texts: Copy & Paste from iPhone to Mac doesn't work (Universal Clipboard)

texts: Using macOS Sierra (latest 10.12.1) on iMac and iPhone (iOS 10), copy/paste  (Universal Clipboard) doesn't work. All necessary connections and accounts are turned on and connected.


texts: Saving a picture to a file in Skitch with one click?

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Is there any way to press a single button in Skitch and have it save the current image to a folder of your choosing (e.g. Documents). This is as opposed to using the drag and drop feature and having to open up finder and only then dropping the picture there.

I'm looking for something simple like the Save to history button on top.


texts: Does "Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi" use encryption?

texts: I would like to sync my iPhone to iTunes over Wi-Fi but only if the process is encrypted for privacy.  I'm still feeling a lack of trust after learning that MobileMe synced personal data across the Internet unprotected.  Is the sync encrypted?


texts: How can I sign in on the Mac App Store with my Apple ID using the Terminal?

texts: For a project of mine I want to sign into the Mac App Store with my Apple ID using the Terminal. I'm currently using Mojave so I cannot use inbuilt sign in functions for libraries like mas


texts: Is there any way to hide the iCloud Drive shared files information which follows the file name?

texts: I share a bunch of iCloud files for work and the "Added by Me" text takes up a bunch of the file name space, especially when the file name is truncated. Is there any way to hide this?


texts: Is there a systemwide .bash_profile file?

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The order of directories in my path is messed up, and I'm trying to correct it. Some of the path seems to be coming in from somewhere other than my user bash config files (I'm using both .bashrc and .bash_profile).

Is there a system wide bash_profile (or other config files?) file which is executed before user specific ones? If so, where is it located by default?


texts: What is the software to move screen/laptop to apple TV screen

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I have seen users that drag their screen to AppleTV on WiFi for presentations and such. I want to be able to do this but can't find the software. I ask and they say it is built in.

I have MacBook Pro with OS X 10.7.5 I have the most recent updates. Is this software available?


texts: How to remove all traces of an Apple Id from a Mac

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If I go to the System Preferences and select iCloud, it prompts me to sign in with my Apple Id.  Only problem is, it auto-fills the Apple Id of the previous user.  If I try to delete the existing id by clearing it out, it comes back the next time I bring up this panel. This seems like a serious information leak, I have no business knowing this info, and it does not inspire confidence that all traces of the previous user have been removed.

When I look at my dock, the FaceTime app currently shows a number "7" in a red circle in the upper-right corner of the icon.  If I open FaceTime it prompts me to sign in to "activate" FaceTime, but if I long clicked on the icon, I see "recent calls" of the previous Apple Id.  Again, this isn't something that a new user of a computer should be able to see.


texts: How to make a custom keyboard layout be recognized as Latin so I can remove the US default layout?

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I have a custom keyboard layout which MacOSX doesn't recognize as Latin, so it doesn't allow me to remove the US default layout.
I'd like to know what would make my layout be recognized as Latin.
Is the US default layout stored in a file somewhere? so I can compare it to mine and figure out what to change.
My layout is a modified US-international so it should be recognized as Latin with no problems.

Update: I solved it by setting the keyboard id to 1.


texts: Why iPad Air 16GB WiFi shows wrong amount of storage space free?

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I clean my iPad regularly and I noticed that my storage space doesn't show true free space. I have used 12.8GB for apps. It shows 7.7GB available and 5.1GB used. I used calculator and it shows I should only have 2.9GB used. How to fix this?

What I've tried:

resetting the iPad to factory defaults (no iTunes restore or anything - stock); problem persisted over reset also (I had no apps installed and it still showed like 900MB used).
used Tongbu to "clean" data
went to Apps section in iTunes and checked for Keynote files, etc. but nothing was there (only 1 file cca. 5MB)
I went to General - Usage to click through the apps manually (but no secret data was stored).

Is this some sort of bug?


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I thought I did my research but I can't get my new Macbook to squeeze out 60hz to my monitor.

Setup:

Macbook Pro 2016 running High Sierra (15", Radeon Pro 450 2GB, 2.6 GHz i7, 16GB ram)

Dell P2415Q (Supports 60hz at 4k)

Satechi HDMI to USB-C cable (Supports 60hz at 4k)

Why can't I get 60hz on my monitor with this setup? I've even tried to force it up with SwitchResX but no luck.

Update

Okay, so I think I've found the problem myself. On this page, Dell states:

  Dell P2415Q and P2715Q flat panel displays purchased before March 2016, only support HDMI 1.4 and provide 4k x 2k (3840 x 2160 pixels) resolution @ 30 Hz using the HDMI cable connection. 4k x 2k @60Hz is available via DisplayPort connection on these displays.

Soooo, off to my cable provider once again to get a DisplayPort to USB-C cable instead.


texts: How to find the reason of Mac OS kernel panic? Mac OS 10.15.7 (Macbook Pro Retina Mid 2012)

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For last 3 days I have kernel panics (panic (cpu 6 caller 0xffffff7f85d6f563) after waking from sleep. Screen remains black and I have to reboot it. Anyone have ideas what caused such issue and how to fix it?
I'm sorry I only have pics of the code after restart. Thank you!
https://www.linkpicture.com/q/Снимок-экрана-2020-09-27-в-18.50.16_1.png
https://www.linkpicture.com/q/Снимок-экрана-2020-09-27-в-18.50.59_1.png


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I want to edit Finder Info.plist file that is located here:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Info.plist

But when I try to edit the file by vi the file is readonly.

# vi /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Info.plist

When I try to chmod or chown the file nothing happens.

When I try to change file permission from Finder I get the error: "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission."

The Locked checkbox in Get Info is disabled.

I also tried:

sudo chflags nouchg Info.plist

But after all that, file is still readonly.

What is preventing root from editing this file on OS X El Capitan 10.11.2?


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I have a 2012 iMac running Catalina and I'd like to use it as a secondary display to my MacBook Pro. I connected the two computers via a USB cable and hit both ⌘ CommandF2 and then tried ⌘ CommandFnF2. It's not working.
Do I need to use a Thunderbolt? Any input/advice would be most appreciated.


texts: As an iOS Developer, how can I avoid upgrading to Lion?

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I have been an iOS developer for quite some time now, and I am still using Xcode 4.2, because the new version is now only available for Lion. My problem is that after reading the reviews for Lion in the App Store, it looks like Windows ME would be a great OS compared to Lion.

I really would like to code for iOS 5.1 and above which you can only do with the new Xcode, but I really really don't want to upgrade to Lion. Is there any possible way to avoid this?.

I currently own a 17" MacBook Pro with a Core i5 at 2.53 GHz and 4 GB RAM it runs Snow Leopard great, but I am afraid it will have problems with Lion, not only because of the hardware, but because it seems to be full of bugs and is just slower overall.

I suppose I could install both Snow Leopard and Lion?. Any workaround is welcome.


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I bought an iPhone 5s about 3 days ago. Unfortunately I've discovered that the headphone jack is broken.

The left side of my headphones doesn't produce sound. I tried the headphones in another device and they worked fine. So the problem lies with the iPhone 5s.

When I took it back to the store, I was told it would take 2 weeks to get it fixed because they had to send it away for repair.

What options do I have to get it fixed?


texts: How to restore the Terminal mail program to default settings

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So a number of months ago I was messing around in Terminal trying to get my Mac to send an email from the command line. Unfortunately, I don't remember everything I did but I know I was messing around with postfix and creating a sasl password file, etc. I never got it to work and gave up.

Now I want to try again but don't remember what I already did. Is there a way to restore postfix or the mail terminal programs to their default settings so I can get a fresh start?


texts: Is there a way to make folders open in a new window by default in OS X El Capitan?

texts: Is there a script for making folders open in a new window by default in OS X Yosemite or OS X El Capitan?


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According to this previous question, I want to install Homebrew Tiger branch on my iBook running ... well, Tiger.
Unfortunatly, when running the Ruby one-liner,

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731/39fc1416e34b9f6db201b4a026181f4ceb7cfa74)"

I always get the following error :

This script requires the user nicolas to be in the staff group. If this
sucks for you then you can install Homebrew in your home directory or
however
you please; please refer to the website. If you still want to use this
script
the following command should work:

dscl /Local/Default -append /Groups/staff GroupMembership $USER

I have unsuccessfully tried to add myself as a member of the staff group.

What can I do to install Homebrew on my Tiger mac ?

Thanks

EDIT Yes, I have a version of XCode for my platform, it's a legacy 2.5 that I installed specifically for that purpose.

Concerning the Ruby script, a rapid overview of its code indicates that the error appears as invoking groups does not return the staff group.

And indeed, when I issue this command by hand, I get

$ groups
nicolas appserveradm appserverusr admin

So, how can I add myself to the staff group in a fashion that this command will understand ?


texts: is everything (files, programs, internet passwords) stored on the Hard Drive?

texts: I'm looking to sell my macbook due to a corrupted hard drive. My question is, if i remove the hard drive and sell the rest of the mac will the buyer have any access to my files/programs/etc?


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Xcode is showing in the Mac App Store, ready to be updated. Clicking update results in an error:

  Xcode failed to download. Use the Purchases page to try again.

Steps taken that didn't help:

Rebooting
Removed ~/Library/Cookies/com.apple.appstore.plist
Searched and removed MAS-related files:

sudo find /var/folders/ -ipath '*com.apple.appstore*' -print | xargs sudo fgrep -i xcode
sudo find /var/folders/ -ipath '*com.apple.appstore*' -delete

How can I successfully update Xcode?


texts: Remove recovery feature from recovery disk

texts: I mistakenly made a recovery disk from my USB external Hard drive. By making recovery dosk I can no longer use its entire 500 GB space. Now I want to restore this disk to original state so that I could use its entire space. How can I restore external HDD?


texts: How to store/specify/identify path to different Volumes with the same name in /Volumes?

