texts: Where is the location of the file that stores Mac keyboard shortcuts?

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This file is used to edit or add special shortcuts that don't appear in the Mac menu bar or System Preferences. Some examples:

Ctrl-b → Move back one character
Ctrl-f → Move forward one character
Option-b → Move back one word
Option-f → Move forward one word

Editing this special shortcut text file made these commands work throughout all Mac applications. No issues still works! However, I am unable to locate this file's path again now that some time has passed. I want to fiddle with it some more.
Hints:

Plain text file.
The file in somewhere in ~/Library. No idea on the name.
Not looking for the System Preferences keyboard shortcuts.
Not the same file that stores the System Preferences keyboard shortcuts. (hard-part)
Editing this file will change the shortcut across all Mac applications, e.g. Safari, Notes, Finder, Pages, etc. This won't effect 3rd party apps. This behavior is desirable.


texts: How to retrieve backed-up game data from iCloud after reinstalling a game?

texts: I deleted a game from my iPad and was wondering if i could retrieve the data somehow, because the game was backed up on iCloud and when i reinstalled it all my data was gone. How do i retrieve the data specifically for this app from iCloud.


texts: I installed Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp. Now I've figured out I should have made the Windows 8 partition bigger. Is this safe to attempt using Disk Utility? If not, how do I go about accomplishing this?


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I have a MacBook Pro A1278 Mid-2009 13" Core 2 Duo 2.53 and the hard drive is going out. When I put a new HDD in (or no HDD) it will not boot from USB (or CD). When I put the old failing hard drive back in, then it WILL recognize a bootable USB drive. But that does not help me because I am trying to install the OS on a new drive. When I hold down the "option" key at startup, it goes to white screen, plays the chime music, then an arrow appears, then nothing happens no matter how long you hold it. With the bad drive it will quickly show both the HDD and the USB as options. I tried to format the new HDD to Mac file system and it still will not boot from USB unless I have the old bad drive installed. What could be causing this?

I have an update I made a big mistake. I found out the MacBook is not recognizing my recovery USB drive when the original hard is installed. What I was seeing was the recovery partition of the bad hard drive, which happen to have the same name. So the real problem is that the MacBook cannot boot any USB drive or CD at all. I guess I should delete this post since the problem is so different?


texts: How to choose the first spell suggestion on Chrome for MacOS?

texts: When I'm typing on a text box on Chrome either on Windows or Linux and I want to choose a spell suggestion, I just type Menu then Enter to select the first suggestion. Apple keyboards don't have the Menu key and when using a Windows keyboard on MacOS it filters out the Menu key, so I can't bring up the contextual menu to choose a spell correction. It seems that the lack of keyboard shortcut to bring up the contextual menu is a big missing feature from MacOS that frustrates recent "converts" to MacOS from Linux or Windows. In Safari I can select just by pressing the down arrow on top of the misspelled word, but this doesn't work on Chrome.


texts: Is it better to use AirPlay to push from Mac to AppleTV, or use AppleTV to pull from a Mac?

texts: If we have an iMac and an AppleTV, is it better to use the AppleTV to pull content from the Mac to play it, or is it better to start from the Mac and use AirPlay to push to the AppleTV?


texts: App store ranking - effect of downloads from multiple countries

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If I have an app in the app store, it seems to be that the general consensus is

  Higher Downloads = Higher Rank

However, if my app is downloaded 500 times in Australia, will that affect my US ranking? Or are the app stores completely country-independent?


texts: iPhone Shortcuts open URL in background in Safari

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How can I use iPhone Shortcuts to open the current page in a new background tab in Safari? (So I can continue navigating to other pages in the current tab)
I see that I can use shortcuts to open the URL of the current page in the same tab, but I don’t see how to open in a new tab background tab.


texts: Catalina: How to add System Events to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Automation?

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The problem
In a script I'm using AppleScript to reload the browser when a change happens. I start this in the builtin terminal of my IDE, WebStorm.
Since MacOS Catalina this yields the following error:
English
execution error: System Events got an error: osascript is not allowed to send keystrokes. (1002)
German/Deutsch
execution error: „System Events“ hat einen Fehler erhalten: osascript ist nicht berechtigt, Tastatureingaben zu senden. (1002)
The solution
I added /usr/bin/osascript and WebStorm.app via 'Choose File' dialog to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility (German/Deutsch:   Systemeinstellungen > Sicherheit > Datenschtuz > Bedienungshilfen).
But since Catalina/Mojave it must also appear under the new section Automation. Only there is no 'Choose File' dialog and when running the script no confirmation dialog pops up so (un)checkable entry is created.
How can I allow System Events under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Automation?


texts: Aspect ratio movie shooting on iPhone XS

texts: Is it possible to change the aspect ratio on an iPhone XS when shooting videos using the iOS camera iOS 13.2.3


texts: How to query a particular field of brew cask/ formula info?

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Homebrew version on my Mac:
Homebrew 2.5.0-84-g9e697bd
Take github (Cask for GitHub Desktop) for example, this is the cask file located in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/Casks/github.rb:
cask "github" do
  version "2.5.5-f57dc10d"
  sha256 "fe39c280c746b66d13dbcc5acfeb946f77b680954ecda2bf29a560a98a9d2638"

  # githubusercontent.com/ was verified as official when first introduced to the cask
  url "https://desktop.githubusercontent.com/releases/#{version}/GitHubDesktop.zip"
  appcast "https://github.com/desktop/desktop/releases.atom"
  name "GitHub Desktop"
  desc "Desktop client for GitHub repositories"
  homepage "https://desktop.github.com/"

  auto_updates true

  app "GitHub Desktop.app"
  binary "#{appdir}/GitHub Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/github.sh", target: "github"

  zap trash: [
    "~/Library/Application Support/GitHub Desktop",
    "~/Library/Application Support/com.github.GitHubClient",
    "~/Library/Application Support/com.github.GitHubClient.ShipIt",
    "~/Library/Application Support/ShipIt_stderr.log",
    "~/Library/Application Support/ShipIt_stdout.log",
    "~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.github.GitHubClient.sfl*",
    "~/Library/Caches/com.github.GitHubClient",
    "~/Library/Caches/com.github.GitHubClient.ShipIt",
    "~/Library/Preferences/com.github.GitHubClient.helper.plist",
    "~/Library/Preferences/com.github.GitHubClient.plist",
    "~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.github.GitHubClient.ShipIt.*.plist",
    "~/Library/Logs/GitHub Desktop",
  ],
      rmdir: "~/.config/git"
end

The Cask file has a desc field, and it's value is Desktop client for GitHub repositories.
However, when I do brew search --desc github or brew search --cask --desc github, I only get github: GitHub Desktop, the desc field isn't included.
Sometimes the desc field provides valuable information about a cask. So I wonder if there's a way to make desc included when doing brew search --desc for casks? Thanks!


texts: How can I measure, that how much data of internet I used on MAC for a certain period of time?

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I'm using Mac Book Pro. For internet I use modem. My question, Is there any way to find out how many data (in GB) I have already used for a certain period of time (in 30 days).
Or It will count the amount of data I'll use in coming month or something? Is there any apps to measure it? I'm talking about used data. Not bandwidth. If anyone knows, please share it with me.
Thanks in advance.


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So I have to edit the install of wine, and apply a custom patch. The patch I want is here...

https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=38156

and when I add these lines with brew edit wine

patch do
  url "https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=38156"
  sha256 "f1c4537f38e258c810ca33455e0947e3b2be1087bf9445fadac00424f294c004"
end

and then try to install, it does not actually add the patch. It seems to be downloading it from a prepackaged and compiled source because this is the terminal output...

==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/wine-1.8.1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring wine-1.8.1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
You may want to get winetricks:
  brew install winetricks

 By default Wine uses a native Mac driver. To switch to the X11 driver, use
regedit to set the "graphics" key under "HKCUSoftwareWineDrivers" to
"x11" (or use winetricks).

For best results with X11, install the latest version of XQuartz:
  https://xquartz.macosforge.org/
==> Summary
  /usr/local/Cellar/wine/1.8.1: 2,504 files, 260.8M

and not downloading from where it says to in the brew edit wine file...

stable do
url "https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8.1.tar.bz2"
mirror "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.8.1.tar.bz2"
sha256 "149ad3daaf8593b36c5c061285df0ec2a25e20ea48c61323be91088c4d22ca97"


texts: Does OSX Mavericks Have an Equivalent to the F11 Show/Hide Shortcut in Snow Leopard?

texts: In OSX Snow Leopard, one can push all of the open windows to the side of the screen (revealing the desktop) by pressing F11. Further, by pressing F11 again, all of the windows are returned to their original state. My question is: Does OSX Mavericks have an equivalent shortcut and if so, what is it? (Note that this Snow Leopard shortcut is not enabled by default on portable Macs).


texts: Can OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard be installed on a 2007 MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB

texts:
Ok so i have a 2007 MacBook2,1 - 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - OS X 10.5.8 - Memory 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

I can't currently sync my iphone 4s (IOS 7.1.1) or ipad (IOS 8.2) because i can't upgrade to itunes 11 which i need IOS 10.6.8.

with my macbook can i upgrade to snow leopard 10.6 then to 10.6.8 ??

thanks


texts: New battery installation in the Macbook Pro

texts:
I get a new battery from a repair shop yesterday for the MacBook Pro and the configuration is provided below,

I read that the battery life for the new installation should be about 7+ hours while I get only about 2+ hours now. The battery configuration is provided below,

I get the percentage here,

Is the installation is a new battery or the dealer is deceiving me with an old one? The cycle count is 0, so it might be a new battery. Then why the battery time is so low and also, the time is fluctuating?


texts: Identifying conflicting extensions in classic Mac OS

texts:
I am experimenting with Sheepsaver and am having some problems. I've got it booting okay into Mac OS and have installed some games and other software. But I think I was a little too eager and installed too much without properly testing things and I'm experiencing a number of freezes. Actually, the screen freezes up and mouse pointer disappears but sound is still playing.

