texts: Ubuntu Bootable DVD created with a MacBookPro9.1 is not recognized

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I followed   http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/burn-a-dvd-on-mac-osx to create a bootable UBUNTU DVD with my MacBook Pro9.1 (OS X Yosemite 10.10.5).

I ended all the steps but I cannot boot such dvd on my MacBookPro9.1.
BUT..the same dvd works in other computer (MacBookPro8.1 OS x Lion 10.7.5).
Is not a problem of the Computer?


texts: MacBook Pro can't see my android phone WiFi hotspot

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My MacBook Pro pro can't see my Android phone wifi hotspot, when I got the phone new the MacBook was seeing the hotspot and I was connecting to it but after some months it stopped seeing the network. It sees other wifi network around but can't see that of my Android phone
It also happened with my Fujitsu Laptop running Windows 10, sometime ago and I was able to solve the issue by resetting my network.
I have tried disabling my network and putting it up again by doing ( sudo ifconfig en0 down ) on the Terminal but it still did not work, I tried disabling the wifi by going to System preferences ->> Network ->> select the wifi from the left hand bar ->> and clicking on ( - "Delete the selected service") and used the ( + "Create a new service") to add it again but it still did not work.


texts: iCal share multiple calendars with one person

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I'd like to share all my calendars with my boss. She shares her calendars with me using Google Calendar and I was hoping doing the same with my calendars.
How can I share multiple calendars to be visible as one? I can only find calendars to be shared one-by-one.


texts: viewing contacts without my iphone in my presence

texts: I never forget my Iphone at home and oh course the day I did I need it like emergency status. My boyfriend and I share a car and I have to get out to ventura for my job and need to tell my boss if I can go or not within the next 30min. So I need to get my boyfriends cell number but I don't have it memorized. Is there anyway I can view my contacts thru my email or messanger?


texts: Using zgrep on a remote drive eats space on my local Mac

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I connect to a remote drive via WebDAV protocol, whereon I have a folder full of about 143 .tar.gz files containing data dumps, whereamong I'm trying to find my email.
Herefor, I use this command:
zgrep -a "my@email.com" /Volumes/storage.address.name/home/folder/Collection\ \#2-\#5\ \&\ Antipublic/*

Once the command is running, I can see my free space on my local MacBook, wherefrom I run the above mentioned command, disappear swiftly, like 0,5 GB per minute. If I let the command run, I would totally run out of space.
Could someone please tell me why is this happening or how to prevent it?


texts: What makes autofill not appear as a sync option in iTunes 11?

texts:
I’m unable to use Autofill to add songs in iTunes 11 and I’d really like to use it.
Following the help guide in iTunes, it says I should be able to see an “Autofill from” pop-up menu at the bottom of the music pane:

Unfortunately, this is what I see instead:

Attempting to set my iPhone to have music be manually added also seems like a no-go:

Any ideas how I could see that Autofill pop-up menu?


texts:
My Mac Pro (late 2013, cylinder), doesn't want to wake from sleep. I have not a clue what is going on (worked all fine with Sierra).

Anybody?

Config:

MacPro 2013 (MacPro6,1) + 2x EIZO EV2450 (both via display-port)
Energy Settings: everything unchecked
Turn display of after 5 minutes

What I noticed:

Screens are in standby/sleep
I can hear the fan (still spinning)
Power button (on the back) is pulsating (yet fan is not silent?)

What I did:

Press power-button for 5 seconds
Start and try to zap PRAM
Shutdown
Pulled power cable for 15 seconds
Plug cable (wait 5 seconds)
Start Mac.

update:

check your power-management settings:

// terminal
pmset -g live

My settings are (and seem to work for now):

 standby              1
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 womp                 0
 autorestart          0
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 sleep                5 (sleep prevented by sharingd)
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         5
 standbydelay         10800

update 2:

For those running into these issues. Two more things you could try.

connect your keyboard (if you use usb wired) direct to your mac. Not via a hub or monitor
connect each monitor with a usb cable to your mac (this could trigger the wake event)


texts: Mac book pro 10.13.6 clean install on a year or two old machine

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I want to remove the "remote disk" not just from the side bar. I found on this site that from the terminal

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool false
killall Finder

This worked on older build. But with the new install /com.apple.NetworkBrowser is no longer in the /Library/Preferences directory.

I will never need or want to use "remote disk" can someone tell me how to get rid of it? Thank you.


texts: iPhone Cellular Calls on macOS fail when macOS is connected to OpenVPN

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My iPhone and MacbookPro are both connected to the same Wi-Fi network, and logged in to the same iCloud account, etc. When my OpenVPN connection is not active, calling and receiving cellular calls on macOS works fine.

However, when my OpenVPN connection is active, it's more hit-or-miss. Sometimes it'll work fine, but often I'll get 'Call failed' on macOS (EDIT: meaning the call never starts, I just type a number or choose one from my Contacts and click 'Call' or I receive a call and click 'Accept', and then I get the 'Call failed' message). When receiving a call, I even get the FaceTime notification on macOS where I can Accept the call, but clicking it gives me 'Call failed' and my iPhone then declines the call, not even letting me pick it up there after it failed on macOS. Very annoying!

So I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to fix this. I have full control of both my OpenVPN client config and the OpenVPN server, as well as the Wi-Fi network and any other local network configuration (EDIT: to clarify, I am the administrator of my devices and all network equipment up to the ISP's modem, both at home and at work). I just need to know what is causing this, and if possible how to fix it - although I may be able to figure that out myself if I know the cause.

Right now I figure the FaceTime notification on macOS is received from iOS in a different way from the actual call (ie. one might use bluetooth and the other Wi-Fi, or one might use a TCP connection and the other UDP, or something like that). Does anyone have more information on this? EDIT: I'm asking specifically what the traffic between macOS and iOS concerning the cellular call looks like, so I know what to look for.

Full disclosure on all systems involved:

iPhone SE running iOS 12.1.2
Macbook Pro 15" 2018 running macOS Mojave 10.14.2
OpenVPN 2.4.6 configured through Tunnelblick 3.7.8
general traffic does NOT go through the VPN, only connections to specific work-related websites and servers are routed through the VPN connection. EDIT: This means macOS has 2 or more gateways when the VPN is active (sometimes there are multiple simultaneous VPN connections running), but the default gateway is always the one from the local network, meaning the same as when there are no VPN connections running.
the OpenVPN connection automatically restarts when it is disconnected for any reason. The call failures seem to happen more often after an automatic reconnection.


texts: Which command controls the open file limits?

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Which command / configuration file controls the open file limits on OS X?  Is there a different command for OS X 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7?  The options I explore below are ulimit, sysctl, and launchctl

"Too many open files" is apparently a common error on Leopard, perhaps other versions of OS X:

420 Too Many Open Files
How to properly increase ulimit -n on Lion?
Where are the default ulimits specified on OS X (10.5)?

There are many (related?) ways to view the open file limits:

$ ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 2048
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 512
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited

$ launchctl limit
cpu         unlimited      unlimited
filesize    unlimited      unlimited
data        unlimited      unlimited
stack       8388608        67104768
core        0              unlimited
rss         unlimited      unlimited
memlock     unlimited      unlimited
maxproc     1024           2048
maxfiles    2048           4096

$ sysctl -a | grep files
kern.maxfiles = 32768
kern.maxfilesperproc = 16384
kern.maxfiles: 32768
kern.maxfilesperproc: 16384
kern.num_files: 2049

It has been claimed in some of the above posts that these can be modified with the following commands:

sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 16384 32768
sudo ulimit -n 32768
sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=16384
sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=32768

However, out of the above commands, only the sysctl commands have any apparently effect (i.e. ulimit -n and launchctl limit show no change after the above commands have been entered, while sysctl -a does show the requested changes).

The corresponding locations to change these parameters for the OS are:

/etc/sysctl.conf
/etc/launchd.conf

I also discovered one answer which reads that ulimit only controls the current shell.

How can I adjust upwards the max files / max open files limits on macOS?


texts: Can a factory unlocked iPhone 5 be used with Sprint?

texts: If I were to buy a brand new factory unlocked iPhone off eBay would I then be able to use that phone on sprint?


texts: Can I change iPhone Mail app to show archive button on detail screen?

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When I go into the detail screen of an email in the Mail app on my iPhone the center button at the bottom is move to trash. Can I change that to archive instead? I realize I can long press on that button and then choose archive but I'd prefer a single press for archive as I use it much more than delete.

I also realize I can swipe to archive from my inbox list but frequently I'd like to archive only after reading the full email.


texts: Fixing a broken hard drive's partition map

texts:
I have a drive that is corrupted. Disk utility could not repair the disk, so I attempted to follow some tutorials and repair the partitions using pdisk and testdisk, but things have gone south. Now the drive no longer shows up at all in Disk Utility, and diskutil info gives this output:

diskutil info /dev/disk1
Device Identifier:
Device Node:
Part of Whole:
Device / Media Name:

Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)

Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)

File System:              None

Partition Type:           None
OS Can Be Installed:      No
Media Type:
Protocol:

Total Size:               0 B (0 Bytes) (exactly 0 512-Byte-Units)
Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)

Read-Only Media:          Yes
Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)
Ejectable:                No

Whole:                    No
Internal:                 No

This is a 3TB external Seagate drive. Is there anything I can do, or is this drive a paperweight? At this point I don't even care about the data on the drive. I just want to know if it can be reformatted and be usable, or if I need to go out and get a new drive.


texts: iPhone 5 Power Button Replacement Programme

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 (out of warranty) which is eligible for a power button replacement via the Apple programme.
I smashed my screen a while ago, and to be frank don't feel paying Apple £200 to replace it is a fair price, so being that I have the know-how anyway, I replaced it myself with a £40 screen off of eBay.

