texts: MacBook Air charging light stays amber and does not go green and machine does not boot or even chime

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I have an 11" MacBook Air 6,1 from mid 2013 that I found discarded and had restored but now seems dead again.

I got the machine with a broken screen backlight and missing SSD. I took it to the Genius Bar and they diagnosed only those two problems. I attached it to an external monitor and USB 3.0 hard drive and installed El Capitan and used it for a couple of days. Everything worked except the webcam. Though the machine had sat for several weeks with no power before I acquired it the battery life turned out to be very good.

I put it to sleep when the battery charge indicator had just gone red and did not have access to a charger/power supply for over a day.

When I was able to borrow a friend's power supply the light did not come on. After finding another Mac user we plugged each other's Magsafe into each other's machines and both lights came on. When I went back to the first charger on my machine the light then stayed amber but the machine would not boot and would not even make the startup "chime" sound. I kept it plugged in all day yesterday and the charger light never went green.

I tried resetting the EMC to no avail. I can't seem to find information on this specific problem online. I can't get a reservation at the Genius Bar for another five days.


texts: Preview App bug - "Highlight" shortcut not working normally

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I'm not able to use "Highlight" shortcut. No matter I press control+command+h or control+command+u, it results in underlining text. Clicking the "Highlight" button also underlines text. I can highlight text using highlight with specific though.

But it's quite inconvenient that I am not able to use shortcut to highlight. How could I fix it?


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12 days ago I was working on my MacPro when it made an audible 'pop' and shut down.

Pressing the start button resulted in fan noise but no startup chime. After looking online I suspected the Power Supply  Unit. I managed to find a replacement PSU (took weeks) but I've just installed it and it hasn't worked the oracle.

I've tried resetting the SMC (considering it hasn't been plugged in for over a week I believe this is simply a matter of starting the machine up again?). I can't use any utilities as the machine won't boot. Disk is OK, I can read files off it, etc -- the machine isn't even looking for a startup disk!

Anybody out there got any ideas? I'm getting desparate now -- this machine is my main workhorse!


texts: Most of the time spotlight is showing nothing after upgrading to el capitan

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I use spotlight a lot but after upgrading to el capitan most of the time its showing empty window.

Its very annoying. How can i solve this problem?


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I was looking for Parallels in DreamSpark earlier on today and thought I would install 'Windows Virtual PC' since I found it. The only issue is I have installed it on Yosemite (2015 MBP) and Finder says 'You cannot use this application since PowerPC apps are no longer supported'.

I tried to use the uninstaller, the only issue is it has the same error (the uninstaller is a PowerPC app too)! How would I get rid of this application (I don't think I can just drag the application into the trash since the computer needed to reboot)?


texts: possible to drive two external mointors with mid-2013 new macbook air?

texts: Is it possible to use a thunderbolt -> hdmi and usb -> hdmi adapter to drive two external monitors (non-thunderbolt) with the new macbook air? If not, has anyone had success with any other options?


texts: Sign into iCloud on Mac but prevent it from receiving Apple ID two factor codes

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I am using two factor authentication on my Apple ID (not the older two step verification)

I would like to sign into a Mac with my iCloud/iTunes account and use it normally, but I would like to prevent this Mac from receiving Apple ID two factor codes and being able to authenticate new devices. If possible I would also like to have Find My Mac enabled.

Apple’s documentation leads me to believe this is possible:

  The device list shows the devices that you're currently signed in to with your Apple ID. Select a device to view the model, serial number, and other useful information, including whether or not the device is trusted and can be used to receive Apple ID verification codes.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915

But when I view devices on the Apple ID page I only get the option to remove the device, I don’t have the option to set the device to untrusted.


texts: AppleScript: Get list of 15 most recent files in directory

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I need to build a string containing the filenames of the 15 most recent files (by modification date) within a directory. Delimited only by a space:

file1.jpg file2.jpg file3.jpg

I'm using ImageMagick via command line. Here is what I currently have, but get an error number -1728:

tell application "Finder"
    set imageItems to every file of folder wallpaperPath
    set imageItems to the reverse of (sort imageItems by modification date)
    set concatFiles to ""
    repeat with n from 1 to 15
        set imageItem to item n of imageItems
        set imageName to the file name of imageItem
        set concatFiles to concatFiles & " " & imageName
    end repeat
end tell
do shell script "cd " & wallpaperPath & "; montage " & concatFiles & " -tile 3x5 -geometry 500x500+1+1 ~/Desktop/final.jpg"


texts: How to share Back to my Mac across different Apple IDs?

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I'm trying to figure out the best way to remotely get into my family's iMac from my MacBook Pro as needed while I'm away. An internet search taught me that Back to my Mac was the thing, but that only works when the computers are on the same Apple ID, and I've got a different Apple ID from my parents (I know their login information, for what it's worth).

Short of creating a new account on my parents' Apple ID, is there a way to use Back to my Mac to get from my computer to my parents'?


texts: Can I install the preinstalled Mac OS X Mountain Lion on other Macs?

texts: I just ordered a Mac that will be shipped with Mountain Lion. Is it possible to install Mountain Lion on my other Macs? Or do I have to buy an upgrade in the App Store?


texts: Voice memos not being deleted from iTunes

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I have iTunes (10.0.1) syncing with my iPhone (4.1) with the Voice Memos option enabled.

I created a single voice memo. I synced the phone and the voice memo transferred correctly. I then deleted it on the iPhone and synced again. iTunes still has the voice memo in the "Voice Memos" playlist. Additionally, when I click the iPhone's "Voice Memo" playlist in iTunes, I see the one file there, but it has an exclamation mark near the number.

I have 2 questions:

What does this exclamation mark mean? There seems to be no way to get more info about it.
How can I get iTunes to delete the voice memos when I delete the on the phone?


texts: How to only include certain Podcasts on the iPhone with the Podcasts app

texts: I subscribe to several podcasts, but only want a small few to be downloaded to my phone. It does not appear to be possible to specify which podcasts the Podcasts app should be downloading and which ones it shouldn't. If this is possible, I would like to know how.


texts: For iMessage for MacOS, where do the face images come from?

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for years I have been using the Contacts app to track addresses. I use Gmail as my main address book so it seems to either copy the Google user avatar to the contact card, or if a matching Facebook user is found, it will sync their profile picture. What I am wondering is where does iMessage get its user avatars from? They are definitely different from what is in my contacts, especially since many of my contacts lack them but for other iMessage users out there (presumably with iPhones) a different use avatar is shown. I presume that is the avatar that they are using on their iPhone or possibly with iCloud. That's all well and good, but is there a way to get the Contacts app to use those images for syncing and to have them overrule either the Google or Facebook avatars?

What is also interesting is that Messages on my iPhone or iPad uses the avatars from Contacts, not what it gets from iMessage like the MacOS version. I would like to control the behavior- ideally by deciding which avatar to pick for a given user, but I would setting on a scheme that is used for all users. For example, unless the user has their own iMessage avatar, use their Facebook Profile, and saving that, use their Google avatar. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks!


texts: Mail crashes on attempts to display message contents in Mavericks

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When I click or double click on any message in the messages list on any account in Mail in Mavericks (10.9), Mail crashes immediately with the error

Application Specific Information:
   *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException',
reason:
   '*** -redComponent not valid for the NSColor NSCalibratedWhiteColorSpace 0 1; need to first convert colorspace.'
abort() called
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

What can I do to prevent this crash? I can't read any of my mail!


texts: Bluetooth icon keeps randomly disappearing from menu bar in High Sierra

texts: From some unknown reason, the bluetooth icon keeps disappearing from the menu bar at random. I have to open up settings and activate "Show bluetooth in Menu Bar" regularly. Why does this happen and how can I stop it from disappearing?


texts: MacOS mail rule "Reply to Message" does not work, other actions do work

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I'm using a third-party email address (PrivateEmail, https://privateemail.com/) and Mail app version 14.0 on MacOS 11.0.1 (Big Sur).
I have a rule:

If all of the following conditions are met:

To is equal to EMAIL@DOMAIN.EXT
Subject contains TEXT PHRASE
Message content contains ANOTHER TEXT PHRASE

Perform the following actions:

Reply to Message YET ANOTHER TEXT PHRASE

And it does nothing. I'm looking at a message in my inbox to which it should auto-reply, but it didn't.

If I change the rule slightly and re-apply, nothing.
If I click Menubar > Message > Apply Rules, nothing.
If I change the action to apply a flag, that works. But I want an auto-reply.
If I copy/paste my reply message from the rule into a manual reply and manually send, it sends. But I want an auto-reply.

Does this work for anyone else? Thank you.


texts: Process completed immediately after opening Terminal and impossible to add commands

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Since I have made some changes on my .bash_profile document, when I open my terminal I got this message and I cannot add any command :

Last login: Thu Dec 19 10:02:58 on ttys000

[Process completed]

After trying many things like changing back my bash_profile to what it used to be but nothing worked. I spent a whole day on it. I followed this from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/296871/313842 :

  Go to Terminal icon on Dock, press right click and press New Command
  /bin/bash -x , and reopen Terminal (it shows your problem)
  Go to Preferences → General and set Shells open with to Command, and enter the following: /bin/sh
  Close the Terminal Preferences window
  Open Terminal again (it should work)
  vi /Users/<your_user>/.bash_profile, remove the lines found in step 2
  Go to Preferences → General and set Shells open with to Command, and enter the following: /bin/bash
  Open Terminal, it should work now

Current issue : When I try step 6, I do not find the 2 lines and if I set Shells back to /bin/bash, it shows the original error again :

Last login: Thu Dec 19 10:10:32 on ttys000

[Process completed]

Here is the content of .bash_profile:

# Enable tab completion
source ~/git-completion.bash

# colors!
green="\[\033[0;32m\]"
blue="\[\033[0;34m\]"
purple="\[\033[0;35m\]"
reset="\[\033[0m\]"

# Change command prompt
source ~/git-prompt.sh
export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1
# '\u' adds the name of the current user to the prompt
# '\$(__git_ps1)' adds git-related stuff
# '\W' adds the name of the current directory
export PS1="$purple\u$green\$(__git_ps1)$blue \W $ $reset"

