texts: How can I run Apple Hardware Test with a firmware password set?

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I have a firmware password set using the Firmware Password Utility.

When I hold D immediately after power-on to start Apple Hardware Test, nothing happens.  My computer boots normally.

How can I start Apple Hardware Test?


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With iChat, i used to be able to view my contacts and know, for example, who is online.

Using Messageshow can i get a list of those google contacts, currently online?


texts: How to get video from webcam in a "Picture in Picture mode"

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While recording a screencast with QuickTime, I want to get video from the webcam in small window overlay. I can use photobooth video preview, but it's always too large and has lots of chrome.

This would save me having to rely on third party premium apps.

What are my options?


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I cannot access RAW image files in Photos.app. I have a bunch of RAW files from both my Olympus OM-D E-M5 and from my iPhone (I use the Halide app to take them). They are all JPG/RAW pairs.

The photos display with the little J icon in the top right corner but the Image > Use RAW as Original option in the menu is greyed out. I'm pretty sure I had this working in the past.

If I dig into the Photo Library with the terminal I can see that the ORF (Olympus RAW Format) and DNG (Digital Negative) files are there. I just cannot access them from Photos app.

My library is an iCloud Photo Library and on iOS if I use apps that know about RAW files, such as Darkroom, they are able to open the RAW versions. I have "Download Originals" configured on my Mac.

I'm on Mojave 10.14.6 and Photos is Version 4.0 (3461.7.140)

Some things I investigated:

If I create a Smart Album with Photo is RAW as the only criterion, it only shows me a fraction of all my RAW files (170 images). Curiously, the ones that are JPG/RAW pairs show with the R icon in the top right corner but for these I cannot choose Use JPEG as original.

However, if I count the actual number of RAW image files in my photo library folder I have 1189 RAW files:

➜  ~  cd Pictures/Photos\ Library.photoslibrary
➜  Photos Library.photoslibrary  find . -name "*.ORF" | wc -l
     416
➜  Photos Library.photoslibrary  find . -name "*.orf" | wc -l
     550
➜  Photos Library.photoslibrary  find . -name "*.dng" | wc -l
     223

The only thing that "works" is File > Export > Export Unmodified Original from the menu, which correctly exports both the JPG and RAW versions of any image marked has having both.


texts: MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009) only boots up to Apple logo with little spinning wheel

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Using single-user mode, I get this message:

  launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisory.plist

What does it mean and how do I convert launchctl to launchd?


texts: How can I view finder file comments on iOS?

texts: Ideally, I'd like to see these comments in the iOS files app.


texts: Why is this one playlist unable to be synced with iTunes Match?

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I have a smart playlist made up of the following rules:

But it won't sync with my iCloud Music Library (formerly known as iTunes Match), giving the error:

Given that I have specifically selected Media Kind is Music and iCloud Status is not Ineligible, why does it insist that the playlist "includes other media kinds or songs that are not eligible"?

Im using iTunes version 12.3.044 (the latest version at time of posting this question).


texts: MacOS: Add browser tab (i.e. Gmail) to application switcher?

texts: I use Gmail for email in my Google Chrome browser. Is there a way to make Gmail appear as an application that I can choose using the application switcher invoked with Cmd + Tab?


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I am using a Mac Book Pro with El Capitan installed. Yesterterday I was trying to change a file permission and I made a very big mistake.

This is the command I issued

sudo chmod -R 777 /

After issuing the command the system began to give many system errors. I restarted my laptop and now it keeps stack at the apple logo with the progress bar.

I have been able to go to the single user mode, buh I dnt know how to get the laptop to boot normally.

Anybody with an idea on this can help me. Thanks


texts: iPhone asking for Apple ID for a former roommate

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At some point several years ago a former roommate used my phone or iTunes for something. I can't recall for what, but since then each time I get a new phone, or need to restore from a backup, I'm prompted to login with her Apple ID. In the past I would just cancel out of the login prompt a couple of times and then it wouldn't happen anymore (at least until the next time I needed a restore).

I just got the iPhone 6 and have been trying to get everything setup, but this time canceling out doesn't appear to be doing the trick. It keeps prompting me for it and will not finish the initial iCloud restore until I've logged in as her. I have no idea what app(s) or music on my phone would be attached to her account, but I would gladly delete them.

Is there a way to unassociate her account with my phone, or at the very least determine which apps are apparently tied to her account so I can remove them?

EDIT (11/23/2014)

The solution marked below should work. What ended up happening with my issue was that I kept declining the prompt and after several hours it finally offered to finish the sync and said that anything I hadn't logged in for would be permanently removed. I said that was ok and it finished the restore.


texts: Trackpad Issues - Should I let them prevent me from upgrading to Yosemite?

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My MacBook (Retina, Mid 2012) currently has issues with its trackpad based on water damage earlier in the year - from time to time, the mouse pointer flicks around uncontrollably (although at other times, it's fine). I know I can probably get it fixed, that's another long story outside the scope of this question - assume it's unfixable for now.

Currently I have 10.9 (Mavericks) installed. I use an external USB mouse on a day-to-day basis, with the "Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present" option ticked, which prevents the flicking mouse pointer behaviour.

I am considering upgrading to 10.10 (Yosemite), but I've been putting it off for sometime, because I'm concerned there may be a phase during the install where USB devices are disabled and/or my external mouse might be unavailable. As well as being unable to use the mouse, this might unintentionally mean that I "click" the mouse pointer and press something with a serious impact.

Are my fears founded? Are there phases of the upgrade where I can't use a USB mouse?


texts: Locking my Macbook when I remove my smartcard

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I have a smartcard paired with my account on my 2015 Macbook. I'm running Catalina 10.15.4 (despite the horror stories). After I first paired the card, when I removed it my screen would lock. I changed something at some point, but I don't recall what it was. Now when I remove the card nothing happens.

Does anyone know what setting/configuration I need to modify to re-enable this?


texts: Mac OSX upgrade Adobe Flash Player, download stops

texts: I am on Yosemite 10.10.1. For some reason (maybe corrupted initial download) the 1.2MB installer stops at around 30% (34%, 35% or 36%) downloading the full installer.


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What else can I do to make my iPhone 4S work for as long as possible?

I have done all the "standard" battery saving techniques recommended on most sites, like:

turn off background app refresh, automatic updates
lower brightness all the way / disable auto brightness
keep bluetooth and cellular Off always. Rarely use WiFi.
No dynamic backgrounds.

The battery is still dying way too quickly.
My Battery Usage indicates that the Home and Lock Screen are using 30% of the battery. How is that possible? What is it doing??


texts: Add a delay to menubar dropdown in fullscreen apps

texts: In Lion, the menubar drops down way to fast when I'm in a fullscreen app. This mostly becomes a problem when I have multiple tabs open in Terminal. When I move to the top to change tabs, the menubar drops down and I click it on accident. So is there any way to add a delay to the menubar dropping down? Or maybe change the drop down hotspot to one of the corners instead of just the top edge?


texts: How to force the new 10.10.3 Photo app to open in full screen after restart?

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Every time I start my new photo app, it NEVER starts in full-screen.
Even if its was previously closed in full-screen!


texts: How to pay for an app using credit on my App Store card?

texts: I have £5.02 left on an App Store card and wish to buy an app costing £1.99 but it asks for a credit/debit card number. How do I get it to come off my credit?


texts: What is the difference between console.log and system.log?

texts: I am checking system logs via the Console utility.  I am wondering what the difference is between the console.log and system.log file?


texts: How can I extract multipart iso files in Mac OS X?

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E.g.:
part1.iso
part2.iso

I know The Unarchiver can extract a single ISO file, but how can I extract multipart ISO files?


texts: Playing other video formats (e.g. MKV) in QuickTime

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I know this is a very old question, actually from the era of Perian. When I searched for this topic around the web, everything dated back to '11 and even older. Now that Perian is no longer being developed (latest version is 1.2.3) and projects based on Perian (like this one) are not working either (at least in Yosemite and QuickTime Player 10.4), I thought a good wrap-up would be nice for future generations who will be seeking answers to this very question.

Here is the situation:
I have some AVI or MKV video files and I want to play them using QuickTime Player. Using other media players like VLC is not an option.

Is there any way I could use QuickTime Player to play these files?

I found this link on Apple Support website but as far as I could see, those third-party software offer "players", not "components" that are supposed to add the capability to QuickTime Player.

Optional: Consider that I have some srt subtitle files associated with those videos and it would be super nice to be able to use the subtitles with the videos.

So, please correct me if

P.S. The title should've been "... video container files..." but I preferred to use the more conventional "format" instead of the confusing "container" term.


texts: Mac doesn’t go to sleep after inactivity

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Before updating to Mavericks, my Mac would go to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity, which is usually 10 minutes after I turn the screens off using Shift+Ctrl+Eject. However, since the update, the Mac no longer goes into standby. I know this as the status light no longer pulses.

I have checked the energy saver settings, and the Mac is set to sleep after 15 minutes so I'm not sure why it is not going to sleep.

Any ideas? Could it be an application that’s still running in the background?


texts: How can I get "Automatically fill free space with songs" to reserve more space than a half gig

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On my iPhone 3GS (32GB) I want to keep more than .48GB free space when I tell iTunes to "Automatically fill free space with songs" for doing things like taking pictures/recording videos.

I don't want to create a playlist by hand to do the same thing. I like how it randomly comes up with new songs to put on there (and yes I'm aware of the "random"ness of iPods ;) )

Do I have any options?


texts: How to extract arbitrary iOS application Data from iPhone 11?

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I'm running iOS 14.0.1 on an iPhone 11 and I have an appication that is no longer on the App Store. (By the developer, who abandoning the app.)
The app in question was a manga app that let people read and favorite mangas that they liked. I am trying to find a way to get my list of favorite mangas from the app without manually typing out every mangas name (which for me is 2222 mangas long).
Is there a general way to access specific app data on an iPhone that doesn’t rely on knowing exactly how a specific developer made their app?


texts: Mac OS X Terminal: -bash: $: command not found

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While trying to install pagekite on OS X Snow Leopard using the following command:

$ pagekite.py --signup

I got:

-bash: $: command not found

I am a noob with the terminal but after reading a bit I understand that it is a problem with my PATH

echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/usr/X11/bin

Can anybody spot the problem? If you ask me -without knowing a thing about it- I suspect the MacGPG2 (MacGnuPrivcacyGuard2) is out of place?

