texts: Mac start issue, stuck key effect slow mouse and system cannot login

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I stated my Macbook pro (2017) and it was really slow, I tried to type my password but then started to type forever like my keyboard stuck, mouse is lagging and slow and all system react really slow.
Tried to restart, same problem also in safe mode same problem.
No bluetooth keyboard connected which could cause issue.
Please help someone because I cannot log in to my mac.
Thank you!


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I'm trying some of the tips from the Cult of Mac iTunes 11 tips blog post. I don't see Options > Assign To > All Desktops when I right click my iTunes 11 icon. Any ideas? Using OSX 10.8.2, that matters.

  Here’s a nifty tip for using iTunes 11 in multiple Spaces or monitors: right click the iTunes icon in your dock and select Options > Assign To > All Desktops. Now when you use iTunes in full screen mode, you can also open the MiniPlayer separately and have it run in a different space or monitor. So you could have iTunes running full screen on your big external monitor while the MiniPlayer is on your laptop screen.


texts: Can I use an Apple Homepod as a speaker and microphone for WebEx, Skype voice, etc?

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I spend a lot of time using my Macbook Pro with work-related web conferences. My ideal setup would be a high quality speaker and microphone that I can use via bluetooth/airplay/wifi with my Macbook for the audio portion of these web conferences. Added ++ if there's a physical mute button.

Can the Homepod function in this way?


texts: How do I deal with the change in Camera's file names with the current iOS phone version?

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image files from Camera used to be named in the format IMG_xxxx.jpg where xxxx was a sequence of digits.  After the most recent update the name is now a random string of letters and digits.jpg
The import window on Aperture doesn't have an option to sort source files by image date.
Normally I leave the images on the phone after importing, then take a picture of the palm of my hand to know where to go back to next time.  Normally I rename automatically including the file name to yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss.d
I see my options at this point:
A: import twice

Once into a new folder.  Let the rename happen.
Merge the new folder into my usual unsorted folder, and hope that Aperture is smart enough to skip files that it already has. (I'm not confidend.
If it doesn't I  have to find duplicates and make sure I delete the one that doesn't yet have keywords assigned.

This may be simplified to import into the same folder and search for duplicates.
B: rename on the iphone.  So far I've not found an app that does this.
C: find a different mac app that can download from the iphone to an arbitary directory.
D:  Jailbreak my iphone and see if there is a different way to do this.


texts: Set different keyboard settings for two different users or applications on Mac?

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One user of uses Microsoft Remote Desktop to use Windows-based, industry-specific software which requires constant use of function keys, while other users never uses function keys.

I know that we can just press the fn key to access F1 to F12, or change the setting globally to require the fn key for the special functions (brightness, volume etc) instead, but can this setting be different for different users or, better still, different apps?

We have the British English Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, and an iMac running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.


texts: Under what conditions is internet required to watch a rented/downloaded movie on iPhone/iPad?

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I've had some issues before when trying to watch a rented/downloaded movie on a plane when I have no internet connection. Get the message that internet is required to authorize.

Under what conditions is internet required to play a rented movie (already downloded)?

Note: I typically download to my mac then transfer the movie to the iPhone/iPad using iTunes then night before. Not sure if that makes a difference.

I've successfully watched some movies but have had issues with others. Seemed like if I followed Airline instructions to completely power down my device, then it will give me an error if I try to playback later.

I often start the movie just before the flight when I do have internet and then pause it. Not sure if that is helping or hurting. No, not past the 24 hr mark at any time. I use this technique with the thought that if I authorize it once, then it won't try to authorize later. Maybe the powering down forces a re-authorization?

Note: I absolutely can't believe that I have to ask this question.


texts: Full screen YouTube still shows Dock and Menu Bar

texts: Whenever I bring a video to fullscreen on YouTube (on Chrome or Safari), the video will go to fullscreen but the dock and menu bar remain visible, covering the top and bottom parts of the video. They used to be hidden when I went to fullscreen, so I don't know what happened. How do I fix this?


texts: Why is my applescript for checking if a file exists failing?

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I have an applescript application that inputs a username and starts a download based on that username. In the app I use the code below to check if a file exists already and then rename the file if it does.

tell application "Finder"
if exists "~/Downloads/Conversion/" & cbUsername & ".flv" as POSIX file then
    set x to 1
    repeat
        set newCbFilename to cbUsername & "_" & x as string
        if exists "~/Downloads/Conversion/" & newCbFilename & ".flv" as POSIX file then
            set x to x + 1
        else
            exit repeat
        end if
    end repeat
    copy newCbFilename to finalCbFilename
    display dialog "Filename already exists " & "File will be named: " & finalCbFilename & ".flv" buttons "OK" default button "OK" with title "Error" with icon caution
else
    copy cbUsername to finalCbFilename
end if
end tell

All of a sudden yesterday it stopped working correctly. I had added the following code to ensure that the folder I was saving to existed.

tell application "System Events"
if not (exists folder "~/Downloads/Conversion") then
    do shell script "mkdir ~/Downloads/Conversion"
end if

Even when I comment out that code now it still doesn't work. What did I do wrong?
    end tell


texts: How to use 12" MacBook with 49 inch super UltraWide (32:9) display?

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I would like my MacBook to use the maximum resolution of my display at the correct aspect ratio. However, in system preferences this is not offered (see picture).
The resolution of my display is 5120 x 1440. While maximum vertical and horizontal resolutions offered by my MacBook are both greater (see picture), being 6720 x 3780. However this is the wrong aspect ratio.

Is there a way to make a custom aspect ratio (of 32:9)?
Is total pixel count the only thing that matters, or do aspect ratios also require individual support?


texts: Is it safe to `rm` folders from the .Trashes folder on an external drive?

texts: I trashed some folders from an external drive using the finder. They are now in that drives .Trashes folder. When I right click them in the trash (aka Finder) and select "Delete Immediately..." it takes forever, so I was thinking to use the terminal command rm -rf on them to get rid of them. Is that going to cause problems?


texts: I used to be able to hit Ctrl and use mouse wheel to zoom in on pictures, web pages, or whatever.  With OS 10.8 the mouse wheel just scrolls up and down pages. Any thoughts on getting the zoom feature back?


texts: Just acquired an azatom Tune-Stream Bluetooth dongle which turns 30-pin iPod docking stations into Bluetooth devices. However, it doesn't work when I insert it in an Apple Universal Dock (connected to a TEAC micro hi-fi system via a small jack). My iPod Touch works in the Dock, and it pairs with the Tune-Stream remotely when that is in place, but no sound. Azatom instructions say doesn't work with speakers with "digital signal interface", but why would Universal Dock have a different interface from usual iPod docking station?


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On Windows, there is a PowerPoint plugin that allows live webpages to be inserted into a presentation.

I will be doing a presentation and it involves a web demo. I was wondering if a similar solution exists on the mac. It can be any presentation software, it just needs to have the ability to embed a live webpage and interact with that page.

I am using OS X Mavericks on a mid-2012 Macbook Air.


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On previous versions of OS X I used to be able to go to a file in Safari, click and drag on the favicon and take it over to my downloads window, which would then download that file.

So for instance if i was listening to this file and wanted to download it in Lion. All I had to do was drag the icon in the address bar over to the download window.

Now I can't do that anymore. In fact I have no idea how to download that file except to make a webpage with the a href and then right click the link.


texts: How do I turn off scroll for page navigation on the mouse, but not the trackpad

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On my Macbook pro I frequently use an external mouse while working.  When the option to use the "Swipe Between Pages" gesture is enabled, it also makes horizontal scrolling on my mouse do the same thing.

I like the feature on the trackpad, but not on the mouse.  Is there a way to restrict this gesture to certain devices or in some other way turn it off ONLY for the mouse?

Using Sierra 10.12.6 with internal trackpad and Logitech MX Master with "Logitech Options" software.


texts: Force Mac to use Power Adapter as Power Source

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I just bought a new MacBook Pro 2015 15" and I really want the battery to stay healthy.

Is there a way to force my Mac to use the Power adapter as power source, instead of using the battery as source and charging it at the same time? (The Mac already does this when the battery is at 100% to, well, have the battery stay healthy.)


texts: Why does combining a PDF cause its size to be significantly larger?

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I have 3 files about 40 KB each. When I combine them using Preview and save them as a single PDF file, instead of having a size close to 120 KB, the size is closer to 500 KB.

Why does this happen, and is there any way to retain a small file size when the files are combined?


texts: Photos deleted on iPhone got deleted in Google Photos - Recovery?

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I synced all photos and videos from my iPhone 6 to Google Photos. I then turned off "Back up & sync" in Google Photos, deleted all photos and videos on my phone, and discovered this also deleted everything in Google Photos.

I've already deleted everything from "Recently Deleted" on my phone. Is there any way to recover my photo and videos? Where did I go wrong?


texts: Arrange by exact file type (not just by kind) in OS X Lion

texts: Currently .mp3, .aac, .m4r, etc. are all looked as "Music". So when I do an Arrange or Group By in the Lion Finder, all of these files get displayed under the heading "Music". Is there an option to make this arrange by Kind setting respect the exact file type?


texts: Can I use a Thunderbolt cable to connect an iPad to a MacBook Air as second display?

texts: Is it possible to use a Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable to connect a new-generation iPad with a new-generation MacBook Air so that the iPad can be used as a 2nd monitor?


texts: Coloured files and folders - Mavericks and Yosemite

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I really liked the colour folders / files you could set in osx 10.8, the ones where the entire folder / file line would be coloured as opposed to the little coloured dot in Mavericks and Yosemite.

Is there an option to turn back on the full row colour fill in either of these versions of OSX ?


texts: How to change the default login account on a NAS Share

texts: I have a Synology NAS which is connecting with the NAS admin account when I log into my Mac. I would like to change the account to a user account. I have tried to disconnect and reconnect with the user account but reverts tot he admin account when I restart my system. How can I change the default login account when connecting to a NAS share via SMB.


texts: Time Machine tries to connect when I'm away from home

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Recently when I'm away from home, my MacBook Pro keeps displaying the following message "There was a problem connecting to the server" and the name of my AirPort Extreme with a hard drive connected.

I'm running OSX 10.7.4, and it's only done this for the past two weeks or so.

The only thing I can think of which has changed was the 10.7.4 update itself.