Anyway, I remember in the good old days having some software installed on my Power Macs that listed what extensions conflicted with what.

So, my questions are:

What was that software?
Is it still available?
Does it work in sheepsaver?


texts: How could I delete DCIM sub folders in iphone

texts:
I am using my windows laptop to move my photos from my iphone. After I moved all of the folders named  100APPLE to 104APPLE, I want to delete those folders in my iphone storage under DCIM folder. But when I tend to delete it there is a error. I did not disconnect my iphone or interrupted it. It just shows every time i want to delete the folders.

Here is the screenshot from my laptop

Is there any way to delete those folders? I already copied it in my laptop. I just want to free some space from my iphone.

Thanks.


texts: Profiling Time Machine on OS/X Mavericks

texts:
I know that it's possible to end up wasting a lot of space in Time Machine with backing up huge files that have changed only a little (like a Parallels image that is not optimized for time machine) and it seems to me possible that there are also some cases in which one gets lots of little files that are constantly changing or coming and going, like a web cache would do if Time Machine weren't already configured to refrain from backing the cache up.

Apparently there is or was a bug in Chrome that causes such issues.

Is there a tool out there that can detect if I'm wasting a bunch of space somewhere? To detect big files it might tell me (Total space dedicated to versions of file X) - (space required for latest version of file X); there might be a more complicated analogue for directories.


texts: Is there an app for Mac to check app network activity?

texts: I want to know what and where one of my apps trying to download from.


texts:
My non-jailbroken iPhone 6S Plus (iOS 9.3.5) failed to boot up to the lock screen (stuck in apple logo) after the battery was depleted. Hoping to keep my data intact, I have tried several online suggested solutions such as booting it into safe mode (powering on by pressing the power button + volume up button and holding the only volume up button when the apple logo shows) but to no avail.

I looked at several other solutions such as creating a no erase ipsw but am unsure if this is a safe solution (eg. no malware, will not further damage the phone, bricking the phone).

Has anyone tried this solution or has any other solutions I could try? Really hoping to keep my data. Thanks in advance.


texts: I had a hard drive crash and lost the system files, but recovered all my iTunes folders and files e.g. Books, Downloads, iTunes U, Mobile Applications, etc.  The iTunes library file "iTunes Library.itl" went down with the crash.  What's the best way to rebuild my iTunes library now that I have a new HDD?


texts: Can photos in messages be shared to Apple mail

texts:
I often receive photos in Messages that I would like to forward to others via eamil. Currently I am using a copy/paste method but frequently I get multiple copies of the photo pasted.

Any suggestions on how I can message photos by sharing/exporting directly to Apple Mail from the Messages app?


texts: When on a call, the screen turns off; when I turn it back on to unmute I am not on the call screen and have to go back to it

texts: This is probably the most annoying thing I have to deal with on my iPhone 6s. I am often on conference calls for work. I mute myself so the background noise is not a problem, and I hit the power button to turn off the screen and put the phone in my pocket. However, when it is time for me to talk I turn back on the screen and it does not show me the call in progress, it takes me to the home screen. I just want to be able to unmute, but I have to navigate back to the call in progress screen to do that. Is there a way to make it stop doing this?


texts:
I'm trying to run an AppleScript which ejects all drives (from the excellent answer by Monomeeth here) daily at 8 am using launchd. After some searching, I decided the best way to do this was by using launchd. However, I'm running into an error.

The .plist which I have in my user LaunchAgents directory is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>local.SkeletonBow.EjectAllDrivesAt8</string>
  <key>Program</key>
  <string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/local/etc/Daily\ Scripts/Eject\ All.scpt</string>
  </array>
  <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
  <dict>
      <key>Hour</key>
      <integer>08</integer>
      <key>Minute</key>
      <integer>00</integer>
  </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

The AppleScript in question, Eject All.scpt, runs fine when I run it with osascript Eject\ All.scpt in my zsh shell.

According to this site, I should "load the job" into launchctl. I did this by running, according to their instructions, the following:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/local.SkeletonBow.EjectAllDrivesAt8.plist

And then tried to test it by running

launchctl start local.SkeletonBow.EjectAllDrivesAt8.plist

However, this particular action causes a cross to be shown in the Terminal, implying that something wrong has happened. I'm guessing that it's due to the syntax in my .plist file.


texts: Screen sharing - Remote screen off turns main display off

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I run El Capitan + Server on a mac mini that is plugged on a TV via HDMI and to which I access via Screen Sharing.

Recently (since the El Capitan upgrade?), when the remote computer goes to sleep or quits Screen Sharing, the main screen also shuts off (which is of course undesired).

Anyone has an idea where that may come from and/or how to correct it?

EDIT

Apparently this is an El Capitan bug; I have filed a bug report; anyone who encounters it is welcome to do the same. Here is a protocol to reproduce the bug:

Log into Headless Mac Mini from remote Mac via Screen Sharing (while no user is logged in),
Start some video player on Mac Mini (plays on TV/physical screen) and close the Screen Sharing app on remote - the Mini doesn’t go to sleep, as expected,
Connect back, stop video player, let Mac Mini go to sleep,
Connect back again, start video player again, close Screen Sharing from remote again >> now Mini goes to sleep immediately and TV goes black.


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On macOS Catalina 10.15.2 I'm currently trying to use Automator to:

Get current time
Get current day (Mon,Tues,ect.)
Fetch a time based on current time for each period at my school, from a list in a text file
Use a function to subtract current time from variable
Display / Project onto / Create a window displaying the output of the function

Example for a table of times:

"1" = "35640"
"2" = "41820"
"3" = "44220"
"L" = "48300"
"32" = "49500"
"4" = "55200"

The time was converted from military to seconds, for example 4 was 3:20pm.
I'd calculate which time to use, for example 2 ends at 11:37am, if the current time (in seconds is less than 41820, and greater than 35640, it'd take a localized string of 2. Then take the current time, say 11:20am (40800), and subtract it from 41820, giving 1020, convert back into hh:mm:ss, then displaying. I've never used Applescript and am trying to learn it. The most I can do right now is hello world level coding.

As a file this looks like this:

1; 35640
2; 41820
3; 44220
L; 48300
32; 49500
4; 55200

Apologies for being assumingly frustrating, I came from Ti-Basic and haven't done any real coding


texts: Security problem as using same apple id on my mother and my phone bcz of which all imsgs and calls are going to her also

texts: I have 2 iphones one is with my mother and one is with me but apple id on both the phones is same which is creating problm for me as my imessages and facetime calls are going to her also so how can i make my stuff secure and stop my calls and message on going on her iphone????


texts: Sound not working on MacBook Pro 13 Mid 2012

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I bought a Macbook Pro 13' Mid 2012 with the sound damaged just for work (I develop IOS apps) but now I miss the sound in my Mac and I want to fix it.

The sound icon in the superior bar does not appear and when I go to sound settings. I found this message: "No output devices found".  Sound works correctly with bluetooth headsets.

Is there a way to fix this problem?  Does this mac allow for the sound card to be replaced?


texts: Hide full screen button on all Mac OS windows?

texts:
Is it possible, natively via Preferences or otherwise, to hide the green Full Screen button that appears next to the Minimise and Close actions on a window?

I always click it by accident and never use the feature, so would like to remove it if possible.


texts: Route with /etc/hosts on computer to computer network

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Is it possible to change the /etc/hosts file so that the routing is used when a peer to peer network is created, for example, in my /etc/hosts file, I have thisismylaptop.com mapped to 127.0.0.1:

127.0.0.1         localhost
255.255.255.255   broadcasthost
::1               localhost
127.0.0.1         thisismylaptop.com

On that computer, if I traceroute thisismylaptop.com, I get the following result:

$ traceroute thisismylaptop.com
traceroute to thisismylaptop.com (127.0.0.1) 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1. localhost (127.0.0.1)  0.252 ms  0.031ms  0.025ms

I can then open a computer to computer network (in the wifi menu, by clicking "Create Network"), however, when I traceroute thisismylaptop.com on a seperate computer connected to the network, I get the following result:

$ traceroute thisismylaptop.com
traceroute: unknown host thisismylaptop.com

Do you know if it is possible to have thisismylaptop.com point to 127.0.0.1 or the computer hosting the network?

This is my first time asking a question here, so if you need any clarification or anything, please let me know. Thank you so much!


texts: Difference Between macOS Locking and a Kernel Panic

texts:
Why is it that macOS Sierra, when something goes awry, sometimes has a kernel panic, but other times just freezes completely (can't move mouse, use keyboard, etc.)?

Is one worse than the other?

Given that in 10.6 the kernel panic message was before the reboot, and in 10.9 it was after, the system seems to know when it is going to have a kernel panic. Likewise, there used to be an option in 10.8 to restart the Mac if it froze, so presumably the system also knows when it is going to lock up.

Why does one happen vs the other?


texts: MacOS 10.15.4 automatic eject sdcard when goes to sleep

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I bought a transcent jet lite sd card for my macbook pro mid 2014. On MacOS 10.15.4 whenever my macbook goes to sleep my sd card automatically ejected and there is no device in disk utility to mount again and I had to physically put sd card again and it's annoying.

I tried these but none of them solve my problem.

Reset SMC
uncheck put hard drives sleep in energy saver
Install Mountain App
Installing jetdrive toolbox and turn it on


texts: how to get verifications codes from imessage to show in firefox

texts: So when im using Safari and im logging into a website that sends out 2 step verification codes by imessage, when the imessage arrives i get the option when in the browser page to select the code as it appears in the browser login - it automatically asks somethig like "use code from imessage".  When I use Firefox, i cannot figure out how to get the same option to select the code in the browser window - the code does not appear.  Can i get the option in Firefox?  This is what appears in Safari and what im trying to do in Firefox.....


texts: Installing two different versions of Windows via BootCamp?

texts:
I am using a Mid-2013 MacBook Air running macOS High Sierra. I have installed Windows 10 on it using bootcamp.

