texts: Connecting two displays using CalDigit hub makes 16" Mac unresponsive

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I have the CalDigit USB-C Pro dock which has two 1080p displays, keyboard and mouse connected to it.
To power it, I have been using my 16" MacBook Pro.
This configuration has been working great until it updated to Big Sur. Now, when I connect my Mac to the dock, all screens turn black and the MacBook is unresponsive unless I unplug the dock.
I thought it could be software/driver issue so I factory reset my Mac and tried the dock… which to my surprise did not work! I have also cleared NVRAM which did not help.
My old 2017 15" Mac Pro does work with this dock even with Big Sur! So my thinking is that is has got to be an issue with my 16" Mac
Any suggestions?


texts: How do I permanently disable Notification Center in Mavericks?

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In Mountain Lion I was able to permanently disable Notification Center, with no apparent side effects:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall NotificationCenter

However, the Mavericks upgrade process restored Notification Center in all its irritating glory. Is there are reason that the upgrade reverted my disabling of Notification Center?

Can I disable Notification Center in Mavericks using the same procedure, without side effects?


texts: Homebrew installed PostgreSQL for use by multiple accounts

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I'm using Homebrew to install PostgreSQL (PG) on a MacBook Air.

admin user brew installed PostgreSQL.

I'd like another (mobile account) user to be able to use the database for Rails development. admin is owner of /usr/local/ but mobile user is member of a group that has rwx permission. brew doctor is happy and mobile user can successfully brew install

How best to set up permissions for this to work?

for instance, running initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 from the admin account created a database for the admin user. And, now it would seem, it wants PG to be launched by that admin user.

I'd really like either a neutral account to launch PG process or ideally the mobile account to be able to launch and quit an instance of PG as needed.

Point being PG doesn't need to be running ALL the time (LaunchDaemon). Ideally, it's a LaunchAgent in mobile user's account.

Thoughts?


texts: Saving and managing attachments in the stock iPhone email app?

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This has been frustrating me for a long time now. I need to be able to save email attachments (NOT export my attachments to third party apps)

There are so many email apps in the appstore but why is it so difficult for someone to make an app that allows you to save an attachment to the app's filesystem ? Everywhere its Dropbox this, Google Drive that.

EXACTLY like how it works on blackberry like this : http://docs.blackberry.com/ko-kr/smartphone_users/deliverables/11298/Attach_a_file_to_an_email_message_664783_11.jsp

If not an app, Isn't there atleast a jailbreak tweak to do this ?


texts: Ran export TMPDIR=~/tmp/ and it broke my node app, can I revert the tmp folder to the default folder?

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Hey I ran export TMPDIR=~/tmp/ and it changed my temp folder. I was trying to get a Go backend working and an article suggested it. I was a little trigger happy and now this is causing issues with a once working Node app I have.

The node app is now saying:

  Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdtemp
  '/Users/myName/tmp/puppeteer_dev_chrome_profile-VYUdd3'

Is there a way to revert the temp var back and fix this problem. Where do env vars live on a mac. I also updated my mac from Mojave to Catalina during this process. Not sure if that has something to do with it too.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: iphone 5 merged mail contacts become unmerged

texts: I have linked all my contacts phone numbers and their e-mail addresses from Hotmail together to see their phone numbers and mail addresses in one place. After a while ı found out that all separated again. It has happened twice. Do you know why?


texts: How to speed up old iPad 2 (maybe replace iOS?)

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My old iPad 2 is unusably slow, even just to browse the internet (such as by using Google Chrome). It's nearly a piece of trash at this point.

I've tried a complete factory reset multiple times.

If I'm willing to do pretty much anything to this iPad at this point (jailbreak, roll back to previous iOS, or install a different operating system entirely, etc), what can I do so that I can browse websites easily and quickly?

I'd love to use the latest version of Google Chrome or Firefox if possible, but at this point I don't even really care, and I don't care what OS I use either.

P.S. The back of my iPad says A1395 16 GB, which means it's the "iPad 2 (Wi-Fi)" from 2011 according to Apple. It's running iOS 9.1.


texts: What is this menu bar icon with three right chevrons?

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Recently a piece of software started showing up in my menubar.  I don't remember installing it, I have no idea what it is. The icon is three chevrons and the menu contains three items named: "Software Portal", "Vulnerability Scan" and "Inventory Scan".

Any ideas what the >>> menubar icon is for?


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I want to share files with my friend.

I used Sprend.com to share it. But my friend could not open it.

My friend is using an Ipad mini MD528KN/A.

She has no access to a computer.

I am using a PC.

How to solve the problem.

Regards Gustaf


texts: "DefaultKeyBinding" Hex code for ML's "⌘ ⌘" Start Dictation command?

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I have a set customized keyboard bindings located in a plist file at ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.Dict which works with Hex keys like..

"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */

or for "Non-Printable Key Codes", like so..

Backtab ( ⇧tab)   \U0019

I'd like to add a new keyboard shortcut for the start dictation commands in Mountain lion, aka, ⌘⌘.

Is there such a code?  Or is NSresponder making them up on the fly, other private magic, etc.?


texts: Bookmarks syncing between 2 machines in Google Chrome after Time Machine Migration

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I migrated from one Mac to another via Time Machine. So, I get a full copy of my system.

Now I'm using both of this Mac's. In Chrome logged-in by Google account and set up bookmarks synchronisation.

But in bookmarks bar I see all devices except my second mac. Probably Chrome somehow not recognise, that it the other Mac.

I tried delete app, but it doesn't help.

Who knows how to get around this problem?

UPD:

At first time both computers have the same name.
But after renaming problems remained.


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I purchased a MacBook Pro 6,2 (15" mid 2010) running macOS High Sierra

How I can install macOS Mojave in this Mac?

Several time I tried to install Mojave in this Mac, but it gives an error message that version is not compatible with this Mac.

Would you please help for solve my problem?


texts: How to replace images in iPhoto with higher quality versions?

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I use Aperture for photo editing and processing, but prefer iPhoto for keeping a gallery of my pictures. For a long time, I used the built-in tools in iPhoto to "Import from Aperture Library". What I didn't know was that this only imports the preview image, which is at a quarter resolution and badly compressed. I now have a couple of years worth of albums with lots of metadata but crappy image quality. I'd like to replace the images with higher-quality versions from Aperture, without losing all of the metadata (tags, descriptions, faces, etc). What's the easiest way to do this?

Related question: is it possible to access/change the image data in iPhoto with AppleScript? I can write a script to match images and replace them, if there's a mechanism to do that.


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Context

I have recently acquired a series 1 Apple Watch. When I first started setting it up, I added a passcode out of habit. Now I want to temporarily disable the passcode as I'm continuing to do a lot of setup off of my wrist and it's getting tedious having to enter the code over and over.

The Problem

The option to "Turn Passcode Off" is grayed out on both my iPhone (in the Watch app) and on the Apple Watch itself. How do I enable either button in order to disable the passcode?


texts: How to reply using custom email in iCloud Mail/ Mail?

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Suppose I have purchased a domain example.com from Google Domains, and I have created an alias user@example.com which forwards to user@icloud.com.
So now I'm able to receive forwarded mails, but how do I compose a mail from iCloud Mail/ Mail with user@example.com email as sender?
Thanks in advance.


texts: When I look at my available disk space on my imac it says ive used 700 gigs for "other" files. How do i find these files and delete them?


texts: How do I add preview devices to Interface Builder in Xcode to retrieve the device's code?

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Is there any way to add devices to the selection in the lower left corner?

I want to add the iPad Air and iPad Mini, so that I can view their ID (e.g. for iPhone 4 "retina3_5") when I view the .xib file as code.

My actual problem is that I am generating .xib files from a model and don't want Xcode to be asking like this

for an initial device when viewing the generated view in Xcode. The only and therefore initial device for this view is set in the model.

I already added the following lines which set the initial device:

<device id="retina4_0" orientation="portrait">
    <adaptation id="fullscreen"/>
</device>

The only problem is that I don't know the identifiers for iPad Air and iPad Mini. I know their resolution is the same as that of the iPad Pro 9.7" so I might as well just use the ID of the Pro but that doesn't feel completely right.

Any suggestions? I already spent a lot of time on searching how to add devices (the only suitable answer I found said press + in the lower left corner, but there is none for me) and for the keys of i-devices but without luck. Apple seems not have documented the xib-format at all.


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I have created a specific account on my Mac (called skype) to use with risky software, Skype. This account is a standard account.

Since I didn't want to use this account very often, I saved its password in an encrypted file and I am fully sure of the password.

Today I can't login on this account. Once I type the password for the skype account in the login window, the password area is shaking which should mean "wrong password". I checked that the usual suspects aren't playing here:

the doomed caps lock isn't involved,
by pressing ⌘+space I checked that the mapping of my keyboard is the one I want,
I used /usr/bin/su skype to check its password and it is rejected.

The conclusion is clear: the password of the skype account was changed, or is failing after a MacOS X upgrade.

I didn't changed it
I am the sole administrator of this Mac.
There isn't even a guest account set.

I would like to find what might have happened to block this account.

1st step of investigation:

how to find when an account password was last changed?
how to find through which method it was changed, either with the graphical interface of System Preferences... or with the passwd command, or through none of these and with the use of a security vulnerability?

The Mac where this incident happened is running High Sierra 10.13.5.


texts: make dictionary result white text in spotlight in mojave dark theme

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I can't read the result. How do I make the text white?

I am on macOS Mojave 10.14.4


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I upgraded to Mavericks a few days ago and since then I keep getting a pop up floating search box randomly. I do not know what triggered it and I do not know where it is from. It is driving me crazy. Can anyone tell me?

I have Alfred and ShiftIt installed.


texts: Replicate the blue/black vs. white/gold illusion in Keynote?

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I need to create a Keynote (6.5.2) presentation for school that contains text and no graphics, but implicit silliness is highly encouraged. As such, I was thinking of having some fun with current events and finding a way to reference The Dress. I was wondering, can anyone come up with a way to make that optical illusion happen in Keynote?

I'm willing to play with the slide color scheme, the colors over a progression of slides, and/or the text color. My one condition is that the text always has to be legible.

