texts: Why are my guests in VirtualBox so slow?

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I have Mojave 10.14.3, running VirtualBox 6.0.4 and with Debian 9 (with XFCE) as the guest OS.

I have installed the guest additions, no errors. I can verify that the usual vbox modules are running:

vboxvideo
vboxsf
vboxguest

Everything works fine in Debian, except that the system is extremely slow.

Even the mouse cursor lags when moved around, on a clean system with nothing running. Moving around applications take seconds.

Interestingly, glxgears runs seemingly fine, but again, moving the window itself takes seconds and is extremely sluggish.

It seems like "Enable Nested VT-x/AMD-V" is not possible to select in the options for the guest. The option is grayed out.

I have four CPUs enabled, plenty of RAM. I have enabled 3D acceleration. VirtualBox claims 2D acceleration only works for a Windows guest, so it is disabled.

I have never experienced this slow performance before in VirtualBox, something is clearly wrong, but what is it? And how can I fix it?

This problem is not related to misconfiguration of the number of cores or memory for the guest. I have tried having 1, 2, and 4 cores enabled for the guest. I have tried having 4 GiB and 8 GiB allocated for the guest.

However, if anyone is curious, these are the specifications for my host hardware:

  Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:  2,6 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    4
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 6 MB
  Memory:   16 GB


texts: Can I update Mac OS 10.11 to 10.11.6 using a dmg of the update?

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My internet connection is lame  and the last time I tried to update with the download through App store, it downloaded and restarted but said that the verification of the update package was unsuccessful . I don't want to do that again .

So, I have manually downloaded the update package (1.55 GB) from http://supportdownload.apple.com. Now how do I update Mac OS , and also I don't want the verification failed kind of error. I also do know that this happens at some cases when OSx needs to be installed through the recovery section and you sure can fix it changing the systems date, but how do I do it in this case?


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My Apple TV keeps nagging me to enter my password for account verification.

When I give it the correct password, it appears to accept it, but will continue to ask for verification.

Verification isn't even actually required, because it gives the option to decline, so it's pointless.

It's easy enough to deal with but it's constantly harrassing me with frequent verification request popups during movies, etc.

Does anyone else have the same problem, or is it an isolated case?
Does anyone have a solution, short of contacting Apple? Thanks.


texts: Reminders in notification center/lock screen without time/day set

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Let's say there's a certain list of items I need to get when I go shopping.  I don't know what time I'm going to be shopping so I don't set them to have a 'Remind me on day' or 'Remind me at location' set.

I want this list to appear in my notification center (where I will see it without necessarily seeking it out) but it won't, unless I give it a reminder time/location.

Is there a way to have reminders appear in notification center/lock screen without time/location reminders set?


texts: Easily readable file access history on macOS Sierra Server

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I'm running a small company network with macOS Sierra Server and a few client Macs whose users access and modify files in various shared folders.

I want to make it easy for users to keep track on a file or folder's access and editing history.
I know I can do this via the servers log files, but I am looking for a way that makes this 'palatable' for normal users without much technical knowledge.

Thank you very much for your help!


texts: Terminal command to list application defaults?

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I'm new to Mac from the Linux world, and I am looking for a command or file providing a list to default user applications associated with certain filetypes.  For example, on Linux:

$ cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

provides the application names and priority hierarchies on Linux.  I've tried something similar using defaults on the Mac, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.

$ defaults read | grep pdf
  name = "1309.0238.pdf";
  name = "1309.0238.pdf";

Does the Mac operating system have a simple, command-line function or accessible file to find the default applications?


texts: Folders appear as blanks in external drive search

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Recently when I search for folders on the external drive I have mounted, the folders appear as blanks:

I am running macOS Big Sur, and I have already tried inspecting these files. Under General I noticed Size: Calculating Size. Seeing this I thought maybe Finder had not yet finished indexing, although this does not change however long I wait. Does anyone know how to fix this search problem? Note: the folders appear normally if I manually navigate to them.


texts: Mission Control (expose) disabled by CASSPP test setup

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I recently setup my son's 10.15.7 OS X mb pro to take the CASSPP test. They require that you load up a special profile that turns off a bunch of stuff, as described here:
https://ca-toms-help.ets.org/spring-21-parents-guardians/download-secure-browser/mac-big-sur/
That all went fine, as did, for the most part, the annoying mess of manual stuff you have to do to undo the damage wrought by installing the new profile. (See section "Steps to Restore Settings"). Everything came back EXCEPT mission control (expose). I usually have expose hooked to my hot corners, and I can hook pretty much anything else (e.g., enter screen saver) to the hot corners and they work fine, but expose (mission control) seems to be simply dead. It's not dead for other accounts, just the one we did the new profile to. And it's dead to the function keys as well (f3, I guess).  I even tried using terminal commands (defaults), rebooting multiple times, resetting the SCM -- pretty much everything you can think of, but I can't get mc/expose to work.
Any further advice on how to force it on?
Thanks!


texts: I've managed to break my terminal, (iTerm2(b17), ZSH, OSX10.6.6)

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I'm migrating to a shiny new laptop (yay) unfortunately I've manually set up my iTerm to match the old machine, but something is not right (not yay).

I'm experiencing

using xterm-256color doesn't give the full colour set for say, vim.
applications like vim dont clear out of the scrollback when exited.
my ↖ home and ↘ end keys are completely broken and I can't seem to Google a solution
my ⌫ backspace key doesn't delete backwards, it adds a 'space' and prevents further input until ^C.

Here is my .zshrc and my .profile. I dont have an .inputrc.

Here are my keyboard settings for iTerm2:

I'm fairly sure i've broken something between $TERM, iTerm2's keyboard settings and my .zshrc, but I'm simply not competent enough to debug it. As far as I can tell, my settings are identical to my old laptop, which works.


texts: Is there an app that lets me send email only?

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I'm looking for an app that will let me send email only.  Often in the course of my work I need to just fire off a quick email but don't want to get stuck firing up my mail client and reading new email.

The closest I've seen is QuickMailer, but it just fires up Mail.app and sends an email using that... then keeps Mail.app open.

I want a UI like QuickMailer's, but an app that sends the email right away without using Mail.app.

Does anything like this exist?


texts: Stop sharing primary [boot] and Time Machine drive via AFP?

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I have three folders setup as shared folders in the Sharing [System] Preferences on my AFP [not SMB] file server.  My file server is running OS X [not OS X Server] 10.11 El Capitan.

When I connect to the file server via AFP and authenticate as an admin user, I am able to mount these three folders, as well as my home directory and the file server's primary [boot] and Time Machine drives.

I would prefer that the file server not share the primary [boot] and Time machine drives with AFP clients, even if the user is an admin.

I have a different file server that runs OS X Server 10.8 Mountain Lion.  Here the primary [boot] and Time Machine drives are not shared by default.  This is what I want but I don't want to install OS X Server to get this.

I am thinking that there must be a way to do this as both OS X and OS X Server are using /usr/sbin/AppleFileService to provide AFP service and so the difference must be happening somewhere else (or the default behavior has changed between OS X 10.8 to 10.11).

Does anyone know how to do this?


texts: Am I allowed to use an apple device from placeit.net with an app screenshot on Twitter?

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I've built an iOS 8 app and I'm not 100% sure if I'm allowed to use a photo of an iPhone 5s running my app as a timeline picture on Facebook and Twitter (support pages)? The device will only be visible from the front, hence leaving the Apple logo hidden.

Thank you!
Erik


texts: How does one view pictures fullscreen on iPhone 5?

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There is an annoyance in the iPhone 5 that the camera sensor is 4:3 but the phone display is 16:9. This makes photos not cover the entire screen.

Apple has now begun running a Thanksgiving commercial where they show the person viewing their photos and it takes up the whole screen of the phone.

Is there some setting configuration that I can change to display pictures fullscreen?

You can see the commercial here.


texts: Show hidden application window on dock icon click

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I have three screens and use multiple Safari windows. Often times I have one window open on my side screen & one on my main one. When I minimize Safari on the main screen clicking at the dock icon does nothing. The only way to get the window back is to right click and pick the window:

For me it's logical if the dock is on the screen #2 and I'm clicking Safari on that dock it should bring the window on screen #2 if exists and not assume another window is already open on screen #1.
Is there any way to tweak this (if not native maybe with BTT)?


texts: Publicly sharing an iCal calendar to allow web viewing

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When using iCal in Snow Leopard, I shared a calendar.

I had two options for this - either a privately shared, editable calendar, or a publicably shared, view-only calendar. I used the latter option, and was provided with two URLs - one of which allowed my friends and colleagues to subscribe (via their own iCal or other software) and the other of which was an ordinary web address, that allowed them to view my calendar in their web browser.

It's this latter type that I'm now trying to set up in iCloud, but I can't seem to find an option to do so - neither in iCloud itself nor on iCal running on Lion.

Any ideas, please?


texts: configure multiple networks with static and dhcp ip addresses

texts: At work I'd like to be able to use a static ip over wifi for development purposes. At home however, since I'm on a different network I don't want to use a static ip, but dhcp. On OSX 10.8, how can I configure this in a way that I don't have to manually change over each time I switch networks?


texts: Mac OSX microphone input volume level auto-adjusts - can it be disabled?

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I've found this issue and various discussions online about this, but no obvious "just do this", so I'm wandering over here from ServerFault to ask this.

Is there a way to disable or hard-set the input level on a mic?  In the Sound preferences on the Input tab if I click on the device and set a level and then start talking it picks up the sound and then start to auto-adjust the mic input level.

This causes issues when talking with someone on Lync/Skype/etc because one minute the sound is fine and then if you raise your voice for a second and then lower it back down (or shift around in your chair) the auto-adjust causes the other party to think your whispering or yelling.

I'd like to be able to disable the auto-adjust if possible.  Yes/No?

NOTE: The issue is similar this one: iMac OSX 10.8.4 Volume adjusts by itself but rather on the input side and not the output side for me.


texts: Make the green full screen window icon on Yosemite maximize windows

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On Mac OS X Yosemite the green icon in every window:

is by default used to make the application full screen.

