texts: iPhone camera consolidating geotags for multiple photos

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I recently took a bunch of pictures around a location, expecting that each picture's precise location would be recorded so I could place them on a map. This has worked before.

What I found when I got home is that all the photos seemed to have the same location (which was slightly southeast of any location I photographed).

I'm wondering if the iPhone camera is now either rounding off geographic coordinates to a lower precision, or giving all photos taken around the same place and same time the same coordinates, or both, and if so, if this is particular to the Camera app or universal to all apps using the camera.

Extra info

This is on an iPhone 6s running 11.2.1. When I've done this before, it would have been on an iPhone 5 running whatever version of iOS would have been current circa January 2016.


texts: Can I manually specify Sound Output device in the Mac (like in Windows/Linux)

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In the Mac, is there a way to choose whether I want sound output through my internal speakers or the headphones (i.e. the audio port), irrespective of whether there are headphones plugged in or not.

I can do this in Windows and Linux and I really need to be able to do this on the Mac as well, for a certain reason.

Any help would be appreciated!


texts: Keyboard freezes after pressing caps lock

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After running for a day or two (not right after booting it), my laptop begins to display a strange behaviour: after pressing the caps lock my keyboard freezes which means that it does not respond to any input, however, if you press the caps lock with another character, e.g. "X", it continues to press "X" indefinitely. The only thing that can help is a restart. I've attached my laptop specs below, other than that I'm not sure what information could be useful in debugging this, so please let me know if you have any clues. If I check the crash report, the only thing that appears in there is OneDrive crashing about the same time I experienced the issue.

Many thanks!


texts: Is it possible to restore contacts from a few days back

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I honestly don't know what happened, but it appears that I lost a number of key contacts out of my address book. I didn't delete them manually, but regardless of what the cause was - they are gone.

Is it possible to restore contacts back, say from a few days ago?

Additionally, and this might be symptomatic of a bigger issues, some of my contacts appear in duplicate.

Please help


texts: Historically, how long does it take for MBP/MBA to reach the refurbished store after release?

texts: From the previous releases of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, how long is the gap between the devices being released and appearing on the Apple refurbished website?


texts: Download iOS updates using a File and not from iTunes or have to connect to Internet

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According to this article, one can upgrade iOS using the following methods

via Wireless
via iTunes

So, is it possible for user to download the iOS as a file (and not via iTunes) and later copy to the iPhone and update it from the phone without having the phone to connect to the internet?


texts: How can I copy only one page on iPad pages app?

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I want to copy only one page in my document at Pages app (iPad), but there seems no way to do it, as the copy button that is triggered by tapping on the specific page on the left-side bar seems to copy the entire page.
But I need to copy only the first and second pages of my document, and copy it to the head of another document. Is there any way to do it?


texts: How can i insert an Intelligent Mail Barcode into Pages 09 document

texts: I've Googled around for a solution to this issue but nothing is readily apparent. I have a company newsletter with existing merge fields for an address block (company, street address, etc..). The merge data is being pulled from a numbers spread sheet. The postal service will charge me extra postage per each newsletter for not including an Intelligent Mail Barcode. I am trying to figure out a method for doing so in Pages 09 version 4.3. Ideally this would just be part of the mail merge process but I am open to alternate methods to resolve this issue.


texts: Launch homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq when NIC becomes available?

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I am running homebrew dnsmasq on my Mac.

Dsmasq is configured to only respond to traffic on one NIC (en7).
en7 is a usb-c ethernet adapter.

When this adapter is not active (not plugged in, switch not switched on) homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq is spamming my system logs that dnsmasq cannot be started because the NIC is not available. Retrying every 1 second.

I know the KeepAlive.NetworkState key can make that homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq only launches when a network is available. The issue is that there is ALWAYS a network available, my Wifi adapter is always on.

What i am looking for is a way to launch homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq only when en7 becomes available (adapter plugged in and switch switched on).

Is this possible?


texts: What are the alternatives to Activity Monitor that will summarize cpu time over time?

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Activity monitor is not always good if you want to see what is keeping your computer busy for a period of time.

For example if you have gcc executed hundred of times it will take a lot of CPU power but the overall CPU time consumed by gcc will not appear. I'm looking for a solution that is able to count and summarize application usage so I can know that how the cpu was used.


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I am trying to remove an App that is called "Live Chat" but when I go to Applications > Live Chat and select move to trash, it says that the program is open even though it is not and doesn't allow me to remove it.

Thanks!


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I have always had iTunes/Music set as shown:

But some (not all) of the files I have recently imported are not in the iTunes library.
"Show in Finder" goes to the original file imported, while other files in the same album are in the iTunes library.
Why would this happen?  One way to fix is to drag the file to the library (iTunes seems to automatically notice the new name).  Is there another way?


texts: How to get calendar invites to come in as iCal and not as Google Calendar invites?

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I use my Gmail email-address as my Apple ID. When people send me calendar invites, I only receive them on Google Calendar. And since I deactivated the calendar on my Macs for Gmail account, I don't get notified at all (besides an email).

Is there a way to receive the invitations on iCal instead? Or do I have to use a non-Google address as my Apple ID?


texts: How do I reinstall Apple Software Update in Windows?

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I uninstalled Apple Software Update in my Boot Camp Windows 7 install as it was crashing every launch, and a repair of Apple Software Update through Programs and Features didn't fix the problem.

However, re-running Boot Camp Tools' setup.exe (it gives me a choice to do a repair) does not reinstall the Apple Software Update it initially installed.

I suppose you could be in the same situation if you chose not to use Software Update when prompted during the Boot Camp Tools install.

How do I install the Apple Software Update associated with Boot Camp when Boot Camp is already installed?


texts: How to change language of an existing Pages for iCloud document?

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I have document that was created in Pages for Mac with the correct spelling/language (not English) settings for each paragraph. However, when I now try to edit this document using Pages for iCloud the spelling is set to English.

I have read several support documents about this

Pages for iCloud: Work in other languages

Pages for iCloud: Search, replace, and spell-check text

iCloud: Change the language or time zone on iCloud.com

as well as some "third party" suggestions, all to no avail.

I have made sure that the correct language is my primary language in my browser (Chrome), in my OS (Win 10), changed the language of the iCloud UI (through Settings), changed the format used by iCloud (also via Settings) but my document is still spelled in English.

I believe the first link above explains how one create a completely new document in a certain language but my document already exists.

How do I change the language used for spell-check on an existing document?


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I'm on macOS Big Sur 11.1, and I wanted to use a different folder for my Safari downloads, so I created another directory and did ln -s ~/Downloads on it (symlinked).
Everything works fine except for a small thing.
In the Finder app, on the sidebar, this folder has a "standard folder" icon, even if it is recognized in the preferences as my Downloads folder (see the attached pictures).
Is there any way to at least make the Finder think that folder as the original Downloads folder?
Or maybe is there a way to manually change its icon?
Please note that I already found some answers to my question on this site, but they seem to not to be compatible with Big Sur.


texts: Is it possible to disable CPU throttling on a MacBook Pro with a completely dead (not recognized) battery?

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I have a MBP late 2011 running El Capitan, recently my battery died (x over the icon and "no battery available" in the dropdown.) I've noticed since then that CPU intensive tasks are very slow, and I read that without a battery macs will throttle the CPU to half capacity.

So now I'm looking for one of two solutions:

1) Either somehow disable the throttling, or
2) Trick the computer into thinking it has a battery.

In regard to the first one I've tried a few things such as described here, removing a plist file that supposedly controlled it, but that hasn't helped. Any help would be greatly appreciated, TIA.

Edit: I've looked over the question about a 2006 MacBook, it's similar but I've tried everything outlined there and nothing has worked. I'm curious if there are any new ideas. I think the difference may be El Capitan.


texts: Messages in the Cloud with multiple Apple IDs

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Background

I use the same main Apple ID for iCloud across all the iOS devices (a couple iPhones and a couple iPads) in my household. However, for one of the iPhones, I use a different Apple ID for Messages/iMessage. This is on my wife's iPhone; she uses her own Apple ID for Messages so that she has her own set of messages and conversations on her phone.

So, on her iPhone, the iCloud info shown at the very top of the main Settings.app view shows my Apple ID credentials. However, down in the Messages settings under the Send & Receive view, her own Apple ID is listed.

Question

If I turn on the new Messages in the Cloud feature — the one that's new in iOS 11.4 — how will this work with the setup I've described above?

My fear is that after I've turned on Messages in the Cloud on my iPhone — and all my messages sync up to my iCloud account — when I turn on the Messages in the Cloud feature on her iPhone, all my messages will sync down to her phone. Or, probably just as bad, possibly all her conversations and my conversations would be merged together in some Frankenstein sorta way.

I'd rather not have to try this in anger in order to find out how it'll work. Either of the scenarios above would be hard to recover. So, I'm hoping someone already knows what'll happen.

Thanks!


texts: Bookmarking an on-screen position in macOS?

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When looking at something in macOS, how can I put some kind of horizontal line so that I don't forget my position on the screen?

Let's say I'm reading a list shown on the screen,
and I've mentally processing the bottom quarter of the list, so I want to put a marker there so that when I come back from lunch I know where I need to resume from.

My ad hoc solution so far has been to position a Finder window at the point where my region starts. But I end up using Finder for other tasks and can easily loose my "bookmark".


texts: High Sierra - make mouse pointer follow focus

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Mac works great when I use keyboard shortcuts and Spotlight Search in a single-display environment to switch between windows and workspaces.

However, this is not the case in a multi-display setup, because the Control← and Control→ shortcuts that switch to left and right workspace operate based on which display my mouse pointer currently is. If I started on display 1, and then through keyboard shortcuts, moved focus to display 2, if I want to switch workspaces on display 2, I can't just hit Control← or Control→, because doing so will actually switch the workspaces on display 1, where my mouse pointer still is. I have to actually move my hand to the mouse, move the mouse pointer to display 2, and then use the keyboard shortcuts to switch the workspaces.

Is there a way to either make all shortcuts operate based on where the focus is, instead of where the mouse pointer is, or else have macOS automatically move the mouse pointer to the display with the focused window when focus changes? There's no point in keyboard shortcuts that force me to use the mouse, anyway.


texts: How do I make ⌘← and ⌘→ work for home/end combo for Terminal?

