texts: I like to share my macbook wifi internet connection with my phone via bluetooth. Settings|Internet Sharing has an option for bluetooth pan but it is disabled.


texts:
Lion is crashing on me all the time and I am sick of it.  I would like to do a clean install of Snow Leopard, but when I insert the dvd and hold 'c' on boot the computer just locks up and I have to do a hard reset.

What do I have to do?


texts: Disable dual Graphic and use only Intel card

texts:
My Mac Book Pro is now stuck after Apple logo screen on a grey screen and after hours of search I found the problem is in my graphic card (this issue happen after updating to High Sierra).

So  I need to disable the second VGA

I tried with

/sbin/fsck -fy /
/sbin/mount -uw /
mkdir /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
cd /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
mv /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* .
mv /System/Library/Extensions/AMD* .
touch /System/Library/Extensions
exit

but I got an error :

operation not permitted

any idea to fix this or at least disable SIP ?

Notes

I am not able to boot to any GUI neither by safe mode boot nor verbose mode or even recovery mode,  so I need to do it via terminal

I am only able to boot via single user mode


texts: My husband misplaced his iPhone and then he left out of town and I found it. I turned it off and sent it overnight to him and it is now lost in the mail.  Can I track his iPhone if it is turned off?


texts: Can I charge a MacBook Pro 2016 with a MacBook power adapter?

texts:
A MacBook comes with 29W USB-C Power Adapter. A MacBook Pro 13" (2016) comes with a 61W USB-C Power Adapter. Both are USB-C adapters.

Can I charge the MacBook Pro 13" with the 29W adapter?


texts: Is there a Terminal command to get the current front most app's title?

texts:
I'm using Übersicht and I've created a custom menubar. I want to show the title of the current active app but my search-fu isn't great. I must be searching for it incorrectly so I figured I'd ask here.

Does such a command exist?


texts: Why is /tmp a symlink to /private/tmp on Mac OS X? In other words, why isn't /tmp just a regular directory, like on Linux or BSD? I understand how it works and I don't mind it, I'm just interested in the (historical?) reasoning behind it.


texts: After update OS X 10.9.3 MacBook Pro 2010, Restart suddenly

texts:
Yesterday I get OS X 10.9.3 after update, my MBP 2010 getting restart when I open VLC, Illustrator and sometimes Safari. The message shows "Your Computer restarted because of a Problem. Press any key to continue starting up".

Why this happen?


texts: What happens to a MacBook's battery once it reaches the maximum cycle count?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro and according to Apple, its cycle count limit is 1000. What happens when it surpasses 1000 cycles? Will the battery continue working or not? Will the MacBook still be able to receive power from the battery or not? Should it be replaced?

Thanks.


texts: How to isolate an application from the system (fully sandboxed application)?

texts: Is it possible to do something like the concept of sandboxing (like all apps on iOS have its own system software resources) for all existing applications (so - not while designing an own new application) on OSX (Lion/ML/Maverics) just copying required frameworks, libraries, binaries (/usr, /etc, /Library, etc.) and than using chroot for the process when start?


texts: A jabber chat client that displays a list of rooms?

texts:
I'm on OS X 10.6.6, and I've tried Adium and iChat, but neither are iChat isn't capable of showing a list of available rooms anywhere on our company chat server. Does anyone know of a Jabber chat client that can? Thanks!

Update: See my answer at the bottom of the page ;)

Yes Adium can!


texts: Maximising VirtualBox guest machine window size

texts: I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS inside VirtualBox on a MacBook Air 7,2, but the guest screen window size is less than the host display size. I have seen a suggestion that this is possible by installing something called a Guest Additions inside the VB instance from the Devices menu - I tried to this but I get the following error.


texts: Possible to make desktop icons bigger than max?

texts:
I have my desktop icons set as big as they'll go... but would like them even bigger if possible!
Is there a way to do this?


texts: Encrypt Time Machine backup data sent over the network

texts:
I have three relevant machines:

An iMac running 10.10 as my Time Machine server.
A MacBook Pro running 10.10, which backs up to the server. Backup encryption is enabled.
A PowerBook G4 running 10.5, which also backs up to the server. Backup encryption is not supported by 10.5.

In the case of the 10.10 MacBook, I understand that setting the MacBook to encrypt backups means that the backups stored on the server will be in an encrypted sparse image. However, the data being sent to the server is sent in the clear, unless the client handles encryption (unlikely).

Could the data transfer be secured by SSH for both machines?


texts: Extremely slow 'processing file' times for Apps in iTunes 10.6

texts: Since installed iTunes 10.6 on my MacBook whenever I update an app, the download is speedy but it is taking between 4 and 8 minutes in the indeterminate 'processing file' state. I've never seen this behavior before. What could be causing this?


texts: New iPhone 8 restore not showing sms messages

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My new iPhone 8 is not showing sms messages after a restore using itunes.

Created a backup of old iPhone 3G (ios 4.1) and restored it to new iPhone 8 (ios 11). Notes, contacts and calendar have all transferred over fine but not my sms messages. Every time I open the messages app its blank.

If I open the sqlite db on the backup it shows all the messages, the file size is 3mb. But if I look under general-> iPhone storage-> messages its 12kb

If I use ibackup viewer I can also see all the messages in the backup fine.

Is there anything I can do to view my old sms messages on the new phone or transfer the messages to it?

Edit:

What I've tried:
Backup old phone, restore it to new one, no sms messages display on new phone.
Opened sqlite db, can see all the sms messages fine.
Looked at all the posts on here, googled for 6 hours tying things but nothing will transfer them over, or I just cant see them.
Reset all the settings.

What I cant get is the sms messages to display in the new iPhone


texts: Can't open News app after changing region/country

texts:
After changing region/country, News can't be opened.
App Store shows installed, with "Open" button next to the App.
Tapping on it does nothing.

Asking Siri to open it, Siri says "can't right now".
I'm using an iPhone SE and the storage is not full.
The widget shows. Tapping on articles (in widget) opens Safari.

Anyone else had this, and solved it?


texts: Is it possible to block access to Safari's extensions?

texts:
I'd like my son to have access to Safari but not to the extensions, as these provide content blockers to innapropriate material. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks


texts: Using tab key to advance to next file in Finder for numerically ordered files

texts:
I have a directory of files named like:

it(0).png
it(1).png
it(2).png
...
it(10).png
it(11).png
...

In Finder my directory is arranged by Name and the files are in correct numerical order. I like to use space preview to view the files, then I press Tab to advance, but the selection advances in alphabetical (ASCII?) order rather than numeric:

it(0).jpg -> 1 -> 10 -> ... -> 19 -> 2 -> 21 -> ...

Is there a way to advance in the numeric order that Finder displays the files in? I am on OS X Mavericks 10.9.3

To reproduce run this in Terminal.app

mkdir /tmp/alphanum && for i in {0..29}; do touch /tmp/alphanum/$i; done && open /tmp/alphanum

Select the first item and press Tab to advance.


texts: Outlook 2011, Where are the mails stored?

texts:
Just as the mails in Outlook under windows are stored in a PST file , where are the mails in Outlook under Mac stored ?

I understand they are stored as OLM files . But can anyone tell me the exact location of these files so i can perform a backup ?

Thanks.


texts: How to remove or rename a folder with a "bad" name on El Capitan?

texts:
On my iMac I have a folder, left from preceding systems, named "ZipIt 2.2.2␀". I cannot delete or rename it, nor delete the files it contains, both from the Finder and from Terminal. Looking at this question and related answers I understand this is a bug of Mac OS 10.11 (and later?), connected to the presence of NUL character in the name.

I haven't an older Mac OS at hand. I tried to rename the folder with Onyx and A Better Finder Rename 10 but without success. I also tried to boot from Mac OS Recovery but couldn't do anything useful.

Any ideas?

EDIT.

Here's the output I get from Terminal when using find:

    % ls -li
    total 0
    1067625 drwxrwxrwx+ 6 root  wheel  204 25 Mag  2011 ZipIt 2.2.2␀

    % sudo find . -inum 1067625 -mount -exec rm -rf {} \;
    rm: ./ZipIt 2.2.2␀/.DS_Store: Invalid argument

[... many similar lines ...]

    rm: ./ZipIt 2.2.2␀: Invalid argument

EDIT 2.

I thought of a possible way out, but don't know if it's viable. I could create a new user, transfer the offending folder to its desktop, then delete the user.

Do you think this could be effective? I'd like to try, but I'm afraid this could hang the whole system.

EDIT 3

As requested by Allan, here's the detailed content of the folder I cannot delete:

% find . -type d -name 'Zip*' -print0 | xargs -0 -J -t ls
./ZipIt 2.2.2␀:
Drop files here to zip (OS_X)   ZipIt.app
Read me.pdf

./ZipIt 2.2.2␀/ZipIt.app:
Contents    ZipIt

./ZipIt 2.2.2␀/ZipIt.app/Contents/Resources/ZipIt Help:
ZipIt Help idx  ZipIt help  faq     images


texts:
anybody know any way of creating/putting an icon/button in google chrome's toolbar that will open its built-in Developer Tools?

i know there are keyboard shortcut options, menu bar options, secondary-clicking within webpage option, & the 3lined icon at the far right of chrome's toolbar. but i'm wanting a simple button, single click, to open it.

i've also scoured google chrome extensions & have come up empty.

thanks.


texts: How to fix the command line shortcut for the Brackets editor?

texts:
I've installed Brackets, but if I try to type brackets at the command line I get

-bash: brackets.sh: command not found

I've found that the shell script is located in /Applications/Brackets.app/Contents/Resources/brackets.sh. What is the recommended way to fix the problem - do I just define

alias brackets=/Application/Brackets.app/Contents/Resources/brackets.sh

or should I somehow re-install/update Brackets?


texts:
This used to be default behaviour for iCal (as with most other applications): you click the red button to close the open window but it will still run. A small dot remains under its symbol to show that this is the case. iCal could then pop-up notifications. For a while now, iCal closes when I hit the red button. There is no point under its icon in the dock.

