texts: iphone jailbreak - its asking for active sim card

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i'm in china and need to jailbreak/unlock my iphone to use it here with chinese sim card. I followed the instructions online about how to do this using a program called snowbreeze. It worked and i believe the iphone now has ios 4.3.1 and the ipad baseband. However, in order to unlock the thing i need to get into it, and it is asking me to insert 'a valid sim card with no PIN  lock to active iPhone.

Not sure what i should do here? I lost my tmobile sim card in a hotel and don't have one. Is it necessary to insert a tmobile sim card just to turn the phone on? (Also my sim card has a pin on it so how can even that work?). If this is the answer then i will try my gf's tmobile sim card. Please help, thanks.


texts: macos calendar duplicate repeated meetings from exchange

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Look at screenshot. There should be only one everyday meeting. But its looks like 7 parallel meetings. It's desplayed right in Outlook for Windows. Deleting meetings from MacOS Callendar don't help for feature days and I can't delete meeting and create new, because i'm not an initiator of this.

May be clearing some cashed data would help, but I don't know where to do this.
Deleting Exchange account from MacOs and creating new link don't help too :(


texts: I purchased an app on my iPhone and the app is also on Mac

texts: When I looked in the purchased section in the Mac App Store the app was not there. Am I doing something wrong or do app have to be purchased on both iOS App Store and Mac App Store?


texts: Finding All Files/Applications Installed With MacPorts

texts: I installed MacPorts last April in some delusional moment of thinking I was going to learn about the command line & compiling, etc. That hasn't happened and I doubt it will at any point in the near future, so I'd like to delete both MacPorts and any applications I might have installed/compiled with it. Where do I find the latter? And is everything in opt/local MacPorts related or do I have to go in and individually remove all 335 results from lsbom /var/db/receipts/org.macports.MacPorts.bom, preserving non-MacPorts-related items in opt/local?


texts: Inviting people who have shared calendars with me only allows the first person to accept

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The summary is this... if people share their calendars with me and I invite them to a meeting, then only the first person to accept the invite gets in... the rest appear to decline the invite.

Here's a reproducible scenario to expose this issue.

There are three people: Alice, Bob, and Carlos.

To reduce the number of variables, everyone signs out of iCloud on their macs and uses only the web interface to iCloud.
Each person creates a new calendar that they share with the other two via iCloud's "Calendar Sharing / Private Calendar".  These calendars are shared as "View Only".
Alice now creates an event "Event1" on her calendar and adds Bob and Carlos as invitees.
Bob gets a notification about "Event1" and accepts the invite for the event.

Issue #1:
I expect that both Alice and Bob will both see "Event1" on each other's calendar.  Actually, Bob sees two events (one on his calendar and one on Alice's).  Alice now sees only one event... and it's on Bob's calendar.  When Alice turns off Bob's calendar, the event goes away entirely!
Now Carlos sees his notification about "Event1" and accepts.

Issue #2:
I expect that (at least) Alice and Carlos will both see "Event1" on each other's calendar. Actually, Alice is notified that Carlos has declined!  Carlos appears to have declined on his calendar too. And while the event continues to show the maybe/decline/accept links, Carlos can not accept the invite.

It would seem to me that this is a fairly common scenario.  These could be three family members, three friends, or three colleagues at work.  I'm having a really hard time believing that this scenario doesn't work, am I missing something or is this really as broken as it seems?


texts: What is wrong when an app is perpetually in need of updating from the Mac App Store?

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I have an app called "UPAD Lite" that keeps appearing in the "updates" tab of app store. I have installed the update multiple times, but when the app store checked for updates, it would appear again. I have also tried deleting the app and reinstalling afterwards, and it still appeared in updates. I have also tried closing and reopening the app store, and it was still there.

Is this a problem with the app or with the app store? Is it possible to remove an app from the list of pending updates?


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I have a stereo pair of homepod set up in a normal hifi set up, that is I sit between the speakers and the speakers an I are in a triangle.

music Volume is clearly unbalanced - a center sound is louder on the right speaker.
I physically swapped the speakers several times to rule out a hardware issue.
My room is not symmetrical
I have tinnitus in my left ear so sound should adjust for this disablement.

How do I configure things so that central sounds sound from the middle to me?


texts: Mac mini loses wifi when an ubuntu computer is on the same network

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Someone gave me their mac mini running osx 10.6.

I have a D-Link router at home.  I want to connect my mac mini to the home network.

I start by turning off all other computers and wifi devices i have at home so that i make sure nothing else is on the wifi network.

I turn on my mac mini, and it automatically detects my home network.  I select the network and enter a password that has wpa2 encryption. Mac mini successfully connects and i can surf the web, watch youtube videos, use skype etc...

I then go to another room and turn on my Dell laptop.  It also successfully connects to the home network and can surf the web.  But now all of a sudden, my mac mini loses wifi connection because no matter what url i put into safari, it says can not connect to "domain name".  I can't even use safari to open up 192.168.0.1 which should show my router user interface.

I then close the lid on my laptop.  Now all of a sudden my mac mini has internet connection again.  I open the laptop lid, the mac mini loses internet connection.

How do i fix this i problem?

ADDITIONAL NOTES

I just noticed my mac mini loses connection ONLY IF MY LINUX laptop jumps on the same wifi network.  In otherwords, if i boot my laptop into windows instead, my mac mini remains on the wifi network. If I boot my laptop into ubuntu linux, then it kicks my mac mini off the wifi network.  I have other cmoputers and phones connected to the wifi network and it doesn't affect the mac mini wifi.

So it's only my dell laptop when in Ubuntu Linux that kicks my mac mini off of wifi.

My linux laptop is at IP address 192.168.0.102.  My mac mini is on IP address 192.168.0.110.  So there's no conflict with IP ...

Does anyone know how to correct this problem?


texts: How will macOS behave when creating folders in /private/var/folders to mount a NFS share with?

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I'm writing some software that can ideally mount and unmount multiple Network File System (NFS) locations dynamically.

To avoid clashing with local names I plan on generating a new temporary dir under /private/var/folders such as /private/var/folders/6l/jbv4dn11301f7t2wm1r3mqlr0000gp/T/temp_mount.RXArBC for each time I introduce a NFS share - in the hope that the OS can tidy up these folders on shutdown.

The worry I have is that for example, if I were to try to remove the folder before it was unmounted with something like rm -r /private/var/folders/6l/jbv4dn11301f7t2wm1r3mqlr0000gp/T/temp_mount.RXArBC - if the mount was not read-only, this would result in deleting the contents from the share (despite failing to delete the top-level folder as the mount service is presumably still holding a lock to it)!

I'm concerned the OS isn't expecting /private/var/folders to contain any mounts and thus pose a similar problem.

Can someone confirm how it is the OS will behave in this scenario? So far with my testing this hasn't happened, but I'm not sure this is indicative across the board for macOS users.

Another option I've considered is creating folders under somewhere like ~/Library/Application Support/MyAppDomain/MountDirs/ and performing tidy ups in my software as I go along, but I'm unsure how the OS will behave.


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I purchased an iPhone 6s second hand and the person whom I purchased is now in London. (I am in India)

When I restart the phone, it says this iPhone is currently linked to an appleID.

When I asked the person what's the appleID of the phone, he says that it doesn't have any but the phone shows something like this :

What do I do ?

How do I get my phone to work ?

Anyone please help I also tried putting the phone in DFU mode (press home button + lock button) and then installed the ipsw through itunes, still the above screen appeared.

What can I do ?


texts: How do I make IDLE work with Python 3.6.2 on Mac OS X 10.10.5?

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I am new to Mac OS X.  I need some help.  I am having the following setup.

Yosemite 10.10.5
Python 2 Version 2.7.13
Python 3 Version 3.6.2

I downloaded the python-3.6.2-macosx10.6.pkg and installed it.  It is under the folder

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/python3

When launching the IDLE application in the “Python 3.6” folder under applications folder the following error happens

Python 3.6.2 (v3.6.2:5fd33b5926, Jul 16 2017, 20:11:06)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> WARNING: The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.9) in use may be unstable.
Visit http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ for current information.

I would like to get the IDLE application working with a Python 3.6.x interpreter.

In order to correct the problem we are asked to

Install the latest 8.5 ActiveTcl version.
Reinstall python 3

What is the recommended way to do the above?

Do I uninstall the existing Python 3 interpreter? Then install the latest 8.5 ActiveTcl version.  Then install Python 3 again.
Do I install 8.5 ActiveTcl version. Use make altinstall to build a new version of Python
Is there any other way to achieve it?


texts: Extracting CPUs from multiple MacBook Pro's

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I have a couple old MacBook Pro's laying around and would like to put them to use. So here's the question.

Would it be possible to extract the CPUs from the boards, and connect them to a single logic board or some sort of adapter where they are both connected to the same machine?

I could you could think of it as a CPU rig.... and of course I'll be using it to mine cryptos :)


texts: How to create a custom keyboard shortcut for this nested menu item?

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I know how to create a shortcut; it is described on Apple website here. However, I came across a tricky case: I want to create a shortcut for the TextEdit application, particularly for setting the writing direction to Right to Left. The hierarchy for this is shown below:

I think that the problem is with the Paragraph word written in grey.

I've tried

Format->Text->Writing Direction->Right to Left

and

Format->Text->Writing Direction->Paragraph->Right to Left

and others, but none have worked.

How can I solve this issue?


texts: How to copy and paste in built-in dictionary

texts: I know how to look up words in the built-in dictionary in my iPhone, but is there some easy way to copy something from  the  dictionary or is there some 3rd party App that can do it?


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I want to make music with a MagicTrackpad2, keeping it away from interacting with the mouse pointer.

I found this software: MultiTouchMidi that works great with the builtin trackpad of a macbook.

At first, the pointer of the mouse was moving while I was playing music.
This could be solved with an external mouse, and checking the box "Ignore Trackpad when Mouse is plugged in" under Universal Access.

Now, I would like this: MagicTrackpad2 plays MIDI and does not affect the mouse, and the builtin trackpad controls just the mouse.

How can I achieve this ?


texts: When using an external monitor, does a mid-2015 Retina Macbook Pro with only integrated graphics run cooler than one with discrete graphics?

