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After I update my iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 14 (14.0.1) my siri is not calling with whatsApp. I don't know what is the reason. I tried to make Shortcut but I cannot see action for call with whatsApp or also cannot see read messages with whatsApp.
It was working very well before I update iOS. Siri works very well with everything other than whatsApp. I contact whatsApp support and send them diagnostic log file, they reply me it is issue with Phone.
Kindly help me to resolve it, it is driving me nuts.


texts: Closing 128 new Preview documents without saving

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I opened 128 .png files in Preview, hoping to use it to create a PDF out of them, as I believe was possible in earlier versions using the New from clipboard trick, but apparently, on Yosemite, not any more.

Now I want to close the newly created documents, but it'll require me to click Don't Save 128 times.

Is there any way around this?


texts: On MacOS 10.15.5, "About This Mac --> Storage" is not recognizing my RAID-1 drive correctly

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I upgraded from El Capitan to Catalina 10.15.5 on a MacbookPro mid-2012 , the oldest HW that Catalina will run on. Then, I created a RAID-1 drive using 2 USB disks. "About This Mac --> Storage" is not showing a logical 500-gb RAID-1 drive, the 500-gb disk RAID member, and the 500-gb partition RAID member is not displayed, but the 1-tb disk for this partition, and the other 500-gb partition on the same disk, is displayed.

On the other hand:
(1) "Go -> Utility -> Disk Utility ", (2) "Finder", and (3) command-line utilities all show the correct drive structure: the logical RAID-1 drive, the 2 physical disks, the 2 partitions of the 1-tb disk. Further, the amount of available drive space, on all disks, all agree.

note:
I did a major reorg of my data when I upgraded to Catalina. My internal disk is SSD, and Catalina automatically formatted it to APFS. Next, I emptied the 500-gb and 1-tb disks into a 2-tb disk. I decided to re-format both (hfs+). Using Catalina's RAID tool, I created the RAID-1 drive.

Everything, except "About This Mac --> Storage", looks great so I am proceeding. So, I'm just reporting this and thinking this has something to do with a mid-2012 MacBook Pro being the oldest HW to support Catalina. Since data is critical to me these days, please tell me if I should be concerned about the strange "About This Mac --> Storage" result.


texts: How to fix bluetooth issues on Catalina 10.15.4?

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Before Mojave, bluetooth on my MacBook Pro 11,3 worked great - I could connect to whatever I liked and everything "just worked".

After upgrading to Mojave - I couldn't connect to any device from my MacBook Pro except my iPhone (I could use it as a hotspot / use the internet connection), but even my Magic Keyboard 2 wouldn't work with my MacBook Pro, unless it was connected via USB. (Magic Keyboard works fine with iPhone and iPad)

I tried the following:

Reinstalling Mac OS
Resetting the Bluetooth Module
Resetting PRAM, SMC etc
Removing all Bluetooth devices
Deleting the bluetooth plist file.

The above steps didn't make any noticeable difference.
After updating to Catalina... still no difference...

But after updating to 10.15.4, now my Magic Keyboard works with my MacBook Pro! But my Mac can't discover some other non-apple devices, for example, it can't see my bluetooth speakers (which it worked fine with before Mojave, and my iPhone and iPad can see the speakers...)

Clearly its not a hardware issue, since it works fine with my iPhone, iPad and Keyboard... clearly its not the fault of my speakers, since no "software" has changed on my speakers, and everything else can connect to them..... clearly its a software issue, since the behavior of my Mac changed only with OS updates.....

How to fix this once and for all?


texts: Why aren't my sent messages from iPad and iPhone syncing?

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I sent someone a message from my iPad through iMessage and I know that my devices always syncronise my iMessage stuff, so it should have popped up on my iPhone that I sent the message (as both were beside me). However, it didn't pop up on my iPhone - there's no evidence of me ever sending the message - but it's still on as Delivered on my iPad.

Has the message been received or was it glitched and never got to the recipient?


texts:
I am trying to share an external drive using NFS with other machines on my network, but encountering a stale file handle that I can't seem to get rid of.
I have tried the following in my etc/exports
/Volumes/Foo -ro -mapall=nobody -fsuuid=[uuid]

Where [uuid] is the actual id (confirmed to match, because if it doesn't, nfsd checkexports will complain).  On the client side, when I do showmount -e [serverhostname], I see
/Volumes/Foo            Everyone

When mounting via mount_nfs [serverhostname]:/Volumes/Foo bar, I'm told that the it was not possible due to a stale file handle.  I've tried a number of the general trouble shooting fixes for stale file handles (reset server, remove entry, reset, then readd, unmount on client, etc) but none of them seem to work.
Mounting shares on the main drive works without any problem, it's just the one on the external that is causing issues.
I'm running fresh installs of 10.15.6 on host and client.


texts: Shoot a video in iPhone 7 Plus' Portrait mode

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I need to shoot an interview with my iPhone 7 Plus, and I'd like it to have the beautiful bokeh effect (shallow depth of field) that the Portrait mode in the camera has. However, my iPhone only lets me take pictures in Portrait mode, not video.

One possible workaround is to record the built-in preview of Portrait Mode with QuickTime, which would work great except for the controls showing up, which cannot be cropped out.

Is there any way to record video in Portrait mode (or hide the controls from my iPhone's screen so I can record using QuickTime), or at least is there any other way to get the bokeh effect while recording a video from my iPhone?

Thank you in advance.


texts:
I've been hearing this unfamiliar "alert" sound – kind of like a badly played guitar string slapping against the frets. After the sound occurs I don't see any new badges or any other indications that something happened…

I've been though all of the stock sounds in System Preferences > Sounds > Sound Effects and while Basso sounds close (hard to say for sure since I can't make the sound happen on demand) I don't think it is the one.

So the question, in three parts:

Is there any way to identify the source of alerts?
If I knew the name of the sound, would that help? (Should I / could I go looking for places where Basso is used?
Can "non-stock" sounds be used for alerts?

I'm running the 10.12.3 beta on a Mid-2014 MBP.


texts: How to empty a cell in Numbers without formatting the cell

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How do i delete all the content from a Numbers sheet without formatting the cell?
Using google it says to use the delete button however it does empty all the functions and format as well.

I have my cells formatted with popups, percentages and dates which i need to keep.


texts:
My SSD stopped mounting by itself on boot. So I booted into Single User mode, ran /sbin/mount/ -uw / and exit and it got mounted and I could boot from the SSD. However, after booting all I see is the Guest user and not the admin user.

However, I have a TM backup and would like to simple erase the entire disk and restore. The issue is I can't erase the disk in Recovery Mode using Disk Utility as it does not get mounted automatically.

What would be the best approach?


texts: Why is always on Hey Siri only available on the iPhone 6S?

texts: At the latest unveiling by Apple and mentioned in this post, they announced a new feature on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus: you can have 'Hey Siri' enabled always rather than just when plugged into a power source.  After downloading iOS 9 to my iPhone 6, I optimistically checked to see whether this feature was present in the settings, but to no avail - 'Hey Siri' is still restricted to when the device is plugged into a power source.  Yet, surely this is a software-related matter rather than anything to do with the hardware.  Why is the ability to have 'Hey Siri' enabled when not plugged into a power source restricted to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus? Has Apple made any explanation of this, or is there some other evidence which accounts for this?


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I have made a mistake. I'm a developer and while testing iCloud I made an @me.com (let's call it dummy@me.com) account. Now I am setting up iCloud on all my devies and would like to use my original Apple ID which I use my Gmail for.
To use Notes and Mail in iCloud I need a @me.com mail and I would like to use the one I made earlier (dummy@me.com) but I am told this e-mail is already registered - that's true, it's mine. My original Apple ID has another @me.com e-mail attached to it (let's call it placeholder@me.com).

Does anyone know if there is a way to delete dummy@me.com and recreate it on my original Apple ID or attach it to my original Apple ID?


texts: How can I get the hexadecimal functionality of Digital ColorMeter back?

texts: I often used Digital ColorMeter to capture colours as hex codes for web development. For some reason, Lion's version has removed a whole load of functionality, including this. Some people have managed to copy over the Lion version with their Snow Leopard version, but my Mac tells my that it's required by OSX and can't be deleted. Can anyone work out a way to do the method described by these people?


texts: How can I prevent MacBook Pro from connecting to Wi-Fi while it is asleep?

texts: My MacBook Pro connects to my mobile phone when it is in sleep mode. If my hotspot is enabled it begins using data and I'd rather not have to remove the paraphrase for the hotspot every time I make it sleep. How can this behavior be disabled or prevented?


texts:
For years I've zoomed the whole Mac OS X screen with Control ⌃ + two finger scroll on the trackpad.

It was very useful when giving demos and when wanting to zoom in on a YouTube video.

Since I installed Lion it was working, then it stopped working, then worked again, now it's not working.

What am I doing wrong, or is it just broken?


texts: Channel Volume sliders greyed out on Audio MIDI setup

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I have a problem opposite to what most people are asking about here. In Audio MIDI setup, the volume controls for channels 1 and 2 are greyed out but the master is up all the way. My mic is sending signal to my logic project, but a)I cannot hear it until after recording, and b)the level is super quiet: hence the need to manually adjust the volumes on each channel.
How do I enable the volume sliders?
I have just moved onto a newer Mac, and therefore updated the latest software for my Duet FW, but this was not a problem on my previous machine.
Help please!


texts:
Giving the command below shows my /etc/hosts all similarly formatted. Trying Safari to go to facebook.com indeed gives the URL: safari-resource:/ErrorPage.html
but for some or many of the other entries it doesn't work. It also doesn't work for Tor browser for that matter but I guess that's a different question. I've tried blocking these domains using parental control in my router but that also doesn't work.
dscacheutil -q host -a name facebook.com gives

name: facebook.com
ipv6_address: fe80:1::1

name: facebook.com
ip_address: 127.0.0.1

I think that the non-facebook entries are rerouted by Safari, given this question for reddit. So that if it doesn't find doubleclick.net, it will ask a DNS server for an alternative.

