texts: How can I setup Transmit along with Sidestep?

texts:
I'm using Sidestep to securely connect the Internet from everywhere I am. I have my own server as an SSH proxy.

But I'm facing trouble with Transmit which doesn't seem to use the proxy settings defined by Sitestep.

I know there are some options available in Transmit to configure a proxy server, but since I really don't know much about proxy, SOCKS and stuff. I didn't succeed.

From all my tests, Transmit always seems to use the direct connection without going through the proxy.

Any hints?

Thanks,

Jérémy


texts: OS X 10.8 hosts file completely ignoring new entries. Help!

texts:
I have a hosts file that I've added a couple URLs to a while back and it's been working fine, but any new entries now get completely ignored. I've added these to test it...

google.com      test-domain.com

google.com      www.test-domain.com

And I've read through a bunch of posts about this issue. It makes no difference if I put them at the top or the bottom of the file, nor if I follow the entries with 2 carriage returns.

I'm totally at a loss. Any ideas?


texts: Can I upgrade the memory on late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro?

texts:
The below is my macOS version with basic capabilities :

While developing my apps, my Mac often shows great memory usage and swaps. These makes my Mac running and building apps slowly.

I would like to find out the ways to increase my SSD capacities and RAM . Would you please tell me how can I upgrade my RAM and SSD?


texts: How to make sure macports only upgrades to ports that are at least a month old?

texts:
The goal is to insulate a code base from potential problems with new port upgrades.

So maybe if a port upgrade outdated command can be amended not to use the freshest of the fresh ports, you can avoid tracking down errors in ports affecting your code.

As far as I see,  port info port_name doesn't have any extra release date options:

$ port help info
Usage: info --category --categories --depends_fetch --depends_extract --depends_build --depends_lib
            --depends_run --depends --description --epoch --fullname --heading --homepage     --index --license --line
            --long_description --maintainer --maintainers --name --platform --platforms --portdir --pretty
            --replaced_by --revision --subports --variant --variants --version

I suppose the best alternative to this is to perform daily incremental upgrades. Then when something breaks, it's easier to rollback since likely only a few ports will change per day.


texts: Can I delete images from Pictures folder? Are they redundant?

texts:
I have several gigabyte of images/photos in my Pictures folder on my Mac.
I also have the Photos Library and iPhotos Library bundles. I believe all my images/photos would have been imported into the these two libraries.

Does that mean that I can delete all my images/photos from the Pictures folder?


texts:
So I'm attempting to install Xcode on OS X Tiger on my iBook G4 (It was a gift.) I needed Xcode because I was trying to install MacPorts so that I could easily install software, namely git.

However, when I attempt to install it via what MacPorts says to do: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.xcode.other via the link for 10.4, it just sits there loading… nothing happens.

Does anyone know of a better way to install MacPorts than via Xcode, because I can't download it. …or if anyone knows how to install Xcode for OSX 10.4.11, that would be great!


texts: IOS : connect to router when "no internet" detected

texts:
I been through a few topic online but can't fine a solution.

Sometime my internet is offline, and iOS won't let met connect to the local network anymore so I can access the router settings or other local server.

The router have DHCP reservations but my iOS getting the IP automatically, however same issue if I setup a manual IP.

Anyway work around ?


texts: Possible to charge iPhone through other means?

texts:
I am too cheap to purchase a USB charging connector for my iPhone, so I was wondering if there's a way to create a USB cable at home or use some other USB cable and get the job done safely.

For example will other USBs, assuming the connectors fit, charge, or no? I figure they would since they are just USB 2.0 based and iPhone can't tell the difference from its hardware perspective.

A better way to look at this: any other way to charge an iPhone without an iPhone-specific charger? I heard it's possible to use a wind turbine or dynamometer, but those are not inexpensive. Could those be replicated at home with typical at home tools? For example could I make a crank device that delivers powered-charge through the USB to the iPhone's battery?


texts: Finder- getting rid of divider bar in every new window

texts:
I have had new finder windows open with a weird divider bag (marked in red in picture below) on the right side for quite some time now. I have dealt with it by dragging the bar to the right until it disappears but am starting to get annoyed having to do this every single time.

I tried several ways to reset the finder size but they have not helped getting rid of the weird bar thing.

Please let me know if you have any idea what could fix this. I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.4.


texts: Some podcasts missing from Smart Playlist

texts:
Using the latest iTunes under Windows 10, I have created a Smart Playlist as follows, requiring that ALL conditions be met:

1. Media Kind is Podcast
2. Play Count = 0
3. Location is "this computer"
4. Rating is not equal to one star

I have selected only the "Live Updating" check-box.

The resulting playlist includes some/most of the podcasts I expect, but not all of them.

I checked the details of some of the missing podcasts, but could not determine why they are not included -- they match all of the conditions of the playlist. Why are they not included?


texts:
On my OS X Yosemite, when running man man I was excepting to see a list of MANUAL SECTIONS and their number, but I don't. As a Windows user until lately, I'm not familiar with the meaning of the different section numbers that are printed in parenthesis next to the command name.

So how do I list them?


texts: Is it possible to disable the Command+Tab switcher while in a specific application only?

texts:
I using an RDPish client (Teradici PCoIP) and I would like for Command+Tab to activate the remote desktop's window switcher instead of my local one when I am in that program. Is there a way to tell my Mac to turn off the window switcher shortcut just while the Teradici client is my focused window?

Sidenote: I am actually using Witch as my switcher (which is awesome btw), and I am able to turn that off on an app-specific basis. But once I've done that, the native switcher activates.

Another sidenote: The remote desktop uses linux + mate and actually maps Command to Ctrl. So, I want a way to press Command+tab, bypass the system Command+tab, Teradici sends it to the linux desktop that maps it to Ctrl+tab, which then detects the local Ctrl+tab program switching shortcut. Also open to suggestions on how to map Command differently on linux.


texts: How to simply add album covers to an iTunes playlist?

texts: I would like to create a Playlist folder into which I could put album covers, without showing all the cuts within, since I play a classical recording as an individual entity. This would simplify finding an album without having to wade through all of the movements within a recording.


texts: Listening to music with MacBooks lid closed

texts: My headphone is connected to my 2019 MacBook Pro. Is there any way to listen music when it's lid is closed? I am using a Beats studio wireless.


texts: Brand new Mac won't let another user with admin rights run an update for a program that came on the system

texts: When it was originally set up, I set it up with our dept login and ran all updates.  The user has admin rights but is unable to sign into the App Store with her account for a program that has an update.  This is not a special program as it came with the system.  How do I get around this?


texts: Where can i find and clean up partially downloaded content?

texts:
Say your download of 17gb application is interrupted and can't continue since you are out of space.

Knowing the application name, where can you look to find parts of what has already been downloaded so you can remove it?


texts:
"You have a new memory"...
No I don't, I have the same dodgy recollection of the past that I always did.
"What was for dinner yesterday?"... not a clue unless I look at the dribbles down my shirt.

Anyway, Photos seems to think I ought to be reminded of people & places I haven't recalled in years & announces out of the blue, "You have a new memory"...

I click on it & I'm greeted with an image from 2007, of my partner.
Well, honestly I do remember who she is, I'm not that bad - in fact I just saw her, seconds ago, she's still fine...

...but when did Photos turn into Facebook & decide to prompt me with this kind of thing?

More importantly, how do I switch it off?
Not just the notification, I want it to simply not do that.
I'm not still at school, taking selfies & pictures of my food every day, I don't want my professional environment besmirched by 'social media'-type actions.

Plus points for how it's actually doing this. Does it just flip a coin & present me with some random picture, or is it more insidious?
I don't have any photos stored or shared on iCloud.

[Facebook, you'll be happy to know, I dissuaded from this kind of thing years ago. People still use it to try to contact me... eventually they'll learn ;-)

 btw, question is a somewhat flippant rant [look up Victor Meldrew, or One Foot in the Grave], answer is still important ;)

In a more serious tone - how does this sit with GDPR?
I didn't opt-in to this.


texts: Mac Mail Client sending and storing duplicates from Gmail

texts:
One of my team members approached me today asking about an issue they're having with their Mac Mail Client and Gmail. I am a Linux user and do not have much experience with Mac, but thought I would reach out to this community on their behalf.

User aggregating 3 email addresses into Mac Mail (Gmail Personal, Gmail Professional, Hotmail)
All email providers set up properly as IMAP (POP on phone)
User experiences duplicates in both Sent folder
User's Drafts folders has incomplete information (some emails are missing)
Mail Server information appears to be correct

Thoughts

I am thinking that this might be an issue with IMAP vs. POP, but I figure that the Sent folder would be suffering from similar issues. What


texts: How to generate list of Homebrew formulas/packages sorted by "most recently updated" (by package provider)?

texts:
How can one generate a list of Homebrew all formulas/packages sorted by "most recently updated" (by package provider)?

I see no such sort/report at https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics. Maybe I missed something?

I can effectively generate some version of this report ever time I run a brew update... but that only provides me the updated-formulae since I last brew updated-ed, I think? I want to instead visit a website or run a command-line command (or some similar gizmo) that shows me a reasonably-updated report of all-most-recently-updated formulae.

Similar but distinctly-different questions:

List all Homebrew formulas?
List most-popular Homebrew formulas (#1)?
List most-popular Homebrew formulas (#2)?


texts: Will updating macOS from SL to El-Cap cause problems after disabling discrete GPU permanently from EFI (EFI mod and resistor removal)?

texts:
Currently on Macbook Pro 2011 17" 10.6.8 which was resurrected using the resistor-removal mod from "Realmacmods" as well as their EFI script.

