texts:
I've got a Mac web server that's been getting hit pretty regularly with SYN half-open attacks. I've looked in to various ways to combat this. I've found a lot of general information, but not very much specific information.
The "easiest" approach seems to be tweaking tcp settings in sysctl.conf, but I'm having a hard time finding any kind of documentation of these settings. I probably want to increase the total number of available half-open connections, I probably want to reduce the timeout for those connections too, but this is a topic that's not very well documented.
Some of the things I've read suggest you shouldn't raise the half-open connection count limit too high because it uses up more memory. But how much memory can an half open connection really consume? A few bytes? Even if it's 1KB each, my server has 24 GB. Right now the server's limit is 512 half-open connections but I feel like tens of thousands should be no sweat, unless there is some other factor I'm not aware of? Which is very possible because again, so little documentation.
Moving on, another approach is SYN Proxying/SYN Cookies. These methods remember the details of a syn request, then drop it. Then re-opens it again if the responding ACK ever comes. I don't really see how that is functionally different than just opening the connections directly anyway, it seems like that is how TCP should work so it is inherently resistant to these SYN attacks. But that's beside the point.....
So the easiest way to use SYN Proxying for me is to enable it in my pf firewall. But when I try, it doesn't seem to work properly. I did eventually read something that said synproxying in pf doesn't work properly on macOS. Another topic with very little documentation.
The other option is to use syncookies, enabled in sysctl.conf. I haven't tried this yet. Part of the reason is because both syncookies and synproxying always have disclaimers about how you shouldn't use it constantly, only when you are under attack etc. Well, ignoring the fact that once you are under attack, it is too late to enable syncookies, I also would really like some elaboration on that warning! That sounds very important. WHY would you not want to use proxying or cookies all the time? What are the downsides if I do?
The SYN half-open attack does not seem particularly complicated, I'm surprised there aren't easier ways to mitigate it. To be honest, I'm surprised it wasn't all but eliminated with changes to the way all TCP functions.


texts: Mac apps can't update on App Store with account logged in

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I am currently unable to update any app while having my account signed in,
the "Update" button spins a while and stops, nothing happened.
But when I sign out from App Store, everything works.
This issue does not apply to fresh installation or my other apple devices.
I've tried to sign out and then sign in my account, reboot, even update the os version.
No luck.
I would like to provide some logs, but I don't know how to get App Store specific logs.
Any advice will be appreciated.
OS Version: 10.15.3 & 10.15.6
Hardware: MacBook Pro 16''


texts: External monitor moves windows when coming out of sleep (2012 rMBP)

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I recently purchased a Dell P2715Q for the express purpose of using as the primary display for my 2012 rMBP running 10.10.3 when "docked" at home.  I have the laptop in a vertical holder that holds it in the closed position.  The monitor is connected to the rMBP using a mini display->display port cable, provided by Dell.  In case it matters, max res from the laptop is 2560x1440 (my older rMBP apparently can't handle the full 4k res the monitor can do...whatever).  My rMBP was the top-of-the-line when I bought it, so it has the NVIDIA GT 650M 1gb.

The problem I am having is that all of the windows get shoved into the upper-left corner ever time I wake the laptop from sleep/screensaver.  I am guessing that OS is reverting back to the screen res of the build-in monitor, which has a higher res but smaller desktop real estate, when everything goes to sleep.  This is getting annoying as I typically work with many windows open and placed in particular areas.  How can I tell OS X to stop moving my windows around?


texts: How do you change your UID in OS X Mountain Lion

texts:
kimvais @ kimvais ~ $ id
uid=501(kimvais) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3),405(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4),502(com.apple.local.ard_reports),503(com.apple.local.ard_interact),500(com.apple.access_ssh),501(com.apple.local.ard_admin),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),33(_appstore),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),504(com.apple.local.ard_manage),506(access_bpf),406(com.apple.sharepoint.group.5)

How do I change the 501 to something different give by my IT (so that my NFS mounts have correct UIDS) without breaking my system. Changing all the file ownerships I can handle "manually".


texts: When exporting from Keynote to Html, some animations (flip and orbital) don't work

texts: I'm using Keynote 09 (version 5.1.1) and the latest Safari. Is there a way to make the "flip" and "orbital" show up in the html slides? (During the export process they were changed to "dissolve").


texts: Can't find all features of iCloud Photo Sharing with non-Apple devices

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It appears that the full complement of features of sharing a photo album with iCloud photo sharing is only open to fellow Apple devices.

For example, only Apple devices can subscribe to the album and then comment, like and add photos/videos (depending on my permission selection). However, If I want to share the album with non Apple devices, then I have to send them a link and they can click on the link and see the photos and videos but they do not have the option of adding photos or videos or liking or commenting.

Is this correct?


texts: Will the retina iPad Mini charge with non-certified cables?

texts: I just bought a retina iPad Mini. Tried 3 different cheap lightning cables, none will charge it. Tried with 12W and 5W USB chargers. It will only charge with the Apple cable that came with it. But these Chinese cables charge my iPhone 5 and old iPad Mini just fine. Did something change in the new iPad's lightning chip? I wonder if is is a widespread problem or just me.


texts: How do I run Octave from a different directory?

texts:
I have recently installed Octave, a MATLAB clone, onto the following directory:

/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave

I want to run it from a shell command prompt from a different directory, say, from my home directory ~.  I know that I can type the full path to the octave executable, but that is very cumbersome.  I know that on linux computers you can edit your .bashrc file to include paths to special directories with executables.  How do I accomplish that here in Mac OS?


texts:
Displaying folders ordered by size shows the following:

So about 235GB in all. However when I inspect the "Get Info" for the same drive, it shows the following:

So some 395GB in all.
Where could the mysterious missing 160GB be hidden?!
Thanks!


texts:
I am seeing images of iPhone white with only white background, while the front is black (or it looks on images). I am looking to buy used iphone 3gs and many images from different sellers are like this.

So, is white iphone 3gs all white or only the back of the phone is white? Or the front is of such color that black dominates and white cannot be seen on images?


texts: Install Ubuntu on Yosemite - no detected operating system

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I have a 2012 MBP running Yosemite and a Live CD of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It runs fine, but when I get to the install part it only gives me options to delete the hard disk (no operating system detected) or something else (which im not comfortable with).

I've googled for hours and still am no where. Has anyone had this issue/know how to get around it?


texts:
I'd like to access the variables origTrack and origPlaylist from another AppleScript so that I can return to the track and playlist that were playing before the first script executed.

Here's what I have in the first script:

global origTrack
global origPlaylist

on run arguments
    if ((count of arguments) is 0) or (first item of arguments) is not "paused" then

        set origTrack to ""
        tell application "iTunes"
            if player state is playing then
                set origTrack to current track

            end if
        end tell

        set origPlaylist to ""
        tell application "iTunes"
            if player state is playing or player state is paused then
                set origPlaylist to current playlist
                set newPlaylist to playlist "Morning Mix"
                set view of front window to newPlaylist
            end if
        end tell
        tell application "iTunes" to play newPlaylist

    end if
    return arguments
end run

Second script:

on run
    set isPlaying to false

    tell application "iTunes"
        set isPlaying to player state is equal to playing
        pause
        set current track to origTrack
    end tell

    if isPlaying then
        return "playing"
    else
        return "paused"
    end if
end run


texts: Create backup iPhone with forgotten encryption password

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I'm trying to make a backup from my iPhone, however it's set to be password protected.
I do not know the password, as I've never set one. I've tried all the passwords I know, which I've ever used to make sure I didn't set it.

I've also tried the default 0000 and 1234 codes.

I want to uncheck the encryption checkbox in iTunes, but it requires me to type a password.
What else can I try?

I have no problems in removing all backups and start from the scratch somehow, however - I do not want to restore my phone as new and remove all those settings.


texts: Connecting LG27UL850 to MacBook Pro 13" 2015 at 3840x2160 60hz

texts: I have just bought the LG27UL850 and plugged the LG supplied hdmi cable in to my MacBook Pro 13" 2015. I can only get 3840 x 2160 (low resolution) at 30hz. I want this resolution at 60hz which I know is possible but I'm not sure how. Does anyone know which adapter will help me do this? Thunderbolt 2 to HDMI? Display port to mini display port? Am i the only one that finds this mega confusing?!


texts:
I am trying to install gulp - which seems to require first cask:

17:14:34/mozaik-demo $brew install gulp
Error: No available formula for gulp
Searching formulae...
Searching taps...
Caskroom/cask/gulp

Let us install the cask:

17:14:41/mozaik-demo $brew cask install gulp
==> Downloading https://github.com/sindresorhus/gulp-app/releases/download/0.1.0/gulp.app.zip
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Symlinking App 'gulp.app' to '/Users/steve/Applications/gulp.app'
  gulp staged at '/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/gulp/0.1.0' (830 files, 75M)

But then what is the correct next step? Here is my attempt:

17:15:03/mozaik-demo $brew install gulp
Error: No available formula for gulp
Searching formulae...
Searching taps...
Caskroom/cask/gulp
17:15:09/mozaik-demo $which gulp


texts: How do I open up my Mac to remote sharing anywhere?

texts:
I've been looking around and I can only find a way to access my iMac and it's files on a local network. But if I'm away or at school, this kinda puts a hold on my work and is mighty inconvenient. If anyone could tell me how or point me towards resources, that'd be great!

In specifics, I'd like to use my iPhone (jailbroken, iOS 12.1) to be able to ssh, scp, or sftp from school.


texts: Hi i'm a newbie to Apple products, I installed MAMP on my Mac and now have no idea where the default folder where all the html files are put go to. Also new to web development. Anyone help?


texts: There is not a GO button in the menu bar

texts:
Any idea how to add a GO button to my menu bar to the MAC PRO?
Menu bar I have contains:  Safari  File  Edit  View  History  Bookmarks Window  Help

NO "GO" Bar


texts: Does my son know I'm using Find my iPhone when I log on?

texts: If I use Find my iPhone to locate my son's phone, does he know I am checking?  Does his phone alert him that I'm checking on him?


texts: How do I charge my USB-C device with my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a Nexus 5x (Android phone). It uses a USB-C charging cord. When I plug my USB-charging cord into my phone and into a PC I own, the PC charges the phone (as expected). When I instead insert the USB-C cord into my phone and the other end into my MacBook Pro, the phone charges the MacBook.

