texts: Left Command key does not have the same function as the Right Command key

texts:
Since updating my computer to Mavericks all my commands have gone wonky.

My main key problem is my left command key. The right one works correctly with all the shortcuts I use, but the left one zooms out the screen and puts similar applications side by side.

I've tried a lot with System Preferences but since I am new to Mavericks it's hard to find what I am looking for.


texts: Smooth scrolling not working with Magic Mouse and macOS Catalina 10.15.3

texts:
Recently, smooth scrolling has stopped working on my MacBook Pro when scrolling with the Magic Mouse. Using the internal trackpad works fine and smooth scrolling behaves correctly.

I initially noticed this behavior in Chrome but it appears to affect all apps, including native ones like Pages or Safari.


texts: MacBook Pro USB ports not working properly

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At work, I usually use my left USB port to charge my iPhone, while the right port connects to a hub on my monitor, providing Ethernet, external keyboard and sometimes another iOS device. I also have the monitor itself connected via one of the Thunderbolt ports. The computer is connected to the mains.

All of this works fine, but recently I've had some what I believe to be power-related issues with the ports. If I try to plug my iPad mini 2 into either port, it doesn't charge correctly (it keeps chiming to say it's charging, randomly, every second or so).

Another symptom appears to be that if I try to run Duet (the iOS/OS X app combo that allows you to run your iOS device as an external screen), it keeps trying to connect, the screens flash black, then come back, then keep coming and going but never connects properly to the iOS device. This is even the case if I'm using my iPhone, which doesn't usually have any problems charging.

I've tried removing all external devices and just plugging in the iPhone, and Duet still doesn't work properly. Same with the iPad and charging, if no other devices are connected, it still beeps all the time and doesn't charge properly.


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I have DHCP setup on an Airport Extreme to provide IPs for a network of iMacs and some iPads.

The Airport's WAN port is connected to a switch that is used for a VOIP phone system. Would the DHCP service on the Airport conflict with the DHCP service for the phone system or will the Airport only provide IPs for its clients on its LAN ports?


texts:
I was used to use the next key of my old MBP to quickly change the currently playing song.

I would like to know if someone knows a hack to get the next media button displayed directly in the control-strip.

I know I can access it with one more key press on the media (or expand) button.


texts:
I downloaded a macOS Mojave installer, after download I proceeded to install Mojave on my MacBook Pro mid 2012. Just before completing installation as indicated 17 seconds left. It was like that for more than 30 mins now to 1hr. Can someone help me? I checked the log files and have copied the logs files from where problems started.
Jun  5 05:42:00 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: OSISDownloadOperation: totalEstimate=919.000000, significantDownload=1
Jun  5 05:42:03 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osishelperd[513]: WARN: using mkdir instead of rootless_mkdir_nounlink because the platform does not support it.
Jun  5 05:42:03 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: OSISDownloadOperation: IAL update found. id: com.apple.pkg.IncompatibleAppList.10_14.16U1638 version: 1.0.0.0.1.1540853632
Jun  5 05:42:03 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: PackageKit: No native mechanism to verify BaseSystem.chunklist
Jun  5 08:01:17 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: PackageKit: Failed to verify InstallESDDmg.pkg: xar_verify failed
Jun  5 08:23:53 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: isConvertableToAPFS: was called on disk0s1, an APFS disk.
Jun  5 08:23:53 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: disk0s1 is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Jun  5 08:23:53 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: isConvertableToAPFS: was called on disk0s1, an APFS disk.
Jun  5 08:23:53 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: disk0s1 is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Jun  5 08:35:09 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: isConvertableToAPFS: was called on disk0s3, an APFS disk.
Jun  5 08:35:09 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: disk0s3 is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Jun  5 08:35:09 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: isConvertableToAPFS: was called on disk0s3, an APFS disk.
Jun  5 08:35:09 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: disk0s3 is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Jun  5 08:35:49 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro softwareupdated[218]: BackgroundActions: Scan did not load all resources: not resetting background date
Jun  5 08:58:49 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: isConvertableToAPFS: was called on disk0s1, an APFS disk.
Jun  5 08:58:49 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: disk0s1 is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Jun  5 08:58:49 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: isConvertableToAPFS: was called on disk0s1, an APFS disk.
Jun  5 08:58:49 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: disk0s1 is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Jun  5 08:59:10 Rafaels-MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[509]: PackageKit: Failed to verify InstallESDDmg.pkg: xar_verify failed


texts: Is my unsaved Quicktime player movie recording still on the hard drive somewhere?

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I recorded a movie (File > New Movie Recording) using Quicktime Player and when I stopped I accidentally clicked "Don't Save" instead of "Save".

Is that recorded content still on the hard drive somewhere, maybe in a temp or cache folder or something in a hidden directory?

I'd like to recover it.  Thanks.


texts: How well does Google Docs work on the iPad?

texts: How well does Google Docs work on the iPad via Safari?


texts:
I want to install Win10 in a partition on my Macbook Pro.

Model: Macbook Pro 13' MID 2010.

I already have Windows Software Support that I downloaded from Boot Camp app.

To do so, I created a partition with 140Gb with I called "BOOTCAMP".
I need to change this partition to GPT so, to do so, I downloaded GPT fdisk.
After I installed it I opened "terminal" and run the command sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

I got this:

    Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
NOTE: Write test failed with error number 1. It will be impossible to save
changes to this disk's partition table!
You may need to deactivate System Integrity Protection to use this program. See
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-turn-off-the-rootless-in-OS-X-El-Capitan-10-11
for more information.

Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/disk0: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Sector size (logical): 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): CCEA39AF-B83B-4EB6-93F8-9A87464AB53D
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 262157 sectors (128.0 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640       701207815   334.2 GiB   AF00  Sem nome
   3       701207816       702477351   619.9 MiB   AB00
   4       702477352       976510983   130.7 GiB   0700

Command (? for help): x

Expert command (? for help): n

Expert command (? for help): w

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!

The thing is, I'm afraid the process will overwrite my main partition as well.
Right now if I go to my Disk Utility I have this:

It is in Portuguese but I think you can understand the important things.

So, my question is: If I give it a "Y" in terminal, will it overwrite both of my partitions or only the partition called "BOOTCAMP"? (Will it erase my main partition?)

Thank you


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I have Time Capsule with folder(drive?) Data.  I didn't create this folder(drive?), it was already there when I have bought it.  I store books, music and films in this folder.

If I understand correctly when I reboot my Macbook and click on Time Capsule - Data on Finder, OSX mount this folder(drive?) to /Volumes folder.

Here is my /Volume:

# demas at MacBook-Air-demas.local in /Volumes [9:50:28]
$ ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@ 24 root   admin   816 Nov 16 09:49 .
drwxr-xr-x  35 root   wheel  1258 Nov 15 20:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Sep  7 14:06 Data
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Sep 23 05:51 Data-1
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct  5 11:57 Data-10
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct  5 16:28 Data-11
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct 18 06:43 Data-12
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct 18 11:40 Data-13
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct 24 16:20 Data-14
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct 25 06:45 Data-15
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct 26 11:38 Data-16
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct 27 04:31 Data-17
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root   admin   102 Oct 27 09:31 Data-18

As I see OSX create a new folder in /Volumes every time I want to mount the folder in my TimeCapsule.  How can I fix it?  How can I set one folder to mount Data folder(drive?) in my Time Capsule ?

Update

$ ls -la /Volumes/Data-7
total 40
drwx------   1 demas  staff    364 Nov 16 12:54 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 24 root   admin    816 Nov 17 07:37 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 demas  staff  18436 Nov 16 13:09 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwt@  1 demas  staff    264 Sep  2 21:24 .TemporaryItems
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 demas  staff      0 Aug 26 21:22 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwxrwxrwx@  1 demas  staff    296 Nov 17 07:37 MacBook Air - demas.sparsebundle
drwxrwxrwx   1 demas  staff   1112 Jul 26 15:52 books
......

$ ls -la /Volumes/Data-8
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root  admin  102 Oct  2 05:56 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 24 root  admin  816 Nov 17 07:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x+  3 root  admin  102 Oct  2 05:56 Backups.backupdb


texts: Prevent iTunes from showing video preview frames

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By default, iTunes video podcasts display their album art as preview frames, rather than the embedded album art that ships with the file.  I have been manually replacing the image with each new episode, but that is very tedious.  Is there a way to prevent iTunes from displaying preview frames in this manner?

There is no Secrets entry for this and I haven't been able to find anybody as anal-retentive about this subject as I am.  Surely someone must exist out there.


texts: "AKauthorization remote view" ? Did someone hack my macbook?

texts: So my macbook air was making a lot of noise. I opened the activity monitor and saw "akd" and "AKauthorization remote view" consuming most of the CPU (50%)+. So I stopped it and completely erased my macbook thinking it got hacked. Does anyone know what "AKauthorization remote view"  is?


texts:
At work, I rely on a public wifi and don't see any good security standards or requirements or tips from Apple. Are there some general tips on first steps to take for securing OS X - if so they would be of great help to me in learning how to secure my Mac.

Whats the best way to keep my late 2012 MBP safe and secure?


texts: What version of Silverlight works with the latest 10.7 release?

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Can you install Microsoft Silverlight from microsoft.com and are you able to open the Preferences without it crashing?

I'm trying to isolate this problem, and it could be a Mac problem, or a Silverlight problem.

I am hearing that it works fine on some people's Macs and not on others, but there is no obvious pattern to it.  It could be that it doesn't work on particular versions of Mac OS X, or it could be that 3rd party software that some people use, messes up Silverlight.

Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac lab to try it out on several computers so I would really appreciate some feedback on this if you have a Mac.

If you have a PowerPC based chipset or a Mac with a version older than 10.6 (Snow Leopard) then you probably should not bother testing this because Silverlight only supports Intel chipsets and 10.6 and up.

If you are able to test out the latest version of Silverlight 5, please list your exact Mac OS X version, and what version of Silverlight installed fine for you.

