texts:
Because of the OpenSSH iOS tweak and NewTerm (my phone is jailbroken), I'm able to connect from my computer to my phone using ssh:

$ ssh mobile@myphonesip
mobile@myphonesip's password:
myphonesname~ mobile$

This is pretty great and all, but I would also like to connect to my computer from my phone using ssh. I've set up a ssh key on my mac, but this is what I get when trying to connect to it from my phone:

$ ssh myusername@mycomputersip
ssh: connect to host mycomputersip port 22: Connection refused

I've also tried connecting to root because I have that set up:

$ ssh root@mycomputersip
ssh: connect to host mycomputersip port 22: Connection refused

TJ Luoma suggested that I might have to start ssh on my computer with this:

sudo launchctl start com.openssh.sshd

I did that and tried to connect again.

I've also enabled remote login in system preferences.

I've tried with my firewall disabled. I've also disabled Stealth Mode. Does anyone have an idea of how I can connect to my computer from my phone?

Update: something has made this work (remote login I think), but when I try to connect, I get this:

$ ssh root@mycomputersip
The authenticity of host 'mycomputersip (mycomputersip)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:verylongstringofnumbersandletters.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'mycomputersip' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
Password:
Password:
root@mycomputersip's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@mycomputersip's password:
Received disconnect from mycomputersip port 22:2: Too many authentication failures
Authentication failed.

or this:

$ ssh myusername@mycomputersip
ssh: connect to host mycomputersip port 22: Host is down

or this:

$ ssh myusername@mycomputersip
ssh: connect to host mycomputersip port 22: Operation timed out

and when I try to connect to my phone I either get this:

$ ssh root@myphonesip
root@myphonesip's password:
Authentication failed.

or this:

$ ssh mobile@myphonesip
ssh: connect to host myphonesip port 22: Operation timed out

Something is really screwy right now. I can only connect to my phone sometimes through terminal. I know that ssh is working though because I can connect to my phone using Mountain Duck perfectly fine.


texts: Attempting to play video on iOS 7 shows play button with line through

texts: When I try to watch video in my browser I get a play button with a line through it and it doesn't work. I have tried Safari, Chrome, and Mercury. They all give me the play button with a line through it. When I use my old iPhone with iOS 6 I have no issues. This seems to be an iOS 7 issue.


texts:
Having done the domain binding, I need to log in with the domain user without entering the user every time. This is because I should type "domainname\user" each time and this is not very fast.
Is it possible to enter only the password and have the domain user already present in the login screen as it already happens with local accounts?


texts: What is the best way to sync iCloud with other syncing services?

texts:
I have recently purchased an Windows Phone 7 (Nokia Lumia 900). I would like to use it alongside with all of my other Apple products. I have an iPhone 4S (I need 2 different phones for work), an iPad 3,an  iMac, and a Macbook Air. All the Apple Device are using iCloud to sync Mail, Contacts, and my Calendar.

I understand that the Windows 7 Phone doesn't sync with iCloud. I need to use other sync services like Google, Yahoo or Windows Live. I am alright with using those services, but I don't want to give up using iCloud either since all my other device are using it and it works perfectly for me. I want to find the best way to sync my iCloud content with any other sync services that are available for my Windows phone, so I can get all of my contacts and calendars into my Windows Phone, while not changing any sync options for my other Apple Devices.


texts:
When I click on a finder icon to view it's preview, the icon is crystal clear like in this photo,

But when I scroll through all the files with the arrow keys after I click, they become blurred like this:

Is there any way to disable this or is there an app the stops this?


texts: How do I move photos from Photos to Documents without converting from RAW to JPG?

texts: I bought a Mac this week. I uploaded several hundred pictures into Photos. I then drag and dropped them into folders under Documents (for organizational purposes). Unfortunately, the RAW files were automatically converted from RAW to JPG when I did this. How do I move the pictures from Photos to Documents without this automatic conversion taking place? Thank you.


texts: Diagnosing a MacBook that decided to stop powering. (A1342)

texts:
I have performed a series of upgrades on my MacBook 2010 (A1342). However, I dropped a screw, opened the device back up and fished it out and then closed it again. But when I then hit the power button, suddenly, nothing happens.

I always unplugged the power plug from the motherboard...but now it wouldn't even seem to accept the MagSafe connection anymore, as the plug does not even light up green nor orange.

So, I would like to know how I could diagnose this situation. I would guess that something is wrong with the power - but what would be a good way to do so?


texts:
Just a minute ago my iMac's fan stopped spinning (sound like it broke). I heared no noise coming out of it anymore and I quickly checked iStat which reported a fan rotation speed of 0 rpm (usually 1500 rpm). I turned my Mac off immediately.

What should I do? I am in the Netherlands so there are no Apple Stores here.

I also don't want to turn it on again because that could result in a CPU meltdown (usual CPU temperature was 42°C). Very little chance the fan turned off because the CPU was cool at that moment, since I was playing Minecraft, converting four videos and playing one at the same time.

My iMac is a model from 2010, 21 inch. What can I do?


texts: Does secure erase through Terminal affect old user accounts?

texts:
I had some problems with an old user account on a Macbook Pro with SSD, and I wanted to start fresh. I am not sure if I deleted the account, but I think I did reinstall the OS through I think internet recovery mode. The old account is not present in Users & Groups.

I did

My-MacBook-Pro-2:Desktop accoutname$ sudo diskutil secureErase
freespace 0 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

and the following is the response I got from Terminal:

Started erase on disk1 Macintosh HD
Creating a temporary file
Securely erasing a file
Creating a secondary temporary file
Mounting disk
Finished erase on disk1 Macintosh HD

In Disk Utility there are two Macintosh HD's shown, the top one with '0 Bytes Available' and the bottom indented one with 180 GB available. Did both of these HD's with the same name get erased by my Terminal command?

FileVault is enabled on the current account but not sure if it was on the old account. Either way I know FileVault isn't totally foolproof (https://www.blackbagtech.com/blog/2017/07/13/macquisition-best-just-got-better/), and since I'm not 100% sure how the old account was deleted, I just wanted to ask if my current method through Terminal makes the data on the old account non recoverable? Any other steps I should take?


texts: Can I put an app bought with an old ID on my iPad with its new ID?

texts: I bought the app for my old iPod Touch and used the second of two IDs I have...now I use another ID.  They're both mine.  I bought some apps with this alternative ID, can I put those apps on my new iPad?


texts:
I have Chrome installed on my Mac and use it as my default Browser. I remember, a few weeks ago I got a notification that said something like "Allow notificatoins from Chromium...". I quickly swiped it away (reflex), so I don't know much about that. I never installed Chromium on my Mac, and I also search everywhere, didn't find it.
I've read on the internet there are viruses that pretend to be Chromium on Macs, that's why I came here.
Now when I wanted to select an application to open a .pdf file, Chromium appeared in the list, see for yourself on the screenshot.
I can't find Chromium in my ApplicationS folderS (both of them), I also can't find it with command+space.
Do I have a virus on my Mac?


texts:
My MacBook Pro 2011 battery is not detected. There is no spill of water or whatsoever on my logic board. One day I took out the battery and when I placed it back the problem occurred.

So I tried replacing it with a new battery but the battery is still not detected and there's no battery logo when I power up my laptop.

Tried looking on Google and most advice was doing a SMC reset.

When I tried to do an SMC reset, it's not responding. Basically I cant even do a SMC reset on my laptop.

What else can I try?


texts: Issues sharing folder through NFS - RPC: Unable to send; errno = Bad file descriptor or Program not registered

texts:
I'm using Mac OS High Sierra 10.13, and I'm facing some issues sharing a folder through NFS.

The configuration:

Built-in firewall is disabled and there is no third party firewall installed.

I made sure the nfs service is enabled:

$ sudo nfsd enable

  The nfsd service is already enabled.

I made sure the nfs service is running:

$ sudo nfsd start

  The nfsd service is already running.

I checked with nmap to see ports being listened to:

$ nmap localhost

Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-10-17 21:53 CEST
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.00034s latency).
Other addresses for localhost (not scanned): ::1 10.101.97.98
Not shown: 995 filtered ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE
80/tcp   open  http
111/tcp  open  rpcbind
1021/tcp open  exp1
1023/tcp open  netvenuechat
2049/tcp open  nfs

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4.34 seconds

rpcinfo

$ rpcinfo -p

program vers proto   port
100000    2   udp    111  rpcbind
100000    3   udp    111  rpcbind
100000    4   udp    111  rpcbind
100000    2   tcp    111  rpcbind
100000    3   tcp    111  rpcbind
100000    4   tcp    111  rpcbind
100024    1   udp    612  status
100024    1   tcp   1021  status
100021    0   udp    843  nlockmgr
100021    1   udp    843  nlockmgr
100021    3   udp    843  nlockmgr
100021    4   udp    843  nlockmgr
100021    0   tcp   1017  nlockmgr
100021    1   tcp   1017  nlockmgr
100021    3   tcp   1017  nlockmgr
100021    4   tcp   1017  nlockmgr
Test connection to nfs

$ telnet localhost 2049

  Trying ::1...
  Connected to localhost.
  Escape character is '^]'.

Create folder to be shared

$ mkdir -p ~/tmp/shared-test
$ touch ~/tmp/shared-test/works.txt

Add it to /etc/exports

$ sudo echo "/Users/user/tmp/shared-test -mapall=-2:-2 -ro" >> /etc/exports
$ sudo chmod 640 /etc/exports

Make sure /etc/exports is correct

$ sudo nfsd checkexports

The issue:

$ showmount -e

showmount: Cannot retrieve info from host: localhost: RPC failed:: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Bad file descriptor

$ syslog

Oct 17 21:56:28 Estebans-MacBook-Pro-2 rpc.lockd[215] : can't contact statd, 100024 RPC: Timed out
--- last message repeated 2 times ---
Oct 17 21:58:29 Estebans-MacBook-Pro-2 syslogd[43] : ASL Sender Statistics
Oct 17 21:59:31 Estebans-MacBook-Pro-2 rpc.lockd[215] : can't contact statd, 100024 RPC: Timed out
Oct 17 22:00:19 Estebans-MacBook-Pro-2 login[1328] : USER_PROCESS: 1328 ttys002
Oct 17 22:00:33 Estebans-MacBook-Pro-2 rpc.lockd[215] : can't contact statd, 100024 RPC: Timed out

I can see rpc.lockd[215] : can't contact statd, 100024 RPC: Timed out all over, as a recurrent log.

