texts: Change font size for PDF Text Annotation in Preview

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This should be dead simple: how to customize the font including face, style and modifications. But those configurations are nowhere to be seen.

So ... where is this hidden Preview/pdf toolbar / icon, whatever that allows setting the font ?

Here is what I see on the menu.

Right clicking on the textbox itself brings up the following - note that no way to change any text font/size. This is absurd.


texts: Bluetooth Bose soundlink mini always connected

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I am using a Bose soundlink mini on an 2013 Imac to improve the sound. I would like it to be always on and connected but the connection is lost at some point, when idle or standby i guess.
Any ideas?


texts: iPhoto treats two identical video cameras in totally different ways

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I own two Canon Vixia HF G20 video cameras.  The two cameras are, as far as I can tell, configured in completely identical ways.  And yet for some reason when I connect them to my Mac to import video, completely different things happen:

When I connect one of the cameras, iPhoto launches automatically, the camera appears under "Devices" in the iPhoto sidebar, and I have the option to import video directly into my iPhoto library.
When I connect the other camera, iPhoto does not launch automatically. If I launch it manually, the camera does not appear under "Devices", and there does not seem to be any way to get iPhoto to recognize that the camera is connected, or to import video from it.  Instead I have to navigate to the AVCHD file in the Finder, open video clips using Quicktime Player, and then use Quicktime Player to Save the clips to my hard drive.  (This method works on the other camera, too, of course.)

Since I am able to save video from both cameras to my HD, this difference in behavior is not mission-critical, but it is annoying and mysterious.  I am not sure if the difference has to do with a setting in iPhoto, or on the camera itself, or what.  Can anybody explain to me why these two cameras -- same model, same configuration (AFAIK) -- are handled by the OS so differently?

Edited to add:
User tubedogg asked:

  When it's connected, go to Apple menu > About > System Report button. What does the USB bus report for the port where it is plugged in?

So here is what shows up for Camera 1 (the one that is recognized by iPhoto and Image Capture):

    Video Camera:

  Product ID:   0x326e
  Vendor ID:    0x04a9  (Canon Inc.)
  Version:  0.01
  Serial Number:    [redacted]
  Speed:    Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer: CANON Inc.
  Location ID:  0x1d110000 / 7
  Current Available (mA):   500
  Current Required (mA):    100
  Capacity: 31.44 GB (31,439,454,208 bytes)
  Removable Media:  Yes
  Detachable Drive: Yes
  BSD Name: disk4
  Partition Map Type:   MBR (Master Boot Record)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Not Supported
  Volumes:
CANON:
  Capacity: 31.44 GB (31,435,259,904 bytes)
  Available:    31.42 GB (31,421,562,880 bytes)
  Writable: No
  File System:  MS-DOS FAT32
  BSD Name: disk4s1
  Mount Point:  /Volumes/CANON
  Content:  Windows_FAT_32
  Volume UUID:  31F58768-8479-3FC8-8CA0-405944EBAC64

and here is what shows up for Camera 2 (the one that is not recognized by iPhoto or Image Capture):

Video Camera:

  Product ID:   0x326e
  Vendor ID:    0x04a9  (Canon Inc.)
  Version:  0.01
  Serial Number:    [redacted]
  Speed:    Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer: CANON Inc.
  Location ID:  0x1a120000 / 4
  Current Available (mA):   500
  Current Required (mA):    100
  Capacity: 31.44 GB (31,439,454,208 bytes)
  Removable Media:  Yes
  Detachable Drive: Yes
  BSD Name: disk4
  Partition Map Type:   MBR (Master Boot Record)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Not Supported
  Volumes:
CANON:
  Capacity: 31.44 GB (31,435,259,904 bytes)
  Available:    31.42 GB (31,423,430,656 bytes)
  Writable: No
  File System:  MS-DOS FAT32
  BSD Name: disk4s1
  Mount Point:  /Volumes/CANON
  Content:  Windows_FAT_32
  Volume UUID:  F1025F17-85DA-3580-845F-054D9A32D2A6

As you can see, the results are pretty much identical.

Edited again: Mystery solved!  I will post it as an answer below, for the benefit of anybody who ever has this (or a similar) problem.


texts: Why aren't some of my songs transferring to my new iPhone?

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I purchased a new iPhone a couple days ago. During the setup process, I restored from a backup of my old iPhone, from about two weeks ago (the old iPhone was stolen, so the backup was a bit old). When I restored, I got a warning that 21 items could not be synced, and to check iTunes for more details. iTunes did not give me any warnings or information at all.

I noticed that the 21 songs are all songs I had previously purchased from the iTunes Music Store. They are not on the iPhone; in the iPhone music list view (in iTunes), they all have a sync icon next to them:

I can't seem to get them transferred to my iPhone. I tried removing all the music from the iPhone and resyncing, but they still were not transferred. I then reauthorized all my computers, and re-authorized my computer, but the songs would still not sync.

What's wrong? Is there a way to sync these previous purchases to my iPhone? I should note that this is not happening with all of my songs; some purchased songs were transferred successfully.


texts: OS X does not remember my network passwords anymore

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My OS X always forgets its Wi-Fi network passwords after disconnecting or sleeping. Do you have an idea of how should I troubleshoot this or what might be the cause?

OS X El Capitan 10.11.5, MacBook Air


texts: My Toshiba hard drive doesn't work on Windows machines

texts: At first I was struggling to get my Toshiba Hard drive to appear (so I could use it) on my MacBook Pro (as I wanted to put all my photos, iMovie videos etc on there) so I eventually found a way by going to my settings and clicking time Machine and so on. Now that everything from my MacBook Pro is on the Toshiba hard drive, I plugged it into a Windows laptop (so I could put my photos etc on there) and it doesn't even pop up so I am unable to access my photos etc on there and put them on the Windows laptop, but when I plug it back into my MacBook Pro it shows the hard drive with all my pictures etc on there!


texts: How to hide sidebar preview (on the right) in Finder on El Capitan

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I don't know since when, but I believe from some update of El Capitan, this annoying sidebar preview on the right comes up everytime I open a new Finder window.

If I hide it using the mouse, it stays hidden in the current window but re-appears when I open a new window.

The sidebar on the left is all fine, showing items as it does normally.

Logically speaking, when I have switched to the preview window option and I already see items at the top, why would I need a second one at the right?

I couldn't find anything on the internet, people are just talking about how to hide sidebar preview in the Preview app. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

The image is attached:


texts: Dell P2314H Monitor Cannot Connect to Macbook Pro

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I've got a late 2013 model 13 inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display, and a new Dell P2314H monitor.
I keep getting a message on the monitor saying its going to sleep. I've tried the following:

Display port to HDMI cable where the HDMI is connected to the MBP, and the DP is connected to the monitor.
VGA cable to the monitor and an HDMI cable to the MBP.
Points 1 and 2 with Thunderbolt adapters connected.

I still keep getting the same message.

I've been using passive adapters for this, im not sure changing them to active adapters will fix this.

Anyone have any ideas?


texts: Running OverWatch On my Mac, would the over-heating kill this machine?

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OverWatch is game that is run-able under boot-camp.

While running the game, my MBP 2015 generates lots of fan noise and the keyboard becomes much over-heated.

would this over-heating kill my machine at a faster pace than ordinary operation?

THX


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I have a new iMac running OSX 10.12.4. It has an internal Apple-Supplied 512Gb SSD, of which about 140 Gb is used. As with my previous machine, I use Time Machine to backup on to an external 2Tb hard disk.

However, I find that every TM backup appears to be a full backup, not an incremental backup.

How can I get Time Machine to make proper incremental backups, as it’s supposed to?

By way of background,

Each backup takes a very long time; so long that it cannot backup hourly because it’s still completing the last backup.
On the Preferences panel it tells me that it is backing up … GB of 131 GB.
The space left on the drive corresponds to multiplying the number of backups by the full amount of data.
After about 18 backups, it starts deleting old backups
I get the disk full message too soon

So I am convinced that they’re all full backups.

I have tried everything I can think of, including:

turning it off and on again
re-formatting the drive
replacing the drive
reinstalling the OS
deleting the plist, as per Pondini’s web site
removing some software suspected of interfering with TM
excluding additional folders
putting chicken feathers in a paper bag and waving it around my head

I have spent countless hour with Apple support. As a desperation move, they now want me to do a clean install, which, in my opinion is going too far, and certainly not something I am enthusiastic.

I am aware of this question: Time Machine keeps doing full backups

but

it’s 5 years old
the asker says that TM also does incremental backups
despite the accepted answer, the question is not really answered


texts: Can folders in Family Shared iCloud be protected?

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I'm looking at changing to a Family Shared iCloud plan, and want to know if it's possible to protect folders in the iCloud.

So, for example, so I can put files like Home Insurance documents in there, that the Parents can see but not the Children.


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Any way to know the cluster size for a hard drive formatted in exFAT?.  I tried with DriveDX too, not said.
Any help much appreciated.


texts: My Mac crashes every time I shutdown. What may be causing this?

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My Mac crashes every time I shutdown.

I have an iMac iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), 24 GB of RAM, 500GB of disk free.

