texts: MacBook Pro 15" mid 2015 retina randomly freezing, trying to pinpoint the issue (not sleep related)

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My MacBook Pro (15-inch, Retina, Mid 2015, fresh install of latest Catalina) freezes randomly. It requires a hard shutdown (power button for > 5 secs) and then it takes a while to turn on. The MacBook had the logic board, display and lid replaced 18 months ago, has only internal graphics and the SSD is still original.

When it started

At least 6-8 months ago
Frequency seems to increase slowly but is still quite random
Just had 2 weeks crash free right now followed by crashes every other day - Last summer it crashed once a week at most

When it freezes

Randomly, but most of the cases within 2 minutes of waking up after sleeping overnight (sometimes after shorter sleeps)
Sometimes freezes few minutes after restarting from a previous crash
Most likely not related to the apps that are open or currently focused
Also froze running or booting into Diagnostic mode
Even if I'm not doing anything, just leaving it idle

Frozen behavior

Display on (external display too, both HDMI and MDP), content of the screen visible, won't go to sleep or turn off by itself
Trackpad, mouse and keyboard not responding (tried also bluetooth and usb)
Playback shuts down or loops a short sequence (not sure now)
Both on AC (multiple chargers) and on battery

Shutting down frozen state

Power button >5 secs is always successful

Turning on after crash

Usually not possible to turn back on immediately
Combination of long power button presses takes usually succeeds after a while
AC or battery no difference
Sometimes it takes longer (or a few minutes break) before it turns on
After the power button is pressed the fans start spinning slowly but the display is dead and the laptop does not boot
To turn off the fans a >5secs power button press is required
Repeating this process a few minutes leads to a successful startup
I vaguely remember that once or twice a funny icon appeared instead of the Apple boot logo (most likely the first or second from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204156), turning off for an hour and turning on fixed it

Other observations

Bluetooth

Bluetooth sometimes reported as unavailable (strikethrough BT icon in menu bar), but didn't happen at all last few months
BT headphones playback skips every few minutes (the headphones play well with my phone, but it still can be them, I do not have other BT headphones to verify)

Things I've tried

Disk Utility First Aid

Shows no errors

Diagnostic mode

When I run it after a crash it may freeze too (although quite rarely) - with progress bar, on the language selection screen, anywhere really
When the diagnostic mode successfully runs it shows no errors

NVRAM/SMC reset

They seem to help fix the issue for a few days
When the crashing/freezing starts again it is more likely to happen quite soon again

File Vault

Turning off File Vault didn't help. Currently on a APFS Case Sensitive filesystem.

Complete OS upgrade and reinstall

Happens on both Mojave and Catalina
A fresh installation with minimum apps (few work apps, nothing fancy) does not help

System logs

They show nothing interesting, but I will try to look for events around BOOT_TIME for few more crashes if a pattern appears.
I have turned on showing seconds on the menu bar clock to pinpoint exact time of the crash and then went through all logs available in console after a crash. There were no records for 10 seconds around the time the display froze.

Turning off Bluetooth

No help. Crashed.

Swap SSD

A new OWC Aura SSD freezes too.

Things I'd like to try

Swap battery

I'm eligible for a free battery exchange so that's an affordable next step

Turn of Wifi remove Wifi board

Not sure if I can remove the wifi board and boot the OS though.
Currently I have the wifi switched off and waiting for another crash.

Different logic board

Not sure where I can easily borrow one for testing purposes though.

Any other suggestions or questions please?

Thanks a lot for any input! Much appreciated you made it this far.


texts: How can you send calendar invites on iPhone 5 without using iCloud?

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How can you send out calendar invites in the iPhone 5 Calendar app? I have synced my phone calendar with one Gmail account and Outlook.

How can I create an entry on my phone and invite attendees without using iCloud?


texts: How do I publish symlinks as regular files over SMB3?

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I have this file that's dropped in a Mac via rsync, then Windows fetches it but it needs it to be named differently according to use, so the obvious answer, I thought, was to symlink it into all of these files, except that Windows recognizes it's a symlink and can't follow its location.
How do I modify Samba (I'm guessing) to serve it as independent files? i.e; hide the fact that it's a symlink from Windows…or other clients, since I suppose I can't single out a single client.
If it's relevant to anything; the Mac is domain-joined as are the Windows hosts; domain credentials are being used to set/access share permissions.


texts: How do you adjust the dock bounce animation in OSX?

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I'd like to adjust the animation for bouncing dock icons in OSX. (I'm running Yosemete 10.10.3) I've already found this article showing how to completely disable the bounce, but I want more control than simply ON/OFF. Is there a way to adjust the animation? Specifically, I want to change:

number of bounces before it stops

Right now, it just bounces forever, until you switch over to that application and deal with whatever it's nagging you about.

bounce height
bounce frequency
bounce speed

Can these things be changed, and if so, how?


texts: No, this isn't a "who's buried in Grant' tomb" question.  Rather: How much space for apps, music, etc is available on a fresh-out-of-the-box 16GB iPad?  My 64GB iPad says that its "capacity" is 58.12 GB, which suggests that almost 8GB is taken up by disk formatting and the OS.  That wouldn't leave much for other stuff on a 16GB.  I'm providing "pre-sales tech support" for a price-sensitive relative; any data out there?  Thanks!


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My ex and I were together for 10 years.  in all that time we had a joint iTunes account. I want to be separate from his account but still be able to keep the music we have jointly accumulated and paid for over the years.
is there any way this can be done? or will he gain custody of our library?


texts: Cannot upgrade to High Sierra: Unable to unmount volume for repair?

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I'm stuck in an upgrade loop for High Sierra. I have:

2017 iMac
3.11 TB fusion drive for main drive labeled Macintosh HD in my system

I've downloaded the High Sierra installer from the App Store and can confirm it's good and works. I did an install to an empty FW drive I have on hand and was able to complete the clean install and boot from that drive just fine.

Every time I try to upgrade the 10.12.6 install on my Macintosh HD drive I get:

Things I've tried:

I've tried a plain old upgrade. Running the installer Macintosh HD as you normally would. This results in the above error message.
I've booted the FW drive, force-unmounted the internal Macintosh HD volume and successfully run an First Aid scan on the drive from Disk Utility. No problems were found; green health check.
I've tried making an external upgrade drive. Following the instructions here. This drive successfully boots to the recovery screen and from there I can select an upgrade option. However, once the installation reboots the computer I get the same warning.

I'm kind of at a loss for how to continue here. Is it the Fusion drive that's causing the problem? My understanding is you can install High Sierra on a Fusion drive just fine and the installer will leave HFS+ alone on the drive and not force an upgrade to APFS. Why would the installer think there's a disk issue when Disk Utility says there is not? How can I get more information about the problem? How can I get the system upgraded to High Sierra?


texts: OS X remote sharing without needing to install an app on the client

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My clients have OS X (as I do) but have trouble installing the GoToMyPC app, and indeed, any apps — TeamViewer requires that the client install their app, too.

Is there a remote management/screen sharing program that does not require the computer being helped to install anything at all?


texts: How to fix 'ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer' on mac OS Mojave?

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I am trying to connect to my Raspberry Pi over ssh using my MacBook.
The command ssh -v pi@ipadress gives the following output:

OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to localhost port 2222.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Nico/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.9
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

I have tried all the answers from other threads but could not get it working. Weirdly though, it works on my iMac without any problems. Is there a way to completely reset all the ssh configurations on my MacBook? I had to recently restore my MacBook from a TimeMachine backup, could it be that the problems come from there?


texts: Big Sur - Homebrew Install - illegal variable name

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Trying to install Homebrew on Big Sur 11.2.3
Using:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
in my Terminal
Getting:
"Illegal variable name"
The above code installed fine on a VM of High Sierra an hour ago. so I know it works
Anyone have any ideas why it is not working on Big Sur?


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I am trying to set up my printer HP ENVY 4520 to my computer and I am using a USB cord.
I have tried everything and I don't know where to go from here.  Is it possible for you to go step by step on how to hook up my printer to my computer?  I am not that familiar with computers but my friend owns a computer business and he is even stumped.  Is there an easy way to set it up.  PLEASE HELP!!!


texts: Is there an OS X dashboard widget for notes from the iPhone Notes app?

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I'm looking for a Dashboard widget for OS X that allows you to read and edit notes—the pieces of text in iPhone Notes application and Mail.app. (I.e., something analogous to the To Do Widget which shows the same To Do items that you can access through iCal.)

I don't use Mail.app regularly and would like some quicker way to access the notes synced from my iPhone.

Edit: To reiterate, this question is specifically about the notes in iPhone's Notes app (screenshot below) and in Mail.app. (And not e.g. about alternative notes apps for iPhone/OS X or iCal's To Do items.)


texts: How to get rid of non default shortcut association

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Shortcut cmd+c brings up Finder window when trying to copy with shortcut. Edit command works from menu. I have tried resetting keyboard preferences to default. I have had same problem with earlier versions of OS 10 but need this function for Autodesk Fusion 360.
I'm on a MacBook Pro with macOS 10.12


texts: Airport Express as a wifi access point connected by Ethernet cable to a modem?

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Will an Apple Airport Express be able to do what I need?

I work on a laptop running Win7Pro, and my internet feed comes to a Netgear DM111P cabled modem, which I connect to the laptop using an ethernet cable. The modem sits in my office at home, and I'm fine with this set-up when I'm working in that room. But I want to be able to connect wirelessly to the internet sometimes from other rooms in the house (max distance say 10 metres through 2 doors), using a wifi access point device (WAPD) that I leave in the office. So the idea is that I leave one end of the ethernet cable plugged into the modem, and I move the other end between the laptop (when I'm in the office) and the WAPD (when I want to use internet elsewhere). The procedure needs to be quick and simple. I don't want to have to configure software all the time. I just want to be able (when leaving the office) to power up the WAPD, take the ethernet cable out of the laptop and plug it into the WAPD, then leave the room with the laptop; and (when coming back into the office) turn the WAPD off, take the ethernet cable out of the WAPD and plug it back into the laptop. Also I want to turn the modem off when I'm not on the internet.

