texts: Phantom photos stuck on my iPhone that I can't delete?

texts:
According to iTunes:

According to my phone:

But also:

What's going on? :-/

I look into my DCIM folder on my iPhone through Windows Explorer and it's empty, too.

Update: I have no photo syncing going on in iTunes, nor do I have any "recently deleted" items on my iPhone


texts: Reading out a Macbook Pro 2013 (A502) SSD

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My Macbook Pro 2013 has unfortunately met its demise after many years of service. I would like to access the data stored on its SSD, but I don't know the best way to go about it. The devices I have available are a standard PC (Linux/Windows) and a Macbook Pro 2020.
I have removed the SSD successfully from the MBP 2013, but due to the connectors, I cannot easily connect it to any hardware I have available.
What adaptor do I need?


texts: Siri: "I can't update reminders. Sorry about that." Why?

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I use Siri to set reminders a lot, like a dozen times a day.

This morning Siri is saying, "I can't update reminders. Sorry about that."

It happens on my Watch, my phone and my iPad. I've tried switching them off and on again.

It may be only for certain reminder lists. "Put cake on my shopping list" fails, but "In five minutes, remind me to do that thing" works.

There are a lot of old items on the Shopping List; I've tried deleting a few, but that didn't help. I've also tried making a new empty list and adding items to that, but that fails too.

I can use Reminder lists in the app on the phone without any problems.

What's going on and how do I fix it?

Update: I've just found that "Add cake to my shopping list" works, but "Put cake on my shopping list" doesn't. What!? Siri clearly understands what I'm requesting, since the error is, "I can't update reminders".


texts: What format for my external drive allows use with Mac and Windows?

texts: How can I use my external hard drive on Mac OS so I can modify/edit files on both OS's: Mac and Windows? How should I format it?


texts: How do I Force Google Maps Links to Open the Google Maps App on iOS6?

texts: In the past (iOS5 and earlier) clicking on a link for directions within a website opened the separate maps app and provided directions. How do I force links in websites, that would normally open a google maps link in a "desktop" web browser, to open the new external google maps app? I do not find the current google maps website adequate (can't figure out how it would provide dynamic (voice) directions) and the new apple maps app is not opened by those links.


texts: I want to burn .flac files directly to an audio CD. Is there any (possibly free) OS X application to do this?


texts: MacBookPro10,1 goes to gray screen when a USB is inserted

texts:
This is a follow up to my other question.

Now the problem is sometimes when inserting a USB stick, the computer freezes and goes to a complete gray screen(kernel panic). It seems to only happen if the USB is plugged in after it boots up.

It has been through two AHT runs, first run through was not extended and it gave only the error 4SNS/1/40000001: ID0R-0.000, which according to here that means a problem with an electrical sensor for DC power. That site recommended to reset SMC, so after that, another AHT was run, this time extended, and it gave the only error 4SNS/1/C0000008: TPCD-- 124 which apparently is a temperature sensor for the power bus.

I'm not sure what those would have to do with plugging in a USB though, maybe they could be related, idk.

Here is a kernel panic log right after an USB insertion http://pastebin.com/q3LWSWbS. Which I believe pretty clearly says it was indeed the USB that was problematic on line #33

32. Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
 33.    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass(3.6)


texts: "open" from the command line just hangs using iTerm2

texts:
The

open -a <AppName.app>

is not working on one of my Yosemite based macbooks. The other one - also with Yosemite - works fine.

open -a TextEdit.app ~/out

(just hangs )

I have also tried other apps - to make sure the problem were not specifically with TextEdit. Nothing works.  Also I am able to use Finder to open apps with TextEdit.

AFA the app's attempted:  let us look at a simple built-in one:

 $open -a TextEdit.app ~/out

Note that "open" has not been disturbed in any way: it is the one shipped with the MacBook

12:23:07/Applications $which open
/usr/bin/open

ls -lrta $(which open)
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  92912 Sep 12  2014 /usr/bin/open


texts: How do I change the location of iCloud drive on Windows?

texts: Recently I've been using iCloud with my windows machine. With the older version of iCloud I was able to change the location using the mklink command; however, this does not seem to work with the new iCloud version downloaded from the windows store, as I cannot move the iCloud folder even when all iCloud processes are closed (it says I don't have enough space on drive C even though that's not the drive I'm moving to). Is there another method for moving the iCloud folder that I'm missing?


texts: Pages Copy and Paste Horizontal/Vertical Ruler Guides

texts: Is it possible to copy and paste guides on a Pages 5 document? If so, how?


texts: Boot camp assistant can only change disk1

texts:
I'm trying to setup and iso file on a flash drive from my macbook using the Boot camp assistant.  It recognizes the iso file, but I am only given one option of using it on disk1 of my own computer and cannot change this to my flash drive.  How can I give Boot camp assistant the ability to recognize the external drive?

I'm running High Sierra 10.13.2

For reference, the iso file is for the windows 10 os.


texts: To improve browsing performance, is it worth upgrading to iOS 5, on the original iPad 16GB Wifi?

texts:
Currently, running an iPad 16GB Wifi only model with iOS 4.3.5. I have been noticing some slow redraw issues using Safari, generally when scrolling down length pages. I am seeing the checkerboard background, then the page renders.  Would upgrading to the latest version of iOS fix this or make it worse?

Is there a way to roll back to iOS 4.3.5, should I find iOS 5 latest version to be worse?


texts: Is there an alternative to Dropbox which has an smaller CPU overhead

texts:
Ok, this is not necessarily strictly Mac, however it does affect my Macs differently.

I have an 5 years old iMac which is ok with Dropbox running all the time, while my brand new MBP (2017) struggle with Dropbox's CPU overhead (struggles is an exaggeration but it does get the fan running at full blast most of the time). I'm a heavy user and have the higher plan, which means there are some files that are constantly being modified, yet I find it extremely annoying to have it happening.

Is there an alternative which uses less resources?


texts:
I am trying to transfer things from a Macbook Air to a Macbook Pro Retina. I start up Migration assistant on both and proceed with the initial steps, selecting the source laptop from the target Macbook Pro, then after around 10 seconds on the Macbook Pro I get a screen saying "Migration unexpectedly quit. Please try again."

The Macbook air seems oblivious of any issue and continues in a never ending loading stage. Both have all the updates installed. What can be the issue?

The migration is being done over Wi-Fi and the username and password for the user account is the same on both laptops. iCloud is not enabled on either. Not sure if any of those things are relevant.


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I've got several Fluid apps for Amazon Web Services consoles (on different accounts).

The aws console saves UI preferences between sessions (e.g., which columns in a display do I want to see).  I believe but am not 100% sure that this is stored in a cookie.

When I use firefox, this preference is saved between browser sessions.  In the fluid app, it is not.

I found the directory ~/Library/Application Support/Fluid/FluidApps/AWS-DEV Console.  It has a cookies directory, which is empty.  Other things are being successfully saved in this directory (Bookmarks, DownloadArchive, webhistory).

At some point I discovered that Fluid was being sandboxed (I think; when I ran fluid apps i got a separate mounted pseudo-filesystem).  The fluid apps had the finder attribute com.apple.quarantine set.  I removed that with xattr and I no longer am in the sandbox.  No effect on the cookies.

Fluid Version 1.8.6 (2331).  I have purchased a license key, which is installed.

MacOS version 10.13.1 (17B48).

Is this a bug, or am I doing something silly?

edit:  It appears that the preference is saved in HTML5 local storage, not in a traditional cookie. I'm guessing fluid apps don't implement this.


texts: I want texts and iMesssages from my iPhone to stop appearing on my home Mac. They currently get copied between the 2 devices, I have tried deleting iCloud but this does not stop the messages.


texts: There are a number of posts that talk about CPU temperature.  Is there a utility built in to Mac OSX that I can use to determine the current temperature of the CPU?


texts: Configuring mobile home directories on Yosemite OS X Server

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I have Open Directory configured on a brand new OS X machine with Server.app set up on it. I'm trying to configure the mobile account setup on the server, to allow users to sync their home directories up to the server volume (for backup / recovery purposes). I cannot seem to get this to behave correctly, and the documentation from Apple on this is thin at-best.

My objective is to have users login to their laptops using their Open Directory account, and have the computer create a "mobile account" on the local machine that can be kept in sync with the server. I can get an account to login successfully using the OD account, but it seems to ignore the settings I have configured within Profile Manager (the "policies" for the users).

Does anyone know how to get this working? Is there a good resource for how to set up?


texts: How can I prevent the iPad 2 from playing music in my rucksack?

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I have an iPad 2.

Sometimes, after I stow it away into my bag, it will start playing music (using the music app) at the most inappropriate times: during class, in meetings... This behaviour seems to be connected to the screen saver feature, but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off!

Is there a way to turn this off, or to at least make it respect the volume setting? The music is audible even with the iPad muted otherwise.

Or am I just too dumb to find the right setting? I'm not excluding that possibility.

  Edit: I have a passcode set.


texts: iPhone 6 hot, no camera, won't hold a charge

texts: My 6-month-old iPhone 6 is hot at the top, by camera lens, won't hold a charge and the camera is just black. All other functions are normal. This started a few days ago.


texts:
I have read so many different answers and really just need a truthful answer.

My ex-boyfriend and I both have iPhones.  I been trying to send him messages but it doesn’t say 'Delivered'. It doesn't display anything at all.

I was told first that if blocked it would immediately say Delivered because the person blocking doesn’t want you to know you are blocked. I've also been told his phone is off or on DND.

Is there a way around it to text and be sure it goes through?


texts: Can iPhone 6 tell if a surface is horizontal?

texts: I can launch the Compass app on my iPhone 4 and it can tell if the surface I'm placing it on is perfectly horizontal, or it's bending to any direction. Given iPhone 6's sticking-out camera, can it still measure such things?


texts: How to make the login window display list of users and name and password?

texts: I want to be able to have the login screen of OSX Yosemite display the list of users and a name and password field. I have seen it done on my school's computers but they were connected to a user server, but I don't have a server. Is this possible? If so, how could I do this? In settings it only allows the selection of one or the other.


texts: "Clean up by name" isn't sorting my files in alphabetical order

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I have a folder containing six subfolders. Right-clicking on the Finder background and clicking "Clean up by name" sorts them into the order "1.0", "1.5", "1.6", "1.25", "1.56", and "2.0". This is quite annoying, because that's neither in any lexicographic order (as I'd expected) nor in increasing numerical order, so it always takes a moment to find the right subfolder I want. What order does "Clean up by name" sort files into?

