texts: Is there a way to sync iCloud data with a Nokia phone?

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I am using iCloud but I also have a Nokia phone that I use for emergencies. Apparently it has a calendar and an address book built-in.

Is there a way, using some software to sync the Nokia phone with iCloud via PC or mac?


texts: IOS device kid changed screen time passcode and claims he did not , help me catch him

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My son has a iphone xs.   we set a screen time passcode becasue he kept turning off his phone location.  and then next when i loooked at the phone, the same restrictions were showing locked. i changed the "share my location" to "always" or "allow."  It's now changed to "never" or is greyed out.. and my son appears to have found out the screen time passcode and changed it.  I can no longer login into the screentime passcode that i set. i wrote down. its now at so many attempts i have to wait over an hour before i try again the alert says. i have 87 attempts. it was changed.

I found an app that would locate the last password set and this app cannot even find it.  the phone location is still sharring on my phone but the location option on his phone is set to never share.

I also noticed there was in the text messaging section 3 ... that i have never seen. they told me that when there phone updated, this came with it.

The shortcut app on the phone i noticed allows for an option to script and things like that.  is this a standard new update of the app or was this something put onn the phone?

Either way, i have acess to the phone but i cant do anything and i dont no what passcode was set in place.

How can I regain control over this device?


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I have a Macbook Pro 8.2, Intel i7, 4 GB of RAM and 500 GB HDD.

While working with some apps open in background, the screen suddenly went blank and music looped. In panic I pushed the power button to shut the Mac down. After a while, I tried to boot. It paused half way and the screen turned to grey but didn't shut down for half hour. I decided to turn it off.

I was searching and found some troubleshoot for my problems. I tried to reset PRAM and SMC. I tried to replace Battery, RAM and HDD, then reset PRAM and SMC. Neither worked.

I tried to boot to Recovery Mode, but the Recovery HD can't be found on my HDD. Then I tired to boot to Internet Recovery Mode and after download finished, it turned grey for half hour or more and finally shut down.

I tried to boot from DVD by holding C which wasn't working. On startup manager, I found my primary startup disk that failed to boot, but it can't find the disk.

Please help and guide me to backup my files and install clean os x offline or online.


texts: Opt+arrow cursor manipulation stopped working

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Part of my regular repertoire of keyboard shortcuts is Opt+arrow and Shift+Opt+arrow for moving (and selecting) a word at a time in apps like Word, TextEdit, etc.

A couple days ago Opt+arrow stopped working in most places (though not all). I figured a reboot would clear it out but it did not. The only place I can find that it works right now, strangely enough, is a textbox on a website in Chrome. So I can use it this dialog I'm typing in right now, but not the URL field of the browser.

Any idea how to fix and/or reset this behavior? I'm lost without it.


texts: Restore Mac from Time Machine Backup via Terminal

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I ran into some major problem today when trying to delete old TM backups from an external drive.

Now that I have a Time Capsule I wanted to clear the old backups from another external drive. At some point, Yosemite suddenly stopped working properly, Keychain errors popped up, my Desktop was empty, user folders cleared, etc. It looked like I accidentally deleted my own User folder. I checked the Terminal from where I attempted to delete old TM Backups and it really looked like I did nothing wrong. I thought, well, I must have overlooked something but for that reason I have Backups in the first place, so I booted into recovery and selected restore from Backup to facilitate my new Time Capsule. Since all Backups are password protected I tried to enter my password but got the error message that the system could not connect. I rebooted into what was left of my user and checked that the Time Machine password was in fact correct.

Anyway, now I got access to the TC via tmutil and was wondering how I can restore the whole machine via Terminal.


texts: I'm trying to add an Active Directory service to macOS image. I know how to bind AD on a Mac but I was looking for an automated way to do it for a large deployment 50–100 Macs, i.e add it in an image profile. What's the best practice for this?


texts: Apple password verification showing weird characters

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I recently had to reload Yosemite on my Macbook Pro Retina (Mid 2014)
and after booting it up this morning and allowing a application to run, my password box looks like this.

Any help would be appreciated.


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Macbook Air "Core i5" 1.6 13" (Early 2015)

No water damage and never been dropped and sadly out of warranty and without Apple Care.

It started to crash intermittently and then started to reboot. Sometimes it would reboot and work for a while but then it started rebooting every few minutes.

I reset the VRAM & SMC and now I am stuck with a black screen and infinite boot chime.

I get one clean boot chime and then infinite distorted chimes every 2-3 seconds .. this isn't the standard 3 or 9 chimes which suggests Motherboard or RAM .. it is infinite! It doesn't stop until I hold in the Power Button.

So I popped the MBA open, knowing that the RAM couldn't be easily addressed, but considered pulling the battery for a period of time, re-seating the SSD etc etc. Nothing seemed to change.

However when I remove the video connector cable (the slightly angled one in top left corner with black tab) the infinite chime goes away and I get a standard single one chime startup. Obviously I have a black screen at this point and cannot see if the system is starting correctly.

So next step, pressing Shift Key does not put it in Safe Mode - it just hangs on Apple Logo with progress bar, however holding Command + V loads Verbose Mode and then all starts correctly, unfortunately without wifi at this point.

System Information shows the correct RAM Slots, Sizes & Status on both is OK

But rebooting causes the Infinite Chime to return.

So everything works fine in Verbose Mode, but can't Enter Regular Mode, Safe Boot, Diagnostics or Recovery Mode. How would one perform a fresh install from Verbose Mode when Wi-Fi is disabled?

Any ideas ?


texts: MacBook Pro upgrade to SSD migrating OSX and Bootcamp partitions

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I wasn't able to find the info I needed here or on Apple's own forums or via Google, so here goes.

I have a MacBook Pro 15" early 2011 model with a 500 GB internal hard disk drive (non-SSD). Currently running OSX 10.8.5 on a 300 GB partition, and Windows 7 via Bootcamp on a 200 GB partition. OSX is under backup via TimeMachine, Windows is backed up manually on an external hard drive as a simple copy.

I would like to replace the internal hard disk drive with an Intel DC S3500 480GB SSD.
Changing the drive itself should be easy via a guide I've found. But...
instead of the 300GB/200GB partitions I currently have, I'm aiming for 400GB/80GB partitions on the SSD. The Windows 7 Bootcamp partition I currently have uses only 70GB, so I'd like it to occupy the 80GB partition on the SSD.
Once I'm on the SSD, I will upgrade OSX to Yosemite.

Question:
I would like to migrate both my current installation of OSX and the installation of Windows to their respective new (differently sized) partitions on the SSD, without having to re-install the OS'es.
What steps do I need to take to make this work? (Any pitfalls?)

Update:
Command output requested by David Anderson:

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  584931504] HFS+
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 585341144 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 586610688 -  390162432] HPFS/QNX/AUX

diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            299.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                199.8 GB   disk0s4

diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found


texts: iMac 2008 Flashing Question Mark on Startup (Tried almost everything)

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I recently purchased an iMac from a local Goodwill. After talking to Apple support I was able to find out that this is a 2008 all-in-one model. Additionally, I asked for help with the "flashing question mark folder" icon that would appear on startup. After three different people, I still could not get anything to work. Here's what each Apple rep had me do:

Try restarting iMac while holding down various combinations of Control, Command, Shift, Alt/Option, R, P, C, E, etc.

Nothing worked. He told me maybe my bluetooth keyboard was bad - fine, I went out and got a wired Mac-supported keyboard.... and NOTHING happened.

The second person told me that the flashing folder was likely because there was not an installed version of Mac OS on the hard drive (seemed reasonable), so he filled out an order and had Apple ship me copies of Mac OS X 10.6.1 as well as Snow Leopard.

I put the Mac OS 10.6.1 disk in my machine and tried to boot it and nothing happened, and now the disk is stuck in the machine. I have tried several different commands to get it out and nothing has seemed to work.

Finally, they got me in contact with a "senior advisor." He told me that basically the hard drive was the issue and for a computer this old, it wouldn't be worth time/money to continue to invest in it (probably true, but I love a good project).

I decided that the hard drive must be the issue, and sought out a new one. I went to a local Micro Center and purchased a brand new Samsung 256GB SSD drive, x2 2GB RAM modules, some industrial computer tape, and an iFix-it kit.

Here's where I'm at now. I followed several Youtube videos to no avail. I got inside the machine, removed the old HDD and hooked up the cables to the new SSD. I also inserted the new RAM module. I then try to boot up my machine and I hear a rather loud beep and the computer fan starts, but the screen remains black. I know a little bit about computers, so I figure this is a typical case of the RAM not working. I remove one of the new RAM and put one of the older ones in in spot (so the machine has x1 1GB and x1 2GB RAM modules). The machine is now able to turn on its screen. Still though, it boots up to the flashing folder. When I hold down the Option key on reboot I see the mouse cursor appear on a white screen, but nothing else. I don't know what else to do.

I have removed the new SSD and reinstalled the old HDD and the same thing happens. The Mac OS X 10.6.1 disk is still stuck in the optical drive. Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem may be? I feel like I've tried everything and I'm just frustrated at this point. All-in-all I've spend about $300 for the machine + everything else, which is what I could have bought a refurbished WORKING one for. I'm willing to put more money in if you think it will fix my problem.


texts: Find-and-replace AppleScript for iTunes Track Names

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I'm trying to write an AppleScript to do bulk find-and-replace operations on iTunes track names. Currently, this is my code:

tell application "iTunes"
    set sel to selection of front browser window
    if sel is {} then
        try
            display dialog "Nothing is selected…" buttons {"Quit"} with icon 0
        end try
        return
    end if

    set c to (count of sel)

    set theSearchString to display dialog "Find:" default answer "" --prompt for input to search for

    set theReplacementString to display dialog "Replace with:" default answer "" --prompt for input to search for

    repeat with i from 1 to c --set the movement numbers
        set thisTrack to item i of sel
        set songName to (get name of thisTrack)
        set name of thisTrack to (findAndReplaceInText(songName, text returned of theSearchString, text returned of theReplacementString))

    end repeat

end tell

on findAndReplaceInText(theText, theSearchString, theReplacementString)
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to theSearchString
    set theTextItems to every text item of theText
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to theReplacementString
    set theText to theTextItems as string
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
    return theText
end findAndReplaceInText

Currently, the findAndReplaceInText() function returns error 1708. What did I do wrong? The find-and-replace function is coming from Apple: Mac Automation Scripting Guide- Manipulating Text


texts: Could my Mac have loaded a web page without my knowledge?