$ showmount 127.0.0.1

showmount: Cannot retrieve info from host: 127.0.0.1: RPC: Program not registered


texts: Will upgrading RAM on my Macbook Pro significantly improve speed?

texts: I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro 13, 2.5 GHZ, non-retina, with 4 GB RAM, running Mavericks. I occasionally get the swirling beach ball when running various applications, such as XCode and iPhoto (not necessarily at the same time), and the overall speed of the computer isn't impressive.  However, when I look at my memory pressure, it is almost always in the green.  The virtual memory is in the 5 GB - 6 GB range, for what it's worth.  Will upgrading the RAM to 8 GB help the overall speed of the machine, or does the memory pressure tell me everything is fine concerning RAM?


texts: How do I continuously check the status of a process and execute something once the process stops with an Apple Script?

texts:
I'm using an Apple Script to open an application and transcode a file.  What I need to be able to do is continuously check the CPU usage of the process and when the CPU usage hits 0 I need to do something else.  Below is what I'm using the get the CPU usage of the process (GoPro Player).  Anyone have a suggestion?

getProcessPercentCPU("GoPro Player")

on getProcessPercentCPU(someProcess)
    do shell script "/bin/ps -xco %cpu,command | /usr/bin/awk '/" & someProcess & "$/ {print $1}'"
    set GoProUsage to (do shell script "/bin/ps -xco %cpu,command | /usr/bin/awk '/" & someProcess & "$/ {print $1}'") as integer
end getProcessPercentCPU


texts: In iTunes, when you purchase a movie in HD/4K, is the SD copy included?

texts: I have an old iPod that I doubt can play more than SD, but I bought 4K for my newer items. Did Apple include the SD version in it? The iTunes store on iOS 6 doesn't work anymore for viewing movie pages, so I have to try and download the SD version of the movie on iTunes and sync it over.


texts: Is it possible to disable long left-click on dock icons?

texts: On my Mac, I seem to accidentally trigger the long-click on the dock icons a lot, which opens the context menu (right-click menu). Is it possible to disable this behavior?


texts:
I can't delete this High Sierra kext: AirPortAtheros40.kext
I tried in single user mode, or as root. It won't delete!
The kext is not loaded.
This is the output from terminal

Desktop $ sudo rm -rf AirPortAtheros40.kext/
Password:
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext//Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources: Operation not permitted
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext//Contents/_CodeSignature: Directory not empty
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext//Contents/MacOS/AirPortAtheros40: Operation not permitted
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext//Contents/MacOS: Directory not empty
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext//Contents/Info.plist: Operation not permitted
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext//Contents/version.plist: Operation not permitted
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext//Contents: Directory not empty
rm: AirPortAtheros40.kext/: Directory not empty


texts: How can I count all words or characters in a Powerpoint pptx file?

texts:
Is there a simple way to count the characters of all text fields in a Powerpoint presentation?

I tried exporting to Rich Text Format (.rtf) to do the count in MS Word, but the export function only exports some text fields (outline text) and misses small annotations, lists, etc.

Some tools like Count Anything or Anycount are not available for Mac OSX.


texts:
I am using iPhone 5 (32GB) updated to iOS 8.1.2.
Recently I opened the Photos app and saw that my all albums are gone but the photos are still visible in Moments.

I checked my iPhone Usage section but found out that my photos are on iPhone with space taken of 2.2GB.

I had all photos on my iPhone before sometime but after sometime all my photos were disappeared.

I have tried to force close the photos app, hard reset the device but non of them worked for me. I need some solution to this problem because it is really frustrating.


texts: Music Transfer from Laptop to Phone for Immediate Use

texts: When my music transferred from new macbook air to my iPhone 6 it seemed to become stored in the cloud rather than available to me on the phone when I want to play it and I am not always near wi-fi. I purposely purchased an iPhone 6 with 64k memory to avoid not being able to hear music and now it has happened anyway?


texts:
I'm on a MacBook Pro, mid 2009, OS X 10.10.

An update to Yosemite (10.10.2) came out five days ago, but going to the Updates tab in App Store only returns a dialog box with the following message:

An error has occurred
Can't connect to the Apple Software Update server.

I have turned off Firewall, logged out/in from App Store, removed App Store cookies - but despite this and after googling over an hour I'm still clueless.

Any ideas what could be the problem?


texts: How to skip files with ditto command line utility?

texts:
I'm trying to import a large (100GB+) iPhoto library located on a seemingly faulty external drive, that always yields an error -36 when I attempt to copy the library using Finder. I therefore tried the ditto the approach suggested in this article:

ditto -v ~/Pictures/Photos\ Library.photoslibrary/ /Volumes/MyDrive/Photos\ Library.photoslibrary/

The problem is, when ditto reaches the faulty file, I get these errors logged:

  ditto: (...)/MVI_5490.MOV: Device not configured

  ditto: (...)/IMG_5489.JPG: No such file or directory

Then suddenly macOS complains about the drive being ejected improperly, and the copy stops.

These two files seem to have contiguous IDs and reside in the same directory. So I guess that they're both located on a single faulty block.

I'd like to try preventing ditto from attempting to copy these files altogether, in the hope that this will prevent the disk from failing and allow the copy to complete (I don't care about a couple photos/videos missing, and I can always rebuild the iPhoto library later on).

Is there a way to instruct ditto to skip a known list of files?

If not, I'd accept an alternative solution (cp command based or any other), as long as it can handle the copy the way ditto does it (preserving ownership, permissions and such).


texts: How to disable blur in autocomplete in Xcode 11?

texts:
Since Xcode 11.0 autocomplete suggestions have blurry font sometimes:

Don't know whether it's a bug or a feature but my eyes suffer because of it.


texts: What did I do to remove the Terminal Window But Preserve Running Processes?

texts:
I was using Terminal and accidentally fat-fingered some shortcut. The apparent result was the window was destroyed and all of the running processes (some local dev server processes running in the foreground) were put into the background. I tried everything I could think of to find the window (e.g. mission control), but even after quitting Terminal completely the local server processes are still happily running. What did I do, and is it reversible (barring reboot)? The processes were ruby and node processes if that's somehow relevant.

Edit: I forgot to mention these processes were running from inside tmux.


texts: adding a pre owned macbook to support list

texts:
I recently bought a store return macbook pro 15 retina, in perfect condition on eBay and Apple's 1 year warranty has not expired on it.

Now I want to addd it to my list of Apple products for support. "It" asks me for the original purchase date.

What can I do to add it to my name / apple ID?


texts: Is there a way to get Firefox-like-Containers in Safari?

texts:
I'm looking for an extensions (or built in feature?) of Safari that does the same as Multi-Containers for Firefox. I need different users/containers to separate private browsing from different works contexts.

I found this older post Multiple user accounts in Safari like in Chrome? and tried Google but not much came out of it.

Maybe someone knows a hidden gem


texts: Temporarily use a 16GB iPhone restoring data from a 64gb iPhone back up

texts:
I have to send my iPhone 64GB to repair and I will have to temporary use a 16GB device. The same problem was described in this post, but I am actually struggling to understand how to practically implement the solution, and what are eventually the consequences of these actions. Also another post mentioned something similar, but it relates to an older generation of software.

I backed up my phone on my PC using iTunes (no iCloud), for a total size of about 38GB. I would like to temporary activate my settings on a 16 GB phone without losing the possibility to later restore my full backup on my device once repaired. This would basically mean to restore my settings on the 16GB without transferring all the photos, videos, and other media contents.
The mentioned post suggests to " sync it with iTunes or iCloud and move data manually": what does this mean? Could you suggest a guide to do that? Would I lose the possibility to later restore this backup to my phone once repaired?

Thanks


texts: Closing Safari quickly -- without Webpage Preview Fetcher?

texts:
For the past few months, attempting to close Safari normally (Command-Q) quickly closes open browser windows, but takes forever (~10+ min) to fully close, if it closes at all.

A look at the Activity monitor shows that the sub-process Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher churns away, often at high CPU usage (~50%), for a few minutes, but then it and all other Safari related processes drop to zero CPU, but Safari still will not go away. I am only loading the default set of top sites, i.e. have not specified any particular top sites since the last time I reset Safari a few weeks ago.

This behavior existed for me under Snow Leopard, and has sadly continued after a recent upgrade to Lion. I am now running OSX 10.7.3 with Safari 5.1.3

I can of course force quit, but it would be great to be able to quit normally. I would consider stopping Top Sites all together as is described in another post, but would rather decouple that option from simply getting Safari to quit normally. I am also not sure if the top site disable even works in Lion (and am too new to comment on that thread).

How can I get Safari to close normally?

Update: this behavior is somewhat intermittent. I will try to update this question as I identify possible/reliable triggers. For now it seems opening Safari and running simple Google search doe not cause a slow close.


texts: Restore a NTFS volume back up by Disk Utility

texts:
I have a Windows installation which I created with Bootcamp. Then I need to expand the volume to add more Software. So I use Disk Utility to create a DMG image for the Bootcamp volume. But after I have deleted the old Bootcamp volume and create a new larger volume, I cannot restore it with Disk Utility:

Nor asr:
 asr restore --source /Users/phuongnd08/Downloads/BOOTCAMP.dmg  --target /dev/disk0s3 --erase --noverify
    Validating target...done
    Validating source...done
    Erase contents of /dev/disk0s3 ()? [ny]: y
    Repartitioning target device...
Could not change the partition type for /dev/disk0s3 - Operation not permitted

I guess due to NTFS? But this sounds very illogical because: you can create image out of it, you should be able to restore it from an image? What should I do now to restore that image?


texts: How do I play a Keynote slideshow without going fullscreen?

texts:
I am running Keynote 6.5.3 on OS X 10.10.5.  Is there a way to play a slideshow in Keynote in non-fullscreen mode?

Edit: I have edited my question slightly, since the suggestion to convert my Keynote files to Quicktime does not answer the question I had intended.

Edit2: I would prefer to not have to deal with the complexity of multiple file formats and apps for the simple task of reading through a large set of Keynote files, some of which I need on the screen at the same time due to diagrams etc.


texts: How to share over ethernet but not over wifi

texts:
Running OSX 10.10.3

The office LAN is wired, the guest LAN is WiFi. I need to be on both at the same time.