OS X Yosemite v10.10.5


texts: How do I update iMovie after changing App Store Apple ID and upgrading macOS?

texts:
I recently upgraded to Mojave from 10.9.  The app store shows an old Apple id as the "owner" of iMovie and I cannot update my version of iMovie without a password I don't know.  My old version of iMovie works on Mojave and did on Mavericks however.  I don't remember paying for iMovie. The App Store reports Apr 2014 as the last update.

How do I update iMovie now that I'm running macOS Mojave and using a different Apple ID?


texts: Can you recover deleted photos from the recently deleted section in your album?

texts: I recently deleted all of my pictures and backed them up on an app called Shoebox. I did it to save space on my iPhone 6s. I decided it wasn't for me and everything was out place. It was making things complicated and I didn't want it anymore. I now have all my pictures backed up on the app, but don't know how to sync them all back. I don't know if it's possible, but if it isn't I was wondering if I could recover my recently deleted section? If I can, how do I do it?


texts: Automator Applescript inconsistently handling Google Chrome tabs

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I want to make an Automator app which closes any open tabs in Google Chrome and loads 3 specific tabs. It should load these 3 tabs regardless of whether Google Chrome was already in use or not.
To accomplish this my app runs the following Applescript:
# Close whatever is already open in Chrome
tell application "Google Chrome"
    close every window
end tell

Next, it uses the "Get Specified URLs" action to understand the list of URLs which I will want to load as tabs. Finally, these URLs are passed into the following Applescript for loading:
# input is the list of url's from the previous task
on run {input, parameters}

    # The below is an applescript loop
    repeat with theURL in input
        tell application "Google Chrome" to open location theURL
    end repeat

    # We must return something so we just return the input
    return input

 end run

When I actually run it, it sometimes works. Other times it does nothing (Chrome is running but has no window or tab loaded) or it opens the 3 new tabs along with whatever tabs were already open when the app was run.
At first I thought perhaps it was being affected by a browser preference which tells Chrome what you would like to have open on startup. I initially had Chrome set to open Gmail. I changed this preference to open only a blank new tab. This did not affect the results (except that when the app otherwise runs successfully now there is an additional blank new tab open, which isn't ideal but I don't care about much).


texts: Do 2.5" SATA HDDs in an external enclosure need extra power over USB with Windows?

texts:
MacBook Pro 2008 motherboard failed. Upon sending it to an Apple authorized repair center, they confirmed this. They gave me the laptop back so I could open 'er up and get the hard disk out, which I did. The hard disk should be undamaged.

However, upon plugging it into an external enclosure – and connecting the enclosure to a computer running Windows – there's power, but nothing seems to happen. I'm just powering over USB. I wouldn't expect the HDD to be dead as well as the motherboard.

Does the 2.5" SATA HDD from a 2008 MacBook Pro need extra power when connected in that way?


texts: MacBook restarted now no HD to work from

texts: I was using my 2012 era MacBook Pro when it suddenly restarted, to a folder with a ? On it. When I try any of the internet recovery methods, it just says disk 0 and base recovery system. So I can’t reinstall any OS X. And if I try to reinstall it no disk pops up. So is my laptop toast?


texts: Keyboard shortcut to Downloads folder stopped working

texts:
I just bought a new MacBook Pro. In my old one, I frequently used Cmd + Option + L to quickly navigate to the Downloads folder in my Finder, however, this stopped working in my new Mac.
Both Macs have Catalina installed. And all other navigation shortcuts in Finder in the new Mac work well - e.g. Shift + Cmd + A for Applications, Shift + Cmd + R for AirDrop, etc. The one for the Downloads folder is the only one that's not working.
The only thing out of ordinary that preceded this was I replaced the Downloads folder in my new Mac with the Downloads folder inside the Time Machine of my old Mac wholesale. But I never tried this shortcut before this replacement, so I'm not sure if it worked before that. Also I did such wholesale replacement on other Home directory folders like Documents, and the shortcut for Documents works well afterwards.
I've never seen the same problem being reported on the internet. So I'm seeking help.


texts: How to Add Password Control to Open Folder

texts:
I'd like to add protection to a folder on my computer (OSX El Capitan) where it requires a password for a user to open it in finder. I've tried googling this and all the answers seem to involve creating on an encrypted disk image which isn't what I'd like to accomplish.

I'm concerned less with encrypting sensitive data than with adding a cheap layer of protection to a folder so that it would be harder for someone to accidentally open if they were browsing around looking for a file. Just want something that asks for a password when the folder is clicked on in finder.

Is there any way to accomplish this?


texts: How can I convert obsolete word processor files and preserve formatting?

texts:
I have some files in WriteNow and WordPerfect format. The WriteNow files go back as far as 1987 and the WordPerfect files are from 1998 - 2001. Some I can read, others I can't open at all. Those I can read lose most of the formatting.

I'm talking basic "RTF-like" formatting for the most part, not super obscure proprietary word processing features à la the Home Depot that is MS Word. There are also some embedded graphics in whatever was the generic standard for Macintosh back then.

Even if a file might be in RTF, that standard has changed significantly over the years and formatting is lost for the most part.

I don't have the original software or a machine to run it on.


texts: Is there a faster way to sort hundreds of iOS app icons on app pages than to use iTunes?


texts: How do I send Control Alt Delete from a Mac to a remote Windows PC

texts:
I am trying to log into my PC at work from my Mac. It requires Control + Alt + Delete key combination to login.

How do I do it from my Mac?


texts: TCC is causing my mac to freeze for 5-20 seconds sporadically throughout the day. How can I fix it?

texts:
Sporadically throughout the day while I'm working on my 2017 27" iMac running macOS 10.14.6, the entire system will freeze for 5-20 seconds. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it, but it does happen the most when utilizing apps that make use of Accessibility permissions, such as xGestures or BetterTouchTool. I later confirmed (as documented in this question) that the problem is TCC; the system WindowServer process is doing some kind of check to make sure a process has the permissions it needs, and it's getting locked up while doing so, causing the entire system to freeze until it finishes. During these times the cursor still moves, but I can't click anything on screen.
Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong here, or how I can fix it?
So far I've tried resetting the TCC database using the command tccutil reset All, and while that seemed to make my computer a little snappier at first, as soon as I granted all of the apps I use the permissions they require, the freezes came back. I've also reinstalled macOS from the recovery environment and that didn't fix it either.
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro running the same version of Mojave with much of the same software installed, and it does not have this issue, for what that's worth.
I've also read through this question but it seems to be addressing a different TCC-related issue, and I'm not sure if using an MDM profile will help since its purpose is to add apps to the TCC database without requiring user intervention. (Of course there's always the chance that it just happens to work around this issue. TCC is a black box.)


texts: I'm a little confused about my disk utlliization

texts: My daisy disk shows my disk utilisation like this. I have a 128 gb disk. Why does it show as ~72gb.


texts: Apple Mail stuck on "Preparing to Move Messages"?

texts:
In the last two weeks, Apple Mail is starting to get "stuck" with increasing frequency, showing a "Preparing to move messages: 1 of XXX" message in the lower left corner. Apple Mail still allows me to read messages, but attempts to delete or move messages fail as described below.

This typically occurs when I'm in the process of deleting messages from my inbox; Apple Mail cheerfully removes the message from the window, but rather than moving the messages upstream using IMAP, the transfer simply bumps the count of messages that are being "prepared." So, for instance, my Mail is currently stuck, showing "Preparing to move messages: 1 of 22". If I delete a message, that goes up to "1 of 23."

Turning network off and on appears to make no difference.

Quitting and restarting Mail "solves" the problem in the sense that it's no longer wedged, but all of the pending transfers are aborted, and my inbox suddenly again contains dozens or hundreds of messages that I already "deleted." Deleting then appears to work correctly... for an hour or two.

Relevant facts about my mail setup:
1) OS X 10.13.3
2) I'm using IMAP...
3) ... to communicate with a machine running Dovecot.
4) "Connection Doctor" within Mail indicates no problems with the network connections, and I can refresh the status at will.

Many thanks in advance for any advice!


texts: PDF form is missing information entered on a Windows PC

texts: I have a 3rd party form which has a lot of fields to be filled in. I started entering the information on a Windows PC and saved it to Dropbox. When I open the form in Apple Preview on my OS X Yosemite machine the fields that I filed in are all blank! If I open it in Adobe Reader instead the information is present but when I save the file and open it in Windows again all of the previously saved information from my initial Windows session has gone. Please tell me how I can stop this happening as I use these forms on a regular basis and I need to edit them in Windows 7 and Mac OS X Yosemite.


texts: Reusing iMac Fusion Drive as external drive

texts:
The logic board of my iMac 27" Retina broke and I find it impossible to get a new one in the country where I'm living in.

I wonder if it's possible to access the data in the Fusion hard drive,
 connecting both SSD+HDD as external drives in another Mac OSX system.

Some people say it's impossible, some very few others say it can be done. I wonder if you can give me some advice before I go and buy this super expensive SATA-to-USB Apple adapter.

Best regards!


texts:
I wanted to search inside a PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader for MacOS (or the one built in with MacOS). I want to search, for example, for the capital letter "U".

Is it possible and, if yes, how?


texts:
I have a MBP with Lion 10.7.2 with an external monitor. When I disconnect the MBP from the external Monitor or when I reconnect it, some application show incorrect gamma color.

It is very difficult for me to explain the aspect variation, but I can solve the problem going into the Monitor preferences -> Color profile and choose the profile of my monitor. This work for Finder and Mac app, but no for other application such as Chrome, that I have to close and restart.

I try to put an image with the incorrect color gamma:


texts: Wifi access point no longer found on my macbook pro

texts:
Only since yesterday, I am unable to find an access point on my macbook pro (MBP) running Mavericks 10.9.5. Interestingly, all my other devices (Nexus 5, Ipad, Macbook Air) can see it and connect to it. All devices are in line of sight to the router. The router is broadcasting the SSID. Also the MBP connects to my other access points just fine.

