texts: Safari extension for adding arbitrary Javascript to a page?

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Is there a way to do this?

I know I can use Stylish for adding arbitrary CSS to pages on a per-domain basis. Looking for something similar to add Javascript.

For example, let's say I wanted to turn the text red for any h1 element on a particular site if the content of that h1 element is "News". Can't do that with CSS, need to do it with Javascript. Is there any extension I can use to add this? Or would I have to write my own?


texts: Black Screen after installing RAM in MacBook (early 2008)

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I've tried installing 2 x 2gb DDR2 PC2-6400 modules into an early 2008 MacBook. After installation the machine booted into a black screen, with no chime.

I tried reseating the RAM, same problem. I reinstated the old RAM (2 x 1gb DDR2 PC2-5300 modules) and the machine booted as normal, and reported the correct RAM.

Think that I had bought duff RAM, I tried putting it in my Mid/Late 2007 MacBook Pro. This machine booted well with the new RAM, and reported the RAM correctly.

As far as I can tell, both machines SHOULD be capable of supporting exactly the same RAM modules, so it has me scratching my head.

What could be wrong with the MacBook, that isn't wrong with the MacBook Pro?


texts: how do i use 2 whatsapp accounts in my iphone?

texts: I have only one phone, an iphone, but have to access 2 whatsapp accounts. In android, we can use parallel space and have two whatsapp installations. But, iphone doesn't have any such option. Pls help me out.


texts: iOS 10 message effects send to phone number but not email address

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If I send an iMessage to my son using his phone number, the new message effects work without issue.  If I send an iMessage to him using his email address (still in Messages), they do not work and show the parenthetical text ("Sent with xxxx effect") when he receives the message.  When I send it, I see the desired effect.  Neither of us have reduce motion or anything of the sort turned on.  Note that they are both "blue" iMessage conversations.

I've tried deleting the conversation where it was failing (to his email) and that didn't change anything.

Is there a reason why he would see the effects if I send to his phone number vs. his email address?


texts: Where does Apple Configurator store ipsw downloads?

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Every time Apple releases new iOS software, it's a bit of a rush to get things downloaded and the servers can be slow in delivering the bits.

I would like to know where the Apple Configurator Version 1.2.1 (169) stores downloaded iOS software so I could transfer the files from iTunes or another computer so I can have several machines grab one each of the builds and then distribute them to avoid having each machine have to re-download all images each time.

Can I move IPSW in to or out of Apple Configurator rather than having it control the downloads from Apple for iOS software?


texts: how can i set up mamp or web sharing to show clients php application remotely?

texts: I'm currently using mamp instead of web sharing and I'm trying to figure out the best approach to share php and mysql web application that I'm working on to clients. What is the best way to do this?


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I'm trying to remap the caps lock key of a wireless aluminum Apple keyboard and am having a delay on release (not activation). That is to say, if I hold down the caps lock key after remapping, it will act like the key is pressed for a short period even after I release it. The longer the key is held, the longer this behavior happens.

I'm trying to remap it to ctrl but have the same problem with cmd.

I've found a lot of posts talking about an activation delay, but this is different than my problem.

I've tried the built in remapping as well as Seil, and both have the same problem.


texts: Unable to turn on bluetooth with Yosemite

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I can't for the sake of it turn my bluetooth on in Yosemite.
It is greyed out and the menu bar shows bluetooth disabled with a grey wiggle line through it.

Anyone have a solution?


texts: Someone using my Apple ID to play Clash of Clans

texts: I downloaded Clash of Clans and I found that my Apple ID already had data. I change my password, but I found that this stranger still can play Clash of Clans with my account. How can I stop this?


texts: Is it possible to run lion, ubuntu, and backtrack on my imac?

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Would it be possible to do this? To run lion, ubuntu, and backtrack all on the same machine?
Or even just lion and backtrack would do the trick. If so, how would I go about doing this?


texts: Force URL link to open with a specific browser

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I've created a URL link in my dock, however, the link only opens with the default browser. I have safari, Firefox, and chrome (latest being the default) installed in my machine. I'm wondering if someone knows how to default the link to open with Firefox instead of Chrome but still keeping chrome as the default browser.
Note: I'm running Mavericks in my MacBook Pro.


texts: Native 5k resolution in Windows 10 on retina iMac

texts: Is it possible to run the native 5k resolution on my retina iMac when using the official Windows 10 bootcamp? Right now, it seems to be capped at 4k. I have the 4.0 GHz i7 with the m295x GPU.


texts: How to properly remove old Bluetooth devices listed in the Bluetooth menu?

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I hit the Option button as directed before opening Bluetooth Preferences to delete old devices but only the one I'm currently using comes up, not the three other old ones listed under the Bluetooth menu.

How can I access and delete these?


texts: What's the difference between iTunes Match and Apple Music?

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I currently pay for iTunes Match which gets me advertisement free streaming as well as a unified, cloud backed iTunes Library.

I don't understand how those existing features work with or against the newly announced Apple Music subscription service.

Is the former discontinued or credited to the new service or are they complimentary and optional to pay for either A or B or both?


texts: QuickTime Player.app New Movie Recording Error: won't record

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How do I get rid of this error icon and use QuickTime Player to record from my FaceTime HD Camera?

The FaceTime HD Camera is listed as one of the input options:

The New Audio Recording and New Screen Recording features work, but not the New Movie Recording (which uses the FaceTime HD Camera as an input).

QuickTime Player Version 10.4 (894.1)
macOS Sierra 10.12.3 (recently upgraded from 10.12.2, prior OSX Lion factory install)
late-2012 AirBook (i7, 2GHz, 8GB RAM, 400+GB free internal SSD available)


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Laptop: Macbook Pro 2015 with macOS Mojave freshly upgraded from High Sierra and active FileVault.

Issue: After Mojave installation I see the prohibit sign and can't boot as usual

What I did so far: I figured out the issue is about FileVault and "missing/lost user". I unlocked the FileVault from Recovery Mode and retrieved my files, now I want to try to boot regularly but I don't know the command.

Question: How to boot from Terminal directly? I mean without rebooting.


texts: Can a logged in user restore its ~/Library folder from a Time Machine backup made with a previous version of the OS?

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The full story: I have a clone of my old MBP drive which had Yosemite installed. I now have a new MBP with macOS Sierra on it. I tried to transfer the data from my old Mac to the new one using Migration Assistant, but it froze while importing the Applications. I also tried importing just my user account, but it was so slow that I cancelled the procedure, and decided to use Carbon Copy Cloner to finish the work. CCC had problems with permissions on some folders in my ~/Library folder however, and it did not seem to succeed importing everything. Now, my question is three-fold:

Will I have more luck if I restore my ~/Library folder from a Time Machine backup? Or will it also have the same permission problems?
My Time Machine backup is from a Yosemite installation. If I restore my ~/Library folder from that backup on a macOS Sierra machine, will I run into troubles? I am thinking about settings that might be specific to macOS Sierra here that I would be loosing by overwriting my ~/Library folder.
Will it work to restore my ~/Library folder from Time Machine while I am logged in? I mean, won't some of these files be in use and impossible to overwrite?


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I need to sign the code of an app I'm trying to submit to App Store through terminal:

codesign -f -s '3rd Party Mac Developer Application: DEVELOPER NAME' --entitlements "APPNAME.entitlements" "/AppPath/APPNAME.app"

but I'm getting the error 3rd Party Mac Developer Application: DEVELOPER NAME: no identity found for all DEVELOPER NAME I try. I have no idea of what to fill in it.

What should I fill in order to get rid of this error?


texts: Should I use time machine to migrate from one mac to another?

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I have had my blackbook for a little over 4 years now and think it's time to upgrade to a new macbook pro. I'm currently running leopard on the blackbook with time machine. I'm wondering if time machine is the right way to move my data from my old mac to the new one.

My main concern is that if I do a full restore, I will lose the new software on my new mac (e.g. - Aperture). I basically want to migrate all of my music (from itunes), a bunch of files/projects, photos (I don't use iPhoto), etc. I probably don't care as much about applications.

What's the most painless way of doing this?

NOTE: I would like to be able to use my time machine harddrive with the new computer for the same purpose.

(Extra credit if anyone can comment on migrating Eclipse workspaces. I'm pretty sure just moving all the directories over will work fine if I just reinstall Eclipse on the new machine.)

Thanks in advance.


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A MacBook Air with a SSD, the boot drive, name consisting of 220 double-quote characters.
MBA 2014 with Sierra 10.12.6 (not high sierra)
These did not work:

From a finder window, R-click in name column Dialog popup - "The name  can't be used.  Try using a name with fewer characters, or with no punctuation marks"
From finder window, sidebar - just to be exhaustive, same result
From the Info dialog.
From the terminal.

At the user home directory:  diskutil rename /Volumes/oldname  new name .  I get the message "could not find disk for /Volumes".  I tried using single-quotes around oldname, but same result


texts: Serial terminal not taking keyboard input

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Not sure when this started, but I can't seem to get any keyboard input in my serial terminal window.
No issues however in binding the tty.usbserial interface to the terminal program and getting output from whatever device is connected. But once I start hitting the keyboard, nothing shows on the terminal window.

I have tried zTerm and CoolTerm as serial terminal programs and I'm on macOS Mojave 10.14. Oh and not to forget the built-in "screen" program.
Tried several devices with a console port.

ls /dev/tty.*
/dev/tty.usbserial-A700HCG8

What can I do to troubleshoot & hopefully fix this issue?


texts: How can I send saved library videos through Snapchat?

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For pictures I can see the share option to send it through snapchat, but I can't seem to find it for videos.

I want to be able to record a video using the phones default camera app and then send it to a friend on Snapchat. Since the video is likely to be longer than 10 seconds if it would send multiple videos of 10 seconds each that would be ideal.

How can I do this?


texts: Open .theme file in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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I've done a brilliant stupidity...

I have a Jailbroken iPhone and have iFile on that. I wanted to edit a Winterboard theme that I had downloaded, so I fired up iFile's inbuilt Web Server and downloaded the .theme file to my Mac.

