texts: How to change configure system.log file in macOS?

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This is my first time to using a Mac, some macOS settings need to edit due to Security Audit.

We are using macOS 10.9 to 10.12 version in 10 of iMac, we’ve had an problem is how to keep long time record for “system.log”?

Mar 13 09:18:44 BSHK001110.local authorizationhost[8125]: Failed to authenticate user <admin> (error: 9).
Mar 13 09:18:45 BSHK001110.local authorizationhost[8125]: Failed to authenticate user <admin> (error: 9).
Mar 13 09:18:45 BSHK001110.local authorizationhost[8125]: Failed to authenticate user <admin> (error: 9).

In my observation, system.log will rebuild by script if the Macs don't shutdown at night and log file only keep around one day data.

Is there any chance to change specific date (one month) to rebuild system.log file and keep one month data?

Remarks:
I have upgraded macOS 10.13.3 and found that there is no record about "Failed to authenticate". Is there any problem in macOS 10.13?


texts: After latest Safari update, bank websites don't recognize my computer or autofilled name+pwd

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I'm running 10.13.6 on a late-2014 MBP.   After the latest Safari update (to 12.1), bank websites don't recognize my computer and/or autofilled user name+password.  Facebook says it doesn't recognize my browser, so it asked me to implement the second-half of two-factor authentication; I did this, and can now login to that site.

I don't have this issue logging into lower-security websites, like discussion forums, nor with sites for which I have a persistent login (i.e., those I can use without needing to re-login).

Is this standard behavior following a browser update, such that sites suspect I'm using a different computer or browser?  I don't recall this happening with previous Safari updates (but maybe it did and I simply don't remember).


texts: Safari (mac) offers to remember password in https basic auth, never remembers it and never offers it

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our intranet has a login through https basic auth, the https certificate is valid, and Safari offers to remember the password.

Sadly, no matter if I check the checkbox, the password gets never remembered, and is never offered in this login dialog. I would obviously like Safari to save and prefill this password (as the user profile is password protected and encrypted anyway).

The full flow is like this:

I go to jira.ourcompany.eu (where Jira, issue tracking system is installed)
it redirects to auth.ourcompany.eu where this browser auth dialog is presented
after confirming, it redirects me back to eg. Jira

This lasts at least since Mojave, now happens in Catalina.

Any advice?


texts: LastPass on Safari not autofilling if auto fill is unchecked

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I'm trying to migrate from Chrome to Safari and I'm having trouble with the LastPass extension.

What is annoying me is Safari always asking me to save my passwords in its own password storage mechanism, which I don't want to use. As far as I know, if I don't want to receive these alerts asking to save passwords I have to uncheck the option to auto fill user and password in Safari's Preferences>Autofill. But if I do that, the auto fill feature from LastPass stops working...

Is there a way to fix this?


texts: Visualize character glyph in Pages application

texts: Is it possible to visualize a particular character (even if it's a special one) in a Pages document ? (I need it for a third-party doc I'm using, to know if certains spaces are just spaces, tabs or something else, and also to get the Unicode value of some exotic characters). All I see in the right bar or the Show Fonts  windows is the "style" info but not the glyph itself.


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Last night my iPhone XR battery completely drained over the course of 4 hours. It was due to WhatsApp Background activity, as shown in the animated gif below. (Click to view).

I've used WhatsApp for years and never had this problem before. In fact, I've never seen the battery drain so fast for any reason.
I'm running iOS 13.7.
I posted a message to WhatsApp help.
Please recommend options I have to avoid this. Thanks.
Also, if there is a better StackExchange community to post this, let me know.


texts: URL Scheme for switching between 3G and 4G

texts: Just wondering if there is a URL scheme to switch between 3G and 4G networks.


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What is the best way to monitor the wear of my new external USB boot SSD? I'd like to order a new one to have ready before it gets too slow.  I have WD Blue and love the speed, and it worked perfectly the first time.
Also, I turned on TRIM via "sudo trimforce enable".  Was that a good idea with WD Blue?
Thanks.


texts: Preview app automatically switching tabs?

texts: I recently updated to Big Sur. When I have multiple tabs of pdf files opened in Preview app, the app is automatically switching between tabs. I have never noticed this before, how do I stop it?


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In the past, I never had to use ssh-agent and everything worked fine.
But I noticed, on GitHub, it is asking people to use ssh-agent, even if we don't use it, it seemed fine.  So I just ignore that lengthy part usually for the ssh-agent and ssh-add.
But for a few days I was able to log onto Bluehost, but yesterday day I added a new pair of public and private key to my MacBook Air M1, and now the log in that used to work becomes:
Received disconnect from 162.241.123.123 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures for mike123
Disconnected from 162.241.123.123 port 22

without even asking for a password. But it was strange why when it let me log in, it asked me for password, when I thought the whole idea of ssh is not requiring password.
But today, it does not even ask me for password but spit out the message above.
However, my MacBook Pro was able to log in, even though it is asking for a password.
The Bluehost tech support was saying, I should paste my private key to their Bluehost SSH panel.  But I thought we should never give out our private key.
So must we use ssh-agent now?  What might be the issue of "Too many authentication failures for _____" and how is it solved?
P.S. Aftermath: I did follow the steps in the Github docs above and used ssh-agent and ssh-add, and created the file ~/.ssh/config.  The fact that ssh-keygen did not create ~/.ssh/config might suggest ~/.ssh/config is not a usual practice, but after I did the above steps, then I was able to be asked a password and be able to log in again to Bluehost. Why it still is asking for a password, I am not sure, but at least it is letting me log in.


texts: Which iPhone 5 models are compatible with cellular carriers around the globe?

texts: On this page Apple lists 3 different models of iPhone with different LTE support.  My question is, if I buy an iPhone in one area (e.g. Canada), and take it back to another area (e.g. the UK), what network compatibility can I expect on my device? (both LTE coverage as well as just working for voice and data at any speeds)


texts: APFS supports single-key and multi-key encryption, for the full filesystem and for individual files. Is it possible to encrypt a single file or folder without encrypting the entire drive on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 with APFS?


texts:
Whenever I get notifications, there is no content, or the content that should be there.

In the News notifications and Google notifications, it only shows bold text, not any details like it should.
In WhatsApp notifications, it shows the name of the person and the group, but for the content it just shows "(null)".
For emails, it just shows the name of the sender, and shows "Mail message" underneath it.
For texts from the stock messages app, it just shows the sender's name and "iMessage" underneath it instead of showing the messages content.

How do I fix this and make notifications show the content properly? I have searched everywhere, but I can't find any solutions.

I am running the latest iOS version 10.2.1 on iPhone 5.


texts: Is there an easy way to install Linux similar to Boot Camp?

texts: I've so far been using Disk Utility to partition my Mac's drive and install Linux, but is there an easier way to do it, using something similar to Boot Camp, or a third-party software application that will split your drives easily (and is not malware)?


texts: What is the function(s) of the hidden Debug menu in Disk Utility?

texts: What is the function(s) of the Debug menu and why is it hidden by default?


texts: How does Apple's two year warranty in Europe work?

texts:
The EU has recently forced Apple to abide to the two-year warranty period mandated there. As I understand it, this is not a maker warranty, but a retailer warranty, so to keep things simple, assume for the following that I bought the product directly from Apple.

Does it also apply to the online Apple shop, or only the retail stores?
Does it only apply to Italy (where a complaint was originally filed)?
Is this equivalent to a one-year extension of the normal one-year Apple Care you get?
Can I claim warranty (for a product bought in Europe) in Apple Stores outside of Europe (as I can with Apple Care)?


texts: When using a USB-C monitor with power delivery, does constantly having it plugged in damage the battery?

texts: By my assumption, the USB-C port on the monitor will charge the device even on full charge. Is this correct? I believe this would damage the battery over long periods of time.


texts: Recovery HD partition resized (now 300GB)

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I recently deleted my bootcamp partition that was 300GB and then tried to resize my Macintosh HD partition to my full 500GB hard drive, but after I tried to do this, instead my Recovery HD took the 300GB from bootcamp so now I am stuck with this:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            199.2 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             300.6 GB   disk0s3

Is there any way I can resize the partitions so that I have one Macintosh HD partition at about 500GB and the Recovery HD the normal size? (About 650MB). I have tried using the following command in terminal :

diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s3 650M

but I get the following message when I try to do that:

Unable to resize because file system volume format does not support resizing

Any Ideas? I have 300GB just sitting idle because of this currently. Thank you


texts: Shortcut to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6...)

texts: In Microsoft Office Word, one press ⌘⌥1, ⌘⌥2 or ⌘⌥1 to apply header style 1, 2 or 3 respectively. This is also documented by Microsoft (see: Aligning and formatting paragraphs). However writing a large document, I want to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6...) but there does not seem to be a shortcut available for that. Applying header styles is not an option in the menu bar, so I cannot create a custom shortcut through System Preferences > Keyboard (I suppose). How would I add a shortcut in this case?


texts: Share internet connection from a PC to an iPhone through the USB cable

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In the office where I'm working now, my network carrier has very poor reception, so my iPhone 4 cannot access the internet reliably.
I have a pc running Windows XP SP3 that is connected to internet through LAN, and it does not have a wi-fi card.
Is it possibile to share the PC connectivity to the iPhone through the USB cable?


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I have tried everything for my passphrase to be saved for my SSH keys so that when I restart, I don't have to run any "ssh-add" command.

I have tried:

Saving my key in ~/.ssh
Saving my key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa (it is an RSA key)
Making a profile for it in ~/.ssh/config
Running "sudo ssh-key -k ~/.ssh/keyname" and "sudo ssh-key -K ~/.ssh/keyname" and those commands using the ~/.ssh/id_rsa directory whenever the key was in that place
Probably a few other things, but all I can remember at the moment


texts:
I have an iPad2 (brand new) onto which I have loaded books from the app store. Most of these books are showing a blue question make where the images should be. This includes the 'iPad User Guide" from Apple itself.

In the "iPad User Guide," it also shows the following error message:

This page contains the following errors:
error on Line 1 at column 1: Document is empty error on Line 1 at column 1: Encoding error

On some books, double tapping the icon will display the picture but on others it wont. If I attempt to adjust the font size, the app just crashes.