Would like to upgrade to El Capitan. Will i run into issues with the kexts/efi changes once I upgrade? Worried it will boot to a black screen.


texts: Where and how can I upgrade my ipod 1st gen?

texts: How can I upgrade my ipod from version 1.1.5 (4B1), to a iOS5 on a 8gb pod?? I have no problem paying the $$ to have it upgraded.


texts: How can right click in Finder without using the trackpad or a mouse?

texts: My goal is to select a file in Finder and get to the "open with" menu without having to leave the keyboard.


texts: OSX asks for my user password pretty often -- seemingly whenever it needs to use Keychain.  How do I make it stop asking me?


texts: When I enter commands in the terminal I get: "username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."

texts: When I try to enter commands into the terminal I get this message "myusername is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." It started when I tried to edit my host-file. What do I do to fix this? I want to spoof my MAC address. I have the newest version of OS X. myusername is not actually my real username.


texts: How do I know what photos have been downloaded to Photos on my iPhone? Does Apple continuously remove the copies from my local device after a period of time so that I don't run out of space? E.g., I have 80Gb iCloud storage taken up by Photos. I browse my photos through the iPhone Photos app and it downloads images that I linger on. I only have 12Gb space in total available on my iPhone, will I run out of space in the near future or are these downloads removed and reverted to thumbnails at some point?


texts:
Backspace/Delete ⌫ no longer works as a back button in Safari 6.

How to make the Backspace key to take me to the previous page in Safari 6?


texts:
I frequently receive mails with LaTeX text which appear in normal text like

$frac{(1+cos\theta)^2

but I want them to be rendered in Mail.app as it would be written in books.

Is there any plugin or some script I can write to do so?


texts: Can you partition the HD of a G3 iMac for OS 9 and OS X?

texts:
I have an old Tangerine iMac G3 in nice condition, I installed a clean copy of OS 9 on it and I can run the "iMac Demo Summer 1998" interactive demo which is neat.

I'd like to install OS X (Tiger) on it.  (I know it will work because it was running Tiger when I got it.)

However, after installing OS X, I know the OS 9 interface will be gone for good, and I probably won't be able to run the old demo anymore.

My question is, can you partition the hard drive in the iMac so I have one OS 9 partition that is completely separate from the OS X partition, so I can startup which ever OS I want to show off to my geeky friends?

Thx!


texts: How can I patch Mac is OS X 10.4.11 with Bash version 2.05b.0(1) for Shellshock bug?

texts:
My Mac is OS X 10.4.11 with Bash version 2.05b.0(1)-Release (PowerPC-Apple-Darwin8.0) on a PowerMac. It is vulnerable and need to be patched. This Mac uses Filemaker 8.5 pro client and hosts the remote files sitting on the Windows server. It also communicates with the MYSQL DB which is again hosted on the Windows server

What is the possibility of my Mac being affected by this bug?

I do not see any patches for this version of bash.

I am not good in handling Mac OS compilation and installing. We are due to upgrade our Macs soon (early next year).

What might I do for now?


texts: AppleScript to Option-click on the Dropbox Menu Bar Icon

texts:
I have an AppleScript that does a simple "mouse" click on the Dropbox menu bar icon (Menu Extra or Menulet). It works well.

tell application "System Events"
tell UI element "Dropbox"
    tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
        perform action "AXPress"
    end tell
end tell
end tell

I want to edit this code so the action that will be performed is a click while the Option (alt / ⌥) is pressed down.

I've done an extensive search for a solution but didn't find any.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Shortcuts suddenly stopped working in Chrome browser

texts:
I don't know why but all shortcuts related to controlling tab in chrome suddenly stopped working and i have no idea why.

I haven't installed or changed anything. Just doing the same usual work. The only recent thing that I did earlier (which I never did before) was, opening the emoji keyboard using the control+cmd+space shortcut.


texts: Does Macbook Air 2015 support daisy chaining monitors in macOS Catalina?

texts:
Macbook Air models have a a mini displayport. In my eyes it should be simple to dasiy chain two monitors (as you can with thunderbolt/usb-c), yet it seems there is a limitation in the software?

Does anyone know if you can run two monitors with the lastest macOS (Catalina) on a Macbook Air?


texts: What would cause a certificate installed on iOS to be invalid?

texts:
I recently installed two certificates (for use in signing mail) on several iOS devices. Both certificates derive from the same trust chain and were purchased from the same vendor on the same day. The only difference between them is that they are associated with different e-mail addresses. Both work fine on OS X in Mac Mail. But when they are installed on iOS devices (using iPhone Configuration Utility after exporting to .p12 files from Keychain Access) one works fine while the other is flagged as "not trusted".

What could account for this difference?

Update: 5.1 does not fix this.


texts: Safari stuck on "Make Safari the default browser"

texts:
Whenever I open Safari it prompts "Make Safari the default browser", but the dialog does not have any buttons and cannot be closed.

The only way out is to force-quit.

Any ideas?


texts: What is the Mac equivalent of Windows' Power Plans' Maximum Processor State?

texts:
One of my favorite features in Windows is the built-in Power Plans. I can change how much energy my computer uses - whether I want it to drain power like there's no tomorrow and get incredible performance or whether I want it to run like a turtle and use 1% CPU at the max and barely use any power, or anything in between.

My favorite feature of Power Plans is that I can limit CPU usage. I can make it 30% - or 72% - or 94 percent.

On a Mac, I notice that there are no Power Plans. There is this, but that doesn't do it.

What can I use to limit CPU usage by the entire system (not just one process) on a Mac?


texts: How to reset all Yosemite's settings and preferences to default?

texts:
I used this script to modify settings on my mac. See full script here

defaults write com.apple.systemuiserver menuExtras -array \
  "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Bluetooth.menu" \
  "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu" \
  "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu" \
  "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu"

sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

echo ""
echo "Disabling OS X Gate Keeper"
echo "(You'll be able to install any app you want from here on, not just Mac App Store apps)"
sudo spctl --master-disable
sudo defaults write /var/db/SystemPolicy-prefs.plist enabled -string no
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false

echo ""
echo "Increasing the window resize speed for Cocoa applications"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001

and facing some problem after that. I want to undo all changes to default state.

What is the better way to do.


texts: Raise/lower brightness is extremely slow

texts:
Whenever I try to raise/lower my screen brightness with the F1 and F2 buttons, it takes a couple of seconds before the brightness changes, and I can't stop it from raising/lowering the brightness

Raising/lowering the brightness is also a very slow process

Is there any way to bring this back to normal function/speed?

I have a mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra.


texts:
How can I record a FaceTime call and save the video on my Mac?

I am using a MacBook Air 11" with OS X 10.8.


texts: MacBookAir kernel_task at 300% and rising

texts:
I have a MacBookAir5,1 connected to a Thunderbolt Display.

When it gets very hot, PID 0 "kernel_task" uses ever more CPU until reaching 340% and slowing the Mac down sufficiently to make me restart it.

I found a proposed solution at this site but it says to "move the ‘plist’ file for the model identifier we discovered earlier out of that directory" which does not apply to me because my installation of Mountain Lion does not have a plist for my 2012 MacBook Air. system_profiler tells me that I have a MacBookAir5,1.

I tried a few things. I figured that since overheating appears to cause this, I should try not to overheat the poor Mac. However, I neither understand why Mac OS X' reaction to overheating is to use 340% of CPU time nor did I manager to keep the lid open and still convince the Airbook to use the Thunderbolt Display as its only display.

I tried running from battery, assuming this would make the CPU run slower and not overheat, but when I remove the power cable from the Airbook, the Thunderbolt Display just turns black, only recovering after several minutes when I reconnect the power cable.

What's going on?


texts: Can't Install Mojave because of file system error: Object map is invalid

texts:
I wanted to upgrade macOS High Sierra to Mojave but installation failed with this error:

File system verify or repair failed.

Using Recovery Mode I tried First Aid from Disk Utility and it failed again with the following details:

Checking the object map.
error: omap entry (oid 0x13e319): invalid ov_paddr (2251799814186955)
Object map is invalid.
The volume /dev/disk0s2 could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 8.
Restoring the original state found as mounted.
File system verify or repair failed.
Operation failed.

After that I tried fsck -fy command from single-user mode but that didn't work and the result was the same.
I can't clean install my macbook right now. Is there any other way to fix the problem? maybe by fixing the object map somehow or by using any other third party tool?


texts: How do I turn off laptop display when I have an two external displays?

texts:
I have a Dell D3100 docking station, 2 Dell monitors, and my MacBook Pro (MBP). I hooked everything correctly and downloaded the DisplayLink driver so the monitors signals can be read and then displayed. Now that everything is connected, I can't close my laptop lid and just have 2 extended displays, my laptop is third whether the lid is open or closed and it's frustrating. I tried all the solutions that were here in the past and nothing worked, except downloading the GitHub's that were suggested as some said that they could damage the MBP completely.
Does anyone have this problem or a solution for it?
I am currently running Big Sur update if that makes a difference.


texts: App Store: Not enough disk space to install Xcode

texts:
Similar to Xcode free space requirement, but different details.

  We could not complete your update

  There is not enough disk space available to install the product.

The download size lists:

  Version 11.0 • 7.6 GB

and my Mac has 31.2 GB available according to About This Mac : Storage

My question is this: How can I discover what the exact storage requirements are for this update without performing the update? I'm looking for a definitive answer, not methods for estimation. Thanks!

EDIT: I'm not looking for sector-specific values. I'm just trying to understand how much available storage is actually required for a successful update—clearly it's not 7.6 GB.

EDIT 2: Mysteriously, Xcode now updates with no change in available storage space. In fact, it appears I have a few hundred MB less available storage than before.


texts: Where did the iTunes visualizers/32-bit go?

texts:
There used to be 5 built-in visualizers in iTunes, but now I can only find 2 — Visualizer and Classic Visualizer. I am told that the other Visualizers reappear if you run in 32-bit mode, but I can't find 32-bit mode anymore either. Did Apple take it away in Sierra or earlier?

macOS Sierra, iTunes 12.7


texts: Macbook Pro Retina 2013 Thunderbolt ports not working

texts:
I've run into a problem with my Thunderbolt ports on my Early 2013 Macbook Pro (Retina).  Neither port will work.

I have a genuine Apple Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 adapter and a Firewire 800 to 400 adapter cable to run to the hardware.  It receives no power from the Mac.  I tested the 800/400 cable on two other (older) Macs, and the unit shows a link (without the drivers installed).  I've also tested the Thunderbolt/Firewire adapter with one of the older Macs, same again, unit shows a link.

The only difference with Thunderbolt I can spot is the firmware version on the older Mac is 25.1, while mine is 23.4.  I've tried multiple SMC and PRAM resets with no success.  Any suggestions?

(EDIT)
I must add that my Mac had a logic board replacement a couple of years back under AppleCare.  I also have never used Thunderbolt until now.