I tried opening that but upon right-clicking, I did not get the usual "Show Package Contents" option. After fooling around a bit, I simply clicked on Open with and selected "TextEdit". TextEdit was able to open the file and what showed up was an html file called ".theme" and had real html code with details about the Modification Date and it's location within my iPhone, all in doc format.

Now here's the problem -
1.  I'm not able to open the theme file to edit. (I've done some editing earlier and know for sure that the Show Package Contents option should have shown up)
2. The .theme file has by default gotten associated with TextEdit and am not able to change it back or remove that association... Help me do that for sure!!! Note- There's no Finder.app that I can associate with that file... Is there a way to do that?


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I'm currently having a bit of a nightmare as the company secretary's Mac has failed to run OneDrive since June. I use this to sync a Sharepoint document store that is effectively the company file server. The secretary has been working on a fairly significant number of files (and some pretty important ones regarding finance/invoices, recruitment, payroll, etc,) and did not noticed/mentioned that OneDrive hasn't been running.

Because of this problem, I've got ~500 files that I need to identify and work out how to sync/merge without over writing other people's changes... :/

I've effectively fixed her OneDrive for the time being -- it starts at startup and logs in and syncs as expected. I'm nervous, however, that OneDrive will stop again and we'll be back in the same boat, and I don't feel that asking her to keep an eye on it is a long term or a reliable solution.

What I was thinking of doing was to write a script that monitors for the OneDrive process and will fire an alert of some kind if it's not running. I am not a Mac expert however so I'm at a bit of a loss as how best to achieve that.

I guess AppleScript and a cron job is my best option. Can anyone advise if there is a better method, and can anyone help me getting started with AppleScript to detect a process and send an email warning if it's not detected?

EDIT : Process name is OneDrive


texts: Why do two Chrome windows launch when I click an external link?

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I've got the most recent version of Mountain Lion installed, as well as the most recent version of Chrome.

When I've got Chrome set as the default browser, and if I close out all the tabs before I quit Chrome itself, if I click on an external link (e.g., from within an e-mail, Tweetbot, etc.), two Chrome windows launch—one with Google (my set homepage) and one with the target of the link.

Not closing out all the tabs before I quit Chrome does the trick, but what specifically could be causing this?


texts: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) macOS High Sierra. I do not see notifications for me to update to macOS Mojave. What os is best for my MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch, Mid 2014?


texts: Automator :: Remove 6 digit date from filename; append current date

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I apologize in advance if this has been answered but have performed a lengthy search in hope of a solution.

I have a working Automator app that appends the current six-digit date (YYMMDD) to the end of the file name:

Input: Filename.txt
Output: Filename_181212.txt

Current bash command:

today=$(date +%y%m%d)
for f in "$@"
do
    basename=${f##*/}
    filename=${basename%.*}
    path=${f%/*}
    ext=${f##*.}
    newfilename="$filename"_"$today"
    mv "$f" "$path"/"$newfilename"."$ext"
done

This is great but after using it regularly, I have realized it would be nice not only append the current date but first check to see if a date is already appended to the filename; if so, remove it and append the current date, otherwise simply append the current date.

There two scenarios:

Filename contains any date (previous/current/future) in the 6-digit format described previously preceded by an underscore (Filename_181212.txt)
Filename does not contain at 6-digit date format appended to it (Filename.txt)

I realize that the solution I am hoping for will remove any six digits and its preceding "_" if it exists, whether it is a date or not.

Is it possible to precede my current bash command with something like:

  if any combination of numbers exist immediately before the file
  extension (".ext") AND contains exactly 6 digits AND is preceded by
  an underscore ("_")

  then remove the underscore plus 6 digits AND run the bash command
  listed above

  if not then run the bash command above

Summary
I'm trying to alleviate manually removing dates that may exist on a file name before appending the current date to them. Some files may have dates and others may not.


texts: How to make post-Lion Finders find special directory . and ..?

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Before OS X 10.7, you can navigate to the parent directory in Finder using Go to (Shift+Command+G) to the special directory ...

However, since Lion Finder is no longer able to do this and gives he error message The folder can't be found.

Is there a way to enable Finder to do so?


texts: iPhone 2G, iOS 3.1.2 and YouTube doesn't work

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So, YouTube application doesn't work. What I mean by that is that it won't playback any videos, nor will it log me into the YouTube so I can't see my subscriptions, or my videos/playlists, etc.

Did Google change something and Apple apparently hadn't made an agreement with them to make sure that older iDevices would continue to work with their services? Or is it something else?


texts: Safari search google directly on right click highlighted link text

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I am using Safari 11 on macOS 10.13.

Just wondering why right clicking the link text would make "Search with Google" moved to "Services"?

Thanks.

Normal Search with Google:

More steps for a Google search:


texts: How to automatically turn black main monitor when external monitor is connected while using internal keyboard

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When I use external display, I always use screen mirroring and set main display brightness to zero.

Macbook remembers screen mirroring config, but I must turn down the brightness manually every time the monitor is connected.

Is there a way to turn off main monitor automatically when external monitor is connected?

There are similar questions, but the first answer is about clamshell mode, and the second question's answers doesn't match my need. Because I want to brightness down automatically.

Turn off the macbook main display while working with monitor

How do I turn off laptop display when I have an external display?


texts: Can I use Airplay without Apple TV or Airport

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I have my PC, IPad and a AirPlay compatible speaker

My question is:

Can I use AirPlay to hear my IPad music in my speaker only with ITunes software only, or I need necessarily to buy AppleTV or an AirPort in order to use AirPlay?

In order to use AirPlay is necessarily to have AppleTV o an AirPort??


texts: In Sierra, did Apple remove the ability to play HLS streams in Quicktime Player?

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For years, I've been able to use Quicktime to play live HLS video streams such as http://hls.twit.tv/flosoft/mp4:twitStream_720/playlist.m3u8. I open Quicktime, go to File -> Open Location, and paste the URL.

After upgrading to Sierra, streams such as the above example no longer play.

Did Apple remove this feature in Sierra, or is there something else I'm doing wrong? Are there any types of live streams that Quicktime still natively supports? Is this just a bug that's likely to get fixed? I can't find actual documentation on this anywhere.


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The Force Touch (URL previews and word definisions) of the trackpad of my MacBook Pro 13" TouchBar often stops working and it works again after a reboot, but I'd like to find a quicker way to make it work again.

What's the process that handles Force Touch on macOS? Then I could try to kill it and see if it works again after restarting.


texts:
is there a difference between "exactly duplicate" and "duplicate"?
File> Duplicate / Exactly Duplicate


texts: What is fastest operating system for my Macbook Pro 13" mid 2010?

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I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, still running 10.6.8 but I'm getting incompatibility messages from various other sites and software.

Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Should I upgrade to 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion? I'm worried that later versions might be too big a jump for other software, and that I might not have enough space to optimize speed with larger systems.

Would I need to do that in increments, or can I skip to newer version?


texts: Is there a way to access play count or stats in general from an iPhone? Either Apple Music stats or local-content specific, doesn't necessarily matter, just can't seem to find anything like that.


texts: I have a new MacbookPro with only USB-C ports. Does there exist a wall charger for USB-C that can provide the appropriate power while also providing a sort of built in dongle for USB and an SD card reader?  I am looking for something like the below image, where the extra USB ports also provide data to my mac when plugged in via USB-C. Does such a product exist? I would never need to remember to bring another dongle again, just bring my wall charger.


texts: 12" MacBook battery is dead after 386 cycles

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I have an early 2015 12" MacBook 512 GB SSD with 8 GB RAM.

I have used my it nearly daily since I bought it brand new. I have never exposed it to high temperature, always working in AC room with a temperature around 24 degrees Celsius. Never worked in bed, but always on the table. I always care of my computer in the best possible way.

The Battery has major issues, the battery is sometimes charging till 100%, sometimes it drops to 20% and charging only till this number. Sometimes I can run my MacBook without charger plugged and sometimes it won't even start if it's not plugged.

The battery side is probably a little bit inflated so the case doesn't fit together as on another side. Looks like the battery somehow got bigger.

Any ideas why is this happening? And if Apple will care it like some hardware issues from their side so they will change it? The battery is only 386 of 1000 cycles they told me so it is absolutely outrageous on the machine for $2000 at that time.


texts: iCloud Photo Library not uploading anymore

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I have iCloud photo library enabled on my iPhone (6, iOS 8.3).
Since the weekend it does not upload the photos anymore.
When I go to the Photos settings, it gives me the following messages in a loop:

  2324 Objects waiting for upload
  Uploading 2324 objects

The progressbar shows up, fills up to around 30%, then disapears again.
I translated the messages from German, they might be different when iOS is set to English.
A restart of the phone does not help.

When I go to iCloud.com the photos are not there and also in Photos on my Mac I cannot see them. However when I create a shared album, I get the photos on Photos on my Mac.

Any suggestions?


texts: Chromium in Launchpad but not in Applications

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I recently installed uTorrent on High Sierra but wasn't thinking and installed the Yahoo thing. The uTorrent installer says "Opera", but I ended up with a Chromium icon in my Launchpad. The problem is it isn't in my Applications folder.

I rebooted the laptop and Chromium started up on its own and when I opened Chrome I was notified that another application installed an extension. I removed it.

How do I get rid of this Chromium installation now? I have enabled the jiggle but no X appears.


texts: Clean Remove Partial Binary of Homebrew in OSX Mojave

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I interrupted Homebrew installation from the Terminal by pressing ^ Control C because I realized I have little space left in the hard disk.

Now I want to clean the data that was incompletely written to my hard disk. What should I do?

I ran following commands in the Terminal to install:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

This was interrupted. Now I keep getting message of low disc space.


texts: How to deal with commands of conflicting names listed in `brew doctor`?

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So after brew doctorI`ll get the following without any recommendation:

Warning: You have external commands with conflicting names.

Found command `brew-cask` in following places:
/usr/local/bin/brew-cask
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/cmd/brew-cask.rb

Is there a way to settle that conflict?


texts: Do iOS devices have a pop-up Japanese-English Dictionary like on the Macintosh?

texts: On the Mac if you three-finger tap a word, a dictionary definition appears. I'd like to know if I would be able to get this on an iPad specifically for the Japanese dictionaries.


texts: Why do I have IPv6 listeners when IPv6 is disabled?