You can find the content of the sourced files on these links:
 - git-completion.bash : https://pastebin.com/Y1X6FdNW
 - git-prompt.sh : https://pastebin.com/zt2pyLce

After bash -l :

MacBook-Pro-de-apple:~ apple$ bash -l
Segmentation fault: 11
MacBook-Pro-de-apple:~ apple$


texts: How can I boot an Intel Core i7 iMac in 64-bit mode?

texts: I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8. The processor is a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 and the machine has 4 GB of RAM. How can I boot the computer in 64-bit mode (instead of 32-bit mode) so that I can upgrade to OS X 10.9 and run Final Cut Pro 10.3?


texts: MacBook pro 16 inch 2019 keeps forgetting KVM settings

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I have a KVM setup that connects several computers to the same Keyboard (Kul ES-87) and Mouse (wireless logitech M525). My monitors are 24 inch, 1920x1200 resolution Dell (2412M and 2415). I connect an Ubuntu machine, one Late 2013 Macbook Pro and a brand new 2019 Macbook Pro 16 inch purchased last week (henceforth, just "MBP 16") for work to this KVM setup (IOGear GCS24U). The MBP16 has AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4 GB
& Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB and has the latest, updated software.
The Ubuntu and the Late 2013 MBP machines connect just fine to my KVM, and have had for years now, but the MBP16 has been extremely flaky with the KVM. The result of the flakiness: it doesn't recognize the VGA monitor (Dell U2412Mb) and after it fails, requires heavy-handed approaches (see below) to fix. I am not sure if these approaches are sustainable.
I connect the two external monitors to the MBP16 in the following way using two separate USB-C ports on the MBP16:

MBP16 port 1 -> Benfei USB-C 2 VGA -> KVM (VGA) -> (VGA) Dell 2412Mb // Mostly flaky

MBP16 port 3 -> Anker USB-C 2 DisplayPort -> (DisplayPort) Dell 2415 // Always works

(MBP16 port 2 is used for a USB 2.0 hub for ethernet, mic, KVM mouse and keyboard; MBP16 port 4 is used for power.)
I see that the MBP16 connects to the U2415, no problems ever noted. The VGA connection through the Benfei adapter and U2412Mb frequently is flaky (see definition of flaky below). It requires a combination of me switching the KVM port for the MBP16 or reconnecting the VGA on the KVM switch itself that makes the MBP16 recognize the U2412Mb again.
What do I mean by flaky? It works fine so long as it was recognized: wakes up from sleep and re-recognizes the VGA display; after switching to another KVM port, re-recognizes the VGA display. However, if I remove the MBP16 and take it outside of the KVM world (e.g., work on sofa) and get it back, it forgets the VGA. And then it requires all kinds of heavy-handedness to re-recognize the VGA.

I am not daisy chaining monitors through a hub (see connection description above).

I am running the latest OS on my MBP16 (11.3.1).

I have tried, instead of the Benfei USB-C adapter, (1) An apple-store purchased Belkin VGA to USB-C adapter (which did not work at all) (2) an Apple adapter to thunderbolt and then a thunderbolt to USB-C (didn't work at all); (3) a CableCreation multiadapter with Ethernet and VGA to USB-C (worked for 20 minutes). That said, I didn't try using a different KVM port when I tried approaches (1)--(3) above.  Also note, a direct connection from Benfei USB-C 2 VGA to the Dell 2412Mb works fine.

Last, but not the least, I tried both NVRAM and SMC reset multiple times, didn't do anything.

What is the secret to appeasing the "it just works" Apple gods? Any insight is appreciated.
PS: Post question rant: FWIW, I have noticed it never "it just works" with Apple gear. NFS, CIFS, Guest access, USB connections, USB-based Ethernet, iMessage forwarding, call forwarding to other Apple products, all of which, in my over-a decade experience, has never "it just works" and it always breaks from one release to another.


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How can I trigger "do not disturb" at regular intervals, say during lectures on MWF from 10am to 11am?

In Yosemite (and Mavericks) one clicks on the notifications icon, then swipes down to reveal the "do not disturb" switch. I'm wondering if it's possible to automate turning the switch to on/off at regular intervals.


texts: After removing Bootcamp, my Hard Disk has around 80GB missing

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I removed Bootcamp earlier via the BootCamp Assistant, and it flashed some error up that I just ignored.

Now, when I've gone back to reinstall Bootcamp, I've noticed that while the disk reads as being 500GB in total, there is around 80GB unaccounted for in the GUID table..?

Here is an output from terminal:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            419.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

Any ideas how to get back the missing disk space?

EDIT: Might be worth pointing out, I am running the latest public beta of OSX 10.11


texts: Is there a way to use a TV as a monitor, but have it act as a 2x2 grid of monitors?

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I'm looking into a multiple monitor setup, but I have a spare TV I'm not using. My only concern is that I want to be able to make an app full screen without taking up the whole TV.

Is it possible to map different portions of one screen to be treated as 4 separate screens?


texts: New iPhone 7 Plus does not let me restore a previous backup upon setup

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I got a brand new (i.e. sealed) iPhone 7 Plus without simlock. When I turned it on it asked me for my Wifi password, activated itself, asked me to login to my iCloud account and configured itself as a new iPhone.

The Apps & Data screen, where I can choose to restore a backup as never shown. As it came with iOS 10 preinstalled I assumed I had to upgrade the device in order to use this functionality. Nope. Even with iOS 11, whenever I configure it (i.e. after choosing "Erase all content and settings") it won't display that particular screen.

Any idea what the reason might be? I'm coming from an iPhone 5c and made an iCloud backup which I want to restore on the new iPhone 7 Plus.


texts:
Is it possible to get Safari 5.1 running on Yosemite next to Safari 8?

(For testing web pages)


texts: Can I hide the toolbar in Safari while in Full Screen mode?

texts: When in non-full-screen mode, Safari lets me use the ⌘+| shortcut or View > Hide Toolbar to hide the URL and search bar, etc. However, when I'm in Full Screen mode, this option is greyed out. Is there any way I can hide it without exiting Full Screen?


texts: iPad's update to iOS 8 already taken almost 2 days

texts: MY iPad 2 was updating to iOS 8 since 2 days ago and up till now, it's still not finished. I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but the progress bar is at the same spot for a whole day already. Can somebody help me?


texts: In iwork Pages, how to start a new line after the last row of a table?

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I evidently don't know the right thing to look for.  The last thing in my document is a table.  There is no paragraph after it.  I can go on adding rows to the table with the context menu, or add paragraphs to a cell of the table by pressing 'return'.

But I can't seem to add a paragraph after the table without doing something hacky like cutting the table, inserting to newlines, and then pasting the table back.

There should be a way to do this, but I can't find the key words to find it either in google or the pages handbook.

(Haven't used any ms or open document document things for a long time, so when I had a need for a document full of tables I bought Pages.  I like it pretty well).


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I am currently using microsoft AD on my windows machine to manage users and groups and access privileges,etc. But now I received a macbook and I wonder how or if there is a way to do AD operations on mac?

I've googled and found that macOS has a Directory Utility, but I opened it and I don't know how to use it or how to connect my domain to it? as when I open users it shows many things related to mac. I wonder how I can access to my domain machines, users, groups, etc.?


texts: How to strip a filename of special characters?

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I have a file with a name such as "Today's Date.txt"

What I am interested in is stripping away all special characters using the terminal  such as:

" - , ' ' [

The reason for this is because I plug these into a script later and it is too much of a headache accounting for and changing the names individually.

Spaces " " and Underscores "_" and the alphabet "A-Z, a-z" are ok and so is replacing the characters rather than erasing them.

At first I thought the terminal command "iconv" could help me by converting to a simpler encoding, but I tried out several of the encodings and it seems I might be mistaken.

I know regular expressions might help me but sadly I am not well versed in them. I found this question that seems realated, but I dont know how to implement it or if it covers the same cases as mine.

The reason I posted this here is because this question might be unique to the character set OSX supports for filenames and the encoding it uses...although it's more likely I have no clue what I'm talking about.

Thank you for your help in advance.

Edit: The command

sed 's/[!@#\$%^&*()]//g'

Seems to work very well but I can't get it to work for my original usage case and others:

' ` "

Escaping them doesnt work either. I'm very new to bash scripting so please bear with me.

Edit 2: Posting this here or else I'd have to wait 6 hours.

In addition to Alan Shutko's Answer, I would like to add my own solution that I found.

awk '{gsub(/[[:punct:]]/,"")}1'

I'm kind of hesitant to post this since I cannot explain it well.

Awk, as it's man page says, is used for "pattern-directed scanning and processing language". The gsub function searches and replaces all occurrences of the regular expression you input. The gsub part would look like this:

gsub("a","b")

Where in my example, all occurences of a would be replaced by b. Like in the comment above [[:punct:]] sounds like it stands for all punctuation marks. However, I do not know what the 1 on the outside of the brackets stands for.


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Are there any "best practices" for setting up Touch ID fingers on an iPhone?

I know how to setup this, but I believe I may miss some of the unlock scenarios during setup and end up unable to unlock my phone without taking it in hand or one of the "ways" I held it during setup.


texts: How can I make this Apple Script shorter? (quitting multiple apps via tell)

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I want to edit a part of an Apple Script to quit various applications at once:

tell application "TweetDeck"
    quit
end tell
tell application "Google Chrome"
    quit
end tell

Over all there are seven entries just like above.

Is there any way to write this more compact?


texts: Instagram not available among share suggestions in iOS 13

texts: When I wish to share a Facebook post to Instagram on iPhone running iOS 13, Instagram does not appear among the Share Sheet suggestions, not even when I hit MORE...  I have seen numerous how-tos about hitting EDIT and toggling on the applications listed under Suggestions, but Instagram is not listed at all, although I have the app on my phone and use it all the time.  How can I add it to my Share options?


texts: Is this "Security Info Required" prompt legitimate?

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I attempted to install an application this afternoon, and was presented with the below security screen stating:

Security Info Required
To help ensure the security  of your Apple ID,
you must confirm your password and answer your security questions.