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I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with both discrete (AMD Radeon R9 M370X) and integrated (Intel Iris Pro) graphics. When this machine is connected to an external display, I find that the keyboard gets uncomfortably hot even when doing very light work, and it gets annoyingly hot when doing anything heavier like compiling code.

I know that attaching an external display forces use of the discrete graphics adapter because the HDMI port and DisplayPort are hard-wired to that adapter. Unplugging the external monitor brings temperatures reported by the sensors down, and subjectively brings the keyboard back to "body temperature warm" instead of "annoyingly hot". A drop in temperature is observable even when the discrete graphics remain in use but only the external monitor is disconnected.

I can see why the graphics processor uses more power and creates more heat when driving multiple displays, but my question is the following: does the equivalent machine with only integrated graphics show the same magnitude of heat increase when using an external monitor? Presumably the integrated Iris graphics will also get hotter when driving multiple displays, but will it get this much hotter?

I don't have an Iris-only model around to compare, so I will supply some measurements from iStat Menus, and hopefully someone with the Iris-only config can take equivalent measurements. I will report the "left fin stack" and "CPU PECI die" temperatures, which react quite visibly to the use of an external monitor. All temperatures are measured with very low CPU activity, with any open applications essentially idling.

With a 1920x1080 display connected in a room climate controlled to a temperature of 25C, the left fin stack (LFS) is 51C and the CPU is 61C. A few minutes after disconnecting the display, LFS is 40C and CPU is 49C. After plugging the external monitor back in for a few minutes, LFS rises back up to 52C and CPU to 62C. The fans remained at around 2000RPM throughout the measurement process. So put simply, I get around a 10C increase in LFS and CPU temperature purely from plugging in an external monitor via HDMI.

The LFS temperature as reported in iStat Menus shows a nice smooth exponential rise and fall as one would expect:
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Thanks in advance to anyone who can supply the other half of the information needed to answer this question!


texts: Trying to delete a program that's not open, but says it is?

texts: I've recently become nigh on obsessive with cleaning out extra space on my hard drive, and I'm trying to delete a program called "Rowmote Helper." Whenever I try to delete it, it says it can't be deleted because it is open. But when I open the "force quit applications" window, it's not running. What can I do to quit the program if it's running, or force delete it anyway? How do you force-delete an application that says that its running, but when you try to force quit it, it doesn't show up?


texts: FileVault Encryption Issues On High Sierra (APFS)

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I've recently updated to High Sierra and am now having issues with the encryption of my SSD.

When upgrading I was prompted to create a new password for my user account, the dialog saying that I couldn't use the same password as my iCloud account anymore. This led to when I restarted my MacBook Pro, I had to log in twice. Once for the disk encryption, and one for the user account. This wasn't ideal for me, so I contacted Apple support to ask about the issue. They were only able to help me roll back to a previous Time Machine backup from before I updated, so now I'm running Sierra again.

I suspect the option to use your iCloud password in conjunction with your user account (and other things...?? FileVault?) is what has caused the issue. Now that I'm up and running again on Sierra 10.12.6, I don't even see it as an option when I go to system preferences.

My question is, what is the best way for me to proceed to:

Have an encrypted SSD
Run the latest version of macOS (High Sierra)
Have as few passwords as possible (though I can use 1Password to store them if I need many separate passwords, it's just more messy.)


texts: Apple Contacts- creating a group with only one of the addresses in Contact card

texts: I want to create a Christmas card group from my Contacts list. However, I only want to use the home address and NOT the work address or alternate address. Is there any way I can just pick one of the addresses when I add them to the group?


texts: Move Large, Frequent files closer to center of HDD

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Is there a native/third-party utility (or native trick) to move large, frequently-used files closer to the center of the disk?

I was under the impression that the OS tried to automatically optimize frequently used files to be closer on the center of the disk, but I don't know how "frequent" is "frequent enough" and would like to force an entire project directory to be moved closer on disk.

The reason: I'm using Logic Pro for several projects, but on one particular project, I keep tapping out the Disk Activity (as evidenced by "System Overload" messages from Logic and spikes in the Disk Activity view of Activity Monitor).

I've seen some users of Logic and Final Cut have performance improvements after a defrag (using iDefrag), but was wondering if there were any other options other than a forced defrag.

Suggestion: Could copying the entire project directory to an external drive, rewriting it to the local disk as a single I/O operation, and then waiting for the file system to index/optimize it help? Or would that reset the access "frequency" and actually hurt?

Specs of machine in question:

OS X 10.7.4
500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200
2.66 GHz i7 MacBook Pro
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3


texts: How can I find the metadata of a file in Scanner app?

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I am a teacher, and I am trying to verify the date and time when a student took a particular photo. The student has an iPhone (unknown model and OS version) and used the Scanner app by Luni to take the photo. The student says they can't find the date and time on their own, and I am not able to gain direct access to the student's phone due to covid-19 restrictions (the teaching is being done remotely).
I don't have (and have never used) an iPhone, but I assume that if the photo still exists on the phone there is a way to recover the metadata. Could someone point me towards a step-by-step tutorial for how to find a file's metadata either in this particular app or in whatever file manager iOS has built in?
To be clear the student is entirely cooperative, but seems to not be very technically knowledgeable (or even comfortable with technology), and my total inexperience with iPhones renders me unable to provide detailed, specific instructions. I have tried finding an iPhone emulator I can run on Windows, but I can't seem to find one which is free (or freemium) where I can easily see how to get to the app store.
Edit: If I get instructions for how to find metadata in a file manager, I will also need instructions for how to determine through the app what the location of the file is.


texts: Creating iPad screenshots required for Apple Store submission

texts: I don't have a 12.9" iPad Pro, but the store requires iPad images with the dimensions of 2048x2732.  Is it possible to create an accurate screenshot image in that size without the use of the physical iPad?


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When installing a program on a Mac does the installer consider processor speed and number of cores in order to tailor the programs performance, and if so will upgrading processor architecture from single to dual CPUs require reinstalling the program for improved performance.

I'm having trouble with the alignment or synchronization of sound and the visual feedback from the GUI in Apple's Logic Pro 10.2, when running more than 8 processing threads, which, now that I've installed two six core 3.46 GHz Intel Xeon 5690, is a meager count considering the 24 possible threads possible with hyperthreading.


texts: How-to change apple ID email address correctly

texts: I have old email address address1@domain.com as an apple id. How to change email address to address2@domain.com correctly? I have only 1 iOS device. Should i log out from all services and change it through appleid page or i can change it directly from iOS devise without logging out from services (iMessage, iTunes etc.)? Thanks.


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Hi my ipod touch (about 1.5 years old) recently started to blink/flash white when I use it. (Never completely white)
I tried restoring/updating the software, didn't work; tried pressing power+home button, also didn't work. Anything else I can try, or do I need to bring it in?


texts: What is the security model of iCloud Drive on iOS?

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If I open a file using the file picker in an app, can the app now see all files in that folder?
Is there any other way in which an app might see all the files in my iCloud Drive?


texts: How many displays/monitors can a Mac Mini 2012 support?

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I know the 2012 mini has 2 video outputs but I've seen in the past PCs where one DVI output could be split to two displays.

So is the limit one monitor per physical display port (HDMI & whichever proprietary socket Apple were using that month) or something else?


texts: How do I synchronize keychains between computers?

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I have two Macs running Lion on a home network that I use regularly, and I would like to keep my keychain files synchronized between them.

I add keychain entries on both machines, so I need to be able to merge (rather than overwrite) keychain files.

Is there a way to accomplish this?


texts: Apple now says you have to have iPhone turned on to get iMessages on all devices?

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iMac Pro - 10.15.3, iPad 13.3 and iPhone 13.3.1. This AM I noticed that when I did some logging in to different sites, that I have text message 2 step verification turned on, I was not getting the iMessage verification code. Tried multiple sites and times - no iMessages. So, I had to get the codes via iPhone.  I was using an iPad and I got no iMessage on it or my MacBook Pro.  Later on I went to the kitchen and turned on my iPhone and viola, I get all these iMessages with codes coming through which then all go to my other devices.  In talking to Apple the senior tech she tried to get me to update my devices - which I refused - gonna wait a bit on that - but she also said you have to have the most current software on all devices and have all devices on or text forwarding won't work.

This makes no sense to me.  Anyone else having iMessages not forwarding issues?


texts: What photo organizer software can store keywords/tags in EXIF without mangling other EXIF metadata?

texts: I would like to organize my photos into folders with labels/tags/keywords, possibly also with captions or descriptions for each photo. I would like that information put into the EXIF metadata of the photo files, so that it can be read by other programs (like digikam or f-spot, for instance). I would NOT like to overwrite other unrelated metadata (like Picasa does with various fields).


texts: How to get Safari to open links in the corresponding tab for the site?

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Say I have a Safari tab with Gmail loaded, for instance showing:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

In my todo app, I have a link, like the shown below, which points to a specific thread.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLNXbTXWNCQMHTVtJlDXVpwXs

When I click on this link, it opens a new tab in Safari. How can I instead get Safari to open that link in the existing Gmail tab, based on the URL without the fragment identifier being the same in both cases? I used Gmail as an example, but it would be nice if the solution was generic, and worked with any site using fragment identifiers (e.g. WorkFlowy).

Certainly, I can copy the URL, switch to Safari, switch to the Gmail tab, ⌘L, ⌘V, enter. This is what I do now, but just being able to open the link would be much faster.

The main reason for wanting this is that when opening a new tab, Safari reloads Gmail, which takes a few seconds. Opening the link in the existing tab is much faster.


texts: I am currently hiding my dock. I would like to unhide it whenever a the fn key is pressed. Is this possible?


texts: How to use `click` in a shortcut? (Run a service when clicking a link)

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Is it possible to run an Automator service with an alternate click, e.g. ⌘ + ⇧ + Click? This kind of combination is built into browsers with ⌘ + Click typically opening a link in a new tab.
I have a service for handling links. Right now I can right click the link, pick services from the context menu, and then select my service. I'd rather not navigate the menu. Is there a way I can harness Click when making a shortcut?
A half-option is to right click the link, click elsewhere to close the dialog, and then press the keyboard shortcut, but this is cumbersome. (I'd be happy enough if I had to right click and then do a shortcut, but this seems to not work without clicking away.)
I've internet sleuthed with enough search strategies that I think this may not be possible but am hoping I'm wrong and simply a careless querier!


