texts: Fix really small font in Mail.app for some incoming mails?

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Context

I'm using macOS Catalina (10.15.3), but this problem exists at least 5 years in the built-in mail application (Mail.app).

The Problem

Mail.app in macOS seems display some incoming mails' fonts way smaller than they are supposed to be shown. In any other mail client on Windows, those mails look totally normal and the font size is well readable. Usually, it applies to personal emails formatted in RichText or HTML, that don't have particularly styled text other than some bold or colored text. It does not apply to newsletters and most generated email from online shops etc.

Workarounds

One way to cope with this problem is to repeatedly press CTRL-+to increase the font size. But, as soon as you change to a different email, the size is reset to the default (which in turn is the correct behavior). When opening the same email again, you have to increase the font size all over again. It is mentioned in Mail from AOL, font to small Fix? (5 year old question with no real answer).
You can increase the overall font size for emails in settings (Fonts & Colors > Font for email). However, this will also increase the font size of subject, headers and some other text that is displayed in the preview pane for all emails, and it just looks aweful.

(Not tested) It might be possible to apply an AppleScript that modifies the email content. It is mentioned in Replace font in incoming mail [mail.app]. I can't even think that it will be successful. It might be a huge security issue.

NOT working (or no longer)

defaults write com.apple.mail MinimumHTMLFontSize 12 (or 16, 18, ...)
defaults write com.apple.mail NSFontSize 12 (or 16, 18, ...)
Changing the CSS in /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/Message.css (as mentioned in Can I increase the minimum font size of text when reading html messages in Mail.app (in Mavericks and later)?). This would also be overwritten every time Mail.app received an update.

Possible Reason

When looking at the source of this problematic emails, I can see a lot of  tags, especially parts like this, where the size="2" might be the issue:

Ich danke dir!

It used to be possible to (kind of ) fix this by editing /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/Message.css. This file no longer exists.

Some References to this Problem on other Sites

Apple > Support > Communities: Why is font size in email replies so tiny? (no fix)
Apple > Support > Communities: How do I change text size in emails on OS X El Capitan?
defaults-write.com: OS X Mail: Set minimum font size for HTML

  This problem seems to exists for years and has not been addressed properly by Apple. For me, it still is the most frustrating problem after switching to the Mac from a Windows PC. Any help is appreciated!


texts: Can macOS's ramdisk be swapped to disk by the operating system?

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I want to create a secret provisioning systems that on deployment decrypts secrets on the target machine and put them in RAM. They should be accessible as file so that services on the same machine can open them
On Linux there is a file-system called ramfs that will never be swapped out to disk. On macOS there seems to be only a ramdisk. Does this ramdisk get swapped to the disk by the operating system (which would put the secret data on disk)?


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On Ubuntu to maximize a window we can select the window key and then the up arrow and the window maximizes.
It's also possible to select the window key and side key to pan a window to one side.
Are there any similar shortcuts on MacOS?


texts: OS X Server 10.6 and Fully Qualified Domain Names

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From the Advanced Server Admin for OS X Server v.10.6:

  You must have a fully qualified domain
  name for each server’s IP addess in
  the DNS system. The DNS zone must have
  the reverse-lookup record for the name
  and address pair. Not having a stable,
  functioning DNS system with reverse
  lookup leads to service failures and
  unexpected behaviors.

I was recently bit by this requirement as my internal network doesn't have an internal DNS server. As a result, various applications and services (User Management in particular),  hosted on my XServe have experienced degraded performance. My question is, besides deploying my own DNS server (dnsmasq or bind9) is there any other way to provide a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) for my X Serve?

UPDATE

Used the X Serve as its own DNS host, worked like a charm with very little configuration.


texts: Accidentally changed owner of /var system folder recursively to myself

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Long story short, accidentally I ran

sudo chown -R myusername /var/

and now my mac won't boot anymore (after entering user password for hdd decryption loading bar is slowly filled and after it gets full, nothing happens). I have access to the hdd via the OS X restore utilities (Cmd+R) on startup and managed to mount my hdd using terminal. What should I do to fix this? Should I sudo chown -R root /var/ now?

I also tried fixing the disk using Disk Utilities First aid, but that didnt work.


texts: Two iPhones receiving same SMS when sent or received

texts: I have a work iPhone 6 that I just updated the latest software, and didn't realize that entering my personal iCloud information would result in receiving SMS's being sent to both personal iPhone 5S and work iPhone 6. I removed the iCloud and created a new iCloud account, and now get some SMS's from other people, and not all SMS's sent or receieved are showing up on the work iPhone 6. How do I remove my work iPhone 6 from the iCloud so it doesn't continue to show sent and received messages from my personal iPhone 5S? (Maybe the SMS's still appearing on both are from other iPhone users?)


texts: bypass activation lock on i pod touch 5th generation

texts: how do I bypass a activation lock for a I pod touch 5th generation if I can't get a hold of previous users apple id and password


texts: Does Apple sell European connectors individually?

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I recently moved from the US to Europe. I'm currently using universal adapters for connecting my US plugs to European power outlets. Many of the things which need power are Apple devices. It would be nice to replace the US connectors

with European connectors

obviating the need for the universal adapters.

I expected these connectors to be sold individually, but they seem to only be included in the Apple World Travel Adapter Kit. Am I missing something? Does Apple sell these connectors individually?

In case it's significant, I'm in Berlin, Germany.


texts: How can I merge Notes from two Macbooks without using iCloud?

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I have two laptops and both have different Notes that are useful to me.

Not wanting to share any such data with Apple, they are also not synced to iCloud.

So far, I found the path where they are stored:

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes

And see that the "DB" behind this is sqlite.

Is there any way to export all all the content in one directory and then clear all notes so the files can be re-imported?

I could see perhaps altering a bit the sqlite DB (or merge the two) and then have my notes from both Macs in one place in the end but lack a starting point or guide. I know iCloud sync is the easy way, but consider confidential data from clients where we agreed not to store the data online or transfer / store it external to the Mac in question.


texts: Archive gmail messages from the notification center on an iphone

texts: I have an iPhone SE, model number MX9D2LL/A running software version 13.6.1.  On it, I have installed the Gmail app version 6.0.200712.  When I receive a banner notification for a new email, I can swipe down on the banner and see the options Archive and Reply.  However, when I later view that same notification in the Notification Center, I can not swipe down.  I can swipe right to open the message, swipe right gently to see the option Open, or swipe left to see the options Manage, View, and Clear.  Is there any way I can change my settings so that I can get the Archive and Reply options from the notification in the Notification Center?


texts: With Mac Pro, is software RAID 0 worth it?

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Does anyone have any reason to believe RAID 0 is any faster than independent drives on a Mac Pro?

I have always run my Mac Pro with all five drives in RAID 0.  I recently decided to try out Bootcamp for running Windows & Linux, which, I believe, does not work with RAID.  I decided I would remove at least one drive from the RAID array, but now I'm reconsidering RAID altogether.

My next post on here will be, what's the easiest way to remove a drive from RAID 0 on Mac Pro.  :-)

TIA


texts: Remote WebDAV hard disk loses connection when copying thereto

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From my 2018 MacBook Pro I connect to a remote hard disk (located in other town) via WebDAV HTTPS protocol. The remote hard disk is Synology RackStation 2414RP+. Whenever I try to copy files larger than some 2 GBs to the hard disc, I lose the connection, the hard disk stays mounted though. Sometimes the connection gets back itself. This also happens when I calculate an md5 hashsum of a file larger than some 2 GBs or when I use grep command on such bigger files on the hard disk.

I'm using the latest macOS Catalina and the Synology hard disk is updated to the latest Synology OS.
The same thing happens also when I connect to the hard disk from Windows 10, so it's not macOS specific.
I have also tried so far mounting the hard disk using ocsmount for WebDAV, Mountain Duck and ExpanDrive, where the connection is even more unstable using these.

The only time I was able to get a stable connection and could comfortably copy large amounts of data (hundreds of GBs) was when I connected to the hard disk using Cyberduck. This is not a long-term solution though as I need to have the hard disk mounted in the file system.

I suspect there must be something wrong in the settings of the Synology hard disk, maybe some limits... I have no idea, though. Synology is not my cup of tea.
I don't have direct access to the Synology settings, my friend does.

Does anyone have at least any idea how I could solve this problem?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Can I prevent my (jailbroken) iPhone from retrieving mail between certain hours?

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I have a jailbroken iPhone which is set up to retrieve mail every 30 minutes.

Is there a way I can prevent this from happening at 3am when I'm trying to sleep?


texts: How can I view the raw XML of an RSS feed in Safari (or Reeder)?

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I want to see the raw XML of an RSS feed for a podcast.

In Safari, as of Lion formatted XML files is supported. But RSS feeds are not formatted that way and instead presented in Safari's RSS Reader mode. A view source on that page doesn't display the RSS feed as I expected, instead the HTML and CSS used to put the viewer together.

Is there another way to do this in Safari? I also have the RSS Reading app, Reeder, installed, so I'd be willing to do it in there if possible.


texts: MacBook Pro: OS battery indicator doesn't match hardware battery indicator

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I recently upgraded my MBP to Lion, and now the battery indicator in the menubar at the top of the screen constantly shows "(Charged)", even when the indicator on the side shows almost empty. Any ideas on what's going on or what I can do to fix it?

Edit: It does have an internal battery.


texts: How can I open Google Chrome in Presentation mode using a shell script

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Previously in 10.6.8, I was able to start Google using
open /Applications/Chrome.app --args --kiosk http://www.google.com

Now, on newer systems, that does not work anymore correctly. The only way to get rid of the address bar seams to be using of the presentation mode.
Does anyone know the switch to call that mode?

I use the shell script for a presentation computer to start the browser on startup automatically in fullscreen mode.

Any help is appreciated.


texts: Starting Google Chrome leads to altered display colours – why?

