texts:
I am trying to submit a podcast to iTunes for the first time, and thought everything was going well, but I just got a rejection email:

  Dear podcast owner,

  The podcast located at the URL shown below has been blocked or removed from the iTunes directory as a result of technical problems with the feed.

  Name: In His Word
  Feed URL: http://joshburnett.org/podcast/rss_source.rss

  If you wish to reactivate your podcast in the iTunes directory, please troubleshoot your feed and check the functionality of each episode. To test your podcast, start iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, and enter your feed URL in the dialog box. If you can successfully subscribe to your podcast and listen to each of the episodes, you can reactivate your podcast by resubmitting the feed using the Submit a Podcast page, https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/publishPodcast.

  For more information on troubleshooting feed problems and controlling the appearance of your podcast on iTunes, please see the podcast FAQ at http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/faq.html and technical specification at http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html.

  Sincerely,

  The iTunes Store Team

I tried the test submission through Advanced>Subscribe to Podcast. It takes a few seconds to load and then it is subscribed on my iTunes. I click "GET" and the podcast downloads. But then it won't play. When I double click it, it just downloads again (and keeps doing that). I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've looked at other podcasts RSS files, and tried to make sure mine has everything I need. Any thoughts?

Here is the feed url

My directory looks like this:

root/

podcast/

audio/

podcast1.mp3

index.php
podcast1400.mp3
rss_source.rss

Update: I finally narrowed it down (I think). Everything seemed correct, but I finally tried a couple different MP3 files and submitted the podcast and it worked. So, I'm wondering if the audio file my client gave me has issues. When I go to "Get Info" for other MP3 files, it shows things like "Audio Channels", "Total Bit Rate", and stuff like that. The MP3 file I am using doesn't really show anything. All I know is it says it's "Kind: MP3 audio" and "64865838 bytes". Any thoughts? I know pretty much nothing about audio, I'm a web developer. I can provide the audio file if anyone wants to download it and check it out.


texts: OSX Yosemite Finder sort by date modified wrong?

texts:
In the image of an OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 Finder window below, you can see that the content of the 'blog' folder has been most recently modified. However, the 'Date modified' sort of the parent folder 'D' is not showing the 'blog' folder at the top of the list.

Why is this, and is there a way to sort the list as I intend? I seem to remember it was fine in previous versions of OSX.


texts: Override wallpaper with VMware AirWatch Agent

texts:
I have a corporate MacBook Pro (2015), and it has VMware AirWatch Agent (2.3.3) installed.

I'm fine with that. It is their laptop and I still have Admin rights for my work.

Only thing is... they have locked my Wallpaper with something quite ugly and I can't change it in the normal way. This is literally the only setting I want to get around. Any idea how I could change it without uninstalling the agent?


texts: macOS: The cursor in Terminal won’t blink

texts:
Is the macOS Terminal.app cursor not blinking the default macOS behavior?

How can one configure it to blink?


texts: Updating Apps to discover an unrecognized email linked to my account

texts:
Three of my current apps on my iPhone 6 require updates (What's App, Instagram and Skype).  When I attempt to update them, an email address that I do not recognize comes up as linked to those particular Apps and asks for a password.  All of my other
Apps are linked to my correct email/ iTunes account email.  How did this happen & how can I rectify it?  Also, does this mean someone else has access to what I'm posting on these 3 Apps?

Thanks,


texts:
I know that the /boot folder contains the static files of the 'boot' loader.

I'm just curious to why I can't see this folder on my Mac. Im using OS X El Capitan.

Does OS X El Capitan have a /boot folder or is there an alternative?


texts: How can I stop windows from being resized on fast-user-switch?

texts:
I am on Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro running in clamshell mode with an external 27 inch Apple monitor attached to it.

I am logged in with two users, A and B. When I do a fast user switch from user A to user B, most windows that were open for user B when I last worked with that user are resized and some windows even change their position. Maximized windows are affected the most, typically they become less in height while staying the same in width. It feels as if initiating the user switch had temporarily changed the screen size or resolution, causing windows to change their size/position to adjust for the smaller screen size.

Is this a known problem of Mac OS X in general, or of running a MacBook in clamshell mode? Has anyone experienced this as well and/or knows how to fix it?

I can't remember when exactly I have noticed this problem for the first time. I am certain that it didn't exist with older versions of Mac OS X (i.e. 10.8 and older), although I must say that when I was last using Mac OS X 10.8 I also had a different MacBook and a different monitor. The general work environment MacBook/clamshell mode/external monitor has been the same for me for years.


texts: Do not want to create a Catalina Fusion Drive but may have a HDD and SSD

texts:
I know in times past that installing the Mac OS from scratch had a habit of creating a 'fusion' drive if you had both a SSD and HDD in the same box and this could create some odd disk errors down the line.
I currently have Catalina (10.15.7) on a Late 2012 Mac Mini with two SSDs in it (250Gb + 1Tb SSD) and I could really do with more space. I could go out and buy a new SSD but tin drives are still cheaper (£70 vs £160 for 2TB) and as this is for archive and music files speedy access is not needed on this drive.  Also the 250Gb drive is a full dismantle (again) so I really only want to do it once more on this Mac.  Next time it becomes a 4Tb NAS box :-)
I've seen odd posts about 'core storage' and have a Mac that Disk Utils will not run due to 'core storage' issues but cannot see a simple (ha-ha) explanation of the AFPS / Core Storage file types and its been 3 O/S versions since I messed with multiple types of disk.
I also know you used to be able to 'un-Fusion' a drive with diskutil resetFusion and going by this support entry I think it sill exists but it seams daft to have it created and then destroy it (time if nothing else).
So two bits of advice please:

Is there is a way to avoid the old 'fusion' issue on a clean Catalina install with a SSD and HDD in a Mac Mini?
Where can I find details on Apples newer storage as DuckDuckGo fails me?


texts: Switching to Straight Talk From T-Mobile on an iPhone 5

texts:
I am at my wit's end trying to get my wife's iPhone 5 switched from T-Mobile to straight talk.

Just about a month ago my wife's old cellphone was reaching a breaking point, so she decided to get an unlocked gsm iphone 5 16GB from the Apple store. We took it to T-Mobile where they popped in a sim and everything worked perfectly. Well, there's no 1900mhz HSPA+ in our area yet, and she had to edit the APN to get MMS messages working, but perfect apart from those things.

Our contract is up now and she wants 3G speeds so we decided to switch her over to Straight Talk. What I've done so far is port her number over, and texts (non-MMS) and calls work perfectly.

But data won't work whatsoever. It gives the message:

  "not subscribed to a cellular data service"

I've tried calling Straight Talk tech support but they try to walk me through editing the APN but now the Settings > General > Network entry no longer shows up! I think it depends on what SIM you have inserted, but the T-Mobile sim we had is long trashed at this point.

What I've learned so far is that if the Settings > General > Network entry does not show up that means your phone is locked (?), but she specifically bought an unlocked phone so now I'm just confused.

Some advice I've googled has said to restore the phone in iTunes, but she had never synced it before switching to StraightTalk. Anyway, I backed up and restored it, but I didn't get the:

  "Congratulations your phone is unlocked."

message I guess I should be seeing.

I've also read advice telling me to contact AT&T about unlocking the phone, but you have to fax something? And it takes 5-7 days? Ugh.

I guess I'm just asking how do I get the Settings > General > Network entry to show up so I can continue with Straight Talk tech support and try to get the data problem solved?


texts: Organization Name does not match Organization ID when privately distributing an app

texts:
I am receiving the error above when trying to save the changes under 'Pricing and Availability' for a particular app on the App Store Connect web application. I have verified that this is the right data for the organization as it was taken from their Apple Business Manager enrollment information.

Is there another error or something I may not have done before trying to save these changes that I could be missing?


texts: Is there an external battery available that is compatible with iPhone 4s and 5s?

texts:
The company I work for is developing an app that uses geolocation and drains battery very quickly which is obviously a problem.

The customers will have both iPhone 4 and 5s so it would be great if such an external battery exists


texts: Hardware keyboard keypress repeated in Safari HTML5 content

texts: I use Safari on iOS 12.4 on an iPad 6th Generation. When I use my hardware keyboard as input into an HTML5 game, it repeats until clicking on a button outside of the game. What can I do to avoid this problem?


texts: Apple apps are not free anymore for new iPad Air

texts:
I recently bought an iPad Air, as as I launched App Store for the first time it gave me an offer to download premium apple apps for free. Though I clicked on download now but due to slow connection they couldn't. Now when I search for same apps, it shows me a price on it.

How can I download them now for free?


texts: Is there a key to trigger the home button on an external iPad keyboard?

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to trigger pressing the home button on an iPad when using it with an apple (bluetooth) keyboard?


texts: My bluetooth keyboard and touchpad seem to be interfering

texts:
On a Mac Air running the latest OSX I find that the keys that I type are not showing up quickly on the screen sometimes with a multi second delay. It is very intermittent but it happens regularly all day. It's intolerable.

The keyboard is a cheap bluetooth Anker keyboard. The touchpad is a Logitech magic pad equivalent.

Is there such a thing as Bluetooth interference? Because the keyboard, computer and touchpad are all very close to each other. And can it make sense that a bluetooth keyboard works well on an iPhone and badly on a Mac Air?

The other thing I noticed is from time to time I get the "touchpad reconnecting" message as a ghost overlay over the screen - you know the one I mean?

What is going on?


texts: how to use Logitech Anywhere MX back/forward button on OSX Finder?

texts: is there a way to use Logitech Anywhere MX's back/forward button on OSX Finder? I can use these buttons on Chrome or any other browsers succesfully, but cannot find a way to do so on Finder?


texts: Transferring an iTunes library between Apple IDs, users AND computers?

texts:
Okay.
So I finally got my own MacBook Pro after a few years of sharing my mother's Mac. I have my own Apple ID and everything. The thing is... I spent hours, if not Days uploading music onto her computer from legitimate sources and hard-copy CDs. I named, cataloged, sorted and optimised my playlists and I do not wish to do such a thing again, especially considering this MacBook Pro has no built in disk reader.

I understand that I can 'share' libraries with my mother's computer, but that only seems like a short term solution as I only have access to said library when I'm in close proximity to her Mac, and I see no way of simply transferring the data.

