texts: Setting to Disable Automatic Text Replace (OS X 10.9.1)

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When typing in a rich text format form in an application (such as the Notes app, Mail compose message dialog, Evernote) my Mac automatically corrects two or three dashes (--) into one long dash (—).

I don't want this behaviour because I manage my time using a plain text based system that I have been using since several years ago. The latest update to 10.9 changes this behavior.

I have tried looking into the Keyboard settings, I have turned off Correct spelling automatically option in Text settings to no avail.


texts: Disk Space requirement for Xcode on a Solid State Drive (SSD)

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I have a question on the storage requirement for running Xcode and working on Application development.

I am planning on upgrading my Macbook Hard disk to a Solid State Drive (SSD) for an increase in speed. Would it be enough if I have a 128GB SSD , or should I go for the 256GB SSD (which is more expensive) ? Could anyone help me with this ?

Thanks.


texts: Push notifications work everywhere but my home network

texts: I have an 2G (MC Model) 8GB iPod Touch on iOS 4.0 that has a strange issue.  Push notifications used to work just fine, but for the past month or two, I don't get any notifications while I'm on my home wifi network.  If I connect my iPod to any other wifi network (open private, public hotspot, etc), I get flooded with all the past notifications.  I have tried restoring my iPod numerous times, tried downgrading to 3.1.2, tried different combinations of DNS servers (as mentioned on the net), but nothing works.  Any ideas on how to go about getting push to work when I'm at home?


texts: How to stop my iPhone from asking me to enter my password?

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OK. So after the Apple hack when celebrity nudes were stolen I changed my password to something more complex than I can easily remember. (My password is now stored in the password manager app and is something like this u7GhY53bAhh2x.)

When I was buying this latest iPhone the sales rep at the Apple store assured me that I will no longer need to enter my password because the phone can read my fingerprint that is very secure, blah-blah-blah. So I set this all up and then what... now when I try to download a new app the thing pops up and wants me to enter my password. The praised fingerprint doesn't seem to do anything. So OK I entered my password (which now basically required a trip to the password manager program and a process of copying it letter-by-letter.) This was about a couple of weeks ago. Today, I was trying to write a review for another app and guess what -- that same annoying password window came up & wanted me to enter it again. So where is that fingerprint thing again?

Can someone explain how to make it work with the fingerprint and not bug me with entering the password over and over again?


texts:
Is there any method to make Safari (6) trying to connect to a website with HTTPS connection and switch to HTTP if HTTPS is not supported?

(See HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox).


texts: Does plugging in headphones to iphone Deactivate the internal mic of iphone?

texts: While you are talking on the iphone, if you plug in your headphones (with NO mic), does the iphone internal mic become inactive and you can't talk into it until you take out the headphones? Or does the mic remain active?


texts: I want to add a 5TB HD (NTFS) to my time capsule and have access to it from both my Mac and my PC's

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I want to add a 5TB HD (NTFS) to my time capsule. I have both Mac and PC's and will like to access the drive from both. I can see that the drive is attached in airport utility on my windows pc but I can't access it(probably because of the NTFS partition). I am not seeing anything at all in airport utility on my Mac (probably because it's not in HFS+ format).
I think I can partition the drive into two drives, one NTFS and the other HFS+ but I will only do that if it's my only choice. I would rather have access to everything from both Mac and PC............

HELP!!!


texts: How does 'stuck' (in results of 'top') relate to 'not responding' (in Activity Monitor), 'spin' or 'hang'?

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In results of top commands, I sometimes see stuck.

Apple's top(1) OS X Manual Page does not explain this use of the word.

How, if it all, does stuck relate to the following?

not responding – may be seen in Activity Monitor, in the Force Quit Applications dialogue of loginwindow, and so on
.hang files – may be present at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
.spin files – may be present at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports

There's an an accepted answer for the first point. Answers relating to points 2 and 3 will be appreciated.


texts: External monitor randomly lowers resolution adds black borders

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Okay this has been driving me crazy long enough.

I have an external monitor who's resolution is 1920x1080 60Hz. My MacbookPro Late/Mid 2010 has been able to work with the monitor and resolution since I've owned it. However, this past month or two the monitor's resolution would seem to reset itself to 800x600.

The reset seems to happen sporadically, usually when coming out of sleep. I also experience the monitor going in and out. I've already replaced the Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter.

Here's a screenshot when the monitor acts up. I can't get rid of the black vertical borders that magically appear nor can I select 1920x1080 as an option:

Sometimes after several restarts or plugging/unplugging the adapter, the monitor will fix itself. I have no idea what is going on, it is very frustrating.


texts: How to unlink iPhone 5s from former staff member's Apple ID?

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Former staff member left iPhone 5s which is linked to his Apple ID. Sign in to iCloud pops up all the time.  Find My Phone feature was on. I've asked him to remove this phone from Find My Phone which he did. Here is instructions how he did it https://support.apple.com/kb/ph2702?locale=en_US

Now, although he removed iphone from his iCloud account, the phone still asks to sign in to his iCloud. I cannot reset it, erase the data and anything else.

So the question is does removing iPhone from "Find my Phone" remotely (online) logs off from iCloud?
How can I sign of from his iCloud and reset the phone? Erase it?

Thank you.


texts: Does iOS 6 turn-by-turn navigation work with satellite images?

texts: Without modifications, can a user turn on satellite images for iOS 6 turn-by-turn navigation use satellite images rather than just a simple interface and monochrome 3D buildings—although it may be distracting?


texts: Can ThreadSafe errors for ScriptingAdditions be eliminated without deleting the addition files?

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I've the following errors in my system log when running e.g. Pages:

Aug  4 19:06:50 Pages[9751]: Performance: Please update this scripting addition to supply a value for ThreadSafe for each event handler: "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/MySpeed.osax"
Aug  4 19:06:50 Pages[9751]: Performance: Please update this scripting addition to supply a value for ThreadSafe for each event handler: "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/SIMBL.osax"

What is the cause of that and how do I fix that?


texts:
Well, my MBP cable has gone yellow after a while. I've tried cleaning it with water, and also toothpaste (with whitening) and that doesn't seem to have removed the yellow stains. I guess I'll try mouthwash next; I may have to gargle that myself first. Anyone have the same problem? I haven't been keeping it in unusual places, in my bag and on the desk.

On the left is the whiter clean cable.


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I used to be able to recognize iPad when working with Xcode and iTunes in previous versions of macOS.

Now I can no longer connect it. System Information does contain the device in USB list and the Image Capture application shows an "iPad" in the list, but nothing else can be done to it. Even iTunes can't see it.

What could be wrong?


texts: Greyed out/inaccessible files on File Sharing server on Mac OS

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My company has a single file sharing Mac Pro computer that every user connects to. Occasionally a user will drop a file in a folder for another user to access, but the the files will be greyed out and are inaccessible to the other user, while a different user can see and access it as normal. Sometimes dropping a file will cause a user to just have spinning ball and will not drop.

It has worked well enough for a few months now, but this problems has been becoming more frequent.

Everyone, which is about 20 users all with iMac or Mac pros, connects to the file sharing Mac Pro using the same registered username and password. I have everyone connected via SMB. The file sharing Mac Pro has a Drobo via USB that hosts all the files. All the permissions are set to write and read for everyone.

Any idea on how to fix this? Do I have this setup correctly?


texts: Print adressbook from iOS without computer

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My father is switching from a PC to an iPad - everything works perfectly and no problems so far.

But he still keeps a laptop where he has his addresses in a spreadsheet which he can print. He would be happy to move his contacts to the iPad, but he still want's to print them to put them next to the telephone.

I only found solutions which involve a pc or Mac or the iCloud website to print contacts, =which adds complications to the process.

Is there a way (possibly an app?) which makes it possible to print the adressbook to an aiprint printer?


texts: How can I reset the answers of the security questions of my Apple ID?

texts:
I forgot the answers of the security questions. Not that I seriously need to do it now, but there might be a problem if I need to answer those in future.

I still remember my password.

How can I reset the answers of the security questions?


texts: Would an iPhone delete text messages by itself?

texts: Would an iPhone 3G delete text messages by itself? I have lost some text messages and don't know where to find them! Thanks.


texts:
I'm thinking of using FileVault to secure my computer - it looks like an ideal solution for everything. However, I'm wondering - will it effect the performance / battery life of my computer significantly?

I've got a 2010 MBP with 8gb RAM and a 500gb WD HDD, and the battery at the moment is good for about six hours. I'm running OSX10.7.1.


texts: I am trying to remove the plug-in for Unsubscribe to avoid the message appearing every time I open my Mac.  To do so, I am supposed to click on the "Go" button in the Finder window.  Unfortunately, I can't see where is the "Go" button on the Finder window on an iMac OS X Version 10.7.5.


texts: Time Machine backup fails after copying some files

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My Time Machine backups started consistently failing, but only after copying a certain number of files to the backup disk.

Repeated attempts to back up would fail more quickly, almost as if a particular file were causing the failure.

The error messages say to try to repair the backup disk, similar to

  Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "MyBackupDrive". An error occurred while copying  files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.

However, repairing the backup disk failed to resolve the issue. Reparing my boot disk and using a different backup disk also failed.

I am not (to my knowledge) using any services or applications known to cause Time Machine problems, as detailed in answers to related questions.

How can I get the backup to succeed?


texts:
How can I store my home directory to a NAS device? I go to System Preferences
->Accounts ->CTRL Click "My Account" -> Advanced Options... What do I enter in the Home Directory field to accomplish this? Is this possible? I can store my home directory on a USB or Firewire drive.

