texts: locationd on iOS iPhone crashing every 3 secs (Location jumps)

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I am having a weird issue that my location on the map keeps jumping around.
Navigation and tracking my location became impossible since most apps are very confused when this happens.

Model:
iPhone 7 Plus 32 GB

What I've tried so far ...

Turning iPhone off/on (also leave it off for several minutes)
Turning off/on location services (also leave it off for several minutes)
Turning off/on flight mode (also leave it off for several minutes)
Turning off/on wifi (also leave it off for several minutes)
Resetting location service
Updating to latest iOS 10.3 Beta (was running 10.2.1)
Make a full reset of my iPhone and set it up as a new iPhone
Restoring it from backup
Downgrade to 10.2.1 and clean iPhone install

So I guess pretty much everything one could try ...

There is a video showing the problem:

http://imgur.com/DWTyIsU

Also here some of the crash reports if you are interested.

http://pastebin.com/Na3Hq3ap

http://pastebin.com/c340Eat0

Contacted apple now, will send my iPhone for repair.

This post is mainly for providing information for someone who tries to google this issue because I wasn't able to find anything helpful.


texts: Window-shadow causes weird bugs in Google Chrome

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I'm coding a website, just with a text editor and my browser. I use Sublime Text 3 and Google Chrome. When I hover my text editor over my browser, the background color of my site gets a bit darker in the area's of the shadows of the text editor. I don't really know how to explain this so have a look at this pic:

I have this on a mac of course, but when I make a screenshot the bug disappears. (Not my own pic)

I have this kind of lag when i'm dragging, but instead of window copies, the shadow lags and instead of shadows it's like a dark shade.

It's really hard to explain without pictures!

It's kinda buggin me because with this I can't really look at my website with ease.

I hope anyone has a solution or at least a similar problem!

Thanks in advance.


texts: No ringing for FaceTime, no alert sound for iMessage

texts: I'm not getting ringing for FaceTime and not getting alert sounds when IMessages come in. I believe I've got all my setting right, and I can see the calls coming in if the iPad is in use. Do not disturb is not on, volume is not muted, the apps all have sound settings, etc.


texts: MacBook Pro M1 Connectivity Issues with Dell U3219Q Display

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I recently bought a MacBook Pro M1 and using it with Dell U3219Q display. But If I boot the Macbook, the display can't find the connection signal, and it's closing itself automatically. For using display, I have to remove the USB-C from a port to plug in another port.
It's weird; because I was using the same display with MacBook Pro 2017 model without any issue. What's wrong with the new MacBook Pro M1 models? Do you have any solution for this issue?
Thanks.
PS: I'm using macOS Big Sur 11.3.1


texts: Apple Mail reply arrow not working reliably

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I'm running Lion, connecting to an Exchange 2010 server. Sent messages are stored locally.

Once I've replied to a messages in my Inbox, the "replied" arrow appears to the left of the message, as normal.  But when I click on the arrow to see the actual reply it fails roughly 50% of the time. By "fails" I mean that nothing comes up when I click.  A message I sent minutes earlier/later can work just fine.

The reply WAS sent using Apple Mail (not my iPhone) and it IS in my sent mail folder.  I have re-built my Spotlight index.


texts: How can I tell the exact time when a drive disconnected?

texts: I have a USB drive (a Drobo) that appears disconnecting randomly after 10-20 hours. I'm trying to gather data to help understand the root cause of the problem so I'd like to understand the timing of the disconnection. Is there a log file that would have this kind of data ? On a related note, is there a log that would have generally relevant data that I could use to try to correlate to the disconnections?


texts: Music keeps playing after disconnecting external screen and then closing lid

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When I take out the USB-C that connects to my LG screen, and then close the lid after, the music will keep playing. This will happen for around 1 minute, and during this interval, I cannot stop the music by closing the lid.
If I wait a bit, after i took out the USB-C, then it will stop the music just fine when closing the lid.
How can I disable this annoying interval, or what can I do to solve it?


texts: iPhone Airdrop can't find Macbook, but Macbook can find and airdrop to iPhone

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I'm so stumped here. About 6 or so months ago, my iPhone stopped recognizing my 2012 Macbook Pro running High Sierra, and my work Macbook Pro 2013 now running Mojave. I recently got a new iPhone Xs Max and thought this would fix it, but still same issue. It's so odd, both Macbooks can detect the iPhone and transfer files to it, but not the other way around. iPhone can detect other laptops and share files just not mine.

Here's everything I've tried to troubleshoot:

Restarting both iPhone and Macbook
Reset network settings on iPhone
Airdrop on both set to Everyone
Signed in and out of iCloud on all devices
Put both on same wifi network
Used terminal to kill bluetooth
Went into preferences and deleted com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
Reset pram on macbook
Went into security and privacy > firewall on macbook and unchecked block all incoming transfers (as well as just turned off firewall)
Hotspot turned off on iPhone

No idea what's going on, feel like I'm going crazy :) thanks in advance for any tips or thoughts!


texts: Any "Always On Top" app working on Mojave?

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My workflow requires a lot of coding, and sometimes pasting code from a text editor to a terminal window. In those occasions, keeping the terminal window "always on top" is very convenient.

Up until High Sierra, I used to use mySIMBL with its "Afloat" plugin. It was quite tricky to get it working - one had to disable SIP, install mySIMBL and re-enable SIP again - but it worked fine. It looked like this:

With Mojave, however, it no longer works. Actually, it does - but SIP must be permanently disabled. I mean not only for installing it, but for using it as well. And I don't want to take the risk of using Mojave with SIP permanently disabled.

So, I'm looking for a replacement. Does anyone know an alternative way of making a window stay on top in macOS Mojave? Thanks in advance.


texts: Does Apple Remote Desktop send framebuffer data or rendering commands?

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Does Apple Remote Desktop send the framebuffer (VNC like) when using remote viewing/control capabilities or does it send rendering commands (RDP like).

Does this differ based on what client is connected (VNC vs. the ARD client)?


texts: I recently upgraded my iPod Touch 2nd Gen to an iPhone 4. I have since sold the iPod Touch to someone else. Io no longer want it to show up in the list of devices on the Find My iPhone app, or at https://me.com/find/, but I can't see a way to remove it. How do I do this?


texts: How can I get my iPhone to sync with a new computer without being erased?

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For some reason, Apple has imposed a most absurd restriction where the only way to get an iPhone (or other iDevice) to sync with a different computer is by erasing it first. I haven't verified first-hand that this process actually erases the entire iPhone, because, naturally, I'm too afraid to try it.

So I spent a long time scouring the web trying to find a way around this ridiculous (and artificial) limitation. I spent literally hours over the course of several days and eventually found a combination of web pages that finally allowed me to do what I needed. I'll summarize the steps here for others who have banged their heads over this one.


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I have an issue with my Logitech Mouse software always crashing when it switches between different power modes, this crashes their software on Mac OS X (Yosemite).

The app is used to control the pointer speed and shortcut keys on the mouse, which renders the mouse useless,  I need to restart it every time I switch power states to get it working again.

Is there a command I can use in terminal that can kill the logitech process and start it again?

If I do a Logitech Gaming Software.app on ps -ax I can find the process, how can I pipe this to kill the associated PID and then restart the app?

Running ps -ax | grep 'Logitech Gaming Software.app will return the following:

 2879 ??         0:02.96 /Applications/Logitech/Logitech Gaming Software.app/Contents/MacOS/LCore
 2891 ttys000    0:00.00 grep Logitech Gaming Software.app


texts: Safari 8.0 - 9.0 100% Cpu usage OSX 10.11.3 might be related to bookmarks / favorites

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I'm experiencing very weird issue as far I remember from Yosemite up to latest El Capitan 10.11.3 (15D21) and Safari Version 9.0.3 (11601.4.4) Actually it's started to become more annoying with time. Sometimes Safari goes up to 100% cpu usage, sometimes even more, but it's directly on safari process, all child processes stay at normal cpu usage including networking thread. I have started to debugging issue as far I can with closed source. I have tried to delete all cache,cookies,bookmarks and all possible data stored in relation to Safari.app including browsing and other databases. It didn't help much. I have created new test account on my macbook pro, then tried to reproduce issue with plain-set osx with safari, but after hours of usage couldn't reproduce the issue. Then I have imported Bookmarks.plist from my current account into cleanly set account, after less then 15 minutes, safari went up to 100% cpu usage again. I have also tried to use iCloud to automatically migrate safari data incase I have made mistake with manual transfer, but it seems icloud safari backup also made problem come back. My bookmarks seems normal, nothing to share here, few pages stored in favorites, one sub-directory in favorites, and couple more in bookmarks but more importantly plist file format does not seems to be corrupted itself. I couldn't find that issue is related strictly to one website, it seems it might be related to Favorites bookmarks. Does anyone have and workaround on this issue?

PS. I don't have any problems with other browser, such as Opera,Chrome,Firefox - but using other browser it's not the solution. If that might be helpful I have took part in developer preview beta program during Yosemite, I have went back to normal release with first public Yosemite release, but I don't really think this is source of the problem.

Safari process sample before 100% load

Screenshot with highlighted 100% usage of safari mother-process


texts: I have been reading tutorials on Pixelmator where "Filter" is used. On all tutorials I have read there is a "Filter" option in the menu tab, but on mine "Filter" is missing. I tried searching for "Filter" in the help menu but there are no results.


texts: How to make Applescript quit a specific program for all users?

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My wife and I are set up on a single laptop and I have our iTunes libraries stored on an external HD. I'm writing an applescript to auto eject that drive when we want to take the laptop elsewhere (we normally use iPads around the house), but I'm having trouble getting the script set up to also quit iTunes for both of our accounts when run.

Here's the basic script right now which is obviously missing the magic to quit iTunes for all logged in users:

tell the application "iTunes" to quit

tell the application "Finder"
    if disk Media exists then
        eject disk Media
    end if
end tell

Any suggestions?


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I'm looking to download a macOS-Catalina-10.15 but can't find it anywhere on the web nor the apple website. Could anyone help find a safe site, preferably apple to download? Thanks.
I have a Macbook-Pro


texts: Can I delete files and folders in /private/var/tmp folder?