Thanks for your time!


texts: How to delete friend's gmail account from my MacPro

texts: To help a friend with a project, he gave me his gmail account login information. Now I don't know how to delete his email account from my Gmail list without affecting his account.


texts: How can I fix the iTunes 11 mini player that won't show the track name?

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When I start the mini player in iTunes 11 on Mountain Lion, I do not see the expected track information which, when moused over, is supposed to change to playback controls:

Instead, the playback controls are permanently displayed and I can't find a way to show track info (aside from album artwork). Also, as shown in the screenshot below, whenever the mini player is the active window, the rewind button has a blue highlight.

The reviews that have appeared on the web, and Apple's keynote, suggest that this is not normal behaviour. Is it a bug that others are experiencing and is there a way of fixing it, apart from waiting for an update?


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Say I start a new email, and I decide to discard it. If I press Alt+W, a window prompts me with the following three options shown below:

Most of the time I want to "Discard Changes", but OS X does not let me use TAB to change my selection.
I have tried every key combination, but and the only thing that works is using the mouse to click on "Discard Changes".
I  would like to use my keyboard to confirm that yes , I just want to discard my email. Any way to do this?


texts: Google Chrome on Mac and switch between it and Safari?

texts: Can I download Google Chrome on my Mac and switch between it and Safari? I have a website update I need to do and don't want to change my mac but must use Google Chrome for the updates.


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The old technique for disabling autosave and re-enabling traditional text editor behavior (i.e., NOTHING get saved unless one saves it EXPLICITLY) of

defaults write com.apple.TextEdit ApplePersistence -bool no

that worked at least up to and including El Capitan, no longer works in Mojave!

Does anybody know of a way that does work? Or know of a text editor that works the way TextEdit used to work?

Note: Since my original post, I've tried Bean (it seems to do a lot of formats other than plain text), a Mac port of GEdit (as clunky as I remember it), and TextWrangler (it works, but doesn't appear to do anything but plain text; RTF capability would be a plus).

An early (since deleted without a trace) reply indicated that rather than an auto-save, the current TextEdit acts directly on the file contents. This is rather disturbing, if true, but it would certainly explain why, with the  "Ask to keep changes when closing documents" flag set in System Preferences/General, the "delete/cancel/save dialog" on a saved file becomes "revert/cancel/save."


texts: Restoring iOS apps (+data) that weren't transfered to PC before iPhone backup

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I recently performed a backup of my iPhone, but forgot to transfer my purchases to my PC before restoring from the backup. A couple apps had some data I'd really hate to lose. To make things worse, the backup is apparently corrupted, and the only solution seems to be paying 30$ for a program that can repair it.

If I were to pay to have it repaired, will I be able to recover all the app data from what was installed at the time the backup was performed? Can I just download the apps in question to my iTunes library, and the backup will have the appropriate data to restore to my iPhone?

Hopefully someone has precise info on this; it would be much appreciated. Thanks.


texts: How to remove the computer name, date, and time at the bottom of every printed page

texts: Recently my computer started printing the my user name, the date, and the time at the bottom of every page I print. I don't want this to be printed. What caused this to happen and how can I stop it? (I am using OS X 10.9.1)


texts: How would my friend install my iOS application without App Store?

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I am developing my first serious application for iOS and I am doing it for my friend (not for public use). So it will be a gift. Now question:
How would my friend be able to instal this application? Is there any easy way to share my app with him? I am very confused on how I can share my app on private basis with few people only and how they can easily install it.


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There is a popular question about what to do when the prohibitory symbol (stop sign) appears on a Mac. For me, none of the solutions work, but sometimes my iMac just manages to load. I've lived like this for years (I don't reboot for months). I turn it on, reach the symbol, turn off, rinse and repeat. Within an hour it manages to load and works fine, and sometimes it loads immediately. There's no pattern.
Notably, a clean install didn't help with this.
Things that I've tried: resetting NVRAM, disconnecting power for a minute, verify disk and repair from the disk utility that can be loaded with cmd+r (there are no mistakes).
My vague understanding of the symbol is that it is failing to find where to load the system from – but why would it be able to load it occasionally?
Any thoughts on what could be the problem?
Thanks in advance.
Catalina v. 10.15.7 on a late 2013 iMac


texts: setup youtube-dl destination to ~/Downloads

texts: How do I setup youtube-dl to default download to ~/Downloads instead of the home folder?


texts: Why is the coreaudiod daemon using 5% or more CPU?

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Every time I listen to music on iTunes or VLC, I notice that the process coreaudiod causes an unusually high CPU usage (5% or more).
Are you having the same issue? What's the reason for such a high CPU usage?

Recent OS X updates have not changed this observation. Restarting (or killing the process so it respawns) doesn't fix the problem. After a couple of seconds, CPU usage of coreaudiod goes above 5% again.

It's important to note that using line out makes the problem go away and coreaudiod's CPU usage goes down to 1%-2%.


texts: For Mac OS X, what criteria should I use to decide whether to store a document or file in iCloud or on my local machine? What are the tradeoffs and considerations to be most aware of?


texts: User account issues after resetting PRAM

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So my 2012 iMac has been unusually cranky the past couple days and did not respond to the usual reboot I give when this happens, so I decided to reset the PRAM at the advice of many articles.

Everything seemed to go  OK until I tried logging in. I know for a fact that I was using the correct username and password. But it would not log me in.

I logged in as the main user account and looked in Sys Pref --> Users and Groups and the user I always use was nowhere to be found. Luckily I keep that user's home directory on a drive separate from the the OS, so I didn't lose anything there.

As the main user (that I WAS able to log in with), I created a new account with the same name as my missing account and set the home directory the same one the previous one used.

When I restarted and logged in as my previous user (the one I use all the time), it worked this time, but I'm now getting all these dialog boxes saying XXXXX wants to se the "Local Items" key chain. My account password is not working (and I set it to the same thing it was previously) and now I can't access a bunch of apps such as safari and office.

EDIT

I attempted to run First Aid from Disk Utility on all drives and partitions with all apps closed. Everything came back fine except for 1 partition on my 2-year-old 1TB HDD. It's the partition I store all my files (including home directory) on. The OS is installed on another partition on that drive. Here's the error screen

Anything else I should be trying?

Can anyone point me in the right direction for resetting this password... or syncing with my user account? Also, I don't know that the performance issues have cleared up either. Should I try resetting SCM and NVRAM?


texts: Certain key combinations (involving CMD) don't work

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My left command key is not working for certain key combinations, but it works fine by itself, and in some other combinations. e.g.
Fails:

left-cmd + tab (switch apps)
left-cmd + w (close window/tab)

Succeeds:

left-cmd + r (refresh)
left-cmd + s (save)
left-cmd + /* anything else I've tried */

Also Succeeds:

right-cmd + tab
right-cmd + w
right-cmd + /* anything else I've tried */

I've tried:

zap PRAM: still fails
restart: fails
safe mode: still fails
pulling my hair out:
still fails

Could this be a keyboard hardward problem?


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I recently uninstalled a VirtualBox installation that was made available to all users using the provided tool. I went to re-install for a single user, but it will only let me install for all users, not single user or specific location. How can I resolve this problem?

I'm using a 2013 MacBook Pro with MacOS Sierra


texts: Prevent any direct internet traffic when OpenVPN is down

texts: If OpenVPN down how to prevent any direct internet traffic (http or whole tcp) on MacOS except local network?


texts: Is APFS an appropriate format for flash drives ("thumb drives")?

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When using Disk Utility to format a cheap slow thumb-drive (USB flash drive), is Apple File System (APFS) now the appropriate Format to choose over the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) that previously was commonly used?

This drive is for use on Macs running Mojave and Catalina.

The tech note from Apple, How to erase a disk for Mac, is not clear on this issue.


texts: How to free up "Other" in Storage Management

texts:
Storage management show me "Other" is 127.51 GB
but I can't do anything even see any information.

What is inside? And how to get rid of it?


texts: Does anyone know of a todo-list app that can sync via USB between iOS and Mac?

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I've been looking for a todo-list app that can sync directly (via local/tethered USB) between my MacBook Pro (currently running Mavericks, upgrading soon to Yosemite) and iPod Touch 5 (running iOS 8).

Apple's Reminders and Notes can only be synced via iCloud.

Any suggestions? Thanks!


texts: In activity monitor what time frame is the data sent / received data from?

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In the network tab in activity monitor there is a read out of data usage showing sent and received in GB. What this dosnt tell you is over what time period this is, is it from a day, a week and month ?

This is from OSX Yosemite.


texts: Can not find the Homebrew in the terminal

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But in the Mac OS, I use brew to install the setuptools:

aircraftdeMacBook-Pro:~ ldl$ brew install -y setuptools
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).
==> New Formulae
adr-tools                                goad
allure                                   grakn
angular-cli                              iamy                                   zyre
get_iplayer
==> Updated Formulae
aalib                      gspell                     opencore-amr
......
gsl                        opencoarrays
==> Renamed Formulae
grunt -> grunt-cli
==> Deleted Formulae
autotrace  blucat     dvtm       libgc      libtess2   snescom    xplanetfx

Error: No available formula with the name "setuptools"
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

I want to find the Homebrew, so I use:

whereis homebrew
whereis Homebrew
whereis brew

All find nothing. how to know the homebrew location, why use the whereis can not find it?


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I recently bought a Insignia USB to Ethernet adapter  I proceeded to install the drivers and it has caused me nothing but trouble since.

When I try to sign in to my profile, it opens into a window asking if I would like to use

WiFi network (this option is not selectable)
Local Network
My computer does not connect to the internet

No matter what option I select it states that a piece of software has not been installed and I need to try later after it is installed. It then gives me the option to Shutdown or Continue (which does nothing)

I am able to sign in when I start up in safe mode so I am able to access my files if I absolutely need to but my question is how can I find and uninstall the drivers that are causing all of these problems?


texts: A Drobo, Time Machine, and lots of missing data

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I have a Drobo connected to my Mac. It has been used for storing large video files, keepsakes and other miscellaneous data. I also use it as a Time Machine backup drive.