Thanks in advance for the assistance.


texts: In-cell carriage returns in Google Spreadsheet iOS app

texts: How can I do carriage returns to second string ling in-cell in Google Sheets iOS app when use standard iPhone's keyboard?


texts: Can I delete all the iOS apps on my Mac and still do full phone backups?

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My hard drive is starting to reach its limit, and on inspection it appears one of the primary culprits is files listed in the System Information storage manager as "iTunes":

These are almost all iOS apps.

Is there any reason to have these on my Mac? Can I just delete them? If so is there a preferred method (e.g. from within iTunes vs Finder)? And, how did they get there in the first place? Critically, I assume they are not part of (or necessary for) the secured full backup ("This computer" > "Encrypt iPhone backup" in iTunes) of my phone (which appears to be under "iOS Files"); is that right?

Can I delete all the iOS apps on my Mac and still do full phone backups and restores?


texts: What entities can decrypt Apple Pay token?

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During Apple Pay payment, user device creates a payment token that contains a lot of encrypted information (see docs). Among other things, there is a device-specific card number (vel application PAN).
Question is: which parties can see this identifier en route to Token Service Provider (who holds the actual card number). In particular, is this information available to merchant or acquirer in both online and offline (with a physical terminal) transactions?


texts: why Chrome pop up from gocomputerhelp247.com/system-alert

texts: Why did I suddenly get a message with a Chrome icon to call a phone number immediately because I was under attack? The address was gocomputerhelp247.com/system-alert. It told me under no circumstances to restart my computer.


texts: Photo indexing software for Mac OS X 10.5.8 with the ability to upload to a photo printer / sharing service?

texts: I want to scan old color slides using a Nikon Coolscan on Mac OS X Version 10.5.8.  I want a program that will allow me to index these files and add descriptions, dates, locations and other information.  I would like this program to upload to an image sharing service like Picasa, Flickr, or Shutterfly so that I can print them out and share them with others but also keep them private.  I don't want third parties to be able to copy and print them.


texts: Drag and drop won't move ALL selected files between Finder windows

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Here's what I'm doing:

open a Finder window with source directory (500+ files).
open another Finder window with target directory.
select all files in source directory using ⌘ - a
grab selected files and hover target window
press ⌘ so files are moved instead of copied
release mouse button

But only cca 85 files are moved. Rest is left in source directory (while still selected). The same happens when copying files.

Is this something I can change (number of files moved)? An error/bug? Some app interfering with drag & drop behavior? I'm left with using Terminal to move my files, which besides being annoying isn't really possible when file selection is not a simple ⌘ - a.


texts: How do i change GarageBand Keyboard Notes Label?

texts: i want to change my keyboard note labels, my label is here.But i want "d e f g..." note labels. Thank in advace


texts: Delaying spotlight indexing to avoid the fan noise

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I am attending a meeting in a quiet room where everyone has a soft voice, and my mac decides to index for spotlight (the job is 'mds'), bringing the fan to 6200rpm. It's not too bad, just a bit distracting.

How do I tell mds that this is not the right time to do its job? Killing it to delay it could mean that it would choose to start a minute later.

Please note that this is not a case of initial indexing. I don't know (and I don't really care) why mds has a tendency to spend a lot of time not only after inserting a USB flash drive that the machine has not seen in a while, but also after removing that flash drive.


texts:
I deleted a 5gb video using rm video.mp4, but the space hasn't freed.

This was the situation: while encoding a video with FCP X, I ran out of space, I only had 50 MB free. Since in the trash I had some stuff that I wasn't sure that I could delete it yet, I took the terminal and I manually deleted a big video file with rm video.mp4.

The file is gone, but the main problem is that the disk is still full. What I can do to reclaim this space back?

It's normal that manually deleting a file will not free up space?


texts: Choose providers in ios 9 spotlight suggested news

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I wonder where I can choose/ change the news sources that spotlight uses in the new iOS 9...!
I live in Switzerland and don't have the News App...

i've never visited most of the sites before


texts: Quicksilver goes straight to text-entry mode

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On my old-ish MacBook Pro (pre-unibody), Quicksilver has been misbehaving for quite some time. I fire the keyboard command to launch it (I like command-space, replacing Spotlight), and it comes up in text-entry mode rather than selection mode. I can hit escape and QS closes, but nothing I can do makes it come up prepared to navigate the objects it knows about.

It used to work just great. But it's a waste of cycles right now because it's completely unable to function as what it does.

I've re-launched it, I've deleted and re-installed it. Nothing seems to help.


texts: Tab key on ZSH terminal in Catalina keeps running "bundle exec jekyll serve"

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I don't have jekyll installed on my system

➜  ~ Could not locate Gemfile or .bundle/ directory

➜  ~ which jekyll
jekyll not found
➜  ~ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
➜  ~
➜  ~ which bundle
zsh: correct 'bundle' to '.bundle' [nyae]? n
/usr/bin/bundle

Every time I press Tab key on the terminal to navigate the files and folders it returns

"Could not locate Gemfile or .bundle/ directory". How do I resolve the issue?

Edit: Resolved  I had an alias as exec="bundle exec jekyll serve" which was messing up the navigation.


texts: Can I upgrade the SSD on the Early 2015 13" Macbook Pro?

texts: I do not want to go to Apple to upgrade the SSD on my macbook pro 12,1. Is there a third-party SSD that would work with my Macbook Pro? I currently have the 128GB model, and it is running out of space. I am looking to purchase either a 256GB or 512GB SSD that will run at comparable speeds to the current SSD. I know Apple has tried to stop users from upgrading to third party SSDs, I am more than comfortable upgrading these things by myself, but I just don't know if there is any compatibility. Thanks.


texts: No GDB in the new Command Line Tools (OS X Mountain Lion) for Xcode - September 2013?

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I've recently formatted my Mac and when I reinstalled the command line tools, I installed the new  Command Line Tools (OS X Mountain Lion) for Xcode - September 2013. I've just typed gdb in my terminal to debug one of my programs and it told me -bash: gdb: command not found. There is no gdb in these new command line tools, is there?

If it doesn't, where can I get it? How can I install it?

Is brew install gdb one choice?


texts: How to fix iTunes downloading IOS update but not installing?

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iTunes is currently downloading software for the iPad "iPad".

has been displayed for more than an hour.  (Second update at end.)

Where does iTunes save iOS updates? suggests that the update should be less than a gigabyte and should be put in ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates—which is currently empty, owned by me, and writable.  UPDATE: There must be either another temporary location, or the 1440-byte packets were something else.  Because now (26 minutes later) that directory is 2.6 GB.

tcpdump -vv shows that I am fetching packets of 1440 bytes from ussea4-vip-bx-006.aaplimg.com.http at about 1.3 GB per hour.  And responding to each with a packet of length zero on the same port.  (No other packets are shown on any other port, which seems odd.)

lsof and sudo lsof have no output—what's up with that?

What is actually happening and what do I do about it?

Latest iTunes and MacOS; IOS 12.4.1

UPDATE TWO: The "iTunes is downloading and will install" went away with no diagnostics, and then iTunes told me that an update is available and do I want to download and install it?  (Same question I already answered.). iPad is still 12.4.1.  The download filename was iPad_64bit_TouchID_ASTC_13.1.1_17A854_Restore.ipsw which grew to 3585 MB and stopped.  Clicked update again and iTunes started a new file called iPad_64bit_TouchID_ASTC_13.1.1_17A854_Restore.ipsw.download  The .download was not there the previous time.

There were no other files in that directory during the previous attempt although there had been several attempts the day before.

Attempts to have the iPad update itself never got past "update requested" over a several-hour wait.  The following things failed to help:

turning WiFi off and on in the iPad
rebooting the router and iPad at the same time
shutting down anything possibly competing for bandwidth
plugging it into power.
shut down and restart
hard reset
resetting network
removing used apps to free up four gigabytes of storage (with thirty
already free)
looking for the update in "storage" to delete it (it wasn't there
asking iTunes to fix it in DFU mode

Five of these suggestions were found on several identical web pages, each finishing with the suggestion that I fix it by running their app.  Looked like all these apps were repackaging of the same thing, which reeks of malware or spyware.


texts: how to move "wkhtmltopdf" in the right place with terminal commands

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Hello world so i am way new to mac i am trying to install an older version of wkhtmltopdf because the brew install wkhtmltopdf installs a rc version that just wont work.

So i found this blog that explains how to install it here. but how can i move the file wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-OS-X.i368 into the /usr/bin dir via the terminal in mac?


texts: Can I use my hotspot on my phone for Airplay?

texts: I have an iPhone 5S and I am looking for a way to mirror my screen to the TV. I was wondering if I could use the hotspot on the phone to connect my PC (on the TV) and the iPhone, to airplay to the PC, which mirrors to the TV. Thank you!


texts: When someone sends email message to both me and husband, the message goes to his mailbox and not mine

texts: My husband and I share one log-in account, with our own Mac pop mail account. When someone sends an email to both our email addresses, it goes to his mailbox, but not mine, even though my address is also in the "To" space.


texts: Mac Pro (Early 2008) - Unable to print in color to HP 4730 MFP

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When I print from a Mac Pro (Early 2008) running El Capitan (10.11.6) to a HP 4730MFP, all my color prints come out black and white. However when I print from my Lenovo running Win 10, they print just fine in color. The print driver for the machine is PCL v5.1. Somehow I feel the driver is not translating properly on the Mac side. I called MAC and they said they no longer support drivers for that machine. When I reset the printing system and re-add, it won't even work if I select the apple driver from the software drop down list. It gives an error code 49.4C06. It only works when I select the PCL Generic driver which unfortunately does not have the option to print in color.

