texts: Can I launch the File (Save/Open) Dialog from the command line?

texts:
Bash and vim's file completion facilities are effective for navigating through a few levels of a directory structure, but can be cumbersome when working with unfamiliar directories.  Alternatively, I use a fuzzy search plugin in vim, which is effective within a project, but less so across the full drive.

What I'd like to use in these situations is the osx file browser dialog.  I imagine this would be accomplished via the "Save As..." or "Open..." dialogs.  Is there any way to launch one of these dialogs from the command line and have it write the selection to stdout?

I found this question about displaying alerts. The answers are focused on using Automator.  Can we use a similar approach to achieve my goal?

Worst-case scenario, I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to build, but I've been focused on web programming for the last 10 years or so.  Could someone point me in the direction of some relevant resources?  I imagine I'd need to build a native osx app in objective-c or Swift using Cocoa?


texts: Time Machine backup keeps restarting over and over again

texts:
I have been trying to backup about 30GB of data for an entire week now. The hard drive hasn't been disconnected for a week.

What happens is it will "prepare" the backup for a few hours and then copy maybe 500MB and then randomly restart back at "preparing" again. There is an inProgress file inside backups.backupdb where I can see that it has restarted 35 times.

I have turned off throttling through this Terminal command

sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0

which made it go slightly faster, but it still keeps restarting.

Could this be a sign of coming hard drive failure, or is it a time machine bug?

Here is a few log messages when the backup cancels:

2018-01-24 17:23:52.269569+0100  localhost backupd[2082]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogError] Failed to unmount disk mounted at '/Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/Macbook Pro 15/2018-01-24-164749/MacHD', error: {
    Action = Unmount;
    Target = "file:///Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/Macbook%20Pro%2015/2018-01-24-164749/MacHD";
}
2018-01-24 17:23:52.269970+0100  localhost backupd[2082]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogError] Failed to unmount snapshot: com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-24-164749 source: MacHD
2018-01-24 17:23:53.322938+0100  localhost backupd[2082]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogInfo] Backup canceled.


texts: opening an app in a shell script with sudo

texts:
I'm trying to open an app that listens to port 25 within a shell script.  In order to listen to port 25, I need to run the app with sudo.  So I tried the following:

sudo open appThatNeedsPort25

It asks me for my password and opens the app.  Problem is the app is NOT being run as root, so it is unable to listen to port 25...

What do I do to open an app from a shell script so that it can listen to port 25?


texts: Trying to replace volume sound in OS X to what was present before. Encountering permissions problems even as root. Help?

texts:
I'm trying to get the old volume feedback noise on my MacBook.

I have a copy of the sound file but the system is refusing to let me replace it, even as root. I found this article that also explained it step by step for terminal but even terminal is giving me problems.

I'm currently on a 2010 13" MBP with OS X 10.11 Beta 5 (15A262e). Any ideas?


texts: Why is Xcode 12.2 as large as macOS Big Sur?

texts:
Just as the title says...

Xcode 12.2 is a 11.4 GB
MacOS Big Sur is a 12.18 GB

Xcode is just an application while Big Sur is a complete Operating System. How come a macOS application is as large as the OS itself?
Is Xcode bringing in components that are not part of the standard OS?


texts: See date/time of most recent WLAN sync in iTunes

texts: When syncing via WLAN, the most recent sync date/time is displayed on the iOS device but not on iTunes (where only the time of the last backup is shown which seems to be the time of the most recent cable-based sync). Is there a way to show the most recent WLAN sync as well?


texts:
I need to use OneDrive on my systems, but ran into a snag on one in particular (I don't know how or why this one machine ended up different).  It's reporting that it can't be used as the file system is case sensitive...

Is there a procedure to change filesystems without data loss?
Which filesystem should I be using for best OneDrive compatibility?


texts: Cannot reinstall macOS on corrupted drive

texts:
The other day I accidentally messed up updating my iMac from 2010 and have seemed to uninstall macOS.
I have successfully made a usb boot drive for Sierra (the os it was on prior to this problem), but when I open Utilities in recovery mode and click install macOS, I get a “The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied” error.
I would try and go into internet recovery mode but unfortunately that feature doesn’t work on Macs this old. I would also try to just reformat my hard drive but I need all the data on it. What can I do?


texts: Open as text option for every file, regardless of what OS X thinks of it

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to permanently put TextEdit in the Open with… menu list?

Being a programmer, I often work with text files. As you probably know, file extensions are more or less meaningless; therefore, many text files I work with don't have the standard .txt extension.

Usually I use the Terminal so all is well, but it's a huge pain to open these text files outside of Terminal, because OS X doesn't think they are text files based on the extension.

So every time I have to do right click-Open With-Other-look for text editor-Open.

Is there a way to force OS X to always display my text editor in the Open With list?


texts: Folder with sign question (no issues in hardware) - help

texts:
I got a macbook pro 13inchs (2011), Yosemite.
One week ago a folder with a sign question appeared in the first screen and that's where all my problems started.
I follow some links in order to reinstall the operating system but seemed like there wasn't disk on the macbook.
I did two things:

I bought a new disk and I installed it.
Then I performed a diagnostic test in order to check if there was a hardware problem: no problems.

However, I tried once more to reinstall the operating system but again seemed like there was no disk in the macbook.
I don't know what do from this point since the results from diagnostic test (exhaustive one) showed no hardware problem at all.
Pls, help me


texts: Is there a way to quickly teleport a window from one display to another?

texts:
I have multiple displays at my workstation, and I'm looking for a way to quickly "teleport" a window -- whether it's full-screened or not -- from one display to another.

When I was on Windows, I used an application called DisplayFusion that allowed me to middle-click on a window's titlebar and instantaneously move it to the next monitor. I'm looking for something similar to that.

It is possible to do this in Mavericks?


texts: In Safari "Export to PDF" looks different then "Print as PDF" - Why is this?

texts:
In Safari (I'm using 7.0.2) if you browse to a website and select A) file>export to PDF you will get a different looking PDF then if you go to B) file>print>PDF>save as pdf

B) Looks like its using the CSS media query for print, but A) only looks like its using some of this information then applying more styles of its own. Does anyone know wheres these extra styles are coming from and how they can be overwritten or ignored by the page being exported?


texts: 2015 MBP does not boot with disk image from 2012 MBP

texts:
I have (using dd with an external SATA interface from Internet Recovery) copied my old 2012 MBP disk to the internal SSD of my new Mid 2015 MBP ("MacbookPro11,4", the 2.5 GHz variant with the Iris Pro GPU). However, the system will only boot to Recovery and Safe Mode - when booting "normally", the system eventually gets stuck at the progress bar and pressing any key only yields that "error" sound as if one would press a not allowed keyboard combo.

I guess this is because the system believes that the GPU is still the dual-GPU setup from the old MacBook (Intel on-chip + Radeon), and now fails to recognize the new GPU. However, both AppleIntelHD5000Graphics.kext and AppleIntelFramebufferAzul.kext are present so in theory it should be able to bring up the display server.

There is nothing indicating any problem when launching the Console app - except for two things:

1) a sandbox policy violation:

sandboxd[308]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.sandbox.system-policy-violation
com.apple.message.signature2: nmnetmgrd
com.apple.message.signature3: nmnetmgrd ||| ??? (???)
com.apple.message.summarize: YES
com.apple.message.signature: nmnetmgrd System Policy: deny file-write-data /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/SCMonitor.plugin/Contents/Info.plist
com.apple.message.violation_body: nmnetmgrd System Policy: deny file-write-data /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/SCMonitor.plugin/Contents/Info.plist

2) a load of watchdog_daemon crash logs in the system.log:

Jan  5 01:49:41 xxx watchdogd[875]:  [watchdog_daemon] @(    wd_watchdog_open) - IOIteratorNext failed (kr=0)
Jan  5 01:49:41 xxx watchdogd[875]:  [watchdog_daemon] @(      wd_daemon_init) - could not open connection with the kernel watchdog
Jan  5 01:49:41 xxx watchdogd[875]:  [watchdog_daemon] @(                main) - cannot initialize the watchdog service
Jan  5 01:49:41 xxx com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.watchdogd): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

What could be the cause for the failure, and can I fix it without having to re-install OS X? I don't want to spend days to get everything installed and configured again, and I don't really want to use the 2012 MBP much longer, if possible.


texts: Font rendering on external display broken in Big Sur

texts:
The best example I have of font rendering problems introduced by MacOS 11.0.1 Big Sur is with iTerm2. This screenshot shows the window as it appears on the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) Built-in Retina Display 15.4-inch (2880 × 1800). This is crisp and clear.

The next screenshot shows the same window, of the same size, as it appears on an external HP 24es Display 23.5-inch (1920 × 1080). The text is blurry with inconsistent line widths.

All applications that show high contrast, light on dark fonts, are affected, iTerm is just the most painful. This problem did not occur on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 with "Use font smoothing when available" disabled.
I gained some relief using the setting
defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 1

I tried all permutations of AppleFontSmoothing 1, 2, 3, CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled, and CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingEnabled. I could not perceive a difference between  AppleFontSmoothing 1, 2, or 3, only that 0 was worse.
The fonts are blurry, but brighter, gross, but better. My relevant settings are
defaults read -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled
defaults read -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingEnabled
defaults -currentHost read -g AppleFontSmoothing
    null
    null
    1

I also observed the problem on a Lenovo P24q monitor with a resolution of 2560 x 1440.

I have not heard anything from Appple Feedback (Feedback Assistant.app) and it has been 2 weeks. What can I do to improve the readability of fonts on external monitors with Big Sur? I am looking for a setting or software that can be installed.


texts: How to copy files to an SD Card without macOS metadata files?

texts:
I regularly copy firmware for a 3D printer to SD cards. I format the drive and copy the same set of files to each SD card, and the macOS metadata specific files always go with it (.fseventsd,.spotlight-V100, etc).