$ cat -vet /etc/hosts
##$
# Host Database$
#$
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface$
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.$
##$
127.0.0.1^Ilocalhost$
255.255.255.255^Ibroadcasthost$
::1^Ilocalhost$
127.0.0.1^Ifacebook.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Ifacebook.com$
127.0.0.1^Ifonts.googleapis.com$
127.0.0.1^Ifonts.gstatic.com$
127.0.0.1^Iwww.facebook.com$
127.0.0.1^Iadservice.google.com$
127.0.0.1^Iadservice.google.nl$
127.0.0.1^Iwww.adservice.google.nl$
127.0.0.1^Idoubleclick.net$
127.0.0.1^Igoogle-analytics.com$
127.0.0.1^Iwww.googletagservices.com$
127.0.0.1^Ifonts.googleapis.com$
127.0.0.1^Igoogleads.g.doubleclick.net$
fe80::1%lo0^Ifonts.googleapis.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Iadnx.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Igooglesyndication.com$
fe80::1%lo0^I360yield.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Ifonts.gstatic.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Iwww.facebook.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Iadservice.google.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Iadservice.google.nl$
fe80::1%lo0^Iwww.adservice.google.nl$
fe80::1%lo0^Idoubleclick.net$
fe80::1%lo0^Igoogle-analytics.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Iwww.googletagservices.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Ifonts.googleapis.com$
fe80::1%lo0^Igoogleads.g.doubleclick.net$
fe80::1%lo0^Ifonts.googleapis.com$
127.0.0.1^Iadnx.com$
127.0.0.1^Igooglesyndication.com$
127.0.0.1^I360yield.com$


texts: How can I Playback video files with no stop?

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I like to playback a lot of different videos for a theatrical play  without having to pause or having a dead time in between the videos.
Do I need a specific software? Can I do it with Quick Time player? Or VLC?


texts: Ethernet connection turns off when my Mac idles

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I often leave my Mac for some time to do assorted tasks. When I return and log into the screensaver, I can't visit my homepage, Google, because the Ethernet connection has disconnected, requiring a few minutes to reestablish DHCP before I can Google again. Is there a way to keep the Ethernet connection alive while my computer idles?

I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion x64;
on a 2013 MacBook Pro 15";
with an official Apple Mini DVI to Gigabit Ethernet adapter;
plugged into a good cat5 cable.


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I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) running 10.13.6 and I am now getting "Bluetooth: Not Available" in the menu bar. I also cannot access the "Bluetooth" section within System Preferences.

Under "Network" in System Preferences it says "Bluetooth PAN is not connected" and "No PAN devices found".

Under System Report, it says "No Information Found" under Bluetooth.

I have tried the following in an effort to troubleshoot:

Simple restart
Simple shutdown, turn back on
No USB devices are connected, so I have none to remove
Reset the SMC
Delete .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/ (there were no com.apple.Bluetooth.plist file in this directory for me, I had to go into ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost to find two com.apple.Bluetooth..plist files
Reset NVRAM
I'm unable to reset the Bluetooth module as Shift+Option and clicking on the Bluetooth menu in the menu bar does give me an options.

What other options do I have to troubleshoot this? If this is a hardware issue, do you have a recommendation for a Bluetooth USB adapter that I can use to limp by with?


texts: iPhone/iPad "Reader" mode distorts presentation of or doesn't show content

texts:
http://jsfiddle.net/verbatim/fng4ef4k/

http://jsfiddle.net/verbatim/yg8amddu/

I have a contact us page. It has the usual information: Write, Call, Fax, Email, Web.

I am checking my pages with iOS Simulator.

The Reader mode of Safari on iPhone/iPad seems to distort or delete content on the page.

Desktop Safari Reader mode does not seem to have these problems.

Both of the Fiddles above have very similar markup. Yet the first example hides all the contact details in Reader mode. The second example changes font sizes on some contact info and has formatting I do not like and would like to change, but cannot seem to figure out how to.

Can anyone please provide some guidance on the best way to revise my markup to overcome this issue?

Any help is much appreciated.


texts: Can i create my own back up iCloud account other than the one my ex boyfriend set my iphone up with?

texts: When I first got my iPhone, my boyfriend set it up with his iTunes and iCloud account because I didn't have one of my own. We recently broke up, and he then changed the password for his Apple ID and iCloud account so I couldn't download any more music and/or apps. I have a lot of things on my phone that I really don't want to lose. How can I back my iPhone up without losing anything on it especially the music and contacts I have?


texts: Setting the system-wide PATH environment variable in Mavericks

texts:
In previous OS versions one could set the system-wide PATH environment variable in /etc/launchd.conf to make it available for all apps (not just the command line).

In Mavericks this appears to be no longer used.

Is there another technique for doing this in mavericks?


texts: Black screen with cursor instead of login window

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Last night my mid-2010 Mac Pro woke up and probably installed some update (Mavericks). After this, every time I boot, black screen with cursor appears instead of login window.

I've tried blindly enter password and log in but with no results.
Power button doesn't respond, I can't even sleep or shutdown the machine.
I've cleared NVRAM, but it doesn't help
Safe mode doesn't work (mac restarts before progressbar go to 100%)
Disk repair tool found some minor problem (invalid count of folders in some directory - one extra) - no results
I've reinstalled mavericks (In the Command+R menu during boot), still not working.

What else can I try?

I have some data in encrypted home folder, so I want to recover some of the files.


texts: Buy Mac OS X 10.7 and install on an empty drive

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I want to upgrade my old MacBook 3.1 late 2007 by replacing the hard drive with a SSD (Crucial MX100) and updating Mac OS X from 10.5 (Leopard) to 10.7 (Lion), which is the latest compatible version with it, as I know.

My question is about Mac OS X 10.7, I plan to buy it on the Apple website, and I was wondering if I will be able to install 10.7 on a new drive, after reading this:

  System Requirements
  Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)

It suggests that you can only install it as an update on an existing OS, and not on an empty drive.


texts: Analyze and store statistics for my Internet connectivity over time?

texts:
My Internet connection has been flaky for a while. I wonder what the options are to monitor and somehow store statistics (over time) for when my modem loses and regains Internet connectivity.

I wish to use this information when I contact my ISP.

I'm thinking, would something like Instruments be able to do this?


texts: Mac Software Updates and App Store don't work over Google Nest wi-fi

texts:
Not actually sure if this is a Google issue or an Apple issue, but appreciate any insight. My Mac won't load the App Store (the window stays white with no content) and won't download MacOS software updates over my Google Nest wi-fi network.
As soon as I tether my computer to my phone, the App Store loads, or the software updates begin, so the issue definitely seems to be related to the network.
The network is a Google Nest wi-fi mesh network. There is one base station and two bridged stations. The reliability is good for everything else—web browsing, Netflix, even iOS updates on my phone—but doesn't seem to allow the App Store or Software Updates to load.
All I can guess at is that my network might be blocking one of the ports that Apple relies upon for performing updates or loading the app store. I found this page which lists all of the ports and servers necessary for MacOS to do its thing: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT210060
In the Google Home app, in the Settings page, there is a "Port Management" section, which allows me to configure elements of the network: set up parental filters, notifications of outages etc, there is an "Advanced Networking" sections which includes an area for Port Management. This does not indicate that any ports are being blocked. It looks like you can add port forwarding rules, but I haven't played with this (https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/6274503#how&zippy=%2Cnat-loopback%2Cwith-the-google-wifi-app%2Cwith-the-google-home-app)
Appreciate any suggestions for how to fix this, as regularly tethering to my phone is wearing thin. If port forwarding is necessary, what settings would I use to permit the App Store or Software Updates to happen?


texts: Can someone else sign into my iTunes account to download my purchased apps?

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I buy many apps and I'd like to let my little cousin use my account to download games I've purchased.

Obviously Apple won't encourage accounts holders to share their accounts with relatives but what's the risk of doing so?

I use my account on my iPhone and my iPad and he's got an iPad 2.


texts: How to create a shortcut for a command in Terminal that I can have in my Dock?

texts:
I'm trying to find out if there is a way of creating a shortcut to the following terminal command - so that I can have it on my Dock (Big Sur)
ssh aide199@192.16.1.15


texts: Is it possible to enable mouse right click via Terminal?


texts: Macbook Pro 2017 with 2 thunderbolt ports with triple monitor setup

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I currently have a macbook pro with 2 thunderbolt 3 ports and integrated graphic card and a belkin dock that I use for work, but can't get work done with just 1 monitor.
I have a triple 1080p monitor setup at home that uses VGA and/or HDMI and was wondering if there is anyway I can use all 3 monitors with my laptop. Please keep in mind that although the dock has 2 thunderbolt ports one is used to connect to the macbook and the other I need to use for my yubikey. So in total I only have 1 more thunderbolt port free (the one from the macbook).
Thank you guys!

Displays: 3 x https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05415696

Yubikey: https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5c/


texts: Where does an "Export to Apple Devices" file go to in Final Cut Pro X?

texts: Sometimes the most simple things in this software are not obvious. I get a "Share Successful" message but have no idea where it is on my HD.


texts: Which Macs are compatible with macOS Sierra?

texts:
Is there a list of officially-supported Mac models on to which macOS Sierra can be installed?

I presume it is the same as OS X El Capitan as there does not appear to be many changes which would warrant removing some models of Mac from the supported list, but I can't seem to be able to confirm this.


texts: How do you delete a mailbox from your Yahoo app on the iPhone?

texts:
I have an iPhone 8 running the latest version of the yahoo mail app (4.37)

In the app, I can either "Add another mailbox" or add another account thru "Manage Accounts"

I initially added my account as a mailbox through the "Add another mailbox" link.  It added my account/mailbox but didn't load all my emails.  I then clicked "Manage Accounts" and added my account.

Going thru "Manage Accounts" to add my account shows all my emails.  Now, I want to delete the mailbox that was created.  However, I can't seem to do so.  I even went through "Manage Accounts" to delete the account, hoping that it would remove both the mailbox and account but it didn't.

I followed the directions on Yahoo's website but those instructions didn't work

I also tried adding my gmail account (as a test to delete it) thru the Yahoo mail app as a mailbox.  I'm running into the same problem, I can't delete my gmail account/mailbox either.

Hopefully someone can help me.  Thanks.

UPDATE: Deleting the app didn't work.  The mailboxes are still here.
I also tried going to my Iphone Settings->Yahoo Mail->Reset All Accounts.  Also didn't work.  Both my gmail account and that rogue yahoo account is still there.


texts: What is it that raises my footer in my Pages 7.0.1. document

texts:
In my Pages document, at the bottom of p. 9 I have a star, followed by a blank line, followed by some text :

To save space, I delete that blank line between the star and the text (by putting the cursor inside it and hitting "Delete"). But the result is that the footer is raised, and all in all no space is saved :

This surprising behavior happens for some paragraphs and not for others. What is going on here ? How may I fix this ?


texts: I get an error sed: 1: "1~2d": invalid command code ~ when I use sed '1~2d' sample.txt

texts:
On macOS version 11.2.2.
$ which sed
/usr/bin/sed

sed version: 4.8 SED(1)
When I run this code on Ubuntu, it works.
$ sed '1~2d' sample.txt
two
four
six

But when I run this on macOS, both in zsh and bash, it won't work.
$ sed '1~2d' sample.txt
sed: 1: "1~2d": invalid command code ~

Why doesn't it work on macOS?
How can I make it work?
[Update]
When I run man sed | grep GNU, it outputs telling that This is a GNU extension.


texts: What file systems can Snow Leopard read?

texts:
I just got a MacBook Pro for my parents, and I need to get their files from a Linux desktop machine that most likely has either reiserfs or ext3 file systems.

