texts: Executing "Copy Dropbox Link" with a script

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I want to create a script that executes the command from the contextual (control-click) menu, "Copy Dropbox Link". How can I access this command with Applescript (or any other Mac scripting service)?

My goal is to create a LaunchBar 6 (by Objective Development) action that grabs the Dropbox link of a file selected in LaunchBar. LaunchBar works like a high-powered version of the native Spotlight app.

I'm running OS X 10.11.6.


texts: Youtube videos do not resume after pause in Safari

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One opens a youtube video in Safari. One clicks pause, waits a while, then clicks resume - nothing happens. One has to move the progressbar of the video a bit (the thing that shows at what point the video is in) and then the video starts.

I have this behavior since I first started usind Mac OS X (have reinstalled 10.5 and 10.6 at least once). I'm not sure, but I think I've seen this behavior with Chrome and with Google Videos.

Anyone?


texts: How to recover an incomplete MOV file made in Photobooth?

texts: I was recording a very important video with Photobooth. Unfortunately, near the end, it ran out of file space. So it was recording, and there is a 1 TB MOVE file there, but the end is missing. This means the file will not play at all. Is there any method I can use to recover the file, at least the minutes recorded up until the file space ran out?


texts: Getting coordinates for frequent locations?

texts: In iOS, if “system services” are active in privacy, my “frequent locations” are recorded, but I can only see, for each of them, a fragment of a map and a quite generic description: the name of a road, for instance, which is less than useful for a long, out-of-town road without specific nearby points of reference. Is there a way to get more useful data, such as latitude and longitude?


texts: How to filter both from and to address with a single test?

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I can't seem to find a simple way to filter mail that is either to or from a given address. It seems that you have to duplicate the address and use two conditions e.g.

From - contains - fred@nowehere.com
Any recipient - contains - fred@nowehere.com

I would have hoped that "Any recipient" might include "From" but it seems that it only  includes "To", "Cc", "Bcc", etc.


texts: Why does tapping the share button (on my iPhone 11) sometimes not give all the apps (in the order I've set) available to share-to on the share sheet?

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Sometimes when I tap the share button (in any app, but this morning it was in Safari while browsing bloomberg.com), a subset of the apps I know are available (like Twitter) either don't show up (that was the case this morning), or show up in a different order from the one I've set previously.
But if I go either to another website (eg in Safari), or another app, the options'll show up?
Why is that?
My iPhone 11 is up-to-date (iOS 14.2) - but it's behavior I've noticed off-and-on since at least my iPhone 5.


texts: DRAM compatibility between two early 2011 MacBook Pro

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I have two early 2011 MacBook Pros as follows:

2011 MBP 17” - A1297 | MC725LL/A | (but I’m not sure if it’s a 2.2 GHz or 2.3 GHz).
2011 MBP 15” - A1286 | MC723LL/A | (2.2 GHz)

I have a few queries:

Can I take my two 8 DRAM chips (16 GB total) from my 17” and put it into my 15” one with no problems? Are they 100% compatible?

(2 - 204-pin PC-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM)
Because of my doubt on the exact Sandy Bridge, would this cause any compatibility problems?
I’m not sure if the 15” has the AMD Radeon HD 6490M or the matching 6750M and Intel HD Graphics 3000 that the 17” has, would the DRAM swap cause any graphic problems if the AMD chips weren’t the same?
I don’t have the 13” version but I’m just curious if the same DRAM would be compatible with this model too?


texts: How to fix sync issues in multi-output device?

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When I'm listening to music (iTunes) during the day, I'd like to have sound all around me.  So I've created a multi-output device out of my main audio interface (Propellerhead Balance) and my portable Bluetooth speaker (MagicBox II).  Unfortunately there is a significant sync issue between the two.  I'm not surprised that the audio signal would be delayed slightly with Bluetooth, but then I had hoped that the hardware interface would match the delay to compensate.  This is clearly not the case.  I have tried enabling drift compensation but it made no difference at all.

Is there a way to make this setup work with both output devices in sync?


texts: Bootcamp: no bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key

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I installed Windows 7 on my 2011 MacBook Pro (MacOS High Sierra) successfully. It was recognized at boot time by the computer and had no problems.

Then I used Disk Utility to create some free space on the hard drive shared by MacOS and Windows. Now I get this message on boot to windows: no bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key

Using Finder, I can see that my Windows 7 files are all intact, but I cannot boot from Bootcamp!

Below is the output from the command diskutil list.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage HARDISK                 600.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             87.8 GB    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                120.0 GB   disk0s4

Below is the output from fdisk /dev/disk0 in MacOS Recovery:

-bash-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
     Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 - 1953525167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

Below is the output of ls -d /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot in MacOS Recovery:

/Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot


texts:
Earlier this year, I had to email a colleague to ask them to send me some information I was waiting for. They insisted they'd sent it already but I couldn't find the email in Mail.app (both iOS and Mac) or Gmail.

The same thing happened today. A different colleague emailed me over the weekend. I saw the message arrive in my inbox on Saturday but didn't open it. This morning, I couldn't find it so I emailed the colleague asking them to send the info believing I might have imagined it the first time. The colleage replied. After reading the reply on my phone, I went to my mac, opened Mail and the message wasn't there! I couldn't find it on my phone or the Gmail web app either. I looked in junk and trash as well but still couldn't find it.

I've tried rebuilding the mailbox but the missing messgae is still missing.

It's a bit worrying as I do all my business over email. Why do my emails disappear sometimes? What can I do to prevent them from disappearing?

(From time to time, I hear the incoming mail alert but there's no new email in my inbox. Could that be related?)


texts: Install Mavericks from usb drive on new HDD

texts: I replaced my old HDD with a new one. Also I created a bootable usb flash (8GB Toshiba) with Mavericks using DiskMaker X. I restared Mac and pressed Option key, but I see no option to boot from. I understand that I can't see my HDD at the moment because it has not been formatted yet, but I do not see also bootable usb drive. I thought maybe it was created with issues/errors, but when I tried on another Mac, it works, I can boot from usb drive. So I do not understand, what's the problem?


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Having just made the leap to Sierra (10.12.2), I've discovered that one of my favorite add-ons is behaving funkily, and wonder if any of you have discovered an alternative.

I don't actually care that much about Growl itself, but Hardware Growler is a wonderful add-on to Growl that gives you all sorts of info about what's going on behind the scenes with the hardware you connect/disconnect from it. Everything from USB, Bluetooth & Firewire to Network, Power and Volume mounting/unmounting.

Since it's primarily just reporting things that system doing & noticing, I would imagine there might be something like an Automator workflow, integrated with some command line tools that could replace it?

I'm using version 2.1.3 of Growl, which is the latest, and what I was using in El Capitan. HardwareGrowler is at version 2.2, and again, that's what I have been using for quite some time.


texts: Which Wireless-N Routers are compatible with Apple products?

texts: I have an iPhone 4, iPad, and MacBook Air, all of which support Wi-Fi 802.11n. However, there are many routers out there that were created before the official N spec was finalized (e.g. those based on drafts). How do I know which routers will be compatible with my Apple products?


texts: iPhone App for Displaying Email on a Locked Screen with Exchange Support

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I have an app, "mail notifier" that sends notifications to my phone when I get a new email, it does not support Exchange though.

Is there an app that is similar that does support exchange, maybe an app that does 'local' notifications so there is not a reoccurring cost?


texts: Mac App Store updates keep repeating; won't clear

texts: My Mac App Store updates keep repeating. They won't clear. The update is clearly installed. I know this because the new features in the changelogs are visible in my apps when I open them. The update process itself also works smoothly; meaning the progress bar gradually fills for each item in the update list and displays no errors. The badges will clear, but whenever I go and click on Updates again the badges and all previous updates return. It's very annoying. How do I fix this?


texts: iPhone browser does not load text just images

texts: I have an iPhone 6s with iOS 9. For some reason it takes forever to load text on a Web page while all images are shown in a very short time when navigating to a new page. I tried CNN.com and other news sites as well. They all seem to behave the same while... Any ideas what can be the problem here?


texts: How can I "Delete All" from Inbox and or Sent mail folder

texts: The sent items folder is about 8 GB and I need to clear it out to free up space. Is there any way to do it without selecting each individual message?


texts:
I have recently done a clean reinstall of OS X to fix my corrupted drive and everything is fine running Mavericks. However, I have been trying to upgrade to Yosemite, first by downloading from App Store and then installing from there, and then by creating a bootable usb, only to be met both times with the error,

  "This copy of the Install OS X Yosemite application can’t be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading"

Again, I tried this with an El Capitan installer from the app store, and both methods gave the same error

Any advice is appreciated.

  Note: My data and time is correct - updated automatically so this is not the issue


texts: Unable to share screen audio over Bluetooth headset in good quality

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While sharing screen over Skype/Zoom call and using Bluetooth headset the audio quality drops significantly.
The top answer here - https://superuser.com/questions/12292/bluetooth-headphones-sound-terrible-on-mac-os-x suggests to switch audio input to internal mic which improves the quality at my end but the other person with whom I am sharing screen can't hear the screen share audio.
A step by step way to reproduce the issue is -
1 - Play something locally (Video1.mp4) on VLC etc.
2 - Connect skype call using Bluetooth headset.
3 - Case a) If audio input is set to Bluetooth headset then sound quality at my end (both the other party's voice and Video1.mp4) is terrible.
4 - Case b) If audio input set to microphone the call quality and audio quality(Video1.mp4) is good at my end but the other party can't hear the audio from Video1.mp4.
Devices - Macbook Air 2017 model and Samsung Galaxy+ Ear buds.


texts:
I just discovered the wonderful Voice Control. One of its great use cases is taking pictures with the Camera app, hands-free!
The one thing, however, that I can't seem to do with my voice is orienting the Camera app to all four orientations. Just so you know: the Camera app normally uses the the gyroscope to determine in which orientation you are taking a picture. It always ignores Orientation Lock.
Voice Control does allow me to switch to Landscape and Portrait orientation, but seemingly not to its upside-down counterparts. Am I right about that?


texts: Photos: Export all images without downloading them?

