texts: Including virtual environment in bash prompt

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I am using bash on MacBook Air running macOS Mojave   and wanted to change the color of terminal prompt.

I was helped on this question on SO and this IBM blog after which I used

export PS1="\[\e[30;47m\]\W\[\e[30;47m\]$\[\e[0m\]"

which has colour, wrapping, working directory and $.

It changed the colour but the prompt doesn't have (base) or (ml) in it.
It is the virtual environment I created using conda. conda deactivate  removes it. Originally,

$ echo $PS1
(base) \h:\W \u\$           #original prompt with base.

$ conda deactivate
$ echo $PS1
\h:\W \u\$                  #original prompt with no environment.

$ conda activate ml
$ echo $PS1
(ml) \h:\W \u\$             #original prompt with ml environment.

$ export PS1="\[\e[30;47m\]\W\[\e[30;47m\]$\[\e[0m\]"
$ echo $PS1
\[\e[30;47m\]\W\[\e[30;47m\]$\[\e[0m\]    #new prompt with no environment
                                          #while ml is active

What can I include to have the (base) or (ml) there,  to make it like

$ echo $PS1
(base) \[\e[30;47m\]\W\[\e[30;47m\]$\[\e[0m\]    #expected result.

I didn't find any reference on bash manual for virtual environment under controlling the prompt section.

I need to find where the current active environment is. Either in any file or any command that invokes the env name, which can written in ~/.bash_profile  and then add that variable to PS1.


texts: Where is a video stored after it is deleted from my iPhone?

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If I take a 60 second video and send it to someone via SMS/iMessage and then delete the video from my Photo Library, where is the data stored?

Is it still stored on my iCloud, the iCloud of the person who received the message, both, or is it possible that it is stored somewhere else?


texts: keyboard shortcut is driving me crazy, how do I get rid of it?

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I use the keyboard shortcut CommandOptionL to lock my machine. For the most part this works, but not if Chrome is in focus. In Chrome, when I use that combination, it opens the "Downloads" page in a tab. I have tried everything I can think of to prevent this.

There is a menu item for "Downloads": Window -> Downloads. I have used the  System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts to attempt to set it to something else, but it doesn't seem to matter, I can add a new shortcut for Downloads, but no matter what I do CommandOptionL still opens Downloads. The only difference is the shortcut I configure highlights "Window" in the menu bar momentarily, while CommandOptionL does not. Although it does highlight if I set the shortcut to CommandOptionL.

I have even gone so far as to set defaults write com.google.Chrome NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Downloads' '\0'.

When I read:

defaults read com.google.Chrome NSUserKeyEquivalents
{
    Downloads = "";
}

and yet CommandOptionL still opens the Downloads page.

Global keyboard shortcuts in macOS  have always been frustrating, but it was possible to override each conflicting app, but this one is driving me crazy.

EDIT: I also went through the chrome extensions and no keyboard shortcut was set to CommandOptionL. I also tried disabling all extensions; it did not work.


texts: Does Apple have a policy restricting generic UUID with iBeacon apps in the app store?

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I heard that developers must specify clearly the list of iBeacon UUID their app is working with, and that each change in this list would require an update.
The reason would be to prevent companies to apply "counter-marketing" strategies, using their opponents' iBeacons to broadcast their own coupons.

I'm developing a generic app that may let the user input his iBeacon's UUID or fetch them from a server.

Would this application be really rejected by the appstore's validation process ?


texts: Activating the Apple Thunderbolt Display speakers when Macbook Pro is docked

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Sometimes, I don't get access to the Display Audio that my Thunderbolt Apple Display provides when I dock to the machine with my MacBook Pro.  The clunky way to solve this, is a reboot.  I've tried using the Apple Preferences (Sound), but that fails to provide the option, unless I reboot.  Here is what my system_profiler shows as available Sound/Devices after the reboot (and when the Apple Preferences does give me the option to select the bigger Thunderbolt display):

Devices:

    Built-in Input:

      Input Channels: 2
      Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
      Current SampleRate: 44100
      Transport: Built-in

    Built-in Output:

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

    Display Audio:

      Default Input Device: Yes
      Default Output Device: Yes
      Input Channels: 1
      Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
      Output Channels: 2
      Current SampleRate: 44100
      Transport: USB

Any ideas how to 'wake-up' the Thunderbolt connection to recognize the third item (Display Audio) without resorting to a reboot? Ideally, that would at least activate it as an option in the Apple Preferences menu.

Here's a picture of the Preferences:


texts: rsync -a not preserving file ownership or group

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I'm rsyncing from a remote linux box to my local solid state hard drive on my mac running High Sierra. I'm using the -a switch (archive) which is supposed to preserve the ownership of the group but the files are saved with my owner and group, not the ones on the remote server. Using disk utility, I see Owners is set to enabled.

I seem to remember being able to do this and the files would be saved with the UID and GID numbers.

Is this still possible?


texts: Is there better third-party scanner software for OS X than Preview?

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I'm not overly happy with the UI for interfacing with the scanner on my Epson WF-3250 series scanner that's provided by the latest Preview that comes with OS X 10.10. It's clunky and awkward, crashes often. You have to reselect your options every time you use.

It's just, honestly, not very Apple-like.

Is there reliable third party scanning software that I could use in place of Preview for obtaining PDF scans of multi-page documents on the Epson's auto-feeder?

Edit: With OS X 10.9, Epson stopped shipping its own scanner utility. The ship a driver and instructions to use Preview for acquiring images on OS X.


texts: I need a keyboard shortcut for Adding Bookmarks for multiple tabs in Safari

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There was an older post about this question (link below) from a few years back but I'm wondering if that process no longer works due to iCloud bookmarks, Safari 12, new MacOS etc.

What I would like to do is create a keyboard shortcut for the "Add Bookmarks for These (XX) Tabs..." in a current window of Safari. The System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts doesn't work since the menu label has to be exact and the tab number variable needs to change to match the number of tabs each time. I did do a test with 5 in there and that works for an instance with 5 tabs. Not sure if there is a variable that can be written in there that knows it needs to change.

If not through system settings, assuming it would need to be something like an Apple Script which would work as I'm trying to use Stream Deck to set a button to fire the script.

Adding Bookmarks for multiple tabs in Safari with a keyboard shortcut


texts: Using SPECIFIC monitors with Microsoft Remote Desktop

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I have two users with a specific request that I am struggling to figure out.  They each use a 27" iMac with Retina display and 2 additional external monitors connected via USB Type-C utilizing the 2 Thunderbolt ports on the iMac.  They're running MacOS 10.15.x (Catalina).
I have a Windows 10 enterprise VM for each user and use Microsoft Remote Desktop 10.4 (current vers.) to RDP into the VM.  The VMs are on a Hyper-v server.
The users need to run MacOS on the iMac display and use the other 2 monitors for the Windows VM.  On the PC version of Remote Desktop that is achievable by editing the config file with  selectedmonitors:s:  However, on the Mac version, that switch is not available.  As far as I can tell, the MacOS version only supports using either 1 display or all displays.
I have been able to get it working sometimes by turning on "Use all monitors" in RDP prefs and then once the VM is connected, pull up the dock on the iMac display.  That doesn't always work though and it's confusing for users because any window on the PC that would have been on the iMac screen is not visible.
I understand the "Displays Use Separate Spaces" command in Mission Control, but that doesn't help me. I have also looked at some display management software, but nothing I found seems to fit my use case.
Any ideas?


texts: Anyone knows how many mAh in iPod Touch 4th generation battery?

texts: Does anyone know how many mAh does the iPod Touch 4th generation battery have? Seems like Apple doesn't provide this particular info.


texts: How do I remove a preference (save password) set in the iCloud keychain?

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Months ago I was on a website and after logging in, Safari prompted 'Do you want to save this information to your iCloud keychain' or something. If I'd said yes, the next time I'd went to that site, my login information would already be filled in.

However, for a single site, I (think I)'ve set it to 'Don't remember login information' and I can't get that to change to 'remember login information'; At least, I do not know where to correct that setting.

So simply: How do I adjust a preference of 'Do not remember' to 'remember' or at least that preference?

Thanks!


texts: External FileVault encrypted SSD can no longer be mounted

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I have an external 4TB SSD, formatted HFS (MacOS Extended, Journaled, encrypted). It has one volume, called "Daten".

All of a sudden (after installing 10.14.6 Supplemental Update) the volume no longer mounts.

In disk utility the volume is greyed out and has a strange new name:

"Daten[many blanks]3111002011"

Selecting the Drive and running First Aid shows no error.
When selecting the Volume, First Aid is greyed out.
[edit: First Aid is possible via the File menue. It fails with the error: "Invalid request. Operation failed…"]

This is the output of diskutil coreStorage list and an attempt to mount and verifyVolume:

$ diskutil coreStorage list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group F8B554D1-4504-4CB8-9E2C-867BE08442DC
    =========================================================
    Name:         Daten
    Status:       Online
    Size:         4000451620864 B (4.0 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume DDD64DF2-295D-440A-BE08-4E36316DA943
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk2s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     4000451620864 B (4.0 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family A6CDDA9C-50BC-452A-961C-188A6D44CF05
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        High Level Queries:      Fully Secure
        |                        Passphrase Required
        |                        Accepts New Users
        |                        Has Visible Users
        |                        Has Volume Key
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 8FDE568D-88A5-4093-BA2A-320646BC10AC
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk3
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          4000099295232 B (4.0 TB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Daten                                                                                3111002011
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
$ diskutil mount readOnly disk3
Volume on (null) failed to mount
If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option
$ diskutil verifyVolume disk3
Unable to obtain whole-disk size

What happened here? Is there a way to repair the volume?

I can just reformat and restore from backup, but maybe somebody knows a better solution and is able to share his/her knowledge on this matter.


texts: iPhone battery symbol is red, doesn't acknowledge charging, but is apparently charged

texts:
I have an iPhone 3G,

When I plug in the charger,  the big red battery on the locked screen is red, low and doesn't appear to be charging. When I unlock the screen, the small battery symbol on the upper right is green with a bolt.
When I unplug it, the battery symbol in the upper right is low and red, but the phone seems to be charged.
The phone syncs to my computer fine when connected.

Does anyone know what the problem is and if it can be fixed? Is it relatively benign, or perhaps an early sign that it is reaching its final stage of life?

