texts: 2011 13.3" MacBook Pro freezing during boot process

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I acquired a 13.3" MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro turns on but freezes after approximately 30 seconds. I installed a good hard drive with Lion and the loading spinner simply stops spinning after it freezes. I also tried booting from a bootable flash drive but it also freezes. The boot media isn't compromised because I've used the hard drive and flash drive with different machines with success. I attempted resetting PRAM. The battery is brand new. I have also attempted verbose boot mode but it doesn't reveal anything abnormal.

Note: I have since allocated the hard drive to a different machine so I don't have a working hard drive available right now.

Though the bottom place indicates the model is 2010, verbose booting logged the CPU build date to be in 2011. Additionally, the interior hardware of the computer differs from 2010 models so I suspect the computer is a 2011 model.

What are your suggestions?


texts: How do I find out which apple id's are authorized on my computer?

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This is an inverse of the 'which computers have I authorized'

iTunes is fussing and refused to put some 30 apps back on my phone (mac had a hard disk crash.  Restored from backup, but not clear that all the permissions are right.)  I reentered all 3 authorizations, and got 'Already authorized' for two of them.  This reduced the unloadable app count to 20.

Anyway, my wife and I between us have at least 3 apple IDs, one of which we have changed from the older 'arbitrary character string including spaces' to the 'use a valid email address' format.

The apps in question when I open iTunes go to apps, right click an app, and type 'get info' show the old format for the third id:  "firstname lastname" Not the user@gmail.com.

On her computer the id shows up as "firstname lastname (user@gmail.com)"

I have authorized user@gmail.com and got the 'already authorized' message.

Q1.  Where I can find out which apple id's are authorized on this computer?

Note I do NOT want to find out which comptuters this id is authorized on.


texts: iPad case for toddlers that hides the home button?

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My 18 month old son loves to interact with my iPad.  I have explored some apps that I would think he would enjoy, but he finds it hard to resist the device's home button.  (Perhaps because this is the most obvious way to interact with the device that always yields some kind of visible result.)  He hits the home button almost compulsively.

Are there any solutions to this problem?

Ideally, it would be nice to buy some kind of a slip-case for kids that was specifically designed to hide the home button.  I have seen some child-proof cases on the market, but they all appear to be geared towards protecting the device from the destructive forces of the child, or for making the device easy for the child to grip.

None of them appear to offer a solution to the home button, and this is unfortunate because I can imagine him interacting with something educational without that distraction.

Is there an off-the-shelf case out there that I have overlooked?

If not, does anybody have any thoughts about any other off-the-shelf cases that could be modified/hacked into hiding the home button?


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MacBook Pro5,3 (mid '09), with 1TB 7200 HD, OS 10.10.2 at first had an unresponsive display upon opening lid / waking. Only holding power down for 10sec to reboot snapped it out. Day later it started going into a constant reboot cycle, either with a 6-language message on a gray screen, or simply a Mac boot chord, followed by black apple on gray screen, and a progress bar that seems to only get to a third, before kernel panic occurs. It just reboots itself. Every 10th or so cycle, the OS actually boots up. It has booted in Safe Boot more frequently. Reinstalled OS. Same problem. Ran Geekbench - awful results on read / write, and other HD related functions. Graphics and memory - average. After frequently getting to Safe Boot, decided to zero-write and clean install. Same problem. Problem seems to be tied in with "sleep" function. No Mac repair person has been able to isolate the issue, they are all puzzled and just say "get logic board replaced". In verbose mode, it most often hangs during the "fsck_hfs" or just after "Previous Shutdown Cause: 3", "DSMOS has arrived" and "Sandbox: denying permissions, but not always, it's a different line almost every time. It says "removed 5 orphaned files", but sometimes 4 or 1 file.

Thermal Sensor? Fans do blast like crazy. Makes no sense to do a costly Logic Board swap on a 6 year old machine, does it?

Thanks!


texts: Show today’s anniversaries (if any) from contacts

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I would like to be able to run a script which would look through my Contacts list and output the name (and, preferably, phone number) of anyone whose ‘Anniversary’ date matches today. (The script should be something I can run on OS X 10.9 and output to stdout.)

I can do the same for birthdays using the contacts command from
http://www.gnufoo.org/contacts/contacts.html (or brew install contacts) but it does not do the same for addresses.

I found a Mac OS X Hints post which suggested that it might be able to work via sqlite3 but I have not been able to get that to work. (Which isn’t to say that it can’t be done, only that I haven’t been able to do it.)

It occurs to me that someone might have already invented this particular ‘wheel’ and I am just not aware of it. Other than the two links above, Google has not been particularly helpful.


texts: Cannot delete Numbers documents from iCloud Trash

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I am using Numbers and have saved some documents in iCloud. I am now trying to delete them. I moved them to the Trash and emptied the Trash.

Some time later, I see that these Numbers documents reappear in the Trash. I have tried:

Manually deleting the files from Terminal
Moving the files to the desktop and then deleting the items in the Trash.
Deleting the documents from the ''recently deleted' section on my iPhone and iPad.

I am hesitant to disable/re-enable iCloud. but if that is what I must do then I will do it.

How can get these Numbers documents to be permanently deleted?


texts: Are there negative consequences to using Lost Mode on ipad repeatedly?

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My partner sometimes gets excessively distracted by games on their iPad and asks me to hide it from them for a day or two, until they ask for it back.

I'm going to be out of the country for a while, so we hit on the idea of using iCloud Lost Mode:

We log the ipad into my iCloud account
I put it in Lost Mode and set an unlock PIN
When they ask to use it, I tell them the PIN.
When they want it taken away again, I reactivate Lost Mode with a new PIN.

Main Question: Does anyone know if there are any negative consequences to activating Lost Mode on a device repeatedly? (say, every 1-2 days for 2 weeks)

My concern is that Apple might trigger other security features if the device is reported lost over and over, similar to the way some websites will lock your account if they see repeated attempts to log in or reset your password.

Secondary question: Are there other good methods for remotely locking, unlocking, and relocking an iOS device?

Notes:

It sounds like this approach will only work if the device doesn't have a regular screen lock PIN. This is acceptable.
The locking method we use doesn't have to be impossible to circumvent, just difficult.
I welcome other suggestions for solving the larger problem, but please limit them to technical solutions, rather than psychological ones.


texts: getElementById not working with AppleScript

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I'm trying to automate a click on a radio button by id. Using syntax I've found online I've created this script but it's not selecting the radio button. Can anyone correct me?

# Launch a new private window
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Safari"
        tell menu bar 1
            click menu bar item "File"
            tell menu "File"
                click menu item "New Private Window"
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

tell application "Safari"
    open location "https://www.nngroup.com/articles/checkboxes-vs-radio-buttons/"
    delay 3
    tell application "System Events" to keystroke space
    do JavaScript "document.getElementById('two').click();"
end tell


texts: Trying to pass images to shell command using automator

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I am creating this service for Finder that will receive image files and pass to a shell command.

The idea is this:

I select image files on finder.
I right click and choose the service I am creating
the service receives the files and passes to sips, so it will scale the images to a given size.

this is how I created it.

sips would run on terminal if I type

sips -z 750 1334 *.png   (or any other extension, including *.*)

I am hoping that $* would pass a list of arguments to sips, but this is not working.

How do I do that?


texts: how to delete already imported pictures from iPhone in MacOS X Photos app?

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I can't find a way to delete previously imported photos from the iphone in the Photos app (Version 1.0 (209.52.0)). Note that there is a check box to delete picture right after import, but I am looking for a way to delete previously imported pictures without having to reimport them. Typically pictures are automatically imported via iCloud and so when I open the Photos app it does not make sense to reimport them. With iphoto it was possible but apparently not with the new photos app.
Someone earlier posted the same question and one solution was given: OS X - How do I remove photos from my iPhone using the Photos app after import?

Nonetheless this doesn't work for me, the delete button is not present in the import page. Most likely this feature disappeared with an upgrade. Moreover when I select images, the Image->Delete photo (translated from the french version) is grayed out.


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I've recently bought apple tv for the bedroom and thought it was great.. at first.

I only really use it for netflix, but now my remote doesn't seem to be working. I thought maybe that the battery died so I left it on charge overnight to see if that helped (it didn't and it didn't show me any indication of being on charge either). I've used the same charger as I use on my iPhone so I don't think there's an issue with the power cable.. Have also tried re-pairing it using the menu and volume up button but still nothing.

I can only connect it through an ethernet cable if I take it downstairs and I don't have the remote app paired up on my phone (it won't let me connect it now)so all I have been able to do is stream things through air play which seems to defeat the purpose on buying this shiny new thing!

Extra info: I've got the newest box, I think it's 4th gen with the siri remote..

Thanks in advance :)


texts: How can I have Finder doesn't sort strictly by the time metadata and not the grouped filename?

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See the following screenshot:

This are screenshots from the Chrome/Safari, on OSX 10.12.1.

Notice that this is clearly not in the right chronological order. The last screenshot was taken at 1:09 PM, but it is neither at the top nor at the beginning of the list. This is frustrating, because this forces me to visually search when I want to send a screenshot I just took to a friend.

Is there any way to change my settings so Finder sorts by date?


texts: Reminders.app deleting all reminders after syncing with Exchange

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I wanted to share some reminders with a friend who only has Windows.  So I setup my Reminders.app on BigSur to sync to both iCloud and Exchange (Microsoft To Do).
I copy and pasted all my reminders across from iCloud to Exchange in Reminders.app and it was all working great until I deleted all of my iCloud reminders.  Immediately after I deleted the last iCloud reminder list, Reminders.app went nuts and deleted all my reminders in both iCloud and Exchange.
So now I've lost 10 years worth of reminders.
I have TimeMachine backups and I can restore ~/Library/Reminders. After a reboot if I open Reminders.app I see all of my old reminders, however over the next few seconds Reminders deletes everything again.
I've tries restoring versions of ~/Library/Reminders which predate my change to sync to Exchange. Reminders.app still deletes everything after the restore/reboot cycle.
I've tried restoring and rebooting with:

Reminders enabled in System Preferences - Internet Accounts - iCloud
Reminders disabled in System Preferences - Internet Accounts - iCloud
WiFi enabled
WiFi disabled

and Reminders.app immediately deletes all my reminders in all of the combinations. I'd really like to get my reminders back but am a bit stumped on what else to try!
Does anyone have any suggestions?


texts: Filevault 2 enabled with recovery key linked to Apple ID, can I get the key?