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When I start Google Chrome (seen from 38.0.2125.111 to 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit)) on my 15" Mid-2010 MBP (NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M) on OS X Yosemite (10.10 to 10.10.3) the display often (not just the displayed browser) changes to a much cooler colour, as if I had set a different colour profile. (The colour profile in the settings remained the same) When I shut down Chrome, everything looks as expected again. What's the reason and how can I prevent this behaviour?

Update: GFX shows that when starting Chrome the graphics switch to the discrete graphic card. When I disable this, nothing changes anymore. Turning off the discrete graphics might circumvent the problem, but it is no solution.


texts: How to solve Mac Apple Store repeatedly prompting for Apple ID and password?

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I've got a shared Mac from my company. The Mac was previously associated with another Apple ID. I logged out and I logged in with my Apple ID.
I urgently need to be able to develop for iOS 13, and for this reason, I need to update XCode to the latest version. When I open the Apple Store it starts prompting for Apple ID and password, and the Apple ID field is automatically filled with the previous Apple ID, the one I signed out. If I type my Apple ID and my password in place of that, after 30 seconds it prompts again for the same information, in the same way.
I've tried a lot of tricks, all the ones that came out when you google for this problem. But none of them helped. I tried signing out, restarting, enabling two factors authentication, removing the password prompt in the settings, but nothing made any difference.
The only thing I didn't try was putting a valid credit card in the payment settings of my Apple ID. The credit card I had inserted time ago expired, and I don't want to insert any credit card info on a shared computer. Furthermore, I just want to update a free app and I don't think there are no alternatives.
Any ideas?


texts: Apple Configurator 2: Apply Blueprint one by one

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I have 48 iPads here and if I apply a blueprint to all of them at once, the network to the MDM server is jammed. If I apply the blueprint one by one to each iPad, every thing goes smoothly.

Is there a way to tell Configurator to apply a blueprint one by one?


texts: MacBook Pro SuperDrive reads CDs/Media DVDs but not Data DVDs

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I have a MacBook Pro (Mid-2009) with a SuperDrive that reads CDs, movies DVDs but not data DVDs. Not sure what to do. The data DVDs work well on other MacBook Pros though, so i'm guessing it might be a firmware issue perhaps?

I tried downloading some firmware from support.apple.com but none installed.

This is my SuperDrive: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868: Firmware Revision: KB19

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.


texts: iMac connected to Wi-Fi but not to the Internet

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I have a 2009 iMac (24 inch) running El Capitan (10.11.6). For a few days I have not been able to connect to the internet. The Wi-Fi network is connected to the internet because I can access it with my other devices.

I have turned Wi-Fi on and off in System Preferences but that did not help. I can also see a good IP address in System Preferences.

I would appreciate any help.


texts: Any way to get a Screenshot of entire webpage WITHOUT repeating elements?

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i use Snagit for Mac (Techsmith) to capture screenshots of entire web pages (they call it "scrolling capture") successfully.
    -BUT-
    on occasion, there are some webpages that do not wanna cooperate. from what i can tell, it's pages that have headers or sidebars that remain in place when the page is scrolled. these elements get captured repeatedly in the one shot - usually duplicating whole sections within the shot.

the only way i've been able to clean it up is to find the duplication & slice it out of the image. it's a pain in the ass for long pages.

at first, i thought it was a Snagit issue. but after downloading & trying multiple other full-page screenshot programs & browser extensions, it happens with all of them - on any browser.

so, i've attempted doing a developer inspection of the code & deleting those sections, or trying to find the scripts that make those areas stay static on the pages, but have been unsuccessful.
i've also tried using the QuickNuke extension - but still, no luck.

anybody got any other hacks, ideas, apps, extensions, that can workaround this?
thanx!


texts: How can a user reasonably project data usage before buying a new iPad?

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Apple announced the new iPad Mini models, and they look spectacular. I've never owned a device with a cellular data plan before, and the idea of near-ubiquitous connectivity sounds truly amazing. But buying a model locks you in to a particular carrier, and the carriers have very different pricing structures when it comes to data.

How would someone who has never used a device with a cellular data plan determine the amount of data they likely would need? Are there web sites with use cases of "this set of uses uses approximately this much data"? Ways to track data use from an iPod touch or MacBook Air to get a comparison? Without having used one of these before, what resources could help a consumer make an informed decision about how much data s/he is likely to consume before purchasing a device and thus locking into one carrier's pricing structure?


texts: El Capitan - Enable Tap-to-click on login screen

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I want to enable Tap-to-click for my trackpad on the login screen of my MacBook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1004).

I tried everything proposed on this old question but nothing has worked.

Could you help me please?


texts: Emulating ARM (M1-like) macOS on an x86 Intel Mac

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Is it possible to emulate a macOS machine with RISC/ARM architecture on a physical x86 macOS machine? I suspect this is of value for those hoping to test the viability of their workflows on Apple silicon. In such cases, a performance penalty is of no consequence.
The only discussion I can find is here, though I don't find it particularly convincing or authoritative.


texts: Swap Used when there is unused Physical Memory

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I'm running on OSX Yosemite and notice that although there is 7 GB of memory unused, there is still 130 MB of memory used for swap.

Are any apps actually using swap space, which I assume resides on my harddisk? Is this a situation to be concerned with, or is this normal?

I can't figure this out despite reading up on the memory statistics in Mac.


texts: MacPorts to automatically install dependencies

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I installed 6 packages in one command, and it prompted me 6 times.  I’m using Mac ports on macOS Catalina 10.15
The following dependencies will be installed:
Continue? [Y/n]:

Is there any command-line option to suppress the following prompt?


texts: How to stop an app from running completely on OS X?

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Few days back I installed Team Viewer on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks. It worked fine at the first. Now the app is stuck on the dock saying "Application not responding" and it's running indefinitely.

What I've tried to stop the app from running

Force Quit from Dock
Killing from Activity Monitor
Tried to restart the mac and the app launched automatically even though it's not set to launch during startup under system preferences.

There are two processes using the CPU which when I try to force quit gets automatically relaunched.

How do i stop the app or how do I stop these processes from running ever again?


texts: display mirror settings get reset after shutdown

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I'm using the latest High Sierra on my macbook air with an external acer monitor. I recently did a clean install, and noticed that display mirroring gets reset after every shutdown. Before my clean install (I had the same High Sierra before) when I reboot, my monitors would be mirrored automatically, since I had set it that way. However now, whenever I reboot, I have to manually turn on mirroring every single time I reboot. Why is the setting not sticking? The only user account I have is an administrator.

update: strangely, I toggled the settings, shutdown, and now it is sticking. I'm not sure what caused it.


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I have installed mysql in Mac OS X 10.6.6. However I don't know how to get to the mysql prompt.

Sarbbottam-Bandyopadhyays-MacBook-Pro:bin sarbbottam$ pwd
/usr/local/mysql/bin
Sarbbottam-Bandyopadhyays-MacBook-Pro:bin sarbbottam$ mysql
-bash: mysql: command not found
Sarbbottam-Bandyopadhyays-MacBook-Pro:bin sarbbottam$

Any thoughts?


texts: What are the risks of jailbreaking an iOS device?

texts: I know that many people jailbreak their iOS devices. Is there a risk involved with jailbreaking? If, so what? Can you brick your device by jailbreaking? What's the worst thing that could happen?


texts: Need to Change Alternate Apple ID on the apple id screen

texts: Can you change your alternate apple id - somewhere? it is does not allow that on the current apple id screen.


texts: Is Mac OS X Server 10.6 upgradeable to latest Desktop OS X (without Sever.app)

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Around 2010, my boss purchased a Mac mini Server with 10.6. (Macmini3, 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM)

This server was retired last week.

Is the Server License (unlimited client) eligible to upgrade to a new release of OS X (Mavericks or Yosemite) or do I have to buy a new license?


texts: Why I cannot enable the Apple Music library in my iTunes?

texts: As what this screenshot shows, every time I click the box to enable iCloud music library and then click "OK" to save the settings, the box will always remain unselected. As a result, I cannot use Apple Music.


texts: Why does Citrix CAG (RDP across monitors) take up multiple Spaces?

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I used to have just my iMac and I used Spaces to have different apps on different desktops (i.e. Mail on desktop1, iTunes on desktop2, Chrome on desktop3).
I've recently attached another monitor to my iMac and I use Citrix CAG to remote to a Windows PC for work. I share my remote desktop connection across both monitors. To do this, I had to disable the 'Displays have separate Spaces' setting under Mission Control.
Now when I switch between Spaces, the remote desktop connection stays on display on each Space.
Is there any way to avoid this but to keep the Space functionality and to be able to have the remote desktop connection across both monitors?


texts: Efficiently transfer screenshots from Ipad to Windows computer?

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I write a Word documents on a windows 10 computer and want to include screenshots from my iPad. Idea is to make something on my iPad, take a screenshot and directly paste it in my word document. I can connect the iPad via cable to my windows computer or access the iPad on the network from my windows computer.
Is there any comfortable way to get a taken screenshot in my windows clipboard, so I can easily paste it into my Word document?


texts: Generating and opening file with Automator

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I am new to Automator. What I am trying to do as first experiment is automating the process of decompiling a Java class file and immediately after open the decompiled file with its default editor.

Following these instructions I managed to decompile a Java class file using this shell script:

~/bin/jad -lnc -o -d `dirname $1` $1

This will decompile the file class currently selected in the finder. The tool I use (jad) will create in the same directory a file with the same name but a different extension. For example, if the original file was "MyClass.class", then the generated file will be "MyClass.jad".

My question is, how can instruct the Automator to open the generated jad file with its default editor after this being generated in the first action ?