How can I keep iCal running without having to minimise it -and live with an open window in the dock-, to get notifications of my events?

I checked and my preferences have Events set to notify me 10 minutes before. iCal is set to start at login. I'm running Sierra 10.12.6


texts: Terminal returns not found for most commands Mac OSX

texts:
I'm really new to Mac OSX and UNIX based systems. I wanted to run a few Windows games on my Mac Mini so I started installing Wine and MacPorts.
I think the installs are correct, but when I type sudo port install wine I see a not found error in my terminal. I tried other basic commands like say and clear and all of them return the same not found error.
My research shows that my PATH might be incorrectly set, but it lacks steps I can implement.
Specifically, I ran this command: echo $PATH and it returned:

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin

I'm a complete newbie to mac and have no idea where .bash_profile or any of those files are. My skills let me install Xcode and the Command Line tools for Xcode and I sense I need to level up on path management.
At this point I need help managing my dot files and changing my path to fix these specific errors on Mountain Lion.
What are my next steps?


texts: Specifying which processes can be terminated if hardware resources become scarce

texts:
I typically tax the limits of my computer systems' system resources, and "obtain the appropriate hardware to perform the kind of computing you require" is not the solution I am interested in for the purposes of this question (though it is the best solution). I am seeking to understand what happens inside the computer system when its performance begins to slow and, for all intents and purposes, hang and halt.

I would also like to become familiar with the available tools we may utilize to develop plans before the system essentially becomes output-only because of resource overload. These instructions could be organized by "operating mode" to instruct the OS how to handle otherwise identical situations differently based on what is important for me at the time.

  Examples:
  (assume I am both listening to music and also browsing the Internet using increasingly many Safari tabs)

  DJ mode: I am using the computer to DJ an event, and browsing the Internet between mixes. This mode would make sure Safari would force quit before the music hiccuped for even an instant.
  Download mode: I am listening to music while browsing the Internet and downloading large files. This mode would force quit iTunes before Safari runs out of memory to increase the likelihood the download will succeed.

Note: Please excuse the current somewhat-disjointed appearance of this question for a few days. I intend to actively revise the question while still allowing those who understand what I am talking about to help.


texts: Why can't I just dd an entire APFS disk?

texts:
I've received a new Mac that has come preconfigured with lots of junk.
Naturally, my first order of business is to wipe the disk and clean install macOS. But first, I want to create a bit-perfect, bootable clone of the disk (which is formatted APFS Encrypted) and keep it on a flash drive, in the unlikely event that I ever need to boot into the original environment.
I tried to create this clone by booting the machine into Recovery mode, attaching a flash drive of the exact same capacity as the disk and running dd if=/dev/rdisk0 of=/dev/rdiskX bs=64k. I expected this to create an exact clone, especially reading at a raw level via /dev/rdisk. However, the resulting drive is not only unbootable, but none of the APFS structure is preserved - I'm left with an FDisk_partition_scheme partition type and a 0xEE volume.
Nothing in this answer proved useful in making this bootable.
More than "how can I do this," I'm wondering "why can't I do this."
Why doesn't dd perform the low-level, bit-by-bit replication that I'm looking for? Or, is it doing what I'm telling it to, but there's another factor at play that I'm not aware of?


texts: Send SMS/text messages from Windows through USB + iPhone?

texts:
I use the MyPhoneExplorer (MPE) utility to send SMS/text message from my Windows host through my Android smartphone connected to the computer with a USB cable. It's a no-brainer.

A friend of mine has an iPhone and a Windows laptop: I was wondering if there's an equivalent to MPE that can work with an iPhone:

Runs on Windows and iPhone
Windows and iPhone connected through USB cable

Connecting both hosts (Windows laptop + iPhone smartphone) to wifi just for this is overkill.

Thank you.


texts: Get a drive's partition table GUID or disk signature

texts:
Given a drive's device node, how can the drive's disk signature (if it uses MBR partitioning) or it's partition table GUID (if it is partitioned with a GPT) be retrieved in a shell script or in Terminal?
It is preferable for the solution to work without root access though the solution will be incorporated into a script that will use root access. It is also preferable for the solution not to utilize any utilities dedicated to partitioning drives (meaning the likes of fdisk and gdisk, but NOT diskutil).


texts: How to block an application (facebook, messages) in Self Control

texts: I figured out how to do a while ago, but simply can't remember- how do I block computer applications such as twitter, facebook, and messages in self control?


texts:
Netflix won't install on my new Apple TV 4.
Other apps install fine. My iTunes account is working.
Netflix goes from "Install" to spinner and back to "Install" again.
Other apps go to "Open" after spinner. Ideas?
Location is Sweden. Netflix is readily available here and I had no trouble on my Apple TV 3.
Network is 100 Mbit and working fine.
No errors are reported.


texts: Can I use MacBook Pro's 61W power adapter to charge my iPhone 12

texts: I have bought a new iPhone 12 64GB. But because now Apple has removed the charging adapter from the box, I need to buy a new one. I have a MacBook pro-2019, I want to know if I can use my MacBook's 61W power adapter to charge my iPhone. I just want to be sure that it won't damage my iPhone's battery.


texts:
I want to create symbolic link for /Users to /home. So i tried to execute ln -s \Users \home. which gave me error ln: /home/Users: Operation not supported.

Any way to do this?

Thanks


texts: Something taking up 90GB of storage in MacOS Catalina 10.15 Beta

texts:
After installing MacOS Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A471t) there is something taking up 90GB of my Disk. I tried scanning with Daisy Disk but wasn't able to identify what those files are.

How can I find out this folder?


texts: Mp3 player that lets you go back 5 seconds with the left arrow

texts:
I'm looking for a mp3 player software that lets you go back say 5 seconds of the audio clip by pressing the left arrow key.

I'm using this as a means to memorize, and I used to use winamp on the PC and was wondering what choices I have on a Mac.


texts: What does the "cancel" icon in the volume prompt mean?

texts:
I connected my earphone and when I tried to change the volume, I got a prompt like

Except that there was a small "cancel" icon in it (like this). I could not change the volume. I had to unplug and plug again the earphone.

What does that mean?

OSX Yosemite. Macbook Pro Retina Display, Mid 2014 model.


texts: Unable to enter safe mode. Gets stuck at progress bar (100%) while trying to log in

texts:
Macbook Pro Retina 13", late 2013.

Unable to enter safe mode (via holding shift key). Result as in title.
Hangs after me waiting for mutliple minutes.

What troubleshooting can I do?

Need safe mode to do other troubleshootings.

Edit1: note, that the progress bar at first moves but very very slowly, compared to non-safe-mode logging-in.
Maybe I should wait overnight or something?
Is there a way to show any debug messages while this is running?

Also asked on Apple forum: https://discussions.apple.com/message/31699416#31699416


texts: Duplicate contacts in iPhone 4 with two Exchange accounts, one is Lotus Traveler

texts:
I have two exchange accounts on my iPhone 4. One that connects to my gmail, the other connects to my work's Lotus Notes. There are no overlapping contacts in the two accounts. There are also no contacts saved locally on my phone.

When I enable contacts in both accounts, I get two identical entries for each of the contacts in my gmail. If I disable the Notes exchange account, then there are no more duplicates. If I have Notes contacts enabled, and gmail contacts disabled then I have no contacts at all.

Does anyone know what is going on? Is this a problem with having multiple exchange accounts or is it a Lotus Traveler problem? (I tend to blame Notes for all the trouble in the world, but that is just my bias)

Thanks all.


texts: Big Sur: Booting Win10 from SSD and Disable Internal Drive

texts:
Computer: MBP 15 Late 2013.
I have a BIOS booting Windows 10 installed on an external SSD. Windows occupies two partition on this SSD. The first is the System partition and the second is a combined Windows and Recovery partition. Below is the output from the command diskutil list.

Since I updated to Big Sur, I can not boot Windows from the external SSD anymore. I get a message that there is no bootable device and the computer restarts booting into macOS on the internal drive. It looks like Apple updated the boot loader (I can not tell from the new graphics), which appears to be connected to the issue. I have tried pretty much everything at this point and the only thing that lets me boot from the SSD is if I completely wipe/format the internal drive.
Is there a way to disable the internal boot drive so the boot loader doesn't see it?
(I know this is a work around, but I don't have the time right now to further investigate the issue with the external SSD and why it can't boot from it.)


texts: MacOS unified logging: how can I filter messages based on tag on the command line?

texts:
I can add a message to the macos system log via the command line on Sierra or later as follows:

logger -t "TestTag" "testing 1 2 3"

How do I find all messages that have been tagged with TestTag?

I can use log stream but I can't find how to filter for that tag.  Any other command line solution would be fine too.


texts: What is the meaning of this feature “Camera, recently”

texts:
I am using an iPhone 11 with iOS on 14.4.2.
I have noticed that there is a hint text after taking a video clip. I know this question might sound stupid but what is the meaning of the feature? In what situation should I need to see this hint?
Thanks for any tips.


texts: Disable iPhone numeric keyboard auto-toggle

texts:
When using the iOS keyboard and inserting an apostrophe or a space the keyboard automatically toggles from the numeric screen back to the qwerty input screen. I'm finding this really annoying, so how do I turn this 'feature' off?

E.g. When typing in a UK postcode or commenting numbers in a spreadsheet cell


texts: this is what pops up when i click the email link. "We are unable to activate your Apple Developer Program membership. We have received your purchase information and will email you shortly to verify additional details." what do i do? will it still charge my card?


texts:
I like being able to text off my MacBook.
Sometimes the responses don't go to my phone so I miss messages and only get them when I open my Mac.

Does anyone know how I can receive messages on my iPhone and my Mac?


texts: iTunes Match wont match a song in the store that i already own, recorded from vinyl

texts:
I have a rather large vinyl collection, some of which i have recorded to mp3 and added to my iTunes collection over the years.

