texts: Batch copy time creation and modification date from files using OSX

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First of all, I have asked the same question at stack overflow, but I am not sure if it's right over there. That's why I decided to post it here, too.
t'm having a hard time trying to copy the creation and modification date of some files to other files.
I have converted some MXF files to MOV, but unfortunately the new MOV-files don't have the same creation date.
Now I had a look around for similar questions and found different answers, but this seems to be the simplest:

    #!/bin/bash
    for f in *.MXF; do
     touch -r "$f" "${f%MXF}mov"
    done

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me – neither with Terminal nor Automator.
I saved the Code with TextEdit. In Terminal I ran chmod+x to make the file executable and put it in the folder where my MXFs and movs are.
But I'm just getting the following error:
touch: *.MXF: No such file or directory
I have also tried mxf instead of MXF.
This is the output of ls- l from the test folder

-rwxrwxrwx  1 username  staff  258458160  5 Jan  2014 570_0301.MXF
-rwxrwxrwx  1 username  staff  241431870  5 Jan  2014 570_0301.mov
-rwxrwxrwx  1 username  staff  974595120  5 Jan  2014 570_0306.MXF
-rwxrwxrwx  1 username  staff  911745994  5 Jan  2014 570_0306.mov
-rwxrwxrwx  1 username  staff  667679280  5 Jan  2014 570_0308.MXF
-rwxrwxrwx  1 username  staff  624468526  5 Jan  2014 570_0308.mov

Because I managed to get the modification date copied it seems that all the files already have the same date, but this doesn't cover the creation date.
Maybe someone could help me out? Will it change the modification and creation date? Because both are important...
Thank you very much in advance and all the best!

EDIT: Got the script working thanks to user3439894.
But it still doesn't update the creation date...
MXF: created 05.01.2014 06:49, modified 05.01.2014 06:50
mov: created 23.06.2016 05:34, modified 05.01.2014 06:50
Is there any way to correct this?


texts: Wrong sorting of non-English characters (iTunes 11.2 for Windows)

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Since version 11.2 of iTunes for Windows, I am experiencing a problem with sorting of names with non-English characters (such as ž, š, č, ř or other in Czech). It seems that iTunes completely omits these characters when sorting. As an example, I have Čajkovskij (which is the Czech spelling of Tchaikovsky) among artists in my library and it is currently sorted between Adele and Alan Parsons Project, i.e. it seems that the character Č has been completely omitted while sorting and thus the artist is sorted as Ajkovskij.

All my ID3 tags are of version 2.3 and in Unicode, thus this should not be any encoding problem. I even tried to change the ID3 tags to version 2.4, i.e. UTF-8, and it did not help.

I think that there must be many more people experiencing this problem. Not everyone has only English or ASCII names in the library and I am surprised that I could not find anything on this bug anywhere on the net yet.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Do you think it is a bug of the iTunes software? Thanks for any help.

EDIT:
I concurrently added this question to the Apple Discussion forums and it seems that it might possibly really be a bug in the latest version of iTunes for Windows.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6387079


texts: Tracking access or edit history for a specific file

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I am using a Macbook Air with High Sierra.
I need to find out which file was uploaded via Chrome on an exam website since I am afraid I upload the wrong one.

Is there any way to see the precise access history for a file. I cannot just look at the "last access" date/time because I touched all the incriminated files several times unfortunately.

What I am looking to find is some kind of log which tells me all the times that a file was accessed so I can see if I touched the correct one at upload time. Any suggestions? Thank you!

I checked the system.log and I also checked the audit files but nothing seems helpful.


texts: iTunes can't sync contacts as contacts has been disabled on iPhone

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I am getting this error message.

itunes can't sync contacts as contacts has been disabled on iphone

Configuration: iOS 6.1, iphone 4


texts: How do I know how much time battery has left on my MacBook?

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macOS used to show how much time your battery was good for before it died (e.g. 4 hrs and 22 mins). I don't see it anymore though. Now it just gives a percentage. I'm running macOS Mojave 10.14 on a Macbook Pro.

Where can I find this info?

It used to appear under the menu bar battery icon as shown:


texts: Changing trackpad scroll direction with AppleScript in Yosemite

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I prefer "natural" scroll direction when using my MBAir trackpad, but "unnatural" when using the mouse. I frequently switch back and forth depending on where I'm working, so I've been using a bit of AppleScript to switch the setting. This script stopped working when I upgraded to Mac OS Yosemite. It still opens the Scroll & Zoom pane of the Trackpad preferences, but it doesn't click the checkbox. I've tried a few things but I can't get it to work.. I'm not an Apple Developer, so I don't have any debugging tools. Any tips?

try
    tell application "System Preferences"
        activate
        set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.trackpad"
    end tell

    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "System Preferences"
            click radio button "Scroll & Zoom" of tab group 1 of window "Trackpad"
            click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window "Trackpad"
        end tell
    end tell
end try


texts: How can I remove a non-MAS app from Launchpad without uninstalling?

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I have a non App Store app installed so the 'X' does not appear when I hold down the icon.

I don't want to uninstall the app, just remove it only from Launchpad.

It's OS X Mavericks


texts: Is there a CSS library for creating website that look like old versions of MacOS?

texts:
Saw https://jdan.github.io/98.css/ which is a CSS library for making interfaces that look like Windows 98.

Is there something similar for old versions of MacOS?


texts: Being asked to log in to a different account to update Mac App Store apps

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I have an update for iPhoto available in the App Store but whenever I click the update button the following appears:

The account belongs to my wife, and as far as I know it's never been used on my laptop with the exception of, maybe 2 years ago, I created a guest account for her to try out OSX before she bought her own Macbook. But that account was deleted a long time ago, and since then I've updated tons of apps...so it's very strange.

Any ideas?


texts: iOS 8.1.1 update on iPhone 4S, calendar not working now

texts: I cannot view my daily appointments or view pending calendar invites since I updated my iOS software to 8.1.1.


texts: Where is the manpage of otools gcc etc. on macOS?

texts: Many tools related with binaries, such otools, gcc, don't have manpages on my macOS (10.13.6). Is there a way to install the manpages for them?


texts: How can I make Spotlight index source code in Mountain Lion?

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Under Lion I had Spotlight set up to index .as (ActionScript) files using the general instructions here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2005052015041510
but installing Mountain Lion seems to have broken it.

I went to /Library/Spotlight/ to try again and found that RichText.mdimporter no longer lives there. And the alternate location, ~/Library/Spotlight/, no longer seems to exist at all.

When I follow Apple's instructions here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MDImporters/Concepts/Troubleshooting.html to check which Spotlight plugins are installed by typing "/usr/bin/mdimport -L" in terminal, I just get a blank list with NO plugins.

I don't need anything fancy, I just want Spotlight to treat .as files as text. Any ideas?


texts:
I have WD-My book world of 1TB and I struggled for some time to set it up correctly to use it as a disk for usage of time machine on Mac OS X Yosemite.

My question is the following-what is the best way to delete old backups as I don't want to eat up all the HDD with the backups. I'm more than enough with a 1 month old backups.

I read on Apple's website about the deletion on files on disk but as this is a NAS disk it's a bit different than a regular USB external HDD and it shows me only a lookalike of the "img file" (when I go to get info, it says "Sparse Disk Image Bundle") see screenshot:

What is your advice?


texts: What is it about 3G that kills the iPhone battery?

texts: Why does turning on 3G data make my iPhone's battery die faster?


texts: Easy way to bulk change folder icons in Mac

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In order to change the icon of one MAC folder, all we need to do is:

Open the image
Copy the image from the menu ("Edit" -> "Copy")
Right Click on the folder and click "Get Info"
Click the icon at the top-left
"Edit" -> "Paste" from the menu

At this point I want to bulk change the icons for all my (sub)folders (let's say in one specific master folder).  How is that possible ideally with a script or an existing software? Some extra notes and questions below:

Please note that the images are saved in the subfolders and they are
unique.
In Windows you can simply change the hidden file of each folder called desktop.ini Can we use an .ico file for that? That would come handy in case there are images in the folder (jpeg and png) and only one icon (ico)


texts: Download Mojave on a non-Mojave suitable computer

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I want to do a fresh install (and SSD upgrade) of Mojave on a mac-mini that currently runs Mojave, but whose performance is so horrendous that it is barely usable1.  Easy .. just download Mojave and create a bootable installer and I'm off to the races.

However, the system that I want to use to create the bootable installer is not capable of running Mojave (see my previous question), and when I go to download the installer from the App store, Apple stops me with a message saying:

  We could not complete your purchase.

  This version of macOS 10.14.3 cannot be installed on this computer.

Is there any way to get around this limitation?  I am not attempting to install Mojave, just download it to a working system.

Edit

Note that I the suggested dupe is not a dupe of my problem.  The nominal answer suggests using the direct links on the App store to download the installers.  But as I mentioned above, that is what I have already tried to do (and have failed with the above noted message).

I am also trying to do the opposite of that question.  I am trying to download a newer version of macOS onto to a older computer.

And I've gone through all the standard checks and can't see anything that would cause the situation.  But there seems to be lots of people suffering unexplainable slowdowns.  This fresh install and new SSD is meant as a hail Mary.  And at $70 for a 500GB Mushkin SSD it is a no-brainer anyway.


texts: Favoriting a song in iTunes scrolls to top and collapses album view

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So.. this issue has been killing me for a while. I imagine others are having this too, so I am going to post quite a bit of info here.

The issue is pretty basic. When I have an album open in iTunes I can double click a song to play it. All goes well, but when I click the heart next to the song (to remove or add a favorite) the album view will collapse and then I will be scrolled to the top of the albums view window.

This issue persists between operating systems, too. For example if I favorite a song in iTunes on a Windows machine, the same behavior occurs (although the album view isn't collapsed in Windows for some reason).

Here is the bug in action documented via GIF image:

I have a feeling this is specific to my user account, so here is some history that may be helpful.

I subscribed to iTunes match before Apple Music was here. I cancelled my iTunes match account before Apple Music came out.

I am now an Apple Music subscriber and I have a mix of Apple Music and purchased content. Favoriting a song from either source causes the issue.


texts: iOS apps take up more space than advertised?

texts:
I would like to download "RAGE HD" which the App Store says is "643 MB", but after clicking "BUY NOW" there is a message:

  There is not enough space to download "RAGE HD". Please delete some photos or videos.