I know I can use the open command in a console to open a file with its default editor, but I do not know how to pass it the right name from Automator.


texts: (When Launching Python) CoreText note: Client requested name ".SFNSMono-Regular", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font

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When launching idle (Python 2.7) or idle3 (Python 3.7.5) from the Terminal I get several lines similar to the one below with different fonts as FONTNAME (".SFNSMono-Regular", ".SF NS Mono", ".sf ns mono") :

2019-12-18 10:11:00.317 Python[3676:16883] CoreText note: Client requested name FONTNAME,
it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be
through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].

I also get a line with this :

2019-12-18 10:11:00.317 Python[3676:16883] CoreText note: Set a breakpoint on
CTFontLogSystemFontNameRequest to debug.

I have already looked around and the only resources I found where from people developing their own apps. Some solved it by updating a third-party library that they identified by setting up a breakpoint as the second line type suggests.

This stems from Python (regardless of the version apparently), so how do I identify the source of the issue or set up a breakpoint as proposed?

Thanks!


texts: Extract list of titles from iPhoto album

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I have a large collection of photos on iPhoto (not Photos) and am currently in the process of mounting them in photoviewer on my own website. I have an HTML markup template in an Excel file and have been filling a title column I created by hand, copying and pasting from the iPhoto album.

This is fine for an album of a couple of dozen photos, but I am now faced with a couple of albums of several hundred photos, so I was wondering if there was any way of extracting this from the metadata in iPhotos.

I went into ‘Pictures’, located the ‘iPhoto Library’ did a ‘Show Package Contents’ and opened the ‘AlbumData.xml’ file in a text editor and then in Property List Editor. However the xml format does not make it easy to locate a particular album and then the data for each image is listed separately.

I suppose I could export the files using filenames and then cat them on the Unix command line, but they’d be sorted alphabetically and duplicate names would be altered.

Any better suggestions?


texts: Why do these podcast episodes say they are temporarily unavailable even though they look like they have been downloaded?

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I am having an issue where certain podcasts in a location with no internet access (see "no service" on the upper left). It  looks like they have been downloaded based on the fact that:

There is no cloud to the right
The blue dot is on the left

but when I click to play then, they are not available.

As an example, in the image below, look at the podcast "Choosing a Javascript Framework . . ." as in the image below:

it looks like it has been downloaded (versus the second podcast below that clearly shows it needs to be downloaded)

but when i try to play that first podcast episode, I get the following error:

Saying that "this episode is temporarily unavailable . . ."

Does anyone know what could be wrong here.  Its happening to a significant number of different podcasts so I have eliminated the possibility that this is some "quirk" with a specific podcast that happened to have a corrupt download.


texts: Are there any iOS apps that let third-party developers extend functionality?

texts: If so, can you give examples? What I'm looking for is any apps that let third-parties write code or modules/"mini apps" for extended functionality that a user can install/execute from within the app.


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Every time I try to sync my iPhone to the songs on my MacBook it constantly keeps re-syncing the same ones over and over. I have my songs compressed before they are synced so this ends up being a lengthy process.

The songs in question are all from one artist, the hundreds of other artists I have on there never re-sync.

iPhone 3GS 5.1.1
MacBook Pro 2009 OSX 10.6.8
iTunes 10.6.3


texts: Merge partitions after windows installation failure

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After windows failed to install, I was left with my partition, which bootcamp was supposed to remove but it froze and I exited it (probably not the brightest idea ever). So now I have these extra partitions and I'm trying to merge them back into my main disk, like how it was before the windows installation.

I've tried looking online at what to do but the (-) option that most sites seem to suggest using is greyed out, and would highly appreciate anyone who could help me.

I've attached screenshots of my disk information. I have the 2017 iMac, with Mojave installed.


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Is there an official version history for iOS?

The best similar thing I have found is on Wikipedia: iOS Version History

Is there something similar, that is official? I would like to know what could changed for iPhone, when upgrading from iOS 9.0 to iOS 9.2.


texts: Filter or Find Finder Items Using Variable

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In the Filter Finder Items and Find Finder Items actions, Automator lets you type out criteria for what your looking for like:
Folder Name Contains: (Manually Insert Text Here)
Here is an example image of "AnchorFile" being the typed criteria:

Is there anyway to pass a variable onto the filter?
I have tried to put a Get Value of Variable action before the filter/find in the hopes of being able to use the variable as the search criteria. Similar to this workflow:

The goal is to find the "XXXXX_Workers Compensation" folder on my computer using only a variable and filter/find Actions
I hope this is clearer than a previous post I made as I am a newbie in the Applescript/Automator world.
If we can get this "pass a variable to filter/find" thing to work, it would effectively:

Create a foldername from a filename,
Then input that foldername into the search bar of Finder to bring up the folder in Finder.

Thanks for any help you can give.


texts: Need Reminder Application to notify every X minutes during the day

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Can one advise an application that can notify me each 1 hr 30 minutes during the day (let's say I can specify it to be from 10 AM till 11 PM).
I've tried Alarmed, Beep me, AidaReminder but all of them can not handle this simple task with almost no effort of the user.

The point is: if I want to arrange my everyday life and get used to:

Take pills at certain time
Smoke just 1 time in 2.5 hr
Have meals at a certain time
Take work breaks once in every 45 minutes that are lasting for 10 minutes
Plan to go to a gym every 3 days
Go to swimming pool every 2 days
Pay rent every 15th day of every month
etc.

I know most there is a calendar and simple alarm for most of those tasks, for productivity at work there is pomodoro technique, for tasks like repeating an event (let's say allowing me to smoke once in 2.5 hr) I still have not found a good solution.

I want everything to be in one place. I need an app that I can say:

Repeat event every 2 hours 25 minutes from 10 AM to 4 PM
Remind me to pay rent every 15th day at 10 AM
After every 45 minutes ask me to take an action and go to a 10 minutes break, notify when break is over and ask me to take action to get back to the work or postpone

Is there any good app that meet those exact problems?

Disclaimer: I've read the tour and I've found this question might be considered as falling into category of Questions that are primarily opinion-based, but I want to point this out: I've listed exact application responsibilities, so that's it: the application is meet the requirement or not, no place for subjectivity.


texts: MacBook Pro A1278 keyboard works but power button doesn't

texts: I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2012) A1278. All the keys work except the power button. I've tried different keyboards (i.e., plugging in internal keyboards to test the power button). None of the keyboards seem to trigger the power button. I tried resetting using (command+option+p+r). I have not attempted an SMC reset.


texts: Cannot launch Team Fortress 2 because of some OpenGL error

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I want to preface that I know next to nothing about computers, I watch youtube and search stuff on google, but other than that I am clueless. So I am trying to play Team Fortress 2 on my Apple PowerBook G4 550 on Steam. I launch the game and it gives me this message:

  Error Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glGetError'! Either your video card in unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.

I haven't the foggiest idea what this means, so any help would be appreciated.


texts: AppleTV sees my Mac Mini but It can't access its information

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I have the latest version of the Mac Mini with the updated software on my Apple TV 2. It can see my Mac Mini but when it try to access it's information with iTunes open I says it is loading but eventually errors out. I can ping successfully from my Mac Mini to the Apple TV. I have the latest version of iTunes.

My MacBook Pro and Mac Pro can be accessed successfully on the Apple TV. All three are running Lion with the latest updates.

The Mac Mini did at one time work on the Apple TV. The firewall is off on the Mac Mini.

I went through the steps listed here without any success.

Any suggestions to get the Mac Mini and Apple TV to work again would be appreciated.


texts: Preview doesn't show the content of text file with a certain extension (`.jl`) in Finder

texts: When looking for a script of a programm (.py for Python, .m for Matlab, .jl Julia or .txt in general) it is very handy to go in the finder a simply highlight that script file ==> then a preview of that script appears on the right side in Finder. However, for the Julia script file .jl there is no such preview ==> nothin appear on the right side although it is a normal text file, the proof is that when I change the extension to .txt, the preview is available. How do I do to have that preview available


texts: How to connect two Macbook Pro 2020 to one Thunderbolt Display?

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I have a Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) and two Macbook Pro 2020. I tried to connect them both to the Thunderbolt Display using this approach but it didn't work for me.
Is there a way to do this connection without having to unplug the cable and switch between Macbooks manually?
Thank you!
EDIT: I did purchase these cables instead of the ones listed in the solution provided, to make sure they were compatible with Macbook Pro 2020 but it's still not working.


texts: Does an iPhone throttle its CPU under heavy load?

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I noticed some Android devices clock down after a while. So they only may perform at peak performance for a single benchmark. Is this also true for iOS devices? How do they behave under heavy load, like exporting a 4K video? Does the performance decrease?

I know that under high or low temperatures the iPhone will shut itself off. But does it also throttle itself before reaching that point?


texts: How do I prevent my husband’s emails from combining with my Mail.app account?

texts: My husbands emails from his gmail account show up in my Apple Mail account.  We both have separate gmail accounts, but all his emails show up in my Apple Mail inbox.  How to stop?


texts: Does iPhoto hang on to images when Optimise Mac Storage setting is used in Photos.app?

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Situation:

I've migrated from using iPhoto to Photos.app on the Mac.
I am using iCloud Photo Library
I have both a MacBook and an iPhone connected to the iCloud Photo Library
Both devices have the Optimise [Device] Storage setting enabled

I've read this page from Apple, so I know that although Finder shows both the iPhoto and Photos libraries as 'using' a similar amount of storage, they're actually sharing the same, underlying image files.

I'm also aware that after migrating from iPhoto to Photos, I can continue to use iPhoto, but any changes there will not be reflected in Photos...

My question originates from the point at which I turned on Optimise Mac Storage on the Mac...

The MacBook in question is low on storage, so, as I continue to add photos (for example, I've imported some from an external drive), the overall space available on the Mac's HD is being kept in check by the optimise setting.