How do I make it work the same way as in previous versions of Mac OS X, i.e. to maximize the window?


texts: iChat sends out connections to an IP address when configuring camera and mic settings

texts: Using LittleSnitch I noticed that Messages (iChat) tries to connect to 17.154.239.222 over udp when I open the audio and video preferences for the application.  Apple owns that IP address but does anybody know why it would need to call home?


texts: Change guest account photo in Mavericks?

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In Mavericks, how do you change the user account photo to something other than that gray silhouette?

I've searched for an answer to this question and it seems people figured it out in Mountain Lion and earlier, but not Mavericks as far as I can find.  I'm using OS X 10.9.4.  Thanks.


texts: Hard Drives shows up in Finder, but not Desktop

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In the past when I have plugged in external hard-drives they would always show up on the desktop. I'm not sure if it is because of a software update or the drive itself but it's no longer showing up.

The drive is working because if I go to Finder I can access the drive.

How can I change the settings so that drives show up on the desktop when they are plugged in?

I'm using OSX version: 10.7.3.


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I have a question about the strength of the iCloud Keychain encryption key.
I know that when I enable iCloud Keychain sync on my device, Apple encrypts my local keychain and stores it on their servers. They use end-to-end encryption and data is encrypted on the device and can not be read by Apple.
What key does Apple use to encrypt the Keychain? From official documentation link and third-party articles link, it seems that they use a key derived only from my device passcode which is a very short and weak 4-digits string.  It means that in case someone was able to break into Apple servers and steal the data it can easily brute force it and reveal the content since it's only protected with encryption with 10^4 of entropy.
BTW, the same applies to the encrypted IOS backup that they store on iCloud.
Please correct me if I am wrong!


texts: Firefox: How to disable "delete-key goes back"?

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When I'm working in Firefox, I often accidentally close a tab go-back-in-history when I press the Delete key.

(For example, if I'm in Google Drive, and highlight a file, and then press Delete, the tab closes - instead of deleting the file!)

Is there a way to turn this off? I've dug through about:config and didn't see anything promising.

Update:
I made a mistake in my original question: Firefox is going back when I hit Delete, not closing the tab.


texts: How can I add a second sender address with different SMTP server in iOS?

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I forward my university email address to my GMail account, so I don’t have my university IMAP set up as an account on my iPad (and I don’t want to, because then I’d receive those mails twice). Still, I want to send email using that address, via my university’s SMTP server.

Is there any way to add another sender address to an account and assign it a different SMTP server than the account’s default SMTP in the iPad’s email client?
If not, can you recommend another email client for the iPad that has this capability?


texts: mid-2009 Macbook Pro not seeing 2nd memory module

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I have a problem with my mid-2009 Macbook Pro. It has 2x2GB RAM in it, but it only sees one of the 2GB RAM in memory slot: BANK0/DIMM0. I have interchanged the two RAM modules repeatedly and both are working fine in BANK0/DIMM0, but neither does in BANK1/DIMM0. On one occasion after restarting my computer shown 3.75GB RAM available in BANK0/DIMM0 with the 2GB RAM modules in each slot. Another time it was fine, showing 4GB in the two slots. The MAC was tested with another two memory modules, but they also worked only in BANK0/DIMM0, showing a 2GB total memory. I hope it's not a motherboard problem!

I need the 4GB memory for my work, should I just ignore this problem and install a 4GB RAM into my MBP?

Also, my comp won't come back from sleep when I just reopen the lid. The ventilator and the HDD starts, but the screen stays black. No PRAM or SMC reset helped yet...

Any idea what the problem could be??? Thanks in advance!


texts: How to type in the redundant symbols in Simplified Chinese keyboard layout on MacBook?

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I consider buying a new MacBook, but just found that the Simplified Chinese keyboard layout option has been added to the new model.

However, as far as the picture goes, it seems there is no difference between the Simplified Chinese and US English with regards to the basic functionality. The picture below is from Apple Store China:

The only difference is some redundant symbols on backtick, number 4, 6, and two braces, and comma and period (and caps lock is another key but I understand that it is for switching languages easily).

However, I don't understand how you can type in these symbols. How can you type in these characters?


texts: How can I reset a disabled macbook pro 2010

texts: The password was reset a long time ago, and I have no idea of it. I do not have access to the original owner of the macbook pro. When I turn it on, I have to enter the firmware password, but of course I don't have it. Is there anything I can do to reset the OS, or even install Linux via a USB?


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WhatsApp was updating on my phone, but then I got a message so interrupted the update.

WhatsApp then disappeared from my home screen. When I go to WhatsApp in the App Store I am prompted to open, but nothing opens.

How can I get the app back?


texts: Connect MacBook to External Monitor Using USB to HDMI

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I have a MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018)  and an HP EliteDisplay E243 23.8-inch monitor with a HDMI port.
I have a USB to HDMI cable but when I connect my MacBook Air to my monitor using the USB to HDMI it does not work. Can you please help me?


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I've been having a problem when trying to upgrade iTunes on Windows (7 x64). Every time I try to upgrade it, I get the error message:

  QuickTime was not found.

  QuickTime is required to run iTunes. Please uninstall iTunes, then install iTunes again.

Wanting to upgrade to 9.2 to get iOS4, I obliterated anything to do with Apple from my machine and reinstalled successfully, but this error comes back time and time again.

I recently found that I am not the only one suffering from this.

Is there a way to solve this issue or am I doomed to stay like this forever?


texts: Dock folder shortcut: Is it possible to change the sort order of files in subfolders?

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I have a shortcut to a folder in the Dock.

Here is how this folder is configured:

This folder contains several subfolders. When I enter a subfolder by hovering the mouse cursor over a subfolder title, the files in the subfolder are, by default, listed in ascending order by Name.

Changing the "Sort by" value in the above context-menu only affects the order of the items in the folder itself, not those in its subfolders.

Is it possible to change the ordering method of the files in the subfolders (e.g., to descending order by Name or Date Modified)?

Note: This question is strictly concerned with the order of files in the Dock pop-up mini-window in List view, not a proper Finder.app window.

OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.


texts: IOS 8 get pictures off iphone 5 with windows 8

texts: Is there some trick to get pictures off an iphone 5 with ios 8 on a Windows 8 computer? I can get my pictures off my iphone 5 with ios 8 on my Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP computer but not my Windows 8 computer. I have tried multiple Windows 8 computers and it won't work on any of them. Yes I know you have to unlock the phone on Windows 8 and I did that.


texts: Any iOS Text Editors Capable of Custom Extensions?

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Specifically, I'm looking for a text editor that allows me to save a file with any extension of my choosing. I recently was trying to create a .csmo file, but couldn't find a solution to create a text file with a custom extension. If there is a way to do this natively, please let me know.

If this is not the place to ask this, please point me to the correct forum.


texts: How to create an infrastructure Wi-Fi network from Yosemite with no Internet connection?

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How to create a Wi-Fi hotspot (infrastructure network, not ad-hoc) on a Mac without any Internet connection?

In Windows, we can easily create an infrastructure wifi LAN hotspot with:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=MyWifi key=12345678
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

It is compatible with most devices like Android/Windows/Mac/iOS, and it does not require an available Internet connection.

So, is there a similar solution on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) that:

can create a Wi-Fi hotspot;
compatible with most devices;
does not require an Internet connection?


texts: How to create a file with a specific Created at time?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I set the creation time of a file?

How can you create a files on a Mac that have a specific creation date (different from the current one)?

What I have found so far, touch can only alter the modified at time...


texts: My terminal is not recognizing the majority of commands. It won't recognize ls, ruby, python, brew, and a few others. Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Automatically open a terminal window and run a command, robustly

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I am looking for a way to automatically open a new window of Terminal.app and run a command in it.

I used to do this with AppleScript, in a way similar to this:

tell application "Terminal"
  do script ("some-command")
end tell

The official distribution of Julia opens terminal windows in the same way.

However, if Terminal.app is set up to run a command on startup (which is an often recommended practical way to set a new shell without changing the login shell globally), this method simply fails.

Is there a robust method that works even when an alternative shell is used?


texts: Is there any way to modify the VIPs box to show all messages both TO and FROM a particular contact?


texts: iCloud in OS X Implementation - which protocol does it use?

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In Mountain Lion, iCloud is "integrated" in every program. So when i open or save a document i have an iCloud option available.

  But where are the documents? Are they local and get syned every now
  and then, or is it WebDAV or just http?

The documents load very fast, and there seems to be no delay.


texts: iPhone asking for icloud login after being restored after icloud has been removed

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I have my old iPhone that I would like to give to someone. I've deleted my iCloud, then restored the phone and now when im setting up its asking for my iCloud log in again.

Has anyone encountered this issue and why does it happen?


texts: How not to miss the elimination of Optical Audio Output from 3rd to 4th gen Apple TV

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I speculate that the audio signal at the Optical Audio Out of the 3rd generation Apple TV is always the same audio signal within the HDMI output.

I further speculate that that's the reason behind eliminating the Optical Audio Out connector in the 4th generation Apple TV.

Hence one does not need to worry about losing Optical-Out when replacing an ATV3 with an ATV4 provided that either:

the TV has Audio Return Channel (ARC), which would take the audio signal from HDMI and pass it onto the receiver. (Here I'm thinking of a user who never uses the audio amplifier on the TV and who always switches the receiver on, even when watching TV.) ARC is important since you wouldn't want to keep the TV on during all the time you're just listening to music.
the receiver has HDMI input (older receivers don't). If the receiver has HDMI input/output, then the ATV4's HDMI would connect to the receiver and from there to the TV. Hence, again, the TV can remain off while you're listening to music.

Is my understanding correct? Am I missing something?

Here is the setup I have in mind:

As you can see, there is no "return" involved here. So the feature that I'm looking for could more plausibly be called "audio pass-through". This audio pass-through works fine when a TV is on (by necessity!). The question then is what guarantees there are for it to continue working when a TV is off.


texts: Saving Terminal Color/Opacity Preferences

texts:
My question is related to this question:
Transparent Background in Terminal?

