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I have this wireless router I use to connect my iPhone and iPad. This router has 4 settings:

802.11b/n Mixed
just 802.11g
802.11b/g/n
802.11g/n

Which one should I choose to have maximum speed on my iDevices?

thanks.


texts: iMac display -- can't change screen brightness on bootcamp with Windows 7

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I can't change iMac (2011) display brightness on bootcamp with Windows 7. When I press F1 it shows icon and even fill the bar, but nothing happen to display.

What have I tried:

Reinstalling support files
Installing fresh drivers from ATI site.
Changing screen brigtness in windows "Power Options".


texts: I'm looking to learn how to dictate @ to siri. If there is a general resource to look up how to find odd characters, so much the better, but in US English I'm not figuring this out by myself.


texts: I don't have permissions to open my files?

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There are several questions that seem similar, e.g., TextEdit shows dialogs about not having permission to open any files, but they're not exactly the same and none of the suggested fixes work.  Correction: when I posted, I forgot that one of the ideas in those posts I hadn't tried.  Because I was doing a long slow backup via rsync, I did not reboot.  This morning after that completed, a reboot has removed the problem.  But it would still be nice to understand why, and how to prevent—since it happened again today (see comments).

For more than a month, I've been using the "re-open windows on login" option to keep a few Textedit files easily accessible.  No problem noted with an occasional save or opening a new one.

But today, I cannot save any of them nor open any new ones in my home directory.  OS 10.12.1

There are no ACLs in the entire /Users tree.
There are no extended attributes on the file I am trying to open
There are no extended attributes on ~ nor on /Users
Windows I want to save have not yet been, so can't have extended
attributes
sudo chmod -R u+r,u+w /Users did not fix it
sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Autosave\ Information did not fix it
touch created the file, and vim can open, edit, and save it.
The school has a service which monitors the LAN for suspicious traffic.

There are some recent unusual events which don't seem capable of causing this, but just in case:

A post-graduate student's MacBook Air failed right before her
comprehensive exams.  She's blind, so learning Windows overnight was
not an option
I created a non-admin account for her on my MacBook Pro (MBP), help her set up VoiceOver, copied in her ~/Documents and a few other important items, and changed the UID (she was 502 on hers and 504 on mine)
Exams took three days (long difficult essay questions) during which she probably closed the lid to 'sleep' between tests rather than log out or shut down.
She logged out and handed me the MBP around ten hours ago.
I updated MalwareBytes and a scan found and removed OSX.Genieo (which AFAIK has to do with adware, not home permissions).  The previous version never found anything and I suspect wasn't even scanning (it took less than a half-second to say that it found nothing in over 500GB!)

Any ideas on a fix or a cause?


texts: Mac app for show all character features in notepad++

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I am working in 2 environments (Mac & Windows). Once I have problem with invisible characters in Windows and notepad++'s "show all characters" feature helped me a lot in displaying the invisible character (which turns out to be LF).

Is there any text editor or any application in Mac that has similar feature? I specifically liked this "show all characters" with whitespace, tab, and CR-LF characters. Other common text editor features I can find in either Atom, Sublime Text, or VS Code and I am pretty happy with them.


texts: Using OS X Lion on a main SL mac - use USB key instead of partition?

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I need some advice. I am new and non-techy so please could you help me on a simplified level.

I am running Snow Leopard on my Mac which I am happy with. I will upgrade to Mountain Lion later but I want to bypass Lion.

However I need access to Xcode 4.2 for a course I enrolled on. It's a long story but you can't get access to Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard unless you have a paid developers account for $99. The only other option is to download Lion for $29.99 instead and use Xcode 4.2 for Lion.

I was told I could keep Snow Leopard and use Lion on a partition. I have downloaded Lion and made a bootable USB drive.

I keep reading about booting from a USB drive. What does this mean in practise? Could I just run Xcode from the USB drive instead of having to make a partition on my Mac's HD? Would an 8 GB flash drive be enough to run Lion and Xcode? All I need to use in Lion is Xcode and maybe Safari.

Or should I just make a small partition for Lion? I feel uncomfortable making a partition for Lion as I read that Lion OS makes a second extra unrecoverable partition that uses up space.

Thanks
Soph


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I just enabled coloring for ls command but for some reason few directories are highlighted, which bugs me because I don't know why.

Could someone tell me how to disable it or why they are highlighted?

ls -l ~/:
drwx------   3 hungig  staff   102B Oct 20 14:06 Applications/
drwx------+ 12 hungig  staff   408B Apr  6 13:23 Desktop/
drwx------+  9 hungig  staff   306B Apr  6 23:24 Documents/
drwx------+ 14 hungig  staff   476B Apr  6 22:38 Downloads/
drwxr-xr-x   6 hungig  staff   204B Mar 27 16:59 IdeaProjects/
drwx------+ 67 hungig  staff   2.2K Jan  5 19:27 Library/
drwx------+  5 hungig  staff   170B Jan 28  2016 Movies/
drwx------+  4 hungig  staff   136B Jan 26  2016 Music/
drwx------+  5 hungig  staff   170B Feb  4 16:21 Pictures/
drwxr-xr-x+  5 hungig  staff   170B Jan 26  2016 Public/
drwxrwxrwx  16 hungig  staff   544B Mar  6 12:28 Qt/

Env variables of interest

export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$
export CLICOLOR=YES
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
alias ls='ls -GFh'


texts: 6000RPM all the time with no activity - restart helped

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I'm on Mountain Lion and for two days my fan RPM was 6000 and the temperature was 92C. I decided to restart and now it's 3300 RPM at 68C.

How come? Is this some kind of bug? I remember having problems with high RPM a month or so ago but it was also very hot outside... the problem somehow went away but now it reappeared... since it's also hot outside now I thought that's how it is - but no - there is something wrong and it looks like it's not the dust or hardware problem.. something in the OS is strange.. any ideas?

UPDATE: it's 5500 RPM again - I hate it! :( It was great during the entire day - around 3500 and now for no apparent reason it's 4500-5500... Again no activity on the CPU.. the temperature shows 65C so no idea why the RPM has to be that high.

UPDATE2: back to 3500 RPM all by itself - no restart... Are these fluctuations normal? That's just how it is? I know that being at 6000 RPM constantly was not normal, but what about these spikes to 5000 and back for no apparent reason?


texts: How do I show the local available space instead of iCloud available space for synced folders?

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I generally keep all of my work files in a Projects folder in iCloud. It's become an effective replacement for Dropbox, allowing me to access project files on all my devices.

But the Finder's status bar at the bottom reports the available space on iCloud instead of locally.

I understand why it does this, but my iCloud space is much larger than the local storage, and I'm much more concerned with local storage, which I see in my home folder.

Is there a way to set it up so that even when looking at the synced folder, or any folder within it, the status bar reports the local storage available?


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I have a new iPhone 7 plus, purchased last week on my personal Verizon account. I have dialed and received calls and messages from only 1 phone number. I do not have an Apple ID or email or anything else setup on this phone.

How would I receive a text message from an unknown number, which would indicate that this person could read my texts?


texts: Can I change the action that occurs when I close my laptop's lid?

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Is there any way to change what happens when I close the lid of my laptop?

Do macs have the option of hibernating vs. sleeping like PC's do?

If so, which of these is the default behavior when I close the lid?


texts: Trying to get things clear with iPod touch 3rd Gen 8GB MC model

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Well, I'm kind of new to this support communities as this is my first time to make a discussion here.

So, as most of all iDevice users knew that a late-2009 iPod touch 2nd gen 8GB MC model was referred by stores as the 3rd Gen 8GB.

After all these years, I've finally had time to solve the issue a few weeks ago. I bought the unit on April 2010 which was claimed by a guy from the authorised reseller at my location as the newest 3rd Gen iPod touch. At that time, I trusted this guy (salesman) and start to use the unit throughout the years and finally I got stuck on iOS 4.2.1.

Later on, I thought that probably Apple hadn't release the 4.3 version for the iPod touch 3rd Gen, so I waited dumbly until the release of iOS 5.1.1. Recently, I brought my unit back to the same store, trying to find out why did the store misleaded me.

Another guy from the store explained to me that before June 2010, they didn't know from Apple that iPod touch 8GB MC was different from its siblings with greater capacity. They only knew it officially from Apple in June 2010. He also stated that the official basis from Apple for the store to compare between iPod touch 3rd Gen 8GB and the 2nd Gen was the MC and MB numbers, not the A12XX and A13XX (in apple support webpage).

So I want to ask anybody who knows the real thing behind these statements.

Did Apple made the statement that the MC model would be different with the 32 & 64 GB models since the launching in late 2009 (I really mean at that time in September 2009 until the June 2010)?

If there was another time when they officially announced that the MC model would be different, please give me the date (this is an important fact to me).

Is the official comparison basis from Apple to distinguish between iPod touch generation  is true (The MC and MB numbers), or did that guy lied to me again ?

If there was another official way such as in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353, should all Apple authorized reseller use this page as their basis ?

When did this page released with the inclusion of the late 2009 iPod touch lineup ?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353#iPod_touch_late2009

I really need any truth that would help me to understand things. Thanks in advance (I really thank everyone for answering my questions truthfully :) )


texts: Doing a 'hard reset' of wifi state without restarting

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I live in a large building with a lot of routers, and a functioning router right next to my room, but the connection is extremely slow. When I brought the issue to IT, they told me my computer was attempting to connect to a router that was much further away, while ignoring the closer one. (All of these routers are part of the same WiFi network.)

I can fix the issue by restarting the computer, but it comes back if I bring it outside and back into the building. Toggling wifi on and off doesn't help. I'm running the latest version of OSX and I don't have anything special installed.

Is there some state my laptop is maintaining that is being cleared on a restart? If so, how can I clear it manually without having to restart?


texts: Is it possible to use MacBook Air as a display by connecting the peripheral via Thunderbolt 2 port ? I can get an adaptor if required. I would like to use my MacBook air as a display for Play Station 4.


texts: Mission Control Application Windows Not Updating

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I have Yosemite 10.11.3 running.

