texts: MacBook Pro: DNS works but not ping, http, or https

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Approximately twenty hours ago, I shut down my MacBook Pro and got on a plane.  At home, everything was working.  Now, at my sister’s house, I cannot get anything in Safari nor by ping.

Ping gets “no route to host” for any name or IP address, even when I ping the IP address of the DNS server that successfully resolved the other host names.

To make sure the DNS wasn’t cached, I rebooted, and tried a hostname I knew hadn’t been used in months.  The name was resolved, but still, “no route to host.”

It’s not my sister’s router, because I get the same thing when I switch to my iPhone’s hotspot.

It’s not any of the remote hosts, because they are working for the iPad and for my sister.

When I use Fing (a network scanner) on the iPad to examine the network, I see that everything is on 10.0.0.x including a Cisco router.

My iPad and iPhone and her Android and Windows are working fine on the same SSID.

???

Could it be that TCP on the laptop somehow broke in transit while UDP still works?

UPDATE: Totally weird.  ifconfig get packet en1 had absolutely no output.  tcpdump -s 500 -v -I en1 also did nothing for about a minute, even though I tried a ping in another window (which also did nothing).  But then tcpdump started rolling, and it was fairly plain that both sides were trying to do lots of IPv6.  Going back to the settings, it had changed itself back to manual.  I kept changing it to DHCP, but every time I did anything, it changed back to manual.  Eventually, without knowing what I had done differently, it stayed on manual and then everything worked.  And the router is definitely 10.0.0.1.  SMH.


texts: File not found: file is in ~/Library but not on 'This Mac'

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A program i run cannot find a specific file. The file is right there where it is supposed to be. When i use Finder to locate it:

it is found if i tell it to look in ~/Library
it cannot be found when i tell it to look in 'This Mac'

Surely ~/Library is on 'This Mac', so everything in it is also on 'This Mac'?

It is not a matter of user rights, the file cannot be found looking in /Users/myname. I have used chmod to set the rights: -rwxr-xr-x
Other files of this type, at the same location are found without a problem. Is there some invisible OSX setting i am missing?

The program is latex, the file is a .bst file, located in its own directory in the ~/Libraray/texmf/tex/latex/ directory. I'm still running OSX 10.5.8.


texts: Drive speeds ... PCIe vs external thunderbolt SSD

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I have a new 2014 MacBook Pro with 1TB internal PCIe SSD.
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is reporting read/write speeds of over 900MB/s.

I am debating whether to swap this machine for a 512GB one (saving $500) and using an external Thunderbolt SSD drive, which would be cheaper and more practical.

My questions are:

Is that 900MB speed realistic? Seems incredibly fast.
Could an external Thunderbolt SSD be that fast? Theoretically Tb can do 10Gb/s ~ 1200 MB/s...


texts: Single thick green/red vertical line on iMac display

texts: I started seeing a single green/red color line on my iMac. Is it a common problem? How can I fix it. It also vanishes after some time but comes back again. Any ideas?


texts: Which memory upgrade gives a faster Mac Mini?

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A friend is upgrading a 2007 Mac Mini with 1GB of RAM.

This model can support up to 4GB or RAM installed, but will only use a maximum of 3GB. So, his options are to install 2 x 1GB, 2 x 2GB, or 1 x 1GB + 1 x 2GB DIMMS.

I see notes saying matched memory is faster. It's hard for me to believe that having 2GB matched would be better that 3GB when running Lion. But does 2 x 2GB count as "matched" in this case? Has anyone ever actually tested?


texts: Configuring SSD over-provisioning on Mac OSX

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I'm in early investigation stages of adding a SSD drive to my MacPro.

Fragmentation problems can lead to serious performance problems on an SSD.  There are a couple answers to this problem:

TRIM - which is out because Apple has seen fit to disable it on non-Apple drives. I don't care to argue whether Apple did this out of greed or over-cautious technical concerns.  I'm not wild about hacking a kext to allow code that wasn't tested against my drive model to stand between my data and non-volatile storage.
Drive-based Garbage Collection (GC) - some drives are quite good at this given adequate over-provisioned scratch space.

How can I set the over-provisioning on a drive?  Is it as simple as partitioning the disk and leaving a portion of the disk unallocated? Is a specific partition table type required?

Solutions ranging from Disk Utility to fdisk are acceptable.

I can also be convinced that it's not necessary, but I'm still interested in the technical "how-to" of allocating extra over-provisioned space.


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I have a RAID 5 solution with 4 disks of 2TB. That gives me 6TB disk space. Now Disk Utility tells me that my actual usage is 3,5TB and I have 2.5TB free space. But when I add up the disk usage of the individual folders then this does add up to 2TB. So there is a gap of 1.5TB.

I have deleted a very large folder recently. Could that explain it ? That disk utility is not reporting the actual situation ?

EDIT: I have downloaded OmniDiskSweeper and this app gives this list of my disk group:

So my folders add up to 2.0TB. Here is the disk info that my MAC gives me:

As far as I can tell I see a difference of 1.5TB. I am no techie so I cannot explain this.


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I have an IDE open with multiple instances. I want to close a specific instance.
I tried ctrl + w but that just closed a specific tab on that instance.
What's the easiest way to close a specific instance in one fell swoop? I could drag my mouse to the red cross on the top left but I'm looking for a faster way


texts: Splitting large files over multiple DVDs

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I have an installer file 6GB in size, and I need to burn it to DVD, but I only have single layer (4.7GB capacity) media.

How can I split this big file into pieces that will fit on my media?

I am thinking of making an ISO, is this the correct approach?

I only want free or open source solution please.


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Kryptonite has the ability to read my PIN from my phone, but recently after I push to GitHub there is a prompt:

Enter PIN for 'Kryptonite iOS':

All I have to do is press enter, but this is an extra step that didn't use to exist.
How can I get rid of this, so it just automatically reads my PIN from my phone? Pressing enter doesn't add any security and the few times I pushed to GitHub and then realized 5 minutes later I never pressed enter is pretty aggravating. FYI, I'm not using Bitbucket.


texts: Unable to complete first backup to iCloud due to lack of space

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I have always backed up my iPhone through iTunes but I decided to use iCloud now as well. I only have the free iCloud plan with 5 GB of storage (of which 4.5+ GB free), and I'm attempting to backup an iPhone 7 with iOS 11.0.

I tried enabling iCloud backup but I got back the message: "This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available."

According to this fairly old Ask Different answer and this Apple support document, there should be a "Choose Data to Back Up" option to allow me to disable specific items to backup (e.g. camera roll which should be enough to allow my backup to proceed). Unfortunately I can't see this option when following the Apple support document's steps for iOS 11. When going into Settings -> my name -> iCloud -> Manage Storage -> Backup, this is the screen that shows up:

According to the support document I should now select the iPhone I want to backup, but as can be seen, there is no such option. I speculate this is because I never completed any backups at all. Thus I can't tick off items taking up lots of space to get the backup to complete for the first time.

How do I access the list of items to back up, so I can tick off some items to get the backup small enough to fit the available space?


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I use catalina 10.15.6 and Mamp 5,7 (396)
If send mail with mamp the message does not go.
I would like to see what is happening in mail.log but I cannot find it.
Where mail.log in Catalina ?
I use thunderbird 68.11.0 (64 bits)


texts: After closing the lid Mac didn't ask for password

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This is super scary. Yesterday I closed my MacBook's lid in the evening. The next morning I opened the lid and my MacBook didn't ask me for my password. I was already logged in.

This seems like a bug, but how can I trust that my Mac to lock my user when I close the lid? I think I will have to logout which is annoying. Has anyone experienced this before?


texts: Headphone Jack works, but only produces low sound

texts: The sound works, but only produces a low sound. Additionally, I have check the system preference's sound section, and checked the output, mute check, and made sure the headphones were chosen as the output. However still emits low sound. Is the jack damaged in some way and how can I fix it?


texts: How do I edit the commands in full keyboard access on internal keyboard

texts: My phone won’t allow me to change the keyboard shortcuts. Is it possible to change them without aN external keyboard being connected?


texts: Is region-specific blocking built-in to MacOS more extensive than a few emoji?

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This answer to the question

  Can't see this emoji  on macOS

provides some insight into two ways that seeing a particular emoji will be blocked by macOS in some cases:

  The device (Mac or iOS device) is bought from mainland China, determined by hardware serial number
  The "Region" setting is set to China

Is it known if this kind of region-specific blocking is limited to a few emoji, or is it more extensive in some cases?

I'm looking ideally for an answer that's backed up with an authoritative source of some kind. Not anecdotal experiences or guesses.


texts: Can I use an aux cable with inline volume controls with Android? Want EarPods inline volume controls to work

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Sorry for the super long title. I just wanted to make myself clear.

I want to forgo the EarPods' built-in inline volume controls, play/pause button and mic, and transfer those over to an aux cable with inline controls.

I would connect this aux cable to my Android phone and be able to control volume, playback, and use the microphone without issue.

Is this possible? I've never heard of anyone trying it before, so I'm curious. I'm rather attached to my EarPods and would like to use them fully with Android. Haven't found a adapter that supports the EarPods' native volume controls on Android, and I suppose I never will. Right now only the EarPods' play/pause button and mic are working with my Android 6.0.1 phone.

I know Apple uses that proprietary TRRS standard. But there are aux cables out there that support both Android and iOS inline controls (Bose and MEE audio seem to offer replacement aux cables with all inline controls compatible with both OSes). Surely those would let me do what I'm trying to do.

Any input? Thanks!


texts: Spotlight breaks on queries starting with the letter 'a'

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I've complete edited this question as new information has come in, so if the comments seem off-topic, it's my fault.

Spotlight freezes every time I start a query with the letter 'a' and then pause for a second or two.  I can kill the process and it will resume working, but this is repeatable and extremely frustrating.

It's not clear to me if this problem is related to a particular set of files on my machine, or what, and I have no idea how to go about debugging it.  Is there a way, e.g., to pose a verbose spotlight query on the command line to see what files it's looking at when it encounters an error?

