texts:
I am trying to serve an application I'm developing over the LAN at work. I'm doing this using Apache and this is working fine locally, but when I try to access from another client on the network the http request is timing out. The requests are definitely hitting the Mac as in /var/log/trac.log I can see:

[ 94 14855][20 May 13:15:29][TR_FIREWALL] CFirewallWrapper::NotifyCallback: cRule = rule-3, srcIp=172.18.48.116, dstIp=172.18.48.240

I'm serving over an arbitrary port (23736) to avoid any conflicts but I don't believe the problem lies with apache. If I locally browse to 172.18.48.240:23736 there is no problem. When the external client requests the same there is nothing being added to the Apache access/error logs.

The firewall in system preferences is disabled and I've added the following to /etc/pf.conf:

pass in proto tcp from any to any port 23736

before running:

sudo pfctl -vnf /etc/pf.conf

and rebooting.

At this point I'm just about out of ideas so any help greatly appreciated


texts: Can A Boost Charger For iPhone Be Used With An iPod?

texts: I have an iPod Touch 6th generation.  Can I use a Belkin Boost Charger made for an iPhone/iPad to charge it? It's 18w USB-C and 12w USB-A. My concern is about the wattage, not about the brand.


texts:
I want to install a C based toolbox on MATLAB software. To do this, I need to install the GCC compiler. I think I have done that already. And I have Xcode too.

To setup the toolbox, I need to write mex -setup; in the MATLAB command window. I've got the following warning and don't know how to solve it:

  Warning: Xcode is installed, but its license has not been accepted. Run Xcode and accept its license agreement.

  Error using mex
  No supported compiler or SDK was found. For options, visit http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2014a/maci64.


texts: Google Chrome won't open URL files by double click

texts:
I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine.

The code of the file is as follows:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.textnow.com/login

the file is saved with a ".url" extension

If I double click on the file I'm prompted by finder to choose which application to open it with (Chrome is greyed out, but I choose 'All Applications' and then choose Chrome), it will then simply load a page in Chrome and display the code on the page, instead of opening the url specified in the code.

running Version 50.0.2661.94 (64-bit) on OSX 10.9.5


texts:
I've got a 2009 iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) and I've noticed that the disks never sleep. I ran a power monitor and the iMac is using a third of our electricity every day!

I've checked via pmset that hibernatemode is set to 1 and when I purposefully click Apple > Sleep the iMac sleeps by saving state to RAM. However, if I just leave the device the screen sleeps but the disk never does.

I've unplugged all USB devices and made sure that bluetooth is not allowed to wake the device and that wake-on-lan is off

maxi:~ pauldambra$ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 hibernatemode  1
 halfdim    1
 womp       0
 sleep      2
 powerbutton    1
 disksleep  2
 hibernatefile  /var/vm/sleepimage
 ttyskeepawake  1
 autorestart    0
 displaysleep   1

I'm pretty new to Macs and Unix so I'm not really sure how I go about checking what is keeping the disks awake (or indeed if I've understood how disksleep works on a mac)

Many thanks in advance

Paul


texts: How do I convert this Applescript to Terminal osascript?

texts:
I'm trying to convert this AppleScript into osascript format that can be run from terminal:

tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal anchor "input" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"
    end repeat
    tell table 1 of scroll area 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
        select (row 1 where value of text field 1 is "Internal Microphone")
    end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"

What is the appropriate syntax to do this? Do I have to type osascript -e before every line?


texts: Download free app updates without prompting to enter Apple ID password on iOS 6

texts: I read somewhere in iOS 6 you don't need to enter your Apple ID password for downloading free apps and updates to already installed apps. However I see that I am still being prompted for my Apple ID password. Is there any solution for this? Is this expected behavior?


texts: Help diagnose errors on MacBook that will not boot

texts: I have a MacBook which won't boot beyond the grey screen / Apple logo. With some key combo (can't remember what I did!) I managed to get a black screen with text output - see image. Can anyone offer an interpretation? I'm imagining the logic board is fried.


texts: Why does my magic mouse lose the connection when I lift and place down again on surface?

texts:
I have a magic mouse with 100% battery level indicator and am recently finding (since I changed the batteries) that when I raise the mouse off the surface and move to get more room for a motion and when I place it back down, it now often loses the connection.

Is there a loose connection in my mouse that is getting jostled when I place it back down again?
Is there something wrong with the new batteries?
Please suggest how to get a reliable bluetooth connection to my MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite.


texts: How to force a sync update between Gmail contacts and iPhone with iOS 9?

texts:
I am successfully synchronizing my iPhone contacts with my GMail account.

When adding a new contact in my GMail account, the new contact takes a few hours to sync to the device. This is cumbersome, because often I add a contact on GMail and wish to call that contact from my iPhone.

Is there a way to force an iPhone contact sync update with my GMail account, so that new contacts will be immediately updated on the iPhone?


texts: Find images of a specific size and move them to trash from terminal

texts:
Im sorting images in a kinda large image library, and thumbnails from old iPhoto-library is still in there. And I'm in need of removing them to improve speed of sorting the images.

I have found this answer here for linux, but how about macOS? Is there a way of searching a folder, recursively, and determine if the image *.jpg, *.png, *.bmp, *.jpeg have the W360 and H270?

Running Sierra 10.12.4


texts: How do I remove underlining of contact elements (address, telephone number, email, URL, etc.)?

texts:
The excessive underlining ('underscore') disturbs the typographical look and
I don't need the very fancy linking to maps, email, phone etc.

Or better still: How do I select when and where to use these features?


texts:
Using Finder, how can I view /System/Library?

In fact, I'd really like to do the equivalence of a recursive grep for file names from the root directory using Finder. How can I move around the entire file system with Finder?


texts:
I subscribe to iTunes Match. I recently did a massive song metadata (tag/ID3) update without using iTunes itself. This appears to have updated the metadata in iCloud, but another issue appeared.

In my Music list, for albums that changed more significantly, they are now listed twice. Once without a Cloud icon (the previously downloaded version), and one with a Cloud icon. There are many of these albums, and identifying them and manually deleting them has become cumbersome.

Is there a function within iOS to allow me to delete all locally downloaded music? Essentially resetting the Music library state?


texts: Nothing returned from lsof -p on Macos M1 Apple Silicon

texts:
Firstly I get:
$ ps -Af|egrep "images.tz|PID"|grep -v grep
  UID   PID  PPID   C STIME   TTY           TIME CMD
    0 10638 10457   0  2:23pm ttys004   66:13.40 tar -xzf ../images.tz

So I ought, at least, to see the files 'tar','images.tz' and the current file it is unpacking. However, I get nothing:
$ arch -arm64 lsof -p 10638
$

I've put the architecture command to be certain it is using the right binary - but the result is the same without it.
Any suggestions as to how to fix it?


texts: Executing executable file by means of script file

texts:
For executing file in linux terminal we run something like this:
./sflm -start
Now, if i want this procedure is done by executing a script file what should i do ? I want to for example run this command :
./script.pl
and then it run automatically my main command (./sflm -start).
Thanks in advance


texts:
Running a Mac mini with server app. (El Capitan 10.11.4 & Server.app 5.1)

Installed Xcode, brew, and nrpe via brew.  Works fine as such. It's not sensible to have to remote desktop to it and log in just to get monitoring up and running.  Given that FileVault is active logging in automatically is not an option.

How do I make nrpe start if the machine gets rebooted without interaction?

EDIT1:
OK, couldn't find an easy way to make this work; so I disabled filevault after a brief discussion with the team. But on boot (and with an automatic login) nrpe still doesn't start automatically ...


texts: Can I use a Thunderbolt display for a macbook pro with a mini display port?

texts: I have an older macbook pro with a mini display port. Can I use a Thunderbolt display as an external monitor?


texts: Whats that percentage mean in iTunes Connect?

texts:
I'm starting to publish apps and I'm curious about this green number in iTunes Connect:

I believe it indicates growth over three hundred something. Can someone explain what this is? Thanks!


texts: Will AirDrop use the data allowance from my phone and wifi modem?

texts:
I'm successfully able to transfer files from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro using AirDrop, when connected to my home wifi network. But I'm unable to determine how AirDrop is creating the connection between the phone and laptop.

This page says:

  AirDrop uses Apple's Bonjour technology to listen in on a wireless
  connection for another Mac to announce AirDrop capabilities

and this page says:

  AirDrop uses Bluetooth to create a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi network between
  the devices.

When my laptop is connected to a wifi modem, and my phone is using 4G data, will AirDrop use the wifi and 4G connections, eroding my data allowances on both devices? Or are the phone and laptop directly connected to each other ("peer to peer wireless network"), and therefore not eating up my data allowances?


texts: Tips and tricks to use Google Apps on Mac OS X

texts:
I'm trying to collect advice and utilities to make better use of the Google Apps on OS X, in particular Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs.

Gmail

I tried Mailplane but I find the ratio price/features a bit too high so I decided not to buy it.

Now I use a Fluid's app for Gmail and I installed Google Notifier to have growl like notifications.

Google Calendar

Idem, Fluid app, and Google notifier.

I'm syncing my google calendars with iCal but it is only one-way.

Edit

As @Rene Larsen said, it is possible to use CalDAV to sync with Google Calendar.

I have my own calendar, I shared calendar that I created and I calendar that I  can only view. They appear like that:

Is it normal that each calendar appear in its own list ?

What do you use ? How is it possible to improve that ?


texts:
I need to automate a screenshot task, so I thought why not use automator?

I found the "Take Screenshot" Action and started to play with it. The problem is is that is sets the file name and when the workflow is ran again it overwrites the prior screenshot. I tried selecting this and renaming it but it won't work.
Essentially what I want is the normal function of Command + Shift + 3 where it will date-stamp it or something, anything but overwrite!! Any ideas?

I've been trying to set "Save To" as a variable. But I can't set the path as well as the file name var like current time.


texts: How do I flush the DNS cache on a OS X 10.6 machine?

texts:
Trying to flush the local DNS cache. How is this done on Snow Leopard?

