texts: In iOS: Can my app launch another app and get a response/acknowledgement back?

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In iOS, is there anyway i can launch another app to do something and then get a response back saying that it’s done.

For example: My iOS app APP A launches another app APP B (e.g. Google Pay) to make a payment and then after the payment is made, I would like APP A to receive a response/callback/acknowledgement saying its done.

By the way, I'm having zero trouble getting APP A to launch APP B via UIApplication.Shared.Open(…)

** In android we use Android Intent to launch APP B and get a response back to APP A using OnActivityResult(…)**.

PS: My App is actually built in React Native using NativeModules.

Thanks


texts: When I needed storage I did something under the storage section in settings to undownload the apps I haven’t used in a while and if I want to go back into the app after so many days then I have to redownload it but after so many days it undownloads after I downloaded it. How can I get the to stop since I got a new phone and I dont want this to do this any more? It also shows a cloud next to it every time it undownloads.


texts: How can I mount a network share on a schedule?

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I have two macs, that need to mount each other's respective network shares but also both need to restart every night.

The trouble is, neither computer can mount the other until the other is fully booted up with the volume ready.

How can I solve this without needing to use a paid 3rd party application?

I did find this question which is asking about a very similar need, but the top answer doesn't work because the user will always first be prompted to select the share they want to mount and this needs to happen unattended in the middle of the night.

If I can schedule the mountings, then each computer can just unmount the volume in question and restart (easy to do in Automator), and then some time later after both machines will easily be ready, re-mount their needed shares.

So, how can I simply schedule each machine to mount the required remote share, at a specified time?


texts: How to leave the Rename Printer dialogue without renaming the printer

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In Catalina, when I try to rename a printer but then change my mind and try to close out of the screen, one cannot.

Here's what I did:

Go to rename an existing printer (System Preferences > Printers & Scanners > Right click > Rename Printer)
When the rename printer dialog opens, then change your mind and don't rename the printer.
Or, perhaps just rename the "Location" and leave the printer field the same.

For me, macOS Catalina always responds like this, even when there is no other printer that has a conflicting name.

Is there a way to cancel the Rename Printer dialogue once one enters it without renaming the printer? OR, if this problem does not show up on other people's computers when they try to replicate this problem, what might be causing my system to do this? This seems like one among many bugs in this frustrating release of the operating system.


texts: I tried to disconnect and remove this device called '57-14-cf-5d-3c-62', and it doesn't work. I'm not really sure why, but I'm wondering if this is potential malware. If so, what is the best way to check and remove it?


texts: How do I mount a sparse bundle from an NAS

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I am in a bit of tight spot. I backed up my MacBook Pro using Time Machine onto my QNAP NAS before receiving a new MacBook Pro from my employer. Both were running Mojave. I have admin rights, but they are somehow limited. Note that the option to administer this computer has been greyed out.

Now, when I first got the computer, and I tried to access the backup stored on my NAS, I was able to mount the Time Machine backup drive in my finder and I was successfully able to drag a few smaller files from the backup folders to my new folder. But when I tried to drag my 40 GB Photos library file to my new computer, it would stop with an error code -50.
I can't remember the exact wording of the error but it was something like the operation can't be completed error code -50.

Now, I can't even mount the Time Machine backup drive on my finder.

Has the sparsebundle somehow been corrupted?
Is my lack of complete rights on my new computer an issue?
Is there a different way to mount the backup drive?

Thank you. I hope I've provided enough information.


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I replaced my MacBook Pro optical drive with an Agility 3 SSD from OCZ, currently operating at SATA I speed only (it should run at SATA II speed, but that's another story). After a clean install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, I noticed a few problems that made the whole user experience nearly unbearable: constant beach ball cursors and unexpected freezes and pauses (up to one minute) when editting basic system preferences, copying files, using Safari, etc. Agility 3 SSDs have their own Trim manager, so I applied no hacks whatsoever. Here's what I've done so far:

Made several clean installs of Mac OS X Lion on the SSD: all problems persisted;
Enabled Mac OS X native Trim support, using Trim Enabler: didn't notice any changes;
Didn't install any software and didn't use the HD: all problems persisted;
Ran a "Verify disk" scan using Disk Utility: no issues returned.

I assume the problem is related to the SSD, because these beach balls and pauses started happening right after I installed the SSD. I do notice my Mac Book Pro is much faster though, whenever these issues don't freeze it. These are my relevant specs:

MacBook Pro 5.1 (late 2008):

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo;
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3;
SMC version: 1.33f8;
Sudden Motion Sensor: Enabled.

Agility 3 SSD:

Model: OCZ-AGILITY3;
Revision: 2.220000;
Serial Number: OCZ-F2YXP9LB8741651B;
Native Command Queuing: Yes;
Queue Depth: 32;
Medium Type: Solid State;
TRIM Support: No;
Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table);
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified.

Here are some similar issues I found when browsing through Apple discussion forums, all with the very same Agility 3 SSDs:

Macbook late 2009 - SATA III SSD issues
SSD beach ball freezes
occasional stalling

I guess I should be more specific and run some sort of diagnostics, but I honestly don't know how to do it. Is there anything I should do to provide more information on this issue? Any suggestions would be much appreciated, as I totally depend on this MacBook Pro to work and procrastinate.

Quick update: I just checked my System Report and my SSD is running (only) at SATA I speed, while it should only have backwards compatibility with SATA II. Maybe that's the problem. I just don't understand why it's not running at SATA II speed, as is the other HD I have on my Mac Book Pro (which, by the way, only supports up to SATA II).


texts: How to keep exchange emails from showing up in contacts? (iOS7)

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After upgrading an iPhone user from iOS6 to 7, I'm having an issue where, in my contacts app, all 2000 email address from my exchange account are showing up in my contacts.

If I go under settings and turn off the contacts tab under the exchange servers. It just deletes all contacts from my phone. Including ones that aren't emails.

How do I get rid of them so that the phone only shows the contacts that are stored on the phone and not synced from exchange?


texts: Turn on Location Services for an app via command line (macOS)

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I am trying to enable Location Services for an individual app such as Weather.app etc via command line for High Sierra and Mojave macOS computers.

I was able to enable Location Services at the top level by using these two commands.

For High Sierra:

sudo -u _locationd defaults -currentHost write com.apple.locationd LocationServicesEnabled -int 1

For Mojave:

sudo defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd LocationServicesEnabled -int 1

However, I haven't figured out how to enable Location Services for an individual app yet and hope the community here can help me figure out. :)


texts: Syncing Safari bookmarks across multiple Apple devices (iMac, Macbook pro and iPad)

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I was a Microsoft Windows (98 to 8.1) user up until now , and I have recently made the switch to Mac OSX completely. While I have managed to familiarize myself with quite a few things so far, there is a complicated issue which I haven't been able to deal with, yet.

Up until the switch to Mac OSX, I have been using Google Chrome for all my online work. I frequently tend to bookmark web-sites and over the long period, I have accumulated many bookmarks which are neatly organized into folders on the Google Chrome bookmark bar. I feel a screenshot would make it absolutely clear in case of any confusion, so here's one:

The interesting point to note here is: the iMac is not my own, it is my work computer, and yet by logging into Google Chrome on this iMac (refer next screenshot), I can access all my bookmarks, saved passwords (and what not) in a matter of seconds.

So, my question is:

  How do I get to perform the same sync in Safari, as is possible
  through Google and Google Chrome?

I do have an Apple iCloud account, but I don't see how I can replicate the syncing on Safari via iCloud, the way it can be done through my Google account and Google Chrome. I also have a personal Macbook Pro and an iPad, and I need to sync the iMac safari bookmarks with those on the Pro and the iPad.

The only thing which I can think of is: Exporting Google Chrome bookmarks into an HTML file and importing them back into Safari, each time both on the iMac and the Macbook.

Not only is this tedious, but it's also extremely clumsy. If there is a way iCloud can be used to do the sync on Safari, I'm not yet aware of it. External sync apps (Evernote and the like) might not work because they have limited storage.

I would also like for Keychain to be enabled across all my Apple devices via the sync, so I do not need to remember passwords.

Any suggestions/help would be highly appreciated.


texts: Where to find a list of iTunes Internet Radio Station URI's?

texts: Looking for a source of iTunes Internet Radio Station URI's. Any suggestions?


texts: I want to copy data from a text box under Settings, but drag and drop doesn't work. Is there a quick way to do it which is not OCR-ing the screen?

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This is the text box. They're iCloud abbreviations.

I want to export them, but I don't know how to do it.

Can someone help me?


texts: Can I detect the frame rate of a video using built in programs or tools?

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I want to match the frame rate of a video I am editing to a project. But I don't know the frame rate.
Is there an easy way to check the frame rate of a video using built-in tools or programs?


texts: How can I spread a wallpaper out to 2 displays?

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I have an early 2011 MBP powering 2 Thunderbolt displays. I have downloaded the proper resolution wallpapers from Digitalblasphemy's site (5120x1440), but can't figure out the setting to spread the wallpaper across both displays.

How do I spread the wallpaper across both displays?


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I'm running OS X 10.11.5, and try to start Microsoft Lync 2011.

When trying to start the Lync application, it directly just exits. I see following log messages:

2016-07-18 15:32:49,309 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIToolbox.rsrc
2016-07-18 15:32:49,329 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc
2016-07-18 15:32:49,346 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/QuickTime.rsrc
2016-07-18 15:32:49,362 sandboxd[149]: ([5745]) Microsoft Lync(5745) System Policy: deny file-ioctl /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc

Any ideas on how to fix this? Do I need to configure SIP to allow for this, and if so, any tips about how I do that would be appreciated.


texts: Images are "Faded" Emailed from Outlook 2011 for Mac

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I have a rather odd issue. I'm running in a Mac/PC environment at work. When I email an image (JPG or PNG) to someone from Outlook 2011 Mac and they open in Outlook for PC (2010), the picture always ends up "washed out" or "faded."