Update

Although I am still no closer to the answer, and I had tried powering off manually, I let the battery run out (about 7 days at 1hr/day, no cell phone service) and when I charged it again, the issue resolved.


texts: Can I add a mdimporter file to have new option search in spotlight?

texts: In System/Library/spotlight there are several files like " Application.mdimporter " which seems they appropriate searching for spotlight. Can I add any file like them? Is there any way to make files like them? Can I find files of this kind produced with developers?


texts: How does macOS process protection work – Cliff Notes style?

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Looking at Apple dev forums and not having programmed in C since college, I'm a bit out of my depth trying to understand the fundamentals of the components of MacOS' protection model employed over the past few OS releases and how it affects security on the whole.

I am not sure where Sandboxes came to be in order to protect us from our selves with programs that did naughty things, but I would so appreciate a better understanding of how it works and what happens when said naughtiness occurs.

I'm guessing the Errors and Faults in Console are related to access and protection issues based on their context and the fact I do run some softs that are not giving the Apple seal of Kwality at software install. I more than likely have processes banging into things or processes failing to access resources. Console I see just streams of Errors and Faults - around 100 per minute on average and they would appear to be rights issues of some sort. The one error I see constantly on of my macs more than any other (usually) is from WindowServer such as:

_CGXWindowIsOrderedIn: Operation on a window 0xa4 requiring rights <private> by caller <private>

0xa4 appears to be any 2 digit hex number, presumably the address of a window, perhaps? (Then gain, it seems like 16^2 windows is not a lot, so maybe this is a very incorrect interpretation.)

In any case, in the interests of cleaning house and possibly identifying apps or libraries that are problematic rather than try to get help with each and every little thing that may or may not be important, maybe a quick summary of how things are supposed to work and maybe even a link to a good overview for a sysadmin-type who might want to make his machine not run like a piece of crap.

Any concisely put wisdom will be gloriously welcomed.


texts:
I installed dnsmasq using brew, and tried to run it as a service without success. This is how I installed it:

brew install dnsmasq
sudo brew services start dnsmasq

system.log just shows 2 lines over and over:

dnsmasq[52260]: setting --bind-interfaces option because of OS limitations
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

I tried running it manually, and I got similar results:

itsadok@mpb ~$ /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq -d --interface=lo0 --port=50003                                                                                [2.2.4]
dnsmasq: started, version 2.76 cachesize 150
dnsmasq: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP no-conntrack no-ipset auth no-DNSSEC loop-detect no-inotify
dnsmasq: setting --bind-interfaces option because of OS limitations
dnsmasq: reading /etc/resolv.conf
dnsmasq: using nameserver 192.168.1.1#53
[1]    53009 abort      /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq -d --interface=lo0 --port=50003

The exit status is 134, which is consistent with the abort message I'm seeing. Adding sudo does not help.

If I set the port number to 0, effectively disabling DNS, then the process runs indefinitely, but obviously with doing much of anything.

Any idea what's going on, or how I can debug this further?

I'm on Mac OS Sierra, 10.12.4


texts: Does the 27-inch iMac (MC511LL/A) have a true thunderbolt port or just a mini-display port?

texts:
I'm trying to connect a thunderbolt external drive to my Mac:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.8-27-inch-aluminum-mid-2010-specs.html

However, the disk is not being recognized. I suspect that the "thunderbolt" port on the back of this iMac is really a mini-display port.

Thank you.


texts: First Aid Fails on External Disk, what can I do from here?

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History:   Running an iMac late 2011 and updated the OS to Yosemite when the computer stopped booting. I have a history of killing HDD so I figured it was a bad HDD and I went to change the drive. Before I changed the drive I wanted to try and recover some of the files and using my Macbook I set the iMac in Targeted disk mode and I was able to access the drive and copy some of the files. Due to the length go time it took I shut down the computer and tried to pick up where I left off on the next day. This time target disk mode did not work. Since I had copied most of the important stuff I decided to change the drive and try and clone the the drive if it would spin up.

I extracted the 1TB drive and cloned it using a disk duplicator. I plugged the Dock into the Macbook and Both HDD would spin and Disk Utility acknowledged their presence but would not mount either drive.
    I figured it may be a conflict because they were clones and I shut down and removed one of the drives Drive 1 (Original iMac drive) Using a program called DriveDX I can monitor the overall health of the drive. Drive 2 is Status OK and GOD overall Health and GOOD performance rating. I tested Drive 1 and got similar results. I also ran self test with good results.
    I ran the First Aid on both Drive 1 and 2(Disk Utility) Both drives resulted in the same message:

"First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume. Click done to continue."

repairing file system.
Checking journaled HFS plus Volume.
Checking Extents overflow file.
checking catalog file.
Missing thread record (id=18438430)
Missing thread record (id=18441061)
Missing thread record (id=18441109)
Missing thread record (id=18444964)
Missing thread record (id=18543123)
Missing thread record (id=18549821)
Incorrect number of thread records
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking Multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Invalid directory item count
(it should be 59 instead of 77)
Missing thread record (id=18438409)

I will spare you the list but it goes on for several pages. Skip to the bottom and it says:

Checking extended attributes file.
Invalid node structure
The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code 8.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
File system verify or repair failed.
Operation failed...

From what I can tell the overall health of Drive 1 and 2 are good they both spin freely but neither will mount to the computer which appears to be a file structure issue??  How can I repair the drive or can I recover the drive all? I am not willing to spend $$$ on Data recovery because I was able to get most of the important stuff off the drive when I had it in Target disk mode. At this point I am just puzzled by the failure in the first place and would like to try and understand what happened and how to fix it.


texts: Mac external monitor's resolution not detected properly

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I want to setup a new external monitor which I have not yet used with an OSX system. On windows it was working perfectly fine.
I own a 2k monitor (2560x1440) but my Mac only detect it as a 1080p monitor, restarting and unplugging it serval times didn't help either. Default for monitor is also not working.


texts: iPhone 4 camera - how does the HDR mode work?

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I recently got an iPhone 4. When I turn on HDR on my camera and take a picture, it takes 2 pictures, both of which look grainy.

One appears brighter than the other but I don't "see" any other difference.

Any idea why this happens or is this how it is supposed to be?

Thanks.


texts: Is there any way to enable El Captain Spotlight features in unsupported countries?

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I know that Spotlight Suggestions and Natural Language Search are only available in a few countries.

How does OS X decides if I am in these countries or not? I switched to US locale and region in System Preferences and I use US VPN, so I have US IP Address. But Spotlight features are still disabled.

Is there any way to convince OS X to use these new features?


texts: 'unknown file attribute: i' error on DefaultKeyBinding.dict file

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I would like to swap some key bindings on macOS Sierra. I have used Karabiner so far but unfortunately it is no longer working on Sierra.

So I tried to use DefaultKeyBinding.dict, but after I set it, I found that all the keys except ones that I modified were no longer working (the typing isn't reflected). I tried source DefaultKeyBinding.dict and got the following error:

/Users/me/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict:2: unknown file attribute: i
/Users/me/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict:3: unknown file attribute: i

Here is my DefaultKeyBinding.dict file:

{
";" = ("insertText:", ":");
":" = ("insertText:", ";");
"'" = ("insertText:", '"');
'"' = ("insertText:", "'");
"\\" = ("insertText:", "\U007f");
"\U007f" = ("insertText:", "\\");
}

What is the meaning of the error and what is wrong with this dict file?


texts: What does this message on verbose mode mean? I verbose moded my Macbook Air 2017 to see why it takes 20-25 secs from login to desktop

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Specs:

Macbook Air 2017
macOS Mojave 10.14.6
1.8 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB

Apps installed:

Photoshop
Skype
VPN
Spotify
Google Chrome (this one I only use occasionally to check my SEO game, since it's required for my work. I use primarily Safari.)
Website Auditor
Rank Tracker

I've had it for two years. For over a year, I've had this machine dual booted with Ubuntu 16.04 for some computational stuff for my research. Intense programming. For almost 6 months now, I've only been using this computer for web browsing, light photo and video editing, and watching youtube. So I decided to erase the Ubuntu partition, but the problem is that I accidentally wiped everything including the macOS. I have no backup at all.

Anyway, I relied on Internet Recovery to reinstall High Sierra. From there, I updated to Mojave. (Note that I have tried Catalina for 1 week but I hated it since it made everything slower without giving me any major benefits at all).

The point is, even though I started anew, reset my NVRAM, SMC, selected a startup disk, deleted login items, and did everything I read on the internet, it still takes 20-25 seconds from entering my password, to my desktop. It used to get me up and running in less than 15 seconds. So I tried verbose mode.

This is what the slowest point of the verbose mode is:

and

Something about kext and trim. Can someone please help me? What should I do?


texts: OSX Photos Events and Albums Have same photos

texts: I have migrated from iPhoto to OSX Photos. All my Events are there with all their photos. Back in iPhoto I had Albums and Events with Events always the master. I could delete a photo from Albums and it would stay in Events. That was fine. What are the rules for Photos pls? I can see the same photos in both Events and Albums but when I search for a photo (that I know is in both places) it shows up only in Events. I delete a photo from Events and it stays in Albums. Any clues pls?


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In AppleScript, I can export photos from Apple Photos. There are two options:

using originals, which discards all modifications I've made
not using originals, which exports them at 100% quality.

The export at 100% quality is practically uncompressed, even when the original photo is more compressed. This ends up taking more space than the original, effectively upsampling the photo, at no added benefit.
Is it possible to keep the original quality, but not lose the edits made in Photos?
Note that a switch for quality exists in Photos, as per screenshot below.

EDIT
I ended up writing and using this.
Note that this does still NOT solve my problem, as explained in the comments, but it gives me a suitable approximation.
(*
Export Apple Photos
===================

Exports all photos in Apple Photos library and reduces them to 90% quality.
The photos are in their current version (as opposed to the original).
Quality reduction is done with `mogrify` as setting the quality isn't
possible (nor it is possible to get the current quality -- everything
gets exported at 100%). For more on this issue see [1].