Using System Preferences and using the terminal?


texts: Reset iPhone's Frequently Used Emoji's in Emoji keyboard

texts:
I want to reset the Frequently Used part of the iPhone's built-in Emoji keyboard.

Is there a simple way to do this?


texts: How can I use a TV as a second monitor wirelessly (without a cable)?

texts:
I would like to use a TV or other screen as a second monitor, not as a mirror, but a fully separate monitor the way it would work with an HDMI cable.
I usually use an HDMI cable for this but I'd like to be unattached and move freely. I travel frequently and this would be very useful for me to not have to carry around a long cable with me everywhere. Something like the Chromecast would work, but it requires extra software as far as I know to be used as a full separate extended desktop.
I don't know if this is possible, and am happy to buy some kind of dongle if it exists.
The closest I know how to get to this currently is using the Chromecast dongle, which allows you to either cast a tab, application or your desktop (mirroring). Unfortunately it doesn't function as a fully separate desktop/monitor, so this isn't quite what I'm looking for.


texts: Change resolution of different images from different folders

texts:
Hej guys,

my case is like this :
i have cover images under diffrent folders

 books -->book1_folder--->images_folder-->cover.jpg

 books -->book2_folder--->images_folder-->cover.jpg

 books -->book3_folder--->images_folder-->cover.jpg

 books -->book4_folder--->images_folder-->cover.jpg

 books -->book5_folder--->images_folder-->cover.jpg

 ..

 ..

 ..

 books -->book85_folder--->images_folder-->cover.jpg

Now i would like to duplicate those cover.jpg image , one is original cover.jpg and another one with lower resolution with a name cover_thumb.jpg.

so finally i would like to have it like :

 books -->book1_folder--->images_folder-->cover.jpg, cover_thumb.jpg

I found few solutions with mac preview tool, but its not duplicating all images at once.

Any smart solution for this case,


texts: What happens when I close the lid on my MacBook Pro running OS X?

texts:
I'm a new Mac user. What happens when I close the lid on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion?

Is it sleeping? Or hibernating? Something else?


texts: RAM Caching - Exploiting RAM to the fullest extent possible

texts:
This may seem weird, but I'm actually looking for ways to increase my memory usage.

I have a Macbook Pro (8,1) with 4 GB that I updated to 16GB.

I really feel like I'm losing a lot for those 10 unused GB, aren't there any caching techniques that would help me put 'more useful stuff in my RAM' (assuming, of course, that I don't overflow this amount and start swapping on the HD, which would be counter-productive) ?

For instance, while looking for SSD's, I had a look at Samsung's RAPID technology that seem to do what I had in mind (although it does not seem to be compatible with Macs, and the amount of cache is not tunable ) ...

I have to add that I am perfectly *nix capable, work in a proper brewed environment and I am not afraid of the command line.

EDIT 1

I've found some links where people (manually) simlinks cache directories (for instance, Safari's) to RAM disks, any experience with that and/or soft handling that ?

EDIT 2

I am using Mavericks, OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021)


texts: Aperture: use iptc tags for face recognition

texts:
I have about 10'000 pictures with iptc tags. Aperture shows this tags after the pictures have been imported.

Most of the tags are person names. Is there a way to use this tags to assist face regocnition of aperture? I can make an intelligent album, but I did not find a way to tell aperture to treat all person on this pictures as the one I know is on the picture.


texts: Can I keep 1 specific backup on an external hard drive as it fills up and deletes older backups?

texts: I've just moved 262GB of photos to a new external hard drive (1 TB), freeing up my MacBook Pro, 1 year old, which was dangerously low on space. I first backed them up on an existing external hard drive (also 1 TB). But now I see that this hard drive is getting full and Time Machine has started deleting older backups. That's ok. Currently the backups go to Jan 2015. But I need to keep the backup dated 2015.06.11 because that has all the photos I just deleted from the computer: these images are now on my new HD called "Photos" (and not formatted for Time Machine) and backed up in 2015.06.11 on the original ext. hard drive. So for now I'm okay, but in order to keep 2015.06.11 will I have to replace my backup ext. HD? Or is there some way I can tell Time Machine not to delete that one backup? Thanks.


texts:
I'm used to use Play with MPV Chrome extension on Arch linux which works also on MacOS. The problem is it isn't working as service for me on MacOS.

If I start directly play-with-mpv in terminal, the server is listening on port 7521 and I can run youtube video in MPV with right click inside Chrome.

If I start play-with-mpv as LauncherAgents service with proper plist it starts, listens but does nothing.. right inside Chrome on Play with MPV does nothing.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>play.with.mpv</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/e/Library/Python/3.7/bin/play-with-mpv</string>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Port listening

Python    2673              e    3u  IPv4 0x51d94fea3b0e559f      0t0    TCP *:7531 (LISTEN)

Content of the play-with-mpv server launcher

#!/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys

from server import start

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(start())

I also tried to put play-with-mpv inside Users & Groups > Login items with the same result as in LaunchAgents.

play.with.mpv.plist is located at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/play.with.mpv.plist

Tried also load it via launchctl

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/play.with.mpv.plist

While direct calling play-with-mpv in terminal the request is working and mpv pops out

http://localhost:7531/?play_url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoY1TNKO-bY

but as a running service that address is unaccessible and does nothing. Weird is I can ping localhost at port 7531, is up and running and listening.

I'm very new in MacOS so please be patient with me :) Thanks

UPDATE

as for now this is partly working (added PATH and full python3.7 path)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PATH</key>
        <string>/Users/e/Library/Python/3.7/bin:/usr/local/bin</string>
    </dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>play.with.mpv</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/python3.7</string>
        <string>/Users/e/Library/Python/3.7/bin/play-with-mpv</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/play.with.mpv.stderr</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/play.with.mpv.stdout</string>
</dict>
</plist>

BUT there's still something unordinary. The video is dropping frames (around 3-4/s). If I run that same video directly from terminal with eg; mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoY1TNKO-bY or by running the play-with-mpv server manually, the video is running fine, zero dropped frames.


texts: Would a powered USB hub solve the problem of two external disks randomly losing connection or being slow?

texts:
I have an older MacBook (circa 2012) and I have two external drives. I want to merge the content of the two drives but Finder is having fits with it. It will lose the connection to the drives at random times and otherwise do transfers very, very slowly (like an entire day for a modest amount like 500MB)

The external drives are not powered and I only have one USB port on my MacBook. The USB hub is nothing special, rather basic really, but everything I'm using (including the cables) claims to be USB 3. I am starting to wonder if the hub is the weak point in my process and perhaps I need something else.

Would a hub that has its own power help in this scenario? I guess I've never really understood the differences between a powered hub and one that is not.


texts: What does setting LSUIPresentationMode to 1 or 2 do?

texts:
While reading "Is it possible to hide the dock on a per-application basis?", I noted that according to the documentationLSUIPresentationMode, setting LSUIPresentationMode to value 1 or 2 (in an application's Info.plist) should mean that "system UI elements in the content area of the screen are hidden", and (it is implied) that this includes the Dock.

In practice setting this key to values 1 or 2 appears to do nothing (neither the dock nor anything else disappears), while values 3 and 4 behave as documented.

Do values 1 and 2 ever have a useful effect?  If so, what is it?

(I have tested this setting with a variety of different apps, including Aperture, Chess, Stickies and Emacs, all under OS X 10.6.8.  The behaviour was identical in each case: settings 3 and 4 behaved as described, while settings 1 and 2 appeared to have no effect whatsoever.)


texts: Itunes run whenever the windows start, how to block no run?

texts:
After install itunes, it starts whenever the window start, How can I block?

I tried , msconfig -> start program -> disable itunes help

Installed ccleaner disable apple on startup

disable some apple service on msconfig

I checked every option on itunes setting

but never works , itunes run and pop up always..


texts: Powerbook g4 not fully booting to login screen FireWire problems

texts:
I posted earlier about this and I got an answer that told me to use a FireWire cable to connect to another Mac and load the files onto that Mac. Here is a link to the earlier question: Powerbook G4 not fully booting to login screen

Well I finally got a FireWire cable and tried it. It worked, and I connected that Hard drive to the iMac as a device. I can open up the hard drive and look inside and see all of the folders that would normally be on the hard drive. However, when I look inside those folders, they are totally empty. Is this a cause of what happened earlier? Or is it a problem with the FireWire? How can I fix this? When I tried unhiding files and that didnt help. I also looked at the hard drive with get info and it looks like there might be more than just the folders on it, or folders are actually larger than I would expect.


texts: Safari videos always go full-screen by themselves

texts:
Since I updated to 10.12.4, whenever I go to a website playing video (tested on YouTube, Vimeo and others), Safari 10.1 takes a few seconds to start the video and then plays it in fullscreen, whether I want it to be fullscreen or not.

This only happens in my main user account, not in my second test user account. I already tested disabling all extensions and launching Safari with shift, but so far, no luck.

Any ideas why that happens? Is there a way to reset Safari or something (without losing my iCloud bookmarks)? I'd like to avoid having to create a new user account and move everything over.


texts: What are Alias and com.apple.LSSharedFileList.Binding data in sidebsarlists.plist

texts:
In the com.apple.sidebarlist.plist file you can find different CustomListItems for the "Favorites" items in Finder's Sidebar.

For example:

<dict>
    <key>Alias</key>
    <data>
    AAAAAACmAAMAAQAAzyiimAAASCsAAAAAAAkOewAJDn8A
    AM8oo6IAAAAACSD//gAAAAAAAAAA/////wABAAgACQ57
    AAJl2QAOABQACQBEAG8AdwBuAGwAbwBhAGQAcwAPABoA
    DABNAGEAYwBpAG4AdABvAHMAaAAgAEgARAASABVVc2Vy
    cy9uYWlhZC9Eb3dubG9hZHMAABMAAS8AABUAAgAM//8A
    AA==
    </data>
    <key>CustomItemProperties</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.apple.LSSharedFileList.Binding</key>
        <data>
        ZG5pYgAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
        AAAAAAAAAAAAZm53ZAIAAAAAAAAA
        </data>
        <key>com.apple.LSSharedFileList.TemplateSystemSelector</key>
        <integer>1935819884</integer>
    </dict>
    <key>Name</key>
    <string>Downloads</string>
</dict>

What are "Alias" and "com.apple.LSSharedFileList.Binding" data and how to create your own data?

