texts: I have and iPod touch 4th Gen. I got it when it was first out and it is 8GB. However whenever I use it, the Battery goes down to less than 20% in the First hour. This makes me very annoyed. How do I fix it?


texts: External monitor not working properly on macOS Catalina

texts:
Before upgrading to macOS Catalina my AOC 2369VM monitor works fine with HDMI - USB Type C adapter. Once I installed macOS Cataline, the monitor immediately became badly connected or not connected at all.

I was trying to reset NVRAM, SMC, trying to boot in safe mode. I was trying to create new user in system. All the same..

I plug in cable into the port and nothing happens. And only then within 3-5 minutes monitor is connected.. Or not connected at all.. How to fix that?

This HDMI - USB Type C adapter works fine with other computer with Mojave


texts: I want to download a folder from iCloud Drive using the web interface (iCloud.com). The only problem is, since it is not zipped, I cannot download the folder. Is there a way to download the folder without having to sync the entire content of my iCloud Drive with my computer?


texts: Generalizable guide to convert .dmg to .iso bootable for Lion to Sierra

texts:
OS installs are now distributed as .dmgs.  Is there a generalizable guide to converting .dmgs to bootable iso's on macOS?

Related

How can I convert a DMG to ISO on Mac OS X (preferably for free)?
Install Sierra as guest OS in VM with Parallels 12


texts: How to rotate whole table in Pages document?

texts: Is there any way to rotate a table by 90 degree? I've got vertical document but one table is to wide so I would like to rotate it.


texts: How to create a shortcut on the desktop to a selected folder

texts:
In windows when right clicking a folder there is an option: send to -> desktop (create shortcut).

How can I do this on a Mac?


texts: Mission Control acting very strangely with Finder and Google Chrome

texts:
When I activate mission control via F3 or a hot corner I have assigned the function to, I can choose which application to bring to the foreground. However, when I select Google Chrome and sometimes Finder, the selected application gets sent to the back, and some other application brought to the foreground. The only way to highlight the application I want is it use the Dock icon, click on the application window, or Command+Tab.

Sometimes I can get it to work with Finder if I use Terminal to do killall Finder

I've tried force quitting any applications/services/processes that I could think of that might affect Mission Control with no luck.

macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195)

Any thoughts?


texts: Virtualization with Intel's GVT-d on Mid-2015 Macbook Pro

texts:
I have a mid-2015 15" Macbook Pro. The iGPU is part of Intel's Iris Pro brand, which as I understand allows a VM to access the GPU directly with a native driver through GVT-d.

I would like to run a Linux guest OS in this manner, giving it native access to the iGPU so that it can run a native driver (and thus have OpenGL 4.3 support). I have no idea how to go about doing this, though. I've heard there are forks of QEMU/KVM with GVT included, but I have no idea how to go about setting up a VM with one of those.


texts: I'm having trouble resizing my hard drive partition. Before, I was running OS X Lion in the free space above Macintosh HD 2. Now that I deleted the Lion partition, I am unable to resize Macintosh HD 2 to the full capacity of my hard drive.


texts: How to make a scatter plot using Apple Numbers?

texts:
I'm trying to make a scatter plot in Numbers but can't get it to work. If I select column A & B and have it make a scatter plot it uses column A for both axes.  If I click on the plot and go to  Series, it shows the values used for x and y, See the image below.

The above image is what I get when I select columns A and B to try and plot. If I go into that setting box and manually change the y-axis to column B it changes it back to A when I click plot. I tried this several times changing either the x-axis or the y-axis and the same thing happens. It keeps plotting the same values for both x and y.

I can't use a line plot because a line plot assumes the points on the x-axis are evenly spaced and distorts your plot.

An example of the numbers I am trying to plot is given below.

X-values  1,2,5,7,8,9

Y-values  43,56,103,156,215,300

I just want a simple x,y plot...  Can anyone do this in numbers?

I've looked at previous questions but none of those answers help me.

tia


texts:
iPhone 5C on iOS 9.1

I've created new albums and uploaded photos from a desktop on the icloud.com "iCloud Photos" page. How would I view these photos from my iPhone?

I have "iCloud Photo Library" on, "iCloud Photo Sharing" on, and I can't really find any other settings for photos. I know iCloud storage is confusing and I still don't understand how it all is supposed to work, but there has to be a way to view these photos, right? I can't even go to icloud.com on the phone because I get a watered down mobile site.


texts: Basically I with my team are figuring out a way to block screenshots taken on our corporation's computers (Mac mostly). I have searched it extensively and found that there is something called Screen buffer which is being accessed by any screenshot taking software (eg. Snipping Tool etc). I tried to find the exact mechanism and the actual implementation of such softwares but with no luck. Also I found out that Netflix uses some kind of technology which corrupts screenshot image and blackens it. I did not find any actual mechanism or implementation to study it further. I also came across something called Hardware overlays but did not understand it properly in order to use it for actual implementation. I have considered a way to edit scancode maps in registry but I am looking for a more general way. I read a few articles for apple's FPS though. Can somebody please guide me through this? Some good resources for the same would be highly appreciated. Any particular or relevant forums or subs to discuss this are also welcome


texts: How to dual boot an iMac 2020, 27", T2 from (Catalina & Mojave)

texts:
I need to add a Mojave partition to my native Catalina iMac 2020, 27", T2.
To date all attempts to boot from a Mojave external install drive have failed. "Secure Boot" is set to "No Security" and "External Boot" is set to "Allowed". Catalina just shows a "No Entry" sign after selecting the Mojave Installer drive. I know this machine will support Mojave. I am able to boot exclusively from a Catalina external install drive. If I wipe the computers internal hard drive from a Catalina external install drive will I be able to access the machine and install Mojave? If so how do I proceed? Any other possible scenarios. What about target disk mode?
Thanks again.


texts: Ubuntu on Mac: Executing 'grub-install /dev/nvme0n1' failed

texts:
I know this is a super common issue, but if I am here it means I have already searched and tried many roads: unsuccessfully. I am trying to install Ubuntu on a MacBookPro 13" 2019, running MacOS BigSur, in a partition (nor VM nor bootcamp).
How I prepared Ubuntu live USB

I have downloaded the latest stable version
for Ubuntu at this time: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS.

I then plugged in a 4GB USB and formatted it with Disk Utility as MS-DOS (FAT).

Finally installed Etcher and burnt the ISO image into my USB.

Restarted my Mac holding option key and booted into my USB (EFI
boot).

How I installed Ubuntu

From the first menu I selected "Try Ubuntu"
Once in the desktop nor touchpad nor keyboard worked, so I plugged in an external mouse and enabled the on-screen keyboard to complete the installation

Open the Activities overview and start typing Settings.

Click on Settings.

Click Accessibility in the sidebar to open the panel.

Switch on Screen Keyboard in the Typing section.

I clicked on the Ubuntu installer icon on desktop

Selected language

Selected Normal Installation and checked "Install third party software"

When asked for the partition where to install Ubuntu to, selected other option/else

I then created 2 partitions from Free Space

one of 512MB, "EFI" (from dropdown menu)
one of 30GB, ext4 (from dropdown menu), mounted to / (from other drop down menu)

I then made sure the disk where to install boot loader was set to the disk rather than the specific EFI partition I made (i.e. /dev/nvme0n1 and not /dev/nvme0n1p3)

Clicked Install now

The installation fails at the grub2 step

Notes

I already tried to uncheck " Install third party software"
I already tried to select "Minimal Installation" rather than Normal
WiFi won' t work either, so I later tried Ethernet cable and network
connection now works
I completely erased my disk and reinstalled MacOS (I have of course a
backup of my files)

Video of installation process
Watch the video.
Screenshot of last error messages


texts:
I'm having a weird problem that just started with my 2012 15" Retina Macbook Pro with Yosemite. The ability to tap and drag using the internal trackpad has stopped working. All the other gestures work just fine, including three finger drag (when I enable it - it's off by default) and two finger scrolling.

I can perform the gesture just fine using a wireless Magic Trackpad.

I've tried both SMC and PRAM resets and nothing helps. Anyone seen the same issue?


texts:
How do I delete apache from OS X Yosemite? I want to start with a new unaltered configuration so I will also need to know how to install the latest version.
Following other posts to delete/reinstall apache I already tried the "apt-get" and "get" commands but they couldn't been found.


texts: How do I remove Gmail from my Mail app without removing Gmail account from system preferences?

texts:
I got myself a MacBook today, and one of the steps I took to set it up was adding my work email account (Microsoft Exchange) to the Mail app.

I also had to give other apps access to my personal Google account, but because of that my linked Gmail account was added to the Mail app as well. Now, I get notifications from new messages in my personal mailbox every few minutes, which I don't want.

When I checked online on how to remove my personal account from the Mail app, all articles pointed to removing the Google account from System Preferences. However, doing that would remove my Google permissions for the other apps as well, which I don't want.

How do I resolve this matter?


texts: Is AppleTV the only device that can receive AirPlay VIDEO?

texts:
3rd-party AirPlay-enabled AV-receivers are starting to hit the market (Pioneer, Denon, Marantz), but as far as I can tell, they can stream AirPlay audio only.

Apple's page for AirPlay seems to imply the same thing. The only Apple pages that mention video streaming are the AppleTV page and the iOS 4.3 Update page, which don't make any mention of 3rd-party products.

This question mentions that other iOS devices and Macs can be enabled to receive AirPlay video streams through 3rd-party apps.

So are there any existing (or announced) 3rd-party hardware products that can do so? I'm particularly interested in AV receivers as I plan my next home theater upgrade.


texts: How to change folder access if it says "You have unknown access"?

texts:
I installed OSX Server and activated FTP for Downloads folder. Now folder looks like file in Finder and Downloads info looks badly. Also when i trying to delete Downloads, OSX required password and then said The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8003).

Screenshots:

Of course, first of all I disabled FTP and rebooted computer. It didn't helped.
I google the problem and found a solution, it says i would need perform couple command in terminal:

sudo chmod -R 755 /Users/evlogii/Downloads
sudo chown -R evlogii:staff /Users/evlogii/Downloads

As you understand "evlogii" is my username. It performed without any errors but didn't helped. Please help me recover normal condition of my Downloads folder.


texts:
The official feature list for Mountain Lion says that individual notes opened into their own windows from the Notes app (1.0) remain "pinned" open "even if you close Notes", but this isn't true. Closing Notes closes any notes that have been opened into their own windows.