TODO
----

* Albums in the top folder (i.e. outside any folder) aren't exported.
  Only albums in folders are exported. To list them run this::

    tell application "Photos"
        repeat with alb in albums
            log (get name of alb)
        end repeat
    end tell

References
----------

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/410229/applescript-photos-export-quality

*)

-- main
tell application "Photos"
    repeat with topFolder in folders
        my processFolder(topFolder, 0, (get name of topFolder))
    end repeat
end tell

-- recursively scan folders and export albums
on processFolder(fold, level, dirpath)
    tell application "Photos"
        log "Folder " & (get name of fold)
        repeat with subFolder in (get folders of fold)
            set subPath to dirpath & "/" & (get name of subFolder)
            my exportAlbum(subFolder, subPath)
            my processFolder(subFolder, level + 1, subPath)
        end repeat
        my exportAlbum(fold, dirpath)
    end tell
end processFolder

-- export all albums in folder `f`
on exportAlbum(f, relativePath)
    set dest to "/Volumes/DATA/ApplePhotos/" as POSIX file as text -- the destination folder (use a valid path)

    tell application "Photos"
        repeat with i in (get albums of f)
            set tFolder to (the POSIX path of (dest as string) & relativePath & "/" & (get name of i)) as POSIX file as text
            repeat 1 times
                tell application "Finder"
                    if exists tFolder then
                        log "Skipping album " & (get name of i)
                        exit repeat
                    end if
                end tell
                log "Album " & (get name of i) & " -> " & tFolder as POSIX file as text
                my makeFolder(tFolder) -- create a folder named (the name of this album) in dest
                with timeout of 120 * 60 seconds -- 2 hours

                    export (get media items of i) to (tFolder as alias) without using originals
                    my reduceSize(tFolder)
                end timeout
            end repeat
        end repeat
    end tell
end exportAlbum

-- util mkdir
on makeFolder(tPath)
    do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of POSIX path of tPath
end makeFolder

-- util shell script to reduce file size (quality 90)
--   note: it checks folder is not empty, otherwise mogrify will fail.
on reduceSize(tPath)
    set dirpath to quoted form of POSIX path of tPath & "/*.jpeg"
    do shell script "ls " & dirpath & "; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then /usr/local/bin/mogrify -quality 90 " & dirpath & "; else echo No files in folder " & dirpath & "; fi"
end reduceSize


texts: I need to outfit some of my field staff with iPhones. They will primarily be used as hot spots. On Verizon, is there any appreciable gain in OTA network speed between the 4 and 4S? I know the AT&T version is faster, however I need to stay on Verizon.


texts: I have an iPhone running iOS 12. Is there anyway to change the travel type as I walk a lot so that it automatically gets walking directions where possible and shows travel times as walking times?


texts: How do I copy files from the photo library (not the Camera Roll) to a PC

texts:
Pretty simple really.

I have a bunch of photos not in the Camera Roll and I would like to copy them to a PC.

There doesn't seem to be a single useful article on the web that helps with this.


texts:
I have one year old iPod Touch. All of a sudden YouTube is not working. I have wireless network at home.

It says "Cannot connect to YouTube". I'm also facing this issue when I connect to Gmail. it says - "Cannot connect to imap...". but still I can see my mail.

I guess it shouldn't be issues with wireless or n/w connectivity because Safari browsing is working fine.


texts: Turn on iPad speakers with piece of headphones stuck in jack

texts: Is it possible to turn on the iPad's speakers with the small bottom headphone part stuck in the audio jack?


texts: Are Apple maps for iPhone broken in SE Asia in 2018?

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I have iOS 11.2.2 and have not used Apple maps in a long time. I’m seeing a blank map with a grid on iPhone, but no actual map layer or tiles ever loading when zoomed in.

How do I fix broken empty Apple maps in 2018?

Map tiles load at the country or globe level, but when zooming in, they disappear. I see buildings layer overlay for landmarks, but no actual streets or placemarks. Directions are working.

I tried reinstalling the Maps app from the App Store but no success.


texts: How do people scans on iOS and MacOS interact?

texts:
With iCloud Photo Library we now have synced people albums. How do the scans on different devices interact?

I recently got a new phone which initiated a new scan and messed up my carefully sorted and trained people album by merging several groups of people. In the end the situation was that bad that I had pictures with twice the same person on it. It seems that on certain pictures with 2 people, the phone sorted the first person as Alice and the MacBook sorted the second person as Alice and then they got merged and there were two Alices on one picture.

I reset all people data which initiated new scans on both iOS and macOS and I just started naming people and there are unwanted merges again.


texts: How can I install a new dictionary on OS X for use with the "Word of the Day" screensaver?

texts:
The reason is trivial: I am a fan of the "Word of the Day" screen saver and I would like to add dictionaries for languages other than English and Japanese (these are the two that I can select now in screen saver options).

How can I do it?


texts: Run a script when device is connected via USB C

texts: How can I run a specific program when a new device has been plugged into a USB C port?


texts: How do you turn sound off in IRC client colloquy? I don't see any option to do so:


texts: How to remove an app on iOS without overhead?

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Problem
I tried to remove an app from Settings -> iPhone Storage, but after each installation/un-installation cycle about 100-200mb adds up to disk space (example: after 10 cycles about 2GB might be taken on a disk, even that the app is un-installed).
Filesystem info

df output on each step from PoC
du difference
du and df detailed output

PoC
Here is a PoC, it's the same without checkra1n and video recording.
Steps to reproduce

Download an app from App Store
Launch the app
Delete the app from Settings -> iPhone Storage
About 100-200mb is taken on a disk on example of TikTok (TikTok binary is ~130mb)
Jump to step 1.

Non-ideal solution
Reboot helps to wipe these taken data from a disk.
Env

iPhone 6s with/without checkra1n on 14.2 and 14.3
iPhone SE without checkra1n on 14.2

What I checked

Snapshots, and there is only system one
Hanged files using lsof, and there is only Asset.car in splashboard for TikTok, but it isn't 130mb file

Question
Why it this happening and how can I delete an app without overhead of 100-200mb + reboot?


texts: unknown option: mode-mouse with iterm, tmux

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I've reset my computer and now tmux is complaining about my .tmux.conf having these directives:

setw -g mode-mouse on
set -g mouse-select-pane on
set -g mouse-resize-pane on
set -g mouse-select-window off
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

with these errors:

/Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:24: unknown option: mode-mouse                  [0/0]
/Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:25: unknown option: mouse-select-pane
/Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:26: unknown option: mouse-resize-pane
/Users/mdurrant/.tmux.conf:27: unknown option: mouse-select-window

So I have to comment them out, but then my mouse doesn't work in tmux, which is a pain.

How can I enable the mouse in iTerm2 with tmux?

This works on my other Mac.

I use tmux version 2.1.


texts: Any way to ascertain iOS version of locked iPad?

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My iPad is 'disabled' and I need to know which version of iOS 8 it's running.

It's in the "iPad is disabled, connect to iTunes" state.

If I connect it to iTunes, it says "to allow access, please respond on ipad", but the ipad just says "connect to itunes."


texts: How do I pack regions into a folder in Logic Pro X?

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The Apple help site says:

Select the regions, then choose Functions > Folder > Pack Folder from the Tracks area menu bar.

However, there is no Folder tab under Functions, nor is there any command in the menu bar or edit dropdown that says "Pack Folder."
This seems like a very simple thing, but I can't figure it out because following Apple's directions doesn't work. How do I pack and unpack folders?
I'm using the most recent version of Logic Pro X, so the YouTube tutorials I've found are unhelpful as they are older versions in which the Help site directions still work.


texts: GUI for managing automounting of fileshares?

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I have a bunch of MP3 files on an SMB share. They play great if I use Finder's Connect to Server to mount the disk first, iTunes thinks they have names like /Volumes/musicshare/foo.mp3. But if I reboot and launch iTunes first the files are as if they don't exist until I manually remount the volume in Finder.

How do I arrange for my network share to automatically mount after a reboot? Searching for answers turns up a lot of information about hand-editing autofs configuration files. I'm new to MacOS but an old Unix hand and am OK editing files in /etc. But it feels like the wrong way; does MacOS have a user friendly way of automounting network shares?


texts: Can't AirPlay from Mac to Apple TV (ethernet)

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The other questions on this subjects are 4-6 years old and have not helped to solve my problem playing my media from a Mac to an Apple TV.

MBP Retina Early 2013 running OS 10.12.6 (Sierra, current)
Time Capsule (don't know how to obtain model or software level)
Apple TV (Model A1625, tvOS 12.0.1, current)
MBP <-> Time Capsule <-> ATV connections are wired, not wifi
MBP <-> Time Capsule is via a Thunderbolt/ethernet adaptor.
MBP and ATV are on same local network, 10.0.1.x

Every time I switch MBP 2013 Sierra Sys Pref > Displays > AirPlay Display from Off to Great Room (3) (no idea how the subscript got there; there's no Great Room (1) or (2)), the setting holds momentarily and a modal dialog comes up asking for some color settings before vanishing and returning the AirPlay Display back to Off.

Meanwhile, I can send audio from my MBP 2016 Mojave over wifi to the Apple TV just by clicking on the loudspeaker icon in the menu bar and switching from Internal Speakers to Great Room (no subscript here). So obviously there's nothing in the ATV actively preventing AirPlay to it.

I have also tried switching the MBP Sierra's network from ethernet to its wifi. This appears to make no difference.

While sending the audio from MBP Mojave to ATV, I go to the Sierra MBP Sys Pref > Displays and again try to switch AirPlay Display to Great Room (3). This immediately kicks my laptop audio off of ATV and back onto internal speakers. So clearly the Sierra MBP is getting through to the ATV to a certain extent, kicking the current user off, but is unable to complete the process.

There must be a lot of other clues, too, but these all seem significant. It seems to point to a problem with the MBP Sierra, since it can't even connect to ATV on wifi. I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions?


texts: Historically, how soon does Apple implement new wireless standards in their routers?

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With the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard set to become the new wireless standard, I am wondering how quick Apple has been, historically speaking, to implement new standards like these in their AirPorts and Time Capsule.

More to the point, would these changes be likely to take effect before the end of the summer, historically speaking?

To be clear I am not asking about rumors or speculation, but rather would like historical evidence to back any claims made.


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I have a Bot running for my app, with just a regular development account. I want to be able to download the Product that is created, but when I go to the Bot web page, I get an error "Cannot connect to ". I find this a little strange, because I can hit the server web page. Any ideas? Do you have to have an enterprise account to donwload the product?

The iPad has all the correct profiles etc.


texts: Is it possible to order a new Mac mini with an Nvidia graphics card?