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I did a web project years ago where if you hit a particular URL on the site an admin action is triggered.

I have a bookmark in Safari even to this day for the url of that action.

Yesterday that action was unexpectedly triggered for the first time in years.

A review of the Apache Server access logs reveals that the action was requested by my IP address.

The user agent string as recorded in the Apache Server logs is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/601.7.7 (KHTML, like Gecko)

This looks a lot like Safari, but when I actually hit the same site with Safari, Apache Server logs a slightly longer user agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/601.7.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.2 Safari/601.7.7

I usually use Chrome but I did launch Safari on the day of the incident.  A visit to the URL trigger does not appear in my Safari history however.

Could some other webkit process from my Mac have visited this page without my knowledge/intention?

Like, is there any pre-load of bookmarks function?  Or hover over a link pre-fetches the contents for later display? (I don't remember hovering over any links)...

I'm on El Capitan and Safari 9.1.2 (but you knew that from the log lines).


texts: I'm totally unaware about Macs and video editing. I have an iMac and a Sony camera that produces .mt2s files. I've heard that the Mac is the best for graphic and video editing, so I was wondering how should I work with this file format on a Mac?


texts: Changing my display cable from HDMI to Display Mini lead to resolution issue mac

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After having a problem with the HDMI cable on Samsung Syncmaster 1600x900,
I changed it to a DisplayPort to VGA adapter, but now it is not detecting the monitor correctly.

The available resolutions for it is now 1280x1024 & 800x600.
I have shifted already to custom resolution of 1280x768 by selecting a custom resolution after pressing option and then selecting scaled displays.

But I want it to have its original resolution.

It feels like it has supposed my monitor to be secondary display.

P.S. : Already have deleted com.apple.windowserver.plist in Safe Mode.


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I'm tailing var/log/sys.log and I keep getting this message:

Jul 13 23:43:52 mac[redacted lol] syslogagent[19960]: Authentication String htt[space added]p://logsviewer.com/membermac/livedesk/arewelive.php?username=

Jul 13 23:43:53 mac[...] syslogagent[19960]: {

every 25 seconds or so.

Sometimes it'll include a string of numbers such as:

Jul 13 17:50:41 mac[...] syslogagent[19960]: Authentication String htt[space added]p://logsviewer.com/membermac/livedesk/arewelive.php?username=

Jul 13 17:50:41 mac[...] syslogagent[19960]: 2147483647

Jul 13 17:50:42 mac[...] syslogagent[19960]: {

And as I was writing this it changed (for the first time since I caught it about 9 hours ago today, although after the tail logfile turned over and I restarted it) its process ID number to [21174]

After some intensive googling I found out that this URL roughly matches that which occurs in the SniperSpy spyware program.

First of all, am I correct. Second of all, I ran Sophos and nothing came up. Third, is it even functionally installed because the message makes it seem like it maybe didn't get fully installed. Fourth, how do I remove it?


texts: Why a sudden increase in CPU when battery low?

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My Macbook Pro (Retina 13" late 2013, OSX 10.10.5) has fine battery life overall - this is not the problem.

However, when the battery drops below about 8%, and before I normally get any "your Macbook will shut down soon" messages, average CPU use (over all processors) begins to go from a background low level (<10%) to >50%. It gets laggy, fan turns on, and so forth. Estimated battery life will go from 40 min to < 10 min.

Looking at activity, the main culprits for the increase can be 'windowserver' or 'mds' or 'mds_stores', often running at 80-90% on one processor, but typically other running apps (Chrome, QGIS, Evernote, etc) seem to also have a much higher usage during this period, adding up to a total CPU load >50% (and consequent temps / fan use, lag).

This doesn't seem to be a speed stepping issue, nor are any new processes suddenly appearing.

--EDIT 2016-04-13

Here are some more examples of the processes, taken more at less at random after the battery went below 10% and the total CPU started exceeding ~75% - the highest processes are often mds* but other apps also increase CPU by 10x:


texts: How to fix external hard disk NTFS READ ONLY?

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On reinstalling MacOS Mojave, my NTFS hard drive became read-only. Previously, before reinstalling the OS I used to use applications like NTFS for MAC to be able to Read and Write on the disk, however this no longer works even though it shows I'm the admin and I have "read and write permissions"
I can copy stuff to another hard drive or to the mac, but I am not able to write anything on the disk or make changes to the existing hard drive.
I want to be able to access the hard drive without formatting as I have two years worth of documentary footage which I cannot lose or copy because I do not have a backup hard drive with the same amount of storage space.


texts: How to delete an old iCloud account from an iPhone if the Apple ID has been deleted

texts: I deleted my old Apple ID but forgot to log out from iCloud. I now can't reset my phone without turning off Find my iPhone because you need to sign in to iCloud to turn it off. I asked Apple Support to restore the account, but they say they can't.


texts: How to automount SSHFS volumes with FUSE OS X on Mavericks

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Iv'e managed to get my ssh volumes mounted with SSHFS via the command line but would really like is to have them auto mount on login. So far, I've set up a launchAgent to run a shell script that contains the commands I would use in the terminal. That contains:

mkdir /Volumes/mysshfsvolume
sshfs blah blah blah

This works via the terminal but when the launchAgent loads, It seems momentarily mount the volumes and then they disappear.

I have seen other older solutions that include editing the /etc/fstab, AppleSrcipt and automator but I am looking for a Mavericks related solution. I have actually found a way around it using ControlPlane but just wondering if anybody has more extensive knowledge of how automount works on Mavericks. TIA.

Just to add some information, I'm not too familiar with the systems that I'm logging into but one is a SUN Solaris and the other is a RHE linux server.

I also tried just adding the script to my login items and it works for the linux connection but not the SUN server.


texts:
When you try to sort by album on iOS, the player sorts by album and then it also sorts by artist.

How can you get it to sort by album only?

Edit: I should clarify that I’m using an iphone 4 with the latest updates, so this question is about whatever version of iOS runs on iPhone 4


texts: macOS changes screen arrangement when waking from sleep

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I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (MacBookPro13,3, 2016 - running 10.12.6 as it's a company laptop and I cannot update) with two monitors plugged in, each using a USB-C port (but using a USB-C to DisplayPort adapter for each). Whenever it wakes from sleep, the screen arrangement of these two monitors will have switched from what I set it as and I have to go into System Preferences and move them back to get my preferred arrangement back. Just to clarify - the cables have not been switched during this time.

I feel like I remember reading about this issue a while ago on the MacBook Pro but cannot find anything about it. Does anyone have a solution?


texts: Choosing processor for MacBook PRO Retina

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I'm buying a Macbook Pro Retina, and cant decide what processor to choose and what additional cabels to purchase.

First I was sure i5 2,4GHz was enough, but I will connect it to up to two external monitors:

One 24' regular HD, and
One 27' 2560x1440 Asus PB278Q

Maybe it's worth getting even an i7 when planning on connecting it to two external monitors?

And also, do I need any other cable than TB to VGA to receive maximum resolution on the Asus monitor? I saw some cable for around $100 with USB+TB to VGA, would that improve the picture?


texts: How to stop Mac apps from automatically recognising phone numbers?

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Whenever there's a string of a few numbers on my Mac, it recognises it as a phone number and tries to dial it (through FaceTime) every time I click it.
Is there a way to stop this, either with System Preferences, AppleScript or Terminal?


texts: MacVim color scheme has the right color, but vim through Terminal doesn't

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I've installed color schemes that seem to be working well with MacVim.
When I run Vim using Terminal, however, the colors change and the color scheme doesn't appear to be working anymore.
Is there a way to get it to support the true color the color schemes intend?


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In a unix based system a number of commands are available by default (either in /bin or /usr/bin). Suppose in some time I installed more tools like git, svn …

In OS X if I install XCode and then the command line tools package, a bundle of development tools will be getting installed into the system. So how can I know which commands are available at the time of the installation of the OS?

Is netcat, nc available by default on Mac OSX or is that installed along with command line tools ?


texts: Can I update from iOS 5 to iOS 6 on iPhone 4?

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I don't want to update to iOS 7 on this iPhone 4 and since I'm borrowing it from a friend, I don't want to jailbreak it either.

It's not a matter of downgrading to iOS 6, it's still an upgrade since I'm currently running iOS 5.1, I just need to know where to find the update and how to go about doing it.


texts: How does the digital compass "figure of eight" waving for calibration work?

texts: What is the logic behind the "wave your device in a figure of eight to calibrate the compass"? How does this work?


texts: Saving an iTunes playlist to USB, whilst keeping edits and track numbers in place?

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I'm trying to save a playlist from my iTunes onto a USB stick ready for an event, most people seem to recommend drag and drop which does work, but the order of the songs is completely out, and any edits I've made through iTunes to the start/end point of songs and normalising the volume are no longer in place.

I was tempted to try to burn it to a CD and then re-import it somehow, but that seems really clunky and the playlist won't fit onto a CD anyway.

Any suggestions please? I know I can do it manually, but it's a large playlist which will be changing all the time. Thank you


texts: Typing national characters in a slightly different way

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Typical way of typing national characters (if you need to use them) on a keyboard looks as follows:

This is an example for Polish ą character:

Push ALT.
Push a.
Release a.

As a result we 'll see ą on the screen.

Now, the question: I am looking for slightly more convenient solution:

Push and release ALT.
Push and release a.

As a result we 'll see ą on the screen as well.

I can easily configure emacs to behave like this. Do you know any hack/software or whatever which could allow me to use keyboard in all Mac applications?

