texts: How to know what is backed up in local backup? (esp. Health Data)

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I don't use iCloud and want to back up my iPhone on my Mac. I followed this guide to do so and checked the "Encrypt local backup" box, since I also want to back up my health data from my iPhone and Apple Watch.
One big question is, is my health data really backed up? I think so, but I wanted to make sure, since this data is really important to me, and on the website it said "If you want to save Health and Activity data from your device or Apple Watch..." but then it didn't even give me a choice/overview where it specifically said it's backed up.
Here is the overview of my screen:

Thanks a lot in advance!


texts: Trying to install OS X Mavericks the computer re- started as part of the installation process but when it came back on it just has a white square half way down with the x in a circle and above says download OS X. There is no desktop or launch pad behind so I can't do anything at all! What can I do?


texts: Time Machine error code 21 and 19, "Failed to mount.... because the image could not be attached"

texts:
With macOS sierra (10.12.4), Time Machine backups to a Synology NAS are failing in the "preparing backup" phase. The UI messages aren't helpful, but console shows this error from backupd:

Failed to mount '/Volumes/TimeMachine/fubar.sparsebundle'
because the image could not be attached, error:
Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=21 "(null)"
UserInfo={MessageParameters=(
    "/Volumes/TimeMachine/fubar.sparsebundle",
    19
)}

This repeats every 60 seconds for several minutes, and then Time Machine gives up.

I'm familiar with the sort of problem fixed by https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/39842/30668 but this seems to be different. I can mount the network volume and attach the sparsebundle. Running fsck shows no errors. The sparsebundle plist shows VerificationState 0, and doesn't have a RecoveryBackupDeclinedDate.


texts: Swipe to Archive instead of Delete in Mail.app on El Capitan

texts:
OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) introduces the ability to swipe left on conversations in Mail.app in order to send them to trash:

However, judging from the available settings, it does not seem to be possible to make the swipe action "Archive" instead of "Trash", as it works on iOS.

Is there any way to change the action from "Trash" to "Archive"?


texts: Reducing Lion OS Footprint by removing unnecessary files/folders

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I am trying to downsize my iMac 640Gb disk to make it fit onto a 120Gb (113Gb usable) SSD.  The total size of use files is currently approximately 340Gb, of which my home folder accounts for 265Gb (which I intend to not put on the SSD, or at least not all of it).  Very rough calculations suggest that my OS and application files are taking up roughly 75Gb, which puts me approximately 2/3rds full - not bad.

But, I would like to reduce this a little further if possible, to ensure that as and when I continue to use the computer (and I have a number of large apps that do not currently have installed including music production apps with a lot of data) I am not worried about running out of space on the boot drive.

To this end I already own XSlimmer which I will use periodically to remove PowerPC and language variants from my apps, but I was wondering if there are any areas of the Base OS that I can safely remove to save further space?  I am thinking about things like OS localisation, the location of the included screensavers and wallpapers, the voice files that are used for text-to-speech etc.

Is there a significant amount of such data that can be easily removed to save a few extra Gb on the boot disk?


texts: Authorise my iPhone SE 2020 to see it among devices in iTunes for Windows

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tl;dr I am using the same Apple account / AppleID on both my iPhone SE 2020 and iTunes for Windows 10. Yet, Windows version of iTunes does not see this iPhone among my devices and "Sync" menu item is disabled. What should I do to fix this problem?

I am using the same Apple ID in both iPhone and iTunes / Windows 10:

I have even authorised my PC within my account (not sure, if that was necessary):

And yet my iPhone is not among my devices. Actually, it seems that I don't have any device, because corresponding menu items are disabled:

As an effect, I cannot see these audiobooks in my iPhone, as they are not being synced up to that device.
What should I do fix this problem and get File > Devices > Sync menu item enabled?


texts: Specifying network device used by software (or port) (in Terminal)

texts:
Is it possible to specify which network device should be used when running something in the Terminal? Like

$ rails [only communicate through deviceA]

Not just app, but instance specific, so different instances of rails could use different network devices. Alternately, could it be done by port? So localhost:3000 would use deviceA, while localhost:4000 would use deviceB, etc.


texts: Upgraded to Mavericks, mini-displayport vga no longer works

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So yesterday I decided to perform the free upgrade to Mavericks, but when I came back today to use my computer, my external projector no longer gets a signal from my iMac. I can verify that the signal is going out, as the display is black, rather than showing "no signal," but all it gets is a black screen.

It also only shows a black screen in the display preferences.

I've tried changing to a scaled resolution, resetting the PRAM, and simply switching mini-displayports, but nothing will make the display turn on.

Any ideas?


texts: Are there any settings on my laptop that will tell my browser "I speak English"?

texts:
I was using the Chrome browser which suddenly adds this annoying offer to translate, written in Chinese because I'm accessing the internet from Taiwan. The problem is that GoogaChrome is shooting itself in the foot by covering its own message about moving to the English version of the site with it's offer to translate in situ.

Are there any settings in macOS that are somehow read by Chrome that will convince it to just go ahead and take me to the English version of the site, or am I completely misunderstanding how the internet works?


texts: Setting up / Troubleshooting Continuity-Camera

texts:
Symptom: Greyed-out 'continuity-camera' options:

Take Photo
Scan Documents

Context:

Catalina 10.15.7: Wired (ethernet) into network
iPhone IOS 14.1: Bluetooth indicates connected to Catalina, wifi connected to same LAN

The Mac's wifi is kaput.  Is the LAN ethernet connection a viable substitute for wifi from a camera continuity context?
If your setup has a wired ethernet connection and continuity-camera is functional, please post and indicate as such.  Thank you
Asus USB-BT400 installed on Catalina:


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) (11,3) and I'm looking to change it's drive.

I've found 2 models that I think fits my model.

OWC 480GB Aura Pro X SSD For Mac Pro (Late 2013) with Envoy Pro Enclosure
Transcend 480GB JetDrive 820 PCIe Gen3 x2 Solid State Drive

Does anyone know if these 2 would work with my computer?  Are there any other SSDs that would work with this model MacBook Pro?


texts: Alternative ways to update apps via App Store

texts: So I'm trying to update from Xcode 7.0.1 to Xcode 7.1 from the App Store. Xcode 7.1 is one of the my available updates. I use the latest EL Capitan 10.11.1. I click the UPDATE button for Xcode 7.1 it says "waiting" and PAUSE then a second later it goes back to UPDATE and nothing installs nothing updates, it's not telling me that I have something else open, which I don't. Is something wrong with App store now? Is there an alternative way to update my Mac apps?


texts: How can I remove the borders from my Dock?

texts: Like on the right side of the following image:


texts: What happens to deleted texts on iCloud?

texts: If i deleted a text from my phone and then backed it up to iCloud, is that text now deleted from iCloud?


texts: Integrate structured editor with Devonthink

texts:
I am trying to use Devonthink for more use cases than I did before. What is holding me back from making it my general note-taking tool is the editor situation, and I wonder if it can be improved.

Structured editing

I am looking for an editor that offers structural markup, not just formatting. Think of the editor of Confluence, for example, that gives you a dropdown for selecting "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Code", "Quotation" and so on.

Current editing options for notes in Devonthink

Out of the box, one can create notes as

plain text
rich text (RTF)
Markdown
"Formatted note"

Plain text is obviously not the solution here.

Both rich text and formatted notes use the very old-style Mac formatting mechanism of just giving you a text style and color selection dialog, see this screenshot:

Markdown would be great, if Devonthink only had a useable editor for it -- currently, you need to manually switch between plain text editing and formatted viewing, and there are no dropdowns with formatting options available anywhere.

Looking for...

So I'm looking for ways to either give Devonthink a more powerful, more modern editor for structured text (I don't care too much about the exact format) or alternatively for a way to have it use a powerful external markdown editor of my choice everywhere I deal with notes.

Any ideas?


texts: Some queries about device compatibility on a Mac

texts:
Do normal card readers like these detect automatically on a Mac
or a separate app should be installed ?
Do DSLR camera's SD card detect on a mac just like a normal SD card
or should I install a separate app for it ?
Will the Mac detect my Motorola G when I connect it via USB ?
If files from Mac are copied to pendrive, will Windows detect the files from the pen drive ? Or should I format my pendrive to use it on a windows laptop ?


texts: Mid-2011 27" iMac random reboots, GPU defective?

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As the neighborhood computer repair guy, my friend gave me a broken iMac and told me that if I could fix it I could keep it. The exact details are:

iMac mid-2011 27"

3.1GHz i5

1TB HDD

8GB RAM

AMD Radeon HD 6970m 2GB graphics card

It is randomly rebooting, often just seconds after power up (e.g. it can't make it to the login screen). Its as if someone completely pulled the plug on it and then the computer tries to turn back on.

When the issue first came up, he brought to to Apple and they replaced the PSU. The problem still happened. Then they replaced the logic board. No luck. They gave up at this point, and he gave it to me.

The first thing I thought, if it wasn't the PSU or logic board, is that I should try just simply swapping the RAM. No luck. Then I tried replacing the HDD with an SSD. The computer made it through the OSX install just fine, and when it boots its wicked fast. I thought I had fixed it. Then the next morning I got up, powered it up, and it very rarely makes it to the login screen - the problem was still there.

At this point, every single part in this computer has been replaced and/or tested except the graphics card (Radeon HD 6970m 2GB) and the optical drive. I am also aware of a defective line of these exact iMacs with the exact same graphics card that Apple actually issued a recall on (see here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203787) Unfortunately this particular iMac was purchased more than 4 years ago so Apple won't replace it.

Is my problem most likely the video card? Am I stupid to go and spend $250 on another one off eBay, or is this computer simply cursed.

Thanks for any help. I would really like to get this working - its a very nice computer and as an amateur video editor it would be wonderful to have a decently powerful Mac (also 4K displays are nice!).

TL;DR

Got a 27" iMac free. It randomly reboots. Have tried replacing every component except graphics card. Can a graphics card cause random reboots, and is it worth replacing?


texts:
Is there any official documentation on how I can read out a non-encrypted iTunes backup of an iOS device?

I researched but unfortunately I didn't find an answer.


texts: Keyboard shortcut to exit the print dialogue in safari

texts:
When I press cmd-p in safari the print page shows up.

