texts: Is it possible to export the current iPhone wallpaper?

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I have a photo set as my current iPhone wallpaper, which I would like to save.  I have forgotten where I stored this file on my computer originally, so I can't easily go back to place it back on my phone. It has since been deleted from my camera roll.

Is there any way to export the photo that is currently set as the wallpaper, so that I can change the wallpaper to something else, but save the other one?


texts: Proper shebang line for running perl script with an AppleScript on a perlbrew install?

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I have the following simple AppleScript which calls a perl script I wrote to clean the desktop:

do shell script "/Users/stevied/bin/clean_desktop.pl"

The script works fine when run from the command line, but when executing the script from my AppleScript, the modules I use aren't found and I get this error:

  Can't locate Modern/Perl.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
  Modern::Perl module) (@INC contains:
  /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.18
  /Network/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
  /Network/Library/Perl/5.18 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2
  /System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
  /System/Library/Perl/5.18
  /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
  /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18 .) at
  /Users/stevied/bin/clean_desktop.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation
  aborted at /Users/stevied/bin/clean_desktop.pl line 3.

I have perlbrew installed. The current shebang line for the perl script is:

#! /usr/bin/env perl


texts:
Lately I'm finding that I am not able to use any software that utilizes Game Center. In iOS 6 on login (or opening any game) it says, "Could not connect to Game Center server." In OS X Mountain Lion on login, it says, "The data couldn’t be read because it has been corrupted."

I've tried some steps to fix that were suggested in Apple's Support Discussions without success. These include rebuilding permissions, resetting PRAM, restoring the /etc/hosts file to its default state, and in OS X, logging in using Chess instead of Game Center.

That this is happening on both of my devices (MacBook Pro and iPhone 4S) makes me think the 'corruption' is occurring on Apple end, in the cloud. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this issue and conquered it, or if Apple Support can do anything to restore this functionality on their end at a customer's request.


texts: How to get Apple to repair iPhone under statutory warranty?

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My iphone 5's battery after a bit more than a year is dying. I bought the iPhone via the German Apple Online Store. Hence I have 24 months of EU statutory warranty. The iPhone is otherwise in great condition and has no damages.
When trying to use the online support and repair form, Apple wants to charge me 260€ for the repair. How can I tell Apple that i want it to be dealt with under the statutory warranty?
If Apple realizes that this isn't applicable, they should. Harge me at most the cost for replacing the battery, I think. And not the 260€ for a replacement device...


texts: Where do I find my user folder in the OS X folder hierarchy?

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In Terminal, how do I go from Macintosh HD to places such as johnsmith that contains Downloads, Desktop etc. In a Finder window, it seems they are independent of each other.

From Macintosh HD, I see Library, Applications etc. but under User I couldn't find johnsmith.

The Mac file tree is rather confusing for a Windows user like me who are used to "My Computer" then all files are managed by root drives and folders.
What is consider as root on my Mac? Is it Macintosh HD or johnsmith? It is possible to do a partition on Mac like that on Windoes?


texts: Can I update to OS X Mavericks if I get a new graphics card?

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I have a 2006 Mac Pro and have been wanting to update to OS X Mavericks but I can't because I have a Radeon X1900 graphics card and that is not supported any more by Apple. I have OS X 10.6.8 running so I have the software to upgrade it but the question is can I update to Mavericks if I get a supported graphics card? Do you think there might be other issues that would prevent me from being to update?

P.S. Yes my Mac Pro is 64-bit.


texts: Automator service to create Dropbox symlink

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I'm trying to create an Automator service(in the right click menu) that creates a symlink of the folder/file and moves it to the Dropbox folder. This is what I have right now:

while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
    ln -s "$1" "$1 symlink"
    mv "$1 symlink" ~/Dropbox/.
    shift
done

However what I want to do is create a folder with the same name ($1). Trying mv "$1 symlink" ~/Dropbox/"$1" doesn't work. I can't seem to figure out how to rename the folder. I tried this, and for some reason, it moved the symlink folder to inside the folder it was symlinking($1).

while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
    loc = "~/Dropbox"
    ln -s "$1" "$1 symlink"
    mv "$1 symlink" "$loc/$1"
    shift
done


texts: How downgrade macOS to previous versions safely?

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I working on macOS Mojave 10.14.5

I am new to macOS and I don't know much about installing different versions. I can't dare to uninstall the current as I am afraid to lose my file and installed packages.

how can I safely downgrade to 10.11 or 10.10?

Updates: info about my MacBook:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)

The reason why I want this is that I want to install wifi USB adapter but it seems that it's only compatible with os 10.11 or below that. Having this wireless adapter working is so much important to me though.

Adapter details:
EDUP 802.11n USB Wireless
Model : EP-N8553


texts:
So I'm new at Mac... I bought a Macbook Pro Late 2011 and the previous owner didn't do a fresh install.

So I booted from the recovery partition, Disk Utility, erased the Macintosh HD and went to "Reinstall OS X Lion". The problem is I thought the recovery HD actually had the OS image, but it seems it doesn't. So it's downloading it but it says 43 hours remaining... (and the last time I tried it went to 50% and then said "couldn't download additional components" and I had to start over...)

I've Googled a lot and I saw it's possible to put Lion on a USB stick. Problem is, this MBP came with Lion pre-installed, so it's not in the Apple Store available for download.

So now I have an empty HD, waiting for Lion to download (45 hours...) and stuck.

What are my options? I don't want to use illegal images...


texts: Finder. No folder icon after upgrade to 10.10.3

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After upgrade there is no folder icon in Finder:

Does somebody have problem like this? Could you maybe help me with some advice?

PS. Everything is ok with list view option in Finder.


texts: Terminal gives :command not found, when typing too fast

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I'm having the weirdest problem on my new MacBook pro, I had the same on the old one and I thought it might have something to do with that.

On my old MacBook Pro, whenever I used the pipe char in my Terminal followed by, let's say, grep I'd get a command not found.  If I then just typed grep in plain in the Terminal I'd get the standard output.

Later I discovered that the problem only occurred when I typed in the command fast:

Lets say I wanted to use tee to inherit something in a few text files.  From another Terminal I'd do:

  echo "-r base.txt" | tee -a development.txt texting.txt production.txt

I know this command and I'm able to type it all in ~3 seconds.  It gives me:

  -bash:  tee: command not found

Now if I try the exact same command but really take my time typing it, lets say I use 20 seconds on typing it, then I get:

-r base.txt

This is a confirmation that the command was executed properly.

I believed something was wrong with my old MacBook. Four months ago when I bought a new Mac it was exactly the same.

I then tried to do a fresh install. I deleted the hard drive and installed macOS from scratch. The same thing still occurs.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? If so, do you have a fix?

I also tried to install another Terminal like iTerminal2, I think that's what it's called, but with the exact same problem


texts: How can I use an Applescript from within a program?

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This question Is there a way to add all of the recipients of an email to a group/folder in contacts from Mail? seems to have an answer that would be useful for me, but I don't actually know how to use the script from within Mail.

Alternatively, it seems that Automator could be used too, but I'm also very unfamiliar with Automator. I'm looking to extend the tools and link them to solve general problems, with the maintenance of group membership being my current challenge.

How can I run an AppleScript from within a program?


texts: How to install Social Engineering Toolkit in mac

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I want to install SET from this link: https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit. If I am right this is the github repository. I have brew installed can't I grab it with homebrew and then use all the tools like I do in Kali?

Or the other method downloading the zip file and compiling it....but I don't know either. Basically, teach me some way with which I can install and repository from github.

Thanks.


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I've only been a mac user for a little while so I'm still getting used to OSX so bear with me ...

I find some things OSX does to be inexplicable frankly.  I'm a software engineer and very technical but some things I find myself presented with by this OS I just cannot rationalise.

I've connected my SuperDrive and I have a folder on my external G-Drive that I wanna put on the DVD, it's got 3.09Gb of data in there.  Should be simple enough, right?

Why then when I double tap on the folder I'm presented with this message?

"Are you sure you want to create an empty disc? ..."

If I sit here and wait without pressing anything another box then pops up over this offering to burn the folder with options for the burn speed ...

I mean ... What??  What on earth is it going to burn?  Am I going to end up with a coaster?

Articles online talk about creating a burn folder, why on earth would I want to create another folder just to put these files in in order to put them on a disk?

I know I'm still thinking in "Windows" speak but this is just ridiculous ...


texts: I installed the ntfs-mac, but later I remove it into trash, I think I had deleted it completely, but now I can see a popup window that tell me me trial version of ntfs-mac had expried, so I think I didn't delete it completely, who can tell how can I do to not pup up this window again?


texts: How to use mouse click to open directory, file, or menu item in Midnight Commander?

texts: I cannot click anything in Midnight Commander now. If I do it - it selects some area only.


texts: Mac shortcut : switch between apps in the same virtual desktop

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I want to switch between only two application with a shortcut in a virtual desktop.

Example : only switch between google chrome and apple music (only this two apps are in the virtual desktop).

I want to switch automatically between this two apps, regardless if I have other apps in other virtual desktop.

My problem, all shortcut I found not works correctly for my problem.

cmd + tab (two apps but if I focus on a third apps in other desktop, it's not working anymore)

cmd + ` (only same app)

ctrl + f4 (if more than my two apps, it's go foreach apps in all virtual desktop)

In fact, I would like to switch only between apps which are in the same virtual desktop.

Any idea ? Thanks a lot


texts: Sync apps preferences between multiple Macs

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I tend to keep all my stuff in Dropbox. Now that I bought a second Mac, I thought that keeping also my applications preferences in Dropbox would have been a good idea.

I managed to sync some of the Application Support folders (I just want the more important apps to be in sync) by simply linking the shared folder on Dropbox to the link on the Macs:

ln -s ~/Dropbox/SharedPrefs/AnApp ~/Library/Application Support/AnApp

this way I ensure that every, say, Sublime Text 2 build I create on one Mac will be synched on the other Mac.

But I'm having troubles in synching actual .plist files. I did the exact same thing as above (the example is for iTerm 2):

mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist ~/Dropbox/SharedPrefs/
ln -s ~/Dropbox/SharedPrefs/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

So now I have the actual physical .plist file on Dropbox, and a placeholder link on the Mac.