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I enabled FileVault on my Yosemite Mac, and selected the "Allow apple ID to reset password" option.

I paid attention to all the dialogs and though they said to write down my recovery key, it was never shown to me.

Did something go wrong? When I did this years ago with FileVault 1 I was shown the key.

I tested using the Apple ID "change password" function and it seemed to work OK but I'd like to have a copy of the key written down as an extra safety measure.


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My Mac's login screen is different from the normal one now and I am not sure why. My current login screen looks a little like this

as opposed to this

.

Any ideas as to why this has changed?


texts: My Windows 7 PC can find my Mac but can't connect to it. No password prompt?

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I'm trying to access my Mac's files via my Win 7 PC and I'm so close but yet so far. The PC finds the Mac (it is there under 'Network'), but then I can't connect. According to many guides that I've read, there should be some kind of prompt asking me to provide credentials in order to connect, but nothing comes up. Then after a while of waiting I just get this screen...

I have firewall turned off for both sides, they are both on WORKGROUP. I don't have any other ideas left :/


texts: Safe to allow students to access Terminal.app in a shared environment?

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Background:  We have a lab of Macintosh computers, all running 10.10.3 currently, that are for classroom instruction.  Students typically use their own login/password via Active Directory to log in to these machines, however guest(anonymous) access is also available.  Traditionally we have never previously allowed students to open/use Terminal.app as the room was used primarily for art, but recently the machines are being used for science and instructors have requested CLI access.  Students are not admins and would not be able to use sudo.

Is it safe to remove the restriction preventing students from opening Terminal.app and allow students full access to the bash shell?  Are we being over cautious? If not, what types of risks would we be exposed to/need to address prior to allowing such access?


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Daily I create a clone of my system disk using Carbon Copy Cloner and this is working nicely. However, having a clone connected to your Mac may present a problem in starting apps automatically, for instance at startup. In some cases OSX will start the app from the clone rather than from the system disk. One of the examples is 1Password, which has a little component, called 1Password Mini, which is starting automatically for each user. The app is not listed in the login items. 1Password Mini is often (or always ?) started from the clone and other components of 1Password, interacting with 1Password Mini (such as the update process) will notice this and issue a message.
I wonder if there is a way to force apps to be launched from the Applications folder on the System Disk and ignore the one on the clone. Taking the clone offline is not an option for me.


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Are there apps or appliances available for iPad (or iPhone I suppose) that would allow me to backup the content (photos etc) of my iPad without a PC?

I was thinking of something like Carbonite/JungleDisk or the Apple Time Capsule.


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How do I make a text border or also called "stroke" around text in documents that have text such as Pages, Markup, etc?

I want white text with a black border or "stroke", what program can I use in macOS to accomplish this?

And how would I do it?

It looks like this, for example:


texts: Alternatives to QuickTime 7 for making simple edits without re-encoding?

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(This is similar to a question I asked in 2014 but I'm hoping there are better options available now, plus we have to take the lack of 32-bit apps into consideration now.)

QuickTime 7 will no longer work in macOS 15 "Catalina" so the time has come to find an alternative.

Playback is no problem, as there are many apps that can playback videos in more formats than QuickTime 7 could.

However, one of the best features of QuickTime 7 "Pro" was that it was able to make simple edits to video files (not just trimming from the start or end, which is all QuickTime X can do).

It also did so without re-encoding the videos, at least for .mov files.

I'm hoping to find GUI app options, rather than, say, some kind of magical ffmpeg invocation. Bonus points for being easy to use and not having an atrocious UI, but at this point I'm open to just about anything.


texts: Where does Applescript Event Log go when run under Launchd?

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Or, how to log from an AppleScript (saved as application) and/or view the Event Log?

None of the AppleScript's log statements can be found. I have tried adding the following to the launchd plist:

<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/tmp/theProgram.log</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/tmp/theProgram_error.log</string>

after which, the files were happily created, but remain empty. Nothing is in the system log for this application, which is confirmed running.

Are the event logs saved somewhere?

Is setting a launchctl log level necessary for this?


texts: How can I drag and drop email attachments in Mail on Lion?

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I use Mail.app on Lion with Classic View enabled so it works like it did in Snow Leopard.

When an email comes in with an attachment, I used to be able to select one or more attachments and drag them to my desktop.  In Lion, it looks like I have to click "Save" and then choose a location for the file.

How can I drag and drop email attachments in Lion?

If the answer is I can't, then can someone explain why the change?  Having to click the "save" drop down, click an attachment, choose a directory in the pop-up, and then click the "save" button is much more work than drag-and-drop (and it feels decidedly Windows-esq, frankly).


texts: Macs and local DNSMasq - clients keep forgetting results given by local DNS

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I have a number of Mac OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra clients whose DHCP configurations give them the local IP address of a DD-WRT router with DNSMasq setup within my LAN.

This is so I can use server.example.com and have it go to 192.168.1.3 and not our public IP address, and is far easier to manage than editing the hosts file of every mac, and also doesn't affect portable Macs when they need to connect to the same hostname from outside the building.

However, repeatedly some Macs keep 'forgetting' the local DNS. For example, when the problem occurs, I can ping the server hostname and get the external public IP. I can then clear the DNS cache, run the ping again and it's now the correct local IP address.

Does anyone run a similar setup, and know of any common pitfalls or issues, and how to get around them?

Prior to using DNSMasq on a DD-WRT router, I was using the Mac OS X Server App's DNS ability, but found it to be very slow as the same server was running File Sharing for the studio, so it was moved off.

I have even thought about running a scheduled command (either on each Mac, or via some Remote Desktop Management script) to clear the DNS every few hours or so.


texts: Why does my HDMI display -sometimes- need to be manually reconnected after sleep?

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My 27" Samsung display stays connected to my 2015 MacBook Pro (MBP) at all times when I'm home via a standard HDMI cable. The display stays powered on. My MBP sometimes goes to sleep e.g., overnight.

Sometimes, but not every time, the display will fail to connect to the MBP when I wake up the laptop. The display is still on, but the MBP doesn't recognize it—i.e., it acts as if there's no display connected.

Unplugging and re-plugging the HDMI capable into the same MBP HDMI port reestablishes the connection.

I don't recall ever having the same problem with different monitors at work.

This question is similar to some others, but no situation is quite the same.


texts: How do I resolve a non-unique HD Identifier problem?

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I use a HD with a caddy adapter for saving some files. macOS attributes a unique identifier for each external drive connected. But I needed to swap my adapter for the same disk, and now it's not mounting because the identifier is not unique:

  error USBMSC Identifier (non-unique) on console.

In the past, for the same problem, I deleted the drive label/id/something - I don't remember now - on a folder, and my drive would mount normally again when I reconnected it.

Does anyone know what it is I would have done on the folder to correct these IDs in the past?

Additional Info:

The disk is recognized by macOS internet recovery > Disk Utility
If I put the drive and try to open Disk Utility on currently installed
macOS, it hangs and doesn't load.
the disk is showed at command diskutil list, but fails to mount using diskutil mountDisk -t Apple_HFS /dev/disk2 /Volumes/Home
If I change the drive name on Internet Recovery and connect it to the macOS installed, it's recognized on the first time, but not on a second.

It's purely a mistake with unique id, and I know it could be resolved by deleting this id or a label, but I wasn't able to find the article with the solution I used previously. I cannot erase the disk because it has some important files, and the drive is working normally. The problem is in the system.


texts: Cannot exit fullscreen and cannot interact with fullscreen applications

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macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F2073)

On my Mac whenever any application (chrome, spotify, slack, etc...) enters full screen mode I cannot exit or interact with the application in any way.

option+F11 does not result in any change
option+F10 does not result in any change
option+F9 does not result in any change
option+F8 does not result in any change
command+F does not result in any change
command+shift+F does not result in any change
command+control+F does not result in any change
Mousing to the very top of the entire monitor reveals a menu bar which does not respond to being clicked
Window control buttons (red, yellow, green - top left corner of the window) do not respond to being clicked.
command+W does not result in the window closing
If an application supports multiple windows (eg: chrome may have multiple windows with tabs inside of them), I can move the window around but I cannot interact with anything regarding the application (all of the above also applies to this sort of window).

I can only close the application via things like pkill -9 '<process-name>' at the command line.

My question:- How can I troubleshoot this further as I'd love to be able to use full screen mode.


texts: Macbook Air 2020  Acer-ET322QR Audio not integrating

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Situation
Just picked up a Macbook Air 2020 from Bestbuy. I looked around for a good monitor that supports USB Type-C but nothing available in my area at the moment. I then picked up a Acer-ET322QR monitor until I upgrade later.
I picked up a USB Type-C/HDMI chord so I could connect the two products. All worked well except for when I tried to get the audio coming through the monitor. This monitor does have two speakers, I tried the following:

First checked to see if audio would go through the HDMI port but no luck. When in the audio settings it says that "The selected device has no output controls".

Second I followed the manual which says connect the provided audio chord into the Audio In port and connect the other to the mac. I connected this through the headphone jack but still not luck.

Suspected Issue
I am guessing the audio must come from USB Type-C port and then use an adaptor to connect this into the audio jack on the monitor
Question
Before I go through the hassle of ordering this online, could someone confirm my suspicions that this is the problem or is there something I am overlooking?


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What is a CPX port?  More specifically what is CPX as relates to a Datacard embossing printer?

A buddy dropped off an ancient Datacard 150i embossing machine with me to see if I could get it working. It actually works perfectly but I can't for the damned of me figure out how to communicate with it.

On the MFG website they pretty much stopped supporting it after Windows 2000 and the documentation refers to setting up a CPX port which is a term I have never seen before and can not find any further information online after searching Google extensively.