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Why does fn-⇧-→ (or others) do a home/end in Terminal but a ⌘-→ works everywhere else?

So just to be clear the question is how to make Terminal take Command + ← and → for home and end?


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I download video files from a faith-based website that contain subtitle tracks that I can extract without much trouble. But in some of the videos, there is no subtitle track therefore I tend to transcribe the file manually. On occasion, I can actually play the file through my speakers and using Google Docs transcribe the audio to text. My problem comes in when some of the files are an hour in length and the time that I need to go back and check for any errors.
I have tried using the transcribe feature via Office365 in Microsoft Word which works...sometimes. I have looked online for other speech-to-text websites but they are either expensive or the trial is not long enough to transcribe my files.
Is there a program or other solution (preferably free or low cost) that can accept an MP3 file and convert the audio to text? Please note that I am not looking for a transcription program or service.


texts: Why when I try to download a free app on my iPad it says Tap Continue and Sign In To View Billing Info?

texts: Okay so when I try to download a free app from the App Store it says "Tap Continue And Sign In To View Billing Info". I Searched up how to fix it and I found...."select none for the payment type of credit card " and I did that and it does not have that option!yes I have used a credit card on ROBLOX for ROBUX ....PLEASE HELP ME OUT I'm scared that I might mess up my ipad


texts: I'm looking for the CLI equivalent of "Check disk" and "repair disk" in Disk Utility. I think fsck is involved but I don't know with which options, and if it's the only program run.


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As of yesterday, the Homepod fails to accept any timer related request, even the most simple "Hey Siri, timer". In fact, any request that has the word "timer" fails even if it is not to start, query or stop a timer.

Any other request I can think of gets processed as usual.

I've tried to unplug and plug it back after a while, but it made no difference.

Am I missing something obvious?

Version is 12.2


texts: Need to restore from encrypted iPhone backup, but can’t due to missing password

texts: I did not set a password for the restore encrypted thing. I have tried 1234 and anything else I could come up with. I have to get back in. I accidentally deleted text messages that I need for personal reasons. I called Apple, and they basically admitted that this could happen somehow, but they had no remedy. Is this true?


texts: Can I export my id_rsa cert from Keychain Access?

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I'm migrating to a new Macbook. On my old one, I generated an ssh key pair many years ago, and I have configured that key on several sites, some of which I don't have direct control over. After I set up my keypair, I used ssh-add to import the cert into my keychain so I wouldn't have to type the passphrase every time. This worked fine.

Now that I am migrating to a new Mac, I am trying to import my id_rsa key on my new mac, but it's asking me for a passphrase that I apparently do not remember.  I feel like that passphrase must be stored in the keychain of my old mac (which I still have), but I haven't figured out which of the entries in my old keychain is my id_rsa cert (we use S/MIME encrypted e-mail at work and the cert expire frequently, so I have quite a few certs in there).

So -- is there a way for me to either view the passphrase of my id_rsa cert in Keychain Access (after I unlock it with my system password), or to export my keypair from Keychain access in such a way that I can import it on my new Mac without having the original passphrase?

Thanks!


texts: How do I change HTML5 video playback speed (e.g., 1.5x, 2x) in Safari for Yosemite?

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I use ClickToFlash to switch most videos from Flash to HTML5 (QuickTime) versions in Safari.

HTML5 allows for variable speed playback, but not in the quicktime plugin for safari so far as I can tell. Any suggestions?

Looks like there's a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en


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I know using the fb://URL scheme I can open certain links in the Native Facebook App,

e.g. fb://page/137947732957611 will open the Apple Facebook page.

Is there anyway I can open pages without knowing the pageid though, eg so I can just open https://www.facebook.com/Google but within the Facebook App?


texts: How do I install OS X Yosemite on an unsupported MacBook?

texts: I have downloaded and made a bootable USB of Yosemite but once I boot holding the option key and attempt to install I get an error stating that Yosemite is already installed on my computer. I'm running Snow Leopard and I made my bootable USB using Diskmaker X.


texts: Is there a way (automator maybe?) or program to make an iMac record the microphone input on a scheduled time (start and finish). I need it like some kind of security webcam but for audio


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I want a text-only browser on my iPod. It is not jailbroken (nor do I wish to do so), and it is running iOS 4.2.1. Does anyone know of a way to install any text browser on iOS without jailbreaking? Any of these text browsers would be awesome;

Lynx, Edbrowse, w3m, Elinks, Links, Emacs/W3, Net-Tamer, WebbIE, etc


texts: Does "Find my" offline mode work for you?

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So yesterday I tried to test the "Find my" offline mode on two iPhones and one Mac. I turned one phone (A) into airplane mode, the second phone (B) is connected to the internet and marked it (A) as lost on my Mac. According to my understanding iCloud should push the lost_phone_key to all nearby iOS devices that send bluetooth beacons to find and lock the phone.
However I could not get this to work. Has somebody tried this? Did it work for you?


texts: How can I get access to menu bar item in Bartender 3 using AppleScript?

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For the software on the top-right menu bar, I can use the following AppleScript to access the menu bar items like this

activate application "SystemUIServer"
set deviceName to "Somebody’s AirPods"

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "SystemUIServer"
        set bluetoothMenu to (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 whose description contains "bluetooth")
        tell bluetoothMenu
            click

            set deviceMenuItem to (menu item deviceName of menu 1)
            tell deviceMenuItem
                click

                if exists menu item "Connect" of menu 1 then
                    click menu item "Connect" of menu 1
                    return "Connecting..."
                else
                    set batteryLevelMenuItem to (menu item 3 of menu 1)
                    tell batteryLevelMenuItem
                        set batteryLevelText to title of batteryLevelMenuItem
                    end tell

                    key code 53 -- esc key

                    return batteryLevelText
                end if
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

This AppleScript helps me connect to my AirPods. But if I put the bluetooth item into Bartender 3, it doesn't work. What should I add into the codes to get access to item in Bartender?


texts: How to bypass password prompt with vnc connection from terminal

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Previously, screen sharing to Catalina (10.15.7) from Big Sur (11.1) using terminal:
open vnc://[user]:[password]@[host].local
would open a screen sharing session without having to enter a password.
After the Big Sur 11.2 upgrade, Catalina now displays the login screen and asks for the password.
How can I correctly pass the password to the screen sharing session and bypass the login screen?


texts: Can I update from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server through Remote Desktop?

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I currently have a Lion Server providing DHCP for my network, and access that server exclusively through screen sharing over Apple Remote Desktop. I would like to upgrade from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server, but am concerned that at some point during the process — especially since the server provides the DHCP service for my network, including the machine from which I access the server — I will be unable to access the server using ARD.

Can I perform the upgrade process entirely over ARD, or do I need to dig up a keyboard and monitor and connect them to the server box?


texts: SaaS subscription across iOS, Android and Web

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We have three different forms of distribution for our SaaS (Web, Android and iOS) all currently reviewed and in-store in their free form ($0).

Our business model is focussed around a single subscription across all platforms and was hoping to use our existing system of Stripe > Webhook to updates all services of a users status.

Heads down in the development has overlooked the very confusing, constantly changing and expensive (70/30 split!) guidelines that Apple publishes.

We've developed blindly as looking at apps like Dropbox and many others offer the same subscription / account across all platforms.

My questions is how are they doing it? IAP? External subscription? From the guidelines you are not allowed to link to a 'Buy / Subscribe' button.


texts: Tunnelblick on macOS - failed to load - (libkern/kext)

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I get the following error message when I try to connect to my VPN server:

openvpnstart log:
     Loading tap-notarized.kext
     stderr from kextload: /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/tap-notarized.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) system policy prevents loading; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
     stderr from kextload: /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/tap-notarized.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) system policy prevents loading; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
     stderr from kextload: /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/tap-notarized.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) system policy prevents loading; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
     stderr from kextload: /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/tap-notarized.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) system policy prevents loading; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
     stderr from kextload: /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/tap-notarized.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) system policy prevents loading; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
     Unable to load net.tunnelblick.tun and/or net.tunnelblick.tap kexts in 5 tries. Status = 27

The following command

kextstat | grep -v com.apple

prints

  120    0 0xffffff7f83eff000 0x8000     0x8000     com.sophos.driver.devctrl (9.9.4) 80C0508D-B31F-3069-BA35-7CE532860385 <22 6 5 3 1>
  189    0 0xffffff7f859a6000 0x7000     0x7000     com.sophos.nke.swi (9.9.4) FE4EB493-673F-372C-81AD-27AD0BC83BF6 <5 1>
  190    0 0xffffff7f859ad000 0x8000     0x8000     com.sophos.kext.oas (9.9.4) 7CED455E-0A13-323E-B39B-FAE664394522 <6 5 2 1>

I tried to unload these kext, but without success. I can't uninstall Sophos, because I am not administrator. Do you have any idea how to connect to my VPN server?


texts: Unable to format, add or delete songs: iPod Video 5.5g

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After a few months of not using my iPod (moded with a 128GB SD card) I charged the battery and it plays normally, but now I'm neither able to add nor delete them. First of all I tried to restore with iTunes but nothing happened and nothing was deleted. And then I tried everything, normal format from Disk Utility, then I tried to unmount and perform this commands:

diskutil unmount force /dev/disk4

diskutil zeroDisk /dev/disk4

Nothing happened.

Also tried:

diskutil unmount force /dev/disk4

diskutil eraseVolume ExFAT MyName disk4

on this one i get this error:

  Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk

Also, after formatting on Disk Utility secure option 2 I get this:

  posix reports the operation couldn’t be completed. invalid argument.

I already tried to put iPod on disk mode and perform all the same but it doesn't worked.

After all, nothing was erased and iPod still plays songs normally as if nothing happened.

EDIT: When I try to delete some folders manually I get error -50


texts: Pictures folder showing 39GB for 0 items! Please help?