(Yes, I know the science behind the illusion is that it's all about the color context, but I'm still holding out hope for a way to be able to poke fun at it via a Keynote presentation. Anyone who figures out how will earn my undying gratitude!)


texts: Changing default font for \mathcal in “Pages” equations

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I recently asked a question on TEX StackExchange but thought it would be more appropriate to ask it here.
I am using Pages version 10.3.5 (7029.5.5). Typing in TeX environments in Farsi is an absolute pain even though the output is fine so I was writing in Pages. My problem is, I want to type this "F" in an equation:

But \mathcal{} gives me fancy RSFS characters like this:

The default font for mathcal is the Computer Modern one everywhere else. Though I read in jksoegaard's answer in this question that Pages doesn't support installing LaTeX packages, I wanna know if I can manage to get the font I want.


texts: Difference between charging icons - does it mean anything?

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Sometimes I see this:

instead of this:

is there a difference? do they mean different things? One is filled in dark, the other is more transparent - the battery/charge icon..


texts: error using tty.usbserial-xxxx: could not open, resource busy

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Since one year I'm using a MacBook Pro 13 upgraded to Catalina in October. I use the Mac to program same embedded module via RS232 (different adapters with different chips, e.g. FTDI) and it is still working.

Last Monday I changed to a new MacBookPro 16. I used a backup and all worked proper, but I can't connect to any USB-to-Serial adapters. I got the same

  error [16] could not open port /dev/tty.usbserial-xxxx: Resource busy ...

I tried to reinstall all corresponding drivers, but without success.


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This could be an interesting Question.

I Found and iPhone 5S, I handed it into the police. After 2 Months they returned the Phone, no one claimed it. I have a Sticker on the back of the phone with police details on it.
So in our country, that is proof of ownership. I am now the new owner of this phone.
BUT.....It is a brick, as the security has been enabled.
I have a start up screen that looks like a brand new phone and I must enter an iCloud account and password.
I do not have this information.
I have contacted Apple Help USA, They say I need a court summons ??? WHAT!!!
I contacted Apple technical Support, ( basically they said NO )
SO. the Question is....
Is there a way around this?
( I am happy to send a photo with the police details on it. To prove ownership.)
Thanks
Anthony


texts: Failed Migration Assistant and now missing capacity on drive

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Got a new macbook and trying to get the data off the old one... the old one has issues... one of them being overheating.

So I connect them using firewire and start up Migration Assistant Wizards and begin transferring the data (about 180 GB).

A few hours pass and it gets about 75% of the way through and then I realize it's not moving. I check the old computer and it's completely frozen... won't turn on (but fan still running). No way to get it back on or wake it.

Eventually I have no choice but to power it down by holding power.

This of course screws up the whole transfer...

The bad part is that my new macbook drive is 420GB (80 is used for a windows partition if you are confused with that number).

However, because it aborted the migration the data did not get cleared away and I'm now left with like 255GB (it was somewhere around 360GB when I started the migration).

So there's over a 100GB of lost aborted data somewhere that I can't find to erase...

I tried downloading app called "Space Gremlin" which can search hidden files to try and find out where it is...

But Space Gremlin doesn't find it either and is only reporting my drive as if it's 100GB smaller than it should be.

Any ideas what I can do to reclaim the space? Both machines are running Lion


texts: Automator "Filter Finder Items" issues with spotlight

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When using an automator workflow with the following actions:

Get Specified Finder Items (some zip files)
Open Finder Items (with an unzipping utility)
Move Finder Items (to an existing folder)
Filter Finder Items (i.e. excluding folders)

I get mixed results, most of the time the filtered Items are incomplete. Some of the latest unzipped files are missing from the "Filter Finder Items" results.

I learned here that this specific action uses spotlight to provide the results. So this makes sense, as the newest files created might still not be indexed a few seconds later.

So the question is, how can I make sure that the parent folder or the files are properly indexed before using the "Filter Finder Items" action?

I've tried using the "Pause" action, but depending on the hardware or system load, we are quickly in the tens of seconds to have an uncomfortably uncertain reliability of this workaround.

How could we solve this? Any help appreciated


texts: Old GarageBand had a legit drum roll; can't find it in 10.0

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I've written quite a few tunes with older versions of GarageBand, and I always use the MIDI editor / piano roll (or whatever that note-by-note editor is called) for creating drum tracks. In the older versions of GarageBand, there was a legitimate, real, snare drum roll. It was a plain old regular note in the MIDI editor, just like a regular snare hit or bass kick. But I can't find any such thing in GarageBand 10.0. When I google for how to make a drum roll, all I see is people cramming together regular snare hits, which sounds ugly and electronic to me. For an example of what I'm talking about, listen to my tune here, at about 2:40 and 2:45. I used rolls like these throughout the tune, but these two are longer and more noticeable.

Does anyone know how to do this in GB 10.0?


texts: Change right-click settings to highlight more than just 1 word

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I am trying to change the default settings for right-clicking text in macOS. By default, the word that is being hovered over is selected/highlighted and the contextual menu appears, however, I would like the right-click to select everything until it finds a space and open the contextual menu.

For example, if I have a file path:

/volumes/share/myfolder/image1.png

If I right click over volumes it will highlight "volumes", I would like it to highlight the entire path, including the file extension. In essence, I want it to treat / and . as letters when deciding what to highlight when I right-click.

Is there a way of doing this?


texts: Apple has rejected the app and suggests two options : Volume purchase program and Enterprise program

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I have develop the app for a client who has its own company, the employee within the company or any external user can use this application.
But first user need to register himself to use this app.
While registering user needs to give the unique code. This will be provided by company, user need to contact first to company.
This is the my app's registering senario.

I have submit my app to apple for review with proper metadata and all apps senario.
 But i dont know how apple has considered it as inhouse app, which have the ability to make it use for external user.
But apple reject it and suggest to distribute it with volume purchase program and enterprise program.

After lots of searching I understood following things about these:

VPP(volume purchase program): We can purchase the application from vpp store in a bulk and then the company owner
 who has the vpp account can distribute amongst its employees.
Enterprise Program : In this program we need to upload .ipa file to our custom server and make it available to employees by providing downlod link.

This is all my understanding about these two concept.
One confusion about vpp that, Are vpp only contains the app listed that are available in app store?(if yes then my app is not goig to be distributed in app store(according to apple) then how apple suggest vpp)
Can any one please help me out? and please suggest how to make it approved from apple to distribute in app store? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance..


texts: OSX 10.9 Mavericks VirtualBox unable to use Bridged Networking

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Since upgrading to OSX 10.9 Mavericks VirtualBox machines that have a Bridged Network have been unable to start.

Installing VirtualBox again solves the problem temporarily, but this does not survive a reboot (or in my case kicking the power supply cable out!).

Has anyone come up with a permanent solution for this, or at least one that does not involve a fresh install?


texts: Transfer 100Gb photos from iPhone to Mac without Photos / Image Capture

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I have about 100Gb of photos accrued on my iPhone 6S and would like a workable solution to transfer a (large) selection of them directly to my Mac, preferably via USB.

my iPhone does not appear in the Finder (despite what some older Google search results seem to suggest)
I don't want to use the Photos app because I want the actual photos as files (JPG etc) not stuck in some proprietary archive format
I can't use the ImageCapture app because it fails on such a large data set. It literally cannot handle the size of my library
I don't want to use iTunes because I'm not looking to backup the whole things in one go.
It seems that the only 3rd party apps available on the App Store do it via WiFi, not USB.
Obviously I'm not emailing them to myself or using AirDrop because I'll still be here next year at that rate

What is going on here? Any other options?


texts: iMovie 10.1.9 fresh download/update resets to 10.5 MB every time

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Device Specs: MacBook Pro with Retina display, Early 2015
8 GB RAM, i5 processor

I just recently upgraded to macOS Mojave with a clean installation through the recovery mode and started downloading already purchased apps like pages, keynote, garage band and so on. All other apps downloaded just fine except iMovie. The download progresses to 20 Mb and immediately resets to 10.5 MB and the cycle continues and after a while the download self terminates with no message.

I tried clearing Appstore cache : How to fix / Reset App Store app on Mac OSX - El Capitan

And since, iMovie was so important for me, I even reinstalled the OS(clean again) and tried downloading iMovie but it was to no avail.

P.S: I do have enough space in my volume.

Edit: I reverted back to OSX Yosemite, through the recovery mode, downloaded the compatible version of iMovie there (10.1.1) (latest version isn't compatible with Yosemite) upgraded to Mojave and tried updating iMovie to 10.1.9, however, the problem still persists. Yet, I do have the old version of iMovie which works for me. I don't know if the problem is compatibility with my Mac or something else.


texts: Apple captive portal detection does not pop up web sheet browser

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I'm an engineer developing a captive portal system for use at hotels.  I know Apple devices do captive portal detection upon joining a wireless network to see if the user is behind a captive portal by attempting to load http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html.  If this URL does not load, or is redirected, the device assumes it is behind a captive portal and loads up the terms or login page in a websheet browser.

The problem is that we are properly redirecting these requests, but no Apple devices I test with present the websheet browser.  I'm wondering if we need to provide a wispr response, or some additional information.  Has anyone else had experience with this?


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I have researched this for hours. In Single User Mode, I used:

cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup

My external USB is mounted on /Volumes/MyBackup

The issue however is that after 24hrs it still has not stopped copying 300GB of data to an external USB drive. I think it is having issues with symbolic links such as the /Volumes/MacHD volume also having a /Volumes/MacHD and /Volumes/MyBackup I am not sure about this however.

How do I copy a Mac volume using cp? Is cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup correct?


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I want to give my older iPhone to someone else, but they only want to use it as a basic phone, and use data only over WiFi, not over the 3G / LTE network.

However, when their SIM card is put into my phone, the network charges me automatically for a data plan.

How do I show a iPhone as a non-smartphone to the network?


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My USB key behaves as a CD, because I'm not able to copy a .dmg  file from my MacBook Pro 2016 with `sudo dd if=/Users/jeremiegauthier/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.10-desktop-amd64.dmg of=/dev/rdisk2 or with the following method :

Could anyone be able to tell what I need to do to allow the access?


texts: 2019 iPad 10.2" (128gb) vs iPad mini 5 (64gb) - which one to choose?

texts: I have an iPhone 7 and MacBook Air. Now planning to buy an iPad. But stuck between these 2 models. I will buy it mainly for Games, YouTube and Reading. I want to know the Pros and Cons from 1st-hand user experience. Please help.


texts: Upgrade an application through itunes instead of directly downloading the update inside iPad

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There is an application (a game) I have installed on iPad through iTunes, now I want to download an update for that game, but since my Wi-fi is not working is there someway I can connect the iPad to my PC and download & install the update through itunes or through some other way (apart from fixing my wi-fi :-) ).