My question, being that Apple replace the button for iPhone's out of warranty, will they refuse to fix the button due to me breaking the warranty by opening the phnoe myself?


texts: How can I restore an ipad mini without an apple id password?

texts: My mom bought this ipad mini for herself but didn't like it and gave it to me...now I'm trying to restore it to factory settings, but when I try it says it needs her apple id password - only it won't accept it - says it's incorrect. How can I restore it without the apple id password?


texts: Mac OS X 10.7.4 Mail Client triggers Opera for external links in email

texts: I would like to have Safari open any links in email messages. However it seems that Opera has hijacked this and I can't see any property that can change this. Any ideas?


texts: I switched to Catalina and enabled ZSH now my home/end key do not work in terminal

texts:
I switched to ZSH from BASH as per the upgrade in Catalina and all is well except my home/end keys no longer work.  This can be really annoying trying to move my cursor over super far to the left instead of a single home  click.

Any idea if they just changed the key you use to "go to start of command" instead of home? Or is there a bug?


texts: Why does Skype want to use a "Xcode Server Builder Identity" key?

texts:
While examining some features of XCode, I briefly enabled the XCode Continuous Integration Server. The following dialog box now pops up:

Skype wants to sign using key "Xcode Server Builder Identity" in your keychain.
To allow this, enter the "login" keychain password.

If I choose "Allow" or "Deny", the dialog box will pop back up roughly a half dozen times in succession. Using Keychain Access, I find no item named "Xcode Server Builder Identity" in the login keychain or otherwise (the only item mentioning "XCode" in the login keychain predates any of this), nor in the server certificates for the system Apache server (which the XCode server seemed to want to use).
Why is Skype trying to use this key? Where is it stored? How can I stop the prompts (short of always allowing access)?


texts: Disable caps lock on backspace in iPhone

texts:
My iPhone (3gs) has this behavior:

I'm typing a text and I put a certain letter in caps
I might decide the letter shouldn't be in caps so I press backspace (a couple of times if I've typed a lot after the capped letter).
when I do this, my iPhone remembers the letter was in caps and already puts on caps (the upward arrow is glowing).

I don't want this (the last bullet). how can I disable it? I've checked the preferences and disabled settings -> general -> keyboard -> Auto-Capitalization and settings -> general -> keyboard -> Enable Caps Lock, yet to no avail.


texts: Missing “visit this website” bypass to “this connection is not private” warnings in Safari

texts: Attempting to follow the instructions in the previous question How do I bypass "this connection is not private" warnings in safari? shows that the "Show Details" → "visit this website" link is not there anymore.


texts: AppleUSBEthernetHost kext with a signature validation error

texts:
On macOS Big Sur (11.0.1), running system_profiler SPExtensionsDataType in terminal includes a kext named AppleUSBEthernetHost from an unknown developer that has a signature validation error:
It appears to maybe be an old version of a kext for which there is a newer version properly signed by Apple at a different path.
This kext very possibly existed before I upgraded to Big Sur.  I just looked at kexts now to ensure that I'm not running any unsupported legacy kexts.
Is it advisable / safe to remove the kext with the signature validation error?
What might have put it there?
What might have caused its signature error if it was once there without an error?
kext with signature validation error:
    AppleUSBEthernetHost:

      Version: 7.0
      Last Modified: 2019-07-18, 11:56 PM
      Bundle ID: com.apple.macos.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost
      Notarized: No
      Loaded: No
      Obtained from: Unknown
      Kind: Intel
      Architectures: x86_64
      64-Bit (Intel): Yes
      Location: /Library/Apple/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext
      Kext Version: 7.0
      Loadable: No
      Signature Validation Errors: Kext signature validation error code -67050
      Dependencies: Satisfied
      Signed by: Unknown

Newer kext without errors, properly signed by Apple:
      Version: 8.1.1
      Last Modified: 2020-01-01, 3:00 AM
      Bundle ID: com.apple.macos.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost
      Notarized: Yes
      Loaded: No
      Obtained from: Apple
      Kind: Universal
      Architectures: arm64e, x86_64
      64-Bit (Intel): Yes
      Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext
      Kext Version: 8.1.1
      Loadable: Yes
      Dependencies: Satisfied
      Signed by: Software Signing, Apple Code Signing Certification Authority, Apple Root CA


texts: Can I restart iTunes remotely from my iPhone/iPad?

texts:
I am running iTunes, 10.6.1 on my Mac mini running OS X Lion 10.7.4. This Mac mini has my entire media library including a ton of DVDs that were ripped and transcoded to work on Apple TV. I have 3 of the very latest Apple TVs that stream content from the Home Sharing library of my Mac mini. Everything works great most of the time.

I am running to an issue with increasing frequency, where the Apple TVs cannot load the library from the Mac mini (it shows the spinning gear). The only solution I have found is to quit iTunes on the Mac mini and then restart it.

What I would like to do is have something on my iPhone that will allow me to stop and then restart iTunes on the Mac mini. I run Apache on this machine and I have written a little PHP script that will stop and then start iTunes using AppleScript and osascript. It works fine from the Terminal, but not from the web server. I am sure it is a permissions problem, but I do not really want to run the web server under my user account.

Any suggestions? I can buy an app or script something using PHP or AppleScript. I do not want to use just an SSH or VNC client because I want my kids to do this easily as well.


texts: How to hide recent files in iPad OS and iOS

texts:
I have images/files that I look at time to time inside the native Files app that I would prefer not to show up in the “Recents” area.

How do I hide files from showing up in the “Recents” area inside the files app?


texts: iPad iOS 6.1.3 suddenly very weak wifi signal

texts:
After upgrading to iOS 6.1.3 a while ago, my iPad's wifi signal (reception) suddenly became very weak. The iPad basically can't find the (source) wifi if it's like 5-7 meters away. I'm sure the (source) wifi has no problems because everyone else's iPads are working fine with that public wifi.

I've tested that the iPad is still functioning by creating a wifi hotspot with a MacBook.

What else can I do to diagnose the problem?


texts: Is OS X doing some work after moving .app to trash?

texts:
I had Spotify installed and was annoyed by the "SpotifyWebHelper" process. So after some research I came up with the information, that it is managed by a background daemon. To disable that, I had to remove a daemon file in some folder outside the .app bundle.

So I gave it a try and simply uninstalled Spotify by dragging the app to the trash. And actually the process stopped as well.

So to me, that implies, OS X is somehow configured to not only trash the .app folder, but to do some cleaning operations as well.

Am I right and are the official sources?


texts: OneDrive on mac doesn show all shared folders with me

texts:
On the website my account looks like this. There are 2 people sharing with me some files:

but after I have installed one drive on mac, I can see the following files:

A whole frolder from the second user is missing, and the second file (tereny.xlsm) from the first user is missed. Why?

On the website and on onedrive on mac, I am logged in as the same outlook account.


texts: ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID from Chrome, but telnet works

texts:
This evening I discovered that I could not access any websites from Chrome, Firefox, etc. At first I though my router might just need rebooting, but I quickly found that I had no trouble tracerouteing to e.g. google.com.

Furthermore, if I telnet to www.google.com port 80 it connects, and GET / returns a web page. Other machines on the same network have no connectivity problems, so it seems specific to this one Mac.

What is wrong with networking such that Chrome and Firefox refuse to connect, but I can access things fine with command line tool. And how can I fix it?

Update: I get the same ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID when I try to point Chrome to http://74.125.224.193, which is what dnslookup on the same machine gives as one of Google's IP addresses. What exactly does this error mean, since obvious this address is not, in and of itself, "invalid".

Second update: after about 5 minutes, the above address suddenly brings up Google's web page. But I try another web site by IP and it gives the same ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID.

Third update: After about 30 minutes of trying various things I finally gave up and rebooted the machine.  This fixed the problem.  However, I still would like to know what the problem was, and if it is possible to fix it without rebooting.  It seems to be a rather disturbing trend that Mavericks is more prone to needing a reboot than earlier versions of OS X.


texts:
Lately I occasionally get redirected to other websites when I load some news websites.
It could be a banner redirect I guess, but I suspect something more sinister.

The iPad is NOT jailbroken and runs the latest iOS 5

Last three incidents were

clicking a link in an email from linkedIn which linked to an article on Forbes.com. When the article loaded, it was replaced (or a link popped up in a new window - not sure now) with a site that was surely not a forbes advertiser.
using the twitter app, I clicked a tweet from spitsnieuws.nl, it opened a pane inside the twitter app with the article, once it had loaded, it was replaced with a site surely not a spitsnieuws advertiser.
this URL got replaced after load. So I'm pretty sure it is an ad server issue
http://www.java-forums.org/java-applets/30447-java-print-service-applets-ie.html
another URL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168061/French-electrician-stranded-Moroccan-desert-rebuilt-wrecked-car-motorbike-drove-civilisation.html

I can only imagine both situations were safari or embedded safari, but I do not know how the official twitter app loads web pages into its own pane

Googling for malware on iPad has so far turned up nothing.

Suggestions? I can of course revert to factory default, but it would be useful to know what I had encountered.

Looking at the dsn settings, they start with 10. so local to my network - none of my other devices (iPad3, iPhone4/4S, iMac, macBook (yes, I'm a fanboy) ) on the same network shows this behaviour.

For now I have cleared cookies and application data. I will try to reproduce.


texts: Can I programmatically install a specific version of JDK (i.e. using command-line tools only) on OS X?

texts:
I know you can apt-get JDK on Ubuntu. Is there anything similar on OS X?

It looks like Oracle requires you accept a license agreement on http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html before you can download the image, so maybe not?


texts: Can't answer phone calls on macOS Mojave

texts:
I am not able to answer incoming phone calls on my Mac running macOS Mojave. The call notifications pops up both on my iPhone XS and my 2017 MacBook Pro, but when I go to answer the call on my Mac, it continues to ring on my phone.

I can make calls from the Mac just fine, but unable to answer incoming calls?


texts: How to mark as READ all the e-mails received in iPhone?

texts:
It's fine when you are clearing all your unread messages in a laptop or a desktop PC; but in iPhone? No good.

You see, at present, I mark my messages as read by individually tapping their checkboxes.

I'm not sure if the developers of iPhone thought about including this feature. But I'd like to find out is if there's a trick or I don't know, maybe there's something that would allow me to mark multiple messages to be already read not by checking them one-by-one?

