texts: Parental filter which blocks Tarot and other Black magic

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I am searching for a closed source or open source (MacPorts) internet filtering which blocks Black magic (for example Tarot) web sites.

Very important that this also works with Russian language (example Google query)

Background info: my customer is a Catholic single mom.


texts: How can I determine how much storage is required for a specific podcast?

texts: I want to download some podcasts for offline listening/viewing, how can I determine how much storage they will take on my device before downloading them?


texts: How do I ignore ownership on an external hard drive without using Get Info?

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I have been trying to set my external hard drive to ignore ownership in permissions, but I can't seem to do it. I am trying to enable the ignore ownership option because I am trying to run Xcode from my external hard drive. When I start Xcode, it gives me this error message:

Xcode is running from a volume that does not support ownership. Please move Xcode to one that does.

After searching Google and some other websites, I have came to the conclusion that I need to change the permission of the external hard drive to ignore ownership. This option should be under the 'Sharing and Permissions' tab according to some Internet sources. I have looked for a lot of different methods to change the permissions, but none of them have seemed to work for me. One particularly popular method was to select the drive, press Command+I (Get Info), and to change the permissions by clicking the lock in 'Sharing and Permissions'. When I select my drive, however, I do not get those options. In the image below, you will see that I do not have a lock or the other options that should be in that section.

I also have tried a number of commands from the Terminal, but I haven't gotten anything to work. I have tried 'sudo', 'vsdbutil', and a few other methods, none of which have worked.

Please let me know if it is not possible to have Xcode run from an external hard drive. If I can, any help as far to getting Xcode to run would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Get Info Window from the external hard drive I'm using:

EDIT: bjbk pointed out that in the screenshot above, it shows the format as MS DOS (FAT 32). In Disk Utility, it shows Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I formatted it as Mac OS Extended.


texts: Can I see the stored WLAN settings on my iPhone?

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Ist it possible to see the settings of my known WLANs stored on my iPhone? I only know that I can access the settings of the current network when I am logged into one.

Edit: The iPhone is not jailbroken and I do not intend to jailbreak it.


texts: Macbook audio produces a crackling sound when listening to music

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I've been listening to some concentration music on Spotify and Youtube on my Early 2015 Macbook Pro 13", and I've noticed the audio is occasionally crackly (I'm not sure if that's the correct word, but I think people know what I mean?). I don't have this issue when I plug in my headphones to my Macbook, so it appears to be an issue with the Macbook speakers.
I noticed this in the past few days, but never before that, so it seems this is a new issue. Also, I do not have this issue when I listen to pop music. It only seems to happen with the concentration (classical) music.
Can anyone advise on how to fix this?
Here's a link to an audio clip I recorded of the issue https://imgur.com/a/zddxLKf. It's most notable about half way through. I'm not sure if I'm using the correct terminology when I say "crackling?"


texts: Does Bootcamp work for all users on a mac?

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I am in the process of installing Bootcamp to my Mac. A question has just crossed my mind

Can you only use windows from the account you set it up on, or does it work for all users on the mac?

For example, if I set up Bootcamp using Bootcamp Assitant on User X's account, can User Y use Bootcamp on the Mac without having to log in to user X's account?

Thanks.


texts: Add appointment to a specific calendar with Siri

texts: My default calendar is 'Home'. I want Siri to add appointments to my 'Work' calendar. I've tried telling Siri to "Move my appointment to the work calendar" but she merely changes the appointment location to "the work calendar". Is there a specific phrase that I can use to get her to understand what I want?


texts: How do I show if I am the BCC'ed recipient in Mail.app?

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I recently received an email from a collaborator in which I was the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy).  The original "To:" recipient was another collaborator who has a very similar email address to mine.  Because of the similarity in addresses, and because I didn't see anything indicating I was a BCC (even in the detailed header information), I responded back to the original sender and the "To:" recipient pointing out the "mistake."

Obviously this defeated the whole purpose of being BCC'ed by the original sender.

Is there a way in Mail.app to show if I am the BCC of an email?  I am not interested in seeing other BCC's on emails I receive.  This was on Lion, if that makes any difference.


texts: Keep download window open in Safari 5.1 under OS X Lion

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Under OS X Lion, when downloading a file with Safari, is there a way to keep the downloads window open? After clicking on the "Show downloads" icon, a dialog-like window appears.

Unfortunately switching tabs or clicking in a text area makes the downloads window disappear. Is there a way to keep the downloads window open just like in OS X 10.6 running Safari 5?


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I have problems publishing my Application in the App Store.

It seem that the UI has been updated, but the tutorial I use still uses the old version of Xcode, and I can't follow the instructions to publish my application.

Where can I find the Get Info window in Xcode 4.2?


texts: Does FaceTime support 1-to-many connections (conference call) or only 1:1 video calls?

texts: I want to do a video conference call. My understanding is that FaceTime is a 1:1 video chat, but wanted to confirm that.


texts: Attempt to copy a file denied by permissions, but why?

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I have a folder which I wish to copy from my Macbook Air (OSX 10.10.5) onto a USB attached hard disk.  When I try to copy the folder, some files are copied, then the copy aborts with the message: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access “PT3 Summary and Comments SM358 TMA01.htm”.  If I just copy that file alone, I am asked to enter my password, and then the file is copied successfully.

The permissions for (me) are read/write for the file, and for the source and target folders.  Any idea why I can't copy the whole folder?


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I would like to sync Panic Transmit keychain via iCloud. I know that Panic offers Panic Sync but I prefer to use iCloud keychain to sync FTP password.

In this page https://library.panic.com/transmit/new-mac/ it says that passwords are in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Keychains/ but I see different keychains.


texts: Plugged in hard drive externally and it doesn't show up in Disk Utility but is visible on another computer

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My hard drive recently died and I had it replaced on my mid-2010 Macbook Pro (15).  The hard drive, when plugged in with a SATA/USB connector does seem to power the 2.5 HDD (the light on the cable is on and I can hear it whirring), but nothing appears on my computer; not on the desktop, nothing in Disk Utility, nothing in System Information (USB).  I originally wrote it off as an unrecoverable dead drive...except my friend plugged it into their (Windows) PC and it came up as a storage device.

So how come their system can see it but my can't?  Both my USB drives are working and updated (they detect everything else, since that's what I used to Time Capsule recover my new SSD to begin with).  It's a 2.5 inch drive so the USB power should be sufficient enough (I think). And all other support options online assume it can be seen in Disk Utility.

What can I do?


texts: Emptying trash interrupted due to low disk space, resulting in "snapshot meta data tree is invalid"

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I was silly enough to set a bunch of video encodes running and leave my computer resulting in it running out of disk space.

On return to discover it I tried to empty the trash which would have solved the issue but due to low disk space that did not complete properly.

I ended up having to reboot the machine and the "emptying trash" dialog/process did not exit properly.

On reboot the trash appeared empty but none of the diskspace that should have freed was available.

Third reboot this time into safe mode, what freed up space was adding a new tiny file to trash (just a random screenshot) and emptying trash. That freed up the 150G I was expecting.

However, now with system appearing to run normally and the space freed as expected, I do a disk utility first aid check and the following appears.

Can someone explain what does this error mean?

I'm contemplating a restore from time machine backup.
It's obvious that I could "just restore anyway to be on the safe side", but I'd like to understand a bit more if possible about what has happened if anyone can help out and offer any specific diagnosis or such. Thanks.


texts: How to remotely install software on Mac by scripts?

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I am a windows guy new to Mac, I need to deploy software to lots of Mac.

I do centrally install software by scripts on Windows platform, but I still have no clue how to do it on Mac after having done some research.

Can someone tell me

What are some key components I need for centrally pushing out the software on the Mac?
What language do I need to use for the scripts?
Is there a Mac image create/deploy service available, like WDS on windows?


texts: My computer consistently crashes while trying to batch export my photos from my Photos app to a folder

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I'm trying to download my photos from the Photos app to a folder on my computer (iMac 2019). However, after some time, the Photos app ends up crashing and I have to restart the download process. Unfortunately, this problem consistently occurs at random times. I'm trying to export a total of 18,000 files - 15,000 photos and 3,000 videos. The first time it crashed was after 6000 files. The second time was after 4000. Then, I tried to export a smaller number of files, but it still kept crashing.
My export settings are JPEG, high quality, sRGB, full size, 1080p videos including all info in sequential order with the prefix: photos batch one

I'm exporting the photos to a folder on my Desktop called export photos.

Here are the error report and the exported photos. On this attempt, it only exported two photos before crashing. Near the bottom of the error report, there are signals and reasons for termination. Maybe that's what's causing the problem?
Please let me know if you need more info. Thanks in advance!
P.S. I know that I can continue the export after it crashes, but 1. I have a lot of photos, 2. it crashes after only a couple hundred or thousand photos, 3. I want to export everything in one go and fix this problem.


texts: Is it safe to just copy the Xcode 4.4 app from a machine to another or does the Mac App Store download an installer, rather than just a bundled app, and some Xcode 4.4 pieces get installed somewhere in the system?


texts: Mail application keeps disconnecting from IMAP sever on every email service

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I have run into a very odd issue with Mac's Mail application on Mojave. I friend of mine brought their laptop to me to take a look at because their Yahoo kept giving a timeout error on the 'imap.mail.yahoo.com' server for all ports.

I have attempted various different solution walkthroughs with no luck. Yahoo will let me log in but will never download any of the emails and will eventually timeout with an IMAP connection error. Gmail will log me in, show the emails, and after about 3 minutes then IMAP servers timeout. I have checked the Connection Doctor which always states that the IMAP and STMP are always down for every email client (even though Gmail will allow for a login). The Connection Doctor states to check the internet connection, SSL/TLS, along with IMAP/STMP which I have tried with no luck.

I attempted to remove the email account, restart, and re-add it which didn't solve the problem. So I attempted to delete all email accounts, remove the files listed here which still didn't solve the problem. So, I looked up how to factory reset the Mail application here, which didn't fix the problem either.

I have tried changing the password which hasn't worked, I attempted to manually add the IMAP/STMP through the 'Other' account addition option, and I have even turned off the Firewall in an attempt to see if the ports were blocked for some reason. I have also logged the accounts in successfully into another Mac's Mail application, so I know the email accounts are fine. From what I can tell, the problem only exists in the Mail application on this Mac, but I don't know how to proceed forward now. Should I just tell them that they need to wipe the hard drive and re-load Mojave?


texts: How can I add an SMIME cert and configure iOS mail to use it?

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In order to protect ourselves from NSA-style snooping, we need to start using SMIME encrypted email.