Thanks!


texts: How much power does Apple TV use on standby?

texts: I just bought a third-gen Apple TV, and I don't want to have to open Settings to put it to sleep every time I'm done using it. It seems it won't fall asleep automatically for quite some time, so I'd like to know how much power it draws when not in use.


texts: USB Thumb Drive on hub will not mount automatically

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I have a 16gb SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB thumb drive. It's plugged into a powered hub, along with an external HDD - at the end of the day, I unmount (eject) the drives, and disconnect the MacBook from the hub to bring it home. I wait until the Macbook is actually in sleep mode.

When I reconnect the hub in the morning, the HDD mounts without any fuss, but the thumb drive will not mount unless I power down the hub and then power it back on, or remove and re-insert the thumb drive. I have reset the NVRAM, this did not help.

The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled), and the system is a MacBook 2ghz Core i7 running 10.7.5. The USB device does not show up in diskutil, but shows up in System Information:

Firebird USB Flash Drive:

  Product ID:   0x5571
  Vendor ID:    0x0781  (SanDisk Corporation)
  Version:   1.26
  Serial Number:    4C532000020216123405
  Speed:    Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer: SanDisk
  Location ID:  0xfa134000 / 10
  Current Available (mA):   500
  Current Required (mA):    200

Is there a way to get the drive to mount automatically without depowering the hub? (This is actually easier than re-inserting the tiny drive). Restarting the Macbook daily is generally not a desirable option for a variety of reasons.

I have sleepwatcher installed, but I'm not certain how to resurrect a drive from the command line when it's not available through diskutil.


texts: Why does my iPhone 4S go blank due to over heating?

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My iPhone 4S is just 2 weeks old and since the last week it enters this weird mode where the screen goes blank and I can't access the phone, but if someone tries to call me, it rings, proving that the phone isn't turned off.

The store guy said that it's happening because Im using the phone too much which is causing the phone to overheat and go on a sleep mode.

My phone goes on this wierd sleep mode atleast twice in a day! Even during the night!  What can I do?


texts:
After Xcode update to v. 5.0.2 i can't build my app for iOS 6.0 target.
I can build only for iOS 7.0

I get many errors:

Could not build module CoreFoundation
Could not build module Darwin
Cyclic dependency in module Darwin: Darwin -> Foundation -> CoreFoundation -> Darwin
Could not build module Foundation

Interesting thing, is that before the update it was possible to compile the app for iOS 6.0, BUT I had the same errors when trying to compile app for iPhone 4/4S

PS. Build Settings - armv7, armv7s. Without arm64.


texts: How to install OS X 10.7 and 10.8 in VMWare Fusion, on a 10.9 host?

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I'm working on fairly new Mac Mini, running OS X 10.9.4 and VMWare Fusion Pro 6.0.4.

For software testing purposes, I want to install both a OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion inside a virtual machine. I have access to the developer downloads under http://developer.apple.com/downloads.

I can find numerous packages saying, for example "OS X Lion 10.7.2 Build XXXXX", but all of them seem to updates and are relatively small in size (~ 700 MB). I can't seem to find any image that would allow me to install a fresh 10.7 or 10.8 inside a new VM.

So how exactly do I go about creating those two virtual machines on my OS X 10.9 host?


texts: How to delete a macOS installer from Big Sur?

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I downloaded the Mojave installer from my Big Sur machine to create a USB installer for an old Mac Mini.
I then deleted the installer from the Applications folder, but now whenever I try to empty the trash I get the error that it can't be deleted because it's in use:

I've also tried using the "Delete immediately" option when right-clicking on the item in the trash. Then I get this error:

When checking the permissions, I should be able to delete it:

So how can I delete this installer?


texts:
After a re-installation of macOS High Sierra on my MacBook Pro, I realised that the Terminal is kind of "messed up" (random substrings of the Terminal's current output are produced) when resizing the window (decreasing the width and increasing it again).

Any ideas how to fix this?

Output of echo $PS1 $PROMPT_COMMAND


texts:
I'm trying to return the current Bitcoin price from an API endpoint of my choice in an Apple Numbers cell. How can i achieve this with a formula? Is there a way to evaluate JavaScript?
In pseudocode my formula is:
=(callHttpUrl('https://endpoint.that/returns/btc/price/as/integer') * some_arbitrary_number))


texts: "t" key is delayed and doesn't capitalize

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All of a sudden my "t" key is having issues. About half the time it simply doesn't work, other times it works but it prints delayed, so as I'm typing a sentence it will show up 3-4 characters too late, sometimes appearing in the next word.

It also won't capitalize. Holding shift (tried both of them) works with every key except "t." Caps lock results in every key being capitalized except the "t."

I have the same issue with an external mechanical keyboard so it's definitely not a hardware issue.

This is on a second generation Macbook (not Pro) wih macOS 10.14.3


texts: How is my iPod Touch able to determine my location when I'm offline?

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When I'm traveling through a city, as long as there are wifi networks nearby (even if they are secured with a password), my iPod Touch can determine my current location with great accuracy—obviously not as well as a GPS can in the iPhone, but still very well.

How is it able to do this exactly? Could someone explain the technical side of this, or does anyone actually know how this works?


texts: Macbook lists all WLAN-networks of another machine. How and why was they shared?

texts:
Maintaining my wife's MacbookPro, that never left the house over many years, i've found in the list of preferred WiFi-networks ALL networks, that i was ever connected to worldwide with another Macbook, even a complete new one. Also all networks, we was ever connected to with our iPhones are listed on this Mac.

We don't use a shared iCloud-account. The only thing in common is, that all those devices are connected with the same WiFi at home quiet often.

Although it's not an issue here for me ;), maybe it will be for others getting leaked their locations where they've stored a WLAN-connection that shouldn't be visible to colleagues, partners, children and so on.

My question is: how and why are the networks shared across machines and across accounts/different persons? Isn't it a privacy issue? I don't know if passwords to the networks are also present on her machine, because i don't know how to test it without travelling. If so, she could connect into the networks of several companies i have worked for recently


texts: Is there a way to downgrade from iOS 8 to iOS 7?

texts: My iPhone 4S is very slow. Is there anyway to downgrade to iOS 7 (legal or jailbreak)?


texts: Add currently playing song to Apple Music using AppleScript Editor

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I am trying to make an AppleScript that automatically adds the current track that I am listening to on Apple Music to my library.

What I have done so far is set the option "Add songs to Library when adding to playlist" to true and then used the following AppleScript code below:

tell application "iTunes"
    duplicate current track to playlist "New Songs"
end tell

What happens is it adds the song to the playlist and then it is automatically removed from the playlist and it is not added to my library.

When I add the song to the playlist manually, the track stays in the playlist and gets added to my Library.

How am I to get ScriptEditor to save the current track to my library?


texts: Coin master no longer to be able to buy coins

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I have created a new iTunes account. When I open iTunes and sign in with my new account, it says I need to review my account. After doing so and filling in all requirements for my account, the following error pops up all the time.

  Please contact iTunes support to complete this transaction.

How can I get rid of whatever condition that causes this message?


texts: iTunes randomly thinking my iPhone/iPad is "new"

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One of the extremely irritating things that (the Windows version of) iTunes does is that from time to time when I connect my previously-set-up iPhone or iPad, it thinks that it is a "new" device. Thus when I connect, it takes me to the "Set Up Your iPhone" screen and insists that I either "Set up as a new iPhone" or "Restore from a backup", despite the fact that neither is it a new device nor do I wish to restore from any backup and the thing I want to do is just "do nothing" and carry on as before...

Am I the only person in the universe to have this problem, and if not, is there a way to fix it?


texts: Is there way to save google maps for offline iphone without jailbreak

texts:
I've iPhone 3Gs and want to download Google maps to use them offline with GPS.

So is there a good app do that for me ?

Note: i don't want to jailbreak my iPhone.


texts: "Slow down" bootup until all devices are available

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I'm using OS X as a Server, running Server.app 4.0 to provide email hosting/etc.

Attached to this machine I have a PROMISE Pegasus R2 RAID drive mounted at /Volumes/RAID6-11TB, and I changed the default service storage location so that the Server.app data would be located on the RAID drive (for redundency, and so that Backblaze can backup my precious email, which normally ignores /Library).

The problem is when rebooting the machine, Server.app doesn't properly startup, because something during the boot process is creating an empty directory /Volumes/RAID6-11TB/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/NetBoot. When the RAID array is later automagically mounted, it's default mountpoint already exists, so it is instead mounted at /Volumes/RAID6-11TV 1, which causes no good at all.

Is there a way to fix rebooting so that either:

Server.app won't launch until the RAID disk is ready, or
Delay OS boot so that it won't finish launching until the RAID disk is ready?

Regarding (1), I've edited /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.serverd.plist to add a QueueDirectories key, but that doesn't seem to have any effect, and WatchPaths sounds like it has the wrong semantics, so I'm leery to even try that.

Regarding (2), if I boot into Single User mode (holding down Command+S during boot), then wait until all messages have completed, then hit Ctrl+D to continue the boot, /Volumes/RAID6-11TB is properly mounted as intended.

However, this doesn't help for automated reboots when I'm away (e.g. after power failures). (OK, the "proper" answer is battery backups so that the machine doesn't reboot, but let's ignore that for now...)

Is there some way to make this work?


texts: Spotlight taking a lot of power on macOS

texts: I recently installed macOS, but I have noticed that "Spotlight.app" has had high CPU usage. It is not indexing.


texts: Using POSIX path to attach a file to email in AppleScript

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I am attempting to send an email via the standard Apple Mail application using a POSIX file reference on macOS Sierra (10.12.3). Everything builds fine, but when it sends, the attachment is not being received.

Here's the code:

set fileReference to (choose file with prompt "Select file for attachment...")

tell application "Mail"
make new attachment with properties {file name:fileReference}

The recipient is set earlier in the code, and there are no issues with sending the email itself: just the attachment.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Middle click with trackpad in MBP and Mojave

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I want to setup the middle click with a MBP using the trackpad.