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new here and hoping some wiz can point me in the right direction....

pictures folder showing 39Gb but there are no files in it
trash is empty
have tried rebooting
searched everywhere on the net, no one seems to know whats up
Mac OSX 10.6.8 on an old Macbook 13" 2007, 4Gb ram, 160gb HD
HD is pretty much FULL so need this sorted coz things are grinding to a halt!

any help appreciated :)


texts: What do I need to look for when selecting new RAM for my MacbookPro8,1?

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I'm looking at buying some extra RAM for my mid-2011 (?) MBP.  OWC says that I can handle up to 16GB (2x8), though I might elect to go with "only" 8GB.

I haven't bought computer components in a couple of years, so I'm not sure what the state-of-the-art is.  Do I have to match the speed of the current modules (listed as 1333MHz) or can I go faster?  Do I have to look for certain timing characteristics?  Does brand matter?


texts: Does Apple offer fanless desktop machines in its current lineup? I could not find any information searching for this.


texts: Left/right option keys reversed under Mojave on PC keyboard with switched option/command

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I have Emacs 26.1 from emacsformacosx.com set up to use left option as meta, and to ignore right option, so as to leave it available for accented characters etc.
It works fine on my MacBook Pro's built-in keyboard, and was working fine with an external PC keyboard in High Sierra.  But since I installed Mojave (a reformat and clean install), the external keyboard is backwards — left option is ignored, right option is meta.
The keyboard is a CoolerMaster QuickFire Rapid. As a further complication, I have option and command switched via Keyboard Preferences / Keyboard / Modifier Keys.

what else can I do to diagnose the problem? Is there a way I can tell what keycodes the keys are sending? (The Keyboard Viewer highlights both option keys whenever one is pressed, so it's no help.)
is there a way to intentionally swap the keys, e.g. in ~/Library/KeyBindings/, but only for that specific keyboard?
is there a way to at least detect what keyboard is installed, e.g. in a bash script, which might allow me to partially hack around the problem in my init.el? (It wouldn't be ideal to have to relaunch emacs when I switch keyboards, but it would be better than nothing.)

Note: I don't really want to install any third-party keyboard mapping software (Karabiner etc.) just to deal with this problem, although I suppose I'd be open to it for the diagnosis part.

Updated to add: Per @nohillside's comment, I tried disabling the option/command switch in Keyboard Preferences. This fixed the left/right problem. It's not a workable solution, but it does seem to isolate the problem to the modifier key customization.

Updated again: I upgraded an iMac that uses the same PC keyboard to Mojave, and it doesn't exhibit the problem; it may be specific to portables (or even to that particular MacBook Pro).

Updated yet again: Since updating to Catalina, the iMac now has the same problem.


texts: Sierra Beta: External keyboard won't type "a" and types an "i" instead of "h" after several seconds of being plugged in

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This is driving me crazy and I think I've done all the obvious troubleshooting. Where might OSX be keeping keyboard-specific settings that would do this?

Here's what's happening:

When I plug in the keyboard to either USB port on my MBP, it works fine for about 3 seconds
Then, the "a" key stops working (no response), and when I press "h" it types an "i" instead
It works fine when I boot in Recovery Mode
It works fine on other computers
Different USB keyboard works fine on this computer

Of note:

I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 Beta (16B2333a)
I recently installed and removed Keyboard Maestro


texts: Python with Catalina : No module named 'OpenGL'

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I am running the examples provided by the PyQtGraph python graphic module, on a MacOS Catalina. They all work fine for me, except those in 3D. I have a message :
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyqtgraph/examples/GLVolumeItem.py", line 11, in <module>
    import pyqtgraph.opengl as gl
  File "/Applications/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyqtgraph/opengl/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .GLViewWidget import GLViewWidget
  File "/Applications/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyqtgraph/opengl/GLViewWidget.py", line 2, in <module>
    from OpenGL.GL import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'OpenGL'

The OpenGL module, though deprecated in Catalina, is present at the location(I checked)

/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework

but I have no clue about how to make python find it. Does anyone have ?
Thanks a lot !!


texts: How to adjust the margin of Safari Reading List?

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iPhone Safari is wasting a lot of screen space in Reading List mode:

Is it possible to adjust the width of left and right margin?


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Device is Macbook Pro 2015 13". It has 74.9 Wh battery. Its original adapter is 60W. While charging the device will stay turned off.

If its allowed, I'll link an example powerbank. Its 25000mAh / 92.5Wh. Output (Max): USB 5V/2.1 A.

I suppose from 0% to 100% would take 8-12 hours.

Is there ANY disadvantages of charging MBP 13" with a powerbank that outputs 10W?  (Besides slow charging time :)

PS. I don't even know if this is possible.

For adapter, I'll use this and maybe this


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I have a external HD with several folders and every folder have a specific icon.

I tried to clean it up with CleanMyDrive2, and now my folders are all back with the usual blue folder icon. Inside of each folder, there is an "icon?" file, but it is visible (it should be invisible so that the folder take the look of the icon, I think). The "icon?" file appear like an executable unix file.

If I do a preview (by hitting spacebar when the folder is selected) the specific icon appear normaly, but when selecting "get info" the usual blue folder appear
If I try to copy the "icon?" file in another folder (like on my desktop) an error appear saying that I can't copy this file because it is invisible (but it's not).
When showing invisible files, no new file appear on the folders
Unmounting and mounting back my HDD didn't solve the problem
When copying the "icon?" icon and pasting it on the folder icon, some of them get back their icon and all of the "icon?" files copied are then deleted (or perhaps, getting back to invisible when the folder gets back its icon).

Is there a way to get back an icon from the "icon?" file ?

I'm running macOS Mojave 14.6


texts: iPhone 12 mini battery drains too fast. How to test it?

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I've got a new iPhone 12 mini and I think that something is wrong with its battery. Battery drains too fast (noticeable faster than on my old Android phone I had before). My issue is that I don't know how to verify my hypothesis about malfunctioning battery properly.
Are there any test procedures and reference values for them that can test battery life for draining problem? And/or apps that do it for you?


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I've been using Bootcamp (XP) with no problem for quite a while now. Today, when I tried booting to XP, my mouse will work for about a second and then stop working. If i unplug/replug it, it will sometimes work for another second and then stop. The keyboard works fine. I've tried several different mice, all corded.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can fix it?


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I live on campus and use a university secured 802.1x wifi network. The first question I have is, what's the difference between the IP address I can see from ifconfig and the address that is show as username@wireless1x-blah-blah-blah@university.edu? Since they both change does DHCP assign me both of them? Also is there a way to find this second, ssh usable address from the terminal? I can't seem to find a way to figure out how to make this ssh address static, so at least I'd like create a cronjob that copies and pastes it to a txt file on my cloud drive.

Image of the address I'm talking about just for clarification:

If anyone knows how to make this static without router access on a 802.1x network that'd be super helpful also.


texts: Hide the source code for an Automator quick action / service

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I have created an Automator quick action. The quick action listens for highlighted text on any application and runs some shell script based on the highlighted text.
The quick action can be triggered by:

selecting text on any application
right click Services
click on name of the Quick Action

The quick action or service works fine
However, I would like to disable everyone from reading the source code of this quick action. For eg. if I install this quick action on another person's MAC, the person can go to the Library folder and view the source code of this "quick action". I would like the source code to be private.
Is there any way I can achieve this?
Note that the "quick action" should still work as it is without anyone looking at the source code of the quick action.


texts: How to link notes in macOS Notes application?

texts: Is it possible to link to another notes in macOS Notes Application? For example I want to add in link to "Note2" from "Note1". So I click on the link, it will take me to that note.


texts: In El Capitan, I mounted the EFI partition using sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1 and instead of finding apps that I can run, I found .scap, .smc, .epm, and .efi files. What are these? The reason I ask here is because (for example) a search for ".smc file" yields "It's an SNES ROM file".


texts: Shell scripting: Select folder based on part of file name

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My project

I'm creating a bash shell script to execute from the Terminal. Its purpose is to archive lots and lots of project folders. Each folder follows a prescribed nomenclature: [YYYY.MM.DD] - Medium - Client - Project name - details--details - JobNumber. For example: [2006.02.01] - Print - Development - Appeal I - Kids Art Show Insert - D0601-11. These projects are currently one folder. I want to sort them into folders by Client name. There are 7 (internal) clients, so I'm using the following shell script:

#!/bin/bash

# Go to the Completed Projects folder.
cd /Volumes/communications/Projects/Completed\ Projects/

# Find a folder with a specified string (e.g. "Academics") in its name.
# Move (not copy) the folder to its corresponding sub-folder of the Archived Projects folder. (e.g. /Academics)

for folder in *; do
    if [[ -d "$folder" ]]; then
        if [[ "$folder" == *Academics* ]]; then
            echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → Academics...";
            mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/Academics/
        fi
        elif [[ "$folder" == *Admissions* ]]; then
            echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → Admissions...";
            mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/Admissions/
        fi
        elif [[ "$folder" == *Alumni* ]]; then
            echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → Academics...";
            mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/Alumni/
        fi
        elif [[ "$folder" == *Communications* ]]; then
            echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → Academics...";
            mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/Communications/
        fi
        elif [[ "$folder" == *Development* ]]; then
            echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → Academics...";
            mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/Development/
        fi
        elif [[ "$folder" == *President* ]]; then
            echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → Academics...";
            mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/President/
        fi
        elif [[ "$folder" == *Student\ Life* ]]; then
            echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → Academics...";
            mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/Student\ Life/
        fi
    else #Folders that don't match the pattern prompt the use to move them by hand.
        echo "$folder does not have a Department name. Move it by
done

My problem

My script would mis-parse and mis-file a project named [2006.03.01] - Print - Development - Academics and Accreditation - D0601-08. It would read "Academics" before it ever got to the conditional for the client "Development". As a result, it would be files into "Academics". And I'd have to pick it back out by hand!

My system's advantage

My colleagues and I have been scrupulous about our nomenclature (described above). I know that the Client name falls in between the 2nd and 3rd hyphens.

My question

How to leverage my system's advantage to solve my problem? I want this script to match only the part of the folder name that comes after the first two hyphens and before the third hyphen, i.e., I only want this script to search the Client "field" in the folder name. I keep thinking "regular expressions" but have no idea how to implement them.