This is backwards to me. How do I charge my phone from my MacBook?


texts: Generating a monochrome PDF file from a color PDF file

texts:
How can I generate a monochrome pdf file from a color pdf file?

I have tried ImageMagick's convert, but with bad results.

A direct conversion

  convert -monochrome file.pdf file-bw.pdf

produces dithered images.

Going through png

  convert -monochrome -background white -geometry 2048 file.pdf file-bw.png

stubbornly keeps the background to some shade of gray.


texts: I'm searching for an app and software to to let me use my iPhone 4 as a webcam for MSN and others. My phone is 4.0.1 and jailbroken. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.4.


texts: where are the tap featues of the Airpods on the Airpod Pros?

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I recently got some Airpod Pro earphones. I'm accustomed to being able to tap my left Airpod to advance to the next track and my right Airpod to toggle pause/play

I can't seem to find similar features on the Airpod Pros. First there appears to be no tap options only squeeze and second the squeeze options are only noise settings and Siri. Further, squeeze  is not nearly as convenient as tap since I can tap my AirPods with my hands full but can’t squeeze.

Is there some way to enable the tap options on AirPods Pros or are these really a downgrade from the functionality of the standard AirPods?


texts: How to understand if a customer mac is retina display?

texts:
A customer of mine is not able to say if she owns a Retina Display. She sent this info:

15-inch (1680 x 1050)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB graphics

Can I understand from it, if she owns a retina display?


texts: Does MacOS Support a Snapshot-Style Filesystem?

texts:
I would like to perform daily snapshots that I can revert to if someone:

downloads Malware
installs buggy software
etc.

Does such a thing exist?  Is there a roadmap for it?

I have a Fusion drive so that would affect my personal situation but I am just asking the general question.


texts: Calendar Crashes While Opening - NSPersistentStoreCoordinator has no persistent stores or NSInternalInconsistencyException

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The calendar crashes after 1s while opening. I already opened the temp dir open $TMPDIR..deleted the cache C folder, restarted the computer and deleted the trash. This was not successful. Even after the upgrade to sierra the calendar is still broken.

I created a guest user account, where I'm able to open the calendar. But I cannot open it on my main (admin) account.

I tried to open the calendar after I had booted from safe mode. I also tried to open the calendar in safe mode, which was also not possible. The error is the same.

main error

This NSPersistentStoreCoordinator has no persistent stores (unknown).  It cannot perform a save operation.

full error

I trimmed the error a bit otherwise I couldn't post it there.

Process:               Calendar [27732]
Path:                  /Applications/Calendar.app/Contents/MacOS/Calendar
Identifier:            com.apple.iCal
Version:               9.0 (2155)
Build Info:            iCal-2155000000000000~2
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Calendar [27732]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2016-10-10 13:27:38.511 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12 (16A323)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        DD7A2269-DAE5-C038-6F53-34D6AAA3EF21

Sleep/Wake UUID:       160FAB72-D6A8-4065-90C4-627329158025

Time Awake Since Boot: 250000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       50000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        3  Dispatch queue: com.apple.NSXPCConnection.m-user.com.apple.CalendarAgent.proxy

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00003562149bbec0
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [0]

===========                     =======  =======
TOTAL                            583.7M      829

Model: MacBookAir6,2, BootROM MBA61.0099.B22, 2 processors, Intel Core i5, 1,4 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.13f15
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000, Intel HD Graphics 5000, Built-In
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x483943434E4E4E384A544D4C41522D4E544D
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x483943434E4E4E384A544D4C41522D4E544D
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x117), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.171.10.1a16)
Bluetooth: Version 5.0.0f18, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SD0256F, 251 GB
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Air, Apple Inc., 23.6


texts: Gmail "On Behalf Of" Feature in Mail.app

texts:
I use Gmail with Mail.app. As you know Gmail allows replying mails as someone else (by changing From header of the sent e-mail). If you don't know, you can register multiple mails to Gmail (your personal mail, work mail etc.) and you can send mail from them from one account.

Let's say you have 3 mails registered in GMail: g@gmail.com, a@a.a and b@b.b. Your account is g@gmail.com in this case. When you use GMail web interface, if you receive a mail redirected from a@a.a, when you press Reply, it sends your mail as a@a.a (or you can choose other accounts to mimic one of your e-mail addresses as sender).

However when I'm in Mail.app, I'm only able to send mail as g@gmail.com, any ideas to solve this?


texts: Can i download the new iOS without computer internet connection?

texts:
My super old desktop is currently having problems connecting to the Internet.

Is there a way that I can update my iPhone to the new operating system without my computer connecting to the internet?

I'm afraid that if I connect my iPhone to my newish laptop to do the upload that it will delete all of the files and songs from my phone since they are not on the laptop's harddrive. I have not updated my phone in almost a year due to this problem.


texts: Security problem if Mac Os X file sharing permissions for "everybody" is set to read-only?

texts:
What does "everybody" exactly mean in File Sharing in the Sharing Preference Pane in Mac Os X.
Sounds as if everybody in the local network could read my files without authentication if its set to read-only. Is that right?


texts: (Error 11 444) Weird problem with Apple Music downloads on multiple macbooks

texts:
Here's my problem which is driving me nuts:
Me and my wife have an Apple Music family membership. Since some days, I cannot download Apple Music songs to my computer and/or add them to my library. It only succeeds like 10% and after a lengthy period of time.
The rest of the times i get Error 11 444
None of these problems appear on my iPhone. But exactly the same problem appears on my wife's MacBook.
Can it be something with our local network? No changes have been made to it since 1 year or something.
Also, I tried briefly using my MacBook with my iPhone's cellular network and got the same problem.

Both MacBooks run Sierra.


texts: I would like to not lose my SMS on my Android phone, how can I transfer them to my iPhone ?


texts:
I can't switch iMessages ON anymore (it was ON).
When I try to flip the switch from OFF to ON it instantly returns to OFF (I don't see any message like "activating...", it just doens't flip). So I don't think it's a server problem because the iPhone isn't even trying to connect. It's like te switch is broken.

I try'ed/checked

restart
hard reset
resetting the iPhone settings
changing Wifi network and switching to mobile internet
there are no restrictions (they are off)
Facetime works (I can turn it on/off)
Date & time are correct
I can send iMessages via Messages on my iMac
Googling
Plain SMS messages work fine
I can log in and out on my iCloud account

I did make a change to my AppleID. Move my mobile number from "home number" to "mobile number" (http://snag.gy/ze6Ip.jpg) because iMessages didn't work with my mobile number anymore. I tried reverting this changed without succes.

Anyone has an idea how I can fix this?


texts: Enable spotlight search on an ExFAT volume

texts:
Is there any way to enable Spotlight search on an external exFAT formatted USB drive?
I already tried enabling it with mdutil (sudo mdutil -vEs -i /Volumes/USBdrive) but the volume status is always:
# sudo mdutil -vs /Volumes/USBdrive
/Volumes/USBdrive:
      Indexing and searching disabled.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Change the behaviour of Enter key in iMessage

texts: I keep sending iMessages from my mac before I have finished typing them by accidentally hitting the return key.  Is there a way to change the behaviour to send on Cmd-Enter instead?


texts: Has anyone had troubles with an iPhone 4's battery life failing after upgrading from iOS 6 to iOS 7?

texts:
After I upgraded my iPhone 4 from iOS 6 to 7, I have experienced my phone running out of power before the end of the day on a night charge (I know it's easy to run a full charge down during the day if you use an iPhone heavily enough, but my usage has been light enough to usually have less than 1GB data transfer per month--I don't use my iPhone much by general standards, but it is extremely useful to me when I do use it).

Also, it takes longer than usual to charge enough to use while connected, and I have had at least one time when I started it charging, powered it up, and worn down the battery enough that it shut down while powered down.

Is this an iOS 7 issue? Or an iPhone 4 issue? Or an iOS 7 + iPhone 4 issue? Or an old battery issue?

I am not aware of any significant changes besides the OS migration; I treat technology, including iPhones, carefully, and I am not aware of having dropped it or otherwise caused damage.

I went on the Apple site and gave the serial number, and the site said my iPhone 4 is no longer under warranty, but I could purchase a support incident for $20. Is that $20 likely to cover my phone with earlier battery life, or does the $20 buy, "We'll look at it and give you an estimate for replacement parts or other repairs"?

I'd be interested in knowing what the diagnosis and prognosis are likely to be. I'm happy to continue with this phone, but the battery issues are a marked problem for now.

Thanks,


texts: Just curious if there is a way to create said RAM Disk so that it survives a restart, it would have great benefits of being able to eradicate an internal HD/SSD of Malware, various system problems.


texts: Siri says "speak you like to"; is there something messed up with my phone?

texts:
Whenever I ask Siri to call a business, she will go through each result and say "Speak you like to call it, get directions...". Is there something wrong with my phone? "Speak you like to" is definitely not idiomatic english (at least not in the US), so it's hard to believe something like this would slip by Apple QA. Am I missing something?

EDIT:

I've found exactly how to reproduce it. I'm using Best Buy as an example, but I would imagine any business will do.

Connect a bluetooth device (I use my car, but a headset may work)
With the phone locked, activate Siri and say "Call Best Buy"

She'll say something like "I've found two places named Best Buy fairly close to you. The first is X miles away. Speak you like to...".


texts: Order an non-standard keyboard layout on new MacBook

texts:
Is it possible to order a new MacBook with a keyboard that's non-standard for a given country? Let's say I want to have a Norwegian keyboard, but I'm living in Australia. Is this possible? And if it is, how to do it?

