texts: Unable to launch photos library repair tool in macOS high sierra?

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I was trying to launch the photos library repair tool by holding down option-command while opening photos.
However this seems to be not working in macOS high sierra.
Instead of repair tool, the photos app is opened.

I was referring to the instructions in the below link, to launch the repair tool:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204967

Has any one launched the repair tool in macOS high sierra?
Please advise how to launch the repair tool.


texts: Does changing the password for Apple ID make iCloud and Find My iPhone stop working?

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My phone has recently been stolen. I have been trying to locate it. I had previously set up the Find My iPhone app and after the theft, I have changed all my iCloud and Gmail passwords.

Can the person with my iPhone change it over to his iCloud account so that the Find My iPhone app won't work for me?


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i have IMac 5,1 with Lion 10.7.5 OSX and in terminal i'm trying to use the command csrutil.
I checked everywhere but didn't find the way to have and use it.
The reason is that i would like to disable ( i know i have to do in recovery mode) to install windows 7 32bit( 64bit seems not possible)
Last week i upgrade the HD to SSD of 1TB and RAM from 2 to 4gb and i used CarbonCopyCloner to clone the OSX but i lost the Windows partition that i would like to have again.
Thank you in advance


texts: finder is slow, disk access is slow, 1.5 million files on disk

texts: Folders take seconds to respond; Activity monitor shows nothing; there are 1.5 million files on the computer. Is the Finder overloaded?


texts: Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup: Two of the disks to back up have the same name. (Catalina)

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I have erased my backup hard drive and get the following error when I attempt my first backup:

My disks look like this

I'm running 10.15. Any ideas appreciated.


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I have a host machine running OS X 10.9.3 and VirtualBox 4.3.12 VM running Windows 7. I want to copy and paste between the host machine and the VM. By default copy-pastes don't seem to be transferable between machines. How can I do this?

There were some similar questions but using Linux/VMWare but the solutions have been specific to the VM in use.


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I develop rails applications on my iMac. Often executing all the specs using the parallel_tests gem. This gem uses multiple threads to run specs to utilise all CPU cores. During this, Sublime Text becomes very unresponsive, typing and scrolling is very jittery (e.g. there are several seconds delay between hitting the key and the letter appearing on the screen).

How can I make Sublime Text more responsive when all cpu resources are utilised?

What I tried so far:

execute specs with "nice 20". Did not help. Seems no effect at all.
renice Sublime to -20. Did not help. Seems no effect at all.
use vim during test execution. Works flawlessly, there are no lags.


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This just started happening recently. When I plug my headphones in, I get full high fidelity volume for a fraction of a second and then it becomes significantly muted.

I've checked "Sound" in Preferences to ensure that I've not reduced my system volume.

Any other ideas on what might be causing this?

UPDATE:

Tried restarting (multiple times)
Tried resetting NVRAM to no avail

System Specs: MBP 15" Mid-2014 on Yosemite


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How can I take a time lapse screen recording on iOS? I want to make a video that shows the behaviour of an app over a long period of time (1-3 hours).

I know I can just make a screen recording of the whole thing, but that would take a lot of storage space in the meantime and take a lot of time in post processing to speed up the video.

Is there an app that can do time lapse screen recording? Is it even possible for an app to have permission to do this?


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I have the following in my .bash_profile:

$ cat ~/.bash_profile
# Prompt
export PS1="\h:\W$ "

# Standard path
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin"

# Android
export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=/opt/android-ndk
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/opt/android-sdk
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/.android"

export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/tools/":"$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/platform-tools/"

I verified the path with:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/local/bin:
/opt/local/sbin:/opt/android-sdk/tools/:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools/

My local build of Emacs is in /usr/local/bin. I just built and installed it:

$ which emacs
/usr/local/bin/emacs

When I run Emacs, I get the one from /usr/bin:

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
...
$ /usr/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
...
$ /usr/local/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.5.1
...

Why am I having trouble with the paths? Why is OS X ignoring them? How can I use my copy of Emacs in /usr/local/bin/emacs without specifying the full path?


texts: I'm running Mac OS 7.5.3 under Sheepshaver on a Mac mini with Catalina. I remember there was a Command-Delete ability to send files and folders to the trash with the aforementioned keystrokes. What I can't remember is  what it was that enabled this. A Control Panel or Extension or a Utility of some kind? Any clues would be much appreciated.


texts: MacBook Air "restarting" on wake after updating to Catalina

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I recently updated to Catalina on my 2018 MacBook Air. Since then, I've sometimes been greeted by the Apple logo when my machine wakes from sleep. This is after being put to sleep the night before by closing the lid. I then see what looks like a overly quick boot up, followed by a password prompt which tells me that my password is required when my Mac reboots. The thing is: I don't see anything like "your Mac restarted because of a problem", and running uptime in the terminal indicates that the machine hasn't restarted in weeks. Looking at pmset -g log doesn't provide any obvious clues as to what's going wrong.

Is this a known issue? Is there any mechanism specific to Catalina that would cause this "not-quite-restart"? Are there places other than the pmset logs I should be looking for clues?


texts: Deleting songs on computer from an iTunes playlist

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Oftentimes, I am in an iTunes playlist and want to delete a song from my computer.

However, if I am in an iTunes playlist, I can only delete the song from the playlist, and then I have to go back to All Music in iTunes to delete the song from the computer.

The picture above shows the window that appears when I go to delete a song in a playlist.

Is there a way to delete a song from a playlist and the computer at the same time?

Tech Specs

OS X 10.8.4
iTunes 11.0.5


texts: Cannot install macOS update with error "cannot verify this update"

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While installing the macOS 10.12.6 Sierra update from the Mac App Store, my system rebooted with the error, “Cannot verify this update.”

I’m trying to upgrade from macOS 10.12.5 to 10.12.6.


texts: Can I transfer a PDF to iPhone then use gmail to send it by email?

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I have a PC running Windows. It has iTunes installed. This PC does not and cannot have any Internet connectivity.

I have an iPhone 4s. (Not jail broken).

There is a PDF file on the PC. I want to transfer that file to the iPhone. Then I want to send it by email. (Preferably the gmail app).

I can use iTunes to transfer the PDF to the iPhone, but the PDF reader app has control of that file and nothing else can access it.  And it seems like the gmail app can't attach anything other than photos?

Is there a way to do this? Or should I give up with this approach?


texts: Is there an app that allows me to monitor time spent using an application?

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Is there a tool that allows you to monitor the amount of time spent actively interacting with an application? This would be useful for development work to get an idea of just how long projects take.

EDIT:

I've been using RescueTime as it tracks apps, catagorises them based on productivity levels, and also looks at web pages visited.


texts: How to use the camera of an iPad connected to a Mac as a video camera?

texts: Is there a way to use the back camera of an iPad Mini as a video camera, so that I can use it from Screenflow as an input video device ?


texts: Mac keeps randomly getting shift key toggled on even with the button not pressed

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This is really annoying when I'm playing league of legends and i randomly can't use skills or click anywhere because shift is toggled on. By the time i notice it's usually too late. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas what is causing it. I was thinking it was maybe because certain mac commands are still available during the game (league of legends).

I notice i can use cmd + shift + 3 to screen capture. Cmd + q to exit was available until i remapped Quit League of Legends to CMD + option + .

However, it's not just during the game. I also often get similar problems while typing in browser windows.

Is there a way to disable all mac keyboard shortcuts? or could there be some other reason for my problem? i'm tempted to just buy another keyboard to test if it's the keyboard. both shift and Alt have repeatedly gotten stuck on until i repress the key.

My OS is Yosemite if that helps. anyway I'm willing to try anything.  I checked hotkeys though and nothing maps to qwer + ctrl/alt/cmd/shift.

I really can't figure out what is going on.


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The new MacBook 12" has been launched and on the apple store the processor says

  1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.4GHz)

Does this mean that the Core-M processor will run at 2.4GHz or will it run at 1.1GHz?

If the Core-M does run at 1.1GHz would you be able to manual turbo boost it to 2.4GHz through some software?


texts: How to edit hosts with TextEdit on Yosemite?

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This line used to work
sudo -b "/Applications/Textedit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit" /etc/hosts

But on Yosemite, it does not work anymore.


texts: How to export downloaded PDFs from iBooks on iOS to a computer?

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My wife has an iPad Air 2 running iOS 12.4.1. She has saved many PDF files into iBooks over the years from various sources such as websites.

Her iPad is dying, and she doesn't want to lose the PDFs.

She has an ancient Mac laptop running Yosemite, but the books refuse to sync to iBooks on that. We installed a trial of iExplorer but I couldn't find any of the PDFs in the directory structure.

How can we export the PDFs - either to iBooks on the Mac, or (preferably) as normal PDF files? Doing them one-by-one (e.g. by emailing each, or copying to dropbox) would not be feasible, as there are hundreds of them.

I have looked at similar questions on this forum, but have not found a solution that works for us.

EDIT: Added pictures demonstrating that no books can be found in the iPad filesystem, using iFunBox:

Root:

iBooks:

Managed:

Purchases:

Sync:

There is nothing in Downloads either. And yet, the books are present in the app.


texts: Do the M1 Macs "shutoff" RAM or CPU Cores?

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Question
Is there any new way the M1 Macs manage memory or long running processes that would explain the behavior I describe below? I wanted to investigate what I might not know about the M1s before chalking it up to a software bug.
Background
When I run BOINC (via Rosetta2) it runs without issue with one project per CPU core. But after some time of inactivity it seems that certain cores are "shutdown". I have observed this happening one core (bionic task) at a time with about 30secs between the next "shutdown".  The BOINC software seems to interpret this as the system not having enough memory. As can be seen in the image each project needs <1GB of RAM to run. With the Mac having 16gb of RAM all tasks can run.

TLDR
M1 MacBook Air with 16gb seems to "shutdown" cores or parts of RAM after a predictable amount of time of inactivity.
Post Script


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I want to use Putty on Mac, and I need to import Putty (SSH client) profiles in it.
Putty profiles are stored in the Windows registry (you can dump and import .reg files on another windows machine without any problem)..is there a way to import them using Wine?


texts: Does iMessage cost extra if I have another device?

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I have iMessage on my iPhone 5, and I signed in to iMessage on my iPad 2.

