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I'm planning on buying a new Macbook this fall. I fail to order more than 16GB RAM for any mobile device, but I remember that previously, with smaller memory limits, some machines would inofficially also with more than just the 8GB.

Is there any way to make any of the current/new devices work with more than 16GB memory? Are there rumors of a new Macbook specification that will allow for more RAM?

I know that this question has been asked previously , but I figure this is not a duplicate, as the boundary of technology and hardware is moving rapidly.*


texts: Terminal tab number shortcuts completely messed in High Sierra

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I use tabs in terminal.app quite a lot, and often close and open new tabs as I run different tasks. I'm very used to switching through tabs using the same shortcut as I use in Chrome and textmate, just hitting cmd + number.

Usually these shortcuts are relative to the tab order. Cmd + 1 is always the first tab, cmd + 2 the second, cmd + 3 the third, etc. For some reason though, recently I've noticed if I open a new tab (e.g 3rd tab) and close the second tab, the shortcut for the 3rd tab remains cmd + 3?

It's even weird if I'm on the first tab and open a new tab. It wedges it between the first and last tab (assuming I had 2 open and opened a 3rd), but the shortcut for the new tab is cmd + 3, even though it's in second place?

Is this new? Can I reset this somehow to be relative to tab order? This is really confusing and unintuitive.


texts: Let iOS Mail ask for confimation before loading large emails

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On MacOS, you still have that legacy option to set a size limit, above which a confirmation is needed to load an email. I can't find a similar feature on iOS Mail.

Background: Currently I'm spending my time mainly in an area with very poor edge cellular network (around 30 kbit/s). Usually, I can live with that, stuff like messengers and email and some syncing apps still work. But once someone sends an email with large pictures embedded, I'm stuck. Important text emails may wait behind that big monster, but I can't find a way to skip it to receive them.

And no: It's neither about images to be loaded from servers (I never load those) nor about large documents attached (Mail doesn't load those automatically), but embedded images.

How to stop them from being loaded automatically, preferably like with MacOS Mail?


texts:
I am trying to install GNU sed. Following this post I did

brew install gnu-sed

A priori it went fine, but then the command gsed is not found. I could not find any gnu-sed (or equivalent) in /usr/local/bin/ except the standard sed.

I am on Mac OS X 10.11.3


texts: Apple source code on the application loading

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Is the source code of the application loading process is open?
where I can find it?

I want to understand better (in bits and bytes) what exactly happens from the moment users double click an app till the moment it's actually running on the latest macOS.

Can someone please refer me to the appropriate source code?


texts: How can I remove dependencies recursively in Homebrew?

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I'm trying out Homebrew, but I can't seem to figure out when uninstalling a 'formula', how to recursively remove the dependencies as well. I.e. Macports is:

$ port uninstall --follow-dependencies <portname>

How does this work with Homebrew?


texts: Is it possible to install OS X Mavericks on 2016 MacBook Pro?

texts:
I really like the Aqua UI which is available on Mac OS releases before OS X Yosemite 10.10.

It is possible to install OS X Mavericks on my 2016 MacBook Pro?


texts: How do I make OS X auto focus on the window in the screen the mouse moves into?

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I work with two screens. On the primary screen, I have XCode on. On the other screen, I have the browser. While reading docs, I am usually focused on the XCode screen, typing in code.

So I want to close the tab in the other screen, I move my mouse to the 2nd screen and press CMD+W and it closes the XCode window instead because the focus is on that app. Sometimes I don't notice that the focus isn't on the other screen and close the app on the main screen instead. It's pretty annoying.

Is there any way to make the OS focus on the top window of the screen where the mouse pointer is active?


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I have a pdf document with an even number of pages, say 2n, and I would like to split it into n documents, say pages1_2.pdf, pages3_4.pdf, ....., pages2n-1_2n.pdf, each of which consists of 2 successive pages. More precisely, for any i in the interval {1..2n}, the i-th file should consist of page 2i-1 and page 2i of the original document.
pdftk does not seem to have a dedicated function but I think that with a for loop this could be achieved.
Could you please help me in writing the right script? Thank you in advance


texts: Account for upgrade is different to account in phone settings

texts: My father-in-law had forgot his Apple ID on his iPhone. He had his friend enter his details to download some apps on to his phone. He's since reset his password and set his phone back to his own account (both the iTunes and iCloud are using his email address). The issue is, when he goes to upgrade some apps it's asking for the password for his friend's email account? How can we resolve this?


texts: Time machine is not including new directories in its backup

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My Time Machine is going for a year quite strong, but I recently noticed it is not including new directories in its backup. Basically new directories are being excluded by rule or error and I'd like some help figuring out which.

It still does its normal backup. The system log files says:

Dec 21 19:35:59 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: Starting standard backup
Dec 21 19:35:59 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Wisdom/Backups.backupdb
Dec 21 19:36:02 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: 2.28 GB required (including padding), 319.50 GB available
Dec 21 19:36:04 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: [...]
Dec 21 19:36:07 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: Backup completed successfully.

The newly created directory is not excluded. Checking via tmutil reveals in Terminal:

> tmutil isexcluded "/Users/bongu/Pictures/Import/Eye-Fi/NewDir"
+    /Users/bongu/Pictures/Import/Eye-Fi/NewDir

However the new directory NewDir never gets backed up. The directory is not part of the latest backup:

> ls /Volumes/Wisdom/Backups.backupdb/leosbook/latest/book/Users/bongu/Pictures/Import/Eye-Fi/NewDir
ls: /Volumes/[...]: no such file or directory

How does this possibly happen? And any idea how can I resolve it?


texts: Registering Excel on iPad, when iTunes and Microsoft account emails differ?

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I have an Office 365 Home Premium subscription, and so I wish to use the subscription-based features of Excel for iPad.

The problem is that I use different email addresses for my iTunes and Office 365 subscriptions.

This is the series of steps I've followed:

Install Excel for iPad
Run Excel for iPad
Select "Buy Office 365 Home"
Select the tiny "I Already Have a Subscription"
Enter my iTunes Store password, for my iTunes email address

I then get the error message:

  "No Subscription
   This Apple ID doesn't have a paid Office 365 subscription."

For my two different email addresses, the domain names are the same, but the account names are specific to the two products - as an anti-spam measure, and to make it easier to detect phishing messages.

I considered changing my Apple email address to be my Microsoft one, or my Microsoft email address to be my Apple one. But in both cases, I would have a large number of login details to change, on multiple programs on multiple devices.

Are there any other alternative solutions, such as adding a second email address to either my iTunes or Microsoft accounts?


texts: If I sell my iPhone, how will the warranty be affected?

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I recently dropped my iPhone 4 in the bath. Whoops...

Knowing Apple's stance on water damage, I simply upgraded (I was due an upgrade as part of my contract) and got a new phone.

My house-mate then informed me that I could go to Apple and purchase a new phone for £119. I did just that, and the kind lady in the Apple store let me know that the new phone only comes with a 90 day warranty.

As such, I have two Apple phones, and I'd like to sell my old (but brand new..) iPhone 4.

My question is: if someone purchases my phone on say eBay, will they too receive the 90 day warranty, or does it become invalid when I sell the phone?


texts: Is it possible to purchase the OEM USB sync cable?

texts: Is it possible to buy the genuine Apple USB sync cable for iPad/iPhone/iPod? I know there are many aftermarket cables available, but most of them seem inferior.


texts: Open PDF in browser or Preview instead of downloading

texts: I have certain sites I have to print generated PDF documents. They are not just PDF links but buttons to generate the PDF with selected content. They used to open up in browser or preview but now Safari just starts a download and I don't need all of these files on my drive. Firefox gives me the option to preview or download on the same site.


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In previous releases of OS X, there was a command called ipfw, that permitted throttling of network bandwidth, which is useful for running some kinds of tests on software.
 It appears that as of Yosemite that command is gone. So what is the replacement and how can a user to throttle bandwidth?


texts: Can Apple delete an app installed via iTunes or the App Store without your permission?

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I had always thought the answer to this was no. I have an app that was pulled from the iOS App Store (VLC) still on my non-jailbroken phone and thought this was proof that Apple can't remote wipe an app. But I just heard a claim that they can remote wipe apps installed via their app purchase portals if they choose.

Is this true? True for just iOS apps or just App Store apps?


texts: How do I create an encrypted APFS volume from the command-line?

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I'm trying to automate creating an encrypted APFS image with files in it. What I have so far:

>>> hdiutil create -megabytes 1 -layout GPTSPUD -fs apfs -volname encryption encryption.dmg
    created: .../encryption.dmg

>>> hdiutil attach -stdinpass encryption.dmg
    /dev/disk2              GUID_partition_scheme
    /dev/disk2s1            Apple_APFS
    /dev/disk3              EF57347C-0000-11AA-AA11-0030654
    /dev/disk3s1            41504653-0000-11AA-AA11-0030654 /Volumes/encryption

>>> diskutil apfs deleteVolume disk3s1
    Started APFS operation
    Deleting APFS Volume from its APFS Container
    Unmounting disk3s1
    Deleting Volume
    Finished APFS operation

>>> diskutil apfs addVolume disk3 APFS encryption -nomount -stdinpassphrase
    Exporting new encrypted APFS Volume "encryption" from APFS Container Reference disk3
    Started APFS operation on disk3
    Preparing to add APFS Volume to APFS Container disk3
    Creating APFS Volume
    Created new APFS Volume disk3s1
    Disk from APFS operation: disk3s1
    Finished APFS operation on disk3

>>> hdiutil detach -quiet /dev/disk3

>>> hdiutil detach -quiet /dev/disk2

>>> hdiutil attach -stdinpass encryption.dmg

    hdiutil: attach failed - no mountable file systems

But the final attach command failed.

If I try to open the resulting DMG in Finder, it too tells me that there are no mountable file systems, so clearly I failed to add the volume, even though the addVolume command succeeded and said it successfully created the volume.

Maybe it didn't though, so does anyone know how to do this?


texts: transfer video file to iphone from macbook over shared internet connection

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My iPhone is USB-connected to my macbook and my macbook has internet sharing turned on.

How can i send a video file from my macbook to the iphone using the command line?


texts: AFP client for MacOS to connect to AFP server to duplicate and share data with other users

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I have been in struggle to set a system where I would be able to duplicate and share data with other users.