I've asked in one Apple shop, but I really hope their answer isn't the final one.


texts: How can I easily share clippings across platforms and networks?

texts:
I have to use a Windows PC at work, but I often bring my MacBook Air so I can get work done that is hard or inefficient to perform on Windows.  I am not allowed to connect my Mac to the corporate network, so when I do something on the Mac and want to copy from the Mac and paste into an app on the Windows laptop, there's no easy way.  No network clipboard manager I've ever seen I had seen at the time I wrote this question works when your two machines are not on the same network.  (Obviously both machines are connected to the internet, however.)

Using Dropbox or (worse yet) e-mail or (worst of all) a flash drive is too painful.  I want a simple and almost effortless way of transferring data or text between machines—something so easy and transparent that I don't have to think about the process, but can instead focus on whatever work I'm doing and not lose that focus.

How can I achieve this?

Some sort of Bluetooth data transfer might be allowed, as long as there's no TCP/IP connection to the Mac over Bluetooth, or something like that.  But I'm guessing the solution will more likely involve both machines communicating in some fashion over the internet.


texts: Changing the $HOME environment variable in terminal on mac 10.8

texts:
To be clear im not looking for a workaround that will execute a change directory command on startup. I want to alter the $HOME env var so that tilde commands work and so that entering a 'cd' command will return me to that directory.

I am sure it is possible I am just not able to find the command.

I have tried setting it in my /etc/profile but it doesnt seem to work. I have tried about 4 different settings in there. The ones I can remember trying are:

$HOME = /directroy
$HOME = "/directroy"
setenv HOME /directory

I may be missing something simple but I'm unable to find a solution.


texts: How to sort files in reverse alphabetical and maintain that setting for given folders

texts:
I have a bunch of folders that I use to store bank statements, utility bills, correspondence etc. The filename of each item starts with an eight digit code, which is the date of the item (for example, the statement date, or date a letter was received) in YYYYMMDD format, so that they always appear in the correct order when sorting alphabetically.

The trouble is that I have over 10 years of records in some cases and scrolling down to the latest item requires quite a few flicks of the mouse, when all I usually want is the very last item in the list.

So what I'm trying to achieve is this: for a certain set of folders, I want to sort by reverse alphabetical order (Z->A) so that 20170424 xxxxxxxx appears at the top of the list and 20070424 xxxxxxx appears at the bottom of the list, and for this setting to persist between views.

The only way I have found to sort by reverse alphabetical order is to click on the Name column heading. However, this setting isn't retained, so I need to click it again every time I go into the folder.

I don't mind getting into the command line if I need to, but I've searched high and low for how to do this and I just can't seem to dig up the answer.

EDIT: I should add that I only want this to be the behaviour for the folders in question. All other folders I would like to have a normal (A->Z) alphabetical sorting. I don't mind applying the condition to each folder separately (rather than recursively) if that's the only option. I'd just really like any working solution to this problem.


texts: Does Screen Time log apps running with no windows open or while in screensaver mode?

texts:
I noticed my Mac is logging 10hr+ daily usage of Mail, Safari and stuff. But they are just running in the background - since I don't want to always quit and launch these frequently used apps. But I am not sure how exactly the Screen Time is calculated.

Does it still accumulate when these apps running in the background, and even if I set my Mac to screensaver?


texts: Changed Time Machine disk and now I cannot see the previous one's content

texts:
My question is; how can I see my old TM disk content?

My first TM disk was almost full so I have changed my preferences to backup to new HD.

Now I cannot even mount the first disk. When I click mount does not give a reaction.

All I wanna do is to see its content. I need them and I dont want to do something that may affect my files.

I can change back preferences to choose previous disk but I'm afraid of losing data.

Disk is in APFS format.

Thank you


texts: Why do alternate web browsers want access to "Chrome Safe Storage" in my Keychain?

texts:
When launching some alternate Mac web browsers such as Vivaldi, I get a message asking me:

Vivaldi wants to use your confidential information stored in “Chrome Safe Storage” in your keychain.
Do you want to allow access to this item?
[Always Allow]  [Deny]  [Allow]

What information is stored there?
What are the benefits of "Allow"?
What are the penalties for "Deny"?


texts: Can you daisy chain 2 Macbook Pro's onto a single power pack?

texts:
Can I feed another MBP by USB-C cable from a port on the first laptop?

Power packs can deliver 1.5A (at 220V = 330W) over USB-C to the MBP. MBP power requirement is 4.3A (@ 20.2V = 87W). So seems the power pack can handle it.

Ah but port delivers  900 mA (Milliamps) at 5 V = 4.5W. So guessing answer is no. But my amateur electronics may be wrong so confirmation appreciated.


texts: How do I export text messages from android into iphone

texts:
When moving back from Android to iPhone, I'm unable to transfer my text messages with the "move to iOS" app.

About half my text messages are missing for some reason.

I'm looking for an alternative method (either an application, or steps to do by hand). In regards to application, I am specifically looking for something that not sketchy (eg. dr. fone, or the rebrands of such app).

Ideally something open source or provided by a reputable company.

I've attempted to move messages over by editing the backups sqlite database file, however upon restoration, itunes thinks the backup is corrupted and refuses to restore it.

What are my options?


texts: How do I bring back my lost space after trying to merge APFS partitions?

texts:
How can I merge primary APFS partition with other empty APFS partition?
After reading and following the above, I got stuck on the  eraseVolume "Free Space" and now that space seems irrevocably lost. Did apfs resizeContainer but got Error: -69743: The new size must be different than the existing size and it seems that my 2TB physical drive can recognise only 999.4GB...

any help?


texts:
How do I open files with extension ".vid" on MacBook?

I need help opening files with .vid extension? When selecting open with I am getting option to play it in

Photos
TV
Text Edit
Utilities

Why am I not getting option to play in Quick time player?


texts: How do I make macOS properly blacken my TV screen on standby

texts:
I have a Mac Mini connected to a Sony W755C TV by HDMI. If I put "Set display to sleep" on the Mac, the TV goes to black but displaying a very unsightly OSD text "HDMI 1 (Clock) No input. Check your cables, etc." which stays on forever, until I power the TV off manually. I can't find any menu items in the TV to remove the OSD, which just looks ugly on the huge TV in my living room.

So I tried to use the TV's own "standby if inactive for n hours", but "inactive" for the TV means not fiddling with the remote, which I only use for ON/OFF. The TV is oblivious to what's going on on the Mac. So it will suddenly suggest to sleep in the midst of a movie, which is obviously annoying.

Is there any way I can make the TV either a) go to standby modus without any OSD text, or b) soft-power off (same as pressing OFF on the remote -- which is not full power off, mind you...)


texts: How can my website tell safari it's ok to save passwords?

texts:
When I logged into my website in safari, I got the following message:

  safari will not save your password because MyWebsite requested passwords not be
  saved

What meta tag/value do I need on my site to tell Safari it's ok?


texts: How do I forward a meeting request from my iPhone?

texts: I have synced my mail and calender to our company's MS Exchange 2003 server using Outlook Web Access(OWA). I have received a meeting request that I wish to forward to someone. How do I do this using the default mail app? (iOS 4.3.1)


texts: Is intermittent high ping an issue in my Macbook or my router?

texts:
Every 20-30 minutes, my internet seems to be unresponsive for about 10 seconds. I can easily see this if I'm running the ping command while it happens:

Now, I have two routers on my network, both broadcasting the same network (with a different SSID).

I have this problem since a few months.

My /etc/hosts file only contains a few 127.0.0.1 mywebsite.dev entries.

I'm using Yosemite.

So, is this an issue that must be resolved on my Macbook Air 2014 or on the router?


texts:
A few days ago I noticed my iPhone is overheating and after a few minutes its charge was reduced to 18% from 80% while I only read some texts during that period. What's the problem?

I did find over a thousand responses to this question from Google results but I don't know which one is correct.


texts: Access Kali VM IP from the hosting machine (macOS)

texts:
I have a Kali machine running in VMware on my Mac.

It has this IP : 172.16.155.128 as you can see.

I would like to access my Kali Linux IP from my host (macOS)

Do I need to add another network in VMware or restart some server?

This are the settings I have now. It's set to NAT already.


texts:
I ran various commands in Terminal app, including calls to "open" from Midnight Commander (although, that might be completely unrelated) and suddenly it started to behave strangely. The cursor was gone, I could type commands but could not see them on the screen. I tried typing "reset" but that did not help.

Trying to open a new Terminal was not possible (CMD+W or CMD+T not working and menu items greyed out). I decided to close it and reopen, but the Quit menu item is also greyed out.

Does anyone know what are conditions that disabled Quit?


texts: Text messages won't delete and message app freezes

texts: iPhone 6 with ios8. After months of normal operation, suddenly now I cannot delete either a single text or an entire conversation.  When I try, the message or conversation appears to be gone, but the app then freezes and I cannot access any other text conversation. Eventually I get a blank text screen as though there are no conversations at all.  After a power off/power on, all conversations are back, including those which I deleted.  I have scoured the web for a solution and tried the various suggested remedies.  Nothing works.  Has anyone else encountered this issue and found a solution?


texts:
Say I installed a malicious app on my iPhone that stole my iCloud password.
Can the Keychain be compromised ?