I would appreciate the help!


texts: Can Mid 2015 Macbook Pro Run 3 External Monitors?

texts:
I have a mid 2015 MacBook Pro, and I want to run three external monitors - it only seems to power 2 of them. I can seem to run any combination but only two. I am powering them through 1 X thunderbolt to dvi, 1 X thunderbolt to VGA, and 1 XHDMI.

Can this be done?


texts: Can you debug interactively in Workflow?

texts:
I’ve been creating some mobile workflows, and debugging has become a bit of a chore. My current method of doing so has simply been to add a Quick Look and Exit Workflow step. Since Workflow execution often runs way too quickly for me to see the evaluation path, especially when If branches and Repeat sections are in use.

Is there a better method for debugging, perhaps a step-wise debugger (ala. perl-d, Ruby’s byebug or pry, gdb, etc.) with the ability to investigate data at each step?


texts: How much RAM do the different models of iPad have?

texts: Read this link but still trying to figure out how much RAM these different models have. Does anyone know?


texts: Directly switching (without pressing OPTION) between AIFF and mp3 iTunes libraries

texts:
I have two iTunes libraries, one for pop music in compressed and lossy formats and another for classical music (and sometimes for jazz) in AIFF. I maintain two libraries because I'm concerned about bloating my home account with uncompressed files.

I am able to choose between the two by pressing Option before clicking the iTunes icon, but choosing from the two locations gets tedious.

How can I shorten the choice, ideally by having two icons, one for each library?


texts: How to wipe entire iCloud library without having to download it first?

texts:
I have a Macbook and an iPhone who are both not syncing to iCloud, but the iCloud itself is filled with pictures that i want deleted. Is there any way of doing this without first having to delete thousands of pictures on one of them?

I tried doing it on the iPhone but apparently it says you can cancel it for 30 days, meaning i still cannot use the iCloud library since they're still in my "recently deleted", meaning if i enable it on any device, it's still going to download those thousands of pictures. Is there a way to just hard delete everything?


texts: Is there a way to search for locked files in the finder?

texts:
The title pretty much says it all. Using the File Inspector I can see if a given file is locked or not, but I would like to be able to create a smart folder containing all the files in a given folder that are not locked.

(I need this as a convenience to quickly find the files I have checked out for editing on another machine which I am accessing through a shared folder)


texts: Can't get Terminal to Display Colour (Mavericks)

texts:
I've recently been working on a script to backup files, etc. for my own use but recently I thought it may look nicer if I was able to cleanup and have everything nice and tidy (with colours and what not). I was unable to complete this though. In a shell script I have written the following and despite what multiple combos I've tried I am unable to get this working.

Testing this on Mavericks as I can't update to Yosemite yet.

echo '\033Some text'

Can somebody shine a light on this?


texts: Cannot open sparsebundle to review Backups.backupdb

texts:
I'm trying to open the Backups.backupdb folder and when I try to open the sparse bundle I get the following error message.

  The application "DiskImageMounter.app" can't be opened. -36

Can anyone help?


texts: Is there an iPhone app (as opposed to desktop software) that shows actual battery cycles - cycles number

texts: I can use Coconut Battery on my Macbook which shows cycles number on my iPhone when I plug iPhone into Macbook. I don't want to use that however. I want to have an iPhone app for that. Do you know any?


texts: How to have Spaces display desktop contents instead of desktop name only?

texts: I'd like Spaces automatically to display the full screen contents of the desktops instead of only their names (without first having to place the mouse cursor on the "film strip"). I used to be able to do this by creating a bunch of desktops but that's no longer the case with Catalina. Is there some advanced setting that can do this?


texts: Sleep mode seems to cause problems with my MacPro.  Is there a way to turn the monitor off and on?  In "System preferences/Display/options" I can select "Display Power Button" "turns the display on and off" but that does not work.  If there is a key board toggle, that might help.


texts:
To make things clear: I don’t want a way to control my mouse pointer via iPad, but insted I want to view my e;tire movie library on iPad (without it actually being stored on my iPad) and then when I choose a movie on the iPad it gets selected to my Mac Mini and played with subtitles.

What’s the optimal and easiest way to set this up? I dont care if it costs, as long as its easy and works.


texts:
Is it safe (no security implications) to chown -R user /opt/local/, so that I don't sudo port install with MacPorts?

I don't like the idea of sudoing with MacPorts as it can write things in /Library, for example, without my permission. I know I could use homebrew instead of MacPorts but I had problems with third-party software writing in /usr/local. I could also compile MacPorts with a custom prefix in my home directory but I guess that is the same with /opt/local/, as /opt/local/ is not a system directory.


texts: How can I script selective minimization of documents in text edit when several files may be open?

texts:
From the Terminal, or in a shell file, I know how to open multiple files in a particular app in text edit from the command line and have all of their windows minimized like this:
open -a TextEdit.app ~/Documents/doc1.txt ~/Documents/doc2.txt ~/Documents/doc3.txt
osascript -e 'tell application "TextEdit" to set miniaturized of every window to true'

Is there a command to minimize not all of thow windows but just a particular one of them or equivalently, iterate over minimized windows to restore one by name like ~/Documents/doc1.txt?


texts: Macbook disk space show as used photos library space that is stored in an external SD

texts:
I have moved my photo library into an external SD card and now that library is configured as the system photo library.

The problem is that my Macbook shows that the hard drive is still using an amount of space (22,2GB) used by photos:

How could I solve that?


texts: How to change text in Xcode document via AppleScript

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I'm currently working on an AppleScript to invoke ClangFormat while in Xcode 11.5.
Here's the work-in-progress:
set fpath to ""
set selRange to {}

tell application "Xcode"
    try
        set last_word_in_main_window to (word -1 of (get name of window 1))
        if (last_word_in_main_window is "Edited") then
            display notification "Please save the current document and try again."
        else
            set doc to document 1 whose name ends with last_word_in_main_window
            set fpath to path of doc
            set selRange to the selected paragraph range of doc
            set fpath to path of doc
            set qpath to quoted form of fpath
        end if
    on error errMsg
    end try
end tell
if (count of selRange) > 0 then
    set selStart to item 1 of selRange
    set selEnd to item 2 of selRange
    do shell script "~/clang-format -lines=" & selStart & ":" & selEnd & " " & qpath & " > ~/tmp-clang-format"
    do shell script "mv ~/tmp-clang-format " & qpath
    tell application "Xcode"
        set selected paragraph range of doc to selRange
    end tell
end if

(The technique for getting the frontmost source document is a bit goofy; I found it on Stack Overflow and it seems to work well in practice, but obviously it's playing a bit fast and loose.)
To paraphrase, the script invokes clang-format and routes its output to a temp file, then uses mv to replace the current Xcode document with clang-format's output.
This actually works better than you might expect--it updates after only a minor delay, and pretty seamlessly--but it has one flaw that stands out. You can't undo its results. Xcode just beeps if you try. Apparently file replacement is a one-way trip.
Is there a cleaner way to swap in the new file contents that would allow Undo to work? I've tried set text of source document to replace the doc text without actually swapping out the file, but this causes Xcode to immediately quit, so presumably that's broken in Xcode 11.5.


texts: Why is DashboardClient taking so much memory on MBP?

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In recent days, the DashboardClient process is taking more memory on my MBP. It's a real memory of 144 MB as seen in Activity Monitor.

I have never seen this process occupying memory like this before, as if like Safari. It's started few back before.

I haven't changed my Dashboard for a couple of months...

I am running OS X 10.6.5


texts: I need to replace the SSD on my MacBook Pro (13" Early 2015) but I can’t afford to get it done at the moment. I’ll need to try it myself. The model number for my MacBook Pro MF843LL/A and it says the drive is 512 GB flash_memory_solid_state. Can someone send me a link to the exact hard drive I need to get? I’ve never done this before and want to make sure I get the right one.


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In System Preferences > Keyboard > Services > Development, I see options for 'Time Profile Active Application', 'Time Profile App Under Mouse', and 'Time Profile Entire System'.

What do these things do?

I've searched Google for "Time Profile" and "Time Profile Active Application", but no results show for that. Well, the later shows 4 total results on the interwebs, which none are useful in explaining what the program is.

I'm on MacBook Pro Mojave. I happened to find these options when I was adding the Finder right-click option for 'New Terminal At Folder'. After enabling all of them, I didn't see any new options related to 'Time Profile', but I do see the Terminal option.


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i am attempting to maintain a closer eye on my Apple-Mac's outgoing and incoming connections; in collaboration with other processes such as tcpdump and netstat, i have been using the command: lsof -i, which allegedly displays all processes using the internet.

The output of this command is fairly simple, however does return some confusing results, including multiple instances of the process com.apple which has little to no explanation online. Whilst listing Spotify and its various related processes such as SpotifyWE, the command declines to list other applications which i happen to know are using the network, such as Safari and Mail.

To simplify things, my questions are:

What is the purpose of the process com.apple?
Why are there multiple listings of the same process?
Why are some processes/applications which are definitely using the internet omitted from the command (lsof -i)`s result.


texts: Apple Detecting Jailbreak on a NOT jailbroken iPhone

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I recently received a notification that took up the whole screen on my iphone which says that I have breached the Apple terms and conditions for jailbreaking my iphone.

However, I am pretty sure that I haven't done any jail breaking to it and it is a definitely a new piece of hardware since I bought it directly from the telco with the box and wraps.

What could be the reason for this happening and what should I do? It has been working fine for a year or so, till this message pop up recently.


texts: Gmail Spam/Phishy classification not recognized by mail.app

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I am running into an undesired scenario where incoming mail on gmail web interface is properly categorized as spam/phishing, however if the user employs any mail client (ie mail.app, outlook) - the same message categorization is not applied.

Specifically, mail.app and outlook running on macOS 10.14 don’t detect these known bad mails.

In hopes of curbing this, I was hoping to have gmail add custom headers to junk categorized mail, such that I depend on macOS on mail clients level spam detection will trigger and block these messages. I would like Mac mail clients to not leave these messages in the inbox.

I have tried configuring a default routing rule on Gmail to add 'x-gm-spam' and 'x-gm-phishy' headers for downstream mail servers. I still do not see these inserted.

Can someone please let me know if you know a workaround to protect users who dont use the http gmail client from spam?


texts: I deleted my Apple ID Calendar on iCloud, how do I get it back?

