texts: What is the "On My Mac" folder in macOS Big Sur?

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I have recently upgraded to macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 from macOS 10.15.7 on my 2016 MacBook Pro.
In Finder, there is a new (?) folder called "On My Mac" which I have never seen before.
It contains nothing useful, just an empty "PDF Expert" folder and a "BBEdit" folder with a file called "BBEdit Backups" which is of type "alias" (so I guess it's an alias of something).
This folder doesn't have any parent folder, it seems some kind of root folder (or very close to), but it for sure was not there in Catalina.
Does anyone know what it could be and if I should do something with it?
Following the suggestion in the comments I have dragged the folder on a Terminal window. Nothing happened but it disappeared from the Favourites sidebar in Finder. For the records, rebooting the Mac or logging out/in makes it reappear with the same contents.


texts: Why are Payments from Apple to New Zealand and Australian bank accounts wire transfers?

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Recent News from Apple:

  Payment processing changes for NZD and AUD currencies. February 1,
  2019 As of February 1, 2019, all payments into bank accounts in New
  Zealand and Australia will be wire transfers.

  You may need to update your banking information in iTunes Connect to
  ensure your bank details are valid for receiving wire transfers.
  Consult with your bank to avoid interruptions to your February payment
  processing.

  In addition, the minimum monthly threshold for receiving a wire
  transfer is the equivalent of $150 USD.

So as a NZ apple developer, why?
I'm now being charged an international processing fee.
Any advice for limiting my payments or getting around this charge?
Thanks


texts: Front Row and iTunes "watched" flags out of sync

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The watched flag and playback positions in Front Row are no longer in sync with iTunes. Is there any way to resynchronize them?

If it matters, I would rather iTunes' positions replace Front Row's.

These two questions on Apple Support were not useful.

The Cause

I recently crashed, presumably while iTunes was writing the iTunes Library and upon restart, it was "imported", with the damaged copy saved elsewhere. I still have the same iTunes Library identifier because my iPod and iPad sync as usual (rather than complaining that they're synced with another library as happens when you delete and rebuild iTunes Library.xml).


texts: How to get my passwords out of keychain access (and Firefox) from my CCC backup without a Mac?

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My MacBook Pro (running 10.11.6) has a swollen battery, so I shut it down promptly and am sending it in for service.  I have an up-to-date backup (a bootable backup) made with CarbonCopyCloner.  The servicing of the Mac will take a while (maybe a week or so).
In the meantime, a lot of my passwords are unknown to me.  They're mostly auto-generated fully random passwords, saved in either Keychain Access or in Firefox's password-saving feature (or sometimes both).  Obviously I know my login password and the passwords to unlock my keychains (though I often just use the default login keychain), but I don't know most of the other passwords.
Since I do have email access through other devices, I could reset various passwords.  But that would be a lot of hassle, and then when I get my Mac back I would have to update the keychains and Firefox.
I have other computers available running Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows (both 7 and 10) to which I can connect my CarbonCopyCloner backup.  I also have an older MacBook Pro from 2010 that I almost never turn on; I think it's running Mac OS Lion (10.7) but it might be Maverick (10.9?).  I'd rather not use that one if I don't have to.
How can I get my passwords out of the keychain(s) and Firefox data from within my backup?
(For completeness, I actually do still have my laptop with the swollen battery since they're sending me a box in a couple days to use for shipping it.  But I'd really rather not turn it on given the swollen battery and potential for damage, plus I'm curious about this question for its own sake.)


texts: Quick switching between language keyboards

texts: How can I switch quickly back and forth between the English keyboard and the German keyboard on macOS?


texts: Why is my iPhone transmitting in airplane mode?

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I switched my iPhone 8 into airplane mode, but it continued periodically transmitting on 1.8 GHz, as measured by an electrosmog meter. Why? Isn't airplane mode supposed to turn off the radio transmitters? Or is airplane mode on an iPhone only a low-power mode?

After enabling airplane mode, I powered the phone off and booted it in a Faraday cage. It still transmitted on 1.8 GHz, despite not being able to receive any cell tower signals.


texts: How to convert non-utf8 encoding to utf-8 encoding during unzip?

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I have the same problem which described here.

The only difference is I need to do this in MacOS.

Basically, all files are encoded in non-utf8 and zipped on Windows. When I unzip it on MacOS, they won't be readable at all. I need to convert the encoding to utf-8 during unzip.

I tried the command unzip -O GB18030 gb18030.zip which does not work on MacOS. I think it might because the unzip command in MacOS does not have the option -O.


texts: What is the difference between Apple MB110LB/B and Apple MB110Z/B keyboards

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I am looking for a QWERTY US layout apple keyboard, on amazon I found several models and this made me confused.

My current keyboard looks like this, I thinks this is the standard US QWERY layout, isn't it? Anyways, I am looking for this model. Is it MB110Z/B?


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I have a personal Apple ID which I use for iTunes and iCloud on my MacBook Air and iPhone. Now I have a MacBook Pro which uses different iCloud account.

I want to know if I can use my earlier Apple ID on this new Mac just for Apple music?

Apple Support document, Sign in with your Apple ID appears to advice against it.


texts: System freezes when performing intense disk/cpu operations, Disk Utility says the disk is ok

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Sometimes my system (macbook air, mid-2013, sierra 10.12.3) freezes (beachball + can't really click anything although some mouse movement is possible) and doesn't come back to normal unless I reset it.
This usually occurred during archiving an app, but today happened when I tried opening extensions in safari preferences.

I've tried running Disk Utility, but it says that the disk is ok.
What other diagnostic can I run?


texts: Bought iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.1, can downgrade to 4.1, any hope of going to 4.2 or 4.3?

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I'm an iOS developer and have been searching for devices running older versions of iOS to use for compatibility testing.  (the iPod touch I have been using for this purpose recently gave up the ghost)  You wouldn't believe how hard this has been, even on the used market -- either sellers don't specify the iOS version in their item descriptions (meaning you have to take your chances), or they "helpfully" upgrade to the latest iOS before selling it.  Anyhow, I thought I finally hit pay dirt when I found an iPhone 3GS whose auction prominently listed iOS 4.x as a selling point.  Well either the guy was outright lying or he didn't know what the hell he was talking about, because when I received the device, it had iOS 5.x on it.  I know I could probably file a Item not as described claim or something to that effect, but I am not in the mood for a long drawn out battle, hostilities, negative feedback war, etc. and so at this point I was ready to cut my losses and live with it running 5.x.

That is, until this afternoon, when I was idly playing with TinyUmbrella, and found, to my delight, that Cydia has a saved SHSH blob for this device running iOS 4.1.  Apparently this device must have been jailbroken at some point in its lifetime.  So I was able to restore to iOS 4.1, and jail broke using limera1n.  All is well.

Now for my question: Is there some way I can get this device to 4.2 or 4.3?  (4.1 is a bit too old for my taste)  My (admittedly very minuscule) understanding of SHSH and related matters leads me to believe that the answer is "no," but I'm asking anyway in the vain hope that there is some hacking trick or something that would make this possible.


texts: Sometimes I lose my AirPods and I can't find them. Is there a way to sync them constantly to avoid losing them, even while them aren't near the iPhone?


texts: How do I save data from old 2 old iPhones then transfer data from one to the other?

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My wife has an iPhone 3, 8GB, that is slowly dying. My mother (who is dead) left me her iPhone, a 16GB 3GS.

How do I:

Keep all the information from the phones. My mother's phone especially has sentimental value?
Wipe the 3GS?
Transfer everything from the 3 to the 3GS?

We don't care if the phone is jail-broken or not (they are not at the moment). Both phones are on the same provider.


texts: Can I put my HD into an enclosure boot into it and expect all my apps / programmes to run?

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I’ve got to send my laptop, MBP mid 2012, running OSX 10.10, into a repair shop.

I use the computer for work so can’t really be without it. Could I take 5e HD out (this is one of the old MBPs with a removable HD), put it into an enclosure and 5en boot into it to work in from a Mac mini which is currently running 10.13 although I believe it had 10.10 on there at some point so the drivers should be there.

Would booting into the HD cause any issues with email accounts (imap accessed via Mac mail), Dropbox sync app, and other pieces of bought software that require a serial number ?

I also have file vault enabled on the drive but presumably as long as I know the password I can still boot into it.


texts: Removing Internet Account without losing old messages in Messages App

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I use Gmail and Messages app on OS X. I would like to remove the Internet Account, and preserve my historical messages. If I go to remove the Gmail Internet Account, I get a warning:

  Deleting this account will remove its data from Mail, Messages.

I realize that I can simply disable the account, but I want to remove it all together while preserving the historical messages.


texts: Terminal OS X export command not working, cannot set new variable/pathway

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I'm trying to set a variable, e.g.

BIN=../../../../bin

but I get

BIN=../../../../bin: Command not found.

The same for

export BIN
export: Command not found.

It seems that I can't edit the path which looks incorrect...

echo $PATH /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/home/tmp

What might be wrong please?


texts: How to keep images in Mail for offline reading?

texts: For example:I subscribe emails to Huffington Post,and they send daily mails.How can I keep images in those mails so I can read them offline?


texts: iMessages being delivered to both me and my daughter

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I'm having some trouble with iTunes  We have 4 different devices connected to my iTunes account. I have one daughter's iPod, another daughters iPod, one iPad and I just got one of the girls their first phone last night and set up that phone under this same iTunes account.

All of the texts I get to my iPad are also going to her phone.  Should I have given her a totally different iTunes account?  Is there a way to give her one iMessage number and a different iMessage number on the iPad, so we don't get each other's iMessages?

Also, when I connected the new phone to this iTunes account last night, it switched the iMessage number on the iPad to the same number as the phone?
Any suggestions?


texts: How do I stop Finder from warning me when I change a file extension?

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When renaming a file in the Finder and changing the file extension, I get the following confirmation dialog warning message:

  Are you sure you want to change the extension from ".md" to ".txt"?

  If you make this change, your document may open in a different application.

How can I disable it?


texts: Will my iMac stay on if I use it's display in target display mode for a Mac mini?

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I have the new iMac and need a Mac mini. Is it easy to switch the display back and forth or do I have to plug and unplug?

Also.. Will the Mac mini continue to run in headless mode when I'm using the display with the iMac?