Today, I went to look for some files and everything but my Time Machine backups are gone. I am at a complete loss and don't know what to do. I know I should have backed-up my Drobo to another disk, but didn't have a disk big enough.

Does anyone know what could have caused this and if there is anything I can do to figure out what was deleted or even recover the data?

Thank you.

[EDIT] I have noticed that files added to the Drobo just a day or two ago are also partially missing. I believe I have a corrupt volume. I am running DiskWarrior to verify the disk.


texts: iTunes doesn't sync all titles from a Playlist

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I'm facing some issues synchronizing an iTunes playlist with my iPod Touch, 3G, iOS 5.1.1. My iTunes version is 10.6.3.25.

My playlist contains 180 mp3-podcasts. If I want to synchronize it with my iPod, it happens that only 153 podcasts got transferred: 27 podcasts are missing and I don't know why.

My iPod is not full. The playlist is 2,85 GB big and my iPod has 19GB free memory.
there shouldn't be a problem with the file format. There's no problem playing them in iTunes.
all titles are linked properly (to a data-path on my harddrive)
Actually all titles should be synchronized, because I put checkmarks on each of the titles.
I deleted and recreated the playlist in iTunes already several times.

Could it be that a Playlist on iPods has just a certain capacy for titles/hours/GB? Or what could be the problem? Any idea?


texts: How can I turn on the Intel HD manually?

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For some weeks my MacBook 6.2 does not switch to the integrated graphics adapter (Intel HD). This is especially crucial when I work on battery (which happens quite often). I guess the runtime could be enhanced when it would take the HD adapter for display.

I checked that it automatically changes the graphics mode. I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

I recently installed 8GiB RAM (not from Apple). Could this probably related to this issue? Actually I do not want to downgrade or use the expensive Apple RAM.

So, how can I manually turn on the internal graphics adapter?


texts: Cannot delete windows partition from mac

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I want to remove Windows from Mac and the I know the simple way is through the Boot Camp Assistant. But that doesn't work for me as follows:

However, when I try to merge the partition of windows through disk utility, all buttons are inactive, and I cannot press either '-' or 'option' button, like follows:

Then, I try to reinstall a new Mac osX from the internet by pressing and holding the [command]+[alt]+[R] when starting the computer, and it doesn't work either. I am informed that the system cannot be installed in either the BOOTCAMP partition or Untitled partition since they are not GUID partition table format.

I am a newer to Mac and I just want to delete the Windows partition and add the space back to my osX partition. I wonder what should I do next?

Thanks for help!


texts:
Hi I've just got my MacBook Pro 2016 running 10.12.3 and I'm in a bit of a pickle...

I can't seem to find a way to remap my CapsLock to Delete.

I've tried using Seil, Ukelele and some other software, but non seem to do the job. Seil did't do anything after I've tried using it, and Ukelele seems a bit confusing, I just want to remap a single key, not the whole keyboard.

Could anybody recommend a software or method i could do this.
Thank you for your time :)


texts: Intact iPhone's display broken, how to make backup from locked phone?

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My iPhone's display broke. The phone itself is intact, yet the screen stays black. iTunes on my recognizes the phone, I have synced with this Mac before. Yet when I want to make a backup of the phone, it denies, because the phone is locked with an passcode. But since the screen doesnt work, I cant unlock it. I know the unlock combination.
Can I still make a backup from my phone without having to replace the display?


texts: Secure testing config profile still affects me after deletion?

texts: Recently installed a secure browser profile for state testing onto my Mac (Running Catalina 10.15.7), which does annoying things like not allowing screenshots or desktop swapping. After I was finished with it, I tried to delete the config profile with /usr/bin/profiles -D and I did get the prompt to delete all config profiles. Afterwards, running /usr/bin/profiles -L returned There are no configuration profiles installed for user 'aaronshih'. However, I still cannot screenshot or swap desktops. I tried installing a new configuration profile from Apple Configurator that had the default permissions with everything enabled, but that also didn't do anything. How can I actually undo the effects of an already deleted config profile?


texts: How to make sure that logging out from iCloud deletes local data?

texts:
When I sign out from icloud on my ios device - ipad or iphone, my local data is not removed. I am not keeping local data, I do want all locally stored data removed from the device when I logout from my icloud account.

This issue started from ios 12 and it is still present in ios 13. I asked question in apple support and they told me to do different things and none of them helped.

So which other options do I have to fix this?


texts: What is the "boost_interprocess" folder in iCloud "Documents"?

texts:
While cleaning up old files I've found an empty "boost_interprocess" folder in my iCloud "Documents" folder (it's really empty: checked in Terminal).

Any idea what this folder is for - a quick search seems to find a lot of references to this folder in Windows and one answer on Stack Overflow, but I'm mystified as to what created this?

I'm on OS X Mojave 10.14.4, MacBook Pro.


texts: How come Safari tells me “Safari Passwords are locked”?

texts:
I recently did a clean install of my Mac (running macOS 10.12.1). After the clean install, I copied over the Library/Keychains folder from my old home directory on my backup drive, to my home directory on my Mac.

When I go to Safari > Preferences > Passwords, it now just says:

  Safari Passwords are Locked

  To unlock Safari passwords, enter the password for the user “Johnny Appleseed”

(It shows my Mac username instead of Johnny Appleseed, but you get the picture.)

I don’t remember ever creating a password for saved Safari passwords before or after doing the clean install. In fact, I don’t remember using saved passwords in Safari at all. (I use 1Password, so I never felt the need to have Safari save passwords.)

Is this something to do with iCloud Keychain, and/or my copying over of its Library folder? Or a bug? Or something else?


texts: Keynote: trying to add hyperlink, but no field to add the URL

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I'm trying to add a hyperlink to an image in a slide. I ctrl-clicked the image, chose "add link", then "webpage", but no dialog or field popped up to add the URL. How do I get the URL field to show up?

Screen recording

Keynote version 7.3.1 (and version 8.0.1 - still happening after upgrade), Mac OS 10.12.6


texts: Big Sur screen sharing constantly locking desktop

texts:
I recently upgraded my two Macs to Big Sur and use the first mac (mac1) to connect to the other via screen sharing (mac2)
Since upgrading, mac2 (the one that is sharing its screen) continuously locks the desktop while I am connected via screen sharing. I can unlock it (password or touch id), but it will lock again. Sometimes it works for a few minutes, other times it will immediately lock over and over right after unlocking. It's basically unusable at this point.
The laptop works fine when I am not sharing the screen and this problem never happened until I upgraded to Big Sur. Are there new policies or any configuration settings I need to be aware of regarding screen sharing?
I haven't found any specific set of steps to reproduce the problem other than it always happens.


texts: Can an i5 27 inch iMac with an exsisting 1 TB hard drive be upgraded to have an additional 256 GB SSD and if so, is it possible to remove Mac OSX from hard disk and re-install on SSD disk?


texts: How to deselect a file from Quick Look list preview?

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When you select multiple items and press space (open Quick Look) you can click an icon1 where it shows a contact sheet with the thumbnails of the files, can you deselect an item without closing and reopening Quick Look?

I'm opening several files in Quick Look to compare them and I would like to deselect the items I no longer want, but closing and opening Quick Look and then reclicking on the thumbnails button is distracting and slow. Is there a way to do that?

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texts:
As far as I know, Sidecar can be used both wirelessly and with a wired connection.

Using Sidecar wirelessly severely cuts my internet connection down from 22Mbps to 4Mbps(both download and upload speed). I am looking for a way to force Sidecar connection to wired connection, using USB-C to USB-C cable.
This solution didn't work for me, as when I turn iPad's wifi off and try to connect via Sidecar from Mac, it says:

  Sidecar can’t connect wirelessly because your iPad’s Wi‑Fi is not available. To use Sidecar wirelessly, turn on Wi‑Fi and make sure it is not in use for Personal Hotspot.

I'm using Macbook Pro 15'' 2017  with iPad Pro 11'' 2017, Both in latest OS.


texts: Mac Pro starts with folder icon and question mark, HD is empty. How to install Ubuntu?

texts:
I have a Mac Pro with an empty (no existing partitions) 1TB HD connected to it.
I am using a windows USB keyboard and want to install Ubuntu on it.
There is no Mac OS installed or running on this computer. I have no access to another Apple device.
It is not a Macbook.
This is the exactly version: Mac Pro 3.00x/4x1/x1900xt/250/sd/ap
Questions:

how to boot the Mac Pro using a USB stick and install Ubuntu on it?
can I do it using a simple USB keyboard and Microsoft Wireless mouse?


texts: Port Blocking of OSC Messages But Firewall is Off

texts: In my computer I am trying to receive Open Sound Control from a server running internally from an application, the address is '127.0.0.1:57110'. The problem I have is that the OSC seems to be blocked and I cannot receive any messages from the server. My firewall is turned off and I am not running any other limitation based on any other rulesets (afaik). Is there a way to find out if something else is blocking the messages to be received in my application or something to use where I unblock the specific port?


texts: Wireless both way sync of photos on iPhone

texts:
iTunes allows you to "sync" pictures however this only copies files from Mac to iPhone, forcing me to do it manually over the USB cable if I want to copy my photos from iPhone to my Mac.

I'm running Jailbroken iOS 6.1.1 on my iPhone so I tried to automate this task by running SSH server on the device and by creating auto-sync task on my mac using GoodSync. This seem to work however I don't find it to be a reliable solution to my problem because sometimes it still forces me to initialise the sync and because SSH server can be running only when iPhone's screen is on, breaking the connection during sync.

So I was wondering if there is another way to wirelessly sync pictures between my Mac and iPhone without any interaction from me.


texts:
iMac (model 2009, purchased in late 2012) sometimes becomes extremely slow. I've opened the "System monitor" and discovered that there is a huge lack of RAM.

But as you can see there is no app occupying all the memory (except the kernel_task, i've got no idea what it is). The 2nd pic show that CPU is alright.

