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I want to import photos I made on an iPhone to a MacBook so that I can, firstly, keep a copy on the phone (to be able to quickly show photos to someone), and, secondly, to be able to delete photos from one device and get those photos deleted on the other. In other words, I want the photos synchronised between these devices.

I tried to:

Import photos with iPhoto via cable — it works, but the photos are not synced, just copied;
Enable iCloud Photo Library (Beta) option in Settings — iCloud — Photos on the iPhone. This way all photos get uploaded to iCloud, and I can see them in the icloud.com web-interface, but I can't see them in iPhoto. I tried enabling My Photo Stream and Automatic Import in iPhoto as suggested by Apple docs on their website, but that didn't help — iPhoto still shows "No photos" in iCloud source;
Use Photo Stream (without beta iCloud Photo Library) — still no photos in iPhoto.

I think I may have misunderstood something — in my opinion photo synchronisation should be a somewhat simpler task. I am also quite new to Apple stuff and thus I'm a bit confused with all these different terms; I am more accustomed to simple file operations as on Linux and pre–synchronisation era Windows operating systems.

What would be my options please? For now, I'm more inclined to ditch the whole idea of synchronisation and just copy my photos to the laptop (and maybe delete the sources on the phone).

I am using an iPhone 5s with iOS 8.1.3 and a MacBook Pro Retina mid 2014 with OS X Yosemite 10.10.2.


texts:
im using Google Chrome for years and i never experienced like this before.

im using chrome for a while without problems(several tabs open), then i open a new tab and google disables everything. can't close tab, can't open new tab. but i can change between tabs.

is there anyone have a problem like this before ?


texts: Is it possible to redefine what Keynote interprets as bold and normal for a particular font?

texts:
When working in Keynote I like to use medium and light fonts instead of bold and normal. This causes me a problem because when I hit apple-b to embolden something I want the font to be switched to medium instead of bold, but the default is the bold font. Is there someway for me to either a) redefine what a particular presentation interprets as bold and normal or b) assign a different shortcut key to switch the font between medium and light?

UPDATE: An option c) occurs to me too: could I copy the whole font somehow and play around with its definition to replace normal with light and bold with medium?


texts: How can I check how many times an iPhone or iPad has been charged?

texts:
On my MacBook Pro, I can see in the About this Mac → System Report → Power link, how many times the laptop has been charged. It lists the condition (currently as "Normal") on my laptop. I've seen it say something like "Needs Attention" or "Service Battery" when the laptop has over 500 cycle counts.

Is there an app that shows me that same information on my iPhone or iPad?  I would like to know this information for the future if I buy a used iPhone or iPad. I don't want to buy one where there's over 1000 cycle counts and the battery doesn't hold a charge longer than 30 min.

I've tried a couple battery life apps on my phone but it doesn't tell me the cycle count. It just tells me the wear level and a percentage, which isn't exactly what I'm looking for.


texts: Using Applescript to make selections from dropdown menu and Apply

texts:
I'm trying to write an Applescript that will open a webpage, change the selection in 2 dropdown menus and then click on a button to Apply the changes.
I've extracted the IDs for the 2 dropdown menus and the button using Inspect Elements on the webpage but when I try and set the values in the Dropdown menu I get a 'missing value' error.

I'm trying to set 'Daylight Saving:' (DaylightSaving1_ddlDaylightSaving) to be '1 hour' (Value 2) and 'Max Graph Size' (DaysPerGraph1_ddlDaysPerGraph) to be '1 day' (Value 1), then click the Apply button (btnModsApply)

What have I done wrong in the script?

tell application "Safari"
    tell window 1
        set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:"http://www.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/easytide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=0036&PredictionLength=7"})
    end tell
delay 0.1
    tell document 1
        do JavaScript "document.getElementById('DaylightSaving1_ddlDaylightSaving').value=2;"
        do JavaScript "document.getElementById('DaysPerGraph1_ddlDaysPerGraph').value=1;"
        do JavaScript "document.getElementById('btnModsApply').submit()"
    end tell
end tell


texts:
When I press the 'Mission control'-button(?) / F3, It shows me 6 extra blank windows. They're called 'QuickLookUISevice'. When I press on them nothing really happens.

Been searching for a solution, but unfortunately not able to find the right. Perhaps anyone on here knows more about this issue and is willing to tell me a little more about it. I'm quite curious how this occurs and how to fix it.

I'm running HighSierra 10.13 on a MacBook Pro


texts: Block emails with "This message has no content"

texts: Emails that only contain a hyperlink show up in my iPhone email inbox saying "This message has no content" (yet another terse and inaccurate error message, thanks Apple) Every single person who knows anything about computers could tell you that this is 100% certainly a spam/malware/phishing/botnet hyperlink. I don't want them in my inbox. Even if someone I knew sent me just a hyperlink I would never trust it. Do any of the email services offer a way to filter out hyperlink only messages, the ones they don't catch in their spam filtering? Is there a way in iPhone Email to filter these out or send them to a spam folder?


texts: What is the best compression utility for Mac?

texts: What compression utility can you recommend that supports zip, rar, tar, etc... like 7zip and FilZip on Windows?


texts: Configuring OS X Firewall to enable SSH/SCP only on the local subnet?

texts:
We would like to configure OS X to only allow Remote File Sharing (SCP) from a specific range of internal IP addresses. That way they only accessible when the user is connected via the VPN.

What's the preferred method? Doesn't seem to be doable via the Security & Privacy tab.


texts:
Folks;

Using Disk Utility on High Sierra (macOS 10.13.6) I've got the following:

The UI appears to allow each of them to be selected and the '-' button remains active. Note the text shown also specifically states that they can be deleted. However when 'Apply' is performed the following failure occurs:

Short of reformatting the entire 1TB drive what can I do to rectify this?


texts:
In iOS 12 clock app, you can control whether each alarm vibrates. In the timer section, you cannot control whether the timer vibrates.

This question has already been asked here:
How to disable vibration for Timer alerts?

However, iOS has changed so that the workaround of disabling vibrations on alarms no longer disables vibrations on timers... due to the fact that you can no longer disable vibration on all alarms but control each alarm individually.

I do not want to disable all vibrations with the mute button. Is there a way to control specifically how the timer behaves?


texts:
I have a problem with launchd, I created a LaunchDaemon at the time, it didn't work and I then deleted it without unloading it.
When I was watching the launchd timeouts with tail -f /var/log/system.log, I kept getting a message that this service was failing and that there was a timeout.
I then tried to find the daemon with launchctl list and sudo launchctl list, but could not find this daemon or the daemon label.
My idea was to delete this running daemon with the "remove" parameter, despite the fact that there was no plist and executable file, but I couldn't find it.
Until I came across launchctl print system, there the script came up with => false, launchctl remove did not work either,
how do I stop this service?


texts: I'm working on a project that involves using launchd at a certain time. I have heard that launchd will only work if the computer is awake/logged in. What is the best way to insure that launchd will launch an application at midnight? I am running macOS 10.15.4


texts: can you change iMessage settings by contacts on iPad Air?

texts: I would like to be able to get texts on my iPad running iOS 8.1.3 from some people (work contacts) and not others (Wife). Is this possible? or is it an accept all or none feature?


texts: How to turn off iPhone 5 without having to use the screen or buttons

texts: My buttons are broken and my phone is locked how do I turn it off and turn it back on again?


texts: Filtering a photo of a document to look like a proper scan

texts:
So there are a couple of iOS apps that "scan" documents and automatically do some processing to make the image look like a quality scan from a real scanner.

When I'm trying this on the Mac with pictures from a DSLR manually with Photoshop the results are usually not as good as what these apps achieve.

Therefore I'm looking for either a Mac app or instructions for Photoshop on how to achieve this. Or maybe even an Automator script.

Just to be clear: I do not need OCR!


texts: How useful is Motion 5 without Final Cut Pro X?

texts:
My video editing needs are very, very pedestrian and seldom. I have no real need for Final Cut Pro.

When I do make videos, however, I like to customize titles a bit more than what iMovie allows. So Motion 5's relatively low price caught my eye immediately.

I know that Motion's main strength is putting together parameterized effect packages that can be exported to and used wholly within FCPX. But if its standalone functionality is full-featured and relatively hassle-free, it might be worth it.

So; advice?


texts: Completely clear/delete/erase/wipe/destroy a USB drive using the gpt command line utility?

texts:
I want to completely delete all GPT (meta)data off an USB drive, so I can create a fresh new GPT.
So I do:

sudo gpt destroy disk3

No errors, seems OK. However if I do:

sudo gpt -r show disk3

I get:

      start       size  index  contents
          0  245759967
  245759967         32         Sec GPT table
  245759999          1         Sec GPT header

So apparently there's still something left at the end of the drive. If I now do:

sudo gpt create disk3

I'm getting:

  gpt create: disk3: error: device already contains a GPT

How do I completely get rid of all partitioning structures or GPT index or metadata backup headers or whatever is still there, and completely re-create a new, clean GPT from scratch?


texts: macOS Menu bar text rendering breaks often

texts:
I have no idea what causes this, but every few hours, something to do with how macOS displays text in the Menu fails to display. Additionally some windows, such as the shut down dialog box just show up as black.