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I'm working under OS X 10.8.5, fully patched. I have IPv6 disabled under Network Settings:

I also have unneeded network interfaces disabled:

While troubleshooting an OpenSSH server issue, I performed a netstat -an and noticed there were IPv6 listeners:

$ netstat -an | grep -i listen
tcp6       0      0  *.1522                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp4       0      0  *.1522                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0  ::1.52698              *.*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0  ::1.23053              *.*                    LISTEN
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.23053        *.*                    LISTEN
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.631          *.*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0  ::1.631                *.*                    LISTEN

How is it possible to have IPv6 listeners when IPv6 is disabled?


texts: Minimize other windows of an application

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Is it possible to do the equivalent of "Hide other Applications" for Windows of the same application?

Say i have around 4 main windows open for Chrome and each has 10 tabs. I would like to switch to Window 3 of Chrome and hide the other Chrome windows (Window 1, 2 & 4). Essentially i want to hit a CMD+M on the other "windows".

(this is different from Minimize/Hide other Applications that would allow me to switch to Safari and hide other applications like Chrome).

A keyboard shortcut would be awesome, but cursory googling tells me that i'll have to settle with an applescript?

Cheers.


texts: Remove Passbook's "Add credit or debit card" without adding one

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I don't want to use Passbook to pay for anything.  However, I bought a concert ticket online with a credit card, and I was given the option of downloading the ticket to Passbook.  I can see the ticket in Passbook, but I have to pull it up with my finger in order to display the barcode-ey thing that will allow me to get into the show--because the white "Pay with Touch ID using Apple Pay" message fills up the first 2/5 of the screen on my phone.

Is there any way to get rid of the message box without adding a credit/debit card?

I can use the ticket, I guess, but the message box is annoying.

(In case it matters: iPhone 6, iOS 8.4)


texts: What is the best way to deal with coil whine on a Mac laptop?

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I have owned my MacBook Pro for a little over a year, and it has been serving me really well. Ever since I first opened it, the device was experiencing the Retina "staining" issue, so Apple recently replaced the display. Due to an issue with the replacement part, Apple also did a second display replacement.

Though I'm not sure it's related to Apple servicing the device, I have recently noticed something that seems a lot like coil whine on my Mac. If I put my ear up to the keyboard, something that is like an electronic buzzing can be heard. Lately, I can hear this noise at a normal sitting distance. Interestingly, though running disk intensive applications like BlackMagic Disk Speed Test intensify this noise, it seems to be coming from all parts of the logic board.

Assuming this is coil while, what would be the best way to deal with this issue? I have talked to Apple support online, who advised the usual troubleshooting steps of an SMC reset, among a few others. I restarted in Safe Mode, reset both the SMC and NVRAM, as well as ran Apple Diagnostics, all of which neither resolved the issue nor indicated any hardware issue.

First of all, could this seemingly new issue be related to Apple servicing the device twice? Also, since this device is covered by an AppleCare Protection Plan (and possibly an additional warranty from the recent repair), do you think Apple would replace the device or logic board if I can prove that this does occur? The problem with showing this to someone is that it is faint enough that you would not able to hear this in an Apple store.

I would appreciate any advice on how to present this issue to a technician or otherwise resolve the problem without a visit to the Apple store. Thanks!

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015),
macOS 10.13.3


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My daughter gave her little brother her iPod Touch 8g. I have been trying to update the software and would like to get it rest to a factory clean state so I can linked it to the iTunes that already syncs to his iPad.

How can I do a clean up and wipe of everything from an iPod?


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I have failed for a year to find a way to run SSI (server side includes) on my iMac using the apache web server included with server.app.

I am wondering if the server app will allow server-side includes in a website hosted by Apache on High Sierra?


texts: No option to boot into windows now I've installed El Capitan

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I have just upgraded to El Capitan from Yosemite.
Previously when holding down the option key I had the option to boot into Windows as I had installed this using Boot Camp. Now it doesn't give me that option.

After installing El Capitan I used the partition tool in Disk Utility to create some free space (the idea being that I would download Mini Tool partition wizard once back in Windows and get some more space). The Bootcamp partition seems to be there as you can see in the screenshot pictures but it just doesn't give me that option of booting into Windows when holding the alt key at start up anymore!

I changed the start up disk to Bootcamp (Windows) on start up but came up with this message "No Bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key." When press alt key can still only select Macintosh HD. It's Windows 7 and all the installers still seem to be there when I select the bootcamp disk.

Tried turning off the System Integrity Protection (SIP) as recommended by @DavidAnderson but when back in El Capitan it still didn't give me the option to 'first aid' the disk.
Here's what it currently looks like in Disk Utility...


texts:
Few hours ago I am trying to sort a table! I don't know where is this think but is so annoying that I can't find with ease this thing.

I saw many articles saying that you have to go to Inspector, table tab and there is an option there, but this is the old version, I own the new one 5.5 and there is no such option.

Do you know guys where is this thing?


texts: How to change thumbnail size without Command + J

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On my mac (macOS 10.12.6) I can't find a quick way to resize image thumbnails in icon view mode.

I remember many years ago, with Leopard, by using Ctrl + Scroll Up/Down it was possible to resize thumbnails.

Is there any way to use that functionality or third-party software that enables this functionality in Sierra?

I am using a normal keyboard and a normal optical mouse. Not a Magic Keyboard or a Magic Mouse.


texts: External Microphone input for MacBook Air 2012

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I am trying to get an external microphone (this Sennheiser ME3) into the TRRS jack of my 2012 MacBook Air, through a headset splitter such as here.

(this is so that I can use speech recognition software -- the Sennheiser is especially good for speech recognition)

The first check I do is on the headphones: I go to System preferences -> Audio -> Output, and notice that inserting the splitter registers as "Headphones/Headphone port" whereas removing it registers as "Internal speakers/built-in". So, that is behaving correctly.

I also note that actually plugging and unplugging headphones into the other end of the splitter doesn't register.

I also check that audio output works correctly TRRS -> splitter -> my headphones.

However, audio input does not behave correctly. System preferences -> Audio -> Input does not change when I plug and unplug the splitter (which has the Sennheiser ME3 attached). It states "Internal microphone/Built-in" regardless.

I've also done a simple experiment to confirm that the MacBook is indeed receiving audio from the built-in microphone. I.e. it is completely ignoring the fact that the Sennheiser is attached. I did this by launching QuickTime and creating audio recording, then putting on the Sennheiser and counting "123" with my face next to the screen then "456" with my head as far from the screen as the cable permits. The first recording comes out much louder, so it is indeed using the internal microphone.

How can I get to take input from the Sennheiser?

Related questions:

MacBook Pro (mid-2012) Microphone Input

MacBook Air audio input/output, mic/headset

Recommendations for headset (+ mic ) for macbook in 2012

MacBook Air audio input/output, mic/headset

PS If all else fails I will try another splitter.


texts: Songs available in iTunes match is different to Mac

texts:
When I update iTunes match on my Mac it tells me 8,257 songs are available in iCloud. My Mac's and iOS devices all have 8,238 songs.

• A smart playlist of "matched" plus another one of "unmatched" totalled = 8,238 songs
• A smart playlist of "location=iCloud" AND "location=is not on this computer" = 0 songs
• A smart playlist of "location=iCloud" = 8,238

Any idea why the update process continually insists I have these 19 extra songs ?


texts: Is there a USB-C PoE adapter for iPad Pro?

texts:
Is there a dongle which plugs into the USB-C port on the iPad Pro that accepts Power over Ethernet (PoE) so when PoE is available there’s no need to plug an additional USB-C cable to provide power to the device?

I see that starting this year Apple is selling a Belkin adapter for the lightning port which provides this, but I don't see any offerings for USB-C

I'm looking for an always-on kiosk implementation where Ethernet is preferred and more robust than Wi-Fi.


texts: Mac OS 10.7.5 – VLC - Can't find AB Loop Hotkey in Preferences

texts:
I use VLC as a video player for many reasons but mainly in order to benefit from the A-B Loop function where I can select a particular section of the video and watch it over and over again at different speeds. VLC for Mac OS does not allow users to add a loop button on the controller bar at the bottom of the window such as VLC for Windows.

The only option is to define the A & B points by clicking on the Playback menu item and scrolling down to A→B Loop to define point A, then do the same again to define point B, which render the function useless and overly convoluted, or at the least inaccurate and completely frustrating. The other option is to use the shortcut (hotkey combination) shift+command+L, which works somewhat better, but still is very annoying when trying to define specific points on the video where you want to the loop to start and end.

I tried to use change the Hotkey combination in Preferences under Hotkeys, but to my dismay, the A→B Loop is not listed anywhere in the list of functions under Hotkeys. How come? All other functions are!
I was hoping someone could give me some advice on how to make this function easier to use and/or how to maybe customize the A-B Loop Hotkey so I may choose a single key on the keyboard instead of a 3-key combination.

I would love to see in the future a visual indicator on the screen where users can visually define the A & B point on the slider. I'd hate to switch to a different video player because I love VLC otherwise, but if I don't find a solution for this particular issue, I might just have to.
Cheers!


texts: Did Apple shut down the Activation Lock checker? Why?

texts:
I have an used iPhone 6s that is pin locked and I wanted to check whether it was locked to iCloud or not.

I opened icloud.com/activationlock to find out that the service is no longer available.

Is there any reason Apple decided to disable this tool? Now it will be harder to tell if an used iPhone that you want to buy is stolen.


texts: How to reinstall previous iOS version on iPhone or iPod touch

texts: I have updated iOS version to 4.3.5 but I want to reinstall 4.2.1. Does any one know how to reinstall 4.2.1 on iPhone?


texts: Transferring iPhone message history to new Mac?

texts:
My filesystem was corrupted when updating to High Sierra so I wiped it and restored my files from a dropbox backup. However, I didn't back up my iMessages because I thought I could easily restore them through iCloud. Since Apple removed the iCloud message history synchronization feature after the iOS 11 and High Sierra beta period, is there currently a way to transfer my past messages from my iPhone to my laptop and view them within the Messages app?