While using some Apple applications, when I hit the shortcut for Mission Control:Application Windows it shows the currently open windows and some recently closed ones at the bottom of the screen as thumbnails.

The problem I am having is the thumbnails for the recently closed documents is not updating and showing the most recent documents. I beleive it should reflect the "Recent Items" menu order.

Does anyone know how to reset this or clear these thumbnails and start over?

Note: I am not talking about resetting the Recent Items menu or the system preferences for recent items. These thumbnails only appear with certain Apple applications. It is the thumbnails I am talking about.

Here is a screen shot:


texts: Mac mini bluetooth or multitouch failures after hibernating

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I recently purchased a Mac mini and have begun having a problem with bluetooth. I've made a bunch of changes to the system all at once, so some of the information I'll provide is probably not relevant.

I am currently running 10.8.5 (12F45) off of a new second hard drive that I installed (a Crucial M500 SSD). I have an Apple Extended Keyboard with an iMate ADB/USB adapter and a Magic Trackpad as my input devices. I had used this Magic Trackpad and keyboard with a MacBook Pro (running Lion) for about two years without any problems.

The problem that I have encountered is that occasionally (not every time), when I wake the computer from hibernation (which it automatically enters after a brief period of sleep overnight), bluetooth is malfunctioning in a strange way. Bluetooth is indicated as on in System Preferences and in the menubar, but cannot be turned off. The trackpad is not indicated as connected. Here's the strange part: the trackpad still partially works. I just used it to wake the computer (not the power button). I can move the cursor around the screen and click on things if I press on the trackpad, but none of the gestures work – scrolling, swiping, zooming, etc. and I can't tap to click. When I go to the Trackpad preference pane, it thinks no trackpad is connected, and when I go to the Bluetooth preferences, the name of the bluetooth module shows as:

Here's what I've tried so far:

checked software update to make sure all updates are installed
unpaired trackpad from MacBook Pro
unpaired and repaired trackpad to Mac mini
reset NVRAM and SMC
killing blued process

None of these has had a lasting effect; killing blued never worked.

One of the things I've noticed is that when I wake the computer and this condition occurs, I see the following two messages in the Console:

kernel[0]: [AppleMultitouchDevice::willTerminate] entered
kernel[0]: [AppleMultitouchDevice::stop] entered

Whereas normally when I wake the computer, I get these two messages:

kernel[0]: [AppleMultitouchHIDEventDriver::start] entered
kernel[0]: [AppleMultitouchDevice::start] entered

I'm kind of at my diagnostic wits-end. I'm willing to try a fresh install of Mountain Lion, but I'd kind of like to know why this problem is happening so that I'm confident a reinstall will be a permanent fix. Thanks in advance for the suggestions.


texts: Yosemite: ssh slow to connect when using DNS alias

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Since updating to Yosemite, ssh from my Mac to a DNS alias takes about 7-8 seconds.

I've observed the following on multiple Macs running Yosemite. Assume I have a host name alpha, and a DNS alias to it named aa. The OS of the target doesn't matter.

1) ssh to an unqualified host name alias (CNAME record in DNS), e.g. ssh aa, takes about 7-8 seconds to connect
2) immediately repeating the same ssh command, ssh aa, connects in the "normal" amount of time (< 1s)
3) ssh to a fully qualified host name alias, e.g. ssh aa.example.com, connects in the normal amount of time
4) ssh to a regular host name (A record in DNS), e.g. ssh alpha.example.com, whether qualified or unqualified, connects in the normal amount of time.

When using ssh -vvv, the total delay is in one place:

$ ssh -vv aa
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
    *delay of 7-8 seconds*
debug1: Connecting to aa [10.10.1.2] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
...

There is no difference in output between any of the 4 scenarios, except for the host name displayed.

This has happened on every release of Yosemite to the current version 10.10.3.

I have searched the web many times, and not found a single reference to this problem. Ideas?


texts: How to force iphone to free space when storage is full?

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My phone (ios 13.5.1) was running out of storage, so I freed up a few Gbs of space by removing whatsapp album, photos (also clearing the recently deleted album) and a few app. On the next day the phone became unresponsive because the memory is full (no images were taken/ files downloaded or anything else resulting in data storage filling up). Stopped connecting to mobile network. It shows 285,9MB available. My data hasn't been backed up to icloud because of unknown error.
I'd like to keep my data, I don't want to do a hard reset.
Is there a way to force iphone to clear caches, system junk or manually remove some files?
Also is there a way to create a backup at this point?
What I've tried so far:

Remove unused apps (about 15 GBs): no result
Remove photos/clear Recently deleted folder: won't delete
Remove email accounts: no result
Remove messages: no result
Connect to iTunes on computer: error on connection
Troubleshoot connection error for iTunes: didn't work
Deleting documents manually: error "The file couldn't be saved"
Turning on airplane mode (no idea how it could help, but I tried): no result
Turning off icloud backup: didn't work
Clearing Safari cache: no result
Unloading apps: no result
Updating os: didn't work
Searching in apple support forum
Searching in Ask Different
Searching in Google

There might be something else that I've tried.
Note:
I don't want to do hard reset, because there's no backup in icloud.
I don't want to restart, because most likely it won't start and
I'm going to have to do hard reset anyway. This is from my previous
experience and the people I know.
Edit:
Storage

I don't remember if this is the same message when I fist saw the phone doesn't respond. But this is what I can reproduce now.


texts: Temporary dyld_shared_cache taking a lot of space

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I am developing an application with Flutter and using an iOs simulator (iPhone 8 13.4).
I noticed that while I am running my application (I am using VSCode), a lot of space is taken by some files.
After some research, I found out that it is dyld_shared_cache_arm64e cache is taking a dump every minute which takes 1.73GB consistently. Location -  /private/var/folders/rc/9jqgfj8148z8cfyz_9qht07m0000gn/T/TemporaryItems

I have 500GB of free space in my Mac, so after 3 hours my Mac is filled up. I haven't found any solution on the internet to stop caching apart from restarting my computer. I don't want to restart my mac every 3 hours. Any solution here?

macOS Catalina 10.15.4 (19E266)
Xcode Version 11.4 (11E146)


texts: Safari on OSX closes all tabs (crash?) after playing a YouTube video

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MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Sometimes Safari (14.0.1) closes all open tabs after playing a YouTube video (most often in full-screen mode).
My typical scenario:

I have several opened tabs
I watch a youtube video in fullscreen mode in a tab
I close the tab using Cmd-W
I find Safari in the dock without any opened tabs

Is it a well-known bug or my local issue? Any ideas on how to fix/workaround it?


texts: Installing the most recent version of Ruby on Snow Leopard

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I downloaded and compiled the latest version of ruby 1.9.2 which was installed in /usr/local/bin/ruby, however the system officially recognizes /usr/bin/ruby which is only 1.8.7 which came installed on the machine. How can I get the new ruby into place?

In this instance I need to replace the ruby version and be able to use the updated version for command line work and rails development.


texts: Where are open Finder windows saved between reboots

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I have had several windows open in the Finder, serving as bookmarks for things I was working on, but recently they have all reverted to my home directory.

I would like to know where these open Finder windows are saved, so that I can look in a copy of that file from a backup, and either restore the file(s) or just retrieve the names from the file(s).


texts: I can't go back to macOS after successfully installing Win 10 from Boot Camp Assistant

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I have a iMac running macOS High Sierra.  I ran Boot Camp Assistant on it and was able to switch to Win 10, successfully, without any problem.  I downloaded the ISO file for Win 10, and used the USB drive as requested.

However, when I try to switch back to macOS, with the "alt" key held down while restarting Win 10, I never see the screen which shows the different operating systems to choose from. Instead, every restart takes me right back to Windows OS, like it's just a regular Window restart action.


texts: How can I view message timestamps in iOS 11?

texts: I have the newest version of iOS 11 on an iPhone SE. I am having no luck figuring our what time text messages were sent or received. Is there any way to do this?


texts: How am I supposed to register my company on the Apple Store? Am I?

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I need to buy an iMac for my company. Both me and my company are located in Italy.

I've noticed that on my personal account it doesn't let me enter my full company details (in particular the VAT number), so I guess I have to register a company account.

I've noticed there is supposedly a "business site", but when I try to register a new account it brings me back to the normal site where I enter personal data, without company name, VAT n. etc.

So, what am I supposed to do to buy something for my company, receiving a proper invoice?


texts: What iOS version can be downgraded to iOS 10?

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I would like to downgrade my iPad running iOS 11.4.
I don’t care the data preservation.

Is it possible to downgrade?


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I'm primarily a Windows admin, but I just got a new MacBook Air with Lion on it. I'm trying to use it with my Brother MFC-7820N printer/scanner/fax device.

I've installed drivers, and am able to both print and scan, BUT not via TWAIN (applications such as Image Capture and Preview do not show the scanner as a valid source for importing documents).

I've downloaded the TWAIN driver. It says it installs, but doesn't prompt me to do anything (like enter the IP address of my scanner) after installing. Arrgh.