How do I get the Notes app's note "pinning" feature to work as described.


texts:
We have a Mac mini running OS X 10.7 Server which has a number of shared folders/drives using AFP. We have a user account called fcp setup as sharing only which coworkers use to access the shared files.

Whenever a coworker clicks on the machine in finder we get prompted for a Kerberos password:

We can get around this simply by clicking cancel (and we are then presented with the classic login window), but it confuses people.

How can I disable single signon/kerberos? (or alternatively, would it just be better to configure it properly? and if so what are the benifits since we only use filesharing?)

I assume this is something that comes activated with server because I dont remember anyone ever 'turning it on'


texts: How do you change the date format when modifying an event in Calendar?

texts:
I would to change the date format when modifying an event in Calendar. Currently, Calendar shows the date as 12/10/2020 when I go to modify the date/time. This is the same as is displayed above the calendar preview in System Preferences → Date & Time.
My formats in System Preferences → Language & Region → Advanced... → Dates are the following:
Short  : 2020-06-01
Medium : 01 Jun 2020
Long   : 01 June 2020
Full   : Monday, 1 June 2020

Calendar seems to be using the Medium format when creating a new Event. In Calendar, if I right click → New Event, the date is displayed as 10 Dec 2020 13:00 to 14:00.

However, when I click on that line to modify the date/time, the window changes to
starts  : 12/10/2020 13:00
ends    : 12/10/2020 14:00

Where is Calendar getting the format of month/day/year from? In Calendar → Preferences, I could not find a way to change this, as the only preferences there are things like the Days per week, Start week on, and how many hours to display at once.
I am on macOS Catalina 10.15.7.


texts: Get Value of Variable stops appending on last call & sets result to only that last variable

texts:
I have created a simple workflow in Automator to ask questions & send an email. I followed the tutorial at https://macmost.com/create-customizable-text-inserts-using-automator.html. This has worked for me in different usages, but in this workflow, I have an issue. Near the end of the workflow, multiple variables are retrieved using "Get Value of Variable" to create a message consisting of them all. As each variable is retrieved, it is added to the last variables. However, the last get value of the variable I use deletes all of the other variables which were previously shown in "results" and the result becomes only that variable.
I have attached an image for reference. As you can see it continues to increase (4 items, 5 items), but when the last variable is got, it deletes all of the other items & is set to 1 item.
I have tried deleting the ask for text/set variable for the last statement, and it results in the issue occurring on the "new" get value of variable.


texts: How can I turn off 'Find My iPhone' after selling the phone?

texts: I just sold my old iPhone 4s, but it was still logged in to 'Find My iPhone'. How can I log it out without having the phone? I have changed the password and told the person who bought it to see if they can log it out, but it isn't working.


texts: How can I repair my Mac OS X High Sierra partition file system?

texts:
My computer was slow a few days ago due to LittleSnitch, I forced shut-down and it wouldn't start back up.
I started seeing the prohibited sign.
While attempting recovery, I wouldn't see any of my partition drives:

Mac Os X High Sierra 10.13.6
Windows 7

I then ordered a new hard drive cable and replaced the existing one.
Now I can see both drives. I can log into the Windows partition fine, but I can't log into the Mac Os one. It loops and then shows the prohibited sign.
I've tried to run

diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk#

diskutil repairVolume /dev/disk#

fsck_hfs -l -r /dev/disk#    (this was the closest I got to a solution)

I get file system errors but it doesn't repair them
repairing the drive in Paragon on my older mac, it doesn't work.

S.O.S. First Aid in Disk utility fails

Removing LittleSnitch.kext (nothing changed)

Reinstalling High Sierra using bootable usb (Install gets stuck around the same place)

Reinstalling High Sierra using dosdude1 approch, same result

Some of the errors I get are:

File system check exit code 8
problem 69842 occurred while restoring the original mount state

Maybe I am wrong, I believe it's an error in the Mac Os file system, but I don't know how to repair it.
Please help !!!
Thanks...
NOTES:

Starting in safe mode does not work
computer now stuck in a restarting loop
drives show up fine when plugged in externally on another computer


texts: As a developer, do I need Mountain Lion?

texts: I'm a college student and aspiring Apple developer. As such, I am trying to find an intel Mac Mini for as cheep as possible. I've noticed that there is quite a price gap between the models that can support Mountain Lion (late 2009 and later), and those that can't. Since Lion supports the App Store, do I really need Mountain Lion?


texts: Applescript to turn off Mission Control in OS X 10.7

texts:
I found most of the below on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3046230?start=0&tstart=0, but I believe it relates to OSX10.6 (or earlier) given that Mission control seems to have replaced expose and spaces.

I am looking to modify it to turn off all Mission Control functionality, if possible.

I tried to modify it to tell "Mission Control" preferences but couldn't even get that far (One of the errors was "Expected end of line but found application constant or consideration"), so hopefully someone with a better grasp of Applescript / the objects available in OS X 10.7 can help me out.

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES"
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces -bool NO"

tell application "System Events"
      tell expose preferences
            tell spaces preferences
                  set spaces enabled to false
                  set spaces enabled to true
                  set spaces enabled to false
            end tell
      end tell
end tell

quit application "dock"


texts: Cannot replace existing files in a folder in Yosemite

texts:
I am having a problem with the Finder, Copy and Replace to be exact, and I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot. I am have been on Yosemite for one week and just noticed the issue a couple of days ago.

The issue:
When I copy a file into a folder where another file with the same name exists, nothing happens.  I am able to copy files that do not exist in a folder without issues.

What I think is happening:
I believe the Finder does try to trigger whatever service is responsible for loading up the Copy and Replace dialog box because if I try to restart the computer after I have attempted replace an existing file I get an error message saying "The Finder can't quit because some operations are still in progress."

At the point, the only way to be able to restart the computer is to Force Quit the Finder.  Reloading the Finder about 4-5 times also fixes this issue and I am able to replace existing files.

What I've tried"
I went into Activity Monitor to see if I could figure out which process was responsible for copying and I narrowed it down to DesktopServicesHelper.  I was hoping that if I could replace it with a know working copy, the issue would be resolved.  I copied that file from my Macbook but the issue did not get resolved.

I also reinstalled Yosemite on top of my existing Yosemite installation and the problem still persists.  Lastly, I've run Disk Utility and repaired permissions a whole lot of times too.

Anyone know what else I could try?


texts: How would I find out if an application installed the wavtap.kext as part of its package?

texts:
I'm experiencing many audiocore errors and am trying to narrow down the cause.

A Google search has revealed that WavTap could potentially be the cause of these errors.

WavTap is listed in my Audio Midi Setup despite my not having that application installed.

I would like to know if it was installed by some other audio application I have as a tool that this secondary application relies upon to function completely/properly or whether I simply installed WavTap, myself, at some point in the past and missed the .kext when uninstalling. So, how might I go about finding out whether or not another application I have installed has a dependency upon WavTap.kext?

thanks


texts: Facebook birthday sync only working for some contacts

texts:
I recently noticed that only a couple of my contacts' birthdays show up on my calendar on OS X.  For instance, I have four friends with birthdays today, but only one is on my calendar.  I tried deleting and re-adding my Facebook account but notice no difference.

I'm getting the exact same behavior on my iPhone.

Maybe this isn't a Mac issue.  Did Facebook change the way its sync works?


texts:
Yesterday I plugged Apple earbuds into my iPhone 5 and the sound from the right speaker was very low, almost mute.  Assuming something was wrong with them and having just lost the 3rd party earbuds I normally use, I bought another set of 3rd party earbuds in the evening and found them to have the same problem, but now with those the left side is almost mute and the right is fine.  Of course my assumption then was my iPhone has a problem.

Now I'm at work and just tried the new 3rd party earbuds in the Mac Mini I use, and I have the same problem.

I really don't know what's going on at this point.  Did the iPhone damage both sets of earbuds?  Over the weekend I stayed in a house that was really cold at night, not sure if that had any effect on the phone; neither set of earbuds were in the house.  I've checked all the sound settings on both devices for sound balance and such, no issues there.


texts: Apps for (very!) simple spreadsheet purposes

texts:
Is there any way to do simple offline spreadsheets (rows, columns, plus, minus, multiply, divide, sum of range) like below without using monsters like Excel, Numbers, Google, Open Office, etc.?

I have to be able to use the arrow keys to navigate around like you do in a spreadsheet, type to add values and (simple!) formulas, and have the tables update instantly as necessary.

I noticed Linux has a text-based fossil called "SC" which would be perfect for my purposes, but it's not on Homebrew. Emacs packages would be OK as long as they don't require learning LISP.

CATEGORY 1   Item A   Item B   Item C
Feature A    YES      NO       YES
Has B        Blah     Blah     Sure
Value C      84       36       N/A
...

CATEGORY 2
X            1        77
Y            2        99
Z            3        ..
SUM          6        ...


texts: How to disable Command-Control-Power shortcut?

texts:
I frequently use Command-Option-Power shortcut to send my Macbook to sleep (especially since closing the lid when I have external monitor doesn't trigger sleep).

Unfortunately, this shortcut is very similar to Command-Control-Power which invokes cold reset of my Mac. I quite often accidentally press Command-Control-Power instead of Command-Option-Power.

My question would be: is there a way to disable Command-Control-Power completely (i.e. just use long power button press when I want to do cold reset)?


texts: I would like to know if it is possible to listen a podcast (or text-to-speech book) and play Apple Music in the background. If not possible, would be feasible to implement this in IOS?. As an alternative, I’m planning to buy an iPod and a second pair of headphones if this sounds tough.


texts: Install Windows 10 on VMWare Fusion 8.5.3

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.12.2. It has VMWare Fusion 8.5.3.
I have a Windows 10 usb install thumb drive for installing both 32bit and 64bit Windows.

How do I install 64 bit windows into a virtual machine?

I have tried to Google, but it keeps turning up instructions for how to install using an iso image.

I have looked at the USB drive and cannot find iso images.

I have tried:

File->New ...
Create a custom virtual machine
Drop disk image into the file selector window that pops up.


texts: My iPad camera roll says it is using 7.5 gb after all pics have been deleted for weeks

texts:
Please help me. I have deleted apps and photos to get memory on my iPad, and it still says I have 0gb left. It has been a couple of weeks. All photos have been deleted from the 'recently deleted' album.  It says the camera roll is using 7.5gb, when there are no photos. It's affecting my iPad speed. I've tried rebooting my iPad. I can't install anything, as my memory is used up. It has 16gb, and I think it's an iPad 2.