But my "About" screen says I have "898 MB" available. How much extra space should I need to be able to download this game?


texts: Can you stop websites from opening apps?

texts:
I have a situation where I would like to use both the app and website of a particular service.  However, when I search via safari, firefox or chrome, the website or link just opens up the app instead of the website.

Is there a way to stop these from opening apps?

** for whatever reason, the website has information and data that the app does not show, hence why I want to view the site.


texts: I have a new Mac Mini connected to my HDTV with an HDMI cable and the desktop is larger than my screen so I can't see the menu bar at the top.  How do I adjust this?


texts:
I have a used iPhone 4 with 16GB of memory in it, running IOS 7.1.2. The problem with this iPhone is that the volume is really quiet whenever i'm playing music or making a call and setting the caller on the speaker.

The volume is currently at it's max (by tapping the buttons on the side).

Note: I haven't used the "broken" iPhone for this screenshot, this was just for showing what I did to increase the volume to the max.

I have tried rebooting the device a couple of times already, this didn't work.

What do (or can) I have to do to make the speaker play at a decent volume again? Do I have to replace it?


texts: How do you "select-all" in Apple Calendar (iCal)?

texts:
I use my calendar like a scheduled to-do list.  I sometimes want to shift all today's events down by 15 minutes.  Select All is grayed out in the Edit menu, and it's tedious to click on every event while holding shift.
How do you select all events on a particular day?  If there isn't a way, is there a workaround?


texts: Dictionary is showing strange characters when "US English (IPA)" is selected

texts:
I was using the Dictionary application, and I have noticed it was showing the pronunciation using strange characters.

I checked the preferences, and they were set to use the American IPA characters.

Out of curiosity, I changed the option to "US English (Diacritical)"; I then re-typed the same word, and I have got this:

It seems that it uses diacritical characters when it should use IPA, and vice versa. Something changed in the last twenty-four hours, as it was working fine, the last time I used it.

I think the problem is one of the preference files used by the Dictionary application. Which file should I restore, to get back the Dictionary application working as it is supposed to do?
Could it be another problem? Which one could be causing this?


texts: iTunes keeps restoring deleted playlists

texts:
Since I use iTunes Match, every few days iTunes restores some of my old playlists that I previously deleted. I think these are only the default playlists that iTunes comes with (Classical music, Music videos, Recently added, ...) but I'm not totally sure. At the same time, the "iTunes Match" link reappears in my sidebar, even though I can't do anything with it.

What triggers the reappearence of my old playlists? How can I prevent it and get rid of these playlists forever?


texts: How can I increase the mouse sensitivity of Magic Mouse?

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I have a MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard and I'm using a Magic Mouse which connects through Bluetooth.

While I like the mouse, it's way too slow for my taste. Moving the mouse cursor takes ages. On my Windows PC I'm using a Logitech G9 and in Control Panel of Windows I have set Pointer Speed to maximum with the 'Enhance Pointer Precision' box checked.

On OS X I have set the speed set to maximum as well, but it's still way to slow. I'm used to move the pointer from from egde of the screen to another one with minimal wrist movement.


texts: Changing local IP address with networksetup command on OSX?

texts: My computer routinely receives connection from another host in the local network. However, the router changes its ip address quite frequently, and maybe netsh's equivalent, networksetup, can help?


texts: Roll back to Mountain Lion but don't lose saved documents

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I have a Time Machine backup of my system from last week right before I installed Mavericks. I've determined that Mavericks breaks too many programs that I need to use and doesn't add enough features (yet) for me to want to be using it, so I want to roll back to Mountain Lion.

BUT… (there's always a but, right? I suppose if there weren't, I wouldn't be asking here) here's the catch:

I haven't plugged in my Time Machine drive since upgrading. I have saved documents in the past week. If I were to just roll back to last week's backup, I'd lose all the work I've done since upgrading.

Can I safely run a Time Machine backup under Mavericks, revert to last week's backup, and then restore individual files from the Mavericks backup? Do I need to be buying another external drive to first back up this week's system, then restore last week's system, then pull files? What needs to happen here to restore my system to ML without losing a week's work?


texts: how to share disk with samba to Mac on another network (High Sierra)

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I'd like to share a disk to a Mac on the WAN using the smb protocol.  To share the same disk over afp, I simply forwarded port 548 to be available to the WAN.  For smb, I've tried forwarding every port that seems to be related, but am unable to mount the disk.

Please answer if you are able to forward access to your disk to another network, and the steps you took to do it.  Maybe it's more than forwarding ports.

Thank you


texts: Finder slow after wake up from standby mode

texts:
I have 4 or 5 Network shares in my Favorites bar in the Finder. Any time the Macbook wakes up from Standby, the Finder takes forever to show up.
If I remove the Network shares from the Favorites bar, the delay goes away completely.
I absolutely need those network shares because I use them several times daily.
Is there any way I could keep my network shares and have Finder load faster?
Please help.


texts:
this really bemuses me. i'm using pages 09 (version 4.1) on osx 10.9.5. when i terminate a scroll downward, the document makes a little "jump" to the right. this is maybe hard to visualize, so i made a gif:

http://gfycat.com/ExemplaryAdoredAntelope

also notice in the gif, there's a little gray area to the right of the document: when i resize the window the document grows or shrinks accordingly (zoom is set to "Fit Width"), but the gray area stays there.

this behaviour occours with some documents/windows, but not others. i tried to close/reopen the affected windows, and even quit/restart pages, to no avail.

how can i fix/prevent/workaround this issue?

thanks


texts: If I buy iCloud storage can I update my phone and other apps as well?

texts: like what is it exactly do I get more space for my phone and everything? Also if I decide to cancel will apps or photos delete?


texts:
So I recently noticed this that when my MacBook Pro is shutdown there is no clicking while when I turn it on the click starts to work. At first I thought it's just one time bug but I tried a couple more time to replicate the same thing and it works every time. It seems like the trackpad gets locked when the MacBook is turned off and gets unlocked when turned on.

I tried googling it but didn't find anything useful. Is this like a feature which is not being advertised or something? I am curious to know how does it works?

I have a MacBook Pro 2016 Model.


texts: How can I boot a 2012 Mac Mini off of a USB thumbdrive with CentOS on it?

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I have a 2012 Mac Mini running OS X 10.7.3. On another PC, I have created a USB boot disc with CentOS 6.2 on it. The goal was to install CentOS onto the Mini. The USB drive is MBR partitioned and boots fine on BIOS based PCs. However, not so on the Mac Mini. While holding down the option key, I see the USB drive offered as a "Windows Drive" however selecting it to boot into causes the screen to go completely black and the words "Boot Error" to be displayed with a blinking cursor underneath the words.

I have installed rEFIt as an EFI boot manager onto the Mac Mini. Using the rEFIt boot management screen to select the USB drive to boot from causes no difference. The Mini can boot from a USB drive that I turned into an Apple Recovery Disk.

What could be preventing the Mac Mini from booting off of the USB drive when other BIOS based PCs don't have trouble with it?


texts: Deleted iCloud contacts keep coming back

texts:
Tried to delete several contacts on iCloud.com, but they keep coming back! I have tried several times with no success.

These contacts are still on my device with iCloud sync enabled.

If I don't want to disable iCloud sync do I have to remove these contacts on the devices as well?


texts: Can i invite someone on my LAN to view my screen using Apple Remote Desktop?

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Im aware i can use Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) to connect to other OSX computers on my LAN as long as they have remote management pre enabled.

But can i invite someone on my LAN to view my screen using ARD, without them having access to my machine the rest of the time, unless if i give them an invite.


texts: Restored boot drive from Time Machine, data drive permissions are hosed

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I recently had a random and serious-seeming system failure, so chose to restore my boot drive (an SSD connected externally via thunderbolt).  Normally I back up with Time Machine locally, CrashPlan remotely, and I use CarbonCopyCloner weekly and store the images on an external drive not connected to my machine.

I thought this would be a cinch, since I had a clone from just a few days earlier.  However every restored clone exhibited the same issues, even when restoring from weeks before the issue began to appear.

So my fallback was to restore from Time Machine.  I nuked my boot drive and reinstalled Mavericks fresh, then restored from Time Machine.  Somehow that process removed my Recovery Partition so I installed Mavericks again on top of the restored drive, and everything appeared fine after that.  The previous issues all vanished.

Now the trouble is, Most of the directories on my separate "data drive" (the 1TB internal drive that came with my iMac) are set to "No Value" for the owner.  Of course I'm the admin on my system, so I can do a Get Info on every single one and change them, but then there are folders within folders within... you get the idea.  It's a total mess.

Now I can of course set the value of the top level folder to what I need it to be and apply to enclosed items, but that sets the user AND permissions of every single file and directory below, to the same thing.  This is merely a documents drive (symlinked from various user directories on the boot drive like Downloads, Documents, etc.) so I think it should be safe to do so, but I still really don't like the idea of giving every single file permissions of 755 along with the folders (or every folder set to 644 along with the files).

So, first is there any way I can get the permissions all back to what they were before and should be now?  Disk Utility won't do it since it's not a system volume.  And secondly, if there isn't a way to get the permission back to normal, is it safe to just make everything 755?  And by safe I don't mean in a security context (this is my personal machine at home, not worried about anyone accessing files they shouldn't), I just mean safe for the operation of OS X Mavericks.


texts: How did iPhone 4 know to switch timezone in Airplane Mode?

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I have both an iPhone 4 (from work) and an iPhone 3GS (personal). Today I took a cross country flight from BOS to LAX. Upon boarding the plane this morning, after having stayed up all night packing (and procrastinating from packing), I stowed my bags, put my iPhones in Airplane Mode, and promptly fell asleep. When I woke up after what felt like a long time, I checked the time on my iPhone 4 and was disappointed that only two hours had apparently passed. Then I flipped on the flight map and was surprised to see that we were soon to descend into Los Angeles.

Somehow, despite being in my pocket in Airplane Mode the entire flight, the iPhone 4 had adjusted its clock to the Pacific timezone. Meanwhile, the iPhone 3GS had not. It was still on Boston time.