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I ran into the situation where using simultaneously Google Drive File Stream (DFS) and Code42 Crashplan and some other Corporate SW like CrowdStrike's Falcon, Bitdefender, etc... which seems are not liking each other (see this article).
Anyway, there turned up two issues:

one which was manageable in user accessible space (DFS cache was ~60GB)
the other beyond standard user access, where in /private/var/tmp folder occupied 210+GB

Resolving issue #1 was relatively "trivial" still not sure how to go around it in the future.
Resolving issue #2 took me several days of investigation and trials.


texts: How can I password-protect an app folder in iOS?

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On my iPhone's home screen I have created a folder wherein I have placed few of my private apps which I don't have to be accessed if someone just incase uses my phone. How can I restrict the user from opening that folder or to be specific to how add passcode on the folder at iPhone's home screen.

I also search for appStore but didn't find any relevant app.

Please note that I am not asking how to protect a single app. That I know I can handle by using guided access. But my question is around protecting an app folder without jailbreaking.


texts: Change iOS account on iPhone without losing data

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For my company I had to create an Apple ID to publish our app. I am the one with an iPhone for personal use and I have an Apple ID for private use. I do not want this Apple ID to be affiliated with my companies.

For the enrollment process of an App Store account I need to enable the 2 factor auth and this can only be done by logging in to a iOS or Mac OS device and enable the 2auth there. Every time I would login into my account from an unkown device I have to get the code from this phone with this companies account.

Also when I will log-out of my private account all data will be lost. That is what a warning message says.

I cannot have my private and business Apple ID on one phone
I do not want to only have the business Apple ID on the phone because it is my phone not the companies
My company does not have the resources to buy another Apple device
The device we will use needs to stay in our hands

Above statements are the fact but not really my situation. What would one do to fix above scenario?


texts: Unlock iPhone 4 iOS 5.0.1 with baseband 4.11.08

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I had a jailbroken unlocked iPhone with iOS 5.0, but by mistake I updated it to iOS 5.0.1 with iTunes. I'm asking this as both a cautionary tale to others as well in hopes that perhaps there is a jailbreak option I am overlooking.

In the process of the update from 5.0 to 5.0.1, the baseband was also updated to 4.11.08 and as expected, the phone became locked again as evidenced by the fact that it says "No Service" when I try to use my SIM.

Is there a way to unlock my iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0.1 other than asking the carrier to which it was initially locked?


texts: How can I delete offensive emojis on my iPhone keyboard

texts: I would like to be able to delete certain emojis on my keyboard. How do I do that?


texts: i just bought my first iPad and am trying to set up video chat . I downloaded chrome as my browser and downloaded the plugin hangout. But when I try to log in, I get the msg 'unable to add contact'. I have no idea what to do next. help!!!


texts: Mac won't boot up using Bootcamp after trying to resize partitions

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my son is working on a 2012 Macbook Pro - 2.5Ghz Intwl Core i5 and running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6. The machine was split into two partitions and windows bootcamp was loaded. My son told me that every time he tried to save a document on the windows side he got error message about no available disk space. I tried to resize the windows disk partition and when we tried to start-up again, bootcamp would not load (error saying no bootable device).

I have read through as many similar questions and answers as I can but am not able to solve the problem. REALLY want to avoid paying to have the windows reloaded. Any way someone in the know could help me?

Thanks KD


texts: Mac Mail program randomly reorders my accounts

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I use the Mac Mail program and have multiple mail accounts (~15) - mostly gmail but a couple of non-gmail accounts. For some reason, Mail periodically (sometimes once every few days, sometimes multiple times a day) reorders the mailboxes. So on the left side where the individual account inboxes are listed under the overall Inbox tab, they'll start off correctly ordered, and then randomly - poof - they're in a random order. Well - not completely random - often it appears to be almost half-randomized. I've even gone so far as to put numerical prefixes on them so that I know the correct order and can re-order them quickly. Does anyone know what causes the Mac Mail program to do this?
And when I say "reordered", I mean the order in the mail app, in the leftmost Mailboxes pane of the Message Viewer.  As far as I can tell, there is no "order" in the System Preferences Internet Accounts tab.  It puts everything in alphabetic order (grouped by mail service).  I'm not gonna bother screenshot'ing it because I'd have to black out most everything for privacy reasons and the above should be clear enough.
Update: and it seems over the past few days, I've seen a new, possibly related, behavior.  Twice now I've seen an account go missing in my Mailbox list (i.e. the list of accounts under the Inbox tab in the left most pane).  If I closed and reopened the Mail program, it shows up again.
For what its worth, I am running v10.15.5 (Update: now 10.15.6), but this occurred with at least one prior version (and maybe several).


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I've to change the SSD of my MacBook Pro, and before purchasing I want to be sure of choosing the right components:

SSD: Crucial P1 1TB

SSD-adaptor: SSD M2 adapter

How can I determine if these are compatible with my 2014 15” MacBook Pro?


texts: How to get statics on OS X finder folder visits?

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Is it possible to know which folders I'm visiting often in the finder app?

I want to put those often-visited folders on the sidebar.


texts:
I would like to have a table name automatically generate when a root value is
updated. For example, in my budget spreadsheet, I have Groceries 11/07 -> 11/06.
In a cell, if I have a cell starting date with value 11/01/2019, I can use

=CONCATENATE("groceries ",MONTH($B$2),"/", DAY($B$2),"->",MONTH($B$2+6), "/", DAY($B$2+6))

to calculate the desired string without having to update it manually (when I make next month's spreadsheet, for example.) Is there a way to have a formula be the name of a table? Or should I just have an extra header row instead of displaying the table name?


texts: How do I drill in to calendar information from the notifications screen on iOS7?

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Lock screen-> pull down notifications, see "Tomorrow, there are 2 events scheduled and the first one starts at 11.30"

but how do I view them?

No amount of poking or swiping will open this up (unlike say weather information)

Is this a bug or is there some buried setting I don't have set?

Yeah yeah, I could unlock the phone and go to the calendar but it sort of defeats the object.


texts: Where are folders created by "sudo mkdir" stored?

texts: I am new to mac terminal and I have made some folder using command "sudo mkdir". Some of this folders are hidden :/, in other words I have put a period before their names when using command mkdir. Now, I want to delete those folders. How can I find those folders?


texts: What is the thinking behind pushing the writing area in Pages to the left?

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For better or for worse, I am so used to Microsoft Word. The page is in the center of the window surrounded by gray. Pages pushes the writing area to the left. Why is this?

I don't like full screen mode (because I don't like to be fully immersed so as to better grab notes, links, do research, etc), and I don't always like the page thumbnails open. I don't like the window to be any smaller than the whole screen because I don't like seeing the clutter underneath windows.

What's the rationale? Is it just to be 'different' than Word?

Microsoft Word's Page Layout
Apple Pages closest attempt to mimic this layout


texts: What is the maximum length of an iOS video screen capture?

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I have been taking screen capture videos in iOS 11, but for some extended captures the recording stops and I don't get anything at all.

What is the maximum length of a screen capture video on an iOS device?

Tried on iPhone 7 and various iPads.


texts: How do I get iTunes to just play one album?

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I'm new to iTunes and I was wondering how I get it to play just one album? At present I have "Grid" view enabled. I select the artist I feel like listening to, and it switches to Album by Artist view (songs and artwork).

I double click on the album and it plays through, but then it continues down and plays the next album by the artist... Quite annoying!

How can I get iTunes to just play the album I've told it to?


texts: Which encryption algorithm do external hard drives use?

texts: if external data carriers are encrypted via the Finder, which encryption do you use?


texts: Why Mac OS X requires any amount of free disk space?

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I understand the OS needs some free disk space for running. So does windows or any *nix.

But OS X is regarded as a very polished system and my question here is more like, shouldn't it already reserve all disk space that it needs so it won't ever complain (or bug out) about not having enough space?

If it's 10 gb, then get a 64 gb disk and say "you got 44 gb free space, because 20 is used by the system" (supposing OSX already takes 10). Just take the free space needed already! Make a partition if need to be! Hide it if you really want.

Then it wouldn't need to bother the user with worrying about that. There must be a good reason why it's like this, but I couldn't find out. Can you please explain?


texts: How to transfer a Motion (5) project between Macs?

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I need to be able to work on a motion project on-the-go on a MacBook Pro, but it really seems to be lagging performance wise, so I want to transfer the project to a iMac while at home, and to transfer it back onto the MacBook when I go out again. So how do I transfer the active project along with all required data easily between two computers?

Edit:
Never mind, apparently when you save you can save as a folder, copying all the media into that folder. I'll just leave this up for others who have the same question.


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I'm on OS X 10.10.2 and

$ /bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

How to upgrade bash to v4.0+ properly?

Update:

After installing bash with pkgsrc

 pkgin install bash

I got newer bash but it isn't default:

$ which bash
/bin/bash
$ /usr/pkg/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

How to make the newer bash the default one?


texts: Whenever I send someone a text, I'm told that it shows that "myname@icloud.com" is sending the text and not my phone number. And when someone responds to "myname@icloud.com", I receive the message on my computer and Wi-Fi only iPad, but not my iPhone. Is there any way to only send and receive messages from a phone number?


texts: How can i extend my partition further than the limit? Disk Utility

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So I am trying to make my partition full size but there seems to be a limit. I am on OS X 10.8.5 using Disk Utility.

I am using a MacBook 4,1 (early 2008)

Ok so I used MacPostFactor to install mountain lion with my friends copy of the installer. I deleted my Lion partition.

The output of diskutil cs list and sudo gpt -r show disk0:

Last login: Mon Nov 21 17:00:35 on ttys001
Daniels-MacBook:~ danieljensen$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
Daniels-MacBook:~ danieljensen$ sudo gpt -r show disk0
Password:
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  117650752
  118060392  106863504      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  224923896    9517712      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  234441608          7
  234441615         32         Sec GPT table
  234441647          1         Sec GPT header


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I have a Late 2013 MacBook Pro with an unknown firmware password set. I don't know the firmware password because the laptop is a castoff from a company and I have no way to get the password from them.

