texts: How to determine if Macbook Pro Retina anti-reflective coating is damaged and/or removed?

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(Preliminary remark: I'm not entirely sure if this type of question, about hardware damage, is encouraged on this SE site. Apologies if it doesn't belong here.)

The screen of my MBP Retina 13' (early 2015) started showing some odd 'stains' a few days ago, covering about 20% of the screen. Didn't think much about it, until I read about 'Staingate' later (silly name, but oh well).

Here's my problem/question:

I'm not sure if what I have is actually damage to the coating (i.e. 'staingate') or not.

On the one hand, the stains looked similar to those on the pictures people posted.

However, before I read about the possible coating issue, I was able to remove these 'stains' with a soft, clean microfiber and some warm water.
It took a while to completely do so, basically, rubbing persistently for a while, but without using force, just light pressure.

I am wondering now if (a) these were just regular (but rather persistent) stains, and I simply cleaned the screen, or (b) if I rubbed off what I thought were stains, but in reality, was some screen coating.

Is there any way I can determine this?

For example, how would I be able to tell if my screen lacks the coating? Can you usually see your own reflection in a coated screen if the screen is turned off? I can do so now, but don't recall if that was always the case.

The machine is still under warranty, and if it is in fact screen damage, I will try to get it covered. But before going to the store, I was hoping I could first determine if it's worth/necessary to go there, hence, this question.


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Exactly what the title says...

I'm new to coding and I am trying to make AppleScript simulate the key press of LShift. When I run the program, there seems to be a delay, indicating that it may be actually pressing LShift, but I tried a virtual keyboard tester, and it does not indicate LShift being pressed... I am not sure how to make the program. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Edit: Basically, I want AppleScript to press Shift (on the left). I don't know what the coding for this part is.

This is my code so far:

    repeat
       repeat 5 times
          tell application "System Events"
             keystroke "r"
             delay 5
          end tell
       end repeat
       repeat 10000 times
          tell application "System Events"
             keystroke using {shift down}
          end tell
       end repeat
    end repeat

I don't know whether pressing "keystroke using {shift down} actually is pressing shift.


texts: Numbers shortcut to jump to next non-empty cell

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I have just purchased my first Mac and am having problems with Numbers. I want to jump to the next cell in a given direction that is non-empty (or jump to the end of a contiguous chunk of cells that are non-empty). In Excel (on Windows, anyway), you can do this with Ctrl + An Arrow Key. For example, in this little spreadsheet:

    A    B    C    D
1   x              x
2        x         x
3   x    x    x
4   x    x    x    x

if you selected cell A1 and pressed Ctrl+↓, you would jump to A3. If, instead, you pressed Ctrl+→, you would have gone to D1. If you were in A3 when you pressed Ctrl+→, it would take you to C3.

On my Mac, Control + Option + Arrow Key does what I want in Google Spreadsheets. I tried that combination in Numbers, but it  adds a row or column, instead.

Surely there is a way to do this in Numbers; I just can't figure it out. Are there keyboard shortcuts like this in Numbers? If not, is there a way to map a keyboard shortcut to this functionality?


texts: My new iMac connects to my router, but not to the internet. How to fix?

texts: I have a 3 week old 2012 27-inch iMac and this morning I turned it on and it wouldn't connect to the internet. It connected to my home network just fine, just not the internet. I assumed it was my router's fault, but every other device in the house connected to the internet just fine. I have already tried turning it off and on again, many times, as with my router. I have also tried turning the Wi-Fi off and on in System Preferences. Any help?


texts: I removed the OS X partition off my HDD and installed Ubuntu. Now I want OS X back but I can't install it considering I have no access to Mac OS X. I need either an OS X Snow Leopard or OS X Lion .iso so I can put it on an installer USB.


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Related to my other question, I'm about to buy a new Mac Mini. I would like to reduce RAM to 8GB in order to see if 8GB is enough to my daily tasks in my MBP retina 15 early 2013 16GB RAM.

The idea is I’ll let this mac not make use of any more RAM than 8 GB for the running applications to see if they swap to disk or run well with 8 GB of RAM.

Can I do this sort of artificial restriction on a mac that has RAM soldered or when it’s inconvenient to go physically remove RAM for testing purposes?


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My iPhone Wi-Fi hotspot (first one in the screenshot) is shown with a different icon from any other hotspots (Android, broadband etc).

This doesn't bother me except I need to manually re-connect my Mac to the hotspot whenever it's restarted/woke up from sleep, instead of it auto-connecting like other Wi-Fi hotspots.

Anyway to get my Mac to auto-reconnect?

Specs:

iPhone 6 iOS running iOS 11.2
MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra


texts: How do I recover the Apple Developer Account Holder role?

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My organization’s account holder left the company. He used a private email address from his private domain when enrolling, so we don’t have how to take control of the email.

He is not denying transfer the account holder role to another employee, but he is taking a long time (more than a month now) to do that, which is weird.

Do we have another course of action?


texts: how do I access iTunes Visualizer options?

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I'm using iTunes 10.4 and under "menu > View > Visualizer >" there are two options, "iTunes Visualizer" or "iTunes Classic Visualizer" there's also a greyed out "Options..." menu.

The last time I used visualizer (a while ago) there were several cool visualizers to choose from like plasma shapes, and bouncing balls, and stuff.  I don't see any of that here.

Where are these options?  Were they removed?  And why is "Options..." greyed out?

Thanks!


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I followed the directions in this question.  I've checked "Enable HiDPI display modes" in Quartz Debug, and I've rebooted and logged in again, but no HiDPI modes appear.  I've rerun Quartz Debug and confirmed that the checkbox is still checked.

Are there any other things that need to be set in order for this to work?  Are there any specific hardware requirements for this?

(I have 2 large displays, for example -- is there a limitation that it only works on single displays?  I can't think of any reason it would be, but I'm out of ideas.)

EDIT: I found something that suggested you need to log out of all accounts, not just the current one -- maybe something happens when all accounts are logged-out simultaneously?  But I tried that, too, and still do not see any HiDPI modes listed.

EDIT 2: According to this post, HiDPI can work on the 30" Cinema display (2560x1600 becomes 1280x800), so that's not the problem.  This screenshot shows HiDPI modes and an "Arrangement" tab (indicating multiple displays), so that's not the problem.  It even shows the mythical "1280x800 (HiDPI)" mode!


texts: Sound from the speakers of my MBPro with Touch Bar degrading

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I have a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch bar.

When I play loud music or watch a movie in which there's a noisy action scene for instance, the speakers' sound quality suddenly degrades. Sound continues to be played but as if there was no treble at all. The only "fix" I've found is to plug headphones, wait till the system output gets changed to the headphones, and plug them out again. This seems to reinit the built-in speakers to good, full-spectrum quality, but not for long — sound quickly degrades again under the same conditions.

Is there anything I can do about this?


texts: While working on an AppleScript to save message attachments from a mail rule I believe I have come across what appears to be a limitation. It seems that if you invoke an AppleScript from a mail rule it must always be the last action in the mail rule. For example my script will save the message attachments and when it returns I want the next mail rule action to Archive the message. Mail however reorders the actions and archives the message first then executes the AppleScript. I have resorted to archiving the message within the script but am getting some unusual behavior which I haven't quite figured out. Anybody else encounter this?


texts: What is this button on my MacBook Pro Touch Bar?

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I've highlighted it in red in the screenshot.  It seems to show up almost all the time on my Mac, regardless of what applications I have open.  Pressing it does nothing apparent.  If I "Customize Control Strip..." in System Preferences, it disappears.  It does not appear on Apple's list of touch bar icons.

I'm running macOS 10.12.6 on a 13" MBP.


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I was trying to install the latest Adobe Flash player on my Macbook Pro running OS X.10.9.  The Adobe Installer stopped midway and informed me that "Process 644" is running and asked me to close it.

What is Process 644?


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Last month, for a temporary event, I've added a Polish number (+48 prefix) to 800 of my regular contacts using a vCard file.

Now, this event is finished and now I'd like to remove all those temporary polish numbers from my contacts and keep all other information intact.

Is there a way to easily do that, for example, using an Automator action?


texts: Where is "Contact" information stored within iOS4

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I have a problem in iOS4.0.1 on my 3GS where not all contacts I have saved show up in the "Contacts" app or tab within "Phone". However, when I enter names in a new text message contact field, they automatically show up - the same happens when I manually dial a contact's number in the "Phone" app.

I'm wondering in which file/directory is this information stored within the filesystem so I can harvest it manually? I have jailbroken the phone and have access to the filesystem. I believe the data may be stored in a sqlite database, though I'm not certain.

Also, would anyone be able to shed some light on how the database may have corrupted itself and if there are any possible fixes.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


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I want to do a fresh re-installation of macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 on my computer. To do so:

I uninstalled all unwanted apps.
Backed up my computer with Time Machine.

First question

After reinstallation when I use my backup to restore my files and settings, will it restore any unwanted files such as: preferences, directories and leftovers from apps that I had deleted or will Time Machine exclude them and not transfer to my freshly reinstalled macOS?

My second question

Does Time Machine backup caches, temporary files, directories and other similar stuff, which can be generated again without any harm ?

I've been searching a lot recently but I haven't found a clear and conclusive answer.


texts: Apart from being able to encypt an entire volume, what are the other differences of FileVault 2 over FileVault?

texts: Does FileVault 2 in Lion have any other differences compared to the old version, FileVault in previous releases of the system?  Are there any additional benefits to using the new version?


texts: Shared data partition for Bootcamp no longer accessible

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I have my Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion setup with partitions as follows:
disk0s1 (unnamed) - EFI partition
disk0s2 ("Macintosh HD") - OSX partition
disk0s3 ("Recovery HD") - OSX recovery partition
disk0s4 ("BOOTCAMP") - Windows 7 partition created through Bootcamp
disk0s5 (currently unnamed, but should be "Data") - exFAT partition to be shared between OSX and Windows.

Up until yesterday everything was working fine, but now the Data partition is no longer accessible by OSX or Windows.  OSX simply won't mount the partition and Windows claims the disk needs to be formatted.  I believe this is due to a corrupt partition table and could use some help in figuring out how to resolve this.

Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly how I created the various partitions.  I would have thought I created the Bootcamp partition through the usual means and then shrunk the OSX partition to make room for the new partition, but the layout mentioned above seems to suggest otherwise.  I may have created a large Bootcamp partition and then manually shrunk that to make room for the Data partition.  Either way, I created a hybrid MBR partition using GPT fdisk.

Somewhat ironically, I think this debacle was caused by something I did while troubleshooting an external hard drive that is no longer readable (hardware failure).  In the course of troubleshooting the external drive I had used fdisk and the Disk Management utility in Windows 7, but shouldn't have done anything to my main drive.  I'm not sure, however, if just using these utilities attempts to "correct" and issues it deems necessary.

At first I thought that maybe the MBR table got corrupt so I recreated it using gdisk.  This solved nothing.  I had dumped out the table before and after using fdisk -d and the results were identical.  After more thought, I realized that OSX probably wouldn't be using the MBR anyway, so now I'm stumped.

I've tried googling for some clues, but most of the results I've found are about the Windows partition no longer working and usually it's because of a corrupt MBR.

Any thoughts on the next steps to take would be greatly appreciated.


texts: I'm trying to find the Time Machine menu bar icon resource so I can change how it looks a bit. Where is that icon? In Time Machine's package contents > resources, all I see is backup.icns (the Finder icon), menu.plist, and 33 .lproj folders for different languages. In the English folder is a single file called Menu.strings.


texts: How to disable Xcode's '"ProjectName" is a project downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?' dialog?

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This is not a question on how to disable the warning when opening files or apps downloaded from the internet but instead it is about Xcode Projects.

New with Xcode 7.3 released yesterday whenever a project is opened for the first time that was downloaded from the internet a warning pops up asking

  “ProjectName” is a project downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure
  you want to open it?

How do I disable this warning from popping up?


texts: Really Strange Behaviour on Trackpad/Keyboard

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Macbook Pro / Sierra /Model 1502

My Touchpad stopped clicking. I could move the pointer around but couldn't click. Then I plugged in an external mouse. Still couldn't click but the right click worked somehow on the external mouse.
After a lot of struggling I managed to disable the Touchpad by using this command
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.kext . Then the external mouse started to work normally.
But now the keyboard started to act strange. Some letters don't work, some do work but very slowly. Then I connected an external keyboard and it works fine.

Now I am using external keyboad/mouse and have the Touchpad disabled.

Can someone help me to make the original keyboard/touchpad work again. What is the root cause of this weird behaviour.

p.s. I have tried all kinds of reboots.
  * Command+Option+P+R
  * Option+Control+Shift


texts: Does iOS 5 have a SSL security bug that got patched on iOS 6/7?

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Apple released iOS 7.0.6 and 6.1.6 to patch a specific SSL/TLS security bug.

I can't find anything official about iOS 5. Does iOS 5 have the same bug?

Please cite your answer.


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I could really use a good ergonomic keyboard for my iMac to try to deal with some wrist issues. The reviews of the Kinesis Freestyle 2 seem basically OK, but there are some complaints about oddly placed keys and the way the function key works, neither of which really appeals to me.

Does anyone out there have this keyboard? Any comments on this or any other issue? Also, are there other ergo keyboards I should be looking at? (The Kinesis Advantage doesn't really appeal to me, with the placement of common keys in the middle).


texts: Bought new iPhone 6s. Asking for different apple id. Why?

texts: My girlfriend's brother just ordered a new iPhone 6s and he tried setting up his phone but the store I believe keeps asking for a password for a Japanese registered email address. Assuming that's not meant to happen. Any reason this is happening? Is the phone refurbished or stolen and not new? Thanks for any info


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I can not find the 'curved path button' in the Build Inspector which allows me to curve a path.
Can anyone tell me where to find it?


texts: Today I checked out my MacBook Air's storage and found that my Mac is using 70.53 GB on applications out of 120.47 GB. I can't figure out where it is being used as I didn't download any applications. How can free up my Mac's storage?


texts: Best surgical way to archive, wipe and clean install Catalina on a 2017 MacBook Pro

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Long story short.

My MacBookPro has become bloated with files that I either can't trace back to originals or have no real memory of three years later. It’s got a 2tb SSD and i am constantly running out of space - yet fearful or deleting system files

(btw feel free to edit if I am not asking this in the most effective way.)

I am getting constant errors in console such as

<private> worker reports error after processing object <private>, error: Error Domain=com.apple.photos.error Code=47001

My question, is there a way to safely back up either via Time Machine or via individual files the things I would like to save i.e. photos documents, movies, Snippets of code, BBedit files etc. And then reinstall them without potential he re-infecting my machine with malware which I believe there to be present although I have not been able to track it down.

Model Name:    MacBook Pro
 Model Identifier:  MacBookPro14,3
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:    3.1 GHz
Number of Processors:   1
Total Number of Cores:  4
L2 Cache (perCore): 256 KB
L3 Cache:   8 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version:   ****


texts: No voice feedback when using Siri with American accent in iOS 9.0.2

texts: I'm using Siri with American accent in iOS 9.0.2. But it doesn't have voice feedback, even though in navigation mode in Maps. Once I switch to British accent, Siri speaks. Is that a bug for Siri in recent iOS update?


texts: How to recover photos from an iPhone 3G?

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I used an iPhone 3G from May of 2009 until around the spring of 2013, at which time I upgraded to the iPhone 5. I've always been a prolific iPhotographer :) and recently pulled around 12,000 photos off my iPhone 5 for backup and to free up disk space. I've kept the old iPhone 3G, though, and suspect it has thousands of pictures on it that need to be removed from the phone and backed up on my cloud, my laptop, and an external hard drive. However, Apple no longer makes available the OSX that supports and grants access to an iPhone 3G through iTunes. I can't hook it up to my laptop (Dell XPS 15Z, if it helps to know what I'm running, with Windows 7) and access the pictures to manually move them off the phone.

How do I recover pictures from an iPhone 3G? Is there anything that can be done?

Is there anything that can be done? As it is, I can't get my computer to even see the 3G, much less charge the phone through the computer or allow me to access the phone's drives and my pics. I'm currently charging the 3G via wall plug/USB, which I think will allow me to look at my photos on the phone itself once the phone is juiced up ... but I really just want to recover and transfer my images off the iPhone 3G for safekeeping.

I did search this site prior to posting and could not find my exact question. Please don't hesitate to VTC if I've accidentally submitted a duplicate.


texts: Annoying lag while searching in iOS Safari

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More or less from iOS 8.2 update I suffer a little, but very annoying, trouble in Safari.

I open Safari, I type in the search bar what I need (web page or something to search on Google) then I've to wait from 5 to 20 seconds to launch the command.
Until the table under the search bar is empty, pressing search button doesn't makes happen nothing!

Am I the only one with this issue? Is there a way to solve?


texts: How can I use Google Calendar etc. with iCloud?

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Since 3 years, I'm a Linux user. Now I am thinking about switching to OSX. I informed myself about OSX and looked into many youtube videos about it, but still I have a few questions about it

At the moment I'm using Google Calendar as my primary calendar. In my google account I have a dashboard where I see an overview over my data, calendars etc. Where can I find this in my apple Account? If I use iCloud, how does this work? Are calendars etc.. only synced over icloud and Apple devices?

If I don't want to use iCloud, is it possible to integrate my google Account into the OSX calendar etc?


texts: Apps will not quit on Mac OS Sierra 2016 MacBook Pro

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After getting my brand new 2016 MacBook Pro with Mac OS Sierra, I have noticed that apps such as Chrome, Mail, Spotify, anything really, randomly and intermittently do not shut down when I go to restart or shut down my computer. I have to force quit them to get them to shut down. I should not have to force quit apps just to shut down. This did not happen on my previous computer, the late 2012 iMac also OS Sierra.

What could be the root cause of the problem here?


texts: How to get a mac to wait longer for external disk to wake up upon resuming from sleep?

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My Mac has an external disk attached, and I often get "disk not ejected properly" warnings after resuming the computer from sleep. These warnings appear only when the disk has spun down during the sleep, and it seems that they are related to how long OS X is willing to wait for a device to become present before declaring it disconnected after resuming from sleep.

It would be nice to not get the annoying pop-up upon resuming from sleep, and the messages about journal replay in kernel.log look slightly alarming, even though it is unlikely that anything wouldn't have gotten written to disk while the computer was idle before going to sleep. Can this wait time be increased somehow?


texts: Images have an older (correct) timestamp within the Photos app but exported files show the current date and time

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I have about 300+ photos taken in 2012 and it shows so in the Photos app. However, exporting it as original to a folder completely replaces that date with 2016 July. Not sure why, but even trying to extract EXIF data does not show the original 2012 timestamp.. So running EXIFTOOL to modify the dates would not work here, as the EXIF data with original creation date is not there.

Any idea how can I force extract photos with the relevant timestamp shown in the Photos app?

For example, the following shows in Finder :

But in Photos, I get this :

And using REGEX.INFO, there are no date values in the EXIF :


texts: How do I delete specific photos from my photo-stream on the Mac or iPhone?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How do you erase pictures from the Photo Stream album on an iPhone running iOS 5?

After enabling the new photo-stream feature on my mac and iphone, I found that there does not seem to be a way to delete individual photos from the stream.  I like the convenience of having the photos automatically show up everywhere, but it would be nice to be able to weed out the bad ones.  I have the option to delete everything in the stream, but this was not what I was looking for.  So, is there a way on the Mac or iPhone to delete individual photos in the photo-stream?


texts: Move from android after intially declining

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I have a blank Iphone 6 I am moving to. Upon initially setting up the iphone, it asked me if I want to move over from Android. I initially declined, thinking I could access this feature later. But now I can not find out how to access it.

Can I still run the "Move from android" operation, after I initially declined it, and completed the rest of the setup process?


texts: How can I attach a contact replying an email on Iphone with IOS7

texts: I have not found a way to share a contact with someone that requested it by e-mail, I should be able to reply with an attached contact information, does anyone know how to do this?


texts: How do I get Time Machine to Show in Notification Center?