Is there a workaround? Maybe a third party app that would work?


texts: No volume on media apps after iPad update to iOS 7.0.2

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Leading up to the problem:

My iPad worked perfectly fine with iOS 7.0.  I installed iOS 7.0.2 and this issue began.

The Problem

My ipad 3 stopped playing music / movies or any other media sounds through internal speakers.  Additionally, on all media apps (music, youtube, hulu, netflix, etc) the volume bar is greyed out.

Additionally, the volume rocker does nothing when in these apps.

On the home screen, or otherwise outside of media apps, the volume rocker brings up an overlay that says "sound effects" but has no volume bars.

Headphones work just fine, and the volume rocker functions as expected.

Additionally, if I go to settings > sounds and begin to adjust the volume slider, I can hear that the internal speakers are working just fine.  At this point, the volume rocker will work - but just in 'sound' settings.

What I've Tried to Do to Fix

Soft Reset > No change in behavior
Hard Reset > No change in behavior
Charger / No Charger > No change in behavior
Bluetooth on or off > No change in behavior
Toggling all the different settings in Settings > Sound -- No change in behavior.

Called Apple - spent an hour on the phone so they could walk me through another soft reset and hard reset and tell me my iPad needs to be sent in for repair, which will cost $299.

Has anyone had this issue?  Can someone help please!  It feels like a software bug to me, but I can't convince Apple to help other than to tell me I need to "hard reset" again.Leading up to the problem:

My iPad worked perfectly fine with iOS 7.0.  I installed iOS 7.0.2 and this issue began.


texts: Recently I discovered an app called TG Pro that has all information about the CPU and GPU temperature. However, it shows that it is on sale with $10.00. But I'm not sure if this payment is monthly or one-time. As a medium computer user, should I buy the application? I heard that a built-in terminal also provides similar information with powermetrics, but is it available in M1 based Macs? If so, what command can I use to see all the information?


texts: OS X updater claims installation is successful, but new OS is not installed

texts:
I've got a Mac running 10.10.5 Yosemite, trying to upgrade to 10.11 El Capitan. When I run the installer, it claims installation requires 7 Mb of disk space, it installs some files, and ends with "Installation successful".

But the OS is not updated: after a reboot 'About this Mac' still shows it running Yosemite.

The same thing happens on this Mac when running the 10.12 Sierra installer. The goal is to get to Mojave, but that installer won't run at all so I'm trying incremental updates.

In both cases I made sure to download the full (~6 Gb) installer beforehand (from the app store), and I'm running the installer from the mounted disk image.

What could cause this error, and how do I get rid of it?


texts: MBPr with El Capitan freezes at or right after login

texts:
Here's the problem: my colleague has a MacBook Pro Retina with El Capitan installed and he's been having issues with regular freezes lately. Everything has worked fine under Mavericks for well over a year, then it was upgraded to El Capitan, worked mostly fine for some time and then started to hang up regularly.

Freezes happen on/during either of the following:

the boot screen
the login screen (most often)
within seconds after logging in

Freezes do not happen in either single user or safe mode.

As stated above, the machine hangs most often at the login screen. I start typing the password and bang, after a few characters it just stops responding - I cannot type anything on the keyboard or move the pointer with the touchpad. Keyboard backlight is on permanently and doesn't turn off.

After booting into safe mode in /var/log/system.log I've found lots of entries like this:

WindowServer[168]: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continuous seconds of unreadiness)
--- last message repeated 817 times ---

The problem is reproducible on all users. Since we have a Time Machine backup and I could experiment freely, I've tried reinstalling El Capitan (keeping user files). No change. Then I wiped the system drive and did a fresh installation of El Capitan, created a user during the initial setup and crashed into the same problem, before even restoring the backup.

Hardware test (accessible by holding S during boot) was run twice and did not yield any results.

The disk was encrypted with FileVault before my wiping it clean. Now it's unencrypted and the problem persists, so this doesn't seem to be of relevance.

My questions here are:

What could be a possible cause of such problems?
Is there any known solution to these?
Is it possible to download Mavericks from a reliable source and installing it over El Capitan? That's the last OS X version known to work well on this machine.
What can I do to debug the causes?

Any suggestions not contained in the questions are also welcome.


texts: How long must I wait for security questions to reset

texts: I made an appleid around 4 years ago, and just started to use it recently. For security, I had 3 security questions, but I forgot the answers so I reset them. However, when I try to make a purchase, it still asks me  the same security questions that I don't know the answers to. Does anyone know how long I have to wait for them to reset?


texts: I am trying to install an app form App Store and getting "This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later." Tried to install the app on different macs (with the same icloud ID), but still getting the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?


texts: Sharing between different iTunes accounts

texts: My wife can stream the music on her iPad2 to our home theatre via Apple TV. We have one iTunes acct for our purchases, etc..When she goes to visit family in Ga. Is there a way she can stream the same music via her dad's home theatre/Apple TV set up. I'm assuming there's an issue related to our iTunes acct vs her dad's iTunes acct.


texts: How to regenerate random smart playlist in iTunes 11?

texts:
I have several smart playlists that pick a random selection of music limited by total disk space.

It used to be that to change that random selection, you just selected all the tracks in the smart playlist and pressed backspace to delete them, which caused it to repopulate with a new random selection.

In iTunes 11.1.5, if I select all the tracks and press backspace, nothing happens.

How am I supposed to regenerate the random list now? The only way I've found that works is to open the smart playlist properties, change the "selected by" dropdown to something other than what I want, click OK, then open the properties it again and change it back. But that's far from optimal.

EDIT: Apple seem to have fixed this sometime around iTunes 11.4. You can once again select some or all of the tracks in a Smart Playlist, then press backspace to delete and regenerate (provided Live Updating is selected in the playlist properties).


texts: protecting keychain data when using Time Machine

texts:
I plan to use Time Machine to back up by data.

If the backup is not encrypted, can someone with access to the TimeMachine disk access my keychain passwords? Do they at least need to know my system login password in order to be able to do this?


texts: Enabling password free software installation with parental controls on to block adult content

texts:
I'm trying to have my son's computer setup so he can still install software with certain parental controls still active.

It seems there's no way to bypass the password window coming up when installing software, which is a pain.


texts: Getting "Missing Security Answer" when changing Game Centre nickname

texts:
When I go into settings>gamecentre>profile to change my nickname, a box pops up when I click Done saying, "Missing Security Answer Please enter the answer to your security question."
I've tried everything from logging into my apple ID and changing the security question and answer to restarting the ipod. I'm not sure what's going on or how to troubleshoot this.


texts: Inheriting Duplicate Time Machine Backup Sparsebundle on macOS Server Time Machine Server

texts:
I am running macOS Server and using the Time Machine service. I have a Drobo attached via Firewire 800. I've been backing up my workstations and laptops to it for about 2 years and have built-up backups history.

I would like to add a second Drobo to the backup server to use as an additional backup destination and configure the clients to alternate backups to the two Time Machine Drobos (TM1, and TM2). However, I'd like the second backup to include the backup history form the existing Sparesebundles.

Can I simply setup the new backup destination (TM2) and copy the sparsebundles from the original backup destination (TM1) and inherit those backups? That way, if one of the Drobos dies, or one of the backups get corrupt, I will have a the backup history from my other TM storage device.


texts: On the App Store of my Macbook Pro, the top buttons are no longer visible

texts:
I have a notification that there are updates to install, so as usual, I would like to review them beforehand.

However, when I open the App Store app, I only see the following:

Normally it would say something like "Featured", "Installed", "Updates" and the such. However, now it's all gone! How can I re-enable the display of the buttons?

EDIT: It should normally look like this (notice the buttons in the top bar):


texts: Global hotkey not working in Chrome or Intellij

texts: I'm trying to create a global hotkey which can be used with any application open. Currently the shortcut is ^ Control⌘ Command⌥ Option⇧ ShiftP, though I've tried a few other keys as well. With most of the applications I use, the shortcut works, but when Chrome or Intellij have focus, nothing happens.


texts: Remap Left Spacebar key on MS Sculpt ergonomic keyboard

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I'm using the Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard with my Macbook Retina, on Yosemite. This ergonomic keyboard has a split Spacebar key, like so:

I want to remap the left Spacebar key to Backspace to simplify my typing. On Windows, a custom driver enables this remapping out of the box. However, this driver is not available on OS X.

I've already installed Karabiner and experimented with remapping keys. When I start up the EventViewer in Karabiner, both keys show up as KeyCode::SPACE. Is there a lower-level keycode I can access to differentiate between the left and right Spacebar keys?

Any alternate solutions are also welcome!


texts: Why does my Photos library differ in size looking in Finder vs in the "Get Info" of Photos?

texts: Hopefully I am under-thinking this issue. I've been going through my Photos library, deleting duplicates and lame pictures. When I went to look at the total library size, I got a different calculation in the Photos app compared to Finder. Photos says the library size is 603GB and Finder says it is 665GB. What is taking the extra 60GB? Is there something I'm missing here? Thank you for your help!


texts:
I have a program that quits after a time with "too many open files". How can I trace which files are opened and closed? I know I can set this limit a higher value, but that would only defer the problem.

I remember using a program like dtruss or dtrace for that purpose but I can't remember how I invoked it and --help gave to much confusion.

I run that program with a wrapper script based on nodejs, so I need to follow the child processes.

Question: what is the best strategy to find out which files (descriptors) are opened and which are closed?


texts: Why does show hidden files shortcut only work intermittently?

texts:
I am running Catalina on a 2015 13" Macbook Pro and at random times the default ⌘ Command⇧ Shift
. shortcut for showing/hiding files will stop working. I read previous threads that mostly refer back to El Capitan or Mojave. I did find one thread that linked to a Toggle Hidden Files workflow. I tried it and the system pops up a window saying "Finder is not showing hidden files".