Note: I prefer for a solution to augment my current script, rather than replace it. I arrived at it via @patrix on this site and his idea circumvented some errors.


texts: Why can't I choose to set up Internet Sharing to computers using AirPort?

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I'm using OSX 10.9. I'm trying to set up Internet Sharing to connect my Android to my Mac directly over Wi-Fi. Every tutorial I've come across (including the one published by Apple) mentions checking a box for "AirPort" in a "To computers using" list. However, the option is simply not available on my machine:

I have a few related questions:

Why isn't the AirPort option available?
Is there anything I can do to make it available?
If there isn't, how can I work around it to finish setting up Internet Sharing so I can connect my Android and my Mac directly over Wi-Fi?


texts: Why won't iPhoto open after upgrading to Lion?

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So, I just downloaded and installed Lion on my iMac. However, I did so on a separate clean partition, and saved Snow Leopard on the other. So, in Lion, I tried to open iPhoto on my Snow Leopard partition, and it crashed. Here's the error message:

com.apple.iPhoto: dyld: Library not loaded:      /Library/Frameworks/iLifeFaceRecognition.framework/Versions/A/iLifeFaceRecognition

Any help would be appreciated!


texts: How to backup Airport Extreme USB drive with Time Machine

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I have a drive connected to the Airport Extreme using its USB cable. I want to back up this drive using Time Machine (or some other practical method, though I trust Time Machine more than other solutions.)

Unlike most who have this kind of question, I do not want to backup my local machine to this drive.  I want to backup this drive, along with my machines local drives to my external drive using Time Machine.

There seems to be no good way to back up this drive, meaning all the data on the drive shared by the Airport is at risk if something happened to it.

In case anyone is unclear, I have 4 devices in this scenario, the Airport Extreme (AE), the USB drive connected to it (AE-USB), my local Macbook (MB) and the external drive connected to the MacBook (MBED).

I want to store files on AE-USB, and I want those files to be backed up somewhere, preferably using MB's Time Machine which backs up the MB drives to MBED.  I want to back up AE-USB onto MBED so that if something happens to it, I can restore it from the locally connected drive MBED.


texts: Upgrade to Catalina erased all data, have backups but how to restore applications/software?

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I had tried upgrading my MacBook Pro to Catalina from Mojave a couple of times on my own, but always got stuck on a 'could not be verified' error at the very end of downloading the said upgrade. Finally I decided to get it done at a verified Apple Service Centre. I have backups of my important documents on iCloud as well as a Time Machine backup for everything on an external hard disk.
I had submitted my MacBook Pro to the Service Centre yesterday and got it back today. The upgrade to Catalina is perfect, but I've lost all my data and applications. Even the user profile that I was using is nowhere to be found.
Now iCloud is automatically restoring some of the documents that I had backed up, but the applications/software that I had installed are completely lost. I do have a Time Machine backup, but I am not sure how I restore to that one. Moreover, restoring would take me back to OS Mojave, I think.
Is there any way I can keep Catalina but get back my applications/software from Time Machine?


texts: Showing previously scanned page when scanning several pages

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The scanner window allows us to combine multiple pages in a single PDF document. However, unless one clicks the Overview button before every scanning, the last scanned page is not displayed on the left hand side (the blank area in the image below).

When scanning a big document, say 40 or 50 pages, it's easy to lose track of the progress (in that case, the solution is opening the PDF in Finder and checking its last page).
My question is: is there any settings or any way to show the last scanned page, or is this a limitation of the program? As an additional info I'm using Catalina and AirPrint (but using the scanner's drivers gives the same behaviour, no difference).


texts: How can I make Mac Partition visible in Bootcamp (Windows 10 Anniversary Update)?

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Today I installed Windows 10, version 1607, on my MacBook Pro (Retina 15in Late 2013).
Before this I had Bootcamp setup with Win7. So, I started out by deleting the old Win7 Bootcamp Partition using the Bootcamp Assistant on Mac and then created a new partition and went on to install Windows 10.
Everything seems to have gone smoothly: Partitioning, Installation of Windows 10, and the Apple Bootcamp drivers.

However, the Mac Partition does not show up in Windows File Explorer.

I found this related thread Why I can not see mac partition under windows installed with bootcamp?

I have run the commands with the following results:

It looks like my MBP is not using CoreStorage.
FileVault is deactivated.
... and on my prior Windows 7 Bootcamp partition (that I deleted before setting up a new one for Windows 10) the Mac Partition was showing up correctly.

Here's a pictures of Windows 10 Disk Management:

Does anyone know what's going on here?


texts: Where does Chrome store login credentials in macOS?

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I swear I've seen this question thoroughly answered somewhere before but I couldn't find the answer I'm looking for...

Chrome secures our saved passwords in the System.keychain, right? But when I view my Keychain, the passwords aren't there. Could someone clarify where Chrome stores saved passwords and which files in macOS (Mojave) are actually storing the (probably encrypted) credentials?


texts: So I'm running iOS 10 and Watch OS 3.  I turned on my workout on my apple watch and went for a walk for 28 min.  When I was done, I checked the workout and it says 28 min.  If I go into my 'Activity' on the watch or my iPhone, it says my exercise for the day was only 11 min... But I can click on the workout and see it was 28 min.  Any ideas?


texts:
I have a 13-inch, Mid 2012 Macbook Pro that constantly overheats. Normally, the only app I will be using will be Google Chrome and I will still experience these temperatures. But occasionally I use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and my Mac gets even hotter. Here are the temperatures according to iStat.

Should I be worried? Should I get a new fan?


texts: Access iOS command line on computer without network

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I have jailbroken my iOS 10.2 iPhone and I would like to accsess the command line on my computer without using SSH.

The reason why I would like to do this is becasue I want to keey my security while still being jailbroken. I would also like to accsess the command line on my iOS device on a bigger screen.


texts:
What is the MakerNote Apple 0x0002 field in iPhone/iPad images? Is it a unique identifier for photos?

Example:

  [MakerNotes]    Apple 0x0002                    :
  bplist00O..?~yvronlkigc]F".???{ws[...]


texts: Is there a complete list of defaults / plist settings for the dock?

texts:
I know that most of the defaults settings for macOS components are probably hidden or undocumented, but I'm curious if there is someone who has compiled a complete list or if there is a way to discover what options are available?

In particular, I've become annoyed by how quickly the dock seems to follow my mouse to my 2nd monitor (but seems to delay coming back to primary), so I'm looking to see if there are any settings which could influence the behavior of this.


texts: Macbook Pro 2019 Bootcamp external display switches to 30hz when laptop lid is closed

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I am having the most frustrating problem. I have a 2019 Macbook Pro (AMD 5500M) running Windows 10 / Bootcamp. I have a 4k UHD external display which will not display above 30hz. I thought it could be the cable, but somehow discovered that when the laptop lid is open, both displays will run at 60hz!
I close the lid, and the display switches back down to 29hz. There is no way to change this.

This problem ONLY occurs in Windows 10 / Bootcamp. This does not happen on Mac.

Here are the screenshots for the monitor settings

https://imgur.com/a/QyOVoRS

Other things I have tried

Just disabling the monitor in the display settings (use only thing monitor). That also changes the display to 30hz.

I have looked around the power settings thinking there is some strange video switching, but i can't find it.

Any help would be VERY much appreciated.

Thanks!


texts: Can't find SUMIF in my Numbers functions. Could someone tell me where to find it?

texts: For the first time I am working with Numbers rather than Mac Exel, which I was running on my old G4. I now have a 2012 MacBook Pro with Mavericks, and the one function I use more than any other is SUMIF. However, this does not appear in my menu of choices. Can I add it?


texts: Why doesn't Apple ship and support FOSS drivers for NTFS write capabilities?

texts: Is there a reason Apple does not allow for NTFS write support, even when Linux (free, open source) solutions can? Why don't they just utilize those existing solutions to support read and write for NTFS or other alternative file systems?


texts: Copy DVD to iTunes for watching on Apple TV

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I have quite a collection of DVDs which is slowly getting smaller and smaller thanks (in part) to crappy Wal-Mart binder style DVD cases scratching the discs.  After purchasing an Apple TV, I'm wondering if it is possible to backup DVD's so that they can be watched in iTunes, and subsequently on my Apple TV.  I'm running OSX.6, if this helps any.

I would prefer FOSS, but I wouldn't mind paying for something that works, and will be around for a while.


texts: Keyboard Shortcut for switching to Desktops #5 and higher

texts: How can we create a keyboard shortcut to switch to desktops #5 and higher? Under preferences, seems like #4 is as high as we go


texts: Using Automator to set Music track as loved

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I am new to Automator and AppleScript and I'm trying to do something I thought was fairly simply, using an AppleScript to set a track in Music to loved.
Here is the AppleScript I'm trying:
tell application "Music"
    set loved of current track to true
end tell

I am getting the following error when I try to run it:
Music got an error: Unknown object type.
I've seen a few guides where people used this command in Itunes and also in Music. Why doesn't this work for me?


texts: Keyboard shortcut for 'Clear filters' in excel in office 365 for mac

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How do you 'clear filters' in excel in office 365 for mac using the keyboard?

On PC I can do alt+d,f,s

or using the mouse I can go to Data > Filter > Clear


texts: Cannot enter Time Machine on rescued drive from dead Time Capsule

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I am on Sierra (10.12.2) and my 2TB time capsule just died. I took out the drive and to my surprise was able to mount it via USB through a SATA docking station. I was thinking I could just continue (at least temporarily) to use it as my Time Machine drive, but I am having an impossible time getting Time Machine to recognise the drive. I always get an error saying "Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk"

I can see the backups and can select the disk to be my time machine disk, but Time Machine does not recognise the backups.

However, I can open the sparsebundle with diskimagemounter and browse the backups, so everything seems to be in order.

But I cannot figure out how to get Time Machine to recognise this drive and continue backing up where I left off. Any ideas?


texts: How do I get iCloud to share Safari tabs between devices?

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I'm logged into iCloud on two devices, an iPhone and my MacBook, but I only intermittently see a list of the Safari tabs I have open on one device on the other, and even then, they are generally out of date (often weeks old). Most of the time though, I see nothing:

How do I reliably get an up to date list of the tabs I have open on my other devices?