(EDIT 2)
I've tried a few more things; on the 2011 MBP, connecting via the Thunderbolt/Firewire + 800/400 cable yielded nothing.  Connecting the 800/400 cable directly showed a link, and the unit showed in System Information/Firewire.  Reconnecting to the Thunderbolt/Firewire retained the link status, but System Information/Thunderbolt shows no device connected.

(EDIT 3)
Chatted with Apple Support.  They suggested I go to the device manufacturer, or my adapter may not be genuine.  As a side question, do Apple supply retailers who are not Authorised Apple Retailers?  I purchased the adapter from MightyApe, and cannot find anything suggesting they are an authorised retailer.


texts: Screensharing keeps being turned on! How can I make sure it stays off?

texts:
I recently noticed that somehow sharing had screensharing enabled in privacy setting... I saw that it was accessible from my network and via VNC.

Ok to this point I had a friend try setting up a remote desktop to his machine and thought nothing of it, so I disabled it, changed the setting and rebooted... but it keeps re-enabling itself after every reboot, what can I do to make sure the screensharing stays off? I have enabled the firewall / am behind a VPN....

Seriously starting to think there is a conspiracy...


texts: ffmpeg - how to merge two h264 videos, using one of them as alpha?

texts:
I need to merge two 264 videos: one of the two is a normal rgb video, and the other is a greyscale video that I would use as luma matte to make a final prores clip with alpha.

Is it possible doing it in terminal using ffmpeg?

It would be great to wrap it in a nice GUI too! (advice on making it?)


texts: Forgot my password to a disk image (.sparseimage)

texts:
I'm in trouble right now.

I used Disk Utility to create a sparse image and I cannot remember the password, when I created the file I didn't select to remember in keychain.

Now, I try to enter the possible value but it doesn't work.
Is there any recommend way to crack the password or give some hint or some app that might be worked on this stuff.

I really need to use the data in that file.


texts: What is this blue arrow and how do I get rid of it?

texts:
On macOS this arrow just appears, and overlays on top of any window.

How can I get rid of it?


texts:
When I open Word docs in TextEdit some formatting is lost, especially numbered lists, the numbers are simply not displayed. Is there some hidden preference?

This is really annoying, because I have to open the files in Google Docs to check if there are numbers, and I really really don't want anything Microsoft on my Mac -.- Actually not even any other text editor if I can help it. Tried to google, but couldn't find anything.


texts:
I am trying to hook a dragonfly dac to my iPad Air using the lightning to USB3 camera adapter kit.

When powering the camera adapter kit using a backup battery supply that outputs 5V/1000ma, the dragonfly will not work and the iPad says that it draws too much power and will not output sound through the lightning port.

When I use the same configuration but plug the lightning power cable into an electrical outlet, everything works and the DAC captures and processes the sound.

I cannot determine how large a power supply I would need to have the iPad keep working with the dragonfly plugged into the camera adapter kit.


texts: Is it possible to share an Ethernet connection to a secure wireless network in OS X on a MacBook Pro?

texts: I can share my Ethernet Internet connection to WiFi clients using System Preferences, but I'm wondering if/how I can make that network secure (WPA) and not broadcast the network name?


texts: How do I update iTunes Match info on my iOS 7 device?

texts:
I have an iPhone running iOS 7.0.4. I use iTunes Match. I recently updated a bunch of meta data in iTunes on my PC. These updates have been pushed to iCloud and thence to iTunes on my other PCs. However, the iOS devices still have the old meta data after a couple of days.

I've tried killing the music app and rebooting the phone, to no avail. I'm looking for a little reload button (like at the top of the contacts list when contacts are synced with Google), but I'm not finding anything.

I haven't yet tried disabling iTunes Match and reenabling it. I fear that I will lose my downloaded songs, and that I'll have to rethink which ones to download and which not to.


texts:
Does anyone know why app "Recovery Partition Creator" is now an un-maintained project?   I wanted something like this to use on 10.14.5  but I am noticing the app hasn't been maintained since 10.13 .   I replaced the SSD on a MacPro but had to restore it from a time machine backup and I wanted to update the recovery partition software to latest, because it comes with 10.12 I think,  if possible.

github.com/MagerValp/Create-Recovery-Partition-Installer.git

Is there an alternative?  I am not intending this to be an opinion generating question, but rather a technical question.


texts: Is there a way to have the Mac App Store check for updates automatically?

texts:
So a bit of an annoyance with the Mac App Store: if it isn't running, it doesn't seem to check for updates. 2 apps I use quite a bit, Evernote and Twitter have both had recent updates and it's taken me a few days, or in the case of one Evernote update, a week to find out about the update (and Evernote included a fix I wanted).

Is there a way to have the App Store check for update on a schedule and notify me somehow, ie dock icon badge or a bounce or through the OSX software update?


texts: How to replace hard drive without reinstalling the whole system?

texts:
I recently purchased a 1TB solid state hard drive Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW.

I hope I won't need to manually reinstall the OS X and all the applications and copying back hundreds of GBs of personal data.

How do I replace hard drive without reinstalling the whole system?


texts: How do I answer a phone call and use car speakers with Ford SYNC under iOS 5?

texts:
I want to talk/listen through the SYNC/car speaker system to stay hands free while driving like I did with iOS 4.

In iOS 5, when I make a call I get a pop up to connect thru SYNC. But, when a call comes in, SYNC goes into Privacy mode and I have to hold and talk thru the iPhone. I don't have any options to tell it to go thru SYNC.

How can I answer calls and use the car's microphone and speakers?


texts:
My iPhone 5S 16GB is complaining about disk running out of free space.
When I check it in settings, it shows me I have 1,5GB free space.

Why do I get this notice? It started since iOS8.
Is this a bug in iOS?


texts: How can I conveniently pause and play my iPhone audio with minimal touching of the phone?

texts:
Okay these are my problem scenarios:

1) I'm cooking something and my hands are covered in animal fat. I'm listening to a podcast on my iPhone, which is sat on a counter nearby. It's been playing for some time so the display has turned itself off. Someone comes in and asks me something and I need to pause it quickly, then play it again when the person has gone.

2) I'm listening to an audiobook and the chapter ends. It's a good point to stop listening and go do something else. By the time I've reached for my phone, swiped to unlock it, opened the app and tapped pause, the next chapter has started and the story has now stopped mid-sentence.

So basically, isn't there some solution for these important first world problems? I don't like using headphones all the time, so a headphone-based remote control is not a solution for me.


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I’ve just stumbled across this site by accident and you good folk may be my last good hope before I abandon this endeavour.

My questions are simple:

Can Sierra be installed on a virtual
machine created by Parallels Desktop 10?
If 'yes' to 1, how do I do this?

—BACKGROUND—

I’ve heard a lot of conflicting stories about Sierra and would like to test it before taking the plunge of upgrading. I have a 27 inch mid 2011 iMac maxed out with 32GB RAM. I regularly run virtual machines in Parallels Desktop 10. These VMs (Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1) all work splendidly, so I figure I could try running Sierra on a virtual machine too.

I’ve read Apple’s licensing conditions and this is legal. Since my iMac is capable of running Sierra natively, my conclusion is my hardware will run Sierra fine in a virtual machine too.

Now the problem…I can’t seem to create a Sierra virtual machine in Parallels Desktop 10.

I’ve tried following and adapting the steps found at this discussion forum (https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/143196), but with no joy to be found. Only frustration!

I’ve searched online (including here!) and cannot find confirmation anywhere that I can even do this on Parallels 10. Nothing to say it can be done. Nothing to say it cannot be done.

Apparently I have to purchase Parallels Desktop 12, or get my hands on Parallels Desktop 11 (cheaper) and create an El Capitan virtual machine and then upgrade to Sierra from within the VM (see http://blog.parallels.com/2016/06/16/macos-sierra-vm/). Thing is, I have no reason to upgrade from Parelles Desktop 10 as it meets my needs otherwise. Besides, Apple doesn’t charge for Sierra so why should I spend money to install it on a virtual machine?

In principle I believe this should be possible somehow and I’m frustrated within myself that I can’t seem to do it!


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I'm trying to make an action on Automator that recursively batch  processes PNG images using bash shell script with pngquant

I have done this on terminal and got no problem, but now I want to make a finder action using Automator.

This is the shell script code (receives a directory input):

directory="$1"
cd $directory
find . -name '*.png' -exec pngquant --ext .png --force 256 {} \;

I'm having trouble with pngquant as it says:

pngquant: command not found


texts: Is there a way to prevent non-admin users from disabling Safari extensions?

texts: I would like to force non-admin users to keep a particular Safari extension enabled (for example, to apply limits to child accounts).  Is there some way to do so?


texts: How do I restore an accidentally deleted Siri.app?

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I accidentally deleted Siri.app from my applications folder in macOS High Sierra. I don't want to do a reinstall cause I have removed various system, files which I don't need one by one by looking up the processes via activity monitor now reinstall macOS High Sierra would reinstall all those system and missing default Applications, so how can I skip this traditional way of restoring system files via Install macOS High Sierra.app and only install Siri.app via an external source?

I have already checked this answer iTunes accidentally deleted on iMac G5 with OS X 10.4.11 - how to install iTunes? and I guess this is for Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 so I didn't took the pain to download the Install macOS High Sierra.app and check it for myself!


texts: Prevent BootCamp partition from automatically mounting

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I don't want my BootCamp partitions automatically mounted on boot.

For the main windows partition this can be accomplished by putting the UUID into fstab.

# /etc/fstab
# https://gist.github.com/968327
# You can find the volume UUID in Disk Utility. Select the volume on the left
# and then File->Get Info. See "Universal Unique Identifier".
#
# Options used below:
#  ro for readonly (can be omitted)
#  noauto to prevent auto-mount
#  noatime to skip writing last access times (performance thing, optional)
#
# Remember to set the filesystem type (hfs, ntfs, etc) too
##########
# BOOTCAMP
UUID=BCC6AB78-5605-4102-B4CE-D2CF9C3D2BDB     none     ntfs     ro,noauto,noatime
LABEL="SYSTEM RESERVED" none    ntfs    ro,noauto,noatime

But, as you see, I tried to prevent 'System Reserved' from mounting as well.
Unfortunately it doesn't work with a UUID, because it doesn't have one.
The LABEL option doesn't seem to work on OSX either.