Thanks for any suggestions.


texts: Find Windows incompatible file / folder names

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Is it possible to detect files / folders that are incompatible with Windows in Mac?

We are uploading all our files to Dropbox (from Mac) and we have found that folders with names like "< 2014" are not uploading.

I have found an app called Filerr but it's not downloadable anymore.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/35160/filerr


texts: Can I annotate a pdf without anyone knowing?

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I had to edit something on a pdf (I added a white rectangle somewhere).
The pdf looks totally fine but if someone opens it he can see the annotations with the inspector.

I exported the pdf as a (new) pdf, but if I double click anywhere on the pdf  it is pretty clear I added rectangles.

Is there a way to make it look like I never added anything?
Thanks

On this screenshot (a part of the document) I double clicked outside of annotations. The white rectangle will show clearly


texts: How to change photo upload size in Dropbox iPad app

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I'm going overseas and will be taking a lot of photos. I'm not taking a laptop, just my iPad mini. I understand that the default setting for photo uploads in the iPad app is medium. I can't see any option in setting to increase the default size to large.

How can I upload full or large size images?


texts: How to automatically apply permissions to new files added (via Windows PC) to a shared folder on Mac Mini (not server)

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I have a shared folder setup on Mac Mini (not server) running on Catalina. I am able to access the folder via Windows PC connected on same network but when I create a file (say a css file) using Windows PC in that shared folder on Mac, other users are NOT able to access those new files.

I did setup ACL inheritance permissons as described here http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4149

I also setup inheritance permissions on the parent holder with the following command.

sudo chmod -R +a "group:REPLACE_WITH_YOURGROUP_NAME:allow readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" REPLACE_WITH_PATH_TO_PARENT_SHARED_FOLDER

BUT IT IS NOT WORKING.

Is it because I am using Mac Mini (not server)?

What am I doing wrong?

Please help.


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We can install GNU coreutils via brew. But there's no ps in the utils. Can we use gnu ps in OS X?

I'd like to use GNU ps as it has more options and features.


texts: X11 application from 'administrator' account

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Call me paranoid but my everyday account has no privileges.

I have a 'administrator' account who is in wheel. When I want to perform administrative tasks, I open a terminal and do

su - administrator
sudo ...

This works fine in most situations, except with X11 applications.

sudo xeyes

fails with

  Can't open display:

What I've tried:

start X11 with the everyday user
do xhost +localhost with everyday user
do export DISPLAY=:0 with administrator

How can I run a X11 application with the administrator account when my desktop runs with the everyday user?


texts: Can I get live wallpapers on iPhone5(iOS6)?

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Does iOS 6 support Live wallpapers?
Are there any apps out there?


texts:
After hours of Googling I'm a little depressed with the results..

For work, I have multiple Java Installations, some of them via SdkMan, and some of them seem to found there way into the /Library/Java ...

Now to the problem: If I try to start any .jar File (self coded or not) via double-click, it just says 'Couldn't open jar file, check console for errors'.

But if I try to start the same jar File from Terminal, it works just fine.

I know for sure that my Terminal uses another Java Installation than the MacOS 'JarLauncher.app', but I can't find a way to specify the Java installation for this. Under System Settings > Java, there should open a Java Control Panel, but it refuses to open, even after hitting the re-open button several times.

I tried removing the old Java Installation files with the guides I found online, but so far no luck.

Does anyone know how to solve those problems? It's my daily work to write little .jar file Scripts to help colleagues on their workflows.

Currently installed are: Java8u121 via SDKman and /Library/Java Folder, and Java9 via normal Oracle Install Tried removing the others, but not sure if I cleaned them up good enough.

Sadly it's no option to reset the whole system, it's a company managed laptop, and I don't know what will happen to all connected Systems, most of all the ActiveDirectory Sync.

Using MacOS Sierra 10.12.6, not allowed to upgrade to High Sierra yet.


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I've been searching the last couple of days for a way to clean up the save as dialogue box. More importantly the favorites portion. There are a bunch of dmg files that are no longer mounted and should not be there. They do not show up in finder only when I try to save a file.

So far I tried resetting finder, cleaning with ccleaner and scoured through plist with Pref Setter application, to no avail. I have attached a screen shot of what I'm trying to clean.

Thank you in advance.


texts: Keyboard Shortcut for Creating a new Desktop (new Space) on MacOS

texts: How do I create a new Desktop ("Space") on macOS using only the keyboard?


texts: Is there a way to have a scheduled task that will run later if MacOSX is asleep / off at the expected runtime?

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I want a backup task to run once a week.

The computer I want to do this is a laptop, that is often off / sleeping. I would like the task to run when the computer wakes, if the computer was asleep when it was supposed to run.

Otherwise the chance of anything actually getting backed up is pretty slim.

Is there an application or MacOSX feature that does this?

My understanding of cron jobs is that if the computer is not on when it's supposed to run they will not get run on awakening, so that doesn't look like what I want.


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Nearly every time I mount an HFS+ volume on macOS High Sierra 10.13, a process called iconserviceagent reads all its files, sometimes hundreds of gigabytes. The system slows down to a crawl and the only solution is to wait or to unmount the disk.

Is this a known issue or bug or something I can configure or just fix straightaway?


texts: Setting Outlook.com contacts and calendar on OSX

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There are similar questions regarding the synchronization of Outlook.com on AskDifferent, mostly related to the native OSX Mail app. However, I'm particularly interested in connecting the Contacts and Calendar apps on OSX to my Outlook.com account.

Is there a way to use my Outlook.com account to integrate with the contacts and calendar apps?

I am aware that Outlook.com does not implement the native Exchange protocol, however considering adding an Outlook.com account on iOS seems to work just fine for mail, contacts and calendar entries, there is perhaps a decent way to achieve the same on OSX?


texts: Terminal command "open" to launch an app in a specific monitor screen

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I am using two monitor screens and I would like to use the open command in the terminal to launch an app on a specific monitor.

Is it possible to do it?


texts: How can I make focus follow the mouse cursor?

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I will often click on a button expecting it to be clicked but instead all that happens is the application it is in becomes active, and I have to click again to actually click the button.  It would be nice if this second click wasn't needed, which leads me to my question:

  How can I make it so that when I move the mouse cursor over an inactive window, it becomes active?


texts: How can I backup all my jailbroken iPhone apps saves before restoring to new firmware?

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I have a jailbroken iPhone (3Gs, iOS 4.0.1, bb 5.13.04). I want to get jailbroken & unlocked 4.3.1 , but I cannot do it in other way than restoring from custom pwned firmware, so all my saves and app data will be erased.

How can I back up all my app data and games saves to restore them after firmware upgrade?

Thanks in advance.


texts: I responded to a group iMessage, but it showed up as being a response from my wife.  She also has an iPhone, but our phone numbers, email addresses and Apple IDs are all different.  How in the world did this happen?  And how do I stop it?


texts: How to extend a window over display/workspace in Yosemite

texts: Is there a way to extend a window over one display in OS X Yosemite, i.e. to make it larger than one display?


texts: How to make Dia (which uses X11 / XQuartz) work?

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When installing Dia, either through brew install dia or downloading the DMG from the Dia site, I could run it once. On the second run, I got this:
(dia-bin:5065): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.uyECihtczT/org.macosforge.xquartz:0

and Dia won't run.
I don't know how MacOS / X11 integration works, and why it would start once but not after.
I tried to follow some ideas by altering the dia launching script as described here, but MacOS, being cleverer than needed, doesn't let me run it as the app's files are signed.
How can I fix this and allow MacOS to run it?


texts: How to use macos camera as input source on windows with OBS Studio?

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I want to add my macbook's webcam as input source for OBS Studio on windows PC.

There's plugin Camera for OBS Studio which lets me do pretty much the same thing, but only with iOS (iPhone, iPad cameras), though I don't see such app for macos camera. Maybe there's no such one yet (at least I don't see one).

I know there's an option to build iOS app for macos. But here's the answer from author of Camera for OBS Studio:

  Unfortunately it's not currently possible to add support for [macos] Catalina. Catalyst apps (the name for iOS Apps on Mac) do not support using any capture devices such as your mac's webcam.

Would appreciate any helpful info of how to achieve that.


texts: How to copy Time Machine directory when rsync can see files but ls can't?

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I recently used GNU ddrescue to save a 6TB drive that was having troubles. When I would try to mount the drive, fsck_hfs determined it couldn't be fixed (it was trying to rebuild the catalog b-tree, but then said the disk was full and it couldn't write it). The drive would then mount read-only, and I found that I would get an input-output error if I tried to ls into my Time Machine backup directory. After trying many things that didn't work, I decided to just ddrescue it to a 6TB .dmg, which did work with no bad sectors.

So, now I have a 6TB .dmg image of the drive, and I find that it has the same issues: fsck_hfs thinks it cannot be fixed, and it gives input/output error when trying to ls into the Time Machine directory. I subsequently formatted the external drive, and it seems to be fine, so I think it was never a hardware issue.

I found out that although ls doesn't like the Time Machine directory, rsync seems fine with it. When I try to sync the directory to a new disk with rsync -avhHW --progress <image> <dest>, the output lists all the files I expect, and I can successfully see them appearing on the destination. However, this doesn't seem to work for copying a Time Machine directory, because the size balloons on the destination. rsync used to have --hfs-compression and --protect-decmpfs options, but they seem to be broken in v3.1.3, and as discussed here those may not be enough anyway. Indeed, I find that I've filled a 6TB destination before even making it through half of the directories in the 6TB image.

I am trying to copy the files through Finder now, but it is (understandably) spending ages just preparing. I liked the idea of using rsync not only because it could actually see the files, but because it is ok if interrupted.

So, does anyone know why rsync can see these files when ls can't? Is there any way I can copy them over in a way that is safe to be interrupted but doesn't ruin the hfs+ compression or mess up the hard links (or hard-linked directories, which is what this post claims is the problem with rsync even when it did have the old options)?

Any insight is greatly appreciated.


texts: Is magsafe 2 charger somehow associated with a Macbook by serial?

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My Magsafe2 charger just broke down. We have 2 Macbook Pros in house, and I can't be sure which is which. If it's my charger, I'll have to buy a new one. If it belongs to the other macbook - it should be still covered with Warranty.

