texts: Generating a mask png from a color image?

texts:
Apple requires certain icons to be monochrome masks with transparency in png  file format.

How (on macOS, using a built-in app, such as Preview, or an app in the App store, such as Pixelmator) can I convert an existing color image (png file), so that one color (a background) becomes transparency, and everything else becomes either pure black or pure white?

Is it then possible to invert a mask? (transparency becomes black or white, and any non-transparent areas becomes transparent)


texts: How to factory reset a MacBook Pro 2011 with a messed up GPU

texts:
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro 15" which I want to clear all data on the hard drive but leave the OS.

The GPU works badly. Apple logo at startup is green, there is a lot of green… and after boot-up it ends on a white screen.

And thus I cannot get far with the normal methods (methods which use the display).

Is there another way I could do this reset?


texts: Calendars and Contacts Sync after iCloud transition

texts:
I have a mobile.me account that handles the synching of my personal data (mail, icals and contacts) on my 4 devices (iPod, iPad, MacBook and iMac).

when I read the docs about iCloud, it seems that this magic synching will not work anymore on 3 of my devices (non Lion and non iOS5)...

Will my contacts/calendars on my iPod (2ndGen) will never be updated anymore?


texts: Display family purchases in iTunes library

texts: I just set up family sharing for purchases. Is there some way of showing the purchases in the iTunes library like the person own purchases appear so that they can be streamed?


texts:
If this is off-topic let me know and I will delete.

I want to buy a new Macbook Pro, but I don't know if it better to wait to a new version or to buy now the last version.

When Apple should announce the new Macbook Pro?


texts: Change duration of still frames in iMovie 10.0.7

texts:
I am making a video that contains both video footage and still frames but I can't find where to change duration of still frames to longer than 4 seconds.

How can I change the duration of a still frame to be longer than 4 seconds in iMovie 10.0.7?


texts: Bootcamp fail stuck at no bootable device (hold option not working)

texts:
I've been trying to find an answer to my problem all day with no luck.

I tried installing windows 7 via bootcamp this morning. I accidentally created the partition before creating a bootable usb drive with the copy of windows 7 on it.  Now when I boot up my mac, it goes to an empty grey screen then goes into the "no bootable device" screen.  I have tried pressing and holding option once I power on the laptop but that still takes me to the same "no bootable device" screen.  I am currently in the process of creating an EFI bootable usb and hoping that this will work.

Is there something I haven't tried yet?


texts: Bootcamp: The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned

texts:
When clicking continue on the first Boot Camp screen,  I am presented with a dialog that displays:

  The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned.
  You must have at least 39 GB of free space available.

This is despite "About this Mac" reporting 271GB of free space:

And "Disk Utility" reporting 268GB of free space:

Searching online I found this reddit thread which suggested it was the result of Time Machine which i recently enabled and suggests to run sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 999999999999 which I did, it ran sucessfully, and I restarted, yet to no avail.

What is the solution to this instance of Apple's poor engineering?

Running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E202)


texts: I'm running macOS 10.12 after a factory reset, how can I upgrade to macOS 10.15 to run Xcode?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro.  It is about 3 years old.  I just did a factory reset, because it was bugging out.
I am trying to install Xcode, but it says I need to have macOS 10.15 "Catalina".  I have version 10.12 "Sierra", and I see no option to upgrade to 10.15. (I just updated, and there are no more updates available.)
How do I get Xcode installed?  Is there an older version I can use?  Is there a way to update to macOS 10.15?
Not sure what I am missing here...


texts: Deleted all partitions from Mac mini except Boot Camp, now can't reinstall OS X

texts:
I have a Mac Mini without DVD drive (2010), and I used Boot Camp to install Windows 8.

Everything worked but after I played in Windows with the partitions (I wanted to expand the partition of the Mac). I made mistake and deleted every partition (even Recovery HD) except from my Boot Camp partition. Since then, my Mac mini only boots into Windows. I can't install OS X now.

I took from my friend an OS X Install DVD and Application Install DVD (he also has a Mac mini). Then I took my PC's external USB DVD drive and connected to Mac mini, inserted the OS X install disk and powered on. During the power on I held the ⌘C button and I saw HDD "BOOTCAMP" and CD "OS X INSTALL" so I selected the CD but after that I only see the gray screen with an Apple logo.

How can I install OS X again on my Mac?


texts: Connection to shared network server sometimes stuck connecting, needs restart to fix

texts:
Sometimes on OS X Yosemite my connection to a shared network server is stick connecting, while the server is available. OS X simply won't connect to it using Finder and the Connect As... button doesn't respond. It won't eject either. Only a restart fixes everything again, a relaunch of Finder doesn't help. I am wondering if there's a fix or easier workaround for this.

Edit: I'm not even sure it can connect to any shared computer at all when this happens and it seems Finderaccess is fully broken.

Update: I'm going to try a few other methods to connect to the server found on http://www.macworld.com/article/2012153/eight-ways-to-connect-to-a-server.html whenever the issue reoccurs.

Update: I found that the process that (I guess) arranges the connection from OS X to the server using SMB hogs up a lot of memory. The command of the process is /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf. Killing it on the server remounts the drive on OS X and makes the slowness disappear. On another note: OS X also often mounts multiple instances of the server, appended with -1, -2 etc. I'm still not sure what causes the issue, but at least I have a quicker fix than a reboot.


texts: Mac OS Sierra Safari Youtube Flash out-of-date

texts:
I am using Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73) and Safari 10.1.1 (12603.2.4).

When I visit youtube most videos play fine. but some videos say

Flash out-of-date

It also quickly bring up a prompt to say "upgrade flash" which leads me to Adobe website.

But wasn't flash totally discontinued on Mac and Safari? if so, why am I being asked to upgrade flash?

I don't want Flash on my machine.

My understanding was that Youtube/Safari should use everything as HTML5 (H264) stuff. Then what's going on?


texts:
I have a macbook air and I went to the store to install Xcode 7.3 and hit the Install App button, and a loading icon appeared but after waiting  20 min time nothing happened. I successfully installed one app from the store but I can't install Xcode.

What might be the problem?

What are the options to download it?


texts: How do I stop the sync attempts for an app?

texts:
Whenever I sync my iPhone with iTunes, the phone tells me:

iTunes Sync
1 item could not be synced. See iTunes for more information.

And iTunes tells me:

The app "The Elements" was not installed on the iPhone "[...]" because not enough free space was available.

This makes sense, because the app "The Elements" is very large. But I don't want it on my iPhone anyway.
How can I stop the attempted sync of this specific app?


texts: The Command to enter login items is not working in 10.8

texts:
I am entering the login item from the terminal but, this command is not working for me:

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary -array-add '{Path="/Applications/Your Application.app";}'

What am I doing wrong?


texts: How can I "Quick Look" (result of pressing Space Bar in Finder) a filename printed by "ls" in iTerm2?

texts: Simple question: is it possible to get the "Quick Look" of images and text files by clicking the results of ls in an iTerm2 window?


texts: Error Code 90161 Invalid provisioning profile

texts:
I've developed an Xamarin Forms App and want to publish on App Store.

Have bought Apple Developer Program for 99$

I have created IPA using Visual Studio in ad-hoc mode and selected Distribution Identity and Distribution profile. But while uploading get the following error

  ERROR ITMS-90161: "Invalid Provisioning Profile.The provisioning
  profile included in the bundle x.x.x.x[Payload/x.x.x.app] is
  invalid.[Missing code-signing certificate.] For more information,visit
  the iOS developer Portal."


texts: Unicode escape is ctrl+[ , why does this work in terminal or vim, but not safari or other parts of OS?

texts:
When i'm working in VIM i'll often times use ctrl+[ to exit insert mode.  But if i need to press escape in other parts of the OS ctrl+[ does not act the same way as escape.

For example if search a page in safari you can't escape out of the search with ctrl+[

can anyone shed light why this is and possibly tell if it's possible to get ctrl+[ to always be escape with out custom plugins or weird 3rd party software?


texts:
Today i deleted from disk utility a linux partition (dual boot) on my macbook and i get an failure. Then i restarted but it won't boot..
I don't know what I have to do..
I don't have any recent backup but i need to recover some data from the SSD and I don't know how to do this.. Please help me

EDIT: I need to recover files from MacOS partition, I don’t care anymore of Linux partition


texts: Select All shortcut key Command+A no longer works

texts: This morning, I found out that the Command+A shortcut key for selecting all failed to work. I have gone into the keyboard shortcuts preference and did not find anything useful. Is there any suggestion on what to do to fix or at least troubleshoot my problem? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.


texts:
Before you write this off as just another replacement SSD kernel panics, I've tried safe mode, reformatting, new OS, older macOS versions, resetting SMC and all the other stuff.
So I have the mid 2012 unibody 13 inch MBP, and decided to install a new 240gb PNY SSD into it. For 2-3 months it worked great, on Catalina, and then started to kernel panic often, with seemingly random apps causing it, and even kernel_task. I decided to reset the SMC, pram and nvram, but still nothing changed.
Then I decided to go back to Mojave, and the same issue occured, even with a clean install and barely any apps installed.
I heard things about hardware solutions and broken cables, should I try plugging in the old HDD and see if that fixes the issue, or what should I do???


texts:
I would like to find a way to delete individual songs from my iPhone and automatically synchronize this deletion in iTunes.

My current workaround is this: Star the songs I don't like anymore with 1 star, synchronize iPhone (takes forever), then delete the songs with 1 star and resync.

Any better way to do this?


texts: Target display mode almost working, but need disconnect/reconnect

texts:
I'm using a 2010 iMac in target display mode with a newer Mac over a USB-C --> Mini DpsplayPort cable. It works except that I can only enable it by disconnecting and reconnecting the cable.

When I connect the cable, the iMac enters target display mode.
If I press cmd-F2 on the iMac keyboard, it switches out of target display mode.
If I press cmd-F2 on the iMac keyboard again, it does not go back into target display mode.

