texts: Updating El Capitan to High Seirra will take 18 hours

texts: I'm on El Capitan and trying to update to High Seirra. It downloaded the stub file and run the application. I waited for one hour till it says 17 hours remaining. Is there a way to speed up the update process?


texts: What sets the language of iCal invitations?

texts: I am using Mac OS X 10.6 configured for English. I am using iCloud configured for English. Why are iCal invitations sent in German?


texts: I have an online subscription to a radio program that allows me to download past episodes. However when they are opened in iTunes the album name is set in the format Apr 01 2008. The problem is that there are thousands of these and I would like to change it to a better format such as 2008 01 Apr or even 2008 Apr 01. Is there any automatic way to change an mp3's metadata - or a program like a Better Finder Rename that can edit this iTunes metadata for the thousands of tracks that I have?


texts: How to restore the MBR partition table of MacBook Pro?

texts: I am using a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.2. While trying to triple boot my mac, I updated my MBR partition tables using rEFIt. Things didn't go as planned and now I want to start afresh. How can I reset my MBR partition table. I can handle partitioning disk on my own.


texts: Xcode Build Error: No account for team "S23Q9DM44M"

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Xcode builds a barcode reader app without error for the simulator, however, the build for an iPhone XR returns errors:

ERROR MESSAGE

No account for team "S23Q9DM44M". Add a new account in the Accounts preference pane or verify that your accounts have valid credentials. (in target 'BarcodeScanner')

QUESTIONS

What is "team S23Q9DM44M"?

What exactly is the problem?  Explanations or a narrative explaining the problem, which is geared for an undergraduate that has taken a C++ course is sought.

First error message:  Is "S23Q9DM44M" a string that needs to be hunted down in the file and replaced?  What would it be replaced with?

Any suggestions for the second error are also appreciated.

UPDATES

I do NOT want to distribute my App to others
I DO want to run the App on my iPhones / iPad
I did not pay the $99 developer membership


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I'd like to use the RSVG for SVG processing in ImageMagick (the included library is fairly incomplete). RSVG is a supported delegate but needs to be installed separately.

I've installed librsvg and its dependencies using Homebrew (no custom settings or anything like that). Running rsvg-convert manually works fine.

Installing ImageMagick with Homebrew doesn't auto-detect and use the RSVG library and running IM's configure script with --with-rsvg doesn't detect the library either.

Clearly something isn't talking to something else, but I can't make sense of the log messages well enough to sort it out. Any advice would be appreciated.

Here's the relevant portion of config.log:

configure:31587: checking for RSVG
configure:31594: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "librsvg-2.0 >= 2.9.0"
Package xcb-shm was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xcb-shm.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'xcb-shm', required by 'cairo', not found
configure:31597: $? = 1
configure:31610: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "librsvg-2.0 >= 2.9.0"
Package xcb-shm was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xcb-shm.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'xcb-shm', required by 'cairo', not found
configure:31613: $? = 1

configure:31640: result: no
configure:31652: result:


texts: Conflict between Google Drive shortcuts and Safari keyboard shortcuts

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I am working with Google Drive (Google Document) and I have the next shortcut predefined to switch between windows in the same app: ⌘ + Shift + <

The thing is that if I use that shortcut while I am working in a Google Document it doesn't work because it is assigned to another function in Google Drive.

Is there a way I can solve this conflict?


texts: Videos taken with an iPod Touch (or iPhone 4GS) play upside down on my Windows PC

texts: Anybody has an idea why videos taken with an iPod Touch (or iPhone 4S) play upside down on my Windows PC with Windows Media Player? However with QuickTime, videos are oriented correctly.


texts: I've got a webpage that I have to access for work each morning and it continually asks to use my location. Is there an way to block this from asking for my location? I'm not so much concerned about it knowing my location as I am tired of the Safari drop down alert asking for it over and over and over again.


texts: Transferring Messages from old Mac to new Mac

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I have a new Mac and I didn't use the Migration Assistant to move my data. I want to now transfer my old messages from my old Mac to my new Mac. It appears all the old messages are in buried in the old Mac's Library folder.

Is it possible to migrate and merge my old messages from my old Mac to my new Mac?

If so, how?

Note, I do (did) use iCloud iMessage on the old and new mac, but it doesn't appear all my old messages were downloaded from iCloud to my new Mac when I setup my new Mac and iCloud. I'm not sure that's even how it works.


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I have multiple folders within a folder. Each of these folders contains only files (no subfolders). None of the files have duplicate file names.

Is it possible to merge all of the folders to concatenate the files together in a single folder? I could only find information about the ditto command, which seems to be for merging only two folders.


texts: How can I make Siri tolerate longer periods of silence for note dictation?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a way to extend the time you can talk to Siri for?

I would like to be able to use the note taking feature of Siri to take long dictation for brainstorming ideas. The problem is I find that Siri can only tolerate a second or so of silence and then it thinks I am done and transcribes the note.

Contrast this to the simple dictation feature of Siri that you can find next to the space bar of the keyboard when in the Notes app. There, you can talk as long as you like and pause as long as you like and then it's up to you to hit the done button.

Is there a way to bring Siri up, say the "take note" command, but then only have the dictation stop if the user, say, hits the clicker on the headset?

If not, this pretty much makes Siri useless for taking Notes while driving, because I imagine very few people speak continuously when thinking of ideas.


texts: Sharing internet from Macbook Pro has a 5 device limit?

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I'm trying to share the (wifi) internet connection from a 2019 Macbook Pro 15-inch on OSX version 10.14.6 (18G1012) using a USB Ethernet connector and the device's built-in WiFi chipset as my "router". The first 5 devices all work, (2 iPhones, a PS4, an iPad, a 2015 Macbook Pro on 10.15), but as soon as I connect any other device I have (Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, 2013 Macbook Pro) they all will predictably fail with a generic error message that can basically be summed up as "can't connect" and will re-prompt for the Wi-Fi password. I'm sharing my USB Ethernet adapter's connection like:

If I power toggle the Wi-Fi shared connection and boot everybody off, if I pick a device that formally failed to connect before the others, it'll work until there are 5 devices connected, and device #6 and beyond will always fail. Even if it previously had known the network! If I turn a device's WiFi that's currently connected off, a failed device will connect. It's pretty clear there's a 5 device limit on the sharing laptop.

I've done some research and it seems that others have no problem connecting more than 5 devices to a Macbook's wifi, so what am I doing wrong? Are they not connecting simultaneously like I am? I'm not afraid of terminal or gathering more information, but I'm not sure where to even start with this. The sharing screen isn't terribly verbose.


texts: Can't eject Windows 7 install disk to get drivers from Snow Leopard Install Disk

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Alright.  I'm angry at this.

I'm on a 2008 Macbook Pro, running snow leopard trying to install windows 7.

During the "find drivers" phase still in mac, it can't.
So according to apple I'm supposed to continue on anyways and use my snow leopard install disk to install the drivers.  But once I am installing windows 7, there is no way to eject disks because I don't have drivers installed yet.

How am I supposed to get around this?


texts: How to Connect a router to console, using a mac

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I just purchased a non-Apple router (a pfSense SG-1000 device by Netgate). As a contingency plan in the event I would forget my web interface password, to then save my bacon, I want to be able to connect it to console in spite of the fact I do not do Linux and equivalent. The advice I found on the device website seems rather complex:

Install an appropriate CP210x USB to UART Bridge VCP driver on my Mac;
Use a Terminal program (screen, or ZTerm, or cu, but not Terminal);
Use Terminal to locate the port and connect to it.

This could be old advice, prior to mac OS 10.12. Could be a Windows-equivalent, or Linux, set of instructions. To maintain my Mac on a low-entropy diet, I try to minimise specific software installations and try to minimize cases of using Terminal commands.
What would be the advice of serious Mac users?
What is the minimal number of dedicated software I must absolutely install?
What else do I really need to do? Can I avoid using Terminal?


texts: I took my iPhone 4 apart and now the display isn't working

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so I was trying to replace the front of my phone. I didn't need a new LED display because just the top corner of the glass was chipped.

Well, I took the phone apart shortly to find out that it's impossible to remove the LED from the front glass so I just put the phone back together the way it was.

Now when I turn the phone on, it just sits with a black glow. However, it does respond to the power button, but it displays no color other than black. So you either get a matted black (off) or a glowing black (on).

Has anyone ever run into this before? Thanks.


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have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015).
When I connect to a meeting on hangouts, the cam keeps going on and off (the green light goes and off as well).
I'm saying hangouts because that's the tool I use for doing such things. Do you know if there is a way to fix the problem?

(for now I'm not considering it to be an hardware problem)

UPDATE: this problem started after helpdesk changed my user domain. As a proof I switched to a local user and everything is working fine


texts: Standard User account not getting removed on El capitan

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I am not able to delete user account on El capitan . The Minus (remove option ) is inactive here . I tried doing this by logging in to admin account .
Please help!!!!


texts: Access tabs directly in Safari with ⌘+1..9 keyboard shortcuts?

texts: Can you access tabs directly in Safari using the ⌘+1..9 shortcuts like Chrome?


texts: How do I stop my text messages and emails from showing on my 5yr old's iPad?

texts: I am giving my 5yr old an iPad of his own. I'm happy to buy and share apps with him but how do I keep our text messages and emails separate?


texts: MacBook with Lenovo C-Dock duplicates image on external monitors

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I connect my MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 3 to a Lenovo C-Dock, which connects 2 external monitors through 2 DisplayPort cables. The problem I have is that the 2 external monitors mirror each other.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)
macOS Mojave
Version 10.14.3 (18D109)

Lenovo USB-C Dock Type: 40A9

I looked at the display settings, and there is no options to change it. I also tried to connect one of the monitor through VGA port, the 2 monitors still duplicate.

How can I make the 2 external monitors display distinct content and not mirror each other?


texts: How can I listen to FM radio through my iPhone?

texts: My mom has an iPhone 4s. I have a iPhone 4. The radio is out of the house. She wants to listen to Garrison Keillor. Can we get radio through our iPhones?


texts: Fresh Catalina install (10.15.6) generates flood of diskarbitrationd and deleted daemon messages. How to stop them?