Devices in question are a MacBook Pro and an iPhone, all software is the latest (as of macOS 11.1, iOS 14.3) and this issue has persisted over years through reboots, migrations, updates, new devices, logins and logouts of my iCloud account, changes of location, etc.


texts: Standard Installation Locations for git repositories (e.g. jQuery)

texts: I've found a few different answers, and was curious if there is a standard between it being in a folder under $HOME or something like /var?


texts: Does iPhone X support Display Zoom like the iPhone devices before it that are larger than the iPhone SE?


texts: How can I change the keyboard layout through the terminal?

texts: This is necessary, because I write the program on Ruby, and I need to programmatically change the layout of the keyboard


texts:
I noticed that when I plug in an external NTFS HDD something is reading it and it doesn't stop for a long time... I checked with fs_usage and saw this:

23:26:54.189404  read              F=5    B=0x28                                                                                0.000048 W tuxera_ntfs.242048
23:26:54.189465  writev            F=5    B=0x80                                                                                0.000007   tuxera_ntfs.242048
23:26:54.189476  getattrlist                            /Volumes/REDSTAR/Kindle/Kindle books/Dean R. Koontz/Shadowfires (880)                                                                         0.000093 W mds.242039
23:26:54.189490  getattrlist                                 /Volumes/REDSTAR/Kindle/Kindle books/Dean R. Koontz/Shadowfires (880)                                                                       0.000008   mds.242039
23:26:54.189511  read              F=5    B=0x28                                                                                0.000046 W tuxera_ntfs.242048
23:26:54.189540  writev            F=5    B=0x80                                                                                0.000006   tuxera_ntfs.242048
23:26:54.189549  getattrlist                            /Volumes/REDSTAR/Kindle                                                                                0.000054 W mds.242039
23:26:54.189579  read              F=5    B=0x28                                                                                0.000038 W tuxera_ntfs.242048
23:26:54.189616  writev            F=5    B=0x80                                                                                0.000006   tuxera_ntfs.242048
23:26:54.189626  getattrlist                            /Volumes/REDSTAR/Kindle/Kindle books                                                                                0.000066 W mds.242039
23:26:54.189656  read              F=5    B=0x28

etc.

So the Tuxera driver is scanning the drive each time. Why? Is this normal?

UPDATE: it's not Tuxera's fault... it's Spotlight indexing the drive via a Tuxera NTFS driver


texts:
Press the power button and it'll restart and restoring the windows.
Press the power button for so long and it'll sleep. When return it'll restore the whole windows.

What about if I want true restart or shut down?


texts: I am planning on buying a Macbook Pro and Parallels Desktop 10, but I also love PC video games and I want to know if anyone knows how/if Steam games can run easily through Parallels Desktop.  Also if Steam games can run, how well does it run?  Do you think I would be better off getting Boot Camp?


texts: How can I selectively share app purchases among iOS devices using iCloud?

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I have three iOS 6 devices among which I would like to selectively share apps. I have an iPhone and my wife has an iPhone and an iPad. I understand that by using a common Apple ID for the App Store, we can purchase apps once and use them on all three devices; no problem there. However, I'd like to be able to manage things in a slightly more advanced way, if possible. Here's what I would like to happen:

If my wife purchases an app on her iPhone, it will automatically download to her iPad, and vice versa.
If my wife purchases an app on one of her devices, I don't want it to automatically download to mine, and vice versa. While there might be a lot of software that we might want to share, there's also a significant amount of content that we won't want in common. I would like the sharing of these apps to be a more manual process (i.e. after I purchase an app, she could go to the App Store and choose to download it to her device(s)).
In my experience, using iTunes for managing multiple devices in this way is a bit clunky, so I would like to have a no-computer-in-the-loop approach. Notably, I have seen other questions that suggest using iTunes Home Sharing to share applications among different devices. It's not clear that this is a fit for my situation, as I don't have multiple computers, only multiple iOS devices.

I'm not sure whether this sort of setup is possible. As a start, I have set up a common Apple ID for our store purchases and separate iCloud accounts for my wife and I, allowing us to segregate our backups. I'm not sure whether it's feasible to achieve the selective automatic synchronization between devices that I'm looking for; I was hoping that iCloud would allow this.


texts:
I often find myself with 6 ort 7 parallel tasks, with each requiring several terminals.

My ideal UI would be a hierarchical tab setup - a tab for each group of terminals, where I could name the tab, and it would be restored on startup. What's the closest thing to this?

I'm open to using any terminal app, iterm etc, not just the default terminal.app.


texts: Mission Control stopped working then Dock won't restart

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i am using a macbook air and with yosmite os

At first I could still switch between desktops, just that i could not swipe up/down to access mission control and app exposé. I tried typing in killall Dock into terminal to restart dock, but now i cant switch desktops either and the background is completely black. killall dock just tells me it can't find the process for this user. when i typed in killall -s dock it showed only one process.

is there a way to force dock to start and fix mission control?


texts: Macbook external display rearranges homescreen

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I've just set my PC moniter as primary screen when I plug in my MacBook (Air 2020) but it keeps rearranging my Homescreen.
When I rearrange it so it fits my external display and unplug my laptop it will place the apps on top of each other so I that doesn't work.
Can I prevent this from happening?


texts: The folder Library/StartUpItems is empty

texts:
Under System Preferences / Users & Groups / Login Items I can see all of the items that I've selected to launch at startup, but the folder,  Library/StartUpItems is empty.

Where can I see these items?


texts: How to sort photos inside a photo album in the Photos app on an iPhone by date [PC]?

texts:
By default the photos in user-created albums are sorted by date added, NOT date taken. The user may rearrange the photos one-by-one (tap and hold).

I do NOT own a Mac.


texts: MacBook Pro early 2015 not turning on and not charging

texts:
I'm far away from civilization thats why I need your help guys. My problem is: MacBook Pro 13" early 2015 is not turning on and charging and the trackpad is also dead.

Charger's LED does not shine by any light(red/orange/green) . But I tested my charger with another MacBook and charger is working.
I tried to connect another charger. First 1-2 minute I can see green light and then LED turns off.
Trackpad is not react to any action (like double click). Right now this is just some plastic area
Turn off and turn on battery connector also didn't help me.

The laptop did not receive any damage and was not flooded with water. Day or two before I got it from safe and checked my email then closed it and put to the safe again(hotel standard safe) (everything was okay but I didn't remember battery charge percent at that day) then I open and figured out that MacBook is dead.


texts: Listen to music while watching videos on the browser

texts: How can I listen to music from the Music app or others (Spotify, etc…) while browsing with Safari? I know that I can put Music in background but it stops whenever I start watching video on Safari. Can I turn off any audio from Safari? Is there any alternative browser that has this feature?


texts: Bootcamp - Multiple Windows installations, how do delete one?

texts:
I've got a Mac Pro with 3 hard drives:

1 x 7200rpm 640GB - 1/2 for OS X - 1/2 for Windows 7 (Bootcamp)
2 x 5400 Western Digital'Eco-drive' (runs like a dog and is only useful for backups and archives).

In my foolishness I made two attempts to install (via Bootcamp) on the two slow drives before finally realising it was the slow speed of the drive that was making everything frustrating. So I now have OS X and Win7 on two halves of the 7200rpm drive and I'd like to get rid of the Win7 installs on the other drives. Somehow the installs ended up on partitions with other files so I can't just reformat them totally as I'd lose stuff.

I guess I could just delete the Windows folder from each location, but I don't think this will have the effect I'm after. Can anyone shed any light on what I should do?


texts: Can’t restore Time Machine back up - an error occurred while adding recovery system to destination disk

texts:
Just upgraded my 2012(mid) non-retina  13” MacBook Pro with a crucial
sad 1tb and having troubles restoring back up from Time machine. I’m
sure it’s important to mention I installed a new data cable as well.
The steps I used were: In the recovery mode, I erase the hard drive
in the disk utilities section and then go to back up from time
machine. I go through all the steps to select the time machine and
back up version. It seems to start the back up for a few moments but
then I get an error:
“An error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination
disk. Restart your computer, and then try restoring again.”
I’ve gone throug a couple of cycles of this, consulting you tube each
time to see if I’m missing something or if trying a couple of
different steps in the disk utility menu helps.  My backup is
encrypted and I did not select the Mac Extended + Journaled
(encrypted) format just the Mac Extended + Journaled format.
I’m lost and don’t know what to do and what to try to resolve this.


texts: Are there any iPhone push apps that sound on silent?

texts:
Are there any iPhone push apps that will still sound when the phone is set to silent/vibrate?

I've tried Prowl but it gets silenced. I'd like to have a way to find my phone more easily when I can't find it and it's on silent, and if I can send it a push notify that always sound it will solve my problem.


texts:
A while ago, I dual booted with ubuntu linux and followed a tutorial on youtube to do so, but later I wanted all of my hard drive to be for osx, so I deleted the ubuntu partition, but now I am left with the following in diskutility:

The problem isnt the disk0s4 partition size, but rather the fact that it prevents me from accessing another 70 gb of hard drive space. This wasn't previously a problem as is reflected by my current data use, but I need to install alot of new software on the computer which exceeds the 180 gb on the current partition...is there any way I can delete disk0s4 and access the extra 70 gigabytes of data on my hardrive? Thanks alot!


texts: Scanning over ethernet, natively in OS X?

texts:
Yesterday, I purchased an HP LaserJet M1212NF.

It, like many other printers, can't scan over ethernet natively in OS X.

That is, I can scan using the stupid HP utilities that I hate (not going to happen), but I can't do it from Preview, Image Capture, or the "scan" button that's supposed to show up on the right-hand side of the pane after double-clicking the printer in the print & scan control panel.

This is a problem for me because part of my workflow is to scan documents using 3rd party apps in order to immediately organize, tag and file them.  But these apps rely on OS X recognizing the scanner, which it isn't.

Does anyone have any experience hacking the drivers, or otherwise making OS X behave in the way that I expect?


texts: Can you color label a file/folder in Finder using a keyboard shortcut?

texts: Is there a faster way to label a selected file or folder without having to right-click and choosing a colour ? Such as a keyboard shortcut or another method to do this ?


texts: How to change layout in OS X like shift=English, ctrl=Russian?

texts:
How to change layout in OS X like Shift=English, Ctrl=Russian?