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I just started using iCloud Photo Library. I uploaded all images using Photos for Mac. Now, I enabled the "Optimize Mac Storage" option, so the full-resolution files are not stored on my Mac. However, I'd like to keep a local backup of all photos stored in iCloud Photo Library (and therefore in Photos for Mac) on my NAS. There is an option to export images.

Is it possible to export all images without downloading them first?
I'd like Photos for Mac to download all images from iCloud Photo Library directly to my NAS, so that they are at not downloaded/stored on my Mac during the export process.


texts: How to leave apple developer program on developer.apple.com?

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I have been a member of a few development teams, but no longer work with them. I would like to leave these organizations, as I use my current account at a new organization and don't want them to have access to the other one's developer program.

I was able to leave 2 organizations using the "leave team" button, however I cannot leave one - I click the leave team button, and the alert just refreshes and stays as is. Currently I have my personal developer program and that other organization available in the "teams" dropdown.

Please help me understand how I can request to leave a team (I'm in the admin role for the team)


texts: MacBook Air can't connect to cafe wireless, but iPhone can

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My MacBook Air stopped being able to connect to the wireless network at a coffee shop I frequent.  It's an open network, but requires a clickthrough on a gateway page to complete the connection to the internet.

My iPhone accesses the click through page fine and connects to the network, but my Air cannot load the page, the autoconnect pop-up will load forever, and I get a timeout when going through the browser.

Is it possible there are some stored settings for this network that I need to clear before trying to connect again?  I've tried removing the network from my list of preferred networks, looking for any entries in my keychain, and accessing the network through my guest account.  Any suggestions are appreciated!

Lion 10.7.2


texts: Macbook Pro won't connect to internet via Wi-Fi or ethernet

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Macbook Pro 2011 A1278 13"
OS X 10.9.5

I cannot connect to Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi symbol in the top right has a cross through it and when i click it says "Wi-Fi: No hardware installed". I've tried connecting to the internet via ethernet, when I plug in the ethernet cable it says connected under "network" but the internet doesn't work - pages won't load in safari, app store won't connect etc.

I've tried resetting the NVRAM and SMC.

Thanks.

Update: The wi-fi problem was fixed by replacing the cable between the airport card and the motherboard. The ethernet was fixed by deleting the connection under system preferences > network and adding it again.


texts: Erase old iPhone - forgotten restrictions passcode and no WiFi

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I have an old iPhone 4 that has been sitting unused since I got my new phone - it has now sold and I have to clean it out so it's ready for the next person.

Here's the problem:

The wifi doesn't work and the phone's inactivated (so I can't get online).
It is asking for a restrictions passcode I don't ever remember setting.

I tried the default (0000) but no luck. What can I do to get this phone back to factory settings?


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I'm trying to diagnose & fix some problem on my MacBook Pro - the machine randomly hard-crashes instantly & shuts down.

I have a somewhat-old Time Machine backup of the drive on an external USB disk, and I would like to update that backup.  The problem is that it keeps crashing in the middle of backups, then forcing a complete disk scan, which takes a really long time, so it never gets to complete a new snapshot.

To try to make progress, I created an external bootable drive, which I can use to get the laptop started.  I can also mount my Time Machine backup drive - both are external USB drives.  I was hoping to tell Time Machine to resume backing up the laptop's internal drive to the Time Machine drive, but I don't see any obvious way to do that.

Is there some way I'm missing?  Maybe using tmutil from the command line?


texts: I was working on an unsaved file when the kernel suddenly got a panic attack. I have the 'Save files when focus is lost" checkbox checked, and I frequently switched between textmate and the browser, so plenty of oppurtunities to autosave there. I don't see any autosaved documents in my 'recently opened documents'. Is there any chance I can get my work back?


texts: Software recommendation for FAST entry of equations

texts:
I'm looking for a package that does for algebra what word processing software did for writing:

When I learned to type, my writing improved greatly because my fingers were closer to keeping up with my mind.

Similarly I think that students will be more willing to enter intermediate steps in solving problems if they can type math faster than they write it.

The package should in addition have drawing ability to make simple diagrams, and have the text formatting/editing ability roughly equivalent to the common rich text JavaScript modules commonly seen on forums.

It should be possible to create equations either through mouse or keyboard.

I think I'm looking for something that is a subset of LaTeX.

Added bonus: The ability to do simple symbolic consistency checks: for example, in a solution requiring several steps is each line a valid restatement of the previous line.

I am willing to consider a Windows program or Linux program running in a virtual machine, but I would prefer a Mac or iOS application.

The key feature is speed.  A user must be able to get the same sort of speed increase using this software as learning to type overcomes the slowness of handwriting.


texts: Do I need Bonjour on my PC, Windows 7 Professional?

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I'm hearing alot about iTunes which I don't use. I’m unable to research what Bonjour does.

If I delete it will it affect anything else on my PC?


texts: iPad update 5.1, different connection, different size of update

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When I am trying to update my iPad 2 to 5.1 using Wifi it says the update size is 206mb. But  when I am trying to do that same thing by attaching it with my PC(itunes) the update size is ~767mb.

Why is this difference in size?


texts: Importing WordPress Codex as a dictionary into the Dictionary app

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I'm an avid WordPress developer, and I'm constantly referring to the Wordpress Codex to look up various functions. I recently got a new 2013 MBP, and I just found the glorious "three finger tap to look up" function. Now, I've read that it's possible to change the dictionary that's used by adding or removing dictionaries from Dictionary.app, but I'm interested in doing something different.

Has anybody found a way to import WordPress Codex into the Dictionary app? Essentially, I want to be able to highlight a WordPress function, three finger tap, and be presented with the Codex article (or at least an abridged version with usage and params).


texts: Use *Two* Thunderbolt/Firewire adapters on MacBook for 400 and 800 devices?

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I'm completing an audio recording setup.

Equipment:

Macbook 13" Retina late 2012 with Two Thunderbolt ports
One Focusrite Saffire audio interface (Firewire 400)
One OWC Mercury external SSD drive (Firewire 800)
I already own One Thunderbolt/Firewire adapter

Question: what is the optimal setup for these devices? Specifically, will I get full Firewire 800 speeds if I purchase a second Thunderbolt/Firewire adapter and run the external FW800 drive alone on that port?

I gather from reading other threads that, if I am to use only the one adapter, I would place the FW800 drive first in the chain, and the FW400 audio input last. However, it also appears that, if the FW400 device "talks a lot," it can still slow down the speed of the FW800 device. So, the question is whether that same behavior might happen even if the devices were each on its own adapter through separate Thunderbolt ports?

One might presume both devices would operate at optimum speed if on separate ports, but perhaps the internal architecture of the Macbook still handles them as if on one port?

Thanks.


texts: MacBook Air 2020 (i5, 16GB, 512GB) uses a lot of battery while sleeping

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Few days ago I received my new Macbook Air and I noticed that it just eats battery.
But to have some numbers I charged it to 100% and then I closed the lid. After 6h20m I opened it and it had only 85% of battery, what happened?
I don't have power nap.
I also disabled wakeup by bluetooth accessories (but I have only Airpods Pro).
I didn't find any kind of wake on lan, that I could disable.
What happened? My mid-2013 Air was holding battery like crazy.
Also I think that during normal use it uses a lot more battery (but I don't have numbers yet).
(Another strange thing, not sure if related is that when I open the lid the new Air doesn't turn on, I had to press the touch ID button).


texts: Can I work on iMovie online?: ie upload a library to googledrive or etc and work on it from any Mac?

texts:
I will be traveling without my Mac, but need to continue my editing. Can I edit using iMovie online? I would want to upload an entire (huge) library to googledrive or etc and work on it from any Mac, maybe in a desktop-rental place.
If that is not possible: can I save a project online and then download it to use in my library?
For example, I would take along a Mac, but I don't want to chance losing the edited versions if the Mac and any external HDs I bring along are stolen/damaged. If I don't need to import new events (nor move events, nor projects from event to event) while editing, can I save the newly-edited projects online somehow, so that even if all is stolen I can have the edited project back when I return home and re-connect any Mac to the backup HD with the iMovie library on it, so that iMovie will load with the project I had edited while travelling?


texts: Install Windows on MacBook Pro, without OS X

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I installed Linux Mint on my 2006 MBP 15" this weekend before hearing that the system will not enter a compatible firmware mode for Linux/Windows without rEFIt or rEFInd installed first.

Well, I do not have another Mac available, and I do not have an OS X install disk to recover from (not 10.5 anyway).

I can boot Linux by holding down CMD at boot, and launching the install from the Boot Manager, but this is much less than ideal, and while I imagine I can install Windows 7 much the same way I installed Mint, if I am still stuck with booting with CMD, my wide is not going to be happy (it is for her, and she is less than a Power User by any stretch).

Any helpful advice out there?


texts: File access problem with SMB and AFP on Mac OS X 10.4 SERVER

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Ok, I have about 10 macs, each with a different username/password that acces a mac os x server raid. File on the server, Photoshop, illustrator and indesign is used and open by anyone, anytime of the day !

now, on on station, the designer access BOTH the SMB and AFP share ate the same time... that case many file lock up and access. Even some corruption on some file when saving..

so here is the question,

Can i block certain IP to log as SMB
Can i force the mac to access AFP only
and last question, do you suggest afp acces to server or smb, and why ?

*NOTE : Yes i know i can make shortcut on desktop, but they don't use it ! so now, i have to "force" them to work properly...


texts: Gmail on iPad not working ..error message

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I'm seeing this problem all over the web and I'm asking the same thing. I am not very computer savvy and would appreciate an answer that is easy to understand.