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Since doing a fresh install of Catalina (10.15.6) last week, my machine's Console has been flooded with messages from the deleted daemon and diskarbitrationd. The deleted daemon is consuming significant CPU time (30%). Together there are about 100 messages per second being logged in the console at peak times, between the two processes.
The machine has a 2TB drive. I see the drive as 2 volumes, one I created and the other with the same name with " - Data" appended. I'm unfamiliar with why there's this 2-volume configuration with the newer installations, but I am starting to suspect that this is related to this problem.
In the Console display, I see some entries like the following image. The highlighted one is the only one that contains further details in the lower panel.

Other sections of the Console entries look more like this:
There is no useful information in the console entries for the disarbitrationd messages: it just says <private> in the lower panel.
I'm interesting in resolving the underlying problem but would also welcome guidance as to how I might at least temporarily block the massive CPU consumption of the deleted daemon as a temporary measure.


texts: Will backing up files also include files that are marked for deletion?

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If i use Time Machine to back up my data to an additional disk, will the backup also contain files marked for deletion that have not been overwritten yet?

To clarify, I do not mean files in the recycling bin, I mean files that have been already emptied from the bin that require tools like Photorec to recover

Thanks for any help


texts: Problem with alert setting on Iphone since 9.0.1 update

texts: Problem with calendar alerts since I updated to IOS 9.0.1- When I enter or edit an event in Calendar I was getting a problem where when you selected a first alert (say 1 day before) then selected a second alert (say 2 hours before) they would sometimes switch order. You could then select them again and they would be stay in the correct order. Now when you choose a second alert time it becomes the time for both alerts and there is no way to correct them. I tried with the default alerts set to None and to 1 Day doesn't make any difference.


texts: Can I have font smoothing on an external display, but not on MacBook Pro's own retina screen?

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Font smoothing appears to be applied to all screens but I prefer to have the fonts on my retina screen non-smoothed.

However, non-smoothed fonts on the standard 1080p monitor I attach look awful.

Can I tell macOS to turn it on only for the attached monitor? Maybe by hacking the monitor color profile?


texts:
I am on Sierra now, and the appstore has downloaded the Mojave Installer, however I quit it without going though any of the steps, the installer is just sitting in my apps folder.

I would like to cancel the Mojave installation and remove the downloaded files, is there anything I can do?


texts: Macbook Air iPhoto does not see albums on the iPad

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I have a number of photo albums on my iPad. When I connect my iPad to my macbook air and go to iPhoto I only see the photos in my camera roll.

I want to transfer my photos on my iPad to my mac. I can't sync my photos because it was synced with another device previously and I don't want my photos on my iPad to be deleted. I need to get the photos onto my mac first before I sync.
When I had a PC I could simply go to the iPad and select the photos and copy and paste them. I cannot find any place on the mac where I can browse the photos on the iPad?

Am I missing something?

Please help. I am starting to thing I made a huge mistake getting the macbook air.


texts: Why is my MacBook Pro's fan constantly on at 6000RPM?

texts:
I recently replaced the logic board on my Mac, now I have this "fan constantly on at 6000RPM all the time" issue.

So I did an Apple hardware test using the installation disk that came with my Mac and got this cryptic error:
4SNS/1/40000000:Th2H-128.000

After some googleing I came across this:

Th2H Right Fin Stack Proximity Temp

And my question(s), what part does the Right Fin Stack Proximity Temp refer to?

Is the error given by the Apple Hardware Test considered 100% accurately?


texts: How to use SMTP and IMAP with iCloud email?

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I've never used @me.com or @mac.com emails before. Neither did I use MobileMe.

So when the iCloud came out last night I created @me.com email account this morning. Registration on its own went just fine. Email account was added to Mail.app.

Questions:

How to setup SMTP as Sending emails doesn't work?

In the iCloud email account settings the SMTP account is set to iCloud (iCloud) which occasionally is displayed as iCloud (iCloud, Offline) - this has been set by the iCloud config when creating the @me.com account
The above iCloud SMTP is not listed in the SMTP servers list
Connection Doctor doesn't check the outgoing iCloud setting either - just as if it didn't exist.
According to Apple's KnowledgeBase on iCloud Email the SMTP server is smtp.mail.me.com, but Mail.app reports an invalid SSL certificate

What would be IMAP settings for the new @me.com accounts?

Mainly asking because the settings iCloud config set are not all filled in and are not following the earlier linked support document, e.g.:

username is the <username>@me.com, not the full address
incoming mail server is p06-imap.mail.me.com and it is grayed out
password field is empty

Receiving emails does work though, not sure why

So, any tips on getting the @me.com working properly? All other iCloud services seem to work fine.

Edit

It seems to have started working for me without any tweaks. I simply had it disabled for last couple of days, enabled now and it started working without any intervention on my side.


texts: No audio in VM using VirtualBox on macOS High Sierra guest

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The sound is not working in the virtual machine I made using VirtualBox.
Here is a screenshot:
It says "No output device found" in the Sound pane in the System Preferences window.
I am running macOS High Sierra on my mid-2014 Macbook Pro as my host. I am running VirtualBox and using a VM I created that has macOS High Sierra as a guest as well.
How do I get audio on my virtual machine?


texts: Tab key not working properly in dialogue boxes in macOS

texts:
I change the setting ‘Full Keyboard Access’ (the Keyboard settings in the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ tab) from ‘Text Boxes and Lists Only’ to ‘All controls’. Now, I am able to press Tab to moving focus, as illustrated below.

When I hit Enter, pop up a window, instead close the window.

My desired action: hit Enter → move to ‘Don't Save’ → Enter → Close the window.


texts: What data counts as "photos" or "movies"

texts:
When looking up how much data is left on my tiny MacBooks SSD (under "about this mac"/"storage" 1.74 GB are marked as photos, and 429.9 MB as movies, which is odd, considering that I intentionally have deleted the photo library and the iMovie library.

This leaves me with two possible conclusions: either there are some "secret" photo and movie libraries containing above 2 GB of data, or this photo/movie data includes all image and movie files (ie. PNG, JPEG, MPEG, MOV, and similar) which are in use other places on my computer.

My question is, therefore, does this photo and movie data only include files saved in specific folders/libraries at specific locations associated with build in movie/imaging programs such as iMovie, photobooth or similar, or does it include a vast number of files with different purposes at different locations around the filesystem?


texts: How can I access to internet in iPhone 4 with USB or other way through my mac book pro?

texts:
I have a iPhone 4 and Mac book pro. I am accessing internet in Macbook through dsl modem lan. But I don't know how to access internet in iPhone.

My specific question is there any way to access internet through USB or any other way with through my mac book pro????

?


texts: How do you get notes to stay only on your iPhone and not sync to any other device on the Notes app?

texts: I logged out of the iCloud account on both my iPhone and my iPad so neither devices sync each others music or apps anymore, but whenever I make a note on my iPhone I always find it on my iPad and I do not want it there. Is there a way to make my notes stay only on my iPhone?


texts: Google Chrome tabs titles are not completely visible (cut)

texts:
Starting from yesterday I've a weird problem with Google Chrome on my iMac 5k with Yosemite (updated).

As you can see, the text is shifted down some pixel and the lower part is not visible.

Chrome is updated to the latest stable 43.0.2357.134 (64-bit), I have already tried to restart Chrome and the iMac itself.

I have even Chrome Canary and on that version everything works correctly.
On my MacBook Pro with Chrome stable everything works.

How can I fix it?


texts: Can one access the iTunes Store Wish List via either of the two iOS app stores?

texts: I use the "My Wish List" feature in the iTunes Store to keep track of music, movies, and apps that I discover via various RSS feeds, curating them for later purchase. Can I view my "Wish List" in either the "App Store" or "iTunes" apps in iOS? If so, where can this feature be found?


texts:
I have a recurring problem with the Mac terminal.

Start terminal
mysql
Ctrl + Z
mysql
Resize the width of the window
Ctrl + Z
fg 1 (switch back to first mysql)
Type some text that reaches the end of the line

PROBLEM: Mysql seems to still think the window has the original width, so when the text you type reaches the right hand side of the terminal window, the text starts jumping around like crazy as you type, because it is not repositioned correctly.

WORKAROUND: If I change the size of the window just one character, the problem is solved, but it is annoying having to do this several times per day.

I thought of possible things that could be wrong:

Bug in MySQL/MariaDB
Bug in Terminal
Wrong Terminal settings
Wrong Bash settings

Anyone have a solution to the problem, or know who is most likely the culprit, so I know where to direct a bug report?


texts:
I have a friend with a ~2008 MBPro which has seemingly hit the hay. I'm not 100% it's 2008, but I think so. It has magnetic power cord--the square one.

Anyway, as soon as it turns on, there is the blinking folder icon with question mark. Safe-boot, single user... nothing will boot except the installation CD.

Heres what I've tried:

Reset NVRAM/PRAM;
Booted with CD;

-- Repair Permissions: OK; repairs made

-- Verified permissions: OK

-- Repair disk: OK; repairs made

-- Verify disk: OK
Tried to select startup disk: HD not available for selection
Reset NVRAM; reboot
Tried to select startup disk: HD not available for selection
Fired up terminal; HD is there, mounted, browsable, and all the files appear to be there. However, permissions seem strange (even after repair)--lots of 501's.

Questions

Is there some way to determine if it is reparable with an HD swap? i.e. is there some way for me to determine it is not some other hardware issue?

I had recently (a few weeks ago) added in some more RAM. But, since then, until a few days ago, everything was working fine. When strolling through some logs, I did see a reference to a missing NVRAM variable--but might have been the result of hot-swapping USB... Could an issue with RAM keep the startup disk from working?

Thanks


texts: Debugging MacBook Pro kernel panic few minutes after resuming from standby

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Few months ago my MBP (Early2011) started to give a kernel panics after resuming from standby.

This doesn't happen instantly, usually 1-10 minutes after resuming
kernel panics do not follow a clear pattern
I reinstalled the entire OS X 10.8.2
reset SMC and NVRAM
did run memtest
did run AHT

Hardware: Intel SSD 330 & HDD (removed the DVD),8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB.

Here are the last few panics: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uw325nsr3zfbw2v/_YYGyT50mg

What else it could be? At apple store they told me that they cannot service it without putting the DVD back as this is an usupported configuration. Also the MBP is out of warranty.


