texts: Can't read my Windows (Boot Camp) partition from OS X

texts:
I have a Boot Camp problem. Both OSes boot correctly, but when I'm in OS X, I can't access my Windows partition and vice versa. I know that I can't write, but it should be able to read. But I can't access the partition at all.

In disk utility, I can see a disk0s4 grayed out where my Boot Camp disk should be.

To add, I tried to go with a 3 partition setup (OS X, Windows 7 and a data disk). This is after a clean Lion installation.

Here are additional details on my setup in case it helps narrow things down:

Installed a clean version of Lion after installing a new HDD.
Using Boot Camp assistant to install/setup Windows partition.
Before installing Windows 7 I created a new partition.
Restart and install Windows 7 from CD/DVD.

diskutil list shows:

  GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
                    EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
              Apple_HFS OS X                    270.0 GB   disk0s2
              Apple_HFS DROPZONE                208.9 GB   disk0s3
   Microsoft Basic Data                         270.8 GB   disk0s4**


texts: Use pkg-config with Homebrew installed software

texts:
I have installed some libraries with Homebrew but if I use pkg-config it does not find them because there are missing .pc files.

For example, if you do:

brew install opencv

and, after it is installed:

pkg-config --libs opencv

I get this error:

Package opencv was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `opencv.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'opencv' found

This error is caused because Homebrew does not create any opencv.pc.

Is there a way to configure Homebrew to create the .pc files so that all packages installed with brew can be found by pkg-config?


texts: How do I use RemotePC to access a Mac from an iPad?

texts: I want to use RemotePC, but it needs an internet connection. I don't understand why; I only want to remotely control my Mac from an iPad, so a local network should be enough… right?


texts: For a few updates of iOS (os 14.x) I can’t receive popups from Shortcuts app. Another notifications show correctly (notices in Notification Centre, text prompt, lists, etc.) Alerts from other apps are working correctly. I don’t have any toggle in settings to change notification permissions for shortcuts app. I have this bug on JB iPad ,currently I’m on iOS 14.4.1 (beta i think but installed without touching PC) if smth (but didn’t yet modified shortcuts app). Someone know how to fix? Every trick allowed. :)


texts: How to make app windows go full screen in current Space?

texts: I really like the new way that macos tiles windows, but what I don't like is that it always puts the windows in a new Space. So I end up having to navigate to the new space, while the original is left doing nothing. Is there a way that I can tile windows (i.e. holding down the green window button and selecting "tile left") without it automatically moving it to a new Space? It's such a weird implementation. On Windows 10, you can easily do it by just dragging to the sides.


texts:
I was given an Apple Thunderbolt Display. I would like to connect my PC laptop to it. The only problem is that the display only supports Thunderbolt (figures).
After lots of research, I cannot find an HDMI to Thunderbolt adaptor. And unless I am mistaken, Thunderbolt 2 does NOT support DisplayPort. I do not care about taking advantage of Thunderbolt, meaning no webcam, speakers, and other peripherals.
Does anyone know of a solution?


texts: My iphone 5c won't turn on, it just uzzes while plugged in

texts: I recently fell on my iPhone while it was in my back pocket. The screen wasn't cracked but it refused to show the home screen. All the same noises were present (i.e; siri, charging). I tried a hard reset and now it won't turn on or light up at all and it buzzes constantly while on the charger. Any suggestions?


texts:
I can write Bangla in iMovie but when I watch it as a video or, export it the fonts are broken. How can I fix it? Any help would be great.

I wrote two Bangla words like the first image and they are changed to following screenshot.

During editing:

After editing:


texts: "powerd" using 104% of my CPU at all times, does not allow my MacBook to sleep

texts: Basically summarized in the title. MacBook Pro 2019 (1.4 GHz, i5, 16 GB, Catalina) stopped sleeping after I left it to rest/when I clicked the sleep icon. After some troubleshooting on my own, I found in Activity Monitor that the "powerd" daemon is constantly using ~104% of my CPU. I have done a large number of suggested things, from resetting my SMC and PRAM to booting in Safe Mode under guidance of Apple support. Not sure what to do right now, as my computer is always very hot and never sleeps, which is a lot more annoying than seems. Any help?


texts: Has anyone figured out a keyboard shortcut to globally strikethrough selected text in any OS X app?

texts:
We have ⌘B to bold, ⌘I to italicise, ⌘U to underline, but we don't (as far as I can tell) have a shortcut to strikethrough selected text in any OS X rich editor.

I added a keyboard shortcut into System Preferences, but that way doesn't work very consistently. I also tried using TextExpander, but it doesn't support rich text formatting.

Has anyone come up with a way to do this?


texts: My Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.2) is taking a long time to settle down after booting. I am guessing there are some background processes/apps that are taking a while to start and hogging resources. What is the best way to diagnose this issue? Is there a tool that'll watch the processes as they startup upon booting up? I know about Activity Monitor, but because the system is so bogged down I can't open it until after things settle.


texts: Hammerspoon get working directory from finder

texts: I am a new user of hammerspoon, I want to make a new shortcut (ctrl-alt-T) that opens the Terminal app in Finder's working directory. Do you know how can I get the working directory of Finder from hammerspoon?


texts: "codec missing or unavailable" error when importing media file in Adobe Premiere CC

texts:
When I try to import any video file (e.g. AVI files) in Adobe Premiere Pro cc in my Macbook Air, I get this error:
"codec missing or unavailable"

What to do about it?


texts:
How come there are no antiviruses for iOS devices like iPhones and iPads while Android has many available?

Update
The article here shows that there have been attacks on the iOS Devices as well
http://www.informationweek.in/informationweek/news-analysis/277157/researchers-breach-apple-famed-ios-security-wall


texts: Can the shortcuts app in ios 12 be triggered by location (leaving/entering)

texts:
I have been messing with the new IOS shortcuts app--it looks like it might be a reasonable replacement to ITTT with better apple support, but I can't seem to do one thing that should be pretty basic...

I noticed I can create a one-time event that reminds me of something when I leave a location.

I also noticed that I can activate a shortcut to send my wife the ETA when I will arrive home.

But can I have it send my ETA to my wife whenever I leave the area of my office automatically?

I don't see a way to "Trigger" off of map events, am I missing something?

Also, does someone with more karma than me want to add a "shortcuts" tag, seems like something that will have a lot of questions in the future.


texts: Accidentally deleted iPhoto and lost all of my photos, how can I get the photos back?

texts: Not sure how I did it, but iPhoto is gone from my computer, along with all of my 800+ photos. How can I get my photos back? I reinstalled iPhoto and signed in, but it is empty.


texts:
I understand that when a Mac's EFI system runs, it locates the file boot.efi in the /System/Library/CoreServices/ (blessed) directory and runs this as an EFI application (subverting a large part of the UEFI specification if my understanding is correct).

My question is: what does this EFI application actually do on 10.8.4? I figure it must locate the kernel, pass through boot arguments, locate KEXTs, etc, but that is just my speculation. Is there anywhere I can find out what it does (ideally step-by-step) from a concrete source?


texts:
iPhone rounds cellular data usage reports to the nearest tenth of a Gigabyte (eg, 1.8GB) by default. Presumably the phone knows exactly how much data has been used and rounds the number for my convenience.

Is there some way to cajole (or even coerce) a more accurate cellular data usage estimate out of the phone?

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2 and iOS 8.1


texts:
I'd like to run a script on startup of Outlook 2016, so it runs as one of the first actions once Outlook is open.

One example of this would be to automatically switch to a certain view on every start, something that isn't possible using Outlook's preferences.

I don't see an "app startup" trigger in Automator, but maybe I've missed something. Is there a way to do this generally?


texts: I am using Big Sur, and am unable to open the system preference panes. Instead, I get the error message "Could not load ____ preference pane". I have tried deleting the com.apple.systempreferenes file, and I have tried using the disk first aid, but the error message keeps showing up.


texts:
For logistical reasons, my current sound configuration is the following.
          USB-C            3.5mm
Macbook ————————➜ Monitor ———————➜ Speaker

While this configuration works well, there's no way to change the volume of the computer without changing the physical dials of the speaker.

Is there any way to set the volume by "software" instead of using the outputs controls?


texts: I have recently bought an iPhone. I don't know how to set a ringtone on an iPhone. Can anyone explain the procedure to set a ringtone in an easy manner?


texts: How can I synchronize the shell view and Finder view of a directory?

texts:
Using the shell, I opened a tar file that was full of db dumps that were compressed with bzip2. For each dump file, I (1) unzipped, (2) loaded, (3) deleted.

From the shell, the directory where I worked looks perfect. Using Finder, the directory view has frozen on what the directory looked like immediately after I untarred. None of the changes caused by ~/WorkArea/bzip2 -d *dmp.bz2 or ~/WorkArea/rm *dmp are reflected. Also, mysteriously a directory titled Disk1 is now viewable in Finder. That directory was never viewable in the shell.

Trying to move or delete any file with Finder in that directory gives a
The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -1407).

How can Finder get synchronized with the work I did in the shell?


texts: How to find delay when launching new Terminal (iTerm)

texts:
When I press CMD+N in iTerm2 to bring up a new iTerm window, sometimes it takes 10 seconds before I get my prompt. If I immediately repeat the process, the whole thing takes 1 second. To me this implies it is a slow read of a file that is then cached in memory. I put a timing statement in my .bash_profile and that takes about one second, so it is not something I have manually and intentionally done to slow it down.

How should I find out where the time is spent during the shell/terminal initiation?

I tried running sudo fs_usage -f filesys > fsusage.txt and then searching for login and bash and iTerm in the resulting file, but have not been able to determine what might cause the delay there.


texts:
For ages I've been happily using QuickTime 7 Pro for all my video needs.  I guess with Catalina now the time has come to move on ...

But there is one thing that keeps holding me back.
In QT7 I could easily add and remove subtitle files as simple text files in this form:

{QTtext}{timescale:100}{size:12}{backColor:0,0,0}{textColor:65535,65535,65535}{width:320}{justify:left}
[00:00:00.980]
{textEncoding:256}Hello!
[00:00:01.980]
[00:00:02.422]
{textEncoding:256}How are you?
[00:00:03.422]

etc.