Like in Punto Switcher in Windows or Xneur in Linux?


texts: Shared iCloud Calendar with other non-iCloud members?

texts:
is there any option that lets me share my Apple iCloud Calendar with my family (that uses Windows + Google), and also lets them edit the shared calendar?
It looks like I can either share a public readable URL, or invite users with an email so that they have write permissions, but then they have to register an iCloud account, which I'm trying to avoid.
I'm open to third party solutions, but trying to avoid having to do it through a Google Account.


texts: Album artwork missing after iTunes -> Music conversion

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After changing my iTunes Library from iTunes to the new Music app on Big Sur many of my music files are missing album artwork inside the new Music app:

The thing that's worth nothing is that album artwork was embedded inside the .m4a files. There's a thumbnail of the image near the controls on music app, but it does not show as a big image on the application itself.
If I fire up the "mini player", the cover appears on top but not on individual files:

Finally if we get to the filesystem itself, Finder is able to load and show the covers in individual files, observe the icons near the filename.

If we look at additional information from Finder shows the artwork correctly too, and as you can see I've the file since 2011:

Last but not least, there's the "more info" directly on the Music.app missing the cover:

I even checked the tags on other software, in my case I just used Foobar2000 to check for metadata and foobar2000 detected everything as it should:

So at the end my years-organized collection just lost almost 50% of the covers and is looking like some unorganized iTunes installation from the no tag MP3 era, the 90's:

Any ideia of what may have happened and any idea on how to automate and fix this?
Thanks.
PS: I'm aware of the amusing dougscripts.com but now it's payware and I'm not sure if the scripts would solve the issue or not, it seems that even with the scripts it's a lot of manual work to fix my entire collection because something broke with Music.app.
EDIT: I've observed that all missing covers are embedded on PNG format. Those showing up are all JPEG.


texts: Does SMS Forward to Mac work if iPhone is turned off?

texts: I have a MacBook and an iPhone. The iPhone is setup to forward SMS to my MacBook. If the iPhone is turned off can I still send/receive SMS in Messages on my MacBook?


texts: Apple store apps won't download but have a iCloud symbol

texts: I have downloaded the app before and then deleted by accedent but now it won't download at all and has a little cloud symbol instead of an install symbol


texts: How to delete empty deleted user home folder?

texts: I have a deleted user home folder in  the "Users" folder that does not contain anything and cannot be deleted. Can anybody suggest any ideas?


texts: Operating System becomes unstable after prolonged use

texts:
My setup

uname -a prints:

Darwin Jutsu.local 11.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug  9 20:54:00 PDT 2011;
root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Mac OS X Version: 10.7.3 as of this post
Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Problem

Google chrome starts to time out in an odd way: I'll open a new tab and try to load gmail. It's taking longer then it should, so I try to right click or open the console but nothing happens.

I am able to close the tab and try again - but the page loads and I am unable to do anything on the page.

Troubleshooting

This is what things start to look like when life sucks...

Processes: 97 total, 3 running, 2 stuck, 92 sleeping, 489 threads                                                                                11:59:12
Load Avg: 3.35, 2.46, 1.58  CPU usage: 3.28% user, 27.93% sys, 68.77% idle   SharedLibs: 13M resident, 6744K data, 0B linkedit. MemRegions: 19003 total, 1363M resident, 65M private, 663M shared.
PhysMem: 1037M wired, 2255M active, 272M inactive, 3563M used, 4626M free. VM: 198G vsize, 1118M framework vsize, 1886103(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts. Networks: packets: 287068/334M in, 164599/24M out.
Disks: 28824/1238M read, 56041/935M written.

I've tried to kill the processes -9 and -15.

The processes end up as such: "(Google Chrome)" - which seems very odd to me.
I'm used to seeing "Google Chrome He" or something like this:

/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/17.0.963.46/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Helper --type=renderer --lang=en-US --force-fieldtest=ConnCountImpact/conn_count_6/ConnnectBackupJobs/ConnectBackupJobsEnabled/DnsImpact/default_enabled_prefetch/DnsParallelism/parallel_default/GlobalSdch/global_enable_sdch/IdleSktToImpact/idle_timeout_10/Instant/SilentExperimentA/Prefetch/ContentPrefetchPrerender1/PrerenderFromOmnibox/OmniboxPrerenderEnabled/PrerenderFromOmniboxHeuristic/ExactFullAlgorithm/ProxyConnectionImpact/proxy_connections_32/SpdyCwnd/cwndMin16/SpdyImpact/npn_with_spdy/WarmSocketImpact/warm_socket/ --extension-process --enable-print-preview --channel=313.0x33f8c00.1296777368

At this point I figure I should just restart or shutdown. But the system becomes unwilling to, stating that it can't shut down any of the current processes. I try to terminate Adium or the Terminal itself and those won't close as well.

This leads me to holding down the power button.    When the system boots back up, everything works as it should, even the kill commands.

Does anyone have a guess as to what might be causing this?

Syslog: (220 was the parent Google Chrome process)

Feb 10 15:06:35 Jutsu Dock[222] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSSetWindowTransformsAtPlacement: Failed

Feb 10 15:06:35 Jutsu Dock[222] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: Failed

--- last message repeated 1 time ---

Feb 10 15:06:35 Jutsu Dock[222] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSSetWindowListGlobalClipShape: Invalid window 0x72

Feb 10 15:06:31 Jutsu Dock[222] <Warning>: trying to take pid 220 out of fullscreen but it is not the current space

Update

This problem is not exclusive to Google Chrome, it happens with iTunes and other applications as well.
"killing" the processes doesn't produce the desired results, but going to Apple Icon -> Force Quit does indeed completely stop the process as it should.

But the system still begins to degrade in stability, for instance, iTunes reports:

"The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk,
or you do not have write permission for this file."

When I tried to exit the Terminal that process became stuck as well (see report @ github).

Rebooting still remains the only viable option.


texts:
I am trying to have everything in English, except day and month, which I want to change to my language.  I followed this post, but this command does not work.

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale nl_NL


texts: Way to maintain same screen ratio on data projector as on Mac laptop

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In giving presentations from my MacBook Pro on an Epson Data Projector (VGA connection), there is I have invariably found a decrease in the display dimensions. Initially only part of the previous screen area shows, but can be reset to fill the smaller screen.

Normally — for example with a PowerPoint presentation — this smaller size is OK, but today I was accessing one of my websites directly from the laptop to illustrate its features in my seminar. The problem was that I had written the HTML/CSS so that the site was ‘responsive’, and one aspect of this responsiveness was that certain features were not shown at the viewport size of mobile devices. The viewport matched the dimensions I had set in the stylesheet for the iPad and I ended up not being able to demonstrate some of the features.

Failing all else I could record and show a movie or temporarily change the stylesheet, but my question is whether there is any way of changing the resolution of the data projector display from my Mac.


texts:
Is there an APP to make a bootable dvd i am using snow leopard but i do have access to a lion machine. I have an ISO from a legal copy of windows 7 it is a back up cd and yet i am having a hard time making it boot from the cd, the boot camp installer sees it but when I try and boot from it, it gives me a code 5 which is a non-bootable DVD

the things i have tried

-burned to usb using dd

-burned to dvd

-restored using disk utils

I just want an app that will make it easy and painless and hopefully free so i can just get my bootcamp working... thanks in advance


texts: How do I remove 'untitled' partition from terminal or disk utility?

texts: I've been trying for ages but can't work out how to completely remove these two Untitled volumes(?). I've tried remove, erase, and the minus button in Disk Utility and the commands in terminal don’t make sense or seem to work .  Please find attached images. I have Catalina OS


texts: How to reproduce Windows Chrome BAT files setup in macOS 10.15

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On Windows, Chrome is my primary browser.
I've developed a series of *.bat files on Windows that each open a series of tabs with specific URLs in Chrome:

@echo off
set BROWSER=chrome.exe
set WAIT_TIME=2
cd %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\bat
start %BROWSER% -new-window "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/month"
@ping 127.0.00.1 -n %WAIT_TIME% -w 1000 > nul
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://contacts.google.com/"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://voice.google.com/"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://hangouts.google.com"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://drive.google.com"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://maps.google.com"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://www.youtube.com"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://news.google.com"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://photos.google.com"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://one.google.com"
start %BROWSER% -new-tab "https://classroom.google.com"

How would I reproduce this functionality in macOS 10.15 using AppleScript?


texts:
In Youtrack (issue tracker) there are shortcuts that require 'insert' key which my macbook pro 15inch 2016 model does not have. How can I emulate it? Is there a combo like fn +  that simulates insert key?

I tried everything that was suggested in other questions and answers and have not solved my problem yet.


texts: Can I know if an email recipient downloaded a mail dropped file in Mail.app?

texts: I have send a large file with Mail.app with the "drop" feature and would like to know if a recipient downloaded it. Is it possible to have such a information?


texts: Will iPhone 6 cost you $649 over two years?

texts:
After reading this page online, I got stunned, please go through the link, you will find that it says:

  While Apple and the major wireless carriers usually advertise the iPhone 6′s $199 price, that’s just the starting price for those that are signing up for a two-year contract and are eligible for an upgrade. The full retail price for the 16GB iPhone 6 is actually $649 and a lot of people are going to spend that much or more either upfront or through a payment scheme like Verizon Edge, which is essentially a payment plan that spreads the $649 cost over 20 months and allows subscribers to upgrade to the next generation iPhone after just a year.

My question is, is it a good idea to use a payment scheme like Verizon Edge with the iPhone 6?


texts: I am trying to download Xcode 4.1 from the Mac App Store (I am on Lion, and I have Xcode 3 installed). The problem is that the download bar barely moved, and after being stuck there for an hour it reset to 0%.


texts: Do iPhone chargers need any certification to correctly work?

texts: Since lightning cables need MFi certification, I would like to know if wall (and car) chargers need this or any certification too to get all features like fast charging.


texts: How can I change Finder tag name or color?

texts: There are some tags in Finder by default. I want rename their name from color. How can I do this?


texts: How (or where) I can set keyboard shortcut to "add new desktop place"

texts:
please, how to set up keyboard shortcut to "add new desktop place", that must be added via "Mission Control" and by mouse click to "plus button" (top right corner)?? I'm looking at "system preferences" -> "keyboard" -> "Shortcut" ... but there is no any settings for "add new desktop" or someone same.