I have noticed that some of them are not being matched, and i am wondering what the cause is.  I have updated the track and album info, but it still doesnt match.

For example...

In my collection (notice it says uploaded, not matched) -

and in the store -

It located and downloaded the artwork, yet it still wont match.

I understand from reading this question that it uses gracenote for matching, which may read parts of the waveform.  Surely the waveform of my vinyl recording is the same, regardless of gain level?

One thing i have noticed is that my recording is 16 seconds longer - maybe this could be the issue?


texts:
I have a Microsoft laser mouse, which was nice and smooth in OS X, until I installed IntelliPoint for OS X in an attempt to make the scroll wheel nicer. The result is I hate the mouse movement/tracking now, no matter what I set the speed to in the settings it's horrible. I uninstalled IntelliPoint, but it made no change.

I noticed if I log on to my Mac as a different user, the mouse settings are fine (like they used to be). Is there a way to restore them back on my account, such as by editing some files or whatever?


texts:
This works on Ubuntu but not on Mac.
$ seq -f %1.0f 20210101 20211231 | date -f - 2>/dev/null | grep 'Sun\|Sat'
...
Sat Dec 18 00:00:00 JST 2021
Sun Dec 19 00:00:00 JST 2021
Sat Dec 25 00:00:00 JST 2021
Sun Dec 26 00:00:00 JST 2021

How to find all Sat and Sun from command line?


texts: Does my SSD not mount because it’s full?

texts:
I’m having issues booting. And in order to boot I need to mount this but it won’t work no matter what I try the only thing I’m thinking is that it’s because it is full.
Does this have anything to do with it not being able to mount and what can I do about it? I try erasing and it journals and guids fine, but around the part where it is mounting during erase process the computer freezes.
How do I free up space on this?

EDIT: when I try mounting in the other recovery mode that prompts Catalina instead of capitan it gives me this error.
When I try to erase and format with APFS I get a crash prompted with this.


texts: Is it possible to run a script every 24 hours on MacBook Pro even in sleep?

texts:
I want to run a script every 24 hours, that scrapes a website and fetches data, save it to my local MySQL database, and push its DB to my remote Heroku or IBM Bluemix MySQL server (or ClearDB). I did this set of procedures in my Mac Pro in the past using launchd, but since I now have MacBook Pro only, I cannot ensure that this is always done properly, because I occasionally close the laptop.

I know how to set the launchd to execute the script once the laptop wakes up, but I still must make sure that this script is executed in the correct time, because the remote database must be set up to be updated every day to ensure that users in my iOS app always see the updated datasets.

How can I set it up so that the script is always executed in the exactly same time every day, such as 23:15, even in the laptop is being sleep? I have never shut down the laptop; I just close the tab and go into sleep.


texts: Is it possible to "deep link" to a specific email in mail.app on Mac OS X?

texts: For example, in a note-taking application like Evernote or an outliner, is it possible to create a link that will open a specific email in a specific folder in Mail.app on Max OS X?


texts: A modern and faster alternative to Disk Inventory X

texts:
Disk Inventory X was kind of nice, but it is painfully slow.

Are there any modern and faster alternatives?

I only care about the disk space, and not about the file type stats and about the graph which Disk Inventory X displays.


texts: What is hiutil and why is it sucking up my cpu?

texts:
What is hiutil?
Why is it sucking up my cpu?
How long will this go for?
When will it happen again?


texts: OS X login screen boots to mirrored mode bug

texts: My iMac pro is booting in mirrored mode when I don't even have that selected. If I do command + F1 it shows the extended desktop mode which is how it should be but this is only a temporary fix. I'm using a thunderbolt 3 to HDMI adapter for my 1080p television. I have reset PRAM and SMC to no avail. As well as fiddling around with the display settings. I also have tried disk repair and different orientations for the dual monitor setup. No luck. I had an iMac pro with the same exact set up and cables working not even a few weeks ago. Any ideas?


texts: Tracing real-time filesystem calls by process?

texts:
I suspect my backupd is performing a full filesystem scan. I can't tell because I don't know how to use Activity Monitor (or something else) to see what directories and files backupd is reading or writing. I'd like to check that and do it periodically so I can see if it's making progress.

Can someone suggest a program or command?


texts: df hide ifree, iused, 512 blocks (customize column format, don't show inode info)

texts:
My default df invocation prints way too much information for my needs. I can't find a way to hide this in the man page. It says use the -i flag to include it. But when I execute /usr/local/bin/df I get this:

Filesystem                                512-blocks       Used Available Capacity  iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2                               975093952  719904648 254677304    74% 90052079 31834663   74%   /
devfs                                            368        368         0   100%      637        0  100%   /dev
map -hosts                                         0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /net
map auto_home                                      0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /home
/dev/disk3s1                               242555008  206423680  36131328    86%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/SERIALS
map -static                                        0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/ubuntu
map -static                                        0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/Large_backup
map -static                                        0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/Large
map -static                                        0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/Unsorted
map -static                                        0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/Record
map -static                                        0          0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /Volumes/Documentaries
192.168.1.2:/                              115345392   86998112  22441976    80%   421924  3249100   11%   /Volumes/ubuntu
192.168.1.2:/media/myusername/Documentaries  488397160  446990432  41406728    92%    15979 20720153    0%   /Volumes/Documentaries
192.168.1.2:/media/myusername/Record         625121216  625121216         0   100%   125517    38323   77%   /Volumes/Record
192.168.1.2:/media/myusername/Unsorted       625137280  604966376  20170904    97%   346496 10099404    3%   /Volumes/Unsorted
192.168.1.2:/media/myusername/Large         1953520000 1949403312   4116688   100%  1379836  2218604   38%   /Volumes/Large
192.168.1.2:/media/myusername/Large_backup   115345392   86998112  22441976    80%   421924  3249100   11%   /Volumes/Large_backup

How do I hide all these extra columns? (come to think of it, how do I get rid of those useless map -static rows too?)

Extra info:

uname -a output:

Darwin myusername-Mac-mini.local 15.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.3.0: Thu Dec 10 18:40:58 PST 2015; root:xnu-3248.30.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 i386 Macmini6,1 Darwin


texts: Should I use Wi-Fi and Ethernet at the same time?

texts: I'm on macOS Mojave, and was wondering if I should have Wi-Fi and Ethernet on at the same? Are there advantages to keeping on at the same time, or will doing something like this cause any problems or interferences? Thanks for any information on this!


texts: MacOS Folder Actions: How to return files to original folder?

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I'm looking for a way to send a file back to its original path after adding them to a folder.
Specifically, if a file does not meet a criteria after being dropped at a folder, I want to send it back to its original folder.
I can not specify the "original" folder in the script, because the files may come from different places, and each file should go back to its own original path.
I know I can achieve something similar using a "Quick Action" instead of a Folder Action, but this is not ideal because I usually drag and drop an open file from the top bar icon.. just to the left of the file name, there is an icon which is dragable.. This icon is useful to move the file around, but does not have the 'Quick Action' menu available. Also, some end users are older people who are not as technologically advanced, and they usually prefer just to 'drag to a folder on the dock', instead of 'right click, then go to Quick Actions, then select this specific action"..
Any help would be really appreciated.


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I 'd like to do a presentation with a wireless USB remote control. At one moment, I need to go to the previous animation phase – which would be the shortcut Shift–Left Arrow or [ (left bracket).

However, with my presenter it is only possible to go the previous slide — which would be the shortcut P, Delete, Page Up, Left Arrow, Up Arrow, or Shift–Up Arrow.

I do not want to use a keyboard since I want to speak freely in my presentation.

So the questions are: Is this a problem of my remote control? In other words: Are there remote controls that as well have a "previous animation phase" button? Do I need to somehow trick the system to make it work?


texts: Why can't I have unique sorting options for folders in Finder?

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For example, when I set the Documents folder in my user folder to "Sort by: Kind", it also sets the sorting option for every other folder on my computer. Can I have unique folder sorting options? Or is it impossible?

EDIT: This is on El Capitan.


texts: How to create an up to date ML recovery?

texts: There were several updates affecting the recovery partition. Is there a way to create an usb memory stick containing an up to date Mountain Lion recovery partition?


texts: How fix MacOS Mail so Gmail labels appear?

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I recently bought a new MacBook Pro, and set up Mac Mail with my Gmail accounts.  At first, when the mail was being imported, the labels for my emails listed in the list preview section of the Inbox / message browser appeared.  Then, Mac ran an update for 10.15 (Catalina), and all of the labels for my emails listed in the list preview section of the Inbox / message browser disappeared.

I've ensured that the 'Show in IMAP' checkbox is ticked next to all of the labels I wish to see as folders in Apple Mail.  It shows the mailbox but not the labels for the messages listed in the list preview section of the Inbox / message browser.

Any ideas on how to fix this?  I've contacted Apple support, but they haven't provided any guidance.


texts: How to Mount a Sparsebundle Disk Image from Time Machine Backup?

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I have several sparse bundle disk images on my system, used for various purposes (mostly to prevent Time Machine from backing up the entirety of very large files).

However, I'm planning to restructure my storage in the near future, and will likely be eliminating the use of these disk images.

What I'd like to be able to do is mount a sparse bundle that's located on my Time Machine backup drive, so that I can copy data from inside it into its new location, without having to copy the disk image first (requiring double the storage).

The problem is, none of my backed up sparse bundle images can be mounted from a Time Machine volume, all I get is a "no mountable filesystems" error. Assuming the issue is that Time Machine volumes are effectively read-only, I tried the following command instead:

hdiutil attach /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/MachineName/Latest/Path/To/Image.sparsebundle -readonly

However this doesn't work either, producing the same error.

Now, I'm fairly certain this is an issue specific to mounting sparse bundles from a Time Machine backup, as I'm sure the images themselves are fully intact (I've shasumed all the contents and compared to the source).