Basically, can the keychain passwords be accessed by solely having the iCloud password ? How safe is it ?


texts: How to either simultaneously delete photo from photo stream and all devices; or

texts: how to designate a photo not to go to the cloud at all.  I'll do something like take a picture of an item at Costco to look it up on the net later.  But I don't want the picture bumped to the cloud, then to my Mac and pad.  It's going to be deleted once it's done it's job.  As it is, I have to delete from my phone, the cloud, the mac and the pad, which gets old.  Or simply leaving them there cluttering up my photos collection.


texts: Restore Time Machine Backup of 2016 MBP to 2011 MBP?

texts:
My 2016 Macbook Pro needs service and I'm planning to use my old 2011 Macbook Pro until I have it back. Will I be able to restore a Time Machine backup of my 2016 Macbook Pro onto my 2011 Macbook Pro without any issues?
The 2016 is still running High Sierra, which should be compatible with the 2011.
I can't simply give this a try because I would first have to buy a larger disk for the old machine.


texts: I am running Mac OS X Server 10.6 on my iMac and I am wondering how to multihome a Mac. I know it's possible to accomplish this by using both Wi-fi and Ethernet, but I just want to use Ethernet. Any idea how to set this up? Thanks.


texts: Is there an option to delete old photos off my iPod?

texts: I have no option to delete old photos off my iPod. They are old photos, by that I mean they were on my iPod then I got them off, and about a year later (I had synced it a couple of times in between) I synced my iPod to my laptop and they all came back with no option to delete them off.


texts: OS X Mavericks - hybrid hibernate does not work?

texts:
I have MacBook Pro, late 2010.
For a while I was using OS X 10.6 and sleep logic was next:
1. after closing lid macbook go to sleep (with momentary wake up on lid open)
2. after day or so of sleeping macbook changes it state to hiberante (ram2diskc I suppose). wake up should be performed with power button and it will take some time (like several minutes or so)

Recently I've upgraded my macbook with 8gb ram and ssd + OS X Mavericks. After closing lid macbook will go to sleep, but in my case it was "sleeping" for 3 days without hibernation (and about ~40% of battery was used). On ohter hand, Mavericks has option resume apps state after shutdown and it works almost nice except I would really prefer to have hibernate instead (e.g. I need state of my terminal with open programs/running commands inside it, some background services running, etc).


texts: Where is the profile picture stored on OSX?

texts: I would like to know where the profile picture is stored on OSX that is created when you setup the account first.


texts: If I activate expose, then spaces, can I force the window arrangement to stay the same in both views?

texts:
This is on OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard).

Let's say I activated Expose (All Windows), and I see my windows in a certain arragement. Then I activate Spaces. The spaces I was in sometimes shows the windows in a different arrangement from what I saw with Expose alone. Use case: I want to move an obscured window from one Space to another. The current behavior makes this more difficult to locate the window I had my eye on. I'd like to always have the same arrangement in both Expose-alone and Expose-plus-Spaces.

UPDATE:
I noticed that the z-order of windows in the Space affects whether the issue occurs; that makes it even more annoying.

UPDATE 2:
Also, I found a non-ideal workaround: using the shift-[shortcut key] to slowly activate Spaces so I can more readily see where my window is going. This doesn't solve my problem because I normally use a screen corner to activate Spaces. If someone can tell me how I can use screen-cornering with the slow Spaces activation, that would qualify as an answer too.

UPDATE 3:
Another trick I forgot about that makes the issue bearable: while Exposé is active, pressing Option/Alt will display window titles - this works also if you activate Spaces while All Windows is active. That helps me locate the window faster.

Expose alone:

Expose plus Spaces (of the same windows as Expose alone):


texts: Is there any way to know in how many hours the alarm will go off?

texts:
I need to know in how much time exactly the alarm will go off.

The information it very important since when I go to bed I plan how many hours of sleep do I get and which alarm should I activate.

When I searched, it seems that older version of iOS used to have this feature, but I cannot find it in IOS 12.


texts: Two-factor authentication "You have sent too many codes to verify your phone number."

texts:
I recently tried to enable 2FA for iCloud - whenever I enter the code sent to my phone, it keeps telling me to try again. I've sent so many codes that it now says that it won't send me too many codes (as quoted in title).

Why does this happen and how to fix?

EDIT I kept getting "Try entering your verification code again." I discovered I reside in a country where 2FA does not apply. Rather strange that the Apple software does not recognize this and prompts me to keep trying.


texts:
I have an iPhone 3G, whenever I add a photo into a folder in iTunes, and then I sync it to my iPhone, the photo doesn't appear at all in the folder on my iPhone.

Why is it doing this? The image is JPEG image type.


texts: Is it possible to completely disable the keyboard backlight on a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a new MacBook Pro 13-inch (mid 2012). I have never liked the backlit keyboard. I am completely a touch-typist and I never look down at the keys. I just find the light going on and off to be annoying.

I have heard about Lab Tick, which provides a slider to control the level of the backlight, but what I really want is a command-line defaults write to simply turn the lights off.

Does anyone know of a means to do this?


texts: Bash Script to Auto-Update (and reboot) all Updates to Mavericks & Yosemite?

texts:
I'm seeking a script that I can execute on a newly installed Mavericks or Yosemite computer, that will install all updates, rebooting as necessary and starting again automatically.

For instance, I'd like to:

sudo curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ChristopherA/0ddc4c27f8ec7d5a0aed/raw/2e694c616c728593c2af155d18aeeff68b25a222/gistfile1.txt | sh

This then goes to my gist, sends the content to my shell, then is the following script (which currently exists in my gists):

#!/bin/bash

# Installs all system updates, reboot and does it again if necessary.

# Execute on a new mac via:

# sudo curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ChristopherA/0ddc4c27f8ec7d5a0aed/raw/2e694c616c728593c2af155d18aeeff68b25a222/gistfile1.txt | sh

# Initially, based on https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=7827 which works on 10.8 and untested on 10.9 or 10.10

SWUL=`/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l | /usr/bin/awk '{printf "%s", $0}'`
SWULER=`/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l 2>&1 | /usr/bin/head -1`
NoRestartUpdates=`/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l | /usr/bin/grep -v restart | /usr/bin/grep -B1 recommended | /usr/bin/grep -v recommended | /usr/bin/awk '{print $2}' | /usr/bin/awk '{printf "%s ", $0}'`
osvers=`sw_vers -productVersion | awk -F. '{print $2}'`

if [[ $osvers -lt 8 ]]; then
/bin/echo "Script only for 10.8+ ONLY"
exit 1
elif [ "$SWULER" == "No new software available." ]; then
/bin/echo "$SWULER"
exit 1
elif [[ "$SWUL" == *"[restart]"* ]]; then
echo "Installing Updates that require Restart"
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -d -a
/usr/libexec/PListBuddy -c "Copy CompletedProducts InstallAtLogout" /Library/Updates/index.plist
/usr/bin/touch /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateAtLogout
/bin/chmod og-r /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateAtLogout
/usr/libexec/PListBuddy -c "Add -RootInstallMode STRING YES" /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateOptions
/usr/libexec/PListBuddy -c "Add -SkipConfirm STRING YES" /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateOptions
/bin/chmod og-r /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateOptions
elif [[ "$SWUL" == *"[recommended]"* ]]; then
/bin/echo "Installing Updates that does not require Restart"
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i $NoRestartUpdates
fi