Thanks


texts: Start iTunes after Network Share Mounted

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I have my iTunes library on a network volume that is mounted on startup.  I did this by dragging the volume icon into my login items.  When I restart my computer iTunes starts before the network share is mounted.

Currently iTunes appears in the login items before the network share.  Do login items get started in the order they appear?  If true if I re-add iTunes so it appears below the network share will that fix my issue?

Last resort I can create an applescript that starts at launch that will connect to thet network share and then start iTunes.

Thanks in advance, Scott


texts:
I would like to know if there is a possibility to display the iPad 2 screen on my Mac?
You know, silmilar to the Steve Jobs presentations.

Thank you for your help.


texts: Is there a way to force an app to output sound through the internal speakers on the iPhone?

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If I use the iPhone in the car while it is parked, and check on the Pokemon Go app, the sound will came out from my car's speakers through Bluetooth, just like the Music app does.

But when I leave the car, is there a way to force the Pokemon Go app to output the sound through the internal speakers of the iPhone?  The Music app does that, but Pokemon Go still tried to output to the car's speakers and it became no audio at all.


texts: How can I get a timezone set automatically according to location service?

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My environment is 10.13.4 (High Sierra).

I turn on Set date and time automatically and  want to acquire the timezone.

I am aware of systemsetup -gettimezone which only can run with sudo, however, it returns the timezone set by TZ=foo/hoge in my rcscript.

I want to acquire the computer's current, automatically-set time zone via the command line.


texts: iOS Safari keeps snapping back to location or zoom size

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Safari (iPad 6, latest OS) has started doing this weird thing.

If you try to zoom, or conspicuously, un-zoom, Safari zooms but then "blinks" and snaps back to the previous size.
If you try to scroll down, Safari "blinks" then snaps back to the top of the screen.

The blinks are as fast as an eye blink.  As you repeat the action, it will do these things over and over.

You'll be writing a question or answer, and Safari "blinks" and suddenly it has reverted to the last save-point.

Is this Safari quickly rebooting? What is going on? Is this a rapid and silent version of a Safari "A page error occurred, Safari had to reload the page" type error?

This new iPad is notably and dramatically faster to render pages than my old one.  Is the message just going by that fast?


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I've just reverted from Lion to Snow Leopard while maintaining a time machine backup of Lion.
In Lion I used to 'remember' many wireless networks, and also have configuration for connecting from my phone. How can I recover all that using Time Machine?


texts: facebook birthdays does not sync with iOS calendar

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I did all the basic steps to sync the facebook with ios i.e.,add a account in settings and check the calendar to sync with iOS. After adding my account, It's not getting synced.

How can I sync facebook birthdays with my iOS Calendar?


texts: Can two iOS developer accounts use the same paid bank account

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I have two questions regarding using multiple developer accounts.

I have two iOS individual developer accounts. Can the two developer accounts use the same bank account?

If one of my developer account get terminated by Apple for some reasons, does it affects the second account?


texts: Programmatically catch app opening / closing

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Is it possible, via an AppleScript, a background service or daemon, or any other programmatic way, to catch the following events:

a specific app (eg Aperture, Excel ...) being launched,
an app being closed or quitting,
an app going to the foreground or background ?

Purpose would to be change some system state/pref  (eg keyboard layout, screen profile etc) in an app-dependent manner.

Of course, suggestions of existing solutions are welcome.


texts: iCloud: Troubleshooting Safari bookmarks sync between Windows and OS X

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I've been trying to ditch Google Chrome and start using Safari both on my MacBook (OS X Lion) and my Windows 7 desktop.

After setting up iCloud on my Mac, I've set up bookmarks sync with Safari via iCloud on the Windows machine, as suggested in this question. The initial sync went well, and all of my bookmarks appeared in Windows Safari.

But as far as I can see, the new bookmarks are not synced. Neither do new bookmarks added on Mac appear on Windows, nor the happens the opposite.

I've tried to sign out of iCloud on Windows, then sign back in; tried unchecking the bookmarks sync option and turning it back on. It didn't help.

Windows Safari is ver. 5.1.7, OS X Safari is ver. 5.1.5.

I wasn't able to find a way to see the bookmarks in iCloud online, so I have no idea about which side of the sync is faulty.

I haven't found any suggestions online, apart from the advice to wipe all bookmarks and start over, which seems a sad case of cargo cult to me.

How can i troubleshoot the issue? Is there any sync status reports or logs, or a way to see the bookmarks stored online? Or should I do cargo cult, after all?

By the way, i don't have any iOS devices or other Macs to test against.


texts: Interference on external VGA monitor (intermittent ripple) only when booted into MacOS X but OK on Windows Bootcamp, why? and how to fix?

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I'm seeing a ripple-like interference on an external display attached to my 2010 Mac Book Pro via VGA (Display adapter). This only occurs when the Mac is booted into MacOS X but not Windows. It's intermittent may not happen for a period but then comes in short sporadic bursts.

How can I stop the interference happening? It has only recently started happening in the last 2 months.

Reason for using (analogue) VGA and not digital HDMI or DVI is that I have a KVM switch that shares the monitor with 2 other machines - one of which only has VGA output.

Things I've tried already (still seeing the interference):

Eliminate the KVM itself from suspicion - connect the monitor direct to the Mac, via VGA no KVM in between
Re-arranged the power plugs of the various other PCs and devices in case there was some kind of earthing issue
Disconnected the Mac from the mains, again to see if there was an earthing issue
Checked drivers and OS up-to-date
Took Mac to Genius Bar at local Mac Store. They made thorough checks and diagonstics and reset "PRAM" etc. They couldn't reproduce my problem on a VGA monitor in-store

Tried to link the issue to hard disc activity or activities on other devices (DVD, blu-ray burners attached, USB3 Express card) but drawing no conclusions.

Since taking to Mac store not seeing the interference so much but it did still happen. Their further suggestions are to screen record to verify if the interference is in the digital domain (i.e. happening on the graphics card) or in the analogue domain (which I think is the case), to boot off the install disc (thinking here is driver issue), to check refresh rates of the monitor and try alternatives if possible.

The fact that I never see this when the Mac is booted into Windows leads me to believe that there is some kind of driver issue in Mac OS X.

Perhaps it is telling hardware to put signals on some pins or paths that cause interference. Or perhaps a flaw in the driver software that is involved with the switching between the discrete and integrated graphics cards (which shouldn't happen anyway because the Mac is always on mains power when it happens).

Thoughts?


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From what I know, iCloud is like a personal storage and you uses your own Apple ID for it. Is it possible for users to store for example an image and be shared with other users?

Which means something like DropBox. You upload files into your DropBox account and there will be a url that allows other people to download the file.

Does iCloud has this kind of function?


texts:
This seems to be a on-going thing with Apple but previous threads indicate that each time it seems to be a different issue. I just updated Catalina (10.15.7). The update included safari, system security update and a command-line tools update. After the update was complete, I get the following error when running brew update.
To use the "java" command-line tool you need to install a JDK. Click "More info..." to visit the Java Developer Kit download website.
When i click "more" it takes me to a adobe flash player end of life page. I noticed in similar threads it takes the user to a different page. For example in this post it takes a user to a safari page. I don't have the facebook file in Library/LaunchAgents like what has been reported in similar threads from 2019.
Is "java" a dependency of command-line tools now? Can I resolve this message any other way besides trying to download JDK on a system that was running fine without it?
Why am i getting taken to an adobe flash page when i click more? I don't have flash either (unless it was installed by factory)


texts: Login to mac os user account using apple script from Login window

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I have a button on my mac login window which is presented using my daemon application. when I click on that button the login should happen using the user account credentials (user name, password) saved in the daemon application.
can we login to mac user account with username, password using AppleScript?
If any user has already logged in, we can switch to any other user using the following code. But if no user is logged in to mac (i.e all the users are logged out) ,can we login to mac with NSAppleScript?
set theUser to "test"    --  Mac User name
set thePassword to "test@123" -- Mac user password
set theUser to do shell script "/usr/bin/id -u " & theUser
do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/'Menu Extras'/user.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -switchToUserID " & theUser
repeat 2 times
    delay 2
        try
                tell application "System Events"
                    tell process "SecurityAgent"
                        set value of text field 1 of window "Login" to thePassword
                        key code 36
                    end tell
                end tell
                exit repeat
        on error
            delay 1
        end try
end repeat

While going through different websites, I understood that CGSession is created only after any user logs in. So the above code doesn't work if all the users are logged out and we are trying to login from the login window of mac.
Please suggest me if I am missing anything while trying to login using AppleScript from mac Login window when there are multiple users or single user.
Note: I have seen the similar functionality in Splashtop streamer Application.


texts: Question about GPU Panic on Mid 2010 MacBookPro6,2

texts:
I've read endless threads about this issue, but there is something I haven't found yet and I hope somebody could suggest something.
For what I've read so far, a considerable amount of MBPs manufactured during 2010 has a latent problem in the hardware that crashes the system.
This problem has emerged usually after upgrading the OS to Lion or latter versions.

Question 1:
it's not yet clear to me what it is bugged. Is it the GPU (Nvidia GeForce 300M) or the logic board? I've heard that many people had the logic board changed. I suppose a 'logic board' is the 'mother board', right?

Question 2:
I'm the owner of a MBP manufactured in 2010, but I haven't upgraded the OS so far, so I'm happy with my Mac. But now I need to upgrade, and I'm afraid I could have a bad surprise.
Is there a way to detect if my laptop is affected by this hardware bug before upgrading the OS? Maybe a testing tool to examine the hardware under stressing GPU switching? If anybody can suggest a proven test to run on Snow Leopard, I'll be grateful.

Question 3: being that a hardware related issue, it's not possible to be fixed by software patches. Why has it been latent on many Snow Leopard OS powered machines, then?

Thanks for your help


texts:
Even when I unlock the Fast User Switching functionality, using an admin account, the menu remains disabled.