Being so new to Lion, and somewhat new to Mac OS (relative to my 15 years as a Windows admin), I'd love some advice on how TWAIN works on Mac OS. I'd also love to know some of the popular newsgroups or places to submit this question.


texts: iPhone 11 Pro Max lagging/freezing when using any app

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I have iPhone 11 Pro Max since 2019, and it worked perfectly fine until last week ( mainly few days after updating to the latest iOS) where all the apps keeps on freezing/lagging. If I text on WhatsApp for example, the screen becomes unresponsive for few seconds and everything freezes out and can't type or see any motion in the screen ( even if someone sends me a message I don't receive anything and can't even quit the app).
Also on other apps like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Safari, and all the apps. Not sure what's going on but this issue is happening to me since last week and it happens very often, every few minutes which is very annoying.
So anyone knows what could be the problem?


texts: 2018 15" MacBook Pro WiFi throughput issues

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I have a 2018, 15" MacBook Pro, running macOS 10.15.7 (the rest of the specs are irrelevant). I have a D-Link DIR-882 WiFi router (which is AC2600 according to the manufacturer; allegedly it can achieve 1733 Mbps over a 5 GHz link).
Test setup: MacBook Pro connected over 5 GHz at a PHY speed of 1,300 Mbps (both checked by Option-clicking the WiFi icon). There is minimal interference on the 5 GHz channel in use: only a single other access point in the same channel, at about -90 dBm. The MacBook Pro is placed about 3 feet away from the router, but tests were also repeated at distances less than 1 feet and about 5 feet, with the same results.
My ISP is 600 Mbps/300 Mbps. I tested this with Ookla Speedtest, and I do achieve the advertised speeds, so long as I do this using Gigabit (wired) Ethernet (using an USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet dongle). Over WiFi, the best downstream speed I can achieve is 500 Mbps; this is with both Chrome and Safari.
I also used an app to test network throughput inside my LAN. The server is running on a PC directly connected to the same router via Gigabit Ethernet. When the MacBook Pro is also connected via Gigabit Ethernet, I can achieve ~940 Mbps throughput. Switching back to WiFi, I achieve up to 730 Mbps.
First, are these speeds reasonable? While I'm aware there's overhead, I'd like to think something closer to 1 Gbps would be achievable over WiFi. I guess 730 Mbps is OK given it's less than my ISP's speed, but 500 Mbps when using Ookla Speedtest means I'm not getting my money's worth from my ISP.
Second, is there anything I can do to improve these figures?


texts: Dual monitors causing wireless drop outs on MacBook Pro running Lion

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I have a 13" 2011-model MacBook Pro running Lion that I connect to a Dell monitor.

The connection is made as follows: mini DisplayPort -> mini DisplayPort to DVI-D adapter -> DVI-D into monitor.

Everything works quite well graphically when I connect the laptop to the monitor, but it pretty much instantly causes the wifi to slow to a trickle.

This wifi trickling happens every time I connect to the external monitor. As soon as I unplug the connection to the external monitor, my wireless is restored to full power and I can connect to websites like this one.

Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this very annoying problem?

Here's what happens when I switch from single monitor to dual while pinging 8.8.4.4:

64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 time=30.070 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=15 ttl=56 time=30.886 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 time=31.343 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=56 time=31.772 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=30.662 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=56 time=162.196 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 20
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=20 ttl=56 time=1071.753 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=417.013 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=22 ttl=56 time=478.626 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 24
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=25 ttl=56 time=367.057 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=26 ttl=56 time=443.585 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 27
Request timeout for icmp_seq 28
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=29 ttl=56 time=365.072 ms

As you can see, soon as I switch to dual monitors, the return time drastically increases, sometimes timing out completely.

Any ideas?


texts: Hotkeys for switching directly to open app?

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Instead of using cmd+tab to switch between open apps, is there a way to create hotkeys for selecting the running instance of emacs/firefox/whatever? (Preferably opening them if they aren't running.)

I do not mind using Karabiner. Answers using built-in OS X functions preferred to third party software which again are preferred to those using software that costs anything.


texts:
A newly bought Mac mini was working perfectly for 4 days with a single user. Now when I tried to login, the screen turns blank (the Apple icon appears when first started, with that background color) for a moment and jump back to the login screen again.
When I try the wrong password entry, then I get the known shake-effect as expected.

What is the reason I cannot login and how can i solve this?


texts:
Sometimes my Mac Mini, plugged to an LG IPS screen, display some Glitches. For example, times ago, in my Launchpad appears these glitches:

To solve these glitches I had to restart the Mac.
Now in my Safari's Top Sites there's this:

(all these glitches were immortalised with screenshots).

However sometimes, when I wake my Mac from sleep, all the screen appear with a green tint, in that case, taking a screenshot, it appear without issues and, to solve the issue, is enough just put the Mac in sleep than wake it up again.

I can't understand the cause, Apple's Genius says that, for him, is the HDMI cable, my scare is that the trouble is the GPU because my AppleCare will expire soon... For you where is the problem? Are there some test to do?


texts: macOS closes all my applications when I lock my screen

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When I lock my screen with ControlCommandQ and return after more than 10 minutes, macOS has closed all my open apps and tries to restore them, which often leaves my applications in half restored states.

This did not happen before. Also a few times I have been logged out randomly, causing the same issue.

I'm using macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.

Security and Privacy settings:

Advanced, Log out after x minutes is not checked.

Any guesses for why this happens?


texts: OSX Mail Server Forward to External Address

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I have an OSX mail server set up on Mavericks (10.9.2 I believe). I'm trying to set up a few addresses that should do nothing but forward to external gmail addresses. For example, let's say I want user@example.com to forward to myname@gmail.com. If I just try to specify myname@gmail.com as the forwarding address in server.app, it doesn't work.

Oddly, internal forwarding works. For example, say I have example.com and example2.com set up on my mail server. I can successfully forward from example.com to example2.com, but not to any external domain. Any suggestions?


texts: Multi-boot boot loaders missing after MacOS update

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My MacBook Air (2017) currently has 3 OSes: MacOS, Windows, and Ubuntu (making it work was a nightmare). Yesterday when I opened up rEFInd, only MacOS and the Ubuntu stub loader (which, fortunately, still works) was there. All my partitions were still there, but...

...only the MacOS boot loader showed up in the EFI partition.

I suspect that this happened after the recent MacOS update that I did. Now I only have the option to boot into MacOS or Ubuntu.

Output of $ diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         236.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS U                       1000.0 MB  disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot                         134.2 MB   disk0s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Unused                  5.0 GB     disk0s5
   6:                  Apple_HFS rEFInd                  200.0 MB   disk0s6
   7:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s7
   8:           Linux Filesystem                         49.9 GB    disk0s8
   9:       Microsoft Basic Data WinData                 75.1 GB    disk0s9
  10:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                125.1 GB   disk0s10

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +236.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            206.9 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 24.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

Output of $ sudo gpt -r show disk0:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640       2008
     411648  460937496      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  461349144    1953120      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  463302264     262144      4  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  463564408    9827280      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  473391688     262144
  473653832     390624      6  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  474044456       2008
  474046464      32768      7  GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
  474079232   14611656
  488690888   97394104      8  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  586084992  146765184      9  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  732850176  244252672     10  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  977102848       2179
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header

And for those who are confused by my setup, I used the "alternative solution" in this question.


texts: Transfer app without developer enrollment

texts:
I have two apple ID's. I created a new one for my new company and bought enrollment for it. The old account has three apps that are no longer available on the store, since the enrollment ran out of time on the first account.

I have bought memebership for the new account.
It seems like I can't transfer any applications from the old account to the new account before the old account has enrolled again. The option 'Transfer this app' simply does not show up anymore. The apps are stuck at the status 'Pending Contract'.

What can I do to transfer the apps from the old account from the new one?
Will I have to pay for a membership for the old account too?


texts: Select to beginning/end of line in macVIM with cua-mode enabled

texts: I am using the cua-mode from https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/cua-mode.vim/blob/master/plugin/cua-mode.vim .  It works well for multi-line selections but does not have shift-command-[left|right]-arrow select on same line either to beginning or to end of line.   Is there any additional set of vim commands that could be added to provide that feature?


texts: weird problem : whenever I copy songs from my computer to my iphone it misses the first 30 seconds?

texts:
Anyone experience this problem? It all of a sudden started happening for me.

When I download podcasts from my iphone, it seems to be fine, but when I download from my computer whether its songs or podcasts, it'll copy the song, but it'll be missing the first 30 seconds and last 10 or so seconds - sometimes it'll skip to different places during the song. Is there anything I can do about this?

I have a iphone 3gs version 4.2.1, jailbroken with greenpoison.


texts:
I'm new Mac user, on Yosemite.

Some apps, like Chrome Sublime Text,  when I double click on the title bar doesn't fit my screen, check the image
Also for some others apps, Like Xcode or Safari it works fine - double click on the title makes my app fit full screen.

How to fix?


texts: How do I automatically store photos from emails or texts directly to the Camera roll?

texts: My son tried to explain the process to me, but I'm not able to figure it out.


texts: Apple said that they make iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote free with iOS 7. I looked in the app store with my device (iPhone 4S) but the apps are not free. So it seems that is only valid for the new devices?


texts: Cannot differentiate between LEFT ⌘ (0x37) and RIGHT ⌘ (0x36) keys

texts:
I would like to swap the right-⌘ key with the right-⌥ key.

KeyRemap4MacBook's EventViewer shows that Alt Gr key acts as the left-⌘ (Command_L in EventViewer), whereas I'd like to be the right-⌘ (Command_R).

This is what it look like in EventViewer: first 2 lines are from left-⌘, next 2 lines are from right-⌘ (with the same 0x37 code):

How can I get the right-⌘ key to register as Command_R (0x36) instead of Command_L (0x37)?

About the keyboard

It's the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with its drivers installed and setup like this:

I'll try my luck with uninstalling the drivers (which don't cause kernel panics anymore, as described here).


texts: Shortcut keys to delete all text to end of line (or all text after cursor)?

texts:
Edit: This question was marked as duplicate and closed, but I checked the suggested duplicates before asking mine and found they had different particulars, even if they were about the same topic.  If, however, I missed the exact duplicate, then I stand corrected.
When deleting all text before the cursor, you could use the keyboard shortcut CMD + Delete, but what's the opposite equivalent when you want to delete all text after the cusor (or to the end of a line)?


texts: iOS 9.1 - Can't clear "documents & data" and "other" with restore - can it be done?

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I am trying to clear the 3+ GB of space occupied by other and documents and data on my iPhone 5S, running the new iOS 9.1 (13B5110e)

Usually I would do this by restoring the phone through iTunes and then restoring from a backup...but when I try that I get this message:

"Problem downloading software. Requested source was not found."