I want to be able to accept connections from the office LAN, but I want to limit access to many of those services from the WiFi network. The clickable System Preferences for the firewall don't give me anything more powerful than "Allow Incoming Connections" which allows connections over all interfaces.

Where do I go to get more control over the firewall? Any tips for getting this config right?

This is not an issue of getting WiFi and Ethernet to work at the same time. They already work like I want them to. It's about firewalling-off services from certain interfaces, something that is not available in the standard System Preferences control panel.


texts:
This is probably a question more for unix systems but because i have it on my Mac Pro i hope i will find an answer here :

When i browse to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_11.jdk/Contents/Home/db/bin

with a cd I can't execute the command startNetworkServer present in bin , instead i can run it via ./startNetworkServer.

However from ~

MacCris:~ cris$ /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_11.jdk/Contents/Home/db/bin/startNetworkServer

it works without ./

Any idea why ? (rights related ?)

Thanks


texts: Spotlight menu shows results, but Finder window doesn't

texts:
When I type anything into the Spotlight menu in the top right corner, I get the normal list of top results. But if I then click "Show All", or if I just go to the Finder and initiate a search there, it returns no results. The status bar says "Searching This Mac…" and I get the spinner in the corner, but it never goes away and never shows any results.

I have had Spotlight reindex my entire hard drive twice, and it doesn't help. Rebooting doesn't help either.

Help?


texts: 2011 macbook pro not responding to startup commands

texts: My macbook doesn't respond to any commands at startup (command + s, command+r, shift, command+alt+p+r). It wants to go straight to the apple logo then to a blue or white screen. Applecare is no longer on it. What should be my next step?


texts: Cant get any sound from MacBook Pro with headphones plugged in

texts:
When I plug my headphones into my MacBook Pro or when I return to my MacBook Pro after the headphones have been plugged in for a while, sometimes I get no sound, the Sound icon in the Menu bar is greyed out and when I click the Sound up button on the keyboard I get the below icon (see screenshot). If I take the headphones out and wait a couple of seconds then replug them in they work again.

Headphone wise I've seen this happen with a range of headphones from Apple EarPods to Bose noise canceling headphones.

I've seen this happen on two Mid 2012 MacBook Pro models, a 15" and  13", both running OS X 10.10.

Any ideas what's causing this and how I can be resolved?

Just in case any one mentions it, I'm plugging the headphones into the 3.5 mm headphone jack not the cinema audio port.


texts: Can someone jailbreak someone else's iPhone to see everything they do?

texts:
A friend of mine has an iPhone 8. Each time she changes her email or password on things like Facebook, Email, Instagram, her Bank app etc., we suspect her ex-boyfriend is changing them back within 30 seconds. He lives 5 states away.

My friend has used my phone and my email to change her password and email on Facebook, but her passwords are changed again when she tries to log in.

Can someone jailbreak her phone and install an app where her ex would be able to see everything she does?


texts: Will it work well to use a .dmg as an encrypted folder?

texts:
I have a folder containing files including Wills, Trusts, personal financial statements etc. Most of these files are word docs, excel spreadsheets, PDF's and jpegs. I would like to protect this folder from prying eyes.

If this info was housed in a .dmg, it would seem pretty straightforward to click on the .dmg, enter my password, mount the drive, access the information/folder and when finished, eject the disk image knowing it is closed and protected.

Am I missing something? Any pros/cons of this idea?


texts: iOS podcast app that differentiates between and gives different functionality to long/short presses of the play/pause button on the headphones

texts:
Overcast for iOS has a feature that allows you to either skip forward in the track/podcast or move forward in the playlist of tracks/podcasts depending on wether you just do two short clicks on the headphones play/pause button or one short and one long. For moving backwards in the podcast or in the playlist it's three short clicks or two short clicks and one long click, respectively.

I'm having trouble with the sync/download functionality of the app, so I'd like to switch, but I'd really like to download an app with the features described above. What other podcast clients for iOS, if any, have this feature?


texts: Time Machine is skipping files and folders. How to fix?

texts:
Running OS X 10.10.2 on a Early 2009 Mac Pro. System installed on a 256 GB solid state drive. 10 GB of memory.

I'm having a problem with Time Machine where it's not backing up some of my files and folders. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it, but it includes very, very important things like the parent directory for projects I'm working on, arbitrary hash directories in some git repositories, an assortment of emails, Messages attachments, random preferences files, and somehow the entire contents of my Pictures folder. And probably more -- I haven't checked everything.

I've recently forced Time Machine to do a full traversal when it made a recent backup (and confirmed that it was a full traversal by looking at backupd's output in Console.app), but these files are still missing.

I also tried going into one of the directories that wasn't being backed up and running:

find . -exec touch {} \;

to make every file appear to be recently modified, and then told Time Machine to make a new backup, but it still skipped them.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do to fix Time Machine? I just want it to do a full backup, not skipping anything.

As a last ditch effort I could blow away my Time Machine drive and start from scratch, but I really, really don't want to do that because it contains several months worth of backups, and I occasionally do need to go back and get older versions of files.

Edit:

I haven't found a solution to this particular issue, but I have decided to discontinue using Time Machine for backups as I can no longer rely on it. I've decided to give ChronoSync a try since it seems pretty comparable.

Edit 2:

While re-reading some of my old questions I decided I'd make another update because I've learned more about this issue since my previous edit. I discovered that the cause of my data not being backed up was a bug in Qt's development tools, as detailed here. The fault was not Time Machine's. Since posting this question I've been using Time Machine again with no issues, though I still occasionally use my check-time-machine script to make sure everything is in fact being backed up properly.


texts: How to sync two iPhones to the same Mac and to Nike+?

texts: The two iPhones appears in iTunes but the run data is not synced with Nike+


texts: Any way to reboot a iDevice that is connected to a USB port via terminal (Mac terminal)?

texts: So, I am making a program to reboot iDevices (if there power buttons are broken), is there any way to induce the iDevice to reboot via the Mac shell?


texts: Wireless headphones (with mic) stop playing sounds each time I'm pausing any audio/video track - and it's supposedly MacOS problem

texts:
I have Audio-Technica M50-xBT headphones and every time I'm pausing any particular video (via keyboard / mouse if that matters, not using headphones for this purpose) - all currently played audio track in all applications are paused as well.
After a bit of googling I found following information, which is worse quoting:

Other devices have been reported with the same behaviour. I've been unable to find a solution to the problem though. One person mentioned this seems to only happen with bluetooth devices that have a mic so if someone can find a way to make MacOS see these as a bluetooth headphone instead of headset that might fix the problem. Disabling hands free in the bluetooth explorer still says the headset profile is enabled.

My question is pretty predictable: basically this problem makes my headphones useless and I wonder how I can fix or at least circumvent this issue.


texts: Why do various iCloud services on my iPad refuse to stay on?

texts:
Every time I turn on various iCloud services on my iPad mini (iOS 7.0.4) including iCloud Backup, Photos, Documents, and Find My iPhone, after sometime the settings would go back to "off." I have no clue why this happens.

Checking the timestamp on my most recent iCloud Backup, I see that the backup runs successfully at some point before the setting goes back to off.


texts:
About the 3rd or 5th time after I relaunch finder or reboot and choose a new folder, the finder windows presents this image

Once this happens I can no longer interact with the window besides dragging it.I recently repaired disk permissions, and it is still happening. I am using the latest version of OSX Mavericks. Any ideas on what is going on?


texts: Why can't I use `launchctl setenv` from `tmux`?

texts:
If I'm running within tmux and I try to update an environment variable with launchctl, I see an error like this:

$ launchctl setenv GIT_SSH /opt/local/bin/ssh
Not privileged to set domain environment.

But it works fine from outside of tmux... any idea why that is, or if there's any sort of workaround?


texts: Apple Developer Program: Individual vs Organization

texts: I already have an individual apple developer program enrollment but I'm thinking of turning one of my upcoming apps into a full standalone business. It is already incorporated, so it is technically its own entity. Is there any downside to starting it on my individual account and moving it over to its own account later?


texts: Apache running on Yosemite not working as expected

texts:
I plan to use both /Library/Webserver/Documents and ~username/Sites/. I have phpmyadmin folder in /Sites directory. If I go to

http://localhost/~username/phpmyadmin

it works, but if I go to

http://localhost/phpmyadmin

I get "The requested URL /phpmyadmin/ was not found on this server.". I've reviewed the relevant files to make sure I enabled the relevant lines and such. Am I missing something obvious?


texts: Does anyone know why my bootcamp partition shows up as a folder in Startup Disk?

texts:
So recently I updated my computer to MacOS High Sierra. When I tried to boot up my Windows disk (running Windows 10) using Startup Manager, it wasn't there. I looked in my files, and I still had it. "Ok, so it's a pretty common problem. Easy fix, right?" Then I looked in Startup Disk and saw something REALLY weird. This apparently is not normally the case, but here's what it looked like.

The fact that Bootcamp showed up as a folder did kind of confuse me, and I haven't been able to find any information about it.

When I boot up into Windows, I see a "No bootable device found" error message.


texts: Time machine secondary backup - OS X keeps complaining about backup disk not available

texts:
I have a Time Capsule, which I use for regular backups of my Macs. In addition to this, I bought two external disks to use for offline backups. I have used Time Machine to do this, but it keeps complaining that

Backup Disk Not Available

when the drive is plugged out (stored off-site). I have no found a way to silence this message, but other than that, it works fine. The message keeps popping up all the time and when I dismiss it, it pops up again after a while (I guess at the next backup time).

Keeping extra backups off-site must be a common use case. Is there some setting in Time machine that I am missing? I realise that I could just manually rsync the entire disk over, but I like to avoid the manual work (I have to remember paths, exclusions and/or create scripts), and Time Machine is AFAIK essentially just a frontend to rsync anyway.

Has anyone got a neat solution to this problem? (Apart from cloud backups and proprietary third-party backup software, both which I already know of).


texts: What is Wifi-Networking option under system location services in iOS 7?

texts: I've noticed an option called Wifi-networking and I can't seem to figure out what it does, exactly.


texts: Wifi speed: Desktop/laptop > iPad > iPhone?

texts:
I've been stationed in Japan for the next three years, and they've got some ludicrous speeds on their fiber Internet over here.

