texts: So my iPhone 6 broke completely still turns on but the screen is totally cracked cant see anything and I have a lot of stuff saved on it I tried saving them to my laptop but my phone is locked how can I unlock it to get get my stuff off I basically only need an alternative way to unlock it. I have a windows laptop


texts: What programs have trouble with case-sensitive (HFSX) filesystems, and how to fix them?

texts:
There are some programs that require a case-sensitive filesystem, and others that require case-insensitive. Even though Apple warns against using case sensitive file systems, in some situations it is useful.

What programs have trouble with Case Sensitive (HFSX) systems?

What are the work-arounds?

In general, the problem is that the developers have a file in their app called FOO, but try to access the file by the name foo. In an HFS+ system that is case preserving but case insensitive, searching for foo will find FOO. That is not the case in HFSX. The general solution is therefore to

Find the misnamed file or folder
Make a copy, a link, or rename so the expected name is found


texts: Is there a way to create a launchctl service using snap?

texts: I am using snap to create a systemd service on Linux - I am wondering if there is a way to use snap to create a launchctl service on MacOS?


texts: Can I submit dictionary file to Mac App Store?

texts: I have created a .dictionary file for the Dictionary.app in mac and I want to submit it to the Mac App Store. I'm curious, is it possible? If yes, how?


texts:
I have a small business and was wondering if it's possible to use Passbook for gift cards? For example, someone buys a $50 gift certificate on our website and that gets delivered automatically to the other user.

Is there a major retailer that does this? I see passbook mostly for tickets (and to be honest, it's a bit unwieldy).


texts: Can you hide/disable the internal SDD blade in an iMac (originally Fusion)?

texts:
The 128GB SSD internal to my mid 2015 iMac's original fusion drive setup died, and can not be acted upon by Disk Utility (can't mount, repair, etc). The original setup has already been split into two separate drives, so all files are on the larger internal. Unfortunately, the dead drive appears to periodically cause random reboots, with an error saying I shut down my computer because of a problem. How can I stop the computer from seeing this drive entirely?

Other information:
• I looked at a similar question here, but I can not reformat the drive as free space as recommended. Simply setting hard drives to sleep when possible did not work
• I don't believe I can use fstabs because I can't get a UUID from diskutil. Although, I have seen usage of the LABEL identifier in the fstabs file. Could this help?
• I'm currently running Catalina, but I might be open to others.


texts: Change keyboard whenever iTerm is selected

texts:
Using either Applescript or Automator is it possible to switch the software keyboard(Input Source) to a certain keyboard(input source) whenever iTerm becomes foreground?

Scenario is as follows

I click on iTerm window
iTerm window goes foreground
A script changes the keyboard(input source) to one that I specify


texts: Is safe battery replacement for iPhone 5?

texts:
My iPhone 5's (bought on January 2013) battery life is now something about 5-6 hours. I found some possibilities how to buy new battery and replace it. Does anybody have some experiences with this replacement? Does it work and solve the battery life problem?

iPhone 5 new battery


texts: How to watch a 1080p video on retina display with a 1:1 pixel ratio (with no scaling up)?

texts:
I am trying to watch a 1080p video on my Macbook Retina 13 but it is scaled up to the 'scaled resolution' 1280x800. If the video is scaled down to 1280x800 before being displayed, I will be losing in precision.
VLC for example claims to support Retina Displays but that seems to only concern the fonts and not the video.


texts:
I am using Oracle VirtualBox to run OS X inside OS X.
This entails running OS X on Mac-branded hardware so
does not break any license agreements.

I am following the instructions on this site:

http://ntk.me/2012/09/07/os-x-on-os-x/

I have downloaded "Install OS X Mavericks.app" and ran the script

  InstallESD.dmg.tool -B -i InstallESD.dmg -o Output.dmg

on the InstallESD.dmg file as advertised on the site.

This outputs a file, oddly called:

Output.dmg?.dmg

Not sure why the question mark followed by the .dmg is appended at the very end,
but anyways, I have configured VirtualBox to boot from this file, and it seems
like some progress is made, but then the kernel boot messages inside VirtualBox
seem to pause indefinitely when the following lines are reached:

init
probe
start
SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR OSK0 0xff(0xff) fKeyHashTable=0x0
SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR OSK1 0xff(0xff) fKeyHashTable=0x0
DSMOS has arrived
[IOBluetoothHCIController][start] -- completed
SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR BEMB 0xff(0xff) fKeyHashTable=0x0

I've been waiting 15 mnutes, the hard drive seems to be resting
with infreqeuent short flashes, and the boot process seems to
have halted at this step.

Why am I seeing this and how can I proceed with the installation
of OS X (10.9) Mavericks?

Thanks.


texts: Will Time Machine backup an iTunes library that's stored on a network share?

texts:
I store my iTunes library on a Synology NAS and access it from an SMB share. The library is larger the SSD in my Macbook, so I cannot store it locally.

Does Time Machine back a library that is on a network drive?

I entered Time Machine today and tried to navigate to the iTunes library share but it isn't there. That leads me to believe that it isn't being backed up.

If it isn't being backed up, is there a way to get Time Machine to back it up? If not, is there an alternative? If I remember correctly, Backblaze will not back up network drives. I'm not aware of another backup service for Macs, but I am open to suggestions.

It's taken me countless hours to organize my library, fixing song/album info, download album art, etc, in addition to the cost of buying tons of music from various sources.


texts: iTunes update keeps reappearing even after several updates

texts: iTunes software update keeps appearing in the app store even after several updates of the same. Has anyone faced a similar issue? When I try to update it, the download begins and installs and again reappears on the App store. Moreover this is happening in my new mac. I'm unable to find the root cause for this issue.


texts: Why would fonts render differently between different versions of MacOS?

texts:
Recently, I purchased a new Mac and moved from 10.13 to 10.15 in the transition.  One thing that I have noticed is that my papers, which are PDFs, no longer render correctly.  The greek letters are all black boxes, such in the sniplet below where the omega from 50 Ohm has become a black box.

Any suggestions or guidance on how to return the Greeks would be appreciated.


texts: Bootcamp (and laptop) freeze during partition on High Sierra

texts:
I don't know if this is a problem specific to Windows 10 (which I'm trying to install), or High Sierra, but here it goes.

I am trying to install Windows 10 Anniversary Edition on a Macbook Air (early 2015) which is running High Sierra (10.13). I first freed up around 40 GB, which meant that I had 65 GB free, which was more than sufficient for Bootcamp.

Bootcamp runs, downloads the Windows support software, and says it's partitioning. Now, the problem is, the Bootcamp disappears while partitioning, and the system hangs completely. Only the cursor works. I can't even change the brightness. When I hard reboot, the system functions as normal, but in the Disk Utility, no space has even been allocated.

Looking around on the Web and here, the same problem has been reported by a ton of people, but all of the answers are outdated, dating back to the age of Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard - "simply partition a volume named BOOTCAMP of size 35-40 GB", which simply doesn't work here.

If anybody could guide me towards setting up Windows, it would be really helpful.


texts: Launchd plist runs everyday instead of only weekends

texts:
Scenario: I need to force a reboot as a Launch Daemon at a specific time only on Saturdays and Sundays.

Output

The reboot command gets launched at the specific time everyday instead only on Saturdays and Sundays. LaunchControl GUI even reads the plist for Saturdays and Sundays, yet the output the .plist is launched everyday.

The .plist

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>EnviromentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PATH</key>
        <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:</string>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.test.restartschedule</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/sbin/shutdown</string>
        <string>-r</string>
        <string>now</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>23</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>35</integer>
            <key>WeekDay</key>
            <integer>6</integer>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>23</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>35</integer>
            <key>WeekDay</key>
            <integer>7</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/var/log/RestartScheduleError.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/var/log/RestartSchedule.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: How to install and use The open source Darwin OS

texts:
Is it possible to install and use the Darwin OS from Apples open source download area, and if so on what hardware would I need?

I'm not even sure if the OS is complete, all I can tell is there are a load of individual installer packages for different applications and subsystems, but no overall OS installer.


texts: "Automatically install new apps" not working

texts:
I've got "Automatically install new apps" checked on all my iDevices, but it hardly ever does what it says.  For example, I just downloaded three new apps to my computer and then did a Sync operation on two iPads and an iPhone -- none of the new apps showed up.  On the App List, they each showed the button as Install.  When I pressed the Install button on the App List for each of the affected apps, they then installed on the next Sync.

Just to keep me guessing, new apps WILL occasionally install correctly, but I've never figured out what magic circumstance triggered the proper behavior.

Ideas?


texts: My MacBook Air keeps restarting and won't pass the apple sign. I tried to reinstall the system but it says I don't have enough disk space to install and needs to remove something. What should I do?


texts: .bash_profile path won't work with anaconda3

texts:
Changed my .bash_profile and path now it's the following reads at each new terminal login:

-bash: conda: command not found
-bash: dirname: command not found
-bash: dirname: command not found
-bash: dirname: command not found
-bash: dirname: command not found

The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run chsh -s /bin/zsh.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
(base) Me:~ myuser$

When chsh -s /bin/zsh entered:

-bash: chsh: command not found

Temporary Fix for simple command functions, but still missing full functionality:

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

I've tried both [this fix][1] and another fix, and tried to reinstall anaconda3.

But my .bash_profile is now very complicated from conda:

 # added by Anaconda3 2019.07 installer
    # >>> conda init >>>
    # !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
    __conda_setup="$(CONDA_REPORT_ERRORS=false '/Users/myuser/anaconda3/bin/conda' shell.bash hook 2> /dev/null)"
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        \eval "$__conda_setup"
    else
        if [ -f "/Users/myuser/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
    # . "/Users/myuser/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"  # commented out by conda initialize
            CONDA_CHANGEPS1=false conda activate base
        else
            \export PATH="/Users/myuser/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
        fi
    fi
    unset __conda_setup
    # <<< conda init <<<
    export PATH=/Users/myuser/anaconda3/bin/python

# >>> conda initialize >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$('/Users/myuser/opt/anaconda3/bin/conda' 'shell.bash' 'hook' 2> /dev/null)"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/Users/myuser/opt/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/Users/myuser/opt/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
    else
        export PATH="/Users/myuser/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup
# <<< conda initialize <<<

Yes, I'm a noob...


texts: How to configure a Trackpad to connect automatically to two different Macs?

texts:
I have a private Trackpad, which I use at work also. I want that the Trackpad connect itself automatically to both computers.
If I use the Trackpad only on one Mac it connects itself automatically (on power on), but since I connected it to my Work-Macbook I have to connect it every time I change the Mac manually!
Is it possible to configure the Trackpad to autoconnect to both Macs?
Edit
It's a bluetooth trackpad and the internal memory is empty... where can I configure the double-connections, or find out if it could connect to both Macs?


texts: How to restore the iPhone as a new phone with the same OS version?

texts:
I have an iPhone 5s. It currently has iOS 8.4.1 on it.  I want to restore it as a new phone, but retain iOS 8.4.1.