Is the Airport Express a WAPD of this kind?


texts: How do I have my iPhone rotate the homescreen?

texts: The iPad has the cool feature of being able to rotate the home screen (screens) with apps on them, I was wondering if this is possible for the iPhone's as well?  If so, how do I do this.  My iPhone is Jailbroken so using a Cydia or equilvalent app is possible.  I'm also looking to auto rotate the lock screeen as well.


texts: Cannot change Finder's "New Finder windows open" preference; it's grayed out

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Why am I not allowed to change any of the preferences in Finder's General preference pane, except for Spring-loaded folders? I am allowed to change any of Finder's Labels, Sidebar, or Advanced preferences, except for Show all filename extensions and Show warning before emptying the Trash.

I've tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist then restarting Finder, which recreates com.apple.finder.plist, but the problem persists.

I'm running OS X 10.6.8.


texts: apsd/mDNSResponder spamming thousands of DNS queries per second on macOS Big Sur

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I upgraded a machine to macOS Big Sur two days ago, and after a day or so my PiHole DNS server randomly stopped working, which upon inspection was caused by gigabytes of logs for DNS queries made by the Big Sur machine overwhelming the poor thing. I monitored DNS requests on the machine with tcpdump:
$ sudo tcpdump port 53 -k NP
xx:xx:xx.xxxx (proc mDNSResponder:32622, eproc apsd:108) IP 192.168.0.xxx.xxxxx > pi.domain: 24541+ A? xxx-courier-x.push-apple.com.akadns.net. (64)
...

and holy crap, apsd, the Apple Push Notification Service daemon, was literally spamming multiple DNS queries for xxx-courier-x.push-apple.com.akadns.net through mDNSResponder every millisecond (the domain is obfuscated a bit here; the 5th level domain is different for different geographical regions).
Note that the DNS queries are answered just fine, the domain isn't blocked by PiHole or anything.
I killed mDNSResponder which made it stop, which might indicate that apsd is the innocent party and mDNSResponder is the culprit, but I can't be sure.
I then rebooted out of caution, and after a day or so, the problem started again.
I've never seen anything like this on previous versions of macOS. Anyone got insight? Or experiencing something similar and have more details to add?


texts: Compatibility of iMac G3 hard drives, to try to recover data

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I have an old iMac 400MHz slot-loading G3 model #M5521 that won't power up (think it's a dead power supply), and I'm trying to get the data off my hard drive.  I also happen to have a 333MHz tray-loading G3 model #M4984 and am wondering if I can put the HD from the 400MHz into the 333MHz, just to use to boot up and back up my data onto a flash drive.

Here are the specs:
iMac #1 (the one with all my data on it):  400MHz slot-loading G3, Model #M5521, 20.4GB hard drive (may not be the original HD - think it originally came with a 13GB), 320MB memory (256 and 64 cards), dvd drive, serial #RN9445BXHCW, and is running OS 10.3.9.  The hard drive says on it: Maxtor HD model # 92049U3, 20.4GB, manufactured 15 July 2000.

iMac #2: 333MHz tray-loading G3, Model #M4984, 6GB hard drive, 288MB memory, CD drive, serial #XB9361VUGSQ, and is running OS 9.2.2.

The questions we have are whether the 400MHZ iMac hard drive can be put into the 333MHz iMac and, if so, whether it would be able to boot/run it given it is running OS 10.3.9.  We are trying to do this ourselves, as we are money-limited, and my husband is capable of changing the hard drives, however the 333MHz iMac is the only other machine/method we have to use to try to recover the data.  Any info you could provide on the compatibility of the two hard drives/iMacs would be very much appreciated.

Thanks a lot,
Cindi


texts: MacPro after wake-up takes ages before Wi-Fi connects?

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Basically once my MacPro wakes up, the Wi-Fi icon is greyed out and it takes like a minute (which feels pretty long), before it connects to my home Wi-Fi network.

This happened already a few times over the last year. It starts happening without a good reason, and it fixes itself also like that. Utterly annoying.

I cleaned up my Wi-Fi list (only 3 networks in it) and my home network is on the top.

Running 10.13.3

Any clues?


texts: Automatic DVD to .iso copy after disc insert with two drives

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I have a lot of DVDs (Movies) that I want to save as an .iso preferably using dd. To speed up the process I have two drives.

I'd like to set up a script (pure bash or bash + AppleScript combination) that runs on insert. macOS allows to configure a script in Settings › CDs & DVDs › On insert…

The process should look like this:

Insert DVD in one of the two drives
Script starts and checks which drive triggered the command (hardest part for me)
Opens a Terminal window and runs the actual script

A rough draft of what my idea is:

#!/bin/bash
diskutil umountDisk /dev/THEDRIVE
echo -n `date "+%Y-%m-%d - %H:%M:%S -> Starting with DISCTITLE"` >> iso.log
dd if=/dev/THEDRIVE | pv -s DRIVESIZE | dd of=/myfolder/DISCTITLE.iso
echo -n `Finished DISCTITLE, took TIME. Ejecting.`
drutil tray eject -drive DRIVENUMBER

Close the Terminal window after ejecting

UnmountDisk for dd, write to log, copy with status using pv, write to log again and eject the disc after finishing.

What I don't know is how I get the part with the two drives right. And set up the script so that it handles it right.

drutil status tells size and device. mount tells the name. But I have, of course, always both drives present.

How could I use e.g. awk or sed to get device/mountpoint, disc title, size and drivenumber (to eject the right one) of the current disc?


texts: I am thinking about getting an Apple TV.  I already have Netflix and Amazon Prime accounts, and I understand that there are apps on the Apple TV that will give access to those.  How do I get access to broadcast, and cable channels on the apple TV?  Are there apps for that?  Keep in mind I want everything to be legal and on the up and up.  Thanks for your help!


texts: Why does my MBP sleep on Mountain Lion and often not wake up

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I recently upgraded my Macbook Pro late 2010 to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard). Now it has this problem where it will sometimes sleep and not wake up. However, I hear that the computer is still on, since the fan is spinning, and so is the hard drive.

This happens intermittently, and I can't seem to isolate conditions of when it sleeps and wakes up, versus sleeps and doesn't. The battery is fine in all scenarios. Sometimes this happens when the MBP is plugged in.

The one constant thing I notice is when I close the lid, the front light will remain lit (but when it sleeps, the light will flash slowly). Then when I lift the lid, this light will go out.

The only way to get it to snap out of this "fake sleep" is to hold the power button until it shuts off, then start the computer again.

What's going on, and how do I fix it?

EDIT: This describes what I'm going through. Also this question, which has no answer.


texts: Automator application needs to ignore all files that aren't EPS

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I've made an application that I drop EPS files on and it makes two copies and renames them and transfers them to SMB shares.

But sometimes when I have more than one file selected in other windows, Finder passes multiple files onto Automator. All I really need it to use are EPS files, ignoring others and passing the EPS files on to automator for renaming.

I pass variables onto an applescript for if statements. My first attempt:

on run {input, parameters}

    if (input as text) does not contain ".eps" then
        tell application "Auto 45" to quit
    else

    end if

    return input

end run

Then I realized that this doesn't do anything about multiple files. If it finds .eps anywhere in all files combined into a single variable, it simply passes all kinds of junk files through.

I tried to use this if statement instead:

tell application finder
    if name extension of (input) is "eps" then
        #if (input as text) is equal to type "eps" then
        return input
    else
        nothing
    end if

end tell

This code doesn't work even though it compiles, nor does this solve the problem of checking multiple inputs. I'm using the Mavericks version of Automator.


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Basically, what I want to achieve is the second example here:

  As an example, we can make the space bar work as an additional ctrl key when held (similar to Space2ctrl) with the following sequence of commands.

  — https://github.com/alols/xcape#examples

Or here:

  This little hack for X turns the spacebar key into another control key when used in combination. When used alone, it behaves like the ordinary space bar on the key release event. Especially useful with Emacs.

  — https://github.com/r0adrunner/Space2Ctrl

So:

Space+x should send Command+X,
while Space pressed and released should send one space character.


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In Disk Utility I see two disk images (Flash Updates)

But I cannot find where the image file could be.

On the console with diskutil I see

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        +16.9 MB    disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Flash Player            16.9 MB    disk2s2
/dev/disk4 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        +17.2 MB    disk4
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Flash Player            17.1 MB    disk4s2

And with diskutil info

   Device Identifier:        disk4
   Device Node:              /dev/disk4
   Whole:                    Yes
   Part of Whole:            disk4
   Device / Media Name:      Apple UDIF read-only compressed (bzip2) Media

   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)

   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)

   File System:              None

   Content (IOContent):      Apple_partition_scheme
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 Disk Image
   SMART Status:             Not Supported

   Total Size:               17.2 MB (17170432 Bytes) (exactly 33536 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          Yes
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)

   Device Location:          External
   Removable Media:          Yes
   Media Removal:            Software-Activated

   Virtual:                  Yes
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported

Is there a way to know where these images are on my disk?


texts: Mac Mini Server Reset To Factory - Help With Fatal Error

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I am in desperate need of assistance. I am doing my very first in-house server reset and wipe since graduating from school and I am in over my head. I know I am a noob at it but I am THE I.T. GUY at my office so I am stuck doing this job....

I did my homework as usual and made sure to follow all steps correctly for my mac mini server at the office. It is the kind with no DVD drive therefore I am relying on attaining my OSX 10.8.5 from apple via the internet. We had a time capsule used as a base station for our office WIFI and since I have begun this project we are without internet and my colleagues are frustrated. I badly need this problem resolved today.

To wipe and reset, I...

Shut Down The Mac Mini
Held Command + R until The "Connecting To Apple" screen came up with a spinning world. When I started this all the time capsule was causing me huge problems as it wanted to connect to apple for the OSX download via WIFI.... which cant work since our office WIFI is infact the Time Capsule... So I now have all connections unplugged and the direct modem connection into the server and FINALLY I have the option to do the install via LAN direct connection.
Clicked on Disk Utility, this is where I get confused. I did what I was told, I clicked on my Macintosh HD of 996.8GB size and erased the data. However, there are somehow two other RAID drives showing up here each their own 1TB slot. Was I supposed to erase all of those also? I did only what the online tutorials said to do which was remove the Macintosh HD data. I picked the fast option that wipes in like 4 mins instead of 2.5 hours.
Waited until drives were wiped and then exited out of the utility program and back to the main screen to then click on Reinstall OSX. This installed with no warning messages and then rebooted my server for me.
Once it reloaded back up this is the message I get, which launches into an infinite loop of restarting my machine from an internal error to then let me know the same error occured, to then restart all over again....

