texts: OS X Server running on a Mac used for daily work -- possible? Issues?

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Family with some iPhones, iPads and now a new iMac. We would like to have a common family calendar, which should be synced to the iPhones, as soon as they are in the local wifi. On the iMac, everybody has his own account and own iTunes. But it seems difficult to have a certain common calendar.

Can I install the OS X Server on the iMac, which will be used for daily work (artwork, office)?

I'm asking because there are many articles about how to install a OS X server on a mac, but nothing about using the server mac for daily work independently from server things. I've seen this question here: Running OS X Server on main machine , but it is older and the answer is not really specific...

EDIT

We can not put any data into the cloud. So all those services which depend on selling my data to somebody else are not a solution, neither outlook.com nor iCloud. Besides that, our internet connection upstream is only about 30 kbit/s. That's why I'm looking for a local server.


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I am a Mac newbie and I have a new 13" Macbook Pro.

I used the Ethernet connection for wired Internet in my dorm room, but after using it for half an hour or so, the Ethernet port and the area nearby started heating up. After it got considerably hot, I unplugged the Ethernet cable. The cable is CAT5e (not CAT6 for gigabit ethernet) and a rather cheap one and I sincerely hope that this is the reason for the heating problem. Is it so? Any ideas?


texts: Terminal Actived Push Notification Utility for OS X and iOS?

texts: I am basically wondering if there is any tool(s) that can generate a push notifications on OS X and/or iOS from terminal entries. Idea here is you could connect via SSH and make a custom push notification like "WiFi is turning off in 5 Minutes" or "Go to bed!" (lol) appear. Anyone have ideas? My iOS device is jailbroken, hence OpenSSH is installed.


texts: chatty "switching to keychain-db" console messages in Sierra

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In macOS Sierra I'm noticing a very "chatty" and repetitive series of warnings in the console, like this:

default 15:27:23.330990 -0700   AppleIDAuthAgent    switching to keychain-db: /Users/XYZ/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db from /Users/XYZ/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db (0 1 1 1)

where dozens of processes are all logging the same "switching to keychain-db" message over and over again. These messages are coming from AppleIDAuthAgent, authd, secinitd, lcd, Finder, gamed, Mail, cloudd, and on and on.

Not only that, but notice in the log message it's switching from and to the exact same file and path. The entire thing makes no sense.  Anyone know what this is all about?

(Edit: As of March 2018, I'm now running High Sierra 10.13.3 and no longer are these messages appearing in my console.)


texts: How to remove "Disabled Software" from MacOS System Report when a provided uninstall tool does not work?

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Is there a way to manually remove an item from the Disabled Software list or mark it as enabled when the version and date disabled are both listed as unknown?

The example below describes a situation where this happened. I am looking for a general approach to removing "Disabled Software" from the macOS System Report when a provided uninstall tool does not work. While this example references DisplayLink Driver, my goal is to solve this problem when other drivers produce this problem too.

For those who work for or with DisplayLink and have suggested DisplayLink-specific approaches (i.e. manually delete specific files and use the uninstall tool), I appreciate your suggestions. However, the provided solutions did not work for this scenario. I have also tried manually installing the driver using kext commands without success.


texts: Catalina: Instruments with Full Disk Access

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I am trying to use Instruments on my laptop, but it seems that after updating to Catalina, it cannot access my Documents folder:

I have given access to the application, Full Disk Access, but it does not work (I even shut down the laptop and restarted it, and also checked for errors with Disk Utility).

Am I missing something?


texts: Macbook Air mid 2013 with Mavericks stopped connecting to familiar wifi after 10.9.4 update

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I recently installed update 10.9.4, which was recommended for all Mavericks users. My wifi was working fine beforehand and now won't connect to familiar networks. Ironic much? The 10.9.4 update was supposed to fix wifi problems for Mavericks!

I have tried various troubleshooting approaches and nothing works. My mac is able to see the network but not connect to it. When I try, it just says "The network _____ could not be joined" and then gives me the option to run diagnostics, which does not help. I've tried resetting the SMC and PRAM, deleting the contents of the system config folder, and of course have restarted the machine several times. I've deleted the bluetooth config file, deleted and re-added the wifi in network preferences and renewed the DHCP lease. I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.


texts: How can I use an existing Time Machine backup with my new computer?

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I've just replaced my existing MacBook Pro with a new MacBook Air.  I've got 18 months of Time Machine backups from the old computer.  I'd like to configure my new computer to use the old computer's Time Machine backups, so the new computer picks up where the old one left off.  Is this possible?  If so, how?

I didn't restore the new computer from a Time Machine backup because my old computer used more disk space than my new computer.  There was a lot of cruft as well, so I decided to start from scratch on the new one.  I'm slowly pulling off individual files and settings from a clone of the old computer's hard drive.


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I just upgraded to Catalina 10.15.7 coming from High Sierra.
On any previous MacOS release I can press space on any app on app drawer to show application version.
I'm positive they removed it in recent release since I can't view app version anymore.
Any other method to view app version?


texts: Correct Way to Check if Spotlight Has Indexed a Folder's Contents

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Okay, so I've written a script that uses mdfind to more quickly match files, however, I need to find the best way to check whether a target directory is indexed or not, so I can fall back to using find instead if I have to.

I'm assuming I'll need to use mdls, however this does still return information about non-index files and folders, just less of it. Is there a particular value I should query that will allow me to easily determine whether a file/folder has been index by Spotlight or not?


texts: Windowing system on El Capitan, and XQuartz

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I've just installed XQuartz on my Macbook Pro Retina 13" which runs El Capitan, because a development tool I'm using required me to do so. I know that XQuartz is (kind of) like the new X11, supported by Apple through an open source community, but I'm confused as to what the relationship is between XQuartz and El Capitan.

Here is what I'm thikning. If I had to install XQuartz by hand, then clearly El Capitan was using some other windowing system. But what? Having now installed XQuartz, what's changed? Have I downgraded my El Capitan in any way? I haven't noticed anything different yet. Is it reversible?

By the way, I haven't yet set up time machine, and I now regret it.


texts: Finding old versions of iOS apps (for 5.1.1 on a 1st Generation iPad)

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I have a first generation iPad that was working perfectly well,
and was loaded with apps which worked perfectly well. For various reasons I did a factory reset.

Now I can't reinstall many of the old apps, because they require iOS 6.0.
Is there a way to find and install old versions of Apple App Store Apps?  The YELP and PBS apps are examples.

Related questions include:
* How to install apps which require a newer version of iOS on a 1st gen. iPad?
* How do I upgrade my iOS on my iPad 1st generation?


texts: Shortcut to switch between Spaces - and not Desktops

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In Big Sur, using Mission Control we have the Control+1, Control+2 keyboard shortcuts to switch between desktops.
Is there a way (built-in is preferred of course) to switch to a specific space (including full-screen apps and not only desktops) by its number?


texts: Automator move all subfolders of Documents to network share

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I want to move all of the content of my Documents folder to a network share named documents (Synology NAS) once a week, keeping the same folder structure that I have on my Mac at the destination. The Calendar part is working, but the Automator part is not. It is trying to move the Documents folder itself, and I only want to move the subfolders of Documents. Also, ideally I would like to keep the empty subfolders on my local Mac after moving the files, but I can re-create the local subfolders in the script if necessary. Here is what I have now, that doesn't work:

Any help is much appreciated.


texts: Octave: Can't start GUI after installing from homebrew

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I installed octave using homebrew.

When I call

octave --force-gui

I get error:

  octave: GUI features missing or disabled in this build

Q: How to make it work in GUI mode?

I also tried

brew reinstall octave --with-qt --with-fltk --with-gui

like it was suggested in this post, but it didn't help.

Here is some debug information:

$brew info octave
octave: stable 4.4.0 (bottled), HEAD
High-level interpreted language for numerical computing
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index.html
/usr/local/Cellar/octave/4.4.0 (2,173 files, 45.4MB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2018-05-10 at 18:11:38
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/octave.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: gnu-sed ✘, pkg-config ✘
Required: arpack ✔, epstool ✔, fftw ✔, fig2dev ✔, fltk ✔, fontconfig ✔, freetype ✔, gcc ✔, ghostscript ✔, gl2ps ✔, glpk ✔, gnuplot ✔, graphicsmagick ✔, hdf5 ✔, libsndfile ✔, libtool ✔, pcre ✔, portaudio ✔, pstoedit ✔, qhull ✔, qrupdate ✔, readline ✔, suite-sparse ✔, veclibfort ✔
==> Requirements
Build: java >= 1.6 ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version


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I have set up an old iPhone 5 for my grandmother (85) which I set up with Apple Configurator to be in single app mode for the phone only.

I had turned off all the notifications, and made sure that nothing in the background would interfere with the Phone app freezing - due to having an alert that couldn't display but needed action.

However, recently there was an iOS update to 10.3.4 and there are no settings to turn off System notifications. I was wondering if anyone had a fix, or any understanding on disabling notifications for other apps when in single app mode?


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So I'm trying to load a Lion DMG onto a 16GB flash drive according to this tutorial, but I only get as far as step 9. The data starts to restore to the flash drive, but right as it gets to the end, when it's only initializing, it gives me the following error:

What do I do?


texts: Mac Mini 2012: Cant Boot after moving SSD from external USB3 to internal SATA

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I have a 2012 Mac Mini with a working High Sierra install on a SSD (APFS Volume) in an USB3 external enclosure mounted on /dev/disk2s1 according to Disk Utility

After I moved that same SSD to the internal SATA HD slot, it no longer appears as a boot drive. Disk Utility would still recognize the SSD on /dev/disk3s1 as a SATA drive. Also tried resetting the NVRAM but that did not solve the problem.

I moved the SSD back to USB3 and everything still works fine.

Update

I backed up my data with the SSD connected by USB3 and then tried a time machine recovery to the SSD installed as SATA. Also tried a fresh install to the SSD after erasing the partition. After both efforts, the SSD still will not appear as a boot drive when I hold the option key on startup.

any ideas?