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I am using Synology Diskstation as NAS in my local home network. When I connect my  Mac to the NAS the volume is mounted becomes visible in Finder. In Terminal I can access the NAS folders using /Volumes/home/some/path...

Now I have added another Diskstation to the network and when I connect to both they can be accessed using /Voluemes/home and Volumes/home-1.

When connecting to a remote Network using OpenVPN and accessing another Diskstation it is mounted as /Volumes/home-2

The problem is, that I never know which diskstation is mounted under which path. The naming depends completly on the order in which the connections are established / the volumes are mounted.

For example I would like to add a Git folder on the VPN machine as remote to a local repository. While adding /Volumes/home-3/some/path/my.git as remote is no problem at first, it becomes a problem when the connection is re-established and the volume is now available as Volume/home or /Volumes/home-1, etc.

How can this be solved?

Is it somehow possible to mount / connect different (network) volumes using custom/unique names? For example /Volumes/LocalNAS/..., /Volumes/BackupNAS/..., /Volumes/VPNRemote/..., etc.?


texts: When you block a caller are they notified they are blocked?


texts: How to get designated apps to open on designated desktops

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I would like to get TextMate and Safari to open in the same desktop, but have looked in System Preferences and can't see where to do this?

Leopard and Snow Leopard had this in System Preferences, but I can't find it in Lion.

Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: How to point an Apple TV to an iTunes Library on a NAS?

texts: I have my Apple TV linked to my iTunes library stored on a network storage device by linking to my laptop. I would like to point my Apple TV directly to the iTunes library on the storage device without linking through the laptop. Is there an easy way to do this?


texts: Synchronize iBooks across multiple Macs running Mavericks

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I'm wondering if it's possible to keep iBooks in Sync between various computers (running Mac OS X mavericks) under the same iCloud account. I set up my iBooks but synchronization only happens between a single Mac and devices running iOS 7. What's the point of using iBooks, if when I'm not in my laptop, I want to read the book on my iMac, but iBooks doesn't get synced across Macs...Did I miss anything?

Thanks for any hints, answers, such as using File sharing with Dropbox, Team Drive, etc. to try to synchronize the iBooks database and Data Contents. I only tried the Books folder from  ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data but it didn't work.


texts: Decreasing resolution of screenshots increases file size

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I've noticed that on my rMBP, when I try to make a screenshot smaller using Preview.app version 6.0.1 (Tools -> Adjust Size).

When I'm trying to decrease the image size to upload it, the file size often increases.

Compare these two files:

The first one is 3.3MB. Resizing it to 70% of the resolution results in a file size of 2.1MB.
The second one is actually a screenshot of the first image. It's 4.5MB, but again resizing it to 70% results in a file size of 5.2MB. Resizing it to only 99% results in nearly double of the size (8.6MB).

How can this happen? What is going on here?


texts:
Can I List USB devices on OSX - similar to lsusb on Linux.
I know I can access from System Information.


texts: Unable to shrink a partition in osx 10.10

texts: Hi, I installed windows using bootcamp, but i made the mistake to make the bootcamp only 20gb, so i want to expand it. I found a way to do so, but firstly i need to shrink my other partition - Macintosh HD, why am I unable to do so? Thanks


texts: Endless spinner when trying to update Xcode in App Store

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I'm trying to update Xcode on my Mac mini.

When I click the Update button in the App Store, a spinner appears, but nothing else happens.

I have seen this before, and I think that possibly upgrading of the App Store fixed it.  There's no App Store update this time.

I am trying an OS upgrade to EL Capitan.  Is there anything else I should check?


texts: Does MBA early 2014 base model support 3440 x 1440 (WQHD ultrawide 21:9) external monitor?

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Can a MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014) 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB support external display over displayport input displaying a 3440 x 1440 resolution at 60Hz ?

P.S: Planning to purchase a WQHD monitor and run it above mentioned mac book air.


texts: Rearranging spaces in macOS in a more "automatic" fashion

texts: I'm looking for a way to swap Mission Control space n to space m, by means of a keyboard shortcut or a terminal command as to make this process more automated/automate-able. With this, I am not trying to switch from one space to another, but to perform an action that rearranges the ordening of the active spaces. When Mission Control is open, you can do this with the mouse by dragging for example the "Space 1" text to the position of "Space 2". Is there a way to achieve this in a more "automatic" fashion? (preferably not using automator mouse actions)


texts: Timemachine - Turn off "No Backup for X Days" for secondary Disk

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On my MacBook Air I use TimeMachine with two USB-Disks. (Latest El Capitan)

My primary disk is located at my house, the secondary at my parent's house.

As I am not always at my parents, this "No Backup for X Days" pops up daily:

Does anybody know a way, how I can disable the notification for the secondary disk while leaving the notification for the primary disk?

Thanks


texts: Iphone 4, IOS 7.1.2; Facebook Messenger App

texts: I have iPhone 4, ios 7.1.2 and accidently deleted facebook messenger and don't have a backup of the app and now I can't reinstall because of 7.1.2. How can I get it back on my iphone? Please help.


texts: How do I get rid of photos labeled "My Computer" on my iPhone?

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I've been trying to clear up some space on my iPhone, and recently I noticed that I have a few albums labeled from My Computer.

I've tried going through iTunes, but my phone doesn't seem to sync up to it, and there's nothing in the setting that will let me get rid of them. I can't even find the actual pictures on my computer, so I have no idea what to do. It's gotten to the point where these pictures are annoying me. I think they were once used as backgrounds, but I can't find the folders or anything.


texts: The encryption of an external drive in 10.7.5 does not seem to work. "Conversion Status: NoConversion"

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On a Mac running OS X Lion 10.7.5 I have attempted to encrypt an external drive using Disk Utility.

Since this is 10.7, there is no option of right-clicking to encrypt in Finder. Also, there's no option to create an encrypted partition when formatting. So, here's what I did:

I reformatted the drive like this:

/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Heap                    1.7 TB     disk1s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine            300.0 GB   disk1s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data EXCHANGE                49.5 GB    disk1s4

Then I wanted to encrypt all Apple_HFS partitions, starting with Heap. The only way to accomplish this using the GUI seems to be the following:

Select the volume you want to encrypt in the sidebar on the left side.
Select the tab "erase" on the right side.
Choose an option of your liking in "Format:"

Click "Erase..." to reformat the partition as an encrypted volume. You have to create a password to continue.

If this were Mountain Lion, this would be it. All I'd have to do is waiting for the encryption to finish. So, I checked the status in the terminal using:

diskutil cs list

And to my surprise there's no conversion happening:

Sequence:               2
Encryption Status:      Unlocked
Encryption Type:        AES-XTS
Encryption Context:     Present
Conversion Status:      NoConversion       // OH NOES!!! WHY THIS? WHY ME? :(
Has Encrypted Extents:  Yes
Conversion Direction:   -none-

But I did expect something like this:

Encryption Status:           Unlocked
    Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
    Conversion Status:       Converting    // This is what I expected.
    Conversion Direction:    forward
    Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
    Fully Secure:            No
    Passphrase Required:     Yes

Question

What is going on here? Am I just interpreting the diskutil output the wrong way?


texts: How to sync contacts between MacBook and iPhone without iCloud

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My iPhone and iPad are failing to sync to the Contacts on my Macbook pro.
iTunes shows a menu to allow syncing, but no information is exchanged.

I'm not using iCloud for my contacts on my iPhone or MacBook Pro but I do want to sync them between both devices. All devices are updated to the latest supported versions of iOS and MacOS as of June 26th, 2018.

This is not my question:
Is there an alternative to using iCloud for managing contacts?

I have been using iTunes without iCloud for years to sync my phone and the contact list on my computer.

I now believe the problem is between iTunes and the Contacts application on the Macbook Pro.
- Changes to groups (add, delete, rename) are not reflected in the iTunes menu for syncing contacts.
- Changes to contacts made on my computer do NOT propagate to either my iPad or iPhone.
- Changes to contacts made on either my iPad or iPhone propagate to the other device when both have been synced.
- Changes to contacts made on either my iPad or iPhone do NOT propagate to the Macbook Pro.


texts: How can I Change the Apple Configuration Signing Certificate?

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I use the Apple Configurator to craft a Mobile Configuration Profile able to configure some settings such as the LDAP Directory as an example.

When exporting the profile, I check the "Sign" checkbox to sign the profile with the Apple Configurator certificate.

The problem is that when installing this profile on an iOS device, it is flagged "Non verified" and displays an alert when proceeding further.

Q: How do I change this obviously self-signed certificate with a valid one of my own?

No clue in the built-in help, neither in the prefs. Google does not seem to be helpful with this issue...


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I have an iPad 2 and have used iMessages many times. For some reason now I can't message. The send button is not active.  I'm trying to message a friend who has an iPhone and who I have messaged many times in the past.  Any clue as to what to do?

I have force closed the app, powered off, checked the contact number, all to no avail.  WiFi is active. Have gone thru all steps listed as possible fixes except deleting and reinstalling.  I can't find iMessage in the App store so I don't want to delete because I don't know how to reinstall.


texts: Is there a way to reveal an item in the Finder from Launchpad?

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Sometimes I will see something that does not really belong in Launchpad—a readme, for instance—and I'd like to see it to move it. Sure, I can close Launchpad, open the Applications folder, and hunt for it there (perhaps in subfolders), but it seems to me that there ought to be an easier way. Is there? I can't seem to find one. Right-clicking, sadly, seems to do nothing.

I'm not trying to delete items that are in Launchpad from my drive; I just want to see them in the Finder, so that I can move them around or perform other operations on them..


texts: How can I log into the desktop environment as Root on a new mac running 10.6 or 10.7 without creating a user account?

