texts: Why does VTEncoderXPCService take up all my cpu?

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2010 Macbook Pro. Pretty frequently, my mac will spend over 100% cpu on VTEncoderXPCService. It causes the fan to spin up and it causes the computer to get hot.

ps -ef | grep -i vtencoder

shows

01   879     1   0 Mon10PM ??       261:54.85 /System/Library/Frameworks/VideoToolbox.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/VTEncoderXPCService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/VTEncoderXPCService

which doesn't shed much light on the situation for me.

I'm not doing anything with video when this happens, either.

Any thoughts on what this is doing and/or how I can get it to not heat up my laptop so much?


texts: Subscription management with iTunes id (restrict the user from creating multiple subscription on same iTunes ID)

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I am working on an Auto-renewable subscription based application. We are using In-App purchase (StoreKit) option for the payment.
I have 2 subscription plans.

Monthly subscription
Yearly subscription

At the time of registration, the user should purchase any of the subscriptions mentioned above.

The problem I am facing can be stated as follows:

-> The Apple device is logged in using an iTunes id itunesone@gmail.com

-> One user say, userone@gmail.com creates an account in my app, and purchase a monthly subscription plan.

-> Now the purchased subscription is associated with iTunes id itunesone@gmail.com

-> Now, suppose if a second user say, usertwo@gmail.com tries to create another account with the same iTunes id itunesone@gmail.com

-> My requirement is that I should not allow the user to create a second account with the same iTunes id. How can I accomplish this?

-> If I allow the user to proceed and if the user tries to buy the same Monthly plan, apple store will return something like You are already subscribed to this plan. But if the user tries to purchase the second plan, that is the Yearly plan, An upgrade will happen which will completely mess up my backend.

-> Is there any way to get some data which will uniquely represent each iTunes id? So, using this I can solve my issue. Or else what I can do to stop the user from creating another account when there is already a subscription exists with the same iTunes id?

Note: Restore purchase was one option(not a good option, still). But it will confuse the user when there is a fresh registration happens and I don't think that is a good approach.


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My OSX Lion MacBook Pro suddenly seems to be unable to connect to any website via HTTPS.  HTTP works fine, but HTTPS seems to just time out.  Using netcat:

Mithril:~ mitch$ nc google.com 80
GET /
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.ca/

But if I try the same thing on port 443, the request just seems to sit there forever.  Trying to access any HTTPS website with Chrome gets me a message that the server took too long to respond.  Safari seems to wait forever, but never get anything back.  I'm also seeing some SSL errors in the Console:

11-12-21 11:47:59.621 AM [0x0-0xc4cc4c].com.google.Chrome: [62652:24579:633336744818573:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_nss.cc(1536)] handshake with server www.google.com:443 failed; NSS error code -5938, net_error -107
11-12-21 12:13:14.404 PM [0x0-0x18c08bf].com.adiumX.adiumX: cdsa: SSLHandshake failed with error -9806 (connection closed via error)

A quick Google search reveals that I don't seem to be the only one with this problem, but I can't access half the results because discusssions.apple.com requires HTTPS.  The ones I can access have been entirely unhelpful.

I don't have any parental controls turned on, and other devices on the same network have no trouble connecting via HTTPS.  What's going on?


texts: OSX “Microsoft Remote Desktop (MSRD)” redefine shortcut not works

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Typically on OSX remaping of keyboard shortcuts works well.

In "Microsoft Remote Desktop (MSRD)" it works well too but previous keystrokes still exist:

OSX > System Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcuts > Add
Application: "Microsoft Remote Desktop"
Menu Title: "Close Connection"
Keyboard Shortcut: "Alt+Shift+W"

I can close with Alt+Shift+W and also with the default Cmd+W.

This is not OSX default behaviour so I think it is BUG.

Does anybody have a solution?


texts: How to install working GrowlVoice from scratch on Mac OS 10.9.5 (Mavericks)?

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As of April 2014, Google Voice apparently broke the GrowlVoice 2.0.3 interface. Since then various fixes/patches/etc have arisen. I need a procedure to reliably (re)install a working variant on Mac OS 10.9.5--I don't (yet) want to upgrade to Yosemite. I have to reinstall every time I'm forced to reboot my laptop, and on the last reboot, all my past tricks (that I can remember at least, derived from these sources) appear to be failing, with this result: "Sign in error: The operation couldn't be completed. (com.google.HTTPStatus error 404.)"

I need a "from scratch," Mac OS 10.9.5 procedure to get Growl Voice working:

Remove all existing, conflicting files/artifacts.
Install http://www.growlvoice.com/trials/growlvoice-2.0.3.zip or some other canonical source of the App.
Fix/patch/whatever #2.
Preferably: make the above work through reboots.

Since I'm having trouble on this latest (re)install, I need a full, autonomous procedure (to de-install all pertinent and potentially-conflicting files, install GrowlVoice, install patches, etc); most if not all the procedures here appear to be partials.


texts: Where is the keyboard profile file stored on my MacBook for VMware Fusion 8?

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I am trying to add some keyboard shortcuts to VMware Fusion 8 but the dialog is kinda wonky:

Here the two dropdowns doesn't drop down, so any key I don't have on my MacBook is impossible to configure. For instance, I was trying to configure Cmd+Right to be the Windows End key, since I'm programming in Visual Studio I want quick keyboard navigation, however, since the dropdown doesn't drop down, it is impossible for me to pick the End key.

So, the configuration file that contains this keyboard profile, does anyone know where on my system this is stored so perhaps I can hack it directly in there?


texts: Unable to uncheck the "Encrypt Backup" box, in iTunes 11

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I am running iTunes 11, and have just plugged in my iPad 2 (running iOS 6.1.2) in.

I would like my back-ups to be unencrypted, but I can't uncheck the check box that would allow me to, as you can see in the screenshot:

Anyone know how to fix this?

I do know the backup password, and have tried changing it but to no avail.


texts: USB-3 drive ejects unexpectedly while writing large amount of data on it

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I have a 5 TB Seagate external drive connected to a 2012 MacBook Pro (non Retina) through a USB-3 connector that always gets ejected while I am copying files to it. When I try to copy large amounts of data to it, I get the message Drive was not ejected properly after about 20 to 30 seconds. I have macOS Sierra installed on that MacBook Pro. Before, I was using this drive with a 2011 MBP with OS X Yosemite, and it did not have that problem.

I have googled this issue, but all I find is posts from people complaining that their drive gets ejected when their Mac goes to sleep, which is not the case here. I can leave my drive connected to my MBP for hours, and it won't get ejected unexpectedly unless I copy files to it.

Anyone else has had that problem? Did you find a solution?

UPDATE:

It happens on both USB ports, and it does not happen if I use another drive of different brand with the same USB cable.

I also tried the copying files from a MacBook Air running El Capitan to the Seagate drive, and there was no problem.

If I connect the Seagate drive to a docking station that is connected through a Thunderbolt cable to my MBP, then there is no problem copying the files.

UPDATE 2:

I booted my MBP from an external drive with Yosemite on it, and I tried copying large files to the Seagate USB drive again. There was not problem. So the problem seems to be related to macOS Sierra.


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On my MacBook with OS Mojave, Command Shift Period (show hidden files) stop working. How to restore it??
Thanks in advance!


texts: Using AppleScript to open an application without the app stealing focus

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I use iA Writer enough that I would like it to open in fullscreen on login, but unfortunately the developers have disdain for preferences.

I decided to write an AppleScript that I could add to the startup list, but I can't get it to work properly. I'd like to open a specific file using iA Writer on login, in 10.8 fullscreen mode, but without changing focus from my normal desktop, or a least automatically returning me to my primary desktop after launch. EDIT: Here is my code after suggested edits:

set front_application to front window
tell (application "iA Writer") to open (POSIX file "/PATH/TO/FILE.txt")
activate application "iA Writer"
#EDITED# tell application "System Events" to keystroke "f" using {command down, control down}
#ADDED# delay 1
#ADDED# tell application "System Events" to keystroke "1" using control down
end tell
activate front_application

This code successfully opens the file with iA Writer in fullscreen, but switches to the new, iA Writer-controlled desktop, waits a moment, and switches back to my main desktop.

Since OS X's change from spaces to desktops, I don't even know if it is even possible to open an application in Mountain/Lion fullscreen without it stealing focus and forcing a desktop switch.

Many thanks to @Lauri Ranta for your help thus far!

Any further help, regarding keeping iA Writer from switching desktops when becoming fullscreen, would be very appreciated.
Thanks!


texts: Can Disk Utility and Disk Warrior be used on a Fusion volume containing Mac OS X

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I have Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 running in a VMware Fusion 4.1.3 virtual machine.  When I run a Disk Utility "Verify Disk" from within the VM, errors are reported.

Invalid B-tree node size
The volume   could not be verified completely.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your
computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc),
and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.

I have successfully mounted the .vmdk volume using VMDKMounter.app (from Fusion 3) after installing Fuse for OS X 2.4.2.
The problem is that both Disk Utility & Disk Warrior want to unmount the volume before making repairs.  Both apps then produce error dialogs.
Is there a way of running these utilities on a Fusion volume?


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Hitting ⌘ + Z Undoes the last action, and ⌘ + ⇧ + Z Redoes it.
In order to see what exactly you are about to Undo/Redo, you can click on "Edit" on the top of the screen.

Question:
What is the keyboard shortcut to find out what exactly you are about to Undo/Redo?


texts: How to set PKG target location in the pre-install script (pkgbuild)?

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Our app needs as little down-time as possible while being updated, for this reason, we are trying the following PKG install procedure:

The PKG create a unique folder: /Library/Application Support/<app-name>_Versions/<version>_<N> (where N is a counter, increased for each re-install)
The PKG install in that folder
The PKG link (symbolic link) the full folder to /Library/Application Support/<app-name> and restart the application.
If restarting the application fails, the link is recreated to the previous successful install. So a bugged version should not carry much down time.
If successful, the successful install is registered and previous installs deleted.

However, while it is easy to add a pre-script to create the unique folder and a post-script to make the link and start check, I could not find a way to set the PKG target install location in the pre-script.
For example:
pkgbuild --root "<app content>" --install-location="/Library/Application Support/<app-name>" --scripts="<project-scripts>" <target.pkg>

This script will always install to /Library/Application Support/<app-name> and not to the unique folder created by the pre-script. The unique folder is not known at packaging time unfortunately, but only at install time.
How to specify the PKG install target location in the pre-script? Or is there a standard approach to this?


texts: Why does my iPhone keep prompting me for my Apple ID?