exit 0

```

Unfortunately this script from https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=7827 does not work on 10.9 or 10.10.

The Results:

Installing Updates that require Restart
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2012 Apple Inc.

Finding available software

Downloaded iTunes
Downloaded iTunes
Downloaded OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 8
Downloading Yosemite Recovery Update
Downloaded Yosemite Recovery Update
Done.
Copy: Entry, "CompletedProducts", Does Not Exist
touch: /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateAtLogout: Permission denied
chmod: /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateAtLogout: No such file or directory
File Doesn't Exist, Will Create: /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateOptions
File Doesn't Exist, Will Create: /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateOptions
chmod: /var/db/.SoftwareUpdateOptions: No such file or directory
$

There are some clues in the comments of that post, and also at http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080916220249270

However, I'm not able to find something that can be just a bash script.

Christopher Allen


texts: diff command says file exists, but I cannot find said file

texts:
I am using rsync to make a duplicate of an ExFAT-formatted external HD to another external HD. At the end of the copy, I got a message saying some files had vanished during the copy. So I used diff to see what files weren't copied. There are a lot of files starting in ._ that weren't copied, so I'll try using dot_clean to fix those and re-copy. But there's another weirder problem.

Diff tells me a certain file exists 'Only in /volumes/[...]' so I go that directory and do a ls -a and that file doesn't show up in the list. I do a diff again and it again says the file is there. (It is not a . file btw.) There are 20 or so files like this according to diff.

Is there any reason a file would not show up in ls -a?


texts: How can I stop Mission Control rearranging windows when I drag a window and press CTRL+number?

texts:
I have a setup with 4 Desktops/Spaces. When I click CTRL + 2 the focus moves to that desktop. When I want to move an app from desktop 1 to 3 I drag the window a bit and press CTRL + 3 (or 2 or 4 — these are Spaces/Desktop numbers). For some reason, the apps in other desktops move randomly from their desktops (rearranging the whole layout by moving other apps between desktops). Am I doing something wrong or is this some kind of bug?

I’m on Mavericks 10.9.1.


texts:
I have a fully functional iPhone X which works as expected in Sweden. However, when traveling to some countries I experience connectivity issues.

Eg. in the US I get no reception at all, whereas in Ireland I get 4G connection which works well for data, but can't seem to place voice calls most of the time - when it works occasionally, the call gets dropped after about 30 sec following weird garbled sounds. When I visited France on the other hand, I experienced no issues at all.

I might add that this is not a problem with my service provider as I have tried several SIM cards (even bought local ones) which all exhibit the same issue.

This leads me to believe that it might be an issue specific to band frequencies, but I understand too little about the subject to troubleshoot the issue. Has anyone had similar experience and can point me in the right direction or the right (focused on mobile tech or similar) forum to ask?


texts: Set keyboard shortcut for nested menu selection

texts:
Say an application has a menu selection Export in the File menu.  On mouse over, a sub-menu extends with the export options.  Is there a way to make a keyboard shortcut for one of those nested selections?

I've already tried implementing the keyboard shortcut for Export, setting it to Command-E.  However, this doesn't work, even though the Command symbol shows up next to Export.

Any help is appreciated


texts: Which SSD to choose for a white late 2009 macbook

texts:
Currently there are many reviews on SSDs, and different types of SSDs as well.

What I would like to hear is what cost effective SSDs that exists that aslo has TRIM support and will work well with Lion.

The System Information app says that the SATA interface can do 3 Gb and the link speed is 1.5 Gb (on the stock 250GB HDD)

I would like around 256 GB.

Which models and brands would be a good choice for this model ?


texts: Mac OS X Time Machine recovery lost Data

texts:
I did a backup with Time Machine on a Netgear ReadyNAS to save complete System(OS X Mavericks). Because I have installed OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Now I recovered this backup. But I lost about 200 GB of 360GB.

Has anybody an idea to recover this lost data from SSD?


texts:
When holding the Cmd ⌘ R combination on my iMac (macOS Big Sur) a command line opens but not the recovery mode window.
How to access it?


texts:
I'm Deaf and curious if there is the possibility to point the iPhone toward a speaker and see its text on the screen?

Not sure if iOS10 comes with that Voice to Text functionality or if an external app is required for this?

Thanks for any suggestions!


texts: What is the best way to show the speed of copying files on a Mac?

texts:
I'm using macbookpro 16inch, Catalina 10.15.5 . I connect to my external SSD drive (SAMSUNG T5) from usb-C to usb-C. When using drag and drop in finder , it took 5 sec to copy a 1,47 Gb file. I need to see the writing speed while i'm copying (like in windows) so i use rsync command :

rsync -a --progress --stats --human-readable <path_to_source> <path_to_dest>

The problem is with rsync, it took surprisingly slower to finish the copy, about 7 or 8 sec. I repeated it many times and got the same result. Any idea what happen ? is there any other better and reliable way to see the writing speed while copying  ?

Thanks


texts: How can I tell if a QuickTime movie is prepared for streaming?

texts:
I have been given a QuickTime file to place on a web site for my client. I requested the file be prepared for streaming using "Fast Start - Compressed Header" so that the video with start to play as soon as QuickTime player has buffered enough. (We will not be using a QuickTime Streaming Server for this video)

I am unsure if the file provided to me meets my request. For one, it seems to be am MPEG4 file, not an MPEG4 video file wrapped in a QuickTime .mov container. But even when I export a short ~10 second clip using "fast Start - Compressed Header" and open that in QuickTime player, nothing I can see under Movie Properties or Movie Information shows me that I have added a fast start header.

How can I determine if a QuickTime movie file is prepared for streaming using Fast Start, Compressed Header?


texts: Can I edit the “Release Date” field of podcasts in iTunes?

texts:
My workaround for iTunes automatically assigning hollow star ratings to new podcast episodes has an unfortunate side-effect: after dragging the podcast files back into iTunes, they not longer have their “Release Date” field populated, meaning they can’t be sorted in release date order. (Which gives my tiny little mind the heebie-jeebies.)

I can figure out what the release date was for these podcasts, but iTunes won’t let me amend this field via the UI.

Is there any way I can edit the value of this field?


texts: How do I restore files accidentally deleted by the move operation in finder?

texts:
I’m using Mavericks

Suppose we have the folder /a/photos which contains

/a/photos/jan
/a/photos/feb

And we have /b/photos which contains

/b/photos/mar

In the command prompt, if we write

mv /b/photos /a/photos

Then /a/photos will contain all of them (merge):

/a/photos/jan
/a/photos/feb
/a/photos/mar

However, I did the move operation in Finder (command+c, command+alt+v) and pressed the “overwrite” button thinking it has the same behavior as in mv

Now all my original files in /a/photos are lost. The only thing remaining is:

/a/photos/mar

How do I recover it?

Thanks a lot


texts: Will an iPhone/iPod Touch charge faster when connected to USB 3.0?

texts:
I'm considering charging a bunch of my iPod Touches with a USB 3.0 PCI add-in card.

In my research, I've found that USB provides 5 volts per device.

The differences come in charging speed. The more amperage, the faster a device charges.

USB provides "Unit Loads" of amperage for each device based on need.

USB 2.0 provides 100 milliamps per Unit Load, with a maximum of 5 unit loads per device.
USB 3.0 provides 150 milliamps per Unit Load, with a maximum of 6 unit loads per device.

When a device is connected, it draws 1 Unit load until it asks for a higher amount based on need.  That means a device can draw maximum 500 milliamps (or 0.5 amps) from USB 2.0 and 900 milliamps (0.9 amps) from usb 3.0.

The Apple wall charger for iPhones provides 1 amp (1000 milliamps).

Does that mean that an iPhone or iPod Touch plugged in to a USB 3.0 port will charge nearly as fast as one plugged in to Apple's AC plug?


texts: How to disable inline volume controls on headphones connected to mac?

texts: The inline volume up button on my Apple headphones randomly engages sometimes, which raises my mid-2013 Macbook Air's volume to the max. This is bad for my hearing and can be quite startling. Is there a way to disable the volume controls?


texts:
I currently have a Mac OS X Mavericks VM running on a Windows 7 machine in VMware Workstation.  I am trying to install Logic Studio 9 and  am unable to install due to the following reason.

Logic Studio Installer requires that your system have a Quartz Extreme capable video card.
Logic Studio Installer recommends that your system have 64 MB of VRAM; this system has only 0 MB of VRAM.

The chipset installed by VMware is:

Chipset Model: VMware SVGA II
Type: GPU
BUS: PCI
VRAM: 32MB
Device ID: 0x0405
Revision ID: 0x0000

I have a Sapphire 7950 installed on this machine.

What is the best way to approach this problem?

Possible hackintosh solution?


texts: Debug and Reset push notifications in iOS

texts:
For a couple of days now, my iPhone does not receive push messages any more (I am not talking about notifications ... I am talking about push messages that are also used to initiate WahsApp Web/Desktop, among others).
This applies to all apps (WhatsApp, Threema etc.)
It also breaks WhatsApp Web/Desktop.
I applies to all networks (I have tried with various Wifis putting the phone into airplane mode as well as with cellphone network, disabling Wifi).
I have rebooted my phone countless times, even upgraded to the latest and Reset Network Settings.
I have tried everything I could find online: Changing date to plus one day, rebooting and changing back. Enabling/Disabling notifications for individual apps.
It seems that something is broken with the iOS system itself.

There's gotta be a way to reset push notifications/re-register them. How?
What are the steps I can use to to debug?


texts:
I was shooting photos/videos with an iPhone 8 and syncing using macOS iTunes & Photos on High Sierra.

For a period of two years, I have somehow ended up with a duplicate of every photo—several thousand duplicates.

Each duplicated photo is in two file types, one is in .HEIC and the other is in .JPG.

Each video from the same period has only one copy, in .MOV format.

I am assuming that it is prudent to delete the .jpg files and keep the .heic ones, since the latter can store live photos and since I can generate .jpg from them if needed.

How do I delete thousands of .jpg files, each a duplicate of a .heic file? The duplication started after I moved to Photos from iPhotos. A script that does the job with no confirmation is fine (I'd test it on one day).


texts: Can a casual user of my iPad set it up to have remote access

texts: If someone has access for a few minutes to one's iPad, with permission, including the login password, is there anything they could do that compromises ones's security? Should one change the login password afterwards to be sure?


texts: Mac doesn't wake up from sleep since latest OS upgrade (Big Sur)

texts:
Since upgrading the OS - currently on Big Sur 11.2.2 (20D80)
I experience failure of my Mac to ever wake from sleep. Only thing that would wake it up is a forced restart using the power button. After restart I get the following error details. I tried to also boot in safe mode, but it didn't help.

Sleep Wake failure in EFI

Failure code:: 0x00000000 0x0000001f

Please IGNORE the below stackshot

================================================================
Date/Time:        2021-03-09 08:33:51.920 +0200
OS Version:       ??? ??? (Build ???)
Architecture:     x86_64
Report Version:   32

Data Source:      Stackshots
Shared Cache:     77B63435-1866-32DD-98A1-47090B666EFA slid base address 0x7fff20248000, slide 0x248000

Event:            Sleep Wake Failure
Duration:         0.00s
Steps:            1

Boot args:        chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev

Time Awake Since Boot: 24s

Process:          swd [363]
Architecture:     x86_64
Footprint:        508 KB
Time Since Fork:  1s
Num samples:      1 (1)

  Thread 0xe85    1 sample (1)    priority 4 (base 4)
  <thread QoS background (requested background), thread darwinbg, process darwinbg, IO tier 2>
  1  start + 1 (libdyld.dylib + 87585) [0x7fff20574621] 1
    1  ??? [0x102d41454] 1
      1  ??? [0x102d411e8] 1
        1  __stack_snapshot_with_config + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 143386) [0x7fff2054701a] 1
         *1  ??? [0xffffff80002601f6] 1
           *1  ??? [0xffffff80009698cb] 1
             *1  ??? [0xffffff80008733c1] 1