Is there a way to check if a charger belongs to a specific Macbook? Both chargers are model A1424 85W. Both laptops are Macbook Retina Pro, both year 2013 ( one early, the other late ).


texts: Connecting 2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro to Dell U2715H?

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What would be the 'best' way to connect the 2015 Retina MacBook Pro to a Dell U2715H monitor? If I wanted to use the monitors USB 3.0 ports and also output sound to a Dell soundbar, how many cables would I need?

I was previously considering getting a Thunderbolt Display, but the reasons against are:

Bigger and heavier than the Dell
Ugly wide bezels
Twice as expensive as the Dell
Uses more power than the Dell

I do wonder what functionality I'll lose though. Will I end up having to (dis)connect HDMI, USB and audio each time I (un)dock the laptop?

Would I connect the MacBook to the display using some sort of adapter, or just the HDMI port? UPDATE: The U2715H doesn't support 2560x1440 over HDMI, only using the MiniDP connection.


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I have a weird problem. Recently, I have noticed whenever I connect my MacBook Pro to my screen, the shutdown prompt (see picture) pops up and no matter how many times I click on "Cancel" it keeps popping up. It even steals the screen attention (that window gets highlighted) meaning that I'm not able to do anything at all.
Usually, it stops after a while (like 10 minutes or more), but it is nondeterministic.

I have a theory about what can be the cause. The screen I have is one of these old Apple Cinema displays (maybe ten years old), and it has a power button (touch-based) on it. I think it must be related to this. Somehow it feels as if the button is continuously getting pressed. In the Display preferences, there is an option related to the button. It's already set to "Does nothing" but the problem still occurs. I tried changing it to "Turns the display on and off", and the display started blinking, constantly turning on and off, which proves my hypothesis is correct. However, I have no idea what this is happening and how I can stop it.

Any ideas?


texts: How To Change Apple ID associated with Apple TV?

texts: I'd like to change the Apple ID that is associated with my Apple TV HD.  It appears that this can't be changed in the UI.  Do I need to do a factory reset?


texts: New MacBook had user accounts already; I deleted admin and can't get back in

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So when I get this new machine...there is already a user on it called "mac"...for my convenience they said. There is also another user already there named "admin"

well..i'm new to apple but when it's my pc, I am the admin. so i erased the "admin" they made (and for which they gave me no password for this account".

so i deleted it. now no one can log in, i can't use apple id, I've changed the passwords several time successfully only to attempt to make an edit or log in and get the message that an admin has to give his username and password....but i made myself the admin!!!!! why can't i log in with my username and the correct password i regenerated?

it's been hours of trying to make new admins, resetting passwords, everything... mount -uw, rv/ etc. it is totally messed up.

and this company did this account making for my benefit...? i can't get system assistant to do anything or even activate again. I've reinstalled OS 10.10...nothing. does anyone? know if i have to start at square one, reinstall yosemite or is there a way to fix this? much appreciated.


texts: Why do browsers still not trust my internal sites even after installing the CA chain?

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I host several web services on my internal network and have created TLS certificates for each of them, all signed by my home-baked OpenSSL certificate authority. I've imported the CA certificates into Keychain on my MacBook and into my trusted certificate store on my Windows PC, and since then have had no "invalid certificate" errors pop up when accessing my internal sites via Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

However, I was not able to reproduce this on my iPhone. I installed the CA certificate files and trusted them fully, but I get an invalid certificate warning when navigating to sites with certs signed by this CA.

Why does this setup behave differently with iOS? Do these CA files need to be bundled when importing into iOS?

One thing I noticed in troubleshooting: my CA consists of a root CA and a signing CA issued by the root, and in the Certificate Trust Settings page in Settings (Settings > General > About > Certificate Trust Settings), I'm only given the option to fully trust the root CA (not the signing CA), despite the fact that both certs are verified.


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I've just purchased a built to order MacBook Pro 15" Late 2016. It has been showing faulty behaviour since the first bootup.

Firstly, right after the Apple logo on startup, the Mac gets extremely slow, like you'd need a minute or two just to move the cursor to click the user you want to login as.

Secondly, on my first bootup I created a second user account. So (User1, User2 and Guest). However when booting the Mac it only shows User1 and Guest. User1 his avatar is like a black version of the guest icon, very strange. Once I log into User1, it will show the option to switch to User2.

I've also had a couple kernel panics. (Sorry didn't save the output).

I've ran Apple Diagnostics several times and it shows no problems detected.

Any idea what could be the cause?


texts: Will screen sharing work across different ISPs and over the Internet?

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I’m just beginning to learn the use of screen sharing between two Macs.

Today I’ve successfully implemented it with two different computers on my desktop, using the "Sharing" section in System Preferences.

What I wonder about now is, once those two computers will be in places very far from each other and using completely unrelated internet providers, will the screen sharing feature automatically work the way it does when both computers use the same internet provider ? Or need I specify some data about servers, ip addresses or something like that to one of the computers ?


texts: 3rd party app to perform regex search on Spotlight index

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There is no native way to perform a regex search on the Spotlight index as discussed here:

Is regex search possible in spoltlight?

Is there a 3rd party tool that can do a regex search on the Spotlight index? Or is the Spotlight index designed such that there is no way to search it with regex using any 3rd party tool because the data structures of the index does not support fast regex search?


texts: Shortcut to turn off “do not disturb“ after period of time

texts: I have made this attached shortcut that turns on “do not disturb” and sets a timer for 25mins. What action can I insert into the shortcut that will turn off “do not disturb” after 25mins when the timer ends?


texts: Preferred sources/methods for VirtualBox images on macOS 10.12?

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I have a 2016 MacBook Pro running macOS 10.12 and I want to run a Linux VM such as Mint using VirtualBox. I am looking for best practices or official/recommended sources for an image that is packaged with the macOS host OS in mind.

I have downloaded VirtualBox, and first looked for macOS-friendly pre-built images. Top web searches lead to sources like osboxes.org, however their VDI images are .7z-compressed. macOS doesn't come with a 7z decompressor out-of-the-box. I could install one (The Unarchiver, Keka, etc.), however the macOS-unfriendly compression makes me wonder whether I'm looking at the wrong sources, and if there are other macOS-friendly sources for Linux virtual images (or whether there is another process that I should be following).

What are the preferred sources/methods for installing VirtualBox images on macOS 10.12?


texts: Audio output being trown back to audio input

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All my audio output seems to be routed right back into my audio input channel so when I'm on online meets (that is not dependant on chrome since I've got this also on installed apps) everyone can hear the same thing I'm hearing.

I'm using a 13-inch, 2017, MacBook Pro and this seems to happen independently of using or not a headphone.

What can I do to fix this issue? I've searched online and found nothing for this on Mac, only a few mentions for people on windows.


texts: Can I download all the files under File app without copying them on iPhone?

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I want to download locally all the files under a directory in the File app on iPhone, but there seems to be no option but selecting all the files and copy them.

However, I want to just download all of the files locally, especially because sometimes the files are automatically deleted for some reasons and I must copy them again whenever it happens.

The files are put under iCloud and I put these files from my Mac.


texts: How to recover NTFS volumes after accidentally formatting drive as JHFS+ volume?

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I was reinstalling 10.9 Mavericks on my dual boot setup.
I had 2 separate HDDs for 2 OS, both Hitachi 500 GB. But i accidentally formatted the Windows 8 HDD (NTFS) to Mac extended journaled.

I had really important files on it.
The disk had 3 partition (the 1st for Windows files, 2nd one was for my work files and the 3rd partition was for other files)

I need to recover everything or at least the work partition

How can i do this?


texts: Problems connecting to HTTPS websites on unsecured WiFi

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I am on a MacBook Air running OSX 10.10.2. I try to connect to an HTTPS website on Firefox and I get the message

  Your connection is not secure

  The owner of www.google.co.il has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

  This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.

When I click on advanced I see

  www.google.co.il uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. The server might not be sending the appropriate intermediate certificates. An additional root certificate may need to be imported. Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER

When I try to open a non-HTTPS website it seems to work and when I connect to a WiFi with a password it everything works. I have tried clearing browser caches and clearing history, turning off and back on again and using chrome.

I used Safari and I was able to bypass the error but then it tells me "העמוד אליו הגעת חסום לגלישה!" which means "The page you reached is blocked for browsing!" but it doesn't say why.

I don't have access to the router but everyone else whose computer is connected to this WiFi seems to work just fine.


texts: How to access WebDAV shared folder on Mac OS X Server

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Mac OS X Server supports WebDAV and allows iPhones/iPads to connect, store and retrieve files.

While Mac OS X can access WebDAV servers from the Finder using "Connect to Server" (Command+K) attempting to connect to the root of a Mac OS X server or any other assumed location results in an error:

  There was a problem connecting to the server “theserver.domain.com”.
  Check the server name or IP address, and then try again. If you continue to have problems, contact your system administrator

I can only guess that there is some special URL/URI that is necessary but what?


texts: How do I trigger Appstore check for app updates manually?

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I'm using a firewall and by default, everything, including checking for updates is blocked.

In some situations, I'd like to disable the firewall and trigger such checks manually. How do I do that?


texts: Unknown email password required after selecting iCloud backup

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While restoring or setting up an iPhone (new or old) and choosing a backup from list of provided backup in my iCloud, I'm shown to enter a password for kmward@roadrunner.com , which I don't have idea of who's email that belongs to, I have lots of data on my iCloud and this scares me because why would Apple ask for some other account password? When I choose 'skip this step', I'm given a model message saying, "you must sign in to restore purchased content" and when I do tap skip, it restores from my own account (which earlier I provided credentials).
Why does it ask for someone else's account password?

Is my account hacked?
Is my account linked to someone I don't know?
Is my content being distributed to someone from kmward@roadrunner.com ?