Is this possible?  Or will iTunes force iOS 9.x onto the phone?


texts: Can I output 1080p at 240hz from my 2017 MacBook Pro 13inch with Touch Bar

texts:
I just bought an Acer XB252Q gaming monitor that has 1080p 240hz.

I was wondering if I can output 1080p at 240hz with my 2017 MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar using a display port cable?

I ask because on HDMI it only outputs 1080p at 60hz.


texts: How can I install Adobe Flash manually or without giving root access?

texts:
Background info:
I've locked down my /Library folder so even the admin group can't write (only root can).

The Adobe update app opens the password dialog when I click "install". Is it possible to install without giving root access to this executable?

The ps command says the installer is running as $TMPDIR/FPUnpackPath/Install Adobe Flash Player.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Flash Player Install Manager. That file is a compiled binary (Mach-O).

I also found a single dpkg directory: Contents/Resources/Adobe Flash Player.pkg. Under this is Contents/Archive.pax.gz. The file list looks innocent enough, my existing installation seems to have the files under /Library.

Would the install be clean if I just run the dpkg file, rather than proceeding with their Mach-O binary? I take it that running the dpkg is safer?
(I have a feeling that the Mach-O only does installation-support stuff like making sure the old files aren't in use before replacing.)
Please support your answer with evidence, don't merely speculate.

Btw, Cmd-I when the Installer app is running will list the contents. Very nice. (See How can I open a .pkg file manually?)


texts: Samsung SSD in older Imac (24" Alu)? Trim support?

texts:
I have an older 24" iMac (Model 8.1 with Mountain Lion) and would like to extend its life a bit by adding a 256GB SSD.  Samsung SSDs seem to be coming down in price (and are possibly well reusable if the iMac retires at some point) and I've looked at the tear-down of the model which appears to be doable (no glued parts).

Does anyone have experience with putting 3rd party SSDs in an older machine?  And if so, will it support SDD TRIM?


texts: Applescript: move all files with a certain extension to the trash

texts:
This is very straightforward; it moves myfile.WMA to the trash:
tell application "Finder"
    move POSIX file "/Volumes/DS_30/myfolder/myfile.WMA" to trash
end tell

But how would I move all files in myfolder with a extension of .WMA to the trash?


texts: Unable to read object properties with AppleScript: "Music got an error: Can’t get properties of current track."

texts:
I am trying to write an AppleScript that will tell me the current playing song, but I am unable to read properties from objects in AppleScript.
Executing a function on music works fine such as
tell application "Music" to play
tell application "Music" to pause

But trying to read a property such as the current track title does not. In fact, even trying to read the properties of the current track does not work. (Tested while a song was playing)
tell application "Music" to get properties of current track

returns error "Music got an error: Can’t get properties of current track." number -1728 from properties of current track
Per this question, the above script should work: AppleScript and Music
I did get this to work when I was trying before when I was looking at the permissions, but then it stopped working since then so it might have been working for another reason. I'm running the script in script editor, which does have accessibility access in my security & privacy settings.
Possibly related issue: Applescript - Getting Property of an Object Not Working


texts: Temporary .DS_store files, phantom connections?

texts:
I have my machine set up not to write .DS_store files, the reason being because I was suspect they may have been causing access issues on shared drives (folder is considered "in use" even when it isn't), but when I go into a folder, I can still change the view options, which appear to be saved–even with no .DS_file being created–until I unmount the drive.

I'm almost certain now that the issue I'm having is not with the .DS_files, but with whatever process is saving and storing the view options locally. This process or whatever it is, is keeping the folder "open", preventing everyone else from editing the folder name or moving it, which is a big deal when you're creating a lot of assets, new folders and moving stuff around while doing housekeeping.

To elaborate, the issue we're having is when a folder is opened in finder, immediately something happens on that machine that is persistent until the drive is unmounted, even when you navigate away from that folder, some kind of lingering connection still exists that registers that folder as "open", even when there is literally no one currently viewing the folder contents. I don't know what it is, and this is my question, what is happening when you view the contents of the folder that could cause the server to perceive that folder as still being open or being used by a computer on the network?


texts: How to connect to a mac mini when offline from a mac laptop?

texts:
I'm a developer that travels. I have a macbook pro and a mac mini (which runs as a headless webserver). This setup works fine when both machines are on the same network.

However, I've never been able to get this setup to work at all when I'm somewhere that doesn't have a connection (and I need to work offline).

There surely must be a way to connect to the webserver running on the Mac Mini from my laptop without an internet connection? Is there a way I can plug in an ethernet cable between the two? A USB cable? A Firewire cable?

I apologise if some of those ideas seem crazy. Hardware is not my forte.

Any help would be greatly appreciated =)


texts: Add striped effect to own events in Calendar.app

texts:
Sometimes I see events like these on external calendars shown in my Calendar.app:

There is a striped pattern behind it. Makes it look cancelled.
How do I add this effect to events that I create myself?


texts: Deleting password from Keychain in terminal

texts: I'm having trouble deleting the github credentials from Keychain Access. Keychain Access just freezes everytime I try. Is there a command to force deletion of an item in the Keychain from the terminal?


texts: parallel with copy command is very slow to clone 2 directories

texts:
I am on MacOS Catalina. This command is very slow :
parallel -j32 cp -rpf {} /Users/henry/ ::: /Volumes/henry/
The goal is to  clone the /Volume/henry to /Users/henry directory.
/Volume/henry is shared across my network.
Could anyone tell me what's wrong in my command : I have 1.3 TB to clone.
Any help is welcome.


texts: Is there "danger" in removing Macintosh HD from my Time Machine as a back up? I want to use Seagate Backup Plus Drive

texts: I'm a novice (obviously!), and my Seagate will not back up my computer because it says there is nothing to back-u since my Macintosh HD is in my "Exclude these items from backups" under "Options".  I'm having a little anxiety if I take it off the list -- that I will lose all that is on it.  Call me crazy.  I just need some confirmation since I do not put it on this list so I assume it should be there.


texts:
I had an iPhone 5 that I backed up a while back before I switched to a new phone. I just purchased an iPhone 5s yesterday and when I tried to restore from that iCloud backup, everything goes fine except for some reason my photos will not download. It starts out saying I have 200 pictures. The pictures are not downloaded yet so all you see is the gray square tile as a place holder. However, every second, a tile gets deleted. It will continue to delete the pending images until I have 4 images remaining. Those will download without a problem but these images are old, from five or so months ago. I've talked to Apple, restored the iPhone 4 times so far and each time it does the same thing. Nothing has worked...

What can I do to get my photos back?


texts:
My Contacts.app crashed on launch. In the crash report I found, among others, the following excerpt:

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Multiple object mappings were found for AB key AAMkADM2MDFmNGNmLWM3NmMtNGYxOS1iMDg4LWY0YjI1MGYzNjYxYQBGAAAAAABDPkLykrMnSJ1IqQdY8YscBwBYGhW8CcVeTK3joidjOJa9AAAAAAEiAABYGhW8CcVeTK3joidjOJa9AAA10vffAAA= of type itemId'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called


texts: Outlook 2016 for Mac: Column View with Reading Pane on right

texts:
How do you get the reading pane on the right while retaining a column view of emails in the centre?

Whenever I turn on the reading pane to show on the right side, the email list changes from Column View to a format I don't like, which shows each mail over a number of lines that includes a preview.  (I'm not sure what the name of this view is.)

On Outlook for the PC, this is not a problem, but on Mac it is for some reason?


texts:
I have a mid-2012 13” MBP running on 10.12.6 Sierra, which I’ve been trying to update to the latest OS for some time now. Any update that is newer than Sierra throws a “An error occurred while verifying firmware” error.
After removing the CD/DVD drive in order to fit the caddy/bracket, I have swapped the original HDD with Crucial’s BX300 SSD and tried to find an update, but on their official site there are currently no updates for that particular SSD (https://uk.crucial.com/support/ssd-support/bx300-support). I have also installed additional RAM.
SPECS -
Model: MacBookPro9,2.
Boot ROM Version: MBP91.00D3.B0B
SMC Version (system): 2.2f44
SSD: CT240BX300SSD1 240GB
According to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201518 the latest EFI is .B0C, however unable to install that either (requires OSX 10.9).
I’m not an Apple expert, but as far as I understand, it’s because High Sierra and above require the disk to be APFS?
I'm thinking of putting the original HDD back in, or using USB and installing High Sierra (and above) on that HDD and then switching back to SSD. Another option is disabling conversion to APFS during installation. Would that work?
Any suggestions?
Thanks.


texts: List All Files in USB device from /Volumes Shell Script

texts:
To clear things up I have setup folder actions on my mac for whenever a USB device is plugged into my mac it will run a shell script.

When I list all files in the Directory /Volumes i get

$ ls -a
.       ..      .DS_Store   MobileBackups   Storage     WED

What I want to do is list all folders and files located in WED or any USB that pops up, so therefore excluding the directories

.       ..      .DS_Store   MobileBackups   Storage

Leaving me with

WED

What i have for the script so far is:

GLOBIGNORE='/Volumes/MobileBackups*':'/Volumes/Storage*'
find '/Volumes' >> /Users/Brett/dev/USBLOGS/LogUSB.txt

I have tried multiple different ways but it still ends up listing every single file in the /Volumes directory.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brett

Additionally, it is MAC OS X El Capitan


texts:
I'm trying to run linux scripts on the mac, but even brew's updated base64 doesn't support -w0. I want something close to base64 (GNU coreutils) 8.22

Instead of base64 1.5 from brew or the unknown version MacOs ships with whose binary's md5 is 718fe34e4012999c180f807fe323e7f1

I've had great luck by using iTerm and loading .bashrc to replace most bsd/mac utilities with gnu ones.