All of the third-party solutions I've found so far export iPhone iMessages to pdf or csv files rather than the archive format used by Messages on MacOS.


texts: Is there a way to limit how frequently you can start an application?

texts:
On my phone, I'm am enjoying a new tweak called MailStop which sole purpose is to limit my reflex of checking my mail far too often. I have set it to not allow me to start the Mail app for five hours once I have already started it. This has had a great impact on my mail checking abuse. I get to stop and remember I'm checking it far too often every time I try to open it during these hours.

There are other ways to limit the Mail app abuse with this application, but my question os the same as the title: Is there a way to limit how frequently you can start an application on the mac?


texts: Missing Disk Image password in Keychain after Time Machine restore

texts: I recently restored my HD from Time Machine, and it looks like everything in keychain copied over fine - except for one password for a very important disk image! When I look at my old login.keychain passwords, it's not there either, even though I mounted that image a hundred times from the keychain-saved password. Any idea where it went, or where it was stored?


texts: Predictive Emojis Do Not Work on iPad Pro

texts: The predictive emojis that are suggested on my iPhone rarely if ever function on my iPad (most recent version of iPad OS and newest iPad Pro 13 inch 2020 model). I’ve tried all the numerous clickbait suggestions found on Google from years ago but it’s apparent this is still a big problem that Apple will likely never address. How do I fix this? I think the only cases where predictive emojis do work is in the built in iMessages app. Everywhere else, no.


texts: deleted the backups folder from time machine

texts:
I recently deleted the backups folder from my time machine. Before realizing what may be the problem I tried deleting the stick files from my trash with a number of methods like rf -Rm, sudo, trash it!, And a few others.

None of these worked. I think it might have to do with the backups folder being in the trash. I can't seem to recover the folder from the trash so I'm in a bind. I need hard drive space for the work I'm trying to do and cannot get this stuff out of my trash.

Please help, someone!


texts: I have a company MacBook Pro. I am sudoer and I can do anything that requires admin privileges when I'm connected to the company network. But I can't when I'm home. How is that possible?


texts: How can I use Homebrew to install MongoDB 2.8 with "Wired Tiger" storage engine on my MacBook?

texts:
I want to install MongoDB on my MacBook, and I would like an no-problems installation experience such as Homebrew offers.

However, it looks like brew install mongodb will give version 2.6.6 and adding the --devel flag will install version 2.7.7.

I would like version 2.8, which is still in "release candidate" stage so that I can use the new Wired Tiger storage engine that is available with version 2.8.

How can I use Homebrew to install version 2.8 of MongoDB on my MacBook?


texts:
Can the hourly backups by Time Machine be stopped? I'm on Lion and if it matters, each hour it tries to backup about 30GB  (I don't know where this 30GB comes from, as today I've only modified a few text files and browsed the web). This results in the computer slowing down noticeable and beachballing more often.

Or even better than stopping them completely change the hourlys to every 2-4 hours?

It is backing up to a TimeCapsule, so I think the network might be the reason it is slowing down noticeable, that and it's a late 2008 MacBook Pro.


texts: How do I view a song's composer on my iPod touch?

texts: Is there any way of viewing the composer of a particular song in the Ipod Touch? I know you can sort songs by composer, but what I want to do is while listening to a particular album (classical music), view the composers of the different songs.


texts: System Preferences constantly jumps to Keyboard screen

texts:
Whenever I open System Preferences directly to one of the subscreens (e.g. Network or Bluetooth), that screen appears for a split second, then Sys Prefs immediately jumps to the Keyboard screen.  I have to Search and select the screen I want again before it will "stick."

Also, if go to another prefs screen, then click away from it to another app, Sys Prefs again consistently jumps to the keyboard screen.

Even after switching to another tab under Keyboard (Text, Shortcuts, etc.), clicking away will again jump back to the first tab (Keyboard -> Keyboard).

Happens in Sierra but also happened in El Capitan.

This makes it pretty hard to do some tasks and is extremely annoying.  Haven't found any solutions online - ideas?


texts: Creating A Folder From Any Number Of Selected Items In Finder?

texts: Is there a quick way to select several items and place them into a new folder?


texts: Keyboard and trackpad freezes for a while after sleep in macbook pro 2019

texts: I'm using Macbook pro-2019 13inch with Catalina 10.15, so recently I started facing this issue, after turning my mac on from sleep my keyboard and trackpad doesn't respond even the backlights doesn't turn on, then Bluetooth search for keyboard starts and after some time my keyboard and trackpad starts working back.


texts: How does one cache map data to enable GPS navigation without network access?  I would like to cache maps before visiting an island.


texts: I am using a 2013 MacBook Air and considering to upgrade from 10.9 to 10.10. Is there a performance gain after the upgrade? Is Yosemite faster than Mavericks, say, regarding UI responsiveness?


texts: MBR-partitioned HDD: How to encrypt Time Machine backup?

texts:
I'm giving my external HDD to a friend tomorrow for a few days. It's partitioned via Master Boot Record and there are two partitions: a NTFS partition and my Time Machine partition. I don't want him to be able to access the latter, but I can't turn the encryption on because the disk would have to be partitioned with GUID.

Changing the partition scheme would require me to reformat the disk. I can't do this either, as I don't have another HDD to put my files on in the meantime.

Is there another way to encrypt the partition, other than the built-in option of OS X?
Or is there a way to prohibit access to the Time Machine partition without any encryption at all?


texts: Why does Chrome need access to Bluetooth?

texts:
Shortly after updating to macOS v11 (Big Sur), I see:

Why does Chrome need Bluetooth?


texts:
I'm at my wits end on this. I've gone through two different macs and two different displays trying to fix this issue. The goal:

I want to connect my 2015 Macbook pro to a 4k Samsung display at 60hz.

I'm currently using a Mini-Displayport to Displayport adapter. If I use an HDMI cable at 30hz the picture is perfect but the picture is choppy. If I use the Mini-DP to DP adapter I get 60hz, but also really bad washed out colors and banding / dithering issues. I've tried every color profile available and none work to address this issue. The display is almost completely unusable this way and it looks like a 1990s progressive-scan LCD. At 30hz on HDMI it looks perfect.

I've googled and searched everything I know how to search.

What am I doing wrong and what do I need to do to get this display to work?


texts: get rid of uninstalled app from updates in app store

texts:
In the app store, I have a update for an app called "Nepenthes", by Wei Li, which claims to be "for enterprise solution".

However, I've never installed an app by that name, and I can't find it anywhere on the drive.

How do I get rid of it - in two parts:

1) How do I get rid of the update listing in the app store? (I've tried removing ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.commerce/updates.plist and rebooting.

2) How do I make sure it is not installed? (other than not finding it on the hard drive)

Thanks,
Russ


texts: Can't log in to Music/iTunes store on MacBook

texts:
When Apple TV+ came out, I wasn't getting the one-year offer as I should have and got the advice from Apple's online chat to try just completely logging out and back into my Apple account.

I logged out of the apps and iCloud in Settings, restarted, and logged back in, in Settings. Now I can't log back into Music, TV, or Podcasts (although Books and the App Store are just fine). I go to the Account menu → Sign In..., put in my username and password, and the login window disappears as if it's going to log in, but nothing happens in Music or TV. Podcasts actually says "something went wrong during authentication (0)". I don't get a two-factor authentication notice, and if I go back to the Account menu, it still says "Sign In..." instead of showing my account name and balance. Given the affected apps, it seems to be an issue with the iTunes store. Indeed, in Music I also (usually) can't get into the store - if I click on it, it may rarely work, but mostly it will just spin forever, or give me error 11556.

Interestingly, making a test user, I can log in. I figure it has to be a plist or another setting that's been corrupted, but would be fresh on a new user. Going to the Library preferences, I deleted the iTunes store plist, and now I can see the Store, but still can't log in.

What plist should control iTunes login? Or have an idea where other Apple Media Services files live?

I would exhaust other options before a reinstall.


texts: Would it be possible to modify the iPhone in such a way that the hardware switch (ring/silent) also switches on/off camera, mic and GPS hardware?

texts:
How should one physically modify the hardware connection inside the hardware in order to make the analog hardware switch, already in place for switching from ring to silent and vice versa, could also switch on and off (by physical disconnection) the cameras, microphones and GPS radio?

It would be a huge security enhancement for the iPhone!

Is it possible and has anyone ever done it?


texts:
I tried downloading Tumblr yesterday but it never completed. At the moment I have an App icon stuck at 'Loading...'.

I have tried restarting the iPhone (holding down both home and side buttons at the same time) and I have also tried shutting down the iPhone (holding the side button and swiping).

I have also tried deleting it as usual (holding the icon down and choosing delete but it doesn't go away).

Any ideas on what I can do to get rid of this icon?


texts: macOS calendar.app - app reset results in calendars reappearing

texts:
How do you delete all calendars app data and reset the app information to default.

Issue:

I delete all the calendar data and reboot the system.  I open the calendar app and it has reset to the default calendars.  But then it resets again and loads the previous calendars that I deleted.  Not sure where it's finding it from since I thought I deleted all the locations the calendar app data resides.

Setup

on macOS 10.14.6
calendar Version 11.0 (2245.5.2)
local sync only (no iCloud)

I have deleted the following:

~/Library/Calendar/
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CalendarAgent
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CalendarAgent.CalNCService
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CalendarFileHandler
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CalendarNotification.CalNCService
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iCal.CalendarNC

Then I have rebooted the system.


texts: Automatically unlock iPad mini 5 upon pickup

texts: I have a recently released iPad mini 5. Is there anyway I can automatically have my iPad unlock when I pick it up, so its ready to use straight away?


texts: Can a hobbyist or individual apply for Apple's MFi program?

texts:
I found that Apple has the MFi program to help develop a hardware for iPad/iPhone/iPod, but it looks like that only a company can apply for this program.