Escape doesn't work because I've remapped my escape key to ⌥esc

How do I exit this without using the mouse or escape?


texts: How can I open a photo in mail that is missing it's extension?

texts: My security camera sends jpgs that are missing the filename extension ".jpg" Is there any way to view these images on my iPhone?


texts:
I bought a new MacBook and am wanting to transfer my Skitch history. I've copied all of the .skitch files from ~/Pictures/Skitch on my old MacBook, but Skitch isn't showing them in the history list on my new MacBook Pro.

Any ideas?


texts: How do you turn on a send verification prompt for text messages on iPhone?

texts: My mother has a problem that she often accidentally hits send while typing a text message (i.e. SMS). Is there any way to turn on some sort of "Are you sure you want to send?" verification prompt for text messages? She's on iOS 13.


texts: I’d like to create an Apple script that will use a text path in clipboard and open a new Finder window and go to that path


texts: Safe to change permissions/ACLs for `~/.ssh/known_hosts`?

texts:
My initial problem: I am using git with SSH for authentication. Each time I push/pull, I get The authenticity of the host […] can’t be established, and after confirming to trust the host, I can connect successfully, but the confirmation is not recorded: Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/Users/peterlefanulumsdaine/.ssh/known_hosts).

The cause appears to be restrictive permissions/access control lists (ACLs) of the file ~/.ssh/known_hosts, as described e.g. here.

peterlefanulumsdaine$ ls -le ~/.ssh/
[…]
-rw-r--r--@ 1 peterlefanulumsdaine  staff  6795 18 Feb  2015 known_hosts
0: group:everyone deny write,delete,append,writeattr,writeextattr,chown

and the obvious solution, as suggested at that link, is to clear the ACLs with sudo chmod -N ~/.ssh/known_hosts.

However, I am wary of changing permissions without knowing something about the reasons for the existing settings.  So: why are the default permissions/ACLs for ~/.ssh/known_hosts restrictive, and is it safe to make them less restrictive by clearing the ACLs?

(I am on Yosemite, 10.10.5.  I haven’t ever tinkered with ~/.ssh/known_hosts by hand.  The only tools I directly use that I would guess might have affected it are ssh, git, and brew.)


texts: Encrypt backups on encrypted APFS drive for Time Machine backup?

texts:
I have a 1 TB internal drive (with APFS file system and FileVault enabled) I want to backup using Time Machine to an external USB hard drive. I want the backup itself encrypted so no one who has the hard drive can read/restore its content without a password.

Should I format the Time Machine partition as APFS or APFS (encrypted)?
Should I select "Encrypt backups" option when creating the Time Machine or should I even do both?

I called Apple and they told me to do both but the call center agent did not really make the impression that he knows for sure.


texts: Distinctive slowdown across browsers on 10.9.1

texts:
I've noticed a strange pattern of delays when trying to fetch websites; the behavior seems extremely distinctive, and is easy for me to reproduce so I'm fairly confident of most of the details below. I'm hoping someone will recognize it, or be able to work it out.

The length of delay seems to increase with the amount of time since restarting my computer, as far as I can tell without bound. This is less carefully tested than the other points, but it I am confident that restarting fixes the problem and that it rarely appears within the first few hours after restarting (and seems manageable for a lot longer than that).
The delay appears in any of Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.
curl works fine normally. But while any of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox is loading a page, curl will experience large delays. Closing the browser will immediately cause all of the running curl jobs to finish successfully (for example, I can start up 5 instances of curl fetching different websites, all of which will halt at the progress bar showing no progress; closing Chrome will cause all of the jobs to immediately finish).
The delay for curl is substantially smaller than the delay for websites, even when it exists. Right now it is on the order of 15 seconds, because I haven't restarted in a while in the hopes of debugging it. A website will take much longer than this, perhaps 15 seconds while "waiting for www.---.com" followed by comparable lengths of time waiting for others.
Latencies (as reported by ping) don't increase during problems.
While curl is experience delays, different curl jobs will finish at the same time. That is, they will all hang for a long time, then all stop hanging at the same moment (and so finish at roughly the same time, on the scale of the 15+ seconds for which they are hanging). Sometimes this happens in browsers, but not reliably (which I think might be because a browser has several opportunities to hang before actually finishing loading the page). After the curl jobs finish, immediately restarting them results in them hanging in exactly the same way, so it's not that the problem has cleared up (at least not for very long).
The delay is quite varied across web pages. I haven't done a very detailed survey (that will be the next step I guess).
when it hangs, curl -v hangs at the progress bar with no data transmitted.
While loading pages in Chrome, most of the time is spent "waiting for" CDNs and third party services.
Often Chrome will be displaying a blank screen, and pressing "Stop" will cause the page to render (with most but not all of the assets loaded). I assume this is related to the last point, and is just a behavior of chrome that appears when we have this long delay, rather than being closely related to the problem.
The delay appears when connected to many different wireless networks with different performance characteristics (e.g. a 50mbps line). I haven't tried wired networks, though I presume it wouldn't matter.
Similarly a different DNS makes no difference (which isn't surprising given that ping is always fine).
I observe the same behavior under very different levels of stress on the system. For example, right now I have 3 / 8 GB of memory free.


texts:
I'm writing instructions for a project and at some point, for a certain condition one needs to modify a simple plain ascii text file.

For windows I can tell them to fire up notepad. I thought on the mac I could use TextEdit but the TextEdit version I'm using defaults to write rtf, which introduces all rtf symbols in the file which is highly undesirable.

Using emacs or vi from the terminal is not something I want to burden the user with.

What are alternatives?


texts: Mac OS Mojave freezing after wake from sleep: i recently updated my system

texts:
after upgrade to Mac OS Mojave in my MacBookPro 2016 and my iMac they froze after wake if they're sleeping.

This happen if the Mac sleep for a while, overnight for example, and delays a few seconds to unfreeze and be possible to operate.

During this freezing time, the spinning colored ball stay frozen in the screen, and is not possible to anything until it unfreeze.

Can you suggest some solution...


texts:
Is it possible to get Java working inside a web browser?
I have Chrome and Arctic Fox installed.
The issue I have is that certain web pages wont load and/or work correctly... Mainly docker web GUIs that need Java.
Please, I don't want to hear...

Security
Outdated hardware
Linux

EDIT: What I have already tried

Downloading latest Java from the Java website: The installer cant be
launched
Going inside the .app container and running
/resources/JavaAppletPlugin.pkg: Installation fails

OS X 10.7.5 Is fully up to date


texts: iTunes Match looping step 1 (Mountain Lion)

texts:
I upgraded my MacBook (mid 2010, 13.3in) to Mountain Lion, and ever since then iTunes Match has been stuck on Step 1: Gathering information about your iTunes library. It will fill up about 60% of the progress bar and then either stop or restart step 1 again.
I’ve tried quitting iTunes and reopening it, and also restarting my computer, both to no avail.
 Is there anything I can do?
 Thanks
EDIT: It finally finished step 1 (after hours of waiting and starting it again when it stopped), but now it stops and has to be manually started again after matching about a thousand tracks.


texts: Clicking on Activity Monitor's Dock icon won't maximize the window

texts:
I've got an early 2011 13" MBP running OS X 10.10.4 PB, but this issue has been happening on literally every version of Yosemite, stable and public beta, since the initial PB release. You know how if an app has no active windows but some windows minimized, clicking on that app's Dock icon will open a minimized window? Well, that just doesn't happen on Activity Monitor.

I've found no other apps, Apple or third-party, that have this glitch, but clicking on Activity Monitor's Dock icon will change the menu bar to Activity Monitor but leave the app's window in the Dock. How can I fix this?


texts: Are TimeMachine backups password protected?

texts: If someone was to steal my external hard drive would they need to input my password to be able to read the TimeMachine backup data on there?


texts: Extract an image file of my signature from Preview?

texts:
The Preview application in OS X Lion includes the ability to take a screen capture of your written signature and save it for later application in to any PDF file.

Where does Preview store the image file for this signature? Is it possible to extract the signature for use in another application like Adobe Reader?


texts: How can I temporarily disable hot corners when playing games (or other such full-screen apps) on Mavericks?

texts:
I use hot corners to lock my screen/start the screensaver.  I've also recently started playing some games on Steam that run in fullscreen on Mavericks.

Unfortunately, since the mouse cursor is used to control movement, use of hot corners basically makes the games unplayable.

Is there an easy way to toggle hot corners on and off before and after playing games in fullscreen?

I used to use this script but it doesn't work on Mavericks.


texts: Should I have to pay for Garage Band if I bought my iMac with OS X 10.8?

texts: I've recently started a project that's going to entail using GarageBand. I'd heard it was free, and I searched it in Spotlight. Just to clarify, I am currently running El Capitan. Lo and behold, it did not appear in Spotlight, despite having a reference to the GarageBand app in the App Store. I clicked the App Store link, and it took me to the GarageBand app page where I observed, my confusion growing by the minute, that its price was actually $4.99. I googled it and arrived at an apple site saying that GarageBand is free to all users that have used 10.10. I bought my iMac with OS X Mountain Lion and since then have updated to El Capitan. While I haven't downloaded GarageBand ever I'm pretty sure, I should still have access, no? Every other iApp is there: iPhoto, iMovie, Keynote, Pages and Numbers, so why not GarageBand? I've still got the installation apps for Mavericks and Yosemite, and I had a friend recommend I partition my drive and install Mavericks and bring GarageBand over, but I've got no clue how to do that and I've had bad experiences with downgrading OS, so I'd definitely need guidance if that's the way to go.


texts: Can I set the sender/reply-to address in iOS mail for an ActiveSync account?

texts:
I have a Google Apps account for mail.example.com, but actually use addresses @example.com (e.g. tony@example.com, whereas the account is tony@mail.example.com).  This isn't ideal, but I'm stuck with it for now.

In iOS mail I have this account setup as an Exchange account (i.e. not IMAP), which means that there isn't much in the way of settings.  Email I send from this account comes from tony@mail.example.com, which works, but I would prefer tony@example.com (this already works fine on the Desktop/browser).

Is it possible to change the sender/from/reply-to header in this situation?