What should I do to secure and remove this unknown account that Apple ask password for?


texts: Separate zsh histories after restart (iTerm2)

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I am running iTerm2 (v 3.2.9) and zsh (v 5.7.1). I normally have 3-4 iTerm tabs opened at the same time and each tab has its own history thanks to the following settings in my .zshrc file

SAVEHIST=10000 # Number of entries
HISTSIZE=10000
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history

unsetopt inc_append_history
unsetopt share_history
setopt appendhistory

However, when I close and re-open iTerm2 all tabs share the same history (I suppose they are reading from the very same HISTFILE): for example, if I have two tabs (say A and B), where the last command from A is foo and the last command from B is bar, when I close and re-open iTerm2 both tabs see either bar or foo (depending on the latest command which has been run, regardless of A or B) as the last entered command (arrow up key).

My question is: it is possible to keep separate histories even after re-launching iTerm2?


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Is there a way to stop an app creating its own space at the back of the stack when you maximize it? I like to have my apps in the same space always but they keep jumping around to the back of the spaces stack, any help appreciated!

I'm using macOS Sierra.


texts: Setting custom reminders for birthdays in ios calendar

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When a contact is associated with a birthday in ios contacts app, I see that person's birthday appear as an all-day event in the calendar app. However, I don't see how to update the event so that a custom reminder may be set. For example, I would like to be reminded 2 days in advance.
I am using ios 6.0.1.


texts: Can I delete this recursive link to my Home directory?

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My home directory has a symlink to my home directory. I'm not sure how it got there. Is it safe to delete?

~ steve$  ls -l steve
lrwxr-xr-x  1 steve  staff  12 Jun 21  2012 steve -> /Users/steve


texts: I bought a Neweer USB Guitar cable for my MacBook Pro 2015. When I connect it and try to use it it has a 1 second delay, and when I try to fix that with different options; i manage to fix the delay, but there is a scrambling sound that appears over time. This sound gradually increases in a matter of 10 seconds, and after that you can only hear this sound instead of the guitar. I tried everything, I don't know what to do.


texts: Deleted 1 of 2 partitions in Mac OS High Sierra and cannot see it any more with Disk Utility

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I deleted 1 of 2 partitions with the following commands to merge 2 partitions:

diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk0s3
diskutil eraseVolume free n disk0s3
diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0

But I got the following error when I run the last command:

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0
Started APFS operation
Error: -69771: The target disk is too small for this operation

Now the partition which I deleted is not shown any more with Disk Utility. How do I get it back?


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Could someone explain how fonts are readily available for MacBook and iMac, but not for iPhone and iPad?

I'm trying to work with a document (using Pages) that I share on all my devices using iCloud. However the alignments and document size ends up varying largely as my iPad and iPhone do not have Calibri typeface.

Also, there seem to be no easy and straightforward (and free) way to install those fonts on the handheld devices. Can someone point me to one?


texts: How much can iTunes download on my MacBook? Not talking about iCloud

texts: How many gigabytes does iTunes occupy on MacBook? I am downloading a lot my CDs. Is there a limit? How can I see if I'm getting too close to full capacity?


texts: Tried to Airdrop a specific video (.mp4) got the error 'Failed to save item. Save to iCloud Drive instead'

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I Airdrop tons of mp4 video files to my phone, but for some reason, I have one video file that fails to AirDrop.
I examined the Get Info window of each one that worked and of the one that didn't. Same approximate size, same file type, etc.
Anyone know how to solve this?
Edit: This happened when I exported from Premiere. Found this thread that had lots of ideas.


texts: External SSD drive fails to respond after some frequent writes

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I am using a Sandisk SSD.

It has happened a few times already in last two days. After some frequent writes, suddenly I will have trouble accessing the drive.

In the latest occurance, I did not read from or write to the disk for about 3 hours.

Output from mount

/dev/disk3s1 on /Volumes/ExtremeSSD (apfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)

More info from Disk utility

Just a FYI, here is the info of my main SSD:

What I can see in the log

default 07:18:36.860460+1000    kernel  disk3: I/O error.
default 07:18:36.860479+1000    kernel  nx_buf_bread:592: buf_biowait() failed, error = 5, b_error = 5, buf_flags_after_io = 0x101, crypto = [unencrypted  ]
default 07:18:36.860487+1000    kernel  _vnode_dev_read:811: *** got err 5 reading blknum 28635 (num read errs: 377524)
default 07:18:36.860502+1000    kernel  apfs_vnop_blockmap:10831: ### obj-id 537613/537613 err 5 offset 0 size 131072 mapflags 2 dstream 2364702/2883584 ###
default 07:18:36.880386+1000    kernel  disk3: I/O error.

If I want to eject the disk, it will take many trials to force eject it, despite I have ensured no application is using the drive.

Here is how I use the drive:

I wrote up a python script which downloads files and write to a directory which is symlinked to a folder on the SSD drive.

At the time of writing this I can see a lot of errors from python like

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '10000_files/1vVwd9tQQw6DAaRCgtQB.data.FD2A0e73' -> '110000_files/1vVwd9tQQw6DAaRCgtQB.data'

or

[Errno 5] Input/output error

How can I improve the stability of the drive?


texts: I learned that ⇧⌘L in mail.app should toggle the flag of a selected message. However, it doesn't work for me... I'm using Snow Leopard and Mail 4.5. Any ideas?


texts: External monitor can't be detected anymore

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I know this is a reoccurring issue and I've gone through every forum, every topic and every blog post I could find. Two days ago my MacBook Pro 13 stopped detecting external monitors.
I'm using a Unitek HDMI to USB-C dongle which I know works fine. I've tested 3 different monitors, that have different resolutions and refresh rates, they all work fine.
I've got another 2019 MacBook Pro 13" that works fine with every single monitor; using the same cable/dongle combo.
What I've tried:

plugged the dongle with and without charger also being plugged in,
plugged the dongle when Mac was sleeping/off
plugged in a USB-C -> USB-A dongle and connected a mouse to it - both ports work fine,
restarted my Mac after I've plugged the USB-C cable in,
reset NVRAM and SMC,
reinstalled OS (with and without backup)
tried clicking "Detect Displays" in Displays settings,
closed the lid, plugged the cable in, opened the lid,
installed DisplayLink drivers, uninstalled them.

When I connect the dongle, it's visible as BillBoard Device in the System Information -> USB (both Macs have that). I've also been watching and comparing Console logs when I connect/disconnect the monitor and here are some things that I've noticed:

The Mac that works fine has some [Hot_Plug] events visible when I plug in the monitor,
FB0 both have DisplayPort driver version 1.1, FB1 on working Mac has a version 1.2 (this information doesn't show up on non-working Mac)

The screen doesn't flicker when I connect any external display, there's no Arrangements tab visible. AirPlay works fine.
Both Macs are 2019 13" Pro with the same stuff inside - they both use Intel Iris 645 Graphics.
Any tips?


texts: Creating a Lion USB Drive from the Lion installer?

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I have bought Lion on the AppStore and burned an installation DVD from the DMG file (and subsequently lost the DMG file).

Since DVDs are a bit clumsy and not available on all systems, I want to buy a 4 GB USB Stick and turn it into a Fresh Lion Installation DVD.

I found some questions about how to create a Recovery USB Drive, but I don't want recovery, I want a fresh install, like the Lion USB Drive on the Apple Store.

Is there a way to do that from the 10.6 DVD and the Lion download?


texts: Does iOS support a built-in firewall like macOS does? I don't see anything about it in Settings.


texts: Can't login to MacBook Pro because keystrokes are repeated!

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Every key I type in the login screen is repeated, so I can't type my correct password! (unfortunately my password is not comprised of pairs of characters)

I recently tried to speed up my key repeat rate via this post but after reverting that change the problem is still happening. It only happens on the main login screen after boot; if I go to switch users the keyboard works normally. Fortunately I've found a workaround through the guest account, but I would really like to know how to get my main login keyboard back to normal!

Any ideas?


texts: How do items in the 'Applications' folder get on the path?

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How does the 'Applications' folder get on the path?

For example, I installed Chrome browser into the Applications folder on my Mac and I can type chrome at a bash shell prompt to start it.  Now, if I type which chrome, I get nothing, and therefore it doesn't reveal itself: how it got on the path.

BUT, on the other hand, if I move Chrome to my own custom /opt/local/applications folder, running with chrome no longer works and neither will it work if I add this to the path:  /opt/local/applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS .  I am trying to understand this so I can get Chrome working from the command line, when installed into a custom location.


texts: What is the 'subharmonic' account on macOS Catalina (10.15.3)?

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My MacBook Pro running Catalina (10.15.3) has been behaving a bit weird lately. So, I wanted to list the users that exist:

$ dscl . -list /Users PrimaryGroupID | grep ' 20$'
clint                    20
subharmonic              20

I'm user 'clint'. But who is user 'subharmonic'? I didn't create that user and I've searched the web but found no references. Any ideas?

Thanks.


texts: Sharing iTunes account with separate game center accounts

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We have a family iTunes account. My son wants to have his own Clash of Clans game on his iPod, so we created his own Apple ID and he logged into Game Center from his iPod with the new ID to download the game. However, it automatically reverts back to my husband’s game and the family account.

How do we get it to download under his new ID?


texts: What did I do wrong - Safari 6.0.5 on 10.8.4

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... has recently taken a turn for the worse. Constant beach-balls, and after an hour's browsing, that damned Safari Web Content is running between 2 and 3GB, between real and virtual. If I leave tabs sit, Safari says it must force reload all pages.

A little memory-freer app helps release some "Inactive Memory," run frequently, but doesn't seem like a real answer.

Have 8 GB RAM in a 2.8GHz MBPro, and lately big page-out numbers. Did the RAM needed to run all this get ahead of me ... or is this all really Safari? Or Flash, which runs at high memory, but not so high as that "Web Content" - which is what? Another name for Flash?

On broadband, we used to say, Disable caches. Maybe not a good idea anymore. Or turning off pre-fetching?

Restarting Safari returns things to normal, for a while. I run a few extensions, not many. Keep machine in good maintenance. Do not have a problem with keeping many apps open. I just wanna surf!


texts: I keep getting an error on RedLaser app for iPod Touch 4th generation. How to fix?

