texts: Transferring and storing Photos Libraries via SMB on ZFS

texts:
I have a FreeNAS server, with an SMB share and "Windows" dataset. I am consolidating data, including Apple Photos libraries onto the FreeNAS server. However, as I copy the libraries off of the HFS+ formatted Drobos using rsync, I get all kinds of error messages.

The rsync command I used:

  sudo rsync -vaE --progress /Volumes/SourceName /Volumes/DestinationName

Error type 1 (hundreds, if not thousands of these):

  copyfile(Unfiled/Backup of iPhoto/Consolidated iPhoto
  Library/Database/Folders/.._390C4171-0F85-427D-972C-B36A8A0BBC4D.apfolder.MxAS1I,Unfiled/Backup
  of iPhoto/Consolidated iPhoto
  Library/Database/Folders/390C4171-0F85-427D-972C-B36A8A0BBC4D.apfolder,
  COPYFILE_UNPACK) failed:45

Error type 2 (hundreds, if not thousands of these):

  rsync: mkstemp "/Volumes/Archive/Drobo Gen 3/Unfiled/Restored
  iPhoto/Consolidated iPhoto
  Library/iLifeShared/.._ApertureDatabaseTimestamp.XLAzek" failed: No
  such file or directory (2)

My research suggests that Photo libraries require an HFS+ file system to work correctly, so it would seem that I would need to create a separate ZFS dataset of share type "Mac" and share via AFP. Is this what I need to do to properly store and serve Photo libraries from my FreeNAS server?

Or, do the error messages above suggest some other problem?

BTW, I have already run a full volume Disk Repair on the source and there are no issues found.


texts: Why rebooted Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion prevents adding or moving files at Desktop?

texts:
Whenever I reboot my Macbook Pro since installing OSX 10.8 the desktop is locked, prohibiting files from being dropped on or moved from the desktop. I can right-click, select “Get Info” and uncheck the “locked” box, but it will return the locked status the next time the machine sleeps or reboots.

How can I keep the desktop unlocked?


texts: Incorrect phone number format when dialing from iPhone

texts:
iPhoneXs
iOS 13.4 (also affected 13.3.x)
Carrier: AT&T
e-SIM (no physical SIM)

On a recent trip out of the U.S. I added a 2nd SIM card and a local calling plan (Turkcell) so I could use my phone without incurring roaming charges. All was fine.

PROBLEM: When I returned, I deactivated that plan, and removed the SIM card from the phone. However, the iPhone retained the incorrect phone number formatting on the dialpad screen. See screenshot below for example:

This might seem like a frivolous detail, but it actually slows me down when dialing numbers "manually" since it always looks like I've entered the number incorrectly, skipped a digit or added an extra one, etc. I just want to get it back to the correct format.

Once I hit the green Dial button, the number is correctly formatted, so it's just doing this on the pre-dial screen. See below:

Thing's I've tried:

Soft resetting the phone (Vol+, Vol-, then press+hold Power until it reboots)
Changing Language under Settings > Language & Region e.g. from English U.S. to something else and then back again
Adding / removing additional keyboards
Turning Roaming on/off
Turning Cellular Data on/off
Disabling the cellular line under Settings > Cellular and then re-enabling it
Calling AT&T and having them "re-provision" my phone
Updating from iOS 13.3 to 13.4

Things I have NOT tried:

Going to an Apple Store (they're closed here right now due to COVID-19)
Doing a full Backup / Restore of the phone
The various "Resets" under Settings > Reset (was afraid to lose my stored passwords/WiFi settings but if anyone thinks that would fix it, I will try...)

Anyone ever see this or know how to fix it?


texts: Is it possible to use Time Machine with iCloud?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2011) with a 320 GB hard disk, and I have a 200 GB storage plan on iCloud. The problem is that I cannot simply copy the Applications folder to iCloud Drive and restore it later in the event that I lose all of the disk storage. I would like to save all the operating system files, the applications and almost everything on the disk (I need about 150 GB for that).

The problem is that Time Machine asks me for a disk to save the data on. If I have a fast connection I think it's not totally worthless to save the entire disk to iCloud, but does Time Machine support this and if yes, how?


texts: Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its configuration

texts:
I want to find a way to share some Microsoft RDP configuration information with my team.

Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its connections and configuration?


texts: If I buy an SSL Certificate, is this trusted in Apple without installing cert file in iOS?

texts:
I created an app for iOS for a company and I want to distribute this app ad hoc over the air.

In iOS 7 and greater, I need an https site to install this app.

I created my own certificate locally and I must install my cert file via email or a direct link on iPhone to Trust this certificate and then I can install my app.

I want to know: if I buy an SSL certificate from legal seller like godaddy or geocerts and set it to my own website, do I need install a cert file on the iPhone or not?

My company's site is offline and not connected to internet.


texts: Sudden reboot and install screen on login

texts:
I just logged in to my MacBook Pro (2015) running Catalina.
While entering my password my desktop background disappeared, leaving a white background.
On pressing enter, the machine suddenly rebooted.
During the phase with the white loading bar and Apple logo on a black background the loading bar filled up (rather slowly) twice, and then showed an installation dialog:

The text says:

Installing on “Macintosh HD
[loading bar]
27 minutes remaining

It didn’t say what was being installed. It didn’t remotely take 27 minutes.
After that it booted up again, with a very slow loading bar this time, slow enough for it to show a time estimate at around 8 minutes. I have to add that booting has always been lightning fast until today.
Just I logged in normally again, all my files still seem to be there, even my Safari tabs were restored.
I was hoping someone could tell me what happened (what was installed and why) and if there’s anything I should do or check now.


texts: Deleted iTunes matched songs still taking up space

texts: I recently turned on iTunes Match and opted to delete local copies of my music. After doing so, my available space on my SSD did not report a change, despite deleting almost 100GB of tracks. Is this data cached somewhere on my SSD and the OS will manage this for me as I add new files to the drive, or do I need to manually do something?


texts: I want to remove all duplicates from my library, to consider a duplicate the song must have the same encoding, bits, duration.


texts: I'm looking to upgrade my Yosemite system with El Capitan but I can only find 10.11.1 versions. Need the original. Any help? Any thoughts?


texts:
How to edit the metadata information displayed by mdls from CLI?

[-zsh] sarbbo@rushpress-lm:~  吽 mdls ~/Music/BANGLA\ BAND/MOHINER\ GHORAGULI/MAYA/BHALOBASI.mp3
kMDItemAlbum                   = "Maya"
kMDItemAudioBitRate            = 128000
kMDItemAudioChannelCount       = 2
kMDItemAudioSampleRate         = 44100
kMDItemAudioTrackNumber        = 1
kMDItemAuthors                 = (
    "Mohiner Ghoraguli"
)
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2009-02-17 00:35:48 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2009-02-17 00:35:48 +0000
kMDItemContentType             = "public.mp3"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    "public.mp3",
    "public.audio",
    "public.audiovisual-content",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content"
)
kMDItemDateAdded               = 2013-05-31 06:57:37 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName             = "BHALOBASI.mp3"
kMDItemDurationSeconds         = 284.8210625
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2009-02-17 00:35:48 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2009-02-17 00:35:48 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon         = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden     = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery          = 0
kMDItemFSLabel                 = 0
kMDItemFSName                  = "BHALOBASI.mp3"
kMDItemFSNodeCount             = 4558848
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 285597778
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 69664
kMDItemFSSize                  = 4558848
kMDItemFSTypeCode              = ""
kMDItemKind                    = "MP3 audio"
kMDItemLogicalSize             = 4558848
kMDItemMediaTypes              = (
    Sound
)
kMDItemMusicalGenre            = "genre"
kMDItemPhysicalSize            = 4558848
kMDItemTitle                   = "Track 01"
kMDItemTotalBitRate            = 128000

Thanks,
Sarbbottam


texts: Switching input sources quickly no longer shows menu / picker

texts: I have "Select the previous input source" bound to ^Space. Until recently, pressing ^Space repeatedly would present me with a menu listing all of my input sources that I could cycle through by continuing to press ^Space again and again. Now no such menu appears and ^Space just toggles between my two most recent input sources. How do I get this menu back?


texts: Unable to access Mac OS X Lion server on web

texts:
I have the Mac OS X Lion server and am able to view on my iMac, however when I go on a different computer i am unable to see it.
website: wiki.piezosystems.org


texts: How to get a document to display its contents in quick look

texts:
Is there a way to associate a file type (*.md from Github) in a such a way that its contents are 'visible' with OS X's quick look?

I've associated the extension (*.md) with TextMate, but this doesn't have the desired effect.

Other text files (e.g. *.rb) work with quick look as expected.


texts:
Chrome on iPad fails to download large PDF files. For example, if I try to download https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1.pdf (6609 pages) from Google Chrome, it fails. Is there any way to fix or circumvent this issue?

I use iOS 10 with ipad pro 9.7 inch (2016).

Here is a screenshot of the error message:

I have a 100 Mbps in internet connection and https://www.aclweb.org is quite fast as well so download speed shouldn't be an issue.

The download also fails in Safari:


texts: Can I have color ls output automatically if my TERM is "xterm-256color"?

texts: Can I have automatic color output for ls if my TERM environment variable is set to xterm-256color?


texts: When EarPods with microphone are attached, does iPhone use internal or external mic?

texts: Is the internal or external mic used? Is there a difference in quality between the two mics?


texts: I found a setting to show or hide apple music (Music -> Show Apple Music). I turned it off, but now when I go to the music app it shows me the apple music ad with no buttons for ~2 seconds and then the app crashes. Restarting/Resetting the iPhone has no effect. When I re-enable apple music the app works again. I have iOS 9.3.5 on my iPhone 4S.


texts: Can I upgrade iMac 27inch 5K Display's RAM from 8GB to 32GB/64GB?

texts:
I am new with Apple products. i just bought iMac 27 5k, 3.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 , 8GB Ram, 2TB Fusion Drive. i wanted to know if it is possible to increase its RAM? i asked the dealer here in Pakistan but they say you can't upgrade the RAM. you will see to send the to Apple USA which will be another expensive story.

I want to know if i can increase its RAM to 32GB or 64GB?