This problem is solved by logging out and back in again, but not by simply locking the OS. I would presume that restarting also fixes it.

What causes this to happen, and what can I do to fix this?


texts: Shortcut/app to capture only the content of a window in a screenshot?

texts:
System Software Overview:

  System Version:   macOS 10.13.6 (17G3025)
  Kernel Version:   Darwin 17.7.0

I would like to capture only the content of a window, without the menu. In other words, I would like to capture this:

instead than this:

I can use Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 and then resize the capture area to just the contents of the window, but that's not very convenient...isn't there a shortcut which doesn't involve selecting areas with the mouse?


texts: Swipe up/down on window top to maximize/resize to default size

texts:
I upgraded my Mac's OS from macOS Sierra to macOS High Sierra today and found one feature disappeared: I used to swipe up on top empty area of a window to maximize the window to "fill" the full screen (not the natural full screen, ie, a new desktop space, just making the window as large as possible in the same space); also, by swiping down when the mouse position is on the window top I could resize the window to default size, in the center of the screen.

I can't remember if it is a feature enabled by a util app (like Hyperdock) or can be configured in System Preferences. I googled around but cannot find it.


texts: It seems that Safari 7.0 (for Mac) doesn't refresh the previews (anymore). Is there a way to turn this (back) on?


texts: How to disable certificate transparency check in macOS Mojave(10.14)

texts: In macOS Mojave, certificate transparency check is enabled. Because the OS terminates all TLS connections that doesn’t use transparent certificates, macOS Mojave cannot connect to WPA2 Enterprise corporate networks. Is there any solution to turn off certificate transparency check for one special certificate or for all certificates?


texts:
I have a new Mojave (10.14.1) installation on an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017).  My screen saver is set to start after 5 minutes.  I have a hot corner defined to start the screen saver.

I have noticed that periodically, the screen saver just starts up out of the blue.  Typically this happens while I am scrolling with the magic mouse.  I am definitely not hitting the hot corner.

Any suggestions for why this is happening and how to stop it?


texts: Connect to a remote windows command line from mac terminal?

texts: When I need to run a command on a remote windows machine, I use Microsoft Remote Desktop software. I was wondering if there is a way to connect to a remote windows command line (cmd.exe) directly from macOS terminal?


texts:
set targetFile to (path to temporary items as string) & fileName

I am trying to download a web image to temporary folder by curl in a Apple Script.

According to the above code, the curl downloads it as correct but the targetFile is currently as:

Macintosh HD:private:var:folders:...TemporaryItems:image.png

But after download, I need the downloaded image path as a correct file path like:

/tmp/image.png

How can I set targetFile as a string that have slash containing file path? Or how can I get the file path of the image after it is downloaded by curl?


texts: Low Battery Crash with no Battery Usage on ipad 2 with ios 8.3

texts:
My iPad 2 has been crashing recently with no warning and then takes several hours charging before it comes back to life. When it crashes there is only a low battery icon, and no charging symbol when it is plugged in. When it comes back it shows 100% until it crashes.

The Low Battery charge crash log shows

Hardware Model: K93AP
Awake Time: 10:48:43 (38922)
Standby Time: 62:01:16 (223276)
Partial Charge: 0
Capacity: 100
Voltage: 3709 mV

I have reinstalled iOS 8.3 from scratch to no avail. Is there anything I can do?


texts: Can I block entire area codes from my iPhone?

texts:
I get 4-5 telemarketer calls each day.  Each time they call, it is from a completely different phone number.  Including different area codes.

I've performed all of the usual procedures to combat this.

•  Contacted my carrier (AT&T).  They will block 30 or so numbers for free but then it costs after that.  This is useless because I get 30 different numbers in a week.  AT&T suggested changing my number (for a FEE).

•  I've changed my number.  It went from bad to worse.  I actually get more on this new number.  I swear I don't put my number out there, I don't sign up for garbage, etc.

•  I've tried telling these "companies" to remove me from their list.  They immediately hang up on me when I do that.  I've tried calling the numbers, it never goes through.  They are unreachable.  Even AT&T admitted they can't track them.

•  I've registered for the national "do not call" registry.  This hasn't helped at all.

I'm running out of ideas.  I'd love to just turn my phone off but I can't because of work.

For each number I get, I immediately add it to the block numbers.  But this only stops repeat numbers.

So, my question is, is there a way in iOS to literally block entire area codes?  I seriously don't care if I block a few legit numbers for the sake of sanity.  I sometimes get telemarketers from my area code but those are more rare.

I have an iPhone 6 with the latest version if that helps.


texts: How to set up an iMac not to look for USB Flash drive info during boot up?

texts:
Short question: is there a way to disable an iMac's USB Flash Drive boot up so that boot up time is faster?

Details:

My iMac has an external USB hub, and it has 3, 4 or sometimes 6 or 7 USB Flash drives plugged into the hub.  But during the boot up of the iMac, there seems to be 20 seconds or 25 seconds before the spinning wheel of the Boot up screen shows up.  During this 20 to 25 seconds, the light of the USB Flash drives can blink for several times.

If I unplug all those USB drives, then the boot up is faster.

Is there a way to tell the iMac not to look for the USB Flash drive info during boot up time?  Maybe it was trying to see if those drives contain any bootable image...  I already set in the System Preference to boot up from the Hard Drive, so maybe there needs to be some extra setting to tell the iMac not to look for any boot info in the USB Flash drive -- is there any way to do that?


texts:
I have no desire to enable Lion's Safari-only mode. I have disabled the guest account but still see the guest login item when I reboot my system.

Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing for disabling the Safari-only mode?


texts: Can't unmount external disk used with Music app due to AMPLibraryAgent process

texts:
I use an external storage disk for my Music library in macOS 10.15 Catalina, because the required file size is several times my internal SSD. After upgrading to Catalina, now when I connect the drive to use Music, I cannot eject the drive afterward, due to a lock by the AMPLibraryAgent process. Here is terminal output detailing the issue:

diskutil unmountdisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of disk2 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted
Unmount was dissented by PID 710 (/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AMPLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Support/AMPLibraryAgent)
Dissenter parent PPID 1 (/sbin/launchd)

How can I remove this lock without quitting that service process or shutting down my computer?


texts:
I have my iCloud backups stripped down to only CONTACTS and NOTES and about 150MB of apps, yet the backup is 5.22 GB.

How do I make my iPhone backup smaller?!


texts: I have tried repeatedly to change my Apple ID and password without success. I have followed all of the directions trying both my emails and asked for new passwords----no luck whatsoever.


texts: Temporary jailbreak of iPhone 4 for purposes of deleting a dictionary

texts:
I need to temporarily jailbreak my iPhone 4 to fix Apple's iOS 6 bug making it impossible to access Japanese-to-English dictionary.

All I need and want to do is delete Japanese-to-Japanese dictionary.

Is it possible to tethered jailbreak iPhone 4 temporarily, delete the relevant folder, and merrily continue using the device in a non-jailbroken fashion?


texts: CPU Intensive task on Big Sur is really fast for 5 minutes, then really slow

texts: I'm running the compilation of a large program on Mac Os Big Sur on an M1 Mac Mini. I'm using cmake, ninja, with parallelism of 7 (there is 8 cores). It goes really really fast for the first five minutes, then really really slow. What is happening ? I don't hear any fan, and the small flow of air out of the computer does not seem warm at all. Any thing I can do ?


texts: Accidentally overwrote /usr/local/include, what's the damage?

texts:
I ran this command accidentally when I was trying to give Homebrew access to write some symlinks:

sudo install -d -o $(whoami) -g admin /usr/local/include

and I realized by the -d flag would create a new include directory.

Now the /usr/local/include directory is empty and I can't seem to find any obvious damage done to my system.

Could someone please tell me what usually is in /usr/local/include and what I should do to rebuild its content?


texts: Major issues with multiple external displays after upgrading from macOS 10.12.3 to 10.12.4

texts:
Upon updating from macOS 10.12.3 to 10.12.4 the following issues immediately began occurring consistently anytime the MacBook tries to initiate displaying on external monitors that are in power-save mode (i.e. on, but waiting for a signal and thus with the screen off). This includes when the MacBook boots up or wakes.

MacBook outputs intermittent signal to external monitors via Thunderbolt interface leading to race condition like situation where the external monitor wakes from power-save mode upon receiving a signal from the MacBook, but goes back into power-save mode due to not detecting a signal (or at least a consistent one) by the time it has finished waking. This process repeats cyclicly for some time until both external monitors happen to get in sync with the MacBook (or they don't, see below).
The MacBook enters an unresponsive state after being in the above cycle for some time without the external monitors getting in sync with the MacBook. This requires a forced shut down which can lead to loss of data and unsaved work.