Will it cost extra to have iMessage on my iPad 2?

I think iMessage might be free but I'm still curious.


texts: Changing color of application window (Mavericks)

texts: Is there a way to hack just a single application to change the color of the window chrome itself, like the topmost bar where window title and min/maximize buttons are located?


texts: How to auto-change all new .webloc files' icons to web page favicon?

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I'd love to have all website URL files on the desktop take the favicon of the corresponding web page, rather than the Safari icon.
This would mimic the function of adding a page to the home screen of iOS.
How can I set something up, perhaps in Automator, so that, when I drag a new URL from Chrome to the desktop, the page's favicon is fetched and applied as the icon image?


texts: How to find out fully qualified hostname in osX (Terminal / Swift)?

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i've checked several posts, for example -  (Make `hostname -f` return fully qualified hostname)

My apple machine is connected to the domain and i'm logged on with a domain user.
the thing is, that hostname command only gives me the machine name - but i cannot find the domain part.

This is also true if i use the command host 'hostname'.

any clearance would be appreciated.


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I'm having an issue with a website. On one machine (10.6.8) it is not possible anymore to save the login cookie of a particular website. The site does not work with any user account on that Mac anymore.

This issue occurs in all browsers on that machine. On other machines or for other domains on the same machine the logins are working fine. The user's password is definitely correct as it works on other machines. The problem is that the cookie of that particular web page cannot be saved.

I tried without success:

Check Setting (Cookies are allowed)
Reset browsing data of all browsers
Delete ~/Library/Cookies/
Repair permissions
Reboot and reset PRAM.

Does anyone has ideas on this? Thanks.


texts: Will Apple replace the battery on an iPhone 5s?

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On Apple's service pricing page, it says you can replace the batteries on the following models of iPhone for £45:

iPhone SE
iPhone 6
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s Plus
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 8
iPhone 8 Plus
and all other eligible models

Does the iPhone 5s fall under all other eligible models, or is it too old?


texts: How to map "Spacebar + 1" to "⌃1" on Karabiner Elements?

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I'm looking for a way to remap Spacebar as a modifier for only the number row. For example, Spacebar + 0 = ⌃0, but for anything else Spacebar is just Spacebar.

I found this post which does what I I want through the example of M + N. Unfortunately, it's for an older version of Karabiner, and I don't understand how this code translates to the current way the program works.


texts: How to configure a static IP for a specific access point on OS X?

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I own a MacBook Pro and always used Ubuntu in the past. In Ubuntu, I was able to configure my IP, DNS, Gateway, for a specific access point. There was a list of all the access points, each one with its own settings.

The goal I want to achieve is to do port forwarding in my own local network with static IP and still being able to connect with automatic DHCP settings  somewhere else (not my own network).

But I'm unable to do/find this in Mac OS X. Is it possible (with or without extra applications)?


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I just got a new MacBook Pro, installed Catalina, and used the Migration Assistant to transfer my files over to the new machine. I changed the computer name and home folder for my account from oldname to newname.

I have a rails project that I was working on, and rails s is what I use to start the dev server. But on this new machine, I get this:

dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/oldname/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.5.0/lib/libruby.2.5.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/newname/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.5.0/bin/ruby
Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

How would I fix this? The binary exists in the newname directory, but the oldname directory is gone.


texts: Change Default Table Style when opening a CSV file

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Background

I often open a CSV file on Numbers, and then I see the table of which style is 'Basic'.

I want to use another style (e.g. 'Gray'), but it's annoying to change the style every time I open a file.

Question

Can I change the default table style which Numbers uses when a file is opened?


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With my iPhone 5 with iOS 7.0.2 on Wifi or on 3G my iMessages won't send (Progress bar stuck in the middle of the screen).

Rebooting or Airplane mode won't change anything.


texts: High Sierra occasionally shows a white/grey screen and I have to switch off and restart

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The picture attached shows what I see when my computer "crashes".
It happens occasionally. It may be because of heavy load. Or because
I have it open many hours. I don't really know.

Has anyone else experienced this? Can you help? How can I trouble shoot?

Note that I have Mac Book Pro

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
2,5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

Note: the star shaped light area in the middle is my camera flash light. Please, ignore.


texts: Watch 4 buttons and certain features frequently go unresponsive

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Recently purchased my first Apple Watch (series 4) and I'm having some troubles. Apropos of nothing (so far as I can tell) the digital crown and side button go completely unresponsive. Double side button doesn't bring up apple pay, holding it down doesn't even bring up the power slider. Rotation on the crown seems to work fine but crown presses are also ignored.

I actually need to take the watch off my wrist before it will let me turn it off which does seem to fix the other issues. If this were a rare circumstance it wouldn't bother me much but it's happening about once per day. Am I somehow putting it into some mode that deactivates the buttons? This seems like a pretty big flaw so I'm guessing that I'm missing something here.


texts: Restoring Lion/iCloud iCal from Time Machine

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Well I managed to delete my calendar, which was being synched via iCloud with my Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

Can I repopulate my iCal calendar from a Time Machine backup?  ~/Library/ contains a folder called Calendars, but its contents look complicated and I don't dare simply restore the Calendars folder from yesterday's Time Machine backup.

Thanks.


texts: logging out of old Apple ID into new one

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I know that if I log out of my old apple id and sign into my new one that I will still keep my apps, but i'll need the password to update each app belonging to my old Apple ID.

but i'm just wondering if i don't want to do that, should i delete all of the apps of my phone and re-download using my new Apple ID to save the hastle?

also, i don't want to re-buy all of my music—will that remain on my device?  I do not want to waste unnessisary money.

thanks!!


texts: I hate to wait for Macports to update the packages that I need. I would like to learn how to create a new port and submit it to Macports server. How do I do that?


texts: Persistant phantom volume mount points, how to prevent?

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Every time I reboot my Mac a mount point for a drive I don't even have connected is recreated in my /Volumes/ dir.  I can delete it, but next time I reboot it comes back.  How can I find out what is creating this?

P.S.  At one time I did have CCC along with some other backup utilities installed on this system, that were setup to backup a volume of that name, but they have been removed.


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I am setting up a webserver but I am currently receiving a 403 error when browsing to Localhost. I am setting up "username.conf" and I have a couple of questions:

Since I am not logged in as a user that is not the admin, do I need to rename the username.conf file to the specific user's name?
The path can be something custom like this?

<Directory "/Users/niccolomineo/Creative Cloud Files/dev/">

This is what is reported in the log

[Sat Aug 02 16:30:34.481180 2014] [autoindex:error] [pid 392] [client ::1:49541] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /Library/WebServer/Documents/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive

Clearly, for some reason, the path he's trying to serve is still the default one, but I specified a custom one. It is like I cannot override it. How can I fix this?


texts: App or Service to Automatically Backup Photos in iCloud Photo Library?

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This is my situation:

MacBook and iPhone both using Photos.app and both using iCloud Photo Library
Neither device has enough local storage to keep the originals, so they're both set to the Optimize Storage option
I'd like an automated backup solution for the photo collection in iCloud Photo Library...

I've read How do I backup photos *from* iCloud Photo Library - along with other Q&As and pages, so I'm aware I could do things like:

Change the location of the library on the Mac, to an external drive, and switch the setting to *Download Originals...
Use iCloud.com to download photos, on any machine with a big hard disk or the current Mac, to an external drive...

What I'd prefer is an automated backup process. I know that iCloud Photo Library is fairly new; does anyone know of a Mac app, or an online service, that uses a user's iCloud credentials to take regular backups?


texts: How can I change the icon size in Lauchpad?

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The icon in Launchpad look huge on my iMac and I usually like my icons fairly small.

Is there a setting to resize the icon app size in Lauchpad?


texts: Generate « and » characters from keyboard

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I'm trying to make it so I can press ctrl + cmd + [ to create « and ctrl + cmd + ] to create ».

I tried searching google and couldn't find anything that would allow me to do this and all the tutorials seem to do things differently from what I'm trying to achieve.

I have tried https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ but I can't figure out how to setup custom keypresses.


texts: When I reset my iPhone, will it deactive my service with my carrier?

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I have the iPhone 5s that is 16 GB. I deleted many apps and photos, but I still have no storage and memory. My only option is to restart my iPhone completely, meaning to erase all my data and media on it. I'm
wondering if this was disconnect the service with my Verizon carrier...


texts: Tethering an iPad / iPhone to a Raspberry Pi

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Questions

My concerns are focused on enabling USB tethering in an iDevice (iOS 12 iPhone X and iPad Air):

What are the steps for tethering IOS 12 devices? Is it just one switch on the  Android or iDevice's?
Does the iDevice require configuring any other USB tethering settings?
Is there a simple litmus test to confirm that tethering setting is working? (ping?)

Goal

I am interested in using an iOS12 device, instead of an Android device, to display VNC output from a Raspberry Pi (rPi) as described in the blog: Raspberry Pi Display over USB.

The goal is to be able to  view / control rPi from iDevice (VNC or SSH) through USB-IP networking:

power up your rPi,
plug in your iDevice into the rPi via USB,
turn on USB tethering
connect iDevice to USB0 via VNC or SSH client app

Please indicate in replies if you have successful USB-IP networking experience (SSH VNC).

iDevice (phone \ tablet) configuration instructions:

VNC Viewer app to connect iDevice to tightvncserver over USB-IP connection
JuiceSSH app to SSH from iDevice to rPi over USB-IP connection
Turn on iDevice's USB tethering

rPI configuration instructions:

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
assigning a static IP, 192.168.42.42 to the rPi's USB0 interface:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Paste the following onto the bottom of the file, then save and exit (ctrl-X, Y):

iface usb0 inet static
address 192.168.42.42
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.42.0
broadcast 192.168.42.255

It is also possible to append or echo the settings to the target file:

echo "iface usb0 inet static" | sudo tee -a /etc/network/interfaces
echo "address 192.168.42.42" | sudo tee -a /etc/network/interfaces
echo "netmask 255.255.255.0" | sudo tee -a /etc/network/interfaces
echo "network 192.168.42.0" | sudo tee -a /etc/network/interfaces
echo "broadcast 192.168.42.255" | sudo tee -a /etc/network/interfaces

It would be nice if there was a command to test static IP assignment?