When I try to access my Gmail account on my iPad by clicking on the mail icon that came with the device (meaning: I'm not using my browser to access my mail and not using any downloaded apps) I get this message:

The mail server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in Mail settings.

And I have. And do. Everything is correct.
This started to be a problem before the new ios6 update.  And I can access my gmail account on my iPhone just fine.  This problem is just on my iPad 2.

Also. I do have another gmail account set up on my iPad and that email works fine. They both have been on my iPad for ever and both been fine until a few weeks ago. Just one account is messed up!  Why? And why hasn't this been fixed?


texts:
I recently uploaded some videos into Photos after compressing them in Handbrake.

Now, when I try to export the video back out of the Photos app, it gives me an error:

Does anyone know 1) why I can't export some videos and 2) how to fix it? I don't want my videos to be forever locked in the Photos app.


texts: I cannot reach my ATV3 anymore after update MBA (late 2010) to 10.9

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Since I updated my MacBook Air to 10.9 I cannot reach my AppleTV3 anymore. I know my MBA (Late 2010) will not be supported for mirroring anymore because of the lack of sandy bridge, but before the update I was able to stream Music and Videos out of iTunes to my ATV3.

I checked, by using IP-Scanner to see that my ATV is screened in the same network (no subnet). I tried Airparrot and Beamer.app but they cannot find the ATV either. Is there a possibility to reach them anyway? I don't want to buy a new MBA just to stream my music to ATV!


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I have the following applescript bundled as .app (using Platypus) and starting on user logon (12.4 MB for each user)

#!/usr/bin/osascript

-- INICIO DAS FUNCOES EXTRAS
set app_path to path to current application
set app_name to get name of me
set myPath to path to me
tell application "Finder" to set myFolder to (container of myPath) as string
set commonScript to load script alias ((myFolder) & "FuncoesExtras.scpt")
-- FIM DAS FUNCOES EXTRAS

set WhiteList to {app_name, "App Store", "iTunes", "FecharProgramas", "Finder", "Mail"}

repeat

    tell application "System Events"
        repeat with this_app in (get processes whose background only is false and windows is {})
            set NomeDoApp to the name of this_app
            if NomeDoApp is not in WhiteList then
                try
                    tell NomeDoApp to quit
                    log_event("App " & NomeDoApp & " encerrado com sucesso", app_name) of commonScript
                on error
                    do shell script "killall " & quoted form of NomeDoApp
                    log_event("Forcando interrupcao do App " & NomeDoApp, app_name) of commonScript
                end try
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell

    tell application "System Events" to set myPID to (unix id of processes whose name is app_name)
    do shell script ("/usr/bin/renice 18 " & myPID)

    delay 60

end repeat

How can i make it a service, so it only run 1 instance and when the system starts, not at user logon?

Any other suggestions about my code?

EDIT

Here is my current (working) .plist located in /Library/LaunchAgents

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <false/>
    <key>EnableGlobbing</key>
    <false/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>ram.ramon.FecharProgramas</string>
    <key>LowPriorityIO</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>Applications/FecharProgramas.app/Contents/MacOS/FecharProgramas</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

When i move it to /Library/LaunchDaemons the app doesn't work anymore.

05/10/13 10:43:24,375 FecharProgramas[90]: 3891612: (connect_and_check) Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to or launch Window Server before login.
05/10/13 10:43:24,376 FecharProgramas[90]: kCGErrorFailure: This user is not allowed access to the window system right now.
05/10/13 10:43:24,376 FecharProgramas[90]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
05/10/13 10:43:24,382 FecharProgramas[90]: kCGErrorInvalidConnection: CGSGetEventPort: Invalid connection

Do i need to trust my app? If so, how?


texts: restore Mac OS Mountain Lion to factory settings without discs or time machine backups

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I installed XCode 3 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 and now I am getting the Apple BSODs.

Can I do a system restore without having the discs as I seem to have nothing to use, also I have no Time Machine backups setup.

I cannot get into the machine (as it gets stuck in a infinite boot loop) unless I hold SHIFT and go into Safe Mode. Cmd + R doesn't work, so I can't get into recovery mode.

Thankfully I have little to no data on the disk that I want to keep, so i'd happily return to factory settings - but I don't know how, or even if this is possible.

Here is the screen I am getting on my iMac:


texts: I'm trying to run an application named "Test.4a". The icon has a line going across it (similar to a "No Smoking" sign). And it says "You can't open the application Test.4A because the Classic environment is no longer supported". Any ideas on what to do with this? I'm on Mac 10.7. The application was created with "Supercard". That's all I know.


texts: How to create a custom iPhone ringtone using MacOS 10.15 Catalina?

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How can I create and upload a custom iPhone ringtone using MacOS 10.15 Catalina?

I have tried to follow the advice given for uploading ringtones applicable to older versions of MacOS, where iTunes was available, substituting the replacement Music program instead, but I don't seem to be able to drag or open the .m4r file that I have created into Music, nor drag it onto my iPhone in the Finder.

Is there still some way to convert other audio files into ringtones and upload them to iPhones when using MacOS 10.15 Catalina?


texts: Show icon to indicate microphone and/or camera are being used

texts: For privacy reasons I'd like to know when the camera and/or mic are being used by an app. Is there an app or a built-in feature to shows an icon to indicate that?


texts: Someone has files from my Mac on their external hard drive

texts:
I have my housemate's old Mac. He still has an account on it, neither of us have each others passwords so we cannot access each others accounts, and public file sharing is turned off (and I don't keep files there anyway).

He let me borrow his external hard drive to back up some files temporarily, however I noticed that on this drive (which he also uses to back his files up), there were photos and videos from my account - it was like my photo stream had been backed up to his hard drive. These were in a folder called 'archive'.

I have tried checking terminal for logs etc but am finding it hard to get anywhere, as the 'last' command returns no results for his account. Is it possible that my photos and videos are somehow backing up to his computer or drives? It was quite disturbing seeing my photos and videos there already...and in a folder that had clearly been created and not just copied (as I don't actually have a single folder on my Mac for photos etc.). He created the accounts I have for me so I'm wondering if he has done something there...

Any help greatly appreciated.


texts: Login screen shows "Guest" option even though it is disabled

texts: I have disabled the "Guest" option on my Macbook Pro, however it still shows the "Guest" bubble next to my account on the login screen.


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I have a brand new Mac Mini.  It came (last week) with OSX 10.8.1 installed.  Software update is reporting an update for iPhoto to version 9.4.2.  When I try to run the update, it fails with a message saying that I need OSX 10.8.2.  Then when I try to download the OSX 10.8.2 release, I get a message 'OSX Mountain Lion is not compatible with this computer'.

What is happening?!


texts: Cmd+plus now opens Widgets instead of zooming

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This has just started happening in the last few weeks, and I can't work out how to change it.

It used to be that I could use Cmd+= to zoom in in my web browser, and cmd+- to zoom out. But just recently, that has been overridden so that it opens Widgets settings. It's also odd because there are all these (x) buttons to close widgets (presumably) but there is nothing there apart from the buttons.

Anyone know how to change that shortcut so I can zoom in my browser again?


texts: What's the difference between alias and link?

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I see that the size of alias is 167.7kB, whereas symbolic link is just 4kB.

What's the difference between the two, or what's the purpose of them?
Which one is preferable? For the case that the link/alias is used only in one machine or networked.

ADDED

http://prosseek.blogspot.com/2012/12/symbolic-link-and-alias-in-mac.html


texts: VS Code - Code Helper process using more than 100% CPU on macOS

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I noticed that my MacBook gets hot and noisy (fans) when using VS Code (v1.31). The Activity Monitor shows the process Code Helper using more than 100% of CPU. It started happening with one repository which is huge. Only one window opened, no files opened, and it always uses more than 100% CPU.

Checking in Microsoft/GitHub, there was an issue reported but they closed it saying "This issue has been closed automatically because it needs more information and has not had recent activity." , but it is still an ongoing issue. I tried some of the recommendations in the comments but didn't work.

Does anybody has more info and/or know how to avoid this? Is it possible to make some configurations for VS Code to not burn the MacBook?


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I'll like to run a second applescript with variable from the first Applescript.

If I do a first script to

property myName : "Kevin"

And a second script with :

set remoteScript to (load script "/Users/kevin/Documents/Script/script1.scpt")

set myName to myName of remoteScript

Then everything is fine, the issue is ! The issue is my variable are generated on the first script and so, I can't use property.

I tried to use Global instead but I always having an error

My variables on my main script are mostly set (but not only) from Javascript, I used to use plist to store them but I'm curious and I'd like to try with a another way (also I have probably thousand of variables)


texts: MacBook Pro Factory reset started installing OS X El Capitan but now OS X Mavericks installer appears

texts: I tried to reset my MacBook Pro to the factory settings so I booted with CMD+R and erased the disk then I proceed to reinstall OS X El Capitan, but I was at my friend's house and the Internet was super slow, so I canceled and turned off the machine to do it at home. Now at home, I booted with CMD+R but instead of going to the OS X El Capitan installer like last time it contacted Apple through the Internet and presented me the OS X Mavericks installer. What to do?


texts: Why am I getting Facebook push notifications even though I have all Facebook push notifications disabled?

texts: I have an iPhone 4S. No Facebook push notifications are activated on my phone. Nevertheless, several times a day I receive a push notification that I have been invited to X event or Y person is in my vicinity. I can't seem to figure out why I'm receiving these notifications and I would rather not get them. Any clue what's behind this mystery?


texts: How can I read full song title on my iPod touch or iPhone?

texts: When I play or select songs on my iPod touch 4G I often can not read the full title of the song when it is very long. In all views (Coverflow front, coverflow back, now playing portrait mode, playlist) it is always truncated. Especially for classical music this is really annoying because the titles are something in the lines of "Beethoven: The Complete String Quartetts" -  "String Quartett #3 in D Op. 18/3 - 1. Allegro". Is there some trick to view the complete title?


texts: Connecting to Cisco AnyConnect VPN without stored certificate or shared secret

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Many people have discussed configuring the OS X built-in VPN client to connect to Cisco VPNs in place of the AnyConnect client. However, all discussion focuses on copying critical config information (shared secret or certificate, in particular) from a PCF or Profile.xml file included in a site-specific AnyConnect installer.