Is there any way to set up this shortcut ??

Many thanks for ideas.


texts:
How can I disable the sound when deleting a file from Finder in OS X Mountain Lion?

I do not see any specific mention of it under System Preferences or Finder Preferences. I don't want to disable other sounds; just that one.


texts: reduce trackpad sensitivity when typing (MacBook Pro w/ Retina)

texts:
When I type on my MacBook Pro, I tend to rest my palms near the trackpad - and sometimes they end up touching the trackpad directly.

As a result sometimes I end up moving the mouse around while typing. The worst is when it ends up highlighting text I've already typed, then I end up typing over it. This happens a lot.

How can I reduce the trackpad sensitivity to touch? On Dell computers the mouse utility actually lets you adjust this. It's a setting like "TouchGuard" or something, and if you turn it up this problem won't happen, though there will be a noticeable delay when you try to actually use the mouse.

I cannot find any similar setting on my MacBook Pro. Maybe there's a 3rd party utility?


texts: Is there any way to stream my Mac Pro to my MacBook?

texts: I'd like to know if there is an efficient way to use my Mac Pro from my MacBook (Not using anything like TeamViewer or VNC), so I can enjoy the power of the Mac Pro with the mobility of the MacBook while I'm home.


texts: Why isn't my auto proxy setting working for Safari 5.1 in Lion?

texts:
I have a SOCKS proxy listening on 7070 at localhost.

Here is what my proxy.pac file looks like (to keep the test simple, I just return SOCKS proxy for all urls):

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
   return "SOCKS 127.0.0.1:7070";
}

This doesn't work in Safari or Chrome. However, for other native apps like Twitter for Mac and Dropbox, this works fine.

I'm getting around it by using Firefox with the Autoproxy plugin, but I would like to use Safari. Why isn't it working?


texts: Is it possible to change the wireless card on a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I'm interested in possibly upgrading my MacBook Pro's wireless card. Is this possible? Can I take apart the MacBook and install it? Is there a guide somewhere on how to do this?

(This isn't because of wireless performance, just lack of stable driver support on Linux.)


texts: Is it possible to use 2 iPads simultaneously with Sidecar?

texts:
I'd like to use 2 iPads simultaneously as extra monitors for my Mac. When I try to connect a second iPad through Sidecar, it disconnects the first iPad.

Is there a way to override this and use two iPads with Sidecar?


texts: apple 10.9.1 MS office two screens simultaneously working on MS word on one screen and PPT on the other

texts: I cant have the two applications visible at the same time, one on each screen. The full double screens switches every time I switch application, it is very inconvenient, any idea  on how to avoid that? thanks


texts: What does "Failed to open swapfile" mean and is it a problem?

texts:
A couple of times a day my fans start spinning, ready for take off. The activity manager shows that Mail is eating up my CPU, 250% and more.

The console shows the following lines:

13-09-16 10:46:46,000 kernel[0]: Failed to open swap file 2
13-09-16 10:46:46,000 kernel[0]: vm_swap_create_file failed @ 42649 secs

And continues to do so for quite a long time. Is this a problem and if so how can I fix this?

OS Version: El Capitan 10.11.6

Hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD.


texts: I am running Yosemite and the color picker is supposed to have a magnifying glass. Except I do not have this and cannot turn it on. I do not see the magnifying glass as shown between the tool bar and the colour wheel.


texts: Disable MacBook screen turn off at locked screen

texts: Is it possible to prevent OSX from turning off displays when on the lockscreen? I'll lock my MBP with 2 external monitors, leave for 2-3 minutes, and come back and the monitor will be off. It then takes a bit of time for them to all come back on. I've tried Caffeine but it only appears to work when unlocked.


texts:
I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.5. In Finder windows, besides the sidebar, there is a sort of "upbar", right below the name of the folder you are viewing but before the colum/list/icon view of it, where you can put shortcuts to files. This is a screenshot of a typical window on my computer:
Edit - it's called the Toolbar, I've edited the Question title to make it easier for others to Google.

As you can see, next to some buttons which include view controls there are 6 item buttons: a txt, a tex, a tex, a jpeg, a doc(x) and a tex. They all got there by accident and I can't find a way to get them away. How do I remove them?


texts: Can I permanently lock certain chrome-tabs to the same desktop on Mac?

texts: I am working on five different projects and use one desktop for each of the projects. Is there a way to permanently lock certain chrome-tabs to the same desktop on Mac? I swipe between 5 desktops and would like to fix them so they stay in the same order, even when relaunching the computer, but I cannot find any option. Is there a Mac widget or something like that that could help?


texts:
I wrote a bash script which records an audio file of a set length from my internal microphone. The script works great, either using ffmpeg or sox to do the recording. I used to be able to automatically execute my script using launchctl (or crontab), so that I could automatically have the audio recording. Ever since upgrading to Catalina, the script will run fine if executed manually, but if I execute it from cron or launchctl, it runs, but the output file contains no audio (the file format is correct, but it's as if the audio source was muted)

It doesn't matter if I use ffmpeg vs sox. It doesn't matter if I use cron vs launchctl. It doesn't matter if I run the script as root vs regular user. I've tested this on multiple macs running Catalina (2019 macbook pro, 2017 mac mini). It doesn't matter if the input device is a usb audio interface vs internal microphone. My script always works and produces good audio if executed manually. It always produces a silent audio file with no data if executed via any scheduler.

Any ideas? I'm wondering if it has something to do with a security setting on the audio interface?


texts:
I've searched before asking but couldn't find any related question with the problem that I'm facing.

I have a new Macbook Air (1 month) with Yosemite 10.10.1 that from the beginning is having some strange behavior on boot-up.

Specs:

1,7 GHz Intel Core i7
128 GB SSD
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB

When I press the power button the screen remains black (I notice a different black when the room is dark) for more than 1 minute before the apple logo appears and then it's seconds to go to the login screen.

However, when I boot-up with the Alt key, the screen to select the startup disk is very fast to appear and when I select the "Macintosh HD" disk, the Apple logo appears right away and then again it's seconds to go to the login screen.

So basically if I boot with Alt key and force the disk, it is very fast to boot. When I do a "normal" boot, I have to wait at least 1 minute before the Apple logo appears.

It seems to me like an hardware problem, but before I take the computer back to the store, I wanted to make sure if there is something else I should try.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: 2 Clash of Clans account on the same Game Center account

texts:
At first I started playing clash of clash of clans on my sister's iPad, with her Game Center account. As the months passed by my sister wanted to play on her phone, however her phone is also using the same game center and so whenever my elder sister wants to play Clash of Clans it prompts up on the screen

  Do You want to load "venneline Th8 base"?

which is on my iPad.

Is there a way I can transfer the account on my iPad to a new Game Center account?


texts: Why can't our iPad see all the iTunes-U courses shared from the iMac?

texts:
I have 6 courses in iTunes-U loaded into iTunes on my iMac. The latest is WWDC 2012. I can see all those courses on my wife's MacBook, but only the other 5 using the Video app on our iPad.

Can anyone explain this and help me to get all the iTunes-U courses so that I can watch WWDC 2012 on the iPad?


texts:
My wife owns an iPhone 3, and I recently bought an iPhone 4. Now I want to use the same iTunes (on my MacBook Pro) and same Apple ID as her, because I want to use the apps & music currently authorized for that account without having to buy them again.

However, when I sync my iPhone 4, it says that it's backing up, and then that it's syncing, but it suddenly stops and nothing more happens. When I sync my wife's iPhone 3, though, it syncs correctly. I've tried everything but same thing keeps on happening.

What's happening, and how do I fix it?


texts: Does macOS have equivalent command line tools like `lshw` or `lspci` for enumerating PCI hardware devices?

texts:
The closest thing I know of is system_profiler but it spits out way too much unnecessary information and I don't have a good way to filter / transform that output.

What's the closest alternative to something like lshw or  lspci on  Mac OS X?


texts: macOS X El Capitan bootable USB not working

texts:
I have created El Capitan mac OS X bootable USB using TransMac and El Capitan dmg from Apple. When I boot the iMac (2011) and holding option key, the USB doesn't show in boot menu.

I have changed the clock to 01010116 but the problem still exist.
I have tried this with other sticks (USB 2 and 3) but no luck.
I have tried formatting USB with GPT (diskpart) but no luck.

Can someone give me a few hints on how to get El Capitan installation start?
Thanks


texts: AppleScript – Pages export to PDF fails due to Sandbox permissions

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I'm trying to create an Automator workflow to export selected Pages documents to PDF. So far, everything goes well, except for the final export step.

on run {input, parameters}
    repeat with _document in input

        tell application "Finder"
            set _directory to get container of file _document

            set _documentName to name of _document
            if _documentName ends with ".pages" then ¬
                set _documentName to text 1 thru -7 of _documentName

            set _PDFName to _documentName & ".pdf"
            set _incrementIndex to 1
            repeat until not (exists file _PDFName of _directory)
                set _PDFName to ¬
                    _documentName & "-" & (_incrementIndex as string) & ".pdf"
                set _incrementIndex to _incrementIndex + 1
            end repeat

            set _location to (_directory as string) & _PDFName
        end tell

        --set _location to (POSIX file of _location)

        tell application "Pages"

            activate
            open _document

            with timeout of 1200 seconds
                export front document to file _location as PDF
            end timeout

            close front document

        end tell

    end repeat
    return input
end run

This gives me a Sandbox permissions error.

error   17:49:38.117966 +0100   sandboxd    SandboxViolation: Pages(3846) deny file-write-create /Users/brunoscheele/Desktop/Test.pdf
Violation:       deny file-write-create

After reading up on it here, it looked like I could fix this by changing _location to a POSIX file.

So I added;

--set _location to (POSIX file _location)

However, that then gives me the error:

Pages got an error: "macOS:Users:brunoscheele:Desktop:Test.pdf" could not be interpreted as a file URL.