How can I clear these out in the version of iOS?


texts:
After upgrading OSX to yosemite, my local apache2 server is no longer working.  Running

sudo apachectl restart

does not give any error, however nothing is running on localhost:80, and nothing is written to the log files in /var/log/apache2/ either. The log files have not been touched after the upgrade of OSX. However, system.log shows:

Oct 29 13:27:45 Jeroens-MBP sudo[1210]:   jeroen : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/private/var/log/apache2 ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/apachectl start
Oct 29 13:27:45 Jeroens-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Please switch away from OnDemand to KeepAlive.
Oct 29 13:27:45 Jeroens-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[1213]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

In addition, my /usr/include dir seems completely empty after the upgrade, not sure if that is related.


texts: How to go level up in file select window

texts:
An application has the button to select folder. When I click it it opens a file/directory selection dialog.

Is it possible to know the current path of directory I see in this dialog
Is it possible to go one level up?


texts: Help find what causes MBP reboot in 10.10.2

texts:
I have a Mac Book Pro from 2011. I've been updating it to all OSX versions since I bought it and recently I updated to Yosemite. At the time I also changed memory + HDD. I cloned my old drive to the new and swapped them.

Everything worked fine for 2 months but in the last 2 weeks I've had it crashing on me twice. It has never happened before.

Do you have any tips for how I can find what's causing the problem? I've been trying to look in the system.log file but I'm not sure what to look for. There is a lot of output there that doesn't feel quite right though...

Or should I just make my first re-install since I bought instead?

Thanks in advance for all help that can  point me in the right direction.

The system diagnostics report that I think is from the last crash can be seen here: http://olalindberg.com/static/2015/2015-02-19-mbp-sys-diag.txt

This error might be related as well. I see this a lot in the log and iTunes were running  at both crashes.

20/02/15 08:05:17,698 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibrary Service.491) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iTunesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.MediaLibraryService.xpc

No Idea what it means and Google didn't turn up much?

Update:

This error might be related as well. I see this a lot in the log and iTunes were running  at both crashes.

20/02/15 08:05:17,698 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibrary Service.491) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iTunesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.MediaLibraryService.xpc

No Idea what it means and Google didn't turn up much?

Update 2015-04-27: I've not had one crash and I have done a memory test to ensure that my memory wasn't the problem. I've also updated all my applications and my NTFS disk driver. Not sure if that helped at all though :)


texts: Apple ID for enterprise use - Mac's and iOS devices

texts:
We found ourselves in a situation where a company supplied iPhone got linked to an employee's personal Apple ID account, and the phone is now useless to us, as the employee was terminated.

Is there a way using Apple's 'Profile Manager' to lock the Apple ID that are tied to Mac OS or iOS devices to their company email address?  We don't want people to be able to change that address.

Thanks!


texts:
I'm running ios 11.1.1

I have multiple calendars linked to my phone (personal, work, wife, tv-shows,etc).

In the Calendar app, I was able to turn off my calendar which display air times of my favorite tv shows.  However, in the Calendar widget (when you swipe right from the home screen), it still shows the tv calendar.

These events are showing in both the "Up Next" calendar widget, as well as the normal calendar widget.  How can I select which calendars I want to see in the widget?  Turning them off in the Calendar app is not working, and I do not want to completely remove the calendar from my phone.


texts: How to upgrade SSD from HDD for my mac book pro

texts:
My mac book pro(13 inch mid 2012) has become very slow and I approached apple service centre they found out my HDD has become faulty and that's the reason , my laptop is very slow.

Unfortunately HDD is expensive than SSD and SSD is much faster.But apple won't do HDD to SSD replacement while they're ready to do HDD to HDD replacement.

I bought a brand new SSD for my macbook pro and I bought a screw driver set.

Can anyone suggest me things I should be aware of while doing the following things ?

While unpacking my laptop ( I read some static electricity will be there and can cause short circuit or do I have to drain my battery before unpacking or just switched off mac book pro is fine )
While replacing HDD with SSD( Do I have to buy any SATA cable or SATA to IDE converter or something )
While installing the new OS on the new SSD.( Not sure how to do this though).

Any help is appreciated

FYI:
I have backed up all my data in external Hard drive and I don't want to keep the HDD anymore. Just want to put in the new SSD in place of HDD and have the OS in it and use the mac. that's all.


texts: Copy video files as is from iPhone 5 to Mac

texts: Is there a simple way of copying video files (taken with the camera, so they are .mov) from iPhone 5 right to desktop using the USB cable? I thought of adding them to Goodreader, but Goodreader compresses the files before adding them. Dropbox would maybe kind of work but I guess it uploads to the internet dropbox first which is an unnecessary and slow roundtrip, especially since WIFI on iPhone 5 is (still) broken.


texts: What's the best way to back up an external hard drive onto a Macbook?

texts:
A friend of mine has a Macbook Pro, and an older 80GB external hard drive.

She is copying files from the external hard drive (which contains all her work) to the Macbook, but slowly because she's reorganizing the data at the same time.

I would like her to back up the external hard drive onto the Macbook, which has 750 Gigabytes of space, just in case something happens to the external drive.

Is there a quick, easy, preferably built-in way to do this? I would prefer a method that doesn't copy files separately (so as not to create a second location on the machine that contains all her work, gets indexed, etc.) but takes a disk image and stores it somewhere. The goal is just to have a quick snapshot in case anything goes wrong.


texts:
I have paired a new Macbook Air with my iPhone, however after the Mac is rebooted, it asks me to confirm pairing. Is this a bug in Lion, or can it be permanently paired?

Similar issue with a mouse, but solution didn't help me

Steps to reproduce

Set up Bluetooth device, find iPhone, pair while having iPhone on the hotspot screen
Disconnect and connect to device. Works fine.
Reboot Mac
Connect to the device from the Bluetooth menu

Dialog pops up asking for me to confirm pin. If iPhone is in hotspot screen, it will also pop-up a dialog. I have to tap pair on iPhone then it's back to normal. After that it works until next reboot.

About system:

OSX 10.7.1
tried iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4
macbook air (mid-2011)


texts: What does this mean: "Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address...& will not be able to connect to the Internet"?

texts:
I have internet access but I noticed that in System Preferences/Network, although the W-Fi status is "On" this statement is below: "Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address XXX.XXX.X.XX and will not be able to connect to the Internet." There is a yellow dot preceding the "Wi-Fi / Self-Assigned IP" icon on the far left of the System Preferences/ Network window. The Network Diagnostics shows all the items under Network Status as green. My modem does not have a router. It is behind a Verizon (ISP) router that I do not physically own or have access to. I can only access the settings at: "my home.modem manufacturer's name.com". Is this still a problem that needs correcting? Thank you.

UPDATE: My ISP says: "Okay that's the issue as it is a 6100 modem it does not have a feature or wireless option you need to get one wireless router from ups store...I will send you a free modem which is an advanced one.."

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), MacBookPro11,3; Airport Time Capsule


texts: Can a Mac act as Bluetooth receiver for sound?

texts:
This is my setup to play music:

Mac with iTunes
2 Airport Express' connected to two pair of active
B&O speakers

I also have a turntable/record player that I want to use wirelessly with this setup. I therefore just ordered a Bluetooth transmitter. Now the question is if my Mac can receive A2DP (low latency AptX) from this device with its built in Bluetooth support or do I need to buy a separate receiver for the computer?

My plan is to use Rogue Amoeba's Line In app and redirect the sound from my turntable/Bluetooth combo to my Airport Express' but while waiting for my transmitter to arrive I have googled and it looks like a Mac can't act as a Bluetooth A2DP server. However, I also have a small portable Bluetooth speaker and that can act as a speaker phone and in Line In I can select this speaker both as output destination and input source, which seems to indicate that my Mac actually can receive sound from a Bluetooth source.


texts: Can't share the boot drive root dir with authorization for "everyone" set to "no access"?

texts:
If you add your boot drive to the network filesharing list of shares, the option to set the privileges for class "everyone" to "no access" is disabled.

Can anyone explain why? Or how to enable it?

According to this thread, authenticated users always have privileges to their home dirs, and authenticated admins always have privileges to the whole disk. So in some sense, adding the whole disk and disabling nonauthenticated users is redundant; you could just delete the share if that's the behavior you want. But what if you want more fine grained access for some groups, but still no read access for unauth'ed users? It seems impossible to accomplish this.

Also it seems rather arbitrary that the OS restricts that authorization option for network sharing, given the fact that the system will happily remove filesystem permissions from the boot disk, making the system unbootable. You'll let me wreck my boot disk making the entire disk unreadable to world, but you won't do the analogous but innocuous for network shares? Can anyone account for that?


texts: App Expose/Application Window Default Shortcut Across Different Versions

texts:
So I would like to know the default keyboard shortcut for Application Widow/App Expose from OSX from 10.6 - 10.12.

I have read it has changed.


texts: Run AppleScript as login item but only if it meets specific time criterion

texts:
I have this AppleScript as a "login item" (it runs every time I login), but I really just need it to run the code if I login between 5:00 AM and 11:00 pm.
I would appreciate your help to achieve this result.
delay 60
tell application "System Events" to keystroke " " using {option down}
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
    keystroke "start"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to key code 36


texts:
1- I identified the problem as a Kernel Panic at first due to warnings

2- Safe Mode Crashes

3- I reinstalled a OS through utilities , problem still persists (crashes after login)

4 - On Single user mode i deleted everything on downloads , removed cache and deleted the sleepimage file.

5- Hardware report (Command D at startup) is OK

6-  I cannot upload image because too big but i used the command (on single user mode)  df to see the space and i got

dev/disk1
(512 blocks) = (234610432)
Used = (57311056)
Capacity = (76%)
iused  = (22162420)
ifree= (7163882)
%iused= (76%)

i tried to follow all the instructions on here

Can't login because of kernel panic

and the Mac still restarts after login , any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your help and time.

Edit- Mac factory os is Maverick
Edit 2- If possible i would like to retain at least most of the data.


texts: what version of AppleConfigurator 2 is compatible with AppleTV 3rd gen?

texts: I have a 3rd generation AppleTV and am trying to configure it with AppleConfigurator2.  My version of AppleConfigurator2 (2.7.1) is unable to detect the device.  What version of AppleConfigurator2 is able to manage a third generation AppleTV?


texts:
I can't seem to disable both animoji and memoji in iOS 13.3.1.  What I've done so far:

Settings > General > Keyboard > Memoji Stickers > OFF
In Messages, tap: ... > Edit; then:

More Apps > Animoji > OFF
Favorites > – (next to Memoji Stickers) > Delete

...and it doesn't delete.