I have never seen this prompt before, and wanted to confirm that it was legitimate and from Apple, and not something triggered by the new app (though it doesn't appear to have installed). I cancelled out of the prompt for now.


texts: unwanted notification from email address

texts: I keep getting notification of missed facetime from an email address, they come 2 notfications at the time.  I've tried blocking the caller, but it's not a caller it's an email.  how can I stop this


texts: Cannot restore my iPhone backup, iTunes says it's either corrupted or not compatible with this device

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I'm in a huge trouble as my new iPhone 4s can not restore a backup of an older iPhone 4s backup.

Few days back i had to change my 4s iPhone which was a locked phone( gevey sim) with iOS 8.1.2, so i created a backup of it before resetting it to factory defaults.

Then i purchased a new iPhone 4s factory unlocked and tried to restore that backup but it failed with an error message telling me that "Cannot restore backup because it's either corrupted or not compatible with this device".

Please help me out because its getting so frustrating for me. I tried almost everything available on the internet but nothing worked for me.


texts: Thunderbolt Displays' ethernet adapter breaks MacBook DHCP/MAC Address reservations

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We have deployed Thunderbolt Displays in my organization, which is almost entirely Mac-based. As you may already know, Thunderbolt Displays have internal Ethernet adapters which is very convenient in that a user can now connect their wired network connection to their display rather than their MacBook, and when they come in to work in the morning, the only thing they need to connect to their MacBook is the MagSafe adapter and Thunderbolt cable, both which come from their display. Essentially, the display is now acting as a docking station with all of the most commonly used ports on the display sent over the Thunderbolt connection to their MacBook.

However, this convenience presents a problem on more heavily managed networks like my own (e.g. enterprise) that use DHCP reservations.

Traditionally, when a new Macintosh comes in, a system administrator would add the MAC address of the wired ethernet port on the Mac to our DHCP server, and associate it with an IP address. That MAC address will now always get the same IP address assigned to it via DHCP. This is a tried and true method employed on most enterprise networks, regardless of operating system/platform (this all happens at the network level). When that MacBook connects to my network via the wired connection, it will now always get the same IP address – the one that I've designated in DHCP.

Apple has set a new expectation of using the Thunderbolt display as a docking station. This is convenient, but it introduces a problem. Now that Thunderbolt displays have on-board ethernet with a MAC address on the display itself they are the connection point to the network. It would be easy to start adding reservations for displays to our DHCP server, but ultimately foolish because it wouldn't gain us anything in manageability and would only serve to confuse us or slow us down as systems administrators when we're trying to access client workstations for remote support and administration.

I want DHCP reservations to still get honored for the Macs on my network, even if they are behind a Thunderbolt display. This way users can move around and plug their MacBooks into any of our Thunderbolt displays and still get the same hostname and IP address from DNS and DHCP, giving them consistency, and making administration as straightforward as it once was.

So I ask you, fellow Mac administrators. How would you handle this situation?


texts: Ultra HD monitor with Macbook pro 13 mid 2014

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I have an Macbook pro 13 mid 2014. I want to connect an UHD monitor(3840x2160) and run it at 60Hz.

My thunderbolt's specs says that it can perform at 20 Gb/s.

My question: is it enough to run 3840x2160x60hz with mini displayport 1.2 cable? Is there anybody who did it successfully?


texts: Can I clean install Mavericks preserving other bootable partitions (Ubuntu on ext4)?

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I have checked Will my other partitions be wiped when doing a clean install of Mavericks? but I'd like to make sure whether a clean install of Mavericks to my specific OS X partition won't mess up with the rest of the disk. OS X generally doesn't recognize other partitions types beyond the Windows types.

Is such clean install prone to error even if I take care of asking installation to not touch the partition scheme?


texts: Terminal becomes unresponsive when a “sudo” password prompt is displayed

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When asked to type my password to run a sudo command, the USB keyboard goes unresponsive and I cannot type in the password or anything else.

I can hit return three times to bounce out on three failed password attempts however so it gets the return key input but no other keys until I bounce out then all works again.

Any suggestions?


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In Numbers, if I have a column for dates, and I want each cell to be one day later than the cell above, I can enter a date in the first cell and then set the next cell to be "cell above plus one". Then I can drag the cell border down to fill the column with increasing consecutive dates.
Is it possible to do this with calendar months? A rough approximation would be to set each cell to be "cell above plus 30," but this would give a different date each month. I want to be able to fill cells with the same date each calendar month. In other words, if a cell contains "7/11/20" I'd like to be able to drag the cell border down to automatically fill the next cell with "7/12/20".


texts: How would I have Applescript display the first one or two options in a google search in a display dialog window? Is there a way to create a functional browser through applescript?


texts:
I have configured my iPad to not do automatic autocorrect, seeing as I use the keyboard for my iPad Pro and prefer to type what I sant instead of my iPad continously secondguessing me.

However, in Safari, while typing, such as this question here, it still tries to autocorrect my typing. Is there a separate setting somewhere? I want to disable this also in Safari.

I have configured my iPad to have a Norwegian keyboard, so it continously tries to find the appropriat norwegian word which is kinda annoying.


texts: Add a column to iOS Numbers "form data" sheet, without adding a new form entry

texts:
I have a form in iOS Numbers.
For each new row added through the form entry UI, I want to calculate some auxiliary data for that row, which is essential to the summarizing formulas that I'm going to use in a dashboard.
For the sake of example, suppose that I enter three numeric values in the form, and I want to add a column that calculates the average of these three numeric values.
There are two issues with this:

Adding a new column adds a corresponding entry in the form. This is very poor UI: how do I distinguish between data I have to actually enter, and data that's going to be automatically calculated

Because the column is now an entry in the form, it's going to fill the cell with whatever is on the form, rather than copying over the formula.

Another acceptable solution in my case would be some procedure to automatically copy the form data over to another sheet when a new entry is added; apparently this is similar to what is being asked in this question.


texts:
I want to export all my Wi-Fi passwords and import it to the keychain of my girlfriends Mac.

Is this even possible? And how its done? With iCloud Keychain Sync this passwords should also be available on her iPhone, shouldn't it?


texts: How can I diagnose save file issues in Xcode and on my desktop?

texts:
There is something wrong about my mac (macOS sierra) , and it's happening for about 2 weeks , for example:

I'm working with Xcode and suddenly i can't save any file, and I go to desktop , can't copy paste any item .
I don't remember any error but I could not modify or create new file on my macbook.


texts: iPad iOS 10 - Can I hide songs in the Music app that I have purchased?

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I have a brand new iPad and upgraded to iOS 10.

I have thousands of purchases on iTunes that I don't want cluttering the lists in the Music app.  This was very easy on my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.4).
I don't see an option in Settings > iTunes, Music, or iCloud.

How do I hide them?

I don't have a computer to do this through iTunes on a PC or Mac.


texts: What is the recommended way to set up and run an OS X web server for a busy public website?

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I am moving from a VPS to a dedicated Mac mini server running Mavericks. All I want to do is serve a typical website using Apache, an nginx reverse proxy, PHP and MySQL.

My website isn't gigantic, but it's not tiny either: I typically serve a hundred thousand pageviews a day. It is a public site on the internet, not a local intranet. I am familiar with tweaking .conf files and fiddling in the terminal, but the idea of creating virtualhosts and manually setting up modules stretch my abilities.

I have had difficulty finding the right software solution for this task. From what I can tell, there are three basic ways:

Use the inbuilt Apache provided by Apple and managed in Server.app. The configuration options are limited and certain advanced aspects (including using nginx, or anything much involving security) are not covered.
Use Homebrew or plain old .tar.gz files to set up my own server, treating the OS X like any old Unix. While this would work, I am hoping OS X can help me avoid the quagmire of editing config files entirely on my own.
Using Mac software like MAMP or AMPPS, though both of these appear to be outdated or unsupported, and seem geared towards local testing rather than production server use.

I would like to know of the best way to set up a Mac mini as a "real" web server, ideally with a solution that is both easy to configure and open to. Is there a well-known tutorial that I can follow? What of the alternate software recommended by this months-old article which ultimately recommended AMPPS, albeit for local testing?


texts: iPad 32 GB, running iOS 7.0.2. Unable to run Reset to Factory to restore Restrictions Password

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I seem to have quite a problem - which is caused by the lack of possibility to restore/reset the restrictions password (could e.g. be done through SMS like other services do).

The problem:

Restrictions was enabled quite a while ago on the iPad.
The restrictions PIN is lost.
"Find my iPad" is enabled.
I go to iTunes to reset to factory, but it tells me I have to turn off Find my iPad first.
I go to Privacy + location settings on the iPad, but the Find my iPad setting is grayed out (likely due to Restrictions being enabled?).

Seems to me like I have a catch 22 situation going on. I cannot reset my iPad because Find My iPad is enabled, and I cannot remove Find my iPad without resetting the iPad to get rid of Restrictions.


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I bought an iPod touch first. I registered it with iTunes, gave it a name, etc. All was well, it synced when I connected it, made backups, etc.

Eventually I got an iPhone. I didn't need to register it with iTunes, it found my iPod touch data somehow. I don't think it ever asked me to give it a name. And the most annoying part, is that it syncs all the apps I put on the iPod Touch with the iPhone, and vice-versa.

How do I separate these two devices?


texts: I've been using icalx.com to sync all my many calendars as a single group. When I turned on iCloud, all my calendar group structure completely disappeared and I see no way to re-add it. Is there any way (including workarounds using icalx or Google Calendar as an intermediary) to continue sharing all my calendars as a single group? It's a huge pain for people to set up 10+ subscriptions just to see my events, not to mention having to check and uncheck all 10 each time they want to see what I'm doing.


texts: Why can't I see some chinese characters (eg: ) on macOS BigSur 11.2.1?

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For example, when this character: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%A6%B3%8A#Chinese
On Chrome, I see nothing on the web site render:

and on the address bar:

If I copy-and-paste the "invisible" character on my Terminal, I see a question mark:

Finally, I'll copy the character here in case it helps: .
The same happens for many other Chinese characters, as you can see here:

source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Chinese_radical/%E6%9C%88
Any way I can install something to make this work? Thanks!! 谢谢！


texts: What iPhone app will allow one person to track the location of another in real-time?