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I know that file -I (input file) in terminal get me the charset of a file.
Is there a way to get that info displaying directly in Finder ? (something like QLVideo which allows Finder to display a bunch of info from video files)

I'm running Catalina 15.7


texts: mapping external keyboard keys to mac keys

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Is there a software, command or way to know what keys from an external non apple keyboard are being mapped to which mac keys?
And also is there a way to remap the shortcut keys of my keyboard: back, forward, home, search & mail?
The play and volume keys on my keyboard do work as expected, but the other keys don't seem to de anything.

PS: I have this one:


texts: Why does JDownloader use 9666/tcp on localhost?

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I found 9666/tcp to listen on 127.0.0.1 on OS X. I use version 15.3.0

> nmap -sT 127.0.0.1
Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2016-03-12 16:57 CET
Stats: 0:00:04 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Connect Scan
Connect Scan Timing: About 56.90% done; ETC: 16:57 (0:00:03 remaining)
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.29s latency).
Not shown: 999 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE
9666/tcp open  unknown

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8.31 seconds

> lsof -i :9666
    COMMAND     PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
    JavaAppli 73246 leo  149u  IPv4 0x49ece38ad86e34a7      0t0  TCP localhost:9666 (LISTEN)
> ps -ef | grep -w 73246
  503 73246     1   0  5:07PM ??        16:23.64 /Users/leo/Applications/JDownloader 2/JDownloader2.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub -afterupdate

What's that? Any more details? With Google I found no info about this port and Jdownloader.


texts: Getting past OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to reinstall Yosemite 10.10

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I got Yosemite 10.10, now I want to use reinstall option from recovery menu. I hold cmd+r and see this screen:

I pick Disk Utility to check if I have disk

Then I close Disk Utility and open Reinstall OS X and connect to internet via Wi-fi

After clicking continue and agreeing to the SLA, I see this screen to select the volume to install to:

But after clicking an unlock button and entering a password it returns me back to the first screen, then again to the agreement screen and then to the volume selector. After that I can't choose any volume because there is no icon anymore like after the first attempt.

And I can't continue.

After restarting the Mac I see the earth loading indicator and then after I click Reinstall Mac it allows me to reinstall Mountain Lion but there is also no disk even Disk Utility does not show any disk right now.


texts: Is it possible for a non-administrator user to delete an app which that user installed from AppStore on macOS?

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The employees in my company are encouraged to get themselves the apps from App Store if they need them for a task at hand in addition to the apps pre-installed by the administrator. There seems to be no way to remove such apps when they are no longer needed.
What have I tried?

In App Store, in the grid of apps after clicking on my account, I tried selecting "Delete app" from the three dot menu of the app.
In Launchpad, I tried hitting ⌥ option key and clicking ⦻ which appears next to the app.
I tried going to Applications folder in Finder and choosing "Move to trash" from right-click menu.
I tried dragging and dropping the app from Applications in Finder and from Launchpad onto the trash bin icon in the dock.

Each time the pop-up asks to login as an administrator. I cannot satisfy it with my Mac login account or my Apple ID which I use for App Store.
I imagined that the application is installed to a place where the App Store is allowed access to, so I would be able to remove the app with the App Store in the same way that I installed it. I have no problem updating those apps manually in App Store. App Store also updates them automatically for me.
For example, here are the permissions of WhatsApp app directory:
/Applications % ls -la WhatsApp.app
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@  3 root  wheel   96  2 гру 12:08 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 28 root  admin  896  2 гру 18:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel  320  2 гру 12:08 Contents
/Applications % xattr -l WhatsApp.app
com.apple.appstore.store_cohort: 7|date=1605871800000&sf=143492&pgtp=Software&pgid=1147396723&prpg=Search_3d742123-f66f-4798-8833-3ee76553ac1b&ctxt=Search&issrch=1
com.apple.appstore.storefront: 143492
com.apple.appstore.vendor_name: WhatsApp Inc.

I tried rm -r WhatsApp.app, but, as expected, it returns Permission denied for each file until I terminate it.
May it be possible to be able to remove the apps, which I install from App Store, on my own or there is a technical obstacle which definitely prevents me from doing it? If it is not enabled by default, may be the system administrator can enable it somehow, so that I do not need the administrator for removing those apps, without giving me unnecessary permissions?
I am under macOS Catalina version 10.15.7 (19H15).
This question is similar to another one, but in my question I am specifically interested in how to remove the app, not in why the administrative password is requested.
Please note that my display language is not English, so some text may be not precise.


texts: MacBook Air as primary monitor for Windows PC?

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I will be building a budget pc using an Athlon 3000g APU. I was wanting to know if I could use a mini display port to HDMI adapter to plug an HDMI cable in the pc build. I'm not sure if I could use my MacBook Air as a primary monitor for now.
Thanks in advance!


texts: how to view raw images on iMac or iphone

texts: I take a photograph with my iPhone were does the image go, both the RAW image and the jpeg. Seems like I have to use the Photo app to see these images but i don't know if they are jpegs or raw. They seem to transfer automatically to Photos. Is there a folder on my iMac or my iPhone where these images are stored?


texts: How to Open the Profile Management Window Every Time You Open Chrome?

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Chrome allows multiple people to use Chrome on the same computer, with each profile having its own custom bookmarks, settings, and accounts. By default, Chrome opens to the profile used the last time the browser was opened,That's not really helpful for client work.

I do not want that to happen. I want to see this screen whenever I launch Chrome

It's easy to do in Windows and Linux

How do I do it on my Mac?


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I have a screen in my slide (iMac) and I have a mask (display), the mask image in the display is my website, which is 3000 pixels tall, then mask is 800 pixels tall, what I am trying to do is animate from the top of the page to the bottom, simulating the browser scroll.

My first port of call was magic move, which I have successfully used when not using masks, so essentially when I have two slides of the same image in different position, magic move "Tweens" the frames in between. When trying this with the same image in the mask, it simply fades it, rather than animates it, not really sure why this is, it is like it is not detecting that the position of the image within the mask, just that it has changed.

Is there any way round this?


texts: Stop AppleUSBMultitouchDriver From Trying

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I am having problems with the multitouch subsystem of my MacBook Pro. But I am happy working with an external USB keyboard. But: that multitouch driver keeps trying to load, I think. Sometimes it affects my external mouse and keyboard performance. So, therefore, I'd like the AppleUSBMultitouchDriver to stop trying.

I get these messages in Console, about once a second:

Sep 17 17:57:24 jmbp kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_getFeatureReportInfo - DeviceRequest returned error 0xe00002c0 (interface 1, reportID 0xa1)
Sep 17 17:57:24 jmbp kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDebug: _getFeatureReportInfo returned an error in AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReportWithLookUp
Sep 17 17:57:24 jmbp kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_getFeatureReportInfo - DeviceRequest returned with result 0xe00002c0 - retrying (reportID 0xd9)
Sep 17 17:57:24 jmbp kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_getFeatureReportInfo - DeviceRequest returned error 0xe00002c0 (interface 1, reportID 0xd9)
Sep 17 17:57:24 jmbp kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDebug: _getFeatureReportInfo returned an error in AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReportWithLookUp

Going to sleep sometimes helps, but sometimes not. And this driver problem even affects how easy it is to go to sleep, the depth of sleep. So an effective method to just keep this loop from happening would be appreciated!


texts: How to look up your contacts and see who can I talk with iMessage?

texts: How can we quick look at our contacts and see how is having iMessage or not? So we can easily contact them, instead of going through all contacts one by one to check them.


texts: What application uses the rstf://scheduleState=1 URL scheme?

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For some time now (perhaps since the 10.13.3 upgrade of MacOS) I have been waking my Mac up from sleep and seeing between 3 and 7 cascading dialogue boxes with the error message:

"Unable to find an application to open URL rstf://?scheduleState=1, with "Ok, Cancel, Find Application" buttons.

I have searched everywhere and cannot find any reference to rstf or scheduleState (there some scheduleState stuff, but it seems unrelated).

Does anyone know how I can find and kill what is trying to open this URL?

Presumably the job is scheduled somewhere, but crontab just has a SuperDuper entry and I've since deleted SuperDuper.


texts: Highly irregular line spacing in Pages, even with exact spacing setting

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Apple Pages gives me highly irregular results in regard to line spacing.
I am using Lato as a font.
In Pages things look less bad, but once i export to PDF it becomes really apparent and a serious problem.
Unfortunately even when setting Format->Style->Spacing->Lines to Exact and giving it an exact measure, the results will be irregular.
Here's an example:

As you can see, the space between the second and third line is too large.
And another one, same page, a bit further down:

Here the space between the second and third line is too small.
I've been spending 400+ hours by now working on a 296 pages long songbook. To me this irregularity is a disaster. Any constructive input on how to remedy this is appreciated.
Again - i am using exact line spacing. I tried "between" and i also tried "at least". None of these options make any difference. Sometimes things change in regard to where the problems occur (between which lines) but they still keep occurring. Almost on every page.


texts: All open applications placed on main display after sleep

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I've got an iMac 27" i7, with a secondary monitor hooked up via its display port (adapted from a DVI cable coming out of the secondary display).

After my iMac goes to sleep, when I wake it back up, all my windows have been put on the iMac's screen. Prior to OS Lion, I had an application called Stay that helped put the windows back in the right place, but it doesn't seem to work in Lion.

Any suggestions how to prevent the windows from all being shoved back to the primary display after a sleep?


texts: Applications show as .app instead of  in Alfred & Spotlight

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I do not know the actual time or date of the change, but I noticed it today.

Example: I use Alfred which now shows "Word.app" instead of "Word".

Same goes for Spotlight.

EDIT: How do I remove the .app for my applications?


texts: Switch contents of display from laptop to external monitor

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I use my mac screen and an external monitor.

Is it possible to swap the entire contents of my laptop with what is on my external monitor?

So below I would like to swap the contents of my monitor from the man to the sheep (and any other app which is open on and one one screen whould then be swapped to another)


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We have a Mac Mini with OSX server for our small web design company's office. We want to move toward a local setup and to then push up to the live server. In the past I have used MAMP PRO and Sequel Pro to create an environment on my personal computer.

Our setup is basically 1 Mac Mini with Server OSX and then 5 iMacs. I would like to be able to type in http://clients/client-name and pull up the sites from all of our computers.