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This may be obvious to many , but is it possible to have a current generation Mac Mini with Nvidia graphics card option . I looked into the spec sheet on Apple website which says that it ships with AMD graphics card . I am looking for the one that has Nvidia graphics card.

I've searched over Google and did not find a plausible answer (but I'm a bit rushed and may have mislooked the answer).


texts: What is the best way to migrate from HDD to SSD?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I move my data to the new harddrive?

I would like to purchase an SSD drive online to keep the cost low. What is the best method and software to use to transfer all my data from my current HDD drive to the new SSD drive? Below are the relevant parts of my System Report. Thanks, Chirag

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:    2.53 GHz
Number of Processors:   1
Total Number of Cores:  2
L2 Cache:   3 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed:  1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:   MBP55.00AC.B03

Hard Drive

Model:  Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02
Capacity:   250.06 GB (250,059,350,016 bytes)
Revision:   PB2AC60Q
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth:    32
Removable Media:    No
Detachable Drive:   No
BSD Name:   disk0
Rotational Rate:    5400
Medium Type:    Rotational
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:  Verified
Volumes:
disk0s1:
  Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s1
  Content:  EFI
Macintosh HD:
  Capacity: 249.2 GB (249,199,591,424 bytes)
  Available:    25.28 GB (25,280,106,496 bytes)
  Writable: Yes
  File System:  Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name: disk0s2
  Mount Point:  /
  Content:  Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
 Capacity:  650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s3
  Content:  Apple_Boot


texts: Clarification on upgrading the OS and using OWC SSD?

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I have a Early 2015 version Macbook Pro which has 126 GB HD / 10.11.1 El Captain OS on it. I wanted to upgrade the SSD. I decided to go with OWC. Transcend Jetdrive 820 for my Macbook model is on bit higher price.

However, OWC doesn't support El Captain. Whether it is possible to upgrade the OS to High Sierra on the current SSD and then replace the SSD with OWC SSD? Whether that will work?


texts: Is there a way to change the icon color in the Finder navigation bar?

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I've been a happy mac user for a couple of years, because I'm visually impaired, and very glad that Apple built in very good accessibility tools into all their operating systems.

But after installing lion, I noticed that the icons in the navigation bar at the left of the Finder, lost their color, they're just grey. I'm still able to see them, but my eye is less drawn to them, I can't see as quickly where I should click. I can't find a secret in the secrets app to change this.

Is there a way to revert this change?


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I'm making an app in Automator to quickly delete my iMovie Library (to save space). However, I want my app to check if the iMovie Library has already been deleted and show a dialog saying so. I know how to make the dialog, but I can't figure out how to do it. How do I do this? I'm using macOS 10.11.

My workflow:

Ask for confirmation
Get specified Finder items (the validation would go after this)
Move Finder items to trash
Run AppleScript (to show a dialog saying "Done")


texts: How can I reset the firmware password on a MacBook Air?

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I purchased a MacBook Air from someone 4 months ago and everything was working perfectly. There is no user name or password needed to log in and I've never had problems using it.

Now I would like to reinstall OS X but I can't do it because it's asking for a firmware password when booting with Option ⌥ held down. It's 4 months now and I've lost the seller's phone number to ask for password.

I've tried to reset NVRM but those keys are disabled. I can't boot from external HD when I turn on the system. What is the reset procedure?


texts: Folder action with Automator file search

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Since a couple of years, I used the folder action successfully which is shown in the screenshot:

A file is added to "Downloads"
"Find Finder Items" with the shown criteria is executed
If the filename fulfils the criteria, the file is moved to another folder. If not, the file remains in folder "Downloads"

Since I bought a new iMac, this action moves every downloaded file to the specified folder (see picture). What is wrong?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut for enabling dictation on iPad?

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I‘m using an iPad Pro 10.5 iPadOS 13.5 and a Slim Combo keyboard case. I use dictation a lot. Is there a keyboard shortcut for that?
Right now I have to toggle the default on-screen keyboard and touch the microphone key, but I would rather do it with an actual physical keyboard shortcut.


texts: Messages.app notification only shows contact number instead of contact names on macOS

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After upgrading to macOS Big Sur (11.0.1), the notification of new messages only shows contact number instead of contact names. I can see contact name, profile pics in my Messages.app and Contacts.app, just not in the Notification Center.
I have enabled messages in iCloud on both macOS and iOS.
Any suggestions?


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I have a Mac mini server with Yosemite, and I plugged a VGA Display using a VGA/HDMI adapter.

The issue is, when I shut down or restart the server, the display is not recognized, then I need to go to unplug and plug again, and server now recognizes the display.

I need to know how to make a logical "reconnection" for the adapter.

For example on Windows I use a devcom application to enable or disable the devices.

I was reading that the possible solution is using a kextunload command on terminal.

I don't know which kextfile I need to "unload" for the HDMI adapter.

On terminal:

/System/Library/Extensions/

kextunload exampleflile.kext

kextload examplefile.kext

Anybody have an idea about my issue? Another way to solve it?

Thanks in advance

Greetings from Mexico.


texts: Does macOS come with (the ruby framework) rails?

texts: This question seems to imply OS X/macOS comes with the ruby framework rails. Is this correct? (I always thought OS X/macOS comes with ruby, but not rails)


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I have a file on my system named "2011.09.08įU0.G80.Šsl" that I'm unable to delete. Here are the different steps I've tried, but haven't had any success with yet:

sudo rm file - Results in "No such file or directory"
Deleting via Finder - "The operation can't be completed because one or more required items can't be found. (Error code -43)
Renaming via Finder - "An unexpected error occurred (error code -43)
sudo mv file newName - "No such file or directory"
Deleting using the "Locked" files feature in Cocktail - "An invalid character has been found in the path."
Sharing the folder in question with read+write access, logging in via Windows 7 and attempting to delete, but Windows is unable to even see the file in question.
Deleting/renaming the parent folder of the file via Terminal fails - "Directory not empty"

I've also tried the steps described in this question, but haven't add any success there either.

The primary reason for trying to delete this is because whenever my backup solution (SuperDuper!) encounters this file, it aborts the backup, leaving me flying without a net. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Should I use my personal Apple ID for development or create a new one?

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I'm about ready to release my first iOS app. While I was going through the steps to register in the development program I became unsure.

Should I set up a new iTunes account to publish my app under, or do I just use my existing personal one that I use for my games, music, etc.?

I read somewhere that whatever account you use gets a bit of spam, how do users get your email address?


texts: Apple TV (1080HD) - Macbook to HDTV Streaming Issues

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I have the brand new $99 Apple TV - 1080HD

I want to stream internet videos from my 2011 Macbook Pro (running Snow Leopard) to my new HDTV using Airplay and AirParrot.  Neither the Macbook nor the Apple TV is connected via ethernet cable -- they are both connected to the internet via our wireless router (currently, there's no ethernet jack near the TV).

When I stream the video on my MBP, it is extremely choppy with very poor image quality.  I've played with all the AirParrot preferences (reduced video quality to eliminate choppiness, etc), yet nothing works.

In order to fix the issue, which of the following (if any) is the best bet for a technophobe like myself:

Install an ethernet jack near the TV because my wireless signal may be too weak (real dumb question: would I connect the Apple TV or my MBP to the ethernet jack?)
Forget Airplay and connect my MacBook Pro directly to my computer
Install an additional wireless router closer to the Apple TV
Get a repeater to expand the reach of the wireless signal from my one router.
None of the above.

If I need any additional adapters/wires, please specify so that this moron will understand.

Thank you all so much for any help you can offer.


texts: Missing "Use as Defaults" box in "Show View Options"

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I am trying to change the default size of my icons and their grid spacing as was asked in this question. For whatever reason, my Mac does not have a Use as Defaults box in Show View Options. Do you have any idea why it doesn't or what, if anything, I can do to make it so it does?

I checked the answer given to this similar question, but believe I am already in the correct view, as evidenced below. Any ideas on how I can fix this?


texts: Mac Pro 2,1 Only Shows Flashing Question Mark After Update

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So, I have an older Mac Pro 2,1 that I received.  Had a fresh install of Mavericks and nothing else.  It worked fine, with exception to slow redraw speeds on the screen.  When I got it plugged into a network for the first time, it said there were updates, so I let it do the updates.

When I returned to the machine, it was simply sitting at a white screen.  After waiting several hours with no change, I turned the machine off, and rebooted.  I was met with the flashing question mark on a folder icon.

The Mac has the Apple RAID card in it, and 4 1TB drives.

Pressing any of the startup commands during boot does nothing; I still get the flashing icon.  CommandR doesn't work.  C doesn't work.  The only two that do anything is CommandOptionPR (reset NVRAM) and Option (Startup Disc select).  However, even when using those two, they still result in a flashing question mark icon.

Any clues?  I'm wondering if the RAID card went bad or something.  It was complaining of a bad battery.


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What is the "Apple" way of managing Macs in company environment? I've red about macOS server and Apple Remote Desktop which seems to share some management features. The later seems a bit dated, at least judging by it's website that didn't receive revamp like the rest of apple.com pages.

What I need is

ability to manage software updates
some network config like VPN
Active Directory config (yes it's mainly windows environment)
e-mail is provided by company's Exchange server

And what about apple ids? Is there any option to have company controlled apple ids? We don't want private apple id's flying around ;)


texts: How to bind ⌘← and ⌘→ to previous and next tab in Safari 10?

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I'm used to having Command-Left Arrow (⌘+←) and Command-Right Arrow (⌘+→) to switch between tabs, going to the previous and next tabs. I have configured these keys in System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts for Safari.app.

However, configuring these shortcuts only works sometimes in Safari 10.1 under macOS 10.12. The behavior is this:

When pressed in a tab with an active text box, the caret moves to the beginning and end of the row instead
When pressed in a tab with history forwards or back, Safari goes forward or back in history instead
Only when pressed on a tab that doesn't have the two above conditions, Safari switches to the previous or next tab

How can I disable the two other behaviors or configure the keys correctly so that I can use ⌘+← and ⌘+→ as previous and next tab shortcuts?


texts: Why does it take so much time for "Require Password" to get turned on/off?