I would like to install Linux on it. Is this possible? I would need to cleverly redirect system to boot from an installation USB drive, but I'm afraid of going in blind and bricking the device.


texts: Skype works fine when I launch it on my Login.  When I switch to the Guest login, though, Skype launches but does not connect after 90 seconds.  Does it eventually connect if I give it more time, or is there some architectural obstacle that prevents using it as Guest?


texts: Yosemite Mail.app - Rule stuck on 7 days

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I want to make a rule to delete all emails older than 200 days (they will remain on Gmail - I am using POP).

'Date Received' 'is less than' [7] days.

I can set this up for 7 days in rules fine - but if I enter any other value, save it then go back. It always says 7 days.

I guess this is a Yosemite / Mail.app bug?!

I found nothing on Google about this issue.


texts: Is there a GUI viewer of databases created by Database Events?

texts: I wrote a simple AppleScript that saves data to a Database Events database. I see the database (DBEV file) in my ~/Documents/Databases folder, and I am wondering if there is a simple graphical utility that I can use to view its contents.


texts: My iPad is not turning on though charged for one hour and hard reboot

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I followed the steps explained in the URL below, but still the ipad is not turning on, charged using power adapter (not using laptop) for more than couple of hours and tried hard restart connecting to power and laptop. Still it is neither turning on nor recognized by itunes. I am worried. :(

iPad won't turn on after a complete battery drain


texts: OSX-formatted USB drive giving strange partition message when I attempt to eject it. "Boot OSX" hidden partition?

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I have a USB3 drive with 128GB of storage.  It has been working normally up until this evening, when I tried to right click > eject the drive.  I received the following message:

“Mymusic” is a partition on a disk that has 2 partitions. Do you want to eject “Mymusic” only, or both partitions?

When I open Disk Utility, it only shows the one single partition listed under the drive.  I ran First Aid on the drive itself, and it reported no problems.  However, when I tried running First Aid on the partition, it failed because it could not eject the drive.

If I click on the drive in the list, and click Partition, it shows a pie chart and 100% of the drive is shown in blue, as one big partition taking up 100% of the disk.  The only thing that looks weird is maybe "Child Count: 3".

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, when I finally clicked "Close All [volumes]", I got this message:

The disk "Boot OSX" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it.

Hitting "retry" continues to fail.

The disk has been formatted several times, and the most recent format was about a week ago.  It has only ever had one partition (at least, that I added myself; and no one else has physical access to it).  I certainly never added a partition named "Boot OSX".  Maybe some malware or something? But I don't pirate software and am privy to attachments, security, etc.

Here are a couple of screenshots, in case they help:

I'm not sure how this can happen.  How can I fix this?


texts: Kernel Task is using 1000% of The CPU on macOS Catalina

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My MacBook Pro running on macOS Catalina is really slow and the kernel task is using 1000% of the CPU !!

I tried all the solutions suggested in MUF How to Fix Your Mac’s “kernel_task” High CPU Usage Bug.
I still have the same problem.There is only one solution that I was not able to do exactly like it was mentioned, it is the one suggested by Victor Petterson in How to fix kernel_task CPU usage on Yosemite.

It involves removing the « model identifier ».plist file. I was not able to find the file with my model identifier so I removed all the files in :
../ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources

After removing the .plist files I have restarted my MacBook and re-enabled the SIP. Now the files are removed and the kernel task still using 70% of the CPU with a maximum speed of fans.

Does anyone have the same problem and was able to find a solution to the kernel task issue which is different from the ones mentioned above ?


texts: What are good bi-directional, real-time synchronization utilities between Mac local folder and web server?

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I have an iMac that is connected to my local network (and, subsequently, the Internet) that has a folder named DocShare.

I have a web server hosted off-site through a hosting company, with a similar folder called Online DocShare that hosts an online repository of files that would be related to the DocShare folder on my iMac. This server supports WebDAV, (S)FTP, SSH, etc. for file transfer.

I would love to find a way to have those two folders, one locally on my iMac and one on my server, synchronize so that anytime I upload a file to the local DocShare, it will appear on my Online DocShare, and vice-versa. It would be great if changes to files could be reflected, and if I deleted/modified/created a file on either side, it would reflect on the opposite folder.

So, it would be real-time syncing with a constant connection to the web server, or a scheduled sync process every time interval. So far, I have found a handful of programs for Windows, but none that do this for Mac.

If possible, I would love to see it in a GUI, with a possible command-line add-on (not necessarily command-line exclusively). Please let me know what possible options I have, or if I'm all washed up and there isn't anything that does this sort of thing.


texts: How do I activate markers and link text in iBooks Author?

texts:
I want to have text in one place/page, to tap on it and go to another place/page.

I'm new in iBooks Author, I've tried several options and I don't know how it works.


texts: How does Whatsapp iOS Backup works? Double space required avoidable

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WhatsApp is an odd and inconvenient outlier since (compared to iCloud Photo library) it literally duplicates the space required if both switches are on, let me explain:

There are 2 Whatsapp backup switches to handle, they are both on by default:

1st switch: iPhone Settings app > Tap your name in the top > iCloud > scroll down to see the switch (this switch creates a live backup that allows for an independent backup, meaning you don't need to restore your whole iphone to restore this backup, you can delete Whatsapp Only and said backup will be detected when you reinstall Whatsapp). You get to pick your frequency on inside-WhatsApp settings section.

2nd switch: iPhone Settings app > Tap your name in the top > iCloud > Manage Storage > click "Backup" green icon row > Click your device > here you have a list of your TOTAL apps, each might save a tiny bit of settings info for each app (not the app itself), this is a packaged backup that also saves your device settings, home screen app order, wallpaper, etc, even the downloaded app list (no matter if you switch off every app). So, Here you see WhatsApp too (2nd switch) <- if on too, Whatsapp backup will take 2x space of your total iCloud space. given the first switch is also on. As I understand, this backup can only be accessed if you restore the whole iPhone (whole package see).

Post-context:

For years, I've turned off the 2nd switch with no problems. But ever since iOS 13, background activity is a mess for Whatsapp, and even though I have more than enough space (more than 2x, and with one switch off) auto-daily Whatsapp backup is not happening on the 1st switch I now have the question if I can invert the switches, and still be able to access WhatsApp backup by only deleting and reinstalling the whatsApp app, not restoring the whole iPhone. This question arises since the packaged backup (2nd switch) for the rest of the apps (including WhatsApp) works flawlessly, daily, perfectly fine... and at least I could be in peace about the saved info.

But the obvious best solution, is for things to work as before (1st switch on only). It literally broke with iOS 13, and hasn't been fixed up until now. This even looks sketchy to me (you know, doubling space required = more people paying for iCloud space, why doesnt it work like Photo Library? If both switches ok, it only uploads once)

Does anyone have a suggestion?

TIP: Yes. It doesn't matter if you have iCloud Photo library on on both sections, Apple is smart about this and only backcups once (only takes space one time), that's why I say WhatsApp is an inconvenient-odd outlier when it comes to both switches management.


texts: How can I control where photos end up when I sync them to my iPhone?

texts:
I'm trying to have fewer photos on my iPhone (3GS running iOS5), and if possible to have them searchable by naming them.

With this in mind I used Image Capture to download all 500+ pictures onto my MacBook Air (running Lion), then synced my iPhone with iTunes to remove them all.

(To do this, I made a folder called Empty Folder and put it in my Pictures folder, selected it in the iPhone's Photos tab in iTunes - you can't, for some no doubt magical Apple reason, select any folder that isn't a subfolder within another folder - and synced. Only way I could find to do it, other than wearing out my fingertip by deleting all the photos one by one. I couldn't see any way of deleting a whole 'album' of photos on the iPhone itself or in iTunes.)

I then named all the photos I wanted to keep - 111 of them - and dragged them into another subfolder in Pictures, this one called iPhone Photos.

I connected the phone again, and in iTunes and the phone's Photos tab I deselected Empty Folder and selected iPhone Photos.

All hunky dory. All 111 photos are now on the iPhone.

Except that there are now three albums on the phone: the empty Camera Roll, Photo Library with 111 photos, and iPhone Photos, with the same 111 photos, organised differently.

What the...?

Is there any way of getting the photos I want to keep into the Camera Roll and getting rid of the extra albums?


texts: How do delete stuck download of Xcode 5 from app store?

texts:
Initially I was downloading Xcode 5 from the Mac App Store, but I found it extremely slow, and so I stopped the download. Then I downloaded it from the developer web site instead, which was much faster. I installed it without any problem.

But now I have two Xcode 5 icons in my /Applications folder. One Xcode 5 icon is from the Mac App Store install with a progress bar at the bottom (progress stopped at one fourth). I tried to delete it a few times, but every time I restart my machine, it comes back again. How do I delete this partial download?

I am running OS 10.8.5.


texts: CMD + Tab from fullscreen app switches to wrong application

texts:
Sometimes I have a fullscreen app open , say safari. Then I want to switch to Terminal app thats open on the desktop( along with other apps like preview etc).
When I cmd tab from safari to terminal , the PREVIEW app comes to focus , and its window comes on top.

I am using macOS sierra 12.1

Any tips on how to fix this ?


texts: Best tips in regard to calibrating a macbook pro screen

texts:
My eyes hurt a lot since I have a macbook (current is antiglare 15 inch, last one was 13 inch).

What's the best way to calibrate the screen (hardware calibrator, software, internal calibration)?

Other best practices in regard to the topic?


texts: Is there a way to make notifications center always visible on mac?

texts:
Is there a way to setup the notification center stays visible until closed manually i.e. via keyboard shortcut?

For example, if I’m using a calculator I sure don’t won’t to open/close the thing for each calculation.


texts: How do I run a screen saver as my desktop background?

texts:
I would like to run a screen saver as my desktop background.

How can I do this?


texts: Connected iPhone no longer showing in Mac Photos app

texts:
When I connect my iPhone to a MacBook Pro it does no longer show up in the sidebar of the Mac Photos app. This e.g. prevents me from importing photos from the iPhone.