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Under Mac OS 10.5, you could boot a fresh-out-of-the-box Mac into single user mode, mount /, set the root password, and touch .AppleSetupDone - this would allow you to log into the desktop environment as the root user without ever creating a 501 user. I've never been able to do this under 10.6 or 10.7, however. Has anyone been able to do this without first creating a traditional user account?

Many thanks!


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I created several Time Machine backups while I was running Mavericks. I upgraded to Yosemite and also backed it up on the same backup drive. I now have multiple backups of Mavericks and Yosemite on the same drive.

I have not purchased Mavericks via App Store, so I will not be able to re-install it. Is there a way for me to preserve my Mavericks backups, so that I can restore the operating system and then restore files from the latest Yosemite backups?


texts: Mac Catalina And Microsoft Teams Screen Sharing Permissions

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I recently updated my MacBook Air OS to Catalina V 10.15.1 and since have issues screen sharing via Teams.

When I try to share my screen I get an error prompting me to go to my "Security & Privacy settings"

Clicking on the "Security & Privacy settings" button opens "Settings > Security & Privacy > Screen Recording" - see below. I've given Teams access to "Screen Record" as with Chrome and QuickTime (no issues with these apps). I've restarted teams and the computer several times - same result.

Is there something I'm missing?


texts: Are purchasing items through apps against the rules of the App Store?

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From the App Store's Review Guidelines:

  Apps using IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside of the App will be rejected

So, what that statement really mean? Does it mean that purchasing apps, like clients for online stores are not accepted? If this is true, why applications like Amazon and eBay are available in the App Store?


texts: Error installing Windows 10 64 bit under El Capitan's Boot Camp

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It gets to the point of rebooting into Windows but then "upgrade" says "Booted from install media, reboot under Windows" and "Install Windows Only" says the BOOTCAMP partition is incompatible because it's not NTFS. If I reformat the partition, it then says "Unable to create or locate partition see SETUP.LOG" and I can't find SETUP.LOG (in any case - upper, lower, or mixed)

What do i do now?


texts: Trackpad delay on 15" MacBook Pro with touchbar late 2016

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I recently purchased the new 15" MacBook Pro with touchbar (late 2016). My trackpad is set to 'click' with either a press (audible click noise) or a tap. If I right click by using a two-finger press, the response on the screen is virtually instantaneous. However, if a use a two-finger tap, then there is a noticeable delay (generally under one second). When I first noticed the delay, this delay was about one second long with a spinning pin wheel sometimes popping up. I restarted the laptop, and the delay was significantly shorter, though still noticeable (maybe 0.25-0.5 seconds).

I'm trying to determine if it is a software or hardware issue before complaining to Apple. Is there a quick fix for this, or will I have to take the laptop to get repaired?


texts: Customize accents when holding down a key

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I just noticed that if I hold down a key in mac when typing, that I get some custom bar that let's me choose between accents.

I'm a mathematician, and I like writing unicode math symbols directly (like α). Is there a way that I can customise the toolbar that pops-up, so that I can put my own mathematical unicode symbols in this toolbar ?


texts: Is there a way to use sftp command history if we don't rely on third party tools?

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I have OS X Mavericks and Sierra on 2 Macbooks, and on both, sftp will not do command history. It will show something like

^[[A

instead. If not using any third party tools or apps, is there a way to make command history work for sftp on a Mac?


texts: I want to update to the most recent firmware while jailbroken

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OK so I have the iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) and am currently on iOS 5.1.1. I'd like to update to the most recent firmware WHILE retaining my untethered jailbroken status, Cydia, and the unlocked feature of the phone which allows me to use it without a data plan.

I've been told to simply update the phone in iTunes - will this retain all the things I mentioned above?

When I click on update iPhone, it says iTunes will "Verify this update with Apple" (or something along those lines) - what does this mean? Does this mean that Apple will know I'm using an iPhone w/o a data plan and will they then notify AT&T?

Lastly, the "backup" that you can create in iTunes is only information - Like, if I tried to back up from a 6.1.3 to a "backup" that was created with a phone on 5.1.1 firmware it would NOT restore the phone to firmware 5.1.1, correct?

Thank you so very much for your time, whoever is able to answer these questions. It means a lot to me. Thank you again, Sebastian


texts: Force unmount volume in use by remote user

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I store some sensitive data on encrypted disk images.  Sometimes for convenience I mount one of these disk image files (.dmg) over the LAN and occasionally forget to unmount it.

A problem arises where even if the client machine where it's mounted is put to sleep, the host still sees the disk image as being in use and will return the error:

The following disk images couldn't be opened
Reason: Resource temporarily unavailable

To gain access to the image I need to physically find which computer it's mounted on, wake it from sleep and eject the image.

How can I force unmount an image which is mounted by a network client?


texts: iCloud Sync not working with almost all services in Mojave (Greyed Out)

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Came into work this morning and started getting errors on a couple apps I have synced my iCloud, such as Notability and SnippetLab. They said that sync had been turned off. None of my notes or snippets were available.

I did not change anything or even reboot my laptop. Worked fine yesterday. But now, when I go to iCloud in settings, almost all the sync options are greyed out and uncheckable. The only ones that I can still select and turn on are Siri, Find My Mac, News, Stocks, and Home. But I can't sync my iCloud Drive, Photos, Calendars, Reminders, etc.

I've been Googling all morning and have not had any luck. So far this morning, I've tried rebooting, I've installed the most recent security update, and I've signed out of iCloud and signed back in. Nothing works.

Screenshot below shows info on my Macbook and MacOS, plus an example of the greyed out iCloud options.


texts: iterm2 first tab transparency differs from default

texts: I set up iTerm2 colours/backgrounds, however the first tab is always "lighter" (i.e. more transparent) than all the other tabs. When I set transparency in the profiles, I can see every tab except the first one adjusting. Is it some bug or some setting I'm missing?


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I am pretty new to Macs, but I am not sure that is relevant here. I do use a VPN sometimes (and will do so more). It seems to work OK for browsers, email etc as it should.

However, I wanted to change my location on the App Store. The reason is legitimate: A software vendor is only selling via the App Store, but is charging extra (ie ripping off) customers in my country. It is legal to get around the discriminatory pricing here with a VPN, proxy etc.

But the new "location" doesn't seem to work for the App Store, which apparently has me where I actually am, hence I have to pay the ripoff price in the local currency. Is there any way around this? Am I missing something obvious?

It is enough money to make some difference, but the principle is also important.


texts: How to Change iPhone between Silent and Vibrate

texts: I have an iPhone 5s and I only like to use silent and vibrate.  I never use the sound.  Is there a way that I can assign the switch on the side of the phone to be either silent or on vibrate?  I don't mind using the volume buttons on the side either, like i did when i had android, but i noticed that apple doesn't easily let you use move between vibrate and silent without going into the settings menu.  Thanks in advance.


texts:
I am using internet via wifi connection. Now I want to share my internet with my iphone. In the preferences, I found the option Internet Sharing, but there is no "wifi" option under "To computers using:". "Only ZTE WCDMA Tech" and "Thunderbolt Bridge".

What to do?


texts: Remove app preview from iOS 7 multitasking

texts:
Using an iPad Mini, I preferred the paged, compact style of the app
switcher in iOS 6. In iOS 7 it is replaced by a scrolling interface
where I see 4 app-icons at a time at best and have the huge preview
cards quickly swishing through the screen.

While I can imagine the preview to become useful when e.g. writing in
one app and occasionally needing to steal a glance at another app
without actually switching apps, most of the time I find them merely
distracting; Especially the largely different movement speed of the
preview cards and the app icons.

Are there any possibilities to configure the behaviour/design of this
interface short of a jailbreak?


texts: How do I change the default Space for an app in Mission Control?

texts:
Under Snow Leopard and Spaces you could define which Space an app should automatically launch in, including the ability to indicate that it should be visible in every space.

My apps are respecting the settings I applied before upgrading to Lion -- for example, iChat, QuickTime Player, and my Billings time tracker show up in all Spaces, Chrome always launches in space 2, etc. -- but there no longer seems to be any way to modify them or add these kinds of defaults for new apps.

Is there any way to make these assignments with Mission Control?


texts:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a software and hardware standpoint, in reference to the iMac 27" graphic processor brand, what are the difference between:

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M with 1GB and the AMD Radeon R9 M290 with 2GB, in terms of speed, performance and responsiveness? And why does the iMac 27" Retina model have the AMD GPU and not the NVIDIA GPU?


texts: Showing hidden files on the desktop. Is there a way to remove .DS_Store on desktop only?

texts:
I hope I do not have to disable the  hidden file visibility in order to disable .DS_Store from appearing on the desktop.

.DS_Store constantly gets in the way in the desktop but not in any other folder.

I have a specific strategy in mind to remove .DS_Store on the desktop only. I would like to run an automator app that scans the desktop as a watcher. As it watches changes on the desktop, I would like it to detect the addition of a .DS_Store file and once it detects it, it would automatically move it to the trash (or a folder aside from the desktop.)

I am running El Capitan (osX 10.11) on a Macbook Pro.


texts:
I just bought a MBP 13" mid 2014 with a 128 GB SSD.
When doing a disk speed test with the Black Magic Design-app, I only get about 210 MB/s write and about 510-550 MB/s read.

All the benchmark videos I have seen using the same app all get about 310 MB/s write and up to 700 MB/s read.

Is there something wrong with my disk? The computer seems fine in daily use but I want the performance I paid for.


texts: Can the iPhone screen's digitizer be safely separated from the glass?

texts:
I recently broke my iPhone 3G screen. I've had it replaced, and I still have the broken screen. Seems like the digitizer on that screen is fine and could be reused.

I would like to separate the digitizer from the glass and try to do some hacks with it.

Can I use a heat gun to take it apart from the glass, or will this damage the digitizer? Is there another way I can take it off?


texts:
I'm a developer working on doing some keychain related features. A piece of my application changes / looks for items in the keychain. However, visually verifying some of these changes can be difficult because the Keychain Access.app doesn't show all of the fields. For example, the kSecProtocolItemAttr attribute for internet passwords is not displayed in the Keychain app.