In playing around with it, it seems I can delete either Anamoji or Memoji from Favorites, but not both at the same time.

How can you disable both Anamoji and Memoji?


texts: Audio warning to warn you that your laptop's battery is low

texts:
I have two computers where I work back and forth, sometimes I'll launch a render on the MBP and go work on the iMac.

But sometimes, I unplug the MBP, go do something else, and rendering uses up all of the battery, which in turn makes the computer shut down mid-process if I'm not aware of the battery's condition.

I then have to plug it in, restart the computer, resume work if I haven't lost anything in the process.

I would love to know if there's a way to get an audio warning at some point while the battery is declining, like an alarm, this way I would be able to go plug it in even if I'm doing something else in another part of the house.

I looked in the System Preferences, but didn't find anything. I don't want the computer to go to sleep when the battery declines, but instead warn me, so I can plug it and avoid it dying.

I found this but it seems a bit hard to setup.

I found this article too, which doesn't explain very well what this app does.

In this discussion thread, a user talks about an app that another user later on criticizes.

I'm not sure I want to try all three of these apps, and then have to go through uninstalling them if they don't do what I'm looking for.

So, is there a simple way to get this kind of warning?

EDIT: following the numerous comments, I would add that the solution has to work in situations where I don't have a charger at hand, or where I'm out of the house, for example if I'm out of the house with no charger, working in another part of the office than the one my computer is in, in order to be warned to save my documents before the battery dies.


texts: Why are “Messages in iCloud” still taking up storage on my Mac if they’re supposed to be in the Cloud?

texts: I have all of my messages stored in iCloud, but for some reason they’re still taking up SSD storage on my Mac. This behavior doesn’t happen on my iPhone, but it does on my Mac and I’m not sure why. If they’re in iCloud, why are they still taking up the internal storage on my Mac? It seems strange that my iPhone doesn’t store messages on its internal storage, but my Mac does. Is there a way to prevent this from happening on my Mac somehow?


texts: Wake-up issues with Macbook Pro (late 2011)

texts:
I recently bought a new Macbook pro to replace my last one, and since I got it, it has been having some issues when I wake it up from sleep.

a) The display freezes for three seconds each time, so after it switches on, it takes three seconds before it shows the correct battery life and allows me to type.

b) Despite connecting to the internet OK (Sparrow works fine), Chrome and Safari both report no internet connection until the laptop is restarted (a pain in the ass) (happens on several networks)

c) VLC player wont resume play of a DVD (or rather, it will but with no sound).

My previous laptop (2010 gen, Lion) didn't do any of these three and I'm wondering - are they common / easily fixed, or should I head back into the Apple store with it?


texts: I am thinking about buying myself a mac. The problem is that I don't want to use my Mac with my AppleID because I am very afraid that it will sync with my other apple devices and I'm not a big fan of this at all. I also don't want to maintain a seperate AppleID. Do I really need an AppleID for macOS and which parts of macOS I cannot use without an AppleID ?


texts: Lost partition after trying to run BootCamp on 10.13 on APFS. How to recover?

texts:
After trying to install Windows via Bootcamp on (yes I understand what "beta" means) beta High Sierra 10.13 I was left with unbootable partition:

I cannot mount this disk. It's shown as "Mac OS Extended" file system though it was APFS. (The Untitled is the partition with newly installed Mac OS version via internet recover.

sudo gpt show disk0
    start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  378644440      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  379054080     262144
  379316224  109638488      3  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  488954712    1280000      4  GPT part - 5361644D-6163-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  490234712          7
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

I have run two checks.

sudo fsck_apfs -fy -x /dev/rdisk0s2

Output:
https://gist.github.com/pbrewczynski/e14156e7db7a1d11c008b1ed78a47cdc

sudo fsck_hfs -fy -x /dev/rdisk0s2

Output:
https://gist.github.com/pbrewczynski/a029f50310eedb2e6664f8652877ec97

I understand that I deal with beta software, and I should not expect to recover lost partition, but nevertheless I would be grateful for suggestion, what to do to recover this partition.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I uninstall a program completely on a Mac?

How is the correct way to uninstall applications on Mac OS?
I've noticed that almost zero of them have a Uninstall utility...

Currently I'm just Deleting the shortcuts of the dock, and removing the app files of Application folder, but I think this is not the best way, because many apps install libs on other system folders.

What is the best approach?


texts: Do the symbols shown when viewing an encrypted file have any meaning?

texts:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software and Hardware stand point prospective, I opened some encrypted files such as Keychains, FileVault, etc.  I do understand that these are encrypted files and they are impossible to decrypt.

I do noticed that some symbols, I guess used to encrypt and mask the real data, are always the same (for the most part).

Example: ^@^@^@-^@^@^@1^@^@^@5^@^@^@9^@^@^@=�^@^@^A^@^@^@^@sdmn^@^@^@^@^@^@^

My question is, are these symbols below have a specific meanings?

^

@

�

Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.


texts: Licensing around running VMWare ESX on a mac mini hosting multiple OS X guests

texts:
The OS X Mavericks EULA grants the rights

  B.
  Mac App Store License

  ...

  (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

By my reading, this implies that I can't use VMWare ESX as the base-level OS hosting OS X guests, as then it wouldn't be "already running the Apple Software". However, VMWare definitely support running OS X as a guest under VMWare ESX. Presumably VMWare wouldn't support something that violates the OS X EULA, or they would have continued the support for OS X guests running under VMware workstation on windows that they had for a short time.

How does this add up?

Also, If we assume that it is OK, what happens if I want to run 3 or 4 guest copies of OS X on my mac mini? The EULA implies that it's not, however the EULA also contains this clause

  C.
  Volume or Maintenance License.
  If you obtained the Apple Software under a volume or maintenance license program with Apple, the terms of your volume or maintenance license will determine the number of copies of the Apple Software you are permitted to download, install, use and run on Apple-branded computers you own or control. Except as agreed to in writing by Apple, all other terms and conditions of this License shall apply to your use of the Apple Software obtained under a volume or maintenance license

This seems like it would provide a solution to both of the above, but I can't figure out if it's possible to purchase a "Volume or Maintenance License" for OS X, as nothing I've been able to find on their website has any information related to it.

Thanks


texts: Can an Airport Express be used to extend the Wi-Fi of another-non Apple Access Point?

texts:
My colleague has a cheap Cisco Access Point on another floor. He is using a Mac Pro and the the Wi-Fi is very spotty.

Can an Airport Express be used to extend this network?


texts: Folder disappears after dragging it into "All My Files" in Finder

texts:
I had a folder, we'll call it Folder1, open in a Finder window, and I was going to move files to it. So, I opened up another file window, but accidentally dragged the Folder1 icon into the Images section in All My Files in the new Finder window.

Now I can't find the folder anywhere. I even did

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb && locate Folder1

to no avail. It seems to be nowhere.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts:
At one point, I typed "^me" into iOS 4. Now it corrects the word "me" to "^me" every time.   How can I remove this?

(I would like a solution to the problem. Pressing the X on the auto correct tooltip or disabling auto correct work, but they don't solve the problem.)


texts:
Apparently there is a place within the OS's system files that have lots of .qtz s that you can use for your desktop background.

Could someone tell me the location of the files?


texts: iCloud sign-in asks for password of MacBook that's running my Fusion VM of OSX 10.11, then rejects the correct password. Fix?

texts:
I am the original owner of a mid-2012 MacBook Pro, which is currently running 10.14.6. On it I am running VMware Fusion 11.5.5. I created a VM of OSX 10.11 El Capitan so I could help a relative who uses it.
I do not want to use my personal iCloud account on this VM so I created a new Apple account, validated it, and it now works on a spare iPad. Let's call it my "Test Apple Account".
When the 10.11 installation on the VM reached the point where it asked for Apple Credentials to set up iCloud, et al, I enter the Test Apple Account ID and password, received an approval request on the spare iPad, allowed it, entered the 6-digit code, things were looking good, and then the following dialog box appeared.

I entered the password I always use to sign into this MacBook Pro and after several seconds red text appeared in this dialog box saying it's the wrong password. I tried a couple more times thinking I was misspelling it and now that account is supposedly locked for 24 hours.
I've seen a few forum posts on the Interwebs about this issue but they all veer off on sidetracks, including one on the SuperUser forum. My application is about as clear cut and legal as it gets.
Suggestions?
BTW, as a test I used the same Test Apple Account for setting up iCloud in another User account on this MacBook Pro. It worked fine. So what's different about this attempt to sign in to iCloud is that it's on an OSX 10.11 VM in Fusion stead of a 10.14 meatspace MacBook Pro.
Hmm. I wonder if I should be running the VM from that account? I'll check that and report back.


texts: How can I use wired ethernet + external monitor together on my Macbook Air (Late 2013)?

texts:
I have a late 2013 MBA which only has USB 3 ports and one Thunderbolt port. I've currently been using a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter to use wired internet, but I'd also like to use an external monitor at the same time. Are there any USB to HDMI or USB to Ethernet (provided that the internet speed won't be decreased) adapters which I could use?

Thanks


texts: Find and remove all photos below a certain size threshhold

texts:
So, I had a relative's hard drive collapse, and I've used photorec to look for the most obvious files to retain (fortunately they only had pictures on the computer, everything else was cloud-synced, such as email) so I now have a parent-folder with 208 subfolders of all the PNG and JPG files from the old drive. Obviously a lot will be either "OS and Application images" (toolbars, sample images, thumbnails, system caches) and some will be "family photos".

If I can find some way to find all below a certain size (preferably say 300px wide) then sorting the rest should * be easy.

How can I use iPhoto or Spotlight or something to do this automatically? I'm also open to scripts using easily installed (brew perhaps?) libraries, if a script of some sort can be pointed to.