The middle click is very useful to me since I can open/close tabs, can use 2 clipboards like linux (select and middle click to paste, besides regular copy/paste). I was using very well this middle click with High Sierra and the MagicPrefs app, but with Mojave this started working terribly bad and had to uninstall it. Have tried another paid app named Multitouch but does not even work as MagicPrefs.

Do you know how I can setup middle click in Mojave?

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro11,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:    2.5 GHz


texts:
When I connect a bluetooth keyboard to my computer, it pops up this icon:

Can I get rid of that?


texts: MacBook Air doesn't connect to known WiFi network automatically

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I have two WiFi networks: one at home and one in my office. Both are basically quite similar – same connection provider, same connection speed, same modem, same router – the only difference is that at home we use an AirPort Extreme station to broadcast the WiFi signal.

My MacBook Air (1.85 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.7.5) does automatically recognize and log in to the AirPort Extreme powered home hotspot – but it won't auto-login to the office hotspot even though it does remember the network and lists it in the Network Preference.

Is there a way to 'teach' my MacBook Air to auto-login to 'whatever' WiFi network I want? Or does that only work with Airport Extreme powered hotspots? Or does it have anything to do with the Airport Extreme anyways? Thank you for any suggestions / pointers…!


texts: Clickthrough Hotel WiFi Access Page, and Sparkle

texts:
I'm currently at a hotel that forces you to click through an "accept screen" before being able to access the Internet.

The way it works, as best as I am able to tell, is;

When you make your first port 80 HTTP request after joining the wifi network, the proxy server intercepts your request, and takes you to a screen in which you must read the terms of service, check a box, and click the submit/accept button.

The problem is that it does this only for first request, then denies all additional port 80 requests, and disallows all other requests until then page is acknowledged.

The issue at hand is that this page only appears for the first HTTP request, and with the myriad of sparkle-update powered software I have running, I'm suspecting that the confirmation screen is being delivered to one of these apps, instead of too my browser.

I've tried logging in with holding shift after entering my password (disables login items) which disabled everything except for MenuMeters, and still I could not get the foxy confirmation screen to come up.

I rebooted into safe boot mode and was able to get the confirmation screen to come up. So I rebooted normally. Unfortunately, I could not access the internet after doing so, and I suspect the confirmation screen once again became trapped behind a menu bar app.

Is there some step I'm missing that may drastically reduce the difficulty I'm having with this confirmation step?


texts: Install rEFInd on separate partition (Errors)

texts:
I am trying to install rEFInd a separate partition but have run into an error. I'm doing this because I want to install Ubuntu on my other partition (separate from my Mac and and rEFInd partition). Here's my diskutil list:

I run the command ./install.sh --alldrivers --ownhfs /dev/disk0s5 and get this output:

I don't know where to look for the error messages. The rEFInd partition is formatted as OS X Extended (Journaled). Once I get this working, I want the rEFInd partition to load up first when I boot my computer. It's not recognized as a startup partition right now.


texts: How do I save the photos I took on iPhone on my iPad?

texts: My photos come across through iCloud to my iPad.  I would like to keep them longer than a few months. I have plenty of storage, but the photos disappear.


texts: I just deleted a large (50 Gb) file and have emptied the recycle bin but df -h still reports my disk as only having 31Gi available.  As the result from df is effectively instantaneous it must be using a cached result.  What triggers it to bust the cache and update the result?  Can I trigger this manually?


texts:
My disk currently is telling me there is only 10gig of available space however I know that not to be the case since in the past I done a rather large partition here is my diskutil:
diskutil list internal
/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.7 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.7 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Mac HD                  233.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 25.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

what can do do to make these one big disk? And gain the unused space back


texts: After killing coreaudiod volume control doesn't work, what daemon controls it?

texts: I find that when reconnecting my Apple AirPods from time to time that coreaudiod isn't responsive and I need to sudo killall -9 coreaudiod. Sometimes volume control doesn't work after this from the keyboard. What daemon (service) is used in macOS Catalina to pass volume control input to coreaudiod?


texts: How to copy videos wireless from Mac to iPhone? (wireless)

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I'd like to add some videos to my iPhone (from my Mac or PC), but I don't want to be restricted in video players (Infuse, Nplayer, etc).

I think I need to copy them into the iPhone Video Library so all video players can access it, but how can I do this wirelessly?


texts: Is there an app that will make my (jailbroken) iPhone vibrate when a call is answered?

texts:
I have an jailbroken iPhone and I want it to make a little vibration when the other participant answer the call so I don't have to hold it near to my ear while the phone is dialing.
I found this feature in MCleaner app from Cydia but it costs too much and have a lot of other features that I don't need. Is there a better way to do that?


texts: Keyboard shortcuts for resizing windows on mac

texts: I'm looking for the Mac keyboard shortcut equivalent of "windows key + left/right/top arrow" to resize windows (not split view)


texts: iTunes is not Updating on a Window's Vista Laptop; Says I need Windows 7

texts: I have installed the update to my iPhone after backing it up however I have an old version of iTunes and it will not let me update it on my Windows Vista laptop (tells me I need Windows 7). If I set up as new iPhone will I lose everything I've backed up? How can I get the new iTunes on my laptop?


texts: MacBook Pro login screen characters replaced by question marks

texts: I can't log in to my MacBook Pro. The log-in screen now has question marks in place of letters and won't allow me to type in the password box.


texts: How do I remove purchased GarageBand content?

texts: I recently purchased GarageBand's additional content (the $4.99 for everything one) specifically to acquire the drummers. Now I've got around 10GB of unused content eating up a significant portion of my hard drive. How do I remove the sounds and loops installed by GarageBand?


texts: Can I test Apple TV apps on a consumer model?

texts: Just a simple question: I’m looking to develop an Apple TV application for the fourth generation Apple TV, and just wondered if any one knew if I can deploy and test home-made apps to a consumer Apple TV model? Or do I need to purchase a special development kit of some sort for this?


texts: MacBook Pro freezes 4 or 5 times a day with no info in the Console

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My mid-2011 MBP (Core i7, Lion), seems to fart around 4 or 5 times a day. It usually happens randomly. There doesn't seem to be any issues in Console before the "boot" line.

What happens is that computer stops responding, including mouse, lights, function keys, etc. The only thing to do is to turn it off manually and back on again.

EDIT DEC 1, 2011 for the last 3 weeks I haven't had a single freeze. It all happened after I updated my OS X.


texts:
Is there an application where I can crop an image then resize it into custom dimensions?

I would like to crop it like with the built in Command+Shift+4 , then in a window I could select the dimensions.

So is there an app for this?


texts: Find string anywhere, not only at the beginning of words, in Safari on the iPad

texts:
In Safari on macOS one can choose whether to match a word that starts with the string or that contains it (see answer to Safari web browser do not find strings on a page in the common way). For example, if Find on page is set to contains, searching for “os” in this page matches the “os” in “choose”, while if it’s set to start with it doesn’t.
Apparently I’m stuck with “starts with” on my iPad, but I would like to match all occurrences, anywhere. So is there a way to search for contains in iOS Safari?


texts: How can I back up my Mac Auto Correct & Keyboard shortcuts

texts:
Under System Preferences > Keyboard >  Text, I have a lot of entries under Auto Correct. How can I back these up to transfer to a different machine?

Same with the shortcuts under  System Preferences > Keyboard >  Shortcuts. How can I back these up to transfer to a different machine?

I am doing a clean install going from Sierra to High Sierra. Not sure if that makes a difference.


texts: I broke my sleep button on my iPod touch so I cannot use the button to shut down and turn it back on... If I let it die, will it turn on by itself if I plug it into a charger?


texts: How to apply custom sound effect like equalizer in macOS?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2014 - 15-inch model. The speaker is making weird noise instead of proper bass. Doing a few trials I found out a suitable custom equalizer setting in a media player. When I am using this player and toggle this setting, the sound quality is a little bit better.
I was wondering if there is a way in which I can use this setting to the entire OS!
so every sound including notification rings, alarms etc will have this effect that minimizes the creepy sound for me?
If yes, how?


texts: Series 2 Apple Watch Battery Drain in Absence of iPhone

texts:
Can anyone else confirm if their Series 2 Apple Watch battery drains faster when it's not connected to iPhone?  I leave my watch at home when I go to work, because my work poses too many threats for it, and it seems the battery dies faster in this situation.  I assume it's because the watch is looking for the phone.  Anyone else experience this?  Are there any settings to change to fix this?

Thanks.


texts: Downgrading Aperture 3.4.3 library to 3.0

texts: Is there a way to open an Aperture 3.4.3 library in Aperture 3.0?


texts: How much will upgraded processor and RAM affect battery life?

texts: I'm considering purchasing a new Macbook Air, and one of my main goals would be to maximize battery life.  If I upgrade the standard processor (from 1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 to 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7) or RAM (from 4GB SDRAM to 8GB SDRAM), by how much should I expect battery life to be reduced?  Would it be only when using all of the RAM / processor power?


texts: I just got my first iPhone 6. I wonder if it is a requirement to get an Apple ID or if it is possible to install apps without having an Apple ID? I think that I already have so many IDs and I don't want a new.


texts: Is it possible to take a screenshot in Recovery Mode?

texts: Or, anywhere outside "userspace?" For example, the login screen, or in Single User Mode.


texts: How can I enable Safari 13.1 (Catalina) to render specific unicode characters?

texts:
Since upgrading to macOS Catalina (10.15.4) I realized that Safari (13.1) can no longer render my lovely black truck(⛟). If I inspect this element in the developer console or copying the character into the url bar, everything is rendered perfectly fine, but in the web view, I only get the white square displayed. The same problem exists on 2 other Catalina machines, but not on the 10.14 and 10.13 Safaris.

How can I fix this on Catalina?


texts: How can I clone my Lion-pre-installed drive to a new smaller hard drive?

texts:
I got a new MBP with Lion installed (as detailed here: How can I install an SSD on my new Lion MBP w/out install disks?), and I want to clone the drive (including the Lion install partition) to my new SSD drive? (Note: I don't care about the OS or user files since this is a brand new machine).