Any ideas as to why it might stop working and how I can fix it?


texts:
I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I downloaded Google Chrome but in my Applications Chrome has a cross. When I open it, it says my Mac is not compatible.

Once I booted with 64bit and Chrome was working! However my Internet (dial-up) does not work in 64bit (32 only).

Is there a way to get Chrome on 32 bit for Mac? I downloaded Chrome official website.


texts: Apple "Strength" Commercial featuring Fitness Apps

texts: Does anyone know fitness app featured where the guy is doing step-ups on a park bench followed by push-ups?


texts: Retina Macbook Pro with External Display (Samsung BX2440)

texts:
I have just switched to a rMBP from a Windows 7 laptop.  I use an external 24 inch monitor (Samsung BX2440) via the HDMI port on the rMBP.  It seems that due to some scaling, the text on the external monitor (particularly fixed width text) is a lot blurrier than what is was via my Windows machine.

Is there any way I can improve the text quality on the external display?  I've tried all of the standard things people have mentioned on forums.  The display is set to its native resolution (1080p) as per:

Neither Best for display nor Scaled at 1080p make a difference.

Will a Thunderbolt->DVI cable help at all?


texts: Stop gmail + terminal from pasting rich text

texts:
Since some recent update, when copying stuff from Terminal into Gmail compose window, it's pasted as formatted text, retaining all my terminal colors and fonts.

How to stop them (Chrome, Gmail, Terminal or whoever is to blame) doing that? This is really annoying.


texts: I'm working on an iPad app and I need to be able to download and unzip a collection of images to display. Is this possible to do natively in iOS 7? iOS 6?


texts: Preview print dialog defaults to Scale to Fit or Print Entire Image

texts:
When printing a PDF file from Preview, the print dialog defaults to "Scale to Fit / Print Entire Image", and the default scale is some arbitrary number.  To get 100% scale requires clicking "Scale" and typing "100".

I want the default to be "Scale / 100%", without clicking or typing.  How can I do this in Yosemite?

This question was answered before under "Keep Preview from autoresizing print output" but the solution there does not seem to work under Yosemite.  Saving as a preset does not work either.


texts: OS X 10.10.5 - root user suddenly activated

texts:
As far as I know, the root-user is deactivated by default in OS X. And I remember trying the command "su" some time (a few weeks) ago and it stated something like "su: sorry" which it should state. I googled how to activate the root user and followed the steps, just to know it if it would be necessary, but DID NOT activate or change anything in the settings at that point.

Just for fun, I tried a few minutes ago and it DID let me login as root, i. e.:

➜  ~  su                                                               23:46:28
Password:
sh-3.2# ls -l

Does anyone have an idea why that change occured?

P.S.: The attempt a few weeks ago was under OS X 10.10.4, the attempt a few minutes ago was under OS X 10.10.5 - does anyone know if they changed that setting within this update?

EDIT: A few months ago, I just recall, there appeared a new user displayed as "Others..." at the login screen when booting up. It is still here, but I didn't do anything about this user. In the system preferences it just states the 3 users (my user, backup with admin rights (called "test") and guest) I created, but in the terminal it states:

➜  /Users  ls -lah                                                     00:13:41
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   7 root   admin    238B 17 Okt  2014 .
drwxr-xr-x  35 root   wheel    1,2K 11 Jul 15:19 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root   wheel      0B 10 Sep  2014 .localized
drwxr-xr-x+ 11 Guest  _guest   374B 25 Sep  2013 Guest
drwxr-xr-x+ 64 MyName staff    2,1K 30 Aug 00:13 MyName
drwxrwxrwt   9 root   wheel    306B 16 Aug 22:30 Shared
drwxr-xr-x+ 12 test   staff    408B  6 Aug 14:54 test

What is this "shared" user? This will probably correspond to the user "Others..." displayed at the login screen. That's the content of "Shared":

➜  Shared  ls -al                                                      00:23:57
total 16
drwxrwxrwt  9 root  wheel   306 16 Aug 22:30 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  admin   238 17 Okt  2014 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 MyName wheel  6148 16 Aug 22:30 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     0 10 Sep  2014 .localized
drwxrwxrwx  4 MyName wheel   136 27 Jun  2014 Battle.net
drwxrwxrwx  5 MyName wheel   170 25 Apr 12:22 Blizzard
drwxrwxrwx  3 MyName wheel   102 11 Sep  2014 Latexian
drwxrwxrwx@ 6 MyName wheel   204 27 Okt  2013 SC Info
drwxrwxrwx@ 2 MyName wheel    68 25 Sep  2013 adi

EDIT: Just looked it up and found that root is indeed activated. I think i will deactivate it again. But why did it even change?

EDIT: Just deactivated root. Responds "su: sorry" as desired when trying to login as root in the terminal and furthermore the "Others..." user at the login screen disappeared. Still clueless why and how root got activated.


texts: How to downgrade to macOS Sierra without Time Machine

texts:
I upgraded to High Sierra a week ago, my MacBook Pro 2016 (15 inch) is very slow now even in normal daily usage.

I wanted to downgrade back to Sierra, but even tho my MacBook came originally with Sierra, I cannot find it in "App Store > Purchases", there is only Mavericks which I bought on my previous MacBook.

Is there any way I can download Sierra from Apple? Is there any other trustable source?

Or maybe I would see Sierra in App Store if I re-install "OS X Mavericks" again?


texts:
So I wanted to download the git command line and when opening the .pkg I got an Un ID'd Developer message.

I do not have admin rights and am locked out of the gatekeeper panel.

I then tried the xattr -d com.apple.quarantine  method to no avail.

Any tips?

Thanks!

NOTE: OSX El Capitan


texts: Mavericks firewall does not keep my choices

texts:
I'm on Mavericks and I run a python script to have a minimalist local server.

Anytime I launch the server the firewall popup comes in and asks me "Do you want the application “python2.7” to accept incoming network connections?" I click "Allow".

I have inspected the Firewall Options from "Security and Privacy" and there is an entry "Python" that points to my virtualenv version of python that is marked as "Allow incoming connections".

So everything seems ok but this popup won't go away, it is always there anytime I launch the server.

Might be a problem linked to the different virtualenv installations of python?


texts: Time zone updates are only semi-automatic

texts:
In my Mac's date and time prefs I have "Set time zone automatically using current location" checked. But when I travel to a different time zone, the zone doesn't automatically change-- unless I open Date & Time preferences. I don't have to do anything once I open it, just opening it is enough to make the time zone update. It automatically finds the correct time zone but only once I open the prefs.

The Mac can determine the correct time zone, so that's fine, but isn't it supposed to actually change it automatically if I have that setting turned on?

OS X 10.11.1, MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)


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I am having issue with my trackpad of MacBook Pro Retina early 2015, As it was working properly a day before, the Hardware Keyboard and other things working properly.

I did tried Reseting SMC, PRAM, but no luck, I am on macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

Any suggestions?


texts: How to change my Mac keyboard back to British English from US English

texts:
For some reason my Mac's keyboard has changed fro British English to US English. This means that when I need to do a "£" sign I need to hit option+3 rather than shift+3, which is pretty irritating.

I know that if I go into System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources I can add a British English keyboard and then switch to it. But how do I then set that British English keyboard as default and delete the US English keyboard? When I select the US English keyboard in the list of keyboards, the "-" symbol at the bottom of the list is greyed out: see screenshot below.


texts: How do I seamlessly share a window from Mac OS X El Capitan to Windows 10?

texts:
Is there a way for me (as not an enterprise) to seamlessly share/remote access one window on my Mac from my Windows PC? I know Citrix has a version of this, but I'm not able to get their enterprise software.
Edit:
What I want to do is having remote access from a Windows machine on the same network as the Mac machine. But the remote access shouldn't be just a full screen remote as VNC or TeamViewer. I want to share/remote into just one application which I have on my Mac.


texts: Remotely SSH to IP address in home network

texts:
I've got a device at home I want to SSH to from work. The device has port 22 open locally and I have port 22 opened on my AirPort Extreme. However, on the AirPort Extreme it says the open 22 port only goes to my main server IP (10.0.1.100).

The IP I need to access is 10.0.1.104. Again, the device at 10.0.1.104 has port 22 open on it, as I am able to SSH to it on the local network. I can also SSH to 10.0.1.100 with no issues.

When I try to add an additional port forwarding entry, AirPort Utility says there is already a port forward listed for 22 since it's already open, but is pointing to 10.0.1.104.

I feel like there is a way to specify the IP in the SSH syntax, but I'm not sure what it is.

Thanks.


texts: How to reconnect VPN by using Tunnelblick from command line?

texts: The use case is that I need a particular VPN connected at all times on one of my servers which runs macOS. It's set up with Tunnelblick. And I know how to re-connect to it manually using Tunnelblick GUI. But I noticed that sometimes due to network sometimes disconnecting due to instability or some such, Tunnelblick could get into a state of repeatedly trying to reconnect to the previously connected VPN but would never succeed. Therefore, I'm hoping I can create a cron job to periodically check if the VPN is connected (probably by pinging an URL only accessible via the said VPN), and if not, reconnect to it by restarting Tunnelblick and reconnect to the VPN. What should the command line be? I intend to add the command line into my crontab.


texts: PDF editor: Zoom operation in overview mode

texts:
I use PDF Expert in overview mode:

but I find that the width of every page is fixed, I cannot zoom them out and in.

