texts: iPhone sending invitations to appointments it didn't create

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Ok at work I received an appointment invite from a colleague in Outlook which I accepted. This event is an out of hours social event so I thought I would forward the invitation as an iCal event to my iPhone and add it to my Gmail calendar to keep things synced up. But when adding to my calendar my phone decided to send out an invitation to everyone who was invited to the original event inviting them to this event that had just been added to my phone.

So now not only does everyone in the office have my personal email address they also have a confusing second invitation from a random Gmail account to an event they had already accepted or declined.

Is there any way I can forward calendar appointments like this without my phone emailing everyone attending?


texts: How can I force Mac OS X 10.9 to see the ethernet port of my hub (Asix AX88179)?

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I already downloaded (and installed !) the latest file from ASIX.com, which is the latest to this day, but System Information does not list the port as being available when I connect the USB 3 Hub directly to the USB 3 port of my MBP.

Mike Ohlsen wrote here that when plugging the hub into another USB Hub, and not directly into his Mac, then OS X does detect the ethernet interface and displays the device in the System Information.

I can confirm this. But this is not useful in the long run since this defeats the whole idea of having a SuperSpeed Hub in the first place !

Leif's solution doesn't work in 10.9. That is :

sudo kextunload -b com.asix.driver.ax88179_178a
sudo kextload -b com.asix.driver.ax88179_178a

as I get this reply in Terminal :

com.asix.driver.ax88179_178a failed to load - (libkern/kext) not found; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).

And anyway it would be a terrible hassle to have to do this each and every time.

But when my "USB 3 Hub with Ethernet" is connected through a USB 2 Hub, then the kext is loaded (inexplicably for me) :

MBP-computer:~ username$ kextstat -l | grep asix
  137    0 0xffffff7f82879000 0x8000     0x8000     com.asix.driver.ax88179-178a (1.0.0) <36 34 7 5 4 3 1>

In case you wonder :

Hence my question :

How can I force Mac OS X 10.9 to see the ethernet port of my hub (Asix AX88179) ?

Since we see that Mac OS X 10.9 can see the port when the hub is connected through another hub
Since that port indeed works in this configuration, showing that the port is functional (the hardware is effectively working, so is the driver)


texts: iOS: Delete default Apple apps built-into iOS 9.3.5

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How do I delete the Apple apps that come installed by default with the iPhone, like Podcasts, iBooks or Game Center app?

It appears that these apps take up a lot of storage space on my iPhone 4s. I don't know for sure if one can or can't remove them.


texts: Notification sounds not playing after upgrading to Yosemite

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Every time a system notification sound should be played, the screen simply flashes. The Flash screen option in Accessibility is turned off but the system seems to be smart enough to flash screen instead of playing a notification sound when it is unable to do so.

Every other sounds works, even Skype's notifications.

I've checked the permissions in /System/Library/Sounds and I do have read permissions there. I can even play the sounds manually.

Any ideas what could be the cause of the problem and how to fix it?

EDIT: I have made sure that the "Sound effects" output device is set to the correct one.


texts: How to use iPhone camera as MacBook Pro iSight?

texts: Is there any software available which would allow me to use an iPhone 4S' camera as my MacBook Pro's iSight camera?  I am specifically looking for something that would allow me to use my iPhone as New Movie Recording via QuickTime Player.  Anything would be appreciated, really.  Thanks!


texts: XCode commits/pushes code to GitHub but stays hooked on commit sheet

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When I commit/push my code to GitHub through the XCode interface everything works fine. (Code is committed/pushed) but XCode doesn't seem to get that and wait for somethings.

I have to cancel the commit (which was already done, so nothing happens) to get by to the code.

Am I the only one to have this problem ?

PS : XCode 5/Mavericks 10.9.1.

Edit : I doesn't seems to be clear : The git process works: Files are committed.  It's not a git problem.


texts: automounting NFS 4 results in kernel panic

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Has anyone been able to get a working NFS 4 automount in Mac OS X?

I'm desperately trying to find a way to automatically mount a NFS v4 share from my NAS to my MacBook Pro with Mac OS 10.11.6, but keep hitting a kernel panic.

Upon boot/login, the automount works perfectly. And I can manually u/mount the share (mount -o nfsvers=4 nas:/nfs/htpc-media /tmp/foobar) without trouble. But when I put my Mac to sleep, I get a kernel panic about 2 seconds after waking it back up.

NFS v3 works a little better, but it will still occasionally crash after a few wakes. I'd really prefer to run v4 services only.

Here's the client setup:

/etc/auto_master

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master            # Use directory service
/net                    -hosts          -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid,nfc
/home                   auto_home       -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers        -fstab
/-                      -static
/- auto_nfs

/etc/auto_nfs

/nfs/media -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=4,soft,intr nas:/nfs/htpc-media

And on the NAS (running Debian Stretch):

/etc/exports

/nfs/htpc-media *(ro,no_subtree_check,insecure,fsid=1)

Stuff I've tried:

turning off firewalls on both ends
using IP addresses instead of hostnames (i.e. 192.168.1.99 instead of nas - rules out DNS issues)
lots of permutations of client mount options
booting Mac OS X into safe mode (rules out kext)
poring through Console to see if there's anything interesting or related
automounting shares from a completely separate server (rules out server misconfiguration)

Am I missing something obvious? Any help would be appreciated. Happy to post crash logs if that'd be useful.


texts: iTunes 11 Mini Player disappeared off screen

texts: I accidentally dragged the iTunes 11 Mini Player off screen (near the OS X menu bar) and it disappeared. Showing all windows on the screen didn't help, the player window is nowhere to be seen. Switching to the main iTunes Window works, but as soon as I switch to the Mini Player again, it's off screen again. How can I get it back?


texts: How to properly install Bootcamp onto internal SATA disk on Mac Pro (2019)

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I recently got the new Mac Pro (2019) with 256GB SSD. The built-in drive is quite small to hold both macOS and Windows, so I installed a SATA SSD using some DIY-cabling solutions to the internal SATA port as well as a 3D printed case (here is a good thread for instructions on that, I didn't get the J2i because I want SSDs).

Now I want to install Bootcamp onto the new SSD. Here are the methods I've tried (and why they didn't work):

Partition with Boot Camp Assistant and ignore the new partition and custom install to the SSD: the Windows installer decided to automatically install to the new partition instead of showing the choose disk screen.
Disable Secure Boot, install Windows with a USB install media: installation works fine, however, after installing Windows and the Boot Camp Driver, the system still does not recognize most devices (e.g. keyboard and trackpad doesn't work, they do work in 1). Would call that fail.
Install in the new partition in anyway and use software like ghost or Winclone to copy to external disk: for some reasons neither software works. (maybe it needs to be updated?)
Install macOS on the SATA disk, than run Bootcamp: The Boot Camp Assistant on the new macOS install also wants to partition the main system disk instead of the SATA disk.
Install just like method 3, but using a tool like ntfs-3g to manually copy the file to the SSD, then rebuilding the EFI partition with bcdboot: works and boot, with keyboard and mouse working, however, some core components like start menu and Microsoft Edge not working.

Which method should I keep investigating in? Or are there is another way that I've missed?

I remembered on the old Mac Pro there is an option to format an entire disk to dedicate to Bootcamp, however, it is not present here.


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I bought a new 2014 macbook pro two weeks ago and yesterday I've had 2 consecutive grey screens with restart and another one today. It happened while opening a movie in vlc or when exiting full screen in vlc.

The error report is here. Can anyone read it? Thank you

Mon Sep 15 20:08:12 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800d6dc24e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff800d6a3699, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x000000000dbdd000, CR3: 0x000000006b0b508c, CR4: 0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000001, RBX: 0xff000000ff000000, RCX: 0xffffff80335efe30, RDX: 0x0000000000000821
RSP: 0xffffff81fd8dbd20, RBP: 0xffffff81fd8dbd50, RSI: 0x00000000252ab7e5, RDI: 0xffffff80140075e8
R8:  0x0000000000000000, R9:  0xffffff81fd8dbed0, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0xffffff80140075e8, R13: 0xffffff8011f36000, R14: 0x000000000003f000, R15: 0xffffff8043e6abc0
RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff800d6a3699, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000000
Fault CR2: 0x000000000dbdd000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x0

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81cfa03c50 : 0xffffff800d622f79
0xffffff81cfa03cd0 : 0xffffff800d6dc24e
0xffffff81cfa03ea0 : 0xffffff800d6f3746
0xffffff81cfa03ec0 : 0xffffff800d6a3699
0xffffff81fd8dbd50 : 0xffffff800d67833e
0xffffff81fd8dbf20 : 0xffffff800d6dc68c
0xffffff81fd8dbfb0 : 0xffffff800d6f364b

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Google Chrome He

Mac OS version:
13E28

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.3.0: Tue Jun  3 21:27:35 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.110.17~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: BBFADD17-672B-35A2-9B7F-E4B12213E4B8
Kernel slide:     0x000000000d400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800d600000
System model name: MacBookPro11,3 (Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 22017411075576
last loaded kext at 21996892478151: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMCEReporter  104 (addr 0xffffff7f8fc28000, size 49152)
last unloaded kext at 18693822674439: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMCEReporter    104 (addr 0xffffff7f8fc28000, size 32768)


texts: My IPhone was on 20% last night and I immediately plugged it in to the wall, it continuously kept connecting and disconnecting and at times giving "Charging is not supported with this accessory". Today, when I woke up, I noticed that my phone was off. I tried to charge it, I used 2 different chargers, I tried it with USB and plug. I know it turns on because when I hold the button There is an image of a battery with the thing.


texts: Specfic epubs downloaded outside the iBooks store not syncing on a particular mac

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I have a handful of epubs I downloaded outside of the iBooks Store and read them across two different macs and an iPhone.

For reasons I cannot explain some books’ data  (highlights, notes, place in book) will sync across the devices while others do not.

The following options are turned on in my iPhone settings:

Sync Bookmarks and Notes
Sync Collections

On both macs I have the following turned on:

Sync bookmarks, highlights, collections across devices

I have not used syncing via iTunes. So some books sync via iCloud while others do not.

Despite syncing turned on, I cannot get a Macbook Pro to sync with the highlights on the iPhone for certain book. I drag the epub into iBooks on the Macbook and it thinks its a “new” book. FWIW, I have a Mac Mini that seems to sync fine.

How can I correct this?

Hardware:

Macbook Pro
Intel Core i7 3.1 Ghz
OS X 10.11.4

Mac Mini
2.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
OS X 10.11.4

iPhone SE 64GB
iOS 9.3.1

Thanks in advance.


texts: OSX El Capitan freezes after connecting to SMB share

texts: Why does OS X El Capitan freeze after it connects to an SMB share? The OS will successfully connect to the remote SMB share and mount it.  After a short time passes, the Finder freezes and the entire OS follows.  What should I do?