Is there a way that I can mount a sparse bundle from a Time Machine backup, without having to copy it in its entirety to somewhere else first?

To be clear, and to disambiguate from similar questions; the disk images I'm referring to are inside my Time Machine backup, they are not the Time Machine backup itself, i.e- I'm backing up to a directly attached drive, not a network disk.

UPDATE: So I had an idea of my own, which was to create a hard-linked copy of the image outside of the Backups.backupdb folder, thinking perhaps that that may be mountable without issues, but this doesn't appear to be possible either. Running gcp -lr to do this results in stat giving a "permission denied" error, so presumably Time Machine backups also resist stating of files for some reason.


texts: how to Quick Look text files with custom file extensions in Finder

texts: When I have .txt files or .py files, I can Quick Look those files in Finder. I have .jl files that are codes written in the Julia Language. Of course they are text files. They will open in a text editor like Sublime Text. How can I Quick Look these .jl files in Finder?


texts: Is it possible to use AirPlay on a MacBook Pro 2013 with the lid closed?

texts: Is it possible to send the audio/video to a 3rd generation AppleTV and close the lid on the MacBook? When I try it, the MacBook goes to sleep. Is there any trick to get this working?


texts: What does "[Update Needed]" mean when attempting to boot from an encrypted backup?

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When I attempt to boot from an external drive that is an encrypted SuperDuper! mirror of my internal hard drive, I get a login screen that's missing my account an instead has an account called "[Update Needed]", with no user picture.

I understand that this is a known issue with FileVault, but it is not clear from what I've read whether it is necessary to do anything about this, or if it can just be ignored (after all, the disk is a backup, and the source seems fine).

Can I just ignore this and deal with it when and if I need to use the backup? Is this a sign of problems on the source drive that just aren't showing symptoms there yet (that drive is not, yet, encrypted)?


texts: Bootcamp Failing with Error: “The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.”

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I can't get past the error screen after the introduction.
Originally, the disk was divided in 3 partitions, the primary one with the data,the second one with the OS X reserved and the third one with bootcamp.
So I removed the bootcamp partition, and the error remains, so it's my understanding that the disk has to be in one partition.
If I delete the OS partition, will I lose any data?

My screen is something like the attatched.


texts: running emacs on a terminal: problem with meta-key

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I am on Mavericks and I am running emacs 24.4.1, but I have the same problem also with 22.1.1. When I open mac on a terminal on the remote host, it does not recognise option key (alt) like the meta key. I have modified the .emacs in the following way

 (setq mac-option-key-is-meta nil
       mac-command-key-is-meta t
       mac-command-modifier 'meta
       mac-option-modifier 'none)

this should change the meta key to command, but also in this case the meta key doest work . This only work on the X version of emacs (when I open emacs in a new window), both with the option as meta key that as command as meta key. This is a problem I have with emacs in the terminal-only.

Now I don't know how to run commands in emacs! is there any keybinding I can use?


texts: Often, the Finder doesn't show the toolbar for FUSE volumes: if I show it and I detach the drive, the toolbar is still missing when I reattach the volume. Is there any workaround?


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On the 4th generation of Apple TV, is there a way to watch the presentations delivered at the annual Apple World Wide Developer Conference?

The videos can be viewed on a Mac and on iOS devices. But for some geeks like me, lounging on the couch while watching WWDC vids on the big screen would be considered fun.


texts: Can I replace the logic board in a 17" 2009 MacBook Pro with one from a 15" 2009 MacBook Pro?

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I've got a working 15" Mid 2009 MacBook Pro. I've found the same model MacBook Pro, but with a 17" LCD.

Can I replace from the 17" MacBook Pro with the logic board from my 15" MacBook Pro in order to get a larger screen size?


texts: Should I be worried about 98°C CPU temperature on MacbookAir?

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I'm a developer and often times I need to compile some packages or maybe even run some codes for couple of hours.

Recently I have noticed that whenever I use Homebrew to install something, it defaults to source, and compilation causes my CPU temp to go around 98 Celsius . Some of the compiles are quite long, couple of minutes, and I'm worried this might harm my MacBookAir.

Should I be worried about this 98°C CPU temperature on MacbookAir?
And if so, how can I fix that?


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I added Sublime Text to my Login Items, so that it starts up automatically when I start up my Mac. However, even though I have the Hide box checked already, the app still does not hide on startup.

Is there anything else I can try to get it to hide on startup?


texts: Office 2011 - option + left / right keyboard shortcut not working

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When using Microsoft Office 2011 (Word, Powerpoint and Excel) on my Macbook Pro (running OS X 10.9.5) the option + left arrow, option + shift + left arrow, option + right arrow and option + shift + right arrow keyboard shortcuts don't work as they should e.g. skip (select) forward or back a word. This functionality works in non-Microsoft programs such as at the command line. All other keyboard shortcuts are working as they should.

I have checked under Tools > Customise Keyboard and they are assigned correctly. I have tried resetting shortcuts both within Office and in System Preferences without success. This has been going on a while - through successive Office updates. As a work-around I have reassigned this functionality to another shortcut but would like to know what the problem is.

Anyone experiencing similar or knows a solution?


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Several months ago I was using Grapher, something strange happened. Instead of going to Equation → Integrate, I clicked the symbols menu (with the summation notation, cube root, etc.) and clicked the integral there instead. Now, whenever I do Equation → Integrate it does the silly integral computation instead of the symbolic integration which is so much better. The silly integral computation struggles to compute an integral of 2x to the left of the y-axis, although it may have its uses with integrals which cannot be solved symbolically. It used to say about symbolic integration here but now that page isn't working so now it's turned into a bit of a conspiracy theory.

Does anyone have access to the original symbolic integration? Has anyone else experienced this bug?

I have been meaning to ask this somewhere for a while, also, I have no evidence that the symbolic integration even existed so anything about that helps.


texts: I receive a msg "the recipient was rejected by the server because the user is unknown" when trying to send an email from me.com to icloud.com. Recipient is in Italy but I have no problem sending to hotmail.com in Italy


texts: Album art on my iOS device differs from Mac iTunes

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Roughly 20% of the time now, the song or podcast currently playing on my iPhone 3GS will display some completely random album art from another title in my library of 9967 songs, 19 podcast subscriptions. Songs can have podcast covers and vice-versa.

Unlike the answer suggested by
Why doesnt my iPod show album art?, when I cross-check the Artwork tags of my Mac's iTunes (anything from 8.x through 10.4), I can verify that the songs with mistaken artwork on-device have the correct artwork on-Mac and that songs without artwork on-Mac display the generic "no artwork" icon on-device.

I've had this problem almost as long as I've had my 3GS. In the past couple months, my wife has also reported this symptom with completely separate hardware/software (both her own Mac and iPhone 3GS, neither of which migrated any settings from my machine).

Correctly-configured artwork should show as intended on-device. How can I restore the expected behavior?


texts: Can I buy an iPhone 5C in the US and use it in Ireland?

texts: I'm going to New York soon, and the iPhone 5C is just $99 USD. I am wondering if  an Irish SIM work or if I would have to get it unlocked?


texts: Is there a max price limit for in app purchases?

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I would like to know if there is a max price limit for an in-app item.
I couldn't get a direct answer from Apple.


texts: "Enable Siri" window keeps popping up in mac OS Catalina

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I've recently got a MacBook Pro 2019 running macOS Catalina. Doing some initial setup, I've disabled Siri. However, a really annoying window keeps popping up, at unpredictable time intervals (sometime more than once in a 5-min timeframe, sometimes it doesn't show up during a whole day).
In my Settings, the "Enable Ask Siri" checkbox is unchecked. Also worth mentioning that "Show Siri in menu bar" is also unchecked but its symbol is also appearing at the touchscreen bar at the top of the keyboard. How can I get rid of Siri or at least make sure its window won't impose itself again during my workflow?


texts: What files do I edit to be able to maximize Finder windows to fill the screen by shift-clicking the green button?

texts: Is there a group of files or a single file I can edit to facilitate maximizing "Finder" windows to fill the entire screen just as other application windows by shift-clicking the green plus button?


texts: How do I run Apple2.saver from XScreensaver as an application?

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From the XScreenSaver collection, https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/, we have the interesting Apple ][+ simulator.

According to its description, it can also be run as an application. But how?

If I use Finder to go to /Library/Screen Savers, Apple2.saver is present but running it just gets me the System Preferences / Desktop & Screen Saver screen.

If I get a Terminal and try to execute /Library/Screen\ Savers/Apple2.saver/Contents/MacOS/Apple2 I get an error "-bash: /Library/Screen Savers/Apple2.saver/Contents/MacOS/Apple2: cannot execute binary file". Adding the arguments to it that will probably make it behave in the way I want ("-text -program /bin/bash") obviously isn't going to help, we're not getting that far.

But it appears to be a valid MacOS binary, and runs just fine as a screensaver:

$ file  /Library/Screen\ Savers/Apple2.saver/Contents/MacOS/Apple2
/Library/Screen Savers/Apple2.saver/Contents/MacOS/Apple2: Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64

Back in Finder, if I "Show Package Contents" and then look at Contents/MacOS/Apple2 it shows as a "Unix executable" and will start up a Terminal when double-clicked, resulting in the same error output.

What should I be doing?


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Quite recently, my late 2012 Mac Mini went from being virtually silent, to having the fan on quite hard nearly all the time, regardless what I'm doing. If I use some 3D rendering or similar then it understandably gets flat out, but if I am doing nothing at all the fan is still a constant whir. I am not using different applications to the past... basically browser and Parallels, but in my Parallels session all I run is RDP.

Chrome and related processes seem very high CPU% but I don't know if that's normal.

I'm slightly worried my CPU being flat-out risks damage and also that electrical use is high. What can I do to identify and address this issue?


texts: How do I grant access in Files and Folders in Catalina for Chrome?

