texts: Why was ⌘ used as the command key on Apple computers, why not the Apple logo?

texts:
I was just curious about the command key, a little thing that seems to have been used for quite a long time.

Is there any particular reason that the founders of Apple decided to use the ⌘ symbol, not the Apple logo (like Windows does on their keyboards) as the Command Key? Just to clarify, I want the reasons why the designers chose it, and not personal opinion. Thanks!


texts: Display Photo from URL in iOS 8 Today View Widget

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I've got a old web cam that takes an image every 5 minutes and uploads it to an FTP site (which I can access from an http url).  I'm looking for a simple iOS 8 today view widget that I can point to this URL so that I always have the most recent web cam photo in the notifications panel. For the life of me, I can't find a widget that offers this simple functionality.

Does anyone know of an app I can use to achieve this goal? At this point, I don't even mind writing a script to produce and RSS feed, etc. to make this happen.


texts: Why is my iOS not detecting Bluetooth device names?

texts:
I am trying to list of bluetooth devices from my app.

My Bluetooth is enabled in settings but doesn't detect device names.


texts: If I jailbreak my iPad, will I be able to test apps I develop as well as use the App Store?

texts: If I jailbreak my iPad, will I be able to use the App Store to download apps and also test the apps I develop?


texts: The issue I am facing is bandwidth is very expensive where I live, I pay by the MB so if I need to install Final Cut on 10 different computers it would be murder to download it 10 times, is it possible to install on one computer and then move the files over and just pay for it on the other computer without having to get the files again? Or is the installation tied to a computer? Thank you.


texts:
Yesterday I bought my first Mac, the new Macbook Pro 13". Apple recommends not having the battery charged connected to the MacBook if the battery is 100%.

In other laptops I had, I could just remove the Battery and use it connected with the Battery Charger.

How do I do that with my MacBook Pro? Is there a way to take the battery out? Should I just unplug the Battery Charger and let the battery uncharge?


texts: What causes "The Finder can't quit because some operations are still in progress" error message?

texts: I am receiving this message when I'm trying to shut down my computer and I don't have any Finder windows open. What could be causing this message and how do I fix it so that I don't have to perform a hard shutdown?


texts: iPad not reacting to screen orientation - screen lock

texts:
How do I correct the "screen lock" on my iPad?

I used to be able to turn the unit a quarter turn and the screen would adjust to my movement. Now it is somehow "Locked".

How can this be fixed?


texts:
I accidentally deleted the files in /etc/ (yes into /private/etc) and my iMac gets stuck on a blue screen after the initial apple logo now. I tried to boot from install DVD but it hangs at the apple logo when I do that.

Any suggestions on how to fix or reinstall the OS?

This is an iMac with OS X Snow Leopard.


texts: Can't turn off email alerts for events in Yosemite

texts:
After I've upgraded to Yosemite, I've started to receive email alerts about upcoming events from my Calendar. This is a typical email

Return-Path: <my-email@gmail.com>
Received: from [192.168.100.245] ([113.163.117.148])
    by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gz1sm18613666pbb.8.2014.11.03.21.00.03
    for <my-email@gmail.com>
    (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
    Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:00:04 -0800 (PST)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:00:04 -0800 (PST)
From: My Name <my-email@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X com.apple.MailServiceAgent 8.0 \(1990.1\))
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Alert_-_=D0=9F=D0=BB=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=BA?=
 =?utf-8?Q?=D0=B0_UC?=
Message-Id: <82009606-9D7A-4238-A09E-7374739780EA@gmail.com>
To: my-email@gmail.com
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1990.1)

4 Nov 2014 14:00 : =D0=9F=D0=BB=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=BA=D0=B0 UC=

My OSX Calendar is connected to my Google Account. And takes events info from Google Calendar.

I have disabled all notifications for OSX Calendar. http://take.ms/ZVQus

But I still receive email notifications about upcoming events. Since I also receive them from Google Calendar, I get all notifications twice.

How to disable them?


texts: How can I use option (⌥) + mouse wheel to zoom the content in Keynote/Pages/Preview?

texts:
So, this is my struggle - lately, I've been using Apps such as Keynote / Pages / Preview.
From MS Word, other .pdf browser, I am used to the combination of ⌥ + mouse wheel  (option + mouse wheel) to zoom in/out the content. However, default macOS Apps do no support this and it's been quite unpleasant while I work using external monitor most of the time.
Is there any solution?
Thanks


texts: Shared note folders not visible in icloud notes

texts: As soon as one shares a folder in Apple's notes app, be it in the web version or in any of the apps, the folder vanishs from the web version. So the question is: How can one view shared folders on the web?


texts:
I am running OS X 10.10.3 and I tried to rotate the internal display of my Macbook Pro using this rotation trick. After I selected the 180 degree rotation, the screen rotated properly but all the rotation options were grayed out so I closed the System Preferences to try the process again.

When I go to my OS X Display preferences I get the error "Display preferences pane could not be loaded".

How do I reorient my Macbook display back to the standard orientation without erasing everything on the hard drive and reinstalling OS X?


texts:
I got a 2007 Mac Mini off eBay a year ago. Now it won't start. It will show the Apple logo and then when it gets to the blue screen where it would normally show the desktop, the DVI cuts out.

I have taken it apart before, I upgraded the RAM. The back ribbon cable is unplugged which may be the sound. It does start occasionally and when it does I have no sound. The front black plug is also unplugged, which seems to be fan control as it's loud when it's unplugged. (The front black plug wire is broken.)

Any ideas on what to do?

Note: it gets to the blue screen and then the dvi connection drops.


texts: Why do I have to "renew Touch ID purchases" all the time?

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I have an iPhone 5S, and I have automatic app updates disabled as I like to manage these myself. However, when I do, I have to enter my Apple ID password every time?

If I make new purchases, it seems to go through with the Touch ID; however, if I update an app I am forced to manually enter my password.

I have the 7.0.1 update and apple store purchases under the General => Fingerprint section in Settings, which is turned on.

I have searched the apple discussion forums and the common answer seems to be the update. It's not that.

So short question is, why do I have to actually "Confirm Apple ID password for  to renew Touch ID purchases" all the time?

How can I have it use TouchID as I have it set in the settings?


texts: Is there a full-featured Mac email app that natively implements labels (instead of folders) and archiving?

texts:
I love Gmail's features, but I'm increasingly wary of having my entire email history depend on Google. Every Mac email app I know of, other than Sparrow, insists on being based around IMAP folders. Different clients integrate with varying levels of smoothness with Gmail, but at their cores they still use the file-it-or-delete-it paradigm.

Sparrow, of course, was designed as a lightweight Gmail client. It understands Gmail's labels, and it understands archiving, but it depends on the Gmail web interface for lots of core email features (filters, etc.), and I don't know how much of its Gmail-ness is lost if you use it with regular IMAP accounts.

What I want in an email app is this:

Native Mac app
Implements labels itself for all supported account types, not just Gmail
Allows archiving as the default "I'm done with this" action, even for unlabeled mail
Handles any discrepancy between these features and the underlying email protocol (IMAP, POP, whatever) under the covers with as little leakage into the interface as possible
Has all the usual power features that exist in other apps like Mail and Postbox
For bonus points, stores email on disk in some format that isn't a complete binary black hole

In general, I want my email to act like Gmail but live on my computer; and no matter what happens on any server anywhere, as long as I have a backup of this app's archive files, I should be able to move them to another computer, install this app on it, and have 100% continuity with zero fidelity loss. It's okay if the app DOES use Gmail as a back-end, as long as I don't lose any data fidelity if Gmail's entire database disappears.

(Making such a setup work with mobile devices is a whole other problem, but I'll gladly deal with that tomorrow for this app today.)

So: I think what I've described is sufficiently difficult (dare I say "unfeasible"?) that it doesn't exist yet. I would love to find out that I'm wrong. Am I? If not, what's the closest thing to this setup that can be had on the Macintosh?


texts: Is Spectre and Meltdown Patched on OS X 10.10?

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I have not yet had an update since the spectre and meltdown vulnerabilities came out...

This leads me to believe they have not patched spectre/meltdown on anything below High Sierra...

I have hardware that does not support drivers past 10.10, therefore I cannot upgrade without paying $1000 in musical equipment; plus, everytime I upgrade, my computer slows down significantly and I don't want to deal with the hassle.


texts:
I have OSX Server running on a mac mini in my home.  I've been using it for doing Time Machine backups from my MacBook.  This worked fine until I changed the password for my user account on the mac mini.  At that point, backups on my laptop started failing, indicating that I needed to update the password that the laptop was storing for the mac mini.  However, when I try to do so (at System Preferences > Time Machine > Select Backup Disk...), I get the following error:

  "You do not have the necessary read, write and append privileges on the
  selected network backup disk."

The laptop is running OSX 10.9, and the mac mini is running OSX 10.8.

Has anyone using OSX Server for backups experienced something similar to this? Does anyone know how to fix it (without losing all of my previous backups)?


texts: Sharing one IP address among multiple Apple devices

texts: Is it possible to share one IP address between two Apple laptops (both running Snow Leopard in my case) so that both devices can connect to the internet?


texts: Weird sound when doing something forbidden

texts:
MBP Mid 2012 on OSX 10.10.5

Since a couple of months I recogniz a weird sound on my computer. It appears whenever I do something "forbidden", i.e. using a key in a programm which has no functionality.

You can listen to the sound here. I "made" it through opening Quicktime with a video, stopping the video and repeatedly pushing the button "d" on my keyboard.
Any ideas? Is that the "your doing somthing 'forbidden' sound" which I did not recognize before?


texts: How to 'Open With' in downloads dock flyout

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On the dock in Mojave I have a Downloads icon which, when clicked, displays a window type thing with a list of downloaded files.

I would like to right-click on an icon and select the app to open the file with. How can I get that context menu to display for icons in the downloads window?


texts: How do I re-enable Notification Center in Yosemite or El Capitan post-upgrade?

texts:
I believe I followed the advice here: How do I permanently disable Notification Center in Mavericks?