I have successfully found the menu to change color/opacity. I used the "homebrew" profile. Then I attempted to change the opacity as shown in the answer. However, once I put the opacity at 100% and closed the window, it completely ignored my changes and went back to 90%. How do I actually ensure that my preferences are saved? There is no "OK" or "apply" button on the color menu.


texts: Yosemite's Preview.app goes to top of document when PDF changes

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I use Preview.app to view PDFs which I am creating with pdflatex.
In OSX Mavericks, whenever the PDF changed I would switch windows away from Preview and then back, and the view would update, scrolling to the top of the current page when in continuous scroll mode.

Now after updating to Yosemite, Preview.app always goes back up to the top of the document whenever the PDF file is updated. This is extremely annoying and I have found no way to get the old behaviour back. Any ideas? If I choose Single Page mode (⌘2) this seems to stay on the same page, but ideally I would like to keep continuous scroll...


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My Contacts (accessible via Mail or the Contacts applications) are read-only on my Mac Book Pro running Mac OS X 10.8.2. Contacts reports itself as Version 7.1 (1167).

I have 5 total contacts currently, including Apple and "Me". Not sure what I did to add the other 3, but they cannot be modified or deleted, nor can I add any new ones.

If I add or edit a contact it behaves normally, until I close Contacts. When I reopen it then all the changes are gone.

I thought maybe the contacts folder was read-only in my Library, and thought I double checked that, but maybe I missed something.

The interesting thing is both the "On My Mac" and "iCloud" contacts are read-only.


texts: T2 Chip/Filevault 2 Isn't Asking for Password Before Unlocking System Drive

texts:
I have a 2018 Mac Mini with an encrypted system volume that should only be unlockable by a single user.
It used to be the case that when I started up my computer I get a brief apple logo then see a Filevault password prompt (stripped down login window) for only a single user, and after entering the password for that user I'd then get a progress bar as the system unlocked and started up.
However, ever since 10.15.6 this has not been the case; when I start up after shutting down my computer it gives me the apple logo with a progress bar that reaches the end before displaying a full login window for all users
In other words, for some reason my T2 chip is no longer prompting for a Filevault password at all before unlocking the disk, it's just unlocking it automatically every single time, completely defeating the point. The issue also occurs under 10.15.7.
I know that the T2 chip doesn't lock a volume when restarting during system updates, but it's like that behaviour has become permanently enabled such that it's also affected shutdown and startup, which is a major security flaw.
Is there any way I can reset this without losing access to the disk?


texts: How to make sections in the Script Editor menu

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I'm aware that I could just put a folder in the Script Editor menu and thus make sub-menus. However, I find that just a tad annoying.

If I put a script in Scripts/Applications/X, I'm able to get a new section on the menu that only appears when I'm in application X. Is there a way to make a similar section with a custom title that will show on all applications?


texts: checking the status of an ongoing "sleep" process from the terminal

texts: Is there a way to check how long a running "sleep" process has left to go before it ends within the terminal?


texts: Unable to set previously used resolution, 1600x2560

texts:
I just came back to the office after being away for a month, plugged my mac into the 30" Dell display I have at work (rotated 90 degrees), and it the resolution is now 1536x2048 and that is the highest resolution available in System Preferences. Before I went away, I was always using 1600x2560, which is the native resolution.

If I remove the "90 degrees" rotation, it will let me use 2560x1600, but changing it back to 90 degrees drops the resolution back to 1536x2048.

The only thing I changed while away was upgrade from OS X 10.7.2 to 10.7.3. Perhaps this was the problem?

How can I change it back to 1600x2560?


texts: Mid-2015 - Borderlands weird screen texture when playing with the integrated Iris Pro

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I'm playing Borderlands 1 GOTY (Game of the year edition) from the App Store. Tried playing it only with the Iris Pro, instead of the Radeon R9 370X, and the performance is stunning.

However I get this weird pixel like texture on the screen.
It doesn't move or blink, and it doesn't seem to effect the HUD or menus.

It seems to be "exactly" the same texture no matter what and it gets more detailed when I up the resolution.

I've tested Deus Ex and Bastion with the same setup and they have absolutely no problem. It seems like a OS X driver issue, I've seen graphics card's problems in the past and they aren't that stable or selective.

Can anyone confirm?

PS. Use gfxCardStatus to change to Integrated Only.


texts:
I have 2 iphones and use 2 seperate Telegrams.  The 2nd one is assigned to me by the external project phone I'm assigned to and that company uses Telegram extensively.  There is 1000's of employees communicating in multiple groups.  There's a lot of traffic.

Current setup:

Main account / OSX: Official OSX telegram.app
Main account / iOS: Official iOS telegram.app
2nd account / OSX: Official Windows app running in an VMWare XP box
2nd account / iOS: iOS Anyways Messenger

For the iPhone I could live with the Anyways Messenger even though it hasn't been updated for a long time and contains a lot of bugs.

For OSX I'd really would like to be able to run 2 instances of the official Telegram app, without having to run my VMWare.  Any suggestions?


texts: OSX: run an application and prevent users to close

texts:
I'm trying to run an application in OSX, but I need that users can not close the application. the application is used as part of a system similar to a internetcafe.

How can i do it?

Edit:
is a java application that receives some data from a server and block the screen. so the user can't use the machine until the machine is unlocked from the server. basically, like a  locking system for a internetcafe.

for security and functionality reasons the user can't close,  otherwise the software is useless.


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina) and recently my camera stopped working.

I didn't drop it or anything, it's just not being detected as a hardware.

When I try to see why, System Report shows me:

No video capture devices were found.

I don't have Apple support anymore and I can't find any comprehensive guide or tips for this kind of problem - I just found issues with the camera, but not itself not being detected.

I tried to reset NVRAM and other things such as Diagnose mode, which gave me this error code above:

4HDD/11/40000000:SATA(0,0)

But on subsequent runs of this diagnose mode gives me no error. I also think it's unlike SATA has to do with the camera, as it typically uses USB.

I'm kind of lost and I just want to take it to assistance only if there are no other options, since I need my computer to work.


texts: I am a windows user, want to build a safari extension, But i want to first know is there any way to test my extension in windows ? what is the latest version of safari for windows that apple support and if i build the extension on this version is that will run correctly on the latest safari version ?


texts: Performance of MacBook Air SSD Targeted from iMac

texts:
I use a MacBook Air, but would like to put an iMac at my office for a performance boost. I don't want to switch between operating systems, so I'd like to target the Air's SSD (via Thunderbolt 2) when working from the iMac. Here are the devices:

2015 13" MacBook Air i7, 2.2GHZ, 8GB RAM, 512 SSD (Thunderbolt 2)
Retina iMac i7, 4GHZ Quad, 32GB RAM, (Thunderbolt 2)

My dream is that I'd be using the iMac's RAM & processor, and that Thunderbolt 2 would be fast enough that I wouldn't lose any SSD performance.

For me latency matters more than throughput, but I'm interested in both. Processing thousands of small files at once, not editing video.

Would this work? (theory, experience, benchmarks welcome)

UPDATE: I'm adding a bounty for anyone that can offer actual benchmarks of targeting a MacBook Air (or pro) SSD from a retina iMac (via thunderbolt 2).

To be totally clear - I'm only interested in "Target Disk Mode" performance. I want to run the Air's OS. I already know about file syncing, external drives, etc. Thanks everyone for the ideas though.


texts: Hold mouse at the edge of the screen to jump to other monitor on Mac OS X Lion

texts:
I just set up my new TV on the wall above my iMac, so I arranged the external monitor above the main one in the preferences. The problem is that it got very hard to access my menu bar on top of my main monitor, when I move my mouse up so fast it would jump to the other screen! So I have to be precise and move my mouse slowly every time I want to hit something on my menu bar.

The question is, is there a way that I would have to hold my mouse on the edge of the screen to jump to the other monitor instead of it jumping right away?


texts: Issue in disabling SIP (rootless) in El Capitan

texts:
I have just installed El Capitan and I immediately experimented some problems because of the new SIP mechanism. Some tools I need as well as some tweaks did not work anymore. So, I decided to turn it off using the Apple "official" procedure (boot to Recovery, csrutil disable, reboot).

Now all my tools etc. are back working again. But if I check the SIP status using the csrutil utility I get:

$  csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: enabled (Custom Configuration).

Configuration:
    Apple Internal: disabled
    Kext Signing: disabled
    Filesystem Protections: disabled
    Debugging Restrictions: disabled
    DTrace Restrictions: disabled
    NVRAM Protections: disabled

    This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.

The fact it says "status: enabled" is strange, but it does not worry me to much because, after, all the elements are disabled. I cannot rest easy with the sentence "...likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state".

Any ideas about this output?!
Thanks in advance


texts:
This is a 15" 2010 model that came with OS X 10.6 and now has 10.10 installed. After turning the computer on I can hear the startup chime and the power adapter indicator light lights up. The Apple logo and a progress bar appear, but after that there's only a blank white screen.

There are some pixel anomalies, what appears to be scanlines and slightly distorted colors that look like it's running in 16-bit color depth.

I have tried following the official instructions, i.e. reset the PRAM/NVRAM and SMC, tried booting in safe mode (same symptoms, but after that it seems to boot automatically in safe mode since the loading takes a lot longer).

Also I recently installed Homebrew if it might have to do with this.

Any ideas?


texts: Unix "ln -s" command not permitted in OSX El Capitan Beta3

texts:
I was installing nodejs for Symphony when I hit an "Operation not permitted" error.  Anyone know why this happened?

MacBook-Pro-de-XXX:~ XXX$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node
Password:
ln: /usr/bin/node: Operation not permitted


texts: Safari tabs rarely restoring to their respective desktops after restarting

texts:
When I restart my laptop (or log off and back on again), I expect apps like Safari to open up and restore all of the tabs and windows that I previously had. I also expect that the Safari tabs will restore to their respective desktops—so, for example, if I have Safari windows in Desktops 1, 3, and 5, I expect them to open up with their corresponding tabs in Desktops 1, 3, and 5 again after I log in.