I'm wondering what version of silverlight works best with Lion?


texts: How to map a MacBook keyboard to write different characters?

texts:
I have a MacBook computer with Japanese keyboard.
The only realistic way to use the keyboard is to change the input source to either British or Australian. So I changed it to Australian.
On doing so, I cannot write some characters I need on a daily basis. An example would be backtick (`) or tilde (~).
There is an option in Settings to replace the text with some other text. So I replaced OptionN with "~".
But the thing is it only works with some default Apple apps. I cannot use it on any text editor (and not even Terminal). Is there is any fix for this?


texts: Spotlight search shortcuts to launch apps

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I want to be able to open Spotlight and launch specific apps without touching my mouse or scroll down through lists with the arrow key. For example, I want to press Command + Spacebar (to open Spotlight), then press "ill" followed by Return/Enter to launch Adobe Illustrator. This works sometimes, but other times this will open a document which has the title of "I'll fly away." Similarly, I want the Spotlight search of "PS" to launch Adobe Photoshop, but it pulls up my "hp psc 1300 series" printer, instead.

Spotlight does seem to have some sort of learning mechanism built in. For instance, I can now type "in" to launch InDesign, but, unfortunately, my brain doesn't remember that shortcut and would prefer "id" for InDesign. This is likely because "Id" are the initials used on the app icon for InDesign. This is similar to the "Ps" in my Photoshop example above. The learning mechanism doesn't seem to be able to learn the abbreviations I associate with apps, rather, it seems to learn that if I had been in the habit of typing an entire app title, it can predict that "ph" will likely become a search for "photoshop." It seems to learn truncated portions of my search terms over time.

I realize that this is not the primary purpose of Spotlight and that there are likely other apps/services in which this may be possible, but please refrain from focusing your answer on these points.

So, again, the question is; Is there a way to make Spotlight prioritize specific apps based on user-defined search terms/shortcuts, and, if yes, how?


texts: Why are my plists in ~/Library/Preferences accompanied by a matching lockfile in Lion?

texts:
$ cd ~/Library/Preferences
$ ls -1 | grep plist | head -10
AddressBookMe.plist
com.adiumX.adiumX.plist
com.adiumX.adiumX.plist.lockfile
com.apple.AddressBook.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.plist.lockfile
com.apple.BezelServices.plist
com.apple.BezelServices.plist.lockfile
com.apple.BluetoothAudio.plist
com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile

what are these lockfiles for?


texts: MacBook Air: Can't connect to my TP-Link wifi router

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I have a MBA 13" mid 12, OS X 10.7.5. It often completely ignores my Wi-Fi network, not showing it in the list of available networks (my Linux boxes and Android devices are connecting perfectly).

I tried to remove my network from the list of known networks, rebooted my router and notebook many times, tried to change encryption standards (now it uses 802.11b/g, WPA/WPA2, TKIP), but network still was not visible.

My router is TP-Link TL-WR340GD.


texts: How to recover lost partition after diskutil erasevolume?

texts:
I have the same problem as How to recover lost partition after diskutil erasevolume noformat

The op in that post solved by going into Internet Recovery. I did that but problem remains. Reinstall of MacOS didn't work either.

Here's my output for relevant commands:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         96.2 GB    disk0s2
   3:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +96.2 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            74.5 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 43.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
      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  187824088      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  188233728      32768      3  GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
  188266496   48711647
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header

$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  236978175] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

I think there's about 20-24gb in that lost partition

additional info:
- macOS Mojave v10.14.2
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)

I'd really like to recover it and join into my main partition (I think is disk0s2)


texts: What is the best Homebrew version for an iBook running Tiger?

texts:
I have an old iBook running Mac OS Tiger, and I want to install the Homebrew package manager on it. Which branch should I choose ?

The Tiger one?
The PPC one?
Another one?


texts: does anyone know what the radio is in the mac mini late 2012? The only detail I can find is that it is 4.0, but I can't find out if it is dual-band capable.


texts: Is it possible to add music to your Music Library on the iPhone?

texts:
Possible use cases. Someone emails you a music demo. You find a song you want to download online. You want to download an MP3 from Soundcloud.

It is easy to add songs to iTunes and sync it over with a computer, but is it possible to add songs to your Music Library on your actual phone? i


texts: Adding Facebook profiles to Address Book

texts:
I see that Address Book has a field for entering a friend's Facebook profile. However, many of my friends don't have an actual facebook username (ie a profile at facebook.com/username), but just the old user ID (facebook.com/profile.php?id=blah). Is there any way to make it work with those?

Also, how can I sync information from Facebook (eg birthdays) with my address book? Is there a way to do that and veto updates, like with iSync? Sometimes people have fake information on Facebook.


texts: Is it possible to reference a cell in Numbers using two column headers?

texts:
I am aware that I can reference cells using the name of row/column headers.

It looks something like this: Sheet Name::Table Name::Column Name Row Name.

However, I'm trying to reference something with two column headers.

I'm hoping that I can reference something like Jan 2017::Balance:Salary (pictured below).

Is something like this even possible?


texts:
I've recently added an SSD drive to my Macbook, and I'm using my HDD to store my files.

Sometimes I want to move a file from my HDD to my SSD though. Whenever I try to drag it, Finder only allows me to copy rather than move.

I've set the permission of both the sending and the receiving folders to Read and Write for my user, but that did not help. When I try to mv using the Terminal it does work without superuser powers.


texts: Playing videos fullscreen in chrome causes all chrome windows to freeze if attempting to exit FullScreen

texts:
The following problem is recent: maybe a few weeks. I am on Mojave on an MBPro 2015 with retina.  it seems any video when played in FullScreen will cause the behavior described in the title. This happens for:

Youtube when exiting while video still playing (always)
Youtube when exiting when video is paused (frequently)
Youtube when simply trying to switch back to other non-full screen windows - but not trying to exit Chrome fullscreen window:  (frequently)
Whatever espn is using for videos (always)
I did not try it with Quicktime.

Here is Chrome info:

I have tried disabling hardware acceleration: that is simply a disaster - causing chrome to crawl (briefly) and then freeze.

Update  This full-screen freeze is happening in completely different types of Apps: including Intellij - which has nothing to do with videos.  This is something recent and is clearly a Mojave issue.  I am on 10.14.4


texts: How do I ping6 a link local address on OSX?

texts:
On linux I see all connected IPv6 addresses to my wlan adapter with

ping6 ff02::1%wlan0 | head

but how can I achieve this on OSX?


texts: Can new iMac output video to current generation Thunderbolt display as secondary monitor?

texts:
I have a 27" iMac hooked up to 27" Thunderbolt display, providing me with a standard dual monitor configuration. Both the iMac and the secondary monitor were purchased on the same day in early 2012.

Apple recently released a 5k iMac which I plan to purchase. I'd like to swap out my old iMac for this new one, and hook up this new iMac to my existing Thunderbolt monitor so as to retain the dual monitor configuration.

Will this work? I realize that the secondary Thunderbolt monitor will not support the new 5k video format, seeing as how it was made back in 2012. But will it at least run properly at its own native max resolution? Are there any downsides (e.g. eyestrain, etc.) with having a dual monitor configuration wherein one monitor has a significantly higher resolution that the other?


texts: Copy Crucial SSD Firmware Update ISO to Bootable USB

texts:
I want to start with the Crucial SSD Firmware Update and copy the ISO to a bootable Mac USB stick, using a minimal set of tools. I hope that means using only built-in Mac software, such as Disk Utility and Terminal for commands. If necessary, I will reluctantly use a commercial tool. (As of this writing, the latest is Crucial_m4_040H-04-00.zip.)

I've have waded through a muck of articles about how to copy an ISO to a bootable USB stick, but I have not found a solution that works and that I'm comfortable trying.

For example, I read How do I burn an ISO on a USB drive on Mac OS X? and followed the steps. The steps seemed to work, but the resulting USB stick would not boot. I tried two different sticks to reduce the chances that it was a hardware issue.
I've also read Updating firmware on Macs without a superdrive too. One part recommends using rEFIt-Syslinux.dmg_.zip. But how do I know if that DMG is up-to-date, reliable, and trustworthy? Even if it is, that route seems unnecessarily complicated. Why is there not a simpler option?


texts: cpu clock too low / force cpu clock / overclock

texts:
I have a MacBook from a few years back.
When I use it write some code and browse the internet, the fans go very fast and the noise is horrible. But the temp shows only 70 C.

So I used SMC to force the fans to 3000rpm. I really don't mind frying my MacBook as long as its quiet.
Now instead of the temp rising to 90 C or more (what I want!), my MacBook decides to lower the cpu clock to 0.8 Ghz. And it becomes completely useless. I can't even use one program at a time.
Even the mouse cursor lags.

What can I do? Can I force the CPU clock?

Model: A1286 i7 2.0 Ghz (High Sierra) Early 2011

edit: i don't even want a turbo boost or anything (would be nice). i just want to use the 2 Ghz and not only 0.8 Ghz.


texts:
I download an album in wav format.

I would like to import it in iTunes and upload it to my iphone 8 plus.
I am using iTunes version 12.10.2.3 on Windows 7.

For some reasons I can't import the album on iTunes (I tried both drag and dropping and using the menu File-> Add Folder to Library).

I tried to convert the album in mp3 format and doing the same operation.

I can't import it, and I receive no error message from iTunes.
If I double click on the files them selves the album plays correctly from iTunes (but it's not imported hence I can't upload it to my iphone).

Does any one know how can I solve this?


texts:
I have a file in my Trash.  The filename is 'codedesign' and it is a Unix executable file.  This file ended up there in the process of me trying to fix a corrupted patch installer.  The original version is still in my /usr/bin/ directory and therefore this one would be fine to delete.

The situation looks like this, the file is the only thing that is in my Trash.  When I click empty trash it doesn't show an error message, but it doesn't delete the file.
When I right click the file and select 'Delete Immediately...'  it asks me for my password then comes up with the error message 'The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.'