Can this be due to some changed configuration setting in the iPhone's iOS (9.1) or the MacBook Pro's OS X (10.1.1 with Photos 1.2)? I want to be sure I have this base covered before bringing the iPhone to a store for a hardware check.


texts: MacBook keyboard printing unexpected keys

texts:
I am using a mid-2015 MBP which is running MacOS Mojave 10.14.6.
Whenever I am typing a "." (dot) it is printing "\." (backslash + dot). Now I have to manually remove this backslash every time. (It can be little frustrating while coding)
All other keys are working perfectly fine.
I checked all the possible keyboard settings and googled almost all possible phrases to find a solution/hint but couldn't find anything helpful.
Tried restarting the system twice.
Faced issue while logging back in as I forgot a backslash is also being printed along with the "dot" and my password contains a dot.
PS - My MBP has crashed a couple of times in last 1-2 days.
I also checked the answer here but it seems to be a different problem hence asking a different question here.


texts:
Below is the machine:

$ uname -a
Darwin whatever 18.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Sun Dec  1 18:59:03 PST 2019; root:xnu-4903.278.19~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
$

In ubuntu, ip addr or ip a gives list of all interfaces.

What is the similar command in mac?


texts: Microsoft Mouse Settings do not work after restart until I open preferences

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I seem to have this same problem my work and home Macbook Pro Systems.  Both are running Mavericks.

The Mouse is a Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse and I have the latest version (8.2) of IntelliPoint for Mac.

I have a few custom settings configured; the top and bottom of the scroll button are set to browse back and forward, and the middle-click is set to "Handled by Mac OS" which causes it to open links in new tabs, etc.

The problem is whenever I restart the system or even sleep and wake up, when I return those settings are no longer working until I open system preferences and open the settings for the microsoft mouse.  The settings do maintain what I set them to -- I never have to reset them -- but they just don't seem to be "turned on" until I manually open the system preferences page for them.

The mouse works, but the custom buttons do not do the correct thing until I open system preferences->microsoft mouse. When I open the preferences I do not need to change anything-- I simply open the preferences window and the buttons start doing what I want them to. And The preferences window always shows the correct settings. The continue to work after I close them until the next restart. It's like there's an invisible "on/off" switch that gets activated when I open the settings window

Any ideas on how I can get these settings to be enabled automatically without needing to do this every time?


texts: Is the macOS recovery also upgraded when i run mac upgrades?

texts:
I upgraded my Macbook Pro that had Mojave (MACBOOK PRO (RETINA, 15-INCH, MID 2014))to Catalina Beta and this completely broke my Mobile Development using Flutter. There are numerous issues with version 10.15 that i just want to go back to Mojave.

I want to completely downgrade to Mojave (i don't mind starting from Mavericks, then upgrading to Mojave, source)

If I go to the recovery menu and wipe the hard drive, then try recovery, which version will be installed? The original Mavericks that came with the macbook or the current Catalina beta i upgraded to recently. Is the recovery software also upgraded during upgrades? I don't have any backups as such don't intend to restore anything.


texts: Move files if file name doesn't exist considering extension

texts: For example, in folder A, I have foo.jpg and bar.jpg. In folder B, I have foo.png and foobar.png. I only need one version of the file regardless of the extension, so I only want move foobar.png to folder A. How can I do this? This is a simple example, there are almost 2,000 files in folder B, so comparing manually would be very tedious.


texts: If I turn off iCloud will it delete my photos

texts: I need to make room on my phone and while searching for things to delete I found that ICloud sharing and my photo stream take up much more space than I'd like them too, so I was wondering if I turn them off will it delete all the photos from camara roll?


texts: Skype texting on iPhone no longer makes any sounds at all

texts:
No idea what's going on here, but sometime within the last week or so Skype on my iPhone SE has stopped making any text-related sounds.  Phone calls are fine including ringing and speaking/listening, but notifications will not make a sound.  iOS notifications for Skype are enabled, Notifications within Skype itself are enabled, and I am in "online" mode (not Do Not Disturb).  I have rebooted my phone, quit & relaunched Skype, etc.  Still no joy.

iPhone SE on iOS 10.3.1 (not willing to update to iOS11 so please don't even suggest it)
Skype 8.3.0.51670 (and no way am I updating Skype.  I made that mistake recently on another device and it was a disaster, plus it was working fine until very recently).

EDIT:  And just like that, 20 minutes later... Skype started making noise again.  I have absolutely NO idea why... I didn't do a thing.

EDIT 2:  For whatever it's worth, Skype stopped making sounds again a couple days later.  Then started again.  It seems to basically just be random... sometimes it will make sounds, sometimes it won't.  No rhyme or reason!


texts: Set IP adress for the wifi hotspot on OSX

texts:
If I share my ethernet over WiFi I would like to specify the IP address of the hotspot (for now it defaults to 10.0.2.1). Can this be set somewhere in system settings?

Note: the ethernet is not connected. I just run a local web server that should be accessible by some clients connection to my hotspot (and therefore I should have a fix IP address).


texts:
I took a bunch of photos on vacation and saved them into an album in the Photos app on iOS 9.  I'd like to now share that album.  Is there a way to do this other than creating a new shared album and manually adding the individual pictures?

I've looked at the instructions here and they don't describe any way to share an already created album.  The photos are backed up on iCloud, and I can access them via iCloud.com, but there doesn't appear to be a way to even create a new shared album on iCloud.com.


texts: Looking for a lightweight MP3 player for OS X

texts:
I'm looking for something, preferably free, to play MP3s in OS X in a way they don't automatically get dumped into iTunes. Any suggestions?

Songbird is not lightweight.

VLC I use for videos.


texts: Photoshop CS6 and NetBeans very sluggish and laggy on new rMBP 2014

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So I have this problem with Photoshop CS6 and NetBeans being very sluggish and laggy on my new rMBP 2014 15" 16GB RAM. It's running perfectly fine on my iMac 2009 21" 4GB RAM school computer, except for the occasional lag of RAM.

Activity Monitor shows that there's plenty of RAM and CPU power at all times, and still it's so sluggish and laggy.

Specs:
Processor  2,2 GHz Intel Core i7,
Memory  16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3,
Graphics  Intel Iris Pro 1024 MB,
Software  OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)

Does anyone have any idea on what is causing this and how I could possibly fix it?


texts:
I recently tried installing rEFInd on Yosemite using the command ./install.sh --alldrivers however it would not recognise the ubuntu 14.04 x64 for Mac disk I made and so I would like to uninstall rEFInd.

I have tried removing rEFInd from the EFI directory, however the EFI directory does not exist. How do I uninstall rEFInd 0.8-3.7 using OS X 10.10.3?

Edit
Here are my drives if this helps (found using diskutil list

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            235.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Linux                   15.0 GB    disk0s4

Ignore disk0s4 because I am going to remove it (that is where my Linux partition would have been)


texts: Getting Time Machine backups working with an Iomega Home Cloud Edition NAS

texts:
I'm getting some strange behaviour from Time Machine since upgrading to Moutain Lion using the Iomega Home Cloud Edition NAS as the end point for the backups.

Getting the first backup to complete took some effort and the problem I'm facing now is that automatic backups don't start.

When I right click the menu bar icon and select Back Up Now I get the following error from Time Machine:

  Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “iomega”. The backup disk
  is not available.

If I go in the Time Machine preferences however and do the same thing by right clicking the drive icon, the backup starts just fine.

What's strange is that the backup drive is properly mounted and there are 2 separate behaviours depending on where I start the backup from.

How can I get Time Machine backups working automatically with this setup?


texts: How to make Finder show icon thumbnail for some Excel documents?

texts:
I have two Microsoft Excel documents that are, except for the data contained within, virtually identical. One was created as an offshoot of the other. In the Finder, the original displays a thumbnail for the icon but the offshoot copy displays the standard Excel icon with the (XLSX) "button" in the lower left corner.

I've tried:

"Save As" and giving the file a different name. That didn't work.
Checking Get Info on both and the only anomaly I see is that the offshoot is a larger file, despite containing fewer tabs and less data.

How to make the Finder show the icon thumbnail for all Excel documents?


texts: How to use Reason 7 (Reason.app) on macOS Sierra

texts:
After reinstalling os x and updating it to Sierra I found that Reason 7 would not start. Instead the following error message is displayed:

  Unknown installation error
  An error occurred during installation of installed files. Contact support or reinstall the application. Now terminating.

I searched around on the web and found that it's common to have problems using Reason 7 on Sierra, there are various things people have tried, one thing I tried was to start the Reason 9 demo and then to start Reason 7, but this didn't work for me, also, at the time my Reason 9 trial had expired. see: Reason 7 on mac sierra os x issues? reason stops supporting

I have found that I am able to start Reason 7 using an unconventional method.

First I open the reason folder in finder, then select "Show Package Contents"

This allows me to navigate to locate the Reason unix executable at Reason.app/Content/MacOS/Reason

When I execute the Reason file, reason starts up and I can use it normally. I can use my ignition key and after installing the latest version of code meter (6.50b from the codemeter.com) and installing Authorizer using Authorizer.pkg (from the Resources folder inside Reason.app) I was able to auhorize my computer to run reason without the ignition key. If you try this and find that the web page says it can't find code meter, try pressing the reload page button on your browser.

My question is: how can I start reason without having to go show package contents and invoke the Reason executable directly?

It's seems clear that something extra is happening when I double click the reason.app icon that causes the error, how can I get it to skip that and execute the Reason executable only.

I've searched around in the Reason.app folder and I imagine that there's something in there that I need to change so that it will invoke the Reason executable immediately instead of trying to install things at start up.


texts: How Can OS 10.9 Kotoeri Keyboard Layout Behavior Be Reverted To That of 10.8 and Earlier

texts:
In OS 10.8, you could set the keyboard layout for Japanese input in Kotoeri Preferences.  The default was US, which generates the correct layout for a JIS hardware keyboard.  In 10.9, Apple deleted this preference setting, and the keyboard layout is now set by whichever layout was most recently used.  So now anyone who normally uses something other than US winds up with output that does not fit a JIS keyboard, unless they go to the trouble of switching to the US layout before they do so, which is major inconvenience.  It seems like one should be able to fix this via some sort of .plist modification or "defaults write" command line input, but I can't figure out how.

Another way to put it is:  How can one make US the default layout for Kotoeri input in 10.9, even when US is not on the list of user keyboards, but something else like French is.


texts: Why is cloning my MacBook Pro slower since I upgraded it to SSD?

texts:
Last week I replaced the 512GB 7200rpm HDD in my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro with a 512GB SSD (Crucial 550). The performance improvement in most areas is welcome, but one thing is now considerably slower: my weekly SuperDuper clone.