Is there a way that I can transfer an iTunes Library from one Apple ID to another over separate computers?


texts: Green horizontal lines on boot then grey out (MacBook Pro 2010)

texts:
When I boot up the screen has green lines horizontally , kind of tilting, after 1/2 to 1/3 progress on loading bar it goes either Grey, an off white or almost black the same if I try booting into linux via external usb or Mac, internet recovery, safe mode, boot option, single user recovery mode or just plain recovery mode have the same results. For some unknown reason (I discovered this by accident) when my Mac is hot (from running on black screen in my bag after failed boot) and I turn on/off it boots! but doesn't work properly, if I sleep it, after sleeping the display will stay black everything else works sound, clicking?, maybe more. But the big problem is that I can open it now (updated) but the when I enter the green switch to blue except at the top and bottom ones are dark blue, why?? also
I found this:
Thin green lines on boot, then screen goes grey (late 2011 MBP – 8,2)?


texts: Open Terminal App Without Opening A Window

texts:
Is it possible to change the default settings in the Terminal App (OS X 10.7.5) such that when the app is launched, no windows are opened by default?

As a shot in the dark, I tried closing all windows, and then creating an "empty" window group and setting that as what should be "opened" when the app is launched, but it is still opening a bash window when the app is launched.

(The reason I ask is that some other apps I use occasionally launch Terminal with a bash prompt in a particular directory, but I always get two windows open: the default one in my home directory and the one the other application opened.)

Any suggestions?


texts: Is there any iPhone SE out there with 3D Touch?

texts:
I have an iPhone SE so does my cousin. A few days ago we went to the movies and I noticed she was 3D Touching her way around the screen.

This surprised me because I don't think my iPhone SE has ever had 3D Touch capability, so when I got home I looked in the settings app but there was no 3D Touch option anywhere. I checked the specs online and found that the

  iPhone SE has a 4" (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch IPS LED-backlit
  1136x640 native resolution (326 ppi) "retina display" without 3D Touch
  support

But I know what I saw and my cousin was definitely using 3D Touch.

Is her model a newer series of iPhone SE that has 3D Touch?

What am I missing here?


texts:
I'm looking for "unity-win7" like solution, where I can run cmd+num for activating browser, console, editor etc...
I found Activator and Services in osx, however, I can't use cmd+num because many app like chrome and iterm2 use them to activate tabs.
So I set up Launch Services via Activator on chd+shift+num, and it works everywhere, except Emacs)
It looks like Emacs handle keyboard before Services, so, for example, after cmd+shift+1, it expects "Shell command".
What I need is to make this hotkeys (cmd+shift+num) somehow transparent for emacs.


texts:
This might be a long shot, but I have a problem where I've lost the encryption password to an iPhone backup created with iTunes for Windows. On a mac this shouldn't bee too much of a problem, since the password is persisted in the keychain, at least as long as you still have access to machine the backup was created on.

The problem is that iTunes asked to set the encryption password when that options was checked several months ago, and never again. I created a backup moments before resetting the device, which worked just fine, but was unable to restore from the backup because of the lost password. I was sure that this would be the iCloud account password and only saw the error when it was too late.

I had a look around the iTunes files on the Windows machine where the backup was created and found a file named keychain-2.db, which seems to be an sqlite db with some probably encrypted data (or binary blobs?). The tables inside are named cert, genp, inet, keys, sqlite_sequence, tversion.

Is there any possible hope of restoring the backup encryption password through this? I don't have a lot of hope, since I haven't found anything regarding this idea online so far. Should any more information be necessary or just interesting, I'd of course love to provide it.


texts: Transferring from Time Machine shows "MacPorts". What is this and should I transfer it?

texts:
I am restoring from a Time Machine backup. Along with Applications, my user directory, and a few other expected things, I see an item called "MacPorts", which has a size of Zero KB.

I have no idea what this is or if I did anything over the 8 years I've had my old Mac that would have created it. What is it and should I transfer it?


texts: How do I change the order in which login items execute under OS X 10.8.2?

texts:
If I remember right, in earlier versions of OS X, it was possible to "drag-and-drop" to rearrange Login Items so that they start in a different order.

Under OS X 10.8.2 this doesn't seem to work. Short of deleting all the entries, then re-adding them by hand in the new order I want, how else can I conveniently re-order them?

I don't see why Apple would intentionally remove this feature, maybe it's a bug. I'm not too interested in weird work-arounds like external Automator or Applescript scripts with custom delays, etc. Hoping there's just some little thing I'm overlooking.

Here's a screencap of the window I'm talking about:


texts: Unable to join Photo Stream on OS X 10.8.5

texts:
I received an email invitation to join a Photo Stream. When I clicked on the "Join this Photo Stream" link on my MacBook Pro, I was taken to a page with the following message:

Photo Stream
Follow these steps to join a shared photo stream

Make sure you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 6 or a Mac running OS X 10.8.2 with iPhoto 9.4 or Aperture 3.4 or later
installed.
Sign in to iCloud on your devices.
Open the invitation email on an updated device and tap the Join this Photo Stream button.

I was running OS X 10.8 at the time, so I upgraded my OS, and I now have 10.8.5. However, when I click on the link to join, I still am taken to the same page. There doesn't seem to be a caching issue, because I cleared my cache and also opened the link in a different browser.
I'm logged in to iCloud, and I'm able to create a Shared Photo Stream through iPhoto (v. 9.4.3) and share it with others, and they can see the photos in the stream. However, I don't see the Photo Stream that was shared with me, and I still get the above message when I click on "Join this Photo Stream" in the original email.
I already tried copy/pasting the link from the email to the browser, and I still get the same page and message. I've also restarted my machine, logged out of iCloud and back in, quit iPhoto and restarted it, and pasted the link into both Chrome and Safari after clearing the cache.
Is it possible that I need to have OS X 10.8.2 instead of 10.8.5 in order to accept the invitation to the Photo Stream?


texts: How can I use iMac internet in my iPod touch?

texts: I don't have a Wi-Fi connection here. Is there a way to connect to the internet from my iMac with my iPod touch?


texts: Volume and power button huge delays (iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 14.2, no jailbreak)

texts:
So sometimes when I'm using my iPhone 8 Plus, there is a huuuuuge lag between the press on the volume or power key, and reaction to this press.
For volume key it's 1-3 seconds, for power key it is sometimes up to 10 seconds. And sometimes the phone just ignores it completely.
It's also nearly impossible to take a screenshot too, as home button works perfectly while power button has random delays many seconds long.
The issue appeared (or at least became MUCH worse) with iOS 14.2 update. Erasing everything did not help.
What may cause the issue and how to fix it?
EDIT: Basically, https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/e4wrbl/laggy_volume_buttons_on_ios_1323/ is exactly my issue.


texts: How to get custom favorites icons in Safari 8 on Yosemite?

texts: I am wanting to add custom favorites icons (i.e. new tab page) for my website in Safari 8 on Yosemite. I have tried the open graph tag og:image with both png and jpg formats. I have also looked over the source of several sites that had the custom icons in my favorites page, including a site that appeared to update its icon, and I still cannot find the right way to include these icons. Any help? Thanks.


texts: Can I disable video iCloud backups in Camera Roll?

texts:
My default iCloud backup is almost full at 4 out of 5 GB, and I strongly suspect it's not the photos (I don't take that many) but a few giant videos in the Camera Roll:

Is there any way to disable backing up videos only to iCloud? I can only find a way to turn the entire camera roll backup on or off, which I don't want. I definitely want the photos to be backed up to iCloud, just not giant oversize videos.

Yes, I can copy the videos off and delete them from my phone, but I still want the videos on the phone, I just don't want them backed up to iCloud at all.


texts: Apple TV to Projector via HDMI-VGA adapter works - optical audio-RCA converter to projector does not

texts:
I bought a digital optical audio to RCA analog audio converter to go from my Apple TV to get sound out of the Projector.  The projector does not get sound.

I also bought an HDMI-VGA converter to go from my Apple TV to the Projector - that does work.

I get sound from the Apple TV only when it is connected via HDMI directly to a digital video/audio device.

Can I get this to work?  Have unhooked power, upgraded software, checked & rechecked settings.

Thanks, Dawn


texts: I just received 2x 4gb corsair 204 pin pc3-10600 ram sticks for my iMac 27" mid 2011. I put them in and turned it on and received 3 short beeps, a pause, and repeat, which I think is the ram integrity error. I ended up taking out the ram that came with the machine (2x 2gb elpida pc3-10600 sticks) and then in worked. Why is this machine not accepting all 4 sticks together? I though you could put in unmatching ram without any problems. Any ideas?


texts: Can I access data on a current Time Capsule via the internet? If so, how does it work? Would I be able to make Time Machine Backups then as well? Does it appear as a disk in Finder?


texts: Macbook Pro (2010, OSX Sierra) has started prompting me to enter password for DHCP again and again and again

texts:
All of a sudden my mac has started prompting me to enter my password with the dialog: "Network Configuration needs to update DHCP setting. Type your password to allow this."

I've just recently installed MakeMKV on my laptop... could my Mac have caught something nasty?

As a side note: Is there a way I can find out which process is creating the pop-up window?


texts: How can unauthorized movie purchases be made on my 1st generation Apple TV?

texts:
In the last 6 months, two movies have shown up as purchased on my 1st Generation Apple TV, but neither I nor my wife have purchased them.

The first time this happened, I thought perhaps it had been done accidentally by my wife previewing a movie, then accidentally hitting the purchase button.

The second time this happened was last night when we were watching Monday Night Football. We were both sitting on the sofa and the AppleTV was NOT accessed by us.

Our ATV1 is a refurbished 160GB AppleTV purchased directly from Apple with the latest software version [3.0.2]. I run ethernet from a Netgear WNDR-3700 router to the AppleTV. Password has been changed from default on the router. I have disabled the guest networks (yes this router has two guest networks) on the router, but do run WiFi for the windows computers and three local Apple devices (2 phones, 1 iPad 2nd gen).

The first time this happened, I enabled two-step verification on my Apple ID. Strangely, I get the two-step challenge ONLY when I sign-in from my Chrome Browser on the AppleID site, [ https://appleid.apple.com/account/home ].