I've tried the last step when logged in and when the iMac is showing its login screen, and I've rebooted the iMac a couple of times with no effect. Is there something else I need to do or could do to switch back and forth without needing to mess with the cable?


texts: Safari 6 rendering issues/artifacts (on Mountain Lion)

texts:
Final update I just received an email from Apple confirming this bug has been fixed in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3

I've been having rendering issues with Safari 6 on different systems all running Mountain Lion, and I'm unable to find a solution. I've attached some screenshots to describe the issue.
Update Further investigation suggests that this might be a problem with 2012 Mac models only, specifically the ones with HD4000 graphics.
Update It appears the artifacts don't always show up immediately, requiring some reloads and/or closing/reopening tabs before they show up.
Update The issue is confirmed as not a WebKit bug, and has been filed as a bug at Apple (problem 12750455 by Simon Fraser).
Twitter Bootstrap website on Safari

Twitter Bootstrap website on Firefox

Teak's jsfiddle on Safari

Teak's jsfiddle on Firefox

Links to the websites shown on the screenshots:

Twitter Bootstrap
Teak's jsfiddle


texts: SSH command has no -Z option - Obfuscated ssh client

texts:
I am working on a project remotely, and I have MACOSX 10.7.4 installed. The server is Ubuntu linux based, and I use "ssh" to access it. Recently the openSSH server in the remote server being secured by obfuscated ssh, so I have to login it with enhanced ssh command, in Windows, it's Potty software to support it. In Ubuntu Linux, it has "ssh" command with "-Z" option.

I found there is no -Z option in the "ssh" command of MacOS, so I upgrade openSSH to the latest one (6.01p1), still no this option. I am wondering why in Ubuntu linux, it's also openSSH package, but do have "-Z" option, but for the same package in MacOS, there is no "-Z" option at all?

By the way, "-Z" option will enable "ssh" to use obfuscated data (TCP header) communication. Any help is appreciated, I need a ssh client which can do support obfuscated communication.

About Obfuscated-openSSH, please check this - https://github.com/brl/obfuscated-openssh

Here is the usage displayed in Ubuntu Linux - "ssh" :

OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYyz] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-i identity_file] [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] [-Z obfuscate_keyword]
           [user@]hostname [command]

Here is the usage displayed in MacOS by "ssh" -

OpenSSH_6.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file]
           [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
           [user@]hostname [command]


texts: Cannot access GitHub on MacBook using personal hotspot from iPhone

texts:
I encountered a very strange problem that I couldn't find anybody ever reported anywhere using Google.
On my MacBook using my iPhone SE's personal hotspot, it is almost not possible to access GitHub. It may work once at the beginning (i.e. the first connection), then "Safari cannot find the server", and after waiting for 15-20 minutes, it may work again.
Some important observations:

The issue does not happen for any other websites than GitHub.

On the iPhone, it works. Thus the phone's 4G connection is not an issue.

Using another iPhone (6S) with another 4G network (different carrier) as personal hotspot, it works.

I've desperately searched for a solution on Google but it seems nobody ever had the same issue.
Could you please help? Thank you very much in advance!


texts: I turn on my mac to a grey screen then the apple logo appears then the log in I put in my password then I see my account pic with a loading bar below it then the screen goes grey shuts off and does the same thing I have have tried safe mode and recovery mode the macOS Sierra. the mac is 17inch


texts:
Imagine the disappointment when trying to pair a Monster iCar Play 800 FM Transmitter with a new iPhone comfortably wrapped in a Speck CandyShell.  In short, the business end of one does not fit into the business end of the other.

I've looked at the SendStation Dock Extender, but is there really any guarantee that this will fit into my case.

Does anyone have any experience with this or another dock extender, or is my best option to be more careful when buying a replacement case?

Edit:

I ended up buying an adapter by Cable Jive.  It fits the case and works just fine.


texts:
to get X11 i went to XQuartz here https://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.5
however the download linke XQuartz-2.7.5.dmg seems to be broken -- couldn't find it anywhere else either. what am i missing?


texts: Why do emoji like  appear when I use Safari, but not Chrome?

texts:
Why do emoji like  appear when I use Safari, but not Chrome on the same MacBook running Lion? Both browsers use WebKit, and I'd imagine font support comes from the OS, not the application.

For reference purposes this is the page rendered in Chrome 17.0.963.56:

And this is the page rendered in Safari 5.1.3 (7534.53.10):


texts: Does -tef in the extension stand for anything in documents saved to iCloud in ML?

texts:
When you save a new iWork document under Mountain Lion you are given the default extension of .pages-tef or .numbers-tef. These files appear to be directories and a different format than your standard .pages or .numbers file (I haven't had the chance to create a new Keynote preso yet).

Does 'tef' stand for anything? Are these just 'iCloud compatible' files and they've been dubbed '-tef' as the extension? Apple isn't one to name things without a specific intent and nothing specific comes to mind.


texts: What is APFS "Disk User" and how to add multiple crypto users via diskutil?

texts:
I recently learned that it is possible to encrypt an APFS volume within a container from the CLI using the diskutil command like so:
diskutil apfs encrypt -user disk disk3s1

where disk3s1 is the only volume in the APFS container on my external drive.
The disk user is mentioned in the diskutil man page, but I do not understand what it is. Additionally, if I understand correctly, encrypting the MacOS startup disk using the typical "System Preferences" -> "Security and Privacy" -> "FileVault" tab -> "Turn on FileVault" button achieves essentially the same thing. From what I can see, the difference between the two approaches has to do with the users that can decrypt the disk. Using the "System Preferences" approach, my user (BBBBBBBB-BBBB-BBBB-BBBB-BBBBBBBBBBBB below) has permission to decrypt the disk as does the recovery key (user CCCCCCCC-CCCC-CCCC-CCCC-CCCCCCCCCCCC below) that was generated when I hit the "Turn on FileVault" button. The differences can be seen using diskutil once again:
# Volume on the external drive:
diskutil apfs listkeys disk3s1
# Cryptographic user for disk3s1 (1 found)
# |
# +-- AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAA
#     Type: Disk User

# Data volume on my MacBook's internal drive:
diskutil apfs listkeys disk1s2
# Cryptographic users for disk1s2 (2 found)
# |
# +-- BBBBBBBB-BBBB-BBBB-BBBB-BBBBBBBBBBBB
# |   Type: Local Open Directory User
# |
# +-- CCCCCCCC-CCCC-CCCC-CCCC-CCCCCCCCCCCC
#     Type: Personal Recovery User

I did some internet searching but I could not find satisfactory answers to the following questions; any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

What is the "disk" user? Is it special? Is it universal among all MacOS installs?
Can I add additional crypto users to disk3s1 via diskutil or some other CLI command?
Can I add a personal recovery user/recovery key after the fact (e.g. to disk3s1 as shown above) via diskutil or another CLI command?
Can I remove crypto users after the fact?

References
Here are some articles I read before I created this post, listed in no particular order, some more relevant than others.

APFS technical documentation
Decrypting an APFS encrypted volume using diskutil on macOS 10.13.2
Slides from the “Managing FileVault 2 on macOS High Sierra” Session at MacAD UK 2018 Conference
APFS encryption, ghost guest users, and odd UUIDs
Making sense of Disk Utility and disk structure in macOS 10.13-10.15
Working with FileVault Encryption
Frequently Asked Questions about encrypting the backup volume


texts: How to figure out what is causing the ownership of /usr/local to change from my-username to root

texts:
I use homebrew as a package manager for certain web development app. To keep brew up-to-date I run update brew every couple of days and also run brew doctor. Usually, this is fine and brew tells me I'm ready to brew.

Every now and then, however, I get the following error:

  Warning: /usr/local/etc isn't writable.

  This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed by
  by Homebrew. If a formula tries to write a file to this directory, the
  install will fail during the link step.

  You should probably chown /usr/local/etc

  Warning: The /usr/local directory is not writable.
  Even if this directory was writable when you installed Homebrew, other
  software may change permissions on this directory. Some versions of the
  "InstantOn" component of Airfoil are known to do this.

  You should probably change the ownership and permissions of /usr/local
  back to your user account.

It's easy enough to reset the permissions back to my username. Afterwards brew seems to be fine.

But what is causing this to happen?

Is there a log that shows what is causing the permissions to change?


texts: I despise having emojis in the subject line of my emails (iOS and OSX); I find it an obnoxious distraction. Is there a way to turn the rendering of them off?


texts: Make the Stock Widget display percentage change

texts:
Is there a way to make the Stock Widget in iOS's Notification Center to display percentage change instead of price change? Any Cydia tweak?

In the Stocks.app you can switch between those and market cap by pressing the price change tile on the right.


texts: I have a late 2007 MacBook 3,1 with windows 7 x64 installed on it as part of bootcamp. I can't set the function keys to behave as they would on a pc... I have to press fn each time in order to use their original functionality. I don't have any kind of boot camp option under control panel, so I'm puzzled what to do.


texts: “Grant File Access” dialog in Word 2016+AppleScript when inserting a picture

texts:
Please Help!!

I have been using FMP to insert images into a word document by using apple script. This has been working fine until today (recent word update occurred and the likely culprit). When the script runs I get a dialog box saying that Microsoft Word needs to be “Grant File Access”. I approve and then it will work all the time with that file. Once a new file is created, I get the same issue.

This is frustrating beyond belief. I am running FMP 18 on Mac OSX 10.14.6 (Mojave).