I have tried the following:

Restart the router. Twice.
Turn wifi on and off on the MBP
Connect to the wifi network using 'Join Other Network'. This results in 'No network found.'
Restarted the MBP
PRAM reset on the MBP
SMC reset on the MBP
Change the wifi channel on the router
Renamed the SSID

I am really stumped and need help to figure this out. Thanks.

EDIT: The wifi access point became visible again. No changes were made to either mac or router. Neither were even rebooted. I took my mac to work and connected it to the office network. When I returned home, the rogue wifi access point was connectable.

I am closing the question by selecting the first answer since I learnt something new from it.


texts: Cell being edited vanishes when screen keyboard activates on Google Sheets on iphone

texts:
Top 3 rows are frozen.
Touch cell in row 4.
Cell slides out of view while screen keyboard comes up.
Q:  Is there any way to keep the edited cell in view when the on-screen keyboard becomes active?
(Note:  Google-sheets isn't an active tag here.  Should this be asked on webapps even though it's an apple specific problem?


texts: Is handoff / continuity (iOS 8+) supported in iTunes to seamlessly switch playback between Mac and iOS?

texts: I'd love to be able to control my currently playing iPhone song from my Mac. Does anyone know if handoff / continuity is supported in iOS 8 or 9 Music.app?


texts: How do I share all my itunes music with a friend?

texts: I would like to share my whole iTunes library with a friend. He also has an ipod so I take it he also has iTunes on his pc ( with his own apple account and Id ). My library is just under 7 gig and I was thinking of using a usb memory stick. Will he be able to add all my music to his existing library, and vice versa?


texts: I am an iOS developer, and have an old 3G device. If I setup whited00r 7, can I use that device for development as I can use a device with iOS 7? (Register provisioning profile for that device and install ipa on it?) Are there any restrictions?


texts: fsck_apfs fails with "btn: invalid value" and "Snapshot is invalid."

texts:
I have an old MacBook Air running out of disk space, and DaisyDisk reports that 25 GB are taken by "still hidden". Following their suggestions, I've tried to run Disk Utility First Aid as well as a raw sudo fsck_apfs -ln /dev/rdisk1s1, and both give me the following error:

...
** Checking the object map.
** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
** Checking the snapshot metadata.
** Checking snapshot 1 of 1.
error: btn: invalid value (3808, 20)
   Snapshot is invalid.
** The volume /dev/rdisk1s1 could not be verified completely.

I've checked both sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots / and sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates /, and both show no results. I've tried booting into recovery/single-user mode and running sudo fsck_apfs -y /dev/rdisk1s1, but it fails with the same "snapshot is invalid" error.

Is there any way to get fsck_apfs to successfully run and repair the disk? If not, as a last resort, would it make sense to fully delete this machine's Time Machine backup and recreate it from scratch as a way to try to get rid of this invalid snapshot?

Edit: I also forgot to mention, I have disabled Time Machine backups and restarted as well (in an attempt to get rid of all local snapshots).


texts: Is there a Siri command for "Get directions to my next event?"

texts:
I can say to Siri "Get directions to the nearest post office" and it will pull it up. However, sometimes I am on my way to an event that is in my calendar with the address. I would like to say "Get directions to my next event". However, that doesn't work as it pulls up event centers instead.

Is there some other phrasing I can say to express what I want to Siri?


texts: Stuck email open with notification of 500 unrecognized addresses

texts:
I received an email with 500 names, mostly political discussions, I decided I wanted to be off the list and when I made the request by replying the last person it cc'd all 500 names and it would not send, instead a notification dropped down over the email and said it doesn't recognize the recipients. The list is so long it drops below the email screen and it will not scroll down, no arrow key, nothing..just is stuck there
I pressed enter and it all just hides up into the upper portion of my screen, and I can minimize it..NOTHING closes it.. I did delete it from the outbox..but the damn letter is still there.. Help!! I have mac book pro OS 10 8 4


texts: We have multiple kiosks running iOS 12 that have just become paper weights. Triple tapping the home button will not break guided Access mode. Force rebooting will return the iPad directly back into the kiosk app, where it still can't end guided access mode. They are bricked. This has happened to multiple devices starting two weeks ago. Any ideas?


texts:
When you enter a FaceTime call in OS X, as of Mavericks, it lowers the volume of everything else besides the call. There's no way to disable this "feature." People here suggested disabling audio ducking in Voiceover Utility, but that doesn't have any effect, at least not in Yosemite.

Any suggestions for a hack solution to fix this? I don't want to install some system-wide audio mixer to help, but I'll happily mess with the FaceTime application or some system settings. I'm guessing there's some library it's using to control the system volume, and I'm trying to find a way to prevent the app bundle from accessing it.


texts: Download El Capitan Outside of App Store

texts: does anyone know if it is possible to download El Capitan directly, as opposed to going through the App Store?  I'd like to be able to upgrade, but App Store is blocked on my machine.


texts:
I cannot remove the WD items from the startup list. The delete button is not active (greyed out).

I looked for entries in:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/StartupItems

But without luck, no WD items found. Any ideas where I have to look?


texts: Computer freezes after update 2020-002 on High Sierra. How to revert / cancel update?

texts:
Since security update 2020-002, I'm having lots of trouble with a macbook pro early 2015 running high sierra

The computer freezes all the time

From what i read, this update causes problems when the graphics are solicited a little more than standard  which is my case as I have 24" external monitor always plugged to the computer (hdmi) and i use software such as illustrator and indesign on a daily basis

Is there any way to revert/cancel updates on mac os ?

If it is not possible, my only option would be to get Catalina.
In case something goes wrong with Catalina, i would like to know how to get installers for Mojave and/or High Sierra (i don't 'purchase' mac os versions so i don't have them on my App Store purchased tab)
Is there a direct link to the dmg install files ?

Thanks


texts: How do I add System Apps to menu items toolbar?

texts:
I'd like to add System Apps to menu items toolbar e.g. show I am hotspotting with my iPhone?

The below first 6 apps (e.g. network app), are utility style apps for me, and I would prefer they be out of my Dock and in the top right hand corner (menu items bar). How do I do this?

Plus a 7th app, which is a purchased app via the App Store.

System:

Yosemite 10.10.3
Installed Bartender app (this app allows you resequence menu item icons and pop desired apps into a sub "menu item bar" -- very nice!)

Bartender app does not appear to allow me to add System Apps that I am always using as there is no setting in the app "make menu item".

OS X system preference - Network so I can see internet connectivity when hotspotting to iphone. Similar to Wi-Fi indicator but Hotspot.
OS X System Preferences
OS X Activity Monitor
OS X Terminal App
OS X Automator
OS X Calendar App
A purchased app from App Store called Screen Rotate, so I can use my macbook like an ebook reader


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I've got an old MacBook Pro with a Core2Duo CPU that regularly has a load up in the 3s or 4s.

thumper:~ joliver.sa$ sysctl -n hw.ncpu
2
thumper:~ joliver.sa$ uptime
 9:24  up 4 days, 16:31, 3 users, load averages: 3.50 4.09 3.83

Processes: 295 total, 2 running, 14 stuck, 279 sleeping, 1225 threads                                                                                09:24:43
Load Avg: 3.59, 4.06, 3.83  CPU usage: 4.83% user, 6.28% sys, 88.88% idle  SharedLibs: 17M resident, 20M data, 0B linkedit. MemRegions: 48719 total, 3030M resident, 159M private, 655M shared.
PhysMem: 7200M used (1446M wired), 991M unused. VM: 698G vsize, 1071M framework vsize, 0(0) swapins, 0(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 38837251/53G in, 7236342/639M out.
Disks: 1045731/15G read, 1170955/228G written.

This clearly isn't a CPU issue.  It doesn't appear to be a memory issue.  Disk IO doesn't seem to be an issue.  Some of the "stuck" processes were things I could kill off, but the load has only gotten worse in the last few minutes.  How else can I find out what's lining up waiting for attention?


texts: How to create Siri shortcut for Animojis

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I want a Siri shortcut to open the Messages app showing the thread with myself.
So I have to use the Open App action, and open Messages. But is it possible to pass variables to the action so that Messages is opening the correct thread? I tried passing my contact to the App, text with my name and telephone number, but it didn't work.


texts: Risks of Opening iWork '09 files in iWork 2013?

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Ever since last year's iWork update I've been hesitant to use it, on the basis that it made it clear that simply opening iWork '09 files would result in destructive changes that would become permanent if saved, and which still wouldn't be restored if exported.

I'm aware that since that time Apple has also done an update to restore some of what was lost.

The question for now is, is there a comprehensive list anywhere that tracks what's going to be lost when opening iWork '09 files in the current version of iWork?


texts: Icons for Facetime and the App Store keep re-appearing in my dock after a restart. How can I get rid of them?

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I’m running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I like my dock to contain only running apps, so I’ve removed all other icons from there (by clicking and dragging them out of the dock).

However, every time I restart my computer, the icons for Facetime and the App Store re-appear in the dock, even though the apps aren’t running.

How can I remove them from the dock permanently?


texts: 13'' MacBook Pro 2010 stuck at blank gray screen, no boot option working

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My 13'' MacBook Pro 2010 running Yosemite suddenly stopped booting today. After I press the power button, I can hear the chime and the computer proceed to go to a blank gray screen immediately. The screen has no apple logo or loading bar.

What I tried as of now:

Booting in recovery by holding CMD+R -- no effect, blank screen
Booting in single-user mode by holding CMD+S -- no effect, blank screen
Booting in verbose mode by holding CMD+V -- no effect, blank screen
Booting in safe mode by holding Shift -- no effect, blank screen
Booting in hardware diagnosis mode by holding D -- no effect, blank screen
Resetting PRAM by holding CMD+ALT+P+R -- reboots, chime again and then blank screen (from this I deduced that the keyboard actually works)
Resetting SMC by holding Shift+Alt+Control while pressing the power button, then pressing the power button alone -- no effect, blank screen
Choosing another booting drive or recovery partition by holding Alt -- no effect, blank screen

Is there something else I could try to get past this gray screen and try other recovery procedures?

Thanks.