Details how to temporarily route rPi traffic through a WAN- connected Android Device:

use arp -a command to identify phone's IP address
use route add default gw 192.168.42.129 usb0


texts: Can I make tmux scroll from my trackpad?

texts: I want to set up iTerm2 to pass scroll events to tmux, so I can trivially enter (and exit) scrollback mode for whatever pane is active. Is this possible to do with iTerm2, or automation of some sort, or ...?


texts: Mac update 10.13.4 - how do I exit the installer?

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Like many people my attempt to install update 10.13.4 has not worked. A 2012 Mac Air running OS 10.13.3 with the usual "resource not found" and exit the installer. I click restart and stuck in the loop.

I can hold Option at boot and choose the installer or the normal drive, so yes, I can get boot fine.  I do not want to install the update now. I will wait until a better update is released later.

So, how do I stop the installer so I do not have to hold Optionat boot?

Added: I have not lost anything and can use the computer fine. I just want to stop the computer defaulting to the installer instead of the normal drive.

When I alt/option at boot I have 2 drive choices on the DOS like screen - the installer or the original drive.


texts: App Store email varies from Apple ID, where can this be set up on iPad Pro

texts: When setting up new iPad Pro-by default it only permits one email address to be used for Apple ID & App Store. On all my other devices, I have one email associated with my Apple ID & a different email address associated with my App Store. Because I haven’t been able to locate where one can make this distinction, in Settings (or elsewhere), I can’t access any of my previously purchased apps. Any one run into this or know how to resolve?


texts: At work, we are required to login to our work stations via an OSX Lion Server. I now need to update my iMac to Mavericks (for iOS7 and Xcode 5 support). Will the server need to be updated as well? If so, will every Mac in the office need to be upgraded as well (we are trying to avoid this scenario)?


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Something started happening to one of my mail accounts on Mail one of these days.
When I press Get New Mail, it starts downloading, showing the KB/s of the Mail Activity.
The problem is, without even downloading the first new email, the KB/s starts dropping to 0 and no emails are downloaded... This only happens to this email account and has been happening for some days now.
Any ideas of what could be wrong?

Thanks


texts: Can I do an entire Time Machine restore to another computer?

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I made a Time Machine backup of my 2015 MacBook Air to a USB drive.  I want to restore the entire state of the OS and my files to a 2015 MacBook Pro.

On the MacBook Pro I booted into Internet Recovery and used Disk Utility to erase/partition the internal drive.

Then I quit Disk Utility and ran "Restore from Time Machine".  I selected my backup from my external drive and proceeded with the restore.  It took about an hour and finished without any error messages.

But then when I shutdown, disconnected by backup drive and restarted the only boot option I had was Internet Recovery.  I rebooted while holding option key and still only Internet Recovery was the only option.  Is there something else I need to do?

The Time Machine backup is of a 10.14.6 system.
On the target MacBook Pro the disk is configured as:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                   Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           250.7 GB   disk0s2


texts: Install Macos from recovery using Bootable USB

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I have replaced my broken HDD with a new SSD and I can't install Mac from recovery (Command+R) no matter what connection I try to connect to, I tried different networks (router via Wifi, router via Ethernet, 4G Hotspot) I mostly got Error -1005F and sometimes -2105F.

The only option left was that I download High Sierra 10.13.2 dmg file from a trusted source and I created a bootable USB using TransMac, with the only problem being, it doesn't recognize the USB (though formatted as GPT), if I restart the Macbook holding option key, it only shows a box to connect to Wifi, there are no disks to choose to boot from, I tried a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0 devices, both didn't work.

Any idea how I can troubleshoot?

Is there a better way to install mac on my macbook pro 2011? (High Sierra compatible)

I also removed the optical drive from Macbook a while ago, installing Mac from a DVD wouldn't be an option for me.


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I recently tried to update my iMac OS to Yosemite as most people had already done it a while ago.
it downloaded the package when rebooted to install it. It was stuck with error message.

It looks as if there was an issue with hard drive preventing installation.
I was also unfortunate to revert the installation, hence end up loosing all my files as I decided to erase the disk and create new partition.
Even after formatting the disk and using 'Reinstall OS X' from recovery mode; I am unable to complete.

The screen doesn't seem to do anything stuck at 'Downloading additional components, it will automatically restart' I tried leaving it for few hours but no result.

Would someone please share your experience?


texts: DNS: Search Domains not working correctly?

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I am running OSX Lion.

I've looked all over the web for solutions to the issue I'm having and can't find a fix.  I've found several entries where uses are trying to resolve custom_hostname.dev (etc, etc), but I'm actually trying to use the search domains for FQDN.  I do not have access to the DNS systems, so my system is assigned some DNS server IPs, but I  have to manually set all the search domains for some of the hosts.  For example:

search loc1.sitea.example.net, loc2.sitea.example.net, loc1siteb.example.net

Let's say  host mytesthost is in loc2.sitea.example.net.  I would have expected that when I type in mytesthost, that it would search the search domains and resolve an IP, however, in order for this to work, I actually have to type in mytesthost.loc2.sitea.example.net.

The "error" I get is "unknown host", which tells me that it is not resolving the hostname.

Any thoughts?


texts: Why should I use something other than Parallels

texts: I am looking to use Master Genealogist on my Mac Pro with Parallels. Does anyone have experience using this program for Windows on a Mac? Any suggestions for a better setup than Parallels?


texts: How can I buy an unlocked iPhone 5s in the US?

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My parents are on holiday in the US now, and they were supposed to buy me an iPhone 5s to use in Norway. But they were told in the store that they couldn't buy an unlocked iPhone 5s.

Is this true or have they misunderstood? iPhone 5s is beeing sold unlocked in Norway, so I just couldn't understand why not in the US?


texts: 13" MacBook Pro (Mid-2012) failing to fully boot

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I have a 13" MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) that is failing to fully boot.

What happens once I press the power button:

Screen turns on, and the typical boot-up loading screen with the Apple logo appears
Once the loading progress bar reaches about halfway, the screen goes black
About 10 seconds later, the login screen appears
I click on my account, type my password, and press enter

Now this is when the funky stuff begins....

The computer does not transition from showing the password box to the loading bar
Sections of the screen are now gray & green and slightly jittery

After roughly 2 minutes of spazzing out with along with the odd colors showing up....

Screen goes black
Fan is still fanning
Repeated beeping noise

Annnddd thats when I hold the power button and come to you fellas for some help

I'm looking to diagnose the problem in order to hopefully fix it,
any help/recommendation/advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

The work-around:

Thinking the graphics card might be the problem, I did the following:

Uninstalled macOS
Installed Debian without GUI (command-line only)

At the end:

Laptop does not freeze anymore
Laptop does not beep anymore
No more black/green/gray pixels


texts: How Can I Delete ALL emails from my iPhone Sent Folder?

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How Can I Delete ALL emails from my iPhone Sent Folder - without doing one by one? I have somehow built up a couple thousand emails in my Sent Folder and need to know how to delete them all at once rather than one by one.

To the one reply so far:

I have the iPhone in my hand. When I click on the Mail icon, "My Email" opens up (it's the email set up thru iCloud with an xxxx@me.com address) When I go to "Mailboxes", the folders are - from top to bottom - Inbox, Draft, Sent, Junk, Trash, and Archive. So I don't know what you are talking about as MY iPhone clearly does have a "Sent Folder". I do NOT have Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook or any others set up on my iPhone - just the one set up thru iCloud.


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The newly released iMac can be built with an optional 256 GB SSD. To complement this, the new iMac's also contains the Intel Z68 chipset:

Z68 mproves performance by putting files
that are accessed often on the SSD.
Intel is coming out with a small SSD (20 GB), large
enough to hold the Windows 7 operating
system. This improves performance up
to 355% depending on the application.

It strikes me as odd that Apple uses a (very expensive) 256 GB drive when you only need about 20 GB to get the benefit.

My late-2011 MacBook Air (which has SSD) is incredible snappy and I wonder if an SSD-iMac would see the same improvement?
Why use the 256 GB drive when a much smaller and cheaper would do it?


texts: Application/window opening default location on desktop

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Some applications have fixed locations on the Desktop where their windows open.
For instance, Preview always opens a new image in the upper right corner of my right most Thunderbolt Display.
Get Info always opens its panel in the upper right corner of my left Thunderbolt Display.
Is there a defaults command that would allow me to tell Preview to open a new window in the upper right corner of my left display?
Better yet is there some set of functions that I could use to cascade or tile the opening windows in Preview?


texts: Often I find that I want to open the previous or last folder that I worked with in finder. Say I'm saving something to a folder from my camera, I then go to gmail and click attach, it would be great if there was a "previous" or "last folder" button that takes me to where the photos are. Am I missing something, is there a hidden OSX feature that does this?


texts: How do I disable “Apple News Spotlight” in Catalina?

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How can I prevent the News app from randomly splash-screening "News Spotlight" on my desktop?

I am, against my will, still being intermittently bombarded with Apple's idea of "news". It really breaks my train of thought if while in the middle of chasing down a bug, I am informed that the British Royalty are attending a social event.

This question is essentially the same as How do I disable "Apple News Spotlight" in Mojave?

None of the solutions in that question work for me.  I therefore suspect something has maybe changed with the new OS.

Is it just my bad luck, or is every other maclander out there also getting this junk stuffed into their eyeballs on a quasi-regular basis?


texts:
I'd bought an SSD that I'd put in my early 2011 13" MBP to make a DIY Fusion Drive in conjunction with the original 500GB HDD. A few weeks ago, I enabled TRIM (using TRIM Enabler). 5 days later, the SSD totally died. Now, I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but could enabling TRIM be what broke the SSD so much so that even a total reformat (which I've attempted to no avail) couldn't fix it? And if so, how do I un-TRIM it?