To make matters more complicated I'm attempting to communicate with it on a Mac using the native OSX or I have VMware partitions setup with Windows 7 and Ubuntu.  But thus far I can't get anything to even see the device.


texts: Do Time Capsules still work with macOS 10.14 (Mojave)

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Do Apple Time Capsules still work with macOS 10.14 (Mojave).

More specific: Can I use them for wireless Time Machine backups without jumping through hoops I would not have to with Mac OS X 10.6 (the last OS I used with a Time Capsule).

If not all of them work, which do?


texts: What should I do after my iphone 6 froze and turned into black screen with a small loading loading sign?

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My iphone 6 froze and turned into black screen with a small loading loading sign.
I charged it last night for the whole night and woke up and found out nothing happened.


texts: Replacing "apple hardware test" with "apple diagnostics"

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According to this article, holding down the "D" key while my MacBookPro11,3 boots should bring up "Apple Diagnostics".  However, "Apple Hardware Test" comes up instead.  When I try to run in, it fails, saying my hardware is not supported.

How do I replace the "Apple Hardware Test" firmware program with the "Apple Diagnostics" firmware program?

Some more background: This is a new macbook pro, and I copied the hard drive from my old one using disk utility.  After the transfer, the laptop worked fine, but would not boot into recovery mode-- holding down option at startup and selecting the recovery drive yielded a grey screen with a white, cross-out circle in the middle.  Re-downloading and re-installing Mavericks fixed this problem.  I can now boot into recovery mode, but I still have the problem described above.

Please do not answer this question if you don't understand the difference between "Apple Hardware Test" and "Apple Diagnostics."  Linking me to Apple support and pointing out that "Apple Diagnostics" replaced "Apple Hardware Test" in mid-2013 (as the 2 current answers have done) does not answer my question.


texts: How to accept USB as audio input for New Macbook Pro Retina?

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I would be very grateful if you could help me clarify - I used to use a software program for recording vinyl mixes on my old Macbook called - Audacity. Recently I've replaced this old Mac with a new Macbook Pro which does not have a phono jack, "line in” port, only a USB port and the same software does not pick up the sound any more, from my vinyl mixes.

Do you know a way to get my new Mac to accept the sound from the original phono outputs of the same mixer to the new USB port? I've already bought the generic cable and can't get it to recognise the new USB port as an official input.

Your guidance is greatly appreciated, as there is no current USB input availabilty option within the generic Mac settings - under "sound" settings. This basically means I can not work out how to accept input, via USB & I can not record, until I solve this problem?


texts: Lion - Macbook randomly wakes up from sleep when lid is closed

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I have aluminium macbook (not pro). I have recently updated to Lion. So far so good - had some minor issues with printer, sshfs, mac fuse. Managed to resolve almost all of them.

There is one issue though i keep on having which almost destroyed my laptop. In SL when i closed the lid there would be no way laptop would wake up itself from that state (unless i connected keyboard, mouse, screen and used in clam mode).

However now every so often i close the lid and mac goes to sleep and then it just randomly wakes up and stays awake. I didn't realized once and my mac spend few hours in its thick sleeve while running. I came home and I could smell burning plastic - aka. my mac melting itself. Luckily didn't catch fire.

So far i tried following:

reinstall lion - fully wiped and started from scratch
pulled
battery out and disconnected power supply and pressed power button
for 10 sec (resets power management apparently?)

Is anyone else experiencing same behavior?


texts: Downloading videos with Safari 7.0.1 on OS X mavericks

texts: In previous versions of Mac OS X, one could download videos in Safari with ⌥⌘A. How can this be done in Safari 7.0.1 on a OS X mavericks?


texts: Is it possible to automatically sync my iMac and MacBook Pro

texts: I would like to keep all my files (i.e. pages/numbers/keynote) automatically synced between my iMac and MacBook Pro. Is this possible? I don't want to have to save something in the cloud each time, then download it from the cloud on the other machine to work on and then save back in the cloud again. I just want to be able to open up either machine and have all identical files there automatically. Is this a pipe dream?


texts: Resetting admin password which is tied to an Apple ID?

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An employee recently got a new company mac, then left the company. We've reset plenty of mac passwords in the past by using recovery mode > utilities > terminal > 'resetpassword' > select admin > type in new password.

Instead now, it asks for an Apple ID login. We don't know the login.

Is there any other way to reset this password?


texts: When I shake my MacBook Pro it makes a strange noise.

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I have bought brand new MacBook pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I have also installed newest Mac OS, Lion.

Now I have a small problem (or maybe not) here. I would like to ask you what could be possible wrong that when I shake my MacBook Pro it makes a strange noise? Maybe it is just the noise of the keys on the keyboard?


texts: MacBook does not sleep when lid is closed

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I've looked around for answers and can't find something that works for me.

I have a unibody aluminum MacBook Pro and it just doesn't seem to want to sleep when I close the lid. The problem started after installing Lion.

When I close the lid, it appears to go to sleep (i.e. the Apple logo dims) but the status LED stays on and within 5 seconds, the Apple logo is back on. Lifting the screen very slightly reveals that the screen is on at this point.

I know that it's not sleeping and waking when I close the lid because syslog | grep -i "wake reason" does not show a wake entry for the time the laptop wakes up.

So far, I've tried PRAM reset, SMC reset, disabling all sharing and bluetooth options. It does sleep with the lid shut when booted in Safe Mode though. This leads me to believe that it's some kind of software or setting that's preventing sleep but I know no way of figuring this out.

Is there any way to fix this or find out what software is preventing sleep?


texts: Why does shasum generate non-standard hashes?

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As far as I can tell, the shasum that ships with os x doesn't generate the hashes that it's supposed to.

$ echo "" | /usr/bin/shasum
adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc ?-

When I look up empty string sha hash in wikipedia I see that I should expect to get

da39a3ee 5e6b4b0d 3255bfef 95601890 afd80709

My reading of the man page for shasum is that it defaults to sha 1. I get the same result even if I specify sha 1.

What's going on here?

ps Apologies for the bad tag. I can't create a tag of sha or shasum due to low reputation...


texts: I'm trying to create a partition but the Disk Utility says it cannot be resized, and the + button appears greyed out. Why is that?


texts: MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012 black screen

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I have MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012 model..
Earlier MBP is running with macOS mojave  ... later I upgraded with latest version “catalina”
I found strange after upgrading macOS...few flickerings are started on the screen and Later vertical 8 cm width white patch came on the screen...
Presently total screen black and no display...now I am using MBP with second display to tv screen.
Is macOS can disturb screen display..??
Please help me..


texts: How can I install iOS 7 on my 4th gen iPod touch?

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Is it possible to get iOS 7 for the 4th generation iPod touch?

I tried to look it up online but I couldn't find it.


texts: Can Siri be told a ringtone when setting a timer?

texts: I normally use the iPhone timer to sleep the device after I've dozed off to some music or podcast. Unfortunately this means that when I ask Siri to set a timer for some cooking, Siri waits the allotted time and turns off the phone rather than notify me that the time is up. Any solutions to this?


texts: Does Network Link Conditioner Work Well on El Capitan

texts: I had Network Link Conditioner as part of Xcode 6.1 package & was working fine. I just upgraded my to OS X El Capitan. Should I replace my NLC to the one found in Xcode 7.3 or my existing NLC of Xcode 6.1 should still be performing fine?


texts: How can I troubleshoot keyboard shortcuts that are not working?

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Within system preferences --> keyboard --> shortcuts --> mission control I have the following shortcut set:

I record the shortcut by hitting Control5, but when I play the shortcut back, I am not able to actually move to that space.

When showing my desktops I see that I have Desktops 1-5 as well.

How can I troubleshoot why this specific shortcut is not working? I have a similar shortcut for Control4 to move to Desktop 4, which does work.

This feels like a trivial problem but I do not know how to actually investigate much. I have used an application called Karabiner to verify the OS is processing the keystrokes correctly:

But the shortcut does not move me to Desktop 5.


texts: Generate TSV/CSV with multi-line cells that open in Numbers

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I want to programmatically generate tsv files with multi-line cells that stay preserved when opened in Numbers app.
What newline character to use to enable multi-line cells?


texts: Second SATA drive stopped working (after lion upgrade)

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Since I upgraded to Lion, my second SATA drive stopped working. The issue occurs only for reading files, not writing. I can unmount it, but I can't rename nor delete files.

I have two SSDs installed in my MacBook Pro and when I look at 'System Information' it lists both drives. So they are properly recognized.

However, the first drive is listed as:

"Solid State SATA"

and the second (working) one is listed as

"Flash Storage"

Both drives are formatted as OS X Journaled, so they are of the same format.

Does someone has any idea what's going on over here? And how can I solve this?


texts: How can I see music downloaded to my iPhone via Amazon Cloud Player in the Music app?

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I downloaded some songs to my iPhone using Amazon Cloud Player, but they are not showing up in the (official) Music app. I assume that Amazon Cloud Player downloaded MP3s to a directory on my device. How can I configure the Music app to look in this directory? I would prefer not to have to manually sync these songs via iTunes on my PC and then have two copies of these songs on my iPhone. Is there a way to import songs downloaded via Amazon Cloud Player into the Music app?

Specs:

iPhone 4S
iOS 6.1.3
Amazon Cloud Player 2.1.0


texts: iPhone/iPad back up to different hard drive?

texts: Is there a way to have iTunes store your iPhone/iPad/iPod back up to a different hard drive on a Mac?


texts: In Yosemite, (how) can I save an entire Space/Desktop (or a collection of open programs and windows, like a Space)?

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The Spaces feature in OS X is great. It would be even greater if I could save a Space and recall it later, like the "Projects" feature that's available in many IDEs.

Another way to think about it would be like how OS X, when shutting down, prompts the user to re-open all programs. Saving or recalling a Space would be something like that.

Is this possible in OS X? Maybe through some kind of AppleScript hackery.

Alternatively, are there any third-party programs that accomplish this?