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I've decided I want to take the plunge and leave Gmail for Mail, using my iCloud account. Why? I've lost trust in Google (incl. their search bias, how they handle my privacy, and how they treat the end-user as a commodity to sell rather than a customer to serve). I know there are others like me (I just found today: www.leavegooglebehind.com)

I'm looking for answers on how to swap over completely from Gmail to Mail while retaining the functionality I'm accustomed to. I've done a bit of researching and can't seem to nail the answers to my questions. Your answers on any of the items below would be much appreciated. And if you think there's a better way I should be asking the question, please let me know.

Here's what I'm looking for especially:

   I use Gmail's labels a lot. How can I get the same
    effect in Mail? Smart folders? (I do wish smart folders synced to
    iCloud.) Note: I am not asking about replicating + maintaining Gmail labels in Mail — I don't need to replicate + maintain: I'm leaving Gmail. I just need a system with a similar functionality. Something I could use on both my Mac and my iPad would be ideal.
   I have a lot of Gmail labels. What's a good way to export
    from Gmail without getting oodles of duplicates? Forwarding folder
    by folder would be time consuming + lossy, and stripping the labels
    would be counterproductive. Are those my only real options? Note: Yes, I know this question does get attention, but a lot of the attention is quite old. Both Gmail and OSX have changed a lot over the last few years. I'd love a good recent resource, based on Lion + Mt Lion.
    I use a lot
    of Gmail filters. Mail rules seem even better, but is there any way
    to automate transferring my filters to Mail?
  I use Gmail 'send mail
    as' with a collection of non-gmail addresses (from my domains). Is
    there any way to use my iCloud account to send from a non-iCloud
    address? Or, is my only option to sign up with a different webmail
    service in order to send from my alternate addresses in Mail?
   Like many people, I
    have my own set of pre-defined Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Do I just
    need to tough it out and learn the Mail shortcuts, or is there a
    good, free/inexpensive app for adding shortcuts to Mail? And no, I
    don't mean through SysPrefs (I know how to do that ;) ). I mean Gmail
    style single-letter shortcuts, like 'r' for reply.
    Tips for
    converting Gmail Contacts to Address Book. Note: This area also gets some attention, but again the attention I keep hitting is old.

If you've made the switch, I'd be especially interested to hear your experience! I'd really like to get Mail up and running sooner and rid myself of Google.


texts: Trigger the Creation of a Specific Preference List?

texts:
I have the following function:

hardware_model () {

  local hardware_mod
  hardware_mod=$(defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist 'CPU Names' \
  | cut -sd '"' -f 4 \
  | uniq)

  write_header "Hardware Model" "$hardware_mod"
}

which returns, e.g.: MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014).

However, on some machines--running the same OS X version--I get:

2018-08-20 11:59:30.331 defaults[25029:3478859]
The domain/default pair of
(/var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist, CPU
Names) does not exist .

My question is: what specific action(s) trigger the creation of: com.apple.SystemProfiler.plist? I'd like to be able to create this file reliably in OS X 10.10-10.13 (inclusive), from a terminal, if possible.

Thanks.


texts:
I'm trying to connect my MBP15 2017 to my router using a Dell DA300 hub (Wifi works well). I keep getting the self-assigned IP issue.
What I've already tried:

rebooting
rebooting the router
using a different port on the router
using a different port on the MBP
resetting NVRAM
resetting SMC
giving the MBP a DHCP client ID
creating a new location (then it doesn't connect at all)
disabling SIP
disabling Lulu firewall
disabling pfctl

I haven't tried using it with another computer as I only have this one available. Do you have any other ideas what may help?


texts: Is there a way to not have Lion not launch apps from previous startup?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Reopen windows when logging back in - NOT
  How can I keep restore for apps in Lion without having session restore when I log in?

I've heard conflicting info on this - seems like a good place for an option on startup. Any ideas? I just want a clean slate and find it annoying.


texts: Any ideas why Mavericks is slowing down due to BetterSnapTool?

texts:
I use BetterSnapTool to resize my windows with keyboard shortcuts. Since upgrading to Mavericks, after I've used my computer for 6-12ish hours, scrolling and moving things around the screen using the trackpad becomes sluggish and stutters. When I close BetterSnapTool, it fixes the issue, and it stays fixed until I relaunch.

Any ideas what is causing the issue? Is there an easy, low overhead way to automatically quit and relaunch BetterSnapTool every 4 hours or so?


texts: Why are these thumbnails different resolutions?

texts:
These are the thumbnails of the same photo in my Camera Roll and Photo Stream:

Notice that the one on the left is “fuzzier”. Zoom in on the spots on the tablecloth or the text on the book cover for example.

All photos I take are the same. This is on an iPhone 8, with iOS 12.4.1 and I don’t use iCloud Photo Library.

Is there a technical reason for this, or is it simply a bug?


texts: How to make the Feedback Assistant app visible in the Launchpad?

texts:
I can open the Feedback assistant app from the path /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Feedback Assistant.app but it is not visible in the Launchpad in Mojave 10.14.6 .

How do I make it visible and open it directly from the Launchpad rather than having to pin it onto the Dock?


texts: Why is iBooks progress incorrect in my Siri Suggestions, and how is this fixed?

texts: In this case, Siri Suggestions implies that I have just started the book. I've actually been reading it for weeks and am on page 685/1985. Clicking the Siri Suggestion for the book brings me to the correct page. This is on iOS 9.1 (13B143).


texts: Is there a relatively straight forward way to make a note of all applications/programs installed on my mac for future reference?

texts: Is there a relatively straight forward way to make a note of all applications/programs installed on my mac for future reference, without having to note down each application one by one via word etc


texts: Why do some programs start with a one minute delay, and how to fix it?

texts:
Last week, my Mac running 10.15.7 became slow: starting apps took a long time. This is the case for both UI and console programms. After some analysis, I found out that

In most cases, program startup is delayed by exactly 1 minute
Most preinstalled apps (Maps, Preview, ...) start fast, as usual

What I have tried so far

Check if there are resource hungry background proceses (there are none; CPU and IO are low)
Reset NVRAM+PRAM (option+command+P+R on boot)
Check Traps log; looks OK

It seems that on console, most programs at /usr/local/bin are affected, while most /usr/bin/ programs are not.
The mysterious delays seem to be interrelated: when I run sleep 20; time git and time git simultaneously, time says
 real   0m38.796s
 user   0m0.003s
 sys    0m0.005s

for the 1st call and
 real   1m0.537s
 user   0m0.003s
 sys    0m0.013s

for the 2nd.
Any ideas?


texts: Apple Photos sets the wrong date for videos

texts:
I have an archive of old photos and videos taken years ago which I want to import in Photos.
The photos are imported correclty: the right date is assigned to each one of them, according to the Modified Date.
However, the videos do not have the right date assigned to them. Instead of the Modified Date, the current date is used (the date of the moment of the import).
Is there any way to tell Photos to use the Modified Date always?
The Modified Date of the videos is correct, pointing to the moment when the video was taken.

I am using a MacBook Pro with the latest software on it.


texts:
I already install PostgreSQL using homebrew "brew install postgresql". But after that, I will start the service of the Postgres service its give me some error message.

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

  waiting for server to start....2019-04-28 11:59:51.107 IST [9563] LOG:
  listening on IPv6 address "::1", port 5432 2019-04-28 11:59:51.107 IST
  [9563] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "127.0.0.1", port 5432
  2019-04-28 11:59:51.109 IST [9563] LOG:  listening on Unix socket
  "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" 2019-04-28 11:59:51.119 IST [9563] LOG:  could
  not open directory "pg_tblspc": No such file or directory 2019-04-28
  11:59:51.123 IST [9564] LOG:  database system was shut down at
  2019-03-31 19:13:06 IST 2019-04-28 11:59:51.123 IST [9564] LOG:  could
  not open directory "pg_tblspc": No such file or directory 2019-04-28
  11:59:51.123 IST [9564] FATAL:  could not open directory
  "pg_replslot": No such file or directory 2019-04-28 11:59:51.124 IST
  [9563] LOG:  startup process (PID 9564) exited with exit code 1
  2019-04-28 11:59:51.124 IST [9563] LOG:  aborting startup due to
  startup process failure 2019-04-28 11:59:51.125 IST [9563] LOG:
  database system is shut down  stopped waiting pg_ctl: could not start
  server Examine the log output.

And I also not find out the pg_hba.conf file to change's socket related issue.


texts: Multiple “Disk not ejected properly” messages during sleep

texts: When I hook up a WD My Book 3TB external hard drive to my 2016 MacBook Pro via a third party USB-C to USB-A hub and let the computer sleep during the night, this is what I’m greeted with the next morning (see image, Norwegian OS). What gives? Which compoonent should I blame? I can also hear the drive at night spinning up and spinning down continuously.


texts:
Whenever I wake up my iMac, the login screen takes very long time to respond (roughly 8 seconds). This happens on Mojave (I cannot remember if it also happened in the previous OS but I think it did).

I emphasize that it does not happen on my MacBook Pro which is the same OS Mojave. Therefore I think it's an iMac issue.

What can fix this issue?


texts: Command-line tool to ask remote server for current date-time

texts:
On Mac OS X (such as 10.8 thru 10.11) is there a bundled command-line tool to ask a specific remote NTP time server for the current date-time?

I found ntpdc but this queries the ntpd utility which I assume means going through my already-defined NTP servers. I want to make a call outside of my pre-defined NTP servers.

Like this imaginary line where -s means server-address:

ntpclient -s time.euro.apple.com current


texts: Connect iPhone to Internet through laptop?

texts:
I have a laptop at work that's connected to the the office LAN.

I have an iPhone that sometimes can sort of connect via Sprint, but usually it's pretty slow.

However, when I'm at the office, my iPhone/Sprint can barely connect at all. It's hopeless.

Is there some way my laptop can create a WiFi network that my iPhone can use and thereby share my laptop's fast connection?

I've tried going to "Create network" on my laptop, then "Create computer-to-computer network" and then on my iPhone going to Settings > WiFi > Choose a Network and actually connecting to that WiFi network I just created.

Once I do that, I can look in the iPhone's settings and verify that the phone is supposedly on that WiFi network and it has an I.P. address.

However, in the upper-left area of my iPhone screen it still says, "Sprint" and there's a little circle after it. (Circle???)

In terms of functionality, the phone is still ridiculously slow as if it were still trying to use the more-or-less useless Sprint service.

So is there some better way to do this that allows my iPhone to get a fast connection?


texts: macOS Sierra Public Beta 2 stuck at downloading

texts: I have installed first public beta yesterday. Now App Store says there is a second update to public beta. There is no problem with network or internet at all but somehow update stucks at 0 bytes and no progress. Any suggestions to fix this problem?


texts: Macbook early 2009: does it has a maximum SD memory allowed

texts:
I have bought a couple of USB micro SD card readers. I have bought a couple of micro SD memories. None of them work well. The shop has told me that computers have a maximum memory allowed.

I have not found anything like that anywhere. Is there a maximum memory allowed? It depends upon the computer? It depends upon the reader? Maybe it is just that the three micro SD memories where corrupted?