Since I have over 10,000 BYOD devices to update, what is the most effective way to

Deploy an SMIME certificate to these users
Configure the corresponding email account to use that certificate on iOS  (Enable signing and encryption)

Since these users have many devices, I'm OK with holding the private and public key for the user and sending it as an attachment they can click on. The problem is that the users get prompted to add an unsigned profile, and the email portion is not clicked.

I'm also not using a globally trusted root, I'm using a private one, so the key deployment will need to also include a way to update the root cert while adding the SMIME cert.


texts: How to solve Safari bookmarks syncing via iCloud problems

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I have a 2018 MacBook Air running the latest non-beta Catalina (10.15.3 as of this writing).

For as long as I can remember, I have used Safari’s bookmark syncing via iCloud, and it has worked very well. One might even say flawlessly.

Last weekend I decided that I had accumulated too many bookmarks that I was never going to use which was making it hard to find what I wanted, so I decided to “clean house” — I exported my bookmarks from Safari and deleted everything except one folder named “Forums” which I use often.

I logged in to my Macs and iOS devices to make sure that they all had the same one folder left. I think I might have had to manually delete them again on one or two devices, honestly I don’t remember because I didn’t realize this was going to become A Thing.

So now have:

one MacBook Air running Catalina
one Mac Mini running Mojave
one Mac Mini running High Sierra
one iPad
one iPhone

The bookmarks on the MacBook Air are working fine locally.

However, everything else is broken.

Changes made on other devices will sync to other devices, but do NOT sync to the MacBook Air.

All of the other devices (except the Air) keep getting duplicates of that “Forums” folder. I just deleted about a dozen of them. Even as I was deleting them, more appeared.

I tried deleting a bookmark on one of the non-MacBook Airs, and not only did it not sync to the Air, but more duplicates re-appeared.

Once the duplicates stopped happening, future changes sync between all of the devices except the Air seem to happen almost simultaneously, even for the Mac mini which is co-located across the USA.

I logged out of iCloud completely on the MacBook Air. I rebooted my MacBook Air. I logged back in to iCloud on the MacBook Air.

The exact same problem is happening.

The MBAir is not getting changes from other Macs, even though it is on the same Wi-Fi network with several other devices which are syncing perfectly well.

Making changes on the MBAir causes more duplicates on the other devices.

At this point it seems like this must be a Catalina issue. Then I remembered my 2015 MacBook was running Catalina too, so I booted it up.

It is syncing just like all of the other non-MBAir devices.

So it’s not Catalina. It’s something about Catalina on this account.

I tried logging into iCloud.com to see if I could delete my Safari bookmarks from there (“The truth is in the cloud”) but there is no option to do that. The only option is to restore deleted bookmarks from the previous 30 days.

I am well-and-truly out of ideas. I guess I could create another local user account on my MBAir and log in to my iCloud account there, but I’m not sure what that would really accomplish anything meaningful. If it worked—then what would I do next?

Any ideas welcomed and appreciated.

Edited to add: Not sure if this is important or related, but I'm also having problems with the Home.app on my MacBook Air not syncing properly with other HomeKit devices.

I do not have any outgoing firewall software installed like Little Snitch or Trip Mode.

Edit 2: I did a Safe Boot to eliminate any potential software issues with iCloud, and it had no effect.

Edit 3: Finding no good answers for this anywhere, I logged in to my backup Administrator account, deleted my regular account, and then re-created it. Safari bookmarks are syncing again.

I did find some messages in the Console log about the SafariBookmarksSyncAgent but googling the error message and/or SafariBookmarksSyncAgent itself did not turn up any helpful information.


texts: How can I type the name of the person I'm calling on the dial pad and make the call?

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I was an Android user before. Now I'm using an iPhone X but cannot get used to the dial pad because I can't find the person by typing their name like I did on my previous mobile phone.

Is there any method of searching contacts in the dial pad by typing the name in iPhone? Is there any easy way?


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I am currently trying to connect my NAS on OSX 10.9.5 using the command line. This will work fine if I first connect my NAS using Finder: I select it in the "Shared" section of Finder's sidebar, click "Connect" and it will connect using the credentials from the keychain and list all available shares.

Then I can use mount_afp on the command line to mount my shares. However, without performing this step in Finder, the following will occur:

$ mount_afp afp://MyNAS._afpovertcp._tcp.local/my_share /path/to/mount_point
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -5002, errno is -5002

How can I perform the "connect" operation from Finder on the command line?


texts: What would be a good SSD drive for a MacBook Pro mid 2010?

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I'm thinking about updating a bit my Macbook Pro mid 2010 adding to it 8Gb of RAM and maybe a new hard drive, a solid one (SSD) of probably 240Gb.

Which SSD would you recommend me? I'm looking for one compatible with TRIM because as far as I know that's the best way to go in order to keep the performance of the SSD after some time.
I've also checked some performances reviews and it seems there's a big difference between some of them. (or there was, as the article is from 2010)

I was checking the models Apple used in its days for the firsts Macbook Pro with SSD, but I believe there are better options now in the market.

Is it relevant that my laptop is from 2010? Should I take that into account for something?

I believe I shouldn't experiment any problem with this change of hard drive and will improve the laptop performance as well as the hard drive life. Am I wrong?
I'm afraid of the possibility of having problems with it for compatibility issues or any other thing.

Thanks!


texts: Is it possible to have multi cam editing in Final Cut Express?

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Is is possible to do multi-camera editing in Final Cut Express like this
 or this?

EDIT: I am using FCE 3.5 HD on Snow Leopard. Is that bad?


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MacBook Air 1534 12” 2016
Accidentally sparked trackpad.
Trackpad and keyboard no longer worked.
Replaced trackpad.
Trackpad now works but keyboard does not.
Could these two flex cables be the culprit?821-2697-A (Keyboard Backlight)
821-00507-03 (IPD)
I notice the trackpad and everything else besides the keyboard work when I disconnect Keyboard backlight flex.
When I disconnect IPD pretty much everything stops working and that’s normal. So this tells me the IPD is not at fault.
Could replacing keyboard backlight flex fix my keyboard problem?
IPD (left)
Keyboard Backlight (right)


texts: HOME dir on another disk, how do I restore from TM backup?

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I have two disks in my MBP. One is small SSD for the OS and applications, and the other is  slow HDD for my HOME folder, downloads and stuff like that.

I have Time Machine set up. Everything seems to be backed up smoothly. I have changed location of my user dir in the Settings -> Users&Groups. Also I have created a symlink /Users/sergio that points to /Volumes/MacintoshHD/Users/sergio (where actual data lives).

I tried restoring from this backup, the user gets created in the process, but I can't login. Probably because it's another machine which has only one disk.

What I was expecting (I don't know why) is that restoration process would walk that symlink in /Users and "dereference" my user dir onto system disk. Apparently, it doesn't do that.

Did anyone try restoring a backup with similar setup? Is it even possible? If it isn't, I might as well stop backing up :)


texts: Yosemite hanging on MacBook Pro with Retina Display

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I have a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (early 2013) running OS X 10.10.1, but this issue has occured as early as the opt-in beta releases of 10.10. I have done fresh reinstalls several times.

After running for some time, (last time this issue occurred I had just about four days of uptime,) the system will completely hang. I hear a repeated sample of whatever music/audio was playing (if any), and after a few moments the computer shuts itself off.

When restarting, during the first boot the system will suddenly reboot with about 1/4 progress on the boot progress indicator. The second boot succeeds.

After restarting, the syslog shows nothing unusual, just normal output suddenly followed by the usual startup output (and nothing about the first failed reboot mentioned before).

How can I diagnose and potentially fix this issue?


texts: Dual (DVI) monitor setup for MacBook Pro 15" (Retina mid-2015)

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I am looking for a solution to connect a MacBook Pro 11,4 (15" retina model from mid 2015) to two monitors. The present question is different from prior questions on dual monitor for Macbook Pro, as it is for a specific model (specific ports) and monitors with specific connections.

Both monitors have VGA and DVI connections, but my MacBook Pro has two ThunderBolt ports and a HDMI port.


texts: Is it possible to save contacts (selectively, eventually) locally on an iPhone, without them being synced to iCloud? (A.k.a. the “All on My Mac” option present on the Mac.) And if yes, how can I do this?


texts: Can I run an AppleScript upon my 3G modem connecting?

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I'm looking for a way to run an AppleScript after my 3G modem is successfully connected to the carrier.

The modem is using the standard OSX network panel to connect, so it's not using any crappy carrier software.

Around the web I've found a lot of people running stuff after the modem is connected but it seems to be sending AT command to the modem, and I don't want that. I want to launch an AppleScript on my computer.


texts: Start brew-installed applications from terminal

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I just set up homebrew on my new macbook and used the brew and brew cask commands to install some applications. I can now open the applications from the launchpad but not from the terminal.

I know it's not working because the applications have not been saved to one of the directories in my $PATH variable, but none of the installation guides I have read for homebrew mention how you can set it up to put links to the binaries there. Some tutorials mention you should change the order of directories in your /etc/paths file, but I already did that and my problem persists.

Can anyone help me out? :)


texts: iPhone heats up and uses lots of data once a day

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I've got a new iPhone SE with all settings transferred from iPhone 5.

I noticed that once a day, at around lunchtime, the phone heats up for around an hour or two, eats half of the battery and presumably also sends or receives a lot of data over 3G because every few days I get a SMS from my provider alerting me that I used 80% of my prepaid 1GB data. The phone is not on charger when this happens (I usually it recharge overnight).

This wasn't happening on the old iPhone 5 - there the 1GB of data lasted for a month or more and battery on light use easily for 2 days.

I doubt it's the iCloud backup - it should only run over WiFi and while the phone is in charges (or so it says at least). I also have the background refresh turned off, email on manual fetch, firmware 9.3.3 (latest as of now), etc. All I could think of that could trigger some background activity was disabled. Yet still it happens every day.

What's going on here? Thanks!


texts: Desktop and Documents folder invisible in finder, but visible with ls command

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As the title said, my Desktop and Documents folder doesn't appear in finder when i'm in the path /users/[username]

But however :

$ ls /users/[username]
Applications    Qt              workspace
Desktop         Movies
Documents       Music
Downloads       Pictures
Library         Public

How is that possible ?


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I have hundreds of songs that are missing BPM information in ITunes.  How do I force ITunes to update the BPM?

Please note that deleting and re-adding songs back is not a very good option for me.


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Latest macOS Catalina update has removed PPTP.ppp plugin, rendering PPTP VPN connections impossible. Has anybody found a solution to this? Can the PPTP.ppp plugin be manually installed?