Can a hobbyist or an individual apply for this program to develop home brew iPad/iPhone/iPod connected devices?


texts: How to convert Windows-based ISO for Mac OS X Installation DVD?

texts: I made an ISO image from Mac OS X Snow Leopard Installation DVD using PowerISO on Windows machine. The ISO file size is 7.6GB, but when I mount the ISO using PowerISO, what I can see is only the files for Windows (900+MB). How can I convert it back to Mac format ISO?


texts: Any tricks anyone can recommend on how to uniquely identify a window (in any app) after restart?

texts:
I have a fun little project I am working on.  I am developing an AppleScript that saves and restores windows to their original desktops (a.k.a. "Spaces") after a restart or an app relaunch.  The script actually is working very well and largely succeeds in restoring assigned desktop positions (though I have not yet optimized it for speed).
There are only a few apps that macOS doesn't automatically restore to their original desktops after a restart (e.g. Stickies), but quitting and re-launching an app (i.e. no restart involved) always dumps all windows on the current desktop.
One problem with my script is that I have not found an ideal solution to, is how to uniquely identify all windows.  Window attributes accessed via "System Events" do not have a unique id.  (Individual app's window objects do have a unique window ID, but those IDs do not survive a restart unchanged.)  Window names are sufficient for most document type windows (E.g. TextEdit) and single window apps usually have one unchanging window name (with some exceptions (e.g. Slack)), but they do not work for windows of apps like Safari (named by current web page), Terminal (naming options do not include unique persistent identifiers - even the tty option changes after restart), and Finder (named by current folder).
When I run my script, after a restart, random Terminal windows will swap desktops and if I didn't save the positions right before an app relaunch, some Safari windows will not be moved (because their names changed, since it's no longer at the same web address).
Some individual apps have their own custom means of editing window names (e.g. Terminal has echo -n -e "\033]0;Custom Name Here\007"), which I could add custom code to handle, but I'm looking for a universal solution that works on any app.
I have an idea for a work-around, but it has side-effects.  It's based on the following: If I use each window's AXPosition, AXSize, and or AXFrame values to use as a sort of "unique window signature", I can narrow down some window identities, though often times, windows tend to auto-open in the same relative position/size/frame on different desktops (these values are all relative to the desktop they're on, so windows in the same relative position/size/frame on different desktops hence have the same position/size/frame and they cannot be differentiated using those values).  However, these values are mutable, so when I save the desktop positions, I can tweak their size or position to make them uniquely identifiable across all desktops using those characteristics.  Another drawback is that those values become useless if the user manually moves or resizes a window.
I've been exploring window attributes via "System Events", looking for an unused value where I could save some sort of ID that would persist through a restart, but other than position/size/frame, nothing else appears to be settable.  Does anyone know a trick to set arbitrary window attributes?
One idea I had to mitigate the identification problem is to assume that if windows of an app are already on more than 1 desktop, I can assume they do not need to be rearranged.  That would both make the script faster and address spurious window movements such as is the case with the Terminal app.
Incidentally, I suspect people will be curious how I am able to move windows across desktops via AppleScript and that I've been coy about revealing that, but I will be posting the code on github when I'm done.


texts: Why is the "Word of the Day" screensaver giving me false information?

texts:
I'm using the "Word of the Day" screensaver under OSX 10.8.

It says "Press the D key to see more.", however hitting the D, or any other key, instead brings up the password screen used to terminate the screensaver and get back to work.

Is there something I might have messed up, or it's just a sentence they forgot there but isn't really supposed to work?


texts: Applescript to keep a button pressed until I press it again?

texts:
I need an extra modifier key which acts kinda like Capslock by using AppleScript - or maybe you've got another proposition?

I would bind it to some key combination in BetterTouchTool.


texts: MacBook Pro 2011 with fuzzy screen won’t boot

texts:
I can’t boot into Safe Mode. Also tried recovery mode, but it won’t load. Tried internet recovery mode - no good. ☹ I'm unsure if this is related to the fuzzy screen (see image above).

I've also tried commandS and believe the results were all good.

How can I proceed to try and get this MacBook to boot up into macOS?

Bought MBP from a guy on Facebook 3 weeks ago. Lesson learned!!!


texts: SSH to a remote station without port forwarding on my mac

texts:
I would like to SSH onto a remote linux computer from the internet at school, which does not support port forwarding.

I type ssh root@<myipadresshere.com

but of course it fails.

Is there a way to SSH to my remote server using any network I am connected to without the ports being forwarded?

If I type SSH -A root@MyIP , it times out.

Skylers-MacBook-Pro:~ skylerfennell$ ssh -vvv root@kd0whb.duckdns.org
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8y 5 Feb 2013
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to kd0whb.duckdns.org [67.166.55.176] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/skylerfennell/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/skylerfennell/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/skylerfennell/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/skylerfennell/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3 pat OpenSSH_4*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug3: load_hostkeys: loading entries for host "kd0whb.duckdns.org" from file "/Users/skylerfennell/.ssh/known_hosts"
debug3: load_hostkeys: found key type RSA in file /Users/skylerfennell/.ssh/known_hosts:6
debug3: load_hostkeys: loaded 1 keys
debug3: order_hostkeyalgs: prefer hostkeyalgs: ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-rsa-cert-v00@openssh.com,ssh-rsa
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
Write failed: Broken pipe

Skylers-MacBook-Pro:~ skylerfennell$ ssh -a root@kd0whb.duckdns.org
    ssh: connect to host kd0whb.duckdns.org port 22: Operation timed out


texts: How to start SQL Developer with the correct Java Version?

texts:
I've Java 1.8 installed on my Mac OS Yosemite... and Terminal shows the following:

mccoy:~ daniel$ which java
/usr/bin/java
mccoy:~ daniel$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)
mccoy:~ daniel$ env | grep JAVA
JAVA_OPTS=-Dnode.name=DANIEL -Xmx4g
JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
mccoy:~ daniel$

But SQL Developer still starts with some older Java 1.7 and complains... how can I fix this?


texts: How can I check the cookie in the Safari?

texts:
How can I find the panel for the website cookies in Safari?
I can't seem to find it in Safari's Network panel:

How do I check website cookies in Safari?

EDIT

If I use Firefox browser's Firebug, I can see a tab for cookies:


texts:
I'm trying to shutdown Macs after 24 hours of runtime with this script:

#!/bin/bash
BOOT_TIME=$(sysctl -n kern.boottime | sed -e 's/.* sec = \([0-9]*\).*/\1/')
CURR_TIME=$(date +%s)
MAX_UPDAYS=1 #Days

DAYS_UP=$(( ( $CURR_TIME - $BOOT_TIME) / 86400 ))
    if [ $DAYS_UP -ge ${MAX_UPDAYS} ];then
        echo Mac is going to shutdown
        shutdown -h now
    else
        echo No shutdown needed
fi

The file name is  ShutdownUPTIME.sh.
Now when I try to type in:

sudo ssh ADMIN@macxxx 'bash -s' < ./documents/ShutdownUPTIME.sh

it wants a password. I type that in and then the script runs. The only thing that pops up though is:

  shutdown: NOT super-user

The user is in the sudoers file as ALL=(ALL) ALL on both Macs.
Any ideas?


texts:
I know how to change text for RELY WITH MESSAGE option, however
"Can't talk right now" part can't be changed in setting.

Is there an app or a modification that can change "Can't talk right now" part?

To change text for RELY WITH MESSAGE OPTION go to

Settings->Phone->Reply with Message


texts: Dead battery on two year old purchase - pulled new out of the box MacBook Pro touch bar 13''

texts:
I bought a MacBook Pro 13'' with touch bar 2 years ago and only now (for several circumstances) I had the chance to unbox it and connect it (it remained in an unopened box for two years).

I plugged the computer and started to use it normally but noticed that the battery stays at 0% and the battery status reads: "Condition: Replace Now". I just did a reset of the SMC and that did not fix it?

Are there alternatives to servicing / replacing the battery?


texts:
I often make symbolic links of folders. I recently had to change my laptop and move from Sierra to Mojave.
In the old OS I used to type Cmd + R to go to the original folder. This seems to no longer work. The official apple website still has Cmd + R as the shortcut (https://support.apple.com/el-gr/HT201236).


texts: I have suddenly lost the Wi-Fi on my iPad. Me and my friend have a Wi-Fi account with AT&T and his iPad Wi-Fi is working just fine. Why not mine?


texts: Are the app store review guidelines under NDA?

texts:
To access the app store review guidelines you need to sign in:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html

Does that mean they are under NDA or it it ok to blog about a specific requirement?


texts: How to install app from App Store again on Mountain Lion (or on the new OS X)?

texts:
I had the game "Plants vs Zombies" purchased on the Apple App Store (for Mac) when the computer was using Lion.  Now I made a new partition and installed Mountain Lion on the new partition.

And when I use the App Store to try and install the game on Mountain Lion, it says it is "Installed", and using the "search" at the top right part of the screen, it actually can find "Plants vs Zombies" and even won't list that it is on "Mac HD" (some apps will show "Mac HD" to tell it is not on this new partition of Mountain Lion, which is call "Mac HD 2".)  So it can let me run it... but I think it may be less clean that way.

So is there a way to install it on Mountain Lion?  I think it is more robust if the app is installed on Mountain Lion instead of relying on an old partition.  (what if the old partition is to be deleted a year from now?).  If I Optionclick the "Installed" word on the App Store, it will not do anything.

(I also don't want to just "copy" the app from the old partition to the new partition, as it is some what a brute-force copy and may not be too robust that way).


texts: MacBook Pro stuck on Update Needed login screen with progress bar

texts:
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra. I recently installed an 8 GB RAM module and when I restarted, I was greeted by the Update Needed login screen.

I restarted with Cmd + r and found that the Macintosh HD disk was unmounted and encrypted.

I remounted the disk and set it up as the startup disk but it still took me to the Update Needed screen. I entered the password and the progress bar started to fill in.

3 hours have passed and it's still stuck at the progress bar.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? or atleast get the data back?


texts:
I was cleaning my macbook pro retina's display with Apple's piece of cleaning cloth that came with the macbook in box.

But after I'm done cleaning I noticed weird marks on my screen and they won't be removed with cleaning liquids or even with pressure.

they looks like if the black color of the screen frame was scratched .. but is that even possible ? since its already has a glass layer above it ?!

So anyone know how are those marks appeared ? and how to remove them if possible ?