Also what are the good supported ram which was not really expensive but affordable. can you guys directly what kind of ram i need and how to upgrade the ram? i have no idea what of ram i need to purchase online, its so confusing


texts: Simple text substitution in OS X using keyboard shortcut

texts: I am constantly typing résumé in (Outlook) email messages.  Is there an easy way to associate this text with a keyboard shortcut?  I'd like this shortcut to be available in other applications (e.g. Word, Mail).


texts: Can I update my iPad if it hasn't been done for a couple of years to 9.3.1? I haven't updated in a long time and it's currently at 7.1.2.


texts:
In my Dropbox, I have files inside a number of custom-made folders. I am able to view these files and folders inside apps that support Dropbox on my iPhone.

I want iCloud Drive to behave in the same way therefore files arranged in custom-made folders that visible from inside any apps that support iCloud Drive on my iPhone. However it appears that to view files in iCloud Drive from an app on my iPhone, the files need to stored inside the folder for that specific iPhone app.

How can I set up iCloud Drive like Dropbox?


texts: iPhone XS Max stuck in bootloop, cannot get into recovery

texts:
This issue started with a message saying that my storage space was almost full. I open settings and check storage, the estimate size does not show up. I go to photos app to delete a few photos/videos. I select a bunch and hit on delete, the images do not delete and the phone reboots into the Apple Logo.
It's been stuck on the apple logo boot loop for a while now.
Unable to set the iPhone to recovery mode by holding VOL UP + VOL DOWN + Power Button for 10 seconds.
Plugging the iPhone into my Macbook does not show the device connected.
What should I do next?
iPhone Model - iPhone XS Max 256GB
iOS Version - 14.4


texts: MacOS Big Sur : is threre a way to remap a shortcut with trackpad?

texts:
Keeping shift + horizontal movement on trackpad increases significantly the horizontal scrolling.
Is there a way to remap this combination (shift + horizontal movement on trackpad) just by a simple horizontal movement on trackpad.
I have not found a paramater file where the speed of horizontal scrolling is defined.
Any idea ?


texts: How do I update the FileVault 2 recovery key stored in iCloud?

texts:
It's been a long saga getting to the point where I am comfortable that my new Macbook Pro has FileVault 2 enabled properly on Yosemite.

I ran into the "Encryption paused - connect power adapter" problem several times. Had to do a hard-disk erase and full re-install twice, and spent hours online with Apple support.

Eventually, encryption completed and it told me "A recovery key has been set" ... but never told me what the key was!

Today, I disabled encryption, rebooted, and re-enabled encryption - with the same result.

Eventually, I used fdesetup changerecovery --personal to create a new recovery key, which I was able to validate with fdesetup validaterecovery.

I now have that key stored in a very safe place (nowhere near my MBP).

But I originally requested, via the GUI, that the key also be stored in iCloud. Now I suspect that the key they have is not the key which will work to decrypt my drive at last resort.

I've spent hours googling, and browsing Apple's support pages, but nowhere can I find out how to update the recovery key stored in my iCloud account.

Any advice greatly appreciated


texts: How to reassign default editor for different file types from the command line?

texts:
I am looking for a way to reassign default editor on OS X. For example I want to reassign all file types opened by TextEditor with TextWrangler.

Probably it has something to do with the defaults command but I do not know how to list current assignments and change them.


texts: Windows installation via bootcamp on a MBA mid-2013 without USB or DVD

texts:
I need to install Windows 10 on my Macbook Air Mid-2013 (MacBookAir6,1) via bootcamp, for various reasons I cannot use USB, as far as I know since El Capitan it's possible to install Windows without using a USB or DiskDrive, however only on some newer 2015 models.

As you can see OSX tells me to insert the installer disk, I also tried to mount the ISO (no luck even there). Can I spoof my model id to look like a 2015mba? As far as I know no hardware is pulling back this "no-usb" procedure that is available on newer macbooks so it should work even on older MACs.


texts: Mac OS X Mavericks DNS name lookup order change?

texts: I noticed Mavericks prefers the DNS server to /etc/hosts (scutil --dns). There used to be a good 'ol "order hosts,bind". Is there anything equivalent for Mavericks so my hosts file is consulted before reaching out to the DNS server? Thanks.


texts: How can i diagnose a failed Install of Snow Leopard?

texts:
I'm trying to upgrade from Leopard 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard, using the install CD.

The steps are:

Insert the DVD
Start the installation
When is about the 40-50% of the installation, the system restarts
Then ejects the DVD
Snow Leopard is not installed

How can I know what's going wrong? What I have to do to fix it?


texts:
I own a 2008 Scion (made by Toyota) which has a built-in port for connecting iPod/iPhone/iPad to the car's stereo for audio and remote control. I purchased the recommended adapter cable which connects the car's console to the the 30-pin connector on my iPad 3. (Link to interface cable PT546-21062 by Toyota)

After a week or so, it started losing the connection if the iPad moved, so I started sliding the iPad between the seat and the center console to keep it still. This worked as long as I didn't bump it.

Starting this week, going around a turn has been enough to cause the connection to completely fail even when the iPad is held in place. I've noticed the end of the adapter plugged into the iPad easily wiggles back to front.

How can I be sure the problem is the cable and not my iPad?

I can still connect the iPad to my computer using the 30-pin to USB cable that came with my iPad, but that only uses 5 or 6 of the 30-pins the cable supports. I also unscrewed the console in the car and checked that the internal wiring there is all solid.

What would be the best way to try to fix this? Are there 30-pin extension cables that have more sturdy connectors that would lock into the port on my iPad better?

Is this something I could get help with at the Apple Store or would they not help since the adapter is made by Toyota rather than Apple?


texts:
I have two Macs: a 2015 iMac that lives on my desk, and a 2013 MacBook Air. I have accounts at usaa.com, and like to use Safari. While I can log into USAA's webpage easily on the Air, I'm not able to do so on the iMac...unless I switch to Chrome, which logs in correctly.

Both Macs run macOS 10.14.6 (18G87), and both run  Safari 12.1.2 (14607.3.9); all software is up to date. Wondering if there was a corrupted cache on the iMac, I restarted in Safe Mode; in Safe Mode, and again after rebooting in regular mode, I was unable to log in using Safari on the iMac. I enabled the Develop Menu (Safari > Preferences > Advanced > "Show Develop Menu"), then chose Develop > Empty Caches to clear Safari's caches. No improvement. I trashed the Keychain entries for this webpage, and entered my login and password manually. Still no go with Safari on the iMac.

The login process is to enter my ID and password on a single page, then hit "Enter." The next page asks for my PIN, a 4-numeral number. The page after that asks for me to choose email or a text number to receive a login code. Choosing one option and hitting "Enter" modifies the screen to receive the email address or text number. Hitting "enter" then either presents a screen in which to enter the login code (Safari on the MBA, Chrome on either machine), or a screen that again asks me to choose email or a text number (Safari on the iMac).

This is perplexing, especially since the iMac's Safari began misbehaving only two days ago, after being able to fully log in with this user ID and password and PIN for a bit more than two years and several macOS updates. No changes of any kind (updates, new extensions) have been made in the last month on either machine. EDIT: a similar but not identical misbehavior has also now appeared in a second, unrelated restaurant reservation page. Safari returns only a placeholder red dot, presumably indicating a page loading (or failing to load); in any event, the next screen (picking a date) never loads. As before, Chrome works correctly, and Safari on the MBP also works correctly and loads the page.

I see no other misbehaviors or oddities in the iMac's or Safari's operation.

Something is awry in the iMac's Safari. How might I further diagnose the issue? Am I stuck with trying a reinstall of macOS?


texts: Is there a way to make terminal commands require sudo in macOS Big Sur?

texts:
I'd like to prevent the use of the osascript terminal command by anyone without administrator access. I used to accomplish this by changing the permissions on the executable using sudo chmod 744 /usr/bin/osascript.
The problem now (from what I understand) is that Big Sur does not allow changes to be made to the read-only system volume. I'd therefore like to find a workaround that retains this functionality ie. I don't want it to be possible to run this binary without the use of sudo.
This has been a huge thorn in my side, and I don't want to have to resort to disabling SSV authentication in order to edit the system volume. If there's any way to just elevate the permissions needed then that would be perfect.


texts: Bluetooth volume resets to a lower level whenever the iOS Music app advances to the next track

texts:
While listening to the system Music app on iOS 12.1, I can use the volume buttons on my Bluetooth headphones (BeatsX) to raise or lower the music volume.

However, when the app advances to the next track, the music volume decreases to a lower level. I can raise it again with the headphone volume controls, but it will be reset again when advancing to the next track.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?


texts: Size in bytes is significantly less ( half the size) then size in MB in get info window

texts:
In the get info window it says 387,037,139 bytes which is 387 MB whereas the size on disk is 716.9MB which is 716,900,000 bytes.

du -sh paramgen  result (in MiB) 684M    paramgen

Why is there such a large difference?


texts: iCloud backups from a very old iPhone are not seen during the restore

texts:
My sister used to have an iPhone 4 that I used before (she replaced the battery); she's used it until 2013 or 2014 when the battery was not usable anymore. She's then used an Android phone for a few years and has just bought an iPhone SE. She wanted to restore it from iCloud but the phone shows "no backups available" once she logs in to her Apple ID account during the initial phone setup.

The iPhone 4 had newest iOS 7 installed, I'm not sure what version the SE has but it may even be 12. Does Apple delete old backups if no one logged into the account for a few years? Or maybe restoring from a backup to iOS 5 versions newer is not possible? Are there any other reasons it may not work?

I'd normally try backing up the iPhone 4 again but I think it doesn't survive long enough to back up right now, even when connected to external power.

I'd appreciate any help.


texts: 2015 MBP - how to force integrated graphics?

texts:
I have a specifically

  MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) MacBookPro11,5

(indeed "AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB")

You can easily (when they finally fixed that) force it to discrete, just "disable switching" in control panels.

However I want to use integrated exclusively only.

Unfortunately, after extensive googling I could only find this issue discussed for the older '11, '12 models.