I know PPTP VPN has been deprecated a long time ago, but my employer is unwilling to upgrade.

Thanks for any help.


texts: Can I update my iPhone 4S on iOS 6 to iOS 8?

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I have new iPhone 4S with iOS 6.1.0. Can I upgrade my current iOS version to 8.0.2?

Whether there can be a problem that I skipped iOS 7 and jump straight from 6 to 8 version?


texts: Can a MacBook Pro13-inc, 2.9GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7 use CL9 memory reliably?

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Looking for a memory upgrade for a macbook pro 13-inc, 2.9GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, The Apple specifications call for CL11 RAM.

The question is if it will work fine with a CL9 memory so I can take advantage of benchmark improvements like this?


texts: How to get the wi-fi connection status from terminal?

texts: Sometimes, when waking up my mac, I get the message "Alert: No internet connection" on the Wi-Fi icon. I can solve it everytime by turning Wi-Fi off and on again. Is there a terminal command I can use to detect the current connection status? I would like to run a script to turn Wi-Fi off and on automatically on waking up if so. Other solutions are welcome, too.


texts: OSX El Capitan changing my display profile automatically

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I have two display profiles in my 13-inch mid-2010 MacBook Pro. The default one and a display with warm colors that I use in darker environments.

Since I updated to El Capitan, OS X is changing my display profile to the warm one without asking. I really don't know whats is going on and I wasn't able to find any post with a related problem.

This is the screen os color profiles:


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I am using Day-O as the clock on the menu bar in place of the default clock. By default, Day-O is showing the display like below:

Can someone let me know if it is possible to change the format to something like 24 Jul Mon 1:52 PM?

I know entering dd MMM E h:mm a in Date & Time Format under Preferences will make it look like 24 Jul Mon 1:52 PM. What I am not sure is how can I remove the number 24 under box so that it looks exactly like the default macOS clock?


texts: How can I get SnailSvn to run a custom diff command?

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How can I make SnailSvn use vimdiff or any custom diff script? It only has a predefined list of options.
To setup its diff support (for opendiff aka FileMerge), it asks you to copy the following script to:
~/Library/Application Scripts/net.langui.SnailSVN.DiffTool/difftool.sh
#!/bin/bash
pkill -nf ScriptMonitor
sh "$@"

The argument is a generated diff-cmd.sh file that looks something like this:
#/bin/bash
"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/opendiff" "/var/folders/nn/000000000000000000000000000000/T/net.langui.SnailSVNFree//r422640 Code.cs" "/Users/idbrii/code/game/Assets/Standard Assets/Unlit/Planes/Code.cs"

I tried to replace it with something like:
#!/bin/bash
args=$(grep opendiff "$@" | cut -d\  -f2-)
echo mvimdiff $args >> ~/snailsvndifftool.log 2>&1

But instead I get too many files -- despite files containing quotes, they're still split up by spaces.


texts: New Apple ID, Can't update previous apps on mac

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So I have a macbook pro and I recently made a new apple ID account due to a muck up with the old one the whole family was using.

I've changed everything on my mac to make sure that my apple ID account is the only one logged in and everything which is working fine, the only problem is, 2 original apps that come with the mac (iPhoto and iMovie) need to be upgraded but every time i try to upgrade them it asks for my old apple id which is disconnected so it won't let me update them.

I'm not great with technology so if you have any ideas to help please put every step and detail in.

Can I delete these original apps off my mac and re download them under my new account while saving all my photos?


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I just upgraded to iOS 7 and my Music app is now crashing every time I try to launch it.

I've tried rebooting my iPad, disabling iTunes Match, re-enabling iTunes Match, but nothing seems to let me access my music.

Any thoughts on how I can reset my Music app?


texts: What to do with an old iPhone without SIM

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I have an iPhone 3GS I no longer use as the battery does not hold and I have a new iPhone 4. I was thinking of using it from time to time at home just to browse or read emails without cellular network (i.e., with no SIM).

After a long time I switched it on initialized it and realized that I need a SIM to activate it (although I already activated it years ago).

What are my options? Can I activate the old 3GS with my current SIM or will I deactivate my new phone? Should I try to get a Phonebook SIM? I would prefer not to jailbreak it if there is a way.

Edit: the phone was officially unlocked after 2 years of contract.


texts: Samba is removed from Lion. How is the role of auto_master changed

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I used to use the /etc/auto_master file to load SMB shares in Snow leopard Mac OS X

Now that Samba is removed, I wonder what should be the correct way to auto mount windows shares.


texts: Make GIF element in Shortcuts crashes shortcut

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I’ve created a shortcut which should make GIF out of burst image but when I run a shortcut it crashes and doesn’t make GIF. Has anyone had the same problem?
Here’s how my shortcut looks like:

iOS 12.4 / iPhone X


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In Photos on macOS it is clear when I am editing a RAW file:

I need to explicitly choose Image > Use RAW as Original, and
the type of the file (e.g., Raw vs JPEG) is clearly indicated in several places in the UI.

However Photos in iOS 10 lacks both these features.

How can I be sure I'm editing RAW in Photos on iOS 10?


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OS X 10.7.x, (updated to 10.7.2 when it became available last week); Quad Core iMac.

Hard crashing about every 2 or 3 weeks, except had one yesterday and another today, 5 times total so far. Mouse and keyboard go dead.  Screen frozen. Doesn't respond to LAN ping.  Dead.

Reboots fine.  Nothing at all about the crashes in the console all-message log.  No evident problems, operating normally.

Note: This machine has had no kernel panics at all in about a year, since I bought it, by the way.

My two suspects are

Add-in-RAM -- maybe I should have bought the most expensive instead
of moderate-priced 4GB modules , a few weeks before the first
crash.
Firefox 7.0.1, as that was the active app when the last 2 crashes
occurred.

I'm keeping notes on the date, time, and front-most app when the crashes occur.

Any ideas? Any instrumentation to add?  Tests to run? (Given the time between crashes, I doubt a memory diagnostic is going to find anything.)


texts:
I have a very frustrating issue with mail app. I am using the mail app for my gmail email address.

The issue is that, when I am writing a new message and would like to save a draft, the app creates a NEW draft for each time I press cmd+S to save the draft state. So, by the time I finish writing the email, I can see 20+ new drafts all sourced from the single message.

I experience this only with mail app. I used another apps, and all did not have this issue.

I am running osx yosemite.


texts: Cannot read external hard drive after installing Linux?

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Please help. I wanted to install linux so I follow this guide: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
I used my external hard drive to do this but then after I finished everything, when I plugged in my external hard drive I get "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" and I cannot see my external hard drive in Finder, but I could see it in the Disk Utility. Does this mean all my data was erased? How do I get my external hard drive back? Thank you.


texts: Can't find public network if here's an other, password protected one

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I've got a weird problem with my 2019 MBP: it is not able to scan/recognize a public network XYZ, if there's also an other XYZ network that is password protected.

Practical example: when I go to a Starbucks, I know there are two networks:

a public Starbucks, where clients can connect
a WPA2 protected Starbucks network (used most likely by its employees?)

now, with both my Samsung smartphone and my work laptop, I can see both networks, and I'm able to connect to the public Starbucks one.

My MPB however isn't able at all to find Starbuck's public wifi, and only shows up the password protected one.

What should I do to fix this odd issue?


texts: Retina Macbook Pro now has faster battery drain

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I have disabled Hibernation mode and Deep Sleep mode, I also keep the charger plugged in about a week before removing it if I want to go somewhere with the laptop.

I don't know if this is normal, but I realised that my battery started draining faster recently. I usually have 6-8 hours of time on battery for web-browsing, youtubing, a bit of programming and nothing really power intensive. GFX-status usually displays i for integrated GPU usage. However I recently started getting 4-5 hours maximum.

Why is this happening ? is it the lifetime of the battery starting to decrease ? I purchased this laptop over summer (one the first batches the retina macbooks were released). So it's not really that old. Can anyone provide a possible explanation to this phenomenon ?


texts: Can I access the contents of the "Data" folder on computers other than Macs? For instance, can I access the Time Capsule from my Android phone?


texts: How to stop a dhcp server from assigning my ip to another computer

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My system has been assigned an IP that I liked from a dhcp server.

I have manually given that IP address to my system. Now I am frequently getting an error that someone else has taken my IP address. So my questions are:

While I am using that IP, how this IP can assigned to someone else?
Note: this happens only when I use this IP on my macbook. This never happens when I use my windows pc.
How can I assign an IP address to my system so that nobody else can take that IP from the dhcp server?

It's very irritating when I am in the middle of a browsing session and suddenly an error pops up that somebody else has taken my IP

e.g.

case 1:
I have two systems. system A(macbook pro) and system B (windows pc).
I have given x:x:x:x ip address to system A and now I am giving same ip to system B. system A macbook pro will give error that your ip has taken.

case 2: I have two systems system A (windows pc) and system B (another windows pc). I have given x:x:x:x ip address to system A and now I am giving the same ip address to system B. Now system B will give error ip conflict. I think this is more appropriate error.

I want the same thing for case 1.


texts: How do I get text key binding "yankAndSelect" to work?

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macOS's text input system has long supported custom keyboard shortcuts via ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict. I have used this successfully for years to make text editing more Emacs-like, but there is one feature I have never been able to get to work: the yankAndSelect: method.  It never cycles through the kill ring for me; it always only yanks the last-killed item. I am looking for help to make it work.
Here is how I tested it.  First, I set NSTextKillRingSize using this command in a terminal:
defaults write -g NSTextKillRingSize -int 20

(I've also tried -string instead of -int in the command above, but it makes no difference in the behavior.)  Next, I removed everything from my DefaultKeyBinding.dict file and left only this:
{
  "^y" = (yankAndSelect:);
}

Note that I leave controlk bound to its default text system action (which is to kill to the end of the line).  Finally, I rebooted, just to be absolutely sure nothing unexpected persisted.
Based on many sources, such as Apple's documentation,  the two documents on customizing the Cocoa text system and the list of selectors by Jacob Rus from 2006, Brett Terpstra's KeyBindings, and random other people's pages on the web, it seems that the following behavior should be seen (as described by Brett Terpstra):

Open TextEdit (restart it if it was already open)
Type a line of text, move the cursor to the start of the line, type controlk
Write another line with different text, and repeat step 2
Do it one more time
On a blank line, type controly. This should paste the last line you killed
Type controly again, and the pasted text should be replaced by the second line you killed
Again, and you should see the first line. Continuing repetitions will cycle through the kill ring.