Please see my answer below for further details.


texts: disk become empty after delete a large file

texts:
I have a 2T mobile disk with the format of NTFS. I store 1T files on it, including a large file with the size of 260G.

After I delete the large file, all the file was gone. I remount the disk again and again , it remains the same. I am using os x lion.

Here is the result of df -h

Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity   iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   931Gi  486Gi  445Gi    53% 127448441  116532301   52%   /
devfs          332Ki  332Ki    0Bi   100%      1149          0  100%   /dev
map -hosts       0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%         0          0  100%   /net
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%         0          0  100%   /home
/dev/disk1s1   1.8Ti  874Gi  989Gi    47%     57185 1036883723    0%   /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive

Notice the last line, 874Gi Used but 0% iused. What I can concluded is the files are still on the disk but I can't see them. Maybe some inode is broken.

So how can I save my file on the disk. Any method to copy the file to another disk or repair the mobile disk?


texts: Whenever I sync on any computer my 3G iPhone, it will recognize and sync but doesn't show my original name for the phone. How do I replace it?


texts: How do I make my Apple ID sign in request silent?

texts:
Every time I sign in iCloud I receive in iPad a notification to allow login. Thats ok!

What's not okay is that sound so loud. How do I make it elegantly silent?


texts: Where does Photos store Live Photo videos?

texts: The Photos app in OSX El Capitan can import Live Photos from my iPhone.  But when I look in the folder where photos are stored, ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters, I don't see any videos there.  (Under iPhoto, Live Photos were imported as separate video and audio files.)  So where is the video piece stored?


texts: Xcode server bot can't send emails using sendmail

texts:
I've been trying for weeks to get Xcode Server Bots to send emails after an Integration. I've narrowed it down to these logs:
kernel    Sandbox: sendmail(48548) deny(1) forbidden-exec-sugid
sendmail    fatal: execvp /usr/sbin/postdrop: Operation not permitted
sendmail    warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1
sendmail    fatal: xcode@<redacted>.com(450): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Undefined error: 0

It seems there might be a permission issue as it's the Sandbox complaining.
My postdrop permissions seem to be correct compared to what I can find online:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        570448  1 Jan  2020 postalias
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        466416  1 Jan  2020 postcat
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        823488  1 Jan  2020 postconf
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root   _postdrop    588624  1 Jan  2020 postdrop
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        431904  1 Jan  2020 postfix
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        432032  1 Jan  2020 postkick
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        449424  1 Jan  2020 postlock
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        431872  1 Jan  2020 postlog
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        569632  1 Jan  2020 postmap
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        465872  1 Jan  2020 postmulti
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root   _postdrop    588448  1 Jan  2020 postqueue
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   wheel        466784  1 Jan  2020 postsuper

I have followed many tutorials to get this working and have everything setup as they say. I can successfully send email from the command line, but this seems to be a user permission issue from the XCSIntegrationService.
EDIT ----
It seems sudo postfix set-permissions doesn't work on Big Sur as Big Sur has made the root as read only. Even disabling SIP doesn't work.
How can I fix the permissions on Big Sur or should I attempt to reinstall sendmail somehow?


texts:
I recently ran rm -rf, not rm  -rf /, but nothing happened. I just get a result like this:

I was scared because I am worried that it could've deleted some files, but it didn't. Just be sure, could this have deleted any files from my directory?


texts: Applescript - AppleEvent handler failed on set properties {visible messages: }

texts:
I have the following applescript working under Lion, but it returns this Error: -10000. Mail got an error: AppleEvent handler failed. error under Yosemite.

try
tell application "Mail"
    set theViewer to front message viewer
    set theMsg to messages of theViewer
    set msgList to {}
    repeat with thisMsg in theMsg
        if read status of thisMsg is false and flagged status of thisMsg is false then
            set the end of msgList to thisMsg
        end if
    end repeat
    if msgList is {} then
        display dialog "There are no read messages in this mailbox."
    else
        tell theViewer to set properties to {visible messages:msgList}
    end if
end tell
on error the errMsg number the errNmb
if the errNmb is not -128 then
    set the errTxt to "Error: " & the errNmb & ". " & the errMsg
    display dialog the errTxt buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
else
    error number -128
end if

end try

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Advice on “leanest” package manager for OS X?

texts:
Hope this is the right place to ask the following question:

I want to install Octave on my Macbook Air, which means I need a package manager. I had Homebrew installed previously, but I got the impression the manager took a huge bite out of my (rather limited) HDD space, possibly as well (or even: mainly) due to the necessary libraries.

Any advice on which OS X package manager I should get if HDD space is the main concern, and any advice how to use it to limit space impact?


texts: how to reset mac local host name to defaults

texts: So I was messing around with Sharing Preferences and I accidentally changed the name of the local host name I don't remember the previous name so I would like to reset it back to what it was before and I also have a full time machine backup.


texts: Repeated crashes of Photos app due to signal: Bus error: 10

texts:
I'm not sure if I'm the only one but every time I click 'Edit' on a photo that has already been edited by the previous version of Photos, it just crashes. This is frustrating because I did a lot of retouch edits in my library and now I can't edit any of those photos.

I'm using referenced-based library (do not make copy of imported photos) so maybe it happens only on those kind of libraries.

The only sign I see for the crash are two lines in the system.log:

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Photos.1028[1637]): Service exited due to signal: Bus error: 10 sent by exc handler[0]
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: Host-level exception raised: pid = 1637, thread = 0x8d043, exception type = 0xd, codes = { 8589934602 }, states = { 0 }
No reports are being generated

Does anyone knows how to fix it?


texts: How to remove all keychain entries an app created from iPhone?

texts:
It seems that when an app creates keychain entries, these entries remain in the keychain even after the app is deleted.

Afaik this behaviour was changed in ios11.3 beta, but the change was reverted for the release candidate and afaik in the latest iOS it’s still the case that if an appcreates a keychain entry, this entry persists even after deleting the app from the phone.

How can I delete all keychain entries an app created for good?


texts: MacBook Pro 2011 miniDisplay port VS Hdmi - Best Adapter?

texts:
I've got a 2011 MacbookPro 2011 with miniDisplay port, and a I Recently bought this beautiful monitor: Asus VS248HR Gaming Monitor

I currently have a VGA adaptor, and even though that is a really nice monitor, it doesn't seem like one over the VGA connection type; therefore I would like to buy a HDMI adaptor and connect my new monitor over HDMI.

I've found several cheap adaptors on amazon, but a couple of questions bug my head:

One: can I possibly have a good resolution/overall good vision performance if I use one of those cheap HDMI adaptors you can find on Amazon, or I need to buy the more expensive Apple one?
Second question: will my resolution improve after connecting the new monitor over HDMI?

Thank you guys


texts: What happens if I share my iTunes ID and password with a friend who lives abroad?

texts:
I would like to share my iTunes with my niece who lives outside the US.

If I give her my iTunes ID and password, will she be able to listen to the music I have in my account? And more importantly, will she be able to access anything else other than my iTunes music?


texts: Is there a way to export and then import downloaded/saved e-mail from the default apple e-mail client to outlook 2011?


texts: PDF - Can select text, but empty lines are copied

texts:
Preview app allows me to select lines and words of text. However, when I copy and paste it into another app, empty characters are pasted.

For example, I select 3 rows of text and paste it, but 3 rows of empty text have been pasted.

On macOS Sierra with preview and the PDF files in question do not seem to be protected as I can both select text and choose Edit->Copy.

What is this and how I can overcome this?

For example, I wanted to copy this

and I got this

As you can see, I did not get those weird characters that people get when copy from protected document.


texts: Is Magsafe strain relief covered by warranty?

texts:
I own a macbook 2012 and the cable snapped due to strain relief. I have not wrapped the cable around the charger box tight considering this could happen but it did anyways.

Is this covered by the warranty?


texts: Is there any way to reduce an app's usage of storage space on iOS 5?

texts:
Is there any way to get any iOS app to clean up its cache etc? I heard there's a new 'cleaning' feature in iOS 5 where apps do that automatically. But I haven't seen any of my apps do that. I really need Facebook to clean itself up because it's taking up a lot of space.  Is there any way to initiate an app clean up?

When I go to Settings > General > Usage, Facebook is listed as using 182 MB even though the app itself is only 10 MB.


texts: How to enable COVID-19 Exposure Logging in India

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How to enable Privacy => Health => COVID-19 Exposure Logging on a iPhone 6S+ device running 13.5.1 in India. Whatever Region I choose, it seems to be disabled and it mentions that its not enabled for the region.

We are developing an App using the Exposure Notification specification but aren't in a position to enable the above attribute


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All of my calendars are on iCloud (synched to Outlook 2013 on Win7, and on my iPad and iPhone). At least most of the time (possibly every time) I receive an .ics meeting invitation, the time is incorrect. This seems to be exclusively tied to time zone differences, but makes no sense.