P.S. There is little reason to install the one from brew, as it line breaks by default and has no way to disable that "feature".


texts: How can I charge and output audio from iPhone 5 in a car?

texts: I want to charge my iPhone 5 and listen to the music using AUX in my car. How can I do this using one cable? I have such a cable for my iPhone 4. Is there any good option for iPhone 5?


texts: Adding alarms to a calendar entry using AppleScript in Mavericks causes error

texts:
I have following scripts (see bottom) that is meant to open all calendar entries and create alarms for each. This is working fine on 10.8.x. I've been testing the same script on Mavericks and I'm getting this error.

The error happens on the line that says "make new open file alarm...". If I commented these 2 lines, it proceeds fine.

Any ideas what could be wrong? I looking at the Applescript reference guide available online but I can't find the section that talks about make and it's a bit hard to search the net for the word "make" since it's pretty generic.

Here's my code:

set startFile to "/Users/" & UName & "/Desktop/my-app1-here.app"
set endFile to "/users/" & UName & "/Desktop/my-app2-here.app"

    tell application "Calendar"
        tell calendar "Home"
            delay 1
            set allEvents to every event

            repeat with rEvent in allEvents
                tell rEvent
                            set theDate to start date - 1 * minutes
                    set endDate to end date

                    if (minutes of (endDate) is 0) then
                        set endDate to endDate - 5 * minutes
                    end if

                    make new open file alarm at end with properties {trigger date:theDate, filepath:startFile}
                    make new open file alarm at end with properties {trigger date:endDate, filepath:endFile}

                end tell
            end repeat

        end tell

here's the console error message:

7/05/2014 10:19:52.698 am Calendar[646]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [Save failed with error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=1560 "Multiple validation errors occurred." UserInfo=0x608000866600 {NSDetailedErrors=(
    "Error Domain=CalCalendarStorePersistenceErrorDomain Code=1550 \"Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path.\" UserInfo={\n    CalAlarmUID = \"2B8B98F1-0E23-45A7-AFDA-5AB692A36647\";\n    CalCalendarItemUID = \"79E93DF6-2073-40DF-BAB1-1642493B5B18\";\n    CalCalendarUID = \"DD5D4A36-F3E9-4BA7-A15B-A843D9381564\";\n    CalManagedObjectType = CalManagedAlarm;\n    NSLocalizedDescription = \"Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path.\";\n}",
    "Error Domain=CalCalendarStorePersistenceErrorDomain Code=1550 \"Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path.\" UserInfo={\n    CalAlarmUID = \"7729163B-0C99-4F21-AA2D-4A96E41D5045\";\n    CalCalendarItemUID = \"79E93DF6-2073-40DF-BAB1-1642493B5B18\";\n    CalCalendarUID = \"DD5D4A36-F3E9-4BA7-A15B-A843D9381564\";\n    CalManagedObjectType = CalManagedAlarm;\n    NSLocalizedDescription = \"Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path.\";\n}"
)}]
7/05/2014 10:19:52.699 am Calendar[646]: Detailed error: Error Domain=CalCalendarStorePersistenceErrorDomain Code=1550 "Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path." UserInfo={
    CalAlarmUID = "2B8B98F1-0E23-45A7-AFDA-5AB692A36647";
    CalCalendarItemUID = "79E93DF6-2073-40DF-BAB1-1642493B5B18";
    CalCalendarUID = "DD5D4A36-F3E9-4BA7-A15B-A843D9381564";
    CalManagedObjectType = CalManagedAlarm;
    NSLocalizedDescription = "Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path.";
}
7/05/2014 10:19:52.699 am Calendar[646]: Detailed error: Error Domain=CalCalendarStorePersistenceErrorDomain Code=1550 "Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path." UserInfo={
    CalAlarmUID = "7729163B-0C99-4F21-AA2D-4A96E41D5045";
    CalCalendarItemUID = "79E93DF6-2073-40DF-BAB1-1642493B5B18";
    CalCalendarUID = "DD5D4A36-F3E9-4BA7-A15B-A843D9381564";
    CalManagedObjectType = CalManagedAlarm;
    NSLocalizedDescription = "Alerts that open files or scripts must include a file path.";
}


texts: Kernel_task uses 15% of CPU, but stops as soon as the computer is used? (10.15.7, Mid 2012 15" Retina MBP)

texts:
I have a 15" Mid 2012 Retina MacBook Pro (2.7ghz i7, 16gb of RAM) that I use as a headless server in my house. It's currently running 10.15.7, which is the last supported MacOS release it can run.
When I leave the machine running, screen open but brightness all the way down, the fan CONSTANTLY runs. As soon as I turn the brightness up and start using the computer, or remote in with a VNC client (I'm using the one that's an extension for chrome) the fan stops running. Looking at Activity monitor, there's a kernel_task that using around 15% of the CPU that immediately stops when I remote in or start using the computer. You can see the task and drop in CPU usage in the attached screenshot (screenshot taken after the %CPU has dropped, but you can see kernel_task, and the associated load on the graph at the bottom).
I've done a clean install of 10.15.7, and the only programs I have installed are: Chrome, Docker, pi-hole running in Docker, and Homebridge (for homekit).
I thought it might just be spotlight re-indexing the computer, but it's been about a week and the problem hasn't gone away. I have tried a SMC and PRAM reset, and neither have helped. It's pretty much running a clean install, other than the programs I have listed.
Does anyone have any tips for figuring out what is causing kernel_task to use the CPU so often? Why does it go away when I start using the computer?


texts: Ukelele generated custom keyboard layouts not working in Lion?

texts:
I created a custom keyboard layout with Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) in Snow Leopard (idea is to generate scandinavian letters with Alt-key, otherwise have a pretty much standard U.S. layout).  After the upgrade, the old installed (to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts) layout wasn't working.

Ukelele seems to work OK in Lion, but whether I put the generated keylayout in a bundle or single file, or save it "/Library/Keyboard Layouts" or "~/Library/Keyboard Layouts" doesn't seem to matter.

Help?

EDIT:

@Sergio, I cannot choose the layout in Input Sources.
One keylayout file I tried: http://semeai.org/~sjl/us-scands.keylayout

BTW Off-topic: I don't know if I'm going blind or something, but I can't seem to locate the Library directory in Finder.  I need to copy stuff to and fro from my home directory.

UPDATE:

I've been trying to get this work on my machine for a few hours now and I just thought to try out with a random layout from the 'net; http://colemak.com/Mac was the first to hit the radar.  I did the same thing as with my layout, saved it under Library, and it shows under Input Sources.  My layout still doesn't.  I'll try to create a layout from scratch, see if that helps.  BTW, apparently "New from current input source" in Ukelele is broken in Lion.

UPDATE 2011/08/15:

@Tom:

Copied your keylayout (it naturally ended up in my Junk folder):

midgard (01:55) >ls -l ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/MongolianQWERTY.keylayout
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sjl  staff  44536 Mar 13  2008 /Users/sjl/Library/Keyboard Layouts/MongolianQWERTY.keylayout

Logged out, logged in, isn't showing in Input sources (I'm looking very closely between "Maori" and "Myanmar - QWERTY").

I've also uninstalled bunch of software and plugins giving suspicious messages to system.log, but hasn't helped.

UPDATE 2011/08/16:

I created a test account, and lo, the layout works perfectly for it.  Also the bug in preferences doesn't show for that account.  When trying this on my own account, there are no errors in Console logs with the suggested keywords (I can't seem to locate console.log file, though).

UPDATE 2011/08/16 later:

Nuking Library/Caches (and relogging) didn't help.

UPDATE 2011/08/17:

I did

% find Library -name "*.plist" -exec mv {} {}.renamed \;

and restarted, but it didn't help.  I restored the situation with

% for file in `find Library -name "*.plist.renamed"`; \
  do mv "$file" "${file//.renamed/}"; done

addendum: I also went through all the .plist files with plutil -s as described in http://www.askdavetaylor.com/can_i_check_my_plist_files_in_mac_os_x_for_problems.html.  There was some brokennes, but in very unrelated applications.

UPDATE 2011/09/10:

I went the extra mile and moved my whole Library away using another account, login in with my own account and observing stuff still not working.  I have copied the layout to /Library/Keyboard Layouts, from where it works for a test account, but not for my own.  Also, if I delete all the custom keylayout files, from everywhere, the Character Viewer and the Keyboard Viewer appaer as selectable to the Input Sources menu and also show under the International menu in the menubar.  As soon as I copy a keyboard layout to Library (home or system), the viewers disappear from both the menu and the Input Sources.

Any ideas how I could get more information from the system? I tried Command-V on boot for verbose boot but that didn't give any extra information for this issue.

SOLUTION FOR POSTERITY:

Adapted from http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1896?viewlocale=en_US for Lion:

sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache*
sudo find /var/ -name "*IntlDataCache*" -exec rm {} \;

Restart.


texts: The first time I tried to use Java on Mountain Lion, it installed automatically. Unfortunately, it installed Java 6, so I installed Java 7. If I navigate to Java in System Preferences, only Java 7 is listed. How do I switch to Java 7, or remove Java 6?


texts: Using Gmail with Mail, Google Calendar with iCal

texts:
I currently use Gmail and Google Calendar for my primary email and calendar system. I've been using them both through the web interface so I can best take advantage of all the features. However I'm considering switching to Mail & iCal, and I'm trying to figure out what I will and won't be able to do. (I already set up syncing with Mail & Calendar on my iPhone, and Address Book on both my iPhone and Mac.)

Here are the features I use:

Keyboard shortcuts in Gmail
Several alternate email addresses that are forwarded to and fetched by my primary Gmail account

When I reply to an email that was sent to one of these addresses, Gmail automatically picks that address to send from
Sending mail from plus-addresses (e.g. me+test@gmail.com)

Priority Inbox ("Important" messages, as determined by Gmail's algorithm, appear at the top of my inbox)
Labels, which appear next to the message subject in my inbox
In Google Calendar, I have added a couple public calendars that I can view events from.

Are all of these features easy to sync with Mail and iCal? In particular, how do I set up the ability to send from my other addresses? Will I have to add my other accounts separately in Mail (and if so, will I still be able to view them when I visit gmail.com on another device)?


texts: "Install Xcode.app" won't uninstall from my Mac

texts:
I downloaded the new Xcode 4.2 update yesterday and installed it.  The installer shows up in Launchpad as an app, see screenshot below.

When I hold the mouse button and click the 'X' to delete, it asks me to confirm deletion which I do, then it just stays there.