I find dozens of crash files named Kernel_....._mercury.gpuRestart (mercury is my computer's name) at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports. These files contain something like:

Wed Apr  8 15:47:48 2020

Event:               GPU Reset
Date/Time:           Wed Apr  8 15:47:48 2020
Application:         com.apple.WebKit
Path:                /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Tailspin:            /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/gpuRestart2020-04-08-154748.tailspin
GPUSubmission Trace ID: 0
Version:             15609.1.20.111.8
OS Version:          Mac OS X Version 10.15.4 (Build 19E266)
Graphics Hardware:   NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Signature:           45

Report Data:

NVDA(Graphics): Channel exception! Exception type = 0x45 Graphics Engine Error (GR Class Error)
Channel Info: [96, 0x52, 0x50, 0x81f]
Version Info: [com.apple.GeForce, 14.0.0, 0x4e554e, 22469702, 355.11.11.10.10.143, 1]
ErrorDB Hash: [70ced8266b6e91e895714fe37e4dc1bd]

Resource Manager Info:
 4443564e 000000d0 fbe5dba1 b08da789 00000001 00000014 d3793533 46d3a4a6
 4614f297 e71edccf 00088301 0000009a 12f2240a 081f0a21 1002c197 18408080
 28002000 38003004 80404780 004840c7 52580050 030a0060 0a00149a 0713820a
 01500318 0a010190 3a13923d 0024380a 000e0000 e0010000 0f490000 00010000
 0b490000 00000000 04470000 00ff0003 00ff0000 00ff0000 00ff0000 00ff0000
 00ff0000 220a0000 081f13c2 18001000 f4bc80a8 2852200b 38033045 c9805000
 c89bcdbc 02804001 00000348 4443564e

Also This other file called WindowServer_2020-04-10-035028_mercury.userspace_watchdog_timeoutis also there with this content:

https://cl1p.net/mercury1

and also other files named WindowServer_2020-04-10-040644_mercury.crash and WindowServer_2020-04-10-035028_mercury.userspace_watchdog_timeout.spin.

any ideas what may be causing this annoying crashes?


texts:
I am looking for a start menu and taskbar for Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with as many following features as possible (approximately ordered by descending importance):

Start menu:

Multi-column application list (i.e. no need to scroll)
Applications shouldn't be split into different categories
no menu delay (i.e. the delay for opening submenus when the mouse hovers over a folder item should be 0.)
show the X recently launched applications
clicking on a non-leaf element of the start menu should have no effect

Taskbar:

can be configured to have several rows
doesn't let other windows to go under the taskbar
doesn't combine windows belonging to the same application
is not transparent

Is there any other great option? I am basically looking for an equivalent of Classic Start Menu (Windows).

It's okay if the suggested application provides only the start menu or the taskbar.

I am aware of uBar but it does not present applications in a multi-column application list, clicking on a non-leaf element opens some folder,  and maximized windows overlap with the uBar's taskbar.

I am also aware of iTaskbar but it has the same issues as uBar: it does not present applications in a multi-column application list, and maximized windows overlap with the taskbar.

Lastly, Fantasktik is no longer maintained and doesn't work with my OS X.


texts:
I often want to make a picture available on the internet, without wanting it as part of my Twitter stream or Facebook account etc.  For example, posting a screenshot to a thread on a forum or just to include in an email without sending an attachment.

I'm happy for the pic to be public, but don't necessarily want it to be associated to me if people stumble across it, or have it included with photos I actually care about on services like Flickr etc.  I just want to throw it up to an image hosted and dump it without a trail, in the easiest and quickest way possible.

The closest I have found is an app called Picup, which throws a photo onto Imgur without any logging in and captioning etc etc.  If it also had the ability to scale it down to half sized it may be enough, but it doesn't, and as such pics are full sized which increases upload speed and makes the picture potentially too large for sensible linking to on sites that won't auto-scale it.

So, what I am after will ideally meet the following criteria:

Allow me to take a photo, or use a camera roll image
Resize it automatically via a preset preference (Say max 400 in largest dimension)
Upload it to am image hosting service that does not require me to have an account or log in
Present me with the resulting URL in a way that makes copying it simple, perhaps via a big fat COPY URL button, or automatically selecting the text etc
Optional - provide links for common uses of the URL - compose email, send tweet etc.

Imagine a scenario; I see a ridiculous haircut in Wallmart, I want to snap it, throw it up, send it to friends, then abandon it so I never have to care about who finds it by accident later with my name against it, and never need to go pruning such childish photos from my genuinely useful and wanted pics such as those in Instagram etc.


texts: Is this a security flaw for Other, Others, Others... accounts having 0 (root) UID?

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When running this command dscl . -list /Users UniqueID, I get duplicate UID, for the Other, Others, Others... accounts, which is the same UID root uses.

daemon              1
Guest               201
myusername          501
nobody              -2
Other               0
Other...            0
Others              0
postgres            502
root                0

I'm worried if this might be a security issue after I've updated from Yosemite → El Capitan (10.11.1), and I'm not aware if it was present before the update.
I've found out about this after being unable to install Parallels Deskop 10. The message from parallels was:

ERROR: 15476. Cannot install Parallels Desktop because there is a non-root user account with the UID 0 in your system

So this leaves me questioned whether it's a Parallels issue or the permission configurations.


texts: What's peculiar about F21-F24 keys on MacOS?

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I observed some questions on the Internet concerning this.

F20-F24 keys do not respond, but are mapped
https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/f-keys-f13-to-f24/8953
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1090226

Karabiner-Elements can map from F1~F24, but can only map to F1~F20
And you can tell the OS is aware of there keys from this reply: https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/f-keys-f13-to-f24/8953/7
So what's peculiar about F21~F24 on MacOS?


texts: How can I send smtp mail via gmail and osx Lion mailx?

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I would like to be able to send email from utility/batch/launchd scripts via my gmail account and the mailx client that is bundled in OS X Lion. I cannot find how to configure this. I found http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html#sending which describes doing this for mutt, but I'd rather not have to install mutt. I do have Thunderbird installed and use that to read/send mail (instead of Mail.app).

When I run
   mailx -v -s subject myemailaddress@gmail.com < file.txt
I get no errors, but instead of getting an SMTP transaction log, mailx tells me

Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to <David>.

Worse, there is no /var/mail/David folder, so this report appears to go into a bitbucket.


texts: changes to .bash_profile causing Terminal shell to not load but keep looping with PATH settings

texts:
I was trying to make some changes with PATH (mostly add a new PATH) to my .bash_profile and the last line entered was source .bash_profile.

After I saved and restarted the Terminal app, instead of the shell prompt I see PATH values continuously popping up on my Terminal window tab. Only CTRL+C will kill it but now I see 'Application Closed' message and that's the end of it. What do I do to restore the shell back to my previous status? I tried running the repair permissions under Disk Utility but that didn't seem to fix my issue.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Trying to backup MacOS on a USB key get error 254?

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I'm trying to backup my MacOS computer onto an USB key, and when I run the restore command from the Disk Utility app, I get an error 254 :

Validating target...
Validating source...
Source volumt format on device "/dev/disk0" is not valid for restoring
Could not validate source - error 254
The operation failed

For information, the title is really odd since it shows Restoring to "My Usb Key" from "(null)" (sorry the text is approximative (it's originally in French), but the main point here is the "from null")

What is wrong with my usb key? (it's a 8Gb, Apple asked for a "more than 1gb").

Thank you for your help.


texts: Output of diskutil info: dlopen(...): code signature in (...) not valid for use in process

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When I run diskutil info on an external drive, the output contains errors that make me wonder if I need to be concerned about the security, or at least the stability of my computer:

2019-10-03 11:03:06.960 diskutil[33363:4183029] Error loading /System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin/Contents/MacOS/SATSMARTLib:  dlopen(/System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin/Contents/MacOS/SATSMARTLib, 0x0106): code signature in (/System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin/Contents/MacOS/SATSMARTLib) not valid for use in process: mapped file has no cdhash, completely unsigned? Code has to be at least ad-hoc signed.
2019-10-03 11:03:06.960 diskutil[33363:4183029] Cannot find function pointer SATSMARTLibFactory for factory 3AD527ED in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x7fa76dc41210 </System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)

Full output:

diskutil info /dev/disk4
   Device Identifier:         disk4
   Device Node:               /dev/disk4
   Whole:                     Yes
   Part of Whole:             disk4
   Device / Media Name:       WDC WD40NMZW

   Volume Name:               RW-WD-Silver
   Mounted:                   Yes
   Mount Point:               /Volumes/RW-WD-Silver

   Content (IOContent):       Apple_HFS
   File System Personality:   Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):             hfs
   Name (User Visible):       Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
   Journal:                   Journal size 311296 KB at offset 0x3a3a000
   Owners:                    Disabled

   OS Can Be Installed:       Yes
   Booter Disk:               disk2s3
   Media Type:                Generic
   Protocol:                  USB
2019-10-03 11:03:06.960 diskutil[33363:4183029] Error loading /System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin/Contents/MacOS/SATSMARTLib:  dlopen(/System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin/Contents/MacOS/SATSMARTLib, 0x0106): code signature in (/System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin/Contents/MacOS/SATSMARTLib) not valid for use in process: mapped file has no cdhash, completely unsigned? Code has to be at least ad-hoc signed.
2019-10-03 11:03:06.960 diskutil[33363:4183029] Cannot find function pointer SATSMARTLibFactory for factory 3AD527ED in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x7fa76dc41210 </System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
   SMART Status:              Not Supported
   Volume UUID:               9D6E9516
   Disk / Partition UUID:     00010CBB

   Disk Size:                 4.0 TB (4000040615936 Bytes) (exactly 7812579328 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:         512 Bytes

   Volume Total Space:        4.0 TB (4000040615936 Bytes) (exactly 7812579328 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Used Space:         4.0 TB (3958573326336 Bytes) (exactly 7731588528 512-Byte-Units) (99.0%)
   Volume Free Space:         41.5 GB (41467289600 Bytes) (exactly 80990800 512-Byte-Units) (1.0%)
   Allocation Block Size:     8192 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:           No
   Read-Only Volume:          No

   Device Location:           External
   Removable Media:           Fixed

   Virtual:                   Yes

   This disk is a Core Storage Logical Volume (LV).  Core Storage Information:
   LV UUID:                   00010CBB
   LVF UUID:                  1BC2F8A8
   LVG UUID:                  46789CD7
   PV UUID (disk):            5BCFA56F (disk2s2)
   Fusion Drive:              No
   Encrypted:                 Yes

(I trimmed all identifiers for brevity)

A google search didn't give results for this error, although it did reveal that /System/Library/Extensions/SATSMARTLib.plugin seems to be a kernel driver that extends the standard driver behaviour by providing access to drive
SMART data for USB and FireWire drives.

I didn't install this, so it must have been installed by a third party, presumably a tool I once installed using brew or downloaded from the web.

What does this error mean, and how do I identify which package installed it? The readme for the extension has instructions on how to uninstall, but since I didn't install it I'd first like to know where it came from.


texts: MacBook Air issue: Keyboard and in built mic failing

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The keys 9,o,l and . on the keyboard of my MacBook Air have stopped functioning all of a sudden. Instead of the intended characters, random characters from the same row as the faulty keys appear.

Also, the built-in mic is failing.

What could be the problem?