(Since this particular variant from 2015 is the single worst product ever made by Apple, I think everyone's just thrown it away, so you don't see much about it!  :O  )

Does anyone know how to force a 11,5 to use integrated only?  Thanks.


texts: Aperture 3 seems to have completely lost all of my ratings. What can I do to recover them?

texts:
I noticed the other day that none of the ratings I've made in Aperture are showing up anymore.

Firstly, I'm wondering how that could have happened? I've done a number of things lately like relocate masters, regenerate thumbnails, etc. but I can't pin it down to a specific date and besides I was fairly certain that the ratings metadata was stored separately from all of that. I'm trying to avoid having to restore the library from Time Machine.


texts: Possibility to install ML directly from the hard disk?

texts:
Does it possible to install Mountain Lion (clean install) without using USB key or DVD?

I'm currently running on SL, and I want install ML (I already have the dmg file).


texts: MacBook: woke up to an empty battery, how to get battery history?

texts:
On Sunday I purchased a brand new MacBook Pro 13" w/TouchBar. I used it a little last night and put it in my backpack with 75% battery life. I shut the lid and assumed the MacBook was sleeping when I put it in my backpack. Unfortunately when I got to school this morning the battery was completely dead. Since I wonder what happened to the 75% battery I had left and am very concerned damage from overheating might happen with it running in a backpack. I checked Console / sys logs and nothing jumps out.

Is there anyway to see the historical battery life to find out if the laptop was left on overnight?


texts: How can I indent a selected paragraph in Pages on OS X?

texts: This is very basic, but couldn't figure it out so far. If you select a paragraph on Microsoft World on Windows you can just press tab and the paragraph will move to the right. On the Mac, however, the whole text is replaced with the tab. In Xcode one can indent a block of text to the right by pressing cmd+] (or cmd+[) to unindent the selected text again. How can I do this in Pages?


texts: iPhone 4 text being sent to home computer-want texts private-only go to text number

texts: Suddenly when I text a message on my iPhone it shows up on my wife's new apple computer. I would like messages that are sent out on my iphone to only go to the number text message is being sent to.


texts: What software can add a Windows-like taskbar to the Mac OS?

texts: What's the best Windows-like taskbar for a Mac?


texts: iPhone 7 - problems with pop-up websites

texts: I’ve had a problem with websites popping up in place of websites I’m trying to access. Can you block websites with suffixes such as .top and .club? I’ve been able to block individual websites but silmilar sites keep popping up with the common denominator being those two suffixes.


texts: Bulk Delete Nest Albums in Photos by Pattern?

texts:
I made the mistake of importing my photo archive for over 11 years which I had organized by year and then by dated events from years of manual collecting with maybe 10-20 folders of photo "albums" per year. After importing where it "preserves" folder hierarchy to create Albums, I have two problems now.

First off, the way Photos makes albums from an import is beyond stupid as it creates this unnecessary level of folder nesting for each album so that every sub folder which contains just pictures gets converted to a folder level as named and then a single album of the same name! You'd think the last level of photos would be just albums, but no. I can't see how this is at all helpful. I would think all leaves at a folder level would be made an album inside its containing folder so folders would only be created if it contains a sub-folder. This... this is awful. If there was some way to get a "tree view" inside the album selection view I could at least manually fix this on a year-by-year basis by moving all albums to their appropriate year,  but this is a no-go in the GUI as far as I can tell.

The other problem is that was using Picasa (SHAME!) years ago and I forgot that it pollutes your archive with thumbnails all over the place. I was able to get rid of all of the thumbnail photos using Gemini II which does photo matching (great tool for doing this, by the way) but now I have all of these albums named .@_thumb in every nested album along with each single album of a folders of the same name as I described, compounding the pain. The result is not only visually painful, the extra overhead seems to make Photos a total pig now. Apparently it does NOT like having so many Albums.

I tried using the command line to see if Album names show up in the Photos Library.photoslibrary hierarchy but either they are not listed there or not named by Album name. Trying find ~/Pictures/Photos\ Library.photoslibrary/ -name *thumb comes up empty. If I could only access the Albums by some descriptor I could probably fix this with some transformation script but as it stands I don't even know what the data structure is for Albums.

Any ideas?


texts: How to reset to default permissions on El Capitan

texts:
During development and debugging I have changed permissions of various files and folders using chown and chmod on my local system (I didnt maintain the list of changes). Now that I have fixed the issue, i fear of security consequences.
Any way I could restore the default permissions and/or find vulnerabilities in terms of network security or other potential loop holes that might create due to my changes.


texts: How to add multiple effects in iMovie 10 (Mavericks)

texts: I want to add a black and white as well as a film grain effect to the same video in iMovie 10. I can't see any way to do this as applying one effect removes the other. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.


texts: Find and delete duplicate mails in Apple Mail (Big Sur/M1)

texts:
How can I find and delete duplicate mails in Apple Mail (on Big Sur/M1)? Ist there a (free) app or a  script for that?
Problem was discussed here long ago: remove duplicate emails. However, the Araxis App and the bohemianboomer-link mentioned there, are not available anymore.
Also JollyRoger’s free Remove Duplicate Messages AppleScript, which worked fine with Apple Mail on MacOS Mojave, does not seem to work with Apple Mail on Big Sur (on my M1-macBook Air at least)


texts: Is it still possible to get @icloud.com email address?

texts: Set up a new iCloud account for someone and I am not seeing the option to set up an @icloud.com address and use the free email service. Does anyone know if this is still possible and how to go about doing this?


texts: Wireless keyboard for mac keeps losing connection

texts:
My wireless keyboard for mac keeps on losing connection from mac. It automatically gets disconnected and gets connected again. I have gone through multiple threads here on SE and also on apple forums and I have tried following things so far:

Removed the keyboard from list of bluetooth devices and tried adding it back
Removed bluetooth plist file
Did SMC reset
I also bought a new keyboard thinking that it could be an issue with my existing keyboard, which is not the case.
My keyboard battery is 100%

Is there anything else that I can try to deal with this issue?


texts:
It appears that iOS updates no longer run on the original iPhone. Apple eventually deprecates products from its iOS update cycle.

I wonder if there is a pattern to this. Has anyone worked this out and made a prediction about Apple deprecating support for old products.

My question is: When will the iPad 4th Gen stop getting iOS updates?


texts: automatically share photos to Photos iCloud Shared Albums

texts: I'd like to script the Yosemite Photos app so that every time I place images to a folder on my desktop, it automatically is imported into the Photos app and uploaded to a shared album. Is this possible?


texts:
Sometimes I need to test my designs (SVGs) in a regular, non-retina display, so I can feel how it looks for users behind such displays. What I normally do is using an old Windows notebook, but it'd be handy if I could do that quickly in my retina MacBook.

As suggested here, I tested the "Open in Low Resolution" option in Get Info:

However, it seems to me that the whole window (in this case, Safari) was blurred, just like as a massive anti-aliasing was applied. It doesn't seem that only the PPI was reduced.

My question is: is there a better way for simulating a non-retina display in my retina MacBook, or is this the best I can get?


texts: Apple Treats Transparent Images as a Black Background

texts: I use Skype and I'm trying to upload a profile image from an iOS device that has a transparent background. Every time I save the image to any iOS device, the transparent background turns black :-/ I have the exact image I want on OSX Skype but it doesn't sync the profile picture across iOS devices. I've re downloaded the app but so far nothing's worked. Is anyone else experiencing this issue or knows how to solve it?


texts: How to install OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) on VirtualBox 4.3?

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I've seen a lot of variants of this question, but most are pretty old, and don't quite match my use case.

How the heck do you get 10.8 (Mountain Lion) running on the latest version of VirtualBox, e.g., under 10.9 (Mavericks)?  I need it for testing.


texts: Time Machine backup taking a loooong time, is this normal?

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I bought an external hard drive, plugged it into the USB port of my Airport Extreme base station, turned on Time Machine, set it to use that drive for backup.

It's backing up 350Gigs of data and it's literally taking days to work its way through.

Is this normal? It seems like it's taking a way too much time.


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I have a teacher in my school who is trying to use an iPad (new - purchased this year) to record classroom activity using the built-in camera.  The iPad has 32 gigs total, with just about 20 gigs available, according to Settings --> General --> iPad Storage.  However, during the middle of recording a class yesterday the recording stopped and complained that there was no more room available on the iPad.  He looked and saw that there were 20 gigs available, and when we transferred the aborted recording to an iMac to see its size, we found that the recording, such as it was, was only 2.7 Gigs in size.

What gives?


texts: Want launchd to run a script weekly, but it is running it daily instead

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I wanted to write a simple launchd job that runs a script every Monday morning at 7:00 am. The goal is to pull an image from tapmusic.net that catalogs my last.fm listening habits from the prior week. The daemon runs properly and is able to execute the script just fine, and the script does exactly what I want it to. The issue is that the job is being executed every day at midnight, not Monday at 7. This is my first time trying out something like this, and I tried to follow templates on developer.apple.com and ones floating around the net, but I'm really unsure of how I can fix this problem. Here is the *.plist file that I'm running:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>local.lastfm_chart</string>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/scripts/lastfm_chart.sh</string>
        <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>7</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
            <key>Weekday</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</plist>

Like I said, I've been able to load and run the job just fine, just not at the right time.
Also, my system.log file is getting bombarded by a message and looks like this:
Jun 15 08:54:46 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 2 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 8 seconds.
Jun 15 08:54:57 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 3 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 7 seconds.
Jun 15 08:55:07 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 2 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 8 seconds.
Jun 15 08:55:45 --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Jun 15 08:55:45 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 8 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 2 seconds.
Jun 15 08:55:50 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 2 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 8 seconds.
Jun 15 08:56:12 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jun 15 08:56:12 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 3 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 7 seconds.
Jun 15 08:56:34 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jun 15 08:56:34 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 4 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 6 seconds.
Jun 15 08:56:43 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 2 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 8 seconds.
Jun 15 08:57:07 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jun 15 08:57:07 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 5 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 5 seconds.
Jun 15 08:57:15 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 3 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 7 seconds.
Jun 15 08:57:25 ***-MBP com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (local.lastfm_chart): Service only ran for 2 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 8 seconds.