But this doesn't seem to work: when I quit and re-open iTerm (or whatever application), it isn't able to use the symlink to access the preferences on Dropbox.

What should I do?

I'll appreciate every advice on how to keep application preferences synched between two Macs; I'm using the cmd-line just because I'm used to it but also a GUI utility is ok.
Also, an utility which doesn't sync only the Application Support folder, but also the .plists and other shared stuff would be great!


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I am having an issue with my mouse, it seems to slow down by about 50% when the cursor gets to a button or something clickable.

Dose any one know what this issue might be?

I have plugged in a wireless Microsoft mouse and its not displaying the same issue.


texts: How can I disable links and formatting in Adium?

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Adium attempts to support rich text formatting (italic, bold, underline) and links. For instance, if I paste some text from my browser, Adium might display the message I'm sending as:

which gets received as:

I never want this feature, because the message Adium tells me I've sent is different from the message I'm actually sending; I can't tell what I've sent unless I send a copy to myself or spy on the wire.

My current workaround is to paste as plain text (⇧⌘V or ⇧⌥⌘V) and avoid using the in-Adium formatting tools.

How can I disable this feature?


texts: iOS Spotlight searches displays really old contacts as tophits

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I have had this problem a while, especially through the iOS 9 and iOS 10 versions. Every time I pull down for searching from the springboard and type in a name of my contacts, iOS somehow lists my oldest and most unused as "top hits". Eg. if I have two contacts with a similar name, and one I have called 100 times the last month, and the other I haven't called or texted in 5 years, it is only the inactive one that is listed as a Top Hit. I have to scroll much further down to find the person I alway call.

Is there some way to reset the contacts so that people I actively call and text will appear under Top Hit?

I have tried suggestions from New iOS9 Spotlight search not finding contacts but didn't help.

My contacts are synced to iCloud and have been so for some years through multiple upgrades of OS X and iOS versions.


texts: How do I get Split Screen to work on an iPad

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I have a 6th generation iPad running iOS 12.2. I have tried Split Screen (as described in Use Multitasking on your iPad), but can't seem to get it to work.

Open an app.
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to reveal the Dock.
On the Dock, touch and hold the second app that you want to open, then drag it off the Dock.
When the app opens in Slide Over, drag the dash icon down.

After point #2, I see the Dock (and a normal home screen) - not sure if this is intended. When I try point #3, it just seems to rearrange apps on the Home screen.

I have Multitasking features turned on.


texts: How can I update multiple MacBook Airs from Mavericks to Yosemite utilizing ARD?

texts: I have multiple MacBook Airs on Mavericks that need to be updated to Yosemite. I currently have a Mac Mini Server on 10.9.5 – I'm using the Caching service to download the software to have it locally available. Is there any way I can use ARD to assist in this process so that way I don't have to click through the installer screens and automate some of the process? Thank you in advance.


texts: Accessing ICloud Drive files from an iPad

texts:
I've added some files (photographs) to iCloud drive on my iMac.
Now, I'd like to access the files on my iPad.
I've enabled the setting in "iCloud" on the iPad, like all of the tutorials say.

Now- how can I find those files using my iPad?


texts: How to get location of a pdf file opened in preview

texts: I have opened a pdf file in preview, without knowing where this file is located. How can I find out?


texts: When I try to open System Preferences from the dock it opens directly into the iCloud pane

texts: I would like to open directly to the System Preferences pane, but instead it diverts to the iCloud pane. I have tried deleting the Users>Library>Preferences>.com.apple.desktop.plist file, but this doesn't exist--instead I only see .com.apple.dock.plist. Will this do just as well to delete?


texts:
I am trying to install imagick using homebrew. The issue is that MagickWand libaries cannot be found.

$ brew install php54-imagick
==> Downloading http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.1.0RC2.tgz
Already downloaded: /opt/boxen/cache/homebrew/php54-imagick-3.1.0RC2.tgz
==> Patching
patching file imagick-3.1.0RC2/config.m4
==> PHP_AUTOCONF="/opt/boxen/homebrew/opt/autoconf/bin/autoconf" PHP_AUTOHEADER="/opt/boxen/homebrew/opt/autoconf/bin/autoheader" /opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/php54/5.4.26/bin/phpize
==> ./configure --prefix=/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/php54-imagick/3.1.0RC2 --with-php-config=/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/php54/5.4.26/bin/php-config
checking for awk... awk
checking if awk is broken... no
checking whether to enable the imagick extension... yes, shared
checking whether to enable the imagick GraphicsMagick backend... no
checking ImageMagick MagickWand API configuration program... configure: error: not found. Please provide a path to MagickWand-config or Wand-config program.

READ THIS: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting
If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/homebrew):
  https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php/issues

There is an issue on github for that bug yet it got closed. There seemed to be a fix for that bug, but it got closed and cherry-picking is not possible for me.


texts: Is there a shortcut or way to use code, to do anything at all with the item currently highlighted by Command+F?

texts:
Title pretty much says it all. Also if anyone knows how to drag and drop something into a browser using any language or command(s), please share.

To be clear i'm talking about something like this:

Press command+f
Type in "the"
(Insert magic hotkey, or bit of code, here, that does anything at with the word currently highlighted by command+f)

This could be used to click a link, for instance, or highlight the first word in a sentence (if you could use the command to do 2 clicks in quick succession) (at which point you could use shift+arrow keys to highlight the rest of the sentence, or the other commands to highlight by more than one character at a time, like shift+command+arrow keys)

As far as i know no such shortcut exists, but i don't see why, (so maybe one does exist and i'm just not aware of it).


texts: Sort Desktop icons by reverse of "Date Created"?

texts:
I want my oldest folders to be at the top and my newest ones to be at the bottom. Sorting my Desktop by "Date Created" does the opposite of this, but how do I flip it?

I'm on macOS Sierra and have been hunting around for a while without finding anything. Having no option for this would be ridiculously stupid on a "modern" operating system.


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Hi my iPhone 3gs is currently operating on 6.1.6.
I'm trying to load an app & when I push install a window comes up telling me I need to update to iOS 7 or later.
My software updates say I'm up to date.... Is there a way to force an update???


texts: Can there be problems copying files from AFPS to other file systems?

texts: I have a simple question: I bought a NAS from Synology and I copy my files from macOS (my filesystem is AFPS) to the NAS with Samba, formatted in ext4. Sometimes I also copy files from AFPS to NTFS (I'm using the Paragon Software). I never had any problems, but I want to be sure: Can there be problems due to these different file systems for example that files won't be copied, because the target system doesn't support the filename? macOS would tell me, if this is the case?


texts: Can I install CentOS via Target disk mode on a 2010 MacBook Pro

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I've got an old 2010 Mackbook Pro, but the graphics card has died, so the display is useless. Can I repurpose this as a headless server by installing CentOS via target disk mode from my current MacBook Pro (over thunderbolt cable)?

Once I've installed CentOS, how can I SSH into it without a display on the host machine to get credentials?


texts: My Podcasts are playing too fast. I have searched the web and there should be a 1x button close to the rewind button, but I do not see it. (See Attached Screenshot). I have a Iphone 5s running IOS 10. How can I slow down the play speed?


texts: How can I change the viewable area of my external display?

texts:
I dropped my external monitor and its top left corner is cracked. I no longer can see the top left section of my monitor. It's pixelated. If I'm in full-screen mode, I can't see this reigon of my monitor

Is there a way to shift everything away from the left side of my monitor? Or is some other useful hack or accessibility feature for my situation?
I've already adjust the Hover Text feature and bumped Text Size to 90pt and moved the location to bottom right, but wondering if there is any other solution.


texts: iOS 8 Health app stats resetting each day

texts: I got the iPhone 6 the day it was released.  I immediately started using the new Health app.  I added the basics, birthday, age, sex, weight, and I added the "Steps" and "Walking + Running Distance" to the dashbaord.  I notice they automatically started tracking my steps.  So I went for a jog, it tracked that also.  Awesome, so far so good.  But the next day it was all gone.  It doesn't matter if I select "Day / Week / Month / Year" at the very top, the stats are always the same, they only show the current day.  I've checked each day since I've got the phone, each day it seems to start over.  Why is all the previous data disappearing?


texts: Simulate shell environment available to GUI Apps?

texts:
I'm testing some scripts which are destined for use inside various GUI Apps, either as direct shell calls or as part of an AppleScript do shell script call.  I know from experience that the shell which an App gets is nothing like what I get by default when starting Terminal, so I'd like to figure out a way to simulate the shell that an App gets so that I can debug the scripts knowing that they are behaving as I should expect them to behave in their final expected use environment.

So, how to I open an Terminal (or modify one which is already open) so that it behaves like the shell that a GUI App has access to?


texts:
I'm trying to develop a program using Xcode on macOS.

The program compiles and links fine, but when trying to execute it, I get an error message stating that a library can't be found in "/usr/local/lib".

The library in question is actually developed by myself, and is part of the project bundle.

How can I install my program in order to test it inside Xcode?


texts:
I think the proximity sensor in my iPhone 4 is out of order.

Nearly every time when I use the phone to place/receive calls, suddenly the mic mutes itself, or the speakerphone turns on, or a call starts on the second line -- but I am not doing this! I am merely holding the phone up to my ear (in a quite normal way). This was never a problem on my iPhone 3G.

It seems to me that the proximity sensor isn't sensitive enough and turns on the touch screen sometimes. I've heard that there used to be problems with that back on iOS 3, but I've been running 4.1 since it came out and the problem remains.

Is there any way to check if my suspicion is right?
Can I do something to fix this myself? Is there a fix in iOS 4.2.1?
Do I have to go to an Apple shop and wait phonelessly for weeks while they send it to the factory?
Note: I'm in Austria, we don't have Apple Stores.

I feel forced to use the headset in order to avoid these problems. While that has some advantages, it's not always practical, and anyway I want this fixed. Here is just one of the stories about this; so I think I'm not alone.

<rant>It's a #¤%! expensive phone and it better work.... I'm asking here rather than the Apple support site though because that other site has so few answers but page after page full of screaming people.


texts: How can I backup my entire iTunes Match library to an external disk?

texts:
My built-in SSD is relatively limited when it comes to storing all my media files, which is why most of my iTunes library lives in the cloud via iTunes Match, for streaming on demand.