Is there a better way (Command line or other) to visual items that are in a .keychain file, that show all of the properties associated with that item?


texts: SYNC-Bluetooth Audio 'jumbled' on car start

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 and a 2011 Mustang with SYNC. The system works fairly well (outside Of the connection issues many others have experienced) but I have an annoying problem whenever I start my vehicle (maybe 95% of the time).

Upon starting the vehicle, Bluetooth Audio comes on and begins playing my music from my phone. However, for the first ten seconds or so, the sound is jumbled/garbled in a peculiar way: it's really sped up for a second or so, and then silent for a second or so, then sped up etc. It does this cycle about 3-5 times before it finally starts playing normally. If I'm listening to a Car Talk podcast, it might sound something like this:

"Yourelisteningtoc............artalkonnation............alpublicradiowithcl.............ickandclackthetap............pet brothers, and on today's show..."

It's like pinching a hose for a second, and then letting go and having a bunch of words come out at once, then pinching it again.

Any ideas?


texts: Repair Time Machine sparsebundle that will no longer mount

texts:
I messed up my Time Machine backup in some way. I'm no longer able to mount the sparsebundle file as I get an error stating that there are no mountable filesystems.

I used the hdiutil command to attach the sparsebundle file:

hdiutil attach -nomount -readwrite flattop.sparsebundle

which resulted in the following /dev/ devices:

/dev/disk2              Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1            Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk2s2            Apple_HFSX

Afterwards I ran the fsch_hfs command to check the main volume (/dev/disk2s2):

fsck_hfs -drf /dev/disk2s2

This resulted in a notice that the Time Machine Backups volume is corrupt and needed to be repaired:

Unable to open block device /dev/disk2s2: Permission deniedjournal_replay(/dev/disk2s2) returned 13
** /dev/rdisk2s2 (NO WRITE)
    Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=32768 cacheSize=1048576K.
   Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-540.1~34).
Non-empty journal:  start = 66310144, end = 94912512
   Journal need to be replayed but volume is read-only
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Detected a case-sensitive volume.
   The volume name is Time Machine Backups
** Checking extents overflow file.
   Unused node is not erased (node = 3568)
   Unused node is not erased (node = 3574)
   Unused node is not erased (node = 3575)
** Checking catalog file.
** The volume Time Machine Backups was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
    volume type is pure HFS+
    primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
    alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00
    primary VHB is at block 2 0x02
    alternate VHB is at block 2865568974 0xaacd1cce
    sector size = 512 0x200
    VolumeObject flags = 0x07
    total sectors for volume = 2865568976 0xaacd1cd0
    total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00

As you can see there is also an error saying "Unable to open block device /dev/disk2s2: Permission deniedjournal_replay(/dev/disk2s2) returned 13".

I thought this might be due to not running the fsck_hfs command as a su, so I tried it with sudo but this had the same result.

My sparsebundle file is on a Synology DS408 NAS and has been running without a problem for about 2 years now :(

Anyone an idea how to take this further?

Kind regards,
Niels R.

UPDATE: As I suspected while writing this question I probably have a problem with read/write permissions. I now see the volume appearing in the Disk Utility and when I click on "Verify" I get the following output:

Verifying volume “Time Machine Backups”
Checking file systemJournal need to be replayed but volume is read-only
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 3568)
Checking catalog file.
Keys out of order
The volume Time Machine Backups was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

Can I simply chmod the sparsebundle file to set the right permissions?


texts:
I'm using a Mac mini (late 2012) with Mojave 10.14, and I'm having issues with video playback.

After using the Mac to play back videos, whether that's online streaming/YouTube or IINA/VLC video files playback - after about 8-10 minutes of use it freezes for a few seconds, than continues without any issues for another 8-10 minutes, freezes again, and so on.

The same behavior is observed while playing videos from internal HDD or DASD.

Needless to say, it was perfectly fine under High Sierra (same apps, and content).

I use Internet cable connection (up to 150 Mbps download speed, and up to 15 Mbps upload speed) exclusively, WiFi is OFF. Hardware configuration: RAM: 2 x 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1536 MB Display: HP ZR30w 2560 x 1600 Resource usage while playing video: RAM: Physical memory 16.00 GB Memory used 8.71 GB Cashed files 7.28 GB Swap used 1.96 GB CPU: System: 2.27% User: 3.94% Idle: 93.99%

Please help!


texts: Can't use Internet effectively after password change for office web Proxy on Mac

texts:
We have an Internet/office web proxy for http and https, pretty common proxy.   Every so often we have to reset our password.  On a Windows machine, the password change is automatic and is propagated through out all the software that uses the Internet including any services running.

With OS X Yosemite or the common software included it seems that the password change against the proxy never takes so that account typically gets locked out by requests through software running on the Mac making an Internet request.

For example:

Proxy Password requires change
I manually enter the username and updated password within the Network Proxy system settings
Open Chrome
Account locked out...because Chrome is not using the updated password or some other process has made Internet requests and locked out the account.

I even have tried to run Wireshark and see what requests a made.  Because the requests are encrypted under SSL so it is hard to tell.

I suspect the following software is not taking the proxy change.  So technically it is not a OS X problem. But Windows software seem to work fine after these password changes.

Apple iTunes, I believe some service is making requests to the Internet with the old password?
Apple Store/Updates
Lasted Chrome for OSX, seems run services in the background and that proxy setting may be different the network setting proxy?
Possible the Mail application, has my password set.
In my .profile file, I set the http_proxy and https_proxy.  I updated these to the correct password.
Do I need to delete Internet username/passwords in the keychain?

This is on OSX 10.10.4 - Yosemite

Has anyone experienced this or have advice?   For now, I have to just shutdown the OSX machine, if I restart it, my account will be locked out a few minutes.
...
The software on the machine is pretty common, I use Chrome regularly, XCode, TextWrangler, Mail.  I mention this because I wonder if that software could be make requests in the background?


texts: MacBook autocorrects "The Bible" to "the Bible"

texts:
What I'm trying to do is have the flexibility to write the following sentences:

  The Bible says in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave
  His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish
  but have everlasting life." (NKJV)

or

  Let's look at what the Bible says in John 3:16. "For God so loved the
  world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
  should not perish but have everlasting life." (NKJV)

My problem is that my MacBook always autocorrects the string "The Bible" to "the Bible" no matter its location in the sentence. This happens in TextEdit as well as Safari so it's not just a Safari thing. I've checked the Text tab under Keyboard in System Preferences and "the Bible" isn't there. I've also checked ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary and it's blank. I've tried right clicking the selection to bring up the little menu to Add Spelling or Unlearn Spelling but I don't see those options.

Here is a picture of the problem as I'm typing.

Here is a picture of my text replacement settings.

Here is a picture of the right click drop down menu.

Here is a picture of the Show Spelling and Grammar window.

My laptop details:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) with a fresh install of High Sierra. I'm currently on macOs High Sierra 10.13.5 (17F77).


texts:
On Lion, if I quit Safari using  ⌘ Command+Q and then restart it, it reopens all tabs from last time.

In Preferences, I have set that new Windows open with an Empty Page, a setting that worked fine in Snow Leopard.

Is there a way to disable that nonsense? I can't seem to find a setting for this :(


texts:
I have a mp3 song in iTunes, on some 3rd party music player apps, they have the lyric displayed on the control center. I think that is done using an .lcr file. So my question is, is it possible to import an .lcr file into iTunes? If it is, how to do it?

Thanks


texts: Optimal method to test an external hard drive?

texts:
I've got an HFS+ formatted external drive that is starting to act a bit funny, mainly causing my mac mini (finder) to freeze up on occassion when accessing it.

Fearing imminent failure, what is the most comprehensive way to determine the health of the physical drive and the file system?

Verify in Disk Utility indicates the disk is fine, but weird behaviour would indicate otherwise.


texts: Can a 3rd party charger damage my macbook pro?

texts: I forgot my macbook pro charger at a friends place and I won't have it for a week. I saw that there are 3rd party chargers being sold for half the price of official chargers. Can 3rd party chargers damage my macbook pro? After I get my normal charger back in a week I will be mostly using that one and keep the new one as an extra, so I won't be using it fulltime.


texts: Application Running with Wine Not Displaying Correctly

texts:
I am trying to run Super Smash Land using Wine on my Mac Book Pro (Mojave). I have installed Wine and XQuartz using Home-brew on my computer and ran the .exe file with wine SuperSmashLand.exe. While running it though, the graphics obviously is not displaying properly, with a large part of the apps appearing as gray (click link above to see how it should display). How can I fix this?

I have tried re-opening the application and changing the graphics setting of wine via winecfg, but nothing is working.


texts: How can I make phone calls on the internet IPhone 6

texts:
I have a remote location were I have only satellite service, no cell service.

When I first purchased my iPhone 6 to my surprise I received messages (voice) left on phone at this location. I couldn't call people back but could text them over the internet.

Now after returning to the remote location I can not get any more messages left on my phone from voicemail. I am still getting text messages, which I also did with my iPhone 4S.

Did an update wipe out this ability or have I turned something off by mistake? I have all of my data turned on to WiFi.


texts: Hard drive not showing up on Mac Mini A1347

texts:
I have a Mac Mini A1347 that was wiped out before given to me. It has a 320 GB hard drive but it is not showing up when I attempt to install "El Capitan". I am trying to format the partition but it does not even show up. Here is a screenshot I took of the only thing that appears (the bootable usb flash drive with el capitan):

Any help in finding and formatting the 320gb drive in preparation for the "El Capitan" install would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Note: The screenshot was taken from a separate device.