I guess they are icons or path to them, but how to generate these data strings, what are the specification for those icons and where do they have to be stored?


texts: Streaming Netflix offline on Macbook using Windows

texts:
I've decided to install Windows 10 on my MacBook Air (256GB, 2019 Model) using bootcamp in order to stream Netflix offline using their app. I'll be downloading movies using their app, to watch them offline later.

I want to ask :

How much memory would be ideal to allocate to Windows for above usage?
Will I lose on video/audio quality? If yes, then how much? Will it be too terrible to drop this idea altogether?


texts: Can I automate ad posting on Craigslist using the Fake browser?

texts:
I just purchased Fake yesterday thinking I could use it to help automate my Craigslist ad postings.  Unfortunately I am at a loss (I'm not very technical) on the actual ad description/posting screen.  I've attempted to use the "Set Values of HTML" form to populate the price, number of bedrooms, ad title, location, and the ad's body.  The problem I am finding is that the id names in Craigslist seem to change every time the screen refreshes so Fake has an error when I run my completed task.

Does this make sense?  Can I use this with Craigslist or is their system too smart?  What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for your help!


texts: Key Combination to Make All Instances of App the Same Window Size

texts:
Is there a default Mac OSX key combination that'll make all of my open windows/instances for a given application the same dimension (height/width)? Is there a way to do this with Automator (not experienced with it enough to know if it's doable)? Or, an AppleScript script that I could initiate using a "hot-key" combination?

Scenario: I have multiple instances of the notes app open and would like to resize them to some arbitrary size, preferably stacked staggered on top of each-other.

From:

To:


texts: External Monitor set to wrong resolution - can't connect anymore

texts:
I set my external monitor to an unsupported resolution after which the monitor immediately crashed. Now, whenever I plug it into my mac, it crashes, reboots, reconnects and then immediately crashes again. The monitor works fine with another mac.
I think the solution would be to reset the resolution of this external monitor on my macbook, however, since I can't connect it without crashing, I can't access this setting anymore. How can I reset the monitor settings without connecting it?
Model of the monitor is Samsung 32UJ590


texts: Is it possible to install both Xcode 3 and 4 side-by-side, alternate use either one or the other

texts:
I've got a handle on how to install Xcode 3 and 4 on the same machine (running OS X < 10.7), so I'm looking more how to manage this environment.

Rather: is it possible to enter some shell command to "point" to the Xcode version you would like to use for a certain task?

For example, some packages in Homebrew seem to have issues with Xcode 4 compilers (multiple -arch flags not supported any longer etc.). So, when I want to brew install something, I would like to use the old Xcode 3 gcc suite. But when doing actual Cocoa development, I  would rather like to use Xcode 4.

RVM also does a nice job of managing work in multiple environments. I think, newer Linux distributions offer a tool called update-alternatives to achieve such a goal. Just to give you more of an idea of what I am talking about.

Similar to running both simultaneously except I'm looking to use them sequentially.


texts: I have a problem with iTunes (latest version) freezing when connected to my iPhone 5 (iOs 7.1.2) via USB. It connects with my elder MacBookPro, with that iTunes, but not on my iMac. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the cable since it connects very well with iPhoto so I guess something has been messed up in iTunes itself. What can I do to fix this, reinstall ITunes or is there any more easier fixes? I have reset the SyncServices but that didn't help and I have tried different cables too but the beach ball keeps coming back after each tryout (and freezes, not continues to work).


texts: In order to downgrade to Mavericks from Yosemite do I need to reformat my hard drive and use the internet recovery to reinstall Mavericks?

texts:
From the research I just did, it seems that I had to upgrade to Yosemity using a different drive!? Where as I added Yosemity into the main drive. Am I right in thinking that I now can  only downgrade by reformatting the hard drive (loosing my data and so forth)?

Apparently I'd be able to reinstall Mavericks via the internet holding command-option-r. Does this mean I don't need to have a copy of the Mavericks installer? And since I am re-formating the main drive, would this method still work.

Basically, apart from losing my data, and the hours it will take, is there a chance that I format the main drive and something going wrong and ending up without an operating system?


texts: How do you import music into iTunes without creating duplicates of existing entries?

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Before importing the same directory (the exact same absolute path) that had already been imported into iTunes previously, containing mostly the exact same files (the exact same absolute path) as those already referenced by the iTunes library, I researched the issue with ending up with duplicates in iTunes:

You could drag a file from another drive to iTunes 100 times and iTunes will add a new copy of it each time giving you 100 duplicates.  It will only not do this if the copy on the other drive is the actual copy pointed to in the iTunes library. In other words that other drive is part of your library, not just a source of files.  If the copy on the other drive is the copy iTunes points to then it will ignore it.

I had a vague memory of iTunes not being able to do this properly a few years back, but since I couldn't think of a single reason why it would be useful to have large sets of duplicate references I accepted the idea that it had since been fixed.
Well, iTunes did not ignore the files already referenced. I now have duplicate references for almost every file reference in the library.
Here are the things I don't understand:

How am I supposed to update the library to account for new files without ending up with thousands of duplicates?
In what way are duplicates so useful that they're the default behavior?

To clarify, I'm not asking how to deduplicate a library, but how to import a root media directory without ending up with duplicate references to already referenced files.


texts: Bug with Archive utility and Column view

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On OSX Mojave, version 10.14.2. Related to this post, which does not solve the issue reported here.

Step 1. Configure Archive Utility to prevent opening new Finder windows:

Close all Finder windows.
In Spotlight, select Archive Utility.app. This does not open any window, but you should be able to access Archive Utility / Preferences... in the menu bar.
Open Preferences..., and untick the option Reveal archive in Finder at the bottom.
Open a Terminal, and type: killall Finder.

Step 2. Create an archive of a nested folder:

In Finder, with column view for example with folders A/B/C, select folder B. You should see the contents of that folder, including folder C.
Without left-clicking folder C (as in, you should not see its contents in the next column), right-click on folder C and select Compress "C".
An archive C.zip is created in folder B, without opening a new Finder window.

Step 3. Problematic behaviour:

Now select folder C, such that its contents appear in the next column.
Then right-click C, and select Compress "C" again.
A new archive C 2.zip is created in folder B, and a new Finder window is opened.

This is contrary to the preferences set in the Archive Utility (step 1), and inconsistent with the behaviour obtained in step 2; in other words, this is a bug. Is there a solution to this?


texts: Can an administrator access the iCloud Drive of another user on MacOS?

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I use a Macbook provided by my employer. I'm not the administrator on the machine, I use another user account.
If I connect to my iCloud account and enable iCloud Drive, can the administrator access the files on my iCloud Drive or the iCloud Drive is encrypted?
Thanks


texts: What does 'current channel' mean in Yosemite wireless diagnostics?

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I'm trying to troubleshoot some wifi issues I'm having after I updated to Yosemite. I'm using Wireless Diagnostics to try to figure out what channel I should force my network on because I noticed events such as kernel[0]: wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid ... very close in time to when my connection drops.

As you can see in the screenshot, I am connected to a network on channel 2 (the one in bold) but Network Diagnostics says that the current channel is 1. What is the meaning of current channel
?


texts: Lion always explicitly moves files to and from external drives

texts: In Lion, whenever I drag and drop a file to or from an external drive to the local drive it always moves the file. If I'm not mistaken the default behavior is to copy the file right? Does anyone know why it might be doing this or know of a preference anywhere that I can set it to explicitly copy the files?


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On Windows if I want to open the internal bugzilla file server I just used to run (Windows+R ) //engweb.eng.company.com/bugs/files/ and it would open up the files on the Windows explorer.

How do I achieve something similar on Mac?

Things I have tried:

Cmd+k, Connect to file server but it just keeps waiting and then times out. I have no idea whether smb is the right protocol that should be used.
Use open from the terminal, again not sure about the protocol.

Note: New MacOS user


texts: Problem installing apps in 4th generation iPod touch

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I am running the latest supported version, iOS 6.1.6 on my iPod touch 4th generation.

But I can't download any apps from the App Store. Because it is asking for iOS 9. Now what should I do?


texts: Text copied from Terminal with formatting in Mavericks (10.9), Yosemite (10.10), and El Capitan (10.11)

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After the update to Mavericks (10.9), anything copied from Terminal is pasted in the target app with the same formatting as in Terminal, in my case, white monospaced letters on a black background, e.g.:

(I pasted some text from Terminal into a New Mail window.)

Previously (10.8 and earlier) only plain text was copied, without any formatting at all.

This happens in apps that are capable of receiving rich text formatting. In plain text apps, e.g. TextWrangler or TextEdit in plain text mode, only the content is copied, of course.

Can formatting copying be disabled for the Terminal app?

The same happens in Yosemite (10.10) and El Capitan (10.11) as well.


texts: 10.7 join 802.1x network via KDC instead of .cert?

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So my 10.6.8 users have to sign in to our 802.1x network with their AD creds, using previously defined local profiles using PEAP.  (I tried Login Window profiles, so that laptops would get online after signin from the loginwindow, but it wasn't reliable enough..)

The notes for 10.5 claim that Kerberos can be used (local KDC signing), but this doesn't mention Kerberos anymore.  Can 10.7 get single sign-on to 802.1x-protected networks?


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I hope everyone is safe.

I tried to install an Apache version using brew yesterday on my MacOS Catalina, but there were conflicts with the Apache version of the system. After some tries, I deleted files I shouldn't have deleted. Is there a way to reset or reinstall or clean the Terminal, the binaries, and the system to have the factory settings? I already searched a lot but nothing worked for me.