I would like to know if Snow Leopard can read these files if I put the HDD in an external HDD case??

Thanks


texts: Mac Notes Keeps Opening Up every 5 seconds

texts:
Yesterday, I decided to set up iMessage on my Macbook Pro.  And ever since then, Mac Notes keeps opening up every 5 seconds.  I close it, or force quit, and it opens again in 5 seconds.  But even when it's idle Mac Notes is restarting every 5 seconds, and assumes priority on my screen, so I am battling to type and work on my Mac.  It's as though it wants to create a new note each time.

Macbook Pro
Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.3


texts: iPhone just keeps offloading SoundCloud app even though it is used heavilly

texts:
My question is related to peculiar behavior of my iPhone, as suggested in the title.

Offloading means deleting the app from the phone, however data remains, so after user installs it back from appstore, it just works in continuity from before the deletion of the app. Operating System on iOS allows automatic offloading of apps, which were not used much, to save memory/space.

Yes my iPhone is full, and I allowed offloading of unused apps. (and I really need this). ... it makes sense that iOS wants to offload some app, but why SounCloud? Many other apps are still present, untouched.

The strange thing is, that SoundCloud is probably the most used app on my phone, and it would be just too much, if it was offloaded/deleted even ones. Even that would not make sense. However, it just keeps be deleted over and over on regular basis. I have to reinstall the app in quite unexpected situations if I want listen to music again. Often in situations without strong data signal.

I didn't notice that there would be any other apps, which would be offloaded/deleted prematurely like this. It seems to me, that otherwise only apps which I did not use for a long time are targeted by the system and offloaded.

In the case of Soundcloud - I use it kind of at least for few hours a day. Often I can let it run from the morning to the night nonstop. Everyday! Still - after being in subway for an hour (not data signal - not using anything, or after watching YouTube for few hours - and bang! Souncloud is gone! Again! All that the system apparently needs to decide, that my SoundCloud is unused to delete it is few hours of me doing something else and it targets SounCloud preferentially and deletes it!

My question is actually double:

1) First, I just really want to stop offloading this particular application (while keeping the system decide what other app was not used lately and let it automatically offload that) .. if there exist any more specific setting allowing me to make an exception for an app, that I wish the particular app to not be offloaded, I would love to use it.

2) Second, I am just amused and curious, why that particular app might be targeted in the first place? Does not make sense at all! It even feels as if iOS is picking on SoundCloud or something. Any reasons?

I have iPhone SE and always with the latest OS (and behavior is the same regardless on the version of iOS). I have 32 GB of memory space and it is always close to be full. ... And I keep listening something on earphones non-stop, either music on SoundCloud, or some podcast or YouTube.

(I would suggest tags I cannot add: SoundCloud and Offloading)


texts: Apple Watch: Heart Rate and Cardiogram Not Updating

texts:
The Heart Rate and Cardiogram apps on my Apple Watch Series 1 stopped working the day after I updated my iPhone SE to iOS 12.2. Might there be a connection?

The LED sensors on the back of the watch are not lit. I have tried the troubleshooting steps with no success. How do I get these apps working again?


texts: Connecting iPhone to HC-05 Bluetooth module

texts:
I wanted to know how I can connect my iPhone to HC-05 Bluetooth module. Is there any apps for it or/and How can I create an app for it?

Thanks in advance


texts: Comma separated list to Columns / Mac Numbers

texts:
I have a very huge list of Data (.txt file) .e.g.

945874,stu2,3826,120558,74,15
1836682,CHAOSTAURUS,90,978,3853,0
1411981,KasiaLover,101,28285,684,5
8270041,Daniel33de,3883,2389,2397,1
..... etc

where the variables are (in order):

$id, $name, $all_id, $points, $rank, $t

how can I convert every comma separated variable to it's own Column?

Can't find it.


texts: Error code -50 when copying file to external drive

texts:
I have a Western Digital MyBook external hard drive. It generally works fine, but often when I try to copy a file to the drive, I get "The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50). If I try using the cp command in the terminal instead, I get "Invalid argument". If I then try to eject the drive and remount, everything works fine.

It seems that these hard drives spin down after about 10 minutes of inactivity. That doesn't really bother me, and I'm not positive this is the issue, as I can browse around the drive fine once it spins up again, but I still get the copy error.

Any suggestions?

Update

Disk format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Example of cp command I used: cp /Users/Ben/Desktop/test.txt /Volumes/Media


texts: iPhone not working but iPad is working with chromecast

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I have been using my phone to cast to my chromecast for almost a year with no problems but about a month ago my phone stopped seeing that my chromecast was available.  Fortunately I have an older iPad, so in the case where my phone does not work I use my iPad to cast which still works as it always has.  My iPhone and iPad are both on the same WiFi network so if one sees the chromecast, so should the other.  Why does my phone not see my chromecast on the same WiFi network but my iPad does?
What I have tried:

In the beginning I found that if I reset the chromecast that would allow the phone to see it and cast to it, but that does not work anymore. RESET CHROMECAST = NO
I try resetting my iPhone but there is no change. RESET PHONE = NO
In the beginning I found that if I reset the WiFi router that would fix it, but that no longer works. RESET ROUTER = NO
I thought maybe the chromecast was old and breaking so I recently got a new device but that did not have any effect on this problem.  BUY A NEW CHROMECAST = NO

My conclusion:
I may be wrong, but the last thing I can think of is that the phone is broken.
Does anyone have any ideas before I conclude that the phone is just broken?


texts: Corrupt Photos Libray when migrating to new Photos.app

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I've downloaded the new Photos.app and migrated my iPhoto Library and now all my full screen images are replaced by a grey exclamation mark.

This is being logged in the console :

14/04/2015 22:48:04,002 Photos[1373]: Unsupported item: IMG_0694.JPG of type 0`
14/04/2015 22:48:04,029 Photos[1373]: Unknown version type: RDVersion(0x600003530860) modelId=23946 uuid=134LStKnROWcZ51vzo+yGg
tableName=RKVersion state=persisted,readonly,local, IMG_0694.JPG 0

Does someone as any idea how to fix this ?

If I explore the package of my Library the Masters folder contains all my files.


texts: Function key does not get passed on to Windows in Amazon WorkSpaces

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I am using MacBook Pro 2019 with Touch Bar and macOS Catalina 10.15.3. I have installed Amazon WorkSpaces 3.0.4 which I use to connect to Windows.

My Function keys are not getting passed on to my Windows.

How can I solve this issue?

Update 1:

Below are my keyboard settings.

Function keys that I have tried.

F11: Shows desktop on Mac
F5: In IE / Google Chrome does not refresh
the page. It actually does nothing.
F4: In Outlook email message does
not open the Find dialog. It actually does nothing.


texts: No Network Access on Macbook air either through Wi-Fi or tethered to a phone

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I cannot connect to the Internet on My Mid 2013 MBA, running 10.11.3 either through Wi-Fi connected to my router, or tethered to my iPhone via USB or Bluetooth . Rebooting the machine has not solved anything.

I cannot ping any  external IP, I can ping other devices on the network.

All other devices in the house (Various ipads, iphones, windows PC's, NAS Box, Raspberry Pi's etc) all connect fine through the same router. Resetting the router hasn't helped either.


texts: After deleting a partition, iMac will only boot to a grey screen -- how do I fix this?

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I was deleting a partition when my iMac froze and rebooted itself. Now I can't get any further during boot than a grey screen.

Things I have tried to fix this include:

Booting with CMD-R (boots to a grey screen)
Resetting the PRAM (boots to a grey screen)
Resetting SMC (boots to a grey screen)
Booted in target disk mode and repaired the disk. Disk repair was successful but a reboot booted to a grey screen
Attempted to boot from an install disk but all I get is the grey screen
Attempted to boot in Safe Mode. This gets about half way and then fails.
CMD-V on boot shows last posted messages as: SMCREADKEYACTION ERROR SMCREADDATA 8 FAILED

Do you think the hard drive is done even though Disk Utility said it was okay? Or is something else wrong with it?

This is a 2006 iMac 6.1.


texts: How can I send logs to the main screen of OSX Console?

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As an application developer, how can I send logs so that they appear on the main screen of Console, i.e. when I select the name of my computer under "Devices?"

So far, I have successfully sent logs to:

"Log Reports" under "Reports" by writing a log file within ~/Library/Logs/
"system.log" under "Reports" by sending logs with syslog using RFC 3164

I'm currently on MacOS Catalina 10.15.1 with Console 1.1 (4.0.15).


texts: Apple Watch Heart Rate Glance Shows Same Number Every Time, Or Series Of Random Numbers, Also On Replacement Watch

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Whenever I check my resting heart rate using the Watch's heart rate glance, it does one of two things:

1) I see one low number (which sometimes seems accurate, e.g., ~70).

A couple of seconds later, the heart rate shown on the screen jumps up to 107 or 121.  It does this every single time; it either shows the lower number first then jumps, or goes straight to 107, or 121, but it's always the same number-107 or 121.

OR

2) I get a series of wildly fluctuating numbers, which are way too high, e.g., 138, 159, 174, etc.  It's usually something random and usually high numbers.  Taking my heart rate manually shows the numbers to be way off.

I tried doing an unpair (erase) of the Watch several times.  An AppleCare technician attempted to run a diagnostic on the Watch multiple times, but was only able to run a diagnostic on the iPhone (6S Plus).  He could not reach the Watch, which only went to the diagnostics' "Waiting" screen one time out of about ten tries.

So Apple shipped out a new watch.  Here's the kicker:

I immediately set up the new watch, and after the setup was complete, the exact same thing is occurring.

This issue has also persisted across (the first Watch) being paired with two different iPhones (a 6 Plus and a 6S Plus, both new), so I think that minimizes a physical defect in the phone being an issue.  The Watch was of course unpaired and reset in-between phone changes, multiple times.