When I originally opened Photos.app, both the iPhoto and Photos libraries, in Finder, were roughly equal at ~25 GB. After turning on the optimise setting and importing new photos into Photos.app, you can see in the image below, the Photos Library is now lower, at 17.8 GB:

Will iPhoto hang on to the 25 GB?
Can iPhoto work alongside the optimise storage setting?
At some point, the iCloud Photo Library optimisation may decide to move older photos off the Mac, that are in that iPhoto Library... what happens then?

Note: the Mac in this situation belongs to my wife. I'm keeping iPhoto around for a while, during the transition (some photo books being worked on, etc.). So it's kinda academic, because sooner or later I won't need iPhoto. But I'd be interested if anyone knows how the local library works alongside iCloud Photo Library, with optimise turned on.


texts: Why do playlists I create in the iPod app disappear?

texts: Every playlist I have made in the iPod app has at some point vanished. What causes this and how do I make them persist?


texts: Simplest and safest way to do a clean install of a newer MacOS? I currently have El Capitan, but no DVDs

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I have a MacBook Air 13-inch, Mid 2012 running OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 and would like to do a clean install of a "more modern" MacOS.
I have read about recent certificate problems but that discussion is over my head.
I have seen images of install DVDs but I have none now and don't remember ever seeing any.
I have already backed up all my files.

What is the simplest, safest way that I can do a clean install of a newer (or newest) MacOS? Do I need an AppleID for this? There is an Apple store here but they don't seem to want to do repair work on my computer because it has been obsoleted. However, they might still be able to offer some help I can't do this myself.


texts: Loosing WiFi router connection when moving from one router to another

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I have an issue with my mac book pro (15")

I connect to the WiFi at home but when I take it to my work WiFi it cannot connect.

I get no errors or messages.

Does anybody have any idea what can resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Attaching files and not wanting them embedded into email body

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Company Director with a MacBook Air and she's having problems attaching pages files and PDF's to her e-mails. Mail keep embedding them into the message window so she cannot type, or see what she's typed in the window. Many times recipients of her messages say they are missing some of the attachments she thinks she has attached.

How can I turn off the embedding of any attachments into the message body and just displaying them as a 'file' icon somewhere rather than the contents?


texts: How to update Mountain Lion 10.8 to Catalina OS?

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I had Catalina OS on my Macbook, but I was needed to reinstall OS. So I make a restart hold Command + R (Mac utility was opened), so I erase all data and reinstall OS. But when I reinstall OS, there is was not choice which OS I would like to install and Mountain Lion 10.8 was installed.

Now, I would like to upgrade this OS version to Catalina like it was before...

But I can't, I get message from AppStore that I need to have 10.9 OS version or  later.

So, as far as I understand I need to install any intermediate OS version like El Captain or Mavericks and just than get update to Catalina, right?

But issue is, that Mavericks no longer supported by AppStore , but I found link to El Captain, but I also got a message that this version can't be installed...

What to do? How can I get update?

Feel free to ask


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Every so often, sometimes once a day, sometimes two or three times in ten minutes, my audio will reverb at 100% for about 3 seconds. It's very random, with no clues it's about to happen.

This has happened while watching youtube, while using Reason, and while using Logic Pro X, so I don't think it's the applications. It didn't start until Catalina.

The system, an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), is running macOS 10.15.3, the sound is going through a Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (first edition), which I've been using for years now with little problem. I don't have any other devices, virtual or physical. All inputs and outputs go through the focusrite, and the microphone is selected off, and nothing is registering on meters.

Does anyone have any insights? It's not the end of the world, but it certainly is annoying.


texts: mount list grows endlessly on automount / autofs setup

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I have configured macOS (Catalina 10.15.3) to automount 4 SMB network shares with autofs. It works, the shares are mounted whenever I need them, as they should.

The problem I find is that my mount list grows endlessly. It starts with one "map auto_myshare" line, and more are added over time. I've got to see over 2000 identical mounts:

$ mount
/dev/disk1s1 on / (apfs, local, read-only, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s2 on /System/Volumes/Data (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s5 on /private/var/vm (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /System/Volumes/Data/home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk2s2 on /Volumes/Storage (exfat, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
/dev/disk3 on /Volumes/Backup (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_myshares on /Users/me/mnt (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

The problem is, at some point the system becomes unstable and I need to reboot it.

I've tried a number of things but nothing seems to prevent this list from growing:

Disabled the Active Directory integration (otherwise auto_home was going nuts) and Symantec antivirus
Played with large (3600) and small (30) values of AUTOMOUNT_TIMEOUT in /etc/autofs.conf
Doing automount -vc adds another line
Killing automount, autofsd

For reference, I've configured my /etc/auto_master with this line:

/System/Volumes/Data/Users/me/mnt auto_myshares

and /etc/auto_myshares with:

share1      -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners ://user:passwd@SERVER/share
...


texts: 2013 MacBookPro with Nvidia GPU and recent macOS

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I own an early 2013 15'' MacBook Pro (MacBookPro10,1), and I've been running every macOS update till Mojave, included. The mac has two GPUs, which get selected automatically depending on the running apps:

Intel HD Graphics 4000 (integrated)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M (discrete)

Recently I've been reading about the fact that macOS Mojave has dropped any support for Nvidia GPUs, and digging further I've found out that users have been reporting issues with my model specifically. Apparently, since High Sierra there have been issues with the GeForce GT 650M and macOS, with GUI slow downs and crashes. I've found plenty of posts of people complaining about the lack of support and drivers from Apple.

Personally I have not observed any of these issues, but now I wonder. I know for sure that I've been using the discrete GPU often (I track my energy usage), but maybe I've just not noticed the slowdowns.

I've inspected the version of the Nvidia drivers (system report > software > extensions), and it says:

GeForce:

  Version:          12.0.24
  Last Modified:    12/10/2018, 05:10
  Bundle ID:        com.apple.GeForce
  Notarised:        Yes
  Loaded:           Yes
  Get Info String:  GeForce 12.0.24 355.11.10.50.10.103
  Obtained from:    Apple
  Kind:             Intel
  Architectures:    x86_64
  64-Bit (Intel):   Yes
  Location:         /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce.kext
  Kext Version:     12.0.0
  Load Address:     18446743521870100000
  Loadable:         Yes
  Dependencies:     Satisfied
  Signed by:        Software Signing, Apple Code Signing Certification Authority, Apple Root CA

They seem to have been updated one year ago (with Mojave?), but that doesn't fit with what I've been reading about the total lack of support.

Does anyone know what's the current state of the game for my MacBook Pro model?


texts: MacbookPro Unlock screen with High Sierra

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My Macbook Pro- 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 is not showing default login/Touch ID screen with background blur effect wallpaper. instead it is poping up some weird screen to login(Attached image). If I create another user then it is showing fine.

This kind of screen is coming only for one existing user.

EDIT:
Screen Saver - Show with Lock option deselected


texts: Moving the selection to the beginning of the line

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Although I'm a Mac user for several years now, this noob-question is stuck in my head since the beginning:

I'm selecting a text by holding down Shift and moving around with the cursors.

Imagine I start at one line, press Down and then want to move my selection end to the beginning of the line (just like pressing Left all the way): how do I do that on Mac?

Pressing Home or Cmd+Left always moves the beginning of the selection to the beginning of its line (which is also kinda cool, but doesn't help me here).

I've even made a gif about this to demonstrate:


texts: Is there a way to hover over content in a web page when viewing it in Safari in the iPad? Specifically, I was trying to hover over the individual avatars at Ask Different iPad Contest home page. On a Mac or PC, it shows when the individual completed their level on hovering, but I couldn't get to see that in the iPad.


texts: Mountain Lion sleep and caffeinate command

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I am having an issue where my retina MacBook Pro (10.8.1) will sleep when uTorrent is actively uploading or downloading. I have tried my old go to programs like "Caffeine" and "InsomniaX" to no avail. I was about to try Jiggler, but when I am finished working at the machine for the night, I like to sleep the display (using a hot corner) and I want my display to remain off/asleep. Jiggler would wake the display every 5 minutes with the password prompt, then the display would sleep and this would repeat till the morning.

I have read this question and the best answer was helpful but left me wanting to know more.

I am wondering if someone can give me a little more info on how the caffeinate command works?  For example, if I were to run the command caffeinate -i open -W -a uTorrent.app (which I assume is working because it will open uTorrent) does the caffeinate command remain active until:

The terminal window is closed,
Break (control+c) is entered,
uTorrent is closed,
Until restart or log out, or
Until a 'decaffeinate' or (complimenting command) is entered in the Terminal.

Basically if I wished to run the caffeinate command, would I have to run it every time I launched uTorrent?


texts: How to merge partition in macos catalina

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I want to merge two partitions in mac but can't answer on internet please help
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         350.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         75.0 GB    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         75.0 GB    disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +75.0 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s4
   1:                APFS Volume Untitled                761.9 KB   disk1s1

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +75.0 GB    disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s3
   1:                APFS Volume Projects                27.1 GB    disk2s1

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +350.0 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.0 GB    disk3s1
   2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     220.0 GB   disk3s2
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.4 MB    disk3s3
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                535.7 MB   disk3s4
   5:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk3s5


texts: Resetting in-app purchase promo code limit

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App Store allows only 100 promo codes for the app and for each in-app purchase. App's promo codes are reset with every version update but it turns out that IAP promo codes are not – after spending 100 of them, there's still 0 available after updating the app's version.

Is there any way to reset them other than creating a new IAP (which would be troublesome for a non-consumable because of the purchase restore).


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I'm using mountain lion, I have installed MySQL.

GUI

It shows MySQL is running, but when I type

mysql --version

It gives error "mysql: command not found"


texts: External 4K display with 2012 MacBook Pro 15"

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I have a MacBook Pro Retina mid 2012 and have bought a couple of BenQ 4K EL2870U monitors. I've connected the two monitors up to the MacBook through a couple of Mini Display Port to Display Port cables that support 4K resolution, but I'm unable to get the monitors to display anything above 1280 x 720 resolution.