By the way, I have formatted the micro sd memory with the following tool:https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ (OSX seems to be problematic to format because the compatibility with other devices. This association - software promises to solve that issue).


texts: How to get the fully resolved path of a symbolic link in Terminal?

texts:
I have a tangled mess of python installations on my laptop.  I was looking at the executables in /usr/local/bin and they are all symbolic links to ../../../Library......

There's some weird behavior surrounding this.  If I do ls -lhaG I see ---> and the relative path to the right of the symlinks:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    69B Dec  7 22:29 python3 -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin/python3

However, I can't seem to get any of the command line tools to resolve that path and display the actual path to python3.  I've found some tidbits here and there regarding use of pwd -P and the find utility to do this.  The problem is that these don't seem to work on OS X the way that people describe them working on linux (i.e. outputting the full path to the symbolic link).  They just print the symbolic links path for me:

FantasticMrFox:bin robert$ pwd -P python3
/usr/local/bin
FantasticMrFox:bin robert$ find `pwd -P` -name python3
/usr/local/bin/python3

Any ideas on what's going on here?


texts: How to view Root directory and subdirectories in Finder?

texts:
Apparently, the Macintosh HD icon on the desktop points to the root directory but it is not showing all the contents.

Some of the files and directories are the same as those which I see when I perform an ls on / dir in Terminal, but most other directories like /usr, /bin, etc are not visible.

I'm assuming that for security, Mac OS X isn't showing the rest of the files and directories. Is there a way to change this behavior so as to make it like we view root folder in Linux?

Edit:
just found the following here:

  The Finder and the Terminal show different contents for the root
  directory. Some items in the root directory are not visible in the
  Finder. This reduces visual clutter and enhances simplicity. If you
  are familiar with a UNIX-style command line you can use Terminal to
  view all items in a directory.

As per this note, Terminal has to be used to view all the items. So, what do others do? Use terminal or there is some other way?


texts: How to open mime attachments in external apps from iPhone 5S iOS 7 mail, and the best app to use

texts: How do I open mime attachments from external apps from iPhone 5S iOS 7 mail? Which apps would be the most efficient to use?


texts: Is MDM Password History stored on device or on server?

texts: I was wondering if the password history is stored on the iOS device or on the server when the password history policy is implemented through MDM (specifically, Exchange ActiveSync)? I have done a lot of reading and while I would assume that it is stored on the device, I wanted to make sure. And if it is stored on the device, can anybody say how? Same with server? (I.e. hash/salt)


texts: Jupyter Notebook launches the start page with MacVim instead of Safari

texts:
So at some point MacVim got associated with HTML pages, and since than when I launch jupyter it defaults to opening the landing page with MacVim instead of a browser.
I have changed the "Opens with" for all HTML files, and indeed if I double click an HTML file it properly loads the page in Safari, but the Jupyter issue remains as is, which is annoying. I have noticed that the icon displayed for HTML files is still MacVim's icon, as if it's the default application.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, any tips on how to resolve the situation?


texts: Can I update apps that I've already purchased through the Mac App Store?

texts: I've previously purchased several apps (Pixelmator, Rivet, a few others I can't think of now) that are now available in the Mac App Store. Given that apps in the store are not allowed to use their own updating frameworks (like Sparkle), how will I get updates to them in the future? Can I somehow tell Apple that I already own those apps and get updates through the store? Or will the individual developers have to work something out on their own?


texts: Homebrew precompiled binaries for macOS 10.15 Catalina. When they will be available?

texts: When will the Homebrew precompiled binaries for macOS 10.15 Catalina be available?


texts: What could cause a new network route to be added every time a website is accessed?

texts:
We noticed strange behaviour on a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.11.6 where the routing table is populated with hundreds of host entries for every website/host that the user has accessed. If he accesses a new host you can immediately see the new routing entry. Examples of these entries below:

17.171.8.16        10.0.0.1           UGHWIi          1        3     en0
17.172.232.142     10.0.0.1           UGHWIi          2       14     en0
17.172.232.150     10.0.0.1           UGHWIi          1        3     en0

The BSD docs show that the 'W' flag is 'The route was auto-configured based upon a local area network'.

If you disable the network adapter the entries are removed. If you re-enable it then immediately about 30 routes are created and then as the user accesses the Internet it continues to populate. This happens when using a web browser, Curl, SSH etc. However the routing entry is not added when you ping the host.

Does anyone know what could be causing this or how we can troubleshoot it?


texts: Can't upgrade to Lion with error "can't be installed because a recovery system can't be created"

texts:
I've formatted my newly bought SSD and did a clean install of Snow Leopard from the install CD I got with my MacBook.

Snow Leopard installed just fine and everything works, but when I try to upgrade to Lion from the App Store, I get an error saying

Mac OS X can't be installed on the disk Macintosh HD, because a recovery system can't be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more.

Is there any way around this? What can I do other than just cloning my old HDD to the SSD?


texts: Create encrypted partition for Time Machine from command line using diskutil or gpt, instead of Disk Utility?

texts:
I can use Disk Utility to create an encrypted partition, intended for Time Machine backups. I would choose the Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) format.

However is there also away to achieve the same from the command line, using the diskutil or gpt command, or something else perhaps?

I know how to manually create partitions with either, I just don't know how to get the exact combination of Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) as the Disk Utility App does.


texts: iPad screen doesn't respond on corners and types on its own after dropping it

texts:
My iPad's screen has been buggy ever since I dropped it 2 months ago. It was bearable back then but now it moves the icons by itself and types on its own.

The iPad does not respond to touch on all four corners and whenever I leave it it types on its own and moves the screen.

I have not tried fixing it as I wouldn't want to risk it and break it completely, although I am willing to repair if needed.


texts: Can I stream music from my laptop to my iPod Touch over wifi?

texts:
Rather than running a long cable from my Laptop to my stereo, I've been thinking for a while about getting one of those wireless devices that lets you transmit audio from your PC to a receiver plugged into the stereo.

Then I realised I already have hardware that can potentially do this - I have an iPod Touch, and a Wi-Fi network in the house.

So, is there some iPod Touch App that will let the iPod act as a Wi-Fi music receiver? And presumably, a corresponding piece of broadcast software for my (Windows Vista) Laptop?

edit: Bonus points for a solution that lets me stream all audio from the laptop, rather than just streaming music tracks.


texts: Disk Utility fails to erase external SSD, might be related to partition table

texts:
I have this external SSD that got passed around a couple of weeks ago and I think someone changed it to a Windows NTFS partition. When I try to delete files on the disk they disappear, but when I reconnect the disk they are still there. It's the same with uploading files to the disk, it appears to be successfull but if I disconnect and then reconnect the disk they are not there anymore.
I've tried using Disk Utility. First Aid says nothing is wrong with the disk. If I try to erase the disk it appears to be sucessfull, but it does not remove the files on the disk or fix the problem. I've also tried numerous terminal commands I saw online but none of them work, I usually get stuck on 'Waiting for partitions to activate'.
After some research online I think that the partition table might be broken but I don't know how to fix that.
Any help well appreciated.
This is the disk from the terminal diskutil list command

This is the output from the command sudo gpt -r show disk2


texts: How do I make my BeaconOSX iBeacon signal detection more accurate?

texts:
Here's my setup:

iMac with BeaconOSX
iPhone with Proximitask

I am successfully broadcasting a signal and am getting notifications as I come and go to my office.  However, the reminders are getting triggered well outside of the building and sometimes rapidly & repeatedly triggering when I'm 5 rooms away just sitting in the conference room.

BeaconOSX has 3 values I can adjust (other than the UUID):

major (5)
minor (5000)
measured pwr (currently set at -10)

The initial value of measured pwr was -59, and that's when it was triggering things on my phone from outside the building.  Increasing that value to -10 seems to have helped somewhat.  Today's reminders went off just outside my section of the building, but I'd like it to me as accurate as when I step inside my office.

I've read that beacons need to be calibrated, but with just BeaconOSX and Proximitask, I don't think I know how to do that.  I also read that increasing measured pwr increases the signal strength, making distance estimation more accurate.  Is reducing that value also a valid way of preventing the triggerings from happening outside my office?  Is there software I can use for calibration?


texts: CPU throttled to 0.8GHz due to "GPU LIMIT PROCHOT"

texts:
Suddenly my iMac (late 2013) started to throttle CPU to 0.80GHz, everything becomes super sluggish. It happens ~5-10 min after a fresh reboot, sometimes it goes back to full speed for short periods, but most of the time stays throttled.
I tried to reset SMC, it doesn't seem to help. Also did clean install of Sierra, also did not help...

powermetrics reports that throttling occurs due to "GPU LIMIT PROCHOT", even though temperature is normal on all sensors I could take a peek on.

$ sudo thermal levels
cpu: 180
gpu: 30
io: 30

$ sudo powermetrics
...
**** Processor usage ****

Intel energy model derived package power (CPUs+GT+SA): 2.48W

LLC flushed residency: 65.9%

System Average frequency as fraction of nominal: 27.52% (798.17 Mhz)
Package 0 C-state residency: 67.72% (C2: 9.36% C3: 2.08% C6: 56.28% C7: 0.00% )

Performance Limited Due to:
GPU LIMIT PROCHOT

Core 0 C-state residency: 83.91% (C3: 0.00% C6: 0.00% C7: 83.91% )

CPU 0 duty cycles/s: active/idle [< 16 us: 92.56/27.35] [< 32 us: 14.86/12.29] [< 64 us: 19.82/76.90] [< 128 us: 32.70/49.35] [< 256 us: 49.15/26.76] [< 512 us: 32.90/34.68] [< 1024 us: 27.15/21.80] [< 2048 us: 5.95/33.30] [< 4096 us: 0.40/36.47] [< 8192 us: 0.20/14.67] [< 16384 us: 55.49/0.00] [< 32768 us: 2.18/0.00]
CPU Average frequency as fraction of nominal: 27.52% (798.17 Mhz)

Core 1 C-state residency: 84.27% (C3: 0.00% C6: 0.00% C7: 84.27% )

CPU 1 duty cycles/s: active/idle [< 16 us: 125.26/30.32] [< 32 us: 6.94/8.92] [< 64 us: 16.05/82.65] [< 128 us: 45.19/44.79] [< 256 us: 30.52/32.31] [< 512 us: 34.29/40.83] [< 1024 us: 21.60/22.99] [< 2048 us: 10.11/30.13] [< 4096 us: 5.75/38.05] [< 8192 us: 9.32/22.99] [< 16384 us: 47.96/0.20] [< 32768 us: 1.39/0.00]
CPU Average frequency as fraction of nominal: 27.52% (798.18 Mhz)

Core 2 C-state residency: 82.53% (C3: 0.02% C6: 0.00% C7: 82.50% )

CPU 2 duty cycles/s: active/idle [< 16 us: 130.81/31.91] [< 32 us: 8.32/3.37] [< 64 us: 19.82/104.84] [< 128 us: 41.42/44.00] [< 256 us: 38.65/33.30] [< 512 us: 34.09/46.38] [< 1024 us: 27.95/20.02] [< 2048 us: 13.48/28.94] [< 4096 us: 6.94/41.03] [< 8192 us: 10.11/24.77] [< 16384 us: 46.38/0.20] [< 32768 us: 0.79/0.00]
CPU Average frequency as fraction of nominal: 27.52% (798.17 Mhz)

Core 3 C-state residency: 86.15% (C3: 0.00% C6: 0.00% C7: 86.15% )

CPU 3 duty cycles/s: active/idle [< 16 us: 105.64/27.95] [< 32 us: 5.95/0.99] [< 64 us: 13.28/80.07] [< 128 us: 39.04/35.48] [< 256 us: 29.93/25.57] [< 512 us: 32.31/36.07] [< 1024 us: 20.41/22.40] [< 2048 us: 4.76/26.95] [< 4096 us: 2.38/34.29] [< 8192 us: 2.58/22.59] [< 16384 us: 54.90/0.00] [< 32768 us: 0.79/0.00]
CPU Average frequency as fraction of nominal: 27.52% (798.17 Mhz)

**** SMC sensors ****
CPU Thermal level: 180
GPU Thermal level: 30
IO Thermal level: 30
Fan: 2471 rpm
CPU die temperature: 38.38 C
GPU die temperature: 41.00 C

I checked all sensors and there is not a single one reporting temperature higher than 42C. What are those thermal levels based on?