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I borrowed my friends iPad recently and logged her out of the apple store and logged in using my own apple id.  I did download a range of free apps using my own apple id.  After this I logged out of the apple store and gave the ipad back.  Ever since this though my friend keeps being asked for my password although she is logged in to the icloud and the store.  She is unable to download any apps without being asked to log in as me.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?


texts: Messages with Adium or third party client

texts: Is it possible to use Messages (Apple iMessage) with Adium or any other third party client.


texts: Uninstaller that tracks installed files and removes them later

texts:
On windows I've used various utilities that actively track which files are added during a software install, and I'm sure there must be a good one for os x.  Itrash (http://www.osxbytes.com/) is typical of the 'searching' type of app, which just looks through the system for similarly named files in the cache folders etc.

The closest I've found is Yank (http://www.matterform.com/mac_software/uninstaller/index.html) which does claim to do it, but hasn't been updated since 2009 so trusting something with low level file system monitoring without updates isn't ideal.

Any suggestions?


texts: How can I make crisper screen shots on MBP Retina?

texts:
So we all know that the Retina has a double density screen. As such, when I take screen shots they are 144ppi instead of 72ppi. These are great when I am looking at them in Photoshop, but if I paste them into an e-mail or post them to my blog, they're twice as large as they should be. Scaling them to 50% makes them look terrible.

Here is a screen shot I took directly, and should be 400x170 px, but it is clearly larger than that (click here for direct link, which shows it is actually 800x340 px):

If I bring it into Photoshop and change the resolution from 144ppi to 72ppi, it switches to the right dimensions, but the resampling is absolutely terrible (direct link):

I just want crisp screen shots at the right size, without losing the beautiful crispness of text during normal usage. In other words, I'm hoping there is a solution to this problem without changing this setting (sorry the screen shot is double actual size!):


texts: How to type monospaced numbers using system font in macOS?

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The San Francisco font uses proportionally spaced numbers by default, however it does support monospaced ones. As a developer I know how to make it use monospaced numbers when showing text in an app, but I have no idea how to type them while using text editors such as Notes.

Does anyone know how to do this?

I'm currently using Helvetica Neue for monospaced numbers as a workaround.


texts: How to solve the “You don't have permission to open the application” in Mac OS big sur?

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When I want to open an app which I've downloaded outside of app store a pop up with the message of You dont have permission to open this app shows up.

My laptop is macbook pro 2020 m1 big sur version 11.1

I've checked of my user is the administrator or not and I found that I'm the only admin account on this laptop :

I've also tried to open app with rosetta but didn't work either and also tried to make all users able to read and write in the permissions of the app info .

I hope anyone could help me open such apps . Thanks in advance .


texts: Green button fill screen (as opposed to fullscreen) and coloured folders like 10.8 in El Capitan

texts: In El Capitan is it possible to have coloured files in finder like 10.8 and be able to click the green button on a window to get it to fit to screen (rather than fullscreen) like you could in 10.9 ?


texts: Converting publisher files for use on Mac

texts: I have Microsoft publisher files on a windows computer.  I recently purchased a macbook air, and would like to move these files to my new computer.  How do I do that?


texts: Let Finder display files with a user-defined extension

texts:
I have defined myself a file extension .ev, they are actually text files, which can be opened by TextEdit.

In Finder, by Column view, a .txt document can be displayed directly on the right hand side. Does anyone know if it is possible to let Finder show .ev as well, it will be more handy:


texts: Post force eject disk is not showing in finder

texts: After force ejecting in EI capitan , My disk  showing in disk utility unix command but not showing in disk utility window and i have done as mentioned by setting PRAM but still it is not showing it neither in finder not in DU. pls help


texts:
I have followed instructions found here but I am unable to see the Mac book as a computer in windows 10 network places. Nor can I map it.

Below is what the Mac screen looks like. Even the IP address is not the regular format (numbers). I'm not sure what needs to be done to make this work.

All help is appreciated.

Update
The computer name/workgroup in MAC and PC are the same

Windows PC name

Now, you might see a difference between the computer name in the above. I tried both. Naming the computer in MAC under NETBIOS the same as that in Windows and naming it differently (as shown in the pictures). None worked

The IP address in MAC was the same as that when I logged into the windows. Both the windows and MAC OS are on the same PC so not sure if that makes any difference. Started with a  192.

In windows, when I ping the IP address is worked fine, but probably because the IP address in both MAC and PC are obviously the same. When I tried pinging the computer name (when different in MAC from Windows) it didn't work. I got the following error

Not sure what more I need to do. Elsewhere, I was told that with the latest version of Windows 10, file sharing isn't possible.


texts:
The Eject key on my iMac (OSX Lion) is no longer working. It was working fine until a few days back, and I remember sleeping my display using the Ctrl+Shift+Eject shortcut, when I first found out about the shortcut, a few days back. But it is no longer working.

I have checked that it is not set as the shortcut for 'Speak selected text' option
I have tried resetting the NVRAM
I have tried switching user to check if it is a software problem

How can I fix it?


texts: Time Machine backup to Airport Extreme AirDisk

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I thought it was NOT possible to use the USB hard disk attached to the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a backup destination for Time Machine backups. This was mostly due to Google results as well as this Apple article.

I did the following (no hacks, nothing, just straight up!)

Formatted a 1.5 TB hard drive as 1GB + 0.5GB, both HFS+ Journalled on a GUID partition scheme (did this on my Mac)
Attached it to my 5th gen AEBS.
Back on the Mac, I navigated to the AirDisk volumes via Finder to mount it (i.e. Finder => AEBS => the HFS+ volumes)
Opened Time Machine (on Mountain Lion, 10.8.3) and hit select disk. I saw that Time Machine was asking me if I could use the USB disk attached to the AEBS for the backup destination!!

I went ahead and picked it and the backup is running just fine (images below).

EDIT: Well well, I didn't notice this before but TM seems to think it's backing to a Time Capsule! I don't recall doing anything special to either my Mac(s) or the AEBS. The AEBS was recently upgraded to the latest firmware (7.6.3 or 76300.7 it toggles when the version is clicked)

For a second confirmation, I went to my other mac (also Mountain Lion) and the same result - TM allowed me to choose that AirDisk for backup. Interestingly two separate sparse bundles were created on the on the AEBS Time Machine AirDisk volume, one for each Mac's TM backup instead of trying to cram both into a single sparse bundle. Not sure if that was because I enabled encryption (which I did) on the TM backups.

  Question: Is the [AEBS + USB/AirDisk + Time Machine] combo finally, officially supported? On Mountain Lion or something? I couldn't find documentation along those lines but
  since we're talking about backups, I just want to make sure I'm not
  following an unsupported mechanism.

Disk selection dialog:

And the actual backup itself progressing:


texts: Is there a way to have BBEdit automatically save files when switching to a different application?

texts: In Sublime Text 2, there is a save_on_focus_lost preference option. When set, every time you switch  to another app all current files are saved. Is there a way to make BBEdit behave the same way?


texts: I have a 2008 Macbook Pro will a 85w power cord work?

texts:
I have a 2008 Macbook Pro and my cat recently chew through that power cord. I bought a 85w adpater but I don't want to open it if I know it won't work.

Does an 85w work with a 2008 Macbook pro or should I exchange it for the 60w?


texts: How can Mountain Lion be prevented from reorganizing app layout in Launch Pad?

texts:
I organize my 100+ apps in a very particular order, only to find out that a few days later they are completely out of order. Imagine your iPad or iPhone doing that - would be very annoying.

Is this a bug or can this "feature" be turned off?


texts:
On my MacBook Pro (Year 2009) it takes a long time until I'm logged in or until when a program is started. From day to dayit's getting slower.
Programs like Safari or Word or MonoDevelop take up to 2 min until it's started.

Would it be Win95/98/XP, I would reformat and reinstall everything.
But what are the possibilites with a Mac and OS X?
Is there a performance monitor?

Thanks for any hints.

My Mac has:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM


texts:
Is there any app for iPhone where I can manage my server's MySQL databases?
Or any app to just create an entire MySQL database?


texts: How to disable default keyboard layout shorcut in OS X 10.8?

texts:
When I select the "Simplified Pinyin" layout in Mac OS X 10.8, the shortcut Shift+6 is assigned to "Display smileys" (see screenshot below).

However, since this is a French keyboard, Shift+6 is normally to print the number 6, which means I can no longer type this number.

Is there any way to disable or change this keyboard shortcut?

Edit:

I've tried reassigning the menu item to a different shortcut but that didn't work:

Is there any other way to change or remove this shortcut?


texts: MacOS application does not launch when double clicked but does launch from terminal

texts:
I have written a (GUI) Python script which requires one external file and one module (in a folder). In order to package this script for distribution to others, I am using the following application file structure:

└── Contents
    ├── Info.plist
    └── MacOS
        ├── colors.py
        ├── MainScript.py
        └── <module>
            ├── <module files>

Info.plist looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>MainScript.py</string>
</dict>
</plist>

MainScript.py begins with #!/usr/bin/env python3 and was made executable with chmod +x.

When I double click the .app, it momentarily appears in the dock then vanishes. The strange part is that open MyApp.app does work correctly when in the enclosing folder (as well as ./MainScript.py when in the MacOS folder). What am I doing wrong?


texts: Downloading 32 bit iOS Apps for 32 bit iPhones after iOS 11 is released

texts:
I have a 32-bit iPhone.  I understand that 32 bit iPhones will no longer be supported by iOS 11.

Will I be able to download and buy 32 bit apps from the store for iPhones running 32-bit iOS versions (ie iOS 10.x) after iOS 11 is released?

In other words, is Apple removing 32bit apps from the store completely or just removing them for iOS 11 devices?


texts: Can't sync music from iPhone to computer

texts:
Every time I try to sync music from my iPhone to my computer it says that it has synced with a different iTunes library before. However, I've never synced it to a different one.
 I once synced it anyway and I lost all my music and had to redo my whole iPhone-music, so I would like to avoid this.  But now it's complaining about the same thing.
How can I fix this permanently?


texts: the credit you entered is invalid while changing app store country

texts:
I have 3 credit cards, AMEX VISA and Master, all of them are assuringly valid in Japan, but when I tried to switch country back to Japan, it always said "the card you entered is invalid." whichever I used.   I don't have any unpaid bills or else, just changed the country to update some apps not displayed in Japan's app store.
Anyone can give me an explanation or how can I get out of this?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Shortcut to switch between Today and Notifications in Yosemite

texts:
While it is possible to set a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Notification Center in Mac OS Yosemite, I cannot find a way to switch between the panels "Today" and "Notifications" via the keyboard - it only seems to be possible using the mouse/trackpad.