My initial plan is to mount the the individual sites with Transmit 4, have CodeKit watch it for preprocessing (SASS), and Sublime Text as our editor.

I know I should ask a specific answerable question, but the real question is: what is the the best way for us to set up our server to our sites? We do a lot of custom WordPress builds so Apache and mySQL are key.

What could I can read about? Everything I have found is "OSX server, does it all - have fun!".

Another issue is how to push it live with Beanstalk, maybe, and migrate DB pro?


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I have some remote speakers hooked up to an Airport Express. While they work with iTunes as intended, I would like to stream sound that I play in other applications. Is there some facility for using the remote speakers from the rest of the system?

From googling (nothing found so far) and looking at this question, I get the impression that no ready-to-use solution is provided by Apple. Assuming this is the case, I'd be curious about commandline-oriented or implementation-level information: What do the remote speakers look like to the iTunes API? How does OS X handle sound output, and is there any chance of arranging for remote speakers to be exposed as a sound device at the OS level? I'm currently running Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).

Update: a) Thanks to @TonyWilliams, I now know about AirPlay, a third party solution. Still hoping for information on doing it directly, though. b) I've also come across this question, which would allow a bit of commandline access to the airplay speakers (if I can get it to work).


texts: How to run VLC on El Capitan? El Capitan claims "VLC.app will damage your computer."

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When trying to run VLC, El Capitan reports this message:

“VLC.app” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash.

I tried downloading a fresh copy of VLC, but this didn't fix the issue.

How can I run VLC on El Capitan?

P.s. I tried the "control-open" but unlike Mavericks, that didn't allow the application to start.


texts: Every application's file open/save dialogue asks for "Keystroke Receiving" permission

texts: Is this a normal thing or I have some kind of plugins or applications which makes my requesters require this permission?


texts: Why there is a large lost+found folder on external disk

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I brought my MacBook Pro 1 year ago, at that time it runs OS X 10.9 . At that time I connected an external 2TB HDD (HFS+ single partition, not connected all the time) to it via USB as a Time Machine backup destination. Later I turned off Time Machine and use the HDD to store some pictures. Months after that I upgraded to OS X 10.10 and now 10.11 Beta 1.

Today I noticed my disk space not enough so I scanned the disk for big files, only to find there is a lost+found folder in my external HDD, which takes nearly 1TB of space. The content of which is files I deleted during the days, most of them originated from internal SSD (And I never put them into that HDD), the create time of which are all in 2014. All the files are named like iNodexxxxxxxxxx and directories dir_xxxxxxxxxxx .

Why are my deleted files now found in an external disk? Is it safe to delete the whole folder without affecting anything outside?


texts: iPad: DjVU reader with the support for DropBox?

texts: Does there exist an excellent reader for DjVU with the the key property i.e. the support for DropBox so I can download DjVU files easily to it from my DropBox and upload stuff to DropBox from it?


texts: Xcode 6.4 sync to app store from new machine after old lost

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About a year ago, I have developed an iOS app on a Mac machine and synced it to the app store.

That machine has lost, so I got a new one connected to my Apple developer id. I have recovered my work and changed a few things in the code.

But when I try to resync the app, I get the attached warning.

From a quick search on Google I realized that I needed to export my developer profile from my previous machine and import it on the new machine.

Because I don't have access to that machine I need to somehow recreate the developer profile.

Any idea for how to do it?


texts: Every sunday I have to reboot mac in order to re-establish Ethernet/Lan connection

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I have a MacBook Pro 2018 running Mojave.

At the end of the week - Sunday - or I can wait until Monday - but I have to reboot in order to re-establish Ethernet/LAN connection.

I did some searches - but most talk about WIFI issues.

Any ideal of what the heck is going on here?

I keep the macOS software updated, with regards to Mojave.


texts: Text selection in terminal without mouse - moving cursor using arrow keys

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I recently moved from a well-configured Ubuntu to Mac.
I used Emacs for many years but I am too lazy to re-install it (and re-configure it).
One of the useful features in Emacs shell is that you can simply move the cursor around the output text using the arrow keys, select and edit - as if it was a standard text editor.

Is there any terminal with that feature in OS X?
I have tried iTerm2, which supports smart search and selections, but I couldn't find exactly what I want - some keyboard-shortcut that will turn the current tab into "text editor" mode.

Editing the text is not important - I just want to be able to select text without touching the mouse, i.e. by moving the cursor around using the arrow keys (left, right, up, down), and select by holding shift.
Yes, I know about the great ... | pbcopy trick - it's awesome in other use cases.


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I'm using a 2015 MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina). I've recently installed Windows using Boot Camp Assistant and now I want to remove it.

To remove the BOOTCAMP partition I have tried the following:

Going to Boot Camp Assistant > Continue > Restore
Result it was stuck half way.
Going to Disk Utility > click BOOTCAMP partition > Erase > Mac OS
Extended (Journaled)
Result Unmounting disk. Couldn’t open disk. Operation failed…

Can someone help me with this?


texts: How to restore Mac OS X on a new hard-drive?

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I am going to upgrade my MacBook Pro hard-drive, but before doing so I'm trying to figure out how to restore OS X on it. My DVD drive doesn't work so I cannot re-install from the DVD.

I have a recent Time Machine backup, is that enough to restore the OS? And in that case, what would be the procedure? Also, in case the Time Machine restoration fails, is there any way to re-install OS X from a USB or external hard-drive? Any suggestion would be much appreciated.


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One of the few ways I think Windows beats the Mac is in letting the user resize a window from any edge or corner, not just from the bottom-right corner.

I haven't found any software that enables this functionality on the Mac. Does such a thing exist?


texts: Where is system.log in TimeMachine backup

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I would like to get older versions of /private/var/log/system.log files from TimeMachine.  Is this possible?  How?

I see current system.log files. I went to folder /private/var/log then invoked TimeMachine.

When I go back to previous backup, I do not see system.log files.

relates to
can-i-find-out-the-last-time-a-specific-usb-was-connected-to-my-mbp7

User want to look through macOS log files to see history of external drive mounting. Data is in "/private/var/log/system.log".  Needed data is a month old. A month is longer than normal backup of system.log is keep.  Attempted to look in timemachine backup but it seems the older system.log files are not kept.


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If I am using a friends computer as a GUEST and then sign out. Can my information still be seen by the owner of the computer or does it get deleted???
Like I did t want them to see what I was researching ect ??


texts: Macbook Pro 13 Touchbar 2016 Should Be Reinstalled After Turned Off

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everyone. Please help.

My mac has this weird issue, I’ve been unable to start my mac after shutting it down. When I do, it would just show the apple logo, and the progress bar will only reach the middle and then turned off completely.

I did this almost 10 times just this morning, and decide to do my usual root so I can use my Mac again: by reinstalling the MacOS.

I’ve been doing this a couple of times for over 6 months, when I forgot that I should never shut down the laptop; “sleep” and “restart” work just fine.

Now I’m in the middle of reinstalling the MacOS, but I did “First Aid” in Disk Utility and found some error messages (Show in the images)

Does anybody have any idea what’s going on with my laptop and how to fix it. It’s so annoying to keep reinstalling MacOS anytime I forgot to charge the laptop.

Much thanks.


texts: What's the difference between Final Cut Pro X and Final Cut Studio?

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I visited the Wikipedia page about Final Cut Studio, which is apparently aimed at professional movie studios. The page says that it's now only available via a 1-800 number, but the link to the official page for Studio at Apple now points at Final Cut Pro X. Also, the prices are wildly different. $299 for Pro X. Around $800 for Studio according to some results on Google.

Is Studio an old, retired product and the high end editor suite is now Pro X (with an apparent huge slash in price), or am I missing something?


texts: How do I silence Siri on my HomePod mini?

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By default, Siri on HomePod mini comes enabled and very loud, and the minimum volume (as far as I can tell) is irritatingly loud. In fact, the whole talkback from Siri (confirming commands, etc.) is irritating and unnecessary. But I can't find how to simply shut off talkback (as I can with Siri on my iPhone).
How do I silence Siri's talkback on my HomePod mini?


texts: How to create additional groups using MacPorts?

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I've installed both pip (pip27) and pip3 (pip37) for Python.

However, MacPorts has only created one group called "pip" that can either be set to pip27, pip37 or none.

I want pip27 to be available as pip and pip37 to be available as pip3.

How can I create an additional group, so that I can easily use both pip and pip3 from the Terminal app? None of the port select subcommands seem to provide this option?

Currently, MacPorts has the following groups:

Nicolass-MacBook-Pro:Projects nlykkei$ port select --summary
Name        Selected      Options
====        ========      =======
pip         pip27         pip27 pip37 none
python      python27      python27 python27-apple python37 none
python2     none          python27 python27-apple none
python3     python37      python37 none
virtualenv  virtualenv37  virtualenv37 none


texts: How to remove locally synced contacts after iOS 7 and Mavericks upgrade

texts: Is there a way to remove contacts from an iPhone running iOS 7 that has locally synced contacts and Calendars (On My Mac) now that the Mac has been updated to Mavericks?


texts: Why doesn't iTunes allow to search for podcasts related to Uyghurs?

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It just occurred to me while trying to locate an old podcast on Uyghurs that iTunes doesn't allow to filter your podcasts based on that word, but allows to filter podcasts for other words such as China. Is it related to some dictionary-based criteria, or is there censorship involved? (In case it might matter, I'm based in the European Union.)

Edit, to clarify: This is about searching within subscribed podcasts, rather than in the store. No podcasts show up at all when you type 'uy', whereas, per the screenshots below, the search continues to work when you type things like 'foo'. My gut reaction is that it's related to how the search functionality works rather than censorship proper, e.g. filter based on title but not body text, but also throw in body results maybe, like when there's a match in there too when a title happens to match? I'd basically be curious if there's something else at play if anyone has insights on this, or for that matter on what the precise algorithm is.