In the near future I'm going to be disconnected from the internet for about a month, and I want to have a offline copy of all my music so I can continue to listen to it, but I don't want to download it all to my main iTunes library.

How can I create a separate, offline library containing every song I have in iTunes Match?


texts:
I manually backup my home directory onto an external USB drive.

So far, I have to override everything data on each backup which, of course, results in long back up times.

Is there a free and simple tool that I can use to sync folders?


texts:
There are occasions where I set an event to occur everyday for a week and I don't want an alert connected to it.  I select "none" for alerts and after I have set the appointment, it automatically defaults to a 30 minute notification.

I can go in a couple of days later and again set it to none and it will later default to 30 minute alert notice.

How can I stop this?


texts: iTerm2 - Accessibility and Full Disk Access

texts:
Just installed iTerm2 and it asked me change some settings in Security & Privacy of macOS.
At the moment I gave "Full Disk Access". Under "Accessibility" I see iTerm2 listed but without the checkbox unchecked.

Shall I give iTerm2 both "Full Disk Access" and "Accessibility" permission? Or shall I revoke any permission?


texts:
I am looking for a free tool for drawing diagrams (either for OS X or online). My goal is to keep for myself a clear trace of the organization of my project. Something like OmniGraffle.

Any ideas?

Actually, I want to design a class diagram.


texts: How to resize an image in Keynote or Pages?

texts:
If I resize the width of an image in Keynote or Pages the height resizes as well. The same thing happens vice versa.

How can I resize the width without affecting the height and vice versa?


texts: Ive got various menu bar icons all of which i use, but they are beginning to take up too much room. Is there a way i can get them all to sit under a sub menu in the menu bar ? Im running OSX 10.10.5


texts: How dou you connect to a Windows IPC$ with MacOS

texts:
Once upon a time, OSX had samba, so you could do this:

 smbclient -W domain //pc-233/ipc\$ -U admin -c '' 2>&1

and it would tell you the remote OS or you could run other commands.

This doesn't seem possible with smbutil, and I don't see anything like rpcclient either. I checked homebrew and I don't see any replacements.

What tools exist on macOS that would allow partial replacement of the discovery and mapping tool https://labs.portcullis.co.uk/tools/enum4linux/?


texts: "disk full" error -- quota disagrees with system information

texts: When I try to download anything or create/save new files, it fails saying "Disk full". Entering quota in terminal tells me around 417600 blocks have been used out of 512000. However, going to About this Mac > More Info > Storage, it says I've got 938.1 GB free.  Which is most likely wrong, and what do I need to do to be able to fix this?


texts: So I have a headset that i usually use for my iMac- Late 2015. and it worked perfectly. Then only one side works. i thought it was the headset, but I tried the headset on my phone and other 3 devices i have and the headset works perfectly on them, but not on my iMac.


texts: Transfering Lion preinstalled license to new owner

texts: My MacBook came with Lion preinstalled, now I am selling the machine and I've read that it is possible to transfer the OS license once if the OS came preinstalled on the computer. Is there something specific that I need to do or will the license transfer complete when the new user logs in with their Apple ID?


texts: Will iMessages sent to my iPhone number also be shown on other iPhones sharing the same Apple ID?

texts: Me and my mother share one Apple ID. If someone sends an iMessages to my phone number, will my mother's iPhone also receive it?


texts: How do I build and install gcc5 in OS X 10.11 without Xcode?

texts: Obviously installing gcc from source will require a compiler to build it; is it possible to install gcc without Xcode?


texts: Installing SSD on MacBook Pro Mid-2012 with Bootcamp

texts:
So, I have a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM and 1TB HDD, with Bootcamp installed.
I want to replace the HDD with 500GB SSD Hard Drive, but I still have some doubts.
Even after surfing the internet for hours I couldn't get the answer to that- How do I transfer all my data, i.e. All my files, without reinstalling both MacOS and Bootcamp on the new SSD.
Meaning, I just want to transfer all data including both OS into the SSD so I don't have to reinstall both the OS


texts: OSX Lion 10.7.3 update has broken Safari

texts:
This happened right after I have upgraded to 10.7.3 via Software Update utility. Or maybe even 10.7.2 unfortunately cannot recall now.

Before update I saw nice page saying that Safari cannot connect to remote host.

Now I'm getting meaningless garbage. See sample screenshot. (My reputation is not high enough to post images)

Does anybody knows how this can be fixed?

Just to be clear, nothing is listening on localhost:8000


texts: I lost 2.3 GB after unjailbreak my iPhone 4s

texts:
I just unjailbreak my iPhone 4s to the original 5.1.1 version.
I notice the devise is now SUPER slow and also I noticed that the storqage capacity lost 2.3 GB !!

I have 16 GB iPhone 4s and iTune showing [Capacity 13.62 (.31 other) (13.4 free)]

The way I jaibreaked my iPhone is by
- downloading 5.1.1 from iTune
- enter the DFU mode, (power button and home button for 10 sec then only home button for 8 sec)
- click restore

How can I unjailbreak my devise in the correct way? (if I did it wrongly)
What is the reason for losing the storage?


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Many character sets provide single special characters for fractions like 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, etc. Can these be typed on an iPad?

I have found GlyphBoard that lets you paste them in but it dates back to 2009 and I wondered if native support may have been added in the interim.


texts: Reinstalling iMovie on a mid 2009 MacBook Pro

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I accidentally uninstalled my iMovie from my MacBook Pro mid 2009. Thing is, when I go to the app store and try to reinstall it, I can't – my system's too old.

When I try to get an old version of iMovie, they're just updates – not the core application itself.

I need any (really... any!) version of iMovie running by today because I have an urgent video edition due.

Anyone has any clue about how to reinstall the iMovie on my old MacBook?


texts: How can I back-up my OS X instance and Restore from mounted drive?

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Synopsis

I have been having trouble With my MacBook Pro (Mid '12, 15")  I deployed tonnes of work Sunday evening/early hours Monday morning before I went to bed, leaving my MacBook running but locking screen.

Monday evening I returned home to do my personal weekly finance reports and start some work, where I clicked my mouse to get the screen on but it was white and nothing worked.  Simply a colour-wheel spinning infinitely.

I held the power button for a hard shutdown and turned it back on
The system booted up normally
I logged in and shortly after my MacBook started up all my desktop applications
When I pressed ⌘ + _ the search was slow and opening applications took minutes.
Click on the close button on any application lagged, with at least 3 minutes pause
My mouse cursor moved, the display was frozen and I couldn't do anything.

Debugging Steps

I decided to investigate, after the 3rd time of clean rebooting after shutting down my applications using Firefox instead of chrome, closing all of my start-up applications, I un-installed Flash too.

The Disk Utility application ran tests on my partition and my disk reporting everything was OK (I then read this is not a reliable test)
I rebooted my Mac and using ⌘ + ⌥ + P + R and ran extensive tests on the RAM, it took about 2 hours, everything reported OK and passed (no failures).
I attempted to run further memory tests from Apple over the net using ⌘ + shift + D again, everything passed.

I thought it's the memory and decided to remove a stick of RAM and test if it failed, it did, I left 1 stick of ram out running on 8gb from 1 crucial stick. The same problems occurred as above.

I therefore assume the problem is my Hard Disk, regardless, I still want to back-up my installation as an image which can be restored from a USB storage device.

Question

Is it possible to boot-up my Mac from a USB external storage device and  install my existing OS as it is on a new hard disk?
I have read it's possible for Disk Utility to clone  my partitions and disks as a .dmg to an external drive - but how does this work with FileVault/encrypted disks?


texts: How can I install iPhone Simulator 4.2 on Xcode 4.2?

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Developer Information:

Version:  4.2 (4D199)
  Location: /Developer
  Applications:
  Xcode:    4.2 (828)
  Instruments:  4.2 (4233)
  Dashcode: 3.0.2 (336)
  SDKs:
  Mac OS X:
  10.6: (10K549)
  10.7: (11C63)
  iPhone OS:
  5.0:  (9A334)
  iPhone Simulator:
  4.3:  (8H7)
  5.0:  (9A334)

As you see, Xcode4.2 is installed and this supports iOS4.3, 5.0 simulator.
How can I test app for iOS4.2?
Should I install Xcode 3.x?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How do I wirelessly stream my movies to my projector?

texts:
I love using my Airport Express to wirelessly play my music.

I have a projector at home, and I would like to wirelessly play my movies, which were not downloaded with iTunes.

I was considering purchasing an AppleTV for this purpose. Do you think it is a good solution for my material which is not iTunes-related?


texts: is there an app button for the voice control on an iPhone 4?

texts: is there any way besides holding the home button to get to the voice control on the iPhone 4 like an app button or anything?


texts: iPhone stolen, Activation Lock was turned off but iPhone is still iCloud device list. Can it still be used by the thief?

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My phone was snatched. Its Activation Lock was turned off and it was not signed in on iCloud. However, I still see my phone as listed among the devices in iCloud.

Since the iPhone is still in my iCloud's device list, will the next user still be able to use my phone? Or would it be possible for them to add my phone to their iCloud?


texts: How to persistently define aliases in Terminal

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I want to add aliases to my environment so that they are available in all Terminal instances.

I got this answer:

  Yes, you can put it in your .bashrc, .bash_profile or .profile. On some systems the shell init scripts also source .bash_aliases or .aliases so if one of those files exists on your system it may make sense to use them.`

But I cannot find any of these files.

(I configured OS X to see hidden files, and yet I don't see any of the above 4.)


texts:
I noticed some very odd behaviour in macOS High Sierra's (10.13.1) Finder.

For filenames that contain timestamps Finder changes the timestamp format, the two screenshots below illustrate the issue.

Any idea how to stop Finder from changing the time stamp?


texts:
A longtime user of Terminal on the Mac, a colleague recently recommended iTerm2.   I had a play around with it, and the same colleague gave me his Profiles JSON file.  In vim, I was able to do a global replace of his username with mine, to change the ssh profiles.  However, he uses a white background and black text, and the font is far too small for me.
Is there any way to know what to change in the JSON, which is 16,334 lines long, so there's no question of doing it manually?
I essentially want to make all of my ssh sessions open with a dark green background, yellow text and with the entire window enlarged to where it would be if I did roughly eight presses on CMD+.
Thank you.


texts: How to solve the issue that a Mac (Macbook Air) keeps on trying to use WEP to connect to Wifi?