This is not what happens in my use.  Instead, what happens is that step #6 does not paste the 2nd-to-last kill, but rather the most recent (3rd) kill – always.  It is as if there is no kill ring at all, and yankAndSelect: always only yanks the most recent kill.
This is 100% repeatable behavior in every system (macOS 10.13, and an almost-fresh 10.14 VM) and every application that respects DefaultKeyBinding.dict (not only TextEdit) that I've tried.
What more must be done to get yankAndSelect: to cycle through the kill ring?


texts: The movies on my iPhone don't show a preview icon

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They used to show a preview, but don't show anymore on my iPhone or iPad (synched to the same library). The videos under the Home Videos tab appear with normal thumbnails, but the Movies tab are just gray film strips.

Is there a way to fix this or trigger iTunes to regenerate thumbnails?


texts: Can I change my Podcast name without loosing my subscribers in iTunes?

texts:
I have a Podcast. I herd that if I change the Title of it I might loose my subscribers.

Is there a way to change my Podcast Title without loosing my subscribers in iTunes?


texts: Remove On-screen volume display from ipad

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I want to stop the onscreen volume display from popping up when I change the volume.

The icon is too big and blocks the center of my screen, and stays there for a second or two. I know I'm changing the volume - I'm pressing the buttons!

Is there a way to disable this icon?


texts:
I have a Mid-2010 4 core MacPro. I mainly run 10.6.8, as I have a large software investment I'm not ready to abandon. As part of my migration to the present day OS, I have multiple startup drives, 2 PCI based SSDs.

When I am running 10.6.8 and attempt to reboot into 10.10, I see this;

Obviously not 10.10. So I attempt a boot and disc utility comes up offering the usual menu to restore the OS drive. When I quit the utility, I'm offered a choice of startup drives:

Now, the startup choices appear correctly, and boot me into 10.10. When running 10.10.2, I get a fast boot back to 10.6.8.

As it stands, I need 2 boots to get into 10.10 when running 10.6.8 prior. Why does the system still see any remnant of Lion?

Edit - perhaps the right question is - "Sagan SSD contains 10.10, why does this show as 10.7 when trying to boot into it while running 10.6.8?"

In response to the comment, diskutil list shows -

and it appears to me that when I try to boot Sagan SSD it's the recovery HD that tries to boot.


texts: Reassociating QuickLook file associations

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Today I noticed the QuickLook feature stopped displaying .jpg, .png, and .pdf file previews.  Desktop icons for these types don't show thumbnails.  Pressing SPACE with the file selected in Finder just shows the iconic type of file it is.

And I've tried the CNET recommended fixes:

qlmanage -r
qlmanage -r cache
checking in /Macintosh HD/System/Library/QuickLook/, /Macintosh HD/Library/QuickLook/, and ~/Library/QuickLook/
removing the files called com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper.plist, com.apple.quicklookconfig.plist, and com.apple.QuickLookDaemon.plist

Other QuickLook file types work well.

At first, it looked like the control was taken over by Lytro:

2016-02-29 17:53:52.461 qlmanage[2351:64583] [qlinfinite] Instantiated plugin in host with identifier (null)
2016-02-29 17:53:52.461 qlmanage[2351:64583] [qlinfinite] Found 61 system generators
2016-02-29 17:53:52.462 qlmanage[2351:64583] [qlinfinite] Registered generator CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x7f96e9818e00 </Applications/Lytro.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/LytroLFR.qlgenerator> (bundle, loaded) for type public.jpeg

Reinstalling the new Lytro desktop, things changed.

More disturbing was this... Dropbox seems to be taking control:

$ qlmanage -m plugins | grep -i public.image
  public.image -> /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/DropboxQL.qlgenerator (2)

Creating a new account on my Mac shows things working fine. So it has to be something about my configuration ...except that I have no ~/Library/QuickLook directory, and I also do not have any ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.[Qq]uicklook* entries either.

At this point, multiple reboots, even with Safe Mode do not resolve the issue.

Is there a way to reset the QuickLook associations back to default?

Also, could someone post their qlmanage -m plugins output from a working system?

More weird, previewing via the command line using qlmanage -p anyimagefile.jpg from the Terminal works just fine!

That said, it does emit this cryptic error:

2016-02-29 19:10:41.835 qlmanage[3873:130464] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x8f03, name = 'com.apple.coredrag'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2016-02-29 19:10:42.028 qlmanage[3873:130464] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0xbb37, name = 'com.apple.tsm.portname'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2016-02-29 19:10:42.029 qlmanage[3873:130464] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0xbc1b, name = 'com.apple.CFPasteboardClient'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2016-02-29 19:10:42.029 qlmanage[3873:130464] void __CFPasteboardSetup() : Failed to allocate communication port for com.apple.CFPasteboardClient; this is likely due to sandbox restrictions

I found a similar question that had a number of debugging techniques in it.

Performing my same command line preview with a high debug setting qlmanage -d 4 -p anyimagefile.jpg | grep public.image resulted in seeing extensions registered.

[DEBUG] Registering <QLGenerator Image.qlgenerator> for public.image
[DEBUG] Registering <QLGenerator /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/DropboxQL.qlgenerator> for public.image

So, I blatantly renamed the DropboxQL.qlgenerator, which curiously had a very recent modification time on it, and suddenly the preview-using-space problem went away.

Finder still does not display icon previews for these types.

(reboot.)

Now it does.


texts: Alert sound on the hour, every hour (OSX and iOS)

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Both my Mac and iPhone (possibly my iPad, not sure) play an alert sound on the top of every hour (I believe -- certainly a few of the hours). I don't use notifications for anything (that I am aware of). How do I stop the sound?

The weirdest thing is that I can't find evidence of anyone else having problems with this.


texts: How to enter multiple tasks at once as batch or text import in OmniPlan?

texts:
I want to enter multiple tasks at once. A simple import from a text file might work. I tried copy-paste multiple lines but then they were treated all as one task.

Is there a way to enter multiple tasks in one step?


texts: Where does Mail keep its configuration files?

texts:
I had to replace my hard drive and don't have a backup. I do have a copy of my home folder on an external disk but it was a simple copy/paste job.

I've been dragging my stuff from that disk to my new drive but I don't know where to look for Mail.app account configuration data. I need to recover the server name, username and password for one of my accounts.


texts: About this mac → Storage not showing anything

texts:
The storage information is not shown under About this mac → Storage, but the same is available in Disk Utility.

I tried to turn my MacBook off and on again, but to no avail.

I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro with raid0 SSD storage running macOS Mojave.


texts: How can I stop/start all Mac OS X Server services at once?

texts:
When doing maintenance on our OS X Server (10.8.4), I need to shut down all server services one by one. While it is not too much of a drag to click all services off, perform maintenance, and back on, I wonder, if there is a way to automate this procedure.

Is there?


texts: Restoring CCC or TimeCapsule from MacBookPro (2017) to new (2018)

texts:
I had a MacBook Pro 2017 stolen.  Luckily I have 2 backups:

Time capsule (day old)
Carbon Copy Cloner USB hard drive (30 days old)

MacBook Pro 2017 was running Sierra (or High Sierra?) now I forgot
MacBook Pro 2018 came with Mojave

This is what I've tried so far:

When the brand new MacBook prompted me to restore from Time Capsule, I accepted.   It connected and ran the whole night restoring files.  When I came to it in the morning it said it was finished but there wasn't a single file that was successfully restored.  No users, no apps, nothing, just as if I got it fresh from the factory.   Just like if I never ran the restore in the first place.   But I saw it run, I was waiting for it the whole night.
I switched to CCC next.   First I had to fight with allowing booting from external devices (because of the T2 chip).  I got that sorted out by going to command-R and allowing it.
Next, even though it now let me boot external drives,  I would get the "no-go" icon (circle with a line through it).  I figured out that it was probably due to another incompatibility.**  So I booted the USB drive on my mac mini and successfully upgraded it to Mojave there.
After this I was able to boot into Mojave on both Mac Mini and the new MacBook Pro.  (All my files were there too)... so close....
I thought the final step would be as easy as blowing away /dev/disk1 (reformat) and then cloning from USB to /dev/disk1 using CCC.   I even gave CC extra permissions it asked for (for contacts and calendars or something like that).  It said it completed successfully but during boot (from internal SSD now with USB disconnected), it would go about 75% at the apple logo before showing "no-go" icon.... ARGHH!!!! ... WHY?  It only works through USB
Next I tried using disk utility to clone USB to internal HD but it completed with error "RPC version wrong"

I'm out of ideas.   Why is this so hard?   Is it the damn T2 chip fighting me a each step?  Am I just doing all this wrong?  What's going on?

** I simiplified this step a lot because the following details are not important (I hope).  In reality it was much more strange than the summary I wrote. The very first time after I successfully allowed booting from external drive, I was able to boot from the USB drive, but it popped up with a window saying that my OS was incompatible and that I should click next to upgrade to Mojave.  I didn't do it right in that moment because I didn't want to corrupt my one and only CCC backup on that USB drive.  So instead I shut the whole thing down and took a backup of my USB by doing dd on Linux.  From that moment on I was working with the clone.   To my shock, the next time I tried booting both of my USB drives went straight into the "no-go" icon .. I wasn't prompted to do the upgrade to Mojave as I have been prompted before.  Somehow that Mojave upgrade offer was a one shot deal.   That's what gave me the idea to boot up on my Mac Mini, upgrade to Mojave inside there and then carry on.  That worked (for a while) if you keep reading on.


texts: Build a permanent playlist in podcasts.app iOS 11? Listen Now vs. Library?

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My current workflow for podcast episodes: “play later”, adds to queue, and I play through my queue which is ever growing.

This works more or less but it’s not ideal. I want functionality like YouTube where I have a playlist that I can play through and edit easily.

YouTube let’s me “add to watch later” which puts it in an organized playlist I can edit easily and watch at my leisure. It’s permanent and can’t be overwritten. I can play a new video without tampering with the playlist and I can also change the order of the playlist and delete videos after I’ve watched them.

I don’t want to use a third party app.

UPDATE: I'm experimenting with achieving this either using the "Listen Now" tab or the "Library" by deleting episodes as they come in (opposite approach I'm looking for, would rather add things I would like to listen to instead of remove the ones I don't want to listen to but this is the only solution I could find), I've also unsubscribed from a ton of shows to reduce the noise.

Articles sort've explain what the tabs do but nobody seems to be concerned with creating some a playlist which kind of perplexes me.