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I just downloaded the RedLaser app from the App Store on my iPod touch 4th generation, 6.1.3.  If I go to launch the app, it goes to the Scan section and works normally for about 5 seconds.  Then, no matter what I'm doing within the app, I get this error.  Please see the screenshot here:

Plus, whenever I tap "OK", the error comes back.  It won't go away at all.
So, how can I fix this error so it goes away and doesn't come back?


texts:
i have some questions about my
Macbook pro late 2011 nacOS High Sierra
8 gb ram with 750 gb HDD
Q1: my mac performance slow, i do a test and got 2 codes 4SNS/1/40000000: VD0R-17.552, 4SNS/1/40000000: VD0R-17.546what does means these codes?
Q2: why performance slow? do i need to renew window or anything else to make performance well.
Q3: my 60W Magsafe adaptor not working correctly, so i bought another Magsafe adaptor that is 80W,will it harm to my macbook battery or there is no problem with it.
60W output voltage 16.5
80W output voltage 18.5
thanks Regards


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i'm on a late 2012 iMac (15C50) and created a Windows 10 Bootcamp installation which worked fine. I transferred it to a external USB SSD with Winclone 5 which basically worked. I can still select it as a boot target in system settings and it starts to boot. While booting i get a blue screen with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE Error.

Does anyone know of a chance to get that fixed? I can boot into recovery mode sometimes (Recovery with network works most of the time). But normal boot definitely fails every time with the same error.

Is this probably a general incompatibility from my external drive case (I tried two from Inateck) with EFI Boot procedure or am i just missing some Windows drivers?

Any hint is appreciated.


texts: I have a problem, my Dock have enabled autohidding option. And when I set for example safari maximize window, and after it open new tab or run something from Dock, my Safari window become minus few pixels at bottom (red arrow on screenshot), how can I fix it?


texts: Can I distribute Xcode at my company internally through configuration management scripts?

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My company is slower to upgrade our developers' workstations and as such we often lag behind in Mac OS and Xcode versions. As such, developers often have trouble installing and configuring the correct versions for internal development.
I'm wondering if I can legally store specific versions of Xcode in an internal drive and have my configuration scripts vend it to developers so that they always receive the company-approved versions? I've tried diving into forums and Google but maybe I'm not searching the right thing.


texts: How to get rid of re-appearing Dropbox Finder Toolbar button?

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I'm on Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and have Dropbox 2.10.29 installed. For some reason I can't permanently remove the Dropbox button from the Finder toolbar.
I can remove it temporarily using Customize Toolbar or Cmd+drag it from the toolbar, but as soon as I open a new Finder window it's back again.

If I quit Dropbox from the menubar and remove the button, the button stays gone even if I open another window. The moment I start Dropbox the button re-appears.

How can I permanently remove the button (pictured below on the right) from the Finder Toolbar?

I've contacted Dropbox, but I thought I would check if somebody here would have a solution in the mean time as well.


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I previously had an Apple ID account, and I logged in using my gmail address. Now I have a @me.com address and I'd like to use that to log in.

How can I change the address I log into my Apple ID account (e.g. when downloading apps) to my new @me address?


texts: What is the best way to print photos from Mac and pick them up manually in a local shop? In iPhoto, only option seems to be to have the pics shipped. Is there any plugin that would allow pick from local shops like Walgreens, Kodak connect, etc.,


texts: Apple Mail doesn't display the signature dropdown in new email from line to select manual Signature

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I created multiple signatures for one Gmail account. Now depending on the context I would like to select a different email signature manually when composing an email.
I created 3 different signatures for one mail account. In mail preferences, I set “choose signature” to "None”. for that mail account.

If I now compose a new mail, I don’t see the signature drop-down in the from line.

How could I fix that?


texts: iPhone won't sync with my iTunes account

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I bought an iPhone 4 online and I'm trying to get my mp3s onto it. I downloaded iTunes on my PC and got them on there, but now I can't get the phone to find the music. I click on Music and it just says that it's empty and you can download music from the store. I'm new to apple product and to smart phones all together (I know I'm late don't judge me.) Please help.

Also, my PC and iPhone have never been synced. I don't know if that's relevant, but I thought I should throw that in here. Thank you.


texts: AirPort - How to put accessories on a network using command line instead of AirPort App

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I have an application where my application device starts a WAC(Wi-Fi Accessory Configuration). I then use either my Mac or iPhone to put that application device on a network.

In Mac, I see my application device accessory if I click on my WiFi under "New Accessory" or if I simply open AirPort Utility in which case it shows under "Other Wi-Fi Devices". I then click on my application device accessory and put it on the desired network.

In iPhone, In WiFi - I see my application device accessory at the bottom under "SET UP NEW DEVICE.." when I click on it, I am able to put the device on the network I want.

Now, I want to do this using Command Line(CLI). I've already made a link to airport and I have Airport working on command line. If I run the scan command (airport -s) I can see my device showing up as a "Unconfigured Device".

However, I'm not sure how to put my device on the network using command line. I couldn't find anything related to it. Any help on this?


texts: app store wont let me download free apps

texts: when I try to download a free app it asks for my credit card info, and I don't have one and I say none but it just restarts and wont let me pick none.


texts: What available methods are there to boot a Macbook Pro

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I have a macbook pro 15" early 2011 model, which I would like to install linux on (dual boot setup). However, I don't have an optical drive for it since I replaced it with an SSD. I need some way to boot the linux installer. I have tried booting from a USB flash drive, from a partition on an external HDD connected over firewire, and even using a virtual machine (which surprisingly was the most successful attempt).

Should my computer be able to boot from some of these media I listed above, if so, are there any good resources that might show me what I was doing wrong?

I have an external optical drive that connects over USB if that helps.

Is there a way I could set up a network-boot solution? I have a mac mini running mountain lion that I can use.


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I'm trying to list the contents of the whole apropos (makewhatis) database with the following command but I keep getting Permission denied.

sudo -s apropos . > touch thedatabase

-bash: touch: Permission denied

sudo -s apropos . > thedirectory

thedatabase: Permission denied

apropos . > touch thedatabase

All of these result in some form of Permission Denied. How do I get around this or what is the more elegant way of doing this?


texts: How can I change some of the system default preferences used for the guest and new user accounts?

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I have an shared OSX machine (now running Yosemite) that is used by a large group of people, most of which are not normally Mac users. A couple of the most regulars such as myself that need persistent storage have accounts of our own with things costomized the way we like them. Anybody else sitting down at the machine uses the guest account and everything is nuked when they logout.

This arrangement works pretty well, but the system default settings used for the guest account are less than ideal. For one thing the mouse is absurdly slow and needs speeding up just to stay on the table trying to get across the screen. There are also some language and keyboard settings that frequently get set even for temporary use.

How can I set values in System Preferences in such a way that they will be the base system default and get used for guest logins?
Additionally is it possible to coustomize the default dock contents to make it easier on users unfamiliar with OSX to find the apps they need access to on this system?


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Does anyone join a Mac OS to Samba PDC?

My point is to build a single domain for different clients (win xp, win 7, mac os 10.6) with home folders and roaming profiles.

I see 2 posible solutions:
1. Win binds to Samba PDC, Mac binds to OpenLDAP. In this case, OpenLDAP requires some schemas (see down this topic). And i don't know how to manage this.
2. All clients bind to Samba Domain. Mac client thinks it join to AD, and doesn't need something else. As i found, mac requires Kerberos.

I've installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 + OpenLDAP + Samba PDC + Gosa (for managment). It works fine with windows clients, but macintosh machines don't want to bind for some reasons:
1. Binding to OpenLDAD. It requires some apple schemes. When i try to add converted schemas from mac os (/etc/openldap/schema/apple.schema) it says i haven't necessary objectClasses. As i understood it needs apple samba schema, but i have already installed own schemes.
2. Binding to Samba PDC as AD
It requires Kerberos. In this case i don't know what should i do? How should i install it: as a backend for samba, where should i hold principal base, etc...?

ps: Own mac os x 10.6 server works fine with mac clients through Open Directory (OpenLDAP variant). But win clients with Samba don't work for some reasons...


texts: Uninitialized HDD after GPT to MBR conversation, 3 HFS+ Volumes and 1 ExFAT

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2 TB External Hard Drive.

Error during converting from GPT to MBR and now Disk can't be mounted.

'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer' appears when HDD is plugging in. Files are really important for me.

I read a lot of questions and answers here, but still can't find a solution that can help. Here is what I got in the terminal using commands from some answers near. It seems like partition table is broken. Is that possible to recover or rebuild it? If there is already clear answer somewhere here, coud someone push me there or maybe give me a vector, where I should search in? If someone could help for this specific issue, it will be really awesome. I will be really appreciate any help.

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk6
    Disk: /dev/disk6    geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]
    Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
     #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

    gpt show disk6
           start        size  index  contents
               0           1         MBR
               1           1         Pri GPT header
               2          32         Pri GPT table
              34        2014
            2048  1562503168      1  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      1562505216  1326149632      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      2888654848   236972032      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      3125626880   781402112      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
      3907028992         143
      3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
      3907029167           1         Sec GPT header

       diskutil info disk6
       Device Identifier:         disk6
       Device Node:               /dev/disk6
       Whole:                     Yes
       Part of Whole:             disk6
       Device / Media Name:       ST2000LM007-1R8174

       Volume Name:               Not applicable (no file system)
       Mounted:                   Not applicable (no file system)
       File System:               None

       Content (IOContent):       None
       OS Can Be Installed:       No
       Media Type:                Generic
       Protocol:                  SATA
       SMART Status:              Verified

       Disk Size:                 2.0 TB (2000398934016 Bytes) (exactly 3907029168 512-Byte-Units)
       Device Block Size:         512 Bytes

       Read-Only Media:           No
       Read-Only Volume:          Not applicable (no file system)

       Device Location:           External
       Removable Media:           Fixed

       Solid State:               No
       Virtual:                   No
       Hardware AES Support:      No

Please, let me know if there will be a need in more information, I'll do my best.
Thanks for your attention.


texts: Why don't older Macbooks support multi-touch?

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Why don't older Macbooks (Macbooks with a physical button on them, I think up until 2008) support multi-touch when upgraded to an operating system that supports it?