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I have an iPhone 5, which works great at coffee shops, home, work etc.. but when I am on campus it cannot find the wireless network. There is not even a listing for the network, or the guest network that also exists. But, anywhere else it works fine.  I tried resetting the device, but the behaviour persists.

What could be wrong? Please help me figure this out.


texts: Bad Aspect Ratio in Quicktime on Video from Camcorder

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I'm trying to use my Samsung HMX-H100N digital camcorder, and I'm having difficulty with the files.

When recording in 1080i/60, the video is badly interlaced (yes, I know it's an interlaced format, but it's painful to watch and it isn't on the camera), and video recorded in 720p/60 is displayed in a much wider format than the 16:9 it was recorded in.

If I open these files in VLC media player, they both look fine and play back smoothly. The issue seems to be Quicktime, and, unfortunately, Final Cut.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do, short of transcoding these files to another intermediate format, to get these files to display properly in QuickTime/Final Cut?


texts: MacBook Pro Hardware & Software Issues under warranty

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I have a MacBook Pro(13-inch Retina display), bought on 27 November 2015, from Bangalore India.

Last Monday it got some booting problem, and I was not able to go forward from the boot screen, always got stuck up at OS booting view.

I have given the device to service center, and after one day I got a response from service team saying that device dose not have any hardware issue, it might be a OS issue, so they need to format all data and re install the OS. I allow them to format all data.

For next two days I didn't got any update from the service center. Then I tried to call Apple Customer Support Team for more information on the status of the device. After 2 days recursive trying we got chance to talk to the service center people. And got an update that,

  There is some issue with some chip, which they want to replace with a new one. So they are going to order it from the warehouse. That will take around 4 days to ship from there. And if it is not there it will take more time to repair and get back the device.

I am a Developer by profession, I have lot of pending work due to this issue, also lost lot of my work which I need to do again. There is no Physical Damage to the machine. Service center team is not ready to provide me a machine as a placeholder till my machine gets back.

I would like know, where and how I can ask Apple for getting a new machine instead of existing one, as there is no idea to anyone from Apple Support Team and Service Team when the issue will get resolved.

And this particular machine is under warranty.
Please help me out on this.
Many Many Thanks.


texts: Jailbreaking a locked iPhone 4s with iOS 6

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I received an iPhone 4S as a gift, branded by Orange UK. It runs iOS 6 (6.0.1(10A523)).

I didn't unlock it yet; I'm using it without a SIM and I'm enjoying the apps, but I want to jailbreak it.

What should I do know? I want to use it locked, but is there a jailbreak?


texts: The connection from my macbook to my t.v. is delayed/slow

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I have my 2013 macbook connected to my brand new Sharp HD t.v. through an HDMI wire. I'm basically using the t.v. as a monitor.  It looks great.  The only rub is that there is a slight delay when I give a command to my computer and what shows up on the t.v. screen.

For example, the mouse will move a split second later on the t.v. than it does on the computer monitor.  It's a small thing that makes a big difference in operating the computer.  It makes for sluggish and more difficult work.  Not truly real time.

I've changed wires and got the most expensive "cinnamon" wire they had at Best Buy, which didn't make a difference. Any suggestions on how to tighten this up?

Thank you!

Mitch


texts:
After I accidentally left my Mac on my balcony last summer and after a heavy rain when typing the mac keyboard only symbols appear.

When using external keyboard things have worked smoothly since until today when I turned on Filevault.

Now suddenly it wouldn't accept my password any longer.

Now I can only access the guest account on my mac.

And the Mac wont recognize my password even after the restore password--- nothing happens in keyboard when i try to type these passwords.

I have even tried resetting the PRAM but it would not work. Any suggestions?


texts:
My mac is eating up all free space and I have no clue where it's coming from.  I have used tools like DaisyDisk or OmniDiskSweeper to find any folder/files which might be taking this space, but there are none. Only DaisyDisk is able to see there is 120GB of Hidden space but since I'm using the free trail I'm unable to see what that is.

Here is what I've done so far:

Disable TimeMachine
Delete local snapshots
Checked for mobile backups
Checked for hibernate file
Re-index spotlight
Find big files/folder with tools like DaisyDisk
Check for errors with first aid in disk utility

All without luck. I've read similar topics on this and tried all what I could find. When I delete an additional 10GB, it' usually eats it up within 1 or 2 days.


texts: PPTP VPN client for macOS Sierra or iOS 10?

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Apple has removed PPTP VPN support in Sierra due to security concerns. See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206844

Unfortunately, I need to connect to an organisation that only supports PPTP (not my decision).

I know about Shimo, but it's $50 and has a lot of features I don't need.

I was hoping to find a free or open source solution? A command-line-only option would be fine for macOS.

I'm even open to more esoteric solutions (e.g. a lightweight linux VM that connects to the VPN, and then shares the connection with host OS, but not sure how feasible this would be or how to do it).

Edit: I see the command-line tool pppd is still present in macOS Sierra, so perhaps it's possible to call this directly?

Edit 2: I tried following this tutorial with an options file from the ArchWiki, and a custom route in /etc/ppp/ip-up, but it gives an error (publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!) when I try to run the pppd command, the pppd daemon doesn't seem to be running, and the ppp0 interface isn't showing up in ifconfig. I don't know much about networks and network interfaces, so I'm finding this very confusing! Any help would be much appreciated.


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Setup.

I'm running the most recent version of Keynote (as of April 3rd, 2014) on an iPad Air, WiFi-only version @ 16GBs.

Task/issue.

I would like to export the project/slideshow to a video file (to then be able transfer the movie to my desktop PC running windows).

Thoughts.

Is there any way to do this? I was thinking there must be a way to do it by using iMovie on iOS as a proxy somehow, but couldn't find any resources on the matter.


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With the Shortcuts app you can create an icon on your home screen that automates a task.  There seem to be plenty of options.  I'm looking for a way to toggle the Settings > Music > EU volume limit switch.  This would allow me to toggle it on for music but off for podcasts.

Which part of Shortcuts can toggle the volume limit?


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I have a Mac Pro and a Windows computer. They are on the same internal network (my home network). The local IP address of this Windows computer is 10.0.0.9 and its name is blender (I use this computer to run blender jobs). When I run ipconfig on this Windows computer it is confirmed that the local IP address of this computer is 10.0.1.9

I use this Blender computer only for running Blender jobs. Therefore the Deadline application is used. I have a Deadline slave on the Mac Pro and a Deadline slave on the Blender machine. The Deadline repository and database is on the Blender machine. This used to be Deadline 8 and everything worked just fine. Recently I installed a lot of software updates and also updated to Deadline 10.

And now suddenly I have this problem that the Deadline Monitor on my Mac Pro cannot access the Deadline database on the Blender machine.

  An error occurred while trying to connect to the Database
  (Blender:27100,10.0.1.9:27100). It is possible that the Mongo Database
  server is incorrectly configured, currently offline, blocked by a
  firewall, or experiencing network issues.

Also when I try to ping this blender machine (10.0.1.9) using the command ping blender the terminal response is ping: cannot resolve blender: Unknown host and also ping 10.0.1.9 does not work.

The C: drive of this Windows computer is shared with my Mac Pro. On my Mac Pro the blender machine is in the "Shared" list and I can see all the folders and the files of the Windows C: drive on my Mac computer.

As you can see the Blender machine is shared to the Mac Pro and on the Mac Pro I can see and access the Deadline folders. This is important because I use this Blender computer only for running Blender jobs.

Somehow the sharing between the Windows machine and the Mac is not working, but I don't know why.

I did run brew install mongodb (I hope I installed everything correctly) and I got this when run mongo

By the way, when I submit a Blender on my Blender machine Deadline executes the job without a problem and also the Monitor has no problems. So it seems that somehow I have a connection problem between my Mac and Windows machine (and it used to work fine).

I hope this helps. I am not a very technical person and I hope you can give me some detailed instructions on how to solve this problem or how to analyse this problem.

Trying to follow up with this mongodb I did run mongo 10.0.19:27100

I also have set the firewall OFF and then had another run


texts: How to install OS X 10.9 on a new Mac mini loaded with OS X 10.11

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I have searched as well as tried so many ways on downgrading from OS X 10.11 to OS X 10.9 on a new Mac mini which is loaded with OS X 10.11 but it always fails.

Are there any tweaks or ways which can be used to achieve this?


texts: Cannot find image saved to cloud from preview

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I wanted to post a cropped image on FaceBook.
I scanned the image into preview (import from scanner), cropped it and when "save in the cloud" was suggested I was quite happy to save it there.

Then I clicked image in FaceBook, clicked photos, but could not find the image anywhere. No Cloud folder and not in my stream. It is only available to preview as far as I can see.

Where can I find my image back when in an upload dialog?

PS: Today I wanted to upload a few flagged images from iPhoto, but they also did not show in the "Flagged images" in the upload dialog.

Any suggestions as to how to

a) find images saved to the cloud from my iMac when uploading and
b) refresh the flagged folder in the upload dialog

System: Latest Mountain Lion and iOS6.0.1 on all other devices


texts: Apple Mail is trying to use certificate and won't send without

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I created an account on a website and they installed a certificate on my machine for authentication. I'm not sure how this technically works but the certificate is somehow linked to my GMail address.

Now, when I want to write an e-mail from Apple Mail (from my GMail address), Apple Mail asks me if I want to use this certificate that I mentioned above.

If I say "allow access" it sends my e-mail just fine. However, I don't want to use this certificate to send e-mails but if I deny Apple Mail to use this certificate, nothing happens. It doesn't send the e-mail, it doesn't give me an error message, it doesn't even put it in the "Sent" or "Outbox" folder in the sidebar.

I can see the certificate in my Keychain Access under "My Certificates" if that helps.

Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks a lot!


texts: How to browse var/log directories in console app as could be done in OS versions prior to Catalina?

texts:
In Mac OS prior to Catalina, the left sidebar in the console app would show a directory tree for the /var/log directory and a few other log directories. These could be expanded to navigate logs for various processes. I am pretty sure at least one, /var/log, was there by default.

Now, there doesn't appear to be a way to get any log directories to show in the sidebar—even by opening through the file menu or by drag/dropping. It only shows the default:

Devices

[Device name]

Reports

Crash Reports
Spin Reports
Log Reports
Diagnostic Reports
Mac Analytics Data
system.log

These are the same sidebar items that were present in previous versions, minus the directories.