Using export front document to (POSIX file _location) as PDF gives me the same error.

Does anyone know how to set the _location properly, so you don't run into permission issues?


texts: Can I transfer photos from iPhone 4 to a MacBook via Bluetooth?

texts: Is there any way to transfer photos from the iPhone 4 camera roll to a MacBook over Bluetooth?


texts: Watching any video in Chrome has red boxes

texts:
FIXED:
Version 53.0.2785.89 (64-bit) fixed it

OLD:
I've been noticing this for the last couple months, but whenever I watch a video in chrome (Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit)) I see small red boxes over the video. The boxes jump around and flicker. It doesn't matter which site it is for (screenshot is youtube and steam)

Things I've tried:

It does not happen in safari
chrome://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode (disabled)
chrome://flags/#disable-cast-streaming-hw-encoding (disabled)
chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-h264-with-openh264-ffmpeg (disabled)

￼


texts: Why did deadbeefdeadbeef become deadbeeedeadbeef?

texts:
My computer had a sudden shutdown today, and part of the associated report is found below:

  ** Panic Report *** panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff800a4bade0): "a freed zone element has been modified in zone kalloc.256: expected
  0xdeadbeefdeadbeef but found 0xdeadbeeedeadbeef, bits changed
  0x100000000, at offset 120 of 256 in element 0xffffff805d4c7d00,
  cookies 0x3f00113ca62d16fc

Originally I thought maybe this was a virus of some kind, since the number deadbeefdeadbeef looked like it wasn't a random memory address.  I Googled the term deadbeef and found that it's a standard magic number.

My question is, what could have caused such a memory corruption as this?


texts: Installing Dell LITEON 512GB m.2 w/adapter in 13" 2015 MacBook Pro w/High Sierra, not showing up?

texts:
Bought one of those nifty m.2 adapters on eBay for my 2015 MacBook Pro a1502 so I could save some money on buying an OEM drive by using a cheaper 512GB LITEON nvme SSD. MacBook's firmware is up-to-date, and SSD is detected using ARCH Linux, but refuses to show up in either High Sierra Disk Utility or Sierra/El Cap Disk Utility, all from recovery mode.

What do you think? Not sure why it wouldn't be showing up given it's recognized in Linux. Tried fresh when first arrived, w/partitioning the drive w/in Arch Linux both generically and with Apple HFS/HFS+, still nothing. Have also tried with a 2015 MacBook Air, nada--recognized in Arch, nothing on El Cap/Sierra/High Sierra installers.


texts:
I had tried to download the SE iPad app after upgrading from iOS 7 to 8. However, nothing happens when I click the download link. For those unfamiliar with the SE app, it's still in beta, so it has to be downloaded via web. It is accessed via an itms-services:// URL. (It's a bit of a secret exactly what it is.)

It worked just fine before the update. I never had 8.0 or 8.0.1.

Is there any known info on not being able to download apps from the web?

My bug report on Meta.SE is here: Unable to update app on iOS 8.0.2


texts: Diff application with posibility to input text manually

texts:
Is there some application, which allows you to open just 2 blank panes and paste there text manually, so I don't have to save them into files before comparing them and I can edit files directly in panes?

And I would like comparison like Kaleidoscope or something similar, which can hilight what's different in particular line, not just hilight that this line was changed and I have to spot the difference manually

Meld for Linux is capable of doing so, but I didn't find any native apps for Mac


texts: Is my iPhone 4 dock connector broken because it says accessory not supported

texts: My iPhone 4 keeps coming up with the message accessory not supported and stops charging. When I connect it to my dock it happens all the time but when I connect it to the charger it rarely says it. Is something broken


texts: Is there a way to entirely remove the Messages app from an iOS 12 device?

texts: I'm trying to set up an iPad for a child and don't want any Messages app at all. Apple seems to want to keep it there. Any way to completely remove it?


texts: Yosemite corrupted texture in Mission Control

texts:
When I fire up Mission Control, there are some corrupted textures ("glitch") overlaying Unity3D window. The texture is different each time I enter Mission Control, and they are related to what other programs I'm using. After I switched to Unity window, the corrupted textures disappear. I'm using the 15in MacBook Pro with Retina Display Late 2013 with dedicated graphics.

I've also seen corrupted graphics in Yosemite Safari and Preview after waking up from sleep with external monitor, and zooming makes them disappear.

Is it a Yosemite bug or a hardware defect?

Some samples:

From System Information:

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M:

  Chipset Model:    NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
  Type: GPU
  Bus:  PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:  x8
  VRAM (Total): 2048 MB
  Vendor:   NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:    0x0fe9
  Revision ID:  0x00a2
  ROM Revision: 3776
  gMux Version: 4.0.8 [3.2.8]
  Displays:
Color LCD:
  Display Type: Retina LCD
  Resolution:   2880 x 1800 Retina
  Retina:   Yes
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display: Yes
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Built-In: Yes
ASUS PB287Q:
  Resolution:   3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Rotation: Supported
  Connection Type:  DisplayPort
  Television:   Yes


texts: What is a USB wifi dongle/adaptor with drivers that integrate with AirPort?

texts: I've tried the D-Link DWA-131 and Ralink-based generic adaptors available on Amazon.com such as the Rt 2571/2573. After installing the driver, they all require you to use a separate configuration utility to see/join wireless networks. I'd like to be able to select a wireless network in the Network System Preference Panel like you can with an Apple-endorsed wireless interface. Thanks.


texts: Is there a way to sync photos in PC to iPad, without syncing the apps? I want to manage the apps only in iPad. The problem is that when I turn off apps syncing, iTunes asks me "are you sure you want to remove 60 apps?". I don't want to remove all my apps.


texts: Is it possible to zoom out in Safari on iPad 2?

texts:
I am attempting to view a large internal webpage in safari, and some of the content overflows off the screen.

In desktop browsers, ctl+'-' would do the trick, but the touch interface has me perplexed. Pinching and scrolling were my first impulses, but neither worked.

Tapping and pinch-out work for zooming in and back to default quite nicely, but what is the method to zoom out from default? Is my only resort to have the webpage changed?


texts: How to make Bluetooth headphones appear in Sound Output

texts: I have a new pair of Cowin bluetooth headphones that work just fine with my iPhone but when I connect to my Macbook running Catalina Beta they don't appear as an option to choose for Sound output/input. Is there a way to force them to appear?


texts: My iPhone messages changes colors at times between green and blue or other way around. How do I stop this

texts: I have an iPhone 6.  When I text another iPhone user. My messages and my friends will show up in a blue text bubble. If my friend is not using an iPhone, the messages will show in a green text bubble (i think). Sometimes the message bubbles will be one color but after a few minutes, change to the other color.  What causes this and is there a way to stop it?


texts: Can someone describe the purpose of OSX root level folders in laymen's terms?

texts:
Simple and concise documentation on the OSX folder hierarchy is sparse. I'm looking for a simple description of each - what are the functions of each?

/private
/var
/usr
/tmp
/etc
/bin
/sbin
/fseventsd

I don't plan to modify them in any way, I just want to understand the FS hierarchy.


texts: What is the difference between downloading and installing software from AppStore and Terminal

texts: For example, what is the difference between installing software (could be operating system update or any other software) from AppStore or from Terminal using softwareupdate command. Is there any difference in security, performance, reliability etc?


texts: Trying to edit NVRAM variable from Single-User mode - Blocked

texts:
Thanks for invaluable info at least reusing old MacBook will save lot of co2 and other precious resource of planet. Following MacBook Pro: How to disable discrete GPU permanently from EFI? , I have successfully achieved some steps and blocked now, any help would be highly appreciated. I am new in Mac platform & trying to resolve MacBook 2011 pro 15 inch fancy colourful screen. (Possibly GPU issue).
So far What Worked well and had Success

In 1.1 step - Download ArchLinux ISO. Used older version (archlinux-2017.03.01-dual.iso)
In 1.2 step - Creating the bootable USB with the .iso
In 2.1 step - Boot to it.  - tested in Mac mini/ MacBook Pro all looks great. ( but small hiccups as per below question)

What did not work for me - facing issue:

In 2.1 Step- MacBook Pro Arch linux command prompt rootfs rather than root (which is weird. (tested in mini command prompt seems root for same pen drive of Arch linux but not for MacBook pro)
In 2.2 step- I have Found many different variable in Mac mini when ls command was run( using Mac mini 2010 as reference for file comparison) but found none for MacBook Pro 2011, the /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ folder was  empty.
In step 2.3 step - When I had tried to create "Create a new gpu-power-prefs-… file" it throws error " nonexistent directory" & even tried to create manually a text file had no luck.

I am afraid, I am  unable to proceed further, please advice what could be issue my Mac displays green/black/pink/grey/white colours and cannot see even apple logo or login screen, but I can only see globe during recovery mode after that grey screen, nothing happens. I am trying above steps in bare Mobo(Motherboard) connected with mouse/keyword/pen drive/external hard drive for High sierra installed and working veriosn.
Any input to resolve this blocker would be highly appreciated. I am also not sure if MacBook firmware has been corrupted or even csrutil is enabled or it has any firmware password.
Request for help please.
Much appreciated in advance.
Kind Regards,
raky


texts: How can I map the Windows key to option in Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8?

texts:
In Remote Desktop Connection version 2.x you could map the remote windows key to the local option key (instead of the command key) in preferences. In the new Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8 from the App Store I can no longer find this setting. Is this feature tucked away somewhere and I'm missing it?

One option might be KeyRemapForMacbook as discussed here, but I want to know if there is a solution that doesn't require third party software.


texts: How can I search the contents of PDF email attachments that are backed up to Time Machine?

texts:
So I have quite a specific situation where I need to dig out an old email I have backed up to Time Machine, but I can't remember when I received it. Could be anywhere between 6 months to 1 year ago.

Following the advice here, I ran the following in Terminal:

find "/Volumes/Time Machine" -name "*.emlx" -exec grep -l "search term" {} \;

Which found me several thousand results matching "search term" (the subject line).

The problem is, the contents of the body of those messages are all identical. It's the contents of the attachment, a PDF document, I need to search for a specific term for.

Any idea how I can do a search similar to the above, but searching the contents of the PDF attachment?