However, that seems to happen only about 25% percent of the time. The rest of the time, Safari dumps all of the windows on Desktop 1. This seems to be the behavior which I am experiencing as far as I can remember, since High Sierra at least, all the way now to Mojave.

In contrast, apps like Pages and Finder always assign their windows to the correct desktops.

Other apps have this problem, like Sublime Text and Skim, but since they are third-party apps I'll give them some leeway and won't hold anything on the developers. However, this is not the type of behavior I would expect from stock macOS apps.

One thing to note is that any minimized Safari windows that I have always stay minimized, as they should. The behavior I am describing only affects visible windows.

Is there any sort of way to make the restoring behavior more consistent during log in, or is that some sort of the bug that Apple hasn't fixed?


texts: Need to get rid of disk image after Bootcamp

texts: So, I was using Bootcamp, but during the point where it asked me to create the partition size, I decided that I no longer wanted to do it anymore and I used the quit option. However, after quitting Boot Camp, it left me with those two disk images and I don't know how to get rid of them. The erase option in disc utility would give me an error. What should I do?


texts: Are there any advantages to partitioning a SSD on a Mac?

texts:
I have a Macbook Air with 128GB SSD. It's used to be a best practice to put the OS on a separate partition from data.

Does that make any sense? What are the advantages to partitioning an SSD?


texts: Which options exist for SSH tunneling clients on iOS?

texts:
I need a solution that will work without jailbreaking, but answers that include that can help others are welcome but just might not be selected as the answer.

On Linux and on OSX, I use ssh on the command-line to open ssh tunnels so I can run client-server applications securely.

I need to do the equivalent on ios (run some kind of tunnel in the background, while I run a client application through that tunnel).

What tools or options exist and listing supported iOS versions would be even more helpful if you can provide that level of detail.

How can I set up a ssh tunneling service on iOS?


texts: Why does Cards insist on charging an international price when both addressees are in the US?

texts:
Although I reside in Austin, TX, I'm currently in Europe and wanted to send my father in New York a birthday card. As soon as I enter his address in Cards, the price changes to $4.99! Even though both the sender's and recipient's address are in the USA, Cards (via Location Services) probably wants to send the card from France, which is absurd!

Isn't there a workaround for this? Would disabling location services and waiting 24 hours work?


texts: SIMBL Plugins not launching properly under OS X Lion

texts:
I have OS X Lion installed on my 2011 MacBook Pro. I also have SIMBL with two plugins: Colorful Sidebar and Safari Omnibar. I (obviously) have Finder launch when I login, and I also have Safari launch at login.

My issue is that when I first use either application, the desired effect of the application does not kick in. i.e. the icons in Finder's sidebar are still gray, and the google search box can still be found as a separate entity in safari.

Restarting either application causes the SIMBL plugin to kick in for that application.

My question is why are these plugins not activating and doing what they are supposed to do until after I relaunch their respective application?


texts: How to use a different mirror of macports rather than the offical mirrors?

texts:
How to use a different mirror rather than the mirrors in the list?

Well, I mean not only download port.tar from other mirror, like the question here, but also download packages from a different mirror.

I have noticed that when downloading packages, the port just download packages from this link. But I don't know how to change the mirror it get packages from.

Many thanks!

I will appreciate every answer or comment.


texts: Extract email Password from an Encrypted Backup

texts: How can I extract email passwords from an encrypted iOS backup stored in iCloud?


texts: Is it possible to increase size of an APFS volume?

texts:
I've an APFS disk image (disk3). Currently it's capacity is near close; around 700 MB left.

Is it possible to increase it while keeping the data inside intact!

I've tried diskutil apfs resizeContainer but with no luck.

diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            170.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 23.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.3 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS CAN                     499.7 GB   disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +30.2 GB    disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk4         29.9 GB    disk3s2

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +29.9 GB    disk4
                                 Physical Store disk3s2
   1:                APFS Volume cache                   29.3 GB    disk4s1


texts: Terminal could not find command "$ php -v"

texts:
I recently try to install ionCube loader and when I tried to check my PHP version via Terminal, it gave me an -bash: $: command not found.

How can I fixed that?


texts: Can I add a couple of text files in Xcode for write and read

texts: I'm using Xcode for developing in C++ language. Is it possible to add a couple of txt files to write and read from them? It is a very cool feature to test a project in a lot of tests.


texts: Control key doesn't work and the down arrow became the control key

texts:
A strange thing happened 3 days ago, where my keyboard stopped working suddenly. I restarted the laptop and then I couldn't type anything, not even my password.

After some hours I realized that the control key was somehow enabled the whole time and that's why I couldn't do anything.

So I disabled the control key from the keyboard settings and
it worked for some minutes, but then the same problem happened again.
I enabled the sticky keys feature and saw the control still enabled.

After I while I noticed that the down arrow key behaved as if it were the control key.

Specs: MacBook Pro Retina 2015 running macOS Mojave

Note: I've tried restoring, but now the keyboard shortcuts don't work anymore while booting up, not even booting from the USB.

QUESTION: How can I troubleshoot this further to fix my keyboard?


texts:
I'm currently setting a development environment in python 3.3 and i'm trying to import the Net-SNMP python bindings but idk where the files are located.

Simple question: anyone knows where are located the Net-SNMP python binding files in MacOSX 10.8.3??


texts: Does OneNote for Mac support graphics tablet input?

texts:
I was thinking of purchasing a Wacom Bamboo Pad for note taking at college. I am going to an engineering school, and often typing isn't the primary method I would like to use to enter equations, data, or text.

Does OneNote for Mac support this? I know the Windows version does.


texts: merging free space into a partition that logically lies before the partition

texts:
On my MBP 2011, I had a dual-boot setup with Snow Leopard (that originally shipped with my laptop) and Lion Developer Preview GM that I had installed later, using Disk Utility to appropriate modify the SL partition. Each partition occupied approximately half of the 750 GB hard disk.

I wanted to get rid of Snow Leopard (which was obviously the first partition in the logical sense), but I mistakenly assumed that I would be able to merge the ensuing free space after deleting its partition into the remaining Lion DP partition. However as it turned that apparently isn't possible with Disk Utility (it seems only possible to resize from the bottom of the partition) and so now I have a chunk of 325 GB free space on my HD which I'd like to get back.

What would be the best course of action? Just create a new blank partition out of the free space and leave it at that, or clone (if that's the right term) my Lion DP partition into the free space, then delete the second partition and resize the cloned one? Or something else entirely?


texts: How to get to Tweet in native iOS Twitter app from another app's webview?

texts: Often I'm in some iOS app (e.g. Facebook) and there's a link to some Tweet's URL. When I tap on it, it takes me to the web version of the Tweet inside a webview in whatever app I was in. Then if I want to like the Tweet, I have to login to Twitter again inside the webview even though I'm already logged in to Twitter in the native iOS Twitter app. Is there a quick way to get to the same Tweet in the native app?


texts: How do I get the Apple Music app to just play one song at a time, and not automatically go to the next song?

texts: How do I get the Apple Music app to just play one song and stop, without automatically going to the next song?


texts: How to export all projects from Aperture?

texts:
I would like to export all of the projects from Aperture to a directory in my computer. Since I have many projects (100+), I don't want to export them one by one. Is there a way to batch export them to a directory? For example, my projects might look like this:

2011-11-23 Thanksgiving
2011-12-24 Christmas
2012-07-07 John Wedding

I would like to export them to:

~/Pictures/Exports/2011-11-23 Thanksgiving
~/Pictures/Exports/2011-12-24 Christmas
~/Pictures/Exports/2012-07-07 John Wedding

I appreciate your helps. Thank you.


texts:
I bought an SSD for my Macbook Pro. I did a backup of my hdd disk (as I always do with Time Machine) and used the disk utility to restore that backup to my ssd disk. The restore worked perfectly, but Finder is always crashing and restarting and crashing... So I googled a lot and tried to create a second user account. There the problem does not occur. So it seems to be a account-specific problem. But how can I see where the problem is? I don't want to use the new account, because all settings and preferences are gone.

The crash report:

http://pastebin.com/qQjJedDD


texts: Is it possible to take a screenshot of a dashboard in OS X?

texts:
I'm using a  Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   5  command to take a screenshot of a desktop, but it doesn't work if I switch to the dashboard.

Is there any way to take a screenshot of dashboard elements?


texts: What are the implications in speed and battery life while using Filevault 2?

texts:
One of the neat new (though understated) features of Lion is Whole Disk Encryption. Before  I flick the switch, I'd love to know what the performance impacts (speed and battery impacts) of switching it on.

There are some great articles with qualitative data (see below - not to mention a good Ask Different Question), however it would be great to have some quantitative (or even anecdotal) stories of people who Filevault 2 has, or hasn't worked for.

What implications have you experienced in speed and battery life using Filevault 2?

  Using FileVault 2: Performance impacts
  Once you have Filevault 2 enabled, you will not notice any performance changes. Whether it is real or a matter of perception, your files feel like they open just as fast. Your apps launch without any additional delay. Your backups via Time Machine work the same, etc.
  (themaclawyer.com)

and

  All forms of whole disk encryption benefit from the current imbalance between CPU power and disk speed. In almost all circumstances, the CPU in your Mac spends most of its time twiddling its thumbs with nothing to do. This is especially true for operations that involve a lot of disk access.

  Whole disk encryption takes advantage of this nearly omnipresent CPU cycle glut to sneak in the tiny chunks of work it requires to encrypt and decrypt data from the disk. Apple also leverages the special-purpose AES instructions and hardware on Intel's newest CPUs, further reducing the CPU overhead. The end result is that regular users will be hard-pressed to notice any reduction in performance with encryption enabled. Based on my experience with the feature in prerelease versions of Lion, I would strongly consider enabling it on any Mac laptop I plan to travel with. (Ars Technica)


texts: How to better use a Mac mini as a home theater PC with a television set?

texts:
I'm running a Mac mini into a television set via HDMI. With the Plex application for Mac, the experience is fantastic. But I've been looking for ways to make the "computer side" more couch friendly. I'm not expecting to write Pages documents or anything, but Web browsing, or working with system settings would be great too.