What could be causing this? And, how could I solve it?


texts: Can I un-corrupt Mac Messages chat database that no longer saves new chats?

texts:
I am running 10.12.6.
My computer was almost out of available space (a few gigabytes left) and then got unplugged and died. When it turned back on, it booted from safe sleep mode and then got unplugged again, and then booted from safe sleep mode one additional time. Because there was so little space left, I think there was something funky about the safe sleep image it was booting from.
Messages (the app-as in the old iChat app) gave the message over and over that due the computer being out of disk space new messages would be lost (the computer at this point had 100 mb free space reported).
In spite of this new messages continued to appear.
However, after making more space and restarting the computer, I have run into the following problem:
Messages shows all my previous chats, but any new chats with existing or new contacts results in those new additions not being saved in spite of the option to save chat history when conversations are closed being checked. They show up in real time, but if I quit messages or close the chat, anything new since the problem (with the computer turning back on from safe sleep mode with low disk space) is gone. There is also a badge icon on the dock constantly showing 15 unread messages no matter that I've read all of them and it doesn't change when new ones come in and one conversation in particular always shows the blue unread glyph which doesn't change even when I click "mark all messages as read."
I tried deleting various plist files, but I was stabbing in the dark and not sure which to delete. None helped.
The chat.db file has not been updated since the issue, so it seems new messages truly aren't being saved. Also no new messages show up under Archive either. (These are the files you find under ~/Library/Messages.)
My archive folder is about 500 mb and the db file is only 40 mb for some reason. Is the Archive folder just text copies of what is in the db file?
Can I delete anything and force it to rebuild itself?
And if I can't uncorrupt it, can I start over with it saving messages? I have already backed up the Messages folder.
Thank you.
**Edit:
I just noticed that chat.db actually is updating with a more current modified time stamp as is chat.db-wal. However, chat.db-shm is stuck on the modified date of when the problems started. The Archive folder still does not show new chats.
Also I noticed that unlike what I previously thought, not only does Messages not display new chats after the window is closed, it only displays a certain number of new ones in a particular chat. It displays all the old ones from before the problem started but only a certain number from any particular person I'm chatting with before older ones drop off and are then butted up against the older chats up above if that makes any sense.**


texts: unable to find Paragon NTFS for Western Digital(WD) external drives

texts: I have had Paragon NTFS 15's free version for Western Digital Drives. Just like Seagate offers. Somehow I had to erase my MacBook Pro and the software has been deleted. So now I am unable to find it on the web. Can anyone help me out here?


texts: Install MacOS 10.12.2 on VMWare Fusion 8.5.3

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.12.2.
It has VMWare Fusion 8.5.3.
I have downloaded Install macOS Sierra into the /Applications folder.

How do I install macOS 10.12.2 into VMWare Fusion.

I tried Google but there are so many references to overcoming issues with the beta versions of Sierra that I cannot find instructions that look as simple as this should be.

I tried the normal way of creating a new image in Fusion, but I get an error about choosing a startup disk.

File->New ...
Create a custom virtual machine
MacOS 10.12
Create a new virtual disk
Finish
Observe that it boots to blue screen and gives error about choosing startup disk.


texts: Outlook 2011 Keyboard Shortcut for going to Inbox

texts:
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Outlook for Mac 2011 that allows me to jump back to the main Inbox folder? Under my Inbox, I have a long list of folders that spans more than a full screen. If I'm at one of the folders close to the bottom of the list, let's say Sent Items and want to quickly go back to the Inbox folder, I have to use the mouse to scroll up in the folder list and then click on Inbox.

Is there a way to go there faster? I remember there being a shortcut for this on Windows if I'm not mistaken.


texts:
I'm currently trying to get PhpStorm to use Kaleidoscope as a diff tool, but struggling a little. So far in Storm, I've...

gone to Preferences
gone to the External Diff Tools tab
set Kaleidoscope to be used as the tool to compare files (/Applications/Kaleidoscope.app/Contents/MacOS/Kaleidoscope)
also tried setting the parameters (%1 %2 %3) to no avail

When I open a file with Storm, then browse to another file in the Project tool in Storm and go Right Click -> Compare File With Editor, I get 2 separate Kaleidoscope windows each with a left-hand-side, instead of 1 window with a left and a right - any ideas?


texts: Why does changing "Open with" also change a files "Modification date"?

texts:
Something I noticed a while ago. I use Carbon Copy Cloner for backing up my files and I noticed one day when I changed a video's "Open with" flag to always open a video file with Movist instead of Quicktime, and the next time the clone ran it copied the file again. Even though nothing was changed. Which made me realize that OS X changes changes a files modification date causing backup programs like Rsync (Which CCC and SuperDuper use) and Time Machine to re-copy the file, even if it's 10GB in size.

Why does it do this? Is there a technical reason or is it an oversight? Seems like a silly idea to me. Especially since changing a label doesn't modify the file and the color selection is duplicated without the whole file being copied.


texts: Cannot reformat or unmount external that was used for Time Machine

texts:
Trying to reformat a drive that was used for an employee's Time Machine and Data storage. It is a partitioned drive. Disk Utility failed to unmount the Data partition and reported the TM partition was OK, but I can't eject either without issues:
See attached. I've tried:
sudo diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Reformat /dev/disk2
...which resulted in an error -69888: Couldn't unmount disk.
Also tried:
sudo diskutil unmount force /dev/disk2
...which resulted in an error that it was already unmounted or "has a partitioning scheme so use 'disk util unmountDisk' instead"
However:
sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
...resulted in "Unmount of disk2 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted."
When I try to reboot, the desktop icons disappear, the reboot never finishes and I end up forcing a shutdown via the power button. I've done all of the above several times.
Any ideas for untrashing this 2TB Seagate drive? Using a MacBook Pro with High Sierra. (Drive originally formatted/used on an High Sierra Mac.) Also tried an iMac which refused to mount it.


texts: What apps let you play a youtube video at 2x speed?

texts:
I've learned to like 2x video playback on my computer, but the official YouTube iOS app doesn't suggest that option.

What ways are there to watch youtube videos at custom speeds on iPad / iPhone?


texts: Getting "unable to verify macOS" when upgrading to Catalina

texts:
I am using version 10.14.6 of macOS currently. When I try to upgrade to macOS Catalina using software update panel, I get this error every time.

"unable to verify macos"

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)

NOTE the installation process starts and after 4-5 minutes this error comes up.


texts: Is there a way to find out which app on an iPhone just made a sound?

texts:
My phone is making two sounds, but not providing any other notifications.  I have no idea what is causing this.  How can I track this down?

I have it paired to an Apple Watch, and have Google Inbox installed (but not Gmail)


texts: How can I toggle Automatic Graphics Switching using terminal?

texts: I have a 15" MacBook Pro from May 2019 with a Radeon Pro 555X 4 GB graphics card. I would like to change the Automatic Graphics Switching setting with a terminal command.


texts: How can I find out the IO throughput of an external storage device connected to a MBP?

texts:
In 'Disk' of Activity Monitor' I can only see the aggregate numbers

However I want a way to measure an individual connected device.

Reason: I have recently purchased a Sandisk SSD drive and used it for time machine backup. I want to get some quantitative measurements in term of performance.


texts: 2019 MacBook Air still sucks down battery when sleep

texts:
Apples website says my 2019 MacBook Air has 30 day standby time and runs 12 hours on battery. My 2015 MacBook air (my first mac) actually got around 12 hours battery while using node, chrome, and sublime text (my usual tools at the time). I use to brag about it all the time and wouldn't plug it in until i was down to 5% battery. My 2015 model doesn't run as long as it did in 2015-2017 so i purchased a new one a month ago.

After a month of getting settled in with the 2019 mac I realize either the battery performance is lower quality, OS is sucking more resources in the background or my tools (node, chrome, and vs-code) are sucking more power. I only get about 6-7 hours of actual working time on average with my new mac which is only 1-2 hours longer than my old 2015 gets now even with true tone disabled. Both are running Mojave. What is the problem?

Also, over the last 8 days, my 2019 MacBook air has been on battery 7 days and 10 hours but only awake and working for 5 hours and the battery is at 9%. "enable power nap while on battery" is disabled as well as true tone. Excessive power consumption when the system is sleep was never a problem on my 2015 MacBook Air but it's a problem out of the box on my 2019 MacBook Air. Are there any new strategies for resolving this on newer macs? Do the old tricks apply to new macs?


texts: Why `find . -iname *.blend` does not find all blend files in external exFAT storage?

texts:
When I issue the command

find . -iname *.blend

I get only one result (which is in the pwd). Adding -maxdepth 5 does not help either.

On the other hand find . | grep \.blend$ returns a lot of results (actually the tens of blend files in my tree)

Why is that? What can I do to fix it?

  Additional, maybe irrelevant information is that finder does not find anything at all when searching this drive


texts: MacBook Pro Retina (2015) only stays on with power key held down

texts:
Really weird problem that started today: my MacBook Pro Retina 2015 won’t stay on unless I hold down the power key and keep it held down for the entire time I’m using it. It works perfectly as long as I keep it down but shuts off within a minute or so after I release it. I’ve reset the SMC and NVRAM, to no avail.

This is not just a power on/boot issue (Google hits are all about Macs not powering on unless the power key is held down for several seconds, but then stay on).

I don’t think it’s a software issue, but I installed the 10.15.3 update a few days ago.

The only clue I have is a very brief “Do you want to shut down/sleep” dialog that popped up once before the random shutdown but hasn’t since. I’m guessing this is some kind of hardware issue like a dirty power switch contact.

Any solutions?


texts: How do I move only images taken by my camera to an album?

texts:
I have a lot of pictures taken by my camera, but I also have a lot of images taken by me as a screenshot or saved from some online source.
I'd like to ONLY have pictures taken directly by me via the camera or a camera app into an album.
Is there anyway to do this with Shortcuts or IFTTT?


texts: How can I use one AppleID for Contacts, Calendar etc, but an other for purchases?

texts:
BACKGROUND
Many years ago when I first got an iPod I created an AppleID, which my wife and I shared for AppStore purchases.

When Apple changed the system, we created new AppleID to use for iCloud synchronisation for Contacts etc.
We continued to use the original AppleID for purchases, which were all done through iTunes.

Now that iTunes no longer works for purchases I have been updating apps on line.

I wanted to install a new (free) app on my iPhone. This prompted for the password for my new AppleID, which I entered.
I now seem to have one app on my new AppleID, and all the others on the original AppleID.