Can I also install Windows 7 on it using BootCamp and run it alongside Windows 10 and macOS High Sierra? i.e., while starting up, I can hold down Option and select between the three installed OS.


texts: Manually copy .ISO to bootable USB (without Bootcamp)

texts:
I want to create a bootable Windows USB from my Macbook manually as an alternative to Bootcamp.

I've downloaded the Windows 10 ISO file.
Formatted an 8GB USB with MS-DOS(FAT) with a Master Boot Record Scheme within Disk Utility.
Question: Can I now finally mount the .ISO and copy it's contents to the USB?

Please don't reference to Bootcamp in your answers.


texts: Do not show refit menu on boot (only with option key)

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Is it possible to configure rEFIt so that the menu does not automatically show on my macbook when booting? I would like it to boot straight to OSX and only show the menu when I hold the option key, similar to how it worked before I installed rEFIt.

I am using:
MBP 10.6.8, rEFIt 0.14


texts: Moving desktop folder back to where it should be!

texts:
I've had a real headscratcher... the other day I was downloading a large folder from FTP to a folder on my desktop. When I went to check the files half were missing, I soon found out it was because they were in a different "Desktop" folder. Basically at some point of downloading something moved my actual desktop folder from my /Users/Username/ folder to /Users/Username/.tsclient/

All the files on my desktop are as they should be as whenever it was moved OSX kept an eye on it and still uses it. In my user folder there is a desktop folder with the other files that were missing from that FTP download I did.

To make matter even more confusing, if I click Desktop in the left hand favourites in Finder it takes me to the /.tsclient/ folder, but any apps that pull up a finder dialog for the purposes of loading/saving point to the on that is in my user folder, where the desktop should be.

I didn't accidentally drag and drop my desktop folder into this folder (as .tsclient is hidden), I never type in an admin password for something if it pops up without exact knowledge of why it's there, and I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary so I have no clue why and how it moved. But it has, and I want to move it back!

I can't seem to delete or rename the one in my user folder, if I could I can't seem to move my desktop folder back out of that folder, it only wants to copy it. I guess I could move it using terminal but I have no idea what's going on and don't want to mess things up even more!

Does anyone have any experience of this bug or how to remedy it?


texts:
I'm trying to figure out why one of my drives is appearing multiple times in the Finder sidebar.
If I drag the list order a new one is generated. Dragging out to the desktop, the normal way of deleting them, fails; it simply reappears immediately in the sidebar.

From georgegarside blog - Mac Finder Sidebar Favourites Location I discovered the names & locations of the two files possibly responsible.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
I tried throwing them away, but that was considerably more trouble than it was worth, as defaulting the Finder views entirely is just too much work to put back how I like it.
The .plist files themselves look pretty complex, so I'm trying to figure out what I can safely delete to see if will restore normailty.


texts: Assemble an Array of Macs to shudown via ssh?

texts:
I want to shutdown a few of my Macs remotely via an ssh script. I've got this so far:

#!/bin/bash

#Array of Mac hostnames separated by spaces
my_macs=(mac125 mac122 etc)

#Steps through each hostname and issues SSH command to that host

for n in my_macs
    do
       ssh pcpatch@$n 'sudo bash -s' < ./documents/ShutdownUPTIME.sh
done

exit 0

When I run it though, it says:

ssh: Could not resolve hostname my_macs: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Any ideas how to solve this issue?


texts: Where are ethernet/internet/networking configuration files/settings stored on OS X 10.6

texts:
Someone I know has an ethernet configuration profile that works on the university network I'm on. As I am on 10.8 I do not have the option of configuring these files so I'd like to copy his Configuration Profile.

Where are these located on OS X 10.6?

Ps. I'm using a Macbook Air with a USB ethernet plug if that matters.

Psps. I know one can create profiles with the ipcu, but I haven't been able to make one that works for ethernet unfortunately.


texts: Spotlight won't index any of the standard built-in macOS apps. It *does* index all the 3rd-party apps. Any suggestions?

texts:
This is on a 2019 MBP running Catalina 10.15.7. I also have a 2012 Mac mini running the same OS, and that has no problems indexing all the apps.
I should point out that I've tried all of these:

Added the system drive to "Privacy" in Spotlight and then removed it
Revealed the hidden Spotlight folder and deleted it
Run sudo mdutil -Ea /

Nothing's worked. Where can I go from here?
To reiterate, it indexes all my third-party apps with no issues. It's only the built-in standard macOS apps that it's refusing to see.


texts: Disable citrix receiver startup on login

texts: I have installed citrix receiver on my home macbook.  It auto starts on login yet it does not show an entry in the Login Items tab under the Users and Groups pane of System Preferences.  How can I disable the service from starting on login?


texts: Can I safely delete the Mac OS X Base System Partition?

texts:
I'm running El Capitan + Windows 7 on a 2011 MBP which came with Lion.

The recovery mode on my MBP is broken, it sits on about 75% of the progress bar loaded for days (I've waited 2 full days on two tries) and it never loads the recovery.

The Internet Recovery however works fine.

Can I safely delete the Mac OS X Base System partition? I think if I delete it, I won't be able to get boot back into El Capitan. How can I reinstall the recovery?

I have found this question, Can not erase my Mac OS X base system even formatting the Mac OS X Base System seems impossible.

I have also read this question What is the 'Mac OS X Base System' disk image on my 2011 MacBook AIr?.

I also need to install a Lion copy on an external HDD.

When I boot into Internet Recovery mode, it puts me to a High Sierra Internet Recovery which will install HS. This is because I have El Capitan installed. I want to delete the Mac OS X Base System so that on next boot, I can be put on a Lion Internet Recovery.


texts: How can I run a YouTube video in Picture in Picture mode on iOS?

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On iOS, while watching a video in YouTube app, when I go to the Home Screen, the video stops playing. I found no setting to enable it.

I know it is available for Android, but is there a way to do so in iOS? Is there any setting, or a 3rd party app that I can use?


texts: Do you know if the free trial is available on all iOS versions or maybe only on iOS > 11.2? Unfortunately, I couldn't find that information at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/


texts: How to merge 2 directories intelligently : ditto solution?

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I have 2 big directories, the first which contains a partial content and the second another content with a lot of directories and files in common with the first directory. I would like to avoid copying over files that are already exist in both directories.
How I could get a full directory that merges the 2 directories above. The isue is that I have already tried to merge them with rsync or cp -uf (from the post file path too long), it seems that some files with too long of a path, and I don't know how to circumvent this problem.
I think that ditto command could help me to copy despite of rsync and cp -uf commands that fail to copy these long path files but maybe I am wrong. I tried also with TimeMachine but it fails too (the total amount of needed and final merged directory is about 1.5 TB). I would prefer to use command lines to carry out this merging.
Could anyone give me some advises to be able to merge correctly these 2 directories ?
Any help/clue/track/suggestion is welcome.


texts: How do I fix duplicate 'Open with...' options?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I modify the list of Applications under 'Open With…'?

OS X > 10.8

When right click a file, select 'Open With', some applications are duplicate.

See screenshot below:

How may I fix it?


texts: iPhone 5 Stuck in Recovery after IOS8 upgrade

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My wife's iPhone 5 is now stuck in recovery after she tried to do a IOS8 update over the  air.  Of course she has no backup or anything like that, so this was an all or nothing upgrade.  She got to the "verifying install" and then it rebooted and put her in recovery mode.  I called apple support and their only suggestion was a complete restore and losing all her data.  Any suggestions on recovering data or possibly getting out of recovery mode?

By recovery mode I mean there is an iTunes logo with a charger and an up arrow pointing to the iTunes logo.  I'm assuming this mean plug your device into iTunes.


texts: Bootcamp: Black screen shows after windows 10 installation

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I have a MacBook Air with OS High Sierra. I tried to install windows 10 by selecting the top and the bottom selections in Bootcamp, which installs the setup on a USB and partitions a section for windows 10. Bootcamp successfully installs it and boots into windows 10 setup.

After I complete the setup, it boots into windows 10. That’s where the error is. It restarts and goes to a blank screen. The screen is not off, and the computer isn’t off either. I booted back into Mac OS and tried to boot back into windows 10, and the black screen reappears.

Here is a video of what happens.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.


texts: restarting a airport from the commandline - of a non-mac

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We have a few airport's and an airport express here at my work, and I would like to bring them into my Nagios monitoring more closely. Right now they are only being monitored by ping. I would very much love to be able to ssh to it as we do to the other WAP's, so that I could monitor the users connected and maybe even some basic signal quality stuff, but other answers are getting me thinking that ssh just isn't an option for the Airports.

One thing I have found is a couple of posts referencing networksetup. From what I can tell it seems to give some degree of function not only for getting information out of the router, but also performing actions such as a restart. The one problem is - it's obviously a binary only available on the mac terminal.

I can't co-opt one of the few macbook pro's we have just to proxy requests to the Airports, and I'm not aware of a way to virtualize OSX. Does anyone know of a port of the networksetup command for some other distribution (if it was ubuntu it would be ++good)? Or perhaps an alternative solution to be able to get basic information from and perform basic actions on an airport (I really can't think of any actions needed other than the restart).

Edit: I just got momentarily excited when I saw that there was a airport-utils package - sadly it would appear that this does not support any command line options, it's GUI only.


texts: Getting VPN to auto-reconnect on connection drop

texts: I use the built-in VPN on Mac OS X 10.7.3. It's IPSec, FWIW. From time to time, it disconnects (probably an issue with my corporate server). Is there a way to get it to automatically reconnect? Sometimes I don't notice for a while, which is kinda annoying.


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I expect my screen to go inactive when I hold my iPhone 6 up to my face. This is not happening, and I'm hitting mute with my cheek.

The proximity sensor appears to be working, at least according to the three "phone test" apps I tried, all of which said it triggered when I moved my hand toward it.