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On my iPad, I accidentally deleted my calendar named with my apple id, thinking i didnt need it. Now, it wont allow me to sync my phone or the iPad with Cloud Calendar... it doesnt even appear as an option in the iTunes sync on my PC.. only Outlook is a sync option. How can I restore that apparently important calendar so I can sync between all my devices again??

Thanks!
Christie


texts: How to password protect opening specific app without disabling notifications

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I'd like to password-protect an app, so that every time that I open the app, I'll need to enter a password (the idea is to make it more burdensome to access the app). Right now, I can password-protect the app by going to ScreenTime, activating the ScreenTime passcode, and putting a 1-minute app limit on the app. However, this also completely disables notifications. Is there a way to password-protect the app but still allow notifications? Ideally, this would be something that works on any iPhone 6 and up, although any solution is welcome.

Thanks!


texts: How to open another Account's User folder using Terminal?

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I used to be able to use one of these commands to switch to another user account (my own) to work on it.
john$ login admin
password:

admin$ open .
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -610 for the file /Users/admin/.

I have tried other methods as well.
john$ su - admin
john$ exec su - admin
john$ sudo -u admin bash

They all result in the same error. I understand it's a security restriction. The question is what rules are restricting this? I do have the password shouldn't I be allowed, once signing in, access to those files?
What can I do to gain access as if I am in that user account?

EDIT
Also tried:
john$ ssh admin@localhost
Password:
admin$ open .
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -610 for the file /Users/admin.


texts: Shortcut to quickly enter .com in browser on Mac OS

texts: In Windows, we can use Ctrl+Enter to quickly input .com in browsers. I wonder if there is any equivalent shortcut in Mac OS?


texts:
I built a self-made kernel extension (named KAuthTest.kext) and would like to test it out. So in a VM running macOS 10.12.3, I did the followings:

disable SIP by running csrutil disable in recovery mode, and reboot.
disable kext signing check by running sudo nvram kext-dev-mode=1 and reboot
give it permission: sudo chown -R root:wheel KAuthTest.kext

Then I load it using sudo kextload KAuthTest.kext.

However,

in the system log, I didn't see the log from its start function
when I run kextstat | grep -v com.apple to see all third party kexts, I didn't see my kernel extension.

So did I miss something? How I can successfully load this into the kernel?

Note:

kextutil -n -print-diagnostics KAuthTest.kext gives this:

  Diagnostics for KAuthTest.kext:
  Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
  KAuthTest.kext appears to be loadable (including linkage for on-disk libraries).

I did try rebooting, but still no luck


texts: Which iOS and Lion third-party apps support "Documents in the Cloud"?

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Which apps in iOS and Lion support the "Documents in the Cloud" feature from iCloud? I know that Apple's own iWork apps support this. But other than Apple's own apps, which third-party apps implement this?

It would be helpful to know the name of the app as well as how it uses "Documents in the Cloud". For instance:

Pages, it allows you to save your documents
Instacast, keep last listened to position in podcasts in sync.

One app per answer, please, to keep the results focused. Please check before you answer, duplicate answers will be deleted.


texts:
I find myself needing to explain math via Skype (to nephews, nieces in high-school or college, etc.) with increasing frequency, enough so that the clumsy approach of holding a pad of paper up to the camera is beginning to get irksome.

Typing out the math into the interface's text field, or anywhere else, I find even more irksome.

I would like to communicate the math, in real time, both by voice and by writing, sketching, etc.  Preferably I'd also like to be able to see the person I'm showing the math to.  With Skype I get the real-time voice and image communication.  I just need a way to add a handwritten channel somehow.

Can someone recommend a way to do it on a Mac?


texts:
My Mac and my iPad are synced so I can get messages and take pictures with both. When I take a picture with my Mac it doesn't show up on my iPad, vice versa.
How can I get Mac photos to my iPad?
If someone can answer this I will be very thankful!


texts: How can I clear an iPad from another company's DEP?

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The company I work for is in the process of enrolling all iPads into MDM and correcting devices not in the DEP.

We've found one that we've had for a while. It's in another DEP but not in another MDM... So we are prevented from adding it our DEP but we have nobody to contact about correcting it. We contacted Apple with no results. Nobody has a serialized proof of purchase, the device wasn't asset tagged properly whenever it was acquired.

My best guess was that somebody independently bought a refurb unit from a third party seller.

How can I go about properly cataloging this into our DEP?


texts: Can you change MacBook Bluetooth ID so two os can be seen as different hardware?

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Is there a way to change the OSX Bluetooth ID that is used by external Bluetooth devices during automatic paring?

I run 2 or more OSX installations on separate MacBook partitions.  Devices do not automatically re-connect again if a device is paired with partition 1 and partition 2 boots up and tries to connect.  I need to manually unpair the device in OSX and then re-pair it.  Seems this could be avoided by changing the Bluetooth equivalent of an Ethernet MAC address at the OS or driver level because both partitions assign the same address.

Is changing Bluetooth identity possible on macOS or with a tool?

Partition 1

Partition 2


texts: Is it possible to jailbreak the 64 bit iPad Air 2 with 8.1.3?


texts: How does Parallels handle hard drive usage?

texts:
I'm used to VirtualBox, which gives the option of either, a) fixed portion of hard drive (i.e. choose 40gb, and 40gb gets taken up in OS X); or b) dynamic usage (i.e. I choose 40gb max cap, and it fills this up as data is written by my VM).

I have a few problems with these options:

for (a), I don't want to lock into 40gb unless I need to (I'm on a SSD, so space is limited).
for (b), VirtualBox never frees up space as things get deleted on my VM.  For instance, I may have 20gb taken, then delete 10gb.  The image is still at 20gb.  VirtualBox has ways to resize these, but it is a bit of a pain.

My question: Does parallels do something different that might address my gripes?


texts: I was using TotalTerminal to get visor like terminal on a shortcut. But TotalTerminal is abandoned so I have switched to the iTerm2. My problem is that when I use a shortcut to trigger iTerms visor behavior and profile it also gets activated like a normal app and gets into Cmd+Tab list of apps and I do not want that. Is there a way to prevent such behavior for visor profile of iTerm2?


texts: Activity Monitor and System Profiler won't report 32 bit apps

texts:
I'm trying to check which apps I am going to lose when I upgrade to Big Sur. According to numerous websites I should be able to do this via Activity Monitor or System Profiler.
Activity monitor should have column on the CPU tab to show Kind, but it isn't there and the menu to add columns doesn't include it.
System Profiler should have a column for "64 big (intel)" but it doesn't and I can't see any options for adding/removing columns there.

OS X 10.15.7
MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018


texts: How to rename/delete .kext file in Big Sur

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I have one of those MacBook Pro's (2015) with the hardware fault which causes frequent spontaneous shutdowns.
The problem can be solved by renaming or deleting AppleThunderboltNHI.kext which I have done after every MacOS Catalina update for the past couple of years, basically everything except step 7 & 8 below.
In Big Sur, the change doesn't "stick," the AppleThunderboltNHI.kext file is restored automatically after restarting in normal mode, so I have followed the procedure which works according to many on the discussion referenced below.
Everything goes okay unless I do step 8, at which point the MacOS will not boot, I get a message like "...was restarted because of a problem..."
The only thing that seems to fix that, is to reinstall Big Sur from recovery mode, which does work. But then the AppleThunderboltNHI.kext file is restored.
I don't know is causing this procedure to fail. So I'm hoping someone might be able to help me solve it.
Note: The following instructions are not mine, and I am not recommending them as a solution.
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/666567?answerId=646500022#646500022

Posted by sf98723
Follow this procedure :

Reboot in rescue mode (reboot while "Cmd + R")

csrutil disable

csrutil authenticated-root disable

reboot in rescue mode

mount -uw /Volumes/[MacOS ]

delete (or rename, or move elsewhere) the AppleThunderboltNHI.kext directory (I've moved all thunderbolt kext directories since I have no
needs about this interface, but I think it works only by disabling
AppleThunderboltNHI)

REBUILD the extensions cache ! (new has-to-do in Big Sur...) : kmutil install -u --force --volume-root /Volumes/[MacOS ]

DON'T FORGET to create another system snapshot to take these modifications under account at next reboot : bless --folder
/Volumes/[MacOS ]/System/Library/CoreServices
--bootefi --create-snapshot

csrutil enable (mays be you have to reboot in rescue mode.. not tested)

Finally, reboot in normal mode


texts:
I have trouble to open links from Tweetbot in Safari on the Mac. it just waits loading with the t.co domain.

On iOS I don't have this problems!

Is it because I use uBlock as an adblocker? I can not reproduce this problem. After opening the link a second or third time it usually works.


texts: Hello I am experiencing a problem with the right shift key on my mac. When I press right shift + 2, for example, I should get just @. Instead I get @++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ with the plus going on forever. What is this problem and how would I fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


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I have a new usb, I plugged in, it worked, then I formatted it in Mac OS X Extended. It gave some error, and then it disappear from everywhere. Tried it an other PC with Linux, not working in OS X El Capitan. Don't know what to do.

Any help? Usb not showing anywhere. not in disk utility not in system report. Search but won't find any solution yet.

UPDATE:
I tried Diskpart on windows. It worked, shows my hard drive and the usb drive however the usb (disk1) has the status "no media" and a size of "0B"

I could select it however "clean" resulted in "Virtual Disk Service error: There is no media in the device" and "create partition primary" resulted in another error stating that there is not enough space to create a partition. Tried formatting gives error "There is no volume selected."


texts: Invalid Password El Capitan with Filevault encryption

texts:
I just recently enabled Filevault on my 2011 Macbook Pro.  As long as I do not run out of battery El Capitan let's me enter my password and log into my computer.

If I run out of battery the password screen is presented after power on and it tells me my password is invalid indefinitely.  At first I reluctantly assumed user failure on my part.  But this is happening everyday now, each time I must enter my backup security key.

After entering the key sometimes it asks me to assign a new password, which I set to what I believe it was before.  Other times it just prompts me to enter my password again as if the screen saver had activated and the password works as intended.