I'd like to connect to it via Remote Desktop most of the time.

Thanks!


texts: What happens when I unsubscribe from iTunes Match?

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I know that for every song I have purchased from the iTunes store I can download it regardless and at any time. I was thinking of subscribing to iTunes Match to get a similar service for all the songs I have bought from other sources. I was thinking though, if I unsubscribe at a later date will I no longer be able to download the songs that I didn't purchase from apple through iTunes?

Or will all my songs that are recognised by "Match" be classed as purchased through iTunes and available to download indefinitely?


texts: Stop Apple ID change address page from kicking me out

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I'm having troubles with my Apple ID. Apart from not being able to download apps, I can't change my Apple ID details through the iPhone, and especially when I log in to appleid.apple.com and trying to edit my address, I get logged out getting an "unknown error" message.

Any ideas what to do?

Edit - Nor can I connect to the iTunes store too see my details within the App Store app. "Can't connect to iTunes store"


texts: Notes won't sync via IMAP in macOS Sierra

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Recently I updated my MacBook from Mavericks to Sierra and everything is going well… except the sync of my notes. I don't want to use iCloud sync because I don't want my notes on a foreign server. Yes, I am aware, that the new features are not supported by IMAP but I don't use them. I just use unformatted text.

What I have tried so far:

disabling the account, reboot, an re-enabling it -> didn't work
deleting  ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes -> didn't work
following the description here: How to Sync Notes El Capitan to iOS 9 via IMAP -> didn't work
searching the internet -> no further hints

How can I get this sync back to work?


texts: How do I get 2 Dell monitors to work with my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)

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OSX doesn't support MST daisy chaining monitors. I've got 2 brand new monitors and a decent mac and Apple wont let me use it due to software limitations.

Is there any product I can buy (Amazon preferably) that will let me use my two monitors (not screen mirroring) as I want to? I can plug both displays into the mac but then I can't charge the mac at the same time or close the lid without it going off. Dell U2518D are the displays.


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i have 2 iphones, the new for my business. I share my location on Find your friends with my family. When I‘m working, I often forgot my private iphone at home. So I would like to share my location with my firm iphone. I know, that I have to choose the iphone I want to share.

When I change on the app to my business iphone, will it send a message to my private iphone? And does it requiers an authorisation? Because when the private iphone is at home, I can‘t klick on the authorisation or the message. Thank you very much for your answers!


texts: So I have a cracked ipod touch 4 Gen screen. Is there any use for this now? Is there possibly a way to get an adapter to HDMI or something similar? The screen works fine besides the cracked glass.


texts: How might I save a variable between Applescript runs?

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I'm trying to save three distinct variables that my Applescript application would then be able to access on launch, and if the user wishes to he may manipulate those variables from within the application.

More specifically, I'm working on a script that runs a bunch of equations based on a user's selected latitude and longitude, and outputs the results in a string, including the city's name. If the user wishes to, he may choose a different city and restart the script based on that city.

Choosing a different city, setting the variables, and rerunning the script accordingly is fine. I can just set up a subroutine containing the following code:

set choice to choose from list {"City A","City B","City X"}
if choice is "City A"
    set city to "City A"
    set lat to (latitude of City A)
    set lon to (longitude of City A)
else if choice is "City B"
...

My problem is that I have to initialize these variables when the script starts. I can set a predefined value for these variables, or I can run this subroutine at the beginning of the script, but I can't find a way to save the choice for future runs, so that the result of this choice becomes the default. That is, if the script by default runs these equations for City A, and I pick City B from the list, the next time the script runs, it should run the equations for City B automatically, without any user input.

I tried setting up a second script with exactly three lines of code:

property city : "City A"
property longitude : (longitude of City A)
property latitude : (latitude of City A)

but subsequently realized that it fails for exactly the same problem: Applescripts can't save variables inside themselves between tasks. I can update an external variable once it's loaded into the current script, but that doesn't actually edit the original script.

Another thing I tried was creating a blank file somewhere and rename it according to the user's choice, then testing for the file's name and updating the variables accordingly, but I'd also like to share the application for others to be able to use, and that would require them to also have this file in a specific folder. For some reason, Script Editor doesn't like it when I try getting the file path of a file inside an application package, so unless there's a fix for that, I can't just hide the file inside the application itself.

I've seen here that if you save the file as .applescript you can have it write onto itself, but I'm unsure of how you would go about doing that.

I am aware that there is a thing called Database Events that I could possibly manipulate, but I'm not sure of how I would go about doing that.

The minimum I'm looking for is a way to save variables to access them on launch next time, but if someone could address all of the possibilities I've mentioned above, that would be excellent.


texts: Wi-Fi constantly slow on MacBook! How to fix?

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My MacBook 12" (Macbook 12 2015 Macos BigSur). I also had the problem in Catalina. I have made a clean install, and it didn't help.
It experiences slow Wi-Fi connections constantly! I cannot use apps for streaming like Netflix or sky or any other, because resolution drops from HD 720 to 144p every time. This is very bad!
Some basic tests: Ping 2, Down 255mb, Up 23mb.
I assume there is something going on with the power saving.
Is there a way to disable all power savings? I want to have maximum Wi-Fi performance possible.


texts: iOS 9.3.2 - Siri Suggestions Shows Wrong Contacts

texts: I have iOS 9.3.2 but this bug has been bother me for a long time so I'm sure it was present before version 9.3.2.  When I'm on the first page of apps on my home screen I swipe to the right to access "Siri Suggestions".  I love this feature and use it heavily.  But the very first contact seems to be wrong most of the time.  It always shows a dude I NEVER communicate with.  I've looked through all my texts, e-mails, etc and I have received nothing from him.  I have even deleted him from my contacts, restarted my phone, and he still appears as the first suggestion.  This usually happens 90% of the time with this one guy but a couple other times another random person I never speak to shows up.  What gives?!?! I'm sick of seeing this damn dudes face :)


texts: How do i get past this certificate error?

texts: On Google Chrome, i want to go to a website, which is blurred out for privacy reasons, but whenever i click proceed anyway, it tells me on and on the same message, can someone help me out or something or how do i add that website as a administrator website, or a trusted website? Im using a mac machine.


texts: iOS - Deleting pictures after syncing with iTunes

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After syncing my iPhone with iTunes, if I delete my pictures from the device, will they also be removed from my Mac on the next sync?

Is there a way to delete my pictures from the iPhone, but keeping them on my Mac?


texts: Not enough space on disk to install App Store app, but which one?

texts:
I get this popup about once a day, but I don't know what "product" App Store is talking about.

I tried going to Launchpad, but nothing seemed to be in the middle of downloading (no icon was greyed out). I have 14GB space free, so whatever it is, it would need to be pretty big. The biggest I could imagine would be xcode, but I already have that installed.

Is there a way to find out what this popup is referring to?


texts: What can the minidisplay port on the MacBook Air do?

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What features does the minidisplay port on the MacBook Air (early 2010) allow you to do?

I couldn't find much information about it in the Air's manual. All it said was that it was a video out connection. Does it only work as a monitor repeater (i.e. it shows exactly what is shown on the built-in screen?) or can it also allow the second monitor to behave as a dual screen? (i.e. where you can have some apps on one screen and separate apps on another?)

If both are possible, where can I find more information about setting it up? (Preferably, I'm looking for help documents created by Apple.)


texts: iOS App Store: free limited version of app

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I would like to have a free trial version of my app, with limited functionality, and at the same time to have a full paid version. The apps can have slightly different names on App Store, say MyApp 1.0 and MyApp 1.0 (Limited).

Does this violate Apple's policies?


texts: How do I make Evernote always paste in the matching font?

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When I paste text from another application into Evernote it always uses some random strange font from the source.

How do I change Evernote so that it keeps the font the same as the font in the note I am pasting the text. It seems fairly logical to me but I cannot fathom why it does anything else!


texts:
Does anyone know from a trusted source if the new MacBook Pro 13" (2012) has SATA III?
On Google, some places said SATA II and couldn't find any info on Apple's site.

I also have one more question: if I connect an SSD (external case) on USB 3.0 will it be faster than a 5400 RPM on USB 3.0?


texts: iPad Air 2 microphone not working since iOS 11 update

texts: Is it a common problem for iPad Air 2 microphone to not work? My method of communication is dictation, so the microphone is critical. It works on my synced iPhone 6.


texts: How create a smart playlist that shows only full albums in my library?

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Does anyone know how to create a iTunes Playlist that shows only songs in My Library which are part of a complete album in My Library.

Essentially I want to see all my complete albums. You can in Spotify but with Apple Music every song you add to a playlist it assumes you want it added to My Library.


texts: How can I scroll down to the bottom of document (HTML) in Safari?

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I normally can use Command-DownArrow, to go to the bottom of the document in text editor such as TextMate.

How can I do the same thing in Safari? How can I scroll down to the bottom of the document with Safari when I read the long HTML document?

And, how can I scroll one screen with keyboard?


texts: AppleScript Editor : comment line shortcut?

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to comment lines in AppleScript Editor ?

The common Cmd+shift+/ does not work here.


texts: Mac Mail - Mountain Lion - How does one remove the name from the sender heading?

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Instead of From: listing { "Name"  }  and showing up on recipients email as such,   I would like to only have the email address shoe up so the above would be  -  { ,xxx@yyyy.zz }.

I have three domains I send and receive from I would like to keep one of them private, without my name showing.

Thanks
iciarch


texts: How to fix an unusable iMac G4 monitor plagued by static?

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I'm working on a friend's old G4 iMac trying to get his only computer running so he can do his college assignments at home. The machine has static on the screen during operation.

I reset NVRAM and tried booting to a Leopard DVD to no avail. I can get to single user mode, but when I try to run X I get an error and am unfortunately unable to make out the key part of the message due to the static.

I have checked for corrosion on the display connection to the motherboard, and it seems to have retained it's integrity.

Suggestions for making this machine functional again?

PS: After letting it boot overnight it went to the desktop, but was extremely slow. After almost 40 minutes of beach ball i had to reset it using the reset button on the board. It seems to boot normally (except the original static seen in the second image) but immediately goes to the state in the first image after clicking more than a couple times or attempting to drag a window.


texts: Can't access internet after installing NordVPN

texts:
As soon as I install the NordVPN app from the app Store on MacOS Mojave, the internet connection dies. I can't use my browser, or any internet connected apps.

