texts: Where can I find the task manager in Mac OS X Lion?

texts: Where can I find a task manager in Mac OS X Lion? I want to see the processes that are currently being run, and I can kill any process I like.


texts: iMac Startup I/O Error Despite Successful Disk Repair

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My Early 2008 iMac with OSX 10.8.5 no longer boots beyond grey screen with spinning gear. Verbose mode shows a load of I/O errors. Disk Verify/Repair run via recovery partition completes successfully, as does fsck terminal command in single user startup mode (it modified the files on first run but not second). I reset the NVRAM too.

However none of these have helped, same I/O errors afterwards. Thinking it might be due to OS files being corrupted I created a USB drive with installable version of OSX (actually 10.9 Mavericks), but it crashes during install.

I wanted to try Apple Hardware Tools diagnostics but the startup shortcuts D or opt+D don't work - I read it's been removed so presumably I'll need to find a way to reinstall it first. I've tried the usual fixes such as safe mode (won't boot), removing all peripherals, even the RAM sticks.  I can't hear the drive making any grinding sounds.

Is there anything else I can try to fix this? Is it likely the HD has died even though Disk Repair is returning success?


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I am having some problems using Disk Utility.

I am trying to combine all my partitions in to one (as it used to be), so that no space will be left unallocated. The problem is though my Recovery HD, it won't let me, it isn't letting me to do so. I can't increase my Mac HDD, but I can easily increase my Recovery HD.

I don't how my Recovery HD is visible, that is a big mystery.

How can I get it as it used to be?


texts: What iPhone apps can't you live without?

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What are your "must-have" iPhone or iPod touch apps—the ones you can't live without? (Figuratively speaking, I hope.) Please omit apps that come pre-installed.

Rules

One app per answer.
Use this format for the first two lines of your answer:
## [app name](link to website)
[App Store](link to appstore)
Include short description.
Check for duplicates before adding new answers.
If you find a duplicate, vote it down and encourage its poster to upvote the original entry instead (and remove the dupe).

Please exclude iPad-only apps from here; there's Great iPad Apps for those.

Disclaimer: I know this type of question is controversial. However, great many people do find that properly implemented and curated CW polls can be useful. (If you are one of those who do not, could you simply consider ignoring this?)


texts: Lion version of vim crashing repeatably - caught deadly signal SEGV

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whenever I work on multiple files in different vim buffers/tabs and do a :w to save, vim crashes with a segmentation fault.

I'm using vim 7.3 that came long with Lion (Actually with SnowLeopard which later I upgraded to Lion).

Is this issue Lion specific or is this only affecting upgrade users? Any one seen similar issues.

I've been a linux user for most of the time but just bought a mac recently and also upgraded to Lion recently.

It's quite aggravating to spend so much money and now can't use vim :(


texts:
I am trying to connect to a Linux host using ssh and get the following error

RSA host key for 10.1.1.20 has changed and you have requested strict checking.

I would like to override this, but can't seem to find any combination of options to do this.

I probably set StrictHostKeyChecking years ago, but don't remember how.

I consulted man ssh which informs me the system-wide configuration file is /etc/ssh/ssh_config and default for the per-user configuration file is ~/.ssh/config neither exists.

EDIT
To clarify my question, the option is clearly set. I am trying to discover

Where the options are stored (I don't have the files mentioned in the
man page, which appears to be wrong).
How to change the options.

I am not looking at how to work around the issue I am having (I know I can edit the known_hosts file, but this is tedious every time I try a new server).


texts: Calendar that's accessible from Mac OS X and Linux

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Does anyone know of any calendar software/approach, so that I can use my calendar from both Mac OS X and from Linux?

I use both Mac OS X and Linux regularly, and I'd like to be able to both view and edit my calendar from both platforms.  Does anyone know of any solutions?

I don't want to have to use a web browser to access my calendar.  Also, I'm trying to avoid Google/Gmail.  (Maybe there's a way to host a calendar in iCloud or MobileMe and use it from both Mac OS X and Linux?  Or maybe some open-source program that I can compile on both Mac OS X and Linux, and that hosts the data on a server I administer?  Or something?  Any ideas, anyone?)


texts: How can I change the iOS App Store Country on my iPhone 5?

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When I try to download any app on my iPhone 5, I receive the following message:

  Account not in this store. Your account is not valid for use in the Swiss store. You  must switch to the the US store before purchasing.

How do I switch from the Swiss store to the US store?


texts: Finder "Show Icon Preview" for certain filetypes?

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In OSX (Yosemite) I've figured out how to switch between showing a file as an icon or as a preview in Finder.  I can go to Finder > View > Show View Options and then toggle the Show icon preview checkbox.

What I'm wondering is if there is some way to show the preview for certain file types but not for others.  Basically, I want to see the preview if it is an image file, but just see the file type icon for everything else (.doc(x), .pdf, .txt, etc.).

Is there a way to do this, or is it strictly one way or the other?


texts: Why xterm would run only once on XQuartz?

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I have XQuartz running and I can open xterm if I have started XQuartz just for the first time after rebooting the machine.  However, as time passes, I cannot create new xterms.  So much so that if I quit current XQuartz and restart just XQuartz, I cannot get any xterm.  It is annoying that I have to reboot the machine just to be able to use xterm.

I am running OS X 10.11 El Capitan.  I'll appreciate any insight.

Here is the information from pkgutil.

$ pkgutil --file-info /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app
volume: /
path: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app

pkgid: org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg
pkg-version: 2.7.86
install-time: 1445273913
uid: 0
gid: 0
mode: 755


texts: Upload photos to specified photo album, on iPad

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Are there any ways to move photos from the default album to a specified album?

Maybe there exist some iPad apps for that?
I know how to do that using iTunes, but you know, it's very uncomfortable :(


texts: What should I do now? Will my computer be okay?


texts: Trackpad on MBA keeps automatically clicking

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I always keep 'Tap to click' off because I like the physical feedback when clicking and I tend to automatically touch the trackpad.

I reinstalled Mavericks last week, because I wanted to start completely fresh.

Now my trackpad automatically 'clicks' often. Sometimes I just move the mouse, and it will drag things, making it super annoying to use the mouse.

Is this a known problem, and is there a solution? I'm post-applecare so I hope I don't have to bring it in to get it repaired.


texts: What does a 'reservation' for an iPhone 6 at the online Apple Store mean?

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My order for an upgrade-elegible iPhone 6 at the online Apple Store was interrupted by Apple with a "reservation" for a phone, confirmed by an e-mail with a number identifying my reservation and a link where I could check on the status of my reservation.

At the time I made my reservation, wait times for delivery were a few days, and are now much longer, and getting even longer. The reservation expires 24-hours after it was made, though it appears to be making no progress: the status, when it can be found (which is about 1 try out of 5) indicates still waiting to "reach the carrier systems", even though I can now order an upgrade-eligible phone on the same number from the Apple Store without a reservation.

Does my "reservation" actually hold a phone that was available for delivery at the time I made it (that is, available in a few days), or is it just a way of saying "come back later"?


texts:
I just upgraded my old MBP to SSD and put my old HDD in my optical drive space for a duo-HD setup. I am running Yosemite on the SSD.

I wanted to use my HDD as a Window 7 setup. However, when I go into boot camp to do this, my computer shuts down and hangs. Is this because of the boot sequence of optical drive comes first? Or is this due to something else?

Can I not run windows on the old HDD?


texts: MacOS Mojave: An error occurred while verifying firmware

texts: I have Mid 2014 Macbook pro machine and running OS macOS Sierra 10.12.6. Now I am trying to upgrade my OS then may mac getting hanged after restart until battery drain after that I am getting An error occurred while verifying firmware. Also machine date is being change to 1st Jan, 2015. Kindly provide me solution if someone knows how figure out it.


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I love using the Reminders app for my todo list, and a big part of that is that you can just pull down the "Today" menu and see all your current todos, and check off any you've completed.

But now on iOS 8, the Reminders widget only shows 4-5 items and then has a "see all" link that opens the Reminders app. This is a HUGE step down for efficiency for me.

Is there any way to make the Reminders widget show all of your reminders, like it did on iOS 7?


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I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012. Until yesterday it had High Sierra. I tried to update to Catalina with an installer I found online, but the installation brakes up every time and starts again, once the computer is restarted. I get the Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed.
Luckily, I have an older copy of the system on an USB stick, so I was a able to boot the MacBook and access the drive. It is locked, so I can´t write it, but at least I can still backup and save my data.
The question however is, is there something I can do to save the old installation or is it corrupt now, because the update to Catalina overrode some files and there is just nothing I can do to fix that?


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Every other digital camera I've used has a white balance control. I can't imagine a camera without one, since fundamentally the camera can't know what the "correct" white balance is without this human input.

Where is it in the iOS camera?


texts: Strange behaviour of services menu in some apps

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For my own purposes, I created service named "Launch Terminal" which, naturally, launches terminal. I've edited it few times, then renamed, moved to iCloud, then again edited and finally copied to a local machine. Now here's a problem:

Shortcut for this service is Command-Control-T. If a shortcut is set to this, then in Finder and Terminal applications, the shortcut doesn't work, while it works elsewhere. Moreover, when I open services menu in these two apps, I see entry "Launch Terminal" and it works only if clicked. No symbols, denoting key combination of shortcut are displayed in this menu, only the name of the service. The problem disappears if I set another key combination for this service or if I rename it. I tried rebooting several times and I tried rebuilding LaunchServices database with

sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user


texts: Boot Loop - Trying to make a Yosemite KVM VM w/Chameleon Bootloader

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I am trying to boot a Yosemite VM (10.10.5) following these instructions here.