  How can I configure my devices to use the new AppleID for Contacts, Calendar etc, but use the original AppleID for purchases?

Logging off the new then logging on the new seems to take forever, and wants to overwrite all my data.

PS The original AppleID has Family Sharing setup.

The iPhone is running iOS 10.3.2

When I go to Settings this shows

iCloud: new AppleID
Store: original AppleID

below this it shows

iCloud: new AppleID
iTunes & App Store: original AppleID
Family Sharing: my name & my wife's name

I see no "person" icon on the top right, and when I click on Updates this prompts me for the password for my new AppleID

"Purchases" in the App Store shows

My Purchases

Family Purchases
my wife's name
my name

The apps in My Purchases and Family Purchases my name seem the same!


texts: How can I remove Applications from Security & Privacy?

texts:
Is it possible to completely remove apps from the various privacy categories in System Preferences?

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy


texts:
I’m trying to understand the iPhone shortcuts and play around with it.
Right now I’m using script speak text but I changed the rate and pitch.
When I’m testing, the shortcut sounds as I set it up, but when I'm running it outside the shortcut app, it goes back to the preset Siri voice.
How can I keep the changes in the settings I've made.


texts: Safari won’t load, it freezes shortly after I open it and the coloured wheel appears

texts:
I have been having problems with the Safari on my MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018) in the last couple of days. I updated it yesterday to Catalina 10.15.7 and I have Safari Version 14.0.
Now every time I open safari, I get to the favourites page and when I click on a website (like moodle, or websites from my school) it always freezes and the coloured wheel starts spinning and the fans start turning really loudly. I can’t close the browser, and I have to “quit” Safari, but that doesn’t work, so I have to “force quit” it. And when I restart Safari the same thing happens again, so I tried to force-restart my laptop, because Safari is frozen. But when I restart it the same thing happens again. And I just have 1 website/tab/window open, and it used to work fine in the past.
I closed all the other apps, and tried reopening Safari multiple times. And then I tried restarting my mac several times.
I tried to run diagnostics on my laptop and that said there were no problems.
I deleted all my Safari History and I emptied my Caches.
I do not have any extensions.
I usually can’t even log into my university-moodle-account, and when I can, I can’t download any of my homework or watch the video-recordings of the lectures.
I don’t know how to fix it.


texts: Is there a way I can customize the application names in the Application folder?

texts: I have so many apps in the Applications folder that I forget what some of them do.  Is there a way to customize the name to be more descriptive, other than renaming the app?  I am afraid that if I rename the app it might not work, like if the app checks to see if it's name has been altered.


texts:
Here is the information about Flash plug-in in Google Chrome:

Flash - Version: 11.2.202.235
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

It's able to load & stream videos on YouTube but the problem is, after about 10 seconds, the videos paused unexpectedly, even when it was buffered a lot more. When I tried to move the seeker to an other position, it continued to play but again, paused after 10 seconds.

The video which I've encountered errors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3tedlWs1XY&feature=g-logo

Highly appreciate any helps.


texts: Is it possible to change the font of a document in Apple Pages?

texts:
I have an existing documents, many paragraphs being formatted with the style "Default", which is set to the font "Yuppy SC". Is it possible to change this font?
Of course I can set a font when writing new text (using Format/Font). I can also place the cursor somewhere in a paragraph formatted with "Default", then click Inspector/Format, and change the font in the format pane which has opened on the right of the document; but this changes only the font for the paragraph I'm in.


texts: Looking for a manga reader for the original iPad hardware

texts:
I'm currently using the app icomic with my 1st generation iPad and have used it for probably 2 years.

It's decent, but it struggles to display very large images well. Specifically, the images become pixelated and unreadable.

I wish to read more of the very large image comics there are rendered unreadable with this app.

Is this a limitation inherent to the hardware of the iPad (e.g. not enough ram or GPU) or perhaps limited by the app's design? I can't confirm hardware being the cause, in fact I feel like it's the app rather than the device. Other apps like Safari do well with detailed large pictures given enough time to download and render them.d

Are there better manga/comic readers for viewing large images on the 1st gen iPad?

Edit: The majority of manga I'm reading works fine. I actually really like the app. But some images just don't work.

Example of an image that doesn't display correctly: please try opening this image in your recommended comic app and see if it's readable.


texts: Got any tips or tricks for Terminal in Mac OS X?

texts:
One tip or trick per answer.

My favorite is

open .

Opens the folder you're currently browsing in Finder. You can also pass URLs, images, documents or else to open.

If you specify a program name with -a you can pass the URL, image, document or folder to that program instead, e.g. open -a Preview image.png, overriding the default program set for the filetype.

Please don't post duplicates. Search in the question like this: inquestion:this ls -l

Mac OS X specific answers only.


texts: Stop the 'You can temporarily connect' popup when I am near someone that happens to also have airpods

texts:
I have my iPad, iPhone, and Airpods.  Sometimes I am in places where there are other people that happen to also have airpods. Whenever I am in range I get an annoying popup on my devices offering to share with these random devices that happen to be near me.
I want to disable this prompt! I don't want to share audio with any devices other then the airpods I own and have associated with my devices.
I have seen similar threads/posts on other locations, but nobody seems to have an answer.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250693611
https://www.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/e8aq5l/anyone_know_how_to_disable_audio_sharing_this/


texts: Is it possible to receive SMS with the Messages beta for OS X?

texts:
I feel like I've read 7 or 8 different articles on the Messages beta, but I'm not seeing my question's answer.

So, is it possible with Messages for OS X, to receive SMS texts sent to my phone number?


texts:
I recently upgraded from snow leopard to mavericks and couldn't mount a truecrypt volume that was on an NTFS partition (which had always worked before). Following some advice on a forum, I installed osxfuse which didn't solve the problem but stopped the mac booting.

After rebooting in safe mode, it seems I had both MacFuse and osxFuse installed. I was able to uninstall osxfuse and now the mac boots ok, but since osxFuse is supposed to be a successor to MacFuse, I presume I should really be uninstalling MacFuse.

If try to uninstall MAcFuse from the system preferences it asks for the system password and appears to be removing it, but then afterwards still shows version 2.0.3 installed.

To be honest I've never heard of either of these two programs before yesterday. I have no idea whether MacFuse was already installed before the Mavericks upgrade or whether having both installed at the same time was the cause of the boot failure.

Am I right in assuming that if I want to mount a truecrypt volume on an NTFS partition from Mavericks, I need to have only OsxFuse and not MacFuse installed? If so can anyone help me with how to uninstall MacFuse?


texts: Like Windows, allow user to manually select if Sound is routed through Headphones or Internal Speakers

texts:
In the System Preferences -> Sound -> Output tab in my MBPr running Mavericks, I see the following 3 options:

1) Headphones/Internal Speakers (currently only ONE of these appears)

2) BoomDevice (from the Boom Application I use)

3) JBL Flip (Bluetooth Speakers)

Is there a way to make it so that it lists options for both Headphones AND Internal Speakers separately, so that I can manually select the one I want sound routed to?

I ask this because there is some issue in my Mac (MBPr, Mavericks) due to which plugging in headphones into doesn't have any effect -- neither in the actual sound output, nor in the change from Internal Speakers to Headphones in the Sound->Output pane mentioned above. (And one time it got stuck the other way round: It continued to show Headphones irrespective of whether the headphones were plugged in or not; and sound would only come from the headphones when they were plugged in, otherwise nothing).

It's not a hardware issue though. Because everything works fine after the Mac is restarted (That is, inserting and removing headphones has the expected effect, which is also reflected by the first item in the Sound -> Output tab changing from Headphones to Internal Speakers and vice versa.) However, the problem reappears after a while or after the Mac sleeps and wakes.

EDIT:
I just booted into the Windows partition on my Mac (bootcamp) and found that Windows actually allows the user to manually select if Sound is routed through Headphones or Internal Speakers. If Windows has it, I want that feature in Mac too!! :D

[I had asked another question for the same issue here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/142927/macbook-pro-plugging-headphones-into-audio-jack-has-no-effect ]


texts: Is it possible to reduce the minimum width of a Preview window?

texts:
I sometimes have numerous small images open (in separate windows) and I need all images displayed at the same time.  With each image centered in its window, there's a lot of wasted screen space.

If I can't reduce the minimum width of the window, is it at least possible to place the image along the left or right side of the window, allowing me to overlap the windows more effectively?

I've also tried viewing images in a web browser, but have the same problem.


texts: Replace TextEdit as the default text editor in MacOS Big Sur

texts:
I just never want TextEdit to be opened, and instead set sublime as the default editor for all plain-text files. So not only files with *.txt extension.
For older versions than Big Sur the following command always has worked for me:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure \
    LSHandlers -array-add \
    '{LSHandlerContentType=public.plain-text;LSHandlerRoleAll=com.sublimetext.3;}'

From this answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/123834/405588
But on Big Sur this doesn't work anymore. Even after restarting MacOS text files still open with TextEdit.
edit: apparently after running the command above double clicking dot files like ~/.bashrc do open in Sublime. But when running open ~/.bashrc from Terminal it still opens the file in TextEdit...


texts: "Disk Not Ejected Properly" after MBP went to sleep

texts:
I have an external HDD connected to my MBP (2016 model). Everytime the machine goes to sleep I get the "Disk Not Ejected Properly" message, which I find annoying. There doesn't seem to be a real problem. The drive is reconnected and accessible so it seems to be just annoying.

The questions are:

Is this really just something annoying, or is there an actual problem with this?
How can I make the notifications go away?