Update #1

I exited "Disk Utility" and was back at the "OX X Utilities" menu.  There I opened up terminal and typed:

diskutil cs list

I get back the following message:

"No CoreStorage logical volume groups found"

I don't understand what has happened to the 320 GB hard drive.  It is completely gone.  Could it be a bad hard drive cable on the mini mac?


texts: What is the ellipsis badge on minimized terminal app in the dock mean?

texts: I have another terminal window minimized next to it in the dock and it doesn't have the ellipsis. Also it doesn't have any running processes. What does it mean?


texts: Why do the photos on my iPhone 7 seem to be losing quality?

texts: The photo quality is my iPhone 7 is very low. I found out that this may be because I switched on “iCloud Photo Library” a few months earlier, and “Optimize IPhone Store” was selected. Does doing so move all PREVIOUS photos to cloud, and replace them with low-res photos?


texts: Resetting the "Recent places" in "save as" dialog to default

texts:
I am using OS X 10.11.6.  I wanted to increase the items listed in the "recent places" in the "save as dialog", so I followed the instruction here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5185944?tstart=0

and typed the command in the terminal:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences NSNavRecentPlacesLimit -int 12

Then I discovered that it didn't work, and instead my "recent places" is not changing anymore.

So I tried to reset by typing the below in the terminal:

defaults delete .GlobalPreferences NSNavRecentPlaces

Now the recent places is completely gone in the save as dialog.  I created a new user with admin right, logged into it and also found the recent places is gone from the save as dialog.

I also tried to download OnyX for El Capitan → Parameters → General → Restore Defaults, but this didn't work either.

How can I reset the recent places back to the original?


texts: Is there an app that quickly makes an image of selected text?

texts:
I'm facing the following problem:

I would like to compare different fonts in a presentation by arranging single letters such as 'a' next to each other. Imagine a slide with, say, a Helvetica 'a' on the left and a Georgia 'a' on the right.

The reason why these have to be images is because I would like to use Keynotes's/PowerPoint's "Gallery" feature that lets me switch between those images.

However, typing a big letter in TextEdit or a similar program, then taking a screenshot of that area is a little bit cumbersome, and given the fact that most letters have a different width, it's not very precise. It would be nice to have an app that would put a letter in the center of a say 300x300, transparent square and then save it as a PNG.

Using a program like Acorn (the only image manipulation program that I have at the moment) is difficult too, because I would always have to re-center the text field, depending on the width of the letter.

I hope this makes clear why I am in the need of a helpful program.


texts: Lion: four finger swipe to switch desktops (spaces) works on internal trackpad but not magic trackpad?

texts:
Even though in the pref pane for Trackpad it says "Swipe between full-screen apps" when I'm using the internal trackpad in my laptop, it will switch desktops even if I'm not using full screen apps. However, when I'm using my Magic Trackpad, the 4-finger swipe does not switch desktops.

Anyone have a solution?


texts: 4K video file exported from Final Cut Pro cannot be located in iTunes

texts:
I use Final Cut Pro 10.4.5 on an iMac 5k.
I cannot locate the exported Apple 4k video file from Final Cut Pro X which is supposedly published in the iTunes library.


texts: Why does my iPhone not play music or audio through my car's stereo?

texts: My friend's iPhone plays music, YouTube, etc just fine through my car's stereo using the USB cable. But my iPhone won't. I have reset and restored my phone. Even after I got a new iPhone it still doesn't play. Why would that be?


texts: MacOS Mojave - can't use Camera with imutils in Python

texts:
After the new update to macOS (Mojave), I can't access the camera. I'm using a python script with opencv and imutils (doing some object detection), and once I run the script, it stops. After the debug part I'm seeing that it stops once it call the VideoStream from imutls.video. .

"vs = VideoStream(src=0).start()"

So, when I open the Security & Privacy > Privacy, I'm seeing that the new macOS have added Camera and Microphone options. There is no "+" or "-" sign to add additional programs in order to access. Even if there is, I'm not sure if I can add a python script.

If someone has some kind of solution about this, please feel free to share it.


texts: Why is Photos.app taking 2 months to scan faces for recognition?

texts:
Since I came to Thailand 6 weeks ago, iPhoto on my Macbook pro has been scanning for faces.  On my Mac Pro desktop, this process took about 2 days as I recall.  My iPhone 7 Plus, which I bought a week ago is almost finished.  This time it’s incredibly slow.  I am so sick of seeing this screen:

================================================

Here is my iphone after a few days:

================================================

I’ve started tracking my progress:

2016-12-22  21:59:  9521 photos left to scan when I quit
2016-12-24  19:04: 16232 photos scanned, 8771 photos left when I quit
2016-12-24  22:14: 16,350 photos scanned, 8653 photos left when I quit
2016-12-26  00:49: 16,352 photos scanned, 8663 photos left when I quit
2016-12-26  19:46: 16,372 photos scanned, 8642 photos left when I quit
2016-12-27  18:29: 16,475 photos scanned, 8574 photos left when I quit
2016-12-28  23:43: 16,707 photos scanned, 8356 photos left when I quit
2016-12-28  23:43: 16,910 photos scanned, 8156 photos left when I quit
2016-12-29  23:51: 17,736 photos scanned, 7332 photos left when I quit
2016-12-30  ??:??: 17,933 photos scanned, 7141 photos left when I quit
2016-12-31  17:34: 18,025 photos scanned, 7064 photos left when I quit
2017-01-01  15:02: 18,307 photos scanned, 6782 photos left when I quit

So there was a burst of speed where it was doing 3,000 photos per day (still not fast, but eventually will finish at that rate), then it slowed to a crawl.
I’ve tried rebooting.  I’ve tried leaving Photos running, and I’ve tried quitting.  Nothing seems to make much difference.  Anybody have this problem and solve it?


texts: Can't enable AirPlay system-wide, but it works in iTunes 11

texts:
I can enable AirPlay from iTunes to my Apple TV and it works great. In the system-wide audio output devices, the Apple TV is also listed. When I click on it to select it, the selection immediately returns to Internal Speakers. Console notes that I have selected the AirPlay endpoint, but does not give an indication that anything has gone wrong.

OS X 10.9.4
iTunes 11.3.1 (2)


texts:
Disk Utility Info Shows:

Volume capacity : 250,790,436,864
Available space (Purgeable + Free) : 18,254,333,896
Purgeable space : 1,570,408,392
Free space : 16,683,925,504
Used space : 230,210,576,384

Df -h Shows:

Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused               ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1   234Gi  214Gi   16Gi    94% 2372846 9223372036852402961    0%   /
devfs          189Ki  189Ki    0Bi   100%     653                   0  100%   /dev
/dev/disk1s4   234Gi  3.0Gi   16Gi    17%       3 9223372036854775804    0%   /private/var/vm
map -hosts       0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%       0                   0  100%   /net
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%       0                   0  100%   /home

was is /private/var/vm on a 234gb partition? Does that mean this laptop has dual SSD drives?

And lastly, if I start putting files on that partition - will they keep or be erased and the path recreated on a reboot or power off/on??


texts: LDAP Network Account Logins in Mavericks

texts:
I'd like to be able to link an LDAP server to Mavericks to permit users to login with their LDAP credentials. I have the following problem:

Although I know the fully qualified DN for a user (in the form cn={username}, ou=USERS, o=ORGNAME), I cannot lookup an attribute of password for the user. (This may be anticipated.) The user can authenticate against the LDAP server though.

I have managed to link the LDAP account in Directory Utility, and do actually get a list of users in the "Directory Editor" but I have no idea how to actually propagate that into the system. Specifically (as this is an OS X Server install) I wish to import them in the Server admin app, so LDAP users can log into wiki's, etc. In the Server app, no users appear in the User browser.

In advance, I know that that DN looks like an AD DN, it is. However, this server is not on the domain and I do not have domain or LDAP admin rights, so this authentication needs to happen without that.

Can someone guide me into how to configure this? I've spent some time with Google, but either I'm searching for the wrong thing (possible) or none of the results help.


texts:
I was looking online and found links to two articles about the potentially harmful effects of AirPods on the body.

This is the first article.. It links to a video where the EMF intensity of the AirPods was tested and compared to other bluetooth headsets. It was concluded that they emitted a relatively high average EMF intensity. It allegedly also has a "consistent field intensity... in the 7-10 milligauss (mG) range" as opposed to a varying amount, which is apparently has a greater magnitude of effect on "brain chemistry." Do note however that this site sells supplements, if that makes any difference in its validity.

This is the second one. It tests the AirPods (again, in a video) and sees that they emit EMF exposure which has a magnitude of 3500mV/m, which is ten times higher than an iPhone in a phone call (which is emits this exposure at a magnitude of 300mV/m). This also apparently continues to occur "even when you are not on the phone and not listening to any music." The author even tries to give an explanation for why this is occurring (such as because they need to transmit information to your iPhone continuously as they can't process "Hey Siri" on the devices themselves).

As the first article suggests, this might be a cause for concern, given that these AirPods literally sit inside your ears and many people don't even take them off for hours on end (even though they continue to emit this "EMF exposure"). I definitely would do that if I didn't know anything about this (which the average consumer most likely doesn't).

Additionally I've seen information about the AirPods being a Class 1 bluetooth device (power output 100mW, theoretical range 100m, anecdotal range ~50m), which does seem strangely high for such small devices which stay so close to your body.

Apple's RF Exposure legal site doesn't list AirPods for whatever reason – only Macs, iPhones, etc.

I'm not sure what to do here. I was on the fence about buying the AirPods but these concerns temporarily stopped me. If I should only wear them minimally to avoid potentially dangerous effects, it rather defeats the point of them in the first place, and it would put me off from spending $160 on them.

I haven't been able to find any actual studies of AirPods, only the aforementioned articles from these two sites (and one or two other random ones). As a side note, it's quite hard to find specific information about this online, as different sites come to wildly differing conclusions. It also doesn't help that on Internet forums there are many "armchair scientists" who claim something as being true based purely on personal belief or what they read somewhere instead of in fact. It doesn't help that there are sites like this one which criticize EMF-emitting wireless headsets (with what looks like a picture of a person wearing AirPods), which is likely to promote their own product.