(I wasn't sure whether this was an iOS mail issue and so should be asked here, or a Google apps issue and so should be asked on webapps.se, or if it's just not possible. Feel free to bounce me if appropriate!)


texts: Access iCloud emails on an Android without Mac or iPhone

texts:
I want to access my iCloud emails on my Android phone.

Using a browser doesn't work; iCloud.com just says: Your browser is not currently supported. (Tested with Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Chrome).
Using a regular Mail app requires an application specific password, which in turn requires Two-Factor authentication. But I don't have a compatible device (iPhone, Mac, etc.) for enabling Two-Factor authentication.

How can I access my iCloud email (and calendar, if possible)?


texts: Not able to update from 10.8.5 to OS X Mavericks

texts:
I'm currently trying to update my mid 2009 Macbook Pro to Mac OS X Mavericks. I've downloaded the file from App Store several times the but every time when the Install progress reaches about "1 second left" a message pops up saying that the download might be corrupt or that the program can't be verified.

I already tried the following things:

Check HDD (also at boot with Cmd + R)
Check that apps are compatible to work with Mavericks
Checked HDD size (about 40 GB left)
Downloaded from different internet accesses
Made all offered updates mentioned in App Store

My drive is FileVault encrypted.

It's enough to drive one to despair.


texts: How do I create a mailbox within a mailbox in Mail?


texts:
I'm looking for a windows compatible program that will change iTunes metadata. I'm interested in changing tags that iTunes doesn't let me change, such as making a little HD flag appear next to the film and changing the media kind with all options.

All the programs are for Mac only, but the functionality I seek is something like Subler for PC.


texts: Is there an app for iOS that can create split zip or rar files?

texts:
I'm looking for an app for iOS that can create a split zip or rar file. For example, instead of creating one big zip file (e.g. test.zip, 90 MB), it would create two smaller zip files (e.g. test.zip.001, 50 MB and test.zip.002, 40 MB).
On Android, such an app would be ZArchiver.


texts:
I'm running vmware fusion 5 under OS X Mountain Lion. My virtual machine is running Ubuntu 12.04.
I have two fastidious shortcuts which I would like to disable:

When I press Command ⌘, Ubuntu opens the dash and shows under the text field a set of icons.

When I press the Option ⌥+` keys (which I use for making accented letters) Ubuntu opens the dash without showing the icons under the text field.

How can I disable or block these shortcuts?


texts: How can I use an iTunes smart playlist to find and delete audio files?

texts:
I just imported 300 AIFF files into iTunes in order to easily convert them to AAC. That part is done, and now I want to delete the AIFF files. I know how to do this from Terminal, but I'd like to find the best way to do this from iTunes.

I created a smart playlist with these rules:

date added is 2/24/2012
kind begins with "AIFF"

This smart playlist contains all 300 AIFF files that I want to delete, as expected. But when I select the files in this playlist, the Edit > Delete menu item is disabled, and the context menu does not display any menu items related to deleting or trashing the files. If I go to the smart playlist, select all the files, then change the source list selection to the entire Music library, the selection is lost.

Since my iTunes library only contains these 600 files, I could do the manual step of showing the Kind field in the list, sorting by kind, and selecting the 300 AIFF files. But I was hoping to be able to do this from the smart playlist. Does anyone know how to do this? Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

(Mac OS X 10.7.3, iTunes 10.5.3)


texts: How to make command-key shortcuts work again?

texts:
I've just upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6.3 and all seemed to go OK, except that now no keyboard shortcuts work in any application. The keyboard viewer shows me that the command keys are working fine, and some global shortcuts work fine when I've configured them to (e.g. command-space to produce the Spotlight search box).

But all applications (e.g. Finder, Safari, Chrome, Terminal) ignore any shortcuts I type at them, even if I use the keyboard viewer to type them.

Oh yes, one other strange anomaly: in Chrome, if I type command-C, it brings up the Developer Tools window if the selection is in the main body rather than the URL box.

Another anomaly I've just found: in the iTunes search box, the backspace key and the arrow keys don't have their usual function - they produce blanks. If I copy that text, it seems the key codes are going through uninterpreted (here I typed 'a' followed by backspace, left arrow, right arrow, up arrow, down arrow):

% pbpaste | od -c
0000000    a  \b 034 035 036 037
0000006
%

What on earth is going on, and how can I stop it?!


texts: iPhone and iPad not downloading all iCloud emails

texts:
I moved all my emails (13k messages) from Outlook to iCloud a couple of days ago using Outlook 2016 on a Windows computer and Apple's iCloud client for Windows. I see all of my emails in iCloud's web client so I assume that the emails have successfully been moved to iCloud. However, not all emails are being downloaded to iOS' default mail app on both my iPhone SE (running iOS 11 GM) and iPad (running iOS 9.3.5).

The iPad has synced all my emails up to 2013 and my iPhone has synced all mails up to 2014. I'm missing all emails of after that time on my devices (even after I manually pull down to refresh), but they do show up in iCloud's web client. According to iCloud my mailbox size is 773MB and both my devices have plenty of storage space left (>5GB), so that shouldn't be an issue here.

Any idea what I'm missing here? What do I need to do to have both my devices download the remaining messages?


texts: Can I install Win 10 (GPT formatted USB installer) on MacBook Pro without using BootCamp?

texts:
I have a brand new MacBook Pro provided by our home & contents insurance which is replacing my wife's Mid-2013 model that was accidentally damaged.

She ran Win 10 on the old one, installed via BootCamp.

My question is, if I use a GPT formatted Windows 10 install USB that I usually use for UEFI installs on "normal" computers, can I just install straight onto the SSD without needing BootCamp?

Ideally I'd want to use this with only Windows installed (i.e. I don't need it to be a dual boot machine).


texts: How can I search folder names from Open/Save Dialog in El Capitan?

texts:
When I switched from Windows to OS X Mavericks, it took me a few months to learn that the fastest way to open or save documents in an application was to search for the folder they should be in.

Under El Capitan, it seems to be increasingly difficult to find an application that allows me to find a folder name in the Open/Save dialog boxes.  Almost every application only allows me to find the names of files, and systematically excludes folders.  (One exception is Save As in Office 2016, which allows me to search folder names.)  How can I fix this?  Am I crazy for thinking this used to work?

P.S.  The folders I'm looking for show up find in normal Spotlight searches.


texts: Is it possible to give/remove permissions to/from apps via the command line?

texts: Logi Options seems to forget it has Input Monitoring and Accessibility permissions frequently, so I have to go in and remove the permissions and add them back to get the scroll wheel on my MX Anywhere 2s mouse to work again.  I'd like to automate that process.  Is there some way to interact with the Catalina permissions via the command line (via sudo of course)?


texts: iTunes thinks there is a podcast on my ipod when there isn't

texts: Every day I listen to podcasts. When I'm done with them, I plug the iPod into the computer and uncheck the ones I no longer want, and then hit "sync" again. iTunes thinks that there is a podcast on my iPod... but there isn't, and nor should there be. Not a huge deal, but very annoying. How should I fix this?


texts: Is there a "windirstat"/"Disk Inventory X" type iOS app? (ie app for visualizing hard drive usage on iOS)

texts:
This is a pretty simple question. Assuming you know what WinDirStat &/or Disc Inventory X do, which is visualize the usage of your hard drive on a file-by-file basis, sized in proportion to the size of the given file(s) & colorized according to type.

For someone it might be a new app idea. I'm hoping it already exists, however. I know a program like this wouldn't (need to) tell you the "path" to any files, but it would be nice to visualize which apps are hogging the most of the 16GB hard drive on my iPhone.

I'm aware of iTunes's simple Apps/Music/Video/Etc pie chart but am looking for something a bit more "WinDirStat/Disk Inventory X"-like.


texts: What does Apple want for the WWDC Scholarship application uploads?

texts:
I am trying to submit my app for the 2013 Student Scholarship - form here  (Dev program needed).
However, I am confused about what it is, exactly, that they want: Here's a screenshot of the section of the form I'm concerned about:

App File
For this, I seem to have several possible options - which is correct?
1 - .app file
Found in Xcode at the bottom of the Navigator:

I understand that I would right click and click 'Show in Finder' - then Zip it if I went this way.
Or...
2 - Ad-Hoc Deployment
Found by archiving the app and choosing this option:

If I choose Ad-Hoc, I end up with an .ipa file - is this what Apple wants?:

'Xcode Project'
I'm confused here too:
1: Just zip the entire project:

Or...
'Export as Xcode Archive'
Found by going to the Organizer of an archived app:


texts: How can I prevent the iCloud dialog from showing up for new users?

texts:
On 10.7.2, whenever a new account is created, and the person logs in for the first time, they see the iCloud system pref pane.

Is there a way to prevent this from showing up?


texts: I chose the wrong partition to install Windows. How do I reinstall Mountain Lion?

texts:
I've had my new Mac for less than a week, and screwed it up.  In trying to create a dual boot, I made noob mistake in choosing the wrong partition to format to NTFS for Windows (the partition with boot camp).

The good news is that looks like Mountian Lion is available in the AppStore for download.  The bad new is I don't have a Mac OSX to download.   I'm pretty sure the recovery partition still exists, but I don't know how to access it at this point.  What can I do?


texts: 2TB USB drive not showing in diskutil, fsck not running, not showing in Finder

texts:
I recently purchased a 2TB USB drive and loaded a few files onto it after formatting it to FAT32 so I could use it on my TV.
I accidentally unplugged it without unmounting/ejecting it first and ever since I have been unable to view it in Finder.
I've also tried looking for it with diskutil but it does not show. Also, I have checked for fsck and it is not running on my system. Similarly, the disk does not show in Disk Utility.
I've tried plugging it into two separate TVs but it is not recognised on either.
What are my options to try and resuscitate this drive?
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         121.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +121.1 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD — Data     101.7 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.7 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.4 GB    disk1s5


texts: I have been asked for my UDID, is there any personal information that will be given away should some have this number?

texts:
I have been asked my my UDID to beta test apps, is there personal information attached to this number? Such as passwords or account information?