Is there a way in macOS or with 3rd party software that I can format the drive and copy the file system over without those files? I plan to do this for about 20 SD cards at a time so a single click or easily repeatable option is preferable.

I'm using Mojave if that makes a difference.


texts: A headless Mac Mini server gets stuck (non-SSH-able) after rebooting (macOS Mojave)

texts:
When I reboot a headless Mac Mini server running macOS Mojave with sudo reboot, it becomes non-ssh-able. The same happens if a "fake monitor" HDMI display emulator is plugged in. This happens consistently with multiple Mac Mini machines. Interestingly, a "hard reboot" (holding the power button until the machine switches off, and then turning it on again) allows the host to come back online, even without plugging in a monitor.

Also, this issue does not happen if a real monitor is plugged in -- in this case the machine reboots fine and comes back online.


texts: .app bundle displaying low resolution Tkinter window

texts:
I asked this question already on stackoverflow but since I didn't got yet an answer and this may be Mac specific I'm asking here again:

I'm using Pyinstaller to package a Python app into a Mac App. This is working fine. Recently I have added a GUI window using Tkinter to check for updates, start/stop the app, etc.

There's something strange happening which I don't understand. After running successfully PyInstaller and creating a onefile standing app I get the following outcome after running ls -al:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 karold  staff  62756614  8 lis 11:08 mac
drwxr-xr-x   3 karold  staff       102  8 lis 11:09 mac.app

Here's the outcome while running the mac file (upper image) and the mac.app (lower image):

Notice the difference in the window resolution, although the mac.app package contains exactly the same mac program ...

Is there something I'm missing to get the same solution in both cases?


texts: iTunes Match - i thought it gave you back all your Music storage?

texts: So I sign up for iTunes Match and expected to see all my music storage- on my phone-go down to zero Gb, so i could use the storage space for other things.  Naive i guess.  So am I correct that every time i want to listen to something on my Cloud Music/iTunes Match, that it downloads to my phone and then stays there taking up storage??  And can I, every so often,n just delete that Music storage under General settings>Storage>Music and wipe it back to zero?  Is there a downside on doing this?  I was hoping to use my recouped storage space from music for stuff like more photos or other.


texts: Automator: remove last 9 characters in filename

texts:
I'm hoping to find a solution that will be a simple fix. Here's what I want to do: Every week I have a new batch of files that I process through Apple's Automator to complete various functions such as copying/moving, etc. An example file name is:

example_20200128.mov

I would like to remove the last 9 characters, preserving the extension:

example.mov

Since I'm already working in Automator, I'd like to also rename in Automator, as opposed to using a separate renaming software. It seems like there should be a simple solution, however, I do not "speak code", so I'm a bit lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: I recently noticed that the speaker of my iPhone 6 yields an acoustic noise in certain situations. After the speakers are used (playing music, click sound when locking the iPhone, etc) I can hear some noise from the speakers for about 5s. The noise is really faint. Is this normal? Does anyone hear it too?


texts: Connecting MacBook to external monitor and peripheral devices used by a PC?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro and a PC. I'm using both, but I'd love to be able to connect my MacBook Pro to my PC's keyboard, mouse and monitor.

Normally I have to go under the desk, take all the cables out then connect them to my Mac, and it's a pain to do.

I'm wondering if it's possible to make it easier somehow?


texts: Unchecking 'part of a compilation' for multiple items in iTunes?

texts:
In iTunes, under the Artists list (brought up by ctrl+b in Windows), I have an unwanted 'Compilations' artist. In it are several tracks where the part of a compilation  box is checked when one goes to the get info --> info tab. I can go through individually and uncheck this, but when I select multiple items at the same time, this box doesn't appear in the info tab anymore.

Is there a quick way to uncheck this box for multiple items?


texts:
My wife's 2007 Macbook has a busted screen and a screwed up keyboard.  I have a work PC and she can use my Macbook Pro but I was wondering if I could use her Macbook sitting on my network as a NAS for Time Machine and an iTunes music storage.
I have a 320gig USB hard drive that I can plug in to it.
Is there some way that I can use the USB Hard Drive plugged in to her Macbook as a network drive?  Without reinstalling OS X would be the nicest thing.


texts:
I was helping a friend to do a clean install on his Macbook Pro with the bootable Mountain Lion USB disk (By holding down the option key at boot up and choosing the USB Installer) but I got stuck with the following screen.

Since Apple is descriptive about its error messages, could you guys let me know what could be the problem here is?


texts:
I have a friend who owns a iPad and iPhone, and a Windows PC. We are using iCloud to sync pictures between the lot.

What we would like is for all images / pictures taken on the iPad and iPhone to push a copy up to the iCloud photos.

What we would also like is for the devices to not pull anything down.

The issue is, he has 10k pictures in his iCloud Photos and this is too many images on his handheld device.

Is this possible? I went into the settings app and then ICloud but could only see options for sync.


texts: Why does "Chromium Helper EH" crash when I try to launch Chromium?

texts:
Every time I launch Chromium, a dialog box appears almost immediately telling me that "Chromium Helper EH has unexpectedly quit." Several things don't work, including the New Tab button missing the + symbol, several keyboard shortcuts don't work, and pages don't load more than halfway. What's happening and how can I fix it?

(Extra phrases to help this show up for people searching for "Google Chrome": Google Chrome Helper EH, Google Chrome crashes.)


texts: I'm the owner of iPhone 4. Is there any possible way to downgrade from 7.02 to one of the previous firmware versions? The whole point is I don't have and have never had SHSH blobs and have never jailbroken my phone. The ideal is to get back to iOS 4, but even 5 and 6 would be fast enough for not annoying me all the time with iOS 7's incredible slowness. If there is some way to do that I will be absolutely happy. Thanks.


texts:
Like most of you I have a very large iTunes Library with a lot of video content; I was wondering if it is possible to save the video content in compressed form(since space is always an issue) but still keep your contents available in you iTunes Library; preferably iTunes does the archiving & unarchiving automatically.

I know that having to unarchive a movie before watching it must sound a bit tedious but considering that a lot of time might pass between watches I think it is worth it.


texts: How to reformat and re-install an old G5

texts:
I was given an old G5, and the existing installed OS is locked, and I don't have the password. I don't care about erasing its whole content. I have a bunch of CDs, and I want to know how can I restart this machine so it boots from the CD and reformat the whole system. I am very new to MAC world.

I realise this is a MAC 101 question type, but I need to start somewhere......

Thanks :-)


texts: Am I able to retrieve document from time machine after a clean install and setup new account with same username?

texts: I used time machine previously and I have done a clean install to get back some space on my mac. At setup process I skipped to use time machine I just wanted to get my machine up and running and set up a new account with same username as earlier. Am I able to retrieve document from backup time machine used to done?


texts: If I replace an iPod Classic battery myself, will the music be preserved?

texts:
I have an iPod Classic that needs a new battery; the old battery will no longer hold a charge.  I've been told that if I send it to Apple to be fixed they will restore the device and the music will be lost.

My question is this:

If I replace the battery myself, will the music/data stay on the hard drive?

I shouldn't have to restore it if all I do is replace the battery, right?

I would copy all the music, but there's some older music that I want to keep that iTunes won't let me sync (something about permissions, etc).


texts: Noise canceling headphones make strange sound when I touch my MacBook Pro

texts:
I've got headphones plugged into my desktop, and a laptop nearby that I use for work as well.  Whenever I touch my MacBook Pro with the noise-canceling on my headphones turned on, it makes my headphones go nuts, creating a lot of buzzing, crackling, and popping.

I assume this has something to do with conduction between my hands and the computer, but is there any way to get around this?


texts: Why does Mail generate random new messages in Lion?

texts:
Ever since upgrading to Lion on my 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, Apple's Mail sporadically generates random new mail messages, sometimes when mail isn't even running. And example of the latest contained the following text:

  As is and is and will will will will will and me and him and him and him and him him and him near his yes and that he is and he really didn't even see you as yet your letters (and me and yet very silly. And the people in England in the little well citizens in inhabitable monies that she made 13 276 did the phone will not have it in this. Can is been secretly he felt his ear as he leaves pretty drastically as easy as he steps in and see me in stress really hoping that he can see his risk as the rent is

No subject line and new addressees. Anyone have any idea what's going on?


texts: Set default mail client without adding mail account

texts:
I'm on OSX el capitan (10.11.6).

I use outlook to access my email and would like outlook to be the default mail application. All the instructions I find online suggest that I should open mail and choose "Mail -> Preferences" to set the default mail app. Unfortunately Preferences is greyed out until an account is added. I don't have another account that I want to add to my mac.

How can I set the default mail client to Outlook without adding an account to the mail client?


texts: Open same Finder window in different spaces

texts:
i was asking if someone knows a way to:

open a desktop folder
switch space
open the same folder without being brought back to the old space

Is there a way to do it?


texts:
The MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) won't boot because it can't find the system software (flashing questionmark folder when trying to boot).
I tried to reinstall the system by installing macOS on an external HDD, booting the MacBook Pro from the HDD and trying to erase the internal HDD (APFS) which won't work because of the following error:

  POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Input/output error.