Prior to the upgrade, doing a smart copy of the MBP's disk (where only the files that have changed are copied) to a portable USB HDD would usually take around one hour. Since the SSD upgrade, doing a smart copy to the same HDD now takes nearer 3 hours.

I dare say there's a logical explanation for this... but what is it, and is there anything I can do about it?

EDIT: Actually, it's worse than I thought... both the backups I've done since the upgrade have taken 10 HOURS EACH. The first one I assumed was something to do with the drive ID changing, even though most of the files hadn't changed. I wrote this post about 2 hours into my second backup when it looked like it was mostly done, but still had to leave it running overnight, and when I got up this morning I saw that it had again taken 10 hours.

The backup drive is a portable Toshiba 1TB, with three partitions (one for each of my Macs), which connects to my MBP via USB 2.0. I've backed up my other two non-SSD Macs to it in the meantime and they didn't take any longer than usual, so there's nothing physically wrong with the drive, though that doesn't rule out an issue with one partition I guess.


texts:
From the feature list APFS supports per-file encryption. Hence by extension it should be possible to setup an encrypted folder (or at least just the files within that folder) with a password that is different than the user login password.  Similarly, it should be possible to encrypt users' home  directories with their own respective keys, and render them inaccessible to one another despite whatever their file permission says (similar to what Windows' NTFS able to do since the previous century).

The question is that how to do that from a user's point of view? I've yet to see any UI in the Finder that can do this in macOS High Sierra. Is there a way in the command-line to enable this?


texts: iOs is not updating on my iPod Touch - how can I fix it?

texts:
I have an iPod touch (8gb) which currently has iOS 4.2.1.  I thought the latest version was 4.3, but it's not upgrading.  When I go to iTunes, I click on 'Check for update' and it says I have the latest version.

Am I doing something wrong, or is the new version just not available for my iPod?


texts: How do I click trust on my computer after accidentally click do not?

texts: I accidentally clicked 'do not trust' on my computer when I plugged in my iPhone and I want to know to to get the option to click trust again?


texts:
When I use TextWrangler, I can use the beautiful, crisp bitmapped 10 point Monaco font:

In TextMate, when I select Monaco 10 as my font, I get a much fuzzier rendered vector graphic from the TrueType version of Monaco:

I do like the lack of chrome in a TextMate window, but find the lack of bitmapped Monaco 10 to be off-putting. Is there a way to get TextMate to use the bitmapped version of the Monaco font, or do I need to stick with TextWrangler for that?


texts: How to Lock apps using FingerPrint in iPhone

texts: Can we lock other apps (eg.Facebook, Twitter) with fingerprint using Xcode.


texts:
I'm running MacOS 10.15.3 on a Macbook Pro. Everyday for over a week now, Mac Mail hovers around 140% CPU. I restart Mail and it works fine until that evening or the next day.

I changed it to check mail every 5 minutes instead of Automatically but that didn't help. Besides reinstalling MacOS or removing/adding mail accounts, is there some way to resolve this?


texts: What is the impedance of the line/headphone jack on MacBook Pro Retina?

texts:
I want to buy headphones that I will primarily use on my MacBook Pro Retina. I read that I should not buy headphones with high impedance because the volume will be really low. I want something I can use with my MacBook and my iPad. I looked at these headphones, but I'm afraid they will not work well for my purposes:

http://www.amazon.com/Beyerdynamic-770-PRO-250-ohms/dp/B0006NL5SM/ref=pd_cp_e_0

Does anyone have experience with this stuff?


texts: Enable users icon not working in FileVault

texts: When I go into FileVault, I am unable to click on the Enable Users... icon to add users. How do I fix this?


texts: JavaScript problem while installing NetBeans and JDK in OS X 10.5.8 - Leopard

texts:
I downloaded the newest version of NetBeans and JDK and wanted to install it on my MacBook that runs on OS X 10.5.8 but I couldn't.
This is the screenshot I made :

Maybe since the this OS X version is quite old I will be pushed to install some older version of NetBeans...

Anyway, why does it say I have a problem with JavaScript?


texts: iPhone available space: significant difference between iTunes and iPhone

texts:
I am trying to update my wife's iPhone from iOS 7 (.x.x) to 8 (the latest). I was trying through iTunes because the iPhone says only around 300MB is available. iTunes shows around 7GB as available space. But when I hit update, it complains that at least 770MB should be available and it is not.

Is this a known issue that iTunes reports a larger available space than iOS? I have read about the "Other" storage space problem, but this is about "Free" space.

Also, is there a workaround to reclaim this "free" space?

This is a iPhone 5S, latest iTunes (12.0.1.26) on OSX Yosemite (10.10.1)

iPhone:

iTunes:


texts: I came from OSX Mavericks, and since the update to Yosemite I gained 20+ Gigabytes of space.  I would usually expect to lose space.  Did the update delete some files that I am not aware of?


texts: Is there a way to enable emoji on TouchBar for every text field?

texts:
I don't see any other advantages of TouchBar xD. So emoji enabled only in certain apple apps.

I know, that it's app support story, but what about browsers? I want, for example, to use emoji in Facebook chat, or other web based chats in Chrome.


texts: How do I correct wrong iTunes play counts?

texts:
The play count in my iTunes library has somehow become incorrect. It shows some songs as never been played while I know that I have played them many times before. These songs do still have a "last played" date though.

Also, some songs are being listed as only played once, while I know they have been played multiple times.

I have an iPhone 4S, with iOS 6.0.1, iTunes 11. My PC is a VAIO running on Windows 7. I have a backup of my iTunes account. I think the problem started after I updated my iTunes account to version 11.

What I need is to get my original play count data back. Can anyone help me with this?


texts: Where's my free space gone on my MP3 player?

texts:
I have a Sansa Fuze MP3 player, it's 4 GB.

I plug it in my Mac I have a capacity of 3,7 GB of which apparently 1,8 GB is in use.

Problem is I only have arround 120 MB of MP3s on it...

Who's stealing my free space ?

Here are DiskInventoryX screenshots. I have the same results with du and the terminal.


texts:
Sometimes if an app needs keychain access MagicPrefs blocks clicks in the allow/disallow dialog, here it is:

I can click only "Deny" from there. And now if I force close MagicPrefs and try again it's all ok and I don't get any new errors in Console.

My question is how to make it not to block keychain?


texts: How in IRSSI can I switch channels? CTRL + number doesn't work

texts:
I just installed irssi using Brew in High Sierra. Using iTerm 2, I can't figure out how to change windows (channels). Pressing CTRL 2 for example doesn't take me to channel 2 like it would on an Linux machine.

Does anybody know the key combination that would make it work on iTerm and High Sierra?


texts: How can I make rows and columns for Spaces in Lion?

texts:
I just recently switched to Lion from Snow leopard and dealing with a few issues (like this question)

I am still loving it, though.

I used to have 3 X 3 spaces (I know, it's insane for some, but I like it), and liked that I can arrange things in a spatial arrangement.
Now on Lion I get a 1 X 9 series of spaces, is there a way to enable the column X row configuration of Spaces in Snow Leopard back?

EDIT: I've been using the four-fingere-up gesture for a while now and I dont miss spaces as much anymore!


texts: Is there a way to quickly mark all emails as read instead of going over each one of them manually ?


texts: How to find icloud ID to activate my iphone

texts:
I don't know what I did but...
catch 22 I can't activate my iphone because I can't remember my icloud ID which I have stored in my iphone  I know my password but that does me no good???


texts: How do I reload an OS X "bash" user-environment

texts:
I think that I want to ask

How do I reload an OS X bash user-environment

But damnit Jim ; I'm a software engineer not a sysadmin

The Goal

I want Jenkins started as a Daemon on El Capitan
I want to use "UserWhoHasARealAccount" on OS X
For this I should be using a launch-daemon

AFAIK

all /Library/LaunchDaemons/ are started as root
While they can substitute-user with User to become not-root they still retain root's environment.

The Problem

process won't have the full PATH (et al) that I setup

which can work around this but ...

sub processes don't get the PATH I setup for the user

so which whatever-i-want doesn't help when Node.JS tries to run a subprocess and compile my blog ... unless I for Node.JS to invoke subprocesses via absolute paths on my computer

the root environment seems to prevent ssh from working

so I can't have have "UserWhoHasARealAccount" login to localhost to magically get a real path
I may be missing something since I can't find any SSH error messages

Since this is a server, logging in and pressing a button won't "do it for me"


texts: Folders are present in iCloud, but all files are missing

texts: I have three apple computers that are synced with iCloud. When I look in iCloud on the computers I can see all of the folders and subfolders that should be there, but all of the files are missing.


texts: Why do I get duplicate YouTube controls in Safari?

texts:
YouTube videos have a duplicate set of controls under the normal controls in Safari.

Safari:

Firefox:

MacOS 10.12.5 and Safari 10.1.1.

The only Safari extension I have enabled is 1Password.

What's causing that other set of controls under the normal ones?


texts: Keynote document can't be opened although its size shows normally and how to repair it?

texts:
I recently moved my some keynote documents into backup HD. And I found I can't open some of those someday. It showed that "xxx.key can't be opened",and then I just try open it in PDF preview, it showed that "It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize."

But something weird was that those fail-to-open files remained normal size. Right now I'm not sure whether it is error of writing files in HD or keynote software itself.

Any other ideas as to how these documents can be repaired?


texts: Unable to connect via USB since upgrading to iOS 6

texts:
I cannot connect my iPhone to my automobile's USB port after recently upgrading to iOS 6. I first noticed this in a rental car (and assumed the rental car's USB was malfunctioning). After returning home it no longer worked in my vehicles. BTW, the ports will no longer charge the iPhone, either.

Then when I returned to work and connected the iPhone to my Windows 7 PC, Windows 7 no longer recognizes the iPhone.

This problem eliminates a large part of how I use the iPhone as a tool. What could the problem be? Should I revert back to iOS 5?


texts: Window management with multiple displays and desktops

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro with two connected displays. I keep windows on all three displays, and I have found Stay - which I discovered thanks to this question - to work very well for remembering what windows go where on all three displays after I've disconnected and reconnected my monitors.