The file permissions say that my user has 'Read & Write' while the Wheel user has 'Read'.  I can't change any permissions without getting an error message saying that I don't have permission to make changes.

I can't put the file back as this option isn't available when I right click.  When I try and drag the file out of the trash it simply makes a copy.

I've tried using the app Trash It! as well as CleanMyMac3 But these do nothing.

The results of the following terminal commands used so far:

$ sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
rm: /Users/JamieMacLeod/.Trash/codesign: Operation not permitted
$ ls -ald ~/.Trash/*
-rwxr-x--x@ 1 JamieMacLeod wheel 86032 31 Oct 2014 /Users/JamieMacLeod/.Trash/codesign
$ xattr -l /Users/JamieMacLeod/.Trash/codesign
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms:
00000000  62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A2 01 02 5F 10 62 68 74  |bplist00..._.bht|
00000010  74 70 3A 2F 2F 64 63 36 35 33 2E 34 73 68 61 72  |tp://dc653.4shar|
00000020  65 64 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 64 6F 77 6E 6C 6F 61 64 2F  |ed.com/download/|
00000030  6A 4C 69 4C 4F 68 38 54 63 65 2F 63 6F 64 65 73  |jLiLOh8Tce/codes|
00000040  69 67 6E 2E 68 74 6D 6C 3F 74 73 69 64 3D 32 30  |ign.html?tsid=20|
00000050  31 34 31 30 33 31 2D 30 32 34 34 33 33 2D 34 32  |141031-024433-42|
00000060  62 64 39 64 63 64 26 6C 67 66 70 3D 32 30 30 30  |bd9dcd&lgfp=2000|
00000070  5F 10 33 68 74 74 70 3A 2F 2F 77 77 77 2E 34 73  |_.3http://www.4s|
00000080  68 61 72 65 64 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 67 65 74 2F 6A 4C  |hared.com/get/jL|
00000090  69 4C 4F 68 38 54 63 65 2F 63 6F 64 65 73 69 67  |iLOh8Tce/codesig|
000000A0  6E 2E 68 74 6D 6C 08 0B 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 01  |n.html..p.......|
000000B0  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000C0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 A6                       |.........|
000000c9
com.apple.quarantine: 0001;5543f6cd;Google\x20Chrome;0F73411A-982E-4A8A-B099-93610324B751

$ ls -lO@ /Users/JamieMacLeod/.Trash/codesign
-rwxr-x--x@ 1 JamieMacLeod  wheel  restricted 86032 31 Oct  2014 /Users/JamieMacLeod/.Trash/codesign
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms      201
com.apple.quarantine       67

I'm really not sure what to do that this point, surely there is a way to delete one file?  I am the only user on this computer and therefore should have full admin rights.

Any help with this would be very much appreciated.


texts: Bootcamp Not enough space but nothing helps!

texts:
So, I have kind of the same problem as some other people on here, but then different. I also want to install windows on my Mac. I also get the problem where it says I do not have the required 40 GB of free space. But any solution I can try on the internet doesn't work. "The sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 999999999999" doesn't work, nothing works, and it frustrates me to the max. Apple support does not really help either because they just keep telling me to clear out mor space. I am currently at almost 50 GB of free space, but now they want me to go get 55 while I read that even people with 100GB free have this problem. Any suggestions?

Also: Mac info:
MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.6
Macbook Air 13 inch 2017
1,8 GHz Intel Core i5

Edit: just after I posted all of this the report thing went from saying you need 40 GB of free space to you need to have 39 GB of free space

Edit 2:

Diskutil list output:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         121.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE   IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +121.1 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            77.9 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 22.0 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

Edit 3:
Also, I just open my console while trying it. It gave the same message, BUT, I saw something pop up in my console at the moment I pressed the button. I don't know if if helps, but here is that out put:

16:54:56.751775 -0400   kernel  containerGetMinimalSize:2027: Called on Physical Store, tier-0

16:54:56.751799 -0400   kernel  spaceman_get_max_allowed_shrink:5928: max_available_space 9881477 currently_allocated 19689516 currently_allocated_in_fixed_fs 0

16:54:56.751806 -0400   kernel  spaceman_get_max_allowed_shrink:5930: sm_free_count: [MAIN]=9881546, [TIER2]=0    sm_reserved_space: [MAIN]=159, [TIER2]=0

16:54:56.751811 -0400   kernel  spaceman_get_max_allowed_shrink:5932: sm_fs_reserve_block_count 0, sm_fs_reserve_alloc_count 0

16:54:56.751817 -0400   kernel  spaceman_get_max_allowed_shrink:5942: Used space move overhead is 615297, setting max_allowed_shrink to 9266180

16:54:56.751822 -0400   kernel  spaceman_get_max_allowed_shrink:5958: Minimal free space threshold_blocks is 2000, updating max_allowed_shrink to 9264180

Edit 4:
Output of the diskutil apfs resize container disk0s2 limits:

Resize limits for APFS Physical Store partition disk0s2:
  Current Physical Store partition size on map:   121.1 GB (121123069952 Bytes)

Minimum (constrained by files/snapshots):       84.9 GB (84860887040 Bytes)

Recommended minimum (if used with macOS):       95.6 GB (95598305280 Bytes)

Maximum (constrained by partition map space):   121.1 GB (121123069952 Bytes)

....


texts:
If I draft an email message in emacs and then cut-and-paste it to the gmail web app, the text looks fine. Only plain text gets copied.

But if I use iOS Notes to draft the message on an iPhone (what else do you use to draft?) and then cut-and-paste the message to the gmail iOS app (you agree it's more convenient then using the gmail web app on an iPhone, no?), then some kind of rich-text gets copied, with the result of sending text in a much larger font.

How do I cut-and-paste plain text from Notes to another iOS app?

Related:

The problem apparently occurs for those using Notes to draft on macOS.
Someone sought the opposite (pasting rich-text). I'm not sure why that was not the default for them.


texts:
My kid dropped my first generation iPhone and now several parts of the display only show grey. Looks like some pixels died. There are no cracks on the screen and touch works in the areas that are grey.

What should I replace to fix this? I believe the screen is made up of different components (glass, LCD etc). Should I replace the whole display unit or can I just replace the part that is broken?


texts: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard function keys unreliable

texts:
I have a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard connected to my 2011 MacBook Pro.

The keyboard's normal keys (letters, etc.) always work fine; however, there is a problem with the various function keys.

Basically, they don't work until I go to System Preferences -> Microsoft Keyboard. Once I go to that prefpane, everything starts working again.

It seems to somewhat randomly stop working, requiring me to go to System Preferences again to make it work.

How can I fix this? It seems like a daemon/driver that's supposed to make the keys work is crashing, but I searched Console.app for microsoft with no luck.


texts: Creating a Windows 10 Install USB when FAT32 has 4GB max file size

texts:
So I am attempting to create a Windows 10 install USB on my MBP running macOS 10.14 Mojave. To create a bootable USB it needs to be formatted into FAT32, not exFAT. The issue is that when copying the .iso to the USB it fails because the file sources/install.wim is 4.4GB. I can't format as exFAT because I cannot boot from that format and I cannot use FAT32 because of the 4.4GB file. I used the command cp -rpv /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/* /Volumes/WINDOWS10/ after Boot Camp Assistant failed to create the  USB with a "Drive too small" error, even though it was a 16GB drive. When I wasn't paying attention, the cp completed and the installer booted, but failed with a missing: sources/install.wim error because the file can't be copied.

Is there any solution to this problem, or should I just burn a DVD with the installer on it?

EDIT: I forgot to specify that I was creating a USB for a PC, not a Mac. The Mac was just being used to create an install USB.

Heres the file:


texts:
I did a clean install on macOS Sierra 10.12 on my MacBook Air 13.3" early 2015 and found out that most of the icons in App Store are blurred.

Searched the web for a bit, finding references saying that this issue may be caused by the app developers who forgot to update the icon to better image quality. Some references also suggest deleting applications and downloading them again in order for the icons to be updated. Also no custom fonts were installed on this machine.

These references do not really apply to my case, because blurred icons are in the App Store itself and app developer is Apple. Have a look on the attached images:

I am guessing that my MacBook Air supports only up to 1440x900 resolution with 128 dpi and icons were designed to support higher dpi screens. That sounds a bit ridiculous.

What are you thoughts guys? What could be causing this problem?


texts: Where can I get a closed loop iPhone carrying case/holster?

texts:
Most of my older gear with belt carrying cases have a closed loop. In all but one (shoddy) iPhone case I've seen, there is no closed loop, only a clip that can slide off.

Are there any iPhone holsters/carrying cases which have an old-fashioned closed loop or other hardware that would prevent the case from accidentally sliding up and off my belt?


texts: Firefox on El Capitan cannot create profile in standard folder

texts:
Firefox was refusing to launch on my MacOS El Capitan. Console gave me the following message:

  com.apple.xpc.launchd: (org.mozilla.firefox.320352[6799]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1

In the course of troubleshooting this, I must have happened upon the Profile Manager. While attempting to create a new profile in the standard folder (~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/), I saw the following error:

I had the Profile Manger save the profile to the Desktop, and now Firefox works. But I'd like to get it working normally, i.e., saving the profile to the standard folder—largely because I am having issues in other applications which might also be related to screwy permissions.

The permissions on the Profiles folder are: rwx--------- (700).

Any clues on how I can have Firefox store its profiles in the standard folder?


texts:
Is there a way to see memory usage per app in macOS?
That is, I want to see the total memory consumed by each app, including  its child processes.

The Activity Monitor shows memory usage by process which makes it hard to determine, for example, how much memory the Chrome app is using, since it spawns multiple processes.


texts: Is it possible to change the default window size of a .txt file in TextEdit?

texts:
I have a .txt file that I open regularly on my Mac. I would like the TextEdit window of this .txt file to be wider than it normally is.

I can manually increase the window width every time I open the file by left-clicking and dragging the bottom-right corner further to the right. But, it would be much more convenient if the window was wider by default.

I have tried adjusting the TextEdit window size while holding down the shift key.