It's quite irritating, but doesn't actually harm anything. Any idea how to stop it happening though?


texts: iTunes Home Sharing: play counts not updated, smart playlists not smart

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I have activated Home Sharing on a High Sierra Macbook 2011 with iTunes 12.8.2.3
I have signed in my Apple account in my phone and tablet, iOS13/ipadOS13.
So far, my idevices can access the library and play songs, but:

play counts are not updated although I checked the corresponding box in iTunes' sharing preferences,
smart playlists always show the whole song collection. (normal playlists display correctly)

Scratching my head. I read other threads but I did not found solution. Suggestions welcome.


texts: How to reauthorise a Google account in Internet Accounts (after changing Google Account password) on Mac OS 10.11

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My Google Account is connected to Mac OS X using Internet Accounts. I changed the password of my Google Account (at google.com) and now the OS - and especially Mac Mail - can no longer access the account.

I believe that Mac OS X is using OAuth to authorise with Google, so is it possible to force the OS to reauthorise the connected account (without deleting and starting again)?

Mac OS Version: 10.11.3


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If I go to System Preferences>General>Accent colour and change it, the accent colour changes across the whole system, right?

Wrong. The Touch Bar still uses blue, no matter what. See this:

but on the Touch Bar:

How do I fix this and make the Touch Bar use orange as the accent colour?
(this isn't just in Xcode, it's in every app).


texts: Is chmod enough to change the permissions? My file needs sudo everytime

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I have file copied from an usb hard drive with a previous installation of os yosemite copied in it. Now I'm using Sierra.

The status of the file:

karim@doraemon:~/Downloads
$ ll Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf
-rw-r--r--@ 1 karim  staff   4.5M Jan  3 19:42 Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf

I have the same name user of my previous installation, maybe this could be a problem, but I'm not sure because from the finder, if I check permissions, I get 'Karim (Me)' as a owner.

karim@doraemon:~/Downloads
$ whoami
karim

I change the permissions:

karim@doraemon:~/Downloads
$ chmod 777 Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf

The file permissions are changed.

karim@doraemon:~/Downloads
$ ll Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 karim  staff   4.5M Jan  3 19:42 Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf

As you can see, I'can't modify the filename.

karim@doraemon:~/Downloads
$ mv Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf Python.recipes.handbooksaa.pdf
mv: rename Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf to Python.recipes.handbooksaa.pdf: Permission denied

I already checked on finder and the file is not locked.

As suggested I run this:

karim@d:~/Downloads
$ ls -leO@ Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 karim  staff  - 4758205 Jan  3 19:42 Python.recipes.handbooks.pdf
    com.apple.finder.copy.source.checksum#N       4
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot       50
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldestSnapshot       50
    com.dropbox.attributes       83
 0: group:everyone deny write,delete,append,writeattr,writeextattr,chown

The last line seems to explain what is happening on the file.


texts: Change media kind of multiple items not working

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I'm following the guideline in https://www.lifewire.com/create-an-audiobook-from-mp3s-in-itunes-2438719 and have a problem with step

  Use iTunes to Convert MP3s to an Audiobook

  Join multiple MP3s to make your own audiobook

I wanna change multiple mp3 to audiobook. But is not working. Rightclick on selection and "Get Info" -> Options tab -> music->audiobook from Media kind /dropdown/ and OK. Nothing happens.

It's works by single item well.

(iTunes 12.9.2.6 on Windows 10 x64)


texts: 2017 MacBook Pro normal idle temperatures and fan speeds?

texts:
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro that feels somewhat warm to touch, even when there is little load on the CPU.  Even when the CPU is ~95% idle (according to Activity Monitor), Macs Fan Control is reporting temperatures around 55-60°C.  Is this normal behavior?

When I temporarily adjust the fan speed to a high RPM, the fans can clearly be heard running.  But for some reason, the fans don't seem to kick in above the ~2000 RPM minimum even when the temperature rises, to 67°C for example.

Is this normal, or is there something that I can do to correct this?


texts: How can I create a backup disk image of a MacBook before I start the first-run process?

texts: Is there any way to create an image of a brand new "unconfigured" MacBook?  I want to get an image of this box before the OS installs just in case I have any issues.


texts: How do I add lyrics to a song in iTunes?

texts: How do I add lyrics to a song in iTunes so that it shows the lyrics on the iPod/iPad?


texts: Which SSD Thunderbolt Product For Main Boot Drive for my iMac?

texts:
So I have a 2012 iMac.  I got the base model 21.5" which means I have a painfully slow 5400 RPM hard drive.  The pure SSD option would have cost $1,300 ($1 more than the $1,299 base price) if I could even get it but you had to get the 27" to even have the option.

The iMac is very fast with the obvious bottleneck being the 5400 RPM HDD.  I want really a better than stock setup with insane speed. Considering that anything under $1,300 is actually a savings (lol) and with the possibility of even being superior in speed to the internal SSD.  The issue I'm most concerned with now in my choice is if it will be bootable.  This is especially true with the RAID options because as the ones in my price range are SOFTWARE RAID I wonder how it could be possible to be bootable?

I've narrowed down my choices to these four options, in no particular order:

OWC Mercury Helios 240GB
Essentially a thunderbolt PCIe expansion chasis with fast PCI based SSD
Pegasus J2
Thunderbolt 2 x 128GB SSDs configured in RAID 0
Pegasus J4
4 drive thunderbolt 2.5" storage chassis, RAID configurable
I'll probably get 4 x 64 GB SSDs and configure them in RAID 0 or maybe RAID 10
LaCie Thunderbolt SSD 240GB
Kind of the same idea as J2

Any advice would be excellent.  Feel free to make an alternative suggestion if you prefer.  I'm ready to go as soon as I can make a choice.

Again my machine is:
Apple iMac 21.5", Late 2012 / i5 2.7 GHz / 8 GB RAM / 1 TB HDD / GeForce GT 640M 512MB DDR5 / OS X 10.8


texts: Can I keep apple appstore revenue with apple for longer time?

texts: I would like to know weather I can keep my appstore revenue with apple and withdraw whenever I like..?


texts: Upgrading to MacOS 10.15, now it says that system is read-only

texts:
The latest OS by Apple moved all of my folders into the Security folder. Now all my folders which were on root are not able to move on root anymore and it gives the message: mkdir: myDir: Read-only file system.

Before my folders were on /. For example /Developerment. It is not there anymore. I did find my folders under Security folders but can't copy on root now.

What should I do?


texts: OS X El Capitan downloading froze and now it won't let me download?

texts: I was trying to upgrade to OS X El Capitan when my screensaver kicked in or something and froze the download. But now the App Store shows it "download" as apposed to "downloading" when I try and download it. And nothing happens vs before when the screen turned into an iPad screen. Not sure if there is a file to delete of what?


texts: Unable to run Postgres after Installation on OSX - El Capitan

texts:
I just used homebrew to install my postgres, and I am unable to start it after attempting to start it with the suggested command from postgres/brew.

Can someone please advise?


texts: Is there a way to access the menubar icons using the keyboard?

texts: I know how to use the menu items using only the keyboard. Is there anyway I can access the icons in the top right as well?


texts: How to export all the raw media from iMovie libraries?

texts:
I have a couple of iMovie library files. I want to export the raw videos/photos outside of the library. I don't want to edit them or anything like that. Just having a copy outside of iMovie.

What is the best way to do this?


texts: Remote Desktop 10.2.3 Database Creation Error; 10.2.1 runs fine; 10.2.2 crashes: how to find actual cause(s)?

texts:
What would be good steps to find the cause of the below errors?

I get this error when running Microsoft Remote Desktop 10.2.3 or higher on MacOS High Sierra:

Database Creation Error

"An error occurred during persistent store migration.

[Domain: NSCocoaErrorDomain, Code: 134110]"

I am stuck at 10.2.1 now (which cannot add user accounts and will eventually stop working), want to use the newer version, but cannot use intermediate 10.2.2 as it crashes with the below information that I repeatedly submitted with the "Problem Report for Microsoft Desktop".

Manually migrating all the machine and user entries is really cumbersome: there are hundreds of them.

Information that might help:

where is the information on entries and users stored?
what format is that information stored?
are the tools for converting that information between various versions?
where are crash reports stored?

Crash report on 10.2.1: https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/851453d938a62ce45abd30fb929ae5e1


texts: How to change Mission Control window highlighting

texts: Is there a way to change how the selected window in Mission Control is highlighted in Yosemite? Between my aging eyes and background image, it's just a little too subtle for me to easily notice.


texts:
A new issue has cropped up for me—possibly since iPadOS 14 was released (last week as of this writing), but I’m not sure it hasn’t been around longer since it’s been some weeks since I last tried doing this and it worked. The issue is specifically with creating files on an SMB share.
My iPad’s Files sidebar has an SMB share (boringly called Shared and located on the Linux machine at ~/Shared) exported by Samba from an Ubuntu Linux workstation on my home network, the same network my iPad’s on.
It works for fine for editing files—meaning, if I open a file from an app supporting Files selection, or use the Files app itself to invoke an app using a long-press on a file in Shared, I can modify it, and those changes propagate to my Linux machine’s storage with no problem.
It also works for deleting files using the Files app, by long-holding on the file in Shared and selecting Delete Now.
The problem arises only when I try to create a new file. If I copy a file into it by what I think of as the “classic Windows method”—finding its original location, long-pressing to Copy, navigating to Shared and doing Paste, I get:

which is an error panel reading,
The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation canceled
Operation canceled
OK
The same happens if I try to move a file there by dragging it in.
If I try to save a file into Shared directly from an app’s export sheet, I get the same:

I have tried restarting the Linux machine and ejecting and remounting the SMB share on the iPad.
One additional possible clue: I thought perhaps doing touch ~/Shared/two-boxes.svg on Linux prior to attempting the creation might work, since editing existing files works. I did this and then tried to paste the two-boxes.svg file, and got the box warning me of overwriting the empty file:

which reads,
Replace Existing Items
The file “two-boxes” already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the one you’re copying?
Replace
Keep Both
Stop
Interestingly, if I select Replace, I get the same “Operation canceled” error, but then no two-boxes.svg file at all is left behind. On the other hand, if I select Keep Both, I get no error, but also nothing happens—the old file remains and no new file is created.
One final possible clue: if I go into Shared in the Files app and try to create a new directory, the Files app itself crashes immediately (I’m sent to the home screen and when I restart Files, it reinitializes its state). But oddly, even though it crashes, it worked: the directory is created and visible on Linux!


texts: Is there an alternative to Adress Book that works both on a Macbook or Imac *and* on Iphone?