Can anyone tell me how unauthorized purchases could be made on my AppleTV without my knowledge?

Further, can anyone tell me how to lock down my network and 1st gen  AppleTV so that unauthorized purchases can't be made?


texts: Dump a user's mailbox to a file (e.g., .mbox) from server for archival

texts:
My company has a policy that when an employee leaves, we need to dump their e-mail account and write it to a DVD to archive it.

How do you dump a particular user's e-mail into a .mbox or other archivable file format from the server (without access to the client-side of the user's e-mail account)?

I didn't see any options in the Server.app GUI, so is there a Terminal command I can use?


texts:
i received a message with my Apple Mail that was obviously too "heavy" for my hardware (no malware just too many nested and forwarded mails inside one message -  bad luck in a way)

And now Apple Mail freezes each time I start or restart it (after rebooting the complete machine, or/and the program) and shows me the folder "trash" where this particular message that occured the freezing is into.

Is there any chance that I can (re)set the default folder that is shown when opeining mail to inbox e.g. instead of the last folder open ?

How would I do that without putting all settings to blank?

Thanks for your help!


texts: If I log onto someone else’s WiFi on my computer, would they be able to see my personal files?

texts: If I was at someone’s house and I log into WiFi using their email and password, could they see what is on my computer?


texts:
Every time I execute these commands:

vi

or

vim

in the terminal, it gives me the following error:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/vi: No such file or directory

or

-bash: /usr/local/bin/vim: No such file or directory

How do I get it to look at /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin?

type -a vi vim

returns

vi is /usr/bin/vi
vim is /usr/bin/vim

and

echo $PATH

returns

/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/Users/carlo/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools:/Users/carlo/android-sdk-macosx/tools

I effed up my settings when I was screwing around with MacVim and Homebrew. And now I can't even start vim with vi or vim.


texts: I wonder how I can show FaceTimeNotificationCenterService again if I run the command killall -kill FaceTimeNotificationCenterServicebefore?


texts: Mac Pro 2008 OS X 10.6.8 random restarts, grinding HDD

texts:
So I've had my Mac Pro since 2008. I currently have OS 10.6.8 on it. In the last week, it has restarted itself twice while I was in the other room. Since I wasn't there, I don't know if there were any messages. This has never happened before.

When this happens, it takes quite a few hours before it will operate normally without grinding the hard disk for a minute or more at a time. Most applications freeze or become very unresponsive while it does this.

The disk is a 320 GB drive, and there are 42 GB free still. I've done a DiskUtility Verify Disk on it, and it says everything looks normal.

Is this some issue that has a common cause, or do I need to take it in to the shop?


texts:
In the middle of installing a tool called mrtg, I bailed out from a perl script to set various configuration parameters for use of snmp because it became clear that I had no idea what I was doing.  I also explored some snmp commands myself, but didn't keep a record, unfortunately.

I come back to ifconfig and notice it shows three new interfaces (not there just before the previous adventure):

gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
    lladdr 60:fb:42:ff:fe:f4:cd:9e
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive

My laptop on the same LAN has a different new interface called p2p0 that I hadn't noticed before, as well as gif0 and stf0 but not fw0.

After I reset my Airport Extreme to factory default, and reinstalled OS X Lion on my machine, with a wiped disk, they are still there.  This:

sudo ifconfig gif0 destroy

makes gif0 go away, but on reboot it comes back.  There is a previous answer with some info but what I'd like to know is why are they still there despite a clean install, could they be a security risk, and should I or can I make them go away.  Should I be looking at the Airport or something in my StartupItems?

UPDATE:  Does my machine set these up at boot or does the Airport remember them?  And in either case, why didn't a clean install (or factory reset) restore them to the previous configuration?


texts: How do I stop iCal from always asking for a password?

texts:
I have several (webcal) subscription calendars on my iCal.  Two of them require passwords stored in my keychain.  At regular intervals, iCal will ask for my keychain password.  Is there a way to set up iCal so that it behaves the way Mail.app does, that is, one types the password once when the app is fired and from then on it just uses it?

My keychain is set to unlock when I log in; the webcal items in the keychain are set to allow any application to access the item.


texts: I bought a Macbook Pro in 2005 which got destroyed. I used a glockenspiel loop on garageband and would like to use it again now I"m starting out with Logic x. This is all the info I have. Can anybody help?


texts:
I'm using macOS Mojave 10.14.5 and I'm having color problems when accessing a CentOS workstation.

Initially, after connecting via ssh, I would obtain the following welcome message:

Then I added the following commands to the bash file:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

and I commented the following line in /etc/ssh/ssh_config:

# SendEnv LANG LC_*

After all this the welcome message I get is without errors but still distorted:

What i should get is the following (i got it using iTerm2 3.2.9):

How can I fix the colors? The command that prints "virgo-cluster" is:

figlet -f slant virgo-cluster | lolcat -t


texts: I'm downloading family shared purchases (music) to my iPhone. It seems as though after I sync my phone to my computer it removes all the shared content I downloaded. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?


texts:
I had installed a Ubuntu partition on my Mac, but last night the keyboard broke, so I was trying to reinstall Mac OS from the recovery mode and accidentally wrongly deleted all the partitions my Mac had and now when I turn on the Mac I get this screen

I know I messed up the computer, but is there any way to fix this? Like, deleting all the data and all partitions and reinstalling Mac OS.

I have thought of using any software like DBAN, to hardly erase all data on the drive but I don't know if I can still boot from a external USB drive with mac OS on it...


texts:
I need your help in an extraordinary question. I have the following line in my bash script.

for f in $(find ./ -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.indd' -or -name '*.indb'); do cp "$f" ./Cleaned; done

As you can see, it scans the current folder for PDF, INDD and INDB files and it copies them to the folder called Cleaned.

Now, I'm working on Fedora 25 Workstation and the scripts works just fine. On Fedora 22+ it all works.
On Mac OS X 10.9.5 it does the same thing.

The problem is: There is one PDF file that was generated by Adobe InDesign and in one page, one particular word is messed up after the copy.

The works looks like: Másnapos
How it looks after the copy: Másnap??
If I select the work and copy it to a TXT file, it looks like: ??????os (so the oposite)

I've figured out, if I copy the file on the Mac with just simply cp file location, then it all goes well. If I scan the folder and copy them like that, then only this file has this minor issue.

Please notice the word is still in the PDF elsewhere, and there it is fine.

Oh, and on other MAC with the same version, it works.... what the f....ork?

So my question: How can a simple copy in a for cycle mess up a PDF file, but only at one word and only once in the whole document on some MAC OS X, but not on any Fedora and CentOS version?


texts: Lilliput USB mini Monitor & Mac monitor limit

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I love the idea of the Lilliput 7" USB mini Monitor (found via the Stack Exchange API Contest).

However, I already have a 'normal' second monitor connected to my Macbook, would the Lilliput break the 2 monitor limit and not work? Or is USB different?


texts:
ok - just bought a mac mini server but not sure about the best way to set it up for remote access etc.

At the moment its;
cable modem (has 4 ethernet ports) > airport extreme > lion server (& other machines)

should it be
cable modem eth1:airport extreme, cable modem eth2:lion server
(& other machines connected wirelessly to airport extreme)

what would be best? And which is the easiest to setup or manage?

Basically i want to setup the services so vnc://server.mydomain.com would open screen sharing for the server and not sure if i need to do this on the cable modem, Airport extreme etc.

Currently the modem has DMZ active and points to the airport extreme IP.

hope that's not too vague as this is a bit of a new area for me.

best, dan.


texts: Software for Mac OS X to view movies on my PS3 or Xbox 360

texts: I want to see movies that are on my Mac on the screen connected to my PS3 or Xbox 360


texts: Time Machine error - The backup disk is not available - Using internal disk for TM

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I have an old Mac Pro that I would like to use as a Time Machine server for my small company. I just put in some spare hard drives in the unused bays, and set up a mirrored RAID set to use for Time Machine. I am able to use that RAID set as a Time Machine disk locally for that particular computer, but when I try to use it as a Time Machine disk for a networked computer, I get the error:

Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "COMPUTER NAME"
The backup disk is not available.

However, I am able to connect to the disk using Cmd + K, or even just by browsing to it from Finder. Is this problem being caused by the fact that I'm using an "internal" disk as my backup disk?

The Time Machine computer is running a newly installed version of Lion (10.7.5) and the computers trying to back up to it are either running 10.7.5 or 10.8.3

Thanks


texts: 'which' location different from executable location

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I'm trying to install ruby/rubygems on the latest version of 10.6. I used MacPorts to install ruby after noticing that my version was old. ruby was installed into /opt/local/bin.

I changed .bash_profile and added:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

When I echo $PATH, I get:

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin

So when I type which ruby I get:

/opt/local/bin/ruby

Which works correctly. However, when I type which gem I get:

/opt/local/bin/gem

When using gem -environment I get (gem is in the above directory):

-bash: /usr/bin/gem: No such file or directory

I'm completely open to uninstalling everything and starting over if necessary. I'm just not sure why it's still trying to grab it from /usr/bin!


texts:
After installing some RAM my macbook pro would not start,
diskutil showed HDD failure.

Booting in single user mode and running fsck several times to repair the disk lead to a running system.

But now, some of the Unix binaries (as well as some data) - like rm and less - are missing.
I have copied them from another mac.