I hope this is clear enough. It's very frustrating.  I'm guessing I might have to disable Filevault.

EDIT

I ran a test:
I entered the password several times while the machine was powered up for root privileges and on wake from sleep. No problems

I then let the battery run out and again was presented with the boot up password screen.  As usual my password was not accepted so again I used the recovery key, only this time I suspect the data on the drive was corrupted in some way as I could not get past the apple boot logo.

I just erased the drive and reinstalled for now.


texts: MirrorDisplays error every 30 seconds in system.log

texts:
I'm seeing an error every 30 seconds in the system log, using the Console app, complaining about MirrorDisplays service only running for 0 seconds.
Nov  5 22:45:22 computer com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Nov  5 22:45:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Nov  5 22:45:52 computer com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Nov  5 22:46:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Nov  5 22:46:22 computer com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Nov  5 22:46:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Nov  5 22:46:52 computer com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

It doesn't matter if I have no external display or use an external display at the same time.  How do I turn off this repeated error in the logs?


texts: What are the recommended steps to take before selling an iPhone?

texts: I "lost" my iPhone at work, could not find it anywhere. I reported it lost, and got another through the insurance. A month later, I found it hiding in a file in one my desk drawers. The phone is just less than a year old, in near new condition, and it seems a waste to discard it. What has to be done to be able to sell it to someone who needs a working phone?


texts: What speed does maps.app use when calculating walking times

texts:
I like walking to places. Before I leave I see how long it will take me to walk there in the maps.app. Often, I find I get there 15% faster than the time displayed on my iPhone. But again I am quite young and walk faster than usual.

Humans walk around 1.4 metres/second. What speed does the maps.app use to calculate walking travel times?


texts: When restoring In-App Purchases, is there any limit to how many devices I can restore my In-App purchased content?

texts:
Suppose I have multiple iOS devices, say more than 5, and I purchase a gun through In-App Purchase, after I restore my purchases, will that gun be available in all my devices, in that game?

Just want to know, if the 5 devices authorization works in this case too

Thanks


texts: I keep getting reminders to subscribe to the iCloud service, but read my words: I do not want iCloud! Is it possible to deactivate these annoying reminders? (I'm on Mac OS El Capitan 10.11.6).


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Every time I open App Store on my iPhone, I am prompted for my password, which I do – and then, the message “Cannot connect to iTunes store” appears.

Here's the thing: Everything else network related works on the phone. I can browse the web, I can even browse the app store from within the App Store app, and I can update apps when required. I just can't buy any new apps.

I have tried everything on the following knowledge base articles, to no avail:

Can't connect to the iTunes Store
iTunes: Possible iTunes Store errors
iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting

What to do?


texts: Unable to remove file or change permission on mac as root.

texts:
I cant remove files from /Library/Extensions/ even if i run bash script as root.

I also tried to change flags with

chflags -R nouchg
chflags -R noschg
Here is output for ls -l even after chmod -R 777:

drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96 Aug  7 12:25 FileProtect.kext
rm -rf returns following:

rm: /Library/Extensions/FileProtect.kext: Permission denied

What can be reason for such behaviour?


texts: How to turn off "Enable WiFi" alert message on iOS?

texts:
When I disable Wi-Fi and open "Maps" I get the message:

Location Accuracy
Turning on Wi-Fi will improve
location accuracy.

Can this message be disabled?
I know, I can just leave WiFi enabled, but I don't want to do this. When I am in airplane mode, I don't want to get notified that I am offline.
Is there a way to prevent this? I don't want to jailbreak my iPhone. I am currently running iOS 7.1


texts: “jdk-14.0.1.jdk” is damaged and can’t be opened - when installing JMC / JFR afterwards

texts:
I get the above message when trying to run my JDK. I installed it last week and it works fine during the day. I then Shutdown my laptop and when I re-start it the next day I get this message when I try running my Java application or when I try java -version from the Terminal window.
My macOs is, macOS 10.15.4 (19E287) - Catalina
I have other versions of the Java JDK installed on my laptop and haven't had any problems previously with those....so am a bit confused why I am getting this now.
One thing I should mention is that after I have untar'd the JDK download I then untar the JMC-7 package (Java Mission Control), jmc-7.0.1+01_osx-x64_bin/JDK Mission Control.app into the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-14.0.1.jdk/Contents/Home directory..... I am not sure if this maybe part of the issue ?
From exchanging some comments on a similar issue se-372017 I wonder if Apple OS notices the change to the JDK directory and thinks its maybe some malicious behaviour... how to tell macOs that its ok to ignore this check ?
Has anyone else seen this issue and has a fix for it ?
I could rm the JDK directory and re-untar the downloaded package again but I dont want to have to do this everyday !


texts: Is there a way to encrypt a folder and then only allow certain processes to have access to that folder?

texts:
I'm aware of technique for creating encrypted folders using disk utility.

But I believe once it is unlocked and mounted, any process owned as you or root could read that folder.

I'm looking for a way to encrypt a folder and then only allow certain procs access.

Here's a scenario:   Google chrome keeps a directory for cache data, bookmarks, history and the like.

I'd like to create an encrypted folder for this that is only unlocked for chrome.   And keep it encrypted for any backup software or scanners... things that could potentially be running as root that could override an filesystem perms.


texts: AppleScript : searching for a tab on chrome and saving the tab as a variable

texts:
I'm using this script which is finding the tab I want, then bring the tab to focus.

set searchString to "Tab I'm Looking FOR"

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set win_List to every window
    set win_MatchList to {}
    set tab_MatchList to {}
    set tab_NameMatchList to {}
    repeat with win in win_List
        set tab_list to every tab of win
        repeat with t in tab_list
            if searchString is in (title of t as string) then
                set end of win_MatchList to win
                set end of tab_MatchList to t
                set end of tab_NameMatchList to (id of win as string) & ".  " & (title of t as string)
            end if
        end repeat
    end repeat
    if (count of tab_MatchList) is equal to 1 then
        set w to item 1 of win_MatchList
        set index of w to 1
        my setActiveTabIndex(t, searchString)
    else if (count of tab_MatchList) is equal to 0 then
        display dialog "No match was found!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
    else
        set which_Tab to choose from list of tab_NameMatchList with prompt "The following Tabs matched, please select one:"
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
        if which_Tab is not equal to false then
            set tmp to text items of (which_Tab as string)
            set w to (item 1 of tmp) as integer
            set index of window id w to 1
            my setActiveTabIndex(t, searchString)
        end if
    end if
end tell
on setActiveTabIndex(t, searchString)
    tell application "Google Chrome"
        set i to 0
        repeat with t in tabs of front window
            set i to i + 1
            if title of t contains searchString then
                set active tab index of front window to i
                return
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell

end setActiveTabIndex

This work fine, but how can I save the tab number as a variable so if I need to do more stuff in this actual tab I can just do something like this (imagining the tab number is saved as "TABNUMBER")

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set myTab to front window's tab TABNUMBER
    set URL of myTab to "https:..."
end tell


texts: OSX 10.9.1 - App windows restoring to wrong desktop

texts:
I have three desktops (plus dashboard) set up with Mission Control, with certain apps assigned to each desktop. If I minimise a window with Cmd+M in one desktop, then whilst focussed on another desktop restore that window using F10 and selecting the tile, the window restores to the focussed desktop, not the one to which its app is assigned.

I have replicated this with both Apple (iTunes) and 3rd party (Chrome) apps. Chrome has an even stranger behaviour - restoring the app to the wrong desktop, then automatically switching focus to the correct desktop (without the window in it).

The issue does not happen when I right click on the app icon and restore the window from the menu there.

Late 2008 13" Macbook, running OSX 10.9.1 and latest versions of all software involved.


texts: Difference between dig @www.google.com ns . and dig www.google.com ns

texts:
I have a mac and am using terminal to try out the dig command. I was trying to use the dig command from a tutorial, which stated that if I use the syntax given below

dig @www.google.com ns .

I should get all the information needed, instead I get the following output.

$dig @www.google.com ns .
;<<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @www.google.com ns .
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

But when I use the command

dig www.google.com ns

I get the following output

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> www.google.com ns
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15350
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com.            IN  NS
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
google.com.     60  IN  SOA ns3.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 124846888 900 900 1800 60

So my question is why doesn't the first command work the same way as the second command?

Also when I used the first command format to query the root servers, I got a comprehensive reply. The output is shown below,

Again why the difference in output with the same command?

dig @a.root-servers.net ns .

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @a.root-servers.net ns .
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9504
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.              IN  NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.           518400  IN  NS  e.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  h.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  l.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  i.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  a.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  d.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  c.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  b.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  j.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  k.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  g.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  m.root-servers.net.
.           518400  IN  NS  f.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
e.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  A   192.203.230.10
h.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  A   198.97.190.53
h.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  AAAA    2001:500:1::53
l.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  A   199.7.83.42
l.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  AAAA    2001:500:9f::42
i.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  A   192.36.148.17
i.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  AAAA    2001:7fe::53
a.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  A   198.41.0.4
a.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  AAAA    2001:503:ba3e::2:30
d.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  A   199.7.91.13
d.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  AAAA    2001:500:2d::d
c.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  A   192.33.4.12
c.root-servers.net. 518400  IN  AAAA    2001:500:2::c

I appreciate the help.
Thanks.


texts: Is there a way to turn off the "iCloud Drive isn't compatible with Mavericks" errors?

texts:
I installed Yosemite on one of my machines (and uninstalled it a short time later).

Now, running Mavericks, every time I open a program that uses iCloud (like Numbers), I'm greeted with this message.

After clicking OK, I can still read documents stored on iCloud, I really can't see any functionality differences. After I pick a file, I get the same dialog box again, and click OK again, and I can edit and save my file.

This is extremely obnoxious.

I would guess that I can't convert my account to non-iCloud Drive, which is fine, I don't really depend on "iCloud" for anything.

My question is, how can I get rid of the error message?


texts: LG UltraFine 5K Display dim each time I startup

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) running 10.12.4.  At work I have an older Dell display and at home I have a new LG UltraFine 5K Display (I picked it up from Apple mid January 2017).  When I travel I turn the power to my laptop off (I don't travel with it hibernated)

If I go to work in the morning and hook it into my work monitor (USB-C to thunderbolt2 plugged into a Belkin Thunderbolt dock connected to the Dell monitor via HDMI) everything works fine.