Note: I don't have a Macpro, MacBook, iPhone, iPod, iMac or anything else made by Apple.


texts: iDevice as a Macbook remote control (remote desktop)

texts: Is there any software application that allows iPhone or iPod Touch to be used as an advanced remote control for a Macbook Pro?


texts:
I am looking for a C# programming compiler on macOS that is a good value.

Could you give me any advice?


texts: Safari language issues after Adware or Malware has been installed

texts:
My mother has a MacBook Air, Early 2015, 1.6GHz Intel Core i5, running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 with Safari version 11.0.3.

My brother, whilst browsing through some shady streaming websites ended up installing the "Mac CleanUp Pro" app, which, from what I've found, is actually quite infamous. I think I managed to uninstall it (not so sure, if you have any advice on that too, it would be great)  but some problems remained. There are two Safari plug-ins which piggybacked their way in with the cleaner. Here's a screenshot of them.

The most annoying side effect which of all this is that the language of the  browser remains English, regardless of the system language I am using. And this, for the not so excellent English speaker who is my mother, is an issue. Also, as you can see, there's no uninstall option whatsoever.

I did a fair amount of research and I can say that I've literally tried whatever could be tried by someone not so tech-savvy such as myself:

I removed any suspicious .plist files from the "LauncherPlugIns" and "LauncherDaemons" in the library (/library and ~/library).
I've installed Malwarebytes on the Mac which successfully located and eliminated any files which might be related to these plug-ins.
One of the two apps created a profile – which I eliminated from the System Preferences, whereas the other set itself to open whenever I logged in and I've impeded it to do so.
I've rebooted the Macbook at least 15 times whilst doing all of this.

But, despite all these efforts, the plug-ins are still there and Safari's language won't change.

My Question

To rectify this, do I need to reinstall Safari and, if so, how? If not, what else do I have to do?

My last resort is to upgrade the Mac to Mojave, but I'm not sure that would resolve this issue?

UPDATE:

I just re-installed the OS. This caused Safari to display the "uninstall" option. After clicking it I was redirected to the "/users/shared" folder where I found the plug-ins and eliminated them. The language issue, however, remains.

Question

Is there a way, perhaps through the terminal, to force Safari to change its language (Italian in this specific case)?

SOLVED

After some more research I just found a solution. You may find it here. I think it forces Safari to employ the language of your choice, not the one of the system.


texts:
My last Mac worked with Anki to display LaTeX formatted equations but I am still, but I haven't been able to transfer it over.

My steps thus far:

I obviously downloaded and installed Anki and BasicTeX (don't want the size of MacTeX).
I use an equation in my cards with proper formatting and get the error others have reported on:

Error executing dvipng.
Generated file: /var/folders/x2/8dh4jx2j64n9tvvts_l2pqk00000gp/T/anki_temp/tmp.tex

My understanding is that dvipng comes bundled with BasicTex so this is pretty perplexing.
I tried the extension https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/937148547 but it is not working. When I type which latex (and a million other variants), it cannot be found.
I tried following the advice from the top answer here: How can I get LaTeX working on Anki?, but when I use tlmgr update --self && tlmgr install dvipng, I get that the tlmgr command is not found (same thing when I sudo it.)

Other information: I am running all of this on a MacBook Pro with El Capitan installed.


texts: Correct way with Macbook Pro trackpad to select from dropdown form?

texts:
Having started to use a MacBook Pro with Catalina a lot more than a Mac Mini, I've had trouble trying to negotiate the trackpad after using a mouse for so long.
I want to be able to use a dropdown / select, like this example at https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_optgroup but do not know the correct trackpad gesture for selecting it; I've done some light Google-ing but am unsure.
Any help is appreciated.


texts: Spotlight dark dictionary results with dark mode in Yosemite 10.10.4

texts:
Spotlight gives dark dictionary results with some words when dark mode is on:

I've had this problem since day one of Yosemite.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2009)


texts: Encrypt external HDD without erasing data on High Sierra?

texts: I'm running Filevault on my internal hard drive, but I realized that I never encrypted my external drive. Currently it's running Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I'm not seeing any encrypt options anywhere (right click in Finder, disk utility, etc...). How can I encrypt this drive in place without having to erase all the data first? I could restore the data from a Time Machine backup but that sounds very tedious and time consuming. If there is a faster way I'd like to attempt that first.


texts: Switching from Microsoft Remote Desktop back to Mac

texts: I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect to a Windows machine from my mac. When I start the app it goes in full screen (I don't see any of the Mac controls). I was used to switching back from the app to the Mac desktop by using CMD-Tab but for some reason this stopped working. When I press CMD-Tab I'm getting a task bar of the Mac applications that are running but when I try press on an icon nothing happens - I am still stuck with the Microsoft Remote Desktop app. How can I get back to from that app to the Mac controls?


texts: What happens when a phone runs out of storage and pictures are taken?

texts: I am unsure of which iphone I need-64gb or 128gb. I mainly need storage space for photos and videos and I dont think 64gb would be enough. Someone has said that due to iCloud drive a 64gb would however be sufficient but I am unsure of this. When my memory is full will it allow me to carry on taking photos and videos and store straight to iCloud or will I get the usual notice saying there is not enough storage space?


texts: OSX_10_13_IncompatibleAppList.pkg file missing after downloading High Sierra installer

texts:
I followed this thread to create a boot installer for MacOS High Sierra without error, through VMWare, since the file that was being downloaded from Apple Store was a stub.
Everything went fine. The only question is that, after finishing downloading the installer and quitting installation process without rebooting, all files mentioned on the above thread where in /macOS\ Install Data\, except OSX_10_13_IncompatibleAppList.pkg.
The createinstallmedia concluded without any error and I have a seemingly perfect Boot Installer Flash Drive.
Can anyone help me understanding if the missing file can ruin a boot install using the fresh created flash drive? I don't have a Mac here and now to run some tests.
Thank you.


texts: Use Launchpad while downloading from AppStore

texts:
I am just getting set up with my first mac. The current annoyance is that I am downloading xcode from AppStore (2.5 GB!!), and every app in the Launchpad is hidden - there is just the downloading progress of xcode.

Do I really have to wait an hour while the download finishes, until I can launch anything not already in the dock?? I cant believe that!

(OSX Yosemite)


texts: Can google inbox on iPhone NOT show contact pictures

texts:
I am using the google inbox app for iPhone. Is it possible to set it up, so that it does not show pictures of people who is writing to me?
I need to recieve work relevant emails from persons whos profile pictures I find offensive, and do not want to look at.

I have been through all the settings I could find and I don't know of a search term or documented feature to allow this


texts: OS Sierra update corrupted $PATH, .bash_profile, .bashrc

texts: Sierra update corrupted $PATH, .bash_profile, .bashrc, and many others. Is this a common issue? Is there any way to get those files/settings back (I don't have a backup)? In the past I often installed new OSs and everything was fine.


texts: Podcasts that I have played or marked as played on my iPhone are not showing as played when I sync to iTunes and are not being removed

texts:
Recently (I'm not sure when it started) podcasts that are marked as played on my iPhone (4 hardware, 5.0.1 OS), when I plug into iTunes, the podcasts are still showing as unplayed on the iphone in iTunes, and so they don't get removed.  How can I fix this?

iTunes 10.5.1.42 on Windows.


texts: Camptune is stuck on “Resizing volumes, this may take a while...” for the past 6 hours

texts:
I’m trying to increase the partition on my Windows partition and decrease the size of the MacOS Catalina partition by 18 GB on my 256 GB, 2014 dual-booted MacBook Air using Paragon Camptune, a third-party software. It’s been stuck on “Resizing volumes, this may take a while...” for the past 6 hours.

I’ve submitted a support ticket with the maker of the software, Paragon, and still haven’t heard back. They did say they respond to tickets in 1-3 business days. I also Dm’ed them on Twitter. I can’t cancel the resizing process, because then I’ll lose my data, so it doesn’t allow that.

If you’ve used Camptune to resize your partitions, how long does it usually take? Do I just let it do its thing in the meantime? I’d hate to have it leave it on plugged in overnight.


texts:
I'm copying a link from Safari, via "Copy Image Link". When I'm pasting it to some places, like Messages.app, or some input fields on the Web (not every one, but many of them), I just get a file-name:

(The latter sends a clickable filename on Computers, however it's just plain filename, not clickable, on iPhones :-( )

Can I just disable this nurturing behaviour and get raw, plain links? They are fine for me.


texts:
My work has me back on a Mac. I am using my mechanical keyboard (USB, Cherry blue switches, not that that's important) with OS X. The problem though, is that I get relatively frequent "bouncing" or "chatter" of the keystrokes. For example, if I type hello something like heello might appear. This is rather annoying, especially when entering passwords.

Under Linux I could solve this in software by debouncing, using the xkbsetbouncekeysdelay setting, which adds a minimum number of milliseconds, e.g. 40ms, between key presses. Rather a blunt tool but solves the problem perfectly. However, I haven't been able to find an analogue under OS X.

Does anyone have any software based suggestions? Am I overlooking a simple plist setting somewhere?


texts: "readlink" gets the original path of a symlink; what's the equivalent for Mac aliases?

texts:
In the terminal, I can use readlink on a symlink and it prints the target path of the symlink. E.g.

ln -s original.txt symlink.txt
readlink symlink.txt  # prints original.txt

How do I do this for Mac alias? I know the path is embedded in the resource fork, because the xattr command will display it in a raw format mixed with other data:

xattr -p -l com.apple.ResourceFork alias_file

However, I don't know enough about this format to extract it. I found the perl Mac::Files man page, but it has no examples, and Google was no help with it.

Maybe there's a way to use osascript to do it, similar to this answer?


texts: Does Magic Keyboard have keyboard brightness feature? If so how to enable/adjust it?


texts: Daily FTP backup script for external hard drive

texts: I need to set a daily backup of a specific external hard drive in iMac to a FTP server. In Windows I use a batch file but with OS X I'm a little lost.


texts: Allow access to a single application only when accessing remotely

texts:
I have a Mac mini which I normally use as remote desktop with my friends. Usually my mates only use a single application (e.g. Safari). In order to make my pc private (to me only) I want to disable the GUI and all the other ways through which someone can interact with my system. What I want is that they just have access to the single application they want to use and I want to disable the top context menu shown in the attached picture. Also, I want to disable the dock items and also the right click functionality.