The HDD is a "LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive - 1 TB"

I have seen this question: External hard disc not ejected properly - Mac OSX but it is rather old, blames the behavior on a special brand of hdd and also is about the drive not being usable, so I think my question is different.


texts: How do I debug Mac freezes caused by VMware Fusion

texts:
After upgrading to Catalina, when I write a lot of data inside a Linux VM (Ubuntu 20.04) by running dd if=/dev/zero of=zero, after writing a couple of gigabytes the macOS host hard-freezes (mouse cursor doesn't move). After 100 seconds, the system restarts ("Your computer was restarted because of a problem"). Since it is the host that freezes, I'm assuming this is a problem with VMware Fusion, macOS, or my hardware, rather than the guest OS.
The diagnostics produced by the "Report" button after restarting just show a watchdog timeout:
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f84e56a8d): watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd in 99 seconds (81 total checkins since monitoring last enabled)
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81e26c3c40 : 0xffffff8003d1f5cd
0xffffff81e26c3c90 : 0xffffff8003e58b05
0xffffff81e26c3cd0 : 0xffffff8003e4a68e
0xffffff81e26c3d20 : 0xffffff8003cc5a40
0xffffff81e26c3d40 : 0xffffff8003d1ec97
0xffffff81e26c3e40 : 0xffffff8003d1f087
0xffffff81e26c3e90 : 0xffffff80044c2838
0xffffff81e26c3f00 : 0xffffff7f84e56a8d
0xffffff81e26c3f10 : 0xffffff7f84e5647b
0xffffff81e26c3f50 : 0xffffff7f84e6bd9c
0xffffff81e26c3fa0 : 0xffffff8003cc513e
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.driver.watchdog(1.0)[B435C72B-B311-3C67-8AA1-1D5CE0FAD429]@0xffffff7f84e55000->0xffffff7f84e5dfff
         com.apple.driver.AppleSMC(3.1.9)[4589419D-7CCC-39A9-9E2F-F73FE42DD902]@0xffffff7f84e5e000->0xffffff7f84e7cfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[0A7D7382-66FE-391B-9F93-97A996256C25]@0xffffff7f84e4c000
            dependency: com.apple.driver.watchdog(1)[B435C72B-B311-3C67-8AA1-1D5CE0FAD429]@0xffffff7f84e55000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[BE052F4D-9B80-3FCD-B36D-BACB7DEE0DF2]@0xffffff7f84731000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
19F101

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 19.5.0: Tue May 26 20:41:44 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.121.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 54F1A78D-6F41-32BD-BFED-4381F9F6E2EF
Kernel slide:     0x0000000003a00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8003c00000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff8003b00000
System model name: MacBookPro13,2 (Mac-66E35819EE2D0D05)
System shutdown begun: NO
Panic diags file available: YES (0x0)

I tried running First Aid in Disk Utility, and cp -r'ing the VM in case it's a file system issue, but it hasn't helped.
What can I do to further debug the problem?


texts: Exchange event sends invite as "Free" when changing or pasting it in macos Calendar.app

texts:
There is one quirk that is driving me crazy in Calendar.app when I use it with my employer's Exchange 2007 server. Some times, not always, when I change times/dates or I copy an appointment, the invitation is sent as "Free" time to the assistants. This happens even if the original event was marked as "Busy".
If I later change the event to "Busy", this update is not pushed to the invitees. Well, I think this is not really a Calendar.app problem as pushing this is not possible even using Outlook in Windows. This is the last nail in the coffin to this issue, as the only way to change an invite that I sent wrong is to delete it and send it again, causing a lot of confusion!
Do anybody know how to correct this behavior?


texts:
I'm able to change the terminal prefix with PS1="[\\W]$".

However, whenever I restart the terminal or open a new instance, it reverts to the default.

How can I make this change permanent?

Thanks!

Here's the content of ~/.profile file:

PS1="[\\W]\\$"


texts: How can I update my version of `unzip` to version 6.00 or higher?

texts:
Its a common problem that, when unzipping (read: 'open by double-click'), some .zip files result in a similar sized .cpgz file. But you expected an unzipped file or folder instead.

The default unzip program in OS X is '/System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app'

When you try to unzip it in the Terminal (/usr/bin/unzip) you see the following:

$ unzip SE.zip

Archive:  SE.zip
warning [SE.zip]:  zipfile claims to be last disk of a multi-part archive;
  attempting to process anyway, assuming all parts have been concatenated
  together in order.  Expect "errors" and warnings...true multi-part support
  doesn't exist yet (coming soon).
error [SE.zip]:  missing 8256083459 bytes in zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
error [SE.zip]:  attempt to seek before beginning of zipfile
  (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
  appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)

I have Mavericks 10.9.5 running, and a unzip -v learns us we are on version 5.52:

$ unzip -v
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler. Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.
...

The funny thing is, the same 'corrupt' zip file extracts fine on my CentOS system. There is no error and the file seems fine. My CentOS system runs unzip version 6.00:

$ unzip -v
UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler.  Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.
...

My question: How can I update my version of unzip to version 6.00 or higher?

And affiliated question: Will my new version of OS X unzip also have affect on the default unzip 'Archive Utility.app'?

ps. I prefer the use of a package manager like brew above compiling from source. brew install unzip results in: Error: No available formula for unzip


texts: Is there a way to flip the touchbar icons?

texts:
Straightforward question: Is there a way to flip the buttons so the minimized control strip appears on the left and opens to the right, and so the escape button is stuck to the right of the bar? I constantly find myself accidentally hitting the buttons on the right since they are so close to the delete button.

Essentially, I'd like to mirror the two segments (control strip and esc button) of the touch bar shown below:


texts: MBP built in keyboard unresponsive until complete shutdown

texts:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), running macOS Catalina 10.15.5.
Sometimes while working, the built-in keyboard becomes completely unresponsive, the only button that works is the power button. Logging-off, sleeping etc. does nothing, only shut down and fresh boot (with the chime) removes the issue.
While the issue is happening, the Caps Lock light is turned on.
Touchpad works fine, and plugging external USB keyboard also works (but doesn't unlock the built-in keyboard).
Mouse Keys, all this stuff is turned off.
I noticed, but have no proof, that this happens when I'm pressing various left-side modifier keys: shift, alt, ctrl, cmd, tab.
Is this a hardware issue? A software issue? A hidden shortcut? Is there some kind of logging that can be turned on to watch for this kind of things?


texts: Is it possible to manage the iCloud keychain?

texts: I like to know if it is possible to manage the iCloud keychain, means, deleting elements. I tried the under the OS X keychain app in the iCloud tab but after a clean install of OS X, everything was restored. So, is it possible or not?


texts: Control music playing on iPhone from Computer

texts: Is there an app that allows one to control the music playing on my iPhone using the Function keys along the top of my Mac keyboard?


texts:
The Desired End Result is to migrate the iTunes library from the source machine to the target machine.

iTunes Match was happy with all but two songs in the source machine's iTunes library, so all but those two songs are already migrated.

The outliers appear to be DRM'd.

Will Migration Assistant handle this? Can it deal with just copying two tracks? Would it be less headache just to:

Burn the two tracks to CD on the source machine's built-in Superdrive.
Mount the source machine's Superdrive from the target machine.
Re-import the tracks.


texts: Disable "Share Mac Analytics" with defaults command?

texts:
I'm trying to disable all analytics feature with the defaults command:

Any ideas?


texts: rEFInd boot macOS from Recovery HD fails. How do I get rEFind to boot MacOS recovery sucessfully?

texts: MacBook Pro (13" Mid 2012). Upgraded to macOS Sierra. Booting with option and selecting Recovery-10.12 works. Booting normally (turning the MacBook on and not pressing any keys), starts rEFind version 0.10.4.  Multiple icons appear. Selecting any icon works properly, except for the one with the label "boot Mac OS from Recovery HD". In this case booting starts and the Apple logo appears, the "load bar" indicates approxiametely 60% complete, and then the circle with a line appears.


texts: How to charge iPad (v1) on a Windows device

texts:
I have an iPad (first revision) and want to charge it using my Windows laptop. It doesn't want to charge and I've read quite a lot about it now (this one here amongst others via Google), but I haven't found a complete working answer.

Edit: I'm not so much interested in the why. But more in a practical solution, preferably without any hardware costs. Can someone give a HowTo on charging an iPad on Windows devices?


texts: Automatically disabling the passcode when iPhone connected to home wifi

texts: Is this possibile? I have found an app for jailbroken iphones, is there something for non-jailbroken ones?


texts: Installed nmap from https://nmap.org/download.html to check it out, got bored, moved the app name: zenmap to trash and emptied it. However, if I run the nmap command in terminal, it still works...


texts: macOS Big Sur - How do I disable keyboard backlight permanently?

texts:
I don't need the keyboard backlighting on MacBooks, and yet every time I turned it off, it's automatically turned on again after waking up from sleep / reboots.
How do I turn off backlighting permanently on MacBooks running macOS Big Sur?
Edit: Add my current settings in Sys Prefs:

Yes, Adjust keyboard brightness in low light is unchecked.
Backlighting is always automatically turned on after the Mac wakes up from a sleep of more than 6 hours, the keyboard brightness won't change as long as I keep using the Mac / the Mac is not put to a sleep for more than a few hours.
This bug exists in Catalina too, before I upgraded to Big Sur.


texts: Why are there two different sleep states on a MacBook?

texts:
It seems that there are two different sleep states on my MacBook:

Sleep State 1:

Invoked by: closing the lid or by the sleep timer.
Awaken by: touching the trackpad, clicking the trackpad, pressing a key, or opening the lid.

Sleep State 2:

Invoked by: Apple Menu > Sleep (or its keyboard shortcut).
Awaken by: touching the trackpad, clicking the trackpad, pressing a key, or opening the lid.

You'll notice that the main difference between the two is that in the first one you can simply touch the trackpad and the computer will wake up.

I have two questions:

Why are there two different sleep states?
Are there any other differences between them besides the one I mentioned?

I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but I changed my MacBook's settings to cause Sleep to only Sleep and not the default 'Sleep and Hibernate'.


texts: Why won't my MacBook work with my Raspberry Pi WiFi?

texts:
I have my Raspberry Pi setup as a WiFi router, which works great! Except for one problem, my MacBook.

Connecting through my Galaxy Tab 3 Note? A-OK. Alcatel cellphone? A-OK. Chromebook? Sure thing.

Even my Roku 2, no problem.

But my MacBook? It connects to the WiFi no problem. I can even run a python -m SimpleHTTPServer on it and connect to the server via http://172.16.1.1:8000 and that works just fine. But if I try to ping 8.8.8.8? Well, that's where we start running into issues.

I actually tried running tcpdump on my Raspberry when I started pinging 8.8.8.8 from my MacBook, but none of the ping packets showed up. I just tried pinging from a different device and packets definitely showed up.