I've been able to enlarge some on screen text (like title bars, etc.) but it's still not a great experience. In the end, I'd like to keep the same screen real estate, but be able to read the screen more comfortably from my Lay Z Boy. For example, increasing the size of text in menus would be really helpful.


texts: Unable to Delete Email Using Hotmail on IOS 6

texts:
When attempting to delete emails in the Mail app using hotmail (exchange server) there is always the error: "the message could not be moved to the mailbox trash"

Messages used to delete just fine, but this error message is a recent problem.


texts: Why does macOS Sierra freeze after installation?

texts:
I've bought a new Macbook Pro 13" 1 TB early 2015. I started it and during the setup procedure I attached my old 2012 MacBook Pro to migrate my data. Everything went as expected, after the process was finished and the new computer restarted, the white apple symbol on the black background appeared with a progress bar underneath. But w the progress bar was at the end, it froze. I waited an hour and a half, then I shut down the machine and restarted. Same result. I then booted in Recovery mode and re-installed macOS from there. After reboot: Same result. Tried Safe mode, reset PRAM, tested the SSD with Disk Utility, to no end.
Could it have something to do with my old Mac having a SSD with the System and an HD with the data? The main user's folder links from the SSD to the HD.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot!


texts:
I just upgraded my 2010 MacBook Air to Yosemite.
It froze during installation, I shut it down and when I restarted it booted normally to Yosemite.

Now everything seems to be working ok, but I have no sound. My case is not like most cases where it defaults to an external device. I have nothing attached, no monitors, no external speakers.

When I check system preferences/sound, I get no output devices found.

Here's what I've tried:
- rebooting
- reset NVRAM
- reinstalling yosemite (same freezing problem - waited for 4 hours)
- remove plist files from Library/preferences/audio and restarting

Any suggestions?

Thanks


texts: Browsing to a nested subdomain resolves wrong page

texts:
Our corporate network has some web applications hosted in a nested subdomain hierarchy. A "subdomain's subdomain", as you will. For example:

Root-> http://*.mydomain.com (resolves to: 192.2.2.200)
App1-> http://application1.server1.mydomain.com (resolves to: 192.1.1.101)
App2-> http://application2.server1.mydomain.com (resolves to: 192.1.1.102)

The problem is that when browsing to one specific app, let's say App1, the generic wildcard is returned. This is a simple landing page on Root. It works perfectly on any given Windows machine, and even some other Macs, but I can't seem to connect using a specific Mac OSX machine (OSX 10.7.3).

App2 works just perfectly in the browser.

Some performed checks:

The DNS has been setup correctly.
Pinging the address works - and resolves the correct DNS
Browsing to it using Safari, Chrome, Firefox etc. doesn't and seems to resolve to the main domain (1.)
Windows 7 on the same Mac (using Parallels) does work and resolves the correct webpage
The /hosts file is clean and has no relevant entries
There is no proxy, firewall or other app that I'm aware of that could interfere
I have used dscacheutil -flushdns without effect
Cleared browser cache, rebooted system etc.

It's almost as if the DNS locally on this machine isn't updated correctly - and still has a version of a month ago in it's cache. Or that someone goated the hosts file (verified, not the case).

Any ideas?

UPDATE: If I manually add an explicit entry to the /etc/hosts file, like 192.1.1.101 application1.server1.mydomain.com, everything works perfectly. However, if I remove the line again - the problem re-appears.


texts: Passing selected folder path to custom Service executing AppleScript

texts:
I have a custom Service I created in Automator. Right now, the service shows up in my context (right-click) menu, when right-clicking on any folder. In Automator, I added the Run AppleScript action, to execute this code:

on run {input, parameters}
    do shell script "/usr/bin/find ./ -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print"
    return input
end run

My objective is to delete all .DS_Store files in the selected folder (and all folders within it). I normally do this in Terminal by executing /usr/bin/find /path-to-folder -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print, but I would love to get this to work from my custom Service.

I'm thinking I need to pass the selected folders path to the AppleScript function (through input perhaps?), but I have no idea how, nor do I see any actions in Automator to pass this. I'm using OS X 10.6.5. Any ideas or suggestions?


texts: What is the best scrobbler for Last.fm for my iOS device?

texts:
I would like to scrobble played tracks to Last.fm from my iPod touch. I currently use the official iTunes scrobbler, but it seems to drop data.

What are the best iOS scrobblers for a jailbroken and a non-jailbroken device? I can't download the official Last.fm app because of stupid geographical restrictions.


texts: Safari stopped auto-filling saved password data, any 'fix'?

texts:
Yet another marvellous new 'feature' - Safari 11.1 now will not auto-fill any login data unless you specifically click the first field, select the login drop menu, select the login....

Is there any way to go back to the old method & prevent this complete & utter waste of time, every time?

To clarify, after comments.
The mac is unlocked, I'm sitting at it working. Security is not at issue; if I leave my machine, either I will lock it or it will self-lock.
 Any web site I visit that requires a  log/pass [already saved in Keychain, which is also unlocked] then requires me to click in the first box. Safari then presents a credentials drop menu for that box. I then have to click on it to populate the fields.
This does not improve security, it merely wastes time.

This is in no way an improvement on simply auto-filling with the same information, which it used to do until recently.
I could understand it if there were potentially multiple entries to choose from; but that would be an edge case not a standard practise.

Whether or not there are 'hidden text fields' is not really an issue, as this data was previously manually entered into the visible fields then saved to Keychain. Keychain wouldn't populate fields with data it had not already saved for that page.
This is not for the  the 'personal info autofill'  -  - which already needs specific user interaction for good reason, only site-specific previously saved Keychain log/pass information.


texts: Are true dynamic folders (NOT a "Smart Folder" SavedSearch) possible?

texts:
I'm using an application that loads the contents of a folder of audio samples for my use.  The samples I want to use however, are scattered amongst many folders on my machine, and I don't want to copy them all into a single folder first.

Aliases work just fine, and I was able to make symlinks of all the desired files, put them in a single folder, and load that folder.  Excellent solution, except for one thing.

I'm going to be adding more files over time that meet the criteria I use for this application.  I would love to be able to use a dynamic folder that would essentially be what "Smart Folders" are, except a real folder.  A Mac "Smart Folder" is not actually a folder at all, but really just creates a "SavedSearch" file, which is unreadable except by the Finder so my application can't see into it.

Is it possible to create a true dynamic folder that will just update as the filesystem changes?  Or maybe being realtime would be too much of a strain, so on a schedule?  I could see maybe concocting something in Automator but... I dunno sounds a bit heavy.  Love to know if there's a better way!


texts: macOS — Is there a way to force HDMI-connection "restart"?

texts:
I'm using a MacBook Pro (late 2016) with an USB-C-to-HDMI cable made by AUKEY to connect to a projector (BenQ, Casio, Epson).

There are days, everything works just fine, and there are days (like today) with no connection at all — my MacBook just doesn't recognize the HDMI-connection (it doesn't change its screen resolution), so it doesn't send any signal to the projector.

So, my question is: Is there a way to force the HDMI-connection "restart"?

I'm running macOS 10.13.6 and yes, I know, I should use an original or certified USB-C-to-HDMI adapter with a HDMI cable, but since the AUKEY cable works almost always, is there a possibility for a software solution?

"System Preferences — Displays — Detect Displays" doesn't help.


texts:
I recently found a really nice-looking 30” Cinema Display in the trash at work, and I want to see if this thing is salvageable.

When connected to my Macbook Pro, the LED lights up and the computer detects the screen. I can see that the backlight on the monitor lights up when I hit the power button, and turns off when I hit it again. The USB ports are also working properly. But there is no image being displayed on screen.

Which components can I attribute this fault to, and is it irredeemable?


texts:
I use subaddressing a lot when I send e-mails. Currently I use Thunderbird with some plugins for this purpose but it is slow and I would prefer to use Mail.app.

Is there a way in Mail.app to edit the from address when composing a new mail?


texts: How do you hide users from Login and Fast User Switching under OS X 10.7 Lion?

texts:
Historically, it was possible to hide users from the login screen.  In pre-10.5 times, one simply changed a userid to < 500 and:

  sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool YES

Since ~10.5, the sequence is:

  sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUserList -array-add

  sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWOTHERUSERS_MANAGED -bool false

However, I am unable to get my admin account to hide from the window in 10.7 using FileVault 2.  Has anyone else had a similar experience and does anyone know how to make this work properly?


texts: Which has more effect on software launch times: processor, RAM, or Hard Drive?

texts:
I am looking into getting a new Macbook Pro (hopefully they'll have late 2013 models). I currently use my early 2011 Macbook for iOS app programming and light graphic design work with Pixelmator. I can't remember when, but I think when I upgraded to Mountain Lion all programs now take a little longer (too long, imo) to launch.

For future reference, I was wondering what affects app launch times the most? Is it the processor, RAM or hard drive/SSD? Right now my Macbook's got 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, 8GB DDR3 and a 250GB hard drive.


texts: How to put the Mac Mini to sleep (without logging in) when the screen is locked?

texts: The screen is locked after some time. That is ok. Then some minutes or hours later I come back. Sometimes I want to get in again, then I need to log in. But sometimes I just want to send the machine to sleep or to halt it right away. I want to do these without first logging in.


texts: Selling my broken Macbook. How to make sure there's no personal information on the hard drive?

texts: My Mac won't turn on but I'd like to sell it for spare parts. How can I make sure there's no personal information stored on the hard drive for the buyer to retrieve?


texts: How does the visible storage on a Time Machine disk work?

texts:
I've had a computer failure and had to replace my computer with a new one. I have a Time Machine backup that I want to use to restore a large number of files from, but I don't want to do a full system restore. My old setup was a little crufty, and the OS version is old, so I want a new, clean OS/Application install. I don't want to use the Assistant, because I want more fine grain control over the files I'm copying over.  I know how to use the "Browse other disks" function buried in the Time Machine setup, but this is a pain.