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Is there an alternative to Adress Book that works both on a Macbook or Imac and on Iphone? I always get stuck on managing contact groups on all my apple devices. Or is there a strategy to keep contacts data consistent on 3 apple devices at the same time. I'd rather like to do it without cloud services due to privacy concerns.

edit for clarification:

I use an imac (Snow Leopoard, early 2008) at home, a MBP (early 2010, Lion) for work and an Iphone 4 (iOS 5).

When i try to sync my contacts or groups of contacts from the iPhone to the MBP, it's not working. But the other way round it's possible, although i have to overwrite all existing contacts.

With the iMac it works great. Both ways.


texts: How to find out which terminal app (iTerm or Terminal) is running from within bash

texts: I need to have different color schemes for each of the two terminal types I use. I can set it in the .bash_profile as mentioned here. But how can I tell it to differ depending whether its a iTerm2 or default terminal instance?


texts: How can I delete my Windows partition and add the space back to my OS X partition?

texts: I use Bootcamp to install windows 7 on separate partition (200 GB for OSX & 50 GB  for Windows) Now I decide to delete my windows and want my 50 GB  partition back and stick to the 200 GB partition, How can I do this?


texts:
I cracked the screen of my 3GS so I ordered a repair kit and installed it using some directions I found on youtube.

It seemed to work fine at first, but I've been noticing some dead zones in the touchscreen (which worked fine earlier when it was cracked), and I'm trying to figure out what I might have done wrong with the install, or if it's just from using 3rd party parts.

I used DrawSomething to map out the dead zones, because I already had it installed.

When I first noticed it, the main problem was a missing stripe along the left side:

But just a few hours later, there was also a missing stripe in the middle, and the sensitivity in general was wonky:

The new issues cleared up on their own, which suggested a loose connection to me, so I took the screen off and unplugged and replugged all 3 connections from the touchscreen to the phone.  I'm fairly certain they're all seated well, but I'm still seeing a missing stripe along the left side.

How can I fix this?


texts: stuck in the mud -- trying to install new MacOS from USB

texts:
I have an iMac with a blank hard drive.  The HD has been erased and formatted using the Disk Utility.  Now I want to install MacOS -- any MacOS.

When I try to install High Sierra from a 16 GB USB drive, it appears to work but then stalls with "2 minutes remaining".  The bar is at about three-quarters. The pop-up message says: "An error occurred while preparing the installation".
 There is no error number or further explanation.  This has happened three times.  The same USB was used to successfully upgrade another iMac of the same model, but that one had El Capitan installed first.  Anybody care to offer a guess as to what is happening?

So, I guess I need to create another bootable USB drive.  Perhaps El Capitan will work better?  Before you ask, my iMac is definitely compatible with High Sierra.

Does anybody have any suggestions?


texts:
I need to use my iPad and show its screen on my MacBook. As far as I know, AirPlay allows me to use the iPad as a second screen for Mac but here I need to do it the opposite way.

I can't record my iPad's screen or use Continuity Sketch (in fact I need this mostly for drawing on my iPad only).

Can I stream or mirror  my iPad's screen on my Mac?


texts:
I have a PowerBook G4 Titanium that I need to wipe to clear the previous user's personal data. It has a password that I don't know but I can still login automatically to OS X upon boot. Not having the administrative password is preventing me from wiping the computer through the options provided by the OS.
I have learned that these older macs come with specific roms and extensions for the older OSs and I would like to back these up. But I understand that this isn't entirely straightforward due to aliasing and resource forks. The OS 9 part of the laptop was never used so it is pristine and a good candidate for being backed up.
How do I do go about backing up all of the necessary files in a way that I can restore them?
I selected the following files on the root partition and dropped then all at once into DropStuff:

Applications (Mac OS 9)/
Desktop (Mac OS 9)/ -> Desktop Folder/
Desktop Folder/
Desktop DB
Desktop DF
System Folder/
Trash/

Is this sufficient to preserve aliases and resources or do I need to do this differently?
I know very little about vintage Mac software and filesystems but I am very experienced with both Windows and Linux. Please feel free to be as technical as you like.


texts: What devices is the iPod to Firewire 400 adapter meant for, and for what purpose?

texts:
I have this adapter:

Is it completely useless? I'm not quite sure what it is. I've had it for years.


texts: Does find my iPhone still work if I transfer my number to another device?

texts: My phone is currently trapped under a collapsed building. It is showing up on find my iPhone so it's still alive! I ordered a new phone as I don't know when or if they can recover it. If I activate the new phone with my old number, will I lose the ability to track my old phone? I'd like to keep watching it to see if it continues to survive.


texts: I'm afraid I'm not very wised up technically.  I have taken pics on my ipad.  They have synced to my pc, in the icloud photostream, where I can view them.  I want to attach some of them to an email, using my normal email service.  Can I do that?


texts: case insensitive `ls` for Catalina / APFS?

texts:
I am trying to find a way to get either the stock macOS ls or (more likely) the GNU ls a.k.a. gls to show my files & folders in case insensitive order.

All of my efforts have resulted in lowercase letters being sorted after the uppercase letters.

⚠ There are lots of outdated answers which no longer work!

This same question was asked on this forum in October 2011 (and in August 2013 on Stack Overflow), but those answers no longer work on macOS in 2020.

What I've tried that does not work:

LC_COLLATE does not seem to have any effect. I have tried these variations:

LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"

LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"

There was no noticeable effect at all.
Apparently ls -f or gls -U used to work for HFS+, although the output was supposed to be "unsorted", but apparently somehow in HFS+ "unsorted" was ¿accidentally? ¿coincidentally? case-insensitive? I guess? Whatever the reason, it no longer works, presumably because we’re using APFS now.
”Just pipe it through sort -f!” was never really an answer, but someone always seems to suggest it anyway. I want to be able to use all of the other features of ls/gls including color and -C which doesn’t work if we have to pipe through another command.

Is there some hidden method out there that I might have missed? Or does this functionality is actually not possible? The latter would seem extremely odd to me, but stranger things have happened, I guess.

P.S. - I use zsh as my default shell anyway, so if there’s a way to replicate this with zsh that would be OK too.


texts: What is rapportd and why does it want incoming network connections?

texts:
I've just updated to the latest MacOS 10.13.2 and after restarting, my machine asked me to allow incoming network connections for "rapportd".

After blocking it and checking in the firewall config, I can see that this is an executable in /usr/libexec/rapportd which was created on my machine on the 1st of December.

That's a day after I installed the security update 2017-001 (for the second time; autoupdate didn't seem to notice that I'd manually updated it), and I haven't installed or updated any other software recently / around that time. Google Chrome updates whenever it feels like it, so this could be related to a Chrome update (no idea when it last updated).

The internet suggests this is related to some banking protection program but that doesn't seem to fit here, and from a vague text-edit inspection of the binary I can see that it references /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Rapport.framework/Versions/A/Rapport (a framework created on my machine back in July and updated in October) which makes me think this is likely to be a new 1st-party OS daemon.

What does rapportd do?


texts: What Are The Correct/Default Volume/Folder/File Permissions For A Time Machine Image?

texts:
Months ago, I created a disk image on a large external drive to house my Time Machine  backups.

Yesterday…something went sideways with the permissions of my entire installation.

Included in this permissionpocalypse, is somehow my Time Machine dmg.

I am, now, unable to backup to Time Machine because the disk image is considered read only by 'system' and Finder informs me that I do not have permission to change the permissions of the image.

When I attempt to Verify the image in DiskUtility, I am told that: 'The image does not have a checksum so cannot be verified.'

So…before I investigate ways to super user sidestep my lack of permission to change TM dmg permissions, I figure I should probably know what those desired permissions are supposed to be.

Thank you.

EDIT: I'm using Mojave 10.14.6 (18G2022)


texts: Using Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033 to install 64 bit Windows 7, 8 or 10

texts:
My computer is a iMac (20-inch, Mid 2007). The model identifier is iMac7,1. The processor name is Intel Core 2 Duo, which means I have a 64 bit machine. The Apple web site Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems shows the only downloadable Boot Camp support software for my Mac is for the 32 bit version of Windows 7. I can successfully install the 64 bit DVD installation versions of Windows 7 and 8 on my machine. The problem I am having is with the Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033. When I follow the instructions and double click on setup.exe, I get the following popup.

How do I successfully install this support software and avoid this popup?


texts:
[EDIT]  I'm afraid this language feature is gone in Pages 5.*

How does one use different languages in Pages headers and footers?
I don't need spell checking but language switching (for headers and footers in an automatic language different from the system language)

Google (and forums) says:
"Inspector > Text > More > Language" and create custom style.

But... I have no "language" tab in Inspector -> Text -> More

When I select text I see:

(In OS X/Preferences I already selected multiple languages for spell checking)

System: El Capitan
Pages: 5.6.1


texts:
I'm trying to remove some artists from the iPod, but it's not working. I can remove in the iTunes, and sync, but when I look in the iPod, they are still there.

The iTunes show more "empty space" in the graph, but in the iPod there's almost no free space.

I've tried to remove all mp3 and synchronize, but after the process I look in the iPod and the mp3 are still there.

Is there a way to remove the mp3 without need to format the iPod?

(I don't want to loose some applications saved data, and I'm not sure if iTunes would correctly bkp my saved games achievements, for example)


texts: Permission prompt has misaligned button and breaks input

texts:
For at least two major macOS versions now, just about any time any programs requests elevated permissions, the OK button is misaligned and often missing text.

For example, on Mojave while updating Docker:

(Apologies for the photo in place of a screenshot; input was too buggy at the time to take a proper screenshot, as explained below.)

When the button is completely lacking text, such as in this screenshot, the corresponding button on the Touch Bar will also be blank.

Typically, when a prompt with this bug is visible, interactions with any other window will be very buggy.  Spotlight will work fine, but input directed at other programs will be delayed or dropped entirely.  It could be delayed by seconds or even minutes.