Has anyone come across this? Is there some magic setting I'm missing?

BTW: PDF books work fine.


texts: How do I prevent the Fn key from showing the Character Viewer in MacOS Big Sur?

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I have a Magic Keyboard with an Fn key in the bottom right corner. Every-time I press it a floating Character Window with emoji shows up. How do I prevent that?
Mac OS Big Sur: 11.2.3 (20D91)


texts: com.dashlane.DashlaneAgent still trying to be loaded

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I have removed Dashlane using the documented procedure, yet launchd is still trying to load com.dashlane.DashlaneAgent. I have tried issuing sudo launchctl remove com.dashlane.DashlaneAgent with no success (the command succeeds, and launchctl list does not show the service, but upon reboot, a list again contains the service name). I've also looked in /private/var/db/launchd.db and not found any entries for this service.

I did find lines for this service in /var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd in both loginitems.501.plist and disabled.501.plist. When I remove those lines and reboot, they simply reappear.

So this service launch is coming from somewhere; does anyone know where?


texts: Not able to restore my 3TB fusion drive late 2013 iMac

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Last weekend my iMac started to act in a very strange way. While I was working, my Mac was very slow and the mouse and keyboard didn't respond very well.

So I decided to reboot because having two users and switching from time to time, the memory could be the problem. But when I rebooted the other user was gone, and the Mac still was very slow. I rebooted several times and nothing changed, so I decided to try to reinstall El Capitan which was the latest version that I have - originally the Mac came with Maverick.

Then everything went wrong, the system couldn't complete the installation, I tried to erase the disk, I tried to repair the disk and several errors occurred,
To make this story short, I finally succeeded installing Maverick, but then I realized that it was installed in the 122.33 GB Apple SSD because the 3TB Fusion drive couldn't be formatted. Trying several time, the disk was finally erased and I ran several verification and repair passes and everything looks OK according to Disk Utilities.

But Mavericks is still installed in the 122.33 GB Apple SSD and it looks like the 3TB Fusion drive can't be recognized, partitioned or deleted, so I am very desperate.

Here are the screenshots:

I already followed this instructions here, but they didn't work. I don't recall the message but it didn't work

I hope somebody can help me, I am not under warranty and I have two Times Capsules back ups, so I don't care about the information.


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I am new to iOS development.  I was working on a Xcode project, without any warning nor change in my system, the editor started to behave extremely slow.  To the point it looked like it crashed, but still responding after several seconds.
Following some "solutions" found in the internet, I deleted some project-related settings, without success.  Then also tried and deleted ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.dt.Xcode.savedState and ~/Library/Developer.  After this the editor actually opens but... if I try to open my Main.storyboard I see this:

And I cannot do changes to the interface. I think I could isolate this being related to the simulator, as it is unable to run my application(s), however I can run them fine in my iPhone.
At this point Xcode is barely usable.  I have already tried and reinstalled the whole application, no changes.  I strongly believe it has to do with the simulator but I don't really know if this is some standalone component I can remove/install.
The version of Xcode is 12.4 (12D4e) and my OS is Catalina 10.15.7 (19H114).  I am running these programs in a MacBook Pro 16" 2019.


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I don't know if this is the place to ask by I'm trying to diagnose a problem with my Apple TV.

No matter what TV app I choose (BBC, Prime, Netflix etc) the program stops and I get a 'Something went wrong error', after a few minutes the program tends to start back up again, sometimes from where it left off and sometimes from the start (and we have to scan through to find where we were).

There tends to be a fairly consistent stop at between 6 and 8 minutes into each film/tv program as if the box hasn't buffered enough.

I'm trying to find out if this is an Apple TV problem or an ISP problem....is there any kind of log on my router that would let me know if there was a drop-out.

I run the Apple TV on wifi and on ethernet (to see if it makes a difference).

I have a few Raspberry Pi's set up - is there a python script I can run to log the internet connection?

I've tried a few different 'Speed test' type apps but get conflicting results.


texts: Launchpad fails to show app icons contained in folders

texts:
Randomly, my Launchpad is failing to show app icons contained in folders.

Is there a way to fix it?


texts: How can I find out the keyboard key model?

texts:
I want to buy a used keyboard replacement for my damaged keys. I have a Late 2013 MBP. I read serveral codes beginning with AC or AP but I dont get the bigger picture. Can somebody please give me an explanation and maybe some links.
Also will all keyboards of a A1502 serve as key replacement or do newer MBP A1502 (2014 or 2015) have different keyboards?


texts: Mounting an External HD Accessible Through Finder

texts:
Good Afternoon All,

I am attempting to mount an external hard drive using ext4fuse.   I have installed ext4fuse using the following:

brew tap homebrew/fuse
brew install Caskroom/cask/osxfuse
brew install ext4fuse

mkdir /Volumes/Linux
ext4fuse /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/Linux

This seems to work without issue and I can view the contents using sudo su, but not without.

I followed the instruction on another post which states:

"IMPORTANT: with ext4fuse by default you'll only be able to mount and see your files with sudo. To mount as regular user add your user to the operator group with sudo dscl . append /Groups/operator GroupMembership . Once you've done this you will be able to mount as a regular user and see the files from Finder."

Even following this instruction I have been unable to access this location from finder.

I would appreciate any help getting this problem fixed.

Thanks in advance.
Scott


texts: Unable to Install apps onto my iPad (Stuck on "waiting...")

texts:
For the past several days, I have been unable to install ANY apps onto my iPad.  When I click "GET" and then "INSTALL", it just says "Waiting..." below the app icon.

This is what it looks like (not from my iPad, from Google):

I've tried the following to attempt to resolve the issue:

(I had no other apps updating/installing)

Restarted the device
Turned on and off the device
Updated the iOS 8 software to latest version
Went to Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings
Restarted AppStore
Synced my device with iTunes
Deleted app and tried to reinstall
Logged out of Appstore
Logged back in to Appstore
Turned off/on wifi

In addition to not being able to download apps, I can't download books from iBooks either.  I don't know if this is a software issue, or if it's a network issue.


texts:
I have a work email account that uses Zimbra as the backend server. For my iDevices, I set up this account as an exchange account and everything usually works fine. On my laptop, it's set up as IMAP (for some reason I can't set it up as exchange there).

My problem is that when I read mail on my MacBook and move it to another mailbox, it doesn't always update the inbox of the iPad. My iPhone seems to be fine though. I'm seeing old mail still in the inbox even after I slide down the message list to "refresh". Any ideas?


texts: Flash Local Shared Object storage security issue?

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I have encountered some strange behavior when navigating through the flash Local Shared Object folders on my computer running OS X version 10.11.5

The behavior is as follows:

Navigate to the base local shared object storage cd ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/
Navigate through the shared object using the below path cd \#SharedObjects/6MB4PXSB/skype.com/
On this path is another folder named "#ui"

If I change the directory to the #ui folder it takes me back to home folder i.e. it is the equivalent of typing cd ~

Listing the contents of parent folder shows the following:

> ls -latr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 myuser  staff  102 Jun 17 12:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 myuser  staff  102 Jun 17 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 myuser  staff  102 Jun 17 12:07 #ui

I do not see any symbolic links from #ui to my home folder so I am not sure why this is happening.  I have tested this repeatedly and it consistently takes me to my home folder.

My questions are:

Is this a security issue?
Is it safe for me to do an rm -rf #SharedObject given the observed behavior?


texts: Automator get first 3 letters of parent folder

texts:
How do i get the first 3 letters of the parent folder im creating a folder in with automator

im designing a Automator service to create a project folder in the folder of a client and I want to append the first three letters of that clients folder name to the next folder.

Client folder: Coca-Cola > new project_COC
how do i append the first three letters of Coca-Cola (COC) in capital to the new folder.


texts:
When I put my iPhone 5s on charge, it takes around 5 seconds to turn on and show the Apple logo. Then it turns on to show my lock screen and dies straight away.

It has been doing the same thing for the past 4 hours. What should I do?


texts:
Is there a way to get the timer in the Clock app to sound the alarm when the iPad has been autolocked?

For example if I have set the iPad to Autolock after 15 minutes and start a timer for 20 minutes, the alarm doesn't sound.


texts: Macbook Pro stuck after I enter my password

texts:
For last 2 days I am not able to login to my MacBook Pro. It was working fine and suddenly for no reason after I last shutdown my mac I am not able to login.
The mac starts up fine and goes to the login screen. After I enter my password the progress bar is stuck in 70%-80% and sometimes at 100%.

I tried resetting NVRAM and SCM but it didn't help.
I also tried following the steps mentioned in Justin Silver’s blog post but it also didn't help.

As mentioned in the post, I moved all the 3rd Party items from /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions to /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/ExtensionsDisabled. Since I was not able to find any *.kext in /System/Library/Extensions older than 2016, I didn't moved any *.kext from /System/Library/Extensions location.

My MBP is mid 2012 and have the latest OS X, also I have 1TB HDD and 8GB RAM.

I am not able to login using SafeMode as FileVault is enabled. I even tried login in Single User or Verbose mode but I am not able to do so.

Can anyone help me to fix this.


texts: MacBook Pro with Retina display VGA problem

texts: I just bought a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display. When I connect it to a projector using a MiniDisplay Port to VGA cable, the quality of the image is awful in terms of definition and colour. How can I fix this?


texts: Is it possible to disable Junk Mail filtering in mail.app?

texts: I'm using Mail.app to sync three email accounts on my Mac. I find that usually my Junk Email is usually filled with a lot of emails. It is possible to disable this tab entirely ?


texts: Is iTunes for Windows affected by the code responsible for the goto fail vulnerability?

texts:
I've been reading about the infamous "goto fail" security bug in iOS 6 and OS X 10.9, but I haven't read anything about whether other Apple software, like for example iTunes for Windows, is affected. This is relevant since, after all, iTunes is the software you use to access your Apple account and update your credit card information.

Since I haven't read anything about it, I assume that it isn't affected... but am I wrong? Has anyone tried verifying whether iTunes is safe?


texts: How do I get rid of this pop up when I try to select text?

texts:
I'm not sure if this is a macbook issue (My sister gave me a macbook with OS 10.9.1) or a google chrome issue.