Assuming the hardware is working, what else might cause this? I am running the recent version of iOS 11, and do not have a screen protector.


texts: Bluetooth connectivity issues with IOS 8 and Yosemite

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Ever since upgrading my iphone 5 and Macbook Pro to the latest versions of iOS 8 and Yosemite, I've not been able to connect bluetooth devices that were working seamlessly before.

Resetting PRAM and network settings does not seem to do the trick. Has anyone else encountered this issue and found a working solution?


texts: A PDF file on my Desktop shows up with the name and properties of my root drive

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I am using a 2009 13" MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11. On my desktop, I strangely have a PDF with the name "Macintosh HD" and the properties of my main system drive.

Does anybody know why this is happening, or how I can resolve it?


texts: iPhone 5S battery percentage incorrect after replacement

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I've recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 5S (running latest iOS 10.2.1) and the battery percentage has been wrong ever since.

It originally showed around 50% (which I believe is what the original battery was at when I did the replacement), I then discharged the phone (which turned off with the battery still at 50%), then let it charge fully to 100% (when it came back up it showed 50% instead of the expected 1% or so).

I then let it drain again and it shut down at 90% (though battery life was great as it lasted several hours of full brightness + graphics intensive gaming), when it came back up it showed 90% again instead of around 1%. I let it charge fully.

Finally today I once again used the phone (expecting the battery meter to be calibrated) and despite great battery life the lowest the meter ever showed was 90% and it shut down. It's now on charge and came back up at around 90%.

One odd thing I noticed is that when it dies it shows the low battery screen when plugged in but only for a very short time before going straight to the Apple logo, where I would expect it to stick around on the charging screen for a few minutes at least.

I haven't restored it since the battery swap, I am not sure whether I should do that (I'd like to avoid it as it doesn't remember any of the e-mail nor wireless passwords and it's a pain to set them up again).

Regards.


texts: Time capsule backups previous versions of AppStore apps?

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I have an App that I bought from the AppStore but later the publisher started to distribute outside the AppStore.

I updated the application and when it stopped working I tried to find on my Time Machine backup with the surprise that it wasn't there. Only the actual one probably last backup.

That makes me think that Time Machine doesn't backup AppStore apps thats good if my current application was from the AppStore.

If this is correct. I'm hopping for way to mark thiss application to be included in all the backups.


texts: How to delete a word, which was typed mistakenly, from Safari autocomplete recommendations?

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I just typed a word mistakenly, and this typo is being listed for the autocomplete words. How can I remove this word from Safari recommendations, in order words, how can I command Safari to unlearn it?

Things I've tried so far:

Delete the cookies of the website that this word was typed
The word is not listed in the ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary

p.s. My OS is 10.15.3


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I have a strange problem in El Capitan.

I have a second internal drive which is divided into two partitions: one Fat32 and one HFS+ Journaled.

I do not see this drive in console when I type diskutil list /, but I can see the HFS+ partition in the system and I can use it. I do not see Fat32 partition.

May it be a permission problem? If yes, how can it be fixed right now? Disk Utility is not supporting this option anymore. I do not have Windows installed.


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Ok, I've read past posts, and found good articles on Lifehacker, but I want to crowdsource my worries for a moment: Can I safely extract my SMS messages from my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3 without jailbreaking or paying money?

I'm not scared of the SQLite db holding the info and would love to learn a bit about it in the meantime. I would likely use my MBP running 10.6 to do so, but have SUSE Linux and Win 7 systems on hand if that's easier.


texts: Connecting to samba share with different username on Tiger

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I'm trying to connect to a Samba share from a laptop running Tiger (10.4.11).

When I use Connect to server..., and enter smb://ip.of.the.server in the text box, I get an error saying that it couldn't connect because the name or password are wrong. This is no wonder, since there is no way for the computer to know the correct username and password - I guess that it is trying to connect with the current user's username and password.

When I do the same thing on Lion, I get dialog that lets me enter my username and password. How can I get to this dialog box on Tiger, i.e. how can I get Tiger to let me connect with a different username, and get the option to enter my password?


texts: Can't delete email from Junk/Trash folders

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Late last week I started noticing that I can't delete emails from either Junk or Trash folders in my Mail program. In addition the Mail program seems to run very slowly when sending emails and I cannot quit it and have to force quit.

When deleting emails, I highlight as many as I want, select delete and they disappear from sight.  But when I return back to that folder they reappear.

In the console I am seeing messages like:

5/31/16 6:43:42.849 AM Mail[1305]: Skipping STATUS for INBOX.Deleted Messages because CHECK failed with error: (null)
5/31/16 6:43:42.851 AM Mail[1305]: Skipping STATUS for INBOX because CHECK failed with error: (null)
5/31/16 6:43:42.853 AM Mail[1305]: Skipping STATUS for INBOX.Deleted Messages because CHECK failed with error: (null)
5/31/16 6:43:42.854 AM Mail[1305]: Skipping STATUS for INBOX because CHECK failed with error: (null)
5/31/16 6:44:01.659 AM Mail[1305]: Skipping STATUS for INBOX because CHECK failed with error: (null)
5/31/16 6:44:01.840 AM Mail[1305]: Skipping STATUS for Trash because CHECK failed with error: (null)
5/31/16 7:04:53.590 AM Mail[1305]: Failed to open emlx and partial.emlx files (/Users/jdmobile/Library/Mail/V3/IMAP-[Redacted]/INBOX.mbox/Junk.mbox/CF2FBDC0-75B0-42CD-8443-70E3612FF687/Data/4/4/Messages/44436.partial.emlx)

In addition at times I have seen the Mail program using up to 10% of CPU and currently my Mail program racked up 46 minutes of CPU time and is consuming 26 threads.

Can anyone suggest what to start looking for?

Edit

Based on user6492's answer I really should add that:

I can receive email perfectly fine on my problem El Capitan Mac.
The email configuration for the IMAP account looks non-corrupted.
Using another Mac that has Mail configured for the same IMAP account, I can send/receive/delete email without any issue.  So the server side of the email equation has not changed.

Edit 2

Now it really gets weird for me.  It appears that I can delete emails if I do it one at a time or even a few at a time - not sure at what point it starts to fail to delete

Edit 3
I managed to delete lots of emails from both the Junk and Trash folders, however I am stuck with 16 messages that I can't delete from my Trash folder and 1 that I can't delete from my Spam folder. All of the messages are marked as being Spam, and when I right click on any of them and say they are not junk mail, they remain tagged as junk mail.

I suspect that something down inside the Mail system is corrupt and not allowing these files to be deleted.

Edit 4

After a force quit I managed to manually delete all but one email.  But this is a strange one and I think the source of all of my problems as it shows in both the Trash and Junk mail folders at the same time.


texts: After my phone reboots a popup appears "Waiting for Activation This may take some time." How can I disable this? I'm using a deactivated SIM card. I would like the card to remain deactivated. This is on an iPhone 5S and iPhone6.


texts: Play music from iPhone on MacBook using iPhone 4 dock?

texts: We have an iPhone 4 dock (the official apple one, and not the universal one) which I noticed has a headphone connection on the back. Is it possible to connect that to a Macbook (Pro) and play music from the iPhone through the laptop speakers?


texts: AirPort Express Base Station "Guest" network does not allow logons. (spinning wheel)

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I have set up an AirPort Express Base Station (June 2012 model, the current one). For setup, I used a Yosemite MacBook Pro over Ethernet. The AirPort Express has an Ethernet running from the WAN port to a CLEAR modem (a WiMAX service) in "Bridged" mode.

Both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks work well, devices connect with password and surf the web.

The third network, the Guest network, does not let any client connect. I've tried both the MacBook Pro, an iPhone 5, and a MacBook Air repeatedly, power cycled, and so forth. When they attempt to join the password is accepted but the spinning wheel never stops and the computer/device never finishes joining the network. We can switch back to either the 2.4 or 5 network instantly with no problems.

Any suggestions? Might Bridged mode be a problem with a Guest account?


texts: MacOS misbehavior with Fonts in the Notes app

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I can't figure out if I'm in a certain mode or if there's a bug in the app but whenever I try to increase or decrease the font of text in the Notes app the direction is always to go Bigger
Format -> Font -> Bigger
Format -> Font -> Smaller

Is there any explanation for that? Is the Notes app buggy when pasting in formatted text from webpages and html in general? I can't make heads or tails of this behavior.


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I've installed extra dictionaries in Dictionary.app. It's over 9Gb. I'd like to group them by language as is shown in the image below. I've tried to rename their labels in the app, tried editing the Bundle name in Info.plist, but it's not working (dictionaries have same name but not group). Does someone have a solution?

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texts: How can I troubleshoot this re-occuring prompt to give a mysterious app security access?

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EDIT: Found some files, not sure if deleting them will fix the issue though.  Does anybody know if I can just delete these?:

For a couple months now, I've been getting this error, periodically, a few times a day, randomly. It's been happening ever since I've gotten my new Macbook (I did the thing where I connected both laptops with a USB-C and copied everything over the first time i launched the new laptop)

Never have I ever, on this laptop, or in my last laptop, installed this before, to my knowledge. I have googled the error and found nothing
This application also does not exist in /Applications or ~/Applications, and there's no process that looks like this in Activity Monitor.
I also did a disk search with sudo find / -name network and there were 0 hits that looked like this could be it
I also checked login items in my Account preferences, and this doesn't exist either.
Even if I restart my machine, it will eventually show up again
I also do not run much on my machine.  Here are my login items, and besides that day-to-day I use Xcode, SourceTree, and Chrome.
In the past I have used Shadow App and Parallels, I'm thinking maybe one of those apps may have placed something in that was just sleeping, and then got backed up onto my new machine... but I still can't find anything.
Does anybody know how I can troubleshoot this further? it's been driving me crazy!


texts: Sound on OS X doesn't work after Soundflower install

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Because of missing native equalizer on OS-X (Snow Leopard) I had to use third party app Soundflower in combination with AU Lab. Everything was going right, but once I restarted OS X, the sound stopped working. When I changed the volume by the keys on Macbook I hear the system sound, but in iTunes, Vimeo, some videos on YouTube, Quicktime, etc., I hear nothing.