EDIT: placing another hard drive in the macbook made it boot properly, so the issue doesn't lie in the rest of the hardware. Now can I recover the data on the malfunctioning drive?


texts: Tables with Arabic numbers (iWork) only show Western Numbers

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I tried to type a table with one column in Arabic numbers and the other one with corresponding Western numbers, just like this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet#Numerals

But when I copy the table and paste it (or when I write a new one from scratch), all the Arabic digits turn to Western ones when I move to another cell.

The problem does not appear on Textedit (which handles right-to-left scripts and otf Arabic fonts much better, by the way).


texts: Trying to use launchd to make my iMac running 10.7.5 to email me it´s IP address not working

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This is the first time I use launchd so there´s a lot I don´t know.

A little bit of background info.

I set up everyting to be able to use the mail command to send emails with my gmail. Wrote a bash script (IPSend.sh) using ifconfig, grep, and mail. Running the script manually as any user including root works perfectly and sends the email to the specified email address. Copied the script to /usr/local/bin/ the directories have rwxr-xr-x permissions and the script -rwxr-xr-x@ everything is root:wheel. Created a plist file and copied it to /Library/LaunchDaemons (-rw-r--r--@  1 root  wheel   918 Dec 25 16:01 com.fer.ip.plist), debugged it with plutil -lint until result was OK.

When I launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemon/com.fer.ip.plist (as root) I don´t get any errors the email is not sent and the log shows something like:

  Dec 25 16:18:00 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
  Dec 25 16:18:06 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
  Dec 25 16:18:37: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
  Dec 25 16:18:37 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
  Dec 25 16:18:37 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x7f9170659600.anonymous.sendmail[20303]): Failed to add kevent for PID 20303. Will unload at MIG return
  Dec 25 16:18:37 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x7f9170659600.anonymous.sendmail[20303]): Unloading PID 20303 at MIG return.
  Dec 25 16:18:47 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
  Dec 25 16:19:00: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
  Dec 25 16:19:00 dbe4b6a01 com.apple.launchd[1] ("com.fer.ip"): Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds

The reason I say "something like this" is that somtimes I dont get the "Failed to add kevent for PID" or it appears earlier.

I'm totally lost. No idea what the "Failed to add kevent for PID" means or why it is not working as a launchd process when it works manually. Please help!

Here's my script changing my email address:

#!/bin/sh

ifconfig | grep -o -E [0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+ |grep -v "127" |grep -v "255" | mail -s "iMac" myemail@isp.com.xx

and here's my plist file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0">

<dict>
        <key>label</key>
        <string>"com.fer.ip"</string>

        <key>ProgramArguments</key>

        <array>
            <string>/usr/local/bin/IPSend.sh</string>
        </array>

        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>

        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>60</integer>

        <key>KeepAlive</key>
                <true/>

        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/test.stdout</string>

        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/test.stderr</string>

</dict>
</plist>

Both standard error and standard out files are always empty


texts: Why doesn't my Mac go to sleep when closing the lid or through the task bar when plugged in?

texts: I noticed that when I close to lid of my MacBookPro 2008 edition. My computer does not go to sleep. I also observed that this occurs when the Mac is plugged in. When I unplug, everything seems to be working fine. Does it have something to do with Lion? I already tried changing the energy settings in System Preferences.


texts: Economy of internet traffic using MacBook

texts: Some time I will need to use mobile connection with my MacBook. I am wondering if there is any way to economy of the internet traffic on MacBook? Something like to deny access to internet for applications except the whitelisted ones.


texts: Set Apple Script App as custom browser on macOS mojave

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I followed instructions here: Default Browser .plist location

But it does't work. My custom app doesn't show up in the list of browsers to choose from in system settings:

I have tried:

calling /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister on the modified plist file.
moving the custom app to /Applications

What does it take to get this to work on macOS mojave? Thanks


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I noticed recently (could be caused by upgrade to 10.10.4) that Spotlight is changing order of the search results dynamically as you type and OS X installed apps have no more the highest priority (I am almost sure this was the case before).

For example searching for the Caffeine app:

Open Spotlight
Type "caf"

The top hit starts off with the app I'm looking for (yay!)

Press "f" so the search term is now "caff"

Wikipedia entry is now the first result and hitting enter opens the Safari.app instead of the Caffeine.app :(

I mostly used Spotlight for quick app opening, which is now much slower because I always have to double-check that I am actually opening the app instead of Safari.

Is it somehow possible to disable this behavior or prioritize installed apps over Internet search results?


texts: Outlook 2011 crashes when connecting to Exchange server

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The problem started this morning when Outlook 2011 tried to connect to the Exchange server looking for new emails. An error message came up saying that Outlook needs to close (see screenshot).

I can open Outlook and switch to Offline Mode, then everything is fine, but as soon as I turn off offline mode and it tries to connect to Exchange, Outlook crashes again. It works fine for other people with the same setup.

Is there anything I can do to analyze the issue? Rebuilding the identity is usually recommended in such cases, any other options?


texts: Windows 7 installation permanently operate as the only OS?

texts: If I download and install Windows 7 onto my MacBook Pro, will it permanently operate as Windows, or will I be able to switch between it and OS X? I am downloading Windows 7 strictly to operate Microsoft Flight Simulator X.


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I've just bought a new rMBP 15 inch a few days ago and for some reason every time it goes into sleep / powernap mode, when I turn it back on the wifi doesn't work. The odd part is the wifi still appears to be connected but I can't transfer any data, go online etc. I have to turn wifi off and on in order to get back online.

Any ideas what's going on? I have Mavericks installed and completely up to date.


texts: Selling a MacBook Pro with preinstalled OSX and transferring the license

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I have a MacBook Pro mid 2010 and have since upgraded all the way to Mavericks. I am now selling the device and the online restore option requests my apple ID. Using that, I've installed a clean Mavericks for the buyer.

I think this is the nicest thing for the buyer, but I'm not sure what the consequences are, so I'd have a couple of questions for you guys:

With the system I've updated, will the buyer be asked for his apple ID and will that replace mine?
If that's not the case, will he be able to do updates without having the password to my account?
Can I change the Apple ID that owns mavericks to him, even if I have to gift him Mavericks?
Is there a better way to do all this?

Thanks!


texts: Why does my Mac keep opening the application that were open when it shut down?

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I have set my Mac to switch off on late evening, and switch on on early morning. I didn't use any third-party utilities to do this.

When it starts up, the Mac loads all the applications that were open when the computer shut off. In the dialog box that appears when I manually shut down the Mac, I de-selected the check box to reopen the running applications.

Why does the Mac reopen the previously running applications? How can I avoid it does that?


texts: Is there a way to continue typing in the same Terminal tab after running a .command file?

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For example, let's say I want to set up my Python Virtual Environment. I would run python3 -m virtualenv env wait for it to run, then run source /Users/MyAccountName/env/bin/activate and then I would change my directory to wherever I want to be running Python files.
It would be much easier to simply set that up in a .command file, so I can double click it and have it set up the Virtual Environment. However, when I run a .command file, once it is finished running, it simply prints:

logout
[Process Completed]

And I can't type anything anymore.
So, is there anyway for me to continue typing in the same Terminal tab after running a .command file?


texts: No entry sign on 2017 Macbook Pro--will replacing the hard disk work?

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I received a broken 2017 MacBook Pro from a friend who had given up on it. On attempting to boot it up I saw the "no entry" sign, which as far as I understand means there's something wrong/corrupted in the hard drive. I managed to get to the internet recovery screen and attempted to reinstall the OS but couldn't. Running First Aid showed that the APFS file was corrupted in a way that I couldn't fix. I tried to delete the file and replace it with a new one and that didn't work either. For reference, I'm a software developer but I don't understand much about BIOS and such things, especially on Apple computers which I never use.

After a few deletion attempts, or maybe a successful one, I don't remember, I became unable to reach the recovery menu again. The Apple logo would appear with the loading bar, and the bar would fill a tiny amount over 10 seconds or so before I was sent to the black screen with the no entry sign again.

Due to my hacking (I'm guessing) I can no longer seem to access the Internet Recovery menu. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? I thought of maybe trying to boot from a Linux disk or USB or opening up the laptop and physically replacing the hard drive. Would either of these work?


texts: Close an application window directly from Mission Control?

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For example, you can close "Dashboard" widgets while holding down the option key. I can’t find a way to close windows and/or exit an application directly from Mission Control. Though I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut or builtin solution ideally, Third Party solutions are acceptable so long as the application is simple and non-intrusive.

Here’s a screenshot if it’s still unclear what I’m asking.

Running macOS Sierra [originally asked Running El Capitan.]

Note: I see now that a similar question exists, but it’s five years old and still unanswered - hoping there’s a better solution out there…


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I have thousands of photos on my iMac and want to save them to iCloud.

How can I save my photos to iCloud, and how can I find them again?


texts: AppleScript to change default web browser

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I want to be able to change the default web browser of my Mac to Google Chrome using AppleScript. Here is my idea:

set result to button returned of (display dialog "Would you like to change to Chrome?")
if result = "OK" then
    do shell script ("open -a 'Google Chrome' --args --make-default-browser")
else
    display dialog "No change in the default web browser"
end if

However, I always get this window popping up that I cannot programmatically deal with for some reason. I want to select "Use Chrome".

I know of a few manual ways of changing it, such as in the 'General' tab of the System Preferences but I need something reliable such as this shell command.
How do I accomplish the above via AppleScript?


texts: Can apps purchased from one Apple ID be shared between multiple iTunes libraries?

texts:
We have a number of iDevices in the family, and each user has their own Apple ID. Also, each person has their own computer to sync apps and other content.

If I purchase an app for my iPod, Can I share it with my wife and son, each of whom have their own IDs?

If so, how do I share purchased apps, if each person has their own computer or iTunes library?


texts: new keystrokes in Terminal defined, but do nothing

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To move the insertion point backwards and forwards a word at a time, Terminal by default uses Option + left or right arrow.
Because my 101-key USB keyboard lacks an Option key, I'd like to use Control + left or right arrow, as is common in Linux.

So in Terminal > Preferences > Profiles > Keyboard, I copied the Option entries to Control entries, \033f and \033b:

But control+arrows still does nothing, from the USB keyboard or from the Macbook Pro laptop's own keyboard.