* famous last words


texts:
I'm trying to extract my old iPhone's backups. I'm using the iPhone Backup Extractor, and it tells me the status of my backup is "complete and encrypted". I don't recall ever encrypting my backup so I'm wondering how is this even possible?

Does the iTunes encrypt your backup without your command?

Is there a way to unencrypt the backup?

Is there any other way of extracting your backup into actual files besides iPhone Backup Extractor? Any recommendations?


texts: macOS Sierra : dd to USB is very slow and can't seem to use /dev/rdisk

texts:
(txs all for your help and suggestions, but suspending this for now while I track down my formatting errors on that SD.  If I can't get that to work, little reason to expect dd to work, even if other people have encountered similar issues doing this on osx).

I'm trying, as root, to write to micro SD to load up a Raspberry Pi's Linux:

W$dd bs=1m if=/Users/jluc/Downloads/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/disk2

This is supremely slow, it's been running for 8-9 hours and hasn't written much when I kill -9 it.

301989888 bytes transferred in 23103.442503 secs (13071 bytes/sec)

Now, in such write ups as Solution: dd too slow on Mac OS X, he advises to use /dev/rdisk, because it's treated differently.

But every time I've used /rdiskN instead of /diskN, I get:

dd: /dev/rdisk2: Input/output error

This is on Sierra, but it worked on Yosemite, if I recall correctly.

INSTALLING OPERATING SYSTEM IMAGES ON MAC OS mentions the possibility that /rdisk won't work and advises you to use /disk instead.

What gives?  Is this something new with Sierra as opposed to earlier versions?

update:  tried suggestion as per @oa and still getting the same error.

Searching `` got me this:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37232109/how-to-fix-bad-dd-img-write-to-sdcard.  Now, that post is about an img file that is too big for the SD.  I have a 4.1Gb img, and this is a 32Gb file, so that wouldn't apply.

But... what I've noticed is that diskutil list has a number of things for that disk.

jluc@node_modules$ diskutil list /dev/disk2
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
 0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *32.1 GB    disk2
 1:             Windows_FAT_32 boot                    66.1 MB    disk2s1
 2:                      Linux                         32.0 GB    disk2s2

See how the first partition, the FAT32 boot shows @ 66.MB?

Looking some more:

jluc@node_modules$ df -h | egrep "disk2|Filesystem"
Filesystem                          Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
 /dev/disk2s1                        63Mi   21Mi   42Mi    33%     512          0  100%   /Volumes/boot

So, wondering if it's not that /dev/disk2 is not interpreted as being only 60 MB because of the boot and I am therefore getting a capacity error.  Will try to repartition it first.


texts: The server "serverName" did not accept the certificate

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I'm trying to install a profile that I've created on an iPad. I have the Trust Profile for the device installed and verified.

The problem arises when trying to enrol the iPad.

Below is the output from the iPhone Configuration Utility console.

Any suggestions on what I can do to solve this?

    Desc   : Profile Installation Failed
    Sugg   : Profile Failed to Install
    US Desc: Profile Installation Failed
    US Sugg: Profile Failed to Install
    Domain : MCInstallationErrorDomain
    Code   : 4001
    Type   : MCFatalError
    ...Underlying error:
    NSError:
    Desc   : Profile Failed to Install
    Sugg   : The profile “Remote Management” could not be installed.
    US Desc: Profile Failed to Install
    US Sugg: The profile “Remote Management” could not be installed.
    Domain : MCInstallationErrorDomain
    Code   : 4001
    Type   : MCFatalError
    ...Underlying error:
    NSError:
    Desc   : The profile “Remote Management” could not be installed.
    Sugg   : The payload “Device Management” could not be installed.
    US Desc: The profile “Remote Management” could not be installed.
    US Sugg: The payload “Device Management” could not be installed.
    Domain : MCProfileErrorDomain
    Code   : 1009
    Type   : MCFatalError
    Params : (
        "Remote Management"
    )
    ...Underlying error:
    NSError:
    Desc   : The payload “Device Management” could not be installed.
    Sugg   : The server “serverName” did not accept the certificate.
    US Desc: The payload “Device Management” could not be installed.
    Domain : MCInstallationErrorDomain
    Code   : 4001
    Type   : MCFatalError
    Params : (
        "Device Management"
    )
    ...Underlying error:
    NSError:
    Desc   : The server “serverName” did not accept the certificate.
    Domain : NSURLErrorDomain
    Code   : -1205
    Type   : MCFatalError


texts: I'm interested in working remotely- very remotely off-grid in fact. How can I power a Macbook Pro & related peripherals using Solar Power?


texts: Can I change a read/write .dmg file to read-only without copying?

texts: I'm working on some automation for ingesting media from camera cards.  I am using hdiutil to create a blank disk image, then copy the contents of the camera card onto that disk image.  Then I'd love to change that disk image to "Read-only" without having to create any kind of copy of the disk image.  I'm trying to optimize this process for speed, hence creating a blank disc image and copying files to it (much faster than creating a disc image fo the drive in my tests)


texts: MacBook Pro 16" Speakers Spontaneously Making Strange Noise. How do I fix this?

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I have a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6. Ever since I updated from MacOS Catalina 10.15.5, when I play music on my MacBook speakers, after a few minutes I'll start hearing a horrible distortion noise along with the music. See https://imgur.com/a/0mK6ciP for a video I recorded of the problem.
I'm able to temporarily resolve this issue if I plug in my headphones and immediately remove them (as shown in the video), or if I go to System Preferences > Sound and change the "Alert volume" value. But then after a few minutes, the problem recurs.
I'm getting the impression this is software-based, and it's not clear to me that the upgrade to 10.15.6 is the cause of the issue. Is there a way I can prevent this from happening?


texts:
For the last couple of hours, I have been trying to find and install a gcc compiler so that I can compile C programs using eclipse C/C++ IDE. Eclipse doesn't come with a compiler, so I tried to find one but I haven't found a way to get one. I looked up Xcode in the App Store and I heard from some sites that it can compile C programs. Can it compile C programs? Is it better than Eclipse? If not, does anyone know where I can find a gcc compiler for my Mac? I'm running Mac OS X Lion.

This is the version of Eclipse I am running: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers-includes-incubating-components/indigosr2


texts: I have a video that has audio several seconds in front of what it should be. I'm looking for an independent program that will delay the sound output. Is such a thing possible and more importantly is it free?


texts: Why would Preview "want to use" my (unused) login Keychain just to execute hotkeys?

texts:
I've asked the related question in security SE: Why does not updating a MacOS keychain password cause applications to become troublesome? and the answer there explains that keychain is used by various applications to store "sensitive data such as credentials, certificates and the like... passwords..." and goes on to explain that a total list of all possibilities is beyond the scope of the question.

Background:

I changed my password by using recovery mode. I'd changed it yesterday, then it suddenly appeared to stop working.

As I continued, I received the message (photo of screen shown below):

  The system was unable to unlock your login keychain.

Since I don't use my keychain at all, and since I did not understand the implications of each choice, I just selected Continue Login.

Once I was using my computer again, I have a persisting sequence of dialogue boxes that will not go away. They seem to interfere strongly, rendering other applications unresponsive (beachballing) until I cycle through them once or twice by clicking Cancel three or six times. Preview is particularly difficult to use now.

For example, I have found that when I open multiple images in Preview, I can move easily between them through cursor operations on the sidebar, but as soon as I try to use the arrow keys preview freezes and beachballs until I click through the keychain dialogues again. Same for other menu items like close and save.

I have similar behavior for other apps. For example when TextEdit has an .rtf document that contains links, trying to use hotkeys to save will also trigger a dialogue box, but I'll ask primarily about Preview to keep it simple.

QUESTION: Why specifically would Preview access the keychain when I use keyboard shortcuts, but not cursor clicks or menu items for the same operations? Any thoughts why this (sometimes) happens with TextEdit as well?


texts: Does an application have access to the cached data in another application?

texts: The reason I am raising this question is security concerns. Applications like Twitter might access a user's browsing behaviour by checking the cached history on user's Safari browser for example if inter-application access is somehow permitted through coding. Since I don't program in Objective-C and do not have the time to delve into its documentation, would someone be able to shed some light on this in general terms? This question is geared towards the new iPad, but I think the answer, if any, probably applies to all iOS devices.


texts: Use an iMac with Thunderbolt as an external display

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I can't manage to connect my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) Display with my  MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018).

I have an Apple Thunderbolt 3 USB-C cable, both computer are on (logged with an admin user), but nothing happen when I press Cmd-F2.

I tried to use AppleScript in case something was wrong with my keyboard, but same issue.

tell application "System Events"
    key code 122 using command down # Cmd-F2
end tell

Tried the other way round (from my MacBook Pro) same thing...

FY, I don't think this is an issue but both computer are in a different VLAN

iMac : 10.15.4 (19E287), MacBook Pro 10.15.5 Beta (19F72f) (pretty sure had the same issue when both was in 10.15.4)


texts: Is there a way to increase the upper limit to iCloud storage space?

texts:
I see here (bold my own):

With Apple One, you can choose a subscription plan that includes 50GB, 200GB or 2TB of iCloud storage. If you need more iCloud storage, you can buy more for a total of up to 4TB.

This seems to mean for people with more than 4TB of data (e.g. someone with lots of family videos, or a hobby photographer), there's simply no way to store it all in iCloud (without creating separate dummy accounts). Is there any way?
For reference, Google Drive goes up to 30TB


texts: Why does my WLAN stop working when I plug in my HDTV?

texts:
I'm facing a strange problem where my WLAN suddenly stops working the moment I plug in my HDTV into my MacBook 13" (mid-2010) using an HDMI to DisplayPort adapter.

Any idea why this is happening?


texts: Get Apple ID security questions over email

texts: I have forgotten the answers to my security questions, but I don't want to/have time to call apple support and have them tell me my questions. Is there any way to maybe reset/get them over email?


texts: Running Sierra and Leopard on MacBook Air

texts:
I just bought a new MacBook Air and want to know if I can partition the drive and add Leopard (10.5.8) so I can run my older music software.