Desperately seeking for any pointers... Thanks in advance!


texts: iTunes library (.itl file) gone empty with media intact

texts:
I have 150 GB of diligently organized music in my iTunes library which is stored on an external hard drive, and which I have migrated across various computers that I've owned in the last 7 years without any issues. When I last launched iTunes to import music (files previously added to 'automatically add to iTunes' folder), to my shock I was greeted by an empty library (except for the two albums I had just added.)

In Preferences I discovered that the file path was set to the default location (Music under Home directory) which of course is empty, rather than my external drive. I have not reset the location, nor even so much as opened iTunes settings for months.

All the files themselves are intact and in their usual location, so I tried to simply orient iTunes back to its proper path on the external drive, but to no avail. The iTunes library file (.itl file) is only 4.6 MB big, containing nothing but these two albums. I looked for any hidden .itl file but to no avail. The .itl file in the default Music folder is, unsurprisingly, empty. I have found no 'previous iTunes libraries' folder either.

Since I use another external drive as my time machine, I do not have any previous versions of my iTunes library. I do have an iPod classic that I recently synced.

I imagine I can just import the files back into iTunes, but fear that the (very) many hours of work put into cleaning and organizing the library will be wasted? Is that the case?

What could have happened? What are my options? How do I prevent this from happening again?

I am using an Early 2015 13" MacBook Air, running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 with iTunes 12.7.4.


texts: Setup wireless iPad - iTunes connection without connecting via USB first?

texts:
If a user plugs in an iPad into the USB port of a computer which is running iTunes, iTunes recognises iPad, and allows the user to manage apps or media files on the iPad from iTunes.

I know iTunes allows users to do that wirelessly (meaning that the iPad is not connected to the USB port of the computer running iTunes) if the iPad and the computer are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, but it seems that one must first connect the iPad to the computer at least once to make the iTunes recognise the iPad.

Is there any way to set up the wireless connection between an iPad and an iTunes (computer) without the initial USB connection?


texts: Obtain bad URL from Safari's current tab with Applescript

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The web site my.yahoo.com has an irritating bug (I'm surprised it works at all) where clicking on one of its links sometimes produces a URL such as the following:

http://sports.yahoo.comhttps//sports.yahoo.com/news/rested-kings-ready-host-not-rested-hurricanes-082033171--nhl.html

In the example, you can see that "http://sports.yahoo.com" is repeated twice. I wanted to find the easiest way to correct these URLs while surfing. Sadly, I cannot even perform the first necessary action, which is to pull the URL from the title bar of the current tab. You would think sending the following command to Safari in an Applescript would work:

set thisTabUrl to the URL of the current tab in window 1

Sadly, apparently, if the URL is invalid, I get:

file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/

Is there some other way I can coax Safari to give me the contents of the URL area of the current tab to then process in the Applescript, which will then attempt to set the current tab's URL to the correct url and open that page? I'm pretty sure I have the rest of the necessary code, to open the correct URL in that same tab.

For extra credit, what might be the most effortless way to launch this script when encountering such a bad URL while surfing in Safari?


texts: Macbook is freezing and restarting again and again

texts: I am using a Macbook Pro 16 inch 2019 with macOS Big Sur version 11.2.3. My macbook randomly freezes mid screen and I can't move the cursor. Then it restarts all by itself with a whirring sound(probably made by the fans). It is very irritating as I have bought the laptop quite recently, hasn't downloaded any kind of malicious softwares and the storage left is also pretty decent. I can't understand the reason it freezes arbitrarily.Can someone please help me with this issue?


texts: When I try and boot my SSH server, it shows [nodename nor servname provided, or not known], What do I do?

texts:
On (I think) Wednesday, January 22, I launched termius, an iOS ssh server client and host app.

As I read the manual to make a host, it said to tap the host when the settings are set, but then, an error appeared and halted the program to make a host. The error said:

  Connection could not established:

  nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Here’s a screenshot of the error:

I did not know what to do so I first consulted the manual. Then googled about 5 times, and then went to ask a question here. I searched everywhere for an answer for this problem but I came up with nothing.

Anyways, I push start over a couple of times but still came with the same response. I reinstalled the app, same thing, I made a new host, same thing, new account, same thing.

How can I resolve this problem?

P.S. My system specs are a iPad Pro on software version: 13.3


texts: difference between disk size in console vs disk utility

texts:
Console results df -h

disk utility results

What explains the large difference here in capacity as well as used memory? And which is more reliable.


texts: How to link gcc? gcc-7.1.0 already installed, it's just not linked

texts:
I download the gcc, use brew install gcc
but it said the gcc did not linked.
how to link the gcc? or what should I do?


texts:
Any NetCut like app available for Mac OS X?
I wonder if there are available alternative out there to scan and cut all devices that in our LAN connection.

Thank you.


texts: Does an iPhone Photo Stream upload store a duplicate of the photo locally?

texts: That is to say, does a photo uploaded to Photo Stream and/or a Shared Photo Space take up twice or thrice the space on my phone, or does each instance point to the same single data store?


texts:
This is the weirdest thing. I have an MBP 9,2 (10.12.3). I detached my headphones, closed the lid and then opened it again after 1h or so. Now I cannot change the system volume, here's what I see:

So I thought maybe this is the old problem where the computer does not realise the headphones have been plugged out, but inserting and detaching them again does not help. However, the red light inside the port is on, as in the case of the aforementioned bug.
The strange part is that in the Sound Preferences, I now see this:

there used to be an item Internal Speakers and clearly, the laptop doesn't have optical sound output.

Can anyone suggest what the cause and fix might be?

What I've tried:

Rebooting (didn't help)


texts: Verizon switch to Virgin mobile for iPhone 4

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 from Verizon Wireless, but I have never put it on a contract due to high prices of Verizon.

My questions are:

Is there a way I could activate it with Virgin Mobile?
If so, how?


texts: Difference between two quite-similar Terminal commands

texts:
I have a script that I run as part of my development (it's the activation script for a Python venv environment). The way the documentation suggests that we run it is by going to the folder containing our venv folder and running . venv/bin/activate. This works properly (second command in my example).

However, what I would normally have run is ./venv/bin/activate, i.e. providing a relative path to the activate script (first command in my example). This doesn't work at all (although I am not surprised, because the activate file doesn't have "execute" permissions attached to it).

My-MBP:flask-tutorial stephendewey$ ./venv/bin/activate
-bash: ./venv/bin/activate: Permission denied
My-MBP:flask-tutorial stephendewey$ . venv/bin/activate
(venv) My-MBP:flask-tutorial stephendewey$

What is the command that works (. venv/bin/activate) actually doing? I've never seen syntax like that before.


texts:
Today I was trying to get photos onto my iPod. It is a sixth-generation IPod nano, and I was using iTunes 12.4. However, I was not able to sync photos to the iPod. Why is that? Here is what it looks like:

For some reason, Photos is not appearing below the name of the iPod.
So: how do I sync photos onto a 6g iPod?


texts:
I am using OS X Mavericks Server. I want to add a user to the Administrators group but none of the built-in groups show up under Accounts -> Groups on OS X Server.

How can I manage users in the Administrators group?


texts: About This Mac showing Mojave version 10.14.5 despite updating to 10.14.6

texts: I updated my Mac to 10.14.6 yesterday but About This Mac is showing the version as 10.14.5. What is going on?


texts: I recently purchased a new iPad Air 2. My old iPad had the most recent iOS installed, and had been backed up. On some games, my data transferred, but on others, I lost all of my progress.


texts: How can I check the hardware of a Mac Pro 1,1 running 10.6.8?

texts: Mac Pro 1,1 running OS 10.6.8, I am having finder freezes that forces me to force quit using the power button. I do not have the disks that shipped with this computer which would have included Apple Hardware Test. I have downloaded what is said to be the AHT for this computer but I can't get it to run from a disk that I burned.


texts: Why is SSH forwarding happening even with port forwarding disabled?

texts:
I am using an Aiport Extreme as my wireless router, and it has port forwarding set up but disabled for SSH:

However, I keep seeing instances of ssh login attempts from outside -- someone is trying to access my computer using a series of user names. Moreover, I can still log in from outside my home network using SSH, so I know it's open to the world.

How is this happening? How do I stop it?

Edit

Here is the log for a connection attempt:

==> /var/log/system.log <==
Apr 10 10:36:41: --- last message repeated 8 times ---
Apr 10 10:36:41 null-3 sandboxd[56246]: sshd(68515) deny mach-per-user-lookup

==> /var/log/secure.log <==
Apr 10 10:36:43 null-3 sshd[68516]: Invalid user presto from 124.124.91.195


texts: How do I resolve svn: The subversion command line tools are no longer provided by Xcode

texts:
I have subversion and Unity installed via brew.
I have code in Unity to run svn and it returns the error:
svn: The subversion command line tools are no longer provided by Xcode.

But if I run svn in Terminal, it works correctly.
How do I resolve this issue?


texts: How can I add an Apple email address to an email client such as Evolution?

texts:
I somehow ended up with an Apple email address.

How can I use my '@me.com' email in my email client (Evolution in Debian)?


texts: QuickLook blanks when displaying some images

texts:
When using QuickLook to quickly look through multiple images (pressing space and then using the arrow keys to navigate), some images will not get displayed by QuickLook when hitting them up a second time (going back for example).

A GIF does a much better job than me showcasing the issue. So here's me previewing a few random images:

I have tried deleting

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.QuickLookDaemon.plist ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.QuickLookDaemon/Cache.db
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.QuickLookDaemon32/Cache.db
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper

and restarting, unfortunately to no avail.