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I have the latest version of Macbook Air with Mountain Lion, as of Oct 2013, and since one of the computers is an older one that needs WEP, the Linksys (Cisco) router is set to support both WEP and WPA.

However, with the Macbook Air, when the "cisco" is chosen from the list of Wifi connection, it keeps on saying, "Enter the password for WEP", and even if we enter the password, it won't connect.

What we have to do is, use "Join Other Network", and type in "cisco", and choose WPA or WPA2 Personal, and then type in the password, and it will connect, but the thing is, sometimes the network drops, or after the computer is rebooted, we will have to repeat the same steps again -- it won't remember the settings to auto connect (using WPA).

Is there a way to make this work more smoothly?


texts: Combine two input sources to one input source?

texts:
Can I use soundflower and my microphone together at the same time?

Example usage: stream desktop audio through Skype, while still being able to talk to the person simultaneously.

I wonder if aggregate sound devices may be able to accomplish this, but I haven't found a way.

I've tried making an aggregate device, and simply checking the 2 devices:

However, it only "broadcasts" the first device I checked; if I click the microphone first, then I can only hear the microphone through this device, and if I click soundflower first, I can only hear soundflower.


texts: Is there a way to force the dark mode of Mac third-party apps that do not have it?

texts: I am a huge fan of dark mode, and I am wondering if there is a way to have dark mode on apps that have not implemented it yet.


texts: iOS 7 weather app shows wrong sunrise/sunset time

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The new update for the weather app in iOS 7 is confused as to day/night, the time for sunrise/sunset. To find sunset or sunrise, swipe left or right on the hourly overview that's in the middle under the temperature / detail tap target.

For example, Selah WA says sunrise is at 10:46 pm today (4 October) and that it's dark at 3 pm.  Is there any way to fix this problem?


texts: Mac OS X firewall rules to block UDP connection to an external server

texts: Can anybody help to recommand a firewall app for Mac OS X? I'm going to block UDP connection to an external server, and then I need to check whether it switch to TCP connection to the server automatically. I can do that on Windows Firewall Defender. But I haven't found any firewall app on Mac.


texts: Can I use the same Apple ID for multiple Macs if I only need Apple ID to update macOS?

texts: I don't use any Apple apps (iBooks, iTunes, iCloud etc). I just need to create an Apple ID to download and install macOS updates.


texts: Is there a way to transfer specific apps from one Mac to another

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I bought a new MacBook Pro and I want to pick some apps from my old MacBook and transfer them to my new MacBook.

I am aware of Migration Assistant and it can copy the entire Applications folder to the new MacBook. However, I don't want all the apps from my old MacBook. I only want to be able to pick a few apps that I need.


texts: How do I stop file types from launching automatically

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Is there a way to remove the 'open with' default that is on certain file types? I don't want to replace the the application that opens this file type, I want there to be no application assigned to that type, so that when I download it, no application automatically launches.

Basically is there a way to remove the default application a file type is opened with, and not replace it another application?


texts: I live in Taipei, how can I get help by chat in English?

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I would like to use the chatsupport feature. I am in Taipei and my only languages are Math, Python and English. However chatsupport will only converse with me in Chinese.
I walked into Apple Taipei 101 this afternoon to try to get some face-to-face assistance but the place was packed; this is a tourist hot spot and the store was packed and the staff frazzled. I may try to go again Monday, but my question here is how to use Apple chatsupport in English from a connection in Taiwan?
I don't have a vpn.
The link provided in the text sends me back to this page again because of course my location is in Taiwan. I see no way easy out of this loop.

I tried to reply to the e-mail summary that I received after the chat session was complete. It failed (it's no-reply) the error message recommended:

Thanks for contacting Apple. Messages sent to this email address aren't monitored. Here are links to some Apple websites that you might find helpful.
View your support and service options: getsupport.apple.com/GetSASO

and of course that also will only lead to help in Chinese as well:

fyi the last message (in the short chat exchange below) is in Chinese:

很抱歉，因為我們這裡只能是使用中文對談，如果可以的話，我非常願意使用中文與您交流，這是我的工作我非常願意嘗試。

and pasting that into google translate returns:

Sorry, because we can only use Chinese to talk here, if you can, I am very willing to communicate with you in Chinese. This is my job. I am very willing to try.


texts: How to install Windows 7 onto MacOS Sierra without downgrading using BootCamp?

texts:
How do I do a partitioned install of Windows7 on my MacOS sierra?

Sierra won't let me use boot camp assistant. I have a macbook air (late 2015) 8gb ram model. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Reset an iMac to factory without passwords

texts: I got gifted an IMac from a friend they asked me to delete everything. It didn’t have an initial password to enter so I thought it was fine. To delete it’s requesting the admin password which they don’t remember. She said I can just delete everything it’s okay she has all her stuff backed up and on new iMac. So is there a way to delete everything and ability to sign in with my apple id and password without hers?


texts: Why are my existing Reminders and Notes not saved to iCloud on my Mac?

texts: I have enabled iCloud support for Apple applications such as Reminders and Notes. Yet my existing Reminders and Notes on my device are not being saved to iCloud. Isn't the point of iCloud for Mac to offer cloud storage for application data on your Mac device? As shown below, the application data on my device do not sync to iCloud, and there seems to be no way to do it manually.


texts: How to install a driver for the HP Deskjet 5550 on macOS 10.14?

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I want to print in color from an old HP Deskjet 5550 printer (17 years old and works without an issue, I heard).

macOS offers Generic PCL Laser Printer for this device. It works (although it is not a laser printer), but only in black & white.
The old individual driver on the HP website doesn't work with macOS 10.14
Mac Printer Driver 5.1 (dated 20 September 2019 on HP website https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Deskjet-5500-Printer-series/71895/model/71897, dated 2017 on the Apple website https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1888?locale=en_US) doesn't contain a driver for this model, as seen in /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources and in the dialogue when adding a new printer.

What are my options?


texts: How does Finder decide if a file should be hidden?

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There are quite a few files/direcotries under /. But Finder only shows 'System', 'Library', 'Users' and 'Applications'.

I create a directory called /mnt, and Finder shows it. Why? What is the difference between /mnt and other directories like /bin or /usr that makes it shown in Finder? Or how can I make /mnt hidden and make /bin shown?


texts: Why is Tor-Vidalia failing to access folders on OSX to create a hidden service?

texts:
I'm running OSX 10.7 and following the instructions linked below am failing to start hidden services.

I keep getting this error: "Error creating directory ...". It's either No such file or directory (you bet ya there is) or it's "Permission Denied," if I try to put them where the the tutorial suggests

On windows C:/hidden_service seemed to do the trick just fine. I've tried moving it around, tried it with and without the ~ (such as ~/Documents etc). It can't seem to find the folders.
I first tried moving it to Applications (which shouldn't matter if you run it as super user right?) but it didn't work. It just doesn't seem to "see" any folders

I've launched the Vidalia app as superuser, chmodded all folders and files to 777...

The way I understand the instructions, Vidalia will CREATE the /hidden_service/ folder for you. I've tried it with both being there and not - same result.

What is happening and can someone point to a solution?

PS: As a clarification, it will place files there identifying the hidden service address and some miscellaneous connection data. The issue appears to be Vidalia's inability to access the filesystem (unless the permission is denied, then it can suddenly "see" it)


texts: Macbook Pro Touch Bar 15 inch 2018 ssd Upgrade

texts: Can i upgrade macbook pro (2018) ssd drive with a new one? When i google it, i found Samsung 970 Evo m.2 "NVMe" 1 tb may be supported. NVMe interface is required by macbook pro but is it enough?


texts: Streaming high quality videos without loss of quality?

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Is there any software on PC/Mac which just 'serves' the files of system to iPad (instead of converting them on the fly) and any app which is able to play such content?

I tried Plex, though it streams most of the videos, but quality isn't great. And I have even enabled Direct Play  which as per description :

  Allows the player to play compatible media without any conversion. In
  most browsers, direct play supports MP4 videos with h264 video and AAC
  audio. Videos with subtitles cannot be played directly.

However the quality isn't same when I compare the same file in AvPlayerHD. I tried a 12GB MKV 1080p video, I felt quality was far superior in AvPlayerHD as compared to streaming.

Basically I don't want to convert and use CPU of my PC, when my iPad is perfectly capable of playing such quality content, why convert at all?

So is there any app which does that? And also I heard Air Video does this, but I couldn't find any info.


texts: Dual-boot Linux on a Mac with original Boot Loader without uninstalling OS X

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I own a Macbook Air 2014 model, and have duel-booted OS X and Bootcamped Windows 10. Now I want to be able to install a Linux distribution (most likely my own custom one, but lets use Ubuntu as an example).

From all the examples I found on the web, they were either, "Dual-boot with rEFIt" or, "Pure EFI-boot, with an uninstallation of OS X and re-installation afterwards".

What I want, is something that looks like *this:

*picture grabbed from second link

With my Linux and Mac OS X partitions neatly tucked in there.

The second link does what I want, except OS X is uninstalled, which I don't have the time or external hard-drive reliable enough to not corrupt everything on copy over due to the age and damage.

  This process will wipe OS X and any other data you have on the machine. All of it. That’s the whole point. Make backups.

I don't want this. So is there a way (god forbid, there MUST be) that I can get Linux on my Mac, and be able to hold Option/Alt on boot, to select one of the 4? (OS X, Windows, Linux, Recovery)

I don't want GRUB, rEFIt, a command line, nothing. Just ye' olde OS X boot-loader.


texts: Keep ethernet connection live during screen sleep

texts:
I have a MacBookPro running OS X 10.8.5.

My understanding is Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏ puts the Mac into a sleep mode. This is fine but what I want to know if there is a way to keep the ethernet port active while in this mode?

When I come out of this mode, I notice I am signed out of my messaging, disconnected from VM's I have running, etc... The connection comes back right away but I want to prevent the connection disruption.