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First of all, this is my first question here. So forgive me if I cross any lines.

I am using a Macbook Pro mid-2012 non-retina running Mojave and having this strange problem since months. Some apps, like Apple Photos, PDF Expert, and even finder show invisible graphics & texts here and there.

Next, Finder's tab bar goes black in Light mode and not so black in dark mode. In PDF expert the entire PDF text/image disappear randomly.

Same used to happen in Google Chrome as well but once I disabled Hardware acceleration in Google Chrome it started working fine.

So, as per my little knowledge Hardware Acceleration is causing the issue. I ended here first and clean installed MacOS but that didn't work. Menu display issues after upgrading to Sierra

Have you ever faced such an issue? How can I solve it?
Thank you!


texts: How can I install WhatsApp on iPad mini (cellular)? It's not jailbroken and I am using iOS 7 but I cant install WhatsApp on it.


texts: Games no longer appear to be using Retina graphics

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I just opened up Angry Birds Seasons today and the graphics looked blurrier than usual. I don't know how reliable a screenshot is but here is one I took and you can see it looks blurry. (Also, the image came out at 800x534 pixels, but apparently the Retina display is 960×640.)

I recently upgraded from an iPhone 3G to the 4S and transferred all my settings directly, so I wondered if the games were perhaps still trying to use the non-Retina display. However, I hadn't noticed any problems with the games until today, and another game I've downloaded since the upgrade also doesn't look quite right today.

What could be the problem here?


texts: Installed new SSD, but I have no Snow Leopard disk. Can I install Lion from Internet?

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I've just installed a 128GB SSD onto my 2009 MacBook Pro. I've run into an issue.

I was under the impression you can install Lion over the Internet on a fresh install. I've done this before on a family members MacBook. I can't replicate it though. I have purchased a copy of Lion, and I installed it on the old drive.

I do not have a copy of Snow Leopard as I gave it away by mistake when I sold my iMac. Gave the guy the wrong disk.

I no longer have the old HDD contents, and the only other computer I have in the house to download anything to is a computer without an optic disk drive - a Macbook Air.

What are my options for installing OSX on the MBP with the new SSD?

I am sure I was able to install Lion over the web on my stepdads MacBook on a fresh install as he has no Snow Leopard installation disk.

Any advice is much appreciated. At the moment I am seeing a folder with a question mark at boot, which I understand is usual behaviour as there is no OS.


texts: Solutions for typing backslash on MacOS with Japanese keyboard in specific app

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This is an obscure issue so I don't expect anyone to know a solution specific to my app. Rather I'm wondering if maybe there is some OS level option I can set.

In any case, a Japanese keyboard does not have a backslash character. Back in the 80s the yen character occupied the same codepoint as the yen ¥ symbol so you'd just type that instead. Now of course with unicode both symbols exist and the yen key inserts ¥ by default.

Apple's Japanese IME  has an option to insert backslash instead of yen

And so does Google's Japanese IME

And this works everywhere except my text editing program. I've reported the issue but of course it could take them a while to fix it. As a short term solution they suggested recording a macro in the app that inserts a backslash and assigning it to the yen key which worked for editing text. Unfortunately it doesn't work for various dialogs in the app like the search and replace form where I type regular expressions and need to enter backslash often.

In the meantime I wondering is there some other creative solution I can do at an OS level?


texts: Trying to install nasm-2.1108 but getting permission deny

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Trying to install my nasm version as 2.11.08 but when i hit the "sudo make install" im getting error like this

$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /usr/bin
/usr/bin/install -c nasm /usr/bin/nasm
install: /usr/bin/nasm: Operation not permitted
make: *** [install] Error 71

how can i resolve this problem im running Elcapitan on my mac.

current nasm version:

NASM version 0.98.40 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 11) compiled on Aug 17 2015


texts: I will be using my computer as a music device during a party, so it will be open and others will have access to it.  I do not want people to snoop into my personal email.  Is there a way to password protect just my email?


texts: How to prevent change in network configuration?

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I want to know if there is a way to prevent users (even administrators) to change a network parameter (dns domain for exemple).

Not simply "lock" the parameters and be allowed to unlock them with a password to change them, I want something like the GPO on windows that disables totaly any possibility to change the network settings except if the local policy itself changes to re allow it.


texts: Is it possible that a user which has not Testflight installed receives an app Update before is public?

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We have a case of a user (which was previously using Testflight on an early state of our app) that says he received an app Update even before the App new version was approved on Appstoreconnect. He claims that he have already uninstalled Testflight on his side, and he was not selected as a tester for the new version neither.
How could he have received the update then?


texts: HDMI Stop working after Macbook OS Update to Mojave Version 10.14.3.  Was working perfectly. I tested cable and monitor and it works on other laptops.


texts: Mirror number of unread mails in title bar

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Is there a way to show the exact number of unread mails from the Mail.app icon also in the title bar? Note that this is not the same as showing the number of unread mails in inbox, since I can change the folder to something else like a smart mailbox.

(A script which outputs this number would also be okay; I could write a menu bar item around this myself.)

Update: Alternatively, a script which outputs the number of unread mails for a user-definable smart mailbox is also okay. All example code I’ve seen so far only works for non-smart mailboxes.


texts: QuickLook process has a file open multiple times

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I was cleaning up my Mac (on El Capitan 10.11.2), and I tried to delete some obscure old Word file. When I clicked on "empty trash", it gave me the message that the file was being used. I didn't know what was using it, and didn't want to cause problems, so I used lsof | grep /Users/myusername/.Trash and found that the QuickLook process had it open 12 times! Should I delete the file? Why on earth does Quick Look have it open at all?

PS: I quick-looked the file again and ran lsof | grep -c /Users/myusername/.Trash, which told me that it was then open 18 times, in case that helps.


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I have old MacBook Pro that has a dead battery.  It is not charging, and displays always 0% battery charge.
OS X is downgrading performance when battery level is close to something about 5% or 10%.
Is that possible to turn off this feature, to be able to use its 100% performance without exchanging battery to new?


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As is wanted to write an image to usb stick, I accidentally used my system drive (macintosh hd) as target. Command used:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1024 count=1

Where disk1 was Macinstosh HD ... (yeah I know - facepalm :)

Anyway - aborted after 2 minutes as nothing happened and I realised my mistake. To my astonishment, everything still seems to work, partition still there, still reboots.

This is the output of:

$diskutil list:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *499.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2

The command was intented to zero out the partion map (of an usb stick) ...as described here.

Which works on the usb stick, (luckily) it didn't work on my Macintosh hard disc. But i still don't get it why? By saying i aborted i meant after committing the comment, nothing happened, not output, but no fresh prompt either..so is used ctrl-c

Time machine backups can be restored, thats not the thing. I'm just curious and want to understand it

Do I still have to worry that I lost some data?


texts: Are links in Podcasts show notes supposed to be "live"?

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Most podcasts have show notes that describe the individual episode.  In iTunes, you can see these show notes by clicking on the episode, then clicking on the "i" at the right of the episode description; in the iOS Podcasts app, you can see these show notes by tapping the podcast's "album art" in the Now Playing screen.

Often these show notes are written to include links to web sites, but AFAIK neither iTunes nor the iOS app treat these links as other than plain text; there does not seem to be any way to actually open them.  See for example the screenshot below; notice that in the middle of the paragraph (about five lines down) the words "click here" appear, but are non-functional.

I suppose it is possible that the the responsibility for this rests with the publisher (i.e. maybe they are just copy/pasting text from their website and not properly coding the episode description) but if so it seems to be a universal problem; I've never seen a podcast in which this did work.  It seems more likely to me that neither iTunes nor iOS is set up to handle live links in episode descriptions.

Am I right about this?  Are those links supposed to work?  Or am I just doing something wrong?

Edited to add:  If the answer to this question is "No, those descriptions don't work", is there a better Podcasts app that does handle those as live links?


texts: I can’t figure out how to send an html file to someone using WhatsApp on iOS?

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I want to send an html file to another contact via WhatsApp.
In android devices html file loaded currently but in iPhone a blank page is opened.
Is this something I need another app or some workaround?


texts: Finder displays Refresh and X symbols instead of Eject for external storage device?

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Typically, Finder displays the Eject symbol next to an external storage device, and an inverted version during mouseover, like this:

but today, Finder displayed a Refresh symbol, and an X during mouseover, like this:

The storage device was my Time Machine backup and was connected via USB. The device appeared normal in Disk Utility. I did not interact with the symbols, but ejected it using Disk Utility. After replugging the device, the unusual symbols did not reappear.

Can someone link me to documentation regarding the meaning of this (preferably on Apple's Support site)?


texts: How do I fix OSX Maps having the wrong location (Next Door)

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On OSX Maps, when I use my "Current Location" always resolves to the house next door.

This is easy enough to override, by never using my current location, but is there a way to make it know the real location of my Mac? Like reset Apples DB of where my Wifi is?


texts: How can I change the picture used by this AppleScript?

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I am using this:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to
    set desktop picture to POSIX file "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Earth Horizon.jpg"'

to set the desktop on a lab of computers. How can I select a different picture instead?


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I have two Macs, and iPhone and iPad. I have setup iCloud and Google accounts with Calendars on all of them. Its works everywhere, syncs and loads up great, except for 1 Mac.

One of them just won't sync any calendars, be it iCloud or Google. I enable the Google Account and then I just get no calendars download and appear.

Any help much appreciated, thanks.


texts: Best app to switch between all open windows

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After 4 years of being a Mac user, there is only one thing that I still miss from the Windows world, and that is being able to switch with a single keystroke between all open windows in the computer.

What is the best app or utility, free or not, for accomplishing that?

I've used Witch, but I never was completely satisfied with it. It's a bit slow and the switcher UI is not very pretty.

Do you know any alternative?