That being said, speed tests (using the SpeedTest.net app) are noticeably slower on the iPhone 4S than they are on the iPad (third generation, if it matters) than they are on my MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMac.

Is this just the app not reporting the speeds correctly, or are there physical limitations to just how quickly data can be transferred?

I'm more computer literate than most, but the exact science of these things eludes me.

Thank you!


texts: I have an iPad mini 2, with ios 7.2, can i manually upgrade to 8.1.2 and still jailbreak it?

texts:
I just bought my wife an iPad mini 2, ( it was still factory sealed) it has 7.2 on it and I'd  like to know if I can still update it to 8.1.2 and jailbreak it. I know downgrading from 8.1.3 can no longer be done but what about upgrading from older firmware to 8.1.2? It's this still possible even if apple is no longer signing it?

Thanks,

Ocha


texts: How to automatically refresh external data in Excel 2011 on OS X?

texts:
I have an Excel spreadsheet that is pulling in data from an external CSV. I want it to refresh every time I open it, because eventually it's going to be pulling data in from 20 different files. At the moment it says

  security warning "data connections have been disabled"

And then when I override it, it prompts me to reselect the file in Finder.

It sounds like this is pretty easy in Windows Excel, you pretty much just need to enable a setting in the 'Trust Center'. Only, Excel 2011 has no trust center, and as far as I can tell, no way to actually do this automatically.


texts: How can I move reminders from one list to another by Applescript?

texts:
I have an use case where I want to move certain reminders I created using Siri from the default list to another. Programmatically, via an AppleScript script, which runs on a Mac.

tell application "Reminders"
    set output to ""
    set inBoxList to "Erinnerungen"
    set newList to "Ausgaben"
    show list newList -- this works
    if (count of (reminders in list inBoxList whose completed is false)) > 0 then
        set todoList to reminders in list inBoxList whose completed is false
        repeat with itemNum from 1 to (count of (reminders in list inBoxList whose completed is false))
            set reminderObj to item itemNum of todoList
            set nameObj to name of reminderObj
            set idText to id of reminderObj
            if (nameObj contains "€" or nameObj contains " Euro ") then
                set output to output & "• " & nameObj
                set completed of reminderObj to "no"
                set container of reminderObj to list "Ausgaben" -- this doesn't
            end if
        end repeat
    end if
    return output
end tell

It's the following line that doesn't work:

set container of reminderObj to list "Ausgaben" -- this doesn't

I've tried variations like

set newList to list "Ausgaben"
set container of reminderObj to newList

but I always get an error that boils down that I can't set the container because it's not f the correct type list.


texts: How can I get the music I've put onto my iPhone from CDs onto my new MacBook if theres no CD drive?

texts: It seems like only the music I purchased in the iTunes store is transferring and I'd like to get the music I've ripped from my CDs onto my new MacBook but there is no CD drive.


texts: Force system to use local hosts file before DNS (OS X El Capitan)

texts:
I want to find a way to force my system to resolve through the local hosts file on my system before it makes a DNS query. There's a reason for this, and here's my context:

I live in China. I need a VPN to get to the 'real' Internet. In my case I'm using Astrill.
Inside my company, its local DNS points our intranet, wiki and other online resources to local IPs. When outside the company, the DNS entries are obviously those available on external IPs for everyone.

When connected to the VPN, I don't want my machine to look up by public IP, I want to still use the local IP that the local DNS gives me, but all traffic is going through the VPN.

A solution that I thought of was to put the local IPs in a DNS entry in the hosts file.

Then I read about a *nix technique which uses a file called nsswitch.conf to tell the system to always use the file first, then DNS. But OS X doesn't seem to use this (the file doesn't exist in /etc/ anyway).

This would be ideal because then I could always try to use the local resource wherever I am - normal Internet, VPN connection, or inside or outside my company.

I can't find any documentation for OS X support of nsswitch.conf or information about if it automatically checks hosts before DNS anyway.


texts: Certificate Assistant swaps extension settings for CA / Users

texts:
I am trying to set up a Root Certificate Authority using Keychain Access/Certificate Assistant but I am running into some trouble.

When creating the authority the assistant asks you to enter Key Usage and Extended Key usage extension settings for both the CA itself and the users of it. However, upon completion of the certificate this seems to have been swapped around. So the CA itself seems to have the settings that were entered for the users of the CA.

For demonstration purpose, I have made some screenshots of setting up a Test CA:

This setup will yield the certificate seen below:

As you can see the values for the key usage and extended key usage extensions come from the values entered for the users for this CA. While the values for the basic constraints and subject alternate name seem to be taken correctly from the values entered for the CA itself.

Now I have a few questions about this:

Is this a bug in certificate assistant and are the extensions 2 & 3 below incorrectly taken form the assistant? (If so I will have to use OpenSSL)
If not, what is the reason the certificate would show default values it uses for certificates it will issue? And in that case, does the Key Usage field at No. 1 below represent the correct values entered for the CA?
Do the user values entered for those 2 extensions affect the issued certificates in any way? (If the defaults for the issued certificate are changed). The reason I ask this is because I have read somewhere that the key usage extension sets defaults for issued certificates while the extended key usage extension sets restrictions for issued certificates.


texts: How can I prevent iTunes from auto starting when I plug in an iOS device?

texts:
i know we already have topics about it, but i did not found my solution.

So i don't want to start iTunes, when i plug in iDevices. We have like 300 iPads, and i am using the configurator. iTunes still starting automatically, even when the Configurator is running.

I really don't want to turn off this settings under the iPad summary screen one by one. I have already turned off the autosync.


texts: Parallels 8 - will iPhone sync with OS X side and VM side?

texts:
I've just purchased a 2012 13" MacBook Air. I hope to run Windows 7 in Parallels 8 to access Office 2010, including Outlook 2010.

Currently, my iPhone syncs to Outlook via a hosted Exchange for mail (and the other stuff it supports), and the sync is seamless. I also sync my iPhone with the Windows version of iTunes (either wired or wirelessly) for music and, again, it syncs well.

My question - will my iPhone continue to sync to Outlook running in the VM and be able to sync to iTunes running on the native OS X side? I'd prefer not to have to install iTunes on the Windows side if I don't have to.


texts: MacBook Pro (late 2013) drops connection to wireless router every 15 minutes

texts:
My MacBook Pro is a late 2013 edition model, running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. Every 15 minutes (the intervals are very regular) it loses connection to my router; pings to the router do not go through, but the WiFi icon does not turn grey. After a minute or so the connection reappears.

I've had this problem for about a year; I guess since the OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 update. I've tried the first solution from here (removing network configuration files) multiple times, it helps for several weeks but then the problem comes back.

No other device has this problem (two laptops with Windows, Windows phone, Android tablets/phone)
This problem only happens with the router I have at home.
The 15 minute interval is given by the laptop – it is very stable but the starting point changes when the laptop goes to and back from sleep.
There are three-four other WiFi networks with strong signal (all protected, none is at the same channel)
Network configuration is set to Automatic, there are two “Unknown” locations

Any ideas what may cause it?


texts: Should a 3m cable charge speed be significantly different than a 1m cable?

texts:
I recently bought a 3m (meter) Apple charging cable and found that it was charging my iPad slower than usual.

I plugged it to a USB tester and found that it charged at ~5v 1A.  By comparison, my 1m cable charged at around 5v 2A.

Is it this normal, should there be that much of a difference?

I'm testing by charging an iPad. The wall adapter is the genuine 12W iPad wall outlet rated at 5.2v at 2.4A. I have a genuine Apple 1m cable and I also bought a 3m and 1m cable third party cable off eBay. They are unbranded.

Both genuine and non-genuine 1m cables charged my iPad at around 5v 2A.
The non-genuine third party 3m, cable charged the same iPad at a bit less than 5v 1A.

The cable nor USB tester gets warms up enough to feel, but the wall plug does, so I don't think it will be (hope it won't be) a fire hazard.

Here are some pictures of the USB tester, maybe that will help. First one is a with the 3m cable

This one for the 1m cable


texts: How to permanently allow location access for a website in Safari 11?

texts:
The method mentioned in this question no longer works:
How do I permanently allow a website to access my location?

Is there some way to achieve the same effective in High Sierra?


texts: Extract links from email based on the anchor text, not the href

texts:
I am putting together an Automator workflow that will allow me to bind a hotkey to a Smart Mailbox listing and effectively automate the task of clicking "Unsubscribe" in emails which have that text string.

So far, I've been marginally successful if the actual URL has the word "unsubscribe" in it. What I would like to do, instead, is find where the word Unsubscribe appears and instead grab only those URLs. So in HTML terms, imagine I am finding a link by its text and then acting on the href

When I use content I get only the contents of the email but when I use source I get links. Basically I need a way to map the content to the source.

I hope that makes sense. This is what I have so far:

on run {input, parameters}
set theSource to {}
tell application "Mail"
    repeat with aMessage in input
        -- source or content
        set end of theSource to aMessage's source & return
    end repeat
end tell

return theSource as text
end run


texts: Macbook Pro headphone jack cuts in and out

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), and I constantly wear a pair of headphones while using it, and have for the past several years I've had it. The machine is starting to show its age, and now my headphones cut in and out sparodically when I move slightly:

sometimes the sound disappears altogether
sometimes the left/right audio levels become unbalanced or one side gets silenced entirely.
Often when this happens, my laptop doesn't let me adjust the audio to be louder or softer (instead of the intensity bar when I press the increase/decrease volume buttons, I get a "No" symbol) until I unplug and re-plug the headphones.

To fix the problems I have to wiggle the cord back and forth until the computer is satisfied.
I'm almost completely sure that this is a physical issue with the computer's headphones port. I've had this sort of problem before where it was caused by the headphones' audio jack (which I solved by getting new headphones), but I'm sure that that isn't the case here, because I experience no such problems when using the same headphones with my iPhone or my work computer. I'm also pretty sure it's not a software issue, as I have bluetooth headphones that I use occasionally (and don't like as much), and they don't experience similar problems.
So far I'm afraid to break anything further, so all I've really done is try to clean out the headphone port with a can of compressed air. Is there more I can do to repair the jack?


texts: Why when I increase SSL certificate security on my mac am I unable to use the app store (preflight error)?

texts:
Given the recent OSX issues with certificates and SSL, I want to increase the security of the certificate validation in general.

I came across a setting in the keychain that has a selection between best attempt and require if certificate indicates.  The selection of always validate is greyed out.