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Notifications has many of my favorite Apps in it, however, Time Machine is conspicuously  absent.

I read here that it should be showing:

  System notifications System alerts with updates about your battery,
  Time Machine backups, and ejected disks appear as notifications, so
  you can easily spot them with the rest of your notifications.

How do I add Time Machine to the list?


texts: Transfer photos (in iPhoto) and maintain detail?

texts: I would like to transfer photos from one computer to another, but I would like to maintain the originals (most of them are re-touched), faces information, gps coordinates, whether the image has been hidden, and it's rating. I know that transferring using the built in sharing mechanism will remove this detail, so is there a workaround?


texts: I have been facing a strange problem with my MACBOOK Pro SSD

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When booting my Macbook Pro, a question mark inside of a folder is displayed.

I try to go to recovery mode (which happens to be online) and I don't see my Machintosh HD in disk utility.

After certain force restarting and shutdown, my mac boots up properly.

PS: If I do an heavy task and then shutdown, this problem reoccurs.


texts: Macbook Air recognizes battery while starting, but later says "no battery available" (battery icon X)

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I spilled a full glass of water on the keyboard of my Macbook Air 11" mid-2011 (running OS X Mavericks).

After drying everything out, etc., here's what happens when I start the laptop:

It has to be plugged in to start. The green LED on the magsafe plug doesn't light up any more.
As it starts, I can pull out the magsafe plug, and it continues to start.
If I leave the magsafe plug unplugged, then just before it reaches the main login screen, the screen goes totally blank (and I can dimly see the cover's apple logo behind it, indicating that the screen is off), but the keyboard stays lighted up. If I plug the magsafe back in, nothing changes.
If I don't pull out the magsafe plug in (2.), then the laptop reaches the login screen just fine, and after I log in, there's an X on the battery icon with the message "no battery found".

I've tried SMC, PRAM resets.

It's clear that the battery is being recognized for a while, so it's not some mechanical connection issue.

If this might be some firmware issue, is there some way to update the Macbook's firmware?


texts: Removed account from Mackbook, how can I add it back again?

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I had a mail account set up for a client, but my work with them is done.  They use Google Apps so set me up an account there to use, and once my part was done they removed my account.  No problems there as all the emails I had sent or received were still on my local computer (many of my sent emails in particular had value to me as they were brainstorming and ideas, etc.).

Unfortunately I didn't think it through, and removed the account from my computer which of course meant that all the emails are gone from Mail.app.

On my phone however, the account is still present along with all my sent mails etc.

Is there any way to get the account back on my MacBook, without being able to log into the account itself (since it's been turned off by the client)?  I do have TM backups of the machine but don't know what I would be looking for to recover the account.


texts: Permanently disable "beep" with volume change?

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Is there a way to permanently disable the "beeping" sound following volume changes?

Just in case, I use a Macbook Air with OSX 10.9.1.


texts: How to disable Safari's Frequently Visited blacklist on macOS?

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I'm pretty sure Safari on macOS has some sort of blacklisting mechanism that's preventing some of the my frequently visited websites from appearing in that list. Is there a way to disable that feature?
I have Safari 13.0.4 on macOS Catalina but I think the feature (issue) has been present perhaps for years.


texts: Script to change System Preference function key settings no longer working in Big Sur OS11

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I have a simple script that I've used for years to toggle the function key (fn) off and on. The checkbox is located at System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Tab > 3rd checkbox down. Unfortunately, with OS11, it stopped working. I've now tweaked the script, but it generates an error message every other time I run it.
I'm a novice, so there may be a more elegant way to do this than the script below--it's simply what I've been using.
tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal anchor "keyboardTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "System Preferences"
        click checkbox "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" of tab group 1 of window 1
    end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"

This is the Invalid Index error I get:

Weirdly, the script works when I remove the <quit application "system preferences"> line and run the script from Script Editor with System Preferences open (so I can watch what happens). When I close System Preferences and add back in the last line, <quit application "system preferences">, here's the error I get within Script Editor:
error "System Events got an error: Can’t get tab group 1 of window 1 of process "System Preferences". Invalid index." number -1719 from tab group 1 of window 1 of process "System Preferences"
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!


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While tidying up some cables behind my Late-2013 iMac, I noticed a funny smell coming from the fan vent. Something similar to warm wax or maybe plastic – something chemical.

I did some research, and read of cases where burning smell would be coming from the vent, but this isn't really like that. In fact:

The smell isn't that strong, I only noticed it by getting close to the back of the computer, I couldn't smell it in the room, or during normal use.
The smell isn't typical of burning material. It's more similar to hair removal wax (yep!).

I tried to vacuum the vent, and I also let the fans spin fast for a bit (using a dedicated software) but the smell is still there and it's more obvious when the fans spin fast.

What could it be? Is it anything dangerous for me health wise?
Or is it instead something common that I just didn't notice before?


texts: How to find files by the filename length in OS X 10.9.1?

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Need to find files/folders with names longer than n characters (OS X 10.9.1).

Could you please help?


texts: Cannot erase an internal SSD drive on Macbook Pro on High Sierra 10.13.6

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I bought this Mac second hand a while ago and it seems that there is still some hidden files in the drive that take a lot of my space

I have done my backup
I want to completely format and reinstall the OS

I have tried in Terminal, but it keeps on giving me errors
I am not very advanced in there, but can follow a few commands just to get this sorted

Here is a screen shot of my diskutil list
Also, I only have around 4GB of space left...

Can anyone help me?


texts: When reconnecting my laptop to an external monitor, the USB ports stop working

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To reproduce my problem:

Start up laptop (Macbook Pro, version 10.8.5) with it connected to an external monitor (Apple Thunderbolt Display) that has the mouse and keyboard connected to the USB ports on the external monitor. (At this point, USB mouse and keyboard still work fine)
Remove thunderbolt display cable from laptop.
Reconnect thunderbolt display cable, re-enabling external display. The USB mouse and keyboard do not work and are unresponsive.

Interestingly, the ethernet connected to the external monitor does work, which makes me think the issue is isolated to the USB ports. Connecting and reconnecting the USB devices to the external monitor doesn't work either.

The only way to fix the issue is to restart my computer.

Any ideas on what's going on and how to fix it?


texts:
I try to download files to a AFP drive but always have "Warning: Failed to create the file /Volumes/home/Downloads: Is a directory
"

But the last command work fine
    tell application "Finder" to open ("/Volumes/home/Downloads" as POSIX file)

set theFileURL to the clipboard
set {TID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, "/"}
set theFile to text item -1 of theFileURL
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID

set theFilePath to "/Volumes/home/Downloads"
try
    do shell script "curl " & quoted form of theFileURL & " -o " & quoted form of POSIX path of theFilePath
    display dialog "The download is finished!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note giving up after 5
on error theError
    display dialog "Error downloading the file:" & return & theFile & return & return & theError buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon 0 giving up after 5
end try

tell application "Finder" to open ("/Volumes/home/Downloads" as POSIX file)

in the same kind of script, I'm also to download torrent to my Synology Download Station if anyone have a clue.


texts: Why does my home network not show up sometimes in my network listings?

texts:
I'm using a MacBOok Pro, Mac 10.9.5.  It happens frequently that when I wake my Mac from hibernation or simply reboot, my home network is not automatically selected in the "Network" section in my System Preferences.  When I open the "Network Name:" drop down menu, I don't see it in there either.  However, if I click the "Turn Wi-Fi Off" and "Turn Wi-Fi On" one or multiple times, it does eventually appear and eitehr it gets automatically selected or I can select it myself.

My question is, how I can always get it to appear in my network list (assuming I am at home and my router is turned on)?  Note I am always within 15 feet of my router (LinkSys E900).


texts: How do I mount a Synology remote folder on iPad running iOS 13.3

texts:
I have a number of shared folders on a Synology drive which I can mount without any issues on a couple of different Macbooks running different versions of Mac OSX. I am assuming the folders are published using CIFS/SMB but I cannot mount them on my iPad using the file app browser. The iPad puts up a generic and not particularly helpful error dialog "There was a problem connecting to the server. Check the server name or IP address and then try again..."

I can connect to the Synology home page using a browser so network connectivity between it and the iPad is OK. Running "nmap -p139,445 --script smb-enum-shares " indicates that shares are up on both ports 139 and 445.


texts: How to connect an iPad to a digital projector

texts: What do I need in order to connect an iPad to a digital projector?  I have tried nothing, because I have no idea what to try.


texts: El Capitan, can't rsync, tar, cp certain files on Promise raid

texts:
First off: I'm a Linux Admin, but have to do a few MacOS things around the place (had very little exposure to it previously).

One of the tasks I have is to take a backup-copy of a 10TB Promise Pegasus2 array attached to a mac-mini running el capitan 10.11.4.

I'm root on the mac (sudo -i from admin account).

I'm trying to rsync the data from the array to a backup server with ample storage (a Linux box). All went swimmingly till the process hit a certain 52MB file - on that one it just "sticks". No timeout, no error, nothing.

The perms/flags look like this:

ls -leO@  CCCBB15A-5DA6-433F-BD37-001CB6151E08.key
-r--r--r--@ 1 user  staff  compressed 54994229 17 Sep  2015 CCCBB15A-5DA6-433F-BD37-001CB6151E08.key
    com.apple.finder.copy.source.checksum#N        4
    com.apple.genstore.info       91
    com.apple.genstore.orig_perms_v1           1
    com.apple.genstore.origdisplayname        31
    com.apple.genstore.origposixname          31
    com.apple.iwork.documentUUID#PS       16
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot        50
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldestSnapshot        50
    com.apple.quarantine          22
 0: group:everyone deny write,delete,append,writeattr,writeextattr,chown

Which of these are responsible for root being "stuck"? :)

And, more importantly, what do I need to do to make it "unstuck"?