I'm not sure what this signifies, either.
I'm on mojave 10.14.6, if that matters.
Adding an edit to include the bash script that is being executed:
#!/bin/sh

now=`date -v -7d +"%Y-%m-%d"`
curl "https://tapmusic.net/collage.php?user=gas_giant&type=7day&size=4x4&caption=true" -o /Users/****/Documents/Music/last.fm\ Listening\ Reports/tuneage_${now}.jpg


texts: Is there any plugin (or other way), to add support for mkv files in quicklook? In my searches, the way I found of doing it involves installing perian, which I’d really prefer not to do for a number of reasons, one of them being that it’s no longer in development.


texts: Is it possible to remove/uninstall Quicktime Player 7?  I installed it back when my system was running Snow Leopard and now I'm on Mountain Lion I no longer need it but I can't see a way to remove it.


texts: What charging mechanism to be used to maximise the battery life?

texts:
So I got my first Apple laptop, a Retina MacBook Pro. Since macbook pro retina's battery are no longer easily switchable I'm concerned about it's life and would like to maximize it. I have few questions below.

How long it should be kept in A/C power? Is it okay to keep the laptop connected to A/C power more than 24 hours? Will it not be good for the battery if I keep it in A/C power more than 24 hours?

Is it okay to charge the laptop when the battery reach 75% or should I wait till it goes to 50% or 10%? What's is optimal %?

What's the best charging practices should I follow?


texts: Why can't some images in the pdf be viewed on iBook of iPad or iPod Touch?

texts:
I have iPod Touch and iPad (version 1).

I noticed some images on pdf cannot be viewed on the iBook.

Why?

Edit

The following are my pdf ebooks  that cannot be viewed by iBook:

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Expert's Voice in .NET)
Learn JavaScript and Ajax with w3Schools

to be continued...


texts: mac save dialog not showing up for TextEdit/Word/Powerpoint/Excel

texts:
I'm facing the weirdest issue and have spent hours googling a solution but returned empty-handed. I have a Mac early 2015 laptop with OS X Sierra(10.12.5) installed on it. Whenever I try to save a word/ppt/xls/txt file with Word/Powerpoint/Excel/TextEdit, the dialog box doesn't show up. There's no confirmation of whether it's been saved or not and I have lost hours of work because of this issue. Has anyone here faced this issue before?

Thanks


texts: Can automatic numbered list formatting be turned off in notes?

texts:
I'm running notes Version 4.7 (1111.23) on macOS Catalina (10.15.6) and I have a couple documents I want to disable bullets and number formatting.
In TextEdit, the number formatting isn't as aggressive as in Pages or Notes and I wonder if I'm missing a way to disable that either all together in Notes app or better to disable it on the few notes where I just want to type and not get assistance in numbering.
To be clear - I understand that after I type the following, it corrects my typing and prompts for another dash list entry:
-spacetestspacereturn
Similarly, when I type:
1.spacetestspacereturn
... the number and period and space engage the automatic numbered list and return makes 2. show up automagically.
I know I can change the text later among bulleted, list and number. The change I wish is to not have the app change my text at all on a document where I type numbers and period and then a space.
Can automatic numbered list / number formatting be turned off in Notes?


texts: Do I have an HDD or an SSD in my MacBook?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014). I am running macOS Sierra
10.12.4 . Is there any way to find out if I have a hard disk or a solid state disk? (I have a total of 250 GB of storage if that is necessary)


texts: How to delete /var/run/com.cyberghostsrl.CyberghostPrivilegedHelper.socket?

texts:
how can I delete this file?
if I run netstat -an this gets listed

/var/run/com.cyberghostsrl.CyberghostPrivilegedHelper.socket

it is probably an old installation of cyberghost, but I realy think that this is shady that it is not uninstalled.

I already tried:

sudo rm -rf /var/run/com.cyberghostsrl.CyberghostPrivilegedHelper.socket

in safeboot mode, but it doesn't get deleted.
What I can see that this only shows up in non safe mode.


texts: How do I share Processing apps with an expired signature?

texts:
I made an application with Processing that I exported to a .app file. It works just fine on my computer. When I download my app from the Internet and try to open it, I get the following message:

  MyApp.app is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the trash.

As users on this site have noticed, many Apple certificates expired on 11/11/2015, making it impossible to run these applications if Gatekeeper is enabled. Processing seems to be signing with expired signatures as well. How do I remove these signatures?


texts: OS X asking for local items keychain password

texts:
My mid-2010 macbook pro was running just fine on OS X 10.10, and then I decided to enable the guest account.

My account still works fine, but when I login into the guest account, I get an annoying dialogue box: OS X wants to use the "Local Items" keychain. Please enter the keychain password.

Because this is the guest account, there is no password. So I don't know what to do to get rid of the box.

I tried following the instructions here, by going to Keychain Access Preferences and resetting the default keychain in the guest account, but it just said "Keychain Not Found."

Any suggestions?


texts: How to launch Trello on Login as menubar item?

texts:
Is there a way to launch Trello app on Login or startup, in menubar only state.

Menubar only state :
There's a window style dropdown option in Trello settings. When you choose Dock & Menubar extra, a Trello icon appears in the menubar which can be used to toggle the visibility of the app window (show/hide) by clicking on it. While in the hidden state, only the menubar icon and the dock indicator is visible.

In short : How to launch Trello on startup in hidden visibility state?

macos v10.15.3
Trello v2.11.4


texts: Can I add a "space" to my Dock to separate apps into groups?

texts:
I have a 27" iMac running High Sierra. I also have a Windows 10 virtual machine.

I have a number of Windows apps running throughout the day and they appear in my Mac’s dock, even when I’m in High Sierra and not in Windows. This is okay as it makes it very easy to switch between Mac apps and Windows apps.

But what I would like is to keep them grouped separately in some way on my dock so it’s easy at a glance for me to see I’m clicking on the Windows version of an app and not the Mac version as often the icons are the same or very similar.

Is this possible to achieve?


texts: MacBook Pro "clicking" while muted when showing a message dialog in Windows on Parallels - what's happening?

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I am experiencing odd "click" noises from my MBP, while sound is muted, it's unplugged from the power source (ie running only on battery), and Windows in Parallels shows a message dialog.

To reproduce:

Unplug the laptop (right now, 94% battery)
Ensure the volume is muted
In Windows on Parallels, do something that shows a message dialog
A loud "click" will be heard. It sounds plasticky or staticky, like the pop you get when plugging in a speaker to a powered amp, and I can't trace it to either speaker - it seems to come more from the back center or back right (maybe the right-side speaker) of the laptop. Two seconds later, a second, slightly quieter click will occur while the message dialog is still open.

The laptop is muted, absolutely.

Is there another sound source in a MBP, apart from the speakers? Why would this happen when showing a dialog - could it be a mechanical change in the laptop itself, caused by something to do with the video card?

Early 2011 model MBP
Yosemite, fully up to date
At the time, running Parallels 9 hosting Windows 7
Volume does not have to be muted for this to happen, but it does happen when the laptop volume is muted, making me think it may not be a sound from the speaker (?)

Edit: The original question was that this happened for a low battery warning. Since it's now happening with a nearly full battery, and it seems to be related to message dialogs, the fact the messages were about a low battery is a coincidence.


texts: What is hardware type ID in keylayout xml file?

texts:
In a ".keylayout" file there is <layout> element where you can specify a "mapSet" and "modifierMap" for a range of keyboard types. Apples Technical Note TN2056 describes the XML file structure, but not what a "keyboard type hardware ID" actually is. They say:

  Apple will map new keyboard hardware IDs to one of the existing ones,
  so it is usually sufficient to copy and paste the entire
  element from an existing keyboard layout.

Great, but I really would like to understand what this ID is.

At first look it seems like ID 0 through 17 are ANSI keyboards, but when I look at the key layout for European layouts (which are usually ISO keyboards) I find ID 0 and 1, so I guess the IDs are not related to ANSI/ISO/JIS.


texts: How to stop Chrome from auto-opening App Store?

texts:
Recently when I visited itunes.apple.com page for some app, Chrome asked me if I would allow opening the product in App Store. I chose "Yes" and I made a stupid mistake of allowing it permanently:

  Remember my choice for links of type App Store.app

Now everytime I visit some iTunes page, App Store app automatically pops up and it's really annoying. Is there I way to turn this behaviour off?

I tried searching in Google Chrome settings, but without success  (chrome://settings/handlers should obviously list these protocols and programs, but my list is empty).


texts: Yosemite: How to change the index of a specific monitor while using a set of multiple monitors?

texts:
Say you use a MacBook Pro (MBP) and you have a specific monitor setup of at least two external monitors. As the main desktop you use the internal monitor of the MacBook Pro. This monitor setup you use at different locations and different monitor models.

If you disconnect your MBP from the external monitors and reconnect them, the window positions are restored. After changing the workplace and the monitor models, the window positions are not properly restored - sometimes they are mixed up, sometimes they are reversed.

Obviously Yosemite is not able to restore monitor positions correctly when monitor models have changed. But it stores the display arrangement correctly, so the monitors are known by Yosemite and identified.

How to change and save the indices of the known displays permanently?

A preferred solution would be one, where no third-party software has to be purchased.


texts: Editing System/Library files with Property List Editor (PLE)

texts:
I want to update the schedule in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist.  I have unlocked the file in Finder but the Property List Editor is giving me:

The file "com.apple.locate.plist" could not be unlocked.

Could not add write permission to the file because you do not own it.  Try modifying the permissions of the file in the Finder or Terminal.

I don't want to make myself the owner of a System file.  Is there a way to edit this file without manually changing the permissions?


texts: Is there a way to display text messages in somewhere other than the top right? I would like it to appear in the bottom right, is this possible?


texts: External hard drive disconnected during reformat: now will not format

texts:
Using disk utility, I was erasing and re-formatting to FAT. During that process, the usb cable was removed. Now, the hard drive will not format. When recognizing the hard drive, a window shows up stating "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" with the options to "initialize; ignore; eject." "Initialize" does not seem to do anything.
Disk Utility shows the physical drive, but no sub folder (volume?) When attempting to erase and create a new partition, I get an error.
The disk was already empty, so I'm not worried about retrieving files, but is the drive itself physically damaged?


texts: "Disk is read only" when doing backups to an external disk attached to a Raspberry Pi

texts:
I have an external USB disk attached to a Raspberry Pi. I've been making Time Machine backups without problems, but today I'm getting an error telling me that the "disk is read-only" and the backup cannot be done.