I tried to remove Soundflower and AU Lab and reboot, but without any change.

Does anybody know how to fix this problem?


texts: Turned on Assistive Touch, now have blue circle dancing around the screen

texts: I turned on Assistive Touch (under General options, Accessibility) on my iPhone 4, ios 6.1.3 (10B329).  This seemed to work for a bit, but I've just come back to my phone and there's now a blue circle dancing around the screen.  It seems to be taking the focus so it's not responding to my touches and I can't unlock the screen . . . help!


texts: Charging 7th generation iPad using MacBook Pro 61W USB-C Power adapter

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When I'm not at home, I'm used to charge both my MacBook Pro (2017) and my iPhone 8 with the MacBook charger for convenience. I have recently bought a 7th generation iPad, and I would like to know if I can charge this device too with the MacBook Pro power adapter, without damaging its battery.
From what I know, the iPhone 8 supports Fast Charging, while the iPad does not, but can it be charged anyway with this MacBook Pro power adapter?
Charger output: 20.3V, 3A or 9V, 3A or 5.2V 2.4A.


texts: How do I get my late-2012 MacBook Pro to work with my Seiki 39 inch 4k monitor?

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I've tried quite a few settings and haven't been able to get it to display anything better than 3840*2160 14hz, while I've ready about quite a few people that have their MacBook Pros working with the Seiki 4K pretty easily.

So I ask: what exactly are your settings with yours or how do I get mine to work?

Using a Belkin Thunderbolt-HDMI adapter (and have tried plain HDMI as well), have SwitchResX installed (but haven't gotten 3840*2160-30HZ to be accepted by the computer) with an Intel HD 4000 graphics card.


texts: How to see which CPU is on the current machine?

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I'm looking on the 'safe' Cflags on the Gentoo Wiki, and I want to figure out how to see which CPU is on a specific machine.

On Gentoo I see you can get this with

cat /proc/cpuinfo

but on Mac I get

  No such file or directory

What is the equivalent for OS X?


texts: Where is the Keychain lock icon located?

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By using Google and Co. and the built-in terminal command locate, I already found the following icons:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/UnlockedIcon.icns
/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/LockedIcon.icns

But their resolution is not very high.

I am looking for the icon that is displayed every time one has to authenticate (f.ex. when unlocking the keychain):

I think it exists without the little keys. I cannot find it under /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/.

Do you know where this icon is hidden? Thanks a lot!

Related to this post: Where is the icon used in this dialogue box?


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I tried to downgrade my Mac OS from Catalina to Mojave, but the installing procedure could not manage to reach the end. Therefore, I reinstalled (using Wi-Fi installation) Catalina.
As a result, I now have two partitions in my hard disk called "Machintosh HD - Data", one of which contains my old data. Thing is, this old volume is now encrypted and I cannot seem to decrypt it, nor can I access the folders it contains.
In particular, trying to input
diskutil apfs decryptVolume disk1s1 on Terminal, I get the message
User 11855E8B-E1EE-3DB5-ACDB-3C9D60CF4AEC (the "Disk" user) does not exist on APFS Volume disk1s1.


texts: Is iPad Pro 10.5” (2017) only wifi or it needs to be wifi + cellular?

texts: I am looking on eBay for an iPad Pro 10.5” model and in the original Apple website it clearly says that both Pro versions 10.5” and 12.9” comes with Wi-Fi + Cellular connectivity. But many of the sellers in their descriptions point out that it is Wi-Fi only. I do not understand - should the iPad Pro 10.5” come with Wi-Fi + cellular or only Wi-Fi?


texts: iCloud is full but iphone storage is empty

texts: Is that possible to backup all the photos from iCloud into iphone storage? How to do that?


texts: Missing partition space after running diskutil commands

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I was trying to merge 2 partitions into 1 on my MacBook Pro 2012 running macOS Sierra 10.12.6. At first, with the command

  diskutil list

I got this

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk0
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS MAC 2                   107.8 GB   disk0s2
       3:                  Apple_HFS MAC                     131.3 GB   disk0s3
       4:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4

But after I used this command to delete Mac 2 (disk0s2):

  diskutil erasevolume "Free Space" "" /dev/disk0s2

I got this:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS MAC                     131.3 GB   disk0s3
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4

And the free space of Mac 2 is completely lost, I can't find it in Disk utility anymore.

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?


texts: iCloud Photos stopped uploading on Windows

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iCloud Photos for Windows has uploaded more than 25K items, but is now stuck on about 7K items for almost 4 weeks.

I tried disabling and re-enabling Photos sync, restarted, deleted the settings of the sync process and re-entered it... nothing helps.

How can I tell what is making it "hang" for so long? I saw a post from 3 years ago (Photos stopped uploading to iCloud. What can I do?) that shows a way to display the file causing the issue - but it's on Mac.

What can I do?


texts: Shortcut key to open/apply profile in Terminal

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When in Terminal, I use Cmd-, to open the settings. I can then press up and down to scroll through profiles. But then pressing enter doesn't open a new window with that profile but instead edits the profile name.

This is driving me nuts. Is there a keyboard command to just open the profile so that I don't have to keep going to the mouse?


texts: Can Apps be side-loaded rather than uploaded to the iOS app store?

texts: If I create a simple App, would it be possible for me to install it in any other devices without having to upload it to the Apple Store and wait for the reviewing process?


texts: Upgrading to iPhone 11 Pro Max from iPhone 8 Plus w/o visiting the Apple Store

texts: I currently have an iPhone 8 Plus in the US, which I think is unlocked. My carrier is AT&T. Since all Apple stores are closed, I am wondering if I can purchase a new iPhone 11 Pro Max from apple.com? Is it possible to put the old SIM card from the iPhone 8 Plus into the new iPhone? Do I need to contact my carrier AT&T at all during this process (since my physical device will be changed)? Thanks.


texts: Why does my iPod display "Artist Unknown" after I entered in the artists in iTunes?

texts: I had a bunch of songs on iTunes that didn't have artist names, so consequently, I didn't have artist names on my iPod touch. I added artist names to all the songs I have on iTunes and now the artist names are not even showing up on my iPod. It just says "Artist Unknown" I really have no idea what to do. Can someone help me?


texts: Purchasing a Mac Mini with Future Compatibility in Mind

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I am contemplating purchasing a mac mini. However, now that Apple has just released newer models of the mac minis, I find myself a bit confused.

Basically, my requirements are: A mac to learn and develop ios apps, within a $700 budget.

Apple hardware is expensive and because I will also need to purchase an iPhone and iPad, I want to ensure that if I buy a Mac Mini it should at least last me for 3-4 years (i.e., support iOS development for 3-4 years) with only the occasional RAM or HD upgrades needed.

My doubts are:

Is it prudent to buy the cheaper 2012 Mac Mini model, and just upgrade the RAM and HD, rather than opting for the 2014 mac mini? (I do not see any significant differences in the hardware between the 2012 and 2014 model except for the better processor and integrated graphic support.)
The newer 2014 Mac Minis come with the 4th generation (Haswell) intel processors, while the 2012 mac mini models come with older i5 and i7 processors. Seeing that the lowest specs of the 2014 mac mini is 1.4 Ghz i5, how much weight should be given to the processor considering future compatibility when it comes to future mac OS X releases?
How is apple's hardware support for older models, in general?


texts: How to turn off boot up chime on late 2013 mac pro?

texts:
I use my new late 2013 Mac Pro in Windows only.
But, I'd like to disable the bootup chime. How can I do this?


texts: Rescan all disks in 'disk utility' on mac os mojave

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How do I "rescan all disks and volumes" in Disk Utility on mac os Mojave? My disk got full. Then I make 25GB empty space but according to Disk Utility, it is still full.

According to df, 25GB is available.

Restarting it doesn't seem to help.


texts: How to stop "NTFS new version", or any notification for that matter?

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I used paragon NTFS for a while and then deleted it from applications folder. I also removed the dmg file(I know it would not stop notifications).

But I keep getting notifications like this everyday.

.

Clicking on it is useless. Safari would open(if not already) but no new window, no webpage, nothing.

I searched the Library folder for NTFS and paragon and deleted files and folders for e.g. from application support, from caches. One folder in its name had "notification". I deleted that too. Unhid hidden files by CMD + Shift + . For a temporary fix, I turned off notification from System Preferences. But I need a permanent fix.


texts: How do I use my iPad to authorize my MacBook to sign into iCloud?

texts: I am caught in an endless loop attempting to access iCloud on my MacBook Pro, because it keeps asking me to enter my access code for the MacBook and I can't remember it. It finally said I can authorize access for the MacBook from another device using iCloud. My iPad uses iCloud, but I cannot figure out how to authorize the MacBook from there.


texts: Can I delete any of these items from library?

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I erased my hard drive and installed Big Sur from a bootable hard drive. I don’t know why it takes up almost 15GB on an erased hard drive.
Update: I just noticed on Disk Utility that 14.9GB is used for snapshot name: com.apple.is.update-{a long list of numbers}.
Any ideas if there is a safe way to delete a snapshot? I don’t know if these is stored with the VM.


texts:
I need to start/stop an external hard drive (USB) from a shell or python script. Actually the external hard drive automatically stops when ejected. So, is it possible to programmatically eject / start an external hard drive? Something like USBDeview does for Windows :-)

Update:

My intended use case: I want to run a nightly backup to the external drive. As the drive is quite loud and to save on energy, I only want it to be active during the backup. I likely won't use Time Machine, but my own backup script.


texts: How to disable default Mission Control shortcuts in terminal?

texts: I never use the keyboard shortcuts for moving spaces in mission control, and they happen to conflict with some other settings I have. I have an automated script that sets up my Mac and I'd like to disable all the defaults keybindings for Mission Control programmatically.


texts: Mid 2010 Mac Pro with no video card; will it run with new HDDs?