Edit I have a solution, so mainly just created this question to share my result. However, I know others may have different ways to have done this, so please share


texts:
If I have a folder full of similar files, is there a technique to open all of its files with a particular app? For example, I would like to right-click on a folder and Open With a selected app.

I know I can do this by entering into the folder and selecting some or all of its files. I just wondered whether there is a way to do this on the folder itself.


texts: Suppressing "reopen windows" dialog when restarting a crashed program in Mountain Lion

texts:
Is there any way of suppressing the alert dialog that pops up when restarting a crashed program in Mountain Lion (10.8.2)? The alert's text reads:

"The last time you opened , it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?"

I want the OS to just open the program without asking me this, since the computer is being used in a kiosk-type application.

Thanks,

c.


texts:
Whats up with this?:

When I have a mouse cursor size that is bigger than the actual mouse, this shows up. Please help! It is really annoying and it makes my computer lag. It does not survive a reboot, but right when someone else logs into my computer or I log out and then log back in, it starts again.


texts: Should I use Automator or another program for repetitious tasks?

texts: I have 100s of images to save out in a different format for a project that I am working on. And the problem is I have to do them one at a time, so I am wondering if there is some way to record the actions of me saving one of them out and then having the program repeat it by looking in a specific directory and doing it with all of the images. I am not sure how else to explain what I am trying to do, but I just need some way to make the program that I am using automate the saving task for each image. P.S I don't know if it helps but the program that I am using is called (Texture Packer)


texts:
I am connected to a vpn network throught the ethernet port. And I want to share these connection over a WLAN internet sharing my iPhone.

Configuration:

OSX: Mavericks (Version 10.9.4)
VPN: OpenVPN (with client Tunnelblick oder Viscosity)
Interface: TAP

I tried a couple of tutorials, but nothing works:

http://rodrigo.sharpcube.com/2010/06/20/using-and-sharing-a-vpn-connection-on-your-mac/
http://www.sparklabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1129

I also tried the tool IceFloor (hanynet), with the NAT combination and a shared vpn connection:

After assign these services, it looks so:

And my interfaces are:

Is these configuration all, or have i missed something?


texts:
Can an iPhone (all current models) please be used without having to install iTunes on my home PC?

Would I need to have my local Apple store activate it for me?

What functionality (if any) would I lose by not having my own copy of iTunes?
(Such as; download music, install apps, OS security updates, subscribe to and download podcasts, update the sat-nav maps, backup files stored on the phone, etc)

If I would lose any functionality without iTunes, would joining iCloud effectively replace iTunes? If so, what limitations (if any) would I experience?

(I've seen contradictory answers to all these questions over the web and I hope a definative answer can be pinned down.)


texts:
I am installing Mavericks on a 2009 Macbook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo using the instructions outlines in this macworld article:
The quick and techie way.

So I have a mavericks install drive, but when I go to run it it says this app is not compatible with the arctitecture. The only evidence i could find on this happenening was on PPC macs trying to run intel apps and vice versa.
Any help would be greatly appreciated


texts: Are Apple Event Demos done in real time?

texts: So when there's an Apple Event, and someone does a demo of how Siri works or play a game, etc; Are those done on real time or were they prerecorded? (Just a PPT presentation)


texts: How can the iOS 8 version of Notes be backed up locally?

texts:
I love Notes and how iCloud helps me work on the go (with my iPhone) as well as on my computer seamlessly.
But every so often, I wish I could back them all up locally in a few steps, ideally as files and with as little tampering with the system as possible.

Is this doable?


texts: ls output does not have color while SSHing to another machine with iTerm2, but does with Terminal

texts:
Just as the title says, when I ssh to my work Fedora server with iTerm2 I don't get color ls output. When I ssh to the same server with OS X's default Terminal app, ls color output works just fine.

EDIT: All other ls output is colorized properly. Both iTerm2 and Terminal display ls locally as colored, and Terminal works properly when SSH'd over to the work machine.

The only time I'm not getting colorized ls output is when I use iTerm2 to SSH to my work machine. Terminal produces colorized ls output when SSH'd to my work machine and so does PuTTY on Windows.

When SSH'd into my work machine from iTerm2 'ls -G' also makes no difference. Still no coloration on ls output.

Also, when SSH'd to my work machine from iTerm2, the only thing I'm not seeing color on is the output of ls. My prompt is colorized, vim works with color, and if I echo $TERM I see xterm-256color.

Any ideas?


texts: Connect to a server without opening Finder windows for each mounted volume

texts:
When I connect to my server and mount all its volumes, new Finder windows open for each volume. This is new behavior in Lion (10.7), it just connected silently in SnowLeopard (10.6).

How can I connect in Lion without new Finder windows opening up?


texts: Why does mdworker keep spamming the logs on Lion?

texts:
After upgrading to Lion I keep noticing strange spamming of mdworker on the logs, even though there doesn't seem to be any noticeable CPU or IO work being done. The machine is snappy but I just can't figure out why these logs keep periodically appearing:

29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>PanAndZoom</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>Style</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>ShuffleSlides</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>Parent</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>GUID</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>PanAndZoom</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>Style</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>ShuffleSlides</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: <key>Parent</key>
29/08/12 10:17:13,861 com.apple.mdworker.lsb.0: *** process 55341 exceeded 500 log message per second limit  -  remaining messages this second discarded ***

Any ideas about what do they mean? Even googling for the keys doesn't seem to show anything useful.


texts: What is keyboard shortcut to cycle through worksheets in excel (office 2011) workbook on mackbook air?

texts: It looks like the shortcut is listed as Command+PageDown, but there's no "page down" on a mackbook air.  how can I cycle through the tabs (worksheets) in an excel workbook?


texts: How can iPad battery remain on 100% charge over night?

texts:
I'd like to know, what is "wrong" with iPad batteries (and probably with batteries for all other Apple mobile stuff) in absolutely positive way -- why they're so good in idle mode power consumption?

My six years old (!) iPad, charged up to 100% the previous day evening shows -- after whole long night of not being used (screen dimmed off, but WiFi connected) -- again 100% in the morning.

What am I missing here? For past 5-10 years I have been using about 100 different mobile devices from a really significant number of manufacturers (but only this iPad from Apple) and absolutely none of them was able to keep the same battery charge over night.

Typical idle-mode power drain schemes started from loosing 1% of battery charge per each hour at worst up to 2-3% power drain for whole night at best. But, I have never, ever met another device that when turned on and connected to local WiFi hasn't lost even a single percent of battery charge.

It nearly looks like a mythical impossibility. How it is possible that Apple's batteries all able to offer such exclusive performance while the whole world of mobile devices around -- can't? Are these measures true, correct and verifiable?


texts: Application Desktop assignment does not last

texts:
I've got 4 desktops in Mission Control. I've assigned CMD+1,2,3,4 to switch between them.
I've also assigned particular application to particular desktops, eg.Chrome to desktop 2, Atom to desktop 3. iterm2 to desktop 1.
I've done it by opening the apps in the respective desktops and going to Options => assign to this desktop.

Now I switch a lot between those desktops and I don't know what I do but after half an hour I've usually got Chrome and Atom swapped in terms of desktops. Also, when I check the Options it says that apparently Chrome is now assigned to Desktop 3 (as opposed to desktop 2).

I know it might be hard to trouble shoot but what am I clicking to reassign them? Any suggestions?
Is there any way to really lock the assignments.

I rely a lot on keyboard and the idea of 4 desktops/workspaces and switching between them like that has always worked for me. I'm new to mac os so I was glad to find that I can do it here as well. The problem is that I do something to reassign them and have no idea what...


texts: Acrobat Pro DC launches multiple times on Mac

texts:
I'm working with a system that has Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 19.010.20069 installed, on a Mac running High Sierra 10.13.6. When Acrobat is launched it proceeds to open multiple copies of itself, repeatedly, until the system has to be force rebooted. Other Adobe apps run fine, including the free Acrobat DC Reader and the entire Creative Cloud suite.

To troubleshoot, I first tried removing all Acrobat preferences and support files in the following locations:

 ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/
 ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/

 /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/
 /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat DC AMT/
 /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat DC Helper Frameworks/
 /Library/Preferences

This had no effect. We then completely uninstalled and reinstalled Acrobat, also to no effect. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what to try next?


texts: Wise Way To Boot Into Windows With Bluetooth Keyboard?

texts:
I'm a luddite and have a hardwired keyboard on my iMac. Booting into Windows is never a problem. A family member has an iMac with a Bluetooth keyboard and a Mighty Mouse. Never having used these, I find booting into Windows to be troublesome.

If someone has a slick trick for keeping the keyboard awake so that simply holding down the option key works, that would be excellent. Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.


texts: How can I bulk-edit Address Book, in particular to split the contents of First Name into First Name, Last Name?

texts:
Following a MobileMe import of a Windows XP AddressBook legacy, there are hundreds of entries in the Mac Address Book like this:

First: Harry Potter
Last:
First: Fred Flintstone
Last:

It appears that what happened is that both the First and Last names in the Windows XP Address Book migrated to the Firstname field in Mac Address Book.

Is there a way to bulk-edit these?  Going through the GUI means click on first name, highlight tail, cut, click on last, paste, next.  It would be nice to do that in a text editor or with a wee perl script.

Can the Address Book be exported as structured text and subsequently replaced by modified structured text?


texts: Memory pressure suddenly skyrockets and computer freezes or lags tremendously

texts:
I've been getting this problem a lot and it's very frustrating. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, my MacBook will just freeze up or lag tremendously. The clock stops, apps stop responding, and it'll take a long time just to get a button to press. This usually happens when I'm watching a YouTube video in Safari.

When this happens, the memory pressure gets super-high in the Activity Monitor, and all "Safari Web Contents" and Safari itself are not responding. The Activity Monitor itself often freezes as well.