However, it's not quite what I need.

When I use my MBP with the monitors connected, I don't use multiple Desktops - it's just not the way I work. So when I disconnect my displays and just use the MBP, I'm left with a jumble of windows from all three displays (the built-in one included) all on one Desktop.

What I would like ideally is:

to have the windows on each monitor move to their own Desktop when I disconnect the monitors;
then, when I connect the monitors again, the windows would whoosh back to their respective monitors and all be on the same Desktop.
(In a perfect world, it would also remove the two empty Desktops while the monitors are plugged in, but I'm not sure I can hope for that.)

Can I do this with Stay, or is there another app (or system setting) I need to find to accomplish this? Is this even possible?


texts: I am no longer able to burn discs using my MacBook's SuperDrive. How can I fix it?

texts:
About a year ago, the SuperDrive in my 2010 MacBook appeared to stop working. When I insert a blank CD or DVD, the disc does not show up in the Finder. The drive appears in Disk Utility, and I am able to eject it from there. I assumed this was a hardware problem with the SuperDrive, so I just purchased an external Samsung USB DVD drive. I am seeing the exact same behavior with it. This leads me to believe there is some kind of OS X problem rather than it stemming from the drives.

What steps should I take to troubleshoot and try to fix this?


texts: Can I edit the same Pages document on both my iPad and my Mac?

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I'm interested in editing a single Pages document on both a Mac and an iPad.

I understand the concept of "downloading" a document from iCloud (or from anywhere).

But that isn't what I want, because that would create a copy of the document, resulting in multiple versions.

So "sharing," "exporting," "copying," "downloading," etc. is what I'm trying to avoid.

I'm after something like when you have a file in Dropbox and you edit it on your work computer and then later go home and edit the same file there.

I'm guessing if it's at all possible it's going to involve iCloud, but if it can be done with Dropbox that would be preferable.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: iPhone 4s is giving me trouble, can someone help me troubleshoot?

texts: I thought my Hotmail account that I use my for my Apple ID was deleted but it was not. In the mean time I created a new Apple ID using the wrong e-mail. I never verified the new e-mail but its popping up on my iPhone everytime I try to update certain apps, even when I go to my SoundCloud I can't seem to find the fake e-mail. However it pops up when I try to update certain apps, what can I do to resolve this issue?


texts: Is there a way to set Hide Sidebar on Preview as default?

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Everytime I open a document with more than 1 page in Preview it shows the sidebar. I want to hide it as default but I can't find the option to do that.

Is there a way to do it?

Mac 10.15.4 - Catalina


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To read/write NTFS (Windows-formatted) external HDDs on my Mac, I have installed FUSE for OS X (version 3.2.0) and NTFS-3G (version 2015.3.14, installed with homebrew and the instructions from NTFS-3G). I have selected the 'MacFUSE compatibility layer' because it is required by veraCrypt (from https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/).

Copying to/from the Mac to the NTFS HDDs works as expected. However, I can no longer use the Disk Utility's "First Aid" utilities (to correct permissions, to correct errors when the HDDs get incorrectly dismounted). The disk utility options are now 'greyed out' for my HDDs. These options are still available for my internal SSD and for my SD card, so the disk utility is not 'broken'. The HDDs are also fine: they work correctly and I can still fix them on Windows. The problem (the only one I can see so far) is that I can no longer fix my external HDDs with the Mac's disk utility.

I'm currently on OSX Yosemite. Here is the diagnosis from the Disk Utility:

    Name :  PatrickA
    Type :  Partition

    Disk Identifier :   disk2s1
    Mount Point :   /Volumes/PatrickA
    File System :   Windows NT File System (NTFS)
    Connection Bus :    USB
    Device Tree :   IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14
    Writable :  Yes
    Universal Unique Identifier :   54D2798C-E724-4810-B621-F1358C19DC48
    Capacity :  1 TB (1,000,169,537,536 Bytes)
    Free Space :    245.04 GB (245,044,764,672 Bytes)
    Used :  755.12 GB (755,124,768,768 Bytes)
    Number of Files :   130,742
    Number of Folders :     0
    Owners Enabled :    Yes
    Can Turn Owners Off :   No
    Can Repair Permissions :    No
    Can Be Verified :   No
    Can Be Repaired :   No
    Can Be Formatted :  No
    Bootable :  No
    Supports Journaling :   No
    Journaled :     No
    Disk Number :   2
    Partition Number :  1

As you can see above, my HDDs (all of them) can no longer be verified or repaired. I was always able to do that before reinstalling FUSE and NTFS-3G. The above diagnosis is identical for all 12 of my HDDs.

I tried to reset permissions, but was denied:

vsdbutil -a /Volumes/PatrickA
vsdbutil: no valid volume UUID found on '/Volumes/PatrickA': permissions are disabled.

I read somewhere that hfs.util can regenerate a UUID, but that didn't work.

diskutil info /Volumes/PatrickA | grep "Device Identifier"
Device Identifier:        disk3s1
/System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util -s disk3s1

Any suggestions? Thanks!

UPDATE I came across suggestions on how to use the diskutil from the command line. Here is the error message I get:

diskutil verifyvolume /Volumes/PatrickA/
Error starting file system verification for disk2s1 PatrickA: Invalid request (-69886)

I have also not been able to get smartctl to do anything useful with the volume:

smartctl -c /Volumes/PatrickA
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
Smartctl open device: /Volumes/PatrickA failed:

I came across a suggestion that a third party driver is needed to diagnose external drives on a Mac OS X (I do not know if this is generally true). The SAT SMART driver (available at https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver) extends the standard driver behaviour by providing access to drive SMART data. I was successful in changing the SMART status of my HDD to "Verified." But this does not appear to have helped much as the errors reported above still appear.


texts:
On the site I'm working on we have some download links for images. We tested on an older macbook running safari 5 and that worked perfectly. However when we updated the OS, safari went to version 8 and now when you click the download link it renames every file "download-#" and changes the extension from JPEG to a TextEdit document.  Chrome and Firefox on the same laptop don't do this, only happens in Safari.

If you "Save Image to "Downloads" or "Save Image As..." the filename and extension remain unchanged.

Is there a way to force it to keep the original filename and extension, when using the download links?


texts: How to make a folder show the item counts in Finder?

texts:
how can I make settings to have this visible? I want every folder show the number of items included. On my Mac, the grey bar with 25 is not visible.
How can I get Finder to draw this count on the bar shown in the red circle?


texts: Where does the iOS Photos app store user-entered captions?

texts:
I understand that the ability to add captions to photos was added in iOS 14. Where are these captions stored? For example, are they embedded into the .HEIC file as EXIF or XMP or IPTC metadata? Or a sidecar file? Or just in the Photos database?
If I transfer the photos to another device, how should I ensure the captions are transferred too?


texts: disable volume control sound effects when holding shift

texts:
Most likely the following issue will result in me buying BetterTouchTool, but before doing so, I'm asking if there's a solution that doesn't require third-party software.
The issue: I've switched the touch bar on my Mac to show the "extended controls", because that way the volume and brightness controls are always in the same place and don't require a long-press in order to use them. I also have all user interface sound effects turned off.
However, the volume control 'pop' sound effects still happen if I hold down shift while changing the volume. This is really annoying, because I keep touching the volume controls when holding shift to typing symbols on the number key row.
So I'm wondering if there's a way to turn this feature off. Ideally, I'd like to disable the volume controls entirely when I'm holding shift, but otherwise, just changing the volume silently wouldn't be too bad.


texts: What do Memory and Compressed Memory columns mean exactly in Activity Monitor

texts:
I'm aware what compressed memory is from answers like this and Apple support but what I can't find is what exactly the usage means.

Take my system right now:

Is it telling me the top process is using 3.34GB of RAM and 3.26GB compressed, or is it telling me it is using 3.34GB of memory in total, of which 3.26GB is compressed?

Is there any way to understand how much compression is going on i.e. what that 3.26GB was before compression?


texts: Scan Mac OS SSD from a Windows PC for malware

texts:
I have an issue with a Macbook Pro and was told to scan the SSD for malware. My other computer is a Windows computer. So I connected the SSD of the mac via USB externally to my Windows PC. As (more or less) expected, the Malwarebytes Software which I want to use to scan the Mac SSD, does not recognize the SSD drive.

My question is: How can I scan an externally connected Mac SSD from a Windows PC for malware?


texts: modifying the timestamps of multiple files

texts:
I have been trying to change the date created and date modified for multiple files inside multiple sub folders. There are about 29000 files spread access 500 folders, each with at least 1 level of sub-folders within.
I have been experimenting with the touch command via terminal, but can't get it to work for more than 1 sub solder (about 15 files) at a time.
I am working on the files locally on an external hard drive.
What syntax do I need to use in order to bulk process all of these files in one go, changing both the date created and date modified to a specific timestamp (20200601 12:01:01 for example).
cheers


texts:
Someone stole my phone today so I went and got a "new" older phone.  An iPhone 5.  It came with iOS 10.1.1 installed and I was wondering if there is a jailbreak for this?

I've been looking on Google and have tried a few different methods but they all seem to be fake and only install a "Cydia demo".