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I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro that was once my main computer; however, when the graphics card failed and I couldn't find a replacement that the Mac would take I had to replace the computer.  I still have the Mac and am considering re-purposing it as a file server.  If I install new HDDs (I salvaged the old HDDs for the replacement computer), would the Mac run even without a video card?  Thanks!

CLARIFICATION: Since I would be using new HDDs, OS X would not yet be installed on those HDDs.


texts: How to backup and restore MBP hard drive before reinstalling OS X?

texts: My MBP Retina 13″ late 2012 is showing the stop sign and I know that I need to reinstall my OS. I have not got my hard drive backed up with Time Machine. Is there a way in which I can backup my hard drive to an external drive using Disk Utility and then restore it back once I have reinstalled the OS (I have to restore as for some reason I don't have enough space or something)?


texts: “Network accounts are unavailable” when logging into OS X Lion Server

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While trying to set up a server, I appear to have disabled user logins and now when I start my MacBook I only get the "Name" input field (followed by a red dot), the error message “Network accounts are unavailable” and a password field.  All external access has been shut off to this server.

I have run Disk Utility and fixed permissions and I have re-installed Lion (not a clean install).

The only access I have is via afp to shared Public Folders.

Running commands in Terminal does not seem to be an option as I seem to be locked out of the main directory.

Is there some way I can re-establish the normal login window?


texts: I have c++ application and I need to know if one file is in use by anyone. I'm ok with running any shell command, but I don't want to run lsof command for this purpose, since I think I can't safely assume that lsof will be available on all OS, or can I safely assume that?


texts: Use option-arrows with Unicode Hex Input

texts:
I recently switched to the Unicode Hex Input to make typing technical symbols easier. It seems, though, that the way it uses the option key to detect unicode input overrules the ⌥+arrow method of navigating text.

Is there any way to use both Unicode Hex Input and this shortcut?


texts: Why can't I transfer purchases from my jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iTunes?

texts:
I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS and I cannot transfer purchases to iTunes.

This is a recent issue; I could transfer purchases earlier.


texts: Mountain Lion Installer detects hard drive damage

texts:
I downloaded and ran the Mountain Lion Installer today for my mid-2007 iMac. After rebooting and preparing to install, I receive an error message that the hard disk was damaged and the installer could not run.

I can't boot to the partition and am working from the install partition instead. Disk Utility cannot repair the partition, and detects no problems with parent volume. Time Machine cannot restore to the partition as it is apparently locked or unavailable (it is greyed out in the program).

I've booted in Single User mode and run /sbin/fsck -fy and /sbin/mount -uw /, but this does not allow me to run fsck on the problem volume - just the install partition it appears.

This is the partition info from diskutil info /dev/disk0s2:

Device Identifier:        disk0s2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s2
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      WD Black Caviar

   Volume Name:              WD Black Caviar
   Escaped with Unicode:     WD%FF%FE%20%00Black%FF%FE%20%00Caviar

   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/WD Black Caviar
   Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/WD%FF%FE%20%00Black%FF%FE%20%00Caviar

   File System Personality:  HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended
   Owners:                   Enabled

   Partition Type:           Apple_HFS
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 SATA
   SMART Status:             Verified
   Volume UUID:              8880D8D2-AEC8-3466-81D3-4ABBE296733A

   Total Size:               1.3 TB (1278311751680 Bytes) (exactly 2496702640 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Volume Free Space:        817.2 GB (817164238848 Bytes) (exactly 1596023904 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Yes
   Ejectable:                No

   Whole:                    No
   Internal:                 Yes
   Solid State:              No

`

How can I regain write access to the partition to diagnose it?

Thanks.


texts: Simple deletion of files using text file list won't work

texts:
I have to delete files specified by remove.txt
which looks like this:

    img_8138.dng.jpg
    img_8140.dng.jpg
    img_8141.dng.jpg
    img_8143.dng.jpg

I've tried several suggestions from the web:

while read file; do rm "$file"; done < remove.txt

xargs -rd '\n' --arg-file=remove.txt rm -i --

rm $(cat /Volumes/space1/remove.txt)

xargs rm <remove.txt etc

The files are in the current directory some of which
are to be deleted (remove.txt). Deletion works if I use rm
on the current directory. But using the list I get the
error below every time.

rm: cannot remove ‘img_8147.dng.jpg’: No such file or directory

Any ideas what's going wrong?


texts: blurry pdf in Preview & Safari on OSX Mojave

texts:
I have just updated from High Sierra to Mojave and discovered that Preview displays PDF files in an extremely blurry way (before the update it was fine). My screen is 27'' Thunderbolt display.

The interesting point is that even after the update Chrome (on the left) displays PDF files in a much better and more readable way compared to Safari (on the right):

The link used above is https://arxiv.org/pdf/1005.1585.pdf?view=FitH p. 2.
Both browsers were opened side-by-side in a fullscreen mode.

I think that fortunately the update has not affected Chrome (also Acrobat Reader works fine for me). But apparently the update has affected something used in Preview (and other apps, such as Skim), presumably PDFKit as mentioned here.

On the Internet I have read that this issue might be related to antialiasing, but none of the recipes solve the issue.
Is there any other solution, or shall I hope for a fix in the next update?

Update. After updating to Catalina it seems that the situation has improved:
Hopefully in the future versions they are not going to break this again.


texts: How can I publish apps under my own name if I'm under 18?

texts: In order to sign up for a developer account, I'll need my parents credit card. However, after going through the signup process, my Dad's name shows up because he is the credit card holder. How can I publish an app under my name, if I don't have access to my own credit card? Should I buy a prepaid one?


texts: How to recover data from MacBook which won't startup properly?

texts:
My 2012 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7 Lion would not start up properly (it has the doomed flashing white question mark on a grey folder). I have tried the following: couldn't access Safe Mode; holding the 'option' key when turning on does not show 'Macintosh HD' only 'internet recovery'; there is no Recovery HD drive present; tried Internet Recovery -> Disk Utility, but my Startup Disk (named "Macintosh HD") doesn't appear in the left column (only SuperDrive appears, and disk0); and PRAM & SMC reset didn't help. I also tried booting a Linux OS from the CD Drive, but it would not boot as there was 'no bootable device, please insert disk and press any key'.

I do not have a backup of this data on Time Machine (my big mistake). My MacBook doesn't seem to recognise the internal hard drive.

Is there a way to transfer the files to another external drive or get my MacBook working again? or is the data doomed to be lost forever?

More information:

diskutil list output:

-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                 Apple_partition_scheme                         *1.4 GB      disk0
1:                    Apple_partition_map                         30.7 KB      disk0s1
2:                     Apple_Driver_ATAPI                          2.0 KB      disk0s2
3:                              Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System     1.4 GB      disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                       *524.3 KB      disk1
/dev/disk2
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                       *524.3 KB      disk2
/dev/disk3
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                       *524.3 KB      disk3
/dev/disk4
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                       *524.3 KB      disk4
/dev/disk5
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                       *524.3 KB      disk5
/dev/disk6
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                         *6.3 MB      disk6
/dev/disk7
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                         *2.1 MB      disk7
/dev/disk8
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                         *1.0 MB      disk8
/dev/disk9
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                       *524.3 KB      disk9
/dev/disk10
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                       *524.3 KB      disk10
/dev/disk11
#:                                   TYPE NAME                    SIZE         IDENTIFIER
0:                               untitled                         *1.3 MB      disk11


texts: How to publish magazines (in PDF format) to Apple Newsstand?

texts:
We're interested in publishing our magazines to Apple's Newsstand and we're wondering how we would go about doing this?

I've read you need a developer kit (which we don't have), is there a way to just publish the magazines without this?


texts: Changing date created of bulk files to 9 hours before

texts: I have 3000 files which all have different dates in which they were created. For example a file has a date created timestamp of: 1 August 11:05. How can I use the terminal to change the timestamp to 9 hours earlier: i.e. 1 August  2:05?


texts: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Windows 10 and Mojave

texts:
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single
  partition.

  The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended
  (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for
  installing Windows.

I had installed Windows 10 via bootcamp in my mac. Current version is 10.14.1

Now I don't want windows and need that space back but getting above error when I go bootcamp to remove it.

This is the output of diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         181.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                60.3 GB    disk0s3
   4:           Windows Recovery                         509.6 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +181.3 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            116.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.6 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      4.3 GB     disk1s4

And this is of diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

Can anybody please help me to solve this problem?

Output after I tried commands given in the first answer

❯ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            116.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.6 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4


texts: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) computer dies at 40+%

texts:
Within the last few months computer has been dying at 40+%

After dying the computer will show the low battery icon on the screen, but once charger is plugged in it shows the battery has well over the % at which the laptop should be shutting off.

This usually happens after a restart or opening the computer.  It will turn on, I sign in then it dies shortly thereafter.

Any thoughts?  From what I have read battery re-calibration should not be needed on this particular model.  Have read some bits about it being possible software issues but not sure the real cause.


texts: "Cannot execute binary file" with alias of binary

texts:
I have installed both python3.3 and python2.6.
I have set python3.3 to default by creating an alias named "python" in usr/bin and another one for python2.6 named "python2.6".
Now if I type in the terminal "python" python3.3 will be open but if I type "python2.6" I get "cannot execute binary file".
I can launch the binary directly but not through the alias.
I have checked the permissions and are the same for both binaries and aliases so I don't know what to do.
Can someone help me?


texts: ffmpeg upgrade fails due to nettle no longer compatible with highSierra

texts:
I use HighSierra 10.13.6 on my Mac.
When trying to upgrade youtube-dl, the process also tries to update ffmpeg which fails because of a library called "nettle". As a result of this, ffmpeg was removed from my macOS and I cannot install it again.
Is this library important to "normal" use of ffmpeg? Where normal means converting downloaded videos from YouTube and/or between formats such as mp4, mp3.
Is there a way to pass options to homebrew to tell not to use this nettle library?
If not possible, is there a way to tell homebrew that for ffmpeg library use a locally built nettle installation directory?


texts: Safari: How do you get page titles back?

texts:
This is what the top of my Safari page looks like right now:

I think I have around 90 tabs open. That's how I work, I multitask.
What made Safari stand out as a browser used to be the fact that no matter how many tabs you had open, you could still know what a page's title was.
I believe page titles are super-duper important, and that getting rid of them for users with many tabs open was a mistake they made with Yosemite/new Safari.