My question is about what you see when you browse the disk in the Finder or the Terminal. It lists the backups by date and time stamp, along with a shortcut to "Latest". I know Time Machine making a complete copy each time it backs up. My understanding is that it's not copying the diff each time it runs, it's just recording a new copy of any files which have changed since the last backup (like a directory diff).

What then does the user actually see when the browse to a particular folder with a given timestamp? Is OSX representing the filesystem in such a way that these folders look like a point-in-time representation? Can I just treat them as such without having to use the stupid animated, kill-everything-else on screen, Time Machine program?


texts: What was the name of the jailbreak app/tweak that allowed you to open web pages in a popup web browser instead of going directly to safari? I remember it in iOS 7 but can't find it now.


texts:
I copied a file from my Mac to a server on my LAN. In the Finder window for the destination, the filesize is slightly smaller, and is dimmed.

What does it mean that the filesize is dimmed?

In the screen shot, the file is 1Password.agilekeychain and the size 11.6MB you can see as dimmed. The size on my Mac is 12.2MB.


texts: Use open firmware mode with external monitor (Powerbook G4)

texts: I am trying to install Debian from USB to a Powerbook G4 with a broken screen. If I boot to the Mac, the external monitor works without problems. But in boot select mode (holding down 'alt' at startup) and Open Firmware (cmd + alt + O + F) the external monitor does not come on. Any suggestions on how to fix this?


texts: If you deactivate an iPad from your Apple ID, will it still receive iMessages?

texts: I recently went on the iTunes store and took my Apple ID off of my iPad. Will text/iMessages that I receive on my iPhone still go to the iPad?


texts: How can I reformat a drive that contains an encrypted volume?

texts:
After OS X 10.7 came out with its disk-encryption features, I encrypted an empty USB thumb drive just for grins. I never used it, and eventually decided to reformat it as a normal drive for use with Windows and earlier versions of OS X.

When I opened Disk Utility to try to erase and repartition the drive, however, things looked weird. I clicked on the drive in the left sidebar, but there was no “Erase” tab on the right—only “First Aid” and “Partition”—and the “Partition” tab said, “You may only split this partition into two. To do this, click +.” There was no option to change the partition layout or to remove the encryption from my volume. How can I reformat this drive to remove the encryption?


texts: Relative performance of 2006 Mac Pro and 2007 iMac

texts:
I'm trying to evaluate a purchase but am having trouble finding apples-to-apples performance comparisons for these two machines.  A year and and many details separate them.  Are there any common benchmarks that consider disk and graphics performance?  Which is preferable for software development (dual-head, but otherwise light on the GPU)?

Mac Pro (2006) [Detailed specs]

Two dual-core Xeon processors at 2.66GHz (1.33GHz bus)
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256 MB RAM

iMac (2007) [Detailed specs]

Core 2 Duo (obviously dual-core) at 2.4GHz (800MHz bus)
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon 2600 with 256 MB RAM

Both machines have their original hard drives (SATA).

Thanks in advance for your input.


texts: Stop iOS opening last session in browser

texts:
How can I stop the browser(s) in iOS 9 on my iPad from restoring the last session when I open them?

When I'm browsing, I generally stay in Safari until I'm done. I then double press the home button, and swipe up on Safari to close it. But next time I open Safari, it starts loading my tabs from when I closed it. How can I stop this? I just want it to open the new tab page and that's it.

I've tried installing Chrome & FireFox and they both do the same thing as Safari.

Alternatively, is there another browser that will do this?


texts: New Seagate hard drive freezes MacBook Pro

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I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro 2.53ghz Core 2 Due with 8 Gigs of ram running Mountain Lion.

I am attempting to upgrade the hard drive due to running out of space. I picked up a Seagate Momentus 750gb 7200rpm drive. This is not the hybrid XT drive that seems to cause problems for everybody.

I installed the new drive, put the old one in a USB enclosure and booted from it. I then attempted to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone to the new internal drive. After cloning a few gigs though, the internal drive would disappear. I finally reinstalled the old drive and put the new one in the enclose and was able to clone that way. I reinstalled the new drive and the computer booted up fine, but would randomly freeze after a few minutes necessitating a hard shut down. I pulled out the new drive, put it in the enclosure and booted from it. The computer ran fine this way and I used it all day via USB with no problems. This lead me to believe the internal SATA cable was faulty as the drive worked fine externally but not internally.

I replaced the SATA cable today and thought the problem was fixed. The computer booted fine and ran for an hour. I used disk utility to verify the drive and repair permissions, but then the computer froze again. I restarted and it ran fine for a few minutes than froze. After each restart the computer will run for a while and then freeze. Any ideas why the drive boots and works fine externally but not internally? The old drive works perfectly fine internally as well. I don't see a problem with the new drive since it works great externally when I boot from it.


texts: Temporarily turn off all notifications on iPhone

texts:
I don't want my iPhone to vibrate, show me banners, etc., when I toggle the desired setting.

I tried Do Not Disturb but I don't find it solving the intended purpose.

How can I turn off all notifications temporarily? Is there some feature that's easy-accessible from Control Centre?

I want to watch videos online (in Safari) and not get interrupted by notifications during this.


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I have the following rule in a file in /etc/pf.anchors/

rdr pass on lo0 inet proto {udp,tcp} from any to self port 25 -> 127.0.0.1 port 1025

The intention is to forward all local traffic to port 25 onto port 1025, this is so sent emails can be captured before they are sent for testing email delivery on websites locally.

I then have added rdr-anchor "foo" and load anchor "foo" from "/etc/pf.anchors/foo" into /etc/pf.conf.

When I run pfctl -v -n -f /etc/pf.conf I get the following:

Loading anchor foo from /etc/pf.anchors/foo
rdr pass on lo0 inet proto udp from any to 127.0.0.1 port = 25 -> 127.0.0.1 port 1025
rdr pass on lo0 inet proto udp from any to 10.0.1.3 port = 25 -> 127.0.0.1 port 1025
rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 127.0.0.1 port = 25 -> 127.0.0.1 port 1025
rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 10.0.1.3 port = 25 -> 127.0.0.1 port 1025

So it looks as if it should be working, however if I run an nmap scan on the port it says closed, or if I send a test email with echo "This is the body of a text test-mail" | mail -s "Email test" test@test.com the email is not caught, but also doesn't seem to get sent.

The most strange thing is that I have pretty much the same configuration for pf on my work Mac and the forwarding works fine.

Any ideas would be great as I don't even really know how to debug this issue.


texts: 2012 MacBook Air - USB hardware ran out of device slots?

texts:
I've got a 2012 11" i7 MBA. This is a great little machine but one thing has been driving be absolutely batty about it... The USB ports work well for the most part, but inevitably I will plug in a USB device (could be anything. Thumb drive, USB serial port, JTAG cable, USB2 or USB3 device, doesn't matter) and it will power up (LEDs blink, etc.) but the device is not recognized by the Mac.

Looking at dmesg, I see this:

USBF:    126826.226    AppleUSBXHCI[0xffffff80d5636000]::WaitForCMD (Enable Slot Command) - Command failed: -1009 (num interrupts: 93582187, num primary: 46791094, inactive:0, unavailable:0, is controller available:1)
USBF:    126826.226    AppleUSBXHCI[0xffffff80d5636000]::PrintInterrupter WaitForCMD IRQ:0 - IMAN: 00000002 IMOD: 000700a0 ERDP: 002043d0
USBF:    126826.226    AppleUSBXHCI[0xffffff80d5636000]::UIMCreateControlEndpoint 2 - Run out of device slots, returning: e0004045
USBF:    126826.226    AppleUSBHubPort[0xffffff8015ddce00]::DoConfigureDeviceZero  Port 1 of hub at 0x14000000.  Cannot create USB device (kIOUSBDeviceCountExceeded)
The USB stack is not able to enumerate the device at Port 1 of hub at 0x14000000 because the USB hardware ran out of device slots

At this point the USB port is kaput. Unpugging/replugging the same device or another will show similar messages. The only solution seems to be a reboot. Putting the Mac to sleep doesn't help.

I've got the USB logging driver installed to try to help diagnose the issue but I am not seeing anything that I could call a smoking gun, and trying to reload the USB kexts does not help either.

This issue was present on my old 2011 MBA as well, and the issue has persisted from 10.7 to 10.9. Both ports will eventually do this, which makes me believe that it isn't a physical port issue since one port is on a separate I/O board and the other is on the main logic board. I've tried to connect the device through an external USB2 and USB3 hub (tried both) and the problem will eventually occur in these situations as well.

I'm fairly technically savvy, but not necessarily at my best on OSX. I can gather more information if someone were to help me determine what data is appropriate to help debug the problem. I've also done the usual NVRAM/SMC resets, fix permissions, etc... doesn't help.

Has anyone else run into this? What information could I provide to help diagnose the issue? Does anyone know of a way to fully reset the XHCI controller in this situation to try and recover without needing the reboot?

Edit 20140217

Adding the bounty certainly got this question the attention I felt it needed! Thank you for all of the answers so far, but I think that there are some important misconceptions that I'd like to address:

I didn't migrate my account from the older MacBook Air. Brand new install
The problem occurs with pretty much any device. USB keys (no cables here!), JTAG adapters, USB3 drives
The problem occurs with or without USB2 or USB3 hubs
If the problem occurs with a device on a hub, unplugging the hub and plugging the device directly into the Mac doesn't help
If the problem occurs without a hub, plugging the device into a USB2 or USB3 hub doesn't help
Once the problem occurs, logging out / switching to a different (new) user doesn't make the problem go away for the new user or the old user.

I develop electronic hardware and software for a living, including USB 3.0 devices. I'm familiar with USB root port drivers, but not at all familiar with low level (kernel) development on OSX.

I'm fairly certain that this is a device driver problem simply due to the nature of how it manifests itself. From a clean boot, things work great. Unplug/replug and it might still work great. Unplug/replug will eventually cause the problem to show up, and at that point ANY USB device in that port will not work. Reboot and things work great again.


texts:
Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked?