Post upgrade to Yosemite, the Notification Center icon shows up in the menu bar, but clicking on it does nothing, as noted by this individual: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142921/96853


texts: Mac computer name is not replicated in sharing addresses or terminal

texts:
When I upgraded to Catalina, I have noticed that the computer name in Terminal was not what it is set to in System Preferences > Sharing.  When I looked at the System Preferences > Sharing pane, I saw that all the sharing addresses are in the form @unknown-.

The computer name is set as normal in the Computer Name box, but it is not being used by any of the sharing links or in my shell.  The shell shows the user name as above "hmamdani@Unknown-"

Any ideas about what's going on or why the computer name is not being picked up correctly?

Thanks


texts: Seagate expansion drive 2TB not recognized on windows after mac

texts:
After i connected my seagate expansion drive to my macbook air, it opened normally as  far as  i remember

But now if i'm connecting it on windows 7, it shows that driver installation and the option for ejection, but it doesnt show it on my computer

So, has the mac made any changes on it?


texts: Retrieve data from individual app after iOS 7 update?

texts:
This what I did:

Installed various apps onto my iPad (before the iOS 7 update was released) using another Apple ID.
Used the apps, so they had data in them that I would really like back.
Backed up my iPad 4 (still on iOS 6) onto both iCloud and my computer. (Those backups have now disappeared).
Installed both the latest version of iTunes and iOS 7.
Found that the apps were greyed out and needed the password for the old Apple ID.
Couldn't remember the Apple ID password (or the Apple ID) that was used to install those apps, and I only really need one, so I entered billing info, changed my mind at the last moment and set card type to none.
All of the greyed out apps disappeared. I changed my mind again, and bought and installed the app, hoping that I'd be able to restore it from the backup.
Tried to restore it, but the message said the backup was corrupt or incompatible.

I don't want to delete the backup, because it has my data on it. Is there any way to get the data back? For example, extracting an individual app's data from the corrupt backup, or could there possibly be some secret stash of backups that that I don't know about?


texts: Why my desktop displays location path of the chosen image?

texts:
Without doing anything specific I have suddenly the location path of the desktop image written on my desktop like

(3)/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg

On my 2nd Monitor it says
(6)/System/Library and so forth.

Its not clickable, changing the desktop image is changing the written path, but not the mentioning itself.

Any ideas?
My System
MBP 13" Mid 2018, (4 TB3 Ports and TouchBar)
2,7 GHz IC i7
16 B 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB
macOS High Sierra, 10.13.6 w/ security update 2020-003


texts: macOS no longer finding Windows Partition

texts:
While attempting to remove a Windows partition through Boot Camp Assistant, the process ended in an error. Now, upon going into Disk Utility, macOS is only showing my macOS partition of 400GB out of the maximum 500GB and the original 100GB Boot Camp partition is missing. Any way to resolve this and to recover the space to fully remove the Windows installation? The end goal being to use Parallels to reinstall Windows. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Info:
macOS 10.13.3
MacBookPro 10,1 (Retina Mid 2012)

    diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         400.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +400.1 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            309.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups    2.0 TB     disk2s2

diskutil apfs list

diskutil apfs list
APFS Container (1 found)
|
+-- Container disk1 F4485D24-ACD0-4DBF-A434-D8C941763B6C
    ====================================================
    APFS Container Reference:     disk1
    Capacity Ceiling (Size):      400068423680 B (400.1 GB)
    Capacity In Use By Volumes:   309839974400 B (309.8 GB) (77.4% used)
    Capacity Available:           90228449280 B (90.2 GB) (22.6% free)
    |
    +-< Physical Store disk0s2 8DC157B0-BAE2-4C3F-B025-6DC4DC81C1E9
    |   -----------------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk0s2
    |   Size:                       400068423680 B (400.1 GB)
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s1 58B8E3C4-B274-3000-871A-A81E7DDCFD5C
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s1 (No specific role)
    |   Name:                      Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               /
    |   Capacity Consumed:         307010723840 B (307.0 GB)
    |   FileVault:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s2 2ED43133-C410-4C09-9A86-DF35400166C5
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s2 (Preboot)
    |   Name:                      Preboot (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
    |   Capacity Consumed:         19677184 B (19.7 MB)
    |   FileVault:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s3 E8F57C77-7C8D-492F-9C45-ECD8924AACF2
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s3 (Recovery)
    |   Name:                      Recovery (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
    |   Capacity Consumed:         509825024 B (509.8 MB)
    |   FileVault:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s4 EE50DC81-0666-4492-99D9-1393244B0DF0
        ---------------------------------------------------
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s4 (VM)
        Name:                      VM (Case-insensitive)
        Mount Point:               /private/var/vm
        Capacity Consumed:         2147504128 B (2.1 GB)
        FileVault:                 No


texts: My computer is still showing remnants of the old Apple ID

texts:
I used to have an Apple ID that I shared with my family, but it was becoming more and more obvious that I would end up needing my own. So I got myself an Apple ID, got family sharing set up, and switched everything out on my iPad. When I got to my computer, things got more complex. First, I logged out of iCloud and logged into my Apple ID instead. Then, I switched iMessage, FaceTime, Game Center, and a few other things. The problem is, my computer is still showing remnants of the old Apple ID. Is there a way to completely switch Apple IDs with one login on an iMac? Or do I just have to switch everything as I go along?

(Edit:) It would be too inconvenient to create a new user account because I have a lot of settings to applications adjusted and my computer too rigged up.


texts: iTunes: What is the usefulness of checked/unchecked songs?

texts: I know the functional effect of unchecking a song: it doesn't play (except when explicitly double-clicked) and doesn't sync with an iPod/iPad. But how is this useful? Does Apple officially recommend any sort of usage of the checkboxes? Or, more subjectively, do you make use of the checkboxes in iTunes, and if so, what songs do you check or uncheck and why?


texts: Lubricant for Sticky Home Button on iPhone 5S?

texts: The home button on my 5S is sticky.  It still works, if I apply extra pressure.  Is it safe to add a bit of WD-40 or some other lubricant?  Recommendations for the best lubricant to use?


texts: 2019 Update: Where does Chrome store cookies on Mac?

texts:
Apparently the location noted in: Where are Google Chrome cookies stored on a Mac? is outdated.

This tree no longer exists: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies


texts: How to isolate systemic hangs in macOS 10.14?

texts:
I'm struggling with some kind of a hang that is very elusive. Apple can't seem to isolate the problem after many sysdiagnose submissions. It predominantly happens in instances of Google Chrome, Finder and even Activity Monitor (and other random apps) sometimes when certain actions are taken.  The only way to recover is a sudo reboot from the shell.

No drives are actually failed or failing as one might expect. This is on a Mac Pro with ECC memory and all RAM is showing as good. I have to think that there's some dtrace tooling that would facilitate tracking down the precise point of the hang.  It feels as though it's some form IO failure, but there's no indication of where or how...

What options exist for tracking down such issues at a very low level?


texts: iPhone 7 Won't Play Music on Bluetooth Headphones

texts:
My iPhone 7 was playing music over my bluetooth headphones fine up until a few days ago.  Now all music just plays through the iPhone speakers instead.

I looked in the Settings - Bluetooth and the headphones display as "Connected".

This is not a new headset; it was working correctly up until just a few days ago.

When I power up the headset it gives me the same message it usually does when successfully connected to the iPhone, "Power On - Connected".

Is there a setting somewhere that overrides where the audio outputs to?


texts: How do I find out my iMac display panel's manufacturer?

texts:
I've had problems with image retention on my late-2012 27" iMac for a few months now and Apple's "avoiding image retention" support page is useless for me.

On MacBooks, one can use this Terminal one-liner to check one's display manufacturer. Is there a similar command for iMacs? I realize that I'll have to return my iMac sooner or later because this is unacceptable, but I'd still like to know what panel I have before I do it.


texts: Unsupported Photos Library, Update Photos

texts:
I tried to open Photos and got this message:
The library "Photos Library" is from a newer version of Photos.
Please upgrade Photos to open this library.
When I do this, there are no photos. All gone. I looked in Pictures and see Photo Library and
Photo Library 2.  I look in Get Info for both. The original Photo Library shows 35GB. The Photo Library 2 shows 2.5MB. But when I click on Photo Library (original, 35GB) I get the above message.
I did reinstall Mojave beforehand for another reason. I have iMac Mojave.
What should I do now?


texts:
I downloaded the Octave app bundle from here. The app is in /Applications. I have been unable to open it from the terminal. I tried the command 'octave' and some other variations from the documentation.

My goal is to be able to run a file /Users/[me]/Documents/OctavePrograms/firstlast.m in the command line by typing octave firstlast.m or some variation of it. I would like to understand why I have been unable to run my program.


texts: Holding down the option key isn't allowing me to see boot menu on iMac mid-2010

texts: I get an old iMac mid 2010 without hard drive and when I press "alt" on Windows keyboard (equivalent of "option" on Mac) nothing happens. Then the Apple logo appears with a charge bar and at 3/4 the screen turns black. I try to reset NVRAM and change USB key but I can't see the menu!


texts: Apple Script - How do I check if a window with a specific title exists?

texts:
I would like to create an apple script that checks if a window of an application with a specific name (not id or index) exists. I used the following code in a previous script, and it works:

tell application "Notes" to close (every window whose name is "Notes")

However, I can't figure out how to check if a window with this title exists. This should be incredibly simple. How do I do it?


texts: Unwanted table formatting during cut and past in MS Word:Mac 2011

texts: When breaking up a table in order to comment on each section separately, I cut and pasted the sections, which worked well, but then I tried to include introductory paragraphs and these seems to be caught in the table formatting, which doesn't allow me to tab, indent, etc.  How can I get the table formatting turned off for these paragraphs located before and/or after the sections of tables I split up?


texts:
I have a 2009 MBP that runs Linux Arch and OSX on a dual boot. I have no use for OSX on this machine. I installed it 12 months ago, and straight after installation I set up Arch via BootCamp and have never logged into OSX.

It's using 20GB of my HDD space doing nothing. When I installed from BootCamp and partitioned I remember that BootCamp reserved 20GB space of OSX and wouldn't let me go beyond that.