Thanks by advance.


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There is a file on my desktop called "~$file.docx" and I can't get rid of it.
I understand (at a very low level) it is a lock file for Word, and these files have certain properties. But I just want to delete it. I deleted "file.docx" but the damn lock file remains.
I can't open it in Word. I can't do anything with in terminal (e.g. rm). But if I ls -als in my Desktop it tells me I have full permissions:
-rw-r--r--@

How do I delete this file?
Update The output of ls -@e is the same as the simple ls. I just see "~$file.docx". If I try to remove it I get an error: No such file or directory.
Update Here is the output to the other ls call:
-rw-r--r--@  1 UserName  staff  hidden       162 Jul 31  2018 ~file.docx
    com.apple.FinderInfo           32
    com.apple.lastuseddate#PS          16
    com.apple.quarantine           29


texts: Macbook Pro - Cmd tab and cmd space stop working

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The CommandTab (to alternate between applications) and Command  Space   (for Spotlight) stop working on my Mac once I open the GNS3 application (GNS3 is a virtual network simulator that I use for my Cisco studies).

I did look at GNS3 support, actually looked at their forums. No one else as yet has faced this issue. I haven't upgraded to the new version of GNS3 and haven't made any changes at all on my Mac. I've been using the same version for over a year now and haven't faced this issue. This just randomly started yesterday.

If I logout and login again, the problem seems to resolve. However, once I start GNS3 again, the problem may or may not persist.

It's just random. Does anyone have any idea as to why this might be happening all of a sudden?


texts: How to change format of external hard drive from ExFat to HFS+ without losing data? What are limits for maximum size of a file on both formats?


texts: Windows (10) on 3rd Partition of MacBook Pro

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I think I've trawled the Internet for the last few days and haven't gotten any closer to my goal, to install Windows 10 on the 3rd partition of an old MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) that I use for testing.

Problem 1: Windows ISO too big for a DVD
So I first downloaded the Windows 10 from MSDN and proceeded to make an install DVD. Once downloaded, while MS says it's 4.6GB - it's clearly 4.8GB so I can't make a DVD (I don't have any DVD+R DL media).  So I try the ISO to USB. Old Bootcamp Assistant (like from Yosemite) can make a bootable USB from the ISO, but it doesn't work right as BCA is running on different hardware.  New Bootcamp on El Cap or Sierra won't make a bootable USB from an image period. Tried Disk Utility, hdutil and dd of which it just immediately fails when trying to write the USB. I then tried the Windows 7 ISO to USB utility from Microsoft (running inside VMWare) - and it at least got the ISO restored to the USB, however it's not bootable.  The Windows Install USB drive I did make is mountable under Windows in VMWare and macOS 10.9 - 10.12. It's just not showing up as an option to boot to when holding the option key at boot.

Problem 2: Bootcamp can't seem to create a 3rd partition on my drive from the free space to install Windows
Launch BCA, it does its thing by building a driver disk for 20 minutes and then goes to prep a partition. It sees 2 partitions and no free space. Even if I go back and create the partition BCA doesn't see the partition and no other partition is marked usable.

So I'm at the nexus of not quite sure how to proceed.

Has anyone added Windows as a 3rd partition on a Mac? How did you do that?

How are folks creating Mac bootable Windows install media?

Any advice much appreciated.


texts: Local HTTP traffic slow on particular Wi-Fi

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I'm facing the effect that local network traffic (against local running Docker containers) is far slower when connected to home Wi-Fi than on my work Wi-Fi.

Making a particular HTTP request against local services takes about 1 second on work Wi-Fi while it takes up to 6 seconds on home Wi-Fi.

Update: Disabling IPv6 for Wi-Fi using networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi seems to solve the problem.
Is there a way to keep IPv6 enabled and have fast local traffic anyway?


texts: How can I automate recurrent steps in Yosemite?

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I have a set of URLs bookmarked in chrome and I do many times a day:

Open Chrome
Open bookmarks
Search a specific bookmark among my folders
Click on bookmark

Is there a way to do these actions automatically?

I see that if I press Command+Space the "Spotlight search" searches in my Mail but I can't see how can I create something like what I need.

Do I need to install some other application?


texts: Is it possible to upgrade Mail without upgrading the whole operating system?

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I have Apple Mail version 9.2, but I would like to have the version 10.3. However, I don't want to download the 10.12 mac OS (Sierra) if I don't have too. I currently have mac OS 10.11.3 (El Capitan).

There is a discussion here involving a much older OS (tiger) in 2010:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2502383?tstart=0

I can't find many other resources discussing upgrading mail.


texts: How to give enough access so a child can use the terminal, download packages, yet does not have full admin rights on mac?

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I need some smart ideas for clever ways around mac security and online child safety issues. I'm not exactly sure how to word this question. Of course my 11 year old does not have full admin rights on his laptop, but this creates problems in downloading and running packages using homebrew, etc.
We're running into lots of rights access and sudo issues. I'm downloading packages on the admin account, then trying to get things working on his user account. We're trying to get rtl-433 up and running, and running into a ton of issues with different needed packages.
How can I give him semi admin rights to be able to download and install via the terminal so he do whatever dev he needs to, yet also maintain admin rights over other aspects, internet usage etc? Anyone know some tricks?
Specifically running into access rights issues with files in user/bin/local from his account.
Does this make sense?
If I give his account admin rights just to install stuff, and change it back once things are installed, I think we're still going to run into access issues, right? or not? Is this a potential way around it?
Otherwise, is there anything like some kind of virtual environment I can run, that gives some level of access to admin rights?


texts: Making directories list first in terminal with `ls`

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Is it possible to make the default of Terminal such that when I use the ls command it lists the directories first and then the files?

I figured out that this can be done by using coreutils and the command gls --group-directories-first, but I was wondering if there was an OS X native way to do this without coreutils.


texts: How to force Siri to use ONLY internal microphone

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I have a Bluetooth receiver in my car for playing music from my phone. It's great for that. But also has a microphone that sucks.

My iPhone 7 automatically pairs with the device when I get in the car so I can listen to music. But when I go to Siri (by holding the home button down -- I don't use Hey, Siri) it is routed through that crappy microphone and therefore never understands what I'm saying.

I finally figured out that I can enact Siri, then click on the little button on the lower right (in the 'Siri View') and be given a choice of what microphone to use. I can go back to internal and all is right with the world. But... then next time I get back in my car it's all reset over to the crappy microphone again and I have to go through the process to get it back to internal.

This is crappy. I like using Siri when I drive and the iPhone's microphone isn't too bad in picking up my voice. How do I ALWAYS keep Siri coming through my device's microphone instead of constantly resetting back to an external Bluetooth one?

Much obliged to whoever has figured this out and willing to share:)


texts: Second language doesn't show up in keyboard - iOS 8

texts: I use two languages on my iPad. Both show up in settings, but the "world" key, used to change from one language to another on the keyboard, has been replaced by an emoticon key. Emoticon does not show up on the list of languages in settings. How do I get rid of the emoticon key and replace it with the "world" key on the keyboard?


texts: Will iphone copy to iCloud pictures migrated from Android?

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I migrated an Android phone from to iPhone, using the Move to iOS app.
I wonder if my pictures copied from Android will be synced to iCloud.

It synced new pictured made on iphone but still did not copied migrated ones.


texts: How can I access iCloud documents/files from an iOS device?

texts:
I completed a Numbers document on my Mac, saved to iCloud and now tried to open/read it on my iPhone 4S.

I can see it listed in Settings → Manage Storage, but how do I retrieve it?


texts: How can I backup my Icloud synced notes locally?

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I have both a macbook running 11.1 Big Sur and iPhone running iOS 14.
I have lots of notes that I'd like to locally backup just in case. Ideally I can export them to a folder so I’m sure they are backed up clearly.
Is this possible without third party apps?


texts: What does it mean when Repair Disk takes just a few seconds to complete?

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I have the flashing finder icon problem. When I boot from DVD, I cannot choose the disk as Startup Disk. However, it appears in Disk Utility. When I run Repair Disk I can see the disk, and that it has about 130GB used, but Repair Disk takes literally about four seconds -- a suspiciously short amount of time. By contrast, Repair Disk on the external takes about three minutes.

What is the best explanation for this?


texts: How do I change Spotlight search engine?

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when I use Spotlight, it offers to "Search web for: " (something like that, my system is german). When I use this feature, Chrome pops up and searches with the Yahoo search engine.

Chrome is the right choice, but I want so search with Google. My Browser Settings state that Google is my default search engine.

Does anybody know where this might be configured?


texts: iMac with 8GB RAM -- memory always almost full

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I have a 27'' iMac (Late 2012, OS X 10.9.2) with 8GB RAM. The usage of memory is always above 7GB, even though I don't think I am running that much stuff. This leads to the occasional hanging of a program and occasional feeling of the computer being lagged.

The heaviest thing I am running is a Parallels virtualization of a defunct Windows laptop (for my Windows-only programs; work-related). Then I mostly surf with Chrome (10-20 tabs, some with youtube videos). Of course I have other things opened, like Mail, Evernote and a few more. But I don't think a 8GB RAM computer should be overwhelmed by that. I could be wrong.

I am willing to provide an export of processes from the Activity Monitor. I tried looking into it, of course, and I am running A LOT of small processes (unknown to me) -- system stuff I presume. I am a long-time PC user and I know my way around process management in PCs, but not on Mac.

What do you think? Do I just need more RAM or it doesn't feel like it?

Regards,


texts: How do I split a Bootcamp Partition on a second drive?

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I have a Mac Mini Server 2011, which has 2 Hard disks of 750GB  each.
I want to install Windows 7 on the second disk, but i want to split this disk on two partitions: One of 450 GB for Windows and one of 300 GB with exFat to share data between Windows and OS X (is Lion by the way).

I tried with the Bootcamp assistant, but it took for the Bootcamp partition the whole disk, and so I installed that way, but I prefer to have both partitions as I mentioned above.