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I'm having a problem when I try to get into macOS Utilities. When I hold CMD + R it shows me a prohibited symbol. I'm trying to downgrade my MacBook because its running very slow. Currently I have Mojave installed and I want to donwgrade it to High Sierra.
Before I installed Mojave everything was fine. I could go to the utilities without any problem. it happened after I installed it and can't access the utilities.
About my Mac:
macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6
Macbook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB


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It seems iTunes can't erase anything on my iPad!

How do I make iTunes capable of deleting from my iPad? And is it possible that iCloud / iTunes are somehow clashing with one another here?

Since updating to v11 of iTunes, iTunes seems incapable of erasing anything from my iPad.  Every time I sync I am told that there's not enough room; needing on the order of 7-10GB of space to complete the sync.

Through iTunes I have disabled all sync types (Movies, Music, Podcasts, iTunes U) ... The only thing active is Apps and according to the size meter at the bottom of the iTunes, I should end up with 20GB of space free.

I apply my changes and request the sync and after flowing the steps it alerts me it needs 7GB more space on my iPad.

Additionally, when I sync photos, I have the same "can't erase" type behavior. I initiate the sync, select "Delete originals from my device after sync", the sync completes, and sure enough iPhoto continues to tell me that 45 photos remain "ready to sync" on the iPad.

Long time iTunes user... I'm pretty comfortable with the app at this point but this has me stumped.

Thanks in advance.

Versions:

iMac 2006 Later
OS X: 10.6.8
iPad: 6.1.3
iTunes: 11.0.2


texts: I'd just like to know what it is that kernel_task is responsible for. Also, what's an acceptable maximum RAM and CPU use for it?


texts: Are retina graphics a burden all Macs (including non-retina) must carry?

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I'm in the process of downloading a rather chunky iMovie update (1.89 GB), and I'm wondering if the "Retina support" described about the update is something my non-retina MacBook must have lingering around?

I, like pretty much every other person, have a non-retina Mac and are these unused retina graphics are going to be present as inactive redundancies of all interface files/graphics in all retina supporting apps?


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I use the command ls in a terminal. I found this wired file with the prefix ~$.

When I was trying to remove it, the terminal responded No such file or directory.

I even tried renaming it, but it still showed the same error.

How do I successfully remove or file the file?


texts:
I'm running the latest version of Mavericks and I can't seem to change the folder icons. I've gone to get info and pasted it in whilst being clicked on the folder image but nothing happens.

I've only had this iMac a few weeks. To set it up I used migration assistance, ever since doing that I've been unable to change the folder image. Everything I've tried so far has not worked.


texts: Time Machine Restore Button Greyed Out For External Hard Drive

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I recently brought my computer (Mid 2010 Macbook pro) into the Apple Store because it had been crashing recently. The first time I brought it in, they did a clean wipe of the hard drive and restored it back to 10.9 Mavericks. When I restarted the computer, I chose not to perform a restore from Time Machine.

Upon dragging a file to the desktop from the external hard drive, the laptop crashed again. I brought it back to the Apple Store and had the logic board replaced. After I got it back, I decided to try upgrading to Yosemite, and then perform a restore from Time Machine on to my computer.

However, when I go into the Time Machine timeline and select the folder I want restored (it's something like Backups.backupdb > Christine's MacBook Pro > 2014-10-10-235138)), the 'restore' option is greyed out. Additionally, the timeline only allows me to perform restores from as far back as today (10/26/14).

To restore all my files back to their normal places, am I doing something wrong? Or do I need to downgrade to Mavericks and restore from Time Machine? Any help is appreciated!

I'm currently running OS X Yosemite (10.10).


texts: How to stop itunes from asking permission to allow computer to access info on my iPhone everytime i connect my phone?

texts: I connect my iPhone daily on a MacBook I don't want to access any info on my phone, so I don't want this question to pop up every time I connect my phone.


texts: How can I disable the macbook keyboard with Shift key held down on a password protected macbook?

texts:
This question is a bit strange, but here's the scenario:

macbook air laptop with El Capitan Mac OS X
currently logged off any account
liquid damage on keyboard has caused shift key to be permanently pressed
password to admin account has some lowercase letters and numbers
restarting enters "safe mode"

The machine has no sensitive data, so I'm happy for a solution even if it wipes out the admin account. I'm also happy to buy a USB keyboard/plug into an external screen if that will help.

How can I disable this pesky shift key? Or disable the built in keyboard all together?


texts: New MacBook Pro 13” screen goes black when opened past vertical

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My screen goes black when opened past vertical.  Tried all the NVRAM and SMC recommended fixes, but neither have fixed it.  Seems like hardware issue and it seems to be getting worse...

In order to use it, i need to open the screen slowly.  After it passes ~45 degrees each ~15 degrees the screen brightness drops by a little.  Then right around 90 degrees (vertical), it goes black.  To bring it back I have to close it again and open slowly.

When screen first went black on me and problem started (one week ago) I was still able to open to just past 90, now it’s gone down to just under 90 and making it hard to work...


texts: Mac/PC: How to change the developer of an Apple Disk Image?

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I am trying to use a GD-0912-U Intuos Graphics Tablet in OS X El Capitan at a public hackerspace. They will let me install any programs on the iMac, barring that Gatekeeper believes it is from a trusted developer.

I have been able to get this tablet working in Windows 7 by installing older drivers that were found online. This tablet is obviously not going to work with current Intuos drivers.

I have managed to find drivers that will likely work, but I cannot install them unless the OS believes that the app is from a trusted developer. New drivers downloaded from the Wacom website install perfectly, and show that Wacom is the official developer. It seems that the old drivers were created before Gatekeeper existed; therefore, they do not have the proper developer information.

Is there a way to alter developer information on an Apple Disk Image?

Could I take information from recent Intuos drivers and copy it into the .dmg?


texts: Can you still create an Apple ID with a name that's not an e-mail address?

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I have an Apple ID that is not an e-mail address(*). When you visit the “Create an Apple ID” page on the Apple ID site though, it says you need to “Enter your primary email address as your Apple ID.” I'm not sure how I got my existing Apple ID that is not an email address, from what I can tell from Apple's FAQ page it may have something to do with MobileMe (though I never had a paid MobileMe account; it could also be from using the Apple Developer Connection site).

Is it still possible to create a new Apple ID somehow and not use an e-mail address as the ID, or is this a legacy MobileMe option only?

(*) To clarify: the Apple ID is associated with an e-mail address of course, and that's where my receipts are sent to when I buy something in iTunes (let's say “john.doe@gmail.com”), but my Apple ID username that I use to sign in in iTunes or on the Apple ID page is not that e-mail address at all (let's say it's “cool_john”).


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I have an iPhone 4 running iOs 6.1.3.

I have just switched from O2-UK to T-Mobile.

O2 supported Visual Voicemail and T-Mobile does not (at present)

I have set up my voicemail by dialling 222.

However, I want to set up the diverts (no answer, unreachable, busy) to voicemail but cannot find an option for this anywhere in the Settings app.

How do I switch these on?


texts: How long is an app downloadable from the App Store?

texts: I'd like to know how many years an app is downloadable/distributed in App Store after a developer uploads it.


texts: What is currently the best remote assistance/remote desktop application for Macs?  I think unattended access (no remote user needed) and file transfer would be useful.  Teamviewer seems to fit the bill, but I am not a Mac guy so I was wondering if there were other/better options for the Mac.


texts: Terminator (Ubuntu) like app for OS X Yosemite

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I'm using Ubuntu on a daily basis, and recently (6 months ago) I bought a Mac, so the first thing I did was installing VMWare and Ubuntu on my MBP.

I'm a developer and a huge fan of Terminator. With Terminator, you can open multiple file in one window, code separatly on them, and many other great things.

I thought that if it runs on Ubuntu it could possibly run on Mac OSX but it seems that it doesn't work.

Is there a Terminator-like terminal app for OS X Yosemite?


texts: Is there a way to force clockwise pane rotation in iTerm2 with the shortcut keys?

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I've often found that when using iTerm2, I'll have like 3 or 4 panes open in one tab.  And the shortcut keys for moving between them Cmd + ] and Cmd + [ are very useful, but unpredictable.  The reason is because "next" and "previous" panes are determined by the order in which panes had last focus.  So if I have 4 panes open in a window shape, sometimes Cmd + [ may circle around them clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, and sometimes neither.  And I can't remember which pane had the 3rd last focus.

The problem is correctable by simply clicking on each pane in clockwise order and then using the shortcut keys, but this is kind of annoying to have to do each time.

Is there a setting where I can lock the shortcut keys into clockwise (and counterclockwise) rotation only?


texts: Is there a Safari shortcut that always works to reopen last-closed tab?

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Note: this is not a duplicate of How can I get Safari to reopen my last closed tab?

I am familiar with the shortcut ⌘+Z working when the tab was just closed. However, I often do something else that I don't want to undo.

For instance, I sometimes close a tab, write half and answer on Stack Exchange, realize I didn't want to close it, and am then stuck with accessing the history manually.

So, is there any Safari shortcut or menu item specifically for reopening my last closed tab?

Update: This isn't a fix, but if your only problem is not wanting to undo anything besides closed tabs (and you don't care about having something that'll always work), setting a shortcut for "Undo Close Tab" in Keyboard preferences will filter the shortcut to closed tabs only!


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I lost my iPhone 6+ and and turned on the lost mode. However, my password is very easy to figure out.

Since the location services automatically turns on, will it stay on (unless he/she turns it off) even if he/she unlocks it?


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I've installed Fedora on a new SATA SSD drive for my MacBook Pro, and when installed into the laptop, it boots perfectly (and runs wonderfully!). However, I want to boot from it externally until I'm ready to make the switch from OS X, so have mounted the drive in a USB caddy.

Unfortunately, it doesn't boot from there, when powering on and holding the Alt key. This question suggests installing rEFIt to get it to boot; however, my other research on the web makes me think rEFIt tends only to be used where multi-boot is required.

Since my new drive boots perfectly well when installed in the laptop, I'm hesitant to install a new boot loader, in case I break something! Can I put rEFIt on a memory stick and boot from that to then boot from the SSD drive in another USB port? Or, is there a much simpler solution I have overlooked?