Is it possible to totally remove OSX and just have Arch running on this MBP? I don't mind reinstalling Arch again as everything I need on Arch is all backed up anyway.


texts:
We have a Mac Pro 2013 that struggles to power a third USB 3.0 self-powered hard drive, that is: you can connect two self-powered USB 3.0 drives, but won’t detect a third one (it won’t appear in Finder or disk utility).  I doesn’t matter in which order you connect the drives, whichever you connect the third, won’t be detected.

Apple has already replaced the logic board and the I/O board (that is, the panel that includes all the ports) but the issue is still there.  Isn’t the Mac Pro supposed to power up to 4 USB 3.0 drives?


texts: What are the software for translation on Mac?

texts:
I want to translate a long text and I am looking for a software that shows the text and the translation I write at the same time, in two windows and with possibly a synchronization. Does it exist? Otherwise, what are the existing softwares and what do they do ?

PS: I want to translate a 250 page book... I am not looking for a software that does the translation, but for an nice interface where I can do the translation.


texts:
We are running Mac Pro's with 64GB & 10.12 as VDI-Servers.

We have problems with the SecurityAgent. The process will take more than 100% CPU (how can this be?) after 6 hours of work according to top.

At this point no user can login anymore. We have to reboot or kill one or more SecurityAgent instances (Sometimes there are more then 5 instances running)
I would like to monitor this and restart the Service when the CPU load exeeds a given limit.

My questions are :

How can I determine the CPU load for this process and their instances with a shell-script?
Since simply killing the process seems to be a bad idea, I would like to restart (kickstart?) the process instead. How can I achieve this?


texts: New MacBook Pro 13" Red spot on the screen

texts:
I purchased a brand new 13" MacBook Pro from Pakistan,Asia 2 days ago.

The screen has a red spot near the middle. What could be the cause of this?

And what shall I do in this case? Has anyone encountered a similar issue?


texts: How to make Visual Studio Code run python 2.7.15

texts: I'm using an iMac with High Sierra. I used Anaconda to install both python 2.7.15 and python 3.6.5. I created virtual environments for both of these.  I'm trying to learn python and I'm using Visual Studio Code. I've run scripts fine that were developed for python 3 but the code I'm currently working with was developed for python 2. I can not get VScode to run using a python 2 interpreter, it seems to use python 3 no matter what I do. I could rewrite the script to make it compatible with python 3 but I'd rather not do that. I've tried running VScode from the python 2 virtual environment but that seems to have no effect. I edited the settings in VScode and changed the variable python.pythonPath to point to python 2 but that doesn't work. I used the command pallet to change the python interpreter but that doesn't work either. How do I force VScode to run python 2.


texts: How do I detect if headphones are connected (via the jack) in bash?

texts:
I have a script, and I want it to behave differently if headphones are connected. How can I get this information?
I tried using SwitchAudioSource, but its output is the same, whether or not the headphones are connected:
~/tmp
❯ SwitchAudioSource -c
Built-in Output

~/tmp
❯ SwitchAudioSource -a
Built-in Microphone (input)
Background Music (input)
Background Music (UI Sounds) (input)
Built-in Output (output)
Background Music (output)
Background Music (UI Sounds) (output)


texts: (Re-)Activating an old iPad 2 without sim card?

texts:
I have an old iPad 2 (not used for a while with a sim card) that I want to use as a kindle reader. The battery was so dead that it now wants me "activate" again and complains about a missing sim card. Is there a hack to get past this? iTunes shows my old music on it, but I don't get past the activation screen...

More details (I don't know how to do the screenshot).

iTunes on Mac says:

  The iPad "[name]" could not be activated because the activation information could not be obtained from the device.
  Disconnect your iPad, make sure the SIM card is inserted correctly and, if you use a SIM PIN, tap Unlock to enter it, and then reconnect your iPad.

On the iPad it says (after I entered by passcode and got wifi connected):

  Your iPad could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailabe. Try connecting your iPad to iTunes to activate it, or try again in a couple of minutes. If this problem persists, contact Apple Support at apple.com/support.

Of course I searched the web. The server unavailable seems to be complete BS.
Again, my question is: How do I get forward?

On iTunes, I do not even have the option to do a factory reset. It just shows my music.

Added: Tetsujin your link did it. I logged onto my iCloud and deleted that iPad from Find My iPhone. Now all is well again! Many many thanks!!


texts: Convert dynamic content to static in Numbers

texts:
I have used some formulas in Numbers and I would like to change the dynamic values to static ones, so I can copy them to different sheets, without having any reference errors.

Does anybody know how to do that?


texts: Is firefox hiding from the energy monitor?

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Since Firefox 38, it is no longer showing in the activity monitor in the energy tab, are other people experiencing this?

How can a process hide from the energy monitor in the first place? I think this can be abused by apps which are trying to hide the fact that they are using lots of energy.

In the image note that 1) Firefox is running as indicated by the Dock 2) The energy tab should show all apps, not only big energy wasters which it does, except for firefox.

Crossposting: Mozilla support forum


texts: Can I install any iOS version I wish by picking and choosing which firmware to restore?

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I'm trying to downgrade my iPhone from the current iOS to an older one, as per this question.

But every time I try, I always receive this error:

  The iPhone could not be restored. This device isn't eligible for the requested build.

I have tried many times with and without DFU mode. Any ideas regarding this?


texts: Get AppleScript's "do shell script" to use the latest Bash

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For some reason, I cannot get AppleScript's "do shell script" to use the latest (GPLv3) Bash:

do shell script "/usr/local/bin/bash; echo $BASH_VERSION"
-- Result: "3.2.57(1)-release"

Strangely, it does work with an external .sh script:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo $BASH_VERSION

Calling it like:

do shell script "~/Library/Scripts/Script.sh"
-- Result: "5.0.17(1)-release"

What's the difference and can I get it to work inside the .scpt script as well?


texts: On OS Catalina Delete the account you are currently logged into

texts: I have a Macbook Air, and I am logged into an administrator account which I want to delete. Is there a way to delete the account I am currently logged into while using that account?


texts: SSD: howto clear disk cache on MacBook Air? I measure disk IO with jDiskMark

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Screenshot from jdiskmark

  Simple Java utility to help bench mark disk IO. Benchmark is done by
  creating and reading data files to a user directory that can be
  configured.

Howto clear disk cache on MacBookAir6,2?

When I google for "clear disk cache" there will be results like '7 Advanced Tricks to Reclaim Disk Space for Pro Users of Mac OS X'.


texts: How to remove Cox Cloud Drive icon from menu bar?

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Cox cable had a cloud storage system called Cloud Drive. They discontinued it several months ago. The icon is still in my menu bar. Their support services says they no longer support uninstalling it. (Can you believe it?!)

Anyone know how to get rid of it? (Would there be any other files on my Mac relating to it that I should delete, too?)

The icon appears for all log-ins, so it must be system-wide. It can't be removed with Command-Drag, and it doesn't appear in System Preferences > Users and Groups > Log-in Items. Searching for Cloud Drive on the computer doesn't yield any hits. I have tried to find files with that name in Library and System/Library to no avail: searching those folders for Cloud Drive or CloudDrive yield nothing, and I am not sure exactly where to look. I have tried the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemon folders.

Sure would appreciate any help.


texts: Is it possible to whitelist contacts using the iOS iMessage app or iOS parental controls?

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I would like to use the iOS parental controls (aka Screen Time) to allow a family member to only call or text specifically whitelisted contacts or numbers.

As far as I can tell this is not possible with Screen Time, only full access or full denial of use of the app is possible.  The same seems to be true with the most commonly recommended third party app, OurPact.

Is this possible with iOS?  Is there a third party app that can accomplish this?


texts: Is it normal to have a hidden file named .file in /?

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I searched google and found a list of hidden directories and files in OS X at http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/invisibles.html
but .file wasn't listed.  The file is 0 size and looks like this

----------   1 root  admin        0 Aug 24  2013 .file

very suspicious?

Running McAfee virus scan there were over 700 additional files that were Not Scanned because they were protected.

/private/var
/private/etc
/Library/Caches
/Library/Application Support
and others


texts: My AirPort Extreme Base Station will not power on. No lights appear. I have tried all the recommended resets.

texts: I have ensured that the electrical outlet is working properly. I have tried both of various factory resets (soft, hard). No lights. Nothing. Time to hit the Apple Store?


texts: Resetting user permissions to their default mode

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I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.2 with a serious permissions issue that affects most items in my Documents folder, which now require my password for modifications like renaming. The concerned files and folders also seem hidden from Spotlight and therefore do not show up in searches. Both issues are seriously problematic for everyday use.

This is what ls -l gives me for folders:

drwxr-xr-x  109 fr  staff  3706 Nov 22 14:43 Notes
drwxr-xr-x+  16 fr  staff   544 Nov 22 14:51 Bibliography

While the Notes folder is showing fine in searches and allows for password-free renaming, the Bibliography folder does not. My understanding is that the + sign indicates what is wrong here.

Edit: tentative solution below, by removing all ACLs.


texts: Is there any alternative to Windows Live Writer?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a good / acceptable blog-publishing application on Mac OS X?

Coming from Windows, I've quite got used to writing to my blog using Windows Live Writer, which offers the ability to directly publish to the CMS.

Is there any such alternative for Mac OS X?


texts: Problem installing xcode 4.6.2 on OS X 10.8.5

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I need to install Xcode 4.6.2 on Mountain Lion 10.8.5. I got the dimg file from developer.apple.com, and ran it to install. This appeared to work, but when I click the icon in Finder, I get a dialog to install "Device Support." When I click Install, I get a message "An unknown error occurred. See the install log for more details." There is no way to make progress and no relevant message in the log. Please note, I have admin privileges while I do all this.

I have searched this site for similar questions, but all I found was a very similar (identical) problem with Xcode 4.6.2 and Lion 10.7.5 - but there was no answer. (I know that this version of Xcode does work with OS X 10.8.2, so I don't think compatibility is a problem here.


texts: Any solution to bootcamp windows 8.1 with macbook pro 15" 2010?

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This question may at first glance seem to be a duplicate but I am asking for an update and clarification to an unsolved problem.