Screenshots of what happens when I type "uyghur", "china", and "foo" in the search box of iTune on my MBA:


texts: View MAC addresses of local bluetooth devices I have never connected to

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I want to view the MAC address of a Bluetooth device I haven't paired. Like a WiFI scanner can put the wireless radio in listen / scan mode (which on ethernet is sometimes called promiscuous mode), I’d like to operate my Mac bluetooth radio to list and log nearby transmissions.

https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/bluetooth-core-specification/

I’m much more familiar with windows and Linux than macOS and am running Catalina (10.15.6) on a 2019 MBP. I'm looking for some equivalent to "bluetoothctl" or "hcitool."
Is this something Apple provides or do I need third party software to log or collect identifying information from nearby bluetooth transmissions and identify devices that have not yet been paired?


texts: What is the difference between `open (-a) ` and double click in finder/spotlight?

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I recently installed leksah on my Mac (once directly, once via brew cask).

When I try to open it in Finder, Dock or use spotlight the window flashes open for a second and then closes immediately.
When I open it via terminal using open -a Leksah or open ~/Applications/Leksah it opens just fine.

Other users have experienced the same issue with other apps and other OSX versions as well. Is there a difference in behavior when opening an application using any of these methods? How can one debug what's going on?


texts: Dropbox Public Folder Alternative - so I can copy public links from the Finder?

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I just got an email from Dropbox saying that they are disabling the Public folder feature as of March 15, 2017 and I'm looking for a (free) alternative.

I use the public folder quite extensively, especially to "attach" screen caps/recordings in web forms or emails when submitting an attached file is not an option.  I have probably even linked a few files from my blog.

Apparently, you can still generate public links to specific files with Dropbox, but there is no longer a way to share a group of files publicly to browse, without generating a link to each one. So you can't just drop files in a public folder and instantly allow anyone to browse them. Sharing a folder is now only possible to specific users via entering their email address.  Any files in your public folder which did not have links generated are no longer public.

So I would like to find an alternative cloud drive service that not only has a public folder, but also allows generation of public links via a Finder contextual menu.

I discovered that Google Drive can generate public links, but there's no way (that I know of) to get the public link via the Finder.  I've used MEGA and Copy in the past, both of which could generate links from the Finder.  MEGA folded and I don't remember what happened with Copy, but I assume they put up a pay wall.  I was just reading through the OneDrive site and could not determine whether they even had a public folder, let alone a way to get a public link to a file from the Finder.

I also have searched a tiny bit for some google drive API documentation to see if there's a method I can use to create an automator service to create/copy a public link.  Couldn't find anything.


texts: Suggestions for Multiple 24" LED Cinema Displays and MacBook Pro

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I have two Apple 24" LED Cinema Displays and a mid-2010 17" MacBook Pro. I've used one display with the computer for a long time, but recently acquired the second display.

Given that I have these two monitors, what are my realistic options for using both with the same MacBook Pro? What is the current state of multi-monitor support? Moving to a Thunderbolt display is not an option.


texts: Can I disable font antialiasing in Terminal.app on Big Sur?

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I'm slightly addicted to how 10pt Monaco renders with antialiasing turned off in Terminal.app.
On upgrading to Big Sur, that checkbox in Preferences doesn't do anything.

Well, it does something, but it doesn't turn off antialiasing. It seems to just make the bold font less bold.
Does anyone know how to get Terminal.app to render without any antialiasing at all?


texts: How to map media keys to "short jump" in vlc?

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I am trying to edit the behavior of the media key "<<" on a macbook keyboard.
There is a way to map the "rewind" button to the "short jump back" function in vlc? How does mac os deal with media keys under the hood?


texts: I have a Late 2011 MacBook Pro with 750GB HDD.  I was running Yosemite 10.10.2.  I had about 250GB of partitioned HDD that i wanted to add to my main partition 'Macintosh HD'.  It let me remove the second partition but i couldn't do my normal drag and extend the 'Macintosh HD' partition to take full advantage of my HDD space.  After hours of searching i plunged into recovery using Disk Utility and Terminal tried to extend the cold source to use the whole HDD.  It still wasn't working so using my critical thinking skills i decided i would just use terminal to wipe the whole drive and start fresh just like i can do in Windows.  This failed miserably.  I can't do anything at this point.  Every time i try to do anything it gives me cannot unmount error and when i try to back up from time machine the only thing its see's is a DISK0S1 that's only 210MB.  It boots into recovery and that's about it. I would like to just get my MacBook running again and if possible using the full 750GB HDD.  Im not sure if thats possible at this point.  Also when i try to use Reinstall OS X it only see's DISK0S1.


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I'm running Mojave on a MacPro5,1 (previously 4,1), which requires using an upgraded GPU, and I'm using the Radeon RX580 (which is listed by Apple as supported). I need to disable SIP to enable continuity on the upgraded Bluetooth module I've installed. Holding Command+R when booting to go to recovery mode doesn't show anything on either of the displays I have connected. Is there a way to disable SIP without being able to see a display, or a route that would be able to display via a third-party GPU?

Thanks


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I see warning about

  Face ID Has Been Disable

  A problem was detected with the TrueDepth camera. Face ID has been disabled.

in Settings.app on iPhone X. How do I fix it?


texts: Mac stuck on "The wine configuration in /user/... is being updated"

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That's what we're looking at right now. I've tried to download Wine Bottler but when i tried to run an MSI file with wine bottler for the first time this is what i get

how do i fix this?


texts: Speaker sounds exactly like a blown out one on MBP 16" but... it's not? I need help

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The right speaker on my relatively new Macbook Pro 16" 2019 Model sounds like it's blown out - the same exact rattling - it rattles on medium+ volume and things with bass in it - it is very disruptive. It's fairly new (less than a year old) and the strange thing is earlier I've had the same exact issue before on multiple occasions but I just blew in my speakers, shook it a little bit, cleaned it up and it stopped... But this time it won't stop the whole day. I think there is some little rock thingy or just some particle stuck in there but is that even possible?? How do I fix it since i got this machine from the US and I live in a country with no apple stores? Should I just do a full speaker replacement?? How did I actually manage to fix it on the earlier occasions?
Note: I very rarely play full volume and I do it just for a couple seconds at most. I do use the speakers frequently tho, but is it normal for the speaker to blow up this early?? I've only heard about it happening on like 5+ years old machines.


texts: How can I tell if "find my iPhone" has been used

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We have several apple devices at home. If we track any one of them, using "find me iPhone" does it log or message the iCloud user that it has been tracked? Example: If I did find a find my iPhone on my mother's account or she did it to mine, would either of us know?

Also, if I turn off my location services, does that prevent me and anyone else tracking my iPhone?


texts: Is there a way to control the position of the wallpaper on an iPad running iOS9?

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On both the home screen and lock screen, I use portrait-oriented wallpaper images that feature full-length pictures of people. When the unit is rotated to landscape orientation, the iPad centers the image - cutting off the heads of the people in the images.

There's a feature when setting the wallpaper image that allows one to shift the position, but you're effectively forced to set it for landscape and let it crop the sides when you switch to portrait. What I want it to do is align the top corners of the image with the top corners of the screen at all times, and have it crop the bottom when you switch to landscape.

Is there a way (hidden setting? third-party app? image-embedded meta-data?) to control the position of the wallpaper on an iPad running iOS9?


texts: Bluetooth mouse stops working almost everytime I wake my mac from sleep

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I use my mac (yosemite 10.10) at work with bluetooth mouse and at home with just the trackpad. Whenever I bring my mac back to work and start it up, >90% of the times it can't find the mouse. Turning bluetooth on/off, trying trickery with turning mouse on and off and all that doesn't work. Restarting blued didn't work. Removing mouse from bluetooth settings and trying to re-pair didn't work (could not find the mouse). Changing the batteries didn't help. The only thing that works, is rebooting the mac. After this everything works as it should.

I find this not to be the correct solution. I mean this can't be a hardware fault, can it? And if not, resetting/restarting some piece of software should do the same trick as rebooting the mac.

My mouse is apple magic mouse. I have no bluetooth keyboard.


texts: Can't open Java Preferences with Oracle Java 7 installed

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I have both Oracle Java 7 and Apple Java 6 installed. Apple Java 6 is disabled in Java Preferences.

Now, when I try to launch Java Preferences I get a "Cannot launch "Java Preferences - No compatible version of Java 1.5+ is available." error:

This is the output of /usr/libexec/java_home -V:

Matching Java Virtual Machines (1):
    1.7.0_05, x86_64:   "Java SE 7" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home

Besides the (Oracle) 1.7.0.jdk folder,  /System/Library/Java also contains a 1.6.0_31-b04-413.jdk folder.


texts: MacOS Catalina doesn't remember monitors orientation

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Those answers don't work. I have two external monitors: one in standard orientation and one in 270 degrees. The 270 degrees monitor always gets reorientated to standard every time. Is there a way for the computer to remember my choice? It's pretty unuser-friendly. Also I couldn't find some simpler solution for connecting my two displays so I use two USB-C cables. And each monitor is connected directly to the computer.
The 270 degrees monitor is by Acer and the standard monitor is by ThinkVision -- in case this matters.


texts: Use a Mini Displayport cable to connect a Late 2013 rMBP to a 2009 iMac?

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Can I use a male to male Mini Displayport cable to connect a Late 2013 rMBP to a 2009 iMac?

I want to use the 2009 iMac as a secondary display for the rMBP.


texts: No package manager on brand new macOS Catalina

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I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I've been searching for days with no results.

What is the default package manager for macOS Catalina terminal?

% brew
zsh: command not found: brew

I've tried others (apt, apt-get, yum, etc.) but none of them are pre-installed. Any help is greatly appreciated!


texts: 2014 Mac mini on 2 monitors no screen extension option available. Just mirror and regular left right views. Can this be done and how?

texts: I have 2 monitors on my late 2014 Mac mini with Big Sur latest version but no option of screen extension, just mirror and regular left and right set up. I wonder if this can be done. I need to have this panoramic view of my desktop for my everyday's work. Thank you.


texts: Are there informed speculations about what is the next Mac that is going to be upgraded?

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There are five lines of Macs (MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, iMac, Mac Pro), and AFAIK Apple has almost always updated only one at a time, leaving the others a bit behind.

