

However, other apps like Picasa, doesn't support mailing to a webmail url(short of Gmail: DUH :-), only to the mac's Mail app.

I've managed to switch to Google Chrome as the main mail app in mac's Mail app's settings, so now I can select Chrome for e-Mail in Picasa.

But there, I run into problems: Chrome doesn't handle the call from Picasa well. It switches to the foreground, but no action is taken.

After much googling and thinking, I have the impression that the easiest way to accomplish this(don't want to BUY and app for this simple thing), is to write an app in applescript for it.

The areas I'd appreciate help with are:

• What is the format for Picasas call to apps: does it send the paths to the pictures I'm sending as arguments AKA parameters, as a memory block, or what?

• How do I pick up the picture paths to create an attachment list?

• How do I send the request to Chrome, to create a new email with the attached files? I'm thinking by "simply" building a mailto: string with the picture paths attached, and invoking Chrome with the mailto: string as argument(s), but I don't know if that's possible, and if not, how else to make Chrome understand what I want it to do.

Thanks,

I've seen Webmailer, along with other apps of the same kind. Alas, they all refer to mailto links, which isn't really what I'm looking for.

Still, I downloaded and tried Webmailer, and to sum up, the Shell Script feature MIGHT help, if I can get it to work, and if I knew what to look for.

I've tried the Shell Scripts feature on mailto links in a document(TextEdit), and it permits me to log the calling arguments, which is what I hoped to do with the call from Picasa. But when I select Webmailer for e-Mail in Picasa, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happens: even if I set Webmailer to compose an email in stead, it doesn't even start Chrome.
I'm focusing on Picasa: if anyone can tell me how to use the Email icon(quote: "Send photos in the Photo Tray by e-mail") in Picasa, then I'm content. From there on, I'm sure I can extend that solution to any other app from which I want to send attachments: pls refer to my initial questions above.
Regarding attachments(the reason I want to have this working in Picasa, obviously), there also seem to be a problem with the mailto protocol: I haven't found any confirmation that it supports attachments at all. That's why I'm thinking that the solution MUST involve some programming, so there doesn't seem to be much of a choice in that regard.

Thanks,


texts:
At work I airdrop files with coworkers all the time but I often need to move photos from my iphone 5 to my laptop but I can't figure out how.

If I select the images and open the send page which lists options to send my text, email, Facebook, etc.  it lists airdrop above all the other options but it doesn't seem to be clickable.

I have airdrop open on my mac.


texts: ios 13 Family shared calendar has no alerts

texts:
My wife and I have iOS 13 with a shared family calendar. If she creates a calendar event and puts alert(s) at the bottom when it shows up on my phone and I accept it from the calendar inbox there are no alerts.
I've googled this like crazy but only found similar but not identical questions, all with instructions for older iOS versions which I've followed without success. I want the alerts she put when creating the event to come through on my phone as well.


texts: Will a MacBook7,1's SuperDrive work in a MacBook2,1?

texts:
A friend of mine has a MacBook2,1 mid 2007 with a dead Combo Drive (long story short, someone at the Apple Store put the wrong drive in), and I have a MacBook7,1 (mid 2010) that I tore down for parts.

Normally I'd just try this myself but the drive is at my parents house an hour away and gas is $3.49 a gallon. Does anyone know if they're interchangeable?


texts: erased HD, did clean install, no iLife -- can I get iLife off from MacBook DVD?

texts:
My MacBook came with Snow Leopard installed and it came with "recovery" DVDs, I upgraded to Lion via the App Store.  I had a problem with my MacBook -- the Apple Genius concluded I needed to do a full clean reinstall of Lion.

I erased the HD and reinstalled Lion. Everything's good now, except I don't have the iLife apps.

How do I get iLife?

For example, can I get the iLife apps off of the (Snow Leopard) DVDs that came with my MacBook?

Thanks,
Rob


texts:
I've been using the (iPhone) app Flash Drive, which you can use to start a http:// server on your phone and connect to it using Finder and transfer files. I recently transferred a .mkv file of over 1gig to my phone. It took a solid 5mins to complete, and then after it said done, the app's size showed up as zero KB on the phone. Even through Finder, the file shows up as zero KB, so I deleted the files individually via Finder. Now, the space is allocated on my phone, but the files don't show up any where. I connected using my FTP/WebDAV client to see if there are any hidden files (.XXX) taking up space, but nothing, just the same files I see through the app's interface.