This behavior started suddenly after migrating to a new machine.


texts: How to copy pdf files to be view with iBooks on iPad using iTunes

texts:
So I found this location on my Mac:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books

I then copy pdf files to that location.  In iTunes, from the left column under Settings I clicked on Books.  On the right view I can see a list of books that I downloaded from AppStore and pdf files that I downloaded directly using Safari on my iPad.  But I do not see any pdf files that I just copied to the Mac location above.

So how do I transfer pdf files that I have manually to my iPad without using Safari to download?


texts: Where is the "Open in Low Resolution" setting stored for an app?

texts:
I'd like to script the opening of an app - which is normally used in retina resolution - to open in low resolution.

set low resolution setting
open app
clear low resolution setting

But where is the "Open in Low Resolution" setting stored for an app?
It seems different macOS store it in different places. I'm using Mojave.


texts: Adobe Premiere Pro 13.1.4 on Mojave, MacBook Pro 9.1

texts:
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro mid 2012 (9.1) to Mojave. It has the 512mb NVIDA GT650 graphics card. When I'm using Premiere it gives me this error message.

    NVIDIA CUDA is not currently supported in macOS 10.14 or later.  If you are using an Apple-authorized NVIDIA GPU, you should be able to continue to use the Metal Mercury Playback Engine.
    URL: https://helpx.adobe.com/en/premiere-pro/kb/gpu-and-gpu-driver-requirements-for-premiere-pro.html

Video    NVIDIA Resman Kernel Extension v.12.0.0.0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.  NVIDIA CUDA is not currently supported in macOS 10.14 or later.  If you are using an Apple-authorized NVIDIA GPU, you should be able to continue to use the Metal Mercury Playback Engine.
    URL: https://helpx.adobe.com/en/premiere-pro/kb/gpu-and-gpu-driver-requirements-for-premiere-pro.html

Video    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferCapri v.12.1.0.0

From what I understand my model is the last model that got Mojave. I would really like to push buying a new computer to the future as much as possible as it does everything I need.

Are there any solution to this? Should I just ignore it? Or would a downgrade to High Sierra be better?

Update:

I did a reinstall to High Sierra (from Mojave) and got the nvidia web drivers installed. Some of the adobe programs works on my old GPU but premiere doesnt (it requires 2gb memory). See: https://theblog.adobe.com/important-information-on-gpu-acceleration-with-cuda-and-apple-metal/

I still think my computer works better on High Sierra so the reinstall was worth it anyhow.


texts: Why does "Copy" replace stuff instead of merging it?

texts:
This is started to be really annoying to me

If you have an original folder with 2 files and you copy something into it's parent folder where the folder name is the same, and, let's imagine you are copying 3 files and at the end you want to end up with 5 files, let's make an example, like:

Original:

~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileA
~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileB

Stuff you want to copy:

locale/fileC
locale/fileD
locale/fileE

When you copy it into ~/User/abc/Documents/ you get this:

There is no option to COPY / MERGE ! if you press REPLACE you will end up with:

~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileC
~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileD
~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileE

instead of

~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileA
~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileB
~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileC
~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileD
~/User/abc/Documents/locale/fileE

What is going on here? How can I simple merge the stuff I want with the existing one. Like Transmit asks


texts: Does lost mode goes into effect once iPhone is turned on

texts: My iPhone is lost/stolen and I didn't have a password on it, lost mode is on pending due to the phone being off and cell data is off as well being that I'm in another country. Will lost mode goes into effect once the phone goes on? Are they able to see all my pics and data being that it was not password protected?


texts: Where are photos stored in the new Photos app after importing from Aperture?

texts:
I have just upgraded OS X and opened the new Photos app to import my Aperture library. Everything went well (Photos work fine) but I am surprised to see that I didn't loose 100Gb free space on my HDD.

My Aperture library is still there, and takes 100Gb+. When I read information on the new Photos library, it also says 100Gb+. However Daisy Disk shows the following report:

Aperture library: 117 Gb
Photos library: 15 Gb

Are there some "symlinks" involved in the background? Are photos being slowly copied (100% CPU usage for the last 5 hours): I should add that the migration is finished and I can use Photos fine.

I am afraid at what would happen if I decide to delete either one of those libraries. I also wonder what happens if I edit photos in Aperture or Photos. I expect those to be completely separated (duplicated libraries) but apparently it's not the case.

I don't mind HDD usage I have plenty of space.


texts: 2 Disks with the same name, how do I delete one?

texts:
I initially boot-camped a disk into a windows partition, and wanted to delete it. Initially I thought formatting it to free space would work, but it didn't. I tried again and accidentally formatted it to the type Mac OS Extended. Problem is, that's the name of my main HD as well.

I can't even re-name/repair/verify it

I do have the logical Id's for both of them though, and know which one has which logical ID.

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group AEDB2CC4-9034-444E-A973-AD57E668F322
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         134140436480 B (134.1 GB)
    Free Space:   8953856 B (9.0 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 17931EB1-83F7-458D-B2B4-497D111AE88A
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     134140436480 B (134.1 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 18F33EE2-F845-480F-B794-DB888CD06F22
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume A3DCD237-4353-4A29-BCA2-5689B3869590
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          134140436480 B (134.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   Complete
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

All I'm trying to do is merge the disk to my main HD.

HELP!


texts: Sync iPhone/iPad with iTunes after library rebuild

texts:
Short Version

I rebuilt my iTunes library and now when I try to sync my iPad and my wife's iPhone, iTunes wants to erase and resync.

I want to know if there's a way to save the stuff added to these devices since last sync.

Longer Version

Earlier today, I added some mp3s to my iTunes library. I could tell that iTunes had moved them to the iTunes music directory, but when I searched for them in iTunes they couldn't be found.

Guessing that iTunes needed to be reindexed, I rebuilt the iTunes library by following instructions from Apple.

Tonight when I plugged in my iPad to sync app updates, iTunes informs me that this iPad is synced to another iTunes library... which, technically, it was.

I'm given two choices -- transfer purchases to this computer or erase and resync.

I'm leaning towards erase and resync. I know that I have some eBooks (not from iBook store) that I added since my last sync which I think I'll need to add again.

My wife's iPhone also syncs to this computer and is a bigger problem. Since her last sync, we took a trip to Disney World and she has a bunch of photos that we don't want to lose. (We could email/upload those)

Is there a better solution that I'm missing?


texts: Will my iPhone show me the date stamp of a photo?

texts: I'm I missing something basic or is there no way to see the the date stamp on a pictures taken with or synced to the iPhone?


texts: I have using an iPhone 5 upgraded to iOS 7. Is it possible to turn off vibrations for alarms? I am currently using a song as alarm sound, the vibration is annoying.


texts: I imported some random photos from my desktop computer to test the photo import option on my new IPad Air. These photos are visible when I click on My Photos on the main menu screen, along with photos taken with the IPad, but are not visible when I click on my Photo Booth, which seems to store only pics. taken with my IPad. I want to delete the photos imported as a test but when I select them in My Photos the option to delete them (the dustbin) does not light up as an option. How can I delete them? Any help appreciated.


texts: Apple Private Email Relay address - can I use it to request password reset?

texts:
Recently I have used an Apple Private Email Relay address to sign up with an app in order to hide my own email address. Everything went well and I purchased the subscription.
Now I want to use the service on the other platforms as well. But in the web interface they are missing Sign In with Apple.
Since I know my Apple Private Email Relay address I can still sign in with this email, but I need to reset the password to do so.
I already requested password reset for the email address. But how could I access to the private relay email address's inbox.?
The mail has not been received by my default email address associated with my AppleID.

Can I request password reset with an Apple Private Email Relay address?

How can I view emails sent to Apple Private Email Relay addresses?

Are mails sent to the Apple Private Email Relay address rerouted to the email address associated with the AppleID?


texts: Is there anyway for Applemail to save all attachments and to be able to export it?

texts: I recently just finished graduate school and so my university has told me that I am to have the mail account disabled. They further suggested that I download all mail so that I don't lose any precious email threads I had. So today I downloaded all my mail onto my applemail client and exported the mailbox so that I had a copy. However, to my chagrin, I realized that most of the attachments inside the mailbox were not fully downloaded. It seems that the only way an attachment in an email would download completely is if I clicked on it. However, with 20 thousand emails, this isnt really a suitable option. Does anyone know of any way to have all my attachments downloaded so that I have an exact copy of my mailbox sitting somewhere? thanks!


texts: How to apply written defaults to a Magic Mouse (com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse)?

texts:
Running OSX 10.7.4
I wrote a script to swap Apple Magic Mouse secondary click.

The following simple bash script do modify the system preferences (can be seen in System Preferences GUI), but the mouse secondary click is not really swapped.

#!/bin/bash
mmode=$(defaults read  com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseButtonMode)
echo --- $mmode ---
if [ $mmode = 'TwoButton' ]; then
defaults write  com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse "save.MouseButtonMode.v1" -int 2
defaults write  com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseButtonMode -string "TwoButtonSwapped"
echo LEFT HAND MODE
else
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse "save.MouseButtonMode.v1" -int 1
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseButtonMode -string "TwoButton"
echo RIGHT HAND MODE
fi

It seems the OS needs some reload/refresh command for the change to take effect.
Can anyone figure out what I'm missing?


texts: How to make a Mac speak out system notifications?

texts:
Since a Mac can easily speak something, can it speak what is in a system notification?

Specifically, it is so that when a webpage displays a system notification, the text in the notification can be spoken out.

(P.S. the page OS X Yosemite: Hear your Mac speak alert messages for alert won't work)


texts: How can I limit the max FPS for an app that doesn't have an FPS option

texts:
I'm trying to limit the max framerate for multiple apps which don't have built-in FPS options. Is there any tool (terminal or app) which can set this?

I've tried searching, but haven't found anything.

I'm running macOS Sierra.


texts:
Is there some easy method for installing bookmarklets on an iPad/iOS device that does't involve syncing my bookmarks with a computer somewhere?

Examples showing the sync with computer installation.

http://helpdesk.lastpass.com/bookmarklets/#Installing+Bookmarklets+on+the+iPad
https://support.pinterest.com/entries/21033321-how-do-i-install-the-pin-it-bookmarklet-on-an-ipad-iphone


texts:
For some unknown reason NONE of my accessibility options seem to work. I'm trying to enable Invert Color Display for example but checking or unchecking the box in system preferences has no effect whatsoever.  Nor does checking any of the other options.