EDIT: The keyboard and mic problem started to appear after a defective screen panel was replaced a few days ago. I wonder how that could have caused the side effects I'm experiencing.


texts: MacBook takes screenshots without user input

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Yesterday my desktop MacBook with Yosemite took a screenshot although I did not use that facility. It made the sound and created a file that I threw away fearing it was a virus. The doc created was not in fact a photo from the camera or the screen.

Today it happened again: the same sound of screen shot, but this time there is no file to be found in the computer.

Can this be a virus or an intruder?


texts: Is it safe to delete my Time Machine sparse bundle? Can a fresh one be recreated?

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Is it safe to delete my Time Machine sparse bundle file? Can a fresh time machine backup be recreated WITHOUT reformatting the drive or affecting any other files on my external Time Machine drive?

My time machine backups stopped a month ago and nothing I do will get the backups to continue as usual.  The drive is 25% full.  I don't know what to do.  The way I look at it, the best option might be to delete the sparse bundle entirely and just start a fresh sparse bundle, right?   This seems logical to me but I cannot find any advice anywhere to affirm my belief.

I am afraid to choose the "Delete backup disk" option in the Time Machine applet because, while I want it to delete my sparse bundle, I am afraid it will take the liberties of deleting all content on the "drive".   That would be disastrous since I also use the drive for a important file share.   I'm also afraid to delete the sparse bundle because I don't know exactly how it works.

Can anyone provide advice?  I cannot find any advice on this specific subject anwhere.


texts:
Running MacOS Server 5.2 on El Capitan. I'd like to change the DHCP server's lease duration.  I'd like to use 8 hours but the GUI only gives me a choice of 1 hour, or 1 Day, or higher.

Can anyone help me with a terminal command to achieve this please?

I've found sudo serveradmin settings dhcp | grep lease which lets me see DHCP settings, but I just cannot work out how to change the lease period.


texts: How to Find What a Particular Keyboard Shortcut Does?

texts:
How can I find the command triggered by a keyboard shortcut without activating it in any given application?

When I press a keyboard shortcut, the top-level menu is highlighted, but, beyond that, I don't get much information about where the command is located, or what exactly it does. Sometimes I discover a key combination (by accident or guessing) that does more or less what I want but I can't find the details in documentation because I don't know the name of the command.


texts: Is there a .eml email file viewer that can also save attachments?

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I'm looking for a free .eml file viewer to just read email files and for extracting attachments.

I don't want to use Mail.app as it requires account setup - when I click on a .eml file Mail.app opens with a window for setting up an account - which I don't want to do - I never use Mail.app - I use gmail.

Is there a .eml email file viewer (including extracting attachments)?


texts: For whatever reason Memrise requires you to input a space character in some Japanese answers (I'm very much a beginner, so this may not be as weird as I think). However when I have my input set to Hiragana with Romaji typing method, pressing space converts what I've already typed into Kanji even though I have Live Conversion disabled (I think that's what it's doing, they're not Kanji I recognize but I don't know what else they might be). Obviously this is very annoying as I keep getting answers wrong when all I'm missing is a space or I'll have random Kanji in the middle of what I'm typing.


texts: How to stop can't connect to iCloud message from popping up

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In this century I thought pop-up windows were dying out. But no, the following...

This Mac can't connect to iCould because a problem with "aa@bb.com"

...window keeps popping up. How can I stop it? Even though I've already pressed "Later", after 1 or 2 seconds it comes out again! I am struggling for minutes to do things, and it is really annoying.

I'm running macOS 10.11.5.

Thanks!


texts: OS X Samba file sharing continuously asks for password

texts:
I'm trying to share my MacBook's files via Samba sharing. I've set it up in Settings, but can't connect to the machine from another computer!

On the other computer I set up the connection with the correct IP address, username and password. Then when I try to connect, it shows a dialog in which the server asks for password. Then I enter the correct password, and shows the dialog again and again. If I dismiss the dialog, the client shows a this message:

  Logon failure: incorrect username and password

However I'm sure the username and password are correct. (If it matters, the client is just an android tablet with a samba client app. The same app handles Windows shares without any problem.)

Has anyone faced a similar problem?

My OS X version is Mavericks.


texts: DVI (via Thunderbolt) display doesn't sleep reliably

texts:
My new Mac Mini (late 2018) has 3 monitors connected - one via HDMI and two Thunderbolt-to-DVI. The two DVI monitors are both HP 2011x, and I had them previously connected to a now-retired Mac Pro, where I was using DisplayPort to DVI instead.
The monitors work fine, but both HP monitors have intermittent problems when going into power-saving mode. Sometimes they're fine: when it's time for the monitors to go to sleep, I get a message on-screen saying "Monitor going to sleep", the power LED turns from blue to amber, and the monitor stays like that until it's woken by me.
However, more often than not I get the same "Monitor going to sleep", the LED goes from blue to amber - and then back to blue a second later. The "Monitor going to sleep" message then appears, and the process repeats ad infinitum. Sometimes one of the two monitors goes to sleep successfully, whilst it's companion gets stuck in the loop. The HDMI-connected monitor - a ViewSonic VX2452 - goes to sleep normally.
I've tried playing around with various power-saving settings, all to no avail. It's not a huge issue, but it's quite annoying - considering it worked fine on the Mac Pro via DisplayPort.
EDIT: Here's the system_profiler information:
% system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType
Graphics/Displays:

    Intel UHD Graphics 630:

      Chipset Model: Intel UHD Graphics 630
      Type: GPU
      Bus: Built-In
      VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 1536 MB
      Vendor: Intel
      Device ID: 0x3e9b
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily2 v1
      Displays:
        HP 2011:
          Resolution: 1600 x 900
          UI Looks like: 1600 x 900 @ 60 Hz
          Framebuffer Depth: 30-Bit Color (ARGB2101010)
          Display Serial Number: xxxx
          Main Display: Yes
          Mirror: Off
          Online: Yes
          Rotation: Supported
          Automatically Adjust Brightness: No
          Connection Type: DVI or HDMI
          Adapter Firmware Version: 0.00
        HP 2011:
          Resolution: 1600 x 900
          UI Looks like: 1600 x 900 @ 60 Hz
          Framebuffer Depth: 30-Bit Color (ARGB2101010)
          Display Serial Number: xxxx
          Mirror: Off
          Online: Yes
          Rotation: Supported
          Automatically Adjust Brightness: No
          Connection Type: DVI or HDMI
          Adapter Firmware Version: 0.00
        VX2452 Series:
          Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (1080p FHD - Full High Definition)
          UI Looks like: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
          Framebuffer Depth: 30-Bit Color (ARGB2101010)
          Display Serial Number: xxxx
          Mirror: Off
          Online: Yes
          Rotation: Supported
          Adapter Type: DVI or HDMI
          Automatically Adjust Brightness: No
          Adapter Firmware Version: 2.19


texts: iPad 2 certain emails received are gibberish

texts: Why are some emails I send to others received in gibberish- containing dozens of extra characters? What settings can I change to prevent this?


texts: Keyboard shortcut for in-application action (Spotify play/pause) from another application

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Is there a way to write a script, get an app, automator, or etc that would make spotify play/pause with a keyboard shortcut such as cmd+alt+shift+p that would work from outside of Spotify?

In other words, this shortcut would function like the function media key f8 (play/pause), except it would be specific to Spotify only.


texts: How to turn off notifications for a specific event in the calendar?

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I have a recurring event in my work calendar that occurs every day.  I would like to continue to get notifications for the rest of my events, but disable the notifications for only this recurring one.

I found instructions on how to disable notifications on the calendar for a number of different situations but not this specific one.  Is there any way to turn off notifications for a single recurring event?


texts: Can I automatically mark/categorize photos as "uploaded" on iPhone?

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I take a lot of photos on my iPhone, and they occupy a significant percentage of my storage space. Many of these photos, however, are eventually uploaded to several services (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc). If I could "delete all photos that have already been uploaded", I could probably free up a lot of space. It seems this a "already uploaded" album would be something trivial to implement, however iOS doesn't seem to provide it out-of-the box. Am I right or am I missing something? Is there at least a third-party app that provides such a feature?

PS: If this is not an appropriate question for this platform, I apologise. Just let me know and I'll remove it and post it elsewhere. If you could recommend a better place, I'd appreciate it.


texts: Is there an app or another way to make an iPod Touch or iPhone emulate an older iPod Device?

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Specifically I am trying to play music from my iPod-Touch through my XBOX360, but I know there are other devices that only work with the old iPod interfaces and not the touch/iPhone.

I was wondering if anyone knew of an app, or some other method to make these devices emulate for the purposes of the USB connection more primitive iPods (Classic, Nano, Shuffle, etc.) so they can work with devices that only support the older interface.


texts: How to find out why OS X is requesting privilege elevation for an app?

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I occasionally see the standard OS dialog stating something like "Application-so-and-so wants to make changes to your system.  Enter Administrator credentials to authorize."

How would I find out exactly what resources the application wants to gain elevated write access to?

Related to that, which process opens that dialog?


texts: How do i get project files back into imovie?

texts:
my iMovie corrupted and the event went missing. i have found it in project files, but how to i get the project files back into an event?
i need the edit versions back into an event to continue editing them in iMovie


texts: I accidentally deleted the .localized file from my mac desktop and then emptied my trash. How to I recover it?


texts: Is there a way to view one's iTunes Match content online?

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After having removed a song from iTunes (and having selected "remove from iCloud") checkbox, my iPhone believes it still can downloaded from the iCloud.

I wonder, if it's possible to view one's content from the stand point of Apple. Do they have the song I removed or do they not? If they do, under my account, I'd like to be able to remove it.


texts: How to identify build number of a macOS installer?

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Today I read:

  Apple today released an updated golden master (GM) version of macOS Sierra to developers… The new GM seed is build 16A323, while the build released last week was 16A320.

After downloading, in the Finder > Get Info of ‘Install macOS Sierra.app’ I see ‘Version: 12.0.49’ but no build number.

How to identifier the build number of a macOS installer?

My goal is to verify what installer I may be using.


texts: Using the same partition for both Time Machine and other files

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Is it harmful or dangerous to the other files in the same partition as the Time Machine?

Because a lack of storage, every time the Time Machine backs up my Mac, it deletes the oldest backup. Is there a danger that the Time Machine is about to delete my other files in this partition?