Now, it should be easy to keep track of the most recently updated, hence the odds of an update for the older models increases, and this is what I would call an "informed speculation" at a very basic level.

Is there any site which aims to keep tracks of these updates, and possibly adds commentary on product line changes?


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In Windows, I could use Ctrl+Shift to align text in textboxes. To align left, I used the left Ctrl and the left Shift and the right ones to align to the right.

Is there a way to do this in OSX?


texts: How to execute app DVD through Terminal of recovery flash drive?

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I have a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion recovery usb flash drive.  It still boots but won't install Lion anymore (an error occurred during installation). I don't have a install DVD, however the MacBookPro's were able to install El Capitan directly.

I have a Lion install dmg so there are two options: to make a bootable DVD or simply execute the dmg burned into a DVD - trying right now.

I was trying to learn some command line tasks but there are some issues.  The root is read only so I could not create a new directory and mount the DVD.  Also, I remembered there is an app to easily create a bootable DVD.

Any suggestions?


texts: How do I send an iMessage on an iPad using an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard only?

texts: I found another question on this site, with a similar problem, but doesn't seem to be answered. I'd like to be able to type an iMessage and hit "send" when using an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and iPad Air without touching the screen. I've tried changing my hardware keyboard to International...without luck. I've used many combinations of shift or control or command or option and return/enter without luck. Looking for an answer, not a have-you-tried...scenario.


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I am looking for a program running on Mac OS X that allows the user to auto-complete words in any program.

For example, if the user types soft, the program could suggest software or soften in a dropbown menu, similarly to the auto-completion feature present in most IDEs:

Ideally:

the program should allow the user to view the auto-completion options by using a keyboard shortcut.
the options given by the program are listed by likelihood (e.g., using some language model)
the program could be disabled in some programs.

Any price or license is fine.

I have crossposted the question at:

http://qr.ae/TbWFBy
https://redd.it/6a6bas


texts:
Finally there should be a version of Chrome 64 bit for Mac.

I received an email from google groups:

  Switch the Mac build from 32-bit to 64-bit.

  As of M39, Chrome is a 64-bit only binary. This changes the default
  build configuration to 64-bit globally. After this CL, the 32-bit Mac
  build is no longer supported.

Now, while this is good news, I wonder how to do that without losing all my bookmarks, cookies, passwords that are in my current version of Chrome

Can somebody help?


texts: Where is the history of "Go to Folder..."(in Go menu of Finder) located?

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I just searched for a folder with that tool and now I want the 'history' of it cleared. I mean, I don't want it to show the last place(folder) I've gone by that thing.
I tried Relaunching Finder while that window (that asks to enter an address) was open, it worked but only once. Now it doesn't work.(I did this on 10.7 and worked, but it didn't work on 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10)


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I am trying to help my dad with his Mac (OSX 10.9.2), the problem seems to be with the audio (or lack-thereof). The internal speakers are working (since hitting F11/F12 keys makes the "Beeping sound" (Increasing/Decreasing audio)) but other than that there isn't anything from the speakers or headphones off of any other source of possible audio (Youtube, iTunes, etc).

The output type is selected as:

What causes this and what is the best bet for a fix?


texts: what can I do to access idle mode of my iPhone 4s or shut down the phone? It has suddenly stopped accepting these functions.


texts: Cannot delete smtp server in mail application on High Sierra

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I have removed an smtp server the way as specified by apple for the mail application on macOS. However the smtp server keeps reappearing. I have followed the suggestions in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2775382?start=0&tstart=0 but no luck.
Does anyone have any idea on how can I force delete the smtp server?

Thanks


texts: How to get the geolocation of an IP address in Terminal?

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Is it possible to get the geolocation of an IP address in Terminal?

Not sure what the numbers in an IP address mean, but there must be some logic behind it, so lookup can't be that hard.


texts: I recently turned FileVault off because I really saw no need for it on my home computer (Mac Intel i5 16GB RAM w/Maverick).  However, I noticed when I tried running Mac Booster 3 (a cleanup/performance app), it took forever (9+ hrs) to run and I'm wondering if it's because the files are still encrypted?  Does turning FileVault off leave the files encrypted or not?


texts: Verification failed on ipod 6th generation

texts: My daughter has the ipod 6th generation, it was working fine, then all of a sudden it started hitting random buttons, if there is a search bar or password area, it fills it with random letters, numbers, symbols all on its own before you can type in what your wanting to. It changes to different areas in the apps by itself, I was attempting to do a factory reset but it kept taking me to random different areas in settings. If I leave it off over nighthe, when I turn it back on in the morning it acts normal allowing me to do what I want except I keep getting this failure message when I try to bring up the messages, try to factory reset it, ect. Anywhere that requires the apple password. After about 30 mins to an hour, it starts the random stuff over again and you can't do anything. I have pictures showing the last back up to iTunes was on friday while it was connected to my computer trying to do a restore which I couldn't do because I can't shut off "find my ipod" 2 hours later it says it has never been back up, anyone have any advice??? Getting really frustrating


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I am trying to re-install our Mac Mini. Looking around Apple's website, it seems the Recovery Disk Assistant is the way to do it.

I have followed the instructions for the OSX Recovery Disk Assistant 1.0.

When I boot, no matter what key combination I try, the boot selection screen does not appear. I have tried holing down the Alt, Ctrl, C and Windows+R keys.

I installed the assistant on an external hard drive and am using a Windows keyboard.


texts: Why would my Mac be slow after inactivity and then get to full speed after 20-30 minutes of use?

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My Macbook appears to get slow after a period of inactivity and then get itself back to full speed after 20-30 minutes.

While I have some ideas I'm wondering if anybody else has seen such behaviour or can offer some tips on how to investigate it further.

I have 16GB of RAM and I tend to run a reasonable workload. I have VMWare Fusion with a Windows and an Ubuntu guest running as well as Eclipse and Chrome (and probably Mail and iTunes).

Once I'm done for a while I'll either shut the lid or just leave the machine on and open. What I notice is that when I come back to it it can be dreadfully slow. Eclipse or the Windows guest can sit there for a 10-30 minutes with a spinning icon or not doing much.

After 20-30 minutes everything seems to come to full speed.

My guess is that MacOS is paging out everything in memory and then being forced to page it back in. However, I don't know enough about MacOS to provide evidence for this - nor to look for another explanation.


texts: Does a Mac installation have an identifier

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I wanted to know if a Mac installation has an identifier with which apple could theoretically identify the machine? More concretely I am wondering if I clone an installation of for example snow leopard would the clone also have the same identifier, or does OS X not use identifiers like Windows does/did back in the day?

Thanks


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Just wondering how, if at all, Versions on Pages for Mountain Lion (10.8) works with iCloud, specifically in relation to iOS 5 devices.

My own testing seems to indicate that a Pages document created on the Mac saves versions in iCloud that you can revert to but only on the Mac (can't find an iOS interface for Versions). However, if I create a document on Pages for iOS (forcing an upload to iCloud after each edit) I can't revert to previous versions made on iOS, even on the Mac. One time, when I tried to do this, I saw a message saying the file is stored on a volume which doesn't support permanent version storage. However I have been unable to reproduce this message.

Can anyone enlighten me as to how Versions is supposed to work with iCloud? Is it a Mac-only feature, not available on iOS? If so, how best to guard against unwanted edits on iOS? Should I just prevent the doc from being uploaded to the cloud until I am happy with it, and use the undo / redo feature?

As I understand it, we only have Versions on the Mac because we also have Autosave. On iOS all saving (to the cloud) is done manually (the equivalent of the old command-s on Snow Leopard) thus eliminating the need for iOS versions. Have I got the correct picture here?

Sorry for the long post! I'd really appreciate any replies.


texts: Is it possible to skip a file rename when it's not there in Automator?

texts:
I have written a little Automator script that does the following tasks:

Get Specified Finder Items - to get one file
Rename Finder Items: Name Single Item - to rename that to .old
Get Specified URLs - to pull a plugin down from a GIT repo
Download URLs - to save the resulting URL to a file
Get Specified Finder Items - to find the renamed .old file from step 1
Move Finder Items to Trash - to remove .old file

The purpose is to grab the latest copy of a TernJS plugin and place it in the correct location for Atom Ternjs plugin for Atom.io.  It works well when the file in question is already there, but if it's not it blows up on the Rename step. So, it it possible to either tell the Rename step to never fail OR somehow skip the step in the case where no files were found?


texts: Pan/zoom camera over a bezier path on a raster map in Apple Motion

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I have imported a raster map into Apple Motion.
I have drawn a bezier path on top of the map and used the Write On behavior to make the path slowly reveal itself (like a travel map during any adventure movie showing the route taken).
I've added a camera so that I can zoom and pan the camera over the path as it appears.  However, as I attempt to move the camera over the route, the path itself shifts above the map surface, making the path inaccurate with relation to the underlying map.  Of course, this is because the angle of the camera is changing, which makes the path appear to shift on top of the map.

What I don't know is: how do I add camera moves over a Write On bezier path while not causing the path to appear to shift on the map? Obviously, I'm doing something wrong with the camera, but I don't know what.


texts: How do I eject the Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup?

texts: How do I set Time Machine to eject my external Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup?


texts: Best brute-force prevention for Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra

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I am planning to open up port 22 on my router to my iMac so I can login remotely. Login is required and allowed for only the admin user. The password is very secure--over 30 characters long. I'm not too worried about a bot breaking through the password but I am concerned about the system being bogged down. I looked into a few different brute-force prevention programs; sshguard, fail2ban, and Denyhosts. Each seem to have their pros and cons. However, I am finding almost zero documentation as it relates to setting one of these services up on anything above Mac OS X 10.11.