Can any one offer a new graduate into the field a bit of help here? I am a great programmer, but a noob server admin.

UPDATE 1

Since this post I have had a bit of help but still no luck. I have now tried the OSX reinstall option three times total. There is a raid set running on two other 1 TB drives other than my Macintosh GB HD drive that used to be my main drive. I am not sure if I am supposed to remove or erase these drives and try again?... As you can see its not my main drive that has the raid setup. Its two seperate drives each with a different raid I think. My main drive used to be Macintosh HD.

UPDATE 2

There was no option to remove the extra drive partitions in the RAID since the minus button, the delete button, the erase button and all the HD verify/repair options are ALL greyed out :(


texts: Mac OSX Server - Moved 20 iMacs from one group to another with the exact same settings now disconnecting from wifi

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When the new settings are being applied it disconnects wifi, this means they never actually get the new settings and consistently are disconnecting from wifi everytime the settings are pushed out (which is constantly).

If i manually attempt to install the profile halfway through it will disconnect from wifi and then complain it cant connect to active directory server.

Any ideas as this issue hasn't been reported anywhere on the internet.


texts: Alternative Ways to Control The Volume Level Of My Mac In OS X?

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Generally to either increase or decrease the volume level of my Mac, I always go to the volume menu bar and adjust the slider accordingly.

I was wondering:

What other ways exist within OS X to adjust volume settings and perhaps give even finer adjustments to the volume level that is produced ?


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I have an early 2011 13" MBP, i7, 8GB crucial RAM, 500 GB Seagate ST9500325ASG.

I've had it for about 4 months. Twice, including last night, the beach ball appears, concurrent with a sound that can only be described as a squeak, coming from, I assume, the hard drive. Then, the beach ball freezes and the machine can only be revived by a hard restart.

The cover is closed and I am using a keyboard and monitor. The Console shows nothing, no kernel panic.

I have done some research, and this sound is not like those recorded on YouTube.

I am at a loss. Is my hard drive on its way out? Should I be concerned?

Update

The responses so far have all assumed that because the hard drive is making noise that it is about to dies. Is this really case? Has anyone had the same circumstance? Also, why does the computer freeze? Is this also a symptom of a dying drive?

Another Update

I've made a video where you can hear the noise. This describes is much better than i can!

Final Update

I cloned the drive using SuperDuper and replaced it. No further issues.


texts: How to uninstall Samsung SmartStation display driver from Mac OS X?

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How to uninstall this Samsung DisplayLink USB display driver for Mac OS X?

I had some trouble doing this, so I figured I could share it, it might be useful to someone.


texts: How do I repair a "bogus map" error in GPT?

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I have a MacBook Pro Retina with OS X Yosemite ver. 10.10.5 with one physical drive 256GB. This drive had 3 partitions: 1 - Mac, 2 - Mac Recovery, 3 - Win 7 64 bit. Due to low disk space on the Win 7 drive, I booted to OS X and shrunk the Macintosh HD partition by 25 GB. Then I created a 4th partition of 25 GB, which I planed to merge with the Win 7 partition. After doing this, there was no option to boot to Win 7 anymore. After restarting the MacBook, I had only two boot options instead of three: MAC and MAC recovery.

diskutil list:

Vladimirs-MBP:~ VK$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            125.0 GB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 2          24.9 GB    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows                 100.1 GB   disk0s4

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  490234751] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

In order to add partition 2, 3, 4 to the MBR, I need to know the "start" and "size" values, and in order to do that I need to use GPT.
But when using GPT I get the following errors:

GPT

Vladimirs-MBP:~ VK$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: error: bogus map
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Undefined error: 0


texts: Automator - Renaming it without any .html extension

texts:
Can we able to rename the files without file extensions?

I did tried the following setup, But I get the filename ended with "." may be because the same folder name as file exists.

Here is my current workflow. You can see in the image that in the final step, filename "dc." That's a html file.


texts: revoke forbiddance to send Apple events to System Events

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I have been using Gitk provided by Git provided by Homebrew with success, for several years.

A couple of days ago, it suddenly prompted a security window when called.

I did not allow access, hoping I would be able to change my mind.

Now trying to start Gitk will always cause:

$ gitk --all
Error in startup script: 58:103: execution error: Not authorised to send Apple events to System Events. (-1743)
    while executing
"exec osascript -e [format {
        tell application "System Events"
            set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true
        end te..."
    invoked from within
"if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
    exec osascript -e [format {
        tell application "System Events"
            set frontmost of processes ..."
    (file "/usr/local/bin/gitk" line 12237)
$ _

I would need to revoke that forbiddance.

I have removed Git and reinstalled:

$ brew remove --force git && brew install git

That didn't solve the case1. Force was used in order to remove all versions.

If I don't fix this, I'd need to get used to either Tig or Sourcetree or some other alternative, with an impact in immediate productivity.

1: After reinstalling, error is the same, just moved to line 12212. That's because I use taint patches on top of official Gitk. As you can see, those patches are unrelated to the cause, so please don't let it make you focus away from the actual issue, which is 100% macOS materials.


texts: why does my Thunderbolt display not wake from sleep

texts: When putting my MacBook Pro to sleep with Thunderbolt Display attached, upon waking-up machine...Thunderbolt Display does NOT wake, and I must unplug then plug-in the display for it to return to usable status


texts: Downgrading from Safari 12 (beta) to Safari 11

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Installing Safari beta version is apparently only possible by replacing the builtin Safari version. In this case version 11.1.2 with 12. If beta version does not work, gives too much trouble or is just unpleasant:

How do we downgrade to an official stable version, currently Safari 11.1.2 for 10.12.6 Sierra?

I tried to restore everything relating to 11.1.2 from a backup (going by what is found that is in the installer package), I located and re-applied the 11.1.2_Sierra.pkg. Yet Safari now refuses to work entirely.

Crashed Thread:        3  Dispatch queue: com.apple.SafariCore.RemotePlistController.internalQueue

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[_NSPlaceholderData initWithContentsOfURL:options:error:]: nil URL argument'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

Is there any way around re-installing the entire system?


texts: Clearing cache and configuration settings for iOS apps

texts:
iOS noob here.

How do I go about deleting all of the configuration and/or cache for a single iOS app?  My goal isn't to simply uninstall the app, but rather to delete all the app's settings to make it act like it's a brand-new download with no configuration yet.

(I'm used to Android where I can go into the Application Storage and click "Clear Data" and "Clear Storage" to delete everything except the app.)


texts: I have an apple macbook pro i7 17" mid 2010 model 6,1. I need to do a hardware diagnostic on it, but don't have the DVD anymore, how can I do it?

texts:
I need to to do a diagnostic test on my hardware, but don't have the diagnostic DVD anymore.  can I download it from some database?

it is a macbook pro 17" i7 2.66 Ghz
model 6,1  mid 2010


texts:
When I change desktops using trackpad swipe, the games folder on my desktop freaks out and glitches, I don't know how it happened and it has just started today. My MacBook is running Mojave.

See the top row in the photo:


texts:
Me and my friends like having a laugh together and as part of that we turn each other computers off and spam tabs till the computer crashes. Is thee a way how to disable the power button on my MBP 2015 to prevent my friends from turning my computer by holding down the power button? If possible I would like to remap it to command+power or command+option+power.

So far the only way to stop them is physically moving their hand away in time (which I always do). Would be nice to do my work without having to move their hand all the time!


texts: How do I increase the font size in Activity Monitor?

texts:
I've tried cmd+ and cmd-, and I've looked through all the menus.

I'm aware of "accessibility zoom" and it is not an answer to my question.


texts: Save multiple photos from iPhone camera roll to dropbox

texts:
As you know, when you're in the camera roll on an iPhone you can select one or more photos from the "send" button and take various actions.  One such action I have is "Save to Dropbox", but this is only available until I select more than one photo.

Beyond that, I can click "Save to Files" and one of the options is "Dropbox"; however, it's grayed out/disabled -- regardless of whether one photo or multiple photos are selected before clicking "Save to Files".

So how do I save multiple files from the camera roll to Dropbox?  Why would it not be possible using the standard method?

Note: I know that I can go to the Dropbox app and select multiple files to upload from the camera roll.  This question is specifically about doing this procedure from the camera roll.


texts:
I have an iMac for public use, I want to ensure the dock icon won't be changed by others (i.e. keep factory setting).

Currently I know the following two commands can do this:

defaults delete com.apple.dock
killall Dock

However, when I insert this two lines of code into an Logoff script, it won't work.

#!/bin/bash

#Reset the dock
defaults delete com.apple.dock
killall Dock

exit 0

The script is OK and other commands in that script are functioning too.

Any idea to solve this problem?


texts: Fonts on external display (4k TV) look awful, sub pixel font smoothing gone haywire?

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I have an LG 42UB820V 4K IPS TV - 3840 x 2160 @ 60hz which I connected via an active mini display port to HDMI converter to use with my Mac Mini (HD4000) at 3840 x 2160 @ 30hz.

Everything works fine and dandy, using SwitchResX to make a custom resolution for 30hz.

The problem is I think OS X mistakenly takes the TV as a YCbCr device instead of RGB, or something along those lines. The fonts look awful, with some text having a kind of inverted halo around them!

Long story short, it actually showed the fonts perfectly at one time and it was beautiful, but after a restart it seems to have reverted to the 'awful' mode again.

How can I fix it now and forever?


texts: changing mechanism list for authorization right `system.login.filevault`

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in M1 they turned FileVault access to authorization right with the following name : system.login.filevault
I was wondering if it's possible to change its related list of mechanisms :
<?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>class</key>
    <string>evaluate-mechanisms</string>
    <key>comment</key>
    <string>Login mechanism based rule for Filevault.</string>
    <key>created</key>
    <real>637677182.16283298</real>
    <key>mechanisms</key>
    <array>
        <string>builtin:policy-banner</string>
        <string>loginwindow:login</string>
        <string>builtin:login-begin</string>
        <string>builtin:authenticate,privileged</string>
        <string>builtin:login-success</string>
        <string>loginwindow:success</string>
        <string>loginwindow:done</string>
    </array>
    <key>modified</key>
    <real>637677182.16283298</real>
    <key>shared</key>
    <true/>
    <key>tries</key>
    <integer>10000</integer>
    <key>version</key>
    <integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

Thanks !


texts: How to detect already connected USB drive?

texts:
I am using a MacMini runing OS/X for some work, and I'm n00b to OS/X - and I often leave a USB drive plugged in when I switch off at night.