For instance, I received an invitation yesterday from someone in California (PST). They had set the meeting for 08:00 their time. I am in EST (+3 hours). The invitation (and the resulting calendar item after I accepted) show as 10:00 for me. Clearly this is neither my time zone nor the originator's. When I look at the entry in iCloud, it shows a "Floating" time zone. I cannot change the time of the event in any of my tools (Outlook, iCloud, or iOS), presumably because it of restriction of permissions on events created from an invitation. I also cannot delete the item (without rejecting the invitation), so my only recourse has been to create a duplicate entry at the correct time, hoping I won't be confused by this in 6 weeks on the meeting date.

Is there any way for me to handle these .ics invitations and have them end up showing properly in my calendar?


texts: Excel Formula on : How to compare multiple columns in excel

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I am trying to compare multiple columns in excel like below

A          B          C          D         E            F
HN_1     1.1.1.1     Comp_1    HN_1     1.1.1.1       Comp_1
HN_2     2.2.2.2     Comp_1    HN_2     3.3.3.3       Comp_2
HN_3     3.3.3.3     Comp_2    HN_3       N/A         Comp_3
HN_4     4.4.4.4     Comp_3
HN_5     3.3.3.3     Comp_2    HN_4     4.4.4.4       Comp_3

a. Compare A & D (if true return "Same Name Only")

b. IF A = D then compare B = E (return "Same Name, IP ")

c. IF A = D && B = E then compare C = F  (return "Same Name, IP, Comp")


texts: To exclude bak files in Finder's search?

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I create bak files after every Perl operation.

How can you exclude all bak files in your Finder's search?


texts: Macbook Pro 17" mid 2010 + NEC upd720202 Express Card USB 3.0

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I have a MacBookPro6,1 running well and stable on MacOS 10.9.5,
I use it for video image editing, so I have a lot of data on external drives.
Recently found out that I can speed up all transferings via ExpressCard,
so I purchased one with NEC upd720202 chipset (the only one available here) but it doesn't work correctly. There is a mini disk with Windows driver, but I can't find any driver for MAcOS, niether at NEC, nor at Renesas web site.
When inserted there is an appropriate icon  at the top of the screen, but it doesn't see any device connected to USB ports.
I've read many posts about switching SIP, but it is not useful for my OS.
Looking for solution, thankful for any help!


texts: How to make Final Cut Pro to use my Tera bytes' HDD and not my Laptop's HDD?

texts: I want all videos to my external HDD and not my laptop's HDD and Final Cut Pro does not give this option. I am not wanting to use my MBA's free space for video editing. How can I define the location of videos in Final Cut Pro?


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I can make an Applescript within automator so it reads text at N speed:

on run {input, parameters}
  repeat with thisText in input
      say thisText speaking rate 400
  end repeat
end run

However, is there a way to stop the speech at any given point? There is the option of clicking the cogwheel at the top menu bar, but I was looking for a shortcut-able way.


texts: How do I check an iPad 2's supported carrier?

texts: I had an AT&T iPad 2 3G which I took back to the Apple store on a warranty, and they gave me a replacement one. When I got back (it was an 1.5 hour drive), I realized that I forgot to specify that it's AT&T, not Verizon. Now I know that, chances are, they gave me the correct one, but how do I verify if the iPad is GSM or CDMA-enabled? I don't have a SIM card handy at the moment, so the easiest solution won't work here.


texts: Anaconda Navigator broken: Can I still access my Jupyter notebooks, created through AN?

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Recently I needed to clear space of my Mac (OS Catalina), and made the (foolish) decision of deleting the ‘older versions’ of anaconda navigator. All my jupyter notebooks for a year worth of lab work were created & accessed through this. Is there any way I can access them?
At the moment I can only open them through my safari search history, which seems like a very tentative solution & idk what to do. Can’t send them to myslef as it insists all the notebooks are running ?
Help appreciated!


texts: How to maximise a window to fill up screen in Mavericks?

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Before Mavericks, I could maximise a window while holding shift key, and the window would always fill up the entire screen without needing any third party tools or changes.

It no longer works in Mavericks, is there a workaround or hidden setting to revert to the old behavior?


texts: Mac partition shows as type FFFF-FFF.... - partition doesn't show in boot menu

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I have a Ubuntu 16.04 partition running on my Mac alongside the MAC OS. It started recently that I could only boot into a black screen in the Mac OS and now the partition in the boot menu has completely disappeared. Ubuntu still runs perfectly tho.
When I start via Internet recovery, in the results of diskutil list the mac partition has type FFFFFF-FFF...
The problem seems to be similar to this one.
Could someone help me understand what I can do to fix my problem. I can't find any helpful information about the commands used in the linked solution to adapt them to my case.
Or maybe there is a different approach to save the data on my mac partition?
Thanks a lot! :-)


texts: Fonts on my iMac randomly become blurry (badly anti-aliased) until restart

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I have a late-2009 iMac with Yosemite 10.10.2.

Recently, I've noticed that some system fonts randomly become blurry, as though there's a problem with the anti-aliasing. This affects:

The OS X Menu bar
The right-click context menu
The side-bar in the Finder window
Etc.

In this screenshot - you can see how the text in my browser window looks sharp, but the right-click context menu items are blurry:

They are not blurry when I restart. At some point, usually with in a few hours, and not after any specific, repeatable event - they become blurry. (I've never noticed exactly when it happens. All of a sudden, when I stop focusing on my work, I notice that they're blurry.

If I restart the Mac, they become sharp again, but only temporarily.

I've never played around with any settings that might have caused this change (e.g, I haven't changed LCD font smoothing or anything). And I haven't replaced the graphics card. In short - I haven't changed anything that I'm aware of.

Thanks in advance for any advice or insight!


texts: Can one access all application data when given physical access to an iPhone?

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An answer on SO to a question on whether or not you could access stuff in the cache of Mobile Safari, stated that no, this was not possible, as each app runs in its own sandbox. I am unsure how this really answers the question on whether you can access the application, as even if each application lives in its own sandbox, not being able to access stuff on the outer filesystem, it might be that there is a way to access stuff in the sandbox from the outside. For instance, a VM lives inside of a sandbox, but one could still mount the filesystem in the VM from outside of the VM.
We make an app that makes use of a WKWebView and I would like to know whether caching images locally on the phone would enable an attacker to gain access to those images or if there are mechanisms built into iOS that prevents anyone with physical access to the device from getting to them.
I know that a lot of stuff is possible if a device is jailbroken, but there might be other ways as well?


texts: Can I use my 1st generation iPad ans a second screen for my Mac Laptop

texts: I work from home a lot and want to create a 2nd screen for my Laptop by using my iPad.  Is this possible and if so, what hardware/software do I need to purchase


texts: Install 10.8 on an external drive from 10.9

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I have OS X v10.9.
I downloaded v10.8 installer from the AppStore in order to install it on an external drive.
However, when launching the installer it says that it can't be installed on this computer and give no option other than quit.

What's the easiest way to do install 10.8 on an external drive when I already have 10.9 installed?

I'm aware that there are some answers about downgrading from 10.9, but I wonder if there is any easier way than the hard process described in other places for downgrading.

Edit: THIS IS A MID-2011 MBP so it did not come with Macericks pre-installed.


texts: Can IFTTT automate or control an iPhone?

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I am looking into IFTTT as a alternative to Tasker or Llama context-aware task automation.

Especially I am looking for controlling the various radio devices on an iPhone, like Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi or mobile data.

However, I am stuck at the IFTTT home page.

IFTTT seems to be able to control many things that have an API for it, but what about local stuff like the device settings (on an iPhone)? How to find out?

Note 1: I do not actually own an iPhone. I only want to buy if there is an automated way to control radio devices

Note 2: Feel free to move this question to another site, if more suitable.


texts: Mysql Workbench Model table height issue

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having a weird issue with the model editor in mysql workbench. All the table name height are far too big. Its making working with the editor completely impossible. I've search and googled and can't find any solutions. Also been through the preferences and can't see any options to solve this.

I'm on OS X 10.7.5 and Workbench 6.1.6. A screen shot is the best way to describe what is happening...

As you can see the tables 'address' and 'customer' have heights in the box titles that do not suit, resizing left/right/up/down does not make a difference. Any suggestions?


texts: Will a EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Graphics Card plug n play with Mac Pro 2009?

texts: Upgrading my Mac Pro early 2009 - MacPro4,1 running OS 10.6.8, looking at GeForce GTX 750 Ti Graphics Card and wanted to make sure it would plug n play?


texts: How can I create a Finder alias in a bash script that reads arguments from the command-line?

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I'd like to write a bash script that takes 2 inputs:

path to actual file
path of a Finder alias file (not a unix link) to be created that refers to 1.

The bash script should pass these inputs to an automation script that creates the alias.

I've seen How to use AppleScript in a bash script to create an alias for an app? but I have not been able to adapt it for my goal.

How can I do this?


texts: Is there command to grant Full Disk Access for specific application?