This even occurs on the image signature I designed. Any ideas on what's causing this and how to resolve it? I'd rather not pop into Parallels every time I need to send an email.

Thanks!


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My iPhone is stuck on Connect to iTunes Screen (support.apple.com/iphone/restore iTunes logo and up arrow with lightning cable)
I have Tried :-

Connecting it to iTunes and Updating, It updates Successfully.But on the same screen again
Restoring, It restores successfully.But on the same screen again
Tried Recovery Mode Screen Method and DFU method
Tried Closing and Restarting iTunes
Tried Deleting 'iPhone Software Update' folder in iTunes and Re-Downloding Updates

Nothing Works...
Any Help will be appreciated


texts: Is the sixth-gen iPod classic compatible with recent Sony Dockstations?

texts: I have a 6th-gen iPod classic (the first model classic) with an 80 GB hard drive. I have recently purchased a Sony Dockstation for iPods but I cannot make it work. Every time it connects to the dock, an Apple symbol comes up. Can anyone explain what should I do to make it work?


texts: My phone gives me charge load for my bluetooth headset why wont my mac?

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My phone gives me charge load for my Bluetooth headset why won't my mac ?
I couldn't find an app for that specific need.
I've only seen this Q&A on apple.com on this very topic:
Any pointers ?
(my headset is a JBL T450BT ; my phone an android one; mac model is macbook pro 13" 2019, with 4 USB-C ports)


texts: How do I mount a sparsebundle to a folder rather than an image?

texts: I have a encrypted sparsebundle and I want to mount to to a folder in my home directory and not under /Volumes. How can I do that?


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I used to run a shell command with AppleScript for authentication to a radius server, this was running fine as I could specify a parameter for the password.
the shell process was updated and don't accept the password parameter anymore and have to be done separately (prompted by terminal), so in terminal its look like it
~mycommand authenticate -username
~password

unless I'm wrong "do shell script"m run in different instance so it's no point doing
do shell script + auth command
do shell script + password

is they anyway I can still use AppleScript and somehow let AppleScript answer with the password?


texts: Is there any way to recover overwritten notes on mac?

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I pasted something on top of a note on my Mac that had some moderately important stuff, switched notes (which means no ctrl-z), and I'm trying to recover it. My first mistake is that I unfortunately don't have a backup that includes it (iCloud or Time Machine.)
So far I've:

tracked down the NoteStore.sqlite (-wal, -shm) which, as far as I can tell from googling, acts as a change log for all your notes along with the -wal which stores overflow

managed to extract the data stored in blobs from ZICNOTEDATA (select hex(zdata) from ZICNOTEDATA)

realized each row is the raw version of a .gz (starts with 1F8B0800000...)

And this is where I'm stuck now, probably because I don't have the right vocabulary to google it. Ideally, I want to put each row of this sqlite column into a "real" gzip in a folder somewhere, unzip them all into .txt files, and view as the original note. If not, I can go one-by-one and unzip them until I find the one I need. Also, I'd like to avoid any external software.
Any ideas or easier ways to do this? Thanks!


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Recently I see a floating window when using Google Chrome on Mac. I can't close it. It appears on top of any web page. When I right click on the Window, there's a menu shown as below:

Would you please tell me how to hide this window? Thanks in advance!


texts: How are Sales different from In-App Purchases in iTunes connect?

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In my app, I have 1 In-App Purchase. In App Analytics, in Metrics:

My Sales and In-App Purchases are different. For so many days, I have one or more In-App Purchase but no Sale.

How is this possible?

Edit:
Sales should include the revenue from In-App Purchases. From Apple Help, Sales mean, "Sales is the estimated total amount billed to the customers.


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I would like keychain access to store all my keys and passwords for my ssh accesses.

However, if I store too many keys, I get "Too Many Authentication Failures" since SSH will try to send all keys and passwords.

Is there a way to choose which key or password to send?


texts: Is there a program that will allow me to use Spotlight to search my Firefox bookmarks and open the browser window?


texts: How does codesign and signing of profiles on os x work?

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At the moment I am messing around with OS X profile manager and configuration profiles in general.
I like the idea of being able to push settings to clients and I'd like to use it for my customers. The problem is, that we can't use profile manager, because it doesn't fit in our business model.

(Short excourse: We manage around 50 customers in my hometown, mostly with 5-50 workers each. Those customers are all individual and do not have any relations to each other. Therefore we can't use one server for all, and setting up one server per customer is also not a thing we'd like to do (or the customer would like to pay;))

I found out so far, that you can import a "trust-profile" and after that one is installed, the user can install all profiles coming from this trusted server without having to supply administration-credentials (this is key, because we don't give them the administrator login in general).

However, on OS X you can use "codesign" (on the terminal) to sign profiles with your private key and then it's signed and computers with the trust-profile installed trust this signed profile.

I'd like to know, what exactly codesign does (does it simply encrypt the profile with your private key?) so I could find another way of signing those profiles on a non-osx machine.

The long term objective would be to have one (web)server sitting "somewhere in the internet" and serving all our customers with profiles. For this I'd write a library and webApp (if this doesn't exist yet) to configure and deploy profiles.
I could also imagine publishing it to github.

Regards
Christian


texts: New photos added to iPhoto aren't available for creating books

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Some time ago I started creating a book with iPhoto. Since then I uploaded new photos to iPhoto, but they are not available amongst the photos I can use to create the book.

How can I have them available? They are in the library.


texts: how can bind any string of text, so whenever you type it, it will be replaced into another string

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I tried my best to describe it, I saw this functionality in some video about macos for noobs.

Basically you can bind any string of text, so whenever you type it, it will be replaced into another string. It seemed super easy.

Example, you bind

<something>

to xsy
So whenever you write xsy, it gets replaced by

<something>

etc


texts: Gifting iPad Air + 3G: how to handle data?

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I am thinking about giving out iPad Airs to my customers. However, I have some concerns about how to "gift" an iPad + 3G.

Do we have to pay the data for the device or could we make them responsible for the data? Does it require a contract or is it that it's just a normal iPad until they walk to their neighborhood __ store and get a SIM card? Or is it where there is a contract like a phone and we will be billed?


texts: Lost APFS partition after resizing partition in windows


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I've already ran

sudo nvram boot-args="vm_compressor=2"

and this is the response from sysctl

sysctl -a vm.compressor_mode
vm.compressor_mode: 2

The problem is Activity Monitor still reports that swap is used.

I want to know if anyone has a way to get the system to honor the compressor mode as set in Catalina.
I've read through Can I turn off swap and/or memory compression on macOS 10.12, Sierra?
 and I know well meaning people have explained the reasons why we shouldn't turn off the swap. I still want to do it anyway.


texts: How do I prevent autocorrection to change part of my email address

texts: I recently have found that when I put my email address in a safari form or other Application, it changes my name from one word to two. e.g. fredsmith@....   auto inserts to fred smith@...   Is there any way I can change this?


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I tried to install Mac OS X El Capitan and it failed in ~70% progress after reboot and now I even can't start recovery mode (pressing Cmd+R just tries to continue installation process and fails again and again).

Assuming I can get a backup of my user files over Target Disk Mode and then hand migrate them, what steps do I need to perform to wipe and reinstall Yosemite on my Mac?


texts: Send Photos via Email when accessing Camera from Lock Screen

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I access the camera from the lock screen all the time.  Often times I want to send those photos.  In order to send them I have to... close the camera app, reopen it, find the picture and then send it.  What a pain!

I know that Apple changed this because of some security problem, but is there anyway that it can be enabled to be able to mail photos when I access the camera app from the lock screen?


texts: How to take screenshot from iPhone using command line

texts: I'm used to taking screenshots from android devices using the adb command line. Is there a way to do the same with the iphone?


texts: How can I remove or hide the stocks app from Apple Watch?

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I'd like to hide the icon of the stocks app so it doesn't appear in the collection of circles. Apple's documentation says you can't do this, but I hope someone finds a back door or way to minimize it past the normal icon size.

  “You can’t hide the apps that came with Apple Watch.”

Excerpt From: Apple Inc. “Apple Watch User Guide.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/4HEW6.l

If I could make the icon totally black, or hide it or shrink it or better, have it uninstalled and not take any space would be ideal.

Apple Watch app runs on iOS 8.3 and Watch OS 1.0.1


texts: I have Messages in iCloud but messages still not perfectly synced

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I have Messages in iCloud on my iPhone (6S, latest OS version 11.4) - or at least I think I do: In iPhone Settings -> [my Apple profile] -> iCloud I have Messages switched to on. I also have Messages on my MacBook Pro, which has the latest version of Mac OS.

However today my iPhone was off because it didn't have enough charge. My Mom (who also has an iPhone with iMessage) sent me a message. The message showed up on my Mac. However even after I restored power to my iPhone and restarted it a couple times, the message never showed up on my iPhone.

So what is going wrong? I thought this, at least, would be solved by Messages in iCloud.


texts: Find executables associated with Homebrew Formula

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Some Homebrew formulas have names that do not correspond with any of the installed commands (e.g., coreutils, speech-tools), other formulas provide an command that matches up with the name, but also provide others alongside it (e.g., lua).

Is there a simple way to determine what commands are associated with a given formula? Ideally as a brew <arg> command before installing, but even a shell script I could use post-install would help.

I thought I might be able to figure this info out with a brew link --dry-run <formula>, but that typically just gives me a warning that the formula is already linked (even with --overwrite or --force added to the command). I don't want to have to unlink each time I want to see the commands, so this route doesn't seem helpful.


texts: Can I resize a BootCamp partition without reinstalling Windows?


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I did the image dump of an X window by using /opt/X11/bin/xwd, e.g.:

xwd -root -silent > screen.xwd

Now, how do I open this file or convert into JPEG file?