For those of you who don't want to look at the link to my past question, basically my SSD was working fine until one day my computer became unbearably slow and then hung every time I tried to reinstall OS X 10.10.1. Disk Utility said the disks were okay, but the install would never work. My computer's working fine now because I'm running entirely on the HDD.


texts: How do you text people from your number and not from your Apple ID email?

texts: I've recently went to an Apple store and the guy reset all my settings. Lately, whenever I text people with iPhones, they tell me that I don't text from my number anymore, but from my Apple ID email. I tried going into Settings and changing some things, and texting some of my friends to see if it's changed but they keep saying I'm still texting from my email. How do I reverse this or text from my regular number?


texts: Macbook Pro 2013 freezing after MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2

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My Macbook Pro late 2013 is freezing except for the mouse still moves but is inoperable - Ive never had this issue before installing High Sierra - I can be watching YouTube and I can expect my mac to lockup after 15/20mins .. weird thing is I can still hear the audio - but the vision and all apps are frozen - I have done all that's been suggested such as resetting the NVRAM and SMC many times .. also I have ran  Disk Utility plus CleanMyMac app multiple times - I have searched and found similar issue is happening with a lot of MacBook users running High Sierra.

Has anyone got any further information or tips I can try to resolve this?

much appreciated
- Mark


texts: How can I combine multiple groups of PDFs using the command line?

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I have 1000 groups of 5 pdf files I need to combine/merge. I aware of the "/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" command and have created the 1000 different versions of the command I need. Currently I am copying and pasting each separate line into Terminal to run it. Is there a way to put all 1000 lines into a script and run the script.
Thanks


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I asked about this a while back, and finally decided to go ahead and rebuild the fusion drive.  The Mac is a Mini, it came with a fusion drive but the original hard drive failed so I swapped it out for an SSD, rebuilt the drive and everything was OK.  Now I can't remember what I did to get it working.   Also, to my shame, I do not recall if the new disk is 1 TB or 2 TB.  Apologies for including a photo since I obviously can't screenshot.
In the photo, the error message is (I think) because I tried to partition, and it failed.  And there are three disks listed there, when I think I should only have two.  What's the third one?  Is it the 'Internet recovery' live image or something?
I have been trying to follow the instructions here, but without success.
Would someone be so kind as to tell me 1. how I hose everything (I have a TimeMachine backup), and 2. how I go about recreating a fusion disk on which I can reinstall?  And if someone can enlighten me to as why 2 x 1 TB disks are listed...?


texts: Is there a way to sync my iCalendar to my Google Calendar? I use the iCal application as my primary calendar resource, and I need to share that data via GoogleCalendar with my colleagues and I cannot figure out how to do this. I am able to get the data from my GoogleCalendar to show up on my iCal, but I cannot do the reverse (I want data created on the iCal to upload/sync directly to the GoogleCalendar).. I have OSX Lion and iCal 6.0


texts: Upgraded to OS X EI Capitan and my Canon MG2240 will print but not Scan

texts:
I have uploaded the latest printer Driver for the 2240 ( mcpd-mac-mg2200-11_7_1_0-ea17_2-2.dmg ).

Not sure where to from here

Kind regards

Alan


texts:
My mac when it is in sleep mode randomly turns the fan on and after a couple of minutes, it would go back to normal. How can I configure settings so it doesn't do this again?
Mac is running Catalina 10.15.7 with System Integrity Protection off.


texts: How does the Docx rendering in Pages compare to Mac Office 2011

texts:
It's about time for me to bit the bullet and buy either iWork 09 or MS Office 2011.  My main concern is rendering docx files (I've been using OpenOffice for many years, but the .doc and .docx rendering is still suspect).

How do they compare?

Does Pages render a docx file at least 95% accurate?

From the info online I understand that Pages cannot save in docx format.

Which do you prefer?

To clarify
I'm talking about more complex layouts.


texts: Maximum memory config for Mac Pro 5,1 (mid 2010)?

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I have a MacPro5,1 with 8 cores (2 quad-core processors) running OS X 10.10.2.  From what I have read as per EveryMac.com's information about this unit it should be possible to have far beyond the normal maximum noted by Apple:

  Actual Maximum RAM

  ...

  Systems with dual processors, which EveryMac.com notes as the "Eight
  Core" and "Twelve Core" models, likewise officially support 32 GB of
  RAM, but again, OWC found they actually can support more. OWC first
  confirmed an actual maximum of 64 GB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.5
  "Leopard" and later increased this maximum to 96 GB of RAM running Mac
  OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" or higher. More recently, OWC yet again
  discovered these dual processor models can support up to 128 GB, but
  only when running a 64-bit version of Windows XP or later or Linux.
  Mac OS X only can support 96 GB of RAM.

I initially had an arrangement of 8 4GB DIMMs. These brought my system up to 32GB.

I then purchased 2 16GB chips in hopes to raise the amount of RAM, however my system would simply not start up at all.  Gave a fast power LED blink.  I subsequently returned this RAM and acquired 4 8GB DIMMs.

Upon installing these, my system still shows 32GB of RAM, but the 7 & 8 DIMM slots are showing empty now at this point.  Two of the DIMMS are being recognized while the others are not, even though there are 4 GB DIMMs in place and 4 4GB DIMMS:

What kind of issue is going on here?  Obviously we're getting mixed messages with the info above about being able to accept much larger memory configurations, but in practice things get quite whacky.


texts: I used to subscribe to BBC podcasts by clicking on the 'Subscribe' icon and selecting iTunes/IOS - simple.  Now when I do it, the programme opens up Winamp and nothing is added to iTunes.  Has something changed?  Should I be directing this question to the BBC?  I am just using my PC and Windows 7, nothing fancy.


texts: Seeking a clean way to mount a directory on one HFS+ drive as a directory on another such drive on same machine

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I need to seamlessly mount (and automount, e.g. via fstab) a directory (folder) on one drive to appear at the commandline and GUI level as a directory on another, on the same machine. This is to defeat some "smart" software that detects that symlinks and aliases are not "real" directories and refuses to act on them.

In Linux, this would be trivially easy, with:
 mount --bind /path1/source_dir /path2/target_dir
However, Mac OS's version of mount does not support this bind functionality (in any form, including mount -o bind, or mount -B), as far as I can determine. It also appears that none of Macports, Homebrew, or Fink supply a ported version of mount with such an option.  Some available more specialized mounting tools don't seem to relate, either (e.g. xmount is for disk images, and djmount is for network volumes).

To be clear, I'm not trying to mount a disk or partition as a volume or as a local directory, nor to create a share to be mounted arbitrarily by various users on various machines. Rather, I want to mount a folder, owned and writable only by a particular user, on an HFS+ disk as if it were a folder on another HFS+ disk, locally, in a way that is effectively transparent, with the same permissions and no security/integrity issues.

A sloppy workaround is to create a CIFS share of the folder to be mounted, and (calling a custom, one-shot variant of smb.conf) limit its permissions in Samba just-so, such that it is not public, and has the same permissions as the target location, exactly the right file and directory mask, etc.; then mount it that way. But this would be inefficient, since it would be using the bletcherous Windows filesharing protocol, plus creating a visible share that shows up as a mountable volume from the SMB server, to anyone who can access this machine though SMB/CIFS (even if they cannot actually mount it). The Mac GUI will probably also represent it as a volume being shared.


texts: How can I type the "@" symbol via remote desktop with a Swedish keyboard?

texts:
I am running Remote Desktop to connect from my iMac with Snow Leopard to a Windows box at work that runs Windows 7 Professional. The connection is done over ssh.

When logged in to the window box I can use Alt + Tab to switch between programs, I can also see that when using emacs pressing Alt registers as Meta (which is what I have set it up as). However if I want to type a @ which on my Swedish keyboard is Alt + 2 nothing happens. The same is true for { and [ and so on.


texts: What kind of SSD is compatible with MacBook Unibody white mid 2010?

texts:
This question is inspired to: What kind of SSD is compatible with the 2010 Unibody MacBook?

I am reading here, MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) - Technical Specifications  that the suggested SSD are 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB solid-state drive.

Is there any problem if I buy a 240 GB which seems to be easier to find? Someone in the first link even says we can buy up to 2TB. I'm asking because I am having problems in finding 256GB, so I'm worried about compatibility with 240GB.


texts: Can iCloud stream my library on a 8GB iPod Touch?

texts: I'm considering getting an iPod Touch for my car exclusively. Will iCloud allow the 8 GB version to play my entire library?


texts: Battery drain with repeated logs of ‘bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port’

texts:
I’ve noticed battery drain on my MacBook Pro 2018 when sleeping from 100 to 1 overnight since I've updated to Catalina. This log is showing every couple of seconds when sleeping:

Jan 21 09:45:05 MacBook-Pro-Filip syslogd[944]: ASL Sender Statistics
Jan 21 09:45:05 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19482]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Jan 21 09:45:05 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19485]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Jan 21 09:45:05 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19483]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Jan 21 09:45:05 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19484]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Jan 21 09:45:05 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19486]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Jan 21 09:45:05 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19481]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Jan 21 09:45:06 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19487]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up returned (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Jan 21 09:45:06 MacBook-Pro-Filip xpcproxy[19488]: libcoreservices: _dirhelper_userdir: 557: bootstrap_look_up


texts: Should I charge the Magic Keyboard 2 only when needed?

texts: I have a new Magic Keyboard 2 and I was wondering if keeping it connected all the time to the USB port can somehow damage the battery


texts: How to restore an account from a lost mac from time machine?

texts:
I have 2 computers : an iMac and a MBP. My old MBP is dead. I've Time Machine backups from the accounts of this computer.

How can I restore those accounts on my iMac to have access to their data?


texts: How can I migrate data when Migration Assistant doesn't recognize Time Machine external drive?

texts:
I'm trying to migrate my files from my time machine backup (external drive 500 Gb) to my MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.1. It has almost empty brand new internal hard drive 500 Gb.

I can see the external hard drive in the desktop (is connected to my MacBook Pro with a FireWire cable), but the Migration Assistant is unable to recognize it!

What can I do to migrate my files?


texts: Issue with "date" command in MacOS Mojave

texts:
I think this is a "Full Disk Access" problem.

I have added "Terminal" and "cron" to Full Disk Access.

The problem is when I am trying to use the command below, it works from Terminal but not with cron.

cp -n LastSession.plist  /XYZ/LastSession.plist.$(date +%F).txt

It breaks in cron when I add $(date +%F). I tried researching this but no luck.