That doesn't (didn't?) work in QuickTime X. Nor do I seem to be able to add SRT files to a movie file.

Now, I've heard some rumors that QuickTime X in Catalina is getting some Pro features.  Has anyone got a clue if any form of subtitles is finally supported or if there are any workarounds?
Much appreciated.


texts: How do I prevent OS X Server from issuing dynamic DHCP leases?

texts:
Prior to "upgrading" to Mountain Lion Server, I used OS X Server as my DHCP server. The purpose of the configuration I had was to provide MAC filtering, assigning static leases based on hardware MAC addresses. In Server, I had sets of address ranges and specified static leases for all the hardware on my network. This worked fine for years, but since updating to Mountain Lion, though all of my settings appear to have been migrated successfully, my server now issues "dynamic" IP addresses to hardware for which I have set static addresses. These addresses are not only wrong, they duplicate addresses that I have configured statically (for hardware that is off or out of the building at the time). Moreover, any attempt to correct this by setting the correct IP address manually at the client, results in loss of WAN access for that client.

Server's static mapping of IP addresses was a key element of my security set up that is now thwarted by whatever Mountain Lion Server is doing (or not doing).

Why does Server issue dynamic leases for MAC addresses for which I have set static IP addresses? Is there some setting that I've missed — that was not automatically migrated — that will prevent Server from issuing dynamic DHCP leases?

Update: This is getting worse, rather than better. Server seems to pay no attention to the "static" entries in the list of clients, and uses the IP addresses there for whatever client it feels like, completely disregarding the MAC addresses specified for those static addresses. Worse, it issues as dynamic IP addresses that are intended for specific MAC addresses, thus "using them up", so that they become unavailable for the machines to which they have been configured. This is completely scrambling my network. For the time being, Server continues to assign most addresses correctly, but gradually (with no apparent pattern) it is scrambling more and more of my network. Eventually I'll loose the ability to administer the network, which depends on my admin machine having the correct IP address (which I've had to force using sudo ipconfig set en0 INFORM ..; using a manual assignment in Network Preferences doesn't work reliably).


texts: How to switch off "natural" sort order in Finder and enable pure alphabetical sort order?

texts:
I have a set of pictures named as hex representation of UUIDs. I want to see them ordered alphabetically as strings, but regardless what I try, the app shows me it differently:

I have these settings about grouping:

and sorting:

I think I figured out the order it represents. It looks like it tries to cut the longest string of decimal digits from the beginning of the name, interprets it as a number, and orders by this number. Albeit it can be convenient in some cases, it is not desired for me.

Is it possible to switch off this feature in Finder and obtain normal alphabetical sort order?

EDIT: this question shines a light on the sorting algorithm but does not suggest how to switch it to normal string sorting.


texts: Can I install 16GB RAM on quad-core MacBook Pro?

texts: I'm planning to buy a new MacBook Pro with quad-core. And I want to install 16GB on it. But there is only 8GB options on Apple's website. Is this possible?


texts: Have a separate password for Game Center

texts: Is it possible to have a separate password for Game Center - one that is not the same as I use for my Apple ID?


texts: Since getting our first iPad and iPhone and while new to Apple, 3 or 4 iCloud email accounts were setup for at least 2 new Apple ID’s. Is it possible to merge them or should I just delete the least used?They were originally used to manage different users/departments/web pages - etc. I’d like to have 2 ID’s - a personal and one and another for our Not-For-Profit Social Enterprise “Arts4Humanity,” A/K/A “A4H Productions,” “A4HPROS.” Greatly appreciate any light that can be shed on this.


texts: Does overcharging a MacBook degrade its life?

texts: I have an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro and I use it almost like a desktop. I leave the power cord connected all the time. Is this OK? Am I ruining the computer or diminishing its lifespan?


texts: Automatic capitalization when typing terminal commands

texts: Recently when I use the terminal and I type a command, I hear a click and whatever I had typed becomes capitalized. If I'm typing ls -lrt I'll hear a loud click and when I look at my command it has changed to Ls -lrt. The same with pwd or any command I type. The capital letter will work on some commands but not all. Does anyone know how to turn this off? I went to System Preferences/keyboard/text but the selection there to use automatic capitalization is not checked. I may have inadvertently done this with Better Touch Tool but I can't find anything about it in the app. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Do I have a virus? Dialog keeps popping up

texts: Any idea what these applications are? And any ideas on how I could stop this dialog from appearing every time I restart my computer? Thank you!


texts:
I created a service for starting a Virtual Box headless, which works fine - but the service does not end until the virtual machine is stopped again (the spinning wheel is in the menu bar (or whatever the bar in the top right is called).

This is understandable, as the command runs until the VM is closed again.

I tried appending "&", using "nohup", "exec", but still, the "spinning wheel" does not disappear until the virtual box is closed again.

I also tried to create an automator app, but the same.

Is there a way to either background the command, detach it, or make at least the spinning wheel to disappear?

EDIT:

Here is the plist:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>NSServices</key>
        <array>
                <dict>
                        <key>NSMenuItem</key>
                        <dict>
                                <key>default</key>
                                <string>VBox Start Headless Ubuntu</string>
                        </dict>
                        <key>NSMessage</key>
                        <string>runWorkflowAsService</string>
                </dict>
        </array>
</dict>
</plist>

And a screenshot:


texts: How do I test significant location change events?

texts:
According to Apple's docs, if I run startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges and then terminate my app the significant location changes API will re-launch my app when a significant location event happens (move 500+ meters).

How can I tell that this location event is being fired? How can I tell if my app has been re-launched to handle the event?

So far, the only way I've found to test this is by sending local push notifications when the event is received, but since push notifications don't work on the simulator, and I can't use the XCode debug locations when my app is terminated, I had to take the phone outside and walk a mile or so (and even then the single notification only appeared when I got back to my desk after the walk).

Is there any reasonable way to work with or test these APIs?

This question probably belongs on StackOverflow, but I know it will get closed immediately for not including any code.


texts: How do you bind a key sequence to shell command?

texts:
Using stock Terminal.app on El Capitan, the effort is to set up a shortcut in a sense, that upon press it would execute a specific command.

Consulting man pages for bind command following steps have been taken but yielded no results.

First approach was to place the setting inside ~/.inputrc file and let the login session do its work. The current state of the file is:

"\C-s": "ssh hostname"

Second, used bind command directly.

$ bind '"\C-s": "ssh hostname"'

appendix:

GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)


texts: Can I set OS X to automatically open ICS files in iCal?

texts: Can I configure OS X so that the default open action on an ICS files is to open it in iCal?


texts: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications

texts:
Apps launched via Finder seem to not respect the PATH as set in .bash_profile.  So when I try to run code from an IDE (Intellij) I no longer have access to programs in /usr/local/bin, which is normally added to my path in the Terminal.

Apparently .MacOSX/environment.plist used to be the way to do this, but it no longer works in Lion.

How can I set the PATH for Finder-launched applications?


texts:
I just got a MBP 15" Touch Bar with sierra.  I am using it for web development (Webstorm) and graphic design (Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer). When using the graphic design tools, my MBP can start getting hot... up to 88°C. Now this happens with within 30 minutes or more of using the software. I have to stop my work and wait for it to cool off.

I have even put my Mac to sleep and went to the store and when I came back my Mac was pretty hot. It seems like sleep mode did not work.  Keyboard lite was on when I got back from the store.  I put it to sleep again and the same behavior happened.

I also have a 2015 MacBook Pro 15" and it does not run as hot as the latest 2016 MBPs. Am I missing something?  Is this normal for new MacBooks?   I have checked the apple pages for temperatures but they only provide ENVIRONMENT temperatures and that is it.


texts: How to use a variable inside a path in AppleScript?

texts:
tell application "System Events"
name of current user
end tell
tell application "System Events"
set answer to name of current user
end tell
tell application "Finder"
delete ((POSIX file "/Users/answer/Desktop/untitled folder"))
end tell
tell application "Finder"
empty the trash
end tell

I want to make a universal code to delete this specific folder but I can't seem to make my variable (=answer) work in the quoted path.

answer

.

delete ((POSIX file "/Users/answer/Desktop/untitled folder"))


texts: What do you call the OSX Window Server, Window Manager, and Desktop Environment?

texts:
In Linux we have three layers that represent the Window Server, Window Manager, and Desktop Environment. All of those three layers have more than one competing technology. I'm confused when talking about Apple products because I don't know what they call the software in their stack. I'm aware that they don't always have competing products and so I would like to know how they arrange their layers and what term I can use to refer to these Linux analogs. What is the Apple term for the technology that represents the

Window Server I assume it's XQuartz? (On Linux we have X11, Xorg, and Wayland)
Desktop Environment I know there is only but what is the right name to reference it? (On Linux we have Gnome, KDE, Xfce, or i3)
Window Manager I assume this is Aqua? (On Linux we have Qt, and Gtk)

I see a lot of terms like Aqua, Quartz, and XQuartz, and "Core Graphics", but I don't understand how they're organized with the traditional layers I am used to?


texts: Mysterious icon when pausing Apple TV app

texts:
I'm using the TV app on my Apple TV to watch Apple TV+ content.

Whenever I Pause, Skip Forward, or Skip Back using the Apple TV remote, a strange icon immediately pops up above the playhead.

I have never seen this icon when using other Apple TV video apps such as Netflix or Plex.
I do not seem to be able to interact with the button. Clicking the remote Pauses normally, as if the button was not on the screen.

What does this icon represent? How do I interact with it? Why does it pop up when I pause the TV+ app on my Apple TV?


texts:
I was working, then I received a phone call and left my iMac for a while. macOS Sierra is actually running.

I came back about 30 minutes later and found my Mac was turned off.

Since there are no phantoms at home, I thought I forgot I turned it off, maybe absentmindedly (I'm quite sure I didn't, anyway).

The question is: is there any way to check HOW the iMac turned off? (crash, eletricity grid issue, manual, etc.)

I read the console data but I don't know exactly what to search for (apparently there's no crash).