Probably I could use pnmtojpeg, but it seems it is not available in Homebrew.


texts: How to diagnose a crash from system logs?

texts:
I know you can get to the system logs from the Console and/or from the command line.

That said, I don't know how to read them very well. How can I tell which events are related to a crash and which ones are not?


texts: I have some events on my Calendar that I would prefer to have listed in Reminders.  (They were added to the Calendar by TurboTax.)  Is there a simple way to move them from one app to another?  (I'm using Mac OS 10.11.6.)


texts: Can I downgrade macOS to OSX Mavericks if the earliest OS that came with my Mac is macOS Sierra?

texts:
Google gives me conflicted answers on this.

On Apple's website it says that the earliest os you can restore to is the one that originally shipped with your Mac.

However, I found articles and links like MacWorld that says otherwise. So I thought maybe there are some tricks that can be used to accomplish that goal.

Is this possible ?

Thank you for your help.


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How do I have a recursive search for filetypes in a Finder folder?

no AppleScript
no Terminal
100% Spotlight

Is this possible?  Looking for mp3 and jpg file types.  I am using El Capitan (macOS 10.10)


texts: How to fix / Reset App Store app on Mac OSX - El Capitan

texts: Newly upgraded to Latest released OS X - El Capitan (10.11.5). Now when I open App Store app, the spinning wheel to right of < > buttons on upper left side continues to spin with no content visible below on any tab button. Originally, I saw that 1-update was available. I read an earlier note to use Activity Monitor and kill processes related to App Store. Saw 2 that had long process times (storeassetd, storedownloadd). Plus now see App Store Web Content in "(not responding state). How do I fix this???


texts: Which Apple TV generations support the use of AirPods?

texts: Does anyone know from experience whether AirPods work with the Apple TV 3rd generation?


texts: Restore iphone 6 running iOS 9.0.1 from old iOS 8.x.x backup using iTunes? Same phone, different iCloud accounts

texts:
I lent my mom my backup iPhone running iOS 9 after she lost her Android.  She created an iCloud account in order to turn on Find My iPhone so she wouldn't lose it. Never linked the account to an email and proceeded to forget the password and lock herself out of the account. She doesn't really remember what she wrote as her birth date but thinks (thinks!!!) she might have given the correct answers to the security questions. Which is irrelevant unless I can come up with whatever birth date she gave the server.  Right now I have normal access to the phone including connecting to iTunes with my own account, just unable to do anything or disconnect from her account within iCloud.
I have an old backup from the same phone in iTunes created with my own Apple ID when I upgraded from iOS 8 to iOS 9. If I used this backup to restore, will I finally be able to connect to iCloud using my own account? I have a feeling it won't work but I had to ask.
PS: She was sent a 6 digit code to input in a trusted device, but the only trusted device for that account is still the same phone.


texts:
By default the iPhone alarm sounds both through the headphones and speakers (understandably), is there a setting somewhere to set the alarm to only go through the headphones?

(The use case is I want to wake up with the alarm but not wake everyone else in the house)


texts: Do different Macs have different quality audio ADCs?

texts:
I want to digitize a bunch of records from my turntable onto my Mac.  I've got a couple different Macs available with "audio in" minijacks: a Mac Pro and a Mac Mini, for example.

Do they differ in the quality of the audio they can record?  Does the Mac Pro have better ADCs or better shielding, for example?  Played back as lossless audio files to a hi-fi system, will I ever notice the difference?


texts: Restored a file from Time Machine when Backup Disk not available

texts:
I found I had deleted a file I needed to keep, so I used the File Vault icon in the top right, and selected "Enter Time Machine".

After successfully restoring the deleted file from a snapshot from several days ago, I realised that my NAS - which functions as my backup disk, had been turned off the entire time. The Time Machine icon had the usual exclamation mark in it for when the backup disk is unavailable.

How did Time Machine restore my deleted file, when the backup disk was not available?


texts: Faces from Aperture synced over OS X and iPhone in their Contacts?

texts: I have faces in the images of Aperture. I would like to use the faces there for my Contacts in OS X and iPhone. How can I get this syncronization thing working?


texts: Outlook and Google Drive stopped syncing on my MacBook Pro

texts:
My Outlook and Google Drive have stopped syncing with my company's gmail and g-drive on server. It showed a keychain error couple of days back which I ignored. But from last couple of days no new emails or files are updating. It always says it is up to date but no new files or mails are updated.
Any assistance welcome.


texts: What's the easiest way to transfer photos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos?

texts:
I have more than 5 000 photos stored on Google Photos and I'd like to know what's the easiest way to move them on iCloud photos. Since the free storage ends on June I want to move everything on iCloud.
Here's what I've tried :

Selecting all of them on the Google Photos app and downloading them, but it randomly skips some pictures, and it stops after some hours of download. Since it downloads them in a random order I have to delete them all and start over.
Downloading them from Google Takeout and uploading them from icloud.com on a PC, but it only accepts JPEG files, so most of the pictures are not uploaded (the file format is .HEIC) and videos are skipped.

I have no other idea on how to do this, I hope anyone can help!


texts: Prevent OS X Mavericks from autoquitting applications for sleep

texts:
OS X Mavericks is quitting applications when it 'sleeps' an account.  One of the applications (play on mac) doesn't support this.  Thus Chrome, TextEdit etc. are being quit and then it asks if I want to manually exit PlaysOnMac.  Thus the quit applications I lose what web pages I had opened, what text files I had opened etc. as they are not restored when this happens.

How do I disable this quitting behavior?


texts:
I have a mid 2010 Mac mini. I recently did an SSD upgrade in it. I tried using Internet Recovery to reinstall Mac OS X Lion (after which I am planning to upgrade further).

However, the setup never downloads for me saying The item is not currently available.

Do I have the choice of USB boot? If not, is there a way to fix the error itself?


texts: How do I get 'New Terminal at Folder' functionality when dragging a folder to the terminal dock icon?

texts: Sometimes I like to open folders in Terminal by dragging the folder to the Terminal dock icon. However this creates a new Terminal window instead of creating a new tab in my current Terminal window. How do I make Terminal open the dragged folder in the same window similar to the right click services option for 'New Terminal at Folder'.


texts: Disable sleep when nobody is logged in to MacBook

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I am running a /Library/LaunchDaemons service at boot time - nobody is logged in. I want the computer to not sleep. Here's my pmset -g on macOS Sierra 10.12.4:

System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         4200
 standby              0
 womp                 1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 sleep                0
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         0
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

Whenever I log in through SSH, it takes a while, and whenever I try to connect to my running service via HTTPS there is a long delay (10 seconds or so). It seems like the system is going to sleep. I can't figure out how to disable this.

I have logged in as a user (only user on system), and set computer sleep and display sleep to never, unchecked put hard disks to sleep, left wake for network access on, and unchecked power nap. This is all for Power Adapter mode. Automatic Graphics Switching is still enabled.

This seems mostly related to not having a user logged in. When I'm logged in, it doesn't go to sleep.


texts: iPad pro 12.9 is charging but not turning on

texts: My iPad pro 12.9 2019 was completely drained and when I plugged it in the Type C charger it showed that it is charging but it׳s been overnight and still hasn't powered back on


texts: is it a problem to buy an iPhone in a different country?

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My parents are traveling in Central America, and my mom's iPhone was stolen. She was going to buy another one in Honduras. After their trip wraps up in a month or two, she's going to come back to the US and the vast majority of her future usage will be in the US.

I'm just wondering if there are any potential problems with this plan. I know that when you setup an iPhone you can choose a particular language, so that isn't a problem.

One potential problem is it will probably cost her more, because she'll be buying without the subsidy she'd get from a US carrier. She knows about this and is willing to do it anyway, because she really likes sending photos to us from her trip.

Are there any other technical or logistical issues? The big one I can think of is maybe the model she'll get will be setup for different cellular bands than the model she'd get in a US. But my information might be dated, perhaps this used to be a bigger problem last decade than now. Plus this is Central America, not Europe or Asia.

Anyway, this is a pretty wide-ranging question but thanks for any advice you can provide.

ALSO: Since this is a stolen iPhone situation, is there any Apple-specific thing you might recommend? We are already going to 1) Tell Verizon to switch her service to her new iPhone, and 2) Attempt to wipe the phone remotely using Find My iPhone. But I forget if it helps to tell Apple about the theft. This is an older model iPhone (5?) and not on the latest iOS so it might not have some of the latest anti-theft capabilities that I think they put in iOS recently (but forget what they were)


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How would I find the command path for exit?  I have already tried which exit but that returns nothing (it just goes to a new line).

I have also played around cd /usr/bin, and when in that directory using ls -R, but I haven't found it.


texts: Automator-script with an OCR-software to automatically add OCR to material?

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The OCR software could be anything like PDFPen, ABBYY FineReader Express or Adobe Acrobat Pro. Automator does not list any features such as 'Add OCR layer to' or show any OCR programs under Automator.

I try to make a high-level script to automate addition of OCR layer to different kind of material such as images, PDFs and screenshots. I am trying to solve a puzzle related to this. For example, how can I add OCR to books in my iTunes without OCR? This would be extremely needed feature because it would make reading of material over iPhone, iPad and OS X much more conformtable. Also, the addition of OCR would improve search results in Finder. So:

  How can I do an automator script with an OCR program such as the ABBYY to automatically add OCR to material that does not have the OCR layer?


texts: Transparency of LC-AAC at 500kb/s bitrate (stereo file)

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I'm recently exploring audio formats, and I found that when encoding to aac at 500kb/s, it's much smaller than lossless formats like flac or alac (which is expected), but audiochecker said that it's CDDA with probability of 94%.

I'm using FFmpeg version N-94001-g1e7a8b92ee with only internal aac support on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and using audiochecker 2.0 beta in crossover.