PostScript: I've not tried it yet, but if I put the Linux/SSD drive into the laptop, will the OS X drive be recognised as a USB boot device?


texts: How do I restore default terminal command for Notifications on Yosemite?

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On Yosemite I disabled notifications with the following terminal command:

cd `getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR`
rm -rf com.apple.notificationcenter
killall usernoted; killall NotificationCenter

Does anyone know what I need to type to restore the original default notification setting?


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iMessage and FaceTime throw an activation error any time I try to login on both of my devices (Mac Mini 2011 and iPad Pro 9.7). This happens since Dec 20 and I can't fix it.

It looks that I have tried everything that is told when you google for "imessage authentication/activation error" / "could not sign in to imessage" / "iMessage doesn't work" and other stuff:

obviously reboot
set the time to auto-since with Apple servers
reset nvram on Mac
remove sim from iPad and put it back in
reset network settings
logout and log back in to iCloud via System Preferences
change Apple ID password, disable/enable two-step auth
"wait 24 hours"
tried both with home Wi-Fi and via cellular data on iPad
finally... created NEW Apple ID first on Mac, then created another one on iPad.

... and it doesn't work.

All my software is up to date and I can successfully use iCloud storage and everything else that includes interaction with Apple ID - except of FaceTime and iMessage.

The curious thing is that it stopped working simultaneously on both my devices. The more curious thing is the impossibility to use another Apple ID - I have created three new Apple IDs trying to fix the problem.

I don't have an iPhone and never had.

This sounds ridiculous to happen at all. Has anyone encountered the similar problem?

I'm not sure what could have triggered that. I haven't changed my devices recently. I don't use VPN.


texts: Manage and update many machines with the same settings

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I have a small renderfarm of mac minis and they should all have exactly the same settings, get the same updates, etc. etc. I'm sure there is a solution for this and I would love to stop repeating myself :). How does this work at the enterprise level?

EDIT:
Sorry for being vague. I have just four computers currently but may expand, though likely staying below ten. I frequently have to install software upgrades, configure licenses, update network mount points, etc.

I've done some rudimentary google searches but am having trouble finding the terminology.


texts: Downloading the Current EFI for the 2015 MacBook8,1 Model?

texts:
I checked the Mac product download pages and found no new firmware updates for the new 2015 MacBooks. I found many for the MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iMacs, and even the XServers, but the closest thing I found to "MacBook" firmware updates were for the older models. I looked at the release dates and they are relatively current. I would assume since Apple came out with the MacBook9,1 this year, they would have had EFI firmware download support for this newer model Mac.

Can someone give me a hand?


texts: Does apple store my credit card information including name card number

texts:
Hello community,
                i recently bought an apple developer account and paid $99 for it.
This is annual subscription, which will be renewed every year. My question is does apple stored my card information so that it can be used in future subscription or any kind of payment.
Or the payment process during purchase of developer account was one time process.

Main thing is that, if anybody who somehow has access to my apple ID and mobile can use that card for payment or fund transfer which was used during purchase of developer account?

If that card is saved then where can i see it and how can i remove it?


texts: MacBook Pro doesn't automatically go into Hibernate/Safe Sleep on empty battery (M1/Big Sur)

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Long gone are the times when my MacBook Pro 2012 automatically went into hibernate when the battery was low. I always blamed it on my old battery. I recently bought a MacBook Pro M1 though, and was pretty certain this problem was no longer an issue.
I was wrong. The problem still persists. I have a fresh install and double-checked that I am on default settings.
pmset -g:
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 powernap             1
 sleep                1 (sleep prevented by powerd, coreaudiod)
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 tcpkeepalive         1
 disksleep            10
 standby              1
 displaysleep         2

Comparing it to my old MacBook I can see that a lot of settings are missing.
Although the setting hibernatemode doesn't show within pmset -g, I can see that it still exists and that the default is still 3, because whenever I change it to a different value, the otherwise disabled button Restore Defaults in System Preferences gets enabled (Thus I obviously changed the defaults).
So: What the heck is going on?! Has this feature been removed?


texts: How can I turn off iCloud storage space warning notifications?

texts:
On my Mac I've been getting many pop-up and email notifications about my meager iCloud storage space.

I only really use iCloud with iOS and chose to sign in to my same account on my Mac.

There's no chance that I'll upgrade so how can I turn off these Mac warnings that iCloud storage is close to full?


texts: To-Do list which could read the task on time

texts:
I'm looking for the application for OS X (Maverick), which could merge two tasks for me.
One is the TO-DO list just like "Reminders".
The second one is more tricky - I wish "Reminders" to read task on loud as soon as the task will be close to specific time frame.

I use similar functionality in the OSX's clock, which tells me each 15 minutes what time is it.

Do you have any suggestions?


texts: iPod classic 160gb showing NO music or any files at all

texts:
I just finished making a Christmas playlist in iTunes when I moved my laptop and iTunes thinks I removed my iPod without ejecting it properly first. I think I'm using a crappy USB cord but that's besides the point.
So at this point I ejected it from "MY COMPUTER" on Windows and disconnect it from the USB cord and the iPod says "NO MUSIC" and shows none of my playlists etc; it looks like everything is gone on xmas EVE! :(

So now I plug it back into iTunes on my laptop and it says "iTunes cannot read the contents of your iPod. Go to summary tab in iPod preferences and click restore to restore this iPod back to factory settings."

But I know that will erase everything for sure and I definitely don't want to do that.

When I go into "MY COMPUTER" on windows it still shows that's there's 15GB of SOMETHING on my iPod (I had about that much music on my iPod) but iTunes cannot recognize it.

What can I do? I've spent hours in the past reorganizing, renaming files and making various playlists and I don't want to have to do all that again, especially not on Christmas eve.

When I go into "settings>about on my iPod, it says 133GB free" on a 160gb iPod so SOMETHING is there.

I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium.


texts: FaceTime: An Error Occurred during activation

texts:
Upon entering correct information into FaceTime on latest OS X, we receive "An error occurred during activation. Try again."

Have already tried resetting power controller and memory, making sure date and time are set correctly, etc.

Video here:
https://vimeo.com/268399235


texts: How can I show a slideshow of pictures in multiple subfolders while keeping them in order?

texts:
I have a folder that contains a number of sub folders that are full of pictures.  What I'd like to be able to do is start a slideshow from the parent folder that will show all the images in all the sub folders, however I would like the pictures to be shown in the order that they are in inside of each subfolder.

So, considering the following folders:

Parent folder
- Pictures 1
- More pictures
- Best pictures

I would like the slideshow to show all of the pictures in the 'Pictures 1' folder before moving on to 'More pictures' and so on.

Is this possible natively in OSX Lion?  I'm open to other tools is there's something reasonably priced.


texts: Configure QuickLook to open particular files

texts:
I'm wondering if there's a way to get QuickLook open up files it doesn't recognize.

For example, I'd like to be able to have QuickLook view .mailsignature files in the basic text viewer. Any suggestions?


texts: iOS beta app got leaked, can I get in trouble with Apple?

texts:
I'm running a beta test for an iOS game. (100 devices, ad-hoc)
Somehow the game got leaked on a site that offers .ipa apps for jailbreaked devices.
Can I get in trouble with Apple because of this? (Can Apple see that the app got installed on more than the usual 100 devices?)


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I'm trying to sync my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I connect the iPhone, launch iTunes, click on the device, then click "Sync".

1

I'm presented with this dialog:

2

I click "Authorize". Then I get this dialog:

3

I fill in the information and click "Authorize".

Then I get this dialog:

4

I click "OK" and instantly I am presented with the first dialog above, the one that says, "This computer is no longer authorized..."

Then it just enlessly cycles between those three dialogs, never letting me authorize the computer.

Any ideas?

Mac OS 10.7.3

iTunes 10.6.1 (7)


texts: Why do I get notifications about new Photos memories from a decade ago?

texts:
Every so often, I get a notification from Photos (on macOS) that I have a new memory. But it's not of recent events. I just got a new memory that includes some pictures I took, and imported into my Mac, nearly 10 years ago.

Why I am I getting these new memories for such old photos all of a sudden? Is Photos just scanning my memories when I have extra processing power and analyzing them?


texts:
I ran Windows on Mac using Bootcamp, but apparently I'm having so many compatibility issues, especially with this eGPU.

So I was thinking to manually install Windows on my MacBook Pro 13" 2019, and check if this would allow my eGPU to work.
Apparently the eGPU works fine on both Windows and MacOS, but it does NOT work on BootCamp.

The problem must be with Bootcamp drivers, in fact the eGPU works fine in Windows. Instead it specifically says the eGPU does not work on Bootcamp (not on Windows, but on Bootcamp). So I am thinking installing Windows on a partition myself, with another boot loader rather than bootcamp, might help.

I have found How to install Windows 10 into a 2013 iMac without using the Boot Camp Assistant, USB flash drive or third party tools? but the solution there is for a block size of 512. I need a solution for a block size of 4096.

Not looking for Virtual Machines solutions.


texts: MacBook Pro 2020 Model - External Monitors Now Have Strange White, semi-transparent, Box On Top Left Corner

texts:
I have a new Macbook Pro 2020 model, have attached a couple of external monitors. Everything was fine until last night, suddenly there is now a semi-transparent white box appearing on the top left corner of only the external monitors, not my actual laptop screen.

I've rebooted, looked at what loads up on login...

Can't figure it out, does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of the annoying white menace?

Screenshot attached.


texts: How to recover precious photos in iCloud from stolen iphone?

texts: My iPhone was lost or stolen and I have lost all  my children's photos and need  to know how to get into my iCloud account by using a kindle, tablet or a windows phone.


texts: Press and hold for accented character menu disables letter input in Mojave

texts:
After upgrade to Mojave, a long press of any letter does not bring up the accented character menu. Instead it disables all letters from being inputted in applications (Messages, Safari, Skype, TextEdit, Chrome and others).

Special keys like backspace and return still work.

If I execute defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false, press and hold repeats the letter, and input is not disabled.