Update: The last thing I see in system.log:

Jan  4 10:33:53 M-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.IDECacheDeleteAppExtension.2237): Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/LLDB.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/RootDebuggingXPCService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/PlugIns/IDECacheDeleteAppExtension.appex
Jan  4 10:33:54 M-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.IDECacheDeleteAppExtension.2237): Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Frameworks/DFRSupportKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/IDETouchBarSimulatorService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/PlugIns/IDECacheDeleteAppExtension.appex
Jan  4 10:33:54 M-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.nowplayingtouchui): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Here I'm restarting (I suppose):

Jan  4 11:03:51 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1483524231 0


texts: Am I able to replace In-App purchase with Apple Pay?

texts:
Apple Pay commission fee is much lower than 30% for In-App purchase. It seems it is more worth to use Apple Pay.

I use now In-App purchase to enable remove ad from my app. Do you think I can replace it with Apple Pay?


texts: iTerm2 Send Escape Sequence for Option-Enter

texts:
I would like to use Option-Enter in tmux in order to split windows. Both my Option keys are set to "normal" mode, otherwise, I will not be able to type special characters (Norwegian keyboard layout).
I've tried creating a custom key mapping for Option-Enter in my iTerm2 profile. But no luck. I've tried the following combinations:

Esc+[13;3u
Esc+[13;3~
Esc+[13;3X

Any ideas what I will have to do in order to get this to work?


texts:
I have been staring the following to dialogs for about an hour:

This problem does't only occur on one specific application. Instead, all applications seem to experiencing an infinite verification progress. What's wrong with my computer?

In fact, this issue emerges exactly after I upgrade my system. The current system version is OS X 10.11.4 (15E65) and here is the upgrades I've just installed:

Thanks in advance.


texts: Network share permissions problems in Mountain Lion

texts:
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I have experienced some weird problems with network share permissions.  This network share is a Windows server which I login to like so: smb://DOMAIN;USERNAME@networkshare.address/folder

What I see

What I cannot do

Create a new file and save directly to the share.
Open an existing file and save my changes.

What I can do

Create new folder
Delete folders and files
Rename folders and file
Move folders and files
Drag and drop from my desktop to the share drive

Apps that ignore the "problem"

With these programs, I am able to save new file into the share drive and overwrite changes to an existing file.

Adobe CS6: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, etc
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, etc

Apps that display the permissions error message

With most (all?) Mac apps, the permissions error presents itself in some form or fashion.

TextEdit, Preview
Pages, Numbers, Keynote
Coda 2

Coda 2 is unique in that it will let me "Replace" the file, but clicking "Save" will not work.

What else have I tried?

I have Repaired the Home Directory and Permissions and ACLs
My IT department has confirmed I have all read/write access to the share drive and has even gone so far as to reapply the permissions to every single folder and file
I have connected via cifs and by using the IP address of the server
I have joined the domain via the Users and Groups pref pane (all this does is not ask for your network login anymore when connecting to the share)
I have confirmed with other coworkers this affects them as well (some with Lion, some with Mountain Lion)
I have checked the "Ask to keep changes when closing documents" option in the General pref pane

As you can see, this is weird.  My IT department suggested I wipe my computer.  I don't see how that would have any affect and is really a last resort.  I'm hoping someone here can shed light on this before I move forward with that. Wiping the machine and reinstalling the OS doesn't help.  Word is that it has something to do with ACLs.


texts: Random network hangs on macbook pro 2010

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro mid-2010 13" running latest updates of High Sierra.  The machine experiences random network hangs. This could be while browsing the web or copying files to a network share.  Firefox is used as the main browser, but closing it and using Chrome or Safari doesn't help.
One moment everything is fine, the next I can't connect to anything - I can't even ping the router or the WiFi access point. Disconnecting and reconnecting WiFi solves the issue - until it reappears again after some time.  If I simply let it sit once it happens, after some time it will "un-hang" and work again. Note that only network is affected - everything else works perfectly fine.
Furthermore, this only seems to affect WiFi. If I plug in ethernet cable, the issue doesn't show up.
I vaguely remember having this same problem with another machine (same mid-2010 Macbook Pro 13"), but can't remember how I solved it, as it's not having this issue now.
I can't pinpoint when this issue started, but fairly recently, maybe a month or two ago.  I have not installed any new software on it in at least a few months prior to the issue starting, except the usual MacOS updates and Firefox/Chrome updates.
How can I solve this problem?  Or at least how can I diagnose it?


texts: My "e" key is broken and until I go to repair it I would like to map the letter "e" to another key such as "§" so that I don't have to store the letter in the clipboard. What is a good solution for Catalina/Big Sur that does not involve 3rd party apps?


texts: Can't figure out how remote share is getting automounted

texts:
I have a NAS that stores the music files for iTunes. There is an automounted share on the NAS that iTunes goes thru to retrieve the music files. For the life of me I can't figure out how the automount is defined. I need to change NAS units, and therefore need to change the share mount.

The share is mounted to /Network/media and looks and acts like an automount. (Comes and goes on demand.) The /etc/auto_* files appear pristine, yet...

sol:etc sjf$ sudo automount -vc
automount: /net updated
automount: /home updated
automount: /Network/media updated
automount: no unmounts

shows  that /Network/media is  being controlled by automount

/etc/auto_master...

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master        # Use directory service
/net            -hosts      -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home           auto_home   -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers    -fstab
/-          -static

and /etc/auto_home...

#
# Automounter map for /home
#
+auto_home  # Use directory service
#
# Get /home records synthesized from user records
#
+/usr/libexec/od_user_homes

There is no /etc/fstab, but there's an /etc/fstab.hd. It only contains...

IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases.  Do not depend on this file or its contents.

The mount I want to change is...

nas2.controlsoftcorp.com:/media on /Network/media (nfs, nodev, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)

What am I missing?

(currently using 10.8, but need to solve this issue on 10.9 too.)


texts: Installing windows 8 using bootcamp or virtual box

texts:
I've been looking around and haven't found an idiot proof guide to partitioning my mac to run windows 8. Unfortunately, that's what I need as I have not knowledge of any of the required software/firmware or OS's in general.

I'm running OS X 10.10.3 with bootcamp v 5.1.4 and I also have virtualbox 4.3.28

I have ownership of a copy of windows 8.1 student from the microsoft store but the only thing I've been able to download there is an .exe file.

I think the problem is that I don't have a bootable usb or iso from which to boot. Is there any way for me to install windows on my machine?

Also, what would be better for uses like CAD on the windows partition: virtualbox or bootcamp. I'm running entirely on a solid state drive (MB pro) so rebooting isn't a huge issue but I wonder if it's worth it in terms of performance to use bootcamp.

Sorry for the long-winded two part question.


texts: Is there any way to detect suddenly closed tabs and restore them on iOS Safari?

texts:
Today I found out that many of opened tabs on my iPad Safari are gone. Yesterday there were 50+ tabs on Safari but for some reasons now it is 14.
It is very frustrating so I tried to restore the data from my yesterday’s backup, but found that on iOS I can only backup from the most recent backup, which happened in the morning.
So I could not restore the backup from yesterday’s, but now I don’t know there is any way to restore the opened tabs, or at least detect which pages they are in order to manually open them again one by one. Is there any way to restore them?


texts: Create schedule to turn off iOS device every night..?

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Is there a way to automatically turn off an iOS device every night (say from 0:00 to 6:00) to save battery WiFi bandwidth?

There's an iPad mini in our living room basically running as Spotify/Podcast player which we don't normally use in the evening and certainly not at night,
and the battery tends to be drained if we forget to turn it off.

Android has a setting for scheduled shutdown but searching through the iOS settings (11.3) didn't reveal a thing.


texts: Mac Mini with Lion wont start after Power failure...help!

texts:
I was working on my Mac mini (Lion 10.7.2) when the power went off. When the power came, I started Mac Mini. But it keeps on showing grey screen with activity indicator forever. It wont start the system.

I have tried Repair Disk, Repair File Permissions, but still it wont start.

How do I resolve this issue?


texts: Is there a "global" setting for Do Not Disturb on iOS devices?

texts:
As the title suggests, I would like to set DND on one device that will affect the other. I have looked through Settings on both devices but haven't found anything (unless it is a deeply hidden setting). A bonus would be if this would also affect my MBP.
MBP: macOS 10.15.4
iPhone & iPad: iOS 13.5.1


texts:
I just bought a new iPod Touch and I want to give my old iPod Touch to my child. He uses the same games that I do which I am logged into in the Game Center.

Is there any way that I can keep the progress in the games that he has on his iPod now and for it not to affect the progress of my games on my new iPod? Or is it just best to give him his own Apple ID and he can start his progress all over again?


texts: Remove bookmark on iOS with content restriction on

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I have turned on Content Restriction on my son's iPad. However, there is a bookmark for a restricted site on his Favorites.

I can't Edit Favorites with Content Restriction turned on. (So this is not a duplicate of generic bookmark deletion.)

If I turn off content restriction, I get a different set of Favorites shown, which don't include that one! There is a list of allowed websites in Screen Time > Content Restrictions, but it's not there either.

It's an iPad Mini 2 on iOS 12.1.3. (12.1.4 is shown as an update, but I've not updated yet.)


texts: Automatically move messages to a mailbox in Mail.app

texts:
This in on macOS 10.15.3, Mail.app version 13.0.

I often receive marketing emails, or order updates from an online purchase, etc. which I move into different mailboxes in Mail.app. Over time, Mail.app learns which mailbox I usually move these kind of messages to. In my MacBook Pro 15" with touch bar, it even shows a 'Move to "SOME MAILBOX"' icon on the touch bar. On other messages which I usually leave in the inbox, it merely shows 'Move to...' without suggesting a mailbox.

Is there a way to make Mail.app automatically move these messages when they're received to the suggested mailbox, without having to manually press this icon in the touch bar?

Note: I know there's a conventional "Rules" tab in Preferences, as well as the Gmail filters feature (all my emails use Gmail). Once upon a time I had enough patience to try to set up these rules for specific senders, etc. Unfortunately, over time, these rules get obsolete as senders change the email they're sending from, and the rules need updating. It's just too much hassle so I've given up on this route. Mail.app does a great job of classifying emails with the feature mentioned above, all I'm looking for is a way to automate the process.


texts: iTerm2 does not show username, machine name, time

texts:
On my new mac machine, I could not do autocomplete for Git when I hit Tab.

So I thought to modify the terminal and found certain things on this link.