Are there other/newer services available? If not, is there any updated documentation for any of the previously mentioned services for High Sierra and the changes to the log systems? I've found a few discussion boards related to these changes to the log system but I'm looking for a tutorial for one of these services. Is there anything out there?


texts: Can I keep my MBPR unplugged when not in use?

texts: If I shut down my MBPr and unplug the power cord every night then in the morning plug it back in and turn on the MacBook, will it have an effect on the battery charge cycles?


texts: Whenever I send my daughter a text, her replies back to me never appear by sound or notification that she has responded. The only way that I ever notice a reply is if I physically check my old messages, where I will find two of the same reply, the first one noted as coming from her phone, and the second, exact same reply noted as coming from my own phone number. We had tried deleting and resetting contact info but nothing seems to work. I don't seem to have a problem receiving texts from anyone else but her phone. She has an iphone 5s, I have an iphone 5c.  Any advice?


texts: In Mac OS X 10.12.6, using a script with scutil to start VPN gives me an error

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summary:

L2TP over IPSec VPN does not start from Script in MacOS 10.12

Intro

Aloha,
this is my first question I ask here, I hope I do it in the right format.
I did some research before, but could not find any answer to my problem.

Environment:

OS: MacOS 10.12.6
VPN: L2TP over IPSec
(Meraki MX is the VPN device)

Problem discription:
I need to start the VPN in a script, because I need to setup static routes through the tunnel.
When I start the VPN from GUI (System preferences)
it works without any problem, but not with a bash script with the command scutil.

I tried to use this script from here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32957121/in-mac-os-x-10-11-opening-a-vpn-connection-window-with-the-command-line-gives-m

Answer made by: https://stackoverflow.com/users/508185/adejones

   VPN="YOUR_VPN_NAME"
IS_CONNECTED=$(test -z `scutil --nc status "$VPN" | head -n 1 | grep Connected` && echo 0 || echo 1);
if [ $IS_CONNECTED = 1 ]; then
  scutil --nc stop "$VPN"
else
  scutil --nc start "$VPN"
fi

Error:
The server is unreachable. Try reconnecting. If the problem continues, verify your settings and contact your Administrator.

Any idea, what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
Marcel


texts: OSX Open Directory Network Users Problem and Kerberos

texts:
I've got a Mavericks Server mostly working, but I still get some funkiness.  Main problem is that I've been having a great deal of trouble getting network user accounts with home directories on the server to function.

So, I've gone to http://yesdevnull.net/ and have been going through testing from the beginning.

I want your input on this DNS issue.  My router is providing DNS for the server.  When I did the initial setup, I ran this on the server

sudo changeip -checkhostname

and got this:

Primary address     = 192.168.12.3
Current HostName    = server.mydomain.net
DNS HostName        = server.mydomain.net

The names match. There is nothing to change.

dirserv:success = "success"

So, I figured DNS is working correctly.

But, since I still have issues, I decided to dig deeper and ran this on a client:

dig -x 192.168.12.3

and got this:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9219
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;3.12.168.192.in-addr.arpa.    IN    PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
3.12.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 3600    IN    PTR    server.mydomain.net.

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.12.1#53(192.168.12.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Jan 26 07:47:23 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 75

Compared to Mr. Barrett's example at http://yesdevnull.net/, the differences are that my flags for AUTHORITY and ADDITIONAL are 0, while his are 1 and of course there is no AUTHORITY SECTION: or ADDITIONAL SECTION:

Do people see that as a cause for problems?

If so, I can certainly setup DNS on the server and change all the clients to use the server's IP for their DNS server.

Steps for that?  This would be my plan:

On server:

Setup DNS
Retest Lookups as above

Will I need to destroy Open Directory and start over?  If so, it might be faster for me to re-setup Mav Server, BUT i'd really like to do it without reinstalling since I have the server setup with some other services (its providing print services for ipads using something called Handyprint, its running a python based server to receive phots from eye-fi cards in my cameras, and a few other things that I'd like to avoid having to setup again).

On clients:

unbind clients
Change clients DNS Clean out old OD certificates from client keychains
Ensure that previous computer records are not in OD and remove using WGM if necessary
Rebind Clients


texts: Mac OS 10.13.5 - Dual monitor set up for MacBook with single USB-C

texts:
I see that a lot of people are having issues with connecting dual monitors.

I currently have the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter - with one HDMI cord and it works with 1 of 2 monitors. I also have a USB to HDMI adapter but it wont display the 2nd screen.

Does anyone have a solution to connect 2 monitors with the MacBook that has only one USB-C port?


texts: Can I use OS X Server 4 to remotely manage an OS X Server 3.2.1?

texts:
In other words: Do I have to update both my Macbook (from where I manage the remote OS X Server) and the Mac Mini (where the Server is actually serving) to Yosemite and OS X Server 4 at the same time?

What do you mean: "Nothing can go wrong: all your Keychains; SSH keys; Certificates; Open Directory settings; web apps; .... will migrate just faultlessly."?

I think my strategy will be to upgrade the Server machine first and only manage it locally until I am sure it's working perfectly. (Not an option for those without local access to their OS X Server.)


texts: What causes eDSPermissionError when running dscl?

texts:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.14.1 revision 18B75

I created a user using dscl and set its home directory to a wrong path with this command:

sudo dscl . -create /Users/theusername NFSHomeDirectory /the/wrong/path

Now I want to fix this.
I tried these commands:

sudo dscl . -changei /Users/theusername NFSHomeDirectory 1 /the/right/path

and

sudo dscl . -change /Users/theusername NFSHomeDirectory /the/wrong/path /the/right/path

but in both cases I get this:

<main> attribute status: eDSPermissionError
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14120 (eDSPermissionError)

Why am I getting a permission error even if I'm running as root?
How can I fix the wrong path?


texts: is 8GB enough for iOS dev and occasional VM?

texts:
I'm going to buy a rMBP 13'' (i5, 256gb) exclusively for iOS\OSX development. I might run a windows VM occasionally (visual studio).

I plan on keeping it for ~2-3 years.

Should I go for the default 8GB ram, or is the $270 (that's how much it costs here) upgrade to 16GB ram worth it (in my situation)?


texts: Communicate between two local Mac machines when one is on VPN?

texts:
I'd like to directly connect (be able to use ping/ssh or other common commands) two local Mac machines as one sometimes is on VPN. The two Mac normally are connected via a wireless router when none of them are on VPN. The VPN does not allow split tunnel. Once a Mac is on VPN, it can not access the other Mac behind the router.

The only solution I can think of is to directly connect them without using the wireless router. I'd prefer not to use a wired connection. However, it seems that this can not be done wirelessly, as via wireless a Mac can either connect to the wireless router or connect to a local network set up by the other Mac but not both.

Could anybody let me know a good way to solve this connection problem when one local Mac is on VPN? Thanks.


texts: How to install memcache on Mavericks? (MAMP)

texts:
I have MAMP on my machine, and I would like to install memcache for php, because one of my project throws errors like Fatal error: Class 'Memcache' not found.

I installed X-Code from appstore, and libevent, memcached, libmemcached with homebrew.

Then..

cd /tmp; pecl download memcached
gzip -d < memcached-2.2.0.tgz | tar -xvf -
cd memcached-2.2.0; phpize
./configure; make
sudo make install

Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/

After that I copied memcached.so and memcache.so to my extension_folder:

  /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/

and added extension = memcached.so to my php.ini.

I still get fatal error.. what's the problem?


texts: How to set up a VPN connection via terminal?

texts: I found How to create a VPN connection via terminal? but this isn't really what I'm looking for. I regularly have to set up new computers for new users that need to connect to our VPN and I'm trying to automate some of the setup. I need to create a L2TP over IPSec connection so I also need to put in the server address, account name, shared secret, and possibly a password. Does anyone know if this is possible with Mac systems? Or can provide some kind of script to get me in the right direction?


texts: Macintosh- and Windows-compatible wired mouse with acceleration scrolling?

texts:
I would like a mouse that is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows (although if I have to buy a different mouse for each platform, that's okay), and that you can scroll up and down with acceleration (as you can on a trackpad). I want to be in a file and be able to zip down to the bottom or zip up to the top with a fast flick of my fingers on the mouse surface, but to be able to go down and up slowly with a slower flick/drag of my fingers on the mouse surface (again, like you can on a trackpad).
I don't care much about other gestures.
Less important: I would prefer a wired mouse (connecting via USB a or USB c) since I don't mind the cord and don't want to deal with bluetooth connection or mouse charging issues.
I see that the Magic Mouse 2 can be made to work on Windows via some special drivers and custom settings, but I'm not so interested in that because I'd prefer not to mess with that, I prefer a wired mouse, and I'm hoping for something cheaper than $74.
I've searched a lot on Amazon but I've only found Win-specific gesture mice (like this). For Mac (aside from the MM2, this is the closest I can find) And then some (like this) that claim compatibility with both (but often only show pictures for one platform) and look like they might let you scroll by dragging on the top of the mouse, but don't say so.


texts: What command(s) are ran when you right click on a text and click "open man page" in Terminal?

texts:
I know it obviously does man, to show the request manual page. However, I wonder what it pipes the output to, because it shows the entire thing at once, but it starts from the beginning. I would love to be able to use that with any command in Terminal, the problem is that less doesn't show everything at once, and cat scrolls all the way down.

I tried looking around in Preferences, but I was not able to find anything.


texts: Apple Mail configured to use exchange but To and CC addresses coming from other sources

texts: How can I limit the recipients to just contacts from the Exchange directory? When I start typing in the "to" field, not only are my options people in my exchange directory, but also people in my GMail contacts list!  I only want people from my exchange directory to show up in To, CC and BCC.


texts:
New Mac Machine is asking apple id on start up of machine is it really required or mandatory to have an apple id to start with this? if so can i create an apple id without providing any credit card info?.
Please guide this newbe...


texts: No sound out of both sides of Beats solo3 wireless when on Bluetooth

texts:
I have a pair of beats solo3 wireless headphones that used to work.

They still work when wired.

When connected to my phone over bluetooth, I can see the iPhone volume indicators change on the iphone when I press the volume buttons on the headphones. So it's definitely connected to bluetooth.

I tried resetting by holding power button and volume down button for 10 seconds. It didn't help.

Tried getting it to work with Apple Watch and iMac but it doesn't work with them.

I no longer get chime that I used to hear when the headphones are first turned on.

After fiddling with it some more, I was able to briefly get some sound  out of one side at a very low volume. Then I got sound out of the other for about 5 seconds and then it cut out completely. So they are still not working but there seems to be a glimmer of hope.