I don't know how reliable the sources I linked in the beginning are, although I do know the latter was written by a "trained electrical engineer." The first one however is on a site which sells supplements, one of which enhances the "body's natural healing," which seems kind of fishy? I don't exactly know what to make of that one.

I must say that I do doubt that Apple would make such a rash decision as to put out a device on the market which could be detrimental to a person's physiological health. I'm not sure whether these articles are just spreading FUD or if they have a valid point (the articles do seem somewhat 'sincere,' although that admittedly doesn't say much).

What can I do? Should I avoid AirPods take these issues as valid concerns?


texts:
I would like my [a,o,i,e] to appear correctly if I type the letter after an '.
Right now, I get an accent character as shown in the subject. Is there any way to turn this off?


texts: How can I transfer iPhone + iPad data to a new computer?

texts:
I have iTunes installed on my old computer (Win XP) and all iPhone + iPad apps + all backups are done on this computer.
Now I would like to use iTunes on my new computer (Win 7) and retire the old one.

My experiments so far went really bad. If I do the obvious thing and install iTunes on the new computer, then try to sync the iPhone, it completely wipes the iPhone and all app data. That happens even though the iTunes account is the same as on the old computer.

My goal is simple: I want to be able to sync/backup both iPhone and iPad on the new computer without having to completely install all apps again and loosing all the app data on the devices.

This seems to be such an obvious thing - to switch to a new computer - am I just not seeing the easy way to do this?


texts: Windows 10 on 2011 Macbook: is audio fixable?

texts:
I've been trying to install Windows 10 on an early 2011 Macbook Pro. It's not officially supported, but I  read everywhere it can be done. There are some troubles though.
I have successfully installed it alongside MacOS High Sierra actually, and everything works fine except for audio. I get the exclamation point on Device Manager and a message saying the device couldn't be started properly.
I found out audio doesn't work because Uefi Windows 10 installation somehow keeps a Cirrus audio-related device from working. At least that's what I understood after googling myself to death.
So I tried to install Windows 10 in Legacy/Bios mode. I chose "Windows" for the setup DVD instead of "Uefi Boot" at boot.
But just before the point where Windows usually asks which disk to install on, it actually asks for a missing driver. This doesn't happen when installing in Uefi mode. I tried feeding it Intel xHCI drivers with usb keys, it sees the keys but says it doesn't find any driver.
I wasn't able to use Boot Camp and had to prepare everything by hand, since I don't get the option to install Windows 10 from Boot Camp, only 8 and 7. If I try to install Windows 10, Boot Camp says the OS is not supported.
I conclude this behavior due to the fact the disk is partitioned in Uefi mode.
Is it impossible to install Windows 10 in Bios mode in such a setup?


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What commands can be used with the osascript -e argument?

I know of the command osascript -e "set Volume x" where x is 0-7.  Is there anything else I can use instead of set or Volume?  Or some documentation you could link me to?


texts: In iOS 9.0.1, I can no longer use the control center play/pause button to force play Youtube in the background while open in Safari. I can see the name of the video, but if i click "play" the button flashes white, but doesn't change to "pause" and the video doesn't play. Why is this happening and is there any way to fix it?


texts: How to use Scale Action to scale up an image in Keynote without loosing quality?

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If I have a really high resolution image in Keynote, and I shrink it down to start out small, and then use the scale up action (animation) to make it big the resulting image is pixelated and low quality, even if the image was scaled up to its original size (before it was scaled down).

This is the same for both vector and raster images.

Is there a way to scale up an image without losing image quality?


texts: Location information is not shown in "Years" view of Photos App

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I do not see the location information of the pictures I have taken in 2014 when I am in "Years" view.

I am sure pictures have GPS information on them. If I go in to 2014 year, I can see that pictures have location information.

Has anyone had this problem?

Notes:

This has been going on since iOS 7 and I started using iOS 7 when it was beta.
It is not that I have been to many places in 2014. In that case it should have said "United States, Canada & 4 more" (something like that)
I called apple support but they couldn't help.
I have the same problem on both iOS Photos app and Mac Photos app. For this reason, I have sent Mac Photos app diagnostic information to apple as a bug report but no luck there either.
I have reset and restored my phone, and iCloud pictures and no luck.
I have iCloud Photo Library on.


texts: Can I get OS X Dictation to work in Lotus Notes?

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I really like enhanced (offline) dictation in OS X 10.9, and use it a lot. I'd like to use it within Lotus Notes (9.0.1), but unfortunately double-pressing the "Fn" key when I'm composing an email doesn't seem to do anything.

Do applications have to do something special to support dictation? Is there anything I can do to get additional applications such as Lotus Notes to support dictation?


texts: How to search through online сhеss games using AppleScript or Automator?

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I would like to search for specific online сhеss games. Each game has a single adress. Since there are millions of games on instant chess, it would take far too long to index all the games. So I will set a limit and use the script at night. Conditions should be something like this:

http://www.instantchess.com/?EXP=1&GPI=84094532

To start, could the script search games 84094532 to 84095000 and store the web addresses of all the games with Reti opening in them so I could see the games by myself during the day?


texts: Switch to different app in different desktop instead same desktop

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I have 2 windows of Chrome opened in Display 1 & 3. Beside that, there is Terminal run in Display 1. Display 2 has some windows from other apps. In this case, I offten switch between Terminal in Display 1 and Chrome in Display 3.

When I open Terminal in Display 1 and do Cmd ⌘Tab window switch to Chrome in Display 1, instead of Display 3. Currently, I have to shift right/left the space twice to switch it.

Is there shortcut key to accomodate this case?


texts: How to resolve audio cutting out, returns if pause and play

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Listening to audio in iTunes, after approximately 30 seconds, the audio will sort of crackle, then go out completely. The song will continue playing, without sound. If I press pause and play or switch to a different track the audio plays normally, again for about 30 seconds, and then fizzles out again.

Running iTunes 12.4.3.1 under OSX 10.11.6

UPDATE: Tested audio in gpodder, and same result, so it is not an iTunes only issue.


texts: Dual screen setup Apple Cinema Displays Mac mini

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How do I connect dual screen setup on a Mac Mini?

Mac Mini: Late (2012)
Apple Cinema Display 27"
Apple ThunderBolt Display 27"

ThunderBolt Port: Apple ThunderBolt Display 27"
Tried two different Kanex XD units and did not work.
Kanex XD: Mini display port female to HDMI female converter to HDMI cable to HDMI Port on Mac mini.

Does anyone have a link to a converter that work or an option to hook up?


texts: Can I change the Terminal background color in my Mac?

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I saw a Terminal background color is not background in the network:

Mine default is black, and its not feels good for me.
So, can I change the Terminal background color in my Mac?


texts: How to show or hide Keyboard Viewer with a keyboard shortcut?

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I would like to display and hide the Keyboard Viewer using a shortcut.

Is there a way to display the Keyboard Viewer via a keyboard shortcut?
Is there a way to automatically display the Keyboard Viewer once I switch to a specific language?


texts: How to disable an email account when the password has changed?

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Is there a way to temporarily disable "Mail" for a given account when the password has changed other than deleting the account (see screenshot below)?

What cannot be seen on the screenshot is the following message:

  There was a problem accessing your account. Please re-enter the password for [email address]


texts:
Recently my mouse cursor is disappearing a lot and I can't make it visible again until I slide where the mouse should be up to the menu bar and click the menu bar.

How do I fix this?

Some people think this is same question as: Fix invisible cursor?

Maybe it is? But that's for an older OS, and the OP of that question has accepted an answer that doesn't fix the problem for me.

I want to prevent  the problem from happening at all ("fix").

I have already detailed how I can get my cursor back when it disappears, but it's really annoying and I want that to not happen.

The other question some people flagged as duplicate doesn't help out at all.


texts: How much space does iPod Touch video take?

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I'm thinking about getting a mounting bracket so I can record more video with my iPod Touch (4gen), but I wonder if I'll have enough space on it to hold very much.

How much space does recorded video take up on an iPod Touch, in gigabytes per hour (or whatever the appropriate units would be)?


texts: some app settings not transfered to new iphone

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I got a new iPhone SE 2020 and after turning it on I opted to move settings and everything from my old iPhone SE (old version). Not via iCloud but "directly" between the phones (I believe it goes over local WLAN).
Most things were moved, but there are some exceptions:

Sygic navigation app did not transfer the installed maps and purchased licenses. There is a "restore purchases" option in the app that did its work. I guess I have to manually download all my maps again.
a bank application does not work any more. It behaves like the first time it was installed, requiring the one time registration codes.
another bank application (Revolut) on the other hand transferred the settings, but refuses login (is has custom PIN protection, it does not accept the same PIN that worked on my old phone)
Skype for Business did not retain the logon information (or any settings, can't tell since it stop at the login part) - classic Skype on the other hand transferred all settings, including login
MS Authenticator app - no settings were transferred

Are these app specific peculiarities? Or is there a "different" way of transferring settings that would work? Like an iTunes backup on a PC?


texts: How can I create a symbolic link in Terminal?

texts: What command is used to create a symbolic link/soft link?


texts:
At work, I have a 27" iMac with a 2560 x 1440 display. I have my windows all laid out as I like them.

On Fridays, I telecommute, using my Macbook Pro (1440 x 900) to connect to my work iMac using screen sharing. I use SwitchResX to change the resolution of the iMac to 1440 x 900. I then rearrange all of my windows to the new resolution.

I have Optimal Layout and it helps in positioning the windows, but it does not support any mechanism for remembering groups of window positions and sizes.