Anyone have an idea how I can get the unallocated space back? I restarted my phone using the regular method, but still the space is taken up and I'm deadsure that I didn't put anything else on my phone which could have taken up the space except the two separate incidents with the .mkv file.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Can I have both iCloud and local calendars on my iPhone?

texts:
I'd like to share a calendar with my wife that would be visible on our phones. We're both OSX/iOS at the moment, so naturally I set up an iCloud calendar on my iPhone which is visible to her. The only problem is that she does NOT want her contacts, calendars, notes, etc. on the cloud.

While we're fine with setting up Mavericks Calendar.app on her laptop to see both her iTunes synced local calendar AND the iCloud shared calendar, it seems that her iPhone does not support this "hybrid" set of calendars. Specifically, it appears that the only way she would be able to access the iCloud calendar on her phone would be to enable iCloud for iOS calendars which only allows you to merge your local calendars into the cloud; there does not appear to be an option to let you have locally synced calendars alongside iCloud ones. I believe Contacts at least allows you to have a "Merge / Keep on iPhone / Cancel" set of options.

I've spent quite a bit of time searching for a solution on this and the closest I've gotten is either:

set up OSX server or a CalDAV server, which sounds a bit excessive.
set up a bogus Exchange account, which sounds like it would be local to the phone and won't sync with OSX's Calendar.app via iTunes.

I'm hoping that I haven't missed something in my searches, but everything I've found is either complaining about the missing Calendar/Contacts iTunes sync pre-OSX 10.9.3 when they re-enabled it OR just talking about sync problems in general.

Any ideas?


texts:
I’d like to receive more notifications when approaching the screen time limit, e.g. 30 minutes remaining. Is this possible (perhaps with a creative workaround via an API to access screen time data)?
Thanks for your help!


texts: IiPhone 5s won't appear in iTunes (appears in my computer) after iTunes update

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I'm running Windows 10, and I recently updated my iTunes to the most recent version. Ever since then, my iPhone doesn't appear in iTunes. However, it still appears in my computer under "Apple iPhone" (rather than the actual name that I named it). Also, everytime I plug it in, it continually asks me to allow the computer to access my photos and videos.

Any ideas to how I can get iTunes to recognise it? (I really want to avoid doing a full reinstall of iTunes though.)


texts: Text Message showing up with wrong name on iPhone

texts: For some reason when my son sends my mother a text message it shows up with my name.  Texts from me show up in a different thread, but when I click on the "contact" from his it takes it to my contact.  I do not use Apple any more (my son does), but he does use the Apple ID I set up when I had my old iPod.  The only thing I can think is that is what's causing the problem, but I can't figure out how to resolve it.  Any suggestions?


texts: Apps can open other apps on iPhone using a URI scheme (e.g., open the Facebook app with fb://). Is there a way to disable this?


texts:
I just got an iPhone 7 Plus and noticed that the EarPod's cable is much longer than the one I had with the iPhone 6s.

Do both the iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus come with longer earphone cables than the 6s and the 6s Plus?


texts: How to fix macOS Big Sur Dock after having customised it on Catalina for uBar

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I had a sweet setup for using uBar for favourites and the MacOS Dock for seeing open applications before I upgraded to Big Sur.
I had used commands from this Ask Different question: Is there a way to completely disable Dock?
Even after I upgraded to Big Sur, everything for working fine perfectly. I toggled some Dock settings in System Preferences and now I'm unable to get the auto-hide working. It is inconsistent now. It doesn't always auto-hide and gets in the way of other windows by covering
them.

I only want to access the Dock using Cmd+Opt+D
I know the Dock will show up in the Launchpad and ^+Up and that is fine.

How do I fix this?
I tried commands from the same question for restoring dock as well, and restarted the MacBook Air multiple times.
Please help.


texts: iOS app consecutive Expedite review Request

texts:
I just made an "Expedite review" request to apple for a major bug yesterday and Apple approved the app in few hours.

Now (Today) I want to request Expedite review again of-course for a major reason.

What is the chance of approval again?

Will that affect my future requests?


texts: Hard drive (HDD) access has become very slow at times

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I have a mid-2011 iMac with a 7200 rpm 2‒Terabyte HDD, from Hitachi.

The last year, I have increasingly been noticing a behaviour where access to the hard drive has become slow – especially since around the time El Capitan was released.