Is there a way to perform zoom operation in overview mode in PDF Expert? Or is there any alternative PDF editor which possess this functionality?


texts: Getting "There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server" on an iPhone 6s

texts: This issue start appearing after updating to iOS 11.3. The first few times restarting the iPhone solved the problem, but now after trying all of the solutions found here, nothing has worked.


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I am on MacOS High Sierra. I need to share the internet connection from Thunderbolt though WiFi with WEP as the security protocol. But I cannot see WEP in the sharing options. I tried this link but apparently, it is not working as well. Is WEP completely removed in High Sierra or is there is a way to achieve this?

PS: I must use WEP to connect to a rather old Embedded device.


texts: Automator script for restarting an application minimised without AppleScript

texts:
How do I get an Automator script to restart an application and make it minimised after restart?
The application in question has no support for AppleScript.
I have an application (Setapp version of MoneyWiz) with the very annoying feature that if it is not started at least once a week it will delete all its saved files in the cloud. Continuously running the application does not count, it has to be (re)started.
I created a calendar automator script that runs every other night that restarts the application, but that brings the application to the front, and I want it to be launched in the background. Due to the application's lack of AppleScript I cannot use the
tell application [...] set miniaturized
which is the common solution I find when I search the web for solutions.


texts: Screen sharing without allowing others to access my account?

texts:
I sometimes work from home (MacbookPro-10.6.8) and would like to screen share with my iMac(10.9) at work. The screen-sharing is easy enough, but I share an office with several other people. To put it nicely, my coworkers haven't grown up yet... When I work remotely they are able to see what I am doing, then go to my desk, take control of my mouse/keyboard, make changes to my code "as a prank", etc. It's quite frustrating to say the least. Is there anyway to screen share without allowing someone else to have direct access to my work?

(Someone mentioned to me that there's a way of having a dummy user's account show up on the iMac while I'm working on my own account, but they weren't sure how to do this-and I can't seem to find anything about it. Any ideas?) Thanks!


texts: OS X Mountain Lion does not boot after the creation of a Fusion Drive

texts:
I have followed a guide to set up the core storage logical volume to use one SSD and one HDD.

Since then, I have encountered multiple errors such as:

69822 Couldn’t rediscover disk after operation
69780 Unable to create a new CoreStorage Logical Volume
...

When created my Fusion Drive, I inverted disk0 (HDD) and disk1 (SSD) in the first command to create a Logical Volume Group.

If I boot normally (not in safe mode), the machine hangs at Apple logo ... even if I try to boot from an external drive or a Mountain Lion startup drive.

Could this be a problem of the EFI version (2.7)?

Hardware: Macbook Pro 15" early 2011 (8,2)


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I have a large photo library and I do not want to buy extra space from Apple so that I can use the iCloud photo library. Instead, I want to use the photo stream to synchronize every photo taken from my iPad and iPhone to my Mac (because here I have the space). And occasionally, I want to send some photos to my iPad/iPhone from my Mac.

So my problems with the photo stream are:

What happens when a photo is added to the photo stream? In the OS X photos App, it will be downloaded and permanently saved in the library, even if it is deleted from the photo stream. In iOS however, it will be downloaded but when removed from the photo stream it will disappear from my iOS device as well. Can I somehow save it there permanently like under OS X?
Some photos are not downloaded to my Mac although they are listed under the photo stream album on my iPhone, with which I took them. They are not listed in the photo stream album under the Photos App in OS X. What could be the problem?

Any hints appreciated.


texts: Using launchd to monitor a running program or process

texts:
I've written a simple bash script to check whether a program (supplied as its only argument) is running and send an email to a set address in the script if it's not. The script works if run on the command line, but I cannot for the life of me get it to work under launchd as a user agent (~/Library/LaunchAgents) where I try to set it to run every minute. The latest incarnation of the relevant .plist file is (monitoring Dropbox):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>greencollar.Dropbox.checkRun</string>
        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>60</integer>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/Users/greencollar/Documents/code/proc_check.sh</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>proc_check.sh</string>
            <string>Dropbox</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</plist>

Yes - the bash script is executable and no there are no entries in Console indicating any problems with the .plist file. I have tried making /bin/bash the program, but that doesn't seem to make any difference and reading execvp(3) seems to hint that it wouldn't. I've also tried having everything under <ProgramArguments> without any luck as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this seems to me pretty basic and it's very frustrating that I can't get it to work!

----------------------------- 1st Edit ---------------------------

Here is the pared-down basics of the shell script:

#!/bin/bash
PROC=$1
if ! /usr/bin/pgrep $PROC > /dev/null
then
    /bin/echo "$PROC is not running!" | /usr/bin/mail -s "$PROC down" email@mydomain
fi

Not much to go wrong there...


texts: My Mac has the default installation of PHP 5.5 at /usr/bin/php and I want to remove it the right way because I want to have PHP 7 instead of this. So far no luck on how to uninstall the right way. I can't simply rm -rf /usr/bin/php because there's a lot of other components like php-cli, php-fpm, etc to be removed as well as apache and mysql.


texts: External windows mouse invert scroll except touchpad

texts: I just attached an external windows mouse to my mac and I inverted the scrolling. But now it also inverts it for the touchpad... Is there a way to invert it only for the external mouse? I really don't want to switch it up every time...


texts: Set timeout on idle for VPN (Cisco IPsec)?

texts:
Anyway to set a idle timeout on VPN? I want my VPN connection to drop automatically after idling for 5 minutes.

Using Lion 10.7.3 and built-in VPN Client (Cisco IPsec).


texts: Looking for an app to amplify audio from YouTube

texts:
Years ago I saw someone use a program for Windows and I was hoping that someone can tell me if there is a Mac equivalent!

Say you are watching a YouTube video and the audio is up full but it's still quiet.
The audio on the video is out of sync too.

You open this program and you can increase the audio even though it's full on YouTube. You can also speed up the audio so that it is in sync with the video.

Is there an app available for OS X that allows me to do this?


texts: Why does the iMac not allow memory parity error checking?

texts:
Based on this Apple support page, the iMacs (in particular the 2014 5K I just ordered) do not support parity checking on the memory.  From other articles, it appears ECC is not supported either.

I find this surprising.  If there is a memory error, then the computer just goes along its merry way, propagating the error until it happens to cause some other detectable exception (like accessing an invalid memory address or running an invalid instruction).  Though it might not, and simply result in incorrect or corrupted data.

I often do large numerical simulations, for which such an error would probably not cause a crash, but could likely propagate to a large error in the result.

You don't even need a cosmic ray to get an error.  The drive to pack to higher and higher densities inevitably results in vulnerabilities, such as row hammering.  One study measured an average rate of four errors per year per DIMM.

What is the rationale for no parity checking?  I can see that ECC might slow things down a little and cost more, but at least a detected parity error could bring the system down instead of propagating an error silently.  65 bits instead of 64 bits would be a very small price to pay.  Even if it would make sense for a consumer to not have parity checking, I would at least like the ability to replace the memory to get parity checking.  It seems that even the DDR3 standard doesn't support just parity checking -- only ECC.


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I have a mac without a disc drive on it, I also have some CDA files on my computer that need to be interpreted into an audio format that is more compatible with modern music programs so that I'm actually able to use them

iTunes is an amazing program to do this with, but it's not letting me import the files into it.

I've tried:

Double-clicking on the files
Right-clicking on the files and choosing iTunes to open them with
Dragging and dropping the files into iTunes (Even though I was pretty sure that wouldn't work because of the way drag and drop works)
Importing the CDA files into Audacity

Also, I'm having some trouble finding another converter online, and since I love the simple design of iTunes, I would much rather prefer to convert the files on there.


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I want to be able to use an HTML5 WebApp, but my iPad won't cache the manifest. The WebApp works on Android and BlackBerry devices, so I know it's not the code.

And is it different for the various iPad versions?

I have the first gen. iPad, but I will need to be able to help folks with more recent iPads.


texts: MBP16 charging: After sleep mode no charging (but with charging icon), restart helps

texts:
I have strange charging behavior that started some time ago.
My MBP16 (Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101)) just stopped charging until i do some actions.
[!]ITS HAPPENING RANDOMLY, not all the times.
AND EACH CONNECTION OF POWER ADAPTER MAKES 'CHARGING' SOUND. :)
So my flow:

Going back from office -> home, connect the same charger, HEAR 'charging sound', wake up laptop. Sometimes it's charging, sometimes it's not (recently started having it).
Going to office from home, the same flow, the same results.

Charging icon is exist except the case the battery is running out.
Power settings says battery is ok (i bought it just some time ago), i'm using it with original power adapter.
And only restart macbook (or SCM sometimes) is helping me.
So it looks like after sleep mode it's not charged from time to time.
It really looks like software bug but i'm not sure, because i can see it's not charging, i don't touch/move any cables/adapter, just restart it - and it's fine.
The same ports, other ports, nevermind - just discharging with connected power AC until restart/reset.
So i'b doubt about "Defective battery/Defective charger" point.
Any ideas please? :(
Diagnostic test says - ADP000 (no issue).
system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep -i "charge information" -A 10

      Charge Information:
          Charge Remaining (mAh): 8604
          Fully Charged: Yes
          Charging: No
          Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 8604
      Health Information:
          Cycle Count: 28
          Condition: Normal
      Battery Installed: Yes
      Amperage (mA): 180
      Voltage (mV): 12837

Just after MPB16 woke up. NO CHARGING.

Power settings

Power settings with adapter part

After restart/smc. CHARGING.

Activity Monitor Energy tab


texts: How to resize an iBooks' book window after switching between display?

texts:
I was reading a book on my MBP when it connects to two external monitors. I have make the book window fits the screen width.