Can I split it the way I want? I don't mind if I have to reinstall Windows as long as I have the best compatible solution for this.


texts:
Using Finder:

In some folders, I can move the files around. Place them where I want in that folder. This is very good for the eyes, when the folder holds many files and only a handfuld om them are important/relevant

In other folders I simply cannot. The files are somehow fixed to a grid and can't be moved

Changing the "sort by" to NOTHING does not help, still fixed

How do I force Finder to let me place the files as I choose?

Macbook Pro 2012 with Yosemite 10.10.1


texts: iOS 8.4 Apple Music App: How to shuffle all songs by an artist?

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With the complete redesign featuring the new streaming mixin (which I don't use), it seems that when listening to music from my library (stored on my device) I can only shuffle songs within a single album for an artist.

This is not a dupe of this question, in that I'm not asking how to shuffle all songs in the library.


texts: Simple AppleScript script terminates early

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I have an AppleScript script for Music that processes the selected tracks and modifies the track name.
Basically, it works.
If I select one item, it works without fail.
If I select multiple items, it will correctly modify the first item. Sometimes it will stop there; other times, it will process several more items. Rarely, it will process the entire list of selected tracks.
I've put in a delay to see if that would help, but it doesn't.
Any idea why this might be happening?
Here's my code:
tell application "Music"
    set selectedTracks to selection
    if selectedTracks is {} then return
    if (get class of (item 1 of selectedTracks)) is not file track then return

    repeat with i from 1 to (length of selectedTracks)
        set thisTrack to item i of selectedTracks
        tell thisTrack to set {trackName} to {get name}

        set my text item delimiters to {"/"}
        set theResults to text items in trackName
        set newTrackName to item 2 of theResults
        set newArtist to item 1 of theResults

        set newTrackName to my removeLeadingAndTrailingSpacesFrom(newTrackName)
        set newArtist to my removeLeadingAndTrailingSpacesFrom(newArtist)

        set name of thisTrack to newTrackName
        set artist of thisTrack to newArtist

        delay 1

    end repeat
end tell

on removeLeadingAndTrailingSpacesFrom(sourceString)
    repeat while character 1 of sourceString = " "
        set sourceString to text 2 thru end of sourceString
    end repeat
    repeat while last character of sourceString = " "
        set endIndex to (length of sourceString) - 1
        set sourceString to text 1 thru endIndex of sourceString
    end repeat
    return sourceString
end removeLeadingAndTrailingSpacesFrom


texts: USB-C microphone not recognized unless plugged in at startup on macOS

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My Mac Book Pro '16 (updated to the latest macOS version) no longer recognizes my USB-C microphone (a Blue Yeti) once the system is up and running when connected through an Apple USB to USB-C adapter.
If I plug in the microphone before starting the system, then it is recognized. But I can no longer plug it in and out as the system is running.
The behavior is the same with the two microphones I've tried. I don't remember exactly when the problem started occurring. Maybe shortly after the latest point release of Big Sur.
I tried resetting the NVRAM and the SMC to no avail.
Thank you for any hints or advice.


texts: How to use Wine-devel to install OpenBUGS on Catalina?

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My MacBook Air: Catalina 10.15.4 (19E287)
I have already installed Homebrew. However, as Wine still requires 32-bit code to run 32-bit Windows software, while Catalina dropped 32-bit code support, I installed Wine-devel instead (following the last answer in How to get Wine working on Catalina?).
I especially paid attention to the NOTE in that answer, so I removed my original ~/.wine folder.
Then I downloaded Windows version of OpenBUGS here.
In terminal, I typed wine64 ~/Downloads/OpenBUGS323setup.exe, it shows:
(base) DengdeMacBook-Air:~ deng$ wine64 ~/Downloads/OpenBUGS323setup.exe
001b:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\wineusb": c0000142
000f:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"wineusb" failed to start: 1114
0020:err:plugplay:runloop_thread Couldn't open IOHIDManager.
0009:err:module:__wine_process_init L"Z:\\Users\\deng\\Downloads\\OpenBUGS323setup.exe" not supported on this system
(base) DengdeMacBook-Air:~ deng$ wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF at address 00007FFF37F26E16 (thread 001c), starting debugger...
001c:err:seh:start_debugger Couldn't start debugger L"winedbg --auto 24 96" (1115)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another debugger

and just stuck here.
Any ideas?


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I've been trying to update my iPhone to iOS13.5.1. I couldn't find an option to update via Mobile Data (and apparently it's not supported), so I tried to create a hotspot through another phone and update my iPhone over that. However, it is not updating.
Is there a workaround for this? Can I somehow lead my iPhone to believe that the mobile hotspot is a WiFi connection?
PS: In the settings corresponding to the network, I've set Low Data Mode to off.


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Xcode gives me an error when looking for iPhoneOS 8.3 SDK. The path exists in my filesystem but contains only one unrelated file. Xcode tells me I have that version already installed inside Preferences > Components > Simulators.

  error: There is no SDK with the name or path '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS8.3.sdk'

The question is how to reinstall the SDK to stop having this error?


texts: Is it still the case that Purgeable part is not under our control (to be deleted)? There are several posts (e.g., How do I clear the purgeable area on my disk?) on this, but no solution as it seems.


texts: Trying to do an un-bootable image disk backup on a re-formatted 1TB WD Passport external hard drive

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I am running macOS sierra on a mid 2012 MacBook Pro, and just recently came across a problem where I can no longer bypass login and got stuck on a loading screen before it eventually goes to a black screen and can no longer get into my Mac.

So, I decided to try and back up my stuff and migrate them to a new Mac I'm buying. I pop the WD Passport drive into the USB, go to the recovery mode and attempted to create a disk image backup from my MacIntosh HD onto it. But half-away, I am met with:

The operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.diskutility error 3)
Preparing imaging engine...
Reading whole disk (apple_HFS : 0)...
Operation failed with status 5

I haven't got Time Machine activated, and I cannot even get into my Mac to use it. So I am left at a loss, trying to figure out how to create a backup.


texts: Can't access Mail or Mail setttings on iphone 4 + iOS 6.1.2

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Since the upgrade to iOS 6, I've been unable to access my mail on wi-fi, cellular or disconnected.

The symptoms are:

The mail button icon shows '1'
When clicking on te mail app icon, it attempts to open up the app, then it times out and goes back to the home screen
When clicking on settings -> Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, the phone gets stuck and times out then goes back to the home screen.


texts: How do I make sure I purchase the correct replacement gfx card for my iMac?

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I have a 24" Early 2009 iMac, and it has a faulty graphics card (detailed here). I'm obviously no longer under warranty or applecare, and I'd like to try to replace the part myself.

I'm unsure about how to search for and select a replacement part, however, especially since my machine is quite old so the original gfx card model is probably not available new. How can I know that any given card listed on a hardware website will work as a replacement?

(A short list of appropriate gfx card model numbers would also suffice.)


texts: Why does .2.2.2 in Spotlight equal 0.0016?

texts: If you use Spotlight in macOS with the . operator such as ‘.1.1.1.1’ the result is ‘0.0001’. What operations are being processed by Spotlight? .2.2.2 = 0.0016


texts: Grey Volume bar - coreaudiod - Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

texts:
I've just installed the Mavericks 10.9.1 update and my audio is not working. The volume bar is obscurely grey, and the mac is becoming slightly slow.

I checked the console to see anything related to this issue and I found this message every ten seconds.

Dec 22 08:07:33 hko com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod[989]): Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2
Dec 22 08:07:33 hko com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod): Job should be able to exec(3) now.
Dec 22 08:07:33 hko com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

I've searched on google for this issue and no luck.

I'm not sure if this has got to do with my mac's permissions but I'm not sure what to do next.


texts: Early 2013 MBP Retina 15 won't boot unless Thunderbolt -> Ethernet dongle plugged in

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My early 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15" started to freeze a few days ago. The only way to get it (sort of) working was by holding the power button down and forcing a reboot.

After a few days of investigation, I found that if I have the Thunderbolt to Ethernet dongle plugged into the computer (even if there's no ethernet cable connected!), it will boot up and function perfectly normally.

I've tried to reset both the SMC and NVRAM, as well as plugging in a MiniDP -> DP adapter, and a USB3.0 Ethernet adapter into my computer and booting up. None of these steps have worked.

I've also reinstalled the system (trying Sierra, Mountain Lion, and El Capitan) and none of these resolved the problem.

Can someone please tell me what to do next? I'm a bit desperate. Thank you so much!


texts: iOS Music App Repeats Songs When Shuffled

texts:
For the past week or so, my Music app has been playing songs at least a couple of times before it gets through every song, which is pretty frustrating.

My library is >1000 songs (filled a 64GB iPhone with almost entirely uncompressed music) but I'm hearing the same song a couple of times in the morning while at work, and I haven't changed songs manually, just let the shuffle do its thing.

Is there a reason for this? I am on iOS 9.2.1, but I don't see anything about this in the change log for the newest iOS, although I'm updating it now because this problem is very annoying.

This also happens in my playlists (for example my KPOP playlist with ~50 songs, which is much easier to see happen) where it doesn't seem to keep track of the songs it has already played and not play those songs until the shuffle has finished each song once.


texts: How to control your iPad with your Mac remotely?

texts: I would like to know, is there a way to control your iPad with your Mac remotely (be able to see and manipulate iPad's desktop on your Mac)? I know that with the TeamViewer or other programs you can control your Mac with your iPad but not vice versa.


texts: Is it possible to use Thunderbolt networking and regular ethernet networking simultaneously?

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I'm considering purchasing a new iMac and recently learned that Thunderbolt 3 can be used to create a Thunderbolt network bridge between two Macs.  I assume that connection over Thunderbolt will be many times faster than an ethernet connection.