Is there any alternative program that will allow me to configure my windows for 2560 x 1440 and save the sizes and positions for all of them as a group, then reposition them for 1440 x 900 and, again, save them as a group? Then on Fridays I will only need to tell the application to lay the windows out for 1440 x 900 and on Mondays for 2560 x 1440.


texts: Sharing photos.app library across multiple machines

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I have three machines: A Mac Pro, a Macbook Pro and a Macbook Air. I created the library on my MBP and all photos are stored on the file server on my network which all machines can access.

Copying the library to my MBA and MP, I can see the thumbnails as you'd expect but it refuses to load any files whatsoever, despite the volume being mounted at the same path.

Has anyone had any success in getting this to work?

I had a look at the database and each file has a hex encoded string stored against it which is storing system disks UUID amongst other machine specific things regardless of the fact that it's on the network share.


texts: macOS Maps - any way to change the default starting point for navigation?

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Is there a hidden setting to change the default starting point for Maps navigation away from "My Location"?

The Problem: When I'm traveling, I frequently want to check the distance between two locations in a distant place (hotel to attraction or restaurant). Every time I find the destination and click on "Directions", Maps immediately starts getting Navigation directions from my "Current Location" which wastes time and data usage because the map zooms out and away, starts looking for multiple routes, and runs into a dead end if there is an ocean in-between. Tedious to click in the Start box and delete "My  Location" each time.

I could find nothing obvious in the output of:
defaults read "com.apple.Maps"


texts:
Is there a way to make dns-sd just list a service and then exit? I am using
dns-sd -L "abcdef123@MySpeaker" _raop._tcp. local.

To list an AirPlay device's details but it keeps running once that is done.
Context: I have an AirPlay speaker that is slow to show up in the AirPlay speaker list on devices. The AppleTV shows up instantly so I was hoping to get some stats on when the speaker is slow to show up vs. not; as a way to understand what the issue might be.


texts: TextEdit keeps duplicating my text file and adding a strange extension

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A lot of the time, when I open a file in TextEdit, such as test.txt, it will create another file test.txt.sb-d7bff531-E4qLT8 in the same directory.

Why does it do this?


texts: Why would a macbook running OS X 10.7.5 boot up on its own at the same time every night?

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The macbook was turned of around 10:22PM.  At 12:00:09 sharp it boots up on its own.  This happens every night even though the user turns off the machine at around 10PM every night.

Why would this automatic boot be happening? Is there a way to disable it?


texts: What does loving a playlist (not a song/album) do?

texts: In iTunes (in Windows), it is possible to right-click a music playlist and select "Love". What does this do? What effect does it have? (Thankfully, it doesn't mark all the tracks in the playlist as Loved.)


texts: New USB ethernet adaptor not recognized on network at work

texts: I recently purchased a new USB ethernet adaptor for my MacBook Air (running 10.8.5) direct from the Apple store, but it doesn't work on the ethernet network at work. The old USB ethernet adaptor works fine, and thus it is not a problem with my ethernet card, cable or the network. Any ideas what might be causing this?


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I cannot enable Guest Account. Logged as admin, I got at Users & Groups, select Guest User,and tick Allow guests to log on this computer. Even when ticked, "disabled" appears bellow Guest User account label. When I switch to the admin account and then back at guest account (within preferences) the box is now unchecked. Any ideas what can cause this?

p.s: I don't have FileVault

Update

So I thought to try a restart. A guest account is has appeared and working (looked disabled before restart) but I cannot open Users & Group Prefs. When I select it I get: Could not load Users & Groups Preference Pane.


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I've followed closely this step-by-step guide: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/257275/322989
After that my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Mac installation work perfectly fine. But my Windows 10 does not. Every time I select the Windows partition in the startup manager, everything freezes.
Here is my diskutil list disk0:

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         370.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Linux Swap                         3.9 GB     disk0s3
   4:                        EFI NO NAME                 500.2 MB   disk0s4
   5:           Linux Filesystem                         35.3 GB    disk0s5
   6:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                89.9 GB    disk0s6
   7:           Windows Recovery                         509.6 MB   disk0s7

And here my sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0:

          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  722656248      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  723065888    7550352      3  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  730616240       1616
  730617856   68913152      5  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  799531008     976896      4  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  800507904  175598678      6  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  976106582        938
  976107520     995328      7  GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
  977102848       2179
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header

My disk0s1 looks like this:

When I boot with a Windows 10 installer and run diskpart, list volumes etc. I get:

Do you have any idea how to fix my Windows installation?


texts: Macbook often goes to max CPU and then hangs there

texts: My MBP 2015 15" often hangs with the same sequence of events. First the fan starts rushing up to top speed, then the screen gets some lag, then becomes unresponsive, and then the whole thing hangs in this max CPU state indefinitely until powered off (you can't even move the mouse). I'd really like to be able to log what software is running so I can start to troubleshoot. I don't have to be using any app in particular to make it hang, and I can otherwise do CPU intensive work like video editing without problems. Any ideas?


texts: Help needed to recover Unsaved 'Notes' on Mac OS X 10.6.8

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I had written some notes on the phone with a client and Outlook crashes and lost my notes. They were indepth... and I am embarrassed about asking the client to run through all the information again... And I need for a meeting tomorrow.
Please, can anyone hayelp me (she asks hopefully)
Thanks


texts:
I'm searching for a free alternative of RealVNC for Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).

I have one "special need" for the program. I need to be able to change the port of the Mac I am currently using.

I couldn't find anything yet, at least nothing that works with El Capitan...
Any recommendations?


texts: I want to receive notification every morning with list of things (daily agenda) for the day in my Macbook. I could not find a way to set that up in Calendar, so is there another option or can I use AppleScript to accomplish this?


texts: How can I export all calendar entries from iCloud?

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I'm trying to export my calendar for use in Magic Mirror (https://magicmirror.builders), but only one repeating entry is exported, even though I have many entries in my calendar. Is there a setting I'm missing?

I got the URL by going to iCloud calendar and sharing the calendar publicly, and I even looked at the data received by changing the protocol from webcal:// to http://, but I can't see my upcoming entries in the data received, so it's not a problem in the plugin. The entries show up properly in my iDevices and macOS Calendar.app.


texts: Turning off the two factor authentication on an iphone 8 plus

texts: How can I turn off the two factor authentication on an iphone 8 plus.


texts: How to get my second-hand, factory reset, 2008 iMac to work?

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Good day,

1. The Setup

I recently got a 2008 imac from a friend who reset it to factory settings prior to giving it to me. When I tried to turn it on it brought me to a OS X Utilities window. In this window there are 4 options to choose from:

Restore from time machine backup - When clicking this, it states no Time Machine backups were found.
Reinstall OS X - When clicking this, it leads me to the proper steps to install OS X El Captain (released from apple in 2015). After giving my Apple ID and Password it will give me a error saying "This item is temporarily unavailable". From there I am unable to proceed.
Get Help Online - Prompts me to a website with steps on how to reinstall OS X but do not help me with my specific situation.
Disk Utility - Opens the following window:

2. What I understand

The OS is completely gone from this mac (as are some basic terminal commands such as open and sudo)
The OS is not available from the app store as of this date (4/21/2020)
I need the OS in order to have the Mac working
To get the OS I need to boot the OS X El Captain program via some USB or external hard drive

3. Attempts I've made

I have downloaded a file titled InstallMacOSX.dmg from this link
I have a 8 Gb USB that has been formatted to be able to transfer the InstallMacOSX.dmg file from my computer onto the USB
I did a successful transfer using a program called TransMac
I Connected the USB onto the Mac
I went to Disk Utilities and restored the HD Macintosh drive found in the Internal drive successful which caused the HD Macintosh to be renamed to "Install OS X"

4. What went wrong

At this point the next step is to partition the USB with the following settings: CURRENT = 1 PARTITION), (FORMAT = MAC OSX EXTENDED JOURNALED) and SCHEME = GUID PARTITION MAP. BUT I cannot directly change the CURRENT or SCHEME settings in this mac. Here is an Image of what I get when I partition:
I understand that we need to partition to get a folder called Untitled. Then click on the folder and restore the "Install OS X" drive into this new folder. Following that we reboot the computer, hold the alt key and select the external USB drive to begin downloading the El Captain OS X. It will take you to a window where the downloading process can begin.
By not doing so, when I simply reboot the computer, hold alt, and then select the external USB drive, it shows the Apple logo for over 5 minutes, then it turns to black for a couple seconds, then it makes the reboot noise, and finally it it leaves me with a white blank display and stays like that.

5. My Questions

How do I partition the USB correctly using this 2008 iMac? Is there something else that I did wrong? Is there more information that you would need from me?

Thank you in advance for your time and help.


texts: What's the practical difference between a 16GB and 32GB iPhone?

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I'm looking to close a deal on an iPhone. What I am having difficulty understanding is the difference between 16GB and 32GB. When does it matter if you have 32GB and 16GB?

I understand, of course, the technical difference (free space capacity on the internal storage). As a casual smartphone user (have an Android but don't have many apps on it), and a mobile developer, I'm not sure I need 32GB. (I think my Android phone as 8GB, and I'm not using more than half.)

So when does it really matter? What are the "use-cases," if you will, for someone needing or using 32GB but not 16GB?

I'm also not planning to get a data plan, if that matters.


texts: Chrome notifications not appearing on both monitors (dual monitor)?

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When using Chrome notifications on OS X, how can I set the notifications to appear across two monitors simultaneously?

I'm using a Macbook Pro and a Thunderbolt Display, and Chrome notifications - for example, a notification of a new message on Meta Chat - only display on the Macbook Pro. I would like the notifications to display on both monitors.

I have tried:

Going into the 'Settings' of Chrome Notifications, which only allows
users to change what sites can send them notifications.
Apple's Notification Center looks to control Apple's native notifications, rather than Chrome notifications.


texts: Task Switcher moves to non-primary display on Mavericks-Catalina

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I'm running OS X on a computer with two displays that are not mirrored.