However after I disconnected the monitors and tried to read the book on the MBP screen, it is what I see

The top part of the window is outside the viewport. The window allows me to resize but  there is no way I can move the window around. I tried to move the book window to a different desktop but the window stays in the same shape and form.

Because the top menu part if obstructed, I cannot even close the book window.

No option to close the window is available even after the book window is minimized.

How can I refit the window to the screen?


texts: How do I increase the size of the main partition?

texts: As indicated in the screenshot I can't increase the size of the main partition.


texts:
My Disk is 500 GB, and APFS Physical Storage and AppleAPFSMedia are 300GB, can't run First Aid on both.

Currently I can login to macOS High Serria(199GB partition) on which I post this.

There was a system(macOS high serria) and a lot data on that 300GB partition, I can't just erase it, How can I rescue that partition ?

details as below:

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$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                     SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                      209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2          301.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1          199.0 GB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                     SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                       +199.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s3
   1:                APFS Volume High Sierra              51.8 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                  42.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                 1.0 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                       4.3 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                     SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                       +ERROR      disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2

Thanks !


texts: How do I access, from a Parallels VM, an HTTP server running on the Mac host on port 8000?

texts:
I have a Parallels VM which I'm using to test Internet Explorer and Edge. It's set to use a "shared network", and I can ping the host Mac (via ping 10.211.55.2). I've set up my hosts file as follows:

10.211.55.2 localmac

To test, I'm running python3 -m http.server on the host, which creates a web server bound to 0.0.0.0:8000. However, when I try to access this server from the Windows guest, by navigating to http://localmac:8000, I get a connection timed out error from Edge.

To reiterate, I am able to ping the host machine from the guest, and I can access the Internet from the guest. It's just HTTP from guest to host which seems to fail.

Is there a firewall setting or something which I have to configure to allow incoming connections? It seems like I'm doing everything correctly, according to the other StackExchange answers regarding accessing the host from a Parallels guest, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

The host is MacOS Mojave (MacOS Version 10.14.4). I'm running Parallels Desktop 14, and the guest is a Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation image (sourced from Microsoft's VM resources).


texts: Finder open new Finder tab in the same directory

texts: Is it possible to configure finder in Mavericks to open new tab (by clicking plus sign or cmd+t) in the same directory by default?


texts: Why would I want to update the iOS on my iPad 2?

texts: I have an iPad 2 which I have neglected to update for some time now.  The iPad uses iOS version 6 currently.  iOS 6 has never given me issues the way i use my iPad so Should I update to the new version?


texts: Internal Speakers not showing in Output of Sound application

texts:
As shown in the screenshot only the Headphones are selectable:

But no headset is plugged in.

I have plugged and unplugged the headset several times to see whether the Mac thinks it were plugged in and maybe to get un-confused: no difference.

While I could try to reboot it would be helpful to understand if there were some mechanism to reset macOS "understanding" of the headset in/out.


texts: Apply automator action to original instead of copy

texts:
I'm trying to make a simple action to scale down an image by 50% but keeping an original copy of the file in the same directory.
I easily made an action similar to what I want that produces two files: one original one with the original name, and another scaled with the copy suffix.
The problem is that I want to have the scaled img with the original file name, and the original img with a "copy" suffix.

This is what my action looks like right now:


texts:
I installed a package (asciiart) a while ago but it appears that it did not install properly or is currently not working due to updates. Even the help command doesn't appear to be working:

$ asciiart -h
Traceback (most recent call last):
    13: from /usr/local/bin/asciiart:23:in `<main>'
    12: from /usr/local/bin/asciiart:23:in `load'
    11: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/rasciiart-0.0.9/bin/asciiart:3:in `<top (required)>'
    10: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
     9: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
     8: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/rasciiart-0.0.9/lib/asciiart.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
     7: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
     6: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
     5: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/rmagick-2.15.4/lib/RMagick.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
     4: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
     3: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
     2: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/rmagick-2.15.4/lib/rmagick_internal.rb:12:in `<top (required)>'
     1: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require': This installation of RMagick was configured with ImageMagick 6.9.10 but ImageMagick 6.9.11-7 is in use. (RuntimeError)

I couldn't find any documentation to remove this package. Is it possible to remove this package so that the asciiart command will not be recognized (i.e. I will get the standard -bash: asciiart: command not found error message instead)?


texts: Is Notes sync broken on iOS 14 and macOS Mojave 10.14?

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I remember that I read somewhere that notes in iOS 14 will not be compatible with notes in Mojave. But I cannot find any more updated information. Some claim that they only stop working after one upgrades the format in which they are saved on iCloud.
Can someone please post their experience/knowledge whether it is safe to upgrade to iOS 14 without losing sync of notes with OSx running Mojave?


texts: Video player for macOS with persistent playback speed setting

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I regularly watch videos at 1.7x and would like for that preference to be saved across different videos instead of needing to manually reset it each time.

Is there such a setting for QuickTime for macOS? Alternatively, any other player capable for playing MP4 files with such option?


texts: Xcode debugging iPhone where it is different subnet

texts:
I have a requirement where Mac and iPhone are different subnets and Xcode should be remotely connected with iPhone by its IP address.
is there any way to achieve this?


texts: Which version of Windows will run on an iMac 24" early 2009 model?

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I have an iMac 24", early 2009 model with 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM running OS X Yosemite.  I need to setup my Boot Camp and have done a lot of research, learned a lot but still unsure on a couple of points.

Based on my iMac's hardware, Microsoft tech support recommended the 64 bit version of Windows 8.1 Pro.  With Boot Camp Assistant 5.1.3, I tried and kept getting an error message that my Boot Camp only support Windows 7.

I did see that on the Apple's Boot Camp Support site, my iMac model can only run 32 bit Windows 7.  However, on the EveryMac.com, it stated that some users reported success in running the 64 bit version with the correct drivers.

So here's my questions:
1.  Which drivers are they talking about?
2. Is my version (5.1.3) of Boot Camp Assistant the wrong one to use and that's why it failed to install the Windows 8.1 64 bit version?

Ultimately, I like to know which version of Windows (7 or 8, 32 or 64 bit) can I successful install using which version of Boot Camp Assistant?

I'd appreciate any suggestions or advices.


texts:
The day before yesterday, I tried to update my OSX from macOS Cataline to Big Sur. I tried 3 times and all time after downloading some MB / 1 GB , it says operation failed.

Then I stop to update. But after this process , my macbook space is showing more 3 GB as used.
Are there any was to find those files? It's urgent for me to free up those space.

In the same day , Xcode archive for app was also not working. Was giving some error.
So this failed archive also took some space. I tried to find that unsuccessful archive folder under Library/Developer/Xcode/Archive . But I didn't find anything.

Does anybody help me in finding those files??

are there any other way to free up my storage. My macbook is running out with space.

This is the storage details
Anyone kindly help me. Any help would be appreciated...


texts: I have an iMac 4,1 running OS X 10.5.8 that I want to install Lubuntu on. I have a USB drive and a DVD, both with the ISO burned to them, but I can't boot from either. They don't show up in Startup Manager at all. Both show up in the rEFInd menu, but when I try to boot either of them it tells me to make sure I have the latest firmware installed. How can I get one of them to boot? Alternatively, is there a way to burn the ISO directly to a partition on my hard drive and boot that way?


texts:
Which tools to use for detailed performance analysis of disk access?

per disk
per process
queues
latency
data volume/throughput
errors
characterisation (read Vs write, burst, etc.)

Tried iostat, iopending, could use a syste


texts: How can I find all the modifications and installations done by a spam dmg?

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I downloaded a 1.5 MB dmg file from a inauthentic site and despite suspicion, opened it and opened the app inside it. Assume that the game I wanted was game, so it was named game.dmg. It mounted installer and showed the icon of installer.app. It didn't install the expected software ofc, but displayed the privacy policy of InstallCore and then two software recommendations which I denied. After which, it showed a link which let me download real software. Back to Finder, it showed completed Installation.

I have the dmg and I can open it again but I need to know where to look to find all the installations, files it wrote etc. I checked in System Report-> installations sorted by date. Only Adobe Flash Player was something I don't remember installing on that day. It was pre-installed. I have removed it for now.

MalwareBytes scan didn't show anything.

Feel free to ask for package contents, screenshots, system logs, activity monitor details etc. MacOS Mojave on MacBook Air.


texts: Clean tag shows in iTunes app but not in Music app - iPhone 6, iOS8

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Edit: I do in fact see a [E] tag for explicit songs downloaded from iTunes, but as the title states, I want to see a [C] tag for clean songs downloaded from iTunes.

I have edited some song meta data using mp3tag to make the [Clean] tag show up in iTunes. This worked perfectly, but after syncing the songs to my iPhone, the tag does not show up in the Music app.

I figured it was an issue with how I added the tag, but then today I downloaded one of the free songs of the week, which displays a [C] in the iTunes app on my phone. I downloaded it and went to it in the Music app, but it does not show the [C] tag in any playlist, in the song tab, or in the Artist tab (navigating to the song on that tab). It also does not show a [C] or [Clean] on the Now Playing screen.

How do I get the tag to show up in the Music app? Or does the Music app simply not show the [Clean] tags (and only shows the [Explicit] tags)?


texts: Is allowing port 80 on Little Snitch safe?

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In Little Snitch, I allowed port 80 when a "google.com" popup appeared on my screen. I'm wondering if that was a good idea.

If a hacker installed a program on my Mac, and that program sent information to a server,  would it go through "internet" and port 80? Considering this, is it safe to permanently allow port 80 traffic?

On the other hand, if I only accept "google.com on port 80" (instead of all sites on port 80) I get ten or 15 alert dialogs for each advertisement and service, on each website.


texts: Check how much GB time machine's backup need to be restored?