I notice this behaviour chiefly in two situations:

Application installs are slow, and/or sometimes seem to freeze – being stuck at "1 second left" for several minutes.
Finder is frequently slow to populate the contents of folders, like /Applications and a spinning wheel for 30 seconds. Other times, Finder is snappier and population times are adequate.

As such, the performance strikes me as inconsistent, making me suspicious of a burgeoning hardware failure. However, I do not hear any weird noises from the drive, and Disk Utility results seem OK.

The system has, of course, experienced increased demands since purchase. Besides running a more modern OS, I also make heavy use of Dropbox whose initial boot indexing process requires a lot of work for the drive; and I also have a Time Machine that is frequently backing up lots of media. Spotlight and Alfred also seem to weigh down a bit some time after system startup, as well as antivirus programs I have had installed (not at the same time) such as Avast and Sophos Antivirus.

On the other hand, I can't see that these applications are always active when I encounter drive performance issues.

Is this drive performance to be expected with a five-year old HDD drive given these demands – or do the performance inconsistencies signal hardware problems?


texts: Remove blur "effect" in Preview when changing pages

texts:
I have been using Preview for reading lecture notes and slides (compiled using Beamer and edited in Xournal). Now, whenever I go to the next slide, I see a blurred version first which seems to be a cached image of the slide (nowhere near vector graphics) and then the page renders to smooth and clear text. I am using a 2018 MacBook Pro so I am assuming that hardware is not a bottleneck here.

Is preview designed to behave in this way? Can this behaviour be changed?

Clarification: I am not referring to the transition animation when changing pages using the trackpad. I change pages using the keyboard and the blurring looks like an actual rendering delay.


texts: Software recommendations for projector titles/slides and simple visual effects at an event

texts:
I'm looking for recommendations for software to use to run companion slides and visual effects on a projector screen at a public event.

Ideally, I'd like something that can:

Show titles/slides full-screen on an externally connected display
Show movies full-screen on demand
Show specific images on demand (i.e. 'go to John Doe's introductory slide', which I don't think a presentation tool like Keynote could achieve given its reliance on slide order)
Show simple visually interesting animated graphics - something to leave running while people are finding their seats.
Preferably be free or relatively cheap.

I considered Processing, but it seems a bit heavyweight for my needs. Keynote and PowerPoint are probably insufficient, given that I will need to jump around my different items quite a bit if the event order changes, and I can't really exit the presentation and click on a different slide while the event's running.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations.


texts: How to delete single songs in My Music without deleting them from playlists

texts:
When i create a playlist then i add some songs from Apple music. These songs are added also to "My Music" as single songs. When i want to see only complete albums, it is impossible. I need to delete these single songs from "My Music" somehow but when i delete a song it also deletes from my playlist

Anyone knows how to do that?


texts: iPhone ceased connecting to AkrutoSync on laptop with static IP address

texts:
I seem to be having problems sync'ing my iPhone with Outlook on the laptop via AkrutoSync.  It is configured to sync over home WiFi, not over the Internet.  The IPv4 address of the laptop is static, fixed at 192.168.1.101, and this has worked for quite a few months.  The only things that are configured to sync are Calendar, Contacts, and Notes (not email).  The last sync was on Fri July 21.

I tried a number of things:

Deleting the AkrutoSync log file, which tends to get very large
Removing very old calendar itmes and large attachments to them
Compacting and restarting Outlook
Rebooting laptop, home WiFi router, and the iPhone
I followed the AkrutoSync process to reconfigure the Exchange account, but the phone timed out before 192.168.1.101 responded (AkrutoSync was waiting for the phone to connect)
I even updated Java (though I don't know if that's relevant)

Here are the details of my accessories/apps:

AkrutoSync 5.2.33 (32-bit)
Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A110 running Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit
Outlook version 2007
iPhone SE running iOS 12.3.1
Laptop firewall: Whatever comes with Windows 7 (if any)
WiFi router TP-Link model TD-W9970
Both the iPhone and laptop are able to access the internet

What else can I do?

Thanks.


texts:
My Mac (Mid 2009- MacBookPro5,5) laptop installing OS 10.8.2.

Currently, it is using 2 x 1GB (1066 Mhz).

My friend gave me 2 x 2GB (1600 Mhz) of his 2012 Mac.