When I come home and connect my laptop to my LG monitor using the single USB-C cable that came with the monitor.  Every time I start the laptop up in this configuration the LG monitor's brightness is set to the lowest possible setting. (I can barely see anything on the display) .

I set the brightness to where I want it to be for the external monitor but the next time I either restart or power on the laptop it reverts back to the lowest brightness setting.

I've tried turning Night Shift off but I get the same results.  This seems to have started when the macOS release with Night Shift was distributed.  Before the Night Shift release this was not an issue.

Is there anything I can do to keep the brightness setting on the LG monitor set?

  I also posted this on the Apple support site at
  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7935674

In regards to @dwightk's comment about the WiFi Router...

Other than the laptop, the monitor is near a desk lamp and a bluetooth speaker (and a UPS that's under the desk about 4 feet away) but none of that has changed since I go the laptop and monitor setup and initially things worked normally.  My WiFi Router is downstairs...I know there are known issues with these monitors and shielding but I don't have the sense that is the cause (but I could be mistaken)


texts:
I have a fairly large Photos library (35,000+ photos, 75+ GB), which was originally converted from an iPhoto library that I've been maintaining for many years.  Many of the older photos are experiencing an odd problem, which is preventing syncing them to iCloud as well as exporting them from Photos.

When the problem manifests, the symptoms are such that...

I double-click the photo to open it, and am presented with the message:

  Allow Photos to Access Your Media?

  Some of the photos and videos are stored outside of the Photos library.  Photos needs permissions to access this media.  Please choose the folder named "ddonahue" at the path "Macintosh HD/Users/".

I click "OK" and am presented with a folder selection dialog, where I select my home directory as requested.
I am presented with another dialog:

  Could not find the original file "dcpa_1457.jpg" in the selected folder.  Would you like to try to locate it again?

(Or whatever the file name is for that particular photo.)

Naturally, the photo files are in the Photos Library in the home directory's Pictures folder.  Buried in the package's folder structure.  I can inspect the package contents and manually find the file.

I thought that perhaps I could manually drill down to the package contents folder which contains the file and specifically select that one.  However, the folder selection dialog doesn't allow drilling into the Photos Library package contents.  (The library file is greyed out.)

Is there some way to correct this?  Even to include directly editing some library XML file(s) somewhere?  (Which I could write code to automate, so that would be good given the volume of files.)


texts: How to re-download a corrupted music track from iTunes store

texts:
I downloaded Richard Thompson's "Acoustic Rarities" album this evening.

Unfortunately track 10, "Sloth", cuts out after about 15 seconds with a glitchy sound and then silence.

I assume the download is corrupted. It is a shame that iTunes doesn't do a basic md5 or checksum check on the downloaded file so it knows that it needs fixing.

I have tried the obvious thing which is right-click on the track, "Remove Download" and then download it again. However the subsequent download is rather fast, and the track has the same glitch. I assume the file is cached somewhere.

Is there a cache on my computer that I could delete and re-download? Is there a way to trick iTunes into trying again properly?

I have iTunes 12.7.0.166 on macOS Sierra 10.12.6


texts:
I'm unable to 'tab' between the popup buttons by using the 'tab' key. I've had this issue for all popups of all the applications. This screenshot below is for the visual studio code where i added somee text and tried to close it without saving.
I'm on mac os catalina. I also enabled the option 'Use keyboard navitation to move focus between the controls' in the keyboard 'shortcuts' system settings. That did not help unfortuantely.


texts: Why doesn't twitter or facebook have sound on iPad Air?

texts:
My twitter and facebook app do not longer have the sound on the iPad Air? The other apps all have sound.

Whats up with that?


texts:
How can a Mac running El Capitan always be ready for a VNC connection even after a reboot?

I can vnc into the Mac with no problem but when I reboot the Mac remotely I can't vnc back in. Someone has to hook up a keyboard to the Mac and physically log in and log back out. Once the machine has been logged in locally I can once again log in remotely via Mac.

I'm using the Mac's built-in VNC as well as an installed RealVNC server. Neither will respond after a reboot.

I edited the RealVNC launch daemon to run at load but that didn't work.

UPDATE

The mac has filevault turned on.  'sudo fdesetup authrestart' will work with a manual reboot. It will not work however with a forced system reboot or a power outage.  Someone would still need to manually login with a keyboard in those cases.

The options at this point seem to be to disable Filevault or accept the fact that a person will need to login occasionally.


texts: Installed App with Brew Cask Over Existing Install, Did it Remove the Old App Files?

texts:
I upgraded to the latest OpenOffice (from 3.4.1 to 4.1.1) with brew-cask without realizing OpenOffice 4 was already installed:

$ brew cask install openoffice
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/openofficeorg.mirror/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.1_MacOS_x86-64_install_en-US.dmg
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Symlinking App 'OpenOffice.app' to '/Users/shwaydogg/Applications/OpenOffice.app'
  openoffice staged at '/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/openoffice/4.1.1' (3180 files, 385M)

I'm worried that the old install with ~400MB is still there just not linked.  Or does brew-cask writing the the symlink over the old app effectively delete the files?  / Perhaps BrewCask was smart enough to take this into account?

How could I check?

update:  did as @njbook suggested in comments:

$ brew-cask cleanup
==> Removing dead symlinks
Nothing to do
==> Removing cached downloads
/Library/Caches/Homebrew/openoffice-4.1.1.dmg
/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Casks/openoffice-4.1.1.dmg

There's no mention of the an old install being removed.

Another way to phrase my question perhaps more directly is in a unix system if a directory is replaced with a symlink pointing elsewhere are the files within the directory still taking up space on disk and if so how can they be found?


texts: Is it possible to read F2FS-formatted SSDs in macOS?

texts:
The title says it. I have an external drive for use on a Linux system, and would like to read it on macOS (High Sierra).
The drive is encrypted (I have the password).
Is possible?


texts: My iPod touch 3rd generation takes a very long time to send iMessages. I recently sent a iMessage to my friend, it took about three hours to send. What's going on and how can I fix it? I did try turning my iPod off and back on again.


texts: App for making interactive mockup or GUI on ipad?

texts:
Are there any apps for iPad that let me construct a graphical user interface either wysiwyg or otherwise and play with it interactively (obviously without any application logic or data)?  There are a couple apps that let me construct "linked mockups" where tapping a certain region on a slide takes me to another slide, but I'm looking for something more advanced that has various GUI widgets, and I am happy to do programming, as long as it is done 100% on iPad.

Web app suggestions are welcome too as long as they work excellently on iPad.


texts: Move external iTunes library files to different location without losing metadata

texts:
I'm trying to move my iTunes library to a new location. I'm running iTunes without the "organize media" option because I keep my library (60000+ songs) on a second drive in my MacBook... I recently upgraded to a new MacBook with a lot less storage but found out that you can run iTunes from a WebDAV cloud server without any noticeable lag (Yep!). I already have an exact copy of my second drive on the server but now I would like to know the simplest way to change the paths for all tracks in bulk? I've found some solutions myself but it would take literally weeks to complete:

When playing a song that is not in its current position, iTunes will ask for the new location of this file and then will try to find other missing files in that same directory (so only that cd is imported). The importing itself is slow as well but that's probably due to the server.
Doug created a script that can change the location of selected files without losing metadata/rating but 500+ albums would take a too long :(

I hope there is a simpler and faster way changing the paths since this is the last step holding me back from running my library from a cloud server.
For those interested, I can't store the library files on the cloud server as iTunes rewrite the library file (200mb) every time you change a rating so I keep my libraries in sync with a bitbucket server and source-tree.

Thanks!


texts: How can I print varying number of multiple pages per sheet on Mac? (Standard layout / print multiple pages option does not suit)

texts:
I've got a bunch of pdfs containing text. Each page is of the same width, but each page is of a different height. Some pages only contain a few lines of text, other pages contain a lot of text.
I want to print this pdf on a Mac so that each sheet I print on is filled nicely with text. The problem is that the standard 'print multiple pages per sheet' option does not suit, as some pages of the pdf could fill their own page, whereas others are so narrow that 3 or 4 of them could be combined on one sheet.
Anyone know of a simple software / workaround that solves my problem? Thanks so much!!


texts:
I got this MacBook Pro 15" 2016 with Radeon. And every time it switches graphic cards there is a delay for like 10 seconds.

How do I know this? I have installed gfxCardStatus that displays a notification every time the card is switched.

For instance logging in to Gmail is like this, open a login page, the card is switched to Radeon 455, wait 10 sec, back to Intel HD, wait a little bit more, finally you can proceed. It becomes a real nuisance when you need quickly log in and out of different Gmail accounts as you get blocked every time you reach the login page.

Open a gfx editor... wait again. You get the idea. It only works okay when connected to an external monitor and Radeon is always in use.

Apparently, this is not something everybody is dealing with because I don't see people complaining left and right. Should the switching be pretty seamless?

There seem to be less delay when it falls back to Intel HD, but switching to Radeon is unbearable. If I open, say, a graphics editor, the cursor disappears for 6-10 seconds and it looks sort of depressing as notebook hangs as well.

Is there anything I can do to fix it?


texts: I can't see usb-drives and archives in the sidebar of the finder anymore

texts:
When I plugin a usb-drive or open dmg-archives they don't appear under the 'Devices' section in the sidebar of the Finder anymore.

The drives are there when I check with 'Disk Utility', they appear on the Desktop and I can browse the files if I go to /Volumes.

I have 'Hard disks' and 'External disks' checked in the Finder preferences -> Sidebar tab.

Any ideas on how to get them to show up in the sidebar?

I'm using MacOS Lion 10.7.5.


texts: Safari extension for Google results navigation (↑/k, ↓/j)

texts: Title says it all. I found some posts linking to some private locations (mostly dead). I wonder if there ain't something like that for Safari. Google Chrome has several of them. E.g. Web Search Navigator. Are these extensions just well hidden or aren't there any at all?


texts: Are my wireless Microsoft mouse+keyboard supported in OSX?

texts:
I have a MS Wireless Laser Mouse/Keyboard 5000 set where both connect to my Windows desktop using a special USB bluetooth receiver.