However, when I re-start, the drive is not detected and needs to be unplugged and plugged back in.

Is there a way to force the Mac to re-detect the drive?


texts: How do I transfer my old mail to my new Lion mail.app

texts: I have a new imac with Lion. How can I transfer my imap mail from my older imac with 10.5.8?


texts: is there free OS X equivalent to Total Commander?

texts:
is there free equivalent to Total Commander for OSX?

two panels
drag & drop
tabs
etc ect

I found DoubleCommander the best but OSX port has its bugs. muCommander is nice too but not as good as DoubleCommnader.


texts: Share Desktop folders between admin and managed accounts?

texts:
I'm thinking of trying to minimize distractions while doing homework by locking myself in an account managed by self-inflicted parental controls. My problem is, I don't want to not have access to my school files while I'm in the admin account. How can I give both accounts access to my school folders while keeping the convenience of having them on both accounts' desktops? (i.e. I'd very much like to not go to the Public folder every single time.)

Early 2011 MBP, OS X 10.10.1.

EDIT: Also a viable option, if anyone knows how to make it happen: A way to turn self-inflicted parental controls on and off at will despite being an admin.


texts:
I am having trouble saving a contact with a custom label in iOS4. I received a phone call from a number not stored in my phone. After the call, I clicked the blue chevron next to the number >> Create New Contact >> Entered name info >> click "mobile" >> Add Custom Label >> Entered my label name >> Save

At this point, the phone number shows up correctly, with the custom tag. When I press Done, it goes back to the "mobile" tag.

I was able to do this in 3.x. Is this an iOS4 bug?


texts: How can I connect Time Capsule to mobile internet 4G LTE and share it with other devices connected to Time Capsule?

texts: I have a Time Capsule but no internet cable attached to it. But I have an iPhone with 4G and I need mobile internet to be shared with other devices connected to the Time Capsule Wi-Fi network.


texts:
What's the way to use the free iCloud 5GB storage space?
I want to store misc files in there, and access them freely from the Finder/put links to them on my desktop, etc - how do I do it? Couldn't find any intuitive way.

(asking for same functionality like Dropbox/Box.net)

P.S.
Will it be possible to access those files later on from a Windows machine too?


texts: FaceTime window jumps to unwanted position at start of call

texts:
Running FaceTime 3.0 on MacOSX 10.10.1, there's an annoying behavior that I can't seem to change:

When I first get an incoming call, the FaceTime window jumps to the far right of my rightmost display (an external 30" Cinema display), and can't be repositioned until the call is fully connected (at which point I need to move it more than a yard to the left to center it with the camera in the MacBook Pro).

Why can't the window just stay where I put it?


texts: Macbook Pro not loading insecure webpages/content in any browser

texts:
Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I've run out of options.

Within the past week or two my web browsers will not load anything unless it has 'https' in front of it. I am a web developer and work with Google's jQuery hosted libraries quite often, one of my sites isn't appearing properly for me because the script is loading from http rather than https -- I can't even browse to the script without https.

I know this isn't a problem with the script because I have co-workers who have it working just fine, it just seems to be a problem with my macbook. I've tried Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari all with the same results.

I've tried clearing my DNS cache using dscachutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; and restarting, but no luck.

Does anyone have any idea why this may be happening or what I can do to fix it? I would just reinstall Chrome, but it's happening in all browsers.

EDIT

This is a screenshot of the errors in the browser console. Not your average Cross Content error.


texts:
I've found articles on setting the number of rings before my phone goes to voicemail, but I want something different:

I want something in between "silent" and "ringing out loud the default number times (7 or so)".

I want the phone to ring out loud once or twice, and then continue to "ring" silently -- ie, I would still have time to get to my phone before it went to voicemail.

The problem is that 7 rings is almost never needed, since I hear the phone on the first or second ring -- the remaining rings are just an insistent audio annoyance.


texts: Is it possible to adjust Lightroom settings with scroll wheel

texts:
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.2 "Lion" and Adobe Lightroom 3.5. On Windows, it was possible to adjust settings in the Develop module (exposure, contrast,...) by clicking on that setting and using the scroll wheel.

On my Mac, this doesn't work. Does anyone know if I can enable this?


texts:
I am on a 2012 Mac Pro. I just asked it to copy my iTunes music folder which happens to be 40GB. Now, SATA shows a 3Gb speed, so ~320Gb of data should take all of 110 seconds. I know 3Gb is the high end for the SATA itself, and the drives are much lower. So instead of 2 minutes, even 20 makes sense.

I'm looking at 26 hours? Any ideas what can cause this? Fortunately, the need to back up this amount of data is rare. Just wondering what's up.


texts: Can't find untested extension in order to remove it: SafariTabSwitching

texts:
I don't need this extension anymore because Safari 9 has this feature built-in, but I can't find it anywhere to disable or remove it. It's not listed in my Preferences -> Extensions. I looked through my ~/Library/Safari/Extensions but it's not listed there either.

How do I remove this extension so that I don't get this annoying popup every time I launch Safari?


texts:
I was trying to install npm, and I got

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, Permission denied '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please use 'sudo' or log in as root to run this command.
npm ERR!
npm ERR!     sudo npm "install" "." "--force" "--global"
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or set the 'unsafe-perm' config var to true.
npm ERR!
npm ERR!     npm config set unsafe-perm true

How can log in as a root?


texts: Uncompressed panoramas on iPhone as of iOS 7.1.x

texts: I want to use the trick with HiddenSettings7 to have a panorama for my lock screen, which scrolls as I move the phone (something similar to the feature included in the iOS 7 beta). However, as of iOS 7.1.x, as the Internet tells me, file browsers (more specifically afc2add) do not work, meaning I can't get uncompressed panoramas by inserting them onto the file system's wallpapers folder by using a PC file browser. Saving to the camera roll creates lots of compression, and it's a route I'd rather not take. Is there any way I can fix this?


texts: How to configure a non-Safari browser as default on a jailbroken iPhone XR?

texts: How can I set a non-Safari web browser (such as Firefox) as default on a jailbroken iPhone XR, preferably deleting Safari?


texts: The speech voice my new Mac speaks is different from my old one

texts:
I purchased M1 MacBook Air but it speaks different voice from my old Mac (2017 MacBook). I thought the voice is set at System Preferences | Accessibility | Spoken Content, but both of my Mac are set to Ting-Ting.
However, the voices my Macs speak are different between devices, and I don't like the way my M1 Mac speaks.
I play the speech either on Memrise or Anki, where I use the third-party speech tools:

https://github.com/cooljingle/memrise-audio-provider
https://github.com/AwesomeTTS/awesometts-anki-addon (where I use 'OS X Speech Synthesis)

Ting-Ting is a Chinese female voice but I play the speech on Korean and English as well as Chinese, and all of them seem to be different.
Is there something I'm missing? Why are these different and how can I make them speak in the same voice?
Both Mac is run on the latest version of Big Sur.

UPDATE
I have found that the setting on System Preferences | Accessibility | Spoken Content does not have any effect on the voice of the aforementioned tools. I tried several different speaker such as French male but the voice did not change.


texts: Installing NVIDIA Visual Profiler (NVVP) on Big Sur

texts:
I am trying to install NVIDIA Visual Profiler (NVVP) on my macbook with Big Sur v11.2.1.
I downloaded NVVP from here and OpenJDK from here.
I am getting the following error:
bash-3.2$ ./nvvp -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.eclipse.osgi.storage.FrameworkExtensionInstaller (file:/Applications/nvvp/libnvvp/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.10.1.v20140909-1633.jar) to method java.net.URLClassLoader.addURL(java.net.URL)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.eclipse.osgi.storage.FrameworkExtensionInstaller
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release

If I just run ./nvvp without -vm parameter, the workspace selection window pops up but it is not clickable at all.
Before the above-mentioned solutions, I tried to install cuda_10.2.89_mac.dmg, which contains NVVP. However, I realized that it is not fully installed because there is no /Developer folder on my system and CUDA installer tried to use /Developer folder:
bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/local/cuda/
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    58 Oct 30  2019 CUDA_Toolkit_Release_Notes.txt -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/CUDA_Toolkit_Release_Notes.txt
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    36 Oct 30  2019 EULA.txt -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/EULA.txt
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    53 Oct 30  2019 NsightSystems-2019.5.2.16 -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/NsightSystems-2019.5.2.16
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    31 Oct 30  2019 bin -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/bin
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    31 Oct 30  2019 doc -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/doc
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    34 Oct 30  2019 extras -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/extras
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    35 Oct 30  2019 include -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/include
drwxr-xr-x  81 root  wheel  2592 May  2 00:04 lib
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    37 Oct 30  2019 libnsight -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/libnsight
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    35 Oct 30  2019 libnvvp -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/libnvvp
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    51 Oct 30  2019 nsight-compute-2019.5.0 -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/nsight-compute-2019.5.0
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    44 Oct 30  2019 nsightee_plugins -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/nsightee_plugins
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    32 Oct 30  2019 nvvm -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/nvvm
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    33 Oct 30  2019 nvvmx -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/nvvmx
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    35 Oct 30  2019 samples -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/samples
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    31 Oct 30  2019 src -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/src
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    33 Oct 30  2019 tools -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/tools
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    39 Oct 30  2019 version.txt -> /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-10.2/version.txt

Do I need to make a /Developer folder or install something else here?


texts: HomePod does not respond to my Siri commands anymore. I have tried to reset HomePod.


texts: What is the difference between the original Apple watch, and the 2016 announcement of "Series 1"

texts:
As of the latest announcement in 2016, there appears to be 3 types of Apple watches

Original (Series 0?)
Series 1
Series 2

What isn't clear is the distinction between the original Apple watch and Series 1.

Prior to the announcement, the original Apple Watch (Series 0) listed at $349. Then it was discounted to $249.