There definitely was traffic from the Mac - a lot of UDP traffic, some TCP. Most of the TCP packets from my MacBook were retransmissions. There were some packets that were routed back to the IP. Here are a couple of the IPs:

UDP:

65.55.223.48,21,17
64.4.23.170,148,142
50.242.151.22
37.59.40.88
208.64.201.169
162.254.199.136

TCP: (only these two IPs sent any TCP packets back)

65.55.223.37
208.64.201.169

So for some reason it appears that my Mac, and only my Mac, isn't doing something right. Any clue what could be causing the connection to fail?

Update:

It definitely looks like a DNS issue - Google Chrome provides an error DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET. Also, I can do telnet 216.58.218.206 80, and then interestingly enough it waits and waits and waits, but then it connects. After which

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: google.com
Content-Accept: */*

Returns with the Google 301 redirect to http://www.google.com


texts: MacBook Pro (late 2008) new thermal paste applied, now how do I re-attach the cable for the cpu fans?

texts:
I'm working on a friend's MacbookPro5,1 15" from late 2008, which was overheating, so I knew from past experience, the thermal paste needed to be removed, and reappplied.  This was all achieved succcessfully.  The laptop powers on, boots up, and is running well.

The issue is, the cable for the 2 fans (1 for cpu, 1 for gpu) have been re-attached via electrical tape.  I wonder how long this will last, thought.

I have purchased Artic Silver's Thermal Adhesive, is this the preferred solution, for permanently re-attaching the cable for the fans, to the motherboard?

Any insights you have are greatly appreciated!

Ryan


texts: Can't pair JBL Flip 3 to MacBook Pro 13" running macOS 10.12.5

texts:
My JBL Flip 3 won't connect to my 13" MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.5.

Here's what I do:

I open my Bluetooth preferences on my MBP and power up the Flip 3 into pairing mode (power light changes to flashing blue). My MBP sees the "JBL Flip 3" and displays a Pair button. I click on this and "connecting..." displays.

However, a spinning wheel appears to the right and spins forever and the Flip 3 power light continues to flash.

Nothing else is listed in the MBP Bluetooth list. Nothing else is paired to the Flip 3. I've tried all kinds of combinations with no success.

What else can I try?


texts: iPhone Remote App Is Very Latent In Controlling Large iTunes Library

texts:
I have a fairly large iTunes (v10.6) library of music (425 gigabytes) running on a Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit, i7 Quad Core with 8 Gigabytes of memory, Dell computer. My internal network is running over a WNDR4000 wireless N router with WPA2 encryption. I have recently installed the Apple remote App to my iPhone 4s running iOS 5.1. In trying to control the playing of music within iTunes with the remote app I have experienced less than adequate results. The app seems to become "stuck" for lack of a better term trying to switch to different tracks within iTunes. Eventually it will switch to a selected track after 3+ minutes. I have turned off encryption as an experiment to see if this will allow the app to switch to a selected track more rapidly (i.e. within seconds) with no success. The wireless router is running latest firmware. I am highly skeptical of this  issue being a result of my wireless infrastructure and am more prone to see this as a result of the size of my iTunes library. I ran an additional test on my late 2011 Mac Book Pro (i7,Lion,8GB Ram, SSD) with a much smaller iTunes (v10.6) library (less than 2 gigabytes) over same wireless infrastructure with WPA2 encryption enabled and play back from app on iPhone was as would be expected, music selection from app was near instantaneous. My question is as follows:

Has anyone experienced a similar issue when trying to use the app on an iPhone in conjunction with a large iTunes library running on a Windows 7 64 bit PC? If so was any workaround isolated?

I have searched Google and the Apple forums but was unable to find any reference to a similar instance.


texts: Font properties of text layer in PSD file -- possible to inspect without Photoshop?

texts: I want inspect (and just that, without editing this layer) which font, size, color etc. were used in a given text layer in PSD file created with Photoshop. Is this doable without Photoshop.app? Pixelmator seems to be unable to accomplish that, same with Acorn. Anything else I could try?


texts:
Every time I enable a font in FontBook.app, it works well. But if I logout or restart Mac, the font is disabled again. I tried many times but it doesn't get better.

For example, "Songti SC" and "STSong" are reset to be disabled once I logout or restart.

Is there any solution that can fix the problem?


texts:
I currently use a code editor called Coda.

It uses Bonjour to offer collaborative code editing over a local network.

I am going to be travelling for the next two months and need to occasionally screen share with a colleague. My internet connection will change day to day, theirs will be relconstant.

What is the best way to use bonjour remotely, do I need something like ShareTool?


texts: Why do I have a folder with a question mark on my terminal title bar?

texts:
I've been trying to solve this for a few weeks now and the only thread I could find with this issue is this old thread which did not solve my issue.

I've checked .bash_profile, .bashrc, .zshrc, .zprofile and apart from a ton of Jupyter lines, I can't seem to locate where this is coming from. Any help is appreciated.

OSX 10.15 Catalina

How can I fix the question mark?


texts: Is there any way to restore only whatsapp data from encrypted itune backup?

texts: I have changed my iPhone from iPhone7 32Gb to iPhone7 128Gb. I backed up my old iPhone running iOS 13.5 using iTunes and try to restore that backup in new iPhone running iOS 14.0.1. the problem is that when restore backup process finished my iPhone went into Apple logo boot loop so I have to reinstall iOS 14.0.1 using iTunes. I tried to restore twice but every times I ended up in boot loop problem and have to reinstall iOS. I badly need my WhatsApp data so is there any way or 3rd party application to restore just WhatsApp data from my encrypted iTunes backup?


texts: OS X Mavericks - Have to pull mouse down on full-screen app to see dock

texts:
Updated to Mavericks yesterday, pretty happy with the speed boost it brought, but I've run into one problem:

Whenever I'm running a full-screen app, for example mail, and I want my dock to show, I really have to pull the mouse down. Just "throwing" it down to the bottom of the screen with a one-finger swipe no longer does the trick; I have to keep my finger on the trackpad to get the dock to show.

I asked a colleague and he noticed the same thing, only in a full-screen app, is there a way to turn this "feature" off, or is this a bug?


texts: Backup fails because duplicate disks 'Macintosh HD'?? How do I fix this?

texts:
I was having some issues (that I also didn't understand, something about backup drive has changed name), that started happening with backups failing, so I decided to just reformat the external backup drive since I'm at a place where that is low risk.  And now backups fail saying Two of the disks to be backed up have the same name saying I have two disks named Macintosh HD. This was working until a few weeks ago, and this a completely ordinary 13" 2019 MBP.

AFAICT I do not have two volumes named 'Macintosh HD' - here is disk utility,


texts: Way to determine most popular Homebrew packages?

texts: Is there a way to determine which Homebrew packages have been installed the most times, either in the recent past or all-time? It would make it easier to determine which formulae are the most useful, and to discover new software I may not have heard of. Currently, I just use homebrew when I find out "I need to install this" for some dependency.


texts: Unable to use chromedriver following OS upgrade

texts:
Error: “chromedriver” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.

Updated OS is Catalina, version 10.15.2 (19C57).

chromedriver was working fine prior to the OS update. I've tried both the local chromedriver that was working previously as well as a newly downloaded copy.

What can I do to get this running again?


texts: How can I completly clear all browser history, caches, and keychain passwords?

texts:
Borrowed a laptop from a friend and would like to clear all internet history and clear all flash caches etc, and forget passwords from the keychain (if it stores these?)

Been using incognito mostly but yeah, and weird cookies stored in a random subolder or anything?

Thanks in advance!


texts: How to import dashboard stickies from an old hard disk without using migration assistant?

texts:
I recently installed a new hard drive in my Macbook Pro for a fresh installation of OSX Lion.

How can I get my dashboard stickies from the old hard disk without using migration assistant?


texts: Can't sync photos from Windows to iPhone since iOS 6

texts:
Since the update to iOS 6, my iPhone (or iTunes) does not copy the photos I have on my Windows system to the iPhone.

The update to iOS 6.0.1 doesn't seem to have helped.

I have removed all photos from both the iPhone and the sync area on the Windows system, but when I return the photos to the sync area, nothing gets copied to the iPhone.

How can I get my photo sync to work again?


texts: Can I delete the video part of a Live Photo and just keep the photo?

texts: I want to shoot all my photos as Live Photos but only if I can quickly review and delete the video part of the Live Photo to save space. Is this possible?


texts: device - IPhone X (ios 14) Problem regarding deleting an app

texts: I have deleted an app with intentions of reinstalling, but when I clicked App Store and searched for the app, instead of showing the option to download it's showing "open" as if I still have the app. I've turned my phone off and back on multiple times but it's still there. Can anyone help get my app back?


texts:
Me and my ex shared an Apple ID, we broke up in 2015 and she moved as well, and therefore I had to change her Apple ID login from the shared ID to another email address.

I have now battled for over a year with trying to update my iPhone with new info. Due to previous iPhone and iPad theft. I could not login into iCloud, so I could not report the device as stolen.

I have lost all my music and photos and my only request is to be assisted to get the info from the iCloud up till the time that the Apple ID was changed I think in October 2015, please assist me


texts: How can I disable password for system preferences lock? How can I permanently unlock all system preferences?

texts:
Is there any way to disable the "Click the lock to make changes" needing a password, or is there a way to permanently unlock all settings in Mountain Lion?

More specifically I'm turning the Network Link Conditioner  ( to simulate slow connections ) on and off frequently from its system preferences pane and it needs a password each time and it's getting annoying.

I'm comfortable with the security issues this presents if I could revert to the default behavior at some point.

Edit

I'd just like to point out that in the time it takes to think up a sarcastic reply to an answer ( but ultimately not send because you're too polite ), the lock locks itself automatically.


texts: transfer photos from iPhone to computer **without** importing to Photos

texts:
Is it possible to transfer photos from iPhone to computer without importing to Photos.

I have iPhone5 running iOS 10 (which I don't want to "upgrade" to iOS11).
My Mac is running macOS 10.13.1 with iTunes 12.6.2, but I could also use a computer running Linux.

Previously I had a number of methods of transferring photos, but none of these seem to work any more on High Sierra.

I DO NOT want to import into Photos, but retain the photos with their original names, metadata etc.

If all else fails, I could use Dropbox, but transferring 1000s of files on a slow upload link, just so I could download them seems slow and inefficient.


texts:
Years ago I thought I was going to be smart and import 6000 contacts to my database. Several mail systems and mail clients later, I would now like to clean this up down to about the 800-1000 that I actually need.