I am interested, among other things, about the security aspect of this particular problem.

Edit:

I did see the articles about tattoos. I don't have any tattoos or scars. I wear it tight (it was fitted at an Apple Store). Furthermore, I found a new angle on this: with both watches, if I hold the watch in the air (not against skin or anything else), they give these same multiple BPM readings that look simulated. I work in a security-related field and call me paranoid, but I think the Watch has been rooted. I've ruled out two new Watches, two new iPhones, multiple resets (and set up as new), and now myself (and the watch dangling in the air, apparently)


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I have joined my home WiFi network and I don't get Internet through it anymore. Phones and other computers have no issues, others who were here haven't  changed anything or noticed any difference.

I was away from home for a week using various public and hotel WiFi networks, if that means anything. I used a public WiFi network 30 minutes before and had no issues.

I've looked through previous questions like this which had a lot of responses, and I still haven't solved it:

Full Wi-fi/ethernet signal but no internet

How do I troubleshoot my Wi-Fi connection when an exclamation mark appears?

I can log in to the router admin settings. Everything seems fine.
I have tried changing the IPv4 address manually, making sure nothing is using the same IP etc.

I have tried using 8.8.8.8 as the DNS server address.
In Terminal ifconfig en1 gives:

Flags=963<UP BROADCAST SMART RUNNING PROMISC SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
Options =60 <tso4, tso6>
Ether 4a:00:03:a0:13:90
Media: auto select <full-duplex>
Status: inactive

(Apologies if the syntax is off, I'm copying this on to my phone)

It is a MacBook Pro retina 13inch 2.9ghz i5, OSX 10.11.4

Any ideas are much appreciated!


texts: I'm looking for an RSS reader that has push notifications but I can also filter the RSS feed, like there's an RSS feed I need to subscribe to but I only want to be notified about posts that contain a certain word in the title.


texts: Facebook Messenger notifications no longer showing up

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I'm not sure what caused it, but notifications for Facebook Messenger on my iPhone 8 are no longer showing up anywhere (no badges, app icons, or notifications of any kind). However, when I open the Messenger app, I guess it triggers something as at that point it at least updates the badge icon:

I've enabled all notification settings I can think of, yet still no notifications.
In the Messenger app:

And under Settings > Notifications > Messenger:

I'm on the latest version of iOS (14.3) and my Messenger app is up to date (294.0). This seems to be specific to the Messenger app as I receive notifications from other apps (e.g. Messages, Slack) just fine.


texts: Why does my mac not have free space even after I delete files?

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Today I want to install Catalina but it requires 17 GB of disk space, and I only have 8 GB. So I started to delete files but only found out that the disk space was unchanged or even shrinked more after deleting.

I just delete files either by moving the files to Trash and empty it, or rm -rf. The files are both on local and iCloud.

I deleted at least 40 GB files but the available disk size is still about 8 GB. Why is it happening and how can I gain the disk space?

I restarted a few times but it didn't work...

(This question is not about the external drive.)

I found that there are awkward files under ~/Library/CloudStorage/iCloud Drive, and how many times I delete them these files show up again under this directory.

All of them seem to just a few bytes files according to the Finder information, but deleting them takes a few minutes per one file.


texts: Show an image without any border using Preview or some other built-in macOS app

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Here is a simple image viewed in Preview.  I need to view only the image itself:  you will notice there is a gray border around it. Especially the border at the bottom should not be present. How can I view really just the image and nothing more?

Update the answer proferred by @jmh has the right idea - though not yet an actual working solution.  I rooted around all of the menu items and toolbards for transparency and/or background color but did not find them.


texts: Final Cut Express 3.5 project to Final Cut Express 4

texts: Can an FCE 3.5 project be opened in FCE 4? And, can you open an FCE 4 project in FCE 3.5?


texts: Mid-2007 MacBook (MacBook2,1) - Software Restore disks

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I picked up an old Mid-2007 MacBook a few months back, and I have been playing around with it. But, the one thing that I have not found are the original software restore disks, in iso or physical media. I been looking online, and in forums.
I currently have 1.5 GB of RAM on installed.
Any help finding the software restore disks would be appreciated.


texts: MBA wifi busted - can I just install a USB Wifi dongle?

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The Wifi on my 2012 MBA is busted, and a lab wants $400 to repair the logic board. Could I just buy a USB Wifi dongle, disable the builtin Wifi and set it up via the dongle?

If yes, any recommended brands that are known to work with OS X? This product seems to have good reviews and boasts OS X compatibility - can it work for me?


texts: Tile scenes side by side in Windows 7 as virtual machine

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I am using Windows 7 as virtual machine under Mac OS...

The keyboard shortcuts of Windows become difficult because of the Mac keyboard...

For instance, I am used to tiling scenes in Windows by Windows icon key + right arrow or Windows icon key + left arrow, which moves the scene to the right half of the window or the left half...

However, I can't find Windows icon key now on the Mac keyboard...

So, could anyone tell me what is the keyboard shortcut to move scenes in Windows 7 as virtual machine?


texts: Resetting Advertising ID on iPad does not work?

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I'm really really sick and tired of these websites showing me ads 'in my interest'. So I did some research and 99% of the answers from nearly 20 sources say to reset advertising ID and turn on limit ad tracking.

I do this and there is no change. I clear cookies, passwords, auto fill, cache, and browsing history. Every piece of browsing data has been terminated (including uninstalling/reinstalling browsers AND restarting iPad) (RIP saved passwords, your cause went to nothing)

No matter how many times I do this "simple and ONLY fix" available within 6 pages of web searching, it fails to un-personalize ads.
I tried getting the services that were tracking me to clear the data they have on me, but no avail.

Conclusion: I'm at a dead end with no leads.

I've been at this for hours.
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? And if I hear "click reset advertisement ID and check limit ad tracking" (without extra instructions) one more forsaken time, I will break.

I'm running IOS 10.3.3 ipad(mk9p2ll/a).
I don't plan on updating unless my current version is PRECISELY the issue here.

If I were to try and think why it's not working, I'd figure this much:

Maybe it's not my browser or ad id (I think this because the same exact trash is happening on my pc) (Maybe my IP is being used for ad tracking?)

Or maybe I'm just an idiot wasting everyone's time because he doesn't know anything else than "clear browser data" and "click reset ads" that google displays for a good 6 pages.


texts: Are the Retina MacBook Pro 15" suitable for PC (Windows) gaming?

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I want to buy a MacBook Pro Retina 15" and install Windows 7 or 8 (boot camp) to play games.

Obviously games aren't ready for this 2880x1800 resolution, so I hope I can set the games to run at 1440x900 and, since this is 1/4 of the native resolution, have a perfect view (perfect scaling) of the game. This is what I dream about... from this, come some questions:

Is it possible, or am I buying a headache? Should I consider the non-retina display to avoid these resolution problems?
Are there any other types of problems that I should consider? Something like "NVidia drivers for Windows in a MacBook generally has this xxx problem...".


texts: iOS 9 iMessage notifications show sender's number, not name

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After some annoying wifi problems with iOS 8.3, I tried out iOS 9 public beta 2 (now public beta 3) on my iPhone 5 (Edit: in the UK). When I receive a text message (iMessage/SMS), the lock screen/home screen notifications usually come up with the sender's phone number, not their name. This happens for most senders, even though their names and numbers are in my contacts.  When I open the Messages app, all messages are correctly categorised according to the contact's name, so my problem is only with the notifications. For some reason, notifications work correctly for one contact, but no others.

Questions:

Is this a known bug?
How can I work around it?


texts:
I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro. I have dropped it a couple times in a case but not far (maybe 2 to 3 foot drop onto carpet). The screen has become wobbly like it is loose or something. I don't want to bring it to apple because I don't want to make the trip.

my question is why might it by wobbly and how can I fix it(I don't have the money to buy a new one)?
thanks in advance!


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I have recently added a Qnap (Linux) NAS to my Mac OS environment, as the main file server.
I realized many of the Mac OS files have / characters, that do not behave well in Linux, as they disappear when seen from Macs (they actually are being renamed in Linux and becoming invisible from the Macs... dunno why).
Example: a file named image/b.jpg should be renamed as image_b.jpg to avoid problems on the Qnap Linux NAS.
Anyway, I'd like to build a script from Mac OS Terminal to access the Linux NAS and perform a "search and change" of the / character to something else like: _.
I have begun by writing this:
ssh admin@192.168.2.2
for f in $(find /share/Public/ -name "*:*"); do mv $f ${f/:/_}; done

I can log on the remote NAS, but seems not to work... I am not a tech guy, and tried to collect some code samples from the internet.
What are options to automate or script file renames for a NAS share?


texts: Repeated drive failure/file corruption when switching OSs using bootcamp

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I am running BootCamp on a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and Windows 10. I have two hard drives in my MBP. The system drive is an SSD, which is partitioned for each of the OSs. My "data" drive is formatted as ExFat so I can easily read/write to the same drive regardless of which operating system I am using. In theory, this works. But multiple times, I have had the hard drive fail when I restart the laptop into Windows mode. The data drive becomes unreadable and Windows says it needs to format it before it can use it. I think it gets corrupted somehow.

Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do to prevent it in the future?

Additional details if they are relevant: one of my programs on my MBP is not quite fully compatible with OS X yet and the only way for me to shut down or restart my MBP is through the terminal (I am updating that so hopefully this variable will be eliminated shortly).

Thanks for any suggestions.


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I have my Macbook Pro 13" (2017) connected to two external 27" monitors.

I'm going to be getting a new iPad Pro today and intend to use it with the new sidecar functionality. My goal is to get rid of my 27" monitors and roll with the Macbook screen + sidecar. But first, I want to make sure everything is working okay with my daily workflow.

So, what I am hoping to do is mirror my Mac's screen to one of the 27" monitors, and the extended sidecar screen to the other 27" monitor.

I found these instructions, but they reference using the Alt key to accomplish mirroring some displays but not others. The 2017 MacBook has no Alt key. Are these instructions out of date, or am I just missing something obvious?


texts: Why do I see this installation screen upon logging in?

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I logged into my Mac and the progress bar went about half way when the screen blacked out, another loading progress bar showed up, after which this showed up (see image).
What's going on?


texts: Why do apps in El Capitan open a new window when opening a file?

texts: Is this an El Capitan bug? I've noticed in more than one app, when I go to File --> Open, the app opens the file in a new window instead of in the existing window. For example, in TextEdit, if you open a new document, and then from that blank document open a saved document, TextEdit opens the saved document in a new window and leaves the original document open as a blank document. This happens in other apps too. I never saw this happen prior to El Capitan so I'm wondering if it's a bug or intentional for some unknown reason.


texts: Keeping Finder in sync with changes made in Terminal?