Is there anything I overlooked?


texts: Bootcamp Assist Disappeared after Windows Update

texts: My windows crashed and I had to reset by re-installing windows.  After it was complete, I lost the ability to access Bootcamp so that I can switch back into the Mac.  I am stuck in Windows!   Anyone know how to help get Bootcamp back so that I can access the Mac?  Everything I find is to re-install BC assistant, but I cannot get into the Mac to do that.


texts: Junos pulse and share internet connection by ad-hoc Wi-Fi on OS X

texts:
Basic problem

If I run Pulse secure (or Junos Pulse) on my iOS device, this breaks functionality of TCP socket in background. I mean if application is in background it can't be woken up by incoming data if VPN client is running.

First workaround

As a workaround I shared internet connection from my Mac via ad-hock Wi-Fi which was running VPN client to my iOS device. In such case iOS device was not running VPN client and TCP sockets was working when application was in background.

Final problem

When I had OS X 10.10 it was working Ok, but after an upgrade to OS X 10.11 internet connection is shared but without network hidden behind a VPN connection.

In configuration file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist I can see that internet connection is shared from network device en0 to en1.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>NAT</key>
        <dict>
                <key>AirPort</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>40BitEncrypt</key>
                        <integer>1</integer>
                        <key>Channel</key>
                        <integer>0</integer>
                        <key>Enabled</key>
                        <integer>0</integer>
                        <key>NetworkName</key>
                        <string>MyAdhockNetwork</string>
                        <key>NetworkPassword</key>
                        <data>
                        </data>
                </dict>
                <key>Enabled</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
                <key>NatPortMapDisabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>PrimaryInterface</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>Device</key>
                        <string>en0</string>
                        <key>Enabled</key>
                        <integer>0</integer>
                        <key>HardwareKey</key>
                        <string></string>
                        <key>PrimaryUserReadable</key>
                        <string>Ethernet</string>
                </dict>
                <key>PrimaryService</key>
                <string>AFFBAE8A-79CE-4710-9772-F0E8750F9292</string>
                <key>SharingDevices</key>
                <array>
                        <string>en1</string>
                </array>
        </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Changing this setting from en0 to utun0 (network device introduced by VPN client) didn't solve the problem: service is unable to start.

In "Settings/Sharing" it is impossible to configure internet sharing so utun0 would be used since combo box "Share your connection from:" doesn't have an entry which could match this device.

Any thoughts how can I solve one of the above problems? The main aim is to restore ability to receive data by application in background (it has SIP capabilities).


texts: Is there a way to change a short name in OS X

texts: I am trying change the Short Name for an account on my computer. Is there an easy way to do this?


texts: Can one app read data from clipboard copied in another app

texts:
Let's say I'm working in application A and copy some sensitive data to clipboard. Can application B which is opened at the moment catch the information I've copied?

Does OS X protect from such vulnerabilities?

Update:
To be more specific what if I copy a password from a password manager, is the pass accessible for all the apps while it is in clipboard? If so how password managers protect a user in this case?


texts: Is it possible to lock the memory tray on an iMac 27" (late 2012)?

texts:
After countless searches, I haven't managed to find any clear answer on the subject.

The iMac 27" (late 2012) features a tray on the back of the computer, which you can open after pushing a button located behind the power cable, in order to add or remove memory modules.

We are intending to house a large number of iMac available to a large number of people, we'd rather not get the RAM stolen in the process.

I have an untested theory that the Kensington slot featured on the iMac might lock the button if there is a Kensington lock in place.

Any truth to it or should I be looking into something else?


texts: How to Drag and Drop between full screen apps on a Mac using a standard mouse?

texts:
I have a Logitech mouse. I often maximize my applications in OS X. E.g. I will have Evernote running on one Desktop and Google Chrome running on another, both in full screen mode.

Suppose I have a file in my Downloads folder. How do I attach it into Evernote using drag and drop? Or similarly, how do I attach it to an email using drag and drop. On Windows, drag and drop is made simple by the fact that you can easily resize windows. But, with OS X, since all your windows are maximized, or at least that is how I have them, how do I drag stuff from one place to another?

P.S. I have a simple USB mouse, I am not using Apple trackpad or any such fancy thing.


texts: Other Apple ID is shown when attempting to update apps

texts:
For some reason another persons Apple ID pops up when I try to do updates on my iPhone 6. Don't have a clue how to fix this or stop it.  The name does not resemble my name at all.

Anyone know what to do?


texts: How long is it safe to store an unopened iPod Classic?

texts:
I just bought an iPod classic after the discontinuation, and I already have a working one, so I just want to store this one until its needed.

How long is it ok to just leave it in the box? I read once that you're not supposed to let a battery sit with no charge in it, and the date on the iPod box says 2009, meaning this thing almost definitely has no charge right? Should I start it on charge cycles or just leave it in the box?


texts:
I want to install OSX Yosemite GM, but final version will release soon, can I upgrade Yosemite GM to final through Appstore when apple release final version?
or I have to download another 5GB ?


texts:
When I go to send a text message on my Apple Watch, whether it be through Siri or the messages app, it always tries to send a text message (green) rather than a iMessage (blue). I have tried turning on and off iMessage, restarting my iPhone and Watch, unpaired and re-paired my watch, and setting it up again as new. My watch will appear to try to send a regular (green) text message through my phone, but will get stuck on "Sending..." even though the text actually gets sent. I can send iMessages just fine on my iPhone. The people in my contacts who I am messaging do have iPhones and their contacts are set up as having an iPhone.

And a little while later, my watch will say that the message failed to send, even though they were sent:

As you can see below, texts from my Watch end up sent as regular text messages, while texts from my iPhone to the same person get sent as iMessages. In the end, how do I get my watch to send iMessages?

Update

I had an Apple Store Genius appointment a while back to try and resolve this. At the time I was running the iOS 8.4 public beta and I was told to wait for final release of iOS 8.4 to fix my problem, as the Apple employee was also experiencing the same problem and was also on the beta. Now with the final release of iOS 8.4 out, I've updated and it still doesn't work. I'm also updated to Watch OS 1.0.1.

My Watch will also occasionally tell me that my iCloud password is "incorrect" and that I need to sign into iMessage/FaceTime again (my password isn't wrong, I've done this multiple times). Although it seems to only ask me this when the Watch dies or is manually restarted.


texts:
I have a Macbook Air with a Swedish keyboard and when I type Shift+4 I get this: €. What I would like to get is $ ,now at Alt+4.

How can I swap these two around?


texts: Why do I have to reboot my iMac and Wacom Cintiq after sleep?

texts:
I have an iMac and a 24 inch Wacom Cintiq. When I put the iMac to sleep, it freezes and I have to restart both the iMac and the Wacom Cintiq.

How can I get around this?


texts: Locating install printer PPD driver url script

texts: Is it possible to output the PPD driver path my installed printer is using?


texts: mac fails to reconnect to SMB share after coming back from suspend

texts:
I've got a mac (OS X 10.8.2) that's accessing files on an Win7 SMB share. About half the time the Mac comes back from suspend it can't connect to the SMB share. The Win7 machine is on and the password hasn't changed. But when I try to connect to the SMB server it asks for the username/password. When I type it in, I get told it's wrong. Then I restart the machine (Mac) and it can connect to the SMB server fine.

It's an annoyance really, especially when I've got 8 different terminal windows open and they're all named the way I like etc.

Anyone got a suggestion/tips for re-connecting to an SMB drive after suspend?


texts:
On Snow Leopard you could "jump" from the last space to the first space by hitting cmd+right arrow.

How to do this in Mavericks?


texts: Can I access data on Windows outside VMWare from within the OS X VM?

texts:
I am running OS X Mountain Lion on VMWare Workstation installed on Windows 7. How can I access my Xcode projects outside VMWare (i.e. from host)? I know I can do this by copying projects in the shared folder of my machine.

Can I have a folder on host where I can create Xcode projects from within VMWare? I want to do this because VMWare may crash and I may want to keep all Xcode projects safe and access them from host.

Any ideas?


texts: Which text editors support both tabbed windows & rtf documents?

texts:
I am looking to change my text editor / note taking app for OS X. I require only the following:

Tabbed windows: I don't want every document open in a new window. For some reason this seems to be an elusive feature, missing from even many high end word processors
Able to handle rtf documents
Does not require an account (many note taking apps do)

Pretty short list eh? I'm coming up with almost nothing. 'Bean' (http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html) is so far the only one I've found but it's no longer under development and search/replace feature doesn't work properly.

I know this question could be interpreted as open ended or opinion based, but it is not.  I am asking to find out which apps conform to the above requirements, not for opinions about which is best.


texts: Does Apple reveal its iOS review wait time?

texts:
The site appreviewtimes.com croudsources reports from iOS developers to figure out the current average iOS/Mac apps review time:

Does apple reveal any information about the current review queue size?


texts:
This may be a total noob question, but this is my first apple product, please bear with me.
I'm not seeing certain folders, like "movies", "music", and "pictures" in finder.
Is there a way to activate these folders?

I'm running osx mavericks on a late 2013 mbp.


texts: Why does traceroute from the command line work, but traceroute via Network Utility not work?

texts:
I am diagnosing some mysterious network latency that comes and goes with my wife's MacBook Pro.

As part of this diagnostic work, I fired up Network Utility and used its interface to traceroute to trace the route to www.google.com.  Somewhat oddly, all of the results were of the * * * variety.

Suspicious, I opened up traceroute directly from Terminal and issued traceroute www.google.com.  There was a * * * from the second hop (right after my 10.0.0.1 entry) but then everything flowed normally.

I then eliminated DNS issues by using traceroute against the IP address directly.

This behavior happens on all Macs in our house, so it's not computer-specific.