They are able to distinguish two fingers opposed to one for scrolling and secondary click along with also being able to identify more than 2 fingers. Is there a hardware limitation of some sort, or is it just restricted for some other reason?


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I have successfully installed Xcode 4.1 from Mac AppStore on Lion, and restarted the machine to be sure that everything will run correctly, everything is ok up to this point. however, when I open Applications (and also when I open LaunchPad too), there is no XCode there, there is an icon named: "install XCode" (its size = XCode size = 3.5 GB, and contains a lot of packages inside it). I can run XCode without problems using either its icon on the dock or from spotlight.
my questions are:

1) where is the real XCode Icon located ?

2) what is the correct way to remove "install XCode" package icon that exists in Applications?

3) can I put the "install XCode" package on a USB stick and install it on another machine (running Lion of course) without problems?

thank you so much in advance.


texts: How to move videos from iPhone to Windows PC by cable?

texts:
How to move videos from iPhone?

I took long video and filled my memory. Now I wish to move it from iPhone.

If I connect it to general Windows computer, it appears as a device in My Computer. Inside it, I see Internal Storage folder and then DCIM folder.

Unfortunately, I don't see videos there. Probably they appear as some unnamed unindentified icons (see one above IMG_2633.JPG):

I can't drag and drop such icons.

Additionally, I can drag drop photos, but if I select to 'Move` them, they are still copied, i.e. not deleted from iPhone. If I would able to move video, it probably won't deleted too, while I need to MOVE video from iPhone.

How to accomplish?

UPDATE

Here is the video in app. How to know it's name and path?


texts: Outlook force closes because Avast finds malware

texts:
Almost as soon as I open Outlook 2011, Avast pops up with it's shield warning:

That's MSIL:GenMalicious-ALS [Trj].

Outlook has then "encountered an error and needs to close"; too quickly for me to determine which message this is an attachment to.

I can delete the file from ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Outlook Temp, but it just downloads and happens again.

I'm still pretty new to Mac - so I'm not as sure how to deal with this as on Windows. What can I do to stop Outlook re-downloading it, or how can I safely stop Avast quitting Outlook?


texts: I'm looking for an app to read my rss feeds from my favourite websites but with a filtering feature by keywords. For example every article from a website that contains the word "pluto". On my mac I use RSS Bot to do so, but now that I have an iPad I don't know how can I do that again. Any help?


texts: MacBook Pro 13" (late 2011) gets extremely hot during normal usage

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I'm using a 13" (late 2011) MacBook Pro and it has been getting so hot that I cannot use it on my lap, even when barely any applications are running. I have checked Activity Monitor and there are no applications taking up significant Memory or CPU power. The heat is concentrated on the upper left corner of the body, around the power inlet. I have noticed some bending of the body in the same area. Having had a swollen battery before I suspected the same thing might be happening again (as sometimes—though very rarely—the battery is not recognized). However, the location of the battery is not the location of the deformation.

What could be the cause of all this and how could I try to reduce the heat and (if there is a connection) reduce further deformation?

EDIT: Here's a picture of the area affected by the mysterious deformation

EDIT: Here are some temperature measurements I have made (in degrees C):

5V/3.3V Proximity: 51
Battery TS1: 37
Battery TS2: 37
Battery TS_MAX: 37
CPU Die: 64
CPU Die - Digital Core: 62
CPU Die - Digital Core 0: 68
CPU Die - Digital Core 1: 68
CPU Proximity: 61
Palm Rest: 36
PCH-Thunderbold Proximity: 72 (!)
Right Fin Stack Proximity: 51

While I realise that none of these are high enough to do damage to the hardware, the surface is already painful to the touch although the device is basically idle or performing very basic tasks, such as browsing simple web-pages. Average CPU load was around 10% during this measurement while memory was at around 50%. The measurement of 72 degrees (C) around the thunderbolt port confirms my observation that the upper left corner is particularly hot; though I don't know what parts are located there that could cause such heat. I think that the heat originates from this area and the fans only turn on once it has warmed up the entire device. Note also that the heating up occurs whether I am charging the device or not.


texts: How to make the Logitech 300s move wider?

texts:
I am using an wired mouse Logitech 300s (As seen in the screenshot)

Whenever I move the mouse from edge to edge of the mouse pad, the cursor only moved about slightly over 1/2 of the way on the monitor.

I really want the mouse cursor move a longer distance. Is there any way I can fine tune it?

EDIT:

Add screen shot of Mouse pane in System Preferences


texts: iPad still makes notification noises when muted

texts:
I've noticed recently my iPad 3 (Retina) is making notification sounds for Facebook Messenger and some games even when the volume is turned completely down to show the muted symbol.

I'm running the latest version of iOS supported on the device as far as I know.

What's going on and how do I fix it, it's very annoying to be woken up by the device?!


texts: How to enable SSH via terminal without sudo?

texts:
I want to play a prank with my friend in where I open a ssh connection with his Mac. I need SSH to be enabled on this Mac first, which requires admin rights.

Is there any other I can enable SSH without sudo or an AppleScript?


texts: Facebook notifications do not open a browser window when clicked

texts:
I am correctly getting notifications from Facebook in Mountain Lion's notification center, but when I click them expecting to be brought into the browser (Chrome is my default browser) to see the subject of the notification, nothing happens.
Instead, the notification just disappears from the notification center and I'm left there with no clue about what happened.

Is this normal behavior? If not, what should I do to correct it? I have also tried to change the default browser to Firefox but the result was the same.


texts: Would formatting my iMac fix my failing drive?

texts: I have been dealing with this problem for few months, I was using bootcamp on my iMac late 2013, and after a while its driver corrupted using too much disk space and slowing down. So I deleted it and created a new bootcamp partition but my problems didn't end there. Every time I shut down my computer its windows files would corrupt again making me redownload windows. And few days ago this corruption affected my main iMac drive too. I can repair the disk through disk utility because its giving me exit code 8, my internet recovery mode is giving me code -2002f and its startup is extremely slow ( only the part where you enter your password and log in) everything else is fine. Startup problem is the same problem i had with the bootcamp. I was getting black screens during startups. I wasn't able to delete my bootcamp partition until today because the disk utility didn't let me to do it. I deleted it through terminal and now I am dealing with my main drive corruption. I plan to sell this iMac very soon due to educational fees and I want to fix this before I sell it. I am currently trying to log into single user mode but its keep failing to mount disk0s2 and there is a small white circle with a cross on the screen. How can I fix this? Would formatting my iMac solve all my driver problems?


texts: What's a good long-exposure app for the iPhone?

texts:
I'm looking for an app that lets me take long exposures of 10 seconds or more. This can either be one long exposure, or multiple shorter exposures, like 0.5 seconds, combined together by the app.

This is on the iPhone 5s running iOS 8. Not jailbroken, and don't intend to.

The app needs to have a timer to avoid camera shake caused by pressing the shutter button.


texts: Key re-mapping or how get HEX for button

texts: i have new macbook air  13". There is "><" button under Esc. I want to rebind this button to semicolon ";". How? Or please tell me, how can I find Hex for this button, than I can change it by my self in defaultkeybinding.dict :) Thanks


texts:
I've read through a similar sounding problem here: My MacBook pro Wi-Fi is slow, other devices are OK.

However, my MCS index, Transmit Rate(Tx), RSSI and Noise seem to be relatively acceptable. See screenshot here:

This all seems ok from what I've read, however, the Wi-Fi still runs very slowly on my Mac. When I run an internet speed test my download speed is consistently < 1Mbps when it's above 20 on all other devices.


texts:
I have recently downloaded a .sit archive file.

Is there a way to decompress it at the command line?


texts: Can the Epson V700 be used with an Airport

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro, Snow Leopard, and an Epson V700 Scanner.

I'm thinking of buying an Airport Extreme or even better, an Airport Express (cos it's cheap).

Can I use the Epson V700 via the Airport as if it was connected locally via USB?

Apple talks about printers but not dedicated scanner, any ideas...?

cheers!


texts: Partition type FFFFFFFF... And "Suspicious MBR at sector 0" error

texts:
I have a MBP 2012 with a mac os partition and bootcamp partition. Recently at start up the computer does not recognise the mac os. In recovery mode/disk utility, the partition is greyed out and the partition type is 'FFFFFFF...' etc.

I've googled around, and searched on this website, and it seems I need to change details in Terminal, but the changes provided always seem to be unique to other people's particular disk/partition setups so I'm reticent to copy the instructions exactly.
I'm also getting the "Suspicious MBR at sector 0" error. I believe these are the necessary screenshots?

Any help hugely appreciated as this computer is my livelihood!

All the best. !


texts: Remotely disable Macbook Air through network access

texts:
My Macbook Air was stolen. The stolen Mac is showing up in Baku, Azerbajan.
I don't have the skill to do it myself, but I could imagine that there would be a way to do something nasty. Perhaps a script or some exploit. Something that would give some sort of notice or a flash dialog.

I know the computer still logs into gmail and dropbox by looking at the logs, so I've decided to not change those passwords as I have nothing worth protecting on those accounts as much as I'd want to get the Mac back or erased.

In case anyone has a solution I would appreciate any advice except "forget it!".


texts: Does a bootable OS X drive need more free space than the installer?

texts: I made an 8GB partition on my HD to serve as a bootable OS X Yosemite drive, but it seems to still have 2.63GB free after the bootable drive-making procedure. Does the bootable drive need that space to be able to function properly, or can I bring it back into my startup disk partition?


texts: Any trick to add photo to empty contact names?

texts:
Many services (BlaBlaCar, Banks, train companies) send SMS messages with a "fake" sender name and empty number, and the new iOS 10 message list is quite boring and difficult to read with the same icon. I've found no ways to save these senders as new contacts and add them a photo. Any ideas??