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You can allow an application to access data if you change settings in
Security & Privacy → Privacy → Full Disk Access.

Is there command to accomplish the same in terminal?


texts:
I'm having the issue that a lot of people have with their MacBooks. It's a MBP 2011 15" and it's suffering from the dedicated graphics failure. I get the lines down the screen, screen shifting, and completely shutting down as most people report.

I tried to take it to Apple for the recall by they said it passes their tests and does not qualify for the recall. I have images and video of the graphics failure occurring and sometimes it won't even boot.

I've tried running the Apple Hardware test but with the short test it reports everything is okay, despite their being red lines running down the screen during the test!

What can I do?


texts: Can I charge my iPhone using the USB-A port of my "AV Multiport adapter"?

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I have a macbook 12', with "AV Multiport adapter":

the USB-C port is used for charging
the HDVI port for the monitor
and the USB-A is used to charge my iPhone (and to work with xCode).

I'm using the iPhone cable (USB-A to lightning plug), that is provided with the iPhone charger.

Is this configuration fine? Or am I going to damage the iPhone battery?
I guess I have lower performance, but that's not an issue for me, as long as it works fine.


texts: Delete iMessage chat history from work MacBook

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How do I delete all the iMessage chat history and logs from my work MacBook but still have them on my iPhone (they are synced).

The Mac is running macOS Mojave 10.14.


texts: Is there a way to control the clock speed of the GT 650M GPU in a Retina Macbook Pro from OS X?

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This is not about gaming performance. I've got that all sorted when booting into Windows.

This is a 2012 version rMBP.

The question is about trying to gain a little more control over the hardware from the OS X-side.

During the summer, the machine runs acceptably cool under typical usage, for example, web browsing, even mp4/h.264 (non-flash) video decoding, etc. I was watching a 1080p Blu-ray rip the other day. Handled it fine.

However, once I plug in my external 2560x1440 display via a MiniDP-to-DL-DVI adapter, the display will only connect if the GT 650M is switched on. I use gfxCardStatus to control whether this Nvidia GPU is allowed to be switched to.

So this is fine, except that now I have to keep the fan spinning at higher RPMs (controlled through smcFanControl, of course), and even with that the temperature reads above 70 degrees C most of the time. It will generally be in the mid 50's to low 60's range when running the integrated GPU.

I know these are not very specific numbers, but the point is that whenever the Nvidia GPU is powered on the machine is producing a lot more power as heat.

According to an app I have here called "BatteryExpert" it draws around 11 watts on integrated and 19 watts with the second screen plugged in.

So my question is how can I see the clock speed of the Nvidia GPU, and how can I adjust it in hopes of cooling it down, but still keep it enabled? I need it to be powered on for the secondary monitor, but it's making the aluminum surface a bit too warm for comfort for typing.

I am able to boot to Windows to run e.g. GPU-Z there to check the clocks, but on Windows I'm not aware of any app that can read out a power draw wattage, so it's a little difficult to corroborate. (I guess I can compare idle temps, though.)

It may turn out to be the case that that ~8 watt difference (which results in the 15+ degree C difference in temperature, and a similar difference felt on the aluminum surface) is fully accounted for by running the 650M at its lowest power level, as it is after all a ~50W unit. I'm not really sure what to think. On the one hand 50W is at 900Mhz under load, and here it should be ~165Mhz ('s what GPU-Z tells me in Windows) idle.

Well I've gone off in the weeds at this point. The question is, what is some monitoring software to show me the GPU clocks? When I tried iStat Menus it did not have a GPU clocks reading.


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I tried to hide an app's icon on the dock but the app (Clock) could not be launched.

I googled and found some solutions to dock icon hiding.

I modified the app's Info.plist by adding the following two lines:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

I also tried this:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>

But, it didn't work. The app couldn't be launched.
The pop-up window says:

  Clock quit unexpectedly.
  Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.

The app is "Clock" (like the desktop gadget in Win7) that I downloaded from App Store.
http://clock.projectworld.net/

I am wondering whether this app can be modified as an agent or not.


texts: iPhone 6 started making random faint pinging sounds

texts: My iPhone 6 (iOS 10.3.2) recently started making faint random pinging sounds. This happens several times every few minutes and doesn't appear related to anything, as far as I can tell.  I performed a hard restart but it had no effect. None of my notifications were set to sound only and the pinging sound is faint, having a volume lower than my notifications. Does anyone have a clue about why this is happening?


texts: Do I need to format Macbook Pro md101hn/a?

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Yesterday I bought a used macbook pro from a person.
Though I have removed that users account from laptop and erased home directory too.

Now I have 2 questions related to it as below.

Do I need to format the disk?
Any tools to measure performance of the laptop?


texts: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 Can't open 'Install OS X Yosemite.app'

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I'm trying to install OS X Yosemite through 'Install OS X Yosemite.app' downloaded from the Internet. When I try to open it by double clicking it, nothing happens. When I use the terminal I get the following message:

$ open /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app.


texts: Bulk remove provisioning profiles on iPhone

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Over time I've accumulated many (valid) provisioning profiles on my device, and now have  over 400 in Settings. The only way I know of removing them is going into each one individually.

Is there an easy way to remove many of them at a time?


texts: Is recovering deleted apps possible yet?

texts:
With iOS 14 the Home Screen was altered to include an Activity Controller for confirmation of editing the Home Screen or deleting the app.
This has helped to avoid accidentally deleting apps but it's not foolproof!
Is there any way that you can find out which apps were deleted (In order of most recently deleted I'd imagine if at all possible)?


texts: Will the absence of connected charger increase the cycle count?

texts:
I'm a new MacBook user, so I may be relying on rumours instead of fact.

It sounds quite silly, but, from my perspective, if I always hold my laptop connected to a charger, then my battery is always around 100% and it seems like the battery cycle count is not growing at that time. And, if I take my laptop somewhere without a charger, then I get this 40-60% decrease, then I think it's at this moment the cycle count increases more than it would if it is connected to a charger.

I guess I'm a little confused by cycle counts. What are the facts about how they are measured?


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I have enabled the login window so that the username and password must be entered to login to an account. However, when I switch out of my user and type >console into the username field, the screen flashes white and nothing happens.

Why is this happening? Can I fix it?


texts: Apple script to toggle comment/uncomment in Script Editor?

texts:
I want Apple script which allows me to toggle comment/uncomment in Script Editor, using (* and *).

I found this link, but it is not exactly what I am looking for. Can anyone help?


texts: Using someone else's iTunes account, even when you have your own

texts:
My husband and I both have iTunes accounts.
Can I sign onto his account to download some of his music.


texts: I am still receiving emails on an old Apple ID address

texts: How can I stop receiving emails on an old Apple ID which I have amended in my account and is no longer showing there?


texts: Can't change the screenshot directory because "com.apple.screencapture: command not found"

texts:
I used to be able to change the screenshot directory by just changing the location and typing in the specifics to the terminal but now I am getting this code and I have no idea what to do.

I went through everything a month ago to manually erase everything because my Mac was running slow. I think I might have accidentally deleted something I needed. What should I do? My desktop is getting extremely cluttered. I am using a MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra.

MacBook-Pro:~ ChristianJ$
MacBook-Pro:~ ChristianJ$ com.apple.screencapture location /Users/mac/Documents/Zoology/edited\ screen\ shots
-bash: com.apple.screencapture: command not found
MacBook-Pro:~ ChristianJ$


texts: All bluetooth devices disconnect suddenly

texts:
Sometimes all bluetooth devices get disconnected. My Apple mouse & keyboard reconnect automatically. My headset needs a manual reconnect.

Device: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016)

OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.3


texts: How to upgrade from OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 to macOS Sierra 10.12.6

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I have OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6 installed and want to upgrade to macOS Sierra 10.12.6

I have downloaded macOS Sierra version 10.13

I have .dmg file of macOS Sierra 10.12.6 but when I am going install it gives me the following error:

I found a lot of .dmg of version 10.12 but I didn't get anywhere then I got version 10.12.1.

Now I am confused that do I compulsory need to fine 10.12 and install it and than after update 10.12.4 and than after 10.12.6?


texts: Reuse Cmd+Tab for hammerspoon application switcher

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I set up hammerspoon and use hs.window.switcher as mentioned in the docs. I.e.
switcher_space = hs.window.switcher.new(hs.window.filter.new():setCurrentSpace(true):setDefaultFilter{})
hs.hotkey.bind('alt','tab',function()switcher_space:next()end)
hs.hotkey.bind('alt-shift','tab',function()switcher_space:previous()end)

This works fine with alt, however when I try to use cmd instead, the native application switcher is used.
How to reuse cmd+tab or disable the standard application switcher?


texts: Erasing and Partitioning Hard Drive from Internet Recovery

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My MacBook Pro (mid 2012) was encrypted and running Yosemite 10.10.3. (The last update with Photos ruined it.) Yesterday, all of a sudden, everything freezes. I forced Shut Down and since then, it´s all gone.