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Settings > [your name] > iTunes & App Store > Password Settings > Require Password (under FREE DOWNLOADS)
This just takes somewhere between a couple of seconds to a lot of seconds to get turned on/off. It's never worked instantly (even a second's delay that is perfectly observable isn't considered to be instant).
Is it still a thing now? I'm on an iPad Gen 7 (2019 version)


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Okay, so long story short, my husband bent my iPhone 6. It isn't that bad, the wifi and everything still works, but it says there is no longer a SIM card installed and I have no service. So I can no longer receive/send text messages or calls. Is there any fix to this that I can do? I feel like I've tried everything. I pulled it out of the phone and it's not broken. This is very frustrating. Thanks!

Also, one more thing, I deleted Facebook and Facebook messenger and now it is no longer letting me reinstall it. It will install all other apps but those two. Everything is up to date as well.


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I have a late 2013 iMac running macOS Sierra. I use a Coolermaster Storm Quickfire TK mechanical keyboard with this computer. It has worked perfectly until last night.

I was writing some code in the Atom text editor (using the Vim plugin, of course), and suddenly the "Your keyboard cannot be identified and will not be usable..." box popped up. I went through the steps of pressing the keys it wanted me to press, selecting my keyboard layout, then clicking Done. After that, my keyboard started acting up. I opened Keyboard Viewer so I could investigate.

The space bar, backspace, and esc keys do not even register. When I type 'e', macOS thinks I'm typing 'e' and space bar at the same time. When I type 'd', it thinks I'm typing 'd' and tab. When I type 'c', it sees 'c' and the left arrow. Once again, I'm just typing the one letter key, but both keys light up in Keyboard Viewer. There are several more keys that do the same thing. When I'm not pressing any keys on the keyboard, no modifier keys are registering in Keyboard Viewer.

I plugged a spare keyboard into my mac, and it works fine. It is also a third-party, non-Apple keyboard. I plugged the problematic keyboard into a Windows computer, and it worked fine there. I tested all the keys that were giving me trouble on my mac.

I've googled my problem, but I haven't found any help at all. Any support articles are about Apple keyboards and they do not cover the problem I am having. I have already tried deleting any user preferences files related to the keyboard, and I have confirmed that the Mouse Keys setting is turned off.

I'm using the ANSI layout, and the only Input Source is U.S.

I would really like to continue using this keyboard as I paid good money for it and I really like the sound and feel of the mechanical switches. Obviously, the keyboard is working, and the problem appears to be with how macOS is interpreting the input. I'm hoping someone will recognize the symptoms I am having and can tell me that I accidentally turned on some obscure setting or something like that. Any help is appreciated, but I will say up front, I'm not buying an official Apple keyboard as an easy fix.


texts: When using Finder to copy a specific file, the copy is a zero byte file

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Trying to copy a 37GB Quicktime .mov from an external disk using the Finder.

The copy should take a few minutes, and show a progress window. But the copy seems to be done immediately (no progress window and no error message), and the resulting file is 0 bytes.

The problem is only with the Finder. Copying the file in Terminal, or another file manager like muCommander works.

I'm using Mac OS x 10.8.5.

The source is a normal external Mac disk (HFS+), and the file doesn't have any attributes as shown by ls -l@ or xattr -l. File mode is 0600, and owner is me:staff.

The destination is irrelevant. Even trying to "Duplicate" the file using the Finder's right-click menu gives the same result: a zero byte duplicate.

I tried restarting, verifying the disk in Disk Utility, etc. The problem remains with this particular file, even though there doesn't seem to be anything special about it.

Update:

A copy of the file (using Treminal) to the same folder can be be copied without trouble. (The original and the copy are really identical, according to md5)

Renaming the file in Finder doesn't help.

Deleting the .DS_Store file in the folder and remounting the drive doesn't help.

Really weird...


texts: Is there a way to unlock screen programmatically?

texts: I want to be able to unlock screen, or login to physical user while I'm connected with ssh connection. I know this might be unsafe etc. However that's ok for me at the moment. What options do I have to do this?


texts: Xcode 6.1 , Storyboard, Ctrl+Drag doesnt work, not even blue line

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I just upgraded to XCode 6.1

I started to create a Mac, Cocoa application.

In story board, i put a button on view controller, and tried to CTRL+DRAG it to the source code.

Problem is that it doesn't work, at least i have to see the blue line despite of where im going to drop it, but nothing happens at all and blue line doesnt appear and control stays put :-s

What am i doing wrong?


texts: Why does OS X delete files directly without moving them into the trash?

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On an external HD, when I delete a file, OS X prompts me that the file will be deleted without putting it into the trash folder.
What is the reasons for that?
How can I move it in trash folder before permanently delete it?


texts: Texting from my old 3GS iphone without a Sim still shows my old phone number

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I've upgraded my iPhone 3GS to the new iPhone 4S. I want to give my old 3GS to my daughter to use as an "iPod touch". We've upgraded the 3GS to iOS 5 and attached it to iCloud with her own separate account.

I'd like for the 3GS to be able to text me on my 4S - yet it is the same phone number the 3GS used to be, it doesn't seem to work.

I've also tried to text from the 3GS to another iPod touch we have (new, 4th gen). Yet it just texts to an email address. It doesn't appear as a text/iMessage/SMS.

Is there a setting I'm missing? I'd really like it to show as a text and not an email.


texts:
I have the osx version 10.9.2

I can't find any way to burn my .mp4 file to a DVD+R.

Can anyone recommend a way to do this?


texts: How to switch to modal window in the background

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I don't know if this problem is specific to Quicksilver or a general problem with modal windows. I use QS to launch an applescript:

"run 'command' with administrator privileges"

But the modal window from QS to enter my password appears without focus. I can't I need to click on the window with the mouse in order to be able to activate it. I would guess that this is because QS has launched the applescript "in the background" as it were, and already returned focus to the previous app.

Is there a way to switch to this modal window using keyboard actions? It's something I need to do every morning and it's very annoying to have to switch over to it with the mouse every time. I can't command-tab to Quicksilver when the dialog is active.


texts: USB external hard drive is mounted on one MacBook Pro but not another

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I have a Hitachi rpm-5400 160GB hard drive in an Orico USB 3.0 hard drive case. The hard drive is formatted as ExFAT.

I plugged this drive on my Mid-2012 Non-Retina MacBook Pro and it mounts fine in both OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and Windows 10. But when I plugged into my Mid-2014 Retina MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11.6 it doesn't mount. Saying the disk you inserted was not recognizable by this computer. It happens on both of the USB port on the Retina MBP.

I also tried this on a Late 2013 iMac also running El Capitan 10.11.6 and nothing happens. Not even the disk unrecognizable message. I opened Disk Utility app on the iMac, it didn't even show up.

I am pretty sure this problem is not with the drive, as the 2012 MBP mounted the drive fine. Where should I go next to fix this problem? I don't want to erase the drive because it have important informations on it and it takes very long time to copy it to another drive.

Thanks


texts: External display momentarily turns on while macbook pro is in sleep mode

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I've done a lot of searching around but can't find a question/answer online quite matching the situation I'm experiencing. There are really a ton of similar questions that are somewhat different as well (every problem possible with an external monitor is out there such that many are quite similar, yet not exactly the same), so this class of problem really seems to lie in the subtle details. Here goes:

Problem:

I have an external display connected via a usb-c cable. After I lock
my macbook pro, the screen will turn off in 15 minutes.
At this point, the external display can turn on every few minutes or every few hours. It turns on momentarily and just goes
back into power saving mode again immediately.
After I wake up in the morning, I think this happens enough such that the monitor won't turn on unless I unplug it from the power and
plug it in again.

Now's the weird parts:

I've done all the typical suggestions. Replacing cables, changing
ports. I have reset nvram, I turned off wake-for-wifi, disabled power nap, etc... At that point, I thus concluded it must be a problem due with my P2415Q Dell monitor.
However, I recently tried a new monitor, an HP Z27 monitor, and it has the same exact problem.
Ok, so it's possible it's the mac, or it's possible that both monitors are problematic.
I ruled out the latter by connecting BOTH monitors and having only one on at the time, and the problem happens only for the monitor that is turned on, but only to ONE monitor when BOTH are turned on.

Here's why I haven't contacted Apple yet.

Honestly, I rather share the knowledge if we can find an answer here.
I also have little hope in them due to the complexity/details that I
mentioned in the start of my post.
But mostly, this problem occurred with the previous generation Macbook pro I used in 2017 running El Capitan. I'm now running Mojave
on a 2019 Macbook pro. I feel like this must be a common problem, and
I am hoping that someone out there has found a solution or can at
least sympathize with me and give me a virtual pat on the shoulder.

Thank you


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After I could not boot my Macbook Pro (OS X Lion 10.7.5) I tried to run safe boot. I thought it worked, but only thing it did was booting the mac without any data i used to have. All the software is there. It's like a brand new mac with full applications. My storage seems as full as before so I know the data is somewhere inside my Macbook. How can I find them? (I'm still logged in as I always were and there seems to be no other accounts)

P.S: I know the ways that requires payment, but I (with my ignorant logic) conclude that since my storage is still seems full with everything I have I may not need it.

Edit: ALSO i downloaded data rescue demo to scan. But for some reason my HD can't be scanned. When I tried Disk Warrior it says "Directory cannot be rebuild because this is the startup disk"


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Here https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/devb6df5ee51
it says
To sell your apps for a price or offer in-app purchases, the Account Holder user must sign your Paid Applications agreement.
To receive payments from Apple, you will also need to set up contacts, enter banking information, and submit tax forms.

My question is will I have to provide banking information and tax forms upon enabling IAP in addition to signing the Paid Applications agreement?
Or will they be required only when trying to receive payments?


texts: Finder slow or frozen while connecting HD (10.8.4 on SSD)

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Since some days it occasionally takes Finder seconds to minutes to show up files in folders. Now and then iTunes and Mail freeze as well, just like core apps like Disc Copy. Quite unusable.
Possibly related:
• It seems the problems appears especially (or only) when opening/showing content in sym-linked folders on the HD in my discdrive.
• As well problems seem to have become more present and waiting times longer since I'm staying at friends with a complex network.
• Trim is not enabled (no idea why, perhaps after an update - the wiseguy-friend installed it together with the SSD). Trim is again active.

My system: MB 2.4Ghz 13" late 2008, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD (OCZ-VERTEX4), 1TB HD (7200 HTS721010A9E630) in disc-drive with 10.8.4 (mountain-lion) installed.

Things I tried:
• restarted several times
• repaired permissions on SSD drive twice (2nd time no issues) (greyed out on 1Tb drive)


texts: How does the hardware manage to save the current workspace state so efficiently?