Update:
As you can see in the attached screenshot many services use SMS for notifications and having some graphic icons would be VERY useful to recognize them at a glance - instead of all that "persons" icons - but they originate from a completely "empty" contact template (no real phone number), if I click on the person icon I don't see any data, so that adding this as a new contact is actually not linked to the SMS anyway.


texts: Cannot install rvictl to capture network

texts:
I'm trying to route my iphone traffic through my mac to view it with wireshark. However rvictl is not on my machine. I have:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
El Capitan 10.11.6
XCode 7.3.1
XCode command line tools for XCode 7.3.1 (installed separately)

However rvictl is no where on my machine. Any idea how to get it?


texts: Macbook Air Early-2015 Service Recommended Warning

texts:
I have a Macbook Air Early-2015 model since 2017.
Like 4 or 5 months ago, I updated from High Sierra to Mojave. Initially there was no problem. But after a few weeks my Macbook started to shutdown suddenly at about %15 (in changes time to time, sometimes it can be 5%). And when it is closed, I couldn't open it without connecting charge cable.
Because of the quarantine I stuck at home and using it while charger is connected, even it has 100% charge, but not for too long like 1 month or so. But I don't think that's the reason.
Anyway. I controlled battery health with coconutBattery and it was about 80-85%, I can't remember clearly, maybe even more, but I'm sure it was not less. Then I did a research and found SMC & NVRAM reset. I did those resets and calibrate the battery by charging to 100% and draining until it shuts down itself.
The sudden shutdown problem seemed to be solved, but after a few days the Service Recommended warning started to appear. And when I checked with coconutBattery, it said 55% battery health. Still same value with small changes. I mean, how this can be possible? The cycle count is not even close to its limit, it just have 350 cycle. I have friends who has same computer for more than 5 years and more than 800 cycle without changing the battery and their batteries' health are much better than mine.
It seemed like a software problem to me. Before try formatting or downgrading to High Sierra I just wanted to ask you. Thus I won't waste my time by backing up and formatting if it won't make a difference.
Now I have to charge it like every 4-5 hours. And I realized that sometimes the battery percentage is going up. Like, I am looking the percentage and it shows 65% and I am going back to my work, write something in Word etc. 5 minutes later when I check that again, it shows 66%. That's odd.
I don't want to buy a new battery, I can't spend that much money right now.
I apologize for the long text, I just wanted to explain everything :)
Thanks in advance.


texts: Unusual "Size" value displayed in Finder; meaning of arrows in Size column

texts:
While investigating an issue of iCloud failing to sync on my iMac I noticed a couple of unusual things in Finder.  In the "Size" column some values were preceded by an upward-pointing or downward-pointing arrow.  One of the folder items had an arrow and a particularly odd "Size" value consisting of the text "760... 1 byte".  The ellipsis did not expand into more text when I expanded the Size column to its maximum width, as indicated here:

I have not been able to locate a description of what the arrows displayed in the "Size" column are intended to signify.  I'm guessing they could be iCloud-related data transfers. Does anyone know what they indicate?

And does anyone know what that Size information for the "ESP32" folder is indicating?

Incidentally, taking the above image with the Grab utility - which is set to use iCloud storage - immediately "fixed" my iCloud sync issue which is what I had originally intended to write a question about.  I almost feel like adding a Community question to suggest that as a possible solution to fixing a "stuck" iCloud sync issue.


texts: Possible to check out of the retail Apple Store using an Android phone?

texts:
An Apple Store employee told me that it's possible to check out of an Apple Retail store using an app on your iPhone (is this true?).

Is there a similar app for Android, Blackberry, or any other device/platform?


texts: iMac suddenly stopped seeing my WiFi network, which works with every other device in the house

texts:
My iMac suddenly stopped recognizing my WiFi network. Numerous other devices are connected to the same network (2 MacBooks, iPhone and LG Nexus). The network doesn't display in available networks list, but I can see all other WiFi networks available from neighbours. I have tried following things already:

Restart iMac
Restart WiFi router
Add new 'location' in network settings
Change radio channels in my router
Manually input network SSID, security type and password (it keeps telling me that network with this name doesn't exist)

The iMac sits very close to the router and other devices work flawlessly in the same place. What's worth mentioning is that this behaviour was sudden, that is everything as working fine until it suddenly stopped.

I'd appreciate any help!


texts: Disable password authentication on SSH server on OS X Server 10.8

texts: I want to disable the password authentication of the SSH server on my OS X Server. this should be done in /etc/sshd_config, right? But I’m not sure which setting I should change…


texts:
On my IPad i have 1300 photos and small movies so I desperately need more free space on it. My computer is being repaired theese days, and I normally keep all pictures on an extern harddisc - that is not possible to use at the moment due to my broken computer.

I now made a 'safety-update' of the Ipad including photos, to my ICloud.
1) How can I check that the photos are on ICloud by now...?
2) Can I safely delte the photos on my IPad, being abel to acces and (somehow) copy them to my computer and then to my extern harddisk later, Wien my computer is back in business...?

Tank you SO much for


texts: Unique wallpaper for desktop and lock screen

texts:
I recently got a macbook pro 2018 and was trying to change the wallpapers. I would like to be able to set a different wallpaper for my desktop and lockscreen. Googling around, I managed to change my lockscreen by modifying mojav.heic; however, that changes my desktop too.

How can I set different wallpapers?


texts: Running script from BBEdit/TextWrangler gives "tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified"

texts:
If I write a script in BBEdit/TextWrangler, e.g.

#!/usr/bin/env python
print 1234

and choose "Run" from the #! menu, I get this in a new document:

1234
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified

How do I get rid of those 3 extra lines?


texts: WhatsApp is backed up in iCloud Storage and iCloud Backup

texts: My iPhone shows I have two backups of WhatsApp, one in iCloud Storage and the other is included in the iCloud Backup of my iPhone. If I delete the one in iCloud Storage, will it also be deleted from the iCloud Backup?


texts:
I had a bug running redis and I stopped all servies with sudo brew services stop --all and installed redis fresh.
Now I wanted to start all servies again with sudo brew services start --all
but I'm not able to use Laravel Valet (a program to show a website with .test domains) at all.
I get errors like:
the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1

So that is my question: Is it bad to call sudo on 'sudo brew services start --all'?


texts: MBP Connected to WiFi but won't connect to Web

texts: I'm connected to WiFi but won't connect to the Web. FaceTime works but when I try to load safari the bar starts to fill and then stops. I've checked DNS and tried 8.8.8.8 as well as the defaults. All proxies are unchecked. I've run diagnostics and it says it's working fine. Can anyone help?


texts: Can not share WiFi from Macbook Pro to other devices via Bluetooth PAN

texts:
First of all, this problem is detailed in this discussion at Apple's forum.

I basically have the exactly same problem.

Status indicator is always yellow under "Bluetooth PAN" in Network Panel.

The status says:
Bluetooth PAN has a self-assigned IP address and will not be able to connect to the Internet.

I tried on both iPad and Android devices, doesn't work. There is an icon on the upper left corner of iPad indicates connected to Bluetooth PAN. However, there is no internet access.

Any suggestions on this issue?


texts: Device not listed under Develop Tap in Safari( for Debug)

texts:
I have upgraded the os X 10.8.5

and safari

the device not listed under safari develop menu, i need this for debugging.

tried restart the safari and reconnected the device more times but it is not working.

the same device working in another MacBookPro with safari version 6.0.

Could you please help me?.


texts: How to share internet connection via thunderbolt?

texts:
I have a recent iMac and will buy a new MacBook Air.
And I'm finding fastest way to connect internet to the Air. Wi-Fi is still too slow and USB-Ethernet converter offers only 100-Mbit speed. But both of them have Thunderbolt port, so I expected internet sharing via the port. It could be fantastic.

But I couldn't fine any way to do that. In configuration panel, it shows only old options like Firewire. Is sharing internet connection via Thunderbolt possible? If it is, how can I do this?


texts: How to force password to be typed before answering a call?

texts:
Is there any way of asking for a password before picking up a call?

The iPhone's lock screen password works for not allowing people to access the iPhone main screen, but it allows anyone to pick up incoming calls.


texts: How to attach file to Outlook from terminal using Applescript?

texts:
I'm writing an Applescript so that I can attach a file to Outlook from the terminal in the following way:

$ attachToOutlook myreport.xlsx

Where attachToOutlook is aliased to osascript /path/to/my/script/attach

This is my current implementation:

on run argv
  tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
    set theContent to ""
    set theAttachment to item 1 of argv
    set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject: ""}
    tell content
      make new attachment with properties {file: (item 1 of argv )} at the end of theMessage
    end tell
    open theMessage -- for further editing
  end tell
end run

but I'm getting the following error:

attach:263:264: script error: Expected expression, etc. but found “:”. (-2741)

How can I fix this?


texts: Battery replacement on MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011 considerations

texts:
I need to replace battery on MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011 and I've already found the one in the local shop, but I am not sure it will fit.

Old non-working battery has the following parameters:

Model No: A1322

Part number: 020-6764-A

Type: Li-ion Polymer

Voltage: 10.95V

Power: 63.5Wh

The one I found has the the same Model No, Type, Voltage with Capacity 5800 mAh, which is the same if converting Wh to mAh.

Should I pay attention to Part Number?

On site it is said the new battery is compatible with the following Part Numbers:

020-6547-A, 661-5229, 661-5557, A1322, MB990LL/A, MB991LL/A

and with the following models:

Apple MacBook Pro: MB990LLA 13-inch, MB991LLA 13-inch, MC024/A 17-inch, MC024CH/A 17-inch, MC024J/A 17-inch, MC024LL/A 17-inch, MC024TA/A 17-inch, MC024X/A 17-inch, MC024ZP/A 17-inch


texts: What can I do about frequent beach ball Safari and other apps?

texts:
I very frequently get the beachball and occasionally the wristwatch (as in every minute or so if I'm using the machine multi app) as I use my Mac. This appears in all apps, especially Apple core apps. This most often happens in Safari, but can happen unpredictably in anything. It's not reliably reproducible, though doing almost anything in Safari will soon create it.

Usually, it happens when either I or an app do something (vs it just sitting there). Neither cpu nor memory appear overloaded in Activity monitor when this happens, (though just occasionally cpu goes to 100%, and fan goes full.)