How did the iPhone 4 know to do this while in Airplane Mode?


texts:
I have two annoying icons in my menu bar.
The first I have no clue at all. If I try to click on it, the pointer changes to the "waiting coloured ball".
The second one relates to Malwarebytes that I deleted for I didn't trust.
I would like these two "intruders" out of my way.
Does anybody know how?
Thanks your help
Manuel


texts: Dropped my iPhone 5 now screen comes on but also has horizontal lines on half the screen and won't respond to my touch . Is it fixable?


texts:
Please excuse my language as I am not technically minded.

I have a new iPhone 4s with Version: 9.3.1(13E238)as well as a new Mac and iPad.  When I hit on photos icon the heading is "Moments" therefore I am not sure if this is a camera roll or what.
I wish to delete all photos on my iPhone and iPad to free up space but have them remain on my iMac.  I connected the phone to the Mac to upload my latest photos/videos.  However when I hit the bin icon I receive the msg: This photo will be deleted from iCloud Photo Library on all your devices.

Other possible relevant info: I have iCloud Drive 'On' on my phone and iCloud Photo Library 'On' on phone.  On my iMac I am signed in to iCloud Drive on my iMac which is running OS X El Capitan V10.11.4.


texts: Prevent text messages from being sent to recipient's email address

texts:
Recently when I sent a message to an iPhone recipient, it was sent via SMS, presumably because one of us couldn't connect to iMessage. However, the strange thing is that my iPhone sent the text message to the recipient's email address, instead of their phone number:

(I was surprised to see this actually worked because Verizon evidently relays SMS-to-email from yourphonenumber@vzwpix.com, and when the recipient responds, it gets relayed back via SMS.)

The phone number and email address are in the correct fields in their Contacts card, but Messages chooses the email address instead of the phone number for Text Message:

I checked other contacts, and all of them have a phone number in the Text Message field in Messages, but a few have two Text Message fields, one with a phone number and one with an email address. This is the first time I have seen Messages send via email. Does anyone know of a fix?


texts: What are the requirements to charge a Macbook Air?

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I have a 2017 13 inch MacBook Air, and I also have a big power bank. I am wondering, if it would be possible to charge my MacBook Air using that power bank. The power bank only has an output of 5V/2.4A. I am also wondering, how would you be able to find out the requirements for any Macbook device?

Thanks!


texts: Reconnecting iPad after iTunes have forgotten it without wiping contents

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I have several iDevices each used by a different person. I have set up all iDevices to use the same Apple ID for purchasing apps but each iDevice to have a separate Apple ID for iCloud (which is allowed according to Apple)

However I did not know that running this way you have to sync each iDevice to a different iTunes installation (according to this elucidating article on Lifehacker)

So, I have one computer (Windows 7 64bit) with iTunes that I previously used to sync both an iPhone 4 and an iPad 1.

I first upgraded the iPad 1 to iOS5 and synced it. Worked fine
(over wifi too)
I then upgraded the iPhone 4 to iOS5 and synced it.
Worked fine (over wifi too)
Then, when I connected the iPad again, iTunes no longer
recognized the iPad. I got several errors:
iTunes could not connect     to this iPad because an unknown error occurred (0xE800007F) and
An iPad has been detected but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPad, then try again.
Finally iTunes showed the Set Up Your iPad screen

I do not want to Set Up Your iPad since I assume that that would wipe the current configuration of it.
Since learning that I must sync with a separate iTunes for each iDevice, I have decided that I would like to sync the iPhone 4 with another iTunes.

How can I (after moving the iPhone 4) "reconnect" the iPad to the same iTunes without wiping its contents?
(I am also not completely sure on how to "move" the iPhone 4, so that it no longer is synced with the iTunes installation that I want the iPad to be connected to).


texts: Unable to convert dmg to encrypted dmg on Yosemite

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When I try to convert a regular (internet downloaded) dmg file to an encrypted dmg (256-bit AES) using Disk Utility on Yosemite it gives me this error message:
 How do I get this to work on Yosemite? If not via Disk Utility, is there a way to convert it using Terminal commands? I was aways able to do this on Mavericks, but after I upgraded to Yosemite I get the above error message. I'm sure that the dmg isn't corrupted as I downloaded AirSquirel's Reflector trial dmg, tried to convert and I got the same error message. If it helps I'm using a Mid-2013 MacBook Air.


texts: Where does OSX 10.6 store user specific location data

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For some reason, whenever websites try to identify my location, my MacBook Pro always gets confused and spits out a location that is not based on my current coordinates, but rather is my hometown, Cleaning browser data didn't help to solve this problem, thus I am thinking it has something to do with OS settings.

Do you know if and where OS could store my incorrect gps coordinates?


texts: Machine Learning on external GPU with CUDA and late MBP 2016?

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I would like to know what the external GPU (eGPU) options are for macOS in 2017 with the late 2016 MacBook Pro.

I did my research, however on the internet I find a lot of confusing information. Some say it can work, but it requires Windows (dual-boot). Others say, it can only work for the older graphics cards as CUDA is not supported for the newer graphics cards (GTX 1080). Ideally, I would like to run the 1080 GTX of NVIDIA. My only purpose is to use Keras and TensorFlow with it. However, I do not know all the things that are important to get it to work. My question therefore is, is it possible to use TensorFlow with CUDA and eGPU on the late MacBook Pro 2016 (15")? I want to use the graphics card in macOS (with late MacBook Pro 15") as an eGPU (no dual-boot/Windows/Linux partition).

Side note: I have seen users making use of eGPU's on macbook's before (Razor Core, AKiTiO Node), but never in combination with CUDA and Machine Learning (or the 1080 GTX for that matter). People suggested renting server space instead, or using Windows (better graphics card support) or even building a new PC for the same price that allows you to use a eGPU on Mac. (I do not prefer that option.)


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All of a sudden some running applications were not shown on the ⌘+⇥ on-screen list. I had to restart my MBP, running Yosemite 10.10.2.

After restarting, ⌘+⇥ was not working any more (no app shown on screen, not even the Finder) and the Dock showed some non-running apps as running (with the circle). By clicking any 'running' app the circle disappeared.

So I opened Terminal and run killall Dock.

The Dock did not restart.
⌘+⇥ is still not working.
Restart does not work.
Shut-down does not work.
Spotlight works and I can launch apps.

No apps were installed between the normal, working stage and this absurd state.

What's the problem? Any suggestion?


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I copied some music off a friend's old iPod for him by mounting it and using Terminal to copy the "iPod Control" folder to my desktop (High Sierra).

However, that folder (the original, as well as the copy on my desktop) contains a "Music" folder that's invisible, and "Music" contains a bunch of other folders that are invisible. By "invisible" I mean that I can see them just fine in Terminal, but I can only see them in the Finder if I press Command-Option-. or run defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE.

My question is: how are these folders invisible? When I show them and do a "Get Info" on them, I don't see anything that would indicate that the Finder should hide them. They don't have a period at the start of their names. Even if I do a ls -l@ in Terminal I don't see anything unusual about them.

How do I un-set these folders' invisibility so that Finder will display them normally?


texts: How to identify if popup download of Adobe flash Player was infact a virus or malicious on?

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How to identify if popup download of Adobe flash Player was in fact a virus or malicious on El Capitan, OS x10.11.6?
I am not a savvy person but I can do things if someone explains it to me in plain English.


texts: How do you turn off the iOS 11 feature of AUTOMATICALLY sending confetti?

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When you type “congratulations” or “congrats”, iMessage (iOS 11 is the first time I noticed this) automatically sends that confetti animation whether you want it or not. Same goes with the balloon animation when you type “happy birthday”. (Don’t know if any other specific phrases but there may be more)

How do you turn off these auto animations? I’m not talking about the manual feature of sending animations. I know about that. This is done automatically without prompting when you type the magic words.


texts: Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF no backup

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trying to delete a disk partition, the disks utility has given an error and now the Macintosh HD volume was not in APFS.

But of course, being different, does not match anything with mine. It also seemed to me that the information would not be lost, since it is still in the partition this is badly done

I attach a photo.


texts: How to disable "Spelling and Grammar" globally, for all apps?

texts:
I have searched for the similar title, got a few answers which are not applicable to my case:

Is disabling spell check systemwide still possible in Sierra? (redirects to the next link)
Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide? (does not work post-Sierra)

I have "System settings > Keyboard > Text > Correct spelling automatically" turned off.

Many applications have their own spellchecking flag, which can be changed via "Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Spelling while typing".

What I would like to achieve is to disable all checkboxes under "Spelling and Grammar" menu for all applications. I believe it should be possible via something like defaults write ..., but I have no idea what to put there.


texts: Changing Screen Resolution in OSX Mojave

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Screen of my MacBook Pro Retina 2015 is broken and a vertical block with ~2 inches width on the right edge can't be seen. I have been using it like this for a couple months since it is my second laptop. I want to change my screen resolution so that I can have a better experience.

ps. I don't mind changing to a linux distro but not windows.


texts: AppleScript sending Mail messages before file attachments are attached in El Capitan

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I have a Workflow that runs an AppleScript which attaches spam emails as file attachments and sends them to ASSP for processing.

It's been working fine, but apparently something has changed in El Capitan's Mail or one of the subsequent updates which has caused it to stop working. I just noticed that the sent mail messages do not have any attached files anymore.

tell application "Mail"
    set theNewMsg to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theReportSubject, visible:true}
    tell theNewMsg
        make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:theAddress}
        make new attachment at after the last paragraph with properties {file name:theTempFileName}
        send
    end tell
end tell


texts: Is there a Mail plugin to let me view unread emails first?

texts: Similar to Gmail priority inbox, is there a Mail 6.3 (OSX Mountain Lion) plugin that lets me view unread messages first or sort them so they're at top of inbox?


texts:
I have tried downloading iChrono, unzipping and installing, but I get the following error message:

  You can't install the file "iChrono
  3.wdgt" because it isn't a valid widget?

The requirements are Mac OS X 10.4 or later, but I have 10.6.4. When I try to install, I get the following error message:

7/09/10 6:46:07 PM  Widget Installer[327]   Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle

After reinstalling the bundle by downloading MultiClutchInput, I stopped receiving error messages in the log.