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Until Yosemite, I could work in the Terminal and file system changes would be immediately updated in Finder. Now, however, Finder seems to be out of sync with the filesystem. Finder shows files I have moved or deleted as still being in the original folder.

I am at a loss to restore Finder's old behaviour. Things I have tried, to no avail:

rm .DS_Store; open .
Seeing that my whole Documents folder had become infected with the com.apple.quarantine attribute, removing it with xattr -drv com.apple.quarantine .
Checking the filesystem with Disk Utility; no errors reported.

It's not the problem described in Moving folder to Trash in Finder is not synchronized with Terminal, as any files I delete, I delete with rm.

Update: what does work is Force Quit... → Restart Finder, which is a bit drastic.


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I have a movie I copied from my DVD into iTunes on my mac server. I can open TV app on my iPhone and it plays fine. When I try to play it on Apple TV using the Computers/server/Movies, it says there is a digital rights issue.
How do I instruct Apple TV to accept the movie?


texts: Two variables contain the same AppleScript object, yet they are not equal, why?

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I don't understand:

tell application "Mail"
set A to first mailbox of first account
set B to every mailbox of first account
set C to first item of B

log C is A -- returns true, as expected

repeat with D in B
    log D is A -- returns false, WHY?!
    exit repeat
end repeat

end tell

I cannot make sense of these results, especially since I'm getting:

log D -- returns "mailbox INBOX of account id E7992E19-9A74-418D-BEBB-5F46C8A3E776"
log A -- returns "mailbox INBOX of account id E7992E19-9A74-418D-BEBB-5F46C8A3E776"
log class of A -- returns "container"
log class of D -- returns "container"

What makes A not equal to D?


texts: Hide all files with a specific extension from Finder

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I have an application that creates MANY .log, .upload, and .json files each day, so that when I go to my "Today" smart folder, it's all clogged up with those. I'd like to hide all three of those file extensions from finder, but I'm not sure the best way to do so given that I'd need the solution to work on new files with those extensions as well as existing ones.

Alternately, I could hide all existing and new files in a particular folder since that folder houses all of those, but I want them also to be invisible to my smart folders.

Thanks for any help you can provide. I'm confortable USING scripts and automator and such, but I don't know the commands myself, so the more specific you can be in your answers, the better.

Thanks!


texts: The only option in my Shared Photo Stream appears to be "Edit", which lets me add/delete photos. Can I rename the title perhaps online somewhere?


texts: Does Mac OS Notes struggle with pasted HTML?

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I'm trying to keep a record of notes comparing different products and details I'm researching on a category of products I'm shopping for. I'm finding bizarre behavior where text I previously entered has since disappeared, and images I pasted disappear too on subsequent edits.
My rough intuition is that notes can't deal with tables and cell data copied from the web. Something gets thrown internally and text begins to disappear and adopt formatting that came from the web but somehow hides the text. Sometimes I can select areas and see the text appear in the highlighted selection rendering, but when I remove the selection the text disappears. Sometimes the entire line of text collapses when I hit backspace or delete, seemingly drawing the text into some hidden html cell or something.
Has anyone else experienced this? Once the note document gets one of these bad html bits in the document it seems to pollute the rest of the document in ways I can't fully ascertain.


texts: Is it possible to export Android OS data to iOS?

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Is there any way to export Android Data to an iPhone?

I got an old Android Phone, i want  to throw it away but i got very important data in it. Is there anyway to send that data directly into my iPhone 6s? Because i don't want to loose that data and i also don't want to have that android phone. Which software can help me in transferring data from Android to iOS?

I have got several things as my important data:

  Pictures, Videos and Contacts


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I found this presumably hidden feature by accident; my keyboard fell so I picked it up.  When I did, my background looked like it was in space, the Finder window was open and in the middle of the background there was the sun. On the side a new menu bar showed up; one option said "Today" and the other option, I think, said "Tomorrow." It just looked like my background was traveling through space, it was cool; kind of like when you reboot your computer and it gives you that Apple outerspace show.

My question is: how do i open that feature or application and what is it for?


texts: What is `intu-ec-client` listening on TCP port 8021?

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I'm wondering how I can either kill it or change the port it listens on.
Neither lsof -nP -i4TCP:8021 | grep LISTEN nor netstat -av | grep 8021 or launchctl list | awk 'NR>1 {print $3}' | xargs -I % sh -c 'launchctl list "%"' > launchctl.log give me the process ID so I can kill it or get more info.


texts: How do I adjust the settings on my MacBook so it doesn't automatically open things when I turn it on?

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If I Shut Down my MacBook, when I turn it on it automatically opens Stickies, Keychain, Activity Monitor and SketchBook.

None of these have 'Open at Login' ticked.

How do I change the settings so none of these open automatically?


texts: iPhone XS: s/mime signature doesn't contain the issuer (intermediate) certificate in signed emails

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I'am using a valid s/mime certificate to sign my emails on my Mac Book Pro and my iPhone XS. When I sign the email from within the mail program on Mac Book Pro, the signature contains the certificate of the issuer (intermediate) of my certificate too. When I sign the email on the iPhone, the issuer of the certificate is not added to the signature. For that reason the email is displayed on the iPhone as not valid. The same problem in MS Outlook. The signed emails from Mac Book Pro are displayed correctly as valid. Why doesn't add the iPhone the issuer certificate to the signature?

iOS: 13.4

Signed email on MBP (intermediate certificate is included):

Signed email on iPhone (intermediate certificate isn't included):


texts: i have not an apple id and password.i have iphone 5S.how unlock it without id or password

texts: I have not an apple id and password.i have iPhone5s.how unlock it.


texts:
One thing I really hate about Final Cut Pro X is the inability to add basic text, like you could on all previous versions of Final Cut Pro.  It seems all text has to be entered as "titles" - and although you can edit these titles to look like basic text, it really isn't the same thing.

Is there any way to get basic text in Final Cut Pro X?


texts: Can I install OS X 10.10 on a MBP Mid-2015 I buy today?

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I am planning on buying a MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2015 (not a used one, but a new one directly from Apple). For reasons of running legacy software I would like to install Mac OS X 10.10 on it. When it came out, this MBP was delivered with Mac OS X 10.10.3.

Now, I also know that you can't usually downgrade a system that you newly buy (say downgrade a Late-2016 MBP to OS X 10.10), as it was never available with such an old OS X in the first place.

However, since the Mid-2015 MBP was in fact available with OS X 10.10, I am now wondering: Could I downgrade to OS X 10.10 when I newly buy such a machine today?


texts: Can macOS High Sierra write to NTFS external drives?

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I have updated my MacBook Pro to macOS High Sierra 10.13. I previously used Paragon NTFS but now it's not working so I uninstalled it. However I noticed I can still read and write to my external hard drive without any other app.

Does this mean macOS High Sierra natively supports writing to NTFS external drives?


texts: How can i disable menu blinking after selecting a menu item in macOS

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I want to disable the slow menu blinking which occurs after I've selected a menu entry from any menu in macOS. It always takes about half a second or more and is just a waste of time since I know what I am doing.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_blinking for more information.


texts: Request for experience: when has having only 16GB on your iPhone inconvenienced you?

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Today I regretted having only 2 GB on my Shuffle, because it meant I could not store the three most recent episodes of my favorite podcasts; but so far I have never used the full 16 GB on my 2nd Generation iPod Touch.

Now I am looking at replacing the iPod Touch and a very early Android cellphone with an iPhone 4S.  The contract will be $1680 over two years, so the $200 cost difference between the 16GB and 64GB model verges on negligible; but I care; I could get the small size and donate $200 to pancreatic cancer research.

What are people doing with the second 16 or 48GB of storage on their iPhones?  Movies?  Whole music collections?  DOS emulators?

Presumably people who have 16GB iPhones made that capacity choice based on what they thought their needs would be.  For those who subsequently discovered that 16GB was not always enough, what were the circumstances?

First-hand answers are more useful than second-hand, though if you have a friend, colleague, or family member who frequently berates him or herself for being stingy with memory, the details would be useful too.


texts: How to restore wrongly edited + wrongly saved TextEdit file?

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Have an important text file, but I accidentally edited its content and accidentally closed it (auto saving it).

Now I have a text file containing gibberish.

How do I restore the previous version?

I tried looking into

Saved Application State

com.apple.TextEdit.savedState

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.TextEdit.savedState

but is there a way?


texts: Connecting an iPod Touch 4th generation to a projector?

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Is it possible to view all applications using a projector with an iPod Touch 4th gen?

This Apple support page indicates it is possible, but when I connect the projector to my iPod it did not receive any signal.


texts: iOS 13 message contacts with multiple phone numbers on separate threads

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My brother in law has apparently been sort of doing a hack with iOS contacts for years with his business. He tutors high school kids, so he would create one contact called, "John and Billy Smith", and then save both the father and son's iPhone numbers in that one contact. When he wanted to message the son alone, he would start a message thread from the phone number, and the similarly with the father, and then a thread with both of the numbers if need be. It seems now that he updated to iOS 13 it treats all messages to the contact as one thread, regardless of the number that you wish to choose.

I explained that while this hack was easier for him for the last bunch of years, it's not how contacts was meant to be used, so he may need to go in and separate all of the contacts that he did this way.

Is there a way to message a contact on one number and then message the same contact on a different number, but keep the threads separate?


texts: When does OS X move /usr/local during a system update (slow start with homebrew)?

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I have had a recurrent problem with the login screen getting stuck at 50% for a long time. One possible cause is that after an update, OS X is attempting to move /usr/local out of the way and then put it back. As I have many files installed there with homebrew, the update can take many hours.  This is certainly true for OS X upgrades as reported here.

However, I've also seen this problem for what seem like minor system updates (e.g. Printer software upgrades). Does anybody know if OS X always try to move usr/local out of the way, even for minor updates?


texts:
Are the iPhone 4 charger and iPod 4 charger different? I can charge my iPhone with both, but my iPhone charger will not charge my iPod. (I'm thinking it might be the length of the 30-pin connector, because the iPod touch is curved)
I know the outlet and wall adapter work.


texts: How to import Live Photos from Finder to Photos.app?

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I only use Photos.app as a browser of all my images.

I unselected the copy items to the Photos library so my files can live in my hard drive and I don't duplicate them inside the Photos Library.photoslibrary archive.