How can I accomplish this on OS X?


texts: Attempting to copy a .zip file over SMB results in "Invalid argument"

texts:
I am on OS X Yosemite. I have connected to my work via VPN. I have mounted a share on the VPN over SMB. I can see the .zip file that I want (I just created it) but I cannot copy it:

Rammy:Main phrogz$ pwd
/Volumes/public/foo/bar/Main

Rammy:Main phrogz$ ll *.zip
-rwx------  1 phrogz  staff    76M Nov 22 21:47 Lux.zip*

Rammy:Main phrogz$ cp Lux.zip ~/Documents/Work
cp: Lux.zip: Invalid argument

I can copy some other files from the same directory without issue, but others give me the same problem. I can rename the file from the command line without issue.

Is this an SMB issue? A problem with the file size? A problem with Yosemite?

How can I get this (and other) files copied? I kinda need them.

In case it's relevant, the file was created with 7-zip, and the VPN software is Cisco AnyConnect.


texts: Which chargers to buy for a charging station?

texts:
To make a charging station effective, it needs to be able to charge all recent Apple laptops. As you know, Apple chargers are not cheap. So, we'd like to buy as few chargers as possible.

Given this article, what would be the most cost effective way to set this up?

I've read online about how higher wattage chargers can be used for lower wattage computers. If we were to buy one Magsafe 1 85 Watt charger and a Magsafe to Magsafe 2 converter, would we be able to charge all apple laptops besides the new Retina Macbook Pro?


texts: How to make USB Disk reliably unmount and remount after sleep?

texts:
I have a Western Digital 5Tb MyPassport USB backup disk, which I attach to my MacBook Pro running Catalina 10.15.7.
It's a portable machine, which I regularly need to detach from the drive. I've had trouble with corrupted disks, unwanted backups using CPU cycles, and frequent 'You are evil! - next time unmount disk before disconnecting' messages.
So I want to keep the device attached, but only mount it in the middle of the night for a one-off Time Machine backup. No problem, in theory. The script to do that is based on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251491948 . I can even stop the device automounting when I plug it in using https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8567057 (though I'm not using that for now).
But in practice Catalina seems broken. Once an unmount has happened and the machine has had a period of 'sleep' mode, it seems impossible to remount the device using software. Various error messages signal the problem, for example:
> diskutil mount MyBackupDisk
Unable to find disk for MyBackupDisk
> sudo diskutil mount disk3
disk3 is a CoreStorage Logical Volume which failed to mount

or, from Disk Utility.app:
Could not mount "MyBackupDisk". (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868.)

Both diskutil and Disk Utility can still see the device fine. They just won't mount it.
> diskutil list
   [...]
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *5.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage MyBackupDisk            5.0 TB     disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3

/dev/disk3 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS                        +5.0 TB     disk3
                                 Logical Volume on disk2s2
                                 78D43612-F176-4610-BA75-A0F2E9CBF44F
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

I've tried every combination I can think of, of diskutil mount, diskutil mountDisk, diskutil eject and the various names and disk IDs. Unplugging the disk and plugging it back in again mounts it; rebooting the Mac does the same. But neither is a solution to the problem.
USB flash drive doesn't remount automatically suggests reloading the USB mass storage driver. But the kextunload command fails with error "kext in use or retained", which seems reasonable enough. The kextload command succeeds (or fails silently) but makes no difference.
Does anyone know a fix?

Charles


texts: How do I create a custom resolution for my display in Lion, running in a virtual machine?

texts:
I need to create a custom display resolution for my install of lion because it doesn't have the size I must have for a project.

Is there a way to create a custom resolution set in lion osx 10.7?


texts:
I was trying to modify boot camp assistant info.plist in order to boot from usb and then it suddenly disappeared.
Macbook A1342 Unibody
10.8.5

If any one at least share boot camp assistant app with me. I do not have start up dvd to reinstall.


texts: Prevent Finder from truncating tag names

texts: In Finder (Sierra) if you select "All Tags..." in the Finder sidebar, it presents a list of tags. These tags, if they are above a certain length are truncated. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?


texts: How to record/stream iPhone 4 screen with iOS 7?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 and I want to record the screen from the device, or stream the screen of the device on my MacBook Pro and record it with QuickTime.

How can I do that?

I have AirServer, but it works only with iPhone 4s+! No jailbreak on my device.


texts: Issue with Macbook Pro HDMI to Denon AV receiver?

texts:
I'm trying to stream videos from my Mac with a high-quality HDMI cable to a 1080p HD TV via a Denon AV receiver.

Here's the issue:

When I hook up with my run-of-the-mill Windows laptop to my Denon AV receiver box, everything works perfectly.

When I hook up with my 2016 Macbook Pro, it does project the screen onto the HD TV. However, the TV screen goes black every 5 seconds, no matter what is being displayed (i.e. it blinks even when not displaying intensive graphics).

I've already reset my NVRAM. Any other ideas?


texts: macOS Sierra: AppleScript mount volume keeps asking for login

texts:
For several OS X versions I've used:

/usr/bin/osascript -e mount volume "smb://yourserver" as user name  "yourusername" with password “yourpassword”

This has worked great, a nice and quiet mount of the network share, if it is available of course.

Now recently I installed macOS Sierra (10.12 public beta, build 16A238m), and the script still works, however it will now suddenly always show a login dialog, pre-populated with the "yourusername" and "yourpassword" values. The user will still have to click "Connect" to mount the share.

Does anyone know if this is a "bug" in the beta version (I did report this with Apple's Feedback app), or is this expected and/or what would be the "fix" for that?

See also: AppleScript Documentation "mount volume"


texts:
Is there any way I can unlock an iPhone 3G with Firmware 4.2.1 and baseband 05.15.04?

I correctly installed Cydia and Ultrasn0w (under iOS 4.1.2 or something like that if I remember right) via JailbreakMe 2.0.

The Unlock seemed to work, but I accidentally updated to 4.2.1.

Is there any way I can fix this?


texts:
Objective:

Somehow I want to fix the issue and should be able to login to the El-Capitan without reformating as so many valuable files are there
Find what has caused this problem so that I can avoid this problem in future

Overview:

I have two drives on my mac desktop one is Macintosh HD and the other one is El-Capitan and El-Capitan is my start up disk.

It was working nicely for long time, then all of a sudden one day El-capitan started showing trouble logging into the account.

some applications disappeared from applications like chrome

I couldn't open any apps it always showing the color wheel

then all of a sudden whenever i try to boot up in the el-capitan system started crashing now I am unable to log in to the el-capitan drive.

But I am able to login to Macintosh HD which runs on Yosemite

The below pictures will depict all the ways I have tried to solve the problem but nothing fixed it.

References

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT203176

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201262

Possible solutions:

They say DiskWarrior can fix this but that is not free
Take the backup of files and reformat the drive again which I don't want to do unless there is no other way

Note:

I didn't any backup mechanism like using TimeMachine

I would like to leave no stone unturned

Thanks for any help in advance

Update:
Here is S.M.A.R.T status


texts:
I have an older OS X 10.5 PowerMac (PowerPC) that needs to be online for testing software under the processor. It needs to be online because others want to use it for testing, too. I've updated OpenSSL and OpenSSH with new binaries placed in /usr/local. I also added a new Launchd plist at /System/LaunchDaemons to enable the new OpenSSH daemon on port 1522.

Now I want to permanently disable the existing Apple provided OpenSSH located at /usr/sbin/sshd. I don't want to delete it or replace it because that often causes more trouble than its worth. A search with http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+disable+sshd+site:apple.com appears to reveal no support documents on the subject. I found lots of discussions about updating OpenSSH and disabling it through the UI, but nothing about permanently disabling it.

I tried removing the execute bit, but that did not work. After reboot, Launchd still managed to start sshd. Other thoughts include a filesystem extended attribute to deny access to it.

How do I safely and permanently disable the existing OpenSSH daemon?


texts: macOS shortcut/bash script to immediately close (UNIX signal 9/SIGKILL) all "Not Responding" programs

texts:
I'd like a shortcut or tool that sends UNIX signal 9/SIGKILL to all Not Responding programs.

A clickable shortcut is preferred, although I'm also willing to set up a Bash script and run that from command line.


texts:
I have the following code in a text file (myfile.applescript):

#! /usr/bin/osascript
tell application "Google Chrome" to quit

I would like Chrome to shut down each night at 9:15PM, so I added the following cron task to crontab:

15 21 * * * ~/Desktop/myfile.applescript

Unfortunately, the script is not triggering. Any thoughts?

NOTE: I am aware I can use iCal to resolve this problem. However, I'd prefer to not clutter my calendar with a daily script-triggering event.


texts: Error when trying to export a multipage document from Excel (2011) with both landscape and portrait pages as a PDF file

texts:
We use Excel 2011 for OSX at work and we are consistently encountering the following problem. When we have a multi sheet(page) workbook(document), with both landscape and portrait pages, an error occurs when we try to go to export to a PDF file (file > print > pdf). Instead of generating a multipage PDF file Excel will generate each sheet as a pdf. We can of course combine these back into 1 PDF file once generated in Adobe Acrobat,but it's a fiddly work around for something thats pretty basic and works fine (generates a single PDF file with all pages) in the Windows version of Excel.

I've attached a sample excel file if you want to see the problem first hand. : - https://www.dropbox.com/s/enrgch3znd4z89n/sample%20excel.xlsx


texts: If my phone is lost and locked, how will someone know how to contact me?

texts: My iPhone 4S is currently in someone else's hands. I can see it with Find My Phone. I have sent a number of messages to the phone in the hope that whoever has it will return it. But since the phone is locked, does that mean I have to include contact information in the messages I send? Or is there some information in the message that lets this culprit know how to get in touch?


texts: In iTerm2 map the left Command key to the left Control key & map Command+Tab

texts:
In iTerm2, can I map the left ⌘ Command key to the left ^ Control
key and still map the system ⌘ Command ⇨Tab to still switch to all other windows?