I may have messed when I installed iTerm2, Oh-My-ZSH, and Solarised Dark. So now I have nice looking terminal and git autocompletion works.

But in the terminal, the user name, machine name etc does not appear, like it is the in above link.

.

The colour scheme is also not great.

Can someone please help me, possibly step-by-step, on how to show these things like in this image

I am very new to Mac and please assume that I know very little about how it works.


texts: Detect and alert remote Management screen-sharing

texts:
I'm trying to make a script to sent an alert when screen sharing is on.

The following command is supposed to list every established VNC connection but this doesn't return anything at all for me :

netstat -a | grep vnc | grep ESTABLISHED

the only option I found to list past connection :

 log show --predicate 'processImagePath CONTAINS "screensharingd" AND
 eventMessage CONTAINS "Authentication"'

Any idea how to get current VNC session ? and even better, any idea how to sent an alert/email in the background each time a new connection is done

PS : just to make sure, Apple Screen-Sharing (from remote management) is using VNC protocol right?


texts: Is there keyboard shortcut to deselect text on a mac?

texts:
To select all text in Chrome or other apps I can use:
Command+a
From a web search I found this potential shortcut to deselect text:
Command+Shift+a
Sadly that doesn't work across all apps.
Is there a keyboard shortcut that can deselect text after I've selected all text with Command+a ?


texts: Make Mail remember that I’ve loaded remote content

texts:
I have Load remote content turned off in my Mail settings, so I have to click to load remote content on each individual e-mail. This is fine and works as expected (a bit annoying that you can’t whitelist senders or domains, but I can live with that).
It’s annoying, however, that as soon as I click away from an e-mail – say, to read a different e-mail – the remote content that Mail has loaded disappears, and I have to click Load remote content again on the same e-mail.
Presumably loading remote content involves downloading that content and saving it into one of Mail’s myriad temp folders, so I can see no logical reason why it should be wiped again as soon as I click away from the e-mail.
Is there a way to force Mail to remember that it’s already loaded the content in a given e-mail and just reload it from the temp folder the next time I open that e-mail?

Not sure if it makes a difference, but I’m currently running macOS 10.15.5 on a Mac mini (2018), running Mail 13.4 (3608.80.23.2.2).


texts: Why do we install software via `.dmg` files?

texts:
When I want to install software, I typically download a .dmg (Disk iMaGe) file. When I open it, this .dmg file looks like what I would call a "virtual disk" (hence its name I presume) and is listed in  Finder under devices. It is also listed in Disk Utility under Disk Images and it seems like it can be erased or unmounted just like any other disk.

What is the logic for which software needs to be installed with such a "virtual disk"?
Why doesn't it come as a simple binary file or I don't know what?


texts:
I just unboxed a brand new iMac and after selecting language, keyboard, iCloud stuff it's now been on the "Setting Up Your Mac" screen for an hour and a half.

It's connected to my home wifi network which is online and reasonably fast. I have an iCloud account but don't do anything with it.

Is it downloading some huge update?

Do I let it run? Turn off / on again?


texts: SSD boot drive does not work only on primary drive slot

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I have the following very strange problem with my 13″ early-2011 MacBook Pro.

The disk configuration is as follows:

Primary slot - FileVault 2 encrypted 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
Secondary slot - the original 500GB hard drive in a caddy

For a year the computer worked flawlessly, until yesterday.
When I got home from work, I opened the laptop and it was supposed to wake up. Instead, it showed only a one-color screen and wouldn't wake up. So I closed and opened the lid a couple of times (it worked before), hoping that it will wake up. When it didn't, I decided to power it down from the power button.

Then, when I turned it on, it wouldn't boot at all.

After the initial infarct thoughts of dead SSD, playing with all possible boot modes and stuff, in safe mode it showed that it is indefinitely waiting for a boot device.

So I switched the drives, the SSD went in to the caddy and the HDD went into the primary slot, an VOILA - it worked again! The good thing was that the SSD is alive (the last Time Machine backup was 1 month old, which was bad).

When I booted in restore mode I tried to unlock the encrypted SSD in order to repair it and its permissions, but could not. Did a search and found out that it should be because of problematic encryption.

Then, I decrypted the SSD successfully from within OSX, and tried to switch the drives back to the original configuration - the SSD in the primary and the HDD in the secondary slot.

To my big surprise, it does not work! There is some problem having the SSD in the primary slot.

The laptop is out of warranty, I need it badly and I live in a country with very expensive services, so I am trying to find out the problem without leaving it in the repair shop for days or weeks.

So, any thoughts on what could the problem be?


texts: Microsoft Teams - Microphone too sensitive after update

texts:
I have an iPhone with Microsoft Teams running. I use the phone's built-in microphone and speaker. It has been working fine since my colleagues and I started working from home over the past year.
For the past week, however, my colleagues have complained that I am too loud and that they can hear me gulping coffee. This seems to coincide with an update for Teams.
Did this update increase the microphone sensitivity? If so, is there a way I can turn it down?


texts: Can I use a iMac Late 2009 or Mid 2010 as a screen for regular PC

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Im thinking about building a custom hackintosh. I currently own a late 2009 iMac, the one which theoretically support video input from mini displayport.

The video card I am planning to buy has a displayport output, but not mini displayport. I am wondering if it is possible to use the iMac as a display when connecting the hackintosh to it using a displayport to mini displayport cable (if that even exists).

Has anyone ever tried something like that?


texts: I have all my notes on my Mac, and I want to move them to iCloud so I can use them on a different laptop. Using the image below as an example, how do I move all notes from "On My Mac" to "iCloud" so that they are stored on iCloud?


texts: Activity Monitor is unuseable because it's freezing mouse cursor when launched

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A weird problem started happening on my system in recent days (can't remember exactly). When I launch Activity Monitor, mouse pointer freezes and can't move normally until I kill Activity Monitor by using keyboard.
It works OK otherwise.
OS X version is 10.11.6 (15G1108). I have also installed SmoothMouse.
EDIT:
I removed SmoothMouse by issuing command brew cask zap smoothmouse, now the mouse cursor can move while Activity Monitor is opened, but Activity Monitor itself is still freezing and is barely usable.


texts:
I am trying to open files on Time Capsule (not backups) but files will not open in Finder.  I'm receiving error -36.  When I copy files to my MacBook Pro, files opened without any problems. Quick Look works fine on Time Capsule.

Can anyone please help?


texts: Game audio is tied to the ringer switch. Is this a bug or a feature?

texts:
I've got an iPhone 6 running the latest iOS 9.2.1 public beta, although the following behavior has been happening to me for a few iOS updates now. I'm wondering if it's a beta bug that should be reported or if it's the intended iOS behavior.

When I'm using headphones, everything works the way it should, regardless of the ringer switch setting.
When I'm not using headphones and the ringer switch is set to on (i.e. the orange isn't visible), everything works the way it should.
When I'm not using headphones and the ringer switch is set to off, audio from video-playing apps (YouTube, the native Videos app, etc.) works fine, but the audio from games is totally silent.

So, is this a bug or a feature? Let's define "feature" as "it can be reproduced on a device that has never touched beta software."


texts: Can Mid 2010 Apple Macbook Pro 15" NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor be Upgraded?

texts: Can a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz configurations; or 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.66GHz configuration on a mid 2010 macbook pro be upgraded?


texts: Blocking information on my iPad from other people

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I recently purchased an iPad that I allow my employees to have access to for Spotify, Sirius, etc. but not my email, texts and personal files.  I used my Apple ID setup the iPad so now they can see my personal info.

Is there a way to hide my personal info?  Or can I create another Apple ID and still keep my old one.


texts: Action not re-mapping to new shortcut (Backwards Delete)

texts:
I use the option key for symbols I use a lot for work/school and I keep hitting option-delete (which deletes the word to the left of the cursor) on accident, often costing me more time to go back and re-type the word that was just deleted. I wanted to turn off this shortcut, but it is not one of the options in the shortcuts tab in System Preferences. After reading posts with similar questions, I tried re-mapping the backward delete function to a different shortcut (I chose option-esc) and then adding a new action to the option-delete shortcut. I was able to map option-esc to backwards delete, but option-delete still works for this action as well. I also cannot re-map the option-delete function, and I assume that it is because it is still attached to backwards delete.
Is there any work around for these kinds of issues? I am not above getting some kind of software to accomplish this, but I don't really want to pay for one.


texts: Are apps permitted to give monetary prizes?

texts: If an app has contests, is it a violation of policy to give payouts / money prices to winners of contests from the app?


texts: Photos App: iPhone Photos not showing up when attempting to import

texts:
I have my iPhone setup to open Photos app when I connect my iPhone to my Macbook Pro. I also have Dropbox automatically importing my photos when connected too.

Dropbox has no problems importing my photos, but Photos does. I can see my iPhone connected, but I can't see any photos on my iPhone as you can see from this image: (The name "Hold Me, Touch Me" is a reference to movie "The Producers" with Zero Mostel.). As you can see, the name of my iPhone shows up, but not the 168 pictures on the phone.

I suspect there is some [i]security setting[/i] where I have to tell Photos it has permission to read my iPhone, but I can't seem to find it.

[]


texts: MacOS Sierra: I forgot my password but have the SSD's Filevault recovery key. Can I reset my password?

texts: I'm on MacOS Sierra. I forgot my password, but I have the SSD's FileVault recovery key. I used the "Recovery Key" account recovery method when I set up FileVault, so I can't use iCloud to unlock my account. Is there a way that I can reset my password and keep my data? Is there a way I can mount the drive and use the command line to reset only my account password and keychain?


texts: MacBook Pro 2015 BootCamp HyperV Support is yes but Virtualization: disabled

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I am unable to get the the Virtualizarion enabled on my bootcamp of windows 10.
Using the boot into IOS then switch to windows trick I was able to get hyper-v support to "yes" but I haven't figured out a way to enable the virtualization.
I have reinstalled the Hyper-V management tools and that seems to have no affect.

Any other ideas would be so appreciated.


texts: com.apple.quarantine attribute does not cause any warnings

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I've read in several places I've found via search that quarantine flag results in a warning when app is tried to be run (and then flag is cleared):
https://superuser.com/questions/28384/what-should-i-do-about-com-apple-quarantine

  it can ask for user confirmation the first time the downloaded program
  is run, to help stop malware. Upon confirmation the attribute should
  be removed automatically, and then the program will run normally.