I was also looking at this answer to "Equivalent of Win-L on Mac" which I really like as well. But again, it turns off the ethernet which I don't want to happen.


texts: Watching a rented iTunes movie on my iPad mini

texts: I have the latest update on my iPad mini an I rented a movie from iTunes yesterday. It completed the download to my iPad but when I go to the iTunes Store and click on movies there is no rent tab. There is only purchase and it states no purchases....help!


texts: Is there any significance to the dimmed text in Safari 6?

texts:
Text in the address bar of Safari 6.0 is displayed differently than in previous versions. Prior to 6.0, all text was black

but in 6.0, all text after the domain is grey:

Is there any significance to this? Does it correspond to some new feature of Safari?


texts: If I install an older, deprecated Java runtime, will that mess up applications that use the current Java version?

texts:
I own a really old version of Photoshop. After I upgraded to El Capitan when I attempt to launch Photoshop I get a dialog saying...

  To open "Adobe Photoshop CS5.1.app" you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.

This is my current system Java version that came with the OS -->

java -showversion
java version "1.8.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.65-b01, mixed mode)

I downloaded the old, deprecated Java 6 DMG, but I haven't installed it yet.

My question is, will it replace the Apple's distributed Java?

And if so, is that likely to break applications that are expecting an up-to-date Java version?

Or will it just make the older JRE available as an alternative for applications that need it?


texts: Combining multiple small DMGs into one large "virtual" DMG

texts:
I created 50 small (1GB) encrypted DMGs using DiskUtility, and want to
combine them into a single 50GB "virtual" drive but still have 50 1G
images on disk. How? Why:

I want to encrypt my files (even the filenames) before backing
them up without using half my disk space just for encrypted files.
I use an external backup service that'll backup 1G disk images
(files), but not 50G files. The smaller the individual disk images,
the better.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11, so I can't use cryptomfs (plus, I'm
not sure if cryptomfs creates several small files or one large
file). I have MacFUSE installed, so I tried installing cryptomfs anyway,
but it failed (both 1.0 DMG and 1.1 pkg file).
Since upgrading is neither free nor easy, I'd prefer to avoid it.
I've considered other options (eg, a directory of hard links to
the files with encrypted names for the hard links and relying on my
backup service for content encryption), but they get fairly complex.


texts: Big Sur Update wiped my /etc/apache2/extra

texts:
I think the title is self explanatory, but to say it again, I updated to MacOS 11 and all my extra configs of Apache decided to go bye-bye.
To add insult to injury, there appeared a bunch of *.conf~previous files, who are also the default settings and not mine...
While it is just a  setback, and I can redo everything, does anyone have any idea of where and if I could find the old ones?
Edit: After finishing and recovering everything, only then did I realize that macOS kept all my changes neatly in the Relocated Items on my Desktop. For anyone looking into this in the future, be sure to check if it is there...


texts: El Capitan installation fails, unable to boot from HD after reboot

texts:
I recently tried to upgrade from OS 10.6.8 to El Capitan OS on my ~'09 MacBook (using a install file downloaded from the app store) and, for whatever reason, it the installation failed.  When I reboot the computer after the receiving the failure notice, I am unable to select my original HD as a boot drive.  By default, the El Capitan installation is selected, but I am also able to boot from the Recovery partition.

This is the error I receive:
"The OS X Installation couldn't be completed.
If you continue having a problem installing OS X, the installation log may help you diagnose the problem. To save the log, click Save Log.

To start installing OS X again, click Restart.

To start up your computer using a different disk, coose Startup Disk from the Utilities menu."

Every time I run the installer, it fails.

When I boot from the recovery partition, I am able to view my "Macintosh HD" drive in the terminal using the "df" command, and by listing the files in "/Volumes".  However when I open up the "Startup disk" utility in the apple menu, there aren't any drives available to select, so I can't reboot from my HD.

Things I have tried:

setting the "Macintosh HD" drive and associated drive in /dev as the startup drive using bless.  I was able to confirm that that drive was selected as the startup drive using some command (I can't remember off the top of my head which command).  When I rebooted, it went directly to the installer
unmounting the installer partition
deleting the "Install OS X El Capitan.app" folder located in "/" (rm -rf "/Install OS X El Capitan.app").  It wouldn't let me do it.  For each file, it says "Read-only file system"
running the disk utility "First Aid" on both the "Macintosh HD" partition and the actual disk
create an additional 1.5 GB partition on the disk.  I'm not sure what that's supposed to do, but I read online somewhere that it would fix it...
reinstalled the OS using the "Reinstall OS X" utility from the recovery partition.  I got the same error.

I have 26 GB available on my disk, so that shouldn't be a problem.  I think El Capitan needs like 10 GB.  I think I have 2 GB of RAM, which is the minimum requirement (not sure how to check that in the terminal).

I do not have the hard drive backed up, and I'd rather not wipe the drive if possible.  If push comes to shove, I can copy all my files to an external drive using the terminal in recovery mode, but I'm hoping there's an easier fix out there.


texts: Second drive inaccessible from OS but accessible in Recovery mode (which shows no issue)

texts:
I have a iMac 2008 with 2 drives.
Main drive is an SSD in the DVD bay and second drive 3,5" HHD in the original iMac disk bay.
After a reboot before which everything was working just fine second drive is inaccessible from OS but if I boot in recovery mode I can see also the second drive and also all the files in it.
I run SMART and no issue appears in the disk.

I'm attaching some pictures (text is in Italian but the meaning should be very clear).


texts: Airport Time Capsule port forward magic packet (Wake-on-LAN)

texts:
I have an Airport Time Capsule connected to my internet service provider and a Linux server wired to one of the LAN ports on my airport. I want to be able to use the Wake-on-LAN feature to wake my Linux box from sleep/suspend from anywhere -- not just from my local network.

First approach that partially works

I've gone into Airport Utility and set up a stable IP based on the MAC address of my Linux box's Ethernet controller. I then set up port forwarding for magic packets on public UDP port 29999 to private port 9 and the 10.0.1.x address I assigned to my linux box.

This works from both outside and inside my network, but only for about 15 minutes after the linux box sleeps. After that I guess the Airport loses track of it and doesn't know where to route the packet.

Second approach that seems like it would work

If I forward the magic packet to the broadcast IP for my network, 10.0.1.255, then the box does wake even after a long time has passed...at least that works from my local network where I can tell the wake program on my Mac or WOL app on my phone which address to send the packet to.

But I can't test it from outside my network because the Airport Utility won't let me forward to .255.

Fix for this

I found several posts (which I can't find again today) that say if you can't forward to the broadcast IP at 10.1.0.255 to set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.128 and then forward to 10.1.0.127, but Airport Utility doesn't have anywhere to set the subnet mask.

I found another post yesterday (which I can't find today) which suggested exporting the Airport Utility configuration file and editing the subnet mask in there and reuploading. I did that, but it didn't work.

TL;DR

I need to port forward a Wake-on-LAN magic packet from the Internet, through my Airport Time Capsule to the broadcast IP of my private local network.

The broadcast address is 10.0.1.255, but Wake-on-LAN won't let me enter 255.

How can I wake my Linux box from the Internet? Is there a way to send the packet to the broadcast IP? Is there some other solution that changing the subnet mask?
Is there some other solution that I should be thinking about?


texts: Why am I seeing these weird characters in the popup that asks for my password when I try to update Adobe Flash on my Mac?

texts:
I'm running OS X Yosemite on a Macbook Pro. I recently had an update for adobe flash but when the password prompt pops up to continue the installation of the update it looks like this:

What's going on here? I don't have any issues with characters missing anywhere else on my laptop. It's only when it asks me to enter my password for any system changes. Is this some kind of malware or just a system font issue?


texts: Can I compile mpich 3 with gcc 4.9 on Mavericks?

texts:
I am trying to compile mpich 3 on a Mac Pro with Mavericks using gcc 4.9. Has any one had luck doing this?

My machine is hanging on configure step.


texts:
I have a Mac Mini with Yosemite OS X Server, i would like to install WordPress and  Magento on the server and use it for local development before I push my completed sites to the live server with the hosting provider.

How to Install WordPress / Magento on Mac Mini Server?
Is Installing WordPress on Mac OS X server different from installing on Mac?
How to access such Sites on local Network and from outside the local Network (example let customer preview the website).
I don't have a fixed IP address. I understand there are some other free services to solve such issues.

As of now, I can Access my wiki from outside the network with http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/wiki.

The IP address may change from time to time on my server and I have to make a note of it.

The Apple Help documents are a bit vague to me as I am new to server and especially Apple server and its Server App.

Also I am able to access the website though not the index page but a image placed in my site/default directory named 1.jpg by going to http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/1.jpg.

If some one could help me shed more knowledge on working with WordPress installation will be of great help.


texts: Can't access particular website (Macbook OSX Lion)

texts:
I have one particular website (one that I'm developing) that as of today, I can't access it on my computer. I can access it on my phone, and other people on other computers can access it, but for some reason mine won't let me. It says "Oops, Google Chrome can't load this web page" and it gives me the option to see the cached page. Also "Safari can't connect to the server".

I've rebooted (more then once), flushed the DNS as my username, and as root, by running dscacheutil -flushcache and a couple of other similar commands.

I didn't run sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder.

Any ideas on what is going on and what I could do to look into the problem? Again, I can access the site just fine from other computers.


texts: Stop downloading Lion from the App store

texts:
So, I bought a new Mac book Air recently, opened up the AppStore and found "Lion" in the featured updates.

I thought that was shown because I was not running lion and clicked on it to upgrade. Later mucked around the system to figure that I was running Lion and my system had been updated to the latest version of Lion.

But because I clicked the Install on the Lion in the appstore,

I am charged with $30, which I don't really have to pay.
My launchpad now displays the Lion as downloading.

I can't seem to stop the launchpad icon from downloading and can't remove it from there.

Now my queries:

Is it possible to "un-install" from the appstore. How?
Once the Lion completes download, will my system be updated again to the same version of the OS? What happens to the installed apps
Is it possible that somehow I can get back my $30, which is a wrong charge.
How do I stop the download from happening, prevent re-install and remove that downloading icon from Launchpad?

I probably acted a little stupid by clicking to buy that in the first place without even knowing my system runs Lion. But in my defense, I didn't think an app that I don't need to install would download and charge me; not by Apple.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Unable to change function keys like before

texts:
In the past versions of Mac OS X, I used to be able to change the function keys behavior.

But now that option is no longer. Does anyone know how to do it now? (Yosemite 10.10.5)
Using a Razer Anansi keyboard.


texts: I want to hum a tune and have the notes be converted into MIDI notes… is this possible?


texts: How to prevent people from adding other people in an iMessage group?

texts: Is there some setting / block / third party app where I can prevent someone adding another person to group messages?


texts:
I've recently moved to Mac. And even though I like OS X itself, I find it way too outdated in terms of working with GPU based calculations.