One of them is configured as the primary display using the menu bar location in Displays System Preference, pre-Mavericks style. (Although both displays actually have the menu bar.)

Problem: cmd + tab Task Switcher sometimes appears in secondary display instead of the primary. Once it starts appearing on the secondary display, it might soon move back to the primary, too.

Questions:

Why does this happen? I have seen it more than once but haven't yet figured out the pattern.
How to configure the task switcher to appear only on the primary display?

According to this similar question, How to choose on which display Application Switcher shows?, the behavior depends on which display has the dock. Follow-up variant question:

2'. How to configure the dock to appear only on the primary display?

This also happens on all later releases through at least Catalina.


texts: Unable to open Anywhere option from Gatekeeper in order to open apps not from Mac App Store

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I was following this guide to open a Mac app from an unidentified developer.
So I open Terminal and enter the following code to get the Anywhere option
sudo spctl --master-disable

This leads to the following output
objc[7234]: Class SPExecutionPolicy is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class AppWrapper is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class AppWrapperPolicyResult is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class AppWrapperPolicy is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class SPLog is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class MIS is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class SPExecutionHistoryItem is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class SPExecutionPolicyItem is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class SPDeveloperPolicy is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[7234]: Class GKScanResult is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemPolicy.framework/Versions/A/SystemPolicy and /usr/sbin/spctl. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

but doesn't seem to enable the option in System Preferences.

So how can I enable "Allow apps downloaded from Anywhere" via Terminal? Using macOS Big Sur Ver 11.1


texts: Is it possible (and how do I do it) to change what word Auto-Correct chooses when I make a typo?

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I love the auto-correct feature, once I got used to not going "AH! Typo!  furious backspacing Retype correctly!"

I have one beef though.  It seems that the typos I make are nonstandard enough that about 50% of the time, Auto-Correct chooses the wrong word.  This irritates me even more than making a typo in the first place.  It seems to happen often with double letter endings where I miss one, but that's certainly not the only case.

Example:  When typing the word 'will' I often type 'wil', I have no idea why.  Auto-Correct zaps this to 'ail'.  So then, instead of backspace, type another L, space, keep going, I have to delete the entire wrong word.

The reason I am asking here is that I don't want to add misspelled words to the dictionary, I want to train the behavior of the Auto-Correct engine itself.

Is this possible?  I can't imagine that there's no capability for learning in that algorithm.  I dream of a time when I can just mash away at the keyboard, and the computer just knows what I mean and records my rhoughts (There's another one:  it gets instantly set to 'roughest' instead of 'thoughts') accordingly.


texts: How to stream music from a Mac to an iOS device?

texts:
I have an MP3 file that I'd like to stream from my Mac to an iOS. I think VLC can be used to achieve this, but I couldn't find the right settings on the VLC app and in iOS.

If I pick RTP multicast, for instance, how can I listen to this stream in iOS?

Eventually, I'd like to be able to do this from a live audio from the microphone, but I think the MP3 stage should come first.

Any thoughts?


texts: How to mark an item as Unread in Safari Reading List?

texts: Sometimes I want to keep an item in the Unread section of the Safari 5.1.3 Reading List after I have read the item. The All section is too cluttered to use as a place to quickly find items. I realize I am trying to use the RL beyond what it was intended to be used for. Nonetheless, is there a way to mark an item in the Safari RL?


texts: Why doesn't Karabiner map F2 from the touch bar?

texts:
I used Karabiner to map f2 to return_or_enter, so that F2 can rename files in the Finder. The configuration is "for all devices", not specific keyboards and is taken directly from Karabiner on-line configuration options "Use F2 as Rename."

This works on my external  keyboards (Apple and Microsoft), but not in the touch bar.

Apparently touch bar F2 is not being detected as such--even though Karabiner EventViewer shows its events as code 59, f2, just like the external keyboard.

Touch bar configuration is shown below.

How can I configure this correctly in Karabiner?


texts: Property to force launching in full screen

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Is there any property that forces an application to start in full screen if it supports it?

I noticed in ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.mycompany.myapp.savedState/windows.plist there's a key that saves the window state on some applications.

<array>
    <dict>
        <key>NSIsFullScreen</key>
        <true/>

Some applications write it while open but don't save it and then start again not in full screen. And locking windows.plist will log an error and the app will still launch in a window.


texts: Brightness settings stuck after computer shut down in bootcamp

texts: As I was going to sleep for the night I decided I didn't want to shut my computer off completely and so I instead opted for turning the brightness settings all the way down in order to keep the computer up (I know, pretty dumb right?) . However, upon waking up i noticed the cord wasn’t attached and the computer shut down while I was sleep and now I cant boot up windows without the screen dimming down after the logo goes away. I’be tried using the brightness buttons to turn it up to no avail and I’ve also tried just entering my passwoed in hopes I could use the buttons but theybwont work. Im using a 2012 Macbook Pro with Windows 10 installed. I’ve tried hard resetting to access the recovery mode but f8 sadly wont work. Any help is appreciated.


texts: See all my photos on my iphone without having the files on there

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I have an imac at home and it has all of my photos on it. As it stands I also have these photos sitting on my iphone as well. My iphone has limited storage so I wanted to know if there was a way to do the following:

Have all my photos physically stored on my imac
Have all these photos backed up to icloud
Have all my imac photos viewable in my photos app on my iphone - but without these photos taking up physical storage space on my iphone (as it's only 16gb).

Is this possible?! It seems that is what photo stream might be on the iphone but I'm not sure, apple doesn't make it very clear.

If it doesn't work there is always the google phptos app which does exactly what I need but i would rather keep it apple if possible for consistency. Thank you.


texts: Where is the backspace button on a MacBook keyboard?

texts: I need to know where is the back space in a MacBook Pro keyboard. I am new to the Mac, and not familiar with the keyboard layout.


texts: Running Multiple X11 Servers Simultaneously

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I used to run multiple X11 servers on different DISPLAYs with different Window Managers, but now I get a return code of 1 when starting a second X11 server (or startx hangs waiting for the X11 server to start). This apparently started with xorg-server 1.20.8. My previous version was 1.20.6 so I apparently missed a version, where this might have broken.

My OS is 10.15.5 Beta (19F62f) (which may be a problem).

Has anyone run multiple X11 servers with xorg-server 1.20.8 and Catalina (any version)?

Thanks.


texts: How can I make Caps Lock work with Hebrew like it did prior to Sierra and without Ukulele?

texts: In Hebrew the Caps Lock is used to activate the vowel points. How do I restore this feature of Caps Lock in Hebrew, and without creating a new keyboard with a program that I do not know, like Ukulele?


texts: How do I get readable system information at the command line?

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I'm using High Sierra. I often have to copy & paste system information in a email or in a forum message. For this reason, I'd like a simple and easy way to get info on my operating system and my hardware at the command line. Currently I use

$ system_profiler > foo.txt

and then I search into foo.txt for the information I need. However, the process is incredibly slow, and not very automatic. Is there a better way? I only need OS, SDD/RAM & chipset info - I couldn't care less about sound or Firewalls, for example.


texts: localhost / userdir on macOS High Sierra

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There's a tutorial here Setting up a local web server on macOS 10.13 "High Sierra"

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12034

localhost works but user shortname - fails.

What gives?


texts: Why do I get "A program tried to load new system extension(s) signed by 'Benjamin Fleischer'"?

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When I try to mount a disk using sshfs on my Mac High Sierra v10.13 I get the pop-up message:

System Extension Blocked
A program tried to load new system extension(s) signed by “Benjamin Fleischer”.  If you want to enable these extensions, open Security & Privacy System Preferences.

Why do I have to enable an extension? Is this new in High Sierra?


texts: Mysteriously, a rectangle has appeared in the middle of the screen. How to get rid of it?

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I have a iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) running OS X Yosemite v 10.10.2.  Mysteriously, a rectangle has appeared in the middle of the screen.

Proportionately, it looks like a golden section.
It floats on top of everything else.

Close up:

Almost like a ghost of something, but I don't remember opening anything that size.

Any ideas about this?

Could someone/something have hacked my machine?

How do I get rid of it?


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Hopefully this is not too difficult;

I have an Elgato Game Capture HD, which I am using to capture an HDMI signal. What I want to do is take either the onscreen capture window or the USB signal into the computer and use it as a camera on OS X Mountain Lion in ProPresenter 5.

I downloaded Desktop Presenter, but I do not know where the signal from the program is going to, nor do I know if this will even act as a camera.

Any suggestions? It needs to be recognized the same way the FaceTime Camera is recognized (as a camera).


texts: Error while erasing my system disk in recovery mode

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My macBook Air failed to start. I have the grey screen and when the progress bar is at 100% it shutdown. I tried 4-5 times with same result.

I try in recovery mode pressing Alt key during boot. I check my disk
and it say that I need to repair my disk because it's damaged. (tryed several times)
I try to repair using repair button and it fail too and ask me to
make a backup of the disk then erase it.(tryed several times)
I try to mount the disk in order to backup data but I have an error: unable to mount the disk (tryed several times)
I have some backup so I ignore step 3 and try to erase my disk in extended Mac OS partition. I have the error: Unable to open the disk (tryed several times with other format)

My Mac was working great before that. I'm using an OWC Aura Pro SSD in remplacement of my old internal ssd. Can you please help me?

PS: Sorry I'm on a french Mac so I tried to translate with my poor english.


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Is there any possibility to create a unattended installation of an pkg package?

E.g. creating a mpkg and running a script which installed the package via console and installer.

Background:
I had to deploy a package to many osx enduser. We have no apple desktop and no root access to these machines. these is an preconfigured pkg package, but if the user launch it in normal way, the pre configuration will be overwritten.
On windows I realize this with an selfexecutable archive which launches an msi with silent installation. On linux I build rpm/deb packages but on osx I didn't find any proper way :(