I'm not sure if this is generic USB technology that will work on my Mac Mini (2012), running OSX Yosemite - I am hoping to switch to that as my main device.

Can anyone tell me if it will/should work without problems?


texts: How to create an automator workflow/application to delete jpeg when raw exist

texts:
I have approx 1 terabyte of Canon CR2 images in 40 sub-folders, some with matching jpeg and some just jpeg.
I want to delete all jpegs that have a matching corresponding raw .cr2 file.
I would like to mac automator or a script to run through terminal.
I tried some scripts found on photos.stackexchange.com but I get syntax errors when I try to run it.
I get an error Expected end of line, etc. but found “"”.
#!/bin/bash
read -p "*.CR2" suffix

find . -type f -iname "*.${suffix}" | \
while read line
do
  lowercase=$(echo "$line" | sed "s/${suffix}/jpg/gi")
  uppercase=$(echo "$line" | sed "s/${suffix}/JPG/gi")

  if [ -f "${lowercase}" ]
  then
    rm -v "${lowercase}"
  elif [ -f "${uppercase}" ]
  then
    rm -v "${uppercase}"
  else
    echo "${line}: no jpg present"
  fi
done


texts: What is the safest way to leave my MacBook on 24/7 with macOS Mojave?

texts:
I used to use sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25 to try setting my MacBook to hibernate instead of sleep, so that it pulls power away from the RAM/hard drives, etc. and puts the laptop into a proper sleep. A few major updates ago (maybe El Capitan), pmset ... 25 no longer worked to set my MacBook into hibernate/safe sleep. I'm using a MacBook 13" from 2017. Is hibernate no longer supported on this model?

After hearing about the defect in the 15-inch MacBooks from 2017, I have to admit that I'm concerned they'll find an issue with 13-inch MacBooks as well, and I want to be as safe as possible.

I use a lot of applications whose state needs to be maintained across many days for development and testing, so shutting down my computer every day is not efficient nor is it a viable option.

Here is my pmset -g custom after running sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25 to try enabling hibernate mode again:

pmset -g custom

Battery Power:
 lidwake              1
 autopoweroff         1
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 proximitywake        0
 standby              1
 standbydelaylow      10800
 ttyskeepawake        1
 highstandbythreshold 50
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 hibernatemode        25
 displaysleep         5
 sleep                180
 tcpkeepalive         1
 halfdim              1
 acwake               0
 lessbright           1
 disksleep            10
AC Power:
 lidwake              1
 autopoweroff         1
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 proximitywake        1
 standby              1
 standbydelaylow      10800
 ttyskeepawake        1
 hibernatemode        25
 powernap             1
 gpuswitch            2
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 highstandbythreshold 50
 womp                 1
 displaysleep         10
 networkoversleep     0
 sleep                10
 tcpkeepalive         1
 halfdim              1
 acwake               0
 disksleep            10

pmset -g cap

Capabilities for AC Power:
 displaysleep
 disksleep
 sleep
 womp
 acwake
 lidwake
 halfdim
 gpuswitch
 standby
 standbydelayhigh
 standbydelaylow
 highstandbythreshold
 powernap
 ttyskeepawake
 hibernatemode
 hibernatefile
 autopoweroff
 tcpkeepalive
 autopoweroffdelay
 proximitywake


texts: I'm writing an install script for some software that depends on libUSB being installed however I need to check if macports or fink is installed, if they are not install homebrew. How can I check to see if the macports or fink are installed in a shell script?


texts: Why do my Sony WH-1000XM3 wireless headphones appear to have two different volume profiles when using with my Mac?

texts:
Note: This is not an SBC issue and both the Spotify app and Finder app can exhibit this problem.
Sometimes when I connect my Sony WH-1000XM3 bluetooth headphones to my Mac they are fairly quiet at maximum volume. When I change volume right after the connection is made I sometimes see the volume suddenly jump to what appears to be the volume remembered by another "profile". I'm usually able to reproduce this by turning the headphones off and back on again. I did some research and learned about the different bluetooth profiles and codecs that the headphones support. Based on that I initially thought that what was happening was the headphones were connecting using HSP or HFP instead of AVRCP or A2DP. This is not the case as I have confirmed that even when connected using the "low volume profile" the codec being used is AAC, which is not supported by HSP or HFP.
The only "fix" I've found is disconnecting and reconnecting the headphones. That always seems to put them into the "normal volume profile". If I then switch them off and back on they will most of the time reconnect in the "low volume profile".
Anyone know what is going on, and how to properly fix it?
I'm on an early 2015 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro running macOS 10.15.7.


texts:
I know I  can change the appearance of my mac using the system preferences app, but is there a way to do this from the terminal?
I'm looking for something like defaults write com.apple.systempreferences.general.appearance 'dark', but can't seem to find the right config value.
Edit: For clarity I want to change System Preferences > General > Appearance
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208976#:~:text=Turn%20on%20Dark%20Mode,the%20dark%20appearance%20at%20night.


texts: Downloads vs Update charts in new iTunes Connect

texts:
Where can I see the new downloads vs update charts? In my case I see only a single line with units per day.

Some hints and maybe screenshots will be useful!


texts:
I've been searching for the relevant articles on the Internet and found nothing useful. Maybe I'm too stupid to understand.

I would like to create a script that automatically keep pressing the "W" key, like wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, endlessly and as quick as possible when I press and hold the key, and it ends when I release the key.

"defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false" doesn't work in this case.

Thank you very much in advanced.


texts:
I have been tasked with something at work.  We are an all Mac shop and I have been asked to provide a list of all "current" known vulnerabilities for Mac OSX.  So in other words, if my mac is running 10.13.6 (the latest release) what existing known vulnerabilities out there do my users need to worry about?

What is the best way to accomplish this?  Does Apple maintain a list?


texts: Very slow time machine backup to NAS (small files?)

texts:
[Nb. more-or-less identical question posted to ServerFault.]
I am backing up my 2019 15" MacBook Pro to a Synology DS416 NAS. The NAS is wired to my NetGear Orbi router, correctly showing 1000 Mbps, Full duplex, MTU 1500, formatted as ext4 with SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid). The MBP is connected by wifi (I don't think that is the bottleneck but it is actually difficult to check because of the physical setup of my network).
Time Machine backups are extremely slow — many hours at best even for just a few GB, and almost always with a long time after the backup has actually reached its nominal 100% mark where the prefpane just shows a slowly-increasing amount backed up. Sometimes the full backup ends up taking days.
After examining speeds with TheTimeMachineMechanic, I think this might have to do with small-file performance of copying to the NAS: speeds drop precipitously when dealing with many small files.
I can't seem to do anything to fix it. I have tried the sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0 trick, and various changes to the SMB settings on the NAS (e.g., this and this), to no avail. (I am only using SMB, not AFP, which is deprecated and caused problems in the past.)
I have had this setup for a while — originally with a very old Apple Time Capsule, and for a while with a combination of the Time Capsule and the Synology, but now just the Synology; originally with AFP and now with SMB; originally with a different router. I don't think it has always been this slow (although, on the other hand, AFP would fail catastrophically every few months and force me to restart backups from scratch, so this is an improvement over that). Also, FWIW, backups are not encrypted since I've been doing this since before that was an option, although I know I probably should... (I assume that wouldn't increase the speed?!)
Any ideas, or at least others with similar issues?


texts: Uploading app to app-store with same name for another developer id

texts:
Let me explain clearly,

I have developed an application and created an app in the app-store with an apple developer id. But, not uploaded the binary version.

Now I need to upload the app with another apple id with the same name. I know if I delete the old one I can reuse the name with other id.

I need to know two things about this,

Is there any time gap required for using the name after deleting the old app(can I create immidietely after deleting the old app)?

Is it possible to use the same Bundle identifier that I used for the old one?


texts: iPhone video app that lets you switch from front to back (in) camera mid recording?

texts:
Does anyone know of any iPhone (6) camera apps that lets you flip from the front camera to back camera whilst recording a video please?

The standard camera does not, and I can't seem to find any apps that do! I don't mind paying for the app


texts: Names of bootable partitions aren't the same as the names in Disk Utility

texts:
We use external FW/USB drives as portable diagnostic and installers and even though the partitions are named and have a custom icon, they show up as "Mac OS X" with a generic USB/FW icon when option booting.
How do I make the names and icons "stick" so they appear as I named them?
In System Preferences I've tried setting a partition as the startup disk and restarting when prompted; no change.
My current drive is formatted GUID and is broken into 9 partitions when viewed in Disk Utility. 8 are bootable and 1 is not. The retail partitions are the DVD installers or the Mac App Store Installers used to re-image new hard drives. The diagnostic partitions are a working OS with diagnostic utilities (DiskWarrior, Drive Genius, etc.) installed.

10.5.6 - Retail
10.6.3 - Retail
10.7.4 - Retail
10.8.1 - Retail
10.5.8 - Diagnostic
10.6.8 - Diagnostic
10.7.4 - Diagnostic
10.8.1 - Diagnostic
Storage


texts:
Three to four weeks ago I read an article which was talking about the project Folding@Home which helps researchers  find a cure for the CoVid-19.
Since then my Mac has been pretty noisy, although the idea was to run the software when I was not working on my Mac. Today I noticed that despite not having so much running on the Mac it is noisy and also kind of hot underneath.
In the iStat, i found out that the FAHclient was taking the most of the CPU power (even when not running it).  I  uninstalled the software and its client is still running in the background.
I also terminated the process related to it in the terminal:

ps aux | grep fah
kill the pid

How can I uninstall it completely as it's not letting me concentrate since a while.


texts: R Studio Quitting Session Failure on Mac

texts: I have problems quitting R studio on Macbook Air after working tirelessly for over 12 hours and a large dataset. May I get help because my computer wont shut down now?


texts: Is there a limit for devices where I can download my purchased apps?

texts: I'm thinking about renting an iPad for use. And I would like to know if I can put my password to download my apps every time I rent an iPad, or is there a limit?


texts:
I'm seeing a problem where I have multiple mouse cursors on certain parts of my screen or screen configurations. I've searched bug reports and haven't seen any mention of something similar, so I'm wondering if anyone has seen this problem before.