I use Image Capture to import the iPhone pictures to a folder and after I used to imported to Photos.app and everything was great.

But now with Live photos I get two files for each picture, the picture and the little movie that makes the Live part possible. The problem is that if I try to import them to Photos.app, it doesn't recognise them.

Is there any way to import the picture with the Live functionality to the app without duplicating the content?


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For me, Mountain Lion always seems to sleep whenever there is no user action, even when the computer is still doing something. In my case it always sleeps in the middle of running a batch operation in Lightroom 4.1, and it has slept while Time Machine is still cleaning up.

According to Siracusa's ML review, apps need to be written to make "power assertions" if they want to stop the computer from sleeping. Otherwise, sleep it will. This seems like a way too aggressive strategy, especially to implement by default in a new OS? There must be many, many apps that have not been written to make these power assertions (including it seems parts of Apple's own Time Machine backup process).

Is there a hidden preference somewhere to revert to the old method of sleep at least until we get better app support for this? I'm not looking for a solution to supress sleep entirely (I know I can just tell the computer to never sleep), but rather to stop sleeping while it's still doing something.

Additional info:

My Mac does not support Power Nap (mid 2009 13" MBP)
My power settings in system preferences are set to the default, as follows:

pmset -g:

Active Profiles:
Battery Power       -1*
AC Power        -1
Currently in use:
 hibernatemode        0
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1
 halfdim              1
 sleep                10
 ttyskeepawake        1
 sms                  1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 disksleep            10
 displaysleep         2

pmset -g cap:

Capabilities for Battery Power:
 displaysleep
 disksleep
 sleep
 acwake
 lidwake
 lessbright
 halfdim
 sms
 ttyskeepawake
 hibernatemode
 hibernatefile

System log before and after a particular problematic sleep state (subsequent wake was not due to user input but rather a "DarkWake"):

    2012-07-27 00:32:07.343 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.iCloudHelper[3859]) Exited: Killed: 9
    2012-07-27 00:32:07.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 3859 [com.apple.iCloud]
    2012-07-27 00:32:12.416 com.apple.time[13]: Next maintenance wake [Backup Interval]: <date: 0x7fea7b6235f0> Fri Jul 27 00:45:48 2012 CEST (approx)
    2012-07-27 00:32:12.416 com.apple.time[13]: Requesting maintenance wake [Backup Interval]: <date: 0x7fea7b6235f0> Fri Jul 27 00:45:48 2012 CEST (approx)
    2012-07-27 00:32:13.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Sleep
    2012-07-27 00:32:14.000 kernel[0]: 00000000  00000020  NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - not Active
    2012-07-27 02:20:14.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
    2012-07-27 02:20:14.000 kernel[0]: RTC: Maintenance 2012/7/27 00:20:13, sleep 2012/7/26 22:32:15
    2012-07-27 02:20:14.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake


texts: How to transfer Preview signatures on Mojave?

texts:
Following the out-of-date Can I export my signature from Preview on one Mac and import it on another? -
On Mojave no signature data appears in the folder ~/Library/Containers/com/apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences

Where are the signatures saved now and how exactly can they be transferred to a new Mac such that they are usable in Preview? (including any required decryption keys/settings)


texts: Can't uncheck "disable extensions" in Safari Develop menu

texts: After upgrading to macOS 10.13.4 my extensions in Safari were disabled. Safari Preferences Extensions tab says "Extensions can be enabled in the Develop Menu". However when I try to uncheck "disable extensions" in the Developer menu nothing happens and it stays checked.


texts: MacOS Mojave 10.14.1 Captive Wi-Fi Problem

texts:
This is the same/similar to this one, but I'm running the final version of 10.14.1. I can make the problem go away if I remove the following files from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/:

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist

After a reboot, the captive login window works, but at some point, it stops working again and looks like:

I haven't tested much - I don't have regular access to many captive Wi-Fi networks.

I can work around the problem by dismissing the error, closing the window and using Safari to go to https://captive.apple.com, but I would like to solve the problem rather than work around it if possible.

Has anyone figured this out or can anyone point me in the right direction?


texts: Launch Daemon for NodeJS App Won't start on reboot

texts:
I've created the below launch daemon to run a nodejs program on startup (tiddlywiki in this case):
<?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>Debug</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/tiddlywiki.stdout</string>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/tiddlywiki.stderr</string>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.activescott.tiddlywiki</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <true/>
        <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
        <dict>
            <key>Wait</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>
        <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
        <dict>
            <key>PATH</key>
            <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:</string>
        </dict>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/Volumes/minidata/Dropbox/tiddlywiki/node_modules/.bin/tiddlywiki</string>
            <string>/Volumes/minidata/Dropbox/tiddlywiki/wiki</string>
            <string>--listen</string>
            <string>credentials=creds.csv</string>
            <string>writers=scott</string>
            <string>readers=scott</string>
            <string>port=443</string>
            <string>host=0.0.0.0</string>
            <string>tls-key=key.pem</string>
            <string>tls-cert=server.crt</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</plist>

The file is named com.activescott.tiddlywiki.plist and it is in the /Library/LaunchDaemons/ folder.
If I load it with the command:
sudo launchctl load -Fw /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.activescott.tiddlywiki.plist

I start it with the below command it and wills tart and work fine - it just doesn't restart automatically when the comp reboots:
sudo launchctl start com.activescott.tiddlywiki

Note, it does take about ~20s to fully start (e.g. respond on a port and write to stdout).
I'm on Mac OS X, 10.13.6 w/ BuildVersion 17G13035
Update:
After a reboot I noticed that the output of sudo launchctl list com.activescott.tiddlywiki shows LastExitStatus as 19968. This value will show 0 if I start it with launchctl. Below is the full output:
{
        "StandardOutPath" = "/tmp/tiddlywiki.stdout";
        "LimitLoadToSessionType" = "System";
        "StandardErrorPath" = "/tmp/tiddlywiki.stderr";
        "Label" = "com.activescott.tiddlywiki";
        "TimeOut" = 30;
        "OnDemand" = true;
        "LastExitStatus" = 19968;
        "Program" = "/Volumes/minidata/Dropbox/tiddlywiki/node_modules/.bin/tiddlywiki";
        "ProgramArguments" = (
                "/Volumes/minidata/Dropbox/tiddlywiki/node_modules/.bin/tiddlywiki";
                "/Volumes/minidata/Dropbox/tiddlywiki/wiki";
                "--listen";
                "credentials=creds.csv";
                "writers=scott";
                "readers=scott";
                "port=443";
                "host=0.0.0.0";
                "tls-key=key.pem";
                "tls-cert=server.crt";
        );
};


texts: How to sync bookmarks across i-devices and the web?

texts:
I've never liked Evernote so much. Now (Mountain Lion) that Notes and ToDo lists are synched among devices via iCloud, I can finally leave it and just find a good application to manage my bookmarks.

I have tons of them, mostly in Delicious. I've tried a couple of desktop clients, like Delish and Delibar, but they don't really work well for me. Delibar, while cool-looking, is nothing about managing bookmarks, just consuming them. Delish is better, but why can't I select multiple bookmarks, drag them onto a tag to add them to it, just open the bookmark without having to right click on it...

How do you manage your bookmarks so that you can arrange and fully-organize them on the desktop while still being able to access them on the web and from your i-devices? Thanks


texts: How do I view ALL my photos in Google Photos on mac?

texts:
On my iPhone I can see all my photos in Google photos app, however when I open google photos in webpage on my mac only a random selection are there.  I have installed backup and sync.
Big picture is that I would like to wean off iCloud photos to save on storage space, but don't want to do that until I'm sure Google photos is working properly, and it doesn't seem to be yet.


texts: Why do iPhone photos have Microsoft in Exif data?

texts:
Wandering around Spain, I took a lot of pictures with an iPhone 5s, latest IOS.

Uploaded into the new Photos (which is IMHO a step backward from iPhoto).

Dragged from Photos into a directory, and viewed tags with exiftool.  Puzzled by this one in every image:

Primary Platform                : Microsoft Corporation

What does it mean/why is it in images that came from an iPhone and (AFAIK) has not been created by, stored on, or passed through any software or hardware from Microsoft?

Again, I took all these photos with an iPhone 5s and all changes (if any) were made by Apple's new but not improved Photos app.


texts: sudo asking for password even though user doesn't have a password set

texts:
I have a computer that doesn't not require a password. I'd like this to continue into sudo, but unfortunately it doesn't recognise a user not having a password.

According to Apple the sudo command requires a non-blank password: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202035

Is there some way I can easily override this so I can have a blank password with sudo? It's only ever a hindrance and security on this machine is not an issue. Thanks.


texts: Constrain Columns of Files in Finder to only 3?

texts:
I like how in Finder, they only have 3 columns of files before the files wrap to a new row. However, when I lend out my USB to some friends, they don't have "Snap to Grid" enabled, which causes them to "add" in the 4th column, which messes up the view of the USB. Every time this happens, I have to manually drag everything back. This is quite time consuming and fine if I only have to do this once. However, I lend out my USB multiple times every week. It's quite a headache.

Is there a way to force Finder to constrain the columns of files to only 3 columns?


texts:
My Macbook Pro (Mid-2015, Mojave) restarts after I type my password to log in.
The progress bar fills to about three-quarters before this happens.

I have tried:

Resetting PRAM
Resetting SMC
Running Diagnostics (holding 'd' on startup) [only says battery not at peak capacity]
Running fsck in single-user mode (cmd-s on startup) [all ok]
Booting into recovery mode (cmd-r on startup) - causes macbook to go into infinite boot loop. Mac logo appears, then immediately reboots.
Booting into safe mode - login bar fills all the way, then macbook restarts.