I realize that notebook is not the best thing for heavy computing, but even regarding study projects it's quite outdated.

I realized that due to AMD my CUDA adventures would have to stop, but I really counted on OpenCL which appears to be v1.2, while there's 3.0 is out.

And it does not seem to be replaced with something. E.g. Keras uses PlaidML, which is based on that utterly outdated CL version.

I obviously see bootcamp as one of the solutions, but is there anything which would allow me to use OS X while still having an ability to run experiments with parallel computing?


texts: Driving down the road and GPS works on iPod?

texts: I was riding in the car today and the as I was traveling home, decided to pull up maps on the iPod.  I know that GPS isn't used by iPod and uses wifi to triangulate it's position.  However I wasn't connected to any wifi as I was traveling through town and my iPod kept up with my position?  How?


texts: How to disable screensaver for newly created user?

texts:
I am fairly new to OS X, I am trying to disable the screensaver of a user that I recently created with the following commands on the terminal of an account that I'm currently logged in as:

    sudo dscl . create /Users/NewUser

    # More commands are run after this one, but skipping to the important part...

    sudo defaults write /Users/NewUser/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.MAC_UUID.plist idleTime 0

However this doesn't seem to be working. I've noticed that when you create a new user, there is no screensaver plist that exists until the user actually logins.
I am not too familiar with plists and Apple in general, any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: OSX Hot corners not working with Magic Trackpad

texts:
As soon as I connected with Magic Trackpad (having used MacBook Pro's touchpad) the hot corners stopped working. OSX is 10.9.3 Mavericks

For me this seems like a bug as I would want to use hot corners even with Trackpad?

CLARIFICATION 1: In Settings > Mission Control > Hot Corners, the settings are still there as they were so in that regards everything should be working. And they are when I use this MBP's touchpad, but not with Magic Trackpad.

ACTUALLY for some magical reason it started working! Without resetarting computer, that I have tried earlier already. Great although it remains a mystery as to what happened... I did dangle with trackpads settings "show desktop" on/off, thats it. Might be for some other reason.


texts: Internet is connected but connection alert keeps popping up

texts:
I previously surfed the internet and went into a site that has a collection of tv series so you can watch it online, but then my mac started beeping and telling me to download mackeeper due to a virus. This happened once before, so i didn't bother downloading it again since i had it, and nothing happened after. Now my mac keeps putting pop ups that says:
"Connection alert We are having troubles. Download Hotspot Shield t..."
I can't get the pop up to show more. If i click the pop up, hotspot shield .exe is downloaded and does not open when finished.
My internet works fine, but the pop up keeps appearing a few minutes and covers a side of my screen. What can I do?

I use macos sierra version 10.12.6 and google chrome
Oh and google chrome and kakaotalk(korean messenger app) works fine, but i can't seem to open some apps such as skype and parallels desktop due to no internet connection


texts:
Problem:

I had previously had dual booted my MacBook Pro (13" Mid 2010) with OS X 10.8.5 (Encrypted) & Windows 7 x64 with a separate FAT32 partition which I was going to install Kali Linux on.  While under Win 7 however I quickly started running out of space for what I needed to do, as a quick solution I decided I would just merge my Kali partition with Win 7 to create more space.  Despite the fact that I had read before that resizing a Win 7 bootcamp partition was difficult and should not be done I proceeded (without thinking) to do so.  Upon reboot however I encountered the expected,

  Error: No such partition.
  Entering rescue mode
  Grub Rescue >

Luckily I am able to still boot into OS X by holding down the "Option" key on boot.  I have fixed this problem before by manually fixing the MBR table using the method described here --> http://jonsview.com/fixing-mbr-tables-on-imac-or-mbp-triple-boot-setups

Unfortunately I have also erased my Windows 7 & Kali partitions as I was going to just start over from scratch using bootcamp and create a bigger windows partition so that guide is not as easy to follow since I only have my OS X partition left.

My Solution & Question:

What I have decided would probably be the easiest course of action would be to backup my OS X partition, do a complete reformat and reinstall from back up.  However I would like to retain my system exactly as is with the two user accounts, all their settings and apps still installed and operational.  I am thinking cloning my partition would probably be the easiest but I am unsure as to how this would work with an encrypted OS X partition and if it would still retain the MBR error.  My current choices of action from what I can tell is:

Cloning the partition
Migration Assistant
Time Machine Backup

If anyone could give me some ideas on which would be the best solution for me it would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Is iTunes Match supposed to slow my phone down so much?

texts:
Ever since I enabled iTunes Match, I feel like Music.app on my phone has become somewhat unreliable, and cumbersome at best.

When polling for the full list of artists or albums (much less songs), it sometimes takes a full 15-20 seconds of frozen, iPhone-lockup that I don't experience anywhere else. Once I give the list enough time to load, it's more or less good, albeit with noticeable stuttering while scrolling, or lag. Occasionally the whole app will appear frozen and crash. Switching between album and artist view is unfortunately an exercise in patience. This is the only thing that's slow on my otherwise fantastic 16GB iPhone 4, and if there's something I'm missing that could fix the problem I'd be glad to hear it.

Some theories I had: I'm willing to bet there are some hour-long radio shows that got tagged as "Music"-type media, and thus synced up to iTunes Match. Could a handful of long mp3s slow down the service? My library is over 100GB, is this just to be expected with an iTunes Match library of this size? I would assume that regardless of the size of the data library, the information that must be stored locally on the phone to accommodate (album lists + miniature thumbnails) must not be very much.

How could I begin to troubleshoot this?


texts:
Using Mountain Lion - 10.8.4

I would like to setup a daily snapshot system using Automator:

use the PhotoBooth.app
set it to auto start with the countdown "1,2,3"
autosave the picture to a specified folder
close PhotoBooth.app

Looked around on the internet and didn't find anything on this topic.

Automator has take video snapshot but the size of the output photo is tiny "200x200"

This would be perfect if I knew how to increase the size of the output file.


texts: Using disk utility to expand an already existing partition MAC OS 10.15

texts: I have an external Hard Drive that has around 5 partitions. Among them there is a partition, say, Partition 1 of 500GB. There is another partition, say, Partition 2 of 20GB. I want to get 100GB of Partition 1 and add it to Partition 2. How can I do that? Both the partitions contain data, (partition 1 has around 100GB of data only), so I can't erase them and make them again. Is there any way to do it?


texts:
Seemingly fairly regularly, I find myself clicking on the X in a circle to the right of a text field in an iOS app on my iPad, instead of just placing the cursor next to the final character in the text field. Extremely annoying.

Is there a global undo operation that I just can't find through google, or at least one for the factory provided "Clock" app, which I seem to have the most of this type of problem with?


texts: Macbook pro is shutting down with code -60 on external monitor unplugging

texts:
I have a 4k external monitor which I connect to a macbook pro 2017 via a usb-c cable. After a recent update of OS Catalina to 10.15.7 (19H524), on unplugging the monitor the macbook crashes and reboots.
Upon rebooting I ran this command to get the reboot code.
log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --last 24h

The reboot code is -60 which according to this

Indicates that there is something wrong with the drive, and Disk
Utility not being able to repair the drive supports this.

This happens quite often. Is this a known bug of the update I installed because it never happened to me before (have been using this same monitor, cable and mac for 2+ years).
If it is confirmed that is not an os issue? what steps can I take to resolve this.


texts: Is it possible to remove the $ from an environment variable?

texts:
I'm on Mac and have just created an environment variable inside the .bash_profile directory, it works fine when I run:

$variable_name

I just want the know why the dollar sign is there and if it is possible to remove it. Any help would be appreciated :)


texts: Recovering missing photos from older library

texts:
Since Catalina Update, a lot of pictures are missing from Photos.
I have read about this issue that may be due to the library being used, however I would like to know if is there a way to move the photo left in an older library without loosing those in the current one. I have 4 devices synchronising photos to Icloud and don't want to mess everything!


texts: fsck_hfs: What does the number pair after 'Invalid sibling link' mean?

texts:
I have been through a lot of googeling on how to restore a broken TimeMachine backup sparsebundle.

The thing is that the volume seems to be mostly intact. I can open it with hfs_explorer on windows, and finder in macOS.

What I do also see is that there is a "in progress" backup in there, but the mac that uses that sparsebundle says the TimeMachine backup is broken and it needs to make a new one, deleting all history.

Repairing it using fsck_hfs dosen't seem to work, and I've googled all error messages.

The only thing I can't decode, find anything about is this message:

** Checking catalog file
Invalid sibling link
(4, 405803)

So can anyone tell me what those numbers there mean? Do they have something to do with inodes or something else?


texts: Fluid: Fluid links open using Fluid browser instead of my default browser (Chrome)

texts:
I have created a couple of Fluid Apps to run Google Calendar and Gmail.

These work fine except that web links launched from them also launch in Fluid itself, rather than in my default browser, which is Chrome.

This is a problem as a lot of the G-Suite stuff doesn't work well in the fluid browser (e.g. google doc links give javascript errors).

How can I get my Fluid gmail app to open links in the system default browser rather than in the Fluid browser?


texts: How to restore my deleted .bash_profile?

texts: I have deleted my .bash_profile with rm command and copied another one to use. But now i remember there is some PATH thing in the previous file :(. Can i find the deleted .bash_profile in some place like Trash?


texts:
I am about to do some development with SCTP using Python[1]. But this requires some kind of  3rd party kernel extensions to Mac OS X. The only link I can find about the kernel extension is completely out of date[2].

Any ideas on how to get the SCTP support into Mavericks?

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysctp

[2] http://sctp.fh-muenster.de/sctp-nke.html


texts: How do I get Google Notifier (Mac) to report the number of new messages in Priority Inbox?

texts:
I'm using Google Notifier for Mac 1.10.6.879 and I want it to report the number of new messages in Priority Inbox. Previously, I had Notifier report the number of unread messages that had a certain label assigned to it (it was a quasi-Priority Inbox). I set up the notifier by going into terminal and typing:

defaults write com.google.GmailNotifier Label -string "LABEL"

When I substitute out LABEL for Priority Inbox, it doesn't provide an accurate unread count:

defaults write com.google.GmailNotifier Label -string "Priority Inbox"

Doesn't it make complete sense that Google Notifier and Priority Inbox should work together?!


texts: Atom editor no longer opens from command line

texts:
I've been using the Atom editor on my iMac running High Sierra. I usually run it from the terminal by typing atom. I moved many of my apps to an external drive to free up disk space. I originally moved Atom but have since moved it back onto my startup volume.