These are my folders in the hard drive. You can see that there are some folders of the Time Machine, besides a folder of my files - Archive:


texts: Is it possible to create a text list of all my apps on the (Mac) App Store?

texts: Since I can't copy the list of my 'Purchased' Apps on Apple's App Store, I'm wondering if there's any other way to do this. I have little computer savvy, so if there's a solution it'd have to be step-by-step. Thanks.


texts: Weird graphics issues after waking MacBook up

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After locking my Mac and waking it up a few hours later this is how it looks:

Also, some of the icons look weird after restarting the system (for example not fully rendered time machine icon:  )

Hardware: mid 2013 MacBook Air - i5 1,5GHz 128SSD, 8GB RAM.

I suspect one thing, however this is my first mac and I prefer not to mess around anymore: The problem started ocurring after I have disabled the swap.

Earlier I did research how much memory I use (<4GB RAM and ~2GB swap) and decided to remove the swap to force RAM usage.

What could be causing this behaviour?


texts: What might cause mouse and keyboard freezes after updating to OSX 10.8.2?

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After the 10.8.2 update, keyboard and mouse input is hanging intermittently on my 2011 MacBook Air. It occurs in several applications (have tested with Safari and App Store). The keyboard input and mouse just stops working for a few seconds, then some of the typed text is input at the cursor.

Does anyone know a solution to this or tip to help me find one?

More details

Here is a video of the problem by someone with a similar issue.

Console log shows a lot of these

2012-09-22 15:22:16,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying


texts: Installing Windows 10 from an ISO Image on my new 15 inch MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch bar

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Recently I've bought a new 15-inch MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch bar and I tried to install windows 10 using an ISO image and bootcamp. Everything was going well until I got the following error in my laptop's boot area within the Windows 10 installation environment:

Windows cannot locate the disk and partition specified in the unattend answer file's <ImageInstall> setting.

I know that Editing the XML file for the answer system can solve the problem, but how? As you know in this version of MacBook Pro no USB stick is used to install Windows and I cannot find where macOS stores the files created by bootcamp for installing windows.

Please help me fix this issue.


texts: Can I drag a window into a new tab of another window

texts:
I have two Finder windows open. Window A has a single tab (or no tabs) while Window B has multiple. Now I want to drag Window A to join the tabs in the Window B. Is there any way to do that?

Thanks


texts: Run Applescript while in full screen without going back to the desktop

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When I run an AppleScript from an application in fullscreen, for example Google Chrome, the system will change the focus to the desktop and leave the application was is in fullscreen.

tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    delay 0.8
    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke "c" using command down
    end tell
end tell

Is there any way to stop switching to the desktop and stay in fullscreen mode ?

I know you can return to fullscreen mode with…

tell application "Google Chrome" to activate

…but it is very annoying to go back to the desktop, even quickly, each time the script runs.


texts: Is there an app/solution to quickly send text snippets/links/images from Windows pc (clipboard) to your iPhone?

texts:
I constantly have the problem that I want to push a text snippets/links/images quickly from my Windows pc to my iPhone, without it being plugged or on the same Wi-Fi.

Every time, it seems to be a hassle. I send myself emails, or whatsapp messages.

There must be a solution. Does anyone know a remedy for this?


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My iPhoto (iLife 11, version 9.1.5) committed sepuku. No fear, I have backups.

The backups I restored, instead of having 182GB of poorly taken pictures, ended up taking 276GB. Something failed with the restore procedure. The backup application I'm using is CrashPlan (and I do have an open support request about this with them and they are looking into it). I restored the whole directory of pictures (the iPhoto Library) into another directory and opened it with iPhoto (by starting it while pressing alt/option).

I restarted iPhoto in maintenance mode (by pressing alt and command when starting iPhoto) and selected all options but the restore from backups. After regenerating everything, it claimed there were 27000 new pictures in there somewhere. As expected. I was offered to import them. I selected yes. Asmost all the pictures were duplicates and they are being ignored.

Now, my concern is, those pics must still be laying around. Any ideas how to find them and delete them?

Update: in this screenshot you can see the differences in sizes between the original library, now broken, the recovered and fixed library and re-recovered, unfixed library:


texts:
I would like Low Power Mode to be the default state of my device.

When I get to 80% battery it toggles itself off automatically.

How can I stop it turning itself off?

How can I always keep my phone in low power mode (or some other equivalent)?


texts:
I am trying to connect my xbox to my iMac using a Thunderbolt HDMI adapter. One end is an HDMI port, which I plugged my xbox HDMI cord into and then I plugged the Thunderbolt into my computer

The Xbox works on a TV using an HDMI cord.
Early 2013 iMac
macOS Mojave 10.14.2
AmazonBasic mini DP to HDMI

However, when I press Command F2, nothing happens. It just makes a sound like its saying "no" or whatever, like the incorrect sound.

Is there another way to go into Target Display or is there a program that I need to actually view the screen on my Mac?

Target Display Mode just isn't popping up, so I've already tried it. What else can I do?


texts:
My Mac won’t boot up it makes the noise but just has a grey screen. When i utility boot the system it does not work and when I internet boot to disc utility it won’t allow me to erase the Mac OS X base system! It’s as if I’m locked out. My MacBook is also making a strange loud clicking noise. Please help?
Thank you.


texts: Can I initiate a MacOS restart to Recovery mode solely from the command line?

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I've done some searching online without luck, hoping that one of you Mac virtuosos might know the answer. On Intel Macs, I know I can hold Command  + R but I'm looking for a terminal command to initiate this without keys being pressed.
Is there a command that will reboot a Mac into recovery mode?


texts: Sync iTunes library with Dropbox without letting iTunes organize the folders and files

texts:
I have an old MacBook on which I'm using iTunes to listen to my music. What is important to me is that I organize the folders and filenames of my music manually, i.e. I have the box "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" in the "Advanced" section of the iTunes Preferences unchecked.

(I know that at this point, many people will say "why don't you just let iTunes sort your music", but that's not an option for me. I don't want any software to handle the folder / file structure. Moreover, a sorting based on artist, album and track title is useless for sorting classical music, which is a very important part of my music collection.)

I just bought a new MacBook Air, but I will keep using my old MacBook. Now I want to have my music synced between the two Macs. I have all my music in a Dropbox folder, which will soon be completely downloaded to my new MacBook Air.

My question is: Is there a way to set things up such that I can manually add new music to the (Dropbox) music folder, with all tags set right, such that they will automatically be imported to both computers' libraries, but without "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" being checked? Or at least such that if I import it to iTunes once, it will automatically be imported to the iTunes library on the other computer?

I noticed one thing: The library files of the iTunes on my old MacBook are placed in ".../Music/iTunes/iTunes Music". Even if I choose a new location for the iTunes library, as long as I leave "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" unchecked, it doesn't move the library files to that new location. Thus, I don't know how to move the location of the library files to the Dropbox. Even if I would know, I'm not sure whether things would work because the Dropbox folder does not have the same full location string on the two computers because, for example, the home folders have different names.

Any ideas?


texts: XQuartz was recently upgraded. Some apps that used X11 no longer work

texts:
Recently XQuartz was automatically updated on my Mac running High Sierra. Now the apps that used X11 no longer work. I also noticed that if I run XQuartz by double-clicking on the app it opens but immediately shuts down after about 1 second.

Does anyone know why my apps requiring X11 no longer work?


texts: How to Prevent macbook from sleeping when the lid is closed?

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When I close the lid, it goes to sleep mode. But sometimes I need my MacBook awake even when the lid is closed while downloading a very large file from the internet or listening to iTunes playlists.

Is there any way to keep my MacBook awake and keep downloading at the same time??


texts: spinning circle next to wifi symbol when music folder open

texts: I get the spinning circle when my music app is open, it never turns off! Can this drain my battery? on brand new iPhone 5s on ios7


texts: Will Time Machine delete old backups for other computers on the same drive?

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I have an external 500 GB HDD that I've used for Time Machine backups for three different computers:

An old PowerBook G4
A white MacBook
My current retina MacBook Pro

I now have less than 100 GB free on the backup drive, so sooner or later it's going to fill up. I know that when the disk fills up, Time Machine will start deleting the oldest backups in order to make room for the new ones.

My question is: will it delete the oldest backups only for the machine that it's currently used with (which is the retina MBP), or will it delete the PowerBook's backups since those are technically the oldest on the disk, even though they're from a different machine?


texts: ndtrack prompt after macbook was upgraded from highsierra to mojave

texts: What shall I do to address this ndtrack issue? I did some research online but didn't find anything particularly useful.


texts: Custom 'master' password for iOS Keychain like on MacOS

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On MacOS I use a custom password for keychain. so the only way to see the saved passwords is with this 'master' password you setup on Keychain.

It is useful if another one has to access to your mac and you have to tell than you user login password. As the login password is different than the keychain password, this person will not be able to access the password on keychain.

I would like to know if there is this same feature for IOS.
Some times you have to share your iPhone password with someone you know. But you do not want they to go in preferences and type you iPhone default passwords and see all you saved passwords on safari.


texts: Is there a way to set a fixed number of spaces for a tab indent? If not, can someone recommend a program that is simple like TextEdit, but also does have fixed tab spacing?


texts: Password in user settings is no longer valid

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I have a 2010 Macbook pro 13 " .. 7 .. The upgradable one .. It has 8 GB RAM and  new battery. It is running the latest version of the macOS --  High Sierra, and is running great, but it sort of slowed down a bit. The usual sign that someone is maybe trying something, so I re-started the machine. Put in the name and password and all went well!

After running OK for a while I discovered that it went into sleep mode, rather earlier than I normally have it set.

I went into energy saver preferences. Indeed it was now set to go to sleep quickly. To change anything I need to enter the administrator and the password.

I discovered that I no longer have a valid password for it!

That is quite a surprise! I tried all sort of past passwords to no joy!

Anyone have an answer to this problem??

When the machine is hot and you switch it off and then on again it will not charge the battery!

I read all sort of stuff about resetting whatever it was, but nothing worked!

Quite by accident I noticed that it started charging after cooling down a bit.

These days If I have been using it elsewhere I shove it in the freezer for 5 minutes and it works fine!


texts: Why does Xcode save my files in autosave information?