For example, the dialog below the prompt in the screenshot is moveable, but any movements take about a minute to register.  This is somewhat expected, since it's waiting on input, but this will also happen with unrelated programs.  If I try to minimize a window, the first five clicks might not go through--ever.  The sixth might go through instantly.

These two issues are linked: when one is present, so is the other.  If the button is misaligned, input to other windows, with the exception of Spotlight, will be buggy.  While the first is just cosmetic, the second is problematic because it can interrupt my interactions with another application.  The cosmetic issue is a concern because it makes the security dialog look illegitimate, when I'm fairly certain it's the official Apple prompt.

These two issues happen with a wide variety of programs across many devices.  Why do they happen, and how can I resolve them?

Edit: Here's an example of the same dialog triggered via authopen.  This one has neither issue.


texts: How can I schedule sending the day’s iCal events via email?

texts:
I followed this tutorial on creating a workflow using Automator that will email the events of the day from iCal to an email address.

I would like this to be executed every morning at, say 4am, so it is in my inbox when I wake up. What would be the best way to do this? I was thinking of perhaps creating a daily iCal event to execute the workflow, but then wouldn't that event also be included in the email?


texts: Should I register my new Apple products with Apple?

texts: Apple asks to register products in the installation but I am unsure whether this is a good decision. If I sell the Apple -products later, does it cause some problems? What is the point of registration?


texts: AirPlay works great with iOS but quite bad on macOS

texts:
AirPlay freezes if streamed from Mac (I have 2 Macs with latest macOS and they have the same issue).

It works great from my iPhone instead.

I have Apple TV 3rd generation with latest TVOS installed.

I've also tried a different modem and I still get issue using the macOS only.

Any clue?


texts: Where in Mac OS are Shockwave plugins stored?

texts: I don't think I even have a Shockwave plugin, unless it came with the browser.  But if I do, I want to remove it and/or check the version number.  IDS detected a CVE-2010-3655 attack aimed at me.


texts: Macbook Pro Early 2011 SSD very slow when in main hardrive bay but very good via USB

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 and I have upgraded to SSD when on Mountain Lion. Installed Yosemite as soon as it was out. The SSD works perfect until day before yesterday. Mac has become too slow, every click takes 15 seconds to respond, boot takes 5 minutes. I then cloned the SSD to a normal HDD and replaced it with it. It boots and works very well from the HDD. I have tried fresh install on the SSD by placing it in the same main harddrive bay and left it for 10 hours but it won't finish installing.

Then, I have tried placing it in a SATA to USB cable and tried installing Yosemite on it. It finishes within 15 minutes, boots and works very well. I placed it again in the harddrive bay and its totally slows down. I then figured that the problem could be with the SSD and its compatibility with my mac.

So, to check, installed windows on the SSD while keeping in the harddrive bay of the MBP. It installs and works perfectly. So, it ain't a hardware compatibility issue.

Finally, after quite a testing, the problem is when the SSD is placed in the main harddrive bay of the MBP and Yosemite is being installed or installed. With Yosemite and the SSD in an USB, it works perfectly.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue or have any suggestions for a fix?

Details: Macbook Pro 8,1 (Early 2011), ADATA 128GB 6gbps SSD


texts: Conditional SUM() based on text of a cell using iWork

texts:
I have some basic data

Name | Amount
Jake | 10
Jake | 12
Jake | 13
Ben  | 1
Ben  | 14
Ali  | 9
Ali  | 4

I want to total up the amount for each person so I end up with something like

Jake | 35
Ben  | 15
Ali  | 13

Rather than specifying which cells are Jake's, Ben's and Ali's I want to do this using a function. Pseudo code might look like:

TOTAL = WHERE `Name` IS "Jake" IN `COL-A` + `Amount`


texts: How to translate between Windows and Mac -style file locations?

texts:
For an office with mostly Windows workstations and a few OS X workstations, what's the easiest way for the Mac users to translate to and from a Windows-style file paths?

For example, to automatically translate \\fileserver01\client-files\client01\comp.psd, if sent in an email, to //fileserver01/client-files/client01/comp.psd?


texts: My question is about recreating Corestorage partitions - formatted Fusion drive

texts:
I have an iMac 27" with a Fusion Disk (SSD 121 GB, HDD 1 TB) and Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) installed.

The HDD failed and the Fusion Drive is lost (Lions recovery diskutil: disk missing - fix/ignore)

After the incident both disks were cloned to external 1TB HDD each. The failed HDD was replaced by a new 2 TB disk. I cloned both disks back to internal.

For more than one month I am playing with creating new GPT structure on SSD/HDD.
Now I would like to revive SSD with correct partitions.

I went through lot of klanomoath posts, how to find corestage partition with disk editor, how to find and calculate start and size of P1 and P2, etc. Also used the excel tool for calculating right numbers. Not lucky at all. I don't know, what should I see, if the SSD partitions are correctly set.
Thank you for any help.

Details of my SSD and steps done are:

SSD (disk1)
looking for Corestage partition#2 -i 2 (part of lost fusion drive):

Total blocks: 236978176
BlockOffset2 = 236715990 (second HFSJ)
StartBlockOfVolume2 = 236715988 (BlockOffset2-2)
Rule 6. empty space 262144 blocks (should be the size of part#3)
EndBlockOfVolume1 = 236715988-262144-1 = 236453843
SizeOfVolume1 =    236453843-409640+1=236044204
LastBlockOfVolume2 =    236978176-1-32-7-262144-1 = 236715991
SizeOfVolume2 =    236715991-236715988+1=4 (this is something pointing at JHFS+ and not corestage)

diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk1
sudo gpt destroy /dev/disk1
diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk1
sudo gpt create -f /dev/disk1
sudo gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B disk1
sudo gpt add -b 236715988 -i 3 -s  262144 -t 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk1
sudo gpt add -b 409640 -i 2 -s  236044204 -t 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk1


texts: Smart Playlist song count incorrect on music app

texts:
I have a smart playlist that has 804 songs.

The smart playlist also has the same song count when viewing the device via iTunes

However, the music app displays 6 less songs.

Why would this be happening? I've deleted and re-created the playlist, but that did not work. I'm not sure what else to do.


texts:
From the commotion in the last several days/weeks I understood that a fake cell tower intending to play man-in-the-middle uses a 2G connection to avoid the authentication requirement (of the network towards the phone) that's part of 3G and up.I would like to avoid such MITM attacks by turning off the 2G support altogether. I can live with it if my iPhone only uses 3G/4G, and refuses any service when only 2G is available.I am using an iPhone 5S with IOS7.Is there any setting or app I can use for that? (Preferably without jail-breaking my phone, but I know that might be a stretch.)

Johan


texts: How many different VGA adapters for Macbooks exist?

texts:
Many projectors still only accept a VGA connection, especially in fixed installations. And while older Windows notebooks usually have a VGA port directly available, Macbooks always need an adapter, as far as I understand it.

How many different adapters are there for reasonably recent versions of Macbooks (that are likely to be still in use today)? Sometimes the owners of the Macbooks forget those adapters, and then a hectic search for other Apple users starts in the hope of finding the adapter.

If I wanted to have a set of adapters in case any Macbook owner forgot theirs, how many and which ones exactly would I need?


texts:
I got two Apple Magsafe charges, one for which I needed to cut and rejoint the cables. The fix went well and now when I plug in the charger it works and charges my Macbook Pro.

Though when I measured the voltage with a multimeter on I get some strange values, and they are also differing from the fixed and untouched charger (do not know if they differed before the repare). When measuring I plugin the charger to the AC output and measure with the multimeter pins on the corresponding pins on the plug. There is o load and I can not reach the pins to measure when the plug is connected, thus I cannot make any Ampere-tests.
The voltage should be 16.5 V but I could understand if the charger has some functionality that basically turns it off when there is no load at all, thus the values on the untouched charger. But how come the values on the fixed one?

Untouched:
Fluctuating voltage of 0-0.5 V

Fixed:
Fluctuating voltage of 0-7 V

What does this mean and should I not continue to use the fixed charger even if it works?


texts: How do I uninstall a Kernel Extension in Yosemite?

texts:
I've recently reformatted my MBP to Yosemite and have run into an issue with my Logitech mouse. After doing some research I discovered that this is a longstanding issue. In the process of trying to fix this, I've installed (and tried to uninstall) several different driver kernel extensions.

I've removed these drivers from system preferences (by right clicking) but I've noticed that there are still the .kext files in /Library/Extensions folder.

Is it same to simply delete the related files and restart my computer to remove the extensions, or do I need to use some kind of tool to do so?


texts:
I am running a clean install of OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and can't seem to locate the 'Find my Mac' feature that I have seen on my friend's machine.

What versions of OS X support 'Find My Mac'?


texts: macOS Catalina File Structure: Cannot remove

texts:
> sudo rmdir /sw
rmdir: /sw: Read-only file system

> mount | grep read
/dev/disk1s5 on / (apfs, local, read-only, journaled)

> sudo mount -o rw /
> mount
/dev/disk1s5 on / (apfs, local, journaled)
> sudo rmdir /sw
rmdir: /sw: Operation not permitted

root />$ mkdir a
root />$ rmdir a
root />$ rmdir sw
rmdir: sw: Operation not permitted
root />$ rmdir opt
rmdir: opt: Operation not permitted
root />$ rmdir mnt
rmdir: mnt: Operation not permitted
root />$ rmdir home
rmdir: home: Operation not permitted

What exactly is preventing me from removing these directories even with SIP disabled?


texts: Accessing a NAS device from Python code on Mac-OS

texts: I have a NAS device that appears in Finder under the Shared devices so I can read and write to it just like any folder on my OSX drive with no need to provide authentication.  How can I read and write to it from Python code?  I have tried manually accessing required folders on the drive so that they then appear in Volumes, but I still can't get at them.


texts:
PopClip is a Mac app that adds the iOS functionality of a bunch of options showing up above selected text. PopClip automatically appears every time I select text, and that's annoying, so I want to trigger it from the keyboard instead. I'm trying to set up Launchbar to launch an Applescript to cause PopClip to appear next to selected text.

The Applescript I'm using is tell application "PopClip" to appear. However, when I press ↩ with the text selected in Mail and "Show Pop Clip.scpt" selected in Launchbar, nothing happens. And when I press ⇥ as Obdev (the Launchbar developer) recommends here, I don't see an option to "Run" as they suggest.