Does this mean that aac is extremely near lossless at 500kb/s?


texts: Applescript to output UTC Datetime at cursor without SystemEvents

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It would be enormously helpful if I could bind a script that outputs the current UTC timestamp to keybindings and have the output magically appear at my cursor in whichever application I was using. This is pretty easy to do with Automator using a script like this:
on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke input
    end tell
end run

However, macOS Catalina's security permissions trigger the following alert for any application I use this in for the first time.

Not only is this a nuisance (you have to do it every time),  the security implications seem to be pretty wide ranging.
My best alternative is to just copy my input to my clipboard and manually paste each time, but I would like a single keybinding to just dump  my script output at the current cursor in any application.
Is this wildly insecure? Is there a way I can just paste at current position without a security pop up and be safe?
Related:

https://superuser.com/a/457238


texts: Why a downloaded app can read/write to ~/Downloads/ without requiring the privacy allow permission in Big Sur?

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In MacOS Big Sur, I figured out an app (downloaded from internet) normally can not access ~/Downloads/, ~/Documents/, ~/Desktop/ folders directly. When it tries to access those folders at the first time, there will be a popup window to ask for permission and the permission can be setup in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Files and Folders.
Edited: It seems my bad description makes people confused (sorry about my English). I will put two screenshots here to clarify what I mean:

The above screenshot appears when the app iTerm2 tries to access ~/Downloads folder at the first time in Big Sur. (basically when I execute ls ~/Downloads/ commands in iTerm2)

The above screenshot is where I can change the folders privacy setup.
But, today, I downloaded an app (it's a downloading tool) and installed it by dragging it to /Applications folder. (the same way I installed iTerm2) I tried to use that tool to download a file to ~/Downloads folder and the file can be downloaded and written to ~/Downloads folder directly without any permission requirement. It can also display/read all the files in the ~/Downloads folder. I checked the Privacy setup in System Preferences and it does NOT have that app setup too.
I am very confused how can that app read/write the file to ~/Downloads without requiring a privacy permission on the protected folder. I thought those protected folders were protected and were not allowed to be read/write before granting privacy permission. But I was wrong.
(Note that, later I found out Google Chrome App can read/write those protected folders too without asking this privacy permission. File > Open File > Choose any files inside the three protected folders)
PS1: I haven't mentioned the "downloading tool app" name here because that is a non-English app. If anyone consider I should give the name to get a better help, just let me know. Thanks.
PS2: This is a fresh install of MacOS Big Sur. (Not a upgraded system)
PS3: The "downloading tool app" is a GUI app. (NOT a CML app).
PS4: I just find out the Google Chrome.app downloaded from https://chrome.google.com can write to (save file to) ~/Downloads/ folder directly without requiring any privacy permission too. This is weird. Why does iTerm, Code and VLC require privacy permission to do any read/write to those protected folders but google chrome does NOT need to require anything.


texts: Administrator account apparently lost after forced reboot of OS X

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Yesterday I ran into one of those rare problems with OS X (10.11.4) where I thought I had to reboot my MacBook. The cursor wheel was constantly spinning and I was unable to quit any apps or even access Force Quit .... (This was triggered inside Firefox.) So a reboot seemed like an easy way out.

Unfortunately the reboot seems to have corrupted the setup in a bad way. I normally have two user accounts on the MacBook, like A and B, where A is also the administrator account.

After the reboot A now seems to have disappeared. It e.g. does not show up under System Preferences | Users, nor in /etc/passwd. It is also no longer available as a choice in Login Window .... The lost account's files still seem to remain under /Users/A/, but I can no longer access them because I no longer have administrator privileges.

I this a know problem (perhaps even an indication of malware)? How can I restore account A and its administrator privileges without risking corruption of its (presumably) remaining original files in /Users/A/? (At least I do have recent Time Machine backups and can log in as B.)


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There is a well-known unix utility called mkpasswd available on many *nix systems.

I was just trying to use it from terminal on an OSX 10.10.5 Yosemite (Early 2015) machine, and it is nowhere to be found.

How can I install it on this machine? or is there an alternative already available?


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My system is Lion 10.7.x

My Internet Sharing is greyed out with:

  Internet Sharing: Off

  You cannot start Internet Sharing because you have not selected a port to share your connection.

How can I enable internet sharing?

The internet sharing panel is totally disabled, I can see the drop down but unable to select, I'm using a customized version from corp, they may disabled this function, since I have root permission, I might be able to restore it, do you know where to enable the panel?

I just find my screen shot is exactly the same as this question, not sure if its exactly the same case. Internet Sharing on Mac via LAN

I tried to add a com.apple.nat.plist to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
and tried sudo /usr/libexec/InternetSharing -dDV, I got below in my /var/log/system.log
There seems to be no error, but still unable to get it work.

Dec 10 04:24:37  com.apple.InternetSharing[3406]: port forwarding is allowed
Dec 10 04:24:37  com.apple.InternetSharing[3406]: published changes: success
Dec 10 04:24:38  com.apple.InternetSharing[3406]: store_changedDec 10 04:24:38  com.apple.InternetSharing[3406]: set state: silent, state RESET(1020)->ON(1023), reason NO_ERROR(0), errnum 45
Dec 10 04:24:38  com.apple.InternetSharing[3406]: prefs_changed
Dec 10 04:24:38  com.apple.InternetSharing[3406]: published changes: success


texts: Changing display resolution on Retina machines while in Command Line Mode

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I frequently prefer to boot into the command line mode (CMD + S on boot) instead of booting to the normal GUI-imposed version. I do most of my work in the terminal, so it's nice to save some time and bypass all the unnecessary UI.

However, on retina machines, the command line mode displays at a 1:1 ratio (instead of a 2:1), meaning all text is very, very small. I really want to reduce the resolution it displays at by a factor of two. Is this possible, and if so, how?


texts: how to place file inside /sbin/ in MAC 10.11 during .pkg installation

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We have been installing / placing a tool for dhcp refresh under /sbin till MAC 10.10 there were no issues. but now it is completely blocked.
even with root privilege i cannot able to place it.
Any way is suggested?

Does Apple provide any other way to perform the release and renew IP address, clear the ARP entries in better way?

Thanks,
Saravana


texts: Importing preferences from a Lion time machine backup to Snow Leopard

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I've recently installed Lion on my macbook, and did not back up any of my files. I did a Time Machine backup under Lion, and wish to go back to snow leopard.

What can I import from my time machine backup that will not crash snow leopard ? I think all the "i" apps (iCal, iTunes, etc) won't work, but what about system preferences and such ? Will that work or will it crash my system ?


texts: On iOS how to view the tweets of a particular user in Twifferific and Tweetbot

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Let's say I found in a bio the twitter handle @BarackObama (or even a less popular one) and I want to quickly look at the tweets of this user.

I'm having a hard time finding an easy way to do this in Twitterrific. Is it possible? How do I do it?

Plus I'm thinking of switching to Tweetbot - how do i do it in this app?


texts: Iphone 3G shows 'no service' eversince I came back from Malaysia

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I'm using Iphone 3g for a year exactly and have no problems at all until recently I went to Malaysia. it says 'no service' where the carrier name supposed to be. so I assume its because since I'm out of the country, Singtel can't get coverage where Im at. I returned to Singapore 2 days later and still it says 'no service'. I tried doing all hard reset, clean restore, wipe everything out, tried toggling the airplane mode, still no improvement.. I thought maybe my line got cut and called Singtel but they assured me that the line is working perfectly fine. The singtel iphone tech support guy tried advising me to do the network reset but still no use.

I doubt it has anything to do with my sim card as I tried using it on other nokia phones and I can get full signal. I'm sure its the phone with the problem.

I can't get a replacement phone from Apple as my 1 year warranty ended last month! why is this happening! feels like iphones go into self destruct mode just when the warranty finish so we have to fork out money in repairs.

anyone experiencing the same problem?

it's been 5 days.


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I purchased a new Mac Mini and have attempted to hook it up to my ASUS VS278Q-P LCD Monitor. I was using this monitor in Windows and it looked fine but on the mac mini, it's having a problem where the font display is really blurry. It seems this is a bit of a common problem and others have fixed it by changing the font smoothing. This, of course, didn't work for me:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 (..and 1 - 4 as well)

I've also tried three different cables with no change:

Mini DisplayPort <> DisplayPort
HDMI <> HDMI
Mini DisplayPort + VGA converter <> VGA

I've tried to capture the worst fonts using "zoom" feature (pic below). Notice the "t" and "i" characters are mostly crisp while others like the "l" characters are blurry.

Have also fiddled with different settings on the monitor trying to get rid of it but basically just made things worse. Any ideas how to fix this?


texts: How to downgrade software using terminal?

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New apple user here, I am trying to downgrade matplotlib to 1.3.1 after coming to this potential solution:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/3470/

I just have no idea how to do that.


texts: How can I safely install applications which aren't distributed via the Mac App Store?

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To keep things simple, I'd like to only install apps from the official AppStore. But, I'm frequently finding that the apps that I need are not on the AppStore such as Gradle, Carbon Copy Cloner, and Android Studio. It is what it is, and I install them, but what's the deal?
Can somebody explain to me why some applications are distributed outside of the store and how I as a user can still install them safely?


texts: Preventing google search for custom top-level domain

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How can I prevent safari to redirect the user to the google search page for addresses with custom top-level domains?

Given an address of the type http://application.test where test is a primary zone on our intranet, if I enter either:

http://application.test
application.test/

Then Safari correctly resolves the name and opens the page, if I enter:

application.test

Then Safari assumes it is a search query and redirects the user to the google search page.

Is it possible to prevent this in any way which does not involve the user itself?


texts: How to increase font size for Urdu Language?

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I am using the Urdu language on Mac OS Mojave and it appears very small. I have no issue with the English text. Is there any way to increase it?

Just to clarify, I am talking about the Urdu text I see on web page or written in Word document etc.


texts: How to run current mails from MacBook and access or search old mails from an external hard drive?