I looked in Console.app and got the message below:

  14/10/2011 22:52:20.654 Dock: LaunchPad: Uninstall failed Error
  Domain=com.apple.uninstalld.request Code=2 "ErrorMissingBundle"
  UserInfo=0x7fa5ba2e65d0 {Missing bundle string=/Applications/Install
  Xcode.app} file://localhost/Applications/Install%20Xcode.app/

How do I remove this app?


texts:
When I first configured my new iPod touch 5th gen, I put "English" for iOS language. I then switched iOS to "Français (Canada)" in the General Settings/International. Everything look fine except one thing : The date displayed on the lockscreen which remains in english (Ex: Monday, 15 April). Even after restarting my iPod, the date is still in english.

Any idea how to have the date translated on the lockscreen ?


texts: How to stop receiving mails from a specific account?

texts: Macbook Pro has made my life very miserable, in a struggle to make something out of it, I'm trying to atleast stop receiving mails from my gmail account with out disabling it. My gmail account is being spammed heavily even after setting so many filters. So i'm auto forwarding the important ones to my iCloud mail. I am not disabling it as I want to reply to the mails from it that are being forwarded to my iCloud email. As my Gmail is being heavily spammed I want to stop syncing it with out disabling it. Or how can I add my gmail as alias in iCloud mail?


texts: Yosemite won't uncompress .zip files when I double-click on them

texts:
I recently upgraded to Yosemite (10.10.1). Today I tried to unzip a .zip file for the first time since upgrading.

I already had 4 or so unzipping apps that worked just fine on my previous OS X, so I just double-clicked on the .zip, and Yosemite tried to open the .zip with the default unzip app.

Unfortunately, I then discovered that the default unzip app and all of my other ones were not compatible with 10.10.

I checked online and found that according to Apple, in 10.10, to unzip a .zip, you just double-click on the file and Yosemite would unzip it for you.

However, whenever I double-clicked on the .zip, Yosemite would only try to open it with the incompatible default unzip app.

So I deleted all my unzip apps and rebooted.

When I then checked my .zip files, I noticed they all were defaulting to open with TextEdit. When I double-clicked one .zip file, I got this message:

When I double-clicked another .zip file, I got this message:

So the question is does anyone know how to get Yosemite to open a .zip given this situation?


texts: Text in place of Finder icons (MacOS Sierra)

texts:
My finder looks like this:

If I click on the text 'view', 'action' etc, it shows all the options and I'm able to use it quite normally. What gives?

How do I get the icons + buttons back?


texts: Removing old users with sudo in terminal

texts:
Awhile ago, I removed a former staff account from a mac mini but kept the home folder in users, using the regular user management UI in system preferences. A virus scan came up with multiple threats from that directory so I opted to su to admin and then sudo remove the entire directory.

Is this wrong, to remove a user in this way?


texts: I had used CandyBar to change my Mail.app icon. After apply the 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 1, the Mail.app icon has reverted. How can I prevent that from happening in the future?


texts: Sleeping mode and start up inconsistens behaviour

texts:
MacBook mid 2012, no retina, OS X 10.10

When I close my MacBook it should go into sleeping Mode (I dont know if it does, it seems like there are several "sleeping modes")
When I open it again some weird things happen.

Sometimes it takes ages for it to start again. When I watched a video, closed it while the video was still running (or music on iTunes) and I open the Computer after a while again, it takes ages till I can type in my password in the prompt. Instead, the video/music starts, it fetches emails, updates my calender etc. Sometimes the screen turns even black again that I have to press the power button. Then I can type in my password. So in short, it starts up everything else (sometimes it takes up to two minutes) before I can type my password.
I have FileVault activeted. When I shut the computer and come back after two hours, sometimes the computer seems to be in "deep sleeping mode". So I hear the harddrive starting up, I have to type in my password for the first time to deactivate FileVault (why is that the same password than my normal password?), and then I can type in my normal password. Sometimes, however, it seems like the sleeping mode is not that "deep". I open the computer after a night and can type in my password straight away and the desktop appears. There is no need for the FileVault password and it does not take ages as described in (1).

How comes its that inconsistent?!


texts: How to run Applescript via bash from JAMF?

texts:
this apple script code works fine from the Script Editor app:
tell application "Finder" to delete ((POSIX file "/Applications/Symantec Solutions/Symantec Endpoint Protection.app") as alias)

Now, I need to run that from my MDM solution (JAMF), so I'm trying to get it into a bash file as this:
osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to delete (POSIX file \"/Applications/Symantec Solutions/Symantec Endpoint Protection.app\") as alias"

but when run it from my editor (CodeRunner) it fails with: execution error: Not authorised to send Apple events to System Events. (-1743)
I think it's related with the Privacy Preferences Policy Control but I cannot make it work.
What I want to accomplish ultimately is that by running a script from my MDM I can get the same dialog that when I drag de app to the bin: "The application “Symantec Endpoint Protection” is hosting system extensions. These extensions will be removed if you continue." which I don't get if I just rm -rf the whole app.
Sorry if I can't be any clearer. Any clues?


texts: How can I remove/turn off shadows in macOS 10.14

texts:
I think this has been asked somewhere for lots of versions of OS X/macOS and it seems like it's always a different answer.

I'm trying to remove the shadows around windows and the shadow below the menu bar in macOS 10.14.  I'm not using Dark Mode.

I've tried various options from previous OS versions including Onyx and Reducing transparency in Preferences.

I'm not interested in turning off SIP.

Are there any options out there?


texts: How to control iPhone "Personal Hotspot" via Terminal

texts: I'm a recent convert to Alfred and want to build workflows to connect and disconnect my MacBook to my iPhone's Personal Hotspot. Are these commands easily available in Terminal please? I've looked here and searched more widely, but only find directions to WiFi networks. If the Personal Hotspot is controlled by the same commands, what will its network name be, please?


texts: Is it possible to use MTP with iPhone without installing iTunes?

texts: I want to transfer photos to the windows computer


texts: How to selectively sync playlists from iCloud to iPhone

texts:
I am using Apple Music and all my purchased songs & the playlists are synced to the cloud. However, I don't want every single playlist from showing up on my iPhone when I turn on the iCloud music. Is there any way to choose which playlists shows up and which do not?

I know I can delete them from my iPhone but the songs will still show up in my library. Also, I don't know if deleting them from my iPhone will affect the sync in all my other devices.


texts: Wi-Fi stops working when running Node.js server

texts:
I'm trying to run a game server using WebSocket and node.js. It works fine for about 5 minutes and then all of a sudden the game stops and I can no longer connect to the internet.

When I hover over the Wi-Fi symbol in the menu bar, it shows the spinning pinwheel of death. When I open System Preferences and go to the network section, it becomes unresponsive. The only thing that fixes the internet is rebooting. When I log out, it shows a black screen with my cursor. I'm on Mac OS Sierra. this is my log file from console:


texts: Somehow the calendar on my phone is showing only the 2015 yearly calendar. How do I get back to seeing daily schedule?


texts: Why doesn't SMS spam go to the Unknown Senders tab on iPhone Messages?

texts:
On iPhone Messages, SMS text messages come through from political groups and all kinds of other nonsense.  These are not phone numbers I interact with.  Some of them are short codes?
Why don't they all go to the "Unknown Senders" tab, since I have that setting turned on?


texts: Is it possible to long press on Apple Maps screen in CarPlay and get directions to that location?

texts: I'm familiar with long-pressing on Apple Maps on iPhone to drop a pin and then getting directions to that location. Is it possible to long press on Apple Maps screen in CarPlay to a drop a pin?


texts: Local policy error when disabling SIP on Big Sur/M1

texts:
I'm trying to disable System Integrity Protection on an M1 Mac.
csrutil disable as well as csrutil authenticated-root disable fail with an error:

csrutil: Failed to update security configuration for "Macintosh HD": Failed to create local policy

How can I avoid this failure? What is causing it?

This a brand-new Big Sur 11.0 (20A2411) on M1 MBP. FileVault is off. I'm booting into the new "Options" mode, and launching Terminal from there. Authentication is certainly OK, as I get a different error if I enter a wrong password. The user partition is accessible in this mode, I can write to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/me/ for example.
-bash-3.2# csrutil disable
Turning off System Integrity Protection requires modifying system security.
Allow booting unsigned operating systems and any kernel extensions for OS "Macintosh HD"? [y/n]: y

Enter password for user admin:
Mounted /dev/disk3s3 at <private>
Unmounted /dev/disk3s3 ( <private> )
csrutil: Failed to update security configuration for "Macintosh HD": Failed to create local policy


texts: Remove services from context menus (but leave them in the app's Services menu)

texts:
I created a few services with Automator and it seems OS X automatically adds these to the context menu of files/folders that they apply to. Is it possible to remove the services from the context menu BUT still have them be accessible from the application's Services menu (under App Name > Services)?

Services appear to be stored in ~/Library/Services, and when I remove them from this folder, they're removed from both the context menu and the Services menu.


texts:
when I was cleaning my mac book's fans I destroyed one screw head shown in picture (right fan)  picture from ifixit

How can I replace it?
Drill that screw up, or other method?
And where can I buy a new one?


texts: Is there any way to let apple know shellshock patch download is broken?

texts:
I am trying to patch Lion (10.7.5).
According to shellshocker.net, I am vulnerable to 6 out of 7 possible exploits.
The download link for Lion is broken:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1767?locale=en_US
leads me to the following empty file:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1767/en_US/BashUpdateLion.dmg

Is there anyway to report this without paying 30 for tech support?


texts: How can I have dmg files automatically unmount when I trash them?

texts:
A while ago, I used to have some kind of App or service that would automatically unmount a dmg file whenever I put the dmg file into the trash. This was really convenient, but I've since reinstalled OS X, and I've completely forgotten the name of the app that provides this useful feature. I still have backups of my old system, but I have no idea where to look. So, does anyone know of an app that provides this feature?

(Note: There are plentiful tutorials on how to achieve the reverse, i.e. auto-trash on eject, but this is not what I'm looking for.)


texts: Why does my Mac start up immediately when plugged in, while my iPhone needs to start up?

texts:
What causes the difference between my mac an my iPhone, where my Mac can boot and become useful immediately after being plugged in, while my phone needs a couple of minutes before it can even start to boot?