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For approximately the last week or so, my iPhone 4S seems to have developed a behavior whereby it keeps prompting me for my Apple ID password on roughly 50% of the occassions when I turn it on, and sometimes at other times too. There doesn't seem to be any consistent pattern. Whether I enter my password, or hit cancel, doesn't seem to make a difference.

What might cause this? What are good ways to diagnose or figure out what might be going on, ideally without too much disruption? (e.g. wiping the phone).

I am using iOS 6.1.3.


texts: Calendar not sending acceptance notifications to meeting organisers (ICS invites)

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I am working with iCloud, iPhone and Macbook Pro on Yosemite.

I receive ICS calendar invites via mail from a user using Outlook. When I click on the ICS file in the mail, it opens and I can add it to my calendar without a problem. It also syncs nicely on all my devices.

However, the sender of the invite does not get a confirmation, in the meeting properties I'm shown as "did not reply". When I open the invite in my calendar, I have no option to accept or send a notification.

In short: ICS invites are added to my calendar but the organizer does not receive a notification.

How can I send an accept notification?


texts: Built-in keyboard prints gibberish but external USB keyboard works fine

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I have a Macbook Pro 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 running OSX 10.9.5. After my mac went to sleep the built-in keyboard didn't seem to be working properly. It was printing characters like: åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπΩ≈ç√∫˜µ≤≥, which after I checked later look like the normal keyboard characters when holding the options button. I had the options button disabled in the first place.

Things I tried:

Keyboard viewer works the exact same way with the built-in keyboard, which makes me think that it may not be a HW issue. I pressing for example button a on the virtual keyboard and I get å.
I activated sticky keys to make sure that the option button wasn't stuck or something. It was fine.
I plugged a USB keyboard which works fine (phew!).

I was thinking to upgrade to Mavericks and hopefully this will solve the problem but any other ideas or suggestions will be much appreciated.


texts: Disk space consumption issues after Mac OS upgrade

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I recently upgraded to Mojove OS for my Macbook Air-2015 model(128G storage). After the upgrade I had 35GB of storage space marked as free in my Storage preferences.

As I use my system over the period of day the free storage shrinks. In an hour it shrinks up by 2-3 GB and after few hours I run into the infamous "Free up some space" popup and the storage space is now reduced to under 5GB.

I investigated and there are no hidden apps/content caching/cloud backups etc. In fact my diskutil shows that all this space is being used by the VM that my Mac OS is using for swap space. All my free memory is being gobbled up by the VM.

Also I must mention that I am not doing any heavy lifting with my Mac - no coding, no editing etc. All I use my Mac for is to read a few documents(mostly pdf that too with the default Preview app) and a few tabs on chrome(not more than 5 at a time). I use the web primarily for surfing or youtube and rarely download more than a couple of documents. Also i close all opened apps using Cmd+Q after finished using.

Now the way I have been dealing with this is to switch off my laptop and on reboot I immediately get all 35GB of free storage space back.
I want to understand what is going on and how can i deal with this situation better. More specifically,

1) Why is VM taking so much space which keeps on increasing despite very similar nature of usage throughout the day. (I get it why it must increase as I load more apps but it keeps increasing monotonically without any correlation to my usage)?

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texts: Send batch emails from terminal with attachments

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I would like to write a bash script that does the following:

Read from an excel file a column of email addresses
For each email address (say person1@wherever) attach an associated file (say person1.xlsx) and send email with standard body.

In parts I have most of what I need except the mail bit doesn't seem to work for me. I tried the following:
echo "hello world" | mail -s "test email" geoff@here.com

Yet the email doesn't arrive. In the terminal under mail I see:
N  1 MAILER-DAEMON@Name  Sat Jun 27 12:02  72/2630  "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender"

I have Mac OSX Catalina.


texts: Always open a particular folder in a specific view

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I went to the folder /Users/username and right click the Desktop folder -> selected show view options -> ticked Always open in icon view, browse in icon view

Now I closed the popup and manually changed the view of Desktop folder to list view and closed the folder and opened a new finder window again. I expected the Desktop folder to be opened in icon view but it is still opening in list view

What am I doing wrong here?


texts: Difference between FileVault and setting a partition format to Mac OS (Journaled, Encrypted)

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Since I have multiple partitions (some for Linux and some for Mac OS) I can't enable File Vault. It somehow complains that it can't do the encryption, given that there are other partitions.

Now what I thought about is reformatting the MacOS (Journaled) partition to Mac OS (Journaled, Encrypted) and then reload the image via TimeMachine. However, I'm not sure whether this will work (since File Vault doesn't work, and whether it's possible to load a unencrypted Time Machine Backup onto an encrypted partition) and how the boot process will look like (to get into the encrypted drive).

Do you have any suggestions for a guide that will show how this will work? Is there a difference between enabling FileVault and just changing the partition format on a hard-drive? Also, is there a difference in performance between the two methods?


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Sometimes when I create a service in Automator, I want it to always appear in the Finder contextual menu, not just when I have a selected a file or folder.
The services are always either pure applescript or pure bash, so if it can be done some other way without using Automator, I'm also satisfied.


texts:
Can I tell whether my hard drive has been cloned? I had a repair done and do not know what they performed on the computer; they may have replaced my hard drive with the same model and cloned my information to it- I am not entirely sure if they did this. I have a Macbook Pro, 2012 model.

I read online somewhere that the Volume Creation date, or "date created" would update to the time when the clone was done- basically when the volume was created on that new drive. All other information would be identical. Is this one way to tell...? Please let me know. Thanks all!


texts: Watch youtube moview on a Mac using QuickTime

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Is it possible to watch youtube videos on a Mac using QuickTime as it is on iOS?
How to force Safari to render youtube video stream in QT plugin.


texts: Mountain Lion - Finder - Search by file name

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I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and I seem to be missing one bit of functionality that I used all the time in Finder. I could press Command+Shift+F and search for files by file name. Now pressing Command+Shift+F takes me to the "all my files" folder.

Did they reassign the keyboard shortcut for search by file name?


texts: Is there Maps application on non-3G iPad 2?

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As I know iPad 3G can define user's location using A-GPS module, and there is a Maps application which is closely related to this functionality.

But can non-3G iPads define user's location basing on WiFi routers position, for example? Is there any Maps application?


texts: How to check the exit status of an application after using 'open' in shell

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I've looked all over for this and I'm not entirely sure how to do this.

I want to use a bash script to open an application using 'open' and then check the exit status of the application after it has finished.

As far as I am aware, open -W will exit with status 0 so long as the application did open, I'm not interested in this exit, I'm interested in the apps exit.

Currently I have the following script:

trap "echo manual abort; exit 1"  1 2 3 15;
while open -W /path/to/MyApp.app
    echo "all is well"
done

exit 0

Which opens the app and then waits, if the exit status is 0 it will re-open the app again after closing. This is intended however, what I want is to be able to stop this script if the app itself didn't exit 0 rather than the command 'open' successfully exiting.

So in short:

Open MyApp.app

if MyApp.app (not open) crashes, stop the script, otherwise, re-open MyApp.app


texts: Preview accessing closed files (El Cap 10.11.3)

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on El Cap (I noticed this since upgrade to 10.11.3) Preview keeps accessing closed PDF files, which means I cannot empty the trash.  In fact the problem exists even if Preview is not running.  I open a file, close Preview and the file, trash it, try to empty the trash and I get 'the file is in use'.  Just now:

:~$ lsof .Trash/tutorial-strata.pdf
COMMAND     PID      USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF      NODE NAME
Preview   62216 me  txt    REG    1,4   196236 109606954 .Trash/tutorial-strata.pdf
QuickLook 71216 me  txt    REG    1,4   196236 109606954 .Trash/tutorial-strata.pdf

(as you might notice Quicklook wanted some of the action despite the fact I did not activate a preview of the file).  How can I stop this most annoying behaviour?

#

following GhostLyrics' suggestion I run:

:~$ ps -ef|grep Prev
  501  2411     1   0 12:00am ??         0:08.49 /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview -psn_0_28633933
  501  2412     1   0 12:00am ??         0:00.01 /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.Preview.TrustedBookmarksService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.Preview.TrustedBookmarksService
  501 16880 57035   0 12:36pm ttys000    0:00.00 grep Prev

so Preview is still running in the background despite the fact it is not open (according to the Dock):

Hence it looks like that preview is not actually closing properly for some reason or another....


texts: What is the latest version of Java for macOS High Sierra?

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On my High Sierra Mac

java --version

gives

java version "1.8.0_172"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_172-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.172-b11, mixed mode)

but in Oracle's documentation and list of downloads I see references to versions that are much higher, notably 9 or even 10.

What is the most up to date version of Java intended for use with for use on macOS High Sierra?


texts: Can't allow blocked software (HAXM) to run on macOS 10.13

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I'm trying to install HAXM for Android Studio on macOS 10.13. I went to the 'Security & Privacy' panel in order to allow the software to run, but I've run into an issue.

No matter how many times I press 'Allow', nothing seems to happen. The message and button remain... I've even rebooted. It's still there.


texts: I recall having 'Good News' and 'Bad News' voices for say commands on my older Mac, but now I don't have these. Where can I get them?


texts: How to put Desktop on External Drive/Non-System Partition?

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Is it possible to get something like a symbolic link/alias to direct to another folder on an external hard drive and still have the files display on the desktop?

I used:

sudo rm -rf ~/Desktop
sudo ln -s /Volumes/<partition_label>/Desktop ~/Desktop

But the Desktop is just blank, and when I drag files onto the Desktop, they disappear and are copied to /Volumes/<partition_label>/Desktop

I recently tried replacing the Desktop with an alias instead, but I now only get a cancel icon popping up next to the cursor when I drag a file over it.  The partition is exFat so it's compatible with my tri-boot. I'm doing this so files are automatically available on each Desktop.

Any ideas to get this working?