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I have a large number of emails on my MacBook Air. I want to shift all my old mails into an external hard drive and delete the same from my MacBook to save space (47 GB). Then I would like to continue with my existing accounts to keep receiving fresh or current emails.

How do I then access or search the old mails from the external hard drive and if necessary reply or download content from them?

Is there a way?


texts: File sharing between Mavericks and non-Macs

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I am using a MacBook running Mavericks and my brother is on a Linux box; and we often need to exchange files between each other. Both the laptops are Wi-Fi enabled and I also understand that Mac does allow file sharing over Wi-Fi. While I do know that Airdrop works only for Apple devices, I am sure there must be some way to share files with non-Apple devices using the built-in WiFi capabilities. Any suggestions around how? I have tried checking the file sharing option in the Preferences >> Sharing module but it didn't help. Is it possible to share files with a Linux user using SMB or AFP? I understand FTP is an option but connecting using FTP involves a lot of Terminal steps each time, i.e., activating FTP, sharing password with the user, connecting, and then closing FTP. Is there any simpler method?

Here are the steps I followed:

First of all I enabled guest sharing on my Mac:

Then I activated file sharing on my Mac and designated my Public folder as the share point (default).

Then I tried the following address on my Ubuntu's Nautilus:

smb://172.17.8.212/Public

It then asked for user name, domain, and password and I entered guest for all three, as advised by @deeviate. And this gave the following error:

P. S.: I am NOT interested in installing any third-party tool for this job. Mac gives SMB as a part of the OS and thats what I want to use. There might be tools out there that work better than SMB, doesn't matter. I still should be able to use SMB if my OS provides it natively!


texts:
all of the sudden my folder icons disappeared on OS X Yosemite.
It looks like this:

These are all folders, they are not missing their icon in finder tho, only in the primary  view.


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I like using numbers 2.2 but also have 4.3.1 installed. I would
much rather use 2.2. as its been working all along and because I like the format bar which is not in 4.3.1.

I've been using "Open With" to get my files to open in 2.2, but now when I try to open in 2.2 I get a "The index.xml file is missing" error message and can only open them in 4.3.

How can I get back to 2.2?


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I am looking to restore my current iPhone from iCloud because I've accidentally deleted WhatsApp and want to recover the conversations.

I am nervous to do a reset in case I lose more than I bargained for. Does everything come back to your phone if you reset and restore from icloud. I have a back up as of yesterday and have now turned it off so that it doesn't back up again before I can restore. I have googled this and everything is to do with new set up. I saw  your post re this but wanted to double check before I click "reset" thanks


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I have written an Applescript to launch and position two instances of an Application.  The script runs perfectly fine in the editor using this code:

tell application "App" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "App"
    set position of window 1 to {8, 22}
end tell
tell application "App 2" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "App 2"
    set position of window 1 to {914, 22}
end tell

It is not a scriptable app so I am using System events (I also changed the CFBundleName of the second app, so that it includes the 2 to differentiate the processes).  This all works fine in the editor when I run it.  However, when I save the script as an Application it consistently removes the "2" from "App 2" whenever I save the application, even though it compiles fine.  Does anyone have any idea why this is happening; I'm fairly new to Applescript.


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Is it possible to use modifier keys alone as shortcuts in OS X El Capitan? Coming from Windows background I would like a single press on Command button (without touching Space or anything) to show Spotlight search and Ctrl + Shift to switch keyboard language.

UPDATE: Let me clarify, a single press on Command button is press/release so the key would not be interpreted as a start of a longer shortcut sequence.


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On certain websites (minecraftforum.net) most images appear as a blue box with a white question mark in it on safari. On my school forums (private to the school only, so can't link) normal images work fine, but an animated GIF generates the same blue box. The images do not load in chrome or firefox. Anyone know why?

I have safari 6.1, I'm on a MacBook, and I'm running osx 10.7.5


texts: What is VPN on demand, and how do I get it to work with iOS?

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I know what a VPN is, and I've done a little reading about how to set up VPN on demand. However, I'm confused.

Is VPN on demand essentially a certificate instead of a password prompt on each connect? Do apps need to take care of this specifically, or does iOS handle it whenever it sees that an app wants VPN on demand? What is VPN on demand?


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For some reason the name of thePath comes up as not defined by my Automator workflow.

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Finder"
        set thePath to the (first item of the input)
        set namedFolder to ((the name of thePath) as text)
        set namedFolder to ((text 1 thru 13) of namedFolder)
    end tell
    return namedFolder
end run


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I got myself a m1 macbook air with 8 gb of ram
Ive been using it for a month now and noticed that my swap usage is unusally high, is that something to worry about?
As you can see from the screenshot swap is around 3 gigs, and it hasnt gone done down yet.

I was hoping that 8 gigs was enough for vscode and node but now I doubt it
Also, my ram usage in the activity monitor always peaks at 6.6-6.7 gigs, never goes up more than that.

labels are: all ram, used ram, cache, swap
Should I be concerned?


texts: Automatically move old music tracks on iTunes to external HDD

texts: My media are taking most of my internal hard disk drive. I wanted to know if there is a way to automatically transfer music that I do not listen to regularly on my iTunes folder to an external hard disk.


texts: OSX AppStore Avoid updating certain apps

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Is it possible to avoid updating certain Applications in OSX from AppStore. The idea behind is to avoid unnecessary updates.

For instance, I want to avoid updating iMovie as I don’t use that so often and it is usually 200 MB.

Note: I know that I have to click "Update" in AppStore for the update to start and currently I still haven't updated this application. I want to know if there is a way for it to not show in the AppStore Updates itself or to ignore it till a next update is available.


texts: Creating A Stack That Shows Recently Used Applications etc In The Dock?

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I would like to create a stack (being able to portray List, Fan and Grid View)  which sits in the dock that allows me to see my most recently used Applications upon clicking it.

Furthermore (and if possible) I would also like it to be able to change (upon right clicking it) from recently used applications to recently viewed documents, favourite items, favourite volumes etc.


texts: iPhoto doesn't get the gps data of photos

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I have a photo camera which store the gps data for each photo. It seems to me me that iPhoto is not aware of the gps data when I import the photos.

Is there anyway to make Places to work with the gps data of the photo?


texts: problem emtying iphoto trash after photo installed

texts: I have upgraded to photo, but kept my old iPhoto images. There are plenty of them and now space is an issue so I want to delete some. I have successfully moved them to the external hard drive and have deleted them but now cannot find the trash to empty. The trash for the computer is empty but those images did not show up in that trash so I am assuming that iPhoto still has its own trash somewhere...I just don't know where.


texts: Removing favorite styles does not work in Lion’s TextEdit

texts: In TextEdit on OS X 10.7 Lion, I want to remove some custom text styles I created previously (see screenshot). I have tried the “Remove from favorites” button in the “Show Styles > Favourite Styles” dialog, however this only removes them until TextEdit is reopened. How do I delete the styles permanently?


texts: MacBook Pro doesn’t turn on without charger

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MacBook Pro 2012 non retina model 13.3 inch.

I am trying to turn on MacBook with a replacement battery 11.1 V, 6000 mAh, 66.6 W I installed myself.

The original battery was 10.95 V, 63.5 W.

The MacBook turns on & replacement battery charges when the charger is connected, but when charger is disconnected the MacBook turns off. That is I cannot turn on MacBook without the power adapter with the new replacement battery.

Original battery info

New Replacement battery info


texts: Is it possible to remotely install an app on an iOS device from the web/iTunes?

texts: A valuable feature of the Google Play Store is the ability to command a device you've signed in on to download an app without needing to go searching for the app on the device. I would like to do the same on iOS, but the iTunes Preview interface doesn't look like it supports signing in and cuing up app downloads on a device. Is it possible to tell an internet-connected iOS device to download an app from your computer either online or through the iTunes store browser?


texts: Sharing users between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard -- will this break user preferences?

texts: I have ML and SL installed as dual boot OSes and want to share a user's home directory (on an external drive).  I wonder, however, if I rather should use different users for each OS as ML might write content to the user preferences which SL might confuse.


texts: Photos: decrease in quality when exporting a live photo as a gif

texts: The photos app decreases the quality of each frame to terrible levels when exporting a live image as a gif. Can somebody suggest a fix or an alternative?


texts: Are there any preventative measures I should employ after my MacBook was seemingly bricked?

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Yesterday while working on my 12" 2017 MacBook I got a warning from system preferences that I couldn't shut down because it wasn't responding.

I force shut down the laptop and it would no longer turn on.
After trying to reset the SMC with no success and not finding other resources to solve the issue, I set up an appointment with the Apple store for the next day and went to sleep. When I got up, the laptop just turned on.

Now I'm worried that I just got lucky and will have the problem come back. Besides backing up data, what are other procedures, updates, or other precautionary steps I can take to give me the best chance of preventing this happening again?


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First apologies if this is not the best Stack Exchange site to ask this on, or this is "off topic", but I was directed here from Server Fault as it was "off-topic" for that site. I have asked this question over on Mac Rumors, but received zero responses at this time. Please feel free to redirect me to a more appropriate S.E. site if there is a more suitable one.

I have seen many threads over the net about iPhone7 WiFi connectivity issues, but none of the answers for theirs have fixed my issue.

Problem:

We have an issue at home where the two iPhone 7s often will not connect or if they do connect, wont hold a connection for very long (10 - 20 minutes).

We have multiple other devices, both Apple and non-Apple who connect fine and hold their connection. It is only the two iPhone 7s which are experiencing this issue. The iPhone 6, iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad mini, iMac, two Android phones, one Android tablet and Windows laptop all connect without issue.

WiFi Infrastructure:

Sky Broadband SR102, connected to internet and working as Fibre broadband modem, DHCP server and WiFi access point and router
Sky Broadband SR102, connected to SR102 by LAN cable, DHCP disabled, working as WiFi access point and router
NetGear WNR2200, connected to SR102 by LAN cable, DHCP disabled, working as WiFi access point and router. Also has Guest account enabled.