Part numbers of Series 0:

- MJ3T2LL/A MJ2X2LL/A (Black)
- MJ3R2LL/A MJ2W2LL/A (red)
- MJ3P2LL/A MJ2P2LL/A (green)
- MJ3T2LL/A MJ2T2LL/A (silver)
- MLC42LL/A MLCF2LL/A (Orange)
- MLC52LL/A MLCG2LL/A (Silver)
- MLCH2LL/A (Rose Gold)
- MLC62LL/A MLCJ2LL/A
- MLC72LL/A (Gold + midnight blue)

From what I can tell, the original Apple Watch has these differences from Apple Watch "Series 1"

      Series "0"   Series 1
Cost    $249         $269
CPU    1 core?      2 core
         both are Splash resistant
         both have Wifi b/g/n
         both have bluetooth 4.0
         both have a heart rate sensor
          ???       accelerometer
          ???       gyroscope
          ???       ambient light sensor


texts:
I'm assuming this USB stick is toast & I'm not going to be doing anything in future with it except for one last short flight into the bin.

The stick gives the "This device is unreadable. Initialise, ignore etc" when inserted. So I go for Initialise which launches Disk Utility, I Erase GUID/HFS+ & this is as far as it gets. I've watched it now for over 4 hours, no change.

Though I could just pull the device out & bin it right now, this doesn't prevent Disk Utility from just sitting there waiting. I tried this yesterday after about half an hour, then thought I ought to reboot because I had to force-quit Disk Utility & wasn't certain what else may be left in an unstable state.

I really assumed it would eventually time out, but it seems not.

To avoid having to reboot, do we know what specific process would be waiting indefinitely? Would it be safe to force-quit? Nothing shows as not responding in Activity Monitor, and Disk Utility doesn't appear to have any child processes, when viewed hierarchically. Nothing is exceptionally busy, everything is currently under 10% CPU, barely ticking over. Disk Utility itself is at 0.0%.

macOS 10.14.6 on a Mac Pro 5,1. Stick tested on USB hub & directly in the Mac, same result. Only this stick is affected.


texts: What does this error mean in iTunes Connect when I am trying to submit an update to my app?


texts: iMac 21.5" Mid 2011 - Stuck on white screen at boot

texts:
The problem is that the iMac displays the Apple logo then flashes black before getting stuck on white screen.

What I've tried so far:

Safe Mode (⇧) - not working, can´t get into Safe Mode, loading bar appears below apple logo but flashes back to white screen.
Startup Manager (⌥) - I tried to boot from alternative hard drive, I tried recovery HD and a USB stick with High Sierra fresh install - not working, it loads partially and flashes back to white screen.
NVRAM/PRAM Reset (⌘⌥PR) – I waited for two chimes but no change.
Recovery Mode (⌘R) – It loads for about 6/9 min with a world icon spinning but it doesn't work either flashes back to white screen.
Apple Hardware Test (D) - No faults detected.
I have 12GB RAM, I tried removing extra RAM and stay with standard 4GB. no change.
Replaced Hard Drive, I moved from SATA to brand new SSD, flashes back to white screen

Can anyone help me, could it be a hardware fault such as the GPU?


texts:
How do you watch the World Cup on an Apple TV? Can somebody give me a tutorial with pictures? I do not have any cable subscription whatsoever.

I heard that you can watch it on ESPN on Apple TV, but I want to confirm that this is true.

Extra note: I have the Apple TV with the black console. (see below)

In other words, I have the latest version of Apple TV.


texts:
I have a new iMac (27" 5k, mid-2017, 3.7ghz i5)(new in box, hadn't been opened), that has a 2tb fusion drive.  I went through set up, but maybe I missed a step, because my drives are showing up like this:

The Mac OSX2 shows as being a 120gig volume:

At present, the system is only using the 120gb part, and when I look under Storage (when I do About this Mac), it doesn’t list the 2tb drive as being part of the system.  In order to use the 2tb, do I need to manually partition and format the 2tb part to make it viewable and usable?


texts:
Okay so i dont know what a cycle is.

Can you tell me that if I leave my macbook on charge all night, so at our place there our power outages so when my mac will start charging after the power comes back on will 1 cycle increase?


texts: Which keyboard can plug into an iPhone 5s?

texts:
I have an iPhone 5s, the screen is broken and so I cannot get past the lock screen.

I have seen that you can plug a keyboard directly into the iPhone 5s to enter the lock screen pin code.

I cannot find a straight answer on which keyboard would work with this. I know the iPhone 5s has a lightning port, so I either want:

A keyboard which has a lightning cable.
An adapter to convert a USB keyboard cable to a Lightning port.

I cannot find any of #1, this is the closest thing I could find from Apple for #2, but it says it's for cameras:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter

Does anyone know if that will work, or can make a recommendation?

Please help.


texts: WD HDD physically damaged, what can I use to recover the data on OSX?

texts:
I have a physically damaged HDD that can still be detected by disk utility, but I cannot access the files inside. I tried using Data Rescue 3 but the UI was very clunky and I always end up having to restart the computer for it to work. It did manage to scan it once and recover many files, but not some specific file types I was looking for. But due to the clunky UI I couldn't scan it again.

Any programs that are reliable and known to recover files from damaged hard drives ?

Note :

It is connected externally via USB.
The HDD was on a Windows Desktop, but using the mac to read it


texts:
[UPDATE] This issue seems to be fixed in 10.15.2.

Device, OS version and other background info:

MacBook Pro Retina late-2013, Catalina 10.15.1
FileVault is not enabled.
iCloud Desktop/Document syncing is not enabled.
Time Machine backup stored on an external drive; auto-backup is temporarily disabled.
Daemons, extensions and login items:

Alfred 4
BetterTouchTool
DropBox
Calendar 366
Logitech Option

Problem description:

All files under ~/Desktop path are inaccessible by most applications, including Finder:

Double click on the file or choose from "File > Open..." within application both fail to open the file. The error message of open dialog claimed "The document XXXX could not be opened."
Files can be renamed in Finder, can quick view the content, and can be copied to other directory, but can not be moved out of Desktop or delete.
Files in other directories can not be copied or moved to Desktop and applications can not save files to Desktop either; the error message of save dialog claimed "The file 'Desktop' couldn't be opened".
Finder can still create new folder on Desktop and it can be opened, but it can't be moved or deleted as well, files from other directory can be moved into these folders, but the moved files will become inaccessible too.

Reboot can temporarily solve this issue, but logout and re-login and this situation will happen again. Create a new account on the same machine and it is not affected by the same problem so far.

Possible cause of problem:

This problem seems to only affect applications that use Launch Service, because other applications that use conventional POSIX file I/O are not affected. All CLI utilities in Terminal can read, create, write and delete all these files, including vi, cp, mv, rm command; pipelined commands like echo hello > ~/Desktop/hello.txt are still functional and new files will be created on desktop, but these newly created files can not be opened by TextEdit.app as well.

Other applications like Visual Studio Code can also open and write to the files without problem. It also worth mentioning that web browsers like Safari, Chrome and Firefox can open and read the content, but I'd guess that's because web browsers are specially coded to tolerate read error and partial contents.

FileVault is not enabled; and this is an old model so it's not T2 and file system encryption related issue. Permission is irrelevant to this issue because Visual Studio Code can access these affected files normally. Adding applications like TextEdit to full disk access does not help either.

I guess that the problem is related to Launch Service, like a broken database file or something, but I've no idea how to identify the source of trouble. Tried to search related logs in Console.app but don't know where to start.

Temporary measures:

Reboot everyday.

Please help.

[EDIT] NO PERMISSION IS IRRELEVANT TO THIS ISSUE. That’s the first thing I’ve checked. All permission is set normally and NOTHING IS LOCKED. It just will revert back to normal right after rebooting— without doing anything else. And applications that use conventional POSIX I/O can still work perfectly normal.


texts: Is there an app which allows sharing of an iPad screen to another iPad?

texts: Is there an app that lets me share one iPad screen to another iPad when both are in the same location?


texts:
I am on macOS Sierra, and my SSH version is :
OpenSSH_7.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017

I have this content in my .ssh/config :

Host db
  User user
  HostName 192.168.1.111
  ProxyCommand ssh user@db -W %h:%p

Host website
  User user
  HostName 192.168.1.100
  ProxyCommand ssh user@Website -W %h:%p

I also have a server with a public IP, that has direct connection with these two servers, I want to forward my SSH connection through this public server to my private servers (db and website).

When I use this command:

ssh user@db -W %h:%p

I get this error:

Bad stdio forwarding specification '%h:%p'

Now, what should I do to solve this problem and connect my macOS host to my private servers?


texts: How to paste a smiley () within Pages or Keynote?

texts:
Within the Character viewer, selecting the Emoji font set, I can paste a smiley here: . I can do exactly the same paste of a smiley within TextEdit.

When I try to paste the same symbol within a Pages or Keynote document, I only see an area of white space which is inserted. This invisible character is in Apple  Color  Emoji, Regular, 12 points font.

I noticed the same behaviour on Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite, on 3 different Macs. Hence I diagnose this isn't an accidental corruption of a font sets and this isn't an accidental bug within one version of MacOS X.

The problem might be within the way these characters are displayed within many versions of MacOS X.

I read this long discussion on Apple discussion groups Emoji in Pages. But this discussion, as usual, doesn't create a conclusion or a solution (Tom Gewecke's analysis is the only interesting point).

I am running MacOS X, from any version between 10.7 to 10.10.

I am running Pages 4.3, Keynote 5.3.

How may one insert a smiley in a Pages or Keynote document?


texts: After pushing power button, start to spin up and immediately stops. Cannot boot from external drive, cannot boot into simple or verbose mode. Hard drive is good, have reseated RAM. Just nothing.


texts: How can I shrink my Mac HDD and add the space to my Windows 10 disk?

texts:
I have Windows 10 running on a partition on my iMac. What I'd like to do is shrink the Mac HDD and add that space to make the Windows 10 partition larger.

Here's the layout of my drives now.