I noticed that when I unzip the zip file, I receive the following message:

8/09/10 9:30:05 AM  SIMBL Agent[108]    warning: failed to get scripting definition from /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app; it may not be scriptable.
8/09/10 9:30:05 AM  Archive Utility[699]    Error loading /Users/chris/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/megazoomer.bundle/Contents/MacOS/megazoomer:  dlopen(/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/megazoomer.bundle/Contents/MacOS/megazoomer, 265): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Users/chris/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/megazoomer.bundle/Contents/MacOS/megazoomer: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Any suggestions on what to do?


texts: iPhone 6 microphone and audio jack not working

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I just got iPhone 6 last month and since yesterday afternoon I encountered a couple seconds where the phone is irresponsive and I had to restart to make it normal again. After that I couldn't make any call, either a normal phone call or from wifi, it said Call failed, or no sound. I tried everything: Skype, Facetime. There was one time I managed to make the call (after restarting) but the person could not hear my voice.

I opened Voice Memo to check if the microphone is working well but record button is disabled (greyed).

Headphone is practically not working. I plugged in a headset and the volume is still on ringer and the sound is still coming out from speaker.

I tried "reset all settings" and did a "restore" from iTunes but nothing seems to help.

Update since 13-01-2014:

The next day after restoring from iTunes, it was working well again, but then the next day I found out that the same things are happening again, freezing screen after plugging in earphone, microphone and earphone not functioning. This time resetting network settings won't help it.

I'm trying to rollback to iOS 8.0 to see if it will fix the problem. I really prefer to confirm if this is not a hardware issue before bringing to apple store.


texts: Is there in AppleScript any way to use "X of every" to get multiple properties of each object to create a record?

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It is possible to with the script:

tell application "Safari"
    set urls to URL of every tab of every window
end tell

when execute, get all urls of every tab of every window (two dimensional list)

Result:
 {{"http://domain1", "http://domain2", ...}, {"http://domain3", "http://domain4", ...}, {...}}

But is it possible with:

tell application "Safari"
    set (urls & name) to URL of every tab of every window
end tell

to get a record instead of list:

Result:
 {{{url: "http://domain1", name: "domain1 - foo"}, {url: "http://domain2", name: "domain2 - bar2"}, {...}}, {{url: "http://domain3", name: "domain3 - foo3"}, {url: "http://domain4", name: "domain4 - bar4"}, {...}}}

Is it possible, or should I use only repeat?


texts: Apple Numbers using AND in formula to find dupes

texts:
I don't get it how to use multiple conditions in the following case...

IF(COUNTIF(name,name)>1 AND(ISBLANK(meaning)),"x", "")

What this should do is compare the cells in column A (name) for duplicates and also check if column G (meaning) is blank. But it tells me syntax error. Where and how do I use the AND?


texts:
Here's an obscure one, it used to be that if you ...

opened a window A (say, green bg, your default)
open another window B
open prefs
change the bg color in prefs to yellow
that would change B to yellow, but leave the other one green

In this way you could fairly easily have mulitiple Terminal windows, with, different bg colors for clarity.
Unfortunately Apple fixed this bug a couple yrs ago!  Changing color in prefs now changes all open windows!
Is there any way to get different color backgrounds in Terminal when more than one window is open?

(Do note, you can set that BACKGROUND windows have low alpha (look at, strangely, the bottom of the color pane.  This doesn't help at all.  If I have four shells to four servers, I want them to have red, green, blue, yellow backgrounds. Thanks!)


texts: What happens to my data if I cancel my iCloud Storage subscription?

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I have a plan of $0.99/month. Now I want to cancel my subscription.

I have 30GB of iCloud Data. I don't know what happen with all my data in iCloud. Will I still be able to get access, or it will be deleted once I cancel my subscription?


texts: Sound always comes from Apple Thunderbolt Display even with headphones connected

texts: I have an issue using the Apple Thunderbolt Display. I have a Dell XPS laptop with Windows 8 where I connect to the display over Thunderbolt, but every time I try to listen to some music or video, the sound comes from the screen, not from my laptop, even if I plug headphones into the laptop. How can I solve this problem? I want to work using my laptop and the screen but I want to redirect the sound to my headphones. Is this possible?


texts: Macbook pro 13" - 2017 - heating issues when connected to external monitor

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My question is about chassis temperature and overheating issues. I have a recently bought a Macbook pro 13" - 2017 with two thunderbolt 3 ports. The notebook is performing fine, but when it is connected to the external Dell monitor (2560x1440 resolution), it gets uncomfortably hot. The same monitor was previously connected to a 2013 Macbook Air (i7) and there were no heating issue whatsoever (it would get hot only when doing extremely intesive CPU work).

The temperature on the left speaker is 40C (104F) and the temperature of the USB-C adapter's steel case is 45C (113F). The chassis around touchpad has 37C (99F). Measured with an IR thermometer. The room temperature is 26C (79F). The CPU usage is low (91% idle). The fan is near silent (iStats report that it is at 1950 RPMs.

The monitor is connected via USB-C - HDMI konverter.

When monitor is connected, the current draw is apx 50% higher than what it is when monitor is not connected (regular browsing). This was not measured scientifically, but through iStat Menus current draw information.

The adapter gets uncomfortably hot very quick and so does the chassis of the Macbook pro. It is even worse if the Macbook is charging at the same time (using the other available USB-C port). I previously owned Macbooks and a Macbook Air and none of them exhibited such heating issues.

I saw possible solutions on how to adjust the Energy Saver not to use the external graphics card, but it seems that this is not the case for this type of Macbooks -- at least, the settings are not present in the Energy Saver.

This is certainly unexpected from my side. Are such heating issues normal? Is there a way to limit GPU power usage or 'something'?


texts: Yosemite not able to use external display at full resolution

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I had problems with Mavericks in getting full resolution in my monitor Dell U2713H (connected to a Mac Book Pro). I used this solution from this site to fix the problem:

I downloaded the file from http://embdev.net/attachment/167830/U2713H_U2713HM_Mac_EDID_override.zip,
and after copying it to /System/Library/Displays/Overrides and rebooting, my display was showing again its awesome full resolution.

I did it again when I installed Yosemite but it does not work. Any idea to fix this problem for Yosemite?. Otherwise I will downgrade to Mavericks again. Thanks!!


texts: A partition copied with cat can't be mounted

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Well some days ago my mac got broken, I had an Ubuntu on it and booted through it, first thing I did I copied mac partition to an external hard partition, something like this:

cat /dev/sda2 > /dev/sdc2

I was able to mount the sda2 partition in Ubuntu with hfsprogs, but I wasn't able to mount /dev/sdc2, I made a diff on two devices (with cmp) and they were just identical, now I erase sda2 and installed Yosemite again but I can't mount sdc2 even on mac (here it's disk2s2).

When I try to mount, verify or repair it, I get this error:

Invalid node structure

(this is the same error I got in Ubuntu for this partition), it's really weird cause I'm sure this partition is identical to the real one (and I was able to mount the real one in Ubuntu) I tried fixing it with DiskWarrior 5, it did its job without any error, but it didn't fix it.


texts: Is there a way to sync Lion's Reading List across two or more Macs?

texts: For example: if I add a URL to the Reading List on my iMac, can it then be synced to the Reading List on my MacBook? It does not appear so even though I believe Reading List is going to sync with iOS 5 devices? (if it is not officially supported, is there a hack to do so)?


texts: How can I switch to/from dark mode depending on "darkness" instead of sunset?

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On BigSur the Sunset-Detector works but it doesn't make sense, because in the real world darkness arrives a bit earlier than sunset. It hurts my eyes, because I stay focused on my work and don't notice that it's dark already.
How can I have macOS toggle dark mode earlier/later than sunset/sunrise for whatever location I'm currently in?


texts: Trying to set boot-args with nvram gets "general error" on Sierra

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I'm trying to temporarily disable KEX signing enforcement on my MBP since my company's VPN client (GlobalProtect) is failing the signature check now.  This started yesterday when I did the OS upgrade to Sierra yesterday.

The solution should be running this command:

sudo nvram boot-args=kext-dev-mode=1

The problem is that I am getting the following response, and I can't figure out what it means or what to do about it (meaning I can't connect to my company network, too).

nvram: Error setting variable - 'boot-args': (iokit/common) general error

Does anybody have any ideas of things I could try or otherwise look at to track down the problem?

Thanks.


texts: How to prevent FaceTime from muting/quietening system sound?

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macOS Catalina 10.15.2 on my MacBook Pro Mid-2015, 15" with Retina display,

I would like to stop FaceTime from making the sounds from other apps (normally music I am playing) quieter.

I tried this answer to run

printf "p *(char*)(void(*)())AudioDeviceDuck=0xc3\nq" | lldb -n FaceTime

but it hasn't been working since Mojave at least


texts: Maximize window after cmd+tab switching to app with only one window minimized?

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One thing is very annoying on macOS: Imagine you have an App openen, line Notes - with only one window. You minimize this window so it's as an icon in the dock, not showing on the screen (coz for example you need more space on desktop). Then you switch to another app. Then you want to switch back to Notes, but... The logic should be that it will restore it's only one window to the original position, so you can work with the app.
But it will not happen. You are back in Notes, but the only one windows is still minimized in the Dock, so you actually switched to the app but you cannot work - you have to unminimize window from the Dock or open a new one.
Any clue how to make only-window unminimize automatically? Any tool, system settings, script, bash script, anything?


texts: How to completely delete snapshot volumes from a Time Machine backup disk?

texts:
I use Time Machine to back up both my MacBook Pro and a portable USB drive containing my iPhoto library that's sometimes connected to it.

Over the years, the external Photos drive has died and been replaced twice, and (my fault) I've failed to properly re-associate the new drive with the old backup (if that's even possible for external drives... never tried).

The upshot of this is that many of my Time Machine snapshots contain two or three snapshot volumes (to use the terminology defined in the tmutil manpage): one for my MBP, one for my original Photos drive, one for its replacement, and one for its replacement:

I don't really want to keep around the snapshots of the previous incarnations of the drive (the Photos and Photos 1 folders, in this case), as presumably they're taking up nearly 200G between them, which I could be putting to much better use.