Sometime during all this I have messed up something and now Atom no longer runs from the command line. I started Atom by double-clicking on the icon. I selected "Install shell command" from the  Atom menu.

Previously I did that so I could run atom from the command line. Well, it didn't work this time. How can I tell what that menu option actually does? When I select "Install shell command", what does Atom actually do? And how do I find out what a command does?

If I knew what the Atom command does, I could maybe fix this. Most questions I've read that pertain to this offer alternative ways to run Atom from the command line. I know how to do that, I'm trying to get things back to the way it was before my messing around caused all of this.


texts: Firewall: Add command-line tool to rules (mosh-server)

texts:
How can I add a command line tool I've installed manually to the system firewall? The tool is Mobile Shell (mosh) installed via the excellent Homebrew)?

Specifically, I want to add a rule for /usr/local/bin/mosh-server that allows incoming UDP traffic on 60001-60999.

I've tried using System Preference's Firewall pane and the "+" button, but I cannot seem to browse to /usr. I've configured Finder to display hidden and system files using TinkerTool, but that seemingly has no affect on the selection dialogue, which still hides /usr.

I've read a bit about using ipfw, but that's no longer available in Yosemite (v10.10). pfctl seems to be the replacement. I'll use these if I have to, but I'd much rather add an entry to the system firewall UI, so the change is discoverable.


texts: Why does Spotlight pick the DVD Player app when I enter the math equation 5*3?

texts:
I only use Spotlight for quick math. Because of that, I decided to modify my Spotlight preferences (System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Search Results) to only show results for Conversion and Calculator (everything else is unchecked).

However, when I enter the equation 5*3 it picks the DVD Player app. Note that if I do 5 * 3 (with added spaces) it shows the calculator results, which is what I desire. So far, only 5*3 triggers the DVD Player app.

I'm guessing Spotlights results are cached, and it's just using the cached results. Long story short: when trying to get Spotlight to show only calculator results, I unchecked everything in Spotlight's preferences except for Calculator. However, then Spotlight didn't work at all, even for simple equations. I tried to tinker, and checked Applications, and entered 5*3 and hit enter, assuming the Calculator would be used, but instead the DVD Player app was opened. I unchecked Applications and checked Conversion, which made the calculator work. But now 5*3 results in the DVD Player app opening, not the calculator.

Is my hunch that Spotlight caches its results correct? If so, how long is this cache valid for (i.e. when will 5*3 result in the calculator being used instead of the DVD Player)?

Simple screen capture:


texts: How do I export photos from my iPhone 6 to my Western Digital external hard drive for backup copies?

texts: How do I export photos from my iPhone 6 to my Western Digital external hard drive using my Mac? I need to clear up space on my phone already and can't believe how frustrating it is trying to figure this out.


texts: How can I make Siri play a song on Spotify on macOS?

texts: After saying Hey Siri play xx on Spotify the assistant responds with You'll need to update Spotify before I can help with that. When I click on the App Store button, there aren't any results for Spotify. Reinstalled the app from the website, but it still doesn't work. I'm using Catalina 10.15.7.


texts: my brother sent my friend an effective power message and his phone turned off completely. His phone doesn't work at all and supposedly it's on "boot loop" where the screen only shows the apple logo and it is staying like that. Any ideas on how to fix his phone?


texts: iPad Sync repeatedly copying things that haven't changed

texts:
Long before Apple split up iTunes and removed functionality, I kept noticing that every sync would say it was copying items that had not changed.  The list repeatedly copied would be the same for weeks, but once in a while it would change.

Apple has been ignoring the bug report.  Can anyone give me any idea what's happening?


texts: How do I restore the "Quick Start" migration from my iPhone X to a newly bought iPhone 11 Pro Max?

texts:
I just bought a new iPhone 11 pro max.

After turning it on and did some very simple settings, it asks me to transfer data from my previous iPhone.

However, I accidentally switched to another app on the previous iPhone. After switching back to the home screen, the popup about transferring data was gone. I could never manage to restart the "Quick Start" feature.

How can I restart the "Quick Start" feature so that I can complete transferring apps from the old phone to my new phone?


texts: What's the difference between DFU and iTunes restore in iPhone?

texts:
The articles I've read regarding this aren't very clarifying.

Does an iTunes restore restore the firmware?  At the end of the iTunes restore (not DFU), I can see "restoring iPhone firmware", but I had a chat with Apple through GSX and the technician told me that this is just "a misnomer", the firmware is only restored in DFU mode.


texts: How do I remove many system roots from Apple System Keychain?

texts: The Apple keychain application will not let you remove system roots, it will only allow you to disable them. It will only allow you to disable them one at a time. For each one, you need to go through 3 UI panels and type your password. Is there a way to either automate this or do it all at once? I do not like Apple's current selection of system roots.


texts: Is there a way to change the language for Wikipedia searches in iBooks on iOS, without changing the language settings for the device?

texts:
I live in Norway so I have my iPad 2 language set to Norwegian.
Most of the books I read in iBooks are english. The dictionary is English which is great, however I often try to look up words that are not part of the dictionary. I am then provided with a "search on Wikipedia" option.

Unfortunately this option uses no.wikipedia.org (Norwegian Wikipedia). I wonder if there is a way to change which Wikipedia version iBooks uses? (Without changing the language of the device.)


texts: Check for Existence of File then Move Rename Old File and Move New One

texts:
Here is what I am attempting to do:

I have a folder which contains a script and a file.  The file is an older copy of a file located in this path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A.

I am attempting to create an AppleScript that will activate Finder, open the aforementioned path, check if the file in question exists, rename that file to .new if it does, then move the older version from the folder containing the script.

Alternatively, if the AppleScript is run when the .new version of the file exists at the aforementioned path, I would like for the script to rename the older version of the file (which was previously copied) to .old and remove the .new from the original file (i.e., essentially reverse what it did previously, but without removing the file which was added).

No matter what I've tried, I've been, thus far, unable to get the script to authenticate properly to rename the file (the folder in question, obviously, requires administrator approval before any modifications may be made).

Getting the script to activate Finder and open the folder is fairly trivial (e.g., tell application "Finder"
    activate
    open ("/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A" as POSIX file)
end tell works just fine), but getting the script to authenticate after that, check for the existence of the file(s), and then act accordingly has been a rather fruitless task.

Any help will be much appreciated.


texts: My macbook air wont let me erase my disk?

texts: What the title says. I'm trying to delete all the data off my macbook air. I pressed command+r, went to disk utilities, selected my disk in the slot to the left, went to the erase tab. The "erase" button is faded so I can't click it. Format is at Mac OS Extended (Journaled) already, but it's also faded out. Almost every option is faded. What's wrong? Why won't it let me erase the disk?


texts: Can I hot-plug a DVI monitor in a Mac Pro?

texts:
I have a Mac Pro with a DVI display, and I got a new DVI display for it.

I want to unplug the (only) display, and plug in the new display to that DVI port.  And/or, unplug the existing display, and plug it into a DVI port on another (slower) graphics card.  (Does that make sense?)

I've hot-swapped DVI displays on Mac laptops for years, but I've never done it with a Mac desktop.  Will a Mac be cool with temporarily having zero displays?


texts:
I am wondering how enabling supervised mode on an iOS device affects the user's privacy, especially with respect gaining access to data on the device without the user's consent.

As I understand, supervised mode provides a feature called 'activation bypass', which allows one to reset the device without the user's password. Does it also make it possible to unlock the device or gain access to some data without the user's password, as opposed to an unsupervised device? In other words, does supervised mode compromise the security of the device or the user's privacy in any way?


texts: If some person tells me how to have a nice portable Firefox on my Mac, this person will have my eternal gratitude.


texts: Shell script to rsync or if not mounted - mount and rsync

texts:
This is what I've got so far:
!/bin/sh
Storage Folder Backup
Defines mount point
LOCALMOUNTPOINT="/Volumes/thisisanetworkshare"

Checks for mount
if mount | grep "on $LOCALMOUNTPOINT" > /dev/null; then

If already mounted initiates rsync job
caffeinate -i rsync -av /Users/auser/storage/ /Volumes/thisisanetworkshare/ --log-file=/Users/auser/rsync.log

Otherwise mounts and initiates rsync job
else
    mkdir thisisanetworkshare
    mount_smbfs //thisnetwork/thisisanetworkshare /Volumes/thisisanetworkshare
    caffeinate -i rsync -av /Users/auser/storage/
    /Volumes/thisisanetworkshare/ --log-file=/Users/auser/rsync.log
fi

So basically I want to start an rsync if the network share is already mounted but if it's not then I would like to mount that network share and start an rsync.
The network share requires auth but this is saved in the keychain so doesn't ask for it in finder. Does this matter for a shell script?
Thanks in advance!


texts: Can't launch an app after creation by Platypus. Error: ....app/Contents/Resources/script: is a directory

texts:
In my project I have a number of jar-files, resources, h2 database, etc. I launch my application by executing a shell-script with configuration params.

I would like to create Mac app by using Platypus. However after creation I can't launch it. Could anyone help me?