If I change it back to true, input gets disabled after a press and hold.


texts: Is there any way to have two applications visible at the same time, with one application not in use overlapping the other

texts:
For example:

Notice how Sublime Text 2 (the application on the right) is visible and I can see chrome in the background. This is expected behaviour as I have Sublime Text 2 open and in use.

But then when I swap back to Chrome, the app disappears in the background, because chrome is now in use (which I guess is expected behaviour).

Is there any way so that when I swap back to Chrome, I can see other applications on top of it? In other words, can I use Chrome and look at other applications on top of it?

Obviously I could do something side by side, but my real problem involves an application that I maximise.


texts: macOS El Capitan iTunes does not list songs when you click on the album

texts:
Since recently my iTunes Version 12.8.2.3 running on El Capitan does not show songs when you click on the album in Browser. It leads to an empty panel.
Might this be something that’s a bug or reproducible?


texts: How do i disable messenger on the iMac but not my MacBook/iPhone

texts:
I have an iPhone and MacBook that are my own and an iMac that I share with my fiancé. I have it set up currently so that my text messages come to my phone and both computers.

As this can be annoying when she is using the home computer and I am not (getting my random texts), how do I disable Messages on the iMac but not my MacBook/iPhone?


texts:
I have a script scheduled to run as LaunchDaemon. Script runs fine when launched manually through terminal.

I have two commands

sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.test.plist
sudo launchctl load -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.test.plist

plist below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com
 /DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
 <plist version="1.0">
 <dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.test.plist</string>
 <key>Program</key>
 <string>/usr/local/bin/test.sh</string>
 <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
 <string>/tmp/com.test.plist.err</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/tmp/com.test.plist.out</string>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
    <key>Hour</key>
    <integer>18</integer>
    <key>Minute</key>
    <integer>4</integer>
</dict>

when run separately they do work. But once scheduled in launchd it runs for split second them goes to unloaded. I am guessing once it unloads the script it stops running. I change the values of the intervals set in the plist with another script which is why I need to unload and load. Is there another way to do this?


texts: How can I obtain app energy impact data from the command line or applescript?

texts: Does anyone know how to access the "Energy Impact" data used to determine "Apps Using Significant Energy" displayed in the battery menu bar? I'd like to use it in a shell-script/applescript.


texts: How to prevent/reduce DVD-R burning errors

texts:
I am burning a folder onto a DVD. The folder contains subfolders which have images and video files.

I am burning by dropping the folder onto a blank DVD on the desktop, opening it up and clicking "Burn", then using maximum speed to burn. At the end of the burn finder brings up a message saying that it couldn't verify the burn, and ejects the disc.

If I insert the disc back into the Mac, I get a message saying that it cannot be read.

I have done this 4 times only one disc has worked. All four times were done in the same method. The discs are Verbatim 4.7GB 16x DVD-R

How can I complete the burn successfully?

Update

The error codes is:

  This disc can’t be verified and might be unreliable. Try again using a new blank disc (error code 0x80020063).

I have researched the error and not a lot is written, just that I should try to close the finder window as soon as the disc starts to burn. This would seem like a very simple bug that Apple would have fixed by now.

I tried this and it didn't work. However I used a Verbatim DVD-RW 4x speed and the message poped up again, yet when I inserted the DVD it worked and all the data was on it.


texts: Extract a sound from a Classic application for Mac OS X?

texts:
How can I extract a single 'snd' resource from a classic application into a form that Mac OS X can play?

I can use derez to get the snd resource out, but from there I'm not sure how to assemble it into a form Mac OS X can read.

This is on Lion; I have no access to earlier Macs.

Derezed,it starts like this:

data 'snd ' (3004, "metal stamp", purgeable) {
    $"0002 0000 0001 8050 0000 0000 000E 0000"            /* ......ÄP........ */
    $"0000 0000 159E 2B77 45D1 0000 159C 0000"            /* .....û+wE—...ú.. */
    $"159D 003C 787D 807E 7D7D 8087 8376 6E72"            /* .ù.<x}Ä~}}ÄáÉvnr */
    $"7C87 8782 8789 857F 7169 5F74 9891 7068"            /* |ááÇáâÖ.qi_tòëph */


texts: Is there still iTunes plus upgrade for DRM'ed music?

texts:
Thanks to the tip here, I was able to make a smart playlist containing all the DRM encumbered music in my iTunes library.

I remember in the past there was an offer from iTunes Plus that lets you pay a fee to "upgrade" your DRM'ed songs to unprotected ones.

Does this still exist? How do I get non-DRM'ed versions of these songs nowadays?

Thanks!

BTW, I am running iTunes 10.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.


texts:
I subscribe to a bunch of Google calendars on my iPad, and I have my iPad fully set up with iOS 5 and iCloud. The only calendars that are currently syncing with iCloud are Reminders—is there any way I can also sync my Google calendars?

Other info: the Google calendars are a mix of read/write and read-only.


texts: Dell P2715Q Needs "Detect Displays" after MBPR 15" goes to sleep

texts:
So I have my new Dell P2715Q connected to a Thunderbolt port on my MacBook Pro Retina 15" Mid-2015 using the supplied DisplayPort cable, in SST mode.

When I plugged it in the first time, it worked perfectly at 4K@60. But: when the MacBook goes to sleep, the display does not wake when the laptop does.

Once woken, the MacBook is aware there is a second monitor attached (I can move the mouse off the edge of the MacBook monitor), but the Dell shows black.

Going into Display Preferences and hitting "Detect Displays" fixes everything back to how it should be, but it's a huge pain that it doesn't do it automatically. When I do this, the MacBook monitor does not dip to black (like it usually does when I plug in a monitor), but the Dell wakes. Makes me think that the MacBook has opened the display stream but is forgetting to send anything to it.

Anyone have any ideas?


texts: Enable right click Magic Mouse in Terminal

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I am trying to enable the right click on a Magic Mouse connected to an iMac running 10.6.8, but due to parental controls, I am unable to gain access to the Mouse System Preferences.

I know you can change other settings through Terminal, is it possible to change it to enable right click as well?

I saw this question, but the command

defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseButtonMode TwoButton

did not make it work for me. If I do

defaults read com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse

then is confirms that the TwoButton string was set, but when I right click, nothing happens.


texts: How do I compile Apple's Security framework?

texts:
I am trying to compile my own copy of Apple's Security.framework, specifically version 55471.14.18, which was included in OS X 10.9.5 and whose source code can be downloaded from https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/Security/Security-55471.14.18.tar.gz.
I'm using a copy of Mac OS X 10.9.5 in a VM. Xcode 6.2 has been installed, and xcode-select --install has separately been run to acquire system headers.

The readme file included in the source download says:

To build this project in a Darwin environment (as opposed to building
in-house at Apple), use the Darwin buildstyle. If you're building with
Xcode, select "Darwin" from the "Active Build Style" popup. If you're
building from the command line, specify the build style like so:
% xcodebuild -buildstyle Darwin install

But when I run the given command, I'm told:
xcodebuild: error: option '-buildstyle' is no longer supported
Since my copy of Xcode was current at the time this code was released, I'm not sure what to make of this error. I decided to ignore it and press on with just a standard xcodebuild command.

The first problem I ran into was easy to fix, but makes me worried I'm missing something larger. The compiler complains:
/Users/Jonathan/Desktop/Security-55471.14.18/libsecurity_utilities/lib/macho++.cpp:39:18: error:
unused variable 'MAX_ARCH_COUNT' [-Werror,-Wunused-const-variable]
static const int MAX_ARCH_COUNT = 100;

Since the variable is reportedly unused anyway, I just opened the file and commented out the line static const int MAX_ARCH_COUNT = 100;.

Unfortunately, this is where I ran into a brick wall. Xcodebuild seems to want all sorts of headers that are not on my system or included in the project. For instance:
/Users/Jonathan/Desktop/Security-55471.14.18/libsecurity_utilities/lib/mach++.cpp:33:10: fatal error:
      'bootstrap_priv.h' file not found
#include <bootstrap_priv.h>

These headers are also open source, and I know where to find them! Bootstrap_priv.h, for example, is part of launchd; the OS X 10.9.5 version can be downloaded from https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/launchd/launchd-842.92.1.tar.gz
However, I do not understand where I'm supposed to put these headers in order for the compiler to find them! Things I've tried:

Copying the launchd project to /usr/include/
Copying the launchd project to the root of the security project
Copying just Bootstrap_priv.h to /usr/include/
Copying just bootstrap_priv.h to the root of the security project
Copying just bootstrap_priv.h to the project directory/libsecurity_utilities/lib/

That last attempt actually did let me get past the error (and to see the next missing header, IOPMLibPrivate.h), but I'm quite sure it's not what I'm supposed to do! As I keep adding headers to random places within the project, other source files get stuck finding headers I've already copied elsewhere. Some of the headers themselves get stuck this way, expecting a different relative path for dependencies than what the main project seems to need.

I am feeling extremely out of my depth here! Where are these header files actually supposed to go, and what is the meaning of that -buildstyle option I'm supposed to include but which can't be run? None of this appears to be documented anywhere!


texts:
I have a Mac and a jailbroken iPad. Jailbreaking is perfectly legal where I write this. I can scp and rsync to the device (i.e. I can file-transfer), how would I best transfer some movies to watch on the iPad?

Which folder on the iPad?
Which app on the iPad? (preferably: free)

Any combination that works without using iTunes would do.


texts: Will a cloned hard drive function exactly as the original?

texts: If I buy a new hard drive and clone my original onto it (using Carbon Copy Cloner or something similar), will my computer function exactly the same as it did before? Will things like licensed programs not work properly? (I can't think of any reason they wouldn't, but you never know.)


texts: How to change default sort order in Catalina's Reminders?

texts: The new Reminders with Catalina allows the user to change the sort order, but does not remember the user's choice after system restart and always defaults to Apple's choice, which I believe is manual. Is there any way to change the default sort order to, say, due date, which would be my preference? I cannot find a suitable .plist file where default sort order is a parameter that can be changed. Any hints or ideas welcome.


texts:
I need to use/integrate GCC 5.X (in my case 5.3, and it is already installed) on Xcode 6.2.