When I'm using Google Chrome and want to select text (either by tapping three times over a word in a phrase, by double clicking then dragging, or by 3-finger dragging over a phrase) this pop up pops up over my screen with the words I selected showing up 1 by 1. It goes away when I click. But it's really annoying.

What is the point of it and how do I get rid of it???

Thanks


texts: Is there any way to create an iTunes smart playlist with a user defined text field as the condition?

texts:
I'm using iTunes 12.8 with Yate by 2manyrobots (https://2manyrobots.com/yate/) to manage metadata for a library of approx 50k AIFF tracks.

Yate has the ability to retrieve data from Discogs and write to ID3 tags - in doing so it writes the unique Discogs Release ID to a User Defined Text field.

What I want to do is create a live updating smart playlist in iTunes that can tell me which tracks do not have a Discogs Release ID so that I can process them, but obviously I cannot set User Defined Text fields as a condition on the smart playlist.

Is there any way around this? Perhaps using an AppleScript that I can run periodically which can inspect the metadata and create a playlist..?

Thanks :)


texts: Can’t add clock to world clock widget in El Capitan

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Whenever I try to add a clock to the World Clock widget in the Today area of Notification Center, it never gets added. Sometimes I can’t even search for the city I want to add. However, whenever I am able to search for a city, it finds it, and when I press enter or click on the name, it behaves as it should be, but the clock never gets displayed.

And yet it remains like this:

What I tried so far:

restart Finder;
restart computer;
delete the widget and add it back.


texts: How can I hide my top menu bar on Mac OS X?

texts: I need to temporarily (5 min) hide my top menu bar. Is there a glitch, or something that will let me do that?


texts: YouTube disabled from my country? iPhone 8+ iOS 14.2

texts: Generally, YouTube is available for my country (Serbia) but for me, that is not the case. When I change region or country, it works, but for me not. For my friends (same locations) YouTube is available, but why?


texts: Many strange issues with 2009 Macbook Pro running 10.10.5

texts:
my wifes macbook pro started acting very strange this evening, and i can't seem to figure out what is wrong with it at all. here is a list of various issues that all seemingly started tonight:

ReportCrash using between 90 - 150% cpu

syslogd using over 150% cpu (although not at the same time as ReportCrash)

various programs not opening, including: mail, photos, preview, chrome, app store

very intermittent internet connection (via wi-fi)

safari stating the certificate for google.com is not trusted

system crash, followed by kernal panic error message after restart

system crash during restart

spotlight search not showing applications in results, despite the option being ticked in preferences

various processes (not responding), including: steam helper, adobe creative cloud

(when trying to upgrade to el capitan) : el capitan upgrade asking for password to install, accepting password but not progressing, asking for password again, ad infinitum

"All My Files" folder showing no files.

etc, etc, etc

if this were a windows pc i might be able to figure it out, but i am new to OS X and this seems well beyond my understanding. thank you in advance for your help!!


texts:
After upgrading to Catalina - my NFS mounts seem to gain the quarantine attribute when writing files to the drive with OSX applications:

MBP:sourceimages root# ls -las@ test0*
1282 -rw-r--r--@ 1 mtwomey  65534  655911 Nov  3 12:49 test01.afdesign
    com.apple.quarantine        32
    com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags     42
1282 -rw-r--r--@ 1 mtwomey  65534  655912 Nov  3 12:51 test02.afdesign
    com.apple.quarantine        32
    com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags     42
1282 -rw-r--r--@ 1 mtwomey  65534  655888 Nov  3 12:52 test03.afdesign
    com.apple.quarantine        32
    com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags     42
1282 -rw-r--r--@ 1 mtwomey  65534  655888 Nov  3 12:53 test04.afdesign
    com.apple.quarantine        32
    com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags     42
1282 -rw-r--r--@ 1 mtwomey  65534  655888 Nov  3 12:53 test05.afdesign
    com.apple.quarantine        32
    com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags     42
MBP:sourceimages root#

This is creating all sorts of issues when trying to work with these files. How can I prevent this from happening?


texts: Unwanted transformation of Chinese characters

texts:
When I copy and paste character  it's transformed into the Japanese version, 禮 (radical 示 instead of 礻).

What's going on? Is this some 'feature' of Unicode? Is there still a way to paste the character  to a text document / Notes.app note? (After all, on the Wikipedia page linked above the character displays correctly — and as a character, not as an image.)

(Doesn't seem to depend on browser / text editor I'm using. OS X 10.9, if this is important.)


texts: How can I pass something like "--yes" to brew in order for it to avoid asking for confirmations?

texts: I haven't found if there's a possibility to pass something like "--yes" to brew so that I won't ask me for confirmations. Is there any way?


texts: Mounting a single partition dd image in macOS?

texts:
Using testdisk, I have made what is apparently a dd image of a single HFS+ partition (what was originially /dev/disk1s2, I think).

Now I try to mount this image file, but seemingly I cannot - even if file recognizes it as a HFS partition:

me@my-iMac:~$ hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -nomount /Volumes/Test/image.dd
/dev/disk2

me@my-iMac:~$ hdiutil mount /dev/disk2
hdiutil: mount failed - no mountable file systems

me@my-iMac:~$ hdiutil imageinfo /Volumes/Test/image.dd
hdiutil: imageinfo failed - image not recognized

me@my-iMac:~$ file /Volumes/Test/image.dd
/Volumes/Test/image.dd: Macintosh HFS Extended version 4 data (mounted) last mounted by: 'HFSJ', created: Wed Jul  4 14:32:40 2018, last modified: Thu Jul 19 09:07:22 2018, last checked: Wed Jul  4 10:32:40 2018, block size: 8192, number of blocks: 366241334, free blocks: 365063585

Is it possible to somehow mount this partition image in macOS/OSX as read/write?


texts: Zoomed out on ipad how to set normal view

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My ipad under ios14 has got to a stage where I have zoomed in.
How do,I reset the screen to.normal
The thumb and finger pinch seems to do nothing other pinches take me to.the tsk screen showing all safari tabs or all apps


texts: Why can't my jailbroken iPhone connect to a wifi network?

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I have an iPhone 3G 16GB with iOS 4.0.2 and my wifi is not working, I tried to fix it with reset network settings and other quick fixes like that but it still doesn't work. Sometimes it sees wifi networks but I can't connect. I don't think is a hardware problem because I can see the wifi MAC address on the device.

Version: 4.0.2 (8A400) (jailbreak with redsnow)
Modem Firmware: 05.13.04

PS: On 3.1.2 the same thing. (jailbreak with blackrain)

Downgraded at 3.1.2, again...still nothing (jailbreak with redsnow)


texts: Can the default for 'remind me at location' be changed to 'Arriving' in Reminders.app?

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When you create a location based reminder in Reminders.app, you are given two options to trigger the alert: 'Leaving' and 'Arriving'.

I don't know if this is uncommon, but I have never needed the 'Leaving' option. When I use a location based reminders is often related to things I need to do, people to talk, or things to pick up at that location. A reminder when I leave is not exactly useful for those kinds of tasks.

Anyway, the problem is that I'm sick of having to manually change the selection to 'Arriving' for every reminder.

Do you know if there is a way to somehow change the default to be always 'Arriving'?

I'm on Yosemite 10.10.5.


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I use file tags in OS X 10.9.3 and I love it.

However, I store and access many of the same files on an external drive that I also access with a Windows computer.

Is there a way to see or search for those tags in Windows? I currently don't see anything under the "Tag" or "Label" attributes on Windows for files that I have tagged in OS X.


texts: How to find connected Device ID through iTunes

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Please note: Although my question is tangentially related to iOS development, it is not a development question; it is an iTunes user question!

iPhone 7+ here. I'm a developer playing around with iOS development for the first time, and am trying to deploy a toy/hobby iOS app (that I wrote via XCode) to my iPhone.

It looks like the first thing I need to do is figure out what my iPhone's Device ID is. Following the instructions for finding Device ID through iTunes, I launched iTunes and then connected my phone to it. However, whereas (according to that link) I should be seeing a screen that looks like this:

I only see a screen that contains three fields:

Capacity
Phone Number
Serial Number

But I don't see a Device ID or UDID field like the document says. Do iPhone's not have UDIDs? Is the Serial Number a useable substitute for UDID?


texts: HDD missing in diskutil when attempting fresh MacOS install

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A colleague's iMac recently stopped booting after an update (I want to say it is a 2015 iMac Pro?) and I've been trying to fix it. I started using a boot disk with Mojave installer loaded and in Disk Utility tried to erase "Macintosh HD" volume to perform a clean install. This threw an error, saying the delete process failed, and left me with a disk only 120GB in size (the full volume was 2Tb before).
Now if I list internal disks in terminal, it only lists /dev/disk0 (a 120GB volume), but no other drives. My guess is that it was a Fusion Drive and the larger HDD is toast or has a bad cable?

I'm still confused why, while initially going into Disk Utility, I was able to see the 2TB volume and now I am unable to?


texts: Is there a tool for Monitoring IP addresses and network activity on MAC OS - similiar to resource monitor on windows 10

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On windows 10, there is a program called Resource Monitor. Under the network tab, if I select an application, I can see all the external IP addresses that application is connected to.

Is there something similar to this on MAC OS?

It could be a command line tool or an application.


texts: Simulate user login using command-line utilities

texts: Sometimes, I need to create a login session (create windowserver instance, run login items / launchagents) of an admin user, because a lot of software cannot be run under root (but can be run as another user using sudo -u <admin user> <path to app executable> (which requires a windowserver instance of that user or else it will hang every few seconds)), and I don't want to spend a minute logging into another user, waiting for everything to load, and then log back to root. How would I simulate a real user login in command-line?


texts: Keynote '09 can't play slideshow again unless restarted

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I am running Keynote '09 (5.0) on Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. Everything was fine until yesterday.

The problem is that I can play a slideshow after opening it with Keynote, but if I try to play it again, I get an ambiguous error saying: "Keynote cannot play your slideshow because an error occurred."

I would have to restart Keynote to make the exact same slideshow playable again. This happens to other slideshows I've made, too.