After extensively scanning the web, it seems that the consensus is that even if one were to force bootcamp in a macbook pro 2010 model (with optical dvd drive removed) to recognize usb, there remains the problem with EFI vs GPT booting. See the previous AskDifferent thread: Mac Mini 2010: DualBoot (BootCamp) OSX Mavericks + Windows 8.1

Has this community come up with a solution?


texts:
I having a problem with timezones on my Macbook Pro, running MacOS Catalina 10.15.7.
I have recently moved countries, and since the move the location on the computer jumps between my current location (NZ) and my old location (UK). This affects the timezones, and various other things that make everything much harder.
I don't really care about the location, but for some reason it always changes the timezone - regradless of whether timezone is linked to location or I manually set the timezone.
My suspicion is that this relates to some software installed on my computer by my employers (still in the UK), which is inadvertently resetting the timezone on my computer.
Is there something I can do to figure out what is triggering the location and/or timezone change on my computer?


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Both my Mission Control and Dock are not working properly.

My Dock does not seem to recognize my mouse moving horizontally along the Dock, ie. magnification does not move and when magnification is turned off, the tooltip does not move.

Mission control opens with a gesture, but hovering over the names of desktops/fullscreen windows does not expand the top bar to show previews like normal, and clicking them does nothing but escape Mission Control.

I have tried restarting and even wiping preferences for dock/mission control using defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock. This did not fix my issue.

If it matters, this issue along with general unresponsiveness had been happening and I reset PRAM and SMC. This fixed the general unresponsiveness and my menu bar, which was also not working, but did not fix this issue.


texts: Terminal Error: pointer being freed was not allocated *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug - Unable to Repair Permissions

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I'm getting an error when I open Terminal saying:

login(495,0x7fff77186000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7f8cdad0b780: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

[Process completed]

I've read in several forums that this is usually a permissions issue and used to be able to be solved by using the Repair Permissions functionality in Disk Utility. Unfortunately, as of El Capitan, this functionality has been removed and is only accessible via Terminal by default. This has left me with a bit of a cyclical problem.

As an alternative, I have tried repairing permissions with Onyx, however this simply freezes midway through the process.

I'm not sure if this is related but I'm also unable to download an OS X El Capitan (10.11.4) update from the Mac App Store - I click update, click Download & Restart from the dropdown, it says "0 bytes of 1.56 GB - Calculating..." then nothing happens and the Update button reappears. I've read that OS X has started trying to repair permissions during updates which is why I suspect this may be related.

I've made a few efforts to use the repair permissions terminal command from Recovery Mode however Terminal has told me that it doesn't recognise the command - perhaps I'm doing something wrong here.

Please let me know if anyone has come across this issue before or has any advice - thanks very much!


texts: How can I use an iPhone to "tag" a location using GPS so I can bookmark a location?

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I need to tag a "location" of interest such as

An nest or hive out in nature where no cellular service is available
Location of a good view on a mountain (where no cell service is visible)
Location of a restaurant, bar, other spot that is hard to find.

And I'd like to get relative directions to where that target is (north 500 feet) without having to deal with apple maps, or better still, the ability to plant virtual waymarkers that guide me along the best path using GPS.

Does such a technology exist?


texts: How do I sync Outlook 2011 and Google Calendar?

texts: I am using Outlook 2011 for Mac (the office uses Exchange) and have some Google Calendars I am using for home. How do I get 2-way sync working between Outlook and Google? I could do this with iCal but its Exchange support is sorely lacking and therefore not an option.


texts: Deleted OSX Partition but Wish to Install OSX Again

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A few months ago I installed Windows 10 on my late 2013 iMac without any drivers. Stupidly, I deleted the OSX partition because the only thing that didn't work perfectly was audio, which I was fine with at the time.

I've recently started using Ubuntu on my iMac and audio is back to it's good ol' usual. However, I want to switch back to OSX so I can dual boot between OSX and Ubuntu. How can I reinstall OSX?

Thank you in advance.


texts: Keyboard and trackpad stop responding randomly, but work again after hard reset?

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In the last 24 hours, I've had my keyboard and trackpad completely stop responding. Both times it was while YouTube was playing, so I think the machine wasn't completely frozen, just the trackpad and keyboard not responding.

I even tried closing my macbook, and reopening a bit later in case it was just an overwhelmed processor or something. However, even on the login screen that resulted neither my built in trackpad or keyboard caused any input to register in the OSX sign in box. I didn't try an external keyboard or mouse, so IDK if that would have helped.

I was surfing some car sites and downloaded an XLS file with a bunch of wheel weights from some forum, so I'm a little paranoid that maybe there was a virus or something that came with the file.

The strange thing is both times a hard reset (held power for 5 seconds) worked, and the keyboard and trackpad were/are back to working order after reboot.

Any insights to what may be causing this, or how to remedy it?

Also, I did just install an OS X update after the first incident last night, but it happened again today, and there doesn't appear to be any other updates for my machine.

Machine specs:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
OSX Yosemite Ver 10.10.4
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3


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Say I buy a book using iBooks (OS X Yosemite on a MacBook Pro). Using iBooks, I can highlight text and add notes. What about drawing shapes? e.g. circles, squares, arrows, etc.

If this is not possible with iBooks itself, is there any way to open a book bought with iBook on a different app with more editing support?


texts:
Does Time Machine backup system files, kernel files and other OS-related files?

I have corrupted system drivers and files and I want to do a fresh install of OS X but I also want to back up my applications, files and folders.

I wonder if I should go with Time Machine or manually backing up each file.


texts: Why does iMovie change QuickTime Video's size

texts:
I used QuickTime to record my iPhone 6 device video. Format of iPhone 6 QuickTime video on desktop H.264, 750x1334. Size= 406x722. Then I import this QuickTime video into iMovie. When I export the video from iMovie back to desktop the format is now H.264, 1920x1080 and size= 1280x720.

Why does iMovie change the size? I want the size to always stay exactly the same as what I recorded on the iPhone 6 device into QuickTime NOT the size iMovie exports back to desktop.

How do I make iMovie keep the size of the original QuickTime iPhone 6 video?


texts:
In another question I asked, Graeme suggested using alternatives like Skype instead of FaceTime for its support for audio-only calls.

Skype has the advantage of being cross-platform, but is there a way in which I could actually make Skype auto-login when my iPad starts, and keep it running continuously like FaceTime? Or is this functionality restricted to in-built apps only?


texts:
I wanted to see how my new 13" Retina MacBook Pro performed on GPU stress, so I downloaded some GPU benchmark apps.
In one of the apps, I set the resolution to the same as my screen, and I putted antialiasing to the max...

Then, when I launched it, my computer became (not surprisingly) unresponsive, I did managed to force quit the app though, at which time OS X triggered me an error panel, telling me that there was a graphic error (and I could signal it), but it didn't blocked anything.
A little bit later, after I ran another benchmark, a small black line appeared briefly on the screen (something like 0.5 seconds) and then disappeared.

Is it a normal behavior after a high GPU load ? Or should I worry about it ?
Is it dangerous for the CPU to go to its limits ? (my GPU is an Intel Iris one).

Thank you.


texts:
I want to extract all of the images out of a large pages document. I found an article about it from 2006 ( see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060324033125571 ) which states you can open the pages file as a package and extract the images. Right clicking shows no 'open package' item and using pkgutil --expand mydoc.pages . errors with "Could not open package for expansion" I'm guessing the pages file format is now somewhat different.

So how can I extract all of the images from my pages document in one go? (there are around 100 pictures, so too many to do by hand unless I absolutely have to)


texts: mid-2011 MBA: sluggish wifi on WPA/WPA2 networks

texts:
Machine specs: Mid-2011 MacBook Air with a 1.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, and 4 GB DDR ram, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB, OS 10.9.2 (Mavericks).

Wifi connection is sluggish with multiple ISPs on various WPA/WPA2 networks (home, friend, family, etc.)  but works fine on large public networks (e.g. Starbucks) as well as the university network where I am a student. My other apple devices (iPhone and iPad mini) work fine on the same WPA networks which are giving my 2011 MBA trouble.

After and in-depth search of this site and a few others, I’ve tried the following trouble-shooting steps to no avail:

Hardware inspection of airport card by Apple technician revealed no damage
Fresh “erase and install” of the OS 10.9.2 (did not use time machine backup out of fear of cloning the problem back onto my machine)
verified and repaired permissions and disk from Disk Utility
verified and repaired Keychain
verified that the wifi was also sluggish in safe mode and restore mode
hard reset of WIFI by erasing the appropriate system preferences plists
created a “test” location in Apple network preferences; erased and created Wi-Fi in network preferences
flashed the PRAM/ NVRAM
changed DNS servers manually
checked the activity monitor and ran Sophos Anti-Virus to check for malware, viruses, etc.
turning off the bluetooth
dragging the appropriate network to the top of the list
renewed the DHCP lease from network preferences
reset the MTU manually to 1453 (default is 1500)
flushed the DNS cache in Terminal (dscacheutil -flushcache)
turned the Apple security firewall on and off again

At this point I'm thinking it actually may be a hardware problem that was overlooked by the Applecare technician.  Would it be worth buying a new airport card and installing it myself?

Thanks, all, for the help!


texts: Looking for a drawing app that allows multiple iPads to simultaneously/collaboratively draw on the same file

texts:
I am looking for an iPad app which allows multiple iPad users to draw to the same screen/page simultaneously so that the result is displayed on a monitor, possibly via Apple TV.

We intend to use this for user experience (design) work, so ideally it would have Text and Rectangle drawing. Snapping would also be nice.

Does anyone have any suggestions on an app or another approach we could use to achieve this?


texts: black screen with cursor after login recurs the second boot after single user mode fix

texts:
Trying to upgrade a MacPro5,1 (2010) to an SSD, I installed High Sierra in it from a 2010 Macbook pro via USB, because it was too damn slow to install it directly in the MacPro, then put the SSD in the MacPro.
At first it worked fine, but after a few hours every time i started it, it went into a black screen after introducing login credentials. Mouse still visible and movable. Cmd+Option+Esc sequence for force quit applications would show up, with an empty list (no Finder even). Pressing the power button would make the power menu appear, but none of the buttons work. I got it to finally work at some point, but I have no idea how, my brain was fried at the moment - maybe it was a matter of waiting for a really long time.
Anyway, I went through all the remedies found online. Booting into Single User Mode to delete the com.apple.loginwindow.plist file worked - but only for one boot. The next time, it would be black screen again. The same pattern repeated with applying an update, or even going to recovery mode and reinstalling the system. First boot, fine, after that we go into black screen.
I'm assuming something I did after installing the system is corrupting that preference file after every boot, but most of the stuff I did was pretty vanilla, just installed a handful of applications and setup the mail client. This is not my computer so when I go to try to fix it again I'd like to know what other things I should be on the lookout for - specific log files?
Could the installing it from another computer be the problem?Some kind of firmware mismatch?