Report for internal hard disk

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
 2         409640   1674026927  Mac OS X HFS+
 3     1674026928   1675296463  Mac OS X Boot
 4     1675296768   1953523711  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1       409639  ee  EFI Protective
 2         409640   1674026927  af  Mac OS X HFS+
 3     1674026928   1675296463  ab  Mac OS X Boot
 4 *   1675296768   1953523711  07  NTFS/HPFS

MBR contents:
 Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable

Partition at LBA 40:
 Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
 File System: FAT32
 Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
 Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
 Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af  Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 1674026928:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
 Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Mac OS X Boot
 Listed in MBR as partition 3, type ab  Mac OS X Boot

Partition at LBA 1675296768:
 Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista)
 File System: NTFS
 Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data
 Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 07  NTFS/HPFS, active


texts: Select a poster frame for video thumbnails in Photos app?

texts:
Is there a way to select a Poster Frame to use as the thumbnail of a video in your Camera Roll?

For example, many of my videos fade up from black. Because of this, the thumbnails are black and it's difficult to distinguish between videos. It also looks bad if a business is presenting videos to potential clients on an iPad.

Can  video poster frame thumbnails be added on  iOS(preferably) or Mac?


texts: Disable "It looks like you are typing while in full screen" popup

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iOS 12 has a new feature where if you're in full screen in Safari, if you tap or swipe repeatedly, you get a popup that says "It looks like you are typing in full screen. Typing is not allowed in full screen videos. "[url]" may be showing a fake keyboard to trick you into disclosing personal or financial information."

Is there a setting to disable this? It often pops up when I'm just scrubbing a video or scrolling through a document, and I've seen this message enough to be aware of that.

Related question from Stack Overflow

(image from u/p_giguere1 from Reddit)


texts: Can't Login System Preference After Changed Username

texts: I just changed my username and after that I can't login in my System Preference. Usually there will be my username and just fill the password but now all is blank. I used my new and old username to login but still can't login.


texts: As a user with multiple monitors attached to my Mac, how does it select which one a new window is opened on?

texts:
I have a Macintosh [MacBook Pro] with multiple monitors. There's the built in laptop display and I additional have a Apple Thunderbolt Display and another third party monitor attached via Thunderbolt/DisplayPort adapter. This is a total of three displays.

When, in an application, I open a new window, the new window doesn't often open on the display I which currently had focus, but seems to open randomly across the three displays. That is I may have an open, active, foreground window on the Thunderbolt Display and when cmd-N'ing to open a new window it may open on the laptop screen or the third display.

How is Mac OS X deciding which display to open the new window on and can this be selectively changed to alway open on the currently active display?


texts: VLC Stuck in playlist mode. I hear audio but no video!

texts: My VLC player is stuck in playlist mode, and I can not get it to play the video but I can hear Audio. It doesn't work on any of my videos. But all my quick time files work. My VLC is up to date. It was working earlier today, I made no adjustments then a few hours ago I went to open up a video and I can't get it out of playlist mode to show the video.


texts: Why my iPhone6 is not be able to connect with my PC?

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I have an iPhone6 and I want to import photos or videos in my computer ASUS zenbook ux31ua/gl100t but I don't know why in my iPhone6 doesn't appear the permit to connect with it and consequently neither in Desktop.
How should I do to transer photos from iPhone6 to my PC?


texts:
I run cabal install pandoc pandoc-citeproc as described in the manual.
I get nothing from man pandoc.
Pandoc exists in brew but I would like to know how you get pandoc by manuals too.
I would like to read man pandoc_markdown.

How can you install pandoc with manuals?


texts: Why does archive utility always expand into the 'downloads' folder regardless of where the file is?

texts:
The title sums it up. For as long as I can remember if you open an archive, it expands into the current folder. Recently they all started going to my 'Downloads' folder.

I figured there's a setting so I checked but it's set up correctly (see image). Thanks in advance!

2018 15in mbp, Catalina 10.15.3


texts: Recover mac mini broken BIOS (mac mini displays nothing)

texts:
Well, month ago I gave mac mini (late 2011) to my little brother with new HDD and RAM memory stick. So, being an independent person, he has tried to install Windows on empty HDD (yeah, it's weird) and after his several tries mac mini stopped showing anything on screen. Mac mini still working, boot up signal and light are on, but now we have nothing on display, like nothing is connected.
In workshop repairer said that young man broke BIOS and recover costs 7 000 rub (~106 usd), what is pretty expensive to us. Is there any way to recover bios on my own? In case that I don't see anything on screen while mac is working. :D
Thanks in advance!

UPD: Brother just burned .iso file on DVD and inserted in mac mini. How installation had even started - I have no idea. But it failed.
I erased entire HDD. Have tried all the startup key combinations (reset PRAM, etc). Nothing reanimated mac mini. On booting up I have "no signal detected" screen.

UPD2: Tried several monitors and HDMI cables. Mac mini still displays nothing and without HDD too.


texts: Why is this stock iMac so slow at launching apps?

texts:
I bought a refurb iMac from apple.com:

21.5", late 2013
2.9 GHz Core i5
8 GB DDR3
Geforce GT 750M 1024 MB
1 TB SATA Disk

No SSD, but this should still be performing well for basic tasks. It's stock, other than installing Chrome, Spotify, FCPX. I have nothing running other than OSX 10.11.2 defaults (wifi, bluetooth, airplay icons in the toolbar).

An example of the problem: I click on Chrome in the dock - it bounces for 30 seconds, then no bouncing, then ~30 seconds later Chrome is open. FCPX bounces for about 2 minutes before showing the splash screen; splash screen is up for ~60 seconds before the app is open.

Performance while using apps (Chrome, Finder, FCPX, TextEdit) is good about 50% of the time, and beachball heaven the other 50% of the time.

Is this all because of the HDD? I have about half of the hard drive filled with movies, music, and photos that I manually dragged over from an external when I first set it up.


texts: Deleted /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin on OS X

texts:
Guys yesterday i asked my brother to delete python 2.7 and install python 3.5 but rather than delete parts of python, he deleted all /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin.

At this point /usr/bin is empty and /usr/local/bin just has the python files that i downloaded today. Terminal is not working (e.g. i can't even clear ,it says command not found.

And btw he told me about 2 files called 'IDLE' and 'BuildApplet' we can't delete them what's about that files i know they were in the python 2.7.

I'm not sure what to do to fix things up - can I undelete or recover these specific files?


texts:
I read In activity monitor what time frame is the data sent / received data from? and understand that Activity Monitor data received/sent is from system boot.
Is there a terminal command or other method to reset it, without the full reboot? (I am running Yosemite on a 2010 MacPro FWIW)


texts: How to share wired VPN connection with Wi-Fi clients using Mac Internet Sharing

texts:
Configuration: iMac (El Capitan) with wired Ethernet connection to LAN & Internet router. Running "Fastest VPN" software, successfully accesses VPN servers in other cities. Both the Ethernet connection and the VPN connection show "connected" in Network Preference pane (with different IP addresses).
Using the Mac's built-in Internet Sharing, I want to share the VPN connection to wireless clients connecting to the Mac's built-in Wi-Fi.
The problem I'm having is that in the Sharing Preference pane, "Internet sharing" section, there's a pop-up menu "Share your connection from..." and the VPN connection doesn't appear in this menu (though "Ethernet" does).
Is there a way to do this?
Also: general VPN question: when the Mac accesses the Internet, how does it decide whether to use the standard Ethernet -> router connection, or the VPN connection, since both appear in Network Preference pane?
macos vpn


texts: Shell scripting: Why does only the "-" hyphen throw an error?

texts:
Goal: Cleaning up

Selectively truncate filenames in my nvALT notes folder. I tried using a productivity blogger's suggestion (which eludes me after a thorough search) to prepend ^ > - + to filenames, but it's not working for me. It's time to clean house! However, I need to make sure I don't lop off any alpha characters on filenames that do not use those prefixes. Plus I'm learning scripting and think it's fun!

Shell script

Here's what I've got:

#!/bin/bash

cd ~/dropbox/notes_test

for f in *; do
  FILENAME=$(basename "$f")
  DIRNAME=$(dirname "$f")
  if [[ "$f" == \^\ * ]]; then
    mv "$f" "${DIRNAME}/${FILENAME:2}"
  fi
  if [[ "$f" == \+\ * ]]; then
    mv "$f" "${DIRNAME}/${FILENAME:2}"
  fi
  if [[ "$f" == \>\ * ]]; then
    mv "$f" "${DIRNAME}/${FILENAME:2}"
  fi
  if [[ "$f" == \-\ * ]]; then
    mv "$f" "${DIRNAME}/${FILENAME:2}"
  fi
done

Problem: The hyphen

Here's the command line input and error message. I get one of these for each filename beginning with "- ".

DEV0041:scripts n$ ./truncate.sh
basename: illegal option --
usage: basename string [suffix]
       basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...]
dirname: illegal option --
usage: dirname path
mv: illegal option --
usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
       mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory

Question: Why does the hyphen—and only the hyphen—throw an error?

And how to work around this issue?


texts: Wifi disconnects frequently in Macbook Pro 13"

texts:
I am new to Macbook Pro and Mac OS X. I am experiencing irritating problem. My internet wifi gets disconnected frequently.

Is this a problem with my internet provider or Mac book pro? I bought MBP just two weeks back. I am worried wether I got the defective laptop or what?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to make force-click in finder show info on item?

texts: How can I change the action of the force click in finder from preview (which I find useless most of the time) to Get Info (which I use very frequently)?


texts: How to put Photos.app main library on an external disk?

texts: I am using the new Apple Photos app on Yosemite, but I don't want to use iCloud for my photos, and I don't want to keep all of them on my computer. So I as wondering if it is possible to have my main photo library on an external network drive, and to sync only some of them with my computer.


texts: WiFi disconnecting under Yosemite/El Capitan - none of the usual fixes working!

texts:
I know this has been discussed quite a bit, and I have tried all the answers I can find to little avail. So I may have something new. Here are the specifics:

New Mac Mini from late 2015, installed and worked great for a year. Somewhere along the line we upgraded it to Yosemite, no problem. WiFi connects to a Technicolor TC8305C cable modem in the next room with Xfinity service, great speed. It's a 2.4Ghz wireless.

Then suddenly it's waking up to no WiFi. Turning WiFi off and on sometimes fixes it, sometimes not. We upgrade to El Capitan, problem remains.