I've tried to make "sudo purge" and it helps a little, but a few minutes later lags come back. I don't want just to get more memory, coz I don't understand why 4 GB isn't enough when the largest app - Photoshop - uses only 179 MB. If you got any idea what can be the reason you're welcome.

p.s. Sorry for the pictures are on Russian, but I'm sure it won't be a big trouble). If necessary, i can give any screenshots.


texts: How to prevent MacBook Pro from powering up by pressing any key?

texts: When MacBook Pro 2018 is completely shut down, it will power up by simply opening the lid, pressing any key, or tapping the trackpad, which is very annoying. I managed to make it not power up when the lid is lifted, but I couldn't figure out how to prevent the key presses or trackpad tap from doing so.


texts: If my top button on my iphone 4 doesn't work can I turn on my phone without connecting it to a charger?

texts: I know that if your top button doesn't work and you turn off your phone then you can turn your phone back on by connecting it to a charger but is there a way to turn my phone on when the top button doesn't work without connecting my phone to a charger ?


texts: Time Machine can't find Time Capsule - but can mount it

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I have a 5th Gen (A1470) Time Capsule on our network. The WAN ethernet port is wired to a router. The TC has a static IP, Wifi is disabled (on the TC) and router mode is off (bridged).

I have a Macbook Pro (El Capitan) currently backing up to the TC using our router's Wifi (only 1.31GB after 20mins though, looks like it's stalled). I have a Mac Pro (El Capitan) that's found the TC and still preparing backups.

However, I have an iMac (Yosemite) on the WiFi network that cannot find the TC in Time Machine preferences. However it can connect to it and mount it using the Finder (the TC shows up under the Shared sidebar).

I hard reset the Time Capsule and reconfigured as above before attempting backups on all 3 devices.

How come the iMac can't find the TC in Time Machine - yet finds it fine in the Finder?
Why is the first backup so slow?

UPDATE: It appears Time Machine wants to own the network, so I have reenabled Wifi (as a new Wifi network since Time Capsule can't extend non-Apple Wifi, yes really) and the Macbook Pro is using that Wifi. Now it is backing up quickly. The Mac Pro has now also been wired (ethernet) into the LAN ports on the TC, instead of trying to access it via the router. It appears TC wants to be the hub/router instead of playing nicely as a network device. The other iMac is now on the TC Wifi network - but can't find the Time Capsule in Airport or Time Machine - go figure.

UPDATE 2: I have upgraded the iMac in question to El Capitan and applied the available updates. Problem persists and I cannot see the Time Capsule in Airport Utility or Time Machine preferences. All other machines on the network are backing up to the TC now either through ethernet or Wifi.


texts: How can I transfer songs between Garageband for iOS and OS X?

texts:
I have Garageband on iPad, iPhone and OS X. How can I transfer the music between them? I have enabled iCloud with iPad and iPhone but cannot understand how to get the music from there to OS X? I have tried iTunes and the file sharing option, but it is too slow, I am trying to find some faster way — I want that the sounds to be available between all of my devices without too many manual changes, hopefully automatically.

Basically: I create a song with the iPhone or iPad, I want it immediately available on OS X for processing, how to get it there?


texts:
I use Time Machine to make backups of my computer. Now I would like to mirror the complete backup to a remote machine for added security.

Here's my rsync command:

rsync -azvH --progress --partial --delete -e ssh /Volumes/2tb/Backups.backupdb/ user@remote:/backup

I use -a to preserve timestamp, -z for compression, -v to get verbose output, -H to preserve hard links (essential to copy Time Machine backup), --progress to see what's happening, --partial keeps partially transferred files, --delete removes files on remote that are deleted locally.

When I run this, I get a lot of file permission errors. Apparently, I'm not allowed to access a lot of files in my Time Machine backup. This is not only for files in /private, but also files in /usr/ which should have read permissions.

Does Time Machine change file permissions while doing a backup?
How can I use rsync to mirror my complete Time Machine backup without using sudo?


texts:
When I upgraded my iPhone 6 to 9.3.1, it started to show message "this phone is managed by your organization."  In Settings it states phone managed by Comcast.  This is NOT a company phone.  My personal phone.  I believe it is what keeps me from using international SIM card.  Can't mast says this IMEI is not in their system.  Help!
Sorry if this question doesn't meet rules.  I am still learning.


texts: How to restore a backup to a user account?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to restore from a Time Machine backup when there is already a user account set up?

We just sold my wife's MacBook Air, and we're going to try sharing my MacBook Pro for a while. So I set up a new user account for her on my MBP, and I am wondering if it is possible to restore her time machine backup onto her user account without losing all of my stuff.

Is this possible?


texts: Remove iOS 5.1 notification from the main screen?

texts:
I do not want to update my iPhone 3gs to new iOS 5.1. How can I remove this notification showing all the time on the Settings images. Please look at the image.

I've tried opening this screen but without clicking the button Download and Install, but the notification is still there.

PS. I am new to iPhone. I have it for a couple of days.


texts: Stop cron daemon "symmetrical.xm" error messages in Terminal mail

texts:
After upgrading to High Sierra (I think) I've started receiving the following message almost every time I start up Terminal:

You have new mail in /var/mail/MyUsername

I had some problems upgrading to High Sierra so I strongly suspect this started after the upgrade, but cannot be absolutely certain.

When I enter the $ mail command and read the messages (which can amount to hundreds at one go) this is what is written:

Message 1:
From MyUsername@Users-MacBook-Pro.local  Tue Nov 28 21:37:04 2017
X-Original-To: MyUsername
Delivered-To: MyUsername@Users-MacBook-Pro.local
From: MyUsername@Users-MacBook-Pro.local (Cron Daemon)
To: MyUsername@Users-MacBook-Pro.local
Subject: Cron <MyUsername@Users-MacBook-Pro> /Users/MyUsername/Library/symmetrical.xm/symmetrical.xm cr
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=MyUsername>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=MyUsername>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/Users/MyUsername>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:37:01 +0800 (+08)

/bin/sh: /Users/MyUsername/Library/symmetrical.xm/symmetrical.xm: No such file or directory

Also, when I run $ crontab -e, this is what is returned:

37 * * * * /Users/MyUsername/Library/symmetrical.xm/symmetrical.xm cr
~
~
"/tmp/crontab.SsevmMDt1o" 1L, 72C

I am trying to figure out why the Cron Daemon is sending me these error messages. To clarify, I would not like to suppress mail from cron altogether; so, I don't want to

Delete the MyUsername file at /var/mail/, OR
Change the MAILTO variable in /etc/crontab to MAILTO="" (as suggested in this link)

Instead, I'd be really grateful it if someone could help me understand

How/why this started happening
What I can do to stop it from happening again (or if I should stop it from happening at all)
Which app/script requires the missing file/directory called symmetrical.xm and why

Any other additional information to add to the points listed above would also be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

macOS High Sierra v10.13.1 (17B48)


texts: I'm Unable to Boot into Mac OS Partition, partition type FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

texts:
I've seen similar answered questions like this.

I'm unable to boot into my MacOS partition.

Long story short, I had Windows BootCamp, removed it and then later installed Ubuntu Linux, then tried to delete the Linux partition and I think I ended up deleting the Boot recovery partition. And then tried to run repair, and now my main mac partition now shows FFFFFFF something.

My Macbook is this one https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.6-13-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html#macspecs1

I'm guessing my Macbook got updated to Mojave 10.14 before this happened but I'm not 100% sure of it, it may be on High Sierra but I'm guessing.

I'm booting into Internet Recovery and this is what I've pulled up in the pictures below.

I would like to be able to boot into my regular Mac OS partition.

I'm unable to figure out if the partition is a OS X Standard Partition or CoreStorage or APFS or etc.
Is my recovery boot system too old if I need to use gpt to set it to an APFS argument?
Should I check if the EFI partition and the Recovery HD partition are corrupted
Would the 650 MB boot/recovery partion always be the last 650 MB of the disk
Does the partition table contains an MBR instead of an PMBR and would the MBR need to be replaced by a PMBR?
Previously the main MacOS partition was resized by me, how and when would be the best time and way for me to resize it to occupy the entire free space like stock?

Please Help.

It default boots into this.

If type exit, I get this.

Holding Option on boot shows

This is rest of the stuff I pulled from internet recovery

Please Help!


texts:
I am trying to set up my iCloud (@me.com) account in Adium. But it never logs in, and it says that my password is wrong. However when I set it up in iChat it works fine.

I have googled for this sort of problem a bit, but found no answer.

Why is it happening?


texts: How do I set the Camera Roll to send the actual size (rather than small size) via email?

texts:
I usually use Android, but my girlfriend landed me with the above task to solve, and I have found no way to solve it myself.

When we go to Camera Roll and select single or multiple images, we used to get an interface allowing us to select the size of the selected images, including the phrase "Actual Size".

As stated, that interface has disappeared, and all the photos selected are default sent as tiny 130Kb photos. How do I reset the phone to again allow my girlfriend to send Actual Size photos? I have already restarted the phone, but that didn't change anything.


texts: Why does systemsetup sometimes fail to do anything?

texts:
I recently came across this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/48583#issue-201371696

Mac-6:testing root# systemsetup -setlocalsubnetname blah4
setlocalsubnetname: blah4
Mac-6:testing root# systemsetup -getlocalsubnetname
Local Subnet Name: blah3

It's not just the -setlocalsubnetname - other commands also fail.

It would appear that systemsetup will fail intermittently. Is there a way to figure out why in the world that's the case? I've spent quite a bit of time on Google to no avail.

To add some details:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -getlocalsubnetname
Local Subnet Name: Mithos-9
$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setlocalsubnetname Mithos
setlocalsubnetname: Mithos
$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -getlocalsubnetname
Local Subnet Name: Mithos-9
$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setlocalsubnetname MithosX
setlocalsubnetname: MithosX
$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -getlocalsubnetname
Local Subnet Name: MithosX
$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setlocalsubnetname Mithos
setlocalsubnetname: Mithos
$ sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -getlocalsubnetname
Local Subnet Name: Mithos

Didn't find anything useful in the logs.


texts: Logic 9.1.1 with snow loepard OSX 10.8.2

texts:
I've just bought a Mac 4 and loaded in Logic 9.1.1, all semed well until I tied to open Logic in my applications folder and it said ' I can't use this version of the application Logic pro with this version of OSX.

can anyone give me a clue?

THANKS


texts: iPad or iPhone doesn't charge until unlocked?

texts:
When I plug my iPhone or iPad into my laptop with the USB cable, it doesn't start charging until I unlock the device with touch ID or code. Is there a way I can change this behavior? I don't think it used to work that way (years ago), and now I often forget to unlock it, so I think a device is charging and then hours later realize it's not.