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I'm trying to keep Mac OS X updated behind an ancient Websense (pre-Cisco websense.com) and corporate IT won't play along. To anything other than Windows, Websense appears as a man-in-the-middle.

So, (rightly) all bogus certificates are refused, and I can't update (an SSH tunnel is impractical for any transfer > 1MB.)

Suggestions?


texts: Time Machine Backup to a Windows computer

texts:
Is it possible to do a time machine backup from a MacBook Pro to a Windows 7 PC?
(i.e. use Windows 7 as a time capsule)


texts: How to remove the "Could not connect to the iTunes store" error message when your network does not allow access to the iTunes Store

texts:
Since the last update, iTunes is unusable for me on my iMac, because with every song change it shows a "Could not connect to the iTunes Store" error message. My network at work does not allow access to the iTunes store, but that is ok. I just want to listen to my local music connection there.
I have disabled the iTunes Store in the parental settings completely, but still, the error pops up with each and every song change. Any idea how to prevent iTunes from showing this popup?

There are two major annoyances here in iTunes imho
a) iTunes tries to access the store even if it is disabled completely in the settings and you're signed out
b) The error messages "staple" on top of each other, so iTunes diplays the same error 1000 times and you have to click them all away. This reminds me of Windows 95 times.


texts:
Recently when I'm playing Pokemon Go I get a message saying I don't have a GPS signal. Some people told me it could happen because the battery is pushing on the GPS component in the iPhone 6 model.

Is this a known problem? Do I need to replace the battery?


texts: What are the risks having visited a counterfeit or phishing web page on iOS?

texts:
I received from a regular colleague a sharing e-mail in iOS Outlook, and clicked the link. It opened a web page asking for my credentials, which I did not enter because I recognized the page as counterfeit.

Is there any way to tell whether simply visiting the page resulted in a drive-by injection?
Is there anything I should do to ensure my device is as clean as it was before clicking the link?
Is there a reason to uninstall and reinstall Outlook on the phone?

Technical Details

iOS 14.0.1 ;
Microsoft Outlook for iOS 4.57.2 ;
iPhone Xs Max


texts: Can anyone recommend good third party iOS email clients (especially regarding signature support)?

texts:
Can anyone recommend an iOS email client (Exchange/ActiveSync or IMAP... preferably both) that supports really sweet email signatures?  Our company email signature has an official format that has a base64 encoded image and a standardized font/color.

Please, throw me some suggestions!


texts:
I want to remove a part of an AppleScript result. The part of my whole code is following

list disks

I get the result: {"Macintosh HD", "MobileBackups", "home", "net", "USB-Stick"}
How can I remove the part "Macintosh HD", "MobileBackups", "home", "net", so that only volumes that are not the whole time available are shown.


texts: iCloud is full, but no way to delete photos/backups anything

texts:
i got an email that my iCloud was full. I went into phone settings and noticed that a lot of things i previously disabled were now enabled so i disabled them again ( backups, photos)

it seems that disabling it did not remove anything from iCloud because it's still full.

i logged into iCloud.com and i can see my storage is full but i can't find any way to delete my existing stuff.


texts: During a Time Capsule 35 Pass Erase, do I have to keep my computer on / running?

texts:
Back Story:

Okay, so I just upgrade my Time Capsule from a 2 TB (802.11n) to a 3 TB (802.11ac). Yay! However, after transferring over all my files, I needed to erase my old Time Capsule Partition.

I chose the 35 Pass Erase, because of the extremely sensitive data on this back up. (not really, but I just want to be safe).

Question:

So I started the erase! But I need to know if I turn off my computer, will the Time Capsule continue erasing on its own? Or if I loose my internet connection, will the Time Capsule keep erasing?

I really prefer not to have my computer on for that long, and I need to take my computer to work tomorrow...

Other Notes:

I am connected to my Time Capsule throughout Ethernet, and have WiFi disabled.


texts: Can the data on an MacBook Pro SSD be recovered after formatting using Disk Utility

texts:
My MacBook Pro is going to a new owner and I want to be certain the data is adequately erased on the internal SSD (PCIe flash). There are two Stack Exchange questions/answers that appear to present conflicting facts about whether or not using Disk Utility to erase a partition will make it sufficiently difficult enough to prevent data recovery:
Suggests that a simple "Erase" in Disk Utility will do the job:
How to get the "securely erase" function of Disk Utility on El Capitan & Sierra
Suggests that an SSD that has been erased can be reasonably recovered:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12503/can-wiped-ssd-data-be-recovered
So based on this conflicting information, how can I be reasonably sure that the data on the erased SSD is gone and none-recoverable? Is it true that when you format a drive on a MacBook Pro (late 2016) that the TRIM function will erase all remnants of the files or are they still on the drive, ready for someone with a recovery program to access them?
I am tempted to try the diskutil secureErase but I don't want to accedentiallly erase the wrong disk/partition nor put unnecessary wear on the SSD.


texts: How to re-order accounts in Mail.app (El Capitan)

texts:
Since I upgraded to El Capitan the Mail.app was upgraded also (to version 9.2) and the ability to re-order accounts was disappeared.
Now I cannot move accounts in the preferences.

Who knows is there any configuration plist to resolve this issue manually?


texts: Why am I unable to use Game Center on a jail broken phone?

texts:
On a black iPhone 4, I open the Game Center application and it is stuck on "loading":

For a moment I assumed that it was a problem with Apple. Well, no, because turns out I have a white iPhone 4 where Game Center does work.

I heard that if an iPhone is jailbroken, you can't use Game Center for developing applications on sandbox mode. However, it does work for normal games. Both of my devices are jailbroken.

Why might my black iPhone be stuck on "loading" within the Game Center application, while the other device works just fine with it?

There is a difference in iOS version though. The black iPhone, which is stuck on the loading screen, is 6.0.1, while the white one, which works, is 4.3.3.

I already tried rebooting the black iPhone and killing the Game Center application.


texts: Is there a program I can download to add an option to create a new file to the contextual menu of finder? NuFile doesn't seem to work in Snow Leopard.


texts:
I want to create an permanent SMB mount and read SMB storage in Finder. So I read following articles.

Create a Permanent SMB Mount in OSX (Updated)

Automounting NFS share in OS X into /Volumes

After that, auto mounting SMB storage has worked properly. But Finder can't read the storage because of nobrowse option which I didn't set. Is there a way to auto mount SMB storage without nobrowse option?

The details are as follows.

$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.9.4
BuildVersion:   13E28
$ sudo sh -c "echo '/- auto_smb -nodev,nosuid' >> /etc/auto_master"
$ sudo sh -c "echo '/../Volumes/share -fstype=smbfs,soft ://user:password@ipaddress/share' >> /etc/auto_smb"
$ sudo automount -vc
$ mount | grep smbfs
//user@ipaddress/share on /Volumes/share (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse, mounted by tommy)


texts: Show "open application indicator" only for applications active in current desktop

texts:
Short version:

As I have written in the title, I want to see the "open application indicator" only below the applications that are open in the active desktop. Is this possible?

Long version:

I had been using Windows all my life and now for about a month I have been using a Macbook. I typically use virtual desktops for different purposes and almost all of them involve the use of web browser (For example, programming stuff on desktop1, another kind of programming stuff on desktop2 :), designing stuff on desktop 3, homework on desktop 4 etc..). However, on Mac, when I have like more than 5 desktops, those indicators being under all open applications on all desktops makes me really really frustrated and confused. Combine that with mac's auto rearrangement for desktops(depending on recent use) finding the web browser window I seek takes forever. When I disable automatic rearrangement, maximizing a window puts it all the way to the last desktop which is another frustration so neither that makes it any better. It all seems really really weird to me. So is it possible to make the Mac's Dock and Spaces function like Windows 10's taskbar and Desktops? Or at least, the short version question?

(I use OSX ElCapitan)


texts: My iPad Air Wi-Fi (A1474) won't restart after getting a new system update

texts:
After I updated my iPad Air Wi-Fi (A1474), I couldn't get it to turn on again.

What could have possibly gone wrong and how do I rectify?


texts:
I have a whole bunch of files named as following (example):

ADVANTE  18''8.0 PCD5'114.3 ET45 CB73.1.jpg
ADVANTE  18x8.0 PCD6139.7 ET20 CB110.2.jpg
ADVANTE 'A MI576B 20''8.5 PCD6'139.7 ET25 CB110.2 GBXZLDCP.jpg
ADVANTE 'A SH10 15''6.5 PCD8'100-114.3 ET40 CB73.1 3FPBU.jpg

How do I go to each file and change a portion of their filename to:

ADVANTI  18''8.0 PCD5'114.3 ET45 CB73.1.jpg
ADVANTI  18x8.0 PCD6139.7 ET20 CB110.2.jpg
ADVANTI 'A MI576B 20''8.5 PCD6'139.7 ET25 CB110.2 GBXZLDCP.jpg
ADVANTI 'A SH10 15''6.5 PCD8'100-114.3 ET40 CB73.1 3FPBU.jpg

using some sort of command or app? It would take too long to rename each and every one of them manually.


texts: How can I connect to a local NAS whilst connected to a remote VPN?

texts:
Scenario:

My work Macbook Pro uses Cisco AnyConnect to connect to my employers
VPN from home.
I am running macOS Catalina on the Macbook Pro
I have a NAS connected to my home LAN
Macbook Pro is connected through same home LAN

When I am not connected to my work VPN I can access the NAS by using the expected local IP address (using "Connect to Server..."), however when connected to the VPN this IP cannot be accessed.
I have googled around, but couldn't seem to find an explanation for this specific scenario.
AnyConnect appears to direct all connections through the VPN, although there are no options I can see in the application preferences relating to this.
How can I connect to the local NAS whilst still being connected to the remote VPN on macOS?


texts: Copy the first n files from one directory to another

texts:
Im looking to copy the first 'n' files from one directory to another directory preferably with only cli tools (no scripts).