Can anyone point me towards finding a legitimate jailbreak or is non available?


texts:
iTunes error message when downloading music stopped (err = -3253) the network connection was reset.
this message will pop up once or twice before it will download the song. It will eventually download the content, after I've cycled through the same error message a couple of times. Been on the phone with apple support for 3+ hours with no success in fixing this annoying error message. Running McAfee anti-virus, disabled McAfee and same error occurs. Any advice, anyone else get this error??? or is it apple being dicks to windows users again...
System Information report written at: 04/01/21 18:37:37
System Name: ###########
[System Summary]
Item    Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.19042 Build 19042
Other OS Description    Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name #############
System Manufacturer Acer
System Model    Predator PH315-53
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU  0000000000000000
Processor   Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date   Insyde Corp. V1.06, 2020-08-18
SMBIOS Version  3.2
Embedded Controller Version 1.06
BIOS Mode   UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer  CML
BaseBoard Product   QX50_CMS
BaseBoard Version   V1.06
Platform Role   Mobile
Secure Boot State   On
PCR7 Configuration  Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory   C:\Windows
System Directory    C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale  United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer  Version = "10.0.19041.844"
User Name   #######################
Time Zone   Mountain Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory   15.8 GB
Available Physical Memory   10.3 GB
Total Virtual Memory    24.8 GB
Available Virtual Memory    17.8 GB
Page File Space 9.00 GB
Page File   C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection   Off
Virtualization-based security   Not enabled
Device Encryption Support   Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions    Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions   Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware    Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes


texts: Delete App from Home Screen vs. Delete from Settings -> Storage

texts:
I was told that for a real delete of an app data, one needs to delete it from storage->settings, rather than from the home screen. but if I already deleted it from the home screen? How can I delete the data now?
Am I suppose to re-install the app only so that I Could delete it from storage? and does it matter if I installed it with Apple ID A, deleted it from home screen, and then I re-install it with Apple ID B, and delete it from storage - will any data of Apple ID A still remain in that scenario?


texts:
I've upgraded my OS to Sierra recently, in El Capitan I had some apps and they were working perfectly, but in Sierra they show me:

Killed: 9

I even execute them via sudo but they won't work.

Any idea?


texts: Is it possible to replace the GPU in this 2006 iMac? If yes what kind of models fit in there under the cooler?


texts: How to differentiate between Terminal scripted launch and manual launch for .bash_profile settings

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I have some .bash_profile settings that restore my last working directory every time I log in to my shell. However, I also use a program that opens a terminal window in the current directory open in Finder, and it does this by sending an event to Terminal using SBApplication.

Is there a way I can detect which way the Terminal was opened in my .bash_profile? Right now the bash settings override the cd to app.

# Setting PATH for Python 3.4
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin"
export PATH

# My settings
trap 'printf %s "$PWD" > ~/.storepwd' EXIT

cd "$(<~/.storepwd)"


texts: Any way to use a scan as a signature in Preview (Yosemite)?

texts:
I want to add my signature to PDFs in Preview, but the Trackpad/Camera method is terrible.

Any way to add a scanned signature to Preview??


texts:
Where is the location of the error and the warning icon?
I'm talking about the red octagon with a ! inside it and the yellow triangle also containing a !.

Example: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/1-blog-pics/mac-usb-device-removal-error.png


texts: How save radio station as favorite in iOS Music app?

texts:
I have some Internet radio stations on a playlist in iTunes on Windows. To listen to one, I just go to the playlist and select the station. I want to do the same kind of thing in the iOS Music app, but I can't find a way to save a radio station as a favorite or put it on a playlist.
I know how to search for a station in iOS, but I don't want to search for a station each time I want to hear it. Essentially, I want to have presents for my frequently used stations. How can I do this?
I'm running iOS 13 on an iPhone SE (2020 edition). I'm not a subscriber to Apple Music, and I have no interest in becoming one.


texts: What causes iPhone low battery crashes? Is there a software fix?

texts:
Some iPhone users (especially those with devices that've been in use for a while) encounter a problem where the device crashes once the battery gets low. For example:

  "After updating to iOS 7 my iPhone 5 has been doing something strange.
  When the battery gets low (usually around 20-30%), iOS will shut down
  completely, and when you try to power the phone back on it flashes on
  the screen telling you to plug the phone in to charge it (saying that
  the battery is almost completely dead).   The phone refuses to power
  on until you plug it in, but once I plug the phone in and power it
  back on, the battery life shows the last percentage it was at before
  it crashed (20-30%). This has happened to me more than once, so I know
  it's not just some crazy fluke."
  https://discussions.apple.com/message/23587500#23587500
  "I have a 3GS that is almost 2 years old now and had a hard life. It
  has now developed a tendency to crash when the battery gets below 25%.
  it will restart using the top button ok but as soon as you put any
  strain on the battery it crashes when at this low level. When the
  phone is charged it seems to work fine."
  http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1139488
  "I have a weird problem with my iPhone 5. My phone switches off when
  the battery is low. I was at 23% charge and just browsing facebook
  when my battery died. The other day I was at 13% charge and it
  switched off. Last week 17%.. It refuses to switch back on until it
  was plugged into the wall. I have tried restoring the phone and set up
  as new but I still have the same problem. It just seems to switch off
  when the battery is low at different percentages."
  https://discussions.apple.com/message/22284705#22284705

It seems to happen on various model iPhones and versions of the OS; it's currently happening to me on a heavily used two year old 4S running iOS 6.1.1.

TidBITS suggests that:

  "The common element in these crashes is low battery life, usually under 20 percent, although one crash occurred at almost 30 percent. When I give the iPhone power, it restarts immediately and shows the expected amount of battery life remaining. So it’s not that the battery is actually running out; instead, [iOS's] power management code is freaking out once the battery level falls to around 20 percent. I do see a number of LowBatteryLog files in Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostic & Usage Data, though their contents don’t reveal a smoking gun. Letting the battery run down completely and then recharging entirely to recalibrate it made no difference."

(NB. TidBITS writes about this as it pertains to iOS 7 only.)

So, my question:

Do we know, technically, what is causing these crashes beyond simply "the power management code is freaking out"?
Are there any software hacks, fixes or usage habits (beyond usual battery saving/care techniques and "just get a new battery/don't let the battery get low!") that might help avoid these crashes?

(I'm interested in general answers, but in case it's of use here are the low battery logs from my two most recent crashes.)


texts:
So I saw around on the internet that people have changed their HDD to an SSD  on their MacBook Pro which people say helps in speed.

This might seem silly to ask here for some of you but I like to get direct answers from someone with better Mac knowledge than me.

But if I were to do so, is there a certain type SSD I need and what would be the price? Depending on space. And is it easy?

I have an Retina MacBook Pro 13" 8GB RAM, 2,6GHZ, 128HDD (Mid - 2014)


texts: Can't install programs nor change system settings because admin password is not recognized on Mac OS Lion

texts:
I can't install programs nor change system settings. I have admin privileges and I can successfully login into my account. I can even perform admin operations in terminal using sudo command.

But, when I try to install new software and enter the admin password, it always give me an "incorrect password" message.


texts: Is it safe to buy MacBook Pro batteries on eBay?

texts:
My 15" MacBook Pro 5.1 (late 2008) battery is inflating to the point of nearly breaking the unibody battery cover, so I'm really into replacing it as soon as possible. There are loads of these batteries on eBay (mostly UK sellers with high reputation) that cost less than half of the price I'd have to pay for a battery on a local Apple reseller store.

My question is: is it safe to purchase batteries for MacBook Pros on eBay? Are there any known issues or ripoffs that I should know of?


texts: What Information Is Gleaned From Conducting An Apple Hardware Test?

texts: What information is gleaned from conducting an Apple Hardware Test ( or Apple Diagnostics for Macs purchased from June 2013), when trying to find out if something is wrong with my Mac ?


texts: Setting up an "Old" MacBook in an "Old" way

texts:
What I want:

A MacBook or MacBook pro running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with Windows XP (or 7) in Bootcamp.

(Just like I used to have.. which was fine!!)

What I have:

A 13", Late 2009 MacBook (White) 2.26 GHz Core-2-duo/8GB DDR3 RAM/250GB HDD storage running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.

I have a DMG of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and an ISO of Win XP.

Is it possible to get the desired setup on the MacBook I have?


texts: Why do my hidden photos still show up in the Albums?

texts: I have a bunch of photos that I have hidden, but I can still see them in my albums. Is there a way to hide them totally?


texts: Checking Certificates Meet Apple Requirements

texts:
is there a command or UI I can use to test certificates or diagnose why they aren't valid?

A while back Apple changed the requirements for TLS certificates, and announced dates from when those changes would take effect. For example not accepting certificates that last longer than 865 days, requiring extended attributes, etc.

If I use such a certificate, Chrome/Safari don't tell me why it isn't considered invalid if it's an Apple enforced reason such as the ones above.

It'd be great to have a go-to debugging step that'll tell me if a certificate is or isn't good that includes the Apple restrictions.

Clarification: I'm not interested in generating certificates or how to code them. I just want to know how to test if a given certificate is valid on a MacOS system using the terminal or some other OS UI


texts: How to restore MacBook Pro to factory settings? Prohibited sign on boot

texts:
Because I am selling my old MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2011) and, for this reason, restore it to the factory settings. I have followed the steps for this. First the discs were erased which only partially succeeded. In the next step "reinstall macOS" I now get a gray screen and I can't get out (even after I turned off the laptop).

How can I proceed from here?


texts: Can I safely uninstall iTunes from my Mac?

texts:
The only use I ever had for iTunes was updating and syncing my iDevices, but since the introduction of over-the-air updates and iCloud, I no longer have that need.

My question therefore is if I can safely remove iTunes from my Mac? Or are there other applications that depend on iTunes being available?

Thanks!


texts: Upgrade to an unsigned version of iOS - possible or not?

texts:
I have an iPhone 5s (A1453). It is currently running iOS 9.x.

I need to upgrade it to iOS 11.x to perform testing of apps on this particular iOS version/device combination.

I've read couple of articles about a method with Prometheus, SHSH2, etc.
But it seems that I'm out of luck, because this device never had iOS 11 installed on it, so there's no SHSH2 for this version, and it is already unsigned.

Am I right with my guess, or is there some way to do such an upgrade?


texts: How to find the password to my iPad's currently-connected Wi-Fi network?

texts: I am connected to my wifi on my iPad but I want to know if there is a way to find the password that is put in to get connected to it.


texts: Phone data security when plugged in to hotel power supply

texts: is it true that only Apple chargers are secure from data theft from your phone through electrical systems such as in a hotel or coffee shop? I was told that you should never use a non-Apple phone or iPad charger because only Apple is proven to keep you secure from information being stolen while you are plugged in to a large non-residential power supply.


texts: Deleting files but, disk space doesn't stay free - not due to time machine

texts:
After hitting the ceiling on my 256 GB SSD, I deleted around 20 GB to free up disk space.
Unfortunately, almost every time I start the MacBook, it issues a warning, that the startup disk is almost full. Seemingly at random, checking the free disk space actually provides the 20 GB of free disk space but after a while it falls down to a few MB (!).
I already tried disabling Time Machine's Local Snapshots:

sudo tmutil disablelocal

but that didn't help.