I've found a lot of outdated tutorials about GCC 4.X and Xcode 5 (or lower), but all of them are outdated and do not work anymore.

I've also found this tutorial, but I have not the 5.3.xcplugin file that the tuto recommend to copy.

I am still on Mac OS X Maverick, and I can install Xcode 7 if necessary.

Anybody would know how to do it?


texts:
I have MacBook Pro and using Mojave currently.

I would like to add more type accents to my standart U.S. Q keyboard(or at least find an easy way to type 2 characters from my mother-tongue(Turkish). I have added my language to Input Sources from keyboard settings but no luck.

Is it possible to activate more type accents? (I only need these characters  though : g -> ğ, s -> ş)


texts:
My iMac is set up using Parental Controls to limit how long my kids can use it.

When their time is up, they are no longer able to use the iMac.  However, their accounts are not logged out, and whatever they were doing continues to run.

They like to play Roblox, and I have found that a single Roblox session continuing to run hogs a lot of CPU and slows everything down.  I fix this by killing the loginwindow process for each child when I realise this is happening.

I'd like to set my Mac up so select accounts are automatically logged out after a period of inactivity, so the Roblox issue is resolved for me.  I saw an answer on SuperUser that achieved this using cron.  However, adding scripts to /bin and /sbin (and /usr/local/bin) is no longer straightforward due to security changes.

StackOverflow had a suggestion for running scheduled scripts using launchd which looks nicer and more the Mac way.

Has anyone managed to do this in recent versions of MacOS (I'm on Mojave) using either of the above methods or something else?

Note I don't want my account to get logged out after a period of inactivity - so the Autologout option in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Advanced doesn't meet my needs.


texts: Applescript : Getting List of Id's of Visible windows ( windows shown on the desktop )

texts:
I am trying to get the list of visible windows, i.e the windows which are shown on the desktop and not minimized.

So, far I have this script which gives me the correst list of processes which are running and have a windows associated with it. But I am not able to get the id's of visible windows associated with these processes.

Here's the script :

set visibleWindows to ""
set message to ""

tell application "System Events"
    set listOfProcesses to (name of every process where background only is false)
    repeat with visibleProcess in listOfProcesses
        try
            tell process visibleProcess to set visibleWindows to visibleWindows & (id of windows whose visible is true)
        on error someError
            set message to "Some error occured :" & someError
        end try
    end repeat
end tell

return {visibleWindows, listOfProcesses, message}

You can try this in script editor but its always giving a empty list.

Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.


texts: Adding to accented characters available on OS X Keyboard

texts:
If you hold down a letter then OS X will show you options for accented versions of that character.  This is very useful when typing in other languages.

However, not all the versions of that letter are always available.  For example, if I hold down the [S], then I can choose ß, ś, or š.  However, I'd like for it to also display the turkish ş. Is there a way to add that character to the accent menu?

I'm looking for an easy way to type Turkish characters on my english keyboard.


texts: How are paths to files and folders constructed in OS X?

texts: I need to indicate a right file path to read a .csv file into R on OS X, but how can I find where the file is stored? Looking at Excel files, the file path starts at users/…, but there is no indication of a disk or something.


texts: How to deauthorize an iPhone without iTunes?

texts:
I no longer wish to use my old iPhone 3GS.
I used to use my Apple-ID to log into The iTunes & App Store on it.

Since I use that Apple-ID for iTunes & App Store on several other iDevices, I want to completely deauthorize and unregister the iPhone 3GS from my Apple-ID.

I have already signed out of iTunes & App Store on it. Can and should I "deauthorize" it in any other way?

I no longer use the iTunes program on any computer, so the iPhone is not connected or synced to any computer of mine . (And I don't want to install iTunes, I don't like the program).


texts:
If I let my computer sleep my VPN connection seems to die. Mac shows it as still being up, but nothing over the VPN works until I reconnect and disconnect.

I am happy to have a my monitors sleep, but I want my network and VPN connection to stay active.

I'm running Yosemite with a wired connection. Anyone know how I might get this to happen? I'm open to using Caffeine or something like that, but with 3x 30 inch monitors my power bill will suck if I don't let them sleep (and turning them off is annoying because all my windows get rearranged).


texts: Is there an iPad PDF Reader app that has autoscroll?

texts:
I read stacks of PDFs on my iPad and I have downloaded (and paid for) a few PDF readers hoping to find an auto-scroll feature, without luck.

Does anyone know of any iPad app that can auto-scroll PDF's (preferably with Dropbox integration so I can get at my PDFs easily!).

Thanks


texts:
The ip program is a multi-purpose network configuration tool that makes use of the full range networking features available in modern Linux kernels.

However, it does not work on Mac:

$ ip a
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Switch to Ubuntu,things go well

$ ip a
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host
    ...

Is there  a substitute tool for it?


texts: Silencing “Your disk is almost full” notification

texts:
Since none of the solutions found here Silencing "Your disk is almost full" notification worked for me on Mojave, I simply disabled the daemon:
sudo mv /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/StorageManagement.framework/Resources/diskspaced /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/StorageManagement.framework/Resources/diskspaced.disabled

Brute force, I know, but unloading/removing/disabling using launchctl didn't work and I got annoyed.
Is there a more elegant way to turn off Apple's constant nannying alert messages?


texts: Split cursor in Mac OS High Sierra in fullscreen mode

texts:
Recently my cursor often is split in fullscreen mode. I then basically have 2.5 cursors. Since I cannot screenshot the cursor I attached a photo. I am using the trackpad. Is anyone else experiencing this? How can I fix it? It kind of undermines the trust in my work machine :)

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017)
Mac OS 10.13.6 (17G65)


texts: Everytime I open an iOS, app instead of refreshing to the homepage and showing me new content the app opens to where I was last time I used it. For example, when I open a third party news app, instead of opening to the homepage with new and updated articles, it opens to the article that I was reading when I closed the app. I am experiencing this problem with all my apps and was wondering if it could be related to background app refresh setting which I currently have turned off.


texts:
I'm sure that my Wi-Fi router is fine because my MacBook is the only one with this issue.  I see this happen especially when I use Skype, FaceTime, etc.  This has been going on for a month and can't really find a fix.

I did see that OS X 10.7 Lion has some connectivity issue but don't think it has been solved.  I have tried many tips told by other users.  I hope someone from here can help me.

I get an error saying  "Connection Timeout".

Thank You


texts: Is it possible to buy an Apple product in the UK and return it in the US?

texts: Is it possible to buy an Apple product, like an iPad mini, in the UK and return it in the US? And vice versa?


texts: Old iPad not charging after no use for a year

texts:
I have an old iPad and want to give it to a friend.

I plugged it in with a new lead that charges another 1st gen iPad I have, but it's not coming on.

It's not been used for about a year. It's been plugged in now for 20 minutes.

Any ideas?


texts:
I am getting lots of log messages in my 10.10 Server install.  This was an upgrade from 10.9.5. I will get hundreds of the Gesture Started and Gesture Ended messages in a second with different numbers (i.e. 503xxx becomes 504xxx).

9:41:46 AM WindowServer: 50386035501120 -- Bookend Type: 62 (Gesture Ended) conn: 0xf8c7, window 0x5e
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: 50386035506584 ++ Bookend Type: 61 (Gesture Started) conn: 0xf8c7, window 0x5e
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: *** Complete ***

Any ideas?


texts: Can I buy a used iPhone 5 from eBay and use it as an iPod Touch?

texts:
I'm planning on buying a second-hand iPhone 5 from eBay and then using it as an iPod Touch (when the time comes, I'd like to activate it and use it as an iPhone). I'm not sure how activation works, however, and a few hours of internet searching have yielded several different answers. So far, I've heard that I'd need to get a SIM card matching the carrier of the iPhone, but I've heard some people say that it has to have been used with an iPhone before that?

Sorry for the possible triviality; I'm not too well-versed in Apple products and things. Thanks a ton in advance :)


texts: Downgrading (user homes) to macOS Sierra

texts:
Because of having issues with High Sierra, I had to downgrade to Sierra. My macOS is on an internal SSD (of my Mac Pro) and my user homes are on an external SSD. When downgrading using a backup, Time Machine only replaced macOS (on the internal SSD), but not the user homes (on the external SSD).

Looks like Sierra is not happy with my High Sierra user homes:

Messages hangs
identityservicesd and callservicesd are constantly crashing
my screen turns black, sometimes every few seconds. possibly having to do with the crashes.

Essentially the same problems like in this thread (which is locked):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8105075

The user of the post above said he could solve his issues with a reinstall of Sierra (which I cannot do and I am also not convinced this changes anything) plus “restoring files by hand from my time machine backup drive with rsync and other command-line tools”. Any idea how to do this or which files need replacement? Deleting ~/Library/Caches did not help. I also restored these with Time Machine which also did not help:

~/Library/Messages
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.identityservicesd.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TelephonyUtilities.plist

Any other idea?

Some detail on the crashes:

Process:               identityservicesd [803]
Path:                  /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IDS.framework/identityservicesd.app/Contents/MacOS/identityservicesd
Identifier:            identityservicesd
Version:               10.0 (1000)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           identityservicesd [803]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2018-02-01 10:00:56.010 +0100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G1212)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        F9C97F8F-70BD-CA59-5E14-105C64D05D82

Time Awake Since Boot: 57 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFData count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fa61a012200'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

and

Process:               callservicesd [996]
Path:                  /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TelephonyUtilities.framework/callservicesd
Identifier:            callservicesd
Version:               1.0 (1.0)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           callservicesd [996]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2018-02-01 10:09:25.222 +0100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G1212)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        F9C97F8F-70BD-CA59-5E14-105C64D05D82

Time Awake Since Boot: 560 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFData count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fd24b86e800'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

Update: Trying to restore ~/Library/Preferences completely with Time Machine essentially resulted in a deletion. Now the problems are gone but my preferences are also gone. Luckily I have copied the folder before doing so. Thus if I knew which of the preferences needed replacement by the Sierra ones I could restore the rest by hand. Any idea?


texts: Login to AppStore over cellular data, jump on public wifi, download/install app is "safe"?

texts:
Is it "safe" to install an App as such:
(1) using only a cellular data connection (wifi turned off) login to the App Store.
(2) enable wifi.
(3) connect to public wifi network.
(4) disable cellular data.
(5) download app.
(6) enable cellular data.
(7) disable wifi.
(8) install app.