System is MacBook Pro 2.7GHz Core i7, 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 (factory spec) running OS X 10.7.4. One probably totally unrelated oddity is that the s/n of the machine never comes up on the Apple database, always apparently missing a digit in the middle. And yes, I bought it from Apple!

Solution attempts:
Extensive.
Machine has been back to Apple, who replaced system board and hard drive.
Repeated visits to Genii (Genius's?) who have spent much time deleting, and reinstalling individual apps, fiddling with plists, general fiddling, reinstalling the OS (Clean reinstalls - as in reformat HD).

But the problem comes back, every time.

I'm not reinstalling any of my 3rd party software, as I can't bear the repeated process, but also so as to eliminate that possible source.

I'm at the end of my tether, almost can't bear to use the machine (which is NOT how I want to feel about my Mac), and can't afford to replace this still very new machine.

Diagnostic questions will be gratefully received. I would be delighted for any possible solutions.


texts:
I am a PC user, I like to mess around with audio production software (Albeton Live, Friuty Loop, etc.) On my pc (not an high end one at all) I can achieve around 3ms audio latency when playing a single virtual instrument. Obviusly increasing CPU load will increase also  minimum sustainable latency.

Are latency figures on Mac the same or is it possible to achieve lower latency? Can someone provide data form his own experience?

Thanks :)


texts: Do the new macbook pro models (2011) still have a 4 partition limit?

texts:
If I remember correctly, the older Macbook pro models (pre 2011) had a 4 partition limit: so, if you tried to install multiple operating systems, you had this limit.

Do the new models (2011) still have this limitation? I'm planning to install two Linuxes, A Windows and a Mac partitions to boot.


texts: What is the need of the Facetime app in the MAS?

texts:
Looking through the Mac App Store I stumbled across a result that really confused me. There I saw the FaceTime App made by Apple. It costs £0.99, with minimum requirements of OS X 10.6.8.

I was confused because all new Apple Macs above 10.7 already have FaceTime, so why is it available to be BOUGHT?

Also, as I already have the FaceTime app why did the Mac App Store not tick it off and instead show Open? What app will I get if I was to buy what I already have? Is this a listing that Apple has forgotten to take out?


texts: How to stop Chrome’s "Google Chrome wants to use your confidential information stored in your keychain." question?

texts:
Whenever I use Google Chrome to access a login page in which I have the username/password saved in the Keychain (via Safari) Chrome would pop up a dialog box that asks "Google Chrome wants to use your confidential information stored in {some domain name} in your keychain?"

There are a few problems.
1) I'd prefer Chrome to save the credentials in its own storage, instead sharing one with Safari.
2) If not, I'd rather it to not ask me about that.
3) Failing that, it should at least give me the right credentials. This is more of a problem when I have multiple logins in the same site, and it rarely gives me the one I'd want the first few time, because it doesn't try to match the path portion of the url's (only the domain portion is matched).
4) At the very least, Chrome should give me an option to say "Deny all", instead of popping up a new one after every time I click "Deny".

Note that I use Safari and Chrome for different purposes and I don't want to delete the Keychain items. How do I stop Chrome from doing this?


texts: OS X menu bar missing after application crash

texts:
The entire menu bar (the white one, that holds the Apple menu, etc) has vanished on my iMac. In this instance, I think it went away when VLC crashed, but it's happened in other situations as well.

Any open windows still respond, but I can't right-click on the desktop or launch anything from the dock.  The dock is still there, and I can click on icons to restore minimized windows, but clicking on something that isn't running, won't run that program.  System-level shortcuts like Command ⌘-Tab and Control ⌃-F2 don't do anything, but I can still hit the Exposé key F3.

If I reboot, everything is fine, but of course it can happen again when something goes wrong.  If this were a Linux box, I'd restart the X server.  If it were a Windows machine, it would be like explorer.exe crashed, and I'd have to kill and restart that.  Is there any analogous fix that doesn't involve waiting for the whole machine to reboot?


texts: My iPhone 6 camera protrudes slightly and so does my iPod touch 5th gen, but I don't worry about scratching my iPhone camera because I know it's coated in sapphire. Is the iPod touch protruding camera also sapphire? Or is it just the same glass as the screen?


texts: Corrupted GUID partition table on secondary hard drive

texts:
I have a Hackintosh computer, with a secondary hard drive installed with a bunch of data on it. I was trying to partition off part of the secondary hard drive to install Windows so I could dual boot, and I have managed to completely ruin the partition table and I'm afraid that I've lost my data. I used the Windows 10 installer to create a partition, but it did some weird stuff where it labeled my existing data partition as a recovery partition, so I ended up deleting everything that the installer did but I cannot see my old data back in OS X now. Here is the output of diskutil list:

/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1
   1: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC               1.9 TB     disk1s1

$ sudo gpt -r show disk1

       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34      409606
      409640  3798935504      1  GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
  3799345144   107683991
  3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
  3907029167           1         Sec GPT header
$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 255  63 [         1 - 3907029167] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

disk1s1 was where my data originally was, but it is no longer recognized by Disk Utility and I cannot mount it.

Is there anything I can do to repair this, or is my data all lost?

edit: I ran fsck and it recognizes the volume type and name, so it appears that it's still there:

sudo fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk1s1
Password:
** /dev/rdisk1s1
   Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-285).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
   The volume name is Macintosh HD
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
** Checking extended attributes file.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
** The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.

I'm not sure how to mount the drive/fix the partition table, however.

edit2: so, using this method I was able to mount the disk and see the data. Is there an easy way to fix the partition?


texts: Will low power mode influence my facetime connectivity (speed and stability) or whatsapp messaging system?

texts: Namely, I have an iPhone 5 with a very weak battery, and I will form now on probably hold it in low power mode at all times. I am wondering if whatsapp messages will take a beating from this, and also if facetime will lose its speed and stability during the calls. Any suggestions, advice from experience guys? Thanks!


texts: macOS native VPN can't cifs:// into file server on another network

texts:
I have configured the macOS' native VPN to connect from location (a) to location (b), and now I would like to access the Thecus file storage server I have at location (b).

Accordingly, pressing cmdK in Finder and typing: cifs://192.168.x.x <-- server IP here.

to access the server I cannot connect, it just keeps trying to connect. Connecting from home it works, just not from one office to the other.

How can I get this to work? I have even tried afp://

Both endpoints are Mac devices if that helps.

Interestingly, both locations are on the same sub-net (192.168.X).

Is there a way to overcome this? I have a feeling that I may have to change the subnet of one of the offices.


texts: Why does my Exchange account work on my iPhone, but not Mail.app?

texts:
I can set up my work Exchange account just fine on my iPhone, but I can't get it to work on Mail.app under Snow Leopard.

I have read some forums and understand that mobile devices use ActiveSync in order to access Exchange mail and I thought Snow Leopard introduced this feature to Mail, but I can't seem to get it working.

I have tried just about every combination of settings I can think of.

My iPhone asks for a domain, but I can't find a similar setting in Mail. I have tried entering my username as domain/username to no avail.

Has anyone had experience/similar problems with this?


texts: Is there an app for OS X that can do something like Google's similar image search using images local drives as the database to serch in?

texts: Reading about this a little it seems the compute power required is rather intense, but this would be a very useful app for finding old image files, even from their quicklook previews in the case of Adobe files like INDD, AI, PS.


texts: No Keys Repeating on New MacBook Pro After Changing Key Repeat Speed

texts:
I just opened my new Retina Display MacBook Pro and everything worked fine, but when I tried to go into System Preferences to make the key repeat speed faster, none of the keys repeated, not even numbers and symbols.

If I type defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false into terminal, it works, but it disables the accented key popup when holding down keys such as A and E, which I use often.

This worked perfectly on my old 2009 MacBook Pro that was running 10.7.4.  I have restarted this computer and reset the key repeat speed, but have still had no luck.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Once iOS files are backed up to iCloud, can you access them programmatically?

texts:
Is there a way to get the same files you can find in a local backup of an iPhone / iOS device from iCloud programmatically?

Ideally, I would like to access them from a computer, but any access other than just restoring a backup onto an iOS device (and overwriting the current contents) as an intermediate step would be most welcome.

For example, it would be useful to be able to retrieve the contents of my iOS address book data every week. Yes, there are other API for address book syncing, but I'm looking for a general case where I could get into iCloud data apart from the official restore procedure.


texts: How do I prevent Facebook on iOS 7 from accessing my location?

texts:
I'm using Facebook on iOS 7. When I send a message, my location is included, and the prompt tells me how to turn it off permanently: Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services and turn it off for Facebook. But Facebook doesn't appear as an app in Location Services. So, how do I prevent Facebook from accessing my location?

To be clear, the question is not about whether Facebook includes my location in messages. It's that I don't trust Facebook itself to access my location.


texts: Anybody have a clever idea to create a system wide override to force text editing shortcuts?

texts:
macOS defaults to a handful of convenient text editing shortcuts such as:

^e moving the cursor to the end of lin
^k deleting all characters after the cursor until the end of the line
^a moving the cursor to the beginning of the line
etc

I LOVE these shortcuts. I don't want anything in macOS to ever override them. I'm trying to figure out the most painless way to force them to behave as they are supposed to by some combination of BetterTouchTool/Alfred/Karabiner override and following action via some AppleScript...script but I haven't figured out a good route yet.

Any ideas?


texts: How to easily rename voice memos in iTunes

texts:
Recorded by native Voice Memo app on iPhone 5, and then sync to iTunes. But found those displayed name of voice memos that are set when I was recording are different with real file names in  iTunes after sync.

I have dozens of voice memo. How to easily rename real names with these displayed name that I want to have?


texts: can I use time machine to restore old icloud confirguration?

texts:
by  mistake, i accidentally blocked my I cloud account.password, security codes, lost the lot.

Is it possible to use the time machine to come back a few days ago when my passwords were still working?


texts: Can't navigate to folder alias on server in the save window

texts:
After upgrading to macOS High Sierra, I can't save a file to the alias of a folder in the open/save dialog box on a server.

When browsing to the folder I want to save the file to, the folder aliases are greyed out, this problem doesn't occur on previous versions of macOS or when the folder alias isn't located on a server.

How do I resolve this issue?