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I have:

Main: working copy of Mac OS X the capitan, in a 1TB hard drive,
External: I have another external 1TB HD with the time machine copy,
Next Main?: Empty 120GB SSD HD

After deleting all the files I don't need, I have 138GB of used space in my main  HD,

I'm thinking of restoring the Time machine backup to the SSD

My question is,

How Can I  know for sure if the backup fits in my 120GB Disk?

PD: I know anyway that I need to delete, at least, 20GB more, but the question would come back then..


texts: Hand-writing annotations on Keynote or PDF slides

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For teaching purposes I would like to be able to handwrite on slides as I give a presentation, ideally with a Wacom graphics tablet which I already own.
Powerpoint would work really well for this, unfortunately I am using Keynote to make the slides because I need the LaTeX support which Powerpoint doesn't have. So in particular I can't easily convert these slides to Powerpoint.
I can convert them to PDF, though. Is there a good way to annotate slides during a presentation for either a Keynote or PDF presentation?
EDIT: In Preview, I can annotate the document but only when it's not in Presentation mode.


texts: What's the difference, in Apple parlance, between a Cursor and a Mouse Pointer?

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I tend to call it a "pointer", to distinguish it from the text cursor, and because it can be controlled without a mouse (e.g. trackpad). However, I would like to use the same kind of language Apple uses, especially when writing instructions or tutorials for others.

I looked at some settings in System Preferences and found this confusing bit, which seems like it might conflict:

Is there a difference here? Or is Apple just using two terms to mean the same thing?


texts: How exactly does an App Store developer add support for earlier versions of iOS?

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I just recently published my first iOS app to the App Store, but I want it to support devices with older iOS versions, and would like to confirm how to add that support before I do something that might mess things up.

On testing downloading from the App Store, I discovered that having left the iOS Deployment Target setting to the latest iOS version (currently 13.2), seems to mean that only users with the latest version of iOS on their devices are allowed to actually download the app.

I have a version 1.0.1 targeting iOS 13.2 on the store.

I think what I need to do is:

Build another archive targeting iOS 12.0 with a higher version number (required to upload after the previous one) and post it to the store.
And if I also want to support iOS 11.0, add another archive built for that with a higher version number, and upload that too.
Then make sure they're all listed as available under App Store Connect -> my app -> Pricing and Availability -> Last-Compatible Version Settings.

Is that all I have to do? Is it going to mess something up that the older iOS targets will have higher version numbers of my App?


texts: When I plug an external monitor into my MacBook (Air, Pro... it doesn't matter), I can change the monitor's settings (resolution for example) and Mac OS X saves the configuration for the next times I plug it. Is there anyway I can reset those settings? Any file to delete?


texts:
just a quick question.

I want to make a website that has an embeded HTML5/flash audio player in with auto-play enabled, now I know there has been some talk that Apple blocks that on all iOS devices, does anyone know why? Is it a technical problem or just a business decision from Apple to not to enable that in the SDK?

Can anyone explain it to me please?
Thanks!


texts: MacBook Pro Mid-2012 starts but does not respond anymore

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My gf has a severe issue with her MBP Mid-2012 (serial number is C1MK9X6ZDTY3; it is a MacBook Pro 13-Inch "Core i5" 2.5 Mid-2012). A few months ago I replaced the internal HD with an SSD. Everything worked fine. A new SATA cabled was also put in place.

Recently however the laptop had some issues. First, when pressing a certain area on the case, it would reboot. However, after rebooting I could work with it again as if nothing has happend. A few days later, it would again shut down, but then make 3 beeps while attempting to reboot. As several sources online state, this means faulty RAM. Intuitively I just tried to reboot again and the MBP worked just fine. My gf told me that there were cases where the diplays showed some glitches. Right now the situation got worse and the laptop cannot be used anymore. It boots, but then the "spinning coloured ball" occurrs. The laptop responds extremely slow. Finder cannot be opened, etc.

One more thing: She just told me that a few weeks ago she switched on the laptop with the power cable connected because the battery was empty. She then noticed some sort of "short circuit" when connected the cable. There was a tiny flash and it was as if something "burned". The funny thing is just that I would expect that the laptop immediately stops working. However it worked fine afterwards, but (obviously) slowly deteriorated as described above.

Other things I have tried:

I run Apple diagnostics. It said there could be an issue with the battery. I then did it again with power cable attached and it said there are no problems.
I removed both memory sticks (one by one) to ensure that none of them are faulty. With only one of them in use, the system behaved in the same erroneous way.

So what whould I do now? Can I do anything at all or should I go to a technician? Which  faulty hardware could be responsible for the described behavior?

UPDATE: A short update: I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB (see here:  https://www.amazon.de/Samsung-MZ-75E250B-EU-interne-schwarz/dp/B00P73B1E4?th=1). Actually, I just remembered that I did not buy the SSD. The SSD is already a bit older, but I bought a new  SATA cable, because the SSD wouldn't work internally. So I bought this cable:  https://www.amazon.de/ireplacement-A1278-Drive-Macbook-821-1480/dp/B075PZ3PK5?th=1
With this cable I could use the SSD internally and everything worked fine.

UPDATE: I identified the root cause. See this thread now please: Extreme slowing down of MacBook Pro due to pkd process


texts: Google Authenticator iOS app - Restoring tokens

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I use Google Authenticator app on my iPhone as 2-Factor-Authentication agent. I have added tokes for numerous Web applications that I routinely log into via various devices.

Now, I wish to reset my iPhone and set it up again as a new device. How do I easily restore the tokens for the various services that are currently added in Google Authenticator?

I never backup my iPhone on iCloud/iTunes. Hence, I am not looking to backup and restore from a backup.

I found this tutorial which guides with migrating tokes onto the app running on a separate phone. I just have a single iPhone, which I am looking to reset and re-install the authenticator app onto.


texts:
After upgrading my Macbook Pro to El Capitan, my keyboard stops working from time to time, but within a particular App. The strange thing is the even though I can't type, I can still save and execute App shortcuts.
Then the only way to make it work again is to close the App and open it again. This has happened me with Xcode, Textedit and TexShop. I was wondering if someone is facing the same issue and if there's a solution to this problem as I can't seem to find one on the internet.


texts: Macbook Pro 2006 Snow Leopard Screen Problem

texts: After changing my broken screen, i setup 10.6.8 to my macbook. But screen divided 4 part, what can be solution,? please help me. this is how its looking


texts: How do I access sshd log messages that are in system.log with /usr/bin/syslog?

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I am aware that messages on OS X are usually logged in the ASL database which then (based on asl.conf) are also written into files like /var/log/system.log

Based on this comment I tried (and failed) to figure out why messages from sshd are available in /var/log/system.log but are not accessible with e.g. /usr/bin/syslog -k Facility | grep 'sshd'

Any ideas?


texts:
I have a 2011 17" Macbook pro with a 1TB HDD installed and running the latest OSX. I am looking at installing a SSD in the original HD bay for my OS and Programs and moving the 1TB drive to the optical bay. My current HDD location says it has a link speed of 6gb and negotiated link speed of 3gb and the optical drive says it has a link speed of 6 gb with a negotiated speed of 1.5gb. So my question is twofold. 1. Will my current drive work correctly in the optical drive space and 2. Can I put a 1TB in there? Most of the adapters specify up to 500gb.

Thanks


texts:
I have written a small application and want to allow other applications to share data with it.

My first idea was to integrate it into the service menu. However, I need dynamically populated submenus and the Apple dev page for System Services states that "There are no submenus in the Services menu" since 10.6.

Are there any alternatives for integrating into the context menu of other applications and having submenus?


texts: How to save photos from old Samsung AT&T flip phone with white screen (corrupted gpu) to my MacBook Pro?

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I have some precious photos (family children) and sounds (baby voices) stored on my old Samsung AT&T SGH-a687 phone, not the SD card, that is experiencing a white screen of death after about a week of graphics pixelation and stripes problems due to a bad gpu.

I'm wondering what I can do to get those information I stored on the phone out. I tried connecting the phone to my MacBook Pro (I also have Windows if that's easier), but I can't get anything out. So I'm wondering what I can do to salvage those photos. How do I get these photos out onto my computer?


texts: How hard is the glass on Retina MacBook Pro

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I haven't got a screen protector for my MacBook Pro, and I am wondering just how easy it is to get a scratch on it? Is it using the Gorilla Glass like the iPad? If so, I might consider not getting a screen protector at all.

Anyone with some experience?

Update:

After a year of testing, albeit I've replaced the upper component including display and the casing, I will say it is reasonably strong. Mine is the first-generation one, but I would imagine all future model is just as good.


texts: How to hide running app from Dock in Yosemite?

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I want to hide icon of running app in Dock without installing any apps like Dockless. Maybe there is some CLI unix trick.

This Info.plist trick does it but modern Code Signed apps don't work:

Hide a running app from Dock?


texts: diskutil shows Macintosh HD is missing (with Recovery HD occupying the entire space)

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So yesterday I managed to screw up my iMac 2012 (with Fusion Drive) by installing the Mac OS X 10.10.2 update... The installation stalled and when I tried to restore from an external drive using Time Machine I somehow managed to corrupt my hard drive... When I try to reinstall OS X it says I don't have any disks to install it to.

Anyways, now I'm running Disk utility on the command line at boot and I see the Macintosh HD volume has disappeared. Here is a screenshot of diskutil cs list and diskutil list:

It seems that the Recovery HD disk is occupying the entire disk space (3TB). How do I restore Macintosh HD with a new partition so I can finally reinstall OS X?