The question is: if I reinstall OSX will it also install those and any other that might be missing?


texts: Multiple "Operation not permitted" under docker despite full disk access / developer tools

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I recently upgrade to Mac OS 11 (Big Sur), and since then I've been unable to use Docker for most of the things I need.
Example issue:
% docker run --rm -it alpine:edge
/ # apk add --no-cache emacs-nox
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
(1/14) Installing dbus-libs (1.12.20-r2)
(2/14) Installing gmp (6.2.1-r0)
(3/14) Installing nettle (3.7.1-r0)
(4/14) Installing libffi (3.3-r2)
(5/14) Installing p11-kit (0.23.22-r0)
(6/14) Installing libtasn1 (4.16.0-r1)
(7/14) Installing libunistring (0.9.10-r0)
(8/14) Installing gnutls (3.7.0-r0)
(9/14) Installing jansson (2.13.1-r0)
(10/14) Installing ncurses-terminfo-base (6.2_p20210313-r0)
(11/14) Installing ncurses-libs (6.2_p20210313-r0)
(12/14) Installing xz-libs (5.2.5-r0)
(13/14) Installing libxml2 (2.9.10-r6)
(14/14) Installing emacs-nox (27.1-r2)
Executing busybox-1.33.0-r2.trigger
OK: 122 MiB in 28 packages
/ # emacs foo.d
Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/usr/lib/emacs/27.1/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/': Operation not permitted
Warning: arch-independent data dir '/usr/share/emacs/27.1/etc/': Operation not permitted
Warning: game dir '/var/games/emacs': Operation not permitted
Warning: Lisp directory '/usr/share/emacs/27.1/lisp': Operation not permitted
Error: /usr/share/emacs/27.1/etc/charsets: Operation not permitted
Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
Please check your installation!

I also get "Operation not permitted" whenever trying to compile something (more precisely, when using make).
Now I've done my homework and I have granted both "Full Disk access" and "Developer Tools" privileges to both iTerm2 and Docker (and restarted multiple times for good measure).
I've seen Big Sur 11.2.2: Operation not permitted although Iterm and Terminal have Full disk access which seems relevant, but I didn't expect this to happen within a container. Is this a known issue ?


texts: Can I delete the Watch app without unpairing Apple Watch?

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I have an Apple Watch paired to my iPhone. I don't use the apple-watch.app often, so I'd like to remove the app from my Home screen.

Are there any consequences if I remove the apple-watch.app from the Home screen, such as getting my apple-watch unpaired or unable to load iphone-dependent apps?


texts: Restart in Windows without changing startup disk or having to use administrator password?

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My 6-year old kid uses the family iMac for his Kodu-projects, which require Windows. He wants the real deal with Boot Camp and won't accept any virtualization :)

The problem: I want the OS X-disk to be the startup disk, of course. He wants a convenient way to restart the computer in Windows-mode (easier than pressing the Command-key at startup). There are some Apple-scripts and applications out there (like BootChamp), but they all ask you to enter the admin password. Despite (or because) he's quite computer savvy, I'd rather not give it to him at this point.

What options do I have?


texts:
The Finder in column view shows a preview of the file, then information listed below it. The preview (which has no value to me) takes up most of the available space and the file information I want to see is hidden.

All I want to see is the size, creation and modification dates. I would also like to get rid of the "more" section, which is useless and just takes up space.

In the image below, the preview takes up most of the space, the "more" section takes up nearly 1/4 of the space and of the 3 things I want to see most, only the size is available. The name and filetype is already displayed on the column to the left, it's pointless to repeat it under the preview.

I know I could switch to the list view, but I've used the column view forever (since 1990) and it was extremely useful, now it's just a daily annoyance. I also don't want to have to navigate to directory using one view, then switch views to select a file, then go back to column view to navigate, etc.

I'm not a fan of Windows, but I find I can configure Windows Explorer to suit me much better than the Mac OS Finder as I can get rid of the preview and show just the information I want.

Is there any way to do that in the Finder?


texts: Resetting old MacBook Air to factory defaults

texts:
I got an old MacBook Air. I know very little about it, because I got it as a workstation in a new job and nobody has any info about it.

I'm also a Mac newbie. These are the specs: it's running Snow Leopard, it has 128GB SSD, Core 2 Duo 1,86 GHz CPU and 2GB RAM.

I'm trying to factory reset it but don't know how.

Which MacBook edition is it? 2010 or 2011? How do I factory reset it? There is no USB in the box, just some CDs (and the computer doesn't even have an optical drive).


texts: Script that efficiently listens for changes in Do Not Disturb status

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Is it possible to create a script (e.g. applescript) that would listen for changes in DND status and do some actions on each change?
Most examples describe how to change DND status but not how to listen to it.


texts: The common issue with Bluetooth Audio and mac OS

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I recently purchased an Anker Bluetooth Headset, and i had the common issue that it sounds like garbage when i pair it on my MacBook but awesome using my iPhone

The issue is fixed by turning "Input" to "Internal Mic" in

Settings > Sounds > Input

But the thing is.. i have to do it EVERYTIME i connect my earphones! If i need to charge them, the second time i turn them on, i have to do the same process again, is there a way to make this the default behavior??

BTW, i'm using High Sierra


texts: How can I use rEFInd boot manager without an enter key?

texts: I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010) (it’s old I know) and I have installed rEFInd on an USB. The thing is, my return key does not work, so rEFInd is basically useless. Is there any way rEFInd can be configured to be used without the return key.


texts: How can I have spell check for one language *but NOT* for another in El Capitain?

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I want to have spell checking ON for Greek (or any other language you have) and OFF for English.

At the System Preferences (Keyboard -> Text) I have enabled Greek (where it says "Ελληνικά (iSquare)" in the images) as the ONLY enabled language (I have disabled all the others from the pop-up menu (Set Up...) and I have choose it at the same menu.

So Greek spell checking works.
But the problem is that when I type an English word, it spell checks that word too! (So if I type: "helloo" it changes it to "hello"!)

This is what I want to avoid!

Is there a way to have the checking done only in Greek and not in English?

So that "Εληνικά" will become "Ελληνικά", but "helloo" will stay "helloo".


texts: How can I restore from today's iPhone iOS 9 backup when iTunes not giving me the option?

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Had to do a reset to factory settings of my iPhone today. I backed it up before doing this. I now want to restore to the backup done earlier today...but when I click on "restore backup" today's backup isn't one of the options. The latest one I'm given the option on is Sept 15, 2015. Help!

How can I restore the earlier backup from today when iTunes isn't giving me that option? Thanks.


texts: How can I use Blackberry emojis on my non-jailbroken iOS device?

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Ever since moving from my Blackberry to an iPhone a few years ago, I've been sorely missing the Blackberry emoji set. It was pretty brilliant, and contained some KEY emoji which Apple seems to deem unimportant, including the much sought-after face palm (why leave this out Apple, WHY??).

Anyone have any idea on how I can get these prized Blackberry emojis onto a non-jailbroken iPhone for use in Messages? I've been trying to save them as images and paste them into IM, but this method makes the emoji look too large, and it ends up looking pixelated.

Would it possible to create and install my own custom keyboard? Any other methods or idea would be welcome.

Thanks!

Additional note: I can re-create/convert the Blackberry emoji in vector form, all I really need to know is how to install it as a keyboard. Is this possible on non-jailbroken devices? Alternately, is there a way to send a vector image through IM?


texts: Is there a way to put images in cells in tables in iOS Numbers? 3.2

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Is there a way to put images in cells in tables in Numbers iOS version 3.2? I've looked at the Apple help and it only shows help for on the Mac and putting an image for a cell background.

I'm using an iPad Air 2.


texts: prevent launchctl from starting a anonymous process

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I have installed dnsmasq and now I want to be able to start it with launchctl. The problem is that every time I start the app launchctl starts an anonyous process instead of using the specified label.

10247   -   0x100107c30.anonymous.dnsmasq
-       0   com.example.dnsmasq

But I want it to be

10247    0  com.example.dnsmasq

The problem with the anonymous process is that I can't stop it with launchctl. When I run

launchctl stop com.example.dnsmasq

the anonymous process still stays alive.

Here is my property file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.example.dnsmasq</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq</string>
        <string>-p</string>
        <string>2155</string>
        <string>-R</string>
        <string>-A</string>
        <string>/.dev/127.0.0.1</string>
        <string>-x</string>
        <string>/usr/local/var/run/dnsmasq.pid</string>
    </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <false/>
  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

Any idea on how to fix this?


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When my external hard drive got disconnected (without ejecting), it created a .Trashes folder. Now, I'm not able to delete the folder by emptying the trash. I keep on getting The operation can’t be completed because the item “MyFolder” is in use. error. How do I delete this folder as it is occupying a huge amount of space on my hard disk? TIA.

I'm using MacOs Catalina Version 10.15.1 (Macbook Air).

EDIT #1

I've tried to delete the directory using sudo rm -rf /Volumes/MYDRIVE/.Trashes/ command and got rm: /Volumes/MYDRIVE/.Trashes/: Operation not permitted error.


texts: Macbook's harddrive free space changes seemingly randomly

texts:
Over the last few days my hard drive has gone from a few GB of free space, to zero KB, absolutely full. I then deleted about 1GB of files, and now the free space has gone down to 640MB, and then went up to 690MB. This is without doing anything major. Over the past few days, almost all of what I've done is on the internet.

Is this some type of malware (though I thought malware usually deleted stuff), and how can I see why this is happening, and what recently has been taking up so much room. (I've just switched my PC to ubuntu and it has something called Disk Examiner which shows you what is taking up the most room, is there something like that for Mac?)


texts:
When I'm closing an app, and the dock is about to refresh the app icon (from opened to closed), and the cursor is in the area of the dock, a splitting glitch happens as show in the picture below. For less than a second. But it's quite ugly and annoying.

Is there any procedure to take that may solve such GUI-related issues on macOS Sierra?

My specs:
13" Retina MacBook Pro (late-2013) 2.4Ghz Intel Core i5, 8gb RAM, Intel Iris 1536MB, macOS Sierra 10.12.2


texts: How can I get VMWare Fusion 6 to display in Unity with full resolution on a Retina display?

texts:
As a long time (intimately familiar with 3.11) Windows user I finally made the jump to OS X. I was excited to take advantage of the massive resolution on my new MBP, and it's as awesome as I thought it would be.
However, Unity + Windows looks terrible. I realize Windows was not built to take advantage of such jaw-dropping resolutions, but I still want it to run at native resolution. I find myself enjoying the OS X environment, and reluctant to leave it for a full screen Windows VM; Unity is becoming a must.
I've tried checking the 'Use Full Resolution' setting to no avail.
(Not sure if it makes a difference, but I'm running the Windows 8.1 preview)
How can I prevent Unity mode from displaying Windows in a clunky-looking, zoomed-in, pixelated view?


texts: Why is Aperture showing thousands of Rejected, but there are only 3 there?

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My Aperture is showing 2.5k Rejected photos (count), but when I view the album, there are only 3 there. I tried rebuilding the database.