Example: 5 notifications of new podcasts and 1 sounds interesting (and I don't currently have time to listen) so I go in and add that podcast to my queue and get rid of the other notifications. This is how I do it on YouTube too (but there I can even categorize into different playlists too). The issue is that my queue has over 20 podcasts on it...so what if I want to restore my phone?

UPDATE 2: restore kept my podcasts queue! so they are "permanent" unless you overwrite etc.


texts:
What are the safest commands to use with rsync to copy from one hard drive, all its content to a new hard drive, both external through my Mac.

The important thing is I want to be sure permissions and privileges won't risk denying me access in the future if I try to access files on a different computer with a different user account for ex.

Is rsync -a the answer ? Because I read it conserves permissions and privileges :/.

Thanks !


texts: How can I force HomeKit to send me a SMS/Notification alert (or email) if the basement floods?

texts:
I use HomeKit to simplify home management for the elderly.  One of the things I want to address is the failure of a sump-pump, or flooding condition.

Is there a way I can cause a HomeKit sensor to cause this notification?


texts: Ipad 10.2 screen has deeper color than my other hardware

texts:
I've just bought an iPad 10.2 with an Apple Pencil for the purpose of using it as a portable drawing tablet.  After finishing two pictures on it, I can say that it has some kind of a noticeable skew in its color/brightness/contrast for some reason.

Both my Android phone and my PC's flatscreen show that what looked like deep and crisp color.  However, the 10.2 screen looks way lighter, more blurry and with far more noticeable brush edges where there were none on the iPad.

I was drawing in Ibis Paint, but judging by the fact that opening the image in the tablet's gallery app gave me the same results, it looks like the problem is either with the hardware, or with the system settings.

How do I make it work without manually tweaking every picture on my PC afterwards?


texts: Does Macbook Pro protect itself from heat?

texts:
Mine is a Macbook Pro 15-inch Late-2013.

I read somewhere that the laptop protects itself from damage by shutting itself down when it gets too hot.

My laptop's temperature, currently at its highest is 95ºC.

The Apple website said that it's maximum operating temperature is 35ºC.

I'm using Macs Fan Control, to tell me the temperature.

https://support.apple.com/kb/sp690?locale=en_GB <-- where temperature is stated


texts: Does the new photos app still try to recognise faces?

texts:
Will the new photos app still try to guess who everyone is in all my photos? I'm really hoping this is one feature that was deprecated!

FYI if anyone is wondering, I personally did not like this feature because it consumed at lot of CPU and kicked my fans up to 100% with no way to limit or control the process.


texts: Options to deal with 43" monitor with MBP

texts:
I bought a 43" monitor to replace two other monitors.  I am regretting it because it is difficult to get the scale correct on applications.  The applications are just bigger.  Using Chrome as an example I have to keep clicking the zoom down feature as it keeps resetting to 100%.  Plus, some website do not respond well to a zoom 50%, let alone 25%.

My Colleague has a 43" monitor connected to windows 10 and has it configured to act like four separate monitors.  He said the software he is using came from Dell.

How can I do a similar thing with Mac?

I like this idea because then I would not need to move the mouse so far to get to the menu across the top of the monitor.

[EDIT] After accepting the answer I had to go thru some experimentation to get VMWare Fusion to display properly.  This seemed to be the best setting for fusion:


texts: Strange issues with garage band 10 and sound fonts sf2

texts:
I'm having issues with Garage Band 10, when trying to set up custom sound fonts.
I installed them in /Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks

Then I opened the MIDI file, doing these steps:

I select my track
I choose Smart Control
I select DLS Music Device like this:

Then it seems to work. I can see all my banks:

But when I select the second track, doing exactly the same steps, I see another interface for DLS Music Device. With this one I can't select sound founts. Here's a screenshot:

I can't understand the difference between the first and the second track.

What is causing this? How can I open the right interface I need?


texts: How do you add a "click effect" to a video using video editing software?

texts:
I have a screen recording from my iPhone, where I show a comprehensive preview of an iOS application I created. But later I found that it's hard for a watcher to find out which button I pressed to navigate to another view.
It would be better if I added some click effect to every button click/tap event. How can I achieve this? Solution which include free software are preferred. I usually use iMovie for video editing.


texts: How to change triple or more click response?

texts:
Let be clear. I upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.11 (Snow Leopard to El Capitan) a couple of months ago.

I got used to it and even customized all the basic Trackpad and Accessibility settings but I still can't get used to how the triple click works.

In my previous macOS (like in other operating systems) when you quadruple click it's equal to a triple + single click, with the result of selecting whole paragraph and undo this action.

So by clicking x times it just cycles this 3 + 1.

But on El Capitan, after triple click I need to wait something that feels as long as 1-2 seconds before allowing single-click to undo whole paragraph selection.

This way if I quadruple click or triple click and failing to wait those 1-2 seconds I could endlessly be stuck in tapping/clicking with no effect and the best option is to press esc.

Is it possible to set this 3 + 1 click cycle back?


texts: Can upgrade to Mavericks harm Bootcamp NTFS data partition?

texts:
I consider to upgrade from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. I have two Bootcamp Windows 7 partitions, one for boot & system, another for documents and data. Both Windows partitions are NTFS. OS X recovery partition was manually removed prior to installing Bootcamp/Windows.

Any risk that upgrade will break either of my Windows partitions? How to minimize the risk? It definitely happened last time I upgraded from Snow Leopard (or Lion?) to Mountain Lion.

One post suggests that it happens with any OS X upgrade, though I'm not sure it applies to my situation.

Update: Tried running upgrade, got this message: "Install Failed: OS X could not be installed on your computer. OS X can't be installed on the disk because a recovery system can't be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more" which links to another support article (which is surprisingly for Lion) suggesting to manually shrink the OS X partition which will allow space for creating recovery partition. The question is still the same: will it hurt either of my Windows NTFS partitions?

This is how my partitions look on OS X side:


texts:
While testing WordPress 3.5, I took the old copy of a site, and copy pasted the 3.5 from the zip file.

Part of a WordPress install is the folder wp-content containing all the uploads and themes plugins etc. This folder now no longer contains all of that stuff because I clicked replace.

How do I replace the files in that folder, not the folder itself? Right now it's the same as deleting that folder and then moving the new folder in its place.

Under Windows, the files in the folder, not the folder itself are replaced, right now i'm lucky I have a backup to copy from but I could very easily have lost that date considering every other platform I use follows one paradigm and OS X another

Some people have suggested I should click on merge, this would be great if I could, but no merge option is provided:


texts: Can I use the same bootable drive for all models?

texts:
I currently have a Late 2010 MacBook Air and looking to get the new Air when it comes out later this year.

My question is, I have just made a bootable USB installer (by using createinstallmedia through downloading Yosemite from the App Store). However, I am not sure if I can use this to install Yosemite on the MacBook Air 2015 without losing some features i.e. Hand-off, which are not available on the 2010 version.

So could I use a OS X 10.10.3 installer from a MacBook Air 2010 and use it to install Yosemite on the MacBook Air 2015 with all the features enabled?


texts: I'm thinking of getting the 2018 mac mini(32 gb of ram) with 3 monitors, one 32 4k, the second 27" HD(1920) and the third 23" (1920), it will be possible without lag and an external egpu?


texts: My finalcut pro trial expired before I could export the movie I was working on. How can I import it into imovie?


texts: Fixed GPU-deactivation but Wi-Fi is not working and textmode remains

texts:
After
GPU-defect Macbook Pro 2011 does not accept csrutil disable anymore (10.13.6)

So… this worked quiet well. I was able to deactivate SIP with the stick. Then I realised that my OS and Start Volume still contained data so I had to delete it and reinstall macOS. For some reason my Wi-Fi wasn't working anymore (no symbol on the top right). So I had to install macOS with a ethernet cable. After the installation I trief to continue the tutorial:
(GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen… )
with Part 2: "Improve thermal and power management"
But the kext was not found so I assumed that with my reinstall it got lost.

So I reseted the NVRAM and went through the process again. It worked and I did everything until part "Preventive measures for future use". But why is my wireless still not working and not even appearing on my top right?

And is it right that when I boot all these "white texts of black screen" are appearing before the apple logo? Can/should I deactivate this? But a big thanks already!


texts: What is the maximum amount of RAM a 2011 MacBook Pro can utilize?

texts:
I know macs can be picky about how much their max memory capacity is, so what is the maximum RAM I can install in my two available memory slots?

Model:  Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5

Can I put in 16GB with 8GB in each slot?

According to the Apple support, my specific model can officialy take 8gb, 4 on each slot. But many people say that we can put double the official, is this true?

**EDIT: It works, and I wrote an article about this whole process here **


texts: How do I recover files that vanished because I marked them as "podcast"?

texts:
I'm using iTunes 12.6.1.25 on Windows 8.1, trying to write files to an iPhone 5c.

I have a set of podcast files as .mp3s that I have attempted to add to the iPhone through iTunes. Once added to the iPhone's music library in iTunes, I can right-click the file and select "Get Info" to view its metadata dialog.  On the "Options" tab of that dialog is a drop-down menu labeled "media kind", which is automatically set to "Music" when I add these files to the library.

If I change this setting to "Podcast" in a futile attempt to get iTunes to sort them properly, the file disappears from the library.  It exists nowhere else, even if I switch to the iTunes "Podcast" library.  The iPhone itself doesn't have a "Podcast" library, so I can't look there.  If I attempt to add this file to the library again, it won't add - it just doesn't show up.

I ejected the iPhone and restarted iTunes, but that doesn't help. iTunes seems to remember the file as "Podcast" instead of "Music", so that effectively I can never, ever load this file onto the iPhone and listen to it.

How can I coerce iTunes into displaying or replacing this lost file?


texts: how to get Books.app to save audiobook progress

texts:
How can I get Books.app to "Remember Playback Position?"
Since upgrading to Catalina Books.app has taken over my audibook library.  The problem is that it doesn't save my spot between sessions.
How do I get Books.app to save its progress through my own M4B files?


texts: Can Finder show dates including seconds?

texts:
Can you make Finder show timestamps with hour:minutes:seconds?.  It seemed to be possible in old versions of OS X, judging by this post:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/show-date-created-down-to-seconds.569085/


texts: Is it possible to run a shell script when the iChat online status changes on Lion?

texts:
I had a script under Snow Leopard that would upload a tiny file to my server when I launched iChat to reflect my status on my website. For some reason it doesn't work anymore in Lion.

Is there a way to trigger a shell script on online/offline status change in 10.7 without even launching iChat?


texts:
It seems like on my network, all my iPad devices run at half the speed of the other devices.