Even stranger, alt + arrows does move the insertion point wordwise.  (Oh, because Option maps to Alt.  Now I know.)

How can I make control+arrows do that?


texts: How do i install OS X on new hard drive? I have macbook pro mid 2010.

texts: I have 13 inch mid 2010 macbook pro. Just installed new 1T hard drive but now am hesitating on what to do next. I have my old hard drive converted to external drive and a back up drive as well.


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Using shell script, how do I extract two sets of numbers from a string like "R14C11"? I'd like to get the result as an AppleScript list.

R14C11 -> {14, 11}
R5C9   -> {5, 9}

"R" and "C" will be constants but the number of digits in each set of numbers can vary.


texts: How do I add a weather overlay in Apple Clips?

texts:
The location permissions text for Apple's Clips app says

  Your […] weather will be displayed in overlays you can add to your videos.

How dow I add weather overlays to my videos?


texts: Is there a keyboard short-cut to quickly open a URL from the Finder?

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On my Windows machine I use [Win]+R to bring up a RUN prompt where I can type in a URL to quickly go to the web.

I've been searching to find a Mac equivalent (without installing any special software) and haven't had any luck.  Is there a Mac equivalent?


texts: How to put songs to my iphone from itunes without deleting songs in my iphone

texts: I have a problem. My friend placed music in my iphone using his laptop recently. Unfortunately i want to put more song in my iphone using my computer. However, I cant sync my iphone to my comuputer since it says that syncing will delete all the music in my iphone. How can i put music in my iphone without deLeting the songs in my iphone? :| :|


texts: Is it possible to sync iCloud contacts with Thunderbird's address book?

texts:
I would like to keep my iCloud addresses in sync with my Thunderbird address book.  Is there a way to do this directly?

Currently I sync both with my Gmail contacts, but the results are not very reliable.


texts: port selfupdate fails after upgrading to next OS X version

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port selfupdate fails with the following error message:

port -d selfupdate
can't find package machista 1.0
    while executing
"package require machista 1.0"
    (procedure "mportinit" line 487)
    invoked from within
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, can't find package machista 1.0

What can I do to fix it?


texts: Forcing macOS Sierra L2TP client to use specific interface

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I've got a WiFi (en0) and Ethernet (en8) connection on my machine. Each interface is on a separate network and en0 has priority over en8.

The gateway for en0 is 192.168.100.1 and for en8 it is 172.20.10.1

There are services I need to access that are only available on the en0 network, and the VPN is only available via en2 network.

I want to be able to force the macOS Sierra L2TP client to use en8. I have successfully added a static route to route the IP address that I want to connect to, to the gateway of en2 and have verified by running trace get <vpn address>

However the connection still fails and when I look at the logs in /var/ppp/ppp.log it looks like the L2TP client is still trying to go through the en0 gateway:

Wed Mar 22 13:53:10 2017 : l2tp_get_router_address 192.168.100.1 from dict 1

Routing Table below:


texts: Use a Mac mini as a remote build server for an iOS game

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Five other people and I are developing an iOS game using ARKit. I have a MacBook that I use for myself, and a Mac mini sitting at home that could act as a remote build server.

Now, it would be easy enough for them to edit the project's swift files, upload them to my machine, and have it build the project for them. Or even just push them to out git repository which runs all the tests with TravisCI.

I feel that's a really subpar solution, as you'd miss all of the helpful features of a modern IDE. It's a lot easier when your tools immediately tell you you're doing something stupid, rather than writing a bunch of code just to have it not compile in the end.

I started searching, and I found this: http://dringend.cc

Something like that would probably be ideal, but unfortunately it's only available for iOS, and they'd need a Windows or Linux application.

Things I've thought about using:

Using Steam or something to stream the entire desktop (VNC is too slow) so they could use Xcode. Could work, but it could be flaky depending on the Internet connection. Plus, it doesn't support multiple users obviously, and even if it did, it would still be a pain to manage multiple git users.
Something like https://www.macincloud.com for each of them, but it could get expensive. Ideally we wouldn't have to spend any money.
Buying Macs - not an option.

Is there any sort of IDE that would give you code analysis, and allow you to run code remotely and see the output locally? I know CLion supports Swift, but it wouldn't really work when you tried to import UIKit and etc.

I know working around having to get Macs results in a crappy experience overall, but this is something we're doing as part of our university course. We do have some hope of putting it on the App Store (that's why we chose iOS), but it's not a commercial project by any means - and as such there are no funds available to buy Macs.

I had some hope I could devise an elegant solution for this, but perhaps having them run a slow VM would be our only somewhat acceptable option.


texts: iOS 6 activation error on iPhone 3GS without SIM card

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I recently got an iPhone 3GS without a SIM card. I upgraded it to iOS 6 from 5.1.1.
However, the phone is stuck on "Activation error" after successfully connecting to my WiFi. The screen says:

  Activation request could not be completed. If the problem persists,
  please contact customer care.

If connected to iTunes 11, iTunes says:

  We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this
  time.

Resetting the phone doesn't work. Anybody has any ideas, besides contacting customer care?

Edit: The problem was solved by inserting a valid SIM card.


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I have snow leopard and have been using time machine to regularly backup files.

How / is it possible to compare files on your hard drive with those in your time machine backup?

I know you can restore folders. But I'd like to see if I'm missing any files and if files have changed ?


texts: Error creating a macOS install media on a virtual volume

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I'm trying to make some .iso files with the install medium for the last versions of macOS (From El Capitán to Catalina), so I can burn them in a USB flash drive.
I have found several guides and scripts on how to do it, and all revolve around the command line making a mounting a virtual drive using hdiutil, then calling the createinstallmedia program inside /Applications/Install macOS [version]/Contents/Resources/. Then you unmount the virtual drive and convert it to .iso with hdiutil.
These are the commands that I run beforehand:
hdiutil create /tmp/virtualdrive.cdr -size 16384m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J -volname Install
hdiutil attach /tmp/virtualdrive.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/virtualdrive

The problem is that when I run createinstallmedia onto the virtual volume I get an error:
sudo createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/virtualdrive --nointeraction
Erasing disk: 0%... 10%...
Error erasing disk error number (22, 0)
An error occured erasing the disk.

I have plenty of space on the mac to do it. I have run the creation and attaching of the drive with sudo to avoid ownership mismatch, even declaring the virtual drive size with by 8192m and 8g and 16384m and 16g. I tried createinstallmedia on a real USB drive and things went flawlessly, so it isn't a problem with my download (I even tried to run it with Mojave an High Sierra, and I still have the same issue)


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I have access to a 1TB drive.
I need to backup the MacBook which I have access to, which has a version of Windows on it via Bootcamp.

I have learned that Time Machine does not keep track of windows partitions.

How can I do a whole-systems backup of the device, bootcamp partitions included?


texts: What is causing Photoshop to always stay on top?

texts:
I'm on Mac OS X El Cap. And I'm using PS CS 6 Extended.

If I switch to Photoshop, and do my work, then try to switch to say Chrome via cmd+tab, Photoshop stays on top.

My questions:

What might have caused this? Did I accidently click something on my Mac that makes Photoshop float?
How can I fix this problem to have PS behave like any other app in terms of visibility.


texts: Toggle the keyboard language by *holding* a button?

texts:
On my Linux computer, my keyboard switches from English to Serbian when I hold the Caps Lock key. For example, to write č all I have to do is hold Caps Lock, and press the key where č is on the Serbian keyboard (in this case, they key is ; on the English keyboard). When I release Caps Lock, the keyboard  "switches back" to English, so that if I press ; I get ; as desired. Super useful.

Is there a way to replicate this behavior on OS X?


texts: Mac Mini wifi very slow compared to Mac Book Air

texts:
I have a Mac Mini(late 2012) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 16GB DDR3 macOS High Sierra and a Mac Book Air (2015) 8GB Ram 1.5 GHZ Intel Core i5 macOS Sierra. I connect to the internet on my Mac Mini via wifi.

All of a sudden like 2 years ago the internet became very slow on my Mac Mini. At first I though it was my ISP. Last year I got a Mac Book Air and hooked it up to the internet via wifi. The Mac Book Air gets 10 megabits download speed using the same internet connection I thought was slow but my Mac Mini gets 2 Megabits downloads speed  with the same connection. My Mac Mini also has a higher latency compared to the Mac Book Air.

I thought, ok same connection different computer. So I reinstalled macOS High Sierra on my Mac Mini thinking maybe it was a virus and I am still getting very slow internet.

My next line of thinking was the builtin wifi card on my Mac Mini was old and outdated and maybe it was not able to take advantage of the new wifi router we got two years ago. So I'm thinking it's a hardware issue but I am not sure.


texts: How can you simultaneously change the name of a song in iTunes and the actual file

texts: When I download music it automatically goes very quickly to iTunes before I can change the name of the download to just the song's name. How can I change the name so that it then changes in iTunes as well as the actual file without having to do it twice?


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I have turned off automatic download of app updates. I open the App Store and press Update All. I realize it's going to take too long or I am on the wrong data connection. I just want to stop the update all command. For now, I don’t see any way to do so. I tried turning off Wi-Fi and data. That stops the download, but leaves all queued apps for the update in an unavailable state.

Is there a way to stop all or is it just racing and press stop on each queued app for update?


texts: Trackpad has no click and no wifi hardware installed on Macbook pro

texts:
I just replaced the keyboard and battery of MacBook Pro A1278, and tried to test it while the keyboard and the battery is working properly, but now the trackpad wont click and wifi has error "no wifi hardware installed".
Also the bluetooth is fine.
Any idea how should I fix it?
Thanks


texts: How to extract flash video from a Mac app?

texts:
I have a tutorial CD-ROM that consists of flash videos presented in a standalone player. I'd like to "rip" them to my computer so that I can play them without the CD-ROM itself, and without the standalone player entirely.  I'd like to be able to play each flash movie individually, and even copy only the specific ones I want to take with me. This means that simply making an ISO image of the CD-ROM, is also not sufficient.

I can't seem to find the media files themselves. Opening the .app's package contents, has shown me nothing but a flash player and various localization files. How can I copy out the media files themselves, other than screen-capturing them while they play back in realtime?