Repairing permissions and restarting the Finder in 32-bit mode, as suggested  by others, don't appear to have any effect on this issue either.

This happens with all kinds of images, no matter their source or format.


texts: How to prevent full-screen exit on second monitor, when I close macbook lid?

texts: I use second monitor on my macbook. When I open some app in fullscreen, and then close the lid, the OS X exit fullscreen mode on plugged monitor and move all windows to it. How to prevent this behavior?


texts:
I deleted some files via sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/* - unfortunately I accidentally moved a folder from the Desktop into there and can't seem to recover it.

I only use this command now and then, when I need to; but how can I recover these files? I know it's a powerful command, but I cocked up this one, but at least I didn't delete system files... only a few personal JPG and PDF files.

I tried two data recovery utilities but it didn't seem to find the folder or its contents... why?

I have one backup of the folder with some of the contents on stored on an external HD, but that's not as up-to-date; the file was deleted 11 Apr 2014 - that's today.

How can I fix this?


texts:
I have iOS 10.2 on my iPhone. I can't access TV app. It is not getting opened at all. It struck for 2-3 minutes and even after that it is not getting opened.

Do anybody have idea how to solve it?


texts: How insert “+” from MacBook italian keyboard?

texts: I have just bought a Macbook pro and I have to program. But I can not figure out how to insert this symbol "+". On the net I could not find anything.


texts: How can I make my very own OS X Lion Install DVD/USB Stick?

texts:
I bought new MBP some days ago and it came with the lion installed on it. Now I am curious can I make an OS X Lion Bootable Disk?

I read some tutorial to make an OS X bootable Disk if you download it from appstore, but if Lion was installed by factory on it how can I make a bootable disk?


texts:
Im using Mac Mini 2016 with macOS 10.13.2.

Problem
My antivirus software, Sophos, identifies malicious traffic from /System/Library/Frameworks/Accounts.framework/Versions/A/Support/accountsd when Im trying to change password for one of mine email accounts in email client Mac Mail. In essence password can´t be changed due to "can´t verify account username and password".

Print screen
https://www.dropbox.com/s/esvshj8n01acl9z/Malicious%20traffic.png?dl=0

Tried solutions
I have tried to whitelist /System/Library/Frameworks/Accounts.framework/Versions/A/Support/accountsd in the antivirus software but the problem doesn´t go away.

I have also tried to change the password for the same email account in a different mail client (Thunderbird). It worked.

Questions
1) What is /System/Library/Frameworks/Accounts.framework/Versions/A/Support/accountsd for?
2) Why is it messing with email password changes in Mac Mail?
3) How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,
J


texts: Thunderbolt bridged with ethernet gives poor performance

texts:
I have both iMac and MBP, so I thought it might be a good idea to connect MBP to office network through iMac with thunderbolt bridge. The setup is quite simple:

office server <- 1GbE -> cisco switch <- 1GbE -> iMac <- Thunderbolt -> MBP

where iMac has a bridge0 interface with en0 (1GbE) and en3 (Thunderbolt) interfaces attached.

iperf shows following performance:

iMac -> office server: ~ 940 Mbps (as expected)
office server -> iMac: ~ 940 Mbps (as expected)
MBP -> iMac: ~ 5.7 Gbps (wow!)
iMac -> MBP: ~ 5.7 Gbps (wow!)
office server -> MBP: ~930 Mbps (quite a boost to WiFi's ~160 Mbps)
MBP -> office server: 70 Kbps (WTF??)

MTU doesn't seem to be a problem as I can perfectly ping office server from MBP with MTU size packets (1500). However, I'm pretty much sure that the issue must be somewhere in the configuration of iMac bridge. I would much appreciate any idea or clue where should I look.


texts: MacBook Pro reboot twice every time I wake it up from sleep mode

texts:
I'm wondering if I need to migrate to Linux to have a functioning OS..

Anyway, my problem is present from Mavericks till El Capitan and is about rebooting twice every time I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep (open lid or hit a key).

Can you help me understanding the problem?

This is the report:

Anonymous UUID:       29807659-5F96-582D-7BB6-24F98CA45916

Fri Jan 15 14:20:39 2016

*** Panic Report *** panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff802cc17cc2): Kernel trap at 0xffffff802cc001d1, type 14=page fault, registers: CR0:
0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000100, CR3: 0x000000002fb3d000,
CR4: 0x00000000000626e0 RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX:
0xffffff803b32f200, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff816e08b790, RBP: 0xffffff816e08b810, RSI:
0x000000000001da01, RDI: 0x000000000001da90 R8:  0xffffff816e08ba40,
R9:  0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff8045d11000, R11:
0x0000003200d74000 R12: 0x0000000116768096, R13: 0xffffff803b32f200,
R14: 0x00000000000000c8, R15: 0x0000000000000040 RFL:
0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff802cc001d1, CS:  0x0000000000000008,
SS:  0x0000000000000010 Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000100, Error code:
0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x0

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address 0xffffff816e08b440 :
0xffffff802cb2bda1  0xffffff816e08b4c0 : 0xffffff802cc17cc2
0xffffff816e08b680 : 0xffffff802cc34b73  0xffffff816e08b6a0 :
0xffffff802cc001d1  0xffffff816e08b810 : 0xffffff802cbc71c0
0xffffff816e08bbc0 : 0xffffff802cffe203  0xffffff816e08bc00 :
0xffffff802cd387bb  0xffffff816e08bc90 : 0xffffff802cd2849c
0xffffff816e08bce0 : 0xffffff7fae95246f  0xffffff816e08bd30 :
0xffffff7fad24b21d  0xffffff816e08bd80 : 0xffffff7fadf82cd0
0xffffff816e08bde0 : 0xffffff7fadf8b2e6  0xffffff816e08be20 :
0xffffff7fadf51b8c  0xffffff816e08be50 : 0xffffff7faf334774
0xffffff816e08be80 : 0xffffff7faf333aab  0xffffff816e08bed0 :
0xffffff7faf3330f6  0xffffff816e08bf20 : 0xffffff7faf3359a9
0xffffff816e08bf40 : 0xffffff802d0d3bad  0xffffff816e08bf80 :
0xffffff802d0d3ca6  0xffffff816e08bfb0 : 0xffffff802cc125b7
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(2.0)[76E50D45-C97B-3ED1-97C5-94E6E0EB4514]@0xffffff7fad247000->0xffffff7fad26cfff
         com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily(2.7.5)[DAF0353B-16D5-385A-A0F3-FD5CF3BA07F2]@0xffffff7fadf4e000->0xffffff7fadf63fff
         com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort(3.1.2)[C9770628-7EFF-382E-AA63-4514C1001E50]@0xffffff7faf32b000->0xffffff7faf345fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily(2.7.5)[DAF0353B-16D5-385A-A0F3-FD5CF3BA07F2]@0xffffff7fadf4e000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[52E715FC-521D-3869-B2EA-5228FA4BEA34]@0xffffff7fad324000
         com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage(2.7.1)[64B4AB40-D377-3647-9F74-F8CE2DA94FA1]@0xffffff7fadf81000->0xffffff7fadf98fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily(2.7.5)[DAF0353B-16D5-385A-A0F3-FD5CF3BA07F2]@0xffffff7fadf4e000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(2.0)[76E50D45-C97B-3ED1-97C5-94E6E0EB4514]@0xffffff7fad247000
         com.apple.driver.CoreStorage(471.20.7)[26C5000D-7133-3A9F-A70D-FC3B2A57B72B]@0xffffff7fae905000->0xffffff7fae9e2fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(2.0)[76E50D45-C97B-3ED1-97C5-94E6E0EB4514]@0xffffff7fad247000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version: 14D136

Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 14.3.0: Mon Mar 23 11:59:05 PDT
2015; root:xnu-2782.20.48~5/RELEASE_X86_64 Kernel UUID:
4B3A11F4-77AA-3D27-A22D-81A1BC5B504D Kernel slide:
0x000000002c800000 Kernel text base: 0xffffff802ca00000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff802c900000 System model name: MacBookPro8,1 (Mac-94245B3640C91C81)


texts: Why does App Store redownload already downloaded parts when resuming a paused download?

texts:
Yesterday, I started downloading XCode 5.1.1 from the App Store.

I have a very slow + limited bandwidth Internet connection. It took almost 5+ hours to download 1.6GB of data. It was really late in the night, and my new MBA had been up for over 7 hours, so I "paused" the download, shutdown the MBA, shut off my modem and went to bed.

After waking up today morning, I decided to resume the XCode 5.1.1 download from App store. I figured I just needed to download another 600 MB to complete the ~2.2 GB XCode 5.1.1 download. So, I switched on the modem, switched on the MBA, opened the App Store and went to my purchases. When I hit the "Resume" download button on XCode 5.1.1 (in App Store->Purchases), the App store asked me for my Apple ID and password. I entered it and then the App Store "restarted" the download!!! All of the  1.6GB part that I had downloaded yesterday night was GONE!!!

With my metered connection, the App store now says it will take another 11 hours to download the ~2.2GB of data it needs to install XCode 5.1.1 on my MBA.

Question: What gives? What happened to my 1.6GB of already downloaded data? Is the App Store going to trouble me like this all the time in the future?


texts: Accidently deleted some small sized partitions when installing Windows. OSX Partition wont boot

texts:
First off my problem is incredibly similar to this thread where the answer was almost reached but wasn't fully finished. Accidently deleted some small sized partitions when installing WIndows(Bootcamp). OSX Partition wont boot

I did the same thing, when I went to install Windows I saw four partitions two large ones: OSX and Bootcamp and two small ones which I thought I accidentally created. Unwittingly I deleted the two smaller ones via the windows installer, I now believe they were the recovery and EFI partitions. Anyhow when I went to reboot holding the option key there is nothing bootable that shows up, just a blank grey screen.

I did the cmd+opt+R and tried to reinstall OS X in place but the OS X  partition isn't mountable. I also ran some things in Terminal to give a better idea of what's going on.

I have very important files I need to get to so reinstalling isn't really an option, I need to fix this and make it bootable or need to do data recovery. Any input is very welcome! Next time will use Time Machine....


texts: Fink installation: After installation (I believe): -bash: fink: command not found

texts:
I want to install "fink"to my new MacBookpro,
when

The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other packages
using commands like 'fink update-all'.

I assumed that fink has been successfully installed, but when I tried to follow the instruction call the command:

fink update-all

-bash: fink: command not found

Is this expected?
Or did I do something wrong?
Any information is needed to do the trouble shooting, please let me know.


texts: Keychain Won't Remember Router Administrative Password

texts:
macOS High Sierra, Safari 11.1.2, MacBook Air mid-2013, Netgear R6400 wifi router. All the software on the computer and router is up to date. Both the Mac and Safari work without difficulty.

The network works fine, the computer connects easily (either via wifi or Ethernet), and except for this one issue I can access the router's administrative web pages and change its settings without difficulty.