All WiFi access points have the same SID broadcast, the same encryption type and same password. All three broadcast on different channels, which only overlap slightly according to “WiFi Analyser” application. All WiFi is 2.4GHz. No 5Ghz in house.

Often when the iPhone has no connection the IP address is well outside of the DHCP range. Often something like 169.254.xxx.xxx. I understand from other threads this is an IP address the iPhone assigns its self when it cannot get one from the DCHP server. Sometimes the IP address is just plain 0.0.0.0.

Solutions which have not worked for us are:

Disconnecting and reconnecting WiFi on iPhone7
Renewing the lease on the iPhone7
Restarting the iPhone7
Forgetting WiFi network and re-adding it on iPhone7
Restarting all of the routers
Allowing SR102 to dynamically assign all IP addresses
Giving all frequently active devices in house static IP addresses in the device access list on the SR102. The static IP addresses are based upon MAC address. The  SR102 still hands out dynamic IP addresses to any other device.
Setting static IP addresses (to match those set on SR102) on iPhone7s
Resetting network settings on iPhone7
Turning Bluetooth off on iPhone7 (advice from forum posts - not practical and did not work)
Disconnect all IP6 DHCP on routers

We have also been to the Apple store and had twenty minutes with a genius, but after running a diagnostic tool on phone he was unable to offer anything other than what we had already tried except a full factory reset to new phone state, which is less than ideal for us.

I have seen posts around the net where other iPhone7 users having this issue can be sat next to partners with iPhone6, iPhone5, Android phones or iPads who can connect perfectly. It seems to be quite a common affliction to the iPhone7.  Please can anyone offer any other advice? Thanks in advance.


texts: Is it a good idea to enroll in Apple Developer Program now?

texts: I heard that Apple is going to make the Developer Program for building and distributing iOS apps free? Is that true? Is it a good idea to pay $99 now or should I just wait?


texts: how to keep two iMac's in different locations completely synchronized

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I alternatively live in two different places, a few month in Europe and then a few months in Asia.
In both places I have an iMac with OSX version 10.8.5

I started by copying the complete content of one of the iMacs to the other one; so at that moment they were identical.
Now I will be in Europe for some time and work on my machine there.

Once I move back to Asia, what can I do to make my iMac there identical to the one I just left in Europe and vice-versa ?


texts: Why do I have to choose the language every time when I go into the recovery mode?

texts:
My MacBook Pro is 16 inch bought from 2019 and the macOS version is Big Sur. Last week, I reset the nvram then I found I have to choose language option every time I go into recover mode (by using Command + R after boot). Before that, I don't need to choose any language option when I go into the recover mode.
That's so weird because I don't think I'm suppose to choose language every time.
What I tried: Go to recover mode again, choose the language, and enter the password of User account. Then reboot machine, go to the recover mode, still found I need to choose the language.
Is there any idea that can solve this issue?


texts: Tap, instead of click, the home button to go to home screen

texts: I am new to iPhone, and I am wondering if there is an option to only tap the home button to go to the home screen, instead of clicking it? Essentially the same as the "Rest finger to open" option, under "Accessibility > Home button", except I would want to use it for going to the home screen when the phone is already unlocked, instead of for unlocking it.


texts: Image Quality of Images Shared via Messages MMS

texts:
On iOS 8 on an iPhone 6, if I go to the Photos app, select one photo, and share via Messages, it will transfer at excellent quality.  However, if I select 20 photos and share via Messages, it transfers at noticeably poor quality.

Why is this?  Is there a way to fix this besides tediously sending one at a time?

Note: This is with iMessage disabled, images are being sent via MMS.


texts: How to delete a downloaded voice from Siri in iPhone5s

texts: I would like to delete a Siri voice that has taken up most of the remaining small space that i had left in my iPhone 5s. Can anyone please tell me how i should go about deleting the downloaded voice?


texts: I checked the obvious places which are in settings for keyboard and also for language because I read that somewhere. This is a Mac Mini from 2011 if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help.


texts: I am trying to edit one of the names of a Favorite in the Favorites List in Finder. In most parts of OSX, one can simply position the cursor to the name and and editing box opens up, but not here. Any suggestions?


texts: I need to connect my MacBook Air to a specific MAC address when I use an xfinity hotspot

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I would like my MacBook to connect to a specific MAC address whenever I select a given SSID. So if there are six xfinitywifi SSID in range, I want to be able to choose to always connect to one via MAC address.

**PLEASE NOTE I AM RUNNING OS X YOSEMITE 10.10.5, THAT MEANS THAT OLDER SOLUTIONS LIKE: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport --associate=XXX --bssid=YYY DO NOT SEEM TO WORK.

As background: There are a number of hotspots nearby, all with the same default SSID of the Internet provider (xfinitywifi). However, when I connect, I receive responses from several of these hotspots, and I get kicked off the Internet as a consequence. I want to always connect to only one of these. I am running OS X Yosemite v 10.10.5. On my PC I can use the app NetSetMan to accomplish this, though I am told on my MacBook I can probably accomplish this through the terminal. Either terminal or software suggestions are welcome.

For the benefit of other people with a similar problem -- that is, connecting to xfinitywifi and getting repeatedly kicked off after a couple of minutes -- this has caused many people hours and hours of confusion and frustration, based on a review of message boards. However, this problem is often a consequence of your computer or other device calling to xfinitywifi, and multiple xfinitywifi hotspots responding. There are two ways I am aware of to solve this problem: (1) the best way I have found is to identify the BSSID of the hotspot you want to connect to, and connect directly, or (2) you can walk over to your preferred hotspot and connect from as close to it as possible -- this can work because if the signal is strong enough, your device will connect to the strong network and (for whatever reason, I am not a network engineer) you will not experience the interruptions.

For a Windows user, I use the free app NetSpot to ID the various hotspots, gauge their strength, and choose the BSSID of the one I want to connect to, and then I use NetSetMan to connect directly. Now I want to do the same with my MacBook. I hope this helps.


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I currently back up the contents of an external hard drive A by (1) deleting everything in the destination external hard drive B and (2) copying everything from A to B (in Finder). The external hard drive only contains “basic data” (folders, images, videos, documents, etc.), nothing fancy/weird.
But with all the amazing free tools that exist out there I couldn't find a decent one to backup (suggestions accepted).
I want to automize this. After a few searches, it seems I can use rsync. I want then to automize this by using rsync to avoid copying files that are already on the destination hard drive (of course, if a change has been made, I want to update the file/folder; the same with deleted files/folders or new files/folders; the idea is to mimic what I usually do manually with Finder).
I got to this point
rsync -av --progress --delete /Volumes/A/ /Volumes/B

Now the log is full of files which name starts with . or ._ or even ._.. Are they necessary?
Question
How can I copy only the files that matter, leaving all those that don't matter behind. For example, if I have photo.png I would expect to copy photo.png, not ._photo.png or many files.
What --exclude or --exclude-from can be used safely on a Mac? May be a good rule is “just copy anything that Finder shows” which is what I would copy if I passed manually through all folders.
 Extra question
Is -av --progress --delete enough? Am I committing a crime or risking some data? What options would you use.
Please, back your answer with some arguments, I would appreciate it.
I'm looking for a way to automate rsync which seems quite powerful and free to use.


texts: Maximum external monitors supported by A1418?

texts:
I have an A1418, Late 2012 version and I'm having trouble locking down an answer to how many external monitors it can support. Right now I have the iMac and two external monitors via the two Thunderbolts. The monitors are non-Apple, non-Thunderbolt.

Is there any way I can add an additional two monitors? Can the A1418 support a total of 4 external monitors? Some sites say yes, others say no. What say you?


texts: How do I reassign the F3 key to another application?

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I have a gesture for Exposé so I need another button (the F3) to do the same. I'd love to replace F3 to show/hide the MacBartender app.

Would it be possible to reassign this key for such a use? I have KeyRemap4MacBook installed but it does not allow for changing individual keys (I either change all my function keys or none at all).


texts: IOS 9.3.5 breaks slow motion video playback - how to fix?

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I had hesitations about upgrading and just found out that my slow motion videos no longer play back. Displays a white spinner instead. I tried hard reset and recording a new video. No luck

How to make slow motion videos play back on iOS 9.3.5 and iPhone 6s+?


texts: how to export the SMS, picture, video from iOS device programmatically

texts:
I wanted to export the SMS, picture, video from non-jailbroken device using programmatically or using ideviceinstaller.

someone kindly help on this to accomplish this task

Thanks in advance


texts:
I just saw that VLC doesn't support 10-bit yet (i checked the link here and i don't see a 1.2 build) http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=94686

Is there any other good player that supports this?


texts: Display resolution options disappeared after upgrade to Sierra

texts:
After I upgraded an MBPr to 10.12 Sierra, the 4k external display connected to it shows significantly less options under Display > Resolution > Scaled (pressing Option to see the resolutions). Before, I always used it at resolutions between 2160p and 1080p, generally 1440p, but those are gone now.

What could cause this? How would you troubleshoot it? I'd rather fix it without having to force the resolution in configuration files (like I had to do years ago), but that'd be better than this situation.

Thanks!


texts: Is there an iPhone app for outlining that has a decent web/desktop companion?

texts: I am looking for an outliner app for iPhone, with either a desktop or web counterpart.


texts: Can "ld" add the rpaths automatically to an executable if it can find the needed dylibs at link time?

texts:
The question is in the title, but anyway, let me explain it a bit more:

The most accepted way for correctly defining the install name for a dylib in MacOS is by making it relative to the rpath. For example:

otool -L ./LLVM/7.0.0/lib/libomp.dylib
./LLVM/7.0.0/lib/libomp.dylib:
   @rpath/libomp.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
   /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1238.50.2)

Here, libomp.dylib has @rpath/libomp.dylib as its install name. So far so good.