But it gets stuck in a loop at the BIOS boot screen (the OS has not yet been installed)

My hardware is a Mac mini with Ubuntu 14.04 installed (I specifically need to use KVM to boot OS X VMs for my use case), hardware is:
CPU: GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4578U CPU@3.00GHz
Graphics card: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT integrated graphics controller (rev 09)
Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C5E0812OC7EEAF
I have QEMU 2.6.0, and Chameleon Enoch r2839 (I've also tried Chameleon 2.3 r2838 with the same results)

The command I use to boot is:

bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 \
      -cpu core2duo,vendor=GenuineIntel \
  -machine q35 \
  -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse \
  -device isa-applesmc,osk="insert-real-64-char-OSK-string-here" \
  -kernel ./chameleon_enoch\
  -smbios type=2 \
  -device ide-drive,bus=ide.2,drive=MacHDD \
  -drive id=MacHDD,if=none,file=./mac_hdd.img \
  -netdev user,id=hub0port0 \
  -device e1000-82545em,netdev=hub0port0,id=mac_vnet0 \
  -monitor stdio \
  -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,drive=MacDVD \
  -drive id=MacDVD,if=none,snapshot=on,file=./Yosemite.10.10.2.iso
      -vnc 127.0.0.1:2

(real string osk string is inserted here, I just didn't add it for public posting)

When I boot, I get to this screen just fine:

When I boot with -v option, it gets to these screens, goes black, and then returns to the original boot screen shown previously:

There does not appear to be any obvious errors or kernel panics. I googled the DSDT and SMBios messages and they don't appear to be anything that would cause issues in this case.

If I try booting it in safe mode (-v -x), I get these screens before it once again returns to the original boot screen:

Again, no obvious crashes or panics.

I've tried various combinations of -v, -f, -x, GraphicsEnabler=Yes/No, the behavior is basically always the same. Keep in mind, I am trying to boot and install OS X in a virtual machine, not on the computer itself.

Can anyone see any problems or suggest other troubleshooting I could do?


texts: External display resolution does not match what is specified in Mac OS settings

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I am using Dell P2715Q display (4K) with MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). It is by default scaled to 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz (copied from System Report). But the display shows "Resolution: 3840x2160, 60Hz" (at the bottom of the Menu). It bothers me cause I have some performance issues working with this display. I also have Dell U2715H display (2K) at home which doesn't show any performance problem at all. I assume the problem is in Mac OS scaling but don't see a way do diagnose or fix it.

Mac OS Sierra Version: 10.12.6 (16G1212)


texts: How do you delete Dropbox from OS X Yosemite?

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So this seems like an obvious one, but after some searching around the web and Dropbox's bad help section I've really come unstuck with this.

I'm trying to delete the official Dropbox app from my Macbook and everytime I try and move the .app package to the trash by right clicking it says that it can't because the app is being used elsewhere.

Is there anyway I can go about deleting it? I've checked Force Quit and it's not there, so I'm curious how you get rid of this thing.


texts: Big Sur confirm alert button keyboard shortcut

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In Catalina and earlier versions of macOS, certain keyboard shortcuts worked for dismissing alerts, but these same shortcuts no longer work for me in Big Sur.
You could and you can still cancel alert dialogs via esc and alerts with a recommended action (highlighted in blue) you can dismiss them with enter.
But you could also trigger an alert's action with, for example, ⌘ command + D, based on the title of the button (presumably).
No such keyboard shortcut I try works on the new Big Sur alerts so far. Is there a working keyboard shortcut here?


texts: Howto recover APFS without container (new APFS bug)

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I recently formatted all my external drives to APFS.

The result was this:

diskutil list
    /dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
    #TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
    0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk3
    1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
    2: Apple_APFS 499.8 GB disk3s2

There is no container, seems to be just the raw APFS.
I didn't notice. I could write to the disk, all was fine. Until I rebooted.
Now, it's unmountable, unrepairable with disk utility.

Today I upgraded to MacOS 10.13.1 and repeated the same thing on an USB stick:

Result:

/dev/disk9 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +64.3 GB disk9
Physical Store disk6s2
1: APFS Volume tester 978.9 KB disk9s1

Clearly, it works correctly, with container, all fine, after the patch.

I was foolish enough to entrust data to the 500GB partition... desperately trying to find a way now, to make the data readable.
diskutil man page explains, you can create a container, add a NEW device, add a volume, but no way apparently to add an existing "APFS physical store" to an existing container. If I could create a new container and add this raw device, maybe it works, maybe not, but I couldn't find any option for that.

I wrote myself a bash script to get rid of another APFS bug, that prevented diskutil from formatting a disk:

### sudo ./format.sh disk5 DATA1

diskutil list | grep $1
echo "Name: $2"
sleep 10
diskutil unmountDisk force $1
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$1 bs=1024 count=1024
diskutil partitionDisk $1 GPT JHFS+ "$2" 0g

So this creates a journaled HFS+ filesystem with GPT table, after which disk utility offers all FS to format onto it.

I'm grateful for any hints or ideas, on how to make this device readable again.
Creating an image with dd or other tool of the raw device might not work either, since man pages explained about APFS, it needs it's container to be readable. But was does the container store, besides a "link" to it ?


texts: Can I delete /Library/Updates on EI Capitan

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I'm trying reduce my drive space requirement. I discovered /Library/Updates is taking up a lot of space.

After a quick Google, I found /Library/Updates is used to store system updates file which have not been applied.

So is it safe to clean up /Library/Updates?


texts: Tradeoffs of disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection) in order to install Sierra on Mac Pro (Early 2009)

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Lets say someone wants to upgrade a Mac Pro (Early 2009) to macOS Sierra in order to get core security updates and newer versions of modern software.

Unfortunately this Mac Pro model is not officially supported for macOS Sierra. However, there is a patch tool in existence which will update the firmware on the machine that would allow the installation of Sierra.

The problem is that it requires SIP to be permanently disabled.

Setting aside all the [multitudes of] other related security concerns (i.e. "uh, patch tool?")...

Would the security threat of disabling SIP outweigh the added security benefit of OS patches from Apple and new software from 3rd party vendors?


texts: CPAN module on macOS: Warning: Cannot install xxx, don't know what it is

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I am trying to install a Perl module.

> cpan rajce-get
Reading '/Users/Ivanov/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:17:03 GMT
Warning: Cannot install rajce-get, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /rajce-get/

to find objects with matching identifiers.

The first time I was running this command there was something like a wizard (text based). Now only warning and I can't use the script

cpan WebService:::Rajce last lines of output:

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lMagickCore-6.Q16
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lperl
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Image::Magick
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
cp Magick.pm blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm
AutoSplitting blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm (blib/lib/auto/Image/Magick)
Running Mkbootstrap for Magick ()
chmod 644 "Magick.bs"
"/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Magick.bs blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.bs 644
"/usr/bin/perl" "/System/Library/Perl/5.18/ExtUtils/xsubpp"  -typemap '/System/Library/Perl/5.18/ExtUtils/typemap' -typemap '/Users/john/.cpan/build/PerlMagick-6.89-GLEix8/typemap'  Magick.xs > Magick.xsc
mv Magick.xsc Magick.c
cc -c  -I/usr/local/include/ImageMagick-6 -DMAGICKCORE_HDRI_ENABLE=0 -DMAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH=16 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I"/usr/include/ImageMagick-6" -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -I/usr/include/freetype2 -g -O2 -Wall -pthread -DMAGICKCORE_HDRI_ENABLE=0 -DMAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH=16 -Os   -DVERSION=\"6.89\" -DXS_VERSION=\"6.89\"  -iwithsysroot "/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE"  -D_LARGE_FILES=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H Magick.c
Magick.xs:60:10: fatal error: 'magick/MagickCore.h' file not found
#include <magick/MagickCore.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [Magick.o] Error 1
  JCRISTY/PerlMagick-6.89-1.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running make for P/PE/PEK/WebService-Rajce-1.190840.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory /Users/john/.cpan/build/WebService-Rajce-1.190840-2Fbn0B

  CPAN.pm: Building P/PE/PEK/WebService-Rajce-1.190840.tar.gz

Warning: Prerequisite 'Image::Magick => 0' for 'PEK/WebService-Rajce-1.190840.tar.gz' failed when processing 'JCRISTY/PerlMagick-6.89-1.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.
Warning: Prerequisite 'WWW::Mechanize => 0' for 'PEK/WebService-Rajce-1.190840.tar.gz' failed when processing 'OALDERS/WWW-Mechanize-1.93.tar.gz' with 'make_test => NO'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.
cp lib/WebService/Rajce.pm blib/lib/WebService/Rajce.pm
AutoSplitting blib/lib/WebService/Rajce.pm (blib/lib/auto/WebService/Rajce)
cp bin/rajce-get blib/script/rajce-get
"/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/rajce-get
cp bin/rajce-put blib/script/rajce-put
"/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/rajce-put
Manifying 2 pod documents
Manifying 1 pod document
  PEK/WebService-Rajce-1.190840.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/author-pod-coverage.t .. skipped: these tests are for testing by the author
Files=1, Tests=0,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr +  0.01 sys =  0.03 CPU)
Result: NOTESTS
  PEK/WebService-Rajce-1.190840.tar.gz
Tests succeeded but 2 dependencies missing (Image::Magick,WWW::Mechanize)
  PEK/WebService-Rajce-1.190840.tar.gz
  [dependencies] -- NA
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force


texts:
When I try to open images or pdfs with preview, the application starts but the files never open. When I try to open them from the command line, I get the error message:

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -1712 for file [...]

This was working yesterday, so presumably I did something to break it since then, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it could have been.


texts: Is there a dhcp logfile available in osx (snow leopard or lion) where I can see when a new ip-address was received from the DHCP server?


texts: Make preferences changes take effect immediately from CLI

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How you can make changes take effect and update in the Preferences GUI immediately without having to reboot (unacceptable), log out (bad) or kill processes (last resort)? macOS 10.12

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool NO
sudo defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.plist LocationServicesEnabled -bool NO

Update:

Restarting Finder updates swipe GUI, but not the swiping itself! How can this be done?
Location services: Updates instantly now. (Must have been something wrong before.)


texts: How to focus and walk through menu bar on OS X using keyboard

texts: I'm using OS X 10.11, How can I navigate through items on menu bar using keyboard, like press Alt + letter with underscored in Windows?


texts: MacBook Pro 2009 won't go to sleep when lid is closed

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My macbook pro 2009 stopped hibernating after closing the lid, also keyboard back light seems stopped working as well, I tried LabTick but no luck.

Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
pid 139(coreaudiod): [0x0000008f000101e7] 00:09:05 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.audio.Boom2Engine:0.context.preventuseridlesleep"
    Created for PID: 348.
   pid 98(hidd): [0x0000004900090168] 00:10:15 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
    Timeout will fire in 109 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
No kernel assertions.
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler


texts: How do I transmit video from my iMac wirelessly?

texts: What would be a good option if I were to transmit any video (DVD, AVI, MOV, just anything) from my iMac to a TV or beamer over the air? 1080p would be nice but is not a requirement. Setup should be simple and the required hardware should be small and have decent design that can be used in a living room.


texts: How to use Telnet with Personal Hotspot (tethering)?

texts:
I got the Personal Hotspot working great, with both USB and WiFi (on different computers/devices).

However, I am not able to ping or telnet the other computer. Both computers can ping the iPhone (default gateway). I found the other computers IP through ifconfig and ipconfig.

Is there a limitation on what kind of traffic can go through a Personal Hotspot? Where can I find support or documentation? (I searched Google and Apple support). Are there any settings or configuration files?

Is there another solution, such as using my own WiFi or wired router for local traffic and the iPhone for internet?

Using version 4.3.3.

Thanks.


texts: How to do speaker correction on a MacBook Pro Retina

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On a MacBook Pro 15inch Retina I find the sound output from the internal speakers to be quite 'strange'. It is like there is too much bass from where the spectrum starts and then as if there are some kind of gaps in the spectrum where middles and highs are somehow absent or underdeveloped.

These are small speakers and they are usually judged as quite good for their size. Yet they seem to me part of the wrong side in the loudness war.

On older machines I previously used a complicated setup involving SoundFlower and AULabs equalizer settings to correct for some of the perceived deficiencies.

Besides the cumbersome setup of this surely outdated solution: On these newer machines I cannot arrive at a satisfactory result.

But I remembered a few "audio optimizers" offered some speaker correction presets for these machines. (Examples would be Boom3D, Hear, eqMac2, Bongiovi DPS…) With the smallest settings I found Boom quite smooth. But that piece of software is unreliable in operation, costs money, and offers a range of other features I do not want or need, and it is even accused of possibly damaging your audio hardware if misused. On top of it the results on this machine are not in that way 'better' as I remember it (and re-tested with an older version just now) from older machines.

Since I am lacking even the right terminology for this kind of task:

How do I approach speaker correction for this machine properly? Are there equalizer presets to start from? Settings perhaps to download somewhere or to copy along the sliders of the band?
Can these speakers or their response curve really be calibrated (as the setup from one of the software titles seem to suggest) Other software solutions to consider altogether?

Note that I am aware of "perceived sound quality" as pretty much opinion based, therefore I am not asking about "the best setting" but about the proper approach to this problem in general. The huge difference between the so called "optimized for this machine" settings offered by Boom and Bongiovi DPS is testament to the "opinions differ" thing as well.


texts: How to map a static external IP to static internal IP on Apple Airport extreme

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I am trying to enable external VNC access to a Mac mini on a small network. I have a static IP address (67.41.xxx.xxx) reserved through my internet provider and the Mac mini has a reserved IP 172.16.5.9. How can I setup Apple Airport Extreme through Airport Utility (software v 6.1) to route traffic from the external IP to the internal IP?

Thanks


texts: What the point of custom ANSI colors in Terminal Preferences?

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In the preferences of the Terminal App, you can set custom ANSI colors for blue, green, yellow, bright red, etc. but they don't actually change anything in the Shell. For example using ls -G still displays the default ANSI colors. I know that you can customize the text, cursor, and background colors but what effect does changing the ANSI colors do? I have tried changing the LSCOLORS in the bash_profile but that didn't work.

How can I make the ANSI colors in the shell match the set custom colors in the Terminal preferences.


texts: Deleted symlink to /etc and now missing sudoers

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I messed up bad, real bad.

I accidentally deleted the symbolic link to my /etc directory. Now I can't create another one because I keep getting an error:

$ sudo ln -s /private/etc /etc
sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: No such file or directory
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Output of ls -l /etc:

$ ls -l /etc
ls: /etc: No such file or directory

My /etc was symlinked to /private/etc (sudoers is in there).


texts: Seamless Time Machine Wi-Fi backups now that Time Capsule is discontinued?

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With Time Capsule discontinued, what's the best option for seamless network backups with Time Machine? Something that's out of mind, doesn't need babysitting and that can be trusted to work reliably when needed.

Some suggestions I've seen:

External storage attached to a Mac computer with macOS Server.
An AFP compatible NAS with the TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes option enabled.
Time Capsule is still the best solution, and we're stuck with that until it becomes painfully out of date and unmaintained.

The dedicated Mac solution seems clunky: aside from the cost of a dedicated computer, the Mac is yet another thing that needs to be maintained, updated, etc. The AFP NAS solution seems best, but I want to make it can be relied upon (relevant question). Does a NAS work as seamlessly as I'm used to with Time Capsule? (e.g. no need to mount/unmount, etc.)

What are the other options?

It would also be nice if this solution supported APFS, given High Sierra's direction.


texts: Cmd-N in Lion Finder shows "All My Files" not home?

texts: In Lion Cmd-N in Finder opens a new Window with "All My Files" showing as the default. Is it possible to set that back to the normal "home" directory of my user?


texts: How to set default Finder window size for *all* situations?

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There are tons of  posts about that (like How to set default finder window size?), but none are able to change the default size everywhere, including shared network folders from a Windows PC.

So when I open a network folder through Finder / Connect to Server with a smb:// address, the opened Finder size is always very small (around 770x440 px), regardless of the "remembered" size I did with the Cmd+Resize+Relaunch trick I see everywhere.

I am on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), but it never worked in past OS X versions either.


texts: Safari on my Mac won't open because "Safari cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer"

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I have an error message, which has already been reported but I can't understand how to fix it.

I have Yosemite and there's no updates available except for iPhoto, which also can't be updated. I'm also locked out of Safari and all of my Favorites. I don't know if they're backed up in iCloud, but I'm really worried about this. Can anyone help me by providing the dumbed-down version? Here is the message I get:

  Safari cannot be opened because of a problem.

  Check with the developer to make sure Safari works with this version
  of OS X. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install
  any available updates for the application and OS X.

  Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to
  Apple.

Restarting the computer does nothing, and I'm afraid to reinstall without knowing what will happen to my data.


texts: How to investigate Mail app's random popup bug on Mojave?

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My friend's computer (running the latest version Mojave) is experiencing that bug where mail.app suddenly — randomly? — and automatically takes focus while having his Google-account connected to it. I've seen others with this problem — and that it has been around for a while.

Is there a way to find out what is actually happening? A log file perhaps that shows what prompts the Mail app to take focus by itself? It only seems to happen with Google btw. So could it be something with certain Google accounts that forces Mail app to exhibit this behaviour? Any help or pointers in the right direction is much appreciated!

Suggested fixes to this that I've seen so far, have been elaborate workarounds that really doesn't deal with the problem itself, or even what the problem is.


texts: MacBook Pro running OS X lion stuck on boot screen

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My MacBook is stuck on the boot screen like this:

I have tried multiple things such as launching it in safe mode and pressing some buttons as soon as the computer boot logo shows up.


texts: I cant get past my password since my mac only spells caps and starts up in safe mode

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In the morning two days ago, I spilled some water on my Macbook pro. It was shut down, so I dried it with a towel but that evening it worked perfectly.

I didn't use it for a day and this morning I started it up and it was in safe boot mode. I got past it by holding Ctrl key, but I can't get past my password, because I have capitals that I can't disable.

I can't reset or remove it also because the commands won't work (for example,instead of "-" there's "_") and i can't reset it trought my apple ID.

Is it just that shift key is stuck?


texts: How to prevent a flickering graphics on macbook pro mid 2012 13 inches

texts: What do I do to my macbook pro 13 inch mid 2012 with a flickering graphic and turns off suddenly. It will show different colors in a partition like format.Please what do i do to stop it permanently.


texts: How can I add custom error bars to a graph in Numbers

texts: I am using numbers 2014 - above is a screenshot that should explain it.


texts: iPod in Lost Mode went online. I did not receive email notification

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I lost an iPod 5, with iOS 7.1.1. It had Find My Iphone enabled.
WiFi and GPS were off.
Within a couple of hours of losing it, I went to iCloud, and set Lost Mode for the iPod. I also set a custom message for it to display my phone contact number. And I also set Notify me when found.

Yesterday I received a contact in my phone about the iPod, thanks to the custom message.
I guess this means that the iPod went online.

But I did never receive any email notification.

Why is that?

PS: The question does not have an answer in the other tagged question. They are different.


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I once installed Adobe CS 5 as a Trial but now I pre-ordered the new suite. I've deleted the Adobe CS 5 suite, and installed the new suite. But whenever I try to open photoshop for example, the Software Setup pops up and tells me my trial of CS 5 has expired and I need to enter a serial.
I don't know if it will accept my CS 6 serial, but I first want to get rid of all (!) the CS 5 files.

I've tried the Adobe CS Cleaner tool, deleting the .cache and .pcd file in /Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD, but it's still asking for a serial... So I'm guessing there are still some files somewhere.

So, how do I delete ALL files of Adobe CS 5, so I can start over with a fresh copy of CS 6?


texts: how to track the pid of a process using mDNSResponder?

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I'm searching the right way to identify which pid/process ask to mDNSResponder to resolve dns query.

In other terms I want do identify which process do which dns query through mDNSResponder and in some way correlate it.

In another term again I want to know the pid of every dns query made through mDNSResponder.

Is there a system administrator approach to do it or I have only a programmer way and so I need to patch mDNSResponder ?


texts: T2 chip on 2018 Mac Mini causes booting Mac OS via Refind bug after unplugging power

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Recently received new shipment of T2 2018 Mac Minis at work. I had to install the refind boot picker on them. Install is straightforward and successful but for some reason once I unplug the power cable to the Mac Mini  I am unable to load into the Mac OS via Refind without a strange reset password prompt bug.

I am assuming this has to do with how the T2 Processor works on new macs. It almost seems to be like a sort of SMC-Reset that happens on the Mac once I unplug the power.

But I am still able to boot up to the Mac via the Start Up Manager when holding down the Alt-Option. Actually doing this will clear up the bug and allow me to boot into the Mac OS via refind. The bug only shows up whenever I unplug the power cable.

Others have documented this exact same issue here: https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/1475e30077/
User MacHead posted a very insightful breakdown of how he tested this bug.