EDIT (2016): This question keeps getting views and upvotes after 6 years. When I asked this question in 2010 I was still transitioning from being a Windows user. Eventually, I got used to Mac OS X UI and nowadays I don't use any third party utility for managing app windows, just Mission Control and the native keyboard shortcuts. So, although this question is no longer relevant for me I hope it is useful to new Mac users making the switch (Including this comment).


texts: Can I Mount a Hard Drive in Mac Pro Tower as Read Only?

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I'm trying to recover data from a failed external Fantom RAID Drive enclosure by plugging the drives into a Mac Pro tower, but I'm concerned that OS X might write to the disks and jeopardize the RAID structure.

I believe that the disks are RAID 0, but I am not sure. Also, I am pretty sure that the problem is with the RAID enclosure and not the drives themselves.

How can I mount the drives as read-only to avoid any corruption?


texts: How to block certain IP/Mac Addresses from accessing my AirPort on my 2009 iMac?

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I have a 2009  iMac running OS X 10.6.8. I would like to filter certain IP/MAC addresses from accessing my WiFi via "Internet Sharing". I have already set a password, but I would still like to filter specific IP/MAC addresses.

Is this possible on my iMac with 10.6.8 ?


texts: How to make the maximize button behave consistently across applications?

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So I'm a semi-new Mac user (loving it btw), but one thing I'm finding super annoying is that when I hit the "+" to maximize/minimize windows it doesn't behave like I think it should.

I see many threads on here about windows but what I am looking for is some level of consistency about how to minimize/maximize them.

For example, if my monitor is 1920x1080, and I manually sized the window to 800x600 and then I want to maximize the window so I can see more, I'll hit the "+" button to maximize and one of the following happens:

Instead of the window maximizing to full screen (e.g., 1920x1080) it will ONLY maximize vertically, so if the window was 800x600 when I press the "+" button, it'll maximize to 800x1080 (it maximized from top to bottom but not left to right).
Sometimes, if the window is already maximized, when I hit the "+" to un-maximize it, it doesnt do anything; it just stays maximized.
And, sometimes, it behaves like Windows does and takes full width/height after pressing the "+" button.

It becomes annoying because I'm working on a 13" MacBook Pro and an external 23" monitor at 1920x1080 that I use at work. When I want to bring a window over from the 23" monitor to the 13", I have to always manually re-size things.

How can I make the maximize button behave in a predictable way no matter what Application I'm using? Even better if that predictable way matches the way Windows does it.


texts: In Notes.app, how do you add columns to a table?

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I'm using Version 4.5 of Notes.app

There's an option to add a table. I see that if I tab through the table then rows will be added, but I'm not finding a way to add columns to the table.

Is it possible?


texts: How to disable Mac start on touchpad press?

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I have a MacBook pro 2019. It is a good machine, except apple changed a few things which I do not like and would like to revert.
Earlier version of Macbooks did not have this feature. Earlier, when MacBook is completely shutdown (not just that screen is all black but something is still running inside), click on touchpad would be disabled. This used to help me identify that my machine is completely shutdown or not.
But on the new MacBook starts up on any key press and touchpad click. If my Macbook is shutdown, and if I click on touchpad, it boots up. It has happened to me a few times with new MacBook that as soon as screen goes black I put the machine back in the bag and after some time when I open the bag, I find my machine to be very very hot because it did not shutdown completely and some process got stuck and kept draining the batter.
I see solution for disabling startup on Keypress but not on touchpad press. Any solution for that? Also any way to know if my machine has gracefully shutdown?


texts: Opening Notes of another user account in OS X EI Captain

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I recently replaced my macbook's user account by changing account name from name1 to name2. Now I have to recover some very important notes that I had saved in default Notes app but unfortunately didn't sync with cloud.

I have found a folder with old user account name i.e. name1 at /Users/name1/ but didn't find any relevant data. Can anybody please recommend me the possible ways of recovering the required data?


texts: Upgrade to Mavericks from an external HDD

texts: I have Snow Leopard on and external HDD. Is it possible to boot form the external drive, and install Mavericks on the internal drive via the Mac App Store?


texts: How to fix "No such file or directory" error message on terminal wget download

texts: I am installing files with wget onto an external hard drive. Someone walked by, tripped, and disconnected my hard drive briefly. However, now my file download says: "no such file or directory" for each file, and then continues. I have paused the process, exited and re-entered the directory, but I've had no luck. Is there a way to restart the download without getting an error message


texts: I have unlimited data and have "cellular data" turned on in both podcasts app and cellular- still won't download new podcasts

texts:
This seems similar to other questions I've seen, but in other ones, as far as I can understand, it seems that people are trying to download podcasts while avoiding using data. This is not a concern for me as I have unlimited data, but the podcasts still won't download.

As the following screenshots show, I believe I have cellular data turned on everywhere and good reception, but podcasts still won't download over the cellular network. The internet is working for me otherwise, and I have tried resetting my network settings.


texts: I dont seem to have iPhoto on my Mac and can't find a link to download it, only to update it.


texts: Weird keybindings in Mac OS X Terminal.app

texts: I am trying to use the key "shift-tab" in emacs running purely under Terminal.app, but got an error saying there is no keybinding for "M-[ z" (where M is the meta key, set to be the option key under Terminal.app preferences). In other words, emacs thinks I am pressing "option-[ z" when I pressed "shift-tab" on the keyboard of my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.6, what is the problem and how do I correct it? Thank you.


texts: What can I use Apple TV for in an Android household

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I recently got an Apple TV (the new siri version) at a stupidly cheap price (Supermarket mislabeled it as the last version) it seemed rude not to buy it! But now I'm not sure what to do with it.

Unfortunately most / all of the information online talks about how well they integrate with the Apple ecosystem.

So my question is what can I use an Apple TV for if I'm an Android household.

P.S. I was going to put some of my use case here, to stop it being too broad a question, but I also suspect that might limit the answers a little (and stop it being as useful for other's doing the same google search I did!)


texts: Can't reduce bootcamp partition size in El Capitan

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I have a 512GB hard disk using the latest macbook pro running El Capitan. When bootcamp partition was created it was allocated 350GB. Now I want to bring that down to 100GB since the windows partition is hardly ever used. Bootcamp is running Windows 10 Pro.

Disk Utility won't let me reduce the bootcamp partition. The slider let's you shrink macs partition but not bootcamps!

Disk Manager from windows 10 looks like the below: (sorry about the compression!):

I've also tried tool named iPartition but it report "destructive process for the selected changes".

Here's how my partition table looks (note I don't understand the output myself, but hope someone here can help):

diskutil list
sudo gpt -r -vvv show -l /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, start=40, size=409600
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=409640, size=291724536
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC, start=292134176, size=1269536
gpt show: /dev/disk0: GPT partition: type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, start=293404672, size=683700224
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - "EFI System Partition"
     409640  291724536      2  GPT part - "OSX"
  292134176    1269536      3  GPT part - "Recovery HD"
  293403712        960
  293404672  683700224      4  GPT part - "BOOTCAMP"
  977104896        131
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header

Can anyone help guide me reducing bootcamp partition?


texts: Video out from MacBook to iMac via thunderbolt

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I know there is no way to receive a video input from HDMI to most macs, however, I am curious if this could be done over thunderbolt.

If so what protocols would be used (RIP target display mode) to "screen share" from one mac to another?


texts: AppleScript: Cannot click Menulet (Menu Bar 2) for Third Party App

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I am trying to create an Applescript to automate an interaction with an application that has a third-party menulet (menu bar item, top right corner). The application in question is called Pomodoro One. It does not have built-in Applescript support, so I want to create a script that clicks on its menu bar and presses "Start Pomodoro".

After hours of research on the Internet and experimentation with Script Editor, plus the creation of a visual automation with Automator, I have come up with this script that SHOULD work:

tell application "Pomodoro One"
    activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
    tell UI element "Pomodoro One"
        tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
            click menu item 1 of menu 1
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

However, it does not work. Surprising, especially since the the automation in Automator works and this script is basically a paraphrasing of the Applescript that Automator converts its visual automation into. This is the error that I get, both from ScriptEditor as well as running the Applescript in Automator:

System Events got an error: Can’t get menu 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2 of UI element "Pomodoro One". Invalid index.

What I think is happening is that when Applescript attempts to click on menu bar 2 (which represents the menulet), the menu that is supposed to appear does not. As if the click is totally not happening. However, I am indeed able to click on menu bar 1 (which represents Pomodoro One's main menu bar). This is stumping why clicking on menu bar 2 yields nothing, especially since UI debugging apps like UI Browser indeed report that the menulet is represented by menu bar 2 when I do visual profiling of the UI.

I am hours into this and I feel very stuck. I am wondering if there is any way that I can get Applescript to play nice with the menulet of any third party applicaton.

EDIT

Based on this post (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20595708/applescript-to-click-on-a-specific-icon-in-the-mac-menu-bar), I modified my script to be the following:

ignoring application responses
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "Pomodoro One"
        click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
    end tell
end ignoring
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Pomodoro One"
    tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
        click menu item "Start Pomodoro" of menu 1
    end tell
end tell

This time, it results in the script infinitely spinning and eventually timing out with error -1712: System Events got an error: AppleEvent timed out. I can assure you that I have accessibility enabled, via System Preferences --> Security and Privacy --> Accessibility for both Pomodoro One and Script Editor.


texts: Displaying full screen video on only 1 monitor

texts: I have a multiple monitor setup. I'd like to be able to play a video full screen on only one of them. It could be Quicktime or a Safari video (mostly Safari/YouTube). Is there any setting to control this at all? Right now the video takes over the screen and the others go black. (Have seen other older answers but no solutions recently.)


texts: How to copy part of an image using Apple Pencil

texts: When I do a image search on google, for the resulting images, I would like to select parts of them using my Apple Pencil on iPad Pro, so that I can copy those image parts and paste them on OneNote, but did not find the way to do this, currently I can only copy full images. Anybody knows how to do this?


texts: Is it possible to use AirDrop and Sidecar with a mac on a VPN?

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I need to use a VPN on my mac from time to time. While I'm doing so, it interferes with  the ability to use AirDrop and Sidecar. My VPN has the ability to whitelist certain apps, so is there a collection of 'apps' that AirPlay and/or Sidecar uses?