               *1  ??? [0xffffff80002831c9] 1
                 *1  ??? [0xffffff80002ba3ed] (running) 1

  Binary Images:
        0x7fff20524000 -     0x7fff20552fff  libsystem_kernel.dylib (7195.81.3) <AB413518-ECDE-3F04-A61C-278D3CF43076>  /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib
        0x7fff2055f000 -     0x7fff20599fff  libdyld.dylib (832.7.3)            <4641E48F-75B5-3CC7-8263-47BF79F15394>  /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
Model: MacBookPro16,1, BootROM 1554.80.3.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.14347.0.0,0), 8 processors, 8-Core Intel Core i9, 2.3 GHz, 32 GB, SMC
Graphics: kHW_IntelUHDGraphics630Item, Intel UHD Graphics 630, spdisplays_builtin
Graphics: kHW_AMDRadeonPro5500MItem, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M, spdisplays_pcie_device, 4 GB
Memory Module: BANK 0/ChannelA-DIMM0, 16 GB, DDR4, 2667 MHz, SK Hynix, -
Memory Module: BANK 2/ChannelB-DIMM0, 16 GB, DDR4, 2667 MHz, SK Hynix, -
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x7BF), wl0: Sep 11 2020 17:01:15 version 9.30.440.2.32.5.61 FWID 01-1d69e4b4
Bluetooth: Version 8.0.3d9, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
PCI Card: pci8086,15ec, sppci_usbxhci, Thunderbolt@196,0,0
USB Device: USB3.0 Hub
USB Device: USB 3.1 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: StoreJet Transcend
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: USB Controls
USB Device: USB 3.1 Bus
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub
USB Device: Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v9.0
USB Device: USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
USB Device: Apple T2 Bus
USB Device: Composite Device
USB Device: Touch Bar Backlight
USB Device: Touch Bar Display
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: Headset
USB Device: Ambient Light Sensor
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Apple T2 Controller
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 63.5
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 63.5
Thunderbolt Device: UltraHD 4K, LG Electronics, 1, 36.1

Installations history:


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It's about 3 days that I can't do anything with my macbook air because the kernel_task is eating up the CPU. So I found this but the command csrutil disable/enable doesn't work on the terminal (El Capitan) and I found out that some models doesn't know this command but I couldn't find how else I can disable SIP (system integrity protection).
So the questions is that how can I solve this problem with kernel task?


texts: How to create custom Mountain Lion Installer

texts: Is it possible to create custom image of the Mountain Lion with the certain third party applications (Chrome , Adium , Firefox) pre-installed with the operating system. This will not require me to separately download and install these software. This should be similar to installation of the iLife along with the OS installation from the DVDs which came with Macbooks.


texts: Why does storing photos on iCloud also consume storage space on iPhone?

texts: If I have all my pictures stored on the iCloud, why are they taking up so much room on my phone? I thought the iCloud was designed to free up storage on your actual device?


texts: How do I get songs previously purchased on my old iPhone onto my new iPhone?

texts: I just got a new iPhone as my old one was broken. My old one was a iPhone 4 and this new is a 4S. Now I purchased songs from on my old phone and when I look at these songs on the iTunes music store it says they are purchased but they are not in my iTunes library, how do I get them there?


texts: Is it possible to sort the user accounts in the login dialog?

texts: Is this possible to change the order of the different user accounts in the login dialog box ?


texts: Escape Button doesnt work since Update to Sierra

texts: since my update to sierra my escape button doesnt work anymore. I have tried a NVRAM reset and yes, it worked but after 2 Days it doesnt work anymore. I am just struggling to get this work, i already looked in the settings and used the keyboard on screen and guess what?


texts: Using older macOS on MacBook Pro with updated EFI firmware

texts: If, for example, I'm using El Capitan on a MBP, I then install High Sierra on it and the firmware gets updated, will I be able to re-install El Capitan  if I decide to do so later?


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Apparently I can't sudo on my Mac any more.

Piers-MacBook-Air:~ piersb$ sudo ls
Password:
Sorry, user piersb is not allowed to execute '/bin/ls' as root on Piers-MacBook-Air.local.
Piers-MacBook-Air:~ piersb$

It worked before the most recent El Capitan update (the upgrade to 10.11.4), and I'm on a mid-2013 MacBook Air. The account is an admin account, and I was able to sudo before then. My first thought was to add myself into /etc/sudoers but, haha, of course you need sudo for that.

Piers-MacBook-Air:~ piersb$ ls -al /etc/sudoers
-r--r-----  1 root  wheel  272  5 Apr 11:15 /etc/sudoers
Piers-MacBook-Air:~ piersb$ groups
staff com.apple.sharepoint.group.1 everyone localaccounts _appserverusr admin _appserveradm _lpadmin _appstore _lpoperator _developer com.apple.access_ftp com.apple.access_screensharing com.apple.access_ssh

I'm able to create a new admin user, but that user has the same problem.

Piers-MacBook-Air:~ testuser$ sudo ls

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
Sorry, user testuser is not allowed to execute '/bin/ls' as root on
Piers-MacBook-Air.local.

So. How do I give myself access to sudo again? And is this a common problem?


texts: How do I stop apps from losing their context when I switch to other apps?

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I have a couple of apps that I use and when I leave them they always lose context.

Eg. I use CityMapper and it AWLAYS refreshes when I go back to the app.

I want my apps to behave like they used too ie if I am on a screen I want them to stay on that screen.

Update: iPhone 6


texts: I have a Macbook Pro Retina, running OS X 10.10.5, and a BenQ GW Series GW2765HT monitor, which does not allow audio adjustment via my computer. I've tried Soundflower, but find that it is buggy and crashes. Is there any other way to control volume from my computer?


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Is there a way to tell Finder to not peek inside or generate thumbnails for files based on a particular network share or folder?

I've got a tape archival system which  presents an SMB (Windows) network share to clients. Clients can see all the files and folders that have been put on the network share, and the data gets transparently archived to tape in the background leaving a small 'stub' file on disk. When a read request on a file is issued by a client, the tape system recalls the file from tape and sends it back to the client. The upshot is I get a large amount of cheap high-latency storage, but with a very simple network share interface.

However, there's a significant problem with Mac clients: when Finder sees a directory full of files, it attempts to generate thumbnails and read other data about the file. Finder assumes that it can get data relatively quickly, so when it sees a directory full of 100GB worth of mov files, it requests to read each one so that it can generate the thumbnails.

Predictably, this sends the tape drive crazy, as it tries to pull down each of these files from tape just to generate the thumbnails.

Ideally, I'd like to tell Finder to not read any data inside the file until it's explicitly asked for by the user, ie. they request to copy it to their local disk. Is this possible?


texts: Powerpoint: compress or downsample large images/graphics

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I'm using Powerpoint 2011, and I'm not able to find an option to easily downsample or compress images to produce a smaller output PPTX or PPT file.

I don't need the high resolution in some of the images in the slide, so the downsampling wouldn't hurt, but the option just does not seem to exist in the Mac version of Powerpoint (the Windows version has this feature.)

Is there any way I can compress the image and graphics sizes while saving or exporting a Powerpoint file in Mac? Or do I have downsample each of the individual images?


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I got my Mac back from a repair shop that recovered my files from a corrupted partition and then reinstalled Snow Leopard.

When I booted it up Keychain complained about my password. I know my old password but it said it was incorrect. I canceled and that logged me in. I went into Keychain Access and tried Preferences > Reset My Default Keychain. It asks for a new password, which I gave, but it responded that it was “incorrect” as well.

I am somehow able to unlock the login keychain with my original password. I clicked delete, but the message that popped up scared me, talking about deleting references and files or just references. I tried just references. It didn’t seem to do anything.

I right clicked and went to Change Password. It changes it, it accepted it, but it didn't work for future login attempts.

I try to change my account password. It won’t accept my original password as old password or the “new” one I tried to set before.

I ran Keychain First Aid. Here’s the red text:

User differs on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, should be 501, owner is 502
Permissions incorrect on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rwxr-xr-x
Owner not corrected on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, reason: The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied
Permissions not corrected on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, reason: The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation not permitted

I went to Terminal to do some black magic. sudo didn’t like my passwords. Then Keychain pops up every few minutes to nag me.

Can anyone explain this?

Edit: Booted into single-user mode and tried to fix the permissions, and it doesn't nag me anymore, but now my desktop has gone back to the factory default and it says the login Keychain is missing/permission denied, so I still can't do any administrative tasks.

Edit 2: I can no longer troubleshoot this as I gave up and reinstalled OS X. Much more straightforward than messing around with permissions that were clearly botched beyond repair. Anyway, this should be closed.


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I actually have a Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard (I plan on upgrading to Lion).

I may have to buy an Mac mini in order to have a full dual screen (external identical screens) layout (see my previous question).

So I will work on a Mac Mini and a Macbook Pro, most of the time on the same LAN.

How to get everything completely synchronised, as fast as possible? (I don't know if iCloud can)

I am talking about every file/data on my computer:

applications
application preferences
mails
calendar
iPhoto/aperture libraries
lots of small files (web development...)
files out of my account (apache server files, php/libraries)
...

I don't want to manage 2 computers and do everything twice (installing something, configuring the system, etc...).


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I am still relatively new to the workings of the Mac OS but have extensive knowledge of Linux.  I updated my php on Mavericks using the php_osx and the instructions stated to use export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH to have the new php version used.

Through my attempt to update php I found references to the following files:

.bash_profile - I can not find this file.
.bashrc
paths
path_helper

Can someone please provide a simple understanding of how $PATH is created in Mavericks and help me understand where the export command put the edition to the path and how would I remove it if I want too?


texts: Why would Recovery show in Volumes if I've not booted into recovery mode?

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This is a screenshot of /Volumes on a 2020 MacBook Pro with Catalina 10.15.7:

Why would Recovery show as a local volume if I've not booted into Recovery Mode recently?
It appeared to mount itself for some reason.
I don't have FileVault enabled, so that can't be the cause.
diskutil Recovery output from Terminal:
johndoe@MacBook-Pro ~ % diskutil info Recovery
   Device Identifier:         disk1s4
   Device Node:               /dev/disk1s4
   Whole:                     No
   Part of Whole:             disk1

   Volume Name:               Recovery
   Mounted:                   No

   Partition Type:            41504653-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   File System Personality:   APFS
   Type (Bundle):             apfs
   Name (User Visible):       APFS
   Owners:                    Disabled

   OS Can Be Installed:       No
   Booter Disk:               disk1s3
   Recovery Disk:             disk1s4
   Media Type:                Generic
   Protocol:                  PCI-Express
   SMART Status:              Verified
   Volume UUID:               93EC3582-6942-41C5-B59F-61EFA4BD1940
   Disk / Partition UUID:     93EC3582-6942-41C5-B59F-61EFA4BD1940

   Disk Size:                 500.0 GB (499963174912 Bytes) (exactly 976490576 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:         4096 Bytes

   Container Total Space:     500.0 GB (499963174912 Bytes) (exactly 976490576 512-Byte-Units)
   Container Free Space:      458.4 GB (458390020096 Bytes) (exactly 895293008 512-Byte-Units)