I also want both iMac's to be connected to my LAN via their ethernet adapters.  Is it possible for both of these connections to run independently, simultaneously, so that each Mac can still "talk" to the internet and other devices on the LAN, but "talk" to each other at Thunderbolt speeds?


texts: Mac Pro early2008 El Cap. LOGIC BOARD compatibility w/ later models

texts: I just found this site today and it looks sweet! I believe I need to replace the logic board in my unit. Would a board from a 2009 or newer work on my 2008 Mac pro currently with 2x Intel quad 2.8ghz (part 661-4449)? I would like to know in order to expand on the availability of used parts out there and possibly score a faster processor.


texts: Constant spinning circle right hand side on iPhone 4

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I have an iPhone 4 and for the last few days there has been a spinning circle in the right hand side of the status bar. I am wondering why this is.

I've tried turning off the Wi-Fi and restricting cellular data of all apps and nothing has worked. I am worried that there is something wrong with my phone. It seems to be draining my battery also.


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Will Apple reject an app which renders a 3D scene that allows you to modify and compile GLSL ES shaders by editing them in the app? (something not unlike e.g. http://shadertoy.com, but native OpenGL ES 2)

What about if it registers for a file type and opens .vsh and .fsh files as documents?

I know that it may be problematic if the app automatically downloads shader code from a server (and then runs it), but the answer is not so clear for these other approaches.


texts: On OS X Mavericks, why does it always say my memory used is like 99% of my total memory?

texts: I keep getting these results from Activity Monitor in Mavericks, where it seems like 99% of my memory is being used (where in the screenshot I have 10MB left). Am I just reading this wrong? How am I supposed to read it?


texts: 15 Pin Joystick (old style PC) to USB solution for OS X

texts: I have a set of old Thrustmaster TCS joysticks.  I'd like to try using them again on my Mac Book Pro to play a flight simulator.  I have seen some DB-15 pin to USB Joystick Adapters, but I have not seen a single one that indicate OS X compatibility.  Has anyone found anything like this that works with OS X?


texts: Can we get "Enqueue" or something similar in iTunes [10.7]

texts: iTunes 10.7 is pretty awesome compared to nearly all media players/browsers I have experienced. But, just a quick question if I could have some option to get "Now Playing" list with "Enqueue" option to my audios, similar to what we have in Winamp? It would be of great help.


texts: Move similarly named images into a folder with the same name

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I am trying to create an automator app which will take all the images which are similarly named and create a folder with that name and move the images then into that folder and then archive that folder.

Thus turing the following into three folders:
Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 001.jpg
Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 002.jpg
Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 003.jpg
Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever 004.jpg
Short image name 001.jpg
Short image name 002.jpg
Short image name 003.jpg
Short image name 004.jpg
Short image name 005.jpg
Short image name 006.jpg
Short image name 007.jpg
Short image name 008.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 001.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 002.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 003.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 004.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 005.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 006.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 007.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 008.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 009.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 010.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 011.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 012.jpg
My Mom named this one - it's her parrot 013.jpg

would become:
Some long or short name depending on what it was named by whomever.zip
Short image name.zip
My Mom named this one - it's her parro.zip


texts: If I press the 'disable and delete ' button will my photos come back onto my phone or go somewhere else ? Where will they go and is there any way I can get them back into my photo library ?


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Every once in a while when I plug in my MacBook Pro to my Thunderbolt Display and then press some keys on my external keyboard (laptop lid is closed) to wake it up, the computer won't wake up properly. The screen will either stay black or I will see a black screen and the beachball mouse cursor.

If I open the laptop lid in this situation nothing changes. If I then unplug the monitor nothing changes either. The laptop display is blank.

The only thing I can do at this point is to hold the power button until the machine turns off and then turn it back on.

This seems to happen about once or twice a week.

I'd rather not wipe the machine because it will take a while to reinstall everything.

Any ideas how to prevent this from happening?

Specs:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6


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My wife and I share the same iPhoto library, which exists on a mounted disk image with each of our user accounts pointing to this same shared library.

We each have iPhones and I wondered whether our respective photo-streams that seemed to work reasonably well on our individual logins could be 'automated' to copy from these streams into the main, shared library?

Essentially, is there any way for two photo-streams from two users to end up in this shared iPhoto library?


texts: Lost Windows Bootcamp boot entry after resizing the partition

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I have a 2011 iMac that I had used Bootcamp utility to install Windows 7 on. I got overzealous and tried to triple boot Windows, Mac and Linux on the iMac. I no longer need Linux on this iMac but the process corrupted my boot table and now I can't boot into Windows. If I press and hold 'alt/option' key after it reboots it doesn't show me the Windows bootcamp boot entry -- just Mac and Recovery drive.

However, in the file system, I still see all the files for Windows intact. So the file structure is still there, just the boot table entry is messed up somehow. I tried to 'repair' it but Bootcamp utility no longer gives me the optin of making a bootable Windows thumb drive using the Windows ISO that I have. It just asks to download some support software for Windows and that's it.

If this was Linux, I'd use something like 'boot repair' ISO or 'update-grub' to update the boot table but how do I repair the boot entry in Mac?

I have the Windows ISO available and I'm comfortable with command-line.

UPDATE: Details about the system

users-iMac:~ user$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            598.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                400.8 GB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 FAT32                   16.0 GB    disk1s1

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:        CD_partition_scheme Audio CD               *410.5 MB   disk2

GPT:

users-iMac:~ user$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1168862256      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1169271896     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1170541432   782721552      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1953262984      262151
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

Fdisk:

users-iMac:~ user$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 - 1168862256] HFS+
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [1169271896 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
 4: 0B 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [1170541432 -  782721552] Win95 FAT-32

The optical drive on my system works. I was wondering if I could create a bootable thumb drive though. Bootcamp does not give me this option in the 2011 iMac but I was hoping to the edit the 'info.plist' in Bootcamp's contents folder to add my iMac model in there so that Bootcamp gives me the option of booting from thumb drive. This "patch" is described here: Bootcamp - No ISO Option

But is there any other simpler way to create a bootable thumb drive to install Windows on a Mac?


texts: Creating a OS X El Capitan bootable installer on a MacBook Pro to reinstall a MacBook Air

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Is it possible to create a bootable USB installer on a MacBook Pro and use it to install macOS on a MacBook Air?
For example, I'd like to use a MacBook Pro to create a bootable USB installer for El Capitan and install it on a MacBook Air that has no system on it since it's been erased completely.


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How to connect Oculus Link on Win10 Parallels VM?
Tried to connect Oculus Quest to the MacBook Pro 16" with Parallels Desktop - Win 10 VM on it. Connected official OculusLink-cable USB-C to headset and to mac. But Win sees Oculus Quest only as a storage device, - Oculus app doesn't see the headset. (Also tried to click "Connect oculus link" from settings in headset - no effect, Oculus App and Headset doesn't see each other)

Made little research, seems like others also can't get it working via straight-forward way.

https://forum.parallels.com/threads/has-anybody-gotten-oculus-link-working-in-their-win10-parallels-vm.348916/

Does anybody got it working? Is there some existing workarounds?


texts: Signed binary being warned as signed by unknown developer on OSx

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I have a binary file. I released it to the customer, which is signed by a valid developer certificate. When customer is downloading that binary and trying to execute it (customer has a standard user account on Mac) the user gets a popup notification:

  signed by a unknown developer and you security setting allows installation only from Appstore

When user try to change setting obviously it ask for admin password.
How do I see if something is wrong with my developer certificate?

Another possible clue on this: After downloading the same binary, if I execute on my system, it does not give my non-admin user any warning.

Signed binary cert chain is :

Authority=Mac Developer: tommyboy

Authority=Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority

Authority=Apple Root CA


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In the mac mail app, it is possible to select the from-email in the dropdown menu.

The available from-email adresses correspond to the added acounts.

Adding accounts on a mac:

In Yosemite: System Preferences -> Internet Accounts -> +
In Snow Leopard: Mail app -> Accounts -> +

To add an account, you need the email-address and the password.

Adding accounts to a private gmail:

www.gmail.com -> Settings -> Accounts and import -> Send mail as: -> Add another email address that you own

Here no password is required - You just have to reply to a confirmation email.

I want to be able to write from a Google-group-email on my mac. The problem is that there is no password for this email. (It is not an account, that you can log into).
How can I add this email/account to my mac? -or solve the problem in an other way? -so that I can write from the mac mail app, and not just my private gmail webmail.

Additional informations about the Google-group-email:
I am the administrator of a Google Apps for Education domain. I am the owner of the group in this domain. The group has three members. The group has an email-address: my_example_group@my_example_domain.com. It is not possible to log into into this account. The emails send to the address is automatically forwarded to the three members.


texts: How to stop being logged out of SSH sessions when locking the screen in OS X 10.9.1?

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Every time I lock my screen I get logged out of any active SSH sessions.

I've added the following to my ~/.ssh/config file, but I still get logged out:

Host *
  ServerAliveInterval 60

How can I stop being logged out of SSH sessions when I lock my screen?


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I have a new macbook with osx 10.8.2

Every time I want do delete a file, open a downloaded file, and numerous other actions I have to enter my password. Is there a way to turn this off?


texts: How do I delete a previous recipient's email address from Mail?

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I am trying to delete a friend's old email address so it doesn't automatically pop up when I enter his name while addressing an email. I have removed it manually from the address book, but it still shows up in Mail.

How do I stop this happening?


texts: Can't Delete Folder, Hard Drive Issue - ci_free_count is not valid

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Running the latest MacBook Pro from Fall 2019. 2 TB internal SSD. Was doing a build and the power cut out.  Restarted the computer and found a folder that I could not delete. Tried all the tricks:

sudo rm rf * - did not work said directory not empty
ls -la what files are in here, no files are in there
Ok, let's just rm -rf * in this folder - weird a bunch of files show up related to my build, but rm gives me the a bunch of errors e.g., rm: Filename.ext: No such file or directory
Alright, reboot into recovery mode and try the same thing - same issue
OK, run First Aid - ah we got a problem (see pic below)
Run First Aid again, problem not going away
Run First Aid one more time, still getting the same error
Fine, mount the volume and then fsck_apfs it using terminal - same error
OK, let's turn off FileVault and try everything all over again - no luck

I've escalated to as high as I think. Anyone want to take a stab at this? Last step for me is to format the disk but that's super annoying.