Please note:  I'm not looking for information on how to download flash files from a website. This has nothing to do with any web page, this is specifically about extracting flash files from a standalone, self-contained player application.


texts: How to configure Archive folder for Outlook in iOS Mail

texts:
I have an Office 365 email account configured as an Exchange account on my iPhone with iOS 13.
When I archive an email, it is moved into the "Archive" folder (in English) even if my account is configured in Italian so that the official archive folder is spelled "Archivio" in Outlook. Everytime I archive an email on iPhone, the English folder is created and the email is moved there.
How do I configure where to archive the email (eg: the right name of the archive folder)?
Thank you.


texts: Seeking improved fixed-width font rendering in Kindle for Mac reader

texts: I purchased a programming book from Amazon which I'm reading on the Kindle for Mac application.  The rendering of the fixed-width font (the code examples) is just insane.  Is there a way to fix this?  Are there alternative readers that do a better job?


texts:
Today I just noticed that my iPad mini 4 restarts itself when shaken. I started to notice it first today when I took off its clear case to clean the back. I also noticed that when I hard reset it sometimes a gold (sometimes white and gray) colored screen flashes before restarting itself. What could be the cause of this problem?

BTW/ the iPad mini 4 is a 16gb wifi model and running on the latest version of iOS (10.2.1)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: External Hard-disk showing Input/Output error

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I have a 1TB External Hard drive which I'm currently not able to access. When I open the External drive in Finder, It shows it's empty. When I use the option to "Get Info", I get the dialog box stating it has about 300GB Free.

I tried to access External Drive using Terminal, but I had no luck.

Checking in Disk Utility, It showed that I have many number of files but ZERO folders. I tried to "repair disk", in the process the external Drive got unmounted in the process.

I checked this drive on Windows. I was able to open almost all the folders but I wasn't able to copy anything onto the external drive. One folder caused my windows computer to freeze.

Then I connected the drive back onto my MacBook Pro and tried to access the drive through terminal (this time it worked!) and then I tried to delete a folder with rm command, I got an "input/output error". I tried to enter in to the folder with "cd" command but my terminal got frozen.

What should i do to recover the files in that folder?  What can I do to fix my External Hard disk ?


texts: How do I print an email from Mail.app without mail headers?

texts:
I would like to be able to print emails without including the default email headers (from, to, title, date) from Apple’s Mail application. It looks like I am not the only one who wants this as the question has been asked numerous times on the Apple Support Communities.

It looks like the answer used to be going into Preferences, then the Viewing tab, and then select ‘None’ for ‘Show message headers’. [1] [2]

The latest Mail included with Yosemite (version 8.1) does not include the option ‘None’, only ‘Default’ and ‘Custom’. Leaving the custom settings empty will still show the default headers.

How do I hide the mail headers for printing?


texts: iTunes home sharing, between 2 iTunes accounts, but 2 way?

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The situation is that I have an iTunes library and account and my girlfriend also has an iTunes library and account in her name (on a separate machine).

While there is some overlap in our libraries we would like to be able to add music from the other's library to our own, can iTunes home sharing be used for this? Whilst maintaining separate iTunes accounts?

(I have only ever used home sharing to sync 2 libraries using the same iTunes account)


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I'm copying the .mts files directly from my Canon HD camcorder's SD cards.  It appears the camera only writes the date of video capture to the "Modified" portion of the file meta data, but doesn't update the creation date.

When I copy it over, OS X puts today's date/time as the last modified, and so the date of the video capture is lost - at least in the file meta data.  I haven't checked to see if it's also encoded in the MTS file (perhaps someone here knows how to check this?)

What are my options for preserving the file information when copying?  Using import with iMovie and others takes much, much longer than just copying them over, so I'd rather avoid using an import process, but at this rate it looks like that might be my best option.

Any other ideas?


texts: Is there a canonical guide to replacing the hard drive in a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 7,1 that I have kept up to date over the years, currently running the latest version of Mavericks.

I am planning to replace the 250 GB Toshiba hard drive it came with. The new hard drive will be larger capacity. When I did these kinds of upgrades with my Windows machines, I would just boot from a Linux USB drive, and use dd to clone my partition images. This way, I never had to deal with re-installing anything.

This will be the first time I upgrade a hard drive on the Mac. Is there a list of recommended procedures, so that I can attach the new hard drive via a USB enclosure, clone the existing set up, install the new drive in the bay, and just boot up?

I would like to avoid installing Mavericks from scratch, restoring from backup etc.


texts: Does Safari's history eventually get deleted?

texts:
I recently came across a folder in my computer called "History" with over 30 000 (!!) files. It seems that Safari was collecting a copy of every website I visit (probably to display it in the "history" menu...).

Would this folder keep on growing if I didn't see it and delete its contents?
What is the best way to clean it?


texts: Is it possible to remap headphone inline controls?

texts: Currently, when I press the volume up and down buttons on my Apple headphones connected to my Mac, it turns the volume up or down. Let's say I want to perform some other type of action when I press these inline control buttons. Is there any way to remap these buttons to do what I want, such as pressing a keyboard shortcut or causing a click somewhere?


texts: What does update_terminal_cwd do in the terminal of OS X

texts: I am puzzled by it for quite some while now. In $PROMPT_COMMAND of the bash in OS X, there is a command called update_terminal_cwd. I am sure it's not a bash built in, and most likely only exists in OS X. But I don't know what exactly it does. Anyone knows?


texts: Update to 10.15 Catalina even though Big Sur is released

texts:
I'm still on 10.14. I would like to work with Xcode 12 now, which only supports 10.15+. Yet, no direct download for 10.15 can be found anymore.
I do not want to make the move to macOS 11 Big Sur yet as it seems too unstable.


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to move the position of a tab in Safari?

texts: How do you move a tab's position amongst other tabs using the keyboard? Is it possible?


texts: How to enable Maven autocomplete on Mac OS X command-line?

texts:
When using Maven (mvn) on OS  X Terminal, how can I get tab-completion for Maven goals, plugin names, etc? Things like this:

mvn pa [TAB] -> mvn package

mvn je [TAB][TAB] -> mvn jetty:run


texts: Install Apple's Podcast app on iOs Simulator

texts: I want to debug my podcast feed but don't have an iPhone. I run iOS simulator on my Mac but the iPhone 6s that it runs does not have Apple's standard Podcast app installed. The iOs version is 9.1. How can I install it?


texts: Will i be able to upgrade from ios 9.1 beta to 9.1 stable

texts:
I upgraded ios to 9.1 beta from 9.0 last beta a week ago. However i can't downgrade it to 9.0 stable as i don't have a backup.

How will i be able to update to 9.1 stable from 9.1 beta when 9.1 stable released ?

Thanks


texts: High Sierra 10.13.3 - Time Machine "Preparing backup" for ages

texts:
Ever since upgrading to the .3 version of High Sierra (10.13.3) the Time Machine backup is staying a lot of time into the "Preparing backup" state.
Before someone asks, there is not a huge amount of file to backup every time it does.

I am on a 2016 15" MacBook Pro.
I have read other similar questions but no one relates to High Sierra so, since this problem showed up only since upgrading I thought it relevant to post it.

Curiously enough, browsing all of TM's backups, there is a gap between February 2nd and 11th where TM seems not to have performed any backup. No error was thrown, though, no message from the system, no nothing ... The little arrow was appearing in TM's icon in the menu bar so I never bothered checking.

The backup disk is short on space but this has never been a problem before as TM always deleted old backups to make room for new ones.

Please let me know what I could do to check if this is normal and how to solve this.
I wonder if this has something to do with the annoying "Local Snapshot" feature introduced in High Sierra.


texts: How to enforce that all traffic from iOS app goes through VPN?

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I need to make sure that one of the apps I use can only use internet traffic that goes through VPN.

How, as a non-corporate user, can I achieve that? Can per-app VPN settings enabled with a custom profile help with that? Is it the best possible way?

My first thoughts are:

MDM profile-defined per-app VPN. If it is a way to go, what are the key pieces of the setup I need?
(I want to be sure that profile-defined per-app VPN will help with my problem; also that a manually-created profile will work just as well as a "enterprise tool-generated" one).
Workflow app or a similar tool. Is there any which is able to initiate VPN connection and wait until connection is established?
"Connect on demand" always-on VPN: I tried it, but it allows some of the app's traffic to skip VPN when switching from wifi to mobile data or vice versa, for the periods when VPN is reconnecting. Such non-VPN traffic for the app is what I want to avoid completely.

Of course I'm fine to wait for establishing connection every time I switch to the app if any of the methods require that.


texts: Unable to deploy Mobile Config for Active Sync on iOS 13.4.1

texts:
I'm trying to deploy a mobile configuration for a number of iPhones. The mobile configuration only includes PKCS12 for the client certificate authentication and the configuration of the MS Exchange Active Sync Server.

I have an older ".mobileconfig", we've previously used and I have one with the same data, but generated by the current "Apple Configurator 2" from the App Store.

The old.mobileconfig crashes without any further info, on the last step, after the user password for the Active Sync has been entered on iOS 13.4.1 but works perfectly fine on iOS 13.2.2 (both iPhone SE).

With the new.mobileconfig, the setup finishes just fine and the profile is set up on the client, but it fails to connect to the sync server with the client certificate, both on iOS 13.4.1 and iOS 13.2.2.

Upload for "Additional Text" keeps failing for me on here, so I'll attach a redacted version of both configuration files like so:

old.mobileconfig: https://pastebin.com/X8Q0U90M

new.mobileconfig: https://pastebin.com/bLs2wBcS

My patience grows thin with this setup, so I am asking for help here.

What is the issue with my mobileconfigs, how can I correctly generate/adjust the mobileconfig to have our iPhones connect to our Active Sync server with client certificate authentication?


texts:
I got a 4K display for my MacBook (late 2013) but I'm unable to scale everything after this monitor plugged. (Browser content is scaled, but the system app is not.)

Can I still scale everything with external display?


texts: Is it possible to detect which device accessed the specific URL on Safari History.db file?

texts:
I would like to detect all pages my iPad accessed on Safari. On history.db file that is stored on ~/Library/Safari on macOS, all the data is synced with any devices I have, and thus it is very messy to deal with.
Is there any way to classify the history based on devices? (Or any explanation pages on history.db tables are highly appreciated...)


texts: How to transfer printer drivers from one mac to another?

texts:
I have two macs: one I upgraded to High Sierra without wiping it. All my existing printer drivers function properly.