What causes OS X to mark a folder as Quarantined?

  When the Launch Services API is used to open a quarantined file and
  the file appears to be an application, script, or other executable
  file type, Launch Services will display an alert to confirm the user
  understands the file is some kind of application.

However on my MacBook (MacOS Mojave):

xattr -l /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/Resources/bin/docker
com.apple.quarantine: 01c1;5d958e46;Chrome;D01EADC9-90F1-4DAB-81A0-A96722A65A11

but I can run that app in command line with /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/Resources/bin/docker and it works w/out warning. I also start Docker.app via Command-Space without warning now, but

xattr -l /Applications/Docker.app
com.apple.quarantine: 01c1;5d958e46;Chrome;D01EADC9-90F1-4DAB-81A0-A96722A65A11

Why I have com.apple.quarantine attribute (not cleared already) but it has apparently no effect?


texts: Cannot merge back space left by bootcamp

texts:
So, I uninstall Windows 10 using Bootcamp, but now I got this 'free storage' space that I cannot merge back again, I've tried everything that's already answered in this forum for this type of questions, since booting in recovery mode to running the sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer /dev/disk0s2 0 command on the terminal

If I tried to do it in diskutility I got the following error

And if I try to run the command to resize my partition I got the following error:

Here's an extra pic of my diskutil list command:

And my diskutil

Any suggestion ? I'm running High Sierra Version 10.13.6


texts: How can make changes to a hard drive being shared with a Windows machine?

texts:
So, this may be a unique issue and goes to show my ineptitude with Apple products. But, I have a hard drive that I share with my Windows PC that I use for storing all my pictures, music, and movies. The problem is that on OSX I'm not able to make any changes to the drive. I can't rename, add to it, or delete anything. I checked the Get Info on it, and for security it says I can only Read.

I've Googled all sorts of stuff and everything just keeps telling me to "click the lock". What lock?! Am I completely missing something?


texts:
I've tried following answers in this link but I still can't get the ANSI colours in custom themes to show for me in iTerm. Did anyone find any other fixes?

https://superuser.com/questions/399594/color-scheme-not-applied-in-iterm2


texts: Map Parallels shared folder to drive letter

texts:
I'm running Parallels 9 for Mac (OS X 10.9) and I have CentOS Linux (6.4) installed.

I want to map a shared folder from my Mac to a drive letter in CentOS.

How do I do this?


texts: How to restore default fonts on Mavericks?

texts: I have deleted the Lucida Grande font from my system, and system bars and menus are full of weird characters. I cannot use my MBA properly. How can I restore system fonts without losing my data?


texts: New MacBook with USB-C does not recognize an older DVD drive via USB to USB-C adapter

texts:
I just got a new MacBook and a QGeeM adapter between USB and USB-C. Trying to connect an older Apple DVD drive that has the usual USB connector. The new MacBook doesn't recognize that a device has been connected.

Tried restarting MacBook, connecting QGeeM to different USB-C and the DVD drive to different USB ports of QGeeM. At some point a popup appeared that the external device needs power and should be connected to a USB port, which makes no sense because it is. Tried to chat with Apple, but they were extremely unhelpful and dropped the chat.

Please suggest how to proceed.


texts: How to turn off touchbar only when second monitor is connected?

texts:
Is it possible to automatically disable/turn off the touch-bar on macOS Mojave when I connect to a second monitor?

I find it annoying to see the touch-bar light up every time I type or mouse click from the corner of my eye. Since I have a second, main monitor the touch-bar is useless to me when I have the second monitor plugged in.

So: Is it possible to automatically turn off the touch-bar only when I have my second monitor plugged in?


texts: MacBook-Pro boots to BLACK screen; keyboard back light is OFF; fan is running; gets hot

texts:
I was on the internet and it locked up the computer so I forced a shut-down.  But after that... it won't boot up.

On boot it chimes
and nothing shows on the screen.
The keyboard back light is NOT on.
However, the fan is running
And if I leave it in this position for awhile the computer gets real hot.

Is this a virus I got off the internet?

I tried the options I saw to boot:

shift
shift+command+option
boot up disk

Nothing gets past this problem.

Equipment:

OS:  Sierra
MacBook pro 2011
15 inch screen.
Can't boot up to see the model#


texts:
In Windows (Linux too), you have the very useful "Power saver" mode that limits the maximum frequency at which your CPU runs.

Is there something similar in OS X?


texts: iMessage sign-in not working correctly after changing Apple ID

texts:
I wanted to sign up for Apple iMessage with a different email, so I created a new Apple ID and every time I try to sign in with that one, it asks me for the password again and again. This loop continues until it finally says that my Apple ID password is incorrect, but I know it is not.

What's going on and how can I fix it?


texts: Cyrillic letter "ч." appears after clock on iOS 12

texts:
I have this quite strange issue after upgrading to iOS 12. Right after the clock appear a cyrillic "ч." symbol. I know that it stand there for "час", which is "hour" translated from my native language to English but this is very frustrating to look at. I have make two screenshots:

On the lock screen:

On an unlocked screen:

I am with iPhone X and iOS12. Does anyone else faced this problem? Does someone know how to remove this extra symbol after the clock? I have tried literally everything, so any ideas are great welcomed!


texts: How can I record a verbal or sound to use as a ringtone for specific numbers

texts:
I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 5.

How do I record speech or sound to use as a ringtone dedicated to certain phone numbers, especially numbers that aren't in my address book?


texts: Syncing bookmarks between iCloud and Firefox

texts:
I use Windows 7 and I've just got myself a lovely new iPhone. I've installed iCloud and it synchronizes my iPhone's calendar with Outlook, which is great, but I also prefer Firefox over Safari, but iCloud only apparently supports Safari or Internet Explorer (yuck).

Is there any way to sync bookmarks between Firefox/iCloud/iPhone?

Edit: A bit of research brings up a thing called Firefox Home - How does this fit in?


texts: Can an iMac connected via Ethernet to an AirPort Extreme participate in the Wireless network?

texts:
I have a home network made up of an AirPort Extreme and an AirPort Express that is set to extend the network.

Currently, my iMac is connected wirelessly but I have the option to connect it via Ethernet which I would like to try out.

My question is this: a number of features in iOS and OS X take advantage of the local wireless network (e.g., sending green bubble messages from the Mac through the phone, streaming audio through something like Airfoil, printing to a WiFi-aware printer).

If I connect my iMac with a wired connection to the AirPort Extreme, will it still be able to participate in the local wireless action?

If not, can I connect it through Ethernet for Internet access but leave the WiFi on just for the local stuff?


texts:
I just got my 2 Thunderbolt displays for my MacBook Pro Retina.

I connected the 2 screens on one Thunderbolt port by using the Thunderbolt chain solution. (connecting screen 2 to screen 1 and screen 1 to the MBPR).

Those screens all work fine, but the color calibration is a big question mark.
While the screen 2 is showing a clear white, screen 1 is having this yellowish white which I dont really like. How can I fix that? Color profiles in the System Preferences → Displays seem to me that I can only calibrate screen 2…


texts: Auto-complete to multiple possible file extensions

texts:
(Edit:  I suspect this was a better fit for the Unix and Linux stack exchange network -- could someone migrate this over there?  Or do I have to make an account over there myself?)

I'm converting some of my old terminal scripts (typically written in tcsh) to run as bash scripts in OSX.  In particular, I'm trying to get my terminal to auto-complete inputs to certain programs specified by my .bash_profile settings.  For example, the command

complete -f -X '!*.tex' emacs

correctly auto-completes emacs inputs only to .tex files.  I was hoping something like this would work so that it would only tab-complete to .tex OR .txt files:

complete -f -X '!*.@(tex|txt)' emacs

But this fails.  Any suggestions?


texts: Other physical remote options for a Mac (not an iPhone or iPad)

texts:
I reassigned the buttons on my Apple remote with BetterTouchTool to fire off hot keys on my Mac.  I then taught my universal remote the Apple remote buttons.  This works perfectly, except that Apple's remote only has 7 buttons.  I want at least a few more.

Is it possible to use 2 different Apple remotes for one Mac, assigning different controls to each remote?  I doubt it, but I'm asking just in case.

Is there any other remote that would work with a Mac other than Apple's remote, in order to get more buttons to reassign?

What I want is 12 buttons (or more), which I would then teach my universal remote.  That's why using an iPhone or iPad won't work in this scenario.

Is there some other option to accomplish the same task?

EDIT: Yikes, did I stump the band?


texts: MacBook Pro took a small tumble has minor scuffs on the right side

texts: My MacBook Pro took a small tumble off of my recliner last night and scuffed the right side from the brick of the fireplace. I just took my case off last week because the case was looking pretty bad and of course, as soon as I take it off it falls for the first time. My Macbook has been kept PERFECT and this little scuff really REALLY bothers me. I know its silly, but I'm a perfectionist and can't get over it! Any experience with repairs on this? I'm not expecting it to be fixed for free, but wondering about a price range etc...


texts: External Display Won't stay asleep: stuck in sleep / wake loop

texts:
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro (running Mountain Lion) connected to an HP Pavilion 23xi external display. The external is connected via DVI-->Thunderbolt adapter, is set as the primary display and the MacBook Pro is mostly in Clamshell mode.

When I put the Mac to sleep, the displays sleep as they should. However, if I put just the displays to sleep (ctrl - shift -eject or hot corner) the internal display behaves as it should but the external display goes to sleep for a second or so then immediately wakes up. It then gets caught in a sleep / wake loop.

The problem is similar to the one described in this question but, in my case, resetting the SMC hasn't helped. Wake for network access is off and the problem persists when the display is the only peripheral connected to the mac.

This is what the Console shows when this happens:

Any idea how to solve this?


texts: What Windows 7 Product Keys will work for Bootcamp!

texts:
I am trying to setup Bootcamp, but am having a tough time. I know this question has been asked previously, but all of the answers are outdated. What SKU product key for Windows 7 is licensed for Bootcanp on 2013 MacBook Pro?