I have tried adjusting the TextEdit window size while holding down the  ⌘ command key.

I have tried adjusting the TextEdit window size while holding down the control key.

After quitting TextEdit and then re-opening the .txt file, none of the above methods recall the previously-set window size.

I am also open to a method that uses AppleScript to set the window size before the file is opened. Here's the AppleScript command that I currently employ to open the file:

do shell script "open -e " & quoted form of Target_Filepath


texts: How can FileVault encryption process be stopped/disabled?

texts:
I enabled FileVault on my Mac running High Sierra in the Security and Privacy System Preferences tab. Now my computer is extremely slow, I can't even use it.
FileVault is still in the process of encrypting my files (and will be for a very long time)  and I would like to just halt the process and disable FileVault ASAP. I have tried
sudo fdesetup disable

on the Terminal many times, receiving just the following message:
FileVault was not disabled (-69573)

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong because everytime someone tells me to do this online, they tell me that the message I should get should read "FileVault disabled".
I am open to any suggestions on how to stop the FileVault encryption process and keep FileVault off.


texts: MacBook Pro crash after sleeping for a long time

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2659). Recently I found out that if I left my machine sleeping for a long amount of time (about 15+ hours), it will cause a kernel panic and restart itself so when I open my computer the next time it will tell me the computer have shutdown unexpectedly. Is this a software bug or my computer have problem?

EDIT:

I got this problem today. The shutdown cause is -128. Maybe a hardware failure? Also sometimes instead of a crash, I also have this problem. (I posted that as a separate question since it's not a crash). Here is the crash report.


texts: Need location of image for preference pane "PREF" icon

texts:
I have a stack in my Dock with aliases to my most-used preference panes. In the past, the icons that appear in the grid when I click on the stack have been the large descriptive icons shown in Finder. Since upgrading to Lion, instead, I'm getting new icons. The descriptive icon is small, surrounded by a gear, and the word PREF is under it. At a glance, it's no longer possible to tell which preference pane is which.

Finder doesn't show these large "gear/PREF" icons; the stack and QuickLook do.

Where might I find the image for this icon so I can start figuring out how to replace it? It's nowhere inside the packages for the individual preference panes, System Preferences.app, or Dock.app.


texts: Global hotkey that send keystroke to another app

texts:
I want to configure a global hotkey like F5, and when I press F5 it should send [Command]+[Option]+[Control]+[Up Arrow] to the Skype app.

Anyone knows an app that I can do this, or script.


texts: Mac asking for password for some files when deleting

texts: This happens not for all files. When I move or delete some of the files on my external drive Finder will ask for password. Is it due to permission set on these files ? Can I use something like Sudo when running Finder to prevent these pop ups ? The reason I'm asking is that sometimes I leave the mac running to move some files from one disk to another, just to find it on the password prompt a few hours later. Thank you.


texts: Turning off iCloud sync w/ Photos on Mac threatens to delete local files

texts:
A while back I elected to start syncing my Photos on my Mac to iCloud.  I quickly ran out of cloud storage (5GB).  I have decided I don't want to deal with some of the back & forth confusion between my computer & iCloud.

In Photos > Settings, under the iCloud tab, when I attempt to un-check iCloud Photo Library, a message comes up saying "Your iCloud Photo Library is currently updating."  (This makes no sense - the library has long been full).  This message has two options, "Turn Off" and "Continue Updating".  Checking "Turn Off," brings up a rather disconcerting message: 1,250 low-resolution items will be removed from this Mac. Full-resolution versions will remain in iCloud.  So my question is, why would turning off iCloud be cause to remove items from my computer?

Help is much appreciated,

Max

edit:  running OSX Yosemite 10.10.5


texts: Change OSX fullscreen to open on left most instead of right most desktop

texts:
When opening a new window in native fullscreen mode OSX creates a new "desktop" for the window, I'd like all new windows to open to the "first" desktop which means I can go straight into it instead of needing to swipe through every single current desktop.

The first screenshot is the current behaviour. I'd like the second to happen. Notice "Desktop 2" as the new one I opened.


texts: What does it mean when folder items are shown in bold lettering in Finder?

texts:
I see some items in Finder show up as bold and I wonder what that means. The example I have attached is somewhere under ~/Library. It's the most recent place I've seen this, not the only place. It also happens outside of ~/ and its subdirectories. It looks like a feature more than a bug. I wondered if it had to do with Git (maybe MacOS High Sierra shows Git statuses in Finder by default the way Ubuntu does), but no. I wondered if it's a Time Machine thing too (i.e. files not yet backed up may be shown in bold). I don't have a definitive answer. I haven't seen this advertised as a feature anywhere on Apple's site or any similar questions in Apple's support site. If this is a feature, I'd really like to know what it's for.

Thanks!


texts: Android compatible earphones with lightning adapter

texts: I wanted to know if android compatible wired earphones like the Bose SoundSport  can fit the iPhone with a AUX to lighting connector


texts: How can I type the “@” symbol via VNC with a PC keyboard?

texts:
I'm connecting from a PC to a Mac via VNC. Now I want to enter some special characters like @. How can I do that?

This page didn't help. Other keyboard shortcuts I found out:

Alt = cmd

Shift + 7 = _

Shift + - = ?

I'm using a German keyboard, but it seems that the English keyboard layout is used by VNC, because y is z. The clipboard also don't seem to work correctly ...

Edit:

Physical keyboard layout PC:
German keyboard layout “T1” according to DIN 2137-1:2012-06

Logical keyboard layout PC:
German

VNC mapping

Logical keyboard layout Mac:
German

Physical keyboard layout Mac:
German


texts: What is the quality of the music sold in the iTunes store? Is this quality comparable to that of a lossless file or CD?


texts: Target Display Mode: how to automate and persist on closing laptop

texts:
I have connected my MacBook (Early 2013, OS X 10.9.4) with my iMac (Late 2012, 27 inch, OS X 10.9.4) via a ThunderBolt cable in order to use the iMac screen with my MacBook.

I have two related questions:

(i) Is there a way to automatically mirror the screen without needing to press Command-F2?

(ii) How can I allow screen mirroring to persist when I close my MacBook?


texts:
I'm interested in taking a look as macOS Mojave but am not willing to install it on my main production machine. However, I do not have another Mac to hand so have found myself upon this guide from Apple, walking you through the steps to install macOS Mojave on a seperate APFS volume on your normal Mac, easing many of the risks associated with running Beta software.

Whilst the guide makes it quite clear how to install Mojave on this new APFS volume, my question is: when I am done with macOS Mojave, how exactly would I remove this separate APFS volume and give it back to my normal installation of macOS High Sierra? Is this something easily done from Disk Utility or is is a slightly more complicated process involving the use of Terminal?

Thank you in advance for any help,
Kind regards, Rocco


texts: How to I stop a launchd script from running on wake

texts:
I have a simple launchd script that plays a sound every 30 minutes and it runs out of the user library ~/Library . It doesn't run if my machine is asleep, but does run the last event missed when the machine wakes. I think this is the expected behavior. My question is, how do I stop this happening. If I missed the half-hour event, I don't want it to be run at 20 minutes past the hour.

Here's the core of my script. It calls a Python script. I tried to put a block in the python script to check that I am within a few minutes of each 30 minutes, but that doesn't seem to work on wake. (Is it missing the system clock somehow?)

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/python3</string>
    <string>/Users/pheon/Documents/playsound.py</string>
</array>

<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>0</integer>
    <dict>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>30</integer>
    </dict>
</array>

Here is a snippet from the python code which checks the time before playing the sound.

time0 = datetime.datetime.now()
if (time0.minute % 30) < 2:
    subprocess.run(["/Users/pheon/bin/afplay-vol.sh", "1", bell],check=True)


texts: Duplicated mail settings caused email loss in Mail on Lion

texts:
Oh dear, not having much luck at the moment. Having recently wasted hours on a simple problem, I've transferred my anti-Midas magic to a friend, and lost some email data. Could someone advice (a) whether the below was an obviously stupid idea, and (b) if I can do anything in the way of recovery?

So, my friend uses Hotmail via POP3 in Mail, in Mac Lion on a MBP. This is set to delete mail in a week after it is read from the server (although she trims mail manually in the Hotmail web interface, and is fairly sure old mail wasn't being deleted, since she still has very old mail in her web-based inbox).

OK, so she's started a new company, and has purchased a domain/hosting package, and needed assistance setting it up. The requirement was that mail should pool in her Mail inbox together with Hotmail, but she should have a profile widget in the New Mail interface that lets her set which email address each message should come from.

Easy enough, I reasoned. The domain was already set to forward to her Hotmail address, so the hosting company is not doing any mail holding - just sending it on. I figured that creating a new mail profile which had all her Hotmail credentials except for the From address, which would be the info@example.com address we were setting up, would do the trick. Now, at this stage you're thinking:

that's worth a go,
that won't work, or
don't do that, you'll break it!

I'm hoping you're not thinking 3, since I went ahead and did that, and although the profile created, it caused an error, and did not appear to work. The error was:

The account path /Users/<name>/Library/Mail/V2/POP-<email>@<pop3-server>
is already being used by the account "Hotmail".

"OK", said I - and duly deleted the newly created "MyDomain" account. Sadly this removed the inbox, drafts and sent items related to the (perfectly functional) "Hotmail" account (which I didn't touch). A call to Apple support in India resulted in the specialist logging a call - and he seemed amenable to the idea that, since the profile popped up that error when we saved it, it should have warned us that it was about to do something catastrophic. I offered to log a bug with Apple via the web, but he said there would be no need, since he'd already done it.

So, either I hit against a Mail bug, and I should be hopping up and down, or I did something perfectly stupid, and I should be sitting in the naughty corner for a few hours. Honest thoughts very welcome on this point.

Meanwhile, my friend and I - in the absence of backups - are trying data recovery software (Disk Drill) to get back the mails that have been lost. We will see if this works tomorrow, but if any other ideas are forthcoming, I am all ears. We've dug into the Hotmail mail folder, and the important-sounding folders are 40KB or so - i.e. basically empty.