   Read-Only Media:           No
   Read-Only Volume:          Not applicable (not mounted)

   Device Location:           Internal
   Removable Media:           Fixed

   Solid State:               Yes
   Hardware AES Support:      Yes

   This disk is an APFS Volume.  APFS Information:
   APFS Container:            disk1
   APFS Physical Store:       disk0s2
   Fusion Drive:              No
   FileVault:                 No
   Locked:                    No

diskutil list info from Terminal:
johndoe@MacBook-Pro ~ % diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.3 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     28.5 GB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 80.1 MB    disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                529.0 MB   disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s5

Username changed for privacy.
Is this something I need to worry about?


texts: How to remove windows partition without having to erase the other one?

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I have an imac late 2013 with a fusion drive. I've created a windows 10 partition and I'd like to delete it. I tried with bootcamp and disk utility but as you've probably heard before, it came up with that error  "the full size of the fusion drive is not available for partitioning".

I know that there are a lot of "solutions" out there but I couldn't find one that did not include to erase everything. I just want to erase the windows partition without having to erase the "macintosh hd" one.

Is there a genius out there who can help me ?


texts: Cannot pause downloading mojave from launchpad

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Today I started to download macOS Mojave from app store and it appeared in launchpad as usual. When I tried to pause the download by clicking on the downloading icon, it won't pause. I can only delete the download by long press on it. The same thing happened previously when I tried to download High Sierra 10.13.6.

Another way I tried to pause the download from app store but I can only pause the apps but not the OS download.

Is there a way by which I can pause the download?


texts: Restore option-left and option-right in MacOS terminal - What is the action sequence?

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In my terminal, in settings->profiles->keyboard, I set some shortcuts for option-left and option-right. When I realised that these had overwritten the default "move to beginning/end of word" behaviour, I deleted them. However, now that shortcut doesn't work at all.

For example, the shift+left shortcut says \033[1;2D. Does anyone know the magical incantation for beginning/end of a word?


texts: How many CPU cores should be in my MacBook Air?

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It looks like something's seriously wrong...

My Air should have 4 cores. However, I saw that the number of cores has sunk to 2 when I was going to make a new virtual machine...

I checked out what System Information says and the result doesn't match with the one I get by running htop in Terminal. Please, check out these screenshots:

htop:

System Information:

I don't understand... Any help is hugely appreciated!


texts: iCloud Calendar sync error 400 on OS X 10.10.2

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I've been using Calendar with iCloud for a long while without any problems. Now, I have a permanent error displayed in Calendar:

  The request for account “iCloud” failed.

  The server responded with “400” to operation CalDAVAddSubscriptionCalendarQueueableOperation

I've searched around online and have tried all of the proposed solutions, but none of them seem to fix the problem. What should I try next?


texts: Keyboard maestro: Defining "if app active" macros

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In Keyboard Maestro, is there any way to define a macro that is triggered when two conditions are true?

A certain application is active (i.e. on focus)
A hot key is activated (i.e. I press a key)

I have tried adding conditions, but they are interpreted with an OR and not with an AND.

Below is an example of what I tried:


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Is there a way to customize the Kinds in the Finder in any way? I'd like to set up my own custom kinds to make it easier to sort files in Finder views.

I know that I can use the Get Info palette to customize which application opens a file but that's not exactly what I'm talking about.

Really, the problem is I work with a lot of source files in plain/text format and as a result they all end up being displayed as TextWrangler Text File.

Thing is, I do prefer having TextWrangler be their default application, I just want them to have a more descriptive Kind is all.

Clarification Kinds basically describe the nature of the file, distinct from the extension. In the old days of System 7, they were stored as special metadata attached to the file. Not sure what the mechanism is in OS X. But basically, you can add the "Kind" column to your list view and it will basically describe what that file is. I'd like to be able to create or set up custom Kinds, to make it easier to sort by that column.

More details

The main place I'd be using this is not the Finder but Cyberduck, which appears to use the Kind column and only the Kind column for sorting by file type. So obviously if I could customize the Kinds available that'd make it easier to sort within CyberDuck. So I suppose if someone knows a hack to make CyberDuck sort files by extension, that'd work too.


texts: How can I eject my external Time Machine hard disk attached to a MacBook Pro?

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I used the external hard disk with Time Machine for the first time. After that when I tried to eject the disk, I got a message saying that it can't be ejected because it is being used by some processes. I downloaded an app called "What's keeping me?" which tells what processes are using some disk or file. I got these results:

What can I do?


texts: Just got a new SSD installed into my macbook pro, how to use?

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I have a mid 2012 macbook pro

I just took out the optical drive put my main hdd in its place and installed a 525 gb ssd in the original hard drive slot.

I've been trying to install osx on it for the past 2 hours using alt/option but the computer just boots up on the hdd hard drive even after selecting the usb

Any help is greatly appreciated...as I'm close to throwing my computer out the window.

fyi this did not work.
How to Install OS X on new hard drive on a Late 2012 Mac mini


texts: Booting into single user mode by default

texts: I want to force myself to use the command line interface of OS X. How can I make my Macbook Air boot into single user mode by default?


texts: Fusion 12.1 on Big Sur 11.2.3 Cant resolve: Could not connect 'Ethernet0' to virtual network

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I am new to this page but excited to hear some answers from experts.
I am new to the VMware Fusion 12.1 Pro and I installed the latest build of Windows 10.
Every time I run the emulator, I generate the error:
Cant resolve: Could not connect 'Ethernet0' to virtual network.
So, after googling and hearing from other people that had the same issue, the resolution is to build a new NAT configuration or use Bridged on Autodetect. For the heck of it, I tried all of the other configurations but the results were the same.
Some suggested reboot, I did both the VM and the machine. It is a 2018 Macbook Pro 15 with 2.6ghz i7.
I tried to follow the steps here:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/12/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-7D8E5A7D-FF0C-4975-A794-FF5A9AE83234.html
However, as soon as I get to the network preferences, all of the options are not clickable, it is in a sense "greyed out"
This is my work computer but I believe I am an admin, could the company have a security setting blocking? They gave me the license for VMFusion?


texts: Is there a gesture to drag and drop with Expose on Lion?

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I know it could be done by pressing F3 button while dragging an item but I really need the five-finger-gesture for that.

On Snow Leopard, I could drag an item with my thumb and then use the remaining four fingers to expose all the apps/windows to drop this item in any app/window in the current space or any other space.

Is there an equivalent in Lion?


texts: Does "Wi-Fi Assist" respect rules about which apps can use cellular data?

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On the iPhone "Cellular" settings screen, you can choose which apps are allowed to use cellular data and which can only communicate over wi-fi. In iOS 9, Apple introduced Wi-Fi Assist which automatically switches to cellular data when a wi-fi connection is present, but not functioning well. Can anyone confirm that the iPhone will respect the cellular data use settings when in wi-fi assist mode?

Example scenario:

In the settings, I specify that Tinder isn't allowed to use cellular data.
I am browsing Tinder on wi-fi
The wi-fi connection becomes unreliable and Wi-Fi Assist kicks in
Will my phone now use cellular data for Tinder, since it's pretending that it's still on wi-fi? Or will it apply the cellular data rules and not use Wi-Fi Assist with this specific app?


texts: How can I find conflicting keyboard shortcuts?

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I'm on Yosemite 10.10.4, using Safari 8.0.7.

When I press ⌘ + Shift + 7 Safari doesn't show all tabs, as it's supposed to be, but presents me with the crosshair you get when you would otherwise press ⌘ + Shift + 4.

When I press ⌘ + Shift + 4, I also get the crosshair.
Pressing ⌘ + Shift + 7 outside of Safari also gives me the crosshair.

I already checked all shortcuts defined under "System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts" and I also used the apps CheatSheet and KeyCue to display shortcuts, but they only show ⌘ + Shift + 7 for "Show all tabs" in Safari and ⌘ + Shift + 4 for taking selected screenshots.

How can I find out, where the conflicting key bind is coming from?

This behavior started a few days ago, but I can't seem to recall any specific changes or app installations, If there even were any...


texts: Copying over the time machine backups folder, "backups.backupdb" to a new drive results in "V100 Spotlight" permissions issues

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I am trying to copy over the time machine backups folder, "backups.backupdb" to a new drive but it keeps giving me errors like "V100 Spotlight" permissions issues.

If I changed the permissions of the entire backups folder, would it result in corruption? Thanks


texts: How can I list all user accounts in the terminal?

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How can I list all local user accounts in Terminal (whether logged in or not?) The commands users or who does not provide this information. OS X version is 10.6.8.

I have seen this suggested command - dscacheutil -q group

But it only lists domain user groups and non-local accounts.


texts: Disable Bluetooth on Apple keyboards and trackpad

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I have a Apple Magic Keyboard and Trackpad 2 connected to a MacBook Pro 2014 via USB. If I open up Bluetooth preferences I can still see both of these devices listed.

I'd like to completely disable any Bluetooth communication and use USB as the only communication channel.

How can I achieve this?


texts: Several times lately, when I have tried to open a Keynote file, I get the following message: Unable to open “file name” because it isn't a valid Keynote document. The odd thing is that these are files I created in Keynote and used within the last week. Any idea what's going on? Thank you!!


texts: How to change USB scheme when making bootable Catalina installer?

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Background: Upgraded to Big Sur on 2020 MacPro (not the one with M1 chip), hate it, trying to revert to Catalina using a USB bootable installer (followed instructions given at the Apple website How to create a bootable installer for macOS)
When I try to install it using the external drive, I get this screen.

So it seems that my USB has the wrong scheme (should be GUID). I go to Disk Utility and sure enough, it seems like it's Master Boot Record as shown below.

As per the suggested screen, I try to Erase it, but whenever I try to do that, I get the error shown below.

I'm unsure about how to resolve this and I can't seem to find someone who experienced the same error online. The USB is a brand-new 32GB SanDisk


texts: Prevent Finder from opening all folders in list view

texts: every time I open finder in list view, it opens (twirls down) all subfolders; how can i stop this?


texts: Mac OS X Mavericks keeps jumping to the first desktop

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My screen (desktop/spaces) keeps jumping to the first "desktop". There are no running apps on that desktop (except finder). After the first few times this happened I pressed ⌘ Cmd-⌥ Opt-⎋ Esc and restarted finder.

When it continued to happen I quit all open apps and restarted the computer.
(I run a few apps full screen, and usually keep the first desktop open for any quick work or apps I will use, if I will have an app open for a while that doesn't have full screen, I create a desktop/space for it and run it off on the side somewhere).