I was also thinking about an alternative, something that automatically moved a file to /Volumes/<partition_label>/Desktop/<file_name> when it was dragged to ~/Desktop and replaced with a symbolic link or alias on ~/Desktop.  Is that a viable alternative?


texts:
Yesterday i noticed that my Finder's layout for the "Recents" tab changed out of the blue; my view options for Recents are "Group by: Kind" & "Sort by: Date Last Opened" for anyone's reference.

Before it used to display from top to bottom as: Images, PDF Documents, Presentations... currently now it's: Presentations, PDF Documents, Images ... The only contributing factor i could think of that may have caused this is when i restarted my computer well before i noticed the change; further restarts dont seem to change it back to the original layout it displayed.

Has anyone else noticed that their Recents tab in the Finder changed the layout/display as well? What exactly could have caused Finder to change its layout? Why did this change occur and is there a way to change it back?


texts: script to preview two .png s side by side?

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I want to display A.png and B.png together, A left / B right or A top / B bottom.
I can of course

preview A.png
preview B.png

separately, then resize and move the two windows next to each other,
but that's a pain if you do it a lot.  Can it be scripted ?
If not, is there an opensource preview-like that can display side-by-side ?

(I have 10.8.3 .
if-preview-app-in-os-x-is-not-applescriptable-why-does-this-work
on SO has a comment
"Preview does have an AppleScript dictionary by default in 10.9 but not in earlier versions of OS X."
)


texts: Restarting iPhone 6 Plus during Restore preventing the Restore from happening

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In an attempt to restore my iPhone 6 Plus, and update it to the latest iOS version, my iPhone 6 Plus keeps on restarting during the Restore. It happens during the stage where iTunes displays Extracting software...

After it's very quick reboot (It only flashes the white screen, and darkened Apple logo for a split second), it returns to the iTunes logo with and arrow and lightning charger below it. The problem is that iTunes then looses connection with the device and when it comes to actually restoring it - It fails.

It would be fantastic if anyone could help me with this.

As a note, I am using MacOS Sierra on a MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid-2010) and iTunes is the latest version currently available to my device.


texts: Cleaning ‘staining’ off bottom of MacBook screen

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A couple months ago, I started to see some very small stain spots on the bottom of my MacBook Pro early 2015 screen. It's very annoying to see while I'm using it. When the screen is turned off, I see it as in the picture below. But when it's turned on, I see it as very small water-ish drops.
I tried to clean it using water, screen cleaner, and even alcohol, but it didn't go away.

Also that area doesn't feel as smooth as the unaffected area. So, I think it's on the outside of my screen not inside.

Have you ever seen this before? Any suggestions on how to remove it without the need of replacing the whole screen?


texts: L2TP/VPN data corruption issue on macOS 10.12

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I am experiencing a strange data corruption issue while working on a L2TP VPN, after upgrading from macOS 10.11 to 10.12.  Random corrupted data occurs in the middle of somewhat "larger" downloaded files, e. g. JavaScript resources or any other source files with a file size around 1 ~ 2 MB. It seems the corruption comes up occasionally at file sizes < 1 MB, but quite reliable at file sizes above. The position and content appears to be random. I am attaching a screenshot containing an example of the file corruption which occured in a 1.4 MB JavaScript file.

I never had any problems concerning this on macOS 10.10 or 10.11 and the latest issue results in very annoying consequences. E. g. I am not able to access JS-heavy web apps anymore. Furthermore it is risky to work in live systems of enterprise software when downloading, patching and uploading files. People around me using the same VPN on macOS 10.12 have the very same problem, whereas people still working on macOS 10.11 have no trouble at all.

Does anyone else experience this problem? How can I troubleshoot this?

Also relating to an older post in Apple Communities describing a similar (or the same?) issue in older macOS versions:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/30908122?start=0&tstart=0#30908122

Edit 2016-11-08

What's interesting: scp (SSH) downloads are interrupted by an error.

xyz-macbook:Downloads xyz$ scp xyz@192.168.227.123:/srv/www/xyz/ext-5.0.1/build/ext-all.js .
xyz@192.168.227.123's password:
ext-all.js    0%    0     0.0KB/s   --:-- ETACorrupted MAC on input.
ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to 192.168.227.123 port 22: message authentication code incorrect
lost connection

Whereas curl (HTTP) downloads finish, but contain the above-mentioned corrupted characters.

xyz-macbook:Downloads xyz$ curl "http://192.168.227.123/xyz/ext-5.0.1/build/ext-all.js" -o "ext-all.js"
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 1952k  100 1952k    0     0  1728k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 1729k

Edit 2016-11-11

The corrupted data is different with every download of one and the same file:

xyz-macbook:Downloads xyz$ md5 dummy_novpn.txt
MD5 (dummy_novpn.txt) = ca323efb28ed75534f8f6b7b0237d9da
xyz-macbook:Downloads xyz$ md5 dummy_vpn.txt
MD5 (dummy_vpn.txt) = 060bbe9846e7845993041a1481c34b93
xyz-macbook:Downloads xyz$ md5 dummy_vpn2.txt
MD5 (dummy_vpn2.txt) = dacfc661f9a85606afbdfefa72d50516
xyz-macbook:Downloads xyz$ md5 dummy_vpn3.txt
MD5 (dummy_vpn3.txt) = 8c3f06f9ee440947a9e5864748bd7010


texts: pencil tip stuck in charger port of iPhone 6

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My 2 year old stuck a pencil tip in the port charger of my iPhone 6. I am now not able to insert the charger into the port. I tried removing the graphite with a nail file but it won't come out.

What are my options at this point?


texts: How can I disable all stack exhange sites except stackoverflow.com?

texts: How can I set SelfControl to only accept visits to stackoverflow.com, but none of the other sites on the stack exchange network? I want to become more productive, but the clickbait with abusive bosses, dumb coworkers and D&D rules are all too enticing...


texts: Are non-Apple lightning cables and power transformers safe to use?

texts:
I need to buy an Apple 12W USB Power Adapter for my iPhone 5.

In eBay you can find replicas for one third of the price. Do you know if these can ruin your phone? I am more cautious about a third party adapter than just a simple cable, so if you could address if a third party cable were OK or more safe to use with an Apple Power Adapter.


texts: Install Keynote on a third generation ipad

texts:
I have a third generation Ipad with ios 9.5.3.

In the app store I can try to buy Keynote.

Everytime I do that, the app store begin telling me that I need IOS 10.

Before IOS 10, how could people get keynote on a third generation ipad?

And now?


texts: iTunes 11: Viewing albums by Date Added?

texts:
I buy music on a regular basis, so it's important to me to be able to see what albums I've just added to my collection. That way I can listen to my new purchases easily, without having to remember some obscure band name that's buried deep within my collection.

I used to be able to do this in the Zune software, is it possible in iTunes 11?


texts: How can I upgrade an old iMac from 10.6.8?

texts:
Model: iMac11,2 (Core i3-550, MC509LL/A)

It was shipped with Snow Leopard 10.6.4, and I managed to update to 10.6.8 via Apple Software Update. After some research I found that this old iMac is capable of running Sierra (10.12.x) and made a few attempts to upgrade.

I noticed that I must first upgrade it to Lion (10.7.5) or El Capitan (10.11.6), both of which are no longer available from the Mac App Store.

But, all info I found from Google tells me to upgrade via MAS. (That's why I'm adding a month in the title.) Any ideas?


texts: Dotted underlines in Word for Macbook users 2011

texts: I am doing an editorial job and need to underline some words with red dotted underlines. How do you do this using Word for Mac users? The version I have is 2011, on a MacBook with Snow Leopard software.


texts: Why these window couldn't appear in the right location after enabling "Auto hide menubar" feature on macOS Catalina?

texts:
On my mac, I have enabled auto hide menubar and auto hide Dock. After then, I found some applications didn't work as expected.
Like Noizio, which is a white noise generation app, it often starts as mini windows append below the menubar like this.

And I can use a shortcut to toggle this window when menubar is shown.
But when menubar is hidden.
The window toggled will appear at the left bottom with an ugly border. Just like this:

This problem occurred with many applications, like "text scanner" (A text recognition app), "Calendar 366" (A calendar management app), I doubt the same reason causes it. Maybe when menubar is hidden, these Apps couldn't know the location where it should draw. But some other apps like Fantastical works well as this situation.
Does anyone have more information about this problem? Can I do something to fix this problem?


texts: iPhone sends notifications to another iphone

texts: I have two iphones that use the same apple ID. Calls to one phone now ring on both phones at the same time and notifications are sent to just one - meaning iphone A gets notifications for iphoen A and iphone B. Other than signing out of the same icloud account, is there a way to disconnect the phones so notifications and call going to iphone B will go to it and not iphone A, and vice versa?


texts: Disable 'find cursor' shortcut in iTerm2

texts:
By default iTerm2 uses shortcut ⌘/ to find cursor on screen.
And I want the sortcut ⌘/ to apply to another action.
But I can't find out how to do this on new version of iTerm2.
How to disable find cursor shortcut in iTerm2?


texts: With watchOS 2 it looks like Activation Lock is enabled by default. How do I turn off Activation Lock on Apple Watch? I want to know for when the time comes to sell my watch or have it serviced.


texts: Is there a way to keep your app icons sorted by name in LaunchPad?

texts:
It seems that LaunchPad is not remembering the position of my app icons. I manually sorted them by name, but every now and then it will shuffle them.

I have not yet identified the pattern that resets the icons (my best guess is that it is after every restart). I have also not identified the pattern on which it resets the icons themselves, but it seems to leave Apple's own apps grouped together, followed by my Mac App Store purchases at the bottom.

Is anybody else experiencing this behavior and is there a way to keep all icons sorted by name? Thanks.


texts: Yosemite won't boot in safe mode with Shift held down

texts:
I'm investigating some slowness with my late '13 rMBP which I upgraded to Yosemite on Sunday. Problem is, I can't boot into safe mode by holding the Shift when restarting or powering up.

I tried everything: Pressing and holding it right after I power up, right after I hear the chime, after restarting, after total shut down. Just doesn't work.

Should I be worried?


texts: Recover Files and Folders deleted from iOS Files App

texts:
I accidentally deleted files and folders from the new 'Files' app on my iPhone and that action ended up deleting those files and folders from my Macbook (it's like syncing to the Desktop).

My iCloud account is full and now I can't find any way to recover these files.
I have no external backup for these items either.