The second mac I upgraded fresh to High Sierra after a complete wipe. The printer drivers aren't working.

I have a Konica Minolta Magicolor 7540 Grafx II. On the machine with the fresh OS install, the option for duplexing 11x17 is missing. I've tried several different versions of the driver, from various sources, and when I can get it to duplex, it only prints out the left hand side of the page. On one side of the double-sided print, it prints the left hand side of the page, properly positioned on the left hand side of the paper. One the second side of the duplex print, it prints the left hand side of the paper, but it is scooted over to the right, so there is a huge blank space on the left.

Is there a way to transfer all the properly function print drivers from one mac to another? I have tried copying the file from Library> Printers> and Users>Library> Printers. That does indeed give me a second installation of the printer, but the duplexing issue is still there.

Konica has not upgraded their print driver for almost two years, so simply downloading a new one for OS 10.13 isn't possible. The print driver that currently functions properly on my upgraded machine is version 1.7.

I have tried downloading new driers, both of version 1.9 and version 1.7. I have tried copying the Printer settings from the old machine to the new machine. I've tried using the Add Printer function in the System Preferences.

I don't know what else to try. Can anyone assist?


texts: How do I find and remove compilers on my Mac?

texts:
Some time ago, I installed Python, LaTeX, C, Perl, Fortran, etc. on my Mac for some college work. I think I used Homebrew to install at least some of them. Now I am not sure how to remove them as I don't can't find where they are. I went to the Library directory but don't know what to look for.

When I go to the Launchpad, I find all of these things regarding LaTeX. I am not sure if all of them are needed. Besides, I am not sure if they are just front end apps.


texts: MBP 2012 No Battery Available, Your Computer is not connected to a power source

texts:
I have a MBP2012 with a failing battery. Battery shows about 3V across my multimeter on the but the port is still 12v at the correct pin points. So the battery is dead - that's fine, I can replace it. Apple Diagnostics boot doesn't tell me anything is wrong.

I have reset the nvram and smc a few times.

I have clean installed Mac OS 10.11.6. The installer (and any software update screens) all think think that I'm not connected to a power source.

after macos was installed I took screenshots of the battery menu and system summary.

Macos thinks I'm using the battery that it acknowledges isn't there.

but the battery shows up under the system report...

Is this normal behaviour for a mac with a failing battery or does it hint at a problem further into the machine? I'd replace the battery if it will fix the problem.


texts: How can I share Photos across multiple users on Apple Photos, without paying for iCloud?

texts:
Me and my wife have separate Itunes accounts and have separate users on our Mac computer.  Once we upload our photos to our computer to our own accounts we delete them from our devices.

Is there a way that we can view each other's photos without having to switch between accounts?  Since I have tons of photos I wouldn't want to pay for ICloud to have them sync. For example I have tons of pictures of our son and she wants to print some of them.

FYI I am using the new Apple Photos App and we have tons of pictures.


texts: How can I set the display settings using command line

texts: I would like to configure the 'Scaled' property of my Macbook Pro display using the command line. How could I do that?


texts: How to delete everything on an iPod Touch?

texts:
I would like to give my iPod touch as a gift to someone I know, but I want to be sure that there is nothing left on it to avoid giving data with it...

How do I clean the iPod ?


texts: How do I limit caching in Mail for Mavericks?

texts:
I have a really low capacity MacBook Air. Earlier this year, I discovered I could keep it usable without a bunch of "running low on disk space" warnings by limiting the caching performed by Safari and Mail. In Safari it was easy, it's in Preferences, but in Mail it was a bit buried - select the account, advanced tab, and then "don't keep copies of any messages".

Problem is, it seems like in Mavericks this preference is gone. Is there an equivalent? I'm out of room on my Air once again.


texts: Which MacBook Air models use an SSD compatible with my mid-2013 11" A1465?

texts:
I got a damaged MacBook Air for free a few years ago with the screen not working and the SSD missing. I got it fixed and working with a USB3 external drive and it's been great for years.
Now I'm shopping for a secondhand internal SSD replacement. I know these machines used proprietary SSDs and they varied a lot from model to model.
Most people that sell these privately just list what model the part is from. So I need to know which other models used the same part as mine.
The specs of my MacBook:

Mid-2013
11" non-Retina
Core i5
model A1465

I've found some sites that let me identify my machine and tell me which original or which 3rd party SSDs will fit. But I can't seem to find which other MacBook Air models used the same SSDs.
Armed with this knowledge I'll be able to hunt in my local equivalent of Craigslist.


texts: Is apple pay free to use when using a credit card at a shop?

texts: I've added a credit card to my wallet/apple pay. According to my bank the service is free. But is it also free from the perspective of Apple? I've read that Apple gets 0,15% of each purchase but they get that from banks.


texts: mac pc setup using two external monitors

texts:
I have MacBook Pro late 2013 and PC with Windows 10. Also, I have two Dell U2414H monitors.

My setup looks like this:

MacBook Pro is connected via DisplayPort with both monitors.
PC is connected via HDMI with just one monitor.

Problem is with mac when I want to run OS X and Windows simultaneously. When I switch input source on one monitor to HDMI (for Windows), macbook still "thinks" it's connected to both monitors and renders screen on both and it put some pressure on GPU… I guess it's because monitor is enabled and signal is going through DP cable to mac.

Is there anything I can do? Because right now I have to manualy disable cable every time and it's annoying as I need to do this few times a day.


texts: Access to a specific directory failed with El Capitan and Synology NAS

texts: After I upgraded my mac to 10.11, access to my download directory on my Synology NAS is denied. Finder said "The origin element of Download can't find". My other Mac on Yosemite, and my Windows 10 PC, can access this directory.


texts: How do you download games on a school iPad?

texts: This school iPad is not letting me get games or anything like that so I'm asking how can you transfer games from a mac computer onto a school iPad?


texts: To TRIM or not to TRIM on a non Apple installed SSD in Lion

texts:
According to a source in OWC they do not recommend enabling TRIM on Mercury Extreme SSD
as TRIM is only supported by Apple on Apple installed SSDs.

They suggest that I am better off using the build in data management in the SSD.

Is this scientifically founded in any way ?

Have any of you had success, failures or some knowledge with this ?


texts: Problem in installing X11/XQuartz in Mac 10.8.5

texts: I need to install XQuartz in Mac 10.8.5.But every time when I reach the destination folder selection in installation step,it freezes and doesn't move forward.I have admin account as well but as I looked through the net, seems that others also have the problem.How can I solve it?


texts: Could Not Activate Cellular Data Network

texts:
This is not the first time I’ve had this problem, nor is it the least frustrating time I’ve had this problem, as the first time this happened to me I fixed it within twenty minutes. I’ve read countless articles and forums with people who have had the same problem, and I have at no point found a solution that works this time, and the people at Tracfone are no help either.
Here are the facts:
I use Tracfone.
I just bought a new factory unlocked iPhone 6s off of Ebay from a well known and reviewed seller.
Last night I transferred my service from my old iPhone 6 to this new phone; new sim card, called tracfone, etc. The works.
Today I once again ran into the dreaded “could not activate cellular data” message, even though last night I made a successful call on my phone and my number and service have transferred.
The message says “you are not subscribed to a cellular data service”, which is a message I haven’t gotten before.
Upon calling Tracfone and sitting on the phone with a rep for over two hours, I was told this was not something Tracfone could fix, and I would need to call Apple instead.
He had me try to configure my APN settings to no avail, as even though my phone tells me I have no profiles downloaded, trying to configure the APN just gives me a message saying something about not being able to have more than one config at once.

If anyone has any solution at all I’m willing to give it a try. Honestly, anything to not have to sit on the phone with a Tracfone rep for another two hours. Please. Spare me.


texts:
After updating to el capitan I've noticed one annoying problem.

When I select something using 3-fingers gesture I should wait about a second until cmd + c copy operation actually copies something to the buffer. If I press cmd + c right after I complete selection and release fingers of a trackpad nothing goes to the buffer.

Is it a bug or it's a tweakable behaviour?


texts: Mac mini sleep LED fades on once and won't boot

texts:
I've got Mac mini (late 2011), it stopped working recently.

Here are the symptoms:
Sleep LED fades on once for a second(a fan makes a spin or two), then Mac mini goes down. No booting sound.

Any reasonable suggestion is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

P.s. Power cord is in perfect condition. RAM, and HDD are on their places and working fine. All the cables inside are connected accordingly. NVRAM battery is checked (reinserted on it's place), resetting NVRAM didn't fix the problem. I'm out of ideas how to fix it. The latest try will be bringing it to repair shop.


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I am working on a table to tabulate mileage costs for my small business.  I have 3 destinations I go to on a regular basis.  I would like the address to automatically populate in the C cell if the expression is met in the B cell.

I have copied numerous equations from various websites, but have not been able to get any of the equations to work.  The latest is pasted below.

IF((B88="SHADY GROVE METRO","15903 SOMMERVILLE DR",IF((B88="POR TRAIN STATION","CLAY STREET",IF(B88="BWI","7062 ELM ROAD",""))))))

Am I even close?


texts: USB Devices Disabled when no devices are connected

texts:
using iMac 5K OS 10.10.3

When there are no USB devices connected to iMac, it keeps showing this.

I tried SMC resetting, booting through Safe Mode, and nothing is working to make this alert go away.

Has anyone had the same experience?


texts: Trying to delete an application that always says it is open (in this case AVG AntiVirus.app)

texts:
This is the troubleshooting I've done so far:

Went to Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor and force quit the process. Shortly after doing that AVG shows up again in activity monitor.
I went to terminal and typed in rm -rf hit return and then dragged the application to terminal. Once it showed me the path of the file I hit delete. Then terminal came back and said (-bash: /Applications/AVG AntiVirus.app: is a directory)

How the heck do I delete AVG AntiVirus on my computer?


texts: Target Display Mode between a Dell XPS and 2013 iMac

texts:
I have been searching for a long time for the answer to this question.

I have a Dell XPS laptop with minidisplay port out and a 2013 iMac.