The issue is...Keychain won't remember the router's administrative password. The router's administrative login page has a box to check to "Remember this password," which I dutifully check. The password is remembered for a few minutes only, then I have to manually enter it again. It's a complicated password, and I'd be happy if Keychain remembered it, as it does for every other password I use.

I've quit and restarted Safari, deleted the Keychain entry for the router (and all other 192.xxx.x.x URLs, there weren't many), deleted Safari’s cache and cookies related to this URL, quit and restarted Keychain, restored the router .cfg file from backup, and restarted the computer in Safe Mode followed by deleting the Keychain entry again.

The forgetfulness continues. Any idea why this is happening? Anything else I might try to fix it?


texts: Is there any free screencasting software?

texts:
I am searching for an OK and free screencasting app to finally start LP-ing.
The app doesn't have to record sound because I can do that sort of stuff with Audacity. Recently  tried out "Copernicus", a screencasting app; I set the frame rate to 30, hoping for a good result, but it didn't turn out that well. In fact, it was horrible, the 8 second video I captured using this software turned out to have 2 frames per second.

If you happen to know of any good, free software for screencasting, please post some links.


texts: How do I install a2ps for better printing?

texts:
How do I install this program so that I can do postscript printing?

Currently I get -bash: a2ps: command not found


texts: How to clean my Mac from malware like ps4ux

texts:
only been using it for 2 months. (OS X El Capitan 10.11.4) I'm creating web application using Ruby on Rails. I know it is a bad thing to find a cracked installer with license so, I got my karma. i was searching for a Rubymine license because i'm using Sublime.
When I searched for a license I found this website:

http://warezfileshere.me/sofware/rubymine-license-key-keygen.html

So I installed the apps and nothing happened but my browser was always redirect me in this site:

http://ps4ux.com/click?h=Ax722bagzrl8Vk3_frrT0FPvs0OX4u2wcw-CZ0O4YnvDYH1wjKXE4iV9P95-WidXJPKiD812ZxRTjI8Qx1BL9WAfhPBAA4nvNYpjf-AoA4ejDT8vvexcesyw7q_qR_pMPbfLAdUg3tQypcwz3gl-bKhrw3c-Ramb9bSnlqQTZu9r2VGZmBI5nlhHftqW8RDVrTOfb2YhTxW2gDB9GaAMbJnU0oTGij8m8o67Dz4xhQe4JNJdDZbdSmgq36DUOzlIVIJPv5I0RsuTuYAtPcQdMhEK_RrtYLfIoVpxrbI5cbSA3GAPP2SxJXgXWPfYQBlnPpTkK5efW7DHCOzWJvyKPQfmjtxKlS_sH5a6c8RJJvvu2nQSW8PE5F-UTdbcxAlAZR0_sjuG11DW0kQ0HjcuU1IJCzxTLyU6YnGwjnfDlj7bSuEQNXMS7bh1o1WVlAGkpvYQR2MQMu_ql93KYvcR46waJWV_qn9GevqQHRNlBiLhs1US4EBcZQ-xkvunmUVt31VKfAtTN8ADu9NHg5Uli71psw52-rhFlG8xVdCC6KJ66oSdNkoPJZwNGXMHT_CYciKLX9KF8U3fiy0nMmgLxG4hFfL83svXuM2Gjumv6qEpMjNm2dnvnrjK4rAAjrVo0batWO5DZLusvb008B-0CGzDHQ6XMxwbnu_NQHJ87LZwLqbHArlc2_c4PmFc8_6NLUvciqusbCv-Lc4IOpbzNZsZf3LkLH5rKCVGJygTySJcBtC8xoz9QoGESRfZXPepQgt0yocZnQxP4MyLSYzgWz-FNAmGVpjje5ez-JyMnQhr1oPZmlx2Qdh75rgB-vpGIycVePZ4UkE&subid=g-88322244-b77466937d0641a891fcdbdd16c020f7-&data_test=2016082307_t&data_fb=no&data_rtt=0&data_proto=https%3A&data_ic=false&data_ss=732x1280

I didn't know what that was so I search for ps4ux and  found out that is  malware.

Then, when I'm working on  my project, Chrome gives me this

I don't know where they came from. Please, someone help me! I learned my lesson:  don't ever search for or use a cracked license..


texts: How can I get an (iMovie-created) movie in the Videos app into iOS iMovie to edit it?

texts:
I can't find any way to get a video in the Apple Videos app into iMovie on the ipad to edit it.

In my specific use case, I have a trailer I made in iMovie on my mac that I can see and watch in the videos app, but neither that nor any of the other videos there appear under "video" as a source for imovie.   (The only thing that does is a movie I took in the app itself.)

I already confirmed that location services are on and enabled for iMovie on the ipad.   Am I missing something?

As a rough workaround, is there any way to export from videos (without syncing)?  I'd be able to crudely solve my problem if I could get the video into dropbox.


texts:
I have an email account under a domain that has been decommissioned. The domain still has an MX record, but its been disabled at the mail server. When someone tries to use the email address, they get a "550 Domain has been disabled" response back.

I cannot figure out how to disable the account. I've tried right clicking and "Take Offline", but that does not seem to help. Apple Mail still prompts me incessantly for a username and password. In addition, Apple Mail will no longer exit properly. It wants to throw a dialog for a password before it exits (that eventually requires a Force Quit).

I don't want to delete the account because I may need to refer to emails in the account.

How do I disable the account in Apple Mail?

(The operating system is OS X 10.8.5 (fully patched). Mail Version 6.6 (1510)).


texts: How can a script detect if it has access to some Security & Privacy parameters?

texts:
I've created a script which uninstalls an application I've created. However, as you may know, in macOS Mojave the system requests the user's permission to allow said script to control System Events. If the user click "Don't allow", the script can't be run and the system won't request the user's permission for that app ever again.

Is there a way to detect if the user has clicked Don't Allow so that, next time the script/app is opened, the user is given instructions on how to allow it to control System Events? (Or even better, request his permission again).


texts:
In the iOS 7 Control Center, there's an "AirDrop" option which gives me options to make myself "discoverable" to either contacts or everyone.

On OS X there is a feature called AirDrop that lets you share files between computers. How is this related? What can I share, and how? Does it require Bluetooth or Wi-Fi?


texts: Mountain Lion 10.8.3 file sharing broken for particular named folder

texts:
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 on a 2012 Mac Mini. The Mini is headless and I'm using an iMac to do screen sharing for admin purposes. I'm trying to set up sharing of a particular folder on an external HDD attached to the Mini via USB3, but for some reason I can't share this folder and the problem seems to be related to its name. I would like to know what I can do (other than just renaming the folder) to fix the problem.

In more detail: I'm trying to share a folder containing FLAC music files. These files are in a folder called Music/FLAC on the volume Titan, an external HDD attached to the Mini (Saturn). Hence I'm trying to share the folder FLAC.

The HDD has been formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I don't know how to work out whether it is case sensitive or not. In Disk Utility I can run Verify Disk and it says the volume appears to be okay but Verify Disk Permissions is greyed out (because owners are not enabled for external drives?).

I'm logged in using an administrator account. I go to Sharing in System Preferences. The File Sharing service is checked. In Options, Share files and folders using AFP is checked; SMB is not. I click the + button to add a share, navigate to the FLAC folder, and click Add. The dialog closes, but no share is added. Similarly, if I navigate to the folder using Finder, do Get Info then check the Shared folder checkbox, the change is not persisted when I close the Get Info dialog.

If I look in the Console app, I see entries like this:

  System Preferences[4648]: SFL(4648): AddNewItemWithProperties_rpc
  returned -36 System Preferences[4648]: LSSharedFileListInsertItemFSRef
  returned NULL for path:/Volumes/Titan/Music/FLAC

Now here's the really odd part. If I rename the folder to flac (that is, change the case), then the file sharing works fine! Some experimentation with various casing seems to suggest that all lowercase is fine, but any uppercase letter causes the share to fail. The computer is happy to share the MP3 folder located in the Music folder however.

I'm kind of at a loss to explain this behaviour, but then I don't have much experience with Macs.

The only other thing that may have a bearing on this (although I hope not) is that there is also a NAS box on the same Ethernet network that has a public SMB share named flac. I can't see how this would make any difference though.

Update 26 March

@GrahamPerrin: Your steps 1-4 are basically what I had already done, but I tried again to make sure. No change: flac works ok, FLAC doesn't.

As a quick fix, I was going to share the folder as flac, but although it shared, the share appeared as flac-1 on the iMac. Whatever is going on it definitely doesn't like that folder name, regardless of casing. So now I've renamed the folder to FLACs and shared it like that, and it seems happy enough.


texts: Tradeoffs between symlinking vs changing path to $HOME

texts:
I'm moving my user account $HOME to a different drive. The Apple-blessed procedure is outlined here.

An alternative would be just to symlink from the old to the new location. Are there any functionally significant differences or tradeoffs between the two approaches? Would (for example) Time Machine handle both the same? Anything else anyone can think of?


texts: Potential causes of trackpad problems on retina display macbook

texts:
I have a 2012 MBP retina display.  Over the past few days I've noticed that my trackpad has started to become finicky: it's hard to pinch, the cursor occasionally "jumps" and sometimes gets stuck so badly that it can only move on one axis (e.g., can only move left or right).  After restarting and resetting VRAM things seem to momentarily be fixed: but I don't know if this is strictly power of suggestion.  The fact that the cursor is stuck and that restarting helps fix the problem implies to me that the problem may be in part software related.

I've seen previous threads that suggest replacing the cable and that this was a frequent problem in previous generations of the MBP.  My mac is still under warranty, but I wondered if there may be any software causes that I should investigate.

If things don't pan out, I can always take it to a store.


texts:
Setup: Windows 10 64-bit, iTunes 12.7.0.166, iPod Classic 160Gb. I have several gigabytes of music, podcasts and audiobooks in iTunes, all of which I have been syncing to the Classic for years, without problems.

I now have a new Touch 128Gb (iOS 10.3.1). I have tried several times to sync everything* to this device, but without success. iTunes shows that it is copying many items for a long time and then "finishes", but it seems that nothing or only a few gigabytes have been copied. If I try to sync again, I sometimes get an error message about failing to start the sync.

I am now updating the Touch to iOS 11 in the hopes that this will fix it.

What else could I try?

*I have selected to sync all music, all episodes of all podcasts and all audiobooks.


texts: MacVim -- how to make Ctrl+A go to beginning of line, Ctrl+E to the end of the line

texts:
I'm trying to switch to MacVim as my main editor, and I'm liking it so far, except for one issue:

I got really used to the Mac shortcuts control-A to go to the beginning of a line, and control-E to go to the end of a line.

However, these two don't work in MacVim (control-A does something weird -- it seems to increase the last number in a line by 1 or something, and control-E seems to scroll down the screen by one line).

Any way to make these two shortcuts go to the beginning of a line / end of a line respectively instead?


texts:
I just discovered a strange file in my home folder.
It is titled: -
The entire contents are the word: ok
on the first line & a blank second line.
There is no extension.
It was created this past Monday at 4:55pm & last modified/opened at 4:56.