Details about the device, I am running ios7.1 on an ipad 2.


texts: What tools exist to rename (truncate) batches of files in OS X?

texts:
I get bunches of files I need to rename. The original filenames normally have 7 digits - plus an optional character (or two), followed by a space then a whole string of other characters. I need to rename them to be such that the space and everything after it is replaced by '-z'.

For example: (original filenames)

3543679 ggry Hugh highs Bhutto.jpg

6789456 hfghh hfghh death.eps

8753674a hfryg gyjbff hfghh.png

4686536c Guggenheim.jpg

Would become: (renamed filenames)
3543679-z.jpg

6789456-z.eps

8753674a-z.png

4686536c-z.jpg

Anyone got any ideas how to automate this?


texts: Apps downloaded from app store not working on MacBook - damaged and cannot be opened

texts:
I get the error message:

  Xcode Can't be opened. "Xcode" is damaged and can't be opened. Delete "Xcode" and download it again from the App Store.

I get this message for every app I have from the app store on my computer. I had TextWrangler installed from the appstore and it was doing this, so I downloaded a different version of it online somewhere - and it works fine. Apps such as iMovie, GarageBand etc. all give this message.

I have tried rebooting. Many times.

I have deleted and re-downloaded these apps many times as well.

I've tried running terminal commands such as:

xattr -rc /Applications/Xcode.app

and

killall -KILL storeaccountd

I've tried opening these apps from a different user on this Mac, and I've tried signing out from the appstore and signing back in.

I've also tried running these apps while booted in safe mode, and still get this error every time.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Read GnuPG encrypted emails transperently on iOS

texts:
Are there any tools that integrate OpenPGP/GnuPG with the mail reader on iOS

I've heard that iPGMail and oPenGP, probably SecuMail too, all require that you copy & paste an encrypted email into the application, which sounds obnoxious.  Any of these tools managed to actually integrate with iOS's mail reader the way GPGTools does on OS X yet?

Yes, I'm aware Apple's Mail readers support S/MIME, but that's less secure in practice.


texts: Can the Eclipse emulator be made less blurry when run on retina Mac hardware?

texts:
I'm using Eclipse JUNO and ADT 21 on a MacBook Pro Retina 15" and the eclipse app itself looks very sharp (code blocks, images and texts). However, things are blurry in the Android Emulator.

What can I do to fix the blurriness of the emulator window?


texts: How do I disable the "fn + F8" shortcut?

texts:
As I need to use the fn + F8 shortcut within my virtual machine, I'd like to disable it in my host.

How do I go about disabling this particular shortcut, so that it can be used within my VM?


texts: Applications sometimes reopen at start-up in Mountain Lion

texts:
Despite un-checking the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox when turning off the computer, applications reopen sometimes at the next start-up. Furthermore, this happens also when I quit all the applications manualy before, which is strange. This issue occurs in Mountain Lion (10.8, 10.8.1 and 10.8.2), never actually happend to me in Lion. Maybe it's worth noting that this is not a clean install, but an upgrade from Lion.

Is there any solution how to prevent this (maybe from the Terminal)?


texts: Enable the display of harddrives in the finder sidebar from terminal

texts:
I administrate MacBooks (os version 10.13) most of the time remotely and as much as possible from terminal only.

I know how to display Hard drives in the sidebar of the Finder using the graphical interface > Finder > Preferences...

Is it possible to enable this from terminal?
(sfltool is not available anymore since 10.13+)


texts:
I can remember the old version of the Airport Configuration Utility. Back then it was possible to display graphs for WiFi devices and such. So the timecapsule pretty sure can do more than there is in the frontend of the new utility.

Is there any software that provides those hidden functionalities to the hands of a user?


texts: How to stitch several photos into a single one using Mac OS X in 360 mode or simple?

texts:
Microsoft made the PhotoSynth application for iPhone but forgot to create one for OS X.

How do I stitch several photos into single one, free apps would be preferable.


texts: Why Migration Assistant does not migrate browser cookies?

texts:
If Migration Assistant migrates the entire hard disk content, it should include the browser cookies as well.

But my new machine did not have cookies; I was signed out of all web applications.

Why is that so?


texts: Do I have enough evidence to conclude that my 2017 MacBook Air's problem is in the logic board?

texts:
I'm trying to revive a MacBook Air 2017 that suffered a liquid spill (diet Crystal Light on the keyboard). After a week of drying, open, in an aggressively dehumidified room, it started up and behaved normally for a week or so, but then failed to start up. Now it won't boot at all or respond in any way.

Laptop: 13" MacBook Air MQD32LL/A (1.8GHz Core i5, 8GB)
Logic board: 820-00165-A

This question differs from No sound (speakers/jack) + microphone's dead after spilling water. I am asking whether the described symptoms isolate the problem to the logic board as opposed to other parts, which is not asked or answered there. Repair/replacement of the logic board is relatively expensive, so it would be useful for people in this or similar situations to be able to evaluate the level of certainty that the logic board is the locus of the problem. Although I reviewed numerous related questions including the above, I haven't seen any thorough treatments of this question.

More details

I don't see any sign of liquid remnants or corrosion on any internal
components, but the moisture detector under the display data cable
connector was activated.
After the charger hasn't been connected for 10 minutes or so, when
connected its diode will flash green for an instant, once. Other than
that, the diode will not light, even dimly. Tested with
two known-good Apple Magsafe chargers; same results.
But with the battery out and the I/O ribbon disconnected, when I
connect the charger its diode lights up green (or occasionally amber)
for a minute or so then fades slowly to dark. (Interesting: In order
to repeat this sequence and get the diode to light again, it seems the
charger has to be connected to a different, known-good computer, just
for a second, as if it needs to reset itself.)
SMC reset: No response and no change.
Jumping the power pads: No response, even with keyboard/trackpad
ribbon disconnected. Tested with battery and charger, battery only, and charger
only; also with charger only and I/O ribbon disconnected.
Tested with a second known-good battery: No change
Replaced top case: No change
Replaced I/O board and I/O ribbon connector: No change

I don't know whether the Crystal Light got to the logic board or if this problem could be caused a fault in a cheaper part, say the I/O board — and maybe I got a second faulty I/O board.

The question, more precisely: Do the symptoms described indicate that the problem is almost certainly in the logic board, or almost certainly somewhere else, or is it inconclusive?


texts: Does iOS AppStore prohibit Youtube Downloading apps?

texts:
I am currently developing an app that allows users to search for a youtube video and then allows them to download the video offline for viewing when there is no wifi/cellular coverage..

I noticed that the AppStore lacks this category of apps, or to put it in other words: apps like these appear for a short while before being removed, or updated to stop downloading videos.

So, there must be some guidelines on what apps are allowed to exist in the appstore and clearly youtbue downloaders are not. Where can I read those guidelines?


texts: How can I make my Apple TV 1st gen join a WiFi network without having a TV connected?  Is there an OSX utility for set up in the same way there is with Airport Express?


texts: Does anyone know the name of this tool on Mac OS?

texts: This looks like a file browser but I don't know name of the tool. Can anyone help? Thanks!


texts: How do I force-quit an individual app on Apple Watch?

texts:
On my iPhone, I can force-quit the active app by double-clicking the home button and swiping the app to the top.

How can I force-quit / terminate the active app on the Apple Watch without restarting the entire device?


texts: Disable Karabiner complex rule on some keyboard combination

texts:
I would like to enable the following rule which sets the spacebar to left shift when pressed together with another key. The problem is that this disables spotlight search (which uses CMD+spacebar).

Is there a way to disable the spacebar rule when pressed with the command key? An alternative way would be to set the cmd + spacebar to spotlight in Karabiner itself. Is that a possibility (I could find it anywhere the documentation)

                    {
                    "description": "Change spacebar to left_shift. (Post spacebar if pressed alone)",
                    "manipulators": [
                        {
                            "from": {
                                "key_code": "spacebar",
                                "modifiers": {
                                    "optional": [
                                        "any"
                                    ]
                                }
                            },
                            "to": [
                                {
                                    "key_code": "left_shift"
                                }
                            ],
                            "to_if_alone": [
                                {
                                    "key_code": "spacebar"
                                }
                            ],
                            "type": "basic"
                        }
                    ]
                }


texts: iOS app to download YouTube videos to video library?

texts: I have an iPhone 3GS with iOS 6 an I would like to watch movies on the TV, therefore I bought an AV composite cable. Only videos that are located in the "photos/videos app" can be played on the TV through the AV cable. Is there an app that can download videos from YouTube to that folder?


texts:
I have a question about multiple desktops. This function is super helpful since I only have a 13 inch macbook pro and my screen economy is vastly improved with multiple desktops since I am using ruby, sublime text, web browsing, and (due to my ADD) VLC and quicktime at the same time.

Questions:

1) How do I get multiple desktops to start at startup?

2) I have assigned web browsing to desktop 1 and ruby+sublime to desktop 2. How do I get these to open on these desktops permanently? Will 2 desktops be created if I open ruby and sublime after restarting my computer?

3) Is there a quick way to drag open applications between desktops?

4) Say I have VLC open on desktop 4 and I select that it opens on desktop 4. At startup, if I only have 1 desktop open, and I open VLC, will desktops 2 and 3 open? Are desktops reopened after restarting?

5) Any other useful tricks I should know about?


texts: Turn Virtual Memory Swapping back on in Yosemite

texts:
I disabled virtual memory swapping using OnyX in Yosemite, but the program can't turn it back on when I click Turn On.

I already tried:

sudo launchctl load -wF /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist

and it just says "Operation already in progress." OnyX still shows that the swap file is turned off and I have zero swap files. How do I turn it back on?


texts: I tried asking on apple forums, and they said do a SMC reset. Tried it, and it doesn't work. It always happens. Here's a video of what I am talking about, watch through the full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25cWVrg8Bfw&feature


texts: Disk Utility changing partition types on its own

texts:
Whenever I do an operation in Disk Utility the last day it seems that I end up with my APFS partitions set to an unknown partition type (FFFF...)
This has happened three times now both after extending APFS partitions, and after splitting a HFS partition and creating a new APFS partition. Once it changed the partition type of an APFS partition that wasn't even involved in the resize operation.
Every time this happens I'm forced to manually change the partition type back using e.g. gdisk to make the system bootable again.
Is this a generally known bug in the community, or what's going on here? Why is it insistent on breaking the system partition after a resize?