After installing 2 x 2GB (1600 Mhz) on my Mac, it can not boot but can not start OS. This is the error that show on boot start up screen:

But it is possible to install 1x 1GB (1066) + 1x 2GB (1600). The system can down-clock it to both 1066 Mhz. But what i still have 1 x 1GB (1066) + 1x 2GB (1600) left!

My question is: Any better solution than using 1x 1GB (1066) + 1x 2GB (1600)?

More certainly, is there any way to install 2 x 1600 Mhz? (even down-clocking to 1066 is accepted). (currently, 2x1600 Mhz can not startup OS).

Edit 1: 4 RAM are healthy.


texts: How to connect MacBook Pro to an iMac with a 3rd party keyboard?

texts:
I was following the instructions here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592

which say to press CommandF2 and that works fine when I use my Apple keyboard. However, I want to connect my Apple keyboard to my MacBook Pro so I wanted to use some other keyboard to enable target display mode (i.e display my MacBook Pro on my iMac).

I obviously opened the keyboard viewer on the imac to make sure I am pressing CommandF2 and I am. However, it still doesn't allow me to connect my MacBook to my iMac.

The instructions on that support page do not really suggest how to fix them though they do have a list of things to be done. I tried all the F1,...etc.

Anyway, is there a way to connect my MacBook Pro with a 3rd party keyboard?

I did noticed that despite me pressing F2 on the Mac keyboard the keyboard view did say I did press F2 but in the Mac it DOES say I press CommandF2 on the keyboard viewer. Odd.

Some instructions on that page if CommandF2 doesn't work:

  If Command-F2 doesn't work If your iMac doesn't
  switch to Target Display Mode when you press
  Command-F2, check these things:

  Make sure that the iMac you're trying to use as a display supports
  Target Display Mode.  Target Display Mode works only when your primary
  Mac is logged in to a macOS user account. For example, if your first
  Mac is at the FileVault login screen, pressing Command-F2 on your iMac
  does not enable Target Display Mode. You must first log in to your Mac
  (using a regular display, if necessary) before you can use an iMac in
  Target Display Mode. Make sure that you're pressing Command-F2 on the
  keyboard that's connected to the iMac you want to use as a display. In
  Keyboard System Preferences, if the checkbox is enabled for "Use all
  F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys," the key combination
  changes to Command-Fn-F2. Make sure that your Mini DisplayPort or
  Thunderbolt cable is connected to both computers. If you're currently
  logged in on the iMac you want to use as a display, try logging out to
  return to the login window. Then press Command-F2 again. Some older
  Apple keyboards and third-party keyboards might not allow Command-F2
  to toggle display modes. If this happens, use the keyboard that came
  with your iMac to toggle Target Display Mode on and off.  If your iMac
  is currently started up in Windows, it won't enter Target Display
  Mode. Target Display Mode isn't supported in Boot Camp.


texts: Rebuilding Shared Albums after restore from Time Machine

texts: I recently had cause to wipe and reinstall my Mac from a Time Machine backup. My Photos library appears to be complete except all the Shared Albums, including the ones I shared, are missing. I wouldn't have been surprised if the photos had gone and they had to redownloaded, but there's no reference to them at all. All I get is the button "Start Sharing" but I'm worried if I press it it'll replace my subscriptions on the server. They are still on my iPhone


texts: How to fix Private Internet Access' kill switch?

texts:
When you enable Private Internet Access' kill switch, you can only have internet when you are connected to the VPN. When you disable it, you should have internet even if the VPN is not enabled.

The problem

Although I disabled the kill switch, I only have internet access when I am connected to the VPN. This seems like a bug on PIA's side, but how can I make my internet work again on my Mac (without needing to be connected to VPN)?


texts: Can I get Siri to run a shortcut on my Apple Watch without having to touch the screen?

texts: Whenever I verbally get Siri to run a shortcut on my Apple Watch Series 4 it always requires that I approve it by pressing 'Do' on the screen in order for the shortcut to run. Is it possible to configure either Siri, shortcuts, my watch, or some combination of the three so that shortcuts will run when I verbally ask Siri to run them without me having to touch the screen to approve the shortcut running?


texts:
I'm getting a similar warning as this one:

Whenever I get to Settings in iOS. I have deactivated Cellular connections for everything (including Settings) but Chrome Browser.

I'm wondering if anyone know why Settings needs a Cellular connection?