Could there be a way to get these files back onto my Macbook?


texts:
I have updated to Yosemite on my MacBook Pro, and suddenly i cannot open Word.

It gives this info:

Process:               Microsoft Word [594]
Path:                  /Users/USER/Desktop/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word
Identifier:            com.microsoft.Word
Version:               ???
Build Info:            Unknown-141106~0
Code Type:             X86 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Microsoft Word [594]
User ID:               502

Date/Time:             2015-04-06 17:03:11.663 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C1514)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        5E349E81-3EE5-D375-6DA9-20CEBE23AAF4

Time Awake Since Boot: 1500 seconds

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: @rpath/mbukernel.framework/Versions/14/mbukernel
  Referenced from: /Users/USER/Desktop/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word
  Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
0x8fe5c000 - 0x8fe8fe03  dyld (353.2.1) <06B1254D-9BB9-327C-BA15-8F18FFF97586> /usr/lib/dyld

Model: MacBookPro7,1, BootROM MBP71.0039.B0E, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.62f7
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, NVIDIA GeForce 320M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384A53463235363634485A2D314731443120
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384A53463235363634485A2D314731443120
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.24)
Bluetooth: Version 4.3.2f6 15235, 3 services, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF, 250,06 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Device: Built-in iSight
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: USB Receiver
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Bus:

I can for some reason open Powerpoint... any ideas?


texts: How to fix permissions with Repair Disk Permissions?

texts:
I just installed Xcode 5.1 and the latest round of updates. I followed that with a Repair Disk Permissions. For some reason, Apple installs its software with broken permissions.

I then ran Repair Disk Permissions (Applications → Utilities → Disk Utility):

Now, XQuartz will not start:

In the above, Xquartz cannot write to /tmp after the permission repair because Repair Disk Permissions remove w from the link.

It appears the permissions in Disk Utility are broken out of the box, too. How does one modify the permission used by Disk Utility so that the utility will not break an installation? Is there a plist somewhere that can be tweaked?

I've been suffering these types of problems for years. Its like a death from 10,000 cuts. Why does Apple not test their software before unleashing it on unsuspecting users?


texts: Is an iPhone still carrier activated after factory reset?

texts: If I go through the process of erasing all content and settings (performing a factor reset), is the phone still activated/connected through my carrier? That is, can I perform a factory reset and then immediately make a phone call (or send a text message)?


texts: Mac Server app: Network users have proper permissions but Network Groups are unable to make changes to files

texts: I have a network group (all company users) that has full read/write access to all files on the Share but for some reason users continue to only have read permission. If I add the network users individually they are able to read/write again. Any ideas?


texts: Feasible to check out XML file from QuickLook?

texts:
How can I use QuickLook to check out XML file? I just want to quickly check out the contents of a file and don't have to open it in a format that can be subsequently modified, such as in TextEdit or Vim or whatever other editors out there. I even don't like to open it in Xcode using drag and drop - just want to push Space and glance at the contents there.

And it looks like QLStephen doesn't support XML/plist files. So is there any alternative way to glance at it from QuickLook?

I use OS X 10.9.2.


texts: MacBook Pro Retina lag when switching workspaces

texts:
I got a lag when I switch between workspaces (four fingers left/right).

Can somebody confirm this?

I assume this is the weak ivy bridge graphics. If this is true only the next generation will fix this....

Regards


texts: Does Apple allocate a different app id for an app when submitting multiple builds for different geos?

texts:
If I submit one build for the US and a different build for the rest of the world, will Apple give me 2 separate app ids? I.e. if everything is the same (app name, etc.) except for the actual game code, do I get one app id for the US and another one for the rest of the world?

This is important for cross promotion purposes, because if I hardcode the link to my app in another app then I might need to do some geo segmentation to account for the different app ids, depending on where the users are located.


texts: Inviting someone to iOS development team but restrict his access to one app

texts: I want to invite someone as team member to the iOS developer program. Is it possible to restrict his rights to only one app? He should be able to create/edit/delete certificates for app 1A but not for app 2B.


texts: Applescript - Contacts: Why can I get addresses and emails from a contact but not phones

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Errors when getting phones

In Script Editor, if I run:

tell application "Contacts" to get the vcard of person 301

the result is:

"BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//Mac OS X 10.13.6//EN
N:Bar;Foo;;; FN:Foo Bar
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK;type=pref:foobar@gmail.com
TEL;type=HOME;type=VOICE;type=pref:555 555 1212
CATEGORIES:Address Book
UID:1e6e6e410a662666
X-ABUID:18B18941-E2B7-48CE-BB34-4A26CC0E23BB:ABPerson
END:VCARD
"

Note that this person has an email address and a phone number. If I run:

tell application "Contacts" to get the value of emails of person 301

the result is:

  {"foobar@gmail.com"}

However if I run:

tell application "Contacts" to get the value of phones of person 301

I get

  error "Contacts got an error: Can’t get value of every phone of person 301." number -1728 from value of every phone of person 301

and if I run

tell application "Contacts" to get the phones of person 301

  error "Contacts got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000

What happens if the person doesn't have a phone number?

Edit: Based on one of the proposed answers to this post, I tried

tell application "Contacts"
    set thePhoneNumber to value of phones of people
end tell

which gave me something like

  {missing value, {}, missing value, missing value, ...}

with a lot more "missing values" and "{}s" because I have about 2000 entries in the database.

Investigating this, I found that the "missing value" appears for people who have phone numbers, and the "{}" appears for people who do not have phone numbers. If I run the same command with "emails", I get a list of email addresses for each person who has emails, and an empty list "{}" for people who don't.

This is on Mac OS 10.13.6, Contacts 11.0 (1808.8).

Have I discovered a bug or is there something wrong with my script?


texts: How can I copy Facebook birthdays to my iPhone's calendar?

texts:
(Well, I've googled it but couldn't find anything useful. All the sources I've found were obsolete. iOS and Facebook are continuously changing over time.)

I'd like to sync the birthdays of my friends on Facebook with my calendar on my iPhone 6 with iOS 9.1. The reason why I want to do that is I don't want to check Facebook everyday to see if there is a birthday on that day. I use the calendar on my iPhone several times a day and it would be very handy to have Facebook birthdays on my calendar.

How can I achieve this?


texts: USB Stick works on iMac, but on MacBook Pro not

texts:
i have a strange problem. I formated an usb-Stick (64GB) on my iMac (Mac Journaled Filesystem). Not encrypted, no password. It works fine on several devices (e.g. Popcorn Multimediabox), Windows-Computer (uuugh) and even on the iMac.
But if i plugges it to my Macbook Pro, the USB-Stick is not recognized there. Other Sticks works fine but this stupid single stick not.

This is the last chance for this stick. I'll give it to a poor life by a windows guy if there is no chance to fix it :-(.


texts: Why do I have to disconnect/reconnect my ethernet adapter?

texts:
I have a DongleBook Pro and I use a powered 7-port USB Hub. Connected to the Hub is a backup drive, an audio interface, an ethernet adapter, and some other stuff. The only device that causes me trouble is the ethernet adapter. For some reason, it won't actually give the computer internet unless I wake up the computer, unplug the adapter, then plug it back in.

When it's in the plugged in but no internet state I see the following in System Information, Network Utility, and System Preferences.

Like I said before, the only way to get it to work is to unplug and plug it back in. Any ideas?


texts: Where can I find a map of my MBP french keyboard layout?

texts:
I just moved to Mac and I need to get used to the keyboard of my Macbook Pro. I've seen images / maps of the QWERTY keyboards but could not find a proper one for French. I want to see what the modifier and options keys does etc. For example finding pipe (|)  was by luck but where the heck are the square brackets?!

Here is my layout:


texts: When I use iMessage the receiver always gets it via email and not phone number

texts: I know a lot of people have previously asked this question. However my problem still has not been solved. I have iMessage on. I am using iMessage via my Apple ID. Now where it says "receive at:", it shows my email, and it won't even let me remove the email. Plus it doesn't even have an option that shows my phone number. I have an iPhone 4S. I have tried opening iMessage without an Apple ID, however it says "Verifying" for hours and hours.


texts:
is there a way to change the highlighter colors back before capitan update? better yet, choose your own colors

i loved the vibrant colors used prior. now the new colors are boring, "lowlighters".

Can I crank up the intensity of the notes in any way?


texts: Mac App Store only downloading at only 12-20 kbps?

texts: So, I am trying to download an app from the Mac App Store and the download is only coming through at 12-20 kbps. I noticed it was also affecting iTunes downloads as well but all other applications seem to be working at full speed. What can I do to alleviate this problem?


texts: How can we force MacOS to forget that a specific file was downloaded from the web?

texts:
MacOS remember that things were downloaded. MacOS refuse to open or execute script downloaded and prompt the famous message:

  cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

Can I make MacOS forget this file was downloaded?

I know I can do a right-click -> open.  But I want to avoid the additional hassle for specific files. The protection is particularly annoying for bash script you may want to open in a text editor multiple time. I'm well aware of the risk of exectuting a downloaded script.

I also know I can remove the protection altogether, but I don't want that.

In the info of the files, you have the information but it's not editable:


texts: How do I vary the repeat an alert in say 2 hours then 30 min. then 5 min.?

texts:
Before Mavericks, I would respond to Alerts (was Alarms) to repeat in 2 hours, 5 min., 1 day, 1 day before event starts, etc., and when, for example, an alert repeats after 2 hours, I can then change the next repeat to 5 minutes...

Snooze-ing every 15 min. doesn't work (and gets very annoying): is this the 3rd or 6th snooze?

I don't want to have to create a new event each time an alert occurs. How do I vary the repeat?


texts: Is there an app that could create a daily checklist from a template?

texts:
I'm looking for an app that could automate some of my routines at work.

Each working day I start with checking emails, new issues in bugtrack, cup of coffee and etc.

Some of the work requires step by step following a checklist (new release for example).

Each time I need to create a new document, paste there a template of the checklist and follow it.

I wonder, is there an app that could add some automation in that process? Like create a daily checklist automatically or handle a history of each day.

Thanks.


texts:
I have this irritating issue with the latest version of Chrome on my Air running Lion.

At least once a day it ceases to work. It doesnt freeze or crash, it just will not search or go to any sites. If I enter a URL into the browser and hit enter nothing happens. I have to completely quite the program and start again.