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With the permission of the person being tracked, of course!

I'm running in a marathon and want my family and friends to be able to see my location on a map in real-time (or very close to it).

Are there any apps that can do this?

I'd also like to be able to turn on and off the "broadcast" of my location.


texts: External mic with iPhone and Bluetooth output

texts: I need some way to control iPhone 5 to allow me use a external microphone in the headphone 3,5mm socket and output my voice (in real time) to an external bluetooth speaker via the mobile Bluetooth system in the phone. In fact it’s like using a mobile phone as a PA system. Can anyone help?


texts: can you set an application to come to the desktop you are on osx

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I know that you can lock an application to a certain desktop, and if you select that application(either through the dock or command+tab), then OSX will change your desktop to the one where the application is on.

Can you set it to pull the application to you?

IE the messages.app.  I dont care where it is, but when I switch to it, I want it to come to me.

Im running 10.8


texts: How to change the default behaviour of the fullscreen/maximize button?

texts:
There is a question that deals with the different behaviour of the fullscreen button in the window bar. There, it is shown that by doing:

⌥ + ⇧ + Click on green or outer right icon (plus icon)

I can maximize a window in both width and height to the current screen.

Now I am wondering if I can make this behaviour standard just by clicking the icon. For an extra bonus, I wonder if there is a keyboard shortcut to achieve the same thing.


texts: Anyone knows how to view the nice value of a process under Mavericks?

texts:
Used to be able to view the UNIX nice value of a process in the top CLI utility.
I think it's gone from the top utility on Mavericks? Any other ways to view it?


texts: How to define default route for Internet Sharing?

texts:
I've successfully been using Internet Sharing on a MacBook Air to share a wired connection via WiFi to local devices. As of yesterday this stopped working, which may or may not be related to the recent 10.7.4 update (there are forum posts here regarding problems, but they report connection drops, not this altogether more bizarre behaviour).

Now when enabling Internet Sharing via WiFi the wired connection, promptly stops working. Some digging later and it appears the routing is messed up:

netstat -r [clipped]

Before:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.188.254    UGSc           11        2     en1
127                localhost          UCS             0        0     lo0
localhost          localhost          UH              1        6     lo0

After:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            link#5             UCS             4        0     en0
10.0.2/24          link#5             UCS             1        0     en0

As you can see, after activation the WiFi connection is being used as the default route which is clearly nonsense.

Performing a route flush resets it correctly to 192.168.188.254, however the initial behaviour must be specified somewhere. Any ideas on how to correct this?

UPDATE: It turns out this has been reported previously on 10.7.2 in this forum post, however with no solution there either.


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System specs:  2011 iMac, OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4

I have come to understand that Rsync does not handle Mac Alises properly, and have now discovered that hundreds of aliases I've previously copied to my portable drive, are dead and useless because of this.

Is there a way to force Rsync to handle aliases?  If the answer is a definitive "no", then how can I recursively batch convert all aliases in a directory to symlinks so that they will be handled by Rsync?  I've found references to an Applescript that would apparently do this, but the site hosting the script is long dead & gone.

As a last resort, does anyone know of something other than Rsync that would allow for incremental backups and also handle Aliases?


texts: Just turned on icloud for phone, but moved contacts from Outlook on local machine

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Hi and thanks in advance for any help provided! I just upgraded my phone to a 6s and turned on iCloud. That moved all my contacts from phone and Outlook on local machine to the cloud.  I would like to maintain contacts and calendars locally. How to I bring items back out of the cloud?
Jim


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I have a (very old) CD which is supposed to be mountable both on the Mac and Windows. Using Virtual Box, I can see the Windows partition, but on macOS I can’t.
Disk Utility sort of sees it, but the volume is greyed out and cannot be mounted.
Using diskutil list I get the following:
/dev/disk7 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:        CD_partition_scheme                        *1.5 MB     disk7
   1:     Apple_partition_scheme                         1.3 MB     disk7s1
   2:        Apple_partition_map                         1.0 KB     disk7s1s1
   3:                  Apple_HFS Aussie Maths Invaders   531.5 KB   disk7s1s2

which suggests (a) that it can see it and (b) the format is HFS.
I have two copies of the CD, and neither of them can be mounted, which suggests that it’s probably not the media itself.
I cannot successfully mount the Apple Partition using either mount or diskutil, or at least with the options I have tried.
I have tried the following:
$ diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk7
One or more volume(s) failed to mount

$ mount -t cd9660 /dev/disk7 ~/cd
mount_cd9660: Invalid argument
mount: /Users/mark/cd failed with 1

$ mount_cd9660 /dev/disk7 ~/cd
mount_cd9660: Invalid argument

I am on an iMac running macOS Catalina 10.15.6 an external DVD/CD drive.


texts: How can I see where Photos.app thinks the System Photo Library is?

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I have about 8 photo libraries, all of them on a [connected and mounted] external disk. One of them is the System Photo Library, but which one? I have forgotten.
Since I upgraded to Big Sur, Photos.app is saying it cannot find the System Photo Library. Apparently, Photos.app is looking for it in some place where it is not.
I would like to know where it is looking, and what is the name of the library it is looking for, so that I can point it to its correct location.
Necessarily, Photos.app has this information stored somewhere. Where?


texts: MacBook Pro hangs up at the grey Apple login screen

texts: After it would hang up, the keyboard lights would stay lit indefinitely. I've tried resetting the SMC and NVRAM but they didn't work. I did a verbose startup and this was the screenshot before my computer hung up.


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When running
tell application "System Events"
    click button "Turn Bluetooth Off" of window 1 of application process "System Preferences"
end tell

I get the error:
error "System Events got an error: Can’t get application process \"System Preferences\"." number -1728 from application process "System Preferences”

I’ve also tried
tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal pane "com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    click button 6 of window 1
end tell
quit application "System Preferences”
Didn’t give me any errors, but it didn’t work

I’m running macOS Sierra. This is supposed to turn my bluetooth off (I’m planning to have this run when I login)


texts:
Just installed Mathias' dotfiles but I didn't like some features of it. Especially executing ./.osx command. For example it's changing dock icons' sizes, removing TimeMachine icons (i'm using it frequently), changing locale settings etc.

How can I revert all settings to default ones, remove all dotfiles settings.

After this I'll for the dotfiles project and make my own dotfiles based on Mathias' project.


texts: Need to prohibit writing CD/DVD for all non-admin users in Mountain Lion

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We have a requirement that forbids users writing to removable media such as CDs.  So far all I've been able to find is

defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitBurn true

but that is a per-user setting that can be reversed by the user and doesn't prevent them from writing with an app other than finder.

Is it possible to take user level preferences from ~/Library and put them in /Library such that they override a value the user might later try to set?  This way I can at least prevent them using finder to burn media.

Secondly, is there any global method of preventing any write access to the cdrom device?


texts: Fan / Processor picks up and runs hard when I let MacBook idle and sleep. Botnet?

texts:
This problem just started happening since I got to my new apartment. I've had this computer (2014 maxed out MacBook Pro) for about a year, and it never happened before moving here.

Basically, when I am using the computer to browse the Internet or work on docs etc it is quiet and responds normally. When I stop using it for a while, but leave it on (or in sleep mode) it enters very intense activity. Or at the very least the fan starts running like crazy.

The activity/fan only stops if I power down the machine completely, or if I start using the machine again, in which case it gradually slows down (the fan noise) and then stops completely after about 20 secs of me being on the computer again. It is counterintuitive that the computer fan / activity picks up when I am NOT using the machine, rather than vice versa.

I have been able to find very little that is helpful based on Google searches, although I did find at least one post suggesting that this could be due to botnet infection, which was my initial thought and concern (prior to seeing that post).

Probably not much that can be done diagnostically via a message board analysis, but I thought I would post since there doesn't seem to be a lot of easily available info on this phenomenon. I suppose a less nefarious explanation would be that there are major updates that need to run in the background, but that explanation doesn't seem consistent with my experience using Macs previously.


texts: Maximize windows just like Windows on OS X

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I have owned a MacBook Pro for a year, however at work I use a Windows laptop. Since I really like the functionality to maximize a windows by just pushing it to the top of the screen, I would like to have that on my Macbook too.

I am using Spectacle to assign shortcuts like "windows" to maximize a window, which works well and I recommend it.

However, is there any application to maximize a window like the way you can do it on a Windows laptop/pc, just by pushing the window to the top of the screen?

Note: I mean maximize window, not fullscreen.


texts:
What are my options for upgrading the drive of an iMac G4 or an eMac to eliminate the noise from the original drive? Either an SSD, or a mechanical HDD with a lower noise level than the original.

The second hand value of the machine is $100, so the drive must be justifiably cheap, under $30 if possible. Pre-owned and capacity as small as 16-32 GB is fine.

For each suggestion, please specify:

Required adapters (to connect the drive to the iMac)
Expected total price (USD, for easy comparison)
Expected performance (for non-SSD suggestions such as CF/SD)

PS! Reading speed from an IDE drive is around 22 MB/s using dd on the eMac.

PPS! The easiest way to experiment with drive replacement is by using the IDE cable and power to the CD player, which by a lucky shot can be reached from the removable RAM slot. That way you won't have to disassemble the whole eMac until you've done your research.


texts: Number keys on the Numeric Keypad part of the Magic Keyboard don't work with Terminal

texts:
When I'm in Terminal, I've noticed that pressing the . or numbers 0 through 9 produce the error sound and don't register a value.

The same keys pressed on the "regular" keyboard work as expected.

Is this the expected behavior?

** edit **

Those keys work in other applications.

When I start a new Terminal window or tab, these keys work correctly.

However, when I start PowerShell 7 (pwsh), typing 0-9 then . produce OpOqOrOsOtOuOvOwOxOyOn.  When I exit pwsh, returning to zsh, and type those keys, the behavior reappears.


texts: MacOS Snow Leopard and Lion: permissions set for a folder aren't inherited by new files copied into it or created in it.


texts: Can't ping a linux server with MacOSX. Software related

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I'm having an huge problem with my Mac, from months.