I hope the images are clear enough


texts: How can I turn off receiving SMS (not iMessages) on os x mavericks?

texts: Is there any way to turn off receiving SMS on Mavericks but still get iMessages? I find it a security flaw for SMS code login for secure websites, if somebody gains access to my computer they could also login to these sites.


texts: App Store update not working in Mac after upgrading to Sierra

texts: I have recently upgraded my Mac to Sierra. After upgrading AppStore update not working. It shows I have to update for apps Keynote, Pages, Numbers and GarageBand. But while I want to update those individually or all at once every time AppStore ask for the password. If I put correct password it ask the password again and again. If I put incorrect password it shows that password is incorrect.


texts: Wiped my Macbook keyboard and trackpad with an antibacterial wipe. It's affected the cursor when there is load on the cpu. How can I fix this?

texts:
I have turned the Macbook off and left it for 24 hours and turned it back on three (days) separate times. Using a USB mouse when the Macbook is turned on works well but as soon as a load is on the cpu the fluttering starts again and the computer is unusable.

Is my only resolve to leave the macbook for weeks and hope the remaining liquid evaporates?


texts: Macbook Pro lags when dual screen is connected

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My mac acts weird sometimes when I connect it to two of my 1080p screens. The computer will become extremely lagging to the point where it becomes unusable. Things will recover once I unplug either one screen or both screens. (My MBP's screen is closed, power plugged in.)

I didn't have these issues before, therefore my guess is that there is no hardware compatibility issue. However, I think that my gfx should also be adequate to support two 1080p screens.

Does anyone have any idea what could be happening?

Specs:
Macbook Pro, 15 inch (Mid 2014)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB

** I have been monitoring my RAM and CPU usage through Activity Monitor when these lag moments happen and they were barely utilised.

** Also ran an Apple Hardware Test but no issues were found.


texts: Creating a wifi hotspot on OSX with a connected USB wifi adapter instead of airport (OSX Lion)

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I am using a USB wifi adapter on my Lion imac.  I am trying to use that connection to create a working wifi hot spot with the imac's internal airport.

I tried following these instructions:
http://maketecheasier.com/create-wifi-hotspot-using-mac-os-x/2009/10/20

It didn't work, though. It feels like i need to do one more step to get the connection bridged between the usb adapter and the airport.

Thanks,
zeem


texts: I'd like to upgrade my MacBook Pro's RAM and hard drive. What brands are reliable?

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I do heavy web development/web design and run my software on a MacBook Pro (Mid 2009) 2.8ghz model. I use Adobe products, run virtual machines in Parallels, have multiple browsers open, text editors and sometimes IDE's. That's how I typically use my machine.

I'd like to upgrade my RAM and possibly get a larger capacity hard drive, but I'm not sure what brands to buy.

From what I've read so far, it looks like Kingston HyperX KHX1600C9S3P1K2/8G is what I need. As for a hard drive I'm after something reliable. No nasty surprises a year from now.

I would really appreciate some advice as this is something I've delayed doing since I purchased my MacBook Pro.


texts: Needs Office for Mac 2011 Outlook Spotlight?

texts: I have deactivated Spotlight, because the mdb process used a lot of memory and I use Spotlight not really often :-) Today I searched some emails in Outlook (Office for Mac 2011) and the mails could not be found, but they are there (I can see them!). Is this only by accident or does Outlook use the Spotlight index?


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On Tuesday I've updated my (non jailbroken) iPad 1 to iOS 4.3.5. When verifying the installation of the installation an error showed up telling me (translated from German) "The iPad cannot be restored. Unknown error (37)". Ever since when I try to restore my iPad I get this error.

I checked the Apple support site, but this just tells me to turn off my firewall in case I have a PC. I have a Mac, but tried it anyway. It doesn't help.

I set the iPad in DFU mode. Didn't help either. As there are no appointments in the local Genius bar within days, I hope to find a solution here.

So does anybody have any suggestions on how I can restore my iPad?

I've already checked the following pages on the Apple website:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694?viewlocale=de_DE#error37
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3125?viewlocale=de_DE


texts: Is there a HDD/Hard-Drive testing tool for mac?

texts: I just found an external HDD in my shelf and want to sell it :-) Before this, I tried to delete all the files on the HDD, but the disk utility of Snow Leopard aborted with a known error "Disk Erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory". So I used the terminal (as described here) to delete the files on the HDD. Now my question is: is there a (freeware) tool to check whether the HDD works well? I don't want to (accidantely) sell a broken HDD


texts: Accidently deleted some small sized partitions when installing WIndows(Bootcamp). OSX Partition wont boot

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I tried to install Windows 8 into my Mac via Bootcamp. I booted into the Windows 8 Installer and had issues formatting the drive that I partitioned for the OS.

Like an idiot, I deleted all of the partitions on my hard drive, except my main OSX partition. I believe the partitions I deleted were 600MB, 3MB, 1GB(Not sure if they were this large). But im certain I deleted one that was 600MB.

After exiting out of the Windows installer, I booted up  my Mac again only see the Windows partition as an option. When I go into recovery mode, I see the partition still there, but I cant really interact with it. Does anyone know what I need to do to make my OSX partition bootable again? I went into DU(Recovery Mode) and tried mounting through DU but nothing happens.

The image shows my "diskutil list" output. My OSX partition is disk0s1. I am stuck and don’t want to lose my data/am trying to boot into my machine again.


texts: Texting is very sluggish on 2020 iMac running Big Sur

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I have a new iMac 2020 64 GB, running Big Sur. The computer has been very good and very responsive. In the past few days, I've run into a problem. Writing a text message is very sluggish. I'm a one-finger typist and I'm pretty slow. When I type a text message maybe the first few characters in a word that appears in my window but I can finish typing a word and look up in time to see the remaining characters appear. When they do appear I'll send the message and have to wait for the send to occur.  I've checked the activity monitor and nothing stressing is happening. I didn't see this behavior with Catalina.  I can live with this but I've never had this problem and I'd like to fix it. Thanks in advance.  The sluggish response doesn't occur while typing this message or emails. As far as I know, this only occurs while texting.
I've tried restarting my computer and it got better for a few hours but started being sluggish again. I don't know what else to try. A site I found said to check the activity monitor for something that was using a lot of memory. I tried that but still no help,


texts: How do I recover a MacBook Pro with a nonfunctioning screen?

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I have a MacBook Pro with a screen that is not functioning (always black). I have tried the following:
Turn on normally: Touch Bar above keyboard shows escape key, brightness buttons, volume control, and nothing else.
Shift-Control-Option-Power: turns computer off; no change in status when it turns back on.
Reset PRAM using Command-Option-P-R: Also no effect. I'm not even sure I'm doing this correctly, because it says you're supposed to do it when there is a startup sound, and I am not hearing any startup sounds.
Try to startup in safe mode by holding shift: Touch Bar above keyboard shows only escape key.
Turn on normally and enter password: Touch Bar shows what it normally shows after logging in.
Plug smartphone into USB port on computer: Smartphone charges normally when computer is on.
Because of the last two items, I suspect that the rest of the computer is working correctly and it is only the screen that has failed. Ideally I would like to get the computer working again but even if that is not possible, there is data on there that I would like to get off. What should I do now? I'm wondering if connecting an external monitor might help. Or if there's some way to see what's happening on the computer, of access the hard drive, through an external device?
(As far as I know, nothing happened to the computer, such as a drop or spill, immediately between the last time it successfully turned on and when it started failing. But prior to the failures, I did notice a series of brighter-than-normal and darker-than-normal patches across the bottom of the display,  creating a visual effect similar to a theater curtain.)


texts: Multi threaded CPU intensive task throttles CPU way before temperatures limits

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I have written a very CPU intensive threaded task that works as expected on my 2012 MacBook Pro quad core. I turn it loose with 20 threads and the temperatures get up to about 100 °C as measured with Intel Power Gadget with minimal throttling.

Take the same program and data files home to my 2016 13" MacBook Pro with a dual core machine and start it up, I would expect that it would also keep up the 3.3-3.4 GHz until the temperature gets near the 100 °C mark. Top command shows the task at 350% (2 cores each dual threaded), but the CPU frequency gets cut to 1.6-1-8 GHz with the temperature only at 60 °C or so with the fans dead quiet.  If I start 4 separate single threaded CPU tasks, the machine behaves as expected with it keeping up the 3.3-3.4 GHz until it hits the 100 °C and the fans get cranking.  The question is why is my CPU being throttled?

Both machines are up to date and running the same versions of gcc. If I even take the binary from the working machine and put it on the 2016 Mac, it has the same problem.

If I run 3 or 4 CPU single threads so the machine is going at full speed, then start the threaded program, it slows the frequency down also.

Both machines have 16 GB of RAM.

Edit

After playing around with code, I suspect that it is getting throttled when a task creates too many threads. In this program, I take each record I read and create a thread for it. I only let 20 or so threads go at a time so at no time is there more than 21 threads, but there are 14,400,000 records to be processed so over the 30 minutes or so each of those records will be processed by a separate thread.

I created a trivial pthread program that sucked CPU time and set 10 of them running. The problem laptop ran that and warmed up to 95C without issues.

I guess I will rewrite my code to reuse the same thread instead of destroying them and starting them up again.

Update 5/13/17

After several hours of work, it now only creates n threads and just reuses them, that didn't help.  Other than CPU temperature, what will cause this machine to throttle down?


texts: iCloud policy for counting the storage Photos uses

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I’m getting ready to delete some old photos to free up iCloud storage space. I have shared some of these photos in iCloud Shared Albums. If I delete one from my own photos, but not from the shared album, does this free up any space? Or does Apple only count each photo once regardless of how many shared albums it’s in? How does iCloud storage count photos you share in Shared Albums? What about photos that are shared with you in Shared Albums?

Additionally, are photos sent via Messages counted separately than photos in Photos.app? So if I take a 3 MB photo of my cat, text it to my wife, and add it to a shared album, does this take 3, 6, or 9 MB of iCloud storage?


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I have found in Apple support that iMac 4,1 does not have Boot Camp drivers update.
I have installed Windows 7 Home Basic 32bit. So I will have to find an alternate solution for driver updating because it it necessary for good functioning.

Does anyone knows any solution?