Deleting the app and then restarting the computer restores the internet.

With NordVPN installed, there are same symptoms even when I login to my user account in safe mode.

Pinging a website from terminal works fine.

What I have tried:

DNS flush
deleting my WiFi interface and adding it again
trying a different connection (using personal hotspot from my phone)
uninstalling NordVPN and deleting all the leftover files in cache
etc. and then reinstalling the app again.
everything works well on a different admin account on the same Mac.
most of the advice I could find on the internet didn't help

I am suspecting that NordVPN is somehow turning on the kill switch as soon as it's installed. To that end, I tried turning the kill switch on and off on the app to rule that out and the internet still didn't work.

How do diagnose this? NordVPN customer service was of no use.


texts: What programs actually use the memory on a Graphics card?

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I noticed that the Graphics Card memory is hardly used at all, even during Cinebench 3D testing despite the FPS being high. What programs actually use the graphics card memory?

Trying to determine if the M295x is worth the money to upgrade in a new iMac. (I do mostly video editing with Premiere Pro and After Effects)

Currently running an iMac 5k with the M290x card.

Here's a screenshot running Cinebench 3d test - high FPS, no GPU memory being used...


texts: Are there any modern alarm clock software titles for 10.8?

texts:
I used to use Hanson's "Alarm Clock 2", and while it was good in that I could set alarms to only go off Monday through Friday, it wasn't very good about honoring 3 day weekends.

I was hoping to find something I could just point at an .ical or Google calendar of the company holidays, so that the alarm clock would not trigger on those days.

Does anything like this exist for OS X?


texts: Create Backup Image of OS X Lion Before Upgrading to Mavericks

texts:
I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 and am planning on upgrading to OS X Mavericks.

However, before I do that - I would like to create a backup of my current OS (OS X Lion), so that if things go wrong or if I want/need to, I can restore my MacBook (13-inch, Early 2011) back to OS X Lion. That's my reason for wanting to back up my OS X (image?).

How do I do this?


texts: Does macOS 10.13.4 display 32-bit warnings like the beta versions do?

texts:
The beta versions of macOS 10.3.4 were reported to include warnings when you started a 32-bit app. From the release notes:

  To prepare for a future release of macOS in which 32-bit software will no longer run without compromise, starting in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 a user is notified on the launch of an app that depends on 32-bit software.

I've been using the released version of 10.3.4 for a few days, but I haven't seen any notices when I run 32-bit software. Was this feature removed? Or are there special conditions that need to happen before it appears?


texts: External display thinks it is on previous low-resolution one

texts: If I use a low-resolution external monitor or video projector on my MBP 16"(2019) and later connect to a high resolution monitor, the Mac cannot recognize the new monitor, so the monitor only offers low resolutions (even with Option-click-Scaled). Is there a quick way to tell the Mac to forget about the previous external display, besides rebooting the Mac?


texts: How to sync PDF bookmarks from MacOS Preview to iOS Apple Books?

texts:
Apple Books on MacOS opens PDF files in Preview. Preview can bookmark texts using CMD-D. When I open the same book with Apple Books on iOS the bookmarks are not transferred over. I have cloud sync to enabled and the books are automatically made available in iOS books.

How do I keep my bookmarks in sync on MacOS and iOS?


texts: iTunes Connect : app submitted for French Store ended up in US Store

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I submitted an app which got reviewed and accepted. However when I search the App Store for the app, results are empty.

The issue was clear when I followed the "view on the app store" link from itunes connect : an error dialog popped up saying that "this item [...] is not available on the french store, but it is in the US store"

This is not the first app I submit, and it never happened before. All my previous apps were available on the french store. I don't understand what went wrong ...

Any ideas?


texts: How to merge files after using split command from terminal?

texts:
I've split a large file with the split command from a Terminal and copied it from a USB-stick to my MacBook.

This results in couple of files named 'xaa', 'xab', 'xac'.

How do I merge them together again from within a Terminal?


texts: iOS Developer Account - 50GB iCloud space still available. Will it go away?

texts:
I have an iOS developer account for which 50GB of space on iCloud Drive (or whatever the overall service is called these days) was allocated, when I installed iOS 8.0 beta on one of my devices (an iPhone).

When iOS 8.0 released to the public I got an email saying that my 50GB limit was to be withdrawn.

But it hasn't happened and I can still see that much available (I don't have a paid plan - I'm only eligible for 5GB). Secondly, perhaps for this reason, iCloud Photo library has been available on all my devices since installing iOS 8.0, (the iPhone which was last updated to the iOS 8.0 GM Seed, and the other, an iPad, which went from iOS 7.0.x to 8.0.2 directly upon public release of 8.0.2)  whereas if I understand correctly, it is only being made available to the public since iOS 8.1.

My question is - is this a glitch or have other developers (consistently, and broadly) experienced the same thing? Will this storage space (and more importantly all the data I store in it - if I were to) go away suddenly?

Would I be better off contacting Apple Support to make sure this error (if any) is corrected?


texts: How to make special French keyboard characters work in MS RDC?

texts:
I'm on a Macbook Pro with a French Keyboard. Keyboard layout works fine when connecting to Windows XP Professional but I cannot get certain keys to work:

For example $, &, é, § and @ etc. work fine.

Forward slash / using ⇧ + : works.
Backslash \ using ⌥ + ⇧ + : does not work.
Pipe | using ⌥ + ⇧ + L does not work.

Is there any configuration that I can do to make my keyboard work?

I've had this issue on my Windows VM in Virtual Box but fixed it with a custom keyboard layout. However when connecting to servers and workstations over the network this is not a solution since I can not configure each machine I need to connect to.

Under preferences, if I disable the Alt key it still does not work and on-top of that working without an Alt Key in Windows is no fun.


texts: Charge iOS device through mains whilst using data cable with laptop

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Take two Apple data sync wires:

Cable 1, which connects the iPad to a laptop USB port, and
Cable 2, only connected by itself to an iOS data charger socket plugged into the mains, ready to charge any iOS device (not connected to an iOS device)

Is it possible to connect (or solder) the 'power' wires of the two cables (responsible for charging an iOS device) so that the mains can charge the iPad whilst the laptop can transfer data as required to the iPad? Is this feasible without any major complications?


texts: Why do I see "Cannot Use Thunderbolt Accessory"?

texts:
I purchased a brand new MBP and a cable was included in the box, it has USB-C type connectors on each end and works for charging the computer.

When, instead of charging with the brick, I plug it into my new iMac, I get this error message:

Why do I see this? How do I fix the problem?

This message implies that I have connected the "accessory" (iMac) using a non-Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Pro. However, the marketing materials on apple.com tell me that all the ports are Thunderbolt ports:


texts: my girlfriend broke her trackpad of her MacBook white 2009 and now she's using a USB mouse. This does not work properly and gets often stuck. Do you think the sto issues are related? DO you have any suggestion on how to fix this?


texts: How to unlock iTunes account when prompted for my old e-mail address

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This question was locked in an older post, however there was no resolution to the problem. I had a similar issue and was able to resolve it in the following manner with the help of the Account Security Adviser Team at Apple. Try these steps, and if they don't work, try calling apple. This may only work if you update your apple id to your new email address before losing access to the old address. In my case, I still had access to my old email address, but using the password recovery options provided did not work. Here's the sequence of what happened to me:

1) I opened itunes after not having used the music files I had stored for a long time.
2) Itunes said "this computer is not authorized to play " and specified I needed to authorize it using my old ID and pw.
3) Attempts to use all old and current passwords failed. I clicked on "Forget?"
4) This took me to the account recovery web page where there were two options:

a) Email recovery - Tried this several times and never got an email sent to my old email address. That is because Apple discarded this email when I updated my apple ID, right? Email Recovery Fails

b) Security Questions - prompted me to enter my birthday. Here, I have read that a lot of folks have trouble because you get an error that says you have entered incorrect information. Pretty sure we all know our own birthdays right? The problem is Apple doesn't and you may not have told them recently or when you changed your id. So this option fails.

Meanwhile the files are sitting on your computer, you have paid dearly for them and now Apple is the bad guy for not letting you get access to them right? Maybe there is some DRM hack we can all google, right? Wrong, you just need to do the following.

1) Go to appleid.apple.com and click on Manage your Apple ID.
2) Login with your current/new apple id and verify that everything looks good here
3) Click on pw and security. In my case, I found I had not set any questions or birthday info here. If you have done this before, it should say "Please answer your security questions"
4) If you have not done this, or even if you think you have, and it is prompting you to create new ones, go ahead and make new ones, your old ones are gone.
5) Enter your birthday, guessing you can all handle that one:)
6) Scroll down and click save.

Now head over to the iTunes software. I had recently updated mine so it was the newer 11.01 interface where the menus and side bar are all hidden by default.

1) In the upper left there is a drop down, click show menu bar
2) now click on the View menu and click Show side bar (in case you were missing it, the ol' sidebar is back!)
3) In the sidebar, click iTunes Store.
4) You should see your current Apple Id in the upper left corner of the store. Click on it and click sign out.
5) Sign in with your current id
6) Now click on Store in the menu bar and click authorize this computer
7) Alternatively you can try and deauthorize and then reauthorize. Supposedly there is a way to deauthorize all machines, not seeing it at the moment, probably buried in preferences somewhere. This will ensure any old device you have discarded or sold are no longer able to claim access to your content.

This should get you going, hope you are as successful as I was. Play around with steps 4-7, not sure I got the order exact here as I was going from memory, but it should work. All my files seem to play now, unless of course someone else owns them:)


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I have installed iCloud Control Panel on my Windows PC. During setup, I was asked to create folders for both the PhotoStream and my uploads. I've done all that, but the issue is that I can't see my photos. The folder is even empty. On my iPhone however, all photos are listed in the Photostream.
How can I view my photos on my Windows PC?


texts: Finder is very slow in showing the content of server shared folders

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I'm accessing a Windows File Sharing folder on my home server in Finder on my Mac (OS X 10.7.2) using the SMB protocol. When I'm navigating through the folders, sometimes (most of the time) I have to wait up to 10 seconds until I can see the list of files in the selected folder. Also, there is no visual clue that Finder is fetching the file list, so the first time I got this behavior in Mac OS X Lion, I was thinking the folder was empty.