I think Sidecar doesn't work with a wired connection when the VPN is on. I've tried whitelisting e.g. Finder but that's not enough, I'm not sure what else could be useful.


texts: Mac Mini won't start, shuts down on startup chord

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My Mac Mini bought early 2013 won't start. I get half the Apple startup chord and then it shuts down again. It doesn't even get to the gray screen, apparently no video output. I tried the different keyboard commands and also pulling out all cables to see if there is any external devices that is the cause but no luck. Reading from a suggetion I also held down the power button for 20 seconds after pulling out the power cord. But the problem remain. After pressing power I hear the sound coming and then goes out after less than a second.

Is there anything I can try except taking it to the Apple repair guys?


texts: Not getting OS X El Capitan Public Beta updates

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I'm registered for getting Public Beta updates, but in the last 4-5 months, I'm not receiving any updates in the Mac App Store.

I'm currently on 10.11 Beta (15A278b).


texts: Why is my Mac trying to connect to 10.0.1.2:7000?

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While working on other networking issues, I discovered my Mac, running El Capitan, was trying to make a TCP connection to 10.0.1.2:7000. What is trying to make that connection, why, and how do I turn it off?

Note: 10.0.1.2 is a "private" IPv4 address and should not be used by any site on the internet. None of our local networks use anything on 10.x.x.x, they are in other private subnet ranges.

Also note: the Mac is trying to initiate this outgoing connection. There is no inbound traffic. netstat shows nothing listening on 10.0.1.2:7000 (and indeed the traffic is being forwarded to a router, which is how I discovered it) and I have not been able to get lsof to show me any information about it.

Update/Answer

Not really a duplicate of the linked question (that question was about LittleSnitch and why it was complaining, and problems with its filtering rules regarding local networks), but related to the same issue. I would prefer to post the following as an answer but cannot while this is closed as duplicate.

Using tcpdump -k NP (from this answer) as suggested by klanomath confirmed that this is coming from AirPlayXPCHelper. This web page provides a list of AirPlay related ports. In particular, port 7000 is used for AirPlay Video, 5000 for Audio, and 5001 for Audio-related Events.


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I have a Macbook Pro mid 2014 and I just want to install Linux (CentOS) as a dual boot on it.

In selecting a partition I've shrunk my macOS drive to install Linux. But after installation I can’t see macOS partition in startup manager.  I don’t know if I accidentally erased my macOS drive or did something else?

Is there any chance my macOS still exists?


texts: How to install Windows 10 additionally to OS X and Ubuntu (triple-boot)?

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I have installed Ubuntu separately from OS X. rEFInd is already installed. Now I need to install Windows 10. I've created a separate partition for this in OS X. If I try to install Windows from USB, will rEFind recognize this? If not, how should I install Windows properly?

P.S. MacBookPro9,2


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I have Notepad which I open with "Wine".
I want to do that when I want to open file .txt, it will be opened by Wine Notepad.

How can I do that?


texts: iphone 4 update to ios 7 failed - cycles in and out of restart screen

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IOS7 appears to have been installed on my Iphone 4.  It comes on, apps start but then the "restart screen" appears after 1-30 secs.  After another 20-60 secs, the "restart screen" disappears and the app begins where it had left off.

Just to be clear, by "restart screen" I mean a black background with centered white apple and a progress bar beneath the apple.  The progress bar lights up to maybe 1-3% but never any further (and sometimes less) no matter how long it remains in this state.


texts: Is there a good solution for syncing photos between the Photos app and Amazon Cloud Drive?

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Amazon Cloud Drive offers great pricing: Unlimited storage for $50 a year. Bundled with Amazon Cloud Drive (and with Amazon Prime) is a service that lets you make online photo albums, etc., which can be viewed online via via a web browser.

What I'd like to be able to do, and haven't yet found out a way, is to synchronize my photos in Apple's Photos app with the online photo albums that come bundled with Amazon Cloud Drive / Amazon Prime.

I already know about Arq, which is a great backup tool that works with ACD. I.e., it turns ACD into a CrashPlan-like backup service. What Arq doesn't do is backup your photos in a way that Amazon knows to display them as photo albums online.

I already know about PicBackMan. I would have thought that this program would do the job, since it seems to support nearly every cloud service known to Man. Unfortunately, Amazon Cloud Drive is not one of the services that it supports.

I know that I can drag and drop photos from the Photos App onto the Desktop and then into the Amazon Cloud Drive app, and then use the Amazon Drive web page to make photo albums. That's way too much work. I want something that's automatic.

Thanks.


texts: MBP 2012 +, light projector, Home Theater system, HDMI spitter, no audio, puzzle?

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This issue relates to Mac Book Pro's and hdmi audio functionality.

I am trying to resolve an issue for a community hall. The hall has a light projector (BenQ) with small internal speaks, and a Home Theater box with surround sound system (Sony BDV-E290).

All hdmi ports and cables are hdmi 1.4.

Normally, a single HDMI cable connects the light projector to the hdmi (incl ARC - Audio Return Channel) port on the back of the Home Theater unit.

The Home Theater unit has the surround sound speakers connected to it.

One can play a video file put on a usb thumb drive and plugging it into the Home Theater unit. Both video on light projector and sound via surround sound speakers plays.

Connect MacBookPro mid 2012 Retina laptop, so as to play video using internet on this system using the hdmi port. Connect MBP via hdmi cable to a powered hdmi splitter. This is to enable one hdmi cable out of the splitter to go to the light projector, while a second hdmi cable plugged into the hdmi port of the home theater unit so it can play the hdmi delivered digital sound data.

With this set up there is no sound from the home theater unit speakers, only video on the light projector.

Despite checking all home theater, and MBP settings, reading manuals, and lots of net research re Mac hdmi, hdmi sound, hdmi standards, etc. I am very puzzled.

The below diagram illustrates this set up.

The question is, should I expect this to work?

Alternatively, am I missing some technical understanding of the hdmi and sound capability of the macbook pro, hdmi port, or hdmi splitter, or concept of hdmi delivered ARC return?

After several hours of research I do not understand what the problem is conceptually, or in practice.

I have confirmed that the audio data output via the MBP hdmi port is active, and all hdmi cables are working. I have confirmed the surround sound speakers are working. I have read (several times) the home theater instruction manuals and tried all settings to my understanding, and played with any other setting I could think of value.

One experienced mac person's solution is that I need to use an hdmi switcher, rather than an hdmi splitter, and use an hdmi audio extractor to stream off the audio data from the laptops hdmi cable. Then rather than the audio data being supplied to the home theater box via its hdmi port, input the audio data via a fibre Tosink audio cable into the audio fibre port available on the theatre box for 5.1 surround sound.

This I think should work. However, I am puzzled and questioning that I should need to do this.  Surely such a simple first solution should work. Yet, it does not.

Some relevant links:
HDMI ARC functionality Confirms my understanding and use of ARC via hdmi.
Apple MBP hdmi port audio functionality Confirms MBP hdmi port includes hdmi 1.4 and 5.1 surround sound consistent with home theatre box.


texts: An ipad app or setting that helps turn off wifi or turn on airplane mode on schedule?

texts: i hope to conserve battery at night. is there an ipad app or setting that helps turn off wifi or turn on airplane mode at certain time? or would it even be better to have an app that turns off the device completely on schedule?


texts: Issue with Apple Mail after upgrading to El Capitan

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My boss upgraded his MacBook to OS X El Capitan, and after doing so, Apple Mail started downloading again all mail messages from the server. As he has around 130K mails stored on the server, this makes the computer crash.

Why did AppleMail forgot all about mails already downloaded when upgrading the OS? How can we fix this? We already tried unabling all accounts and enabling them one by one, but there are 130K mails in one single account, so this was no help.


texts: How to delete pre-installed apps on macOS Catalina

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Update:

Please check the solution linked by @Phill, verified on 10.15.4

I used csrutil disable to turn off System Integrity Protection and deleted some unused pre-installed apps before macOS 10.14. Recently, I upgraded to macOS 10.15 Beta (19A487l) and found this way didn't work anymore. My admin account only has Read-only access for pre-installed applications.

The /Applications in Terminal is actually /System/Volumes/USER-Data/Applications.

➜  ~ ls /Applications
Alfred 4.app           Safari.app             Utilities
Google Chrome.app      ShadowsocksX-NG.app    Visual Studio Code.app

I don't have write access to /System/Applications.

➜  ~ sudo rm -rf /System/Applications/Stickies.app
...
rm: /System/Applications/Stickies.app: Read-only file system

I also cannot change the privilege from Finder -> /System/Applications/Stickies.app -> Get Info -> Sharing & Permissions, it says:

  The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission.

I've read Is it possible to delete the "useless" apps pre-installed on my Mac? and chflags didn't work either because of Read-only.

How can I access to the "real" system account or is there the other way to delete or hide those applications?

Thank you.


texts: How to attach an image directly inside iOS Mail app while writing an e-mail?

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When I want to send an image from my iPhone 4s, the workflow is easy. I go to Pictures, I pick the target image and then I click on the "share" icon in bottom left corner. Then of course I can add additional message and my e-mail with attachment is ready to be send.

That's fine but what if I'm for example writing just a plain text e-mail. I'm in the middle of it and then I decide to add an image? I don't want to quit the Mail. Is there a way to attach an image (file) directly from there? I'm a really perceptive guy but in this case I cannot see any icon with a paper clip symbol or anything similar that would suggest that I can attach something.


texts:
I am trying to install RStudio Server in OSX El Capitan.