It has happened with Disk Utility in macOS 10.14 Mojave and 10.15 Catalina
The resize operations were initiated by simply selecting trailing "free space" and removing it.


texts: keychain security in a managed device (AD)

texts:
When using a managed device (Active directory) behind, what security measures are recommended to take in order to secure sensitive data like stored passwords, directories or the keychain itself?

The way I need to join/setup this apple device is to boot from network and install company custom OS/software/tools, this will download/setup some certificates needed to get access but at the same time, wondering how much the private data becomes exposed, like the apple id, or data like 1password, etc.

My guess is that in this scenario is like giving root access away and there is pretty much nothing to do besides just using the device with no sensitive data/etc. or is there a semi-managed option not granting too many privileges?


texts: App/solution for having alerts for emails

texts:
I have following case: when something bad happens with services I'm responsible for, I get email to specific email account. And I'd like to get alert about it from my phone.

But I don't mean just notification with a single sound. I want the alert to sound until the email is deleted or I actively disable the alert in the phone. This is for the cases when alert is raised in the night, and I just don't wake up after single, even loud, notification sound.

So is there any solution or app that would let me define something like this:

  When there is email in a specified imap account, play a configurable sound, perferably with rising volume, using loudspeaker in the phone. After the sound finishes, wait 30-60 seconds, and repeat the procedure, until the mailbox is empty again or I do something on the phone to silence the alert.


texts: How to troubleshoot apps of which multiple instances can be launched

texts:
I have been observing strange behavior with two dictionary apps from a French / Belgian developer. I can launch both of them multiple times -- i.e., multiple instances of the app will appear in the dock (and Activity Monitor) -- but this is true only for these apps. I'm running Mac OS 10.13.3 on a MBP mid-2015. I've reported this to the developer, but they can't reproduce the problem -- and state that no one else has reported this. If I create a test account, the problem still occurs. I've tried completely deleting and reinstalling these apps, to no avail. However, it turns out that I'm unable to launch more than one instance of these apps on a 2010 MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.11, and I don't know whether it's because of the hardware or the software.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot, if not how to resolve this problem?


texts: manually edit shortcuts on os x 10.9 (Mavericks)

texts:
I'm using TotalTerminal on 10.9 Mavericks and while it's not great, it's the best quake terminal I've found right now. I usually show/hide the visor using command-escape but unfortunately can't seem to pull this off as I'm being told there's an existing universal shortcut for this key combination.

I've gone through the keyboard preferences shortcuts and can't find anything that maps to command-escape. The only thing I can think of is that this used to be front-row (which is no longer installed by default on new macs).

Does anyone know how I can set command-escape manually in total terminal via config file? I'm happy doing that by modifying the apple keyboard shortcuts and erasing whatever is mapped their now or editing a totalterminal config.

Thanks in advance


texts: Can I use the same Lion OS X license on a home and a work machine, or do I have to buy one for each?

texts:
I bought a Lion OS X license for my home Mac. Can I use this same license to install Lion on my work computer?

The Can I use the new Lion OS X license on two machines, or do I have to buy one for each? question is similar, but that question is about installing on two home machines. My doubt is caused by this excerpt from the App Store license (emphasis mine):

  (i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use [...]

If the moderators feel it's more appropriate to complement that question instead of opening a new one, please say so.


texts: How can you limit an iOS device to a certain volume level when headphones are initially connected?

texts:
My car has an aux input, so I have to turn the volume up all the way on my iPhone in order to get the most out of the car's speakers. When I get home and plug in my headphones, there's potential for it to actually hurt my ears if I forget to turn down the volume before hitting play, or if it's already playing and I plug in my headphones. It's happened way too many times. Both my ears and my headphones have probably been damaged to some extent by it over the years.

The solution is obvious - an option to limit the maximum output when any new audio device connects (ideally with overrides for different devices). I couldn't find it in Settings (WTF?), but it should be in there. If not, maybe it's possible with Shortcuts?


texts: Why ever does Parallels 8 recommend max 4 GB RAM for a VM?

texts:
I'm a VMware Fusion user and am trying out Parallels since VMware has some quirks that are annoying on Mountain Lion on a retina MacBook Pro (16 GB RAM).

I'm wondering about the baffling Parallels recommendation (when configuring a VM) that there is a maximum cap of 4 GB of RAM for a VM with Parallels (indeed, it recommends 1.5 GB for Windows 8). (See this forum thread.) Granting anything more would, in fact, slow down both the host and client, but I have no problem assigning 8 GB of RAM to a VM in Fusion; before really committing to Parallels, I'd like to know the rationale behind such a recommendation (and no, the Parallels forums don't shine satisfactory light on the subject, at least from what I've been able to dig up).

If you're running in an x64 environment for both host and client then there shouldn't be any acceptable reason for needing to cap the RAM. Apparently, Parallels support states "because Windows is working in a virtual environment, that it only needs max 1-3 GB." My development machine and environment is not a toy, so such an answer seems borderline patronizing and makes me think they're simply covering up for a significant Parallels limitation.

UPDATE October 26, 2012 ---
Well, look at that. Latest update released today (October 26, 2012) now allows "assigning up to 16 GB of memory to a single virtual machine."

See http://kb.parallels.com/115024

  You can now assign up to 16 GB of memory (RAM) to a single virtual machine.
  Support for Windows Server 2012.
  New, more intuitive design to optimize Windows for working on Retina displays.
  Easily check the reclaiming disk space progress with a new progress bar.

However, I've installed and checked, and it still says "For best performance, set available memory to be within the recommended range of 512 MB to 4096 MB. Allocating memory outside of this range can slow down both the guest OS and your Mac."

The mystery continues...


texts: Automator workflow triggered by another app?

texts:
Is it possible to trigger an Automator workflow/application when a specific action occurs in another application? I want to trigger the Automator script to play a particular track in iTunes when my Pomodoro work timer finishes.

If not possible can anyone recommend any other solutions? (please treat with kid gloves as am not a developer)

thnkx


texts: Is there a way that I can set the iOS music app to save my progress during playback?

texts: I've noticed since updating to iOS 9 that if I pause music playback in the middle of a song, then return to the music app after a period of time, the song begins playing again from the beginning. Not where I left off. This can get annoying if you are listening to a longer file, like a mix or (I would imagine) an audiobook. Is there a way for me to change the setting so that my position within the song will be remembered?


texts: System on external drive using on iMac and MacBook Pro

texts:
A few days ago I moved system to an external drive and I use it with my iMac. Everything runs nice and smooth. Today my new MacBook Pro arrived, but when I switch the Macs and start my system from my external disk everytime I start I get asked for my Apple ID and password (because of the App Scenario and maybe others.)

Why can't Apple store the information that I am using two Macs with this App instead of have to type in my password every time.

Has anybody an idea?

Login screen like that:


texts: My Mac Mini 1,1 running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 is missing libc++. Is there a version for OS X 10.6.8? Is there a way to install it again through Homebrew?


texts:
Is it possible to view play counts on iPad, or iPhone, in the Music app, like one can in iTunes?

I am running iOS 6.


texts: iMac mid 2011 wont let me left click - tried to fix and now stuck in reboot loop

texts:
I have checked many similar questions, but none answers my problem.
I have an iMac mid-2011 running High Sierra, and for some reason this morning, the mouse cursor moves around the screen but I can not left click anything. The right click works fine and I can right click stuff. I tried connecting different mice, and every one that I connect has the same problem but they work fine on other computers (I don't have any additional Bluetooth mice connected to the computer like some people had in their questions.)

I tried the NVRAM reset, but no success. I tried the NVRAM again and now the Mac is stuck in a reboot loop.

I was able to open recovery app with cmd alt r, and the interesting thing, is when the wifi selection screen pops up, I can use the right and left click of the mouse, but as soon as the recovery app loads, again I can not use the left click....

So I am not sure how I can fix this..seems like the only fix is opening the mac, and changing hdds to install a new OS and see if that helps..

Any other suggestions are welcome though


texts:
I was just using FaceTime audio and my phone told me I was running out of space.  I was curious as to how this was possible as I knew I have about 2GB free yesterday.  I kept going back in and checking space whilst on the call and it eventually got down to 0 bytes free.  Once the call was over, it went back up to 2.4GB.

Given that RAM and SSD space aren't wildly different things, it seems possible that FaceTime would overflow it's RAM usage onto the SSD.

Does anyone know if what I'm observing is true? Is FaceTime really using many gigabytes of my iPhone's storage when its operating? If this is true, why is FaceTime buffering so much to disk like this? And is the buffered content encrypted in anyway?


texts: where to type the password for printing over internet and can not install the driver on 10.10

texts:
My company has a network printer KONICA MINOLTA C353, I have added it on my Mac.

I know there is still a password needed to fill in, but I can't find where to input it.

What a bad luck is that I can install the latest driver on osx 10.10 (you can see the two disks are gray, you can install on it)


texts: Macbook Pro Retina 15" (mid 2012) screen is glitching in specific situations

texts:
The display of my macbook is glitching as you can see in image below. However this is happening only if I'm trying to do some on graphics heavy tasks, just like opening big Rhinoceros project. The second occasion is when I wake up computer (from Sleep mode) and it was NOT pluged in. This glitching stops after a while, but it is at least disconcerting.

Does anyone have any advice?


texts: Does apps backup on iCloud consume space?

texts: iCloud comes with free 5GB space. If I enable iCloud to backup my iPhone app (10GB+), is the app size counted as part of the 5GB space? Or only the data of apps is counted?


texts: iPhone 6, iOS 11.1.2: Messages app closing right after I open it

texts:
I think I know when it appeared to be happening.  I had recieved some SMS text message from my bank regarding transaction item. And there was some special weird symbol, which looks like vise versa question mark.

I had something with macOS Notes, when I opened it and it just crashed.  So I just cleaned all content in Notes in iCloud web.  And was able to use macOS Notes again.

Is there any way I can clean all text messages in Messages app on iPhone?

I have removed everything, it seems in Settings -> iPhone Storage -> Messages:

But it keeps closing in right after I open it to write someone a reply. So basically I just can view notification previews and can't send a reply to anyone.