Update 1

After deleting 'Recovery HD' on the second disk erroneously here a second screenshot of diskutil list:

Update 2

So I delete the LVG and LG and went to Disk Utility... (See screenshot3) But my disks are in red and DiskUtility is forcing me to fix them... (Screenshot4) And when I do Im back to the same setup... (Screenshot5).

Any help would be greatly appreciated...


texts: Unable to reinstall MacOS Mojave on a hardware modified, mid-2012 MacBook Pro

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I decided to reinstall Mojave onto a mid-2012 MacBook Pro that I purchased second hand in June 2020 & modified some of the internals of*. I have a lot of files from previous backups of files as well as from the last time I used Windows in 2018, & it was beginning to get a bit glitchy. While I did follow the instructions on the Apple website to make a bootable USB stick with Mojave on it with Terminal, I don’t think that I formatted the USB correctly.
It also gives me an error that says “This copy of the Install macOS Mojave application is damaged and can’t be used to install MacOS.”
The previous owner had installed Catalina onto it, but I’m also an artist who needs 32-bit app support. Last year, I managed to get a USB stick with Mojave on it working (I currently don’t have access to it), but I’m beginning to think that’s why I can’t reinstall Mojave.
Terminal tells me it’s on Bash version 3.2. I’ve tried internet recovery (which has never worked with this machine), & changing the date to some time not long after Mojave’s original release date.
I’m at a complete loss.
*I replaced the original, failing 750GB HDD with a 2TB SSD; replaced broken super-drive with a SATA adaptor & a 1TB SSD; increased RAM to 16GB; replaced depleted battery with fresh one. I didn’t buy them all at once.


texts: How can I get iPad quicktype to use an Italian word list

texts:
I'm learning Italian, and have good dictionaries downloaded.  Looking up English words is a breeze, and I'd like to do the same for Italian words.
But I can't find how to do it.


texts:
I have recently purchased an external Japanese keyboard from FILCO.
In addition to the regular keys, it also has 3 keys specifically designated to switch between Western and Japanese character input.

Apple provides the same keys on its Japanese keyboards and they function as expected.

With a 3rd party keyboard however, these keys don't fire at all.
Even when viewed with tools like KeyRemap4MacBook's event viewer, key-presses are not detected as events.

Is this a common issue?
My written Japanese is weak, so my searches in Japanese didn't turn up any results.
Any direct advice or even links to articles in Japanese (or English ones I might have missed) would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Copy SMS and imessages from one phone to other WITHOUT restoring backup

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I have a friend who needs to get SMS messages and imessages from an old phone to a new phone.

I understand that restoring the new phone using a backup of the old phone will acheive this.  But this can't work in his situation because the backup is tied to the find my iphone on his ex wife's account.   If he restores that backup his phone constantly asks for the password of his wife's icloud account.  He cannot get that information.

He has tried third party software with no success.

Is there a way to get the messages off one phone onto another without doing the restore backup.

OR, is there a way to prevent the backup tied to the wife's find-my-iphone from being bricked by requiring the wife's icloud password.


texts: How do I split Fusion drive on Mojave / APFS?

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I have a 2013 iMac (27" 3.5GHz i7, model id iMac14,2, EMC 2639) that has a Fusion drive. I want to replace the Fusion's internal HDD with an SSD. My understanding is that I should split the Fusion drive before performing this.

I referred to the article https://www.macworld.com/article/2015664... which discusses the use of diskUtil and Core Storage to get the GUIDs and split the drive.

However, invoking disktutil coreStorage list returned ‘No CoreStorage logical volume groups found’. I then tried diskutil list, which returned more information, apparently showing the fused drives as ‘synthesized’. I read a bit about this in other discussions, and it seems like this is perhaps a Mojave/APFS version of a Core Storage Fusion config.

I’m wondering what I need to do to split my Fusion drive. Is there something else to use, or do I not even need to split the HDD/SSD before replacing the HDD?

Here is the output from diskutil list (I'm booted from an external drive named "External Drive". I think the first three entries are for my internal Fusion drive, and the last two entries are for the external drive:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         3.0 TB     disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         121.1 GB   disk1s2

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +3.1 TB     disk2
                                 Physical Stores disk1s2, disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Preboot                 28.7 KB    disk2s2
   2:                APFS Volume Recovery                20.5 KB    disk2s3
   3:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk2s4
   4:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            9.6 MB     disk2s1

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk4         4.0 TB     disk3s2

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +4.0 TB     disk4
                                 Physical Store disk3s2
   1:                APFS Volume External Drive          81.6 GB    disk4s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.7 MB    disk4s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.5 MB   disk4s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      17.2 GB    disk4s4

Thanks.

-Allan


texts: Fixing spotlight "code validation failed" errors?

texts:
Every minute or so, the following ends up in syslog:

Oct  3 22:57:12 Mac-mini lsregister[20158] <Notice>: LaunchServices: Begin database seeding
Oct  3 22:57:12 Mac-mini lsregister[20158] <Notice>: LaunchServices: Completed database seeding
Oct  3 22:57:13 Mac-mini mdworker[20155] <Error>: code validation failed in the process of getting
signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed.
(OSStatus error -67062.)" UserInfo=0x7fa5fd803ef0 {SecCSArchitecture=i386}

With lots of repeats of the last line.  It's some sort of mdworker / spotlight issue, but what?


texts:
I followed these instructions to install Tomcat 8 on OS X El Capitan

https://wolfpaulus.com/journal/mac/tomcat8/

These instructions had section on start/stop using script

/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh
/Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

Questions

How can i make these script start and stop tomcat on OS Startup and Shutdown?


texts: twitter client for iPhone 3G and iOS 4.2.1

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I am running iPhone 3G with iOS 4.2.1. The official client (version 4.3.1) crashes and tweetbot (version 2.4.2) does not work (http errors 4xx). Upgrade is not possible. Is there any way how to fix it or any other client? Note that I do not want to jail break my device.

I guess that it is caused by switching off of Twitter API 1.0 http://www.sitepoint.com/rip-twitter-api-1/


texts: 2010 Mac Pro suddenly getting stuck booting

texts:
Last week my 2010 Mac Pro running 10.12.3 suddenly started getting stuck booting at the gray Apple logo and progress bar screen. The strange thing is that booting in verbose mode completes as expected. That can be a work around, but I don't trust the stability of the computer if something is getting in the way under normal operation.

Attempted fixes

Running first aid on the boot disk and rebooting. No change
Resetting PRAM and SMC. No change
Wiping the boot drive (data is on a separate drive) and reinstalling macOS. Gets stuck after the installer reboots
Reseating the drives and CPU tray (along with a cleanup of internal dust). No change
Swapping out the boot drive with a spare. No change


texts: How do I do an "or" orperation for a search in Apple Mail?

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Can I do a search in Apple Mail that does an "or" on supplied criteria?

For example, someone has two email addresses. I want to search for all emails from that person, so I'd like to say "one email address or the other" in my search query.


texts:
Since installing iOS 14.0 (now 14.2) my iPhone XS repeatedly fails to reconnect to my network after returning from being out of range (e.g., on a walk) and frequently loses the network connection after periods of inactivity (e.g. overnight). No other device on my network has this problem. In order to reconnect I need to do so manually from scratch each time.
What can I do to ensure that my iPhone reconnects? I've tried deleting the offending network connection, resetting network connections, rebooting (and power cutting), rebooting the router — but nothing has helped? Is this a known bug introduced in iOS 14? If so is a fix forthcoming?

The network in question is hidden and MAC filtered, running on an AirPort Extreme. The connection is always configured to disable private addressing and to auto join.


texts: How do I show the volume control overlay using Applescript?

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I use BetterTouchTool and Applescript to have hotkeys for specific functions.  For example, I have Command F11 set up to set my Mac's volume to 19, which is basically the same as 3 dashes on the system volume overlay ("set volume output volume 19").  But the overlay doesn't display, and I'd like it to.

How can I trigger the system volume control overlay in macOS Sierra?


texts:
I'm looking for a recommendation for a GUI SCP client that supports private keys.

All of the ones I find don't support private keys.
Thanks


texts: Cursed black box following cursor, on multiple Macs

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This is a bit of an odd one for me, I'm hoping someone here might have some advice. We have a couple mac users in the office, and a few of them have been reporting this box has been appearing sporadically. Any advice?

This is on a MBP 11,5, I've checked most of the accessibility settings, mouse settings, tried a different mouse, the issue still persists.

EDIT: Still no luck, I haven't had a lot of time to troubleshoot but after messing with pretty much every accessibility setting I'm fairly convinced its not that, going to try a new monitor in a desperate attempt.

EDIT 2: I haven't been able to find a solution to this issue, any help at all is greatly appreciated!


texts: Can. MacBook Pro run in closed-display mode without physically. closing the lid?

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I have two external monitors with my MacBook pro. I'd like to keep the MacBook lid open for speaker quality - listening to music, but have the same result as it would be closed with external monitors. Changing the brightness of the laptop screen to None does not eliminate the unnecessary screen.
Is this possible to blank the screen while the lid is up and the keyboard is clear?


texts: How to get Tx-Power of wifi adapter in MacOS?

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In linux there is a command called iwconfig which shows Tx-Power in its output. How to measure antenna power in MacOS?
The airport utility in mac just shows the datarate and not the power in db.

I want to see the current Tx-power value. I do not want to change it or mess with it. I know that it changes dynamically according to the Region or other factors, but how to monitor the current value?


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I have never backed up or sync'd my iPhone 4S and need to recover deleted text messages.

Are these stored until they are overwritten?  When would the overwriting occur on a 32GB iPhone?