"set ScaledReportImages to " & "\"" & Procedure_Pictures::Picture_Filename_Report_Path & "\"" & ¶ &
"tell application " & "\"Microsoft Word\"" & ¶ &
"   tell active document" & ¶ &
"       set x to text object of cell " & $Cnt & " of row 1 of table " & $TblCnt & ¶ &
"       make new inline picture at before x with properties {file name:ScaledReportImages as text, save with document:true}" & ¶ &
"   end tell" & ¶ &
"end tell" &¶ & ¶ &

"tell application " & "\"Microsoft Word\"" &¶ &
"   set content of text object of (cell " & $Cnt & " of row 2 of table " & $TblCnt & " of active document) to " & "\"" & Procedure_Pictures::Diagnosis_Keyword_Link_DISPLAY & "\"" & ¶ &
"end tell"

Thanks
Spiro


texts: Inconsistent disk capacity reports in OS X - I'm missing 365GB of my 2 TB

texts:
Coincidentally I have noticed that the disk capacity reports in "About this Mac" and the Terminal when running diskutil list both report inconsistent capacities for an external hard disk drive.
This is an 2TB external hard drive. However, when adding the capacities of all partitions I get a value which is significantly below:
0.2+885.2+0.1+400.0+0.1+300.0+0.1+49.5=1635.2 (GB)
How is this possible? Where did the remaining ~365GB go?
This disk had been formatted and used under OSX Mountain Lion.
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         885.2 GB   disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3
   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         400.0 GB   disk2s4
   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s5
   6:          Apple_CoreStorage                         300.0 GB   disk2s6
   7:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s7
   8:       Microsoft Basic Data EXCHANGE                49.5 GB    disk2s8
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine           *299.7 GB   disk3
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Media                  *884.8 GB   disk4
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine 2         *399.7 GB   disk5


texts: Can I replace my old hard drive with a formatted one from my old windows laptop

texts: My macs gpu failed and my hard drive decided to go with it, apple replaced the logic board for free but told me to buy a new hard drive. I found a working 80gb hard drive in an old laptop of mine and was wondering if i would be able to replace it without causing any issues (both the same brand).


texts: Is there any way to find the Apple ID of the activation lock?

texts:
I understand it is impossible to find the password, but is it possible to find the apple ID so I can email the guy this phone was obviously stolen off? I've lost several hundred pounds on this stupid purchase, but at the very least I can give this poor man his phone back.

Dubhlainn


texts: How to create a terminal use only account in MacOSX?

texts:
I want to create a user(say, hera) that can only be used in terminal. That is this user does not appear in the Mac welcome screen. This user can be su - hera by other users.

Can I do this and how?


texts: Reset/reformat FileVault-protected machine without login password, macOS Catalina

texts:
I received a FileVault-protected MacBook running macOS Catalina and do not know the administrator login password.  How do I perform a factory reset or otherwise prepare the laptop for a new user?

An authorized Apple repair shop told me I was out of luck and that I'd been given a brick.


texts: Best Practice for User Shell Scripts location and/or PATH

texts:
I am interested in knowing if there is a best practice for placing/storing custom shell (Bash/Zsh) scripts and it's related PATH location.
I know folks have their favorite places - I usually dumped mine in /opt/local/bin but that required root permissions (sudo) and it was "intermixed" with all the stuff from MacPorts; thus it was unorganized to say the least.  So, this is not what I'm looking for - an opinion of what each individual liked best.
Is there a generally accepted recommendation of a location/methodology to store custom scripts both system wide (all users) for individual users' own personal scripts (maybe in their home directory?) and if necessary (and available), how to structure the PATH?


texts: Need to perform multiple clicks in MacBook Pro 2011 running OS X Lion

texts:
I have noticed that I need to perform clicks multiple times if I want to close some window e.g. Firefox or even to close a tab. It happens frequently but not all the time. When I use the Eclipse IDE, if I select attributes options from property explorer, a few button/drop-downs are click-able, whereas for others I click on the buttons but there's no response.

Is this a bug in OS X Lion?

Example of clicking on Eclipse IDE fails to respond, even I have pressed the dropdown button.


texts: Changing default symbols bound to option key?

texts: When I type ⌥ and some letter a special character usually shows up - this would be really useful except for the fact that I have no use for a lot of these characters.  How can I customize which characters are bound to these shortcuts?


texts: Should the pgrep command be available in OS X 10.7.5

texts:
I posted this question on stackexchange and was told in no uncertain terms that my system was broken because pgrep did not exist in /usr/bin

This has me worried, my system is stable and I am sure I did not 'accidentally' delete pgrep from the /usr/bin directory.

I checked one of my other (newer systems) and indeed pgrep is available.

Is pgrep shipped by Apple in 10.7.5?


texts: Dragging a file between desktops in El Capitan

texts:
Say you have 5 desktops open in Mission Control in El Capitan.
If you select a file to drag it to an app or another folder which lies in a different desktop, Mission Control always takes you to desktop 1 (far left).

Can you fix this somehow?
It was ok with all previous versions.


texts: Apple website animations do not work on Safari 11

texts: I have a Late 2011 15" MBP with El Capitan(highest update). The animations on Apple website do not work on any browsers (Safari 11, Firefox 57, Chrome) even if the discrete GPU is being utilized. WebGL, CSS animation settings are turned on. The same animation works on other Windows PC with any browser. Is there any setting I can change?


texts: What iOS app displays ToDos/Reminders in the Notification Center?

texts:
I need a tasklist/ToDo/Reminders app that lists out my current tasks in the notification center.

I know that Reminders will if I add a time or alarm (I won't want this).

I know Things can if I jailbreak (I don't want to).

I just want a list of things I need to remember to do, right there on the Notifications page.


texts: How do I enter "ř" (small R with caron) and other unusual special characters on the iPhone?

texts:
I have a Czech friend whose name is Jiří, and I want to add his name to my Contacts.  Pressing and holding R on the iPhone keyboard does not show any special character versions (and similarly on OSX, holding R doesn't show anything.  I found the character in Special Characters on OSX.)

How can I add his name to my iPhone contacts?  More generally, how do you get access to general special characters on the iPhone?  I don't know of any Special Characters equivalent app or functionality accessible through the keyboard, but I would guess there must be a way somehow.


texts: Numbers formula for calculating *part-time* workdays per month?

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I want to calculate the total number of monthly workdays for part-timers.

Example, I need to calculate the full number of workdays in a month for a 3.5 day workweek, running from Tuesday to half Friday. That is, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are full workdays, and Friday is a half day each week. In this case, using January 2016 as an example, the answer would be 14.5 workdays.

But, I want to do this across all months, for different arrangements.

I'm struggling to get either a Count or a Networkdays function to work for this task.

Ideas for accomplishing this in a Numbers spreadsheet for Mac?


texts: can't create user account after reinstall

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After erasing my hd and reinstalling Mac OS X Mavericks I am not able to create a user account. It just seems to loop. I also tried to create a second account, for that worked last time, but now it even loops with the second one.

So my question: Any ideas what I could try next? I need my Macbook usable until Wednesday, because I have to write and print my CV and don't own any other computer...


texts: Carrier SIM card and unlocking issues...

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I recently purchased a used iPhone 7 to upgrade from a 5s. The new iPhone was on AT&T and I use Verizon, so I knew it needed to be unlocked before I attempted to use my current SIM card in it.

I also wasn't sure what the process would be for switching a SIM between phones (smart phones are a rather new territory for me, the 5s being my first), so I took both phones into the Verizon store, and asked what needed to be done. I was told that as long as the phone was unlocked, all that would need to be done would be switching the SIM card. The 7 had just been paid off in the AT&T store minutes before I took it to Verizon, so the information had apparently not yet been sent to it to unlock. Therefore, when the Verizon SIM was put in, it gave the SIM Not Supported error.

While the person at the Verizon store had the AT&T SIM out, he asked if I still needed it. I naively said no. So, that being said, I now have an iPhone 5s that still works on Verizon and an iPhone 7 that, more than likely would be carrier unlocked if it still had its AT&T SIM card; which is my problem...

How do I go about getting my 7 unlocked now that it doesn't have the rather important AT&T SIM in it? The friend that I purchased the 7 from did send AT&T an unlock request last week and hasn't heard back from them yet.

To recap... I have an iPhone 7 that probably would be carrier unlocked; however, due to a naive action by me, it is not... What do I do now?


texts: How to delete burst photos stuck in Recently Deleted folder?

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I have a known bug (outlined here, here, here, here, and here) where burst photos won't delete.
I suspect instructions here would help, except my problem is more complicated since the bursts are not in Photos, but in 'Recently Deleted'.
Also, I have Emptied 'Recently Deleted' many times, so the files are still there, but they appear blank, so I cannot tell which of the 25000 files are bursts (there are 17 sets of bursts among the 25000 files).
Attempts to 'Delete' the files from 'Recently Deleted' results in them simply reappearing after exiting and reentering 'Recently Deleted'. Attempts to restore them results in blank files going back into Photos, with no way of distinguishing the bursts from the regular photos.


texts: How do I zip a folder using the command line while maintaining its file structure?

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For example, if I want to zip /Users/admin/Downloads/Backup, and I am at /Users/admin/, I could:

zip -r downloads.zip /Users/admin/Downloads/Backup

and if I unzip downloads.zip I would get a Users folder and have a Users => admin => Downloads => Backup structure.

This is particularly undesirable behavior if I want to create an installation zip file for TWRP.

So instead I will have to:

cd /Users/admin/Downloads/Backup; zip -r /Users/admin/downloads.zip .; cd /Users/admin/

This doesn’t feel like what a pro would do.

What can I do to zip a folder while maintaining its file structure?


texts: Place document styles on the right of the document in Microsoft Word for Mac

texts: On my PC, I can place (or doc) the MS Word styles to the right of the document/screen. Is this possible on Word 2011 for OS-X?


texts: Why when I save a photo it displays a different date then the actual date I saved it

texts:
This just recently started happening and I don’t know why!