I also tried switching and viewing the library in iPhoto, which shows no hidden photos. The library in Aperture shows no hidden photos. When I create a Smart Album having only Rejected items in it, it still only shows 3 items.

My Trash is empty too, and permissions are correct.

Any ideas on what's wrong, and why it's showing this?


texts: How can install an app I purchased on the App Store which is no longer on the app store?

texts: I bought an app called Palua on the App Store a few years ago. Now I have a new personal Mac and I believe the app is no longer on the store. I know that it works on the latest version of macOS since I still use it on my work Mac. Is there a way for me to install it again, since I did indeed pay for it? I do not see it in my 'Purchased' apps in the App Store, which is where I hoped to find it.


texts:
My shell can't find ping.

$ ping
-bash: ping: command not found
$ uname -r
14.5.0
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/Users/alex/.cabal/bin
$ which ping
$

However, man ping works and displays the manual page for ping.

Is it named something different on OSX?  Or is there an alternative I should use?


texts: How to mirror iPad Air screen on Ubuntu without using Wine?

texts: Since it has always been problematic for me to make Wine work on Ubuntu I am looking for suggestions regarding how to mirror the iPad Air screen in a smooth way on Ubuntu. Is there any application in an official repository that can help with that?


texts:
My AppleScript app on my computer gives a error.

Here is the code:

set file to display dialog "Open Script?" default answer "tests/helloworld.in"
do shell script "cat " & file & " | python parenthetic.py"
do shell script "echo"
do shell script "echo App +" & file  & "+ is done load!"

And the error:

  Can't set file to display dialog "Open Script?" default answer "tests/helloworld.in". Access not allowed.


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I am having trouble with an email attachment that I received. I use an icloud email account and am accessing it from the Mail app on my iPhone. The attachment is a PDF file but when I try to open it, the file only contains this message:
"Trend Micro Antivirus has quarantined the previously attached file, if this is a genuine file please contact Consortium Group to have it unblocked."

I do not have any sort of antivirus protection on my phone or on any of my devices. It would seem odd to me if the sender's antivirus would quarantine an outgoing message. So I am struggling to work out where the message was quarantined.

The attachment has also been renamed to:
"TREND_MICRO_ANTIVIRUS_QUARANTINED_ATTACHMENT.TXT"

I don't really want to ask the sender to resend the email because this is rather important and I don't want to seem incompetent and cause a hassle. So that would be a last resort but I may end up with the same result...

I don't know who Consortium Group are or how to contact them. Do they actually have the pre-quarantined attachment that I am after or do they just modify their filters to allow it to be resent correctly?

Any ideas on how to retrieve the attachment? Any clue as to at what stage and why it was quarantined?


texts: Per-App VPN for a third-party app: possible? How?

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I need to set up per-app VPN as a way to ensure that several apps I installed from App Store are using only internet traffic over VPN, but not using non-VPN traffic at all. I'm not a corporate user, so I'm considering to setup an MDM profile.

Am I reading the official docs from Apple correctly that I can only set up per-app VPN for the app I developed, not for a third-party app from AppStore?

The "App to Per App VPN" section requires DesignatedRequirement and SigningIdentifier, both of which seems to be available only for the developer of an app in question. If not, how can I find out both of them?


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I have a 250G disk on my Mac with around 100G in use. But the system reports only around 20G of free space. I'm using macOS 10.13.2. I have the problem at least since the upgrade to High Sierra, but probably also before.

"About This Mac" --> "Storage" reports that "System" is using around 180G. But if I check the complete disk, it looks like that:

$ sudo du -cxhd 1 /
  0B    /.HFS+ Private Directory Data
1.0K    /home
4.3G    /usr
4.2G    /.Spotlight-V100
1.0K    /net
 34G    /nix
  0B    /.PKInstallSandboxManager
  0B    /.PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware
2.6M    /bin
  0B    /Network
1.1M    /sbin
3.8G    /Library
  0B    /.Trashes
6.5G    /System
476K    /.fseventsd
du: /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store: Operation not permitted
du: /private/var/folders/z7/[...]/0/SafariFamily: Operation not permitted
du: /private/var/folders/z7/[...]/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv: Operation not permitted
du: /private/var/folders/z7/[...]/0/com.apple.nsurlsessiond: Operation not permitted
du: /private/var/folders/z7/[...]/0/com.apple.routined: Operation not permitted
du: /private/var/folders/zz/[...]/0/com.apple.nsurlsessiond: Operation not permitted
8.0G    /private
8.6M    /.DocumentRevisions-V100
  0B    /.vol
 32G    /Users
 11G    /Applications
207M    /opt
5.0K    /dev
4.0K    /Volumes
  0B    /cores
104G    /
104G    total

df also says that only 20G are available:

$ df -h /
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused               ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1  234Gi  211Gi   20Gi    92% 4019132 9223372036850756675    0%   /

Any tool I was using (Finder, Disk Inventory X, etc.) shows more or less the same numbers like df and du.

Output of mount:

$ mount
/dev/disk1s1 on / (apfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s4 on /private/var/vm (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

I read and tested many, many things like:

https://superuser.com/questions/1270727/macos-10-13-1-high-sierra-disk-space-imac
https://superuser.com/questions/1259175/mac-disk-full-error-but-plenty-of-space
High Sierra disk space issues
How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space?

... but with no success. So what could consume more than 100G of disk space without showing up in any tool?

Update

Running „First Aid“ in recovery mode:

What does this error message mean?

error: btn:1: invalid key order (1) oid 440198 / oxid 114577
fsroot tree is invalid.

Update 2018-01-25

Another report of the same error: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8246182 (but no answers, yet)

I'm pretty sure this file system error is the root cause for the missing disk space. But I have no idea how to fix that. I was hoping that 10.13.3 would maybe solve it, but it didn't change anything. I guess I need to reinstall...


texts: My photos are no longer organized by Events in the new Mac Photos. How do I search the new Mac Photos by events?


texts: How to get a universal binary with both architectures from Homebrew on Mavericks

texts:
I need to install Cairo for the use of a 32-bit application on Mavericks.

After first uninstalling libpng, I have succeeded in forcing a complete recompile of Cairo and all its dependents (libpng, fontconfig, pixman, glib) using

brew install --build-from-source cairo

Showing the brew info on these libraries indicates they were built from source, and built as a universal binary.  However lipo -info reports the architecture only as x86_64.

How can I get Homebrew to install Cairo and all its dependents with both i386 and x86_64 architectures?

Thanks for the help.


texts:
When starting a terminal in iTerm 2, my .zshrc is executed twice. Possibly has something to do with the "last login" printed at the top of terminal by iTerm? Anyone know how to fix this?

Example output, new terminal:

last login: Wed Mar  4 12:55:35 on ttys000

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to
change your name and start a new life in different city.
        -- Vance Bourjaily, "Esquire"

You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
        -- William Blake

~ ❯❯❯ zsh

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one
arch-enemy -- and that is life.
        -- Jean Anouilh, "Ardele"

~ ❯❯❯

As you can see, when opening iTerm fortune (in my .zshrc) is executed twice, but when starting a new shell with the terminal already open it is correctly ran once. Any way to fix this behavior?


texts: DVD mounted but not accessible from Finder

texts:
I have burnt a set of data DVDs on my Windows PC. These read fine on the PC, but for some reason OS X misbehaves. I have Hardware Growler installed, so when I insert the disc I get a notification that the drive has been mounted (with a label I set during burning).

The problem the disc doesn't appear on my desktop along other drives and in Finder it is greyed out and not accessible.

Interestingly enough if I use ForkLift.app it reads fine - files are being opened in their respective apps without any problem. Can access it from Terminal, too.

There is an ampersand character in the disc's label - could this be a problem?


texts:
Can I set the default notes read-only, so I can't edit them  unintentionally?

Note: I don't want to lock them, cause then I can't read them, unless I can edit them too. I want to be able to read them but not edit them by default.


texts: Cannot create home folders on the server for network accounts

texts:
I have a problem with creating home folders on the server for network accounts. The goal is to share the same files on multiple devices. A quick overview of what I do:

I go to the Server.app.
I create a folder (in my case on /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Network Users).
I enable the File Sharing service.
I add the /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Network Users as a shared folder.
Once added, I edit it and make sure it is able to be used for home folders (AFP).
I create a new network account and set his/her home folder location to 'Network Users'.

When I try to log in on a device (in my case a MacBook Pro), it gives me the following error saying I can't login:

You are unable to login to the user account "williamdedwards" at this time.
Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred.

I am 100% sure that this is related to the permissions. When I add my user account manually and give it Read/Write access to the 'Network Users' folder, it used to work (not anymore, I still get the same error now). When I set the home folder to 'Local', I can login and everything is fine.

I also came to this conclusion with Apple Support.

What am I doing wrong here?


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We see that the Apple Watch sends step data from its accelerometers to the iPhone 6 (and above) which also has accelerometers.

When you walk holding both an (recent) Apple phone and Apple Watch - you trigger accelerometers on both. This raises the risk of duplicate data.

We can see data from both devices in the health App.

My question is: What stops step data from the accelerometers on the phone and watch from doubling up?


texts:
I first upgraded my operating system (Windows Vista) and then iTunes.

During the upgrade, I accidentally chose contact syncing should prefer my Windows' contacts over my iPhone's contacts. Now I've lost my phone's contact directory.

How do I revert the iTunes contact sync so I can get my iPhone contacts back?


texts: Which internal WiFi cards are compatible with my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a 2017 15 inch Macbook Pro and just upgraded to fiber internet. I'm guessing a standard M.2 WiFi 6 card would be compatible with it like this one?
https://www.newegg.com/fenvi-ax200ngw-pcie-half-mini-card-m-2/p/0XM-00JK-00064?Description=WiFi%206%20card&cm_re=WiFi_6_card-_-9SIADXZ9H62090-_-Product
Also it seems that some Lenovo laptops have a whitelist in the BIOS preventing people from upgrading their WiFi card in Thinkpads? Not sure on this one though.


texts: Is there any way to develop iOS apps on a MacPro 2,1 in 2019?

texts:
I wanted to run cordova on some my apps so that I can test them for iOS. Running cordova run ios on a windows system will complain:

  xcodebuild was not found. Please install version 9.0.0 or greater from
  App Store

I had already read that you needed a Mac in order to build iOS apps so not knowing much about Apple computers I bought an old Mac Pro for $100 thinking it would work.