How should I troubleshoot this problem???? I have to make a major/high-stakes presentation in a couple days and can't afford any hiccups.

Thanks for your help.


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I can no longer log into Messages. It normally logs me in automatically, but now it didn't log me in and the entry in the menu is greyed out. I am connecting to the internet from a different network than usual. How do I fix this?

I run OS X 10.9.5 and Messages Version 8.0 (4226)


texts: Terminal auto complete and arrow keys working incorrectly

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I am using Macbook Pro 2017 (with touch bar) with macOS Sierra.

When using terminal, the autocomplete adds a character.

For example, typing 'cd Des' + tab, I am expecting 'cd Desktop' autocomplete.

Instead, I get Desktop/k

At this stage, if I click backspace, the letter 'k' always remains. Only able to remove characters before 'k'. Example: Desktopk, Desktok and so on.

If I click left or right arrow keys, I get weird characters as follows:

Deskto^[[D^[[Ck

If I just click enter to get out of the above mess, followed by clicking up arrow to get the previous command (in this case cd Desktop), I get the following print out instead.

^[[A

Is there a way around this to get auto complete without the extra character and arrow keys to work properly (as in up arrow brings up previous commands and left/right works to move between characters)? Had no similar issues on my previous macbook pro 2015. Please assist.


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I have integrated both twitter and facebook account to my macbook-pro. I am getting notifications perfectly. The only problem I have is that I can't post via notification center. There're 2 buttons Click to post, one each for twitter and facebook, which used to work fine previously. Now suddenly they stopped responding. When I click on them nothing happens. I can see click animation(pushing of button), but it does nothing, no edit area to post my updates, nothing at all.

How can I get the functionality back?


texts: Can I get the CPU temperature and fan speed from the command line in OS X?

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Is there a command I can run from the command line in OS X to get the current CPU temperature and/or the fan speed(s)?

To be more specific, I'd like to be able to get the same info available in the iStat widget under the Fans and Temps tabs on the command line.

I'd like to be able to find these values at the command line so it could be scripted and plugged into a monitoring setup on my Mac - I have a data-nerd desire to collect and graph these values (and other stats) on my Macbook over time.

On Linux, it seems like this would be possible by reading a pseudo-file under the /proc directory, but I'm not sure how to do the equivalent on OS X (if it exists).


texts: 8th gen iPad I want to go back to the original configuration after quick start

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I bought a new iPad for my wife. Here she doesn’t like it. So I did a quick start using my old iPad. She changed her mind. How do I go back to the original configuration
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texts: When attempting to check the change the contents of the nvram (adding bootup chime, etc.), I am continually returned with the error: nvram: command not found. This occurs even when I attempt to just check the contents of the nvram, simply returning -bash: nvram: command not found. I can't seem to find anything addressing such a problem on 10.13.6. Thanks for any help you can offer.


texts: How to invoke osascript 'Generic Scripting System'?

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The terminal command osalang list the following installed OSA languages supported by osascript.

AppleScript
JavaScript
Generic Scripting System

Using AppleScript or JavaScript works. For example:

osascript -l JavaScript \
    -e 'Application("iTunes").currentTrack.name()'

However, something like to following returns a "found unknown token" error.

osascript -l 'Generic Scripting System' \
    -e '#!/bin/bash' \
    -e 'echo $HOME'

How does one invoke osascript for 'Generic Scripting System' from the command line for some non-AppleScript, non-JavaScript scripting ... without using any (intermediate) AppleScript or JavaScript?  Is this even possible?


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I have several songs in the Play Next queue.

I am not playing anything at the moment. How do I play the queue. Clicking play prompts me with a dialog asking if I want to overwrite the plainest queue or play the song selected in iTunes, but I just want the play next queue


texts: I have an old icloud backup and I'd like to see whats in it. I'm worried that if I backup my current phone to icloud - restore it from the old backup (to see what it contains) - and then finally restore it from the current backup - maybe I will lose something. Is everything on my phone backed up (assuming I have all the toggles on)?


texts: Applescript activate not making the application fully active

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I'm writing a script for an application that does not support scripting. This is a proprietary app that I'm stuck with, so there's no alternative for me. The problem I'm having is this app does not respond well to "activate". When I'm activating it in an applescript, it brings its main window to the foreground, but the window is still not fully active (e.g. the Close/Minimize/Fullscreen buttons are grey, the shadow around the window is faint, etc). I have to click on it or cmd-tab twice to get it to activate. The application has some logic in it that prevents it to start functioning until the window is truly active, so I have to make the window truly active.

The workaround I'm using right now is to make the script press cmd-tab twice.

tell application "MyApp" to activate
key down command
keystroke tab
key up command
key down command
keystroke tab
key up command

I was wondering if there's a more elegant solution to make the app truly active.


texts: Why use the terminal in daily non-programming life

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Disclaimer: I'm a Windows boy awaiting his first mac. I never bothered learning/using command-line interfaces.

I've been looking at the Terminal Tips and Tricks topic and I don't see how any of those commands would be faster than using the GUI.

For example, someone explained how to search with spotlight, using the terminal. How is this better than just using spotlight?

Could you guys give some real-life examples of situations where you really benefited from your terminal knowledge ?


texts: How does my dual core i5 in my MacBook Pro have more than 400% CPU usage?

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I've got the Early-2015 13" MacBook Pro (2.7 GHz i5) and whilst I was building Smart Previews for all my 1600+ photos in Lightroom 5 I noticed that the fan had come on (unusually) and that the laptop was starting to get rather hot.

When I had a look at Activity Monitor, I saw that Lightroom was using around 300% CPU. Fair enough, I'm sure it's an intensive process. However, I also saw the usage for Lightroom jump higher than 400% on several occasions (usually up to around 410%).

I understand how my CPU is Hyper-Threaded so that it has 4 cores/400% CPU available, but how could it possibly use more than that (bearing in mind several other processes were running as well)?

Cheers,
Dan


texts: How can I use different magic mouses at home and at work?

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I have two magic mouses, one at home and one at work. Both work just fine over bluetooth with my Macbook Pro (10.9.2), which I use at both places.

Suppose I'm using my home mouse, and then unplug my laptop. If I use my laptop at home next, the mouse with automatically connect. But if instead I bring it to work, the mouse won't automatically connect and I'll have to connect it manually. At which point, I'll have the same problem again: it'll automatically connect to my work mouse, but I'll have to connect my home mouse manually.

This is getting really frustrating. Is there any way I can make both mouses connect automatically?


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I have apple watch series 4 and an iPhone. I want to send data like links,images,text to my watch. Usually I emailed these data to myself and open it on my watch .

  Is there any efficient way to do it ?
  Any app or something ?

My watch is constantly connected with iPhone via Bluetooth.


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I have a launchd task that runs a bash script periodically, and this works great. However, if I change the script while the task is running, either by editing it directly, or swapping it with an updated copy, it can cause the running task to spew out a load of syntax errors or worse, have unpredictable behaviour.

The problem appears to be that instead of loading the script into memory, or holding open the file as it was at the time of execution, launchd (or probably bash itself) is loading the live file line-by-line, this means that any changes to the script appear to be reflected in real time, leading to errors.

To try to illustrate the problem, consider the following:

if [ "$foo" = '1' ]; then
    do_something_that_takes_time
fi

Now, imagine the script is running at line 2 (do_something_that_takes_time) and I swap out the script, removing the if/fi block entirely. When the script moves onto line 3, it will no longer find fi, and will continue executing expecting to find a fi but never will, resulting in an eventual error (unexpected end of file). It may also end up skipping commands (that were moved up as a result of removing lines).

Of course I can avoid this issue by unloading the launchd task, updating, then reloading it, but this isn't very convenient, especially for tasks that can take a long time to complete (as I'd prefer to let them finish, but there seems no way to do so and swap in the file at that point). Otherwise I have to add in some mechanism for prevent the task from re-launching, so I can swap in the new script at my leisure, but this seems like an unnecessary extra step when Bash should just be running the script I told it to, at the time it started.

So my question is this; is there some way that I can force launchd (or Bash) to execute the script only as it was when the task began? For example by fully loading it into memory before executing, or loading from an open file-handle that won't change?

I'm posting this here because I'm not entirely sure if this is a quirk of Bash in general, or potentially Mac specific in some way. The volume I'm executing from is using APFS, so should be copy-on-write, so I wouldn't expect this behaviour to occur (as an open file handle should continue to point to the old file, ignoring any changes that are made).


texts: Change my shell to a different bash version at /usr/local/bin/bash?

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How can I set my /usr/local/bin/bash (which is the 4.2 version that allows auto-completion of 'cd to directory with directory name') to be my default bash for a new window instead of my regular (v3.2.48) version.

I can type /usr/local/bin/bash and get into it but that's not the default for a new Terminal window which is what I want.


texts: Can the web version of iCloud be configured to become the default mailto link handler?

texts: How can I set up iCloud as the default email provider in my browser? I am using Linux and if I click on a mailto link in a web page it goes to my Gmail account. Can this be changed to make it go to my iCloud account?


texts: Windows installed on 17" MacBook shows bad resolution.

texts: I installed Windows 7 using BootCamp but I can only choose the 800x600 or 1024x768 resolution. Can I get any other resolutions? Is there any driver I need to install. These resolutions don't look good on my screen, in fact, they look very bad.


texts: Why does my iPod say "this operation could not be completed" when I try to play any video on my iPod 4th gen?

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My iPod is not playing any videos, not from YouTube or any video playing website. It seems that my video player in my iPod may be messed up. How do I fix that? Can I even fix that?

It's not my internet because the rest of my family can play videos just fine, and it's not YouTube because I checked on other websites, and also on my computer. I already tried refreshing my internet (I have Safari) and I can't do a reset because the iPod's power button is jammed and unusable.