The screen just keeps taking me back to the first one. It is getting to the point where it is too annoying to ignore. So far typing this I have counted it happening seven times.

What I have tried, besides restarting Finder, and restarting the Mac, in Mission Control settings I disabled Automatically rearrange, and Group windows by applications (to be honest I don't know what Group windows by application means, I assume it has to do with what screens a new window of an already running app will open on), and When switching to an app, switch space.

I tried rearranging spaces, I moved the Desktop to the third space (this must be a Mavericks feature, I don't think I have ever been able to do that before), and it keeps jumping to that Desktop (third space). I have also tried creating a new desktop space and deleting the old one. It keeps jumping.

I also don't think this is finder calling for anything. The menu bar remains the same for the app I was using, and only becomes finder when I click on the desktop.

I could just not use spaces, but what would the point be?

I don't know if this would be an easy thing to help anyone with, but maybe something similar has happened to someone before.


texts: How is Adobe Update Notifier auto launched on Mac OS X?

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It seems the Adobe Update Notifier sometime autolaunches on startup, however I cannot find where it's launched from. I've checked in Lingon as well as my login startup items but it's not there.

Any idea where else it could be? The full process is:

  /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Application Manager/UWA/AAM Updates Notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/AAM Updates Notifier -psn_0_127007


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First I've noticed it on my activity monitor:

As you can see Free ram color is set to bright green. And in the activity monitor itself shows color somewhat between green and yellow.
Now also as you can see in bottom left corner, the dock icon's color is ok.

But in the Terminal I get the same crappy color instead of green…

Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?

EDIT

After rebooting the Activity Monitor it's colors went back to normal. Haven't tried to do it with terminal yet.


texts: Shortcut for showing windows instead of clicking the Dock

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I use commandtab to browse through my applications, and command` for browsing through internal windows (e.g. for Firefox).

However, regularly, I switch to an application (e.g. TeXMaker and others) and only the menu bar shows up. They don't have a windows option, so I have to go all the way down to the Dock, find the application (which will have a dot on it) and click it. Then the windows will actually show.

I prefer not to use my mouse for this task. Is there any shortcut for this?


texts: How do I launch an app confined into its own virtual desktop?

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I am running macOS 10.12 Sierra and I have an app which doesn't behave properly especially with multiple screens. Thus, I want to confine it into its own virtual desktop. The result I'm looking for is similar to what Wine can do for Windows programs:

(Picture from here)

How can I do that?

On Linux I could do it by running a separate login session via VNC to my own machine (127.0.0.1) but cannot get this idea to work on macOS. After enabling VNC in the System Preferences, the Screen Sharing client says I cannot control my own desktop.

Is there any way I can constrain an app into its own virtual desktop with a single screen and fixed resolution? I'd like to avoid running a virtual machine just for this task.


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I am a Linux user and very new to OSX. I have an OSX 10.7.5 "Lion" server that I am configuring as a webserver. I only have shell access.

I am tryin to configure the firewall, but ipfw is quite different from iptables. Currently, all ports are open to the world. I would like to add the following rules:

port 80/443: allow incoming connections from any IP address.
anything else: only allow incoming connections from within current subnet.

How would I accomplish this with ipfw?


texts: Does deleting my backup on my iPhone give me more space?

texts: I'm running out of space on my iCloud and my storage in general. If I delete my backup, will I gain more space for pictures?


texts: Is there a way to view your iTunes wishlist on an iPad? I checked at the bottom of the iTunes app but I couldn't find it there.


texts: -bash: command not found appears every time

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I just recently discovered what terminal was. I started using it today and every time I try a command (like shh) it says that the command was not found. I was instructed to type in echo $PATH and this is what I got

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

How can I fix this? I know mostly nothing about terminal or how to use it.


texts: WiFi no longer connects (specific network only)

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I can no longer connect to a specific public user+pass protected network from my 2017 MBP 15″.

Same network with same auth is accessible from my iPhone and Android tablet.

Network used to be accessible with these details from MacOS. I've tried removing the network, rebooting, readding.

What else can I try? - Is there a global cache somewhere? - Should I try editing my MAC Address?


texts: OWC Aura SSD Firmware Update from Mac Recovery Terminal

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I bought a 480GB OWC Aura SSD with a known compatibility issue for my Macbook Pro 15" (mid-2015) after my old SSD died. I installed the drive and partitioned it. It shows up when running diskutil list in a High Sierra recovery terminal, but not on any older OS versions (Yosemite or El Capitan)

The High Sierra installer lets me choose the new SSD as a target destination, but after the first reboot the machine goes to the "question mark folder". Apparently, I need to upgrade the firmware on the OWC Aura Pro SSD, but I'm having a hard time getting the PHP updater to work.

Should I request a refund/replacement or is there a way to make bootable USB to update the drive's firmware?

Edit: I managed to boot into High Sierra from an external and ran the Marvell firmware updater, but it does not detect any drives under the "Device" list for me to update.


texts: Distribute macOS build of a SwiftUI app using Sign In with Apple

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I am working on an iOS app, written in SwiftUI. I am already sharing builds with external testers using TestFlight, and it all works pretty much without problems.

Today I enabled macOS support as well using the "magic checkbox" in Xcode.

I've tested the app on my Mac, and it's good enough that I'd like to distribute this to my testers as well. Of course there is no TestFlight for macOS apps, so how do I share my build?

I created an archive, but when I try to distribute using my Developer ID and sending it to Apple's notary service I get the following errors:

So.. because my app uses Sign In with Apple I can't distribute it using a Developer ID? Does that mean I am required to send it to the Mac App Store? But it's not ready to be published to the wide open world yet!

It seems like a rather silly situation that I can find very little information about.

Edit:

Some additional information. First of all, it all works fine on iOS. I have created a Key for Sign In with Apple. I have also created a "Developer ID Application" Profile, and it has all the needed bits:

But yet when I try to manually select this Profile during the distribution process (instead of letting Xcode do it automatically) I see the following:


texts: Brew doctor complains about 2 unbrewed dylibs (possibly remnants from Samsung Sidesync)

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I've just found that brew doctor gives me the following error :

Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
    /usr/local/lib/LibSideSyncOSX9.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/ss_conn_lib.dylib

I am suspected that these are remnants of Samsung Sidesync program that I tried to use recently but it never worked, so I uninstalled it (using iTrash).
Should I manually remove those two libraries or not(one of them is 1.7mb)?
Thank you.


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texts: Why won't my iPod Touch play in Bose SoundDock speakers anymore?

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I have owned and enjoyed the Bose SoundDock speakers for a number of years; during this time it has worked great with my iPod Mini, Video iPod, and iPod Touch. The speakers have an iPod dock that you seat the iPod in and the audio is played through the speaker.

These speakers predate the iPod Touch by many years and won't recharge the iPod Touch when plugged in. That's fine, I mention it because whenever I plug in the iPod Touch into the speakers the iPod Touch shows a message that recharging isn't supported.

Recently, when I dock my iPod Touch in the speakers the warning that it can't recharge comes up, but no sound is played through the speakers. Instead, the iPod Touch's existing speakers play the music. Plugging in my Video iPod still works as expected - the sound comes out of the Bose speakers.

I've tried undocking and redocking, wiggling it once docked, and so on, but I am unable to get the iPod Touch to play through the Bose speakers. Any idea what's going on here? This is frustrating since I use these speakers quite often...

EDIT: Some further clarifications. My iPod Touch is a 2nd-gen iPod Touch (if that matters). It is, and has for some time, running software version 4.1. I have not tried updating to 4.2 or restoring the iPod's original settings. Also, the speakers continue to work with my iPod Video, so I'm pretty certain the problem lies somewhere with the iPod Touch and not the speakers themselves.


texts: Vertically accessible 3-finger multi touch windows

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MBP 15" user - 95% trackpad - LOVE the 3-finger swipe navigation.
I assume Apple limits the potential of an app like this, but maybe not.
Is it possible to add vertical functionality to the 3-finger swipe?
To clarify: Saying "Swipe left/right/up/down" implies the end result of the movement, not the actual direction of my fingers. Swiping right means go to the window right of my current window. Swiping down displays all your windows/desktop background. Swiping up does nothing.
Really all I want, is to be able to swipe up to Spotify from any window or have a second set of windows on a level above the current, 1-dimensional horizontal window set.
Made a simple mockup as to what I am describing. Is there already an app like this? Would download in a heartbeat!


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Does anyone know a comprehensive Mac app to create SQL Diagramms?
I think http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/ is quite good, but it's a little bit too basic.

I would like to create the database schema, the relations between the tables (including labels for e.g. n:m relations), add comments, export to SQL, and so on to run from my Mac.


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I have installed CamTwist on my MacBook (mid-2015 - Retina display).

Now every app uses that by default.

I want the default webcam to be the FaceTime HD camera installed in my MacBook.

How do I make every app use that webcam by default?


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Recently I've encountered a problem, and quite frankly, of course it had to be one of those cases where nothing absolutely helps.

It started around a couple weeks ago, the system was getting random freezes, usually not long after startup, so I decided that maybe it's the time to do a clean reinstall of the system. Soon after which, I realized that my USB ports aren't working whenever I connect anything.

I tried resetting PRAM and SMC, multiple times, still nothing. The computer still freezes for a couple minutes (Touch Bar included), I can only move the cursor and click on stuff but everything is unresponsive until the freeze is gone.

Before you say that maybe my USB ports are fried or something, note that I have a Bootcamp partition, where everything works perfectly, USBs are fine, no freezes, everything works as it should, but not in MacOS. Even in Startup Manager I can move my external mouse, but as soon as system boots, it's unresponsive. If I keep using the system after one of it's freezes, chances are the connected mouse/keyboard will start working, as if it takes it a couple minutes to realize that something's connected.

It would've been much easier to assume that maybe the ports are bent or something but then in that case nothing would've worked in Bootcamp.

Specs: MBP 15' 2016, Mojave 10.14.6 (I tried updating to Catalina, no changes, so I rolled back since I don't like Catalina anyways)


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texts: Will iTunes Match let me "upgrade" existing tracks to higher quality or bitrate?

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I want to pay the $25/year for iTunes Match specifically to get my thousands of low-bitrate tracks "upgraded" to high-bitrate.

Will I be able to invoke the service, get high-bitrate tracks downloaded to my Mac, and sync it with my iPod Classic?  Or is it only for iOS/iCloud streaming?


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