I did these steps from terminal

brew install openssl

brew install homebrew/science/rstudio-server

I have the login window at localhost:8787 but I can't login. If I run

sudo rstudio-server status

then I get

Could not find service "com.rstudio.launchd.rserver" in domain for

To check the installation I run

sudo rstudio-server verify-installation

and I get

21 Oct 2016 05:11:44 [rserver] ERROR system error 48 (Address already in use);
OCCURRED AT: rstudio::core::Error rstudio::core::http::initTcpIpAcceptor(SocketAcceptorService<boost::asio::ip::tcp> &, const std::string &, const std::string &) /tmp/rstudio-server-20161017-46697-nr3wo3/rstudio-
0.99.902/src/cpp/core/include/core/http/TcpIpSocketUtils.hpp:103; LOGGED FROM: int main(int, char *const *) /tmp/rstudio-server-20161017-46697-nr3wo3/rstudio-0.99.902/src/cpp/server/ServerMain.cpp:438

How can I fix this?


texts: Why isn't this alias in terminal working?

texts:
The alias's objective is to launch a pdf in my chrome browser. The pdf is entitled "Intro to Java.pdf"; the browser is "Google Chrome"

alias x='open -a "Google Chrome" /Users/ahanagrawal/Documents/"Intro to Java.pdf"'


texts: I lost my albums and books in iPhoto and cannot retrieve them.  Is there anything I can do to retrieve these lost files?


texts:
I am selling my old iPad 4, in which I stored some private data. I have done erasing my iPad data and settings, is it true that all my data is really gone and completely unrecoverable?

If not, what else should I do to make sure my data is unseen by the buyer?


texts: What terminal is the Mountain Lion Terminal app emulating?

texts:
I recently migrated from 10.6 to 10.8. I use Terminal to connect to various linux boxes where the TERM variable is observed to be xterm-color.  This seems to be consistent with the 10.6 setting of TERM.

However, since upgrading I've been having issues with my Terminal sessions if/when I resize them to something wider than 80x24.  What would normally be very long lines of text seem to wrap at 80 columns until I resize again, at which point it displays properly.  That is, it's like the width is stuck at the last size (wrapping everything at the previous width) until a resize is done after displaying something expecting a greater width.

This sort of feels like either the [n]curses entry for xterm-color got changed (it didn't) or that terminal is not really emulating an xterm-color device.  The behavior is different (maybe better--I'm still evaluating) if specify a plain xterm.

Is there a better setting for TERM when using Mountain Lion's Terminal?


texts: How to create a self signed SSL server certificate on OS X 10.7 for HighPoint RAID management server?

texts:
When having multiple Mac machines running Highpoint RocketRaid controllers and the HPT Web RAID Management software v1.68, results in having multiple copies of an identical self-signed /usr/share/hpt/hptsvr.pem ssl server certificate.

$ openssl x509 -text -in /usr/share/hpt/hptsvr.pem -issuer
Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Serial Number: 0 (0x0)
        Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: C=US, ST=California, L=Fremont, O=HighPoint Technologies, Inc., OU=HPT, CN=127.0.0.1, CN=localhost, CN=mac.local, CN=127.0.0.1
        Validity
            Not Before: Sep  5 17:38:59 2011 GMT
            Not After : Sep  2 17:38:59 2021 GMT
        Subject: C=US, ST=California, L=Fremont, O=HighPoint Technologies, Inc., OU=HPT, CN=127.0.0.1, CN=localhost, CN=mac.local, CN=127.0.0.1
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
            RSA Public Key: (512 bit)
                Modulus (512 bit):
                    00:bc:cf:96:35:88:80:5c:06:df:bb:c6:13:5e:36:
                    e4:a6:73:76:fa:83:e1:31:4f:65:53:bb:67:d6:39:
                    89:82:a5:1e:fe:db:07:9e:71:8c:19:80:f4:9d:67:
                    9f:9a:2f:2e:ab:e8:32:72:47:81:6a:20:56:7a:d4:
                    60:e0:f6:29:b9
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        X509v3 extensions:
            Netscape Cert Type:
                SSL Server
            Netscape Comment:
                HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
            Netscape SSL Server Name:
                mac.local
            Netscape SSL Server Name:
                127.0.0.1
            Netscape SSL Server Name:
                127.0.0.1
            Netscape SSL Server Name:
                localhost
    Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption
        35:20:88:6a:71:81:7d:fe:8c:09:bb:56:9c:66:42:ce:fd:e2:
        9a:d0:3d:fb:e6:a3:0f:63:ae:1f:99:5d:ea:29:95:cb:95:f3:
        6a:15:86:33:a8:33:93:da:18:76:e9:ed:d3:18:cc:3b:d9:72:
        06:cc:dd:b0:b7:f1:a4:2e:ac:ca
issuer= /C=US/ST=California/L=Fremont/O=HighPoint Technologies, Inc./OU=HPT/CN=127.0.0.1/CN=localhost/CN=mac.local/CN=127.0.0.1

The result is that newer versions of Firefox - like v30 - are only able to open the first instance of such a self signed certificate, and access to each other copy - running on a different hostname - is blocked with this message: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial.

The Apple Certificate Assistant located at /System/Library/CoreServices/Certificate Assistant.app fails to create a correct certificate for the Highpoint SSL web server.

My first try is to use the Apple "Certificate Assistant" application. However its generated self signed certificate doesn't work (no https connection within 30 seconds). When comparing the Highpoint cert versus Apple generated cert, the differences are "Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption" and "X509v3 Subject Alternative Name" (Apple), versus "Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption" (Highpoint) and deprecated Netscape extensions like "Netscape Cert Type: SSL Server", "Netscape Comment: HighPoint Technologies, Inc." and two times the "Netscape SSL Server Name: 127.0.0.1" and "Netscape SSL Server Name: localhost" and "Netscape SSL Server Name: mac.local" (Highpoint).

How to create a unique self-signed certificate replacing Highpoint's default .pem on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) preferably on the command line?


texts: Connecting external display turns both screens black

texts: I updated from 10.8.1 to 10.8.2 for my MacBook Pro Retina with my external 27" Thunderbolt display. When I connect to my Thunderbolt display both screens are black. I can only see my mouse pointer and sometimes little boxes of display. Any idea what's wrong?


texts: python version 2.7.8 can't run /usr/bin/easy_install. Try the alternative(s):

texts:
I'm doing a bunch of python development and also just updated OS to Mountain Lion.

I had replaced to original Python versions with Snow Leopard using the GUI from Python.org, then added links in /usr/bin:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  71 Oct 22 18:12 python -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7

So now I have what I think are all the python version that are part of OSX 10.8.5 (2.5, 2.6, 2.7) located in:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/

and linked from /usr/bin

And ALSO the ones I installed with the GUI located in:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/

But I'm planning to use the versions I install with fink, which is a port tree similar to macports which are/will be located in:

/sw/bin

So I have commented out the PATH exports in ~/.bash_profile that pointed to the non-fink executables:

#PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
#export PATH

#PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
#export PATH

And added:

#  for Fink:
export PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin
. /sw/bin/init.sh

I don't totally understand shell scripting yet, but init.sh initializes fink, I think mostly by adding elements to $PATH and other environment variables.

Previously I have installed various packages with homebrew, macports and various GUIs and am hoping to have a more comprehensible environment this time around.

At the moment I need to install postgreSQL and a bunch of python modules including pip, virtualenv, virtualenvironmentwrapper, psycopg.

It looks like the easy_install executable (binary executable?) lives (alongside easy_install-2.5, 2.6 and 2.7) in /usr/bin/.

So my questions are:

Is there any reason to have more than one copy of each version of Python?
Will python-dependent applications work as long as there's a link in /usr/bin/ to a working, executable python library, and the location of the Python executable is in the $PATH?
Is there much reason to keep Python2.5 at this point?
sudo easy_install-2.7 pip worked, so what exactly is -rwxr-xr-x   2 root        wheel       925 Oct 23 14:48 easy_install for?


texts:
I'm trying to connect to a mac screen sharing from a windows machine using tightvnc

I'm getting the error

"Server did not offer supported security type"

Any ideas on how to fix this ?


texts: Why /usr/local/bin is showing as a file in mac?

texts:
I purchased a new mac and want to install some tools on it but when I try to install anything, I am getting error as bin is not a folder .
Well why /bin inside my path /usr/local/ is a file not folder, isn't it supposed to be a folder???
I tried moving current /bin which is as a file to another location and created a folder as /bin inside /usr/local/ path.
But this made my mac not working properly, so I had to reinstall Macos.
I am very confused over this and because of this problem I am unable to install anything in my mac, someone please help.
$ ls -dl /usr/local/bin
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 username  wheel  xxxxxxxx Sep 26 06:36 /usr/local/bin

Here is the output for " ls -ledO /usr/local/bin /usr/local "
drwxr-xr-x  16 root  wheel  sunlnk      512 Dec 27 20:57 /usr/local
-rwxr-xr-x@  1 bala  wheel  -      82560592 Sep 26 06:36 /usr/local/bin

my bin is showing as exec file like this


texts: The process of making custom notifications, iOS GarageBand, iTunes database, iTunes file format, AppleScript

texts:
I'm developing an iOS and Android app which uses custom notification sounds to provide users with step-by-step instructions.

I've recently stepped through a pretty messy process of creating these and ran into some hurdles I'm hoping to more eloquently solve.

Goal: Record some short voice instructions (need to be less than 30 seconds for iOS) and produce two versions of the same file, one .mp3 for Android and one .wav for iOS.

Steps:

Make voice recordings in GarageBand for iPad. I tried using the OS X version, however, you cannot import .band files created on OS X into iOS GarageBand but the reverse works. Because in the future I might want to work on both platforms, I need to use the iOS version.
Share the voice recording file to iTunes using the GarageBand share option.
Plug iPad into Mac. Import files from GarageBand app in File Sharing options (why they don't automatically import into iTunes escapes me, I thought that is what "Share to iTunes" meant)
Because these sound files are going to be programmatically used in my app, I need to rename these files using some structured filenames which are onerous to input on the iPad keyboard. I renamed all of my files (about 70) and then drag&dropped them into iTunes.
iTunes then erased all of my naming, turns out it uses a file name structure which isn't accessible in Finder.
I then renamed them all and used this script to apply the filenames as the song names.
Now I have an album in iTunes with my files in .m4a format (what iOS GarageBand generated), I need to create .mp3 and .wav formats.
Selecting all of the songs in iTunes, there's right-click option to "Create FOO Version" where FOO is the file format option you specified in your import format preferences. Apple provided these instructions
This works great for creating one new format (either mp3 or wav), but if you repeat this process (say you convert m4a to wav first, then mp3) you end up with 4 copies: song.mp4 -> song.wav -->> song.mp3, song-1.mp3 because in the second convert, both the .mp4 and .wav were converted to mp3. This could be avoided by selecting only one format in the iTunes album view but this requires manually selecting 70+ songs in my case.
You can try avoiding the mess of #9 by simply moving all .wav files from the iTunes/.../Music/Your Album into a different location. However, iTunes despite being restarted, does not see this change of files. Thus, I must make a copy of the album, remove it from iTunes file paths, then delete the album from iTunes. Then move the backup back to iTunes.