There is no high CPU usage when this happens. It's not overheating either. What could be the cause of this problem, and how can I prevent it from happening?


texts: Is it possible to only sync favorite photos/videos to iCloud from my iPhone?

texts:
So, I've accumulated a lot of photos and videos on my iPhone and I'm happy to sync a few to iCloud, but I don't really want all of them there. Partially because there are lots of near-duplicates and also because I don't have enough space in iCloud.

Instead, I would like to ONLY sync favorites to iCloud and not bother with the non-favorites. Any ideas on how to do so?

iPhone 6
iOS 10.1.1


texts: Stop Devices Deleting Songs On iCloud; iTunes Match

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I want to delete songs from my devices, not from iCloud.

Can I change settings to prevent devices deleting songs from iCloud, i.e. delete from local device but not iCloud.


texts: Is it my imagination or do iPods charge faster using a car charger?

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Maybe I'm crazy, but it sure seems like when I plug my electronics (iPhone, iPod, etc.) into a car charger it gets up to a full charge MUCH faster than if I use a regular charger and an outlet.

Do these devices charge faster from car adapters, or am I imagining this? If so, why?


texts: How to switch between different Chrome windows with keyboard shortcuts?

texts:
Switching between applications is easy with command-tab.

Switching between tabs is easy with command-} or control-tab.

Switching between separate windows within an application is easy with command-`.

However, that last one doesn't seem to work with Google Chrome (Version 27.0.1453.110) on OS X 10.8.4. Is there a leopard shortcut specific for Chrome to switch between different windows?


texts: macOS Content Caching serving lots of data to unknown clients

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TL;DR:

Hidden/unknown client has downloaded 300GB of data from my macOS Content Caching (from origin, not cache). Traffic didn't come from my devices according to my testing. This stopped after I disabled SSH and SMB, changed password, and enabled firewall (I did them all at once). What happened? Why and how was it serving so much data?

Full details:

I have setup a headless late 2014 Mac mini on my local network for Apple content caching. It runs macOS Mojave, it’s connected to the network using Ethernet, it’s freshly formatted and up to date as of this writing.

Setup was super straightforward: check a box on sharing, disable sleeping on energy saving, wait for clients to connect.

I had also enabled SSH, VNC and SMB, changed users to “administrators only” on each of them, installed the Server app and few other utilities (docker, AirServer, DriveDx, server apps from the Mac App Store).

I have about 5 clients (Macs, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV) that usually connect to it. None of them normally consume much data: the first 7 days I got it running, they transferred a total of 37GB of data. I have an AirPort TC (WPA2 Personal with DHCP, not NAT) which, every time I checked, only showed these 5 devices on the Wi-Fi network, and the Mac mini is the only one on Ethernet. The ISP router has NAT but wireless is disabled. The macOS Server app shows “reachable, no services”.

But on the 8th day, around the time I decided to do a full SMART disk self-test on the HDD, the content caching server started serving 12GB per hour, every hour, non-stop, from origin (not cache). Seemed strange. I turned off Wi-Fi on all of my devices to sleep it off and see whether it would stop: it didn’t.

As far as I know, the Mac mini itself doesn’t use its own content caching for downloading content for it (which I thought was strange), so I ruled it out as the source of all downloading.

On the third morning of constantly serving 12GB/hour (from origin) and a total of 336GB served, I got very worried and disabled SMB, SSH except VNC (or else I can’t access it), changed the admin password (previously it was neither an easy nor a short one), enabled the firewall (the default is off on a fresh install) and since then, the content caching has been serving 0 bytes for the last hours. Caching is still working for my 5 devices.

Apple says caching server doesn’t do networks other than local by default. My ISP’s upload speed is pretty much constant at 20mbps (2,5MB/s), so I think it’s not completely impossible for this data to have left my local network because it was being served at approximately 25~28mbps.

What could possibly have caused this? Could there be an unknown reason or nefarious client at work here? Could any data have been stolen?

I’ve never used content caching before, but Apple docs say data is encrypted. The log is huge and doesn’t seem to help me because, if I understand correctly, it doesn’t log IPs by default. I didn’t get any warnings for any of my Apple accounts, I have 2-factor auth for pretty much everything.

I also have pi-hole logs, but all network usage is merged into a single, virtual IP.

Thanks in advance and sorry for such a long question.


texts: Is there some special or secret way to get a "new document" in Preview on Mac?

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I am trying to compare Google Docs's Drawings with Mac's Preview, and if I can have a canvas, such as a white one with 1200 x 800 pixel, then I can start drawing rounded rectangles, lines, and text.

However, there is no way to get a new blank document of 1200 x 800 pixel wide to begin drawing. Somehow it seems I have to find such an image, make a "copy" (the copy in copy-and-paste), and then "Paste from Clipboard".

Is there some special or secret method or good method to create such a new document to draw on?


texts: Need to reset admin password with OS X 10.6.8 Will this impact Time Machine backup?

texts: I have Mac OS X 10.6.8, connected to Time Machine backing up my files. I see directions you gave for resetting admin password. I'm wondering if I can just keep Time Machine plugged in while I reboot and reset. Will I keep all old files? Do I need to know anything about accessing them with a new password? Just making sure I don't lose files! Tx!


texts: Why does my iPod shuffle occasionally fail to sync play counts with iTunes?

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It's been about half a year since I moved from an iPhone to a Windows Phone. This was a particularly difficult decision, as play counts are extremely important to me but non-Apple devices don't sync media play counts with iTunes. (More on this in a bit.)

But I switched anyway, and I bought a 4th-generation iPod shuffle as a replacement for the Music app on my iPhone as well as a cool little fashion accessory in my favorite color. I never listen to any music from my iTunes library on my Windows Phone; the only music-related thing I do with it is watch music videos on the Internet — I don't store any music videos on iTunes anyway.

In the six and a half years I'd been using an iPhone, play counts and other metadata synced perfectly with iTunes (well, except when it was completely fudged in iOS 8.0 until it was fixed several months later in iOS 8.1.1). Not so with my iPod shuffle; I've noticed that when I sync, sometimes the play counts, skip counts and last played/skipped dates update, and other times they don't even though I could have sworn I've been listening to my music all day.

What gives?


texts: What is the lightning bolt icon in iCal?

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I've gone through this document, but it's for iCal 3.0, Lion has 5.0+.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iCal/3.0/en/symbls.html

Here's what it looks like, I'm not sure if it's a bolt or a tilde:

Hovering over it gives you no information about it, and it disappears shortly after creating the event...


texts:
Keep getting a message in Terminal saying

tput: unknown terminal "xterm-256color"

This message typically appears when running homebrew, and while I can swear it's popped up on other places, I can't precisely remember. echo $TERM outputs xterm-256color. I'm not the best at diagnosing Terminal problems, so any help is greatly appreciated.

(I know this may be an issue when SSHing to remote servers that don't support xterm-256color, but in this case I'm just concerned about my actual system.)


texts: Installing Mavericks on a new Mac Mini (end 2014) shipped with Yosemite pre-installed?

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Excuse me for my english, I'm french and I try to find a solution for my new Mac Mini buy in December. My new Mac Mini it's configured with Yosemite 10.10.0. and it's a problem for me because I use some professional music software like Cubase Elements 7 or Studio One 2, it's not compatible for the moment with Yosmeite. I want to downgrade and I read your post and I'm in panic because I view that not possible to downgrade my new Mac Mini in OSX Mavericks. I have created a external bootable usb key with a Mavericks in my other Mac. When i restart on my usb key bootable, appear this symbol

It's the kernel panic when I try to boot on the usb key. I think it's mean it's not possible to downgrade on Mavericks with this New Mac Mini (end 2014) ?

Actually I'm in OSX 10.10.1, it's possible that the problem come because I'm in this version ?

Thanks for your help and your answers...


texts: We have a financial institution we are bring on as a client running on Mac's.  The are looking to collect all the system logs from each computer every night and keep each for 90 days. I have seen others have scrips to collect system logs at time of an incident when someone is having an issue but nothing that will collect user data for security reason automatically. Can anyone point me in the direction of a 3rd party product or script structure?


texts: how to recover deleted photos on Mac, that were earlier imported from Iphone?

texts: After importing picture files from my Iphone, I copied the lot onto my external drive & deleted these files from my Iphone & Photos app. But unfortunately I lost the drive. Is there a way to recover those files on Mac, which were once imported?


texts: Is it possible to take a video screenshot (screenshow?) of what's occurring on a Macbook Pro's screen?

texts:
I've got an unusual situation which I cannot explain. I thought to take a video of what I'm seeing on the screen, but realized I didn't know how to do that.

Is there a way to take a video of the screen's activities? From terminal, shortcut keys, or another method?


texts: Why does my Mac (OS X 10.9) try to log into our fileserver as GUEST?

texts:
We recently upgraded several of our Macs to Mavericks. On one in particular, I'm seeing unexpected behavior when logging in to a Windows fileserver.

From Finder, I hit cmd-k, then enter smb:\\servername01\

The Finder immediately logs into the server without asking for a username or password. All fileshares on the server are visible but inaccessible. Login name is GUEST (all caps). To fix, I have to eject the fileserver and then log in using smb:\\username@servername01\. OS X then prompts for my Windows domain password as expected.

I have deleted my login keychain and deleted all relevant passwords from the system keychain. The behavior is reproduced in other accounts. However, all other Mavericks computers don't have this problem. I also have deleted related preference files (com.apple.finder comes to mind). Is there anywhere else that this setting could be stored?


texts: iPhone 5s lag related to repeated nsnetworkd crashes

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Something weird is happening with my iPhone 5s on iOS 7.1.1. For the past week, it's become very laggy, where if I try to interact with it via software, Bluetooth, or even the physical buttons, it will often freeze completely for 1-10 seconds before resuming as if nothing had happened. Some of my apps have also started to occasionally crash on launch. Restarting didn't help.