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I ran into this problem today while writing code. Whenever I open a source file in Xcode, make changes and save them, the file will be copied to the "autosave information" folder and the references in the source tree view (command + 1) are changed to the new location.

Right now I cannot edit files "in place" but have to edit them and copy them back from "autosave information".

The code files are in a folder within "Shared" (my local "GitHub" repository folder to be exact). The account I'm using to edit the files owns them and has r/w-permissions.
On another account which doesn't own the files but has r/w-permissions the problem doesn't occur.

My Mac is a MacBook Pro Retina 15" 2014, 2,2 Ghz i7 running OS X 10.10.5. Does anybody have an idea what's wrong and how to fix it?

UPDATE

So, I found out two things

it happens with files outside of the "GitHub" folder in "Shared" as well
it only happens if I open a window in XCode and add files (the file I open first is saved in place, the added files are saved in "Autosave Information")

Removing ACL permissions didn't help.


texts: How can I increase brightness on my macbook above the limit?

texts: I recently purchased the new macbook and when comparing it to my 2013 macbook retina, the newer model is much dimmer, it was as if I downgraded. Is there any way to "hack" the brightness in the backend to make it brighter than what the settings are?


texts: I want to prevent the user from being able to stream to remote speakers with any client on their laptop. Is there a way to globally disable AirPlay on a Mac OS X (10.6 or 10.7) system?


texts: "Reduce motion" is not working when option "Displays have separate Spaces" is unchecked

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has anyone answer to this please ?

The thing is, when I check "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission control settings, Reduce motion kicks in and it works....but when I want to have "one big space" across all monitors and I uncheck the option -  the animation is working again, but it shouldn't.


texts: How to unlock an iPhone 3GS with 05.16.05?

texts:
I had a perfectly working unlocked and jailbroken iPhone 3GS, but of course I had to go ahead and try to get iOS 5 on it. I didn't know I need to preserve my baseband while updating it, so now ultrasn0w will not unlock it for me and I'm left without a phone line.

Is there any way to unlock an iPhone 3GS with 05.16.05 baseband? If not, is there any expected change that will allow me to do so?


texts: Replace "search with google" with "search with bing" in context menu

texts: Is there a way to replace this context menu item to search with Bing instead of Google? I looked under Keyboard shortcuts > Services but can't find how to change/add this option.


texts: Why does quitting an application automatically bring up Finder?

texts: When I quit an application, Finder is automatically brought up rather than the last application I was using. Why does this happen, and is there any way to change this? Thanks.


texts: Applications - (Registered User Name Visibility)

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How do I hide (not change) the name of the user on a Mac application start up screen. I have a software package that is authorised to all users through a encrypted licence file. The software splash screen displays the name of the IT manager on start up.

I am authorised to use this but would prefer not to display the registered name each time it starts.


texts: How do I get my (lost) device's serial number from its UDID?

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I lost an iPad, and I need the serial number - all I have of it is the UDID.

The device is not registered, I don't have the box, and I don't have backups of it either.

I suppose that calling Apple could get me the serial number if I provide the UDID. But that's a step I'd like to avoid. Perhaps there is an email address? (Have lurked their site but I've been unable to find such).

For context, this question comes from https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/90459/identifying-a-lost-stolen-ipad-without-connecting-it-to-a-computer-or-downloadin?noredirect=1#comment106184_90459 - from the comments it seems like getting the serial number would be the most appropiate way to identify my lost iPad, since I have certain complications using the UDID to check that.


texts: VirtualBox: mount USB in macOS High Sierra

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I'm running VirtualBox 5.2.8 on my Mac High Sierra 10.13.3. The guest OS is also macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.

My external SSD is unmounted from my host system and is correctly mounted as USB 3.0 with filter to VirtualBox. However, the drive does not show up in my guest OS. diskutil list does not list the drive, but my drive does show up in the guest OSs System Information.

How can I fix this issue?

Looking forward to your response.

EDIT

I noticed that only my portable Samsung SSD (format: Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) is not recognised by my guest OS. However, it works just fine on my host system. Other usb sticks with the same format are recognised.


texts: Can I stop predictive typing from suggesting emojis?

texts:
I hardly ever use emojis in my messages. Recently, I used one in a text and now predictive typing always recommends emojis for my words.

Is there any way that I can keep predictive typing on, but not have it suggest emojis?


texts: Is it possible to compile and run an Xcode project on a jailbroken device without a paid developer certificate?

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Both for kicks and for budgetary reasons, I'd like to take a package that would normally require a developer account and build an app to run on a jailbroken iOS device.

I have a 5th gen iPod Touch, jailbroken using evasi0n, running iOS 6.1.

I am using Xcode 4.6 with OS X (10.8.2) Lion.


texts: OSX Calendar not showing Exchange Account

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So because the mail app from Apple is far from perfect and never showed me the date and time of calendar invites from MS Exchange environments (after the Yosemite update) I was adviced to re-add the exchange account in Preferences -> Internet Accounts.

After doing that, the calendar app just won't show the exchange account anymore. It's right there in the settings, but not in the panel:

Can anyone tell me how I get my exchange calendar back to the calendar app?

Thanks in advance for any help.

PS.: the bug in mail (no date&time for cal invites) wasn't fixed by this btw.


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What video formats are usable within iTunes, specifically for syncability/playability on iOS devices?

I understand that we're talking about a number of different things here:

Container format
Video codec
Audio codec
Subtitle format

I have a fairly extensive library of many different kinds of videos, and the prevailing formats are MKV and AVI.  I don't really know what codecs are most common in my library, but they pretty much fall under the generic MPEG4 banner, I suppose.

Whenever I research this question on my own, Google results are saturated with transcoding utilities (both paid and free).  Sure, transcoding makes for a simple "one click and it magically makes my home video play on my iPad" solution, but for my library it presents a few problems:

Loss of quality
Significant investment in time and computing resources

Is it possible that most of what I have is close enough and just needs to be re-muxed into a different container format?  Is there a utility (even command-line) which I could try for this?  How would I use that utility to remux and not transcode?


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I'm new to the filming/editing game and I am only equipped with my iphone 7+. I recently purchased a dual lightning adapter and Lavalier Lapel Microphone. I've started an ASMR channel that relies on delicate sounds + spoken word simultaneously

I was wondering if it was at all possible to have both the Lavalier mic and standard iphone headphones plugged in at the same time and have their own separate audios being recorded so that the video sounds layered?

I'm trying to avoid having to record voice-overs at a later time and I am worried about the voice taking precedence over sounds (or vice versa)

essentially, I am asking for the simplest way to have segmented sound and still use my phone.


texts: Using Garage Band sounds for commercial purposes

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Im making a Drumming app for the iphone and the ipod touch.
I was searching for good drum samples around the internet, but couldn't find anything fitting. Then i thought of garageband and its drum kits which contained the samples that i needed.

Will apple allow me to use the garageband's kit sounds separatly and for commercial purposes?


texts: What is the python-style equivalent of virtual environments but for a user account on a Mac OS?

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I want to install different packages and software but I really don't like the idea of doing a sudo command to install anything.

I use Homebrew and MacPorts for getting any apps I need but is it possible to install applications, libraries and packages specific to a python style virtual environment and if I think I don't want these packages to collide, I can just delete a virtual environment or simply use a different environment?

Please let me know if the question does not make sense. Ever since I started using virtual environments in Python, I can't imagine not working with virtual environments and I was wondering if there is something equivalent or a pattern of installation that people recommend that would mimic that behavior?

ps> I know there is Fink also but I don't use it.

Version 2:
I think I need to verify my question further.
I already use virtualenvwrapper and do everything Python related in virtual environments. The question is independent of Python. Its just that virtualenv inspired me to see if there was an equivalent, user-account-wide.

What I figured would be awesome, came up when I was trying to install libjpeg, PIL, FreeType2, Pillow etc.
I wanted to install these libraries or packages like libjpeg, FreeType2 in a virtual environment of the OS. If I felt like the Homebrew version of these library installs was not to my satisfaction, I could just work in a different environment or try some other installation procedures and switch between environments of the installed applications.

So, I was wondering if something like that exists for OS X or are there some tricks one can do to emulate it?


texts: Skype on iPhone - does phone have to be awake / unlocked to receive calls?

texts:
I have just installed the Skype app on my iPhone 5 running iOS 10.3.3.

To recieve Skype calls does the phone have to be awake/unlocked?

Does the Skype app have to be open/launched? I periodically double click the home button and close / swipe up all open apps. I presume if I do this to Skype I can't receive calls?

To receive calls does the Skype app have to be the currently open app? Or can I use other apps, with Skype open in the "background"?


texts: Can I upgrade MacBookPro13"(Early 2011-1333 MHZ DDR3-2.3 GHZ i5) to 16GB 1600 MHZ RAM?

texts: Can I install 16 GB 1600 MHZ RAM on my MacBookPro 13" (Early 2011-4GB 1333 MHZ DDR3 ) with 2.3 GHZ i5 processor? According to Apple support, I can upgrade upto 8 GB only and does not provide information about 1600 MHZ RAM. Please help.


texts: applescript how to focus keyboard on menu bar 2

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I am trying to get the keyboard to focus the right menu bar (Bartender 3 has this exact same feature).
In System Preference, Shortcut, Keyboard there is a shortcut but it works only for the left menu.

I've tried some AppleScript but I am total noob.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
    tell (activate menu bar 2)
    end tell
end tell

this is with a shortcut from bartender 3. Basically get the focus on the first menu (on the menu bar on the top right) so I can move with the keyboard.

It could work if I click the menu with the mouse (so scripting applescript to click) but I believe that I need to know the position of the last menu or the name.
Since those menu dont really have an order they might change (they are created with Hammerspoon so I might delete them, change them etc.)

Sure I could just click the menu that is always there and move from there but I would like to know how to recreate Bartender 3 shortcut.


texts: Solution for Airprint with a router that is not Bonjour compatible

texts: I'm trying to troubleshoot remotely for my mother and her iPad. I sent her a Canon Airprint-compatible printer which is visible/usable on her wireless network by a desktop PC and a netbook, but not visible by the iPad. After trying software updates and power cycling without success, we finally determined that her Actiontec router is not Bonjour compatible. We're about to replace her router, but I thought I'd check to see if there might be a cheaper solution to be found here.


texts: How can I find out what is taking up space on my hard drive?

texts:
I have a tiny hard drive - 128 GB. I am not that technical. I see that other files under storage is taking up say 40 GB of space. My boyfriend got me a WD NAS hard drive and I was able to move my photos from iPhoto, and iTunes, there to free up some space.
I accidentally deleted iPhoto so in order to install it.
My boyfriend showed me a script that showed the size of some big directories.