Artists, I presume this is something you do regularly (create content and then need to export it various file formats). Perhaps if you're only creating a dozen or songs and putting hours into the content creation, the manual export process seems trivial. In my case, these sounds recordings are very small but there are a lot of them which leads me to automation.

Developers, does this lend itself to an Automator/Apple Script solution? I've dug around but it seems like multi-app (GarageBand, Finder, iTunes) scripts make the manual option look easy.

Or perhaps I'm missing a simple solution like doing all of this in GarageBand on OSX.


texts: How can I type "\" (backslash) via remote desktop with a Norwegian, Danish or Swedish keyboard?

texts:
I am running Remote Desktop to connect from my MacBook Air with Yosemite to a Windows computer running Windows 8.1.

Both my Mac and the Windows computer is configured with Norwegian keyboard layout.
It seems "\" backslash is impossible to input in this keyboard configuration. I would guess it's the same for Danish and Swedish keyboards.

Is there a way to easily input this character in RDP for Mac using this keyboard layout?

(I would be willing to map some key combination if that's possible, but I don't want to switch to some other keyboard layout, since I need to input Norwegian characters now and then)


texts: Application windows change order when app switching

texts:
Has anyone else noticed this apparent bug in Big Sur (11.0.1)?
I've seen it now while using two different apps (Terminal and OmniOutliner). For example, I'm working in Terminal and I have two windows open - A and B. I have B on top and I switch to Safari to read something, then switch back to Terminal. Now window A is on top and hiding what I was doing in B. If I put B back on top, it just repeats again when I switch away from the app and come back again.
It happens if I switch apps with Command-Tab, or if I switch apps by manually clicking the dock.


texts: Strange message in terminal when visiting a website

texts:
I have my terminal open most of the time. Today while I was searching for a software, search results took me to http://download.cnet.com. I didn't like the software, closed the page and carried on.
When I brought may terminal back up (it was open the whole time on the background) I had a strange message on the prompt saying
No permission to use the keyboard API for http://download.cnet.com

What is this and how the heck it has gained handle to may terminal and should I be worried?
P.S.
I visited another url from that domain and the same happened.
I'm running firefox on OS X 10.6.8
I launched firefox via terminal.


texts: How to setup iTunes account in a business environment and can you share app purchases?

texts:
I'm considering switching to Mac's for our new in-house marketing and graphic design department. Currently we use CS5 master suite collection and the licenses can be reappointed from pc to Mac.

I don't have access to a Mac or the Mac App Store and have questions about licensing. I'd like to have each computer to have the respective user to load their private iTunes account with their own private purchases.  Is it possible to then login to an company iTunes account and install a program like FCP, the switch back to the users account?


texts: How to manually restore a iTunes and iPhoto Library?

texts:
I recently moved to OSX Mavericks from Snow Leopard. I made a copy with Time Machine, perform a clean install and restored some data with the Time Machine backup.

I first tried to recover everything. The SO was a little bit buggy so I wanted to make a better clean installation, so I format again and restored only data and settings. The system is now even more buggy.

So I decided to perform a completely clean install and manually recover all the data I need. To do this I have to manually save all my data. But how can I backup my iPhoto and iTunes libraries? I want to have all the same information I have now, in the new clean system.


texts: AppStore require apps for iPhone and iPad to be build with iOS 13 SDK after June 30, 2020

texts:
Is possible to build and deploy the first versions of the app with iOS 12 SDK, before the deadline(June 30, 2020) and after that to upgrade to iOS 13 SDK the app and the new updates so all the users will have the minimum first versions of the app, but the new updates after June 30, 2020, to be for users that can and have iOS 13?

Can someone guide me towards a tutorial or something to clarify if it is possible and how should I approach this?


texts: I administer a Mac OS X Server email server and it is down. Can you help?

texts:
I hope this is a stupid question [with an obvious answer that I am missing] ...

My email services have suddenly stopped working and nothing I do seems to affect the problem.

Existing mail accounts are broken.  New mail accounts can't be created because the account "fails to access the [specified email server].  This happens on my local servers and on external servers.

This happens on both of my local machines, one running Leopard Server and the other running Snow Leopard Server.

The Network Utility ping function succeeds with "support.apple.com" but fails on "apple.com"

How could one work, but not the other?  Is this even related to my problem?


texts: Will I be able to access my Time Machine backups after changing Hard Drive

texts:
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro and I am planning on swapping out the Optical Drive for an SSD in the near future, and then re-installing OS X across the Hard Drive and SSD (in a Fusion Drive format).

I have about 2-3 years worth of backups on my Time Capsule. Will I still be able to access them once I've reinstalled OS X? I don't want to restore from Time Capsule (I want a clean install) but I need to be able to access my backups so I can get some data back. By this, I mean go into Time Machine, go back in time to a backup and select a folder to restore. If I can't, and I have to start my backups from scratch and stuff, I will just move some stuff over to a Hard Drive and then re-import it once OS X is reinstalled.


texts: MacPro - D700 Multi-Display Not Working When Using Windows 10

texts:
I have a Mac Pro with dual D700 graphics cards connected to 3x4K displays, and I've used Bootcamp to install Windows 10.

When running MacOS Catalina, all of the displays work fine.

When running Windows 10, the displays worked at first, but once Windows had updated the drivers and installed the FirePro software, only the primary display works. Windows detects the other displays, but they display a message (from the display itself) suggesting that they're not receiving signal and going into stand-by.

The screenshot above demonstrates that as far as Windows is concerned, I have three displays connected, however only the centre screen is actually displaying an image - the other two displays are in stand-by, and I can't seem to get a signal.

Is this a common problem? Any ideas how to solve?


texts: Only show local media files in iTunes in El Capitan

texts:
I finally upgraded to El Capitan and now iTunes is a jumbled mess. I took a long time organizing my music library and I had iTunes to only show media stored on my Macbook.

Now every purchase I've ever made with my account is just thrown in with my carefully curated libraries creating duplicates and some weird cases triplicates. I don't know why I can't find this option anymore and I honestly don't want to deal with iCloud Music Library. All I want is just to show music/movies/tv shows that are only on my device.

Can someone please help me or is this another option Apple has so graciously decided for us?


texts: What happens to MY music if I join a new Family Sharing account

texts: My wife already has an iTunes account with her own music library.  She also wants access to my music library.  If I set up Family Sharing and invite her, will she lose her music or will the iPhone display both music from her personal account library AND my account library?  Thanks!


texts: Okay, so I have a speck candy shell grip on my phone, I have never dropped my phone before but yesterday I let my friend do something on it in the YMCA and he dropped it. It was only from no more than about two feet and it fell on the spongy-soft floor. I'm really paranoid something may have happened but there is no damage and it functions no differently. 100% perfect. Any way anyone can put my mind at ease?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to navigate full screen windows of the same application?

texts: Or is there some app that will let me do it. This bug has been forever since Lion. Isn't it about time apple fixed it?


texts: Can I use a time machine volume to store additional data?

texts: I have a large external hard drive that I am using as a time machine backup volume. Since I don't need all the storage space for backups, I'm considering storing additional data on the drive. Is there any danger of this usage interfering with the backup system or is this an always-safe storage spot?


texts: iPad OS - limiting user access to Find My app

texts:
After upgrading iOS to iPad OS 13.2.2 the new application appeared: Find My.

I have multiple devices linked to this apple account, but I want to block access to Find My on the particular iPad, so the user (for example child) can't see the rest of the devices.

The device should be visible from the Find My on another device.
In Find My iPhone I used to just log out from the app, here I can't see this option.

I was thinking about using "screen time" limits, but I cannot find a suitable option.


texts: Is there a package management system for shell scripts on Mac OS?

texts: Is there a package system (think npm, cpan, or even homebrew) that would be suitable for shell scripts?


texts: Prioritize exact matched words in Mac dictionary app?

texts:
When typing a word in the dictionary app, it shows a list of matched words on the left pane. However, the exact matches are far down the list, the top words are usually not relevant, like terms from wikipedia. Going down the list and choosing the matched word manually is a nuisance.

Changing order of dictionaries in preferences does not help, as it only changes the result content on the right pane.

Is there a way to prioritize exact match in dictionary app?