I saved this photo today and it’s says I saved it in 2005!


texts: Random kernel panic. Service found no problems

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I have a mac book pro 2014 with MacOs 11.2.3
The kernel panics are driving me crazy and impacting my work seriously.
The usual pattern is the mac freezing followed by the question mark folder. It happens often after awaking, but also while is on since a while. The most common error is "Could not recover SATA HDD after 5 attempts. Terminating" but they are quite varied.
Also the frequency is quite random: sometimes is fine for days, sometimes it's every hour, with no discernible pattern in my usage.
I sent it to service to an authorized seller (unfortunately no apple stores nearby) and they said they found no hardware problems, only a lot of dust inside and a worn-out thermal paste.
I run all possible apple tests and solution and just once the diagnostic tool showed a disk related problem, then never again.
I started to collect the panic log, maybe one of you will notice something recurring.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/52c9ckrfzsu5qx2/kernel_panic.txt?dl=0
Thanks


texts: Diagnosing an intermittent system crash - how to analyse a spindump file

texts:
I am trying to figure out the root cause of full system crashes that I am sometimes experiencing in MacOS. It's an ongoing but intermittent issue that I've been encountering both in  10.15 and also in 10.14 as well. I have a spindump file for the last time this happened, however, I really don't know how to interpret it at all so I'm not sure if this actually has any useful information to help me try to uncover the source of the problem.

Here is a basic overview of the context of when I'm experiencing the intermittent crashes. I am using some node based build tools for web development, this requires node and npm to install various node modules. From time to time I either install these fresh or run npm update on an existing installation to update the node modules. However, intermittently when I run npm update or npm install it will go so far and then I can see that the terminal has stopped responding, and then over a few minutes my whole system will gradually freeze up and become unresponsive, some apps may still be accessible for a short while but eventually it all freezes up and then the computer just reboots automatically.

So, a bit of a strange one, definitely weird to feel the computer getting overwhelmed by something that drastically! The one clue that feels like it may be relevant is that often the terminal seems to freeze at the point of installing / updating a node module called fsevents, and it's from this point on that the system freeze begins. Fsevents is a module that ties in natively to MaxOS' fsevents API which is used to get notifications about filesystem changes. Given that this issue seems to be related to updating files on my filesystem these seemed significant to me.

Leading on to my main question, how to usefully analyse a spindump file. In the .spin file I can see there is a reference to npm:

  Process:          node [80747] UUID:
  8DC58230-C7B9-321B-9231-CA151134DC7C Path:
  /usr/local/bin/node Architecture:     x86_64 Footprint:        273.55
  MB Start time:       2020-04-09 17:05:28 +0100 End time:
  2020-04-09 17:05:34 +0100 Num samples:      12 (1-12)

  Thread 0x6f4c20    Thread name "npm"    12 samples (1-12)    priority
  24 (base 31)

and then several references to FSevents. I'm just unaware if any of this is actually giving a clue about the reason for the crash or is it just general information about what commands were run at the time the spindump was triggered, what processes were running at the time etc.

Thanks!


texts: Switch input language depending on physical keyboard attached

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I use a swedish keyboard at home, and an english at work. I have one laptop for both places. Every day I have to switch the input language manually back and forth, and for every app I'm using it seems.

Is there any way to just have the input language match whatever keyboard I'm using, automagically?


texts: I have a daily reminder that is set to trigger at 3am. However, they seem to be triggering around 10pm on both my Macbook, my iPhone, and my iPad. Why? How can I stop this?


texts: How can I salvage macos resource forks when copying from a non hybrid ISO 9660 Rockridge CD

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I have a set of ten years old archive CD-ROMs burnt on a OS9 Mac system by (potentially) choosing wrong options by a colleague. If mounted on the desktop of a recent MacOSX System (eg. 10.5.8 to 10.7) typically files with data in the resource fork (font files, aliases, text clippings, icon files) are displayed as empty files in the finder. Fortunately the data seems not to be lost finally (see the results below). I could retrieve the resource forks separated as files with the prefix "._".

Is there any known method to recombine/restore those separated hidden resource forks automatically with the main data to regular old style" macintosh files for a whole disk?

My results:

Copying the files back to disk with the finder via drag & drop does not solve the problem.

Copying the files via terminal with the "cp -r [source] [destination]" option has neither a success.

Using the alternative "cpmac" command instead of "cp2 has also no positive result.

Now if I use the "cp -r -p [source] [destination]" option, I get errors with some permission issues, but I find files with the same basenames but a prefix of "._" on the destination disk. These files seem to contain regular font file resource fork data.

The logged errors were for each file:
cp [sourcefilepathwithprefix] : could not copy extended attributes to [destinationfilepathwithprefix]
where prefix is "._"&[filename]

Annother minor issue is that the filenames contain "German umlauts" that were replaced with underscores. I cannot figure out if there is any retrievable information there to restore the original encoding.

I seems that the originally intended session containing the relevant hybrid mapping (HFS filesystem) for Apple Extensions was either lost or is now unreadable.


texts: Is there a way to find the age of a specific Mac?

texts: Is there a way to decode the serial-number of your Mac to get more information ?


texts: Purchasing Apple Mac Software: Options Available to the Consumer?

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With regards to purchasing Apple Mac Software:

Is the Majority of Software available for the Mac now available for purchase from the Mac App Store ? Are there Pros & Cons to Mac App Store purchasing ?
Do people still purchase directly from the company website that created the software as an electronic download - I understand most companies offer a free trial (usually 30 days)
Do people still buy "boxed software" from retail outlets and online retail stores ?

If the software is available via all these routes and maybe purchased in other ways, is there a recommended (instinctive) way or do people just go through the above options and see which turns out to be the cheapest ?

Thankyou


texts: How to change just the Dock hide duration?

texts: Most people have seen the Terminal hack to change the Dock Hide/show duration in How can I make auto-hide/show for the dock faster?, but I was wondering if anyone has found how to set each of these to different speeds. For example, 0 second delay for the Dock to show upon mouse hover, but 1 second for it to autohide again.


texts: Converting an SVG file, without using Imagemagick or Inkscape

texts: I sometimes need to convert SVG files to a different format.  Thus far I tried Inkscape and Imagemagick.  I first tried to use Inkscape, but it failed to produce useable results (possibly because of the size and complexity of the graphics I was trying to convert).  Inkscape is thus a no go for me.  I then installed Imagemagick by Homebrew.  It did work but I just could not help cringing at the amount of useless bloat it would pull on.  Today's update though installed the n-th implementation of Python -- I already have the native OS X version (Python 2.7.5) and Anaconda Python, which allows me to run Python 3 in its own self contained environment.  Call me OCD but getting a completely unrequested third instance of Python convinced me that Imagemagick had to go (and did, I removed it and all associated bloat).  Now unfortunately I am without means of converting SVG files.  I can, and will, do my best to avoid the damned things, but it would be helpful if anybody can suggest a self contained and unbloated alternative that I can use should the need arise.


texts: I cannot mount .dmg file for VMWare Fusion: Protocol wrong type for socket ERROR

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I cannot mount .dmg file for VMWare Fusion installer.  I get the error: Protocol wrong type for socket .

I have Mac OSX 10.11.5 , which is newer than the officially supported versions of Mac for this installer.  Hard to believe that is the problem though since this page says Fusion8 is designed for El Capitan.

I tried downloading both VMWare Fusion 8.1.0 and also 8.1.1 and neither will work.   Test, I am also a administrator account on my machine.  Maybe I am not a true administrator (since this is a work machine)?

I have no idea what that error means?  Is there a way to manually extract a .dmg or some alternate download or method to unzip on command line ?


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I really love my iPhone, and much as possible, I want to do everything from there.

I'm a software engineering student and, when I'm away from my PC, I'm planning to use my iPhone as my programming machine (meaning that I want to program directly on my iPhone).

Are there any available IDEs for iPhone that will let me program in C++?


texts:
I am on Yosemite since today and am trying to connect to network printers, but System Preferences doesn't show any. The printers use Bonjour and I read that the associated process is mDNSresponder. Checking Activity Monitor I see it is not running. Googling how to manually restart it reveals tips such as these.

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

However, the .plist file does not exist, neither does /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder.

The thing is that the printer problem existed even before I upgraded from 10.7.5 to 10.10, so I cannot judge whether this is a Yosemite issue or not, or wether the mDNSResponder stuff is even the source. I also don't know if I had the files before (although at some point I must have).

How do I enable Bonjour on Yosemite?


texts: My iPhone doesn't accept the contraction "doesn't" as a correct spelling, why?

texts: My iPhone at some point stopped accepting "doesn't" and "Doesn't" as correct spellings. It accepts other contractions. Why is this and how can I fix it? Is there something wrong with the spell checker?


texts: Setup an IPv6 6in4 Tunnel on macOS High Sierra 10.13

texts:
I'm trying to setup a 6in4 tunnel from my home with IPv4 only addressing to a Hurricane Electric tunnel for some IPv6 testing. I tried to create a new Interface:

System Preferences > Network > [+] in Interface List

But the UI only provides 6to4 which is the reverse (IPv4 services on an IPv6 only network).


texts: I've added a email rule in iCloud to copy emails with a specific from address to a folder.  This is working fine, all new mails are moved to that folder. Is there a way to apply the rule also to mails that I've received before I crated the rule?


texts: Is it possible to restore songs from an iPod to iTunes?

texts:
I have a 160 GB iPod Classic and a Windows 7 desktop with iTunes containing roughly about 13,000 songs. My external hard drive containing all the songs crashed but I managed as long as all the songs' file names were in iTunes and when the iPod syncronised with iTunes, the songs remained on the iPod. Recently I had my computer reinstalled and iTunes was formatted and wiped clean, now if I sync my iPod I know my iPod will be wiped clean as well.