The AnyConnect installer where I am now (version 4.2.01035) seems not to deploy any profile information. /opt/cisco/anyconnect/profile contains only AnyConnectProfile.xsd (a standard schema definition, not anything specific to this configuration). There’s no sign of any profile XML or PCF files that I can find in /opt/cisco, /Library,  or $HOME/Library.

This matches the UI experience: there don’t seem to be any preconfigured profiles. Instead, on first launch I just get a blank VPN field in which I simply enter a hostname by hand (in this case, ucbvpn.berkeley.edu) and hit connect. This gives a login prompt including a group selection dropdown, and username and password fields. Simply entering a username and password initiates the connection in the mode specified by the given “group,” and everything works fine.

I cannot, however, figure out how this configuration can be fully transferred to the OS X native VPN client. Transferring a chosen group name from the list seemingly auto-discovered by the AnyConnect client, but the OS X VPN configuration seems to also require explicitly entering either a shared secret or a certificate.

My best guess is that the Cisco client is operating in a perhaps new mode where it can negotiate directly with the server to auto-discover any necessary configuration information, and that it’s not stored on disk anywhere. Does anyone have any experience with a setup like this, or have any suggestions of what else to try?


texts: How do I hide contact name from whatsapp notification on iphone5

texts: I saw someone's iphone5 whatsapp notification pop up with only the whatsapp badge and the word "message" but I can't figure out how to do that on my iphone5


texts: how to select multiple consecutive files in icon view in finder?

texts: in Windows it is easy, just shift + click, but in Mac I cannot do the same trick. I am fed up with cmd + click every single file


texts: How to make Siri set an alarm AND name/label the alarm at same time?

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How can I make iOS's Siri set an alarm AND name/label the alarm at same time?

I set many alarms on my iPhone5S running iOS7, and sometimes it's hard to remember what I set them for when they go off.  With a label I'm reminded the purpose (of the alarm).  I don't want to take time to manually edit the alarm after Siri sets it--that's what I want Siri to do for me.

Some discussion here with apparently no clear answer, or at least nothing that yet works reliably on my phone.


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I happened to download an app and it got completely downloaded (yes, its showing “open” next to the app in AppStore) but somehow its not showing up on the Home screen.

Points to consider:-

I have not applied any restrictions to download any of the apps in Settings>General>Restrictions.
The app is accessible from the AppStore and shows up in the spotlight search only the icon doesn’t show up anywhere no the phone’s screen.
Yes I have completely checked in all folders and screen menus, but couldn’t find the app icon.

What steps need to be taken?


texts: iPhone 5s, how do I clear my App Store cache?

texts: How do I clear my App Store cache? Since my latest update/upgrade to my phone the apps no longer say if they are free or what they cost. Tried to download an app on the fly one day (not realizing it was a $49.99 app!). The card I keep on my iTunes account only has $5 on so my kids don't download anything ridiculous (or in this case myself either!) So my problem is, the App Store will not let me update my current apps or download new free apps without finishing the purchase of the "accidental" app... Any advice on how to get rid of it?


texts: Does Yosemite run on late-2015-iMac-21.5"? It comes with El Capitan. I would like to install Yosemite instead.


texts: Is there any port of start-stop-daemon for OS X?

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I am trying to use some init.d script under OS X and I while some are just working properly, I discovered quite a few that to rely on /sbin/start-stop-daemon and I am looking for a port of it for OS X.

Any ideas?

Note, I know that OS X does not have support for init.d but there is nothing stoping you from using it to start/stop some services. It is much easier to install things like postgres, nginx using brew and control them using the usual service name start|stop|restart.


texts:
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro.  It currently has 6G of ram (2x1G and 2x2G sticks).  I've been swapping with some programs for a while, and just got around to buying more ram.  (4x4G).

My question is. . . am I better off just running the 4x4G or should I just add the 4x4G to the ram I already have?  (my gut says more is better, of course just add, but I know there are often hardware considerations that may make this not true)


texts:
Why do several apps (example: Runkeeper) generate duplicate data in the Health App?

Is this a bug or something I can turn off?


texts: MacOS High Sierra: An error occurred while verifying firmware

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I have a Mid 2011 iMac currently running MacOS 10.12 Sierra. It’s not my main machine, but I would like to install 10.13 on it.

Updating starts smoothly enough, but when it comes to restarting, I get the following message:

  macOS could not be installed on your computer
  An error occurred while verifying firmware.

I understand that my Mac is on the edge, but I read that any machine which supports 10.12 will also support 10.13

The iMac is running from an external SSD, due to a problem with the logic board, so I know that I have some problems. The iMac no longer boots from the internal drive (or recognises the DVD), but still works otherwise.

However, the problems don’t seem to be invove the actual firmware, and the iMac is happily running 10.12.

What does this message mean, and can it be resolved?


texts: Songs stuck in Automatically Add To itunes folder

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I use an mp3 tagger to fix my mp3 tags, and the tagger is set to move my tagged mp3s to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder.  Then, iTunes usually copies the tracks to iTunes and organizes the folders accordingly.  For some reason, its not working on three albums.  I can't see anything unique about these albums, but iTunes is adding it to my library, and leaving it in the folder.  Then it seems to repeat this process every so often until I have a number of duplicate entries of the same song, all pointing to the same location.  I've got it working properly before and after adding these tracks, just not for these specific 3 albums.  Any thoughts?

I will post a screenshot as soon as my reputation allows ;)


texts: Network homes / synchronized mobile homes with OS X and Active Directory

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I work in a company which manages IT for several customers (mainly for Apple OS X deployments). Some of them have more users than computers, so they need some form of "movable" home directory (so the user's bookmarks, settings and so on stay while he changes computers).

I remember that this worked relatively well in OS X 10.6.X and wasn't so hard to set up. I now tried (in different configurations) to get it working in OS X 10.10.X and OS X 10.11.X but never really got it working in a stable way. Here are the different ways I tried it (for both: OS X 10.10 and 10.11):

Open Directory server on OS X Server and userhome-location on the OS X Server

Issue: The keychain-items do not get synchronized. Other files get synchronized (but the keychain-not-syncing is a showstopper)

Active Directory, userhome-location on the OS X Server or on a synology file server (AFP or SMB) or on the windows server:

same issue as with "pure OD": Keychain does not get synced. Additionally, many other files do not get saved correctly or with incorrect permissions.

general Issue: Some applications do not work well with network homes (for example the mac built-in unzipper)

Because of those problems, I decided to try to get it working with synchronized mobile homes. Here, the user home is copied locally and upon the user logging out, the changes are written to the server. The general observation is:

it is incredibly slow (2 Minutes for 3MB are nothing special, and this on a Gigabit-LAN!)
There are many synchronization errors or wrong file permissions

Here are the combinations I tried for synchronized mobile homes:

OS X Open Directory Server, Storage location on the OS X Server
OS X Open Directory Server, Storage location on the Synology Server (AFP and SMB)
Active Directory Server, Storage location on the Synology Server (AFP and SMB)
Active Directory Server, Storage location on the OS X Server (AFP and
SMB)
Active Directory Server, Storage location on the Active Directoryy Server (SMB)

I ask myself if it is even possible to get it working. I tried 3 times, always with those (or comparable) results. Also I let colleagues check my DNS, NTP and networking settings - no problems there.
I'd be realy happy if someone who's experienced with that topic could answer and even if it's a "no it's not possible anymore".

Regards
Christian


texts: iTunes: Can I show all of my podcasts in one view, so that I can sort by date?

texts:
I have a few podcasts that I just subscribed to that I would like to listen through in order by date.

Is there a way to show all podcasts in one list view?  If not, is there a way to sort my podcasts by the oldest unwatched episode?


texts: Selling water damaged MacBook Air 2017: Is it safe to simply remove the SSD?

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I water damaged my Macbook Air 2017 and it will no longer turn on. I was thinking of selling the MBA for some money but wanted to make sure that my security is not compromised.

If I remove the SSD from the motherboard (and sell it without the SSD), am I safe to assume that none of my personal data is still on the laptop?


texts: Need an app to record continous gps with video

texts:
Have you used an iOS app to record video along with keyed gps info?
Basically need a file to match video times with gps info
So not just the start gps point but every couple seconds whilst video is recorded.
For each journey two files would be created, a video file and a gps file.


texts: Why is iTunes "syncing Artwork" when no artwork has been added in weeks?

texts:
I have sync'd iTunes to iPad several times since the last time I added any artwork.  But often, if I add a bunch of .mp3 without artwork and sync, iTunes says "Syncing artwork (step 6 of 6; waiting for items to copy."

And it will say that for an hour or more.

What is happening here?  It's the latest version, but previous versions have done this as well.


texts: Unable to boot from SSD but can still access files

texts:
Yesterday, I was attempting to update to Catalina, I was using macOS 10.12.6 on my Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch Late 2013 model. When running the installer it asked me to select a disk to install it onto, but there was nothing there. I looked online for some information and thought maybe the fact I'm dual-booting is causing an issue. I deleted my Linux partitions, but it still wouldn't work so I restarted my computer and a whole host of issues soon followed.

I booted into Internet Recovery Mode and my CoreStorage partition wasn't named "Macintosh HD" anymore and the "TYPE" was now a string of f's. I created a removable boot drive using an SD card and followed this guide until I was able to successfully mount my CoreStorage partition and access my files.