Even worse, when I'm copying some large files to the server, Finder is delaying the process of getting the file list more or less until the copying is finished.

Is this something I can fix? Or is it a known bug in the Finder/SMB protocol implementation?


texts: Should time machine backups be encrypted

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I am new to the Mac and was setting up my Time Machine. However, it seems Time Machine also backs up information in the keychain.

I was wondering if that means I should use an encrypted disk to store Time Machine backups. (assuming that the rest of the data on my Mac isn't that sensitive, to warrant encrypting the disk otherwise. But my passwords to login into various accounts, I don't want falling into wrong hands)

At the same time, I have read in some forums that encrypting backups sorta defeats the purpose - since that means I might not be able to access my backed up data when I need it. This is one such forum discussion. (The discussion also seemed to imply that if something goes wrong, getting back my data from an encrypted disk might be hard even if I know the encryption password. Is that true?)

Also, is performance a concern when using encrypted backups, assuming encryption is recommended? From what I understand, since the CPU is much faster than the disk, there should be no real performance hit. Yet, I have read on forums that Time Machine becomes really slow if encryption is turned on. Again, is this true?

Finally, if an unencrypted Time Machine backup disk falls into the wrong hands, will my keychain data be accessible to only if the finder knows my Mac OS X password? Or are there ways to get that information even otherwise?

TL;DR

Is encryption recommended for Time Machine backups, assuming a very basic need for security of data from falling into wrong hands. In particular, I would like to restrict access to my keychain data using encryption, but only if it doesn't compromise my ability to access the backups when I really NEED them, and there isn't a major performance hit.


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The login time period (the period of time between the password is entered and the dock is shown on the desktop) is extremely slow (~3 minutes). After the system is up it behaves normally.

How can I trace what login item(s) may slow the login process down?

Gil


texts: Test a list of passwords on Sparse Image

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I have a sparse image file with some important data in it I would like to retrieve. The only problem is I've forgotten the password.

I have a good idea of the parts of the password and managed to generate a 3000 line file with a list of possible passwords.

I would like to know how I can test these against my image. A few years ago, I had found a handy open source app with a simple GUI which did this, but I can't seem to find it. Maybe someone knows what app I'm talking about. Otherwise, if anyone knows an other method to do this (perhaps with automator), it would be great.

Thanks


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I have an older Apple account i haven't used for a few years, I know the email (And have access to the email address) its linked to and i know the password.

However when i go to the apple account management page (https://appleid.apple.com/#!&page=signin) and tried to sign in, it asks for answers to my security questions which I know longer know the answers to. I tried to go to https://iforgot.apple.com/password/verify/appleid but... it asks me for the answer to my security questions... when i select i need to change my security questions.

How can I go about regain control over this app?


texts: Do the three iPad personal hotspot tethering options differ in terms of speed?

texts:
I am delighted with LTE tethering on the new iPad with personal hotspot.

What are the speed ramifications of selecting Wi-Fi over Bluetooth or connecting via USB and the dock connector?


texts: In iPad Pages, how to make the text in a cell of a table vertical?

texts:
In iPad pages, how to make text in a cell of a table vertical?
The information on the Internet is not sufficient. They point to part that can’t be find on iPad Pages, or maybe I cannot find.


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I am using Handbrake to convert various movies to MP4 format, so they can be played by iPhone/Ipad... but by default Handbrake does not include the subtitles inside the output files.

I am looking for a batch solution that would allow me to do this (so I can do 20-30 files at once, not only one by one).


texts: How do you set custom device paths (BSDName)?

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See similar question from 3 years ago, Is there a Mac equivalent for UDEV folder on linux?, but I have different requirements. I'm hoping that this has become easier if not at least possible.

What I am looking for is very UDEV-like functionality. I have four USB-based DVD writers that I want to be assigned specific device names when they get connected:

ASUS SDRW-08D1S-U (VendorID 0x13fd, ProductID 0x1640, SerialNumber 00101016400000005)
LG GP60 (VendorID 0x0e8d, ProductID 0x1887, SerialNumber KX1Z85H3811)
LG GP60 (VendorID 0x0e8d, ProductID 0x1887, SerialNumber KZ3Z8683700)
Samsung  (VendorID 0x0e8d, ProductID 0x1806, SerialNumber S1736YAF4001CP)

When the system starts it will (generally) assign these devices /dev/disk2,3,4,5, but the order is seemingly random. For various reasons I would like to have the device names persist been reboots. In Linux I would have setup UDEV rules to do this and "job done", e.g.:

SUBSYSTEM="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}="13fd", ATTRS{idProduct}="1640", ATTRS{serial}="00101016400000005", NAME="writer1"
SUBSYSTEM="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}="0e8d", ATTRS{idProduct}="1887", ATTRS{serial}="KX1Z85H3811", NAME="writer2"
SUBSYSTEM="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}="0e8d", ATTRS{idProduct}="1887", ATTRS{serial}="KZ3Z8683700", NAME="writer3"
SUBSYSTEM="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}="0e8d", ATTRS{idProduct}="1806", ATTRS{serial}="S1736YAF4001CP", NAME="writer4"

But I can't see any way to do something similar on OS X.

The diskutil activity method won't work for this as the logical device names have already been assigned. At this point in the chain Media/Volumes are getting mounted and it's the file system mount notifications that are getting broadcast by diskutil. What I'm looking for is some way to coerce IOKit, underneath the DiskArbitration framework, to assign specific device names before it starts detecting and mounting partitions and file systems.

Is there a simple way to do this (configuration file/s)? Or am I going to have to resort to writing a kext driver to set the BSDName (similar to the SampleUSBAudioOverrideDriver setting display names)?


texts: Where is "Today" and "Yesterday" in Finder menu?

texts: A folder or place search place that contained everything I used "Today" and "Yesterday" is missing from my new Yosemite finder on the left.  Is it not possible to have this?  It was a quick easy way to recall specific things when working on a lot of different things.


texts:
I am trying to show all files and hide some. I know about the command:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES

But that shows even files that I have hidden with chflags hidden. I want to hide those files. Is it possible to change its name into a ._ file, or is that not safe? I don't want to chflags nohidden manually one by one. Is there a way to do so?

Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks)


texts: MacPorts: Install non-dependencies past error

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Introduction

At times, MacPorts fails to build something because of an error. Previously, @tyilo asked on AskDifferent how to ignore these error and continue installing the other ports (link). Although some answers suggested using the -p flag, MacPorts dev (@ClemensLang) said that this should not be done because it can mess up things later.

Fair enough: it makes sense to not ignore errors when building a package that depends on a failed update.

However, there are several packages that I imagine I could safely update because they do not depend on the package that failed to build. I expect that there is a way to update everything possible, but when an error is encountered, to skip that package and anything that depends on it.

For example

Suppose I have the following packages to update with the following dependencies:

apple depends on flower
tree depends on seed

Suppose that flower fails to update. Therefore, I should not use -p  because it would continue trying to update apple and the others, and building apple based on a botched flower could cause problems.

I expect there should be a way such that if flower fails, MacPorts can ignore apple and flower, but continue building seed and tree.

Is there a "best-practice" way to approach this situation? If not, why not?


texts: Tool for determining performance bottleneck

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I am using my early 2011 MacBook Pro for iOS development, Photoshop work, and the like, and it is at times quite sluggish. Is there a tool that I can just run for a day, and then look at the statistics it produces to identify the performance bottleneck?

I am considering either buying more RAM (I have 8 currently, would get 16) or an SSD (I currently have the stock HDD).


texts: How to invoke a method at particular time asynchronously every day in Mac application?

texts:
This is my first Mac application.

I would like to send emails by comparing the current date and saved date of clients by the user in sqlite only one time- every day depending on the condition, asynchronously.


texts: Where on the OSX Mavericks is the Applications folder supposed to be?

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All my Music, Movies, Documents etc, are stored under /Users/myusername/

But it seems that Applications are stored under:   /Macintosh HD/Applications

Is there something wrong with my installation ? Is it supposed to be there ? I don't recall moving the applications folder there. It just seems weird that it isn't stored in my user directory.

Could parallels have done this?


texts: How is Macbook Air, Macbook Pro's Solid State Drive compared to Intel or Crucial Technology ones?

texts:
I want to buy a Solid State Drive for my PC, but also is thinking of just buy Macbook Air or Macbook Pro 13 or 15 inch so that there is already a Solid State Drive.

How does the Solid State Drive (SSD) in Macbook Air or Macbook Pro compare to the SSD drive I can buy for the PC?   (for speed)  Especially the Macbook Air, because it is so slim and small, will it have an SSD that is not as fast as the bigger brothers?

For example, these two seems highly rated for the PC:

http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Technology-RealSSD-Solid-CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1/dp/B0039SM0AS

and

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Internal-Technology-2-5-Inch-SSDSA2MH120G2K5/dp/B00486UR2I

and even an external one... but maybe less useful if computer has no USB 3.0

http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-SuperSpeed-USB2-0-External-35141/dp/B0047ZGNIC


texts: Automatically executing actions according to the current location

texts:
I would like to have in my MacBook Pro a functionality which execute automatically some actions according to my current location. This actions could be for example

Change the default printer
Change the network location (for setting for example static or dynamic IP like in this question)
Open an application or a specific file
Activate/Deactive file sharing
Run shell scripts

The current location could be inferred for example by using the current network (Wi-Fi network name) or other localization services.

Is there an application that provides this functionality?


texts: How does Apple's free apps program work?

texts: Apple recently announced that iLife and iWork suites are free with new Macs and iOS devices, but how does it work? Is it preinstalled? What happens if I wipe out the system—will it still be free in the App Store? Does it associate the apps with purchases on a single Apple ID?


texts:
I want to delete all of my messages off my Macbook and iPhone but I'd like to back them up before I do so.

How do I go about doing this?


texts: iOS - Replace Siri with Google Assistant

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I have been using both Siri and Google Assistant. Between the two, I find latter to be more smarter and prefer it over the former.

Is there a way to replace Siri with Google Assistant? If yes, how do I do so?


texts: What exactly does "Disconnect from iPhone" do?

texts:
Today I saw an option to Disconnect from iPhone (hotspot) in my list of available Wi-Fi access points, under the status bar icon on my Mac.