I've use three different OS's (Ubuntu, macOS and Windows) regular and my subconscious is constantly wanting to switch windows using ⌥ Option⇨Tab.


texts: Apple Watch Series 3 "Cannot Install Update" due to available storage

texts:
I'm attempting to update an Apple Watch Series 3 to watchOS 7.4 via Software Update.
When I Download and Install the update, I get the error message:

Cannot Install Update
To install the watchOS update, your Apple Watch needs to have at least 2.5 GB of available storage. You can free up storage by deleting apps using the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.

I had this same issue when attempting to install watchOS 7 last year. I went through the process of deleting apps and data, however I was never able to delete enough to proceed with the software update.
Research indicates that this may be an issue with the Apple Watch Series 3. The watch has 8 GB of available storage, which may not be enough to ever download a new watchOS update.
Can an Apple Watch Series 3 be updated normally by deleting apps and data? Or is there a hard limit with the 8 GB that does not allow this?
How else can I update the Apple Watch Series 3?


texts: Mac makes beeping sound every five minutes without pop up notification. Origin unknown

texts:
My Mac (Macbook pro 13 early 2011, running 10.13.6 (High Sierra) makes unknown sound exactly every five minutes. I already tried rebooting and PRAM reset. Didn't help.

The sound it makes:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vkuE5VEGzaZYtVF1X_V4tQh5ADb2W1qe

If anyone could help, I would extremely appreciate. Thank you very much.

console: (10:33:38)


texts: Share only iTunes Match between two devices

texts: My wife and I have separate Apple IDs, but all of our music is in my iTunes Match "account".  Can I share just that between our phones, keeping everything else separate?  We both have IOS 7 installed.


texts: I want to use my iPad as a multi-video monitor

texts:
I have four wired video cameras on my RV, and would to replace the monitor with my old iPad.  Does anyone know the adapter(s) / software that would allow me to do this?
Thank you


texts: MacBook Pro Mid 2012 Windows 8 install on SSD

texts:
I am trying to install Windows 8, efi, on my SSD. I am getting the error code:

 0xC0000005 "Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Verify that the installation sources are accesible, and restart the installation everytime"

I have tried all the solutions on this thread:  which is basically try formatting exfat, then installing; the setup stops at 89% in step2 and gives the above error. I also tried the procedure here:  I get the error code above in step1 of the install.

diskutil list:

/dev/disk0
  #                  TYPE NAME                  SIZE    IDENTIFIER
  0 GUID_partition_scheme                     *250.1 GB disk0
  1                   EFI NO NAME              209.7 MB disk0sl
  2    Microsoft Reserved                      134.2 MB disk0s2
  3  Microsoft Basic Data Windows              249.1 GB disk0s3
/dev/diskl
  #                  TYPE NAME                  SIZE    IDENTIFIER
  0 GUID_partition_scheme                     *500.1 GB diskl
  1                   EFI EFI                  209.7 MB disklsl
  2     Apple_CoreStorage                      77.7 GB  diskls2
  3            Apple_Boot Recovery HD          650.0 MB diskls3
  4 DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC       314.6 MB diskls4
  5                   EFI NO NAME              104.9 MB diskls5
  6 DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC       314.6 MB diskls6
  7                   EFI NO NAME              104.9 MB diskls7
/dev/disk2
  #:                 TYPE NAME                  SIZE    IDENTIFIER
  0:            Apple_HFS Untitled        *77.3 GB      disk2
                          Logical Volume  on diskls2
                          46DF977A-1EE0-4AC9-B400-EF63F6190E87
                          Unencrypted

diskutil cs list:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group C0048D6F-43CA-4B3C-8D5F-D17CC77DCA92
    =========================================================
    Name:           Untitled
    Status:         Online
    Size:           77695913984 B (77.7 GB)
    Free Space:     0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 393E8C61-3969-4BBD-8224-35BA98978AA8
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:      0
    |   Disk:       diskls2
    |   Status:     Online
    |   Size:       77695913984 B (77.7 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 83CBFA4C-FCF0-49CB-812A-7945C8D102B6
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:      Unlocked
        Encryption Type:        None
        Conversion Status:      NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:   -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:  No
        Fully Secure:           No
        Passphrase Required:    No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 46DF977A-1EE0-4AC9-B400-EF63F6190E87
            -------------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                   disk2
            Status:                 Online
            Size (Total):           77343592448 B (77.3 GB)
            Conversion Progress:    -none-
            Revertible:             Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:                Untitled
            Volume Name:            Untitled
            Content Hint:           Apple_HFS

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Minimum Image Object Size in macOS Pages 7.1?

texts:
Hello everyone: here's one for you! I'm trying to build a new WP layout in Pages 7.1 (NOT a WP doc) and want to include images (objects) within the text box. Seems there's a minimum size you can reduce images to, beyond which Pages will not move. Am I right - or missing something obvious? Apple's documentation in this area is typically vague...

Hope you can help!

Gary H.


texts: How can you log out of iCloud if you forget the password?

texts: I recently bought an iPhone 6 from a friend, and there's still an iCloud user on the phone. How can I log out of iCloud if I have no clue what the password is? Keep in mind I have no clue what my password is to the email set on the phone either.


texts: Why does Safari add a weird extension to YouTube links?

texts:
When I click on a YouTube video the browser always adds this extension to the link: "&frags=pl%2Cwn".

Example links:

Normal link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Example123
Link in Safari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Example123&frags=pl%2Cwn

This problem only occurs when I use my MacBook Pro in Safari (version 12.0.2).

Both links work, I've tried it on multiple computers / different web browsers and as far as I see there's absolutely no difference.

When I click on a video in YouTube the link gets added automatically, but I can remove it manually and the page just loads again without the extension (like a refresh of the page).

My questions are:

Why does this happen?
Has anybody else encountered this problem (Maybe it's a user-specific problem)?


texts: Have battery status only show in menu bar when running on battery power

texts: I use my MacBook Pro plugged in to power and an external monitor 90% of the time, and thus the little charged battery indicator in the menubar is useless. However when I'm not on wall power, is there a way to have it show up? When I have that menu item disabled, my MacBook doesn't give me any low battery warnings, and just shuts down (it's happened several times).


texts: How do I get the Mac Terminal to show the gray font color

texts:
I am running on a Mac with Snow Leopard.  Up until now, the default Terminal.app has served me well.  I have installed the IR_Black theme mentioned here: http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/6.

However, I noticed in a particular program that the gray font doesn't render.  In other words, it's invisible.  I ran the script listed here: https://gist.github.com/1099707 and every color shows except for COLOR_BLACK (which makes sense) and COLOR_GRAY.

There are other coworkers on a Windows box that run putty and gray shows up for them just fine on a black background.  Is there anyway to get the gray color to show up in Terminal and still have a black background?

(If I used the Basic white-background theme, and run the colors script, then Gray just looks like a bold version of black.)


texts: Repairing permissions twice gives the same result

texts:
If I repair permissions twice in a row, without launching any apps or processes while I do this, the results are almost the same:

Why is it that the second time around, the problems seem to be encountered again?


texts: how to print or export annotations in a pdf file?

texts:
I have a pdf file containing annotations from someone else (I assume they are made in windows with some Adobe software, but I'm not sure).

They look like that:

and can be displayed in Preview.appor Skim.appon the left of each page:

However, I'd like to print them (together with the pages) and/or find a way to export them to a text document.

How can I do that?


texts: White backgrounds on iPhone showing inset, very light, yet visible pink rectangular area

texts:
Working on an iPhone app I noticed a very light, yet quite noticeable pink-ish rectangular area that's inset from the screen's edges uniformly by about 4 millimeters (0.16 inches) in all views with a white (light?) background. After spending a lot of time trying to figure out which of my app's view layers might cause this, I discovered that other apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger etc. show the same phenomenon on any white background. Not surprising then, a screenshot captured just shows a plain white background.

I wonder what this is? A normal effect of the background lighting? A weird setting I have overlooked? A defect?

I'm fine with the effect, as I don't seem to be causing it in my app, but still curious what it is that has caused me to waste quite a bit of time.


texts: I have an Apple keyboard that isn't recognized by my Mac

texts:
I have the wired Apple keyboard that has the numeric keypad.
When I try to use the command or control keys in Cs4....they don't work.
When I checked the keyboard input area in my preferences..it shows a keyboard that looks nothing like the one I'm using.
How can I get my Mac to recognize my keyboard.
Thanks for your help.


texts: How can I extend the time when system.log gets turned over?

texts:
Right now my system.log gets recreated every 24 hours or so with a message like:

Jan  4 00:30:01 Mac newsyslog[63416]: logfile turned over

Can I change a setting such that it will get rotated every month? Or every week?

Having a much longer time would allow for better visibility of the progression of some errors.


texts: Some items missing from my iTunes Purchase History

texts:
I purchased some audio books and movies on the iTunes store before  (2-3 years ago).

But when I use the new iPhone 4S to look at my account, the "Purchased" show 1 audio book but doesn't show the other one I can clearly remember (in fact, I purchased that audio book twice, hoping the second time won't be any charge, but there was).

Also missing are some movies, such as Toy Story...  Is the only thing I can do to contact Apple iTunes Store Customer Service to resolve this?


texts: Service exited with abnormal code: 101 running user agent

texts:
Trying to run a user agent:
launchctl load myagent.plist
launchctl start myagent.plist

<?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>myagent</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/Users/me/folder/startmyagent.sh</string>
        </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Also tried using Program instead of ProgramArguments:
<key>Program</key>
<string>/Users/me/folder/startmyagent.sh</string>

startmyagent.sh:
#!/bin/bash
/Users/me/folder/mybinary
#logger "hello" # bonus issue, this (or echo) doesn't show any output in /var/log/system.log

I see this in /var/log/system.log
Mar 11 20:26:40 My-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (myagent[26142]): Service exited with abnormal code: 101

I read that it may be something with permissions, I set recursively everything under /Users/me/folder/ to 777, changed owner to root also (it was initially my user):
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root  staff  41651520 Mar 10 15:35 myagent
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 root  staff        92 Mar 11 20:24 startmyagent.sh
drwxrwxrwx  3 root  staff        96 Mar 11 19:25 log

I'm able to run the binary successfully if I just call the script directly in the terminal:
sh /Users/me/folder/startmyagent.sh

I've no idea how to debug this, can't find anywhere a clear meaning of the 101 error (or solution) and can't get the user agent output to show in the logs or terminal.


texts: Attempting to dual-boot Windows on late 2011 Mac but the partition number is greater than 4

texts:
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here.