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Basically, how does the system save every state in the workspace (windows, desktops, open programs etc) when you do a restart ? Does that affect the efficiency of the software in the long run ?

For example, when I do a restart in windows I know that the laptop restarts completely. Resetting the hardware/software states etc. However, a restart on the macbook pro is like a hibernation in windows, how do they do that ? Is the power to the RAM not cut in the restart process ?

EDIT

There seems to be a clash in responses down there .. Is the image cleared on reboot or not ?


texts: From what country does iTunes payouts come from

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I'm a new iOS developer in Sweden and i'm gonna upload my app with in-app purchases to the App Store. The problem is that my bank requires me to fill out from what countrys i will be getting transfers from.
So i wonder from what country my payouts will come from when my bank country, and upload country is Sweden?


texts: Is it possible to customize the default order of Spotlight's results?

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One day when trying to open Xcode.app with Spotlight, I accidentally told it to open Xcode Server Builder.app. Now every time I type in Xcode into Spotlight, the first result it gives me is Xcode Server Builder instead of Xcode itself due to Spotlight guessing that it's more likely that I'll want the former. I have typing Command + Space Xcode return into muscle memory for launching Xcode so I really want to reverse this behavior.

Is there any way I can manually reset the order in which Spotlight returns matches so that it reverts back to its original default for searches?


texts: Is there an iOS spreadsheet app that can do data filters?

texts: Google Sheets only does data filters in the browser, their mobile app does not support that feature. Is there another iOS spreadsheet app that does support such a feature? Basically, I want to be able to filter data for a column in a spreadsheet on my iPhone.


texts: How can I Ensure a Retired iPhone Stays Activated

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After 4+ years (and one replacement unit) I finally retired my iPhone 1 and bought a new 4S.  I'd like to continue to use the original iPhone as a low rent touch device.

I'm paranoid about doing a hard software restore on the device, or otherwise putting putting it back into pre-activation state, as I'm no longer with AT&T.

I assume jail breaking can help me here, but my initial google research led to a lot of pages written for people already familiar with the jailbreak community and technology.

So, there's three concrete questions I have.

Can I somehow reactivate an old iPhone that gets put back into pre-activation mode without resorting to a jail break when I'm no longer under contract with AT&T
If not, how can I do so with jailbreaking? (keeping in mind I'm a jail break novice)
Is there a a "Jailbreak for Dummies" style intro that will cover the terminology used by the jailbreak community, as well as the various options out there so I can start to make sense of the community and answer my own questions in the future?


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I'm using readpst to extract emails from a bunch of old outlook .PST files.

It does a great job of pulling out all the emails .EML files, with attachments included.

But how do I bring these into Apple Mail?

Any of the "Import..." options create a separate mailbox for each message.

I want to be able to import groups of messages into a particular mailbox.

(I know that readpst can also generate mbox files, which Apple Mail handles OK, but slowly; but this is not what I want to do.)


texts: What is the best (fastest) way to connect my iMac Late 2012 to a Synology NAS?

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I have an iMac Late 2012 with Thunderbolt 2 and USB3.0 ports and a Synology NAS DS916+ with USB 3.0 and eSATA ports.

Currently both devices connected to a router by wire (1Gbps). I do backups of my Mac (Time Machine) to the NAS and store my files there too.

I're recently experienced a long (around 20 hrs) recovery of iMac from Time Machine so I am wondering is there any faster way to connect my Mac to NAS? Is it worth to get some wires to connect them, or it's just money wasted?

Is it better to connect them with a USB 3 cable or some combination of wires Thunderbolt 2 to eSata?


texts: Do Macs run the full Windows OS making full use of Windows functionality?

texts: So I now know that Macs can run Windows, but I just want to confirm if it runs Windows like a normal Windows would run on a PC, with full functionality. In other words, just like you get an HP-Laptop with Windows in it as the operating system, is it the same thing with installing Windows on a Mac? I just want to be sure that they are one and the same, and not just some emulator with restrictions.


texts: How to disable default alt-left / alt-right keyboard shortcuts for Numbers.app

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I'm continually hitting Alt+Left Arrow to move navigate within a cell in Numbers, and inadvertently inserting new rows.. How can I disable all the Alt+Arrow shortcuts?

I've tried changing the Application specific keys in System Prefs > Keyboard, and my new keys work, but the old remain active.  Is there a tidy oneliner to paste into the terminal?!

Edit:

Hmm.. I can't replicate the problem that I'm asking about! ATM when I  Alt+Enter into a cell to edit, Alt+Left Arrow is not adding a column!  Maybe I'm mashing some other keys in there intermittently?

BTW, I've also tried setting Alt+Left Arrow to Bring All Windows to Front but that disabled using Alt whilst editing the cell.


texts: ssh asks for passphrase not keychain password after locking keychain

texts: I'm using Yosemite and store the ssh passphrase in a separate keychain (not the login keychain). This all works fine as long as the keychain is unlocked. When I lock the keychain, I expected ssh to ask me for the keychain password, instead it asks me for the passphrase of the key. If I unlock the keychain manually before trying to use ssh, it works fine. Is this a bug, or can this be fixed by some setting?


texts: Can I sync calendars and contacts from two mac accounts with one iCloud account?

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The reason I want to do this is that I have two Mac accounts for different purposes, one for fun and one for work. However, there are some types of data (e.g., contacts) that I want to share. Moreover, I have a single iPhone used for both work and personal, and I want both sets of data on the phone.

The two Mac OS X accounts are on the same machine. I have no connected either to iCloud as yet until I get a recommendation on what will serve me best.

What do you recommend I do?


texts: On Mavericks, in the Finder in List view, column widths keep changing

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I'm on OS X Mavericks. In Finder, I use the "List" view. In this view, since upgrading to Mavericks, the column widths keep changing. Basically, the Name column expands to fill the window up, when you resize a Finder window. But worse of all, they are then fixed at that new width. So for instance, I open a folder, such as ~/Downloads, then increase the width horizontally to the right. I close this, then open ~/, which is the original width size. I then open the ~/Downloads folder, and now the columns are wider than the window.

Is there any way to stop this from happening? Does this only happen to me? I already tried resetting my com.apple.finder.plist file, but since Mavericks now caches plist files, the file just gets re-created instantly after deleting it, so that doesn't work anymore.


texts: It it possible to convert DVDs to my iPad?

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I was wondering if anyone could help me.

I've recently got myself a "new" iPad (aka iPad 3), and I was wondering if it was possible to convert DVDs I own in order to watch them on it?

(Let's set aside the legality discussion since A) laws vary based on jurisdiction and B) the Internet isn't a good place to get legal advice.)


texts: What is a good way to protect the home button on my iphone 4 so it doesn't get dust in it?

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I've already replaced a home button on my iphone 4 and I'd prefer not to have to do it on my iphone 4s coming next week.

I'm looking for a way to protect the home button while obviously still making it usable.  Most screen protectors don't cover the home button.

I'm not interested in a total case (otterbox is too big)
I don't want a screen cover per-se.

I think something like a screen protector that has some elasticity just over the home button/bottom of the front would work.

Does anyone know a good solution?


texts: Can I prevent "Photos" app from loading?

texts: I really dislike using "photos" app it is simply an un needed app for me because I have minimal HD space and do not need a back-up and do not want a cloud back-up either. I would love it if I could prevent the app from loading altogether.


texts: Errorr kernel SMC::smcReadKeyAction in Console

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I have OSX 10.9 Maverics on my iMac and I got this message (in Console) every few seconds:

kernel[0]: SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR TH0P kSMCBadArgumentError(0x89) fKeyHashTable=0x0xffffff802af9b000

Any idea ?


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The past two mornings, the display on my iMac wouldn't come back up when clicking the mouse or keyboard as it has for the past 3 years.

The curious thing is that when I access it through Finder on my laptop, I can browse the iMac's files.  But when I try to "Share Screen,"  it just hangs.  Same when I try through the remote login service, logmein.

So the HDD is awake and I can hear it being accessed.  And I can't bring it back up unless I hard shutdown the computer.  This isn't happening during the day when the display goes to sleep; only after i goto bed and it has been asleep for a prolonged period.


texts: How do I see the dock in a fullscreen window in OS X?

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I'm running Mac OS X Mavericks and I have several apps set up to use fullscreen mode.  There's no dock at the bottom of the screen, and it doesn't appear either when I scroll to the bottom of the screen like it normally does in non-fullscreen mode.

How can I reveal the dock when in fullscreen mode?


texts: using windows on a mac for a few applications

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i need to use visual studio and a few other windows programs but i am now looking at getting an iMac.  Can someone recommend the best solutions for being able to use these windows programs from a mac.

I see that there is bootcamp built into the mac operating system but i am unclear if that is the best solution from a workflow point of view (switching back and forth)


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If I go to the Books section of the iTunes store, I see the Column browser:

If i try to go back to the standard view (my Command+B or using the menu "View" -> "Column Browser" -> "Hide Column Browser" I am redirected to the main store page. If I click back on books in the top bar, I get the books section again in Column browser mode.

How can I get rid of it?

If I do not choose the "Books" section, but instead I click on the small down-arrow near "Books" and choose a section. I get the usual view with the covers and so on.


texts: Suddenly, menu bar applications have blue badges

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I am using a MacBook Air 13' bought in 2017, running Mojave 10.14.1 (18B75). I recently removed malware and plugins named Weknow.ac. Now, several of the application badges and indicators in the menu bar appear with a blue background. I've tried different things to remove the background color, mainly by upgrading and re-installing the apps affected, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be much appreciated.

Examples include;

NTFS for Mac (gear icon on the top right corner)

Google BackUp And Sync (three dots on the top right corner)

CleanMyMac X (local storage disk drive icon on the top left corner)


texts: How can I sync Reading List with Windows?

texts: Is it possible to use Safari's Reading List on my Windows machine and have it synced with the one on my Mac/iOS devices?


texts: How to set Adobe DC PDF reader as default for ALL pdfs without having to open security preferences every time

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I recently switched to Mac from Ubuntu and I'm trying to set Adobe Acrobat Reader DC as the default pdf reader for all pdfs. I assumed this would be straightforward, however, when I download a new pdf, it defaults to Preview because if I try to set Adobe DC as default I get the following message

  something.pdf can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the App Store and identified developers.