I have at home a linux server, a CuBox. It's running Archlinux, running fine. Everything works.

But the Mac can't ping the CuBox.

I will paste you a little log of what a ping gives.

Request timeout for icmp_seq 669
Request timeout for icmp_seq 670
Request timeout for icmp_seq 671
Request timeout for icmp_seq 672
Request timeout for icmp_seq 673
Request timeout for icmp_seq 674
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 675
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 676
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 677
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 678
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 679
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 680
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 681
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 682
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 683
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 684

And this cycling again and again. The issue is Mac software related, on Windows (Boot Camp) I can ping the CuBox.

With the help of reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/19vbwf/mac_cant_ping_linux_server/ I made it working for 2h. The next day, (after making the computer sleep) the problem happened again.

For making things works 2h, I have played with sharing settings, disabling and enabling again. This trick is not working anymore now.

I really need to access to this CuBox. If anyone have a clue, please tell me what to test!

Thanks.


texts: There is about 60GB of space being used on my HD that I cannot find

texts: Am I just bad at math? OmniDiskSweep isn't picking up what is using my space. I recently deleted a 60GB drive (not partition) that VMWare Fusion was using, and emptied the trash. Now it doesn't show up on any disk sweeper, but is still accounting as used space. I have restarted my computer.


texts: iCloud two-factor authentication on OS X Yosemite

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I have 3 Apple devices, an iPhone and iPad both running iOS 11 and a MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10.

On the iOS devices I am getting alerts to enable two-factor authentication for my iCloud account.

Will enabling it restrict me from accessing my iCloud account on my MacBook Pro?


texts: Show output of postinstall script in Apple's installer window

texts:
I use a lengthy postinstall script for an installer package. The postinstall script produces lots of log output which is written to /var/log/installer.log.

Is there any chance to show this output underneath or above the progress bar in the installer window, since the progress bar seems to "get stuck" for quite a long time with about 95% finished while the postinstall script is running.

Thanks for any hint!


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Is there some sort of software or feature that grants us a more granular ACLs for files?  We are going to start deploying Macbooks to our users for the first time.  Each MacBook will have Parallels Desktop on it with our company image on it.  This creates a .pvm file.

We want to be able to prevent the .pvm from being copied to an external drive.  Problem is, our user's will be admin users so our options are limited.  Encryption of the file is a no go because we don't want our users to have the ability to move the file somewhere and still be able to open it.  Is there a way to prevent another admin user from being able to copy the file?  I've tried uchg flag but it causes issues with launching the VM where it doesn't even allow you to.

Is there some software that does this, or can anyone make any recommendations on how we can handle this?

Thanks


texts: How do I disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) AKA "rootless" on macOs [OS X]

texts:
Apple has introduced System Integrity Protection, also known as "rootless", with OS X 10.11, El Capitan. I understand this is a step for general protection against malware but as a developer I need write access to some of the files it locks away.

How do I disable this protection?


texts: Is there a way to access and stream one's iTunes music collection from a web browser?

texts: Does the possibility exist to access one's iTunes music collection from any web browser? e.g. to browse the library and stream the songs.


texts: Best File System for Sharing Between OS X and Windows

texts:
What is currently the best file system to use for drives that are regularly accessed (both reading and writing) from both Windows and OS X on a single machine using BootCamp. The most important points are stability and speed.

I've been using NTFS so far, coming from a Windows background. I've tried the NTFS-3G driver with Fuse and, in my tests, it was far slower than native NTFS under Windows. I also tried their commercial driver without much better results.

Afterward I tried Paragon's drivers, which were much faster. They aren't quite native NTFS speed, but they aren't far off either. The problem is I've had crashes with them, and recently had crashes + data loss with them.

I know this question has been asked before, but the posts I saw were older and the driver and filesystem options are maturing.

Options I've seen:

FAT32: Limited drive size? Limited permission settings
NTFS: Limited speed/stability under OS X
HFS+: MacDrive? available for Windows

Follow Up

I have now formatted one of the drives as exFAT and can confirm that this works great for both reading and writing when the machine is booted into either OS X or Windows 7.


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Last night I managed to update to Sierra. Now there is a problem with the OS X speed. I read that there are Spotlight and iPhotos indexing stuff in the background.

However, the main CPU usage comes from ReportCrash. I looked through the logs, but the new console messages appear quickly (about 1000 per minute). I've spoted the keychain, spotlight, security and some other keywords there.

I searched the net to find a solution, that required reseting the Keychain to default and then rebooting. Doesn't help though.

Most of the lines in the Crash Logs mean nothing to me and there are no useful advice that I was able to find.

As I understand, there is no sense in waiting, as the Spotlight indexing keeps crashing and will never be completed.

UPD: I am not able to login to iCloud with my Apple ID either. It might be part of a problem.

UPD2: According to the system processes, Spotlight, Dropbox and some other apps are constantly starting up and crashing.

UPD3: tried EtreCheck. Chose the "Apps are crashing" option. The diagnostics started. Then the EtreCheck crashed as well.

Here is the part of the log: Link

It's been two days since I started this Sierra update and the problems keep appearing. I'll appreciate any help.


texts: Internal and External microphone isn't working

texts:
There is a problem with the microphone on my MacBook (Yosemite 10.10.3)

The internal speakers work OK, and if I plug in headphones, they will work too.
Unfortunately, the internal microphone doesn't work. When I plugged in an external microphone, it would't work either.

Does anyone have any ideas what could it be?


texts: I didn't have connectivity for a bit and the iTunes Radio tab in Music.app disappeared. I have connectivity now but it isn't back. When I try to browse to an iTunes Radio station through iTunes.app I get an error message. Any ideas?


texts: How to password protect apps without Jailbreaking iiphone

texts: Is there an app for iPhone that allows you to password protect apps without jailbreaking the phone?


texts: Will a USB VGA Video Adapter Work on MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

texts:
Well I'm attempting to get 2 monitors working on a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012).But I'mm so nervous that i will waste my money on the adapter,and i use to play games on a Mac.

So, I think it was easier 2 have double monitor for gaming. I'm going provide a picture of the adapter in question


texts: Apple ID working for iPhone but not for iPad

texts:
I have an Apple ID and password that has been working fine with my iPhone. I have been able to buy music and download apps with no problems. I bought an iPad and configured it with the same email. I have tried to buy music and download apps using the iPad with the same Apple ID and password but have been unable to connect with the server.

Do I need a special configuration for the Apple ID in order to be able to use it from different devices?


texts: OpenSSL encryption method doesn't work on El Capitan

texts:
The following file encryption method works on OS X Yosemite:

Encrypt: openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.zip -out file.zip.enc

Decrypt: openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in file.zip.enc -out file.zip

However, when on OS X El Capitan I get this error:

unknown option '-aes-256-cbc -in file.enc'

Any solutions?


texts: Is there a way to prevent iTunes from asking me to update my iPhone's carrier settings?

texts:
I don't sync my iPhone with my work computer.  I just plug it in to charge it.  Is there a way to prevent it from prompting me every time to update the phone's carrier settings?:

I have un-checked iTunes' "Check for new software updates automatically" setting, but it still asks for me to update the carrier settings.


texts: Recording both sound and video on my screen via my Macbook Pro?

texts:
So I learned that on the Macbook Pro, the default Quicktime Pro has the ability to record video from your computer screen. This is great, but it doesn't have the ability to record sound unless it's from the actual mic picking up sound from the speakers literally playing the sound.

Is there a way to get it to record sound regardless of what my hardware volume settings are at (in particular, even if I have muted the sound)? As in, record sound + video even after I've pressed F10 to mute.


texts: How do I view full process paths in Activity Monitor?

texts:
I'm using macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 and the Activity Monitor.app only shows the name of the process, and I can't configure it to show the full process paths via the GUI settings.
Is it possible to show full process paths in Activity Monitor.app? Maybe with a default command to toggle a hidden setting for the app?


texts: Can I use   partitions for multiple OS X installs?

texts: I'm curious about whether possible to install OS X on multiple partitions. I am already using several user accounts in one installation, putting different accounts into different installations of OS X.


texts: How to change the input language overlay menu delay time

texts:
When pressing the key combination to change the input language on Mac OS 10.15 with the OS configured for 3 or more languages (in my case CTRL+Space), by keeping the CTRL key pressed longer for around 0,5s the overlay menu appears that allows you to choose the third input language. I would like the menu to appear immediately, since I write daily in 3 different languages and I need to change the input language very often.
However, I don't know where to look to change the plist file that controls the time that overlay menu takes to appear. Does anyone know which plist controls this?
Thanks!


texts: sticky keys without lock in macOS Sierra

texts:
In macOS el capitan I used karabiner to get sticky keys without lock feature, but after updating to macOS Sierra, karabiner does not work and it's successor karabiner elements does not have the feature of setting sticky keys without lock :(

Is there any other way of getting this to work? i really depend on sticky keys for using emacs and I find it annoying whenever I accidentally press a key modifier twice and it's locked in and i've to press it again to release the lock.


texts: I'm about to buy a 15" Macbook Pro with 512 GB SSD. Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade the SSD after I have bought it?


texts: How to enable screen saver for login screen?

texts:
I have macOS 10.13.6 running on my MacBookPro (15-inch, 2017). I went into Energy Saver and set "Turn display off after:" to 1.5 hours. I went into "Screen Saver" and set it to start after 20 minutes. When I press the lock icon on my TouchBar, the computer locks, and then within 5 seconds the displays turn off. As a result, the screen saver never kicks in... But I'd like to see the screen saver on the lock screen.

I ran a web search for the problem and found mention of a "com.apple.screensaver" plist file but this file doesn't appear to exist in /Library/Preferences, which is where it is supposed to exist. I suppose this file has been renamed or something similar, for this OS release...