Is there a way for me to get the page's titles back?

Like, for instance, on my screen grab, I don't need the URL to be displayed in the white bar so much as the name of the page.
I've found that Safari's preference pane has a "show full website address" as if the URL was more important than a page name - something I disagree with whole-heartedly, but maybe there's another setting somewhere else to display page title instead of the URL?


texts: How do I use my GPG agent for SSH everywhere?

texts:
On my system, I'm trying to set up SSH authentication through my GPG agent (installed via brew). So far, I have this working in my terminal thanks to adding the following lines to ~/.profile:

# Enable SSH support through GPG
export "GPG_TTY=$(tty)"
export "SSH_AUTH_SOCK=${HOME}/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh"

However, GUI applications (e.g. PyCharm) still use the SSH agent built into Mac (annoyingly). Is there any way/place I can use to set my SSH_AUTH_SOCK for my entire session? Ideally, I don't want to disable SIP to achieve my goal, and solutions like this don't seem to work.

For example, running import os; os.environ['SSH_AUTH_SOCK'] in PyCharm's builtin Python Console will still show /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.whatever/Listeners instead of my auth sock. Likewise, it will not prompt for my GPG key passcode but instead go through the standard authentication flow.

This also persists in XCode, using a small sample program to get the value of SSH_AUTH_SOCK, so it's not PyCharm or a Python-only problem.

I'm currently running Mojave 10.14.4 on my system.


texts: autossh not forwarding, regular ssh tunnel does

texts:
Starting autossh like so: autossh -M 5122 -N -R 5432:localhost:5432 <user>@<myhost>, I can't connect to localhost:5432. If I run ssh -f <user>@<myhost> -L 5432:localhost:5432 -N -v -v, I can.

The output from autossh:

debug1: Local connections to LOCALHOST:5122 forwarded to remote address 127.0.0.1:5122
debug1: Local forwarding listening on ::1 port 5122.
debug2: fd 6 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 0: new [port listener]
debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 5122.
debug2: fd 7 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 1: new [port listener]
debug1: Remote connections from LOCALHOST:5122 forwarded to local address 127.0.0.1:5123
debug1: Remote connections from LOCALHOST:5432 forwarded to local address localhost:5432
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: remote forward success for: listen 5122, connect 127.0.0.1:5123
debug1: remote forward success for: listen 5432, connect localhost:5432
debug1: All remote forwarding requests processed

And from ssh:

debug1: Local connections to LOCALHOST:5432 forwarded to remote address localhost:5432
debug1: Local forwarding listening on ::1 port 5432.
debug2: fd 6 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 0: new [port listener]
debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 5432.
debug2: fd 7 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 1: new [port listener]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: forking to background
debug1: Entering interactive session.

I've just recently started playing around with ssh tunneling and cannot figure out why autossh will only forward port 5122.


texts: You have updates available on another account

texts:
I received this Mac as a gift. Everything worked fine, now in the App Store the default applications GarageBand, iMovie and iPhoto refuse to update, since it asks for the Apple ID of the previous owner.

So this is not like a bug other people perceive, who ever had only one AppleID its really changed ownership. When we did that, I also created a Account for me with Admin escalation, and deleted the account of the previous owner to safe any personal data.

So now how can I update these default apps that came bundled with the device? Can I deinstall'em and reinstall with my AppleID?

Its not like I want any Apps that the previous owner bought (all deinstalled and installed my ones), only those that are tied to the device.


texts: Why does my iPhone speak certain emoji in a Japanese accent?

texts: My language settings are only set to English, but my iPhone speaks certain emoji (like ♂ and ♂) in a Japanese accent when I select them in a message and tap Speak. Can anyone explain? Here's a visual example of what I see when I select mixed words and emoi:


texts: Use more than one PS4 Dualshock controller over bluetooth

texts:
I have two Playstation 4 Dualshock controllers and am thinking of getting two more. They have both bluetooth and usb connections, but prefer bluetooth to avoid cable salad — and of course to be able to conveniently play games on the big screen from the couch. Am thus far unable to use both wirelessly at the same time.

How to connect and use both controllers using bluetooth at the same time?

Tested on macOS High Sierra (10.13) and macOS Sierra (10.12) on two separate 2015 model Macbooks.
Can pair with both controllers individually, if turning bluetooth off/on between.
Cannot connect with both at the same time.

As soon as one controller is connected, the other is basically ignored. As soon as the first controller is disconnected, the second one can be connected, and vice versa.

Would prefer not to use third-party (especially closed source) software.

Note: using Apple's Bluetooth Explorer (part of Hardware IO Tools for Xcode, Apple Developer login required) I can reset the bluetooth stack, clear device caches, restart blued etcetera. This has not helped in this case, but am also not familiar enough with this advanced tool to know all the tricks.


texts: Where can I find information on sales figure of Apple products?

texts: I am carrying out some research into Apples product sales over the years. Where can I find information on their sales figures to date? I am looking for information regarding the number of products sold to date, sales of Apple accessories, their market demographic and any other details on who buys Apple products.


texts:
I have an iPad (32GB) and have been locked out because I couldn't remember the passcode.
What can I do?

I have never associated it with an iTunes account but want to get the pictures off it (which do not appear in iCloud)

Is there anything I can do?


texts: How to update applications that were moved from Application folder

texts:
All my applications in the /Applications folder are sorted in different subfolders, so that I can find them easily.
I know, this is not recommended (see this question), since the Software Update looks for the app in the /Applications folder only when doing the updates, and problems may occur in that case.

That's what happen to me today with the 10.9.3 update: for example, Mail.app has been updated by this update, but in my case, Mail.app were in /Applications/Internet (instead of /Applications), so now, after the update I've got:

a non-working Mail.app application in the /Applications folder (non-working because it only contains the new updated items of Mail.app)
the old (working) version of Mail.app in /Applications/Internet

I tried to copy (with the cp -R /Applications/Mail.app /Applications/Internet/Mail.app command in the terminal) the updated items in the old folder (of course, I made a backup of the Mail.app folder before), but it did not work (it's impossible to run the "new" Mail.app application, it crashes immediately)

So my question is: how could I manually update the Mail.app application (and the other) ?
(and please, don't blame me, like "it's your fault, you must follow the Apple's rules" :-) )

Thanks


texts:
I'm pretty new to the Mac environment. Recently my Mac Mini was updated to OS X El Capitan from OS X Lion, due to some of my software being incompatible.

Hence, I'd like to downgrade to OS X Lion (10.7), but when trying to download OS X Lion from the Apple website I'm asked to pay for it.
Do I really need to pay for it as I had the same OS running previously?


texts: There is no login.keychain file in my High Sierra.Cant build titanium

texts:
My KeychainAccess.app never creates the login.keychain file. So, I can't build titanium Application. If I create a new PC account there is no login.keychain file. If I reset default keychain there is also no login.keychain file.

appc ti build -K ${HOME}/Library/Keycahains/login.keychain


texts: Can you tweak or customize Spotlight to find first specific files and folders?

texts:
For example, I have two folders named Edit but the one I use most frequently, shows up second on Spotlight.
Can you anyhow influence the precedence and importance of found files in Spotlight?


texts: Finder shows different folder sizes, and number of items

texts:
I am having a strange issue.. I have a Synology server, whose mounts are attached via smb in my Mac. There somewhere I have a folder, which I want to copy paste to another external hard drive, which is connected via usb on my Mac. So basically I made a copy paste, and let the computer finish the work. Copy window was showing 215GB as the total size to paste. By the way the folder contains raw canon camera files with CR2 extension.

So the work was done. I generally check always the folder size and control manually since I do not trust any drive and any computer thing.. I checked the folder size on the USB Disk, which was just copied from the Synology. Macs Get info window shows me 72GB - 2695 items.

Then I looked to Synology folder again, with the get info. Shows me 215GB - 8001 items.

Since I also did not get any error from that copy process, I thought sth. should be broken.. I removed the whole folder from the usb drive, started the process again. Again the same thing. 72GB - 2695 items I have now on the usb.

Then I go to Synology folder again, look at the files, and I thoughT "it is impossible that here is 8001 files.." I selected all files with CTRL+A, and made a right click, this time Finder shows me these kind of options "Rename 1200 files.". I also manually counted the files, actually there are 1200 files.

What is going on here?


texts: iPhone stuck "Removing iCloud Data..." after iCloud sign out

texts:
I have an iPhone 5C and have logged out of iCloud (in order to test in App Purchasing on an App under development).

The 'phone indicated "Removing iCloud data...", which seems reasonable, but it has been stuck like that for around 30 minutes now, which does not. There is not that much iCloud data on the 'phone.

Pressing Home closes settings and other apps can be run. But the logout process does not appear to be complete as the In App Purchase test does not ask for an account name, just a password. Reopening Settings just brings back the "Removing iCloud data..." indication.

Any thoughts?


texts: I-beam cursor color in Mavericks's terminal

texts:
After upgrading to Mavericks the I-beam cursor in the terminal became less visible (see screenshot, I am using the Pro profile with a dark background)

Is there a way to change the cursor's color or to make it more visible? In the preferences I only managed to change the color of the text cursor.


texts: El Capitan: Appstore says "downloaded" and "there's been an error" (stuck)

texts:
In order to download El Capitan, I clicked the "download" button in the highlighted banner of the Appstore. The "busy" wheel began to spin in the upper left, and I thought to give it some time.