.3G   /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie 9.0.9.app/Contents/Resources
1.3G  /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie 9.0.9.app/Contents
1.3G  /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie 9.0.9.app
1.3G  /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9
2.0G  /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents
2.0G  /Applications/iMovie.app
5.3G  /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport
5.3G  /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents
5.3G  /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app
1.1G  /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Resources
1.3G  /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents
1.3G  /Applications/iPhoto.app
1.0G  /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office
1.2G  /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011

Can i delete the iMovie directory and maybe download it at a later time?
Is there a better way to figure out where all the space is being taken up?
Like lets say I had an 18 GB zip file saved on my desktop. Theoretically that would be under the other space category but OS X isn't helping make me aware of that file. How do I find big files like that? Mind you i don't have a 18 GB zip file sitting around but I am trying to find if I have any big files sitting around to delete.


texts:
I'm trying to install silverlight in mi Mac pro (retina) with Yosemite bat I can't. I install de package, it says correctly installed but when I try to run netflix it ask me again to Install Silverlight. might be a problem with Rosetta but I dont know how to uninstall Rosetta.

Appreciate any help


texts: What happens if I click "delete backup", do I still have my photos on the camera roll?

texts:
I'm running out of space in iCloud, so I decided to turn off all the backups and delete them.

What happens if I click "delete backup" at the bottom of the manage store page?

Do I still have my photos in the camera roll?


texts: How can I restrict apps from taking action when I press media keys?

texts:
My problem is more specifically with the Play key. When I have apps like Music, Spotify, Quicktime or similar media players open, I think it's expected the app with focus will have preference taking over the Play key, however this is also true for messenger apps like Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Telegram, etc.

When I click play on an audio recording or a video in either of these messenger apps, they take over the play key, so when I press play on my keyboard, instead of playing/pausing my media in my music player (Music, Spotify, etc) the audio/video plays/pauses in the messenger app, and currently the only way I've found to stop the app from taking over the play key is to restart it.
Is there a way to control which apps should be allowed to listen to media keystrokes?
I've looked all over in system preferences for an option related to this, without success :(


texts: Can't reinstall OS on MacBook Pro from 2009

texts:
I formatted the drive on the MacBook Pro because my sister used to own it (she bought it off of ebay) and it had a lot on it. When I started it back up, it booted into OS X utilities and when I tried reinstalling the OS which was El Capitan, it gave me the prompt to sign in to my apple id. I signed in but it gave me the error:
This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
Afterwards I have tried many different things, none of which have worked, including:

Signing into iCloud on the device before trying to reinstall the OS
Changing the date around
Created a USB boot drive with El Capitan and Yosemite and trying to boot off of those. The MacBook did not recognize the USB drive. The drive was in GPT.
I cleared pram before trying USB boot drive too
And since the MacBook Pro is from 2009, internet recovery mode did not work either.


texts: I want to hear sound of push notification when sound is turned off (like iOS alarm clock)

texts:
When I receive a push notification no sound is played when the sound is switched of on the device (with switch on side of iPhone).

When I add an alarm event in the iOS clock I do hear the sound although sound is switched off.

Can I force to play sound with Push notifications when sound is switched off?

everybody thanks for the response (this was a programming question)

with regards,
Frank

PS I don't know what is meant by fixing up my accept rate but I'll have a look into that...


texts: Can launchd run programs more frequently than every 10 seconds?

texts:
I have some services like this that I'd like to run almost immediately after files are modified.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN
http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>test</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>say</string>
        <string>a</string>
    </array>
    <key>WatchPaths</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/username/Desktop/</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Even if ThrottleInterval was set to 1 or 0, they are only run at most every 10 seconds.

9/9/12 4:57:05.457 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[138]: (test) Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds
9/9/12 4:57:09.541 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[138]: (test) Throttling respawn: Will start in 3 seconds

man launchd.plist only says that programs aren't run more than every 10 seconds by default, but doesn't mention that ThrottleInterval couldn't be set below that.

ThrottleInterval <integer>
This key lets one override the default throttling policy imposed on jobs by launchd.
The value is in seconds, and by default, jobs will not be spawned more than once
every 10 seconds.  The principle behind this is that jobs should linger around just
in case they are needed again in the near future. This not only reduces the latency
of responses, but it encourages developers to amortize the cost of program invoca-
tion.

You could keep the program or script running for 10 seconds and watch for changes every second:

#!/bin/bash

start=$(date +%s)
prev=

until (( $(date +%s) >= $start + 10 )); do
    new=$(stat -f %m ~/Desktop/)
    [[ $prev != $new ]] && say a
    prev=$new
    sleep 1
done

Or the same in Ruby:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

start = Time.now
prev = nil

until Time.now >= start + 10
  current = File.mtime("#{ENV['HOME']}/Desktop/")
  `say a` if current != prev
  prev = current
  sleep 1
end

But is there some way to bypass or decrease the time limit? It also applies to folder actions.


texts: What is the maximum capacity for a Time Capsule's hard drive?

texts: I am thinking of buying a Time Capsule with a small hard drive and upgrading the drive to something larger. There is ample documentation on the web as to how to do it, but I am having a hard time finding any details as to what the upper limits of drive size are. It's especially confusing since there are four generations of Time Capsule, and each one may have a different upper limit. So, what is the upper limit of each? And, if you only know the answer to one specific one, that would be great, too.


texts: Pair a bluetooth mouse directly with Macbook Air

texts:
I have Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse, which has a dedicated Bluetooth receiver USB dongle. When I plug it in on the left-hand side of the laptop and the mouse is physically on the right-hand side of the laptop, there is some kind of interference and the mouse does not work, it only works when the mouse is physically on the left-hand side of the laptop, closer to the dongle.
Is there a way to pair the mouse directly with the built-in Bluetooth in the Macbook Air so I don't have to use the USB dongle?
It is Macbook Air 13" 2020, and Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse.


texts: Special character codes are displayed in the Terminal for diacritics when connecting to an Ubuntu Server

texts:
When I connect to an Ubuntu Server (ssh) and I try to see some text in the Terminal form the remote server, I get character codes instead of the appropriate text with diacritics.

for example for a git log on the server I get:

Author: Ionic<C4><83> Biz<C4><83>u <bizauionica@...>

instead of:

Author: Ionică Bizău <bizauionica@...>

When I do git log on my local machine in the Terminal, I get the correct diacritics.

I have no idea in which category this issue falls:

Terminal
bash
ssh
Ubuntu
git

I initially asked Ubuntu for this issue but they redirected me here.

Any ideas?


texts: Command+Tab between apps does not work in Sierra

texts:
Since updating to macOS Sierra, many apps fail to respond correctly to Command+Tab switching.

For example, if the three most recent apps are any two other apps A and B and C, in the order A B C, Command+Tab from A briefly shows B, and then immediately switches to C.

Examples of B that exhibit this behavior include non-Apple apps (e.g. TextWrangler) as well as Apple apps (e.g. Messenger). Changing at least some apps to full screen causes them to behave correctly.

"Manually" switching by holding Command+Tab and selecting B fails in the same way.


texts: Can a MacBook Pro 13 (Mid-2010) battery be used in a 2009 unibody polycarbonate MacBook?

texts: I have one somewhere, I just don't have it on me. I'm just curious because my MacBook Pro died but has a new battery, and my 2009 MacBook has a dead battery. I'd rather not buy a new one if I don't have to.


texts:
I just started a new job and got given a new laptop, I am having problems archiving xcode iOS apps.
the command xcode wants to use is:
cd /Users/manuel.betancurt/Documents/testeos/iOS/suzo
/usr/sbin/chown -RH manuel.betancurt:MACSC\\Domain\ Users /Users/manuel.betancurt/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/suzo-budvdahrkocdbhdzgvybyoizscxk/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ArchiveIntermediates/suzo/InstallationBuildProductsLocation/Applications/suzo.app

but I get the error

chown: MACSC\Domain Users: illegal group name Command SetOwnerAndGroup
failed with a nonzero exit code

I can see the id for the user, but the group is not working?
So what is the issue?, why is this failing?, is this related to some configuration changed by the sysadmin that prepared the mac?
what is this group "MACSC\Domain\ Users"


texts:
I am very new to coding, especially to using an IDE like Xcode.

I have a finished app that I'm done compiling and testing it within Xcode itself. I wish to create a file that the user would double-click to run.

How do I get my program out of Xcode as a self-standing application?


texts: No colour dots to tag folders. Macbook Pro, OSX 10.10.3

texts:
I have just recently bought a used Macbook Pro with Yosemite installed. So far everything seemed to work ok, except today I tried to tag a folder with the coloured dot and found it not possible. The dots are there, but they have no colour. This doesn't look right and I haven't seen anything like this before.
Has anyone encountered anything like that? I would greatly appreciate your help?

Please check the screenshot attached below.


texts: Macbook Pro - install operating system on SD card?

texts: I read that you can expand you Macbook's storage with SD card. Is it possible to install an operating system (OSX to be precise) on that SD card and switch between the operating systems?


texts: As an iPad users sometimes I need to open .msg and .eml files. Sometimes email files types come as attachments in email messages. How do I open such type of mail in my ipad?


texts: With Microsoft RDP client, how do I mark a particular server certificate as trusted?

texts:
I am using Microsoft's RDC client on Mac OS X, to connect to a Windows server.  I am connecting to a RDC server that uses a self-signed certificate to identify itself.  As a consequence, when I connect, my RDC client gives me a warning dialog like this:

I can click "Connect" to continue, but then I have no security against man-in-the-middle attack, because "Connect" instructs my client to ignore the server cert.  I want to continue to connect, but in a way that is secure.

Another option is to go to the Microsoft RDC client's preferences pane:

and switch to "Always connect, even if authentication fails".  This way, I'm never shown the warning again: it's as if I automatically clicked "Connect" every time.  However, again, this is not secure: it skips authenticating the server, and thus is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

I want to be secure.  Therefore, neither of the two approaches above is satisfactory.