How can I use Launchbar to make Popclip appear?


texts:
I was trying to uncompress a tar.lz file.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/218230/why-i-cant-unpack-tar-bz2-or-tar-xz-files/218232#218232

Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$ ls -al /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz
-rw-r--r--@ 1 joseluisbz  wheel  80050 Oct  4 14:43 /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz
Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$ tar zxvf /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz -C /usr/local/Sources/
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$ xz
xz: Compressed data cannot be written to a terminal
xz: Try `xz --help' for more information.
Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$ xz -dv /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz
/usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz (1/1)
xz: /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz: File format not recognized
Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$ tar xjf /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz -C /usr/local/Sources/
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$ tar -xjf /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz -C /usr/local/Sources/
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$ tar -xjf /usr/local/Sources/ddrescue-1.22.tar.lz
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Joses-MacBook-Air:~ joseluisbz$

What can I do?


texts: Tips or Tricks: Identifying if there are Opened Documents

texts:
New Mac user here, trying to figure out how to adapt my workflow and the like from Windows/Linux to Mac.

I think the answer might be "it's not possible" but here goes anyway.

I'm used to leaving documents open as a reminder to complete them later. This means I'm used to quickly glancing at the taskbar (dock) to determine which documents I have open and what I need to do. Since the red x doesn't actually close a lot of apps - terminal for instance - it makes it a little tedious to determine if I have an open document.

The only solutions I can think of are either remembering to manually ⌘Q-ing each window (oof), or to right click each open app to determine if there are opened documents and then remembering the answer. Neither of those are great so I'm wondering if anyone has any good methods around this.

I realize this might encourage discussion/opinions, but I'd like to emphasize that I am looking for concrete answers EG: "there isn't a way" or "This setting will make the number of opened documents be displayed on the dock". One of the biggest issues I'm having with moving to Mac is determining the best way to solve a problem, and I'm guessing that what I think is a solution here might not actually work.


texts: Can I zoom text size on the iPad in Safari?

texts: It's easy enough to zoom in on a page with the pinch gesture and on most websites it works well to zoom in past the navigation and ads to make the text big enough to read but some sites don't have all that left and right margin area and I want to be able to zoom the text and have it reformat it to fit my screen like Android does. Is that possible? Is there some magic gesture I'm missing like three finger zoom scroll or two hand double finger split scroll?


texts: How can I send same email multiple times in iOS?

texts: I wanted to send a single email to different users. I save an email to drafts and send the email to a user and it goes to the sent box instead of staying in the drafts box. Is there a way I can send an email repeatedly from the drafts box?


texts: Third-party service that syncs preferences? Like MobileMe

texts:
Are there any third-party software or services that offer synchronization of user-preferences the same way that MobileMe does?

I’m thinking of the user defaults that live inside ~/Library/Preferences/

With conflict resolution and merging of property lists, of course.


texts: How to stop Numbers from beeping at me when I use the arrow keys?

texts:
When I edit spreadsheets in Numbers, I often hold down the left or right arrow key to get to the far-left or far-right column of a table. Numbers always beeps at me when I do this. It seems to think it is an error to press keys that try to move outside the boundaries of a table, even though the keystrokes are from keyboard auto-repeat.

This is highly annoying. How do I stop Numbers from beeping at me all the time? I know I can mute the system volume or the default beep sound, but I like to listen to music, and the beeps in other programs are sometimes useful.


texts: Will having too many running programs slow down my Mac?

texts:
If I have movies, music, document, Photoshop...running on my Mac. I wonder to know whether they will slow down my Mac. I use Magican to monitor my Mac, it displays the programs are take high CPU usage.
If they will slow down the Mac, should I need to cut down some process?


texts: Messages shows "Message sent with Balloons" instead of balloons effect

texts: My phone is showing "Message sent with Lasers" and "Message sent with (X effect)" rather than the actual animation. I've downloaded iOS 10—what else do I need to do to see the messages?


texts:
Please help.
I updated my iPhone 3GS and have lost all my contacts/data. I did not make a backup as I am on a borrowed computer.
How can I restore my old settings?


texts: How to sync iPhone contacts to Gmail and update them on in-use Android phone

texts:
I've recently moved from Android (Nexus 5x) to iPhone. Added Gmail account and synced all contacts from Android to iPhone.

I'm using both the iPhone and Nexus.

Now I've added a few more contacts on iPhone, but it doesn't show when the contacts are synced to Gmail.
I want these to reflect on my Nexus device as well, since the same Gmail account is logged into it.

What I'm exactly looking for is a link between iPhone and Nexus.
Is there a way I can sync the updated contacts from my iPhone to Gmail account, so that Gmail has all updated info. Then I want these updated contacts to show up in my Android device as well.


texts: Installing Snow Leopard or Leopard on an early 2009 MacBook

texts:
Recently, my sister picked up an Early-2009 MacBook at a Flea Market. Everything worked fine, but it had belonged to a school, and it had DeepFreeze installed on it, and it really bothered her. She got her hands on a Snow-Leopard Installation Disk, and tried to reinstall OS X. When she put the disk in and held down C, it booted up in Snow-Leopard, but it said "this OS X Cannot Be Installed On This Computer", and proceeded to try to go to TimeMachine. So this is where it gets interesting. She read somewhere to ignore any messages that pop up, and she went ahead and in the Disk Utility, she deleted the "Macintosh HD", so there is no longer an OS on the drive.

I am a PC guy, and I have no idea what to do now. Is there any way to get the Snow-Leopard OS X disk to work on an Early-2009 MacBook, or will I have to torrent a Leopard Image and go through the process of putting it on a proper DVD?


texts:
I just updated to Lion and I'm wondering why the background of the locked screen (login screen) seem to be different everytime I look at it: it is either the grey texture, the default desktop background or a plain black background.

Why isn't it the same background all the time ?


texts: How do I uninstall Setapp when iStat is running?

texts:
I'm trying to uninstall the Setapp. I was going to think about renewing my subscription later but it forced my hand because iStat constantly pops up a windows that says:

  Your Setapp subscription is no longer active, and iStat Menus Status cannot be opened.

If I cancel, quit, drag to the trash or kill iStat it always comes back. So now I'm trying to uninstall Setapp but I'm running into the same problem. The uninstall dialog wants me to quit iStat but no amount of hitting the 'Quit' button will make iStat go away and thus I can't uninstall Setapp.


texts: The Mac won't let me import photos from my iphone

texts: I am trying to import my photos from my iphone to my mac and even though i already put trust this computer, the mac insists that i haven't done it yet. i have done it many times and its still not working. Any idea of how to solve this?


texts: Will a new keychain be synchronized over iCloud?

texts: If I create a new personal Keychain, in this example I called "Test", everything I save into my new "Test" goes to my iCloud too? Or remain just local into my computer?


texts: How to disable Mojave's floating thumbnail screenshot preview?

texts:
How do I disable this:

after taking screenshot?


texts: How to use Time Machine backup when hard drive is broken?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro which I use Time Machine to back up usually weekly. Its hard drive broke recently.  I got an exactly same hard drive and installed it into the laptop.  How do I restore the computer into the most recent state using the Time Machine backup which was made when the old hard drive was installed?

Is there a better way to achieve the recovery than what I'm planning to do here?


texts:
I have bought a Macbook Pro Early 2011 17 inch (A1297) with the known AMD GPU problem. I'd like to fix that in the near future using the Demux or Tiresias solution.

Now, before doing that, I tried to bypass the AMD GPU with software, so I did this tutorial:
https://gist.github.com/cdleon/d1eff7246a25193304284ecec40445b0

I've succesfully done the tutorial before on a A1286 late 2011, so I figured it would work on my 17 inch Macbook Pro early 2011 (A1297). The weird colours and stripes dissapeared... except for a vertical white bar. (as seen on the picture)

Does anyone know a solution for this? Might this be the intel GPU? Do I need to look somewhere else?
I'm pretty sure it's not the display itself (as it does not have any crack or damage).

Thanks!
Lorenzo


texts: How can I email multiple camera roll images at once on an iPod Touch?

texts:
When looking at my photos, I see that I can view a picture, click on the button the bottom left, and then click "Email Photo" but I now want to be able to email multiple photos into a single email.

Is this possible on the latest iPod Touch?


texts: How to block an app's access to a specific website using the hosts file?

texts:
I want to block an app from connecting to a specific website using the hosts file. How can I do that?

Is something like this possible:

127.0.0.1     foo.com:spotify


texts: How can I change Finder's default sort to filename?

texts: Since I updated to Lion, every time I bring up a new Finder window the default sort order is by modification date. I want the default sort by filename. Is there any way to change this?


texts: How to parse output from a command in OS X Automator?

texts:
I have the following code in Automator but it fails to load the variable with the output from the command.

for f in "$@"
do
    output = hdiutil verify "$f"
    echo "$output"
done

I want to parse the output of that to see if it's verified or not however the variable is coming back empty.


texts: Syncing Google Calendar with iPhone Alarms

texts:
Does anyone know if there is a way to make google calendar alerts more intrusive on an iPhone? Currently, you just get a weak push notificiation, which is very easy to be ignored by accident.

One way would be to automatically sync calendar events with phone alarms (which are very intrusive, as they have to be manually disabled by users).

Is something like this possible with a jailbroken iPhone?


texts: Can Messages display the timestamp of every incoming message?

texts:
I was chatting with someone via Messages.app on my iPhone, and they sent me a message saying "call me in 20 minutes".  I was away from my phone when they sent it, so I didn't know when they sent the message, and therefore didn't know when to call.

I know that Messages.app displays a start time for new conversations, but I just want to get the time of a specific message.

Tap-and-hold and double-tap on the message just give a "Copy" context item.

How can I see the time of an incoming message?


texts:
I have remote login turned on, and when I'm at home, I can access the Mac via SSH just fine, by using the local IP address. However when I try to access it when I'm not at home, using the global IP address, it always times out.

Any ideas? Or am I missing something really obvious here?


texts: Why is my phone seen as a hotspot, but not my iPad?

texts:
a picture:

The phone is in the "Personal Hotspots" category, but the iPad is not.