I can open up individual log files with the console, but cannot get any directories to show up in the sidebar.

Maybe this is a regression and wasn't intentionally removed.

How can I get log directories to show up permanently like in the previous OS?


texts:
I have a broken Macbook Pro HDD with two partitions on it: OS X and Bootcamp. I need to take some files from both partitions:

the HDD is now mounted to another PC via. SATA adapter
Windows sees the HDD but i can't access it. For example, I can't format it
With gparted, it says that there's no filesystem, nor allocated space
I tried CloneZilla, but since there's no filesystem, it can't copy anything
I tried testdisk and photorec without luck
I tried fdisk and superbloack options with Linux without luck

Now, I don't know if I have to format it and try to recover the files I need, is there a way to repair?


texts: How to connect 3 External Monitors in Macbook Pro 13 2017 without Touchbar

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I am currently connected to 2 external monitors + the Macbook Display.
I want to add additional monitors, so that I can have 3 external monitors along with the Macbook's display.

I know that you can only connect 2 external monitor for the 13' Macbook Pro as per this link, but you can connect an additional monitor using a USB display adapter.

I bought this adapter, but I am unable to connect to a 3rd monitor using either VGA, Display, or DVI.

Does anyone know how to connect more monitors using a USB display adapter?


texts: Can I make a podcast out of any flash video to listen to on my iPod?

texts: Is it possible to make a podcast out of any flash video on the web that I can listen to on my iPod?


texts: how to permanently enable night shift in Mac OSX Sierra?

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I'm using Mac OS Sierra on an 11 inch Macbook Air, using an external Acer 24 inch monitor. I would like Night Shift to be always on.

In system preferences -> displays -> Acer G236HL -> the Night Shift tab, here's a picture of the settings:

The closest way to getting what I want is to check "Turn on until tomorrow", which works as expected. However, I have to do this every morning.

I thought I could get an essentially permanent Night shift by using the "schedule" option (with Manual checked off, which I'm reasonably assuming) to set a range beginning 5 min from now, ending 4 min from now, and then waiting 5 minutes. For example, if the time is currently 12:15 PM, I would set the scheduled Night shift to begin at 12:20 PM and end at 12:19 PM, e.g. running for 23 hours and 59 minutes. However, this doesn't seem to work; Night shift simply remains off, and the scheduling option seems to do nothing.

How can I permanently enable Night shift without having to recheck the "Turn on until Tomorrow" box every single morning?


texts: Make Speech in Safari read different languages

texts:
It would make sense when I have Safari read Japanese text (for example on this page) by clicking Edit then Speech then Start Speaking, that it would recognize Japanese language and switch voice to a Japanese voice.

However, it reads the text in the default U.S. voice and says "Hiragana Letter Hu, Hiragana Letter...".

In the Voice Utility app, I have selected default voices for Japanese:

I'm sure there's a way for the System to recognize a language and attribute the appropriate Speech Voice, without changing the whole OS' language (just the same way iPod Shuffle can automatically read out the names of the tracks in different languages), but how do I do this?


texts: How can I automount a network share on macOS Catalina?

texts:
I want to connect to a network share and I want the connection to remain active after logout. I tried:
$ echo "/-      auto_smb        -nosuid,noowners,nofail
        /-      auto_afp        -nobrowse,nosuid" >> /etc/auto_master
$ echo "/System/Volumes/Data/mount/Test2 -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://$username:$password@server/share" >> /etc/auto_smb
$ automount -cv

My username and password have special characters so I tried escaping them and replacing them with URL encoding, but it did not work. What am I doing wrong?


texts: "locked" iPhone video playback mode for children?

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After we upgraded to iPhone 4, one of our old iPhones was pressed into service as a children's video playback device for our 1.5 year old. That's one of the best things about an iPhone upgrade -- every upgrade comes with a "free" previous-gen iPod touch!

And, well, The iPhone is the ultimate kid-pacification device. With one caveat.

He does well holding it, most of the time, but tends to push the home button or accidentally activate enough touchscreen controls to stop video playback at the least or kick out to the home page.

Is there any way to activate a "locked" or "children" video playback mode on the iPhone, where accidental button presses don't stop video playback?


texts: melted ice cream + iphone5s = my screen black & white bars

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Combination of melted ice cream ,iphone 5s & someone sleeping on top of it all for an entire night. Now the screen looks like a retro jail house jump suit all black and white bars. I could think of a thousand ways to jimi rig it and know that none of them are any correct way. Need a positive solution. Phone still works as that it rings all the time and still powers up takes charge and powers down. Any one know what exactly and how to fix this probmlem. Or what needs to be replaced and best place to get a fix it my self kit? Thanks

What parts do i need to purchase to just fix it my self?


texts: How to move file from one users account to another? Permission denied.

texts:
I'm trying to move the file of a virtual machine from one users account to the other. So basically I want to move /Users/joe/Win7.vm to /Users/jane/Win7.vm but I can't figure out how to do it through Finder because I can't get to the root directory (/). I tried moving it using the mv command in Terminal and it said permission denied. Is tried sudo mv but it just said "sorry". I also tried changing its permission (chmod) but it wouldn't let me (and when I tried sudo chmod, it literally said "sorry").

I'm logged in as administrator.


texts: Is there a possible way to create a camera shake effect in iMovie 11?


texts: Is it safe to update to OS Catalina while running Logic Pro X version 10.4.6?

texts: I have heard some negative reports concerning Logic's behaviour when updating to Mac OS Catalina. I also had a friend who updated and couldn't even open the program because it was way to glitchy and wouldn't run. Most of these reports are from a while ago, though. Does anyone know if it would be safe for me to update now?


texts: iPad 2 activation required and failed (out of nowhere, not activation lock)

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I have an iPad 2 and out of nowhere it requires an activation. It is connected to my WIFI and I did not have to enter my Apple ID.
The activation however fails, and it tells me to connected it to iTunes.  The error message on the iPad is (translated):

Your iPad could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try  to activate it with iTunes or try again in a couple of minutes.
If the problem persists talk to the apple support.

When I connect it to my laptop it tries to activate it bu fails as well.
The error message in Finder is (translated):

Activation failed. The iPad can't be synchronised. The operation timed out.

Restoring is not possible as the only thing I see is the error message where normally the different options (software update, backup information, etc.) for the iPad are. I've tried it for a week now and came to the conclusion that this is some kind of software bug.
I tried to restart it and do a shutdown.
I know this device is fairly old but I use it every now and then. It was working just fine before this. Also the apple stores are currently closed where I live due to COVID. Does anyone have any ideas?
UPDATE:
I contacted the apple support and after some time their suggestion was to put the iPad in recovery mode. First I should try to just update the software when in recovery mode but that did not help. Same screen appears which shows that same error message. Then they suggested to restore the iPad from the backup. This was possible because I entered the recovery mode.
After restoring the iPad it worked for about 30min (I was already happy to have my iPad back) when all the sudden the apple logo appeared on the screen and it tells me it needs activation. Well now I'm even more frustrated :D I guess I'm going to contact the support once again...


texts: Free presentation helper that shows keystrokes

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Are there any free standalone presentation tools that shows which keys are pressed on screen?

KeyCastr is not available as build for users without Xcode. Only a community fork (git://github.com/bignerdranch/keycastr.git) is working on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

Mouseposé is commercial.

Related to the Windows 7 Question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3529329


texts: When I set an alarm on my Apple Watch, is it possible to copy this automatically to my iPhone so that both devices alert me?


texts: to run latest emacs in terminal by typing "emacs"

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Question:

Because I use emacs-live, I used homebrew to install emacs-24.3. Now everytime I want to launch emacs of version 24.3 in terminal, I have to type "emacs-24.3" --- if I just type "emacs", it launches the original updated emacs came with Mac OS.

how can I configure these so that I only need to type "emacs" and launch the one installed by homebrew?

I use emacs in terminal, so the workaround that installing GUI version of emacs is not the solution what I am looking for. I use OSX Lion.

Note:

Solved the issue by reading this post! the point was to restart my terminal after doing what you guys suggested...

For future visitors I will just post full procedure for solving this issue.

Solution:

Add following line in .bash_profile: PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" as this post explained.
Close the terminal and restart again. If you don't restart, you will be stuck as I did :-)


texts:
When I sign into icloud.com and click on the Find My iPhone icon, my MacBook does NOT show up in the located devices.  I have already made sure that my location services are turned ON in System Preferences and I have also made sure that Find My Mac is turned ON in the iCloud preferences in System Preferences. My computer IS connected to a wireless network.

This feature had worked in the past, but I hadn't tried to Find My Mac for a while and now it will NOT show up in the located devices.  I am also the computer's administrator.  iCloud's Find my iPhone program simply will NOT locate my MacBook.  I have tried turning off everything and then turning them back on (iCloud in System Preferences, location services, wireless connection, etc).

Is there any way to fix this?


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I took a backup on icloud and installed ios 10 beta 1 now I want to go back to iOS 9.3, so I used the option reset settings and data but still I'm on 10 beta 1. Please help me out.

Ps- I don't have my laptop with me nor I made any backup on iTunes.


texts: Is there a way to only enable automatic graphics switching when on battery power?

texts: It is rare when I use my MBP on battery power. But is there a way to only enable automatic graphics switching when on battery power?


texts: Updated mid-2009 MacBook Pro to Mavericks, now it shuts down while not in use

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I just updated my mid-2009 Macbook Pro to Mavericks and now it regularly shuts down while it is asleep or closed. I have to restart it and receive a message that it "shut down because of a problem." Does anyone have any insight into what is going on?