Does anyone know why this would be happening?


texts: Force Preview to use freehand mode by default

texts: How to I make Preview use freehand mode by default while I'm drawing? It seems to want to smooth everything everytime.


texts: Is it possible to write a script to change the Energy Saver settings in OS X (10.7.3)?

texts:
Basically, whenever I know I'm going to be gone, or if I'm going to sleep, I change the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences in OS X (10.7.3) for Power Adapter to:

Computer sleep: 1 min
Display sleep: 1 min

If I know I'm going to be around a while, I like to change the Energy Saver settings for Power Adapter to:

Computer Sleep: 15 min
Display Sleep: 15 min

Is it possible to script this sort of change? I do it often enough that a script would be worth it.


texts: New iPhone SE (2020) initialized directly from old iPhone SE (2016) gives sync error -50

texts:
There is a related question, but it's very old and none of its answers work: iPhone backup or sync issue "unknown error occurred (-50)"

I was getting this error on my old iPhone SE. When I got the new one, I transferred the data from the old iPhone to the new one (directly via WiFi without going through iTunes), and now I get the same error on the new one. Must be related to something installed on it, but I have no idea what or how to look for it. I tried the other answer's thing about looking for dummy apps, didn't find any.

Funny thing is, I get this error when it goes through the sync process, but the sync seems to proceed anyway. The backup is complete, and all the music/photos seem to sync fine.


texts: Outlook 2011 for Mac "could not synchronize record"error

texts:
I keep getting hundreds of these "Could not synchronize record: [...]" errors, but the meetings and emails refered to in the Errors panel do not exist - I deleted them, and confirmed that they are not in any folder, calendar, or anywhere.

They say error number: 19759

E.g.:


texts: iOS simulator always saves images on desktop

texts: When pressed Command-S, the iOS simulator always saves screenshots on Desktop. How can I tell it to save it somewhere else?


texts: Downloading older versions of OSX from a store

texts:
I am having an old Mac Pro (I think it is mid or late 2007), which is actually not capable of running latest OS X nor latest Xcode... Still, it is pretty much fast ( dual core 2.66 GHz, 8 GB ram, 400GB hard-disk ...) for some other tasks. For example, it is perfect for running Android Studio on it...

But, currently I don't have an OS X installed on it. So I am trying to make a bootable USB with ideally OSX Yosemite installed on it. But there is no Yosemite available to download anymore (nor for example Mavericks).

I have found this question and there is a statement that if we have a paid apple developer account, we will be able to download older OS X versions. Still, even if I have a paid developer account for iOS development, I can't find nothing except Yosemite updates and combo updates.

Also I have tried to install Lion which coming along with Mac, but that didn't worked. I get message saying:

  Item temporarily unavailable

So, currently, I can't get this machine running anyhow.

Is there are way to download a Yosemite or Mavericks from a Store ? I don't know if the answers from above are outdated, or this is not possible ?


texts: Why is the steps data in Health app all the same on everyday?

texts:
I have noticed that the steps count on my iPhone’s Heath app somehow becomes the same on everyday.

I don’t really know when it will just “normalise” the count to become the same but it somehow does that after every few days later.

The count for the current day usually still looks alright, but the counts for the past day all look the same.

I think this probably happened after I upgraded my iOS to version 12.0.1. I have not upgraded past iOS 12.0.1

Does anyone have this issue and how can I fix it?

Update:
Chances are a large chunk of my data in the past since I’ve upgraded to iOS12 are already bad. I’ve updated my iOS to the most recent version. I’ll have to monitor and see how things go in the next week days.


texts: My new MBP Retina needs to be recharged after 2 1/2 hours

texts:
I got my 13" retina MBP a few weeks ago, and used it quite a lot since then. However I noticed that battery drains incredibly quickly, I'm asked to recharge it after 2 1/2 hours of usage.

I'm using it for programming, and I have a lot of stuff running in the background (nothing takes a lot of CPU except Chrome; just playing music, mail, some chat programs). Is that why the battery drains so quickly?

The system report says that the battery is in good condition. According to the activity monitor the process "Google Chrome Renderer" needs ~100% CPU. I have no clue why it needs that much, can that be a reason for the low battery life?

Edit: I did a bit of research about Chrome's CPU usage, and it looks like a lot other people had the same problem. I followed some advice that those people gave, and now Chrome is back to less than 1% CPU usage. :)
I now have 5+hrs battery life when I'm using my MBP intensively. I even had 7 1/2 when I wasn't connected over Wi-Fi and the screen didn't use a lot of light.


texts: Xcode command line tools install error trying to run homebrew

texts:
I am trying to install homebrew but cannot due to an error popping up when I try to install command line tools. The error says that they cannot be downloaded from the install server.
I already checked the library to see if Xcode is there ..nothing. I'm running Catalina.
Note : I only want the command line tools, not the whole 10GB Xcode download, which I heard snoops on your system. Thanks in advance!


texts: Software not downloading after new MacBook pro reboot

texts:
My uncle just got me a brand new MacBook pro 13 inch from the US. Upon receiving it he had already made a user name without attaching an apple id with it. He used it just to see if it's working fine. However upon receiving it I wanted a clean slate so I decided to reboot it (it is only 5 days fresh and has no data).
Upon following online instructions on rebooting I decided to clear my drives first then reinstall macOS Catalina from the boot menu. After a couple of hours of downloading time. The laptop resets and shows me the error that 'security settings do not allow this mac to use an external startup disk'. I haven't even used an external startup disk' for rebooting. If tried 3 times restarting deleting the memory then downloading the macOS again but it keeps giving me the same error. Please help as it is a brand new Mac and I'm scared I've ruined or deleted it's OS already. (PS it's my first mac?)


texts: External monitor has "snow" at 1080p/i when connected to MacBook Air

texts:
When I connect an external monitor to my new MacBook Air via Mini DisplayPort to HDMI, I see the extended desktop but there are snow-like artifacts. When I change the resolution to 720p, the screen looks normal.

MacBook: 13" i7 MacBook Air (late 2011)
Monitor: 23" ASUS VH236H LCD
Adapter: non-Apple Mini DisplayPort to HDMI

I have tried other standard resolutions (1024x768 and higher) with the same effect. I have also tried toggling between 50hz and 60hz, 1080i and 1080p, each of which causes the same issue.

I get the feeling it has something to do with my relatively cheap adapter cable, but am unsure. Thoughts?


texts: FileVault and other user accounts; repair

texts:
Suppose I have some moderately sensitive stuff in my user account on a broken Mac. Now bringing it to Apple for repair. (macOS 10.12.4 if that matters)

Apple's advice is:

OK, but is that enough?

Specifically, I know that an administrator can access another user's files and Apple needs an Administrator's access to my computer. FileVault encrypts the entire disk. If the admin account that Apple has unlocks the DISK does that unlock the files in my account?

Deleting all my files is doable (I have a full back-up) but what a hassle.


texts:
I think this is new behaviour since Safari 11, but I'm not absolutely certain.

I tend to leave Safari open all the time, with several pages of tabs, each for a different 'subject'.
On relaunch - if I've been cleaning less savoury cookies etc, or even that rare occasion I reboot - it used to reload all the tabs, whether currently visible or not.

This behaviour has changed & now each tab I go to will be blank & not load until I actually switch to it. I understand the philosophy might be to save resources until you 'prove' you actually need them, but honestly, if I didn't need them they wouldn't be open in the first place.
I've actually developed the habit of quickly flicking through all the tabs just after launch so I'm only seeing the irritating delay once.

Further irritation - the version it loads after the 2 second pause is still the cached version, so you have to immediately refresh it anyway:/

So I'd like to eliminate this behaviour.

I want, if possible, that each tab is already loaded with the current, not cached, version of the page at the time Safari was launched. I can handle my own refreshing after that, I just want to not have to wait that extra 2 seconds for each & every tab at first-use.

I have the Develop & Debug menus already visible, in case the 'fix' is in there, but frankly my comprehension of those menus is sub-optimal. I think in all honesty I have them visible to make me feel cool, rather than because I actually know what they're for ;)

This is currently Safari 11.0.2 on El Capitan.


texts: Problems logging into MacOS using Active Directory user not working, but SSH works fine

texts:
I am having trouble with logging into our MacOS device in the office but I can SSH into the device and I can view the login screen via VNC.

What steps can I use to troubleshoot why I cannot log into the Mac as any user?


texts:
I am downloading the latest version of Xcode (Version 10.0) from the Mac App Store.

After having downloaded about 90%; it is hung so I am unable to complete the download and the App Store icon on the dock shows a red circle with 1 in it indicating the pending download.

When I go to the Launchpad and try to pause the same and resume; it does not work as the icon is not highlighted in the first place so I can not click on it to pause it. I see the bar showing about 90% download.

Is there a way to pause and resume it? I am using macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 on a MacBook Pro (13", Mid 2012).


texts: How to play music from my computer on iPhone (without iTunes)?

texts:
How can I play music that resides my computer on my iPhone (plugged in to my stereo)? I am at home, they are on the same wifi network. The computer runs Windows 7.

I tried iTunes's sharing feature and my computer's "library" was listed on the phone, but  when I select it, the symbol spins for a minute then gives up. Once it did work, but it only listed about a hundred songs (of tens of thousands). I don't know why.

I'd like to choose the music from the iPhone.

Edit: I have much more music than disk space on my iPhone, so I can't copy it all.


texts: Replacing iphone interface with terminal

texts: Is there an app in cydia or just anyway to replace the normal interface(having to tap icons in order to open) with a terminal. Im using mobileterminal but its just an app. Im looking to replace it all with a log screen.


texts: Sending Pictures from iPhone - Orientation is Wrong

texts:
I have an iPhone 4. I take a picture, send it to a friend, and regardless of how I sent the photo...the size I send, the orientation of the camera when I shoot the photo... most of my photos arrive to the friend's email upside down or sideways.

Any clues from you folks?