How can I find out what created this? Should I be concerned? How can I find what other files, invisible or otherwise, might have been created around that same time on Monday?


texts: Can I send a text message from my iPad (iOS7) to someone with an Android device? (Samsung Galaxy 3).


texts: How to keep iPad from dropping out from iPhone's hotspot?

texts:
My iPad mini only has wifi and so I would usually tether 3G connection from my iPhone 4S. In fact, I tether connection from my iPhone to my other devices too such as my laptop.

However, it seems that my iPad keeps dropping out from the tethered connection whenever it goes to sleep. I have searched on the internet for a solution on this, and one of those includes refreshing a website in Safari on my iPad every 10 to 15mins to keep the connection alive. I thought this is rather silly. It is ironic because my Surface tablet can connect persistently to my iPhone's hotspot, but I'm facing problem with Apple's own iPad.

Is there any way to keep my iPad's connection to my iPhone's hotspot persistent such that it doesn't just go away when it goes to sleep?

Both devices are running on iOS 7.


texts: Is it possible to scan an image from the command line?

texts:
Is there a tool that scans images from the command line? I am looking like scanimage on linux that works like this:

scanimage > image.pnm

I've tried googling and checked if ImageCapture is scriptable via applescript but no results.


texts:
I'm using Airplay to my LG TV.
When I Airplay from my iPhone XS with iOS 14.4 it's at 60FPS.
When I Airplay my Mac (M1 MBP) it's 30fps. Same with other Macs.
Does Big Sur/macOS not support 60fps as the iPhone (iOS) does?


texts:
Is it possible (with or without jailbreak) to create a wireless access point from iOS 12 to serve as a 'router'?
I don't want to share iOS internet connection, the phone will be located in a place where there is no data connection, and Personal Hotspot feature on iOS only is available when mobile data is ON, I'm just using it to act as a router between two android devices: First device will be streaming video through http (with IP webcam app) and second device will display it in a web browser.

So for this I need to have a DHCP server on iOS which assigns addresses to the devices, a discoverable service, and a router service which routes packages. I'm guessing there is already an app/tweak which covers all of this but been searching for a while and all I could find was about using iOS Personal Hotspot feature, or outdated Tethering apps on Cydia.
Thanks!


texts: Find file in Time Machine backup with command line

texts:
I am looking for a specific file starting with "Screenshot 2019-07-11" with an unknown location in a Time Machine backup. I tried:

$ sudo find /Volumes/TimeMachine/ -type f -name 'Screenshot 2019-07-11*'
find: /Volumes/TimeMachine//.Spotlight-V100: Operation not permitted
find: /Volumes/TimeMachine//Backups.backupdb: Operation not permitted

The error led me to this thread, which uses bypass to execute a command, so I tried this command and got the same error:

$ sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/Helpers/bypass find /Volumes/TimeMachine/ -type f -name 'Screenshot 2019-07-11*'
find: /Volumes/TimeMachine//.Spotlight-V100: Operation not permitted
find: /Volumes/TimeMachine//Backups.backupdb: Operation not permitted

How can I search for a file in a Time Machine backup with the command line?


texts: Run Boot Camp Windows10 partition inside VirtualBox

texts:
I have a separate Windows10 partition courtesy of Boot Camp Assistant.

I would like the option of cranking it up inside my OS X session using VirtualBox, as there are times I would like to use some Windows apps without doing a reboot.

I have found a few guides:

Using Windows 7 installed in a Bootcamp partition from Mac OS X simultaneously (June '11)
Using bootcamp partition in virtualbox (old; Win7 & Lion, but 2015?comments)
Discussion: MacOS Bootcamp Partition as a VBox Guest (old; 2012/win7)

..but everything is rather out of date, referring to Windows 7.

I wonder whether maybe now the process is simpler?

Could anyone either detail or link to an updated process for Windows 10? (Or alternatively confirm one of the above as a best solution path...)

EDIT: putting up further research as I find it. Once I dig through it all I will upload my findings as an answer.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19866&start=90#p290527
^ (mid-2014)

http://danielphil.github.io/windows/virtualbox/osx/2015/08/25/virtualbox-boot-camp.html <-- better! Win10!

However following this guide I hit up against:

Maybe ...

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=58821&start=15#p343017 says: "I finally got this working for my Windows 10 Boot Camp install. You have to disable System Integrity Protection under recovery mode in order to get a write lock on /dev/disk0s1 (the EFI partition)."

?

http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/05/disable-rootless-system-integrity-protection-mac-os-x/ <-- this didn't fix it

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7811 <-- this did! But now I am here:

Googling gives https://askubuntu.com/questions/162148/virtualbox-machine-boots-to-efi-shell but turning off EFI as directed, now I get:

  FATAL: No bootable medium loaded. System halted!

π

TODO: http://engineer.john-whittington.co.uk/2013/03/bootcamp-partition-virtual-boot-with-virtualbox/ ?

I've started a thread here: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=75360


texts: How to install Visual Studio Code's `code` command permanently?

texts:
I just followed the top-voted answer here and successfully installed Visual Studio Code's code command in my terminal.

However, the code command fails to launch Visual Studio Code every time after I restart my MacBook Pro.

~ code
zsh: command not found: code

Is it possible to install code permanently so that I don't have to install it every time I turn on my MacBook Pro?

~ where code
/usr/local/bin/code

~ ls -l /usr/local/bin/code
lrwxr-xr-x  1 myName  admin  167 Aug  5 13:41 /usr/local/bin/code -> /private/var/folders/bh/525lnbns1213cx2651s97my00000gp/T/AppTranslocation/EA379FC4-05D2-4739-BE49-1D8870E47B8A/d/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code

I also find out that the folder EA379FC4-05D2-4739-BE49-1D8870E47B8A get deleted after I restart my laptop.

This is the reason that I cannot run code after the laptop is restarted.

Why is code installed in a temporary folder?

My MacBook Pro's version is macOS Sierra version 10.12.6


texts: How do I get dual colour theme for numerals duo watch face?

texts:
I am using the Beta of watchOS 6. In the keynote, I saw the numerals duo watch face with two different colors for each number. Is this exclusive for series 4 or series 5? I am Series 3 user. I did update to the GM version but did not find this color scheme in numerals duo. Attached some screenshots of the Apple website and the keynote.

How do I get such a colour theme for numerals duo watch face?


texts:
On an iPhone, when you double-tap your home button, it brings up the app switcher, which shows you all the apps that are currently running.  But the thumbnail that is displayed when switching apps is not necessarily what those apps currently have showing.  Some are "live" and some are not, and I don't know how iOS decides what to display, nor how often it updates the thumbnail cache.

A while back, my girlfriend sent a pic of herself to my Gmail account, which is... umm... not exactly safe for work if you catch my drift.  Anyway, that was almost 6 months ago, but to this very day that's the picture that shows every time I bring up the app switcher if I don't close the Gmail app when I'm done using it.

While I certainly do appreciate the picture, this has led to several awkward moments when there are other people around.  She's not exactly fond of it either.  The thumbnail has survived two iOS updates and I've power-cycled the phone numerous times since then.  I even uninstalled/reinstalled the app.  I figured it would've updated the thumbnail cache on its own by now, but as I said before, here we are 6 months later and that picture is still stuck there.

Is there any way to get iOS to flush the thumbnail cache?


texts:
We distribute an app for Mac OS outside of the Mac App store.  We have an apple account that we have used to generated signing certificates.  We heard about the new notarization requirements.  We have tested on 10.14.5 and we see no difference.

Where does Apple document this so we can understand if or how our account is grandfathered for builds in the field?


texts: Can't read filenames in save dialog box. Names are too faint

texts:
I want to click on file to inherit the name for the file being saved. I can't read file names in the dialog box because the color is too faint.
This is the same question as File Save dialog unreadable

That question does not have an answer but I don't have enough points to interact there so I have to post a new question.

Edited to add screen shots
I tried to calibrate the monitor which no effect and did not change the readability of "unavailable" file names. I have added screenshots of previous operating systems to compare:
Please tell me how Mojave is not to blame here:


texts:
After upgrading to the OSX Yosemite, Textmate's duplicate line command
ctrl+shift D produces an error warning: -K is specified; it is for 1.8 compatibility and may cause odd behavior.

Previously, this was fixed by changing the PATH to /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

But now this does not work.

How can I fix this issue?


texts: Move mail message back to inbox of Exchange account

texts:
Is there a special syntax for using AppleScript to move a message from a folder back into the inbox of an Exchange account?

I have Apple Mail configured with three accounts, two Gmail accounts and an Exchange account.  The code below should move the selected message to the inbox of its respective account. It works as expected for the Gmail accounts; but, returns an error for the Exchange account:

set theSelection to selection

# do nothing if no email is selected in Mail
try
    set theMessage to item 1 of theSelection
on error
    return
end try

set theAccount to account of mailbox of theMessage
set UnSnoozeBox to mailbox "INBOX" of theAccount
move theMessage to UnSnoozeBox

Specifically, when I try to set UnSnoozeBox, I get `The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error: “Mail got an error: Can’t get mailbox "INBOX" of account id "80403C8B-7G0H-4CCA-D619-3605F76138F1".”

(For what it's worth, the code that moves messages into the "Snooze" folder works as expected for all three accounts.)


texts: Merging Time Machine Backups to a Single External Drive?

texts: I currently have two Time Machine external drives, but I want to move to using just one (I'd still have more than one backup, as I also use Backblaze).  Is it possible to merge the two different backup folders from the individual drives into a single backup folder on one of the drives (or possibly to an entirely new drive)?


texts: Update Firmware SSD Samsung Evo 840 from a MacPro Late 2013

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My SSD Samsung Evo 840 is getting slow and heat, so I'm trying to update its firmware from a MacPro Late 2013. I downloaded the ISO provided by Samsung (Samsung_SSD_840_Series_DXT09B0Q_Win_Mac), burned it to a disc, but when I try to boot from it (holding Alt/Option when the Mac starts - tried hold C too) the computer doesn't see the CD drive with the bootable image.
I tried to do that with a USB stick too, but without any success.


texts: Using My Mac as a webserver for my VMware VM

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So, I have my Mac running VMware Fusion and I have a Windows XP VM running.

Currently the VM Network setup is NAT, my Mac is already setup as a web server.

I'd like to be able to access the Mac from the vm via the web browser (for some testing).

If the VM is set to use NAT is there a standard IP address I can use from the VM to get to the Mac regardless of what network I might be on?  I might be at work and have an IP address of 10.1.. or I might be at home and have an IP address of 192.168..

What are my options?

Update:
At work I am on an AD domain

When I switch to Bridged networking I can see my Mac from the VM using my Mac's IP address.

I was hoping (and thinking) there would be an IP address that I could use regardless of where I am at.


texts: Is there a multiple copy paste app for ios?

texts: I am particularly interested in copying several chunks of text and then paste all of them together into another app


texts: How an I confirm my Bluetooth 3.0 Keyboard is encrypted?