Help! and TIA.

Edit: it's a long shot, but my friend might have been running iCloud. Should this back up all her email, or just me.com email? We went into the interface and couldn't see anything under email (everything seemed empty) but I guess that might be because she wasn't logged in, or iCloud doesn't back this stuff up, or it wasn't running...


texts: Dock Notifications Displaying Odd Red Icons Instead

texts:
Having an odd issue. My dock is showing these strange red icons where normal numerical notifications should be. For example, Thunderbird will display a 3 when I have 3 new messages, but instead it is showing this red A? icon. This happens with all the apps in my dock that display a notification.

See attached screen shot:

Notice the Thunderbird icon at the top and the Printer icon at the bottom.

Anyway to get my standard notifications back?


texts: Deleted Documents folder doesn't show up anymore iOS-HELP (File App)

texts:
In the "File" App from my iPhone 7.

I deleted the default "Document" folder by accident and it doesn't show up in the recently deleted or anywhere else on my iOS devices.

In my Mac shows up no problem.

I tried to re-sync iCloud on iOS' settings but after 1-2 mins same thing as before.


texts: MacBook pro (Early 2011) display backlight won't turn on automatically after waking up from sleep

texts:
My 15" Macbook Pro (Early 2011) has always had a problem where when I open the lid to wake it from sleeping the backlight doesn't turn on. I can easily turn it on by changing the brightness, which leads me to believe it is a software problem.

It isn't a huge problem, just a minor annoyance, but I'm paranoid about backlights ever since I had to replace my old MacBook due to a faulty inverter cable which caused the backlight to not turn on.

Update 1: I noticed that immediately after I open it, the screen is still on and it displays the unlock screen, and only then turns off. This was after being closed for only about 2 minutes.


texts:
When trying to update from iOS 5.1 I keep getting an error message reading "unable to check for update, an error occurred while checking for a software update". The update screen loads for a couple of minutes before showing this.

How can I upgrade to iOS 5.1?


texts:
How to nuke OSX birthday notifications once and for all? No matter how many times I uncheck this calendar group they still come back to haunt me.

OSX shame!


texts: MacBook Pro mid-2010- water damaged - but it still plays the chime?

texts:
Hey guys it's been a week since my MacBook Pro had water leaked into it, I'm pretty sure something is wrong :(
But now when I try to boot it up I hear the startup chime, what does this mean?
Should I buy an Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable or give up and just try to back up stuff from the hard drive??
http://www.amazon.com/Mini_Dis-HDMI-CB6-Mini-DisplayPort-Adapter-Cable/dp/B003OC6LWM
Thanks for the help!


texts:
I can't seem to make the notifications in fluid app work.

The checkbox Allow sites to display notifications is checked.

I also tried to check if it worked via userscript but had no luck with that either.

window.fluid.showUserNotification({
    title: "title",
    subtitle:"subtitle",
    description: "informText",
    sound: "Basso",
    onclick: function() { alert(1); }
});

I also tried to paste that directly into the console that too didn't work.

I'm using MacOS High Sierra. I'm also sure that the notifications don't work on MacOS Sierra as well.

Is it just me? Or do the notifications not work in FluidApp for "newer" MacOS versions?


texts:
SYMPTOMS

FaceTime indicates no camera is available
The website: WebCam Test indicates a webcam could not be found
OS X Version 10.11.6 "System Report" Hardware -> Camera -> No video capture devices were found

The camera was last used with FaceTime in January.

QUESTION

Are there any command line diagnostics that can be performed to determine why the Webcam is unavailable?

UPDATE

Apple Hardware Test Results: No camera list under "Hardware Profile" Tab.

Alert! Apple Hardware test has detected an error.
4HDD/11/4000000:SATA(0,0)


texts: What WiFi adapter can I use to monitor a WiFi network on OS X from a MBP?

texts:
I have MBP from early 2011 and Wireshark 1.8rc2 does not recognize it (under Lion).

What adaptors are compatible with it?

Alternatively, specify if there is a another software that I can use to monitor the traffic on a specific WiFi network (not encrypted).


texts: MMS can not send to Android phone: gets iMessage error

texts:
This has happened twice, with two different Android recipients.

Both have been Android phones since inception - read: never had iMessage, so Apple shouldn't be confused about iMessage.

Anyway, we've had recent failures sending pics to Android phones we've sent pics before.  We get:

Cannot Send Message
iMessage needs to be enabled to send this message

iMessage is enabled.

So, I tried a phone bounce, disabling/re-enabling iMessages, disabling/re-enabling MMS.  Disabling/re-enabling WiFi (TMobile, allows WiFi as an SMS/MMS transport). No good.  A simple text message worked tho.  just no pics

Tips?

EDIT: versions would be nice.  iOS 8.3.  iPhone 6.

UPDATE: I was able to send by sending to a new MMS group; the intended recipient and an iMessage account.


texts: What is the purpose of "Apply Rules" in mail?

texts: The Mail client (that comes with Mac OS X) has an "Apply Rules" menu option, but I don't see any option to create a rule like most other mail clients have. Two part question, what rules does the "Apply Rules" menu option apply, and how do I define new rules in Mail?


texts: Why does OS X's Apache server give different results using real and virtual addresses?

texts:
I'm developing a WordPress site on my Mac, running OS X 10.6.4. I'm using OS X's built-in Apache server to run the site locally during development. I've set up WordPress and connected it to OS X's MySQL with no problems. The site seems to work fine, and I can post, edit, etc.

The WordPress installation is in a folder called ~/Sites/mysite.dev.

I've also customized my .hosts file and Apache's httpd-vhosts.conf file, to redirect requests for mysite.dev to this folder. So when I enter http://mysite.dev in a browser window, the site loads. No problems here.

So I can access the site, in a browser, from two different addresses, http://mysite.dev, and http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/.

Here's what's weird: When I go to http://mysite.dev, the WordPress site loads normally. When I go to http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/, WordPress can't find any posts from the database: It gives me the "Sorry, no posts met your criteria" message (which is built into the theme for when a search for posts returns nothing). N.B.: Apache processes the PHP code normally in both cases -- but in one case WordPress can get posts from MySQL, and in the other case it can't.

My first thought was that this was a problem with WordPress's configuration, so I changed the WordPress URL to http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/, but this made no difference.

I don't understand why using the two addresses produces different results. Any help appreciated.

(Here's why I care, in case you're wondering: I want to preview the site in BBEdit's web preview window, and BBEdit will only load the site via the http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/ address.)


texts: SMS iPhone history chaos after migration from Android

texts:
I used the "Move to iOS" app to transfer data from my old Android phone to a iPhone SE. SMS were transferred but the history is totally chaotic: Older messages are displayed after newer one and the timestamp is wrong in most of them.
I don't know where to start to solve (if possible) this problem. Any hint is appreciated.


texts:
I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not reference the same drive as it did before the reboot.

Example

/dev/disk0 -> 64GB SSD drive
/dev/disk1 -> 640GB Hitachi
/dev/disk2 -> 160GB WD (BootCamp)

After rebooting the mapping might be

/dev/disk0 -> 160GB WD (BootCamp)
/dev/disk1 -> 640GB Hitachi
/dev/disk2 -> 64GB SSD drive

Even more confusing is that the remapping is not consistent. For most stuff this is irrelevant. However I also have Parallels installed to allow access to the BootCamp partition from within OSX. Parallels uses the /dev/disk# path in it's configuration file so, after rebooting OSX I launch Parallels and it tells me that the disk is no longer present.

Is there a way to tell OSX to always assign a given drive to /dev/disk0?


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I have an avi file that takes 350mb; I go into iMovie and i create a new project, then i create a new event and then i click on import video, i go to the right directory, to the avi file and click on import. The import window disappear and appear a loading bar that says something like "Optimizing the video..." and in 1 second it disappear (... i don't see the bar load). Nothing else happens, but the video is not imported.
Why?

More informations

I tried to uncheck the optimization option but another loading bar appear saying "Loading video", when the bar is completed another bar appear and disappear immediately. It doesn't change anything: my video cannot be imported.

Some more try

Downloading Perian and Divx codec doesn't solve the problem.


texts: Is this dust inside Retina Display on my Macbook Pro 13 inch?

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I have a late 2015 13 Inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display, and here are the pics of that. Could anyone please suggest how do I get these spots of my screen?

Regards,
Bengalurean


texts: Want to Install Windows 10 onto MacBookPro (15", Early 2011) running Sierra 10.12.6

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My early 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro has 2.3 Intel Core i7, 8 GB memory, 750 GB SATA Disk and a SuperDrive. I completely erased the hard drive with Disk Utility and reinstalled os 10.12.6. My goal is to use this computer to run Windows with BootCamp, because my late 2009 iMac has become very burdened running Windows 7 in Parallels. I need Windows to use my accounting program. I will continue to use my iMac for everything else.

So my first problem was that my Windows 7 key will not work. I purchased a Windows10 Home full version USB flash drive.Using Boot Camp I downloaded the Windows Drivers to the USB. The point was reached where a password was asked for, indicating that the installation of Windows was successful. But after I gave the password, the message was "The installer disk could not be found. Insert Windows installer disk and wait for it to be recognized."

Next I received some advice to burn the iso files to a DVD. I purchased a HD DVD-R with 15 GB. However, neither my iMac nor the MacBook Pro will perform the task. So I am seeing a lot of posts from people experiencing problems with the SuperDrive under Sierra.I would rather not go down this rabbit hole, so I am hoping there might be an answer that will work using the flash drive that I already have.

Some of the answers that I read to similar questions seem really complicated; I hope that there might be a relatively easy fix


texts: AppleScript or Safari add-on to highlight text

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I have some variable that I would like to highlight in Safari.

I was thinking AppleScript, but I can use something else otherwise.

I'm using a Chrome plug-in which does the same, any idea how to do that?


texts: Remain logged in after disconnecting from Remote Management?