As seen on this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6567893


texts: My iPhone 6S is on iOS 11 beta 2 and when I go to software update in settings it wants me to update to beta 3. How can I update to the stable release of iOS 11?


texts: How to disable results opening in new tab for Yahoo search

texts:
I switched to from Google to Yahoo as my default search engine for Safari.

The search itself works fine, but then when I click an item on the search results page, it will open it in a new tab by default, rather than in the same tab that the results were in. I really prefer the latter behavior, because otherwise my browser window quickly fills up with search results tabs that I have no use for. I also don't see myself getting used to manually closing every single search result tab I open during the day.

Hence, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if there's perhaps a way to disable this "feature".


texts: How to see how much music do I have in iTunes?

texts:
The new iTunes version has brought some changes. And I just realized that it won't show anymore how much music do I have.

It used to say the size and the total play time at the bottom of the window, but it's gone now. Can I ripristinate the indicator? Or what's the easiest way to check my music library size?


texts:
Just like the title:

How do I configure my watch to display the full numerical date 3/11/17 instead of just the small date "Sat 11" or "Mar 11"

I have viewed all the available complication and scoured for additional settings but the only options I see are large form "Mar 11" and small form "Sat 11"


texts: Can't stream Airplay from Iphone Youtube app

texts:
My setup:

Iphone 6, with iOS 8.1.2.
Mac Mini with OS X 10.6.8 and Airserver 5.0.7.

I can stream any video in my Iphone to the Mac Mini using Airplay. I can also stream from the iOS Vimeo app, as well as pretty much every other one. However, when it comes to the Youtube app, whenever I try to stream using Airplay I get an error in the Mac Mini saying "a data reference could not be cleared".

What's up? Is this Youtube's DRM, or is there something else going on?


texts: Enter user/pass dialog for acrobat app install: no text visible, can't type into text boxes / press buttons (pic)

texts:
Has anyone ever seen this? I wish I could describe it better, but I hoped the picture could do the talking.

This is on a clients computer, running Mavericks, and as you can see trying to install Acrobat.

This dialog box pops up, which would normally ask you to enter your username and password, but instead no text is visible, and you can't enter text or click any buttons.


texts: Why would adding a USB extension cord to my keyboard affect my Bluetooth connection to my magic mouse?

texts:
Just wondering if some hardware guru can explain why this happens?  If I plug my full size USB keyboard into my Early 2013 MBP 13" Retina running Yosemite 10.10 without the USB extension cord it comes with, my Bluetooth Magic Mouse has intermittent problems, and can't pair.

But if I add the extension cord, then it works like a charm.

This took a while to deduce, and I was wondering how an extension cord can make a difference?  Any thoughts?


texts: iPhone/iTunes play count & location updating

texts:
Here's the scenario:

My phone holds my music list, and is synchronized with my home computer
My work computer also runs iTunes, and I plug my phone in there to play music by first having told it not to sync automatically, then selecting the device in the left pane and clicking on a song or podcast

Previously (say, iOS 5 and the appropriate iTunes version) I would do this daily, and when I got home to sync my phone any fully played podcasts would be marked as played at home, play counts of songs would be updated, and half-played podcasts would have their "play head" position synced to wherever I left off.  I could then pick up where I left off on my home computer if I wanted to.  On the work computer, when I'd click 'eject' on my device in iTunes I would see a brief "Syncing iPhone..." window pop up and that would update the play counts and position of anything that I'd updated while connected.  If I didn't eject, then that data would sometimes be lost, which is understandable (and I would always make a point to eject so I wouldn't lose my position).

Now (iOS 6, iTunes 10.7 (21)) when I get home all that information is lost and whatever the play count or status was on my home computer is written back to the phone.  I also note that if I start playing a podcast via my work computer over USB, and then open the video app on the phone (or the Music app if it's an audio-only podcast), it does not know where I left off previously and starts from the beginning or my home computer's "play head" position.

Any ideas?  I've restored the phone not that long ago, but starting from new isn't something I'd like to do because of the time involved in reconfiguring everything.  My current "solution" is to only start a podcast at work if I know I can finish it so I don't have to write down where I left off :>


texts: How to stream phone audio from iPhone to Mac

texts: How do you stream your phone audio from iPhone to Mac? I see one of the audio options as my Macbook name from my iPhone but when I select my computer name I still don't get any audio on my Mac.


texts: How to diagnose Address Book quitting unexpectedly?

texts:
When opening Address Book, it quits before it opens. The window says:

Address Book quit unexpectedly. Click `Reopen` to open the application again.
Click `Report` to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.