Looking at my crash reports, I see that nsnetworkd process has been crashing and restarting pretty much nonstop since a week ago:

And looking at my system log, it seems that the cause of this is an unrecognized selector:

Jun  5 17:17:19 Pleasant-Brick nsnetworkd[1828] <Error>: -[__NSCFNumber _sha1Hash]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xb000000000000003
Jun  5 17:17:19 Pleasant-Brick nsnetworkd[1828] <Error>: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFNumber _sha1Hash]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xb000000000000003'

(Oddly enough, network functionality seems to be unaffected.)

What on earth is going on? My phone isn't jailbroken, so I don't see how the nsnetworkd process could have changed in any way. Could this be some sort of new iOS virus?

I'm going to try to reset my network settings and then restore from backup if that doesn't work, but I'm really curious as to why this is happening.


texts: How can I buy apps in the App Store without a credit card?

texts:
While I'm waiting for my credit card to arrive, I still want to be able to buy some apps for my iPad!

Are there alternative ways to pay for apps, without resorting to someone else's credit card?


texts:
I do not want tabs as symbols in Textmate.
I would like to them be for instance 4 spaces.

How can you make each 'tab' be 4 spaces?


texts: How to get rid of a second CrashPlan icon in the menu bar?

texts:
Everytime I restart, I get two crashplan icons in the menu bar.

If I close one of them, the other still remains.

How can I get rid of one of them?


texts:
Trying to run this and get no such file or folder even though the individual files work in terminal.
#!/bin/bash

pkill Microsoft Teams

rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/blob_storage/*
rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/Cache/*
rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/databases/*
rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/GPUCache/*
rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/IndexedDB/*
rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/Local Storage/*

echo "Clearing Microsoft Teams Cache"

I know this must be basic stuff but not a Mac user normally.


texts: How do I remove iTunes downloads without deleting from my library?

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iTunes has an option that I've used often in the past, I believe it was named Remove Download, to "undo" the download of a song or album (I've used it to free up space and to re-download music into different folders). However, I no longer see the option to do this, and I can't figure out why.
I'm using macOS Mojave 10.14.6 on an old MacBook Air. I'm not subscribed to Apple Music or iTunes Match (subscribing to either one is not an option right now). My account is set up with Family Sharing.
Thank you!
(Image: a screenshot of the menu that appears when I right-click a song.)


texts: I have iTunes 12.6. I read that after 12.2 iTunes doesn't create .xml to store playlists. Is the .itl the same thing?  Will it have my playlists?  I tried importing the library.itl to my new computer, but nothing happened.  How do I get my playlists to a new computer when using iTunes 12.2 or later?


texts: I run launchd and I get an error that says "invalid property list"

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When I run launchctl to load/start the plist with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.web_blocker</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Applications/Python 3.6</string>
        <string>/Users/michaelcunningham/Desktop/website_blocker.py</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>60</integer>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
</dict>
</plist>

I get the error "invalid property list". How can I resolve this issue?


texts: Two copies of the same image, with different sizes

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I have two copies of the same image (jpeg). One is 4.0 MB the other 5.9 MB.

I have run

exiftool -a -G1 -s

and the only difference reported is the size.

I used hexdump to compare them and they seem to be identical except the second has more data at the end.

They did originally come from an an old Mac and one had extended attributes, including

com.apple.ResourceFork   118660

Does that mean the added data is a resource fork? Is it anything sinister?

I deleted the extended attribute using

xattr -d com.apple.ResourceFork image2.jpg

but that made no difference to the size of the file.

Why are the two files different sizes? I have other files like this. How do I get rid of the junk data at the end of the file?

ETA

With some more experimenting I did the following.

sips -s format jpeg image2.jpg --out image0.jpg

reduced the file size to 2MB, but the quality was reduced from 96% to 93%.

With

sips -f horizontal image2.jpg ; sips -f horizontal image2.jpg

reduced the file size to 2MB (but a tiny bit smaller than image0.jpg), but the quality was reduced from 96% to 93%.

With

convert image2.jpg image4.jpg

reduced the file size to 3.8MB, the quality was maintained at 96%.

I also noted that opening either original file with Preview caused Finder to add a

com.apple.quarantine

Extended Attribute.


texts: 'True' Thunderbolt to DisplayPort or DVI cable?

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Is there a native Thunderbolt to DisplayPort or DVI cable?

I understand that Thunderbolt is downwards-compatible to Mini DisplayPort, however I'm looking for an adapter cable using the Thunderbolt port in a native fashion;

Background: I want to run two displays off a Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock 2, however it doesn't allow the Thunderbolt port to run in Display Port mode and using the HDMI port at the same time..

So I'm looking into some kind of adapter from (native) Thunderbolt to a non-Thunderbolt display without using the Mini DisplayPort compatibility mode..

Any hints much appreciated!!


texts: Music.app won't store preference for "Automatic Download"

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In Apple Music, for mac, in preferences there is this option for "Automatic Download". No matter how many times I check it, it will stay unchecked the next time I open preferences and it behaves as unchecked.

Any idea how can I fix this?


texts: Connecting to FTP, directory seems to be blank

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I need to transfer some files into a guest computer in VirtualBox, and I think FTP would be a good way, but am having trouble connecting the two "computers".

I tried running:

sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

then running:

ifconfig | grep "inet "

and grabbing the address returned that wasn't 127.0.0.1.

I even downloaded the FTPD Enable app, but when I visit ftp://192.168.1.119/ in a browser it's just an empty directory.

Is there a setting in Preferences -> Sharing I need to set, or is the FTP leading to a directory somewhere that might just be empty?

When going to higher level directories, (ftp://192.168.1.119/../../../../../../../../../), they all look the same.

I wouldn't think it should be necessary to install OSX Server for this.


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I use the iTerm terminal a lot and occasionally I'll run a script with an "exit" in it. When that statement executes I get 2 orange horizontal lines drawn the width of my iTerm window with the message "Broken Pipe". Why does an exit statement cause the window to lock? Is there a workaround for this?

When the window does lock-up is there any way to salvage it? Currently, I just close that window and open a new one.

I tried using the Terminal app but the window locks-up there as well.


texts: can't mount an encrypted Volume on an M1 Mac. Works fine on Intel Macs. Known Issue?

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Is this a known issue with M1 Macs and encrypted drives?
What steps should I attempt to mount this volume?
Encrypted drive will not mount on M1 Mac. Mounts on my intel Macs no problems.
It’s Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) format and I used Disk Utility to create the volume using standard Apple encryption.
It hangs DU when I ask DU to mount the volume, sometimes even just plugging it into the M1 Mac causes DU to hang.
On the rare times Finder asks for a password for the volume, it beachballs the Finder/Mac. When I try and mount it using DU or Terminal it doesn’t work, in DU it hangs DU and I have to force quit DU. Apple support senior advisor still cannot get to the bottom of it. Seems to be an M1 Mac and/or Big Sur issue. I’ve already allowed 3rd kernel extensions on this Mac so that’s not it.
This is not a Time Machine drive. (people often assume it might be). On the Intel Mac I can connected with a USB3 cable into a USB2 hub (older Mac) or via a OWC TB2 hub in one of the USB ports. ON the 13' M1 MBA I'm going directly into the USB3 port via an adapter (TB3 to USB/HDMI adapter). The M1 Mac can see the drive but not mount it from terminal, disk utilities or in Finder. If I ever get to the point of being able to enter the encryption key, it hangs the app doing it, or the Mac entirely.
  $ diskutil list external
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage magic-carpet            959.9 GB   disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3

/dev/disk3 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS magic-carpet           +959.5 GB   disk3
                                 Logical Volume on disk2s2
                                 F37357F2-53C0-4926-BC59-431301F9A208
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

/dev/disk4 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        +49.1 MB    disk4
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS AnyMP4 Screen Record... 49.1 MB    disk4s2


texts:
just installed XAMPP and have tried setting up a local server but the address won't resolve. It will lead to a "Connection Was Reset" error. I tried looking in the logs but none were present so I'm instantly suspcious of something not being set up right.. but I can't seem to track it down..

here's my vhosts file (/etc/apache2/extra):

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin johndoe@domain.com
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/site"
    ServerName site.local
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/site.local-access_log" com$
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/site.local-error_log"
    <Directory "/var/www/site">
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and my host file (/etc):

127.1.2.3       site.local
127.1.2.3       www.site.local

Apache (when restarted) starts without any issues so not really sure what's wrong?

Thanks


texts: Why does loginwindow keep freezing in Mojave?

texts:
This is a follow-up to my previous question: Function keys stop working after a while in Mojave

The issue I had is that loginwindow kept freezing. In this Gist, the issue is explained in detail. The explanation can be found below.

macOS Mojave build >18A326g has a nasty issue.

Basically, loginwindow likes threads. It's so passionate about threads that
it will continue to collect threads endlessly. Now, the problem with such a
process collecting so many threads is that, as the owner of all processes
running under your account, if the process crashes, say goodbye to most of
macOS.

Well, this is exactly what happens. loginwindow freezes at 4096 threads and
causes most of macOS to become unstable or unusable. For example, most of the
menu items under the apple menu become useless, such as About This Mac or the
Sleep/Restart/Shut Down options. Some of the function/media keys stop working
as well, such as the brightness, keyboard backlight, and volume keys.

I also believe the log out option gets disabled too, but I haven't tested it.
However, if this is indeed the case, this means the only way to log out
reliably is using this script with the --kill option, which finds and kills
loginwindow for you.

loginwindow does indeed collect 4096 threads and then freeze. Every time. In fact, I built a notifier using JXA to warn me when corruption (threads / 4096) reaches over 90%.

That's beside the point, however. As far as I can tell, nobody else has the issue (either that or they never figured out why).

I've reported this issue to Apple 4 betas ago, but the issue's still here.

How do I figure out what's causing this issue? How do I prevent it?


texts: How can I show only unnamed faces in Mac photos

texts: I was trying to show photos with unnamed faces so that I can annotate them. There is an online solution but it requires you to mark all the pictures with no faces at all. Any suggestions?


texts: How can I find the serial number of my Apple Keyboard USB on a mac programmatically from the terminal?

texts:
I would like to retrieve the Apple USB Keyboard's serial number from a command to use in a script.