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I'm currently looking to understand and get comfortable with crontab queues on my macbook pro. I recently solved an issue where my simple bash script would not execute. It turns out I had to move my bash script and its output in the /Users/myusername/ path. Before I had it in the /Users/myusername/Desktop/. This post can be found here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64110897/simple-bash-script-doesnt-cron-properly?noredirect=1#comment113370465_64110897
My question: Do all of my bash and python scripts need to be housed in /Users/myusername path always? Is there no workaround?


texts: Dual hard drive setup in early 2011 MacBook Pro 17" (replacing optical drive with HDD)

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I have an early-2011 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.2 (also Windows 7 Professional on a Boot Camp partition), and recently upgraded my hard drive to a 500GB SSD (Crucial MX100). The speed is amazing, but I don't want to load too much data onto the drive since TRIM cannot be enabled in Yosemite without disabling kext signatures (I'm utilizing the disk garbage collection and do not wish to enable TRIM; the more disk space available, the better the garbage collection firmware works on the SSD).

That being said, I am considering swapping out my SuperDrive for a second hard drive - keeping the OS and programs installed and running from the SSD, and saving documents and files on the HDD. However, I am aware that in some 2011 MacBook Pros, the optical bay can use either a SATA II or SATA III connection. I checked in System Profiler, and it shows that the optical drive's link speed at 6 gigabits, with negotiated link speed at 1.5 gigabits; therefore I'm guessing it's a SATA III capable connection that's simply throttled to the speed of the optical drive. However, reading here would suggest that the 17-inch early-2011 MacBook Pro may not support a 6.0 gigabit connection.

Am I wrong anywhere here? And is there a maximum capacity HDD that is supported in my model MBP as a second hard drive?


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I routinely use the Personal Hotspot feature on my iPhone.

Recently, I have set up a personal OpenVPN server (per here) to use with my phone. However, I don't seem to be able to use both at the same time - which I would like to do so any devices that connect to my phone's hotspot go through the VPN, too (for a few reasons - not least of which is to leverage the pihole server I run for ad-blocking/etc).

Is this possible? Have I just done something incorrectly during VPN creation?


texts: How to access Time Machine without the access password?

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I have an older 2TB Apple Time Machine with years of kids photos.

Unfortunately, my wife cannot remember the passcode to get in.  We are at a loss as we have tried every password we can think of. We really don't want to loose all these kids pics!


texts: Deauthorizing a working computer: does the iTunes library need to be present?

texts: I am shortly going to be reformatting a Windows computer that my wife uses for iTunes. She keeps her library and her library files on an external drive. This is her active library -- that is, it is NOT a backup. (She does not have any files on the local hard drive, and always launches iTunes holding down the Shift key so that she can choose her library from the external drive.) Her external drive is currently not available, however. Can we deauthorize the computer from her account JUST by logging her into the iTunes store from that computer and deauthorizing it? Or does the external drive with her library need to be connected before we can deauthorize the computer?


texts: MacBook Pro doesn't re-connect to Wi-Fi, iPhone does

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I have been wondering for long (and being troubled by this too), that why don't MacBook (like most other laptops), don't connect automatically to the available Wi-Fi like iPhone (and most other phones) do.

E.g. if my Wi-Fi router goes off for 1-2 minutes, both iPhone and MacBook Pro disconnect from it (obviously), however when the network is back, after a few seconds, iPhone is back on network, while MacBook isn't (even after long!).

So I want to know why is it so? And more importantly, how to change that behaviour and make it auto-connect?


texts: Can't sign in to Apple Music, TV or Podcast on Mac

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I recently did a clean install of macOS Catalina on my MacBook Air and since I can't sign in my Apple Music account in Music App. Neither I can connect to TV although I don't have a subscription contrary to Apple Music. Same thing for Podcast, I can't sign in.

My Apple Music account works fine on the beta website or on my phone and every other iCloud service is fine too.

I tried deleting the full library, rebooting, login out and in again to iCloud and other things like that.

Sometimes I got various error ranging from 11556 to "not available in your country".

Any advice or solution?


texts: Any way to make a transparent Keynote background?

texts: Longtime Keynote user, and I'm starting to turn many of my Keynotes into movies that I can drop into Screenflow (a video editing app). I'm doing a lot of animated text instruction videos, and wondering if there's a way to create a keynote that has a clear transparent background, so that if I add other images into the Screenflow timeline, they can appear in the background of the Keynote movie. I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but I wanted to ask. Adding text into Screenflow is 10x slower than Keynote. Keynote really is the best text animator I've found for videos.


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Update below, the rest is more or less background information.
After discovering a Genieo install, I vaguely recalled it being, well, not trustworthy. After a quick search I knew I wanted to uninstall it and found this: http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/. (This guide is actually recommended in another question on this site.) I followed the steps, but made two blunders. I rm-ed the files listed in the guide, thereby skipping the recycle bin (I'm not sure what the English name is). After I finished the list I wanted to make a back-up (second blunder: I should have done that before I tried to uninstall Genieo, my last backup is 76 days old) but noticed that the program needed to unlock my drive didn't open, like all other apps that weren't opened yet. At this point, I wished I had the files still in the recycle bin so I could place them back. Fortunately, I already opened Terminal (I have it still open) (so I can still use command line utilities) and Safari (enabling me to type this question). Safari just crashed. Because I can't launch apps, I assume my computer won't reboot. Please save my iMac.
By the way, I don't notice any obvious traces of Genieo still being present. At least that worked.
I would be happy already if I could just make a backup (but my drive is lockable and I need to launch an app to unlock it, so I can't access my external hard drive) and after that boot from a CD and restoring the old backup or restore from Time Machine (the old backup), in both cases I would have access to my latest files and I could place them back one by one (as restoring the whole snapshot would break the system again).
UPDATE
I had an idea how to fix this: boot from disk, make backup, clean install. Now I just need help with the first and last step (never needed to do that). There is one problem though: my iMac is very old; it came with Tiger, but I upgraded to Snow Leopard with a Mac Box Set. My question now is if I can boot from the CD in the Mac Box Set. The accompanying manual says nothing about this.


texts: Upload video to iPod directly without sync-ing

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We have a number of iPods and a number of computers and the fact that they need to be matched one-to-one for iTunes sync'ing to work is really a pain.

Is there a way for me to upload a video directly onto an iPod Nano (a previous generation that can still play them back, not the current one), without having to switch the library it is connected with (which would erase all other content on there)?


texts: Traffic of different Apps in Little Snitch with enabled VPN? What is the meaning?

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So, I am trying to understand my VPN connection observing the traffic in Little Snitch. My VPN is connected and I can see its connection to the server and the amount of data that is transfered. Shouldn't go all my data through this connection? Why is there, for example Firefox, connecting to a huge amount of IP-Adresses and sending/receiving a huge amount of data? When observing the map it looks like the connections start at my 'real location'. I looked up my IP on the browser and everything seems to be working fine.
Just wanted to understand the causal chain of data flow for Example googling something in Firefox.
Thanks for your answers!


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How do I disable Safari in OS X?

The desired effect is the same as in iOS: in iOS, you can easily disable Safari through the Restrictions settings, and the app just hides but is not uninstalled. You cannot search for the app, see an icon, or open it in any way.

I do not want to disable all browsers. In fact, that's the problem. The Parental Controls control all web things. And that's great. But if I want the default browser to be Google Chrome and I want to use a whitelist, then I can't use Parental Controls (at least since Yosemite). The Parental Controls option for a whitelist has been blocking everything from Chrome. Firefox has similar problems, but not as bad as with Chrome. If I use Chrome and Chrome's parental controls, then a user can just open Safari with no restrictions.


texts: I can't boot into macOS Mojave on a Catalina laptop

texts: I have Mojave 10.14.6 on an external drive. When I plug it into my T2 MacBook Pro 16 inch running Catalina I get the prohibitory symbol instead of the Apple symbol and it can't boot. Is this issue solvable? Or does it mean I have to resort to other measures like bootcamp for instance?


texts: Do all Safari 5 Extensions work on windows / mac?

texts: I wold like to download some safari extensions, but I'm not sure if I should be looking for ones specifically written to run in Windows. Should I be looking for platform specific extensions?


texts: How to make a Lion install disk for a Mac Mini from a Mac Pro

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There are a bunch of pages out there for making a bootable Lion disk (either DVD or USB drive). However, the problem is that they all will only work on the machine they were created on - Apple is trying to be helpful by only downloading what you need for your current machine. What I need to do is to create a Lion install disk on a Mac Pro which I can use on a Mac Mini. I do not have physical access to the Mini at this time. Do I have any options? Is it possible to create a universal Lion install disk?

Thank you.


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I'm looking for a way to download Big Sur installer to an external drive. I am trying to create a backup-USB installer - so I can replace my 128 ssd with a larger one.  I don't have enough space. I backed up with time machine, but still cannot manage to delete enough space (128 gb is literally nothing nowadays).
Is there a place to directly download the installer so I can copy the installer to an external drive?


texts: Is there a way to make some application have different resolution on a Retina Macbook Pro?

texts:
I use "Best for Retina display" in my settings. It's suitable for my eyes:)

But I'd like to get more spaces in some applications by using the highest resolution. So is there a way to do so?


texts: Drop window as maximized to a new desktop instead of fullscreen

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The default behavior when you drag a window to a new desktop is to make it fullscreen. Is there any way to have it maximized instead of going full screen.

Referring to the following:

^+Up
Drag a window to the mission control bar and make the new desktop show up
Drop it at the new desktop. (it becomes fullscreen here, but I want it to be maximized, not fullscreen, which is the default action.)


texts: How to locate a particular place in macOS?

texts:
In this link, there is the unix command

$HOME/.matlab/<version>/matlab.prf.

How to go to this place by using terminal?


texts: Terminal: how to make tab notify somehow when new text received

texts: I'm familiar with some Terminal's, like in Linux, that have an option to "flash" or "change color" the tab's title text, whenever new text is "displayed" on that screen (for instance, tailing a file).  iTerm can do it in OS X as well splendidly, changing the font color, etc.  Is there a way to do that with the built-in mac Terminal application?  I'm not talking about some special "when you finish this command, flash a growl message" just a general small notification when new text is received.


texts: How to prepend a character to start of each line in 250,000+ line file using a script?

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I have text file with 250,000 lines - and I need to append the same single character at the start of each line. I have tried to use various multiline /column edit plugins in Atom and Sublime but they just hang - I guess due to size of file.