The problem is when you create an executable linked to such a dylib. Even if you pass the correct -L/path/to/libomp.dylib flag at link time, so that ld can successfully link the executable, then you try to execute it, and obviously you get the following:

dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libomp.dylib
  Referenced from: mydumbexecutable
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

This of course can be fixed by using install_name_tool on either the dylib (changing its install name so that it doesn't depend on the rpath, and linking the executable again, but this is not considered good practice), or, the recommended way, to use install_name_tool on the executable, adding to it the proper rpath so that the dylib can be found.

But... just wondering... isn't there a flag in ld that automatically adds the rpath for you? I mean, if ld is able to link the executable because it did find the dylibs, why cannot automatically store the proper rpath in the executable?

I understand this should be optional behaviour, as sometimes you prefer to define the rpaths yourself, but... a flag for doing it automatically would make my life a lot easier.


texts: My LCD cracked - can I create a custom resolution to exclude the broken part of the screen?

texts:
My 2013 MacBook Pro was damaged -- the LCD is now cracked.  The damage is fairly limited, however: only the right-most 1cm and the bottom 2cm are non-functional.  Is there a way to create a custom resolution so that the Mac ignores these damaged parts of the screen and treats the remaining good part of the screen as the "full" resolution?

What I have (dock and right-most 1cm are hidden by non-functional areas of LCD):

What I want (screen size limited to the part of the LCD that actually works):


texts: Lost audio while converting video files in OS X 10.7.4

texts: I was using Lion's conversion feature to change .MPG video files to a compatible format (set by OS X). The files are now viewable in QuickTime and iMovie, but the audio is completely gone. Has anyone else come across a similar issue? Would I by chance be missing a codec required to convert .MPG files correctly? Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.


texts: I have a $50 iTunes gift card credit. How can I use it for the App Store? When I try to purchase an app from the App Store, I am asked to enter a credit card number.  Can I transfer the $50 to the App Store account?


texts: How can I return the logged in user from inside a pkg which is running as root?

texts:
I'm using the Packages app to create an installer which includes, among other things, a launchd job.
The postinstall Bash script needs to target the logged in user as follows:
launchctl bootstrap gui/$UID ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mycompany.myproduct.plist

The problem is that $UID returns 0 when run from within the package.
The following tweak works as expected on my machine but the target deployment users don't use 501 but mobile accounts so the UID differs with each AD account
launchctl bootstrap gui/501 ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mycompany.myproduct.plist

I've tried all sorts of things:
$SUDO_USER
$LOGNAME
$(who -m | awk '{print $1;})
$(logname 2>/dev/null || $SUDO_NAME)

All return the 0/root user.
This seems to work, on my machine, when run it Terminal after sudo su. But, as I don't understand the /dev/console bit (or the %Su parameter), is it 100% reliable?
id -P $(stat -f%Su /dev/console) | cut -d : -f 3


texts: Simplest way to get youtube videos to be saved locally on an iPad

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When coming across certain youtube videos (on a Mac) I don't have time to watch at the moment, I wish I could get them saved for later offline viewing on my iPad.

Is there some simple setup I could make that with just 1-3 clicks the video will get saved to the iPad?


texts: How to copy SMS messages from a Nokia phone (or Nokia PC Suite backup) to iPhone?

texts: What if I have a Nokia PC Suite backuped file which contains all the SMS and want to copy them to the new iPhone?


texts: Apple Watch unlock feature for macOS Sierra requires turning off 2-step-verification

texts:
Yesterday I installed macOS Sierra and now I want to enable this new feature - unlocking MacBook with Apple Watch.

I opened Security & Privacy settings and tried to check this option (Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac). It asked me for my iCloud (Apple ID) password, I provided it, but then it showed me the following message:

Some additional info (if it's relevant):

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
macOS Sierra 10.12
Bluetooth LMP Version: 4.2 (0x8)

And yes, I have two-step verification enabled in my Apple ID for about a year now:

So, to have this feature enabled I need to reduce protection of the entire Apple ID? Can I bypass this requirement and use the watch to unlock my Mac?


texts: iPhone Apps in Waiting mode for the last 4 days

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I tried to download the "Dictionary Free" app from the App Store four days ago, but it's been stuck in "Waiting" ever since. I've tried everything: rebooting the phone, restoring from an iTunes backup, side-loading the app from iTunes, but nothing has worked.

When I turn Airplane Mode on and then off again, I get an alert popup that says "Unable to download application. It will be available for download when you log in to the iTunes Store on your computer".

I've tried what it recommends, but nothing seems to work.


texts: Can't update OS from 10.7.3 to Mavericks

texts:
I have created a Mavericks OS bootable SD card that I am trying to get onto my Macbook pro 2011 model.

Every time I try to boot from that card using 'Option' or by selecting to use it as t the startup disk. It just brings me back to the same old Lion 10.7 installer.

On top of that I can't get that to install either because when I try to install it I get the error message 'This item is temporarily unavailable, try again later'

What do I do?


texts: How to enable stand notifications on Apple Watch even in Do Not Disturb mode?

texts: When working or relaxing I like to keep my watch on Do Not Disturb, but I'd like to still get buzzed when it's time to stand. Is there a way to selectively enable a notification through DND?


texts: MacBook Pro battery not fully charged sometimes. Need tips

texts:
I'm using MacBook Pro and it will be in charge nearly 12 hours in a day. I set the battery indicator to  Percentage, so it is displaying the battery charge in percentage.

The problem I faced is, most of the time it showing 100%, but in some times, it stops (I don't know exactly) charging in 97% or in 99%. For a long time, it remains same until I discharge the battery then put again in charge.

What is the problem here?

Am I using the battery in the right way?


texts: Cannot install anything because of /usr/local/ permission

texts:
I'm using OS Catalina atm. I am trying to install Node and Homebrew but I can't seem to install anything because it keeps on saying I don't have permission in /usr/local/
Installing homebrew gives me
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/local/share/zsh: Operation not permitted
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions: Operation not permitted
Failed during: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod 755 /usr/local/share/zsh /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions

I tried changing permissions via sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/* but I keep on getting Operation not permitted
Some people suggested to reinstall homebrew but I can't do it because of the permissions so I am just running in circles. I can't install anything too like Virtual env or any other apps.
Please help!!!
I also tried reinstall my mac os but still no luck :(


texts: Timemachine backups on encrypted volume: What does 'decrypting' message mean?

texts:
I backup files on an encrypted volume with Timemachine (external disk, USB). The backup itself is not additionally encrypted.

I noticed little message infos in the GUI window about "decrypting the backup-volume" sometimes, e.g. when I exclude some files from the backup.

What does that mean? I thought the encryption during file copy process in both directions is handled transparently? Is there any moment where something is not encrypted on the volume?


texts: Mac ports package name search from command line?

texts:
I tried to install gnuchessc with Mac ports, but there's nothing like that.

sudo port install gnuchessc
Error: Port gnuchessc not found
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.

Actually, it should have been gnuchess not gnuchessc. Is there a way to let Mac Ports teach me that there is gnuchess instead of gnuchessc from command line?


texts: Need old music transferred to new computer

texts: My computer crashed and actually caught on fire destroying everything that was in it. I purchased a new computer and a new ISP and email address. But, my new computer does not have my ITunes library in it, just 1 song. I have contacted Apple about this. They sent me a link to get me started but, it really doesn't help me because of the old email address is not the current new address. Because of the different ISP's. I am stuck. I have Windows 8.1.


texts: Will your private tabs still be open when you exit out of private mode?

texts: I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to exit out of my private mode without my open private tabs being deleted. Does anyone knows what happens, if you exit out off private mode and then go back to private mode, will they be still there?


texts: How can I get spotlight to search everywhere for any file?

texts:
I know for a fact that a file named 1A0CFDAF-E43B-49E1-AC88-CD8CC9146947.jpeg exists in my photo library originals/ subdirectory.  But searching for 1A0CFDAF-E43B-49E1-AC88-CD8CC9146947.jpeg using Spotlight returns no results.

This is the kind of thing I look for, because if it were obvious I'd already know where it is.  I want to have confidence spotlight is searching everything, so that when I get "no result" I know that means "the file does not exist on your hard drive."

Is there a way to expand Spotlight's search domain so that it literally indexes my whole drive and finds any and every file, like it really kind of should?


texts: Lost Dropbox context menu entries, file and folder status indicators in Finder after updating to Yosemite

texts:
I've lost all the Dropbox context menu options in Finder after updating to Yosemite. All indications of sync status on the files in my Dropbox location are also gone. The odd thing is, those context menu options are visible, along with the sync status for each file and folder, from save and open dialogs in applications. They've only gone away from Finder windows.

How can I get sync status and Dropbox context menu items back in the main Finder window?


texts: Grab list of Stats, Application Data, and Serials off OSX 10.6 to prepare for reformat and fresh install?

texts:
I need to reformat my 2007 OSX as it is now returning kernal errors. I want to install everything fresh but I have a lot of software and don't want to sit here making a list of everything installed as it is all unorganized.

For windows I usually accomplish this with Belarc Advisor: http://download.cnet.com/Belarc-Advisor/3000-2094_4-10007277.html?tag=mncol;1

Is there something similar, whether a method or an app that will allow me to do this on a mac?


texts: Will the Apple Store replace Macbook Pro keys or other parts if serious wearing occurs?

texts:
I have had my first MacBook for around a month now and I'm already beginning to notice some wearing on the keys (especially on the spacebar). The keys are beginning to turn shiny, and at this rate they might be completely eroded in six months. I have tried cleaning them with a dry cloth (I have yet to try with a wet cloth) but it seems that it is indeed physical wearing and not just a spot of grease.

I think I have read on another forum that if you bring your MacBook to an Apple Store and ask for replacement they'll remove your keys and replace them with new ones. Is this true? Do they charge for it?