Note that the number of pixels pushed from my MacBook Pro is actually 2560 x 1440 since the chosen resolution is not "low resolution". However, I would rather have 2560 x 1440 "low resolution" than the current 1280 x 720 "high resolution" I currently have, since that gives me less screen real estate than I had on my previous non-4K monitors. If I choose any other resolution ("low resolution" or not), the BenQ just goes blank.

I should at least get it to display all low-resolution modes up to 2560 x 1440, isn't that right? In this related question it seems like even the 3840 x 2160 resolution should be available at 30Hz, but alas it doesn't work for me. Ideas?


texts: What practical options exist for running 32-bit applications on Catalina (macOS 10.15)?

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After I had a disturbing discussion with an Apple engineer I realized that Catalina is heading at us like a freight train right now - and not necessarily in a good way, but acceptation is going to be mandatory by Apple. In my case and revelation, I've been having some troubles with macOS over the last several months with performance on Mojave and it appears that these issues have been resolved in Catalina, but we're not going to see a "back port" of these fixes in Mojave. This is a double edged sword for some of us who need to run 32-bit programs still!

So this leads me to the question: what realistic options are we looking at for being able to run 32-bit apps when we must to step into Catalina?

Thus far the only practical solution that's come to my mind is using Mojave or High Sierra in Parallels via Coherence or another VM. Some projects like Darling (via Linux; imagine Wine for macOS apps instead) are just not yet quite mature enough to be viable. Are there other options that will facilitate running 32-bit apps that we just can't run without when Catalina becomes a proverbial "necessary evil?"


texts: Can I use Time Machine but still be able to access deleted files on my Mac?

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Normally I just copy important files on my external HDD or move the big files on there cause I don't have much space on my Mac.

However, I want to try Time Machine, because it might be less prone to HDD failure. Since I recently just got a toasted HDD and now all my important files are lost.

Question is, if I want to just move a big file from my Mac to my external HDD just to free up space on my Mac (I'm always low on local storage), can Time Machine do that?


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[OSX 10.9.2]

My Mac doesn't think Audacity can open mp4 files, so when I want to do so using "Open with", I have to switch from "Recommended Applications" to "All Applications" so as to select Audacity.

This is only for when I want to extract the audio; I do not want to make Audacity the default app. I am fine with Quicktime being the default.

The question is, can I identify Audacity as being capable of opening an mp4 so I don't always have to switch to "All applications"?


texts: Has the ability to manage password preferences for App Store purchases been removed in iOS 14?

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In iOS 13 and below, it was possible to change settings for App Store purchases by navigating to Settings/Account Name/iTunes & App Store - this can be confirmed by taking a look at the following Apple Support page:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204030
As of iOS 14, however, the "iTunes & App Store" page appears to have been replaced by "Media & Purchases". When tapping on this option, I'm immediately taken to what looks like the profile page for my Apple ID which doesn't give me any password preferences. Has the option to manage these settings now been removed?


texts: Searching for "-" in the contents of files

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There is a coding library Swiss Arrows that uses the operator -<> for a particular operation.

I don't seem to be able to search for this in the contents of files on a mac.

Is there a particular trick I need to do to enable this?


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In iPhoto '11, I have created a slideshow and sent it to iDVD 7.1.2 (Share > iDVD...).

iDVD does fine with maintaining the timing, the music, the transitions, etc. However, even though I have the project set to 16:9 and under iDVD's options I have disabled "Always scale slides to TV Safe Area" the images of the slideshow are stretched vertically, compressed horizontally. No toggling of any of these options has had any effect. Burning to DVD, "burning" to image, and preview all show the same thing: stretched/compressed images.

This is not a problem of my player's aspect ratio, or my TV's aspect ratio.

How do I prevent image scaling when burning an iPhoto Slideshow in iDVD?


texts: Cannot connect to the internet on my iPhone 4S after upgrading to iOS 5.1

texts: Just updated the iOS to 5.1 this morning and now I cannot connect to the internet. WiFi is not available to me right now...


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I started an account on Game Center when I was the only one with an iPhone. When my oldest got an iPhone, he got his own log in account to games Center. When my youngest got an iPod touch, I logged him into my account so I could better monitor what was being played and downloaded. But now I have an iPad and want to play Clash of Clans with my kids. So the three of us play together on different devices. Oldest with his own account! Youngest and I are playing off the same games Center account from different devices.

Each time I log into the game, it asks me if I want to sinc it with my games Center (which would erase my game and load my youngest's onto my ipad) erasing my game. How do I get the games Center to leave this game alone on my ipad?


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I have been using Atom for many months on Macbook (now 10.15.7), but in the past week or so, its window has started disappearing more and more often.
If I right-click on a file, and then Open in -> Atom, or click the Atom icon, I do not see the application window.  ⌘ + Tab shows Atom, but choosing Atom does not show the application window.
The  Atom menu does appear at the top of my monitor (see screenshot), but with relevant options disabled: For example, the File menu does not show any open files, nor the option of  opening a file.
I have two external monitors, and sometimes an application will be off-monitor except a small fraction of the application window, but I cannot find such a fractional window.
I tried uninstall/reinstall; I tried unplugging external monitors; I also tried  various Hide/Show options in the Atom dock right-click menu and the main Atom menu; but am still not seeing it.
How can I show Atom?


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When I connect my MacBook Air's 45 W MagSafe power adapter to my MacBook Pro (which came with a 65 W MagSafe power adapter), and the Pro uses lots of power (such as installing updates and restarting), the power adapter whistles. The whistle is high-pitched, reminiscent of fast wind past a window with a tiny crack in its casing (or very slightly open), and audible from several feet away.

While I know that the power supply is insufficient to power the computer I've connected to and that this is (overall) a Bad Thing To Do, why is the power adapter whistling? What electrical components whistle? Is it liable to explode (because that might be cool)?


texts: Fans go wild when screensaver is active - MacBook Pro 2017

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I found a similar question here, but it's related to the laptop preparing for sleep. My settings while connected to power are:

Screensaver after 20 minutes
Turn screen off after 1 hour

I assume that my laptop won't sleep until after the screen has turned off - is this accurate? If so, any other indications as to why my fans go into hyper-drive when the screensaver turns on?


texts: Is it possible to develop for iOS10 and deploy to a personal iPad for testing without a developer account?

texts: I know that there is one way to do this with XCODE 7, however this doesn't seem to be working for me, possibly because I'm on iOS10? I have an app that I'd like to deploy on to my iPad before I decide to sign up for a developer account. Is there any way to achieve this.


texts: osx - How to override automatically enabled proxy

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(I am using a 11" MacBook Air, Early 2015, provided by my school)

There is software hard-installed on my computer that automatically enables a proxy (under "System Preferences..." -> "Network" -> "Advanced" -> "Proxies") about every 5 minutes which inadvertently breaks a lot of services like the app store, simply uploading images to imgur, using lightshot at all, a lot of games I play from launching, etc. etc. I am able to use these services for just a few minutes right after I disable the proxy but pretty soon the hard-installed software enables the proxy itself again. I was wondering if there is literally any way around this. Maybe my own program that keeps the proxy disabled, counterproductive to the proxy enabler.

If I am being confusing, let me explain what I go through:

I go to do something (play a game, download an app, etc.)
It is not working.
I click on the apple logo, then choose: "System Preferences..." -> "Network" -> "Advanced" -> "Proxies"
I notice "Automatic Proxy Configuration" is enabled, with an address (to a .pac proxy I guess) put in.
I simply uncheck "Automatic Proxy Configuration".
I click OK, and "Apply".
I am able to access the software now. (play a game, or download an app, etc.)
Soon, usually just a few minutes, the proxy is magically enabled (checkbox is checked) again.
Repeat!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.


texts: Is there a way to access a USB-serial port by the device id, not by the tty.* port?

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On linux USB-serial devices create two aliases to its serial port:
/dev/tty* and /dev/serial/by-id/<my_usb_device_id>

Is there a way on OSX to identify a serial port by the USB device id? Both in System Profiler and using ioreg -p IOUSB I can see the id, but that doesn't get me any closer to connecting using that id.

We're developing several pieces of hardware and it's a pain to test them as every time I connect a different device I need to verify the serial port configuration of the testing software, because on OSX the tty.* port name depends on the port on my computer, not on the device. The guys running linux are happily using the /dev/serial/by-id/<my_usb_device_id> port to automatically distinguish between the different devices.


texts: unable to restore backup because not enough space

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I tried restoring a backup I created from my iPhone (it had more than 20Gb free out of 64Gb) but when I wanted to restore this backup I found out the backup iTunes created was 61.5Gb, so whenever I try restoring it says not enough storage. Any way I could restore data still? I know I have 22Gb of photos, if it could help.
I have tried to factory reset my phone so I can choose the "restore from itunes backup" option, and still I had the same problem.


texts: Is it possible to print Powerpoint slides after all automation on a slide is done?

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I have slides that turn certain parts into another color after 1 click, generated with MS Office Powerpoint for Mac.

Similarly I have slides where pictures shrink to show text underneath after 1 click.

I wonder if it is possible to print those slides after the animation completes?


texts: 2 Safari.app's exist in the system on macOS 10.15.5 19F101

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After upgrading my system to 10.15.5 19F101 (late May update, 2020), I found that there are 2 Safari.app's in the system - one is /Applications/Safari.app, and the other one is /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications/Safari.app.

I want to remove the latter one (sudo rm -rf won't work) as I don't use it and it also shows up in Alfred search results which is annoying. How do I do that?