To clarify, I don't have to leave it unlocked. I unlock it, then the battery icon changes to indicate it's charging, then I can lock/sleep it again.


texts: How to keep apps open in full screen OS X 10.9

texts: I have been trying to find a way to keep my windows opening in full screen mode.  I have tried to open them in full screen and then close them without resizing the screen, but then when I restart my computer the windows default back to a small screen and it gets very frustrating trying to navigate to another window.  Is there a way to set the mac up so it defaults to full screen mode when opening an app (for example chrome).


texts: Changed iCloud password, now Messages, Facetime, and Keychain don't work

texts:
After changing my iCloud account password, which I also use to log in to macOS, I can no longer sign in to Messages which means I can't use iMessage or SMS messages on my MacBook. Every time I enter my iCloud account email and password I get an alert, "This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with [my email address]." The dialog has a link to iCloud Preferences and if I proceed to sign in there, I then get an error message that my username or password was incorrect (even though I know it's correct). This happens every time I try, the same thing happens with Facetime.

I also can no longer use the iCloud Keychain. I'm frequently (i.e. several times each hour) prompted with "accountsd wants to use the Local Items keychain." which as far as I can tell doesn't exist, so if I cancel that a few times it changes to "accountsd wants to use the iCloud keychain." Entering my iCloud password here doesn't work, I have no idea what the password could be and I don't see any way to set one in Keychain Access.

This is extremely frustrating, I've tried Apple Support but they were unable to solve it, I have an open ticket but nothing has happened for over a week. Has anyone else had a similar issue?


texts: Issue with FaceTime and iMessage (iPod touch 4)

texts:
My sister bought an iPod touch yesterday. Everything seems to work fine except for FaceTime and iMessage.
In both applications, after she signs in with her Apple ID, she can see the next screen for about a second before it automatically reverts back to the 'Apple ID sign in' screen. No error message is shown.

While we couldn't find any information on our specific problem online, we did find some general iPod touch/FaceTime troubleshooting tips which we followed:

We've updated to the latest version of iOS and iTunes
We've verified her Apple ID via the Apple website
We restarted her iPod touch
We made sure there are no active restrictions under 'Settings > General > Restrictions'
We reconnected to our WiFi. We also restarted our router just to be sure

I also tried logging into FaceTime with my own Apple ID on her iPod touch. Surprisingly, the screen no longer reverted back to the previous screen automatically, but I wasn't able to move on to the next one because my account wasn't verified.
After verifying my account on the Apple website, the problem occured on my account as well.

I love Apple products, I do. But after struggling with this problem for an entire afternoon, I want to strangle the guy that thought it was a good idea not to show an error code or at least a short description explaining the problem. On any other device I would've been able to figure out what exactly I was doing wrong in seconds, yet here they leave me guessing.


texts: From the command-line, how can I set all accounts to Available in all Messages.app

texts: Is there a scriptable way from the terminal I can tell Messages.app to take all my accounts online?


texts: Can I assign a custom alert time to a calendar entry?

texts: I want to have an alert 90 minutes before a calendar event. That isn't an option in Calendar on iOS. Fantistical has more alert time options than Calendar so I imagine there's a way to set an arbitrary alert time. Is there a way to do that from the command line or a script?


texts: Tabs and address bar are missing if safari is opened on two displays in full screen mode

texts:
When I try to use safari with two displays setup I get quite strange behavior, which is missing address bar and tabs on one of the displays. At the same time webpage view area is not extended with the space of missing elements, which is just left empty, therefore looking like a bug.
Any help and ideas are welcome.


texts: Can I use a Time Capsule to share internet connection?

texts: My internet provider limits the number of connected devices to two. I would like to know whether I can use a Time Capsule to share my signal with all other devices in my house?


texts: How to change y axis numbers in Numbers for mac to show as custom letters or words?

texts:
I'm new to Numbers and now creating my first chart. I tried to find what I was looking for on google but couldn't find anything. What I would like to do is change the numbers in the Y axis to show has custom letters or words instead of numbers while still keeping their values, if that makes sense. For example:

Would that be possible?

Thank you for any help.


texts:
Does anybody know how to prevent filename and username to be revealed when printing to a network printer?
I would like to hide that information by default, specially the filename since it might reveal a lot of information. (Im using Yosemite although I doubt that matters at all)


texts: What do light grey song titles mean in iTunes?

texts:
When song 5 is done playing, it automatically skips over to song 16. The songs in between play just fine when started manually but are not part of the queue when playing the album. Why? What do these grey song titles mean?

I do have iTunes Match, but these songs are all downloaded to my computer.


texts: Slow initial app window opening, but only in certain situations?

texts:
I use some apps that can accept files a few ways:

open and then use its own file select dialog
"open with" from Finder
"drag & drop" from Finder

Method 1 is fine and the app responds as expected.

Methods 2 & 3 result in the app opening—you can see the app's menu bar and dock icon—but then there is a delay of 4 or 5 seconds before the app window appears.

Apple say:

  Engineering has determined that your bug report (39378510) is a duplicate of 19293778 and will be closed.

But why the delay? What is macOS doing? How can I remove the delay?

I've tried:

reset launch services (no difference)
new/guest user account (no delay!)

Most interestingly:

Build new app with unique ID (no delay on first launch; delay on second launch)
Delete Saved Application State for the app (no delay!) but this regenerates with every run of the app
Deleting only the file data.data (download that file) in the Saved Application State (no delay!)

  Workaround: I can prevent Saved Application State on a per-app basis.
  See here: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus/issues/110#issuecomment-377398429

Any ideas appreciated.

mac OS 10.13.6
no antivirus

Here are two videos:

xACT.app: https://youtu.be/IzUbQaPzAhA
Platypus.app: https://youtu.be/Omn0pHl7oQw


texts: Safari 5.1.8 in Snow Leopard 10.6.8 will not display HTML pages correctly

texts:
Some sort of user-profile level corruption is causing Safari 5.1.8 in Snow Leopard to display any web pages as just plain text, formatted mostly in a single column, with only small thumbnails of graphics or no graphics at all, while the same web pages on the same computer look perfectly fine in FireFox and Chrome.

The corruption is only in my friend's main administrator user profile. When I create a new user profile for testing purposes, Safari works fine and displays pages correctly.

I have tried resetting Safari, in all categories, flushing all the caches and rebuilding permissions.

I have also "blown out" and deleted the user account, saving the home folder, and created a new user account with the same name, migrating the old home folder back to the new user account. Nothing helps.

Any suggestions as to how I might find and repair the corruption in the user profile that seems to be causing this?


texts: MacBook Air -- Cursor gets stuck as arrow/finger

texts:
When I am using my MacBook Air, my cursor sometimes gets stuck and remains as either the default pointer (black arrow), or as the link-clicking finger. I generally have to quit the application and go back to it in order to temporarily rectify this issue. Honestly, it gets really annoying, so why is this happening and how can I fix it?

Note: I am just using the default trackpad...


texts: Crazy "System" traffic data - What to do? ios 9 - iphone 6s

texts:
I have a very limited data amount (only 1 Gb of 3G / 4G) per month

So natrually I took all the steps in order to limit my data drainage:

Disable Wi-Fi assist
Only five applications have access to cellular data traffic. Whatsapp, Messenger, Safari, google maps, and Mail. That's it.

Nonetheless, over the last 4 days, my data consumption was 394 Mb, apparently!!
It's out of the question I used them all with the aforementioned application.

The only odd thing is "System Services" which counts for 460 MB! In that, I have a "General" amount equal to 359 Mb, 15.6 Mb of game center (! I never use it!) and 36 Mb of iTunes.

I want to disable all of that! What to do? Can somebody help?


texts: Getting my iPhone 6 to trust a computer after selecting Don't Trust

texts: I accidentally hit "Don't Trust" on my iPhone and now my MacBook won't unlock my phone. Is there a way to reverse this?


texts: Restrict sftp user to a single directory in El Capitan

texts:
Searched the web for quite some time and still can't find a solution.

Is it even possible at all to restrict ssh user to a single directory in 10.11? I have set up an user account via System Preferences Users & Groups. Under Advanced Options I specified a home directory. This is the highest level directory he can go.

Followed some instruction to modify ssh/sshd_config to include:

Match User ftpuser
  ChrootDirectory <the directory path>
  PermitTunnel no
  AllowAgentForwarding no
  AllowTcpForwarding no
  X11Forwarding no

but it doesn't work.


texts: How can I cancel/delete unsent E-Mails from iOS Mail?

texts:
If I'm off-line, and I send an e-mail, it stays as "unsent message".

Is there a way to cancel or delete or edit those unsent messages? (using the default e-mail app)


texts: Is there a way to make launchd stop a service on sleep and start it up again on wake?

texts: I have several pieces of server software installed on my MacBook Pro for work using Homebrew. There is one service in particular, that likes to peg the CPU after the OS wakes up from sleep until I restart it. The service is currently managed by launchd, and I am wondering if there is a way for me to tell launchd to stop the service when the OS goes to sleep, and then start it up again on wake.


texts:
Are there any shortcuts to label a file in Finder?

The fastest way i know is to place an icon in the menubar, but it would be much better when i can do it with the keyboard.


texts:
After a few weeks of using El Capitan seemingly random messages started appearing blank. Viewing the messages in the Google web interface showed that they were not blank.

Restarting the app usually fixes it.

I deleted all my emails (by deleting mail folder ~/Library/Mail) and started again - and it was OK for about a week - and now it's started doing it again. Rebuilding mailboxes doesn't help.

I found links around the web to cases of this back in 2010/2011 - like this
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2364054

But it appeared to go unsolved.

Is this just a bug in El Capitan - and is there a solution?


texts: Why I cannot see application menus on the 2nd extension screen of Mac?

texts:
I work with 2 monitors using the same Mac both at work and at home. At home I use the extension monitor with the 4:3 aspect ratio and I can see the application menus on top of the 2nd screen. At work I am using the monitor with the 16:10 aspect ratio and cannot see the application menus on the top of the 2nd screen.