I don't remember ever seeing it there before.

What exactly does this command do?
Can't I just turn off Wi-Fi on my Mac, or select a different Wi-Fi access point to disconnect? What problem does this new feature solve?


texts: Backing Up and Restoring Contacts from Microsoft Outlook on iOS 6

texts:
I don't use Microsoft Outlook but when I backed up my iPhone 5 running iOS 6 on my laptop, it said the contacts from that application were backed up.

How do I find/check if the contacts are backed up and where are they stored?


texts: Typing the tilde '~' character on a PC keyboard

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I'm using my macbook pro with an international Spanish PC keyboard and am trying in vain to find the tilde '~' character. I've tried the layouts "British - PC" and "U.S. International - PC" but cant figure out how to get that tilde to show.

On the U.S. layout, when I press the key between left-shift and Z, I get the back tick '`'. When I use shift, I get '˜'. With the option key I get a back tick as well.

On the British layout, when I press the button below escape I get the back tick, but with shift I get "¬". With the option key I get '¦'.

Anyone know what I need to press?

In response to the possible duplicate:

The answer given for the question about the tilde with a Spanish keyboard does, indeed mention that you can use alt+n and then / to type the tilde on English layouts, but as Tom Gewecke pointed out, that is not true for all English layouts as the other question seems to suggest. The answers here are more specific and helpful.


texts: iCloud Storage - No photos or videos but still shows as full

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I have iPhone 6....and standard iCloud storage of 5GB. Please see pictures - I have absolutely no pictures and videos on my iPhone but still the iCloud storage says I have more than 1 GB of photos on my iCloud. When I log into my iCloud storage via PC, it shows there are no photos or videos (Moments and Albums are all blanks).iPhone Screenshot

I keep getting annoying messages that my iCloud storage is full....when I go to delete the pictures and videos, there are no such files. EXTREMELY ANNOYING. Please please help how to delete the "non-existent" photos and videos from the iCloud.

[pc screenshot


texts: How can I make sure my Mac has access to files on its own SMB server?

texts:
I have a Mac mini that runs a Samba server through the "file sharing" option in settings.

I can create files on it and my clients can access it. However, creating files on the client end causes my Mac not to have access to those files.

There doesn't seem to be a way to change that on the client end. I tried going into properties and unchecking the "read only" option on the file but it gets checked again when I hit "apply." My clients are Android and Windows.


texts: iTunes version in AppStore download of Mountain Lion

texts:
What version of iTunes comes with current AppStore download of Mountain Lion?  10.7?  11.0?

UPDATE:
As of today (6-Dec-2013), AppStore has 10.8.5 with iTunes 11.0.1.

Was hoping to avoid a whole VM install to find out the iTunes version, but it had to happen.  Will keep looking for a table view, and will post it here if I find one.


texts:
I have an old iPad2 which, I was using for a very long time. Recently it started to act weird. Not waking up, or acting much slower than it should (with iOS 9.3.4). I've wipe-restored it once, reduced the number of applications to a minimum (to reduce background refresh load). It was happily humming along to watch some Netflix shows or read and annotate some PDFs. Until it wasn't.

One day it failed to wake up, and I restarted it somehow (home/power combo IIRC) while connected to my Mac. I charged it, checked its battery stats (with Coconut Battery), and it was good (~%85 health IIRC). Then unplugged, and put it away.

Yesterday, it didn't wake again. This time home/power combo didn't restart to device. Its screen was black (with backlight off). I connected to my Mac, iTunes reported that it's in recovery mode. I confirmed the wipe and upgrade to 9.3.5. iTunes downloaded the iOS image, rebooted the device, and the progress bar came on. However after 8 hours, there was no progress and iTunes was Waiting for iPad. I disconnected the iPad, restarted with home/power combo and the screen stayed black.

Still cannot boot or restore the device. Any suggestions, help?


texts: Update a software that has been downloaded with an apple ID associated with a deleted email address

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I am trying to update XCode. When I go on the AppStore and try to update XCode I receive the following message:

You have updates available for other accounts

Sign in to <email.address@PastUniv.com> to update applications for that account.

email.address@PastUniv.com is an address email I had in my previous university and this email address has now been canceled!

How can I update XCode with the Apple ID I am using today?


texts: How to manually upgrade firmware (currently on Big Sur, update from Catalina broke Bluetooth)

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Ever since I've upgraded to Big Sur, my Bluetooth hasn't been working normally. I tried resetting my MBP 2016 and it didn't change anything, so after chatting with Apple Support, we've both reached the conclusion is that the firmware is corrupted.
Now, I'm wondering whether it's possible to update it or reset it myself, via Terminal or some other magical tool.
Thanks in advance


texts: Why is it required to have your MacBook Pro plugged-in in closed-clamshell mode with an external display attached?

texts:
open MacBook Pro + connected external display -> no power cable required
closed MacBook Pro + connected external display -> power cable required

Why? Why not allow or require it in both cases? Why require the power cable in the case, in which the battery will last longer?


texts: Why my macbook 2015 13 inch hums when working with latest Xcode?

texts:
What may be the cause of this? It happens every time when I build the app on either simulator or device.

Should i clean sth or reset my harddrive?

using High Sierra and Xcode 9.2

EDIT:

It is enough to open Xcode and it hums the same way.


texts: Samba share randomly unable to move files/folders

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I'm having strange permissions issues with my OSX 10.8.4 server. I stopped using the Apple v2.2.1 server app due to numerous issues & now have samba 3.6.15 installed via Macports, which mostly works ok except...
Every now & then OSX asks for a password when trying to move specific files or folders from one place to another (within the same volume) Entering the users own password doesn't work, he is already logged on to the server as himself & is able to move other folders, save files & otherwise work ok.
When I do a 'get info' to look at the permissions for that file, it has 'staff - read/write' even though staff is not set as owner group for that folder & none of the users have staff as their primary group id.
If I expand 'details' it is 'com.apple.desktopservices' that is asking for the password
Guessing 'staff' has something to do with it although any suggestions appreciated!
Thanks,


texts: iPad 2 freezes constantly on the same wifi network an iPhone 6 works smoothly

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I have an iPad 2 and an iPhone 6 on the same wifi network.

Making a facetime call using the iPad is a nightmare. The video freezes constantly. An iPhone 6 on the same wifi works like silk.

My internet is DOCSIS, cable 35 MBPS down and 3 MBPS up.

My ISP replaced the old router I had (a motorola) with a new more "modern" design a (thompson DWG874B).

What can be the problem?


texts: On Macbook Pro, how to tell if my hard drive access speed is a bottleneck to my current computer performance?

texts:
I'm considering giving my 2010 Macbook Pro an upgrade.  Whether upgrading its 500 GB hard drive to SSD drive is a priority depends on how much it bottlenecks the computer's performance.  Is there a reliable and quantitative way to measure this?

Update:

Current system configuration:

Mac OS X 10.10.2
Macbook Pro 17" (,id 2010)
Memory: 8GB
CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
Hard drive: 500GB SATA disk
About this Mac > System Report > Hardware > SATA/SATA Express > ... Rotational Rate: 7200 ...


texts: Boot straight into an application without showing the desktop

texts:
How do I boot straight into an application without showing the desktop?

Essentially I would like to turn the machine on, see the grey screen with loading icon, and then see my application. The Desktop/Dock/Menubar should never be visible. (The application itself is fullscreen)


texts: Sidecar not working with Ipad Pro 2018, Macbook Pro 2016

texts:
It only works if I use wired connection, however over the WiFi it does not.

My Macbook Pro 2016 does not recognize my Ipad which is 5 centimeters away.
Both devices are on the same Wifi network, and both have Bluetooth enabled. Both devices are logged into iCloud with the same AppleID. Both devices have two-factor authentication enabled.

  Why could it be that I cannot connect wirelessly?


texts: Solution to rescue a Macbook pro 15 2016

texts:
I was trying to update my macbook pro from macOS sierra to macOS high sierra and suddenly it freezes. I tried to to restart it but all I get now is a flashing interrogation point :/

P.S. : This is my first experience with a mac.

Where i can get a fresh copy of macOS high sierra and make a bootable usb with it on a Windows PC?


texts: Recover QuickTime 7 Pro registration from backup?

texts:
I recently had a disk corruption simultaneous with my Time Machine backup failing to execute for a period of 3 weeks.

So I wiped the drive and reinstalled the OS and have been dragging and dropping from the old back up to get close to the previous state. In some cases I've had to reenter software keys.

At the moment I am having no luck with re-enabling QuickTime Pro.  I have read Apple's note on the topic:

  Retrieve a lost QuickTime 7 Pro registration key

None of the methods they suggest work for me.

Does anyone know if it is possible to copy a preference from the back up to the new disk that will re-enable QuickTime Pro?  What would be the name + location of that file?


texts: Apple TV functions as Airplay target, not independently

texts:
I have a setup that looks like this:

+-------------------+                          +---------------+
|                   |     +---------------+    |               |
|  Apple TV         |     |               |    |      TV       |
|                   +---->|               +--->|               |
+-------------------+     |               |    +---------------+
                          | AV Receiver   |
+-------------------+     |               |    +---------------+
|                   +---->|               +--->|               |
| Cable box         |     |               |    |  Speakers     |
|                   |     +---------------+    |               |
+-------------------+                          +---------------+

The Apple TV is only a few months old.

Using the Apple TV as an Airplay target for audio or video works fine. And if I power-cycle the Apple TV, everything else works fine for one or two sessions. But after a while, when I try to access the Apple TV's internal features, I get a black screen. I can hear the feedback sounds as I navigate around with the remote, so it seems clear that something is happening—I just can't see it. The same is true when using the iOS Remote app. Also, when using the Remote app, I can't "pull" media from my computers' iTunes library, I can only "push" it from iTunes to the Apple TV.

The scrolling-photos screensaver, however, does kick in correctly. That seems like the one internal feature that will show up on my TV.

I would like to get everything else to work consistently. It has occurred to me that the Apple TV might not like being routed through the AV receiver, although I haven't tested whether changing it would make a difference; I'd prefer to keep it set up this way if possible.


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I've just upgraded my OS to Sierra and have turned on the "optimize storage" option for iCloud Drive. But strangely I now get a "your iCloud storage is full" message.