It's sometimes a bit frustrating, but in many cases, understanding the reason makes things like this less irritating to me.


texts: Quicktime 1-hour screen recording only lasts 15 minutes

texts:
I used Quicktime to record my screen for approximately 1 hour. When then hour passed, I clicked the stop recording button in the menu bar. The video took a looong time to pop up, around 30 - 40 minutes. However when I see the recording, it is only 15 minutes long.
I was reading and there is this energy saving setting that stops the video after 15 minutes, but my video didn't stop, I had to stop it myself and I did so after an hour. It also took a long time to process which could be an indication of processing a long video. So, what happened to the rest 45 minutes of it?
I am using Big Sur.
I checked the unsaved documents folder and it is empty. Is there a way to get the complete video or is it lost forever. Has anyone experienced something similar?
Any inputs would be appreciated.
Thanks.
EDIT: after some testing it seems that indeed the energy saving option was causing the videos to stop. Still looking for some input if the rest of the recording can somehow be found anywhere, as like I mentioned before, the recording (at least the interface) was still running for the whole hour plus the processing time was super long.


texts:
On the mac mail I used to be able to select a mail, then press “Command” button and “M” to delete an attachment (without deleting the whole e-mail, just delete the attachment). But right now, when I try to delete attachments in some e-mails by pressing those two buttons, it just make a “ding” sound and wouldn’t delete anything. Can you please tell me how to solve this problem?

Since this problem only happening with certain e-mails with attachments, I thought it’s probably something wrong with the attachment. So, I forward that same e-mail back to me (including the attachment and everything), I can delete that attachment by pressing those two buttons. So, I am guessing there is nothing wrong with the files that has been attached.

Macbook Pro OS X 10.6.8
Mail Version 4.5 (1084)


texts: How do I fix a (bad?) Time Machine USB hard drive?

texts:
My Time Machine USB hard drive no longer mounts in MacOS. When I tried to run
$ diskutil verifyVolume /Volumes/[drive name]/

it would stall for 12+ hours.
I tried to fix the drive in Linux. It looks like /dev/sdc2 is the 2T partition storing the backups.
$ sudo parted -l

Model: ASMT 2105 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      20.5kB  210MB   210MB   fat32        EFI System Partition  boot, esp
 2      210MB   2000GB  2000GB
 3      2000GB  2000GB  134MB   hfs+         Booter

However, I don't think fsck.hfsplus is doing anything.
$ sudo fsck.hfsplus -dfy /dev/sdc2
** /dev/sdc2
    Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=1024 cacheSize=32768K.
    Block 2 is not an MDB or Volume Header
    Block 3906357342 is not an MDB or Volume Header
    unknown volume type
    primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
    alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00
    primary VHB is at block 0 0x00
    alternate VHB is at block 0 0x00
    sector size = 512 0x200
    VolumeObject flags = 0x01
    total sectors for volume = 3906357344 0xe8d64860
    total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00

For example, a good run looks like
$ sudo fsck.hfsplus -dfy /dev/sdc3
** /dev/sdc3
    Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=1024 cacheSize=32768K.
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
** Checking Catalog hierarchy.
** Checking Extended Attributes file.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
** The volume Boot OS X appears to be OK.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
I am rather new to Mac, but I am trying to get familiar with Terminal and I want to change its theme. I am a bit confused on how to go about installing Solarized themes I am seeing so much of around the net. I am able to get the theme installed for vim, but I want it for just my general terminal usage.

I see some suggesting to install SIMBL but then I read if you have Lion, SIMBL is not needed with the color support that it has.

And then I've seen a suggestion to just "double click" to install, I am not entirely sure what is meant to be double clicked, the Solarized Dark ansi.terminal file?

My concern is running something that I am not sure what it is going to do. So anyone who could shed some light on this process, that would be extremely helpful!


texts:
I often travel using Finder in the source directories of various project (LaTeX articles, programming stuff) for which the compilation is piloted by a Makefile.
I was wondering if there is a simple way (Service menu, Automator whatever) to invoke the corresponding command (make) in the good directory directoly from Finder (right-click something).

I'm running OS X 10.8.

Thanks by advance for your suggestions


texts: When I click on my terminal, strange characters appear

texts:
The problem I have happens after a ssh connection has been ended by closing my MacBook (putting it in stand-by mode). I come back and it's written broken pipe.

When I click on the terminal window, a succession of characters appear. If I click several times, then the combination of these characters will appear the same number of times.

By moving my cursor, I can change the combination of letters...
Here, between every line, I moved my cursor somewhere else on my Desktop.

The content of my ~/.bash_profile is:

# Tell ls to be colourful
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=Exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad

# Tell grep to highlight matches
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'

export TERM="xterm-color"
PS1='\[\e[0;33m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\[\e[0;32m\]\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[0;34m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\$ '

# Setting PATH for Python 3.6
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

# added by Anaconda3 5.2.0 installer
export PATH="/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"

Versions:

macOS High Sierra version 10.13.5


texts: iMac install Java, webpage test succeeds, `javac` fails

texts: I'm trying to install Java on my iMac running 10.9.5. I downloaded and installed JDK according to the official Oracle instructions. When testing via the web-page at the end of the install, Java is detected. However, when running javac or java in the terminal, I get an error reporting I must install a JDK. I understand that there are different Javas for web apps and desktop apps, but why can only Safari detect my Java? Is there another way to install Java that I'm missing?


texts: iPhone 5 tethering, device hard to discover, normal or a problem?

texts:
I often use tethering now that it's enabled on Softbank network in Japan.
I normally use WIFI connection. The thing is, my iPhone 5 is usually hard to discover from my computer (Macbook Air). Normally when I turn on the tethering and wait around 10 seconds, it shows up in the available networks in the computer. But after closing the computer, doing something else, than later (minutes, hours or days), without having switched tethering off on the iPhone 5, I don't think I was ever able to discover the iPhone 5 from the computer, without switching tethering on/off on the iPhone 5.
Sometimes even after discovery, the connection itself fails because of "timing out". It seems the tethering discovery with iPhone 5 is weak. Is this normal or an issue? Is the iPhone 5 faulty? (I know most/many iPhone 5 have really bad WIFI hardware and/or software. Maybe it's related.)
iPhone 5 is at iOS 6.1 I believe.


texts: No backlight on Macbook Pro 2015 and backlight fuse is burned out

texts:
My Macbook pro has no backlight (you can see a dim image).  I checked the backlight fuse on the logic board and it's burned out.  I heard Apple recommends replacing both logic board and display to fix this issue, as the display be shorting out the logic board (so if I replace the logic board alone, the new logic board may get shorted out and damaged by the display again).

This way I may just replace the logic board without having to replace the display if it’s healthy.

How would one check the display pins for a short-circuit?


texts: Turning File Vault on, and instantly upgrading to macOS Big Sur is not a problem?

texts:
I just got a new MacBook Pro 16 inch from the IT department, and after I turned on the machine, it asked me for a series of set up questions.
One of them is File Vault, so I answered "Yes".  But it takes no time to set it up, as opposed to some online page stating it took forever.
But there is another post stating it will be encrypting silently in the background?
So while I am not sure if it really should take some time or is it instant, due to my work, I need to immediately upgrade to macOS Big Sur from Catalina.
So will it be alright while File Vault is encrypting files in the background and the OS is being upgraded?  I take it the upgrade process should be smart enough to handle that.


texts: Developer Account Renewal - what happens if you don't renew?

texts:
I'm a registered Apple Developer and I don't want to renew right now because I'm not currently working on iOS apps and may not be for the next year. I understand my apps will be taken out of sale, and that's cool with me.

My question is (since Apple don't clarify this themselves):
Are the apps also removed from iTunes Connect? i.e. If I decide to reopen my account in the future, will they be available for sale just by flipping a switch, or would I need to re-build and re-upload them?


texts: Mac OS X with swap turned off uses 6 GB of space in a few hours of heavy use

texts:
I have few GBs (5,38 GB at the moment) of free space on my hard disk (MacBook Pro 2010, 10.7.5). Few hours after I turn on/reboot my computer, the free space slowly goes down to zero and the system hangs. I've found out that these 2 programs cause this problem: xCode, Google Chrome (both programs are memory-consuming I believe), although I think the problem is related to OS itself.

I've found similar questions but they all seem to be related to vanishing some of the disk space, where in my case I slowly loose all of the disk space.

What I've tried so far:

Using OmniSweeper to clean my disk
Disabling Mac OS X Paging/Swap as described here
Deleting sleep image

Right now, the only solution for this problem is to reboot the system (then it has all these GBs back and I can work for few hours). When I close Google Chrome and wait for few minutes, the system frees some (no more than 600 MBs) of disk space.

What can cause this problem? What software can I use to investigate it?


texts: Any way to change recommended resolution for all users on a Mac (preferably via Terminal)?

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I work on a college campus with a number of iMacs hooked up to projectors. For some reason, after imaging, they all default to 800x600 resolution on both the iMacs and the projectors, despite their shared maximum display resolutions. Is there any way to automatically tell the Mac to default the resolution to something higher and maintain that for all users regardless of what it's hooked up to? Alternately, is there any way I can change the default resolution for all users after the imaging process is complete?

I've found the com.apple.preference.displays file in /Library/Preferences/ByHost, but because it relies on the machine's UUID I don't think it will allow me to push that out remotely...


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When I press Command ⌘+↑ or Command ⌘+↓ on OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion), it scrolls all the way to the top or the bottom of a window.

The problem is, in some programs, this results in crazy uncontrollable scrolling behavior, because for whatever reason the program doesn't signal to the OS that it's hit the end of its scrolling. It's driving me nuts.

Is there any way to turn off this behavior? I've searched System Preferences > Keyboard settings to no avail.


texts: How to use Automator to filter Finder items on network shares

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I was trying to use the Automator action "Filter Finder Items" and wouldn't get any results, I had a feeling it was because it's a network share the source I'm working with. After a little searching I confirmed it when I read that the source must be indexed by Spotlight for the action to work.

In the Spotlight settings there are options to exclude sources but not to include. How can I either index network shares or work with network shares in Automator?

There are three server actions only:

Ask For Servers
Connect to Servers
Get Specified Servers

All three seem to do the same thing, all three are really vague and don't really work with files not with shares. The shares are already mounted so I used Get Specified Finder Items instead but that doesn't work. So I slid Get Specified Servers on top and still didn't work.

Any ideas? :(


texts: Make sure deleted photos on an Ipod touch can never be recovered?

texts: How can you make sure deleted photos on an Ipod touch 5 can never be restored or found by someone else?


texts: How can I connect my Windows laptop's keyboard to my iPad?