So is it possible to recover songs which are there — on the iPod — but not in iTunes or the desktop?


texts: How to disable startup connection to a 'dead' server?

texts:
My mac (OsX 10.7) try to connect to a disabled server at startup.
How to remove /delete this auto connection (that fail each time) ?
Thanks


texts: How to exclude everything from TimeMachine backup except one folder

texts:
TimeMachine backs up all my mac and also if I have external hard drives will  back them up too.
My goal is to add some general exclusion list that basically stops it from backup my mac and ONLY want it to backup my external hard drive.
I thought if I add the hard drive labeled "Macintosh" to exclusion list then it won't backup my mac, but it did!
So basically I have two external hard drives ( A 2TB Lacie and a 2TB Apple AirPort Time Capsule) and I want time machine to only backup my Lacie one to the AirPortTime capsule one but don't want to to backup the rest of my laptop because I won't have enough space for that.


texts:
Now that the iPhoto iCloud Library feature is available on both iOS and OS X devices, what is the purpose of keeping the Upload to My Photo Stream feature?

If I understand correctly, with iCloud Photo Library, every time I take a picture the picture goes to iCloud and is pushed back to all my devices.

What are the basic differences between the two services? Why should someone use one versus the other one? Why should someone use only one of them?


texts: Why doesn't Time Machine do scheduled backups after my Yosemite -> El Capitan upgrade?

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Summary

Since upgrading to El Capitan from Yosemite, Time Machine works manually, but automated backups and disk icons are no longer working as they should.

Detailed Problem Description

I have a brand-new system that came with Yosemite, and Time Machine was working fine. After a recent upgrade to El Capitan, I have the following issues:

The Time Machine disk (an external USB 3.0 device) no longer shows up on the desktop as a Time Machine device. It shows as a standard removable disk.

Even though Time Machine sees the device and schedules periodic backups, these backups never run. The only backups that run are the first one scheduled when the Time Machine disk is mounted, or when "Back Up Now" is selected. In this example, the manual backup I ran at 4:00pm completed, but the incremental scheduled for 4:59pm never ran.

Troubleshooting Steps

On my own, and with Apple technical support, I did all of the following in an attempt to debug:

Sensible things I tried on my own:

Perform First Aid on the Time Machine GUID table.
Perform First Aid on the Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) filesystem on the disk.
Unmount and remount the Time Machine disk.
Deselect and reselect the Time Machine disk.
Disable Time Machine, reboot, and reselect the Time Machine Disk.

Things I did at the request of tech support:

PRAM reset.
SMC reset.
Boot in Safe Mode.
Configure Time Machine as a different Administrator account.
Boot to recovery partition and non-destructively reinstall OS X.

Other than performing a full erase and reinstall, I'm at a loss as to how to troubleshoot this issue further. This seems to be a bug in El Capitan, but of course there's always the possibility that some kernel extension or third-party extension like FUSE, VirtualBox, or VMWare Fusion is wrecking havoc, but I require those extensions for work.

Apple currently denies that there are any outstanding Time Machine bugs in El Capitan, but that may be due to its newness or the fact that not enough people have reported related issues yet. On the other hand, if it's really just my problem, what else can I do to debug this or work around this (e.g. a cronjob of some kind, perhaps?) short of hosing my entire system and starting from scratch?


texts: Can you set a specific WiFi channel with an iOS/iPhone personal hotspot?

texts:
Anytime when I using my iPhone as personal WiFi HotSpot (sharing 3G internet via WiFi) the iPhone selects channel #1 for this.

Is possible to use another channel number because the channel 1 is already used by another cable modem / WiFi router and turning on (and using) the hotspot on the iPhone causes noticeable degradation of the speed on the cable-WiFi router.

So the question: Is possible somewhat enforce another WiFi channel number for the hotspot on the iPhone? (e.g. 11 or soo)


texts: Change iCloud account alias email address

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I'm trying to change my iCloud account alias email address, but I couldn't find any way to do it.

As you can see below, this account's Apple ID is name@email.com and it's alias email is anothername@icloud.com. I'd like to change the actual alias email to name@icloud.com, so it has the same name as Apple ID.

I've already tried to go on Edit, but it only allows me to change the Apple ID (main email) and an option to add more emails. Nothing regarding the iCloud email, such as deleting it and creating another one.

Is there any way to achieve the desired?

Thank in advance,
Luiz.


texts: Yosemite gray screen no startup keys working

texts:
I restarted my macbook pro this morning and it started up with a chime and now is stuck on the grey screen. I have tries holding any different key combinations, none of them work, except resetting the pram, which does cause the computer to restart.

I have tried option, r, s, d, command shift v, command v, shift (before and after the chime), command option d r.

FYI I have been running yosemitr for a while with no problems. I shut my computer last night and it was working fine. This happened when I turned it on today.


texts: Apple's servers (i.e. all apple.com servers incl. iTunes and App Store) not loading every couple of days

texts:
Okay, this is a strange one.

Ever since 2017 rolled around I have had this weird situation where I cannot load any pages from an Apple server on one of my iMacs. The strange things about this are:

It happens using either Safari or Firefox - but Google Chrome works fine
The iTunes Store, Mac App Store, etc are also affected
Every other device on the same network (e.g. iPhones, iPads, MacBook Pros, Apple TV, PCs, etc) all connect fine to these servers (including the same Safari/Firefox browser versions running within macOS on a virtual machine on the same iMac)
The problem persists regardless of how I connect this particular iMac to a network (i.e. ethernet or Wi-Fi, directly or via a router)
All other web servers (as far as I can tell) load fine

Restarting the iMac has no effect, neither does using Safe Mode. Nor did clearing caches, switching off extensions, switching to another user account. I also checked Google Chrome's settings (looking for some sort of DNS caching/prefetching option) to see if I could identify why it works, thinking that would help me troubleshoot the issue - but I didn't see anything obvious.

However, one solution I have found that resolves this issue is:

connect using a VPN that places me in another country
load apple.com in Safari
disconnect from the VPN
now all apple servers load fine in Safari and Firefox, as well as both the iTunes and App Store apps

Unfortunately, within a day or so the problem reappears and again, the only fix I've found is the one above. While this fix only takes about a minute, it is nevertheless frustrating, especially when you're in the middle of a workflow and have to access Apple's servers all the time!

Does anyone have any ideas about this?

Remember: This affects Safari, FireFox, iTunes and the App Store apps but not Google Chrome? And only those apps on one iMac are affected, but not within macOS on a virtual machine on the same iMac.

SPECS

The iMac in question has the following specs:

21.5" Mid-2010
16GB RAM
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
Safari 10.1 (but since v10.0.2)
FireFox 52.0.2 (but since v50.1.0)
iTunes 12.6.0.100 (but since v12.5.4.42)
App Store 2.1


texts: iPad for lightweight vacation computing?

texts:
Vacation computing for me these days seems to have fairly few requirements that my phone alone can't easily support:

Offloading raw SLR photos from SD card to clear space and post online (often to facebook)
Offloading, editing down, and posting videos (facebook)

Is the iPad a suitable, flexible, enjoyable device for this sort of thing? If so, are there any apps or workflows that help?


texts: Locating A WiFi Network Password Within OS X That Has Been Saved On My Mac?

texts: Is it possible to locate a wifi network password in OS X of a wifi hotspot that I may have used in the past (AFAIK wifi networks are saved), in the rare situation that I may need to see it (to share it for example) ?


texts:
After reinstalling Lion, port install produces:

Warning: xcodebuild exists but failed to execute
Error: Unable to open port: can't read "build.pre_args":
can't read "build.cmd": Failed to locate 'gnumake' in path:
'/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin'
or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it?

and yet Xcode is just where it was:

> which gnumake
/Developer4/usr/bin/gnumake

How can I avoid wiping out /opt and instead point MacPorts to build.pre_args, build.cmd, and gnumake?


texts: How to quickly connect to AirPods in iOS 11?

texts:
I have AirPods and I love them but I don’t love what a hassle it is to switch my phone to send audio output to the AirPods. I have my AirPods synced with multiple devices such as my Mac, so it doesn't know which one to connect to.

What I do now is:

Swipe up from the bottom edge to raise the control center.
Force press the wave icon in the top right of the audio playback control
Tap the audio out control button on the right to raise a list of output devices.
Select the AirPods from that list.

This is too hard. There must be a simpler way. Is there?

For instance, can I configure a single tap control center button to switch to airpods? Tell Siri to do it with a properly phrased command?


texts: I recently purchased a new 2TB Time Capsule. Can I connect my old Time Capsule to it to serve as an external drive?


texts:
I bought an iPhone 6 from an O2 shop thinking I could use it with a different carrier. But to my horror, I found it was actually locked to O2! How can I unlock it?

My research so far:

Ask O2 to unlock it. (This takes 28 days though, not an option).
Jail breaking (Not advised I know. I'm tempted if it works though?)

Any other options?


texts: Do Solid State Drives need Power Management? Do they need sleep?

texts:
Is there any positive (or negative) to checking the power management option "Put hard disks to sleep" when I only have a SSD drive installed?

Is there any difference if I'm connected to another external drive, or Mac in Firewire taget mode?


texts: How to encrypt and sync folder between a NAS and 2 Macs

texts:
I have an iMac and a MacBook and also a Synology NAS that supports Btrfs.

I would like to move my working documents inside a NAS shared folder that is sync with my computers.

Synology provide Cloud Station Drive that is a sort of personal dropbox

The only issue is encryption.
Synology shared folders can be encrypted but, as far as I know, the have to be mounted by the NAS to work. I don't think in any way is possible to decrypt folder client side.

The only other way I can think to accomplish this is to use a spare encrypted DMG

I'm not sure if working and saving documents all day long inside the DMG could bring some sort of data lost or file corruption.


texts:
I need to fill up a text field and click on a button on Google Chrome

Here is my script for safari.

tell application "Safari"

## tell window 1 of application "Safari" to set current tab to tab 1
-- Last Name
do JavaScript "document.getElementsByName('0.7.7.7.7.7.5')[0].value=" & quoted form of theProfil & "" in tab 1 of window 1
-- search
delay 0.1
do JavaScript "document.getElementsByName('0.7.7.7.7.1.7')[0].click();" in tab 1 of window 1

How can I use this (getElementsByName) with Chrome ?

cheers.


texts: Saving, Switching between window arrangements?

texts:
Repeating series of actions := productivity lost.