I've tried every single possibility that I could find in apple support discussions forums. Tried to verify, repair, erase and partitioning the HDD and I just can't. The only possible way to boot my Mac is through Internet Recovery (cmd+R, because there´s no Recovery HD left). I tried to erase the HDD through Terminal, with diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ MacintoshHD /dev/disk1*.

*Sometimes the HDD I want to fix is disk0, others disk1...WTF!?

I had no success. I tried to partition it without success. When I try to re-install the OS or restore from Time Machine, the hard disk doesn't appear. It's like it isn't mounted.

Is there a way to solve this without buying a new hard disk? I don't mind going extreme, because I have backups. Is it possible it is something related with the fact that it was encrypted?

UPDATE: I tried every single possibility I could reach (e.g. GParted, TestDisk, tons of different command lines on Terminal, boot from USB, from CD). It seems to be dead.

Some brief example of errors

  diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk0
  Nonexistent, unknown, or damaged partition map scheme
  If you are sure this disk contains a (damaged) APM, MBR, or GPT partition map, you can hereby try to repair it enough to be recognized as a map; another "diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk0" > might then be necessary for further repairs
  Proceed? (y/N) y
  Error repairing map: MediaKit reports bad partition or no map found (-5324)

  diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+
  New /dev/disk0 Started erase on disk0
  Unmounting disk Error: -69825: Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed


texts: Time Machine: Is it possible to exclude 5000+ files via TMUTIL?

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Is there a limit to the number of files which can be excluded in TimeMachine?

I have 5000+ photos on an external drive along with their associated sidecar files.  The photos are large and never change (I back them up separately) but I need to backup the sidecar files.  The photos and sidecar files need to be located in the same directory

So, I thought I would just exclude the photos using TMUTIL.  I thought I could do it with one command for the whole directory structure.  That didn't work.  So I did it by year which worked at first but I seem to be reaching a limit (Around 1315) and when I try to  exclude just a few, i get the error:
Insufficient privileges to change exclusion setting.
(Although I don;t think it's anything to do with privileges).

Does anyone have any advice please…?

Many thanks, Karen


texts: Can two external displays be driven from one Thunderbolt port?

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I have the new MacBook Air which only has a Thunderbolt output (no HDMI or DVI) and I have 2 external monitors. How can I get this all hooked up (at the lowest cost, if possible)?

EDIT:
After using the DualHead2Go ME, I'm half-satisfied; it does split my single external port into 2 DVIs, but the externals act as 1 with double the width, so the resolution is very off and weird to look at. Looking back I probably should have bought the Pro to support both of my externals, but with my current Air this is the best I can do for 2 externals.


texts: How do I copy or save a video on a shared photostream to my iPad camera roll? Tapping on the video does not offer a suitable choice. Mail a copy is ghosted out.


texts: Automatically lock screen if I leave the MacBook

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I want my MacBook to get locked automatically if I leave it.

I am open to ideas.

How could the MacBook detect this?

Switching off after one minute of inactivity is not enough. The screen most get locked sooner. And locking the screen after 20 seconds creates too many interrupts for the daily work.

I wear an Huawai GT2 Smartwatch. But that is just one idea.

Maybe I could install a physical sensor in my seat.

Any idea is welcome.

Background: I change the job and in the new company you need to pay pizza for the whole team if you forget to lock your screen :-)

I want it to be automated: I walk away and the screen should lock. No additional action should be required. Keyboard shortcuts, special mouse movements, unplugging devices from USB, bluetooth distance to mobile phone (I don't always carry around the phone) are not valid answers.


texts: Restoring MBP with macOS that is installed on an external hard drive

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A work colleague many many years ago helped me with this setup. I don't know what all he did, I just know it has worked perfectly for years.

He connected an external hard drive to my Mid-2015 MBP and installed High Sierra on it. I use the external drive for home stuff (finances, email, etc.) and the laptop itself (internal drive) has Mojave installed and is used for work-related activities. This allowed me to travel for work and only needed to carry one computer. When I power on the MBP, I simply press the option key at bootup and select work or home and the system will go into the appropriate OS. I no longer need to use the internal drive for work and would like essentially move everything on the external drive to the internal drive (the external drive is a few years old anyway and should be replaced). The internal drive is 512GB and the external is only 244GB (or something like that) so it's smaller than the internal drive.

How can I replace the internal drive contents with that of the external drive? I don't mind googling it but I need help with terms to search for. My mac skill level is pretty basic.


texts: I am in vancouver B.C. Is the iphone4 bought in bestbuy official unlocked?I saw that the network of iphone4 is telus but have a uncontract price on bb website. So can the iphone4 be used in other countries? thank you!


texts: Bootloader freezes on login screen when booting into Lion from Boot Camp

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Every time I reboot from Boot Camp into OS X, the bootloader gets to the login screen, and then after I've entered my username and password, the screen will just go grey. I have to force a restart with the power button, and then when I reboot, it proceeds normally.

Specifics: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit in Boot Camp, and OS X 10.7.1. The same issue happened with 10.7.0. This is on a late-2008 MacBook Pro 15".


texts: How to figure out what a keyboard shortcut is set to

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For example, I would like to know what Shift-F1 does.

I've looked in the keyboard shortcuts section and couldn't find anything.

Is there a way I can look it up? Either on my Mac, or some reference table somewhere?

I notice in the terminal, it just makes a beep sound, and in safari it does nothing at all.

the reason for it is I want to use this shortcut when I ssh into a linux machine to control byobu.


texts: How do I transfer my RSS feeds from Safari, now that it no longer supports RSS?

texts:
I have hundreds of RSS feeds saved as bookmarks in Safari, but the latest version (6.0) has disabled RSS feeds, and suggests getting a dedicated RSS reader from the App Store:

Is there a simple general procedure for transferring all of my saved RSS feeds from Safari to a new reader?


texts: How can I get mailboxes settings from iPad to iPhone?

texts: I have long settings in iPad and I would like to get them automatically to devices such as iPhone and poussible to Mac in the future. How can I get the settings over all devices?


texts: How can I replicate Windows End/Home key?

texts: How can I replicate Windows Home/End keys to use to jump to the end of a line or use Shift to highlight to the end or start of a line


texts: Simplest way to audit and monitor my home network and deal with intruders (while leaving it all open)

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Please don't give me a suggestion that you haven't tried and approved yourself. Also please feel free so skip and not read anything below. I trust the title is already summing up pretty good.

What I've got

Strong passwords, updated system, some log monitoring with Who Is Connected and nothing else. Just the passwords and updates have been enough until now. But that's probably only because I have no presence online, random IP and, on the wifi side, I'm in a spot that not many people get close enough to get the signal. Which makes this a good sandbox environment.

I've tried about all tools listed in links from this question, and they're either not working, too complicated or have some bug.

What I'm looking for

What you say? What are the simplest things that can be done on the mac to keep it stable, open and free within an open wireless network (and the already open internet)? That is, other than buying the fonera, which I'm waiting to arrive back from warranty - I want to know only mac-wise.

Adding to that, I'd want the same thing when connected to any other network. But I believe that's nearly irrelevant as I don't care if data is being spoofed. I'm not trying to secure any data out of my machine / network.

And yes, the question is a bit misleading on purpose. I do ultimately want to secure my whole home network, but I also know it can only be done starting on the router and applying strong policies in every machine within it.

For Instance

Just the other day I've realized my mac is constantly being attacked over the web through SSH - and looks like there's nothing I can do fast enough to prevent a big harm in case someone could break in. I can barely knows if someone brute forced my password, even while highly unlikely, and does nothing else after that for whatever reason.

So, in this instance, I'd like to be able to first block the attacker with some smart firewall rules, then to send back a message "I'm watching you" or anything like this, just to intimidate. It could also be changing any welcome message specifically to the attacker. Changing SSH port is the most suggested measure, but I'd really want to avoid doing that.

There's another instance where the attack were through AFP, which I also want to leave open. Someone added a "Pamela" folder to my dropbox, which is perfectly fine. But if I don't go there and see it's there, I don't get any notification about it and don't get to see who did it and when. Ideally I would see the exact moment and even get to interact with the user somehow.

Summing up

The solution would probably be enough if it were one software able to: get me notified of any user connection anywhere (but just once per user / attack / minute or something), take a preventive automatic measure, give an automatic response and give me options to take action if needed.

And

Sorry for such a big and long question!


texts: Why can't I go back with backspace in Safari 8?

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In every single browser on every single OS (with a keyboard) I've used, backspace would go (history.)back to the previous visited page in that tab. For some reason this doesn't work for me on my new MacBook with OSX Yosemite 10.10.1 in Safari 8.0.2. Is this normal behaviour (seriously, why?) or can I somehow enable it?
It does work in Chrome and Firefox on my MacBook.