How can I get this command to run in cron using Mojave?


texts: How to get rid of a widget stuck on the desktop instead of the dashboard?

texts: A long time ago I installed the Art Directors Toolkit widget. Today, when I restarted my computer after a power outage, there were 2 instances of the widget. The first one is in the dashboard and a second appears on the desktop, like any other application would appear. I don't know how to remove it. It has none of the usual dashboard buttons and it reappears if I relaunch the Dock.


texts: How do I resize OS X main partition when I already have other BootCamp partitions?

texts:
Short story: partition resizing using Disk Utility fails because MediaKit reports no such partition when I try to shrink it. I also tried the same while booting from the DVD, same result.

Details:

reFIT is installed and partition tables are in sync.

Current configuration:

refit
hfs+ - with OS X 10.6 on it
linux swap
linux ext4 - with Ubuntu on it

I can boot both, OS X and Ubuntu, via rEFIt boot menu but I want to shrink the OSX partition in order to add another NTFS partion where I want to install Windows 7 x64.

What should I do?


texts: Running brew doctor shows I have 3 different python "config" scripts installed. How do I get rid of them so that I no longer receive this warning?

texts:
I have been told that there is a default Python installed on OSX, and that deleting it will cause SEVERE system issues, however, I want to clear these warnings in brew doctor.

This is what the message says:

    Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python-config
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2-config
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7-config

Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or a
brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can interfere
with other software installs.

How do I clear them and what happens if I just delete all three of those config scripts?


texts:
When I open a Save as dialog, Finder starts to scan my external TimeMachine drive which needs to "boot up" some seconds. This makes the dialog very unresponsive, because it waits for the drive to be ready.

Is it possible to disable the TM drive for such things and just allow the TimeMachine feature for it?


texts: How to get back the standard application in Notification Center in Mac OS X?

texts: I have configured No application in the center of notifications. no weather, no stock, no calendar, no calculator. How to return back to the standard application?


texts: Why "which" command does not give you the correct path?

texts:
See the following mvn version. I'm wondering why "which" command does not give you the correct info.

LM-SIN-00676037:myproject haibliu$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-03-01 01:31:09+0800)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.6.0_37, vendor: Apple Inc.
Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.8", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

LM-SIN-00676037:myproject haibliu$ which mvn
/usr/local/bin/mvn

LM-SIN-00676037:myproject haibliu$ /usr/local/bin/mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 16:44:56+0800)
Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.0.4/libexec
Java version: 1.6.0_37, vendor: Apple Inc.
Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.8", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

Just to clarify:
/usr/bin/mvn comes with my Max OS X, Mountain Lion. And I used Homebrew to install /usr/local/bin/mvn. After that, I changed the order of PATH in /etc/paths.

LM-SIN-00676037:myproject haibliu$ cat /etc/paths
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
LM-SIN-00676037:myproject haibliu$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

That's all I did. And I'm using bash shell.


texts: Same Files in Two Folders, But Different Size Info?

texts:
Can anyone tell me how this is possible? The files in these two folders are exactly the same, but the file size reported for the folders is different. Any ideas?

Edit: fullsize image @ http://i41.tinypic.com/6435ah.jpg

imac:untitled folder Wesley$ ls -la Working/ NotWorking/
NotWorking/:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 Wesley  staff  102 31 mei 17:33 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 Wesley  staff  170  3 nov 22:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 Wesley  staff  170  3 nov 22:08 Contents

Working/:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 Wesley  staff   136  3 nov 11:59 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 Wesley  staff   170  3 nov 22:08 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Wesley  staff  6148  3 nov 11:57 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x  5 Wesley  staff   170  3 nov 11:59 Contents

imac:untitled folder Wesley$ du -sh Working/ NotWorking/
 92K    Working/
 76K    NotWorking/


texts: Show speed in Finder Copy progress window

texts: Is there a way to show more details in the Finder copy window? I'm mainly interested in the speed.


texts: CS6 Illustrator on Mac OSX 10.15 Catalina - anyone managed to run it?

texts:
I was browsing Internet for some hints, but did not find anything yet. And the communication is a bit missleading, one say it won't work, becuase of 32-bit references, another claim it should work, because CS6 Illustrator itself is 64-bit.

Ended up after install with:

and after clicking the icon:

  “Adobe Illustrator CS6” needs to be updated.

according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator

  Adobe Mercury Performance System, 64-bit memory support, new user
  interface, gradient on a stroke, pattern creator tool, ImageTrace
  (replaces Live Trace)

From the OSX system information:

Adobe Illustrator CS6:

  Version:  682
  Obtained from:    Identified Developer
  Last Modified:    19/08/2019, 14:06
  Signed by:    Developer ID Application: Adobe Systems, Inc., Developer ID Certification Authority, Apple Root CA
  Location: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Adobe Illustrator.app
  Kind: 64-bit
  Get Info String:  16.0.0, Copyright © 1987-2012 Adobe Systems Inc.  All rights reserved.

so it is 64bit


texts:
Is it possible to change the color of the mailboxes in Mac Mail?

Here an example

Sometimes I manage to create Silver colored mailboxes by accident so I am wondering if it is possible to label them with other colors than silver and blue.


texts: Triple Boot 2010 Macbook Pro with Dual Drive

texts:
I have a 2010 Macbook pro running Mavericks and Windows 7 on a 250gb SSD. I just removed the cd drive and installed my old 250 gb hard drive. So now I have two drives. I would like to make the hard drive purely for a linux distribution.

How should I go about doing this?

Some things to note/ consider:
1.   I have no CD drive so I would like to boot up from a USB.
2.   I read that Mavericks has issues with dual booting. So I can't trust many sources?
3.   What file format should I erase the new drive to.
4.   Also should I use rEFInd for booting purposes?
5.   I am aware there are plety of tutorials that walk you through installing linux but I want to have
     A second hard drive JUST for linux.

My current plan is:
Reformat drive with Mac OS Extended (journalized).... Install rEFInd.... Burn ubuntu ISO to flash drive... install ubuntu though rEFInd?

I have no clue if this is at all correct

Thanks in advance...


texts: Is there a way to merge windows of the same application without a "Merge All Windows" menu item?

texts:
Some macOS applications (e.g. Finder or Terminal, but also third-party apps like SourceTree) have a Windows > Merge All Windows menu item that allows to merge all application windows into a single, tabbed application window.

If an application does not provide this menu item, is there a way to merge this application's windows into a single one? One example is the Atom text editor - I'd love to be able to merge the various editor windows into a single one from time to time, e.g. when just working on the laptop without an external monitor connected.

This is on macOS Sierra.


texts: Apple dictation missing commands in web browser

texts:
I am dealing with physical problems from the keyboard/mouse, so discovering Apple dictation has been amazing. However, I work a lot in Google Docs and Gmail... and Google Chrome (or any web browser) does not let me use all of the commands that Apple's dictation provides. It's missing essential selection, navigation and editing commands that are available when using an Apple app like TextEdit. Those commands are essential for moving the cursor around and making fixes without the keyboard. The only solution that's been working for me has been to type in TextEdit, and then to copy and paste into the browser. But this is not a real solution.

It would be nice to stick with the native (and free) Apple dictation software on the mac, so does anyone have an idea to get these dictation commands to work in a web browser for use with gmail and google docs?

Edit: I found that Safari lets you use Apple's dictation with gmail, but still not with Google Docs.


texts:
I have seen several Sierra/Spotlight questions posted but none are what I am experiencing.

I am not receiving any errors when re-indexing. My migration to Sierra from El Capitan went without a glitch. However Spotlight does not return accurate results. Files I know exist do not show up.

My first and second thought was there is a corrupt mdstore, Rebuilt mdstore multiple times to no avail.

Observation 1  - mdfind in terminal works as expected. Finding all the files expected. However Spotlight does not.

Observation 2 - In Finder when using the first available search box the results are wrong and identical to spotlight results

Observation 3 - In Finder when using secondary search boxes (click + sign to open up additional search boxes) and clearing the first search box then all files are found as expected identical to mdfind.

So now I only use mdfind or finder with detailed search boxes and all is ok

Is this a bug in Spotlight and not an mdstore issue?

Sound like a bug to me

thanks


texts: Can't update from OSX 10.9.5 to OSX Yosemite 10.10

texts:
I bought my 13 inch non-retina MacBook Pro on December 2013. It's got...

4 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM

500 GB 5400-rpm hard drive

To update to OSX Yosemite 10.10 takes 5.64 GB. So does it mean I CAN'T update from 10.9.5 to 10.10 OSX Yosemite with my MacBook Pro?


texts: How can I get a list of programs installed on an iPad?

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I'm using a rental iPad2 this week and it came with a lot of cool pre-installed programs. When I get my iPad2 back next week I'm thinking of installing some of these programs.

Is there an app or tool I can use to export a list of the installed programs? I tried to do this via iTunes but it says

"this iPad is linked to another computer and if you want to connect it
to this iTunes it will erase a bunch of stuff off of it"

So other than writing them all down, is there an easy way to get a list?


texts: Why do I have two OS X Catalina volumes?

texts:
This:

And this:

Should I be concerned?  Should I remove one?


texts:
I have been fiddling around with the keyboard shortcuts in sys preferences, and have to say the options seem limitless, and fantastic. I'm a huge keyboard user and will do everything I can without using a pointing device.

I have however a huge preference for using the bottom-left-most button for all modifier actions (instead of the default  Cmd ⌘  ). This is not even related to "being used to how Windows works", I simply find it very uncomfortable to use  Cmd ⌘   - the  Fn  button on my laptop is actually what I've been using.

So - I could not find any other way than to use the custom shortcuts, and had to map each action one by one. I set most of them to "All Applications" (Copy, Paste, Cut, Save, Select All, Undo, Redo, Refresh, Close Tab, etc.)

My issue is this : because we have to use the exact Menu Name, it turns out that setting  Ctrl ⌃   W   to "Close Tab" in Google Chrome, will not "Close tab" in Filezilla.

It also turns out that I cannot re-use  Ctrl ⌃   W  for more than one action. In other words, I can't use custom shortcuts if the action has a different name in different software.

Is there a way around this?
Much appreciated,


texts: How can I get my headset to work with my MacBook Air? (13-inch, Mid 2013)

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I would love to use my Sennheiser PC350SE headset with my MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013 model).