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I have a Windows laptop and an iPad Air 3. I want a physical keyboard for my iPad but I don't want to carry around another Bluetooth keyboard.

Is there a way that I can use my laptop as an external keyboard for my iPad?


texts: Some webpages cannot be accessed from USB-thethered device but work fine on the iPhone

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because my MacBook's WIFI peacefully transitioned to the eternal hunting grounds, I am forced to tether to an iPhone via USB to be able to access the interwebs for now.
For some, probably DNS-setting related, reason a number of websites cannot be contacted on the MacBook but work fine on the phone. The problem did not exist when connected via WIFI.
Does anyone know what I might have to look into? Special DNS settings on the MacBook? Any settings on iOS?

Thanks a lot


texts: How can I remove the eject button from my menubar when cmd-drag won't work?

texts: I have an eject icon in my menubar that I cannot remove by command-dragging it out of the bar. Is there a command I can run in Terminal?


texts: How can I identify which application I have installed for mouse gestures?

texts:
My middle mouse button is set to create mouse gestures. I've spent several hours on different occasions trying to understand which app I installed to set up the gestures but I can't for the life of me figure it out.

Does anybody know how I could track down a currently active app?
Or, maybe, is anybody able to visually recognize the app from looking at the "gesture track" the app creates? See here:


texts:
I had an unfortunate incident with boot camp assistant last night. I was trying to get hold of the windows drivers as an iso and when it asked me where to save to, I just selected my account folder in /users. Imagine my horror when it says it is formatting. No idea why it tries to format a directory, but needless to say it has made a mess.

I now can't login with this account, I get the login prompt and it accepts my pw but after sitting there a while the spinner remains but I get a no entry sign and it just sits there spinning.

Is there anyway I can try and retrieve what was left of my user data?

I have tried to repair the disk. It fails.
I can login as guest fine, but don't think I can get to my files here?
recovery partition boots up fine.
machine has FileVault running.
reset password doesn't show the disk, although disk until can see it.
safe mode boot to main account doesn't help.
I don't have any other user accounts to try.

I think the os is probably ok, but obviously major prob with my profile. Can I mount the machine as a remote disk on my other mac for instance?

Any help much appreciated as my last time machine backup is pretty stale. (been away)


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I have loads of videos and music on my computer, which I want to watch on my iPad.

However, I want to stream it to it, so I can grab what I feel like watching rather than having to preload everything.

I would like to stream these over wifi and they should be Windows 7 compatible


texts: Fan continuously running without any load

texts: On my MacBook Air (2017 model), fan is continuously running at > 6k RPM without any high load (< 20% CPU load). I have reseted SMC multiple times but to no avail. I am out of warranty period and I am afraid I will have to take it to Apple Service Centre.


texts: What are good travel game apps for iPad to entertain a 2-3 year old

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My wife is to face a 2h flight with our very active daughter and would like to prepare some distractions.

Specifically we are looking for very simple, entertaining games a toddler can handle. We already have "Memory" and she really enjoys it.

It should be as colorful as it can get and interactive where swiping and touching a thing is the most sophisticated gesture she can handle. Doesn't really have to have a goal, just do stuff.


texts: How do I navigate to Mouse & Trackpad in Accessibility Settings with AppleScript?

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I used Accessibility Inspector to try and help me figure this out but I wasn't quite able to get it. I'm navigating to the Accessibility pane but after that I am having trouble navigating to Mouse & Trackpad, or any other menu item for that matter.

tell application "System Preferences"
    set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"

    -- part that I am having trouble with
    tell table 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1
    select row 1
    end tell

end tell


texts: In iTerm2 Command Click on URLS does not work when inside a tmux session

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When not inside a tmux session, Command-Click on URLs works flawlessly.

How can I make links clickable in iTerm2 when inside a tmux session?
When hitting Command the mouse pointer changes to the  icon, but when clicking on an URL, nothing happens.

Note I have the following settings inside my .tmux.conf

[...]
# Enable mouse mode
set -g mode-mouse on
set -g mouse-resize-pane on
set -g mouse-select-pane on
set -g mouse-select-window on

# Mouse pane switching
set-option -g mouse-select-pane on
[...]

Disabling them and then reloading .tmux.conf does not resolve the issue.

iTerm2 Version is Build 1.0.0.20140629
tmux -V 1.9a


texts: Problem installing Box Sync 4 application on El Capitan

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I download the Box Sync .dmg, see the mounted installer, click on the installer, enter my password, and NOTHING happens.

I have tried this myriad different ways. I have restarted the laptop several times, to no avail. I am the only user and have admin rights. How do I fix this?

I know there was a different thread of the same title, but that was a case of not seeing the mounted installer and fixed in preferences. I can SEE the installer, I can interact with it. It does nothing.


texts: Does Textmate have anything like Emacs's point and mark for making selections?

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In Emacs, I can easily select a phrase in the middle of a sentence using incremental search. For example, I've written the sentence "I have never been to Paris, but I have taken a virtual tour of the Eiffel Tower, and I'm very excited to see it in person". Then I decide that I'd rather move "I have taken a virtual tour of the Eiffel Tower" to the beginning of the sentence.

To do this in Emacs, I would use incremental search to find "I", move to the start of the word, set the mark, then search again for "Tower" and move to its end. Now everything in between is a selected region and can be operated on.

Can I achieve the same result in Textmate?

I am familiar with its incremental search, but I cannot find a connection to selecting text. There is the "Extend selection to include next" command in the Text Bundle (bound to ^W), but that doesn't work for two different search targets and makes multiple selections rather than selecting everything in between.

Extending the selection using ⇧⌥ and arrow keys is the closest I've come up with, but it means tapping an arrow key for every word. Selecting to the end or beginning of a line is not what I want; I'm looking to capture something in the middle of the line.

I'm not tied to using incremental search: it's just how I do this in Emacs. (Is there some way to use ⌥^B in non-source-code text?) I'm open to any solution that allows me to quickly move from one arbitrary place in the text to another, selecting everything in between, without switching to the mouse.


texts: Apple switching to SMB, but SMB doesn't handle permissions the POSIX way: so what are they doing?

texts:
Rumor has it that Apple is switching from AFP to SMB for their file sharing.

However, SMB has always had a problem with permissions (i.e. everything is executable or everything is not executable).

How have they gotten around this?

And how can I do the same with a Linux SMB server?


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With a modern version of macOS, like Big Sur, if you open Console, you see tonnes and tonnes of messages streaming as soon as you press "start".
I was wondering, it seems like the chatter from Kernel/Apps/Info/Debug logs is non-stop, and huge amounts of volume.
This all gets written to disk in /var/log as I understand, though, when I "Start" in Console, I see so much, I don't see the disk writes spike in Activity Monitor, how does this level of logging not peg the disk usage high?
Does it get discarded when not "streaming" in Console? Does it get cached in RAM then bulk written? What's the modern mechanism here? It seems the modern OS generates so much log detail that the disk should never sleep, though it seems to.


texts: Remote dual boot, how to select OS to boot

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I'm installing Bootcamp ( Win7 64bit if that matters ) on my Mac Mini, since you need to pick the OS to start up while booting, how can I do this remotely?

Example:

VNC into OSX, reboot the machine, how do I select either OSX or Windows? Is there an option I can pass in while rebooting?


texts: Can iPhone be used with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse?

texts:
Can an iPhone (mine is 7) be used productively with an external keyboard and mouse -- connected via Bluetooth?

Such peripherals -- combined with a screen-magnifier -- would turn a phone into a decent personal computer...


texts: How can I print in colour from mac book air when olivetti printer defaults is set to print mono

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We have just one Mac user in the office. Everyone else is on HP Pro. Our Olivetti MF2400 is set to print in mono which is fine for HP users as we can choose colour from the file drop down however, there does not seem to be such an option on the mac book air.

Any advice?

Thanks
G


texts: iPhone sending multi-part texts as 60 character parts. Unicode punctuation to blame?

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From one specific iPhone user, I keep receiving multipart texts for small messages. Instead of 160 characters each, I'm getting about 60. It looks as though if any part of the message contains a Unicode character, the entire message is chopped up as if each character is 2 bytes. I've investigated slightly, and sure enough, the apostrophes I've been receiving are ’.

I have looked at her phone keyboard and can't really figure anything out. How should I proceed to correct this?


texts: 3-finger link previews: are you "visiting" the link?

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With the "Look up & data detectors" setting turned on, you can three-finger tap links in Safari to open a preview of the link. Many articles online announce this feature, but don't say much beyond instructing you how to do it. They don't say what is functionally happening when you preview a link.
Beyond appearances, does Safari handle a previewed link any differently than an opened link?
For example:

Is bandwidth different? I expect not, but could imagine some files aren't loaded.
Are you always seeing the most current version of the site, or is it cached?
Are cookies stored?
– Would paywalls count the visit?
– Is responsive design processed differently/disabled?

There are many more ways, I'm sure, that a preview could be handled differently than a new tab or window. Do we know if the preview is in fact functionally different?


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Is there a difference between bulk-moving files with Drag & Drop vs mv?

Use case:

Volume External_Drive_A has about 8000 files totalling 9GB. External_Drive_B has 74GB of free space. The desired end result is to move all the files from A to B so that A can be wiped and put to use in another location.

Drag & Drop approach is to open one Finder window for A, another Finder window for B, highlight all the files on A, then command-click-drag them to B.

mv approach is to open a Terminal session and invoke

mkdir /Volumes/External_Drive_B/A_legacy
mv /Volumes/External_Drive_A/* /Volumes/External_Drive/B/A_legacy/

Does Drag & Drop do anything behind-the-scenes in addition to the copy and remove, or is it strictly a thing of Beauty?

Answered by jmlumpkin below:

They differ! Drag & Drop brings the metadata, mv does not. I tested this by adding a phrase to the Spotlight Comments section on a text file's Get Info dialog. When I dragged and dropped the file across volumes, the phrase was present when I invoked Get Info on the destination; but when it used mv, the phrase was missing when I invoked Get Info on the destination.


texts: Question about Macbook Hard-driver replacement

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My OSX 10.8.2 crashed recently, I think I got a very good chance to replace my Hard drive as I need more storage. My question is: Can I seamlessly transfer my data (Include my iTunes music library and music playing history, iOS device synchronization record) to the new hard drive after replacing the hard drive WITHOUT using Time Machine? Because I got have no additional external hard drive for backup.