System Specs:
El Capitan - 10.11.6 on a late 2013 MacBook Pro

P.S.: this is not a duplicate of Over 25 gb os Space Disappeared


texts: How do I delete an app purchased through the Mac App Store?

texts: I notice that apps downloaded through the Mac App Store are placed in the /Applications folder on my Mac. Is there any special procedure to delete them, or can I just drag them to the trash like I can with other apps?


texts: waking up from locked screen with just keyboard

texts:
I'm on OS X 10.9.5. I do not like using mouse/trackpad, and mostly work with keyboard only. One annoying thing is that when the OS is locked (screen lock) and the power saving for the monitor is activated, I can't wake it up with a keystroke. I MUST move the mouse cursor to let me type in my password to unlock the screen.

Does anybody else have the same problem and if so is there a workaround?


texts: Will there be problems trying to run bootcamp with third party ssd macbook air 2012 upgrade on Catalina 10.15.6?

texts:
I bought an adapter
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07NSFY5XM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and a 1tb ssd
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B073SB2MXT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
to put in a 2012 macbook air 10.15.6, didn't buy it to install Windows 10 but would be nice, but then I read many anecdotal posts about third party ssds causing blue screens and failing to install from bootcamp, and messing up both the windows and mac partitions.
So I'm a little wary to try boot camp, but these posts seem to be from years ago before the latest Catalina supplemental update, maybe something got fixed, is it worth a shot?
Vmware and running win2usb or similar program from external hdd don't seem viable because the system is too underpowered with 4gb ram, and only usb 3 ports to work with hard drives/thumb drives, loading MacOS clone drives was very slow when I tried it.
What exactly would cause the problem if I tried to bootcamp my new ssd? Could it be fixed? OWC drives (3x more expensive, not worth it imo) seem to be able to do it with some sort of firmware and software fix.
here are some links to people discussing problems with third party drives and bootcamp.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250349961
https://www.reddit.com/r/bootcamp/comments/ginwlv/bootcamp_with_third_party_ssd/
https://www.reddit.com/r/bootcamp/comments/er9fw7/bootcampsamsung_evo_860_ssd_error_windows_cannot/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251701019
the last one is recent, me talking to a guy on apple forums who seems knowledgeable who is pretty adamant it cannot be done, but other threads I have read show people doing workarounds, for example:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250921449
but every macbook is different, so I'm not sure I should bother trying.


texts: First time using SuperDuper and after an hour of attempting to copy files, the process is still in '1. Prepare to Copy Files'. Is this normal?


texts: When I decompress a zip file on my Mac, the folder is nowhere to be found. Help!

texts:
Normally when I open a zip file, the contents immediately open up in the form of a decompressed folder. For some reason, the unzipping process appears to be happening but then nothing opens. Any experience with this?
also - around the same time, I've started noticing that if I save something to my desktop, it's nowhere to be found.


texts: I have a 2007 MacBook Pro running Yosemite from an off the net upgrade from Snow Leopard and the graphics went crazy while trying to watch a TV program on my Slingbox app. I forced a shut down by holding the power button down and now it will not boot up to the hard drive. upon trying to start it up, the initial startup tone is sounded, the apple pops up on the screen and the progress bar begins to load. Upon reaching about half way on the progress bar it stops loading and eventually goes to a black screen with an arrow cursor. I tried reloading the OS with the original Snow Leopard OS disc but got a pop up stating that the OS was not compatible. I then went to utilities and ran a disc permissions test, a disc permissions repair , and then a disc test but the it said the disc appeared to be OK. It still will not boot and is still only loading about half of the loading start up bar. Anybody have any ideas? I think the hard drive may be toast but I really would love to load some of the pictures and desktop info on to an external drive but don't have a clue on how to proceed.


texts: How can I force Terminal.app to take up exactly half of my screen?

texts:
I'm using Spectacle for Window Management and I regularly use the commands to split my screen horizontally for exactly two windows. It works quite well for most things, but not for applications like Terminal.app or Emacs, which size themselves down just a little bit so that the window size goes together with their monospaced text view. I see Spectacle resizing them to exactly half of the screen, and then the windows resizing just a tad right after.

Emacs on the left, Terminal.app on the right:

Is there any way to force these windows to stay the size that Spectacle is trying to set?

This seems like a non-issue, but it quickly becomes one when I have a more colorful desktop background. It's then quite distracting to have e.g. bright orange pixels all around those windows.


texts: Play/pause buttons launches iTunes instead of playing/pausing the Deezer app

texts: I am using the Deezer app music. It worked well, I could use the media buttons to control play/pause/next track/previous track. But a few days ago, (after an macOS update?) now when I hit play/pause it launches iTunes instead of controlling the Deezer app that is already running and playing music. It was correctly functioning before, so I don't know where this change of behaviour is coming from. This is very annoying as it makes the Deezer almost unusable as I have to bring it to front to control it.


texts:
This link is now outdated with the new release of numbers.

I want to transpose the X- and Y-axes on a chart in Numbers 3.1. How the heck can I do this?

The first chart I made was able to sum my columns up to 100 just fine:

However, when I try it with fewer columns/geographies, it transposes the selection:

Even when I transpose the cells, it still forces the data to display incorrectly and there is no option to swap the axes:

I'm so frustrated with this! How can I make it plot correctly? Thanks!


texts: How do I move Mac and Windows partitions to single Hard Drive?

texts:
I have this scenario:

600 GB Hard Drive, using Master Boot Record

300 GB Windows 7 x64 Parition, NTFS
300 GB free Space

1 TB Hard Drive, Guid Parition Table

730 GB Data Partition, exFat

Two More hard drives which are irrelevant but provide 2 TB of free space

I want to have both the Mac and the Windows Partition on the 600 GB Hard Drive, because it's by far the fastest drive in the system. However, I do not want to reinstall Mac OS X. I may be able to reinstall Windows, but I'd like to avoid that as well.

Does anyone have some hints how I should proceed? I'm also worried about stuff like the Boot Sectors.

Could I just use something like dd on the paritions? I heard about Carbon Copy Cloner, but that seems to be a file copy rather than a partition copy?

Since the 600 GB Drive uses MBR, I need to wipe all partitions anyway and repartition using GPT, correct?


texts: Starting VLC from command line always puts the window behind other windows

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If I start VLC from Finder, the windows shows up on top. But if I start VLC from the command line using vlc command (using either Terminal or iTerm2), the VLC window is never shows up on top. I have to use Command + Tab to switch to it. This is very annoying. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Btw, I don't want to make VLC always on top of other windows. But it should get focused (on top) when it starts.


texts: How to change the spell-check to British -ize in Mac?

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It is possible to change the spelling dictionary to either British (-ise) or American (-ize) as shown in the solution to this post.

However, I would like to use British spelling with -ize variant (recalled as en_GB-ize in some dictionaries). Is there a way to set this language in Mac?


texts: Getting per-user websites working on Mountain Lion server

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I followed the instructions at this question but I am getting 404s when trying to access http://localhost/~user.

The httpd error log shows the following message:

[Tue Jul 23 20:34:34 2013] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/~user

The userdir module is being loaded, and the Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf line is not commented out.

If I put a deliberate error in /etc/apache2/users/user.conf, apachectl configtest will fail, so it is reading this file — which means /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf is fine as well.

Without the error, user.conf reads

<Directory "/Users/user/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

and httpd-userdif.conf reads

# Settings for user home directories
#
# Required module: mod_userdir

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.  Note that you must also set
# the default access control for these directories, as in the example below.
#
UserDir Sites

#
# Users might not be in /Users/*/Sites, so use user-specific config files.
#
Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf
<IfModule bonjour_module>
       RegisterUserSite customized-users
</IfModule>

Does anybody have any idea what could be going wrong here? (And also, why Apple didn't just leave well alone and have this working by default, like it did in earlier versions of OS X? :)

Edit: Interestingly, if I change Userdir Sites to Userdir /Users/*/STUFF I still get the same error message, with the original path — so Apache seems to be ignoring this line entirely. Sometimes I think we'd be better off with a slide rule.


texts: if external disk found by terminal applescript

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Hey so MacBooks have this nasty habit of not mounting external disks when plugged in before... reference link

the solution is quite simple with terminal eject the disk and the manually unplug replug the drive.

I'd like to make a small AppleScript that can do the whole process of looking for the disk and if found eject it. This is what i got, but I'm stuck on recognising if the external disk is found by terminal...

tell application "Terminal"
do script "echo \"diskutil list\"" in window 1
if exists disk2 then
    do script "echo \"diskutil info disk2\"" in window 1
    do script "echo \"diskutil eject disk2\"" in window 1
    do script "echo \"diskutil list\"" in window 1
end if
end tell

the error i get is The variable disk2 is not defined.
questions are:
1) if i print the diskutil list, how would i define variables for all the external disk terminal found?
2) see if it's mounted, if not try to mount, if fails eject?


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I need to install ROOT on my mac. Since I prefer Python for Scientific Computing I though that it would install PyROOT by default. That didn't happen. After I looked on PyROOT site i found that installation is done by that line:

./configure <arch> --enable-python [--with-python-incdir=<dir>] [--with-python-libdir=<dir>]
gmake

What would be alternative for that line above for enabling python on my macports installation?


texts: Difference between "⌘ + ↓" vs. "Double Click" vs. Right Click → Open when launching an .app?

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I noticed that if I perform ⌘ + ↓ on foo.app, it will display a different output vs. right clicking and selecting Open vs. double clicking.

This is a Wineskin application. ⌘ + ↓ launches Wineskin, not what I want. Right Click → Open actually launches the program Wineskin is wrapping, which is what I want.

Why is the behaviour of all these methods different?


texts: Making Microsoft Office Reminders get your attention

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Does anyone know how to have Office reminders pop up in front of any application? Now, if I'm working on something, they silently pop up in the background.

It's one of the few features I miss from Outlook on windows, and I keep missing appointments.

It's driving me nuts (not to mention generating hate from colleagues whose meetings I miss).

Or should I just junk Office reminders, and use another application?