I'm new to Mac and still need to get used to the multi-finger swipe on the trackpad, but I am aware that is another way to do this. Just want my old trusted backspace behaviour back. ;)


texts: How to Generate a Globe / Sphere of Icons / Images

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Does anyone know how to generate a sphere of icons like Apple has done in their keynotes.

Such as: http://blog.utest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/iStock_000020649912XSmall.jpg

or

http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/19391158/2/stock-photo-19391158-media-technologies-concept.jpg

I remember a few years ago Apple released an app called Core Animation or something that allowed you to create those globes and or 3d walls of images with reflections but I can't seem to find that anymore. If anyone has any advice on an app or web app that would work with a Mac that would be great. Otherwise the only option I see so far is doing it manually in photoshop like this: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/3d/create-a-spherical-3d-puzzle-with-photoshop/?search_index=2


texts: Why are my menu bar and windows in my monitor going out of the screen edge?

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This issue is really driving me nuts for a while.
I have a Mac Book Pro and using a usb C hub with an hdmi port. I am running a HDMI connector to my monitor. Its fairly decent. Acer 27P with 1080 p res and 165Hz refresh rate.
The issue is when I drag any window to the monitor screen and try to maximize it, all edges go out of the screen borders. I tried to play with the resolution settings to no avail. Even the menu bar is hidden at the top and I have to carefully move the mouse around to guess where the menu items are.
Please help me resolve this. I am hoping to make this a normal 2nd screen where all windows and menu bars are within the screen border and dont extend out of it when made full-screen. Please see the image for an idea. Thanks!


texts: Do cronjob run when the computer is asleep?

texts:
I have a macbook air running El Capitan. I wrote a few cronjob that appear to be running even when the computer is asleep.

Is this correct, or is my computer not really in a sleep state?


texts: 3 Monitors in a row and I want the dock in the middle

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I have an iMac 27 inch with a 22 inch monitor to the left and a 23 inch monitor to the right. I want the dock to be in the middle and want all monitors to be arranged from left to right. I keep my dock on the left hand side of my monitor. So when I position my monitors left to right it moves to the most left monitor.

Is there a way I can force the dock to stay on the middle monitor and not move to the left monitor?

Software version 10.11.1


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I don’t know why this is happening? In order to solve this problem, I have to turn of the power strip, which sometimes I can’t.

It keeps waking me up whenever it does.


texts: How to add a user from the command line in macOS?

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In Terminal, I used, useradd liao2, as I would also do in Linux, but it failed:

useradd liao2
-bash useradd: command not found

I also tried using sudo:

sudo useradd liao2
Password:
sudo: useradd: command not found

How can a user be added from Terminal?


texts: Show menu bar icons in Catalina defaults command not working

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In Catalina, allowed ZSH full disk access in preferences and ran

defaults write com.apple.systemuiserver menuExtras -array
    "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Bluetooth.menu"
    "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu"
    "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Displays.menu"
    "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu"
    killall SystemUIServer

Its not refreshing the menu bar to show bluetooth, volume, battery and airplay icons. Is there a change or different command that makes it work?


texts: One monitor has an orange tint while the other does not

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My macbookpro is connected to two external monitors.
The monitors are Dell U2715H

However somehow on one of the monitors looks like the night shift is turned on, and the other are not.

If I tried toggling the night shift setting, the orange tint just
switches screen.

I have tried unplug and plug. The effect stays the same.

I have tried the built-in monitor and fiddled brightness and
contracts settings. No effect. There is also not other color
temperature options.

Is there anything I can do to fix it without restarting the machine?
It is a 'MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)' running 10.14.6


texts: Can a child's device be controlled by multiple family members?

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Surprisingly, not all children live solely with one guardian. Is there any way that a child's device can be controlled by more than one adult?

The situation: My ex-wife and I have 50/50 custody of our kids, and our 13-year-old has an iPhone SE. He has an Apple ID linked to my own and Family Sharing is set up for the two of us. To help reinforce healthy phone habits, I have all extraneous apps (Instagram, Youtube, etc.) restricted by default, and only turn them on when he is specifically allowed to be using them. However, he's at his mother's place half the time, so if he wants to use his phone she has to contact me to allow them, then again when time's up. Fortunately, we are co-parenting fairly well and have very open communication when it comes to the kids, so it's not a big deal in that regard, but it's extremely inconvenient, and I'm not always able to stop what I'm doing and turn on his apps immediately.

Is it possible to associate his Apple ID with hers and add him to her Family Sharing group as well? Alternatively, if I add her as a family member to my group, can I give her the same full parental control access as me?


texts: Every track lasts 74:33:55 in iOS 10.1 Music app

texts: Every track in my Music app on iOS 10.1 displays a ridiculously long time of 74 hours 33 minutes 55 seconds, as on screenshot. Anyone know a way to fix it?


texts: Private WiFi network between OSX and Android

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I want to use a remote control app for presentations I'm giving offsite, using my Android phone as a remote for my MacBook. (the software is Unified Remote)

I have no guarantee that I can access a WiFi network offsite (or that there will even be one), so I wanted to keep things simple and just setup a private AdHoc network.

To my dismay, I have discovered that Androids do not recognise the AdHoc network created by MacBooks.

What other viable solutions are there?

I have to give presentations often, so I'm hoping for a solution that is easily switchable between normal WiFi use and "presentation mode".

Other options I've looked into
Using the connection sharing under Sharing -> Internet, but as I have no other active connection, this is disabled.

I've tried the solutions listed in this Stack Overflow question but they seem to be windows only.


texts: Can I install iBitterlich forestry app on an iPhone 4S

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I would like to get an iPhone 4S to run iBitterlich but
don't want to get internet service for the iPhone. If I buy an iPhone 4S somewhere, can I download the app via wifi to my HP Pavillion 6 laptop (and it's internet), and run it without any internet service on the phone?


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I'm trying to rename folders containing iTunes music files.
How to safely update iTunes library to avoid missing tracks?

The reason why I need to rename folders:

The music files are on a USB drive, and iTunes auto-tidying-up tricks don't seem to work.
My folders are not named after the artist-album-track canon.


texts:
Is it a way to display current date without writing manually in iCloud Numbers? Value should not change when opening again document. Also Copy and Paste Formula Result =now() does not fit my need.
Looking for something like this script in Google sheet


texts:
I need to find test binary data for the command xxd -ps file which is some GB or at least several MBs.
I am using at the moment /usr/bin/telnet but it is not big and heterogenous between different OS.

Which file is big and sufficient homogenous between different operating systems?


texts: Ordering prints other than through iphoto

texts: I would like to order photo prints off of iphoto through phanfare because I like their quality of prints better than iphoto/kodak. Is there a way to do this?


texts: I've downloaded the OS X El Capitan Installer, but when I try to put it into action, the machine refuses access to my MacIntosh HD because it says Time Machine is using the drive for backups.  How do I get Time Machine out of the way so I can upgrade the OS?


texts: Can one use Apple's Bootcamp drivers on a Parallels VM?

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So this just occurred to me: What if I installed Windows as a Parallels VM and used bootcamps drivers instead of the parallels drivers, would this work?

Something tells me it won't, and that this is a really stupid question, in part because the VM is not actually your machine, but then again, it's a VM working ON the actual machine... no?


texts: MacBook 15" (2017) - Battery Charging Problem

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Since yesterday my MacBook charges really slow, so I gave coconutBattery a try, and it showed that my MacBook is only charging with around 14 Watts. I am charging with an Apple 86W Power Supply.

So my question is with how much Watt are batteries supposed to charge?


texts: View the file names and directories of eBooks in iTunes

texts: I added eBooks from various directories to iTunes (without storing the books inside iTunes in Windows XP).  Is there a way to view the list of file names and directories?  Thanks.


texts: How to remove a number from 'Recents' on iPhone, rather deleting all?

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Since many days I am trying to achieve this, but I can only delete/ clear all recent dial, received phone numbers.

Is there an option/ hack to delete only one number at a time on my iPhone ?

I have iPhone 3GS


texts: What determines whether a Bluetooth mouse can be paired with iOS?

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There are some Bluetooth mice that can be paired with an iOS device, for example the Citrix X1, or the Swiftpoint GT. These can be used in any app that supports them, like RDP clients, etc.

A majority of Bluetooth mice do not even pair with iOS. I believe this is what prevents them from being used by apps. If they could pair, then I guess communication with them could be implemented in apps individually.

Why is that? What makes the Citrix X1 able to pair with iOS, which is missing in other mice?

The Apple Bluetooth accessory design guidelines document does not mention that the device must implement any additional Apple specific command, in order to be able to pair.

I also don't believe that every dirt cheap Chinese Bluetooth accessory's manufacturer has had their device verified, and got some signed ID for it, or whatever.