But it's not clear how to safely delete them. There's no way from within the Time Machine application to delete volume snapshots, and Apple's tech note says (emphasis mine):

  You can use the Finder to move, copy, or delete the Backups.backupdb folder on your Time Machine backup disk as you would other folders. You can also delete folders within the Backups.backupdb folder. You can’t delete individual items inside the dated folders.

This suggests it's not wise to delete the Photos folders using Finder either, as they're inside a dated folder. And Terminal is out too:

  Don’t use Terminal or any other app other than the Finder to move, copy, or remove items from the Backups.backupdb folder.

Is there any safe way to delete the unwanted volume snapshots while preserving the integrity of my Time Machine volume?


texts: How can i remotely type my passcode while iphone is plugged to my mac

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I want to backup my iphone 5s but the screen is entirely broken, it's all black and the touchscreen + home button do not work.
I need to control my phone from a keyboard to back it up from icloud on my mac that recognises it.

Is there anyway to do it?


texts: How can I get VMWare Fusion 4.0 to work on Mountain Lion?

texts:
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I find that when I attempt to launch VMWare Fusion 4.0 I receive the error:

You can't use this version of the application "VMWare Fusion" with this version of OS X

Has anyone found any workarounds for this? Should I migrate to Parallels?


texts:
There are 2 Mac French keyboard layouts.

The standard one :

And another one :

I would like to use the second kind of keyboard on Windows. Meaning now if I plug it, the keys don't match, what gets sent to Windows is not what appears on the keyboard. With the first type of keyboard I could install a "French" "Mac" keyboard layout, that worked well. Thus I am looking for the relevant keyboard layout to install on Windows.

Where can I find it, and what is it called ?

The reason I am saying that the second keyboard is "standard", is because on a Mac, if one takes a US keyboard (with the key shapes like the second picture), and selects "French" as input language, then the mapping is exactly the same as the second picture.


texts: Use laptop keyboard as an external keyboard for my ipad

texts:
I just bought a new ipad amidst the lockdown and i just can't get hold of the keyboard for it
Is there any way i can use my old laptop's keyboard and mouse with the ipad (pro 2020)


texts: How to get an app (Yahoo Widgets) to not automatically create a folder in Documents?

texts:
So that's a really minute question, for the most detail oriented pros of Mac OS :)
I'm using an old widget app, Yahoo Widgets, which I like for their Picture Frame desktop image slider. I'm not using it very frequently, but when I do it does something I find annoying: any time I open it, it creates a Widgets folder in my Documents main folder.
Even when the actual Widgets folder is located in another directory, any time I open the Picture Frame widget, it will still recreate an empy Widgets folder in Documents.
This is not vital, but I like to keep my Documents folder uncluttered, with only my most important and frequently used folders there.
Is there a way to change that behavior?
Alternatively, do you know of another good "desktop image slider" widget?
Thanks! Vincent


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I can't seem to access software updates on my Mac.  When I go to 'App Store' on my Mac and check the Updates tab, it spins for a long time, then a dialog box pops up saying

  An error has occurred

  Can't load data from the Apple Software Update server.

Things I've already checked:

This doesn't seem to be a network problem or transient fault.  It has been happening for the past week or more.  I do have network connectivity (ping 8.8.8.8 succeeds, and I can load web pages in the browser).
I can view the other tabs of App Store without problems.
I've tried signing out from App Store, quitting it, re-launching it, and signing in again, but that doesn't help.
I've tried running softwareupdate -i -a from the command line, but that doesn't seem to help: it prints "Finding available software", hangs for a long time, and then quits without printing anything.  Adding the --verbose flag doesn't help provide any additional information.
I am using MacOS Sierra version 10.12.4, if that's relevant.

How do I troubleshoot this?


texts: Google Calendar will not sync with Calendar.app after Yosemite

texts:
I recently clean installed Yosemite on my 11" Macbook Air and my Google calendar will not sync with Calendar.app. Everything else on my Google account syncs with no problem, but the calendar refuses. I tried with another google account and had the same problem. Turned off 2-factor auth, same problem. Tried with CalDAV, doesn't work.

In Preferences > Internet Accounts > Google Account in Question, the box next to Calendars is unchecked by default. When checking it, I get a progress wheel that spins for a minute or so and then...nothing.

Is there something I'm missing here?


texts: How do I shut off a USB fan automatically when the Mac goes to sleep?

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I have a Mac Mini 1.1 on which I updated the EFI firmware to v2.1 and installed Mac OS X 10.7

I'm wondering how I can cool the Mac with an external fan somehow.
I found the internal cooling to be slow, so I put an external handmade USB fan on the system in an open case and this works well for my purpose.

The problem with the external fan is that when I put the computer to sleep, the fan keeps on working and I don't know how to make it stop.

I don't want to use the system fan as it looks very weak and makes a lot of noise at 3000 rpm. I don't like noise.


texts: Changing a startup disk using AppleScript

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I have tried using AppleScript to change my startup disk for Boot Camp and Mac. Previously I have tried using terminal (do shell script) but it seems that that option requires me to enter an administrative password.

So:

How do I make it such that I can retrieve the password? I can use keychains.
How do I program the AppleScript/use Terminal through AppleScript to:

go into System Preferences/launch it if it is not already open
go to the Startup Disk preference pane
set the bootdisk to Windows/Mac and have the option to shut down/reboot. (I would like to be able to have a single script to handle everything even if I am restarting into macOS, or shutting down and will use Windows later etc.)

Thanks in advance! (P.S. I have tried searching for some answers and there is a really good answer here over at StackOverflow but it doesn't seem to work on Sierra. Also the other responses I have found on SO and Ask Different don't work.)

The two sets of code I tried (first one using System Preferences, second using Terminal, both using AppleScript):

display dialog "Select a startup disk" buttons ¬
    {"BOOTCAMP", "Macintosh HD"}
if button returned of the result = "BOOTCAMP" then
set bootVol to "BOOTCAMP" as text
else if button returned of the result = "Macintosh HD" then
    set bootVol to "Macintosh HD" as text
end if

do shell script "security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -gl \"Insert Password Here\" | awk '{print $2}'"
set myPass to (text 2 thru -2 of result) as text

do shell script "bless -mount \"/Volumes/" & bootVol & ¬
    "\" -setBoot" user name "username" password myPass with administrator privileges

do shell script "shutdown -r now" user name "username" password myPass with administrator privileges

(Insert Password Here refers to the generic key. What I found:

when running the command in terminal without backslashes the command works and gives me the password assigned including the quotes like this "Password"

tell application "System Preferences"
    activate
    set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.startupdisk"
    get the name of every anchor of pane id "com.apple.preference.startupdisk"
end tell

try
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to click button "BOOTCAMP Windows" of radio group 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
end try

try
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to click button "Restart..."
end try

I need to be able to unlock System Preferences, preferably using the same keychain password as I have mentioned in the first script. The second command tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to click button "Restart..." does not work.


texts: Refactoring Inelegant AppleScript to Use Recursion

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I've written an AppleScript to iterate through an app's menu choices, doing something with each item (e.g., get its keyboard shortcut).  It works, though (being AppleScript) it's very slow, but I'm unsatisfied with it.

As you can see from the skeleton below, I've used a brute force nesting of repeat loops to work down through the menu tree.  It gets particularly ugly when the skeleton is fleshed out to do actual work, requiring repetition of instructions so brief that putting them into their own handlers doesn't really help.

It seems like a recursive algorithm would be a more elegant solution, but I've been unable to implement one.  I've foundered on AppleScript's lack of dynamic variable assignment.

Is there a more elegant solution?

-- Iterates through an app's menus, performing an action on each item

--list of apps to process
set theApps to {"Stickies"}

repeat with thisProc in theApps

    --wake up
    launch application thisProc

    --process this process
    tell application "System Events" to tell process thisProc

        --iterate through submenus, ignoring anything beyond three levels

        --there are always menu bar items
        repeat with levelOne in menu bar items 2 through -1 of menu bar 1
            Get_Something of me from levelOne
            --there are always level 1 menu items contained in a menu 1
            repeat with levelTwo in (menu items of menu 1) of levelOne
                Get_Something of me from levelTwo
                --fail silently if there's no level 3
                try
                    repeat with levelThree in (menu items of menu 1)
                        Get_Something of me from levelThree given indent:3
                        --fail silently if there's no level 4
                        try
                            repeat with levelFour in (menu items of menu 1) of levelThree
                                Get_Something of me from levelFour
                            end repeat
                        end try
                    end repeat
                end try
            end repeat
        end repeat
    end tell
end repeat

to Get_Something from thisItem

    tell application "System Events" to set theName to title of thisItem

    --ignore menu separators
    if theName is not missing value and theName is not "" then
        say theName
    end if

end Get_Something


texts: Copy iTunes Playlists from old to new Mac

texts: My music is already copied onto new Mac AND into iTunes, but it is not organized into the several hundred playlists I have.  How do I get those playlists from old Mac to new Mac (and ensure the songs are placed in the playlists)?


texts:
I have both a Mac and a PC. On the PC I use Outlook.

My question is, how do I sync mail between the PC and Mac? Previously I was keeping the .pst file from the PC on an external HD so I could see it on all my PCs, but now with a Mac, I'm at loss as to what to do. I still plan to use both Mac and PC.


texts: Open a new Chrome window in Incognito mode from terminal

texts:
I can open a url specifying 'chrome browser' from terminal

open -a 'Google chrome' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

How to open it in an incognito mode?


texts: How to stop the favourites pane popping out of the left side of Safari fullscreen?

texts:
This is a frustrating feature and I can't seem to find a setting to remove it.

Safari Version 12.0.1 (14606.2.104.1.1)
Mojave


texts: Enable wifi hotspot on Macbook Pro Mid 2014

texts:
I am trying to share the internet connection from my MBP Mid 2014. It seems I can only share the internet through the Thunderbolt Bridge or Bluetooth PAN but I need it through the wifi for my Mobile device.

Is there any way I can share the internet connection through wifi ?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to edit the Finder context menu when no file or folder is clicked

texts: I want to create shortcuts like "Copy path of current folder" and "Open terminal in current folder" in the screenshotted context menu. I know how achieve this with Services and Automator but only for when a file or folder is right-clicked. How do I do it when a blank area is right-clicked?


texts: Data recovery on Lion with a disk that disk utilities cannot mount?

texts:
I ran iDefrag last night because my MBP was running sooooo slow. I barely ever use it and it has 300 GB of free space. I used to use OnyX to optimise the disks on Snow Leopard but I didn't see that option in Lion. I let iDefrag run and went to sleep. This morning I woke up to the Do Not Enter sign and the spinning thing below it. I made sure I left it plugged in so I don't understand what happened.