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Since the last update around 2020-10-10, MacOS started to log out when being idle.
For instance, after I come from lunch, all apps are shut down or show the quit confirmation.
I went to the Energy Saver settings and disabled the respective setting, but it still happens. Note that I still have the turn off the display and locking enabled after few minutes.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)
MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H2)

Last thing I installed was SoundBooster and Docker Desktop, none of which should have this effect.


texts: How can I tell when Safari on iPad is using HTTPS

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Safari hides the protocol part of the URL (HTTP or HTTPS) in the address bar.

When I'm purchasing something on the Internet, I like to check that I'm using HTTPS when entering credit card details or entering a username and password.

I don't seem to be able to do this when using Safari on my iPad.


texts: Is there any good alternative to winrar archiving utility for mac with ability to browse files before extracting them?

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I have so far tried Keka and Unarchiver, but they both don't allow browsing the archive content. They simply extract everything contained in the archive which is not a desirable behaviour.

Is there any free (or cheap) alternative to winrar for osx?


texts: Line Height with the built in OSX Font Panel

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I am using an invoiving application, and would like to adjust some text properties including line height, but the only options available are show in the attached screenshot.  Does anyone have an idea how to adjust line height when the only tool you have is this font-chooser thingy (Is there a name for this)?

Thank you.


texts: iPhone asks for iCloud password on power charge

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Whenever I plug my iPhone to charge it, iCloud asks me to re-enter my password. How can I fix this?

I'm using iOS 11.4.


texts: An app or script to watch folder and display new images in full screen?

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I'm teaching a photography class and would like to use a cheap setup to display photos taken by the students in real time.

I have a macbook pro and an iphone. I also have an eye-fi card but it's an old one and doesn't work with ad-hoc networks so that's out of the question.

I'll likely be using RemoteSnap on the iphone connected to an ad-hoc wi-fi created by the mac. With this setup, the photo jpgs end up in a folder.

How can I haev every new photo in this folder to appear on the screen (in full screen)?

Thank you!


texts: How to share an app with friends and family only

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I am currently developing an iOS app for one of my family members. The only thing is, I do not want it on the App Store.

How would I be able to share this with my family member? I know that I could use Cydia impactor or with a personal developer certificate, but this would require signing every few days if I remember correctly?


texts: How do I import photos in to the Photos Library completely?

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I get the following error in Photos app on my Mac.

Missing File
Photos with unavailable original files cannot be opened.
The original photo “IMG_3076.JPG” is either offline or cannot be found. Click “Find Original” to reconnect.

This is what has happened, I assumed that since the photo is in the Photos Library I could delete the file from the hard drive. Apparently not. The answer by @Tetsujin suggests that this is not the case.

I have a backup of all these files and I can restore these.
My question is, How do I import these files into the Photo Library completely, so that there is no longer any need to keep the file as well?


texts: How to Properly Uninstall Brother Twain Drivers in OS X 10.6

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I recently had a situation where I wanted to uninstall a Brother TWAIN driver and rollback to an earlier version on my MBP (OS X 10.6.8). I found instructions on the Brother web site and followed them to the letter. However, I was unable to reinstall the older version (freshly downloaded from the Brother web site) - the installer provided a message indicating that a newer driver was currently installed on my system.

I ended up manually reinstalling the older driver by going into the DMG and extracting the files.

Questions

Are there any other locations that I should have looked to remove files from the newer Brother TWAIN install?
Are the Brother uninstall instructions complete?


texts: Unable to connect to localhost on my development machine

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I'm configuring a new Web development machine using the very complete and well-written guide published by Echo Software but I cannot connect to localhost after following/checking every step. My only changes were using PHPv7.0 instead of 5.6, and disabling MySQL strict mode because some third-party software I need to run requires looser rules.

I can ping 127.0.0.1, localhost and *.dev domains successfully (all three commands return the exact same output):

$ ping -c1 127.0.0.1
$ ping -c1 localhost
$ ping -c1 test.dev
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.092 ms

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

However I still cannot connect to any of those over HTTP (same results when using Safari Chrome or Firefox):

$ curl http://localhost
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection refused

I have asserted that Apache, PHP, and dnsMasq are all running by running brew services list, and that all are properly configured:

$ brew services list
Name    Status              Plist
dnsmasq started /Users/{mysusername}/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
httpd22 started /Users/{mysusername}/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd22.plist
mysql   started /Users/{mysusername}/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
php70   started /Users/{mysusername}/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php70.plist
$ apachectl -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.31 (Unix)
$ apachectl -t
Syntax OK
$ php -v
PHP 7.0.10 (cli) (built: Aug 21 2016 19:14:33) ( NTS )

I don't see port 8080 listed when I run a port scan on 127.0.0.1, but as I understand it is autoforwarded by pf.

I have already:

Checked my /etc/hosts file: it has not been tampered with.
Disabled my firewall: no change whatsoever.
Double-checked every step from the guide.
Followed the same guide twice just months ago: both machines are now happy.
Read every similar question/answer I could find, but none helped.
Looked for output in the Apache and PHP log files: nothing there either.
Run out of hypothesis...

Any help would be greatly welcome!

Edit: I also have rbenv and docker/docker-compose setup on the machine, I hope that it's not conflicting because I need them both as well.


texts: Find multi-line block using grep and/or automator with BBEdit

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I have an xml file output from WordPress.

I have BBEdit as my main search tool.

I am on a Mac running 10.7.4

I am trying to find a muli-line block of text that starts with <item> and end with </item>

In the block, there must be <wp:status>publish</wp:status> and <wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type>

Does anyone have any idea how I would find that using GREP or Automator?

(Sorry I don't have enough rep to make better tags)


texts: Can files be exchanged between FAT32 and HFS+ partitioned drive?

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I just got a LaCie 1TB external hard drive and I have a MacBook Air with OS X 10.8.  I often exchange movie and music files with friends that have PCs.

If I were to partition my drive to have 250 GB formatted to FAT32, and 750 GB formatted to HFS+  to be able to exchange files with friends, can I also move files back and forth from the formatted FAT32 portion of my hard drive to the HFS+ portion of my hard drive?
And if I can do that, would the file exchange from the differently
formatted partitions

have to be done on a PC,
or could I do it on my Mac?

Also, is the HFS+ system compatible with the old school Mac
books?

I am not tech savvy, so I apologize for the verbose, non technical wording.


texts: MacBook Pro display suddenly has a very faint warm/pink tint

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I have a MacBook Pro Touch 2017. A few days ago, I noticed that the display seems to have started to have a very faint warm/reddish tint, but I can tell the difference nonetheless. The greys aren't "cool grey" anymore, but more like "red grey", and the whites are sort of "faint pink-white".

I really started noticing this because once after startup of macOS, the display was first "cool/bright" (what I would describe as normal), but perhaps 30 seconds after entry to the OS/Desktop, the whole screen switched to the red tint. This "alteration" doesn't happen every time starting the computer, but quite regularly. When comparing the display to that of a MacBook Pro 2013, it is clearly bluer/cooler in its display.

Note that the displays aren't calibrated beyond the factory calibration and default profiles. The issue occurs regardless of any external displays being connected. This is not related to True Tone, Night Shift or anything like that.


texts: Adding shell script to $PATH is still not executing properly

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I have a directory called projects and inside that directory are subdirectories called project1, project2, project3, and so forth.
My professor hands out a .sh file located in these numbered subdirectories to test our program, but it doesn't work unless I export the path of these subdirectories to my $PATH.
It seems I have to add export PATH="$PATH:/Users/My_Name/desktop/projects/project1" to get the shell script to work, but that seems to defeat the purpose of $PATH to streamline work on the terminal because I would have to manually go in and add a new path every time I work on a new project.
For example when I work on project 2, I would have to manually go into $PATH and add export PATH="$PATH:/Users/My_Name/desktop/projects/project2" which is tedious because I would have to do this for all future projects.
I have tried to add PATH="$PATH:/Users/My_Name/desktop/projects" to $PATH, but that is not executing the script in the subdirectories of my directory called projects.
Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: I got a rock stuck in my charging port for my iPhone and my charger won’t go into the hole I need ways to get it out please?

texts: Rock stuck in charging port from park is st the end of the port and I don’t know how to get it out


texts: How to use Catalina window snapping feature?

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I keep reading about a window snapping feature in Catalina but I cannot for the life of me get it to work.
From https://www.hellotech.com/blog/the-best-features-macos-catalina:

All you have to do is drag an app to one side of the screen. When you see a transparent box fill that side of the screen, release the mouse, and the window will resize itself. If you push the app against the right or left side of your screen, the window will fill up that half of the screen.
...
You can also drag an app to any corner to make the window fill a quarter of the screen. Or you can drag an app against the top of your screen to fill the screen with that window. Finally, you can drag a window to the bottom of your screen to make the window fill the center of your screen.

From https://www.maketecheasier.com/snap-split-screen-windows-macos/:

Entering snap mode is very straightforward. All you have to do is click and drag any open window to one of the four sides or four corners of your display. Once a translucent box appears, release the mouse button. The window will now automatically snap into position.

No matter what I do, I cannot get this to happen. No translucent box, no snapping.
Is there some setting I have to have enabled?


texts: Site accessed by Intel Mac OS X and iPhone OS at the same time

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I have created my own logging in a PHP script on my website. While doing this, I record a timestamp, IP address and HTTP referrer. I notice that I often have two hits as follows where it looks like an iPhone and a Mac are accessing my site at roughly the same time from the same IP address. Can someone explain what is happening here?

  ['2019-06-23 02:47:26pm', '172.117.xxx.xxx', 'Lakewood, California,
  United States', '', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6)
  AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)']

  ['2019-06-23 02:47:28pm', '172.117.xxx.xxx', 'Lakewood, California,
  United States', '', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1_3 like
  Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0
  Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1']

  ['2019-06-23 03:09:04pm', '95.44.xxx.xxx', 'Drogheda, Louth, Ireland',
  '', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6)
  AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)']

  ['2019-06-23 03:09:07pm',
  '95.44.xxx.xxx', 'Drogheda, Louth, Ireland', '', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone;
  CPU iPhone OS 12_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like
  Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1']


texts: How to launch the onscreen Accessibility Keyboard with a keyboard shortcut too?