I also tried to erase the internal HDD with diskutil apfs deleteContainer /dev/disk2s2, same problem,

  Error: 5: Input/output error

Trying to run First Aid gives the following error on the APFS Physical Storage:

  The volume /dev/disk0s2 could not be verified completely. Storage
  system check exit code is 8. Storage system verify or repair failed.
  Operation failed…

Anything else I could try?


texts: How can I have a key pressed at a specific time?

texts:
I want to press a certain key (e.g. 'p') in a certain time (e.g. at 00:00), how can I accomplish this? I'm aware of Can a Mac be programmed to simulate pressing a key at a certain rate via software? but this doesn't include a timer of any kind.
P.S. I'm running at macOS 10.13 High Seirra


texts:
I've connected an external keyboard to my MacBook Pro. It's a Windows keyboard, but I'd rather not re-learn the swapped order of the Windows/Alt keys (vs. Option/Command keys). So I went to System Preferences, Keyboard, Modifier Keys… and swapped them:

So far, so good. But "Option" isn't really interpreted as "Alt" here Both in VMware Fusion and in Royal TS, the Windows key on the left and the menu(?) key on the right now do what appears to be Alt Gr, with various subtle but annoying differences in Windows, such as:

the alt-tab switcher is now sticky. You have to explicitly confirm with enter
some letters like alt-o now produce special characters
keyboard mnemonic (underlined menu items) do not work at all
Even though VMware Fusion does offer numerous remapping options, I couldn't figure it out. This trick works. However, that seems hacky and would also need to be applied to every single remote desktop in Royal TS. Not great.

I'd much rather solve this on the Mac side. If I turn the mapping off, Alt does get sent as Alt, so why does swapping the two change it to Alt Gr at all?


texts: How to give permission to daemons launched with launchctl

texts:
One of the latest OS upgrades caused a script loaded by launchctl to fail for permissions.
my script does this to mirror a mounted path into my disk:
rsync -av --delete <mounted-path> <local-path>
I have no problem in running it manually, but running from the daemon I'm getting:
building file list ... rsync: opendir "<mounted-path>." failed: Operation not permitted (1)
I'm quite sure that I need to provide permission to the script, but couldn't find a way to grant the permission from System Prefs -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Files and Folders. The [+/-] there is grayed off...
Any idea please?
EDIT: more data:
My plist: (com.mycompany.update-folder-from-nfs.plist)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.mycompany.update-folder-from-nfs</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/myname/Prog/something/uz-cpu/update_from_nfs_using_rsync.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>45</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

Loading the plist:
launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mycompany.update-folder-from-nfs.plist || echo "ok"
cp com.mycompany.update-folder-from-nfs.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mycompany.update-folder-from-nfs.plist


texts: How to bring to front or order layers in Preview?

texts:
I do a lot of selecting, copying, pasting, and moving around on a single image in Preview for Mac. But I'm having trouble ordering the layers of an image so that the layer I want visible is on top.

Is there any way to define layer order in Preview?


texts: Finder not showing toolbar and sidebar sometimes

texts:
I'm running OS X 10.8.2 with TotalFinder.

Recently, when launching Finder from dock stacks—for instance, the Downloads folder—by clicking the "Open in Finder", the toolbar and sidebar are both hidden (I have them visible by default).

I can't find an option for that. Is this a bug?


texts: Permission denied when editing files in /Library/WebServer/Documents

texts:
I've added a webroot directory and file within /Library/WebServer/Documents. The web site/file displays fine but when I try edit it within PHPStorm or when using nano (without sudo) I get file permission issues.

The parent directory of the webroot is owned by root:wheel and has 777 permissions.

Within the web directory mysite the permissions and owners are as follows:

jcogan@/Library/WebServer/Documents/mysite

drwxrwxrwx@ 15 root    wheel   480 11 May 10:25 .
drwxrwxrwx  11 root    wheel   352 22 May 13:17 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 jcogan  staff  6148  8 May 14:16 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwx@ 43 jcogan  staff  1376 22 May 14:03 web

Then in /web

drwxrwxrwx@ 43 jcogan  staff        1376 22 May 14:03 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 15 root    wheel         480 11 May 10:25 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 jcogan  staff        6148 25 Apr 17:25 .DS_Store
-rwxrwxrwx   1 jcogan  staff          18 22 May 14:12 phpinfo.php

Are my owners configured wrong ?


texts: Ever since doing OS X 10.8 updates, a pair of machines with Outlook refuse to look back further than 2 weeks during e-mail searches.  Spotlight settings all look OK.  I even forced an index deletion/re-creation with "sudo mdutil -E".  Index does go away, but comes back the same way, only being able to search the last 2 weeks worth of items (and there are items going back years it should be finding).  Mailbox size is right around 1.9 GiB.  Ideas?


texts: How do I run a binary program without showing the gear icon?

texts:
I created a automator workflow, add a Run Shell Script part and put these lines in:

  /Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk/tools/android avd

I saved it as an app and it works.

But I will always see a gear icon on the menu bar.

I tried to put a & or nohup, if so the program won't start.

Any ideas? The android I'm trying to execute is a shell script


texts: Removing smell from leather Apple Watch band?

texts:
I have a "Classic Buckle" style leather band for my Apple Watch.  After having it for about two months now, the band has really begun to stink due to moisture and sweat!

Has anyone found a good way to clean the band and manage the smell?  I have done a simple wipe down like Apple recommends, and also taken it off for longer periods to dry out, but that hasn't really helped.


texts: Opensnoop: dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 5 (ID 163: syscall::open:return): invalid user access in action #11 at DIF offset 12

texts: After running Open Snoop for the first time, I noticed the following message is continuously repeated. I am not developing on this machine and some of the blogs state that this is caused by iiTunes; however, I'm not sure if I have an issue. If so, can someone kindly provide guidance on how to triage?


texts: How to enable / troubleshoot split view?

texts:
I have just installed El Capitan on my MacBook Pro 13 mid 2012

I can't get split view to work either via the mission control method or the green button one.

Does anybody know this is supposed to work?


texts: I would like to find a way to block the access to some websites from all the browsers of my Macbook, but not just as Self-Control does. I want to make kind of a time schedule, for example blocking Facebook between 8am and 8pm, and let it free outside this "window", and do the same with different "time-windows" for other websites... Is there a way to do this?


texts: RAID 1 with a Mac - how to avoid formatting one of the drives

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I have an iMac with an external 2TB HDD. I recently bought a second 2TB HDD in order to build a RAID 1 (mirrored) with the two drives.

The problem is that Disk Utility forces me to create a new RAID set, add both drives to the set and then format the whole set (every drive in it) in order to build the set.
I'm doing it this way, first because I have other disks where I can temporary put all the files that were on the 2TB disk, and second because I'm choosing the 256k block size (I'm dealing almost only with large files).

Anyway, if I want to add a third drive to the set in the future, should I repeat the process of dumping the contents of the RAID set, re-format all the drives and then put the contents back in place or there's an easier way out?


texts: Repair APFS partition with damaged / zeroed-out header

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This incident occurred a few months ago, so you will have to forgive my poor memory. Please let me know if anything needs clarification.
I had a Dell Latitiude E6410 that I was using as a hackintosh (read: I installed macOS on non-Apple hardware). It was booting macOS 10.15.3 Catalina off of an APFS volume using a Legacy-based Clover installation. I wanted to switch to a UEFI-based boot solution.
Unfortunately, my laptop had trouble detecting ESPs that weren't identified explicitly as FAT32 volumes, even if they were, in all other respects, FAT32 volumes.
Rather than wipe my hard drive and reinstall macOS completely, as I should have done, I attempted to change the partition type of the ESP from "ESP" to "FAT32" using either fdisk or gdisk.
As I recall, this did not work, so I used fdisk to reformat the ESP as a FAT32 partition. For whatever reason, the command used to do so was taking a bit longer than usual - I believe this was because it was formatting the FAT32 partition outside of its specified 200MB bounds, thus overwriting the following APFS header - so I cancelled the command. For whatever reason, I afterwards rebooted my computer, and was greeted with a lovely "no bootable volume found" screen from the laptop's BIOS.
My data was gone, or so I suspected at first. Here's what diskutil list reports:
/dev/disk4 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *275.1 GB   disk4
   1:                        EFI NO NAME                 209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk5         274.9 GB   disk4s2

/dev/disk5 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +ERROR      disk5
                                 Physical Store disk4s2

diskutil apfs list:
APFS Containers (2 found)
|
...
|
+-- Container ERROR -69808
    ======================
    APFS Container Reference:     disk5
    Size (Capacity Ceiling):      ERROR -69620
    Capacity In Use By Volumes:   ERROR -69620
    Capacity Not Allocated:       ERROR -69620
    |
    +-< Physical Store disk4s2 D6816D3B-582B-485D-8CC4-0079AF1EBEBD
    |   -----------------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk4s2
    |   Size:                       274854445056 B (274.9 GB)
    |
    +-> No Volumes

fsck_apfs:
** Checking the container superblock.
** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
** Checking the space manager.
error: (oid 0x7126) cib: found zeroed-out block
error: failed to read spaceman cib 0x7126
   Space manager is invalid.
** The volume /dev/disk4s2 could not be verified completely.

inspect_apfs from Jivan Pal's apfs-tools (see this question): pastebin
I'd like to recover the data that was on this APFS volume, retaining original filesystem structure if possible. Note that I was able to use R-Studio to see the original "Hackintosh HD - Data" partition and view some of my files. However, for the most part, the filesystem structure was not preserved, mixing in a tragic amount of caches and the likes with my valuable data. Also note that I believe my conundrum is rather similar to this conundrum.
Thank you.


texts: MIcrosoft Outlook stopped working on Yosemite

texts:
I ran Outlook for a day after updating to Yosemite, but after a reboot, it no longer works.

When I click on the Outlook icon, it bounces a few times but never runs. Looking in system.log (via Console.app), it complains about a call to gestaltSystemVersion from both Outlook and Microsoft Database Daemon. (see below)

I rebooted again, and I reinstalled Office for Mac 2011. My Outlook is version 14.4.5. I've found very little regarding this error searching Google, and most of it is from the beta stage for Yosemite.

Has anyone else seen this, or better, solved it?

Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB Microsoft Outlook[1664]: objc[1664]: Class OnClickLinkAction is implemented in both /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/OutlookLegacy.framework/Versions/14/OutlookLegacy and /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Outlook. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB Microsoft Outlook[1664]: objc[1664]: Class ERExtraKeyedTableColumn is implemented in both /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/OutlookPaletteItems.framework/Versions/14/OutlookPaletteItems and /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Outlook. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.0 instead of 10.10.0.
    Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
    Call location:
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: 0 CarbonCore 0x9ba5e7e7 ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 135
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x9021c130 _dispatch_client_callout + 50
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x9021c0b5 dispatch_once_f + 251
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x9021d0d8 dispatch_once + 31
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: 4 CarbonCore 0x9b9f0fb8 _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 1050
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: 5 CarbonCore 0x9b9f0b69 Gestalt + 150
Nov 4 08:42:15 JLGPB.local Microsoft Outlook[1664]: 6 OutlookCore 0x0180563b _ZN6carbon22HasSnowLeopardOrBetterEv + 45
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.0 instead of 10.10.0.
    Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
    Call location:
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: 0 CarbonCore 0x9ba5e7e7 ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 135
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x9021c0b5 dispatch_once_f + 251
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x9021d0d8 dispatch_once + 31
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: 3 CarbonCore 0x9b9f0fb8 _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 1050
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: 4 CarbonCore 0x9b9f0b69 Gestalt + 150
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: 5 MicrosoftComponentPlugin 0x0035f3be McpInitLibrary_ + 505
Nov 4 08:42:16 JLGPB.local Microsoft Database Daemon[1666]: 6 MicrosoftComponentPlugin 0x0035f1ee McpInitLibrary_ + 41


texts:
I have a MacMini (Intel Core Solo with OSX 10.6.8) running as an iTunes Server with an external USB Storage without Keybord/Mouse/Monitor. Starting the MacMini is fairly easy, power on the USB storage, then push the power button on the MacMini.

But how can I shutdown the MacMini with this button? Activating sleep is possible, but I want a clean shutdown if I push the hardware button.


texts: NFS share from Linux with accented and non-ascii characters - files work in terminal but not programs

texts:
I have my music and movie collection on a linux server and the file names contain non-ascii characters. This is in itself no problem as the music server also runs on the same server and everything is fine.

The server's locale settings are:

root@lms:~# locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

and the clients (macOS Sierra) are:

09:15:38 ~$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

But I am using OS X / macOS on my desktop computer and would like to manage the files (tagging, sorting, ...) by using OS X programs. I have created an NFS share on the linux server as follow:

/exports/Music          192.168.1.201(rw,async,crossmnt,no_subtree_check,insecure,all_squash,anongid=1002,anonuid=501) 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(ro,async,crossmnt,no_subtree_check,insecure,all_squash,anonuid=501,anongid=1002)

and mounted on the Apple:

lms:/exports/Music on /Volumes/Music (nfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by rainerkrug)

My problem is that I can not copy the files with non-ascii characters using Finder (finder tells me

The operation can't be completed because one or more required items can't be found. (Error code -43)

Where error code -43 meand "File not found".

But I can copy the file from the terminal.

This is also reflected as I can not open the file on the external volume by using right mouse click, but I can open the local one which I copied using the terminal, or that other programs (e.g. Metadatics for editing tags) can not see or work with the files.

This whole thing sounds rather strange to me, as macOS and Linux can work with the non-ascii characters (accented characters in particularly), but macOS has problems when accessing on the share?

Is there anything I can do except changing the file names to ascii characters?
Are there mount options I should set?

I should mention that this problem is not new in Sierra - it was there under ElCapitan as well.


texts: Audio port for external mic stops working until reboot

texts:
iMac 27", High Sierra. External headphones with mic (Bose QC25 if it matters). Everything works fine after system boots up.

Then after some time (can be ~day, can be longer) mic on the headset stops working. Levels on this mic become extremely low to the point where Skype test call won't record anything that I'm speaking. Different apps (Zoom Conference call, Skype) behave same.

Reboot fixes the issue. Disconnecting and connecting headphones - doesn't. Playing with configuration options (System / Sounds) doesn't do any good either.

Any advice?


texts: Extract data from an iPhone with broken screen

texts:
I have an iPhone SE with a broken screen. I want to extract the data from it so I can keep my photos etc. Though, there's a little problem. Since I can't unlock the phone with the passcode, and if I could, I can't touch on the "Trust" button. I just can't access my phone again.

I've read about keyboards that were connected to the phone's USB port. I was wondering if there's another way to fix this, since I haven't a Lightning USB camera adapter, so I can't connect the keyboard to my iPhone.

Siri is unavailable because of some weird problem, the phone doesn't connect to my Wi-Fi. The "dr Fone" software doesn't work, probably because of the locked phone.

1- Brocken Screen (not accessible)

2- No USB for external Keyboard

3- Siri unavailable (broken WiFi)

4- dr Fone not working (broken screen)

5- no iCould back up

I'm afraid I'm not going to see my data again but I put everything on everything.

Does anyone have the redeeming idea?


texts: Is it possible to enable TRIM for an external SSD?

texts:
I have an iMac from 2011, Mac OS X 10.6.8, and an SDD in a FW800/USB3 case.
Which interface can let me enable TRIM: USB2, USB3, FW800 or Thunderbolt ?


texts: How can I remove a Google internet account when the Google account has been closed?

texts:
I recently closed my google account and now I would like to remove the corresponding account in iCal which was linked to my google account.

When I go to "Internet Accounts" and then click on the account I want removed on the left and click the - I get the error

  Internet accounts preferences can't connect to gmail account

And I can't verify my account because the google account has been closed.

Is there a way to force the removal?


texts: Disk Utility Crashed whilst creating a Partition and I'm now missing hard drive space

texts:
Disk Utility Crashed whilst creating a Partition, and I now have ~100GB missing, which was the amount I had allocated to the new partition.
The new partition didn't get created, and I now have 100GB missing from the Hard drive. I have a 1TB hard drive, and when I go to Disk Utility, it says:

Capacity : 999.35 GB (999,345,127,424 Bytes)
Available : 586.1 GB (586,103,844,864 Bytes)
Used : 310.52 GB (310,524,317,696 Bytes)

Which adds up to about ~900GB. I used terminal to look using diskutil list

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

I tried Repairing Disk in Disk Utility, and as suggested on another thread, booting into Recovery Mode and Repairing Disk there, but neither made a difference. Am I missing 100 GB on my disk?


texts: Is it possible to use an 8 pin accessory on an iphone 4?

texts:
A relative just bought a biofeedback accessory for an iphone 5/6 and was wondering if they could use it on one of my old iphones. She'd rather use an iphone without any data on it so people could use it without supervision, but the most recent one I have is a 4 (maybe a 4s, not sure).

I found this, but I'm worried it won't work. I know the best way is to just try it, and I probably will because it's cheap, but I'm interested in learning a bit about the differences between the two types of cables. Would a device built for the iphone 5/6 use a slightly different protocol? I see lots of adapters that allow new iphones to use old iphone accessories, but not the other way around. I assume a lot of that is just because there isn't a demand, but could there be a difference that results in only some accessories working in that direction?


texts: High Sierra with Yosemite Time machine restore

texts:
I had made a High Sierra clear installation in my old Mac Book Pro 13"(Mid 2010) where I had put also a new SSD HD. After this I restored my Yosemite Time Machine backup. It said that it will erase my HD and I clicked YES and continued to restore. It had restored very well all my files but there is no High Sierra there anymore. If you go to "About this Mac" you see the Yosemite 10.10.5 which was before.
The question is: Could my Yosemite Time Machine backup that I had, restore the Yosemite operating system and wipe out High Sierra?
I needed to have the High Sierra as operating system and my older files which I thought Time machine would restore them.


texts: Cannot checkout full SVN repository - operation timed out

texts:
I am trying to checkout the SVN repository. However, I am still getting the connection timeout after some files are downloaded.

The error says:

  Cannot checkout from svn: svn: E000060: Operation timed out.

I am using the following command to checkout:

svn --username my_user co https://some_repo_url/project_name project_name

I increased the http_timeout value in the svn settings located in ~/.subversion/servers.

I am using the SVN version:

  svn, version 1.13.0
  (r1867053)    compiled Feb  7 2020, 18:30:09 on
  x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0


texts: I lost my iPod 5 a few days ago, I'm pretty sure it's sill in my house. Is there a way to turn the Wi-Fi on my iPod or thru my a Apple account?


texts: Why does TimeMachine generate large backups and is there a way to optimize them?

texts:
I have 2 Macs:

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), 128 GB  10.14.2 (18C54)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2009), 512 GB  El Capitan (I think)

Both of them make backups to the same Time Machine (set up on a local NAS).
My issue is that MacBook Air generates large backups almost every time it connects to Time Machine - by "large" I mean over 1 GB, often several GB.
This seems unusual to me because, to my knowledge, I don't generate large files or large number of changes on it - I use it for general office work: typically email, calendar, some work with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), browsing.
The other Mac (MBP) is used for similar tasks, maybe a little less intensively and it backs up more frequently (typically every day vs. every couple of days) but it generates significantly smaller backups, at least by order of magnitude.
The other difference between those 2 Macs that may play a role is the macOS,  but both of them have highest version of the system available for given hardware.
How I can reduce the size of backups generated by my MacBook Air? If  this is more or less normal behavior, please let me know as well.


texts:
Is there a tool that could be used to mirror an iPhone screen via browser.

What i need is to provide someone a URL and when that URL is opened in browser he could see a mirroring of my iPhone?

Couldn't find anything when searching. Is anyone aware of such a tool that could help achieve screen mirroring via browser?

I have been doing this for Android using Vysor. Unable to find a similar one for iOS (if one exists)


texts:
I'm using Keywurl now, but since Safari 5.0.1 there are also supported extensions for search. I'd like to add any search url format and assign it to a shortcut.

e.g. g macbook air is google "macbook air", w ipod is google "site:en.wikipedia.org ipod" etc.