Thanks.


texts: How to enable iTerm2's system-wide hotkey when iTem2 is not running

texts: For me system-wide hotkey does not work when iTerm2 is closed. Is there a way to enable it? Or maybe create an instance of iTerm that runs invisibly in background and listens for hotkey?


texts:
My iPhone 3G which is a 16GB version can upgrade to newer iOS in the past, but for merely 2GB of total usage on this iPhone, iTunes will take an hour or more to "Back up the data".

I know that some slow flash memory may take 2MB/second for data transfer, but even at that speed, 500 seconds should be good for 1GB of data, and 1,000 seconds will be good for 2GB of data, so that should be 16.67 minutes only.  (and, 2MB/s is usually a bottleneck speed for data writing, not for reading.  The speed for slow flash memory read that I usually see is 6MB/s)

Is it a design issue or might there be even a product recall for this issue?  If the iPhone 3G is taken to the Apple Store's Genius Bar, will they be able to swap another phone that takes a lot shorter time?  (My iPhone 4 and 4S, for example, is a lot faster for backing up the data when upgrading iOS).


texts: Identify a specific process in macOS Big Sur

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I'm writing a shell script that mimics the functionality of setting the menu bar date and time format via System Preferences in macOS Big Sur. The action of checking/unchecking the 24-Hour Time option in System Preferences > Language & Region > General appears to restart a process, but I can't tell which one.
I'm certain it's none of the Dock, SystemUIServer or cfrefsd processes. I've tried identifying the process using the Activity Monitor and Console apps and top in Terminal, but I have little experience with these and am most likely missing something.
Is there a way to be able to identify processes that have been killed or (re-)started within a given time period, say the last 60 seconds.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards, Steve


texts: Is it normal for 1000 threads to launch on booting up MacBook Pro?

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My MacBook Pro is very slow immediately after booting up. Only after 5-6 mins have passed after booting, I am able to launch any application or use my MacBook properly. When I checked processes using "top" command on mac Terminal, I saw almost 1000 threads running on my MacBook. Is this normal ?
Attaching the screenshot of "top" command.

 Processes: 302 total, 2 running, 300 sleeping, 1020 threads                                                                                23:19:55
Load Avg: 1.58, 1.58, 1.52  CPU usage: 9.48% user, 5.59% sys, 84.91% idle    SharedLibs: 253M resident, 63M data, 23M linkedit.
MemRegions: 26938 total, 1140M resident, 158M private, 304M shared. PhysMem: 3526M used (1011M wired), 569M unused.
VM: 1759G vsize, 1118M framework vsize, 320(0) swapins, 320(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 51990/48M in, 45361/7234K out.
Disks: 157047/5111M read, 51916/1058M written.

PID  COMMAND      %CPU  TIME     #TH   #WQ  #PORT MEM    PURG   CMPRS  PGRP PPID STATE    BOOSTS           %CPU_ME %CPU_OTHRS UID  FAULTS   COW
720  SandboxedSer 0.0   00:00.03 2     1    47    1364K  12K    0B     720  1    sleeping  0[1]            0.00000 0.00000    501  3142     178
719  ocspd        0.0   00:00.02 2     1    30    1176K  0B     0B     719  1    sleeping *0[1]            0.00000 0.00000    0    1785     139
718  syspolicyd   0.0   00:00.09 2     1    33    3432K  44K    0B     718  1    sleeping  0[1]            0.00000 0.00000    0    3640     178
717  XprotectServ 0.0   00:00.05 2     2    44    3032K  0B     0B     717  1    sleeping  0[1]            0.00000 0.00000    501  3673     177
715  QuickLookSat 0.0   00:00.68 2     1    53    13M    1856K  0B     715  1    sleeping  0[0]            0.00000 0.00000    501  17221    246
713  automountd   0.0   00:00.02 7     1    30    1144K  0B     0B     713  1    sleeping *0[1]            0.00000 0.00000    0    2619     187
712  com.apple.ap 0.0   00:00.73 4     2    210+  9776K+ 12K    0B     712  1    sleeping *0[21+]          0.00000 0.03544    501  10239+   377
711  cupsd        0.0   00:00.08 3     1    45    2676K  0B     0B     711  1    sleeping  0[0]            0.00000 0.00000    0    2327     152
710  printtool    0.0   00:00.04 2     2    31    1056K  0B     0B     710  1    sleeping  0[27]           0.00000 0.00000    501  2618     159
708  colorsync.us 0.0   00:00.03 2     1    51    1012K  0B     0B     708  1    sleeping *0[1]            0.00000 0.00000    501  1665     146
707  MTLCompilerS 0.0   00:00.42 2     2    32    21M    0B     0B     707  1    sleeping  0[13]           0.00000 0.00000    501  9832     257
706  MTLCompilerS 0.0   00:00.15 2     2    25    6312K  0B     0B     706  1    sleeping  0[3]            0.00000 0.00000    0    5070     253
705  com.apple.hi 0.0   00:00.06 2     2    33    996K   0B     0B     705  1    sleeping  0[80]           0.00000 0.00000    501  1679

As far as I remember on Linux laptops, number of threads launched immediately after boot up is far fewer when compared to macOS.


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I originally used my Apple ID with my daughter's iPod and now iPhone so that her purchases would be linked to my credit card. I now know that wasn't necessary.

I'd like to know how to change this so I can have her get her own Apple ID so her music, apps, etc. don't sync with my iOS devices.  Is there a way to do this?


texts: Can I have custom GarageBand track icons?

texts: Is it possible to manually define a custom icon on track in GarageBand? Having something like a usericon I see on web sites makes knowing whose track I'm editing much easier than having to read relatively small text with the person's name on it.


texts: Emails to iCloud from my server show 'This message has no content'

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Our donation website sends emails when a user signs up, donates etc. I've gotten many complaints that donors are getting blank emails. Upon further investigation it turns out that all these donors have apple emails i.e. @mac.com, @me.com @icloud.com etc...

So I got a hold of a Mac, created an email with the mail app for an iCloud account. Made a test donation, and received an email. When viewing on the mail app, I see on the left side as a preview of the text

  Thanks for donating to ... [the subject]
  This message has no content. [the body preview]

The right pane, showed the subject as well, but completely blank for the body.

Also worth noting, the same issue is on iOS (I borrowed my friend's iPhone 6 plus). However, on my android I used the outlook app and logged in to my icloud, and there the body text was indeed there!

I'm guessing it's possible the html of the email isn't parsed correctly by some Apple software...

All searches for the issue yielded solutions to a specific user experiencing this issue, but my issue is about the email message itself on an Apple email client.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Is there a specific html standard for apple emails?


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I originally created an Apple ID for use on the App Store in iTunes.
When Apple introduced iCloud my Apple ID ended up being used.

I would like to separate these. I don't want to lose my app purchases (which I would like to share with family), so creating a new iCloud ID seems the best option.
I can't find any method of changing. Is this possible?

I assume if I create a new iCloud ID it would need to resynch everything.


texts: Terminal behaving differently since updating to Lion

texts:
Ever since my company updated to Lion, terminal.app has been behaving differently. When I click on the dock icon, it sometimes opens several terminal windows at once, instead of a single one, and all of them display my previous session's activity, rather than just opening to a shell prompt.

What can I do to make the terminal go back to behaving the way it used to? I can't find anything in the prefs that would account for these changes.


texts: Is there a way to "split" one display so that it treated as two separate screens?

texts: Is there any app or hack which can split a monitor into multiple screens? So for instance, a 1920x1080 display could be treated by the operating system as though there were two 960x1080 screens connected instead.


texts: How do I prevent timing out when coping files to my iPad/iPhone?

texts:
I've been copying dvd rips to my son's iPad. But quite often it would time out like the device has been unplugged. I get similar error when copying music to my wife's iPhone. And the only solution is to unplug the cable and try again. Using another cable (even brand new ones) doesn't seemed to help. I've encountered the same problem on my Windows desktop/laptor and on my MBPr. So I don't think it's OS related.

Any ideas on how to prevent this? thanks very much


texts: Where did the video go? It ran off with the voice memo

texts:
The Messages app in iOS 8 provides a convenient function to record and send voice & video messages as part of an ongoing chat dialog.

Receiving a call while using Messages' build-in recording functionality results in a total loss of the recording in progress.

Assuming immediate access to any and all resources necessary, how can we go about recovering them?


texts: Why does my Startup Security Utility window look different?

texts:
I am trying to check the security of my Mac Mini before installing Windows with bootcamp.
According to this article, the window should look like this:

However mine looks like this:

Why is that and how can I make sure I have the right settings before installing windows?
Mac Mini mid 2011 with High Sierra 10.13.6


texts:
Is there a way to create Barcodes (128 standard) on a Mac, preferably via an add-in?

I need it to create barcodes in Excel sheets (or moreso a friend of mine needs it).

I have tried all VBA macros and fonts I found on Google, but none give me a scannable result (usually there are weird characters like ó's mixed in). Does anybody have a working solution?


texts: Migrating musics from Windows Media Player to Apple Music

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I've recently moved from Windows to macOS, and I'm trying to import my local music library into the Music app installed on macOS Big Sur.
I have about 30k mp3 files that I've star-rated over a decade, and I'm trying to bring those ratings to Music. I noticed that WMP stores the rating in an id3 tag named RATING WMP. I tried rating a track in the music app and then dumping the file's metadata to find the proper tag to programatically update them, but it seems like Music is not storing any data in the metadata.
Are the Music data stores anywhere else? I tried looking at /Library/Application Support/ and ~/Library/Application Support/ but there was no folder associated with Music.
Any hint regarding this matter is appreciated.


texts: New securely erased drive not empty according to Disk Utility

texts:
Erased 32GB USB flash storage with Disk Utility's "Secure Erase" feature, one pass of zeros. Disk Utility now reports that there is only 26GB of my drive available. Not sure what is going on here, but I'd like to know where my 6GB of space went.

Update: Zeroed the drive using DD, created new partition using Disk Utility, resized the partition and created a new one. It appears that for each of my partitions created, 6GB of the available space is taken up by something. The hidden files (Trashes, Spotlight, and fseventsd) do not account for this usage. This is really baffling and annoying, and any clue as to what is happening would be very appreciated.

Edit: Pictures to clarify:

Problem occurs on more than one drive, I think it has something to do with either journaling or local time machine backups.


texts: Reset admin password without the old password

texts:
I am trying to reset the admin password through command line. Below command used to work till High Sierra:

sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/admin new_password

But on Mojave it throws an error saying:

Permission Denied please enter old password

Please help on alternatives or how to get this working on command line (no UI solution) since the user forgot the admin password. Thanks


texts:
Safari is quite slow when I open new tabs. I get a busy cursor, and I cannot interact with other tabs.