Below is the most recent crash report:

Process:         gutenprint.5.2 [430]
Path:            /usr/libexec/cups/driver/gutenprint.5.2
Identifier:      gutenprint.5.2
Version:         ???
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  cups-driverd [429]
Responsible:     cupsd [117]
User ID:         26

Date/Time:       2013-11-16 22:55:10.286 +0000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9 (13A603)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  E6CABB17-89D1-A8A9-DA33-CB8AE24BB654

Crashed Thread:  0

Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libgutenprint.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/libexec/cups/driver/gutenprint.5.2
  Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
    0x7fff61ea3000 -     0x7fff61ed6817  dyld (239.3) <D1DFCF3F-0B0C-332A-BCC0-87A851B570FF> /usr/lib/dyld
    0x7fff85b23000 -     0x7fff85b24ff7  libSystem.B.dylib (1197.1.1) <BFC0DC97-46C6-3BE0-9983-54A98734897A> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
    0x7fff87a71000 -     0x7fff87a8dfff  libresolv.9.dylib (54) <11C2C826-F1C6-39C6-B4E8-6E0C41D4FA95> /usr/lib/libresolv.9.dylib
    0x7fff88c42000 -     0x7fff88e9aff1  com.apple.security (7.0 - 55471) <233831C5-C457-3AD5-AFE7-E3E2DE6929C9> /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
    0x7fff89234000 -     0x7fff89325ff9  libiconv.2.dylib (41) <BB44B115-AC32-3877-A0ED-AEC6232A4563> /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
    0x7fff8c07c000 -     0x7fff8c0c3ff7  libcups.2.dylib (372) <348EED62-6C20-35D6-8EFB-E80943965100> /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib
    0x7fff8d63b000 -     0x7fff8d820ff7  com.apple.CoreFoundation (6.9 - 855.11) <E22C6A1F-8996-349C-905E-96C3BBE07C2F> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
    0x7fff90124000 -     0x7fff9013dff7  com.apple.Kerberos (3.0 - 1) <F108AFEB-198A-3BAF-BCA5-9DFCE55EFF92> /System/Library/Frameworks/Kerberos.framework/Versions/A/Kerberos
    0x7fff91be2000 -     0x7fff91c45ff7  com.apple.SystemConfiguration (1.13 - 1.13) <F05F4149-981B-380B-8F50-51CE804BBB89> /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfiguration
    0x7fff92b7a000 -     0x7fff92b8bff7  libz.1.dylib (53) <42E0C8C6-CA38-3CA4-8619-D24ED5DD492E> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib

System Profile:
Model: MacBookPro5,5, BootROM MBP55.00AC.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.26 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.47f2
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A53463235363634485A2D3147314631
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A53463235363634485A2D3147314631
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.22)
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.0f6 12982, 3 services, 15 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST9160314ASG, 160.04 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-868
USB Device: iPhone
USB Device: Built-in iSight
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Bus:


texts: The C key stopped working, any workaround to emulate 'Command + C'?

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On a macbook, the C key isn't working anymore, so i was wondering if there was a way to trigger the command + c shortcut other than pressing the command and C keys

Thanks a lot


texts: Turn off iMac main screen while working on external

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I have an external display on my iMac and I would like to work only on the external display and turn off/disable the iMac one, just like the "clamshell mode" on a Macbook for example. It works with Windows in Bootcamp, but not in the Mac's partition. The iMac's display is too shiny and it gives me headaches when I work while the sun is shining.

How can I turn off the iMac's screen so it won't stress my graphic card, display etc.?


texts: How to set the iphone mail app to send email only

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I use my gmail as my primary email address and use the gmail app on my iphone.

However, whenever I want to send a picture quickly from my camera roll it uses the default mail app and then proceeds to download all the emails it perceives as unread.  All this mail is already in my gmail app,filed to read as I like.

Is there any way to set the ios mail to send only?

Thanks


texts: Can't restart because OS X thinks an app is open

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I was working with Xcode and it stopped responding so I force quit, reported the error, and tried reopening the app.  When reopening the dock hung too so I ended up having to restart the dock with killall -KILL Dock.  Unfortunately now OS X thinks Xcode is running but hung.  Long pressing the icon in the dock or going to the force quit screen clearly show the app but selecting "Force Quit" does nothing and the app does not appear when I do ps -e.

Is there any way I can get OS X to realize the app isn't running so I can open it or safely restart the OS?


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I have a rMBP (Mid 2012) that is having disk issues. When verifying the disk, I get three different errors:

Incorrect number of file hard links
Invalid first link in hard link chain
Invalid directory item count

Rebooting into single user mode and running fsck -fy seems to fix these errors, as a subsequent run of fsck -fy does not report any errors after the first completes. However, after rebooting, the errors are once again present.

I have also rebooted into Internet Recovery to run Disk Utility and get an error that Disk Utility cannot repair the drive.

The only issue that I have noticed while using my laptop is inability to repartition my hard drive. I fixed this issue once before so I could repartition my hard drive, but do not remember what I did.

The SMART status of my hard drive doesn't indicate any problems, so the only solution I can come to is wiping my drive and reinstalling OS X, although I would rather do that in the fall to do a clean install of El Capitan. Is there anything else that I could do to at least resolve the issue of not being able to repartition my hard drive?


texts: Are there downsides to quitting the Finder after enabling the menu item to quit it?

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In Why is the Finder app always open?, it was noted that you could add a Quit menu item to the Finder via a Terminal command, but the comments and one of the answers seemed to indicate that this was a bad idea and should be avoided unless you had a could reason. Why is this this? Does this prevent the system from working correctly?

I myself have enabled the Quit menu item in the Finder (via TinkerTool, rather than the command line) and find it useful for presentations where I don't want to show everybody my messy desktop or any open windows. I've also quit when I thought that I could use the extra RAM (like heavy Photoshop editing), although to be honest I don't know if that's effective. Are there any negative consequences that could result if I kept doing this?


texts: Is there a way I can share a disk image as a remote DVD drive?

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I would like to upgrade one of my laptops to Snow Leopard but the DVD drive doesn't work.

So can I share a disk image to use it with Remote Mac OS X Install tool?


texts: Apple AHT occasionally freezing MacBook Pro late 2011 OS X Lion

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Running Apple Hardware Test (AHT) repeatedly on a late 2011 Macbook Pro over Wi-Fi (Option D).

Completes the process sometimes and says no problems but sometimes freezes (has done so during RAM testing portion as well as during logic board portion of the test). Should I consider both RAM and Logic board damaged or dismiss the freezing as likely the result of flakey Wi-Fi service?

I started running the test after reinstalling Lion over Wi-Fi because the trackpad had been responding weirdly.


texts: iMessage conversations on iPad 2 are not appearing on my iPhone 5

texts: I've just bought myself an iPhone 5, I've set up iCloud on it and synced it with my iPad. However, all of the iMessage conversations I had on my iPad are not showing up on my iPhone's iMessages. How can I load and continue to have my old iMessage conversations from my iPad to my iphone?


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I know that Chrome for Windows and Chrome for Mac are extremely similar. So similar that I only notice one difference for the Mac version: the green + button doesn't maximize. However, that can be remedied: http://maximizechrome.com. According to Google - I'm not sure where - there's only one difference: dragging highlighted text. I didn't notice this, but I don't usually drag highlighted text.

I don't use Safari very often, but one thing I do appreciate is when an app behaves the same no matter your OS. I might even switch to Safari if it does this. Thus, the question: Are there any differences, feature-wise, between Safari for Mac and Safari for Windows?

I mean real differences, not just things like the dropdown box styling provided by the OS.


texts: Mac OSX - Transfer Connect to Server Favorites to new computer?

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I have a new macbook pro that's on the company network. My old laptop had a large list of Connect to Server favorite locations that I don't have memorized.

Is there a way i can transfer this server favorites list to the new computer? If so how?

Thanks, Scott


texts: Mac OS is not picking G++ installed using Homebrew

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I already had Clang on my MacOS Mojave, but I installed gcc using Homebrew.

Now I see the new g++ in /usr/local/bin/ :

$ /usr/local/bin/g++ --version
g++ (Homebrew GCC 9.3.0) 9.3.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

When I do which it lists to the same location (which I want) :

$ which g++
/usr/local/bin/g++

But when I run the command g++ it again points back to clang :

$ g++ --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

My PATH setting
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

Being a linux user I was expecting the new g++ to be picked because which also points to that. How can I fix this? How can I point to the g++ instead of clang++.


texts: How can I delete photos from my iPhone but keep them in iCloud?

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I have seen this question on here a few times, but never with a clear answer.

I am using a iPhone 6s with iOS 10.3.3. When I take a picture I want it to be uploaded to my iCloud Photo Library; however I also want to be able to delete that photo from my iPhone while keeping it in iCloud (to free up space for other data).

Is there a way to delete photos from my iPhone’s local storage but not from iCloud Photo Library?


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I replaced battery on my MBA mid 2011 (A1369).

Here is the report by coconut(the same appears in system report):

I bought no name battery from china and changed it personally (here they ask about 250 EUR for replacement battery (labour and battery) what is for me crazy and I will not pay it).
However, it does not charge fully aa you can see on picture. The laptop gets more hotter and fan sometimes is going very noisy which before replacement did not make.
I went through forums and made all recommended actions - reset smc, pram. I charge sometime with 60W adapter. It made the same on maverics and now on el capitan as well.

Finally I ordered other battery from China which is on the way. However, as I could read here maybe the problem is in software. There is a little charging cycles done...

Any help?


texts: why does my print job fail? 15 page PDF, freezes on page 7

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I'm trying to print a 15 page document from Lion wirelessly to my HP 1102w printer.

The first 6 pages print fine then it freezes half way through page 7, and I have to power the printer off/on for it to work again.  I tried printing just page 7 and that works so it doesn't appear to be the content of the page.

I'm wondering if maybe the printer is running out of memory or something.  Is it possible there's a setting somewhere that will cause the Mac to send the document slower or something?

Any help is greatly appreciated!


texts: Where to place my pictures from a harddrive

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So I've used windows all my life and am giving osx a shot.
I have an external harddrive full with images stored in multiple levels of directories.
eg.
 -car
    -ferrari
    -audi
 -family
   -2020
 -house

Should I just copy everything to:
/users/myusername/Pictures

There is also a directory inside there called Photos Library.photoslibrary can that just be removed?


texts: How do I disable the white flashing on Facebook on iOS

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A few pre-requisites out of the way: I'm on iOS version 11.02 on an iPhone6s with FaceBook version 144.0 (all software is current and has been rebooted.)

I've noticed that at times any action showers me with white flashes. When I say flash I am referring to the area of the images, photos and buttons. I don't believe the camera flash ever activates during this.

When I scroll and see a picture - flash. When I scroll and see a video - flash. When I click on a like button or whatever, flash.