Previous to that, a verification error appeared giving me two options, use another disk or do a clean backup.

If I attach the disk directly to my Mac, backups are recognized and I can do an incremental backup without issues.

How can I fix this problem so that I can continue doing backups over the network when it's connected to my Raspberry Pi?


texts:
I'm wanting to type some Pinyin characters (e.g. adding a bar above an a with Alt A + A) and am following this guide http://pinpinchinese.com/blog/how-to-type-pinyin-tone-marks-mac-os-x-yosemite/

However, I don't see the option of a US Extended Input source. Here's what I do see:

Any suggestions?

Fwiw, I'm running El Capitan 10.11.2 (15C50).


texts: Does IOS "Find My" App work when the app is not open? If so, why?

texts:
The following is all pertaining to IOS (14): (and assume locations services are turned on)
If you go to settings -> privacy -> location services -> Find My there are three options:

Never
Ask next time
While using the App.

There is no "Always" option (some apps, such as google maps, have an "Always" option).
Doesn't this mean that the "Find My" app can't share my real-time location with people when the app is closed (say, if I am checking my email)? Or does the app have a way around this?
Perhaps sharing my location with someone give the app location access while I am sharing my location, even if the app is closed? If so, shouldn't that be noted somewhere?


texts: How to get macOS Sierra to stop asking me to enable Siri

texts:
macOS Sierra is constantly displaying an "Enable Siri?" dialog. If I pick cancel it just pops up again 5 seconds later.

How do I tell macOS Sierra to stop asking?


texts:
I have installed XCode 4.5. During the installation there was an error about downloading the documentation. I did not pay much attention, but I think the error was same as that mentioned in:
this question.

I tried the solution as mentioned in the post, but there is no file named as: "com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleOSX10_8.CoreReference.docset" as stated in the answer.

The main problem I have with the documentation is that it is incomplete. While some of the pages are displayed properly, the other pages are blank.

How do I repair the documentation? I am ready to re-download the documentation. I do NOT want to download the entire XCode 4.5 again. Please help!!!

Note: I am using Mountain Lion 10.8.


texts: The App Store only opens "Updates" — How to fix?

texts:
I have an iPad running iOS 9.3.5. When I open the App Store it opens with a blank screen, and “Updates” is the only panel that shows any data.

How can I fix this?


texts:
I shared an Apple Tv with my ex. We recently just broke up and she took the Apple Tv, even though it was linked to my personal Apple ID. I changed my password so my account can't be accessed anymore.

My question is, if I purchase and download apps through my iphone, such as a dating site like match.com, will those downloads be visible on the Apple Tv? Or since I changed my password, will none of my app information be obtainable? I want to confirm that they wont because I don't want to deal with the drama if so.

I appreciate the help and apologize in advance if this is a dumb question. I am not very technically saavy with electronics as it is very apparent.


texts: Deploying default Wifi settings and Passwords

texts:
I am building a default 10.8 image for our corporate Mac users.  We have a local Wifi network which should be set up by default on this image.  I have used PackageMaker to set up all the other deployed software and settings, and would like to keep it that way.  I am using InstaDMG to build the image (another reason to prefer the modular packaging method I have in place).

I have tried deploying a .keychain file to /Library/Keychains/, but the AP is not picked up;      I am also aware of /Library/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist but after deploying this, the system still does not result in the expected behavior.

How can I deploy system-wide Wifi settings to a unbooted images using packages?


texts: How do I play songs (with shuffle) stored on a NAS drive connected to my router?

texts: I have a folder on a NAS drive connected to my wifi router with some mp3 files. Is there a simple way of playing them on mac with shuffle turned on? Can I use some lightweight mp3 player other than iTunes like Winamp. I tried running winamp under wine but it doesn't run on my current macbook laptop. I don't want to use iTunes as it will make a copy of the songs in its library. Thank you.


texts: Difference between filename and . filename in macOS terminal

texts:
I'm newbie to MacOS. (I'm using mac OS high sierra 10.13.6)
I installed a software. They said to initialize the software by

. /path/setsas.sh

I give no thought to . and space, so I just ran

path/setsas.sh

It seemed to run, but after that I couldn't execute any command of the software.
I found that I should have ran the command as it were, and after that it was fine.
So what these . and space mean here, and any guess why I couldn't execute any command at first even though file seemed to run?
I know that . sometimes mean current folder, but it doesn't look like it in this case.


texts: How to disable wifi while running Migration Assistant?

texts: After starting to run Migration Assistant over wifi, I connected an Ethernet cable to both machines in order to speed up the transfer. This does not appear to be working. How can I disable wifi on one or both machines? The normal menu system does not appear to be accessible. Both machines are running updated versions of Mavericks.


texts: my iPhone can not upload the contents in iCloud account notes to iCloud, which means my Mac and iPad can not sync it. But the iPhone can sync the contents edited on my Mac and iPad. So that I can edit the notes on Mac and check it on iPhone but can not edit the contents on iPhone and check it on my Mac. Google a lot but no answer. Tried log out apple ID and log in again already but it did not work. My iOS system is 10.2 the updated one. Any one can help me? Thank you very much


texts: MBP mid-2012 with SSD, does not hibernate

texts:
Specs: 15" MBP mid-2012. Upgraded to Gskill 16GB RAM. Mountain Lion 10.8.2 installed in 128GB Plextor M5 Pro SSD in the optibay.

Problem: My MBP doesn't hibernate anymore. Whether when battery runs out (0%) or when I manually force it to hibernate.

I prefer to hibernate instead of "normal sleep" because I want all my work preserved but have the MBP to power off immediately to conserve battery. I don't mind having to wait for it to resume and I don't mind about the write cycles. I also need hibernate so I can resume when my battery runs out.

Things that I have tried:

Run sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25 and pmset sleepnow. This will turn off the MBP's display with the sleep indicator turned on for ~15 seconds. After this, the indicator light will then turn off. But, after ~30 seconds the light will turn back on and start blinking/pulsing as if the MBP went to "normal sleep" mode. When I hit a key, the login screen will appear immediately without showing the gray screen with the progress bar at the bottom like in a typical resume from hibernation.
Run sudo pmset -a standbydelay 10 then put MBP to sleep. Mac will sleep (pulsing indicator light) and then after 10 seconds the light will turn off. After ~30 seconds, pulsing light will come back again instead of staying powered off and hibernated.
Manually force hibernate using apps like "SmartSleep", "DeepSleep", etc. Still encountered issue.
No USB device plugged in, turned off bluetooth, turned off "Wake for network access", unmounted HDD in main bay. Still encountered issue.
Deleted /var/vm/sleepimage and let computer generate a new one. Used "Restore Defaults" in Energy Saver. Repaired permissions is Disk Utility. Still encountered issue.
Tried putting /var/vm/sleepimage on the other HDD and tried hibernate and resume. The gray screen with progress bar at the bottom appeared but MBP crashed/turned off and went straight to a normal boot.
I waited for the battery to drain to 0% and for the MBP to turn off itself. When I connected the adapter and turn the MBP on, it will boot as if it was from a full shutdown. It lost my previous work/machine state.
I cloned my SSD to the normal HDD installed in the the main bay using Carbon Copy Cloner and booted from it. Then I forced the MBP to hibernate and it successfully hibernated. The gray screen with a progress bar at the bottom appeared and resumed to my previous desktop.

That means I know for a fact that when I boot my OS X installation from a normal HDD, hibernate is working. I'm running out of things to try. Final straw might be to transfer the SSD to main bay and put the normal HD in the optibay, or to reinstall Mountain Lion (both options I don't want to do).

Anyone else also experiencing this and/or knows how to fix this? Or is hibernate really broken for MBP with SSD? Has anyone with MBPs with SSD tried hibernating and resuming successfully? Can someone else please try and confirm if this is isolated? MBAs and rMBPs are not counted because they have different hardware.

Thanks!


texts: I've received 7 emails from Apple that my phone was tracked using Find My iPhone, can I call apple and find out who the device belongs too? I've already changed my password.


texts: How to get iLife '13 for free (update from iLife '11)?

texts:
I currently have iLife '11 installed on my iMac from a retail disk purchased new from eBay. Under the updates section of the App Store, there is nothing that says iLife Update.

I thought updates for iLife '11 to iLife '13 would be free?


texts: Can Mail fetch email signature set using Google Mail?

texts:
My organisation's people use a mixture of Apple Mail and Gmail.com as a client for our Gmail addresses. We use a GSuite app to set peoples' Gmail signatures, which works great for those sending email from Gmail.com, but the signature is not 'imported' by Apple Mail. This means people have to manually copy their Gmail signature into the Apple Mail signature preferences. Is there any way to remedy this?

I understand that this may not be a shortcoming of Apple Mail, but a shortcoming of Gmail.


texts:
I was doing some snooping around in the Finder on my mac and found that there is an empty folder titled "AssetsV2"(https://i.imgur.com/ohxkTp6.png).
Im unsure of the direct path but it's found by selecting the following.
Macintosh HD->System->Library

The folder is completely empty when compared to the regular Assets folder next to it. Im unsure as to why i have a seconds assets folder if there's nothing inside of it. I did create both a volume partition and secondary volume from the Disk Utility app a few months ago and both were deleted since then.
Is "AssetsV2" just a ghost folder from either the partition or secondary volume i created?
Does anyone else have a secondary(or more) Assets folder as well?


texts: Increase Activity monitor update frequency to less than a second

texts:
I want to use the "CPU history" to monitor how some program uses the CPU, but the update frequency of "very often (1 sec)" is not fast enough for me. The changes I want to observe happen in less than a second (I am thinking of 0,1 second).

I would appreciate if someone can tell me if it is possible to go beyond 1 second. Or if there are any other tools that offer faster updates plus a graphical view of the cpu usage history.


texts: Drobo has become read only and can't be changed

texts:
My Drobo that acts as my media server and Time Machine host for my family's Macs has become read only. While this would normally be a nuisance, it's become a real problem in that I can't change it back from the Get Info Window I've also tried chmod +w to no avail. Any hints on what to do?