Then I have to go to security preferences and explicitly approve Adobe Reader. This is incredibly annoying because Preview doesn't support tabs and I tend to have several pdfs open at any given time and don't want to open each in a separate window.

Is there a way to change the security preferences such that all opening all pdfs with Adobe reader is allowed by default?

I'm on MacOS Mojave.


texts: How to restore hidden Library folder in Time Machine

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I want to restore the hidden user Library folder from Time Machine but I am unable to see it when I enter Time Machine. Read on.

I thought the hidden Library folder would appear if I used the Terminal command to either reveal the hidden Library folder AND/OR to show all hidden files and folders. Both commands work outside of Time Machine but they don't show any hidden files or folders when I am in Time Machine space.

Is it possible to see and/or restore the hidden Library folder in Time Machine?

I appreciate any help? I'm stuck.

P.S. I am using 10.8.1 if that is helpful to know. And the Time Machine backup that I am trying to restore my Library folder from was from my previous hard drive in which I was also running 10.8.1. I switched to a new hard drive.


texts: Is it safe to stick an Apple Watch charger to a piece of metal when not in use?

texts: Maybe this is a general question for magnetic / wireless charging. I'd like to let my apple watch charger stick to a metal lamp on my nightstand when not in use. Is this safe or will the charger be activated in some capacity? Could be a dumb question, but I searched for this and couldn't find anything.


texts: How can I deactivate Google Voice on my iPhone?

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I have iPhone 5 and Verizon service.

I used to have Google Voice number but I haven't used it for 3 years and its no longer active. Couple of months ago I noticed a tone every time I dial a number to call out on my cell phone. My calls would then drop after couple of minutes in conversation with the person I was calling which is beyond annoying. Went to Verizon store, they changed my sim card, which did absolutely nothing.

Yesterday finally after a tone, I got an automatic message that the "Google Voice is ready to connect my call".

I deleted Google Voice app from my iPhone, and its still happening. I looked for settings all over the place and I have no idea how to deactivate this unwanted feature. Any thoughts?


texts: DIY replacement of DVD drive with an SSD?

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I have a late 2011 15" MacBook Pro. It has a 750 GB HDD and I'm about to upgrade the RAM from 2x4 GB to 2 x 8 GB.  I am looking for do-it-yourself resources/guides to either (depending on difficulty):

replace the HDD with a SSD (obviously the easier scenario if not too difficult, or, ...)
a) Remove the internal DVD drive that hardly ever gets used.
b) Install the DVD drive in an enclosure with a USB or Thunderbolt port for use as an external device when needed.
c) fill the empty DVD drive space with an SSD and make use of both the HDD (for data) and the SSD (for OS and software).

Obviously the first question is readily dooable and I'm considering the Samsung 860 EVO 1 or 2 TB if I settle on the first upgrade scenario.

Question 1:
I'm just not sure Samsung 860 EVO will fit?

Question 2:
It is really the second scenario that I need the step by step guide for, if it is possible, not overly difficult and, if any of you folk know of a good DIY resource?


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How do you burn a CD within iTunes?

I want to be able to burn some music to a CD, but I just can't find the option.


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Today safari (v11.1) on Mac HighSierra 10.13.4, started to behave like crazy. For some reasons this is the resolution I get everytime I open the browser. Looks a kind of mobile resolution. I restarted, erased the history, changed from view --> font in, font out, but  nothing happens.

Here a screenshot:

What should I do? Now I am writing from Chrome.


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Basically, there was Karabiner that did the job, but with Sierra it doesn't work anymore and there's still no updates. What are other ways to change shortcut output?
In Particular I need to change ">" + Option that gives "≥" to give "."


texts: Possibly opened a malicious .dmg file on my Mac, not sure wether it installed itself?

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I was opening a document on my computer and double tapped the file below it; A (more than probable, malicious) Skype.dmg file, likely downloaded from a popup. Normally, when I see them I send them straight to trash.

However I made the mistake of double clicking the downloaded skype.dmg file and am  unsure as to whether this means it has done any damage.

(Im using Avast security as an example of what I saw on my screen when I pressed on the Skype.dmg file)

When I double clicked the skype.dmg file, an installer window opened up, however I did not click install, instead I closed the window and removed the program to trash.

However, I then noticed in my Finder window that the file was still there in the devices tab:

I then ejected the program, and deleted the icon on my home screen:

This question, although similar, differs to another question on this forum
(Are auto-downloaded malicious .dmg app files a security risk if they are never opened?)
by the fact that I have double clicked the file; Opening what may be an interim facade (picture 1) between installation and execution, although I'm not really sure.

Even though I clicked it, have I installed the Skype file?


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I have a Mac Pro Mid 2010 that since about a week ago only displays a blank white screen after rebooting. It doesn’t respond to various startup options. My reseller advised my to replace the original ATI Radeon 5870 graphics card.

I installed a new Sapphire Pulse RX 580 (so that I can later upgrade the Mac OS from 10.13.6 to 10.15) plus new cable, but see nothing at all on the monitor. I assume the bios doesn’t recognize the card as I could not install any software. How can I solve this?

Could I temporarily install an ATI Radeon 5770 that has been used in a PC just to install software for the RX 580?

Any alternatives?


texts: Do I need to remove BootCamp partition before installing Mountain Lion?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro and I am planning to do a fresh install of Mountain Lion over my existing Lion partition. I have Windows x64 installed on another partition (I installed it using BootCamp). My question is whether I have to remove BootCamp windows partition before installing Mountain Lion? Or may I just install a fresh copy without disturbing Windows partition?


texts: OCR on PDFs in OS X with free, open source tools

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After reading these blog posts:

Linux, OCR and PDF - Problem solved
Creating a searchable PDF with opensource tools ghostscript, hocr2pdf and tesseract-ocr
Using Tesseract OCR with PDF scans

and going through the snippet below (from this gist) for Linux, I think I found a method to OCR a multi-page PDF and get a PDF in the output that could also work in OS X. Most of the dependencies are available in homebrew (brew install tesseract and brew install imagemagick), except one, hocr2pdf.

I haven't been able to find a port of it for OS X. Is there one available? If not, how can one OCR a multi-page PDF and get the results back again in a multi-page PDF in OS X, using free, open source tools?

#!/bin/bash

# This is a script to transform a PDF containing a scanned book into a searchable PDF.
# Based on previous script and many good tips by Konrad Voelkel:
# http://blog.konradvoelkel.de/2010/01/linux-ocr-and-pdf-problem-solved/
# http://blog.konradvoelkel.de/2013/03/scan-to-pdfa/
# Depends on convert (ImageMagick), pdftk and hocr2pdf (ExactImage).
# $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick pdftk exactimage
# You also need at least one OCR software which can be either tesseract or cuneiform.
# $ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
# $ sudo apt-get install cuneiform
# To install languages into tesseract do (e.g. for Portuguese):
# $ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-por

echo "usage: ./pdfocr.sh document.pdf ocr-sfw split lang author title"
# where ocr-sfw is either tesseract or cuneiform
# split is either 0 (already single-paged) or 1 (2 book-pages per pdf-page)
# lang is a language as in "tesseract --list-langs" or "cuneiform -l".
# and author, title are used for the PDF metadata.
#
# usage example:
# ./pdfocr.sh SomeFile.pdf tesseract 1 por "Some Author" "Some Title"
pdftk "$1" burst dont_ask
for f in pg_*.pdf
do
if [ "1" == "$3" ]; then
convert -normalize -density 300 -depth 8 -crop 50%x100% +repage $f "$f.png"
else
convert -normalize -density 300 -depth 8 $f "$f.png"
fi
done
rm pg_*.pdf

for f in pg_*.png
do
if [ "tesseract" == "$2" ]; then
tesseract -l $4 -psm 1 $f $f hocr
elif [ "cuneiform" == "$2" ]; then
cuneiform -l $4 -f hocr -o "$f.html" $f
else
echo "$2 is not a valid OCR software."
fi
hocr2pdf -i $f -r 300 -s -o "$f.pdf" < "$f.html"
done

pdftk pg_*.pdf cat output merged.pdf

pdftk merged.pdf update_info_utf8 doc_data.txt output merged+data.pdf
echo "InfoBegin" > in.info
echo "InfoKey: Author" >> in.info
echo "InfoValue: $5" >> in.info
echo "InfoBegin" >> in.info
echo "InfoKey: Title" >> in.info
echo "InfoValue: $6" >> in.info
echo "InfoBegin" >> in.info
echo "InfoKey: Creator" >> in.info
echo "InfoValue: PDF OCR scan script" >> in.info
in_filename="${1%.*}"
pdftk merged+data.pdf update_info_utf8 in.info output "$in_filename-ocr.pdf"

rm -r doc_data.txt in.info merged* pg_*


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All of the sudden the Application Switcher's graphics breaks:

Restart does help, but became a nuisance. How can I kill it? Restart it?

UPDATE: Logging off fixed this.

UPDATE 2: I came to a conclusion that this is a result of a conflict in the display cached data.


texts: How to add separators (vertical lines) in the dock?

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Is this even possible? Could be very handy for me.

Here is an example:
I have some folders right next to the trash bin. Sometimes I accidentally put a file in the trash bin instead of in the folder.


texts:
Is it possible to first enter a command and then choose "run in Terminal" in Quicksilver?

Is there another way of doing it other than Quicksilver (though I would prefer Quicksilver)?


texts: Unknown port - Looking for a VGA converter

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I have the following plug-in hole to put a converter to plug it to a VGA screen.

Issue is I've never seen such type of plug-in.

Does anyone know about it, please?

Thanks.


texts:
I wanted to delete my Linux partition, but I don't know why my OS X partition was also deleted.

So, I then reformatted the partition and installed a new OS X (Yosemite) on that partition.

I am trying to recover my lost data, I tried many applications such as Disk Drill, EaseUs, etc. But none of them was able to recover a single file from my 300 GB SSD!


texts:
I lost my iPhone 5c in Gypsom, Colorado and am pretty sure it has 50% or more of battery remaining.

How can i locate it?


texts: Making the iTerm2 color tab labels on activity more useful

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In using iTerm2, I frequently see tabs turning a different color, and just assumed that this was because of new output in that window.  The help was no good, as I couldn't find a decent word to search for, but after combing through the preferences, I discovered that this was because "Color tab labels on activity" was selected.