This seems to be tied in with their mystery algorithm to reward users for using the applications so they keep coming back. It is not a persistent thing. I cannot reproduce this behavior as it is done behind the scenes kinda like how you get a bunch of baloons of the likes group of emoticons.

I would like to disable this kind of behavior. I've done a search in the FB help center but no results. I have gone through most things under Account Settings: > General, Photos, Video etc & News Feed Preferences.

Not seeing anything.

Does anyone know how I can disable this behavior?


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I have a Macbook Pro and an iPhone that share the same iCloud account. On my Macbook's Photos I have a smart album that contains 52 photos. On the iPhone the album contains 40, with 12 photos are missing.

How can I resync the missing 12 photos with the iPhone?


texts: Macintosh HD is locked - Unlocking with Disk utility First Aid taking 12+ hours and still not completed

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I have a problem with a new re-installation of Catalina. I am getting the following:
"Macintosh HD" is locked" Pop-up message on every start up.

After going into disk utility I have the following:

Macintosh HD
Macintosh HD - Data
Macintosh HD - Data - Data

The "Macintosh HD" greyed out and I can't erase it. After googling around for a bit. I decided to try and run Disk utility First Aid in an attempt to unlock the disk. So it hopefully can be erased afterwards.

But the Disk utility First Aid have now run for more then 10 hours. The size of the disk is 500 GB but it still seems incredible slow.

Is this normal? Because I am worried it is stuck and will never complete.
And is it possible to erase the disk after it has been unlocked?

Here is a screenshot. I am sorry for the picture of a screen quality and the Danish language - But the Mac is stuck in disk utility so can't take a prober screenshot or chance language.


texts: macOS: Can I hide running apps with no active window from the Dock?

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I want to hide app icon from the Dock that are running but doesn't have an active window. I googled it, but the answers I found were all app specific.

I am looking for a generalized solution.


texts: Can all Mac software update with one click?

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Is there a way to update ALL your software at same time with one click?

From what I was told you have to update MS Office and other softwares manually and on by one.


texts: Can't delete manually added static route

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On Mountain Lion, I manually added a static route like this:

$ sudo route -n add 10.10.10.1/24 10.0.0.2
add net 10.10.10.1: gateway 10.0.0.2

That worked just fine. Now I want to remove the static route, but this fails:

$ sudo route -n delete  10.10.10.1/24 10.0.0.2
route: writing to routing socket: not in table
delete net 10.10.10.1: gateway 10.0.0.2: not in table

Even though it says "not in table", the entry is there, according to netstat and route:

$ netstat -rn | grep 10.10.10
10.10.10/24        10.0.0.2           UGSc            1        2    tap0

$ route get 10.10.10.1
   route to: 10.10.10.1
destination: 10.10.10.0
       mask: 255.255.255.0
    gateway: 10.0.0.2
  interface: tap0
      flags: <UP,GATEWAY,DONE,STATIC,PRCLONING>
 recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu     expire
       0         0         0         0         0         0      1500         0

What's going wrong here?

Edit: My local interface on the 10.0.0.1/24 network is a tap device created by OpenVPN. Stopping the OpenVPN client clears the route. Would still like to know why I can't remove this route without stopping the VPN client.


texts: MacBook pro won't stay on and has difficulties powering up

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MacBook pro 13" touchbar from 2016.

The MacBook sometimes will turn on, most of the time it won't. When it does turn on, I can get as far as the login screen, where it will completely shut off after ~30 seconds. During that time I can see a battery icon in the top that says 1% and has a charge icon. SMC reset does not help. Getting into recovery is near to impossible with the spotty way it powers on at all.

The laptop has been stored in a cabinet for some time (at least 2 months), with unknown battery charge on storing.

Could this be a malfunctioning battery pack that no longer holds a charge and has not enough juice to power the MacBook? Shouldn't the machine be able to run on AC power even if the battery pack is dead? Are there any solutions I can try?


texts: Where do I put a custom ringtone for Facetime? (macos Sierra)

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I like that Facetime Continuity allows my phone to ring on my computer. But it repeats the sound aggressively and it loops way too fast..

I created a quieter tone with eight seconds before it loops. But I can't figure out where to put it.

Apparently in Yosemite you could unlock access to this folder and put it here:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Ringtones/

But I don't see any info on where to put it in Sierra. Any thoughts?


texts: Format SD card with FAT and custom file allocation unit size

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I'm using Maverick (a offline mapping application) on my Android device which has thousands of files in the tile cache with a size of 168 byte. The SD card is formatted with a file allocation unit size of 32 KB. This results for each file in a huge waste of space:

168 Byte (33 KB on the volume)

You can imagine that a 2GB is full even if you want to store 50MB of real data. Is there software I can use on my Mac to change the file allocation unit size during formatting of the device?


texts: how can I view all dates of my previous back ups & how can I restore all of my lost photos without connecting to another computer? please say this is possible and help by telling me how I can do this. thank you very much if you can help:)


texts:
￼How do I get rid of this icon?
I'm not even sure what it's for.
It's possible that it's for remote CD Drive, but I don't remember how I got it up there in the first place.

Details:

iMac 27 inch late 2012
OS X Mavericks


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Today I ran into a big problem: I was trying to make a bootable OS X thumb drive with Unibeast but haven't been able to format or partition it.

The error shown when i try to format or partition in OSX 10.6.8:

I also tried this tutorial with no luck.

I searched all internet but didn't find any solution.

Does anyone have an answer for my problem?


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This is likely the same problem I saw reported countless times. However, mine comes with a twist, so I wonder if anyone can provide extra insight. Briefly, my laptop randomly shuts down (I think it happens only on battery). It's an early 2011 17" version running the latest macOS.

A few weeks ago I reinstalled the whole macOS after it wouldn't turn on anymore. I thought it might've been a hardware issue as many people suggest replacing the motherboard, but I was still able to boot it in the safe mode, which would suggest it's a software component issue.

Fast-forward and it's started happening again, although only infrequently and I am able to turn it back on very quickly if I have a charger nearby. Now, here are 2 insights I noticed and wonder if anyone can explain futher.

1/ Once the laptop "dies", I usually need to connect it to the charger to start it again. It feels like giving it some juice to power up. The battery level doesn't seem to play a role here (happens on 90% too). Sometimes if I connect the charger, turn it on, remove charger, it dies instantly. As if I had to keep the charger in for a certain amount of time until it feels confident to run without it. Feels like teaching a child ride a bike.

2/ Lately, I developed a new theory that it happens only when discharging AND I have to have the laptop on my lap, bed, or other unstable surface. I am paying attention now if it happens again when I work on desk, I couldn't replicate it so far. It's this point that drives me crazy, wondering what it could be.

Any experience with this issue is welcome.

[UPDATE]: I removed case from the Macbook, dusted it off a bit and since then it's been running without any issues again. I haven't changed any settings or components. Computers are weird.


texts: Best practices for 2011 Mac mini connected to monitor + HDTV?

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I'm dual-purposing a new Mac mini (2011) as a desktop machine and media center. I will be using a DisplayPort to DVI adapter to use with the desktop monitor, and a long HDMI cable to go directly to an HDTV at the other end of the room.

What can I expect from this configuration, when the usage pattern is going to be limited to one display at a time? Meaning, at any one time it will either be used as an HDTV source with the HDMI display or a desktop machine with the DisplayPort display. Obviously I'd like to avoid unplugging/replugging cables all the time to disable the displays, and I would probably not like to mirror 1080p to a 1600x900 desktop display.

Changing the audio output from HDMI to internal I can handle with an option-click to the sound menu extra, but there's no such functionality to switch from one connected display to the other that I know of.

Is there anything that I'm missing? Any software that might accomplish this for me?

Anything completely different that might work better?


texts: Can I make mobile Safari open YouTube links in the browser?

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YouTube has a pretty decent mobile website, however any link to YouTube I see on the web always opens the link in the YouTube app, not there in the browser.

Is there a way to change that? It would be nice not to have to keep switching apps all the time. I checked in Settings and couldn't see anything. Echofon actually does it in its built in browser so I'm sure it must be possible.


texts: Using applescript, how to move a window to my second display?

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I have experimented with absolutely every possible scripting option I can find on the web, and no matter what I do I cannot move a FaceTime window to my secondary display.

This works...

tell application "System Events" to tell process "FaceTime"
  tell application "FaceTime" to activate
  tell front window to set position to {3600, 500}
end tell

but with one fatal flaw that it always stops dead in its tracks, at the right edge of display #1 (the left display).

If I set the X coordinate to anything less than 2560 (my width on both screens) then it works perfectly, but any attempt to move it further to the right, and thus onto display #2, will not work.

I don't know if it's related, but my primary display is an external Dell, and my secondary display is the built-in display of the 27" iMac.  Dell on the left, iMac on the right.

Interestingly however, if I manually drag the window onto display #2 and run the same script above, then it positions correctly onto display #2.  It seems that the numbers are relative to whatever display the window is CURRENTLY on.  How can I get it to absolutely position the window onto display #2?


texts: Encrypting sensitive data on Mac + Windows

texts:
I've been a long-time Windows user, using a utility called AxCrypt to encrypt sensitive documents which holded sensitive info (bank passwords, credit card numbers, etc).
I had an encrypted Excel spreadsheet, which was placed on a shared dropbox folder, where everyone who had the password could easily view the file, and if needed change the data and save (AxCrypt will automatically encrypt the file, which is saved to dropbox and synced to all users).
It worked perfectly for years, and then 2 of us switched to Mac.

AxCrypt port to Mac doesn't allow the simple opening of encrypted file, changing it, and having it automatically encrypted.

So we either use Windows emulation on Mac, or find another solution that has a good experience (easily view encrypted files, easily change and re-encrypt, save to dropbox).

Anyone know on a solution that can help? I tried TrueCrypt, but it seems to be more cumbersome than the existing AxCrypt solution.


texts: How to install VirtualBox extension pack?

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I downloaded the extension pack from:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Got this file Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.14.vbox-extpack.gz

To install it you have to go to File / Preferences / Extensions / Add In there, it expects you to add a file with the extension vbox-extpack.