I booted into recovery and tried to run the disk utility but the repair failed. I tried to reinstall Lion but the drive can not be mounted. I'm currently downloading Lion onto a USB Drive, but now I'm thinking 16 GB won't be large enough to migrate my data like this guide shows: http://www.thomasverbeek.com/blog/?p=183

Am I even going about this correctly? I don't even know if the drive will be mountable once it's done downloading. I just don't want to lose the files on my desktop.


texts: What is the correct way to install python on OS X?

texts: Im learning python programming, what is the correct way to install python on Mavericks 10.9?. Is it correct just to download the installer or use homebrew instead to install python?.


texts: Migrating OS 14 from External APFS drive to internal Sata HD

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External drive is the system boot drive. Although I have attempted to restore the SATA drive from the external drive and the time machine backup, the internal HD only contains a textedit file titled "containertoinvert".
How can I reinstall system files to internal SATA drive and make it the boot disk?


texts: Which mail daemon does OS X 10.8.4 run by default?

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I'm debugging some mail related stuff on my Mac, and not quite sure how my system is even sending mail.

I can run a simple command like date | mail -s test myemail@mydomain.com and receive an email just fine. Cool. I can also use PHP's mail() function to send mail. PHP's sendmail_path configuration variable is /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i, looks okay.

But the weird thing is I don't think Postfix is even running...

$ postqueue -p
postqueue: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
$ ps -aef | grep -i postfix
  501 28403 25525   0  2:10PM ttys042    0:00.00 grep -i postfix
$ launchctl list | grep -i mail
-   0   com.apple.MailMigratorService
70829   -   0x7fa87941a060.anonymous.Mail
$ launchctl list | grep -i postfix
-   0   org.postfix.master

How is my Mac even sending mail from the mail terminal command if Postfix isn't running? Is there some other mail daemon OS X runs?


texts: How do I rearrange the order of Spotlight categories?

texts: I believe I used to have the ability to rearrange the search categories shown in Spotlight, but I can't drag to rearrange within System Preferences > Spotlight anymore (El Capitan). Is there some other way to do this?


texts:
Hi everyone I have encrypted a partition of an external hard drive from the mac desktop.
I pressed that key button then pressed memorable and it changed my entire password unknowingly.
I need help.  All I know now is that its 12 characters long.

I have loads of pictures and videos on there from when my kids were born. Please someone help me I beg you.
Also please don't tell me its impossible because nothing is impossible.


texts: Mojave: iconservicesagent explodes in RAM usage when file has custom icon

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I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.6. I have some large (over 1GB) files with custom icons (copy and paste onto the Get Info window). When I go into the folder with these files, iconservicesagent explodes in RAM usage (taking up 10+ GB) trying to show me these file icons. This does not happen with folders that have custom icons. Finder also freezes up while this happens, which makes it hard to remove these icons (nor do I want to remove them).
I have tried researching this problem and I haven't found anyone else with this issue. I understand I can remove these icons via the terminal (and the problem goes away) but I'd prefer to keep them. I've tried restarting, removing the iconservicesagent cache, and removing Finder's preferences, but the issue persists.


texts: How can I run an application full screen on a second screen?

texts:
I want to run games on my additional screen, how can I do this? By default they run on the  built-it screen.

I'm using a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard.


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About two weeks ago, my Mac started hanging on boot.  It has been driving me crazy.
Today I looked at the logs in /var/logs/system.log and on every boot I can see a 59 - 60 second hang, exactly.  And it's always the same line

Oct 10 18:19:44 FOO-BAR ControlStrip[226]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Oct 10 18:20:44 FOO-BAR loginwindow[93]: There are still active callers

The fact it is so precise makes me think some process is timing out and the Mac just decides to continue.

Is there a way to identify what that could be?  Nothing above there really looks bad?

Edit: new info: I created another account and that account does not hang.


texts: macOS Sierra Server: issues when upgrading clients from Mojave to Catalina

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We have a small company with ca. 10 identical iMacs running Mojave and a Mac mini server running Sierra Server. We are planning to upgrade the client iMacs to Catalina, but we have run into problems while testing this.
Note that the server is setup with network accounts – in Server.app called "Local Network User" (and not "Portable Home Directories" or "Mobile Accounts").
"Local Network User" means that all the users home folders are stored on the server. The 10 client machines are macOS with only a local administrator account. The clients are "hooked up" to the server through Open Directory. Access is via SMB (as AFP does not work with Catalina).
This setup enables our employees to work on any of the 10 iMacs and all their settings, the dock, the desktop, etc. are as they left them the day before when shutting down the maybe different iMac they used the day before.
The main issue we have is that certain changes done while working on the Catalina test client are not saved – and on the next login these changes have been reverted. Some examples:

any changes to the dock are not saved (but a change of the desktop background image or color is saved)
most of the Finder, Safari, etc. Preferences settings are not saved (but MS Office or Photoshop or Filemaker Preferences settings are saved)
some changes made in System Preferences are saved and some not (I do not see a pattern here, though it seems most user specific settings are reverted and hardware-related ones not – but there are exceptions like changing the "Accent Color" for menus and controls is saved and that is user specific)
last but not least after login some users have installation dialogs presented each time like "Data & Privacy", "Siri", etc. (but not all users).

Besides Open Directory and File Sharing all other services have never been enabled on the server. For many many years we did not have any issued with this setup. Only the client upgrade from Mojave to Catalina introduces these problems.


texts: Enable keyboard tweaks on apps which run as root

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I am using exKey and KeyShorcut Pro tweaks for customization of my iOS keyboard, on a jailbroken iPhone. I wanted to duplicate my Facebook app and used duplicatorstore.com to duplicate Facebook as it supports iOS 9.0.2. I installed 'Facebook 2' from this site.

When I try to use 'Facebook 2' app, the iOS keyboard is shown like Cydia, iFile (exKey and KeyShorcut Pro features are not shown) and I must write my Facebook password every time I open the duplicate Facebook app. I want to use KeyShorcut Pro tweak with this duplicate Facebook app because I don't want to always write my long Facebook password and want to set it to a key shortcut.

How can enable keyboard tweak features on a iOS app which runs as root?


texts:
I want to know if it's possible to edit pages document using Python or other scripting tools.
I need to modify the paragraph style of lines containing a date (e.g. 2020/05/02), which can be easily done by a script. But I don't know how to do it in Pages.


texts: Is there an official direction for scroll zoom?

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I am using a Magic Mouse on Lion and I have scroll direction set to natural.

Google Maps: Scroll Up zooms out
Excel: Ctrl + Alt + Scroll Up zooms out
OSX Zoom Dekstop: Ctrl + Scroll Up zooms in

I find the inconsistency annoying.

Thus, I'm wondering whether Apple has an official usability rule regarding what direction constitutes the recommended scroll direction for zoom in?


texts: Is it possible to set up shortcuts in Xcode to jump to specific files?

texts: Say I want to jump to my Storyboard file, or my Images.xcassets file. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut to be able to jump to it?


texts:
I'm new to iPhones and Mac, but I pretty ok with Linux. I think I could solve some of my networking issues, if I could just get into a bash shell, but I haven't been able to locate a shell.

Is there a default shell for iPhone 5? if so, where is it?

If not, is there a preferable terminal emulator in the App Store?


texts: Boot Camp Assistant does not let me change my destination drive

texts:
I received my new iMac today and want to install a Windows 8 partition to allow me to test software I'm writing with Qt on both OS X and Mac (Requirement for uni module).

I have a Windows 8 ISO and opened Disk Utility then created a 250 GB FAT partition to hold the Windows file system.  Upon launching Boot Camp Assistant I encountered a strange problem, the only destination disk I could select was my 32 GB USB stick which I have plugged in.

Why is my new partition not visible to the Boot Camp Assistant software?


texts: How to copy files from an unbootable Mac?

texts:
My MacBook Pro (2008) will not boot, so I want to copy some files before reinstalling Lion.

How do I do this from the Recovery disc?


texts: Upgrade MacBook 7,1 RAM using old HP laptop RAM

texts: I have an old broken HP laptop from which I want to take its RAM and put it in a MacBook 7,1 and the RAM meets the specification that OWC recommends.


texts:
Is there a way to establish rules for mails processed on the iPhone (4s, iOS 6.1.3)?
In my case, I am interested in automatically forwarding certain emails to another email account once I receive them.


texts: Create or Edit a new configuration profile .plist using the command line

texts:
Take out of the picture MDM or Apple Configurator or any other management software, just for my knowledge and understanding of how to implement a restriction and how to manipulate or create a .plist file, let's take the example below: (this is just an example, I do not own an Apple Watch) (this is just an example to understand how configuration profiles works).
Step #1
Read the following scenario:
To check if the system is configured to prevent Apple Watch from terminating a session lock, run the following command:
/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType | /usr/bin/grep "allowAutoUnlock"

allowAutoUnlock = 0;

If there is no result or "allowAutoUnlock" is not set to "0", this is a finding.
Step #2
I just executed the following command line /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType | /usr/bin/grep "allowAutoUnlock" on my Mac OS X system and I did not received any output.
Question: How do I manipulate or edit or create a .plist that will modify the system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType and will add the following allowAutoUnlock = 0
Again, I do not want to use MDM, Apple Configurator or any other management software, how can I do it using the command line?
Thank you so much for your help


texts: APFS and HFS+ volumes on the same partition

texts:
I wish to have two volumes on a drive (not SSD); one HFS+, one APFS.

Would it be better to have these on an HFS+ partition or APFS?


texts: Why am I getting a "session could not be started with the iPad" error when syncing?