Does anyone have any further ideas of what I could try? Thanks!!


texts: Is it possible to remove an account from Mail, Contacts or Calendars of the iOS Settings app whilst keeping data synced within other categories?

texts: When navigating to the Settings app on an iOS device, there are three categories of setting that allow for an account to be added - either Mail, Contacts or Calendars (adding an account can be achieved by opening the respective category, tapping "Accounts" and then on "Add Account"). What isn't immediately obvious, however, is whether it's possible to remove an account from one of the above categories, whilst keeping the data synced from another - for example, I may wish to remove an Exchange ActiveSync mailbox from the native Mail app, but keep my contacts syncing from that same account within the iOS Contacts app. So - my question. Is it possible to either add or remove an account from the Mail, Contacts or Calendars section of the iOS Settings app - whilst keeping data from that same account synced within the other categories that it hasn't been deleted from?


texts: Transferring info from a new MacBook to an older one?

texts: I need to move all my data from a newer Macbook OS X 10.9.5 to and older one, OS X 10.6.8. I have tried using a thunderbolt cable and tried wirelessly through migration assistant but the computers cannot find one another?  Any thoughts?


texts: LG Ultrawide 21:9, MBP 2017 no HiDIPI 2560x1080

texts:
I have a LG Ultrawide 34WN650 and a 2017 MacbookPro(Big Sur) with both Radeon Pro 560 4 GB
and Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB. I have purchased a USB-C to Displayport  cable, a USB-C to HDMI cable, QuickRes and SwitchResX.
Do you know how to get HiDIPI 2560x1080 resolution? QuickRes has a HiDIPI 1280 X 540 that does nothing when I click it. 1280 X 540 looks excellent but it is 16:9 not 21:9. I can't use custom resoultions in SwitchResX because they are "Not installed" after save and restart. The video and pictures are excellent in normal 2560x1080, but the fonts are extremely bad.
I have tried:

https://medium.com/@nvucuong/macos-blurry-texts-on-an-external-full-hd-monitor-d2a955c25607

https://www.chanhvuong.com/4403/fix-blurry-text-on-mac-using-external-non-apple-monitor/

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool true)


texts: Songs no longer download to my iTunes. I click on the cloud with the down arrow and nothing happens. Why won't the songs download?


texts: Open Outlook new message window from terminal

texts:
I would like to open a new message Outlook window from terminal and ideally prefill the message body too.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Txn!


texts: Apple TVs keep losing audio output settings

texts:
I've recently noticed on a few 4k Apple TVs (all on auto update so they are running the latest TVOS) that the sound output options "keep breaking".

What happens is that the Apple TVs stop outputting sound, and you have to go to the menu and reset the audio output settings. Ive seen this happen on Apple TVs that are set the "best audio mode", "5.1" and "2ch".

All the TVs and Apple TVs are set to have CEC off.

Has anyone else seen this happening ?

Any idea how to resolve it ?


texts: How can I generate iOS/Flurry style icons in OS X?

texts:
As some of you might know, the iOS treatment of app icons is ruthlessly strict. It forces a certain roundness of the corners and allows no transparency, hence enforcing a unified look. I think that's nice.

I recently fell in love with Iconfactory's Flurry icon set and making new icons in that style made me think; what's the easiest way of applying a mask and an overlay on a custom image, and generate all sizes needed for a complete OS X icon file (icns)?

As mentioned below I'm not looking for technical explainations of how iOS generates its icons, nor a system wide solution for generating icons on the fly. Just what's mentioned in bold above. I'm also aware of the IconBuilder approach and although it's a great tool, it's not what I'm asking for. I'd prefer a drag-and-drop interface of some sort.


texts: I purchased & downloaded Mountain Lion, and then...nothing happened

texts:
I purchased Mountain Lion through the App Store on my 10.7.5 MacBook Pro.

The download completed and I clicked through the prompts to choose an install location and agree to the terms.

I'm sorry to say I'm not sure what happened next as I shifted my attention to another computer.

I assumed the install process was running.

However, when I looked back at my MBP, I was back on the desktop with no sign of activity.

(It's conceivable that I clicked "cancel" by mistake -- I'm kind of tired/distracted/trying to juggle several things at once today.)

I went back to the App Store, looked under "purchases," and found Mountain Lion labelled as "downloaded" (as I would expect).

How can I restart the installation?

Can I go to the downloaded file and click on it? Where would I find it?


texts: How user's name can be displayed before disk is decrypted, when FileVault is turned on?

texts:
As far as I understood, FileVault provides full disk encryption functionality. What gets me puzzled though, is that once computer (with disk encrypted using FileVault) is turned on - username is displayed, before disk is decrypted. Thus, it has to be stored somewhere (and wherever it is stored - this storage is not encrypted). So I am wondering:

Where exactly the username is stored?
What else is stored there (and thus left unencrypted)?
It seems to me that (no matter what the answers to two previous questions are) FileVault encryption can not be called "full disk". To illustrate the point: if Android device is encrypted and then restarted - the process of loading OS won't start, until password is provided (which feels 'fuller' to me). Am I missing anything?


texts: Correct wrong email address used to set up iCloud account

texts: When I initially set up my Apple iCloud account, I entered my email address incorrectly and as a result have been unable to verify.  How can I go back into my initial set up and correct the email address I gave it?


texts: Portable External USB drive can be mounted on Windows but not on macOS on the same MacBook Pro

texts:
One of my USB drives used to mount fine on my macOS, up until last night when I tried to upgrade from High Sierra to Mojave. During the upgrading, I realized that my drive was still connected, so I unplugged it.

Then after the OS was fully upgraded, Finder no longer mounts the drive automatically when it's plugged in, and in the Disk Utility, though I can see it in the list, it was grayed out. I can't mount it or eject it, either.

In Terminal, diskutil list can see it, but mounting with mount got a time out, so did eject.

It works fine on Windows OS through BootCamp. I even did a disk scan using Windows utility, trying to fix whatever that may have failed macOS, but nothing improved from that. All my other USB drives work fine on both OSes. So it must be something between the specific drive and macOS.


texts: Deleted usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib -- computer won't start

texts:
Long version:

I mistakenly deleted usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib and now the computer will no longer start (it just stays in startup mode indefinitely). Would the solution be to reinstall the operating system? The computer came with Snow Leopard and have since upgraded to Mountain Lion. If I reinstall the Snow Leopard version (given that's the one I have a disk for) am I in danger of losing anything on the hard drive?

Short version:

I actually have the correct version of libxml2.2.dylib saved on the Desktop, so if I could get into the computer I may be able to fix the problem.


texts: Is there a way to use different network connections for different apps

texts: At work we have a firewall that prevents certain outbound connections. But I also have a Clear wireless personal hotspot.  I would like to use the work connection for normal requests but for certain requests such as my Mysql app, I would like to use my personal wireless.  Is there a way to do that without having to switch back and forth.  So all mysql connections just know to use one network interface while other requests use the default.


texts: Where are widget screen positions (coordinates) stored?

texts:
I keep a widget open on my desktop on my secondary monitor. Went away on vacation. No external monitor. The widget was "trapped" offscreen and active.

I tried looking in the preferences file for that widget but only the preferences for the widget were stored, not any meta-preferences ABOUT the widget, in this case its X and Y coordinates on the screen. I was hoping the pref file would have that information and I could just reset to 0,0.

It seems like it must be stored somewhere as it keeps its position every time I boot. I just don't know where it is or where to look.

Does anyone know where this information may be stored?


texts:
I'm trying to use dictation in order to dictate into a text editor a recording that I listen in a headset - played by VLC.

There's a big problem with the fact that, when dictation is running, the f8 play/pause hotkey is not functioning (in a Macbook Air).

Is there a solution to this?


texts: I'm cleaning up my MBP and found two Library folders, one of 3.37 Gb and the other 9.75 Gb. Why are there two of them, and more importantly, how can I reduce their sizes?


texts: iPhone 7 Plus takes days to turn on showing Apple logo or black screen

texts:
I’ve had this issue for months but in the last couple of days it’s got very very bad.

When my phone runs out of battery it needs like 2–3 days to turn back on. At the beginning of this problem the phone would need about 1h. Every time when my phone goes off again the time to switching on goes up.

What does this all look like? Well, when my phone died I put it on the charger, then the logo appears and goes off. When it goes off, a black screen pops out with a little white line on in it, then it turns on back to Apple logo. It keeps doing this until it turns on which is 1 or 2 even now 3 days.

I tried to restore it and also update it but nothing happens, literally nothing happened.


texts: I just created an icloud account and i am backing it up and it says it will take 3 hours.  I have no pictures on my phone so i think its just backing up contacts, reminders, etc.  Does anyone know why it would take this long?  Is there something that i could be configured incorrectly?  Any advice would be great.


texts: Is there a cheap and easy means to evaluate iPhone chargers and cables?

texts:
Is there an app for iPhone and iPad that will indicate charge voltage and current?  Is this information available to the user already by some means I am not aware of?  And without jailbreaking or some other hack?
The problem is that there's a number of third party Lightning cables and USB chargers that may not do exactly what they claim on the box and it would be great to be able to verify the claims.  Or there's the possibility that the box is long gone and there's a need to identify the capability of a cable or charger quickly.  It would be nice to get some idea on what a cable or charger can do without setting up some lengthy and involved timing of how long it takes to do a recharge.  It would also be nice to get some voltage and current data without some inline USB ammeter and voltmeter, as such meters can be easily misplaced when they are needed while an iPhone is always in my reach.
I found I can get some limited information about cables and chargers with my MacBook.  I can connect a cable between my iPhone and MacBook and see what System Information reports as voltage and current being supplied to the iPhone.  Because every USB port on an Apple computer is limited to 5 volts at 3 amps there's only three outcomes it tests.  Plug in cable and System Information shows data and power connection, this means cable has power and data connection.  Plug in cable, System Information shows nothing as if the cable is not connected, but iPhone is charging, means the cable has a power connection but no data connection.  Plug in cable, System Information shows nothing, and iPhone is not charging, means the cable is just broken.  I guess there is a fourth option.  Plug in cable and it starts a fire, then everybody dies, and people are sad.
I can do something similar with USB power bricks.  I can use a known good USB-C cable and plug USB power bricks into my MacBook and see what System Information reports about it.  Like with the cable test this gives little more than a pass/fail.  A MacBook doesn't "speak" USB-BC and so any such USB power brick will just show as providing 5 watts even if it is capable of more.  With USB-PD power supplies it will show the power supplied but not the voltage.  In many cases the power supplied indicates the voltage supplied.  12 watts or less means 5 volts.  More than 45 watts means 20 volts.  Other than that there can be some ambiguity on what the power supply is doing.
Searching the internet for an iPhone app that does what I'm looking for has proven difficult, perhaps as I don't know the right search terms.  That is assuming an app that provides the functions I'm looking for exists.
An app for macOS, or some other OS for a laptop with USB-C, might be helpful.  Such an app will not be much help in identifying USB-BC power supplies and cables but if there is something that can show what a USB-PD power supply is saying can be helpful.  The goal is to identify cables and power supplies in order to see how they will act with iPhones and other Apple devices with Lightning ports.  Something that can tell me what a USB-PD power supply can do is at least halfway to my goal.


texts: How can I compensate for red blue font discoloration in 2018 MBP Displayport?

texts:
I recently moved from a 2017 macbook pro to a 2018 macbook pro with a configuration like this:

# Works perfectly
MBP 2017 -> USB C -> Displayport -> Dell Ultrasharp U2415

# Red / blue font discoloration
MBP 2018 -> USB C -> Displayport -> Dell Ultrasharp U2415

On the 2017 MBP the colors work perfectly, but on the 2018 MBP, my letters arbitrarily turn red or blue. See picture below taken with an iPhone. What's going on?