The issue for me both the cost and I like the older versions interface better.  I still have an old PowerPC G5 which would service the Leopard software, but no current printer will support the older G5, hence my thought I could use older software, make doc PDF, then print with new OS.

Is this realistic?


texts:
I'm configuring a new MacBook Pro 15″ 2015 and wanted to know if the processor speed affects the battery life?

2.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz
2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.0GHz


texts:
I have a MacBook I bought in 2007 and the charger recently died on me. (I'm assuming the computer itself is still working).

I did some research and ordered from Amazon a Magsafe1 60W charger, but when it arrived the connecter is too large for the port.

Any ideas what the correct charger should be? These are the details of the MacBook, purchased in Aug 2007

13-inch MacBook (White) - 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Part Number: MB062
Keyboard (English) & Mac OS (English)
Country kit
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
SuperDrive 8x (DVD +R DL/DVD RW/CD-RW)
1GB 667 DDR2 - 2x512MB SO-DIMMs
120GB Serial ATA drive (5400rpm)


texts: Entering path containing spaces in Terminal

texts:
Working on my MacBook Pro, I want to change the location of my iPhone backup to an external drive, but when entering the command on the CLI I hadn't noticed that the destination drive has a space in the name (HARDDRV BKUP). How would I enter the following

ln -s /Volumes/HARDDRV BKUP/iphonebkup/Backup/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync

using "HARDDRV BKUP" as the name of the external drive in Terminal?  If I recall correctly, the CLI doesn't interpret SPACES the same way, and capitalization is important to take into account as well, correct?  Can someone here correct this for me?

I am new at using the CLI and most of my experience is using the GUI, so I am getting very frustrated and don't have the energy to research all my notes on this.


texts: coreFoundationUnknownErr when creating an application with osacompile from an applescript

texts:
I have the following applescript Spyder3.applescript :

on run
 do shell script "/usr/local/miniconda3/bin/spyder3"
end run

I want to compile it to an Application, so I type this command :

$ sudo osacompile -o /Application/Spyder3.app Spyder3.applescript

but I get this an coreFoundationUnknownErr error :

osacompile: couldn't write to file /Application/Spyder3.app: coreFoundationUnknownErr (-4960).

Can you help me ?


texts: How can I print a PDF X-1A from a iWork Pages document?

texts:
In order to use my university's printing shop, they said they need a PDF x-1a format.
I noticed in Pages that I can print as "Save as PDF-X" but a little googling says this is not exactly the PDF x1a format, but another one. Googling did not turn up exactly how to get the x-1a format.


texts: Is VMWare Fusion bought through the MacUpdate Spring 2012 Bundle a full valid version?

texts: I'm considering buying VMWare Fusion 4. On vmware.com it's available for $49.99. MacUpdate is currently also offering a bundle which includes VMWare Fusion and 10 other apps, for a total price of $49.99 (MacUpdate Spring 2012 Bundle). I'm not particularly interested in any of the 10 other apps, but they might be nice to have. I'm wondering if there's a catch to this offer though. For example, I seem to remember that a similar bundle offered in the past didn't include the right to discounts when upgrading to future versions. So is buying VMWare Fusion through this bundle fully equivalent to buying it through VMWare.com?


texts: How can I create an alias for Finder in OS X El Capitan?

texts:
I want to add a Finder shortcut to my Launchpad, but I am unable to do it.

Is there any way to create an alias for Finder in OS X El Capitan?


texts: Can you stop marketing messages on an iPhone X (e-sim)

texts:
On Android, to avoid the marketing popup messages from the SIM Toolkit, I need to force stop it, and everytime I reboot, I need to force stop it again.

On iPhone X, with the e-sim, what happens to the popup marketing messages? Is it possible to avoid them?

Update: I'm talking about this:
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/75761/how-to-prevent-phone-operator-from-opening-spam-popups


texts: Can I use Dictation in OS X Mountain Lion offline?

texts:
There is a new feature in Mountain Lion, Dictation.

When I try to enable it in the System Preferences, I get the following dialog:

In other words, what Dictation does is just record your voice and send it to Apple, which does the conversion of your voice into text server side. This makes very little sense on today's powerful laptop or desktop Macs (I can see why it would make sense on a mobile device though). Is there a way to use the Dictation feature offline?


texts: What would happen if I plug in two USB-C power supplies into the same Mac? Would it charge faster?

texts:
I have a bunch of USB-C power supplies (some at different wattages).

Would my Mac charge faster (or blow up) if I plug two power supplies into the same computer (different USB-C slots)


texts: Is any other application known to install TeamViewer?

texts: I was listing my launchd items the other day to track down a constantly-crashing gpg-agent, and I was perturbed to notice TeamViewer in there. So, I removed it, momentarily not thinking much about it; I downloaded their uninstaller and I uninstalled. I made the mistake of not taking notes of exactly what I saw. So, now I'm wondering if my system was, in fact, compromised. Is there any legitimate reason for TeamViewer to be on a Maverics system when, seemingly, 'uninvited'?


texts: Why does my Xserve simply eject Linux install CDs instead of reading / booting from them?

texts:
I have an Xserve G4, dual 1.33 GHz processors, 2 GB of RAM, 1 CD-ROM drive, 2 internal Hard Drives (read: Nowhere really to back them up to). I also have 1 EXTERNAL Hard Drive, Firewire, but just like the internal drives, I can't reformat with any sort of ease, too much data.

Now for the problem: I am trying to install Linux, specifically Gentoo or ArchLinux, for a multitude of reasons spanning from: wanting to get away from dependancy on Mac OS, to not liking the performance of old versions of Mac OS X in a modern (internet) age. I have Live CDs for Ubuntu 8, and the latest Gentoo Minimal Install PPC disk. I can not, however, get the computer to accept the CDs. About 20 seconds after inserting the CD to the body of the Xserve, it comes right back out. These are 700 MB CDs, with 680 MB and 140 MB of data on them, respectively. The burns had no errors, I have the console reports handy if they are requested.

Possible solutions/diagnoses I have come up with, but can't act on without advice on how to:

The CD drive is defective? (How do I test this?)
Boot to one of my 2 spare (10 GB each) hard drive partitions on my HFS drive, no success on that front so far.
Would using an external CD Drive work for boot-from-CD? I have one that connects using FireWire

Oh, just a note, my goal is to use mac-fdisk once I get within a Linux environment to see about resizing my hard drive, or I'll just backup the main drive's non-standard data to the external, and restore using the disk-image of 10.4 Server I have. Would mac-fdisk actually be able to resize, or is that just parted?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!


texts: My iPhone 7 allows only one device to be connected to its hotspot at a time

texts:
Model - iPhone 7
iOS version - 13.3
My iPhone 7 allows only one device to be connected to its wifi hotspot at a time,  whichever is the first device. Only very rarely it allows more than one device to be connected. And there isn't anything in the settings that can be tweaked. Google search also doesn't show anyone with this problem. I am at a loss as to why it is happening.
Edit: Updated to latest iOS 14.0, still unresolved


texts: Cycle between Mac apps and VMware 7 using cmd+tab

texts:
I am trying to understand how I could switch back and forth in a productive manner when using a combination of VMware Fusion 7 and OS X El Capitan apps.

The keyboard shortcut that I am used to use thousands of times a day between Mac apps is cmd+tab. I use it to cycle between apps, and would love to be able to do this to switch to other apps when inside VMware Fusion.

What it currently does when I press cmd+tab from within VMware Fusion is that it will cycle through the windows of the virtual Windows machine, not take me out of the virtual machine and into my Mac apps again.

This is clicked in my Virtual Machine settings:

After looking online for a while, I found this tip, which doesn't work for me. This, although more subsequent, didn't seem to provide a workaround that would allow the user to use cmd+tab to get out of VMware Fusion. This didn't help, and this didn't help either.

I also looked fruitlessly into the Windows 7 Control Panels for a way to disable cycling through windows in Windows with that shortcut, which didn't work.


texts: Is there a way to get different Google calendars syncing with different Apple devices?

texts:
I'm trying to sync several Google calendars with my iPhone, iPad and Mac, but I don't want all of my Google calendars to show up on the phone, just a certain few. You used to be able to go to the Google sync settings and choose which calendars to sync with which device, but when I tried to make some changes today (at google. com/sync/index.html), it changed for all of my devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac mini). Searching Google Support confirmed this is intended (https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/99358):

If you’d like to sync any additional calendars, or remove any of My calendars from syncing, visit https://www.google.com/calendar/syncselect and select the calendars you’d like displayed. Refresh iCal, or close and restart in order to see your new selection.
These settings will apply to any device you sync using CalDAV, such as your iPhone or other iOS device.

Is there still a way to get different Google calendars syncing with different Apple devices?
Edit: To clarify, say I have Google calendars A, B, and C. I want my Mac to sync with all three (A, B, C), but I want my iPad to sync with A & B, and my iPhone to sync with just A. How can I accomplish this?


texts: How to show width and height of image files in Finder's column view?

texts:
Is there any way to view the width and height of image type files in Finder's column view?

I am runnning Snow Leopard.

There isn't a checkbox for dimension in the Finder's view options:


texts:
I can't find a disk to back up Time Machine files. According to this I need an external HD.  I have imac 10.6.8.  Various directions seem to say I can find a disc on my computer except I get no prompt for that.  By the date, Airport, and Time Machine etc,I clicked on "Browse other Time Machine disc, and underneath "Open Time Machine preferences".

This contains Time Machine backup disk but it is empty.


texts: Multiple instances of installed applications and updates displayed in updates history

texts:
Today I was updating my Mavericks installation and during the process it seems that App Store somehow "hung up" on installation and some downloads didn’t download properly.

Because of that, now I see multiple instances of "OSX Update 10.9.1" in updates history, and not just that, but every other part from that chunk of updates such as iTunes update.

When the download finally "finished" and when I activated it, it said that it was corrupted and it should be downloaded again. I did that, activated it and everything went OK, update is now here.