Edit1:
And this is what it does (indefinitely, by the looks of it) ... used dtruss.

stat64("Backups.backupdb/Chiltepin/2016-01-22-164610/Macintosh HD/.DocumentRevisions-V100/PerUID/502/24c/com.apple.documentVersions/805FC10B-F41B-4825-A0EB-41BE7505E79B.key/preview-micro.jpg\0", 0x7FFF5DEF6A08, 0x1000)       = 0 0
lstat64("Backups.backupdb/Chiltepin/2016-01-22-164610/Macintosh HD/.DocumentRevisions-V100/PerUID/502/24c/com.apple.documentVersions/805FC10B-F41B-4825-A0EB-41BE7505E79B.key/preview-web.jpg\0", 0x0, 0x0)      = 0 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0
read(0x3, "\0", 0x40000)         = 262144 0

Not a fast rate, mind you, looks like it tries once every 15 seconds.

Edit2:
The saga continues. I tried bsdtar & gnu tar (installed via homebrew) to generate a local tar ball of the volumes on the Promise array. Those processes, too, just get stuck, typically on files within Backups.backupdb which seem to be TimeMachine data? It's always a file with the extension .key. Is there ANY way at all to copy these? I assume it's a privilege thing as Disk Utility -> First Aid showed no problems with the file-system.

Edit3:
I still don't understand why a simple cp of the files that are acting up w/ any other means works, but that seems to be the status quo. Creating an image of the device in question seems to have worked, too. I am not confident that //restoring// from that image will work, though ... sigh


texts: How do I deploy a custom app to my iPhone?

texts: I'm taking a mobile phone app development class, and will be making custom apps using Xcode.  I'm able to run the app from Xcode on my iPhone 4 no problem, however when I disconnect the phone from the Mac, I'm unable to run the program anymore.  I'm wondering how install the app so that I can run it.


texts: cancelled pdf transfer from yosemite mac to iOS device via airdrop

texts: I can send pictures from my mac to my iOS devices via airdrop. But when I try to send a pdf, it is not working. After a while I get a message on the iOS device saying that the transfer has been canceled. On the mac, I get a message saying that the iOS device has refused transfer. Is it normal? Is there a way to send my documents via airdrop (i know I can use dropbox but sometimes I do not have access to internet)?


texts: Trouble accessing the iPhone 4s smiley emoticons / icons

texts:
I just got a "new to me" iPhone 4s, set it up, and updated it to the most recent version of iOS v 8.2. This is my first iPhone, and though I've searched using Siri, Google, and the Stack Exchange search, I've been unable to find a solution to my problem

While using the built-in keyboard, I noticed the smiley face button that brings up the smiley emoticon keyboard. In addition to the 4 other emoticon keyboards along the bottom, I noticed that there is an varying array of dots along the top of each of the emoticon keyboards.

I'm use to to this indicating that there are other "pages" of whatever I'm looking at, and I only need to swipe left or right to see them. But swiping across the emoticons simply selects one icon after another, leaving the unseen emoticons unseen.

For the "face" icons, I see 1 black and 8 grey, I assume that means there are 8 other face style icons I can choose from, maybe smiling, or angry, or sleepy. Or at least 8 pages of my other face type emoticons to choose from.

But I can't figure out how to switch pages!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: What's with the PDP Authentication Failure when connecting iPhone 4 to a cellular network?

texts:
I've bought an iPhone 4 and the text and calling work fine, as does wifi. However, when trying to use internet without Wifi I get a "Could not activate cellular data network - PDP authentication failure".

How can I fix this?


texts: How do I select a file or directory inside a package?

texts:
When an application pops up the Mac OS X standard file or directory chooser dialog it won't allow me to open packages so that I can select something within.  Is there a way to do this without creating a symbolic link to the target?

For a specific example: I've installed Komodo Edit & the Python SDK for Google App Engine.  In Komodo's Language > Python preferences I can add Python import directories to help with syntax checking or debugging.  The GAE libraries are in /Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine but I can't navigate there using the directory chooser.

(I'm not asking how to browse the contents of a package from the Finder or command line.)


texts: Monitor if users accessed my Mac when sharing was open to all?

texts:
I had opened sharing to everyone on my Mac as a "temporary" experiment to exchange files with another Mac. I forgot, and later that night when I went to shut down, the Mac reported that 2 users were connected.

Is there a log to see who those users were? I assume one was me given my experiment. But the other?


texts: Photos app on mac won't sync OSX Big Sur

texts:
I've searched everywhere online and cannot seem to find an answer to my issue with the Photos app on Mac. Currently the Photos app is blank with no contents, no synced photos, nothing... every page and tab is blank.
On my mac I'm signed into the same apple-id that I use on my iPhone and I have about 2GB of photos.
This is what I see on the photos app on mac:

In order to turn on iCloud photos, online instructions say to go to "System Preferences" -> "Apple ID" to turn on iCloud photos
But when I go there, its already turned on:

I've tried the rebuild Photos app library option by launching the app with Command + Option selected. It hasn't worked.
My setup:

Mac OSX Big Sur
iPhone 8 iOS 14.4
Both signed into the same apple id with icloud photos turned on.

I feel like an insane person.. can someone help me out?


texts: Yosemite 10.10.1 - ssh - no connection (time-out) and strange redirect

texts:
I hope I can get some help with a rather strange problem on my late 2013 MacBookPro running Yosemite 10.10.1

Up until 3 days ago, I could ssh into my server without any problems. I then updated to 10.10.1 and started to see some strange behaviour. At first I didn't notice, but it turns out I can not connect to remote ssh-boxes anymore. Local connections (including those via open-vpn tun-interface to a remote host) seem to work fine though.

Looking at a TCP dump when trying to connect to a box via internet revealed the following strange fact:

my.internal.ip.address.50596 > gl02.opentracker.net.ssh: Flags [S], cksum 0x7b7d (correct), seq 4179750266, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 958226379 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0

Doing the same one an up-to-date Mavericks box shows no signs of "gl02.opentracker.net" address and everything works just as it should be.

Since I cannot find a way to prevent (or even change/turn off) this "feature" on my MacBookPro, I consider this to be HARMFUL and an unwanted intrusion / exploitation (go take a look at ww.opentracker.net - I do NOT want to be anal-yzed by those guys!!!).

So here are my questions:

Why is my Mac trying to connect to "gl02.opentracker.net"?
Where does this behavior come from?
How can I turn this off?
Is this a malicious attempt to break my security? (--> thinking "Root-Pipe" exploit I heard about)
If so, where do I find people with proper digital-forensics knowledge and further information about this subject?

If you need more information regarding the configuration of my machine, please tell me which commands to run / config-files to provide to help track down this issue.

Thanks.


texts: How can I customize Spotlight so that if a number (or some pattern matching a regex) is typed, I can execute a command or script?

texts:
I want to "augment" Spotlight to do things like:

If an integer (^\d+$), open a site, example.com/$0.
If a UUID (^\d{8}-\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{12}$), open another site.
If a string beginning with "user:" (^user:(.*)), open another site.

And so on.

What utilities or scripts can I put together to achieve this. (Can Hammerspoon be integrated?) I'm willing to use any tool (even paid, as long as it's widely supported), and also willing to do some scripting or programming.


texts: So, I rented guardians of the galaxy to watch on a plane ride, I downloaded it the night before I left so it would have enough time to download, I checked right before I left and it was fully downloaded, then when I went on the plane and no longer had internet connection the movie was no longer in my movies or in my unwatched movies.I never started playing the movie so I should have had 30 days. what should I do?


texts: Can I use a Carbon Copy Cloner with a source disk that's larger than the target disk?

texts:
Carbon Copy Cloner is a great utility that's saved me a few times over the years. I've always used a much larger target drive than the source so I've never run into this problem before.

Now I have a 1 TB source and a 750 GB target drive. Only ~300 GB of the source drive is actually used?

Will this work?


texts: How can I prevent desktop spaces in Mission Control from blurring, hiding window thumbnails?

texts:
After using my Mac for a while, I notice that some of the desktop space thumbnails blur and hide their window thumbnails in Mission Control. See the screenshot below for an example.

The only way I have found to resume showing all window thumbnails on all desktops is to log out and log back in. Closing the blurred desktop makes the next desktop blur instead.

I am using macOS High Sierra. I think I've observed the same behavior on Sierra, and I don't recall seeing it on macOS versions before Sierra.

What might be causing this?

I suspect the cause might be something that one or more video conference or screen sharing applications does, but I haven't been able to isolate which one or under what conditions. I think I have observed the symptoms after using multiple different applications, possibly including Google Hangouts, Hangouts Meet, Zoom, and GoToMeeting.

What might prevent it from happening?


texts: How do I import my iPhone Mail imap account settings to my Macbook Mail client?

texts: How do I import my iPhone Mail IMAP account settings to my Macbook Mail client? Do I have to enter them manually?


texts: iTunes playing album tracks in wrong order

texts: When playing a specific album, iTunes plays the third track ninth. When checking 'Get info' the track is clearly designated as track 3 of 10. Nothing I do moves it to the correct position in the album order. How can I fix this?


texts: How do I install OS X Yosemite without a working Mac App Store application?

texts: My installation of the Mac App Store on Mavericks is broken. What alternatives are there for installing the new OS?


texts:
My MacBookPro has been extremely slow at the startup. Is there something similar to Window's System Registry that I can see all the boot files and uncheck what I don't need?

I'm running Mac OS X Version 10.6.8

Model Name:  MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP71.0039.B0B
SMC Version (system): 1.62f7


texts: Opedirectoryd taking >90% of CPU + thousands of messages in console per second

texts:
Some time ago our company laptops started to overheat. At first it was nothing serious but after a while almost all our macbooks started to act more like ovens than computers. The issue seems to lie in Active directory we use for both our PCs and MACs.
Logs are getting about 4000 messages per second. Every time its the same thing.

opendirectoryd: assertion failed: 14E46: AppleLdap + 24580 {4B807ACD-E59B-3635-99BA-B08122AA513C}: 0X0

Even if I disable messaging for the process the opendirectoryd still takes more than 90% of CPU.
If I at least knew what the error message means than maybe I could do something about it.
The issue is even worse on El Capitan in fact it is so bad that machines with it won't even boot properly.

If anyone knows how to fix this or at least knows what the message means I would be most grateful.


texts: Macbookpro can't recognize bootable usb at boot time?

texts:
I have an old macbookpro:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro6,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed:    2.53 GHz
Boot ROM Version:   MBP61.0057.B0F

I created a windows usb with bootcamp assistant, "Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk" with a windows 7 ISO image.