Any good suggestions?


texts: Dell 1320c - Catalina 10.15 Mac Pro - will print but only from single feed - How to fix?

texts: the link to the recommended driver worked - but only so far as I can insert a single page versus auto feeding from Tray one. Anyone have any ideas how to change this ? the operator panel is not so helpful and the DELL printer web page not accessible as far as I can see. I can print other printer setting from that tray bu holding down the continue button so nothing wrong mechanically. thanks for your input.


texts: How to get ride of 50 GB of other storage on mac when tried everything?

texts:
I've tried everything to find and delete these 'other' files:

rebuilding spotlight index
using ncdu
using "professional" disk utility apps like omnidisk
disabling/deleting local snapshots
deleting my cloud drive (I use pCloud and I really thought this was the issue as currently spotlight can't access its files, so it would have put them in other)
repair disk through disk utility

Any other advice? I have a 2015 mac pro.


texts: Restoring User Folders to Different Volume

texts:
Okay, so I need to restore a machine from a Time Machine backup, but before it failed it had two separate volumes; one for the OS, apps and the administrator account, and one for all other user accounts. However, both volumes were lost, and will need to be recreated from my backup.

What I want to know in advance is whether it is possible to restore the user accounts to the new users volume using the Migration Assistant, or will it try to restore them onto the system volume? If the latter, is there another way I can seamlessly restore the user accounts?

I've restored files using other means in the past, but that was a long manual process targeting specific things, and usually as part of a clean install for a new OS version, to avoid restoring leftovers etc. However this time I'm restoring due to hardware failure, so I'm not changing the OS, and I'm hoping to restore as much as possible as-is, albeit in stages (as some user accounts are very large, probably needing to be left overnight).

Basically I want to be able to setup my replacement hardware, restore the OS, apps and admin on one volume, and restore the other users one at a time, such that each can just log-in like nothing happened.


texts:
A few PDF files are showing with the incorrect filesize and I was wondering if there is any way to fix this.

E.g. opening a PDF file's properties is showing that the file is 394 KB, if I attach the file to an email or upload it by FTP somewhere else I get the file's real size which is 289 KB

This behaviour seems to be happening with any PDF file on my computer.
Is there a setting that can be changed or something to fix this?

This is happening for me on El Capitan 10.11.3


texts: how to transfer files from mac desktop to an external harddrive

texts:
I have files on the mac desktop that I want to transfer to a brand new external harddrive. I do not understand why it is not a straight forward matter. I am trying to drag the files I want to transfer from desktop to the new external harddrive folder but I cannot transfer the files.

Why is this not a straightforward affair?


texts: Unable to toggle natural scrolling direction

texts:
I've been experimenting a bit when trying to write a script for toggling the scrolling direction; com.apple.swipescrolldirection.

There are plenty of examples of people doing this online, and several approaches worked for me. E.g the following, which turns natural scrolling off:

$ defaults read -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection
1

$ defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

$ defaults read -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection
0

However, the above does not take effect immediately, one has to log off and on again for it to work.

To attempt to force the changes to take effect without logging out I attempted to kill my users cfprefsd process. This caused a new process to start up, but the changes did not take effect.

Now to my problem. It seems my experimenting has caused something to break, cause I'm no longer able to change my scrolling direction. Not even from the System Preferences gui:

In fact, if I try to check 'Scroll direction: natural' it will uncheck itself. The exact same thing happens if I try to check 'Scroll direction: natural' in the 'Trackpad' window of System Preferences. And if I do $ defaults read -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection the value won't have changed.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks.


texts: How to disable Top Sites in Safari on macOS Lion

texts: How do I disable the auto-updating of the Top Sites in Safari?  I don't want to turn the feature off altogether, I just want to prevent auto-update.  I know this may seem like an attempt to defeat the purpose of Top Sites in the first place, but I find that if it auto-updates any of the Top Sites that are forum-based, all of the unread topics are marked as read.  So, an even better solution would be the ability to exclude the auto-update of certain URLs/domains, etc.  Does that functionality exist?


texts: Can I send as someone else using Mail.app on iPad?

texts:
Is this possible?

In normal MS Outlook you can send as someone else (if you are on the distribution group I think). It's an option when you reply to an email.

Can you do the same using Mail.app on iPad?


texts: How do I get find my iPhone off a iPhone I have bought second hand

texts: Please help Me get find my iPhone off a second hand iPhone 5 need to get this off before I can use it for my son


texts: Bluetooth doesn't work after macOS Mojave update

texts:
I'm new here. Will someone help me to fix this? I updated my Mac to macOS Mojave and now it cannot connect with Bluetooth devices. Why is this happening and how can I fix this?

it's a MacBook Pro and I tried to connect my wireless headphone. I do not remember the brand.


texts: Troubleshooting XCode 12.4 Installation (MacBook Pro, Big Sur 11.1)

texts:
Although I have in excess of 30Gb free on the Internal Hard Drive, I have been unable to install XCode 12.4. The App Store displays the message
"We could not complete the purchase.
There is not enough disk space available to install the product."
A similar message appears when I try to install XCode 10.0.
Although, in respect to the question "How can this issue be resolved?", helpful answers have been provided (such as the amount of available space on the Hard Drive), is the answer also dependent on Memory?


texts:
Sometimes when I open the "Characters" window to get access to special characters (e.g., greek letters), it re-opens itself repeatedly.  The re-opening triggers on some actions, but I haven't found any pattern to those actions - sometimes it's typing, sometimes clicking, sometimes changing tabs in a browser.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions for how to kill that window and make it stay dead?  Since it's an always-front window, the only think I can do is keep closing it over and over again until the problem goes away eventually.


texts: Opening Randomized Images From Multiple Folders With Preview Application

texts:
Basically what I am trying to achieve is the following:

Create an alias list of any amount of folders with the Finder's selection.
Get all images from those folders with a shell script.
Randomize those images.
Open the randomized images in the Preview application.

The script I created is partially working with two selected folders that each contain three images (6 total). But it is only opening 3 images with the preview app instead of all 6.

I am also trying it out with more than 100 images in two separate folders and it gives me an error:

"Can’t make file \":43\" into type alias." number -1700 from file ":43" to alias

Also, the images are not being randomized every time I execute the script.

Please note that I prefer using the shell script to fetch the images because it is much faster than using the Finder. If it is possible to also use a shell script to randomize the images, I will like to know how this can be achieved in the script I created.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

tell application "Finder"
    if selection is {} then
    else
        set theFolders to selection as alias list

        set theImages to {}
        repeat with aFolder in theFolders
            set getImages to "find " & aFolder's POSIX path's quoted form & " -iname '*.jpg'"
            set end of theImages to paragraphs of (do shell script getImages)
        end repeat

        -- Randomize selected images

        set randomImages to {}
        repeat with thisImage in some item in theImages
            set end of randomImages to thisImage
        end repeat

        -- Get aliases

        set filePaths to {}
        repeat with thisFile in randomImages
            set end of filePaths to (thisFile as POSIX file as alias)
        end repeat

        -- Open random images with Preview

        open filePaths using application file id "com.apple.Preview"

    end if
end tell


texts:
Hello I haven't used Guided Access in a while and I needed to use it again. I had previously set a passcode and I went to use it expecting it would ask for a new passcode, but it must've used the old one. I have no idea what the old one is and I can't get anything off. I had tried holding down Home/Lock for 10 seconds but it just seemed to start up, unlock itself and go back to the app I was on.

Guided Access was still turned on and I have no idea how to remove it.


texts: How does Do Not Disturb work in iOS with message Favorites?

texts: New in iOS 10 you can add a message favorite instead of just phone favorites. How does that work with Do Not Disturb's only allow notifications from favorites? If I add just a contact's phone but not their message info to my favorites will I only get calls from them in the middle of the night or will I receive message notifications as well? Asked another way, do I need to add each method of contacting a person to my favorites in order to get those notifications?


texts: Lock events (or disable drag and drop) in iCal

texts:
Drag & Drop in iCal is very convenient, but last time, I accidentally moved an appointment (or at least, I'm not sure, if I did...)

Is it possible to somehow "lock" important appointments?

Or alternatively, to lock all appointments/disable drag and drop?


texts: When will the iPad get threaded email messages?

texts: I use my iPhone and iPad to check emails, and would really like to have the threaded email functionality on my iPad the same as it is on my iPhone? Will this be available in iOS?


texts: Error configuring mcrypt after upgrading to El Capitan

texts:
I am facing the following issue after upgrading to El Capitan. It says:

Installing shared extensions: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/
cp: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/#INST@826#: Operation not permitted

while running sudo make install in mcrypt/php-5.6.13/ext/mcrypt folder.
I think this is due to SIP but what is the other way round.

What is SIP and how do I know if it's causing this error?


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On linux systems, one can check for available entropy (useful to know if you're tapping /dev/random for any PRNG purposes) with

cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail

However, there is no equivalent of /proc on a Mac (AFAIK). How can I check for available system entropy on a Mac? I'm running OS X 10.7.3 (Lion)

To update with some of my comments under Kyle's answer — One of the reasons for Macs not displaying this information is that it isn't needed (in most cases). Linux systems will block calls to /dev/random if there isn't enough entropy in the pool. On Macs, it periodically keeps adding to the entropy pool using the SecurityServer daemon.

However, it also notes that if the daemon fails for some reason, the output quality will decline without any indication of failure:

  The quality of
       its output is however dependent on regular addition of appropriate entropy. If the SecurityServer system daemon fails for any reason, output quality will suffer over time without any explicit indication
       from the random device itself.

So even though the amount of entropy is not made available easily, it doesn't mean it isn't there and there might be instances where its knowledge might be helpful.


texts: El Capitan - Right Click Menu - Open Terminal Here

texts:
I know this may have been asked several times, however I cannot find a valid method that will work for me.

On El Capitan - I want to add a option to the right click menu (not the services section) that allows me to open a file or directory directly in terminal from the right click option.