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Background:
I was debugging a web app and discovered my browser file upload was no longer working in Chrome 80, but works fine in Safari: when I clicked the 'Browse...' button on the web page, the file browsing dialog did not appear as expected. Catalina version is 10.15.3.

I discovered that the same issue was present in Jira, although it was possible to upload files using drag and drop in that case, hence it was not specific to my code.

Although I initially suspected Chrome 80, after trying in different OS (High Sierra, Windows Server 2012), it appears to be specific to Catalina and related to the Catalina -> System Preferences -> Privacy -> Files and Folders settings:  Chrome was listed in the 'Files and Folders' panel with access to Documents, but nothing else.  Although the '-' option is enabled, the '+' option is greyed out.  I clicked the '-' and Chrome was removed from the list and I am not able to restore access to Chrome.

I am able to grant Full Disk Access, but that seems like a bad idea for a web browser as it would undermine this security feature where it is most desirable.

How do I grant access to specific Files and Folders for Chrome?
Why is the '+' button greyed out, even though I have unlocked the padlock?


texts: Firefox keyboard conflict: Command key, Control key, and Contextual Menus

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I am using OSX 10.8, Firefox 17, and ruTorrent, a front-end webapp that displays a list of files on a server.

Clicking on files while holding down the command key only highlights the newly clicked file. Discontiguous file selection is not possible.

Clicking on files while holding down the control key results in two sets of contextual menus (shortcut menus) appearing one atop the other: Firefox's shortcut menu (in System font) and ruTorrent's shortcut menu (in smaller Web app font, beneath). One click of the mouse dismisses the Firefox menu.

I would like to know (1) how to get the command key and the control key to work normally within the ruTorrent webapp or, at the very least, (2) how to disable shortcut menus on the Firefox layer.


texts: Can I reduce the time to display the list of running windows when clicking and holding the icon of a running application in the dock?

texts: When you click and hold the icon of a running application in the OS X dock you get a list of current app windows that you can pick from.  The list of windows appears after some time interval.  Is there a way to reduce this interval?


texts: Can I make my Mac re-adjust to the original brightness when I plug my power cord back in?

texts: When I unplug the power cord from my mac, the brightness dims to save power. When I plug the cord back in, it stays dim rather than going back to the original brightness level. Can I change it so that it will go back to some default brightness for when the power cord is plugged in?


texts: My iPhone storage only has 16gb but i buy 50gb iCloud storage

texts: Is there any way that i could store stuff on the iCloud and not have it stored on the phone storage? Coz i feel like i bought the iCloud storage for nothing because the stuff i could put in the iCloud storage doesn't even exceed 4gb. I hope someone could help :)


texts: iTunes won't open following moving folder after reinstall

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I have MacBook Pro mc700 with OS X Yosemite installed.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to format my HDD and install a fresh version of Yosemite, so I copied all contents of my iTunes folder into an external hard disk and installed the OS X. Now when I copy the iTunes folder back into my MacBook my iTunes app can't recognize it and so nothing happens. I know probably I've done something wrong about "just copying" the iTunes folder but I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me to save my old iTunes library.
Thanks.


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I'm using this arrangement for my notebook + 24inch monitor.
I primarily work on my notebook and the big screen is used just for secondary stuff.

The problem is that i cannot use full-screen application on the lower screen because there is no way to open the menù. Usually you have to put your mouse on the top of the screen, but in this arrangement when you move the mouse to the top, it simply jumps to the other screen.

Any advices?


texts: macOS: Does activating iCloud preserve "Pictures" folder structure?

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On macOS I have my photos manually organised into folders within the main "Pictures" folder; I don't use Photos or any kind of picture management app.

If I turn in iCloud storage for Photos will it preserve that folder structure in "Pictures"? Or does it all need to be managed by the Photos app in order to sync to iCloud?


texts: Display thunderbolt is working, thunderbolt bridge is not

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I have a MacBook Pro running 10.10.5 and a Thunderbolt Display. I access the internet using "Display Thunderbolt", my ethernet cable is plugged into the display and the display Thunderbolt cable is plugged into the MacBook Pro. Everything works fine.

However, I need to use my MacBook Pro on the ethernet network without going through the display. I have a brand-new Apple "Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adaptor", but when I plug it into my MacBook Pro's thunderbolt port, the MacBook proclaims that "None of the member interfaces is connected."

What troubleshooting steps can I take to diagnose the problem and get my MacBook Pro on the ethernet network?

ETA: On the advice of emotality below, I have tried the following without success.

Plugging the ethernet cable into the Thunderbolt Ethernet Adaptor which I then plugged into the Thunderbolt port on the display.
Adding, by hand, a new Thunderbolt Bridge service.
Plugging the Thunderbolt Ethernet Adaptor into both ports on the MacBook Pro

I have also tried setting the "Configure IPv6:" drop down to Link-local only".

Also, to clarify, I need to do this as I need to use my MacBook Pro in another location which has an ethernet connection but no wifi and I can't take my monitor there. (And because it should work, should it not?)


texts: How to change a PDF's title? (not file name)

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My question is in reference to the title shown in Acrobat Reader's tab and title bar that reads "Modern business letter."

I generated the PDF from a .docx document, and the document is generated based on a LibreOffice template (.odt) named "Modern business letter", which is where the title name comes from.

I know how to change the template name in LibreOffice, but that can cause unwanted error if I forget to change it the next time I use the same template. Im looking for other macOS options so I don’t have to struggle in LibreOffice.

How do I change the individual PDF title, either in Acrobat Reader or in Finder?


texts: Renewal of App Store Developer Contract (Paid Applications)

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I've registered with Apple for a Paid applications contract about a year ago and the contract renewal is due in late June.

Since the initial application (registering as an individual) was done manually (and sent via Fax - as a Greek national), I'm not sure about the renewal process.

Is the procedure automatic?
Will I be notified (hopefully) in time by Apple itself so that I resubmit my initial subscription application or what?


texts: Single user mode comes up with wrong boot disk

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For some reason Single User Mode is now booting to something other than my usual HD partition: The disk has no /Users directory; fsck -fy takes only 1.7sec; df shows the root device to have only 3.9M 512-blocks, etc.   It is also write protected.  When I tried to fix that by (1) running csrutil disable in the previous cmd-S-R boot, then (2) running mount -rw /, it only yielded a bunch of the following to stderr:

  disk2s1: device is write locked

  disk2s1: IO failed, error = 13

(6 of the first, 7 of the second, intermixed).

Well, fwiw at least I know it is using disk2s1.

ls /dev/disk* yields

  disk0 disk0s1 disk1 disk1s1 disk1s2 disk1s3 disk2 disk2s1

I thought of trying to mount one of the others but, (1) I can't find out what /dev/disk* to mount since diskutil list is not available in Single User Mode, and (2) even if I knew, since the file system is un-writeable I cannot mount any of these into /Volumes anyway.

So ... The Big Question: How can I get Single User Mode to boot on my standard boot volume?

System:

SW: running High Sierra 10.13.3

HW: 15" late 2011 MacbookPro 8,2. I can't look up more details since system_profiler seems to be unavailable in SingleUser mode, but iirc it is a 2.4GHz [sic] quad core i7 w 16GB-RAM, 512G-SSD.

Background:

(1) Why I need Single User Mode -- workarounds for wonky dGPU:

This machine has the 2011-MBPro's famously wonky AMD discrete graphics chip problem. After exhausting all Apple's motherboard replacement options over the years, I use workarounds the user community has discovered to get the system to use the integrated Intel graphics chip instead. These are done in Single User mode, basically whenever I reboot.  Without the workarounds, any usual reboots to the GUI (simple reboot, option reboot, safe mode,...) fail to a gray-screen mid progress bar, with the machine getting hot and fans running. The workarounds I currently use come from this link:
GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen
These workarounds involve moving the AMD*300*.kexts around so the system does not use the AMD discrete GPU chip for graphics and setting nvram gpu-power-prefs so that it does not even power that chip up, else it runs full power doing nothing except warming up the room. Note that the nvram setting can be done while running from this weird write-locked startup disk. Moving the kexts however, cannot because of the write lock -- and this is the killer for me, leaving the machine unusable.
The workarounds had worked fine for 6 months or more now, tho tend to get messed up whenever there is a system update (not surprising). I believe there was a minor update a couple of days ago. Later that day a few hours after I closed my laptop, it mysteriously rang it's startup chime.  It has been flakey ever since.
This problem (weird startup disk in S.U.Mode) had me stuck for a day, trying things. Then everything worked for one S.U.Mode boot -- got to the usual boot drive. Not sure if it is something I did or if it was random. Anyway I ran fsck -fy which showed no problems, and ran my usual nvram gpu-power-prefs script and did a reboot. The GUI then came up fine, using the integrated graphics chip. (I fortunately did a backup during this time.) Next time the machine went to sleep though, it was broken again. I tried a reboot into S.U.Mode, but it used the small limited boot disk.

(2) I've tried resetting the SMC and NVRAM, to no avail. An extended HW check (boot w D key) shows no problems.  I do not have another machine with firewire ports to access the HD in target disk mode. (Glad I have a backup!)

(3) I have set nvram bootargs="-v", but everything scrolls by too fast to see what might be going on.

(4) I'm just trying to make this machine last until the 2018 MBPro's come out.


texts: How do you uninstall Keynote 6 but leave Keynote 5?

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I installed Keynote 6.x recently, and decided I want to use the old version (5.3) - commonly known as iWork '09 instead.

I have deleted 6.x Keynote using Finder, but it comes back when the App Store does software updates (which also sets *.key files to open in Keynote 6.x). I can't figure out how to get the App Store to prevent Keynote from coming back...


texts: How can I download an older version of Xcode?

texts: I am trying to download Xcode from the App Store, but it says that I have to have a newer version of macOS. But I don't have enough space on my computer to upgrade. Its like 8 gigs or something like that and if I only could download Xcode that was compatible with macOS Sierra that would be nice.


texts: Can a webpage appear in iOS Safari without any Safari UI even if someone visits the URL in the browser?