Conceptually, the obvious path forward is to somehow gain access to the server's self-signed certificate, and then ask the RDC client to treat it as trusted and never warn me about that certificate again.  This would be secure (like SSH).  However, I can't figure out how to get my RDC client to do that.

How do I arrange for this server's certificate to be treated as trusted (despite the fact that it is self-signed), and have the system never warn me about connections that use that particular certificate, but still provide security (e.g., warn me if the certificate changes)?


texts: iPad deleted all my books from Books app without asking me

texts:
A few days ago I was making a video with my iPad Air 2 camera. A pop-up alerted me that the 32GB memory was almost full, inviting me with a pop-up "Manage your space" or like this in Italian "Gestisci Spazio". I clicked the pop-up and was asked me if I would delete apps that I don't use so often. I accepted and Ipad deleted some apps. OK I said.
The day after I realized that the Books app was without my 80 books previously present! Ipad had deleted all my books whithout asking me! Very frustrating :-( . All my books (most of them pdf) had been downloaded from safari or emails so not from the apple store. A learned that the backup doesn't include pdf from Books, so a cannot restore an old backup I done in October 2020. I didn't have activated the iCloud Books switch in iCloud menu under settings, so not recovery is possible.
I already asked apple support without help at all. I read that I'm not alone with this big big bug.


texts: How can I watching TV shows and movies from Hulu or Netflix while being offline on my iPad or Nexus?

texts:
I'm a paid subscriber of both Hulu and Netflix and I'm a commuter that uses public transportation (i.e. subway), unfortunately lack of internet connectivity prevents me from using these services (Hulu/Netflix), so I'm looking for easy way to view Hulu and/or Netflix offline (w/out internet connectivity).

disclaimer: I am NOT trying to do anything illegal, I just want to be able to enjoy Hulu & Netflix by storing the content on either a Nexus 7 (preferably) or iPad mini.

How can I do it?


texts:
I was trying to re-install homebrew on my Mac. I used the following command.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

I got the following error. Could someone help me with what to do here?
==> Checking for `sudo` access (which may request your password).
Password:
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/share/doc/homebrew
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
/usr/local/Homebrew

Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R aryan:admin /usr/local/Homebrew
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
HEAD is now at 227445ece Merge pull request #11288 from Homebrew/update-manpage
fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Error: Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core failed!
Failed during: /usr/local/bin/brew update --force --quiet


texts: AppleID Not been accepted in XCode account pane

texts:
I've notived my Apple ID is not been accepted within XCode when I try add an Apple ID in the XCode accounts pane of preferences.

I have tested the account details in both the member ceter and itunes connect sites and the account is fine.

When I add the account details and click 'Add' I get the message:

john@abcdef.com could not sign in. Please sign in with an app-specific password. You can create one at appleid.apple.com

Any ideas? I've updated XCode (7.2.1) and Yosemite (10.10.5), rebooted etc but same thing everytime.

Note: I have a second apple id which does NOT have a developer license, I use this for my ipad store purchases and this logs into XCode fine strangely.

John


texts:
Today I was trying to update openssl in my MacBook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.2.
I don't know where I made a mistake but it seems I have accidentally disabled man. In fact, if I launch man <something> or man man or simply man it says --> -bash: man: command not found. Is there a way to restore it?

Some commands:

which man --> nothing

file /usr/bin/man --> man is a directory

I am afraid there's not an executable anymore.
In fact, with ls -al /usr/bin/man I got

total 0
drwxr-xr-x     6 root  wheel    204 30 Dic 18:15 .
drwxr-xr-x  1063 root  wheel  36142 30 Dic 20:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x    46 root  wheel   1564 30 Dic 18:15 man1
drwxr-xr-x  1025 root  wheel  34850 30 Dic 18:15 man3
drwxr-xr-x     4 root  wheel    136 30 Dic 18:15 man5
drwxr-xr-x     3 root  wheel    102 30 Dic 18:15 man7


texts: How to share my Snow Leopard Mac's connection to my HTC Desire running Android?

texts:
I have an HTC Desire that currently cannot connect to the internet and a Mac that can. I want the HTC Desire to be able to connect to the internet.

My Mac (running Snow Leopard 10.6.6) is connected to the internet over Wi-Fi.
Now I want to share my Mac's internet connection with my HTC Desire (Android 2.2).

On my HTC Desire I don't have root access.
On my Mac I have super user access.

Can I share my internet connection?
If it doesn't work with a Mac can i get this to work with Windows?

I do have a jailbroken iPod touch 2g with iOS 4.0, if the helps with any of this.


texts: Draft messages in Mountain Lion Mail do not include server draft messages

texts:
I had a clean install Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro, early 2011.

Following suggestions in the forums, I carried my "Mail" folders (folders, preferences, etc) from my cloned backup of Snow Leopard.

Mountain Lion Mail automatically created the necessary accounts in the new way it is set up.

However, the local Drafts folders do not include my drafted messages in individual IMAP e-mail accounts (yahoo, gmail, uni, etc).

I can see these draf messages under the folders of these individual e-mail accounts. But they are not like drafts. I cannot edit them. I have same controls as in the messages that are sent to me.

on the other hand, if I open a new message, type somethings and close without sending, that message goes into the Drafts folder.

How can I go around this problem?


texts: External hard drive very slow to load after dropping it and can't be repaired with Disk Utility

texts:
Today as I was using my WD HDD, it fell off my corner. After I fixed the thing, I plugged it into the Mac and it loads the HDD but it's very very very very slow. It also does not work sometimes. The entire laptop just hangs

Tried running Disk Utility First Aid but it won't work.  It says some error and hangs

Can someone advise me on what I can do in this case?


texts: How do I stop my iPhone from telling me by voice what keys I press and instead respond to them

texts: How do I stop my iPhone 5s from voice identifying what keys impress and actually respond and accept the keys I press?


texts: Yosemite does not have ftp sharing option in file sharing preferences?

texts:
I have just obtained a Macbook Pro with Yosemite installed and am trying to connect to it from another host on the local network via ftp. The connection is refused. So I get into the preferences in the Yosemite system and look of ftp option in the file sharing preferences. There isn't one. There is options for afp, smb sharing but not ftp. On my other Macs there is an option for ftp sharing.

Also, when I set the ethernet interface to manual address with sub net mask, the settings are not installed as reflected in terminal app command ifconfig. I can use ifconfig to set it but the settings are dropped when the machine is rebooted. I have to set them every time the machine boots.

I could write a shell script to configure the interfaces but I don't know where to put this script so it will be run on startup.

does anyone have suggestions, useful info on this issue?


texts: How can I have my shell always start in a certain directory that is not my home directory

texts:
I've tried putting

cd /Users/my_name/my_directory/structure

in both .bashrc and .bash_login but neither works, i.e. when I open a new terminal window I am in my home (/Users/my_name/) directory.

No error messages, just not cd'd into the directory as hoped when starting a new terminal window.


texts: Office 365 newly purchased is not launching on my Big Sur Mac? What can I do?

texts: I just installed big Sur on a Mac Book air. I purchased Office 365 and when I try to launch it, I gut just to base one, and then it stays stuck. What can I do?


texts: My keyboard isn’t working and I can’t log into my laptop

texts: My sister recently spilled water on my MacBook Air's keyboard, and unfortunately I couldn’t save it. Some keys on my keyboard don’t work, like for example the half the numbers and some letters. Because of this I can’t type in my password since it requires some of the affected keys. I tried to connect my wireless keyboard but my Mac's not detecting it, even though I’ve connected it before. There’s no cable opening on the keyboard either so I can use a wire. Is there another way I can connect my keyboard to my laptop? Or is my laptop just totally done for?


texts:
The plug portion of my power adapter broke off. Fortunately, this piece of the adapter seems to just slide off of the main adapter body, attaching via a round metal piece. So basically I would just need to find a new plug assembly and slide it on.

Has anyone ever done this, or know where I could find such a replacement part? Can't find anything on Apple.com.

Here's an example of what my adapter looks like now:

It looks like this is intentionally replaceable for the purpose of international electrical socket compatibility, so you'd think it'd be easy to find a new plug piece... ?


texts:
Getting below error frequently and my iPhone is not able to appear in iTunes dashboard even when my device is connected to Mac.
Mac OS - macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H2), iPhone OS - 13.7

Could not check for an update to the network provider settings for your iPhone. This device is no longer connected.

How to resolve this issue?


texts: Why can not print with IPv6 link-local printer in OSX?

texts:
I want to use ipv6 printer.
How should I set the address on the printer add screen in macOS 10.14?
I added an IPv6 printer with macOS 10.14 but cannot print.
[Printer Add Dialog]

The printer added with lpadmin was able to print.
sudo lpadmin -p test -v lpd://[fe80::220:6bff:fea3:af79+en0] -P /tmp/test.ppd;


texts: Is there any software for checking hardware in iOS?

texts: Is there anything like this in iOS for iDevices ?


texts: I accidentally deleted my "contacts" app on my iPhone. How do I get it back?

texts: I accidentally deleted my "contacts" App on my iPhone.  How can I get the app back?


texts: (Dictated) text in Google Translate iPhone App doesn’t delete with X

texts:
Google translate has a little X in the upper right of the area where you enter the text you want to be translated:

When you access Google translate using the web interface on Google Chrome and either macOS or iOS this X causes all entered text to be deleted, as expected.

But in the iOS Google translate app it doesn’t consistently work. For example if you enter text by typing with the keyboard and click the X it works, but if you enter that same text by dictation it doesn’t work. Does anyone know a way to make it work?

I have tried to use Feedback to let the developers know about this but there has been no change. It is not so easy to delete text without this feature working. You either have to click the delete key over and over and over, or select all the text and then delete — both of which are a lot more tedious than just clicking the X.