We have tried:

WiFi off and on again
WiFi off, go to sleep, wake up, WiFi on again
Trashing all the network prefs and restarting
Creating a custom location
Resetting the router
Zapping PRAM
Resetting SMC
System Preferences, Energy Saver, Battery Power, uncheck “wake for
network access”
System Preferences, Network, Advanced, TCP/IP, Configure IPv6, switch to
“Link-Local only”
System Preferences, Network, Advanced, Hardware, MTU to 1450 or 1400
We've tried with and without specifying DNS server addresses
We've run MalwareBytes and got a clean report.

Most of these things have worked a few times, more often they do nothing. Sometimes it just connects when we aren't even doing anything.

When it works, it works great. Speeds upwards of 40Mbps. WiFi signal is strong with RSSI at -47 to -49 dBm. The single to noise ratio as indicated by the Wireless Diagnostic utility is fine. The Windows 7 computer on the same desk works absolutely fine at all times.

When it does not work the computer can see all the WiFi networks from nearby apartments, no problem, with good signal strength. You select the right network, put in the password, and it says "XXXX could not be joined".

This does not seem like a hardware problem. It doesn't seem like a RF interference problem. It's just refusing to work sometimes, and I've reset everything the internet can tell me how to reset.

Any ideas?


texts:
I have the MacBook Pro & Retina(2012s) running on Mavericks, both seem to be exhibiting a delay when headphone/speaker is connected to the Audio Jack. I've read the thread on the apple forums and it seems this is a normal event, but I find it very intruding especially when I switch sources from headphones to speakers at outdoors.

But, while using bootcamp this delay doesn't seem to occur and I guess all these are managed at kernel/OS level.

The reason stated at the forums was quite inadequate, because the smartphones today have similar jacks (Audio In/Out) and the switching happens quite fast.

Would like to know if it was possible to tweak this event.


texts: Remapping command Q to another shortcut for quitting apps

texts:
This has been an ongoing frustration for me, and I think for a lot of people in the community who use the keyboard a lot. Shortcuts like Command + TAB and Command + W are an everyday stroke for lots of apps. I am not sure what went into the decision for mac to assign Command + Q to quit.

Any way to get around this? I basically want to disable Command + Q which I have already done by following How to disable command-Q for Quit?. However, I also like to reassign the quit command to another keystroke systemwide. I saw several answers on assigning it per app and I don't like this. Probably reassign it to Command + Shift + Q or ALT + F4.

I read and searched already but can't seem to find the right answer. I saw this karabiner rule in this answer https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/90827/260534, I'm not sure if it would work but I can't use it since it's in XML. The version I'm running, 11.1.0, is using json. I'd appreciate if someone can have a json solution.

As much as possible I'd want a free solution. Buying an app for such a simple thing would be overkill imo.


texts: Partition table error in external ARECA RAID

texts:
Thanks for trying to help me fix this problem.
I have been having trouble with my external RAID, the error message that I got was that I have a partition table error. The RAID contains six 4 TB hard drive in a RAID 5 setup.
I used "testdisk" to try to fix the problem, but now all my data seems to be gone. Upon restarting my computer, I am asked to format the drive - which I have not done.
The RAID was formatted initially under GUID partition scheme.
I took screen shots of the original partition table. disk5 is my RAID setup.
I am asking for help in reverting the partition table to its original setup so I can access data.


texts: Someone else's signature appeared in my signature list in Preview app?

texts:
A signature of someone, who I've never heard of, appeared in the signature list of my Preview app. I have noticed that the signature is stored in keychain and can be found in the KeyChain Access app. I don't think I have login my Apple ID on other machines, so it's unlikely that it's synced via the iCloud. I have also checked the devices under my iCloud account, nothing suspicious.

Maybe someone has touched my Macbook? But it's not very sensible for someone I don't know to sneak into my home just to create a signature using my password protected Macbook but did not do any other harm, at least to my knowledge, to my other belongings.

What could be the possible reasons?


texts: Can I use the Sites folder for whatever I want?

texts: Not realizing that OS X creates a ~/Sites folder when you enable web sharing, I started putting my sites for MAMP within a ~/Sites directory, which did not exist on my new laptop. Is this ok, as long as I don't enable web sharing? Even if I did enable it, would something happen to the other files I put in there?


texts:
tl;dr: Formula to number rows that doesn't break when some "rows" are made of multiple, merged spreadsheet rows.

Scenario: I am making a check-list (of things to look at when apartment-hunting) in Numbers 3 that involves some "nesting" by merging cells. It's more efficient to show than explain, so here's a little dummy:

  ||  A  |   B    |    C   |    D   |   E
-----------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
1 ||  #  |      Item       |  Apt1  |  Apt2
-----------------------------------------------
2 ||  1  |   Sink works    |  [√]   |  [√]
-----------------------------------------------
3 ||     |        |  Heat  |  [√]   |  [√]
----     -        -----------------------------
4 ||  2  |  Has   |  A/C   |  [√]   |  [√]
----     -        -----------------------------
5 ||     |        |  Gas   |  [√]   |  [√]
-----------------------------------------------
6 ||  3  |   Door locks    |  [√]   |  [√]

Problem: Normal ways of putting in a row number break because of the way Numbers handles merged cells. For example, A6=SUM(A5,1) would return 1, because Numbers thinks A5 and A4 are empty (whereas A3 contains 2).


texts: Macbook Air Magsafe 1 charging port burning out repeatedly

texts:
I have been consistently having problems with my Macbook Air Purchased in Dec 2012 (Model A1369)

Following is the sequence of problems I have faced :

Magsafe 1 charger pins burned out (2 years ago), thrown away charger
charging port pins burned out and replaced I/O board from ifixit.com (1 year ago)
Purchased 2 Magsafe 1 chargers (1 year ago)
Now both the new chargers
pins have burned out.

I am faced with a decision to either buy another charger (for about 90$) or buy a new non apple laptop altogether (I have seen the magsafe connector heating issue on many people's laptops). Because this is really affecting my ability to use my laptop while being on the move. Everything else in my Macbook Air is working great and I am very happy with everything else. It is just this charging problem that is frustrating me. I have to wiggle the port and try different combinations to get the green light to come. Even if the green light comes on, charging may or may not start until the orange light comes on.

Question : If I keep the burned out charging port as it is, and just replace the charger, will it also burn out the new charger ? Or do I have to again replace both the charger and the I/O board ? Is there something fundamentally wrong with the Magsafe 1 charger that it burns out the contacts ? Because a friend of mine has a newer Macbook pro and the same problem happened with him and the contacts are burned out but the laptop still charges (though the magsafe port gets really HOT)

So I am currently left with 3 burned chargers and 2 burned out I/O boards. Do I take the decision to replace the I/O board again and also buy new chargers. How do I avoid the connectors getting burned out again ?


texts: Bind Ctrl+C to Copy function for eclipse on mac os x doesn't work

texts:
I'm just moving my coding work from Windows to mac os x. It's really difficult to get used to the ctrl and command key behavior at beginning.

Then I tried bind ctrl + C to Copy function instead of command + C in eclipse preferences setting. The setting was saved but took no effort. When I press ctrl + C on text and then pasted it, nothing happened.

I also don't want to switch the function of Ctrl and Command because many terminal operation still need the original Ctrl function.

Does Ctrl+C conflict with some system shortcut?

Could anybody tell me how to fix this? Or are there any better approaches?


texts: is there an application to manage bookmarks?

texts:
I hate the in-built book mark managers of all browsers, it quickly becomes too messy and important links are hard to find

Is there desktop application which deal with bookmarks? something that has multiple options of fitters: categories, folders, tags and more

For example the task manager, omnifocus, is as simple or as complex as you want it to be, is there anything like that for bookmarks


texts: Precautions to prevent iPhone virus from attachment

texts:
In a momentary lapse of sanity, I opened up an attachment (a .pdf) from an unknown email address (the domain doesn't seem to be a website) in the gmail app on my iPhone 5. Realizing that there was a reasonable probability that there was a Trojan, I quickly closed the file.

I now have the following related questions:

Is there any chance I just put a virus on my iPhone?
If so, what should I do to scan my phone and verify?
In the future, is there a recommended way to scan such attachments as a precaution before opening them?

Looking at a number of questions on this website, I have learned that for my (non-jailbroken) phone, it is fairly unlikely that I got a virus, but I'd appreciate knowing that for sure.


texts: Terminal command ls/cd not opening external usb drive

texts:
I have a usb drive that I can access via Finder and rStudio but I cannot open the drive via Terminal to analyze its contents. I can see the usb drive name when I enter cd /Volumes && ls but when I attempt to change directory to drive i.e. cd /Volumes/USBDrive I keep getting error cd: no such file or directory: /Volumes/USBDrive
Output of ls -l is drwxrwxrwx  1 Fayyy  staff  131072 Jan  1  1980 USBDrive


texts: Macbook Pro two external display, one keeps blinking/turn-black

texts:
I recently set up 2 external displays to my MacBook Pro, 2017. 1 monitor is a Samsung 27" 4k, the second one is Dell 28" LCD.
The Samsung is connected with this adapter and another one with this.
The Samsung display works perfectly, no issue at all. But the Dell, from time to time turns to black or starts to blink and eventually turns to black as well. In the end, I need or remove the cable from the MacBook or turn the display off and turn it on again.
Any idea how I can handle this issue?
If more information is needed I will be happy to provide it.
Computer info:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports, 16 GB RAM)
OSx version: 10.14.6
Thanks in advance
UPDATE 11.2.1 the issue was fixed.


texts: Do i need the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Mysql for use with php 5.5

texts:
First time Mac user, I am just about to download MySQL for Mac, which version do I need for use with PHP 5.5? Apologies if this is a really simple question.

Thanks


texts: I'm going to location where my 3G will be pretty expensive. Can I connect my iPhone 4 to WIFI in hotel and share it for my laptop thru WIFI as well? That way I could save some money to not have to buy 2 x WIFI from HOTEL.


texts: Default ubuntu to boot in startup manager causes ubuntu to not work anymore

texts:
I have installed ubuntu alongside os x. I can start it by pressing the option key during startup and choose the correct disk. Everything works.

Now I want to default the ubuntu disk. That works by pressing "Control" while choosing the disk in the startup manager and pressing enter.