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I have a web app added to the home screen of the iphone. is it possible to open this web apps added to the home screen if someone visits a URL in safari.

i'm aware that the web app added to the home screen is actually running in safari, but i want to open that web app .. is there any custom iphone specific URL to call a web app ?

Example : i bookmarked www.example.com on my iphone and the app has all the required META tags to run as a webapp. now if someone visits www.example.com in the browser, it should detect if the app has been added to the home screen and if it is, it should open it.

is this possible ?

The whole point is that i want to open the app without any Safari UI even if someone visits my URL in the browser.

P.S i know the use of window.navigator.standalone - but it does not help in Safari.


texts: Why can't I download apps on my iPhone 6s

texts: I just got an iPhone 6s and I'm having trouble downloading apps. It keeps asking me to set up three security questions and when I do it says that it's downloading but then it asks me to set up security questions again, and if I say cancel then it stops downloading the app. I just keep going in circles which is quiet annoying. What can I do about this?


texts: Import date of a certificate into keychain?

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I have a certificate in my keychain, and i need to see when did i introduce it.
I can't seem to find a way to so. The properties of the certificates don't include that. Is there a log of keychain events somewhere that could help or anything?

Thanks


texts: How should I format a Micro SD card for Dropbox storage?

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I have been using a 128GB SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3 device with my MacBook for a while now and have really grown to love having all of my Dropbox available without using up my SSD disk space.

I've recently purchased a 128GB Micro SD card with an SD adapter in the hopes that I can free up a USB slot.

I'm looking for recommendations as to which type of filesystem formatting I should use. I started out with exFAT and felt like it was a little sluggish, so I switched it to OSX Extended (non-Journaled) and I'm not seeing much of a difference.

From what I could find, some people said that using Journaled with a Micro SD card might cause too many writes and could wear out the life of the Micro SD card.

In my case, I'm primarily using Dropbox for file storage and some app usage. I use it with 1Password, but don't do a lot of heavy operations like working directly on Photoshop files.

EDIT: Here are the specs:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-Inch, Late 2013)
2.4GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1600 MHz DDR3
128GB SSD

MicroSD Card:
PNY 128GB High Speed MicroSDXC Memory Card (P-SDUX128U160G-GE)

MicroSD to SD Adapter:
BASEQI aluminum microSD Adapter for MacBook Pro Retina 13"


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I just installed Mountain Lion, and I notice that the icons for Launchpad, App Store, To-Dos and Notes cannot be removed from my Dock — if I try to drag them off my Dock, they float back in.

Is there a way to hide or remove these icons?


texts: How to set boot device when it doesn't show in boot screen

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I'm using my Mac Pro as a FreeNAS server. FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, so I assumed it would play nice with Mac Pro, but it really doesn't as it relates to boot devices.

FreeNAS will only boot IF you trick Boot Camp Assistant to think FreeNAS is Windows and when it prompts you to install Windows, you switch the disk on boot-up and install FreeNAS instead.

Lastly, FreeNAS will only boot if you have a SATA drive connected to one of the 6 built-in SATA channels on the Mac Pro. It will NOT boot if you have a PCIe card with a SATA SSD mounted on it.

If you do everything right and get FreeNAS to boot from one of the built-in SATA channels, if you hold down Option while booting, no boot disks are shown.

My concern is although Mac Pro is happy to boot into FreeNAS today, if it stops booting for some reason, how do I tell Mac Pro to boot from a disk that doesn't show up in boot drive screen?

(Note: FreeNAS has the option to mirror boot drives, so if one fails, in a normal PC hardware situation you can just point to the mirrored drive for boot. I'd like to use this technique as well for my Mac Pro FreeNAS, but since Mac doesn't recognize FreeNAS as a bootable device unless you trick it via Boot Camp Assistant, I don't see this as a viable option, unless someone knows how do it otherwise.)


texts: iMac 8,1: where to put thermal sensor after SSD installation

texts:
I'm installing an SSD in an early 2008 iMac (8,1) which has a thermal sensor taped to the current hard drive.  After reading nearly twenty threads on the subject I'm having difficulty determining what is the best thing to do with the thermal sensor.

These are the suggestions I've seen:

Short it out.
Disconnect it and use software to control fan speed.
Attach it somewhere else inside the unit where there is a bit of heat to prevent the machine from going into protection mode

I'm most attracted to the last option but have yet to see any definitive answer about where exactly it should be positioned in that case.

I would like to know if anyone has a definitive answer about the correct way deal with the thermal sensor when installing an SSD which generates little to no heat.


texts: Calculate number of Tuesdays (for example) between two dates in Apple Numbers

texts:
I am attempting to calculate the quantity of a given weekday (say, how many Tuesdays, or Thursdays, etc.) between two dates. I'm running afoul of what seem to be Numbers' limitations as compared to Excel, though I can't testify that it's not just me missing a function.

I have no problem calculating the number of days:

DATEDIF(TODAY(),Due Date Storage,"D") with Due Date Storage being a date field and the formula returning the number of days.

Dividing that by 7 will provide the number of weeks, which gets me closer though still imprecise.

But I can't figure how to automatically calculate the number of Day X (some payments are made on Tuesdays, some on Thursdays, etc., so, essentially how many payments remain between now and a given due date.)

Any ideas? Can't seem to find much.
Why Numbers? Management's request.


texts: How to change all Folder Icons to Show the content/Preview Image?

texts:
The default folder icons are not helpful to me.  I'd prefer to see a preview image of the contents or first image.

I dont want to manually do this for every folder either, just set a global default.  How can this be done?


texts: How can I get `defaults write com.apple.screencapture` to change screen capture location in Mountain Lion

texts:
I used to be able to set the key location under com.apple.screencapture to change the save location for the system-wide screen capture facility.

This doesn't work for me anymore -- screenshots save to the Desktop regardless of the setting of location. Here's what defaults says:

$ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
{
 location = "/Users/jogloran/Desktop/Screenshots";
}


texts:
Long story short, I am using Citrix to remote into my PC at work, and several applications require the use of the INSERT key, which, as everyone knows, Apple chose to eliminate from their keyboards. I've tried everything I can think of, and never been able to find an easy way to send this keycode via Citrix.  I'm sure there are other uses for this, and I've read quite a few people's questions on the subject, but no one seems to have offered a viable solution.

I have the Apple USB keyboard (full-size, with numeric keypad), and in the position where the INSERT key would normally exist, Apple placed the "fn" key. Now, I still need this key from time to time, but what I'd love to see is perhaps Control-fn or similar to send the keycode for INSERT.  If anyone knows how to achieve this, preferably without installing 3rd-party software (adware?), I'm all ears.


texts: How to copy an image from screenshot's markup?

texts:
When I capture a screenshot with Cmd + Shift + 5, I can edit the image within Apple's Markup editor, like so:

Is there a way to copy that image (which may have been edited) without saving it?

I just need to be able to copy it within that interface, so I can delete it clicking in the trash icon in the upper-right corner.


texts: How to allow a different user to execute graphical applications

texts:
I am trying to find a way to su to a user and run a graphical applications (My goal is to run another instance of google drive but for now - just running any application would be fine). I am basically looking for an equivalent of xhost + from Linux.

Currently when I try running iTerm for example as a different user I get:

FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer

So how can I accomplish this?


texts: Save As in MS Office for Mac to a different location

texts: I have Office for Mac 2011 which seems to work OK. However if I open a file from one location and wish to do Save As.. to another location, all I get is the basic list of where I can save, but seemingly no opportunity to drill down into sub-folders etc. For instance in the screen shot the location Kingston is an external usb drive with multiple folders and sub folders, but if I click on that, it puts that into the Where box and the document is saved in the root of that. Any ideas please, Gurus?


texts: How to access/edit iPhone Contacts on computer?

texts:
I run Windows 7 (no Outlook available) and don't seem to find any native Address Book application on my computer (it is a work-provided laptop). We use Lotus Notes as our mail application. Because my phone is also used for work, I can't use any iCloud services (security restrictions)

I would like to be able to easily see and edit/manage my contacts on my computer and sync them to/from my iPhone (two-way sync), as I mostly am looking up #s and addresses while at my desk, and don't want to have to manually maintain it all twice, or log onto my phone every time I need an address, and then have to manually type it on my computer. Any suggested applications that will do this? I've looked a bit in the app store, but don't find any.

Also - my apple ID is currently linked to the Sweden App Store (I live in Sweden); if there is an app available in another country, can I create an ID for that country and have apps for both IDs on my device?


texts: What are the networking requirements for a successful AirPlay connection?

texts:
We are using devices we know are capable of AirPlay (iphone 5 on ios7, apple tv3). Sometimes the phone can see the apple tv, sometimes it cannot. When it cannot, we check, and the apple tv IS still on. What must be true for the phone to see the apple tv?

Of course they must be on the same wireless network. this is true. However our network is large (we are not in a home), and so there must be some other issues. We even checked and both the phone and apple tv are on the same subnet. What else must be true? must certain ports be open, etc, etc.?


texts: Why my mac can not access external traffic to other port except 80, 443, 22?

texts:
I can access all website with standard port(80 and 443) example: domain.com, but why I cant access example.com:3030? I cant connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL, via direct host/port to external IP, but I can connect to MySQL from localhost.

I can connect to all external/public hostname/ip, if I try this command:

curl domain.com:6030

the result is

  curl: (7) Failed to connect to domain.com port 6030: Operation timed
  out

but I can connect to port 80,443 and 21.     I can open domain.com:6030 using another device, but why I can not using my mac?