See screenshot showing that options have been selected in system preferences, but all options are greyed out in menu bar drop down.


texts: Activity Monitor showing a process that takes 600% CPU?

texts:
See Handbrake CPU usage...

What's wrong with my activity monitor?


texts:
Our users have a very small mailbox. Increasing it's size is out of the question and they're using only iPhones and iPads.

There is a big possibility of them losing/destroying their devices (don't ask) so I do not want to archive their email on the device.

Is there any way for me to archive to a selfhosted cloud or something similar?


texts:
I came from Windows 2 years ago and I knew there were hidden files in all OS's. As Windows has the simple option to show them to you, I supposed that if I contacted Apple support they would tell me how to show hidden files. But they simply told me they didn't exist at Mac OS. So I had to find the answer myself.

But today I was browsing some files with the terminal, I did ls -l -a to see all files (including those hidden) in a list and I saw kind of a different file that began with a dot and an underscore (._). I could see in the Finder all files except that one.

So my question is: Why can't I see that file (e.g. ._hello) in the Finder if I have already configured it to show me all files, including the hidden ones? Is that another kind of hidden file which I'm not aware of?


texts: Is it possible for two users to remotely log in to a Mac simultaneously?

texts:
Can two users share a Mac remotely? What software would be used?

I'm wondering if this is a viable idea for two developers to share a Mac for app development.


texts: "Verification failed" when trying to update to iOS 8.1.1 because of a network issue

texts:
I have an iPhone 5s and whenever I try to update it to iOS 8.1.1 it shows the error message below:

  iOS 8.1.1 failed verification because you are no longer connected to the internet.

However, I'm connected to the internet. I tried with 2 Wi-Fi connections.
Any ideas on how to fix this ?


texts: When should I try to get ACMT certified?

texts: A friend and I went to a local Apple Authorized Service Provider the other day to ask if he had any advice about getting a job, and he suggested studying and getting tested for ACMT (Apple Certified Mac Technician) certification. However, since winter WWDC is coming, he suggested not doing it until winter break or something so that I can learn what OS X 10.11 is like and won't get certified on an OS that's immediately going to go out of date, even though the certification is for life. My parents think I could manage it over the summer, so I'm conflicted. Would the ACMT exam still be about Yosemite by the end of the summer, and is there anything else I should know about that could influence my decision?


texts: How do I map a key on the A1048 109-key Keyboard to provide an "FN" button?

texts: I have an Apple A1048 109-key keyboard that I really like, except it does not have an FN button, which is a bit annoying.  Is there any way to remap one of the keys (I'm thinking the 'help' key) to function as an FN key?


texts: Is the firewall really pfctl, or another instance of pfctl?

texts:
I was mucking around with pfctl a while back, didn't get very far and forgot about it.

Yesterday, I couldn't ssh into a remote machine. I disabled the firewall in system preferences but still had the problem. When I couldn't ping anything I wondered… So, I disabled pfctl with sudo pfctl -d and lo and behold ping and ssh were working again.

If pfctl was still running my ruleset regardless of whether the firewall in sys prefs was enabled or not then either:

the sys prefs firewall is a separate firewall app, not pfctl given a simple gui (as I'd assumed).
the firewall in sys prefs is a separate instance of pfctl, both can run independent of the other.

or it's something else (I like to give myself leeway). I've checked running processes and can only find Firewall, no pf/pfctl etc, I'm puzzled.

Which option is the truth?


texts: Export iCloud items from Keychain to CSV

texts:
I want to export all my accounts login/password from Keychain. But you have many categories like : login, iCloud, System... in the Keychain menu. In fact I want to export them to 1Password, so I follow this overflow answer.

But in ~/Library/Keychains/ I have only the login.keychain and not the hopefully iCloud.keychain...

I have 422 accounts in the iCloud category and only 5 on the login category...

So my question is, how can I save/export this iCloud category

into a keychain or .csv file ?

EDIT :

I have already a login.keychain file. But I don't know how I can make an iCloud.keychain file.


texts:
I'm trying to remove unused Today widgets from the Notification Center panel, although it's not clear on how to get rid of them (delete permanently).

The unused items show up after clicking the "Edit" button at the bottom of the Today Screen, but the only thing that the +/- seems to do is either add it to the panel or put it in a pile of unused widgets. I would like to remove some third party today widgets entirely, as I don't even have the application installed any longer.


texts: Has anyone tricked the Apple Configurator to work with non VPP redemption codes?

texts:
I wonder if anyone has had success or failure in attempting to use the Apple Configurator with normal gifted app redemption codes. The FAQ clearly states that you must be in the Volume Purchase Program (VPP) to import a spreadsheet from the VPP portal - however, I wonder if it would be possible to assemble a DIY spreadsheet with valid gifted apps for use.

Apple Configurator: Using Volume Purchase Program (VPP) Redemption Codes

My guess is no, but figured perhaps someone may have already tried this.


texts: When I open the Music D/L app, it quits immediately

texts:
I have an iPad mini, and I have this app called Music D/L. So, a few months ago, I decided to download a song and when I went into the app, it had a black screen for a split second, and it just crashed.

In the comments please don't say "delete the app and download it again, everything will be fine!". Trust me, it won't :(. This music app was taken down on the App Store, so I can't get it again if I delete it. All of my songs are on this app and I don't want to delete the app and get a new music downloader because:

There isn't that many good ones out there.
I won't be able to remember all of the music I downloaded.

Please tell me what to do ASAP!

P.S. Yes, I tried resetting my iPad and turning it off and all that stuff, I tried everything!


texts: How to control volume of music based on "Now Playing"?

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I'd like the Mac to mute itself when there's an ad on Spotify. It comes in a pair, 30 seconds each. I now have to hit mute button, then guess if a minute is over yet and then unmute it. Solid distraction.

I think that this info: "Advertisement" in music title could be used. But I don't know if it is accessible by any means in AppleScript.

Some task/ process/ job which I turn on while opening Spotify, which would be monitoring the Song title and then trigger mute and unmute after 60 seconds would do.

Please get me started on this.


texts: How to open boot camp Windows 7 machine in Hyper-V?

texts: I currently have a user with a boot camp unit, it has a Windows 7 Pro machine that I would like to extract and open in Hyper-V.  I am not sure how to do this or if it is possible.  Not sure how to ask the question but the end result would be this Windows 7 Pro machine would be running on a Hyper-V 2008 Enterprise x64 server.  I am completely familiar with Hyper-V but I am an Apple novice and am looking for specific assistance in getting the Boot Camp Windows 7 machine running properly in Hyper-V (latest version) (all updates and patches are installed).


texts: iPod touch (iOS4) doesn't sync AddressBook after moving to iCloud

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I moved from MobileMe to iCloud. So my iPod2gn blocked in iOS4 is not part of the sync anymore. Well, it's a technical and commercial shame, but well, ok, enough said.

I wanted to be able to have my Calendar and Address book sync by iTunes when I plug my iPod to my iMac.

It works for emails, photos, calendars BUT not the AddressBook.

Is this a known issue or am I missing some basic stuff here?


texts: Can a Maxtor ATA133 HDD be fitted into a 2001 iMac?

texts: I am a proud owner of a 2001 iMac, with a 10GB HDD. Is it possible to install in its place a Maxtor ATA/133 HDD of 40GB (produced Aug 2003)?


texts: Rules in Mail don't work when message is read

texts: When I read a message on my iPhone it seems to be by passing the Mailbox Rules when that message gets into my iMac. So I end up having messages in my Inbox instead of in the appropriate Mail folder. Why?


texts: How do I use my external keyboard for typing in a foreign language?

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I have a MacBook Air with a British English keyboard layout and a bluetooth keyboard with a Norwegian layout.

I would like to use my bluetooth keyboard for when I am typing in Norwegian, and the inbuilt keyboard for when I am typing in English.

However, when I try to use the Norwegian keyboard to type a Norwegian letter, it instead types the symbol occupying the same position on the British keyboard.

This affects all the keys on my external keyboard. My computer effectively treats my Norwegian keyboard as though it were a British one.

Instead, I would like my computer to always treat my external keyboard as a Norwegian keyboard and to always treat my inbuilt keyboard as a British one.

Can you show me how to set up my computer in this way, please?

Thank you in advance


texts: What are the drawbacks to reformatting my hard drive back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from APFS

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I am concerned about not being able to use Time Machine to back up my drive. I've been told that was due to my disk being formatted as APFS. What must be done to return my Mac to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Will this solve the sudden stopping of Time Machine?  Is there a better way to get Time Machine working on my computer.

I have an older iMac running High Sierra.


texts: Can I connect a Yamaha Clavinova CLP-230 to a MBAir using USB cable?

texts: I tried, using a USB A to USB B cable but the computer did not recognize the Clavinova CLP-230 in Garageband. Not sure where I am going wrong? Tried a different cable but still no luck. OS 10.13


texts: External drive mounts but doesn't appear in Finder anymore

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I have an external hard drive (Drobo 2nd gen) connected to my Mac via Firewire. It used to appear on my desktop and in my Finder sidebar, but now it won't show up in either place (I do have "Hard disks" and "External disks" turned on in the Finder sidebar options).

The drive does seem to be mounting fine: the drive and partition are visible in Disk Utility and I can browse to it in Finder if I use the Finder's "Go to Folder..." command and type /Volumes/Drobo/. I can read/write to it fine once I've navigated to it.

I have the latest version of Drobo's Dashboard utility installed, and my firmware is up to date. Any ideas? Is this a sign that my external drive is starting to die?

EDIT: I've resolved this problem with the help of Drobo's tech support. See my own accepted answer below. I've revised this answer to make it less Drobo-specific, since it ended up being a filesystem thing.


texts: Terminal "ls" command sorting flagged files

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ls -lO

lists "restricted" flagged files as well as the rest

Is it possible to limit the list just to these files and/or to list them sorted first or last in the list?