Thanks!


texts: How do I open the context menu from a Mac keyboard?

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In Windows, one can hit Shift+F10 to access the "Context Menu." But a similar keyboard action doesn't seem possible on Mac. One potential application...

When I make a spelling error in a document, Lion gives me the option to correct the error by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking, two-finger tapping, etc) on the misspelled word and bringing up the context menu.

How can I open this menu from the keyboard? And is it possible to access the Context Menu from a Mac keyboard?


texts: Can I search images on Safari using a text in the text field on a third-party app using shortcut?

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I would like to search a list of images (either on Safari or Google Chrome) on iOS, from a text that is in a text field on a third-party app.

In details:

Use a third-party dictionary app to search the meaning of a word. I type in the word on the text field and get a list of words.
I pick up the relevant word on the table.
If I find it hard to understand the meaning of the word, open the Safari and type in the word on the search bar to see the list of images on the word.

Now, I would like to make it automatic with shortcut app, if possible. The dictionary app shows the word on the textfield (UITextField I think). I think if you copy the word you could use the shortcut, but it is too cumbersome on iOS so I want to skip it.

So is this possible...?


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I am tempted to install XtraFinder on my mac because of all the features it provides but am worried that it may leave my system vulnerable to a security breach.

The installation dialog box says the following

  OS X 10.11 and later users should read about System Integrity Protection before installing.

I went to the link provided (System Integrity Protection):

  You need to partially disable System Integrity Protection. I do not encourage you to disable System Integrity Protection. It makes your computer less safe.

The warning is something to do with code injection into Finder.

Does this mean that only XtraFinder is allowed to inject into Finder?
Will this allow some other code to wreak havoc on my system?
Will   installing XtraFinder make my system vulnerable?


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Running Mountain Lion.

I added a partition with Disk Utility and then had second thoughts about it. I'd like to remove the partition i created, MacSSD2 and hand over its space back to MacSSD. As you can see, the "-" button is disabled even when i select the MacSSD2 partition.

This is the output from command line:

    ~ - Tue Aug 14 10:12:00: diskutil list
    /dev/disk0
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk0
       1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS MacSSD                  425.7 GB   disk0s2
       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             784.2 MB   disk0s5
       4:          Apple_CoreStorage MacSSD 2                85.3 GB    disk0s4   <--- Want to remove this
       5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s6
    /dev/disk1
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:                  Apple_HFS MacSSD2                *84.9 GB    disk1

~ - Tue Aug 14 10:18:33: sudo gpt -r show disk1
      start       size  index  contents
          0  165900968

Any clues?


texts: iTunes 11 doesn't remember to show cloud purchases

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On this particular computer, I use iTunes 11 only with my cloud purchases – I don't have any music stored locally. Very often (but not always), when I launch iTunes, it comes up with an empty library because the preference setting to display cloud purchases is switched to off.

I keep switching the preference back on, yet it keeps disabling itself again in the future. Is there any way to get it to stick?

Update: even weirder, sometimes when this happens the checkbox to show or hide cloud purchases (in Preferences > Store) actually disappears. Literally, I go into Preferences and it simply isn't there. If I quit and relaunch multiple times, eventually it comes back and then I can reenable it. I'll take a screenshot the next time this happens.


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I'm aware of all the hide all / minimize all shortcuts (cmd + alt + h/m) and am looking into something more sophisticated: I want to minimize all windows except active one – like the Shake function in windows 7 (Minimize Windows using shake)

I work with lots of chrome windows and I have to focus on one of them

Can this shake be customized to minimize all except the one with focus?


texts: Making it so programs aren't restored after startup from a forced shutdown

texts: Whenever I boot up from a forced shutdown (aka holding down the power button), OSX restores all the programs I had open before the forced shutdown. Is there a way to disable this? If my computer turns off for whatever reason, I want it to boot up fresh.


texts: Apple Music play count not syncing between iPhone and iTunes

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I'm running Apple Music on my mac and iPhone. I have an album in My Music, so the plays should be syncing, but the play count is not being effected by music played on my phone. Is there any trip to let the play count sync between devices? I know that the "love" are device specific, but I thought that play count should sync because it worked before Apple Music.

Thanks


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When I'm connected to my company's VPN, some websites won't load. For example, both imgur and tumblr will just hang trying to connect:

$ curl -v http://imgur.com
* About to connect() to imgur.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 23.23.110.81...
* connected
* Connected to imgur.com (23.23.110.81) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5
> Host: imgur.com
> Accept: */*
>

Other sites, like twitter and the AWS console will load eventually but without any CSS applied (some pages will load properly though).

The VPN uses PPP and so pretty much all of my traffic shows up in Wireshark as PPP Compressed Datagrams. ppp.log doesn`t show anything but connect/disconnect info.

I had been using this exact same setup for a month or two without any issues. It was in the last week or two that I noticed this issue. Running iOS 10.8.4.

Any idea on how to debug this?


texts: Is it safe to use my US iPhone/iPad charger with a simple European plug adapter?

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I'm using the US wall adapter that came with my iPhone to charge it:

When I travel to Europe, is it safe to use this with a simple US-European adapter, or do I need a transformer or some other device to step to the appropriate voltage/current? Do I risk frying my device?


texts: How to remove my local Backupdb.backupsdb?

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On my local harddrive on my MBP retina (2014, 10.11.3) there is a Backupdb.backupsdb folder:

drwxr-xr-x+  5 root  wheel   170B  2 Jan 03:32 Backups.backupdb/

I thought that folder only exists on timemachines?
However, i want to remove it, as it only holds an old unfinished backup:

drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root  wheel   170B 20 Mär 14:06 2016-01-02-020746.inProgress/

I disabled SIP, but neither rm -rf nor sudo rm -rf worked, not even in recovery mode. I always got Operation not permitted.

Does anyone know how to delete it?


texts: Workflow/tools for installing command line application on OS X (Yosemite or later)

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I maintain a set of command line bioinformatics tools which we distribute as source and binaries for Linux, Windows, and OS X. Currently the binary distribution for OS X is just a zip file containing directories for the binaries and the documentation. Our install guide directs the user to unzip the archive, copy the binaries to the desired location, and update their PATH to point to the binaries. That's fine for the command line savvy users, but some users have never  heard of /usr/local/bin let alone PATH. We'd love to have an installer that's in more of the OS X idiom.

Creating an application bundle doesn't seem to do the trick because our tools are strictly command line and they'll need a terminal session to use them. It seems like we could have used PackageMaker to create an installer, but that's now deprecated.

Is there a current standard installer for command line tools on OS X, preferably one with CPACK support?


texts: How can I automate keeping historical versions of iOS apps on the Mac?

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I find that iTunes management of backing up Apps isn't ideal for a number of reasons.  It will happily keep a copy of the most recent App in it's own area within the iTunes library, but it's archival process is very much against your "current" applications, without necessarily keeping a history of previous versions.

There are various reasons for keeping previous versions of an App, from being able to simply revert when a new version is buggy or makes changes which you do not wish to use, to the App changing it's minimum requirements to need hardware which you just down own therefore making the App unusable.

My current manner of archiving old iOS applications is both manual and therefore dysfunctional.

Currently I move copies by hand to a folder named "old iOS applications". I also depend on Time Machine to provide historical copies of apps for the rare case when an update to an app causes me to have a problem with functionality of an app. I prefer to keep iTunes only managing apps that are actively installed by deleting things I don't use regularly and letting the next iOS sync transfer back just the apps that are currently in use. The downside of a lean iTunes library is that finding an old app is hit or miss - needing to recall when it was saved to Time Machine. This hesitation also acts as a deterrent to keeping iTunes lean since I don't have a good process for archiving these programs.

What are people doing to have all copies of iOS apps organized without depending on Time Machine exclusively? I'm looking for an automated process for archiving apps delivered from the iOS app store.


texts: Use Sugru for fraying lightning adapter on a Thunderbolt Display?

texts: I have a 27-inch Thunderbolt display and the thunderbolt connector--not the magsafe power cord--is fraying on the end that plugs into the laptop. I've seen several posts about using sugru on the power cords, can I use it on the thunderbolt cord from my monitor as well? Thanks!


texts: How to force backup through Time Machine in terminal

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I am trying to force Time Machine to do backup with terminal, to backup one virtual machine while it is saved and stopped, but till now I am unable to do that,

tmutil startbackup --auto

and then, to check if that backup has been made,

tmutil listbackup

but there is no new entry in the list after.


texts: How to run an app that require Java SDK on macOS Catalina 10.15?

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Currently I am getting issue with new macOS Catalina limitation. Every time I run an app that require openJDK I get this message:

  "openjdk-12.0.1.jdk" can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

  Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the App Store and identified developers.

But if I use the recommended way to bypass this issue (by going to System Preferences → Security & Privacy → General → Open Anyway button) it just opens the JDK folder. Which is not what I want.

How I can use JDK with macOS Catalina?


texts: I have downloaded a flv file, and I would like to save it in iTunes library for later play. I guess I should convert it first, but is this supported by OSX or do I need an extra application. And which file format will keep the quality and the size of original video?


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Backstory: I upgraded from a 1TB SSD to a 2TB hybrid drive, by restoring the system from a Time Machine backup — no hassles there. A few months later, disappointed by the new drive, I want to swap back to the smaller but faster 1TB.

I boot into Recovery, choose the latest Time Machine backup, and it prompts me to select the destination to restore to. But when I click on "Macintosh HD" (the only choice there, with space available shown as 998.97 GB) a notice appears saying "This disk does not have enough space to restore your system" and I am not able to proceed further because the Continue button remains grayed out.

I'm sure the backup is only around 350 GB in size. This was achieved by adding certain large folders (e.g. photos) to Time Machine's list of excluded folders.