When I do this, I get an error when using the app store "Unable to verify the preflight file". reverting to "best effort" seems to fix the issue.

How can I increase the security of my SSL / PKI certificate validation without breaking functionality of other apps?


texts: How can I switch between textmate and terminal quickly?

texts:
Is it possible to have a short cut so I can jump between Textmate and terminal quickly?

I know I can do it via cmd+tab but I still have to find it from the menu bar.


texts: Adding a username alias using the command line

texts:
How do I add a username alias using the command line?

I can do it fine using the preferences dialog through the "Advanced Options", but I need to do it during an installation script.

Can someone point me the right way?


texts:
I'm getting errors installing any pkg files. Seems to be valid for all pkgs, I uninstalled one app and run the pkg installer which fails for an app that was successfully installed 2 weeks ago. I'm guessing something related to permissions but I can't figure out what would have changed them... I'm on 10.11.6 and upgrading is currently not an option.

The common issue seems to be:

Oct 20 20:08:16 Js-MBP installd[396]: PackageKit: Install Failed: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted" UserInfo={NSFilePath=/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.XXXXXX} {
    NSFilePath = "/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.XXXXXX";
}

More complete logs:

Oct 20 20:16:39 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: Configuring volume "Macintosh HD"
Oct 20 20:16:39 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: Free space on "Macintosh HD": 456,46 GB (456459907072 bytes).
Oct 20 20:16:39 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: Create temporary directory "/var/folders/c7/d1ppw5612z55mkslhqhqjyc00000gn/T//Install.51955utsOk"
Oct 20 20:16:39 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: IFPKInstallElement (1 packages)
Oct 20 20:16:39 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: PackageKit: Enqueuing install with framework-specified quality of service (utility)
Oct 20 20:16:39 Js-MBP installd[396]: PackageKit: ----- Begin install -----
Oct 20 20:16:52 Js-MBP installd[396]: PackageKit: Install Failed: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted" UserInfo={NSFilePath=/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.XXXXXX} {
    NSFilePath = "/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.XXXXXX";
}
Oct 20 20:16:53 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: Install failed: The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
Oct 20 20:16:53 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: IFDInstallController 5A94F9E0 state = 8
Oct 20 20:16:53 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: Displaying 'Install Failed' UI.
Oct 20 20:16:53 Js-MBP Installer[5195]: 'Install Failed' UI displayed message:'The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.'.

Been struggling for a while to figure this out, any help is appreciated. Would really like not to have to do a clean install (setting up a new user does not help, tried that).


texts: Restrict access to certain websites without VPN

texts:
So I'd like to disable some connections to certain IPs and websites without a VPN activated for security purposes so I wouldn't mess up and go to that certain website without a VPN enabled, I wonder if there's a firewall rule approach or any other suggestions that I can limit access based on my current IP or the active VPN profile

Generally, I also use Wireguard if that's any help, also am using Catalina


texts: How to sync or backup iPhone contents to new Mac

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  transfering iphone data to another computer
  How to synchronize iPhone with new Mac without losing data?

I have brought a new mac and would like to sync my iPhone content with the new mac (i.e. contact, calendar, apps and etc..) As the the first sync will erase all contents from my iPhone, is there any way to avoid it. If the iPhone backup has been performed on the old PC, can I restore all the content from the backup if the content was erased during sync with the new mac. Please advise.


texts: how to revert default Mac Apache install to original

texts:
I've had major issues with my default Apache install ever since I installed MAMP. I've uninstalled MAMP now but I'm still getting issues such as multiple Apache processes running, not stopping/starting/restarting, and the Web Sharing option not showing the correct state in System Preferences. I'm assuming MAMP has changed something within the default version of Apache, is there any way to easily replace the entire Apache install?

Thanks, Alex


texts: Why is there a left bracket before my bash prompt?

texts: I've notice that after I execute commands, a left bracket character will appear before the previous line. It seems to be partially dependent on what's in $PS1. I've tried unsetting $PROMPT_COMMAND and $PS1 but that did not make a difference. Here is an example of this happening in Terminal.app:


texts: Do the applications use less memory when they are moved to different displays?

texts:
Last few days I am spreading everything to separate screens, and noticed that I have few more GB of RAM free this way. I use everything the same way as before.

Do applications use less memory when they are moved to separate displays?


texts: possible malware called FISE in Accessibility (Privacy & Security)

texts:
I checked my Mac's security and privacy and noticed this entry FISE. When I click Show in Finder nothing happens. I've googled around and found no mention of it at all outside of spammy sites.

Before I unchecked this software it had "control my computer" access. I recently upgraded to Mojave, so it's possible this is an old program (this is on a 2012 Mac) which I had previously granted accessibility access to. However I don't recall doing so.

I did find one reputable mention of FISE, in a technical paper from 2010. I don't know if that is it. Given what the "control my computer" permission enables I'm pretty concerned that its a form of mal/spyware.

Has anyone else has ever seen this program FISE on their mac?

EDIT - including screenshot of the FISE

^ as mentioned when I click Show in Finder nothing happens


texts: How to import photos+videos from iphone with IOS 7.0.4?

texts: Trying to import this with the Photos app on mac sierra v.10.12.1. When I go to the import option the iphone is not showing up? How can I import my photos & videos to my mac? What other way is there to try?


texts: Can't open Firefox because a copy of Firefox is already open

texts:
I have multiple users on my MacBook (OS X 10.9.5). One of them has parential restrictions, but is allowed to use Firefox. Now, despite that, she is unable to run Firefox: whenever she tries, an error box pops up with the message

  Close Firefox
  A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time.

(needless to say that Firefox was not open, neither by her nor by any other user, and that none of the other users has that problem).

It appears this occured after a recent update of Firefox (to version 39.0).

What could be the cause of this?
How can I sort this out?


texts: WiFi connection is weak after replacing the battery

texts:
I replaced my MacBook Pro battery and everything was working fine. When I got home, I noticed that the WiFi doesn't connect easily in my room (it was working perfectly in my room before replacing the battery).
When I move closer to the router, the WiFi connects quickly without any problems. Adding on that, I tried using my 3G connection from iPhone and it doesn't work (it connects, but no Internet).
While replacing the battery, the guy cleaned the laptop from dust. Then, he has removed and connected the WiFi cable to clean below it.
Could the issue be that the cable is not connected properly? Taking into consideration that I tried the following:

Reset SMC
Date and time is correct
Location is correct
Renewed DHCP

Can you please help?
Update: 13 Aug
I returned the laptop to the store and two of the cables were damaged. Since this can't be done without replacing the display, he suggested cutting cables from another Macbook pro display that they have in the store. He did that, and connected those cables with my laptop ones.
Is that safe, long-lasting?  Will this actually work and be a reliable connection?


texts: Can home and end keys be mapped when using Terminal?

texts:
The Home and End keys on a MacBook Pro can be emulated with Fn + ← or fFn + →.  Or when certain settings are changed, with the ⌘ Command key instead of Fn.
None of these works in Terminal.
As I frequently need to go to the beginning or end of the line and would also like to jump forwards or backwards by word.
How can I jump around on a line in Terminal?


texts: Remove system default / third-party app 'service' items from OS X context menus?

texts:
I'm in the process of replacing OS X's default 'Search with Google' context menu item (found when you right click on text in many apps like Terminal, Notes, or third party ones like the RSS reader ReadKit), with my own one that opens in Chrome as the default aforementioned one is a Safari service and hard-linked to open in Safari only.

So currently, my context menu (in ReadKit), looks like this:

I want to be able to get rid of Safari's 'Search with Google' at the top so I don't accidentally use it instead of my own one down the bottom.

Now I realise the actual file / code for the service may be contained inside Safari.app or in ~/Library/Safari somewhere, (though I've had a quick look not finding anything that stands out in particular), but I'm thinking that if I could delete the service outright, it might cause instability, problems, or be re-added when Safari is updated next, anyway. (Though it would be an acceptable second best, if someone can figure out how to do it - without deleting or affecting Safari itself.)

As for the OS X services Preferences menu, it is already unticked, but still present in Terminal, Notes, ReadKit etc.:

So is there a way I can actually remove it? Where in the system does OS X register / save 'Services', whether ones in OS X by default, third party apps, or ones added by the user in Automator? Maybe I can go there and 'remove' the one from Safari so it no longer shows in the context menus?

Or maybe there's some app that can tweak context menu items in general in OS X, including this Safari one I'm looking at? (I have already tried Services Manager which doesn't appear to change it, and as for Service Scrubber they say it may cause problems in OS X 10.6 or later so I have not tried it.)

(N.b., if there's a Terminal hack to just turn off the whole 'Searching' services section in the context menu outright, that would be acceptable for me as I don't use the 'Look up "x"' item [above 'Search with Google'] anyway.)


texts: Why does =$0 appear in Safari web inspector?

texts:
I've been wondering about this for a while. Why does =$0 appears next to elements in the web inspector in Safari? I am using Safari 9.0.1

Here is a picture of what I'm talking about

(larger):

Or if you prefer the version to read:

<div style="height: 100px; width: 2px; background-color: rgb(255,196,122); transform: rotate(-60deg); bottom: 10px; right: 80x;"> = $0


texts: Getting notifications when in full-screen

texts:
Say I am running an application (e.g. Emacs) in full-screen. Sometimes I will receive a new email in Outlook or a message on HipChat and don't know it until I go back to see my dock or exit full-screen.

I would like to see notification like these while on full-screen. How can I do this?


texts:
I am looking to install SQL developer

I downloaded the .app file.

When I try and open it I get

“SQLDeveloper.app” can’t be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed.


texts: Google Smart Lock constantly asking to turn on Bluetooth

texts:
I have Google Smart Lock installed on my iPad running under iOS 12.
Every now and then (up to a dozen times a day) the following system dialog window shows on top of whatever is active (this is not a foreground app-induced message):

Turn On Bluetooth to Allow "Smart Lock" to Connect to Accessories

I do not want to have Bluetooth constantly enabled.

What is the reason and how can I prevent it from appearing?

Additional info:

All my Google accounts show:

Your account has been securely set up on this phone.

I have keys (YubiKey) configured for 2FA, which I use on PCs, but they are not Bluetooth enabled

I did not have that problem before iOS 12, but coincidentally I had an iPad replaced at the time of iOS 12 release and I configured credentials only after upgrading


texts: Is there a free hypervisor that runs on a Mac Mini?

texts:
I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac.

Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor?

Edit: Ideally, it should be managable remotely (like XenServer and ESXi), desktop virtualization software (like VirtualBox) isn't really what I had in mind.


texts: Macbook Pro 2018 blurry output on external HP Z23N display

texts:
I'm on a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) with Mojave (10.14). I'm trying to connect my MacBook to an external monitor (HP Z23N) through HDMI + Apple's usb-c adapter A1621 EMC 2877.

The connection works but the output is extremely blurry.

I know there are a lot of script for fixing this kind of problems. However, many of them do not work anymore and may lead to unexpected results. I'm looking for a fix working fine in that case.

EDIT: the monitor works fine if connected to a PC through DVI

EDIT:

Monitor with Debian

Monitor with MBP

MBP screen


texts: Messages shows wrong informations in the recent chats list

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For some contacts the preview in the recent chats list shows wrong informations. When I click on the preview, I get a totally different chat in the detail view.

Running Mountain Lion 10.8.2

Any ideas?


texts: How can I associate localhost in Snow Leopard to a specific ip?

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I've disabled the web server on Snow Leopard, and I'm using an emulated Ubuntu with Lighttpd web server.

In order to access to the web pages I need to specify the ip of the emulated machine. However I now need to associated such ip with "localhost" in Leopard environment.

When I type localhost in Leopard I actually want to visit the localhost on the Ubuntu machine.

Do I need apache on leopard to make the forward or can I change network settings in Leopard or what?


texts: My app store can't dowload some apps or update

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I can't update WhatsApp, Snapchat and many other apps in my system, that is 9.0.1.

I tried to change date and time, turn off my iPhone and sign out.


texts: Why do I no longer have the option to set my Apple TV as a home hub?

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In earlier tvOS 11 betas, I still had the option to set my Apple TV as my home's hub. In the golden master/release, that option is no longer present and in the Home app it says I have no home hub.

What happened to this functionality?

Don't say it was to get more HomeKit sales.


texts: Save as PDF from Word makes pixelated PDF in Acrobat but not Preview

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I have a 2 year old MBP. I'm using Word 2008 and if I create a PDF using Save As... or  Print > PDF, the resulting PDF will look fantastic when viewed with Preview. However, if I open the same document in Acrobat it looks heavily pixelated.

Is there any explanation for why this is happening? Or how it can be fixed?
Thx!

See attached photos

The first screenshot is from Preview and the second is from Acrobat.


texts: Log software usage time on Mac OS 9 (Oct. 1999)

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I'm needing to log the time a user spends inside of an application in Mac OS 9. I created a simple bash script "launcher" to do this, but then discovered OS 9 doesn't have bash installed. Here is the bash script I wrote for reference.

#!/bin/bash

APP="TextEdit"
LOG_LOCATION=~/Desktop/textedit-usage.log

run_app() {
    USER=`whoami`
    START_TIME=`date`
    echo "START - $APP - $USER - $START_TIME" >> $LOG_LOCATION
    Open -W -a $APP
    END_TIME=`date`
    echo "END - $APP - $USER - $END_TIME" >> $LOG_LOCATION
}

run_app &

It creates a simple log file that looks something like this:

START - TextEdit - john - Tue Jan  7 15:14:55 EST 2014
END - TextEdit - john - Tue Jan  7 15:15:48 EST 2014

Is there a way to port this script to OS 9? I was thinking AppleScript might work, but am having trouble finding documentation for the specific version used in OS 9. I don't even know where to start.


texts: Time machine clean up hangs chrome (and other apps)

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Whenever Time Machine finishes a backup and says its "Cleaning up" other applications start to hang until its finished - worst of which is Chrome - Chrome won't open a new URL until Time Machine is done.

Today this happened after Time Machine backed up only 65 kb of changed files - after that tiny backup it spent 5 minutes cleaning up. Very frustrating.

I'm assuming Time Machine is locking files somewhere that chrome is waiting on. But I can't find mention of this behaviour by googling.

Is there any work around available short of ditching time machine?

I'm on snow leopard, up to date with software updates, time machine is backing up to a USB attached disk.


texts: Carbon Copy Cloner circumvents FileVault authentication?

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I have a MacBook Pro on which I created a FileVault partition.  To access it, I click on the .dmg file, OSX asks for the password, then it mounts the partition in a readable form.  So far so good.

I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make backups of my MBP onto an external USB drive.  I recently decided to test the CCC image by plugging in the USB drive and booting the MBP with the startup manager (pressing Option during startup).  The backup image was offered as a startup volume, so I selected it.  The machine booted, albeit slowly.  So far so good.

I got to the log in screen, I logged in, and then navigated to my encrypted .dmg file.  I clicked on it.  Much to my astonishment and consternation, it duly mounted the partition without asking for my password.

Does this mean that
(a) the "encrypted partition" on my MBP drive isn't really safe?  Or
(b) the CCC image somehow circumvents the authentication mechanism?

[FWIW, I'm 95% certain that the FileVault partition was NOT mounted when I ran the CCC backup.  If it was mounted, I could see that as an explanation to what happened.]

Either way, it seems that something is really broken.  The whole reason for encrypting the partition is to protect the contents.  Just because it's on a backup drive doesn't mean it should be readable without authentication.

Can someone explain what's going on here?

UPDATE

I noticed the following in the CCC release notes:

  There is a bug in OS X Yosemite's diskutil command-line utility in
  which it will unlock and attach a FileVault-protected volume, but not
  mount that volume. This contradicts past behavior as well as the
  documentation for this utility. This update offers a workaround to
  this OS X Yosemite bug.

Should I assume this is the problem?  If so, what can I do to protect the data on the FileVault?


texts:
Does any know why the -exec does not work on mac os x lion terminal?

It works on linux and other variants but not on mac os x

find / -iname "*.mp3" -exec mv {} /mnt/mp3 \;


texts:
Is there an option to enable a 1 time flash plugin on Mac? Possibly with portable firefox or something like that?

I don't want to install Flash on my Mac, but I do find some legacy sites where this is required.


texts:
There are some videos telling how to install iOS 10 on iPhone 4s, for example How to get iOS 10 on iPhone 4/4s/5/5c/5s/6 and above. Though they contain the term iPhone 4s in the title, I am not sure whether it works, because that video doesn't clearly show installing iOS 10 on 4S device.

The software update in iPhone 4S doesn't show the iOS 10 update, but is there a way to install it?


texts: Microsoft Outlook 2011 constantly crashing

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I just purchased Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac last week. Outlook CONSTANTLY crashes. I have tried everything… uninstall and re install twice, rebuilding main identity. Please help! I am so frustrated since I just purchased this. I am running Mountain Lion as well.

Here is the error when it crashes:

Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0

Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_CRASH (SIGTRAP)
Date/Time: 2013-02-15 20:20:24 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Outlook
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Outlook
Application Signature: OPIM
Application Version: 14.2.0.120402
Crashed Module Name: merp
Crashed Module Version: 2.2.4.120402
Crashed Module Offset: 0x00003aa2
Blame Module Name: OutlookCore
Blame Module Version: 14.2.0.120402
Blame Module Offset: 0x0004de5f
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 8

New error after taking MERP update and Office update 14.2.5:

Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0

Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_CRASH (SIGTRAP)
Date/Time: 2013-02-18 16:36:46 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Outlook
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Outlook
Application Signature: OPIM
Application Version: 14.2.5.121010
Crashed Module Name: merp
Crashed Module Version: 2.2.4.121010
Crashed Module Offset: 0x00003aa2
Blame Module Name: OutlookCore
Blame Module Version: 14.2.5.121010
Blame Module Offset: 0x0004e10d
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 8

Took SP3 for Outlook so now using version 14.3.1 and new error:

Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0

Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_CRASH (SIGTRAP)
Date/Time: 2013-02-18 17:39:05 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Outlook
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Outlook
Application Signature: OPIM
Application Version: 14.3.1.130117
Crashed Module Name: merp
Crashed Module Version: 2.2.4.130117
Crashed Module Offset: 0x00003782
Blame Module Name: OutlookCore
Blame Module Version: 14.3.1.130117
Blame Module Offset: 0x0004d9ed
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 8


texts: How to create a global date entry shortcut/hotkey?

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Excel and Google Sheets both allow you to enter the current date (and time) with a single keystroke.  I would love to be able to do this in other applications too but can't find any way to do this without resorting to 3rd party apps that also do a whole lot more that I don't need.

Using Automator/Services won't work because the main application I want to use this with is a Java app called Tradewonk, and services appear to not be available to a java application (there is no "Services" option in the "Java" menu that appears when the app is running).

So any other suggestions for how I can generate the current date/time with a keystroke?  I'm on macOS Sierra.


texts:
In the website http://gfs.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Mac_OSX_Installation

In this line:

  type from the source directory

./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-osmesa --prefix=$HOME/soft
make
make install

What is the source directory referring to here ?


texts: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and preserving Bootcamp partition

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I have a 2010 MacPro running SL with a bootcamp partition (on the same bootdrive) containing a Windows 7 x64 installation which I use for work. I was about to upgrade the Mac to Mountain Lion but I'm concerned that doing so will make the Windows 7 partition unbootable. If its an anavoidable side-effect of upgrading I will have to image the windows partition and restore it once I've done the upgrade, but with >500GB on the Windows side of things, I would rather not.

I can't seem to find a definitive answer on the web, can anyone confirm or deny my suspicions?


texts: Why I don't see all launchctl daemons/agents with "sudo launchctl list"?

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I wish to see all launchctl daemons/agents and found How to show all running launchctl daemons/agents?

This doesn't work:

> sudo launchctl list | grep -v com.apple.
PID     Status  Label
-       0       org.postfix.master
-       0       org.cups.cupsd
-       0       com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool
-       0       com.vix.cron
244     0       org.ntp.ntpd

I doubt that I have that less Non-Apple launchctl daemons/agents.

for example I have those installed and running:

> brew services list
Name     Status  User Plist
grafana  stopped
influxdb started fyodor /Users/fyodor/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.influxdb.plist
mysql    started fyodor /Users/fyodor/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
redis    started fyodor /Users/fyodor/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
telegraf started fyodor /Users/fyodor/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.telegraf.plist

I don't see them with sudo launchctl list. How to get a complete list?


texts: How I can activate the iPhone which is asking for credentials I don't remember?