texts:
So, lately wireguard has been giving me a lot of trouble. I installed an older version of wireguard-go since the newer version was giving me trouble. It finally didn't hang this time, but it also didn't route any of my MacBook Air's traffic over the virtual interface. BTW, the OS is MacOS Sierra.
wireguard-tools v1.0.20200827 - https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools/
wireguard-go v0.0.20201118

sudo wg-quick up ~/wgcf/wgcf-profile.conf
[#] wireguard-go utun
INFO: (utun1) 2021/02/24 16:37:27 Starting wireguard-go version 0.0.20201118
[+] Interface for wgcf-profile is utun1
[#] wg setconf utun1 /dev/fd/63
[#] ifconfig utun1 inet 172.16.0.2/32 172.16.0.2 alias
[#] ifconfig utun1 inet6 fd01:5ca1:ab1e:8b72:4b63:e3ec:b973:1ed1/128 alias
[#] ifconfig utun1 mtu 1280
[#] ifconfig utun1 up
[#] route -q -n add -inet6 ::/1 -interface utun1
[#] route -q -n add -inet6 8000::/1 -interface utun1
[#] route -q -n add -inet 0.0.0.0/1 -interface utun1
[#] route -q -n add -inet 128.0.0.0/1 -interface utun1
[#] route -q -n add -inet 162.159.192.1 -gateway 192.168.1.1
[#] networksetup -getdnsservers SAMSUNG_Android
[#] networksetup -getsearchdomains SAMSUNG_Android
[#] networksetup -getdnsservers Ethernet Adaptor (en4)
[#] networksetup -getsearchdomains Ethernet Adaptor (en4)
[#] networksetup -getdnsservers CDC Composite Gadget
[#] networksetup -getsearchdomains CDC Composite Gadget
[#] networksetup -getdnsservers iPhone USB
[#] networksetup -getsearchdomains iPhone USB
[#] networksetup -getdnsservers Wi-Fi
[#] networksetup -getsearchdomains Wi-Fi
[#] networksetup -getdnsservers Bluetooth PAN
[#] networksetup -getsearchdomains Bluetooth PAN
[#] networksetup -getdnsservers Thunderbolt Bridge
[#] networksetup -getsearchdomains Thunderbolt Bridge
[#] networksetup -setdnsservers Bluetooth PAN 1.1.1.1
[#] networksetup -setsearchdomains Bluetooth PAN Empty
[#] networksetup -setdnsservers iPhone USB 1.1.1.1
[#] networksetup -setsearchdomains iPhone USB Empty
[#] networksetup -setdnsservers CDC Composite Gadget 1.1.1.1
[#] networksetup -setsearchdomains CDC Composite Gadget Empty
[#] networksetup -setdnsservers Ethernet Adaptor (en4) 1.1.1.1
[#] networksetup -setsearchdomains Ethernet Adaptor (en4) Empty
[#] networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 1.1.1.1
[#] networksetup -setsearchdomains Wi-Fi Empty
[#] networksetup -setdnsservers Thunderbolt Bridge 1.1.1.1
[#] networksetup -setsearchdomains Thunderbolt Bridge Empty
[#] networksetup -setdnsservers SAMSUNG_Android 1.1.1.1
[#] networksetup -setsearchdomains SAMSUNG_Android Empty
[#] rm -f /var/run/wireguard/utun1.sock
[#] rm -f /var/run/wireguard/wgcf-profile.name
[#] route -q -n delete -inet 162.159.192.1

untun0 information:
utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 2000
    inet6 fe80::a49e:123f:eb95:3b4f%utun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>


texts:
I want to install JDK version 7 on my mac Snow leopard 10.6.2 (32bits).
 How can I do it ? Pleas give me some help ? is it possible or not ?


texts: Trying to reinstall OS X, asking for apple ID "temporarily not available"

texts:
I have a computer (Mac OS X 10.9.x) that became corrupted so I have reformatted the hard drive and am attempting to reinstall the operating system. It asks me to log in with an apple ID so I logged in to one I haven't used in awhile. I get the error message:

  This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.

What can I do to get this computer up and running again? I have also tried using a different Apple ID, but when I went to reset my password, I don't receive the password reset email.

Thanks!


texts:
I am about to head to a Meetup, and I would like to be able to share my contact information with other people I meet. I wanted to save a "template" email on my iPhone containing my contact information with my vCard attached so I could open it up, enter a person's email address, send it to them, and then repeat for the next person I met.

If I save a draft email and send it, then the draft goes away and I can't send it again. Is there any way to resend an email from the iPhone to a new address, or any way to edit a sent message and send it again?

How can I save a template email on my iPhone so I can send it repeatedly?


texts: Is there a way to block all numbers from an area code but keep one number unblocked. I see applications for blocking unwanted calls but nothing on saving a number from being blocked on iPhone.


texts: How does do not disturb in iOS 6 differ from the physical silent switch?

texts:
In iOS 6, we now will have a Do Not Disturb feature that prevents the phone from making sound when it receives notifications.

How is this any different from using the silent switch? Or is it just that it can be scheduled, unlike silent mode?


texts: OS Catalina save as right arrow shortcut puts cursor at the end of extension, not the filename

texts:
Since updating to Catalina, specifically in Adobe apps, when performing a save as, the right arrow shortcut, which used to send the cursor to the end of the filename, now very annoyingly, puts it at the end of the extension. Anyone else had this issue, and more importanly, anyone know how to solve it?

Many thanks in advance


texts: How to restore a Mac if you forgot recovery password

texts: As the title, is there a way to restore a Mac when you forgot the recovery password, I tried with command + R during reboot, but it doesn’t help.


texts: Yosemite com.apple.xpc.launchd error every 10 seconds

texts:
Every 10 seconds i get this error in my console:

20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx[9850]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 45: Operation not supported: com.viber.osx
20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Brand new MacBook Pro 2014, Yosemite OS X. Viber was installed two days ago. The error occurs even when Viber is running.

Even upon deleting Viber from Applications, an error still occurs:

20/10/14 19:38:37,078 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx[9870]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 149: Could not find a bundle of the given identifier through LaunchServices: com.viber.osx

Can anyone tell me what this is and why it happens? Any way to remedy it?


texts: Delete picture from photos view, keep in albums

texts: I don't have any Apple products, so sorry if this is an stupid question - I'm an assistant and have been tasked with solving this for my boss. When you open the photos app, you have two options at the bottom: "Photos" and "Albums." Is it possible to delete pictures from the "Photos" tab, but keep them in the "Albums" tab? Or even a way to hide the "Photos" view from being an option? Thanks for the help!


texts: How do I move calendar events together to keep a constant time in between?

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some procedures I do regularly require that I do something, say, on day 1, 3, 14, and 40, and I usually make Calendar / iCal events for planning. Is it possible to create a group of events such that if I shift the start date of the first event, all the other events are postponed accordingly? These changes should eventually appear on my apple calendar, but I could also use other software that can sync to Apple Calendar, provided that it is not too complex.

Ideal would be if I could also copy the whole group of events and paste it to a different date to repeat the whole procedure.

I have experimented with some apps.
Aeon timeline could be manageable but doesn't have Calendar sync.
Pagico might be able to do this but I found it rather complex to use.

I just wonder if there is a simple solution to handle such project planning tasks. I figured I don't need a full-blown project management app for this. I have a mac (Sierra, Mojave) and an iphone.


texts: How to Erase Hard Drive Mac System (this partition can't be modified/unmount)?

texts: I want to erase a disk (Mac system) to resize OS X Mountain Lion to the max volume but I couldn't resize it nor unmount the other disk.


texts: How do I turn on color syntax highlighting in the macOS terminal app?

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When I use terminal it is monochrome, currently "Grass" yellow on green. I've tried several ssh clients: MacOS default terminal, Termius, and Core Shell. They all have the same result, no syntax highlighting.

Did I do something to turn it off? How can I turn it on?


texts: Is it possible to keep dot files with specific extension unhidden in Finder?

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I know that all the hidden files (dot files) can be viewed in Finder by using the keyboard shortcut:

Command + Shift + .

or by running the following in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true

But, is it possible to change a dot file with specific extension to always show in Finder? Specifically, I want the .vscode to be always visible in Finder. I don't want to show all the hidden files, and I am trying to do this without having to use the shortcut or always run a command in the Terminal.

Is this at all possible?


texts: Is there any app to always display time in touch bar?

texts:
I would like to know if there's any way to always display current time in the touch bar in latest MacBook Pro.

When using browsers and other applications in full screen, I'm unable to view the top status bar by default.


texts:
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.6.

I have noticed some phantom behavior and am curious if anyone knows what is causing it. It usually occurs when I am typing, either an email, some text or some code. Suddenly I can no longer type (as if my Mac has changed to another program) and all the icons on my Dock sort of vibrate and jiggle around. After a few seconds this stops and I can click on the program I was using and I can continue. If I try to continue my program while it is doing its phantom thing, it just goes back go the phantom behavior. It looks as if it reverts to the Finder instead of the program I was using.

I plan on upgrading the OS soon anyway, but was curious if anyone else has noticed this. It happens at least once a day.


texts: How to enter home address so that Siri recognizes it and can direct me home

texts: It asks for me to touch my name and then there is no place to put it. I added it as a note on the contact page but this does not work.


texts: How to use (magic) trackpad scrolling to scroll only one page up/down with Preview?

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When I view pdf file with Preview, I can use wheel click mouse to scroll one page up/down.
How can I do the same thing with trackpad? Using two finger scroll gives me two much scroll. I need to scroll up/down only one pdf page with trackpad.


texts: How can I make the OS print dialog default to a particular preset?

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Simply put, this is what I want: I want to take a unique printer preset that has already been made and make the OS default to it any time that particular printer is selected to be printed to.

I know how to edit a particular printer's 'Default Settings' preset through the CUPS web UI, but this solution doesn't work for me because one of the printing options I need to change doesn't appear in this UI (for science: the printers I'm working with are Konica Minolta Bizhub C252, C353, and C364; the setting I'm looking to change is make the default color "Grayscale").

I have been able to modify the com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.PRINTER.plist file to get the system print dialog to pull up the preset that I want by default, but there is a problem with solving things this way: I can't edit this PLIST file properly with TextEdit (the XML gets mangled), and installing XCode on every machine isn't feasible. A solution could be to bring an editor with me on a thumb drive to each machine, but I don't know of an app I could use.

Any path to a solution to this problem, I am open to. I've tried to be as specific about my ultimate goal as possible, and I will answer any followup questions I can.

Any ideas?


texts: Find specific apps by name, getting their version, via command line

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For a support information gathering tool, I like to be able to look up several apps by name (or rather by their bundle ID) and fetch their versions.

I don't like to use the find command for this as that's not going to find all possible apps, or it'll take forever.

There's lsregister -dump, which knows about all those apps that interest me, but that command seems to offer no option to look up information only about specific apps. I'd have to filter the result with grep, but can't figure out how to filter it so that I can look for an app's bundle ID but also get the version (which appears in a different line).

There's also mdfind, which might be suitable for my purpose.

Let's, for instance, say I want to know about all installed "Word" apps, such as the 2008, 2011 and 365 versions.

With lsregister -dump | grep 'com\.microsoft\.Word', I'd get these lines:

identifier:    com.microsoft.Word (0x800460c2)
activityTypes: NOTIFICATION#:com.microsoft.Word, pv-e851f8544284d1

That's not helpful to inquire the version, is it?

With mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == com.microsoft.Word" I'd get the paths:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app

But how would I get the version from that? I thought I'd filter the resulting paths with xargs but that doesn't work with the spaces in the paths.