UPDATE:

This appears to actually be a bug in iOS5. Here is a thread I discovered with others having the same issue. I particularly like this guys solution and would love to see Apple implement something similar:

  What I think Apple should do is add a camera settings feature to the settings tab that allows for two new options. Option one would be "camera frame orientation always up". This would mean that no matter how you hold the camera, up is always up on the photo or video. Option two would be "camera frame orientation fixed". A sub option here would allow the user to select either portrait or landscape (with home button on the right) as the default "up" orientation. That would allow those rare two or three people in the universe who really do want to take upside down or sideways photos to do so. The "always up" option would allow the rest of us to take photos without having to worry that they will come out jacked up. In any case, I sure hope Apple is reading its support blogs...seems like there are enough of us out there who are having this photo issue to merit a fix in a not-too-distant future iOS update.


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I have searched online but not found the answer to this problem.

For some reason, the emails in VIP folders only remain in the folder for 2 weeks and then they are gone. The oldest emails in the VIP folders are from June 16.

Is there a setting in Mac Mail for when these emails in the VIP folders are deleted?

Thank you for your assistance.


texts: Archive to Gmail Fails, but only when using the Archive Button on the Toolbar

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If I try to archive an email using the toolbar 'archive' button I get this error message:

"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Archive) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: No folder Archive (Failure)."

However, if I manually drag the email to all mail, it archives just fine.  Any ideas?


texts: Macbook Pro Keyboard and Trackpad not working after battery change

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I've changed my battery after this question:
Does battery condition have anything to do with macbook pro performance?
The performance has significantly increased, however I have a new problem.
My Macbook's Keyboard and Trackpad are not working at all.
Only the power button works. I've connected an external mouse and Apple keyboard via USB slots. They work just fine, the problem is it's not a laptop anymore.
This happened after I changed the battery and replaced it with an iFixIt battery while going over their tutorial. I did use Listerine instead of adhesive removal, because apparently shipping them is illegal in my country. Some comments said that's a good alternative, I'm not sure if this caused the issue or not.
After the keyboard and trackpad became unresponsive, I've read that the Touchpad Trackpad Ribbon Flex Cable is very sensitive and it easily gets damaged. I've ordered a new one and installed it, didn't help.
Right now I'm looking for more solutions on how to fix my device.
Mid 2015 MBP Retina


texts: detaching a chrome tab on catalina causes a jump to a different workspace

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It is my habit to have dozens of chrome tabs open across a dozen workspaces in macOS.
Often I want to to re-organize these tabs.
For example, I may have an instance of chrome on workspace 5 with 10 tabs.
Let's say that I want to detach 3 of these to a separate instance of chrome on the same workspace.

This has worked fine for years. However, after the upgrade to macOS Catalina, when I detach the first tab, I and the tab are forced to a completely different workspace containing a completely different instance of chrome.
This is extremely disorienting and annoying and it happens every single time that I detach a single tab from an instance of chrome.

I've tried these commands in the terminal as suggested here:

 $ defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool YES
 $ killall Dock

But when I detach a tab now, the tab just seems to disappear.
It is actually transported to one of my 12 workspaces but I am not.
Now I have to go searching for it.

This is driving me insane.
Anyone have a work-around?

UPDATE: I've confirmed this is a bug in chrome not macOS mission control

This is so annoying that I switched to firefox and firefox does NOT experience the same issue.


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I have a dataset where I want to write a COUNTIFstatement in Numbers (Mavericks). Specifically I want to count if a number is between 16 and 30.

So far I have tried: COUNTIF(test-array, ">15 AND >= 30") with no luck.

Reading from the documentation:

  condition: An expression that results in a boolean value of TRUE or FALSE. A condition can contain anything as long as the result from comparing it to a value in test-values can be expressed as TRUE or FALSE.

But I cannot find the correct logical and operator for the condition (tried &&).


texts: Apps that were open when I restart still open on startup even though I disabled that?

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I'm on an iMac mid-2010 with OS X Mountain Lion.

I disabled the feature that reopens windows the next time I startup my computer after a restart, but for some reason the windows that I had open when I shut down still open on startup.

How do I stop this from happening for good?


texts: How to validate kexts signatures from the command line?

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I'd like my shell script to verify if the /System/Library/Extensions folder (and subfolders) contains any kexts that don't pass signature validation. How do I do that?

There are a couple utilities that seem to include that kind of functionality, e.g.

kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel

but they either apply modifications to the system or do other unwanted lenghty checks. Only the signature validation is necessary here.

Many thanks in advance for your help!


texts: Mouse freezes when a second mouse is plugged in

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I use a wireless Logitech trackball for RSI reasons.  My wife uses a random dell usb mouse because she hates the trackball.  We have a single Mac mini and use fast user switching to change accounts.

On both accounts, the trackball stops tracking.  It'll move the cursor for a while and then stop mid-motion.  The buttons still work.

On the login window, the mouse works.  When I log in from there, it works for up to a minute.  Then it dies again.

I had no issues with this mouse on my previous machine (linux) and the issue started immediately when I switched to this mac.

Equipment:  2014 Mac Mini running Sierra.  Logitech m570 trackball.  Generic dell usb other mouse.


texts: What potential dangers arise from a mass iOS UDID leak?

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Can anyone enlighten us with what a hacker could use one (or a list of) UDID for?

The leak reported September 4 of 1 million UDID's by AntiSec makes me worry. But should I?

What is the worst case scenario with a hacker who has a million UDID's?


texts: Anki + Latex not working : I have installed BasicTex + dvipng

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I'm trying to get Anki to work with Latex. Currently, when I open a flashcard with latex on it I get:
Generated file: /var/folders/41/v5plvhx12wg0qlrj9h_l0g680000gn/T/anki_temp/tmp.tex
Have you installed latex and dvipng?

However, I have already installed BasicTex + dvipng. In fact, when I run which latex and which dvipng on terminal I get:
/Library/TeX/texbin/latex and /Library/TeX/texbin/dvipng.

So I need some help. Would anyone know how to make Anki work with Latex? Thanks for your help!


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Does anyone know how I would create a user, maybe by email address, that would only be able to access a specific wiki on lion server?

I'm trying to allow access for clients (not OS X clients) that are associated with a wiki for a project we are collaborating on.


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How do I disable all notifications from the lock screen on Mavericks? I want to receive notifications while using my computer, but don’t want anything to show publicly when I lock my screen and walk away.

I’ve already gone in to the Notification System Preferences and disabled the “show notification on lock screen” option for every app. But when I install a new app I have to remember to go in there and change that settings, and there are other things built-in to Mavericks that show notifications on the lock screen anyway without any apparent option to hide: the App Store notifying about new updates, a system warning when a USB key is unplugged without ejecting it first, and so on.

How do I globally disable all notifications on the lock screen?


texts: screenshots storage place back to desktop impossible

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I previously changed the settings of which folder to save screenshots.  Now I want to go back to the default settings, storing it on the desktop.  I have read what to do, in Terminal enter:defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Desktop/ then killall SystemUIServer.

However, even after restarting the laptop, when I make a screenshot or a partial screenshot, I hear the sound of the shot but it doesn't appear on my desktop (or anywhere else).  How can I get the screenshots to appear in the default folder?


texts: what is the app for seeing text being typed on a messenger

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i know of a app which pops up a dialog at the top right corner of the screen, when a user in on skype and the other person is typing something.

this is not specific to skype, but for any messenger that is installed on the mac.

i know that the name of the app starts with c but i am not sure if the name is crawl or cawl or something else....

i would really appreciate if someone can help me.

thank you in advance.


texts: How do I stop sharing bookmarks and browsing history between my MacBook and my dad's Mac mini?

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My MacBook was connected to my Dad's iTunes account for awhile, but my Safari is still somehow linked to his Safari. He uses Safari on his Mac mini. The bookmarks are the same. I'm wondering if his Safari is connected to mine and if he can see my history?

How do I make sure my Safari bookmarks and history are completely disabled from my Dad's account?


texts: Is there a way to "force" an iMessage to "come from" an e-mail address?

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When I send an iMessage from my phone, it appears to come from the phone number for that phone, and as a result, when it is replied to, the replies (and the conversation) appear only on the phone; but when I send an iMessage from an iPad, the message appears to come from an e-mail address, and as a result, the conversation is replicated across all iOS devices using that e-mail address.

I may not have that quite right (it requires some cooperation to test, and I can find no documentation that confirms it) but if I do:

Is there a way to "force" an iMessage to "come from" an e-mail address rather than from a phone number, so that I can ensure that a conversation is synced across my iOS devices?


texts: Can the iCloud apps backup of an iPhone be restored to a different iPhone?

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The main or phone backup of my iPhone happened to my PC, but I had iCloud backup enabled for a number of apps (like WhatsApp, and others).

My iPhone crashed and burned last week and Apple gave me a new iPhone, and even though I named it the same, and used the same AppleID on the new phone, it obviously has a different serial number and IMEI.

My question is if I can in some way restore the applications backup of my previous phone (that are on iCloud) to my new phone? Again, I'm not talking about a full restore of the phone from an iCloud backup, but only retrieve the application data (chats, etc) that my previous iPhone had backed up to iCloud.


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I downloaded High Sierra from the App Store, then tried creating a USB installer using Terminal but I get the following error:
# sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/My-USB-Name/ --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app

/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.

The High Sierra directory is present, I'm able to press tab on my keyboard to auto-complete the paths.
After Googling the error, I found this Reddit answer, but I'm not sure what he's talking about or why it should be done, so I haven't tried it.

"Move the directory /macOS Install Data (which is downloaded after you run through the installation once) to be Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport"

The USB I'm using is 64Gb and freshly formatted using Disk Utilities.
These answers didn't help solve my issue. I think I have the "stub" in my Applications folder as the High Sierra .app is only 14MB.
I can't figure out how to install the full High Sierra installer
My specifications:
sh-3.2# system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
Software:

    System Software Overview:

      System Version: OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 12.5.0
      Boot Volume: lily
      Boot Mode: Normal
      Computer Name: lily’s MacBook Air
      User Name: System Administrator (root)
      Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
      Time since boot: 12:37


texts: What is causing my ~/Library folder to be come visible again?

texts: At some point after Lion system updates, my ~/Library folder becomes visible again, in seemingly spontaneous fashion. If I make it invisible, it will become visible yet again. What could be causing this? Has anyone else seen this?


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I have iPhone4 running iOS 5.1. No, I will not upgrade to iOS6 because it will delete my beloved pre-installed Maps application, and the new one from Google is [snip...] ... not performing up to my expectations.