I later learned this Mac Pro is running Mac OS 10.6.8 and that it cannot be upgraded further. There's a Mojave patch that works on MacPro 3,1 and later won't work on MacPro 2,1 The xcode in the App Store requires Mojave, which I think is 10.14.xx

Is there any work around to build these apps on this old MacPro 2,1 running 10.6.8?


texts: Change volume of speakers before unplugging headphones

texts:
I have a 15" Macbook Pro mid-2015.

If my headphones are currently plugged into the audio jack, is it possible for me to control the volume of the speakers?

So that, after unplugging my headphones, the speakers can already be muted for example?


texts: Airport Extreme Guest Network and Dual-band

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Does enabling the Guest Network on a 4th Generation Airport Extreme have any impact on Dual-Band performance?

I have multiple 802.11/g devices that I want to use the 2.4GHz spectrum, and only occasional need for Guests.  However, when Guest access is required, it is usually required suddenly, so it would be nice to have it always on.

Does enabling the Guest Network necessarily disable the dual-band, or do these capabilities co-exist?


texts:
Anyone got a good checklist for diagnosing the problem with a dead MacBook Pro ? I've a 15" MacBook Pro Core Two vintage machine that has suddenly stopped booting up. I can hear the Superdrive spin up, but then it stops with a black screen. Doesn't seem to want to boot from either the harddrive or the Superdrive (I've tried a Linux boot CD there).

I'd like to try to figure out if it's a problem with the display, with the logic board or something simple before I decide whether or not to scrap it.

I've tried booting with an external display attached to the displayport and still no joy (black screen).  It doesn't ever get to a grey screen, so I flunk out before ever getting to the checklist below. I tried resetting the PRAM just in case, but no joy there either.  When I power it down, I don't hear the "CHUNK" from the harddrive, but I've still got a boot CD in the Superdrive (any ideas on how to get THAT back out ?) so maybe it never gets to the HD.

Thanks for any advice.
Dane


texts: Recomendations for simultaneous use interactive drawing application for iPADs

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I need to tutor my nephew in algebra.  He's 3000 miles away.  We both have iPads.  Skype or the phone can handle the voice channel.

I would like an application with the following:

Each of us can draw on our ipad at the same time, Whatever we draw appears on the other screen.
Option for different colors.  E.g. He draws in black, I draw in red.
Ability for either person to erase/modify their work, with a toggle to switch between 'erase mine' vs 'erase evertything under the eraser'
Ability to hit a one button save/mail screen.
Ability to scroll/magnify screen.  Each iPad has a several viewport on the canvas.
Ability to snap and crop a picture and paste into screen.
Inexpensive.

In essence, I want to set him a problem, or allow him to snap a picture of a problem.  Then while he works it, I can 'red-line' places where he has made an error, taken an invalid shortcut, etc.  He can correct his error, leaving my redline, I can then check and remove my redline.

Nice to have:

Multiple sessions so I can work with several students at once.
Handwriting recognition that turns scrawled math into typeset equations.

So far the programs I've found have one or more of the following limitations:

A:  Only one person can draw at a time.
B:  Only one color can be in use at a time.
C:  You can't erase.
D:  Your canvas is limited to one screen
E:  Interaction is limited to WiFi.
F:  Interaction is one way:  It's essentially a presentation tool.


texts: Mid-2012 rMBP only connects to 5GHz at lower channel values?

texts:
When the AC router's 5GHz channel is set to operate between channels 36 and 64, my rMBP (mid-2012) can connect to the wireless router just fine, however at very low speeds. But as soon as I change the range to 100 and 140, the rMBP can't detect the wireless signal anymore. Is there a reason behind this ?

My Apple TV and it's connected to the 5GHz with no problem, and it's at least a year or two old. My PS4 can't connect to 5GHz though.

The router I'm using is the Asus RT-AC87U


texts: Photos import from iPhone fails on network location

texts:
When I try to import pictures from my iPhone to the Photos library that is located on network storage, it fails and I see the following in the logs:
Sandbox: PTPCamera(4269) System Policy: deny(1) file-write-create /Volumes/network/Fotos.photoslibrary/external/com.apple.Photos/import/107APPLE/.tmp_IMG_1234.HEIC_
standard    11:40:30.143200+0100    Photos         IMG_1234.HEIC | Download Complete
ERROR: Der Vorgang konnte nicht abgeschlossen werden. (com.apple.ImageCaptureCore-Fehler -9956.) (, path: IMG_1234.HEIC (IMG_1234.HEIC)), file: PHImportDeviceAsset.m, line: 539

I noticed that there are extended attributes in the library files, especially the com.apple.quarantine one I'm not sure it's affecting this somehow:
external: com.apple.quarantine: 0082;00000000;photolibraryd;

This used to work up until August. I'm not sure I can just remove the quarantine flag or if Photos needs it for some reason.


texts: Must there be notification alerts for anything to appear on lock screen?

texts:
I disabled Instagram from posting a notification alert ( banner or alert ).
However any posted item or notification do not show in the lock screen or notification center.

Prior to ios7 this causes no problem, as comments/notifications from such an app show up in the lock screen or notification center, but is this feature disabled now ?


texts: Enable writing to NTFS harddrive with non-standard name on Mac

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I have a lot of NTFS hard drives back when I used a Windows PC. I'm trying to write to these drives with my Macbook Pro on OSX Yosemite 10.10.2. I'm going through this tutorial. I have to write this line in /etc/fstab

LABEL=drivename none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

The caveat is that "drivename" must not contain spaces. My drives have spaces. For example, one is named "HGST Deskstar". Also, another shows up as "Untitled" (it's probably not literally named Untitled). I couldn't figure out how to rename my drives to conform to the standard. What should I do?

I know there's software that you can install to handle this, but I was hoping to just do this quick system configuration.


texts: Which countries can an individual iOS developer reside in in order to receive payments from Apple?

texts: I want to sign up as an individual or as a company and sell apps on the App Store. SInce I have not purchased access to Developer Program I cannot check which countries are eligible..Any other way I can check this?


texts: I want to delete my backup because it’s taking up all my storage but I’m scared too because I don’t want my photos deleted nor my saved games and stuff to be messed up in some way. So if I delete my backup with my games and instagram and Snapchat will it still be the same ??  What happens when you delete your backup ??


texts: How to move particular applications from one iPad to another?

texts:
I would like to install some particular applications, which I have on one iPad, to another iPad (I don't want to copy all applications and copy settings, so iCloud backup will not work here). The same Apple ID is used on both iPads.
I thought that I can do it thru iTunes applications installed on my Macbook. But it doesn't display all applications installed on my first iPad, synchronization also doesn't help.

I understand that I can manually install needed applications on the second iPad, but there about 30 of them.


texts: Can't send using Mail. I get "The SMTP connection to server "smtp.gmail.com" failed."

texts:
I've tried answers given on this site. Mail>Preferences>Account>Edit Server List etc. Tried re-entering the information (which is unchanged and correct.) Default ports are 25, 465, and 587. Changing to 465 made no difference.

This is happening more and more frequently, and then suddenly it'll correct itself. Extremely frustrating. Right now the list shows both servers are Offline. Why that should be, I don't know.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Giles

Mail 7.3; Mavericks; MacBook Pro


texts: Will it hurt my Macbook Air to be plugged into a "Uni Pak II" which is a dimming power source?

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I'm at a conference and the only plug is a "Uni Pak II" which is a dimming power source (here's the manual).

At first my charging indicator on the end of the MBA plug didn't light, but I slid up the analog slider and it lit up (I knew it had worked yesterday!).

Is there any chance of it harming my MBA or power supply to use this?


texts: 200GB unused, but can't change APFS container size due to minimum requirement

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I want to create a partition with a different filesystem but in order to do that I need to resize my APFS container.

  This container has 292,4 GB used space. Its minimum size is 500,07 GB.
  This container cannot be split because the resulting containers would
  be too small.

What I tried

From "How to Resize Your APFS Container on macOS High Sierra"

diskutil list

Output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.1 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            288.3 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 43.9 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.3 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +1.9 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups    1.9 TB     disk2s2

Then:

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 450g

Or:

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 450g jhfs+ Extra 50g

Output:

Aligning shrink delta to 50.068.037.632 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 449.999.998.976 bytes
Determined the minimum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 500.068.036.608 bytes
Error: -69521: Your APFS Container resize request is below the APFS-system-imposed minimal container size (perhaps caused by APFS Snapshot usage by Time Machine)

  (perhaps caused by APFS Snapshot usage by Time Machine)

I have removed all local time machine snapshots but I am still getting the same output.

How do I change a APFS container's minimum size?


texts: How to add suite or apartment number to location in Calendar

texts:
How can the suite number, apartment number, etc. be added to the location in Calendar on MacOS and iOS?

If an address is typed locations are suggested and Time to Leave alerts are enabled, but as soon as the address is modified Calendar no longer recognizes it as a valid address.

No Suite:

With Suite:


texts: Troubleshoot Dock behaviour in Mac Yosemite

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When I right-click the Downloads folder in the dock, and select Open "Downloads", instead of the expected thing happening, an app launches.

The app is one I created myself using Automator. And it is on the Desktop. I can move it anywhere and rename it, but this doesn't fix the problem.

Other steps taken to resolve:

reboot -> not fixed
switch user to guest account -> fixed
delete the app -> fixed
zip the app, delete the original -> fixed
unzip the app -> unfixes itself!

Might be relevant:

I use Quicksilver, but behaviour occurs even when QS is not running

System info: Yosemite 10.10.3

Why is this is a problem? Because I want to create Automator apps without them being launched by right-clicking the downloads folder in the dock.