Under SMB, I had a QSync client being used in MacOS, but seems like it cannot handle extended attributes from each MacOS to the Server. This client is a default one used with QNAP NAS servers.

Using FreeFileSync, I have found several problems trying to run it in real time.

So do you know a good AFP client for MacOS to connect to AFP server to backup and share data with other users, like FreeFileSync?


texts: VirtualBox VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED opening Windows 10 partition/vmdk

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I'm trying to virtualize my physical Boot Camp partition, so I can do small Windows tasks from Mac without restarting. I followed mostly this tutorial but also read others.

But now when I try to launch the VM it prompts this: VD: error VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED opening image file

Any idea what could I try?


texts: Can Airport Extreme have a separate network using XBrand modem connectted via Ethernet

texts: I have recently added solar to my home. There is a monitoring system to monitor the panels inverter via a wireless connection to their gateway that connects via Ethernet to my Airport Extreme router. I would like to setup that Ethernet connection so it is secure from my home network but is able to send the required information that it is supposed to provide to the Solar Companies' portal. Is there a way of providing this separate access either via another router or directly via my Airport Extreme?


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I'm a new mac user and I'm going to start using Homebrew to build my environment. My current environment I've installed piece by piece. What I want to check is what to make sure I do, so I don't get conflicts and i'm not running a load of software that I don't need.

Is this just a case of through the terminal uninstalling, apache, php, mysql etc and clearing out my usr/local/ folder and starting with homebrew?


texts: Files on jump drive suddenly unavailable-- error "The file “scan-2005-5-19-07.jpg” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it

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I am using MacOS 10.12.6 on a 2009 Mac with 12 gigs of memory. I have 34 folders of old scans on a jump drive. They are important legal documents so I must solve this problem.
The scans are jpg files, not pdfs. This morning I opened a few of them as normal in Preview. This afternoon - nothing changed - Preview gives me "The file “scan-2005-5-19-07.jpg” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it."
All the files, in every folder, show the same error. What happened? I used sudo chown -R admin to recursively change the permissions on every file and folder. No effect.
Here's what I don't understand: 1) although I can't open the files in Preview, they open just fine in Finder Quick Look (which is ok, except that I can't print them), and Get Info shows the following permissions: admin(Me) Read & Write, staff Read only and everyone Read only. Also, VLC  and GIMP will open the files.
The problem seems to be Preview-specific.


texts: Minimize all but the active of the current application's windows

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I switch to, for example, Safari and find the window I want. I can Command-Option-H to hide all the other applications, but I also want to minimize all the Safari windows except the one I'm using (the front-most one).

Is there a way to do this? Would settle for an AppleScript I can trigger with Keyboard Maestro.


texts: MacBook Pro and external monitor compatibility

texts: I just bought my first Mac (to learn to build apps!). I have the June 2012 non-retina display 15 inch MacBook Pro. Does any 16x10 aspect ratio montior technically work (monitor with VGA and DVI jacks)?


texts: How to detect what binded to some shortcut?

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I am using editor for developers: Visual Studio Code. There is some keybinding: Shift + Options + F. It reformats code.

When I press it - no code is reformatted, but I get a  ̰ symbol in the editor. What is it? How to debug what exactly catches this keybinding and do something?

It is not first problem. Yesterday I saw that shortcut for my action is F11. I press F11 and nothing happens. After that I accidently (when I was not on full-screen application) noticed that F11 shows the desktop. I realised, that I can unbind it in system prefs and that worked. But I didn't find Shift + Opts + F shortcut in system prefs.


texts: Disabling MBP display with external monitor connected in Clamshell Mode - Works with DP->DVI, but not DP->DP

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I have an issue discussed previously on Ask Different but have not found a solution in my use case.

I have macOS High Sierra installed on a MBP 6,2 (i.e. a vintage 15" i5, mid-2010, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 256MB VRAM).

With a new external monitor (Viewsonic VP3268-4K) set at 2560x1440 and connected with mini-DisplayPort to my MBP, the external monitor loses it's video signal when I try to deactivate the internal LCD display by clamshell-ing it (I use a refrigerator magnet to make the MBP believe the lid is closed).

However, this works fine when another external display (1920x1200) is connected via mini-DP --> DVI cable.

-- What Works --

Deactivating the unused MBP internal display worked fine with my older external monitor (1920x1200) connected to the MBP via mini-DP --> DVI adapter cable.  When clamshell-ed the internal LCD display goes dark and also disappears from the System Preferences --> Displays --> Arrangements tab page.  My mouse cursor remains only within the external display.  Everything works as expected.

The new (2560x1440) external display connected via mini-DP works with no issues as long as the MBP internal display is also active.  I can turn down the internal display's backlighting to remove the visual distraction, but this still leaves it's video framebuffer active: it is listed in System Preferences... and the mouse pointer is not restricted to the external monitor video space and can go off into the internal display area.

-- Fixes Tried so Far --

Lots of reading online, here (lots of good info) and other sites led me to try editing boot NVRAM parameters to force the internal display to be inactive, terminal commands suggested in other postings were tried (see below), different DP adapters, changing the new external monitor's settings: force DP v1.1. but nothing tried had the desired effect: to clamshell the internal display while using the external monitor (2560x1440) via DP. Unfortunately I cannot use DVI with the new external monitor because single channel DVI only supports (1920x1200) and I do not have a dual channel DVI cable or Apple cable adapter.

The terminal commands I've tried (after disabling SIP) are:

sudo nvram boot-args="niog=1"

sudo nvram -d boot-args

sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"

sudo nvram boot-args=niog=1

I've also tried resetting the external monitor settings by removing the Folder ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/

Can anyone offer any other suggestions?


texts:
I ran

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

then

locate Radium3

but it returns nothing!

but

$ ls ~/Library/Containers/com.catpigstudios.Radium3/
Container.plist Data

So why doesn't locate see all the files?

Am I using this command correctly on OS X?


texts: "QuickLookUIService" Using Significant Energy

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After macOS High Sierra upgrade I noticed "QuickLookUIService" is always in "Using Significant Energy" list. Has anyone have same problem? And is there any suggestion about this?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

Version 10.13.1


texts: ipad ios14 books "vertical scroll" messes up bookmarks

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I'm using ipad air 2 and reading a pdf (~500 pages) on ibooks. When I turn on "vertical scroll", it messes up bookmarks. In particular when I click a bookmarked page, it takes me to a random page (not the one I bookmarked). Tapping it a second time puts me onto the bookmarked page.
I'm pretty sure this is a bug in the books app; does anyone else have this problem?


texts: how can I change the default name of safari “print to pdf” documents?

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Saving prints of particular website to track changes.  Would like to change the name of the saved pdf file to reflect time*date when I did the pdf print instead of just the webpage name.  (e.g. XXDashboard-2017-10-12-13-02 )
TIA


texts: How to see number of contact when dialed?

texts:
How can I "see" the number of the contact to whom I am calling?

I can just see the label on calling screen. But sometimes, it's utmost important to see the number during call. How can I see this?


texts:
How can I get all new photos/movies added to my iPhone to be auto-downloaded into a specified folder each time I connect the iPhone to my Mac? (without deleting the downloaded photos/movies from the iPhone)

The "Image Capture" and "AutoImporter" apps seem to only be able to download all photos each time, which means that unless I choose the "Delete after import" option, I get many duplicates for each import.


texts: Firefox - Shortcut for activating bookmarks in Bookmarks Toolbar?

texts:
Are there any keyboard shortcuts for activating bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar for Firefox?

(Similar to the +1, +2, ..., keyboard shortcuts for Safari.)


texts: early 2015 13 inch macbook air shuts off when disconnected to power

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my macbook air shuts down 0-30 seconds after I unplug it from the magsafe.
 the computer says it's at 90%, and charging; I did an SMC reset, ran apple diagnostics (no issues detected), cleaned the port, tried using a new magsafe cable, and the system report on the battery is as follows:

Model Information:

Serial Number:    D8651634CATF90JA9

Manufacturer:   SMP

Device Name:  bq20z451

Pack Lot Code:    0

PCB Lot Code: 0

Firmware Version: 511

Hardware Revision:    000a

Cell Revision:    1210

Charge Information:

Charge Remaining (mAh):   5735

Fully Charged:    No

Charging: Yes

Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   6441

Health Information:

Cycle Count:  478

Condition:    Normal

Battery Installed:    Yes

Amperage (mA):    283

Voltage (mV): 8226

The I/O board was replaced a few months ago, so I don't think thats the issue.


texts: Is it safe to run/jog with a Flash drive Macbook Air?

texts:
I want to be able to put an 11" Macbook Air into a backpack and run to work/gym with it. Is that safe to do that, given these devices have no moving hard drive parts? What about the other components, would they handle shaking?

Bonus points: is there any backpack made specifically for doing this?


texts: Mac book Crashed - can only get folder with Question mark on it

texts:
My Macbook for what ever reason has decided to just give me a flashing folder with a question mark on it.

I have tried restarting holding the Apple key and R - Nothing. I have also tried holding the ALT key on bootup but it just gives me an arrow curser and nothing else.

I am not sure if the hard drive is even bootable. I do not have a OS Disc.
I have downloaded a DMG file off the internet to my Pen Drive. I assumed incorrectly the OS would boot from my Pen Drive - it does not.
I have cable internet if needed.
I have Windows 7 Ultimate  which I can connect to the internet from, and I have an iPad if that would help.


texts: VM running Sierra 10.12.3 in Parallels 12 stops responding to the mouse

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Update: Still a problem in Parallels 14.0.1 ☹

I have a host MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) running Sierra 10.12.3, using Parallels Desktop version 12.1.3, with a virtual machine running as the guest OS the same version of macOS Sierra 10.12.3.

When I switch from an app on the real Mac, going back into the VM, I often find the mouse pointer no longer has any effect within the VM. I can see the mouse pointer within the VM. But clicking on menus has no effect, dragging on window titles has no effect, clicking within the various apps’ windows has no effect.

At that point, the VM becomes useless. My only option is to choose Actions > Restart on the Parallels app (on the real Mac) to reboot the VM. After restart the VM works normally… until I use an app on the real Mac and then return back to the VM. Then no more reactions to the mouse.