Here is the output from the command line (which worked):

traceroute to 173.194.33.116 (173.194.33.116), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1)  115.994 ms  1.265 ms  1.816 ms
 2  * * *
 3  te-5-2-ur02.bremerton.wa.seattle.comcast.net (68.87.205.57)  14.209 ms  12.736 ms  11.514 ms
 4  ae-22-0-ar03.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net (69.139.164.153)  18.753 ms  14.804 ms  15.076 ms
 5  he-1-4-0-0-10-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.94.237)  19.233 ms
    he-1-7-0-0-10-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.91.165)  18.523 ms
    he-1-12-0-0-10-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.93.173)  16.625 ms
 6  he-0-11-0-1-pe04.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.38)  15.435 ms  21.009 ms  14.535 ms
 7  23.30.207.2 (23.30.207.2)  16.739 ms  14.500 ms  15.909 ms
 8  209.85.249.34 (209.85.249.34)  16.002 ms  17.200 ms  16.781 ms
 9  209.85.244.63 (209.85.244.63)  15.472 ms  17.927 ms  15.836 ms
10  sea09s16-in-f20.1e100.net (173.194.33.116)  15.860 ms  27.057 ms  16.399 ms

And here is the output from Network Utility:

Leaving aside the &)$(*^#& problem that I'm actually trying to solve, what would account for why the two traceroute invocations would produce different output?  If it matters, traceroute-via-Network-Utility never works; the command line always does.


texts: Keyboard shortcuts have gone screwy since Mavericks upgrade

texts:
Something weird has happened to my keyboard shortcuts since I upgraded to OSX Mavericks.

Command-Option-V, which I was using before my upgrade to cut and paste (i.e. move) files in Finder, now blacks out the display and locks my screen, as well as performing its original function.

Command-Option-Eject, which before the upgrade was a very handy shortcut to lock the screen, now does nothing.

Can anybody tell me if these are known issues in Mavericks, and if there's anything I can do to get back to normal?

Other users have noticed then when using the wired full Mac keyboard, the eject button ejects a disk, but weirdly the eject symbol only appears on the screen and the disk pops out only after about a long delay, about a minute.

I've tried unplugging the keyboard and plugging it in a different port. I've restarted, closed down every running application I could find, reset keyboard shortcuts to defaults in System Preferences - still get no response from either Control-Shift-Eject or Command-Shift-Eject (which is supposed to put the machine to sleep). I'm able to lock my screen by setting a hot corner only.


texts: Is there any app to monitor how long has each app been actively used?

texts:
What I'm looking for is basically some monitoring application, which will log how long has each of my applications been actively used. By that I mean it got focus.

The point of this would be to monitor the workflow and to see where do I spend most time.


texts:
When transferring a song from a CD to my iTunes library (or downloading an .mp3), I've noticed that Explicit and Clean labels are not present (as seen below).

I've already added all the information to every song, and now, all that I'm missing are the Explicit labels. Is there any, preferably programmatic, way to add these labels to songs I've imported to my library without downloading/using a third party program?

I've converted my imported files to AAC versions (.m4a format), which I imagine is more versatile for this purpose.


texts: Change the directory used to save screenshots

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I change the location of screen captures on 10.5?

In the Keyboard preferences, I enabled the shortcuts that allow me to take a screenshot of the full screen, or of the part I select.

Is there a way to select in which directory will the file be saved?


texts: I am looking to increase the RAM of my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Mid 2015). I found one on the Apple website, but it is $400. If I could find a better price, it would be amazing. I was looking around on Amazon, but don't know if the SDRAMs I found work with my iMac. Do you guys have any advise for how to tell whether or not the SDRAM is compatible with my iMac?


texts: iOS: Change language back to English after accidentally changing to a language I don't know

texts: I just plugged my iPhone in and instead of it being in English which it normally is, it's using German & I've not been to Germany. What can I do to get my preferred language back?


texts: iPad Air bedtime alarm sample loops indefinitely when stopped after upgrade to iOS 11

texts:
After upgrade to iOS 11 my iPad Air 32GB (MD786FD/A) I've got the following defect: the wake-up signal in the integrated bedtime application keeps playing after I touch 'stop' button on the screen or press mechanical 'Home' button to stop it. The short sample of the melody (~0,5 sec) is repeated in the loop continuously. The only way to stop the sound is to switch off the device or start the playback in another application.

In all iOS versions before 11 the problem was not present. I tried 4 updates of iOS 11 (11.0.1, 11.0.2, 11.0.3, 11.1), but the problem is not yet fixed. I tried rebooting the device, enabling-disabling the wake-up alarm, changing the melody - nothing has helped.

Any ideas how to fix that? Any workarounds possible?


texts:
All I can find on the internet is info on MacBook Pros. I have a regular MacBook, model 4,1, with a Mini DVI and a Fire Wire port. Currently I'm connecting an external monitor using a Mini DVI to HDMI converter.

Is it possible to connect two monitors to a MacBook 4,1 (Snow Leopard), using either a combo of Mini DVI and Firewire, or a splitter on either port?


texts: Old calendar reminders continue to pop up on my iPhone 6

texts:
I have a fully updated iPhone 6. I continue to get old calendar reminders showing up on my iPhone. It routinely reminds me of a regular meeting that has been cancelled for two years in some cases.

I have gone into the Reminders app, but nothing shows there. None of these old meetings are on my calendar anymore.

How do I get rid of the old reminders?

Re:  The suspected dupe - As noted above, I have gone through the Reminders app. There is nothing there. The previous questions about reminders do not help me as they are not relevant.


texts:
I've tried to configure VPN in Lion (both L2TP and PPTP), but it never connected successfully.

The same VPN works fine in Windows 7 and the iPad and other mobile devices, so I think it could be a problem with Lion.

Did I miss something when trying to configure the VPN?

My system is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74).

Below is the log file.

L2TP:

12-1-12 下午10:18:56.705 configd: SCNC: start, triggered by System Preferen, type L2TP, status 0

12-1-12 下午10:18:56.744 pppd: pppd 2.4.2 (Apple version 560.13) started by stch, kid 501

12-1-12 下午10:18:56.746 pppd: L2TP connecting to server '106.187.38.10' (106.187.38.10)...

12-1-12 下午10:18:56.747 pppd: IPSec connection started

12-1-12 下午10:18:56.764 racoon: Connecting.

12-1-12 下午10:18:56.765 racoon: IPSec Phase1 started (Initiated by me).

12-1-12 下午10:18:56.765 racoon: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Initiator, Main-Mode message 1).

12-1-12 下午10:18:58.261 racoon: IKE Packet: receive success. (Initiator, Main-Mode message 2).

12-1-12 下午10:18:58.268 racoon: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Initiator, Main-Mode message 3).

12-1-12 下午10:18:59.798 racoon: IKE Packet: receive success. (Initiator, Main-Mode message 4).

12-1-12 下午10:18:59.824 racoon: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Initiator, Main-Mode message 5).

12-1-12 下午10:19:02.131 racoon: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).

12-1-12 下午10:19:05.589 racoon: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).

12-1-12 下午10:19:08.764 racoon: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).

12-1-12 下午10:19:09.732 racoon: Received retransmitted packet from
106.187.38.10[500].

12-1-12 下午10:19:20.870 racoon: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).

12-1-12 下午10:19:28.262 pppd: IPSec connection failed

pptp:

12-1-12 下午10:24:50.812 configd: SCNC: start, triggered by System Preferen, type PPTP, status 0

12-1-12 下午10:24:50.848 pppd: pppd 2.4.2 (Apple version 560.13) started by stch, kid 501

12-1-12 下午10:24:50.851 pppd: PPTP connecting to server '106.187.38.10' (106.187.38.10)...

12-1-12 下午10:24:54.425 pppd: PPTP connection established.

12-1-12 下午10:24:54.429 pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> socket[34:17]

12-1-12 下午10:25:24.429 pppd: PPTP error when reading socket : EOF

12-1-12 下午10:25:24.429 pppd: PPTP error when reading header : read -1, expected 12 bytes

12-1-12 下午10:25:24.429 pppd: PPTP hangup

12-1-12 下午10:25:24.430 pppd: Connection terminated.

12-1-12 下午10:25:24.441 pppd: PPTP disconnecting...

12-1-12 下午10:25:24.441 pppd: PPTP disconnected


texts: Difference between Apple part numbers 661-5480 and 661-6362 for MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2010 2.66GHz logic board

texts:
I've been asked to replace the logic board of a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15" Unibody 2.66GHz Core i7 laptop.

When I check the exploded view of my Apple Technician Guide for this MacBook Pro, it lists part number 661-5480 for the 2.66GHz model. However, upon checking various stockists I see both 661-5480 and 661-6362 used interchangeably for this particular logic board.

My copy of the Apple Technician Guide for this computer is dated 5 August 2010. Now, since Apple had to implement a recall program for this particular model due to issues with the GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M) and/or the on-board Intel HD Graphics, it's clear this occurred after my copy of the Apple Technician Guide was produced.

MY QUESTION:

I am wondering whether the two part numbers signify that one was the original logic board part number and the other was for the replacement logic board?

Regardless of your answer above, please advise how you know.

My concern is that I would want to avoid any used or refurbished logic boards with the original part number.


texts: Writing to NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems with defaults

texts:
The following command reads the NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems. The keys are called Text Shortcuts in OS X.

defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems

I want to create new shortcuts using the defaults command, because plists in Mavericks are now cached (and for various other reasons). As you can see from the output of the command above, it lists other keys and values. How would I access the keys and values within the main NSUserDictionaryReplacementItems key? The man page for defaults doesn't say how (or if) that can be done.


texts: My screen saver no longer shows pictures from albums - it says there are no photos but they are there. It will show single pictures and the default directories.


texts: Search directory of .psd files for specific text?

texts:
I have a directory of hundreds of Photoshop files (.psd) and need to locate files by searching for a string of text that exists within a file.

Using Finder to search for "Contents" doesn't seem to work.

Is there an app to accomplish this?


texts: Does the Chinese dual SIM iPhone XS work with any SIM card?

texts:
I am currently in China. I wish to buy the new iPhone XS here. However, I heard that Apple has lock one SIM card slot for Chinese SIM cards only.

If it's real, this purchase is useless because I intend to use two American SIM cards once I come back from China. Can I use two non Chinese SIM cards with a Chinese iPhone XS?


texts: Help downloading iOS 7 with link that drops

texts: I recently purchased an iPad 4 and I have been trying to update to iOS 7 for weeks but the link keeps dropping. What can I do so I can pickup download from where it stopped. My connection is very slow and 1,2 gigs can sometimes take days to download.


texts: File browser alternatives with remote connections

texts:
I have been linux person for 6 years, now converting to mac world.

I am looking for the file browser, which would enable me to:

delete files and folders by pressing delete
rename files by shortcut or right mouse button
enter folders by pressing "Enter"
navigating in the tree by shortcuts (keyboard only)

and also importantly:

do the same things on REMOTE linux servers, especially edit files on the fly
open remote text files in my favorite editor (whichever I want, such as Sublime)

In Ubuntu, I just typed to the directory address ssh://name@server and file system acted completely the same way as if I was on the local computer. Perfectly easy to use and understand.