For some background knowledge, my late 2011 Mac does "not have UEFI firmware and the ability to boot Windows installers from USB flash drives until the 2012 model year."

Therefore I am following the guide here: Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices

Essentially, I'm transferring a Virtual Machine to a hard drive partition, in this case a fresh Windows installation. I failed to install Windows 8.1 the first time because I ended up running the wrong bootcamp drivers, which resulted in blacking the screens out (Graphics drivers probably failed). I decided to remove the partition my merging it back with my original El Capitan partition.

In the guide, it mentions:

If your partition number is greater than 4, then you can not install Windows on this partition. (Technically, this may not be
    true, but it is beyond the scope of this answer to explain how to do
    so.)

Unfortunately, that is the exact problem I have; how do I get my partition to be a number less than 5?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you.


texts:
I used Mail as my main mail client on Snow Leopard. It would be really useful to manage mail templates with it. I used to send similar emails every day and I need to create 20 or 30 email templates to used whenever I need.

How can I accomplish with this?


texts: Does Google Photos replace images on the device with low quality versions the way iCloud does?

texts:
On iCloud, under “optimize storage” there is an option to save photos to iCloud and replace the ones on the DEVICE with low-quality copies.
Does Google photos work the same way? Does selecting “high quality” or “free up space” replace original photos?


texts: MySQL - installation from source failed on ./configure

texts:
I'm following this How-to on installing MySQL on Snow Leopard but instead of using MySQL 5.1 I'm downloading the source for MySQL 5.5.11

so when I go into the source directory and run:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-extra-charsets=complex \
--enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --enable-shared \
--with-plugins=innobase

I get:

-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

What am I missing? what am I doing wrong?


texts:
I noticed DNS issue on my MBP where all of sudden (in the middle of my work, nothing changed) my DNS simply stops working. It's easy to notice that, so I do the following:

first I check if DNS is really broken by eg pinging google.com, when DNS is not working, ping is not working either
then I execute the script with following commands:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist

This is all happening on MBP 2013 with Yosemite installed, sometimes more often, sometimes less.

Is there a way to fix DNS issues in more better, systematic, way; so I dont have to manually fix it by myself?

EDIT

Log:

15/2/3 15:01:11.693 Slack[9104]: dnssd_clientstub read_all(16) failed 0/4 0
15/2/3 15:01:11.693 Slack[9104]: tcp_connection_host_start 424 DNSServiceCreateConnection failed: -65563
...
15/2/3 15:01:39.575 discoveryd[9083]: Basic ClientIPC,Warn Failed to create event source


texts: iCal Calendar - Using AppleScript how do I get the calendar's server address

texts: I am using my iCloud account and want to make sure the the calendar I am creating an event in is an iCloud calendar and not on my Mac.  Can't find the property that either tells me the account name or the server address of the calendar.


texts: can you take out the iPhone's sim card and use wifi outside of america?

texts: I'm traveling overseas and I wish I had a regular iPod touch so that I can just use WiFi to check emails without paying a roaming fee. I have an iPhone with an AT&T sim card. I was wondering if I could remove the sim card and turn it into an iPod touch without having to pay a roaming fee? Does the phone still know it belongs to me even without the sim card?


texts: Disk usage in Mac terminal not working with --max-depth

texts:
I want to see my disk usage for a specific folder with a pre-set maximum depth. On Linux, the command is

$ du -h --max-depth 1

On macOS Mojave (10.14.5) with bash version 3.2.57(1)-release, this is not working. I also tried

$ du -hd1

as described here, also not working. The terminal output is:

usage: du [-H | -L | -P] [-a | -s | -d depth] [-c] [-h | -k | -m | -g] [-x] [-I mask] [file ...]

What is the best solution?


texts:
I bought a brand new iPad mini 3 64GB from a auction site, I knew it was imported from the US, that's fine, I'm now unsure as to what SIM card I can use in it, it won't accept an O2 SIM card.

Can I use it in the UK on cellular, if so what network SIM card might I have to get.


texts: Can I make my iMac output audio to the speakers when headphones are plugged in?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do you switch between built-in audio and headphone audio without unplugging?

When I plug in my headphones the built in speakers are no longer an option for audio output (they literally disappear from the audio output system preferences). This means to switch back and forth I have to walk around my iMac and plug/unplug my headphones. Do I have any alternatives?


texts: Problem opening Word (docx) file with images in Mac (Fusion)

texts:
I need to open files with images that come as Word (docx) files. I couldn't see the images if I open in Pages or Mac Office. Had to get VMWare Fusion, Win7 and Windows office, and still having problems opening these files in Fusion Virtual Machine ... Files open fine at work in a Windows PC.
Any ideas? Would Boot Camp work better than Fusion Virtual Machine?
Thanks...


texts:
I am using TextEdit to edit some tcl files. periodically, or even frequently, but not always, when I go to save the file, I get a spinning beach ball. I tried launching text-edit via the command-line, but i was not imparted with any additional error information.

So what might be making TextEdit crash?
I have OSX 10.6.8 on an imac. I have all the updates my computer will allow.


texts: Error trying to make bootable Mavericks USB drive

texts:
MBP 5,3 running 10.9.4 trying to make a bootable USB 2 drive b/c my wife's HDD on a similar MBP failed. New drive in the mail. I tried using a 4-5 yr old Lexar 8GB and got this vague error.

Since I just bought a new SanDisk 16GB I'm thinking maybe I needed a newer drive, but no go, same error. Have tried to erase, partition, repair, etc both USB drives in Disk Utility.


texts: nfcd process taking 33% of cpu - what is that and why?

texts:
Since a few days there is process called nfcd taking up 175% (33% of all cpu) of cpu an my MBP 13 with 10.15.7. It's even running when all apps are closed and after reboot of the Mac.
For some reason the process doesn't show up in the activity monitor but only in Menu Meters. I am able to kill the process with sudo killall nfcd but nevertheless, I'd like to know what is going on.


texts: What is the "Spray Like" icon in the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar?

texts:
There is an icon that looks like a spray can on the right side of the Touch Bar (4th-5th button from the right?)

Does anyone know what it is for?

(Sorry I couldn't find an image of it on the web)


texts: Reinstalling a deleted app on my iPad with iOS 6

texts: How can I restore an app on my iPad that I thought I didn't want, and deleted?  The App Store only lets me "open", not install. I want to know how I can get the icon back on my iPad.


texts:
First of all, I haven't used any Mac computers before. And now I'm considering buying a Mac book pro retina 15 with 256 or 512 Gb SDD as my travel laptop. I need to run both MacOS and Windows 7. The problem is that 256 and even 512 Gb is not really enough for me, so I'm considering buying an external HDD. I'm thinking about 2.5 inch 7200 rpm HDD with at least 750 Gb capacity with an enclosure which supports USB 3. I'd really like it to be very portable so I can use on a plane. It should be both accessible from MacOS and Windows. At first I thought that I would install Window 7 on this external HDD, but after reading some blog I found out that it is almost impossible because of Windows limitations. So my goal is to insert both OSs on the internal drive and keep the rest on the external HDD.

Can I get some advise about this setup?
Any pitfalls like driver problems on Mac?
Any suggestions on particular hardware and software?

My goals are: portability and speed.


texts: Is it possible to turn iOS 13 and 14's Crowd Sourced GPS info off?

texts:
Short question is: iOS 12 doesn't use the SSID nearby to identify where I am, but iOS 13 and 14 do.  Is there a way to tell iOS 13 and 14 not to do that?

Details:
I read the following:

Crowd-sourced Wi-Fi and cellular Location Services
If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the
geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers to Apple
to augment Apple's crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell
tower locations. If you're traveling (for example, in a car) and
Location Services is on, a GPS-enabled iOS device will also
periodically send GPS locations, travel speed, and barometric pressure
information to Apple to be used for building up Apple's crowd-sourced
road-traffic and indoor pressure databases. The crowd-sourced location
data gathered by Apple is stored with encryption and doesn’t
personally identify you.

So I think it is like, when I turned WiFi on, then iOS 13 and 14 will see that there is SSID of my neighbor PeterPan01, and JigglyPuff333, and then go onto the Apple's database, and identify where I am.  So some people actually use Ethernet cable, or a WiFi to Ethernet jack gadget, and then connect the iPhone to the Ethernet jack using a lightning to RJ45 dongle, so that there is no such thing happening.  iOS 12 doesn't do that, but iOS 13 and 14 do.  Is there a way to turn that off in iOS 13 and 14?


texts: is it possible to spell check PDF files?

texts: Is it possible to spell check PDF files? In Preview.app the "Edit > Spelling & Grammar > Check Document Now (⌘;)" is disabled. I'm working on a LaTeX document in Emacs and would like to use the OS X spell checker. A solution for accessing the built in spellchecking dictionary from Emacs would also be acceptable.


texts: How Often Does Total 'Data Received' Reset in Activity Monitor?

texts:
How often does "Data Received" and "Data Sent" reset in the activity monitor pane shown below:

Nothing I can think of (daily, since last restart, all time, etc.) seems correct given the numbers I'm getting, so I'm baffled as to what it could actually be.

I know that I've downloaded more than 24 GB since I've owned the computer, but less than 24GB today.


texts: Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide?

texts:
I've just done a clean install of Yosemite, and in practically all of my apps I'm noticing those red underlines whenever I've "misspelled" something (or, more accurately, used an unrecognized name, technical term, piece of code, etc.). I have been disabling it app by app, although even then it doesn't always work - for example, when doing Google searches in Chrome it still shows up, even though I've disabled "check spelling while typing."

I've also gone to System Preferences/Keyboard/Text and unchecked "Correct spelling automatically," but this still doesn't seem to do anything.

Has something gone wrong on my system? And is there any more reliable way to completely disable this unwanted "feature?"


texts:
I have a macbook pro with 1TB internal glued flash drive, of which around 600GB are full.

I would like to change the volume format from APFS (case insensitive, encrypted) to APFS (case sensitive, encrypted). Is that even possible?

Or should I make a second volume / partition with the right setting and try to move everything there? Is that even possible?


texts: Which are main technical reasons to switch to Lion?

texts:
Everywhere I just read posts and questions about how to make lion like snow leopard.
So... Why not keeping snow leopard, at least while lion's "young"?
Are there any technical / cosmetic reasons for the switch?


texts: Why is Time Machine not deleting old files?

texts:
I have Time Machine running on a 4TB external drive. I have a 1TB internal drive. There is 200GB free on the external drive. The backup is 400GB. Time Machine should delete the old backups but it's not doing that. Strangely, the Preference panel is saying "Oldest backup: March 19, 2020 // Latest backup: March 20, 2020" even though there are 422 backups on the backup drive from 2019-05-01 through 2020-03-20.