Is there any way to make it faster?

I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.6.6, Safari 5.0.3.


texts: Can't update to Java SE 8u181 from 8u171 on El Capitan

texts:
as part of my update routine, I wanted to upgrade from the installed Java SE 8u171 to Java SE 8u181. Before anyone asks, yes, one software DOES need Java (LibreOffice).

Problem is, the install window abruptly closes, and the installed version stays at 8u171, according to the Java preference pane.

In a terminal windows, I found things even more confusing:

  $ java -version java version "1.8.0_161" Java(TM) SE Runtime
  Environment (build 1.8.0_161-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
  (build 25.161-b12, mixed mode)

I don't know exactly what is happening. Console doesn't say why it's failing.
I already tried to manually install 8u181 from the .dmg found on Oracle's website, but the result is the same.
Same goes when I try to install the update in Safe Mode.

Any clues?


texts: CPU Usage shoots all of a sudden while using Ubuntu in Virtual box in MBP

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I an using 2015 model of MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Yosemite. I have installed Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.26 which runs Ubuntu 14.04 operating system. I have also installed the guest edition to improve performance.

When I open a large text file and scroll a view. There is a significant amount of lag along with high CPU usage. Which heats up the laptop. Can someone please explain this or provide a suggestion to improve the performance of Virtual Box?


texts:
I have an iPod Touch (second generation) with iOS 3.1.2. Will I lose battery life or performance if I update to the latest iOS (4.2.1)?

These are the closest answers I could find:

iOS 4.2 on iPod Touch 2d Gen: is it worth it?
Does performance degrade between iOS 3.1 and 4.1 for the iPod Touch 2nd gen?

However, these relate to somewhat different versions of iOS.


texts: How do I access LastPass Passwords on iOS/iPadOS from web browser?

texts:
Unlike macOS, there are no browser extensions to integrate LastPass on iOS or iPadOS in the web browser.

Although I've installed the LastPass app on my iPhone & iPad, How do I access my passwords from a web browser?!?!?


texts: iPhone - how to free up space when storage is completely full

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My mom has an iPhone 4 (or 4S) and she has taken so many photos that there are 0 Bytes space left.

I can't install apps to delete files on the phone directly.
I can't move files via USB.
I can't delete files via USB.

Windows 7 shows the "Deleting ..." window but nothing happens (not even on a single photo).

So how can I delete all those photos (backups done) or even better the whole phone including iOS?


texts: Deleting a user account from a OSX machine

texts: Is the best way to delete a users information on a macbook pro just to do a clean reinstall or is it safe to just delete the user account from the machine?


texts: Does an iTunes iOS device backup include everything on the device?

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Does an iTunes iOS device backup include all of the application data on the device? I assume it doesn't include a second copy of your iTunes data as this is already on your Mac anyway. But I downloaded a lot of videos with the TED app on my device, while the size of the device's backup (*) seems comparatively small. Are these not included in the backup? If so, what other data might not be included? Is there a way to know what exactly is included or not (other than restoring from the backup)?

(*) = the folder ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup


texts: Missing activity data after updating to iOS14

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I updated my iPhone to iOS14 last night, and updated my watch to watchOS7.
This morning I noticed that all of my activity data for Tuesday is gone! Nothing at all - no exercise, no stands - nothing.
I was at work all day that day and closed all of my rings and more.
The craziest thing is that at the bottom of the screen, it still shows that I earned a "200%" on my red ring -  but says I did no exercise, no stands, burned no calories?!
Any suggestions? I have restarted both my watch and my phone, with no change.
Hoping this is just some weird glitch and it will come back again over the next couple of days?!


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I often have to find email addresses using the 'search' window in OSX mail.
The search function will frequently find an address for someone, and show it in the popup window below the search window.

But it often fails to find the underlying message, so I cannot open an actual existing message from the person.

And, I cannot copy from the popup window, so I can see the address I need, on my screen, but I have to write it down, and repaste it into the message I am composing.
This is beyond ridiculous.

Is there a solution?


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I searched the web and apparently this process has something to do with the iCloud Drive! I don't have more than 10 MB for all the data and documents on iCloud Drive; but this process uses more than 300 MBs everytime it starts. It usually starts within a restart of the computer. I also checked the setting of iCloud drive on my iPhone and disabled all data backups and stuff for applications (even whatsapp and others which are not even on my mac). I have no idea what's causing this bandwidth hug. All photos cloud stuff has been turned off too. I don't use safari either; using chrome.

So what exactly is going on? Is the only way to fix this, turning off the whole iCloud Drive thing? Is this a bug? I'm using Yosemite 10.10

I like using iCloud drive to sync all Pages and Numbers documents between my iPhone and Mac (Which together are not more than 10 MBs).


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I need to give out a USB pen drive with my music on it to a load of editors, but I want the drive to be read-only on both Mac and PC so that no one can inadvertently delete the originals.

Is that possible? I was thinking formatting it on a PC as NTFS read-only and then Macs will only be able to read from it, is that the best way?


texts: Where can I find the magnifying glass UI for iOS 10?

texts: Just looking for the UI for the magnifying glass feature in the recent iOS 10.


texts: How can I use AppleScript to reshow the last OS X notification (in the notification banner)?

texts: After the notification disappears, I want to be able to make it appear again through AppleScript.


texts: How to prepend to text file in AppleScript?

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I have a .txt file saved on my computer. I want Automator to add a bit of text to the very top of the .txt file. I do not want any text in the .txt file to be overwritten. I also want a new line to be created for the new text.

The following command adds the text to the .txt file, but at the end of the file:

set TextToWrite to "This sentence should be the first line of the .txt file."
set TargetFilepath to "/Users/Me/Desktop/Documents/My File.txt"
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of TextToWrite & " >> " & quoted form of TargetFilepath

Can prepending to a .txt file be accomplished in AppleScript? Thank you.

Update:

I have discovered a pernicious little bug in all of the current 4 answers to this question.

Blank lines in a .txt file created on a Mac should show up as 0A0A in a hex editor. But, for whatever reason, the answers provided by Matteo, Christian Boyce, and user3439894 convert blank lines into 0D0D. In practice, 0D0D produces an identical result to 0A0A -- they both look like a blank line -- but Mac perceives 0D0Das a carriage return while Mac perceives 0A0A as a line feed.

Here's the test that I did to discover this issue in the answers provided by Matteo and user3439894 (and if you do the same, you can reproduce the issue):

Create a New Document in TextEdit. Click "Make Plain Text" in the Format menu. Save the empty file as a .txt file.
Run the AppleScript code provided by Matteo, Christian Boyce, or user3439894 using this .txt file as TargetFilepath.
Open the .txt file in TextEdit and manually add a blank line to the file by using your Enter key.
Open the .txt file in your hex editor and confirm that this new blank line is 0A0A.
Run the AppleScript code again.
Open the .txt file in your hex editor. You will now notice that the 0A0A has been converted to 0D0D.

Here's the test that I did to discover this issue in the answer provided by Christian Boyce:

Create a New Document in TextEdit. Type "This is a sentence.". The file cannot be empty if you want run the code provided by Christian Boyce without error. Click "Make Plain Text" in the Format menu. Save the file as a .txt file.
Run the AppleScript code that Christian Boyce provided. When asked to choose a file, open this .txt file.
Open the .txt file in TextEdit and manually add one blank line in between the new "Wassup?" line and the original "This is a sentence" line by using your Enter key.
Open the .txt file in your hex editor. Notice that this new blank line is 0A0D. It should be, however, 0A0A. So, while the answer provided by Christian Boyce does not change all instances of 0A0A to 0D0D (in the way that the answers provided by Matteo and user3439894 do), it does use 0D instead of 0A when putting "Wassup?" on a new line.

It took me a long time to discover this glitch, as one could never tell that there was a problem with these AppleScript solutions unless one opens the .txt file in a hex editor.

The problem with the answer provided by Mateusz Szlosek is more severe; it replaces all instances of 0A0A with 20, thereby ensuring that there are no blank lines anywhere in the .txt file (which, unlike the other answers, meant that I could easily identify that it had a bug without opening the .txt file in a hex editor).

So, I am re-opening this question, now hoping that someone can provide a way to prepend text to a .txt file using AppleScript, and without converting line feeds to carriage returns in the process.

If you are curious why I need the line feeds to be preserved, it is because I have a later process that writes to the first blank line of the .txt file, and this process does not work properly if the line feeds are replaced with carriage returns.


texts: Accessing a local IIS server in a VM on a Mac from an iOS device for testing

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I have a Windows 10 install running in a Parallels VM on 2009 Mac Pro running OS X 10.11 and I want to access the IIS server in the VM for testing on iOS. I can reach website running in the VM from OS X without issue, but when I try and access it through an iOS device through an ad-hoc network or through the same wifi network it doesn't respond, but I am able to access websites hosted in OS X on the iOS device.

I don't want to use a third party solution, I just want local access that I can control. Has anyone been able to make this work?


texts: My Mac crashes and shuts down when charger is unplugged, not immediately

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Hey so my Macbook Pro (Retina 15" 2014 i7 2.6GHz, High Sierra (institute doesn't allow me to update)) is turning itself off randomly, and as far as I've figured out this will only occur when the power is unplugged. At first I found it being more common when my laptop was feeling quite hot, and perhaps even my laptop seems to start overheating when I unplug it? This is very possibly not the case though, I'm trying to find a pattern where there might not be one.

I reset the SMC and did all the other stuff listed on the apple website of "what to do if your mac keeps shutting off".

The screen seems to go off with a backlight still on for some time, and then either it gets stuck and I have to hold down power to shut it down, or it fully shuts down itself. This can occur after 3 hours of no problems using battery, or it can happen within 5 mins and then every 5 mins thereafter for the next 30-45 mins.

I have no sudo privileges fwiw, if there's no solution I can do myself, I'll take it to my institute whose laptop it is, but given current situation I'm trying to avoid making that journey.

Thanks!


texts: How do I remove/delete a (possibly corrupt) partition from macOS High Sierra?

texts: I have a partition (disk0s2) I can't seem to get rid of. The size is very tiny around ~3KB. Disk Utility is unable to remove/erase or repair this partition. Also, the '-' button seems to be disabled. Can anyone help me with a terminal command to get rid of the partition?