I don't mind paying small/medium amount of money if needed.


texts: Karabiner not repeating shell command in "to_if_held_down" block

texts:
I want to map my mouse button 5 such that option + button 5 skips to the next track if pressed once, and if held down it continuously skips forward by 10 seconds.
I've added the following rule to Karabiner:
{
  "title": "Mouse Button Remapping",
  "rules": [
    {
      "description": "Maps option + button 5 to next track",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "type": "basic",
          "from": {
            "pointing_button": "button5",
            "modifiers": {
              "mandatory": [
                "option"
              ]
            }
          },
          "to_if_alone": [
            {
              "key_code": "rewind"
            }
          ],
          "to_if_held_down": [
            {
              "shell_command": "osascript -e 'tell application \"Spotify\" to player position' | awk '{ print $1 - 10 }' | xargs -I {} osascript -e 'tell application \"Spotify\" to set player position to {}'",
              "repeat": true
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

For some reason though, when I hold down option + button 5, the track will skip forward 10 seconds just once.
The weird thing is, if I replace the shell_command in the to_if_held_down block to just be "key_code" : "rewind", then a ton of rewind events are sent to Spotify.
Is there a configuration option I'm missing?
FWIW I'm also running bearded spice such that all media key events are sent solely to Spotify.


texts: How to monitor network traffic on a router from a Mac?

texts:
A company has a High Speed internet connection (30 MB/s) which is enough for 10-15 computers. But for a week, there is almost no bandwidth "left", just checking email takes a long time or fails. Getting a website on screen is almost impossible. I checked with speedtest.net and now the speed is 3mb/s to 6 mb/s if not zero in the test time.

So the question is how I can monitor the in and out from the modem/router and analyze what IP take all the "juice" to take that bummer down in flame (or just find the program that make the internet choke). I have a Mac running 10.6.8 (the latest Snow Leopard release) and would like to better manage the network infrastructure and gain insight into how and when it becomes overloaded or performs poorly.

So in short, I need to track which IP or MAC address makes the most requests... And BTW, when there is no person at any computer (over the w-e) the line is fully used (as said by the internet provider (videotron) company) which is not supposed to happen!

NetUse monitor has been suggested by many, but I am still wondering about the features I need. Here is my problem and tell me how your software or other can help me.


texts: Is there a way to receive push notifications translated from a foreign language?

texts: I have multiple apps which I get notifications from but they are all in Hebrew. I was wondering if there is a way to let the notification go through a process in which something like Google Translate translates the push notifications and then I receive them. Is that possible?


texts: How to get iTunes to play songs in order of appearance when shuffle is off?

texts:
I’m DJing a swing dance and as I’m watching the dance floor, I’m rearranging the songs to take out the fast ones. As I was sitting there watching I expected the next song in order to play (songs were sorted by the first column, i.e. the sequential numbers) but it went from song 4 down to song 25. I think song 25 was one of the fast ones I had thrown down at the bottom.

I double checked that shuffle was off and indeed it was off. I’m using my wife’s laptop and I know that my laptop does not do this. I DJ’ed swing dances for years and never saw this happen. I may have encountered it long ago and fixed it, but it’s been a long time since I DJ’ed (maybe 2 or 3 years).

So what settings do I need to check?


texts: App Limits for Executables in MacOS Screen Time

texts:
I would like to play less Minecraft, and MacOS Screen Time seems well-equipped to keep me from using certain applications for more than a specified amount of time using the "App Limits" function. However, the Minecraft game isn't an Application (.app); it actually runs as a Java application through a standalone java executable. Thus, MacOS doesn't recognize the game as an application, although it essentially runs as one.

Various other System Preferences panes (i.e. Login Items, Privacy disk access) allow you to directly add executables, but not Screen Time. Is there a way for me to limit their usage?


texts: Is it really true that the iPhone doesn't have turn-by-turn navigation?

texts: I'm looking into getting a new Verizon smartphone. I like many things about the iPhone, but I'm concerned that I'll have to give up a feature I really like about my current phone--turn-by-turn navigation. According to this skattertech chart, the iPhone lacks this feature. Is there really not an "app for that"? (And if not, why? The phone has GPS, so what gives?)


texts: My login keychain cannot be found. I have Keychain access but no Keychain repair option. OS X El Capitan

texts:
My login keychain cannot be found.
I have Keychain access but no Keychain repair option in the drop down menu. I am unclear if I have erased something in error, or if this is a common issue?


texts: Mac, dragging items into desktop folders keeps on opening a finder window immediately

texts: I'm not sure why I'm suddenly having this problem since I haven't changed any of my finder preferences. Say I drag an image from the browser to a folder on my desktop, it opens up a finder window for that folder immediately. I know if you hover over a folder for a few seconds the finder window for that folder would pop up but now it just does that as soon as I drop something into the folder, no hovering over it. The delay is set to medium with spring loaded folders checked as usual but I don't understand what's changing its behavior. Hope that makes sense, thank you in advance for the assistance.


texts: Is there a way to see full long highlights instead the ellipsis? It's very annoying to be obligated to go to the book for a specific highlight and then have go all the way back to the notes feature again.


texts: How to change the Finder title bar font from the command line?

texts:
I'm sure the fellow who wrote TinkerTool, which lets me change the Finder title bar font among other things, is a fine fellow and surely TinkerTool is not malware. Nevertheless... I want to change the Finder font without installing software. Is there a way to do it from the command line?

Thanks.


texts: Avoid re-ordering of windows when changing desktops/spaces

texts:
I use 4 desktops and have enabled Assign to All Desktops for several apps.  When changing from one desktop to another, any of these "all desktops" apps that were on top get sent to the back.  Can this be disabled?

In this gif, I have a terminal assigned to all desktops.  It appears momentarily when switching, and then gets sent backwards.  Extremely jarring and frustrating UX.

http://www.giphy.com/gifs/l4pTnCFvumFN9U2oU


texts: Battery draining fast and Haptic feedback not working

texts:
I have a 13" MacBook Pro Retina early 2015. A few days ago I was working on a spreadsheet and then it suddenly crashed (black screen for several minutes). Once it finally started up again, the Haptic feedback had stopped working. After more use I have found that the battery is draining faster and when I close the lid from 100% charge over night, I come to it in the morning and it's well below 50% charge.

I believe I have reset the SMC, with no change. Updated the software to Mojave V10.14.

Has anyone else had this issue, or any ideas of a fix?

Thanks in advance.


texts:
I activate internet sharing in control center in iOS 13 on iPhone 8, and connect to it using WiFi. A few minutes later my computer complains about no internet connection, so I return to control center to check on internet sharing: it's now disabled. This behavior repeats about every ten minutes if I persist.

I don't understand. What is the point of internet sharing if it won't stay on? Am I using it the wrong way?


texts: How to file-manage an iPhone from a Windows box?

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I am considering buying an iPhone, probably an XR, XS, or X.

Is it possible to file-manage such a device from a laptop that is running Windows 7 Pro and is connected to the iPhone by USB cable, and if so how can I do this?

The kind of file management tasks I have in mind are straightforward ones such as copying files to and fro, editing text files (which comes down to being able to open and save from the Windows machine), renaming and deleting files and directories, creating new directories, and moving files and directories about. Is this just as easy to do as if the laptop were connected by USB cable to say a flash drive rather than to the smartphone? Or is it perhaps impossible because there is no way of making an iPhone running iOS show up on a Windows box as a drive in the first place?

(Note: I have no need to sync; this question concerns file management only.)


texts: Cannot configure xdebug; "Operation not permitted" error when trying to cp

texts:
I'm trying to configure xdebug, but when I run the command

cp Downloads/xdebug-2.6.1/xdebug-2.6.1/modules/xdebug.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303

I get a "Operation not permitted" warning from the terminal, even when I use sudo

I checked the security and privacy settings to make sure the terminal had full disk access and made sure the files in question were unlocked.

What else could be prompting this error?


texts: Replaced external monitor not recognized MBP 13" Retina

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I was successfully running two external monitors (not Apple Thunderbolt) from my 2015 MBP 13". They were both connected to the left side thunderbolt ports via HDMI to Thunderbolt cables. No problems.

I replaced one of the monitors and now both are the exact same monitor (ACER R240HY). The new one is not recognized. Cables are fine, when I swap thunderbolt ports the new monitor is recognized.

Cleared NVRAM, PRAM, and SMC. Didn't work.

Tried unplugging monitors and booting up with cables in first then plugging in monitor. Didn't work.

Searched and read threads for over an hour so asking here.

Thanks for any help!

Update per request:

Old/replaced monitor (Viewsonic) works in either port by itself
New replacement monitor works in only 1 port either by itself or with the original.
Original monitor works in only 1 port either by itself or
with the replacement.

In other words, both ports work, all monitors work, all cables work, but the replacement monitor is just not recognized in one of the ports (but it is recognized in the other.)

SPECS
Original Two Monitors that worked
ACER R240HY - using HDMI to Thunderbolt Cable
Viewsonic VA2455 - using HDMI to DVI/Thunderbolt adapter

Replacement monitor
ACER R240HY - using HDMI to Thunderbolt Cable


texts:
i need help please..
Few days ago i offloaded an app and i tried to reinstall it again because i need the data on it. But it says that the app is no longer on the apple store! And it shows only one option.. it’s to delete the application.

But seriously i need the data on it and i dont know what I might do until I hear back from Apple support.

I have an iphone 7 and Icontacted the Apple services and they told me to search for the app developer because they cant do anything for this issue unless it’s released again on the Apple store.

I can’t find the app anymore, neither the developer. And i need the data :( the app is called “calculator+”. It’s for keeping photos, videos and documents secretly.

Could anyone help me with that please?


texts: After heavy use, my big iPad has charged very slowly. What can I do besides the Genius Bar? Is there a different wall charger I should use?

texts:
During an inpatient stay, I had my 12.9” iPad Pro(Model A1652 EMC 2827), which I tried to use much of the time I was awake. The battery was depleted most of the time: I had it plugged into a wall charger, and power was never really more than 5-10%. It lost power frequently. I took it to the Apple Store and was offered immediate replacement.