So I'm grasping at straws now. How can I enable the screen saver on the lock screen?


texts: How to see a camera resolution on a Mac?

texts:
I have a noname USB camera.
All I can see about it in System Information is USB vendor and device IDs (2054:2054). I cannot find these in USB device database, for example.
PhotoBooth takes photos of 1280×852 resolution. Can I be sure this is the maximum?


texts: Error importing videos to Photos in Catalina: Unsupported resource set: video,xmp

texts:
I have several Photos libraries; my system library that's synced with iCloud, and some additional libraries for things that I want to keep but don't need to have available all the time. Here's my workflow for getting photos into those libraries:

Take photos and videos with my iPhone XS Max.
Wait for them to appear in my system library through iCloud sync.
Export them to a folder using File > Export > Export Unmodified
Original... with Export IPTC as XMP checked.
Open the destination Photos library.
Drag the exported folder onto "Photos" under "Library" in the sidebar to import its contents.

This worked fine up until Catalina. Export still seems to work fine, and import works fine for images, but it no longer works for videos. Now when I drag my exported folder into Photos it imports the images, but gives the following error message for each video:

  ** Invalid: Unsupported resource set: video,xmp **

This only appears for videos that are pure video. Live Photos with a video component import fine.

The videos are all HEVC in a .mov container, recorded on an iPhone with iOS 13, synced with iCloud, and exported from Photos in Catalina, so they are definitely not an incompatible or older codec.

I can import the videos by themselves, without the .xmp files. They appear to have all their metadata intact, so maybe the .xmp files are no longer necessary.

Anybody know why this is no longer working?


texts: Is there a way to tell which files I accidentally renamed to *.jpg aren't actually JPEG images?

texts:
I have a folder with many thousands of files, which due to an error had their extensions misnamed, all files now have the .jpg extension.
In all the .jpg files I would like to find the non-image files.
Is there a command-line way to identify which files are an actual image and which files are not?
I thought of looking for files without a preview, but cannot find a way to search files without a preview.
Here's an axample file that has a .jpg extension, but is not a real image:


texts: Can you explain this Wi-Fi Calling dialogue?

texts:
When you try to turn on Wi-Fi Calling on iPhone (Settings->Cellular->Wi-Fi Calling->Wi-Fi Calling on This iPhone, using iOS 11.0.3) you get an interesting pop-up message:

  Enable Wi-Fi Calling?

  When you join a network, the country where the network connection is made may be sent to your carrier and your cellular identity may be sent to the Wi-Fi network operator. The city may be sent to the carrier for routing short code calls. This can be changed in Settings.

What does this mean? I was just going to turn it on to help make better calls in my house, though I guess people might use Wi-Fi calling to save on charges when traveling abroad. But why would the carrier and "Wi-Fi network operators" need to know each other's information? And what is this other setting they are referring to?

Finally, another question related to this same page: The second option is "Prefer Wi-Fi While Roaming." What if you want to prefer Wi-Fi even when you aren't roaming?


texts: Keep Finder On-Top While Dragging Links From Safari URL Bar

texts:
In the previous version of OS X, Mavericks, I used to be able to have a browser window open and a finder window open, I used to then be able to drag a link from the URL into the finder window to drop links.

If the window was like this:

Where the finder is on top of the browser you were able to drag the URL link from the URL bar without the safari window jumping up on top. Now when you do it the finder window will get placed under the safari window.

Is there any way to get this property back? Being able to have finder windows on top of the safari window makes it so much easier to drag links from the URL bar to the folder.


texts:
I have a 2017 Macbook Air 2017. A week ago I turned it on and  wrote my password, then it shut down. I tried to turn on but nothing happened. I read some posts on the Internet and tried the following:

Unplug the MagSafe 2.
Open my MacBook Air.
Disconnect the battery.
Plug in the MagSafe 2.
Reset the SMC (pressing Left Shift, Option, Control and Power for ten seconds and releasing at the same time).
Connect the battery.
Press power and Voila, It Turn On!

I was using my Macbook very happy but now when I shut down my MacBook to go to sleep, the next day when I try to turn it on, nothing happened. It stay shut down like at the beginning and I have to repeat the steps to turn it on.

Whats is the problem with my MacBook?  What do you recommend me to do? Any idea how can I fix it?


texts: bzip2 compression library not found error

texts: I get bzip2 compression library… no error when trying to install some software on a mac running osx 10.12. Some googling revealed that the headers for bzip2 should be there for the installer to recognize bzip2 and this could be achieved by installing the dev package. However, couldn't find one for osx. For example for Fedora this is bzip2-devel.


texts: Macbook Pro 10.10.5 Can Only Connect to Large Sites like Google, StackExchange, Wikipedia

texts:
This strange connection issue has been very stubborn. In short, after every reboot I can access the entire internet for a short period of time. After a time (say 30 minutes) all but major websites like Google, Facebook, etc timeout in both of my browsers (Safari and Firefox)

But strangely I am able to ping websites that timeout while loading in the browsers.

This is an issue on my computer across every network it is connected to using both wifi and ethernet. It is not an issue for any other computers on my home network.

I've tried turning off IPv6 or using Google DNS but no change.


texts: Google Drive constantly asks if I want to delete files from other computers

texts:
I've tried turning off the warning setting in Google Drive Backup and Sync preferences like it suggests in the alert so I'm not asked every time someone deletes a file from our shared drive but it still pops up dozens of requests to ask if I want to also remove.

We remove so many files from the drive on a daily basis this is chronically interrupting my workflow. The notification even interrupts when I'm typing or using another window so I have to click outside of the notification to continue what I'm doing.
How do I actually and completely turn off this notification?


texts:
I'm trying to update Homebrew on my Macbook Pro, but Homebrew says it is already up-to-date. However, I know this is not the case as I have another Homebrew install on another Mac, which is at a later Git commit.

The brew config on my Macbook Pro:

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.9
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git
HEAD: 06fe347de97975dc01e726f87bf07a56a6fb713e
Last commit: 4 weeks ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: a05941384bcd8e4ef846237aba79d14dc47d757f
Core tap last commit: 4 weeks ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN: https://homebrew.bintray.com
CPU: quad-core 64-bit haswell
Homebrew Ruby: 2.0.0-p648
Clang: 7.3 build 703
Git: 2.9.2 => /usr/local/bin/git
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/local/bin/python => /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
Ruby: /usr/bin/ruby => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby
Java: 1.8.0_25, 1.7.0_67
OS X: 10.11.6-x86_64
Xcode: 7.3.1
CLT: 7.3.1.0.1.1461711523
X11: 2.7.7 => /opt/X11

And on my Mac:

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.9
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git
HEAD: f64befdd783cbb01a05cd4d76a9f9f6d810d2eab
Last commit: 2 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: ad4c80538a0f4c44ccc0e0681b890ec7578d19c4
Core tap last commit: 36 minutes ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN: https://homebrew.bintray.com
CPU: quad-core 64-bit haswell
Homebrew Ruby: 2.0.0-p648
Clang: 7.3 build 703
Git: 2.10.0 => /usr/local/bin/git
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/local/bin/python => /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
Ruby: /usr/local/bin/ruby => /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.3.1/bin/ruby
Java: 1.8.0_05
OS X: 10.11.6-x86_64
Xcode: 7.3.1
CLT: 7.3.1.0.1.1461711523
X11: 2.7.7 => /opt/X11

I know the Homebrew versions are the same. But the HEADs are quite different, and this means I can't brew upgrade to the latest versions of some packages (e.g. git, gcc).

Why is this happening, and how can I force Homebrew to update to the latest commit?


texts:
I want it so that if the current date matches the string, it will log "works!". However it doesn't seem to work.

set datesubmit to "27, May, 2016"
set trydate to {day, month, year} of (current date)
log (trydate)
log (datesubmit)
if trydate is equal to datesubmit then
    log ("works!")
end if

I tried to make sure they are both string type variables but I can't get it to equal. This was the output:

(*27, May, 2016*)
(*27, May, 2016*)

Can someone tell me where I'm wrong?


texts: How to check if logic board is actually got replaced

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I have Macbook pro 15" early 2011 and my GPU died a couple of weeks ago. I contacted Apple service center about the costing and they said a whooping 1000 USD to replace the board. From one of my friend I got contact of former apple technician and he said he will change the logic board for half the price.

After a week he returned my macbook saying he had replaced the logic board. Now I am little confused if he really had changed the logic board or get it repaired? Because the serial number on logic board is same as previous.

I know this question is asked before here but I am not able to get a straight answer from there.

Can any apple technician confirm if Apple replace the logic board do they provide the same serial number on new logic board?


texts: Is there way to show disk i/o read/writes per process in real time?

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I am struggling to find out what process is eating away my Mac performance, and disk i/o is the culprit. Activity Monitor frequently shows megabytes of read/write, but unfortunately, it does not show the per process value (only total written by given process, which is useless).
  Is there a way to find out?
  iotop does not seem to work, because I am on Sierra, and SIP is enabled.

Thank You,
Zsolt


texts: 16" MBP is detecting 2 displays as one, mirroring them

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I want 3 independed, extended monitors. The retina on my MBP and 2 displays.
In my current setup this isn't working as expected.
I have 2 DELL2415 connected via a dock, but both are mirrored, while the Retina display is independent.
I have "Mirror displays" unchecked.

I it almost feels, as if the dock has something to do with it, because it seems like it doesn't matter if one or 2 displays are connected. If I keep the mirror option unchecked it's either extending the MBP display onto 1 or 2 of the DELLs.
Dock "Reg Type No." is K20A001. Also Dell.
Edit: Found somebody with almost the same problem. No solution however.


texts:
Does the 2018 MacBook Air come with a NVMe SSD?

I believe the MacBook Pro does, since 2017, however I'm finding no information one way or another for MBA 2018.


texts: Login icon switches to name and passwords after entering password

texts:
I have a user (bound to Active Directory) that when he has Wi-Fi turned on
(an example is going from the office to home) and he attempts to log in - he'll initially get the icon with his name.
After entering his password and a quick progress bar the window switches to the empty Username & Password field.
His username (we verified account name) and correct password do not work.