Is there a way I can arrange, and save for later loading, an arbitrary arrangement of open programs, closed programs, and arrangement of windows?

The "reopen windows after restart" checkbox comes to mind...

Dramatization follows:

Task A: terminal, browser, another browser different session, IDE files, notes, finder.
Task B: two terminals, same browsers different tabs, same IDE different files, new note.

On break... Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha everywhere. Inspiration strikes! aaannnndddd.... four minutes setting up a workspace. Why.

Configuring workspaces per task is:

most frequent and least productive task of any type,
most time consuming, esp. when comparing all set-up time to any one task's time,
repeated verbatim ideally, predictably otherwise.

In the absence of a unified solution, please provide any meaningful information, eg. where is the arrangement stored for the "reopen windows after restart" feature, and where does OS X keep track of open window positions?


texts: Where did Twitter and Facebook accounts go in iOS 11?

texts: so I did not realize I was lacking this until I couldn’t use Twitter or Facebook to login to certain other accounts. I can’t seem to locate the area in Settings where I once had Twitter and Facebook listed (separately from the rest of the apps) and could manage my accounts for those two services from there. I’ve been prompted to “go to settings” and log in multiple times. Does anyone know where these are located now, whether they have been wholly removed, or wherever I need to do something to restore them? Thanks.


texts: Connecting USB-C iPad Pro to Xcode and USB Peripheral

texts: I am trying to connect my third generation iPad Pro to my Mac through USB to communicate with Xcode (I am aware network debugging is an option but I am looking for a wired solution) while also having a MIDI device plugged into the iPad Pro. I have tried this with the Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter (A1621) but it appears that the USB-C port on the adapter is only for power delivery. Does anyone have any experience with other USB-C hubs that can do this or is this a limitation of the hardware of the iPad Pro?


texts: Does iOS send contacts to Apple servers?

texts:
When you go to a contact, you can see if that contact has FaceTime.

How does the system determine this capability?

The usual way that other systems like WhatsApp do it is by uploading/synchronizing your entire address book to the operator's cloud servers, or at least phone numbers / mail addresses (some promise not to save it, but still upload for checking, like TextSecure by Twitter).

Does iOS send your contacts to Apple, especially when you enable FaceTime?

I know it does if you enable iCloud sync, or Siri "for better recognition", as they say, but maybe just using iOS by itself without iCloud already means it will be shared with Apple services.


texts: copying data from a removed mac book pro hard drive to another working mac book pro.

texts: My partners daughter has frazzed her mac book pro due to water damage and has been told that the data can be recovered for £?????. I can remove the hard drive myself and my partner has a mac book pro so can I obtain a cable (SATA?)and hook up the removed drive to the working mac book pro?


texts: Which countries can receive payments from Apple?

texts:
I'm from Costa Rica and I don't know if I can use In App Purchases in the iOS apps I'm developing.
Does Apple have a list of countries for which this functionality is available?


texts: Can I use Power Nap to run my own tasks/actions?

texts: The new Power Nap feature of Mountain Lion seems pretty cool in principle. However, all the descriptions I've seen of it seem to focus on built-in or supplied OS X functionality. Is there any way I can exploit Power Nap to run my own tasks - bash scripts, for example, or AppleScript files?


texts:
When scanning documents, many pages in a row have the same problem. An example where a lot of white empty space in the corner:

The application Preview allows selecting the area in a row along the two pages.
However, when choosing to cut, only the page where you started get cropped.
I think this is a bug in design and should be fixed.
In the example, there are 277 pages. It takes hours of time if I cannot crop pages in a row.

Is there any way to cut pages in a row in Preview or other applications?


texts: I would like my application to overlap the dock (with the app behind of course)

texts:
I'm on 10.7.3.  I have my dock at the bottom.  To the left and right of the dock, I see the wallpaper.

I would actually like the app I'm in to extend all the way to the bottom of the monitor, with the dock on top of the bottom of the app.

So now it looks like this:

I'd like it to look like this (this is just a crude mockup, I don't really want to see the wallpaper bleeding through of course).  Can this be done?


texts: Word crashes with documents with "track changes" on

texts:
Word suddenly started crashing every time either

a document with «track changes» is opened
«track changes» is activated in a document and the document is changed

This behaviour started without an update of the OS or Office.

Edit This also happens activating the tracking on a new empty document. The behaviour is reproducible with each and every document with «track changes» activated.


texts:
When I try to SSH over USB to my device running linux, I get "ssh: connect to host 10.90.1.2 port 22: Network is unreachable"

Mind you, I can run the same command "ssh root@10.90.1.2" on my linux machine and another mac, but on my boss's brand new machine OSX, no dice.

If I type "ifconfig" on the working mac, I get an entry like

en2: flags=...
  ether 5a:...
  inet 10.90.1.1

On the non working machine, running if config shows a similar block except the part where I have "inet 10.90.1.1..." is missing.

On both machines I have gone to Network and set my RNDIS/Etho Gadget to configure IPv4 manually and have an IP address of 10.90.1.1.

Can anybody point me to a setting that might cause the ifconfig outputs to be different? I'm just not proficient with Macs.

Thanks.


texts: Catalina doesn't allow modifying process memory using wine32on64?

texts:
Hopefully this is the correct place to ask this question.

I know that Catalina has placed a lot of security restrictions to protect the user, but is one of them supposedly stopping applications from modifying memory process? I've tried looking, but couldn't find anything that might be stopping it.

The .exe that I run is waiting for a game's process to start, grabs the PID, and then edits the process to fix a known bug that stops the game from launching.

boot-args="no32exec=0" has already been set and the SIP has been disabled.

The original creator of the fix has stopped working on the project, and I don't know much about modifying process memory to figure it out. This is the error that is thrown. It's pretty general.

wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x7ffe0010 at address 0x1007:0x0040158c (thread 0086).


texts: How can I stop Mail.app from automatically downloading full messages?

texts:
I'm a college student and a student employee at my college's IT office. We recently upgraded to Google Apps for Education for our college email, and we also have a high proportion of Mac users on campus (students, faculty, staff, and administrators).

My manager in IT pointed out that since Mavericks came out, it seems as though Mail.app is automatically downloading the entirety of all messages from the server for caching purposes so Spotlight can search them instantly. For normal users, I'd imagine this is fine. We have some institutional users with 20+ years of email (hundreds of thousands of messages), and this new feature of Mac Mail is slowing their computers down significantly. My manager said that Mail.app previously just downloaded message headers, but now it's downloading full text and attachments. From searching this topic on AskDifferent, I know that it's possible to turn off auto-downloading of attachments by going to Preferences>Accounts>Advanced> and unchecking "Automatically download attachments."

Is there a way to turn off the auto-downloading of full message text as well, and force Mail.app to only download headers of archived mail?


texts: Browse iPhoto library in photoshop or bridge

texts:
For whatever reason you cannot browse your iPhoto library from Photoshop.

I had hoped CS6 would have added something but no. I have been looking for years and can't believe no one has written a plug in.

Best options for browsing are media browser in Finder or an app called iMedia Browser but I wanted to do it from within Photoshop or Media Bridge.

Any ideas?


texts: Do persistently incorrect disk permissions indicate a disk should be replaced?

texts:
Something is wrong with my Mac, as indicated (and still unresolved) in the question:
What is the Sixth Step of MacBook Repair?

One possibility is that the main disk is faulty.

Disk Utility reports that the disk permissions are corrected if I run "Repair Disk Permissions". I do this after "Verify Disk Permissions" says that:

Permissions differ
on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/.../UIAgent.nib;
should be -rw-r---r--; they are drw-r---r--.
Permissions differ
on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/.../MainMenu.nib
should be -rw-r---r--; they are drw-r---r--.

(8 similar set of errors are reported)

But then if I once again run "Verify Disk Permissions", the exact same set of permissions are reported.

Do I:

call the disk unreliable and replace it,
reformat the disk (and reinstall OSX) hoping the bad sectors would
be flagged and avoided,
do something more nimble?

Exactly the same problem happens if I run Disk Utility from the OSX DVD.

Edit
It's a bit annoying, but even after a partition/format/install OSX sequence, some permissions are incorrect out of the box.

Group differs on “Library/Java”; should be 0; group is 80.
Permissions differ on “Library/Java”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwxrwxr-x .
User differs on “usr/share/collabd/webauthd”; should be 94; user is 221.
Group differs on “usr/share/collabd/webauthd”; should be 94; group is 221.
User differs on “usr/share/collabd/webauthd/locales”; should be 94; user is 221.
Group differs on “usr/share/collabd/webauthd/locales”; should be 94; group is 221.
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/zh_TW.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/zh_CN.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/ru.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/ko.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/nl.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/it.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/es.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/fr.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/de.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on “usr/share/devicemgr/frontend/admin/ja.lproj/app/javascript.js”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Group differs on “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.


texts: Play startup animation from video automatically at login

texts: I want to add a function to my new install of Mountain Lion... What I want to do is add an autostart process that plays a video (in the .mp4 format) full screen, with audio, and without any controls automatically before the desktop appears. Is there any way to accomplish this? For example, AppleScript?


texts: Mac shows desktop without menu bar or Dock after updating Snow Leopard

texts: During a system update on my MacBook (Mac OS X 10.6.8) it restarted and during the restart I have got a screen where it looks like the homepage but doesn't have the menu bar at the top or the Dock at the bottom and it would make a noise when I pressed the screen. Apple Support had me verifying stuff on the Disk Utility then it cut off. Can anyone help me? I can't download anything till this is sorted.


texts:
I'm making an automator service, and the first part takes files and RARs them using a bash script
So in Automator, I have a Get Specified Finder Items action to test the workflow, and then the bash script
F=''
for i in "$@"; do
    F="$F \"${i//\"/\\\"}\""
done

/usr/local/bin/rar a ~/archive.rar $F

so it just takes the file paths, puts quotes around them, and then runs the RAR command with all the files as arguments. When I run this, automator gives me the error

Cannot open  "/Users/user/test.txt" No such file or directory
Cannot create ~/archive.rar No such file or directory

No clue why it's getting those errors. When I add an echo to the last command
echo /usr/local/bin/rar a ~/archive.rar $F

The results are the exactly the command I need. I can copy and paste it in terminal and it works.
Does automator run bash scripts differently then they would run in terminal?


texts:
I am writing a note on my mac. I want to share this note with other people on my mac.

this means specific users on my mac should be able to read and write to this note.

how can I do this?


texts:
When I use Chrome I like the feature that enables me to open Chrome with a list of websites I always want to open up once I use it.