I can identify the ones to delete because they have an address, but no phone or email.
I am using google apps for business, mail & address book.

I thought if I could just get everything in to a mail client that sorts contacts better, I could sort and manually delete. That would synch accross systems and voila - clean. Problem is I need to look for address with no email or phone number associated in a certain zip code.

I made and archive of my contacts. What I am trying to avoid is exporting all, cleaning in excel, then deleting everything and re-importing all.

Tried thunderbird. no go. tried entourage, but it is not importing all my contacts.


texts: How do I disconnect a projector (SAMSUNG) that I've not connected in the first place??

texts:
So my screen is shattered, lights out....I've been connecting to my Samsung tv via minidisplay/hdmi adaptor, and have had no problems until Sierra. Almost immediately after the install, I noticed more display options in the menu bar, one of which reads "connected projector:SAMSUNG", although it's shaded out and I can't select it.  My actual display connection is check marked below it, so I know it's not just telling me what I'm sitting in front of.  What gives?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB


texts: Installing an app to run from an external HD

texts:
I need to install an Adobe Air application on an external hard drive (the app puts a lot of data in local storage "/Users/$User/Library/Preferences/", and all this data only fits on an external HD).

Is it possible to install an app (Air or otherwise, since other apps put data in the user's library) so that it will exclusively use storage on an external HD? If so, how should I proceed?


texts: Is it possible to tell if an iPhone had ever been jailbroken?

texts: I have heard that updating iPhone iOS versions will eliminate jailbreaks. Is it possible to tell if an iPhone updated in such a fashion had been jailbroken at one point?


texts:
I am using OS X 10.11.5, I have a crontab file under '/tmp/crontab', in which it contains:

01 10 * * * /Users/Jhon/Desktop/somescript.scpt

When I run crontab -l I get output as no crontab for Jhon

Any suggestion what I am doing wrong here?


texts: Route all traffic to a particular domain/subdomain without VPN

texts:
I'm using OpenVPN through Viscosity.

Is it possible to set it up in such a way that all traffic would go through the VPN, except traffic to a domain I'd specify (and all its subdomains, etc.)?

So only that one domain I'd specify would not use the VPN.


texts: How do I configure an archived Outlook folder

texts:
Is there a way of configuring an archived folder in Outlook for Mac, one which I can regularly move email into and it is stored on either my hard drive or a remove drive?

So I don't want to go through an export process each time - I want something more day to day like Outlook for Windows


texts: How To Delete A Large Video File From iOS Device Which Does Not Show Up in Photos?

texts:
I have a large video (18GB) on my iPad that I deleted, but somehow did not actually get deleted off the device.  It is not visible on the iPad itself but I can see it through any iOS file browser (iMazing, IBrowse, IExplorer)... just can't seem to delete it with these.

It shows as 'Other' space being taken up, and I cannot update the device now, because is is full.  I could restore the device to factory, but I don't want to lose all my other apps.  Restoring from backup now would just give me the offending file back, I believe.

How to rid myself of this file?


texts: iMessages sent by me to one friend only go to their MacBook not their iPhone

texts: iMessages sent from me to my friends, but not others, only go to their MacBook, not their iPhone. However, my friend receives iMessages from others to both MacBook and iPhone. Is the problem at my end or at the other end?


texts: Is there a way to get Auto-Brightness back on my iPhone X?

texts:
One of the best features of my iPhone 7 Plus was the way it could be configured to auto-dim the display, which not only helped the phone's lighting to match the mood, but was also appreciated by people around me in dim environments (trains, planes, cozy cafes, etc.):

My iPhone X adds a neat feature that adjusts the tone of the display to ambient lighting to keep it consistent, but this does not (at least not sufficiently) adjust the brightness:

As a result, the phone is always far too bright in dim environments (and often just a tad to dim in bright ones).

In my experience with macOS, there tend to be advanced or hidden settings preserved for features that Apple has removed from the UI. Is this the case with Auto-Brightness? Is there some way to get the auto dimming behavior back on my iPhone X?


texts: How can I force MacPorts to upgrade all upgradeable ports that it can?

texts:
Suppose I have outdated Ports A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Suppose for simplicity that all of them are "requested".

A has no dependencies.
B directly depends on C and D and E.
C directly depends on E and F.
D has no dependencies.
E has no dependencies.
F has no dependencies.
G has no dependencies.

To the best of my understanding, when MacPorts runs (sudo port upgrade outdated), it installs the ports in a dependency tree sorted by alphabetical order. So, it would install the ports in this order: A, D, E, F, C, B.

Suppose Port A is broken. MacPorts quits installing.

I see this as an inconvenience, because the other outdated ports could very well be working fine. The fact that A won't install has no effect on any of the other ports. Now, because a single port won't install, all the rest of my ports are out-of-date until this port is fixed.

My Question:

How can I tell MacPorts to continue installing all installable ports that it can install without error?

This is probably the same as this one in spirit: MacPorts: Continue installing other updates after error. I don't buy the answers on that page, however:

The MacPorts dev (@ClemensLang) says that there's a reason MacPorts doesn't continue. (The links he includes support this, but it gets too technical for me. Sorry!) In my case above, installing Port G after Port A fails wouldn't seem to be problematic. (...or is it?) Is there a way to do it safely?
The -p flag is evidently problematic. I would have thought that would be the answer to this solution, but multiple devs caution users not to use it unless they really understand what it does. I'd rather play it safe.
I could try sudo port upgrade outdated and not A. This works if only one independent port fails, but what if I have two or three ports (out of dozens) that fail? Could I do something like, sudo port upgrade outdated and not A and not C and not E (etc.)?

Suppose there are too many ports that fail to exclude them individually. Suppose also that there are too many ports to upgrade them individually.


texts: Google Apps – Mail couldn't discover the account settings for the Mail server

texts:
Ever since Apple introduced the Internet Accounts way of setting up email on Apple Mail a few years ago I have been unable to setup my Google Apps account, I've tried looking for similar issues but just can't find a solution anywhere.

The first thing I do is select Google from the list in System Preferences > Internet Accounts. Then enter my username and password into the google login form. Then enter my 2-step Verification code and accept the permissions request.

Then OS X asks what apps I would like to use with my account. I leave all ticked. Then almost immediately I get this error:

Then I get this the same error for my Notes which also uses IMAP.

I have tried multiple computers and have no issue with iOS setup. Just OS X. I've setup other Google Apps accounts with the exact same DNS settings and don't have this issue with them.


texts: Complete a movie download on different Wi-Fi

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I am downloading the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But because I am using hotel Wi-Fi, it is slow and I will be leaving the hotel before it finishes.

So here is my question: If I disconnect from a network before the movie finishes downloading, but then later connect to a different network, will the movie resume downloading from where it left off?

I am using an iPad mini (don't know if it is 2/3) running iOS 10.2. I am downloading the movie via the iTunes Store.


texts: Just recently I ran into an issue where my network program couldn't bind to a port because it was already in use. I opened the activity monitor and realized it (named "server") was already running from previously, even though I had closed the window and it was supposedly terminated. Quit or Force Quit on the process do nothing. I even restarted the computer but it was still there! This hasn't happened with my program before. I even typed in the terminal kill 4517 and nothing happened. Help?


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We have a late 2012 27 inch iMac. It has a 2.9 GHz i5 processor and a 1 TB fusion drive along with 8 GB of RAM. I recently upgraded it to El Capitan.

A couple of months ago it randomly started to not wake up after being asleep. We would have to unplug it and plug it back in to get it back on. It also would just randomly shut off while we were using it. If we had music playing, the screen would go black and the music would stop so it's not a display issue.

I took it in to our local Apple store and talked to them about it and they said the first thing they would do would be to reinstall OS X. So I decided to do that myself but that still did not fix the issue.

I then lugged it back into the Apple store about 2 weeks ago and left it with them for a few days to get to the bottom of it. They repaired OS X and then put it through a battery of tests to see if there were any issues with memory or the hard drive but everything came back fine. They then left it plugged in with a bunch of graphics programs and videos playing and still had no issues.

At this point, I was thinking it was a power issue with the plug we were using. When I brought it home, we left it plugged in and running in our dining room for a few days and did not have any issues. I gradually loaded programs back on and still did not have any issues. I then moved it back upstairs but the other day it started acting up again on my wife. I moved it back to our dining room thinking it was the outlet up there, but it's exhibiting the same behavior there now.

After doing some searching online, I found this post http://samwize.com/2013/10/13/imac-shutdown-suddenly-and-randomly/. It seems to describe the issue we are having.

I was able to check the Console and it says the cause for shutdown is 0. I'm pretty sure the Apple store ran the hardware test and memtest while it was there. I have repeatedly reset the SMC, which the Apple store employee informed me is basically what I'm doing every time I have to unplug it and plug it back in.

The only thing I haven't done yet is a PRAM reset.

So, now I'm not sure what to do next. According to that post, his logic board needed to be replaced. The Apple store quoted me $583.32 to replace the logic board if that was what was needed. But I only want to do that if I know definitively that's the issue.

So sorry for the long post, but does anyone have a suggestion on how to  root cause this?


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I have used the binary installer on my mac and use the following to start mysql.

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start

It seems to start ok, but i haven't set up any passwords for users yet. I followed the instructions here from MySQL https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/default-privileges.html

mysql> SELECT User, Host, Password FROM mysql.user;

This just returns -bash: mysql: command not found

I'm a first time mac user and don't really know how to fix this?


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I never want to see an emoji again.
I have seen instructions for disabling them in specific apps, but I want a nuclear option.

How do I get rid of them for all apps, all users, all contexts?

I'm on OSX 10.10 Yosemite


texts: Trying to create a symbolic link in OS 10.14.6

texts: I'm trying to install a symbolic link but when I enter the command I think should work ("sudo ln -s /Applications/harris/idl87/lib/xop/xop2.4/xop /usr/local/bin/xop"), I get no response at all. ????


texts: GarageBand not starting after Snow Leopard upgrade

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Starting four days ago, I wasn't able to open any of the icons at the bottom of the page of my MacBook. I downloaded Snow Leopard, and now I can open all but GarageBand. This is a complete mystery to me.

I'm currently at OS X 10.6.3. (my Mac was bought used, do I need something newer to run Garageband?. How can I get GarageBand to run again?