What is the trigger for this bug?
Is there a fix or workaround? Some way to regain the mouse pointer functionality within the running VM?

The mouse pointer is able move between the VM macOS and the host macOS. The mouse continues to work when used on apps on the real host macOS. The problem is that when the mouse is inside the VM macOS, clicking has no effect.

I am not alone in seeing this bug. See the Parallels forum site: Mouse Problems - P12 - Host MacOS Sierra - Guest OS X El Capitan

  'll be working away in the VM and suddenly the mouse will not interact with any of the screen elements in the VM any more. I know the focus is still in the VM because, if I was working in a text file, for example, I can still type in the file. But I can't click on anything, move any of the windows around, click any menu items, etc. It even happened once when a drop-down list appeared and I couldn't select anything in the list. I can still move the mouse cursor around, though.


texts: Choosing Dictionary.app spelling language

texts:
I'm Venezuelan, so my native language is Spanish. But I have my MacMini and my MacBook in English because that's the way I like to work, it's better for my (and my job). Usually, when I access Dictionary app (mostly with Alfred), I can just look out the definitions, synonyms and whatnot in English, but not in Spanish.

The only way I know how to switch the language is changing the global language settings (via System Preferences > Language and Text). This means that the whole OS would be in Spanish. I would like to be able to use both languages in Dictionary.app, at the same time, so I can look out definitions, synonyms, and else in both languages (specially through Alfred).

Any way I can achieve that?


texts: Why am I getting this "AppLifecycleEvent" crash?

texts:
macOS has been greeting me with weird crashes caused by scripts from "~Library/Application Scripts":

The first line in the stack trace leads to this:

6H4HRTU5E3.com.avast.passwords.PasswordsHelperApp

I discovered that this is a "script" from the "~/Library/Application Scripts" folder. However, it looks like this is a ghost folder - there are only subfolders in there with no files whatsoever:

What is this folder and is it safe to erase it completely if it's empty anyways?


texts: Ability to view WIFI connection details?

texts:
I've recently entered the mac world by getting my very first macbook pro and now am living with the differences of "thinking differently".  One thing I can't seem to find is any details on my connection.

Is there a way to see if the wifi I am connected to is B/G/N etc; Or does this require some custom app?

It is hard not having 'advanced options' ;)


texts: OSX Window server vulnerabilities on catalina

texts:
This question will be a long one, as I have given lot of time in doing research and also I have attached all my research in the question itself.
The window server/ display server used on linux is X11, on which OSX's window server XQuartz (now almost deprecated) was based on. Recently it was discovered in 2013 that this X11 has a very big vulnerability. article here.
The above article mentions the following

For those that don't know, X was originally designed and released in
1985 and X11 in 1987. X.org replaced X11 and was originally released
April 6, 2004. When X was originally conceived, the computing world
was in a completely different state. Both X and X.org lack a few very
important security features that are critical for modern era usage and
hardware:

All X applications have access to everything on your screen
All X applications can register to receive every keystroke, regardless of which window said keystrokes are typed within
Applications such as browsers can be remotely controlled such that keystrokes can be forged as if the user were typing them
The xhost + option can completely disable any security on the display

Older XQuartz (used by apple) was very much based on this X11, and hence these vulnerabilities were also there on MacOS.
XQuartz official website mentions the following

The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of
the X.Org X Window System that runs on OS X. Together with supporting
libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped
with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7.

In 2017, apple made a shift away from this XQuartz as the main display server/ window server as mentioned here.

About X11 for Mac
X11 is no longer included with Mac, but X11 server and client
libraries are available from the XQuartz project.
Apple created the XQuartz project as a community effort to further
develop and support X11 on Mac. The XQuartz project was originally
based on the version of X11 included in Mac OS X v10.5. There have
since been multiple releases of XQuartz with fixes, support for new
features, and additional refinements to the X11 experience. Apple is a
contributor to the XQuartz project and has worked to ensure that X11
works as expected with macOS and latest available versions of XQuartz.
X11 server and client libraries for macOS are available from the
XQuartz project at www.xquartz.org. Download the latest version
available.

Currently apple uses the following mentioned in this answer from 2016 (almost 4 years old) which is also valid today as mentioned here on apple's website.
My question now; Is this mentioned technology, currently used by apple still as vulnerable as the X11 on major linux distros? Is the freely accessing other running apps' data and keystrokes vulnerability still there today or has it been solved?


texts: How to save/load workspaces on El Capitan?

texts:
I've noticed I'm using a few Finder and other app instances per project.
Sometimes I need to easily swap between "workspaces" and I've only recently started to use Mission Control and multiple Desktops which I'm getting the hang off.

However, I noticed I use some workspaces more than others.
I'd like to somehow save a list of Finder and other apps with their locations on screen to save resources, then restore the same layout at a later date when it's needed.

Is this something that can already be done using El Capitan (preferably with built-in tools) ?

If so, how ?


texts: renamed folder becomes a file with an extension

texts:
When I create a folder and name it "test.tmp" the finder asks me if I want to add the file extension ".tmp" to my folder. When accepted, the folder changes to a document with an icon.

I then can no longer open the 'folder' by double clicking on it. There is no default application associated to open the test.tmp file.

If I run ls -l the file is still shown as a directory.

On another Mac I am able to create this same folder name, and the folder remains a folder.

Any idea why on my Mac adding the .tmp changes the folder to a file?

TIA.


texts: Since when is it possible to CMD-Q Finder?

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I am on OSX 10.10.1.
As of very recently (can't be more than a couple of days, else I would've noticed it sooner I think), I am able to quit the Finder by hitting ⌘-Q, which will quit the Finder app, not only close the window. There is also a Quit Finder menu entry, I don't know if that was there before. I asked someone who also uses Yosemite and as expected, they can't do it.

The question is: Why is this suddenly possible, has anyone else experienced it and how can I revert this change?


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Under Terminal.app and iTerm2, the key combination ^O is not received by many terminal programs.
For example, /bin/bash does not receive ^O. Indeed, if /bin/bash could receive ^O, then ^V^O would output ^O (see quoted-insert in bash(1)). However, ^V^O produces no output, and bash remains in quoted-insert mode: it outputs the next character it receives verbatim. Similarly, neomutt does not receive ^O when compiled with ncurses (but it receives ^O when compiled with s-lang).
In contrast, /bin/zsh and vim correctly outputs ^O after ^V^O.
What is going on? I thought it could be due to an ncurses bug, but I can reproduce the behaviour in both programs compiled using the built-in ncurses library, and an updated copy of ncurses:
bash-3.2$ otool -L /bin/bash /bin/zsh /opt/local/bin/neomutt /opt/local/bin/vim | egrep '(:|curse)'
/bin/bash:
        /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
/bin/zsh:
        /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
/opt/local/bin/neomutt:
        /opt/local/lib/libncurses.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.0.0)
/opt/local/bin/vim:
        /opt/local/lib/libncurses.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.0.0)


texts: What is special in /Applications/ folder?

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What happens when an .app bundle going copy to the /Applications/ folder? Are there any processes starting, any preferences copied to /Library/ ? Is a copy to /Applications/ folder a special trigger/event for the OS X?

I found that if I just copy Xcode then com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist appears in user's Preferences folder.


texts: How can I add a due date to OS X Reminders?

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I would like to know if it is possible to add the due date checkbox shown in my screenshots to the OS X version of Reminders. I am not looking for the notification option, just the old fashioned due date option.

The due date checkbox is not an option normally. "Test item" was created on the OS X Reminders app.

However if I make one, "Test item 2", on iCloud.com, I have the option to add a due date. This is then changed, through iCloud, on my Mac.

This leads me to believe that maybe a file could be changed on my Mac to enable this option to be turned on by default.


texts: Strange "spinning up" like sound coming from Macbook at regular interval, every 5-10 seconds or so

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I noticed it a few days ago that whenever my laptop is open/on there is a strange, very brief spin-up sound coming from what seems like the left side. It happens at a very regular interval, about every 5 seconds.
I was able to record it, you can here it faintly 3 times here https://imgur.com/a/J37Ekyn
Any help or advice is appreciated! Everything seems to work fine otherwise, its just really annoying.


texts: Is there a software to reset/flash your iphone to factory without itunes?

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i have two "broken" iphones. One of them, is a 3gs. I've changed is battery yesterday and it was ok for 30 min/1hour and then it just started rebooting. I searched online and i saw it was a common problem for the 3gs, nobody knows why but i would only need the battery to be charged and then it would be ok. I've tried to restore it itunes, sucessfully, but the phone wouldn't boot to the menu... Then itunes logo "of death".

I tried restoring in DFU, normal, i've tried softwares like tiny umbrela to exit the reboot loop, but no success. In itunes it never ends recovering, and it allways pops out some error. I had probably 6 diferent errors until now. I've used a "fixreboot" file, that i think uses greenpoison code... I only know that maybe 90% of the lines it reports, are errors, and then it says "no sucessfull firmware download after 60000ms, giving up" and then it justs reboots to itunes logo again...

This phone was just upgraded, and hadn't have any jailbreak.

The other one is a iphone 4, and has the same problem... It's stuck on the Itunes logo but this one, i allways get Code 2 error on it when restoring.

I guess the only way is to make it reinstall the firmware outside itunes. Is there any software to reinstall the firmwares other than itunes?


texts: How does Time Machine work for a photographer

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I am a photographer and I use photos that are about 15Mb each. I take hundreds of these per month and edit, let's say, about 500 per month. And sometimes I'll go back a week later and tweak a batch some more.

Could someone explain, in detail, how the back-up process works? I'd like to be able to figure out how large of a back up drive I should get.

Is it backing up/creating a new image file after every tweak of every knob I make in LightRoom?

Actually, somewhat related, is this how lightroom works? It comes with a "history" feature and I wonder how it is I can revert a photo on lightroom if it was to not create a copy over and over while I'm editing.


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I have multiple mobile devices (2x iPhone, 2x iPad) in my home, all which share the same iTunes account between them.  When iMessage is used to exchange messages between two of the devices (e.g. the two iPhones), the messages appear to be sent from and received by the same identity.  The only way I have found to correct this by turning off iMessage on one of the devices and only using SMS.