One notable difference is that the phone is always visible, even with the screen turned off, while the iPad needs to be woken up to be visible.

What is the difference due to?
And, how can I get the iPad to be part of the personal hotspots?


texts: Make Universal Clipboard fast and reliable

texts:
For me, the Universal Clipboard feature of Continuity has always been a bit spotty, but with newer hardware, it has become somewhat more reliable.

The problem is getting it to work consistently. I’ve read the Apple Support document, Use Universal Clipboard to copy and paste between your Apple devices which unfortunately is hopelessly simplistic.

Yes, I have Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Handoff enabled, and all of my devices are correctly signed into the same iCloud account. Other Continuity features (Handoff, notably) appear to be working just fine.

However, what I consistently experience now, between my iPad Pro 11” and my iPhone XS, is this: When I try to copy on one device and paste it on another, what happens is that it won’t work at all the first time, and then if I repeat the paste, the device on which I’m pasting will display an alert “Pasting from … ”, I’ll have to wait about 5 seconds, and then the text will be correctly pasted.

Previously I had seen this message appear when pasting a rather large text (say a page), but now it occurs repeatedly even when I’m only pasting only a few words. This is, however, not the case between the iOS devices and my 2018 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.5.

I've posted about this earlier — with different (older) hardware:

Is there any way to make Universal Clipboard in High Sierra reliable?

In the past, the most reliable fix for the Universal Clipboard not working at all — as reported on various sites — was to sign all devices out of iCloud account, restart, and log in to iCloud again on all devices. Yet as noted above, Universal Clipboard is working to some extent for me, while signing out of iCloud and signing in again is not as easy as it seems -- many settings have to be re-established.

Are these sorts of problems par for the course with the Universal Clipboard? or is there a clear way to get it working quickly and reliably? All of my devices are running the latest versions of system software (macOS Mojave 10.14.5 and iOS 12.13.1).


texts: Is it possible to configure my iPhone to just send Photos I have taken with the camera to iPhoto without synchronizing additionally stored photos back to the phone?


texts: Macbook 2010 with OS X 10.9 - "Dangling Thumbs" issue while typing

texts: I have a problem suddenly finding myself typing in a completely different part of a document.  I'd like to see an option to disable the trackpad while typing, for a user-selected number of ms after a keystroke.  That would solve the most irritating thing about the macbook for me.


texts: iCloud drive taking 58 GB on my internal SSD. Why is that?

texts: I have read online, from multiple sources, that icloud drive is like Google drive or Dropbox, so why would iCloud drive take up 58 GB on my internal drive. I thought putting files in the iCloud drive was storing them in the cloud.  Google drive and Dropbox doesn't take up a lot of space on my internal drive. Why is iCloud Drive using so much space on my internal drive?


texts: Simultaneous user accounts using remote desktop / LMI

texts:
I'm taking remote control (from Linux / Chrome) of an OS X system using LMI ("Log Me In").

I have two users account on this machine: one for when I'm physically in front of the system (the "main" user account) and one for when I'm connecting using LMI.

I'd like to know first if it would be possible to use both accounts simultaneously?  In other words: can someone work physically at the computer under one user account while I'm using the machine remotely using the second account?

If it's possible, is it possible to use both accounts using different screen size?

In case it's not possible, is it possible to configure the computer so that when I log from user account I get the native resolution and when I log in from the other user account I get a smaller resolution?

Basically I'd like the main account to use the native resolution of the monitor physically attached to the computer while the second account would be using a much smaller resolution.

I know this is trivial to do using Linux (no flamewars) but I don't know at all how this kind of stuff works on the OS X side of the pond.

Note that I do not want to install an X server on OS X


texts: Creating a Linux boot drive on a MAC for a Kangaroo Mobile pC install

texts:
I was trying to use your method to create a USB on my Mac for a Linux boot USB to install linux on a Kangaroo mobile pc.  Here is my process:
I tried this with several iterations.  My results are below.  The final result has me stopped.  Any ideas?

Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/linuxmint.iso of=/dev/sdx oflag=direct bs=1048576
Password:
dd: unknown operand oflag
Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$ terminal>
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$ cd terminal
-bash: cd: terminal: No such file or directory
Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$
Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$ terminal
-bash: terminal: command not found
Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/linuxmint.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1048576
Password:
dd: /Users/russellduggan/Desktop/linuxmint.iso: No such file or directory
Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/linuxmint-18.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1048576
dd: /dev/sdx: Operation not permitted
Russells-MacBook-Air:~ russellduggan$

As you can see I kind of reached an impasse at the last.  Any suggestions you might have I would appreciate.


texts: Drag to convert Automator Action into Applescript

texts: In Automator, there is a way to quickly convert an Action into its equivalent Applescript in Automator, I think by dragging it in some tricky way.   I saw this some time ago but have now forgotten. I've tried searching and can't find it.


texts: Is there a good Hotmail client for Mac OS X?

texts:
I have had an Hotmail account since 1997 (i.e. don't ask me to switch - have hundreds of filters and folders and thousands of contacts) and I recently switched to a Mac and I am looking for a Mac client that would deliver the same functionality as Windows Live Mail did in my PC. Also, don't ask me to forward/import to Gmail. I have tried that numerous times - Gmail fails at importing filter rules or nested folders properly from Hotmail and it also has numerous issues with sync and contacts etc when importing from Hotmail.

The Mail.app only supports POP3 for Hotmail which I hate because it is only local sync - I am looking for either IMAP/DeltaSync/Exchange (i.e. 2-way sync) for my Hotmail to work in Mac. I tried Postbox/Sparrow Lite/Outlook in Mac Office 2011/Thunderbird with webmail plugin/Eudora and none worked. I tried mBox for Mac and it worked great for about 2 weeks and now it stopped working with the new Lion Mail.app update. In anycase, mBox has been out of development since 2009. I looked at IzyMail but I am not willing to pay a subscription - I don't mind paying a one time fee though.

Hotmail used Exchange ActiveSync which works well on my iPhone. Mac's Mail program works with many Exchange servers, so I am really confused why Mac Mail cannot ActiveSync with my Hotmail account which apparently supports Exchange.

I just want a mail client that truly syncs with Hotmail. Information to a POP3 clients flows one way so the Mac cannot update the server with read status, reply status and more.

I am willing to pay for a solution and I just can't find such a software! I am also willing to pay a one-time fee for an IMAP gateway too and I can't find any such thing either.

Is it really that hard to get Hotmail working in Mac?


texts: Small case for mac book air that will hold charger and mouse?

texts:
I'm looking for a good case for my macbook air 13" that is compact, but still has room for a charger and mouse.  I found this one like I liked, but the reviews I have found say the pockets aren't big enough to hold a charger.

Has anyone found a good compact case/sleeve that will meet my needs?


texts: Are there any disadvantages to pre-ordering the latest iPhone through Apple?

texts:
I hope to upgrade replace my existing iPhone with the new iPhone by pre-ordering through Apple, but I'm uncertain what effect this will have on my existing data plan.

Are there any advantages to purchasing the phone through my carrier instead? Will I be given different service options, or will different features be available?


texts: Is it possible to update free apps from another account?

texts: By what I've already read, I know that if you have purchased an app in the Mac App Store with the account X, then you can update it only by logging into X. Now the question that arises is: What if the downloaded app is free, does the same rule apply or not?


texts:
Could someone tell me how to retain the email window to the full page size eachtime I open entourage.?

When I open the new email window it opens in a small window, in then have to drag the window to use it comfortably.

I close down reataining these sizes and when I open the entourage later it always goes back to the small window!

It is driving me crazy?


texts: How to log in with the native YouTube app?

texts:
I created a new YouTube account to use functions like "watch later" on my iPhone4, my PC and my AppleTV2. But if I try to log in with this account on my iPhone and the native YouTube app, I always get the error message that the username and/or the password are wrong. I used as username the email address I used to create the YouTube/Google account and which I use to log in the web interface.

What I'm missing? I'm sure that the credentials I use are correct.


texts: How secure are password protected PDFs that are created with Preview?

texts:
I use 1Password1 to store not only my own information, but also my sisters home Wi-Fi information.

Since she does not have a 1Password licence, I printed out the information for her to store in a safe place. Now, I was just thinking of using the printing dialog (under "Security Options...") to create a "password protected" PDF.

But what does that actually mean and how secure is it?

Does this encrypt the whole PDF?
What encryption is used?
Is it compatible with Windows and Ubuntu?

There does not2 seem to be a knowledge-base article on support.apple.com. The info dialog in Finder merely says that the PDF is "Password Encrypted".


texts: MacBook Pro wont boot at all (El capitan)

texts:
My MacBook Pro stopped working. I was using it without a problem, then all of a sudden the screen went Blue.

It didn't respond at all so I did the obvious, force shutdown. Since that moment the computer starts but won't boot the OS.

OSX: El-Capitan
HDD: Momentus XT by Seagate (Hybrid)
FileVault: On
OS starts and gets stuck in the middle (progress bar)

What I've already tried:
Tried boot it with Cmd + D,
Cmd + C,
Shift Key (safe mode),
Disk utility won't even start,
Reset nvram (didn't work),
Swapped my HDD to another MacBook Pro (works flawlessly),
And finally tried booting from an USB stick with El Capitan OS X.

I've read around that it could be Hardware related problem, I'm looking around with no luck. Any suggestions?


texts:
I got a brand new iPhone XR and noticed that the it has quite poor wifi reception compared to iPhone 6s. On speed test I got 18.03mbps on 6s while only 4.92mbps on XR! Could this be due to thick XR body or should I get it checked. I noticed youtube videos take time to load on XR compared to 6s!
Is this normal or shall I get it checked out?


texts: does iPhone connected to MacBook use power from usb or its own battery?

texts:
Does aniPhone connected to a MacBook by USB, use power from USB or its own battery?
I want to use the iPhone camera overhead for teaching art on Zoom. Answers to this kind of heavy tech question/research are necessary to avoid a $500-$1,000 iPhone purchase mistake.
Similarly, does iPhone streaming a Zoom class, use it's own storage space or that of the USB connected MacBook?


texts:
Is it possible to quickly remove a notification badge from an app in the Dock? I'm looking for a solution faster than opening the app itself and performing whatever task is required to mark the notification as read.