I've tried the following:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | head -5 | xargs cp -t /target/directory

  This looked promising, but failed because osx cp command doesn't appear to have the
  -t switch

exec in a few different configurations

  This probably failed for syntax problems on my end : /
  I couldn't seem to get a head type selection working

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Verifying LibreOffice after each restart?

texts:
Why does macOS need to verify LibreOffice each time after a restart? I haven't updated the app in a while, and after the first verification it opens normally the next time. This is annoying and it takes a long time (about a minute). This should happen once, after installing (in the /Applications folder), not repeatedly. This doesn't happen for other apps.

How can I make macOS stop verifying LO after a restart?

NB: Saw the same happening to Firefox, but not Thunderbird and Evernote.

Update

I installed this app several months ago. And I mention that this happens after a restart. So I don't open the app from a DMG, which would be unmounted after a restart anyways.


texts: How to disable Boot Camp and prevent any other OS installations?

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Is it possible to completely block the use of Boot Camp such that the current Mac OS installation is the only OS available to use? This is for T2 security chip enabled Macs specifically.
I found this page: About Secure Boot
I think the option to "Disallow booting from external media" takes care of scenarios where one could boot from a Linux live USB drive. But the "Full Security" option seems to indicate that Windows installed via the Boot Camp Assistant would still be considered secure or signed...? I want to know, if there is an option to block that avenue of installation as well; so effectively disabling Boot Camp.
If one were to set a firmware password, would a user be prompted for it every time when trying to boot into Windows? Like how this question may indicate: Booting into Windows partition prompts for firmware password. I am wondering if setting the firmware password is enough? For my specific scenario, the key is to prevent booting into another OS. I am OK if someone tried to install Windows via Boot Camp Assistant, but then became thwarted by the firmware password when trying to boot into Windows for the first time.


texts: Embedded YouTube videos on mobile Safari - has something changed?

texts:
Up until recently, embedded YouTube videos on Safari pages on my first-gen iPad (iOS 5) worked as you'd expect, with the video duration and draggable time bar shown at the bottom, and the ability to send the video to my AppleTV via AirPlay.

Today I tried for the first time in a couple of weeks, and while the videos still play fine, the duration is shown as '--', the draggable time bar is disabled, and although the AirPlay icon still appears, I can now only send the audio to my AppleTV. This appears to be the case on any embedded videos I could find, such as those on my own homepage and this scrapbooking page (which my wife frequents!)

Have YouTube just changed something about the way they deliver embedded videos to iOS devices to cripple them in this way, or have I inadvertently changed something on my iPad that could have caused this?

(I have at least discovered a workaround, that I suspect might only work on iOS 5 older: tapping the title at the top of the video opens it in the original YouTube app. And from there, AirPlay works fine, as it does in the Google YouTube app.)


texts: iPads on Business account need to group message

texts: I have 10 iPads that we use for training.  I want to be able to text as a group as we are working on activities.  How do I set up the iPads to allow group messaging without facebook or phone numbers?  They all have the same Apple ID.


texts: My phone toggles between on and off charge only when plugged into my MacBook Air

texts: Both my MacBook Air and the lightning cable are brand new. I've tried to clean the inside of the charging port of my iPhone 6s.


texts: Installing ffmpeg from dmg and then running from a terminal, is there a better way?

texts:
From here: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-mac I chose static builds 64-bit which too me to https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/

I then downloaded this:

and opened it using this:

which gave me this:

Last login: Wed Jun  6 09:41:56 on ttys000
david-selfs-Air:~ david$ /Volumes/FFmpeg\ 91200-g1616b1be5a/ffmpeg ; exit;
ffmpeg version N-91200-g1616b1be5a-tessus Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.1)
  configuration: --cc=/usr/bin/clang --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --extra-version=tessus --enable-avisynth --enable-fontconfig --enable-gpl --enable-libaom --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopus --enable-librubberband --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-version3 --pkg-config-flags=--static --disable-ffplay
  libavutil      56. 18.102 / 56. 18.102
  libavcodec     58. 19.104 / 58. 19.104
  libavformat    58. 17.100 / 58. 17.100
  libavdevice    58.  4.100 / 58.  4.100
  libavfilter     7. 24.100 /  7. 24.100
  libswscale      5.  2.100 /  5.  2.100
  libswresample   3.  2.100 /  3.  2.100
  libpostproc    55.  2.100 / 55.  2.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
Deleting expired sessions...7 completed.

[Process completed]

However when I open a terminal and try ffmpeg or man ffmpeg or even ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 -vn filename.wav(from here) all I get is

  -bash: ffmpeg: command not found

I must be close, is there a place where I now need to define a path for ffmpeg? I don't know how to do that, or what path to use.

Is there a better way?


texts: How can I preserve indentation in Notes.app on OS X?

texts:
Suppose I've got a text formatted like this:

To do:
    To buy:
        milk

I would like the Notes app to keep the indentation level as I enter a new line:

To do:
    To buy:
        milk
        sugar

How ever it jumps to the beginning of the next line:

To do:
    To buy:
        milk
sugar

Can I do anything about it? (Except using lists/bullet points?)


texts: Bypass stuck audio jack on macbookpro with software

texts:
Can i create a mac Osx application that can bypass the audio jack to produce sound through the speakers. I accidentally broke off the headphone jack inside my Macbook Pro and sound no longer comes out, this is clearly a software issue since the internal speakers produce sound on startup but subsequently become "disabled" once logged in.

Can't I spoof the MacBook Pro using software to think that the headphone jack is disconnected even if it is.


texts: iOS 10 remember to "not trust this computer"

texts:
I have a 2015 MBP for work, which I connect my iPhone (6 plus, iOS 10) to charge, and I don't want to trust the computer, ever. However, I must click "Don't Trust" every single time I connect for charging. This is asymmetric to the "Trust" selection, which remembers my decision.

Does anyone know if it's possible to stop the 'Trust/Don't Trust' modal from appearing every time, and have the machine not be trusted?

If possible, can you please tell me how?
If not possible, can you please provide proof or evidence that lead you to this conclusion?

Finally, I am not concerned with arguments or opinions about this feature. Only what is outline above.


texts: I have a late 2012 model iMac that I'm preparing to sell. I want to reset it to factory defaults, so Internet Recovery sounds perfect. However, Cmd + Option + R during boot does not work. For that matter, Cmd + R doesn't either. How can I enter Internet Recovery?


texts: Is it possible to repackage macos app store app?

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I have a MacOS App Store app that I depend upon, almost on an hourly basis, that is no longer available in the app store (or anywhere else for that matter). I've been tried contacting the original developer on multiple occasions on multiple platforms for almost three years, to no avail. I have even offered to purchase it from them -- my only guess is that the developer has either gone off the grid or, I hate to think it, is no longer living. There are no suitable substitutions available.
I am able to continue using the app if I restore my computer from a time machine backup, but I desire to do a clean install of Big Sur because my machine has collected a lot of cruft over the last 3 years (ahem, node_modules) and would like to know if it is possible to self-package an app from the App Store in order to re-install it myself.
I have some programming knowledge and have tried a couple of things, including copying what I could determine as the application files from "Applications" and "Library" from the backup to the new computer, but unfortunately this did not work and I am unfortunately a bit of a novice when it comes to Mac apps.
Thank you for your suggestions!


texts: Carbon Copy Cloner shell script for ejecting the source drive

texts:
I created a backup system for a friend, using Carbon Copy Cloner. The system has been up and running since January, but it needs regular intervention.

The main problem is that external hard drives are not ejected before disconnecting. When plugged in, the system does not recognize them, and that's when I intervene and get it to recognize them again.

By using CCC's "after run tasks" function, which gives you the option to ask it to unmount the destination drive after backing up, I've been able to solve half the problem. CCC is automatically mounting and unmounting the destination only as needed. So anytime the destination drive is removed, its always already ejected.

I'd like for this to work for some of the source drives as well.  Of course its not necessary for the laptop's main drive, but there are a number of external drives that are frequently used off site.  After they're used, I'd like them to back up at the end of the day, and then eject when they're done.

I've found CCC's shell script for ejecting the destination:

source="$1"
dest="$2"
exitStatus=$3

####Inserted script to run only if backup successful (exitStatus=0)

if [ "$exitStatus" = "0" ]; then
    # foo
else
    # bar
fi

####Eject destination drive

devID=`diskutil info "$2" | awk '/Device Identifier/ {print $NF}'`
if [ "$devID" != "" ]; then
    (sleep $delay; diskutil unmountDisk "$devID"; diskutil eject "$devID") &
else
    (sleep $delay; diskutil eject "$2"; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then diskutil    unmountDisk "$2"; fi) &
fi

I think this would work the same for the source drive, if I change it to:

source="$1"
dest="$2"
exitStatus=$3

if [ "$exitStatus" = "0" ]; then
    # foo
else
    # bar
fi

devID=`diskutil info "$1" | awk '/Device Identifier/ {print $NF}'`
if [ "$devID" != "" ]; then
    (sleep $delay; diskutil unmountDisk "$devID"; diskutil eject "$devID") &
else
    (sleep $delay; diskutil eject "$1"; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then diskutil    unmountDisk "$1"; fi) &
fi

I'm not completely sure how this script works, so before I try this out, does anyone see a problem?


texts: Disable upgrading of single-word addresses in Safari

texts:
When entering a single word domain (ie. example/, http://example/ or http://example:8080), in Safari on macOS, Safari will sometimes change it to http://www.example.com. I suspect this is a feature designed to help inapt users, but it kicks in at unwanted times, and I don't want this feature!

It seems like this is dependent on some kind of caching (possibly DNS), so that if Safari first decides to change it, it will keep changing it no matter how many times I type it correctly. But after maybe a few hours, it will do as I expect.

How do I disable this pesky "smart URL conversion" feature?


texts: I can't hear sound in my iPhone. I can't listen to music or any sound on my device. I'm frustrated trying to solve this.


texts: Multiple empty Chrome/Google setup volumes in root Finder folder

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Unknown Reason for Excessive repetitive removable volumes with either no files inside or inaccessible directories. I have been getting these artifacts as seen in the image since installing OS X Yosemite. Very mysterious. Anyone with similar errors or with an explaination, or even better - a solution, I would be most grateful to hear from you.