When I checked my local drive, it seems the total size of all folders inside wasn't the same as the iCloud Drive information. When I dive into iCloud preferences the Document size is insanely huge. How do I find out which ones are the large files?

[UPDATE]

I don't have any large files in my Documents folder. But it's strange:


texts:
Several months ago I updated the OS of my MBP (early 2015) from Yosemite to Mojave 10.14.6. Numbers does not work any more. Tried to reinstall it from the App store but they say I need OS 10.15. In some post here it is suggested updating from the "purchased" section of the App store. But Numbers does not show up there (Pages and Keynote do show up though).
Any suggestion (other then upgrading OS)?


texts: Why is my POP account not working after I upgraded to El Capitan? I sometimes can get mail and then it stops working so the problem is intermittent.


texts: I need to take a photo in very dim conditions with my iPhone. I use the flashlight to see in these conditions but when I take a photo the flashlight goes out. Is there a way to have the flashlight stay on when taking a photo with an iPhone 7?


texts: How to restart/delete game data on iPhone 6 IOS 11?

texts: I want to restart Clash of Clans from the beginning, but each time I delete the app and re-download it I pick up from where I left off. I tried going into settings into the game center section and couldn't find anything useful. I did the same with iCloud and had the same result. Any suggestions?


texts: Extracting Voice Memos from iPhone to iTunes

texts: I am currently doing some coursework for my exams, and part of my IT project is to record some audio, and assess it. I recorded this audio on my iPhone, and I plan on using Audacity to edit it. I am having a problem with getting the voice memos off my iPhone, and that's preventing me from doing my coursework. Does anyone know what to do? I use iTunes 11.1.3


texts: Configuring application servers to run as service daemons?

texts:
Mac 10.9.5 here. I am trying to figure out how to configured my machine to run an executable (Java) app as a service/daemon, so that it is always running so long as the machine is on. Hence, this app needs to start when I boot up, when I come back after being away for a while ('waking up'), etc.

Say I can manually run my app (server) by running:

java -jar /Users/myuser/utils/myapp.jar

How can I get myapp.jar to run as a service/daemon?


texts: Use MobileME to host multiple domain names

texts: I have a quick and simple question, is there any possible way to host more than one domain name from a single MobileME account? I am using iWeb11 and already have purchased two domain names and configured one of them with ME, this works fine but I would just like to be sure that I don't need to buy an additional ME account if it isn't absolutely necessary. Thanks you in advance!


texts: Report a problem Access Denied: We were not able to either validate credentials or authorize current action

texts:
This is what I get when trying to log in to my Report-a-problem account with Apple.
After a complete two-step verification on my Mac (password correct then got the verification code appear on my iPhone screen, typed that in on my Mac as well).
Instead of logging me in, I've got the error:
Access Denied: We were not able to either validate credentials or authorize current action.
Upon clicking the try again link or refreshing the page or re-opening the page in a new tab, it keeps defaulting to the error for like 5 minutes before allowing log in again.
Then I've managed to log in finally (doing everything just like the first time).
It's a recurrent problem, I've gone through the same thing a month ago when I used the site. In the end if you try again and again it works. Is this a bug related to this site or perhaps some issue with the settings?
I'm pretty sure it's not just me consistently mistyping the verification code because I always double check and I've never had this issue with other sites that ask for similar codes.


texts: Snapshot hell? Unable to free space on macOS Catalina

texts:
Like many others I am unable to clear up space after deleting files.

I tried clearing snapshots:

# tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Snapshots for volume group containing disk /:
# tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates /
Snapshot dates for volume group containing disk /:
# diskutil apfs listSnapshots /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD\ —\ Data
No snapshots for disk2s1

Space used according to du:

# pwd; du -schx *
/
151G    total

Disk file system usage

$ df -h /
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5  234Gi   10Gi   15Gi    41%  482081 2448643279    0%   /

I tried recovery mode and repairing the disk -

The volume Macintosh HD — Data was formatted by hfs_convert (748.1.47) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.11.7)
Checking the object map
Checking the snapshot metadata tree
Checking the snapshot metadata
Checking snapshot 1 of 2 (com.apple.apfs.purgatory.274c46)
error: object (oid 0x19842b0): Bad size for physical extent record key, len: 9
Snapshot is invalid
The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 could not be verified completely
File system check exit code is 0
Restoring the original state found as unmounted
Finished file system verification on disk2s1 Macintosh HD — Data

Why do I have snapshot in 'purgatory'? How can I fix my disk? How can I free up the space?


texts:
This is regarding Safari 13.0.1 on macOS 10.14.6.

I turn the status bar on using View -> Show Status Bar.

Then the status bar will be visible as a pop-over on the bottom left when I hover links. (Always hover your links!)

After restart or some other trigger, the status bar will then default to hidden. And I will need to repeat the View -> Show Status Bar step.

How do I persist my setting to show the status bar?


texts:
I have a mac book pro late 2011.

It has a very powerful hardware. But it is very slow. For example when I'm making expose geisture, there appears 'loading circle' and mac lags for 4~5 seconds. Same as I'm trying to switch to Safari or other program. I can't even sometimes type text normally while I'm having skype call.

How can I diagnose my computer ? Is there common workarounds to optimize performance?


texts: How do I point Sonos to my music on an Airport Extreme connected hard drive?

texts:
I am attempting to set up a music library to use on my wifi based Sonos system.  I have moved a copy of my iTunes music collection to an external USB 2.0 drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Drive) which is attached to the USB input on my AirPort Extreme (ac version).

On my MacAir, I can see the drive as a shared drive, and I can access all the files, including the music files.

In my Sonos setup, I have tried to identify the drive and files as the source of my music.  In identifying the device type, I have chosen

on a networked device such as a networked attached storage (NAS) drive

I am then prompted to

Type the path to your networked share:

Examples are given, such as

\\MyNetworkedStorage\Shared\Music

But what is my path?  When I look at the description in Finder on the MacAir, all I see is Server followed by

afp://MyName's AirPort Extreme._afpovertcp._tcp.local/MAC FREE/free agent backup/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/iTunes/iTunes Music

Clearly the formatting is different from the example paths offered. When I enter this entire string (and several shortened modifications), the dialog box does not recognize the string at all and no Next button appears.

When I modify the string and remove afp:, the Next button does appear. This is followed by a login for the Airport Express (which I input), but when I go to the next screen, I get the message

The computer [the address I put in follows] cannot be found.

How do I show Sonos where the networked drive and files are?


texts: How to disable call notification on multiple devices?

texts:
Whenever I receive a phone call, my phone starts ringing (which is fine) and one second later, my iPad and Mac starts to ring as well.

How do I disable or, at least delay the notification of phone calls to my other  devices?

My devices are on iOS 8.1 and OS X Yosemite.


texts:
I have a Mac running High Sierra, version 10.13.6. When running MacPorts I get the following error message that I should update my Xcode installation:

  Error: The installed version of Xcode (8.3.1) is too old to use on the
  installed OS version. Version 9.3 or later is recommended on Mac OS X
  10.13.

Running xcodebuild -version confirms this:

  Xcode 8.3.1

  Build version 8E1000a

But when I launch App Store I can't find any updates.

Has anyone an idea how I can update Xcode including command line utilities?


texts:
For years I have been a LaTeX user on Ubuntu. I want to know how to install/use LaTeX on Mac.

I generally use it to write mathematically intensive documents and make slides (on beamer). In future I am likely to use a lot of photographs on my slides.

I would be glad if someone can tell me what is the good way to install LaTeX on Mac. (..and also how to run it..) I am comfortable compiling it from some terminal.

I was looking at MacTeX, is that good (or the only one!?)

I was wondering if that comes bundled with a text editor too optimized for LaTeX. If not then kindly suggest me a good editor too. I am used to GEdit on Ubuntu.

For editor I was looking at TeXShop.

So will I have to install both TeXShop and MacTeX ?


texts: xCODE 11.3.1 - Failed to create provisioning profile

texts:
I'm trying to create a project, which will run on the xCODE's simulator, not on an iPhone. Right after the project is created, there are multiple errors. The first one is:

  Failed to create provisioning profile. There are no devices registered in your account on the developer website. Plug in and select a device to have Xcode register it.

I found many similar issues, but the given solutions didn't work in my case, or the issues where slightly different than mine, so I couldn't use them.

If there's any information needed for anyone to help, tell me and I'll provide it.


texts: 'No such file' when running rm AppleSetupDone from single-user mode

texts:
I'm in High Sierra (10.13.6) and recently I renamed my account in Users & Group. Now I lost access to my administrator (so I can't install apps or change settings in System Preferences).

I already tried to solve my problem by following I don't have administrator account on my mac but I can't make it past the

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

command, or maybe I'm doing something wrong there?

However, here's the single-user mode screenshot:


texts:
I locked my MacBook using Find My iPhone and now when attempting to start using it again, I cannot type my PIN into the unlock section. Nothing happens. I can't even click on sleep, restart, shut down or the internet options.

I tried Command-Option-R and Command-Option-R-P. Both just came up with a different password screen which I put the PIN into and then they went back to the PIN screen. I have no idea what else I can do.


texts: Migrating HDD's from one File System to another

texts:
I have been using Mac for many years and I have just recently switched to a Windows 10 based workstation.

I have 14 HDDs (with physical backup drives =28 drives) which were all formatted in OSX journaled extended and contain my library of work.

Now that I am on PC, I would like to be able to use them on the PC as well as Mac going forward.

What I know so far is that exFat is the file system I should be using going forward, and with this knowledge, I purchased a 4tb drive to use as an exFat 'mule' to copy the data to, then reformat my source drive to exFat and dump the original data back onto the source drive.

FYI; On the mac, I have a Thunderbolt 2 dual bay HDD 'toaster' and on the PC I have a dual bay USB 3.1gen2 (10gb) toaster) as I use HDD's to physically work between machines, versions and backup's etc.

Apart from the 'phantom' 500gb that finder tells me is now present on the mule drive (it states that there is 3.17tb of used space on it, where the source drive only had 2.76tb of data...), the workload of having to do this workflow; transfer>check for inconsistencies>ok>reformat original source drive>dump data back on to original source drive>verify and repeat is going to be a heinous workload and without checksum verification is going to take me forever.