I have in mind some ways of fixing it. Like restore/refresh or wait for next iOS version to fix it or refresh it somehow.

Though, I don't want to restore the phone, settings or whatever. Might just probably wait when it cleans messages older than 30days of new iOS version will come up.


texts:
I've noticed a few sessions on my website with the referer of connectme.apple.com, however the server does not appear to exist on the internet. More specifically, this is the URL of the referer:

https://connectme.apple.com/docs/DOC-781239 (Could not resolve host)

The most notable session from this referer was the following flow:

Shutdown Causes
Blog
back then forward
OS X - Blog
back
iOS - Blog
OS X El Capitan Hidden Features
back 3x

The sheer length of this session is intriguing given that I rarely break 3 pages per session!

The /docs/DOC-… section of the URL is similar to that which is used by Apple Support Communities docs (https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-••••), but this is the only similarity I could find. Furthermore, the DOC number is far greater than any DOC number on ASC.

What is this domain for? What ‘docs’ are on this site? Can it be accessed outside of Apple?


texts: Apple ID recovery mail going to wrong email address

texts:
I tried the forgot Apple ID / password option available on the Apple's site and selected the Reset via Email option. But the recovery e-mail they are sending to has got domain part wrong. As in m*****@m*****.com instead of m*****@gmail.com.

What can be wrong here? Is this some kind of a bug?


texts: How to prevent child from using Find My to interact with parent's device?

texts:
Both me and my child are members of one Family, with Family Sharing turned on. We use different Apple IDs. When my child opens "Find My" app, my devices are listed there as well.

How do I prevent my devices from showing up on that list?

The only option I have found is that I can turn off Location Sharing. But my child can still for example use "Play Sound" to remotely play a sound on my device.

I know that I can turn off "Find My" for any of my particular devices completely, but that would also prevent me from finding this device using my iCloud account, so I don't want to do that.

Alternatively, perhaps there's a way to block "Find My" on child's device completely?


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As soon as my two-year-old notices I turn my MacBook Pro on she jumps in my lap and wants to bang on the keyboard.

I need recommendations for fun applications that would allow my toddler to play with the computer for a couple of minutes and that keeps those little hands from messing up with my other applications and files.

What I'm looking for:

Applications for Mac only. Sadly, it seems like almost every toddler application these days is made for the iPad.
Fullscreen right from startup, with a hard-to-press-by-accident key sequence to exit fullscreen or quit the app. Basically, like a screensaver in that regard.
Not a game, at least not a challenging one. A two year old don't care if she wins or loses and doesn't want to start and retry levels, but just wants to have fun for some indeterminate period of time banging the keys to some cute noises and animations.
Keyboard responsiveness. Banging the keys should make noises and have some visual response.

Some nice-to-haves:

No text reading or typing necessary to play.
Not very centered around mouse/trackpad input. It's relatively hard for a two year old to control the mouse cursor with precision. It should be OK if the application responds to trackpad clicks, but it should not require the user to click a small half-inch button with the mouse cursor in order to make things happen.

I don't care about:

Free or paid.
App Store or classic download.

The closest I have found is BabyView, which is clearly not designed for the Mac but for touch devices and therefore doesn't respond to keyboard input at all.


texts: Is it possible to use bootcamp to make bootable linux drives for you, or is there a similar boot manager for linux?


texts: Create network user with remote home folder

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I have Mac Server with OpenDirectory configured. Then I create some network users with home folder located on server. Due to the high bandwidth of user usage, I want to add another server that only host user home folders, so the traffic transferred between user and new server while authentication still via old server.
Is this possible to do that? If not, is there any walk around that fix my issue?


texts:
I've gotten to grips with the chflags man page so far, even if it's rather uncommon for man pages. Nevertheless, I find 2 parameters very peculiar. What exactly does chflags opaque and nodump do?
Manpage

https://ss64.com/osx/chflags.html


texts: Is it possible to sort iTunes U other than "Released Date"?

texts: In iTunes > Library > iTunes U, the items are sorted by Released Date. How can I sort the items, say, by Name?


texts: Default to Pages '09 when Pages '13 is also installed?

texts:
Both Pages '09 and Pages '13 use "com.apple.iWork.Pages" as a bundle ID.

I can set individual .pages files to open with Pages '09, but when I try to set all .pages files to open with Pages '09, Pages '13 keeps taking over.†

† Selecting a .pages file, changing to "Pages '09", and then clicking "Change All…" always selects Pages '13. You can see it here https://vimeo.com/78545014.

Anyone know how to force OS X to accept Pages '09 as the default for all .pages files?


texts: Update applied by hand, how to tell App Store app?

texts:
Net is slow at my home, really slow. It would have taken a week to get Xcode 12.4, so instead I got the package from Apple onto my laptop elsewhere, brought it home, transferred it over, and installed it. Worked great, I'm currently using it.
But the App Store app thinks it still needs to be updated. Is there a way to tell it what's up?


texts: Error when connecting USB Drive to VirtualBox virtual machine

texts:
How can I use external hard drive via USB connection on a virtual machine using VirtualBox?

I ejected the hard disk from OS X host, then the disk becomes available in OS X virtual machine.

Clicking on the disk throws an error:

USB Settings:

Why is that?

EDIT: I added external drive to the USB panel. I am still getting an error `Failed to attach the USB device Seagate Expansion to the virtual machine El Capitan3.

Failed to create a proxy device for the USB device. (Error: VERR_PDM_NO_USB_PORTS).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}


texts: What is the Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) volume encryption standard?

texts: I have found countless blogs and tutorials how to encrypt an external drive using Mac's extended journaled encrypted format, but I couldn't find anybody stating the standard behind it. I know that FireVault 2 uses XTS-AES 128 encryption, but is that the same used for the external format or are the hard/flash drives simply assigned with a mounting password? Any link for clarification or simply a statement would be very appreciated.


texts: How to play internet radio stations in the Music app on iOS 13?

texts:
I read several posts, that it should be possible to listen to internet radio stations from TuneIn in Apple Music (e.g. https://www.audioxpress.com/news/tunein-and-apple-bring-the-world-s-radio-stations-to-apple-music-and-all-siri-enabled-devices). But It does not work for me - neither Siri (language: German) nor typed search for radio stations yields any result.

My question: how can I listen to internet radio stations (e.g. hr3, srf3, ...) using Music on iOS 13? I have an Apple Music subscription.

If it is relevant: I am in Switzerland.


texts: Why can't Finder be closed using command+q?

texts:
command+q has no effect on Finder, which means there is no way of closing a whole Finder window using a keyboard shortcut. Instead, you have to use command+w to close all of its tabs one by one.

I understand that Finder is treated differently and that it is a special application, but it just seems awkward and inconsistent, because to me as a user, Finder is a file manager and I expect it to respond to command+q like any other program would. Why does Finder even appear in OS X's Application Switcher (command+tab), if it cannot be closed?

It seems to me that Finder is somewhat special because OS X does not distinguish the file manager from the whole desktop environment. From OS X's perspective, closing Finder would be closing the Desktop, the Bars, and even the Application Switcher, which is why it is blocked.

Now, my actual question:

How can I close a Finder window without closing each tab on its own?


texts: iCloud photo sharing limit reached -- new photo app

texts:
I'm running the 10.3 beta on my iMac, using the new photos app.  I imported about 1,300 pics I took over the weekend (live performance) and want to share them online with some people.

First thing I did was create three new albums, one for each of the performances, on my computer.  So far, so good.

Then I used right click to share each album online via iCloud photo sharing.

Now, I'm getting notifications from Photos every 10 seconds or so with the above message. See image below.  It says activity will resume at 11:14 pm.

What gives? I have space on my iCloud account, space I'm paying $10/month for, and I have plenty of available drive space there.  So why aren't the photos uploading, and is there a way to override this strange sharing limit?


texts: When I copied a movie over the Network, via Finder, back in 10.5 I could simply open it in VLC during copying. However on 10.7 it tells me the file is used by OS X and could, therefore, not be opened. Is there a way to do this in Lion as well?


texts: Should I upgrade my Mid 2009 MBP 15 2.8 to MBPr 13?

texts:
I code on eclipse and XCode on my Mid 2009 MBP 15 inch 2.8 ghz works very good. (very good = acceptable compile times and almost no occasional freezes. You don't get because of the slowness percentage) (It is also in very good physical condition)

I will be taking out my computer with me to meet a group of friends for a week to work on projects, brainstorm, etc.. I see this (as an excuse) opportunity to refresh my macbookpro (even though technically I am cool with it).

Do you think that I have to upgrade my device to MBPr 13 inch (256gb default option)?

My device does not have usb3 ports, retina screen, solid-state disk, thunderbolt, hdmi out(I use minidisplay to hdmi converter(no-audio)).

Do you think that I miss things? Like... may my working environment be less inspiring? (:


texts: Determine if the original path of an alias is local or remote

texts:
I have a folder full of thousands of aliases and need to isolate the ones referencing a remote path on another computer on an AFP network. I can iterate all of the alias files over a terminal command with Automator but can't find the right command to determine the original path of an alias.

Is this automation possible?


texts: I got myself an owned iPhone 5s to have some fun. Today I got extra adventurous and would like to try some "unofficial" operating systems like Android and postmarketOS. Unfortunately, a quick search with Google didn't give me much information.


texts: How to reliably switch to an open application (with shortcut)

texts:
I find myself often struggling to simply switch between open applications with shortcut (CMD + TAB). Sometimes the programs appear in the icons list to switch to (what appears when pressing CMD + TAB) but selecting them does nothing. It only works if I select the application via dock.

How can I reliably bring an application to the foreground?

Edit: Answering to comments: I want to switch between applications (ideally I'd want to switch between windows, like in Windows OS but I know this isn't possible with MacOS). I'm not using multiple spaces or have additional screens.