Thanks.


texts: AppleScript: How to get the character count of an .rtf file?

texts:
I would like an AppleScript .scpt file to determine the character count of any given .rtf file. I'm not sure if this is standard for character counts, but I would like each space character (" ") to also count as one character.

I would like the script to accomplish this, without actually opening the file in TextEdit.

It is important to note that this is a rich text file, not a simple plain text (.txt) file. This fact complicates things. It is not as simple as chopping off the rich text header, because a single .rtf file may contain multiple different types of rich text formatting.

What is the best way to go about this?


texts: What file contains user typed words (user dictionary)?

texts:
iOS tracks everything you type and uses those words to suggest spelling corrections. This list of words used to be a clear text list buried in /private or /System (I don't remember where, which is my problem). I think Apple migrated it to a db/encrypted file for security/speed reasons.

My issue is that I have mistyped a number of words which now have the incorrect spelling in my user dictionary. So, now when I mistype the word the incorrect spelling is accepted as "correct". It is really frustrating.

I would like to review the list of words and remove those that I don't want. Where is the file that holds this data?


texts:
There are certain applications I use that required me to boot in 32-bit mode in OS X 10.7 (Lion). I could do this by holding down the "2" and "3" keys upon startup. This no longer works since I have upgraded to OS X 10.8.

Is there still a way I can force Mountain Lion to boot in 32-bit mode?


texts: How do I create a shortcut to IPython's interactive shell on the dock?

texts:
I have successfully installed IPython. I can open the interactive shell by typing this from the Terminal:

ipython qtconsole &

Is there a way to create a shortcut on the dock that executes the command above?


texts:
My problem is this. I have my language lessons and my music in different folders on an external hard drive. For some reason my libraries got mucked up (by opening iTunes when the hard drive wasn't connected). So I need to set up my libraries again.

What I want to do is set up two separate libraries: Language Lessons and Music. I know this is possible because I've done it, and set the location to the respective folders. The problem is that the new libraries I set up are empty -- there are no songs or lessons in the playlist! So how do I get iTunes to populate my playlists? I've found two alternatives but neither is satisfactory:

Click on each individual song/lesson in the folder to play it, and iTunes then lists it in the playlist. This is ridiculous as I have about 4,000 songs.
Physically drag the folder containing the Songs or Language lessons onto the window. This copies all the songs in the folder into that playlist. The problem is that I don't want it to copy my 4,000 songs into a new folder (which exceeds the space limit on the hard disc drive), I just want iTunes to populate each library with the songs in the existing folder.

I'm sure this is a dumb newbie kind of question, but there is nothing in the Mac documentation that even suggests how this can be done.

Using MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.6.8.


texts: MacBook Air 2017 not booting after Big Sur upgrade

texts:
I have a MacBook Air 13" mid 2017 from 2 years ago. Until two days ago it was running smooth. Things got worse after trying to update to Big Sur from the latest release of Catalina.
Problem: The BigSur update started just fine, MBA rebooted and the apple logo with the progress bar displayed showing the remaining time. At around 50% the MBA rebooted itself (battery at 100%, attached to the power supply and no user input). From this moment the MBA is stuck in an endless boot loop: apple logo appears, loads to 100%, instantly shuts down and the cycle repeats.
What I have tried so far:

I've tryed both NVRAM and SMC reset
reinstalling the OS from online recovery and from a Catalina bootable USB.
replace the SSD with a working one (tested in another MBA)

I have found a solution but it's more of an hack and totally defeats the purpouse of having a notebook. If I detatch the battery from the logic board and and reattach it, the first boot works perfectly: notebook starts, works like a charm. But if I shutdown the OS and try to start again the MBA seams dead. The fan starts spinning for about five seconds with black display and no chime and then it stops and continues to do this loop of starting and stopping, unless I detach the battery again. In this state every command (Cmd+R; ⇪+alt+ctrl+power) doesn't even work.

What can I do to fix this problem?
Am I doomed to replace the logic
board?


texts:
I would like to share my wired connexion by Wifi.

As you may know, Mac OS Internet Sharing option doesn't support more than WEP security protocol. In other words, it's creating a nearly opened network.

Is there any software able to create a more secured Wifi hotspot (at least WPA) compatible with Mac OS ? Something like Connectify or Virtual Router under Windows 7.

I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011).


texts: How to selectively force Siri to send iMessage instead of SMS?

texts:
In this question, I asked how to have Siri specifically send an SMS message to a person who does not have an SMS-capable iOS device registered with Apple, but does have iMessage on e.g. an iPad.

The answer was to say e.g. "Text Alice on mobile I'll be there soon," since "Text Alice" or even "SMS Alice" would not force Siri to use any specific mechanism.

However, we could not discover what magic word one could use in place of "mobile" to force the opposite effect: sending an iMessage instead of an SMS.  Words I've tried include:

email
iMessage
iOS
iPad

All of the above result in a message containing the magic word, e.g. "Text Alice on iMessage I'll be there soon" results simply in a message reading "On iMessage I'll be there soon."

Does anyone know what the magic word is for iMessage, if there is one?  Such a magic word would allow me to use Siri to send my choice of an SMS or an iMessage to Alice, since Alice carries both a non-Apple mobile phone and an iPad, though she does not necessarily have both on her or online at any given time.


texts: Theres a drastic color change in my screen. (it's a drastic change in the rectangle)

texts:
It stays and it goes. Sometimes I have to push lightly down on the screen to get rid of it. I tried to take a screenshot of it but it seems as if the glitch/ whatever it is, is internal.

What can I do to try and fix this error??


texts: How to format a disk to NTFS using Mac OS X

texts: I am looking for a simple GUI based way to format drives to NTFS (Windows) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.


texts: iTunes 12.5+ plist setting for View As -> Songs by default?

texts:
I find the the default view of songs to "Songs" too white and it's irritating / abominable to view Playlist that way. It does't show enough details for my taste so I'd rather see something else than the current default view (Playlist):

Instead, I would like to see content directly as the Songs view instead:

Does anyone know of a plist setting (in com.apple.iTunes.plist) to change the default view of songs to "Songs" instead of the Playlist setting?


texts:
I have set incorrectly the sshd_config on both these path:

/private/etc/ssh/sshd_config
/etc/ssh/sshd_config

The two file seems alias, but they aren't.

Can someone post the original files please?
I'm working with macOS 10.12.3


texts: Is there a way to lock the volume & brightness on iPad/iOS 10 from getting changed by a child?

texts:
My little boy watches stuff on our iPad all the time, the smart monkey figured out how to change the volume and the brightness by pulling up the Control Center and adjusting them via the slider.

My problem is that he sets them to the maximum no matter how many times I tell him not to do that. Is there a way to lock them on a certain level? or disable the Control Center?

Edit: Sadly redeagle's solution never worked, I have no idea what is "Volume Limit" in the restrictions used for but my kid can still control the volume using the control centre and/or the side switch


texts:
My daughter was using my old iPod Version 6.1.3/Model MC54LL/A, and Santa just brought her her own iPod Version 8.1/ModelPD717LL/A.

I had her email going to my old iPod.  It is going through my own server which is a POP3 server type with POP3 incoming on port 110 and SMTP outgoing on port 25 or port 2525 (with SMTP-AUTH outgoing server authentication).

I added the email account settings to the new iPod, but it shows up as an IMAP account.

How do I change the settings to old school POP instead of IMAP?


texts: Open directory rebound, profiles not working

texts:
Our Open Directory server messed up last week and it resulted in the whole thing having to be rebuilt over the weekend. Most of it went smoothly however as the Open Directory Host Name was changed things got a bit funny.

User mappings were all different so I unbound from the old OD/rebound to the new OD, chown-ed the home folder to the new user and deleted the old certificates from the keychain. It seems to have worked but the only problem is that user profiles aren't doing what they're supposed to. I've added in some mail accounts to a user profile and, if that user logs in to a machine that they previously have, no mail accounts are being created. If the user logs into a machine they have never logged into before - the accounts create automatically via the user profile.

I know there must be something I'm missing here as deleting the user's home directory and logging in fresh doesn't work (the profiles are pulled from the server but the mail accounts aren't added). Is there some other place that OS X stores user account information or previously logged in users (like mobile users or similar)?

In short I've effectively switched binding Open Directory, trying to keep the home directory. Strangely settings like Dock/Finder being configured via the profile manager are read and accepted by the user's machine so it seems to be just mail (so far) that's not working.


texts: ifconfig showing ipv6 address while networksetup doesn't

texts:
when using ipconfig utility, it's showing ipv6 address:

  inet6 fe80::1c00:23f2:b82e:fc8c%en0 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x4

But when using

  networksetup -getinfo %networ service name%

it returns:

  IPv6: Automatic

  IPv6 IP address: none

  IPv6 Router: none

Same when using ipconfig

  ipconfig getv6packet en0

it returns nothing. so do I have IPv6 address or not?


texts: How to play all songs except classical and movie soundtrack music using the Music app on an iPhone?

texts:
I have bought a lot of pop music and classical music on the iTunes store. Some classical music album is like $9.99 for 100 songs, and I think I have about 500 of them in total.

When driving a car, I tend to like to listen to some pop or rock, but since there are so many classical songs, they would play often than not.

Is there a way simply to play all songs except classical, or except classicalm, movie soundtrack, and opera songs?  Perhaps by using something in the Music app or by Siri. (I tried "Play rock music" using Siri, and what I got was "Starting Facetime with Rutso, mobile" and immediate calling at 6am in the morning.)

Playlists shouldn't be used, because if I set up a playlist for current pop and rock music, and then if 15 other songs are purchased later, the playlist will again need to be updated constantly.  Besides, it is a lot of routine work to add 200 rock and pop songs to a playlist.