After a while (and rebooting) I noticed not much happened. When I took a look at the detail page of El Capitan on the Appstore, the download button was greyed out (saying "downloaded"), but on its left it says "there's been an error'.

Now I'm not sure if it's actually downloaded (rebooted to no avail) or that I have to go through the process again. Eitherway I'm stuk because of the greyed out button (I can't do anything). Is there a way to find out if there's actually an install package downloaded on my system (and if so: where can I find it?), or could this be an issue with the Appstore itself? I must say I'm downloading the package on another mac without any problem…


texts: Pages 08 doesn't draw border around paragraphs correctly?

texts:
If I'm using Pages '08 and trying to draw a border around a paragraph that is inside a text box, I go to the More tab of the Text Inspector and select a solid line and full rectangle under Border and Rules.

The border that results, however is a top-and-bottom border, and not a full rectangle:

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known bug? If the latter, is there a workaround so I can enclose a paragraph of text in a text box with a surrounding border?


texts: Trackpad not working on Macbook pro 2009 running Windows 8

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 17" early 2009 running Snow Leopard, I've recently upgraded Windows 7 running on the bootcamp partition to Windows 8.

All works fine apart from the trackpad.

Bootcamp 3.1 is installed, I've tried upgrading to 3.2 but I get an error message saying "Boot Camp requires that your computer is running Windows 7.".  I've tried running the install in compatibility mode but no luck.

I've tried uninstalling the touchpad from the device manager and reinstalling from the Bootcamp drivers folder but it still has "This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)" as the device status.

Anyone got any ideas?  I'm willing to upgrade Snow Leopard if it's certain to fix this issue.


texts: How can I open files in the Coda editor file browser using the keyboard?

texts:
I am using coda as my main editor on mac. But I want to use just the keyboard for navigating through file browser. This I was able to quite easily by installing the plugin to switch between editor and file browser and then turning off the feature which opens files on a single-click or when it is focussed.

Now my problem is how to open a file in editor when I press enter - the file rename mode gets activated when I press enter while navigating in file browser. any ideas?


texts: What does it mean when it says "read" under an SMS in Messages?

texts: I have never seen the "read" tag before, however I have seen "delivered" and nothing. What does the "read" tag mean?


texts:
Isn't there some wiki or apple documentation which shows which app keys can be used for apple software?

NOTE: I searched the whole net and didn't find any databases on this topic, so if there isn't really such a database maybe we should create one where we can share these keys. Is it possible to create a wikipage in this manner on stackexchange?


texts: How do I tranfer contacts from iphone to gmail?

texts: How do I transfer my contacts from iPhone to Gmail ? I am not sure which is the correct site to ask this question, because it is a non-technical question. Can anyone guide me please?


texts: Why does dragging a space in Spaces lag awfully?

texts:
All of a sudden, dragging a space in spaces to switch it for another space lags and takes for ever.

Why? any solutions? It didn't happen before.

There are not many apps open, memory's fine, dragging windows in Spaces works great, switching into and out of spaces works fast too.

See: video example.

PS: Embedding videos here would be nice wouldn't it?

Spec: 13' MacBook, 10.6.6 OS, 2GB Ram, 2.226 Ghz Core 2 Duo


texts: Possible to use iMac Pro as a monitor for a variety of devices?

texts:
I am interested to know if it possible to use normally an iMac Pro and then switch on the fly between several different devices connected to it (through a dock for example).

I am mostly interested in connecting:

MacBook Pro (late 2014 model)
MacBook Pro (latest model)
Mac Pro
Windows Desktop

What are the necessary dongles, devices, equipment required?

What is your experience with that setup (bugs and problems)?

This question maybe sound like a duplicate but I am asking specifically for the iMacPro (2018 model) and not just an iMac.


texts: What is the maximum WiFi speed of iPhone 6s?

texts: I have a new broadband plan of 1000 Mbps been effective for a few days. With a new ac router claiming a max to 1300 Mbps, I have conducted a brief test with my SE. It was at 267 Mbps, far lower than I expect. I am going to test it with an iPhone 6s which may benefit with MIMO. What is the top WiFi speed that iPhone 6s supported?


texts:
Went to use my MacBook two days after switching on with no issue. When I went to boot it was completely dead. When I went to charge it, there was no light.

I left it on the charger for 20 mins and returned to a solid green light. I did an SMC reset which set it back to amber. The MacBook booted and worked fine for around 4 mins. The battery was registered at 32% (think it’s only around 420 cycle). It suddenly died, and returned to a solid green light.

I left it to charge where I noticed it flick between amber and green, but then was permanently green. Still no boot so took the charger off and went to put it back on and it’s been dead since!

Any help would be appreciated! I have the parts ordered that’s  needed to open and try restart the battery.


texts: Whenever I go to try and download an app it tells me that I have already purchased it and don't need to pay again then the download stops. I am using iOS 7. The download stops in iTunes.


texts: Erasing everything on my current I phone besides contacts

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I would like a fresh start and want to delete everything on my iPhone but still keep my current contacts. I just want all of my photos, notes, and everything else to be backed up on iCloud. I just logged into my iCloud account and it looks like everything is there which is good. I just do not know how to clear all the data on the phone and then ONLY get my contacts back on the phone.
Any help would be appreciated and I hope ya'll have a good day. TIA!!


texts: How can I determine the location a photo was taken on my iPhone 5s?  I've tried the photo app on the phone but the information is too general.


texts: Erase USB in Disk Utility says "Permission denied"

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I'm trying to format my USB so I can get all the space back onto it, but every time I try to erase it in Disk Utility, this comes up:

  POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied


texts: Finder "copy as pathname" adding smb:// on Mojave

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On previous MacOS versions using the "copy as pathname" option from Finder would provide me the local mounted path on SMB resources

ex:
/Volumes/mountname/folder1/folder2

Now on Mojave its giving me an smb:// url to the same mounted SMB resouces

ex:
smb://server/mountname/folder1/folder2

Is there any way to change the format back to the pre-Mojave version?


texts: What Kernel extensions should be deleted to disable bluetooth?

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A client needs to completely disable bluetooth. The most basic level (aside from physically disconnecting the antennas or removing the airport card) seems to be disabling the kernel extensions.

I looked in /Volumes/<your system's drive name>/Library/Extensions/ while in recover mode, courtesy of this question, but there were no bluetooth extensions there.

Supposedly deleting /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211family.kext will disable wifi, but I also ran into issues trying to delete this without being in recovery mode. (Recovery mode shows this file in /Volumes/<your system's drive name>/System/Library/Extension, and wifi was successfully disabled after deleting that file from within recover mode, showing No Hardware Installed after rebooting.)

What file should I delete to achieve the same result for bluetooth?


texts: The iPhone is synced with another iTunes library error Message

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Whenever I select to manually manage music and videos, I get an error message that says "The iPhone is synced with another iTunes library. Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?"

I haven't connected my iPhone to any other computer, the one I am using now is the original it was connected to (Windows PC), why is this message appearing? The only reason I can think of that it thinks it is a new iTunes library is that I updated to iTunes 11 recently. Is there anything I can do to fix this without erasing my iPhone?


texts: Using FileVault 2 on non-boot disk with moved home directory

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I have OS X Lion installed on an SSD which is encrypted with FileVault 2. I have a second magnetic hard drive that I've moved my home directory to in order to not take up space on the SSD.

My question is, will it cause any problems if I encrypt the second drive (the standard magnetic HDD) using the command line?

I've read through this:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/13#lion-file-system

but I didn't see my specific case mentioned. Has anyone successfully done this without losing their data or boot capabilities?


texts: Health data keeps disappearing without reason

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I'm using an iPhone 5 (running iOS 8.3) and update my health data manually with 'add data' feature. However in some mornings when I open health application, all data seems missing. Charts, dashboard settings, everything. Like I opened for the first time. If I reset or restart my phone, data comes back.

Has anyone experienced this? If yes, is there a solution to keep it from happening?

Update: I didn't restart my phone intentionally and my dashboard is still empty.

Update 2: Issue is not happening for some time now. May close the question with some answer soon.

Update 3: Still present with iOS 9.0.1 upto some extent. I'm starting to think it's a bug and slowly being ironed out.

Update 4: Still happens with iOS 9.1, however less frequently. Let's wait and see what iOS 9.2 brings.


texts: I have an iMac that shipped with 16GB RAM (using 2 out of 4 slots). I ordered two 16GB RAM modules from OWC. Instead of just replacing the RAM, can I actually add the OWC RAM to what's already in there? Will this cause problems, mixing the two brands?


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What is a good Download Manager for Mac?
Are there free ones available?


texts: How to install python3.7 on a mac (mojave using homebrew

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I am running MacOS Mojave (10.14.6) and want to install python 3.7.
Currently I have python 3.6 installed:
$ python -V
Python 3.6.9

There seems to be python 3.7 available:
$ brew search python
==> Formulae
app-engine-python            boost-python3                ipython                      python-markdown              python@3.7                   reorder-python-imports
boost-python                 gst-python                   micropython                  python-yq                    python@3.8 ✔                 wxpython
==> Casks
awips-python                                              kk7ds-python-runtime                                      mysql-connector-python

If you meant "python" specifically:
It was migrated from homebrew/cask to homebrew/core.

So I tried to install python 3.7 as follows
brew install python@3.7

with a lot of output. I also executed the suggested line to have python 3.7 symlinked:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python@3.7/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/me/.bash_profile

I sourced the file .bash_profile, but still python is only 3.6:
$ python -V
Python 3.6.9

I also ran the following command with an error:
$ brew switch python 3.7
Error: python does not have a version "3.7" in the Cellar.
python's installed versions: 3.7.6_1

and restarted the computer, but without success.
So how to install python 3.7 as the standard-python-installation on a mac? (Could be also python3.8 by all means).