This makes no sense. Is just another Time Machine bug (one of many).


texts: Smart Keyboard draining 2016 iPad Pro battery

texts:
My Smart Keyboard Is draining my 2016 iPad Pro battery. Apple Support cannot help. Just opened a case number for me without solving my issue.

Smart Connector is clean (without any debris or cracks or nicks) and it attaches very strong with its magnet. Has anybody experienced this problem and had it resolved, and if so, what fixed the problem?

Apple Support cannot help. Just opened a case number for me without solving my issue.


texts:
I moved to different continents a few times (Europe -> North America -> Asia -> Europe) and ended up with a stack of DVDs I can't play now.

I looked around for a firmware update for my iMac, but it doesn't look like it exists:

http://www.rpc1.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=49450

Since I got the DVDs legitimately, I feel like I have the right to play them. So my question is, I mainly have a whole bunch of DVDs from North America. Is my only safe option to buy a secondary external DVD player for this region, or is it possible to find a region-free DVD player altogether (I'm in Germany right now). I had trouble finding it.


texts:
Lately, my Magsafe power adapter has not been connecting properly:

The wires are not worn out as I take good care of them
The issue happens when I try to connect my power adapter to my computer
The LED does not come on and the MacBook does not get charged. I have to unplug and plug the power adapter several times until I can get a connection.
The cord and computer intake seem clean and no pins are pushed down

What can I do?


texts: iOS simulator screen size not equal to window size

texts:
I have a strange issue with my iOS simulator. It does not fit my Simulator Windows size. This is not a real problem, but the thing is that I cannot make screenshots anymore, when I save a screenshot, it saves the entire simulator window, not only the iOS screen.

How can I fix this problem?

The strange thing is that was working a few hours ago, even if the iOS screen was smaller, when I saved a screenshot, it saved at full resolution.

I will attack an image of the simulator Window. Window scale is 100%. If I change it, also the iOS inside will change too, but never goes full screen.


texts: Is there a good free DWG viewer for Mac OS X?

texts: There are new Autodesk products (AutoCAD LT or similar) for Mac OS and iOS, but I couldn't find a simple free DWG viewer for Mac.


texts:
Hi~ I am just using a Mac with M1 chip.
I just found when I tried to run
git clone ...

I got
zsh: killed git

What should I do?
I have tried to reinstall git via brew.
but it doesn't work.
git version:
git-2.30.1.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz


texts: Any way to extract notes from iPod Touch backup?

texts:
Is there any way for me to extract notes from an iPod Touch backup? I had forgotten to back up the notes on my old iPod Touch and subsequently lost all my notes on it. It's been a year and a half now, and the older computer with the backup has Snow Leopard clean-installed on it.

If I restore the older installation of Leopard with Time Machine, would it be possible for me to extract the notes from the iPod Touch backup? (1st gen, iPod Touch software 2.0)


texts:
I deleted some photos from iPhotos and Photos libraries that I should not have. I want to restore these from my Time Machine back of a couple days ago.
When I do this I keep getting the following error

The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Photos Library”
can’t be read or written.(Error code -36)

Any help will be much appreciated.


texts:
I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite. Everything works fine but for some odd reason my cursor fails to highlight (provide feedback on anything I hover on any options).

As an example (if I'm not explaining this very well):

When I hover over the options in the Safari menu (or any other menu, nothing shows up as a blue background as you would expect (it only turns blue after I've clicked it).

I've been running Mavericks for a long while, and I had no issues.

I'm not sure if the mouse has a part to play, I'm using Mad Catz R.A.T3, anyone know if this as an issue with Yosemite? Or are aware of a fix?


texts: Parental Controls Always Allow does not work for Avid Media Composer

texts:
I've enabled Parental Controls on a new Nov 2012 iMac being used in a school for public access (OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion) and have restricted the applications this account can use. Everything works fine with the exception of Avid Media Composer (the main reason we purchased the iMacs...). Avid Media Composer is marked as an application that the account is allowed to use in the parental control settings.

When I try to start Avid Media Composer under this account, a message pops up saying that this user doesn't have permission to use the application, giving the following three options:

Always Allow...
Allow Once...
OK

When clicking Allow Once, I have to enter the admin account username and password and the app starts without problems. But when I click Always Allow, it asks for the admin account as well, but then pops up the same message again and again. I have verified that I'm using the right admin account username and password, but it's still refusing to run the application.

When I disable parental controls, everything works, but the moment I turn it on again, it fails, despite having Avid Media Composer in the list of allowed applications for this account.

In the Console application, I can see the following error message whenever this happens:

  com.apple.launchd.peruser.504: ([0x0-0x1de1de].com.avid.mediacomposer[2033])
  Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 13

Has anybody else experienced this or knows how to fix this?


texts: How to correct spelling in Dictation on new iPad (3rd generation)

texts:
The Dictation feature on iPad (3rd generation) insists that Clare is spelled Claire, and I have been unable to find a way to correct this, other than manually placing the cursor, which is fiddly and rather defeats the point.

I have looked online for tips, and have not found any useful information so far. There is this Apple page iPad (3rd generation): Using Dictation, that has a very short "Dictation tips" section, but it currently only covers selection of different languages.

Is there any way to have control over the vocabulary, or spelling, of the Dictation feature?


texts: Can you recover a deleted message or chain of messages from iPhone?

texts:
I see all of these software that claim that they can recover messages deleted from your iPhone. Do they actually work?
For example, if I received 2 text messages from my friend and I immediately deleted them. Is it possible to recover them?


texts:
There is a nice option in MacOS X that you can right-click on a particular file, select "open with", then select the app that you want to use to open the file type and check the mark "always open with".

So far so good, this works very well. However, this association resets itself after time (or after a system restart for example). How can I achieve it that a particular file type stays associated with my selected "always open with" app?


texts: I really dislike iTunes and would prefer to never use it. The only thing I use it for right now is syncing photos from my iPhone 6 to my OS X El Capitan.


texts: Switch tabs in Safari - Shortcut (⌘ + ⌥ + Arrow)

texts:
I would like to know if there is a way to switch tabs in Safari with the shortcut used in Chrome (⌘ + ⌥ + Arrow).

Right now with OS X El Capitan, you can switch between tabs but just up to the 9th one with ⌘ + number.

I find it way much easier to switch tabs with the arrows compared to the numbers plus you can get to all the tabs instead of the nine first ones.


texts: Garageband - Remove Dead Space at End of Track

texts: I was sidetracked while recording something off of the internet into Garageband. How do I cut off all of the dead space at the end of my recording?


texts: If I am sharing an Apple ID with my son, can I change my Game Center name without messing up his games on his iPod?


texts:
I sign in, and go to the sign up page. That's where I have to accept the terms. Everytime I click the accept button, it reverts back to the sign up page.

It's not taking me to the download profile page.

I'm on mobile safari iOS 9.3.3 and wondering if I can enroll from that device or if e signup process is broken?


texts: Why am I able to receive SMS texts when Cellular off and no WiFi connection?

texts:
Background

I'm using an iPhone Xs Max, iOS 13.3.1.

I typically keep celluar turned off, and WiFi on. When I'm at home I automatically connect to my WiFi and can receive calls and texts no problem. When I'm not home, I can't receive calls or texts, which is fine by me -- and I'll only turn cellular on if I have to use Uber/Lyft or if I need to make an outbound call.

Issue

On very rare occasions when I'm away from home (and therefore connected to neither cell nor WiFi) I'll receive an SMS text. Usually just random stuff like Amazon sending me a locker access code, telling me I have a package to pickup, etc.

On even rarer occasions I'll receive a call in this mode. I can't actually answer it, but it'll ring once briefly and show me a caller ID.

Question

Why am I able to receive occasional SMS texts and inbound call attempts, despite cellular being off and not being connected to a WiFi network?


texts: How do I disable the redirect to Skype when I click "call via iPhone" in safari?

texts:
I installed Skype because I need it and it auto-routes the click to call function to Skype now on my MacBook (Catalina 10.15.6).
How do I disable the routing to Skype?


texts: OS X give focus to a window after showing

texts:
I have noticed something that really annoys me.
Say I have some applications running and then I select a particular one using Dock. This application appears on the screen but does not receive focus (windows is displayed as inactive). So, when I type something input is not going to the foremost window.

For more clarification I can say that I always encounter this when focusing Terminal app that is not maximized - window is shown, but no focus on it. Moreover, when I click on an app icon in the Dock and this app was maximized, I have to click twice to see this app.

Have anyone encountered the same?

UPD: the problem relates to switching from full-screen app to non full-screen and vice versa. Switching from one full screen app to another full screen app or from one non-full screen to another non-full screen does not reproduce the problem


texts: Can't login after migration assistant. No access to other account

texts:
I was given a Mac with that had an administrator account and an account for myself (with full admin rights). Using the migration assistant, I copied everything from my old computer, however it ended up creating a new account, so I therefore deleted the new account.

I had no issues until restarting the new computer; it now no longer presents me with the new user, only the administrator account (which I don't have access to).

Is there any way I can get access to either the old account or new one without the administrator password? I've seen that this may be an issue with file vault preferences, but I can't change them if I can't log in!

Or will I just have to wait until my IT support is able to do this for me?


texts: Applescript : text delimitation in a loop

texts:
I'm trying to get values from a log file of all the occurrence of a value
Recorded on the following key :

> <key>MyTime</key>         <string>2019-03-29T08:48:18+0000</string>
>       <key>serviceToken</key>

I can get the first occurrence of the value I want with the following code, but how can I search for more occurrence and add in secondary variable ?