What is the reason?


texts: How to switch or close the new split Terminal pane?

texts: I stumbled across the CMD-D hot key which splits the Terminal into 2 panes.  But I can't find documentation anywhere on how to close the new pane or even switch the focus to it so I can use it. What are the other commands?


texts: Not able to access special characters i.e. @,( etc

texts: How do I access special characters on the keyboard when writing emails? I push the Shift key and the 2 to receive the @ but it continues to give me a 2 what is wrong?


texts: Removing purchased ringtones from iPhone

texts:
I purchased ringtones from Apple when I had my iPhone 6s. When I bought a new iPhone 8 Plus, everything as expected transferred to my new iPhone, so my ringtones are in Settings app → Sounds & Haptics. I wish to remove the purchased ringtones.

I chatted with Apple Support and they suggest I back up new iPhone and reset to factory settings to get rid of the custom ringtones.

Is there any other way?


texts: When I clicked on a proprietary dmg, I found this garbled alert. Whereas previously in the 10.8.x version, this DMG message is clear, it is unreadable with 10.9 and later.


texts:
What's your favorite Apple Watch app for Hiking.
I'm looking for something that provide this features:

Integration with Health and Activities (i.e. calories, heartbeat, distance, GPS map, workout etc)
Shows relevant information while hiking (i.e. at least time, distance, and elevation)
Works without iPhone
Does not drain the Apple Watch battery too fast (the built-in workout app is fine in this terms, but too limited in functionalities)
Ideally has a web interface to analyze the data (like Strava or Garmin Connect)


texts: What is 'symptomsd" and why is it at times using 60% of my iMac's CPU?

texts:
There is a system process on my iMac running El Capitan called "symptomsd" that has been consistently bouncing back and forth between about 20% to 60% of the CPU resource on my iMac.

It is running from /usr/libexec/symptomsd. There is a private framework it loads called /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Symptoms.framework that itself contains other frameworks called:

ManagedEvent.framework
SymptomAnalytics.framework
SymptomEvaluator.framework
SymptomPresentationFeed.framework
SymptomPresentationLite.framework
SymptomReporter.framework

It doesn't seem to write much to the system log files. In fact the only relevant message in "All Messages" on the iMac is:

  syslogd[46]: Configuration Notice: ASL Module
  "com.apple.networking.symptoms" claims selected messages. Those
  messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL
  database.

There is a preference file at /private/etc/asl/com.apple.networking.symptoms that seems to indicate that logs should be written to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/com.apple.networking.symptoms.log but that file doesn't even exist on my iMac.

I tried watching what it was doing with tools like fs_usage but I'm not getting much useful information back just lots of "ioctl" requests. I tried manually killing and triggering it to launch again, and it seems to examine all the applications installed on my iMac and then go back to making lots of "ioctl" requests.

Searching on Google all I've been able to determine is that this seems to be one of those things that is shared between OSX and iOS. No information anywhere on what it actually does though.

Anyone have any idea what this process is for or know anywhere it is documented?


texts:
I have a third generation iPad ("the New iPad"). I am looking for software I can use to make a piano keyboard appear on my iPad such that when I press the keys, they play notes and sound like a piano. I'd like to be able to use it to plunk out a tune when trying to compose music away from home, and to let my children practice their beginning piano lessons when we're visiting relatives but they don't want to forget what they've learned.

I am looking for the following features:

good responsiveness (no noticeable lag between touching the keys and hearing the notes)
no ads
ideally in the $1 - $10 price range (lower is better unless the program is particularly great, but I'm willing to pay for quality)
doesn't take up too much memory (sorry, GarageBand -- 800MB is too much space to part with on a 16GB iPad)
key size comes close to that of a real piano
reasonable number of keys (perhaps a way to shift octaves if necessary to expand range)
no crazy gimmicks (notes arranged like a piano, not in a spiral or pulsing different colors or other weirdness)

Can anyone recommend software that works well for a use case like this?


texts: Can I use my iMac as a display with my MacBook?

texts:
Is it possible to attach my MacBook to my iMac and use the iMac as a display? What cable/connector would I need?

EDIT:

I have the newest MacBook and a Late 2009 21.5" iMac.


texts: Watch iPhone videos without transfer to Mac

texts:
How can I watch the videos I recorded on my iPhone without first transferring them to my drive, so that I can Shazam the music in them? I have no free disk space and iFunbox is not a great file explorer. To my knowledge, Shazam does not have a desktop version.

What software will let me watch the videos on my iPhone without resorting to the unusable Photos or Image Capture apps?


texts: Apple Remote Desktop 3.9 Update problems?

texts:
If you run Apple Remote Desktop Admin you will notice Apple has recently released version 3.9.

If, as happened to me, your AppStore does not display the update to the Apple Remote Desktop Client update as well as the Apple Remote Desktop Admin upgrade, and you upgrade your Apple Remote Desktop Admin first, these bad things will happen:

You will not be able to open Apple Remote Desktop Admin on your machine, because your client is not the right version.

If you run the AppStore again and pick up the ARD Client updater, you can open ARD Admin again, but

You will lose the ability to send Unix commands, install packages, etc to all computers you manage that have not yet upgraded to ARD client 3.9

If you upgrade your remote clients to ARD Client 3.9 by whatever means, you will get back control of them through your ARD Admin but,

The ARD Client version 3.9 is not compatible with any OS below Yosemite!

If you run clients running an OS older than Yosemite, you will only have Screen Sharing access to those clients forever more (or until a legacy patch is written).

Anyone with Apple Remote Desktop Admin 3.8.5 can still do all of the remote goodness to ARD Clients running version 3.9.

TL;DR, if you upgrade your Apple Remote Desktop Admin to version 3.9, you will have a bad time.

Can anyone suggest a workaround, other than "don't upgrade to Apple Remote Desktop Admin 3.9"?


texts: How come Trello boards no longer addapt to Fluid App to scoll vertically only?

texts:
Up to today using Trello with Fluid was the best thing of my day! Super awesome match between the two apps. The most best part was that when I scale the fluid window to be narrow all Trello lists lined up vertically one below another, which is so much better when you are working on one swim lane at a time. This way I can focus only on the cards inside a particular line. Very very helpful! Trello is great to give you the big picture (the board) and lets you narrow down your focus to the small piece (the card), but it's lacking a middle ground (focus on a list). This is where Fluid brought Trello to a whole other level.

Since today this is no longer an option. Even when I make the Fluid window to has the smallest width the Trello board still scrolls left right up down all over the place...

Is there a way to get this back? I tried everything, clearing my Safari cache, restarting my computer, etc. I would be very grateful to anyone who can help me fix this bug.


texts:
Hitting OSStatus error -50 while trying to use automator to connect to betternet vpn

Any other ways e.g. command line method to connect and disconnect from betternet? (e.g. dismissing the ads, using the free version)


texts: Unexpected behavior of bash script used to sync dotfiles

texts:
I'm using essentially this script for keeping my dotfiles under version control. I recently added a snippets folder inside my emacs.d directory and listed it as one of the things that should be symlinked to from my home directory. However, when I run the script now it creates a symlink to snippets inside snippets itself.

Here's the relevant bit of the script:

#!/bin/bash
############################
# .make.sh
# This script creates symlinks from the home directory to any desired dotfiles in ~/dotfiles
############################

########## Variables

dir=~/.dotfiles                    # dotfiles directory
olddir=~/.dotfiles_old             # old dotfiles backup directory
files="bash_profile gitignore gitconfig zshrc jrnl_config emacs.d/init.el emacs.d/custom.el emacs.d/snippets scripts/makeadate.js config/karabiner/assets/complex_modifications config/karabiner/karabiner.json"    # list of files/folders to symlink in homedir
##########

# create dotfiles_old in homedir
echo -n "Creating $olddir for backup of any existing dotfiles in ~ ..."
mkdir -p $olddir
echo "done"

# change to the dotfiles directory
echo -n "Changing to the $dir directory ..."
cd $dir
echo "done"

# move any existing dotfiles in homedir to dotfiles_old directory, then create symlinks from the homedir to any files in the ~/dotfiles directory specified in $files
for file in $files; do
    echo "Moving any existing dotfiles from ~ to $olddir"
    mv ~/.$file $olddir
    echo "Creating symlink to $file in home directory."
    ln -s $dir/$file ~/.$file
done

So, before running the script, ~/.dotfiles/emacs.d/snippets contains only two subdirectories, latex-mode and mhtml-mode. After running the script, it contains a new symlink to ~/.dotfiles/emacs.d/snippets. I suspect the problem has something to do with the fact that one of the values that the variable $file is taking is a directory. But I don't know exactly what the problem is.


texts: Is it possible to upgrade a Mac Pro (2007) with Lion (10.7) to Yosemite (10.10)?

texts:
I have a MacPro (mid-2007) with the configuration listed below:

Processor: 2x 2.66Ghz Dual Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 20Gb 667Mhz - DDR2 FB-DIMM
OSx: Lion 10.7.5
NVIDIA Chip Model 1024Mb
SSD: 512Gb
HD2: 1Tb
HD3: 1Tb
HD4: 500Gb

I've been searching how to upgrade to Yosemite directly, but I found he is not compatible anymore (only MacPro 2008 / later). There's a way to hack/workaround this problem? And why I can't upgrade my Lion to Yosemite if the hardware specs are totally compatible?


texts: Loading packages into Julia does not work

texts:
I installed Julia 1.0 on my iMac running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. I installed Julia and when I double click on it in my Applications folder, I get the expected screen shown below.

But now that it's loaded it doesn't respond to commands as expected. In the instructions to set up Julia, I was instructed to load IJulia using the command Pkg.add("IJulia"). When I type this command I get the following message:

ERROR: UndefVarError: Pkg not defined

Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at none:0

I've tried other commands to add packages and I get same error messages. Does anyone know why I can not load packages into Julia?


texts: Delete Photos from device and using the same device for uploading new photos to Photos afterwards

texts: It has been well explained here how to delete photos from a device without deleting them in iCloud. However, if you want to use the same (now empty) device to upload your future photos to iCloud, you have to sync it with iPhoto again. The problem is, as soon as you sync it, not only will the future photos be uploaded to the cloud, but your old photos will get downloaded again to the device you emptied. Is there no way to automatically upload photos to iCloud without synching them?


texts:
So, I've got a new iPhone SE and an old 5c and I wanna transfer/sync the old one into the new one. The "bring the new phone close to an old one" and sync by bluetooth doesn't cut it cuz it requires iOS version 11+, and the 5c is on version 10.3 (and can't update to 11).