I set script path and add all my resources like this:

After I create an app (Optimize Application) and try to launch it I receive the following error:

  /Users/Mac/SPI/Reader Plat/Start Irule
  Client.app/Contents/Resources/script: /Users/Mac/SPI/Reader Plat/Start
  Irule Client.app/Contents/Resources/script: is a directory

My shell-script is the following:

#!/bin/bash

export IRULE_HOME="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"

export IRULE_LANG=en
export IRULE_REGION=EN
export IRULE_XMS=-Xms256m
export IRULE_XMX=-Xmx1024m
export LOG4J_CONFIGURATION=${IRULE_HOME}/conf/log4j2.xml
export JAVA_HOME="${IRULE_HOME}/jre/Contents/Home"

export DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="$IRULE_XMS \
              $IRULE_XMX \
              -Dlog4j.configuration=file:"${LOG4J_CONFIGURATION}" \
              -Dirule.home=${IRULE_HOME} \
              -Dirule.client.logs.path=${IRULE_HOME}/logs \
              -Duser.language="${IRULE_LANG}" \
              -Duser.region="${IRULE_REGION}" \
              $JAVA_OPTS"

export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${JAVA_HOME}:${PATH}
export CLASSPATH=${IRULE_HOME}/lib/*:${IRULE_HOME}/conf:${JAVA_HOME}/lib/jfxrt.jar;

echo "IRULE_HOME="${IRULE_HOME}
echo "IRULE_XMS="${IRULE_XMS}
echo "IRULE_XMX="${IRULE_XMX}

${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -version
exec ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -Xdock:name="iRule Reader" -Xdock:icon=${IRULE_HOME}/image/irule.png ${DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS} -classpath "${CLASSPATH}" com.spi2.Main $*

How to solve the issue and successfully launch the app?


texts: Preview: Opening more than 12 pdf files in new windows

texts:
I've noticed that whenever I have 12 or more pdf files open at one time (each in a separate window) and attempt to open an additional pdf, this additional pdf opens in the same window as the pdf on top. In other words, it's as if the "Open each file in its own window" is disabled once I reach 12 open pdfs.

I can then transfer the newly-opened pdf to a new window by right-clicking on the pdf's thumbnail and selecting "Open in New Window" but I don't want to have to do that every time I want to open an additional file. Does anyone know how I can make this happen?

Again, I already have the "Open each file in its own window" option enabled (and it works when I have less 12 pdfs already opened).

Lastly, assuming this is deliberate on Apple's part (i.e. not some sort of bug), is there a reason why I should be wary of opening up more than 12 pdfs in separate windows? And what other options are there for opening up pdfs in OS X other than via Preview? (I'm sure there are plenty of third-party apps available but I'm particularly interested in built-in alternatives).

Thanks.

[Note: A similar issue was mentioned here:
Difficulties opening PDFs in Preview but the solution offered doesn't apply.]

OS X - Macbook Pro;
Version 10.9.3

[EDIT: This behavior has occurred periodically for a while now (months)--it seems to occur after I've opened files in Preview that have been saved as PDFs via the "Save as PDF" option from the "Print" window.]


texts: Export photos with timestamp in filename

texts:
I'm trying to export photos from iPhone using mac os Photos app.

The problem is that there is no way of structuring them in a format that will allow to easily access them by date.

Ideally I'd like to have filenames in with timestamp of a photo, something like: 2017-10-03-12-05 but it is not possible with the Photos app.

I would also tolerate some folders structure with date information, but I haven't found any suitable way.

The only way I found so far is by using subfolder format with Moment Name which creates subfolders with name of the location and date

Here is the example of folder name generated in this way:

Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria, October 19, 2017

However such name is almost unusable because there is almost no way to filter all photos let's say from October 2017.
I would really appreciate name like this:

2017-10-19 - Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria

which would allow easily sorting and structuring my photos.

Q: Does someone know any way of exporting photos in more usable names? I'd appreciate any way that will at least improve the way I'm exporting now.


texts: How to remove a container disk and reclaim space with main partition?

texts:
I used to have a bootcamp partition but somehow while attempting to remove it its changed into a container disk. (don't know how this happened, I didn't explicitly create a container).

diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         402.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         97.8 GB    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +402.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            336.1 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 23.2 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                515.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +97.8 GB    disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s3

How can I delete this and merge its space back into the main drive?


texts: How can I use my iMac as a network for my iPad 2?

texts: My iMac goes online via a Verizon wireless device.  I don't know what my "network" is called and how to use it to go online on my iPad 2.


texts:
In Safari on an iPhone 4, how do you select/copy text? I've tried holding down on the text but nothing happens.

For instance, https://m.facebook.com and click Photos. On the iPhone 4, I'm told that the browser doesn't support "photo uploads" and am given an email address I can send the photo to instead. I wasn't able to copy text from this page.


texts: rMBP Late 2013 crash without log and have to restart by power button

texts:
I bought rMBP around November last year.
As I open Chrome, it crash without log.
I can't move the mouse, and the mms stream player keep working.

The only solution is to restart it with power button.

I can't find the report by chrome://crashes and ~/Library/Logs/.

I think the kernel_task doesn't make it.

Are there anyone else got the same problem and solution?
How to identify the unexpected shutdown by power button in shutdown_monitor.log or /var/log/system.log?

Version:10.9.1(13B3116)
Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107


texts: Why would some messages not show attachments?

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Since moving to Yosemite and Mail.app 8.2 I've noticed that some messages show attachments in the message list and some, well, don't. The loss of this little icon seems to impact those messages searches in which I'm looking for messages from a person with attachments. I've attached a screenshot that shows a message that recognizes there are attachments and one that clearly doesn't:

Why might this be occurring and, more importantly, what can I do to remedy it?

Most of this mail is coming through Exchange with Outlook for Windows as a source at times. I don't know if this is a Windows problem, Outlook problem, Exchange problem, or Mail problem. But since I've only noticed it since moving to 8.2 I'm assuming it is a Mail problem.

Yosemite was installed as an upgrade on top of Mavericks. Haven't tried a fresh install even though I've had other problems with Mail in the form of odd stalls while Mail is trying to fetch data off the Exchange server. Let's deal with the attachment problem first.


texts: Cannot log into iCloud after upgrade to macOS Mojave

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After upgrading to macOS Mojave (10.14) I face this issue: System Preferences / iCloud reports "Update Apple ID Settings: Some account services will not be available until you sign in again". When I press "Continue", confirm again with "Continue", and supply my Apple ID password, there is some kind of processing going on for a few seconds, but then the system returns to the same point and state.

So in effect I am locked out of iCloud (e.g. cannot see calendar entries previously created there) and have supplied my password in vain.

Is this a known issue and how can it be overcome? I remember that the macOS upgrade process got permanently stuck (> 1 hour; also very annoying!) very late on (after the first login prompt and presumably also were it tried to set up iCloud) and I had to reboot the machine. Things seemed normal thereafter, but now this issue is showing up, and it may well be related.

UPDATE I've meanwhile reinstalled macOS Mojave (with Command + R) but the situation is unchanged.

UPDATE I'm by now pretty certain that the root cause must be a corrupted state that is kept by iCloud locally as persistent data that resides local to a macOS user account. Where does iCloud store such information, i.e. removing what files resets the iCloud client in macOS to a "clean" state?


texts: iPad app to convert multiple photos to a single pdf

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Does anyone know an app to convert multiple photos from the iPad Camera Roll into a single PDF?

Alternatively, an app that lets you take photos with the iPad camera and saves them into a single PDF would be good - ability to rotate photos is important as this is mostly for 'scanning' document pages using the iPad.


texts: Automator's "Combine PDF Pages" action doesn't preserve crop?

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I'm trying to separately crop PDF's even and odd pages, by building on top of the accepted answer from How to crop odd and even pages differently in a PDF?

My Automator workflow, roughly:

automatically Extract Odd & Even Pages; each output PDF filename is suffixed with "(Even Pages)" or "(Odd Pages)"
pause Automator Workflow with Ask for Confirmation and manually crop each of the two output PDFs (using Rectangular Selection and Crop in Preview)
select the two cropped PDFs using Get Folder Contents
Combine PDF Pages with Shuffling pages option

The issue is step 4. which inevitably seems to drop any Crop from step 2. The combined PDF has no crop applied to it, even though the two even & odd input PDFs are definitely cropped.

Is this expected behaviour from Combine PDF Pages? PDF metadata and annotations do seem to get dropped, does Crop as well?


texts: iPhone ignores silent mode with VIP contact

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I have a contact defined as a VIP with a different ringtone as the default.

Since a couple of months I began noticing that my iPhone was ringing for this particular person even in silent mode (Do Not Disturb was not activated.)

The behaviour was present in iOS 10 and is still there with iOS 11.

How can I make the iPhone silent even with VIP contacts?


texts: Can I charge an iPhone with another device's USB charger?

texts: I have a USB car charger from TomTom. Can I use it to charge my iPhone 4, or will that damage my phone?


texts: Moving lots of data between a Linux server and a MacBook: what is the fastest way possible?

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Time Machine restoring is getting on my nerves.

Last time my Mac refused to boot it took me a few days to restore the image from my backup server to my Mac. Bear in mind that all related hardware is capable of saturating the gigabit Ethernet link (as discovered when I am transferring files over WebDAV which is an ultra low overhead protocol,) and my Mac have just 480GB of retrofitted SSD.

So, if I am ditching Time Machine (which works over AFP protocol) what is the fastest way to transfer lots of files, the entire backup in this case, from and to the backup server? Note that I don't trust Linux's HFS+ driver.

If the issue is on the Linux side, please move this question to Ask Ubuntu or SuperUser if appropriate.

Information that may be useful:

My MacBook Pro is the 2012 model (13-inch non-Retina) with a retrofitted 480GB Intel 520 Series SSD.

Here is my backup server, if you suspect hardware bottleneck and/or expansion card slot availability:

  MoBo: Asus P5BV-C (one PCIe 1.0 x4 slot open, so you can suggest me to get some new hardware to help data copying)
  Disk drives: Western Digital Green 6TB + Kingston V300 SSD 60GB (configured as bcache, like Intel SR, effectively a Linux version of Fusion Drive)
  NIC: onboard Marvell server-grade NIC, backed by PCIe (not saturated - this is the problem)
  OS: Ubuntu Linux 15.04 (Linux kernel 3.19)


texts: Set SublimText 3 as default app for files without extension

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Files without extension always open in TextEdit ...
I want them to open in SublimText 3

I tried to change my com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist, but simply adding public.text did not work ...


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When I use Grab, if ever I close all its windows and then take focus away from it by clicking somewhere else it disappears from the dock.

Grab hides from the dock even if the Grab window I close is the "About Grab" window. Grab doesn't hide from the dock if I open it and then take away focus before opening and closing a Grab window.

I can see the Grab process is still running when I check from Terminal and when I "reopen" it to get it back into the dock it's the same PID and only one copy is running.

Does anyone know how to stop Grab from hiding? I don't want Grab permanently in the dock even when it's closed, I just want it to stop hiding while I'm using it. I'm using MacOS 10.10.5 MBP 11,3.

Thanks in advance!