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I have a MacBook pro Retina 15, Late 2013 running Mojave. I also have an off brand Bluetooth 3.0 Keyboard ( GeneralKeys PX-4068-675 ).

The keyboard connects fine to the MacBook WITHOUT asking for a pin ... but I'm not clear if the connection is using/requiring encryption.

Is here a way to verify it is encrypted?


texts: Mac not booting in OS X. Partition showing FFFFF-FFFF

texts: I did the same thing as mentioned by the poster of this question and I am facing the same problem. My Mac is not booting in OS X and I am unable to find the startup disk also. I gave the same commands and found that the partition type is changed as OP's.


texts: How to make Web Apps appear as First-Class Mac Desktop Citizens

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I keep ending up with a myriad of open tabs in Chrome. It is a pain to switch between them compared to switching between regular mac apps.

So I would like be able to

pin them to the task bar
identify them using their favicon (task bar / ⌘ + TAB)
always open them in a separate window

Just like it appears to be possible on windows: https://www.howtogeek.com/141431/how-to-turn-web-apps-into-first-class-desktop-citizens/

I am looking for a solution with Chrome. But if there's a solution with another browser I may even consider switching...


texts: Macbook, Can't boot from USB because has no administrator in startup utility

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When I was going to ReInstall a fresh copy of Catalina MacOS on my Macbook pro 2019 16 inch, unfortunately I deleted all partitions instead of erasing them. As my internet connection is so unstable as much as I repeated installing the OS from the net, it was failing with different errors usually related to the network errors or usually it says can't decode raw data.
I created a bootable media flash drive by these steps https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201372.
Now when I want to boot the device from the USB drive,

it says "Security settings do not allow this Mac to use an external startup disk".

I waned to allow my Mac booting from external media (as this link https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208198) but It shows me the error: "Authentication Needed - You will need to authenticate as an Administrator to change the boot security settings."

And when I click on Enter macOS Password I see this error : "Recovery is trying to change system settings. No administrator was found."

Notes:

I had never set a password for my mac T2 security
I had forgotten to sign out my apple id from the Macbook but I've removed my device from my apple account after that.
The Macbook doesn't have any operating system now, so I can't use solutions like rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

I've searched a lot and watched lots of youtube videos but didn't succeed anything yet. How can I fix my issue to allow me boot from the flash drive?


texts: Help with an AppleScript - click a menu item which has a name which changes

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I'd like to make F5 be equivalent to clicking on the mail icon in the taskbar, and F6 equivalent to clicking minimise on the mail app main window (or the 'hide' action).  Is there a way to achieve this?
I'm following the method here.
Below is my script which almost works.
The problem is I'm clicking a menu item the name of which is not constant.
on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Mail"
            set frontmost to true
            -- "Inbox (8 Messages)" will only work when 8 messages!:
            click menu item "Inbox (8 Messages)" of menu "Window" of menu bar 1
        end tell
    end tell

    return input
end run


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Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I've tried all sorts of things, and need help.

I needed to use some software from the Internet, so I got some installers for them. All of them are .dmg and have .pkg installers. I went through the installers and installed them, but after installing them I can't find them anywhere. Could someone please help me find them?

Logs tell me they were installed:

Jun 27 15:10:55 myMacBookAir installd[15594]: Installed "u-he TyrellN6" ()
Jun 27 15:24:43 myMacBookAir installd[15594]: Installed "Crystal" ()
Jun 28 11:07:11 myMacBookAir installd[15594]: Installed "Serum" (1.017)

When I use Spotlight, all I find are the .dmg files. I running OS X El Capitan.

I did look in the Applications folder, they were not there.


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Is it possible to use Time Machine such that I can restore the machine to a specific date in time? By "restore" I mean fully restoring the exact same files system wide.

For instance, today I'm sure that my machine is clean and has only the must-have programs which cause no problem to the machine. Let's say that I'll be doing some system customization and install some unstable applications, which will cause problems to the system down the road. Will I be able to fully restore my machine using TimeMachine to a specific date which I know for sure worked perfectly?


texts: Command in MS Word on Mac to resize whole text

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A nice feature of TextEdit on a Mac is the Command+ or Command- shortcut which makes a selected piece of text grow
or shrink, respecting the ratios between the different parts of the text (thus, if a heading’s font size is twice that of a paragraph, this 2:1 ratio is preserved by Command+ or Command-).

I have been unable to find an equivalent in the MS Word 2011  on my Mac 10.11.6. Are there any ?


texts: I have a Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 and a mid-2012 Macbook Pro (non-Retina). I normally have a lot of USB devices that I need to have plugged in so when I got my Macbook Pro I just continued to use my mouse plugged into my USB hub along with my other devices. But recently I was out somewhere and I just wanted to bring my mouse along with me and when I plugged the wireless dongle straight into the usb port it wouldn't recognize my mouse. I messed around with settings and tried to reinstall the drivers but that didn't work. When I got home I plugged it back into my USB hub and it worked. It's not really a big inconvenience but it's kind of strange and I'd like to fix it. Has anyone else experienced this or know of a solution?


texts: On my Macbook Pro OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 I have a problem with the reading list. I can hide it that works. The problem is how do I edit to delete some on the reading lists. There USED TO BE A SMALL  X  IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER. I could click it to delete it, but no more. Yes the software is up to date. Any ideas?


texts: Mac OS: Bluetooth headphones lose sound but not connection

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When I connect a bluetooth headset (I have this with several headsets) it connects fine and sound goes over the headset.

But after a certain time (sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes half a minute) the headphones lose sound. The headset stays connected an still appear when I check my bluetooth settings. Reselecting the headset in 'Sound' settings doesn't change a thing.

When I turn them off and on again then it will work for a certain time again.

Restarting doesn't change a thing and the following fix that I found for other problems also doesn't fix it:

 sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
 sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

Anyone have an idea how to solve this?


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Here's my problem: over the past couple days I did a really good clean out of my computer and managed to free up several gigabytes of data and was hovering around 233+ gb of free space.

Then in the last couple of days I noticed my trash file was taking a really long time to empty (I don't know if this is part of the problem but wanted to mention it just in case).

Last night I noticed I was missing quite a lot of space on my drive, it was around 205 gigs now. I discovered I had accidentally set some large torrent files to be on my main drive instead of an external. No matter, I figured! I would just delete them and start them over on the external. But my disk space didn't seem to change. So I rebooted - after all I had recently used Photoshop and that tends to hog a bunch of space and I don't get it back until I reboot.

I rebooted and there was still the same ~205 gb of free space. I was very confused. I was even more confused when I checked "About My Mac" and saw that it was telling me that in actual fact I only had around 90gbs of free space. THE HECK!?

I did notice that my "backups" were surprisingly high - 119gb in fact. This was especially curious since I have a time machine drive (time capsule) thats supposed to be backing up hourly. I did get a message this morning telling me it was full, but isn't it supposed to clear itself out?

Running WhatSize (it's still running by the way) I see that my .MobileBackups folder is a gargantuan 134gb! I thought these were temporary! For when I'm not connected to Time Machine (WHICH I AM!)

What in the hell is going on? How did I magically lose close to 25 gigs? And how the hell do I get it back?


texts: When I'm trying to enter in recovery system through pressing cmd+R I'm getting OS X Internet Recovery instead of Utilites window. How to avoid it?


texts: Where are the POSIX message functions (msgsnd, msgrcv, etc) man pages in Mac?

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I wanted to view the manual pages for the POSIX standard message functions: msgsnd, msgrcv, etc. All of them are defined in sys/msg.h and code using them works. But the manual pages are nowhere to be found, neither in my computer (Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3), in my friends' (OS X Lion) or in the developer pages of Apple in Internet.

Where can I download that manual so I can access it right from terminal?


texts: how transfer videos from within an App to the mac?

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I would like to know, if their is a way to transfer videos from Coursera-App on the ipad to the mac (without re-download them from the internet)?

I tried to connect the ipad through iTunes, to see if i can get the content of the app, but it seemed that I cannot get to the media inside the apps.


texts: Notes.app on Mountain Lion: How can I change the default folder view?

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I use the Notes app with iCloud. The 'Notes' folder under 'iCloud' is set as my default account under Notes > Default Account > iCloud. This ensures that new notes are created in iCloud instead of on my Mac. However, I also have notes folders in the 'On My Mac' section. I actually only use this so that I have a local backup of my iCloud notes.

The problem is that the default view when I open the app is 'All Notes'. This means that my notes are duplicated: I see both the notes in iCloud and the local backup copies. The app doesn't 'remember' the view selected when the app was last closed.

Is there any way of forcing Notes.app to show only iCloud notes by default?


texts: Downloading all photos from iCloud Photo Library without Photos app

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I have an iCloud account with about 800 photos stored in iCloud Photo Library. I’m trying to move them to a Mac and delete them from iCloud in order to clear up space.

I tried to connect my Mac to iCloud Photo Library by going into the Photos app’s preferences; however it then asks me to upgrade to a paid iCloud storage tier because I have over 5GB worth of local images that Photos wants to sync to iCloud.

So I don't think using the Photos app is going to work for offloading pictures to a Mac.

I then logged in to the Photos app at iCloud.com. I was able to select and download individual images, but it won’t let me select more than one at a time, so I can’t download them all in bulk. Selecting the first image, holding down the ⇧ shift key, then selecting the last image causes only the last image to be selected.

I could click on all 800 images while holding the ⌘ cmd key, but that’s obviously very tedious.

What’s the most efficient way to download images from iCloud Photo Library to a Mac that can’t connect to iCloud Photo Library without upgrading to a paid plan?


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Recently the clock on my OSX menu bar has disappeared for no apparent reason. I'm using OSX 10.10.5

I try to add it again by going to System Preferences --> Date & Time --> Clock --> Show date and time in menu bar.

When I click on the option box, after about a second it seems to just uncheck itself. No error or warning is provided.

How can I make the clock appear in my menu bar again?


texts: Smart Folders: What is the difference between "This Mac" and "All My Files"?


texts: I have backed up my iPhone to iTunes (via wifi) to my Mac.  How do I go back and view contacts, etc. on my mac?


texts: How to use latex2rtf without root installation

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This is a very basic question, as I am a newbie on Unix systems. I have installed latex2rtf following the OS X specific instructions. As I do not have root rights (university computer), I installed Xcode to modify the Makefile:

#Base directory - adapt as needed
# Unix:
DESTDIR?=/Users/.../latex2rtf

Where ... is my home folder. Then I run the commands make; make check; make install (could not use sudo) and latex2rtf was installed to latex2rtf folder in my home directory. If I try to open latex2rtf file in bin folder, I get a new terminal window, where I can write anything without any kind of response. If I write latex2rtf in terminal I get a message: -bash: latex2rtf: command not found

So a simple question: how do I use latex2rtf on OS X in this case?


texts: Is there a native or 3rd party way to highlight the currently focused app in the dock, similar to the Windows toolbar?