So I wanted to make a backup of the 5c through iTunes and then load the new phone from the backup. But when I plug in the 5c, iTunes prompts me with "do you wanna set this phone as new?" message:

(the backups are from my personal iPhone, which is irrelevant to this issue).

So, then I click "cancel" and I am into the regular iTunes interface, but the phone button is not there:

I tried to go to System Information -> USB and the phone was there, recognized. So, my question is - do you know how to get the phone connected properly so I can make a backup. Or - any other way to sync the 5c into the SE?

Specs:

iTunes: v12.8.0.150

OSX: High Sierra 10.13.6

P.S. the 5c isn't mine - I've never worked with it on my Mac.


texts: Some iPad web browsers do not render some MathJax codes

texts:
As we know, well-known iPad web browsers such as Safari, Chrome, Firefox, ... support JavaScript, which is needed for rendering MathJax codes on many websites like Stack Exchange.
However, I have been informed that some parts of MathJax codes on some SE posts, like this answer, cannot be rendered on some web browsers such as Safari and Yandex while such codes can be rendered perfectly in the preview. It is worth noting that some other well-known web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge do not have such a problem.
Now, my question is whether some changes in the settings of the web browsers should be effected to resolve the problem or this problem is related to some programming issues such as browser or SE bugs, which are beyond device users' control?


texts: AppleScript error -1728 while accessing menu

texts:
I am getting following error for the script below. Please help

error "System Events got an error: Can’t get menu bar item \"File\" of process \"iTunes\"." number -1728 from menu bar item "File" of process "iTunes"

Script I wrote

tell application "iTunes"
 activate
 tell application "System Events"
    tell process "iTunes"
        click menu item "Sync \"iPhone\"" of menu item "Devices" of menu bar item "File"
    end tell
 end tell
end tell


texts: Is there an application that moves menulets from the menu bar, and shows them in a little window?

texts: Is there a utility that shows the menulets in a window in the style of the old Control Strip (which means a window that automatically shows and hides)?


texts:
I know that there's a setting to change this behaviour, but it doesn't work for my EasyAcc  bluetooth keyboard.
If this behaviour is known, does it apply to all not-built-in keyboards or all bluetooth keyboards?

EDIT:
The setting I'm referring to is:

  Use all F1, F2 etc keys as standard function keys

It doesn't have any effect on my bluetooth keyboard.
I also tried Palua which also only works on my built-in keyboard.


texts:
I have a VPN issue and I believe it's just routing, but I've notice that there's an exclamation mark in the expire column on a netstat -nr command:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
192.168.1          10.50.50.31        UGSc            0        0   utun3
192.168.2          10.50.50.31        UGSc            0        0   utun3
192.168.3/32       10.50.50.31        UGSc            0        0   utun3
192.168.3          link#7             UCS             0        0     en7      !
192.168.3.1/32     link#7             UCS             1        0     en7      ! <-- what's this?

I know what everything else means, but I can't seem to find any info on what the ! means. Anyone know?
Tia...


texts: Mojave USB installer showing Windows option and taking too long, is that ok?

texts:
I downloaded the Mojave installer from the App Store and copied it to a USB stick like so:

$ sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/UNTITLED --nointeraction

Previous to that I formatted the USB stick with the option Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Disk Utility app.

The problem is that when I start the computer holding the Option key it shows three options to boot from, one is my disk drive, the other is the Mojave installer in the USD stick, and there is also a suspiciously named Windows option.

If I pick the Mojave installer it reads the USB stick and shows the progress bar that appears when the systems is starting but it takes too long and it quickly stops reading the USB stick. It also doesn't show the installer app after it reaches 100% of the progress bar.

If I try to start from the Windows option I see a black screen showing an EFI error, but I have never tried to install Windows on my computer, so I'm not sure what that option is trying to do.

How long does it takes to show the Mojave installer app when starting from the USB stick?

Is it ok if the USB stick stops showing activity after a couple of minutes while the progress bar is still below 20% or 30% after the Mojave installer is selected from the boot loader?


texts:
I installed Mavericks on an external SSD drive and now want to point my music, pictures and video to ones on my previous drive.
I created a link using ln command, a link was created. I launched iTunes, it correctly determined the working directory and was able to play my music. BUT in Finder the icon of iTunes directory (~/Music/iTunes) was like a blank document with an arrow while original folder has a customised icon. Also I tried creating an alias for that folder - and icon became just a regular folder icon. What is it?


texts: Can Siri's voice be used to read selected text on iOS?

texts:
I've enabled the feature that allows reading out loud of selected text, however whenever I chose Siri original voice (I'm using Siri British female) iOS seems to ignore this and always tries to read using system default language (which is not English in my case).

When I switch to non Siri voice, like Serena for example, it works properly and English text is red correctly by Serena. But as soon as I switch to Siri voice iOS tries to read English text using other non-English and non-Siri voice.

Is this a bug or indeed Siri's voice can not be used for reading text?


texts: Karabiner F1 to Launch Defined Applications?

texts: What is the coding to program my F1 key to launch an application that needs to be defined (like Notes) using Karabiner?


texts: How to set up Safari to always show status bar

texts:
I am using Safari 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) within Mac OS X 10.8.2.

I would like to know how to set Safari so that, whenever a new window is opened, the status bar is always turned on.

I think this used to be a preference setting but it doesn't appear to be available in this version.

Whenever I open a new window, there is no status bar.

I know how to use the keyboard shortcut to turn it on and off. I'm looking for a way not to have to use the shortcut each time.

Is this doable? Thanks for your advice.


texts: How do I batch set the files "date modified" to the "date created"?

texts:
I have a folder with a bunch of photos taken by two different cameras, with one camera having been set to the wrong date. I managed to correct the EXIF date using Picasa (see photo.stackexchange), but apparently, it only adjusts the "Date Created" of the file, and not the "Date modified".

How can I make the "Date modified" (shown by default in the Finder) equal to the "Date Created" for a bunch of files?

I've looked in the touch terminal command, but couldn't find an answer there for my specific issue.


texts: Sending text to a Terminal or iTerm2 window?

texts:
How can I send text to a Terminal or iTerm window?

I'm presenting a demo of some multi-user software and would like to create several windows, programatically sending (different) text to each one, something like

send to terminal window 1:  insert into foo values('hello');
send to terminal window 2:  insert into foo values('world');
etc...

I'm currently using Terminal and iTerm, but can use any other program.


texts:
I have Mac OS X version 10.5.7 so I downloaded Xcode version 4.6.3 and launched it.

According to many tutorials (such as this) I am supposed to install further command line tools via terminal: xcode-select --install

But all I get is a little manual page:

Usage: xcode-select -print-path
   or: xcode-select -switch <xcode_folder_path>
   or: xcode-select -version
Arguments:
   -print-path                     Prints the path of the current Xcode folder
   -switch <xcode_folder_path>     Sets the path for the current Xcode folder
   -version                        Prints xcode-select version information

I went into the Applications directory and tried to run the command from there, but the same outcome.

In fact, the content of my Applications directory revealed through the following command is strange:

~ cd Applications

~ ls
Chrome Apps.localized

What am I missing or doing wrong?


texts: Is there a Cydia tweak that gives the camcorder its own button?

texts:
I have an HTC One V in addition to my iPhone. One thing I love about it is the camera application. It has two buttons: one to capture a photo, and another to capture a video.

I love that you don't have to toggle between them and wait a second or two while it switches. That second or two could cause me to miss the funny things my kids are doing at that moment.

Is there a jailbreak tweak that brings this same sort of functionality to iOS?


texts: Connecting a Retina MacBook Pro to a VGA Display?

texts: I have an external monitor with a VGA connection. What is the best adapter to use for my Retina MacBook Pro? I think I've seen Thunderbolt to VGA, or USB to VGA? Or HDMI to VGA? What are the differences?


texts: After the iOS 7 update the weather app has changed my suburbs

texts: After updating my iPhone 5 to iOS 7 the weather app that comes on the phone has changed all my suburbs to Sydney.  I live in Mona Vale and also had Warriewood in there and Palm Beach but they all say Sydney.  Any ideas why?  I also cannot add them as they are not in the list of places even when I add by postcode they all come up as Sydney.


texts: Get rid of the "Instruments wants permission to analyze" prompt, from command line, in Yosemite

texts:
In our jenkins build automation environment we have several OSX nodes, now all updated to Yosemite, where we run ios simulator tests.

The problem is that on any newly introduced node simulator tests cannot run without further ado since instruments keeps prompting
"Instruments wants permission to analyze other processes. Type your password to allow this."

I've tried all the hints I could find, e.g. at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9476131/is-there-a-way-to-remove-the-authorization-prompt-from-command-line-instances-of,
like

1) DevToolsSecurity --enable

2) security authorizationdb write system.privilege.taskport allow

3) security authorizationdb write system.privilege.taskport is-developer

4) Other settings like

<key>allow-root</key>
 <true/> <!--instead of false>

<key>authenticate-user</key>
 <false/> <!--instead of true>

<key>class</key>
 <string>allow</string> <!--instead of user>

5) sudo security authorize -u [username]

Also I've made certain the [username] is in _developer group.

dsmemberutil checkmembership -U "[username]" -G "_developer"
 => user is a member of the group

Combination of 1) and 2 seems to have done the trick earlier, in Mavericks.
Any hint of what command line will do the trick in Yosemite will be very much appreciated!


texts: Help mac share files with XP machine on different subnets

texts:
I have a personal Macbook running Lion (10.7.1) and a Company issued laptop running XP at work.

I want to access the files on the mac from XP on a regular basis. Right now using "sneaker net", i.e. swapping USB stick – but keeping files in sync is a challenge/worry.

The machines are on different networks (subnets) – the XP machine on the 'corporate' locked down network, and the mac on a slightly looser managed wireless 'guest' network. Changing settings on either network is not possible.

The corporate network blocks file sharing services like dropbox.

Any clever ideas on how I can share files across these two machines (which are literally 6 inches apart!)?