Is there a way to associate iMessage with a different iTunes account than other apps on the same device?


texts: Truncated “Recent Items” Label in OS X Mavericks General Preferences

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I’ve just upgraded to OS X Mavericks (Build 13A603) and discovered a truncated label in General Preferences. You can see the that the Recent Items can’t be read at all.

I’ve tried to overwrite the prefpane in, but the problem still remains:

/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Appearance.prefPane.

Do anyone else have the same problem?


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I recently purchased 200 gigabytes of storage in icloud for $2.99 a month.
I want to transfer stored data from my iphone 6 plus to the cloud but don't know how. I bought the expanded icloud for music and phone data. many thanks for your feedback..


texts: Can I use the iPhone 4's camera via my Mac?

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I'd like to record some video on my MacBook Pro, which I could do using the built-in iSight except I'd like to record in HD. Rather than go out and buy a new HD video camera, is there any way of getting the Mac to recognise the iPhone 4's HD camera as an input?

Yes I know that I could just use the iPhone on its own and then transfer the video over, but I'd like to be able to see what I'm recording (without using mirrors). Have done a bit of Googling and can't see anything, so just thought I'd ask!


texts: Is there a way to prevent a Macbook Air from sleeping when external monitor is plugged in but power is not?

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I have a 13-inch Mid 2012 Macbook Air running 10.9.3. I usually run with the lid closed plugging into 2 Apple cinema displays. Everything works great, except when I accidentally bump the power cable, at which point it goes to sleep.

Is there any way to prevent this? Clearly it isn't a power issue, because with the lid open and no power cable it drives all 3 monitors just fine.


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I'm having a mysterious problem with Word (version 16.40) and the Adobe Garamond Pro font: Four variants of the font are installed (regular, italic, bold, and bold italic), but if I select regular, Word instead uses bold. It's as if the program can't see the regular (and regular italic) styles, except that Word itself lists all four styles in the font menu and displays the name of the font using the regular variant. It's just in the text that it's misbehaving.
No other app seems to have this problem, and Font Book reports no problems with the font. This behavior appeared only recently, as it was noticed first today in a file that uses the font and was last edited without problem on Aug 3.
The same problem appears with Adobe Caslon Pro.
I've tried clearing the system font caches and Word's font cache. I've tried disabling and re-enabling the font. I've restored a previous version of Word from Time Machine. None of these has had any effect. Other similar fonts work fine, for example, Garamond Premier Pro.
I have several files very carefully formatted using Adobe Garamond Pro, so I'm not eager to change the font to something that's working properly, then have to redo the formatting. Has anyone seen a problem like this and found a solution?
Edited to add: This is under macOS 10.15.5.
Added 8/13/20: I've now tested with a new account, but it's not revealing much, at least to me. In a brand new account, the first time I run Word the fonts are just fine. If I quit and reenter Word, the problem reappears — Adobe Garamond Pro appears only in bold and bold italic.
Another curious thing: The font menu that appears under Format->Font (rather than the one that appears in the ribbon) shows "Adobe Garamond Pro" as a choice the first time Word is run, but after that shows "Adobe Garamond Pro Bold" instead. It also, from the second time on, has a number of font names appearing in all upper case.
If I had to guess, the first time it's run Word reads in all the font data from the system correctly. When quit (or sometime before that) it writes that data to disk, but when it reads that data in subsequently, something goes wrong. However, I haven't been able to find where that info is being written, if that's what's actually happening. It feels like I'm trying to debug MS's app for them...


texts: How to prevent the keyboard layout from changing?

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I'm using a standard USB keyboard with my MacBook, added a custom keyboard layout (in Library/Keyboard Layouts) and it works fine, but mac OS keeps switching back to the default layout after a few minutes.

update: I just noticed that it switches when I focus the Microsoft Outlook App. Strange. Sadly setting the language of outlook to English doesn't solve that.

I tried deleting the file Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist (as suggested in similar questions) but it didn't help.

I'm currently running Catalina 10.15.3


texts: Use siri to fluently add item to non-default list

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Is there a way to get siri to learn that when I say
"Hey Siri, add vacuuming to my chores"
I want her to add a new item "vacuuming" to my reminders list called "chores".
I'm aware that you can say "Add a reminder for vacuuming to the chores list" But that's not as fluent. I'm hoping there's a way to teach her to do certain things based on a user-specified pattern. I looked at the shortcuts app, but there's no obvious way to get it to work with Siri. I found an item to prompt and add some text to chores list. But no way to get siri to fill in that text that I could see.


texts: Can the 2013 13" Macbook Air drive an external 4k monitor?

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Dell has announced that they're going to release a 4k monitor under $1000 in the beginning of 2014, and also has a 24" 4k monitor around $1300. The product page for the 24" one mentions:

  Optimal resolution:
  3840 x 21601 at 60 Hz (DP1.2*)
  3840 x 21601 at 30 Hz HDMI

The superscript 1 displays this warning:

  Important Details
  In order to display the 3840 x 2160 native resolution, please ensure the graphic card and its drivers used on the PC/Laptop is capable of supporting resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz via DisplayPort connectivity.

So the question is: Can the video card and Thunderbolt ports on a 2013 Macbook Air 13" support resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz via DisplayPort connectivity?

The EveryMac page for this model says it may be able to drive two daisy-chained 2560x1600 Thunderbolt monitors, and this ars report claims that two TB monitors was possible on the 2012 models. So, I'm hopeful that the laptop should be able to drive that many pixels, but I'm not sure whether the Thunderbolt ports, in mini-DP mode, speak the DP1.2 standard necessary to drive this monitor at 60Hz.


texts: How can I see the list of all my events on my iPhone 4s? Not just the ones for that day or by searching with an alphabet letter.


texts: AppleScript get filename from URL and apply Decode URL

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I've got the following AppleScript that displays a notification once a download has been added:

set yourpath to (the clipboard) as POSIX file
set a to do shell script "basename " & quoted form of POSIX path of yourpath
display notification a with title "Added Download"

It works pretty well, except when the url being downloaded has a filename with html entities. Here's an example of a URL:

https://dskjflkosdjfksdajf903094.example.com/g/f/OWZehaoqssVuXRuxqEivP_9dsa89dosidlzkxck_wqezxcd33sda-34sdf34r/%5BEBOOKS%5DEbook%20Title%20-%20Ebook%20Author%20Name.pdf

So with my AppleScript I get the following inside the notification:

%5BEBOOKS%5DEbook%20Title%20-%20Ebook%20Author%20Name.pdf

I'm trying to get:

[EBOOKS]Ebook Title - Ebook Author Name.pdf


texts: Liquid damaged Macbook -- doesn't power up after submerging logicboard in surgical spirit/rubbing alcohol

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I've bought my late 2016 Macbook Pro with Touchbar in February, spilled some juice on it.

Anyway, the machine seemed to function pretty well even so, only the Touchbar was randomly going black. Since the warranty was already voided, I opened it up myself, took pretty much everything out, wiped the components with some rubbing alcohol, then assembled everything back. At this point, the fans were very loud and the battery was alternating between 0% and 50%. None of this was happening BEFORE I disassembled the Macbook.

A few days ago I tried submerging the logicboard in rubbing alcohol (70% isopropylic alcohol, 30% distilled water + blue colouring) for about 48 hours, occasionally brushing it with a clean tootbrush to help lodge some of the orange bits that got stuck. I reassembled it, and now it won't power on at all! I'm not 100% sure I assembled it back correctly. I most likely did, but not being an Apple/Macbook expert...

Does anyone have any idea at all about what might be causing it not to power up? Did the rubbing alcohol damaged the logicboard more than it was already damaged?

Would it help if I wiped/submerged the logicboard in 99% isopropylic alcohol in an ultrasonic bath? I think buying an ultrasonic cleaner will be cheaper than paying $1.200 at Apple.

Any insight would be helpful. Btw, this is my very first (and last) Macbook.

Thanks!
Best regards!


texts: Question about cables needed for using a Macbook Air 2013 OR Macbook Pro 2020 laptop with iMac 2013 AND Thunderbolt Display screens

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I have the following hardware and I'm a little lost on knowing what cables I need to purchase:

iMac 27-inch, Late 2013
Thunderbolt Display (not sure which model exactly, or how to check?)
Macbook Pro 13-inch, 2020, four Thunderbolt 3 ports (work laptop)
Macbook Air 13-inch, Mid 2013, has one Thunderbolt port (personal laptop)

Currently, I use the iMac for work linked to the Thunderbolt Display (two screens). The work laptop is kind of secondary currently. For personal use, I just use the Macbook Air.
What I would like is to be able to hook up EITHER my Macbook Air (for personal use) OR my Macbook Pro (for work use) and use the laptops as the main 'hubs', linked to two large displays for both from the iMac and the Thunderbolt Display, so that I can transport my stuff easily to/from the office if I need to (where I can hook into another display at work). I don't need the laptop screen to be visible but the main aim is to have two large displays linked to either laptop I need to use.
Is this possible with my Macbook Air and 2 large displays? Is this possible with my Macbook Pro and 2 large displays?
Currently, I have the following cables (excluding the power supplies):

To link the Thunderbolt to the iMac, I have a cable that comes out of the display and splits into two: a Thunderbolt connector and a MagSafe 2 connector. I use this with the iMac currently.
I also have a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter which I can use to link the Pro to the Thunderbolt Display. Could I get something that would allow me to link the iMac to it too?

What additional cables do I need to purchase?
Can I chain the Thunderbolt Display to the iMac to the Macbook Air, or is it not possible to have two screens with the Air as it only has one Thunderbolt port?

Thank you so much for help in advance!


texts: Macos Big Sur port 80 permission denied with root

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im facing this problem where im trying to start a server on port 80 of a Macbook Pro with MacOS Big Sur and im getting permission denied.
I tried running with sudo and also doing "sudo su" and then running the server.
I'm trying running a Nuxt (node js) server
$ sudo npm run dev
Error: listen EACCES: permission denied 127.0.0.1:80

Should i unlock something?


texts: Mac is freezing. How to find the problem?

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I have Macbook Pro Retina (Late 2013) with installed El capitan.

Sometimes OSX just freezing and I can do nothing, but to reboot (by holding power button for a few seconds). All apps are continue running, for example media player or torrent client. But keyboard or trackpad doesn't respond.