Is this something I could do with with a bash/zsh script - or AppleScript/Automator maybe ?


texts: customize system launchagent arguments in el capitan

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Is there any way to work around the inability to customize launchagent plists in El Capitan without completely disabling system integrity protection?

Specifically, I was sad to find that my ssh-agent timeout had been removed, and horrified that I couldn't put it back. I see other q&a on how to reboot in recovery mode and disable SIP, but that seems a bit drastic... is there some other workaround?

I don't have great knowledge around launchctl as a whole; is there a way to set a -t option some other way than editing /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist?

Can I disable the system-configured agent and set it up under ~/Library/LaunchAgents? Would that lose any functionality compared to the system agent?


texts: How do I move all recent photos from iPhone to PC, but keep my favourites on my iPhone?

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I regularly plug my iPhone into my Windows PC and 'Import photos and videos', and then delete them from the device, which is what I want.

But how can I select a few 'favourite' photos and keep those on the iPhone, without them getting removed when I do regular transfers to the PC of all my new photos?


texts: How to recover Apple account login when 2-step authentication without Apple device?

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I remember my Apple ID and password but not security questions so I cannot recover my account, since I do not have my iPad and not my iPhone anymore.

I processed Apple iForgot many times but they do not offer recovery by phone number.

My older devices: iPad mini and iPhone 4S, which I do not anymore have. I do not remember if my account has my phone number, at least, the iForgot does not try to send me an SMS.


texts: How do I increase default font size in Reminders under Mavericks?

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Apparently is IS possible to change the size of the font in Reminders under Mavericks via a modification of "a text file inside the app package".

Can someone please post these instructions or point the way to finding them?

Thank you


texts: Cant update/install homebrew packages with Kaspersky Security Software (Self Signed Cert)

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At work we have Kaspersky installed. Kaspersky installs a self signed cert so it can decrypt/inspect web traffic. Chrome and everything works fine except for homebrew. When i try to install/update software this is what i see:
brew install yarn
==> Downloading https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/1.22.10/yarn-v1.22.10.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%##O#- #
curl: (35) error:1400443E:SSL routines:CONNECT_CR_SRVR_HELLO:tlsv1 alert inappropriate fallback
Error: Failed to download resource "yarn"
Download failed: https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/1.22.10/yarn-v1.22.10.tar.gz

Since it appears its a curl issue i tried to create a .curlrc file with insecure but that doesn't help at all. I'm able to call one of our IT admins over and temporarily turn off web anti-virus but that is starting to be a major pain every time i install/update software. They aren't, of course, going to allow me to permantely turn it off. I have this issue on no matter what mac i use (one is a m1 based mac and the other is an intel based mac).


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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a quick way to lock my Mac?

Does OS X have the option to allow you to lock your screen?


texts: How to prevent the media keys from waking the MacBook Pro screen?

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When I'm putting on music I sometimes turn off the screen with the shortcut Shift + Ctrl + Eject. However, when I use the media keys the screen wakes up and I have put it to sleep again.
Ideally the media keys would not alter the state of the screen, is it possible to achieve this?


texts: What is the equivalent of netstat -tln on OS X?

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What is the equivalent of Linux's netstat -tln on OS X?

Options:

-l, --listening (Show only listening sockets. (These are omitted by default.)
--numeric , -n (Show numerical addresses instead of trying to determine symbolic host, port or user names.)
-t, --tcp


texts: OS X Contacts (Mountain Lion) with CardDav - "CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 500"

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I've recently setup a CardDav account with a hosted Atmail Cloud account. It works perfectly on iOS, and seems to pull in some of the contacts, however every time Contacts re-syncs I am getting the following error:

    9/20/12 5:19:24.622 PM Contacts[785]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -_handleCompletedAction: Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=500 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 500.)" UserInfo=0x7ff1a6409cb0 {CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x7ff1a61475b0 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{type = immutable dict, count = 8,
entries =>
    0 : Case Insensitive Key: Server = <CFString 0x7ff1a66096c0 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)"}
    1 : Case Insensitive Key: X-Powered-By = <CFString 0x7ff1a64bc030 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "PHP/5.3.3"}
    2 : Case Insensitive Key: Connection = <CFString 0x7ff1a64aa4a0 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "close"}
    3 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Type = <CFString 0x7ff1a661ccb0 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "application/xml; charset=utf-8"}
    6 : Case Insensitive Key: Date = <CFString 0x7ff1a4efb270 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:19:24 GMT"}
    8 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Encoding = <CFString 0x7ff1a64a7220 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "gzip"}
    10 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Length = <CFString 0x7ff1a6149f80 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "187"}
    12 : Case Insensitive Key: Vary = <CFString 0x7ff1a665dd70 [0x7fff73a56fd0]>{contents = "Accept-Encoding"}
}
}

Is this a problem with the CardDav server or Contacts? Anyone run into this issue before?


texts: Two 4TB hard drives -- how can I create a RAID 1 with two 2TB partitions?

texts: I have been struggling with trying to get Disk Utility to allow me to divide a 4TB HD into two 2TB partitions, and then have a mirrored raid of that for redundancy.  Is this not possible?


texts: My System Preference window moved and isn't in the center anymore

texts: Since I updated my Mac, the System Preferences window no longer appears in the center. How do I return it to its default position (like shown below)?


texts: Can Karabiner perform complex mapping to make British key layout function more like the US layout?

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My MacBook Pro has a British/European keyboard and would like to do the following remaps so my keyboard behaves more like a US keyboard.

Specifically, the more complicated items I need to change are:

§ (section) map to nothing (or to some modifier+key combo but I never use this key so it doesn't matter)
Tilde_Grave_Accent map to § (section)
left shift map to Tilde_Grave_Accent (constantly hitting tilde when I want to use shift)

I don't know if this tool is up to the job so I'm looking for a way to make precise changes to the British layout instead of wholly adopting a different layout in software. Which tools are fit for this purpose?


texts: Is there a lightning cable power splitter / double charger?

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A small example use case will make this clearer. I have a really long lightning cable that I use to charge my iPhone on my bedside table at night (there's no wall socket close). I'm thinking of buying AirPods and naturally I would like to charge them with a cable also on my bedside table next to my iPhone. However, I have no interest in using another USB wall adapter or buying/using another really long cable.

So, is there any small lightning cable power splitter for charging two devices from one cable? What I mean is a small adapter where on one side there is a female lightning port (to connect to the already existing cable) and on the other side the cable splits into two small cables each with a male lightning connector.

I imagine this would be quite easy to do by manually splicing the cables. Since I'm only going to use this for charging (not syncing), it is just a question of splicing two male lightning connectors together by putting power and ground in parallel. But I'd be willing to pay a few bucks for something fabricated. Does anyone know of any product like this?

Note: This is NOT a power/headphone lightning splitter for iPhone7+. I've searched the internet with all the search terms I can think of and all I can find are those splitters.


texts: KeyRemap4MacBook Meta + KEY Repeat Question

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I come from a Linux/PC world as a heavy Emacs user and for the last year, I've "dealt" with the standard OS X key remapping. It's OK, but the things that bother me are:

Option + Key doesn't operate as Meta by default (though works inside Emacs), instead it operates as a compose key.
Control-C/Control-V are not true cut-n-paste
Why the hell did the Function key have to be where the Control-L key should be?

I spent some time yesterday with KeyRemap4MacBook and PCKeyboardHack and came up with a general approximation of what I want.

PCKeyboardHack - Swap CapsLock

Select Caps Lock->Change Caps Lock
Enter keycode 63 (for Fn key)

KeyRemap4MacBook - Move things around

Command_L to Escape
Command_R to Escape
ControL to Fn
Fn to Control_L (+ Option-L+Fn to Fn)
Option_L to Command_L
Option_R to Control_R
Use PC Style Copy/Paste

The only thing that remains "broken" is the use of Option_L or Option_R as a pressed meta-key and another key on the keyboard. Meta-F and Meta-B are commonly used Emacs keybindings for hopping forward and backwards between words. With the configuration above, I must release the Option key to affect Meta again. I've tried to play around with the Key Repeat settings, but haven't come up with a solution using the KR4MB UI. Any suggestions? Am I going to have to abandon this pursuit altogether?


texts: how to uninstall the app or packages in the Home-brew

texts:
How to uninstall all the app in the home-brew with out deleting the brew.
and I also wants to know how to delete the waste packages or unnecessary packages in my home brew.
Can anyone pls help me how to do this.


texts: I right-clicked on a number, and iTerm2 shows me the number conversion in hex. But what is the 168.64 Ki number? What does Ki denote?


texts: Ping all the ip range of a local network

texts: It is possible to reproduce the task via terminal as Angry IP Scanner does, i.e. scan all the subnet?


texts:
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Now when I open my application folder via the Dock there are different programs present, e.g. Automator, which I moved to the "Utilities" sub-folder on Snow Leopard.

If I try to move them again to the sub-folder I get the message that the application cannot be moved to this sub-folder since the sub-folder cannot be changed.


texts: cant Initialize OSX. Interrogation folder

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I was trying to solve an issue with memory disappearing to 0kb, and after reading some post here I have :

delete some files from cache folder(library)straight to rubbish bin
An deleted some core files applying this in the terminal:

cd /cores; sudo find . -mtime +30 -type f -delete

I've stopped bot process as something was not right (some items where changing the logo as programs for example)
MyMac has restarted to the folder with interrogation.
 I ve tried to find solution but nothing. Neither command+r neither alt key where working.
alt(option) just show a mouse in the screen.

If there is something I can do ? Still don’t understand why it happened as I understand here it was safe to do it. Is there a solution not loosing the info?


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To improve my paperless workflow, I'm looking to achieve the following, potentially using automator / applescript. I need to be able to run it using Hazel, or as a folder action (not run manually):

1) Split a multi-page scanned & OCR'ed PDF into it's constituent pages, each in an individual file. Each file must contain the image and associated text.

2) Append a single PDF page to an existing multi-page PDF.

I've got a kind of working solution to the first item - create an automator workflow using the action that splits a PDF into odd and even pages, repeated several times. In my case I repeated it 6 times which produces 64 pages in the end, although most of them are blank and can be trashed based on their size. This takes a while to run though, so I'd like to know if there is a more streamlined way of accomplishing this.