I tried using mac SMB file sharing, but crossing subnets seems like a no-go. I do have personal hosted web space available, but setting up syncing (maybe Goodsync) with both machines and encrypting files on the server would be a big hassle.

So, is there some relatively easy way to do this I'm missing, or have I been completely stymied by my corporate IT overlords?

Thanks for any ideas!


texts:
I have recently moved and have moved all my network gear with me.   Have approximately 4 wifi spots that I have re-set up in my new house.

To save battery apple devices also use location of known wifi hotspots to give locations.   My problem is that I suspect that this is a crowdsourced information gathering.   Sometimes my devices show themselves at my old house (while at new house).   I have waited for 2 weeks now, trying to use location services as much as possible to train apple about the new location of the wifi spots.

Is there anyway to force or speed up the change?   My alternative is to change the name of the hotspots, but do not want to go through the hassle of setting everything (range extenders, devices) again.


texts: How can I put my iMessage settings on my phone number instead of my apple ID?

texts:
I've just updated my iPhone 4s to ios 7.0.3 and I've set up a new apple ID but iMessage doesn't work on my phone even after I activated iMessage in settings.

It used to work with my phone number before but I cannot set it on my phone number anymore. I can just choose my Apple ID to send and receive iMessages.

When I try to send iMessages it doesn't work and nobody can send me iMessages.


texts: Keyboard shortcut to scroll window up and down?

texts:
In Windows, there's a really useful keyboard shortcut for scrolling the current text editor window up or down by one line without moving the cursor. This appears to be implemented in the operating system because it works in almost every application.

The shortcut is ⌃ CTRL+↑ Up Arrow to move the viewport up the document and ⌃ CTRL+↓ Down Arrow to move the viewport down the document.

Is there something similar in OS X?


texts: How to save data from broken GPT, GUID and unmountable, no type volumes?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 and 750GB hard drive. I tried to delete Windows partition on the hard disk and now I can't access my main Mac partition (disk index 2) anymore. It shows something like "FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF" and I don't even know what it is.

I don't want to format/delete this partition because it has important files. The main Mac partition had FileVault enabled and this is the output from sudo gpt -r show disk0

 start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1167843728      2  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
  1168253368        1608
  1168254976   126689280      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1294944256      262144
  1295206400   168673192      4  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1463879592     1269536      5  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1465149128           7
  1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
  1465149167           1         Sec GPT header

I appreciate any help or suggestions!


texts: How can I initiate a modem connection from the command line?

texts: I am looking for a way to initiate a PPP connection with my EVDO modem from the command line instead of having to go to System Preferences -> Network and hit "Connect".


texts: Nedit stopped working on my iMac running High Sierra 10.13.4

texts:
I installed Nedit on my iMac this weekend. I used it several times and it worked fine. For some reason last night it quit working. When I type Nedit in the terminal window I just get the message

NEdit: Can't open display.

Using Homebrew again, I reinstalled Nedit using

brew reinstall nedit

Nedit still refuses to work. I am totally confused since it worked fine for a day and a half. Any clue why it stopped working?  Was the fact that it worked the most confusing issue or the fact that it stopped.  Its version 5.7 of Nedit and claims that its for High Sierra.


texts: Have Mojave's Dark Mode switch PyCharm theme to Darcula

texts:
Is there a way to trigger 3rd party apps to change to dark themes when Dark Mode is turned on in macOS Mojave?

Specifically, can I have PyCharm switch theme automatically to Darcula when I turn on Dark Mode?

LightsOff shows a list of all apps to theoretically selectively choose Light/Dark Mode for, but it has no effect on PyCharm.
This is unfortunate especially since PyCharm is shown on the LightsOff homepage as if LightsOff can control its theme.
Chrome, MATLAB and SourceTree are also 3rd party apps with a dark theme that show no effect. The only app I use which switched to a dark theme with LightsOff is Things.


texts: what happened to the shuffle option in iTunes

texts: Can anyone tell me how to get my iPod touch to shuffle my full music library with iTunes 12.1.0.50?


texts: What is the easiest way to migrate data (software, documents, bookmarks, etc.) from an old Mac OS X (probably Tiger) to Lion? Time Machine with Migration Assistant?


texts: I have a Sketch folder on Finder that I've been saving files to. I can't find/access it on iCloud.com. Does anyone have any insights on why? Only found people who have had the opposite problem.


texts: Spotlight shows web sugggestions despite disabling it

texts:
I disabled spotlight suggestions like recommended on the web (e.g. here). My settings now look like this:

System Preferences:

Safari Preferences

However, I still get website suggestions for spotlight searches:

How to fix this?


texts: How to auto mount encrypted USB sticks after hibernate?

texts:
I use 2 tiny USB sticks as extra storage space on my Mac. When I close the lid, I send the Mac to hibernate mode. Is there a way such that I auto mount the encrypted USB sticks right after I unlock the Mac?

What I currently do, is simply detach and put in again the USB sticks, so they are automatically mounted and decrypted. But that is obviously pretty annoying.


texts: Using truetone with external monitor in clamshell mode

texts:
I have MBP 2019 that I want to use in clamshell mode with an external display.
But I'd like to be able to use true tone.

Now, I am aware that it needs sensors in the Macbook.

I've been thinking more in line of:

Open macbook pro, let true tone adjust color.
Run some terminal command to 'freeze' the settings.
Close the lid.

Does anyone know how to achieve this?


texts: I have an external 1TB Seagate Harddrive but it shows that only 268MB is available. Why?

texts:
I tried to erase it with Disk Utility but unsuccessful. It still shows that only 268MB is available, while another utility program (balenaEtcher) used for writing image files, shows 1TB free space. How to make it to display 1TB in Disk Utility?

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC                         524.3 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         494.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery                         5.4 GB     disk0s3

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +494.4 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.1 GB    disk3s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.1 GB    disk3s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 439.1 MB   disk3s2
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk3s3
   5:                APFS Volume Data                    231.6 GB   disk3s5
   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s6

/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk6
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 FV                      268.4 MB   disk6s1
   2:                      Linux                         8.5 GB     disk6s2
                    (free space)                         991.5 GB   -


texts: Why is Usage reporting Camera and Photos using so much space?

texts:
On my iPad 3, if I check Usage the system reports that Camera and Photos, and specifically the Photostream, is consuming nearly 5GB of space.  I have turned off the Photostream to verify but it only frees about 100MB.  I do not even have that many photos so don't see where the space is being used.
How can I regain all this used space?

Update: I have also tried to simply delete the entry by swiping and choosing "Delete" but, despite some freezing of the screen, it does not appear to do anything.


texts: Macbook fans behaving wildly after SSD change

texts:
This is a Macbook Pro 15" Retina from 2013 (11,3). After switching my SSD for a new one, the fans started to behave wildly, spinning constantly at ~6000rpm. If I use a fan control app I can keep them in the 3000 range, which is silent, and there will be no heating whatsoever.

If I switch back to the previous SSD, fans behave normally, with low speeds on Auto and light processing load. Upon switching back to the new one, again I get high speed fans.

I've tried: PRAM reset, SMC reset, OS reinstall from scratch.

What could explain this behavior?


texts: SSH on Mac to fresh install of Firefox on 64-bit CentOS 6.4 runs but generates errors: RANDR and GLib-GIO-WARNING

texts:
I just installed (64 bit) Firefox 18 browser on my Linux CentOS 6.4 server (64 bit). I SSH into the server from my Mac OSX Snow Leopard from X11 application using # ssh -Y mydomain.com. Now that the Mac is connected to the server, I run firefox on the server by typing in the X11 terminal on my Mac, # firefox&.

While firefox is forwarded to my Mac, and appears to run OK, the following errors are reported in the X11 terminal it was opened with:

Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "localhost:10.0".
(firefox:14774): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Failed to execute child process "update-mime-database" (No such file or directory)
[the last error repeats 4 more times]

I installed firefox in the server's /opt directory as root user. I simply extracted Mozilla's .tar.bz2 file, and did no other setup other than ensure X11 forwarding works (ssh_config file on server). The browser opened to Mozilla's default webpage.

I was not able to find anything applicable to this after a google search. Wondering if anyone knows what these errors mean, what effect they will have, and finally how to remove them.


texts: Launch terminal in new window by default

texts: Is it possible to set up Terminal to launch a new window by default? I recently came from running Ubuntu and I normally open hundreds of terminals a day. It's a pain to have to always right-click on the shortcut and select "New Window". If I could use Spotlight and have it open a new window instead of giving focus to the existing window, it would speed things up a lot.


texts: How to prevent the creation of annoying .DS_Store files?

texts:
I am working on a MacBook Air (10.14.6), using network mounted filesystems. It then happens that for no reason at all files like
.DS_Store
._.DS_Store

appear randomly in folders, breaking my workflow. This is especially annoying if they appear in a git repository and you have to remove them manually.
Therefore my simple question:
How can I prevent once and for all the creation of these useless and annoying files?
An answer provided in another thread was to use the following commands:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true

Maybe it does work for network mounted filesystems, but for the local filesystem it does not seem to work.


texts:
In MS-Word I could move a whole paragraph up/down within the text using Shift-Alt-Up or -Down keys. No need to highlight anything, Ms-word already knows which paragraph the cursor is in. Just have the cursor somewhere in the paragraph you want to bump down the text, and one Shift-Alt-Down click does it. It auto-repeats too, so it's fast and worked like a dream in text or outlines, ideal for re-ordering my thoughts.

In Pages I have to carefully highlight the paragraph, then drag it (or cut and paste), is there another way? There is no macro facility, sadly.


texts:
I'm having a problem where the name of my Windows drive changes periodically on my Mac with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Example: The Windows drive might be named drive/dept now, but next the name might be drive/dept-2 or drive/dept-4.

I need the location of this drive to be constant to run a script. With the periodic name change I have to check what the name is and adjust the script each time I run it.

Why is this happening? Is there anyway I can stop this?


texts: iPhone's hold button causes skipping in currently playing song

texts:
Yesterday, pressing the hold button (to both lock or unlock the phone) while music was playing on my iPhone 4 caused a few-second skip in all songs.*

Luckily, it's not happening any more — what could have caused it?

Apple's EarPods headphones?
Something in the headphone jack?
The hold button itself?

* Not sure if the songs skipped a few seconds backwards or forwards.