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This morning while trying to sync my iPad I started getting the following error from iTunes:

iTunes could not backup iPad because a session could not be started with the iPad

I've tried the following:

Deleting the iPhoto cache "com.apple.iPhoto.plist" (might be corrupt)
Running the Repair Disk Permissions from Disk Utility
Delete existing backup (might be corrupt)
Backing it up to a new account (same Mac)
Different sync cable
Different USB port
Rebooting the Mac and the iPad
Turning off Photo sync

So far, no luck. Still getting the error when trying to sync or backup my iPad. The iPhone 4 syncs fine. Running Verify Disk Permissions after the Repair still reported issues, but none of them seemed to be in any directories related to iTunes (all Java related).

FYI, it starts trying to backup, but fails at around 90%. So it would seem it has a "session started", but fails part way through.

UPDATE: I was listening to Pandora while my iPad charged and functioned as my AirDisplay when all of a sudden my iPad started rebooting repeatedly (not syncing or updating, checked iTunes.) It kept rebooting until I removed the sync cable. When it came back then it backed-up and synced fine. I'll leave this question open in case someone has any suggestions. If no one has any suggestions then I will probably delete it.


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I'm trying to setup a script as a folder action that will identify and change unwanted characters in the name of a file added to a target folder.

The intent is to have this automation run as a folder action that should read the name of an incoming file or new folder, check for spaces and dashes, and replace them with underscores.

Here is what I have so far:

on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving theNewItems
    repeat with i from 1 to count of theNewItems
        set thisItem to item i of theNewItems
        tell application "Finder"
            set FileName to name of thisItem
        end tell
    end repeat
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {space, "-"}
    set FileName to the FileName's text items
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_"
    set FileName to the FileName as text
end adding folder items to

How can I install this script as a folder action?


texts: Where is the source code for mmap function?

texts:
So I was searching for sys/mman.h and ideally sys/mman.c
in https://opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-1244.20.1/ and didn't find it. Any idea why?
Where could I find the source?


texts:
In older version of Mac OS X, maybe up to 10.6 or something like that, you could use top with -ua which accumulated CPU-usage and listed the process with most CPU-time at the top. This combination has since disappeared and I have been unable to find a replacement. Any ideas?

A nice addition would be if you could tell it to accumulate CPU-hsitory for e.g., 10 seconds, 1 minute or so, is that possible?


texts: How can I view (offline) the full English Wikipedia on OS X?

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I want to download the complete English Wikipedia (not just the 45,000 article version floating around) for viewing offline  on my Mac.

I have downloaded Okawix, and downloaded a torrent with Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.okawix, available on the okawix site) to view within Okawix.  However, I can't figure out how to view this downloaded torrent within Okawix, so I'm not sure what I can do.

What is the best way to do this? Is there software to download and view Wikipedia?


texts: Get Number of Screens Using system_profiler

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Using the system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType command in terminal will give info of all connected displays; something like this.

Graphics/Displays:

    NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M:

      ...

      Displays:
        iMac:
          ...
        DELL P2214H:
          ...
        DELL P2214H:
          ...

Is it possible to get the total number of connected displays, in this case 3? If not, then how can the above output be parsed to return the total connected displays.


texts: How to enable multiple spellchecker dictionaries in Chrome?

texts: I am new to Mac, and I have my rough time (missing keys, wrong shortcuts and etc). But I don't give up. I am a JS developer and computer user with almost 20 years of Windows and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) experience. I am also bilingual, my second language is english. In Chrome for Windows or Linux one can add as many dictionaries as pleased. Then it is very comfortable to switch between them by clicking right mouse button in the textarea (take a look at the picture). How to make it in osx?


texts: Removing Messages from iCloud (but not locally)

texts:
How do I remove my Messages from iCloud only?

I want to keep them on my local devices (where I have plenty of space), but remove them from iCloud (where I'm low on space).


texts: Continuity: Can you make iPhone cellular calls from a Mac while connected to the phone via Instant Hotspot?

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I have a MacBook Pro that's Continuity-connected to an iPhone 6+ running iOS 10, and when they share a Wifi connection provided by a third device, making and receiving iPhone cellular calls from the laptop works fine.

Now my intent is to provide the MacBook Pro's internet connection via the iPhone's Instant Hotspot, using Wifi, while still being able to make and receive cellular calls from the Mac.

Is this setup possible?

I fear it is not (but I cannot verify it myself, unfortunately), because an Apple support article states states as one of the prerequisites:

  Each device is connected to the same network using Wi-Fi or Ethernet.

While the iPhone and the Mac are clearly connected in my scenario, the iPhone itself provides the Wifi network, but isn't itself connected to it.

Is there any way to make this work?


texts: iPad and iPhone show one delivered iMessage but not on the other. Is message delivered?

texts: Sent message from iPad or iPhone and message does not say delivered. But when I look at other device it shows delivered. Is message delivered? Example message sent from iPhone no delivered status. Look at same message on IPad and shows delivered status.


texts:
I have a really weird problem. My girlfriend recently changed her iPhone  password. The problem is that the iPhone says that the password is incorrect, but she had to repeat the code twice when she changed it and I do not think that she could have made it wrong twice.

Another weird thing is that it accepted  the password few times but now it keeps locking for "5" , "10" , "15" etc minutes (right now we are on 15 minutes) and event finger did not work very well since she installed iOS 10. Is is possible that there is some error or something like that?
Note: She has 64GB iPhone 6

Thank you very much.. :D


texts: I've read that /tmp will automatically have files deleted that are older than 7 days or upon restart, but I can't seem to find where this is documented. Can anyone point me to a man or web page from Apple?


texts: How can I find out why I have monthly charges from Apple/iTunes on my credit card?

texts:
I am being charged monthly and I have bought nothing.

PURCHASE AUTHORIZED ON 04/10 APL* ITUNES.COM/BI 866-712-7753 CA **************** CARD ****      $9.99

My children do not have access to iTunes, my iPhone is the only thing attached to my account. How can I determine the cause and have it stopped?


texts: Chrome window all screwed up after locking or disconnecting second monitor?

texts:
I've noticed that when I unlock my computer or disconnect a second monitor, about 25% of the time my chrome window will resize itself to about 100 pixels tall and position itself at the top of the screen.  When it does there I have no way of resizing it or accessing any of the pages.  Even if I drag one of the tabs out to it's own window it will have the same problem.  I always end up quitting Chrome to solve the problem.

Does anyone know of a fix for this problem?  If not, does anyone know of a way that I can make Chrome accessible without having to quit out of it?


texts: How to click the mouse buttons with a keyboard shortcut?

texts:
I have an application without keyboard shortcuts where I have to do a recursive work, in practice I have to insert fields with keyboard and click the mouse button over the OKbutton so I have to switch between keyboard and mouse very often only to click without moving the mouse. I know that in System Preference->Acessibility I can enable mouse keys but if I have to press altfive times before I can use the mouse and then I can't no more type with the keyboard until I disable the mouse keys I lose more time then the first solution.

Put the mouse in the floor and press the button with the foot's finger is an alternative but other users may not approve it. How can I set a quick short-cut for clicking with mouse pointer from keyboard in mac Mountain Lion?


texts: I just bought a new iMac with Keynote version 6.5.3. The company I do business with has Keynote 6.2.2. i am told they are incompatible. The company will not upgrade. Can I downgrade? If so, how?


texts: What's the easiest solution for MDM without a dedicated OSX Server?

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I am the go-to support for whole lot of iOS devices in my family and have previously used Apple Configurator to apply new settings (such as VPN, email accounts, certificates) to new and existing devices.

I find this very cumbersome as it requires me to physically connect to each device and add/replace a profile. Therefore I want to replace my current solution and of course I thought of OSX Server (Server.app) first. Unfortunately the only "stationary computer" I could run an MDM solution on is a FreeNAS system – only mobile Macs here.

So the first question is, whether or not it is advisable to run Server's Profile Manager from a MacBook that is not always used from inside the same network, which has basically been answered as "not advisable" by this SX answer.

From that derives the second question: What is the easiest-to-handle MDM solution for managing not hundreds but tens of iOS devices? I figure that most MDM software is highly focused on enterprise-grade device numbers and management necessities. The only features I actually need is pushing profiles containing VPN, Email account and certificate.

tl;dr: What is the easiest-to-handle MDM solution for managing a bunch of iOS devices without using Apple Configurator?


texts: iPhone "Documents and Data" on certain apps show random numbers

texts:
I would like to ask about this matter since it has been bugging me out.
Certain apps on my 16gb 6S show random numbers as the amount of their "Documents and Data".
I think this first occurred when I installed and used an app called "Phone Clean". By the way, I'm running the current non-beta iOS version available for the 6S which is 11.4(15F79)
Take a look at my screenshots.

click any image for full size.

If this doesn't have a solution, I'll probably just back up my iPhone and reset then restore but I would like to see your thoughts about this.


texts: switch to a Full Screen application with keybind

texts:
I use a lot of Spaces and I switch between them using keybinds (from cmd + 1 to access the first space, to cmd + 5 to access the last one).

I'd like to switch to a Full Screen application using the method described above, but because this mode creates a new workspace, mixing up a Window and a Space (like a Windospace), I can't.

Is there a way to achieve that?

Ex: Say I want the Full Screen Firefox application to always be reachable with cmd + 6 and not only cmd + TabTabTabTabTaaaaaaaabTab.


texts: Can I use a Verizon iPad 3rd Generation WiFi Only?

texts: I am considering purchasing a used iPad 3rd generation 8.9 size.  This iPad is advertised as a used 64gb Verizon iPad.  I only want to use the iPad on wifi and do not want to connect to Verizon or AT&T.  Can I do this or do I have to go through Verizon to get it to work. I have never had an iPad and I am 67 years of age so I am not familiar with what I need to look for or be careful about in buying a used iPad.


texts:
I have a problem with an iPhone 6, every time I lock the screen with the lock button or with AssistiveTouch the phone will shut down.
Is there any solution or is it an hardware problem?


texts: Is there a way to input values and then run aliases in iterm2

texts:
I just came to know about the alias option and I have this code which would download any youtube vid in the highest quality. But the problem is I have to enter the url of the youtube vid.
Is there any way to create alias for it.
I tried alias youtube="youtube-dl -f best 'link'"
but it takes link as the url since I've not given a variable.
Is there anyway to get an input and save it in the variable link.


texts: Running Ubuntu on MacBook Pro 2015 — run natively (dual boot) or run in virtual machine for longer battery life?

texts:
I currently use Ubuntu in a virtual machine, using VirtualBox software on my host operating system, OS X, on my MacBook Pro 2015.