I thought it would be worth sharing this issue at stackExchange. I added some of the screenshots that user MacHead shared on his original post, where he shows what it looks like once the Mac OS boots up via refind, after unplugging the power,:

Image 1> Mac finally boots up to Mac after 3 to 5 minutes and user is unable to log in.

Image 2> Previous image shows how Mac suggests user to power off and on the Mac and it will boot into recovery mode. This will then prompt the user to reset their password.

So To clarify this is my environment:

Using T2 Mac Mini 2018
Using Refind 11.4
OS is Mojave 10.14.5
Security Options in Recovery Mode set to No Security

This issue can easily be replicated. The steps are as follows assuming you are using similar environment

Turn on Mac, use refind boot picker to boot into Mac OS.
Mac OS Boots fine. Turn off Mac
Unplug Power Cable
Replug power cable, turn on Mac and try to use refind to boot into Mac OS
Mac OS takes long time to boot. Eventually does but entering Admin/user password does not work. Asks to boot into recovery mode. (Screenshot 1)
Go into Recovery Mode and It will prompt for a password reset of your admin user account. (Screenshot 2)

According to Apple there is an authentication process of the boot loader. I attached link and screenshots below: https://www.apple.com/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Overview.pdf

  The Boot ROM code contains
  the Apple Root CA public key, which is used to verify that the iBoot bootloader
  is signed by Apple’s private key before allowing it to load.

So basically what I get from that is..
1. Boot Rom authenticates Apple's iBoot Signature with a built in Apple Root CA public key. Apple's iBoot bootloader is signed by Apple's Private Key.
2. IBoot then authenticates kernel and kernel extension cache signature.

Whats the question then?

Question 1
So according to this boot process Apple authenticates its iBoot bootloader. Is it possible Refind causes a bug in this authentication process? Is it possible the Mac is still checking for the Apple Private key in Refind's Bootloader but it fails to provide it? It still lets Refind boot but then the Mac OS boot process sees this fail, Causing the Mac OS to prevent a user from logging in, claiming it will require a password reset?

Question 2
If question 1 is not the case, then is it when I unplug the power cable, I am inadvertently removing the T2 kernel cache signature from the boot up process, causing this bug to happen? How do we prevent this?


texts: Files Synced to iCloud from iPad not available on icloud.com

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iPad 9.7" 5th Gen. (2017 model) | iPadOS 13.6.1
I have a lot of PDFs stored in Books. I have set up syncing to iCloud (or at least I think I have), such that every time I add a book I see a brief notification which says that the file is being synced. Also, the space in my iCloud drive decreases correspondingly. However when I log into icloud.com and click on Drive, it's empty. This is the only content for which I have used iCloud, so there's nothing else there that takes up space. Could someone please tell me how to locate my files on iCloud?


texts: Create local backup of notes in Notes.app on macOS

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I'm using a company-issued MacBook where we cannot use iCloud to backup notes. But I would like to have a way to create backups of the notes, since they are not included in the company backup software. Is there a way to do this by hand?

I tried copying the folder:

$HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes

but when I copied that one to a new Mac, the notes didn't show up when running Notes.app.


texts: How should I update Xcode when I installed it from the app store but it hasn't updated to most recent version?

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I have OS X version 11.0.1 (Big Sur), and checked to see if my Xcode were up to date. I originally installed Xcode from the app store because I'd read that if you do it that way, it updates automatically. When I checked, the Xcode version was 11.3.1, and when I looked at this link in the Xcode 11.x - 12.x (since SwiftUI framework) table, it seems like the Xcode version should have automatically updated to 12.1.1.
What I Want To Know:
I read that if you download Xcode from the app store, it updates automatically, whereas if you download it from developer.apple.com/download, it doesn't. Given that it doesn't seem to have updated itself after downloading from the app store, should I download version 12.1.1 from developer.apple.com/download? If so, will it continue to not update itself, and I should plan to update it manually from now on? Or do you have any other advice on how I should handle this?


texts: Secondary display with VGA connection resolution issue with Macbook Pro under Snow Leopard

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I am on a MBP Early 2011, running Snow Leopard and am facing a strange issue. If I boot up my system and try to connect to my external display using the MDP->VGA adapter, System Settings won't show the correct resolution for the secondary display. I can see 1440x1050 and 1600x1200, and even if I hit Detect Displays, nothing will change.

What is my workaround? Connect using MDP->DVI adapter, which will identify the correct resolution of the display (1680x1050), and then fall back to the VGA Adapter to surprisingly see the native resolution of my display listed!!

Do you guys know what is going on here? Thank you in advance.


texts: How do I make an AppleScript use a Folder in the Contents of a Bundle for an alias on the Desktop?

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I'm trying to write an AppleScript to make a temporary alias on the desktop from a folder that resides in the Bundle's Contents:Resources folder and then execute a terminal command that has an argument from a file that also resides in the Bundle's Contents:Resources folder and then remove the temporary alias from the desktop upon finish or exit.

How do I fix the following code to accomplish this?

set myRes to (path to me as text) & "Contents:Resources:"

tell application "Finder"
     make new alias to folder myRes & "Pass-Through Drive" at desktop
end tell

tell application "Terminal"
     activate
     do script myRes & "BasilliskII --config basilisk_ii_prefs"
end tell

tell application "Finder"
     delete file "Pass-Through Drive" of desktop
end tell

This is the error I get:

error "Can’t make «class cfol» \"Resources\" of «class cfol» \"Contents\" of «class appf»
  \"Mac OS 8.1.app\" of «class cfol» \"Desktop\" of «class cfol» \"ryan\" of «class cfol»
  \"Users\" of «class sdsk» of application \"Finder\" into type list, record or text."
  number -1700 from «class cfol» "Resources" of «class cfol» "Contents" of «class appf»
  "Mac OS 8.1.app" of «class cfol» "Desktop" of «class cfol» "ryan" of «class cfol» "Users"
  of «class sdsk» to list, record or text

I think I've corrected it down to...

set myRes to (path to me as text) & "Contents:Resources:"

tell application "Finder"
     make new alias to folder (myRes & "Pass-Through Drive") at desktop
end tell

tell application "Terminal"
     activate
     do script myRes & "BasilliskII --config " & myRes & "basilisk_ii_prefs"
end tell

tell application "Finder"
    delete file "Pass-Through Drive" of desktop
end tell

but still having trouble with the middle lines and the proper syntax of what I'm trying to accomplish.


texts: Is it normal to have 500-900 MB of Other after restoring iPhone 4s?

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I just had an iPhone 4S (8G) upgraded to iOS 7.1.2, and now, the capacity of my iPhone is 6.0GB.

I restored my iPhone to factory settings via Restore iPhone in iTunes several times. I did not backup anything, and I always choose Set up as a new iPhone, and I did not connect any iTunes or iCloud account. But everytime there are several hundreds MBs of Others (between 500MB and 900MB, values differ everytime).

I also tried to reset all settings and data directly from my iPhone, but to no avail.

Is that normal to everyone or there's something wrong with my iPhone?


texts: Disable "...application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" on certain file types?

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Is it possible to modify which files Apple's quarantine warning pops up on?  Specifically I download hundreds of PHP files (web developer) and I'm tired of seeing "...is a script application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?"  I don't mind the warning on most downloads, but don't want warnings on scripts I'm opening to edit.

FYI, Quarantine can be completly disabled with:
    defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
and can be removed from existing files with:
    xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/foldername


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A couple of days ago my iMac (Late 2009) stopped turning on. It starts booting and the progress bar under the Apple logo goes to just under halfway before it turns off. Booting into recovery mode and trying to reinstall El Capitan doesn't work because it says the hard disk is locked. I tried running the chflags 0 and chmod to unlock it that are suggested around here from both single user mode and the recovery terminal but to no avail.

The files on the hard drive are all still there, so I tried to use cp to copy some stuff from there to USB disk, but it consistently crashes midway through the copy and goes to the "your computer has had a problem" screen. I've also tried zapping the PRAM.

Running first aid on Disk Utility from recovery mode says "file system verify or repair failed". I also tried booting in verbose mode and noticed it crashes after running fsck_hfs and fails, which I assume is what disk utility is doing behind the scenes.

Any advice on how to backup and then do a clean install or reinstall from recovery or just fix it would be very appreciated!


texts: I have a 20" early 2008 iMac, I upgraded the Hardrive and using an external USB connector installed a fresh OS (Lion 10.7.5) and it starts up and runs fine externally. However when i put it in the computer using the internal connections I only get a blinking folder icon. If I put the original HD it starts up and works fine so I'm thinking its not a physical problem in the case. Anybody have any ideas??


texts: Does native iOS app uninstaller really remove all the data and footprints from the device, or should a person use some app cleaners like on OS X. I am wondering if leftovers cause any decrease in speed over time.


texts: How do I hook a new Mac Book Pro Retina up to dual DisplayPort monitors?

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I have two DisplayPort monitors.  These are regular DisplayPort monitors, not mini-Display Port, not made by Apple and not made specifically for Mac.

I would like to buy a new Mac Book Pro Retina.  How can I hook it up to my dual DisplayPorts? What type of adapters do I need?

And, if I can't do that, how can I hook it up to a single DisplayPOrt?


texts: How to transfer screenshots from iPhone to OS X?

texts: I dont' want it done automatically, I just want to get a bunch of screenshots from the phone to the Mac (OS X El Capitan). I plug in the phone but only iTunes starts up and I can't find any photos in it.


texts: Which sticky notes app you would prefer for iPhone which can synchronized to Google tasks? I want a simple sticky notes on top and always.


texts:
I'm unable to use any of the apps included in the iWork package. If I try to open any one of them, the app opens but I can't perform any action. I click on the bar menu items to see that even 'About Numbers' or 'Open' items are greyed out.

I tried reinstalling the apps(even deleting them with AppCleaner so that every app item gets deleted) several times with no luck.

Any thoughts?


texts: Can't open DV video (dvsd) AVI file with QuickTime

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I am using macOS Catalina. I want to open an AVI file with QuickTime. However, I get an error message saying that the file is not compatible with QuickTime.