Keep in mind I don't have a DVD drive which makes use of any optical media problematic.


texts: I recently upgraded my Mac to the Catalina Os. Since then, the reminders are not working on my Mac. But once I click on the Reminders it is showing an error and redirecting me to login. Post login also, it is showing the same error. For now this is just happening with Reminders. Is there an issue with the OS Catalina installation?


texts: How to send email from OS X command line

texts:
Dozens of tutorials followed and nothing works.

msmtp doesn't work ("TLS certificate verification failed: unable to get local issuer certificate" (cert installed)

postfix doesn't work (no way to specify from address)

aws ses doesn't work (unverified email (that's verified))

mutt and mailx tried every combination with the above.

Comcast and Gmail services tried with the above...

Assuming a bone clean install of El Capitan with Homebrew. Blue sky, spare no expense (I'll buy a service that actually works at this point.)

I need to send an email from the command line.


texts:
I use Linux on the desktop and have zero access to iTunes. I'm in a position where I have to use an iPhone for a while.

I can plug my phone to my computer and mount the storage drive. Where would I dip my MP3 collection in order to pay them in the native application?

It's an iPhone 4S updated to the latest version of iOS.


texts: Can I install Compass in Yosemite WITHOUT installing Xcode or Command Line Developer Tools?

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I'm trying to install several programming packages, but it turns out that I can't because I don't have Xcode or Command Line Developer Tools installed.

Some (e.g. git) were easy to install anyway.
But for others (e.g. compass) I'm not finding any solution.

Being OS X an unix based OS, it should be straightforward to install packages.

I know that the easy answer is install Command Line Developer Tools, but the problem is that I can't: I don't have access to a fast internet connection, and installing Command Line Developer Tools is practically impossible (I've been trying for some weeks, then I gave up). That's why I'm looking for an alternative.


texts: How to fix inverted color on one thunderbolt monitor with maximum resolution set?

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I have two monitors. All of the sudden my second monitor has switched blue for red when it is at the full resolution 2560x1600. However, white is not black, so it isn't totally inverted.

If I use the same monitor on a different thunderbolt port at the full resolution this problem doesn't happen.

How do I fix this?


texts: What does this popup mean, "New Location Detected", what application is displaying it?

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I get this popup on my Macbook Pro High Sierra 10.13.6.

There is no title bar.  When I click on the popup it does not become selected and the "current application" in the Mac menu remains whatever it was.

How can I tell what application is displaying this popup?   How can I tell what it means?   What is a "location" -- is this a GPS thing, a network thing (wifi?  Bluetooth?), is it from Maps?   Has my Mac discovered new unknown lands and expanded the horizons of mankind?   How am I supposed to know?   What if I Add?  What if I Decline?   What happens in either case?   Am I  like Kyle in Human Centipad?


texts: launchctl list shows bundle identifiers of running application, there is a number after that what is it?

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command and its output

launchctl list  | grep Terminal

94502   0   com.apple.Terminal.2000

What is the 2000 number referring to?
 94502 is Pid and
 0 is exit status

What does it mean if pid is empty _.

_   0   com.apple.Terminal.2000

What is the difference between this and LaunchAgent/LaunchDaemonservices


texts: I have an iPad Pro 12.9 and an iPhone 6s, both have "hey siri" enabled, along with dictation. However I can't get the offline dictation to show up. I initially thought it was because I live in Italy (but I have everything set to US English), so I tried wiping the iPad and just setting up everything without logging in to any Apple account. I set the location to USA and the language to US English, but I still can't get offline dictation. Any suggestions?


texts: Accessing an Apache server installed in VirtualBox from Mac

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I want to install a linux debian in virtual box and on debian an apache webserver. After this, I'd like to access it form my mac via browser like http://myvirtualbox:80/myfolder. The goal is to "dry" test the apache configuration before performing it on a live debian server... is this setting possible and if so, how?

UPDATE: After choosing "Internal" I tried to determine the IP-address...

root@straubedebian:~# ip addr eth0
Command "eth0" is unknown, try "ip addr help".
root@straubedebian:~# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:00:27:37:f8:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe37:f8b2/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: pan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
    link/ether f2:cf:03:a1:c0:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
root@straubedebian:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 08:00:27:37:f8:b2
          inet6-Adresse: fe80::a00:27ff:fe37:f8b2/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metrik:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:5069 (4.9 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Lokale Schleife
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metrik:1
          RX packets:753 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:753 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
          RX bytes:59097 (57.7 KiB)  TX bytes:59097 (57.7 KiB)

There's no ip address I can use :-)

After that I switched to "Host-only" and again no ip-address:

root@straubedebian:~# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:00:27:37:f8:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe37:f8b2/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: pan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
    link/ether f2:cf:03:a1:c0:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Is this a debian issue or a misconfiguration in VirtualBox?


texts: Fade to black for eight seconds (iMovie)

texts: I have a clip at the end of my movie that is eight seconds long, but the Cross Dissolve or Fade to Black transition will only let the end transition happen for one second. Trying to increase the duration shows the error: “The clips do not have enough media available to change the length of this transition.”


texts:
I run linux and use virtualbox to cross browser test my website. I have Windows10 and Windows7 within virtual box which allows me to test the site with IE and Edge browsers.

I have never used Apple/Mac OS so I am very much in uncharted territory here. I need to test the site on Safari but after searching online, it appears as though it isn't possible to download a MacOS ISO to install in virtualbox: link (I do not have access to an apple computer)

I tried installing Safari on a windows VM but it is a really old version since Safari is not supported on Windows. Also, from what I can tell there are no Linux versions of Safari.

Is there a way to test the site using Safari somehow without owning a Mac?


texts: "open or reload" html doc from command line?

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I have a program which generates some html documentation.  At the end of the script, I use the open command to automatically view the page in the browser.

generate-document > index.html
open index.html

However, after iterating on the code, I end up with numerous obsolete copies of index.html open in my browser.

Is there a way (either from the command line, or within the browser) to say something like "if index.html is already being viewed refresh it, otherwise load it."?

generate-document > index.html
open-or-reload index.html

Safari or Chrome specific methods are fine.


texts:
Today I found out that something strange is happening to my Mac OS apps. For example - Disk Utility.

The same is with my Finder.

What kind of sorcery is this and what should I do now?


texts: Will an external USB floppy drive work with a modern Mac?

texts:
I have a number of old 3.5" floppies (Amiga and PC format) that I'd like to archive before they disintegrate. I'm curious if a cheap USB 3.5" floppy drive will work on OSX / macOS 10.11+?

Yes, I understand that reading an Amiga disk might be stretching things a bit, but was hoping perhaps a dd command might work. Otherwise, I'm thinking perhaps these devices only know how to read PC format and act as mass storage (ha!) devices..


texts: how to display 4:3 full screen game on widescreen monitor without stretching?

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I am playing the game Age of Empires 1 on Mac OS Sierra, running on a 11 inch macbook air connected to a 23-inch Acer monitor with native 1920 x 1080 resolution. The game is for Windows and doesn't have an official Mac version, so I am using a program called "Porting Kit" which appears to be some kind of Wrapper utility for Wine.

The game itself is 1024 x 768, so when I run it, my screen goes into full screen mode, but the 4:3 aspect ratio is stretched all over the screen, so the picture is shorter and fatter than it would be. I would very much prefer to play with black bars on the left side of the screen, so that the picture at least displays in the correct aspect ratio, not stretched.

I found some forum threads where PC users with Nvidia cards had this problem, e.g. the thread here. However, my Macbook air, if I'm not mistaken, has Intel integrated video, so that doesn't apply.

Also, I tried changing the settings in the Mac OS display preferences, and hold Alt/Option while clicking "scaled" which gives a list of resolutions, including 1024x768. However, when I switch to that resolution, Mac OS also stretches. This is strange because I've seen screenshots of others' display preferences resolution list, and they have things like "1024 x 768" and "1024 x 768 (stretched)", e.g. two different versions, which implies the first one is "unstretched". However, my resolution list doesn't have the corresponding "stretched" versions, and unmarked one is stretched though. Strange.

I also tried fiddling around with the hardware controls on my monitor (an Acer G236HL), i.e. the physical buttons near the power button on my monitor. There seems to be an option called "Wide Mode", which is set to "Full", but there seems to be no way to change it, although the interface suggests there are other options besides "Full", but trying to change that option results in nothing happening, e.g. there do not appear to be any other options.

How do I force my monitor to display a full-screen 4:3 picture with black bars on the two sides, rather than stretched? Again, the program I am using, "Porting Kit" by some guy named "Paul the Tall", doesn't appear to have any "play in windowed" mode feature. There appears to be a "AOE rise of rome unofficial HD patch" (also installed via Porting kit) made by yet another person that allows windowed mode, as well as widescreen resolution support. (edit update: for some reason, windowed mode using this patch crashes the game for me, but full screen mode works, and it allows playing the game in 1920 x 1080 resolution, so technically this is fine. However, I was wondering if there is a more general solution to this problem that can work for other full-screen 4:3 stretched games)


texts: How to fix failing Open Directory (database "cn=authdata" cannot be opened, err 12) after hang

texts:
A Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 server running Open Directory hung. SSH was still possible but the sudo reboot command didn't restart the server within 15 minutes. That is why a power cycle was issued. After the power cycle Open Directory would no longer start and the System log is filled with a new message every 10 seconds:

com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd[1153]): Exited with code: 1
com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Repairing disk permission, neither another reboot doesn't solve the issue.

Slapd in Tool mode outputs:

$ sudo /usr/libexec/slapd -Tt
bdb(dc=nl2,dc=probackup,dc=nl): unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region
bdb_db_open: database "dc=nl2,dc=probackup,dc=nl" cannot be opened, err 12. Restore from backup!
backend_startup_one (type=bdb, suffix="dc=nl2,dc=probackup,dc=nl"): bi_db_open failed! (12)
slap_startup failed (test would succeed using the -u switch)

How to fix this?


texts: How to create a cron log file in macOS High Sierra

texts:
I have an issue with cron in macOS High Sierra.

I have cron running, and it is running the jobs I want to run. I am unable, however, to figure out how to make it create a cron.log file in /var/log.

I've edited /etc/syslog.conf file by adding:

cron.*      /var/log/cron.log

and relaunched the syslog daemon, but I still do not get a log file.