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With ctrl + cmd + space, macOS launches Emojis & Symbols, also know as the Character Viewer.

Is there a shortcut to launch the Keyboard Viewer?


texts: Unable to install Signal from App Store on iPhone

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I had been using Signal on my phone for a week. last night it stopped working and i was not able to send messages. I tried uninstalling and when i installed it again it does not install. it throws an error.
Can someone help me with this error

"This operation couldn't be completed"
(SignalServiceKit.NetworkManagerError error 504.)


texts: As the Mac mini has no battery, would it fail or just suspend if the power is cut?

texts:
I was interested in buying a Mac mini for work (I love Linux but it requires too much maintenance).

However, it turns out that it has no battery at all (different to a MacBook Pro/Air etc).

I have never owned a Mac and I would like to know what happens if electrical power is missing for a few seconds? (It happens.)

Does it have kind of "snapshot" function or would it result in losing everything I was doing (if not saved)?


texts: How to list bluetooth devices from command line

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I have to list all available bluetooth devices from command line. I tried to google it, but got only results like "how to turn on bluetooth from terminal".

Simply: bluetooth scan

Thanks for help in  advance.


texts: Safari - Picture in Picture with Youtube playlist

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I am working on a Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1 using the new Safari Picture in Picture functionality.

It works well for single Youtube videos but how can I keep watching videos on Youtube playlists?

Right now, I have to go back to Safari at the end of each video and reenabled Picture in Picture mode every time.


texts: Can't enable Thesaurus in Dictionary app

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I'm setting up a new MacBook. On my previous MacBook, I had two reference sources ticked in the Dictionary app preferences - 'Oxford Dictionary of English (British English)' and 'Oxford Thesaurus of English (British English)'. This worked as expected on my old MacBook - at the top of the main dictionary window, I would see buttons for 'All', 'Dictionary' and 'Thesaurus'.

On my new MacBook, I have unticked the 'Apple' and 'Wikipedia' reference sources which were initially on in addition to the aforementioned two British English dictionaries. But the main dictionary window shows only two buttons - 'All' and 'Dictionary'. When I go to the Dictionary app preferences window, the Thesaurus reference source has become unticked, and if I try to tick it, the checkmark is immediately removed!

Switching to the Dictionary and Thesaurus for American English works fine. I have the same issue in the Administrator account, which would appear to rule out a user-specific setting. I guess that one or both of the files for the British reference sources has become corrupt.

My (standard) user account is logged into iCloud, but the Administrator account is not. I didn't use the Migration Assistant to transfer any settings or data from my old MacBook, and I didn't copy any preference files - I just re-applied all the settings by hand.

Both MacBooks are running the most recent version of macOS Catalina (10.15.2).

I have tried unticking all the reference sources and re-starting, then attempting to re-apply the changes.

Does anyone recognize this behavior, or can you recommend troubleshooting steps? Is there some way I can delete and re-download the British English reference sources?

Thanks for any assistance.


texts: Script or App to auto write URL of browser-downloaded files to their respective Comments field (metadata) in the files Get Info sheet?

texts:
I'm looking for a script or any other way to automatically write the URL of a download file to its "Comments" field, as shown in a files Get Info sheet (Command+I in Finder).

Anyone know if I could make a script to do this, or if browser extensions can do this, etc?

Equally fine, for my needs anyway, would be to simply have the files Get Info sheet show me the URL in a separate field, i.e. one that displays whatever is in com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms


texts: Simple question (I could try, but I haven't done that yet): is it possible to create a full account that entirely resides on a removable HD? The use case is that I have a machine at work on which I don't want to install personal stuff, yet I have a personal account that I need to access from time to time (with my personal email, for example, or some apps I purchased). So I'm imagining that when I really need the personal account, I would plug in my removable HD, and otherwise, the machine stays the office machine, without any of my stuff.


texts: Set time restrictions for certain websites even on admin

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Is there a way to set time restrictions per day on certain websites like YouTube on my own admin account?  (preferably free)

I tried the application SelfControl , but there aren't many options, and I have to set it every time I want to block websites.

If nothing, what other tips are there to limit myself from distracting websites?


texts: fsck and Disk Utility won't repair Volume: invalid b-tree node size

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I accidentally wrote some .iso data to a disk through dd by mistake. I cancelled the command after just 2 seconds but that was enough to wipe the first EFI partition (200MB) and a bit of the second partition where OS X and some files I do really like are stored.

The ISO image I accidentally wrote with dd was 600mb in size so the total damage would be a maximum of 400 MB since I dd from sector 0 until I hit Ctrl + C and EFI partition was gone.

I tried running fsck -fy on that partition but it's a no-go.

sudo fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk2s2
** /dev/rdisk2s2
Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=32768 cacheSize=1048576K.
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-557~393).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size

I don't know much about HFS+ but on any EXT Linux partition I could pretty much recover everything that wasn't wiped by dd, even if overwritten. Here however I don't know where to start. There are some fancy GUI tools but they probably won't do anything else then fsck does.

It can't be that the whole partition is gone because 400 MB (if the whole ISO would be written - but that wasn't the case) out of 400 GB was overwritten with data by accident. Partition table seems to be alright - gdisk on Linux says it's OK and Disk Utility on Mac as well.

Volume was journaled (seems to be a problem for HFS+ utilities on Linux)

Any tips how to rescue my files?


texts: Backing up to an existing Time Machine sparsebundle

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I have been using OS X Mavericks Server Time Machine Backup service to backup my laptops. I recently had to move my backup sparsebundles to a new drive. I've reconfigured Time Machine server to point to that new drive and I see my backups in Time Machine server console.

However, when I point my laptop to the Time Machine server, my existing sparsebundle "MightyMac" does get used. Instead, my laptop starts a brand new backup as "MightyMac1".

How can I force my laptop to use "MightyMac" and preserve the historical backups and prevent a new backup file from being created?


texts: Dismiss Calendar notification popups more easily

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After upgrading to Big Sur, calendar notifications on Mac OS have become harder to dismiss.  The notification appears in the upper-right of the screen, and to dismiss it, one must hover over the upper-left of the notification to cause an 'x' to appear, and then click on the 'x'.  Subjectively, I find it tedious to dismiss the notification: the zone where I have to click seems small and requires fairly precise work with my mouse.
Is there a faster way to dismiss the notification?  Perhaps a keyboard shortcut or some other trick?


texts: How can I use a fullscreen app (specifically a Keynote presentation) while displaying another app (specifically a movie) simultaneously?


texts: MacBook Pro 13" 2015 CPU and GPU temperatures

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I've noticed that my new MacBook Pro 13" 2015 (MF839) is getting hot while playing browser games or watching models at sketchfab.com. Both CPU and GPU temperatures rise to 100-105 degrees (Celsius) while playing agar.io or petridish.pw (for example) in Safari/Google Chrome. I've already reset SMC controller and cooler is working fine: about 3000 RPM, but I still believe that temperatures are very high for browser games.

Does anybody else have similar experience? Should I contact the Apple Center or it is a normal experience having such temperatures? I do not plan to use a MacBook for playing, just would like to know if it is a hardware problem, issue, etc.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Create a mono only print queue for a colour printer

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I would like to set up our colour printer (HP Laserjet 4650) such that by default it will only print mono.  It needs to be such that a conscious choice has to be made to print in colour for every job - if this is not the case, our young daughter will inevitably print something in colour one time and then forget to set it back to black and white afterwards and cost us lots of CMY toner!

One possibility is to create a queue for the printer which does not allow colour printing.  I can then set this as the default printer for all users... but I can't seem to find a way to do this either through the normal interface or the CUPS interface.

Or is there a way to make a Preset set of settings always the default that is reverted to for every job?

Or anything else anyone can recommend?


texts: Why does Cmd-I in Preview do something other than advertised?

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Somewhere after Lion (from which I upgraded to 10.10), Apple has changed the shortcut to show/hide the toolbar in Preview from ⌘-B to ⌘-I, at least it says so in the menu entries.
 But when actually using the shortcut, what pops up is (as one would expect), the info window.

Can someone explain why they would change it (probably not a constructive question), or whether this is a bug and how to rectify this and get the old behaviour back? Can this be done with assigning custom keyboard shortcuts?


texts: Applescript - wait for window/dialog to appear/disappear

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I am scripting iTunes and have bumped into two problems when I in one step of my script need to verify wether windows/dialogs are displayed or not.

According to Waiting until a window exists in Applescript? this should be valid code

repeat until window "Print" of process "Evernote" exists

but when I compile it I get this error message "Expected end of line but found “"” (" refers to the " before E in Evernote). Why? That question is 2,5 years old, has anything changed since then? I am running OS X 10.11.

I can use this code to verify wether the song info-window is open in iTunes

repeat until (not (exists window "Song Info"))

but when I try to look for en Open dialog with a similar line

repeat until (exists window "Open")

the window is not detected. I have used Accessibility Inspector to get some properties of the Song Info window and the Open dialog and the only differences I have noticed is the name as well as the type. Song Info is a "window" while Open is a "dialog". Hence, I also tried these two variations on the previous code:

repeat until (exists dialog "Open")
repeat until (exists window dialog "Open")
repeat until (exists dialog window "Open")

but none of them compile.

How do I detect the Open dialog?


texts: AppleScript - How to identify buttons and press them?

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I'm trying to automate the running of techtools via AppleScript. I have got it working but only with full keyboard access (using tab and space to navigate the UI) but not all machines have this enabled when I first turn them on so I need a way of activating the run check computer.
I assume this is possible with the "click button" function but I cannot work out how to find out which button is which with accessibility inspector. Here is the layout of TechTools and you can see in the bottom left is the button I want to press to start the tests.

And here is the inspector info on the button.

As I said, I can activate this fine when full keyboard access is enabled because it's just a case of copying keyboard strokes.

I'm not sure if i'm misunderstanding the concept of identifying the buttons within the program or how to specify which window it's in (I assume it's window 1.)

This is an example of the type of script I've been writing to attempt to achieve this (I know this one just minimises the window.) Do I keep increasing the value of the button until it eventually just runs check computer? When I tried button 4 it activated an option under File on the top bar.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "TechTool Pro 9"
        click button 2 of window 1
    end tell
end tell