I read lots of manuals, I tried reset different settings, clear user's cache. I even tried reinstall OSX (without formatting the drive). It's not helping.

I don't have much experience with OSX, so I don't know where to look for a problem. Any thoughts what should I do?


texts: How to pack MagSafe cable to prevent its breaking?

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I am looking for a (most) powercord-safe way to pack my MagSafe adapter for a daily backpack commute.

Official Apple recommendations (as illustrated by third-party videos like this) don't prevent the breaks at all, as my experience with 2 MagSafes showed.

Third-party supplements promising a solution don't sound very convincing:

MagSavior is clearly a hard-plastic solution which just moves the cord breaking point farther from the adapter
The Fray Fix seems nearly impossible to install despite looking promising after that


texts: Single DHCP server using Airport Express as primary router and Time Time Capsule in bridge mode

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I use an Airport Express as primary router - i.e. attached to the modem - and a Time Capsule for back up but also as secondary router in bridge mode to extend the wireless network beyond the reach of the Airport Express.

I am planning to add a NAS to my LAN (via Ethernet to either of the two routers). This requires that I only have one DHCP server - i.e. that the two routers are seen as a single subnet.

Does the configuration above with the Time Capsule in bridge mode result in two DHCP servers or only one (the primary router - Airport Express - whilst the Time Capsule does not act as a DHCP server)?

Thanks.


texts: OSX Mountain Lion - Remove shadows from Uncover Gesture

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I have a quick question. When utilizing the uncover window gesture (IE. move 3 fingers apart) to reveal the desktop there is a shadow which boarders the screen.

I would like to know is there a way I can remove this shadow from appearing with an app or a script?

Personally without the shadow I believe the desktop provides a more elegant appearance.


texts: MS Office 2011: Plugging Excel Data Into a Word Document

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(Note: I'm am not sure if this question fits in this StackExchange site, so please correct me if it doesn't belong)

To cut my problem short: I'm trying to make a Word document which prints data from a Excel document.  Is it possible to link an Excel and Word document?  Almost like this:

Data A(A,1)
Data B(A,2)
etc.

I have tried using templates and just simply printing the excel document without the lines, but my "requirements" are too specific and complex.


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I just got a used Early 2015 Macbook Air. I got it a bit cheap, due to the trackpad being stiff.

Basically when I first open it, it registers all clicks, although I need to press somewhat hard. But if I click on it about 50 times, it starts to loosen up a bit, and act more like a normal trackpad would. However, if I then leave it for an hour, it is back to being stiff again.

What could the problem be, and is it fixable?

The rest of the computer works perfectly fine.

Thank you.


texts: In macOS, is there a keyboard shortcut to move windows to other desktops?

texts: Mission Control allows for multiple desktop (spaces). Does there exist a keyboard shortcut for moving an application's window from one to another?


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I prefer changing the video speed on VLC on my MacOS but pressing them once increases/decreases the speed by 0.5x  which is quite troublesome. Also, I know the keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease the speed and I don't want to change it using the mouse under the Playback -> Playback Speed.
I wanted the Change-Speed to be around 0.1x so that a single click increases or decreases the speed by 0.1x, similar to the Video Speed Controller Plugin for Chrome/Firefox Browsers.
Changing the value at Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Playback speed changes the default speed of the video.
Can anyone help me change that by 0.1x?


texts: Kernel: I/O error on new OWC Mercury 6G SSD

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I bought a mid 2011 Mac Mini mit dedicated graphic card along with the iFixit dual hard-drive kit and a OWC Mercury 6G SSD.

After I installed the ssd into the Mac Mini with as second hard drive, the boot time of Lion on the factory hdd increased to about 4-5 minutes. On login, a dialog appears, stating that a uninitialized hard drive was found. So I tried to partition the SSD with GUID partitioning scheme and one HFS+ Journaled partition. The partitioning process was stuck at about 50% and failes after about 2 minutes with a posix input/output error.

Formatting the SSD with diskutil from terminal succeeded once, but after a reboot the partitioning scheme was set back to master boot record acording to disk utility. Also the same unintialized disk dialog appeared again.

In the system information tool the ssd is recognized with correct values and also 6g sata speed.

On the system console tool, a kernel: I/O error appears everytime I try to format or partition the ssd.

I also tried installing Lion directly on the SSD, but installation failes somewhere around 10 minutes after starting the installation.

So my question is: Is this a bad SSD and I have to return it to OWC, or is there some thing I have forgotten to make the SSD useable as system hard-drive. I want to avoid sending the SSD back to OWC before I try every possible fix, because living in Germany, sending a package to USA is always a hassle, because of duty and shipping cost.


texts: The pictures on my Instagram (not my account) are all blurry, and the videos won't work. Not all pictures and videos do it though, just some.


texts: Firmware Update 1.0 for MacBook Air 2012 Not Installing

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The firmware update 1.0 for my MacBook Air (2012) is not installing. I do not have the disk encrypted and I have tried an SMC reset. I also let the mac sit for a minute after shutting down before turning it back on just as the update suggest. Every time I boot my air back up it tells me in the App Store that there is still an update that needs to be taken.

Any suggestions?


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My optical drive is no longer working and I'm having trouble updating from leopard to snow leopard I got this message when I tried to install

  "To install Mac OS X, use Disk utility to burn this disk image to a DVD and run this application again"

I've tried using disc utility to copy an image of the disk and mounting and to try to trick my mac to thinking its a disk, then tried rebooting the mac while holding down the option button but nothing but the hard drive comes up.

Does anybody else have any suggestions?

Is there some kind of command that can make my computer recognize it as a disk?

I have also tried using remote disk from my sisters macbook pro to install the software that had already had a disk image copied & burned to a disk.


texts: Itunes smart Playlist with reference to Apple Music favorites won't sync to Iphone

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I have created a Playlist (pl1) and favorited some of the tracks in it.
But because I want to filter (the heart symbol in Apple Music) only the tracks which are favorited from pl1 I created a smart playlist with following settings:

contained in pl1 AND
marked as favorite

My Problem now is that the new smart playlist won't sync over to my iPhone...
pl1 and the favorites sync normally and even the favorited tracks from pl1 show up in favorites on the iPhone but as I said the smart playlist won't show up.

I tried the following:

Restart the iPhone
Re-Enable Apple Music
Relogging from icloud
Recreating both pl1 and the smart playlist

I also found these two questions:

ITunes Match: syncing smart playlists that reference other
playlists
iTunes smart playlist not syncing to iPhone

But the first one is about itunes match and the second one said that it worked again after some time


texts: Are there performance issues with iOS 6 running on iPhone 3GS?

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My brother has an iPhone 3GS. The upgrade to iOS 5 has considerably slowed down the device. Will the upgrade to iOS 6 slow down the device even more?

Will iOS 6 work well (not any different from iOS 5) on an iPhone 3GS?


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I have a macmini that I am trying to use as a file server.

I have setup a shared directory and have enabled sharing (SMB, AFP and enabled Windows Sharing).

I can now connect to this drive on my LAN, but the transfer speeds are really slow, between 2.5 and 3.5 MB/sec.

Is there anyway or any settings that can be used to improve file transfer speeds?

Updated Information

Both computers are connected via WiFi using a TP-Link AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Router

The Mac-Mini server has a transmission rate of 145 Mbps or ~17.3 MiB/s

The Windows 7 client has a speed of 144 Mbps or ~17.2 MiB/s


texts: How to recover previously saved text file after an overwrite and a reboot?

texts: I was programming in python and I had two text editors open to the same file, and right before I shut down my computer I saved in the wrong one and overwrote the version I wanted to keep. How can I restore the old version? I'm using Mac OS X Snow Leopard


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I was updating my iTunes and left my MacBook Air open to finish and restart. When I came back a few hours later my Mac was showing the grey apple screen with the apple and then black lines of code down the left side of the screen. It said debugger "Unable to find driver for this platform: ..." And then kernel version Darwin kernel version kernel UUID kernel slide and kernel text base.

I have no idea what has happened. I thought it was a kernel panic but my screen looks nothing like any screen that shows up when I research kernel panic. I've rebooted it in safe mode and just normally about 20 times. Nothing is changing it.

Can someone please help?


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On our on-call duty phone we receive SMSs from our server monitoring system. The notification tune is quite long and the phone is intentionally loud.

Is it possible to interrupt the tune once it starts playing on iOS 8?

On a previous version of iOS (I can't recall which version this was) it was possible by pushing the On/Off button on the top-right or the Volume Down button on the left.


texts: Is there a program that automatically tiles all (new) windows?

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I'm doing a research on different ways to manage windows on a computer and for that reason I'm searching for a program that automatically tiles all opened Windows including new ones.

I know that there are some programs that use certain Shortcuts to tile all Windows but I don't know if one of them can be configured to do that automatically, so that there are basically no overlapping windows.


texts: Does iPhone "manual backup" in iTunes use encryption?

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Hey I have set "Automatically Back Up" to "This computer" including encryption once and because of battery life issues, I want to perform a backup and restore. Under "Manually Back Up and Restore" I clicked "Back Up Now" but it didn't ask me for a password.

However, I want to keep my health data. Is the manual backup going to include health data now or do only automatic backups include those?


texts: How can I fix my ID3 tags without confusing iTunes?

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I'm planning to use TagScanner to clean up the ID3 tags for my music (though I'd be happy to use an alternative if it addressed the problem below). Unfortunately, doing so will change the files out from under iTunes. One thing that worries me is that iTunes seems to like to keep my music in folders reflecting the artist's name.
Once TagScanner has fixed the tags some files will be in a folder that's inconsistent with what one would expect based on the tags. I'd also like to make sure that iTunes' view of of the music reflects the updated information so that, for example, I can search for files using the repaired ID3 tags.
How can I spruce up my music files without breaking iTunes?


texts: How can I control an iOS device's screen from a Mac?

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Everything I've been able to find when Googling for this falls into one of these categories:

it requires Jailbreaking;
it's really just a way to display the iOS device's screen with AirPlay, and has nothing to do with controlling the screen;
it's a remote support service that charges up the wazoo

I don't particularly want to pay $20 just to get around the fact that Apple doesn't see fit to support trackpads and mice in iOS.  I can already connect my bluetooth keyboard to my iOS device, but I can't control the screen (as though I were touching the screen itself, without actually raising my arm up to monitor height, where my iOS device is mounted).