However, the battery life drains quickly when Ubuntu is used continuously. The battery life only lasts about four hours at the best. If I do not run Ubuntu, the battery life would be about seven hours.

Will the battery life be longer if I run Ubuntu natively (dual boot), or if I run Ubuntu in a virtual machine, with VirtualBox software?


texts: What software do I need to open and read a .chm document in OS X?


texts: All apps that access the internet crash when opened

texts:
I recently just bought a used Gen2 IPod.  It's worked fine until now.  When I left home, the wifi disconnected.  makes sense so far.  I clicked an online app while I was out so naturally, the app crashed (it was a texting app) right as it started to load the data from the web.  I have lots of these kinds of apps (different kinds of wiki things, etc.).  I've now come home to my sweat home and apparently (to my surprise) even after reconnecting the wifi (Safari works just fine), all of my apps that were connecting to the internet crash almost instantly.

Why is this?  I'm officially stuck with Angry Birds (and I'm stuck so that isn't helpful).  Besides, Safari, none of my other web enabled apps work.  I can't text people.  I can't listen to my radio, etc.

I've restarted it numerous times to no avail.

Any help guys!?


texts:
When I open the Terminal I keep getting this message, which I suppose is some error:

  /Users/sinisasasic/.zshrc:export:48: not valid in this context:
  Support/GoodSync:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin

Can anybody help me in translating what this exactly means and what should I do to resolve it, if it’s some problem?


texts:
My Mac was stolen.

I bought an iPad to use find my Mac. The computer was going online and I was getting notifications.  Unfortunately I was not at my iPad at the time.

After the Sheriffs office got my computer back it was completely wiped out. I had to put in my passcode to reinstall the OS.

My question is after the computer played a sound I suspect it was then erased to avoid detection. After the Mac was erased, could the Mac ping online while the thieves attempted to reinstall the OS without my passcode?


texts: Listing all the users part of an AD group

texts:
I want to know the users part of an existing Active Directory Group.
Trying to use the id utility : https://ss64.com/osx/id.html
Seems like i can get the list of groups that a user is part of with the command:-
id -Gn username

Not sure if there is way to get list of users part of an existing group.


texts: How can I find my Linksys wifi network from my iPhone

texts:
I have a wireless network that I set up using a Linksys WRT54G router. There I can add MAC addresses of client devices that can access my network.

I've added my iPhone's MAC address to this list, but my iPhone doesn't detect my network. What can I do to allow my phone to detect my network?


texts: Postfix confusion: how does mail get sent on Mountain Lion server?

texts:
I inherited a Mountain Lion Server system that hosts a PHP web app.  Among the things this app does is send email using the php mail() command, which executes the sendmail binary.  In addition to being able to do this, from the command line you can send email using /usr/bin/mail, in the standard way, and logging appears in /var/log/mail.

The weird thing is that there is no SMTP server running -- telnetting to localhost, port 25, fails.  If you go to the mail option in the server app, the switch is in the OFF position.  If you slide it to ON, the PHP app still send mail, /usr/bin/mail still sends mail, and now telnet to port 25 connects and reveals an attentive SMTP server.

In the course of trying to figure out who was doing what, I went to the Postfix docs:

http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#syntax

which point out that the location for the Postfix config file is in /etc/postfix, which proved to be the case.  Examining /etc/postfix/main.cf turns up this gem:

config_directory = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix

Navigating to that directory reveals all the same config files as in /etc/postfix.

So my question, broadly, is how to untangle all of this?  If Mail is switched off in the server app, how is it getting sent?  Postfix is being started, but by who?  And when and why do each of these Postfix config directories get consulted?  I'm confused by all of these redundant behaviors and configurations, and I haven't even gotten to my actual question, which is to configure the mail gateway the sent email is getting routed to.

Can anyone shed some light on how this all fits together?


texts: Super bad audio quality from iPhone 6s Plus speaker

texts:
When I use Skype on speaker on my iPhone 6s Plus with iOS 9.0.1, the sound from the speaker is horrible. I uploaded a sample to SoundCloud.

I tested this on my iPad 4, and on the same OS, no such problem exists.

I had this phone for one day, and seems like this is a hardware problem. What do you think? I had this phone for barely a weekend, so if this is a hardware problem, I will be likely to have a chance to swap with a new phone!


texts:
I have recently moved to Mac from Windows. Rarely I find that I may have to use System Restore to fix an issue that the OS has incurred. What I would like to know is whether Time Machine is the Mac equivalent to this feature?

I do not need Time Machine file backups itself as I already make regular backups using rsync. But if Time Machine can also backup the OS will use it.


texts: Location of Fullscreen Icon in Mavericks

texts: If anyone has a copy of 10.9, could you search system files for "fullscreen" or "tif" and post the location of "fullscreen-hover.tiff.."


texts: How to enter two phone numbers as recipients in Messages

texts:
I don't see a comma (,) on my iPhone when I'm in message mode.

So, how do I enter two numbers? The comma is needed to separate the numbers.


texts: Is it safe to put ipad baseband 06.15.00 on iPhone 3G in order to unlock it when using iOS 4.2.1?

texts:
I am asking this because I observed that there were some reports regarding problems with baseband 06.15.00 on iPhone 3G like no GMS connection or poor or no GPS functionality.

From my knowlege Redsn0w is the tool to do this.


texts: iPhone seems to disconnect the VPN as soon as it goes into auto-lock (sleep)

texts:
My iPhone seems to disconnect the VPN as soon as it goes into sleep mode. I use OpenVPN connect for iOS.
iPhone 5s and 6, iOS 8.

Is this behaviour as designed or am I missing something?


texts:
I downloaded glassfish-3.1.2.2-unix.sh from glassfish.java.net. To install I did

chmod +x glassfish-3.1.2.2-unix.sh

then i tried to run it :

$ ./glassfish-3.1.2.2-unix.sh
This program requires DISPLAY environment variable to be set.
Please re-run after assigning an appropriate value to DISPLAY.

Any idea ?

Thanks


texts: Dell External Display suddenly stops working - Puzzling

texts:
I have an early 2013 MBP, with Mavericks installed.

I always used my Dell U2771 external display connected with a mini Display Port to Display port with no problems

Except for the last one month.

When I come to work the external screen works perfectly but after approximately one hour it suddenly goes black and whatever I do I cannot get it back to work again. I have to wait until the next day to make it work again in the morning.

When the external screen turns black the laptop still recongnizes the external display, and if I disconnect the cable and reconnect it the laptop enters the multi display mode. but without actually sendind the output

I know that the problem is not on the screen alone as I can connect other computers to it.
I know that the problem is not on the cable as different cables show the same problem.

What do you think might be the problem and why this strange behaviour?

I have a suspicion that maybe the problem is a temperature related one, maybe something in the pin of the mini Diplay Port expands when it gets hot and breaks some connection.
This would explain why it stops working after the laptop gets warmer, and this would explain why the laptop still thinks it is outputing for the display.

Or maybe this is just my head.

I think I should also mention that I have had an Apple authorized repair shop replacing my logic board 3 months ago. It is still in the warranty, so what should I do?

EDIT: after 5 months and a substituted logic board the problem remains. So this discards the temperature hypothesis.


texts: Why does my external monitor need to be reconnected?

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I have two external monitors connected to my MBP 16" and when I take the MBP out of sleep mode one of the two monitors never connects back up.  One monitor is connected with USB-C to USB-C and always connects when the MBP comes out of sleep mode.  The second monitor is connected with USB-C to DP cable and this one remains black until I disconnect the cable for two mins then plug it back in (< 2 mins and the OS doesn't seem to see the monitor was disconnected and won't reset things.) When I look at the displays in the system settings it's only showing the built-in and the one connected on USB-C.  Each monitor is connected directly to the MBP spread between the two separate bus connections for the USB-C/Thunderbolt.

I've also tried using a OWC dual DP adapter which only made problems even worse as I had to restart the MBP each time I reconnected the monitors and only could get one of them to work at a time regardless.

I'm running 10.15.4 OSx and I have the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4 GB graphics card.

I'm really new to the Mac world and I'm struggling to find a working solution to the issue besides what others have posted for answers which is disconnect the cable and reconnect it.  One additional answer that someone posted was upgrading the drivers but that was for the docking station they were using.

Why would only one monitor restore after being resumed from sleep?


texts: OS X Yosemite - My wired keyboard does not work anymore

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I just downloaded OS X Yosemite Beta for testing  on my MacBook Air 11.

But my wired keyboard stopped to work.  Both the usb ports won't recognize the keyboard anymore.  I also tried to used even without the little USB extension cord that comes with the box.  any other idea do you have to make my WIRED APPLE KEYBOARD work again?


texts: Intellimouse Optical-side buttons for Catalina

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My ~20 year old Intellimouse Optical optical functions in Catalina.  I would like to be able to use the side-buttons to "go-back" in Safari.  I believe (please tell me if this not correct) that intellipoint will unlock this feature.
The instruction's step-1 calls for:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null

Step-1 seems to install brew, however, I am reluctant to execute this command because brew cask has already been used to install applications such as sublime-text.
brew cask install microsoft-office

returns the error:

Error: Cask 'microsoft-intellipoint' is unavailable: No Cask with this
name exists.

Per the comments I tried:
brew cask install caskroom/drivers/microsoft-intellipoint

Which returned:

Error: caskroom/drivers was moved. Tap homebrew/cask-drivers instead.

Is there a method to determine the cause of the error without performing Step-1?  I am concerned that Step-1 may cause problems as brew is already installed per https://brew.sh  If the fix is to perform Step-1 because it somehow adds the equivalent of a repository, I would appreciate an ELI5
Based on this thread I would like to avoid disabling the System Integrity Protection for the very old Microsoft Drivers.
I suspect the side-buttons are sending a signal and it may be possible to configure OS X per the goal.


texts: My battery died while El Capitan was installing

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Like it says above, my battery died. And when I charged it again it din't work. I logged in, and while it's charging it just restarts again, and again, and again.
I tried reinstalling the OS, but my macbook wont connect to any internet. And because it's a MacBook Air, it doesn't have a adapter (I'm not sure how to call it), for the internet.