Now my laptop is in the shop, so I have been working from my iPad, and its apparent charging behavior is similar or worse. Besides that the charge has usually gotten down to 10% and stayed there during the day, an overnight charge while powered off from a wall socket only gets it to around 25%. I get the impression, possibly a false impression, that you ride it too hard and it becomes permanently sapped.

I have read in other posts that iPads need more current than an iPhone, so possibly a different charger would help. Beyond that, what can I do beyond replacing it with an un-sapped model so it will charge from either U.S. or continental Europe power?

Thanks,


texts: I get an error message when unlocking an APFS FileVault volume with an Institutional Recovery Key

texts:
I'm testing an MDM solution (with an in house Server.app MDM instance), which enforces FileVault. It's setup with both an Institutional Recovery Key (IRK) and a Personal Recovery Key (PRK). The last one is also saved to MDM.

Basically, we generated a keychain like this, exported the certificate from the keychain, and added it to an MDM profile (we're using Server.app's MDM).

It's working great. When I do a diskutil apfs listCryptoUsers diskNxM, I get all the users I expect, including an user of type Institutional Recovery User and one with type Institutional Recovery External Key. Resetting password via Open Directory works fine. Unlocking the drive with the PRK works fine.

And now I'm testing to unlock the volume with the said IRK.
I booted via Recovery (cmd+R), and when I execute diskutil apfs unlockVolume /dev/diskNsM -recoveryKeyChain /Volumes/RecoveryDrive/FileVaultMaster.keychain (the keychain is unlocked, and the drive is correct), I get this error:

Error unlocking APFS Volume: The external-to-APFS security system's credential-unwrap
operation failed (-69534)

I checked unlocking the keychain using a different password, and that failed directly. Someone here suggested to remove the certificate from the keychain. This didn't work either. I double checked the volume was APFS. It was.

Any idea's (besides creating a new FileVault Master keychain and do the whole process one more time)?


texts: apfs volume unmount and change ownership when reboot

texts:
I am creating ami for the new ec2 Mac instances using packer. My packer instances created a /nix volume and mounted it.
ip-172-31-36-10:~ buildkite-agent$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  9 buildkite-agent  admin  288 Mar 15 06:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root             admin  192 Mar 15 06:30 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 buildkite-agent  admin   88 Mar 15 06:34 .bash_profile
drwxr-xr-x  3 buildkite-agent  admin   96 Mar 15 06:33 .cache
-rw-r--r--  1 buildkite-agent  admin   52 Mar 15 06:33 .nix-channels
drwxr-xr-x  4 buildkite-agent  admin  128 Mar 15 06:34 .nix-defexpr
lrwxr-xr-x  1 buildkite-agent  admin   54 Mar 15 06:33 .nix-profile -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/buildkite-agent/profile
drwx------  3 buildkite-agent  admin   96 Mar 15 06:32 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x  4 buildkite-agent  admin  128 Mar 15 06:31 Library

ec2-user@ip-172-31-36-10 ~ % diskutil apfs list
APFS Container (1 found)
...
    +-> Volume disk2s6 E30ACE84-EDD0-41D0-93A6-85C5DDEBA651
        ---------------------------------------------------
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s6 (No specific role)
        Name:                      Nix Store (Case-insensitive)
        Mount Point:               /nix
        Capacity Consumed:         330149888 B (330.1 MB)
        FileVault:                 No

ami successfully created. but when I create a instance using said AMI
the /nix vol is now ownership is changed to root and is not mounted as expected
bash-3.2$ ls -la /nix
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   64 Mar 15 07:11 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 root  wheel  704 Feb 10 01:37 ..

    +-> Volume disk2s6 E30ACE84-EDD0-41D0-93A6-85C5DDEBA651
        ---------------------------------------------------
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s6 (No specific role)
        Name:                      Nix Store (Case-insensitive)
        Mount Point:               Not Mounted
        Capacity Consumed:         330149888 B (330.1 MB)
        FileVault:                 No

this is the /etc/fstab file
bash-3.2$ cat /etc/fstab
#
# Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
#
# Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
#
LABEL=Nix\040Store /nix apfs rw,nobrowse

although it seems like since Catalina /etc/fstab is no longer used?
if I run mount -a
this is what I see
bash-3.2$ mount -a
mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Operation not permitted
mount: / failed with 77
mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Operation not permitted
mount: /nix failed with 77


texts: Where is the purchase history on iPhone apps?

texts:
How do I find out if I've already purchased an iPhone app?

I don't have a credit card so I'm worried about how I can pay to download apps if they're really not free. Even if I have chosen NONE in the billing method, they will still allow me to download paid apps even if I didn't select a payment method.

I created an iTunes account to download free apps through my iPhone. When I was making the account, there was an option on how to pay the bills:

choose a credit card
other means, or
simply choose the "NONE"

I chose "None" because I thought that it would still prompt for credit card information if you were to purchase an app that needed payment. I only wanted to download free apps and that's also why I chose "none".

After a few days of downloading free apps, I clicked on updates and noticed one of them saying that since I already purchased it first, the update was at a discount.

I cancelled the update since I have no credit card.

Days later I noticed the same app in the store, but free. Trying to install it, it would not download and said there was an update pending on my previous version. I waited for a screen to appear about payment information, but none came.

I wanted to cancel paying for this update but haven't seen the option to do so.

I don't know if my wanton clicking means that I've paid for this app without realising it. I have my billing address on there, so maybe there will be a bill coming along.


texts: IOS Shortcuts: Setting (nested) dictionaries

texts:
I am trying to set values in a nested dictionary - similar to pythonic dict["key1"]["key2"]=value1 in Apple's my shortcut app on IOS 13. I fail even with a simple dict see attached screenshot which should add an element to the dict. The endgame is to modify EXIF metadata via the Metapho app - non-working example attached
I  used ttwo approached

use a basic operation to modify dictionary
use prexisting shortcuts to modify dicitonaries as outline on the following Reddit threat Dictionary utilites.

To reproduce you need to download the attached shortcuts - and Dictionary utilties for the examples using those.
I first checked if I can modify a non-nested dict and nonnested dict.
Modifying non-nested dictionary
Using core tools I cannot add a key-value pair to a dictionary.
Minmal non-working exampleas per below.

Modifying non-nested dictionary using Dictionary tools
Minmal working example
Modifying nested dictionary using Dictionary tools
Using the same tools to modify nested dicts does not work.
Minimal non working example
Any help greatly appreciated. Asked same question on stackoverflow


texts: Joining lines into a single line in TextEdit

texts:
In a text document, how do I join several lines into a single line? I want each paragraph to be on a single line, but keep the lines between the paragraphs.

Here is an example. I want to convert this text

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
    adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac,
    adipiscing vitae, felis.

  Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu
    libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec
    vehicula augue eu neque.

to this text

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
    adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac,
    adipiscing vitae, felis.

  Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu
    libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec
    vehicula augue eu neque.

I know how to do it in vim or fmt, but can I do it in TextEdit and in the builtin text boxes? I don't want to manually have to do ^D<space> at the end of each line.


texts: How can I control a Mac through TS-Gateway?

texts:
I have a new Mac at the office. We have a pretty closed off firewall here but we allow people to work remotely through a TS-Gateway using RDP.  For a client I use iTap as it supports the gateway very smoothly.  Now that I've switched to a Mac, I can no longer attach to it remotely. This is a big part of my job, and if I can't figure this out I'll need to go back to MS at the office.

Is an RDP server already running on Mountain Lion?
If so, how do I turn it on?
If not, does Apple Remote Desktop come with one?  (I already bought it but I think it's overkill)


texts: Where to put the .vimrc file for sudo in OS X Lion?

texts:
I always put a .vimrc in my home folder for turning :syntax on. But in OS X Lion it seems that sudo vi foo.txt ignore or can't find this vim configuration anymore.

Has anyone experiences the same thing?


texts: My Macbook Air Battery Is not Charging and the Icon Shows Charging

texts:
My MacBook Air does not charge sometimes. It shows a different battery icon and the battery does not charge. Previously I used to get rid of this by opening battery settings, upon opening the battery settings my Mac would charge smoothly again. But now this solution works no more and my Mac stops charging mysteriously. I think this is a software issue as I ran Mac Diagnostic and it showed me no hardware issues found.

I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.

Status of the battery when it does not charge.


texts: How can I have Calendar use an audible alarm for alerts?

texts: Today I missed an event alert because I stepped away from my desk for a few minutes. What settings would affect whether Calendar Alerts have an audible alarm?  Is there a way to force an audible alarm sound for specific items?


texts: How can I reliably move photos from an iPhone and iPad to a Mac without losses or duplicates?

texts:
I have a MacBook, an iPhone, and an iPad all using the same iCloud account to sync photos, among other things. There are photos on the iPhone in its Camera Roll, Photo Stream, the iPhoto app, and Camera+. On the iPad, there are a bunch of photos in iPhoto that I've processed and modified.

As a result, the two devices have already eaten the 5 GB of free space provided for iCloud backups. What is a safe and methodical workflow to get the photos off of the devices and into the Mac's iPhoto library without losing edits made on the iPad, and without duplicating a lot of photos?


texts: How to enable “Siri Knowledge” suggestion in Safari?

texts:
This reddit post shows a new suggestion in Safari called “Siri Knowledge”, located above “Google Search”:

However, it seems the post talks about beta version of iOS 11, and some commenters didn’t have this feature. On my iOS 11.0.1 on iPhone 6, I don’t see it too.

Was this feature included in iOS 11 final release version, and, if yes, then how to enable it?


texts:
As a Apple developer I received an invitation to the iOS7 beta. When I logged in, the website said my developer account was expiring "soon", and I needed to renew it prior to accessing the beta program. I found this a little strange, as I have had a membership all year.

But no problem: I renewed the membership. However, I then received an notice saying would take 24 hours to process my account renewal, and to contact them via email if the renewal has not been processed in this time. I have worked as a Project Manager for large banks and insurance companies, and often transactions are processed in batch via COBOL programs on a mainframe.