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I was going to sell my iPhone tomorrow, and I thought I'd reset it so that none of my things were on there. I had already made an iTunes and AppleID for the buyer and was going to set up the phone for them.

When one resets a phone it asks for the AppleID password. I entered that and then the iPhone was reset.

When it came to activating the phone again, it is asking for an iCloud account email and password which I can't remember. I know the password its just the email, so I went to reset my iCloud email and it won't let me - only my AppleID which isn't the same.

Can anyone suggest how I can activate the iPhone?


texts:
I use two keyboards on the mac, the default mac keyboard and a windows default (Microsoft wireless desktop).

I use the microsoft keyboard one for the left hand, and the mac keyboard for the right hand.

The problem is that when I press a key on microsoft keyboard like shift/ctrl/alt/esc, and another key on the mac it doesn't get detected as a combination. I have to press the full combination on the same keyboard.

Is it possible to override this?

I'm used to typing ⇧ (Keyboard A) and char (Keyboard B) in order to get an upper case char.


texts: Sometimes Safari opens with blank/empty tabs with window titles of the previous session

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I don’t dare to quit Safari if I want to keep the tabs opened, because this happens quite often on my MacBook, running OSX 10.8.2 and Safari 6.0.2. Is this a known problem?

It is strange because window titles are still there but I cannot reload the page. So I always have to search for the page title to get back to the page.


texts: Are there any GPS recording applications for the iPhone?

texts:
I was wondering if there was an iPhone application that would continuously read the GPS location and save it for later analysis. For example, I would like to be able to tell where I was at certain point of time, or how long did it take me to travel from one place to another.
Is there such an app?


texts: Disable full screen system wide on OS X 10.9.5

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I am using Mac OS X 10.9.5. Having Full Screen at the right end of the each window. How can i disable it?

I have tried th below workarounds to fix this but nothing worked out. I listed one of the workaround below.

Terminal

Type :

$ defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

Hit enter

Close all applications before you do this to make sure the setting propagates. Any app running when you make this change will need to be restarted for the changes to take effect.

This is also i got from this forum. What can I do to disable full screen windows?


texts:
um...i don't know what happened..

I just opened lid to wake up my mac then it freezed. I re-booted it and now i'm seeing "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"

i'm using intel 320 ssd 120gb.

Should I re-install mac os again? How can I make sure that it won't happen again?


texts: Convert an epoch date to human readable format?

texts:
echo "$some_string" | awk -F '|' '{print $1 $2}'

$2 is a epoch date and I want to convert it to human readable format. I tried doing date -r $2 but no luck.


texts: How to disable composite keys on Mac OS X

texts:
I've got my mac two months ago and there is a problem that kinda bugs me to death. It is related to input languages and composite characters (those made up from more than one character, for example in Bulgarian Phonetic layout, the characters 'a(cyrillic a) produce ђ ).

I'm looking for a way to disable this behavior as I almost never (let's say never had to use them) and it gets in the way when I need to type ' followed by some other character - for example when I try to write python comments and I'm in Bulgarian Phonetic, when i type 3 ''' and then press enter for next line, a fourth ' is added and I have to delete it and press enter again.

Any ideas on how to disable this behavior. I couldn't find anything on the interwebs, but I believe it's because I can't formulate my search query right, as I don't even know how this feature is called.


texts: Make a single line of text bold in Mail message using Automator?

texts:
I have an automator script that creates a new email using the Mail app.
In this message, I would like a single line in bold as seen here:
on run {input, parameters}
    set clipContent to (the clipboard as text)
    tell application "Mail"
        set myMessage to make new outgoing message at the beginning of outgoing messages with properties {subject:"subject"}
        tell myMessage to make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:"email@email.com"}
        set myMessage's content to "

Line of text

" & clipContent & "

Line of text <---- I want this line in **BOLD**

Regards,
Name"
    return input
end run


texts: Can't download itunes album purchased on a different computer to Iphone

texts: I purchased an album this morning on my laptop at home. I got on the bus and realized that all of the songs hadn't downloaded.  I logged onto itunes at work and the album shows up under purchased music, but it won't let me download it to my music on my iphone.  I've authorized the computer, I've checked that the purchase isn't hidden and I've tried to drag and drop the album into my music.  It will pull over to there and it shows the little plus mark, but it doesn't download it to my music.  Please help! I can't figure this out.


texts: How & why do "0.0.0.0" connections get a response?

texts:
I have a lot of bad guys in /etc/hosts pointing to 0.0.0.0

If I use host to check the domain name, I get an actual IP address instead of 0.0.0.0

What I expected the resolver to give me is the same thing that is in the hosts file.  What I expected from any other access is a failure (timeout).

But when the resolver provides the real IP, I would expect a browser to show the bad guy's website.  Instead, both Safari and Firefox show "Blocked!!" with the same font, font size, positioning, etc.  The HTML is identical:

Blocked!!

suggesting that it comes from somewhere/something else.  Where does this HTML come from?  What would happen if the Mac tried to go there on some other (non-http/https) port?

This is the latest MacOS update on a 2012 MacBook.


texts: NAT64 enabled on OSX, iPhone still gets an IPv4 IP Address

texts:
I've enabled the "Create NAT64 Network" option in network "Sharing". I connect my iPhone and it seems to work (tested in Safari). However, when I look at the Wi-Fi information for the connection my IP address is an IPv4 one (or at least has that format)

IP Address: 169.254.34.19
Mask: 255.255.0.0
DNS: 2001:2:0:aab1::1

The DNS has a v6 address, but I was expecting the device itself to also get such an address.

How can I be certain I have a IPv6 only connection, and possible how can I get such an address?  I'm trying to test connectivity of an App to be distributed in the App Store.


texts: Mail with gmail: labels get lost occasionally

texts:
I am using Mail with two gmail accounts and I am using labels to archive my messages.

All my gmail labels show up as folders in Mail. I then use Mail to move emails from the inbox into respective folders, and if I check in the gmail web interface, I see the labels that I have applied in mail.

This works quite well in general, however, sometimes (this happens after I click on a folder within mail to see the mails with this label), suddenly all mails that I moved from my inbox into a folder re-appear in my inbox. When I look into gmail, I see that the labels are lost.

I have read that, depending on the OS X version, the gmail option show in imap should be enabled/disabled. I have version 10.9.4, and since I cannot see new mail in Mail when disabled, I have this option enabled.

Is there anything I can do to prevent the loss of my labels? I would like to keep a clean inbox and just archived 300 messages which are now back in the inbox!


texts:
I opened a write-protected and locked PDF-file with the Preview app. Originally it was located within a folder at the desktop.
Afterwards, I moved the file within its folder to a different location.
After some time, the containing folder reappeared at the desktop but without any content in it.
It has been some days since then and I rebooted several times. The folder just keeps reappearing. I delete it, it somehow gets recreated by some application after some minutes.
I even unlocked the PDF-file, moved it back and forth. I also deleted the folder with sudo in the terminal. It says that "staff" is the owner. But it keeps reapperaring.
What could I do? Can I see why the folder was created?


texts: iTunes: Open Home Sharing Library by default

texts:
On my main iMac, I've got a huge iTunes library which is shared with Home Sharing.

I use my MacBook much more frequently, and I have basically no music on it. I would instead like to direct iTunes to always open/play from the main Home Shared library if it's available.

There doesn't seem to be a setting to do this. Instead, I have to select it in iTunes whenever the computer is restarted, or the iMac goes to sleep. Is it possible to find a work-around?

I have looked around, and there are some people having resembling issues with their NAS music libraries (example: How can I get iTunes Library to stay pointed to my NAS?).

If my issue is effectively the same issue as automatically mounting an AFP-mounted NAS iTunes Library, there at least doesn't seem to be a consensus on how to solve this issue in 2016?

Maybe something like an AppleScript would be a solution, if there is no conventional solution. I would hope that it was possible to make iTunes look for the remote Library instead of the local one.


texts:
So I tried updating Xcode but after the update I still got the same version of it (so there was an update still available).

I decided to uninstall it by throwing the app in the trash. The update still remains. After clicking 'Update', nothing happens and now I can't use it.

Any help on this as it is very important for me right now?

Note: I deleted the Library/Developer folder too


texts: Can you still make QuickTime to store temporary recordings on another drive?

texts:
I need to get QuickTime Player to store its temporary files on another disk. I found an answer here, which I tried, but QuickTime Player quits with an error when I try to make a Screen Recording. I used:

$ cd ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX
$ mv Data Data.bak
$ ln -s /Volumes/'Keeper 4'/QuicktimeScratch QTData
$ ln -s QTData Data

Does this no longer work, or did I screw something up? Keeper 4 is an external HD. I tried it with and without an existing QuicktimeScratch directory.


texts: iOS WriteRoom editor feature replacement?

texts:
One of my favorite features about WriteRoom is that as soon as I open it, I see a listing of a Dropbox directory I have previously configured. No extra steps. This lets me very quickly get to my notes and records without navigating around, since I always want to go to the same directory.

Since WriteRoom will soon become incompatible with iOS 11 since it is a 32-bit app and is not being actively developed, does anyone know which of the many text editors available has this feature?

Per @patrix suggestion, here are prioritized features for a Dropbox text editor:

Open directly to a particular Dropbox folder at launch, after a one-time configuration step. No additional navigation. Speed is #1!
Sync that Dropbox folder's contents to the device, so that it can be accessed offline, and the changes reconciled after coming back online
Text search through the entire folders files, and also within the file once it is open.
Sort the folder list by name or date, descending.


texts: Xcode 6.4 does not start on OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite

texts:
As of this morning, Xcode 6.4 stopped launching on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite.

I tried to launch with

sudo open --new /Applications/Xcode.app

but got

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Xcode.app

I've reinstalled Xcode, but get the same result. I've tried Disk Utility and antivirus software and my system seems to be clean.

Any ideas how I should proceed, short of reinstalling OS X?


texts: Mac mini can't connect to my corporate SMB server. Was working some days ago

texts:
I'm at work, and my Mac mini has stopped being able to connect to the corporate SMB server shared folders.

If I try Finder > Connect to Server (using the URL stored there from previous successful connections), macOS Sierra complains with a more than useless "generic error".

In my Console logs I can't detect any error related with samba (where should I be looking into?)