In the attached photo, you'll see that the options are dimmed and say that I should have access, but the disk is still read only.

Get Info Window


texts: Command + Tab sometimes does not switch to maximized window of app in another Space

texts:
An app (such as Firefox) is opened and maximized on another Space. I'm on a separate Space, and then when I hit Command + Tab, to switch to Firefox, I can see its menu is displayed at the top of the screen, but it does not switch to the corresponding Space, and I can't see the app window.

Is there a way I can achieve the desired?


texts:
I want to remap focusing the address bar to cmd+D vs cmd+L
Reference: Remapping keyboard shortcuts in Chrome and Firefox?
I've tried everything on that page and it doesn't seem to be working.


texts: How to delete an app permanently with its history

texts:
I have an issue similar to one posted here before:
How to completely delete and app from iphone (including all the data and history)

What can I do to fix it?


texts: How to backup and restore iPad apps locally on a Windows machine? (without re-downloading from internet) (also resume app downloads)

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Apple has recently removed the functionality from Windows iTunes to backup apps locally. The only way they offer now is via internet - iCloud. I often have limited internet access so that option is not suitable. Also I feel much better when I can easily and reliably restore the iPad to when everything was functioning perfectly. For example, update an app to find out there's a bug or some new functionality that makes things worse in some way. With a local backup it would be easy to go back and forth between the versions, and you don't have to depend on anything.

The solution would most likely involve jail breaking and that's fine, but I couldn't find actual information on whether it is in fact possible on a jailboken iPad and if so how. Bunch of sites recommend third party software and when you go on their respective sites they say things like "manage apps, backup app data, images etc" iTunes already does all of this.

Thanks!


texts: Can iOS receive gmail's instant (within several seconds) push notification for email?

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I want the ability to send an email to an iOS users iPad's POP account and have them instantly recieve a notification.

For example, on my Android devices, since gmail is built into the system, if anyone emails my gmail address, I get a notification about 1 second after they hit send on their end.  If its a pop account, then I have to wait until the next pull, every 15, 30, etc minutes (whatever the user has it set to).

Can iOS receive the gmail type instant notifications? And if so, how does the email account or notifications settings need to be set up?


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How do I change the color of an event in Mac High Sierra Calendar?  I am trying to import and synch my Google Calendar events with the Mac High Sierra native calendar (iCal ?).  I can successfully imported and synch the calendar entries, yet they all appear in iCal in the same default calendar color.
Yet, I have not as yet discovered how to synch the individually selected Google Calendar "event" colors (such as, Dk.Blue=Travel, Red=Meeting, Green=Bill pay, Lt.Blue=Work Item, Purple=Anniversary, etc.)


texts: Terminal command `screen` will not split windows vertically

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Macs come with screen natively installed, but I seem to have a problem with mine. After running screen and creating another window (ctrl+a, c), the split command (ctrl+a, |) won't do anything. Normally it's suppose to split the terminal vertically into two separate windows (typically used to edit and test in one terminal window).

Any suggestions?


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We recently had a mail outage and eventually got mail back - it was a disk space issue. The PCs with Outlook can connect in without issues but the couple of Macs we have won't connect at all. I can ping the server, etc. and have the Mac connector enabled in Exchange also.

I'm totally lost on this one. Users are connecting through the Outlook Web App for the time being, but that's not ideal. When I try using the Connection Doctor it asks about enabling SSL which is already enabled. It won't log the account on; I've tried resetting the password as well.


texts: Transparent/ invisible window (bug/issue and not visual effect)

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Windows would go transparent, as in the attached screenshot, at random. This has been happening for months. Finder is the most frequent window that would go transparent, second is safari. But basically any app can go transparent, including Eclipse in the screenshot.

This usually happens alongside slowing down of the performance of the entire mac. Even the mouse pointer and the cursor blink would become so sluggish. Is this potentially an issue caused by low spare ram memory or gpu memory? Sometimes the app would also crash in a few moments; sometimes the app would still be running this way forever until I close it.

The only way to get around this is to restart my computer. But this is extremely inconvenient as it happens on average once a day.


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I have several videos that are taking up a lot of room on my iPod Classic, and I would like to delete them.

The problem is that these videos do not show up in any of the listings from which I can delete them; this "listings" I'm referring too are Music, Movies, Podcasts, and Books.  (They do show up in playlists, but this does not help my cause; selecting these videos through such at list at most lets me delete them from the playlist.)

FWIW, the media kind for all these videos is iTunes U.  I am not able to change this media kind in the Get Info > Options dialog, because the option is grayed out.  (For no other item in this iPod do I see a grayed out Media Kind option in this dialog.)

My question boils down to:

  How can delete these "zombie" videos?

Possible complications:

The version of iTunes I'm using is 9.2.1.  (Version 10 was hatred-at-first-sight for me, and I have never given it a second chance.)
The iPod is hugely out-of-sync relative to my main iTunes library.  I have disabled automatic sync-ing, because my main iTunes library is far bigger than I could fit in this iPod, even though, over the years, I have deleted stuff from my main iTunes library that I still have in my iPod.  (In general, I find iTunes' sync-ing behavior too bewildering, therefore disabling automatic sync-ing is the only alternative I consider safe.)
If I select the iPod icon in iTunes, and choose the iTunes U tab, all the controls on the resulting screen are grayed out.  (This is possibly related to [1] or [2] above)1.

Thanks!

1 Complication #3 above suggests that I may be able to get some traction if I were to enable synchronization, since this could (conceivably) result in a re-enabling of the currently disabled iTunes U tab.  Unfortunately, doing so would, of course, set off synchronization, which I most definitely do not want.  One possibility would be to create a new empty iTunes library, start iTunes with this empty library as its library, and then enable synchronization.  This would ensure that nothing gets copied from my laptop to the iPod (or so I would hope), but it does not guarantee that the contents of the iPod would be left untouched.  (How do I know that the sync-ing wont cause the entire contents of my iPod to be wiped out?)  Of course, in any case, even if I can turn-on auto sync-ing safely, it's anyone's guess whether this will lead to an ultimate solution to the problem of deleting the unwanted files.


texts: How can I fix this iPad stuck in the language setup screen?

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My grandmother got her iPad somehow in this state where it seems to be in language setup, but taps dont work as expected, rather they activate unusual boxes on the screen:

How can I fix this? Holding down the power and home button for 10 seconds restarted the iPad but the same screen was there. No interaction seems to be doing anything to advance the setup, the boxes that pop up seem to be interfering. The box in the image appears after tapping.


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This page - Apple KB: Prepare for APFS in macOS High Sierra - says that APFS supports "snapshots" as one of its features.

Can someone explain how this works?

I get the basic concept of what snapshots are, but how does APFS actually achieve this? Apple’s page (linked above) doesn’t provide any explanation.


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I have the iphone 5 ios 6 and I have two backups on there and it tells me
I need to delete one of my backups. Would this delete my stuff already on my device even if it says that it will delete  all backup data from icloud?


texts: Do I have to downgrade from iOS 7 Beta in order to get iOS 7 today?

texts: I downloaded the iOS 7 Beta about a week ago and now I'm worried I'll have to downgrade in order to install iOS 7 that's being released today. Anyone have any insight? If I have to downgrade, what's the easiest way?


texts: What is the best way to connect a MacBook Pro to a Samsung TV set?

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I would like to connect my MacBook Pro, which has Mini-DVI DisplayPort and FireWire ports (I have DisplayPort to DVI converter as well).

What is the best way to connect it to a Samsung TV, which has the ports shown below?


texts: Is it important to backup public keys for iOS Developer Certificates?

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I have read everywhere that you need to backup your private keys for iOS Developer Certificates on your Mac. I want to know if public key is important to backup or not. In case if a person just keeps backup of Private keys of all certificates, can public keys be recovered on new OS installation using those old private keys? Or in other words, can I re-use those old backup certificates successfully? So Does it really matter if I do not backup public keys?

May be it's a lame Question, but I want to know about it. Thanks for helping me out..


texts: I currently use Bonjour for my home wireless printing. It works flawlessly, but I have one gripe with software. If my iMac (pc connected to the printer) goes to sleep, the wireless print stops. Is there anyway if the printing can work while the mac sleeps. I understand why Apple did this to conserve power, but my iMac is always connected to power, and running things on the background. Any help, greatly appreciated. :)


texts: Podcasts connect "Can't parse your feed"

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I'm trying to submit a podcast to Podcasts Connect and I get the error

Can’t parse your feed.

With a status of

Failed Validation

This is my feed. I've used multiple rss validators (Here's the list)

Podba.se
Castfeed validator
W3C rss validator

Among others. Every validator says that my rss is good or has nothing bigger than a few warnings, but whenever the Apple validator at Podcasts Connect gives this error I mentioned saying it cant parse the feed, but not any further description. Any Idea of what could my problem be or where is my mistake?
UPDATE: Just as a test I tried to submit it to Spotify and it didn't worked.


texts: Remove the "Legacy Software" and "Installations" lists of System Information

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There are a couple of programs listed in Legacy Software in the System Information:

Is it possible to remove those entries? They are all old apps I've uninstalled, so there is no need to keep those information.

I already deleted all leftover of these apps located in Users/[home folder]/Library/Application Support & Library/Application Support and checked my drive with Funter (no vestige was found).

There is also plenty of useless information in the Installations list : the same app appears several times(sometimes 30 times) and old apps appear here as well. Is it possible/safe to remove those entries too ?

I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017)


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The best way to explain it is... You know how when you're at the dock and you put your mouse over something and it magnifies it? It doesn't do that for me, I have magnification turned on yet that feature doesn't work unless if I click on an app then it will magnify until I stop clicking it. It's happened to me in games too. I can't move the camera/mouse unless if I click first.

How do I fix this?

iMac, OS X Yosemite 10.10.3


texts: How to boot linux from an external hard drive?

texts: I am looking into booting the latest Ubuntu distro (14.04) from an external hard drive using my Macbook Air mid 2012 running Mavericks. I've looked around and couldn't find a link to any step-by-step or instructional page to help me do this (or if its even possible).


texts: Jump straight to passcode when finger isn't recognized but Touch ID?