So I tested it.  I've got an airport extreme (1TB) 802.11n, and four devices plus a macbook and they are all connecting to the 5GHZ address, and tied to a 100MB Comcast Cable connection.  I reset the network in settings on all the devices (to start from a common baseline) and ran Ookla speed tests on them one at a time.  The results verified my impression:

iPad 2      - 40MB Down / 6MB Up
iPad Air    - 37MB Down / 6MB Up
iPhone 6    - 89MB Down / 6MB Up
iPhone 5c   - 84MB Down / 6MB Up
Macbook Air - 89MB Down / 6MB Up

The configurations are the same for all devices, all connecting to the 5GHZ network (I turned off the slower 2.4Ghz network for this test) but no matter how many times I run the test, both of the iPads perform slower.  And it's more than just a speed loss, there is a genuine impression that they access the internet less reliably and slower than the iPhones or laptop.

Does anyone know why this is?  Or better yet, a workaround?


texts: Dark Horizontal Lines on MacBook Pro Retina Display

texts:
While I was using my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) running 10.12.1 Sierra, dark horizontal lines popped up and the screen flickered a little. They turned off and on for a bit and I took 2 pictures while they were on and off. It's been 2 days and it hasn't turned off again. I restarted my computer by it's still there. Is this a hardware issue? What's going wrong here?

Top image has lines, bottom image is normal.


texts: Terminal / Shell / Bash: Rename font-otf accordingly to a meta tag?

texts:
I have a lot of otf-files that got accidentally renamed to unusable names.
Fortunately, if I click cmd+i on Mac, they still have their original name saved as "full name" in some font-meta-tag.
How can I rename them via batch like shell, terminal or automator to their original name?
I guess, I could use the find command to search for otf-files and then rename the found files:
find ~/Desktop/fonts -type d -name "otf" -exec mv {} ???

But what should I insert at ??? where the new name needs to be?


texts: iPhone 4 iTunes podcast list shows 3-4 words max?

texts:
I thought I would download a few podcasts with my iPhone.  I was sad to see that they all look like this:

Some Person discusses ...
Fulano Tal shows how ...
How to fully setup a ...

How can I get a list that will wrap and show more than 3-4 words.


texts: How can I assign different characters to different keyboard shortcuts on Mac?

texts:
I am using Macbook Air with OS 10.8.2. I bought my MAC from the US, and then moved to another country. Therefore, I had to change my keyboard language.

The problem is the keyboard layout is not the same.
For instance when I type:

Shift + 9 it is supposed to show '('. But instead it shows ')'

There are a lot of similar shortcuts.

What I want it when I type Shift + 9 on my keyboard, I want to show '(' which is the same character that is written on the physical keyboard.

I want to reassign characters to these shortcuts.

I tried a software called Ukelele, but could not get it to work well for me.

If you have used Ukelele before, please let me know how can I do it step by step.

Otherwise do you have any other solutions for me?


texts:
I'll be overseas and don't want to be racking up roaming or whatever other charges.  Typically I would use the Airplane mode, but I still want to be able to take photos that have the geo locations recorded.

So I want to know whether turning off Settings/Cellular/Cellular Data will take care of what I want (e.g. remove the chance that I'll be inadvertently charged for something)?  It says Cellular Data...does it mean I have to turn off Cellular Voice somewhere or does this do the trick?


texts: Macbook Pro Early 2011 Thunderbolt to USB Solution

texts:
Both the USB ports on my Macbook don't work so I am seeking a solution.
These Macs have a Firewire and Thunderbolt 2 port but I can't seem to find an Thunderbolt 2 to USB adaptors?
Any solutions?


texts: Clock won't keep time after Mavericks installation

texts:
My clock no longer keeps time properly after installation of Mavericks. This problem affects all of my iMacs immediately post-Mavericks, so it's not an issue with a bad battery.

The symptom is: The clock drifts by about a minute per day. Clicking the Date & Time applet in Settings immediately syncs the clock to the correct time. So the NTP servers are obviously working. It's just that Mavericks doesn't make use of them to set the system clock unless the Date & Time applet is clicked.

I followed the advise here and used the UI to set multiple time servers. I used the recommended string: 0.us.pool.ntp.org, 1.us.pool.ntp.org, 2.us.pool.ntp.org, 3.us.pool.ntp.org

After having made this change, instead of the clock losing thirty seconds per day, now it gains one minute per day.

As you can see from the log, it executes a few time syncs correctly and then just stops. The last sync was executed back on 1/17/14 at 4:40pm:

1/17/14, 2:06:08 PM ntpd: proto precision = 1.00 usec
1/17/14, 2:06:19 PM ntpd: proto precision = 1.00 usec
1/17/14, 2:09:25 PM ntpd: proto precision = 1.00 usec
1/17/14, 2:09:30 PM ntpd: ntpd exiting on signal 15
1/17/14, 2:09:30 PM ntpd: proto precision = 1.00 usec
1/17/14, 2:09:36 PM ntpd: ntpd exiting on signal 15
1/17/14, 2:09:36 PM ntpd: proto precision = 1.00 usec
1/17/14, 2:13:34 PM ntpd: proto precision = 1.00 usec
1/17/14, 2:20:10 PM ntpd: SYNC state ignoring +0.156620 s
1/17/14, 2:37:33 PM ntpd: ntpd: time set +0.241899 s
1/17/14, 2:58:17 PM ntpd: ntpd: time set +1.052795 s
1/17/14, 3:42:36 PM ntpd: SYNC state ignoring -1.002861 s
1/17/14, 3:42:37 PM ntpd: ntpd: time set -1.012315 s
1/17/14, 4:41:31 PM ntpd: SYNC state ignoring -1.369896 s

Apparently the problem can be solved if the user knows Unix and can actually recompile parts of the operating system. This is way beyond my level of expertise. I did run ntpdate -q time.apple.com after clicking the UI's Date & Time control so things here haven't gotten out of sync just yet:

server 17.151.16.38, stratum 2, offset -1.405741, delay 0.04819
server 17.171.4.14, stratum 2, offset -1.404515, delay 0.09674
server 17.171.4.15, stratum 2, offset -1.406511, delay 0.09543
server 17.171.4.33, stratum 2, offset -1.405914, delay 0.09560
server 17.171.4.34, stratum 2, offset -1.405216, delay 0.09547
server 17.171.4.35, stratum 2, offset -1.405537, delay 0.09482
server 17.171.4.36, stratum 2, offset -1.406435, delay 0.09608
server 17.171.4.37, stratum 2, offset -1.409832, delay 0.10497
server 17.151.16.12, stratum 2, offset -1.405502, delay 0.04555
server 17.151.16.14, stratum 2, offset -1.405269, delay 0.04694
server 17.151.16.20, stratum 2, offset -1.407573, delay 0.04491
server 17.151.16.21, stratum 2, offset -1.404786, delay 0.04668
server 17.151.16.22, stratum 2, offset -1.405651, delay 0.04752
server 17.151.16.23, stratum 2, offset -1.406247, delay 0.04523
server 17.171.4.13, stratum 2, offset -1.405871, delay 0.09541
19 Jan 10:29:24 ntpdate[33548]: step time server 17.151.16.20 offset -1.407573 sec

Is there a problem with this update OS to make it better able to tell time properly without having to deal with cryptic Unix commands and OS recompilations?


texts: How can I make a group of contacts that have phone numbers with the iPhone label?

texts: I have been editing my contacts in Lion Address Book to use the iPhone label for phone numbers.  I want to create a smart group that shows all contacts that use the iPhone label. I would use this group to share iPhone tips with my contacts.  I do not see a way to create a smart group like this on Lion or iOS.


texts: Mac App Store keeps prompting me to upgrade iTunes

texts:
This is a screenshot of the Mac App Store.

I have been updating iTunes for days. Any ideas?


texts: Required: Contacts App for iPhone 5c (IFTTT Compatible)

texts:
I have iPhone 5c (iOS8). I recently added a recipe from IFTTT that lets me store any new contacts I add on my iPhone to a spreadsheet on my Google Drive account. I'm also using an app called "Connect" that is a contacts manager and dialer app. It also lets me group my contacts and call with only a swipe.

My problem is that this connect app doesn't trigger the IFTTT Recipe, that's only triggered when I add a contact via the default ios contacts app (icon). I'm using connect-app by default, and so all contacts don't get updated to the spreadsheet when I add them.

Therefore, I'm posting this question to request for an ios app that could let me add contacts easily with grouping/speed-dialing, and also trigger the IFTTT recipe. The recipe only triggers when adding contacts via the default contacts app. I require these contacts as a backup, cause Google doesn't keep deleted contacts older than 1 month of deletion.

That's mostly all.
Thanks for any help.


texts:
I am running short of space on my OS partition for some large files I want to install.

I note that du shows 15G /.MobileBackups
I have 2 Time Machine drives. One attached to my MacBook Pro (at least when it is not being used as a portable), and a second, which is attached once a week. This was last updated yesterday.

What is using the 15G and why? What would happen if deleted it?

A second issue. du shows 103G    / but Disk Utility says Used 112G. Is this the sum of file sizes vs disk space used?


texts: Can I grab the content from a .pages file, without using Pages.app?

texts:
I’m interested in automatically extracting the content of .pages documents, preferably via a programming language on a web server.

There are quite a few references around the web that say Pages documents are actually zipped archives containing various files (e.g. http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/02/iwork-secret-life-as-zip-file-revealed-includes-pdf-preview/), but a Pages document sent to me by a friend doesn’t seem to be unzippable by Mac OS X’s Archive Utility, or The Unarchiver, no matter what I change the extension to.

Is there a way to get the content from recent Pages files?


texts: Bought a used MB air- should I be worried about a root kit / keylogger?

texts:
I ebayed a used Macbook. There is a new install of 10.8.3 on it. When I turned it on, it brought me through the user setup etc...

What's the chance that the os install is corrupted with a root kit / keylogger? How would I check for that?


texts:
My iPhone is set to manually manage my music, and I'd prefer to keep it that way. However, I also like some of the features that iTunes Match offers. Is there any way that I can enable Match on my phone, download what I need, and then disable it again without it deleting my existing, manually-copied music?

(The reason I don't want to switch to iTunes Match full-on is a) I have a lot of unique masterings and recordings that iTunes Match will match generically, b) I listen to a lot of one-off tracks that I don't want stored permanently, and c) it feels wrong that I can't copy music from my computer if I so wish, even if my phone is plugged into it.)


texts: Can I select United States if my country is not listed?

texts:
apparently my country is not listed so I'm unable to finish my registration
for the apple ID thing. I'm thinking of selecting United States in there but it keeps asking me for a billing address/phone which I don't have since I don't live in there. So my question is what might happen if I put my friend's US address and phone there? Will it work? or will i face backlash from apple and they're going to disable my device permanently? Thanks


texts: My text messages are received by my wife's iPhone and iPad

texts:
My wife receives my SMS text messages on her iPhone and iPad. How can I change this?