Edit: ACL / Permissions for the 2nd Safari.app

/bin/ls -led '/System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications/Safari.app'
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root  wheel  96 May 29 00:42 /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications/Safari.app
 0: group:everyone deny delete

And for it's parent directory:

/bin/ls -led '/System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications'
drwxrwxr-x+ 4 root  admin  128 Jun 14 23:46 /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications
 0: group:everyone deny delete

For the parent-parent directory:

/bin/ls -led '/System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/'
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel  224 Jun  3 16:12 /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/


texts: Can I still download OS X Mavericks for Free?

texts: I never upgraded to Mountain Lion or Mavericks and now that Yosemite has arrived  I thought of upgrading but I find that some of my software will not work with it. So I would like to upgrade to Mavericks for now. Is it still possible to get the free upgrade? I no longer see it listed in the Mac App Store.


texts: Is there a way to enable "Find my Mac" to locate your computer but not remotely wipe the drive?

texts:
Find My Mac is a useful feature of iCloud to locate your computer. As recent events have shown, however, if bad guys gain control of one's iCloud account, they can wreak havoc, including remotely erasing the contents of your Mac.

Is there a way to enable "Find My Mac" to find one's computer but not to enable the remote wipe feature?

A good answer would point to some official Apple document about whether or not this is supported. A great answer would say no, this isn't supported, but you can modify this particular file on your computer to prevent remote wipe from happening.


texts: Where can I go to make enhancement/feature requests for OSX Lion?

texts:
Don't get me wrong, I like Lion, though I do miss many things from Snow Leopard and wish to express this to the OSX team via some sort of suggestion forum.

I'm visually impaired and the OS is seemingly becoming more and more visual.

One thing that seems to be missing which I can barely live without is the CTRL+WHEEL to zoom in/out, the options seem to be there but don't work, or somehow work differently than they used to?


texts: Unable to change desktop background in Macbook Air

texts:
I recently got a MacBook Air at work and since I've never used Mac OS before, I googled how to change the desktop background and the login screen from the preloaded awful looking company background pic. However, going into System Preferences and changing it from there didn't work. I even tried to take a random pic and change that to the desktop background by right clicking and clicking Share. There was no option for changing desktop background.

If the change desktop background option has been disabled by the IT admin, is there any way around it?


texts: My iMac is stuck after downloading Yosemite and opening the install.  It is stuck on the dark grey screen with white box in the center labeled Install OS X with the X in a circle below the text.  Status bar shows all the way blue, but no prompts.  I've tried shutting down, even unplugging for several days before restarting, and still stuck on the same screen.  Help!  This computer is essential for school.  Any words of wisdom would be appreciated!


texts:
I'm running Lion (10.7), and need to use JDK 6 for development, but previously I had installed JDK 7 and I can't seem to get it uninstalled.

I ran the JDK 6 installer and seems to be installed in /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk, and JDK 7 seems to be installed in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A

Somewhere along the lines my Java Preferences seems to have been deleted (not by me).

I tried to delete everything (as described here) in /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ and /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ and then do a fresh install of JDK 6, but both JDK 6 and 7 came back!

Worse /usr/bin/{java,javac} point to JDK 7.

Does anyone know how I can delete JDK 7? (And maybe get back my Java Preferences?)


texts:
As a Windows/Fedora/Mac/Ubuntu user, the menubar at the top of the screen has always bugged me. It doesn't go away and you can't move it. I've tried dragging it away in vain several times. It would look so nice on the right, just like my taskbar.

But after experiencing success with asking other questions that I thought impossible, I decided to ask it here to see if anyone knows how. So, with no further ado:

How can I move the top menu bar in Mac OS X?


texts: Dual boot Linux and Lion on FileVault 2 disk

texts:
I have Mac OS X Lion installed on FileVault partition. On the same disk I've installed GNU/Linux. When I boot my MacBook I can only boot Lion.

How to boot Linux?

In case you need here is more details about my setup.

MacBook Pro 13" (8,1) - MC724LL/A (2.7 GHz)

Partition setup:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *160.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         139.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                 Linux Swap                         509.6 MB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data                         18.5 GB    disk0s5
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS SSD                    *139.1 GB   disk1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         999.9 GB   disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS HDD                    *999.7 GB   disk3

Microsoft Basic Data is in fact Linux Ext4 root partition, no idea why on diskutil listing looks like that.


texts:
Is there a way that I can make it that you have to put a password or fingerprint when opening apps on my iPhone?

For instance, if I give the phone to someone and they want to try to open apps that I do not want them to use, the owner's passcode or fingerprint would required to use that app?


texts: "sh: wine: command not found" on Mac, despite wine installed?

texts:
Hello, all. I have been using Wineskin Winery to run Windows programs for almost a decade at this point, and though I have already gone through my fair share of issues (using winetricks, checking engine versions, etc), a Wine app has mysteriously stopped working because seemingly wine is not detected.
For years, an old Wineskin app had been working faithfully for me, until I decided to go and install Porting Kit (which is the semi-successor to Wineskin Winery, and is suppose to be able to run the former's apps). Now, my app does not open, and the Test log reports this:
sh: wine: command not found

Homebrew installed wine, and if which wine is ran in Terminal, I get /usr/local/bin/wine, so why would Porting Kit report not finding it? This does not look like a simple PATH issue, and I have tried uninstalling and installing wine already.
It would be appreciated it if the community could share any suggestions on what I could do to fix this.


texts: Apple ID replaced with someone else's after iOS 6 upgrade (Security breach)

texts:
I just updated my iPad retina (3rd generation) with iOS 6 and now my Apple ID has been replaced with someone else's ID.

And its not jailbroken either. How did someone manage to do that? This is a serious security breach, I think.

I logged out of that Apple ID but how can I be sure that they are not tracking anything and won't be able to purchase through my account?


texts: Finally reinstalled macOS Sierra, but now I get a kernel panic

texts:
I got stuck in an endless loop trying to reinstall macOS Sierra but after following Monomeeth's advice in this question: Stuck in endless macOS Sierra installation loop I was able to get it installed.

But now I get a kernel panic when booting up. I do not understand kernel panics and did a Google search and read this question/answer: What is a Kernel Panic and what does it mean? but am none the wiser.

I cannot paste the kernel panic as it happens every time I now boot up, and only appears briefly, so here is a photo I took:

I see that it says Mac OS version: Not yet set.

What does that mean? Is that my problem? Can anyone help me interpret this?


texts: How to remotely view photos uploaded to iCloud?

texts:
Is it possible to view the photos we upload to iCloud from icloud.com or somewhere else?

Are the photos available anywhere?


texts: Web browser opens popups as new tabs when maximized

texts:
When browsing to a web page which opens a new dialog popup window, if the browser is maximized, then the new window is not opened as a dialog but as a new tab. However if the browser is not maximized, then the new window opens as a dialog. I need it to be a dialog (not new tab) always.

This behavior is same in all browsers tried - Safari, Chrome, Firefox. So it seems to be a setting of the OS itself.

Found one setting Apple menu > System Preferences > Dock > Prefer tabs when opening documents with options Always | In Full Screen Only | Manually, but changing these does not change the described behaviour.

Is there any setting affecting this?

(On Windows OS both Chrome and Firefox works as expected - they open dialog windows regardless of the browser being maximized or not.)


texts: How to permanently change my MAC address in macOS?

texts:
In macOS Sierra, for some reasons, I would like to change my MAC address and I would like that this change survive a reboot.

How can I do this?


texts:
Dell P2416D (Vendor 10AC, Product A0C3) is 2560x1440, but my Mac OS X (on Macbook Pro Mid 2010 connected via Thunderbolt with Mini Display Port cable) doesn't have corresponding file in /System/Library/Displays/Overrides and when I used the SwitchResX Control application taking values from http://content.etilize.com/User-Manual/1030957703.pdf after reboot this settings were stated as "invalid":

P.S.: the https://gist.github.com/adaugherity/7435890 didn't reveal the desired resolution.


texts: icloud - removing previous connected apple devices and disconnecting it from account

texts:
Context
Last year I got rid of two old Macs (one running macOS Catalina and the other with macOS Sierra, both were formatted in an attempt to reuse them for Linux).
In the process I removed them from my Apple ID via: Preferences - Apple ID - "Remove from Account" and they no longer had shown up within iCloud.
Anyway, today I was deleting an account from "internet accounts" and got a message warning me about the devices it will be removed from - including listing these two  Macs.
Curiously, I added these accounts a month ago - so how would it ever get linked with these  machines?
My question now is - how can I really really remove these Macs from my account?
In case it matters - they are with people I trust so I doubt I would be target of hacking.
Additional Information

I have also confirmed on the iCloud website that these machines are removed.
I have used the "deactivate all computers" function in iTunes last year when I got rid of the machines - it's now disabled saying "0 computers are activated".
I have 2 factor activated - and didn't receive any unusual login requests.
I got rid of a third (this time completely broken) newer Mac a few months back - but this one is not showing up (as it should).
The deleted Account did not get removed on my iOS devices, they weren't mentioned in the warning either.


texts: Can I charge my MacBook with a phone charger?

texts:
Can I use a phone USB-C charger (e.g. the from google) to charge my 2016 MacBook Pro? How about a USB-A charger with a USB A->C cable?

Physically it fits, but this answer says that it is not a good idea, without elaborating why.


texts: iOS image processing software auto crop to borders

texts: I am implementing an application and my app needs to crop image based on background contrast. I have seen similar behavior in document scanning applications where they automatically pick up image borders for crop. Can someone help me figure out how to achieve this functionality?


texts: Making MacBook command-key the Emacs meta-key under VMware/Windows

texts:
I can configure emacs under OS X so that the key nearest the space bar (the key labeled Command ⌘) is my Meta key by running

(setq mac-command-key-is-meta t)

How can I configure the same key to be the emacs Meta-key when I run emacs under Windows, and Windows is itself running in VMware Fusion? For some reason even if I run the above line on Windows-VMware, my Meta key remains the Option key.


texts: Running Time Machine only 1 time a day at 02:00am?

texts:
I must say that Time Machine is pretty useful, and it saved me a couple of times. The problem is it seems running all the times, and slowing the system down pretty often.