I am able to open the file with VLC. It says that the video codec is "DV video (dvsd)". Is there a codec I can install to open the file with QuickTime?


texts: Does the Mac Pro 2013 support 5 GHz Wi-Fi? Can't find this information on Apple product page.


texts: How to remove audio device from Preferences?

texts: I'm trying to remove an old device from the Sound Preferences pane. The app is trashed along with whatever preference files I could find. But it remains after reboot.


texts: "base msg struct error" on Wi-Fi connect

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When I connect to any Wi-Fi network in macOS I get this error:

There is no connection problem. My Mac connects successfully to the network. But I get this message every time.

I have MacBook Pro 2019 with macOS Catalina version 10.15.3.


texts: macOS AppleScript no longer working with image insert into Microsoft Word Document in Big Sur

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I have been running this script to insert an image into a Word document table cell. It had been working well until I upgraded macOS to Big Sur. When I run the script, I now get the following error:

error "Microsoft Word got an error: The object you are trying to access does not exist" number -1728 from text object of cell 1 of row 1 of table 1 of active document

This is the script:
set ScaledReportImages to "Macintosh HD:Users:raft:Library:Group Containers:UBF8T346G9.Office:Temp:picture.jpg"

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

tell application "Microsoft Word"
    set content of text object of (cell 1 of row 2 of table 1 of active document) to "Text Here"
end tell

One other thing is that I am running this on the new 13 inch MBP running the M1 processor. It appears that any script that tries to interface with Word fails. I would really appreciate anyone's insight into this as it is driving me crazy!


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According to the Mac man page for ps it says for the -u flag:

-u      Display the processes belonging to the specified usernames.

However, it seems to display different information rather than just being attached to usernames. E.g. here's the headers for ax:

PID   TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND

and here are the headers for aux:

USER              PID  %CPU %MEM      VSZ    RSS   TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND

Any idea why? Is the man page incorrect?


texts: Problem when booting OS X from an external USB drive

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I would like to create a Fusion Drive from my SSD and HDD both installed inside my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2012. I've read an article online which said that in order to do that, I'd need to boot Mavericks from an external USB drive. So I've picked a 64 GB USB stick and partitioned it in two, 8 GB for the installer and the rest for the operating system to install to. I've managed to create the USB installer of Mavericks using Unibeast, the installer boots without any problem, it installs normally but when I reboot I get a stop sign with a spinning wheel under it. How can I solve this problem?

The tutorial I'm trying to follow to create the Fusion drive is this one: Manually Create an Apple Fusion Drive on Mountain Lion/Mavericks/Yosemite

I need to create a Fusion drive from the 2 internal drives (240GB SSD and 1TB HDD). On the SSD I already have installed El Capitain and I used the HDD to store files. Now I've seen that you can merge this two in a single LogicalVolume and OS X will see it as if it were a Fusion Drive.


texts: To what degree should the oldness of my phone affect my tethering speed?

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I have an iPhone 4s on Verizon that I am using to tether with Bluetooth. TestMy.net indicated a throughput of about 200kbps, which it suggests is 2% of the typical throughput it sees from Verizon.

It occurs to me just now that it could be comparing this to FiOS speed instead of other tethered network clients, but my question is: would I expect to see radically different connection speeds if I was using an iPhone 5s instead of the 4s? Is Bluetooth less capable than wi-fi tethering?


texts: Can I make Calendar on OS X automatically show me more upcoming weeks when focusing on today?

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In Calendar on OS X (I’m using Mavericks), in month view I can hit CMD-T to focus on today’s date.

When I do this, Calendar shows me all weeks in the current month. Near the end of the month (like we are now), this means I see the current week, the next week, and four previous weeks.

It would be more useful if Calendar showed me the current week and the next five weeks instead — I’m not particularly interested in what I’ve done recently, but seeing what I’m doing over the next few weeks would be good.

Is there any way to change the date range Calendar shows in month view when I focus on today?


texts:
There are a lot but they don't have screen-sharing,
I want a one with screen-sharing, for windows and free. Thanks


texts: Need to recover information from a reformatted external drive

texts:
I just purchased my first Mac, a MacPro.

I have been using the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external drive, but with my new MacPro I cannot add any new folders. I checked the Sharing Permission and it states that "You can only read".  In order to change my permissions, I reformatted the drive.

I did not realize it would wipe my drive clean.  Can I recover the information in the drive.


texts: Can I use an unlocked AT&T iPhone 4 with european sim cards?

texts:
Moving to Austria in two weeks. AT&T is going to unlock my phone for me before I leave since my contract is in good standing with them.

Will I be able to use my iPhone 4 with European carrier sim cards once I get there?


texts: Very slow SMB read speeds from share to M1 MBP. Write speeds are normal. VNC speeds normal both directions. Workaround?

texts:
I own a handful of MacBook Pros, including a new 13" M1 running Big Sur 11.0.1 (16Gb, 2TB). Connecting M1 to 16" MBP over ethernet using SMB works, but I only get full speed (Cat 5e) when writing to the network. Reading from the 16" MBP is 1 MB/s to a max of ~5MB/s. Swapping the M1 MacBook Pro with a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro, and SMB speeds are back to normal in both directions.
Apple just told me that this is a known issue, but I noticed that if I drag and drop files between the machines using Screen Sharing, the transfer executes at full speed in both directions.
If there is no fix other than waiting for the next iteration of Big Sur, can I somehow use the VNC protocol to mount a shared drive as I would using SMB?
If not, is any other workaround possible?


texts: Keyboard shortcut for moving focus to a different screen

texts:
I am new to using Mac.

I have been using a multi-monitor setup. Specifically, I have two monitors. Each of the monitor have multiple spaces.

```````````````````````````
`    1     `              `
`          `       2.     `
````````````              `
           `              `
           ````````````````

Now (.) represent I have cursor in that screen. Now if I go ahead and use the keyboard shortcut Control + → / ←, I can move between the Spaces in screen 2. But if I want to move to another Space of screen 1, I have to:

Move my mouse cursor to screen 1

```````````````````````````
`    1.    `              `
`          `       2      `
````````````              `
           `              `
           ````````````````

Then use the keyboard shortcut Control + → / ← to move between Spaces.

Is there any way I can skip the operation of moving my cursor to the different screen by mouse and do it my keyboard?


texts: Preview Version 8.0 (859.21) How to extract images from PDF

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I have found that there was an option to extract images from PDFs via "Save to iPhoto" option of Preview.

Unfortunately, I don't see this option in Version 8.0 (859.21).

Is there still an option to export images from this Version of Preview? Any other ways native to Yosemite?

scrshot of Preview Print Options

thanks


texts:
I'm researching historical changes of UI widgets.

Do you know if there's an archive with all the iOS interface guidelines published by Apple over the years?


texts:
i don't understand and need some help: java doesn't work anymore for a few months and i don't know why.

I have installed the latest version from apple, actually the 1.6.0_45-b06-451 on my imac 21,5" of middle 2010 and after checking the security system option and enabled the firefox plugin, i tried in safari and Chrome. Also tried with 32 and 64 bits kernel...

Finally i checked the XProtect.meta.plist to see the version limit allowed.
When i check on java.com it seem disabled or not installed, but on other sites it worked fine, like here (or javatester.org for examples)

What can i do for use without issues like i did before ?
Thanks a lot for any help...


texts: How to use tmutil delete on Big Sur, APFS

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I'm using macOS 11 Big Sur and APFS. I sometimes want to remove old backups to save space. I don't want Time Machine taking up the entire external drive.
% tmutil listbackups
2020-10-18-001052.backup
2020-11-06-124150.backup
2020-11-15-173211.backup

% sudo tmutil delete 2020-10-18-001052.backup
Total deleted: Zero KB

I think I have to pass a "path" to tmutil delete. How do I get the path? Or how do I otherwise delete one of the backups listed by tmutil listbackups?


texts: Boot menu shows non-existent boot drives

texts:
I used to run a Boot Camp partition on my Macbook Air (Early 2015, Catalina). When I didn't need it anymore I deleted the partition using Disk Utility.

However, I noticed that when I boot up my Macbook while holding down option to show the boot drives, it shows my old Windows drive.

When I select it, it fails with the following screen:

I also did a full reinstall of Mac OS recently using Internet Recovery where I reformatted the entire drive. The Windows option still appears even after the reinstall, which means there are artifacts left over.

What's causing this behaviour? Where are these boot options stored and how would I go about deleting the Windows option?

Thanks!


texts: Can I develop iPhone apps under Windows using an image of OS X?

texts:
I want learn iOS development, but I don't have enough money to purchase a Mac.

Is there any way that I could learn iOS development on Windows, perhaps using an image of OS X?


texts: How to make selection from AppleScript dialog list with keystroke?

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I've created an application with AppleScript in Automator.

The application, right off the bat, presents the user with a dialog list.

By default, there are two ways to select an item from the list:

Using your mouse.
Using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

However, what I would like to do is offer the user a third option: to select the item based on a keystroke or keyboard shortcut. I would also like the selected item to be submitted directly after the keystroke or keyboard shortcut is pressed.

For example:

on run {input, parameters}

    set FruitList to {"Banana (#1)", "Kiwi (#2)", "Mango (#3)", "Coconut (#4)", "Pear (#5)"}

    set FavoriteFruitAnswer to choose from list FruitList with title "Fruit Dialog" with prompt "What's your favorite fruit?" default items "Banana (#1)"

    if FavoriteFruitAnswer is false then
        error number -128 (* user cancelled *)
    else
        set FavoriteFruitAnswer to FavoriteFruitAnswer's item 1 (* extract choice from list *)
    end if

    return input
end run

The preceding code produces the following:

What I want to occur is if the user presses the number "2" on their keyboard, therefore "Kiwi (#2)" is selected and then the "OK" button is automatically pressed. If the user presses the number "4" on their keyboard, therefore "Coconut (#4)" is selected and then the "OK" button is automatically pressed. And so on.

Is this possible?

What I know is possible is to create a dialog box with a text field where the user types in the number manually and then the user hits enter manually and the number is assigned to the corresponding fruit type.

But that's not a particularly pretty solution.


texts: Garbled screen graphics after wake up Macbook from full battery drain

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A couple times now when my Macbook Pro running Yosemite was left unplugged overnight (with the screen open) I have come back to it like this
(That's the drained battery symbol that indicates you need to plug in your Mac)
The graphics continue to be garbled like that when it starts up after some charging. The problem is resolved when the computer restarts.