Ok, so far so good.  I would like to use this feature for a tab that has a chat window in it.  The problem is, I frequently see tabs change color but when I go to that window there is no visible change in the output.  Sometimes the color changes in a tab that has nothing but an idle command prompt; in that case I can't image there would even be some kind of invisible change like spaces or something being output.

Is there some way I can actually make use of this feature?  As it is, it is pretty useless if 90% of the time when I go to the tab to see what happened, nothing happened.


texts: iPhone8 vibrates in response to some interface - how to disable?

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I have an iPhone 8 for testing iOS apps. It has some weird feedback feature, where the phone vibrates mildly in response to actions, like flipping on/off switches in the settings app. It feels similar to when I press the fake home button.

How do I disable "vibrate in response" to interface on iPhone8?


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I am a musician, and was finding my 2011 iMac was getting sluggish with more complex tracks. It was topping out the CPU so I bought a second hand 2015 iMac with a much more powerful CPU. I am finding that the new machine is actually considerably worse in performance than the older one. Activity monitor reveals that there is plenty of CPU time and physical memory available. The problem seems to occur whenever I try to do more than one thing at a time which requires any amount of disk access. As I type this, my Dropbox has just started syncing, and the performance of the machine has degraded to the extent that I am typing, and the letters are appearing slowly one at a time on the page. If I try to open a piece of software while another one is doing anything, the whole system grinds to a halt, I get a persistent beachball, and software will start to freeze and/or crash entirely. Despite this, Activity Monitor continues to assert that there is no problem CPU or memory-wise. So I did a disk benchmark and was surprised at how low the results were:

Dragging and dropping that image into Safari from my Desktop, by the way, required me to wait for Exposé to redraw (and it stuttered rather than swishing smoothly), click and drag the file, un-Exposé and wait again, drag the file into Safari, then wait for the beachball to stop before letting go. From experience, if I drag and drop without waiting for the beachball to stop, the Mac ignores the drag and drop and I have to do it again.

Opening my Applications directory can take several minutes. Opening music project files? I go and make tea while it thinks about it. It is so bad that I have actually put the older 2011 iMac back into the studio as this new one is completely unusable. It has been like this since I got it. When I bought it I erased the HDD and installed Mojave from scratch. It has always been this slow—it has not degraded over time.

This is clearly not the expected performance for this machine, so if the CPU and memory aren't causing the problem, could it be that the hard drive is either so slow as to bottleneck the performance, or is failing?

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   iMac
  Model Identifier: iMac16,2
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i5
  Processor Speed:  2.8 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    4
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 4 MB
  Memory:   8 GB
  Boot ROM Version: 229.0.0.0.0
  SMC Version (system): 2.32f20
  Serial Number (system):   C02SF1JTGG77
  Hardware UUID:    C3F0A7B9-1498-5EA2-94D2-B1CBE28C6E50

APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662:

  Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
  Model:    APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662
  Revision: JA0AB5D0
  Serial Number:    JD8002D81S8JRD
  Native Command Queuing:   Yes
  Queue Depth:  32
  Removable Media:  No
  Detachable Drive: No
  BSD Name: disk0
  Rotational Rate:  5400
  Medium Type:  Rotational
  Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  SMART status: Verified
  Volumes:
EFI:
  Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
  File System:  MS-DOS FAT32
  BSD Name: disk0s1
  Content:  EFI
  Volume UUID:  0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B
disk0s2:
  Capacity: 1 TB (999,995,129,856 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s2
  Content:  Apple_APFS


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After upgrading to 10.11.2 my laptop stopped connecting automatically to my WiFi network. When I manually select the network it connects, but then it pops up a dialog saying "Keychain System cannot be found to store {SSID}".

When I look at the Keychain Access app I see a System keychain, and it is located at /Library/Keychains/System.keychain. But there is also a directory /System/Library/Keychains/. Will moving the System.keychain file under /Library/Keychains/ to /System/Library/Keychains/ fix the problem?


texts: Change order of services during startup or login

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I've read of ways to change startup services' order of execution for Ubuntu. I'm hoping it's possible and simple to do it in macOS as well. I was thinking something like this. My objective is to ensure my wifi has time to connect after logging in before any other startup services or apps run that requires an active internet connection.

Maybe a scripted startup service that is forced to run before other startup services to ensure the network is active before allowing other processes to run? Or a simple prioritization of startup services and lock progression to the next service until a specified service reaches an acceptable state?

I'm not very familiar with MacOS, so any pointers in this direction would be amazing.


texts: How to select Target mode with only one monitor

texts: I have hooked a new Mac Mini up to my monitor but want to migrate data from my old Mac Mini to the new one but only have one monitor and Migration Assistant requires that I start the old one up in target mode. With only one monitor. How can I start that old one up in Target mode so the new one can recognize it?


texts: Snow Leopard cannot find my LaCie Network Space 2 when it's connected through USB.

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I have a LaCie Network Space 2 (and I wish I had bought a WD instead) which is connected to my iMac with USB. I have used it before through LAN, but I've moved my Mac to another room and now I connected it with USB as that transfers faster. The problem is that the disk doesn't show up in the Finder, not even in Disk Utilities. I've been fighting with this for a few hours now, but I couldn't find anything :(

Windows, however can find it.

What can be wrong?

I'm using Snow Leopard.


texts: Downgrade pre-installed Lion to Snow Leopard on a 2011 Macbook Pro?

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I have very recently purchased a Macbook Pro pre-installed with Lion.  After spending several days unsuccessfully trying to get it to play nicely with Active Directory I purchased a retail copy of Snow Leopard, booted it from an external DVD drive (wouldn't read the disc) erased the HDD and attempted to install Snow Leopard.  No go.  Forums suggest it cannot be done. I now have a blank HDD.

Has anyone successfully downgraded from Lion to Snow Leopard on a pre-installed Lion system?  If so, can you give instructions or point me in the direction of how to do this please?


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I'm sick and tired of having the App Store launched every other time I try to turn a page in iBook.  Is there a way to turn the stupid "feature" off?  Don't see a setting in the App Store panel, nor in iBooks.

This is a recently added feature.  In any app, a tap or swipe left near the right edge (in other words, the same motion as turning a page) brings in an abbreviated app store panel.  Can dismiss the panel by tapping somewhere else, but my reading is still interrupted, and the full app is still in the background.


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Is it better to just close the lid on a macbook pro or should I shut it down?

When I restart a computer, and I have multiple desktops open, will the desktops all restart with settings saved to reopen applications on those same desktops?

If I have an application open on desktop 4 and options --> this desktop so that the application only opens on desktop 4, will desktops 2 and 3 automatically open if I did not have them open at restart? At restart, if I just open the application that is saved on desktop 4, will applications 2 and 3 restart automatically?


texts: Changing the Finder icon for an external disk formatted as ExFat?

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I used this web page recipe - Create Your Own Custom Icons in OS X 10.7.5 or Later - for creating a .icns icon set containing a set of icons for an external disk that has been formatted with the ExFat file system.

However, whatever I do, when I drag the .icns file on top of the drive, it just shows a .png dummy icon:

If I erase the drive and reformat it as OS X Journaled, then repeat the process, the icon is shown correctly:

Is there a trick where I can reassign the icon also for an ExFat drive? I plan on using this drive both on a Windows machine and on my MacBook so keeping it as OS X Journaled isn't really an option. I know there are custom software for Windows so that I can read and write OS X file system disks but that's not an option either since I plan on connecting this drive to computers where I cannot really expect the owner to install custom software to use the disk.

And the icon is not that important. It would just be a nice touch.

What I've tried:

Basic .png file (that works on OS X Journaled formatted drive)
Full .icns file (that works on OS X Journaled formatted drive)

So can it be done? If so, how?

This is OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 and the drive is a WD My Passport Air 1TB if if matters.


texts: Does iOS now delete text messages on iPhone without warning?

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It appears that my iPhone 4s have silently and completely by itself deleted a number of messages from the beginning of this 2012. In the place of a longer messaging thread, there's now a load more messages button in the affected text conversations, but it doesn't actually load the previous message history.

I am nowhere near any sort of limits storagewise, so I don't see why the iPhone would perform any housekeeping on its own. Digging into this, it appears that only the conversations using iMessage have been cleared out but not the ones that only transfer via SMS.

Is this a known behavior that is either documented officially by Apple or currently an undocumented feature?


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I want to create a backup disk where I occasionally connect it to my macOS and copy important things manually.

I may also connect this disk to Windows in rare cases.

I also want to encrypt the disk/container.

I accept to lose the ability to use this disk on Windows. (which may occur if I choose HFS+ encrypted)

What is the most reliable and fast way to achieve this?
Using NTFS and Veracrypt?
Using HFS+ Encrypted?


texts: Query Spotlight indexing status from Terminal

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Is there a way to get the indexing status of Spotlight using Terminal commands?

I know that I can just press command+space and type anything to get a progress bar, but I would like to be able to get the same information from a shell.

PS: I'm aware of Is there a way to show Spotlight indexing status/progress in Yosemite? but the old question was asked for Yosemite and the existing answer regarding Terminal commands just says it wasn't possible then. Here's hoping that Apple improved this somehow in the meantime.


texts: Use of regular expressions in macOS search fields

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Does anyone know where I can find the docs describing Regex parsing capabilities of macOS search fields?

What I mean, I'd like to read about the regex syntax rules that are allowed and parsed by the search field. For example, what I didn't know until today that, in macOS Preview (or any other application with a standard search field, guessing) we can use input like this:

"\s" AND "an" AND "\s"

This works and hints that search fields interpret more regex then we know, and this is what I want to read/find out about. The example above searches for "an" with one trailing and leading whitespace character \s within a opened document.

I'd like to know more about those grouping rules and regex characters wrapping/escaping so it can be correctly parsed. Also does this format of input apply to systemwide search fields of any application?

I can't find any docs describing these features and was found only this on developer.apple.com library instead.

Below you can see an example of default search behaviour for a "an" word within a PDF document, it shows all "an" occurences in the results, regardless if you put a space before the "an" word, so your input is " an "

When we put "\s" AND "an" AND "\s" into the search field we get the more desired search result

This makes a huge difference for searches containing common words!

In short: I'd like to know more about the functionality you see above. Where can I find any (official) documentation about it?

The answers provided (so far) are not answering my question, thank you for them though - aggregating more related information is good.