Is there a way/tool to run Time Machine only once a day, say 02:00am. And, it would be better if the Time Machine wakes the Mac up and after it's done with the backup, go to sleep again.

ADDED

I installed and ran the 'Timemachine Editor' as advised, but it doesn't work. I mean, even though I set the timemachine to run 02:00am, it just runs every hour.

I use Snow Leopard 10.6.4. Is there anything that I missed?


texts: Do I get same charging speed when I use a MacBook's usb port to charge my iPad?

texts: I like to use my MacBook Pro's usb port to charge my iPad, but do I get same charging speed as compared to using the included power adapter?


texts: Fn key to switch input sources stopped working

texts:
How can I debug this?
If I change the option to show the Emojis, it's working just fine.


texts: How to find arguments to an application on macOS X?

texts:
I am looking for a way of finding out undocumented command arguments to a application on macOS.

For example, I can run something like this:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome  --remote-debugging-port=xxxx

Where --remote-debugging-port is a command-line argument to the Chrome app. I would like to know more undocumented arguments for such apps, say /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari.

PS: My question is something similar to this one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8869219/how-can-i-find-out-if-an-exe-has-command-line-options - which is for Windows.


texts: How did my Mac end up with iPhone 4S as my host name in the user prompt in OS X terminal?

texts:
The other day I was searching for Xcode iOS 5 tutorials. About a day or two later, I noticed my terminal prompt is now "iPhone4s : myusername". Naturally , my biggest fear is that there could be a worm or trojan horse on here. I look up the current procedure for checking the most current Mac Malware and the system turned up clean. I followed the examples to edit the PIF with the code:

PS1="\h : \u\$"

and it does not get rid of the "iPhone4s" prefix. I checked the System Preferences > Sharing and the name for the computer is correct.

How do I go about making sure the system is not hacked, and how to get rid of the iPhone4s name? I have 3 accounts created on this system. The other 2 are not affected.


texts: Where does Time Machine store its settings?

texts: I'm looking for the file that contains all the Time Machine exclusions entered in its Options dialogue. I know that (some of?) the scheduling related settings are stored in the com.apple.backupd-*.plist files at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons but I haven't been able to find the exclusions.


texts: Can I stream media from one Plex server to another Plex server?

texts:
I have Plex on a laptop and I can use Plex for the iDevices to stream media to them.

Can I do the same with Plex on another computer around the house like ZumoCast?


texts: Stuck on Target Disk Mode due to Firmware Password

texts:
The MacBook Pro 2014 (macOS High Sierra, A1502) I’m using has a firmware password set. I tried to boot into target disk mode and it asks for this password even after turning it off/on. I tried many key combinations, SMC reset, cmdoptionPR, etc, none of which worked.

I just want to boot from the main drive again so it works as usual. Is there anything I can do apart from waiting until Monday to resolve it at my school? I need this thing for the weekend.


texts:
On my iPod touch I am able to type basic Hebrew characters by adding a Hebrew international keyboard.

Is there some way for me to type Hebrew vowels (Niqqud) [without using any specialized apps]?


texts:
As a new comer from Windows OS, I wonder how to start/stop/restart a service on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 ?(it's straight forward on Windows using its Task Manager).
I tried Activity Monitor, but it only kills processes, it does not start them.
I tried the command: launchctl stop *servicename*  and then the command launchctl start *servicename* after I hit return on keyboard after each command the terminal does not show any message so it must be successfull, but when I check out the result in Activity Monitor, it sounds that this command is useless because it has no effect on that process in Activity Monitor.

p.s. I'm sure I typed the right name of the process, I grabbed the name from the list using the command : launchctl list

EDIT: (ps auxwww command output lines)

line1:

zend 204 0.0 0.1 602396 2684 ?? Ss 10:53AM 0:00.72 /usr/local/zend/gui/lighttpd/sbin/lighttpd -m /usr/local/zend/gui/lighttpd/lib -f /usr/local/zend/gui/lighttpd/etc/lighttpd.conf -D

line2:

root 202 0.0 0.0 623124 756 ?? Ss 10:53AM 0:00.00 /usr/local/zend/bin/watchdog -c /usr/local/zend/etc/watchdog-lighttpd.ini -u zend -g zend -s lighttpd


texts:
So I've been having a number of graphic problems with my 2012 MBP (Non-retnia)

First is screen distortion. I have black rectangles flash black and a pixelated yellow. Moving a window or program over the area solves this. This has been on going for a year, with flare ups. I've been to the apple store, they've replaced the logic board, full re-install, and I've upgraded the ram to 16GB. Still happening. I talked to them today and they won't look at it until I get a new hard drive (It's currently failing) and "My MBP doesn't officially support more than 8GB of ram"

I also have 2 window server crashes. Logs posted below. I have another appointment on Monday when I put original hard drive and RAM back in. I would love some more insight into this.

Logs are too long for here, can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2LwrG50dUFDT2JZcndRY1V2cVE/view?usp=sharing


texts: How can I incorporate photoshop with automator?

texts:
I'm new to Automator and want to create some actions of my own, that will work with mainly Photoshop and possibly some other 3rd party apps, but the only options that appear are for Apple apps and MS Office apps.

When I Google: How to incorporate photoshop with automator?

I keep seeing links to download pre-made actions from robotphotoshop.com But I don't want to avoid purchasing a bunch of actions I don't need.

Do I need to create custom Apple Scripts?


texts:
According to the man page of launchctl, there is an export command:

export   Export all of the environment variables of launchd for use in a shell eval
         statement.

However, when I try to use this command, I get the following message.

Unrecognized subcommand: export
Usage: launchctl <subcommand> ... | help [subcommand]

What's going on here? Did the command exist at some point, but was removed for some reason, and someone forgot to update the man page?


texts: Transfer contacts between iPhone 4 and old feature phone

texts:
I recently upgraded to an iPhone 4 from an old Samsung SGH-G600 and want to transfer contacts. At the shop they offered to do it for me for £15 which I thought was ridiculous so I'm hoping there's a way to do this other than manual.

The iPhone is non-jailbroken and the old Samsung phone does have Bluetooth.


texts: Some user's images of StackExchange are not displayed on my mac.

texts: Since this morning I noticed that some of the user images of this site are not displayed, both on safari and on chrome (all the "fractal" images are displayed, and alo some pictures, but others are not). Is this a problem of StackExchange or of my computer? I have OS 10.10 Yosemite, and the latest versions of safari and chrome.


texts: Is it possible to turn off the trackpad low battery notification?

texts: Generally speaking I like to change the battery once the battery is completely used up, but the system will kept notifying me once the percentage dropped below 20%. Is there a way to turn it off (or make the notification only comes up once it dropped below 5%)?


texts:
I recently updated my Snow Leopard installation to Lion, and I couldn't ftp into my localhost. I went into the system preferences pane > sharing > file sharing > options and looked for the FTP option. It's not there! Apple has removed the FTP option from the GUI, so you now have to enable it through terminal. I had to wait on tech support to get that answer, so I figure I'd help someone else out. Someone like me is bound to run into this issue. Here's the link to the article they sent me that fixed the issue: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4704?viewlocale=en_US.

Note: In step three, you need to add yourself again, even if you are the admin user that was put in step one.


texts: Installing Windows 7 in Boot Camp is Unavailable on Mojave

texts: On my MacBook Pro (Mid 2014), it seems that Apple has stopped support for installation of Windows 7 via Boot Camp on my Mac. I am currently trying to edit the info.plist to attempt to find a way to allow Boot Camp to run Windows 7, but I can't figure it out. Is there any way to get this to work?


texts: Remote management on OSX platform over the internet (dynamic ip)

texts:
I've installed a Mac into my parents' house. They're not tech people and I'll need to take care of all the system update/ software update, and possibly some remote assistance to them (screen sharing). I live in another country so this needs to be carried on over the internet.
I'm wondering what's the best option I have considering the following requirements:

I'm on Mac as well, so it doesn't need to be cross platform
Both me and them have dynamic IPs, I need to be able to connect to them without knowing their IP address
Ideally they'll use a non admin account with limited rights, but I'd like to remote login as administrator to perform administrative tasks.
It might be a paid service but it shouldn't be too expensive (10 euro/month)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


texts: SSH stops at 'SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received'

texts:
When I attempt to SSH to anything from my iMac (SSH, git, etc.), SSH freezes at debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received. This only happens on my account; I created a new account as a test and everything worked fine. I did reinstall SSH, but both accounts use the same executable. I can SSH to my computer from other computers, so I'm assuming that the problem lies with ssh and not with sshd.

SSH version: OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
OS X Version: Version 10.6.8 build 10K549
Log: http://pastebin.com/wrugsYhf  (I use a custom port, 7742)

Is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance.


texts: Voice Memos (ios app) recording to Google Drive

texts:
Is there any way to upload the Voice Memos recording to Google Drive? As far as I see it only allows you to share via Email and Message.

If not, Is there an alternative to do this?

I found this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dictonic-voice-recorder-for/id652076268?mt=8

But I think there might be a free one.


texts: How does Time Machine backup the snapshots made by Parallels 11

texts:
When setting up a VM in Parallels 11 (and previous versions)  one can enable "SmartGuard" and then further "Optimize for Time Machine"

What's not clear is exactly what's happening "under the covers" when Time Machine executes it's regularly scheduled backup, while the VM is running.

I'd be happy with Time Machine just backing up the snapshots such that if I do have to restore, I could go back to the last known good snapshot, but I've not been able to find any step by step on that.  (in fact I can't even find where the snapshot files are!)


texts: How to change color profiles on ssh iterm2 on SSH?

texts:
mac os x lion;
Using Iterm2;

I wish to change my iterm2 color profiles if I do ssh on terminal.