Can I buy a mini-display port cable and connect it to the thunderbolt port on the mac and use Target Display Mode.

or

Can I buy a thunderbolt cable and connect that to minidisplay port on the Dell and use target display mode


texts: El Capitan Outgoing Mail server problems

texts:
Just upgraded to El Capitan on my Mac mini. Mail has a problem though I have multiple mail accounts set-up

The outgoing SMTP smtp server for all accounts is NONE
If I assign one from the drop list it tries to apply that selection to ALL accounts
The "Edit SMTP server list" option in the drop down box is now missing

I've deleted all the accounts (closed mail, restarted, re-opened mail) and added back 2 of them but all these issues still exist.

Can't see anyone that has my issue although a lot seem to have the outgoing mail server issues.

My Macbook Pro (older) upgrade did not have these problems (although a small issue with one account easily fixed) the "edit SMTP server List" options appears as it always did and different outgoing servers can be assigned to different mail accounts.

Not sure what else to do??????


texts: How to rescind permission granted under Family Sharing/Ask to Buy

texts: Using Family Sharing, I granted approval for my daughter to install an app. I now wish to rescind permission for that app, so that if she wants to download it again, it will ask me for permission again. (ie. I want to put the state back to how it was before I granted permission). How do I do this? Is there a way to manage the app approvals individually?


texts:
My new laptop has an M1 chip and no fan, and this is great, but it also makes it hard for me to find out when the CPU has been running high (and consuming more battery than usual).
How can I make it show notifications whenever the CPU has been running high for a while?


texts: How can I log in into iCloud.com from an iPhone?

texts: I lost my iPhone and i had a lot of important contacts and documents in my iCloud mail account. The only "computer" I currently have available is my friend's iPhone which is connected to his own iCloud account. Is there a way to log into icloud.com from an iPhone?


texts: Need help bring to figure out strange Time Machine and external drive issues

texts:
I recently had to set up a new time machine back up after the 1st long time drive exhibited weird behavior - Time Machine was duplicating and appending backup folders. I formatted a new external WD drive, Mac OS journaled and set up for time machine use.  I tested the Time Machine with another external drive to make sure the folders were not getting duplicated and all was good - no duplication.  The WD drive is a 10TB holding the copies of the old backups on 1 partition, an untitled partition which is empty and a 3rd for the new time machine backups starting fresh again.  I confirmed all was good after the format, the set up and the moving of the older backups for storage.  I did not document all the setups with pics bc I did not anticipate this weird behavior, but what I have is shown here. I know different directories are shown but the issue is the same.   After a few backups, I went to the back up folder and it was empty - this is after I made back ups and had seen them.  I had to disconnect the drive and restart everything to get them showing again.  Later I initiated a backup and got a message Time could not use the disk because it was not formatted for Time Machine use - Mac OS journaled.  Which it was because I had been using it for backups!  Catalina on 2019 16" MBP.  So the problems:

backups showing then not not there
message that disk is not formatted correctly for Time Machine use - but is
archived backups present then not showing
finally, last picture says last backup yesterday, 1153 - not correct as I have backups after that....

Can anyone give tips as to cause of this weird behavior?  Time Machine, OS or what?  Not even sure where to start and what would cause this drive to be so weird.


texts: Different temperature reports by different apps?

texts:
I was looking for a free app to display CPU temperatures, so I tried Fanny and Menumeters.

Both work OK but I noticed that Menumeters reports 5-10 Celsius less than Fanny. Any ideas why this happens? I thought all apps would get the information somewhere from the OS, so how come they report different values?

Any native way to check so I can compare and see which one is closer to reality?


texts:
I have a macOS sierra 10.12.5 and every time I copy something from a text editor or web browser and paste it in to the terminal it pastes the last thing I pasted in terminal and not other apps.

Also when I download something and drag it to the desktop it turns into the last thing I edited.

When I try to copy an icon to an application nothing happens.


texts:
I can't seem to find a way to create a log-log plot in Numbers 4.2, something that should be as easy as clicking twice!
The option is only available for the Y-axis:


texts: How can I eliminate this repeated Java Runtime Environment (JRE) pop-up window?

texts:
This window has been popping up repeatedly:

I was sure that I already had the latest version of Java installed, but to verify I went here: https://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp

And sure enough I have the latest JRE.

Then I went and followed the directions here to find the JRE via my command line:
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/version_manual.xml#cmdline
which says to enter:

  $ /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java -version

and the terminal output was:

  java version "1.8.0_25"
  Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
  Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)`

Can anyone help me identify what I'm doing wrong here?  I definitely have Java.


texts: Can I enable hiding the dock on my MacBook monitor only?

texts:
When at home I use my 13" MacBook Pro hooked up to an 27" external monitor. When working on my 27" screen I prefer to have a visible dock at all times. I have enough screen real estate to afford this luxury.

When I'm on the road working on my 13" screen I prefer to automatically hide the dock as it really gets in the way when screen real estate is limited.

I now manually switch between enabling and disabling hiding (using ⌥⌘D) but I would prefer this to happen automatically. Can I enable hiding the dock on my MacBook monitor and disable hiding the dock on my external monitor?


texts:
I used to be able to enable “root” user and log in under it.
(I know this is not recommended but let's just assume there is an actual reason for doing so.)

I just repeated the instructions, set another root password and logged out of my account.

However, logging in with root user and the password I typed doesn't seem to work.
The login screen just shakes as if the password is incorrect.

I already tried setting it to a different one, then to an empty string—nothing works.
What do I do now?


texts: How do I delete Notes.app on my macOS Catalina?

texts:
I've tried using chmod to modify permissions but I keep getting back "chmod: Unable to change file mode on Notes.app: Operation not permitted"

Anyone have any ideas?

Excluding it from Alfred search would also be a solution! I don't want to allow myself to use Notes.


texts:
We've recently integrated all of our Macs to our Active Directory environment, and some of our users have MacBooks. When "binding" their laptops to the domain, I enabled "Create mobile account at login" so that they wouldn't have to be connected to our network in order to login to their account. Doing this set up a user's home folder on our server, which automatically connects on startup. Here's the thing: If they aren't connected to the network, the home folder on the server can't be found. It takes about forty-five seconds to a minute before getting the error (see below) saying it couldn't connect to the server, and as you might expect, it's frustrating a few of our users (myself included).
Is there any way to prevent this home folder from trying to connect on startup? I checked the Login Items, and nothing was in there.
Thanks!


texts: mac asking password after cd in terminal

texts:
Recently my mac has started asking me for a password after I use cd in Terminal.app (haven't tested other term apps).

strangely though, if I press ctrl-C when the passowrd is asked, the question goes away and I'm left in the dir I was cd-ing to (as one would expect).

how can I find out what this password is needed for or how to stop this?
I'm using zsh

EDIT:

The terminal asks for a password at random moments, for random directories. Not a clue as to any pattern. The output is basically:

cd ~/Downloads
Password:

I think this started happening after I installed JewelryBox.app


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I was using El Capitan without issues till now. I'm starting to use Pro Tools 10 which is incompatible with El Capitan, so I will need to install a previous OS X version like Mavericks to make it work.

I really don't want to transfer all my files and downgrade my Mac, so I came up with the idea of dual booting my Mac. Is there any way to install Mavericks and use it like it was another Mac, even though it would be in the same physical drive?

I won't need to share any files between these two OS, so I will be using Mavericks when I have work to do on Pro Tools, and El Capitan for the rest of the time.

I think I can get Mavericks from Internet Recovery, as my Mac came with this OS X version. Using a new version of Pro Tools (now compatible with El Capitan) isn't an option for me now.

Thanks!

PS: Just found this community and from what I read it seems great!

Macbook Pro Retina 13" Late 2013


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If I enter diskutil list there is a strange container:
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.1 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Daten    312.2 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 91.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.2 GB    disk1s5
   6:                APFS Volume                         14.0 GB    disk1s7

This disk1s7 is also listed (greyed out) in the Disk utility.app. I cannot activate it.
If I try to mount it with diskutil mount disk1s7 I get the error:
Volume on disk1s7 failed to mount
Perhaps the operation is not supported (kDAReturnUnsupported)
This appears to be an APFS Volume; note that locked APFS volumes
will not mount unless unlocked (e.g. "diskutil apfs unlockVolume")

If I type in diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk1s7 I need to enter a passphrase. I don't know anyone that could work, if I type in just sth. I get:
Unlocking any cryptographic user on APFS Volume disk1s7
Error unlocking APFS Volume: The given APFS Volume is not encrypted (-69593)

Any ideas? Can I just delete it?


texts: MacBook Pro doesn't detect external display after Lion upgrade

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Asking on behalf of a friend.

His 2011 MacBook Pro (no Thunderbolt) was running Snow Leopard and was being connected to a Dell monitor in the standard way.

He upgraded to Lion and now the MacBook cannot detect the display.

What can we do to detect the display (my Snow Leopard MacBook still detects the display)?

The MacBook was taken into an Apple retail store with the monitor. It was hooked up and obviously didn't work, It was then plugged into my 2006 MacBook, and it worked.

The chap in the shop was very confused.

We then looked at the cables. We used another cable and dvi-mini dvi connector. This changed nothing.

We have also done a fresh install of Lion.

So as for now the problem is unsolved.

As soon as it is fixed I will post the answer.


texts: Some Google contacts not syncing to iPhone

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On my iPhone, my Google account is the only one that is set to sync contacts. I seem to have a small number of contacts in my Google account that won't sync to my iPhone, and I can't figure out why. They are actual contacts, not "other contacts." I could just delete and recreate them in Google and hope that does it, but there could well be others that I haven't noticed yet (I have a lot of contacts) so I'd like to find a systematic solution. Any ideas?
iOS version is 14.5


texts: Will the sound processor in an iPad outperforms MacBook Pro's?

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So iPads or any other iPod or iPhones uses audio codec from third-parties, most likely Cirrus Logic in recently products. For example, the iPhone 5 uses Apple-branded Cirrus Logic 338S1077 audio codec according to this iFixit teardown.

I am not sure of the codec used in MacBook Pros, especially my 15" retina one, but I am thinking that since the audio is the Intel integrated one, the codec is probably Intel-branded.

But the question remains, which would yield a better quality. The one on MacBook Pro or the one on an iPad or iPhone.

(Assuming playing the same AIFF file, outputting through the headphone port to a same headphone.)