I’m using iOS 13.3 on an iPhone XR


texts: trying to restore contacts in yosemite with time machine

texts:
ok -- so my wife lost her contacts on her macbook pro (and icloud as well), but we use time machine -- i was trying to look around for help in how to restore ALL her contacts using time machine -- is there a file somewhere that contains all the contacts on the system that by replacing it with a full batch of contacts would replace the empty one i have how???

thanks

keith


texts: Does iTunes sync Volume Adjustment and other per song settings?

texts: Does iTunes sync per song settings like Volume Adjustment, EQ, and Start-Stop times?


texts: How to fix Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet slower than Wi-Fi Macbook Pro?

texts:
I recently bought a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter so I could have faster Internet. I plugged the cable into my Internet modem, and the other end into my adapter. I plugged the adapter into one of my Thunderbolt ports on my Macbook Pro running OSX 10.11.3 El Capitan. The computer recognized it and connected to Ethernet. When I used speedtest.net, my WiFi had a lower ping and higher upload and download speeds than my Ethernet. I tried the cable to both Thunderbolt ports, all the ports on my modem, and my router, and even tried using a different Ethernet cable; it just wouldn't go faster on Ethernet.

I tried resetting my PRAM (Which has recently been changed to NVRAM, but is essentially the same thing), and deleting my Thunderbolt Ethernet setup in System Preferences. If you want to know;

Ethernet:

Ping=17 ms
Download=3.50 MB/s
upload=1.21 MB/s

Wi-Fi:

Ping=13 ms
Download=3.76 MB/s
Upload=2.19 MB/s

As you can see, my WiFi is not very good so I got the adapter to speed up my connection by using Ethernet. I just spent $30 so please if anyone can help I really need it.


texts: Moving podcasts from Catalina podcasts app to music?

texts:
I subscribe to a set of podcasts in which each "episode" is a song. I want to convert the episodes into songs in my music library. Prior to Catalina, this was straightforward. I'd edit the podcasts to change the "media kind" from podcast to music, then edit a couple other metadata fields.

Now with Catalina, iTunes has been split into separate music and podcasts apps. I can start the podcasts app and select a "show" to see the episodes for a podcast. From there, the first thing I tried was to drag several episodes into the music app.

First of all, dragging more than about ten episodes at once causes the podcasts app to crash. I suppose that's a bug which Apple will eventually fix.

Dragging a small number of episodes into the music app does indeed import the file into music. But absolutely none of the metadata for the episode is retained. The only metadata field which is filled in is the song title, which is set from the filename including the ".mp3" extension:

Does anyone know of a practical way to save podcast episodes as music on Catalina, preserving the information about the episode which was provided by the publisher?

Edit: Actually, importing into the music app didn't work at all. the Music app recorded the file's location as ".../iTunes%20Music/Podcasts/KEXP%20Song%20of%20the%20Day/Squid%20-%20Match%20Bet.mp3", i.e. the location of the podcast app's copy of the file. And the music app seems to think the song is zero length for some reason.


texts:
I've been trying to find out how to reset the icon cache on my MacBook, and two methods seem to always be suggested. However, the two approaches differ slightly in the third line.

Method 1

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \;

sudo mv /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store com.apple.ic

Method 2

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \;

sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store

What do these two approaches essentially do and what is the effect of the difference on line three? Is one method better than the other?


texts: I have a MacBook Pro and use an Apple Magic Mouse. I want to pair a wireless headset but have not been able, I cannot even see where to start.


texts: Make Apple Hardware Test work on Mid 2009 MBP with OS X Mavericks

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I had some graphics issues after running Bluestacks to run WhatsApp. The screen flickered until I shut down the app and I got worried. So wanted to verify my system using AHT.

I got a AHT .pkg package from an Apple forum thread to make Apple Hardware Test work on my mid-2009 MBP (no more AppleCare available) running OS X Mavericks. It used to run Snow Leopard - Apple staff upgraded to SL before giving me the MBP).

Apple mentioned that Snow Leopard normally ran AHT from the second CD, but I do not have that nor do I have a backup. I tried all options like command-D and D and even alt-D (they talk about these here as well), but none worked so I decided to go this path.

Now when I restart and press D I see a brief flicker and then my Macbook Pro turns off. Fortunately it still runs, but I want this to work of course. Why is this happening? Are these kinds of errors logged somewhere?

There are tools to access the EFI Bootloader and perform diagnostics, add partitions and so on using rEFIt as mentioned here on SO. I might give that a shot to see how it all works.


texts: How to prevent apps from from not letting you restart Mac OS

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When I press restart button I mean it. Though Netbeans, iTerm, XAMPP think that they know better than me, and I get an error that the process has been stopped because of one of these apps.

Is there way to stop this circus once and for all, for all the apps together? I don't want any app at all to be able to stop me from restarting the system.

The idea is to make original "restart" button ignore other apps. I understand many apps won’t exit cleanly, I’m ok losing work and not being warned, I just want the fastest way to get on with the restart and not have it pause for any dialogs.

Ideally, I can set this in the restart menu and change that system wide. If not, how can I automate a tool for this without typing much.


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I have Mountain App running in my menu bar (it is an app that allows you to quickly mount and unmount drives attached to your computer). I would like to create a simple script that calls up the menu on the app (which runs only on the menu bar). I tried to follow the instructions and code found here: Create hotkey to open a menubar app?, replacing the name of the app where relevant

launch application "System Events"
  delay 0.2
  ignoring application responses
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mountain"
      click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
    end tell
  end ignoring

  do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
  delay 0.1
  tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mountain"
    tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
      click menu item 2 of menu 1
    end tell
  end tell

but it did not work for me, giving me an error in Applescript:

error "System Events got an error: Can’t get menu 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 of process \"Mountain\". Invalid index."
    number -1719 from menu 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 of process "Mountain"

Playing around with the menu and other code pieces never got the app to activate the menu. I also tried creating a "Watch Me Do" applescript, but it will only work in automator and I couldn't get it to work globally or in any other app.

I am not a coder or programmer, so rely on some level of creativity and googling around to figure this stuff out. Anyone have a suggestion? It seems like such a simple thing to do, but my searches have found that it is not.

EDIT: I have seen the tool clickclick suggested elsewhere as a way to accomplish a mouse click. However, my understanding is that for clickclick to work, the exact coordinates of Mountain in the menu bar would need to stay the same. Is that a correct assumption in this case? If I recall, those icons in the menu bar change location on every restart or if a menu app is quit.


texts: When does software take over firmware during boot in Macs?

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This is for me the $1 million question I’ve never had a certain answer about.

I learnt long ago that in newer 32bit-64bit PCs the initial phase of the startup process is controlled by firmware and is later taken over by software (loaded from the Hard Drive or SSD into memory during boot) which controls the system from them on. The reason being that the software drivers will usually be more up-to-date and will run the system better than the initial firmware drivers necessary to boot the computer.

According to this, the POST and initial image on the screen is controlled by firmware (software in a motherboard chip rather than loaded into Memory from the hard drive).

My doubt is whether this is also the case in Macs.

This is important in troubleshooting because it helps to narrow down whether software or firmware may be causing an issue (such as the display glitching at the beginning of the startup but not at the end of the boot or afterwards, after the software has taken over, which would hint the firmware is at fault rather than the software) or "the screen glitching after boot can't be attributed to firmware as firmware is not running after boot".

My doubt is if something different may be happening: such as “the initial image on the screen is controlled by software, because the software has already taken over”, which I think is probably not the case.

I’d very much appreciate some wisdom on this.


texts: Missing calendar events and can't create new ones

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All of my past and future events have disappeared from my Calendar, the only events left in there are birthdays and Facebook events. All manually entered appointments etc., are gone.

Also, I cannot add new events anymore: the + sign is grayed out.

I just noticed this yesterday afternoon when I tried to add an event. I'm almost positive that they were there prior to that! How do I get my events back, and fix it so I can add events again!?


texts: Renew Apple Developer Program with different email address

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I am thinking to renew Apple Developer Program with a different Apple ID. Reason: There is a big mess in my iTunesConnect dashboard. I have started a lot of app, but not yet approved, and I do not want to continue them, or just created to claim for the app name. So it is hard to delete them. And CloudKit Dashboard is also messy. There is plenty of container I have to scroll a lot to find the appropriate one.

I thought I remove all my apps from App Store, and I will resubmit with my new developer program from new account.

Do you know any drawback?


texts: Can't find Microsoft One note in iPad's appstore

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I have iPad MM172LL/A, OS version 11.12 (15B202). I would like to install Microsoft One Note.
When I got to app store on the iPad and search for Microsoft One Note, it's not showing up. What's going on?


texts: Pioneer DVD-ROM will not eject after some time of system usage

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I'm having an odd issue where after my Mac Pro works for a certain amount of time (it seems variable), the drive will no longer seemingly be recognized.  It shows up in the hardware profile for the system, however when I hit the eject key, Toast starts up instead of my drive responding.  Further, when Toast or any other CD / DVD writing utility is started, the drive is not recognized in these applications.  Any idea as to what could potentially be going on here?

The thing that throws me the real curve ball is that it DOES work for a little while when the system is restarted and then just "disappears" as noted.

NOTE: Even when Toast is not in the mix Disk Utility and other apps will not recognize the drive.  It is obviously some kind of an OS issue in terms of it still showing up in the hardware profile, yet no applications are able to detect / use it properly.


texts: How to extend the standard color picker to pick and edit HEX colors?

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In Ask Different there are similar threads (e.g. Choosing hexadecimal web colours), but unfortunately no one is resolutive for me.

The perfect solution would be Hex Color Picker (a plugin for the standard picker), because it goes beyond picking allowing to edit/create swatches also. Unfortunately, it does not work for me: for some reason the hex picker returns wrong hex values. E.g. a full red image (#ff0000) created in photoshop, is evaluated as #f70016 (see image below). I tested this behaviour picking both from Photoshop and from an exported .png opened in browser. Both in Maverick and Mountain Lion.

Can you suggest me an alternative solution or a fix for this issue?


texts: 2017 Macbook pro 13 inch 3 monitors help

texts: I have done quite a bit of searching and haven't found a solution to my issue. I have a 2017 macbook pro 13 inch with touchbar. I want to be able to use 3 monitors 1080p via apple usb c digital av hub so usb to hdmi for all 3 monitors plugged each into their own port. I can only get two to work including in clamshell mode. Is there a way to get this to work while using laptop as intended or would I have to use bootcamp or something? Thanks


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XRG system monitor is awesome!

But I can't figure out how to minimize it. I'm sure I'm missing something simple.

Any ideas?

iMax
El Capitan 10.11.3
XRG 2.0.0