I recently purchased a Startech Headset Splitter hoping that this would allow me to use the headphones and microphone together. However the audio continues to play from the Mac, and only the Mac's internal microphone is being detected. I checked the Sound Preferences and found no entry for any external headset or external microphone.

Is it possible to use a headset with my MacBook Air? Microphone quality is important for me as I take part in a lot of online meetings and don't want the sound interference from other participants, system sounds or background music.


texts: How to disable built-in keyboard on OS X 10.9.1?

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Before 10.9.1, I can disable/enable the built-in keyboard of my Air with the commands:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext

But it seems after I updated to 10.9.1, the commands don't work anymore. Maybe the update made the command moot?

Also, I was getting desperate (thus, stupid) in trying to disable the built-in keyboard, that I tried deleting the AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext directory, thinking it would just get regenerated after a restart. Well, it didn't get regenerated. My built-in keyboard still works, but I'm not sure if the missing directory will have some hidden side-effects.


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I needed to reinstall macOS, so I deleted my partition and opened the Mac recovery and started downloading Sierra. Unbelievable 6 hours later, the installation was stuck and I turned my MacBook off.

Pressing the power button + Commandcommand R gives me this message:

I tried everything, changing my WiFi authentication type from WEP to WPA/WPA2, all boot shortcuts, resetting SMC/NVRAM.

Pressing power + CommandOption shows me the following:

Clicking the "..." button lets me manually input the WiFi SSID and password, but it hangs forever in the loading indicator.

I don't have another Mac to make a bootable USB stick and reinstall the OS, only Windows.


texts: Is OSX 10.6.8 too old? Constant slow/lockup w/ FireFox, which constantly draws high %CPU rate

texts:
I switched to FireFox when Safari started to have massive problems.  Firefox is not much better.  Mozilla forum responses keep blaming AddOn incompatability.  But mostly I'm running security & privacy enhancers (DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery, etc)

I have a DSL line.

I've got an MBP 2.66 Ghz Core i7, wish I could install more than 8 GB memory.  I tried a PCI card, but it causes a kernel panic (Delkin Devices ExpressCard 34 PRO SSD PCI Express)

I want to keep >100 tabs open.  Closer to 200.  Used to be able to do that with Safari.  What has changed ?

FF was working adequately until the last security update.  Now its just constantly showing anywhere from 20% to 80+ %CPU usage. It can take many seconds to open a new blank tab, and then 10-20 seconds before it accepts input (trackpad click on the URL box, or keyboard entry).

Seems like every other FF update screws it up.


texts: gmail tried to prevent automation of the accounts creation on iPad?

texts:
My three niece were trying to create gmail accounts for themselves on iPad. When the first one was trying to create the account the phone number for the recovery of email or the phone number when creating the account was optional. But when my second and third niece tried to create the gmail account the phone number became mandatory when trying to register. I believe it was to prevent the misuse / not a bot that was trying to create accounts.
How did gmail / google registration process tried to prevent the misuse / automation of the accounts creation from my iPad?
1- I cleared all the cache, broswing data, history , cookies.
2- Changed the mac address of the machine.
3- Tried to use different ISP service.
none of them worked(I expected the phone number to be optional).
Still the gmail was asking the phone number- ie mandatory


texts:
I have to help someone do this, so I do not have the devices in front of me to play around with.

There are three devices involved:

Macbook (don't know what model)
iPhone (don't know what model)
iPad (don't know what model)

The objective is to move some photos from the iPhone to the iPad.

What is the most straightforward way to accomplish this using iTunes?

Also, if there are any AppleScript hackers out there with experience in iTunes, a stub of an AppleScript to perform this task would be really helpful!

FYI, in my case using the internet is not really an option, so iCloud and the like are out.


texts: Adding Time Capsule and Airport Express to existing non-Apple network?

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OK - lots of info about this but couldn't find anything definitive...

I used to have a VDSL modem (from my internet provider) and Time Capsule for WiFi access. Then the VDSL modem failed (and replacements aren't available) and I needed something urgently, so I bought a TP_Link VDSL wireless router and stuck the TC in a cupboard.

I now need internet access for 3 devices in study in the house that gets an extremely poor (i.e. slow) WiFi signal from the router. I've routed a 15m Ethernet cable from the TP-link router to the room which I plug into the machine (2 x PS4 and Mac Pro) that 'needs' it's faster speed.

But I really need to get my Time Capsule up and running again (for backing up our 4 Mac laptops) and I also have an Airport Express, which got me thinking about making use these to both add Time Machine capability AND improve wifi coverage...

I think I have 3 options:

Hang the TC off the end of the Ethernet cable in the study, and have
the devices in there connect to a new 'Study' wifi network provided
by the TC? Will devices connected to the wifi from the router see
the TC, connected to the router via Ethernet? Or could the TC create
WiFi networks with the same SSID and password as that created by the
TP router?
Use the TP router JUST as a modem, put the TC next to the router with a
6" Ethernet cable and use the TC to provide WiFi coverage for most
of the house and put the Airport Express on the end of the Ethernet
cable in the study and configure it to extend (bridge?) the TC's
WiFi network?
Get a separate VDSL modem to replace the TP-Link router and then do
the same as 2? (which is technically the same I think, but saves the
clutter of the big router which isn't doing much).

Question: What is the best network configuration given my needs and the equipment I have? IF a new VDSL modem would simplify things, then that's OK. I want to avoid 'unseen problems'such as double-natting, which I might introduce but not be aware of until I get p@wned at CoD die to slow pings etc. :-)

Thanks for any help.


texts: How best to migrate a large Aperture library to Photos?

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I've got a large Aperture library of images from 2016 and earlier. I started using photos for my phone and eventually used it for everything.  I now want to use Photos rather than Aperture, so that I can upgrade to macOS 10.15, Catalina. The facts:

almost 2,000 projects
almost 120,000 images
most images are stored as referenced files
I've got a 2TB SSD with my 2019 fastest MacBook Pro

Possible approaches

Should I "Consolidate Originals" first on Aperture? Why or why not? My originals are on an external hard drive.
Should I group my projects into folders so that I select a subset to generate previews? What happens if my machine crashes during the generation of previews?
Should I import my old images into my system Photos? or will that bog down Photos, and so I should create a separate photos library? What are the pros and cons of just one library vs. keeping my old library separate, since I will rarely do edits there?


texts: Exchange Account on iPhone Without Unlock Pin

texts: My work exchange account forces me to use an unlock/passcode on my iphone. Is there any way to disable this?


texts: How can I listen to my iPhone's audio output, using the headphones connected to my Mac?

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I have an iPhone 7 Plus. It, like all other phones of its type, has no headphone jack, and I have no adapter. However, I also have a MacBook Pro (2014), running Sierra.
When I'm at home, is there some way I can have the iPhone send all its audio output to my computer, so that I can use my computer's headphones as my iPhone's headphones?
Note: I tried using Audio Midi Setup to treat my iPhone as an audio input. It didn't work when playing games, which was the audio I really wanted to pipe in.


texts: Is there a way to change the restrictions passcode on an iPhone without restoring the phone? I haven't forgotten the passocde; I just want to change it.


texts: Finder preview automatically goes full screen whenever Finder gets focus

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I hit some Cmd + ? shortcut while previewing a file and now I have a problem. Whenever Finder has focus, it goes straight into this full-screen mode.

Heres a quick screencast.

To put it another way: normally in Finder, if you hit the spacebar, a small window pops up with a quick view of the file. Hit the spacebaragain and it disappears. I currently have the situation that the "quick view of the file,"

goes full screen on the display and,
occurs just by single clicking a file, single clicking the desktop, clicking on Finder in the Dock, or any other action where any other application doesnt have focus. No need to press the spacebar.

While in this full-screen-preview mode, Cmd + Tab does nothing. Esc does nothing. spacebar does nothing. However, the arrow keys can still navigate around and change the focus of the "quick view."

The only way to deactivate the quick view is to click on another application on another monitor. If I didnt have a second monitor, I dont even think I would be able to use the computer.

This makes the computer completely unusable. How do I permanently disable this immediate full-screen quick view?


texts:
I have
my website locally on my Mac ready to host.
It is accessible locally via http://localhost running on MAMP.
Let’s say my static public IP from my ISP  is : 201.23.45.23
and I’ve already linked that IP with a domain like this : 201.23.45.23 —> http://mysite.online

Goal
I want to make my site accessible on the web, and host it on my local Mac.
I want my clients to see what I see on my http://localhost  when they visit
http://201.23.45.23
or
http://mysite.online

Note
I know that I can purchase a VPS or shared host, but the my intention here is to learn how to do it on my own on my local machine.

Question
Do I need to update my router to open port 80 and configure a port forward for that port?
Do I need to download an extra FTP server app like FileZilla to configure this ?
How would one go about and configure something like this ?
Any hints/suggestions/directions on this will be much appreciated !


texts: Blocked sign-in attempt to Google Account

texts:
This morning I had an email in my Inbox from Google saying "We recently blocked a sign-in attempt to your Google Account (Date & Time: Saturday, January 10, 2015 3:01:26 AM UTC Location: Oxford, UK)"

They provide a link: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity

This takes me to the following:

Originally it showed me the IP of the attack. I then put "what is my IP" into Google to discover that it is actually my own IP, so I clicked the "this is actually me" box, and hence I can no longer show the screenshot with the IP.

My question is: what could have caused this? I went to bed before midnight; I think I closed the lid last night (in which case the machine should have been in sleep mode), but even if I didn't -- I usually leave it on some radio station when I sleep -- it hasn't given me any warnings before, so why now?

The page says it isn't my Mac that is causing the problem. But the only other device I have is my android phone and the Wi-Fi is disabled, and it doesn't have any 3G type Internet. I keep those things off to save battery. It did have Bluetooth on (I must have forgotten to turn that off days back).

I've also got a standard Apple issue keyboard and trackpad, and this morning the trackpad bleated about wanting new batteries.

That's it! That's all the electronic things I have.  And a Wi-Fi repeater which plugs into the downstairs router via an Ethernet cable.

So what could this warning be?  Someone else is attempting to sign into my account from my home IP? That's really unlikely. It is a family home, I doubt one of my family is trying to hack me, I would however be impressed if this were the case.  I haven't handed down any old computer equipment either.

So I have no clue.