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It seems the latest Catalina update (10.15.7 (19H524)) changed the Screen Sharing/Remote Management feature.
I have a headless Mac Mini that I log into with screen sharing. Previously, if I disconnected from screen sharing, the Mini stayed logged in, and all the apps I had running stayed running. Now, when I disconnect, it logs me out (annoyingly, OBS keeps streaming the login screen, with my full name, to Twitch, thank you very much).
I can't find an obvious setting to get it to remain logged in. I can't even go back to Screen Sharing, because if I disable Remote Management, it will disconnect my screen sharing session.
Is there any way to stay logged in after disconnecting the remote session?
UPDATE: After some experimenting (and this handy script), I found that Screen Sharing does leave me logged in, but Remote Management logs me out.


texts: CSV import works in Numbers, but fails in Mac Excel and Mac OpenOffice Calc

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If I open a CSV file in Numbers, a particularly long series of text-only cells works like a charm.

If I open the same CSV file in Microsoft Excel for Mac, or OpenOffice Calc for Mac, the long cells break, though at different points.

Quick Look shows me that the CSV file is proper and complete.

The issue seems to occur when a row hits 2^16-1 characters — roughly the length of a TEXT block.

Here are some images, cropped for privacy:

A view of the source CSV:

The working Numbers application:

The failing Calc application: (note that the selected cell is empty, though it contains the text "NULL" in the source CSV)

Since Apple does this well, I have no work-stopping issue with this. I'm curious about what makes Apple does this well while competitors fall down.

What system feature allows MacOS do this particular task better than competitors?

I ask this question partly out of curiosity, but more out of a wish to improve my office efficiency in the near future. I believe that a better understanding of the MacOS system may help this project.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Can a MBP 15'' early 2011 run DDR3L ram?

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I have an early-2011 MBP 15' with an Intel I7 2,2 GHZ core. I'm thinking in upping the RAM to 16GB with 2x8 DDR3L sticks.

I've read that using DDR3L with this core is not recommended, is this correct? Can I safely use these sticks?

Thanks.


texts:
I printed an important receipt and quit Safari, only to learn the job never printed because we no longer own the network printer the computer was expecting to find. Thus, the only remaining copy of this information is in the print queue.

How do I salvage the information waiting to be printed so I can use it again?

Note: Dragging the enqueued item from the non-existant printer's queue to an existant printer's queue will print the item. I would like to know how to save the file waiting to be printed so it can be used again.


texts: Is it possible to recover current texts after restoring from an old backup?

texts: I restored my iphone 4s from a 1/2/2013 backup. Looks like I lost everything that was current like texts. Can I get it back to the state it was in before I restored it from that 2013 backup?


texts: Internet connection sharing, routing between multiple clients

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I have a Mac Mini which connects to the internet via ethernet, and shares that connection over wifi. My Macbook and my iPhone use that to get at the internet. All are on the latest version of their OS. However, the phone can't connect to the laptop.

The laptop and phone can't even ping each other. Anyone clue me in on how to make the silly desktop route the packets properly?


texts: Problem with libxml2-2.8.0 version on OS X Lion

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I have installed OS X Lion and I was trying to resolve error libxml2 missing for Ruby programming purpose. I tried to install latest version of Libxml2 that is  libxml2-2.8.0

Because of incompatibility of this version Mac is throwing errors while opening XCode, Chrome and some other application with the error.

Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit
Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
   /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
   /usr/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
   /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

What should I do ? How should I remove libxml2 2.8.0 version.?

Please reply


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I have a 2013 16Gb iPhone 5S, It worked properly until an annoying screen/touchscreen issue appeared yesterday .
Here is the issue :

The screen suddenly gets slightly darker and some shadows appear under black texts and shapes.
The touchscreen stops working but works back when I lock and unlock my iPhone.
The slightly darker screen and the blacks shadows issues continue after locking-then-unlocking and then suddenly go away.

So the issue is a sudden screen issue (it gets darker and so shadows appear under black shapes and texts) along with a temporary touchscreen problem that goes away after locking then unlocking the device .


texts: Xcode stopped detecting SVN repository changes after installing other version controlling apps

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Last week I installed Source Tree and Github for Dekstop version controlling apps on my Mac, prior to that I am also accessing our companies SVN repository server to contribute on our projects. While I have not installed other apps my SVN repo changes was detectable by Xcode meaning I can push/pull and commit directly from the Xcode.

But after installing those apps Xcode stopped detecting the changes and I feel lost with this.

System Configurations: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65)
Xcode Version: 10.0

Any Apple Xcode's expert can help me with this?


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I would like to mount a disk image, rsync a folder with the disk image, and unmount the disk image. So I split
hidutil attach /Users/username/Backup.sparsebundle && /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 /Users/username/bin/rbackup.py image && hdiutil detach /Volumes/Backup
in a plist for launchd like so
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>hdiutil</string>
        <string>attach</string>
        <string>/Users/username/Backup.sparsebundle</string>
        <string>&&</string>
        <string>/opt/homebrew/bin/python3</string>
        <string>/Users/username/bin/rbackup.py</string>
        <string>image</string>
        <string>&&</string>
        <string>hdiutil</string>
        <string>detach</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Backup</string>
    </array>

&& is interpreted as an additional (invalid) argument by hdiutil, though. How can I chain the commands similar to the shell version above in the plist?


texts: Is there an app to keep screen on when another (video surveillance) app is running?

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I'm using this mobile video surveillance app on my iPad, called Exacq Mobile 3 to monitor cameras in our store when I'm in the backroom.

It works for what I need it, except that there's one seemingly trivial issue -- this app doesn't disable battery saving mode of the iPad when it's in the camera display mode:

and lets it turn off the screen if I don't touch it for a few minutes. And that is very frustrating!

I have to remember to touch the screen once in awhile to make it stay up. And if I can't do it at the moment (if I'm busy holding something) the iPad screen goes black, and then this app becomes very janky when I turn the iPad back on. (So to fix it I have to force-quit the app and restart it.)

All this takes about 30 seconds to do. Not much. But it becomes very annoying when you have to repeat it 20 times!

I tried contacting the company (about couple years ago) about fixing this and got nowhere. Awful customer service!

So being a Mac user, I know that there's a macOS app called Caffeine that you can click on the menu bar and it will keep screen on indefinitely. Is there a similar app for an iPad?

PS. I tried disabling the feature that turns the screen off in the iOS settings, but unfortunately it also messes me up when I'm using this iPad for something else that doesn't need keeping the screen on. For instance, if I'm browsing the web and then lay it down and then come back to it a few hours later, the battery on the iPad will be completely dead.

Again sounds like a trivial issue but the obtuse developer of the app can't seem to fix it...


texts: How to install an Operating System after replacing optical Drive by a second HDD on MacBook white late 2009?

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I want to improve the performance of my MacBook white by donating it a Solid State Drive.

Because the prices are too high and I don't want to get stuck in space shortage, I thought of replacing the optical drive by my old 320 GB HDD and place a new 128 GB SSD in the original place of the HDD.

This way the SSD can use the SATA III connection while for the HDD the SATA II connection of the optical drive will be sufficient - I assume.

But since my Macbook has no recovery partition I was wondering:

How would I install any OS on the MacBook without the optical Drive? I have Snow Leopard on DVD. Since I like clean installations I have burned my App Store purchases of Lion and Mountain Lion on DVD to.

Are there Any solutions for this problem available?

I know there is the possibility for accessing the optical drive. I own a PC with Windows installed on it, but I never actually tried this out. Also I doubt, that the MacBook can access the optical drive of my PC while there is no OS installed on it.

Glad for any feedback and hints, thanks!


texts: How to create a hidden partition on a hard drive?

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I have created 3 partitions on a hard drive.

I've tried renaming the partition with a dot in front, however it seems that the OS doesn't allow that.

How to make one of the 3 partitions hidden to the user?


texts: How to set relative directory to PATH variable, and run scripts in relative directory globally

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I have some some scripts in a git project I wan to access globally, so I add the relative path to the scripts folder like so

vim ~/.bash_profile
export PATH="~/git/scripts/:$PATH"
source ~/.bash_profile

and there is a file ~/git/scripts/ called echoHelloWorld.sh, so how I can I run echoHelloWorld.sh if I am for example in the ~/Downloads folder? Do I do

cd ~/Downloads
./echoHelloWorld

because I have tried that, but it does not work, and I have also tried chmod +x echoHelloWorld.sh with no results.


texts: "Pasting" text to Java applet through keyboard emulation

texts:
I have a Java applet that I need to paste lots of text into. However, the paste options doesn't work (neither keyboard shortcut, nor right-button menu).

I'm looking for a way to emulate a keyboard and write automatically all the text I'd like to paste into the textbox in the applet.


texts: the caps key on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) does not work. it registers occasionally but not all the time. any fix?


texts: Sourcing and opening multiple files of same name, in specified folder, in Terminal? Is there a way?

texts:
Say I open terminal and change directory to folder 'folder', I type

cd folder.

Say there're multiple folders within this folder, i.e. data 1, data 2, data 3, etc., and within each of those is an image named 'image_a'. Is there a way to source all of the 'image_a' files, and open them via command line? Or write a script/run a function that does?

This part may be irrelevant, but they're NIfTI gzip (.nii.gz) files that I'll open via FSLview. The syntax to open a single image is

fslview </file>


texts: OSx doesn't want to activate my Bluetooth dongle

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I recently bought an external bluetooth dongle to add BTLE support to my Macbook Pro 2011.  I'm running Yosemite 10.10.2.

I've read different blogs and posts here, indicating how to enable the external dongle, but they don't seem to work.  Following the answers to this AD question, I've tried downloading the Bluetooth Explorer found in the HardwareIOTools_Xcode_6.3.dmg package.  But when I navigate to Tools->HCI Controller Selector, and choose the Broadcomm dongle and click Activate, the built-in Apple BRCM device remains active, and doesn't activate my external dongle.

I've also tried to update the nvram settings and rebooting:

sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=always

but that too doesn't have any impact.