There are clonic Mac mini machines on the same floor (my coworkers' ones) and they can connect to this server without any problem.

If I ping this machine from my command line, I can see it perfectly.

If I try this on the command line:

smbutil view smb://192.168.XXX.XXX/docs/

macOS Sierra yields this:

smbutil: server connection failed: No such file or directory

If I try that very exact command line onto a coworker machine, it just lists the shared resources hanging from that SMB server...

Any hint? Maybe it's something related to some service being disabled by mistake in my Mac mini?

I don't have access to my company Samba Server machine and configuration.

I've read and googled many pages around and I'm more than lost.

In case it might be useful, I use MacPorts. It might seem a random thing to add here, but maybe I'm not aware of some library I might have installed that might be known to be troublesome with the official OS X SAMBA client.


texts: Maverick's Mail Stops Receiving Messages from Gmail accounts

texts:
Once in a while (hours or even a day or two) mac Mail stops receiving messages from gmail accounts attached to it. Messages from iCloud accounts are delivered properly.

In order to solve that issue I have to restart the app or take the account offline and then back online.

Is there a way to permanently solve that issue?


texts: iMac excessive GPU heat when using a second display

texts:
Without a monitor connected (via Thunderbolt/mDP) to my iMac (2011, 3.4 GHz, 6970M 2GB), iStat Menus reports the GPU is using ~15 watts, and has a temperature of 60c. With one connected, it uses ~35 watts, and is ~80c. Both of these are when idling.

Regardless of it pushing an extra 1920x1200 monitor, 80c seems very excessive. I use my computer near enough everyday for up to 10 hours, and I'm worried about the long-term stress due to such a high temperature.

Is it normal, and if so, safe long-term?

(SMC reset, fans working correctly, no dust in air ducts, etc.)


texts: What does this symbol mean in iTunes next to a song?

texts: What does the open dotted circle to the left of the song name mean?  If you look at the highlighted song, it's the symbol below and to the left of "Equalizer".  It only appears when I plug in my iPhone to my computer.  I'm not able to play any songs with the open dotted circle next to them.


texts: Why are marked E-Mails by iPhone's Mail.app not shown in GMail's marked folder?

texts:
I have a GMail account (Google Apps with my own domain) hooked up as an exchange account in my iPhone.

If I mark an E-Mail (as shown in the screenshot) on my iPhone, it is not regonized by the GMail Web Client aka shown in the marked folder.

Do I have to configure something in my iPhone to fix this or is this not possible?

The text in the screenshot is german, but I think it is clear what means what. :-)


texts:
Can someone let me know the version of ruby on macOS sierra? I have a public beta of macOS Sierra (10.12.1 build-16B2327e) and the version is 2.0.0.

I wanted to know if the stable version of macOS has a higher ruby version than 2.0.0.


texts:
Currently I am copying over their files by moving their user dir from one machine to the other. Then I create the account.

Is that the correct and best way to go? I am moving machines from 10.7 to 10.9. I would ike to also move all their application settings and more if possible.

I am a Windows/Linux guy.


texts: Filter launchctl standard err/out to add timestamp to log messages

texts:
I have a Launch Daemon running, happily logging to a couple of files specified using the Standard(Error|Out)Path entries in the property list file.

Now, the problem is that the particular program that is running doesn't include a time stamp when logging messages. Consequently, the log files show a long list of otherwise helpful messages, logged sometime between now and whenever.

Is there any way to somehow include the time stamp to these messages? For example, is there an option that I could set somewhere, or a program that I could route these messages through (which would be trivial to write, but how would this routing work)?


texts: Wifi not working in windows if thunderbolt display is connected

texts:
I had to install windows 7 on my macbook air (...) and I'm having trouble getting it to work with the thunderbolt display.

As soon as the display is connected, the wifi doesn't work anymore. Device manager shows the broadcom wifi device with a warning sign. It works nicely  when I reboot without the display plugged in.

Of course I've installed the newest Bootcamp drivers!

Is this a known problem?
Any suggestions?

(If it helps, I'm also having trouble getting my wireless trackpad and wireless keyboard to work at all with windows 7, might be related..)

(un)fortunately I don't know jack about windows anymore because I didn't use it seriously for at least 10 years.


texts: Can I put an Airport Extreme in client mode (sharing printer only)?

texts:
I have an Airport Extreme 3rd gen (A1301). I just bought a Time Capsule 5th gen (A1470). I put the TC where the AE used to be, in a cupboard in the hall. Now I am thinking to repurpose the AE as a printer server on my desk.

Can I configure it so it connects to the wifi of the Time Capsule in client mode? I don't want to extend the network of the TC since then I would risk connecting to the Airport Express instead of the TC with my other devices, which would be undesirable.


texts: Mac OS word delimiter character settings

texts:
I seem to remember seeing a tip once where there was a setting in System Preferences where you can define "programming" as a language or something so that double-clicking on a hyphenated word selects the entire word, hyphen and all.

I did this on my older MBP and now can't remember how to do it for my new one (10.9.1)


texts: Does iOS have the capability to execute multiple apps in memory, and enable you to switch between them, restoring the previous state?

texts:
This is for buying purposes; i.e. does the kernel schedule the processes and threads belonging to every process, and do the apps save states that can be resumed at the user's discretion?

Please fill me in on the scheduling/structure of iOS's kernel.


texts: Why is "Find my friends" gone from Today Pane and how to get it back?

texts:
For a long time I used the "Find my friends" widget in the Today pane of MacOS, but since last week it is gone and cannot be added again.  Find my Friends works as expected on iCloud.com and on iOS.  On this Macbook however, my today pane looks like below.  Can I reset the today pane or get Find My Friends back in some other way?

Update: The find my friends framework seems to be up and running. I can ask Siri for the location of a Friend and the widget is displayed in Siri's results with the location.  It really seems like some settings/preferences mess-up with Notification center.


texts: I want to make a new iMessage account and stop using my old Apple ID for messaging. I need to know if it will change my apple id from which I download my apps?


texts: Why does iPhone 5s have so many different models for GSM and CDMA netwrok? Very confused?

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I am quite confused about GSM and CDMA models of iPhone 5s.

Please read this in Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5S:

Connectivityof iPhone 5S

List All models:

GSM model (A1533)
LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25: 2100, 1900, 1800, AWS, 850, 900, 700c, 700b, 800 MHz, 800 DD).

CDMA model (A1533)
UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (1700/2100 MHz), CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz), (except China model:)LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25: 2100, 1900, 1800, AWS, 850, 900, 700c, 700b, 800 MHz, 800 DD).

CDMA model (A1453)
UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (1700/2100 MHz), CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz), LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26: 2100, 1900, 1800, AWS, 850, 900, 700c, 700b, 800 MHz, 800 DD).

GSM model (A1457)
LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20: 2100, 1900, 1800, 850, 2600, 900 MHz, 800 DD).

GSM model (A1518)
TDD-LTE, TD-SCDMA[6]

GSM model (A1528)
LTE (unofficial)

GSM model (A1530)
LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, 38, 39, 40: 2100, 1900, 1800, 850, 2600, 900 MHz, 800 DD, TD 2600, 1900, 2300), (with software operator version China Mobile 15.6 or above:) TD-SCDMA

Why doesn't Apple make iPhone 5s to be "world phone" like iPhone 4s. World phone means it can use for any network in the world whether CDMA or GSM.

If they can't make Worl Phone, then at least they should create 2 models only. 1 for GSM & 1 for CDMA.

However, surprisingly, iPhone 5s has so many different models. It has 5 different models for GSM?
so
Does that also mean 5 different iphone 5s with 5 different hardwares?

Likewise, it has 2 different models for CDMA.

Why it has so many different models for the same network. Before that they only have 1 or 2 or max 3 models (iPhone 5).

The big question.

What if you buy the wrong model (even for the same network)? For example, I am a user & I just roughly know that my carrier using GSM, then:

How do I know which model (A1533, A1457, A1518, A1528, A1530) to chose?

Very confused? or Apple is trying to confuse the ones who buy the unlocked phone so that they can make more $$ from contract with carrier?

How to make sure I buy the right one.


texts: How to produce constant output in a Terminal window?

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Like when you do brew install wget or mysqld restart I want some lines of information constantly run through my terminal window. Is there maybe something I can monitor or any stream of information I can jump in? Is it maybe possible to watch the activity monitor processes in the terminal?

Why would I want to have that? Because it looks super cool when you have that Matrix-like code running over your monitor. And I could need that for some home movie scenes.


texts: Does downloading big files reduce my SSD lifetime significantly?

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I love downloading movies from the internet, and download files with sizes usually around 600 MB - 1 GB.

I have a MacBook Pro with a Retina display, which comes with an SSD. Will downloading and saving it to directly to my SSD reduce my Mac's SSD lifetime significantly? Should I buy an another external HDD for this hobby?


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I have a Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro.

I recently formatted my hard drive and then it went into Internet recovery mode.

It took a long time for it to download everything after which it reached the screen where it asks for my personal details to set it up. I didn’t set it up and after a few minutes when I tried to use it, nothing happened.

There’s no green or orange light if I connect a charger. Nothing happens if I press the power button - no fan movement, no chime, no display. If I connect the charger after half a day or so, the charger turns green for less than a second and dies.

What is wrong with this computer?


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I have an iPhone 5 on iOS 8.4.1. I recently jailbroke it and then restored it back using iTunes. Since then, iCloud Backup is not completing even after me doing it manually over and over again.

Also, AppStore is too slow, the app download or update doesn't even start. Upon waiting for few hours, it completes about 5%

What could this be?


texts: What happens if I plug both sides of one USB-C cable from one MBP port to another of its ports?

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I've got a MacBook Pro 13" 2017 - two USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports. It came with a standard USB-C cable to support power supply. If I plug this cable into both USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports the Mac seems to think it's connected to a power supply. IMHO it's dangerous for battery in laptop, but I have to ask: is it any risk?

What can happen to my MBP if I plug this one cable between both of its USB-C ports?


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Which character encodings does Mobile Safari support?

I'd like a list that I can verify, if possible.

Is it a different list to Desktop Safari?
(where they're listed as part of the View menu)


texts: What's the simplest way to process files with UTF-8 characters in groff on macOS?

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I require Polish diacritics, such as ą, ć, ę, etc.

Of course, I can always pre-process the file to replace UTF-8 characters with escaped characters but that's not elegant.