What's the best solution? How can I diagnose this problem?


texts: Can't activate iMessage or FaceTime on any device

texts: I can't activate iMessage or FaceTime on any Apple device. It keeps saying that it could not be activated and I should try again later. I'm on the latest version of macOS and iOS and the date and time are set automatically on both devices. I have no phone number linked to the Apple ID so it has nothing to do with a carrier, etc.


texts: Restoring original baseband to iPhone 3G 4.2.1 with iPad baseband

texts:
A friend of mine bought an iPhone 3G from some T-Mobile cell phone vendor. The vendor had installed a custom 4.2.1 ipsw with the iPad baseband because iPhone 3G's wasn't unlockable at the time. That was great at first, but then my friend tried to restore the iPhone through iTunes. Because of the baseband, in the middle of the restore (the bar on the iPhone was partially filled) iTunes would vomit an error and axe the whole process, essentially bricking the device. He usually takes his computer issues to me, so I managed to fix the issue by reading forums and by finding an ipsw online with iPad's baseband.

That iPhone's been working for a while now, but if this happens again, is there a way I can revert from the iPad baseband so he can restore through iTunes without my intervention?


texts:
The following image shows my Disk Utility window.

It says there are 5 volumes in total, but I can only access two: Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data. Apparently one of them is a Virtual Machine as denoted by the VM. Another one of them is Recovery, but I do not know what this means exactly. The final volume is not mounted; it does not even mount after I click the Mount button.
Is there a way possibly through terminal or Recovery mode in where I can access them and determine if they are useful or not? I am running macOS Catalina on my 2015 iMac if that helps.
Thank you in advance!


texts: How to make the items in a variable a single item

texts:
Lets say I have a variable Q set to {"a", "b", "c"}
how can I make it so that AppleScript takes the items of Q and turns it into a single item so that Q is now set to {"abc"}?


texts:
I'm running Mountain Lion and I have a folder in ~/sites that has a red icon on the folder  and I can't open it because 'access is denied'.

What I've tried:

Get Info > unlock with admin password, change 'everyone' privilege to 'read write' but won't change so tried 'read only' but still 'access denied'
Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites/lockedfolder
Terminal > sudo chmod -R 0777 ~/sites
Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites/lockedfolder
Terminal > sudo chmod a+rwx ~/sites
Disk utility > repair permissions and steps 1-5 again but no luck

All users now show 'read write' access in get info window but still  and no access...

What can I try next?


texts: How do I view mouse-over text with an iPad?

texts:
Some websites have text that appears when you hover over an image or link with the mouse cursor.  Touching the screen of an iPad does not appear to activate this text.

Is there a way to see mouse-over text on an iPad?


texts:
How can I downgrade from Safari 12 back to Safari 11?

I’m a blind Mac user, using Voiceover. Safari 12 has various accessibility bugs and thus I need to go back to the latest version of Safari 11.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far: restoring a previous version of my computer from a Time Machine backup. But that didn’t work, because as soon as the system restarted Safari updated automatically, before I could do basically anything.

Any other suggestions?

I’m running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6


texts: Bash script detect received iMessage along with its contents?

texts:
I've been doing some searching around online for an answer to this question and can't seem to find one. My aim is to run a bash script which waits for the arrival of an iMessage from a specific contact and when the message is received, it inputs the content of the iMessage into a specified command.

I understand that whatever the command is (if there is one) to check for the presence of a new message from a specified contact will probably have to be repeated in some sort of loop but for now, I am just wondering if there is some sort of command (maybe osascript) which can check for this?

E.g.

iMessage: From, Tom: Hello World

echo "$imessagemessage" > ~/Desktop/message.txt

Does anyone know if this is possible? If so, I would really appreciate it if someone could give me some guidance.

Thank you in advance,

Kind regards,

Tom


texts: Can the iCloud sync progress be observed?

texts:
I have my Mac running OS X 10.8 set up so that I can see the contents of its iCloud repository at ~/Library/Mobile Documents (see this question and this question for more information on how that works). However, I'd like to be able to see / visualize / understand the sync state of my Mac:

Is my Mac in sync with iCloud?
If not, what is being uploaded /
downloaded / how long will it take?
Are there any utilities or
built-in features of OS X that will allow me to see any of this?