My question is: should I be concerned by this? I have never seen this on other Apple devices. My device is still under warranty, so I could take it in, but if it's not really a problem / won't get worse than this, maybe not worth the effort.


texts: What is the maximum time for delivering app binary to app-store?

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I had put all of my app information into itunes connect and I got an email saying it is ready for upload. Please upload app binary.

But, at the last time our client asks to change the designs of the project. I'm afraid how long the apple itunes connect will wait for upload.

I like to know,

What is the maximum time allowed by apple for delivering app binary to app-store?

is there any warning or mails will be sent to me from apple-inc about this?


texts: iTunes 10.3 thinks it's a version below? No ping, locked out from iphone sync

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my iTunes thinks it's a version below for some reason

I have 10.3 installed (Finder says so, iTunes > About says so) but when I try go into ping it gives me the "See what you're missing, upgrade to 10.3" message - I hadn't worried about this too much before but I just updated my iPhone to the OS 5 beta and now iTunes is not letting me sync at all leaving me with a fairly useless and unsyncable iPhone and crippled iTunes.

I have tried re-installing iTunes (Yes I even deleted all the preference files) I have tried iTunes on another account on my macbook and it gives the same error.

Please help, I need to sync my iPhone!

Here is a screenshot of the Ping message: http://cl.ly/470n472Q2C442b2k0w3Z

Screenshot of the iphone sync message: http://cl.ly/0s3Z1q2g2Y0a29280V0W

Thanks


texts: How to suppress the Delete From All Devices confirmation in the Photos app?

texts:
I installed Yosemite 10.10.3, which comes with the new Photos app. Seems nice so far...

When deleting a photo on my MacBook, a warning message is shown:

I don't need to see this every time I delete a photo. I can't see any settings to suppress this message - are there any known workarounds?


texts: Can an app be restricted to access Internet

texts: I have an iOS app, I don't want this (only this) app to access Internet. Is there any option in the settings to do that?


texts: Overcast Podcast - how to automatically play next podcast in a playlist?

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The Overcast podcast app (from Marco Arment) used to play all podcasts in a playlist sequentially. Now, the player stops after each podcast. How can I go back to previous behavior?

Edit: This is on an iPhone6


texts: Is there a quick way to delete/update my Iphone contact list?

texts: On my new SE, I used a software app provided by Verizon to transfer contacts from old 5C to new SE. I did it but now have many duplicates, have to go into each one, age down and delete. Any quicker way?


texts: hardware issues / SMC reset: keyboard, trackpad, flickering screen

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Macbook Pro, 13" retina Early 2015, macOS Sierra 10.12.6

I had my laptop's screen replaced a couple of months ago, and I'm wondering if the bugs I'm seeing are symptoms of a faulty repair job? An SMC rest seems to work for a little while, so could it really be a hardware malfunction? And why would I have not seen any symptoms sooner?

Here's the detailed list of bugs I'm experiencing:

The haptic feedback on my trackpad comes and goes. It's working correctly most of the time though.
Occasionally the mouse cursor will continue to move itself after I stop pushing it, like it was lagging or something.
Today, for the first time, the cursor was completely unresponsive. Haptic feedback, however, was still happening.
After rebooting the OS failed to connect to either the keyboard or trackpad.
There was a slight flickering/shimmering in the lower right corner of the screen that took about 20 seconds to settle down.
I performed an SMC reset, and everything was back to normal for a couple of hours. But now the mouse cursor and/or haptic feedback is intermittently coming and going again.

Any suggestions? I'm quite frustrated at the moment, and worried that something worse is coming down the pike...


texts: uninstalling adware bundled with adobe reader etc

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My wife recently needed to install Adobe Reader for some of her work (apparently there is some kind of interactive functionality that Preview doesn't support) and in the process managed to install some adware as well.

I am trying to uninstall it, but cannot figure out how.  All the guides I have found talk about how to uninstall it from various PC OS versions, but don't mention Mac.

At the moment there is one extension which shows up under Firefox on her account only: "Shopping Helper Pro 0.95.29", as well as a plug-in "Coupons Inc., Coupon Printing Plugin 1.1.0" which (for some reason) shows up both on her account and mine as well.

The problem is, I have disabled both of them in Firefox, but I cannot figure out how to actually install them.  Supposedly an extension should have a "Remove" button" to uninstall it, but no such button appears.  Plug-ins are said to have their own uninstallers, but I can't find one anywhere.

I am also concerned about whether these unwanted programs have confined themselves to just Firefox, or could be lurking in other places.

How can I completely remove all traces of both of these, or in general any kind of mistakenly installed (b)adware?  It doesn't seem to be as simple as uninstalling an application where I can just drag a folder to the trash.  Is there somewhere I can look (under System Preferences maybe, or another system application) to find and remark this junk?

Update: I discovered that the firefox config entry "plugin.expose_full_path=true" will let me see the full path to add-ons in about:plugins.  In my case I found the offending plug-in in /Library/Internet Plug-ins and trashed it.  However, I have not yet located the extension.  It was not found in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[profile name]/extensions.


texts: On macOS, if there are multiple notifications showing, how to dismiss them all at once?

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Sometimes I don't touch a Macbook 12 inch because I mainly use the Macbook Pro, and after a day or two, there can be many (8 or 9) notifications at the right hand side. It seems that I have to click many times to dismiss them one by one.

How can they be dismissed all at once?


texts: What terminal command or program can list an SSD's Power On Hours?

texts:
I'm looking to script using the unix shell the retrieval of SSD (and HDD) data that disk utility shows in the information window.

I'm immediately interested in the Power On Hours and Power Cycle, but if all the data comes from one data structure or tool, so much the better. The usual tools diskutil info disk0 and ioreg -l are not producing the "of interest" values listed in the screen shot above.

Is this information available from any of the built in OS X terminal tools or do I need to locate an open-source package that makes the same API calls to get this level of detail about a Mac drive?


texts: Find My Stolen Mini Mac After Installing New Clean Mac OS X Installation

texts:
My Mac Mini was stolen from my office and I think it was stolen by my colleague. They are all software engineers and I think the thief will install a fresh version of macOS on the stolen Mac Mini.

My question is , can I see my Mac's location even after the thief installs a fresh clean macOS onto my stolen Mac ?

I know Find My Mac information is saved in NVRAM and the thief can erase it without booting the whole Mac by some shortcut keys.

Is the serial number of the machine paired with The Find My Mac function at Apple? If yes, can I find it even after a clean macOS installation?


texts:
In my Mac I execute the code:

import sys

print(sys.platform)

then get darwin, why it is not OSX. I don't know where to look for documentation on python sys module.

What's the darwin ?


texts: Swollen/pregnant battery on a MacBook (13" aluminium late-2008)

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The battery in my late-2008 model aluminium 13" MacBook became extremely swollen in early to mid-2012 after only 283 cycles (as per Cycle count under Hardware → Power), and the button on the multi-touch trackpad stopped working due to the expansion of the battery.  I have since had to remove the battery to get the button working again, but the battery itself hasn't leaked, just expanded very heavily to nearly 1.5× the height (perhaps ≈0.2 each on top and bottom).  After removing it, it's basically nearly impossible to put it back in and still close the cover.

I'm convinced that this is a fault in Apple's design, because it seemingly started after there were a couple of times that I had a browser open with too many windows, and it busy-looped during the night, getting quite hot and with the fan kicking in.  However, during such occasions, the MacBook itself sat on a rather clear desk in an air-conditioned room, so I find it unacceptable that plain-use self-overheating on the machine's part could possibly cause any such problems.  (I only ever ran OS X on the machine, and it was very far away from any other heat sources or direct sunlight.)

I'm disappointed that now I not only can't use the MacBook as a portable with any kind of battery life at all, but also that it is now subject to resets during power outages and cannot be transported (e.g. in sleep mode) without having to be shutdown first.

Shouldn't extremely swollen and expanded batteries that completely obstruct trackpad button usage be covered by a warranty?  This never happens with any other single  brand-name manufacturer of computer batteries!  What are my options?  Do I have to buy another battery at full price, only to have it become pregnant and start obstructing my button again right after the warranty is out?  I tried going to an Apple Store in NorCal, and they said they can't do anything about it, since it's out of warranty.  They said that even at 1.5× the width, it is still supposedly safe to use!

My perspective here is that the battery has not been consumed, but instead became damaged through no fault of my own.  It was either defective outright (either through design or manufacturing), or it has become damaged through hardware/firmware/software bugs related to charging and/or overheating.  I wouldn't have cared if it simply stopped holding the charge for more than a dozen of minutes or so; that's clearly something that is very well documented everywhere and is to be expected.


texts: How can I forward email as a readable attachment?

texts:
I'm writing a new email, and in that email I'm referring to a couple of other emails and I want to include them as attachments. When I drag and drop a mail to the mail I'm writing, some icon appears but when I double click on it, it shows plain text with headers, and not a nice formatted mail.

How can I attach it properly?

ATTENTION!! I know about "Mail -> Message -> Forward as Attachment" but it is not working properly: when I double-click on attached icon, it opens as text (with headers) and not as nice formatted mail. I also know about "Save as RTF" - but this is also not a proper solution as headers are lost.

For example, when I attach email in Thunderbird or Outlook, it attaches EML file - and when I open it, it is displayed properly (with formatting), and it is also has all headers (but not visible by default).

OS X 10.9, Mail 7.0 (1816)


texts: batch convert iWork 08 files to new version on Yosemite

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TL;DR

Short version: I have a bunch of files that were created with iWork 08. Is there a way, maybe using AppleScript or Automator, to convert them to the new format (Pages 5.5, Numbers 3.5) without going through them individually and manually opening them in iWork 09?

Detailed description

I just set up my mother's new MacBook with Yosemite and all the new versions of iWork. On her old MacBook she used iWork 08.

Now the new versions of iWork apps won't open her old Pages and Numbers documents telling me that they have to be opened and saved again in iWork 09.

So I installed a copy of iWork 09 I still have lying around, tried to convert a file and that worked. But I don't want to do that manually for all her files, so is there a way to convert all at once? I'm not a stranger to using bash, but I've never used AppleScript or Automator, so I can't figure out a solution myself.