Now, my current issue is what I should do next. I'd like to be able to boot up from my main drive again without having to completely reinstall macOS and overwrite everything on my SSD. Thankfully, I have access to all the files on it so I can back everything up if needed. Although I'd like to avoid spending the next couple days backing up data, reinstalling software, and recovering documents.

Entering diskutil list into the terminal gives me these results:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            460.4 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *63.9 GB    disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Untitled 1              63.0 GB    disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS macOS SD               +62.6 GB    disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s2
                                 CC5B450E-DC92-4F6C-A1BB-B1E52E138204
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk3 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +460.0 GB   disk3
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 5A57468C-6E2D-41B2-A76E-08EA31850672
                                 Unlocked Encrypted


texts: How to downgrade the OS to the original one on a MBA 2010?

texts:
Continuing the thread about whether it's worth downgrading the OS on an  old MBA Late '10, I'd like to check the downgrade options.

I am not sure my daughter still has an original CD with the OS. I assume not. And she has not been using TimeMachine. So what she can actually do to install the original OS?


texts: 2nd Gen iPod (iOS4.x) using iPod keyboard

texts: Does anyone tried cramming a second gen iPod touch with iOS4 into the iPad keyboard sold by apple?  I've seen this but I'm not sure what the difference in architecture is between the iPhone that the Wired article is talking about and the iPod that I own.


texts:
Today, I opened up an application to see check how my battery is going along, health, etc. It said that my Mac had an unknown manufacture date and no serial. I opened up About This Mac, and saw that for some reason, it says my serial number is "Unavailable", and it doesn't show the exact model of my mac (It just shows "MacBook Pro" instead of "MacBook Pro, Retina Late 2013" like it used to, even when I click on it)

I do have the serial number written down, and checked my warranty with Apple. I do have a valid purchase date, and Apple Care for 1 more year.

I have had the display replaced under warranty a few months ago, but I am pretty sure that that did not do it.


texts: iPhone 5 requires very firm press to register the home button

texts:
Seemingly overnight, my iPhone 5 went from working normally to requiring very firm presses to register the home button. I've tried the single water drop trick posted on Youtube (put a single drop of water on the home button and rub it around while holding the button pressed), and I've tried the "recalibration" trick (go to a factory installed app, hold the power button until "swipe to turn off" appears, then hold the home button until it goes away). I've tried using an isopropyl alcohol wipe on the home button the same way I would with the drop of water.

Overall, the sensitivity improved, but there are still many "lost clicks" on the home button if I'm not specifically thinking about clicking it hard. It is out of warranty and the nearest Apple store is 90 minutes away.


texts: Why are Finder contextual menus different on different macs?

texts:
I have a 21" iMac late 2010 running OS X 10.11.6 & a 13" MB-Pro late 2011 running the same. In /System/Libary/Core Services in the MBP, I have the following contextual menu:

Whereas on the iMac, I have this one:

Crucially, the latter one lacks "Make Alias" which I want to do for the Applications folder (& have already done so on the MBPro). Both the Applications folder and the enclosing folder "Core Services" have exactly the same permissions and ownerships on both machines. Both users on both Macs are non-admin users.

Can anyone tell me why these contextual menus are different and how to get the iMac one as per the (larger) MBPro?


texts: If a downloaded package verifies, is it safe?

texts:
I'm trying to install the Java JDK. The download page does not use HTTPS. I downloaded the .dmg file anyway; when I open it, Finder spends some time verifying it and then I have the option to install it.

How can I know whether it's safe to install?


texts: The Insert key without 3rd party apps on MacBook Air in VirtualBox running Linux

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Hardware setup

I use MacBook Air with what seems to be an English international keyboard layout. My Input Sources are set to Polish - Pro in the Keyboard settings.

Software setup

I run Debian 8.6.0 in a VirtualBox with a dwm window manager and xterm as the default terminal app there. The way copy and pasting works there is to select the text and press either Insert or the middle mouse bottom to paste the selection elsewhere.

My problem is that I cannot find a way to simulate pressing either of them. Is there a way to do it on MacBook Air with any 3rd party apps to remap my keyboard? I'm just looking for a way to copy and paste text in Debian Linux running inside the VirtualBox.

Here's what I've tried so far:

Insert key:

fnEnter
fnEnter, fnEnter
fnShiftEnter
Controlfnm
fnm (prints m obviously)
ControlfnShiftm
Controlfn⌫ (prints 5~)
ControlfnShift⌫ (prints 6~)
fni (prints i obviously)

Neither of which work.

Middle mouse button:

Press the touchpad with two fingers simultaneously.
Press the touchpad with two fingers simultaneously holding Shift.

Neither of which work.

References:

Where is the insert key on a MacBook Air?
How do I simulate the Insert key in Windows on a MacBook Pro?
Insert key on keyboard for Macbook Air Mountain Lion OS


texts: How do I flip a video that is recorded upside down

texts: I recorded a video upside down on my iPad Air 2. How do I flip it. I twisted it with my fingers, but it won't stay.


texts: Apple Pay on M1 Mac not showing correctly

texts:
I have an M1 Mac and it has two cards on it for Apple Pay.
They are both working great, and I can use Apple Pay on my M1 Mac.
I noticed a weird UI inconsistency though, When I check the Apple Pay status in System Preferences:
In my System Preferences --> Apple ID --> Devices, my iPhone and Watch show Apple Pay cards are added.
But my Mac doesn't.
This is also the same on iCloud.com
Here you can see the MBP doesn't show Apple Pay as registered (it also has a weird old picture):

Here my iPhone shows Apple Pay in System Preferences,

Whereas my M1 doesn't:

do you folks see this too? Maybe a bug, a lot of inconsistencies with Big Sur and the new Macs, (not to mention the stupid Kernel Panic on every reboot).


texts:
Today my MacBook Pro 2013 crashed so I hard reset it.

Since then it boots to a black loading screen with the Apple logo and a loading bar in the middle. The loading bar progresses to around 60% then stops.

I can't boot into recovery or safe mode and I've tried the usual troubleshooting steps to no avail.

I'm at a loss because I can't even boot to internet recovery (it loads initially but then restarts).

Do you have any advice on what I can try next?

Edit: I'm not sure if this is related but the display also stopped working, I can only see the loading bar by plugging in an external monitor through the HDMI port.

Edit 2: I can boot into single user mode run fsck -yf but this reports that Macintosh HD is OK


texts: Parallels Desktop for Mac: Stuck on "Preparing to configure your virtual machine..."

texts:
I bought and installed Parallels Desktop on my Mac.
I installed Parallels Transporter Agent on my Windows machine that runs Windows 7.
I migrated my windows machine to my Mac, took about 36 hours. I can see on my mac desktop all of the files and folders that are on my windows desktop.
After that was done, the virtual machine says "Upgrading Windows", and below that, per the title of this post, it says "Preparing to configure your virtual machine..."
It chugs for about a minute, and the progress bar gets about 1/5 of the way.
It stops and now the virtual machine screen is black, except for: "Windows. Click to Start." If I click on that, it goes back to step 4.

Alternative: On step 4 above, there is a little icon, and if I click on it, it asks me: "Are you sure you want to switch to the manual configuration mode for the "Windows" virtual machine? If I click "Yes" to that, something else happens each time! One of the following 3 things happens:

(a) I get a screen that says "Starting Windows". But after a few seconds, a get a blue screen, and it jumps back to step 4 above.

(b) I get a black screen that says at the bottom "Windows is loading files" that lasts a few seconds; then a progress bar at the bottom that also lasts a few seconds; then I get a blue screen (not the blue screen of death) with what looks like a little black dos popup which lasts just a second; then I get a little wizard popup entitled "Startup repair" which also lasts just a second; then another little popup that lasts less than a second, then back to step 6 above.

(c) I get a black screen entitled "Windows Error Recovery", which gives me two options:

(c.i) Launch Startup Repair (Recommended). Choosing this does the same as (b) above.

(c.ii) Start Windows Normally. Choosing this does the same as (a) above.

Mac OS X Yosemite Version 10.10 iMac 27-inch

Help!


texts: Word "save as" folder no longer original folder after Mavericks

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Following upgrade to Mavericks, Word for Mac 2011 has different "save as" behavior.

WAS: "save as" would default to the directory of the current/open file.

Now: "save as" directory goes to word default, requiring navigating back to original drive/folder/subfolders.

Problem further described in this support thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23824310#23824310

I'm a lawyer and saving new versions of a document with new dates or marked changes is industry standard (no internal "versions" for us!) as a method of version control. I believe more people must have this problem. Time-wasting and incredibly hard to change a process that's been in place for years and years.


texts:
I have a big issue with my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.10.4). I tried to enable yesterday the TRIM on my SSD disk (a Crucial I replaced myself). Everything was working fine since months but after restarting the laptop because of a Mac update, it got stuck at boot.

I have started on the recovery partition. I have tried all the Terminal commands to revert the TRIM (quite easy: touch, rm, cp,...) but I realized that my disk named "MACBOOK" was not even mounted in /Volumes.
So I opened the disk utility and I tried to mount the disk manually but that failed. I checked the disk, it said it had to be fixed. So I tried to fix it, but this failed too.

At this point, I have booted on Disk Warrior that detected an error on the disk: "Invalid record count".  Disk Warrior tried to fix it but it went worse:
the "MACBOOK" partition has disappeared and a new partition named "Untitled" has appeared. The disk can now be mounted though but seems empty.

So I ran to buy a hard drive dock. I took off the disk from my laptop and plugged it into my brand new dock on my iMac. The disk mounts properly but it is empty.
I opened the disk utility and I can see the disk. When displaying all partitions in the Debug menu, I can see this:

So I see the "Untitled" but also the "MACBOOK". So the partition is still here somewhere.
When I click on "Untitled", the disk utility says:
Capacity: 510Go
Free: 498Go
Used: 11,98Go
So clearly, Disk Warrior did something nasty like deleting the index table or such as the disk is now considered as empty.