Is this feature available in Safari?


texts:
My Applications folder is getting pretty full and I'm starting to lose track of applications. I want to organize them in groups, but I've read that some applications don't properly handle being put inside a folder.

1) What is the truth to this statement? Is there a list of applications with known problems? Is this a thing of the past? Does FileVault have anything to do with it? (I have FileVault turned on)

2) What alternatives do I have? How do you group your applications?

I'm currently considering making some other folder in my home directory (maybe "Shortcuts"), with subfolders for groups, and inside of those subfolders making symlinks to applications in the /Applications directory. Then I would drag my Applications folder off my dock and replace it with the Shortcuts folder. Do you see anything wrong with that?

Is there any mechanism built into Snow Leopard for grouping applications?


texts: How to forward traffic from one machine to another with `pfctl`?

texts:
I am trying to forward traffic like this:

Internal Network Computer (192.168.1.*) → Server (192.168.186:1234) → Internal Network Computer (192.168.1.198:80)

Server is plugged into the router via ethernet on interface en0
Internal Computer is connected to router via wifi
Server can access 192.168.1.198:80 with no problems

According to various other related questions, I have gotten the following rules

nat on en0 from any to en0 -> (en0)
rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port 1234 -> 192.168.1.198 port 80

However I get the following when telneting:

$ telnet 192.168.1.186 1234
Trying 192.168.1.186...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.1.186: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Using Wireshark on the 192.168.1.198 I have confirmed that the telenet connection is received however it doesn't seem to connect.

Some more info:

rdr's from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 work fine, for example:

rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port 1234 -> 127.0.0.1 port 80
I have confirmed that port 80 is open on 192.168.1.198, and that it is accessible from the server
Firewall (in System Preferences) is disabled on both computers
I have enabled cross interface traffic forwarding with

sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
I think it may be something with NAT (see the below posts) but I am not sure

The same issue is discussed on GitHub. @ctgreybeard, @dandriana, @snimavat, and @sergeyzwezdin have all reported the same issue. Does anyone have a solution?

Please Note: I would like to use pfctl and not SSH or another service.

Here are some other related posts:

https://serverfault.com/questions/791181/redirecting-traffic-to-a-specific-address-and-port-using-pf-on-macos

How can I setup my mac (OS X Yosemite) as an internet gateway


texts: Can't grab edges/corners of windows for resizing

texts:
I have a problem with window resize since I've update my OS X to El Capitan edition.

I can not "catch" the edges and corners of windows to drag them for resizing.

It's not dependent on the app.

Magic moment when problem resolved by invisible man help. It's working for a couple of seconds and problem come back after successful screen size changes stops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxvlwUMnoR4


texts: How to keep lock screen always on when connected to external monitor and charging

texts:
I'm using a 3rd party utility to set very eye pleasing wallpapers on my 2013 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.2. Now I don't get to enjoy the beautiful sceneries in the background while I'm working but when I leave my desk, it would be really nice to leave the machine on (and locked) so that I can enjoy these gorgeous wallpapers.

Attached is an example of my locked screen with an amazing background. I would like to keep it like this as long as the computer is charging and the lid is not closed.

Note: I definitely do not want to the keep laptop running all the time especially with lid closed as I travel a lot for work.

How might I achieve this?


texts: Saving iMessage audio messages sent/received with iPhone

texts:
iPhone automatically deletes voice messages sent and received through iMessage within two minutes of sending one, and within two minutes of listening to one received from someone else.
How can I change the amount of time that iPhone and iOS will wait before deleting sent and received audio messages in Messages?


texts:
I have a problem with Launchpad in macOS Mojave 10.14. It was already present in previous versions of macOS.

Sometimes I start my Mac and I find the Launchpad completely messy. All of the folders that I have created are gone, disappeared (only a fews of them are present): all the apps are outside. The only thing I can do is to re-arrange the apps. That's very annoying.

What can I do to prevent this behaviour?


texts: MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) doesn't recognize 2nd monitor

texts:
I bought two Dell S-Series 27-Inch monitors and they both display the image, the problem is that they are mirroring each other, it's like it doesn't find the other monitor.  This is the docker I'm using

What I tried:

Reset SMC
Bootcamp (works excellent, I can see the two screens how it should be)
General info
Updates (there are none, it's up to date)
Reset NVRAM
Pressing Option -> "Detect Displays" on bottom right corner

Look below:

That's with the lid open, if I close it, it only shows me this:

Now what I wonder is why are those two profiles there? Is it recognizing the other monitor but not doing anything?
EDIT: the profile doesn't seem to be involved in this, still not 100% sure

Any ideas?


texts:
I have a Mac with OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I'm trying very hard to learn the basics of programming in C, but I can't get my first simple program to run.
I read online to go to Xcode Preferences -> Downloads and check in there for gcc downloads, but Xcode 3.2.6 doesn't have a Downloads tab in the preferences. I've tried downloading gcc from the gcc.gnu website, but I didn't see anything specifically labeled gcc, and I still couldn't get my simple "Hello, World!" program to run in terminal.

It's very possible this is an easy solution, however I haven't been able to find anything pointing me in he right direction. It's definitely a little convoluted as a beginner, but I'm trying.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Just a hand to get Xcode and gcc working.


texts: How can I manipulate several security settings from terminal?

texts:
I want to change these behaviors from terminal:

Auto-login
Showing password after screensaver and sleep mode
Go to sleep mode after x minutes
Enable screensaver after x minutes


texts: Set the hostname/computer name for macOS

texts:
I have a local network at home. This network contains 5 laptops. One of the laptops is a Mac with macOS 10.8 on it. The other has a Linux installed, all others run Windows.
When trying to open my router and check "Connected devices", under the IP address of this Mac I see following:
Host Name - some IPV6 address
What I'd rather prefer to see is some meaningful name so that I can use that in the /etc/hosts file in Linux laptop. And also I'd like to check the computer name so that the /etc/hosts line was proper.


texts:
I have a self-playing slideshow in Keynote, with 20 second transitions (each slide is shown for 20 seconds).

The last slide plays a movie, which is longer than 20 seconds. How can I set the transition to longer than 20 seconds for the last slide only?


texts: Wacom Bamboo Create Driver for MacOS 10.12

texts:
I have a late 2015 Retina iMac running MacOS 10.12, and have connected a Wacom Bamboo Create tablet via the USB cable. It works, sort of, moving the cursor around the screen when using the finger. However, none of the other features work, including using the Bamboo stylus.

When I try to install the drivers from the Wacom support site dated January 2015, the installation fails.  When I open system preferences, the Wacom icon is there, but when I click it is says that:

  There is a problem with your tablet driver. Please reboot your system.
  If the problem persists reinstall or update the driver.

I rebooted the system, reinstalled the Wacom driver, and got the same result.

Does anyone know how to get this driver working? The Bamboo tablet is perfectly good and I really want to use it. again.


texts: New iCal Meeting requests opening old calendar items

texts:
Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion (10.8.2), I'm having an issue with my Calendar.  It seems like all of the new meeting invites I receive are incorrectly associating with old meetings (2009 and 2010) on my calendar.  I'll receive an invite for a new meeting.  I'll click on the attached .ics file, which will take me to an existing meeting from several years ago instead of creating a new meeting on my calendar.

Is anyone else having this problem?  More importantly, does anyone know how to fix this?

Many thanks.


texts: mtrecorder and spirecorder, what are they?

texts:
I've run a EtreCheck on my OS X 10.10.3 just now and I got some error messages.

Problem System Launch Daemons:
    [failed]    com.apple.mtrecorder.plist

Launch Daemons:
    [failed]    com.apple.spirecorder.plist

I did some research from Google but seems I cannot find some useful information. I am a little bit worry about the system since these two components come from Apple.

The content of com.apple.spirecorder.plist is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>EnableTransactions</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PathState</key>
        <dict>
            <key>/var/db/.spirecorder.forcedenable</key>
            <true/>
            <key>/var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spirecorder.enable</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.apple.spirecorder</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/libexec/spirecorder</string>
        <string>-count</string>
        <string>50000</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Umask</key>
    <integer>18</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

The content of com.apple.mtrecorder.plist is:

Yang$ plutil -convert xml1 -o - /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mtrecorder.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>EnableTransactions</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PathState</key>
        <dict>
            <key>/var/db/.mtrecorder.forcedenable</key>
            <true/>
            <key>/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mtrecorder.enable</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.apple.mtrecorder</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/libexec/mtrecorder</string>
    </array>
    <key>Umask</key>
    <integer>18</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

And both /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/ and /usr/local/libexec folders are not exists on my Mac.

By the way I found com.apple.spirecorder.plist in another LaunchDaemons folder which includes only one file, I removed it, rebooted and no problem with it. Now EtreCheck shows only one error with mtrecorder, I am not sure whether I am going to remove it since it comes with lots of Apple daemons in the same folder.


texts: How to package an app with sqlite3 database

texts:
I'm a new Mac user trying to create a *.pkg file which should hold an *.app (let's call it MyApp) and a corresponding sqlite3 database(let's call it MyAppDB.sqlite3). This application has been written in Python and transformed into a Mac application using Pyinstaller . It is hence not a 'native' Mac app.