I don't mean to sound whiny. I am asking this question because my MacBook cost me quite a lot and its exterior aspect is an important part of the experience: seeing parts of the keyboard starting to wear is somewhat frustrating.


texts:
I have a first generation MacBook Air that heats up a lot when playing videos, and almost grinds to a halt after a few minutes of playback.

Is there a way I could turn off the video during FaceTime calls so that the audio could continue smoothly?


texts: In Apple's Mail.app on macOS, when accessing Exchange email, is it possible to emulate the Other category from Office 365?

texts:
I use Office 365 to access my Outlook/Exchange email, and there are the automatic Focused and Other categories.

Is there a quick way to emulate the same when viewing Exchange email in Apple's Mail.app on macOS, so that I don't have to re-create the Other rules on the desktop?


texts: Prepare MacBook for sale when OS X Lion reinstall requires Apple ID

texts:
I'm going to sell my Macbook Pro.

When I reinstall OS X Lion, I have to enter my own Apple ID. Another Apple ID won't work, I get message "This item is temporarily unavailable".

How can I deassociate my Apple ID with this computer so that the next owner will be able to reinstall the OS with their own apple ID?


texts:
With the loss of the AppleScript menu in Outlook 15, what is the easiest way to launch AppleScripts from within Outlook?

In earlier versions, these scripts were located in /Users/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook Script Menu Items/.  Is this folder still relevant?


texts:
(Copying this from Stack Overflow, because this might be a better place to ask)

Looking for help (really to do) with a script/automator action for opening a files in QT X and using the export 720p command. I do not want to use the encode feature built into the finder. Using the "export" feature in QT X with the files I'm working does the trick and does not re-encode the files. I tried using automator but there is no "export" action only "encode" which re-encodes the files.

I see the command in the dictionary but can't seem to make it work.

I've started with this but I keep getting a permissions problem. A guy on Stack Overflow has noted the same problem.

tell application "Finder"
set savePath to "Macintosh HD:Users:WBTVPOST:Desktop"
end tell

tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
tell application "QuickTime Player" to get the name of front window
set vidName to name
export (document 1) in savePath using settings preset "720p"
end tell

I've seen a lot of scripting help but mostly for QT 7 and Pro. Not so much for X

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for your talent and skill,

Cheers!


texts: Jailbroken iPhone, iOS 5.1.1 suddenly has new diagnostic apps

texts:
I jailbroke my iPhone so that I could make use of the F.lux app which allows me to sort of dim my screen with an orange hue so that I could read on a flight I took recently without annoying other passengers. I'm home now, though, so I don't mine un-jailbreaking.

With that out of the way, here's what's happened. A few days ago I was reading and my phone froze for a moment and the new voicemail popup appeared and told me that I had 2 new voicemails, which I didn't have, and then the camera light turned on and stayed on. So I rebooted the phone and it was fine. But now, moments ago, 4 new apps appeared, seemingly at random, on the home screen - AdSheet, FieldTest, iOS Diagnostics, and Setup. All 4 of them have blank, white icons.

Should I be concerned about a possible security breach of my phone or is this some of the unexpected behavior that one could expect once they jailbreak?

Also, I applied the PDF fix from Cydia and changed my SSH password immediately after jailbreaking. I don't know if that info is important, but is given here for completeness.


texts: Run a local http(s) proxy from command line using built-in commands

texts:
We've been using Charles Proxy during the development of a product, but now need to be able to script/automate the same behaviour using command line tools on macOS.

My understanding is that Charles Proxy is effectively a UI on top of system level tools. We don't need the UI - just the underlying proxying capability (including SSL proxying).

Does anyone know if it is possible to run a local proxy server, supporting SSL proxying, from the command line on macOS, ideally using only built-in shell commands?

If that's not possible, brew install-able tools would be a next best, but we need to absolutely minimise dependencies.


texts: How can I give my sister my iPad 2 with the videos and music from my iTunes account intact?

texts: I want to give my sister my old iPad without deleting the videos and music I've put on the device. What do I need to do to deactivate it from my iTunes account without deleting the video and music content?


texts: Macbook: Other Storage Growing at Insane Rates

texts:
I have an Early 2015 Macbook Pro Retina running Big Sur 11.2.3 that has been acting up lately. Essentially my "Other" storage is growing at insane rates. After rebooting, I have 145GB free on my HD free. Doing nothing, the "Other" storage grows and eventually brings me to less than 100mb in like 1.5-2 hours.
I can't even backup using Time Machine. The back up says "Preparing backup" basically until my storage on my HD runs out (1.5-2 hours). Here's a few notes:

I've unchecked "Back up automatically" on Time Machine
I've tried "tmutil listlocalsnapshots /" and "tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /", however, after unchecking the "Back up automatically" the localsnapshot is not created.
My external harddrive that I'm trying to backup to has 500+ GB free.
I've deleted every pending backup that I can find.
I've downloaded DaisyDisk and found that the folder that in increasing non-stop in size is: /private/var/folders/zz/(long name)/T. I can't see inside the folder, so I have no idea what it is. But that folder definitely seems to be my problem.

What can I do? I'm getting desperate and feeling hopeless. I've read every forum/reddit post I could find but nothing seems to be working. Which files should I manually save if I try wiping my mac?
This is my wife's computer she uses for work and she is currently having to restart the device every 1.5-2 hours because otherwise she is unable to do anything (due to the low storage). Any help would be very much appreciated.


texts: Deleting contacts from "All iPhone" also delets them from "All Exchange"?

texts:
On my iPhone SE, I found that my "Default Account" for Contacts was iPhone.  That was why newly created contacts would not sync with an Exchange Server.  So I changed it to Exchange.  I did not like the fact that migrating the iPhone contacts to the Exchange account needed either a 3rd party app or transferring through the cloud in some way.  So I handraulically re-typed the contacts as new contacts in the "All Exchange" group.  I made sure that the "All iPhone" group was unchecked.  This caused the new contacts to sync with Exchange Server.

To tie up lose ends, I made sure that only the "All iPhone" group was checked, then deleted the re-typed contacts from that group.  Then I made sure that only the "All Exchange" group was checked.  Lo and behold, the contacts were gone.

1) Is this a bug?

2) How do I avoid this?

3) And how do I prevent Contact settings from switching to iPhone?  I seem to be always switching it back over the years, after being burned repeatedly.

Thanks.


texts: How to Log In to Flickr in iOS 7 with a Google Account

texts:
iOS 7 now looks to include integration with Flickr for photo sharing.

I already have a Flickr account, though I log in using a google (gmail) account. I would expect to be able to connect this account with iOS 7 Flickr integration, but logging in with this method seems to be unavailable, and using a user@yahoo.com account seems to be the only option.

How can a Google account be connected to the iOS 7 Flickr integration (in the settings menu) without having to "start fresh" and re-upload photos and content?


texts: I'm using Google calendar, and I subscribe to my Google Calendar from multiple computers.  Whenever I set an event with (an) email reminder(s) on Google calendar, I'll get multiple emails because (1) Google calendar itself sends me the email reminder and (2) each computer that subscribes the calendar tries to send the email reminder (when the computer wakes up).  It's very annoying.


texts: Make numbers in table of contents go to right of page in Pages

texts:
When I insert a table of contents in Pages, the page numbers are inserted with only a tab character separating them from the title of the paragraph style. I would like the page numbers to go to the right of the screen, preferably with some sort of separation line between the two (e.g. dots). I am doing this to emulate the look of any standard table of contents:

Is this possible on Pages?


texts: When I first got an iPod (several years ago) my primary email address was *@gmail.com and, thus, I used that as my AppleID. However, since then Apple has given customers new *@me.com email addresses to use with, say, iPhones and iPads. So, I was wondering what the reprecussions of using *@me.com as my AppleID would be? In other words, would I lose access to movies and TV shows that I've purchased, and would I lose access to my apps?


texts:
Every time I try to quit iTunes (⌘ + Q) in OS X lion I encounter some strange problem and after some seconds I find it has run itself again!

If I use ⌘ + Tab I see iTunes in my running application.

Why could be causing this and how do I stop it?


texts:
I have two java programs that run forever until I terminate the process, I start both at once using a script....

Cobrakai$more  startCapture
nohup startCaptureA.sh &
nohup startCaptureB.sh &
Cobrakai$more startCaptureA.sh
cd ~/Dropbox/Eclipse/workspace/com.tmc.personal.screencapture/bin
java com/tmc/personal/ScreenCapture
Cobrakai$more startCaptureB.sh
cd ~/Dropbox/Eclipse/workspace/com.tmc.personal.screencapture/bin
java com/tmc/personal/ActiveWindowCapture

They both continue to run, I can see the output they generate (they write to a file each), and I can see them in 'ps':

Cobrakai$ps x  | grep Capture | grep java
 1137 s000  S      0:12.13 /usr/bin/java com/tmc/personal/ScreenCapture
 1138 s000  S      0:05.17 /usr/bin/java com/tmc/personal/ActiveWindowCapture
Cobrakai$

But when I open Activity Monitor, I can see that 'ScreenCapture' is running (and taking 96MB of memory)

But 'ActiveWindowCapture' does not appear at all...

Can someone tell me why it's not appearing? I'm deeply lost...

EDIT - following (sensible) suggestion from the comments, I tried just starting ActiveWindowManager

Cobrakai$killall java
Cobrakai$ps x  | grep Capture | grep java
[1]-  Exit 143                nohup startCaptureB.sh
[2]+  Exit 143                nohup startCaptureA.sh
Cobrakai$nohup startCaptureB.sh &
[1] 3070
Cobrakai$appending output to nohup.out

Cobrakai$ps x  | grep Capture | grep java
 3071 s000  S      0:00.23 /usr/bin/java com/tmc/personal/ActiveWindowCapture
Cobrakai$

But still nothing in the Activity Monitor...:s


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