Now, I am using a disaster data recovery tool. It finds thousands of files so the data is still on the disk. But files are not properly named. Like "file00001.png", "file00002.png". That will be very fun to clean all this mess.

I must precise that FileVault is NOT activated on the disk. My mac was running on Yosemite latest version. The ideal would be to fix the permission but at least I'd love to access the disk and get all my folders and file names back. I have a quite recent backup (3 months), I just need to get what has changed in the meantime. I will reinstall afterwards.

I am really getting crazy so any idea would be really appreciated.

Thanks a lot


texts:
When task switching from Google Chrome to another window and then back to Chrome I am taken to a different Chrome window rather than the window I was originally on.

E.g. scenario:

I have 3 desktop. I'm on Chrome, there's 3 open windows and I'm on window 3 on Desktop 3.
I Cmd + Tab to Terminal, then Cmd + Tab back to Chrome. However it doesn't take me to the window I was on, but takes me to window 1 on Desktop 1.

I don't see this happening in Safari. I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.2.


texts: Is it possible to somehow default the OSX preview window size on open for PDF files?

texts:
I have had this bug-bare for a while where preview always opens documents too small, I'm visually impaired and want them to default to open with two options

Default width to nearly 100% of screen, last used would be perfect
Default PDF display to "Single Page Continuous"
Default the mouse tool to "Move"

No matter what I do it always opens in a window 1/3 of my screen size to what I assume is "100%".


texts: How can you tell if an iPhone camera photo has been fully uploaded to the Photo Stream without using a computer?

texts: I'd like to know if the photos were uploaded yet, but an indicator isn't apparent. I'd like to know without resorting to checking a desktop/laptop. Is there one I'm missing?


texts: How do I map the keyboard media control keys to switch tabs instead?

texts:
These days I get all my music needs from streaming websites, so the media keys on my keyboard are basically useless to me:

I want to map them to cmd+[ and cmd+], which is the shortcut to change tabs across many mac applications (Chrome, SublimeText). Can this be done and if so how do?


texts: Is there a way to see what kernel task is doing?

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I found a question (and answers) about What exactly does kernel_task do?. What I want to know is how I can inspect what kernel_task is doing at any given moment in time?

Does it get logged so that I can inspect what is been doing for a while or can I even observe it at realtime?


texts: How to prolong screenshot snippets time (Mac)

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When you take screen shot you have small snippets at the bottom right conner. It is very useful to drag and drop. But it disappears too quickly.
How I can tweak time of that snippets?


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I created an encrypted RAID 0 disk following Why doesn't FileVault work on a RAID volume? on a WD My Passport Pro

$ diskutil cs createLVG TimeMachineLVG disk5
Started CoreStorage operation
Unmounting AppleRAID set at disk5
Adding disk5 to Logical Volume Group
Creating Core Storage Logical Volume Group
Switching disk5 to Core Storage
Waiting for Logical Volume Group to appear
Discovered new Logical Volume Group "67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595"
Core Storage LVG UUID: 67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595
Finished CoreStorage operation

$ diskutil cs createLV 67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595 JHFS+ TimeMachine 100% -stdinpassphrase
Passphrase for new volume:
Started CoreStorage operation
Waiting for Logical Volume to appear
Formatting file system for Logical Volume
Initialized /dev/rdisk7 as a 4 TB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 311296k journal
Mounting disk
Core Storage LV UUID: 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE
Core Storage disk: disk7
Finished CoreStorage operation

So far so good. The drive can be listed and seems to be there

$ diskutil list
...
/dev/disk7 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS TimeMachine            +4.0 TB     disk7
                                 Logical Volume on disk5
                                 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

The size is correct and is marked as Unlocked and Encrypted

Now when I try to mount it, I get no errors but nothing happens:

$ diskutil mount /dev/disk7
Volume TimeMachine on /dev/disk7 mounted

$ mount
/dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk6 on /Volumes/External (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)

On the console I see:

2015-11-18 15:28:07.000 kernel[0]: hfs: mounted TimeMachine on device disk7
2015-11-18 15:28:07.896 mdworker[12530]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.897 mdworker[12542]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.897 mdworker[12544]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.901 mdworker[12543]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.941 fseventsd[59]: Events arrived for /Volumes/TimeMachine after an unmount request! Re-initializing.
2015-11-18 15:28:07.941 fseventsd[59]: creating a dls for /Volumes/TimeMachine but it already has one...
2015-11-18 15:28:08.373 mds[75]: (DiskStore.Error:3239) vsd:0x7ffb9e04d000 DiskStore bringup failed.  AA5ED57E-162E-45E1-B2EF-10A3F609C68B
2015-11-18 15:28:08.000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on TimeMachine on device disk7
2015-11-18 15:28:08.611 fseventsd[59]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd/0000000007afdf62 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd
2015-11-18 15:28:08.611 fseventsd[59]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd/0000000007afdf62 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd

What could the reason be?


texts: Is there a plugin to block ads in Mobile Safari?

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Is there any plugin to block ads in iPhone, iPad's Safari like Ad Block Plus is available for Firefox (Desktop)?

Without jailbreaking.


texts: OS X Lion behaving oddly after upgrading to 16GB RAM

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Just upgraded Early 2011 Macbook Pro w/ 4GB RAM to 16GB RAM. System now sometimes runs smoothly and other times pauses frequently.

Terminal keeps giving me 'System is low on disk space/memory' error. I have 12GB free disk space and 16GB RAM for God's sake. Activity Monitor says I got 10GB RAM free. So why is it saying I'm low on disk space? Lion also says sometimes that I'm low on disk space.

This often happens when spotlight finishes indexing, I guess then system think it's low on disk space (even though I have 9 gb free at that point), then it appears that spotlight trashes its index, systems becomes smooth again, spotlight re-indexes, and same thing happens again.

My theory so far is that if I have 16GB RAM, then the OS is for some reason trying to reserve atleast 16GB Swap Space on disk 'just in case I run out of the 16GB RAM'.

Is this true? Does this make sense?

I really don't want to free up more hard drive space. I already have a 128GB SSD which is small enough as is, and 16GB RAM should be plenty enough for the OS' memory needs.

Thoughts?

Thanks!


texts: How can I hide the Terminal split pane scroll bar?

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Edit: I realised that this wasn't Terminal specific and found the answer.

This toolbar/scrollbar appeared permanently all of a sudden for some reason, and I'd like to hide it, but can't find an option to do so?


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I had installed a trial version of Drive Genius. Now I want to delete it.

I go to Applications list, it is not there. I search its name in SpotLight, it is not there either. But it keeps attaching its self to the menu bar at the top.

How can I deinstall Drive Genius?


texts: How to install a Canon MX860 on MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.12.4?

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I updated the OS on my late 2013 13" Retina MacBook Pro to MacOS 10.12.4 and found that scanner of my Canon MX860 Multifunction printer did not work any more.

I downloaded and ran the the latest IJ Network Tool, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I have read through Apple support pages etc and tried various suggestions but have failed to make it work.

I would appreciate any help. Thank you.


texts:
Does anyone know the distribution of the required iOS for apps on the App Store?  To clarify, I am not looking for the version distribution on devices (like this question).

Basically, I want to know how many apps I would be unable to use if I bought an older iPhone that no longer gets iOS updates.

Thank you!


texts: Occasional Black Screen Issue using Dual External Monitors with MacBook Pro 13" (2017)

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I recently purchased a Kensington SD5500T Dock as well as two external monitors (ASUS TUF 24" FHD 144HZ 1MS GTG IPS LED FreeSync Gaming Monitor VG249Q), and have connected both monitors through the dock to my MacBook Pro (13" 2017). Everything connects fine through DisplayPorts and the screens show my windows how I want them to. The issue is that once in a while, one of the external monitors blinks black for about a second then comes back. This only happens with one of the monitors. I am unsure of what to do as I've tried a couple things to fix it. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to fix this?
Thanks!


texts: Mountain Lion display sleep function and screen saver does not activate

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Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, the display sleep function appears not to work, and the screen saver is flaky. I can leave my machine for a couple of hours and when I come back the screen is as I left it.

I would expect the display sleep to be in effect, and if not that, at least the screen saver should appear. I have tested with various settings. In particular the screen saver set for 1 minute, and the display sleep set for 2 minutes. These functions just are not working. Note: I have Computer Sleep set to never, and usually 10 minutes for display sleep.

There have been no hardware changes to my system, and blue tooth is turned off. The system is on a LAN, but wake on network access is turned off. I am not sure if these network connections should affect the screen sleep/saver functions, but have heard of such issues in the past so have set them so as not to interfere.

I don't have any special programs running that should interfere with the display. Time Machine is running. However, before this upgrade, I did not notice a problem with any programs.

Here is the output from pmset:

$ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 hibernatemode        0
 halfdim              1
 womp                 0
 networkoversleep     0
 sleep                0 (sleep prevented by )
 powerbutton          0
 ttyskeepawake        1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 autorestart          0
 disksleep            10
 displaysleep         2

Any ideas?

Addendum: while this issue has been going on for several days since the upgrade to ML, I notice that today the issue appears to be gone. Both the screen saver and the screen sleep are working.

Since the problem has been in existence for about a week solid, but has corrected itself without any action by me, I am not that confident that it is actually solved. No changes to the machine have been done.


texts: Removing stripped screws from MacBook Pro back case

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I'm replacing the RAM in a 2011 MacBook Pro, something I've done before on other machines. I got all the screws from the back case off apart from one that sits in the corner on the end by the screen hinge.

After trying with a variety of screwdrivers I cannot get the screw undone, and have now stripped the head of the screw. Any ideas how I can get this screw out?


texts: Why can I not stop sharing iCloud, as opposed to deleting it, which I believe will affect other device? For example, my apps r showing up on his phone, but his stuff is not coming to mine. If I delete my iCloud, am I also deleting his? All under same account.