The *.pkg instalation process should copy the MyApp.app into ~/Applications/MyApp and the related database into ~/Library/Application Support/MyApp/MyAppDB.sqlite3

For this purpose I've used Packages, however the program seems no to copy the db into the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder since no new folders or files are created there after the installation process, only the ~/Applications/MyApp folder is correctly created where the app gets copied.

Without the database the program crashes. I've added a bash script which creates in a post-installation manner the missing folders into ~/Library/Application Support/MyApp/ and copies there the MyAppDB.sqlite3 file. Unfortunately the file has only read persmissions and I cannot change that.

Hence my question:

any expierience with Packages and how to sucessfully add files to other folder
than ~/Applications ? Maybe I'm doing something wrong... ?

Many thanks in advance for your help!


texts: Why can a user on OS X open some directories of other users?

texts: I run OS X Yosemite (10.10.3). From the sysadmin account, I created a standard account. This account can't open standard directories like Documents or Pictures in the admin’s user folder. It can access however every single folder and document that does not belong to this preinstalled standard folders. Changing folder permissions in the admin account does not change anything. What am I doing wrong?


texts: What solutions are available for using iPad as an extended desktop?

texts:
Occasionally, I would like to use my iPad (3rd gen, iOS7) as a second screen (an extension, NOT a mirror) for my Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion).

Is this possible without paying for an app in iOS7? Does Mavericks or iOS7 include any new related functionality? I am aware that there have been improvements for second displays in Mavericks.

See also: How to use the new iPad (3rd gen) as a second screen? and Is it possible to use an iPad as an additional computer monitor?


texts: Does anyone know any good Diagnostic tools?

texts:
Does anyone know any good diagnostic tools for Mac?
something inline with Apple Hardware Test, Apple Service Diagnostics, tech tool pro, preferably more in depth perhaps something low level, pre-OS-startup

I need to do a complete hardware test on some MacBooks and one iMac, that is to do a thorough test of all components GPU, CPU, HDD, ODD, logic board, memory. apple hardware test would suffice however i don't have the option to use it on all the machines. if there is somehow a way to download and run it through say an usb thumb drive, this would be ideal.

basically as stated it needs to be ha hardware test similar to apples own hardware test. i need it for situations where i can't run AHT. For intel MACs

Also, I do not want benchmarks!


texts:
I think I have some sort of dns/proxy issues with my wifi settings. Many apps cannot connect to the internet: Firefox, Team viewer, Steam (works after 2 minutes). Chrome does connect but "Establishing secure connection" message for 30+ seconds on each website.

Currently using my default ISP DNS but also tried Google public DNS.
Proxy protocol: Auto Proxy Discovery (tried on and off) & Passive mode active.

I have cleared DNS cache multiple times, removed network multiple times and it only seems to be happening on this specific device: 2015 MBP Sierra.

Worth mentioning that this specific issue freezes my Mac for a good minute or so.

Anybody has any ideas regarding what is going on here? There is no proxy/dns settings on my router + it is a wireless connection.

My current settings:

Ping (8.8.8.8)

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=12.657 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=12.514 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=11.507 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=12.764 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=13.733 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=12.591 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=11.241 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=59 time=12.400 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=8 ttl=59 time=21.485 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=9 ttl=59 time=13.148 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 11.241/13.404/21.485/2.778 ms

Traceroute (8.8.8.8)

traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  213.105.194.9 (213.105.194.9)  9.585 ms  12.063 ms  10.545 ms
 3  * * *
 4  62.253.175.34 (62.253.175.34)  11.010 ms  28.857 ms  11.516 ms
 5  74.125.48.190 (74.125.48.190)  17.485 ms  19.597 ms  16.406 ms
 6  72.14.232.215 (72.14.232.215)  17.545 ms  18.380 ms  15.319 ms
 7  216.239.57.79 (216.239.57.79)  18.027 ms  18.058 ms  18.314 ms
 8  8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8)  11.559 ms  14.196 ms  11.014 ms

Update: I did a wifi test and got "DNS resolution failure"


texts: Do not rearrange my desktops on change window focus

texts:
CMD+TAB

I want keep order of desktops the same. How to tell to MacOS: "Please do not rearrange my virtual desktops."


texts:
Recently, I noticed whenever I try to open my Music library, I get the following error message:

The file "Application.musicdb" cannot be read because it does not
appear to be a valid library file.

The app continues to work however but things are a bit slow. And I tried to look into the library file, by clicking on "show package contents" and I can see the mentioned file inside the library but the last modified date shows a couple of weeks back. And I can see more than ~400 temp files (Temp File 1.tmp and so on) are created over the course of the past two weeks, the last one belonging to a few minutes ago. It seems that all the recent modifications are happening via these temp files and the original file, which the app complains about at the start, hasn't been updated.
What can I do to fix this? Is there a proper way to force it to recreate that file or something?
I'm using the latest version of the OS and the Music app and I keep my music library on an external hard drive.


texts: Prevent spotlight from indexing folders with a certain name

texts:
Is there a way to globally ignore folders with a certain name (say node_modules)

I know I can do it manually for each instance but I was wondering if its possible to just let spotlight know not to index these folders? node_modules, for example, typically has thousands of files that I don't want to search and it ends up slowing down spotlight.

I've looked around but I can only find answers that suggest manually adding folders in spotlight privacy list. Does someone have a better, glob way to it?


texts: How to mark multiple contacts to send same text as bcc - feature that exists on Android

texts: How to mark multiple contacts on iPhone 6 (ios8)for messaging severally the same text as bcc.  This feature exists on Android phones wherein you write text and tick as many contacts you wish and the message goes to each one of them individually.


texts: Unable to download podcast after iTunes previously crashed while downloading it

texts:
I subscribe to a podcast with weekly episodes.

While downloading one episode of the podcast, iTunes crashed. Now I cannot download that episode anymore - if I try to, it errors with the (!) symbol next to it. I can download any other episode of the podcast without issues.

I tried to unsubscribe from the podcast and re-subscribe, hoping it would fix the problem. But I still cannot download that episode.

Any ideas how I can make iTunes forget about the failed download and let me get that episode again?


texts: Preventing other network users installing Remote Desktop 3 via the AppStore

texts:
I have installed Remote Desktop 3 (purchased from the AppStore) on my administrators machine. However, if one of our employees installs Remote Desktop 3 themselves onto their machine on the network via the App Store, how I can prevent them also accessing all the machines on our network?

Or will I have to disable admin access to everyone's machines other than mine on the network?


texts: How can I get the last logins/shutdowns/restarts located on a volume from another Mac?

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I'd like the last command to display login/logout information located on a volume from another Mac. I've mounted that volume at /Volumes/1013.

Where does last get that information from? I'd rather open the relevant log file and read it directly than use Terminal.

Image added as answer to user nohillside below:

Solved by Jaume (details below), basically:

sudo chroot /Volumes/1013/ last -10

works for High Sierra, it didn't work for El Capitan, still very good though.


texts: How do I make an application's window span the whole width/height of my screen?

texts: I want to make an application use the whole width or height of my screen without having to drag the bottom/right sides to the edge of the screen. I also want to do this for the bottom right corner (as in, I want to make it go to the bottom right corner). Any cool tips that'll let me do this?


texts: Is there any command line alternative to Activity Monitor that would yield the same results?

texts: I know there's top and htop commands, but they lack a lot of information. For example there is no way to list processes from Energy tab. Or is there at least some kind of API for Activity Monitor which could be used to develop the desired command line tool?


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

texts:
I was trying to install Kali linux in a dual boot fashion when I accidentally ended up install a terminal only version of Debian as a second partition. So I decided to retry, which meant I needed to delete the Debian partition. When I tried to in Disk Utility, it gave me errors, so I booted into internet recovery mode and removed the partitions there. I then proceeded in clicking the Apple Logo and selecting the choose boot partition thing. It showed nothing. At first I panicked, thinking I had somehow deleted all of my data. I tried creating a second partition, so I could install Mac OS there and then fix my mac from there. I clicked on the create partition, waited 3ish hours while I went out, came back and it said preparing to partition. So I rebooted and saw that the partition type was: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFF. So I installed Mac OS X onto a painfully slow flash drive (15-20MB/s) and then looked up my problem. I found other solution people had created only they were specific to the exact case. I do not know what the partition type is supposed to be so here is my info: /dev/disk1 is the USB flash drive that is running MAC OS X so I can use my laptop.

sh-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI NO NAME                 209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               450.1 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *31.4 GB    disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Fixer OS                30.5 GB    disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

And here is some more:

sh-3.2# gpt -r show /dev/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  879039128      2  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
879448768   97656259
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header

How can I mount this partition again?
Which command should I use?


texts: What are the implications of how versions are stored?

texts:
I haven't found good data about how the versions feature is implemented.  As I see it there are three ways it could be implemented:

The separate versions are all in one file (possibly as resource forks)
The version information is part of the filesystem
The version information is kept in a set of files and a library is need to put them together into one file

I want to know because I am worried about what will happen when you send a copy of a file to a third party.  Will the third party be able to see the history of the file (bad in some cases, desirable in others)?  What if the third party is using an earlier version of OS X, or a different OS completely?


texts: What are some undocumented iPhone features?

texts: With included documentation as sparse as Apple's, there are plenty of them...


texts: Update application install by another appleID

texts:
I use a mac install before by another user. This user install some application like Xcode with this appleID.

Now this user not use this computer and I want update application he install before. I have my own AppleID. when I ask to update application the system say me I can't do that because this application was install by another appleID.

How I can uninstall this application to install with my own AppleId or update this application with my own AppleID ?