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When I'm sweaty (e.g. jogging), I find it very difficult to unlock my iPhone 7 with touch ID. I use my fingerprint-registered finger with the home button, but I get stuck in a loop of it forever saying "Try Again", rather than it giving up and letting me use my passcode instead.
Using a different (not registered) finger doesn't seem to make a difference. Likewise, giving only a very brief press of the home button doesn't reliably open the screen to enter passcode, though that does work when I'm not sweaty.
This can be a bit frustrating, as after a run I can spend a full minute stabbing at the home button to try and unlock the phone and tell Strava I'm no longer running. I accept that touch ID probably isn't going to reliably work when my fingers are sweaty, but is there a way I can more reliably jump straight to passcode entry?


texts: How do I downgrade an iPhoto library from version 9 to version 8.1

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I recently acquired an older Mac and am trying to copy an iPhoto library from a newer computer to it.  However, the older version of iPhoto refuses to open, telling me "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto... Pease quit and use the latest version of iPhoto."

However, upgrading to the latest version of iPhoto isn't an option.

I found some information suggesting I could downgrade a library to an earlier version of iPhoto.  However, it says to use the "Rebuild Library" command from the "Library" menu.  However, there is no such menu in my version of iPhoto.  I found an Apple on rebuilding the iPhoto library (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638) but the option that I seem to need: "Repair the iPhoto Library Database" does not appear in the "Rebuild Photo Library" dialog box I get on startup holding Command and Option, although the "Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" appears but is grayed out.


texts: Does iMessage work internationally with only a number?

texts: My friend and I have a sim from say country A. If my friend goes to country B and temporarily uses a sim from country B (I.e. not data roaming with the original sim), can I still use iMessage given that I only have the original number from the country A sim?


texts: How to Enable Spotlight Search Files And Directories

texts: Is it possible to let Spotlight find files and directories from all over?


texts: trying to restore iPhone from icloud backup

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I am trying to restore iPhone from iCloud backup that is shown in my iCloud account so I can get some notes that I lost.  There is the iPhone back up on iCloud that I want and an iPhone back up on my computer (that I don't want).  I am not being given options to back up from the icloud backup.  I am connected to wifi (both iPhone and computer). I am following the apple instructions.  I thoroughly searched for an answer on the web at large, the apple and iCloud websites and here and only find the "how to's" for how it should work normally, but that is not working.

Thank you for any advice


texts: Photos on my iPhone 5 (101) but only the latest (23) show up in iCloud

texts: My iPhone 5 has 101 photos (& 7 videos) but on my PC > iCloud Photos > My Photo Stream only shows the last 23 of those photos.


texts: "Could not activate cellular data network" - cellular data not working on iPhone

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I am getting an iOS system error:

  Could not activate cellular data network

  Turn on cellular data or use Wi-Fi to access data.

while I'm not connected to Wi-Fi and I'm trying to use any apps that need a data connection. Cellular data is turned on, and I'm not in airplane mode or anything. LTE was working just fine yesterday.

I have tried Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings with no success.

In case this is relevant, details from General > About:

iPhone 6 (Verizon; MG642LL/a)
Carrier: Verizon 25.1 (I'm subscribed with PagePlus MVNO on Verizon's network)
iOS: v10.0.2
Modem Firmware: 5.24.00

Is this likely a problem with my phone, or with PagePlus? How can I resolve it? Thanks!


texts: Windows print screen when using Boot Camp

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I have bootcamp installed on my Mac, and when on Windows, I need to frequently capture screens using windows shortcuts such as Print Screen.

Using virtualization is not an option, since I need to run a virtualized environment within Windows already.

On the Mac keyboard (I have a MacBook Pro, and an external think aluminum keyboard), there isn't a print screen key. Is there any equivalent when using a mac keyboard?


texts: Unable to login after accidentally powering down laptop as FileVault decryption of HDD was running

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I had turned off FileVault on my FileVault-encrypted HDD. While the HDD was decrypted, I accidentally powered down my laptop interrupting that decryption process. When I subsequently rebooted, I am able to click on my username and enter my password, but then instead of displaying the Apple logo, my laptop displays the "No entry" traffic sign and proceeds no further.

Now my OS X Lion 10.7.6 system (on MacBook pro 13" 2011) no longer boots after a restart.

I have booted into Lion Recovery to repair permission but Disk Utility will not mount my HDD and instead reports error (-69846). I have also tried using diskutil without success.
An output from diskutil list recognizes my partition (/dev/disk0s2) as having the type FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF.

How do I make my FileVault encrypted (partially decrypted?) partition mount so I can log in?


texts: Is there a fix for seeing two black screens using TeamViewer on macOS 10.14.6?

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We're using TeamViewer at work to allow people to work from home. We've one issue we're chasing with support and I wanted to share here in case someone has figured this out.

Macs at work have two displays and same at home. The home computer running Full Client connects fine, but they see total black screens for both Host (work) screens. Vendor support is very windows centric and most of their articles mention one of the screens being black and not both.

macOS 10.14.6 on both host and client
TeamViewer Host 15.4.4445
TeamViewer Full Client 15.4.4445

Things work for a while, but at night when the work machine logs out, we're seeing a good chance that a black screen is presented through TeamViewer in the morning. The release notes say this version addresses this issue, but we're not so sure. Since we're remote, it's hard to know what's on the actual screen.

Has anyone dug in to this or have a workaround?


texts: I have a book I'm reading in Preview (PDF) and I had highlighted some vocabs. I would like to copy those vocabs into an excel sheet. Is there anyway to do this without manually copying them one by one?


texts: I have a few movies I purchased using iTunes. Is there a way to extract the m4v files out to my hard drive?

texts: I have a few movies on my iMac that I purchased using iTunes. They play fine using iTunes. Is there a way to extract the file from iTunes and save the m4v file to my external drive but also leaving it in iTunes.


texts: Is possible modify the App Store purchased listing (delete or hide some/unhide other hidden apps)?

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I have an application listed in my bought applications. I prefer to not see or hide some apps I have purchased in the list of purchased apps. Is there a way to do this? Can I reverse this and unhide these hidden apps at a later date?

For example:


texts: I have very many pinned tabs in Safari on the Mac. Is there a quick way to "export" them to another machine? (perhaps they can be synced via iCloud?)


texts:
2 parts to this, can't see where I'm going wrong

The 1st part works--get my BSSID through the airport command:

myBSSID="/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -I | grep BSSID | awk '{print $2}'"

then (this is where I get EOF or syntax errors):
pass that value to awk, which will search a file (APtable.csv) for that string, and give me the adjacent value to it:

awk -v theBSSID=$myBSSID '$1 == theBSSID {print $2}' '/Users/russell/Desktop/APtable.csv'


texts: How should I configure my VMware Fusion VM network connections?

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I've been a long time user of VMware Fusion on my iMac and I've just bought a MacBook Pro to allow me to work on projects whilst I'm away from my desk.

On my iMac, I have a few VMs, each with their own bridged connection to the LAN, each with their own static IP address and each with their own DNS hostname on my DNS server on the LAN. I've been using a bridged connection in this way so that other users on the LAN can connect to the VMs running on my Macs to test projects that I am working on without me having to configure NAT rules and users having to use unusual port numbers, etc.

Now, I'm aware that when I take my MBP away from the LAN and say, for example, I am on a train with no internet connection or WiFi connection, I will be unable to resolve the DNS name of the VMs as my DNS server will not be reachable. A workaround for this, I guess would be an entry for each VM in my /etc/hosts file on my MBP.

However, what I'm not sure of is how my MBP will be able to route traffic destined for the static IP address of each VM, when there is no network connection available.

Going through the settings available to me in VMware Fusion, I can only really see two possible configurations that could work for me: Bridged Networking and Share with my Mac. I've discounted Private to my Mac as this doesn't appear to satisfy my requirement of allowing LAN users to connect to my VMs.

Surely, I'm not the only person who has been faced with this predicament (unless I'm doing it wrong in the first place).

I would like to know if anyone would be able to answer me the following:

How can I setup a VMware Fusion 6 VM to allow bridged network connection to the LAN when I'm at my desk and retain connectivity between my MBP and the VM when I'm "on the road"?


texts: Is defragmenting an SSD drive a bad idea?

texts: I have heard that defragmenting SSD drives will shorten the life span of a drive. Just wondering if there is any truth to this and if so could someone elaborate as to why this happens.


texts: Use as system photo library takes hours to execute

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I'm switching the system photo library.
Following the instructions here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414
Once I press "Use as system photo library" I get a popup saying "Switching the system photo library will turn off iCloud photos". When I press ok on that I get the spinning beach ball for 12 hours before the system photo library is actually executed. (no updates, no upload, at least none on the surface).
What's going on? Why is setting a system library takes hours to set?


texts: Does shaking iPad violently going to damage its orientation hardware?

texts: Yesterday I showed my grandparents an iPad mini for the first time, and because the orientation wasn't right, they shook it violently a few times hoping that it'd orient it correctly again. I may be a bit paranoid, but is that going to damage its orientation hardware? What does the iPad orientation hardware look like?


texts: How to get an ssh tunnel started every time my Mac boots?

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I'm trying to run a script at startup to tunnel to a remote host over a random port.
I want to leave a cookie on the remote machine to say which port I chose.
Something like this:
# to make a record of the tunneling port on the remote host
echo $remoteport > $portfile
scp $portfile rcook@linode.richcook.net:
# to actually do the tunnel and go into the background
ssh -n -i /Users/rcook/.ssh/id_rsa -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -R $remoteport:localhost:22 rcook@linode.richcook.net
# to make a record of the tunneling port on the remote host
# keep checking if ssh is up
while ps -Awwx -o "user pid ppid pcpu pmem comm args" |  egrep -v grep |  egrep "${remoteport}:localhost"; do
       echo found
       sleep 30
done
echo finished at $(date)

I then point to it from a plist to run at startup.
I'm having multiple problems here.

How to run ssh at login?
How to tell ssh to set up a port and then just hold the port open forever?
How to check on the ssh connection to make sure it's still up and reestablish if it goes down?