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I am given documents from various different sources in various different formats to work with. I use TextEdit to read and make small edits to them.
TextEdit can read and edit all of the formats I need it to: Word 2003 (.doc), Word 2007 (.docx), RTF, and TXT. The problem is that it seems to only be able to zoom in on some of them:

Only .doc and .rtf allow me to zoom (via the 100% menu at the bottom right).
How can I zoom in on documents of all formats, including .docx and .txt, in TextEdit?


texts: Problems creating Yosemite USB bootable drive

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I was trying to make a USB boot loader for Yosemite using this command

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled 2 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction

I borrowed it from the original

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction

Which has worked for tons of people. The issue is for some reason it doesn't recognize the name of my volume is Untitled 2.
Error message:

/Volumes/Untitled is not a valid volume mount point.

I don't understand why it isn't reading the 2. Is there another way to point the command to the partition without using the names given e.g. serial addressing?


texts: Constant message from GarageBand saying "Keyboard shortcuts changed"

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GarageBand constantly fires off the following message when not the foreground app. It's extremely distracting. The messages appear in the Growl dropdown, and continues to cycle between these two messages:

1) Keyboard shortcuts changed Australian is not supported - U.S. has been activated.

2) Keyboard shortcuts changed U.S. has been activated

Notes:

Macbook Pro
OS X 10.9.3
External Apple keyboard (Australian) and Apple magic mouse
GarageBand 10.0.2!


texts: Disable Launchd based daemon sudden termination upon shutdown

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I'm running my own daemon under macOS Sierra and High-Sierra, and get unexpected behavior upon shutdown. according to the manual of daemon life cycle, it says that ...

  If the system is being shut down or restarted, it sends a SIGTERM signal to all daemons, followed a few seconds later by SIGKILL signal.

However, in my case I see that my daemon only gets SIGKILL from launchd (my signal handler callback function for SIGTERM isn't being called)

I've verified that I doesn't allow sudden termination by setting the following fields in plist :

<key>NSSupportsSuddenTermination</key>
<false/>

<key>EnableTransactions</key>
<false/>

Any idea what am I missing here ?


texts: Can't buy anything through the app store on mac?

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I am trying to download Lion through the Mac App store, but its telling me that my payment method has been declined. I don't know what to do.

I've updated all my payment details and every time I check and re-enter my details again and again and each time I get the message "Your payment method was declined". I have no idea why this is. I regularly purchase items off the internet with the same payment method, and yet it just doesn't work with the app store!

On the internet apple store it seems to let me change my info without a hitch, is there something I'm doing wrong on the actual app store?

Thanks


texts: Mac App Store: download but don't install

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A friend of mine has a crappy broadband connection, and he needs to install the latest XCode 4.1 which is only available on the Mac App Store.

For my part, I have a good connection, but already have XCode 4.2 DP installed on my system.

Is there a way I can download XCode 4.1 from the App Store without installing it (I don't want my 4.2 overwritten), and then hand it to my friend?


texts:
I have a mid-2011 Mac mini with an Intel i5 2.3 GHz processor.

When I checked the temperature, it was 90 degrees Celcius. The computer was running for three days. It didn’t work on anything.

Is this temperature okay?


texts: Which temperature element is causing MacBook to stop?

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I have a MacBook 12 Early 2016.

When I'm using it outside and it is hot, it warns me about stopping because the temperature is too high. And then it stops.

I'm using a tool to see the temperature of different elements of the MacBook but I would like to know what is the element that makes this warning : I don't think it is the CPU because sometimes it is hotter without any warning.

Is it the battery temperature or cpu proximity ? is there an official explanation ?

Thanks


texts: How to switch tabs using keyboard on bigsur?

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I have enabled Prefer tabs feature on macos bigsur

Now I wonder how to switch those tabs using keyboard shortcut. Any idea?


texts: Can't find MIT/GNU Scheme in Applications after install

texts: I installed program called "MIT/GNU Scheme" to /Applications. I can run it via Spotlight, but it says it's from unidentified developer. So I should find it in the folder and right click open, but it's not in the folder. Terminal autocomplete cannot find it either. If I install it again, it says it is there and asks whether to replace the old file. Read somewhere it might be 32bit version on my 64bit system, but I specifically installed 64bit version. I am running OS X 10.10.4


texts: Bootcamp operating system missing error after resizing partition

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I resized my partition to increase my Boot Camp drive few months ago with Disk Utility on Mac. After that I decided to have more space on Boot Camp partition. I resized it again by setting a new size for Macintosh HD but when I reboot my Mac and hold alt key there was no Windows boot drive visible. I googled and followed this discussion: Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition based on this answer. After rebooting my Mac I saw the Windows boot option but after selecting it I get System Operating Missing.

Here is current situation of my partions and disk:

gpt show: disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
    start       size  index  contents
        0          1         MBR
        1          1         Pri GPT header
        2         32         Pri GPT table
       34          6
       40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640  850647624      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
851057264    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
852326800   84899440
937226240   39546880      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header


texts: Can't boot to OSX on 2013 Macbook Air after installing Windows 8

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I installed Windows 8 using the Bootcamp today. During the partition screen when installing Windows 8, there was no NTFS partition. There was one partition which said Bootcamp on it. I formatted it and selected it for Windows installation. Everything went well and Windows is installed.

But now I am unable to boot into my OSX. Every time I start my Mac it directly goes to Windows.

Is there anyway I can get OSX back? I do need Windows though.


texts: Keep hourly backups for two weeks instead of one with Time Machine

texts: How can I tweak Time Machine to keep the hourly backups for two weeks instead of just one?


texts: Paragon software messed up MacOS High Sierra partitions

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I installed Windows 10 through Bootcamp and have been using it since 2015. Yesterday, I installed Paragon software which seemed to provide write access to NTFS partition.

But after installing that, I'm unable to find the Bootcamp partition. I tried booting from Windows partition via Paragon software, but I got error as "Unable to perform selected action". Therefore I removed the software manually, as uninstall also threw the same error. Even that did not solve the issue. In fact, now Startup Disk is not showing even the Macintosh partition. While booting, pressing Option key shows Macintosh partition, but not Bootcamp partition.

I tried manually mounting the partitions in /Volumes (which is empty now). That too did not solve the issue.

Is it possible to fix this without formatting the partition?


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I have an older 2009? 27” iMac. Doing a OS update has given me the error “macOS could not be installed on your computer. An error occurred while updating firmware…”
So, attempting to boot in safe mode, I turn on, holding down the shift key. After a few seconds, it reboots, and continues to reboot every 6-8 seconds, never attempting to start. If I let off the shift key it starts only to ultimately bring me back to the macOS error message. I have files I really want to save, so reformatting is not a preferred option. Any ideas on how to get into safe mode? Or fix the error?


texts: Can I see where I'm touching my trackpad on the screen and whether it's being interpreted as a right or left click?

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As a way of addressing Is there a spatial map for 2020 MacBook Air track pad's right-click "sweet-spot"? I was wondering if I can see in real time on my screen what my trackpad "sees", or more accurately, what it detects and interprets.
Is there a way to display the location that a single finger "click" on my 2020 MacBook Air's track pad is interpreted, and whether it's assigned as a right or left click?


texts: Youtube wont fullscreen properly with Safari 9

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After one of the latest Safari update (9.0.1 I believe) I can't use fullscreen option on Youtube properly. When I open youtube page and press F the player goes fullscreen, but the video area itself doesn't (and actually became smaller), so the rest of display is black and unused. If I press "space" (stop the video) or scroll using mouse the video area stretches to the full screen, but this is very inconvenient to press "space" twice each time I full screen.

I checked that the problem is still present when I sign out from my youtube account. But if I watch a youtube-video (embedded) on the other cites there is no problems with it. And there is no such a problem with Opera.

How to fix this problem? There are a lot of materials about it in the Internet, but most of it seems to be outdated. I tried to:
1. Press "Privacy/Remove All Website Data".
2. Uncheck "Security/Allow Plugins".
3. Disable extensions.
4. Press "Develop/Empty Caches".

This doesn't help.

Safari 9.0.2. OSX 10.10.5.


texts:
I just downloaded IOS 8. When I turned my phone on and completed the setup it just restarted the setup process and went back to the screen that says hola. I've tried everything and just can't seem to get my phone to complete the setup process. Right now my phone is useless

No error came up, it just went back the the begginging slide


texts: Sync multiple gmail contacts with Lion Address Book?

texts: I understand that Address Book, even on Lion, doesn't support syncing multiple gmail contacts. Is there a third-party app that I can use for this purpose? I'm looking for an app that gives me a combined view of all my address books, like iOS or Android contacts apps. I'm not okay giving my gmail passwords to a web site. Thanks.


texts: Color Profile keeps resetting to "default"

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I had this problem before with High Sierra and now I just updated to Mojave and still the same issue.

Basically sometimes (sometimes after i reboot, sometimes after it goes to sleep, sometimes after a new boot), my mac decides to revert back to the default color profile that is at the top of the list.

I don't understand why? maybe this is normal since it happened on both High Sierra and Mojave? Does someone had similar "issue"? Is there a way of not making this happen?


texts: Black Screen of Semi-Death after Sleep/Fast User Switching

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On occasion, I get a "black screen of death" where the mouse cursor is visible and working, but no amount of mouse or keyboard activity will wake the machine back up.

This typically happens after using fast user switching after wakeup from sleep.  The computer is a 2012 Mac Mini with OS/X Yosemite (fully patched).

What could be wrong?  Is there an alternative to power cycling?


texts: How do I effectively have multiple helpdeskers use ARD?