These are valid questions even without iCloud explicitly exposed in the filesystem, but are obviously more useful if you copy bulk numbers of files in/out of the iCloud repository explicitly.


texts: Why would SetFile be unavailable after upgrading to Mountain Lion?

texts:
I have Xcode installed, and have used the SetFile command (installed with Xcode) for some time.  I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, though, and find that it is suddenly unavailable.  I verified that the upgrade did not wipe out Xcode—it's still there, and it runs fine—so I'm baffled as to why I suddenly cannot use SetFile.  All I can find by Googling points to installing Xcode (for people who don't have it).  What could be the problem for me?

Also, all my dot files seem to be unharmed, and my PATH looks normal, so I'm at a loss.  What can I do?


texts:
This is a very weird behavior. Lately, whenever I am trying to find a process on console with ps aux | grep foo, it is returning a grep: command not found. Ok, that could be something that I changed and did wrong, but the problem is that, after a few tries, it suddenly knows what grep is:

MM:.dev$ ps aux | grep foo
-bash:  grep: command not found
MM:.dev$ ps aux | grep foo
-bash:  grep: command not found
MM:.dev$ ps aux | grep foo
-bash:  grep: command not found
MM:.dev$ ps aux | grep foo
MM            70953   0,0  0,0  2699108    744   ??  Ss   10:32AM   0:08.77 foo bar
MM             3756   0,0  0,0  2423356    204 s004  R+   10:12AM   0:00.00 grep foo

Any ideas why is this happening?

As suggested, this is what I get when a enter type grep after both, the one failing and the one working:

MM:.dev$ ps aux | grep foo
-bash:  grep: command not found
MM:.dev$ type grep
grep is /usr/bin/grep
MM:.dev$ ps aux | grep foo
MM             5694   0,0  0,0  2433796    676 s006  S+   10:47AM   0:00.00 grep foo
MM:.dev$ type grep
grep is /usr/bin/grep


texts: Can removing the internal hard drive help me recover my data?

texts: My mid-2015 MacBookPro will not boot up, can I remove the internal hard drive and back up my data that way?


texts: What could be the cause of these erratic and extremely high ping times between two MacBooks over wifi?

texts:
I have two laptops on my network: a Mid-2015 Macbook Pro Retina running 10.10.5 and an Early 2014 Macbook Air running 10.9.5.

When I ping one from the other over the same wifi network, I get very erratic ping times (here, from 12ms to more than half a second):

$ ping -c 10 192.168.1.242
PING 192.168.1.242 (192.168.1.242): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=178.376 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=96.402 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=12.666 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=361.196 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=152.410 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=68.434 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=190.384 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=517.559 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=124.860 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.242: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=41.685 ms

--- 192.168.11.242 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 12.666/174.397/517.559/147.290 ms

There's no real difference between which MacBook does the pinging.

However, I get much more reasonable results if I ping a Windows desktop that's connected to the network via wired Ethernet from one of the wifi-connected Macs:

$ ping -c 10 192.168.1.10
PING 192.168.1.10 (192.168.1.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=3.774 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=4.554 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=4.093 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.852 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=4.095 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=4.100 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=6 ttl=128 time=4.099 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=7 ttl=128 time=7.130 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=8 ttl=128 time=3.147 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=9 ttl=128 time=3.924 ms

--- 192.168.1.10 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.852/4.177/7.130/1.092 ms

What's going on here between the Macs and how can I fix it?

Update: here are the ping results from the Windows machine (wired ethernet) to one of the Macbooks (wifi).  It shows that the problem is directional, the erratically high ping times only occur when the Mac on Wifi is the target of the pings, not when it's the source.

C:\>ping -n 10 192.168.1.248

Pinging 192.168.1.248 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=305ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=227ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=295ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=216ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.248: bytes=32 time=135ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.248:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 305ms, Average = 172ms


texts: Snow Leopard vs. Lion performance: what are the differences?

texts:
Is Snow Leopard or Lion faster?

And how significant is the speed difference?


texts: How do I save all the stored information on my iPhone 4?

texts: I need to do a factory reset to my iPhone 4, but don't know how to save my stored information such as my Contacts, Pictures, and Purchased apps.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is there an app to record the current phone call?