Edit: This is the workflow of the app that launches:


texts: Mac is really slow and I can't get Apps to open

texts: When I try to open an App it does nothing. I go online and it is extremely slow. I have tried some of the idea's on here but, nothing has helped. I also tried to download a Clean up program. It isn't compatible for my Mac. I have a OS X 10.6.8


texts: How can I flip the dash and underscore keys in macOS Sierra?

texts: I'd like to remap dash to underscore and vice-versa in macOS Sierra. I type underscore way more frequently than dash, so this is a desirable lifehack. Karabiner doesn't work anymore in Sierra (and the Elements version is a non-starter at this stage), and I can't seem to figure out how to do it in BetterTouchTool or Keyboard Maestro. There seems to be loads of ways to remap keys for shortcuts, but flipping the primary and shift output from the same key is elusive.


texts: Submitting to app store, in "Prepare for Submission", how long do I get?

texts:
So I just had a bit of a panic and realised that the app name I want may not be available. Just went ahead and created an app in iTunes Connect using the bundle id, sigh of relief, it is available.

I am about a week or two away from finishing. Filled out Description and uploaded one screenshot.

How long do I have to finish these details before it is deleted?

Do I need to enter any more details or click on submit for review yet?


texts: My email for my APPLE ID is deactivated what do I do?

texts: So I've finally remembered my APPLE ID that I used in the beginning to activate my Iphone but I forgot the password which I tried too many times and it disabled. Now my yahoo account I used for it is deactivated due to the fact I haven't logged in 12 months. What do I do?! My phone won't activate unless I use the ID I used in the beginning. I really need help! :/


texts: connected bluetooth devices don't output audio on macbook air

texts: I have a pair of wireless headphones, and airpods that i can connect to my macbook air via bluetooth. However moments after connecting and attempting to play some audio they disconnect and the audio plays via the internal speakers. The headphones and airpods work fine with my phone, I have tried to forget both of them on my phone and then tried to reconnect with my macbook but it didn't work. Using macOS high sierra btw.


texts: How to set default homepage in safari 6?

texts: Since downloading mountain lion and safari 6 I have lost the ability to set my home page.  in safari preferences there is the ability to tell it what you want for a home page but it does not take.  instead I always get this:  http://d3.zedo.com/jsc/d3/ff2.html?n=790;c=3603;s=2952;d=16;w=1024;h=768.  I want to know how to get rid of this and get my preference working instead.


texts: How to turn off the iSight indicator when I'm using the Camera?

texts: How to turn off the iSight indicator of my Mac's camera (without putting black tape on it)?


texts: iOS Books app often opens at a previous page

texts:
When I open Books to continue reading a book it often opens to an earlier page than the one I was before, sometimes several chapters back. The same happens when I do a lookup and then jump back to continue reading. I only use Books on the iPad so it doesn't seem to be a syncing issue.
How can I fix this?


texts: Can I block Chrome's notification with Mac's Do Not Disturb?

texts:
I don't want to get notification while I'm working so I want to disable Chrome's all notification (Settings -> Show Advanced Settings -> Privacy -> Content Settings -> Do not allow any site to show notifications)  from Mac's Do Not Disturb mode?

Is it automize with Automator or something else?


texts: Transferring purchases from iPhone to iTunes - Why is it necessary?

texts:
When trying to restore my iPhone 5s to 7.0.4 via iTunes I get this message:

  There are purchased items on the iPhone “X’s iPhone” that have not been transferred to your iTunes library. You should transfer these items to your iTunes library before updating this iPhone. Are you sure you want to continue?

I know how to go about transferring the purchases by File → Devices → Transfer Purchases but what I don't understand is why it is necessary. I thought all my purchases were linked to my iTunes account. Can't I just re-download all my purchases from the iTunes App Store?

Is this to make sure apps that are no longer available in the app store are saved?


texts: Create a bootable USB with Windows installer for Yosemite?

texts:
I'm having trouble creating a bootable USB for my mac.
I have an iMac, and I'm wanting to install a copy of Windows Server 2008 x86 onto it. I've tried BootCamp, but I'm getting errors when selecting the ISO because it is "not Windows 7 or later".

Does anyone have any idea how I could create a USB that I can boot on my Mac, with my Windows Server 2008 ISO?


texts: Can I deauthorize all computers on iTunes, without being on an authorized computer?

texts:
I'm having issues installing apps on my new iPhone, because I am not authorized on my computer.
In the last 8 years I've been changing computers and reset the OS a lot. I didn't think of a limit with authorized PCs on iTunes.

Now I can't authorize my current system, because I do not have access to the "authorized" computers (i.e. the old OS I formatted).

How can I remove all the authorizations at once? I know I can only do that on an authorized machine (which I won't ever have access again).
Do I need to ask Apple directly for support?


texts: Is there a (free) graphical SSH file transfer client for Mac?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What's a good graphical SFTP utility for OS X?

I'm looking for an SSH client that includes drag and drop file transfer functionality. I'm aware of CyberDuck, but it's a bit pricey. I found one or two other programs, and they're not free. I need it for my computer science class this semester. (I'm technically ok using the Terminal, but some of my Mac using classmates are not.)


texts: Horizontal scrolling in Inkscape in Mac OS

texts:
When I run Inkscape on Mac OS or in Parallels, the horizontal scrolling works fine when I use the touchpad but Shift+MouseWheelScroll doesn't do anything. ctrl+MouseWheelScroll works fine (controls zoom). It makes Inkscape very hard to use IMO, as I cannot easily navigate through the drawing without zooming-unzooming all the time.

Such horizontal scrolling works just fine e.g. in the browser (both in Mac and in Parallels).

Is there a way to achieve it also in Inkscape on Mac?


texts: Why wouldn't even Internet Recovery work?

texts:
I encountered a really vexing problem with my MacBook Pro 15” (mid-2015, 2.5 Ghz, 1 TB flash) last week after it returned from Apple’s repair depot for a logic board replacement. I had FileVault2 enabled. OS X 10.11.3. The next morning, I went to work, but when I opened the lid of the computer, it didn’t wake up. I forced a reboot, heard a chime, and was asked to enter the FV2 password. After that, the booting seemed to proceed normally (the progress line was being drawn across the screen, but then progress stopped (screen blank) with no line displayed.

I was able to boot into single-user mode and run fsck, which didn’t seem to find any errors, but it did note that the file system was modified, so I ran it again (with no errors). I typed “quit” to continue the boot sequence, but then reached the same blank screen.

At that point, I rebooted, and held command-R down to boot into the recovery partition, but I reached the same blank screen. I tried booting the computer from a bootable backup drive, holding down the option key, selecting the external disk, but I reached the same blank screen.

I was at a loss then. I thought the only option left was to try internet recovery (command-option) — yet I got the same blank screen after the globe turned for a while.

I took the MBP to my local Apple Store where they were at a loss to boot the computer, too. They ended up giving me a new laptop (this was after 2 successive logic board replacements), but the “genius” maintained that there must have been some sort of FileVault 2 encryption corruption which was stopping the boot sequence. Her reason for thinking this was because the MBP would get past the initial FileVault dialog and then stop. In the end, she concluded, “FileVault2 was doing its job"!

However, that made no sense to me at all, because 1) I couldn’t boot into the recovery partition and 2) couldn’t use internet recovery at all. Both of these bypass the encrypted partition, and even if a “drive” is encrypted, one should be able to erase it, right?

Does anyone have any idea what might have been wrong?


texts: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019) wifi packet loss

texts: I'm getting random packet loss when pinging my wireless router. At first I thought it was because of router distance so I put it 1 meter away from my macbook. As you can see from the below screenshot, the signal strength is absolutely amazing. I've included a screenshot of my phone pinging the router from the same position (in which it has zero packet loss). What could be the issue? I have also tried pinging in safe mode to ensure it isn't some piece of random software. It looks like this wi-fi chip has a defect?


texts: Alert sounds occasionally getting stuck in loop

texts:
Every once in a while when I get a standard notification alert sound — this has happened a few times with the 'trash emptied' sound, and once or twice with the 'new mail arrived' sound — the sound gets stuck in a half-second repeating loop. I can clear it by forcing the machine to produce a new alert sound, but otherwise it seems to go on indefinitely.

This problem has only started since I upgraded to Catalina, on a 2019 MacBook Pro, and it's inconsistent: it happens about twice a month, maybe. I was just curious if anyone had any insights before I pull out the big guns (like a PRAM or SMC reset).


texts: Applescript - the activate command makes application "half-active"

texts:
What I did:

Using this link,

I created the following Applescript:

tell application "System Events"
    click (first button whose subrole is "AXZoomButton") of (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow") of (first process whose frontmost is true)
    set frontApp to (name of first application process whose frontmost is true) as string
    tell application frontApp to activate
end tell

This code allows me to "press" the green button at the top left corner of the window.

I run the code, using Alfred.

(Mountain Lion 10.8.4, Alfred 2.0.6)

What happens:

Zooming works fine, but

the zoomed window of the application loses focus.
the three buttons, red, yellow and green, at the top-left corner of the window are all dimmed in grey after running the code.
the menu bar still shows the application title, indicating that the application is still foremost.

(In this sense, the window is "half-activated"?)

If I click the window, those buttons go back to normal, showing red, yellow and green.

What I want:

I want to keep focus on the zoomed application window after running the code using Alfred.

Can anyone help me out, please?


texts: How to stop iTerm2 closing tabs on error?

texts:
iTerm2 always closes the tab/window on error. By contrast, Terminal keeps it open so you can view the error.

How can I prevent iTerm2 from automatically closing the tab/window on error?


texts:
In Messages and other apps, the date linking is sometimes a little unnecessary:

Is there a way to turn off data detectors on Yosemite across the board?

I know you can turn off Mail data detectors with this command defaults write com.apple.mail DisableDataDetectors YES and then restarting the Mail.app but I'm looking for a broader elimination of them from my system.


texts: Why is it necessary to perform manual clean-up of APFS partition/container when removing one copy of macOS on a dual macOS install?

texts:
In Remove macOS from a APFS container? there is an answer by @"David Anderson" that states that if you install 2 copies of macOS on separate volumes within the same partition/container, then try to remove one, you need to perform this multi-step clean-up.

My question is why is it necessary to perform this clean-up? How do these commands know not to remove the recovery for High Sierra main or the second copy you installed? And if you remove these partitions, is there still a Pre-Boot and Recovery partition that remains? Please clarify.


texts:
I must mention that I've contacted Apple support many many times about that, there were a bunch of call back from them and email conversations with senior advisors, but there was no success in finding a solution for this issue.