Can anyone think of any possible explanation?


texts: I recently spent hours organizing my folders and files with Mac Photo on one of my Macs. Now, a few days later, all my changes are gone and everything is back to the way it was before the big cleanup, and the way it is on my other Mac. Any idea why this happened and how I can prevent it from happening again?


texts: How do I find path for Messages and WhatsApp messages backup data in iCloud?

texts: I need to retrieve Messages and WhatsApp messages backup data from iCloud but I can't find the path. Is there any possibilities to find Messages and WhatsApp messages backup data location in iCloud?


texts: Low Battery Alert for Mac OS X El Capitan

texts:
I have Macbook Air, Mac OS X El Capitan.

There is no warning box shown before the battery is near %15, like it did for Mountain Lion. So I can not notice and my computer goes sleep simply when the battery is off.

And even if it did I generally miss it because I use it external monitor attached to my Macbook Air. And because I play Spotify, I may miss the warning sound, too.

Is there warning box for low battery on El Capitan? If not, is there any utility or software that may help for external monitors and even playing music?


texts:
I restarted my iPhone 6 running iOS 10 and the home button is broken, so I was using Assistive Touch. But at the first launch, Assistive Touch is disabled.
On iOS 10, we have to "Press home button to unlock".
What can I do?


texts: How to determine which files are on SSD on Fusion Drive?

texts:
My question is:

  How can i determine which files are on the SSD "partition" on Fusion
  Drive?

I have an iMac with 1TB Fusion Drive, and it would be good to know which apps or data are on which partition.

  Is these information included in the file information or where do i
  have to look?

Terminal is no problem, so i'm not searching for a easy answer.

EDIT: diskutil list shows me my partitions. But i cannot navigate through /Volumes/... into the specific SSD partition. There must be a way to navigate into each partition, right?

OS X does the same.


texts: Can I connect a resistive touch panel to the iPad?

texts: I am wondering if it would be possible to connect a resistive touch panel (manufactured with a 30-pin connector) to the iPad through the 30-pin connection and use that for input?


texts: Keyboard-only folder navigation with auto complete

texts:
This is one feature of Windows 7 Start menu that I haven't been able to replace in OS X ML.
In Windows:

Press Windows key
Start typing, for example: H:\folder\phot
Use arrow keys to highlight the "search-complete": H:\folder\photos
Press Enter and voila, the folder is opened in Windows Explorer. Similarly for files.

I know that Alfred Powerpack can navigate by keyboard-only, but it is not as intuitive and fast (it doesn't have "search-complete", and it's cumbersome for mounted folders e.g. typing out \Volumes\H\folder\photos).


texts: Can I get WebGL in chrome to render with the AMD rather than Intel graphics card?

texts:
When I go to https://kepler.gl/demo/ukcommute it's enormously slow on my Macbook Pro which has a Radeon Pro built in.

It looks like WebGL is being rendered using the Intel graphics card. Is there a way to force it to use the AMD one? I have hardware acceleration enabled in chrome, and other things use the AMD card just fine.


texts:
ADB and Xcode are not detecting connected devices, after update to Catalina mac os. Did any one of them faced the issue after upgrade.

Please let me know the solution to fix this.


texts: Logitech Ultrathin mouse scroll behaviour on mac

texts:
i am using a Logitech UltraThin T630 mouse with a macbook pro (2015, os 10.11.1) and i am having a strange scroll behaviour. I mean its working but its different to the mouse working on windows.

Let try to describe it:

Normally (and on windows) scrolling works directly. When i scroll on the mouse, the site (i.e. in a webbrowser) moves directly. But on mac this mouse starts scrolling as soon as i release the finger from the mouse. This leads to an indirect scrolling which is annoying.

Does anybody has the same issue and can deliver any solution to this?


texts: Why is my empty sparsbundle so big (1,5 GB)?

texts: I just followed the instructions here to create a encrypted sparseimage for Time Machine backups. The empty sparsebundle ended up being 1.4 GB (and after enabling encryption it grow to 1.6GB). Why is an empty sparseimage so big?


texts:
I am trying to set up PowerA Mini Pro game controller in OS X El Capitan.
However, I have not succeeded via USB. It would be great if there is some central settings for the customization of each button.
I need the gamepad for data visualization only, not for actual gaming.
There are a lot third-party control apps but I would like to find some major app.
Open-source application is the best choice, because in case of random errors, I could be sure that the conntroller itself is not causing it.
So I am not confident about the application Joystick Mapper by Chibata Creations.

I choose the PowerA mini Pro controller because of analog buttons and joystics.
I need the analog control.
I choose PS3 because it is widely supported and has sufficient userbase.
Systems

scientific computation etc Matlab - none
for gaming, openemu.org

where I think openemu.org has best drivers. It would be great to have such drivers system wide such that you could use them for scientific computation and visualization.

How can you set up a PS3 game controller in OS X El Capitan?


texts: Where are Core Storage instructions stored?

texts:
Where are the Core Storage instructions stored?

In Kevin White's macOS Support Essentials 10.12, White says

  The second partition, occupying the final ~650 MB of the disk is an "Apple_Boot" formatted volume that contains the Recovery HD system. Aside from providing macOS Recovery functionality, this second partition is intentionally not managed by Core Storage, since it provides the software necessary for a Mac computer's ... firmware to understand Core Storage volumes.

If a Mac doesn't have a Recovery HD volume, is it not eligible for Core Storage?

Will FileVault work? and if so, how does it support encryption during use?


texts: Setting environment variable for sudo in Yosemite

texts:
I followed this similar question to set my environment variables in Yosemite: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/setting-environment-variables-via-launchd-conf-no-longer-works-in-os-x-yosemite/26179907#26179907

I want to do the same thing, but for sudo

do shell script "sudo launchctl setenv variablename value" with administrator privileges

but somehow, it does not show if I go in a terminal afterwards and run the command:

sudo launchctl getenv variablename

What am I doing wrong ?


texts: Time machine full restore only shows "complete backups"

texts:
I am doing a restore of a Time machine backup to a new hard drive. The latest backup was completed on Feb 1, but I was very surprised to see that OS X Installer restore utility only lets me restore from "full backups" and the latest full backup was done Jan 15.

First, I thought every Time Machine backup was full backup. Time Machine never reported any errors or any indication it was not doing complete backups. What happened and how can I prevent this from happening in the future?

Second, once I have completed the restore of the full backup from Jan 15th, what is the proper procedure to update to the latest backup on Feb 1st. Can I just restore all the files in the user's home directory?


texts: iTerm2 how to get autocomplete through tab key

texts:
In my terminal I can press tab key to autocomplete dir names etc but I can't do this in iTerm2. Is there any way to do that in iterm2? I'm using bash.

I know cmd ; shows autocomplete but I'd like to use tab key to get the behavior from the built in terminal.


texts: iPhone 4 locked out while on holiday, how can I unlock it?

texts:
I arrived in Greece yesterday and suddenly this morning my phone turned off, then on again and now it says Activation Required. When I unlock it to try and do it, I get the message:

  This device is no registered as part of the iPhone Developer Program.##br####br##If you are a member of the Program, please register your device in the @@url@@

It is registered with the developer program. Is there any way I can fix this remotely? I don't have my computer.

Update

I updated my phone via the new non beta iTunes to the new iOS5 as far as I'm aware. I'm pretty sure it just said 5.0. That was a couple of days ago.

Also, I will be able to get to a computer with iTunes, but it won't be mine.


texts: How do I get command+tab to stop re-ordering spaces

texts: Right now I have Chrome set up in Desktop 1, Terminal in Desktop 2, and Spotify in Desktop 3.  If I command+tab to Spotify, it changes the order of the desktops, so now Desktop 3 is Desktop 2 and Desktop 2 is Desktop 3.  This is frustrating because I expected them to stay put.  What I would like to have happen when I command+tab to Spotify is have it go to Desktop 3 and not reorder the Desktops.


texts: I have OS X Lion 10.7.5 with four desktops and also have 4 groups of stickies (one group per desktop). Every time that I have to reopen the Stickies app, they are unsorted (all stickies open on the same desktop). Does anybody knows if there is a way, e.g., using AppleScript, to sort them?


texts:
My AirPort Extreme routers started to disconnect multiple times a day, and all at the same time. Office2 and TV room stays green most of the time, but Daniel, Kitchen and Master Bedroom always disconnect. Once restarted - they always work, until they disconnect some number of hours later. This is a new problem. My network had been rock solid for years.
That could be the problem?


texts: Why did iMessage stop working after upgrading to iOS 8.2?

texts: After updating to iOS 8.2 I got a message saying "Your SIM sent a text message." Then I tried to send someone an iMessage and it sent an SMS instead even though that person is able to send and receive iMessages.


texts: iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the backup could not be saved on the computer

texts:
I keep getting the message “iTunes could not backup the iPhone because the backup could not be saved on the computer”.  I upgraded my computer, so it’s all brand new, huge hard disc. It runs Win 7 and has a brand new install of iTunes 11.1.4.62. I’m using an administrator account.

I can’t get any backup to work. Not from my iPhone 5S, not from my wife’s iPhone 4S nor from her iPad. The 4S did backup once or twice before I got the 5S. Since I reset it for my wife, nothing. The 5S is running iOS 7, the 4S iOS 6. I have googled it for a solution and tried deleting the backup directory and uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes, no success. I Can't find anything else useful.

I get some backup files created in the Backup directory. It creates the long alphameric directory name and under it one called Snapshot. This directory contains many files with long alphameric names and a file called Status.plist.


texts: Can .mp4 files infect my Mac with malware/adware/spyware?

texts:
Coming from Windows background, I'm usually very paranoid about the files I download, but one time I did something stupid - I downloaded some video files that were hosted in https://openload.co/ (not a malicious website, but it does store files that can have just about anything on them).

I realized that this might not have been a good idea a few days later, and I deleted the files from my Mac. One potential issue is that I backed up my Mac to an external hard drive as well (so that drive got the files too), but I also deleted the questionable video files from there.

My questions: could Mac malware hide itself inside a .mp4 file? Even if I open the file, wouldn't there be some window asking about installing a malicious program or could one just install & run without requiring an administrator's password? And finally, if it was malware, could it have gotten past macOS's sandboxing and infected my other files, and potentially my entire backup disk as well?