Can this be done ?


texts: How to reset an iPhone photo library with all data and meta data

texts:
I am trying to resolve an issue with a corrupted photo library on an iPhone running iOS 13. It will crash apps, as soon as you try to select older photos from the library for uploading or whatever. The library is shown empty on my mac although there are new photos in the library.

My idea is to save the remaining Photos of the phone via 3rd party tools.

In the end I like to really factory reset only the photos database. How can this be achieved? Is it possible to delete the associated database files and picture DCIM folders on the iPhone?


texts: Why do some Login Items insist on displaying at startup, despite being set to "Hide"?

texts:
Under System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items, I have a number of applications that are set to launch on system startup.

Some of these, despite being marked to "Hide" on startup, insist on showing their application windows. I have to manually close them.

Edit: At first, we thought that the reason may be that some of them were also set to Open at Login in the Dock Right-Click Menu options (as speculated in the comments below) – but that can't be the reason.

For example, I've just added the mapped network drive DL below to mount on boot. Despite having checked the box Hide, the folder displays on startup.


texts: Improvements of the iPhone 6 over the iPhone 5s

texts:
All,
I have (at work) the choice between a:

16 GB iPhone 6 (A1586)
32 GB iPhone 5S (A1457)

I'm concerned about the smaller capacity of the newer phone.  I do usually run out of space on my phone.

Obviously the screen is bigger on the iPhone 6.  Are there any other notable benefits that would lead me to pick the smaller capacity newer phone, such as:

Processing power
Hardware features
Software benefits/incompatibilities

Appreciate your thoughts, and understand it's subjective to some.


texts: How to delete hidden login iterms from backgrounditems.btm? CML way is prefered

texts:
I am running MacOS Big Sur. I installed some apps downloaded online. I found out many apps were started automatically at startup.
By googling and examining my system, I figured out they were started from the file backgrounditems.btm which is located at ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.backgroundtaskmanagementagent/. The file stores Login Items.
By running a python script downloaded online, I can see many Login Items registerd in the file backgrounditems.btm and they are NOT shown in System Preferences > Users > myuser > Login Iterms.
I tried the command osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "name"' to delete the hidden login iterm, but failed with error message "36:73: execution error: System Events got an error: Can’t get login item "myapp.app". (-1728)"
These hidden login iterms are also NOT shown when I use the command osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get the name of every login item'.
So my question is how to remove those unwanted login iterms to stop them autostart at my login. Command Line Way is prefered. I think some GUI apps such as ccleaner may do the job, but I don't want to install some GUI apps which may be autostarted themselves. Basically, I don't want to install an autostart iterm to remove autostart items.
Thanks a lot.
Update
I figured out the file is in a binary plist format.
Then I tried two tools.
One is the default cml tool plutil. Another one is a thirdy party tool ProperTree. Both can convert and open the binary plist as XML plain plist. But even with a plain plist format, it's kinda hard to understand it. The important sections are still coded in base64 format in xml.
I can decode base64 with many tools, but I still feel it's kinda too much work for this purpose. Do anyone know any easier way to remove hidden login iterms from the file? Thanks.


texts: I have the latest MacBook Pro and am finding that it is randomly shutting down when switching users. This does not happen every time but has happened 7-10 times since I bought it. Should I get it checked out or is this a common bug in Lion?


texts: Macbook Pro Mid-2015 - Rightside Fan 0rpm - Sensor Error?

texts:
I have a recurring issue which is causing me problems:
My MacBook Pro mid-2015 rightside fan seems not to be working. I have used different software (Macs Fan Control, iStat) to determine this.
This causes kernel task to fill up the memory and stops me from doing the things I need to.
I previously replaced this fan and did have some success, but the issue is back.
However, when I power on with the shell open, both fans are spinning perfectly fine - so this leads me to believe a sensor is incorrectly reading the RPM of the right fan as 0, and acting accordingly, when it is in fact working.
What is my best bet to fixing this issue?
I’ve tried an SMC and PRAM reset already.

Thanks,


texts: Are the chargers the same on the iPad and the iPad 2?

texts: Is the charger of iPad and iPad 2 same? I want to buy i extra charger for my iPad but in future I can buy iPad 2 also. So I want to buy a charge which should be compatible with iPad and ipad 2 both.


texts: Can't change OS X Maps to use km instead of miles

texts:
When I'm using the directions in the Maps application in Mavericks the distance is in miles instead of in km.

The "Measurement units" i set to "Metric" under "Advanced..." in Language & Region preferences.

I have toggled the setting multiple times and tried both relogging and rebooting to no avail.

Is there another way to change the unit to km instead of miles?


texts: How to evenly space table cells in Pages document?

texts: I would like to create a “grid” in a Pages document by creating a table whose cells are a certain size. Instead of manually dragging the walls of each cell, I would like to tell the program directly to, perhaps, divide the space into thirds, or to make each cell a specific measurement wide. Is there any way to do this?


texts: How can I upgrade my PHP 5.3.1 to 5.3.2 on XAMPP Mac OS X?

texts:
I've just installed XAMPP on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and everything is running correctly and setup completely well.

However, I want to install an open source project that requires PHP 5.3.2 or higher. I visited the official PHP website and downloaded PHP 5.4.5.

How can I update my PHP version so that it runs with this latest version?

I visited:

  Places -> Application -> XAMPP -> xamppfiles -> ???

I'd appreciate any guidance. Thanks!


texts: Launching Finder in macOS 10.15, Catalina, with a shortcut

texts:
I've previously used shortcut alt+cmd+space to launch new finder windows. In macOS 10.15, Catalina, this has changed in a way that search is now mandatory and I cannot select View -> Show sidebar (it is disabled).

Is there a way to launch new Finder window with keyboard or a way to get old behavior back?

Edit: This seems to be problem in this computer. I have access also to another Catalina running macbook where alt+cmd+space works as before.


texts: How can I use common information across multiple masters in a keynote presentation?

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In short, how do I make a Keynote template/theme with custom data (unique to that presentation) shown on every slide, and also support masters for a variety of layouts, without the author needing to edit every master every time they start a new presentation.

From this question on setting a common background for all masters, I can see that Keynote does not provide the same "Inheritance of Masters" feature that Powerpoint provides, so every Master is effectively starting from scratch, and each slide can only use a single master as its base.

My problem with this is that I want to make a template for my organisation that includes the following metadata on most (or all, if need be) slides:

A company logo — an image, but the same every time
The presenter's name — different for each person
A name for the presentation / event — different for each file
Logos/names of collaborators/sponsors/etc — often different for each file

The problem seems to be that Keynote uses masters for slide layout as well as the theme, without allowing any separation of the two.

If users are to have an easy way of getting a Title Page / Section Title / Single column slide / Two-column slide / etc, each of these need to be a fully unique master, with all the above information on it. This means the user needs to add their name + event name + logos to every single master, each time they start a new presentation. And if they miss one, then it won't be obvious but a few slides here and there (with that particular master) will have the wrong metadata.

Expected Solutions — I'd expect Keynote to support something like the following, but it does not seem to...

Pages has a feature that lets you "merge" information into the document (e.g. custom fields or from address book), which would be perfect for this, because you'd just set the metadata for the file once and never have to touch masters.

Powerpoint offers "hierarchical" or "inherited" masters (not sure exactly what they call it), which means you can put the basic info common to everything on a single master, and then set up layout slides based on that master, so changing the event or author is at least a single edit of the master(s).

Another method I can imagine would be to allow multiple masters applied to a single slide, so you apply the base for the metadata and then a layout master for the arrangement of titles/columns/images/etc.

Keynote does not seem to provide any of these methods of achieving this... Have I missed something? This seems like a pretty poor design of slide masters to me. I'm hoping that this is just a case of Apple being too minimalistic in their design for me to have picked up the subtle, elegant solution... but would have expected it to match Pages so am not very hopeful.


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Recently all of the entries in my iphone (4s) calendar appeared to disappear, both on the phone and on the icloud.  However the entries are still there but are not visible. I verified that the entries are still there by installing a third-party calendar app and syncing with my iphone calendar.  The entries are visible in the third-party app but not the iphone.  What can I do to fix this so that my entries are visible in the iphone's calendar?

Thank you.


texts: Log for the root directory of an external HDD

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I really doubt that this would be possible, but is there any chance that OS X 10.7.5 logs the root directory contents of an external HDD that was plugged in through a USB drive a week ago?

My external HDD died and I would like to retrieve the info of what folders it contained just to know if it worth 800 USD to get it fixed.


texts: How can I measure execution time on microsecond level?

texts: Is there a way to measure program execution time on microsecond level from Terminal? The standard time command only measures milliseconds which isn't detailed enough for my needs.


texts: Some external hard drives not recognised by mac

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Running High Sierra.
I used a Seagate external hard drive and a Verbatim hard drive for Time Machine backup. Suddenly they are both not recognised by the iMac.
The power lights are on and the disks are spinning.
I have tried direct connection and via a usb hub.
I have tried different cables.
I have another Seagate hard drive which works fine in both the hub and direct connection and with all the cables.
How do I wake up the 2 drives?
Disk Utility does not recognise them either.


texts: Google Chrome for macOS: How to bypass "This type of file may harm your computer" and save file automatically

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Every time I download a .DMG file using Google Chrome, I have to open the Downloads tab and manually keep it which is super annoying. It shows This type of file may harm your computer message. Is there any way to always keep them?

Previously it can be configured in the settings but it seems there is no such setting in the latest version of Google Chrome.


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I've enabled the builtin Mail rules to move junk mail directly to the junk folder. But the messages do not get marked as read, so they are shown/counted as unread in the Mail sidebar.

How can I mark mail that goes to Junk and Trash folders as read automatically?