I do not get her messages on my device


texts: How should I analyze and solve issues with web browsers?

texts:
Currently I am getting pretty mad about "web-browsing" using my mac (os x 10.9).

Of course I tried all the major browser, like chrome, firefox and safari, but unfortunately they are driving me crazy.

In short, the problems I am face with:

Safari: Scrolling keeps stopping, the "swipe back"-function breaks the current tab. And the textareas (with an editor - even this one here I´m typing my question in) keep crashing.
Chrome: Scrolling keeps stopping. Tabs become frozen.
Firefox: Mostly every feature (swipping, search using the "mainbar", etc.) is missing - the devtools are overloaded and far to complex for my needs

How can I analyze and fix these issues?


texts: Can a Thunderbolt iMac be used in target display mode while booted into Windows 7?

texts:
Slightly different than what I'm seeing in search:

If I have my iMac booted into Windows 7, can I (via Thunderbolt) use the iMac as a target display from my Thunderbolt MacBook Pro running OS X?


texts: Can I share a wifi-connected internet connection over wifi on stock MBP?

texts:
I have my MBP that is connected to wifi, and I want to share this connection with other devices but via wifi as well.  Can this be done with a stock MBP (i.e. no extra wifi card)?  I enabled this in Sharing, but my chosen wifi network name was not showing up.  MBP is running latest Mavericks (10.9.4).

If this is not possible with stock MBP, would adding an extra wifi connection make it work (e.g. via USB wifi card)?


texts: Allow Apps won't unlock in Security & Privacy - El Capitan

texts:
I am attempting to use an unsigned app. However, the options are grayed out under "Allow apps downloaded from". I did click the lock to unlock it, but still grayed out. I am an admin on my machine.

Is there a way that I can change that setting by editing a file?


texts: What does "Sound Check" in iPod settings do?

texts: On my iPhone (though I'm sure it's on iPods and iPads as well), under the iPod settings, there's a toggle "Sound Check". What does it do?


texts: Mouse cursor disappeared on external display when rotated

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch 2017.
My macOS High Sierra has the version 10.13.4 (17E199).

So my problem is that, after the last macOS update, my 2nd external monitor doesn't show the mouse cursor anymore. This monitor was rotated 90°.

What I tried:

rebooting
making the cursor bigger (read that tip somewhere)
when shaking the mouse the cursor is shown in big but the hides again
when rotations is set is to default the cursor is there again
when in any rotation both external monitors doesn't show the cursor

So anybody has a idea to fix that?


texts:
How can I disconnect one single Bluetooth device from iOS?

Background: I usually use my BT headphones with my iPhone, but sometimes I'd like to use the headphones with my computer. I have BT turned on on iPhone also for my Pebbles SmartWatch, therefore I don't want just turn the BT off on iPhone


texts:
I see that my Mac is called "A's MacBook" on the network.

How do I rename it (i.e., change the hostname) to "C's MacBook"?

That's the question. Here are the details:

Having read various suggestions to create a superfluous admin account before migrating using Time Machine, I went ahead and used "A Admin". The trouble is that that resulted in the hard disk getting named "A's MacBook", which does not match the directory under /Backups.backupdb on the Time Machine disk.


texts:
I tried to move a few files to a subfolder on OS X. One refused to move. It said Operation not permitted. I tried again as root:

$ sudo mv file subfolder/
mv: rename file to subfolder/file: Operation not permitted
$ sudo mv file filex
mv: rename file to filex: Operation not permitted
$ lsattr file
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on file

I tried lsattr on other files; all files I tried gave me the same message: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading...

Coming from Linux, I did not know about flags so here is the output of ls -leO@ file:

$ ls -leO@ file otherfile
-rwxrwxrwx  1 eeytan  staff  uchg 79549 Nov 11  2010 file
-rw-r--r--  1 eeytan  staff  -     5071 Sep  7 02:37 otherfile

I tried the OS X Disk Utility; it said there were no errors on my disk. What's going on here?


texts: Problems were found with the partition map in external hard drive

texts: I have a 1TB WD elements hard drive which I accidentally unplugged without explicitly "Ejecting" it from my Macbook air. Since then, I found a lot of files deleted from the hard drive. But when I connect it to my Android TV, I can still access all the videos & photos in it. I tried to repair the hard drive from Disk Utility. It says Partition map check failed because no slices were found.. Is there a way to fix the partition map without formatting the drive or losing the data in it?


texts: Mountain Lion - Are these different ways of encrypting a Time machine backup equivalent?

texts:
I just setup two backup drives for time machine in two different ways:

1) By clicking the "encrypted" checkbox in the time machine dialogue.
After fininshing the backup, it spent a long time saying "encrypting..."

2) By formatting the drive as HFS+,Journalled,Encrypted using Disk Utility,
and then keeping the the encrypted checkbox on in Time Machine (see note a).

The results are strange.  The time machine preferences says that drive 2 is encrypted,
however

  diskutil cs list | egrep -i "size|status"

reports

       Size (Total):       1999702540288 B (2.0 TB)
       Size (Converted):   -none-

The time machine preferences does not say that drive 1 is encrypted, though it too
forever to do so.  Perhaps that's because it's not mounted now.

(a) I also explored approach 2 while turning off the checkbox, thinking this
would cause the material to be encrypted twice.  However it said something
indicating that it would decrypt the drive, so I stopped this.


texts:
I have nothing against Mission Control but don't use it much except now when my secondary click opens it every the time.

I usually want the secondary click to open a context window like I now have to do with the ctrl single click.

On my trackpad I use the two finger tap as secondary click as per below settings. With a mouse it's the right button. In both cases Mission Control is opened instead of a context window.

For full disclosure I mention that I make use of BetterSnapTool and Alfred3 but when I unload them the issue persists.


texts:
I use iCloud as backup storage for my iPad, iPhone and PC. But if something were to happen to iCloud I would lose ALL my data.

Is there any way of backing up iCloud data (especially backups) and if so where and how?


texts: Unable to directly paste a link from Twitter into web forms in Mobile Safari

texts:
When I copy a t.co link (tap/hold > Copy link) from the Twitter app, I am unable to paste into any web forms in Mobile Safari. I can still paste into other objects (e.g. the address bar, the search bar, the Notes app, etc).

Is this a bug? How can I avoid having to first paste the link and then recopy (Select All > Copy) it as @iglvzx suggests in the comments?


texts: How to access the full capacity of hard drives larger than 2TB with OS X Yosemite?

texts:
Last week, I bought a 4TB hard drive to connect to my MacBook Pro. My quest to have access to all the 4TB on my Mac was more difficult than expected.

After a lot of experimenting, I managed to create an exFat partition of 4TB.
(For people who want to replicate my approach: I connected the HD using sata-cables to another computer, and booted the computer from a Windows 8.1 dvd. Next, I created the exFat partition using the partition manager on the dvd. When I started Windows 8, the disk manager showed me that I only had created a partition of 1.8TB. I removed this partition, and created a new one of 4TB. Next, I had access to the full 4TB of my new drive.)

Since OS X also supports exFat, I figured I should be able to see the partition I created on Windows. This turned out to be wrong. When I connected the HD to my Mac using a docking station, the HD was visible in Disk Utility, but there were no partitions associated with it.

diskutil list shows the HDD as follows:

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.8 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1

Now comes the strange part. When I run a Windows 7 virtual machine and connect the HD to this virtual machine, I have full access to the full 4TB.

The only conclusion I can draw at this moment is that OS X Yosemite does not support hard drives larger than 2TB.

I would like to know if other Mac users have had more success than me in connecting a hard drive larger than 2TB to their Mac.


texts:
What possible ways of reading input does an iPad have? Right now I can think of:

Touch screen (multitouch I believe?)
Camera
Brightness adjuster (How does that work? Could it be used for
anything other than the brightness adjustment?)
Orientation detector
The standard input buttons

Is there anything I'm missing?


texts: How do I fix iPhone SE celluar network after 12.1.2 upgrade?

texts:
My iPhone SE was just upgraded with ios 12.1.2, but the cellular network is now dead.  After restarting it, I got this message

  Cellular Update Failed

  Your iPhone cannot make and receive calls or access cellular data until it has been updated.

  Learn More / OK


texts: Suddenly two days ago the fan of my MacBook Pro 13" 2016 no touchbar gets louder a few minutes start up, also the part of the laptop near the bottom of the screen gets hot. It happens whether it started from complete shut down or from sleep. As I recall I didn't do anything unusual before this overheating. Any solution?


texts:
I've recently encountered an issue importing images into iMovie 10 on some of our computers. The machines are running High Sierra and iMovie 10.1.6.

On effected units, some imported images appear as a black box with a small portion of the image appearing in the upper left corner of the box. On other  (apparently identical) machines, the same image imports with no issues.

The problem occurs in all user accounts on the effected machines, even a newly created user, so preference or Movie Library issues seem to be ruled out. The only fix that has worked so far was a full OS and iMovie reinstall.

Has anyone else encountered this? If so, were you able to find the cause?

Example:

EDIT: upgrading to Mojave does solves the issue, but this is not a practical solution in our situation


texts: Can I configure terminal to show stderr output in different colour

texts:
Is it possible to configure the terminal in OS X to show stderr output automatically in a different colour than stdout output from a process?

Or is this only possible if the process is outputting coloured output?


texts: Admin user folder is invisible within application file browsers

texts:
The admin user's folder on my mac is not visible from within application file browsers despite being visible in finder and accessible via the favourites sidebar.

As some applications have their own file dialog without favourites I cannot access the admin folder on those occasions.


texts: Reset Screen Time with Forgotten Passcode

texts: I have forgotten my passcode for the Screen Time on my iPad, how can I still change the password without wiping the iPad's data? I have searched online but all articles say that there is Forgot Passcode? if you have iOS or iPadOS 13.3 or later, but I don't see that option with the newest version. How can I still change my passcode?


texts: How do I prevent a menu extra from appearing at login?

texts:
Recently I reinstalled OS X 10.6.8 and afterwards I removed my DVD drive since it was no necessary. However, upon booting the 'eject' menu extra appears. Dragging it off does not help as it reappears during the next boot. There are no other drives removable connected.