Edit2: I think it's possible to narrow down this question to the situation where an application appears on the selection view (what appears when pressing CMD + TAB) and selecting it does not make the application come to the foreground. E.g. I'm using Slack (not full screen), switch to another application (not full screen), then press CMD + TAB, select Slack and nothing happens. The application is definitely open. I have to click on the application's icon in the dock for it to come to the foreground. Why?


texts: Reload all fonts without restarting an app

texts:
On Mac, when you edit the design of a font and want to reflect the change in an app (i.e. display glyphs in an updated design instead of old one), you'll usually have to restart the app. Is there a way to quickly get the change reflected in all apps without restarting? I'm currently editing a font frequently and restarting apps every time is a pain.

One thing I noticed is that when I edit a font, and type the updated glyphs first time in hours, apps do reflect the change and display the glyphs in a new design instead of an old one without restarting. So I suspected that commands like purge, killall -KILL SystemUIServer, and killall -KILL Dock might be relevant (I run those commands a couple times a day) so I tested but they didn't work.

I also tried

sudo atsutil databases -remove
atsutil server -shutdown
atsutil server -ping

but it didn't have any effect either.

OS: Mountain Lion 10.8.3


texts: Switched my Mac to having photos in iCloud - cannot see them on my iPhone

texts:
I have a 200+ GB photo library with Photos on my Macbook.  I have synchronized these to my iPhone for many years, and used Photostream to have the photos I take automatically end up in my photo library on my Macbook.  This has worked well, but it has outgrown the harddisk on my Mac.

After taking a backup of my photos, I bought more space and enabled iCloud on the Macbook last week (immediately disabling Photostream which I did not like, but that is another story), and I can verify that it looks like on icloud.com that my whole library has been copied to the cloud.  So far so good.  (Except now some of my photos in my photo library are duplicated apparently)

Now I want to enable my iPhone 8 (fully updated) to utilize this.  It took a while to figure out that I needed to undo the Finder synchronization of photos in order to turn iCloud on on the iPhone, but now the iCloud slider stays at "enabled" and everything looks as I would expect it too.

Except that the photos do not show in the Photos app!  I can see all those present in the camera roll being presented as Photos, but none of those in iCloud.  For all practical purposes it looks like they are not known to Photos.

Have I missed something?  Is there a known problem with those coming from an older solution? Are they somewhere else I didn't think of to look?


texts: Mac server keeps "disappearing" and "reappearing" on local network

texts:
I'm hoping someone can help me figure out a really perplexing issue we've seen with a Mac server on our local ethernet network. What we're seeing lately is that the server (which we use for Time Machine backups) will seem to "disappear" and "reappear" to our Macs, with a different "identity" each time. What I mean by this is: After connecting to the server through Finder, it appears in the sidebar. However, some time later (usually no later than an hour), I'll get a notification from Time Machine that backups are failing because the backup disk is not available.

Strangely though, if I go back to Finder and try to click the server link in the sidebar, I get a message saying the original item can't be found; but I can go to the "Shared" section, click "All...", and find it there. Sometimes I will need to toggle my wifi on and off before I'm able to connect again.

To get an idea of our infrastructure, we use a Cisco router to input the internet connection, output it to ethernet jacks around our space, and also output to the Mac server. We have 3 Airport devices connected to Ethernet jacks to create a roaming WiFi network, and our client Macs connect to these via WiFi.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!


texts: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF partition type for primary partition

texts:
I was trying to erase dual boot Ubuntu from my drive partition of 75 GBs. I erased it using disk utility, and followed some steps online to remove the partition.

Now all I see is my primary partition has TYPE Name : FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

How can I fix it and add that 75GBs to my primary partition of 175 GBs. I search other similar post, but didn't understand anything over there.

Output of gpt -r show /dev/disk0 :

  start      size index contents
      0         1       PMBR
      1         1       Pri GPT header
      2        32       Pri GPT header
     34         6
     40   3932000     1 GPT part - 4846465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3932040    262151
4194191        32       Sec GPT table
4194223         1       Sec GPT header

Output of fdisk /dev/disk0:

Disk: /dev/disk0            geometry
Signature: 0xAA55
      Starting              Ending
#: id    cyl     hd   sec   -  cyl   hd  sec  [   start -     size]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE   1023    254    63   - 1023  254   63  [       1 -  4194223] <Unknown ID>
2: 00      0      0     0   -    0    0    0  [       0 -        0] unused
3: 00      0      0     0   -    0    0    0  [       0 -        0] unused
4: 00      0      0     0   -    0    0    0  [       0 -        0] unused


texts: iMessage no longer working on Mac after AppleID change

texts: I recently just got my first MacBook Air. I already have an iPad mini and I just changed my Apple ID. I had everything set up before I decided to change it and iMessage was working perfectly on both devices. Anyway so after I went through all the hassle of changing my Apple ID when I went back onto my laptop, it won't even let me send a message even though I have set to my new Apple ID.


texts: I want to launch new window for all applications every time when i launch an app using spotlight or alfred. Is there any to accomplisht that?


texts: Is there any way to delete the Personal (Web) notebook and create new notebooks from OneNote for iOS?

texts:
I've tried deleting from the web interface, but it only recreates it immediately. I'd love to be able to click the new note icon in the middle of the taskbar but it defaults to this Unfiled Notes section. I'd prefer to be able to choose which notebook it goes into it. Any advice on this workflow?

Also, is there a way to create a new notebook in the iOS app or am I relegated t the web app?


texts: Can I configure an SSD and HDD to be one logic volume in Lion?

texts:
I recently purchased a 120GB SSD that will replace my optical drive in my MBP. It also has a 500GB 7200RPM hard drive.

Is it possible to have a single logical volume that uses both physical disks in Lion. If so, would I be able to still specify that the OS and Applications be installed on the SSD while all other large files reside on the HDD, and how would I do it?


texts: Can I use a mSATA drive to create a Fusion Drive in my iMac?

texts:
I have a Samsung MZ MPA1280/0D1 128 SSD mSATA drive.

Can I use this to create a Fusion Drive in my 2011 iMac 27" and, if so, what cable will I need in order to connect the mSATA drive properly?


texts: Is there a cheaper alternative to cinema displays?

texts:
Apple displays are great, except for the price.

I'm looking to replace my LG 19" display with a 24".

I can't find any screen that isn't overly widescreen, it's ridiculous ! Wide is good but too wide isn't useful, Apple 24" displays have the screen estate I'm looking for.

Dell used to do nice 24" (2408WFP) but they don't sell them anymore.

Is there any display out there which shares the ratio of Apple's cinema displays but also cheaper ?


texts: Which microphone is compatible with Mac mini?

texts:
I searched a lot and I am still in doubt about which microphone to use in MC815BZA Apple Mac mini with Inte Core i5 2.3GHz, 2GB, 500GB HD, HDMI and Bluetooth.

What microphone will work with this computer?  I prefer to use Audio line out / headphone minijack (digital / analog) than USB 2.0 port.


texts: Can I manually re-calibrate the iPhone 4 compass?

texts:
My iPhone 4's compass is off to a significant enough degree that it's annoying... is there any way to manually re-calibrate the compass?

I have, of course, done the "figure 8" (whatever action that was supposed to elicit) when I first set up the phone, and again whenever the phone prompts me to (which is very rare).  What I'm looking for is a setting/menu/option by which I can call up that re-calibration interface, instead of waiting for it to prompt me.


texts:
Normal Behavior: When highlighting a word on a webpage, and right clicking on it, a contextual menu pops up; you can get the dictionary definition by choosing, "Look Up 'SelectedWordHere'".

However, if the word you want a definition for is also a hyperlink there is no option in the contextual menu to look up the word in the dictionary. Any hints on how to get this to work? Without copy and paste.


texts: Moving iTunes library after crashed Windows drive

texts:
I've read many questions and answers here about moving iTunes libraries between computers and drives. My situation is a little different though. I have (had) Windows XP with iTunes installed on C: and my iTunes library on a second drive (E:). Drive C: crashed recently.

My plan is to move my iTunes folder from drive E: to an external backup drive, re-install Windows onto drive E: (obviously it will now be drive C:) and then copy my iTunes library onto drive C:. I would then configure iTunes to point to C: drive for the library. From what I've read, this should work.

Where are all my podcast subscriptions stored? Where are all my ratings and play-counts stored? Will they still be in iTunes after I've followed these steps?

Edit: Further reading has made me aware of the Media and the Library folders. As far as I know, all my library files (music and podcasts) are located in the iTunes folder on E: drive.

Edit: I have a backup image of the C: drive from about six weeks ago, so I should be able to access files from there if I need to to restore metadata?


texts:
How can I edit outgoing IP packets on the fly?

I believe NetfilterQueue would allow me to do this on Linux, so I am looking for macOS alternatives.

Overall, I want to be able to capture a packet sent from my machine to a specific IP address, edit some information in the IP header and send the packet on its way.

Edit

I have just skimmed through iptables man page and realized that mangle table would work perfectly for my usecase. As I understand, macOS's alternative to iptables is some variant of OpenBSD PF. I can't seem to find anything about altering packets in PF documentation. Is it possible to set some rules for altering packets using macOS PF?


texts:
I'm trying to get into using the Notes app for just keeping track of my thoughts while I'm working. As I'm typing away I might decide to make some text in italics and then later revert back to normal text. You know, absolutely barebones basic rich text editing.

The trouble is that when I try to turn off italics (or bold, underline, or whatever) and continue typing the text still shows up in italics. The Format->Font menu shows that the formatting has been turned off and yet when I type more text it still shows up with formatting.

Has anyone had this problem? Any ideas on how to make the damned app work properly?

edit: Italics seems to be the main culprit here, I can usually turn of other formatting styles, but once I've triggered italics it won't go back to normal text unless a open a different note and then come back to the one I was editing.


texts: Can I cancel my Apple ID? I  have 3 accounts and I only need one.


texts: Is there a way to combine two fullscreen windows into a split view window with Automator/AppleScript?

texts: I'm currently making a workflow in which I need to combine two windows into a split view window (the feature from OS X El Capitan). I'd there any way to do that with AppleScript?


texts: "Failure while executing" error when trying to install GCC

texts:
I've followed the instructions of the both the accepted answer to this question as well as the other suggestions, How do I install GCC via Homebrew?. But all I get is the following message when I run the brew install gcc command:

Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo. Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/otool -L /usr/bin/install_name_tool

And if I try to run the brew install gcc command with sudo:

Error: Cowardly refusing to `sudo brew install` You can use brew with sudo, but only if the brew executable is owned by root. However, this is both not recommended and completely unsupported so do so at your own risk.