I went through bootcamp's "Install or remove Windows 7" option and partitioned 21GB from my harddisk for my windows partition (it's named "BOOTCAMP", MS-DOS (FAT)).

I plugged in my usb and restarted my laptop. I pressed option during boot to go into the boot menu. Somehow, my usb stick doesn't show up in the boot menu. I only see my normal boot partition and a recover partition. I tried removing the USB stick while I am still in that menu and plugging it back to see if that will fix the problem. It did not.

Strangely, I noticed that my USB stick does not light up when I unplugged it and reinserted it when my mac is in the boot menu. Normally the usb stick will light up when inserted into this usb port.

I thought my ISO is not bootable so I tried another windows 7 ISO and the results remain the same.

Is it possible that my model is too old such that it doesn't allow booting from USB during boot time? Is it possible that older ROMS do not check for USB drives during boot time (hence explaining why my usb doesn't light up)?

I can assure you that my usb port is functioning correctly (at least during Mac OS X run time).


texts:
Hardware: Hackintosh running Mavericks.
Problem: I had a DMG where I store (stored...) stuff I obviously wanted to keep private, so I unchecked the "Save in my keychain" option.
Some weeks ago, beginning to upgrade all my passwords (iPad, phone etc) to something less crackable (like the 6-digit iPhone lock screen) I changed the password of said DMG to a very long new one. I did it following the instructions in Disk Utility.
Yesterday I tried to open it but it said "Try again" a few times until the "Authentication error" window appeared.
I'm very careful with passwords and they are always stored. When I change them I keep the previous one, etc. But I might have screwed this one up because neither password works.
What I did after the change is rename the DMG with a password hint. But when it wouldn't open, I renamed it back to its previous name. Nothing worked.
And since I am thorough with backups too, I updated both backups with the new DMG... so none of them work...
Now the central question: since I did all this on my desktop computer, could I overcome this with some kind of log file, or anything of the sort stored somewhere in my drive? Of course I have full admin access.
I took it to my Macbook running Catalina but no luck there either.
Thanks to all !


texts: MacBook Pro 2017 Geekbench Before and After Spectre and Meltdown Patch

texts:
I was just wanting to see the impact on speed due to the patches for the recent Intel CPU Bugs.

I have run the update already, but was wondering if someone could run a Geekbench test on macOS 10.13.1 and 10.13.2 for a by-the-numbers comparison to how the CPU ran before and after the update (preferably on a 15” 2017 machine)


texts:
From one Terminal:

echo "test" | nc -u -l 127.0.0.1 10000

From another Terminal:

nc -u 127.0.0.1 10000

But the Terminal just hangs, it doesnt return the "test" output. It seems to work fine without the -u argument. What am I getting wrong here?


texts:
How to clean computer from recovery mode terminal? Stopped working after had about 33MB left. Now is loading until middle and stuck, then shut down automatically.

In recovery mode I have a terminal, through which I could clean trash bin to have space so it can load? I was doing CD from / to different folder but couldn’t find home folder with all documents so I dont know where to look.

Also in recovery mode in disk managment in both whole disk and partition of OSX was veryfying disk fine, but was trying to restore something and then stopped on partition drive error fixing.


texts: How do I change the OS X Mouse Pointer's color?

texts:
I have some visual impairment, and I often have problems finding my mouse pointer on the screen.  I want to change the color of the pointer.

I know in "Universal Access" you can change the size, but it still doesn't help that the cursor 'blends in' with everything else on my screen.  I want to make my cursor bright green or red.

I'm using OS X 10.6.7.


texts: Is it possible to set up iCloud Keychain without a mobile phone? If it is possible then how can I do it?


texts: Why does my computer freeze when I unplug my headphones?

texts: Whenever I plug in or unplug my headphones into my computer, it freezes for about 10 seconds before it is able to do anything which is rather annoying.  This didn't use to happen though, would anyone know the cause of this or how to fix it?


texts: scanner driver Samsung Xpress M267X/287X

texts:
I don’t get the Samsung Xpress M267X/287X scanner to work with 10.8. The scanner shows up in Image Capture but it need additional software, which it can’t find.

Does someone has a link to the right drivers?


texts: Macbook unexpectedly shuts down programs when I close the lid

texts:
OSX 10.14.6, late 2013 13" macbook pro.

I keep a lot of tabs open on my laptop, and lately I've started noticing that I can't find tabs that I thought were open. Turns out that when I close the macbook's lid, it will sometimes close whatever tab or window is active at the time (equivalent to cmd+w, I think). If, for example, it's an unsaved Word document, when I open the laptop again I'll see the "do you want to save your work" dialogue; if I had Chrome or Safari open in the foreground, it'll just close whatever tab was open.

This doesn't seem to always happen, making it frustratingly difficult to debug.

Any idea what could cause this behavior?


texts: Is there a way to use Notes without using Mail.app

texts:
With iCloud I've found the notes app super handy now that it easily syncs to my iPhone and iPad. It also syncs to my mac via Mail.app, but I was wondering if there's an easy way to access and edit notes that doesn't require opening my email.

Any way to do this?


texts: Is Xcode 7.x functional running macOS Sierra to submit builds to iTunes Connect?


texts: upgrading drive of 2015 macbook air, such thing as too fast?

texts:
I was considering upgrading the drive of a macbook air that i got and was amazed at the difference between some of the NVMe PCIe M.2 drives at around 3,938 MB per second and other SATA drives (which I am not wholly sure can be used anyway, even with adapters?) that are more in the 700-800s MB p/s.

Would the 2015 macbook air be a bottle neck thus making such a
    blazing fast NVMe M.2 drive a bit moot?


texts:
Whenever I type File:/// into the URL bar in Chrome, into Text Edit, and more, it crashes the app. I found out about this after reading this blog post.

How can I avoid this crash and make it impossible for apps that get this string whether it's typed, pasted or arrives in a file, message or download?


texts: Is it possible to use the Rōv scanner that ships with Delicious Library for general purpose scanning?

texts:
I have the package of a Microvision Rōv bluetooth barcode scanner and the Delicious Library software and it works awesomely well to scan UPC of books, dvd, and gadgets of all sorts into the library.

What I'd like to do is scan some other data using this hardware and don't know how to get at the data that the barcode scanner captures but that Delicious Library is bypassing (serial number, IMEI, etc...). I have asked both companies for assistance with this, but wondered if anyone here had an answer before I get the "official responses". I will answer / comment as I get responses from the companies.

Does anyone have recommendations for software to scan arbitrary bar code data into a spreadsheet or structured text file so I can parse these other fields and use this scanner for data entry past what the Delicious Library software allows?


texts: How to give Airplay traffic priority on network?

texts:
I noticed that when I download a large file over Wi-Fi my Airplay stream stutters and then dies out.
I am just streaming audio from MacBook Pro 5,3 (e.g. Spotify) to my Airport Express.
At the same time a Xiaomi Redmi 2 and a Huawei P9 are often connected to the Airport Express. No heavy traffic is going to them (only some WhatsApp and browsing)

During the download, data is coming in at around 6 MB/s, and I see that 200 KB/s is going up.

When I check my Wi-Fi statistics I see I have a transmission rate of 145 (Mb/s I assume), which converts to 18 MB/s so I should have plenty of headroom.

How can I give Airplay priority on my network, such that there's always plenty of bandwidth available to stream?


texts: How can you mark every item in Safari's reading list as "read"?

texts: I just want to mark every item in my Reading List as read. All 200+ of them. Is there a CLI solution, or a way to edit the ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file to mark them as  read?


texts: I'm playing a game called fishing planet and I need to use f11 to change the pitch but it's the volume so I can't use it


texts: How does my brand new iPhone have steps activity recorded on it (in the Health app) from a month ago?

texts:
I just received a brand new iPhone from Apple.com. It booted up to a fresh "welcome" state, as expected. I did not do any kind of data transfer/import; I set it up as new. And I configured it with a brand new Apple ID / iCloud account not linked anywhere else.
And yet... it has 197 steps on it from a day in June, registered in 3 chunks at 3 different times that day (around 3AM, 5AM and 12PM California time -- it was shipped from California). Tapping on these steps shows additional metadata that verifies that the steps were indeed registered on this device, not synced from anywhere.
It also has one flight of stairs climbed from the same day in June.
How is this possible? Does the device register steps before it's been set up, and it was turned on multiple times in a day (including in the middle of the night) during some test/QA phase? Surely all new iPhone buyers are not receiving devices with ghost steps on them?
I considered that perhaps it had registered some steps I made while setting it up and before the correct date/time had a chance to sync. But that wouldn't explain the preexisting steps coming in 3 chunks at 3 different times of day that are many hours apart.
Could this indicate that perhaps the device is not as "new" as promised?


texts: Weird pattern on my MacBook Air top surface

texts:
After unbagging a MacBook Air on the top panel where the Apple logo is some weird patterns were generated. I not sure what are those .. can someone explain?

The bag just has some black foam material inside.

I didn't do any photoshopping. I just used a filter to improve the visibility of the pattern in the pics.

Its opacity is too low and if we rub it gets removed.


texts:
I added an SSD to my system, so now I have a boot drive on the SSD and my home directory on a different volume. I successfully changed the home directory as specified in Change Users Home Directory. However, this breaks all of the symlinks I've set up for my dotfiles, since things like .bashrc which used to point to /Users/me/.local/dotfiles/.bashrc are now broken.

My fix was to instead change /Users/me/ to be a symlink to /Volumes/Home/Users/me, and set /Users/me to be my home directory. Are there any stability problems with this approach? Will it be noticeably slower than having my home directory actually be /Volumes/Home/Users/me?


texts: New uninitialised SSD not showing in Disk Utility

texts:
I have bought a new Samsung EVO 850 SSD, it is yet unformatted. I have a SATAI/II to USB3.0 dock which I want to use to get the drive formatted, but it is just not showing up in Disk Utility (Recovery mode or plain) or even Disk Management on Windows. I have a Macbook Pro 17" Early-2011 [El Capitan 10.11.5] and want to clone my current HDD to this SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner.