This is a mobile account
The issue does not occur with a local admin account.
There are no login items
This does not occur in the office with a LAN connection (on the domain)
The issue persists even if he restarts

If Wi-Fi is turned off when he leaves the office and boots the computer at home it logs in fine.
The user does have a secure token
High Sierra 10.13.6 with all latest updates


texts: Turn off MacBook Air screen rendering but maintain running applications?

texts:
I would like to completely turn off the screen rendering on my Mac for some time as I have some processes running in the background but I don't need to use the monitor. I'm expecting that this measure will save some battery consumption, but that's beyond the goal of this post.

I've been using Control + Shift + Fn + Power Button to sleep the display. The problem is that the background processes stop running.

How can I keep my background processes running but display nothing on the screen?

I'm using a Macbook Air if it makes a difference.


texts: Resize APFS partition and move it to another hard drive

texts:
I have a 500 GB external USB disk that contains a 465GB "APFS container", with Mac OS X Catalina, bootable (with the trick "Press and hold the Option (Alt) key immediately after turning on or restarting your Mac")
I need to use this disk for something else, and I need to move it to another 320 GB disk.
How to do that?

First how to shrink the 465 GB to 300 GB (only < 100 GB are used)? Is it possible from another Mac OS High Sierra computer or another Linux or another Windows computer?

Then how to copy the partition to the 320GB so that it will still be bootable?


texts: Where can I buy a digital version of Windows 7 for Boot Camp?

texts: I'm going to attempt to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp on my new Retina Macbook Pro.  Since it's lacking an optical drive, every tutorial / walkthrough that I find says I need an ISO version of Windows.  I can't seem to find any sort of direct download links / stores that don't seem shady though?  Where can I get a legit copy of windows in ISO format?


texts: iTunes - How to actually synchronize libraries between 2 Mac with Google Drive

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I have two macs (Mavericks) plus the latest version of iTunes.
What I want to do is to mirror any change I do on one library to the other iTunes library using Google Drive (iTunes Library Mac 1 to iTunes Library Mac 2 and vice versa).

I installed Google Drive on both of my Macs. It works pretty well at mirroring changes in .mp3 files names changes I do (i.e. My_Song.mp3 to MY_SONG.mp3), new files I add or files I delete.

But there are two things I can't sync right now. Playlists and files info attributes (i.e. when I switch the soundtrack Genre of one of my soundtrack it doesn't sync with the same soundtrack on my other mac).

I know I can export+import playlist but I don't know how to actually sync using Google Drive. iTunes has a special way of "storing" playlists. What I want is, for example, I create/modify a playlist on my Mac1 and it sync to Mac2 via Google sync. I allready put all my mp3 files in my Google Drive. That doesn't help synching the two iTunes library.

So, how can I make my playlists + any changes I make on my soundtracks (not the mp3 files) sync between my Macs using Google Drive?


texts: When I launch my macOS there running so many interfaces

texts:
When my Mac started, I check my interfaces:
$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
XHC20: flags=0<> mtu 0
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
    ether a0:99:9b:17:50:07
    inet6 fe80::cd8:2bd4:f767:a6ed%en0 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x5
    inet 192.168.2.228 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active
en1: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=460<TSO4,TSO6,CHANNEL_IO>
    ether 82:13:08:b0:ec:c0
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive
en2: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=460<TSO4,TSO6,CHANNEL_IO>
    ether 82:13:08:b0:ec:c1
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive
bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=63<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TSO4,TSO6>
    ether 82:13:08:b0:ec:c0
    Configuration:
        id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
        maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
        root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
        ipfilter disabled flags 0x2
    member: en1 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 0 path cost 0
    member: en2 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 7 priority 0 path cost 0
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: <unknown type>
    status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
    options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
    ether 02:99:9b:17:50:07
    media: autoselect
    status: inactive
awdl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1484
    options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
    ether ba:2f:ce:01:6e:14
    inet6 fe80::b82f:ceff:fe01:6e14%awdl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active
llw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
    ether ba:2f:ce:01:6e:14
    inet6 fe80::b82f:ceff:fe01:6e14%llw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active
utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1380
    inet6 fe80::5e2a:55ee:b7dc:1b30%utun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
utun1: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 2000
    inet6 fe80::62d2:7e57:5727:90c8%utun1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xd
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>

in the beginning, I only use lo0, en0, maybe en1 and en2. I some times install the VMware Fusion and docker and other things. I don't know why there get some many interfaces out, when I launched my Mac there will start so many interfaces, this is a waste of the computing resources, how to delete them or stop them?


texts: Tracing the source of "There was a problem connecting to the server" alerts

texts:
After upgrading from MacOS 10.6 to 10.8, I keep getting alerts on my MBP saying "There was a problem connecting to the server xyz".  The thing is, there is no longer a machine called "xyz" on my network (I've renamed it to something else in hopes of eliminating/diagnosing this problem).

After googling around a bit, I suspect that the culprit is an association of a file type with an application that is on the xyz machine (that I have previously run on my MBP after mounting xyz:/Applications). When these alerts pop out, I see (via top) that a time-machine-induced mdworker is active (seemingly confirming that it's trying to use the remote application to extract information from a local file).

Is there some way that I can confirm what process is actually generating the alerts? Is there a better way of diagnosing their source?

Update: I was never able to figure out what was actually generating the alert, but I was able to abate it by doing a complete re-install of 10.8 (via the recovery boot option). To my surprise -- in addition to eliminating the alerts -- this didn't even require any recovery of my apps/files from backup (not that you should try this without having everything backed up!)


texts: I wish for my pupil to be able to login using VoiceOver. There are three user accounts and VoiceOver doesn't read them. We have used System Preferences to use VoiceOver at login and changed to username / password for input. We can't tab between the two and can't hear VoiceOver for caps lock.


texts: How can I get rid of the '“Visual Studio Code” is an app downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?' message?

texts:
I just installed VSCode on macOS latest (Mojave 10.14.5) and every time I open it I get a popup saying:

  “Visual Studio Code” is an app downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

This app was downloaded from the internet and it is installed in my Applications folder. I have clicked the 'Open' button every time and still it pops up like this.

Is there a way to not have that happen? I followed the regular install instructions and I don't have this problem on my other Macbook Pro ... not sure what is going on.


texts: Why does iCloud Drive take up almost 2 GB of my iPhone storage?

texts:
On my iPhone (iOS 14.1), in Settings > General > iPhone Storage, iCloud Drive is fifth in the list of storage space, at 1.84 GB. When I tap on it, it just tells me that "Documents & Data" are using 1.84 GB, with no further breakdown.
I'm a bit confused, as I hardly use iCloud Drive. When I look at the iCloud Drive folder on my Mac (macOS Catalina, 10.15.7), I've got 11 top-level folders; four are empty, and the biggest is listed as 8.7 MB. I've got one top-level file, a 1.4 MB PDF file.
Where is the 1.84 GB listed on iOS coming from?


texts: Unable to boot into recovery mode on Mavericks Mid 2009 17" Macbook Pro

texts:
I am trying to restore a new SSD I placed into my MBP using a Time Machine backup on an external HD. In order to do this, I read I need to be able to go into recovery mode as I boot my system up. To do this, I am supposed to press ⌘ Command R at startup. This is not working.

First, I realized that there isn't any startup chimes when I restart my MBP. I followed this thread
to reset the NVRAM, and it seemed to work as I did get two chimes during this process. Now when I restart, I hear the chime. However, after pressing ⌘ Command R as I load my system, I still cannot get into recovery mode. Instead, as before, I am going directly to my logon screen.

What can be wrong?


texts:
When I try to open Calendar I'm told "You can't use this version of the application 'Calendar' with this version of OS X. You have Calendar 6.0."

Any ideas why this could be happening? I just uprgaded to OS X 10.9 Mavericks from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion today.


texts:
I created a time machine backup to a USB drive, encrypted partition, subtracting the OS (since i figured we'd reload OS anyway). I then took the mac to the Apple Store, where they changed the bad hard drive out.

When I got back, I tried to restore from the backup. At first I tried on bootup, but that didn't seem to do anything (did encrypted backup hurt me here?) then I loaded the mac back, added my account, updated some software, and tried to recover. I went into "Enter Time Machine" selected my Users folder, and clicked Recover. It did some calcs, said there was a huge amount of data to copy, and looked like it was chugging through - 1 hour progress bars and whatnot. But, i don't see any data on my hard drive.

I should be restoring like to like (10.7.4 => 10.7.4). I can see all the files on the drive, should I just do a file copy? Is there something i'm missing? Or should I do migration assistant - i didn't see the volume on Migr.Asst. before, may have been an issue with encryption.

My guess is no, but is there any way of removing encryption?


texts: Unable to boot Mac OS and disk utility unable to repair disk after bootcamp delete win10

texts:
simillary to the someone else problem described here: Unable to boot Mac OS and disk utility unable to repair disk after bootcamp delete windows partition
The laptop is: MacBook Pro 15” i9 2019
Last used system: macOS Big Sur
Problem: I’m not able to repair and run Mac OS. On startup there is a folder icon with the question mark. I was able to enter the recovery mode but there is no startup disk that can be found.
Here are the steps that I executed:

In the Recovery mode (Don’t know why but was shown the recovery mode for macOS Mojave but I’ve updated it to macOS Big Sur more than 1 month ago) I’ve ran the repairVolume commnad for disk1 in terminal but waited for 16h to complete but didn’t so I’ve started to look for different solutions. The error says allways: and didn’t stop, just running over and over.

 Checking the container superblock,
error: nx_block_count is 122061322, while device block count is 103759765

I decided to go step by step in this problem:
But the commands and responses looked like this

[-bash-3.2# gpt remove -i 2 disk0
disk0s2 removed
[-bash-3.2# gpt -f add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 976695384 -t apfs disk0
gpt add: /dev/disk0: error: no space available on device

As the previous error says that device block count is 103759765 and I cound’t use 976696384 so I’ve replaced it to 103759765 and ran again

gpt -f add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 103759765 -t apfs disk0

This time it works and response was that disk0 added

Restarted the mac but still the same error (folder icon with question mark). But from this time when I’m opening Recovery panel (command + option + R) It’s shown as macOS Big Sur.