I've edited the com.vix.cron.plist file and redirected output and error messages to /var/log/cron.log. Even though that works, it is nowhere near being a proper log file with date and time shown.


texts:
To install command-line tools for XCode requires running

xcode-select --install

This was not visible in the download tab of the software

However, I have an intuition that those settings can be extended.
I would definitely like to see all those components possible to install for XCode.

How can you extend the settings in the XCode GUI?


texts: Copy spotlight comments into a text file?

texts:
Background: My parents over the years have been scanning in old photos as jpeg files. As they have been doing that they have been making notes on who/what is in the photo in the comments section of the file properties -- The spotlight comments field. (Select a file and do a get info or pres Command-I). Unbeknownst to them, this info doesn't transfer when you move the file to a thumb-stick and put it on a Windows machine OR if you back it up to something like Google Drive/Drop box etc. Over the years they have amassed possibly hundreds (possibly thousands) of photos with comments... I really wish I would have know they are doing this and stopped them. Anyway my thought is a better way of doing this would be to have a txt file with the same name as the jpeg file and put the comments in there...

So, question, does anyone know if there is a program that will help me bulk export the comments to a txt file? What about Automator? Can that automate the process of taking a bunch of jpeg files, reading the comments section of the file properties on said files, then creating individual txt files with the same name as the photo and pasting those comments into the txt file? Any tips on how to actually do this would be appreciated. I've toyed with Automator and I cant seem to figure out how to do it.

I'm dying, otherwise it's going to take many many hours... possibly weeks/months to manually correct this.


texts: Replaced Screen "Searching..." - cannot find network provider

texts:
EDIT 16/06/2015 - Replaced Cellular Antenna - no fix.

I own a small IT repair business and we've recently expanded into the iPhone/iPad repair sector. A customer came in with an iPhone 4s, and the customer had replaced the screen for themselves. The issue is that the iPhone now can't be used for phone calls, texts or internet access. Instead of stating their provider in the top left of the screen it simply says "Searching...".

I have confirmed that it is not a SIM based error.

Any ideas?


texts: Magsafe2 not charging after repaired the wire

texts:
My adapter cable was frayed(close to the adapter side), sometimes it wouldn't charge. So I was trying to fix it. I didn't buy a new cable for replacement, instead I cut the original one and soldered on the circuit board.

But after I repaired it, I connected both sides of the adapter to my MacBook Air and to the power socket see if it worked. I saw the indicator lights up and then turns off immediately. After few times plugged and unplugged, I twice got a successful charge connection; the indicator turned green and then turns orange but it won't last longer than 5 minutes.   After a while the indicator will turn off again. These two charges got my MacBook 13% power.

I measured the the T connector positive pins(Pin2/4); sometimes I got 0.8V, sometimes it showed 0.5v, I also measured the backside of circuit with multi-meter(yellow and red circle); the voltage showed was 110VDC. I think this adapter probably still working just don't know where I did it wrong.

Please give me some advice on what to do next to get this working.

03/26
Thanks for you guys reply.
I was trying to measure voltage by the pin in the green circle, I got 55VDC, but suddenly there was a spark and then the voltage here were all gone, so I checked from the top and saw 3 SMD resistors next to this chip(green circle) were burned...

I am thinking to replace them because it still recognizable.
But except that, I don't see any blown capacitor that might cause no charging.
Would someone please share some advice?


texts: What's the difference between MBP 2016 and 2017 Thunderbolt 3?

texts:
I've been trying to buy some dongles for my new MBP 2017, but as I've been reading lots of reviews and product descriptions, it seems like some dongles that work with MBP 2016 does not with the 2017 version. What's going on?

Also any insight on why we can't daisy chain the dongles (e.g. Thunderbolt 3 -> Mini Displayport -> VGA/HDMI)? I have lots of Mini Displayport dongles I would still like to use.

For example look at the product description in these two links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C316EIK

  THUNDERBOLT 3 PORT COMPATIBLE with the reversible USB-C connecter that connects to new computers and tablets > with Thunderbolt 3 such as the 2016 MacBook Pro (NOT 2017 iMac or MacBook)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2ORP84

  NOTICE: the firmware of our products is updating now, please don’t connect this product to iMac 2017 and > MacBook 2017. USB TYPE C to Mini DisplayPort (Mini DP, MDP) adapter connects a computer host with a USB > Type-C port to a monitor or projector with Mini DisplayPort input, ★NOTICE★: DO NOT connect adapter(like mini > dp to DVI adapter) from other brand to USB-C to mini displayport adapter for a second signal convert, we > can't guarantee it works well.

EDIT:
Found a link with as a reference for the answer:
http://www.macworld.com/article/3200052/displays/apples-thunderbolt-display-doesnt-work-with-a-12-inch-macbooks-usb-c-port.html


texts: Upgrade failed to download from Mavericks to Yosemite

texts:
Apple newbie here. I tried to update OSX from Mavericks to Yosemite. The downloading failed. It showed me a message saying "an error occurred". So what I did is to search on google what were the recommendation. I followed this video tutorial to reset the download again here.

After doing that the message was gone although the button now turns to just "Download".

It prompt me to restart my computer to install. But I was worried because I know that the download failed. Any suggestion on what to do? Is there any way to re-download the update just to make sure I have all the files.


texts: It takes ~ 10 attempts to start my mid 2012 (first with retina) MBP 15

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It was 2019 October when I used the computer on the rain. For a few days I had some troubles with touchpad, then it completely recovered itself, then the entire machine died. Since then I was able to use the laptop maybe 5 times.

At first it didn't start up at all, then it started once with no touchpad nor keyboard response, laggy as hell. Then, after few months following situation repeats: when connected to power there is blickering catalog icon until battery is dead or disconnected in a hard way. It hardly ever starts up properly, and if it does so, it works perfectly fine each time. Is it a hard drive? I have OWD disk, I don't know history of the computer. A guy in local 3rd  party apple shop told me that the keyboard, touchpad and maybe hard drive need replacement, the hard drive can die anytime soon. Here is an error code:

Anonymous UUID:       5ED475D8-87D1-D4B7-DEBA-59B706F76473

Tue Jan  1 01:00:15 2019

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 5 caller 0xffffff800a4bb0ef):  initproc exited -- exit reason namespace 2 subcode 0xa description: none

uuid info:
 0x105e9d000    uuid = <d3e77331-ace5-349d-a7cc-433d626d4a5b>
 0x1008ac000    uuid = <bbd445b6-fba9-3a9c-828f-a112f63e2080>

Thread 3 crashed

RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x00000001008fa068, RCX: 0x00000001008f7000, RDX: 0x00000001008fa088
RSP: 0x00007000057c8300, RBP: 0x00007000057c83a0, RSI: 0x00000001008fa078, RDI: 0x00000001008ac000
R8:  0x00000001008acae8, R9:  0x0000000000000d0e, R10: 0x0000000000000010, R11: 0x0000000000000206
R12: 0x0000000100025375, R13: 0x0000000000001eb0, R14: 0x00000001008fc748, R15: 0x00000001008ac000
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0x00007fff6c0d8b7f, CS:  0x000000000000002b, SS:  0x0000000000000023

Thread 0: 0xffffff802b7b7520
    0x00007fff6c213126
    0x00007fff6c09cede
    0x0000000000000000

Thread 1: 0xffffff8031544000
    0x00007fff6c22e29e
    0x00007fff6c08fde6
    0x00007fff6c09ef42
    0x00007fff6c093792
    0x00007fff6c094396
    0x00007fff6c09c6ed
    0x00007fff6c2cd611
    0x00007fff6c2cd3fd
    0x0000000000000000

Thread 2: 0xffffff802f51ea40
    0x00007fff6c2cd3f0

Thread 3: 0xffffff8034d98a40
    0x00007fff6c0d8b7f
    0x00007fff6c0d8a07
    0x00007fff6c0d88d1
    0x00007fff6c135b2a
    0x00000001008d1375
    0x00000001008de439
    0x00007fff6c08d63d
    0x00007fff6c08fde6
    0x00007fff6c09ef42
    0x00007fff6c093792
    0x00007fff6c094396
    0x00007fff6c09c6ed
    0x00007fff6c2cd611
    0x00007fff6c2cd3fd
    0x8000120000000000

Thread 4: 0xffffff80321e0000
    0x00007fff6c2cd3f0

Thread 5: 0xffffff80311e6a40
    0x00007fff6c2cd3f0

Mac OS version:
18G87

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Thu Jun 20 18:42:21 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.270.47~4/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 982F17B3-0252-37FB-9869-88B3B1C77335
System model name: MacBookPro10,1 (Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F)
Root disk errors: "Could not recover SATA HDD after 5 attempts. Terminating."

EOF
Model: MacBookPro10,1, BootROM 257.0.0.0.0, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 2,3 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 2.3f36
Graphics: kHW_IntelHD4000Item, Intel HD Graphics 4000, spdisplays_builtin
Graphics: kHW_NVidiaGeForceGT650MItem, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, spdisplays_pcie_device, 1 GB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D5434314753364D465238432D50422020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D5434314753364D465238432D50422020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xEF), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.190.33 AirPortDriverBrcm4360-1325.2)
Bluetooth: Version 6.0.14d3, 3 services, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
Serial ATA Device: OWC Aura, 240,06 GB
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 23.4

What should I do?


texts: I want all applications show their title bar, how do I achieve this?

texts:
I do not want the titlebar to disappear. Is there a solution to have it always visible? Here is the opposite wish:

Is there a way to hide the title bar of applications?

Anyone using TinkerTool? Does it achieve what I want?


texts: Why Can't I Read /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store under macOS 10.13

texts:
I'm trying to set up a new backup utility on my system, and am getting an error that it cannot get the files in folder /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles under macOS 10.13.3.