Would somebody be able to provide a working method?


texts: How does giving Apple my CCV code confirm I am a parent of my child?

texts:
I am setting up iCloud account for my child (just created a family). After setting nickname and entering my child's data, I am prompted for CCV code for my card, and it says:
"confirm you are the parent or legal guardian of this child by entering the security code for the card, Visa (**** 1234)" - last 4 numbers are from my card.
I can't understand - how does it confirming I am a parent?! And why is this even needed?


texts: Why Is the Apple Watch Activity App Distance Incorrect by 500m on a 7km Run?

texts:
Today, I went for a 7 kilometer run on a course with an established distance. I set the MapMyRun app on my iPhone and the Activity App on my watch to record the run. MapMyRun recorded the distance accurately, but the Activity App was off on the distance by 500 meters.

Why is the Apple Watch's Activity App's distance incorrect by 500 meters on a 7 kilometer run?

Specs:

iPhone 6, iOS 8.4 (12H143)
Apple Watch, Watch OS 1.0.1 (12S632)


texts: Location of system file that connects roles with apps

texts:
RCDefaultApp can change so-called macOS "roles", eg. change the handler of the mailto: protocol. This is stored in the following file:

defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist

LSHandlers = (
...
    LSHandlerRoleAll = "com.apple.mail";
    LSHandlerURLScheme = mailto;
...

Question: In which file in the filesystem is it defined how the value set in LSHandlerRoleAll, e.g. com.apple.mail, is connected to the actual program that is run, eg. "Mail.app"?

Put differently, what is the full path to the system files that RCDefaultApp manipulates?


texts:
I've used App Cleaner which clears preference and associated files, but I can't clear it from Location Services permissions list in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy.

Any idea how to remove it?


texts: OS X right click/context menu via keyboard

texts:
Is it possible to access the right click/context menu of the currently selected item (not the item under the mouse) by way of using a keyboard shortcut?

If not, is there any way to achieve this, either by Applescript or utility?


texts: How can I browse or search the iOS app store from my desktop?

texts:
Now that iTunes no longer lists apps in the iTunes store, the only way I can find to browse or search the iOS app store is on an iOS device itself. This is rather inconvenient when, say, I'm trying to do research on which of several related apps to get - or even if I just want to look up info on an app while I'm at my computer and my iPad isn't nearby.

Is there any official way to browse iOS apps from a desktop computer?


texts:
I'm looking for a Portable Monitors for my macbook pro (possibily a 14'')
Do you happen to know some model that is working on a mac?

I found this one (ThinkVision LT1421) but it does not work completely.


texts: How can one determine which user deleted a shared file on OS X Mountain Lion Server

texts:
My girlfriend is a lab technician at a small pharmaceutical startup. She created a very important Excel file and placed it in a shared folder on a server that the "IT" guy set up. The server runs Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2).

Last week, this important file went missing from this particular folder. There were several other files in this folder, but they didn't go missing.

She has since been able to recover the file from Time Machine, but wants to know how that file went missing. She assures me that no one in her department is careless enough to delete the file, but perhaps a higher-up with access to the shared file either accidentally moved/deleted the file (or did so deliberately due to the file's contents).

The issue here, is that due to a power struggle within the company, she suspects that someone may have attempted to sabotage (delete or move) this critical file which had data that could move the company forward faster in a particular direction than certain saboteurs would like.

The "IT" guys doesn't know much about server logs, etc. And I'm not a Mac expert. My question is this:

Is there a way to find out who deleted or moved this critical file? Are there file change logs located somewhere on the server that could "prove" this action?


texts: The volume primary SSD could not be repaired

texts:
My machine is not starting after progress bar. I'm trying to find the problem by booting in single user mode.

I tried /sbin/fsck -fy

It showed me
Missing directory record (id = 33899953)
The volume Primary SSD could not be repaired


texts:
Since switching to APFS I noticed that df delivers strange results.

For example:

$ df -h /
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused               ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1  466Gi  401Gi   62Gi    87% 3165852 9223372036851609955    0%   /

It seems that I have only 62GB free (disk at 87%)

"About this Mac" gives a completely different picture

With 177 GB free.

Which is more reliable? Is df still working on AFPS?


texts: Can not add calendar subscriptions to iCloud

texts:
I can't add subscriptions to my iCloud Calendar anymore. If I want for example add the holiday calendar via Mac Calendar Setting I get this error message

  The server responded: “403” to operation CalDAVAddSubscriptionCalendarQueueableOperation.

I am pretty sure, this was possible! Did this change?


texts: I am using an iPhone 5s with latest iOS update 9.3.5. Whenever I share images using WhatsApp, the app does not respond until the image share/upload is completed. Nothing works, keyboard or back navigation. The app works as usual after image sharing is completed. I have tested this issue with iPhone 6 and 6s too. What might be the issue ? Is this a bug in WhatsApp ?


texts: Use Apple Script to open Chrome with specific profile

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I use multiple instances of the Chrome browser for different profiles, each with their own google account. I'm trying to automate a task using Applescript and Automator, and have set up Automator to feed a set of URLs to chrome, then run the following script:

    # input is the list of url's from the previous task
on run {input, parameters}

    # The below is an applescript loop
    repeat with theURL in input
        tell application "Google Chrome" to open location theURL
    end repeat

    # We must return something so we just return the input
    return input

end run

Is there away to specify that I want to open Chrome with the browser version I specify in the "Person" or profile of Chrome, i.e. as user XXXX@gmail.com and not as user ZZZZ@gmail.com?


texts: Photos crops the last five photos in a slideshow movie

texts:
Created a "project" in Photos.app with 31 JPG images.  Then I made four copies of the last image with credits edited onto it.  I imported those into photos, added them to the project, and moved them to the end.
The project is set "scale to fit screen" and the first 30 are all fine.  But on the last five, it cropped a significant amount of each side, hiding some of the credits with black framing.  The four and the one they are copied from are all the same dimensions, 640x393.  The other images, all showing completely, vary from much larger to much smaller.
In the app, before export, they all look fine.
What can make the last five display incorrectly, and how can it be fixed?


texts: Refurbished phone prompts me for previous owner's password

texts:
I recently received a replacement iPhone 5 from my insurance provider, sealed in Apple refurbished packaging (and they maintain that the device came directly from Apple).

After doing a factory reset, I receive the following prompt containing what I presume is the previous owners email address:

Enter the Apple ID password for *************@gmail.com (inluding the App Store, iTunes Store and iBooks Store).

I can skip this, but I think it's pretty concerning that I'm seeing their info. Out of interest I performed a few more resets (including one using my MacBook) and I still see this prompt every time the phone goes through the set up process. The phone is running iOS 9.2 and Apple support state they haven't seen this before.

It's not a show stopper, but any ideas on how this can be removed?


texts: Lost access to admin user account in my mac book pro

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I changed Account name property on my mac book pro in System Preferences-> User & Groups->  Advanced Options. I attached a picture of then the window (Not my account window, now i cannot access Advanced options). After changing the property, My admin account changed to Standard account. Even thought i can log in using my login, i cannot do any admin tasks since it says my password is wrong. It was the only admin account i had. So how can i regain my admin priviledges. I highly appreciate your help.

ps: My mac book pro running on High Sierra.


texts: How to I delete WINS name from Network > Advanced > WINS

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I'm unable to clear the NetBIOS and Workgroup names (when I try, the current NetBIOS name appears grayed out, and always returns, even after I press "Apply"). I've already issued the command

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.netbiosd.plist

I don't have any file sharing enabled, nor is there an active directory configured.


texts: Using OS X Lion - Migrating from Mobile Me to iCloud - Incoming Mail Server issue

texts: I have gone through the steps to migrate from Mobile Me to iCloud on my Mac.  The incoming mail server (p99-imap.mail.me.com) is grayed out and cannot be changed.  According to Apple Support, that is not the correct incoming mail server.  Thoughts?


texts: Activity monitor stops updating or intermittently updates

texts:
Since I upgraded to High Sierra, the Activity Monitor has been relatively unusable for me. When I launch it, it updates for a while, but after a while (especially after a time of high CPU load), it plainly stops updating. I can interact with the application, but its displayed information doesn't update anymore.

Switching tabs sometimes seems to trigger one or two updates, but I still can't see current information.

Does anyone know why this happens and more importantly how I can solve it.

Note: I compile a lot of C++, run some graphics intensive programs, sometimes with debugger attached, while having a VM standby in Parallels. I don't think this VM causes the issue as I've observed this behaviour without it being active. I did not see this type of behaviour before upgrading to High Sierra.


texts: Disable Active Noise Cancelling on Powerbeats3

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From my experience, it seems like Powerbeats3 uses some kind of Active Noise Cancelling, but I can't find it documented.
How can I disable it if that's the case? It's paired to my 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra.


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A friend of mine gave me a MacBook Pro that is two generations newer than mine, but is of the lower configuration. Should I switch over to that?

My current MacBook Pro is the early-2011 model with Intel Core i7-2620M processor. I have retrofitted it with 8GB of DDR3-1333 RAM and 480GB Intel SSD 520 Series.

Trips to processor spec comparison and benchmark databases gave me indecisive results.

The one my friend gave me is the early 2012 model with i5-3210M processor. I want to install 16GB of DDR3-1600 RAM and move the SSD over if I do make the switch.

My question is: does it make sense for me to switch computers? And will the newer computer accept my retrofitting parts? Also about the old computer, will a 256GB Kingston SSDNow drive (after the Intel SSD is removed) make a good system drive for a backup machine?

I am a iOS developer that does not play games, and I venture into the virtual machine world very frequently. This is my use pattern.


texts: I used Boot Camp Assistant and can't boot OS X

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I installed Windows 10 on my Mac using Boot Camp Assistant. When I got into Windows, it asked me if I wanted to install Boot Camp. I selected yes. Now, when I try to restart in OS X, it says "can't locate OS X boot volume"

Additionally, when I hold down the option-key while restarting, I get a windows option, and then a second option that tries to install windows.