Display calibration (basic and advanced) makes no difference
Monitor calibration makes no difference
When dragging a window, the red/blue/black changes in the characters

Here's a video of the effect on this question if the example below is to blurry.

Actual (taken with an iphone cam, ignore the grid, but notice the red and blue in the letters) :

Expected (yes a screenshot, but the text should be just plain black):


texts: How best to share a Mac-connected printer with Windows 7 PCs on a workgroup network?

texts:
I've currently got an old but decent non-network-capable laser printer connected to one of my Windows 7 PC's, and shared over the network (a plain Windows workgroup.)

Other PCs in the house, my Mac mini, and my MacBook Air can access the printer, which has both Mac and PC drivers available (it's an HP LaserJet), and the printing setup is working perfectly right now.  I know, I know, ain't broke? don't fix!

However, I need to keep that Windows 7 PC on in order to use the printer, and that PC is an energy-vampire.  My Mac mini is much better with respect to power consumption, and I'm therefore considering promoting it to always-on instead of the Windows box.

I've seen questions about accessing PC-shared printers from a Mac, but not going the other way.  My questions are:

If I wanted to connect a printer to my Mac mini instead, what do I need to do in order to share this printer on the network so both my other Mac and my Windows PCs can continue to print?  Is a good reference for this procedure available online?
Can OS X share a printer on a network using the exact same protocol that Windows uses to share a printer, or is it necessarily different?  If there are protocol choices, how to choose?
If the sharing protocol is necessarily different, are Windows clients still able to mount Mac-shared printers?  Are there specific gotchas or caveats, say, about credentials or otherwise?  Job management?

Thank you.


texts: Where is a good place to share automator files

texts: I've had a request to share an Automator workflow I made. Where is a good place to do that? Something like pastebin but for workflow files.


texts: Customizing a Chart in Apple Numbers by Combining Columns

texts:
I have a chart where I am tracking reading progress through the Bible. I have the books in a table with the following data as columns:

Book name
Book length (in time, as measured by an audiobook)
A checkbox column to indicate whether the book has been read

I'd like for the color of each column to indicate whether that book has been read or not. Right now, when I add all the columns to a chart, I get the following results:

The X axis, which should be the book names, just shows "Untitled 1", "Untitled 2", etc., unless I manually edit the labels.
The checkbox ("Read") column seems to show up as a data point. I say "seems", because I can't actually see it in the chart's body, but it shows up in the legend. I'm guessing "checked" = 1 and "unchecked" = 0, which get converted to seconds based on the scale of the audiobook lengths.

Any way I can do the following?

Get the X axis to correctly display the book names
Combine the book lengths with the "read" column and display read books in one color and unread books in another color


texts: Is it possible to download and install macOS on a HP computer?

texts:
I am wondering if it is possible to download and install macOS on any computer, or do you have to buy an Apple computer?

I am using an HP computer.


texts: How to create an applescript for multiple dd terminal commands in sequence (for multiple USB Drives duplication)

texts:
I need to create an apple script to perform DD Commands in sequence, to replicate the same .img file to multiple USB flash drives

The context: the computer is connected to a powered USB hub with 7 usb flash drives connected and unmounted by diskutil. No other USB devices or disk are connected to the computer (so the USB Sticks will be assign a disk1 - disk7 resource mapping)

The steps

a file named  "source.img" will be prepared and put on the desktop (say an .img of a bootable OS)
terminal must be asked to change directory to the desktop
with administrative privileges (the password can be inserted into the script, or asked once to the user) it must be asked to perform:

"sudo dd if=source.img of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m"

the script must wait until the operation is concluded, then ask the terminal to perform another DD, to disk2 this time:

"sudo dd if=source.img of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m"

and again, wait until the operation is concluded, and then ask:

"sudo dd if=source.img of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m"

and so on with rdisk4, rdisk5, rdisk6, rdisk7.

at the end of the disk7 operation , the script can shut down the terminal and send a finder message to the user (or an audio notification) that the USB Duplication process to the 7 flash drives is concluded.

It's a way to create a "USB duplicator on the cheap" for bootable images to be put on multiple sticks, I need it for a school project to my students.

Anybody can help ? I am a zero with Applescript. And this thing will be useful for many.

Thank you !
Alberto


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I installed the Safari 6 beta a few weeks ago. Now that Safari 6 has been released for Lion, I can't seem to find anywhere to get it.

The Safari download page redirects to the main Safari page with no download link.
Apple's developer site, Apple's downloads and even the download for Safari 5.1.5 all link to the Safari download page (which as I mentioned doesn't have a download link).
It is not listed in Software Update.

Here's my Software Update history showing that it hasn't been installed without me noticing:

Here's the Safari build I currently have:

Am I missing something?


texts: Why doesn't my iPhone 5c support Night Shift?

texts: iOS 9.3 was released yesterday to the public and I have installed it on my iPhone 5c. What I'm wondering is, why is Night Shift not available for my phone? Is it the architecture of the processor, something to do with the screen, or perhaps something else?


texts: Backup and Restore Apple Messages on macOS

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Is there some means of saving your Messages history on OS X and copying it to a new system without doing a full restore from a Time Machine back up?

Doing some searching, I found the below and tried this approach in a virtual machine copy of Mavericks without much luck.

  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5948332

Despite copying the files to their respective locations on the fresh install and adjusting permissions, the new installation version of Messages never seems to import/recognize the history from my current system.

To ensure my permissions were okay, I also found

  Mavericks Mail will not save preferences

which was linked to by

  Fixing broken Messages on OS X Mavericks

but this also did not result in Messages importing/using the copied history.  Both instances of Mavericks are using Messages 8.0


texts: Mounting USB stick in single-user mode: unsupported sector size (0)

texts:
I'm trying to mount a USB stick in single-user mode (thankfully there's nothing wrong with my Mac, I'm just trying some stuff out). These are the commands I've been running:

$ mount -uw /
$ mkdir /Volumes/drive
$ mount -t msdos /dev/disk2 /Volumes/drive
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (0)

The USB drives connects to my system properly and is visible in /dev/. I've reformatted the drive as HFS and got the same error message. I've also tried another USB stick formatted in both FAT32 and HFS, to no avail. I assume this must mean that I'm doing something wrong here, but a quick Google search shows that most people succeed using this approach.

I'm running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 on a mid 2012 MacBook Pro.


texts: Remove and remove all buttons don't ever clear any website data on Safari

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I'm using a 2015 MacBook Air running macOS 11.1 and Safari version 14.0.2, and I'm trying to clear my Safari cookies. I've opened Safari, then gone to Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Manage Website Data... then I've clicked on specific sites and clicked Remove. I've also clicked on Remove All, then Remove Now on the pop-up asking to confirm. Both of these do absolutely nothing. Many other users online have described their problem to be that the cookies disappear, then shortly reappear; this is not my problem. My problem is the cookies never disappear in the first place (none of them).
I've tried the following things to resolve the issue, with no success:

Quitting Safari, then restarting it.
Restarting my computer.
Checking to make sure my computer, and Safari are both up to date.
Booting up my computer is Safe Mode.
Turning off iCloud Safari syncing.
Clearing the cookies and other website data on my iPhone.
Turning on Block all cookies under Privacy in Safari Preferences.
Clicking on Develop -> Empty Caches.

I've noticed there are folders named Cookies and Safari in the Library folder. However, since I don't know exactly what I'm doing, I don't want to go deleting things in either of those folders.
How can I either delete my website data another way or (preferably) fix the issue of the Remove and Remove All buttons not clearing my website data?


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For context, SIPSAK is the SIP Swiss Army Knife:

  sipsak is a command line tool which can send simple requests to a SIP
  server. It can run additional tests on a SIP server which are usefull
  for admins and developers of SIP enviroments.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sipsak.berlios/

SIPSAK seems to work with macports:

 acinclude.m4   added mac port dirs to search paths     7 years ago

at least according to their github web page.

Do I have to build SIPSAK from source?  Or, is there a binary repository I can add and then install from, using, perhaps, the command line?

I was looking at macports, I think that's how this is done.

Will this finally allow me to add binary repositories to install software, like sipsak?  Strictly speaking, I'm not trying to compile sipsak, just use it.

Will macports allow me to install it?

MacPorts 2.3.3

and the system I'm using:

System Software Overview:

  System Version:   Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)
  Kernel Version:   Darwin 11.4.2
  Boot Volume:  Untitled
  Boot Mode:    Normal
  Computer Name:    a MacBook
  User Name:    thufir (thufir)
  Secure Virtual Memory:    Enabled
  64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
  Time since boot:  53 minutes

I'm looking to install sipsak from the terminal with macport, coming at this from a Linux perspective.


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I have a 2015, 15 inch MacBook Pro running Catalina and am trying to use Time Machine to backup this computer to a Samsung Portable SSD T7 TOUCH USB 3.2 1TB external hard drive.
However, every time I try this the backup gets stuck in the "preparing backup" stage. I already tried deleting an .inProgress file, canceling the backup, and restarting it again and that didn't work. I successfully did one backup when I first got the external hard drive.
How do I fix this issue?


texts: What might cause noisy gesture demonstration video clips?

texts: I'm getting multicolor noisy gesture demonstration video clips after each reboot. However, they gradually improve after a while and eventually become fully watchable (about 15-20seconds). Does anyone know what's causing this and how to fix it? I'm on Mavericks.


texts: Macbook Pro Retina 15'' - High CPU temperature

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I've seen a few similar questions on here but none seem to have a good answer, nor seeing the temperature levels I'm seeing.

Notebook is only a month old and just installed iStat Menus and noticed that the "CPU Die - Digital" sensor temperature is consistently over 80℃.

Currently it is 96℃ with the CPU at 85% idle, all load averages of 2.3.

The lowest I've managed to get it is 49℃ by killing almost everything running. The highest is 103℃, by booting multiple virtual machines. From what I've read, this is 2℃ off the shutdown temperature for the CPUs… and the fans were only running at 3800/4000.

So, is this normal? Have I got a dud MacBook or is iStat Menus to blame?
Can't seem to find out how to read the sensors via command line.