I've tried:

Restating the computer
Updating the OS

I'm hesitant to wipe and re-install everything... but that's my next step unless I can solve this annoying bug.

When I take a screenshot, the second cursor disappears, so please excuse the phone photos.

Pointer and I-bar on text input:

Pointer and drag hand when editing the previous photo:

Second cursor on a monitor that is rotated 90° CC (vertical):

Computer Information:


texts: Two SSDs in a Macbook Pro with OSX on one and Windows 7 on the other

texts:
Is it possible to have a setup like this?

What I want to be able to have is one SSD with OSX Lion and another SSD with Windows 7 in a usual dual boot setup.


texts:
How can I delete an email in Mac Mail instantly without moving it to the trash? I don't want to look at the spam crap twice :-)

UPDATE: I want to do this because I have some very old mails in my trash I don't want to delete at the moment (or decide what to do with). So I cannot delete my whole trash. But to avoid the trash becoming bigger and bigger I want to delete spam etc. without moving to trash...


texts: Any iPhone apps to test the touchscreen?

texts:
I've been playing an iPhone game for about a week and today the phone didn't detect some of my swipes.  It still detected most of my swipes, but on a few occasions I swiped and nothing happened.  I did drop my phone on a carpeted floor yesterday so I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Are there any apps that let you test the iPhone touchscreen?  I would think someone has developed an app that lets you touch/swipe anywhere on the screen and it gives you visual feedback that it detected your touch/swipe.  I searched in the App Store and didn't see anything.

I found this answer that said there are a few utilities that let you test the responsiveness of your iPhone, but it didn't mention the names of those utilities.  It also mentioned a web site named Sparky, but I went there on my iPhone and couldn't do anything there.

I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 6.1.3.


texts: How can data be restored when I downgrade macOS versions?

texts:
I just upgraded to macOS Catalina and that was a pretty bad experience.

I didn't know 32bit anymore, so none of my games work.

Is there a process to back-up everything to prepare downgrading to Mojave or High Sierra.

I'd want to prepare for everything as it was before such as my saved games, existing apps. My supplies are time and an external HD.

Is there a step-by-step guide to perform this?


texts: El Capitan 10.11.5 beta giving us the bird

texts:
On a MacBook Air running the latest El Capitan public beta (10.11.5) we're seeing very high CPU utilization (25 to 100+%) by the bird process.

We're seeing a number of errors (rather than a persistent one) some of the more common ones are:

[ERROR] 57226.692 [2016-05-07 22:23:40.422] upload/com.apple.CloudDocs     sync.transfer        BRCTransferBatchOperation.m:222
        failed uploading 1 items (178 bytes) in com.apple.CloudDocs: <CKError 0x7f8a6bf3ba40: "Partial Failure" (2/1011); "Failed to modify some records"; partial errors: {
                documentContent/817537A5-F0B6-4F4C-A7DB-C4C6204751D6:(com.apple.CloudDocs:__defaultOwner__) = <CKError 0x7f8a6e021b60: "Asset File Modified" (17/3003); "generation counter mismatch (4 != 3)">

[ERROR] 58828.969 [2016-05-07 22:50:22.699] NSXPCConnection.user.580       xpc.client                 BRCXPCClient.m:808
        nil error: <NSError:0x7f8a6be86540(NSPOSIXErrorDomain:1) - {
            NSDescription = "can't create container for (null)";
        }>

The resulting CPU utilization makes the machine almost unusable, any suggestions for a solution short of turning off iCloud drive?


texts: iPad does not do automatic screen rotation

texts: I've a problem with my iPad. After I updated to the lastest version of iOS the automatic screen rotation doesn't work anymore. I tried to restart my iPad because I supposed that it was only a system bug but it was not like I thought. How can I fix this?


texts: Will using the iphone camera flash as a flashlight for long periods harm it in any way?

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We have an old iPhone 4 that we use as a music machine in a spare room.  Will using the flash as a nightlight overnight cause any damage?

My guess is no, but a part of me (maybe thinking of old camera flashes) thinks I should ask first.

Thanks.


texts: I cannot add a Web page into my Dashboard

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I want to store a website in my Dashboard, but the option to do so appears greyed out.

How do I open the website in Dashboard?


texts: Magic Mouse / Wireless keyboard not fully functional after Archive & Install

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I'm having multiple issues with my 2008-model MacBook Pro.  I took it to the Genius Bar and they suggested an Archive & Install, which I did.  But now I have a new issue.

I have the wireless/bluetooth Apple Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard.  Since the Archive & Install, neither is working properly.  The mouse tracks and clicks, but the "touchpad" features like scrolling and swiping don't register at all.  Also, the function key on the wireless keyboard doesn't seem to do anything.

If I go to the System Preferences and select Mouse, then "setup Bluetooth Mouse" I get a "Searching..." and a spinning wheel forever.  The mouse is paired but I can't configure the Magic features.

Similarly for Keyboard.  It's paired, and I've clicked "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" so that if I want to use the keyboard to change the volume or something I should be able to use the combination Fn-F11.  But both F11 and Fn-F11 do an Exposé thing.  If I click "Set up Bluetooth Keyboard..." I also get "Searching..." and the eternally spinning wheel.

If I go to the Keyboard Viewer I see a keyboard layout that looks like the wireless one, but as soon as I press a key the Keyboard Viewer changes to a layout that looks more like the extended keyboard.  Pressing Fn changes the keycaps on the ⌫ key to ⌦ , and the arrow keys change, too, but actually pressing these key combinations doesn't do what it says it will do: Fn-⌫ and ⌫ are doing the same thing.

Casting the "put to sleep/wake up" and "restart" spells don't seem to have any effect.  Any clues?


texts: Wifi drop out on macbook pro retina late 2013 with El Capitan

texts: Constant wi fi drop out only on my Macbook pro retina (late 2013) with el capitan installed. My imac is not affected, nor any other appliance using the wifi in our house. Can anyone help? Will the solution posted previously about similar problem with Yosemite work for El Capitan? Thanks in adavance


texts: Why does iTunes ask me to verify an email account that's already verified?

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I recently changed my email address that I use as my apple ID to log in to itunes.   So I got an email to verify it by clicking on a link, which I did.

And it seems to have worked, sort of:   on my ipad and iphone, I'm in business, and can buy apps, etc.

But on my mac, when I try to login to the store in itunes, I get this:

When I click ok, it takes me to the verification page, but the page seems to imply that I both need to verify my address and that it's already verified:

Any ideas?  I'm not sure I can go much longer without Ke$ha's latest.


texts: Stop finder using cover flow in icon view

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I am using Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion and one of the finder features that really annoys me is that when i try to sort files by 'Date Created' in icon view it separates them into sections such as 'Yesterday', 'Previous 7 Days' etc. and uses a cover flow like effect to browse through them. These sections mean that to browse i have to scroll along each section then  move down to the next and scroll along that one.

Is there any way to stop finder from using this feature?

Thanks in advance, Ben.


texts: Is it possible to merge two iTunes Store accounts so we can share apps and other purchases?

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My wife and I each have iTunes on our PCs.  Originally, I set these up with separate iTunes Store accounts.  I was led to believe that we ought to do this because an email address is used for the Apple ID, and we each have one.  I'm thinking now that was a mistake?

Here's the problem:
Each of us now has an iPad, and we're each buying apps on our own accounts and syncing to our own PCs.  Because of these separate accounts and iTunes PCs, I understand we're unable to share our purchases – which, AFAIK, Apple expressly permits on up to 5 associated family devices.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Is it possible to merge or consolidate two different Apple iTunes Store accounts so we can share the apps and other purchases we've made?  (We are married, so legally it is community property anyway! :-)

Alternatively, is there a way we could maintain our separate accounts but still sync each others' devices in a way to get both sets of apps on each iPad?  We've already made some redundant purchases (and thus wasted some $) and I'd like to avoid that in the future, if possible!


texts: How to contact Apple to check if they will permit an iOS app?

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Specifically there's a site called gab.com that's about free speech and has attracted a number of radical people. Because of this it has been banned form the Apple app store, even in its more recent iterations as it moved into the fediverse.

I was thinking of forking their old app and making a third party app that blocked sensitive content, hopefully making the app acceptable for the app store (since the previous one was banned due to hate speech).

I'd hate to go through all that work just to have Apply say they won't allow it anyways.

If I want to create an app in a sensitive subject area, is there a way to contact Apple before making the app to see if they'll allow it or not?


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I would have thought this would be easy to find, but thus far it has not been for me.

Is there a way to launch dictation (fn, fn) with applescript or from the terminal?


texts: I have a Mac mini (Mac mini 2) set up in New York which I can connect to just fine via the Share Screen... button on Finder. However, when I try to connect to my other Mac mini in Miami (Mac mini 3), it says Connecting to Mac mini 3... then shows the screen for Mac mini 2. What's going on? I am able to successfully SSH into both.


texts: iCloud Drive not syncing after macOS re-install

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I used iCloud Drive to store all my files.

Due to various issues with my laptop I had to wipe the hard drive and re-install macOS on it (Catalina 10.15.1). I started with that installation completely from scratch, not restoring anything. But did of course sign in with the same Apple ID as my iCloud Drive.

But now the iCloud Drive folder is not downloading any of my files. I can see them all on icloud.com though.

How do I force macOS to synchronise the iCloud Drive folder?


texts: What does this mean and how can I get it off my computer?


texts: 2FA code sent to wrong unknown number (Iran)

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I forgot my passcode and kept entering wrong ones.  In the end, I reset the phone and reinstalled the latest iOS (13.3.1).

Now on startup, it sends a 2FA code to a number I have never seen and it's not in the format of my country (Iran).

When I bought the phone (iPhone 6S), I put in my SIM card for the 2FA. I have received codes from Apple before on this same number. Now it's changed and I receive the error:  "Your request could not be completed because of an error. Try again later."

This has been happening for hours so it's not due to low server capacity.