I also have an iPhone3G running iOS 4.2. This cannot be upgraded at all.

I had used the pre-installed YouTube app to upload videos in the past. Everything worked flawlessly. Now, this app no longer accepts my Google login. Yes, I've read about 2-step login process. I've tried that. Worked everywhere, but on the pre-installed YouTube app. Google is purposely blocking that app because [reasons].

An older version of Google's native YouTube app from Appstore (the latest one requires iOS6 that I cannot install) has no way to upload. It recommends to download YouTube Capture App. I try that... and it needs iOS6.

Someone please tell me how to upload to YouTube from iOS5 and iOS4.2 considering that pre-installed YouTube app cannot login anymore.


texts: Deleting transferred purchases from iTunes cache

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I'm using a long-lived installation of MacOS X alongside with an iPhone and iPad. Because of backups of both devices and the purchased applications, I'm losing a considerable space (~14GB) in my system.

Is it safe to delete the transferred files (from finder, terminal, etc.) or is there a way to do it from iTunes.


texts: How well does the Samsung Gear S3 watch work with iPhone?

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I've read that Samsung announced compatibility with iOS for their Gear S3 watches.

As iOS is a peculiar closed system, what would be compatible? Will it be able to reply to Whatsapp or Telegram messages? Record voice?

I've searched for some information but found nothing.


texts: Will Turning Data usage off disable the hotspot?

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Without going into to much detail of why I’m asking .... if I turn off the data usage of one persons iPhone will that essentially disable their ability to be the “hot spot” for someone else to connect to... Even if they are connected to WiFi...
Person one has WiFi access and data and the ability to be a WiFi hotspot.
Person 2 doesn’t have any of that so they connect to person 1 to leach off their data plan.
If I turn off the data plan for person one they can still connect to WiFi. Can the hotspot be used by person 2 if no data plan is active for person 1? Hope that makes sense...


texts: Export iTunes playlists with folder structure intact

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I want to export my iTunes library to an external hard disc such that it RETAINS structure of all artist folders, album folders and music files within.
I would also like to separately export playlists from the library such that they retain all artist folders, album folders and music files.

There is way too much music  (1.5 TB) and too little time available to do this manually. I have tried many third party software or instructions (e.g.  "itunes export" ) but so far they all just transfer music files unattached from album and artist folders.
I am not very savvy with using command center but I can follow detailed and clearly written instructions. I know this can be done I just do not remember how.
My intention is to give discs to my children, with playlists retained so they can find their interests without having to search though over 100K songs.

(Yet another question is if there is a better music management program out there than iTunes which continually mangles my library)
I would appreciate someones guidance.
Thank you


texts: Demonstrating iOS in-development application

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I'm developing iOS application for my customer. At final point he asked me to share "preview" of an app via link before he could pay me for it. How do I do that?

How do I show my iOS app to someone, is there any other way aside from uploading it to AppStore and therefore making it public and needing developer account (I don't have at the moment)?
If I upload an app to AppStore, is it possible for my customer to "steal" and save it (through installing to jailbroken device for example and copying app with file manager), I suppose this is how users of jailbroken devices download and install paid apps for free using torrents?
What is the common practice of doing this, I mean demonstrating app in development to customer? On my own device? Bringing laptop with Xcode installed and using customer's device?


texts: How can I set up a UK-based iPad with simple ongoing internet access for my grandmother?

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I've just donated a secondhand iPad 2 to my grandmother, with the intent that she can use it as her first foray into email, and possibly other things, given time. She has very limited experiences with technology (she has used typewriters, but nothing really more modern), so I'm trying to keep everything as simple as possible.

In particular, I'm looking for an easy way to connect it to the internet. We both live in the UK, but I live some distance from her and am not able to easily get physical access to the iPad to set it up. She has no ADSL/broadband at home and I'd like to avoid the complexity of setting it up, and she has limited mobility and lives in a rural area so getting to a phone shop isn't really possible. It's a 3G iPad 2, so 3G seems like the obvious option. Because she lives in a rural area, however, 3G access seems limited - the only networks that seem to have coverage are Vodafone, O2, and Orange.

Is it possible to find an off-the-shelf, preconfigured SIM card that I can send her that she (or a friend) can just plug in? Ideally I'm looking for something with little to no upfront or ongoing configuration required on the iPad (or where I can do it in advance for her) to keep things as simple as possible. All the deals I've found so far seem to require configuration on the iPad, or ongoing top-up action on the iPad, which I suspect would put her off.

Alternatively, are there any other connectivity options I'm missing?

Edit: Unfortunately, my grandmother passed away before I had time to arrange this. So I won't be spending any more time on the iPad connectivity. Thanks everyone for your help anyway, much appreciated.


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I have recently found out that there is a hidden folder in my Home Directory named putty with a file named "randomseed" inside. I know PuTTY on Unix stores its data there, and I have read around that FileZilla might actually create that folder. Problem is, I have never used PuTTY and can't remember installing FileZilla on my MacBook Pro. I have looked at the date the folder/file were last opened, and it was months ago so it was impossible for me to find out whether it coincided with installing any apps.

For good measure I have deleted the folder and the file within it. I have even downloaded and opened FileZilla just to see whether that folder was going to be regenerated but no.

I am aware that finding out where it came from is going to be impossible, but I'm looking for reassurance that it might not be anything malicious, like someone trying to connect to my machine via SSH or something, (all the Sharing options in my System Preference are disabled).

If anyone has any idea about this please let me know, I am a bit worried.

Thanks a lot!


texts: How do I copy the name of the song currently playing on an internet radio station in iTunes?

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I frequently feel like Googling, YouTubing, or downloading some song playing on an internet radio station.  Mac OS X's iTunes displays the song information, but doesn't provide any obvious route to copying the song's author, name, etc.

I'm not interested if the iTunes Store offers relevant features because I always keep the iTunes Store disabled in parental controls.


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I've tried to connect my MacBook to my Windows 10 PC via SMB without success.

My Windows PC is in a private network and I shared a folder readable by Everyone. One time I found the Windows PC on my MacBook, but couldn't connect as Guest. Now I can't even find it.

I would like to reliably find the Windows PC on my MacBook and connect to it as Guest.

I've activated File Sharing on my MacBook and shared the Public folder 'Write Only (Drop Box)' to Everyone. My MacBook doesn't show up in Network on the Windows PC, but when I enter the address it tries to connect, asking me for network credentials.

I would like my MacBook to show up in Windows Network and connect to it without credentials (as Guest).
The MacBook is running Big Sur, 11.0.1. The Windows PC seems to be up to date, no pending updates. The MacBook is connected via Wifi, the PC via Ethernet; both to the same router.


texts: Stop opening Dictionary.app when three-finger-tapping non-text in Google Chrome

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I have "Look up & data detectors" set to three-finger tap in the Trackpad preference pane. This means that when I three-finger tap on a word, I get a dictionary tooltip/overlay like so:

This is something I use and want. However, there is also something I don't want. When I three-finger tap on something other than a word, like the blank background of a page, or a nonselectable word, Dictionary.app opens, like so:

Bizarrely, this Dictionary.app happens in Google Chrome, but not Preview or Finder, where three-finger tapping on a background does nothing, as expected.

Is there a way to keep the dictionary lookup tooltips for words, but get rid of the Dictionary.app opening for non-words?


texts: Apple Mail in El Capitan - where is data that used to be in Accounts.pilst?

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I run about six IMAP accounts on two different OS X machines and one iOS device.

Several of the mail accounts are under different domains, but all hosted on the same 3rd party mail provider so presumably running identical IMAP and SMTP servers. Also, the settings on the OS X mail clients in Mail/preferences/accounts look identical, except for the account-specific settings like name/password, etc.

Nonetheless, still I have a several undesired behaviors, different both between accounts and between clients, which I can't seem to fix.

Prior to El Capitan I would have looked for causes of these differing mail account behaviors in ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist. That file is still there, but it seems to be an unused, outdated leftover from an OS upgrade, as it shows no current mail account settings.

Meanwhile, looking at the several plist files in both ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail and ~/Library/Mail/V3, I find none of the mail account settings I want to see.

So in El Cap, where does one find the equivalent mail account settings data that used to be in ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist ?

(OSX 10.11.3, Mail 9.2)


texts: MBP15: 45W works only right after unplugging 85W

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My MBP15 (8,2, Late 2012) doesn't normally charge or draw power from a 45W adapter (from a 2008 MBA), with one exception:

First, plug in the 85W power adapter;
Second, switch the adapters quickly.

Following this procedure the MBP15 draws power form a 45W without any glitch for light usage.

Q1: Why is this procedure necessary and how does it work?

Q2: Is there a way to skip step (1)?


texts: On the iPad, is there a way to email a link to a mapped set of directions?

texts: Now that I have the directions from A to B, I want to mail them to a contact, ideally as a Google Map link.  I see no way to do so within the iPad Maps application, but maybe I am overlooking something.


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I purchased a 2020 13in MacBook Pro about a week ago, and today I tried installing Windows using Boot Camp for school related reasons. While trying to install it, I got an error in Boot Camp Assistant saying that my disk could not be partitioned. I tried many things, and I am still having the problem. This is all I tried:

Rebooted my Mac in macOS Recovery (⌘+R), and ran First Aid on all my Volumes, Container, and Disk. First Aid and Disk Utility in macOS Recovery did not give any error. I then rebooted to normal macOS and tried again to run Boot Camp Assistant, and I had the same problem.
I then researched more about the problem, and I found a solution that seemed to work for many people. It said to reboot using Single-User mode (⌘+S), but my computer has the T2 Chip, so I then rebooted my computer with macOS Recovery (⌘+R) again, made sure the Macintosh HD volume was mounted, opened Terminal in macOS Recovery, and ran /sbin/fsck -fy. I got an error that said "Error: Container /dev/rdisk1 is mounted".

I then rebooted into regular macOS and ran sudo fsck_apfs -n -l /dev/rdisk1. The output showed that there are 3 snapshots, and after the first one it showed this warning: warning: snapshot fsroot tree corruptions are not repaired; they'll go away once the snapshot is deleted. However, at the end, it showed that The volume /dev/rdisk1 appears to be OK.