What am I missing or doing wrong?


texts:
When I enabled filevault on Yosemite 10.10.5, it went through the whole process of encrypting, and then it changed to "Optimizing." It progressed to 86% and seems to be stuck there.

For about 24 hours now, it's been saying "X hours remaining." It varies from like 1 hour to 12 hours. About 12 hours into it, I rebooted just to see if that would help, but it didn't. When I run diskutil cs list, it says:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         999345127424 B (999.3 GB)
    Free Space:   5495873536 B (5.5 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     999345127424 B (999.3 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Converting
        Conversion Direction:    forward
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
        |
        +-> Logical Volume XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          993513701376 B (993.5 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   Optimizing 86%
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

What could the problem be? Is there anything I can do to fix it?


texts: Is it possible to clone the operating system to a different machine?

texts: I have spent a lot of time setting up a speech recognition profile which would be a pain to do all over again. I have configured this on a Mac mini. Suppose I now wish to buy a MacBook Air. Would it be possible to transfer my entire current setup including software and settings across to a different hardware platform?


texts: I want to restore iPhone data that didn't get restored a few weeks ago, but don't want to lose data since then

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I installed iOS 5 on my wife's iPhone 3GS about 3 weeks ago.  When the process was over, she was missing her apps.  I reinstalled these from the App Store via the Purchased section.  However, she was missing data from her apps.  At the time, it didn't seem like a big deal, because her emails were still on the server.  Over the past few weeks, however, it has become more of a pain, from the trivial (lost Angry Bird levels) to the more major (lost appointments).

So, if I was to connect the iPhone up to the computer from which iOS 5 was installed, I'm thinking I could restore the data.  However, I'm afraid that if I did so it would erase any data accumulated over the past 3 weeks.

So I have two questions

a)  If I restore data on the iPhone from a few weeks ago, will it indeed erase data that has been accumulated since then?  Is there a way to merge data?

b)  Is there a way to restore data for only particular apps?

The end goal is to somehow retrieve all the data from before the iOS 5 updateand the data since the update.


texts: Move using keyboard instead of drag and drop

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I wonder how I can move items/folders using keyboard instead of drag and drop. Like sometimes I'm opening a folder and there is an item in it which I want to move it to another location but I don't want to open another finder window and drag and drop.
I'm using macOS Sierra


texts: How use function keys in iPad with Apple keyboard?

texts:
I'm trying to use the Apple Wireless keyboard for coding in a terminal (with nano, vim, etc) using a app to access by SSH them in a remote server, and discover that all the function keys (Esc, F1, f2....) are not working.

I have tried with Prompt2, but this will happen with any app because the F1 through F12 keys by default in the iPad are tied to special functions like control brightens.

Is possible to change this?

If not:

Exist any terminal app that can remap the keys?
Or exist a code editor with internal ssh terminal that work for remote coding?


texts: iPad screen is black and won't turn on after charging and resetting

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Yesterday I dropped my iPad 3 but luckily the screen did not crack. However the screen is now black and will not turn on. I can still here sounds from the iPad. How can I fix this?

What I tried:

Charging it
Resetting it (Home+Power)
Shutting it off


texts: How can I restore sent mail from a backup?

texts:
I like to keep sent mail, I file it periodically.  Unfortunately, I must have changed my settings to delete mail older than 1 month.  So now I'm trying to restore mail from a backup.  (Don't ask me why I can't enter Time Machine.  I guess I should ask that as a separate question.  I can back up but not enter Time Machine!  So I'm trying to do this manually).  I can find
Sent Messages.ewsmbox
Sent Items.ewsmbox
and I can read that they have lots of good stuff in them, but when I copy them into Mailboxes, they don't show up in my Sent folder when I go to Mail.


texts: Is there any program to delete cache files automatically?

texts: Every time I need to clear cache, I have to go inside each folder and delete the contents. Doing it via terminal deletes the whole folder which is not recommended. What shall I do?


texts: How does one change Terminal.app profile for all open tabs using a keyboard shortcut?

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Would love to know if there is a way to switch all my current Terminal.app tabs to a different profile on the fly.

The use-case being to change Terminal profile from a dark to a light theme, and vice versa, depending on a user's current mood/preference. This can be achieved manually by right clicking on a Tab header and choosing "Inspect tab", and then changing the theme for each tab.

The other option is to close down all the open tabs and reopen them with a new theme, again suboptimal IMHO.

Hope someone has a better way :)


texts: Can I sync changes made on MacOS Photos app with Photos in iOS?

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I am not using the iCloud Sync feature right now. I manually imported all the pictures on the Photos app on MacOS and made some changes (deleted some, updated some etc.).

I would prefer to not use iCloud syncing as I would rather not pay for storage and the service to sync more than 5 GB of free data.

Is there a way that I can sync the same changes to the Photos app on my iPhone?


texts: When I want to share file with email or iMessage in Finder, I have to right click on that file, choose share option, and choose email or iMessage. I want to create keyboard shortcut for this. e.g. I choose files, use command+shift+E or I, and it opens email or iMessage share windows. Is it possible and how?


texts: How can I enable syntax colouring in vim using Terminal?

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I am new to mac

I want to change the look of my Terminal.app window so that it look like Ubuntu's terminal

How can I configure my Mac terminal so that code in vim look colourful?
I.e. such that data type, special functions, header files have a different colour.


texts: Cannot map the 'Window' key of a window keyboard of IKBC KB87

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I am not sure if it is a generic behaviour or merely a problem with this particular keyboard.

I have used the eventviewer of karabinar to check.

 Pressing the left or right window do not register any event at all.

OSX recognise the keyboard as ANSI

Here is a photo of the keyboard:

and here is the link to the product.

What is the likely cause of the issue? The hardware key event is not firing or osx is not registering the window key?


texts:
Background: a week ago I left an airport terminal in a hurry and had to shutdown the MBP with a hard press of the power button.

Once I arrived I was presented with a blinking folder during boot. I  realized either a hard-drive failure had occurred or the HDD cable was fried. I wiped the drive to try on linux mint just to see if I could boot.

This did not help, thus I replaced the cable. This was the original issue but now I'm left with an empty drive.

I can install linux mint and run it without any issues but using internet recovery to install OS X Lion, the installer runs through completely but keeps booting on to the recovery partition after install. I tried this externally with the drive as well without any progress on the issue.

I am asking for help diagnosing the issue as I am currently on the latest linux mint distribution and will provide any necessary feedback requested.


texts: dnsmasq not working oh Mac OS High Sierra

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I have a service running on localhost on MacOS High Sierra.

curl foo.test

does not work, but

curl localhost

does.

To get to my setup, I installed dns using homebrew,

brew install dnsmasq

added my configuration to /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf,

address=/test/127.0.0.1

and added a resolver file /etc/resolver/test:

nameserver 127.0.0.1

I've spent a day trying

dig foo.test
scutil --dns
dscacheutil -q host -a name foo.test

and nothing worked.

My eventual issue was not covered anywhere else, so I'm answering it here for someone else.


texts: Can two iPhones access the same iCloud content?

texts: My wife and I have iPhones. We have separate Apple accounts on the phones. Can we share the same iCloud music and pictures?


texts: How do you turn on "Dark Mode" in OS X Yosemite?

texts: Has anyone figured out how to enable Dark Mode yet? I've been looking around for a while and haven't been able to find it anywhere.


texts: How to tell the mode (Transparency, noise cancellation or none) of airpod pro when it connects to the Apple TV?

texts:
I can connect the audio of my AppleTV to my Airpod Pro.

However there is no obvious which mode the Airpod Pro are in from the Apple TV user interface.

I tried to use Siri to find it out, but it only says I can use the remote to control volume.

Is there any way I can find it out, other than playing music loudly from another source so I can tell by taking off the ear bud?


texts: screen turns off and i get locked out when move my macbook air on the bedsheet

texts:
I have an 11 inches Macbook air.

My macbook air turns the screen off and logs me out anytime i move it slightly across my bed. (it does not happen when i move it from bed and move it) even two inches moving turns the screen off and i am logged out as if i had closed the lid.

I have not been able to find any answer so far.

Any idea how to correct this?
thanks


texts: Any general method for iPad to output in 1080p when connected to TV by HDMI?

texts:
Is there any way for an iPad Air to output to the resolution of a 1080p TV (via HDMI converter) that is not app-specific?
I'm currently using an iPad Air with an adaptor that looks like this:

From the comments,
I am using a 16:9 screen, while the iPad is more of a 4:3 display.
As a result, there are black bars to the left and right when output to the television.


texts:
I purchased a USB-C Multiport adapter and plugged it into my new MacBook Pro.  Immediately I was told to upgrade the adapter, and I clicked okay and then right through the usual installer screens.  Installation finished, I clicked reboot and one of my Applications cancelled the restart.  I quit that app manually and then rebooted.  MacBook rebooted, but adapter doesn't work and the upgrade nag no longer shows up.

I understand now that it's important to plug the power into the slot on the adapter (rather than into your MacBook) when doing the upgrade, and it's a good idea to read the installer ReadMe, but this was not done.

Opening /System/Library/CoreServices/Firmware\ Updates/USB-C\ Multiport\ Adapter/adapterupdate1.pkg and trying to re-run the upgrader manually fails with the message: "This software is not supported on your system".

System Report seems to recognize the USB Multiport adapter, and see's version 2.33, however any devices plugged into the adapter (HDMI, USB) while they register in system report, don't actually work.

This is the second adapter that I did this too so I'm pretty sure the issue was related to not being plugged in during the upgrade, but surely there is some way to reset / re-image the damn thing, I'd rather not get a 4th one.


texts: Rename home directory without causing double Time Machine backup

texts:
I want to rename the my home directory (/Users/thisone), using this technique.

However, I just started using Time Machine, and with 200 GB of data in my home directory; what will happen?

Will the entire 200 GB have to be backed up again, because Time Machine doesn't understand that the data is the same since the home folder name changed?

If so, as a panic resort, can I tamper with the Time Machine backup, renaming the home folder there too? (I have only a single backup so far).