Is there a simpler way to do a checksum verifiable, back up between an (HFS) source drive an (exFat) mule drive on exFat different file systems?

I own a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner, but I cant see that this is an option, and there is nothing I can find on their support pages.

Is there anything at all out there that I'm unaware of that might help make this process easier for me?


texts: Mac requires password every time I wake it

texts: I have my Macbook set to require a password one hour after sleep or inactivity, but it still asks for my password even after a moment of sleep. Am I misunderstanding this setting or is there another setting I am overlooking?


texts: Accidentally dragged a font's typeface out of the font dialog and "deleted" it

texts:
When I was trying to change the font in my xcode, I accidentally dragged a typeface out of the dialog with the mouse, causing the typeface to disappear from the fonts dialog forever.

As you can see, Menlo Regular is gone, (Italic too, because I couldn't help myself, damn me) I can't select it anymore. Funnily enough, you can't drag the typeface out of the window on another machine here. How would I get it back?

For clarification, the typeface is still available on the system, just not in that dialog.


texts: Time Machine stuck on "Preparing backup" whenever returning from Boot Camp to OS X

texts:
I have Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. Whenever I go into Windows 7 and then go back to OS X Lion, and then run a Time Machine backup, Time Machine is stuck on the "Preparing Backup" stage for a long time (roughly 30 minutes). It usually takes 30 seconds in this stage in most cases.

The reason it's stuck at this stage is probably because it is re-indexing everything again (per this KB article), but the question is, is there a way to make it so that it does not have to re-index everything again after restarting out of Boot Camp? I think this only started happening in the past few weeks, while I've had Boot Camp installed on this computer for a few years now.


texts: How do I select all songs as compilations in my iTunes. I don't want to modify each song one at a time, I have about 2000 songs.


texts: Using of mfind in general case : with or without extension for substring of a filename, even with a number

texts:
I try to use mdfind to find files from a part (substring) of their filename which can be also a number.

For example, I have a file called 'GCph_WL_FoM_154.46_AND_SIMPLE_SUM_GCsp_XC_AVEC_NO-ZCUT_FoM_571.35.py'.

If I do :

mdfind '154.46'

or

mdfind -name '154.46'

or

mdfind 'kMDItemFSName == "154.46"'

There are not results for these different commands.

I would like to find all the files whose filenames (with or without extension) contains a substring as argument and without case sensitive, and mostly, working also with number for the substring (number could also be located at the end of filename).

Could anyone tell me how could I achieve this ?

UPDATE 1 : I have followed the procedure of reindexing posted on this link.

1) How can I identify the processes launched by the terminal command :

$ sudo mdutil -i on "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"

Moreover, unlike to what is indicated on this link, I didn't find .Spotlight-V100 file into "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" directory. I found it into /System/Volumes/Data/ directory : is it normal ? (I am on Catalina 10.15.3). I have deleted it.

2) Still about this reindexing, is there a way to get a progression bar, graphically or directly inside terminal. Indeed, I remind that I have a 2TB SSD disk and it seems it takes a very long time to reindex all the "/Volume/Macintosh HD". That's why I would like to get this progression   bar.


texts: Adjusting volume in car switches iPhone to music

texts: Since our phones updated to 12.2 my wife and I have both experienced the following problem in each of our Toyotas - when listening to a podcast (on Stitcher) if we adjust the car audio volume the phone will suddenly switch to playing music. I have also experienced this once in a rental Toyota. I'm curious if others are seeing the same thing in other cars or with other podcast platforms. It is super annoying and of course if anyone has a fix I'd be very grateful. Thanks!


texts: How can I move spaces between external monitors in Mavericks?

texts:
I have a new (late 2013) MBP that I use with an external monitor. Annoyingly, when I plug/unplug the monitor, arbitrary spaces end up being fixed to either the internal or external monitor. Going to mission control doesn't appear to let me move spaces from one monitor to another, so I have to manually shuffle around each window. Is there a keyboard shortcut (or something) I'm missing to move spaces between monitors?

Thanks!


texts: How to handle new image/video format of iOS on Linux laptop?

texts:
I transfered my images from my iPhone to my Linux laptop (debian 10) by running the following command:

sudo dmesg|grep SerialNumber:

Then in file browser, I pressed Ctrl+L then write:

afc://IPHONE_SRIAL_NUMBER

This gave me access to my iphone and I could copy all the images to my PC.

When I checked the transferred files, I didn't actually find files. I found that each image is located in a folder. Folders have different extensions (.HEIC, .JPG, .MOV).

The images in these folders have poor quality and are small-sized. Not what I used to find when exporting my files to PC.

I tried converting the .HEIC folders to .jpg by running this command

for file in *.heic; do heif-convert $file ${file/%.heic/.jpg}; done

but I got the message :

Could not read HEIF file: Invalid input: No 'ftyp' box

How can I handle these folders to get normal images and vidoes out of them? I don't want to loose my images or my images' quality.


texts: Use early 2009 20" iMac as external display for 2015 rMBP

texts:
I wanted to use a mini display-port cable then use "target display mode" to make the iMac an external display, but I just read that early 2009 iMac's don't have target display mode as a feature.

Anybody knows of a solution?


texts: How does the iPhone 5 measure elevation?

texts:
I use an app called MapMyRun on the iPhone 5. In it is a report that shows elevation changes during the run.

Now to my knowledge, the iPhone5 has an accelerometer and GPS+.

The iPhone5 has no barometer or other way to measure elevation.

My question is - how does the iPhone5 measure elevation?


texts: Time Machine backup of legacy filevault encrypted homedir?

texts:
I have recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Given that I don't have a lot of space left on disk, it was not feasible to migrate from Filevault to Filevault 2.
I have just noticed today that Time Machine seems to ignore my homedir sparsebundle in its backups. On Snow Leopard, it would back it up when I logged out. Now it does not do that anymore, and so I don't have any backup of my homedir since the migration to Mountain Lion. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be fixed or worked around?


texts: When connected to iPad, the Web Inspector on my Mac is empty

texts:
I am struggling to use the Web Inspector on my Mac to inspect the webpage on my iPad.  This is how I am trying to connect my Mac to my iPad:

I have turned on web inspector on my iPad.
I have checked that cookies are enabled on both the Mac and the iPad.
I have connected my iPad up to my Mac with a cable.
On the Mac, under the develop menu I can see my iPad - when I hover
the mouse over the visible tab, the webpage on my iPad highlights with blue. Clicking that brings up the Web Inspector on my Mac.
When I hit refresh in the Web Inspector on my Mac, the page on my
iPad refreshes.

There is obviously a connection between my iPad and my Mac.

However, the rest of the Web Inspector on my Mac seems empty.

The Elements tab is empty.  The Network tab shows an empty list (headers only), even after a refresh.  The Resources tab is empty.  The Timelines tab is empty.  The Debugger tab is empty and shows no sources.  The Storage tab is empty.  And the Console tab shows nothing, despite numerous calls to console.log from my webpage on the iPad.

I have also tried opening a private browsing window on my Mac and tried connecting to my iPad via the Web Inspector from there.  Still no joy.

I am using Safari version 11.1.1 on my Mac.  I am unsure how to check the version number of Safari on my iPad.  Please let me know if there is any further information that I could provide.

Can anyone help me in getting the Web Inspector to work properly between my Mac and my iPad?  Many thanks.


texts: My macbook pro trackpad's right side doesn't go down when pressed

texts: When I click the right side of the trackpad it doesn't press down. It's stuck, but the left of the button works perfectly. What's the issue here and how do I fix this?


texts: Apple Watch can't send/receive SMS while using cellular plan

texts:
I've been using Apple Watch Series 3 for a while.  I just upgraded to a Series 5 and while I love it for the most part, I have noticed that if the watch is on cellular and my phone is not nearby the watch will not send or receive SMS messages.  I can make/receive phone calls just fine and if I'm on WiFi it sends and receives SMS without issue.  It is only when I'm on the cellular plan.
I can always send/receive iMessages.
I have unpaired and repaired the watch, I've talked to Apple and I've talked to AT&T.  I know I remember sending and receiving SMS on the Series 3 LTE+GPS while away from my phone.  Both Apple and AT&T seem to understand that the watch should be able to send/receive SMS while on cellular so long as the iPhone is on and connected to the Internet (via WiFi or cellular itself) but that the phone should not have to be nearby.  Neither seems to know how to fix this issue.
I would really appreciate any assistance that anyone may have.  I find it difficult to believe that my Series 3 was capable of something that they left out of the Series 5.
I found this article on Apple's site which also confirmed the watch should be able to do it as long as it has a data connection and the phone is on and has a data connection.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
When I send a message from an outside source to the phone/watch it shows up on the phone and in iMessage on the Macbook Pro / iPad Pro but does not show up on the watch.
EDIT #3:  More talking to AT&T who still cannot solve the issue, but it is now back to an inability to send or receive when using the cellular plan.


texts: how to prevent ios from updating apps to incompatible versions

texts:
How can you prevent ios from updating apps to newer versions which are incompatible with the version of ios running on the device?
I have an iPhone 3Gs running ios 4.3.5. Some apps that show updates available, do not work with this version of ios. I accidentally updated Stanza and it stopped working. I had to find an older version of Stanza in my Time Machine backup and reinstall it on my iPhone.

My iPhone 3Gs has limited battery life, so I don't want to impact is further by updating to ios 5. I would buy a new iPhone, but 3 year contracts are standard in Canada, so it would cost too much to upgrade my phone.


texts: My old MacBook has many fonts that I need to sync to my new MacBook.  How do I figure out the ones that are missing, and sync them?


texts:
I wan't to get rid of unnecessary files on my SSD HD.
Although I only checked Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and Photoshop (and something iOs-related) while installing, Adobe has still installed a bunch of other folders/applications.
Which of the following folders can I safely delete?

Adobe
Adobe After Effects CS5.5
Adobe Bridge CS5.1
Adobe Device Central CS5.5
Adobe Extension Manager CS5.5
Adobe Flash Builder 4.5
Adobe Flash CS5.5
Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5
Adobe OnLocation CS5.1


texts: Upgrading new Mac Mini to have SSD. Do I have to buy Lion, or can I just re-download from App Store?

texts:
EDIT: The accepted answer below works, but I can also confirm that just booting the stock machine and visiting the App Store, you can just re-download it and make a boot USB drive before swapping out the hard drive.