##Getting the file name
set ShortDate to short date string of (current date)
set [dayN, MonthN, YearN] to the words of ShortDate
set myUSDate to YearN & MonthN & dayN as string
set myFileName to "TIME" & myUSDate & ".log"

set p to "/Users/kevin/Library/Logs/MyAPP/" & myFileName
set plistfile_path to POSIX file p

property leftEdge1 : "<key>myValueTime</key>"
property rightEdge1 : "<key>serviceToken</key>"
set myNewCaseNote to ""
set newFile to (plistfile_path as text)
set theSource to read file newFile as text
set theText to Unicode text
try
    set saveTID to text item delimiters
    set text item delimiters to leftEdge1
    set classValue to text item 2 of theSource
    set text item delimiters to rightEdge1
    set myCaseNote to text item 1 of classValue
    set text item delimiters to saveTID
    myCaseNote
end try

But how can I get other occurrence of this time/data ? And not only the first one


texts: Mac Mini Insists on Shutting Down When I Unplug Mouse and Keyboard

texts:
I have a Mac Mini I usually use as a server, but sometimes I need to work on it. I prefer to use my keyboard and mouse on my primary computer, a laptop. These peripherals and others are attached to a USB hub, and I would like to be able to plug this hub into the Mac when I need to do something and then put it back. I can often do this (but not always) once, but inevitably there comes a time when Mac OS thinks there is a problem when I either unplug or reiplug in the hub.

Is there any way to stop this need to reboot? I don't have room for another keyboard nor do I want to get more equipment that I will almost never use.


texts:
They stopped syncing recently.  I called Apple support and they had me update both my iPhone 6 and my Macbook Air which I did.

I verified that the settings are correct.

I also verified that both devices are connected to the internet.

What else can I check?


texts:
Is there a difference between these two replacement parts ?

60 Dollars

55 Dollars

30 Dollars

or is there another one you would recommend ? I am starting to repair IPhones and would like some advice thanks!


texts: Create bookmark folders on iPhone or iPad?

texts: Is it possible to create a new bookmark folder using iOS? I share my bookmarks between four devices (using MobileMe) and it would be useful to be able to structure them in a useful way.


texts: Adapter to use my Thunderbolt display with my iMac 11,3 (Mid 2010)

texts:
I am looking for an adapter to use my Thuderbolt display (just purchased, worked great on my MacBook Air) with my iMac 27-inch, Mid 2010 (iMac 11,3) Anyone know if one is made and where I can purchase it?

The iMac 11,3 has an ATI Radeon HD 5750 and a DisplayPort connector.

Apparently there is an adapter somewhere that staff at Apple have mentioned. See:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=15336051&postcount=8


texts: Is there a (working) iTunes 11 "search" shortcut?

texts:
The Help Topics say that Ctrl+Alt+F should go to the search field, but it don't here. I'm on Windows 7, with iTunes 11.

Is there a shortcut for the search? (I really don't like to have to use the mouse)


texts: Shell script sleep timing is off when run from Automator

texts:
I have a shell script that plays a mantra and three bells for meditation.

#!/bin/bash

log=~/Dropbox/code/meditation/meditation.log
bell_path=~/Dropbox/code/meditation/meditation_bell/

echo $(date) "Mantra begin." >> $log
afplay ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music/Unknown\ Artist/Unknown\ Album/楞嚴咒〔靈巖山寺早課版〕.m4a &&
    echo $(date) "Mantra done." >> $log
afplay ${bell_path}bright_bell.mp3 &&
    echo $(date) "Bright bell done." >> $log
sleep 1800 # 30 minutes
afplay ${bell_path}small_bell.mp3 &&
    echo $(date) "Small bell done." >> $log
sleep 900 # 15 minutes
afplay ${bell_path}big_bell.mp3 &&
    echo $(date) "Meditation done." >> $log &&
    echo >> $log

I use Automator to create an app that runs at a fixed time every morning on the Calendar.app.

But somehow, the timing of the bells get messed up when run through Automator, as indicated by the log below.

The mantra lasts about 40 minutes while each bell is less than a minute. Any idea what is happening over here?

Update:

After adding quotes to my code as follows:

#!/bin/bash

log=~/Dropbox/code/meditation/meditation.log
bell_path=~/Dropbox/code/meditation/meditation_bell/

echo "$(date) Mantra begin." >> $log
afplay ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music/Unknown\ Artist/Unknown\ Album/楞嚴咒〔靈巖山寺早課版〕.m4a &&
    echo "$(date) Mantra done." >> $log
afplay "${bell_path}bright_bell.mp3" &&
    echo "$(date) Bright bell done." >> $log
sleep 1800 # 30 minutes
afplay "${bell_path}small_bell.mp3" &&
    echo "$(date) Small bell done." >> $log
sleep 900 # 15 minutes
afplay "${bell_path}big_bell.mp3" &&
    echo "$(date) Meditation done." >> $log &&
    echo >> $log

The script ran correctly when run with the 'play' button in Automator.

But failed when the app is executed automatically by Calendar.app


texts: Can iPhone autofill emails in contacts based on pattern?

texts:
I have just filled my work phone with name and phone number to all at work.
Can I somehow make it autofill the email with a pattern?

<First name>.<last name>@<company>.se

Is that possible with some app or setting or something?
It's quite daunting to type all emails when they are all following a pattern that is already in the contacts list.


texts: Tilde (~) and plus-minus (±) in wrong place on keyboard

texts:
I'm using a MacBook Pro with a Swedish physical keyboard, but with U.S. layout defined in System Prefs. However the tilde (~) and plus-minus (±) keys seem switched. The following key combination should produce a ~:

Because the mapping in System Prefs says so:

But it results in a ± symbol.

It seems these two keys (± and ~) are switched somehow. How do I make them work as shown in System Prefs?


texts: Optimize Phone Storage: Underlying logic?

texts:
I've trawled the web for info on iCloud Photo Library's "Optimize Phone Storage" option on iOS, but can't figure out the exact logic applied.

From Apple:

  iCloud Photo Library will automatically manage the size of your library on your device, so you can make the most of your device's storage and access more photos than ever

I assume the device will cache high-res photos up to a point, but what is this point in terms of MB remaining on the device?

In addition, does iCloud Photo Library perform any housekeeping on that cache, e.g. clearing out high-res copies you've not viewed in n days - if so what is n?


texts: How can I permanently delete folders from /var/folders/ situated in Trash?

texts:
I recently encountered an error where none of the applications would open, similar to this. I was able to resolve the issue by using Go to Folder... option under the Go menu and navigating to /var/folders/. I deleted all the folders there and rebooted my system, after which everything is working normally.

The problem now that I'm unable to permanently delete the folders fz and sv from Trash. When I try to delete them, I get the following warning and no matter what I select, the folders are not deleted from Trash - The operation can’t be completed because the item “0” is in use.

Note - MacOS has already replaced these deleted folders in /var/folders/.

I've also tried deleting it from the terminal with super user permissions but still can't delete them -

Anish@Anishs-MBP:.Trash $ sudo rm -rf *
Password:
rm: fz/w4_v47p50v141vqr9pwtg9qc0000gp/0/SafariFamily: Operation not permitted
rm: fz/w4_v47p50v141vqr9pwtg9qc0000gp/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv: Operation not permitted
rm: fz/w4_v47p50v141vqr9pwtg9qc0000gp/0/com.apple.nsurlsessiond: Operation not permitted
rm: fz/w4_v47p50v141vqr9pwtg9qc0000gp/0/com.apple.routined: Operation not permitted
rm: fz/w4_v47p50v141vqr9pwtg9qc0000gp/0: Directory not empty
rm: fz/w4_v47p50v141vqr9pwtg9qc0000gp: Directory not empty
rm: fz: Directory not empty
rm: sv/tjz3fg0j3hx5_lhhmv335s0m0000gn/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv: Operation not permitted
rm: sv/tjz3fg0j3hx5_lhhmv335s0m0000gn/0/com.apple.nsurlsessiond: Operation not permitted
rm: sv/tjz3fg0j3hx5_lhhmv335s0m0000gn/0/com.apple.routined: Operation not permitted
rm: sv/tjz3fg0j3hx5_lhhmv335s0m0000gn/0: Directory not empty
rm: sv/tjz3fg0j3hx5_lhhmv335s0m0000gn: Directory not empty
rm: sv: Directory not empty

I've also rebooted the system in Safe Mode and tried to delete them but no luck.

I realize that there are operations being run tied with these files that's causing the problem. How do I find and stop these tasks so that I can delete these folders?

This issue is only with a single user account. It looks like I'll have to disable System Integrity Protection and then try to delete them. Is that safe? I'm using High Sierra if that matters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: MacBook Pro wireless speed slow after OS update

texts: After the OS update, my wireless speeds have dropped to a crawl.  around 350 to 500 kps on my home wlan.    Every other device on my wlan runs between 6 and 10 mbs.  I've only found posts about deleting the wireless network, recycling the router and then creating a new connection.   Obviously I don't have access to every wireless router I connect to in able to do this and the connection is consistently slow no matter what network.  Any suggestions on how to fix this?


texts: iCloud - two songs, same album - one Matched, one Ineligible. How to fix?

texts:
I have 250 songs marked Ineligible, and I can't figure out why.  They are all 128kbps or greater, way less than 200MB, all Protected AAC audio files purchased by my ex.  I am authorized on his account and can play the songs in iTunes just fine.  In most cases only one or two songs from an album were rejected, while the rest were Matched, though some entire albums were rejected.

The advice online for fixing this centers around telling iTunes to convert the file to AAC, but in this case it gives an error that protected files can't be converted to other formats.  It seems most people with this error have low bit rate files, but that is not the case this time.

Is there anything I can do to fix this short of getting the unprotected files from him (which he would be fine with, but it could be years before he gets around to doing it)?


texts: How to disable all notifications in MS Office 2008, Entourage?

texts:
The subject says it all, but for further explanation, MS Office has this (what I consider annoying feature) of notifying me of pretty much anything that happens in Entourage—emails, calendar events, and the like. This is similar to the new "My Day" feature but the notifications pop-up in the lower-right corner of the screen.

I use one particular installation for developing scripts and I don't need to notifications. I don't even need Entourage, for that matter, but the install is managed by my IT department, not me. I've looked through everything I can think of to turn off all of the notifications, and the only way I have managed to completely stop them is to zip up the Entourage application. But that results in every other application in the Office suite to state on start up that there is a problem with the Office database (but then they work normally otherwise) and the update application won't allow updates to happen because it can't find the correct installation.

Does anyone know of a way to completely turn off all the little pop-up notifications that Entourage seems to foist on me?


texts:
I just bought a wired mac keyboard. Where I would expect numlock to be, it has a key with this mysterious symbol on:

⌧
(a rectangular box with a cross through it)

What is this button?