In some apps, clearing the badge is quick and easy, but others require a bit more persuasion or actual action. For example, the App Store badge is useful as it tells me that updates are available, but once I'm aware of this, I don't need the badge any more. Unfortunately, clearing the badge requires installing/ignoring the updates, which I may not want to do immediately. A quick way to remove just the badge would be very useful.

I would prefer something scriptable, but GUI scripting is not out of the scope.


texts: problem with high sierra multiple users simultaneously

texts:
I'm trying to connect from windows to high sierra with another user on my mac that is working on it's own mac

I'm trying to make my mac to have two users to work with it at the same time.I have tried high sierra screen sharing but the problem is that when the first user(mac owner) is logged in to his account and I'm trying to connect to my own account on the mac by using VNC,The first user aromatically logout and both user start to use the same account.
But How can I make both user have their own account And use it simultaneously ?So each user can access his/her account at the same time?

I searched a lot and find out that lion Has this ability (per user share).Is it available for the mac ?Or any other solution to this problem ?
By the way ,the second user is from windows and is connecting through VNC.

Thanks


texts: iPad (Air) as 2nd screen using Lightning cable?

texts:
I travel a lot and use a MacBook Air as my primary machine with an iPad Air for secondary tasks. Occasionally I find it would be useful to have a second screen, but because I don't have a fixed work location carrying around a second monitor would be troublesome.

I've seen apps like DisplayPad and AirDisplay, which seem really useful. Unfortunately, all of the ones I've seen require you to be on the same Wifi network. This is a problem for me; quite often I use my iPhone's 4G network or have no network at all.

So, basically I'm looking for an app that will extend my desktop onto my iPad as a second screen over either Bluetooth (though I feel this may be too slow) or over my USB/Lightning cable. I've seen TwomonUSB, but currently that is Windows only.

Are there any other solutions out there?


texts: After installing Phyton3.6 , Terminal won't see it. Why?

texts:
After installing Phyton 3.6 , I can't get Terminal to find it . I am trying to learn Phyton and very new at this. Please help with details instructions. Thanks

This is what I get:

Last login: Fri Dec 22 08:24:04 on console
Carmens-MacBook-Pro:~ Clp$ phyton
-bash: phyton: command not found
Carmens-MacBook-Pro:~ Clp$ phyton3 --version
-bash: phyton3: command not found
Carmens-MacBook-Pro:~ Clp$


texts: ios10 calendar event times when changing time zones

texts: I am flying soon from New York to Hawaii. I've already set up events that will be happening in Hawaii using ios10 calendar, using Hawaii times. When I actually fly there, I want the calendar times to remain unchanged, as I entered them originally. How do I accomplish this on iphone 6plus?


texts: Will my data plan get erased if I reset my iPhone 6s

texts:
My data plan is with T-Mobile and I have to reset my iPhone 6s but I'm worried my data plan with T-Mobile will also get erased.

So, has resetting an iPhone any impact on a data plan?


texts: Does "brew install gcc" installs GNU C++ compiler on macOS?

texts: I am a new Mac user and was wondering if installing gcc via brew install gcc command would install GNU C++ compiler?


texts: R programming language breaks and must be reinstalled

texts:
Yesterday, I tried to open the R programming environment by typing "R" at the command line.  I was met with the following error message:

Fatal error: unable to open the base package

I didn't know what to do about that, so I re-installed R.  That fixed the problem, so I went on with my day.

Today, I am met with the same error when I type "R" at the command line.  I am bamboozled!


texts: Cannot ping localhost after migrating to new Mac

texts:
After migrating to a new MacBook Pro I can no longer ping localhost.

I already tried to change my /etc/hosts file although it was already right before.

$ host localhost
localhost has address 127.0.0.1
localhost has IPv6 address ::1

$ ping localhost.
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.098 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.081 ms

Pinging localhost. works somehow, can't understand why.

If I restart the system it wont resolve localhost again, but if I ping localhost. then ping localhost starts working. Dunno if this can help anyone with the same problem

What could be wrong?

$ ping localhost
ping: cannot resolve localhost: Unknown host
$ ping localhost.
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.084 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.073 ms
^C
--- localhost ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.072/0.076/0.084/0.005 ms
$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.070 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.088 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.082 ms
^C
--- localhost ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

more results

MBPdeFrancisco:~ francisco$ dscacheutil -q host -a name localhost
name: localhost
ipv6_address: fe80:1::1
MBPdeFrancisco:~ francisco$ LC_ALL=C cat -vet /etc/hosts
##$
##$
# Host Database$
#$
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface$
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.$
##$
127.0.0.1 localhostM-bM-^@M-($
255.255.255.255 broadcasthostM-bM-^@M-($
::1 localhostM-bM-^@M-($
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

MBPdeFrancisco:~ francisco$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
#
# macOS Notice
#
# This file is not consulted for DNS hostname resolution, address
# resolution, or the DNS query routing mechanism used by most
# processes on this system.
#
# To view the DNS configuration used by this system, use:
#   scutil --dns
#
# SEE ALSO
#   dns-sd(1), scutil(8)
#
# This file is automatically generated.
#
domain lan
nameserver 2001:8a0:ddce:7401:9e97:26ff:fedb:6214
nameserver 192.168.1.254


texts: Apple Watch pairing prompts for old Apple ID password

texts:
When I paired my Apple Watch with my iPhone it asked for me to login to my Apple ID.

Later while configuring Messages on the watch it asks for my password again.

However, the Apple ID in each is different, none of my current or previous Apple ID passwords succeeds at this prompt, and I am forced to hit Cancel to proceed.

Several months ago I changed my Apple ID from cory@coryklein.com to coryfklein@gmail.com and I assume Apple has retained the older ID somewhere in association with Messages.

Messages on my MacBook is using the correct ID.

My iPhone is using the correct ID as well.

Unfortunately, this appears to be causing the Messages app on the Watch not to sync with my phone. I can't send or receive messages on my Watch.

Has anybody else encountered this and succeeded in resolving it?

I don't have Two-Factor authentication enabled on my Apple ID, but I have started the process and am waiting the mandatory 3-day period for it to activate.


texts: AppleScript: set window_count to count of windows doesn't update

texts:
I have some AppleScript that looks like
(*this block is nested in a bigger function*)
tell application "Safari"

    set window_count to (windows where visible is true)
    repeat with this_window in window_count

        repeat with this_tab in tabs of this_window

            ...logic

        end repeat

        close this_window

    end repeat
end tell

(*this block is outside the nested function*)
tell application "Safari"
    set final_window_count to count of windows    --why is this not 0
    if final_window_count is equal to 0 then
        quit                                      --this doesn't quit Safari
    end if
end tell

However, unless count of windows is not count of (windows where visible is true) it doesn't quit Safari, even if there is no minimized window in the Dock. I would imagine that the earlier command close this_window would decrease the window count.


texts: Where does winetricks install packages? I installed steam using the command 'winetricks steam' and I couldn't find it in ~/.wine/drive_c or just anywhere in ~/.wine


texts: iPhone Jailbreak Experts - Accessing the email storage?

texts:
Is this possible? I have emails stored on my iPhone that are no longer accessible anywhere else, and I'd like to copy them out. I could forward them through a different account, but there are hundreds, so I'm looking for a shortcut.

I'm more than happy using the command line and playing with SQLite DBs that I know Apple use for some things on there, I just don't have much experience with the file structure on the iPhone.


texts: "T" key came out of keyboard - need advice

texts:
My "T" key came out of it's spot on my late 13 inch 2013 retina macbook pro., the key and the mechanism attached to it. No apple stores in the country so I'm on my own. I tried putting it back in it's place but it keeps coming out.

Now the question is: could there be a possibility where the clips underneath (not the plastic mechanism) could've been bent/damaged and that's why it's not being seated properly? Has anyone heard of such a thing?


texts: Where Do I find the file? ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.microsoft.Word.savedState

texts:
I am not a tech person, and found this answer to fix Word closing with Mavericks?
Where do I locate and delete the file
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.microsoft.Word.savedState?


texts:
I am using emacs on my mac book pro with Big Sur 11.2.3
And I frequently run into the issue of file descriptors
File watching not possible, no file descriptor left: 975

After several hours of googling the issue I tried several approaches of updating sysctl options.
currently, my relevant options are:
kern.maxfiles: 10485760
kern.maxfilesperproc: 1048576
kern.maxproc: 4096
kern.maxfilesperproc: 1048576
kern.maxprocperuid: 8192

and I still get the same error.
ulimit -a result:
-t: cpu time (seconds)              unlimited
-f: file size (blocks)              unlimited
-d: data seg size (kbytes)          unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes)             8192
-c: core file size (blocks)         0
-v: address space (kbytes)          unlimited
-l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes)  unlimited
-u: processes                       2048
-n: file descriptors                1000000


texts:
I was hoping someone could help me determine if the original RAM from my mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro could be put into my mid-2009 13" MacBook Pro?

here are the specs of the original RAM

2x 2GB RAM  4GB PC3-12800 SODIMM

DDR3 SDRAM
204-pin
PC3-10600
1.5V
1333 MT/s


texts: OS X's FileVault password screen extremely unresponsive

texts:
I have a FileVault-protected MacBook with OS X 10.11.6 installed alongside a BootCamp Windows 10 partition.

Lately, whenever I reboot the MacBook and allow it to automatically boot into the OS X operating system, the FileVault password screen is extremely unresponsive. I can type in the password, but have to wait from 10 to 15 seconds after typing each character to allow the system to catch up with my typing.

Besides these symptoms, the mouse pointer and the caps lock on/off light are equally very slow to respond / catch up.

Both operating systems have their latest & greatest updates.

Any clues about this annoying behaviour and how to resolve it? Thanks in advance!


texts:
Are Mac systems immune to viruses and malwares ?

Do I need to install software to protect MacOS just like we do for Windows ?


texts: Share iTunes playlist with another computer (Different account)

texts: I want to share my playlist with my friend. He can give me his apple ID. I have a big playlist on my computer. I have not made any changes in the Preferences yet. Help appleseeds?


texts: App to show keyboard shortcuts being used real-time

texts:
In some screen recording software you can choose to show what keyboard shortcuts are being used or just keys in general that are being pressed. These show up as a semi-transparent dialog typically on the screen with the keys being pressed inside that.