The iOS version I have is 10.0.2.


texts: This short AppleScript using weekday is not working as expected

texts:
set currentDay to weekday of (get current date)

if currentDay = "Monday" or currentDay = "Tuesday" or currentDay = "Wednesday" then
    set earlymorningDisc to 1
else if currentDay = "Thursday" or currentDay = "Friday" then
    set earlymorningDisc to 2
else
    set earlymorningDisc to 3
end if

It is always setting early morning disc to 3. I am new to mac and would appreciate any help. Thanks!


texts: Sorting in Finder is out of order when using "Save As" or "Open" from another application

texts:
The sorting in Finder works whenever I open Finder. However, it behaves quite strangely when I am using another application. Here is an example:

Example: When using Chrome, upon hitting ⌘+S, I am saving some pdf into my desired folder:

Notice the down arrow on the column head of "PDF documents" indicates that the files in this folder are sorted by their names in a descending order (Z to A). However, apparently, the pdf files in the "Saving as" window are not sorted as they should be.

After clicking that the arrow twice, the sorting is finally behaving as it should be by sorting the pdf files by name in a descending order:

This doesn't only apply while "Saving as", it also happens while I am opening some file from another application (not only Chrome, some other apps like Text editors, system tool like Automator). Initially the pop up Finder window does not sort the files as the little down/up arrow indicator shows, I have to manually clicking the arrow twice to get the sorting I want.

PS. I don't know if it matters, but I have used the trick here to make the folder showing first in Finder by modifying Finder's plist file. I am not sure if this results the strange behavior of Finder.


texts: How come Quicktime plays .avi files but iTunes doesn't?

texts: I think I might be missing something but it seems like Quicktime is happy playing my .avi movies but iTunes isn't. So I have to go through the rigmarole of converting .avi to .mp4 with iTunes before viewing in iTunes or on my iPod Touch. This of course means I end up with two versions of the same file (three if I need to view on iPod). Is there some solution to the issue? I'm going to have to buy yet another portable hard drive before the month is out ...


texts: Resizing APFS partition stuck on "Checking the object map"

texts:
I attempted to add a partition to my boot drive in macOS High Sierra. In the process, Disk Utility was going to resize my Container disk1. The boot partition is APFS and is in that container. On the same drive, is my BOOTCAMP partition. I didn't delete any snapshots, but the last Time Machine backup ran a half-hour before I started.

After 2 hours, the Mac is stuck on this screen (I can move the mouse but I can't click on anything):

Is it normal for this operation to take 2 hrs on a 512 GB SATA SSD? Is adding a partition to a drive which already has an APFS partition possible? Has anyone done this before?


texts:
When I download any archive file and unpack it, it looks good, but if I copy it to usb stick or lan drive, windows clients see copy of each file with a dot in name. Looks like it's a mac os' system files. How can I disable it? I really don't want to have it in unpacked archives.

Mavericks 10.9.2


texts:
I have forgotten my iCloud password. It has also an old email address I can't change. It is not the same as my Apple ID and password. Now I can't get into my iCloud.

My iCloud is updating for 3 days already and nothing is happening.

Now, how can I access my iCloud account when I can't change my password there or change my email addresses?


texts: How can you put new songs from a computer to an apple device after you wiped the computer and it counts as a new one?

texts: I recently wiped my computer without backing it up because it was overwhelmed by viruses, and I just bought a new CD, which I planned to put on my iPad 2. The only problem is that the computer is now recognized as a new computer, and wants to erase all my non-apple bought content. Is there any way to avoid this?


texts:
With OS X Mavericks, users are able to use Activity Monitor to view which apps are using the High Perf GPU, therefore, sucking more power from the battery. This is exposed by the 'Requires High Perf GPU' column in the Energy section.

I find this very useful and often close those apps if I am not using them.

I've also found that sometimes apps start as not requiring the GPU, and later switch it on during their lifetime. For example, I've noticed this with Sublime Text 3 and some others.

I was wondering - is it possible to get a notification when some app switches to the High Perf GPU?


texts: Did my Time Machine backup copy over properly?

texts:
I have an old WD hard drive that I used for Time Machine for a while, but the drive is showing signs of age (it starts buzzing loudly if left on for a while), so I bought a new (Toshiba) drive to replace it. I had on the WD hard drive a Time Machine backup for someone else's computer also that I didn't really need anymore. The total size between the two backups was about 300 GB (100 for theirs, 200 GB for my computer). Anyway in the morning I dragged the backups folder with both backups from the WD to the Toshiba. Took like 5 hours for it to finish "preparing to copy", and by the time I wanted to go to bed it still had like 70 GB left to copy. I didn't want to leave it running so I hit cancel, figuring that the next day I could delete the other computer's backup and try again. So today I was going to do that, and I saw it actually had already copied my computer's backup to the Toshiba HDD and part of the other computer's Time Machine backup. It seemed like it did the folder for my computer first and then moved on to the backup of the other computer. But when I compared the folder for my computer's backup between the new and old hard drives, the old folder showed about 300 MB larger than the new one. It's pretty close but it makes me wonder.

So I set the new HDD as the Time Machine drive, Time Machine seems to work normally, it even did a backup to the new drive like normal. Does it sound like it copied properly? Can size variations like that between large directories of copied folders happen, maybe there are certain unnecessary things that don't copy, or size is read differently? I would very much like to avoid wiping the backup off the new hard drive and re-copying everything.

Secondarily, if it's possible that some files in the backup didn't transfer, would the fact that it did a new backup onto that drive fill in any gaps or missing files if I needed to, say, restore from a time machine backup?


texts: How to remove apps from the "Purchased" list in the Mac OSX App Store?

texts:
I've installed a bunch of apps from the App Store, some free, some paid. Many of them are garbage, were uninstalled, and I don't intend to ever install them again.

How can I remove (or hide) them from the "Purchased" list?


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After about 6 years of using Ubuntu I am switching for the first time to Mac OS given the remarkable specification of M1 chip.
One of the main use of my Laptop (that ran on Ubuntu) was to connect to a Server also running on Ubuntu.
I guess Mac book would surely allow SSH via terminal as this is a very basic command. What I am not sure if it allows mounting external devices like ubuntu as shown in image below,

In Ubuntu we had Connect To Server feature, which I am not sure but likely used the sftp protocol. This feature would mount the remote server onto my laptop allowing easy browsing and shifting of files.
Will this be possible on the new Mac book Air M1 chip? Ofcourse we could use sftp via terminal, but I look the GUI mounting feature of ubuntu. what will be the closest alternative of 'Connect to Server' feature of Ubuntu for MacOS?
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I found a solution in this YouTube video. Here however it is demonstrated only for connecting to windows and Mac systems. Can this be used to connect to Ubuntu Server also?


texts: Recently bought new iPhone and notes were not transferred. Trying to find old files via Time Machine

texts: I recently bought the new iPhone 7 and backed it up via iCloud however, apparently all of the notes I had on my old phone were not saved to the cloud. (I already erased my phone so there's no going back that way). Is there a location on my MacBook (via Time Machine) where my Notes files were saved that I can locate via TimeMachine? I already checked the Notes app and it just has the 3 notes that were saved on the cloud. I'm running 10.10.5 Yosemite.


texts: ITunes 12.8.1.2 does not recognize devices nor see backups

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Running Yosemite 10.10.5 on MacBook Air (early 2014), with Safari v. 10.1.2, iTunes 12.8.1.2, iTunes updated dec 14 2018.
Devices (iPhone, iPad) do not register in iTunes. Are seen in USB device tree in System Information.
In iTunes, preferences, Devices: backups are blank - contains at least 10 for 5 different devices ....
Safari ‘cannot be opened because of a problem’ (no window comes up).

ITunes 12.8. will not install: ‘Newer version already installed’.
ITunes will not delete:’required by OSX’. Timemachine backup will not restore...

I need device connectivity, their backups and this OSX.
Any suggestions ?

Berthe

Dec 17: new iTunes build in App store appeared, it fixes Safari and Photo-connect to device. ITunes not tested yet, but I expect it, too, is fine....


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Middle click to paste is making scrolling impossible in Terminal on my thinkpad keyboard because of middle click pasting.

I'd prefer to just disable it on that app, but globally would be fine.

I found this question with 1 answer but I had too much trouble with Karabiner (it broke hyperdock) and it's specifically about how to disable middle click for terminal, not globally: How to disable middle click paste Mavericks Terminal?


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I was given a MacPro 2008 with 1 CPU, 1TB hard-drive, no wifi and 6GB of memory.

I patched via DosDude1's patch tool so enable NVME.

Current Specs: 2x4core 3.2Ghz. Wifi, 32GB of RAM, PCIe/NVMe Samsung 512GB.

Updated the OS to Mojave.
All is well. the machine is fast.

Tried to install the GPU (GTX 770), which is supposedly natively supported in Mojave

Slot 1- New GPU

Slot 2- PCI/NVMe

Slot 3- Old GPU

With OLD out and monitor plugged into NEW - Nothing
With OLD IN and NEW in , monitor plugged into OLD - Hangs at status bar 50%
OLD IN, NEW OUT - Boots no problem


texts: Is there any way to find out my admin name?

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I'm a teenager who is into gaming. I've had a PS4 since last Christmas and pretty much haven't stopped playing it ever since. However, I've recently started to play on my Mac (and by recently I mean today) again, but everything I try to install requires an "Administrator Name and Password" which I understand and I used to remember. Seeing as I haven't used my Mac since last year it must be understandable how I've forgotten it. Every time I type my account name (located at the top right of my screen) and my login password it isn't correct.

I must have deleted my original account and I can't remember the name for it. Is there any way I will be able to find out?


texts: Using a single user account between two mac OS installations on same machine

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I've recently set up two different macOS/OS X versions on my Mac in order to support running some legacy software. Each system is on a separate drive partition and my user account is on a third partition. I've mapped the my user account for each OS installation to the third partition so that documents and settings are available when booting in either system and I don't have reconfigure all of my settings.

On the surface that has worked. However, I've noticed a few peculiarities with settings that have changed. My guess is that going back to the older OS which might have different configuration format the default settings were generated and saved. And then when booting in the newer OS they were 'migrated' overwriting the settings in the newer OS. This seems to correlate with increased CPU activity when I boot into the newer OS after using the older one. But this is just a theory.

Are there any particular things that I should do or avoid specifically with this kind of set up? Or are there reasons that this is not a good idea and I should use separate user accounts for each OS installation?