In banks it is due partially to the number of transactions, but mostly because the systems are old and to update them is a major effort. I am surprised that Apple has the same system, are they also running COBOL batch programs on a mainframe to process membership renewals?


texts: How can I test individual speakers on a MacBook Pro?

texts: The MacBook Pro 2019 has 6 built-in speakers. Is there some way I can test them 1 at a time? All I can find is how to test left side or right side independently, or how to run Apple Diagnostics which I'm not convinced will detect degraded audio from 1 of the speakers.


texts: How can I wake up my Mac from sleep mode remotely?

texts:
I use logmein to remotely control my computers.
Can I wake up the Mac when it's in sleep mode so that it's offline to the outside world?


texts:
I recently upgraded to macOS Big Sur developer Beta 8, when I do brew install jenv I get the error Homebrew: Your CLT does not support macOS 11.0. I am using CommandLine tools GM version.  Tried to reinstall it couple of times, nothing worked so far. Here is the complete error
Error: Your CLT does not support macOS 11.0.
It is either outdated or was modified.
Please update your CLT or delete it if no updates are available.
Error: An exception occurred within a child process:
  SystemExit: exit


texts: Using different passwords for usual login and for admin-requiring actions

texts:
I use Mac OS X 10.9.3.

Background: I log into my profile very frequently (e.g. after closing lid) and often do it in public. Someone definetely should be able to see it, and no matter if I make it 10+ special symbols long or not. I presume this password to be known for anyone.

Also my Mavericks by default whenever I need to change system settings or so, asks the same password as I use for login. Which is known for anyone as I said before. So, I want to discontinue this vulnerability.

Question: What's the best way to set different passwords for significant actions and for logging in? What if I i.e. create second profile with administrative rights, then set rights of a user on my current profile and expect Mavericks to ask that newly-made admin's password every time I attempt to do something significant? Aren't there any more convenient ways to achieve my goal? Thanks in advance.


texts: GarageBand doesn't let me import a file [ipad]

texts: The file is grayed out and it doesn't let me drag it in, it only lets me delete it.


texts:
I recently wiped my MBP hard drive as well as installing a new SSD.

I have a sparseimage backup of my old drive (created with Carbon Copy Cloner) that I want to restore onto the SSD.

I've tried to restore using disk utility but I seem to be getting inconsistent error messages.

The instructions on the CCC website don't seem to work for my restore.

Any suggestions?


texts:
I never used MobileMe and am struggling with getting iCloud to work properly for me, but I'm wondering...

Now with the iCloud launched what's the difference between iCloud & MobileMe. They both still exist in the System Preferences after 10.7.2 update.


texts: iCloud: Photo is locked due to account maintenance

texts:
I'm trying to upload photos (~50K of them) from my MacBook to iCloud. The process is quite glitchy - getting "aw shucks, your connection has broken" even though I am sending them in batches (~4k at a time).

Now I have been stopped, again, with the message Photo is locked due to account maintenance. Is it perhaps a mistake to be using iCloud for this many photos?


texts: MacBook Pro detects external monitor but shows black screen

texts:
MacBook Pro 8,1 (13", i5 2.3Ghz) - when I connect an external screen through a MiniDP -> DVI adapter the Mac detects it (knows it's a Samsung SyncMaster and lets me change its resolution) but doesn't show anything on screen. Even though the Mac thinks that the screen works properly (I can move the cursor out of the Mac's screen), the external monitor's led blinks as there was no signal at all. Changing screen resolution doesn't help.

I've browsed many similar questions on the internet, unfortunately most of them suggest upgrading the OS. I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. What should I do?


texts: How do I search for recipients in Apple Mail?

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There are some messages in folders On My Mac in Apple Mail that are from a listserv, so the "to:" field shows "to:list@thislist.com" or whatever. I know that in the headers of the messages, one of them will show my actual e-mail address like this:

Received: by nz-out-0304.google.com with SMTP id h74so2095083nzf for <myemailaddress@mydomain.com>;

But for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to enter a search string in Mail that will return all the messages that have myemailaddress@mydomain.com in the Received: field in the headers. Can someone please enlighten me how I can search that (or any other) header field in Mail? This is driving me nuts!


texts: Bluetooth headset controller buttons stopped working on macbook pro

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Up until today all of the buttons on my Sony headphones worked in controlling my Spotify app. I could play/pause skip tracks etc.

After having a meeting on zoom today, all of the buttons except volume stopped working. I tried restarting Spotify, restarting my headphones, making sure zoom was shut, restarting my computer (basically restarting everything) but nothing seems to be working. The only solutions I have found for this issue are very old. Any ideas?


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On Linux systems, I can append to a system file like this:

echo "# New data" | sudo dd of=/etc/config_file conv=notrunc oflag=append

But the dd command under OS X doesn't have the oflag option. Is this possible under OS X?

Notes:

I need root access.
I'm not asking for alternative solutions, I'm asking if dd has the capability.


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When I go into Setting / Wifi and try to turn Wifi on, it does not let me. The switch is grayed out.

How can I solve this issue?


texts: Use 2019 Macbook Pro trackpad with 8th generation iPad

texts: I've seen software to link a MBP's keyboard to other devices, but is this possible for MBP's trackpad? I want to be able to use my MBP trackpad with my iPad. Even if I have to develop the software myself, where would I start?


texts: Trackpad works for Diagnostic Test. Can I rule out it has a hardware problem?

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If a MacBook Pro trackpad is able click and scroll, swipe, move cursor, etc. during a during Diagnostic Test (when I  startup holding down the  D) then, am I able to rule out that it has a hardware problem?

The test results show I have no problem. Its just that during the the test my track pad works.


texts: How to make an iPad backup when buying a new device?

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I'm going to resell my iPad 3 to buy a new one.

I need a simple way to backup everything from current iPad to be able to restore to the new one. This includes iBooks library with pdfs added from e-mails, Apps, App data, photos, etc.

I tried doing backup from iTunes, but it does not backup everything. On iPad 20 GB is in use, but back up archive is only 6 GB.

How is a user expected to backup an iPad?


texts: iMessages not showing but the number of iMessages are showing on Mesaages app as Notification

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I have been facing this problem for quite a while now, iMessages, that i receive, are not showing in Messages app but the number of messages which have been received are showing on Messages app as notification. I have tried the typical methods toggling off/ on the iMessages toggle and all that but its not even close to be resolved. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks


texts: Why am frequently asked for access to my Keychain?

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Since using Migration Assistant to move from an old iMac (2009) to a new MacBook Pro, I find that I'm repeatedly asked for access to my Keychain. Prior to moving to the new machine, once I unlocked my Keychain, I was never asked for access to it again, but now I find that I'm often asked to provide the Keychain password. Sometimes this seems associated with periods of system sleep, but not always.

At first, I thought this was the result of the Keychain locking during sleep, or perhaps for some other reason so I made sure to adjust the settings for the "login" Keychain (using "Change Settings" in the keychan's context menu) so that it would not lock when the screensaver is on or after inactivity:

However this only seems to have been partially effective. In particular, there's no way to make the same adjustment to the "Local Items" Keychain  so that preventing it from locking automatically is beyond my control:

How do I ensure that my Keychains remain unlocked once I've unlocked them? Why has this behavior suddenly appeared on my MacBook, when it was not present on my iMac?


texts: How can I print a booklet from a pdf file?

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I have a pdf document, and I want to print it as a booklet, i.e. two pages of the document on each side of a sheet of paper and so that (when printed) the entire thing can just be folded in the middle to create a small booklet.

How can I do this easily?


texts: Why does Python keep popping up and occupying my CPU?

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I occasionally get Python popping up and occupies all my CPU

I have no clue why this is happening, because I almost never run Python on my laptop.

Here is an update on December 9, 2020
I think the issue comes from a VS code extension called "Python", and you can check out the corresponding issue in its Github page.


texts: Need help finding out why a file (test_find.pyc) opens at startup

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Like the title said, IDLE opens and runs  /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/ctypes/test/test_find.pyc every time I start my computer, but I can't figure out why. It's not normal behavior for other Macs, but that's the directory macOs uses for its internal python frameworks so I don't want to delete it.

The output it displays is usually garbage, i.e.:

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And it takes almost a minute to run!

This behavior has persisted across multiple OS upgrades.

I'd like to try to track down what the heck is calling that file.


texts: iPhone is unable to import photo on SD card that are copied from macOS

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I have copied a bunch of photo files (jpg) from a macOS to a SD card.

Here is the details of the SD card as seen in Disk Utility

However when I insert this card to a SD card reader connected to an iOS device, the Photo app shows 'No Photos to import'.

If the SD card is directly taken out from a mirrorless camera, I can use the SD card to import the photos in it with no issue.
I have already tried reformat the SD card with Disk Utility and copied the files over again. It only makes the situration worse: Photo does not even show the 'Import' tab.
So why this happens, and how can I fix this? I want to be able to import some photo via my iOS device.


texts: Connected a Cinema Display to MacBook Pro, recognizes sound output device but no sound

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I connected my new Cinema Display to my MacBook Pro and the audio output device shows "LED Cinema Display" in Sound Preferences, and the volume controls work, but no sound is output.

I tried unplugging and plugging back in the USB cable.

Is my device incompatible, or is something wrong?


texts: Deauthorize old user on my iTunes without their Apple ID

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I think that my ex-boyfriend's music is still syncing with my iTunes. It is syncing via the cloud.  We both used to share the iTunes and now he has his own on his own computer (I assume).

Is there anyway I can view what users are authorized on my iTunes and delete one without knowing their Apple ID and password? Also, I do not have cloud set up so this is kind of creeping me out lol.  We have VERY different musical tastes and I'd love for these songs to stop randomly popping up in my iTunes (they are really inappropriate).


texts: IPod Touch says it's disabled for 22,768,662 minutes

texts: I have an iPod Touch that says it is disabled and to try again in 22,768,662 minutes.  I really don't have 42 years to wait.  I need to access this iPod Touch and the material inside it without factory resetting it.  Please help?


texts: Blacklist wireless access point in macOS

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I am the network admin of a small company.  We have a rogue wireless access point broadcasting our SSID that's not connected to the network.  Occasionally, the Macs in the area will attach to this AP and will then have no network access.

I have identified the MAC address of this WAP/device.

Is there a way to blacklist the MAC address of this specific AP so that the Mac workstations/laptops don't try to use for network access?

(Fair warning, I'm a Windows guy, so please provide instructions a 5-year old can understand :-) )

Thanks in advance!


texts: Headphones not detected when connected to MBP

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When I plug headphones into output of MBP (15-inch Early 2008) with Mavericks - nothing changes, sound comes from internal speakers, nothing in System Preferences too. SMC reset, NVRAM cleared, sleep/wakeup - same situation:

UPDATE: Upgraded to 10.9.1 - no change