Is there any simple solution other than deleting the menu extra file?
(Though it is a wonderful application, using Bartender is not a solution.)


texts:
Along the same lines as this other question, I've found a user agent I don't recognize on my system.  The label is com.onlineapplicationrequest.AppRequest, and the command it's running is:

  "/Users/jstrout/Library/Application Support/AppCommon/AppRequest"
  --protect

The ~/Library/Application Support/AppCommon directory looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x   11 jstrout  staff      374 Dec 27  2016 .
drwxrwxrwx  195 jstrout  staff     6630 Apr 11 09:33 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff       37 Mar  8  2015 .cid
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff        6 Jan  7  2016 .cnid
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff       10 Aug 24  2016 .idate
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff       37 Mar  8  2015 .isn
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff        0 Dec 15  2016 .upgrade-ff-1.52.4
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff        0 Dec 27  2016 .upgrade-ff-1.54.2
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff        0 Dec 15  2016 .upgrade-gc-1.52.4
-rw-r--r--    1 jstrout  staff        0 Dec 27  2016 .upgrade-gc-1.54.2
-rwxr-xr-x    1 jstrout  wheel  1240620 Dec 27  2016 AppRequest

Again, the googles have completely failed me on this one.  http://onlineapplicationrequest.com/ exists but appears unused.  Is this more malware?


texts: Is there a way to add ‘separators’ to the menubar?

texts:
Does anyone know of a tiny pseudo-app that adds fake menubar widgets, ones that take effectively no resources and have no icon, so I can ‘space out’ my menubar?

  (I ask because I use Bartender.app, and have ~30 menubar apps; they get pretty hard to skim over all in one line :P)


texts:
Many bash scripts invoke the #character to indicate a comment.  Catalina migrated to zsh.  The command:
# Comments should elicit no response

returns

zsh: command not found: #

I find useful command examples on the web: it is helpful  to annotate commands with said #weblink so that it is captured in the history.
I did find this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11873793/4953146

Is there a reason for the # not to be recognized as the comment character in zsh?
How can the terminal be configured to recognize the character as a comment?

Question 1 sets the context for deciding on a method to address question 2.  It would nice to be able to configure the character once and all future instances of zsh would follow.  If there is / was a good reason why the feature was disabled, I would like to understand any reasons.
Understanding the 'why' is important to determine the 'how'.  There seems to be many ways to restore # commenting in zsh.  One durable solution is to add to the configuration file: sudo vi /etc/zshrc:
setopt interactivecomments

Other methods (not durable) include invoking ksh or sh.
Many thanks to user3439894 & Allan for supporting / advancing the question.


texts: Pass a variable (folder pathway) to AppleScript in Automator

texts:
I am trying to pass a variable that has been set in Automator to an AppleScript within Automator. My Automator workflow is as follows:

Ask for Finder Items (only allowing folder type)

Set Value of Variable (variable set to "chosenfolder")

Get Value of Variable (chosenfolder)

Run AppleScript

property odd : true -- set to false to get odd numbers

on run {input, parameters}

set thefolder to (input as text)

set TheNumber to (odd as integer)
tell application "Finder"
    set FileList to every file of thefolder
    repeat with oneFile in FileList
        set Ex to name extension of oneFile
        set NameString to text -4 thru -1 of ("000" & TheNumber) & "." & Ex
        set name of oneFile to NameString
        set TheNumber to TheNumber + 2
    end repeat
end tell

return input
end run

This returns the error:

Can’t get every file of "Macintosh SSD:Users:etc....

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the chosen folder in automator cannot be accepted in the AppleScript?

Note: I understand that I can just use "choose folder" in the AppleScript instead of using the Automator workflow items, but I truncated my actual workflow just to show this portion. The variable is needed elsewhere in the Automator workflow in addition to passing it to the AppleScript.


texts: Is it possible to install the GNU mt tape drive command in OSX?

texts: I would like to use GNU mt, the tape drive commands in OSX. Is this something I can get or are the architectures incompatible?


texts: How do I change my UserId on Apple Developer Forums?

texts: How do I change my userid on the Apple Developer Forums?  As shown in the below screenshot, it seems there is no way to change this. Do I need to simply call Apple support?


texts: How to Programmatically Find, Kill, and Restart a local DynamoDB Process

texts:
I'm working with Amazon's DynamoDB and I can't figure out how to programmatically kill the process reliably by name or PID.

I need to restart it since I'm holding all data in memory and I can delete the entire thing by just easily restarting the process. Problem is I can't figure out how to kill it as easily as starting it.

ps -ax | grep "Dynamo" returns 19355 ttys001    0:28.31 /usr/bin/java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar /Users/user/workspace/lib/DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -port 8000 -inMemory

But when I try killall DynamoDBLocal.jar I receive No matching processes belonging to you were found and the PID changes every time it's started up.

How can I programmatically find the PID to send to kill -9 PID or properly killall by name?

EDIT: Finished! Here's my work to share with others:

alias start_dynamo='java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar /Users/user/workspace/lib/DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -port 8000 -inMemory &'

alias end_dynamo="kill `ps -ax | grep Dynamo | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`"

alias restart_dynamo='end_dynamo; start_dynamo'


texts: What is wrong with my PHP on my apache2 web server (OS X 10.6)

texts:
I have a web server on my mac mini that runs the default (installed with snow leopard) apache2 web server.  It works fine for any programming language that outputs stdout for cgi scripts, but every attempt I have made to enable PHP has failed.  Please help! I can upload any files that you need to see like php.ini or httpd.conf

I have tried scanning through the php.ini file values, php5 module load is uncommented in the httpd.conf.
These are the only steps that I have seen to enable php on a mac.

php5, from what I hear, is installed by default on Mac OS X snow leopard.


texts:
Is there anyway to ping a computer's IP and find out some basic information about it? Platform, OS, etc...

If so, how would that be done?


texts: No Batteries Available ?-How to Check battery health on MacBook Pro early 2011

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A few days ago, I went on vacation and unplugged power cable from my MacBook Pro 13' early 2011 and then I got back home, the battery was not detected by OS and didn't charge.
I then understood that I had automatic startup configured and the laptop did power ON next morning then I was not at home. The battery was discharged completely.

I tried to restart, to power down and unplug power cable, I also tried to did SMC reset, but that didn't work.

What's the most reliable way to check the health status of the battery? - I want to replace it, but I want to be completely sure that this is the battery, and not something else.

Battery is about 3 years old and about 250 cycles.

The battery icon is the same as below:

UPD1:

I did run AHT and it returns the following error code:

4xxx/1/40000000: "Battery"

I plan to perform extended testing as well later today to see if any other errors appear, but it looks like the culprit of the issue is battery.

The battery Condition now is Replace Now.

The status changed after I unplugged power cable for a couple of days and then I plugged the cable and the laptop started, the battery status changed to Replace Now.

I will shortly check it with another battery and perhaps replace the old one.

UPD2:

I've tested my MacBook with similar working battery and it did detected the battery and worked fine and this is the good news.
On the other hand I now need to have the battery replaced.

UPD: Eventually, I now have replaced battery and it all looks OK.

The laptop is running smoothly either connected to AC power or on battery.


texts: I'm just wondering if anyone has figured this out yet. VMWare throws an ugly "internal monitor error" and there are apparently some graphics driver issues on the 2011 Macbook Pros.


texts: iPad fails to appear in Finder over Wi-Fi

texts:
I just updated my MacBook Pro (2018, 15") to macOS Catalina (10.15), and my 11" iPad Pro to iPadOS (13.1.2).

Since then, I haven't been able to connect the iPad to the Mac in the Finder over Wi-Fi, although my iPhone works fine. (This means that iOS devices are shown in the Sidebar.) The Mac and the iPad are both connected to the same network, too.

So, for instance, I can't sync the iPad in Music and Sidecar doesn't work as the iPad just doesn't show up in the window. Both of these things work over USB.

Does anybody have insight as to what might be going on? Thanks!


texts: Fast image preview in macOS context menu (right click)

texts:
There was a cool app on windows, I believe it was called FastPreview - when you right click an image, you will get the small image preview right in the context menu.

I find this very convenient. Is there anything like that on mac?

Edit

I forgot to mention that I don't use Finder that much, but an alternative file manager. For that reason, I am asking this.


texts: How do I change the locked screen wallpaper on iPhone 4S?

texts: I'm trying to use a custom wallpaper as a lock-screen wallpaper on the iPhone. Can I do that without jail breaking the phone?


texts: How do I fix Double NAT caused by sharing wifi internet on my local wifi network?

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My apartment building provides free wifi internet.  I have a local wifi network with multiple IOT devices, so I need to be able to serve the building's wifi across my local wifi just as I would if I was accessing the internet by cable modem.  I own two wifi routers: A current gen Apple Express and an old Airport Extreme.

I set up the Airport Express to connect to my building's wifi.  I connected it by ethernet to my Airport Extreme, which sees it as if it were a modem.

It works, but, I get a Double NAT error.

A: How do I fix the Double NAT, and B: How do I make sure my local network is secure?


texts:
As said in the subject, every time I add a to-do in Reminders.app from the Safari 'share' button, it gets created as Chrome Link, rather than Safari. Therefore when I click on it, it opens Chrome.

I have checked and Safari is correctly set as default browser in preferences, and in the Reminders.app preferences there's nothing related to browser.

For Reminders.app I mean the native macOS application.

UPDATE

If I do the same action on iOS, the link is correctly added as a Safari link, and trough the iCloud I get the to-do as Safari link as well. So it is something that macOS is doing.

Also, I have exported the to-do list and opened with text edit:

This is the to-do from iOS, which works fine:

BEGIN:VTODO
STATUS:NEEDS-ACTION
CREATED:20180211T174107Z
UID:E24E9CDA-5989-481F-B83C-4165E77430A2
X-APPLE-SORT-ORDER:540063667
SUMMARY:ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Sports
X-APPLE-ACTIVITY;VALUE=URI:http://www.espn.com/
DTSTAMP:20180211T174108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180211T174107Z
SEQUENCE:0
DESCRIPTION:espn.com
END:VTODO

This is instead the to-do added from macOS, as you can see there is a whole new section X-APPLE-APP-LINK-DATA filled with Base64 data:

BEGIN:VTODO
CREATED:20180211T075213Z
UID:A3F55E30-B56B-4E37-8495-C81B5805B771
X-APPLE-APP-LINK-DATA:YnBsaXN0MDDUAQIDBAUG...lot more chars removed for clarity
SUMMARY:Reminders added as Chrome link instead of Safari - Ask Different
DTSTAMP:20180211T075222Z
SEQUENCE:0
DESCRIPTION:apple.stackexchange.com
END:VTODO