A couple of details:

Video is basic .mp4 file
When opened in a video player, it plays as expected
I have both VLC and QuickTime installed on my Mac


texts: How to mount .sparsebundle on file server

texts:
This is not related to Time Machine.
I am seeking a file storage solution where:

Only I can access the files (e.g. not iCloud)
The files are encrypted
I can access the file wirelessly

The closest I have gotten to this solution is by sacrificing goal #3 and using a USB-C attached hard drive with a sparsebundle. That works great for when I don't need wireless access.
Now I want something with wireless access. So I have bought a Mac Mini and attached the hard drive to that and enabled file sharing. It appears you cannot mount sparsebundles this way. What is the right way to mount them?


texts: Can I view the list of songs within a podcast while playing it?

texts: When playing a podcast on my iPhone, can I view the names of the songs (or whatever show notes are embedded into the podcast metadata?


texts: How to save password for Cisco IPSec in Mac native VPN client?

texts: Everytime I connect to the Cisco VPN using the built-in VPN client, it asks me for the password. I am wondering is there a way we can auto save the password, like using the keychain?


texts: I have recently installed Mavericks on my MacBook early 2008 (which doesn't support mavericks) but I have two problems. The first problem is that I can't change the brightness of the screen. When I try to change the brightness it doesn't change. The second problem is that the speakers don't work. I have tried a lot of things but nothing works. Is there someone who know what is should do?


texts: Just updated iMac 2011 model to High Sierra, when I search website it automatically goes into reading. I then have to click that site on reading list to open page as it doesn't open in the normal window as i would expect.


texts: How can I combine two or more folders into one AFP or SMB network share in OS X 10.11?

texts:
I have two media directories that each have a similar top-level folder structure. I'd like to share them over my network, using either AFP or SMB, in such a way that I can access both of them using one share, with the contents of both directories merged together.

So if folderA has the following contents:

|__ Stuff
| |__ My Stuff
|   |__ fileA.txt
|   |__ fileB.txt
|
|__Things
  |__ video1.avi
  |__ video2.mkv

...and folderB has the following contents:

|__ Stuff
| |__ My Stuff
| | |__ fileC.txt
| |
| |__ Your stuff
|   |__ fileD.txt
|
|__Things
  |__ video3.ogm
  |__ video4.rm

...then the network share would appear as the following:

|__ Stuff
| |__ My Stuff
| | |__ fileA.txt
| | |__ fileB.txt
| | |__ fileC.txt
| |
| |__ Your stuff
|   |__ fileD.txt
|
|__Things
  |__ video1.avi
  |__ video2.mkv
  |__ video3.ogm
  |__ video4.rm

If new files are copied into the share, preferably I'd be able to configure which of the two top level folders they are placed into.

I had originally accomplished this by compiling the mhddfs filesystem for OS X, using it to mount a virtual filesystem that was a combination of my two folders and then sharing that over the network. But after a year or so of use I've found that mhddfs is unstable, at least in OS X. Numerous filesystem errors accumulated across my drives that eventually led to hard system crashes, the drive would often unceremoniously unmount for no apparent reason, and various other unsavory things would happen like copying an application bundle to the network drive and having its individual files be split up between the two shares. Hence why I'm interested if there's a file server solution to this, rather than something more prone to serious errors like a file system solution.


texts: Sips not working with pict, qtif and sgi files

texts:
The terminal command sips -s format pict /path/to/image.ext --out /path/to/output.pic ouputs Error: Unsupported output format com.apple.pict even though if you do man sips and go down to format, there is written that it supports jpeg | tiff | png | gif | jp2 | pict | bmp | qtif | psd | sgi | tga.

Is this normal and can you fix it anyway?


texts: Mac renames itself automatically - host name is incorrect in terminal

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I've got a handleful of macs (all with unique names) and on occasion it prompt a notice about saying another computer on the network as this name and adds a (2) or (3) to my mac.

How can I set the host name from the command line?


texts: Macbook Pro function buttons not working following changed battery

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I have changed by Macbook Pro's (Early 2015 running El Capitan) battery, following which the function buttons (brightness control, mission control, skip, next, volume up, volume down...etc) have stopped working.

I can confirm that the buttons are working as if the FN button is pressed, i.e. F1, F2...etc.

I can also confirm that the FN button works using the Keyboard Viewer (it is not visible but the backspace, return and arrow keys change).

I can confirm setting are correct and that Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys is unchecked.

I have tried:

PRAM reset
SMC reset
Safe Mode
Run Apple Diagnostics (no issues found)


texts: Facebook app won't load newsfeed when using Wi-Fi on iPhone

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I am having a problem which has driven me mad for months. When I am connected to my home Wi-Fi the Facebook app's newsfeed won't update. If I turn Wi-Fi off and use the mobile 3G it works fine so I guess its something to do with my Netgear router.

I have an iPhone 4 on iOS 6 and my router is a Netgear N150.

Any ideas?


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A folder in my mac is set to list view and files are grouped by kind like Images, Movies, documents etc. I wonder if there is a way to expand/collapse entire groups.

In windows, there's an arrow next to the group name and when you click it, the group will expand/collapse. But I can't find a way to do that in mac. If I have hundreds of files in one category, say, Images, I have to scroll all the way to reach the next one (movies, documents etc). If this is not possible in finder, is there any alternative?

Edit: To be clear, I'm wondering if there's a way to expand/collapse the group headers (eg: Images, movies, documents etc) and not folders.


texts: MacBook: Force hibernation, even on AC power (not battery power)

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I've found a number of hints to force a MacBook (or other) into Hibernation mode (ie. write RAM to Disk, and completely power off - so system is back in it's pre-sleep state upon next boot), but they all appear to only work when the MacBook is slept while on Battery Power.

Is there a way to force a MacBook Pro to hibernate, even when on AC power (magsafe)?

The reason is: due to a hardware problem, I had to remove the battery from my MacBook (it's got a "Permanent Battery Failure" which was slowing down the whole system presumably due to hardware communication issues, until I removed it - waiting for a replacement).  So once the MagSafe AC adapter is unplugged, the system goes down hard - zero power.  It loses system time every time I remove the AC power & reboot.

So, while I wait for a new battery to arrive, I would like to make the laptop at least hibernate before I unplug it.  So far, trying things like sudo pmset hibernatemode 25 standby 1 standbydelay 0 haven't made this work yet.  If I close the laptop or do pmset sleepnow, wait even a few hours and then unplug the AC & then reboot, the system is always starting afresh (no previous state to be restored, and loses system time).

Is this because there is no low-power battery backup (the cause for losing system time), or because the system never went into hibernation?  Ie., would a system in hibernate mode, that then lose the system time due to absoluytely zero power, also lose it's hibertaion state?  (This doesn't make sense to me, as I'd expect the system to restore from the hard drive.)

FYI, a hibernate file was indeed written, eg.:

>>> ls -fal /var/vm/
-rw------T   1 root  wheel  1073741824 Jul 31 18:31 sleepimage

Perhaps losing system time causes the hibernate file to be skipped?

Thanks for suggestions.
System Specs: MacBook Pro 13-inch late 2011, OS 10.11.6, SSD drive as primary, HDD in-place of DVD drive.


texts: Compatibility of iPad Air with Peripherals

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I'm very in the interested in the iPad Air. I would like it to be my hub computer. I would like to have the functionality of a laptop or desktop with the advantages of mobility - touch-screen, portability, connectivity.

There is some talk of a computer which combines the functionality of the Macbook (the Apple notebook-name??) and an iPad, a convertible. But that possibility is a year to a year and a half away, if at all, of course.

I've been delving into the possibilities of use of the iPad Air with peripherals and am having some success, and some mixed results.

Use of an external hard drive seems to be a real possibility both from Apple and third-party makers also (the Voyager Air external hard drive-www.corsair.com/external hard drives by Seagate/I believe Apple's product is Time Capsule). But not only do I want storage, I want to work with apps and programs on the external hard drive, due to the limited space of the Apple iPad Air.

I want to have the full range of the use of some of the important peripherals. I've found an external hard drive, Mobilelite Wireless (www.kingston.com), which stores nothing, but has USB 2 port, USB 3 being preferable, of course, SD/SDHC/ SDXC slot, and an adapter for micro SD cards.

In my reading, I've come across some things that allude to apps, Apple apps, which enabled, or helped an external device to function with the iPad Air.


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Is it possible to actually update bash to version 4.0 in OSX Yosemite?

echo $BASH_VERSION
3.2.57(1)-release

This article and this thread refer to the same question, but they install a new shell side-by-side with the old one. Is there a way to directly update the old bash shell?


texts: Can word break characters be changed in OS X 10.11 El Capitan (or Xcode 7.2)?

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When I double-click text in an Xcode string to select an entire word, any text connected to it with a dot (.) will also get selected. I would like to make that not happen so that dots and other characters behave as word break character, like dashes (-). Is there a way to change this either in general for OS X 10.11 or just specifically for Xcode 7.2?

I notice this happens in Xcode and in TextEdit so I'm guessing it would be an OS X setting, but then it doesn't happen when double-clicking on Xcode variables (only within strings) so I'm not sure.


texts: Does Find My iPhone use location services only when necessary?

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If I have location services enabled and only Find My iPhone checked, will it use my battery constantly or only if I go to icloud.com and try to locate my iPhone?

I noticed that disabling location services saves a lot of battery but I still want to keep Find My iPhone enabled. I tried to do this but it looks like it's using location services all the time.


texts: How do I prevent widgets from moving around on the dashboard?

texts: Is there a way to disable moving widgets around in the dashboard? I have a neat layout all set up, and would like to prevent accidental widget movements.


texts: Finder Search not working when searching network drive shared with SMB connection on Mojave 10.14.0

texts: We went through the nightmare of finding out that 10.14.5 Mojave did not allow other Macs to connect via SMB without freezing client's Finders and/or not connecting or dropping connections. To fix that we clean installed 10.14.0 This worked as far as sharing and connecting. The only issue I am having is that when the clients search the Mojave server via Finder or clients Spotlight, no results from the Mojave Server show. This happens on all 14 clients. I have confirmed the Mojave Server has finished indexing. Not sure why none of the clients are able to search the Mojave server. Any help would be appreciated.