I have googled for this error message, and found several other cases similar to mine, but no great solutions. It seems that the use of excluded folders may be a common feature of this issue. One person reported that after actually deleting those unwanted folders from their original hard drive and doing a final backup, they were able to proceed with the restore onto a smaller capacity drive. It's good to know such a workaround exists, but in my case I do want to keep those folders on the current drive, but just not restore them to the new drive.

Anyone know what's going on here? Or where the (clearly incorrect) information about the backup size is being obtained from?

The machine is a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011). I haven't seen any reports of this issue more recent than 2014, so I maybe it's something that's been fixed in later models' firmware.


texts: How to auto-mount a secondary Encrypted HDD on boot?

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I have 2 disks on my Mac, the secondary one is encrypted, on my current user it auto mounts, because I have once been asked for the password and I saved it.

But for new users, the user is prompted for the disk password. Is there someway to make MacOS automount it always during boot? (i know, I would have to put the password somewhere, no problem) but if there is how, then where to configure it and put the password for auto-mounting?

PS: answers must be for versions equal or newer than Sierra.


texts: How to enable Mac OS X server email alerts

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I have a specific Mac mini server that does not send out email alerts, even though I have an email address configured.

I also want to note that I am not using the mail server within server.app.  I have other servers that are sending email alerts correctly and none of them have the mail server within server.app turned on.

Questions:

1) Do I have to enable Apple Push notifications and configure an Apple ID for this to work?

2) Do the email alerts go through Apple's servers after step 1 is configured above, or do they come directly from my server?

3) If they come directly from my server, can I specify a relay host to go through my ISPs SMTP gateway?

4) Is there any way to generate a test alert to test whether this is working or not?  What is happening is that the disk on this server is filling up and I am not getting any notifications.  It only happens once every couple of months, so I am never sure when it is going to happen.


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I own a bit old MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) with 2,2 GHz Intel Core i7, so I'm considering replacing it with a new iMac, but not sure which CPU should I choose.

3.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz (MNED2LL/A) for € 2,699
4.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz (Z0TR) for €2,939

I'm a software developer who's stack is:

Python
Swift for iOS and macOS development
Docker
PostgreSQL
Javascript

I'm concerned if I benefit from purchasing an iMac with i7 for extra €300. Please advise. Thanks!


texts: macOS Big Sur version 11.0.1, no paste option in Finder

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I upgraded macOS yesterday to Big Sur version 11.0.1, since then there is no paste option in finder, using Cmd + V doesn't work either, just plays a sound.
I can see that the file is copied to the clipboard, but there is no way to paste it. I spent over an hour talking to Apple support on this issue, no solution.
I've searched online and found several posts saying to kill pboard, which I've done, still doesn't work.
During the conversation with Apple we created a new account and logged in, everything works on that account, seems that my account which is the one I need is the one thats now broken.
Has anyone got a fix for this?


texts: iOS App Store: Complete my bundle option missing

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I have previously benefited from complete my bundle feature available in the App Store. I was able to get newer apps that I haven't purchased at a discounted rate.

I am looking to purchase an app now and could not find the option on the apps App Store page.

My question is:

Is the feature no longer available for apps (and only available for Songs and TV Shows)?
Is it upto the developers discretion to incorporate complete my bundle feature?


texts: Mac printing error: paper size unresolvable conflict

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I am trying to set duplex as the default for my printer. Many people have told me to just create a preset and use that but there are some apps that this doesn't work for, so I am looking for a different solution. Another option I have found is to modify the CUPS settings on my mac for the printer. If I go into CUPS page for my printer, I change the two sided setting to on with long edge binding to be the default. This gives me an error though and wants me to change the default paper size to "A4 two sided margins". So I do that. Now whenever I go to print something, I get an error message come up:

"Changing the destination paper to A4 would cause a conflict that cannot be resolved. No change will be made."

The only thing I think could be causing this is that the default paper size setting in the printers section of system preferences is set to A4. There is no A4 Two sided margins option to select there. Maybe something else is causing the error.

Any suggestions on how I could fix this?

Running Mac 10.9.4 and HP Photosmart 5520.


texts: How do can I close all windows on Preview and OpenOffice, so they don't open again when I open Preview to see something else?

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Every time I view an image using Preview, it gets stored, and when I open preview again, everything is there, like this-

How can I clear that?
Thanks

(for reference- I use Yosemite on a MacBook Pro)


texts: How To Create A Bootable USB Installer for Windows, Linux and OSX?

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How can I use my 120GB USB Drive as an ultimate IT tool?

I want to have the following ISOs partitioned off and accessible through a bootloader (any):

Windows 5,6,7,8,10
OSX 10.6,7,8,9,10
GParted (Live)
Kali (Live)
Hiren

I have all of the ISOs, but I have had no success so far.  I don't think tools are the answers as I tried Xboot and another one.

Anyone had any luck with this or have any ideas?


texts: The rubber gasket around my Macbook screen is coming off!

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Does this mean that I have to change the entire screen. I read somewhere online that I might have to change the entire screen.

Can't apple just change the rubber gasket?

What if I just leave it as it is? Will the screen come off? :O :O

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On a couple occasions since I installed Lion, the keyboard shortcuts ⌘+→ and ⌘+← have stopped working to navigate to the beginning/end of a line inside text fields and such.  Any ideas what's going on?

Notes:

My computer doesn't beep when I hit these shortcuts.
Keyboard Viewer shows that when I hold down ⌘, pressing left/right doesn't do anything.
When I hold down both ⌘ and ⇧, the arrow keys work fine.
The left and right arrow keys still work by themselves.
⌘+↑ and ⌘+↓, and ⌥+arrows still work.
⌃+A and ⌃+E still work.
I don't have any particularly weird custom keyboard shortcuts set up.
If it matters, I use 4-finger swipes and ⌃+arrows for switching desktops, two- and three-finger swipes for navigation, and three-finger swipes for Mission Control & App Exposé.


texts: How to make Automator service that enters highlighted text into Chrome address bar?

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I'm trying to make an Automator Quick Action that will show up in the right click menu under Services that will take the highlighted text and put it in a new tab in Chrome.
Looking at various other posts, I attempted this AppleScript, but it doesn't work:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Google Chrome"
    set myTab to make new tab at end of tabs of window 1
    tell application "System Events"
        tell application process "Google Chrome"
            set value to input
            keystroke return
        end tell
    end tell
end tell
end run

I can get it to work for a URL, but I want this to work for non-URLs too (and just perform the default Chrome behavior with that text).


texts: Is there a way to sync an iPhone 3GS with Mac OS X Tiger?

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We recently bought an iPhone 3GS for my stepson. He has my old iMac G5, running OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger), and iTunes 9.2.1.

When we connect the iPhone to this computer, we get an error window saying "The iPhone cannot be used because it requires iTunes version 10.1 or later. Go to www.itunes.com to download the latest version of iTunes."

However, the iTunes download page says that iTunes 10.1.2 requires OS X 10.5 or later, and indeed, trying to download and install that version results in an error window saying "This package type requires Mac OS X 10.5."

So, is there any way to get a version of iTunes that supports the iPhone 3GS and runs on OS X 10.4.x?

If not, would upgrading the iMac to Leopard solve the problem?

(This is all a bit surprising, because iTunes 9.2.1 worked fine with an older iPhone and with an iPod Touch. It's hard for me to imagine what new magic in 10.5 is required to support syncing with a slightly newer model of iPhone.)


texts: Sleep mode on Mac OS X, don't wake up again

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I have a MBP 13 (OSX El Capitan 10.11.2) with two external monitors. After a while when I do nothing my MBP switch to the sleep mode. The problem is that sometime it don't wake up again when I move the mouse or touch on the keyboard. I only get a black screen.

Anyone else have this type of issue?

What can I do?

Thanks in advance guys!


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I usually need to write math with LaTeX, and after seeing this question: Entering unicode math symbols. I came here with some small questions.

I find that not perfectly comfortable, and I was wondering if there is a way in which I could tell the system to differentiate between the left and right alt ⌥. So I could have much more symbols within one letter.

And, the another question is if there is a way I could turn the caps lock ⇪ into a different key (with the same use as alt ⌥, but the system should differentiate them). In this way I could use, for instance,

caps lock ⇪d to get the greek letters (in this case the letter delta δ), and
alt ⌥d to get some math symbol of my decision (in this case the partial differential symbol ∂).

This is not a great example, but more or less self explaining. Of course then caps lock ⇪ shouldn't be a turn on/turn off button. It should be turned on ONLY when pressed (exactly like alt ⌥).


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My phone number inadvertently got added as a trusted phone number for someone else's iPad.
The issue is that there isnt another number to use in its place.
So a couple of question in here, is it possible to just remove the trusted number and if not, is there a way to ensure the 2FA uses trusted devices rather than the trusted number for verification purposes?


texts: Connect my 2015 Macbook Pro to my 2019 iMac as an external monitor

texts: I have a 2015 Macbook Pro (Thunderbolt 2 port) for which I would like to use my iMac 2019 (USB-C Port) as an external monitor. What type of adapter and cable should I buy to make this work?


texts: Remove link to something that is not a folder in the Finder sidebar

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Somehow I managed to have a link to a document in my Finder sidebar (Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 10.6). It does show up under my “Places” category on the left. I can move it around and it sticks where I put it, but I can’t remove it from the sidebar.

If I perform a right click on it, the only option it gives me is “Open Sidebar Preferences...”, while that menu on a folder also gives me the option to remove it from the sidebar. I can not simply pull it away using drag and drop. It can not be focused, so I can’t even hit Cmd+Backspace or Fn+Backspace (for Del).

Any ideas? I want to remove it from the Sidebar and I guess I need to tweak some properties file. What to do?


texts: Disable opening tabs in iTerm2 on when the application starts?

texts: iTerm2, on startup, opens as many tabs as were opened in my previous session. How can I disable this behaviour? I don't need those empty tabs.