My mac now boots default to ubuntu. But it does not work anymore. The login screen appears, but neither keyboard nor touchpad work. Also if I plug in an usb mouse, it does not light up.


texts: Is there a way to add Word files with custom icons to the Dock?

texts:
Many users will have a few files they access so often they serve a direct link in the MacOS dock. To quickly differentiate between different Word files with the same standard icon, the best way is to use a custom icon (bottom right). This is easily done by copying and pasting a new icon in the Get Info window. The problem is, these icons constantly get deleted by Word (bottom left) when you change the file, making a stable non-default icon impossible (Mac Word 2011 & 2016 on MacOS 10.11).

Do you have a way to create a dock link to a Word file with a custom icon and have it survive the next round of editing?


texts:
I have set Spotlight preferences to show System Preferences first, and not show Webpages:

and yet these seem to be ignored:

Specifically:

the "top hit" is never a System Preference. (Although the first result after it always is, if relevant.)
web searches are always included.

Is there a way to fix this? I'm using a recently updated Mavericks.


texts: Ipad, using safari went to a porn site and now same flashing message keeps jumping up and down and cannot close out

texts:
Went to a porn site using safari and suddenly a flashing message came to the screen, Big mistake on my part but can it be fixed.
Two messages one says Print option and goes up the screen then down to disappear then up again like a jumping jack. The screen behind says at Top safari-securityalert.com and the actual screen says "Contact Support and gives a Telephone number Support  1 844 749-1071.  Also says my "iPad has been locked due to detected illegal activity. Call Immediately and says call Apple Support to unlock".  I very much doubt this is an Apple telephone number.      .
I have not been able to exit the site as it keeps flashing and jumping and no matter how many times I hit the X, nothing happens. I have rebooted twice. Can this be a virus or malware from going to a Safari site? What to do to remedy.
Is this a virus? How can I get out of this cycle of jumping jack message?


texts: How to control fan speed in macOS Sierra?

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After replacing the hard drive in my 2009 iMac 27", I noticed that the hard drive fan spins at maximum speed since the sensor cable is not plugged in. (The new SSD drive doesn't support it)

To solve this issue, I installed a software called "Macs Fan Control" that can read out the temperature from the SMART status of the drive and control the fan speed itself.

This was a near-perfect solution until I upgrade my system to macOS Sierra. Now both "Macs Fan Control" and also "smcFanControl" can't control the fans anymore and the latter reports that I am running it on an unsupported system.

Now my question is, can I somehow control the fan speed manually using Terminal etc. or do I have to "trick" the sensor hardware-wise?


texts: Strategy for storage on Mac Pro with SSD

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I've switched my 2008 MacBook Pro to SSD, and love the speed increase.

I'm now keen to do the same on my 2007 Mac Pro desktop. I've currently got 1Tb + 2*500Gb disks installed.  My strategy is to go for a startup disk of about 128Gb, with the 'bare minimum' stored on it, then leave the rest of my data on the traditional hard disks.

So, if I'm mostly doing Java (Eclipse) development, plus a couple of VMWare Fusion Windows installations (used for testing), what is it most worth putting on the SSD?  And what shall I just leave on the magnetic disks.

My gut feeling is that it's worth putting my Java IDE plus sources on SSD, since in compilation there's lots of disk access.  The Fusion VMs can probably sit on Magnetic disks, I don't mind a penalty starting them up: it's just once per week or so.

Sugestions welcome...


texts: How to disable guest browsing in chrome on Mac?

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I am trying to disable guest browsing in Chrome. It's proving to be somewhat difficult. I have tried using terminal which I was able to disable incognito browser but failed trying to disable guest browsing.

How do I proceed?


texts: External Apple USB keyboard, Shift+Tab and Command+Shift+Tab doesn't work

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I have an aluminum Apple USB keyboard plugged into my MacBook Pro (Late 2011). Command+Tab works fine to switch applications. But Command+Shift+Tab doesn’t! The same shift key works to capitalize letters, so what on earth is going on?

This is the case with both the left and right side, and combinations of the two. Command+Shift+Tab results in no action--it's not that the shift is being ignored, it kills the combo (i.e. Command+Shift+Tab does not bring up the application switcher, and pressing it while the application switcher is up results in no movement, not movement to the right). Furthermore, Command+Shift+Tab works fine on the built-in keyboard!

And while I was typing this I remembered something else: Shift+Tab doesn’t work either (e.g. to move to the previous form field) But it works fine on the MBP built-in keyboard!

What am I missing?


texts: Assistive Touch on iPad mini is getting turned off automatically

texts: Assistive Touch on my iPad mini is getting turned off automatically and when I go to Settings to check the status it will be in the off state.No-one is changing the status from on to off.I don't know why this happening.


texts: Using iTunes navigation with lists. Is it gone now?

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I was a big fan and heavy user of the list interface in previous iTunes. For example, it had the columns at the top, Genre, Artist, Album (i think :) ).

I was surprised in iTunes 12 that this feature is not found. This is a fundamental search-feature, where is it?

What am I missing? Is it done?

-Justin


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I could set sleep as

pmset sleep now

I'd like the machine to sleep in 10 minutes later for example, (I am going to have lunch but desire Mac wait a process to be finished)

I checked the "pmset" and "sleep" document but found no solution.

How could I set the mac to sleep in 10 minutes later.


texts: My MacBook's external monitor is magnified

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When I initially got my MacBook, I connected my external monitor and it worked fine. Last night I disconnected it and when I connected them back together, the resolution on the external monitor was changed. The overall display is now magnified (for example as I'm writing this I have to scroll down to see this).

I tried to change the resolution settings in Preferences but this didn't help to change it back. So how can I set the resolution of the external monitor back to a sane state?


texts: iOS5 - Does the ActiveSync Pin code lock prevent the new camera shortcut?

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I've had an iPhone of various vintages for 3 years connected to MS Exchange activesync for work email.

Part of the deal with this that you need to enter a four digit PIN before you unlock.

I was quite excited about the iOS5 camera option available from the lock screen.

From what I can see - the camera shortcut is not available if you have ActiveSync enabled and thus the four digit PIN. I'm asking the question because I hope I am wrong. Here is my question:

Does the ActiveSync Pin code lock prevent the new camera shortcut?


texts: What is the purpose of the PhotoStreamsData folder?

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The folder PhotoStreamsData contains the same photos as the DCIM folder, only with a slightly lower resolution. Why create (almost exact) duplicates? Is it only to save some space on iCloud? Can I safely delete it to free up some space? Would deletion make any difference to the iCloud sync?

(iOS 9.0.2, iPhone 5c)


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Bought used MacBook Pro 2018 touch-bar. The previous owner already made a factory reset.

Now, I'm trying to make the first setup of Macbook, but the keyboard and trackpad are not working (even I can't go to safe mode). I'm not able to select a country in the setup window.

I can't go to apple service, cause in the country where I'm living, there's no apple service. And can't give back to the previous owner, cause I'm not in the US.


texts: iPad/iOS browsing to intranet URL without a ".com"

texts: I am on my office network, trying to access our Intranet via iOS Safari. Our Intranet URL is http://Intranet/  (no domain or prefix). Safari never opens this. Is there a way to get to this address on an iPad?


texts: How to turn an MBA on when the power button is not functioning?

texts: My MBA power button is not functioning (on or off). I would like to know how to turn it on, in case the MBA is accidentally shut down. I have seen the technician do something inside but it's not open knowledge. Can anyone share their technical experience pls. I am confident I can, given specific steps. Thanks!


texts: Can't get suggestions for Dotted Blue Underline in OS X Dictation

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I know that the dotted blue underlined words during dictation in OS X are supposed to provide alternative suggestions of the voice transcription.

However, when I control-click or right-click the blue underlined words, I do not see any suggestions or alternatives.  Please help!

I am running the GM of OS X Mavericks...been running Mavericks since beta seed 4.

Also, I use a magic trackpad, not a mouse (just in case this matters).

Is this just a Mavericks bug or am I doing something wrong?


texts: Battery is not charging despite SMC reset

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I have a problem with charging of my Battery which has been appeared last night. It was working perfectly well for a long time. All of my friends who had different laptops were so jealous at my Macbook, because their laptops must have been plugged-in mostly to function well. I am worried that may laptop may being like theirs.

This is the case:
The battery is not fully charged. So, I plugged the charger to the power source, but the magasafe LED  is green and only says Battry is not charging. I have tried to reset SMC (I hope I did it properly), but the problem still exist.
Here is the battery status that you may find it helpful to assist me.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge


texts: How to voice activate iPhone without touching it?

texts: How to voice activate an iPhone without touching it? Illinois' law states cell phone use must be hands free. I realize they intend for you to use a hands-free kit. How come when, at least when it rings, I can't tell Siri to answer it onto speaker phone? Why isn't she listening for commands like the star ship Enterprise?


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Time machine keeps daily snapshot for past month and hourly for the last 24 hours.

My question - I am only seeing backups at the rate of anywhere from 3-6 per day. Looking at the TM folder I see this -

3 backups yesterday, 6 the day before. We are 8 hours into the new day, and no backup has completed yet.

I am running 10.6.8 on a 12 core MacPro. The only BU is for the main drive, a 512GB SSD with only 52GB of capacity used.

Is it normal for the backs to take so long?
Is there anything I can do to speed this up?

For what it's worth, I rebooted after posting (6 hours ago) and told time machine to start a backup. It still shows "indexing" after 6 hours.

New Edit - After posting the above, backups continued to take a few hours, so I still saw a few per day. As of now, no backup has completed in 48 hours. Still hoping for a way to troubleshoot this. Even wiping the backup and starting fresh would be ok, but I'm not confident the problem won't reappear.


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I am using a Hazel (Noodlesoft) rule with Python script.   Using the "Passes Shell script" option.   Placing the path to my python install /usr/local/bin/python (my python install v. 2.7.3) in the shell box.   Correctly goes to plack if it finds it and red if it cannot find it.  Using the simplest script

import sys
sys.exit(1)

According to the tooltip exit status 0 indicates passing the rule.   I assume anything else fails rule.   Problem is that the rule matches regardless of the exit code returned.
Am I using the wrong command to provide Hazel with exit code or is it bug in Hazel.  I am using the Latest (just released 3.1)  Have not tried on previous versions.