I don't get the issue under a VM running macOS 10.12 - but if I attempt to read /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store, then I get errors:

ComputerName:~ root# cd /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/
ComputerName:ConfigurationProfiles root# ls
.cloudConfigNoActivationRecord
.noActivationRecord
Settings
Setup
Store
com.apple.ManagedClient.enrollagent.plist
ComputerName:ConfigurationProfiles root# cd Store
-sh: cd: Store: Not a directory
ComputerName:ConfigurationProfiles root# ls -lah
ls: Store: Operation not permitted
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    8 root  wheel   256B 25 Jan 07:51 .
drwxr-xr-x  108 root  wheel   3.4K 14 Feb 12:57 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     0B 13 Dec  2015 .cloudConfigNoActivationRecord
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     0B 17 Dec  2014 .noActivationRecord
drwxr-xr-x@   4 root  wheel   128B 25 Jan 07:51 Settings
drwx------    3 root  wheel    96B 15 Feb 22:17 Setup
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   490B  9 Sep  2014 com.apple.ManagedClient.enrollagent.plist

Getting info on the file in the Finder show unknown permissions:

I've tried the same in a VM running a macOS 10.13 Beta (so, a completely separate installation), and I get the same issue.

Any ideas what's going on here, if I need to correct it, or if I just need to exclude this path from my backups?

Thanks!


texts: Why does iTunes play the whole album on shuffle?

texts: As the title states, my library is a bit screwed up. For example, when I shuffle my entire library it tends to play some of the albums in its entirety. But this only happens to a few of them. In this case, it's Land of Pleasure & Caress Your Soul by Sticky Fingers and Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager by Kid Cudi. And no matter how many times I keep reshuffling the library, it tends to repeat the whole album everytime it gets to one of the songs. It doesn't even start from the middle, it always begins from the start till the end of the album.


texts: What does this mean: "mds: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51"

texts:
mds: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch.  ac:2 am:51

This error shows up in my system.log file regularly. Searching on Google turns up few useful results.

One search result points to iTunes plug-ins/add-ons, all of which I have removed with no change; I still get this error.

Since the error is coming from mds I tried resetting Spotlight, but nothing changed. I have also cleared caches, fixed permissions, run maintenance scripts, verified/repaired the file system in Disk Utility, verified Time Machine backups, even did a surface scan of my hard drive. Anything I could think of that might effect the file system and cause trouble for mds.

I'm at a loss. Does anyone have any clue what this means and how I can make it stop?
EDIT: During Spotlight re-indexing (with sudo mdutil -E /), I got a while lot of...

7/20/12 3:27:43.796 PM com.apple.mdworker.pool.1: PSSniffer error: Invalid argument

...and...

7/20/12 3:53:19.098 PM com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0: failed to parse embedded CMap.
7/20/12 3:53:19.098 PM com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0: syntax error, unexpected DICTSTART.

...each repeated many times over in short bursts.

The same error I had before also came up during and after re-indexing.


texts: How should I interpret the full charge capacity (mAh) for a macbook battery?

texts: in System Information it shows: "Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 7860".  How should I interpret this figure?


texts: Best app to edit text in PDF files on OS X?

texts: I have tried Wondershare PDF editor to edit text in PDF files; it works but not so well. Is there any other alternative?


texts: Pages: rotate existing, wide table by 90 degrees so that the rows are now vertical possible? (equations in several cells)

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I have a complex table in Pages 8.2.1 and several cells have equation objects in them. The table has gotten too wide and I want to rotate it by 90 degrees.
From what I understand I can't rotate one page by 90 degrees, but Apple discussions post says (to a question asked March 2018):

We assume you are using Pages 5/6/7 because you can rotate Tables in Pages '08 or '09.

I haven't figured out how.
I found this: Pages '09 Hacks: lInsert pages at landscape format but a) I don't have version 9 yet and 2) I don't understand what it's saying. I'm new to pages and this is written with experienced users in mind.
If I just select a table the rotation field is dark in format/arrange:

I saw a hack in this answer:

Insert a shape near the table and change the fill to 'No Fill'
Select the shape and the table
Group the shape and table together
Rotate the group

If you ungroup the elements the table will revert back to the original rotation, but you can still resize etc the table from within the group.

but I haven't able to make use of it yet because when ever I select a shape the table deselects, I haven't been able to group them yet.
Question:

How can I rotate my preexisting wide table with equations in several cells by 90 degrees so that the rows are now vertical?
If and only if that's not possible, can I make my table tall and make all text reenter all text and equation objedts sideways?


texts: Where can I find original MacBook Pro batteries?

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I have a 2011 13" MacBook Pro. I have replaced the battery once, replaced the charger two times (because it wore off/tore up). I have replaced the original drive with an SSD and pumped up the RAM so my MacBook runs pretty much like new with Sierra (upgraded).

Now I am not taking chances on off-brand batteries because:

they can potentially damage/brick my laptop (my replacement battery had swollen after an year).
replaced batteries do not fully hold the charge and have much smaller life times.
because my laptop is showing no sign of slowing down, I would rather replace the battery with the original so I can use it for another 5 years or so.

The problem is I can't find original the MacBook Pro battery for a 2011 laptop. I may visit a store to find out but is there a away I can order an original MacBook Pro 2011 13" battery online?


texts: git auto-complete for *branches* at the command line?

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On my Linux machine I have autocomplete for branches with Git.

[Note we are talking about git branch completion, not bash completion (e.g. commands, files, etc).  Thus NOT Lane's answer at all]

For example I can type git checkout+TAB and get a list of branches.

Or I can type git checkout feb*+TAB to get all branches that begin with "feb".

How can I get this functionality on a Mac?

I tried downloading and running bash-completion/bash_completion and bash-completion/bash_completion.sh.in but no joy.  The first gave error messages about declare: -A invalid_option.  The second gave no errors.   When I git checkout+TAB though I am still getting a list of files in the directory, not branches.  I am in the project root.

Auto-complete for directories and bash commands are working ok, so it's specific to Git.


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Computer starts up to gray screen, in recoevery mode getting "Open Error 5: Input/Output error on System/CoreServcices/ManagedClient.app/*

My computer turned to sludge, and I hit the power button and shut it down.

On startup, we got to login screen, put in my password, wait for minutes..no go

Manual shutdown.

On startup we get the white screen of death.

Put disk into recovery mode, got the recovery OS going, and opened disk utility.

My Macnitosh HD was still there, but I ran "Verify permissions" and got the above error for a long time. Eventually, I stopped the process and hit "Verify Disk".

This happened quickly, and it tells me that my Disk can't be repaired. (Not sure how to get a backup from the files I have, so help with that would be good)

When I go to the menu and hit "Statup Disk" my copy of Mountain Lion is not present.

Not exactly sure what to do in terms of backup, installing a new OS, repairs.

Whaty should I do?


texts: Why and when do Mac laptops start themselves when connected to power?

texts: I'm a technician and noticed that, if the battery is disconnected in a Macbook/MacBook Pro: the Mac boots itself when you connect the power adapter.  It sometimes even happens when the battery is connected (after I disconnected and connected it).  What rules this?


texts: Is SmcFanControl safe to use on 2015 MBP

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My 2015 MacBook hasn't got any hotter then it normally does since I brought it. The only issue is not it is the hot weather my 2015 MBP is now making me feel hot (due to feeling the heat on my lap).

To fix this issue I would like to use an application such as SmcFanControl. Is this updated for the retina 2015 MBP and will I be able to set my fans back to auto when I don't need the application any more?

Thanks


texts: Is there a maximum length of metadata that can be written in one xattr command?

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Is there any text length limitations for how long text can be put to xattr? I plan to put my AppleScripts source code to script files so Spotlight can find it. Using Finder Comments isn't an option due to the volume of changes I will be writing.

do shell script "xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kmditemmusicalgenre " & source_code & " " & quoted form of script_path


texts: Applescript to turn HDDs off during day, and back on at night

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I figure I should ask my first question,

I'm curious to see how an Applescript could control my HDD that my TimeMachine is backed-up on  to un-mount during the day, and back on before the scheduled backup starts would work.

A bit of research has found:

Applescript to check if drive is mounted

and

Running an Applescript at a specific time

I think this could be very powerful with use of Time Machine Editor

Especially for anyone with a HDD wanting to preserve active hours.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Have the Retina MacBook Pro GPU Hangs been fixed?

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I have an early 2013 15-inch retina Macbook Pro running the latest stable version of Yosemite on which I've encountered the fabled GPU hang-ups, detailed in this question. I'm almost certain I have the same issue as described; I see similar messages on the console, and it seems to only happen when I open an intensive app like photoshop, thus causing the computer to switch between graphics devices.

In the way of possible fixes, I understand that one can disable graphics switching, but that decreases battery life, which I'd like to avoid. However, I haven't seen the issue in a few weeks anyway, which makes me wonder if it hasn't been fixed. The app store doesn't show any major system updates in the past 30 days. Was there an update I didn't notice that fixed this issue?


texts: iPhone calendar app for multiple gmail accounts

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I have the gmail app which lets me sync my work and personal gmail accounts. I want to be able to sync both google accounts with a calendar app as well. The default calendar only supports one. I installed calenmob and its really nice but also only supports one google account. Is there a calendar app that will let me sync 2 google accounts?

I am using an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1


texts: Why does restoring an iPhone backup not result in all apps being updated?

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After apple made it impossible to save and restore apps to and from iTunes and instead started relying solely on AppStore redownloads to restore apps, combined with the fact that I can't manually install earlier versions of apps on the AppStore even if I wanted to, I'm wondering why I get the exact same version of the app back after restoring from a backup? I.e. I have the same app updates waiting for me in the AppStore after a backup restore, following an erase of all contents and settings — which in my case was also followed by a restore in iTunes to a new version of iOS.

As someone who updates apps individually and manually I think it's perfect since some of my apps will become useless if updated, but I didn't expect it.

iOS 10.3.1 -> 10.3.3


texts: WiFi performance terrible when Bluetooth mouse connected on MacBook Pro (Sierra)

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(Similar to Why do my Macbook Pro's WiFi speeds drop significantly when paired with Bluetooth devices?,  MacBook Pro WiFi doesn't work when Bluetooth is on, and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8028129)

On my MacBook Pro running 10.12.6, whenever my Bluetooth Apple Magic Mouse is connected, the WiFi is practically useless. Speeds drop to less than 1 kbps, sometimes no connection at all.

I've searched and tried every solution I could find:

Removing the "Bluetooth PAN" network interface.
Using 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz WiFi networks.
Deleting config files from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
Resetting PRAM/NVRAM and SMC
Setting a new network location with custom MTU and DNS

Nothing fixed the issue. The instant I turn off Bluetooth, my WiFi is back to normal.

Apple suggested upgrading to 10.13 but I don't really want to do that.