What command can I use ?


texts: What can I do as a website admin to get my site whitelisted from Apple parental controls?

texts:
I work for a governmental website where by nature there is no explicit content whatsoever.

If web page content restriction is turned on in iOS, some parts of the site cannot be accessed with Safari, instead the following message is displayed:

  You cannot browse this page at "domain.com" because it is restricted

I have contacted Apple support but they seem to have a hard time to answer with actionable advice. Anyone else have similar experiences apart from this guy: Why is a new website/domain restricted on iOS Safari? Mine are very similar, the answers to his question seem insufficient to me too.

Help would be greatly appreciated.


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I understand which Apple devices support wireless AP handoffs, though when roaming around our office with my Macbook Pro it usually takes my mac about 5 minutes to actually assess which access point may be more optimal and to trigger a handoff.

Is there a way to increase the frequency of handoff scans, or simply decrease the time it takes for the system to detect there is a better access point?

As I mentioned it's a MacBook Pro with Yosemite preinstalled. It's the second newest version (as in the version that is one iteration behind the newly announced MacBook Pros).


texts:
I reinstalled my system and recovered the known_hosts file with Time Machine. And now I have no longer permission to write in said file.

I have set Read & Write for me,staff and everybody on said file. But that doesn't change anything.

What could be the problem there?

Output:

-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 username  staff  17773 14 Mär 14:44 known_hosts

Output 2:

-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 mtdesign  staff  17773 14 Mär 14:44 known_hosts
com.apple.TextEncoding     11
com.apple.finder.copy.source.checksum#N     4
com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot     50
com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldestSnapshot     50
com.apple.quarantine       23


texts:
I have a 13" MBP (Early 2011) plugged it to a Dell U2711 monitor via DisplayPort.

I have successfully enabled HiDPI mode, using Quartz Debug the problem is that the screen won't run at the HiDPI equivalent of the screen's native resolution. i.e 1440x720 HiDPI (2560x1440). The screen's maximum resolution of 2560x1440 is recognised & working.

The best it will do is 960x720HiDPI (1920x1440), which seems strange as most of the documentation suggests HiDPI will only work at pixel doubling resolutions.

Is it possible to force the MBP to run the display at 1440x720 HiDPI on a screen that supports 2560x1440 native pixel resolution?


texts: All usb c ports are working flawlessly but charging keeps flickering on and off in irregular basis

texts:
This is a macbook pro 2018. All the usb ports are working with all other peripherals and the charger works also, but sometimes it keeps turning on and off (it keeps chiming to say it's charging, randomly, every minute or so) and sometimes it charges normally.
I tried to reset SCM and NVRAM. I'm thinking that this is a big sur thing and downgrade to catalina or the adapter is malfunctioning or maybe it is a logic board thing. What do you think?


texts: Why does a Time Machine backup not complete when destination is a Shared Volume?

texts:
I have six Macs in my house, all running the latest, greatest version of Snow Leopard. I also have an eMac (PPC) running Leopard 10.5.8. I use the eMac as a file and print server. The eMac has two external FireWire drives, 1 TB each. I partitioned each one so that there is a separate partition for each. I've shared each of the partitions.

On each of the six Snow Leopard Macs, I set up Time Machine to use the individual shared volume from the eMac. This seems to work fine, but when several clients try to back up at the same time I get the following error:

  The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk. The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.

What can I do to troubleshoot this further and make the system more reliable?


texts: Is it possible or likely for malware or a virus to be transferred by plugging a USB hard drive into my Mac?

texts:
I am in the process of transferring data from my old MacBook Pro to a new MacBook Pro. In order to transfer some files, I decided to plug in a USB hard drive that contained a bootable partition of my old MacBook Pro, as well as a partition that contained the files that I wished to transfer. (The drive contained a few partitions, all of which mounted on the new MacBook Pro).

I had my old MacBook Pro for about four years, and I never performed a fresh install. So since the bootable partition on the usb drive is an exact copy of my old MacBook Pro hard drive, if there were any malicious files, they would be sitting on the hard drive.

When I plugged in the hard drive to my new Mac, I did not open or run any files, I simply copied over a few specific files including some pictures that I took. I did not boot from the partition on the drive.

My understanding is that since macOS does not have autorun, I would have to actually copy infected files, or open or run an infected file (by clicking on it) in order to transfer or 'activate' malware or a virus, is this true?

So assuming that I did not copy or run any infected files from the hard drive, do I have anything to worry about? Is my new Mac at risk? Would it be safe to continue this practice of transferring files in the future?

Also, my new Mac is running macOS Sierra.

Note: I do not have an specific reason to believe that the old Mac is infected - it hasn't necessarily been behaving strangely, I am just cautious since it is an older machine that has four years worth of software installed.


texts: iPad is crushed, how to access iCloud backup?

texts: My iPad was recently destroyed. There were a lot of pictures on it I would like to retrieve. I did have iCloud turned on. How can I access that backup and retrieve my pictures?


texts: How to add keyboard shortcut for "Move to Predicted Mailbox" in Apple Mail?

texts:
In Apple Mail (under macOS Catalina, 10.15.3) there is a menu item "Move to Predicted Mailbox" .
It already has a keyboard shortcut ^ CMD M.

I would like to change that to something else.
Now, the problem is that this menu item changes every time I select a different message, depending on the folder Mail predicts. So, one time it is called 'Move to "MailboxA"'  , another time it might be called 'Move to "MailboxB"' .
Consequently, I cannot define a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences for it. I have tried to define it for "Move to Predicted Mailbox", but when Mail actually does predict a mailbox, then it shows the original shortcut, not mine.

Does anyone have an idea how I might be able to define a shortcut for this that "sticks"?


texts: I'm working on a mac and since I've updated to High Sierra, the system takes up more and more space for no reason. I've found out that most of the times the problem comes with time machine, but I never used this program and there was no other solution to fix that problem. Now, I'm running out of space. Thanks for help!


texts: How to fix Quicktime that is not playing videos from Apple's website?

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I have a windows 7 system and would like to watch one of Apple's keynotes.

I have downloaded Quicktime player version 7.0 and it automatically starts as soon as I click on the video. But after starting nothing seems to be happening. I just see a Quicktime loading screen and that is it. No video seen.
I have problems playing any Quicktime video for that matter especially from the Apple website.

What could be going wrong and how to fix?


texts: iPhone 4 passcode lock disabled and no access to iTunes

texts: My phone is disabled and I have no access to iTunes. It is telling me to try again in 23,805,632 seconds but of course I can't wait 50 years!


texts: Mobile Account as Administrators Not Working While Mobile

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I had a user that was set up to administer an OS X machine. That user is an AD account, with mobile accounts enabled. The user's AD group is set to allow administration using the directory utility.

I was contacted by the user while he was on the road, saying that he couldn't install a program. It would ask for an administrative user and password, and give a dialog bounce when he entered his information.

When he got to one of our offices, he connected to their network and it let him install the application.

Does the settings for users in an AD group allowed to administer the machine only work when the machine is in communication to AD servers, even with mobile accounts set up to allow caching of user credentials? Is there a way to cache the fact that user Bob is able to administer the machine without creating a separate user account?


texts: Retina MacBook Pro - Quad core vs. Dual core and virtual machines (VMware Fusion)

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I am looking to get a Retina MacBook Pro and I am really torn between the portability of the 13" dual core i7 and the four cores of the 15" quad core i7. The majority of my work will be done using a virtual machine (VMWare Fusion). For this reason no matter which machine I choose I will be going with an SSD and 16 GB RAM. Also, I'm not really concerned with price as I really want to get the best performance. Portability vs. performance is my biggest concern. This laptop will serve as my dedicated workstation.

Though I would prefer the smaller form factor of the 13" Retina MBP I am concerned that the dual core i7 might not be fast enough to handle multiple virtual machines running at the same time. Within the virtual machines I will be running Windows 8, SQL Server, Visual Studio 2013, and IIS.

Does anyone know just how much difference the quad core would make as compared to the dual core as it pertains to running virtual machines? Also, dies the dedicated 2 GB graphics card available on the 15" come into play at all when dealing with virtual machines?


texts: How to use the mouse scrollwheel to trigger a macro/service?

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I want to trigger "+" resp. "-" when I use the scrollwheel of my mouse (G700) together with CMD. Shortcuts triggered by key combinations only are simple, but using the scrollwheel as the trigger seems to be more complicated.

What are my options to use CMD+mousescroll to trigger a key or service?


texts: Beta Command Line Tools offered as update—why?

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Today the App Store is offering me the Command Line Tools for Xcode 10.0 beta 1.

I do not recall ever signing up as a beta tester for any Apple software. Why do I get this update and how can I prevent such beta software from being accidentally installed on my system?
I have macOS 10.13.5 and Xcode 9.4. I also have MacPorts with clang 6.0 (newer than the one in Xcode, but it shouldn't interfere).

Update 2019-06-04: It is happening again, this time it is offering "Command Line Tools beta 1 for Xcode 11.0". This seems to be a mistake on Apple's part again (see the accepted answer).
Update 2020-09-15: Again with "Command Line Tools beta 5 for Xcode 12.0".


texts: Can I run multiple instances of Skype on one computer?

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I am a heavy Skype user - I use it for work and to communicate with friends. Little by little my contact list grew to almost 800 people. It's really difficult to handle my contacts and put them in different lists. Searching for contacts is also not intuitive and easy task - people like to use strange usernames for Skype.

I need to divide my contacts and use two instances of Skype - for business and personal use. Do you know a way I can do that and stay online in both accounts at the same time?


texts: Is it possible with AppleScript to choose a clickable element in a web page and click it and if so, can you give me an example?


texts: What is the purpose of the numeral to the right of Sent in Apple Mail?

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I realize this is not specific to Apple Mail, but recently someone asked me this and I had not a clue of its meaning. I also am having no luck searching Google or Bing for the answer. The closest thing I have found to an answer was "refresh the page until it goes away".

So if the numbers on the majority of labels means "unread" and the one in outbox mean "unsent", what does the number next to sent mean?