When I'm pair programming it would be really helpful for someone that's looking at my screen in real-time to know what shortcuts I'm using. Is there any app that allows me to display this live on my own screen or anything that records the shortcuts I use?


texts: Is it possible to know the last time my iPhone was online?

texts:
My iPhone was stolen about two months ago, and the company wants to know the date which I lost it.

Is it possible to recover information to the last time it was turned on?


texts: Upgrade processor iMac (mid 2010 specifically)

texts:
I have a mac from mid 2010.

I want to know if I can upgrade the processor from the current 3.6 Ghz dual core i3 processor to a quad core i5 or i7.

There seems to be very little information on the subject on the internet, with most people saying "OMG IT VOIDZ YOUR WARRANTYZ". My warranty has been expired for the best part of 6 months now, so I don't really care about it.

I want to know - Can I buy a quad core i5 or i7, take out the current i3, replace it with the new i5/i7 and have the computer still work? Are all processors the same size/fitting? Is my motherboard/hardware/bios/firmware/software compatible with a different processor?

My reasoning is that this would be a much cheaper way to upgrade my current computer, rather than splashing out for a new computer.

Thanks


texts: Word attachment file name prints as icon with ? inside when I print email

texts: I have a Mac with Word 2011.  Every now and then when I print an email with a Word attachment, my HP printer prints an icon with a question mark instead of the Word file name.


texts: How to temporarily suspend iTunes Connect payments for app earnings?

texts:
I should temporarily suspend Apple's payments for sales of my apps on AppStore.
Other markets allow you to change the minimum amount to receive your payments, or suspend payments for a few months. Is there any way to do it on iTunes Connect as well?


texts: How to install SSD on late 2007 MacBook Pro (15 inch)

texts: I have a slot on the left-hand side of my MacBook Pro (late 2007, NOT a unibody) and am wondering: is this slot suited for an SSD that I can simply stick in? Or would I have to install an SSD internally?


texts: Mountain Lion Time Machine can't reliably connect to LaCie 2big NAS

texts:
I've been using a LaCie 2big NAS to back up my Macs for a year or two now, and it's generally worked fine. Now, however, we've got a couple of Mountain Lion Macs in the house, and it's stopped working. It takes forever to show up in the list of shares, and when it does, sometimes I can get my MacBook to back up to it, but often Time Machine just sits there for half an hour with a spinning barber pole and "Looking for backup disk". Sometimes this eventually results in a backup, but other times it doesn't.

I've seen some chatter on less reliable forums about AFP authentication changes in Lion and various system default settings you can change to get your Mac to accept older authentication methods, or whatever it is it doesn't like about the third-party NAS, but nothing I really trust. Can anyone help me out?

FWIW, one of our Mountain Lion Macs is running FileVault and the other one isn't, but they both seem unhappy with the NAS.


texts: Yosemite: How can I diagnose problem where Chrome won't download anything

texts:
When I try to download anything in chrome, nothing happens (eg. saving an image with right click). When I try to download an extension, chrome says This item is already being downloaded and added into Chrome. I looked "under the hood" and the Download folder is correctly set. Downloads work in safari. This problem also persists in Chromium. I have tried several solutions to my problem, but I simply cannot download anything. I tried deleting my chrome profile, pasting a past solution into terminal, as well as completely deleting all chrome applications I could find and reinstalling. I thought this could be a cache problem and deleted the cache (sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches) as well as my Google Library folder (rm -rf ~/Library/Google). However, none of these attempts have affected my situation

What could be causing this issue? How do I diagnose this problem?


texts: How do I silence the message ringtone while talking?

texts:
During a phone conversation on my iPhone (iOS5) today, I received three text messages. Each one caused my phone to play my message ringtone rather loudly in my ear.

Is this normal behavior? Is there a way to adjust the volume of the ringer while on a call?


texts: sync Safari tabs but not history between iPhone and MacBook

texts:
On my MacBook in System Preferences I can check Safari within the iCloud page in order to sync tabs, bookmarks, history etc. between my iPhone 7 and my MacBook.

But I don't want to sync history, so I unchecked it.

However now I can't handoff tabs from my MacBook to my iPhone (and vice versa)

How can I enable tab handoff without syncing history?


texts: Archive emails on Google Mail using Apple Mail

texts: Is it possible to archive emails using apple mail? Or do I have to log in to the web UI to archive old mail? I am using 10.6.7.


texts: Concern about a compromised version of the OS

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I was reinstalling the OS on my Mac via Internet Recovery using a wifi connection. As it wasn't connected to a power source, the screen of my Mac would constantly go black and I would press the screen brightness button in order to make the screen light up again so I could check the progress. I did this a lot, and nothing seemed wrong with the numerous times I did this between the start of the download and the 46 minutes remaining mark - it was incremental and the filling of the progress bar seemed to fit with how long was left.

However: when the progress bar was 2/3s full and there was 45 minutes remaining on the download, the screen went black and a split second after it did when I pressed a button to light the screen up again, the download had apparently gone from 45 mins to 0 mins remaining. That stage where it's about to restart and go to the black screen with the Apple logo "installing: ## minutes remaining..." page.

I know the minutes remaining download estimate can be wildly inaccurate sometimes (a previous time waiting for Internet Recovery functions to download would've apparently taken 24 hours hah), but has this happened to anyone else before? Where the progress bar stops filling and the minutes remaining estimate doesn't go down even if the download is apparently still going? Have I somehow downloaded a compromised version of the OS?


texts: Where does Lion Server store apps used for iOS deployment?

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I was messing around with the "Edit Apps" feature in the Profile Manager. I saw the "Edit Apps" button and I uploaded an app to test it.

Unfortunately it was a commercial app, so I cannot actually deploy it to an iOS device (in fact it errors when trying to add it).

Now that I'm done playing, I'd like to delete it from my server, but I have no idea where to find it, and the Profile Manager doesn't allow the deletion of apps.

Where does Lion Server store apps (ipa files) used for iOS deployment?


texts: How can I remove the Finder icon from my Dock?

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I've started using Forklift as a Finder replacement, so I don't need Finder in my Dock. In fact, I would much rather have Forklift be the farthest left icon so I don't accidentally click on Finder.

The usual method of dragging the app out of the Dock doesn't work, and neither does command-dragging. The contextual menu doesn't allow you to remove the icon.

Is there some way to, on Lion, remove the Finder from the Dock?
Perhaps there's a database or plist file I can change?


texts: Error: -69711 this operation couldn't proceed because the target's boot helper was mounted; you may want to try again

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I have a MacBook Pro 8,1 (13", 2011 unibody) running Yosemite (no upgrades). Tried to partition my SSD hard drive and it threw an error when it was almost through saying it can't find the partition.

I searched and found this fix (Can't create partition on free space with Disk Utility) successfully got to step 11, but when I try step 12 I get the error -69711. Does anyone have any suggestions, I'm stuck.


texts: Can I take a still photo with my built-in webcam?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro at work, but am new to Macs and have never used the webcam outside of Skype. Is it possible to take a still photo with the webcam?


texts: Deleted time machine backups from external HD, but did not free space

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Time machine backups filled my 4TB external HD.  To free space, I deleted a handful of the particular backups from:

/Volumes/Winston's 4TB/Backups.backupdb/

Those files ended up in the trash bin and trying to "empty" the trash bin erred indicating the folder was in use.  So, I deleted the contents through terminal:

cd /Volumes/"Winston's 4TB"/.Trashes/
sudo rm -rf /501/2018-0*

Finder now shows the trash bin being empty, but the space has not been freed up on the drive.  How do I recover that space?


texts: Cannot connect iPhone 4 to iMac after Lion upgrade

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I upgraded my 2009 model iMac to Lion yesterday. I can no longer connect my iPhone in order to synchronize with iTunes. Additionally, if I connect it to the USB port on my wired keyboard, it is also no longer charging the phone. The only way I can charge the phone now is if I use one of the USB ports at the back. Prior to the upgrade I had absolutely no issues using the keyboard USB port for this.

Can anyone offer any hints/tips to assist with troubleshooting this?


texts: Disable Force Touch from terminal using Bash or AppleScript

texts: Is there a way to disable (or do other things to) the Force Touch settings using either shell scripting or AppleScript?  Hacks accepted.


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Apologies for the vague title - I couldn't really think of any other way to sum up my problem.

I've been trying all day to work my own way around this issue but I've ultimately hit a brick wall so could do with some help. It's rather complicated so I'll explain from the beginning but try to give only the important details.

So some time ago I bought a 2012 MacBook Pro second hand, which came with a blank password. On the login screen it would just show up with apple I would just press enter to log in. I was not aware of the existence of an Admin account or password.

Today I was trying to restore my iPod when it asked me for my password, it wouldn't accept the blank password when I pressed enter. I wondered if it could have wanted an admin password but it was asking for the password for my user account 'Apple'. I also wondered if it could be possible that there was a password but that it was set not to ask me for it, which didn't seem to be the case in settings.

I concluded that probably the blank password was confusing the system in some way but that either way if I could change the password or create one if there was none that either way it should work out.

After some research I used Disk Utility to reset the password for the user account. I discovered an Admin account on the drop down so I reset the password for that as well, thinking that if the first didn't work then that should do the trick.

When I rebooted there was a slight difference on the login screen; rather than just having the 'Apple' account there, there was also 'More' next to it. Clicking on more brought up username and password fields, which did not work with 'Admin' and the admin password that I had set.

I logged into my account fine, however the Keychain password of course no longer matched. I tried to change the Keychain password using a blank password field (which I presume it must have been, to match with the previously blank user login password) and with my new login password, but neither worked. I also tried changing my user password back to a blank one but that also failed.

I don't necessarily need to gain access to the keychain as most if not all the data is stored in Chrome anyway. I realised this just now while writing but I will continue the question as it may be helpful for others in the future.

I would also just be interested to know why all these issues came up, if a blank password can cause such problems it seems like a bit of a design floor. It also dawned on me that most of the passwords listed I haven't been on since owning this laptop, so does it just download the data from chrome? What's the point in that?
If I just log into chrome anyway and it does the work for me then I have no need for this Keychain encryption. If anything it's just one more place (albeit a much more secure one it seems) from where my data could be compromised.

I would also be interested to know why I am unable to log into this Admin account.