How to fix that? I never turn on firewall.


texts: Overcast app: Do Smart Playlists have a limit on the number of episodes they can contain?

texts:
I use Overcast on my iPhone and have several Smart Playlists set up.  I was using one of them to play back the entire back catalogs of 4 podcasts that I wanted to catch up on.  This is roughly 500 episodes altogether.  I had no trouble creating the playlist but when I look at the list of included episodes it leaves out several hundred of the oldest episodes and seems to start the list at an arbitrary point in time and go from there to the present.

If I look at each of the podcasts individually I've marked all of the episodes in each one unplayed and can see all episodes in each one.  If I play from the individual podcast then it starts with the oldest episode and automatically moves to the next newer one when finished.  It's only in the Smart Playlist that I can't see the oldest episodes.

If I create a new Smart Playlist and only include one of the podcasts then I see all of the episodes for that podcast.  When I add another one it to the playlist I suddenly can't see the oldest episodes from either one any more.

Is there a limit on the number of episodes that can be in a playlist?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Bootcamp Windows Partition Won't Boot After Accidentally Changing Boot-up Partition

texts:
I was messing around with the startup partition on my Windows 7 partition on my Mac and accidentally changed it to the Mac OS X partition. So when I boot the Windows 7 partition it says the error message "Missing Operating System". This error also shows up when I try to boot the Windows 7 DVD from the Mac drive selector screen. My question is how do change the boot partition on my Windows 7 partition if the partition won't even boot? I really don't want to install a new Windows 7 partition.

Mac Specifications:
Type: Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
Processor: 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Software: OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)


texts:
When I open apps like Textedit, Preview or MS-Word in Lion - they also open documents that were open last time I closed the application.

Is there a way of stopping this? Generally if I'm opening an app I'd like it to, as most, give me a new blank document or file...


texts: Tips for using spotlight with webpages served via https

texts:
I've started using spotlight with webpages today.  It will actually index the content of web pages in your history and bookmarks.  It's great.  But I can't find any documentation on how to use it.

My understanding is spotlight doesn't index URLs that start with https:

One of the main wikis that I use has all pages behind https:, so I would very much like to change this.

Is there any way to get "mdfind" to spit out spotlight results for items other than files?  (UPDATE: Thanks bmike, I looked more carefully on my system, and I see the bookmarks now.)
Are there any other tips or tricks I should know for using spotlight better with https and/or normal web pages?


texts:
I'm out of ideas on what I can try to fix my problem. My configuration is as follows:

MBP2016 13" with two USB-C ports
a HooToo USB-C Hub (supports 4K)
a (brand new) HDMI Cable (also 4K/UHD compatible)
a HP ENVY 27s monitor

I already know that 4K is only possible if my refresh rate will be 30Hz. I'm perfectly fine with that. But the option to change the refresh rate is 'grayed out' and I cannot find any options to change it in System Preferences > Displays.

(Text is in German - but I think you'll get the point)

Does anyone have ideas on what I could try?

NOTE: I've already tried the 'alt-click' trick on Scaled to see other resolutions.


texts:
I've been trying to run Vine system server on 10.7.x and 10.8.x so that I can login while no one is using the remote computer. As a connection is made I do get the login screen and the mouse works (I'm able to click restart, shutdown, etc). Unfortunately when I start typing the password in the text field to login in, the image freezes. Funny though that the mouse is still usable.

After looking at the logs I, these are the errors that pop out to me:

OSXvnc-server[104]: 3891612: (connectAndCheck) Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to or launch Window Server before login.
OSXvnc-server[104]: Window Server is not available

I searched the vine forums and looks like this issue was supposed to be solved with the 4.01 release which I'm using. And unfortunately the forums are proving to be a dead end.

I've googled this with no luck. Even started playing with Vines keyboard and hardware settings. Any help or a nudge in a certain direction would be great.


texts:
I am very new to macOS, knowing Ubuntu a little bit, and am wondering whether git is pre-installed on macOS or not. Typing

which -a git

results in

git is /usr/bin/git

But when I init a test-repo and checkout a myBranch, the command

git branch

results in a empty line. So is there anything I do forget? I installed Homebrew before checking for git, so maybe this causes some interdependencies?


texts: Yosemite volume up and down doesn't make a feedback sound

texts: Instead of playing a sound when volume up/down is pressed on the keyboard it now plays a sound when you hold down SHIFT + Vol Up / Vol Down.  How does one configure it to work like it did before?


texts: iPhone: How to restore and update without using iTunes or iCloud

texts:
I decided to delete an existing iCloud account on my new iPhone SE which my deceased mom left me. After successful deletion, i changed password and forgot it. Now "iPhone is disabled connect to iTunes" is he only display i see. But whenever I connect to iTunes and software update begins to download, it pauses. And instead of resuming the download, it stops even if it is 99 % done and starts all over again.

I'm unable to pause download on iTunes and this is killing me because the file is too large for me to afford mobile data or Wi-Fi for.

Please help me with any other alternative aside using iTunes or iCloud. i have no iCloud account on my iPhone SE and i deleted the existing one.

How can I restore and update my iPhone SE without using iCloud or iTunes?


texts:
tl;dr How can I tell iTunes to not back up my old iPhone 3GS when I plug it into iTunes

I have an iPhone 4S, and an old 3GS I'm using as an iPod touch.  I asked the salesperson at the apple store whether having my old iPhone backing up in iTunes would cause problems, since iTunes only stores one backup.  She said probably, and that I should set iTunes to stop backing up my old phone when I plug it in to sync.

a) Is this correct, that a backup of my old 3GS will overwrite my last backup of my new 4S?

b) Is there a way to turn backups off for a specific device (short of just remembering to click the X when the backup starts)?


texts: Can I disable Mac sleep mode even when lid is closed?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid?

I have a Macbook Pro (early 2011) with Mountain Lion installed.

Is there a way to prevent my Mac from going to sleep even on lid close?


texts: Free OS X solution for getting screenshots, cropping and annotating them

texts:
I am looking for a simple/fast, free solution that will allow me to get screenshots from different windows, crop areas that are interesting to me and adding some comments to them.

It's main use case would be to track UI changes in applications, so it would be a good idea to support layers.

On Windows I was using Paint.NET but this is not available on OS X. Also, do not recommend GIMP, it's free but not simple and loads really slowly.


texts: How to configure the category gridlines in Numbers?

texts: Below are two charts with and without gridlines. Obviously the one with gridlines isn't very useful. I would like to just have a gridline every 10 years or something like that. How do I do that?


texts: Disable the annoying menu close timeout in Mac OS X

texts:
I've discovered a really annoying but apparently intentional behavior in Mac OS X where if you open a menu in the typical click-and-release fashion, if the menu takes too long to appear (e.g. if it has to do some computing), the menu will immediately close again as soon as it appears.

It's incredibly frustrating. I can only imagine it has something to do with supporting the archaic click-and-hold menus that the original Mac OS had.

Does anyone know how to disable this timeout so the menu won't close as soon as it appears?


texts: How do I show content of hidden password boxes?

texts:
About 1 year ago, I set up FTP access on a webserver that's being used for our client. The project temporarily stopped and is just resuming now. I need to set up the same FTP access on another computer. I already forgot the password we used for it before and I can't seem to locate the email detailing the server info. Our server admin is currently unreachable so I have to come up with a solution myself.

I am looking for a tool similar to this one, but for OS X 10.6.8.

If it helps any, the FTP client I used is Transmit.


texts: What options are available to _losslessly_ trim mp4/m4v video on 10.8 or above?

texts:
I have some DRM-free m4v video that I would like to edit by trimming here and there.

QuickTime X  ($0)

Pros:  free, built-in to OS X
Cons:  selector to choose 'start' and 'end' times is not very easy to use to get precise in/out

iMovie ($15, or free if you have bought a recent Mac)

Pros: free
Cons: can't handle mp4/m4v directly, has to be re-encoded [I believe]

QuickTime 7 Pro ($30)

Pros: Can make very precise (to the frame) edits
Cons: saves only as .mov not .mp4/.m4v

SimpleMovieX ($40)

Pros: claims to be able to do this (although I tried the demo and found the UI so terrible I can't even verify if it works, and if it does, if it does anything that QuickTime X cannot)
Cons: appears to be 'abandonware' as it hasn't even seen a minor update in well over a year, MacUpdate reviews are nearly entirely negative, going back to 2009, including slow- or no- responses from the developer.

Are there other good options out there*? If so, what are they, and what are their pros/cons?

* I specified "good" because Google is useless for topic as the results are littered with sites offering “reviews” of software that by some mere coïncidence they also happen to sell. (Most of the sites and most of the software appear very similar as well.) There's clearly a lot of crap out there


texts: PDF Reader for MacOS with font size cutomization

texts:
Very often the font size in pdf files is too small. To read the document one has to continuously scroll and zoom the document, which I find really annoying, especially when several windows are opened. On the other hand in ebook readers (e.g. Kindle) there is the possibility to change the font size of a pdf file.

Do you know whether there is any pdf reader software for macOS that has this feature?


texts: Problem re-assembling front cover clips on an iMac 5,1

texts:
I had to pull my iMac apart in order to extract a CD from the drive.  I have it all back together now except for getting the front cover on.  I am being defeated by the clips at the top inside of the cover.

I have looked online and all I can find are instructions on how to disassemble my iMac (which includes shoving a credit card up the airflow slot at the back of the iMac in order to release the clips).  The only advice I have seen about re-assembling is basically

  follow the disassembly steps in reverse order

But this isn't working for me for these clips.  Is there some secret/trick to clicking these clips into place when re-assembling an iMac 5,1


texts: How do I interpret the output of Mac's 'sample' tool

texts:
I have a process that is running on OS X which has some problems and the 'sample' tool on the Mac seems like the best way to debug the problem. Unfortunately, the only documentation I can find for it is the man page which says nothing about how to interpret the results.

Are there any good places that document the output and how to interpret it? If not, can someone give me a very basic tutorial?


texts: How can I find my saved Instagram web password in Terminal?

texts:
Let say I've saved my Instagram password for the account "xxx". I know I could find this password using Keychain Access, but is there a way to do this in Terminal?