Here is a picture of my Disk Management screen and the also the error when I try to restart in OS X.

I feel like the OS X volume still exists, but windows isn't recognizing it. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: any Virtual Ipad/Iphone applications for PC that has network connections?

texts:
I am looking for a virtual emulation of an Ipad or Iphone that I can run on a PC machine so I can create video tutorials on things such as setting up our corporate email  or how to connect the devices to our network. I have found some applications via Google and youtube, but so far they do not support a network connection.  I know there are android emulators that do this, but haven't found an IOs one. If anyone could point me in the direction of one it would be greatly appreciated.

I would prefer free software, but am willing to pay as long as its in a reasonable price range.

I got the answer below, but I found a pretty promising site for anyone who happens to be looking for the same thing. Miricast and AirPlay emulation


texts: What is the Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render environment variable for?

texts:
After running:

env  ; #from with in terminal

I see the following output:

...
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-pc2V6P/Render
...

What is this environment variable used for? Not really finding anything about what its for and why it is set by default.


texts: iPhone 6 iOS 9.3.2 – How to change date years back?

texts: There are several recommendations to set back the date in order to delete some photos, but I can't find a way to do that.


texts: Genymotion overheating MacBook Pro with Yosemite

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Every time I start a Genymotion (v2.5.2) device my CPU starts heating real fast and the fan speed goes from good to crazy really quick too.
Here's an output from iStats:

If I use GPS simulation this situation occours faster. When I turn off Genymotion everything comes down to normal as fast as it went up.
 I've found this How to deal with MacBook Pro and MacBook heat? from Apple Support Communities and this issue from askUbuntu but I haven't tried any approach yet.
Did anyone experienced something similar?
My Virtualbox version is 4.3.20 r96996 and I'm running Yosemite 10.10.4 in:

EDIT: Activity monitor print:

Thanks.


texts: My headphones on my MacBook Pro don't work

texts: so I have a pretty old MacBook Pro like mid 2010's roughly. My headphones worked last night, I turned my computer off and then when I woke up, while I tried numerous pairs of headphones, my audio would just keep playing through the internal speakers. I tried cleaning the jack, diff headphones, sound output in system settings, sudo commands in terminal, NVRAM, PRAM. Nothing is working...Please help my IT wizards of the internet.


texts: When I upgraded from iOS4 to iOS5 an unknown email address showed up as a possible email for me to set as one of my email accounts. Did anyone else have this problem? If so, where did it come from?


texts: How to get the amount of 'Compressed Memory', per process (from Terminal)?

texts:
How can I use ps, or some variation thereof... to get a value that roughly corresponds to the "Compressed Memory" value Apple reports in Activity Monitor.app?

username 52036 100.1 24.1 8026832 3035512 ?? Rs ...com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

Ok, so it appears ps aux tells us...

3035512, aka 2.83 Gb, which corresponds to "Private Memory"
8026832, aka 7.48 Gb which doesn't seem to correspond to anything. (Although it possibly could be ("Memory" 3.89 + "Private Memory" 2.84 +  "Compressed Memory" 1.05)?

Is there any way "normal" way to access this metric, or is it just some "magic" value Apple has come up with?


texts: Open a new Finder window in List mode with full name shown

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Is it possible to open a new Finder window in List Mode with the file name column stretched by default to always show the longest file name?

Oftentimes, I find myself having to double-click and adjust certain windows in order to properly view longer file names.

Is there any way to control and define this?


texts: What is the keyboard shortcut to insert text in Preview

texts:
I have consulted the official shortcuts documentation and browsed various other resources on Preview shortcuts but have not found the magical key combination. The Toolbar is singularly unhelpful in that regard: hovering over the new Textbox does not give a balloon reporting what is the shortcut. Bad on Apple there..

Any hints here?


texts: What is the function of /home in Snow Leopard?

texts:
I would like to mirror the directory structure that I have on my linux machine at work. There, my home directory resides in /home/emiller rather than /Users/emiller as it does on Snow Leopard.

I was intending to create /home/emiller and use it as a sshfs mount point for my files on the linux machine - thus permitting to me run all my scripts without having to change any paths.

However, when I try to mkdir /home/emiller, I get:

mkdir: /home/emiller: Operation not supported

Why is this? What is the function of /home? It appears empty of all files.

~emiller


texts: I want to download Xcode that I deleted again. But when I open App Store and search for Xcode the download button is grey

texts: When I downloaded it before I did it through App Store but now that doesn't work because of that the button is grey. Have tried to download Xcode through developer.apple but there it says that I don't have enough storage which I clearly do because I got 16 GB free. HELP


texts: Can I use a lightning to USB cable to charge an iPhone through an iPad (iPadOS, Pro 9.7)?

texts: Since you can charge with the new iPad Pro, I was wondering if something similar could be done using the lightning to USB  adapter and the charging cable


texts: How to upgrade to latest macOS with a clean install?

texts:
I have found several guides on how to put the installer on external media using this command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled/ --nointeraction

However, when I run that command I get the error:

  To use this tool, you must download the macOS installer application on
  a Mac with 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. For more
  information, please see the following:
  https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201372.

I'm running 10.11.6, but when I follow that support article I get led in a circle - back to the App Store, which downloaded an 11 MB installer which led to the above error in the first place.

The only other thing I find is some third party web site that I am supposed to trust, to install their own tool to do the download. I am not going to install and trust such third party software. All I need to do is download the full version of the installer. Surely Apple must provide this somehow, since their own command is referring me to their own documentation (which strangely doesn't tell me how to download the whole installer in a way that works!)

How do I get the full installer?

Note: This may seem like a duplicate of this question which is marked as a duplicate of this question. But all of the answers for those question either don't work (lead me in a circle back to the App Store which downloads a tiny installer even after I delete it and try again) or refer me to a third piece of software that I'm not going to trust.


texts: AirPort Utility not showing AirPort nodes, which ARE there, and I AM using them

texts:
Today neither of the AirPorts show up in the AirPort Utility.  I know the hubs are there, that's how I'm accessing the Internet.  They appear with the yellow caution indicator /!\ and when I click they say "Device not found".

AirPort Utility on Mavericks, both up to date.  AirPort hubs: one is last year's AirPort Extreme model, and the other is the new AirPort Extreme AC model.  I believe they are both up to date (and can't check now)  Both in bridge mode on wired network.  Laptop is on Wifi (via those same AirPort hubs)

What I've tried (that hasn't worked):

Exit AirPort Utility and restart.
Power cycle the AirPort hub.
Tell AirPort Utility to "Forget" one of them, and then click "Other Wifi Devices", now that one doesn't show up at all.


texts: Is there any keyboard shortcut to switch my mouse cursor from one desktop to another?

texts:
I have connected my macBookPro multiples screens from left to right, 1,2,3,4,5...

Is there any keyboard shortcut to just move my cursor from monitor 1 to monitor 5 without me needing to drag my mouse all the way?

Or possibly a keyboard shortcut that would also move my cursor to the new focused(I mean if I switch apps using Cmmd + Tab) app


texts:
For some reason, MySQL won't start anymore. Suddenly happened out of the blue.

This is what is written in

  /var/log/system.log

right after I try to open MySQL.

Feb  8 16:07:31 mys-MacBook-Air.local System Preferences[2795]: about to perform command
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got user: mybak
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got ruser: (null)
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got service: authorization
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in od_principal_for_user(): No authentication authority returned
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in od_principal_for_user(): failed: 7
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Done cleanup3
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Kerberos 5 refuses you
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): pam_sm_authenticate: ntlm
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_acct_mgmt(): OpenDirectory - Membership cache TTL set to 1800.
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in od_record_check_pwpolicy(): retval: 0
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in od_record_attribute_create_cfstring(): returned 2 attributes for dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthenticationAuthority
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Establishing credentials
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Got user: mybak
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Context initialised
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Got euid, egid: 0 0
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done getpwnam()
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done setegid() & seteuid()
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: krb5 user mybak doesn't have a principal
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done cleanup3
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done seteuid() & setegid()
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done cleanup4
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: ntlm
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local authorizationhost[4202]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: no domain found skipping
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: UID 501 authenticated as user mybak (UID 501) for right 'com.mysql.administrator.server'
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Succeeded authorizing right 'com.mysql.administrator.server' by client '/Users/mybak/Library/PreferencePanes/MySQL.pre\
fPane/Contents/Resources/mahelper' [4200] for authorization created by '/Applications/System Preferences.app' [2795] (100003,0)
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local coreservicesd[26]: Application App:"System Preferences" [ 0x0/0xc40c4]  @ 0x0x7fe49cb90aa0 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontASN\
s ( ( ASN:0x0-0xe40e4:) ), so denying.
Feb  8 16:07:36 mys-MacBook-Air.local WindowServer[176]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to System Preferences, psn 0x0-0xc40c4, securitySessionID=0x186a4, err=-13066
Feb  8 16:07:39 mys-MacBook-Air.local System Preferences[2795]: status= 0

Further googling these lines did not return any clues.


texts: My MacBook Pro cannot connect to the Internet

texts:
I last had my computer connected 3 days ago to a wireless network (the one I am still on with other computers). AirPort says it's connected and has a strong green light (full bars in wifi) but when I open System Preferences, the 902.1X: WPA: says FreeWiFi_Secure and the button says Connect, so I press that and under that it says "Authentication server is not responding" and has the waiting signal (spinning flower thing).

The wifi works as I am on it on my phone and no one else is having trouble in the house.

Can someone please help this damsel in distress!


texts: Reconnect Aperture masters with different filename?

texts:
I lost a lot of data and recovered the photos that I could using Stellar Phoenix. I got a lot of the photos back, however I'm struggling to reconnect them in Aperture.

If I select a single image, it reconnects fine, however if I select the 'reconnect all' option, it shows as if it is working, but only the one photo is reconnected.