What they've told me in our final conversation over the phone was: "The engineers are working on this issue and we have couple of reports with the same issue as you do so you must wait till they find a solution".

The reason I'm opening this discussion is to see if there is somebody else with the same issue as mine or anybody has successfully resolved it.

Now let begin with the explanation of the issue.

I can see no locations in YEARS, while in COLLECTION and MOMENTS there are locations visible. We are talking only for year 2015. And yes LOCATION was turned ON while using Camera in Settings.

As you can see there are no locations for 2015 while for 2014 and 2016 there are.
Lets take a look into Collections and Moments:

MOMENTS:

So now there are locations, and also if I select a picture from the same year there will be a location.

I was unable to resolve this issue even after changing my device, from iPhone 5s to iPhone 7 Plus.
I would really appreciate if you give me any tips for how to resolve this, if anybody already done that.(?)

***Note: I've posted the same question a long time ago on a couple of other forums but still no answer. Only on one of the forums I got a question if an advisor from apple asked me to restore the device. The answer is Yes. I made a backup of my iPhone 5s and restored it from the backup and still nothing. I even tried setting it up as a "new iPhone".
I tried this even with my iPhone 7 Plus.


texts:
I have software (Reflector 2 and Airserver) that allow me to stream over AirPlay 1 from my iOS device.

However, AirPlay 1 does not allow me to use the multiple device feature built into AirPlay 2.

I can AirPlay 2 from my Mac to my HomePod and Apple TV and get all three devices playing the same stream. However, I can't control the music with my iOS device.

Is there a way I can play a stream to my Mac, AppleTV and Homepod from my phone?


texts: I am using a shared mac in which a new user account was created by another user.  I want to know the dateTime of the account creation.  Is there a way to find it out without asking the peer?


texts: alternative to TotalTerminal that works with El Capitan

texts: Upgrading to El Capitan broke my dropdown terminal TotalTerminal.  Is there an alternative dropdown terminal to replace it that is compatible with El Capitan?


texts: Is there a log of all the apps I am running on my macOS?

texts:
I think being able to see what apps I use the most on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly basis would be a good idea for macOS users.

Are there such applications already available or a log file / resources from the OS where we could extract this information?


texts: How do i find my WiFi password when i am already connected but it doesnt show

texts:
I am trying to find my WiFi password from my iPad and I am connected to it.

Is there anyway I can find out when I am connected to it?


texts: removing 'recent' files names from finder in MacOS

texts: There are about 5000 recents in my recents on finder. Can these be deleted or does this also delete the files themselves


texts:
When I play Minecraft, usually on servers, my game constantly crashes, and the reason for this is: 'Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again!'

I am running on OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.5

I am running on Minecraft 1.8

I have contacted Minecraft support, and they didn't help me at all, but I soon noticed that Java was the issue.

I know that typing ulimit -c unlimited would be a temporary fix until the next time I run the game, but is there a way that I could make a permanent fix. I'm looking to fix my crashing issue. I'm looking for any clue that may help fix this issue.


texts: Sometimes I just need a break from serious work. Can my Mac OS install tell me any jokes?


texts: Connecting external display turns MacBook screen black

texts:
For years, connecting to external monitors on my MBP 9,2 (10.10.4) worked just fine (except the occasional crash). Until yesterday, where I had three crashes in quick succession. Now when the display (miniDP-to-VGA) is connected, the computer won't boot. I unlock my boot volume, but the black bar only fills to about one third before stopping. When I disconnect the adapter, it boots but once I connect the display, the laptop screen goes black and audio also dies after a few moments. The computer is still running and can only be shut down by long-pressing the power button.

I am baffled, but also unsure on how to diagnose the problem. Console shows no unusual messages.

I booted into my second OS (elementaryOS) and it reacts to connecting the adapter, but nothing shows on the other screen except occasionally a static image.
This may point to a hardware issue. Not sure. When mirroring the display, something does show, although I cannot select an appropriate resolution, which may be the tv's problem.
I reset SMC and NVRAM, to no avail
I also fixed permissions, although I don't know how that could fix anything, and it did not
I logged out and the same thing happens when connecting the display
I logged in as another user. When plugging in the display, the computer freezes, but the screen does not go black
In Safe Mode, the screen does not turn black and the computer does not halt, but nothing shows on the display, but I can access external display settings like resolution and such.


texts: GPU restart Mac Pro 3rd Gen. Early 2009 with GTX 1070, how to diagnose?

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Frequent, almost daily GPU restarts. From the console, under System reports, there's a painful record of the Kernel panics. Here's the most recent one:

Thu Sep  7 15:10:19 2017

Event:               GPU Reset
Date/Time:           Thu Sep  7 15:10:19 2017
Application:         WindowServer
Path:
Tailspin:            /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/gpuRestart2017-09-07-151019.tailspin
GPUSubmission Trace ID: 0
OS Version:          Mac OS X Version 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)
Graphics Hardware:   NVIDIA Chip Model
Signature:           8

Report Data:

NVDA(Graphics): Channel exception! Exception type = 0x8 DMA Engine Error (FIFO Error 8)
Channel Info: [0, 0x2, 0x2, 0x9d7]
Version Info: [com.nvidia.web.GeForceWeb, 10.1.8, 0x4e554e, 22510759, 378.05.05.25f01, 1]

Resource Manager Info:
 4443564e 000000d0 a24a219a 697c239f 00000001 00000014 ......etc

Basically, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Is it hardware related? Software? What else can I provide to help debug?


texts: How do I add a label to identical cards in Wallet?

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I have 2 identical transit cards in my Apple wallet. One is for personal use. The other for business use.

Unfortunately, other than the position in the stack and the amount of money on the card there is no way to tell which card is which.

It seems like there has to be some way to add a label to the cards, ideally at the top so I can know which one to select.

How can one add a label to cards in Apple wallet?


texts: Freezes on MacBook w/ Lion with Intel 330 SSD

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I installed an Intel 330 SSD (120GB) in my MacBook (4,1) a few weeks ago. I reinstalled a fresh Mac OS X Lion (10.7.4) to make sure there are no issues with the new drive.

However, since then I encounter random and pretty frequent freezes (~10, daily).
The entire OS freezes for 10-30 seconds, the cursor (the infamous beach ball) still moves but no application responds to input.

I don't know whether the drive is malfunctioning or the problem is with the OS. I see other people having this issue and I'm wondering if anyone has any clues as to where to start investigating. If I am to return the drive, I need some proof that it's malfunctioning. Or, if the OS has incompatibility issues with Intel drives/SandForce controllers, I might buy a second different drive.

At the moment I'm trying to use fs_usage (as I'm writing this message), hoping to find a clue about what's causing the freezes.

As suggested by various blogs/tips, I disabled the power-saving feature for disk drives. I even tried the Trim Enabled utility, but it only seemed to make the freezes happen more often, so at the moment it's disabled.

Any input on this issue would be appreciated.


texts: Create a new (.txt) File in Finder - Keyboard Shortcut

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I wanted to know if there is way to set keyboard shortcuts to make new files in Finder. For example, by default, you can create a new folder using CMD+Shift+N. Is there a keyboard shortcut to create a new text file? I'm a programmer so this would be extremely useful

I would also be interested in creating other file type using keyboard shortcuts.

I have attempted to use automator but I'm finding it quite confusing and I'm not sure how I would connect a keyboard shortcut to it.


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Hi there to apple community.
When I record my screen on my MacBook, edit it with Camtasia and the I transfer it to my iPhone the fps gets extremely awful.
but when I transfer the screen record with out editing it's cool.
what's wrong?
I had the same problem with a gif exported from after effects too!
(the edited video works fine on MacBook)


texts: How can I have my Mac mount a network drive when an application launches?

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I outsourced the storage for my "iTunes Media", "iTunes Music" and "Mobile Applications" using symlinks onto a network drive.

I didn't outsource the complete media library because of performance reasons with iTunes.

It would be nice to connect to my network drive when I launch iTunes as it fails less than gracefully when the network storage isn't already mounted.

Is there a way to mount a network drive prior to a particular application launching?


texts: How come Dropbox gets an icon in Finder sidebar?

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How come Dropbox gets a non-generic icon in Finder's sidebar, when other directories like Google Drive and Sites (native in OS X before Lion) all have the same generic one?

How can I customise the icons used by the folders in the sidebar? OS X used to show individual icons of all folders there — not any longer.


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After updating to macOS 11, aka Big Sur, my Mac has kept crashing every ~2 hours. Here's the kernel panic log from one recent panic
Here is another panic log.
I initially thought the issue was related to a Dell DisplayLink docking station I had connected to, but I have uninstalled the driver and I have also experienced crashes without any peripherals attached.
Any help reading and understanding a kernel panic log would be much appreciated.
I should note that the install process of big sur was a bit strange with several reboots and clicking "update" again. Not sure if that means anything.
I'm on a 2017 15" MacBook Pro with touchpad, i7 and intel graphics.


texts: iPhone connects to WiFi but drops Internet connection

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I am able to connect to WiFi alright, but the Internet connection drops off after about 60 seconds.

In the routers console, the assigned IP address is shown which matches with one on the device.

In the current connections list in routers, the iPhone is listed.

After 60 seconds of connection to the WiFi, when the Internet connectivity drops off, the IP address in the connections list in the router for the iPhone changes to 192.2.28.112 and the host name changes to Static IP. I am unsure why this is happening. The mac address for the listed item matches with that of my iPhone.

All the iPhone network settings are at default. I have tried restarting the device and resetting network settings on both the router and the iPhone.

The model is an iPhone 6. I have had this problem ever since the day I bought it. I have faced similar issue with one of my friends computer. All the other devices never face any issues with the WiFi.

Current router settings matched with the one recommended by Apple. There are no special items such as MAC filters enabled in the router.


texts: Unicode subscript characters do not display

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None of my apps including Chrome, TextEdit, and MacVim can display the unicode character subscript t shown here -> ₜ

Example text:

graph Gₓ at time Uₜ

The subscript x displays fine but not the subscript t.

How do I fix this?

MacBookPro11,2
OS 10.11.6