The dock I am using is this exact one: https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-3-5-Inch-Drive-Black-NST-D300S3-BK/dp/B007B5PQW4

The SSD is this one: http://www.samsung.com/za/consumer/memory-storage/memory-storage/ssd/MZ-75E250BW

I have read of a few people successfully installing this drive into their Macbook Pro, but success eludes me.

Is the drive maybe broken? Or is the dock preventing the drive from showing up? Or am I doing something wrong.


texts: Resizing Macintosh HD partition to use free space

texts: I recently deleted a partition and have 60GB of free space. I would like for my main partition to use that, but whenever I go to resize it, I get the error "You can’t perform this resize unless it has a booter".


texts: How to create a toggle right click macro?

texts: I've been trying to play MGSV (Metal Gear Solid 5) via Geforce Now but sadly it doesn't have a built-in toggle aim option. I also tried to use controllermate but to no avail, I can't seem to do it or find a guide to do it. Does any one know a way, via a macro or any other means, to make it so that if I click the Right Mouse Button it would toggle even without an in game option?


texts: How to disable Apple Radio in iTunes and iOS?

texts:
Update: iTunes/Apple Radio is now a paid service only — making it's
  removal from clogging up our screens more relevant.

On an iPhone, it's possible to disable Apple Music from cluttering your Music.app if you're not looking to use Apple's subscription service.

Same goes for iTunes on the Mac.

But Apple Radio still remains visible. How can I remove Apple Radio from showing?

If you click to play, none of those radio stations work without an Apple Music subscription:

What I've tried in OS X:

What I've tried in iOS:

  Settings.app > Music > disable "Show Apple Music"

  Settings.app > General > Restrictions > disable "Apple Music Connect"


texts: Can I delete old Messages threads automatically?

texts:
I would like to remove old Messages threads. Is there any way to do this, manually or automatically, other than deleting them one-by-one?
Is there an API for deleting them?


texts: Change the year of 500+ photos in iPhoto

texts: For quite some time I had my camera configured with the wrong year. How can I change the year portion of the date of 500+ photos in my iPhotos library?


texts: Can you have a FaceTime session while also using another VOIP solution like BlueJeans or Skype

texts: I would like to know if its possible for one to have a FaceTime session while also using another VOIP solution like BlueJeans or Skype at the same time, i.e. is it possible to be heard at the same time on both calls if active sessions are running on both of the apps?


texts: Cannot turn on Bluetooth - Exhausted all options

texts:
Firstly I would like to say that I have never used a Mac in my life before today so apologies if i am a little slow on the uptake. I recently purchased the iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) which i believe is running a Yosemite v10.10 OS.

The iMac was second hand and there was no install discs in the box. It did come with the Apple mouse and keyboard, however i cannot pair them with the Mac as the Bluetooth won't turn on ('Turn Bluetooth On' button is greyed out in System Preferences>Network>Set Up Bluetooth Device...). The Bluetooth icon in the top left is also greyed out with a line through it and says 'Bluetooth: Not Available' on it.

So far i have Deep Breath:

Checked the technical specs to ensure this model has Bluetooth.
Repaired Disk Permissions in Applicatiopns>Utilities>Disk Utilities + Restarted.
Deleted 'com.apple.Bluetooth.plist' in Library>Preferences + Restarted
Reset the SMC + Restarted
Completed a PRAM reset + Rebooted
Installed the 'Bluetooth Switch' widget (Which appears to do nothing)
Some people have suggested that if you shut down and log in a few times it eventually sorts itself out, well i have done that about 10 times now and it has definitely not fixed itself.

... and none of it has made a single bit of difference.

Not such a good start so far from Apple, I am starting to wonder why i switched from PC's. Can anyone help to restore my faith?


texts: When typing on Bluetooth keyboards, letter sometimes infinitely repeats while not holding it down

texts:
For years, I've had no problem with using on a Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Keyboard as well as a Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000. I'm using a late 2011 MacBook Pro, OSX El Capitan v.10.11.3, (Bluetooth 4.0).

problem:
Starting about 3 weeks ago, sometimes I'd press a letter key, I'd let go of the pressed key, but OSX seemed to sense I was still holding the key down. This problem happened with both those keyboards. This problem never occurred while using the attached keyboard.

Once the letter started uncontrollably repeating, I switched to the MacBook's attached keyboard. After about 1 second of frantically pressing esc while also using the trackpad to place the cursor behind the repeating text, the last character typed stopped repeating. I could continue typing on the Bluetooth keyboard as if nothing had happened. The problem would not occur again for days.

ideas:

This problem has coincided with my El Capitan upgrade.
This problem definitely happens to me while doing Japanese character input. I'm not 100% sure that this has also happened to me while doing English input.
El Capitan has added new features with regard to Japanese character input.
Of course, the keymappings for the 2 MSFT Bluetooth keyboards are far apart from the unique / weird MacBook keyboard layout. They sure don't have fn, control, option, command, ... and the command key is used for Japanese input.

So far, it has happened when I am typing in MSFT Word, MSFT Excel, a Chrome browser, and the NetBeans IDE.  But not in any Apple apps.

But, it only happens infrequently. It is annoying, but not the end of the world. Maybe just buy an Apple keyboard.


texts: Password keeper for iPhone, Mac and Windows?

texts: Are there any (preferably free/cheap) solutions for syncing and accessing encrypted passwords on a Mac, a PC and an iPhone?


texts: How to connect an extra monitor and a thunderbolt (LaCie) harddrive on a MacBook Pro (13" mid 2012)?

texts:
I have a 13 inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro and I want to connect my LaCie Thunderbolt hard drive and my extra 21" Monitor but the MacBook Pro has only one thunderbolt port...

How it will be possible?


texts:
I sold my MacBook earlier and I want to reinstall Yosemite.

However, I have FileVault enabled and I want to essentially "throw away the key" and "reinstall Yosemite" so none of the data is recoverable.

Could someone please clarify what I should do? Many thanks.


texts:
I've written an AppleScript app that I use to open certain files with (it sends them to Vim in the Terminal).

I'd like to set all my .Tex files to automatically open with this app. The problem is this changes the files icons to the blank file icon.

Is there a way to change the app's icon? In other apps I use (non-AppleScript apps) I know how to "change" this icon by replacing it in foo.app/contents/resources but in my app there is no icon there yet.

Is it possible to add one?


texts: Apple headphones on a Mac: make play/pause button work in Spotify

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Headphone play/pause button controls iTunes only
  How can I make earphones with full inline controls work with VLC/Spotify?

I have a retina MacBook Pro and I noticed that when I plug in the iPhone headphones and click the button on them, iTunes starts. However, I am using Spotify for music. Is there a way to reconfigure that button so that it works in Spotify?


texts: Bluetooth audio streaming from Android to Mac

texts:
Is there any way I can Stream Audio from my Android device via Bluetooth to my Macbook Pro?

I'm using OS X 10.9.1 and Android 4.4.2.

The AUX-Port on my Android device has stopped working. Is there a way to stream audio to my Mac so that I can play audio on my Android device through my Mac's speakers?


texts: kernel_task writes huge amounts of data to disk (> 1TB) - how to diagnose?

texts:
My MacBook (2016 with TouchBar) running macOS 10.13 has a 512GB SSD. Looking at the activity monitor after a couple of weeks of uptime (most of it spent in standby), kernel_task shows 1.43TB (!) of bytes written to disk right now:

What is wrong here - how can I diagnose why kernel_task is writing so much data to the disk? (This happens all the time after each reboot).

Memory pressure is still "green" most of the time. Running out of space is also not an issue so most of the data seems to be "temporary".

However, I am a bit worried about my SSD - writing 25 TB per year (in addition to the "regular" workload) does not seem to be a good idea...

Any ideas?


texts: Can I browse the Mac App Store without Snow Leopard?

texts: I understand that Snow Leopard is required to install the Mac App Store and actually install apps. But is it possible to browse the store on the web the way you can with the iTunes Store?


texts: OSX 10.11.x and Adobe CS6 suite incl photoshop?

texts:
Since updating to OSX 10.11.3, I have found Photoshop CS6 will not load, as well as several other programs. Others include Hugin, possibly Dragon Dictate 5 (not resolved or confirmed yet re VP updating), Bamboo digital tablet, and a few others.

Concentrating on Photoshop CS6, for me following upgrading to OSX 10.11.3 it begins to load then freezes. A web search (several done over a few months) seems to suggest for others there is no issue, yet for others there is, and for some few if any of the CS6 suite is working. Adobe no longer offers support for CS6. Apple is silent.

I am left confused if there are few or many that find Photoshop CS6 working fine on OSX 10.11.x. If here are many, perhaps a recent replacement of the motherboard, CPU/GPU is the real issue, not OSX 10.11.x in my case.

I understand OSX 10.11 relocated some system files as part of improved security, so it could be the issue. Others posts on other sites seemed originally to confirm this.

This article seems to outline these changes best:  Article Security Changes OSX 10.11.x

Lost and confused.


texts: When ever I press right shift it show Desktop, but in the setting 'Show Desktop' is set to Control Down

texts:
And when I assign other command to left shift it display error, and when I press the sign it redirect me to the keyboard shortcut, which does not display any conflict...

I just want to use my right shift ToT


texts:
MacBook Air with Mojave (14.2) and the option in Finder > Preferences > General NOT Checked: "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows."

Yet Finder stubbornly opens all new windows in tabs.

For example, I have a folder on the desktop open and in list view. I double click on another folder on the desktop and it opens in a tab in the folder that was just opened.

I have rebooted
I have deleted any Finder preference files in
~/Library/Preferences and rebooted.
I have turned the preference on

No joy.

Anyone know where the Finder Tabs preference is stored so I can delete it or have a trick to make it behave?
   (open in tabs), rebooted and turned open in tabs off


texts: Is there a subscription site or iPhone application for changing caller id or caller id spoofing? In other words I want to call someone, but I want to change my number (for example 000000 or 111111). How can I do this?


texts: Is it possible to network two MacBook Pro's together without a router?

texts:
I have demo that I want to conduct and it requires two computers, the place where I am doing the demo will not have a router available for said demo.