Why is this happening and what can I do to get around it? And yes, I've got the latest version of xcode.


texts:
I'm looking to use an ancient (2008!) iMac as a screen extension for a 2019 MacBook Pro. The iMac is running with a pretty random collection of ports, including mini dvi. The Macbook only has USB C ports but I have a multi port dongle jobby. I've tried adaptors with the mini dvi to HDMI but just can't get anything to work.

Was wondering if anyone could advise how to get this to up and running!? Any cable recommendations!? Many thanks in advance!!

Ports on the iMac are below:


texts: Is it possible to selectively erase time-machine backups for a given period?

texts:
I would like to know if I could selectively erase some backups, for example all backups of Folder X in the last 2 weeks, and still be assured the following (future) backups of this Folder X will be correct.
Could it be as simple as mounting the hard disk of the backup, go to the targeted folders and thrashing them ?
The objective is obviously to reclaim space.
I'm on an iMac 2019, Big Sur 11.3.1.
Edit: following some remarks, I looked again in the interface and I found a "delete backup" option, by right-clicking on a file or folder.
What is strange is that there are inconsistencies. Sometimes the option disappears. Then comes back. I am quite confused. Maybe, just a temporary bug while TM updates its indexes.
And I'm also a little embarrassed to ask such a stupid question if the option is right under my eye. I've been using TM since 2007 and did not notice this feature.
Did anyone use it successfully ? Currently, I can't test it as I disabled TM while I'm working on my 300 GB library


texts: Had no free disk space on my iPhone 5... but now I do?

texts:
I realized yesterday that I had no disk space left on my iPhone 5 after I got spammed with iOS notifications that my apps could not be updated (due to lack of disk space). This morning I woke up to about 350 MB of free space - and I didn't do anything.

I don't know what the exact numbers were for usage (Settings --> General --> Storage & iCloud Usage --> Manage Storage), so I don't know what happened. As well as gaining free space, about 10 apps were updated.

My best guess is that there is some internal routine to compress images, since at full resolution they take up a fair amount of space, but even minimal lossy compression can save megabytes per photo without a noticeable loss in quality.

Is there such a documented process, or did something else happen? In any case, I wish I would have screenshotted the storage usage before this happened...


texts: Connect EOS 600d to Mac Book Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)

texts: When I connect my EOS 600d Camera from Canon with my Mac Book Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.2), it doesn't get mounted as a drive... Nothing is happening. I googled the problem and was able to get my pictures on to my Mac by using a SD-Card reader. Anyhow, it's not recommended to open the camera every time I want to transfer some pictures and EOS Utility isn't compatible to Mountain Lion. Did anyone come across that problem?


texts: Unable to Determine Why Time Machine Silently Failing When Verifying Backup on Network

texts:
On my Synology Wifi router I have attached 4 TB drive which has been successfully backing up for the better part of a year. In the last few days the backups have not completed.
Every time the backup starts, either manually or automatically, Time Machine begins by attempting to verify. The verification will progress as expected until it hits 90%, at which time it will hang for hours, and then stop without error or notification.
This helped me get at the Time Machine logs - How to view time machine log in MacOS Sierra? (even though I'm on Big Sur) - and this is what I find (logs edited for easier viewing here):
Start: 2021-05-12 09:32:10.386905+0200

[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Attempting to mount 'afp://userXXX@SynologyRouter._afpovertcp._tcp.local./Wireless%20Time%20Machine%201'
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Mounted 'afp://userXXX@SynologyRouter._afpovertcp._tcp.local./Wireless%20Time%20Machine%201' at '/Volumes/.timemachine/SynologyRouter._afpovertcp._tcp.local./{uuid}/Wireless Time Machine 1'
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Initial network volume parameters for 'Wireless Time Machine 1' {disablePrimaryReconnect: 0, disableSecondaryReconnect: 0, reconnectTimeOut: 30, QoS: 0x0, attributes: 0x3}
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Configured network volume parameters for 'Wireless Time Machine 1' {disablePrimaryReconnect: 1, disableSecondaryReconnect: 1, reconnectTimeOut: 30, QoS: 0x20, attributes: 0x3}
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Found matching sparsebundle 'macbook.backupbundle' with host UUID '{other uuid}' and MAC address '(null)'
[com.apple.TimeMachine:PowerManagement] TMPowerState: 2
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Checking for runtime corruption on '/Volumes/.timemachine/SynologyRouter._afpovertcp._tcp.local./{uuid}/Wireless Time Machine 1/macbook.backupbundle'
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Mountpoint '/Volumes/.timemachine/SynologyRouter._afpovertcp._tcp.local./{uuid}/Wireless Time Machine 1' is still valid
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Runtime corruption check passed for '/Volumes/.timemachine/SynologyRouter._afpovertcp._tcp.local./{uuid}/Wireless Time Machine 1/macbook.backupbundle'
[com.apple.TimeMachine:PowerManagement] Thermal pressure level 0 -> 1
[com.apple.TimeMachine:PowerManagement] Thermal pressure level 0 -> 1
...
[com.apple.TimeMachine:PowerManagement] Thermal pressure level 1 -> 0
[com.apple.TimeMachine:PowerManagement] Thermal pressure level 1 -> 0
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] fsck returned an unknown termination status: 8
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Deleted 'macbook.purgeable.sparsebundle', 107.9 GB available on 'com.apple.backupd.backupVerification'
[com.apple.TimeMachine:General] Backup failed (42: BACKUP_HC_NOT_COMPLETED)

End: 2021-05-12 13:22:11.017959+0200

I've not been able to find an explanation for the error, fsck returned an unknown termination status: 8. Does anyone know what's going on and how to correct it?


texts: What happens when importing a PST file in Outlook for Mac?

texts:
I recently moved from PC to Mac, and have a legacy of PST archives which I'd like one day to access from the MacOS ecosystem.

The folder structure in Outlook for Mac significantly differs from the PC world, in that my standard folder structure is duplicated in "«account name»" (residing on the Exchange server) and "On My Computer" (not residing on the Exchange server).

If I import a PST file, where will the imported data items end up?


texts:
So I really want to fix this applescript I'm working on. I would like to be able to click an arbitrary item in an arbitrary submenu of an arbitrary menu in any application. Here's where I've gotten:

tell application "System Events"
    set activeApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process activeApp
    tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
        click
    end tell
end tell

The problem I'm getting is when I add that second "of menu bar item 1". It worked just fine up until I got to that point and now I don't know what to do? I'm pretty new to UI scripting and applescript.


texts: I have Windows 8.1 x64 on my iMac 2011 with AMD graphics. It works fine, except for when my Mac goes to sleep and I wake it up, I get BSOD with System exception not handled igdkmd64.sys. I looked it up, it's Intel Graphics Driver. Why does this error occur with AMD? And how to fix it? I used Mountain Lion assistant, and installed first Win8 compatible drivers.


texts: Why is there no bootable disk found when using windows install disk?

texts:
I have created a partition of MS-DOS FAT on my Mac, then created a Windows 7 Install Disk on my Flash Drive.

When I try to boot using the Install Disk via rEFIt. It just says no bootable disk found.

Why would OS X display a message like that if I used Bootcamp to create the Windows 7 Install Disk?


texts: How should I clean up old mailbox files?

texts:
I'm using Mail.app to read my gmail via IMAP. I recently realised that, since I have a huge amount of mail in that account, and a fairly small SSD, it would be wise to reconfigure the account the save as much storage space as possible. I've done that, but it seems the old mailbox file hasn't been removed. In particular,

~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-{email account}/[Gmail].mbox/All Mail.mbox

is massive: 2.9G. I believe that's a hangover from the old account that I've removed. I'm unsure whether everything else in the [Gmail].mbox is new or old, but it's all much smaller.

There's also a directory named:

~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-{email account}/INBOX.mbox which is much smaller (16M) and I believe represents the account I've now configured in Mail.app.

What's the best way of clearing this all up? Should I try to selectively rm individual directories, or should I just remove everything and start over? Is there a nice way to remove everything (or, ideally, purge the stuff not in use) or should I rm the directories in V2 that relate to specific email accounts (I have other accounts in use, but I'm happy to remove them and set them up again if recommended)? I'm wary about ending up with a non-functioning Mail.app - if there's a way to uninstall (including data) and reinstall the app, that might be the best option.


texts: iCloud drive sharing on Sierra (Add People)

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On High Sierra there is an menu option (share button) to add people for a file inside iCloud Drive. Not on Sierra. However, I am able to call it programatically.

I have noticed that it is in sharing extensions but it is grey. What do I do wrong to have native Finder share + Add people?

This one can be triggered programatically. However, it has view bugs (can't click Share options).


texts: Cannot Install MacOS Catalina in Recovery Mode

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Background Info: A day ago, I got a new MacBook Pro 16 with Catalina installed for work, this is my first Mac. I got everything set up on my laptop and proceeded to get my development environment setup. During this setup, I was messing with permissions around my root directory (big mistake, I know). After messing around with permissions, the 'sudo' command would error out as well as other issues like System Preferences not opening. I tried a few things, but eventually called Apple to get support. They suggested the only way to really fix this issue is to reinstall MacOS.
The Current Issue: Apple support was unable to help me reinstall MacOS. We tried to reinstall via Recovery Mode and it would error out each time at the end of the installation. Below is the error I receive when trying to install MacOS:

We have deleted and recreated the Macintosh HD image and tried installing after that, reset the SMC, ran First Aid on the image. Nothing has worked, every time I try to install MacOS I get this error. The error also appears at the very end of the download / installation process, usually at the '2 Minutes Remaining' mark.
Please let me know if I can provide more information.


texts: When I charge my iPhone 4s it reaches 100%. But often, in the morning, it is as low as 95% and most of the time it shows less than 100%. If I unplug it and then plug it in again it quickly reaches 100% again. How to fix? Not a problem?


texts: Show all reminders in notification center

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The Reminders widget for Notifications Center on macOS Sierra only seems to show today's reminders.

I create a lot of reminders that don't always have a deadline or alarm set on them.

How can I show all of these all the time in the notifications center?