I do not need remote control—that is, control from a remote network—but if I can gain control of the screen using something designed for remote control, that's fine.


texts: External disk does not show in "diskutil list" after premature eject, what can I do?

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This question is related to External drive does not mount after plug off without eject, but the difference is that in my case, the drive did not appear in the Disk Utility application nor in diskutil list. Furthermore, I had a strong suspicion that the problem was caused by a poweroff while the external drive wasn't (fully) unmounted, because Finder was showing a warning about disconnecting before unmounting for both partitions of the drive.

When I switched it on, the drive would briefly spin up and then spin down again, but none of the software on my mac would confirm that it was connected.

There are lots of (free) tools available online that promise to help with recovering compromised disks, including some that are provided by disk manufacturers. However, in this case, none of the programs I could find appealed to me, for at least one of the following reasons in each case:

It is only for Windows, or it requires creating a bootable flash drive before you can run it.
Its documentation does not clearly state that it will be able to find a disk that doesn't already show up on your mac.

I'm asking this question retroactively to share the solution I found. If you know of a different solution that worked in your case, please feel welcome to share as well!


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I have a boot hard drive from an old Mac and a new Mac.  I want to boot the new Mac from the old Mac's boot disk (preferably without having to take the new Mac appart)  So I attach it via USB, configure it to be the boot drive in System Preference and reboot.  Almost immediately after the chime, the new Mac displays the grey prohibition sign .

The new mac is running 10.14.  The old Mac that I'm trying to boot into is on 10.13.

Any ideas as to the cause of this?  How about ways to troubleshoot?

According to the internet, booting from external drive is possible these days.  And the prohibition sign appears when a bootable drive is found.  So I don't know what's the problem.


texts: How to decrypt the system keychain from another mac at the command line

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I just ran into a situation where a user with a Mac that had been hard broken by an interrupted update needed into their Time Machine backup outside of the normal recovery process. Unfortunately, they'd forgotten the password to do this.

I have access to the filesystem on the broken Mac, and needed to recover their Time Machine password as well as anything else in the System keychain.

Difficulty: The system keychain does not use a normal password, it uses random bytes.

How do you decrypt a system keychain?


texts:
A follow up to my earlier question about the Mavericks installation from an SD Card.
I am running this in Terminal:

mv Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System\ 2/System/Installation

The response is: Read-only file system. In Diskutil, the SD Card isn't greyed out.
According to this, I have to copy data from the Install ESD image to the SD Card to make it work.

But unfortunately, Terminal gives me this error. I also tried changing the file permissions with chmod en chown, which resulted in no change.


texts: How can I disable color management on OS X?

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I'm not sure if it's possible but I'd like to disable color management on OS X, or at least when working with Photoshop and Illustrator. The problem is that no matter what I do in both application when trying to set a color mode, a color profile or the Proof Color options, both apps are showing different colors for the same image.

Here is a screenshot with how it looks when I have both application windows with one part over the built-in monitor and the other over an external monitor.

Also, when I was tracking down the issue, I discovered that when dragging the windows from one monitor to the other, the colors look like if the window is still on the first monitor, but then change to how they look in the second monitor after I stop dragging the window. This makes me thing that is not a color calibration issue, but rather something with the way the app manage the color profile for that monitor.

So, is there a way to solve this problem? maybe disabling color management at all for the whole system, or only for some applications?


texts:
I have an iPhone 5S 64 GB, ME312LL/A) I purchased as a refurb from a reputable vendor in November 2014. It's my wife's, and her previous phone didn't have LTE, so neither of us noticed right away that even in areas AT&T has good LTE service, her phone never registers an LTE connection. Only 4G.

Update:

When a SIM card from a phone with working LTE is inserted into this iPhone 5S, the service indicator shows LTE. I suppose I need to contact AT&T then?

By all appearances the phone had never been used (original packaging, pristine accessories,OEM screen protector wrap still on). What would cause a phone to function normally all ways, but not register an LTE connection?

I've tried:

toggling LTE off/on in Cellular Settings.
checking for carrier updates
resetting network settings


texts: How to quiet or mute iOS 12 Mail Send sound?

texts:
Same as this question, but iOS has changed.
The whoosh sound when Mail app sends a message is too loud. I've tried the volume down button while using Mail but it didn't change. I muted the receive notification sound already.
How do I change it?


texts: Why do iOS devices take such a long time to turn back on?

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Often I will realise my iPhone or iPad is about to run out of battery, run around the house looking for a charging cable and plug, and get back just in time to see the screen go black and the little spinner appear.

If I plug it into a wall socket it takes about 3-5 minutes (it shows the red battery with power symbol below) to turn back on, but if I plug it into my laptop it understandably takes longer.

Occasionally once it has finally powered back up the battery percent will be more than 1%. Why hasn't it turned on ASAP?

Also if I plug the cable in less than a few second after the screen goes to the spinner, why does it take so long? It just had enough power to function fully, and now I've given it all the power from my socket, how can those few seconds make such a difference?

More importantly is there anyway to try and force the device to come back on quicker? (e.g. If your phone is dead and you plug it in because you need to phone 911) it would be nice to know even if there is way to force it to turn on only to the emergency phone screen, and not the full functionality?


texts: Switching between applications always hides other apps

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When switching between applications how does one allow applications to stack or remain in view?

Example: I have a web browser open (not in full screen but sized to cover the full display) I then open the calendar which is sized smaller and used to appear in front of the browser in previous OS versions whilst still displaying the web browser behind it.

What occurs for me is that when I switch applications the previous application is hidden to the dock, not minimized but hidden.

Here is a short gif as I have most likely explained my problem terribly.


texts: Why can't I send ZIP files in Apple Mail from an iCloud account?

texts: When I try to send a zip file to a gmail user from Apple Mail with my iCloud address, I get the following error. My zip file is 5 MB but contains a lot of files inside the archive (that's why I zipped it so I wouldn't be sending a hundred separate files). Basically, Apple Mail treats the zip archive like it is unzipped or something like that. Does anybody know a workaround?


texts: Can I keep transparency for menu bar, and 'Reduce transparency' for some apps?


texts:
I've got this weird crash of /private/tmp/*/timingsafe which doesn't exist invoked from sh parent process which also doesn't exist. Here are the details:

Process:               timingsafe [99822]
Path:                  /private/tmp/*/timingsafe
Identifier:            timingsafe
Version:               0
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        sh [99814]
Responsible:           timingsafe [99822]
User ID:               501
...
Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
...
Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: _timingsafe_bcmp
  Referenced from: /private/tmp/*/timingsafe
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   dyld                            0x000000011aaf567e __abort_with_payload + 10
1   dyld                            0x000000011aaf50af abort_with_payload_wrapper_internal + 90
2   dyld                            0x000000011aaf50f1 abort_with_payload + 9
3   dyld                            0x000000011aad06d3 dyld::halt(char const*) + 361
4   dyld                            0x000000011aad07de dyld::fastBindLazySymbol(ImageLoader**, unsigned long) + 139
5   libdyld.dylib                   0x00007fffa7be148e dyld_stub_binder + 282
6   ???                             0x000000010ce15028 0 + 4511060008
7   timingsafe                      0x000000010ce000ca main + 59
8   libdyld.dylib                   0x00007fffa7be5255 start + 1
...
Binary Images:
       0x10cdff000 -        0x10ce14ff3 +timingsafe (0) <5D6C9416-6EDF-3FA4-A920-1727D3E4BDA7> /tmp/*/timingsafe
       0x11aacc000 -        0x11ab091c7  dyld (421.1) <A525EAEA-AF86-30C2-B360-3D093B4F0828> /usr/lib/dyld
...

Above says that _timingsafe_bcmp symbol is not found (see: man timingsafe_bcmp), but I'm not quiet sure what exactly crashed and why it points to the file which doesn't exist.

Any idea what is this /tmp/*/timingsafe and how to deal with such error? Is it a macOS Sierra bug or some kind of malware?


texts: How to disable "right click acting as left click"

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I have this problem where I press the right click, and the mouse moves a few nanometer over the contextual-menu. When a release the right click, the system acts as if I just did a left click on the contextual-menu and do the action like "copy" or "change page"... This can lead to pretty annoying consequences.

The solution would be to stop the right click being treated as a left click when the mouse moves over the contextual-menu before the right click is released. I don't know if that's possible but honestly I doubt anybody use that feature in the first place.
Another solution would be to make the contextual menu appear after the right click is released, instead of after the right click is pressed, if that is possible.


texts: Is there a sane way to emulate the newer media key behavior completely on an Apple Extended Keyboard II?

texts:
The operative word here being "completely".  I recently found a nearly flawless (cosmetically and functionally) AEKII (Alps, not Mitsumis) on eBay and won it for $30.  It's an awesome keyboard and it gives me fond memories of my typing classes in elementary school, but I hate the lack of modern media keys; I used them all the time on my wired Aluminum keyboard.

My current "hack" involves some custom AppleScripts (I've only implemented volume up/down) that I imported as Alfred Extensions and bound to some custom hotkeys, but this approach has some downsides:

No system feedback; the volume overlay and sound effect don't show up.  And I'm fairly noobish when it comes to AppleScripting so I have yet to figure out if it's possible to do this.
Because it's a script and not a true hardware interrupt, things like system load can lead to delays in responding to the key presses.
I can't hold down the key to affect a continuous increase or decrease.  I have to repeatedly hit the keys to repeatedly increment or decrement the volume value.

I'd imagine that there is a way to write an AppleScript that captures keypresses and I can use that to process a continuously depressed key, but I haven't found it worthwhile to spin a bunch of cycles trying to figure this out.

Are there any other AEKII users out there that have found a sane way to handle special functions from the keyboard?


texts: Are group messages sent over iMessage when possible?

texts:
When I select multiple recipients, both iPhones and other phones, they are all marked with the green color, as if the message will be sent as an SMS.

Will the message be sent over iMessage to those who can receive it?


texts: Can an Automator workflow generate an Application?