Do you have any advice or know whether it is possible to relink to masters with different names? The rest of the metadata should be correct for the images.


texts: Quick question, if you are still in iOS8 in your iPhone and it shows software upgrade in the settings, which version will it upgrade to 9.0 or to the latest 9.2?


texts:
I want to take a screenshot of my Lion lock screen to highlight the new circular user portraits.

Is there an easy way to take a screenshot of the OS X lock screen?


texts: What to do if MacBook Pro 2017 uses more wattage than the charger can give?

texts:
I wanted to ask, what to do if MacBook Pro 2017 uses more wattage than the charger can give? Why I am asking this or thinking this might be a problem? I tried to play some games on BootCamp (playing games on MacBook is another discussion, no hate please) on settings where I got 60FPS without lag but the problem is that my battery is discharging at the time I am playing. I can not recognize the problem on macOS though.

If I bought the mac couple days ago, first they gave me fake charger which f*d up my mac and wouldn't charge at all. Still can not believe that I buy new Mac and get fake charger with it. Then I went back to the store and asked for new Original charger which I then got. I can not see any more problems than the above I described.

Can anybody tell me what to check, what to do, who to contact with? Any help is much appreciated.


texts: iPhone controlling iPad remotely: something like Hamachi

texts:
I have searched for this around the web, but haven't found anything that was similar to what I was looking for. So here it goes.

Suppose I have one iPhone and one iPad, both being jailbroken. The iPhone is in the network A, while the iPad is in network B. Both networks have access to the Internet. My objective is to control the iPad using the iPhone. I should see the screen of the iPad on my iPhone and be able to run and control apps and input text.

Does anyone if this is possible (with the restrictions described above)?


texts: mac OS microphone only works when using Siri, works fine on bootcamp

texts:
As the title says the mic only works in Mac OS when using Siri in any other application it is just muted, the input level in system setting is always 0 as shown in the picture unless I'm using Siri. The mic works just fine on Windows 10 through bootcamp which leads me to believe it is not a hardware problem.

I'm on mac OS Sierra 10.12.3, I tried resetting SMC didn't make a difference.


texts: iPad enter key on keyboard for joining WiFi network

texts: I just received an iPad from Apple. I have entered my password for joining the network, but cannot find the enter key. How does one access the enter key on the iPad keyboard?


texts: iTunes Connect did not ask for bank or PayPal account when attempting to publish paid app in App Store

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I have just finished an app and sent some builds to iTunes Connect, but now I intend to send it to App Store for a price of, say, 1 USD.

I saw the 'Pricing and Availability' tab at iTunes Connect and it let me set the price of the app, so I set it 1 USD, no problems until now, but after that, in tab 'Prepare for Submission', there was no such thing as asking my bank or PayPal account.

How should I proceed? Should I submit for review anyway and this kind of information will be asked later?


texts: I have a mac mini server with 2 Hard Drives, one for the system and active files (Server HD) and one serving as an archive (Archive HD). Is it possible to use Time Machine to back up both disks and not just the Server HD?


texts: iTunes displays filenames instead of metadata for imported music

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I'm using iTunes version 10.7.0.21.

With music I've imported to iTunes (having ripped it elsewhere), it displays the filename rather than the metadata. This results in track numbers being included in song titles, symbols missing, and long titles being cut off.

For example, '02 Where Did All The Love Go_' rather than 'Where Did All The Love Go?', or '09 Ladies And Gentleman (Roll The' instead of 'Ladies And Gentleman (Roll The Dice)'.

I've checked the metadata in Windows Explorer and it is very definitely all there, and it's all correct.

This doesn't happen with music I ripped directly into iTunes, so I guess re-ripping all the other CDs would be one way of fixing it, but it would be a laborious process and not much of a solution.

Is there any way I can tell iTunes to display the metadata for song titles rather than the filename?


texts: Cursor freezes for a split second around every 10 seconds

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My cursor on my Mac (running the latest version of El Capitan) has been freezing for a split second around every 10 seconds – it then reappears in the place it should've been if it hadn't disappeared.

I've tried using a different mouse – still occurs. And have done a PRAM reset.

Anyone have a clue of what could fix this?


texts: osascript Expected end of line but found class name?

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Not really sure what its expecting here, I assume its around click button though. This used to work on 10.10.3, but seems to have stopped on 10.10.4?

Script

function AcceptSecurity ()
{
osascript <<EOF
  tell application "System Events"
    repeat while exists (processes where name is "SecurityAgent")
      tell process "SecurityAgent"
        click button "Allow" group 1 of window 1
      end tell
      delay 0.2
    end repeat
  end tell
EOF
}

Exact error 165:170: syntax error: Expected end of line but found class name. (-2741)


texts: Is there any automatic way to change multiple Mac Calendar events from a  to a  event?

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I'm using Mac's Calendar under Catalina. As a pilot, I fly amongst so many time-zones so often, I've been using Calendar with Time Zone turned off, keeping everything on my local (body) time, no matter where I am. This includes my Mac (no automatic time zone update under System Preferences>Date & Time). Personally, this setup has worked great for me. Any event entry would automatically show up as e.g. "Dentist   12:00" or Departure    19:30".

However I somehow made an error (probably playing around with the System Pref's Date & Time time zone tab recently) which made all my Calendar entries now show my local time zone to the right of the actual set time , e.g. "12:00 CET", or "19:30 CEST" (having just changed to Summer time in Europe). Apart from taking up a big chunk of the limited line display in a Day event in the Monthly view, it's just outright annoying as I already KNOW what time zone the event is in – MY time.

My problem is I cannot seem to turn this off anymore. The only way to get rid of the CET/CEST is to change each and every entry I have manually into a floating event. With some 20 years of events on record, I was wondering if there is an app or script that will allow me to change any event automatically into a floating event.

Any help much appreciated!


texts: How to use a pipe in a script optionally

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How can I achieve the conditional usage of a pipe for a command execution in a script.

It looks like this

#!/bin/bash
XCPRETTY=" | xcpretty"
if [ $(which xcpretty | wc -l) == 0 ]; then
    XCPRETTY=""
fi
xcodebuild archive ....... $XCPRETTY || exit 1


texts: How could passwords on OSX keychain for one user end up in another?

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Our home MacBook has two users on it: my wife's and mine.  This morning we noticed when logged in as my wife's user that in the KeyChain Access it has all of my web passwords.  Including passwords I only use on my work laptop.  How is this possible?

To clarify exactly what's going on let's define some things:

MacBooks

Home-macbook
Husband-work-macbook

Apple/iTunes accounts

Wife-apple-account
Husband-apple-account

OSX users on home-macbook

Wife-osx-user (uses Wife-apple-account)
Husband-osx-user (uses Husband-apple-account)

OSX users on work-macbook

Employee-osx user (uses Husband-apple-account)

So this is what happened exactly:  On Home-macbook, logged in as Wife-osx-user, we could see passwords in the KeyChain Access program that were only ever used on work-macbook as Employee-osx.

Now if Employee-osx passwords showed up on Home-macbook when logged into Husband-osx-user, that could make some sense.  But why are the passwords being shared between users?  Are they linked through OSX somehow and can I turn that off?

One important note is that this home-macbook was recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Yosemite.

Update

When I delete these passwords from the KeyChain Access app, they almost immediately are re-added automatically!  How can I stop this?!


texts: How can I open the .dmg install window on top of everything?

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Possible Duplicate:
  When opening a DMG file, how do I get it to open up in front of the windows?

Whenever I open up a .dmg file, it just gets opened, but it stays under everything that I've got open.
Right now I would have to launch Mission Control to see the opened .dmg window and then click on it, to become visible at the top.

How can I set it up to behave in a way, that when I open up a .dmg file, it gets displayed on top of everything?


texts: How to create a custom Desktop Background slideshow?

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I would like to have certain pictures as a slideshow on my Desktop background.
Currently, to do this, I am moving default pictures to a backup folder and putting my images there.
Isn't there an easy way to do this?

(I found an answer posted below)


texts: How to copy data from harddrive to time capsule over USB connection via OSX terminal?

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I want to copy a big amount of data from a harddrive to a time capsule controlled drive.so I put the harddrive via USB to the capsule and connect to the capsule server with a Mac. But when I then move the data to a folder on the time capsule drive by drag&drop it seems to me that the copying goes over WIFI instead of the directest USB data connection way. This takes aeons! Isn't there a way to tell the capsule server to copy the data over their USB connection? thnx!
(I asked the same on stackoverflow, but maybe this is the right place for this kind of question?)


texts: Can I install Mavericks if I upgrade my RAM?

texts: I have an early 2008 MacBook with 2GB of RAM and I would like to install OS X Mavericks onto it. However, I am not able to install the OS due to the age of my computer. If I upgrade my computer's RAM (to at least 4GB), will I then be able to upgrade to Mavericks?


texts: What does a vanilla jailbreak offer over a vanilla iOS firmware?

texts: Based on my experience for the two minutes for which my device was jailbroken, I saw little difference between a jailbroken device and nonjailbroken device. All I noticed was a little Cydia icon. Presumably I can add software via Cydia, but I'm curious to know what else jail breaking offers out of the box on an iPhone 4 running iOS 5. Is Cydia really the only starting point, or do other settings magically appear in the Settings app or elsewhere? Are there other benefits?


texts: Apple provides developers to add a SignInWith apple button in the ios apps.Does Apple also provides the SignUpWith apple button too?


texts: Apple Enterprise account taking too much time for verification

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I enrolled in an Apple Enterprise account, and after 13 days I got a call from Apple and they verified my company. They then told me that they will call me again for further verification. Its been 20 days and still no response.

I called Apple for the status of my account, but they only have one answer: your enrollment is still being processed -- don't worry.

After several months I’m not getting the feeling Apple is going to approve this. Can I take any actions to expedite this?