After sticking the wired cable into the jack on the left can about halfway in while they were connected to bluetooth, I was able to restore sound do the right can. Still no sound out of left can. Very weird.

Any other ideas or are these things toast?


texts:
I have a white MacBook, and it has gotten kinda dingy over the past couple of years. Still runs fine, but I would like to know what I can use to clean the white plastic. I was thinking one of those Mr. Clean erasers, but just want to see if The Community had any other (verified) options lol.

Thanks!
Thomas


texts: Can the OS X Mail dock count be made to show all (not just unread) count of inbox?

texts:
A few other e-mail applications allow you to set their dock counter to the number of messages in the inbox, rather than just the number of unread messages. The idea being that until it's out of the inbox, it's still an active task that needs to be resolved.

So what I'm after is the ability to do this with Mail.app in OS X Mavericks. Currently there's only a drop-down preference for:

Dock unread count: Inbox only
                   All Mailboxes

Perhaps there's a plug-in or some other app that allows you to override the inbox count with the total count?

Unfortunately, searching on Google for anything to do with the inbox count just brings up hundreds of posts about how the count is wrong/not showing. Hard to find anything useful amongst countless pages about bugs.


texts: Shortcut to switch windows, bringing the newly active window to the top

texts:
"Command-Tab" switches between browser (or other) windows, but leaves the newly active window underneath, where you can't see it. What good is that?

This such an essential, minute-to-minute maneuver that there MUST be a shortcut that switches to another window and brings it to the top (as PCs do). Isn't there such a shortcut?

I think this question has been asked before, but I've never seen a straightforward solution. I'd like to make sure that the answer really is "You can't do that."


texts:
I recently confirmed that Apple has dropped support for my mid-2010 MacBook Pro (i.e., I cannot upgrade to Mojave.)

Does anyone know when Apple will drop support for High Sierra? I'd like to know how long I have to come up with a solution before my MBP is exposed to security vulnerabilities.


texts: How to validate macOS Catalina password dialog? (Has weird icon)

texts:
Anyone recognize icon on the App Store download dialog in inline pic below?

On macOS Catalina, I am regularly getting a pop-up requesting I enter my Apple ID and password to download from the App Store.  But I'm concerned because the password prompt dialog doesn't have the App Store app icon, and I don't recognize the icon showing in the upper-left corner of dialog.

I can't think of any other app that might legitimately request the password. When I click the dialog title bar, the foremost running app does not change in the title bar. For example, if it was "Finder" was the forefront app, the menu bar still says "Finder" when I click the dialog title bar, and Safari is the forefront app, the menubar still stays Safari.

I tried googling around for images to discover what the Catalina pop-up should look like but I can't find corroborating pics or evidence, and couldn't get a visual conformation. I did notice on older macOS releases that the App Store app icon (the blue icon that looks like an "A") appears in the App Store password prompt dialogs, so not sure why that would change. So this has raised my suspicions.


texts: Will OS upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks erase other partitions?

texts:
I have Macbook6,1 Late 2009 Unibody white Snow Leopard with dual boot Debian Wheezy installed on the other partition.
I use EFI to show boot options at startup.

Will upgrading to Mavericks overwrite/delete other partitions?

Debian is what I use primarily. I would however like to upgrade to Mavericks for security reasons.


texts: I got the new iPad Air for Christmas. Everything transferred seamlessly but one app. What now?

texts: It was the game Tribez. The information was last backed up on my old iPad 2 11/18/13. I don't understand how all of my other apps were brought over perfectly, but this one. I have contacted their customer service and they said to do another back up on the old one, then restore my new one again. That would mean I need to do a backup of the new first. Do the backups cancel each other out? Keeping only one?


texts: iOS 4.2 on iPod Touch 2d Gen : is it worth it?

texts:
Is there any advantage to upgrade the iPod Touch 2d Gen to iOS 4.2 ?

Is the tech specs enough for that new version ?
Does it consume more battery ?
Will it be slower ?


texts: Command+Z stopped working in all applications

texts:
My Command + Z stopped working. In any app. Including keyboard viewer.

Neither Left nor Right Command.

It's not hardware – Command + Option + Z (or Command + any other modifier) works on both sides.

It's like something is 'trapping' that combo. What could it be? I quit Butler; that was the only shortcut app I had.

Update

Strange … if I go to Keyboard Pref Panel > Shortcuts, and 'Add' an All Applications shortcut for Undo, then in that little window I can enter Command + Z. But it still does not work anywhere else!


texts:
How do I display stop, pause, play and rewind audio file controls on my iMac?

I can see my volume control no problem. I can't see or find any controls which will allow me to play an audio (voice) file and then pause, rewind, advance, stop, or play the file. Once started the voice file continuously plays without control - except the volume!

Does such a rare and complicated device as an audio control set-up actually exist on a Mac? If not, where do I go to obtain this ability?

Online searches happily tell me all about video controls. Not what I want!


texts: How to stop Mac from opening a new tab when I click a link

texts: Let's say i search up "pineapple" into google and click on the first link, it opens that link in a new tab and i find this annoying. I can't seem to fix this and I know that the command key is not stuck. How do i solve this?


texts:
I have a set of laptops I'm using as a testbed and need a way to remotely configure their networking settings when I install new ones.

I'm hoping to avoid a solution that scripts the GUI via AppleScript to simulate mouse/keyboard actions.

Is it possible to change 802.1X settings in OS X from the command line?


texts: I have an incomplete physical encrypted iPhone backup that quit halfway through. Can I rebuild it with pieces from a complete backup?

texts:
I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 13.5.x, it was in the middle of a physical backup to my MacBook Pro when the iPhone started to bootloop (shortage of memory, Error 14).
I have half of a complete backup. It is encrypted. I don't care about anything except the "On My iPhone" notes, i.e. not backed up anywhere. It is file "4f98687d8ab0d6d1a371110e6b7300f6e465bef2" buried in the folder structure. It looks like it is complete.
I have cross referenced this partial backup to that of three complete backups to the same device / same serial and have found two issues:

the partial backup is in a folder called "snapshot" which seems to be specific to incomplete backups. It is in the top folder, named as a combination of numbers and letters specific to this iPhone, which leads to the bigger issue:

the partial backup is missing THREE of what I seem to be FOUR KEY FILES to decryption:

info.plist
Manifest.db
Manifest.plist
Status.plist

In the partial backup IS the Status.plist file, but not the other three. Is there any way I can take the three files from another physical backup (same device / same serial / same everything) and get them to work in decrypting this one Notes master file?
Or maybe take info from the "Status.plist" from the incomplete backup to rebuild the four files from a previous backup and use them together in the partial backup? Someone I spoke to mentioned that if the date information is consistent between the four files and the backup it could work, but I wanted to check here to see if the keybags would be consistent or not, if anyone knows that.
If not, is it because the keys change for each backup? Even if it is the same iPhone / same device TO the same laptop?
I have already attempted to take the "snapshot" folder and make it the top folder, renaming it the number/letter combination specific to the iPhone. I will note, the number/letter combination top folder is the same for all backups of this iPhone, making me think it is a unique name to this iPhone/serial.
When I did the above paragraph, I tried once with all four files from a previous backup. Then the Status.plist from the partial backup WITH the other three from the most recent complete backup. Both were not recognizable backups to restore to from iTunes.
But that doesn't necessarily mean it won't work. It may mean I'm doing it wrong or missed a step.
If I am going down the wrong path, can you think of any other workaround to get just this one Notes master filed decrypted? No it's not on iCloud. No it couldn't be anywhere else, except on the physical iPhone, which is still intact (NOT restored), but bootlooped due to Error 14 (full storage, yes I know I am stupid).


texts: Navigate folder structure in Open/Save File Dialog with keyboard?

texts:
After hitting ⌘-O, how can I navigate my folders and select a file to open using only my keyboard?

In particular, how can I get the focus into the folder list? (From there I can use arrows or start typing the first letters of the desired file/folder.)

In some programs I can rely on hitting TAB 5 times, but this isn't reliable and I figure there must be a better way.


texts: How to sort/group notifications in iOS 10 Notification Center

texts: In the Notification Center in iOS 9 it was possible to group notifications per app or by time/day.  In iOS 10 I don't find the setting to change this behaviour.  Do someone know if it can be changed or is this setting not available any more?


texts: Where are the Mac OS X alert sound files located?

texts: Is there any way I can access the files that are used for the alert sounds found in system preferences? For example, in OS X 10.6.6, there are different sounds for Funk, Glass, Hero, etc. Where are these files located?


texts:
I'm not a MBP expert, but I installed something a while ago that was supposed to function as an EQ but didn't work well. After removal, that SB230 sound output device still haunts me.

Can anyone assist? System profile below:

Devices:

        Built-in Microphone:

          Default Input Device: Yes
          Input Channels: 2
          Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
          Current SampleRate: 44100
          Transport: Built-in
          Input Source: Internal Microphone

        Built-in Output:

          Default Output Device: Yes
          Default System Output Device: Yes
          Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
          Output Channels: 2
          Current SampleRate: 44100
          Transport: Built-in
          Output Source: Internal Speakers

        DisplayPort:

          Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
          Output Channels: 2
          Current SampleRate: 48000
          Transport: DisplayPort
          Output Source: SB230


texts:
Please read my question fully, I searched many questions but that doesn't answer my question fully. We are planning to develop an iOS app using PhoneGap, so we have also purchased $99 Developer license for it. So far we are good, but as per my research I found that we cannot build iOS app on windows, we compulsory need mac for it.

My question, is it necessary to use mac even if we don't have intend to submit to app store currently? Just we need to test our app on iPad so that once we have bug free application we can purchase mac and build release version out of it before we submit to app store.

Is this possible? Since we are a Java shop and this is our first project for iOS, please excuse me if I am asking something obvious.


texts: Yosemite upgrade: "Some features require an Apple ID"

texts:
Reading the upgrade instructions for Yosemite, I see that "Some features require an Apply ID; terms apply."  However, I haven't managed to figure out what features this pertains to.