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I'm building a "Wizard" of sorts that uses Automator and some Appliescript, and at the end I would like it to generate an "Automator Application" that does things when launched, that are based on the inputs from the wizard.
Is this even possible?  Can one Automator workflow, actually generate an application from the results?  I know software can create software, but is this possible within Automator's capabilities?
EDIT:  As noted in the comments below the post, osacompile seems like it might get me where I want to go, but now I have a new problem with that.
Here's a screenshot of my automator steps:

Here's the code of the erroring module (Send iMessage):
on run {input, parameters}

    set sms_address to item 1 of input
    set email_address to item 2 of input
    set sms_content to item 3 of input
    set email_subject to item 4 of input
    set email_body to item 5 of input

    set savePath to (path to desktop as text) & "test.scpt"

    set code to "osacompile -e 'tell application \"Messages\"' -e '
    set imessageservice to 1st service whose service type = iMessage' -e '
    set iMessageBuddy to buddy " & sms_address & " of imessageservice' -e '
    send " & sms_content & " to iMessageBuddy' -e '
    end tell' -o " & quoted form of POSIX path of savePath

    do shell script code

    return input
end run

Note that the lines are broken up that way because it was the only approach I could find where I didn't get any errors just because of adding line breaks (I can put this code all on one line and get the identical error)
Here's the error I receive:

I haven't been able to figure out what the problem is here but it seems like I'm not passing the variables in the way a bash script expects.  Have tried a bunch of other approaches and nothing has worked any better, but this is the one that seems the most sensible to me, knowing how I would normally pass variables into a script.
EDIT 2:  To simplify further, here is the standalone code I'm current debugging in AppleScript Editor and without any line breaks to not confuse the issue:
set sms_address to "person@gmail.com"
set sms_content to "sms content"

set savePath to (path to desktop as text) & "test.scpt"

set code to "osacompile -e 'tell application \"Messages\"' -e ' set imessageservice to 1st service whose service type = iMessage' -e 'set iMessageBuddy to buddy " & sms_address & " of imessageservice' -e 'send " & sms_content & " to iMessageBuddy' -e 'end tell' -o " & quoted form of POSIX path of savePath

do shell script code


texts: How to have apple iBooks or Kindle synced between devices?

texts:
There are books that I cannot obtain in the bookstore or amazon prime. For those books I'd like to be able to access them wherever I am (from all my devices, even if I get a new mac book). I also wish to be able to save all the notes in them and have that accessible. I assume one would new to sync in the cloud.
Is this possible?
I see the pdfs are in my computer's readers but I cannot have them sync between devices like, say, mendeley or evernote would.
kindle isn't important. What is important is that my pdfs are available everywhere. Ideally backup with annotations. That doesn't seem to work on either. Thats the crux of my question. Which app is mostly irrelevant.
Note that I strongly prefer to have have it work on 1) kindle or 2)iBooks in that order if possible but if it works on either that would be fantastic.

related:

Syncing non-Amazon purchased eBooks between Kindle, iPad, and iPhone


texts: Catalina - Apps that have requested access to your microphone will appear here

texts:
I try to grant access for google chrome or safari to my microphone and both redirect me to security & privacy section.
There are no plus or minus signs and no apparent way to allow these apps to use my microphone.
I also tried with skype but same story all over again unfortunately.
It seems to me that it is like a deadlock because no system call is activated apparently to enable the plus minus signs. Any ideas?

EDIT:
None of the solutions proposed here worked. I ended up reinstalling MacOS by using Option-Command-R at startup to upgrade to the latest macOS that is compatible with my Mac.
Now everything works. It should have been a problem of the OS installed on my computer.


texts: A complicated script to automate functions in Safari

texts:
I can navigate a script to control specific "Menu" items... but I can not find information on directing a script to find and click a specific button on a drop down sheet such as the one shown

Im just too inexperienced to know the proper naming and path commands .. any pointers to relevant information is appreciated.

Here is some more information.

Using Automator and Script Editor I made two scripts, saved them as Applications and set them each with a command key.

The result was that I could quickly open and close Safari and have the browser reset each time...
works like a charm until Apple modifies Safari enough where the scripts need to be adjusted for the new path to the same function.

This time the control to reset is the "Clear History" function with I believe also clears the website data as well.
Safari can be set to open in Private mode by default now so that helps a lot for keeping the cache clean

So once the user hits the menu item "Clear History"... instead of a pop up anything... there is a drop down.??..sheet?

I have gotten the script to get as far as that... the script seems to have located the "sheet"... but can not locate the button I want it to click.

What I have so far that gets .. to.. the button that I want clicked:

tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Safari"
    tell menu bar 1 to tell menu bar item "Safari" to tell menu 1 to tell menu item "Clear History…" to click
end tell

end tell

I tried to insert something like:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari" to tell sheet 1 to click (button whose description is "Clear History")

end tell

the error result looks like:

error "Can’t get button whose description = \"Clear History\"." number -1728

Now I’m actually surprise the script got this far as I’m just hacking lines I saw in other scripts that I thought might work.

So basically I just can’t make my script take the jump from controlling a few menu items to getting pointed to some type of drop down and making a button click for me.

Can I extend this to automate UI scripting in Safari?


texts: Can't see newly created parition (and formatted as ExFat or NTFS) in Bootcamp (Windows 7)

texts:
I'm trying to resize my Bootcamp partition and finally shrunk my AFPS partition smaller and formatted the new partition to NTFS (and later to ExFAT) in hope to be able to see it in Windows and merge it with Bootcamp (Since I can't do it in macOS due to my Boocamp partition being NTFS) but I can't see it in Windows in any program I try to merge them. I just see Bootcamp partition and one big "Apple" one which in fact should be three.

(I'm Using Mojave)

Thanks

Here is the result of my "diskutil list" command:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         413.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data newly                   259.9 GB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                76.0 GB    disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +413.9 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            301.7 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 22.3 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      4.3 GB     disk1s4


texts: Using same Snow Leopard CD on two MacBooks

texts: Are there any kind of troubles that I could get into if I use the same install CD on two laptops? I've just received a laptop from my workplace, but apparently they lost the install CD, and I want to use my own to "clean up" the laptop.


texts: troubleshooting Finder (and disk access?) speeds — Dropbox extension problems?

texts:
I am on Yosemite 10.10.3, though in the public beta program (which now is in sync with releases). I am also in the Dropbox beta, now on 3.5.58, for what it's worth.

File access is curiously slow now. It could be a hardware issue, like the old spinning HDD dying in my MBP. That said, things often stall when Save or Open dialog boxes open up, and more often than not the Dropbox extension crashes afterwards.

Displaying the contents of folders is also slow, in the dialog boxes or Finder windows themselves, like in this question.

How should one start diagnosing such an issue?

I understand I could forget the Dropbox beta. I could also talk to them. But this has been crashing ever since Yosemite went to public beta testing, and no update to the OS nor Dropbox ever fixed this. The Dropbox beta is not that far ahead from the release anyway.

Is there anything to check here other than a reinstall or even a migration to a new mac?

I regularly run Onyx, so everything what it would do (incl. permission repairs) has been done recently. That said, Onyx's hardware check regularly complains about the disk, which needs to repaired after booting from the recovery disk. I don't know why this is recurring. Esp. as the problem is usually the disk size being off by a little.

[I'd paste screenshots of Disk Utility from booting into internet recovery, but they do not upload. Here are two links to them on Dropbox.]

I checked system.log, and saw no I/O errors, though most of my log is filled with these lines every second:

Apr 23 15:07:23 dhcp-7-125 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.photostream-agent[92911]): LaunchServices returned a bundle URL that does not match with the LoginItem's known association.
Apr 23 15:07:23 dhcp-7-125 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.photostream-agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Apr 23 15:07:23 dhcp-7-125.nber.org com.apple.usbmuxd[49806]: HandleUSBMuxDictionary client 0x100608890-duet/NULL using library 1.2.5, running usbmuxd-344.6
Apr 23 15:07:23 dhcp-7-125.nber.org com.apple.usbmuxd[49806]: MuxTCPInputSCE received RST for 0x11-b22be791bfd836141f0489b3045fe82d713378b2@0xfd120000:2345->0x100608890-duet/NULL:33702: handleConnectResult: failure - 61

If this can be related to the Dropbox issues, here is another extension crash report from this morning. (Too large to show here, link is to a txt on Dropbox.) I've been sending these to Apple since last summer or so, neither OS X updates or Dropbox betas and releases seem to have fixed the issue.


texts: Retrieve file from iPhone 4s in recovery mode (No backup)

texts:
I have an iPhone 4s that was updated without being backed up first and that contains a voice memo file for a school project that is due tomorrow. The update failed, although the cause isn't known. It was over wifi and the wifi signal was strong and consistent. Maybe the actual internet service cut out. I don't know. Now, the phone has been replaced, so it no longer has cell service either. I've been asked to retrieve the file off of it.

I've tried hooking it up with iExplorer and it won't discover in there. I've also thought of jailbreaking it, but I'm not sure if that requires deletion of all the drive contents. I'm also open to breaking the thing open and somehow mounting the drive on another computer, but I'm not sure if there are adapters available for that or how possible it is. Maybe there's a way to restore and then recover the deleted files? Again, I don't know. I'm not typically an Apple user, although I do have access to Windows, Mac, and Linux OS's if need be.


texts: Partition Map Check failed because no slices were found - External Drive

texts:
I have a WD My Passport external drive which is giving me the runaround.

Yesterday I unplugged it from a Windows PC I was using without 'safely removing' because there was no icon in the system tray to allow me to do so. Instead I shut down the PC, waited for the drive to spin down and unplugged it.

That night I got home and plugged it into my MacBook, and immediately something seemed odd. The drive access light was flashing continuously for over an hour, and it the read write head was moving rapidly across the surface, despite not me not actively doing anything with the drive.

The drive mounted fine, and I was able to back up my files.

Having done this I started to investigate.

I ran Disk Utility and executed a verify disk. At the partition level 'Yellow', it ran fine and gave me "The volume 'Yellow' appears to be OK"

but when I tried this at the upper drive level "WD My Passport 25E1 Media" it came back with "Error: Partition Map Check failed because no slices were found"

I was also unable to eject the disk because "the disk could not be unmounted"

I have since plugged it back into the Windows PC I was using, a dialogue box popped up stating "there appears to be a problem with this drive" I let it go through the repair process and it repaired successfully.