If so, how do I do this? I seem to remember that even with sudo, OS X objects to any change in the Time Machine folder.


texts: Is it possible to have GPL software in the Mac App Store?

texts:
Can you have GPL software in Mac App Store?

I know this is not possible in the iPhone App Store, but is it the same situation in Mac App Store?

NOTE: None of the answers below should be considered legal advice. If you require a legal answer to this question, consult a lawyer.


texts:
The native camera app on my iPad mini got deleted somehow. Also, I couldn't find it in the App Store to download. It happened on iOS 10.3. I just now upgraded to iOS 11.

The iPad also had Photo Booth app which is also invisible now. On the App Store, the app shows an open button next to Photo Booth app, but nothing happens upon tapping on it.

Can someone please help?


texts: Is there an extension to give Safari the same multiple search engine functionality as Chrome?

texts:
I have to admit, I never thought that I'd see the day I preferred a different desktop browser to Chrome. But with the latest release of Safari, I'm a believer. It (to me) performs faster, looks better, and having that baked-in sync functionality with all my iOS devices and other Macs is... well, insanely great.

That being said, there are a few features that I miss from Chrome, but the one that I really miss is the multiple search engines you could invoke from typing the name of them and then either Space or Tab (e.g., type "imdb" and then Tab to search using IMDb's search query functionality).

Is there some sort of less-advertised extension that I can get to bestow this upon Safari, or am I out of luck?


texts: How to upgrade jailbroken iPhone 4 with iOS 6.1.3 to iOS 7.0.4?

texts:
I bought an iPhone 4 online around a year ago, maybe more, without knowing it was jailbroken (I should have sensed this by the price, indeed too good to be true).

When I tried doing the upgrade everything got wiped out and I had to use RedSnow to restore the newest version at that moment. This was iOS 6.1.3 which was decent — I could use almost everything except making phone calls.

Now a few apps are requiring me to download the newest version of iOS in order to operate properly. The next iOS version that appears suggested is 7.0.4. I have backed up all of my information on both the computer and cloud.


texts: Attempting to Disable Thunderbolt Extensions on Yosemite 10.10.5

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I just started having this issue with my Mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro with Retina  display, and I've tried refreshing a few processes and did a factory reset, but am still having the problem appear.
I've tried to disable the SIP to disable the Thunderbolt extensions, but it looks like that wasn't a thing until a later OS. Is there a way to circumvent this without having to go to Catalina? I'd prefer not to so I don't lose access to certain 32-bit applications, but if there are no other options, then there's not a whole lot I can do.
Thanks for the advice/help in advance!
Edit: I have tried the following:
-moved /System/Library/Extensions/AppleThunderboltNHI.kext to the desktop, which made a copy
-unlocked and logged in as root user
-went into terminal and used
kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleThunderboltNHI.kext
-locked the root user back up and rebooted
Edit 2: Did the following:

Opened Terminal on normal user login, used
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
Entered password to confirm change, then:
sudo kextcache -system-caches
Rebooted.


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Even after the 7.0 (1822) update, Mavericks Mail is not keeping synchronized with the GMail IMAP server. A mailbox with hundreds of messages in it suddenly has only the latest added message. Then it will show only messages added since that message.

I have tried mailbox Rebuild, re-checking mail, close Mail and open it again. Nothing seems to help. The messages in the Mail mailbox don't match what's in the filter by label on the web interface.

Is there a way to force Mail to re-synchronize a single Mail mailbox (to a GMail label) without deleting the entire account and spending another day or two rebuilding the whole database?

A related question asks about messages in Mail (inbox) that are not in GMail (inbox). This question is the reverse, messages in GMail (archived label) that are not in Mail (mailbox). The answer may or may not be the same!

NOTE: After 5 days of daily use, the mailbox has just restored itself. That's a long time to wait! Unfortunately, for the time being (until I detect a recurrence of the problem) it will be difficult for me to evaluate the effectiveness of solutions offered.


texts: Problem with Automator/AppleScript Question

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I am building a program to delete files/folders. Here is how my program looks in Automator:

The problem I am having is sometimes where the program runs I get this error:

The program does work so I don't know why this error is popping up. Is there an Automator or AppleScript command that I can use to bypass this error so it does not show up at all?

This is the AppleScript:

delay 5
tell application "Finder"
    try
        delete (every item of folder "TV Show Downloads" of disk "Drobo" whose modification date is less than ((get current date) - 1 * days))
    end try
end tell


texts: How to use find to get only string sequence, not within other words

texts: How do I use the Command ⌘+F find to get only a in the text a apple, instead of highlighting both a and a in the word "apple".


texts: Using Automator CLI with passed file name

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I'd like to apply a quartz filter (Reduce File Size) through Preview Export using the command line while passing in the input and output filenames through CLI. I'm thinking the best way to do this is through Automator since it seems there isn't a way to access Preview through CLI.

I'm thinking it would look something like this in the end:

automator -i input=input.pdf output=output.pdf PDF.workflow

But I'm probably completely off.

Here's the basic workflow, which doesn't work as hoped:


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What was the first MacBook that people were able to install Windows on?
How about 2007, 2008 versions of Macbook?

It was when Apple started to sell MacBooks with Intel processors instead of PowerPC?


texts: Do Shared Albums take up storage space on iPhone 8/iOS 12?

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I am running iOS 12.3.1 on an iPhone 8. Currently, the only photos I have in my Photos app are in Shared Albums, mostly created by others. I've cleared everything else, including Recently Deleted.

But, when I go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage, it indicates that the Photos app is taking up 1.3GB of storage. Is that from the Shared Albums thumbnails, or are there phantom photos taking up space in the Photos app?


texts: Problem while updating to macOS High Sierra (Target is not convertible to AFPS)

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I started my update at night and woke up in the morning to this screen, stuck at the same place for hours now.

The error log is a long sequence of the same two lines.

isConvertableToAPFS: was called on a APFS disk.
Target is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Here is a screenshot.

So after browsing around the internet for a bit, I figured there are some solutions I could try.

Reboot into internet recovery. From here.
Disable encryption. Since in Disk Utility, my drive is shown as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) and not what you see in the error log.
And of course, retry.

But the problem is that I can't afford to lose the data I have downloaded till now, i.e., I can't download 5GB of data all over again.

All the options I see till now, involve closing the the installer. So I have two questions: Will I lose my data if I close the installer? If yes, is there any other to go about it, a fourth option?

My primary aim is not losing data, I plan on keeping the installer running till I don't find a solution.


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The new macbook is awesome but, it brings up a question. Why is the macbook air still around if the new macbook is lighter and thinner than the air?

Thanks!


texts: Remove all paired Bluetooth devices from iPhone in one go

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I'd like to remove a long list of old devices I paired to an iPhone without having to remove them one by one (I've got like 30 devices saved). I tried resetting Network settings followed by Reset All Settings but to no avail, they're still there!. Any way to do it without having to erase the iPhone?

I just need to know if there's an Apple official way to do it, so to speak, not any third party app or method.


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I have two drives on my MacBook Pro. One is a SSD with the root (/) partition, and the other is a hard drive with a home directory partition (/Users). Both partitions are HFS+ format.

When I make a search using Spotlight, nothing on the /Users partition is searchable, since it is not indexed.

Trying to use mdutil to start indexing the drive does not work:

## Attempt to enable indexing and flush any existing index
$ mdutil -i on -E /Users
/Users:
        Indexing and searching disabled.

## Attempting the same as above to all volumes
$ mdutil -i on -E -a
/:
        Indexing enabled.
/Users:
        Indexing and searching disabled.


texts: Unibody White MacBook display dims when laptop on top of another

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When you place an open display plastic unibody MacBook upon a closed display MacBook of almost any kind, the display will cut out when it goes past the ninety degree angle.  I am thinking its a pressure point issue or a magnet issue.  Though not entirely sure.

Its consistent enough to see it, but infrequent enough not to worry about it, since stacking laptops is a no-no, but occurs when doing mass imaging.

Has anyone else out there seen this strangeness?
What may be causing it?


texts: I use Iterm2 on the Mac. Many times, I accidentally press Command+some key, so I'm wondering, is it possible to disable the Command shortcuts? Like Command+D for example, as I use tmux for split panes.


texts: specific network settings for sharing internet connection

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I can successfully bridge my WLAN and Ethernet on my macbook(internet sharing) and have each network adapter set to dhcp. In my case the macbook is connecting to the internet with wireless and the ethernet port on the macbook allows another older laptop(which does not have wireless) to also access the net through the macbook. When i inspect the ip address of the wireless interface, it shows the expected local ip and gateway. However, the ethernet interface of the mac shows a private ip, 169.254.135.163 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.

The older client laptop shows an ip of 192.168.2.2 and a gateway of 192.168.2.1
How did the macbook decide to pick these numbers and dole them out over its ethernet port?

When i set the ethernet ip address of the macbook to 192.168.1.2 with a mask of 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of 192.168.1.1, the client laptop can still access the net (and still has the same ip adresses) but the mac loses connectivity. Why should changing the ip address of the ethernet port on the mac cause its wireless interface to stop working?


texts: How do i unfreeze my iPhone 7 when it is stuck on the lock screen? What do I do?

texts: My iPhone screen is completely frozen. I've pressed the power button by itself to turn my phone off but when it cut back on it was still frozen, so I have no way into my phone.


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I already have xcode installed on OSX Yosemite. I have also run it and accepted terms and conditions.

I can also do gcc --version and I see

Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 7.0.0 (clang-700.1.76)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0
Thread model: posix

Now if I do

wget http://apache.mirrors.pair.com//httpd/httpd-2.4.17.tar.bz2
brew install pcre
tar zxvf httpd-2.4.17.tar.bz2
cd httpd-2.4.17
./configure

The error I get is

Configure:
configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...
configure:
checking for APR-util... yes
checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.10.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/abhi/Downloads/httpd-2.4.17':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

Why can't the C compiler create executable? I showed you that the C compiler is installed correctly on my machine.