Is it possible to configure two MacBook Pro's to communicate with each other directly over wifi without having a router involved?


texts: So I have the new mac mini 2018 and I have a dual screen setup. 1 is connected via display port the other via HDMI. My main display is the one connected via the display port. However, I have this issue on startup where my main screen is just black and the second monitor with just a background image and no login screen. I have to turn one of the screens off to get the login screen. How can I fix this issue?


texts: How to keep a file hidden in Finder, but readable, writable and visible to an app?

texts:
An otherwise great app I'm using, annoys me as every time I start it, it writes to 2 files in the root of my user account which are clearly visible. Now, I have used the terminal command sudo chflags hidden with the name of the files to hide them, which does work, but nonetheless, when I launch the app again, it makes those once hidden files visible again!

The files content stays the same, so either its being re-written, or its being made visible again once the app is finished with them after boot, and whatever way it saves, the 'hidden' status of the files is being ignored or changed due to write permissions used by the app (I'm guessing).

Is there any way to ensure that this app can find these files and do whatever writes and saves it has to, but I can still keep them invisible in Finder? As in keep the files hidden to my view but readable and writable to the app? Is a combo chown / chmod command needed alongside a Finder preference setting?


texts: So I have the 5S and the iOS 7 Jailbreak came out the other day. See one problem though is that mobile substrate and preferenceloader don't quite work with any 64-bit devices. Anyway, the whole point of the question is if anyone knows any information on excatly when those two very important Cydia packages will be optimized for the 5S/Any other 64-bit devices.


texts: Missing space on Fusion Drive (partition problem)

texts:
I know this or similar problems have been discussed, but (to be honest) I can't see the trees for the wood.
I tried to create a partition on my fusion drive (1TB Hd + 240 MB SSD). No partition was created but afterwards the capacity of my (1.2 TB) drive had been reduced to 617 GB. With 414 GB in use, approximately 400 GB of disk space is missing.

Terminal diskutil list says:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage myLogicalVolGroup       999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage myLogicalVolGroup       239.7 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS HD IMac 1              +616.6 GB   disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
                                 7EE2FE6D-3D37-46AA-B948-52243490F324
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive

and:

diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 53DFB831-BFCA-4552-A8F5-387F3905003A
    =========================================================
    Name:         myLogicalVolGroup
    Status:       Online
    Size:         1239058563072 B (1.2 TB)
    Free Space:   615951769600 B (616.0 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume A1418DDB-CB43-493F-9341-F23AE2FA7150
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     999345127424 B (999.3 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 2E45A45F-D1C1-4B62-97FA-5223DD9C965E
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     239713435648 B (239.7 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family E3B8F7DC-C327-44A7-8BE2-2BFD2AE646EB
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 7EE2FE6D-3D37-46AA-B948-52243490F324
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          616601616384 B (616.6 GB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               HD IMac 1
            Volume Name:           HD IMac 1
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse

Would this simply be a matter of:

diskutil cs resizeStack 7EE2FE6D-3D37-46AA-B948-52243490F324 0g  (?)

Hope some-one can help me with this.


texts: Why are my Mac and Windows machine able to share a flash drive, but they cannot share an external hard drive?

texts:
I am recording Zoom meetings with my Windows machine and storing the videos on an external hard drive. I wanted to consolidate the folders by adding videos I have recorded on my Mac, but I realize I cannot just switch the external hard drive between the two machines.
Why is that possible when using a USB Flash Drive?
Should I then store the videos temporarily on a USB drive on one machine, and then use that to transfer the videos to a permanent external hard drive connected to another machine?


texts: Network drive in finder sidebar disappears, is there's a way keep them in unmounted state?

texts:
I use Automator to mount my network drives on boot by following instructions from this link:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/04/automatically-connect-to-network-drive-mac-os-x/

and then drag the drives on the sidebars favorites panels in Finder. But, the problem arises when the NAS goes to sleep or standby. Finder automatically removes them from there. Then, I followed this:

Network folder in finder sidebar disappears

to create a symlink. Symlink works perfectly in macOS Mojave, until the server goes to sleep  again. Because, the volumes gets unmounted and symlink is broken. But, putting a direct drive link on the sidebar does wakeup the server and remount the drive.

So, is there a way to keep the drive shortcut permanently fixed in the sidebar in their unmounted state? Or a symlink of a shell script file that will mount a drive whenever it is clicked?


texts: Do LAN transfers use both Ethernet and WiFi by default?

texts: So, I'm doing a 100+GB transfer over my LAN from my iMac to my NAS, I was simply wondering if it would utilize both the ethernet and the wifi for the transfer. If not, is there a way to enable transfers to use both?


texts: Can I use the free space on an NTFS Hard Drive to make a "Mac OS Journaled" partition to use as a backup space?

texts:
I have a 1 TB NTFS HDD which has 350GB free space, how would I format that 350GB to use it as a backup space for my MacBook?

diskutil list output:

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:               Windows_NTFS ADATA HD710             1.0 TB     disk1s1


texts: Read-only HFS+ on Windows 10 with boot camp driver question

texts:
I've been searching around on the internet for a while trying to answer this question, but I can't get a clear answer for it.

Background info:
I'm running El Capitan with a Windows 10 partition on my MBP that I created through Boot Camp. When I ran the boot camp assistant, I made sure the "Download latest support software from apple" box was checked. After that my computer rebooted and I installed Windows onto the newly created partition from a USB drive. I then booted into Windows, where an Installer for the Boot Camp Windows Software popped up. I installed it.

I've read on the internet that the Boot Camp Support Software allows read-only access to the Macintosh HFS+ partition, BUT windows does not recognize the partition, I can't even read from it. Why is this? Is what I read wrong? Or is there a different thing I need to install that's not the software apple put on my Windows Install USB? Or is this feature simply not supported in Windows 10?

I can't figure out why this drive is not accessible to me even though a bunch of places on the internet say that support is included in the Boot Camp Support Software, which I'm fairly sure I installed

EDIT: I realize that there are other third party options to get both read and write support for HFS+, but I am specifically looking for an option built in by Apple.


texts:
Thanks to Little Snitch I've noticed that a lot of apps installed on my MacBook (El Capitan with latest updates) connect to an IP address in The Netherlands (23.74.205.239, registered with Akamai). As I couldn't find any more info on this I am wondering what to do?

So far I've blocked the IP on the system level and scanned my system with "MalwareBytes" without any problems. Strangely enough all that seems to happen is a connect but no data transfer (according to Little Snitch, with blockage of IP temporarily disabled). There is also no clear heuristic of which apps connect, the only thing: native Apple apps (iTunes, ...) are not affected. But if an app connects it does so with every start.

I am starting to worry because a few days ago I got a security notification by Cloudflare while accessing a website.

I am really curious what to make of all of this, and would appreciate any help or suggestions.


texts: iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 with fusion (SSD and HDD)

texts:
I have replaced the internal SSD with a 2TB and also replaced my HDD (which had died).

I would like t:
run bootcamp on the SSD and then run the MACOS on the HDD as separate drives
 .. OR ..
use the internal SSD as a minimal MACOS with bootcamp and then just install a second MACOS on the HDD for my MAC apps.

Can I do other of these?

Thanks!
Charles


texts: If my iPhone 4 has spyware on it will encrypting my sms messages with an encryption app keep them private?

texts:
I am currently dealing with a stalking situation and my iPhone 4 is being monitored. The person knows all my phone info like meid, imei, phone number etc…  Also I believe my phone has spy software on it.

I have removed this before by restoring the phone to factory conditions through iTunes, however, I now think they can install it remotely. If I use an app that does SMS encryption in your opinion do you think that will keep my texts private?


texts: How can I distinguish between queued, played, and skipped podcast episodes?

texts:
When a podcast that I follow releases a new episode, I often elect to skip listening to it if it doesn’t interest me. Prior to iOS 14.5, I did this by “deleting” the episode from my library. Now that option is gone.
I’ve discovered that I can still dequeue an episode by marking it is played, but that conflates played and unplayed episodes.
I’m happy to learn a new a paradigm for organizing podcasts but I can’t figure out what Apple wants me to do here.


texts: Does Family Sharing allow others to see the free Apps that you've downloaded?

texts:
Does Family Sharing allow others to see the free Apps that you've downloaded or is it just the paid Apps?

I did search online but couldn't seem to find confirmation.


texts: Siri will not give me directions home, or recognise my home address correctly

texts:
I used to be able to ask Siri to 'give me directions home', but this has stopped working a couple of years ago.  Here are the details:

When I type 'home' into Maps, it picks up the address correctly for my contact card and shows it on the map, and gives directions to it correctly.

And when I ask Siri 'what is my home address' or 'show me my home address', she opens my contact card and correctly displays my home address.

But when I ask her to 'show my home address on the map', she replies 'I couldn't find an address for Home'.

And when I ask her to 'give me directions home', she says 'Hmm... I can't seem to access that data right now. Can you try again in a little while?.'

If I change the address on my contact card to just the street, Siri works fine, but directs me to another house in the street, not my address. And, of course, then the address on my contact card is wrong/incomplete.
The problem is the same on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. It does not appear to be a problem with my devices, since the responses are reproducible on other Macs.  It seems to be a problem with the ability of Siri to find my home address.
I have spent many hours with Apple support who recognise that there is a problem, take data dumps and promise to get back to me, and then after some months it all goes quiet with no further response.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?


texts: Sort files according to kind in Office for Mac save dialog

texts:
I would like to arrange my folders above files so that finding where I want to file project details becomes more straightforward.

I have been able to do this in Finder but when using Office for Mac applications like Word or Excel and trying to "save" a file, all the existing files and folders are mixed up according to name – not kind.

Can anyone help me "sort" this out?


texts: How to display contact anniversaries in MacOS Calendar?

texts: Is there a way to pull in anniversaries for contacts to the Birthday calendar or another calendar in the MacOS Calendar app?


texts: Swimming workout on "original" Apple Watch

texts:
watchOS 3 introduced a new workout type, swimming. However, this seems to be available only on the new series 2 Apple Watch.