The second one I've got nothing approaching a solution so far.


texts: Mail notification shows new email, quickly disappears and email is missing

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Any email I get pops up a notification in the upper-right corner of my screen, as per the native notification settings in the Apple Mail app. Every now and then I will get a quick notification indicating a new email, but then the email notification (and email) will quickly disappear. It's almost as if it was "recalled" by the email server and removed from my machine.

I haven't been able to find any consistency in the type of email that is received - I usually only get a glimpse of who sent it (always a company, never a personal one, at least not that I've noticed) and it's not like the ones that disappear are always from the same place or anything.

The emails in question are from one of my gmail accounts. I have no filters or manually-added spam blockers or blacklisted emails set up in that account, and I've got the email set up with IMAP into Apple's Mail client.

Anyone seen anything like this before? Any ideas of how to stop having these emails disappear?


texts: How can I type a backtick on an Estonian keyboard?

texts:
I am actually using the sweidsh keyboard with an estonian layout, so the backtick key itself produces ' and while holding Shift, it produces –.

Is there maybe a way to create a global keyboard shortcut?


texts: How to fix internet sharing that doesn't route packets except DNS?

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I have a Mac mini running 10.8.2. It connects to the internet over Wi-Fi and everything seems to work. I want to make this Wi-Fi available to another computer connecting to the mini's Ethernet.

My Wi-Fi router is at 10.0.0.1.

I have experimented with a bunch of static and dynamic settings.  This is what I have currently:

mini
Static IP: 192.168.2.1
Netmask:   255.255.255.0
Router:    10.0.0.1

Internet Sharing is set to go from Wi-Fi to Ethernet. In this configuration:

The mini will serve DHCP address over Ethernet.
The mini will provide DNS resolution over Ethernet.
The mini will NOT route packets for external hosts.
The connected computer can ping or ssh to the mini.
The connected computer can resolve DNS.
The connected computer cannot ping the router, Google, or any other external computers.

Here is a small dump of hopefully useful things from the command line:

boots@eiji:~$ ps ax | egrep '(bootp|natp)'
52502   ??  S      0:00.01 bootpd -d -P
52503   ??  S      0:29.94 natpmpd -d -y bridge0 en1
53729 s001  S+     0:00.00 egrep (bootp|natp)
boots@eiji:~$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=2b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>
    ether 3c:07:54:58:2f:9c
    media: autoselect (none)
    status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 68:a8:6d:58:06:e7
    inet6 fe80::6aa8:6dff:fe58:6e7%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
    inet 10.0.0.145 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
    media: autoselect
    status: active
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
    ether 0a:a8:6d:58:06:e7
    media: autoselect
    status: inactive
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    lladdr a4:b1:97:ff:fe:d9:44:ca
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive
bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether ac:de:48:65:39:32
    inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
    Configuration:
        priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0 maxage 0
        ipfilter disabled flags 0x2
    member: en0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
             port 4 priority 0 path cost 0


texts: How to play video to Chromecast with subtitle?

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I have an .mp4 file and an .srt file. How do I play video to Chromecast with subtitles?

[edited]

Applogize for the lack of information,
i'm looking for iphone / ipad app for streaming to my chromecast


texts: Unidentified file or application keeps auto-opening. How do I identify it?

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Periodically over the last few days, a system dialogue has opened with the familiar verification progress bar on my laptop, without listing any file name or identifying the file being verified in any way. This is apparently some package or file or application auto-opening. I always click the little X to cancel as fast as I can, because it seems to verify quite quickly and I have no idea what it is. This seems to happen approximately every hour or so while the laptop is open.
This continued after rebooting my laptop and updating the OS, in the hope that it was some loose thread or update or something.
I have no idea what this file/app is, and I'm pretty sure that I don't want it to open, and I suspect that it came from some sketchy link I shouldn't have clicked on.
So the question is:
How do I identify this file?
How do I identify the process that apparently auto-opens internet stuff?
I thought that I might be able to find the filename in some system log somewhere but I'm not sure where to look. Activity monitor doesn't seem to list anything obvious, and I'm not sure what to look for.
Unfortunately, there are enough annoying problems with file verification in OSX that googling this problem isn't very useful.
I am running 10.15.17 (catalina).
p.s. I misguidedly installed avast at some point in the past and now can't uninstall it without a lot of work. I have a slight suspicion that it might be Avast-related but I have no way to check.


texts: Can I safely delete photo library to save room

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In order to start using the Photos app on my mac, which only has a 500gb HDD, I had to plug in a 1TB external, and use that to house the Photos database file. I had to do this because I had more than 500gb of photos.

Now they are all imported to the photos application, and I have verified they are synced up to the cloud.

Is it safe at this point to delete the photo database file from my external HDD, and then reopen the Photos application and start from scratch using my Mac's HDD with "optimize storage" enabled?

I assume it would just download everything from the cloud in a storage optimized way.


texts:
I like to make a movie from my holidays where I travelled a lot through a country. What I would like to include is an animated traveling route in the Indiana Jones style. That means, you see an old fashioned map with some points for cities on it and then a red line is starting to connect city 1 to your next destination. I would like to do this by a straight line when I travel by plane and an actual path (maybe from a GPS file) when I travel by train. I hope you guys understand what I want!

Is this somehow possible with iMovie? Or are there any suggestions on how to do this? The build in map solution from iMovie is not what I am searching for since I see no way to customize the map as well as the path - only straight lines are possible, no real paths!


texts: Why are my iPhone notes being emailed to me?

texts:
I just realized that some of the notes in my iPhone (i.e. in the standard "Notes" app) are emailed to me soon after I write them.

There is no "to" address in the email so I can't tell what address they're being sent to (I use different email addresses for everything).

I may decide that this is a useful feature but to be honest I'm a little creeped out by it.  How does it know what email address to send it to?  I'm assuming it's the one associated with my Apple id but like I said I don't know.

How can I stop it (if I decide I want to), and what options are there for controlling this (and where are they?).

I don't see any settings for this anywhere, in Settings or in the Notes app itself.


texts: Why my apps got deleted - diskspace/memory low?

texts: This sucks - my apps got deleted so when I try to open them, I see this question mark in the icons on the tray. Background apps like docker etc, also are not appearing in the system tray at the top status bar. What the hell happened? My computer was low on memory apparently but I don't see why that would delete files?


texts: If i cancel Apple Music subscription, and then resubscribe almost immediately, will my previously downloaded music still be there?

texts:
I need to change from another country's App Store to the US App Store as I have relocated. Some apps, like Venmo, are only available in the US App Store. So to download them, I need to change to the US App Store. But to do so, I have to unsubscribe from Apple Music.

My intention is to resubscribe to Apple Music as soon as I am on the US App Store.

My question is: would my downloaded music from Apple Music (not previously purchased) still be there when I resubscribe?

I'd rather not the hassle of having to search and download all the tracks i previously downloaded when i resubscribe.

Is this documented or explained by Apple or someone’s personal experience?


texts: MBP 2009 does not detect new Internal SSD disk

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I have a Macbook Pro - Mid 2009 - 15"
I bought a new SSD (Crucial) to replace the SATA Internal Disk. Problem is that the computer does not detect new  Internal SSD disk.
The first thing I did was to format the new SSD as: Mac OS Plus (registered) with Utility Disk app with a MBP 2014
This is what I tried so far with cero results:
Once I install the new physical SSD disk:

I can not reboot the computer from a USB booteable pen with the shorcut [POWER BUTTON + ALT]. I get a flashing folder with a question mark in the screen.
I can not reboot the computer with the shorcut [COMMAND BUTTON + R] to star from the Recovery Mode. I get a flashing folder with a question mark in the screen.
I also tried with [COMMAND BUTTON + R] with the computer connected to Internet by cable. I get a flashing folder with a question mark in the screen.

Then I tried this:

I connected the new SSD to other computer (MBP 2014), here I am able to access the disk with no problem, write it, etc. No problem at all. This means to me that the disk has no problem.
I put the old disk back into my MBP 2009. I worked fine. This means to me that the connector cable to the SATA Disk is fine.
If I connect the new SSD via USB wire to the the MBP 2009 I have no problem to access and write the new disk. This means to me that the format of the new SSD is compatbible with the MBP 2009.

I tried two SSD disk far: Crucial 120GB and Kingston 120GB. But it didn't make any difference. Same problem in both disks.
This is driving me crazy. I installed a lot of disks in my computer and this is the first time I can not get it.
What else can I do?
Thanks.


texts:
I've been getting this popup every day for the past few days...

  There is no application set to open the URL rstf3://

I cannot figure out what is generating it, nor what an rstf3 URL might even be.
Google came up blank, Console shows no reference to it at all; I had hoped it might at least give a clue as to what app was trying to request it.

iGetter is the only new app on here which could possibly fit the timeline; I'll try quitting it tonight & see if the message no longer appears, but I'd really like to know what it is & what app type might be used to handle it if it's a legit request.

Running OS X 10.11.5 on a Mac Pro 5,1 with both ethernet & Wifi connectivity, if relevant.


texts: Error when trying to install Snow Leopard Server in Parallels

texts:
In a previous question, it was asked if Snow Leopard Server is supported in Parallels 8, and from Parallels documentation, it would appear that it is.

I am trying to stand up a Snow Leopard Server VM on my Parallels instance, but to no avail. I get a window each time saying, simply, Mac OS X can not be installed on this computer.

Has anyone here had success installing SL Server? If so, did you also encounter this error? And, if you saw this error, how did you overcome it?


texts: Difference between du and Finder file sizes

texts:
I was having a look at the size of libBLAS.dylib at some location in my Mac and du showed it's file size as 572K while the allocated file size (showed by Finder) was 1.4MB. I've read that the lack of sparse files on HFS+ can cause this discrepancy.

My question is that why would a compiled shared library need to be sparse - after all, it's not like anything is going to be modifying it.


texts: Partition Type : FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

texts:
I know this has been asked on here before, and similarly to the others I have not backed up my data... I found this duplicate and got lost in the answer and didn't want to mess too much with the tables without finding out if that is even the right fix for my issue.