I’m interested if these types of situations are common and are not something to worry about. From my previous experiences, App Store is kind of wonky so this behavior is not unexpected, but I see this first time and I’m little concerned.


texts: How do I disable context menu key from Windows Keyboard?

texts:
I bought a Logitech USB keyboard (model K120) to use with my MBP while it's on a stand.

I got some help swapping the mapping of the command and option keys to the Alt and Windows keys so the layout is more like a standard Mac keyboard.

The next problem is this key:

(The one under the shift key with the rectangle with 3 lines on it.)

Apparently this is a Windows Context menu key.

I'm an iOS/Mac OS developer, and I keep pressing that key by mistake. It puts some non-displayed character into my source files. It generates an error "invalid character in source file" that prevents my code from compiling. Since it's non-printing it is quite hard to find, and is a real pain.

I'd like to map it to NOTHING so it stops inserting invisible compile-breaking characters into my source files. Alternately, mapping it to the control key would be good, since the control key is in the same spot on the other side of the keyboard. (I'd then have 2 control keys on that side of the keyboard, but whatever.)


texts: After upgrading to iOS6, all my apps are gone

texts:
I upgraded my iPad to iOS 6.  Now all my apps appear to be gone.  Am I missing something?  Have they moved to a new place?  How do I get them back?

(I don't sync my iPad to a computer, if that is relevant.)


texts: Mail.app crashes after update to El Capitan OS

texts:
Apple Mail app crashes for me nonstop after I updated to El Capitan. Every time just a one or two right after opening.

I started to have this problem right after I installed El Capitan to clean HD and migrated within Migration assistant my old account and settings (everything except of applications).

Would be nice if someone could help me with that..Thank you!
Here I am copying the beginning of text from the crash report-Crash is at Thread 22 (it is not whole text because of restriction of limited number of characters(if needed I will send it via email)):

Process:               Mail [11820]
Path:                  /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:            com.apple.mail
Version:               9.0 (3094)
Build Info:            Mail-3094000000000000~1
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Mail [11820]
User ID:               502

Date/Time:             2015-10-11 22:25:22.716 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11 (15A284)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        8601D8B6-77BF-16F6-A40D-390BC39A2A45

Sleep/Wake UUID:       2F46000D-690E-43A0-846B-4E7AAF410C31

Time Awake Since Boot: 14000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       1200 seconds

System Integrity Protection: disabled

Crashed Thread:        22  Dispatch queue: Task Manager Serialization Queue :: NSOperation 0x7ff64d7c4930 (QOS: LEGACY)

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

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Attempting to perform a synchronous operation while on the serialization queue'
abort() called
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

....
Thread 22 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: Task Manager Serialization Queue :: NSOperation 0x7ff64d7c4930 (QOS: LEGACY)
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x00007fff95c880ae __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff8797a500 pthread_kill + 90
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x00007fff90fd137b abort + 129
3   libc++abi.dylib                 0x00007fff8f4bef81 abort_message + 257
4   libc++abi.dylib                 0x00007fff8f4e4a47 default_terminate_handler() + 267
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texts: Keychain won't reveal forgotten password; how to fix?

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Skype automatically logs me in by getting the password from my login keychain.  This means I haven't typed the password in a long time, and I have forgotten it.

When I select Skype (or anything else) in Keychain Access and click the show password box, the check mark appears and then immediately goes away without revealing the password.

How can I fix this (without deleting the file that contains all the encrypted passwords!!)?


texts: How to use iCloud calendar without having an Apple device

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My boss wants us to use the iCloud calendar app. However, I use a computer with Ubuntu and an Android phone. Because I do not have an Apple device, the calendar app is unavailable to me on icloud.com; only pages, numbers and keynote are available. Would downloading iCloud for Windows via Wine give me iCal, or is there another solution?

Many thanks in advance!


texts: A downloaded webp image from a website could not be opened

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When I try to preview a downloaded image, I get an error:

The file “file-name.jpeg” could not be opened.
It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize.

However Chrome browser can display the downloaded image just fine.

How can I preview such images?

Here is an example image in this location. You can right-click and select save the image as.


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I'm looking to optimize scanning with OSX's native scanner.  Ideally I would like it to be able to produce a multi-page black & white pdf that is under 1MB in size, however, I can't figure out a way to make this happen.

Often I'll have people send me the same document that is under 500KB, but when I print it out, sign it, and then scan it back in, it ends up being a very large document.  Also, if I set it to under 200dpi, it seems my quality suffers noticeably, and even at 72dpi (which is pretty much blurry), I end up with documents over 1MB.

My settings are the following:

Kind: Black & White
Resolution: 200dpi
Size: US Letter
Format: PDF (combine into single document)
All other options: None

Is this something OSX's native scanning program is just not up to?  Are there better programs out there I should be using?


texts: Transfer an old version of an App from iPhone to iPhone

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I am using an old version of an App (update is available on App Store but I haven't updated it) and I want to install it on a second iPhone (same version, not the new one).

I am running the latest version of iOS 10. Is there a way to do it?

Thanks


texts: How can I change default X11 application?

texts: I compiled my own X11 Server for Mac OS X and want it to replace the original outdated X11.app supplied by Lion. How do I do that?


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I noticed that Safari has an Extensions Gallery page. I'm wondering how I would search all the extensions to find the one I want.

Does that page list all of the extensions available, meaning I should use Edit > Find...? Or are there many more which aren't listed on the page?


texts: Is there any way to add more flags to Mail.app (Mountain Lion 10.8.4)? I have a lot of subprojects, and need more flags.


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I recently got a MacBook, and I've added a few Google accounts to the Calendar app. Ever since I did, I've been getting alerts about the event after it's already passed or in progress. It seems as though Calendar.app is adding alerts to the event on its own; this didn't happen before I added my Google account to the macOS calendar.

The only alert that is supposed to be there is ‘Alert ten minutes before start’. Every other alert there has added somehow.


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When I connect my Macbook Pro 13" 2015 to an external monitor, the quality is horrible. I know it' worse than it should be, as I compared it with my Windows.

This is a common problem, as I have seen hundreds of people asking forums going back years. But they all trace back to one solution: http://www.mathewinkson.com/2013/03/force-rgb-mode-in-mac-os-x-to-fix-the-picture-quality-of-an-external-monitor

But this does not work for me... The problems I have read are identical to mine. Is there any other way this could be fixed? I@m honestly considering returning my Mac at this point...


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How do I run a expect script in macOS Automator?

As it is possible to see in the picture, there is no such option
its a script of type:
!/usr/bin/expect


texts: Running AppleScript When Inserting a Blank CD

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I want to automatically burn a cross-platform data CD with the same contents each time a blank disc is inserted, and eject it when done. To that end I created a very simple AppleScript that does just that:

do shell script "/bin/bash -c 'hdiutil burn ~/Desktop/catalog.iso'"

It works fine from the AppleScript editor. If I click "Run" with a blank CD inside, it burns the CD with the data from the .iso and ejects it upon completion.

However, if I select "Run ~/Desktop/burn.scpt" as the default action when inserting a blank CD, nothing happens. I actually have to open the AppleScript editor and select "Run". How can I make it actually run the script?


texts: XQuartz: xterm command slow since last update

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I often use the following command to get a new terminal on XQuartz.

xterm -sh 1.01 -u8 -fa 12 -fg LightBlue -bg black &

However, since the last update of XQuartz, it takes about 1 min for the new terminal to open, whereas a simple xterm command without any options is immediate.

Could someone help me out with this?


texts: If you have to restore an iPhone to "factory" (the latest iOS), can you choose which backup to use?

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Suppose I have an iPhone 7 Plus, an iPhone X, and iPad Pro, and the iPhone 7 Plus has to be restored to factory (the latest iOS), because the iOS 13 upgrade fail to boot up the iPhone.

In this case, if there are iCloud backups for the iPhone 7 Plus, an iPhone X, and iPad Pro, can I choose which one to use to restore as much as possible? (they all use the same iCloud account).

What if the backup for iPhone 7 Plus cannot be made because it is too big, then can you choose to restore from iPhone X or iPad Pro, so that at least all your phone contacts and Notes content can be restored?


texts: NTFS-Bootcamp-partition thinks it is a FAT partition

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I'm running 10.8.3 Snow Leopard and installed Windows 7 x64 using Bootcamp.
Both system are running fine.

I couldn't use the bootcamp-partition inside in Parallels and then I read about Tuxera NTFS blocking it. Therefore I uninstalled Tuxera NTFS. Ever since then the disk utility shows the Bootcamp partition as a FAT-partition (see attached screenshot). Re-installing Tuxera NTFS didn't help either.

Error checking and repairing with the disk utility doesn't help.
I tried unmounting the whole drive/all partitions via disk utility on another Mac (using FireWire-boot). It didn't work sadly.

Does anyone have a clue what else I can do? The Bootcamp-Windows is already set up with my work-environment which took a long time so I don't want to reinstall.


texts: How to enable curse words voice recognition in Google Keep app?

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I can't find the definition to enable curse words voice recognition on my Google Keep app for iPad , iOS 10 .

It's not possible to change this ?
I tested on multiple languages and it's using ***** for curse in multiple languages...

Can you help?
Thank you!!!


texts: MATLAB and Objective-C in Sublime Text 2

texts: Is there a way to set Sublime Text 2 (running under OSX) so that it can identify MATLAB (.m) files and Objective-C (.m) files automatically? Meaning that ST2 would be able to differentiate between each one and apply it's special syntax highlighting rules. I have already seen this behavior in the all mighty VIM and Emacs.


texts: Macbook pro ejects every CD/DVD just after a few seconds

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This problem happened suddenly on my MacBook pro: when I insert a CD/DVD, it tries to read it for a few seconds (the motor of the DVD drive is working) and then it stops, and ejects the DVD.

I have read in many forums that this is a dead condition for DVD drive, and should be replaced. But some others also suggested the lens might require cleaning. Does anybody have experienced the second situation (i.e. can the problem be solved using DVD drive lens cleaner kits)?