To make things a bit worse, she keeps all her files in a single folder, so I have a folder full of different types of files and if it's possible, I'd like to have a script that takes just Numbers and Pages files (there are no Keynote files) from a certain folder and ignores everything else (mostly pdf,doc,xls,png and jpg)


texts:
In Terminal.app I have a text prompt like the following

rover-205-89:Documents username$

What is the "rover-205-89"? I thought it was my computer name but I looked under System Preferences > Sharing and that isn't it.


texts: Activate older iPhone without proper SIM?

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I recently upgraded to the iPhone 4s from my 3gs. I do not want to sell my 3gs as I would like to keep it as a 32gb iPod essentially.

When I transfered to the 4s, they swapped my regular SIM for my new micro sim. No problems here. However, once I updated my 3gs to ios5, it requests that I need a SIM for activation, one I no longer have.

I am not sure how to go about this?

Note: I really don't want to go through the process of jailbreaking/unlocking my 3gs. I am familiar with it and know how it is done but do not wish to do so on this phone.


texts: automate saving screenshot (already in clipboard) to a file in bash

texts:
I work on the command line quite a bit and often have to take a screenshot a region of the screen and save it to directory I am currently working in.

(let's assume I've already taken the screenshot and clipboard has it).

This is how I have to do it right now (after have the screenshot in clipboard):

launch Preview.
in Preview, ⌘ + N (File, New from Clipboard) creates a new file with the clipboard contents.
go back to command line and copy the directory name (copy the results of pwd)
go to Preview, ⌘ + S for Save.  Type / gets me a directory navigation prompt where I can paste my directory name from step 3.
Finally, give the actual file name, this_is_where_I_get_the_error.png in my example.

I'd like to do this instead:

$savemyscreenshot ./this_is_where_I_get_the_error.png

How would I go about writing that savemyscreenshot command?  In bash?  As an Automator script (which has to be callable from the Terminal, else that defeats the purpose somewhat)?

All things being equal, would slightly prefer a javascript flavor of the Automator script over AppleScript.

env:  MacOS Sierra


texts: How to set default directory for Emacs 27.1 app?

texts:
I just upgraded Emacs to 27.1 using brew cask. One noticeable change is that when I launch the app and c-x c-f the directory is / instead of ~/.
This really bothers me, is there a way to change it back?


texts: Why can't some Macs upgrade to Mountain Lion?

texts: This is an extension of this question. As noted by that question, Apple discontinued support for many of their older computers, notably the plastic MacBooks. What is the reasoning for leaving out this hardware? Is it due to hardware restrictions or is it just a push for owners of older hardware to upgrade?


texts: Configuring Siri to tell me the things I want to know in the morning

texts:
Is there a way for me to configure my MacBook or iPhone so that Siri will tell me my schedule for the day and other relevant information I want to know (like what the weather will be for the day) without having to ask multiple questions?

Ideally, I could just say "Siri, tell me the plan for the day" and she would respond with something like "You have a meeting from 2-3 and 4-4:15. It is going to be rainy today with highs in the upper 70s."


texts: How to un-hide a file that has been hidden on Mac OS 8?

texts: I have a copy of an old folder holding a file that has been hidden on Mac OS 8 or 9 (using resedit, if my memory isn't failing). Is there an easy way to un-hide it in OS X?


texts:
I just got a new SSHD, but when I tried to put it in my early 2011 13" MBP and format it from a bootable drive, Disk Utility kept giving me the error message:

could not mount disk0s2 with name (null) after erase

How can I fix this?


texts:
My friend got an iPhone from her uncle and started using it without wiping out all the data. Now she wants to delete all the existing contacts on the phone (over 500) but doesn't want to reset the entire phone. Is there any easy way to delete multiple contacts at once?

Right now she has to go into each one, press edit, and then press delete. The contacts are not synced to any service, they are only located on the phone itself.


texts: Transfer iTunes library and music to external hard drive

texts:
I have an iMac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, with iTunes 12.3. I want to transfer my music to an external hard drive, but here is the difference:

I don't want to transfer it to another computer. I want all my music on my iMac referenced on my iMac, but located in my external hard drive. That means, if I eject my drive, I can't hear the music because it's not on my iMac. I would still want the possibility to see my list of songs in the iTunes program.


texts:
I'm helping a friend update her iMac's OSX from 10.6.8 to the latest available for the hardware. That would be easy, if it weren't that the computer has only a 56k connection to the Internet, and so downloading updates would be unfeasible (and ridiculously costly). I don't have access to any other machine running OSX, only Windows and Linux. Also, I only have an unlimited internet connection at work, so physically bringing the computer there is not an option.

The computer is an iMac10,1, Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3,06 GHz, 4 GB RAM.

What are my options?


texts:
My current git config core.editor returns dreamweaver which I set up two years ago from inside the app(IIRC), and now I don't use it. I am receiving error while amending the author of the last commit.

~$ git commit --amend --author="me <my@mail>"
hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... fatal: cannot run
dreamweaver: No such file or directory
error: unable to start editor 'dreamweaver'

How do I set it to use Xcode? I tried

git config --global core.editor="xcode"
error: invalid key: core.editor=Xcode

And from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53550025/git-unable-to-start-xcode-from-terminal-on-mac-os-x, even though xed launches Xcode.

$ git config --global core.editor="xed"
error: invalid key: core.editor=xed

xed -w also launches Xcode so I tried the same instead of ="xed -w" but same error.


texts:
My MacBook Pro froze today. When the system is restarted, it goes directly to the OS X Utilities window. None of the alternatives seem to work. I don't have a Time Machine backup, so there is no use running that program. When trying to reinstall OS X I get stuck, because I don't get access to the HD, only the Recovery HD. I also get an error message when running the Disk Utility repair program. Unfortunately, there are important files I haven't backed up? I have two questions?

Is there any hope of restoring the computer with the files and programs intact?
If not, is there a way to access the files and make backups before erasing the disk?


texts: Is it possible to schedule my laptop to mute and unmute based on calendar events?

texts:
I would like my mac (OSX 10.9) to automatically mute during meetings.  I have a fully abstracted calendar, with several sub calendars.

Any apps?
Any Automator tricks?


texts: When I try to put the jack in, it jumps back up and only sits when I push it really hard. I've tried with my other headphone but it's the same. On top of that the buttons (on the headphone) doesn't work. How can I fix my iPad headphone port?


texts:
Everytime I lock my mac and log back in two minutes, It has disconnected the wi-fi network. Is there a setting to disable this?

Model: Mac Book Pro - 15-inch, Mid 2010
I lock it by clicking 'Login Window...' after clicking my username on top right corner of the menu bar.


texts: I've installed the Solarized theme for Terminal.app and imported it. But my Terminal is all gray, I don't get color highlighting on anything. Not even running Python terminal generates any color. How can I get the color highlighting working properly?


texts: How can I change which application is launched when I press the play button on my remote?

texts: My mac mini came with a remote control. When I press the play button, iTunes is launched. How can I change what happens when I press this button (e.g. launch a different program)?


texts: Change color in default options when printing on yosemite

texts:
We've got the following printer setup:

Driver:     Brother MFC-L9550CDW-AirPrint (color, 2-sided printing)
Connection: dnssd://PRINTER._ipp._tcp.local./?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-30055c4b125b
Defaults:   job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided

This information comes straight from CUPS. In there I tried to "Set Default Options" for that printer. What does work out but, I changed the "Color Mode" to "Grayscale". Unfortunately the default preset remains like it was (the Black & White checkbox doesn't get checked).

What am I doing wrong? How can I change the default printer preset or default printer settings to be Black & White?

So yea... this doesn't work.


texts: Connect a Time Capsule to the ADSL modem/router using powerline adaptors?

texts: I need to place my Time Capsule a fair distance from my ADSL router, and cannot easily run an Ethernet cable between the two.   Can I use a pair of Powerline ethernet adaptors to make the connection?  If so, any advice as to recommended make/model.


texts: Scilab installed but application does not start

texts:
I have installed Scilab a few weeks ago, and when I tried it for the first time it worked, but now when I try to run it, it seems it will open (it jumps) the application, but nothing happens actually.

What could be the problem and how can I solve it?


texts: How can I move my iPod music to an iPad?

texts:
How can I get the songs out of my iPod and move them to an iPad?

I thought I could just copy the music to my computer and then transfer it to the iPad, but didn't work (I couldn't see any music file on my iPod). Any other methods?


texts: Tranferring Photo Library from iPhone to iPhone

texts:
I am planning to buy a new iPhone and I was wondering how to transfer my entire Photo Library from the old iPhone to the new one, keeping the same folder organization and without losing photos' metadata (e.g., creation date, GPS location, etc.).

I don't want to do it via iCloud (as I don't have enough space available), so is there another (free) way to perform this action?


texts: How to set an application to be open in max window size?

texts:
I want to set that by default an application I open (specifically Preview) will be opened in maximum window size.
Note that I do not want it to be in full screen. I want the window to take the maximum size - leaving room for the top-bar and the dock.


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut for sleeping a display?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is it possible to put the display to sleep without putting the whole computer to sleep?

What is the keyboard command to sleep (or turn off) a display, but not actually put the computer to sleep?


texts: Find date of upgrade from Mojave to Catalina

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I always update my 2017 Macbook pro as soon as an OS update comes out. I guess I learned my lesson of not installing the .0 version of any Mac OS update. I finally gave up on fixing various issues with Catalina and got a new loaner from my employer with Mojave on it. Now trying to copy data over to Mojave.

Is it possible to find the date when I upgraded my Macbook pro from Mojave to Catalina? I need to find the time machine backup that was from Mojave so I can restore from that TM backup. Maybe, there is a file somewhere in the filesystem which contains the name of the release?


texts: How to stop 'iCloud Download' column from reappearing

texts: I don't want the iCloud Download column in iTunes; it really does nothing for me. Whenever I turn it off, it is there next time I open iTunes. This is so frustrating - is there any way to turn it off for good?


texts:
My goal is to run a Windows application on my Macbook Pro.  I installed Parallels 10 on top of Yosemite and loaded a Windows 7 Ultimate image from an ISO.  This appeared to be successful, but upon restarting the machine I find I cannot do anything in Parallels.