I've tried things like:

security find-internet-password -gs www.instagram.com

but this didn't yield the password.


texts: Trackpad gesture to open the widget sidebar?

texts: What is the exact touchpad gesture to open the widget sidebar?


texts: iCloud duplicating folders & files can not be opened (macOS Catalina)

texts:
I have my documents folder on iCloud. Since installing Catalina folders have been multiplying. The original folder (e.g., Articles) has spawned duplicate copies (Articles 2 and Articles 3).

The original folder is empty, the duplicates contain files, but rarely (maybe even never) the same set of files. Usually the item count in the 2nd instance of the folder is one less that the 3rd instance. The duplicate folders also exist on iCloud.

When I attempt to open a file through Finder I'm ignored - double-clicking on the file produces no result. If I try open filename in Terminal I at least get an error message "The file filename does not exist."

Any idea of what is going on? And how to fix it?


texts: Best method to disable Radeon card in 2011 MacBook Pro?

texts:
LangLangC has given a very detailed answer as to how to disable the discrete Radeon graphics card in a 2011 MacBook Pro.  It seems to be highly regarded, because it got a +97 score:

GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen

But there is also a Mac app called gfxCardStatus, which allows one to "Manually switch to Integrated Only or Discrete Only mode to force one GPU on or the other":

https://gfx.io/

Does LangLangC's method have any advantages over simply using gfxCardStatus?


texts: How to move iPhoto library to external drive

texts:
I'm needing to free up space on my Mac and I have a migrated iPhoto library of 178 GB that I would like to move to an external drive as I'm too scared to delete it. However, it won't let me move it across to the hard drive - it just pings back to it's location.

Looking for advice please on what to do with this iPhoto library.


texts: copy/paste of large amount of text to terminal leads to scrambled/missing characters

texts:
I work with TextMate and R over the terminal.
When pasting a lot of code (CMD+C/CMD+V, e.g. 60 lines) it sometimes happens that few characters in the code are scrambled, which then leads to error messages and wrong code execution.

For example:

  col <- ifelse(...

is turning into

  col < col < cse(...

or

  onlyDF

is turning into

  oalyDF

These character-replacements seem very random and it is difficult to predict when it happens.

The problem is also described here for iterm2:
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3160

The explanation provided there is that it is a bug in bash that can lead to buffered input to get lost due to paste speed.

Has anyone experienced these problems and found a work-around for the native terminal app in Mac OS? (e.g. by modifying the paste speed, if that is possible in terminal)


texts: Does Sophos Antivirus work correctly on Lion with (legacy) FileVault enabled?

texts:
Some time ago, I installed Sophos Antivirus on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard and came up against the "computer stops responding after reboot, with Sophos Antivirus installed and FileVault enabled" issues. This required me to forcibly power-off the computer by holding down the power button on every restart and having to boot into single user mode to manually remove the application files before I could use the computer again.

Has the situation changed with the latest version of Sophos Antivirus (version 8 at time of writing). Is anyone successfully using it on Lion with (legacy) FileVault enabled? I'd like to try again, but would obviously prefer not to encounter the above problems.


texts: Why won't my MBP connect to Personal Hotspot via wifi?

texts:
I have not been able to connect my retina Macbook Pro to my iPhone 5s Personal Hotspot since upgrading to OSX 10.10 (Yosemite).

While I can see the phone in the list of wifi APs under
the "Personal Hotspot" sub-list, attempting to connect to it fails every time, even though the devices are only about two feet from each other.

• I attempted to "forget" the AP and re-add it, but this did not resolve the issue.

• My provider is Verizon.


texts:
I've done this once and I'm trying to do it on a new computer and I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

I have a ruby script in my user folder named forecast.rb. I have set it to executable (a+x). It writes a line out to another file called .weather.txt.

I want to run forecast.rb every 5 minutes.

I have a plist file named com.jwhite.forecast_tmux.plist. That file looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.jwhite.forecast_tmux</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/jwhite/forecast.rb</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>300</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

This file is located in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. And after moving it there I ran Launchctl load -w ~/Library/Launchagents/com.jwhite.forecast_tmux.plist.

If I run forecast.rb (./forecast.rb) it runs fine. But my launchd is not executing.

What am I missing?

EDIT:

I've started using LaunchControl and got the error.

/Users/jwhite/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require': cannot load such file -- geocoder (LoadError)
from /Users/jwhite/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
from /Users/jwhite/forecast.rb:3:in `<main>'

But when I run this from the terminal everything executes fine. So launchctl can't read in Ruby Gems?


texts: In Messages 7.0.1 on the Mac, is it possible to delete specific messages in a chat session?

texts: I'd like to delete specific messages from a conversation in Messages 7.0.1 – is this possible? The messages in question originated from iPhones where you can tap "Edit" and select individual messages for deletion, which I've done, but I can't find a way to delete them from Messages on my Mac (where they appear because I have iCloud syncing turned on form Messages).


texts: Does the iPhone multi-task while sending email?

texts:
When I send a message and the progress bar is still "moving", can I simply move along and send another message?

And even before that is completed, if I move along and send another message can I be guaranteed that all messages will be sent?


texts: Failed attempt to make a partition - other disk partitions take negative space

texts: I have a 13-inch 2015 model Macbook Pro that has macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 installed on it and I was going to install Windows 8.1 manually since Bootcamp assistant failed. What I did was going to disk utility and creating a partition. It failed with the APFS error 49153 and my left space in Disk Utility immediately turned gray, which is the color for "Other Disk Partitions". I thought it was a temporary problem so I restarted Disk Utility, but it stayed the same. I then realized right under "Other Disk Partitions", it said -578,1MB, which is definitely not right. I am not sure what to do right now, and I am afraid to shut down my computer as it might not boot again. Is there any way to fix this?


texts: Why is macOS limited to 1064 or 2088 processes?

texts:
In macOS, the system is limited to running no more than 1064 processes (or 2088 starting with Catalina) systemwide, and individual users are limited to 709 (or 1392 in Catalina). Why is there a limit? Why is it this size? Why not a round number like 2500 or a binary round number like 1024?
Update: The limit actually varies in size depending on the version of OS X/macOS and the amount of memory installed in the computer. 1064 was a common limit prior to Catalina and then 2088 became common, but these are not the only limit values a Mac might have.


texts:
Apple's Contacts app has been acting up for me recently. About the same time that iCloud sync stopped working I noticed that when assigning photos to contacts, they don't stay saved. They appear to be saved at first but when returning to the same contact card a minute later or so, the photo is gone.

Is anyone else having this issue? Any ideas how to fix it? I'm using macOS 10.13 on a 2017 MacBook Pro and iOS 11 on an iPhone 7.


texts: AppleScript choose file with Terminal action

texts:
I would to choose a file/an image that is being mounted in the Terminal

set pathelection to POSIX path of (choose file of type {"sparsebundle", "sparseimage", "dmg"})

do shell script "hdiutil mount" & " " & pathelection


texts: Ipad keyboard menu bottom of screen while typing

texts: Someone please tell me what this keyboard menu thing is that appears every time I start typing—-and how to TURN IT OFF. I’m using an IPad Air 4 with a Logitech folio touch keyboard. But it shows up without the keyboard too, so not sure if the hardware matters. See photo attached. It covers things up and I don’t every use it to switch between keyboard types. Don’t want it there ever. Thanks in advance.


texts: How does an Apple device gets recognized as external storage on PC?

texts:
When I connect any apple device to my PC - it gets recognized as an external storage and I can access all the files (Update:Not all the files - but just pictures) on the device.

How is this possible? Do all the laptops and desktop motherboards come with an Apple authentication chip and drivers ?

I am working on a device which needs to read music files from Apple devices - so I am wondering whether I need to apply for MFI program. If the apple devices work as generic USB device without any chip and special drivers, then it serves my purpose.


texts: A MacOS app to backup All Photos in iCloud to External Drive

texts:
I have more than 140 GB of photos & videos.  On my Mac I have only 256 GB of storage so I chose "Optimize Mac Storage" to make more room.

I have a NAS with a lot of available storage (it has apps for my Apple TV).  My internet connection is not great here so I would like to be able to extract the photos and videos from my Mac and into a common format on an external or network drive.

I can write a script or a Swift program to do this work but I do not have a clue how to approach a resolution. I also looked at SQLite file of Photos, which can be queried with sqlite3 program an used the following query: SELECT imagePath FROM RKMaster but it does not contain all the photos since I did not Download everything to my Mac.


texts: Triggering Launch Agents for path in sandboxed app using WatchPaths does not work

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I am trying to create a user LaunchAgents that will trigger a script when a path managed by a sandbox app will change (in my case, when /Library/Containers/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus3/Data/Library/Application\ Support/OmniFocus/OmniFocus.ofocus will change).

For this, I want to use the WatchPaths key of launchd, I already tried with a Folder Action, but those are limited to file addition in a folder.

I have made a working test to listen on a file and folder in my home directory and trigger a notification. e.g.:

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=“1.0”>
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>me.mayeu.helloworld</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier</string>
            <string>-message</string>
            <string>Test</string>
        </array>
        <key>WatchPaths</key>
        <array>
                <string>/Users/me/watchtest/</string>
        </array>
</dict>
</plist>

This works well for whatever changes happen under the watchtest folder.

But when I replace the WatchPaths key with the OmniFocus database, this does not work anymore (no notification are triggered):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>me.mayeu.script.OmniListen</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier</string>
      <string>-message</string>
      <string>Test</string>
    </array>
    <key>WatchPaths</key>
    <array>
      <string>/Users/me/Library/Containers/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus3/Data/Library/Application\ Support/OmniFocus/OmniFocus.ofocus</string>
    </array>
  </dict>
</plist>

I have a feeling that this is due to the sandboxing of the app. But I can't find any documentation about that.

I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.2.


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