Double clicking the file extracts it to a folder without the extension. So, I went to the CLI and did:

gunzip Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.14.vbox-extpack.gz

That resulted in what seemed to be the right file, but when I tried to add it to VirtualBox I got the error:

Failed to open the Extension Pack /Users/givanse/Downloads/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.14.vbox-extpack.

RTZipGzipDecompressIoStream failed: VERR_ZIP_BAD_HEADER


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I've got 10.6 running on a 2006 MacBook Pro.  I want to run some older software that was meant for 10.4 and earlier, so I figured I'd install Tiger in VMware Fusion, but it isn't working.  Any idea how I'd go about it?

What I've tried:
When creating a new VM, there's no option for Tiger.  It only offers 10.5 server and 10.6 server.  I tried using the 10.5 server option with a Tiger disk image, but with no luck: gives me this error:

  Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization.
  To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Fusion supports hardware virtualization.

Any thoughts?


texts:
I'm trying to find some headsets that will work with airplay from either my mac or an iPhone.

Should i presume all wireless or bluetooth headsets do?

best, Dan.


texts: How to remove privacy settings for files and folders in Catalina?

texts:
It seems to be simple, but how to remove the given privacy settings for files and folders? I have some double mentions which I would like to remove!

So how to achieve this, when the + / - control buttons are disabled?


texts: Attempting to share a video in iMovie '13 results in error -50

texts:
I have updated to iMovie '13 (v10.01.0) and can no longer share my videos to Vimeo or export them. I get the following error message:

  Video rendering error: -50

Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it?


texts: How to resolve a '"file" is damaged and can't be opened' problem on Catalina?

texts: This error message continually pops up, "geohxjhmvzab" is damaged and can't be opened.  I have searched, via FINDER, for the file, but to no avail.  I have also attempted to delete the file via TERMINAL, using an xattr command, to no avail.


texts: How to create quick single-tap iOS webhook "buttons"

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TL;DR: Is there an app (or some other means) that would allow me to create a grid of webhook buttons (which accept a json string) that work like the example in this video (i.e. single tap to issue command, no changing of screens)?:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ptfxgy9fwlg1rfh/e-Control_example.MP4?dl=0

Note, the beeping in the background is my air conditioner.  I also want the following: if the command to be issued takes a second or 2, I want each tap to queue up the commands in series.  So say I tap 5 times rapidly - I want all those 5 taps to result in 5 webhook calls regardless or how long it takes to issue the command.

The requirement of accepts a json string means: not only is there a URL entry for creating the button, but also a text area to enter the content of the json.  I only have 1 webhook URL and different commands are issued based on the json content.

Background:

I recently bought a Broadlink RM Mini 3 and while the associated iOS app isn't very slick or pretty, it's highly functional, so much so that it has inspired me to figure out how to create my own remote interfaces that use webhook posts to issue commands.  Here's an example of a custom remote interface I made for my first floor window unit air conditioner using the broadlink app (unfortunately named "e-Control"):

I have a number of automations setup in Node Red on a Raspberry Pi that I wish to control with webhook buttons.  Many of the automations are also setup in Homebridge and thus, they show up in the Home app, but some simply don't work in the Home app (such as the volume controls for my stereo which I broadcast from my RPi at 27Mhz).

I have webhooks set up (e.g. for the stereo volume) and I can initiate them via Siri Shortcuts - and I even added them to the home screen, but I don't like the widgets interface and using the Siri Shortcuts app is slow and requires multiple taps per volume up/down command.  The closest thing to what I'm looking for is the Siri Shortcuts widget screen.  I also tried creating IFTTT widgets, but that's even slower because it requires 2 chained webhook posts.

So I've been looking for an app or some other way to create "buttons" that issue webhook posts that I can arrange at least in a nice grid like the broadlink app.  It would also be great if it would "queue" the taps so that I can turn up my stereo volume with 5 quick taps, meaning if each tap takes a second or 2 to transmit, all 5 taps eventually get sent in series.

Does anyone know of a way to create webhook buttons like the kind I'm envisioning?


texts: Stop Office for Mac from loading with earlier documents on top of the one I opened?

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Here's an irritation that annoys me almost every working day:

I need to work from a Word or Excel (for Mac, Office 2011) document.
So, I find the document on the shared server, and open it.
The document and the application opens... so far, no problem...
...then, documents from my previous session open on top of the document I chose to open. The document I asked for is now buried somewhere under whatever I was working on when I last closed Word or Excel.

This always takes me by surprise because it's so different to usual application behaviour that I'm used to.

Because it's usually someone else's document I'm working from (and because it's usually first thing in the morning, and I'm really not a morning person...), I usually end up spending minutes in mild confusion looking for the content I need to work from in the wrong document, wondering why the document I just opened looks so different to how I was expecting it to look, before realising this isn't actually the document I just opened and/or remembering that Office for Mac does this.

I've found this earlier question, with some suggestions for turning Resume Previous Windows off at the OS level, or with an app-specific Apple script. If possible, however, I'd prefer to keep Resume Previous Windows on, but make sure that once the MS Office application has opened, the document I actually opened is the one that has focus, not some random* document I had open yesterday.

Is this possible? Is it possible to force MS Word 2011 and/or Excel 2011 (or all Office apps) to keep focus on the opened document when booting up after a document has been opened, without disabling Resume Previous Windows completely?

Operating system is Lion if that's relevant, and the documents are on a work MS Exchange Server the Mac is connected to.

EDIT: judging by comments, it sounds like this is a Lion thing not an Office thing. So, is there any way to keep this feature on, but make sure than whenever I open a file with an application that isn't currently running, the file I opened is the one with focus when the application starts up?

*I think it's the document that was opened first that gets focus when the app boots up. Not 100% sure though, all I know for sure is, it's usually the last document I expect.


texts: Macbook Pro won't start after restart (red charger icon)

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So I just installed Flash and restarted my Mac, and now it won't start. It was working perfectly before that and I didn't drop it or anything.

The power cable works (tried it on another Mac) so it's not that.

When I press the power button I see the charger loading icon and it's red (like 2mm bar) then it takes 2 seconds and the screen is black. No sound what so ever. When I plug in the power cable I can see that it changes from no cable to cable plugged in, but it won't charge or start.

What can have happened and what to do? It's a 2 year old MacBook 15" retina.

Please help


texts: Using my iPhone, as a Wifi iPhone without a SIM card

texts: I have recently given up my network phone service (removed my SIM card) and adopted a wifi based app that allows me to pay for my minutes as I go. Has anyone started this path to converting your iPhone to only a Wifi iPhone? if so... what are some of the complications encountered from not having a SIM card in the iPhone?


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Macbook Pro Mid 2012, original SSD.

TLDR; Why could I clone my unmountable drive from an external enclosure but not internally?

My SSD broke down a few days ago. It was detected, but I was unable to mount it, and I got I/O errors when trying to clone (restore in Disk Utility) the drive (no logs saved). After Disk Utility and DiskWarrior failed to resolve the issue I put the internal SSD into an external enclosure. From the enclosure I was suddenly able to clone the drive. My question is, what possible explanations for this are there? My guess is that the SATA connector is damaged, but I hope I'm wrong.

Update: A fresh install (made from the external enclosure) still has the same mounting issues when booted internally.

Update 2: After a few more hours of research I'm more or less convinced that the cable is toast. Apparently it's a common occurrence with certain Macbook models.


texts: Is there an iOS Camera App that shoots a photo every minute?

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I would like to have an App that shoots a picture every minute, so I can carry my iPhone in my breast pocket to have a photoblog of my day.

A perfect solution would be if that app could create a video from those photos directly.


texts: I have my iPhone in my hand when I am running. And it reacts a lot for shakes or touches on the display and I feel it a little annoying. How should I keep it less reactive? I don't want to turn it off since I am usually on listening to podcasts.


texts: Compatibility of Mid 2011 MacBook Air 13" Parts

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I am replacing the upper case of my MBA 2011 13", I found something on eBay but am unsure on the compatibility, my serial number is, C02GRGLVDJWT.

Link to the part: 13" Apple MacBook Air A1466 Palmrest Upper Top Case 069-8219-A.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.


texts: Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7 -- Using a USB-C Dock with Display Link and external monitors -- Only 1 monitor has the scaled option 1600 x 900

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I have a Macbook pro (Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7) which I'm connecting to a docking station via a USBC. I have 2 external monitors 1 connected to the dock via HDMI, 1 via DP.
When I go to Settings --> Displays --> Display Tab --> Scaled only the monitor connected via HDMI has the 1600 x 900 option. I've tried clicking scaled while holding down alt and I do see other options but not 1600 x 900 which I find to be optimal.
Please let me know if I can provide other helpful info.
My hunch is that because both monitors are technically only connected to one usbc on the laptop, there is some weird issue.
Edit:

Both monitors are the exact same model: Samsung S24R356FHN
The dock is a Totu
Macbook pro model: a2141


texts: Is AFP of any value to non-ancient devices?

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From one person’s tests, SMBv3 is just a hair faster than AFP.

All of the Macs, iPads, and iPhones in our house capable of reading disks are Apple devices that support SMBv3.  We have no devices capable of AFP.

File sharing allows SMB or “SMB and AFP.”  Is there any benefit to enabling AFP?

I am more accustomed to NFS, but speed of disk access is worth switching over.


texts: Running `nano` uses the old nano(2.0.6) even though nano 3.0 is installed

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I installed nano 3.0 with brew install nano, but when I run nano --version, it shows version 2.0.6, which is what came with macOS.

Screenshot:

echo $PATH also shows that /usr/local/bin is listed before /usr/bin

How do I make running nano use version 3.0 and not 2.0.6?

This doesn't help as nano is already in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/bin is listed first in $PATH and /etc/paths.


texts: Which one is being used when I have two internet connections?

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My macbook always connects to wireless when I'm at work. I usually connect Lan to usb adapter to my macbook as well.

In this case, I end up having two connections -- Lan to USB and Wireless.

Am I using wireless or lan to usb connection?


texts: How to place Dictionary definitions higher up in spotlight results

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I used to use spotlight fairly frequently to quickly look up words in a dictionary.  With Lion, I've noticed that my dictionary results have dropped down much lower in the list of results:

I'd like to bump up the priority of these results so they show up near the top of the list.  However, looking at the system Spotlight preferences in Lion, I don't see an obvious way to do this:

How can I make Dictionary.app results show up higher in the list of Spotlight results?