I know my answer is through launchctl and ssh but I just can't get all the pieces to line up.
FWIW, here is my LaunchDaemon.  Have no idea if it works, since I can't solve the ssh problems first.  This is complicated.
root@Richards-iMac (~ ): cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/Tunneler.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PATH</key>
        <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin</string>
    </dict>
    <key>GroupName</key>
    <string>admin</string>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Crashed</key>
        <true/>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>Tunneler</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/rcook/bin/linode_tunneler.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>rcook</string>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: How could I message a dumb phone and an iPad at the same time

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I have an iPhone and my friend has a regular old dumb phone and an iPad.  At school, she has no cell service, but she does have wifi on her iPad.  Everywhere else she has her phone, but doesn't carry her iPad, so I have no idea which device to message.

Is there an app or service I could use that would message both at once and keep the conversation intact on all of our devices?


texts: OSX memory inconsistency (shared + private)

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In the picture below the shouldn't the (shared memory + private memory) equal the real memory? Am I reading this wrong? What else constitutes the real memory size? I assumed that shared memory was real memory and private memory was real memory.

Thanks in advance :-)


texts: Does apple have a volume purchasing program (vpp) that includes Macs?

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I have about 25 Mac users that I admin for and I can't seem to find a volume licensing/purchasing program for Macs.  Does one exist?

For example, Apple has removed iWork physical boxes from just about everywhere near my office and I can't get them from any of my vendors online.  The only way to get iWork now appears to be through the app store, but I don't want my users to be using their apple id's for the purchases.


texts: I'd like to record/save my iOS notifications (e.g., games and apps) as they come in as part of a statistics project, and would prefer to have them automatically recorded rather than taking manual screenshots. (Ideally, I'd like to pull them into IFTTT and then push them to a Google Spreadsheet.) Some apps may let me switch the notification method in-app, but that may also change the frequency of the notification, and in any event, it won't work across all apps and I'm looking to track the phone notification frequency. Is there some way to do this without jailbreaking? If I were to somehow push the notifications to macOS, is there a method for automatically recording them on the computer? If the version matters, I'm on the latest iOS.


texts: Installing Windows 10 on iMac 27" (2017) Mojave, 3TB

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I'm trying to install Windows on my Mac. I had no problems before, or on my older iMac/Macbook, with installing Windows on a Mac.

I decided to detach my Fusion Drive, so I ended up with a 3TB HDD and a 128gb SSD. That gave me more flexibility. The 3TB HDD is is formatted with APFS. In Recovery mode, I split the drive in 2 partitions. 750GB for Windows and 2250 for Mac Data.

Made a Windows Bootable USB with UNetbootin. With a downloaded Windows from the Microsoft.com website.

Before I booted into the Windows-USB, I detached every single USB-port on my mac, even Ethernet. (I've been there)

In the Windows installation, when checking which partition you want to use it says; "We couldn't create a new partition.."

I tried this many times, everytime I changed something. Maybe it worked. But no. This is what I've tried so far.

Delete partition, Windows installer made a new partition of the unallocated space. Didn't work, same error.
Opening cmd, using diskpart. Tried to delete the partition, create new one an format in ntfs - and try again. Still no luck. Had also difficulties with formatting only the partition on the HDD. But when I (accidentally) formatted it, it formatted the complete drive. But still didn't work afterwards.

Use another USB-stick, 3.0/2.0, USB-port
Tried another Windows installation
Reset NVRAM and PRAM

I have no idea what to do anymore. I hope that here's a wizard who can tell me what to do!

Thanks for your time!


texts: Need to connect multiple 3.5" hard drives to the Thunderbolt port of a 2012 iMac

texts:
I have a 2012 iMac that I'm currently using as a file server. I need to connect several 3.5" hard drives to it, and its USB 3 ports are currently used up with other devices. So what I'd like to do is connect something like  an external enclosure with multiple drive bays (as many as four) to the Thunderbolt 1 port of this iMac.

So far I haven't been able to find a singular device that'll let me do it, and I'm not sure if I can pull it off with adapters. For example, there are now many USB-C multi-bay hard drive enclosures, but I'm not confident I'd be able to use it with a 2012 iMac.

Is there either a) a device, possibly an old one I could get used, that connects multiple hard drives to a Thunderbolt port, or b) an adapter I can use to connect a more modern multi-bay enclosure?


texts: Copy to network share using local disk cache in Mac OS X Lion

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I'm using rsync in Mac OS X Lion to copy a backup directory from my local HD to a network mounted share (local LAN).  My goal is to archive the local backup to the network drive, thereby freeing up local disk space.

The rsync command I  am using is:

rsync -aPW * /Volumes/netshare/path

For some reason, my free disk space is decreasing as rsync runs, and I eventually run out of space.  After killing the rsync process and waiting, the consumed disk space is eventually freed and returns as free space.

It seems as if the copied files are being cached locally (even though they're already on the local drive) prior to being copied by rsync.  I've checked and it's not swap space, and I have 1.5 GB of free RAM as rsync is running.

Has anyone else noticed this and is there a way to disable this caching in rsync?

Update:

I've tested with rsync, cp, and copying a file in Finder, and free disk space decreases in all 3 scenarios, so it's a general OS issue.  I've been using lsof to see which files rsync has open, and nothing there appears to be growing in size.  My theory has been that the files are being cached somewhere on the drive as the copy progresses.  I have > 2GB RAM free and 0 swap space being used, so it doesn't appear to be a virtual memory usage issue.

As I mention below, disabling local snapshots also had no effect on the growing disk space.


texts: How to delete infinitely recurring directories

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I have a strange issue with deleting items from the Trash. It appears that there are infinite nested directories which I cannot seem to remove. If I try to "empty" the trash I get an error which reads "The operation can’t be completed because the item is in use.". I tried using Terminal to cd into .Trash and the files are not listed, but I tried rm -rf * anyway, but to no avail...

The nested directories go on forever apparently (it shows 1-36 there in the image, but if I use the arrow to expand the last one then another, and another, and another shows up)... Does anyone have a clue how I can remove these from the Trash? Thanks.
EDIT: After waiting some time I now also get another error "You can’t open the Trash because it’s being emptied.". Oddball behavior here.


texts: Is it theoretically possible for DirectX to work on OS X natively?

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As far as I can tell, DX as a software-component is tightly wound to Windows as for hardware-acceleration and is provided as a set of DLLs and a runtime system for applications that depend on it; however, OS X uses GPUs that support DX. The problem seems to not lie in the inability on the hardware side, but on the non-existent runtime on the software, and the inability for winding between applications and a DX runtime system.

OS X uses OpenGL only for hardware-acceleration, so if my cards are right, isn't it possible to reverse engineer DX's COM interface and re-compile it back as an Objective-C interface with static or dynamic linkage and enable the runtime to work on OS X, along with re-writing device drivers to enable mapping to GPU address space to implement the features of DirectX operations on the GPU (shading, GPGPU, etc.)? I know it sounds crazy, but I can't find any way to believe this to be impossible. Most GPUs today support DirectX.


texts: Which service or application is responsible for Mission Control?

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From time to time I get my OS X bugging up like this:

I tried restarting Finder, Dock or WindowServer processes to no avail. Has anyone encountered this? May be there is a service or an app that I can relaunch to fix this? So far only restart helped. I didn't try the login/logout flow, but I'm pretty sure it would work too. So I wanted to know if there is a way to fix this while logged in.


texts: How can I hide Google Documents from Finder?

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I have Google Drive installed on my MacBook and I can see all the Google format documents (i.e. gsheet, gdoc etc.). How can I hide these so that they don't appear in Finder?

For those asking for a screenshot please see below. Top image show my MacBook which shows the Google files. Bottom image is from my iMac which DOESN'T show the files - so it must be possible and I must have done it at some point but I have no idea how!


texts: Install Windows 10 on a 2011 Macbook Pro running Sierra

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I've got an early 2011 MBP running Sierra. Now I want to create a Bootcamp partition running Windows. Since I'm on Sierra, Bootcamp only supports installing W10, but officially my 2011 MBP does not support W10. I've read some threads were people got it working fine though!

I've come quite far, but now I'm stuck. Since I've replaced my optical drive with a second SSD, I first had to change the plist.info within Boot Camp Assistance as shown in this video to make it work with flash drives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1302818987&feature=iv&src_vid=hE8If6gabUI&v=2OKKl5OTqEk

After that, I run Boot Camp Assistance, setup a Flash-drive with a W10 installer, and created a BOOTCAMP partition. After that I run the Windows installer from the USB-drive and try to install in on the BOOTCAMP partition. First I got an error that it was not GPT and it was not NTFS, so I followed this MacRiot threat to change my disk to GPT.
http://macriot.com/mcrt/?p=2362

Now I got the message "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files." Appearently it should be solved by ejecting all other hard drives, but I've got 2 internal SSD's both running a different Mac OS, so I cannot eject all the drives. This is were I'm stuck.

Anybody got a solution to make this work?


texts: How can I swap the Esc and the Caps Lock keys?

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I managed to remap the Caps Lock key to Escape, but I can't find a way to remap the Escape key to Caps Lock.

The reason why I want to do this is that I usually use X11 on Linux where this is available as an option.


texts: Remove Airdrop function to do tightening of OSX

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Could you tell me how to remove Airdrop function to do tightening of OSX?

Looks somebody accessing my Mac via AirDrop. I would like to remove the function.
Please tell me how to remove the function except for not to turn off.


texts: Media center app and remote control for mac mini?

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I can't justify buying an Apple TV while I have an old mac mini around to hook up to my entertainment center.

I'm currently controlling it using Air Mouse with my iOS devices, but I'd really like to be able to use it more simply.  Air Mouse simply extends the mouse and keyboard, but doesn't really give you a remote-control style of functionality you might have with a dedicated streaming device like the Apple TV.

Front row seems only to care about music and movies on iTunes.

Can I use Front row and the tiny white apple remote with Netflix, Hulu, and other online services, or is there another software package that would allow me to do so?

Is there a better option for remote control than the little white apple remote?


texts: Using an iMac to extend a Wireless network

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I'm right on the edge of my WiFi range, but my iMac is hard-wired with Gigabit Ethernet. Is it possible to use my iMac's Wifi to extend the range of my wireless network to provide better connections to my mobile devices?

I know I can setup a separate network with my iMac, but it would be ideal to stay on a single network in various parts of the building.

I'm using a Late 2012 iMac.