Is there a way to start a swimming workout on the old Apple Watch (not Series 1, the original from 2015)


texts: No keyboard backlight until password entered

texts:
Since updating to OS X 10.8.3 on my MBP, my keyboard backlight does not come on until I enter my password and my desktop comes up.  This makes it very difficult to enter my password at night with low light because the keys are not backlit.

How can I enable the keyboard backlight before password entry?


texts: Flickering in Safari after switching back to integrated graphics

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro which switches dynamically between discrete and integrated graphics.  I get a notification about the switching using gfxCardStatus.

If Safari is running while the system switches first from integrated to discrete, then back from discrete to integrated, some web page elements will sometimes flicker in Safari.   When typing in text boxes, sometimes the cursor will appear to jump around for a split second and some of the text will also disappear for a short while, then re-appear.  It is not bad enough to make it impossible to use Safari, but it is definitely annoying. Functionally, there's no difference when using text boxes, it's just an annoying and confusing visual glitch.

After restarting Safari, the problem is gone until the graphics are switched again.

Questions:

Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
Is there a way to avoid/fix this problem?
Is there any chance this problem was caused by installing CUDA?  Can installing the CUDA package mess up graphics drivers on a Mac?  I'm new to Macs and one of the first things I installed on this machine was CUDA, so I can't really tell if the problem was present before that (but since that's graphics card related too, I though it'd be good to mention it).

There is a program I use regularly a new version (released a couple of days ago) triggers a switch to the NVIDIA card, so I see this problem constantly.


texts: How to remove autocomplete (autofill) entries from Chrome? (Shift+Fn+Delete doesn't work)

texts:
In both Firefox and Chrome (latest versions) when I start typing an address of a website I have visited before, it shows a bunch of autocomplete entries.

If I want to delete a specific entry, in Firefox I can press up or down to select that particular entry, and press Shift+Fn+Delete and it's gone.

Somehow I remember this used to work in Chrome as well, and this is also what I find on various websites. But it doesn't work. At least not in my current version of Chrome (the latest).

How do I remove specific autocomplete entries from Chrome, other than just deleting the entire history altogether? (which I'd rather not do)

In case it's relevant, I'm running MacOS Mojave 10.14.6.


texts:
I can't seem to get my podcasts to sync like they used to (before ios5).

I have iTunes set up to only transfer SELECTED UNPLAYED podcasts... however, it keeps transferring all of the SELECTED podcasts, played or not.

Do others have this same issue? If not, any suggestions on how I could get it to stop?

I've tried disabling, and re-enabling podcast syncing. Turning off and on SELECTED... turning off and on UNPLAYED... but this doesn't seem to resolve it.

Any advice appreciated.


texts: How to fix iTunes library? I copied the iTunes folder but the music does not appear in iTunes

texts:
I copied my iTunes folder and changed it in preferences. Then I did Library -> Organize Library. Why doesn't iTunes see the music? (I think I used this process before).

How to fix?

Using iTunes 10.


texts: Screensaver start time always set to 20 minutes

texts:
UPDATE: After observing this for a day or two, I can see that the idleTime is set to 5 minutes within System Preferences while defaults -currentHost read com.apple.screensaver idleTime still returns 1200.

The options to change the delay time within System Preferences is grayed out so I couldn't change it.

So I tried setting it with defaults.

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime -int 300

After running that command, I'll get this.

$ defaults -currentHost read com.apple.screensaver idleTime
300

However, once I go back to the screen saver settings in System Preferences, the delay goes back to 20 minutes and I get this.

$ defaults -currentHost read com.apple.screensaver idleTime
1200

The global default is set to 300.

$ defaults read com.apple.screensaver idleTime
300

I've also tried deleting the whole com.apple.screensaver domain and then go back to screen saver section in System Preferences, and I see 20 minutes and 1200 again.

I have a profiles in place where the screen saver idleTime is set to 300 but I have no idea why it's getting set to 1200.

This is on Mojave 10.14.1 (18B75).


texts: iPad Air not connecting to iTunes (12.3.2), MacBook Air Mid-2011

texts:
Just bought an iPad Air, but when I connect it to the macbook air it doesn't show up on iTunes. I did press trust this computer, but the Ipad only charges. Could be because I am running developer beta versions all the time on my Mac.

iTunes (12.3.2),
El Capitan 10.11.3 Beta (15D9c)


texts:
I am in need of 10 bit colour/channel (30 bit in total).
Everything in my workflow supports 10 bit colour/channel: DSLR, Eizo 276, D700 in my Mac Pro (late 2013). Unfortunately OSX 10.9.8 is still on 8 Bit/channel.

Can any body tell me a work around?


texts: If I purchase a brand new iPhone 5 and it has iOS 6.0, can I still upgrade to 6.1.4? I do NOT want iOS 7 or 8.


texts: How to turn off file permissions boxes on Catalina for external drive?

texts:
I use a trash-can Mac Pro. All my user files are on an external drive. Catalina constantly asks me if program X should be allowed to access a removable drive.

Is there any way to give all programs access to the drive at once and stop the permission dialog boxes?


texts: Writing special characters to the clipboard with the command line

texts:
I'm trying to write the string あいうえお to my clipboard using the pbcopy command line tool like this

echo あいうえお | pbcopy

But what I'm getting in my clipboard is completely different : „ÅÇ„ÅÑ„ÅÜ„Åà„Åä.

I assumed this had something to do with the encoding, but the documentation says the encoding is based on the LANG environment variable and mine is set to en_EN.UTF-8.


texts: Mac OSX Apple Script, How do I make Apple Script push keys on an application

texts: What I am trying to do is make my character run up 50 steps then down 50 steps repeatedly using the up key and the down key. I know how to utilize system events to push keys and I know how to tell applications to do certain things but what I put together so far is not looking right. I am pretty much new to this, and I am trying to learn a bit, please help!!


texts: Do all MacBook Pro 13.3" retinas have the same LCD panel dimensions?

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The MacBook Pro 13" Retina models from Late 2013 to Early 2015 are mostly compatible with each other with some firmware differences. The geometry of the displays in terms of thickness, corner radii and dimensions are identical.

Is this also true for later models from late 2015 to the present? I am aware the electronics and cabling are different, but I am only concerned about them in regards to general fitment within the top cover housing.

There's a good chance that all the displays have the same in terms of length and width since displays have a standard size. The A1502 panels were made by LG and Samsung and the two vendor parts are interchangeable. I highly doubt Apple or their vendors would incur the significant expense in tooling for panels with little to no difference in overall function.

What's not so clear is the thickness and in particular the radii of the corners. According to the following article, Apple doesn't adhere to a rounded rectangle, but uses a "squircle" for its corners as part of its design language:

https://hackernoon.com/apples-icons-have-that-shape-for-a-very-good-reason-720d4e7c8a14


texts: For equal cost, why would you select the MacBook Air over the MacBook Pro?

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I can see that the 13" version of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air is same $1199, but the Pro is more feature-loaded than Macbook Air. Why would anyone buy MacBook Air? What's the catch in this?

I was thinking of buying a MacBook for development purposes, and worried if there's any problem in the Pro version, because it comes with more features (like more storage).

Edit:

Thanks for the answer guys, I bought a MacBook Pro a week ago and already loving it.


texts: Cannot connect to OS X SMB server from Linux

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I set up an SMB server on my Mac by going to System Preferences > Settings > Sharing and enabling File Sharing. Afterwards, I tried to access it from my Arch Linux laptop. It asked for my password, as I expected, and I enter my Mac's login password. The dialog keeps showing however.

Using the terminal and entering smbclient -L 192.168.0.64 yeilds the following output on both my laptop connected to the network, as well as in an Arch Linux virtual machine running on my Mac:

 mike@ArchLinux > ~ > smbclient -L 192.168.0.64
smbclient: Can't load /etc/samba/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it
Enter mike's password: <I enter my Mac's login password here>
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Using PCManFM as my Linux file manager, going into network:/// shows "Windows Network". Going into there links me to smb:///, which then shows "Failed to retrieve share list from server: No such file or directory"


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I have a Mac that I bought from work during a hardware refresh, which was previously joined to a domain. Booted using cmd-R and reset the Admin password. Logged in, started deleting the old work account. Got some Keychain errors.

Came back a few minutes later and the screensaver was on and password protected. Tried to log in, and would get the spinning cursor in the password box for about 30 seconds, then nothing. Username and password box ready for text entry again.

So I restarted, tried to log in, same behavior. So I restarted into recovery, reset the password again, same behavior. Confirmed password is definitely correct - when an incorrect password is entered as a test it is rejected straight away.

Thinking about what I had changed, I booted into single user mode and disabled Wi-Fi service at startup. Same behavior.

Other things I have tried:

Reset password multiple times
Repaired permissions on disk / ran First Aid in recovery mode
Reinstalled OS X form recovery mode
Boot into Safe Mode
Ran a file system check in single user mode
Tried to force unbind using dsconfigad but got error 10002

Is there anything else I can try? I don't need access to any of the data so I'm happy to wipe the drive and start over. I don't have access to another Mac to create a recovery disc, is there a way I can do it from here, having access to recovery mode? Any other options?


texts: How to open macOS news article in browser?

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I like the Apple News app, but can't figure out how to open the articles in browsers (For sharing purposes).

The Share button doesn't have "open in browser" as an option.
I've tried sharing a note, but then it hides away the URL behind the apple news rich image.
I tried it in mail, but then it gives me the news URL: https://apple.news/AfSvL4zUURbOnHGot9Tx7bA
Which can be shared, but isn't the same, and especially cross-platform is just kinda... inconsiderate?

I can do this in iOS which is nice... But I can't figure out how to do this in macOS. Any suggestions?

Thanks!


texts: Is your copy of music from the iTunes store the same as mine?

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I was wondering how the DRM/Purchased/Protected thing works with the songs downloaded from the iTunes store.

If two people by a DRMed song from iTunes, are the raw bytes they download the same? Or are the songs encrypted using different keys per user such that they basically download different byte-streams?

I think they encrypt using a single key but I am not sure if that poses a threat because if even a single person can obtain the key by some hack, then it can easily be shared to everyone.