To make sure the problem was because I wanted more storage than Boot Camp could allow, I tried setting the Windows size to 60GB, and it still gave me the error.

The Windows version I am trying to download is the Windows Education Version found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/vlacademicwindows10iso. I also tried to install the regular Windows 10 version to make sure it was not a problem with the education version.

I also saw the "warning: snapshot fsroot tree corruptions are not repaired; they'll go away once the snapshot is deleted" warning in the macOS Recovery Disk Utility while running First Aid on the Macintosh HD Volume. I am not using Time Machine on my computer.
I looked at many forum posts and other websites for hours, but I could not find anything that worked. I also checked that the Windows ISO checksum was the same as the one listed on the Windows download page. I also tried reinstalling the ISO just in case, but that also did not work. I have a 2TB hard drive, and I am trying to allocate 502GB of my hard drive for Boot Camp. I have 1.8TB free on my drive.


texts: XMarks Safari constantly re-downloads old bookmarks

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2011 iMac, OSX Mavericks, latest updates.

I have used XMarks (Foxmarks) for years to sync between Chrome and Firefox, but now I'd like to add Opera and Safari to that mix.  Opera works just fine, but Safari refuses to play nicely and I can't figure out why.

I have two profiles, the "default" profile that Foxmarks originally created (mobile.foxmarks.com) and one that I created (Profile 1).  Both have the identical bookmarks in them at this point, as shown in my.xmarks.com.

Unfortunately, Safari keeps somehow finding my old bookmarks from years ago that are a complete mess, and re-downloading them into the browser.  The only positive is that I have disabled Automatic Synchronization in XMark's preferences for Safari, so that Safari will no longer then corrupt my "real" bookmarks in Chrome, Opera, and Firefox, with this ancient data.

My solution every time I notice this (seems to be every few weeks), is to force-download to Safari from the server, overwriting the local data.  This works, but of course kinda defeats the purpose of keeping them all in sync (I browse for different purposes in each browser [different projects] and so would like to be able to bookmark in any of them and know that they will all stay in sync).  Ideally I could let Safari auto-sync as well.

Why does this keep happening?  Where is Safari even getting this old data, since it's clearly not in my profiles on XMarks?  How can I get Safari to stop this and simply work like all the other browsers do with XMarks?

UPDATE:

After my most recent re-overwriting of the local bookmarks, I then uploaded from my local machine to the server, overwriting the server bookmrakrs to ensure they should be identical.  A couple hours later I got a popup that says this:

  You restored or uploaded bookmarks from another computer to our
  servers. You can sync normally (the safest choice), or you can
  download the server bookmarks, overwriting your local bookmarks. Which
  do you prefer?

I'm given the choices of Sync, Download, or Cancel.  I took a chance on "Sync" and everything seems fine, I don't see the old bookmarks appearing in Safari.


texts: External monitor connected to MacBook Pro says, "Entering Power Save Mode"

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I am running macOS Mojave on a MacBoo kPro. I have connected an external monitor, a Dell E2214H to it using a Cable Matters adapter.

On my MacBook Pro, under System Preferences → Displays, there is no Arrangement tab. I reconnected everything, rebooted in safe mode which didn't change anything.

I know for sure that the monitor works. So, what could be the reason the laptop is not recognizing it?


texts: Run Xcode `git pull` and `git Push` commands in terminal

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The question is clear:

How do I perform Xcode's commands for git pull and git push via terminal?

Reason:

I've set up multiple git accounts and ssh (Reference). Someone told me the reason why one of those git commands (from XCode or Terminal) doesn't work is because of different ssh policies. Xcode uses open SSH, while Terminal uses normal ssh (I'm not really sure about that). Therefore the ssh setup is different in Terminal and Xcode.

Since the remote origin URL should be the same, I'd like to know how to perform those commands in Terminal?


texts: Stop Mail Changing Port for E-Mail Account

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I'm having an annoying problem with Mail on Yosemite, which I didn't notice on earlier versions. Basically if I suffer a connection issue with my ISP's mail service (which does sometimes become slow to respond during peak hours) then Mail seems to try alternative ports.

This would be fine, except that it eventually settles on port 143 with SSL disabled, at which point it refuses to connect (because it can't send my password securely), but it has now changed the account's port permanently to 143, meaning I have to change it back before I can use my e-mail account again.

Is there a way to prevent Mail from doing this? I've set the correct port for the account, and know it's correct, so I don't want Mail to ever change it, but it keeps doing this any time the connection takes a bit too long to respond.


texts: Mac App Store Automatically Cancels Downloading Xcode

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When I try to download Xcode from the MAS, the download automatically stops after several minutes.

It's not because of internet problems because the internet was working fine at the same time as the download.  I have tried multiple times but still get the same result.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?


texts: Downloaded app won't open because it is from an unidentified developer

texts: I have download photo express mac version on my MacBook Pro and it won't open it said can't opened because it is from an unidentified developer. But I'm using there mac download so what do I do so I can get it to work


texts: "Hide Input Source Name" changes to "Show input source name" on every reboot, on Lion

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I use three keyboard layouts (three input sources), and I chose to show the source in the toolbar (I mean the main bar at the top).

Since I moved to Lion, in addition to the icon for the input source (usually the flag of the country speaking that source) it also shows the name (which takes a lot of precious space). I choose the "Hide Input Source Name" from the menu and the name goes away until I reboot.

Any solutions?


texts: Finder Enhancement - Customize Icon for filetype

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Is it possible to customize the icon that's used for certain filetypes in Mac's Finder?

I have a folder with a bunch of .mobi files. In finder, If I view by icon or coverflow, it just shows a generic .mobi icon for all the items. I'd like to instead see the covers for each of the books. PDFs seem to already do this by showing the first page of the document as the icon.


texts: Mail opens a window randomly in split screen with my fullscreen window

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I haven't been interacting with Mail for half an hour, but suddenly it opens its main window in split screen with the fullscreen video player that I'm watching. This happens every other day.

I can't really say if this only happens when Mail is running, since it's hard to check that after the fact. Assuming it only happens when Mail is running, can something be done other than making the habit of always quitting Mail as soon as possible? Is there some hidden feature triggering this?


texts: How do I use tabs in Mac Mail on El Capitan?

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I want to use tabs when composing new emails in Apple Mail on my Mac. I searched here and read this question:

How can I use tabs in Mac Mail?

The thing is this question says it’s a new feature in macOS Sierra, but I am convinced that in the past I used tabs in Apple Mail. I know it wasn’t in Sierra because my Mac runs El Capitan and has never had Sierra installed.

Did I just imagine this? Was it a dream? Or is this actually possible in El Capitan too?


texts: Why "wake for network access" does not work when setting CI server

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We need to set up a CI server using mac.

We set up our private gitlab server on the cloud and gitlab-runner on a mac at the office. When the mac does not go to sleep it works well. But when it goes to sleep the runner won’t wake.

I already set “wake for network access” but it does not work. The pipeline job won’t run when the mac goes to sleep. I further test that if I use Fing on my iPhone to wake the mac the pipeline job will then wake up to run but it will stop at the step where it needs to start a GUI test tool to actually run the test case.

Does anyone have any experience with that? I can’t just turn on the mac 24*7.

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According to this KB it seems for shared resource. This probably explains why it does not work for my case.

  If you’re sharing your computer’s resources, such as a shared printer
  or iTunes playlist, you can set your computer to wake from sleep when
  other users access those resources.


texts: Transfer iPad games to external hard drive?

texts: I have a 16gb iPad 2. Most of the space is taken up by games and it's hard figuring out what games I want to remove to open up space. Is there a way to transfer the games wirelessly to an external hard drive? I know on Android, you can transfer games to a micro sd card. Not sure if it's possible on an iOS device.


texts: External display isn't used if lid is closed

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I want to be able to use a macbook with external display with closed lid, but it cannot do that. As soon as I close the lid, there's no signal to the display and no amount of keystrokes on external keyboard or mouse can change that.

A few things which I tried (all totally useless):

NoSleep
caffeinate running in background
disabling sleep: sudo pmset -b sleep 0; sudo pmset -b disablesleep 1

Display is connected via HDMI.
Macos version = 10.13.6.
AC adapter is plugged in.


texts: How to change some information in a shell prompt.

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I opened my terminal and saw a shell prompt.

 Last login: Fri Feb 15 15:28:16 on ttys000
 john:~ voloda2$

How do I change john to alex?


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I've got Verizon service with 3 devices, I've got an iTunes account. 2 of the devices are mine. I must keep the child on my iTunes account for 'find the iphone' app.
Is there a way to share my contact list from device to device within my account without it being accessed by the child?


texts: Saving screenshots with name of title bar

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On Windows I use GreenShots, which by default saves each screenshot with a timestamp followed by the name on the title bar.

I'd like to replace the "Screen Shot DATE at TIME" with "YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS Whatever on Title Bar".

This would make my screenshots easier to:

order by date, just ordering them by name
find out with a simple search (looking at the title)

Is some way achieve this?


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I saw this advertisement online:

How does this work, technically?

From my understanding, AirPods are only Bluetooth compatible. If I lost my AirPods, would I need to be within Bluetooth range to be able to detect them on my iPhone?


texts: iTunes 11 does not sync apps updated OTA

texts: With earlier versions of iTunes, if I updated an app OTA, the next time I synced my phone, iTunes would download the new version to my local library. However, this does not happen anymore. I have to manually check for newer versions of apps in iTunes and then download them again. Is this by design, or am I missing something? I am on Windows 7, 64-bit.


texts: iTunes will not connect with Yamaha AV Reciever icon

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I have just purchased a new Yamaha AV Receiver RX-V675 which is AirPlay capable.  I have everything installed and configured as per directions in the Yamaha manual and according to Windows & and iTunes directions. The iTunes AirPlay icon shows the receiver (with a speaker icon).  However when I click to initiate the Yamaha it will not execute nor will a check mark show up.   Everything seems set up correctly as far as I know.  I am looking for help and a solution.  I have updated my firmware on the Yamaha and set up with the following equipment configuration:

Dell Studio XPS
Windows 7
Yamaha is on a hard wired network connection
iTunes 10.2.2.14
Windows 7 set up for HomeGroup network and sharing
Router  - Netgear WGR614v9

Problem is that the Yamaha AirPlay icon in iTunes will not click on.