In disk utility I don’t have First Aid option anymore and the disk0s2  is displayed as Not Mounted. When I click to Mount icon the error is shown:

output of diskutil list:

output of diskutil list /dev/disk0:

output of gpt -v -r show /dev/disk0:

output of fdisk /dev/disk0:

output of diskutil apfs list:

It seems that here might be the problem, but I don’t know how to fix it. *Previously before step 2 it shows simillary to this:

|
+-- Container ERROR -69808
|   ======================
|   APFS Container Reference:     disk1
|   Size (Capacity Ceiling):      ERROR -69620
|   Capacity In Use By Volumes:   ERROR -69620
|   Capacity Not Allocated:       ERROR -69620
|   |
|   +-< Physical Store disk0s2 F31C2BCB-9CEA-4449-9CAD-4893BBF532A5
|   |   -----------------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk0s2
|   |   Size:                       372000141312 B (372.0 GB)
|   |
|   +-> No Volumes

output of diskutil info /dev/disk0:

output of fsck_apfs -y  /dev/disk0s2

I will be obligated if anyone can help with adding APFS container and running the system again!


texts: Is it possible to get an app for internal employees in the AppStore?

texts:
We're developing an app for internal employees for easy communication. Now we want to remove all potential barriers for our employees (1500+) to install the app.
Therefore we would like to host the app within the AppStore - employees can then download it like they are normally used to download other apps.
Of course there will be a login screen in advance to make sure that only employees see the right information.
The app got rejected with the following:

Guideline 3.2 - Business
We found that your app is an in-house app, intended for employees or
members of your organization. As such, it is not appropriate for the
App Store.
For information on distributing proprietary, in-house apps, please
refer to the Apple Developer Enterprise Program.

We tried to use the Enterprise path, but when the employee downloads the app you're getting to this part:
https://support.apple.com/en-vn/HT204460
We see the Manually install and trust an enterprise app as a big barrier for getting our employees to download the app. Is there any way to solve this?
Is there an 'AppStore' for internal business apps?
How are huge companies with 15.000+ users handling this when there is a Bring your Own Device policy?


texts:
$ uname -a
Darwin vk.local 20.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.2.0: Wed Dec  2 20:39:59 PST 2020; root:xnu-7195.60.75~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
$ zsh --version
zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin20.0)

Terminal Version 2.11 (440)
I am a newbie in mac os and I have a used mac laptop. I noticed strange behaviour when I press tab button for autocomplete a command:
Here is my initial state (terminal with git typed in it):
$ git

Then I press Tab button:
$ git                                 git
git                 git-receive-pack    git-shell           git-upload-archive  git-upload-pack

As you can see, my initial command has moved far forward and there isn't way to move it back. It is possible to delete last three symbols (git), but git                                  will be there for forever.
I expected that my already typed words will remain on its position.


texts: Parental Controls always asks permission when browsing websites

texts:
I don't want to add some websites, but Parental Controls always asks permission when browsing them.
Are there any solution to fix this issue? How can I just block them?
Many thanks.


texts: How to use keyboard shortcut to copy formatting in Mac Word

texts:
According to this microsoft support page (shown in the animated gif at right below)

  To use keyboards shortcuts to copy formatting, press COMMAND + SHIFT + C to copy the formatting, select the text that you want to apply the formatting to, and then press COMMAND + SHIFT + V to paste the formatting

However, as shown in the animated gif below (click for better detail), it does not work for me. I describe what I'm doing with the keyboard with the text in black, blue, and red.

Notice at the end that I am able to paste format using the format painter tool, but my goal is to use keyboard shortcuts to do this. To demonstrate that this is not due additional custom shortcuts on my system, I have the shortcuts portion of the System Preferences open and you can also see the normal paste shortcuts in the Edit menu during the animated gif.

I'm using an updated Microsoft Word for Mac version 16.29.1 on an Office 365 subscription with macOS 10.14.6.


texts: Ford Sync and Reminders problem iPhone 4s

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My 2010 Ford Edge has Sync but not the nav system. The phone is paired. With radio off, a phone call works fine through the car's system, but reminders only vibrate the phone and there is no sound. If the radio is on, the reminders can be heard. The dealer upgraded the Sync so it is current. He said something about privacy mode, but I can't find that on my phone.

I deleted all devices from the car's bluetooth memory and re-paired the phone. No help.

How to make reminders audible while driving with radio off?


texts: What tool can I use to manage notes and/or bookmarks for a collection of PDF files?

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I am doing some research and I do put lots of notes and bookmarks in the books (PDF files).

I am looking for a tools that will allow me to see and search inside all these notes.

I supposed that this tools should be able to scan a directory with PDF files, for notes and keep them in sync.


texts: Sort files by hidden value in finder (Big Sur)

texts: As simple as that : is there a way to sort files in my finder by hidden value (say all hidden files and directories will be on the bottom of my finder)


texts: The admin name on my home Mac is hidden, I need to see the admin name so later I can change the password. I'm a regular user.


texts: How can I use cloud-based text-to-speech services as native voices in Mac OS?

texts: I want to be able to use cloud-based TTS services (like AWS Polly or Google Cloud Text-to-Speech) as if they were locally-installed voices. I've found the native voices to be inadequate for some accessibility needs and the cloud-based TTS services appear to offer the most pleasing and affordable way of addressing these. However, I can't find any tools that can help with this (e.g. creating a system voice that connects to a service on a cloud platform and facilitates the functionality). How might I be able to do this?


texts: My friend upgraded to a new phone, but it has less space than the old one

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My friend isn't very technology literate, so I backed up his phone to my computer for him. The problem is, his new phone doesn't have as much space, so I can't load up the back up on there.

Is there a way to extract at least the photos and contacts from the back up?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Is it possible to connect a 15" MacBook Pro screen to a 13" MacBook Air?

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I’m trying to fit late 2008 model 15 inch MacBook Pro screen to a 13 inch MacBook Air from 2013. Is this possible? Do you have experience with the display's sockets and connectors ?

This is a hobby project; I don’t mind if it costs more than a new MacBook Pro. I just wanna see a 15 inch MacBook Air! I have few other MacBook Pro 15 inch machines to kill.

The target resolution is 1400x900. I read that Retina display won’t work here as graphic card may not be giving the high resolution.

I am looking for guides, resources, or insights into how to achieve this.


texts: Forgot admin password....Unable to select Utilities in Recovery Mode

texts: I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2009), which I haven’t used for a couple of years. I can start it and use it as I don’t have a log in password set up, but since I forgot my admin password, I’m now unable to install any new softwares, nor make any changes to it. I found a guidance on how to add a new admin password by starting the Mac in recover mode, but I can’t click on Utilities in order to select Terminal (where I can apparently set up a new admin password). I can use tab keys to move within the ‘OS X Utilities’ window, but I can’t get into the menu bar just above the window.


texts: Numbers: Line graphs for cell values across multiple worksheets

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I want to create a line graph whose reference data is across multiple worksheets.
For example: I have 5 different worksheets (named W1 to W5)
In each of the worksheet, a specific cell (Ex: B2) in a specific table (Ex: Tab_Summary) is of interest to me.
I want to plot a line graph to show trends of (Tab_Summary:B2) across each of the worksheets W1 to W5.


texts: audio disable for garageband is missing in settings -> privacy on iPad

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I have garageband installed on an iPad iOS 14.2, it uses the microphone without me enabling it. I went to settings -> privacy -> microphone to disable it. However there is no entry for garageband.
What am I doing wrong? How do I remove this permission?


texts: Can't figure out how to correctly install .app

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I downloaded a dmg which apparently OS X mounted as a drive or something. Then I googled around to find out I should ctrl+clicked -> open the program and get past the warning messages.

I closed the app, and dragged the .app file to launchpad. Then I ejected the mount DMG and now launchpad can't figure out where the app is. Apparently it just created a link.

How do you install applications on a mac? As a developer I find it hard to believe it could be this complex without the OS offering any helpful hints.


texts: migrating partition to a 2015 MacBook Pro

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I'm a developer and through the years with my MacBook Pro early 2011 I installed and configured a lot of stuff to help me in my job.
I would like to buy a new MacBook pro but don't want to spend days/weeks installing everything again.
Since the Mac migration assistant won't copy everything, is there a way to duplicate the partition from my old mac to a new MacBook Pro (which can't be opened) ?

edit:

by "can't be opened" I mean I can't take the hard drive and clone my current one with a third computer.

To my knownledge the migration assistant won't copy kernel modules for instance.


texts: AppleScript to check if fn key is depressed?

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How can I return 1 when the fn is depressed and 0 otherwise?

I found this page that claims it has a solution but it relies on an external shell script file (I'd rather have a pure AppleScript solution if that's possible) which I can't download because it redirects me through some weird dutch scam sites.

The aim of this is actually to have a way of checking for function key + fn key combinations in ControllerMate, which doesn't seem to have a way to check if fn is pressed or not.


texts: Title 1, Title 2 number with sub-numbers in pages

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I'm using Pages to write a document.

I would like titles like :

1 Summary
1.1 Start
1.2 End

But I only get

1 Summary
2 Start
3 End

How can I number my titles with 1.1 and so on?


texts: Is News.app a resource hog for anybody else?

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I am on a 2017 MBP using macOS Catalina. I have noticed the News.app is taking up 8xx MB of memory whereas a similar app like Stocks.app takes up only a tenth (~80 MB) of memory.
Any ideas on how to reduce it's footprint?


texts: Can you customize the install of Xcode from the Mac App Store?

texts: I'd prefer not to install the whole iOS SDK with Xcode, just the gcc toolchain for my own console applications and school work. I know for the old Xcode installs it was possible to customize the install and deselect it, but I'm not sure how the Mac App Store handles it and I'd like to know before I buy it and try to install it. The iOS SDK is a good 4-5 gigs of overhead I have no need for, and with an SSD I'm trying to save space wherever I can.


texts: Are there adapters for MiniDisplay port screens to HDMI video cards

texts: I am wondering if I can connect an Apple Cinema Display with a MiniDisplay port to an HDMI video card.