To be more specific about what I mean by "I cannot do anything":

When I click the Parallels icon the menu bar appears at the top of the screen with the following apparent menus: File; Edit; Window; Help.  None are clickable.
Clicking the Parallels icon gives me a menu.  I selected "Parallels Desktop Help".  I get no response.
From the Parallels icon menu, clicking "Show All Windows", I get a dark blue screen, with a single large central graphic labeled "Windows 7.pvm".  Clicking it or anywhere else on this screen takes me back to the Yosemite desktop.
There is a folder next to the Parallels icon, labeled "Windows 7 Applications".  Expanding it shows the Start Menu options I might expect to see in Windows, but there is no effect from clicking any of the applications or folders (other than expanding further unusable links).  The one exception is the "Open in Finder" command which lets me explore these same unusable options through the Finder interface.  The result of trying to open any of these applications is the same as clicking the Parallels Desktop icon: I get an unusable Parallels Desktop menu bar at the top of the screen.  There is nothing along the top-right of the screen that appears to be related to Parallels, Windows or any such options.

I haven't been able to find citation of this issue anywhere, but my intuition is that I'm just doing something simple in a way that is fundamentally wrong... but I don't know what that is.

How can I get my Macbook Pro with Yosemite OS and Parallels Desktop 10 to run a Windows only application?


texts: I've created a Master password  in my Mac laptop it says this password can override any account and be used instead of their original password but it doesn't work The admin account I don't have the password


texts:
I have a song in my iTunes (11) library that loops amazingly well, but is rather short in duration.  I'd like to double the length of the song by having it loop once before continuing, so that I can use the extended version in randomly-shuffled playlists.

I know I can extend a song's length by including the same song in a playlist twice in a row, burning the list to a CD, and then merging the songs when I import back (with a gap of 0).  However, this requires throwing away a lot of CDs if I encounter many such songs.

Is there an all-digital way to merge two songs together?


texts: Application opens twice when file specified

texts:
Typing open -a emacs opens one window.  Fine.
Typing open -a emacs foo.txt opens two windows, one as above, and one with foo.txt in it.

Why is that and what should I do to fix it?


texts: How to investigate high kernel task memory usage?

texts:
I was using my MacBook Pro (with 16GB of RAM) as usual and out of blue I've this popup that:

Your system has run out of application memory.
To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using.

I've obviously closed few which I could, but it didn't help.
After checking on memory, it seems kernel task ate 7GB and 22.36GB swap memory was used of total 23GB (which obviously was the case). However I've still 20GB of space free on my SDD.

Activity Monitor didn't help much whilst my OS X was heading to the destruction.

My top stats before my kernel freeze:
Processes: 344 total, 2 running, 5 stuck, 337 sleeping, 2580 threads                                                                                19:23:56
Load Avg: 1.56, 1.62, 2.09  CPU usage: 3.51% user, 8.47% sys, 88.1% idle   SharedLibs: 46M resident, 0B data, 6572K linkedit. MemRegions: 757970 total, 2139M resident, 56M private, 907M shared.
PhysMem: 9410M used (6198M wired), 556M unused. VM: 1155G vsize, 1311M framework vsize, 112872658(320) swapins, 122668389(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 299419263/363G in, 142126838/14G out.
Disks: 58970173/1079G read, 20012389/1120G written.

At the end my OS X frozen and I had to do hard reset, repair my SDD in recovery mode and fixing afterwards (recovering lost work, fixing application conflicts, checking my lost+found folder, Chrome/Terminal tabs gone, headache, etc.).
My question is, how do I check on high memory usage of kernel task or how to properly deal with that kind of situation? I've tried to take Sample with Activity Monitor, but it's greyed out.

My MacBook Pro details:
2.3GHz Intel Core i7 (late 2013) with 16GB RAM. OS X: 10.9.5


texts: Is there a way to automate logging in to multiple user accounts?

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I have a mac mini that I'm using as a home server.

I have two accounts on the computer which are both set to download full resolution photos and to download all iCloud (Desktop and Documents) contents.  i.e., Optimize Storage is turned off.

This same computer is backed up locally to a time machine volume, takes scheduled superduper! clones, and is uploaded to an offsite backup service.  Yes, I am paranoid about backups.

I keep both accounts logged in at all times so that both my and my wife's full photo libraries and Desktop and Documents folders will always be present to be backed up.

The problem I'm having is that if the computer restarts, both accounts are logged out and I have to manually log in to them.  This is a problem when I leave town for any length of time, because if the computer restarts for any reason (power outage, someone turns it off, etc) then the syncing that I want will no longer be happening.

Is there any way to do this?  I'd prefer it to be a local solution, because I don't want my local network accessible in any way.

I am happy to write a complicated script/program and/or spend money on this problem in service of an elegant solution.

Thanks!


texts: G5 quad core PPC with an SSD in it.  Should I continue looking for 'trim enabling' software?  It doesn't seem to exist.  Does the PPC architecture have a built in feature that manages SSD space?


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I have a PCIe serial card in a Mac Pro based on the 16950 that's been working fine up until Yosemite. It's been working with the built-in Apple16x50Serial.kext driver.

With Yosemite, it looks like the driver loads okay, but no serial port appears under /dev/, and no IOBSDSerialClient for the card appears in ioreg either.

Anyone else have the same problem please let me know, or if you have a solution even better. :-)

Thanks


texts: Transporting from home to work (~10 min by car), should I just make my MacBook Pro sleep, or shut it completely down first?

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I just got a new MacBook Pro, and is looking at how the power modes work, and according to this article: About Energy Saver sleep and idle modes in Mac OS X, making it sleep by closing the lid (say) will put it into a low-power mode.

However, the article also says that it uses power to keep RAM contents. What I'm wondering is if the sleep mode is just a mode meant for "sleep on my desk", or meant for transport.

So, tomorrow I will bring my computer to work, by car, I have a computer bag I'll use so it'll be protected, but I'm worried that if I just put it to sleep, it'll get hotter than just regular off, and I know that you're not supposed to stash a running computer into a confined space, like a computer bag, because the heat might induce wear'n'tear problems on various parts.

So, should I:

Just make it sleep by closing the lid?
or, should I turn it completely off before transport?

Also, if option 1 is OK for a 5-10 minute ride, but not OK for, say, a train-ride to our offices in the capital (2-3 hours by bus and train), I would like to know that as well.

I've had a Windows machine for quite some time and I always put the unit into hibernation before transporting it, in order to make it go completely off, but also start somewhat faster than a complete reboot. Is sleep similar to hibernation, or is there some other mode like hibernation I should use?


texts: Mac freezes when I try to open a particular Folder

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I am using Mac Book Pro with Mavericks. For last couple of weeks, I have been noticing that my whole machine going in to Freeze, when I try to open a particular folder.

Every time when I "force quit" (option+command+esc), I find the "Folder option" in a "Non response" mode.

Until I "Relaunch" the finder, It's not going back to normal.

What should I do? Is it happening for any virus or something?

Please share with me, if you have any idea.

Thanks in Advance.


texts: Does FileVault encryption slow read/write access on an SSD?

texts: Never fancied enabling FileVault on previous Macs but now I'm running OS X on an SSD. Is there a noticeable decrease in speed?


texts: Where did the update notifications for Java and Safari 6.0.4 go?

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Yesterday my Apple Store came up with the list of new updates available, including Java and Safari 6.0.4.

Since it was late I decided to wait till this morning to do the update. Now the same list does not show the Safari or Java update. So what happened?

I cannot find those updates on Appple websites.

Can someone help me finding these latest updates?


texts: I can save in .pdf just one or two pages at one time, using default Mac viewer. But I have several hundred of pages to save. Does anyone know how to do it faster?


texts: Basic 'print' & 'puts' Mac OS terminal commands not found

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I followed this article to install & update ruby with a package manager but I clearly messed up somewhere.

https://stackify.com/install-ruby-on-your-mac-everything-you-need-to-get-going/

If I try to 'puts' or 'print' anything I get -bash: print: command not found / -bash: puts: command not found returned.

'ls' & 'cd' commands still work for example, but echo $path returns nothing.

As you have probably guessed, I am completely new to code & stupidly copy pasted lines into the shell that I don't understand.

Is this a path issue?


texts: How many lithium cells are there in a MacBook Pro 15"?

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I'm interested in finding out how many lithium cells the battery of a MacBook Pro 15" (2015 year's model) contains.

The background to the question is that I'm interested in mailing a MacBook, within Europe, and realized that lithium batteries are classified as dangerous goods. From what I understand, the rules for packing and labelling  are governed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Furthermore, my understanding is that the number of lithium cells determine how you're supposed to pack and label the shipment.


texts: Lost OS while restoring from recovery partition

texts: I recently downloaded and installed Catalina on My iMac Late 2012 running High Sierra. Because of constant slow downs with spinning "beach balls" sometime minutes at a time, I tried to restore from time machine before the upgrade. I received an error that I could not replace the APFS with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Following instructions in an apple support post I went to disk utility in recovery mode, then the edit and remove APFS format. I then went to format as Mac OS extended journaled, renamed the volume to original name. When I started restoring from time machine I received a message my external hard drive with time machine had been improperly ejected and iMac shut down. NOW when I try push the power button I get a ? mark. Shut down again with Power button and on Command R until a spinning globe and the message "Starting Internet Recovery" but after a few seconds I reveive a message "Apple Support Error 003". Is this iMac no dead or is there a way to restore it.


texts: iTunes library sync between two computers

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I have two computers (iMac and a Macbook Air). Whenever I try to sync my iPhone to the Air it will remove all my data.

Is there any possibility to have a common sync mechanism in between my two computers (or especially iTunes libraries) so that I can sync my iPhone without any problem.


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How can I add a localised holiday calendar to iCal? I would like to add all public holidays to iCal/iCloud, how to best do this?

(Personally I'm after the Norwegian and Australian Holidays, but I'm after a general answer.)


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I want to join the cell values of a certain range to a list with some separator.
Example
Given this table
 | A |
1| 7 |
2| a |
3| 4 |
.| . |
.| . |
.| . |

If the delimiter I choose is || the resul should look like
7||a||4||...

This is an example using google calc. The result I'm looking for is in B1.


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When to do when you get this message while you were purchasing an album?

How are you supposed to contact support? Is there an email address for this? A specific phone number?

Please contact iTunes support to complete this transaction.


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How do I search for a hidden file in macOS?

I know the Command Shift . shows hidden file on Finder, but I am looking for a way to search for it.

For Example, I want to look for .npmrc file, and it does not find it in SpotLight nor in Finder Search