The iPhone can jump between wifi and cellular data without breaking a tcp connection right?


texts: brew: Failed to set filetime 1503098583 on outfile: errno 1

texts:
I see now often a new error when invoking brew. It works anyway, but I wonder how to fix Failed to set filetime on outfile: errno 1

brew install redis
Failed to set filetime 1503098583 on outfile: errno 1
Failed to set filetime 1500719840 on outfile: errno 1
Failed to set filetime 1503105755 on outfile: errno 1
Failed to set filetime 1503098357 on outfile: errno 1
Failed to set filetime 1503115442 on outfile: errno 1
Failed to set filetime 1499154411 on outfile: errno 1
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 3 taps (caskroom/cask, cloudfoundry/tap, homebrew/core).
==> New Formulae


texts: Filesystem permissions for /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/.MSIC/Incoming

texts: I have changed the permissions on /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/.MSIC/Incoming. Now my camera cannot take pictures. Maybe picture is taken but it cannot write it. I want to fix the permissions issue. Could somebody tell me what the permissions should be (iPhone 5s iOS 8.1)?


texts: How can I solve the problem - The backup disk image “/Volumes/Time Capsule de xx/MacBook Pro xx.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).


texts: How do I tell what processes are driving I/O loads?

texts:
Something is driving a lot of Disk I/O on my system lately. I can see in ActivityMonitor that there are huge volumes of reads and writes every second. But none of the "normal" suspects are active when this is happening. (i.e. it's not time machine.) and I have plenty of free memory (800MB to 1.3GB out of 6GB total) so it shouldn't be paging. I don't see any apps in top that are blocked on I/O when this starts. (once it's going then I see things start to pile up... but everything I see in there appears to be victim.)

What tools can I use to get a sense for what process is causing the disk io?

I think it started with 10.6.6. :( I don't recall ever hitting this with 10.6.5.


texts:
My Google Photos service on osx is hung.  There's no obvious process to kill and try to restart.

I'm on OSX 10.11.2


texts: How to fix sandboxing on macOS PDF Services?

texts:
A casualty of Big Sur's increased security is PDF Services, which now are sandboxed and can't write files anywhere.
(PDF Services are scripts or other executables that take PDF files from the print menu as their input and process them further.)
I've tried shell and python scripts, which worked previously on earlier OS versions. These are running under 'my' user, but will not save anywhere except /tmp.  - not even /Users/Shared.
Obviously, I don't expect that a script can 'escalate' itself, as that would defeat the whole sandboxing thing. But, until such time as Apple decides it will allow me to write files, is there anything that can be done?


texts: iPhone Chrome browser is not allowed to make calls directly

texts:
While trying to make some calls through the google search in my iPhone 11, Chrome warned me that the site is repeatedly trying to open another app.
I accidentally hit Block and now it is not allowing me to make any call through the google search call button.

Pressing the call button has no effect now. How do I revert this?
I tried to find a configuration/setting but could not find any.
iPhone 11 running iOS 13.6.
Chrome for iOS  v79.0.3945.73


texts: How to sync photos from iOS to MacBook just as songs sync from MacBook to iOS

texts:
If I am at a camp site with no internet access, but with a wifi router, a macbook, and an iPhone, I can sync songs on iTunes from the macbook to the iPhone seamlessly. No need for cables, no need to go through Apple's servers.

How can I do the same with photos, but in the other direction? You're traveling, for instance, and you'd like to backup the photos on your phone to your macbook, wirelessly (wifi/bluetooth), automatically (just as with iTunes), and without going through iCloud. What is the recipe?


texts: How can I get the Parallels Desktop Application Icons in Launchpad?

texts:
I have the opposite problem of this one; I have Parallels Desktop 6 installed and while I do have the Applications folder in the dock, I don't have links to any of these applications in Launchpad.

How can I get these application icons in Launchpad? I'm aware that Parallels has the following knowledge base article which says that there is going to be a folder in Launchpad, but that's not what I want. I'm looking for a way to get all the applications icon to be visible in Launchpad, similar to this:

Note: I had Parallels installed on Snow Leopard (before I had Launchpad), and now I am using Lion.


texts: My icloud photos won't upload onto my new macbook air 2018

texts: I just got this computer 2 days ago and the number of photos its trying to upload keeps climbing, but the bar won't show it's loading. It did at one point and it seemed to be done after a bit, but then it went back to the beginning. Is this something that will just take time? Also, I can't plug my phone into the computer to upload because it doesn't have a USB port (computer came out a couple weeks ago so the charging holes and stuff are new and different.) All the icloud settings say my devices are connected but it's just not working, anyone have advice?It also keeps pausing to "save battery power" which is annoying and I wish I could turn that off. Help?


texts: Cannot partition windows on bootcamp (NOT time machine issue)

texts:
Apologies if I have gotten this in the wrong place. It's been a long few days.

Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,4
System Version: macOS 10.13.4 (17E199)

So a while back, I decided to install windows on bootcamp. I did it, and then I needed to reinstall, so I wiped it and began to do it again. It's been an absolute disaster.

First, I've tried like 100 different things. I tried boot camp assistant, it says > The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned.

  You must have at least 40 GB of free space available.

This is clearly false since I have 103 gb available. Moreover, I have turned off time machine and deleted old snapshots as every single website has told me. I was thinking maybe I need to defrag, but apparently, defragging doesn't do anything on an SSD, which I believe I have.

Never mind, I thought, I'll try to repair everything on disk utility. Did nothing.

Tried to partition using disk utility. I created a partition called "windows" under MS-DOS (FAT) and gave it 58 gb. This is the maximum size that I'm allowed to drag the circle (which makes no sense since I should have 103 gb left, but whatever). When I did this, I received the following information (Freezing on "Applying changes to “APPLE SSD SM0256G Media”"):

  Running operation 1 of 2: Add “windows” by splitting “Macintosh HD”…
  Aligning shrink delta to 58,658,160,640 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 192,132,276,224 bytes
  Determined the minimum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 192,132,276,224 bytes
  Resizing APFS Container designated by APFS Container Reference disk1
  The specific APFS Physical Store being resized is disk0s2
  Verifying storage system
  Using live mode.
  Performing fsck_apfs -n -x -l /dev/disk0s2
  Checking volume.
  Checking the container superblock.
  Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
  Checking the space manager.
  Checking the object map.
  Checking the APFS volume superblock.
  Checking the object map.
  Checking the fsroot tree.
  Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
  Checking the extent ref tree.
  Checking the snapshots.
  Checking snapshot 1 of 1.
  warning: apfs_num_files (1219357) is not valid (1219351)
  Checking the APFS volume superblock.
  Checking the object map.
  Checking the fsroot tree.
  Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
  Checking the extent ref tree.
  Checking the snapshots.
  Checking the APFS volume superblock.
  Checking the object map.
  Checking the fsroot tree.
  Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
  Checking the extent ref tree.
  Checking the snapshots.
  Checking the APFS volume superblock.
  Checking the object map.
  Checking the fsroot tree.
  Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
  Checking the extent ref tree.
  Checking the snapshots.
  Verifying allocated space.
  The volume /dev/disk0s2 appears to be OK.
  Storage system check exit code is 0.
  Shrinking APFS Physical Store disk0s2 from 250,790,436,864 to 192,132,276,224 bytes
  Shrinking APFS data structures
  APFS Container Resize error code is 49153
  A problem occurred while resizing APFS Container structures.
  Operation failed…

I also would like to note a few other things:
1: I have been  trying to do this for a while. I even got bootcamp like halfway through (disk image accepted and everything) and then it seemed to stop working sending me on a long path to figure out how to delete the useless partition
2: My mac has been running a bit slowly recently (like when I restart, it spends a ton of time with just a little bit of the bar not loaded)
3: I spilled coffee on my computer a while back, but nothing seemed particularly wrong for quite some time - I highly suspect that this is NOT the issue.
4: If you need any more information please let me know
5: I have an entire hard drive full of backups, so if I need to I can completely reformat. However, I'm not sure exactly how licenses and stuff carry over.

Thank you for your help in advance


texts: How can I copy the drivers provided by Apple when installing Bootcamp on an external drive?

texts:
I am the owner of a MacBook Pro 2018 and I want to install Bootcamp on an external drive.
I've been following a guide I found on the internet here, and I managed to create a bootable drive, but couldn't include the required drivers on it for continuing with the installation. I can't use neither the MacBook Keyboard/Touchpad or wireless keyboard/mouse, and I don't have any USB ones.
Someone called David Anderson (I think he's on here) commented on that guide that it'd be recommended to use the dism command as follows:
Dism /image:<path_to_image_directory> /add-driver /driver:<folder_containing_INF> /recurse /forceunsigned

The thing is that I don't understand how to do it, it sounds too abstract for me.
Could anyone shed some light on this?


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I took a photo of my bus timetable, and I want to have that image as an "application" on my iPhone's home screen.

Is there an app that, when clicked, goes directly to this one image? Is there another way?


texts: I have two Macs on the same Apple ID. Sharing issue

texts:
When I access the internet on Mac 1, the other Mac (Mac 2) has a extra icon pop up and can see what I access. Both Macs use the same Apple ID and are on the same domain. Two different users are signed on.

For instance, I will go to espn on Mac 1. The person on Mac 2 will have an extra Safari icon pop up. That person could click the icon and see what I am seeing.

How do I stop this?


texts: Inflated Music Size on iPhone when Syncing

texts: Frequently when I sync my iPhone to my iMac, the size bar will report that the amount of music on my phone is nearly double what it actually is (confirmed with a manual check). The phone will usually report that it is over capacity, but I can still copy applications and more music to it (as I should be able to). This doesn't happen on every sync, and sometimes when the sync is completed, it will shrink back down to the correct size. It's a major annoyance and makes it hard for me to see how much space I actually have used/free on my phone.