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I manage the IT for an org with about 800 clients with mixture of Windows and Mac platforms. I'm looking at getting ARD for my staff (up to 4 installations of ARD) so they can better support the mac clients. One large gotcha is that it seems each installation of ARD has to be configured individually, and there is no built-in way to share the information about all our clients that each installation of ARD has. So what would be the best way to effectively manage a large number of client machines with multiple client support staff? Some ideas I've thought of:

Have up to 4 installations of ARD and use some combination of Applescript and /or automator to try and sync the data between the 4 installations of ARD. I see via this thread: How can I share Apple Remote Desktop's list of machines to other computers? that it's possible, but there are no specifics as to actually how to do it, and I can see that trying to keep data in sync between 4 machines would be problematic
Have ARD on a mac server and connect that macserver via VNC or otherwise and then from that server support the client. Seems clunky.
Give up on sharing information about clients and just use ARD as a more advanced version of VNC

Any other suggestions welcome. Thanks!


texts: Is there any way to generate an XML file of my Music library in macOS Catalina?

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I have upgraded to macOS Catalina and have no real complaints. But to the best of my knowledge, some audio applications — mainly DJ playlist-based applications — that use the old iTunes XML library file might be out of luck.

Is this really the case? Is there no way to generate an XML file based on your Music library in macOS Catalina?


texts: Make the desktop report the OS X version

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I have to maintain several different versions of OS X for testing, and it would be nice to know at a glance which version of OS X is on a machine.

I've previously created custom backgrounds with the version number, but as the number of machines increases this is becoming difficult to maintain.

Is there a utility that can display the OS X version on the screen at all times, or automatically change the background image to a generated image containing the OS X version on each boot (or, I suppose, when run manually)?


texts: Mac Mini 2010: DualBoot (BootCamp) OSX Mavericks + Windows 8.1

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Before Mavericks I had a BootCamp dual boot configuration with Lion and Seven x64.
That was fine but, because I replaced the hard drive with a SSD model, I took a chance to set as the newest environment as possible.
I found out to my sadness that Mac Mini 2010 (model 4,1) is not supported by BootCamp 5 therefore Windows 8/8.1 neither.

But there are workarounds to install BC5 and the other missing (mostly graphic) updated drivers.
The problem is to get to that point.

A second aspect is that, even if I have a DVD unit (by the way I own an external one too), don't ask me why, it doesn't read Windows DVD properly, so I decided to go for a pen drive installation, that is possible with another workaround.

So, goals:

Install native OSX Mavericks + Windows 8.1 x64
Complete the Windows installation through a pen drive, not using DVDs

What I did:
Modify Info.plist file as it follows:

add my Bootrom Version at the top in the "DARequiredROMVersions" section
delete "Pre" from "PreUSBBootSupportedModels" that becomes "USBBootSupportedModels" and add my Model Identifier at Top First
delete my model "Mac mini 4,1" from the Win70onlymodel

Editing has been done with TextEdit plus XCode4 and thanks to this post.

Cool, now BootCamp assistant in Mavericks has more features enabled, like the possibility of setting a flash drive up to install Windows or prepare a boot device with Windows 8, not only 7.

Because I read that there are some problems to make the hardware being immediately recognized, I decided to postpone that part and not including Bootcamp drivers in the device.
The pen drive was set up on a MacBook Retina 2013.
After creating a partition (through the assistant), here come the problems.
Windows 8.1 installation starts, I'm asked to choose a destination partition but, whatever I do, a message appears and says:
"windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks"

I tried to
- re-format the disk (I don't see any advanced options by the way, like this)
- install rEFIt
- use Windows 7 Tools, but it keeps telling that "unit is in use" and I can't reverse the .iso on the pen drive
- change the partition table of the pen drive, from MBR to GPT but then I cannot copy the contents of .iso inside then

I don't wanna make an upgrade from Seven and as far as I know Win8 use EFI just like OSX does, so what d'u suggest me to do? Are there any other ways I haven't explored yet or the solution is to re-format the disk again with the GPT file structure, install OSX and then Win8.1

This is the actual partition table is this one:

    /dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS MacOSX                  49.2 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Untitled                200.0 GB   disk0s4


texts: iMac with aftermarket SSD - blank login screen

texts:
Here's a tough one for you. I installed an SSD in the optical drive slot of my 2009 iMac a few months ago. It's the system drive, working in conjunction with the old internal hard drive. On occasion, with no clear pattern that I can detect, a reboot will present me with a blank gray screen (the linen background), with no icons to choose a User login (which is my setting — it's not defaulting to the two boxes to type in your name/password, either).

On this blank screen, if I hit the letter "D" for my username and then type in my password, it will log me in as usual. However, almost always after such a login, there will be oddities in the visual display. Sometimes, rarely, half of the screen won't show anything at all. At other times, more commonly, things will look normal, except that when I open Messages app, the buddy icons for all of my chat buddies will be missing.

So the issue seems to be related to screen drawing, but in a very haphazard way. Missing user icons are always part of the issue, but sometimes it goes beyond that. Has anybody else encountered this strange phenomenon?


texts: Is it possible to boot backtrack from usb on a macbook pro?

texts:
I would like to boot BackTrack on my MacBook Pro from a USB drive but it seems impossible. I'm holding the Alt key on boot, but the mac only displays "Macintosh HD", i.e. it doesn't recognize my USB. Anybody knows if booting a Linux distro from a usb possible?

Thanks.


texts: New iPhone 4S user looking to sync Outlook email

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My IT departmant does not have activesync on our exchange server(nor do they plan to get it any time soon) are their any apps out there that will allow me to connect my iphone 4s and sync my outlook email.  My former phone was a Droid X and I used the touchdown software which worked great.
Thanks,
Tes


texts: Why would updating to High Sierra 10.13.4 kill one external monitor but leave another identical one working?

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I have a 21" Retina iMac (2017) with two ASUS PB258Q monitors, each connected to a USB-C port via a StarTech USB-C to DisplayPort cable. Since I updated to 10.13.4, only the left monitor works—even if I disconnect the first monitor, switch cables, and/or switch ports. (Other things I've tried: Detect Displays, sleep/wake, restart, resetting NVRAM and the SMC.)

I also have a 13" MacBook Pro (2013), also running 10.13.4. Using the MacBook Pro, I verified that the right monitor does work, first with a MiniDisplayPort–HDMI adapter, which worked immediately, and then with a Mini DisplayPort–DisplayPort cable, which also worked (but only after a restart).

I've read that there can be some DisplayLink issues with USB-C monitors under 10.13.4. Maybe that's what I'm looking at here.

But it seems completely bizarre that the iMac would work just fine with one monitor, and yet be unable to detect a second identical monitor. So my question is not so much "how can I fix this?" (although a fix would be great) as "WTF is going on?"

Update: Having unplugged the right-hand monitor from the MacBook and plugged it gloomily back into the iMac, I gave up and went to lunch. When the iMac woke from sleep, this time (unlike every other time for the past week or so) the right-hand monitor was working.

Clearly, my mental model of how computers connect to monitors, developed in the RCA / CGA / VGA era, bears no relation to how they work in the bold 21st-century world of USB-C and DisplayPort.

My hypothesis is that giving the monitor different inputs and switching it back and forth between HDMI and DisplayPort either somehow changed its behavior, or changed its apparent identity so that the iMac would start a new relationship with it from scratch, but I have no idea how either of those things would work. Can someone who does understand USB-C and/or DisplayPort suggest a mechanism?


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I use a .command file to start a basic shell script in the form:

#!/bin/bash
-- this simply starts Something at /usr/local/bin/Something
myLittleOneLineScript

To make it work I changed its permissions and made it executable.

The question is: I run the latest Mac OS X version and this script perfectly works. But: will it work in any previous OS X version?


texts: How can I "bind" two speaker outputs in OSX? (the feature is gone)

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I used to be able to make music play out both my laptop speakers and also my monitor speakers.

I did this in the System Preferences and "creating" a new audio device that composed of both my laptop and my monitor.  However sometime later I'm unable to find or locate the setting to create a new audio device that allows for this.

How do I re-enable sound out both my laptop and monitor speakers?

The only changes I made since I did this include: Install Logix, Install (and remove) Boom audio boost, and normal system updates.


texts: Is it possible to automate/add a shortcut to getting a link to an iCloud file in macOS finder?

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I know that I can get a link by right-clicking on a file in my iCloud Drive in macOS finder, then selecting Share -> Add People -> Copy Link -> Share Options -> Anyone With The Link.
If possible, I'd like a faster way to do it. For example, through an applescript or a keyboard shortcut.


texts: Is the internal calendar or clock something an app is allowed to change?

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In iOS 7/8 is it "allowed" for an app to change the internal clock?

I want to write an app that would automate th process of going to settings>general>date & time then turning off "automatically set time"  and changing the date to tomorrow. Then later turning back on "automatically set date and time".

Is this kind of tinkering allowed in iOS 7 or 8?


texts: Preferred way to set default application by content/MIME type from the command line

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Per https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/9883/206073 , default file opening by content type should be set via LSHandlers -> LSHandlerContentType in com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure (via defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist LSHandlers -array[-add]). The format of LSHandlerContentType is in what is apparently the Mac's way of indicating MIME types, e.g., "public.css". (And I know that defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Info.plist can show how the Mac associates these content types to MIME types (and also how UTTypeConformsTo there will indicate a hierarchy between types).)

However, according to https://superuser.com/a/421865/156958 , content type can also be associated by setting LSHandlers -> LSHandlerContentTag with a MIME type (e.g., "text/css") and setting LSHandlerContentTagClass to "public.mime-type". I don't see any such settings in my own defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist LSHandlers, however.

I am unclear on which approach (LSHandlerContentType or LSHandlerContentTag (with LSHandlerContentTagClass of "public.mime-type")) is to be preferred (or which gets preference), or if there is any reason to use both.

As a bonus, I'd also be interested to know how UTImportedTypeDeclarations/UTExportedTypeDeclarations may fit into this (e.g., if these indications of third-party MIME types affects which of the two formats to use).