The drive is my internal drive from my old Macbook Pro (early 2011 model, was dying from the video card issue after having the logic board replaced about a year ago) which was dual booted with Windows 10, but my computer got stuck while trying to boot and had to be force shut down. Took the drive out and plugged it in to another Macbook and it didn't mount the MacOS partition.

sudo diskutil list

yields:

/dev/disk0
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            394.0 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                105.2 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
2: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               419.9 GB   disk1s2
3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                80.0 GB    disk1s3

As well as

sudo gpt -r show disk1

yields:

gpt show: disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  820115416      2  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
  820525056  156248064      3  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  976773120         15
  976773135         32         Sec GPT table
  976773167          1         Sec GPT header

Thanks so much for any help that can be given!


texts: Using AppleScript to open Mail by MessageID

texts:
Using the AppleScript below I am unable to open the message ID. This same message ID is in a note in my Reminders app and clicking on the link works correctly there.
set emailID to "message://<DB43DAF1-7B87-4DE5-99DB-EC11CB0F6FF7@gmail.com>"

tell application "Mail"
    open location emailID
end tell

I get the pop-up error

The operation couldn't be completed.
(MCMailErrorDomain error 1030.)
Mail was unable to open the URL "(null)".

I've researched that error code but the answers don't seem applicable. Also, when removing the word "location" from my AppleScript, Mail will open but with a blank new email.
Any help getting this script to actually open the email with that ID would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Upgrading to Mac OS 10.15.7 has erased contacts out of my iCloud conacts book

texts:
After upgrading to Mac OS 10.15.7, two contacts who are on my "Favorites" list appear to have their contact records removed from iCloud -- my brother and my doctor office.
The numbers continue to appera in the Favorates list (on my iphone), but since the contact records are gone now show their numbers instead of their names.
I cannot locate the contact records in Contacts (app) on the mac, or in the Contacts app on the phone. I also cannot locate these records in the iCloud.com through access to my icloud account.
they appear to just be vanished completely out of icloud, which is very concerning because I do not know what the scope or impact of this is.


texts: How to remove apps that are remembered by App Store?

texts:
Over the past few years, I have downloaded various apps onto my iPhone from the App Store.  I have noticed that the App Store remembers the apps that I have downloaded.  So, for instance: If I download an app and then delete it from my phone and go back into the App Store, the download icon is different (it doesn't say "+Get" like apps that I have never downloaded before, instead it will have an icon of a cloud with an arrow pointing downwards).

How to I get the App Store/iCloud to forget these programs?


texts: ios restore to previous version/model - without jailbreaking the original?

texts: My non-jailbroken iPhone 4S needs to go for a warranty repair, and I want to restore its data to an older non-jailbroken 3G or to another even older jailbroken 2G, but of course itunes refuses to comply :). Is there a way to do this "innocent" operation? Thanks a lot


texts: Using Server 5.0.15 to share internet WITHOUT internet sharing

texts:
I am running a mid 2010 MacMini as a server. OS X 10.11.3 and Server 5.0.15. I am connecting to the internet on the built in Ethernet (Ethernet) and have a USB to GigaBit Ethernet adapter (Ethernet 2) going to a wireless AP (WAP).

I have DHCP and DNS services configured and enabled. If I turn ICS on in the sharing control panel it ignores the DHCP service from the server, yet allows me to connect to the internet from my clients. This also breaks the local DNS unless I start changing IPs and such. If I turn it off, I get control over the DHCP server, but nothing connects to the internet.

How can I use BOTH? Or at least configure the settings on the server correctly to "bridge" the Ethernet and Ethernet 2 adapters to allow internet access to my clients?

I am looking for a NAT function someplace that is NOT the Internet Connection Sharing on the Sharing Control Panel.

Built in Ethernet config:

IP: DHCP from Cable Modem
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 - DHCP from Cable Modem
DNS: 127.0.0.1 to use the Servers own DNS Service
Search Domain: My FQDN of the server.
Router: DHCP from Cable Modem

USB to GigaBit Adapter Config:

IP: 192.168.3.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DNS: 127.0.0.1
Search Domain: My FQDN of the server.
Router: Address acquired from DHCP for the Built in Ethernet

DHCP:

Name: Home
IP Pool: 192.168.3.2 - 192.168.3.253
Lease: 1 Hour
Interface: USB to GigaBit Adapter
Router: 192.168.3.1 - Must be on the same network as the IP Pool and Interface.
Note: 16+ IP Reservations for devices in the house.

WAP:

IP: 192.168.3.254

DNS:

Permissions: All Networks
Client Lookup: All Clients
Forwarding Servers: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

Not sure what other information to put in here, it is late and I am tired...

Ask me some questions and let me know if you have any insight into the new 5.0.15 server.app


texts: Can I re-download an audiobook that I purchased from iTunes again?

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Apps purchased from the app store and songs purchased from iTunes can be downloaded again by going to the purchased section in the respective app and clicking the cloud button.

Neither app shows the audio-books I have purchased and when I look at a specific book I have already purchased in the iTunes store it shows the buy button.

Will I get charged again if I click the buy button or will it just re-download it?


texts:
Is it possible to mirror a window? I mean to make exactly same duplicate of window?

It would be useful for me if I can make one duplicate small and other one big and put it into separate desktop.


texts: Where can I download the old Mavericks-compatible version of One Note?

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As of version 15.7.1, MS OneNote requires OSX 10.10: Yosemite. But company policy prevents me from upgrading to Yosemite.

Any idea how I can download an older version of OneNote that is still Mavericks Compatible?


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Whenever I print something from my MacBook, the printout is always in color.

On my Windows machine, I could go to my printer preferences and set it to always print in grayscale. Then, no matter what application is printing, they always printed in black & white.

I have searched and I have not found a setting on my Mac which allows me to say "color prints are expensive so dont use color when printing".  In other words, "always use grayscale or black and white" when printing.  Where can I change my printing preferences to always use grayscale?


texts: Can the iPhone 6/6+ Front Facing Camera shoot at 240 fps?

texts: Can the front facing camera of iPhone 6/iPhone 6 plus achieve the 240 fps slow mo capability? I searched and cannot find information about this. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How do I prevent the permissions denied message from being displayed when I do a find command?

texts:
I'm trying to run a find command, aka:

find / -name "some_file" -print

and my results are full of permission denied messages:

find: /.DocumentRevisions-V100: Permission denied

How do I prevent them from showing up in my search results?


texts: Using Time Machine with Virtualization (Parallels, VirtualBox, VMWare, etc...)

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Since a single small change to a VM file should (I think) cause the entire multi-gigabyte file to be backed up again, are there any ideas I can use to more effectively backup my machine?

Assume that I only need one copy of a VM, and changes made to the VM don't matter.

For example:

Backup the VM using time machine once, then exclude the folder that contains all the VMs
Exclude the VM's altogether and manually back up the VMs
Let Apple's software do it's thing, it will be effective at managing the disk space


texts: How could I output audio to the microphone port on Macbook Pro 15" Late 2011?

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I've seen cases where people record audio with the headphones port, so is it possible to listen to audio with the microphone port? I do not have any torx or triwing screwdrivers right now so a headphone port replacement is not possible.
Thanks!


texts: What's the meaning of the first two lines occurring after opening a Terminal window?

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I have an issue when I'm connected to public Wi-Fi networks with my Terminal,
When I run it, I see the following:

Last login: Sun Jul 26 11:58:02 on ttys001
Inbal-TOSH:~ chen$

'Inbal-TOSH' is a name of a computer in the network I guess. but I don't understand why am I seeing it.


texts: I prefer installing stuff from their source and dont use package managers generally. Has anyone here tried building python2.4 from source here? If so, had any luck with the same?


texts: What is the best way to test Metal - MBPr late 2012

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I just finished upgrading from 10.10 to 10.11 and so far its allot more smooth and responsive.

I was just wondering if theres any particular games or apps which utilise the new Metal gfx technology which I can checkout now. Anything that really showcases the new technology :)

I play Guildwars 2 a little, will non Metal games benefit?

And/or is there a way to know if my Macbook is using Metal or not.

Thanks


texts: How can I make bootable macOS High Sierra without the HighSierra App from App Store

texts: I have downloaded a genuine copy of macOS High Sierra from a website and after I opened it I can see many part files (like part 1, part 2 ...). How can I install macOS from these part files? How can I make a bootable out of it?


texts: Pause and continue Wi-Fi sniffing in Terminal using airport command

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I'm capturing packets on a specific channel using "airport" command on Mac OS X Sierra. The command saves the packets into a *.cap file in my tmp folder. The file is already almost 2 GB large.
What I would like to do is to pause the capturing process and then be able to continue to capture on the same channel and into the same *.cap file.
I'm afraid to just abort the command in Terminal using CTRL+C because then after rerunning the command I suspect it will just create another *.cap file and not continuing using the original one.

The exact command I ran is:

sudo airport sniff 12

Anyone can help please? Thanks in advance.


texts: How to add space between each last body paragraph and heading in Pages '09?

texts: The only way I found is to manually add line breaks, which can lead to inconsistency. Is there a way to automate this ?


texts: Is there a way to add a hardware keyboard layout with F1, F2, F3... keys on the iPad Air?

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I'm using TinyTerm ITX on the iPad Air to access our ERP software in Wyse60 mode.  Some keys are not functioning properly, but for the most part usable.  On various Bluetooth keyboards, the Fn-F1, Fn-F2, Fn-F3... keys just won't work.  I tried the hardware keyboard layout "U.S. International - PC" with some success with slash commands, but not with the F1, F2, F3... keys.

I just ordered another vendor's BT Keyboard to see if this one is malfunctioning.

I know the iPad Air support F keys, because the onboard keyboard has "PC English with Fn Keys".  And it works fine (except Page Up and Page Down).

It would be nice to be able to program a new hardware keyboard.  Has anyone done this on the iPad Air?


texts: is it safe to key in your password in an iphone?

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I've got 2 questions regarding password security and IPhone

If say I access the internet and key in my gmail password. Exactly how "safe" is this action?

What about if i install an app and key in my apple id password. How "safe" is this action?

(Btw I'm using IPhone 4 if its useful to the question..)