I just bought a new i7 Mac Mini and will be upgrading the hardware to a 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM.

OSX Lion comes pre-installed on the stock 1TB hard drive. When I swap out the drive with my new SSD, I'll obviously have to install Lion onto it. If I boot my Mac Mini with my stock drive and visit the App Store to download Lion, will I have to pay for it, or will it assume I've already paid since it's installed, and allow me to re-download it so that I can make a bootable USB?


texts: Can Automator distribute a large number of files into counted subfolders?

texts:
I would like to build an Automator application that counts the files in the hostfolder, creates a numbered subfolder named " [hostFolder name] [counter] ", moves at maximum 128 files from hostFolder in sequential order into this new subfolder, and loops until all files in hostFolder are sorted into subfolders (i.e. the last subfolder will have fewer than 128 files in it). Before the workflow runs, the hostfolder will always only contain files, no subfolders.
Here's the desired outcome of my ideal workflow using as an example an arbitrary folder containing an arbitrary number of files, also arbitrarily named. (Note I do not need the workflow to rename any files):

A folder named Beans contains 1027 files, the files Legume 0001 to Legume 1027. My Automator application receives the folder Beans as input. Once the workflow has run, the folder Beans now contains 9 subfolders, named Beans 1, Beans 2, Beans 3, and so on all the way to Beans 9.
The subfolder Beans 1 contains files Legume 0001, Legume 0002, Legume 0003, and so on to Legume 0128. The subfolder Beans 2 contains the files Legume 0129 to Legume 0256. In other words, each subfolder contains 128 of the files named Legume **** in sequential order. The only exception is the final subfolder, Beans 9, which contains only 3 files, the files Legume 1025, Legume 1026, and Legume 1027.


texts: How can I get rid of Safari 5's "awesome bar"?

texts:
Safari 5 came with a copycat of Firefox "awesome" bar, completing text as your type an url with history of previous title pages you've seen, and not just previous URLs.

How to get rid of this annoyance?


texts:
I'm using netstat on OS X.  How do I get wider columns?

It looks like some of information (in Local Address column) is clipped for hostnames, IP and mac address.  I did not see anything in the manual.  Thanks

$ netstat
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
tcp6       0      0  xxxx-macboo.1024  fe80::b3ac:b3c2:.1024  SYN_SENT
tcp6       0      0  2601:18c:c900:50.64154 2a04:4e42:1c::76.https ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  10.0.0.11.64124        47.224.186.35.bc.https ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  10.0.0.11.64120        10.0.0.6.59092         ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  10.0.0.11.64106        205.245.190.35.b.https ESTABLISHED


texts: Is there a way to trigger the graphical installer for Rosetta 2 from the command line?

texts:
I need a way for a pkg file to trigger the graphical installer for Rosetta 2 as part of its installation process, meaning the pkg file itself needs to declare it supports arm64 and opening it should not trigger the installation of Rosetta 2.
I'm aware it can be done from the command line with:
softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

...but this silently installs it. Is there a way to trigger this window:

via a script or terminal command?


texts:
I have been having terrible problems in uploading my iPad Mini 2 of late.  The upgrade to 7.1 and 7.1.1 have both left my iPad in "recovery mode" - bricked until connected to iTunes where it forces me to reset all my settings and lose all my data.

I had assumed that this was a one off but as it's now happened two upgrades running I'd love to know what's happening in order to fix it for next time - I'm left scared to update!

The upgrade had been downloaded over wifi automatically and the iPad had full charge at the start.  The verifying bubble was then displayed, before the iPad restarted and showed only the connect to iTunes logo.

This is still the case with versions up to 9.3.1 - every iOS update that is applied over the air (downloaded straight to my device) bricks it whilst tethered updates do not.  Does anyone have an idea what is going on?

The situation has progressively got worse for me in that now even tethered updates brick the iPad briefly.  I also tried to do a factory reset without upgrading and had the same problem!  The iTunes updates just keep failing with unknown errors and eventually the device runs out of charge, at which point turning it on again brings the device out of it's bricked state.  I'm guessing at this point this is likely to be a hardware error?


texts: Typing into Terminal works, AppleScript partially works

texts:
What I am trying to achieve:

Click a YouTube link in an app
This URL is used by my youtube-dl script to download the video
youtube-dl is configured to download the highest quality video and audio, then use ffmpeg to combine them into one file

What I have so far:
I use Finicky as my default browser. This gives me control over what browsers open certain links based on rules I write for it. The long and short of the tool is that it detects YouTube links, converts them from their usual form (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXxXxXXX_X) to the shortened, share-friendly form (e.g. https://youtu.be/XxXxXxXXX_X), then sends this to an AppleScript.
The AppleScript is saved as an app and is below.
#!/bin/zsh
on open location input
    do shell script "youtube-dl  " & input
end open location

This runs the shell script youtube-dl https://youtu.be/XxXxXxXXX_X. When I type this exact command into Terminal everything works perfectly: youtube-dl does it's thing, including doing something with ffmpeg to combine the downloaded files. However, when this AppleScript runs it's like ffmpeg isn't involved. I get a video file and an audio file.
I think my issue is in my AppleScript, but I am out of my depths with it. What can I do to make my AppleScript run things just like they run in Terminal?


texts: I created a new admin account after I lost access privilege to the one I had, the issue is that now there's two accounts ie standard account with all my data and the new admin account with literary nothing. I want to delete the standard account and remain with the admin account only but am afraid to lose my data on the standard account, i need help before I mess up.


texts: How do I change the name others see for me in iOS Game Center?

texts:
I discovered that when you create your Game Center account, it will use the name on the credit card associated with your Apple ID.

Changing the name in Game Center application does not update your visible name for the other users. What sequence of steps is needed to get my new name displayed on devices that had friended me before I changed my display name?


texts: Why does my email not sync on my Mac if I have read it on my iPhone or iPad? I can read it in my iPhone or Mac, but it does not show as read on my Mac.


texts: Can you tell different iPad Configurations by their Weight?

texts: Just wondering, would there be a weight difference between a 32GB vs 128GB or Wifi vs Cellular configuration of the same iPad model (e.g. iPad Air)?


texts: Where does Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4 (for taking screen captures) originate from?

texts: I know that on Mac OS X, you can take a screen capture of the entire screen with Command+Shift+3 and you can take a screen capture of just a selection (or a window) with Command+Shift+4. Is there a rationale for this keyboard combination? What is the history of that command? Where does Command+Shift number originate from?


texts: Having trouble with automating Google searches with text extracted from Tesseract-OCR

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Having some trouble with a project and hopefully someone can help.

I'm trying to take extracted text from tesseract-ocr and use that text as the search query of Google Chrome searches. My shell script can extract the text and launch Chrome, but I cant figure out how to send the text to the search bar of Chrome.

Below are some pictures of my script.


texts: How can I change the color of Terminal's shell prompt and create new empty line entering after a command?

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I am trying to permanently change the bash prompt color to blue as well as create a new empty line after I run my command to make the terminal easier to read.

Before I tried to make changes, I had PS1="\n$PS1". I currently have PS1="\e[0;34m[\u@ \W]\$ \e[m" after my aliases in my .bash_profile but it's not giving me the behavior I want. When I'm writing a command and it reaches the end of the line before I finish, the terminal doesn't move on to the next line. Instead, it goes back to the beginning of the line I was working on and visually overwrites the bash prompt and anything after as I keep typing. How can I get the terminal to move onto a new line when it reaches the end of the previous line as well as make an empty line before/after every command?

Later realized I was looking at a guide for changing color of shell prompt for Linux when it should've been for Mac.


texts: Mavericks + Server.app + getmail (oh my!)

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I have a Mac mini Server with OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 and Server.app v3.0 installed. IMAP (dovecot) is running and accessible from Mail clients.

What I want is to have the server fetch emails from my various email accounts and "dump" them into the IMAP server.

I was previously able to do this on Linux by using getmail to fetch the emails, which would send the emails through procmail, which would deliver them directly into the Maildir folder which dovecot read.

Unfortunately the above process won't work with Server.app v3.0, as apparently the /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/* directories must be owned by _dovecot, which means Joe Random User can't write to them, which rules out procmail/etc.

Is there an easy(-ish) way to get a similar workflow, having the Server retrieve emails and add them to the local IMAP server?

What about server-side filtering? How can that be setup?


texts: LibreOffice Tab Bar is positioned on top of the Toolbar

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I installed LibreOffice version 5.2.6.2 on my Mac.

Unfortunately, whenever I open a second document (or attempt to view the Properties of an open document) a Tab Bar appears, showing open documents.

This would be good, except the Tab Bar is positioned on top of the Toolbar, making it impossible to use.

I have noticed similar problems (overlapping dialogs) in other applications since upgrading to the last couple of versions of macOS.

Is there a app specific (or general) fix?


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I've got 2 identical MacBook Pros in front of me (both are 15" mid-2012 2.3GHz i7 with 16GB RAM running High Sierra).
One can see my home wi-fi network, connect to it and use it just fine..
The other one can't find it at all.
What's up with that??
(Can anyone help me connect the one that won't??)


texts: Can i add an animation from crazy talk 7 into a whole keynote presentation?

texts: I want to do a presentation with keynote and with Crazy talk 7, but i would like to know how to lay the animation over the entire keynote presentation, how can i do that?


texts: El Capitan Server using SSL on Apache - AH01276: Cannot serve directory

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El Capitan 10.11.4 Server

I've been accessing a php site I'm developing at http://localhost/myproject/web/
But after I turn on SSL for that route I get a 403

  You don't have permission to access /crm_tollring/web/ on this server.

In the Apache log is :

  AH01276: Cannot serve directory /Users/george/Sites/myproject/web/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html,index.php,/xcode/,/wiki/,default.html) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive

So, I figure I have to remove the `Options -Indexes' directive from the apache conf for SSL... somewhere?

It seems like the configuration files for running the Apache instance is:
/Library/Server/Migrated/private/etc/apache2/

(even though configs also exist at /private/etc/apache2/)

I checked httpd-ssl.conf, but can't find it there.

Can someone can help me pinpoint the configuration for this?