How to record phone conversation in iPhone 4?


texts: Why is my Macbook Pro 2011 video garbled after sleep?

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Occasionally when I open my new (April 2011) Macbook Pro I'm greeted by an unusable system with a garbled display.  Most often I have to force a reboot (hold down power button for 10+ seconds), but occasionally it will fix itself if I close the lid and re-open it.

What is the problem, or what should I look at to find the problem?
Are there other things I could try to wake this laptop from this state?
I can't reliably reproduce the problem, so it doesn't seem that taking it to the genius bar is going to yield useful results, but tell me if I'm making a bad assumption here and I should take it back.

System info:

MacBookPro8,3
ATI Radeon HD 6750M
Intel HD Graphics 3000
If anything else is relevant, let me know and I'll post it.  It's a standard 17" MBP, though I've added memory (notably this problem did occur prior to adding memory as well)


texts: Disable Spotlight for Non-Current Boot Volume

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I'm fully aware of the ways in which to disable Spotlight for a volume (.metadata_never_index etc.) but this question is more specific. Let me give you a bit of background.

I have a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13" that I am using for development. I've bumped up the RAM and installed a 1TB HDD onto which I have installed OS X 10.6 - 10.11, each in its own partition. The reason for this is that I want to be able to test my code under each version of the OS to make sure it performs as expected. I'm not using virtualisation to test as the code needs to access the AirPort card.

The "problem" that I'm having is that when I use Spotlight, it brings up results from every partition, so if I'm trying to quickly launch a system app, Spotlight shows me 6 versions of the same app.

What I would like to do, if possible, is disable the index for any volume except the current boot volume (so if booted in to Mavericks, Spotlight ignores the volume index for the 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.10 and 10.11 volumes) without destroying the non-boot volume indexes so they don't have to be rebuilt each time I boot to that volume.


texts: Add additional filetype to a specific "Kind"

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In Finder one is able to group the files by kind. For example "Movie" kind groups .avi, .mov together. I would like to add additional file extension .mkv to the list of "Movie" kind. Is it possible?

As a bonus, it would also be interesting to know if, similarly, it is possible to add additional "kinds" of files.


texts: How can I clear the JavaScript console in the Safari 6 developer tools?

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In previous versions of Safari the JavaScript console in the Developer Tools (aka Web Inspector) had a little 'clear' button at the bottom that emptied out console items, which was useful for getting rid of clutter between debug sessions.

As of Safari 6, the new Dev Tools don't seem to have such a button. Manually using clear() and console.clear() doesn't work either. The 'Clear Console' item in the contextual menu doesn't seem to do anything for me.

Short of console.log("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"), is there a way to clear the console in Safari 6?


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I have a family with many macOS devices.  Originally I set these up with an admin user with the same username and password on all devices, and I used this to admin parental controls on them.
This has become an issue when the shared password was compromised.
Ideally the admin password on all family devices would have a managed password, and I could change the login password on all devices from one place.
Is it possible to achieve this functionality somehow?  Perhaps there's a iCloud Family feature I'm missing?


texts: What is the Apple / OS X name for "Alternate Data Streams"?

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On old Macs before OS X files already could have two "forks" - a data fork and a resource fork.

According to Wikipedia, at some point the HFS+ filesystem of OS X gained the ability to have an arbitrary number of forks, much like Microsofts "Alternate Data Streams" (ADS).

  HFS Plus permits filenames up to 255 UTF-16 characters in length, and n-forked files similar to NTFS, though until recently, almost no systems software takes advantage of forks other than the data fork and resource fork.

I want to know what the official term is for these forks or streams. I guess it's possible they're just called "forks" but that term has several meanings already in computing. I've done some searching but can't find a definitive answer.


texts: Copy pasting italicized content in Pages

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Pages is my word processor. I'm trying to copy a paragraph text from a docx file opened in Pages. Some words in the paragraph are italicized.

I'd like to paste it in a target doc which has paragraph styles set. When I paste I'd like to retain the italics of those words in the source doc.

The source and target docs used different styles for paragraph.

How do I paste it correctly?


texts: Pages File edited on iPhone and synced with iCloud on OS X EL Capitan, Getting dotted cloud icon

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I have a file that I uploaded from pages app on my iPhone IOS 9.2.1 and synced with iCloud , but on my mac I see this file with dotted cloud icon and not the latest changes to this file.

How can I make it sync ?