I plugged it back into the MacBook, again it seems to mount correctly and my files are accessible. However when I open it in Disk Utilit and verify "WD My Passport 25E1 Media" it still returns "Error: Partition Map Check failed because no slices were found", and I'm still unable to eject the disk.

So my questions are:

Why does this error appear at the top 'drive' level, and not at the individual partition level?

What can I do to fix this?

Apologies in advance if I have misunderstood how the verify disk function works

UPDATE 01-DEC-2019:

As a control experiment, I have formatted an identical blank WD My Passport (also as ExFAT.) When I click the top level of the disk on this drive in Disk Utility, "Verify Disk" is greyed out completely, and then is clickable on the partition level... Is this correct behavior? Is this what the other drive should be doing? Or is it just because this is an empty drive?


texts: Mac App Store shows OS X Lion installed after interrupted connection

texts:
I purchased Lion from the Mac App Store and for some reason my connection got cut, after that Mac App Store says that the app is INSTALLED when i can't see it anywhere.

I tried to check for unfinished downloads but it still says: INSTALLED

I should note that i'm on Lion GM and the installer was downloading in LaunchPad, but i can't see it anymore

i tried:

Rebuilding LaunchServices
Look for the installer

Any idea? thanks


texts:
I have an apple laptop.But the OS is corrupted.I have a new one to use the apple laptop.But i have an licensed version.

What I need:

How to install the leopard os....
What are the steps am i should follow...


texts:
To sign in the YouTube app on my apple TV 4, it ask me to go

youtube.com/active

When I go to that page, the page says

  "This account has been terminated for violating YouTube or Google's Terms of Service."

However, I could use my account on YouTube on other platforms just fine. I contacted Google and filled in a form to check my account status. I got e-mail replay says my account still active. Does anybody faced this
situation？ What could I do?


texts: I deleted by mistake my whole hard disk and now I can't reinstall macOS using Recovery Mode

texts:
In order to fix my problem I started my MacBookPro in Internet Recovery Mode, then I tried to create again the partitions/volumes using Disk Utility and I tried through the Terminal too, but so far I didn't have luck.
I'm getting this error when I try to install macOS:

I leave here the result of diskutil list. (If you need more information, please let me know to update this post.)

Thank you so much for your time <3
PS: Sorry for my English. It isn't my mother language.


texts: Is there a way to determine which iphone charger is newer?

texts:
I've got 2 chargers (both EU) here: One from an iPhone 7 and one from the 6. Both are almost identical in terms of look and labels, besides the manufacturer: one is flextronics the other one is salcomp.

I also know that there is a serial number inside the usb connector. There a way to decipher these and thereby determine the production date?


texts: How do I copy a Google search URL in iOS Safari?

texts:
I’m writing a Stack Exchange answer from my iPhone, and I want to include a Google search URL. How can I copy the URL of the search results from iOS Safari? Going up to the address bar and tapping “Copy” only grabs the search terms, not the full URL. I’m using iOS 13.4.1.

Note: My question is very similar to this one, except that question is asking about the desktop version of Safari, not iOS.


texts: iMac freezes complete, except mouse pointer. What can I do?

texts:
Recently, I've noticed a strange behavior on my iMac (Yosemite 10.10.4, Late 2009).

Everything freezes completely - it's totally unresponsive. HOWEVER,  I can continue to control the mouse pointer perfectly.

In other words - even though I can move the pointer - I can't click any buttons, menu items, change the focus on any windows, or interact with the desktop, dock, menu, or any running app. Launchpad and Mission Control don't work. The iMac also doesn't seem to respond to the keyboard at all.

I should note that this happens very infrequently - perhaps once or twice a month. I haven't noticed a pattern of when it happens (e.g., it doesn't typically happen soon after restarting).

So...

Any idea what might cause this? I'm up to date on all my updates (OS
X and apps), and I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary with my
Mac (No envelope-pushing applications or modifications).
So far - the only thing I can think of to fix this is hold down the
power button until it restarts. Is there a better option? (E.g., on
Windows, you have CTRL+ALT+DELETE, which seems to recover from any
crash short of a full blue-screen). Is there an equivalent way to
launch the activity monitor, for example?


texts: How do I enable SSH server on startup through Terminal?

texts: Curious as to how I can enable the sshd to start on startup solely using terminal. The GUI is great and everything but it doesn't go well with my bash scripts.


texts: 2009 MacBook Pro 15 inch display upgrade

texts: I love my current 2009 15 inch MBP but I'm looking to upgrade the display. My understanding is that I cannot upgrade to a retina but is it possible to upgrade to a higher resolution than the current screen? I do a lot photo editing and would love to have a little better screen. I'm not looking to upgrade to a new MBP. I already have a new 27in mac that I use for editing but thats in my office. When I'm home and just looking to edit a few photos it would be nice to be able to use my MBP. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!


texts: Terminal: What does intermittent "cp: .: Invalid argument" mean?

texts:
Very often I get an error message on the terminal "cp: .: Invalid argument". It also happens with other commands than "cp". For example:

me@iMac:/Volumes/boot$ cp ~/Documents/wpa_supplicant.conf .
cp: .: Invalid argument
me@iMac:/Volumes/boot$ cp ~/Documents/wpa_supplicant.conf .
me@iMac:/Volumes/boot$

Note that I did not re-type the command on line three, I just hit up-arrow and enter. Does anyone know what the problem could be, or have an idea how to debug?

Thanks, Martin


texts:
Whenever I want to type "A, the text is converted to Ä

For example, I want to type the following text:

"A wonderful letter"

When I start typing, I get this:

Ä wonderful letter"

How to fix the issue with the Ä letter appearing instead of "A?


texts: Autoconnect (and keep the connection active) VPN L2TP on MacOS BigSur when not connected to a specific Wi-Fi

texts:
I've seen other old answers, but they didn't work.
I’m on MacOS BigSur and my goal is to set a L2TP VPN profile to autoconnect (and keep the connection active after Mac is awaken from sleep mode) when I'm not connected to my home's WiFi.
What can I do?
Olivier


texts: Philips TV: Connect MacBook shared folder to TV

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I have an issue: Connect Macbook and Philips TV.

I want to browse Macbook shared folder in Philips TV, but it cannot be done as easily as on Windows (uh)

Maximum what I've found after an hour of searching in google: Smart TV Share, program in App Store. It allows Philips TV to browse only in Pictures folder.

I also try to change target directory of this program by settings, but nothing seems to changed. (No settings available for user :( )

Please, if anyone knows solution, help me!


texts: Why does AddressBookSourceSync request connections to myriad different servers?

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I've recently installed a new version of Little Snitch, and it informs me that the process AddressBookSourceSync wants to contact a server. I understand the process is for syncing Contacts. What I don't understand is why it should be connecting to servers such as:

cnet.com
fda.gov

and a raft of others that seem to bear no relation to my contacts (no one in my contacts has email addresses or anything else relating to CNet of the FDA).

Is this process doing more than just syncing contacts?

I'm running 10.8.4.


texts: Using an old iPhone 4s to connect to internet to develop apps

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I have an old iphone 4s but just upgraded to a new iphone 6 and switched cellular service from the 4s to the 6.  Wifi broke for some reason a long time ago on the 4s (the buttons are permanetly disabled).

Is there anyway to connect to the internet? I have my phone plugged into a wifi enabled macbook but phone still has no internet connection.


texts: Finding Rosetta / PPC applications on disk

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I know how to determine if a program is an Intel or PPC application (with Cmd-I or in the Activity Monitor).

But how can I find all PPC applications that still lurk on my disk?

Before upgrading to Lion I'd rather know which (seldom used) applications on my disk won't work anymore (I'd be happy with GUI or terminal ways to do this).


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I have tried downloading and running JDiskReport 1.4 a few times now, and after unzipping it and clicking on the executable I get the message:

"JDiskReport" is damaged and can't be opened.  You should move it to the Trash

Why is it not working?  I'm running 10.8 Mountain Lion on a MacBook Pro.


texts: How can I script the bootup disk in macOS Catalina without disabling SIP?

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I'm on Catalina 10.15.6.
Previously, you could write shell scripts that would set the boot volume and restart the Mac, either by using bless --mount X --setBoot or by using systemsetup -setstartupdisk, but neither of these commands seem to work now when System Integrity Protection is enabled.
There must be some way to automate this, since the System Preferences app is able to change your boot disk without SIP being disabled, you just need to provide an admin password. What mechanism does the pref pane use to set the bootup disk now? Can we invoke it in a shell script?


texts: After the update to iOS9 which allowed notes to be in rich text, only the notes "on my iPhone" were converted to this new format. The notes associated with my gmail weren't. Before the upgrade, I could lump all notes together in one list so I didn't even need to worry where they were being stored. But now it looks like half the lists I use frequently are on my iPhone, and half are associated with my gmail. Is there a way in iOS9 I can put them all back in one list (e.g. see all)? Or even just convert all the plaintext gmail notes over to the new style?


texts: Notes no longer sync from iOS (iphone and ipad) to OSX (macbook)

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I've got a Macbook pro running OSX 10.10.5, an iPhone 5s running 10.3.2 and an ipad mini 4 running 1.3.2.

Ive noticed that notes that I make on my iPhone or iPad don't seem to be syncing with the notes app on my laptop. This happened around the time I upgraded my iOS on the phone from iOS 9 to iOS 10.

I've checked and I'm still logged into my iCloud correctly on all devices.

When I go to icloud.com I can see the notes there correctly also.

Any ideas why the notes seem to have stopped syncing to my laptop and how to fix it?


texts: How to install Snow Leopard from XP on MacBook?

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The only OS installed on my MacBook is a XP pack 3.

I would like to install Snow Leopard on XP but when I boot from CD , It does not work I have a "panic kernel error"

any help ?


texts: How/Where do I drag an mp3 file from my pc to iphone?

texts: The only folder I see in internal storage for Apple iPhone is DCIM which leads to 100APPLE, which has all my pictures and videos, and I can't drag the mp3 file there?


texts: My MacBook Pro Retina freezes after connecting third external monitor

texts: After installing MacOS X El Capitan I'm unable to use my computer with three external monitors, after I plug third one independent of port ordering computer freezes, everything was working for quite a long time on Yosemite, how can I fix this problem?