I don't really trust Apple and may not want agree to these terms.  What features of Yosemite require an Apple ID?  Will the system still be usable if I decline to accept the terms?


texts: Using caps lock key instead of right click (contextual menu)

texts:
I'd like to remap Caps Lock to right click - for the cases where I can focus on objects with cursor keys, or tab.

For instance after selecting files in Finder I'd like to hit Caps Lock and get the contextual menu you'd get on right click.


texts: Is there a way to remove this sidebar from Textmate?


texts: Why does ssh log me in as the wrong user?

texts:
I am shelling into my Mac (ssh) and get logged in with the wrong userid. There are three unprivileged user accounts on the system, and when I log in, I give my password, and whoami gives me either of the other unprivileged user accounts. (And I can't write to files I own, etc.)

I can workaround to access my account by su [my username], but I'm puzzled. Any suggestions?


texts: How to correctly uninstall an App Store application

texts:
Recently I installed Pages which I purchased with version of iWork '09.
Unfortunately this operation downloaded and installed version Pages 5.5.3 which is not exactly an upgrade of Pages '09.
Hopefully, the old version is still there (/Applications/iWork '09/Pages.app), but I suspect that the 2 of them are using the same sets of application dependant files for templates, styles...

Pages '09 and Pages 5.5.3 are different products, and the last one would have been more appropriately named Pages Light or Little Pages.
Every time I open a Pages file (with Pages 5.3.3) I get warnings about incompatibilities and unsupported functions and I am threaten to save my work with these missing pieces (ex.: bookmarks) without any chance to check the real difference on a large document. For me this is a file corruption.

Hence I would like to uninstall cleanly Pages 5.5.3 to avoid any internal misbehaviour and file corruption.

(Pages 5.5.3 is an example which is an annoying one, disturbing my work. But I have the same problem with applications I installed to check their real functions. Then I discovered these to not correctly answer my needs. I would like to be able to cleanly and safely uninstall these useless applications.)

After scanning all menu entries (with the ⌥ key pressed too) and the internal help, I discovered that I can't find an easy way to uninstall an application installed within App Store.

Clearly this function isn't within App Store.

What is the correct and safe method to uninstall an App Store application, with a resonable control this won't damage any related application?


texts: iMovie advanced tools option not present in preferences

texts:
I'd like to enable Advanced Tools in iMovie preferences.

When I open preferences, I only see:

Using iMovie 10.0.9


texts: Safari Can't Open the Page (Persistent Certificates Problem in Safari)

texts:
I'm getting the error message "Safari can't open the page because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server." Yet the page runs perfectly on an iPad and other computers. I suspect a problem with Keychain/certificates but I can't pinpoint the problem. Any ideas?

Running macOS 10.12.1, and system date/time is correct.


texts: Apps gone missing after rebooting on jailbroken iPad 4

texts:
After school, I was doing research on Canadian Blood Service. I went into pages and than it got stuck. I wait for 3 minutes nothing happened so I hold the lock button and try to shut my iPad down but nothing works, I was listening to music at the same time and the music is still playing. I has to do a hard reset by holding home button and lock button. After the reset I found out that every single app has gone missing except for the Stock apps which comes with the phone, and my jailbreaking app suck as Cydia ifile, IAP Free and etc. I reboot many times but nothing happened. The apps are still taking up the storage but I can't see them in usage not search.
Does anyone have any idea? I urgently needs help.

Thanks. and here's my iPad's info: iPad 4 White Wi-Fi 32 GB, jailbroken with Evasion 7 IOS 7.0.4 system.


texts: How can I stop synchronization between chrome on PC and safari on iPhone?

texts:
For the first time I opened iCloud on my PC. All of the bookmarks in Chrome are synchronized to Safari on my iPhone. I don't want this. And when I delete from Safari, I don't want the deletion to sync with Chrome.

How can I stop synchronization?

Another thing, how can I see how much space bookmarks, favorites take on iPhone?


texts: Is there a way to add reminder item to shared list in iCal?

texts:
I'm trying to add a reminder to a shared list in iCal, but I do not see the list as an option in neither the "Get Info" window nor in the "Calendar" menu drop down list. This shared list was shared with me in iCloud; I am not the creator, but I do have view/edit privileges. If I log into iCloud.com, I can add the item there. I can also add via iOS. Also, I can see items in the shared list, and I can check them off, but I just can't add to that list. See screenshots below, notice in 1 that the shared "To Do" list is missing but can be seen in 2.

Am I missing a setting, doing something wrong, or is this an iCloud issue? I am able to add items in iCal to a shared list I created, just not to one that my wife created.


texts: Can I use the Keyboard USB Port for a second External Drive on my iMac? I've seen warnings to not use the keyboard port for external drives, but no explanation. How do I use 2 external drives, if not using keyboard port?


texts: How can I make the draggable titlebar file icon always appear at the top of files in Big Sur?

texts:
I don't know the nomenclature for this, but there used to be always a little file icon at the top of say, a pdf or jpeg which could be dragged to put the file somewhere else (eg paste it into an email).  It looked like this (I'm talking about the little icon to the left of the word 'gray's' in this screenshot):

However, on Big Sur, the default behaviour for this little icon is hidden until I hover my mouse.  So, by default, I see this (sans icon):

I would like this little  icon to always be present at the top of all files, like it used to be.  Is there a way to do this?
(My apologies for not knowing the name for this little icon!)


texts: How to create a 10.6.8 recovery CD (not clone of the OS or install environment)

texts:
Upon Google searching people seem to equate "recovery CD" with full installation.  I have seen methods such as using Disk Utility with the Mac HD as the source and a DVD as the destination.  This clones the existing installation and I do not want that.

What I want is a minimal recovery environment just like the recovery partition but on a bootable CD.  The Macs that I am servicing do not have a recovery partition in place, if they did I'm sure I could disk util the source as the recovery partition and the destination as my CD.

I do not currently have the retail Snow Leopard DVDs.


texts: Using the three finger tap Dictionary.app, is there a way to add an English to Chinese dictionary?

texts: As the topic states: Using the three finger tap word lookup, is there a way to add an English to Chinese dictionary? Or is there any available?


texts:
I've got 8 TB of NAS shared with a network of mostly MacOSX Lion iMacs via AFP.

Right after opening the share, the computer starts to send an enormous amount of FPEnumerateExt2 requests, trying to get the sizes of the shared files and calculate sizes of folders.

Multiply it by several computers, and network and NAS quickly gets flooded by the requests rendering it borderline unusable. Is there any way to stop it?


texts: How to enter boot menu without command key?

texts:
My Macbook air has a keyboard issue, the Z key does not work except upon startup where it becomes stuck for several seconds.

This interferes with opening the boot menu on startup, because it detects the combination of Command + Z instead of just Command, so I can never enter the boot menu.

How do I get into the boot menu with my faulty keyboard?

EDIT: I have tried an external keyboard but the system still recognizes the faulty internal one.


texts: Error while trying to clean install OS X El Capitan (Apple ID auth error)

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I am trying to do a clean install of El Capitan using guide on support.apple.com. I reformatted they drive as told, but now I am getting an error while trying to do the new install. Every time I try to log in with my Apple ID, I get the following error:

AMD-Action:authenticate:SP

I have no clue why this is happening. I am doing a reinstall of macOS Sierra on my other mac and this is going as it should. I also see the device logged into the Apple ID when checking it on appleid.apple.com.

Does anyone know how I could get out of this? I don't have any backups, so I really need to do this install.


texts: Upgrading from iPad 1 to iPad Air - restoring individual app data?

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I'm hoping that a jolly fat bearded mythical character will deliver me an iPad Air in a weeks time :) I currently have an original iPad 1, stuck back on iOS 5.

It's been jailbroken, but I don't honestly think I'll miss any of the jailbroken apps. Although I know that I can restore a backup from the old iPad to the Air, will this have any negative effects - especially as I'll be going from jailbroken to non-jailbroken and iOS 5 to iOS 7? I'd like to keep the Air as "clean" as possible, and avoid dragging over a ton of legacy crap that I don't need.

Ideally, I'd like to just restore selective apps and their data to the new iPad - of course, apps can be re-downloaded, but is there any way (with 3rd party software) to selectively restore individual app data to an iOS 7 device?


texts: Signal Problems between 2015 Macbook Pro and Dell 4K P2415Q Monitor

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I just bought a P2415Q Monitor and connected it to my 2015 Macbook Pro with the DisplayPort to thunderbolt cable that was included with the monitor. It seemed ok at first, but after the first time the computer went into sleep mode I noticed the monitor wouldn't wake up. The message on the monitor was:

  There is no signal coming from your device. Please activate your
  device to wake it up. If there is no display, press the monitor button
  now to select the correct input source on the On-Screen-Display menu.

There is some information about this message in the monitor's User's Guide, but nothing that helps.

Through a combination of just random experimentation (unplugging/plugging, turning off/on, etc) I was eventually able to get the monitor and laptop connected again, but the problem recurred the next time the computer went into sleep.

I've now also seen a bunch of posts online complaining about similar issues with this monitor or the 27 inch variation. Does anyone have any suggestions about resolving this? I was thinking about getting an HDMI to HDMI cable and seeing if that was an improvement over the DP-mDP connection.

Another thing I notice while experimenting with connections was that when I plugged the DP cable into the monitor's DP-OUT connector it seemed to work just as well as plugging it to the DP-IN slot (i.e. worked initially but failed to wake up from sleep). Is that normal that the OUT would also work as an input?


texts: I just upgraded from an iMac with 10.6 to a newer iMac with 10.9. When I use the Mail 7.3 program and go to print and email, it prints all previous emails from the same sender as well. I don't want all the other emails printed, just the current one. Is there a way to disable the other emails from printing, or to disable the grouping of emails?  Thank you...


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A friend of mine just bought an MBA. He installed Office 2011 in order to work mainly with Excel. As he opened one of his file (6.5MB - multiple sheets - company logo - no graphs) and wanted to save it this box appears:

where you can read something like Not enough memory. If I click on OK the box appears again like 15 times.

Thinking of an installation issue, I tried on my MBP which did the same result. But his old computer (win7 - Excel 2013) can open and save the file without any issue.

During my google searches, the only result that I found led me to a Windows based solution or an help site from 1994...