What makes the difference then?


texts: My practically brand new Macbook Pro 2020's screen elements are suddenly PINK

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I've tried powering off and on again. No love. Same with resetting PRAM.
It's even worse with Night Shift on. I need Night Shift on while working on detailed color projects at night, to save my poor old eyes. The pink windows and elements are unacceptable.
Anyone have any suggestions how to determine why my screen is pink?


texts: Downgrade iOS 10 beta 2 to iOS 10 beta 1?

texts: I'm just curious. I know you can downgrade to iOS 9.3.2 from iOS 10, but I'm wondering if it's possible to downgrade between beta versions.


texts: Macbook Pro won't display external monitor when lid is closed

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I hate that I'm having to ask this, because it's been working perfectly fine until now. I use my macbook pro as my home computer and hook it up to an external monitor and keyboard when I'm home. I do disconnect it on occasion. I unplugged it today and when I went to plug it back in and shut the lid, my monitor is saying "no connection." The monitor works fine with the lid open, but I used to be able to close it no problem.

Help!!


texts: Is a Boot Camp partition in Parallels Desktop still natively bootable?

texts: I am wondering if its possible to use Parallels Desktop with a Boot Camp partition while still being able to boot into Boot Camp natively if I need that last bit of performance?


texts: How to remove specific local symbols using `strip` on macOS?

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Using Linux, I can remove specific local symbols using strip -N SYM.

However, using strip on macOS, I can only see options -X and -x that respectively, remove all local symbols that begin with L and ALL local symbols.

When it comes to global symbols, I can use the -R filename option to remove the global symbols in filename.

Why can't I remove a specific subset of local symbols only?


texts: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' and unexpected end of file errror

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I searched a lot of similar error on Bash_Profile, but no one seems to look like mine.. I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and this is my Bash_Profile

My Bash_Profile

I always get the messages, no matter what I do, not even deleting the lines, rebooting, the error is just transferred to another line.

The error messages I get

Please, could someone point me what is going on?


texts: How does iOS 5 decide what mailbox to watch for new mail?

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I have a new iPhone 4 (not S).  I have installed iOS 5 on it.  I have configured an Exchange active-sync mailbox for my mail.

I have three Exchange rules running on incoming messages in order to sort them into three places:

filter out all low-importance messages to folder B
filter out messages that are not to me to folder B
filter out messages which are to me but I don't want to get notified-on-arrival to folder A

This theoretically leaves messages in my Inbox which are both to me and something I want to be notified about when they arrive.  If I want to look at mail in folder A, it is a few clicks and a poll away, which I can live with.

So when mail is filtered into folder B, great, it works.

When mail arrives and ends up in the Inbox, the phone vibrates and goes "Bing!"  Also great.

However.  When mail is filtered into folder A, there appear to be some circumstances where the iPhone will notify me that new mail has arrived by vibrating and going "bing!", while other times it works the way I want.

So my question is: why is the phone sometimes alerting me that mail has arrived in folder A?

Update: one thing that I maybe should have mentioned is that I'm filtering with exceptions in my rules:

Rule 1:
Criteria:
    Stuff marked low priority
Action:
    move to Inbox-Filtered-Out
    stop processing rules on this message
Rule 2:
Criteria:
    stuff marked normal priority
Action:
    move to Inbox-Filtered-Out
    stop processing rules on this message
Except:
    if it is to: or cc: me
    or if it is from (list of people which includes my wife and the pager-relayer)
    or if it is to (specific address which I am responsible for responding to)
Rule 3:
Criteria:
    stuff marked normal priority
Action:
    move to Inbox-For-Me
    stop processing rules on this message
Except:
    if it is from my wife or the pager-relayer
    or if it is to (specific address which I am responsible for responding to)

So after all that, the only things left in my Inbox (and therefore triggers the phone alerting me to its arrival) should be stuff from my wife, or something that I need to be alerted on (or is marked as High priority). The rest of the moderately important stuff ends up in Inbox-For-Me, and everything else is shunted to Inbox-Filtered-Out.

I should also mention that these three rules are the only rules I have on the Exchange account, so I'm pretty sure there isn't a race condition here.


texts: Get country specific app by restoring from iPad backup

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I have an iPad 3 that I bought while I was in India on which I have apps that I have purchased with an Indian credit card. When I came back to Singapore, I removed the Indian credit card information and added my Singapore card. I also updated my address to Singapore.

Now, the Singapore store does not have say for example, the Kindle app but the change in card or address did not remove any of my apps from the device.

I bought an iPad mini yesterday, logged in with the same Apple id but I am not able to install the Kindle app since it is not available in the Singapore store.

I want to know what would happen if I restore my iPad 3 backup onto my ipad mini. Will I be able to get back all the apps installed on the iPad 3 onto the mini?


texts: Connecting a MacBook Pro to a Windows ad hoc network

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I'm trying to share my wired ethernet connection from my Windows 7 laptop with my MacBook Pro (running 10.6.5). I've just set it up to be an open network; no encryption. I'm pretty sure I set up the ad hoc network correctly, it's broadcasting, and I can connect to the network on the mac.

The catch is that the network shows up under the "Devices" part of the menu, rather than the main networks area. I can't browse to any websites, nor connect to the Windows box via samba. The IP assigned is a 169.254 one.

Is there some setting somewhere that I missed to get this to work correctly? Do I need to manually set this up some how? Here are my network settings:


texts: Does Apple provide disk space that I can back my hard drive up to?

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As I understand, with Time Machine I need to provide a drive to back data on to.

Is there also an option to use a server managed by Apple to back up on to?

Either using Time Machine or another program.


texts: Can't locate App Store in iTunes for macOS

texts: Every time I launch iTunes on my Mac, there is no App Store item in it and I can't access the apps that I have launched on the App Store. .


texts: How do I sync my Google calendar with my iPhone?

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So I have set up my calendar on Google. I am trying to get it to sync those changes to my calendar application on my iPhone 4S. I currently have under "Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars" the following accounts:

iCloud (Contacts, Calendars and 5 more..)
Exchange (Mail, Calendars, Reminders)
Gmail (Calendars, Notes)

Fetch New Data is set to Push/Every 15 minutes. What am I not doing right? Thanks!


texts:
How can I inspect IP packets send through currently open TCP connections?
I opened a nettop utility in Terminal, which I think lists IP packet, but doesn't tell anything about their content, namely about TCP Data Stream. Any clues? I found the source and destination ports and some other data that doesn't look like http messages. I would like to see how stuff works for educational purposes.


texts: Viewing Adobe yellow sticky notes with Skim

texts:
My go-to viewer is Skim, which I really like.
However, each time I get a pdf with adobe-generated comments
I see only a yellow square but not the actual comment.
Is there anyway to see the contents of these notes in skim?
(Seems like a very severe limitation, so I hope I miss something silly.)
Thanks!


texts: Dropbox's "Manage backup" is missing on my new Mac

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I used to use Dropbox to backup my Desktop/Documents/Downloads, and it worked out fine on my old Mac.
However, I recently bought a new Macbook with the M1 chip. When I go to Dropbox -> preference -> backups, the "Manage backup" tab is missing. When I log in to my Dropbox account under the security tab, I can see my new Mac's name (M1) appear under the Device name. Can someone help me with how to enable "Manage backup" on my new Mac?
I notice that the Desktop and Downloads folders are "connected" to my old Mac. If I add or delete some files on either my old or my new Mac, the other Mac will perform the same modification. However, the Documents folder is not connected to my old Mac.


texts: Segmentation Fault Generating Self Signed Certificate using OpenSSL on OS X

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I am trying trying to generate a private key and a self signed certificate from my terminal on OS X El Capitan (10.11.1) using the commands below:

openssl genrsa 1024 > private.key
openssl req -new -key private.key -out cert.csr
openssl x509 -req -in cert.csr -signkey private.key -out certificate.pem

each command that I run returns the following error message:

  Segmentation Fault: 11

If I run which openssl, I get the following:

/usr/bin/openssl

So I assume that it has been installed correctly. Does anybody know what the issue may be ?


texts: Why AppleScript in El Capitan runs differently?

texts:
Why in El Capitan this app says 3 1 2? Before El Capitan it said 1 2 3.

When this script is double clicked, it needs to say 1 2 3.

on run
  say "1"
  testing()
end run

on testing()
  say "2"
end testing

on idle
  say "3"
  return 60
end idle

on quit
end quit


texts: Changing sublime text 3 icon in dock on Yosemite

texts:
I tried to change the Sublime Text 3 icon on the dock changing the Sublime Text.icns file in path /Applications/Sublime\

Now in the dock appears the default  app icon (the one for apps that doesn't have an icon).
How can I resolve it?
Also restoring the original Sublime Text 3 icon, and after restarting dock (with killall -KILL Dock) nothing happens.


texts: Using USB-Keyboard (connected my mbp) to control IPad via Bluetooth Connection

texts:
Hey guys I wonder if there is a way (a third-party solution maybe?) to control my IPad with the keyboard thats connected to my mbp.

Someone else on Stackexchange also asked link for this feature (Nov 2010) back then there was no other way but jailbreak the Device (whats not possible right now for the IPad 2).


texts: Set default color for signature in Preview

texts: I know how to add a signature in Preview, and once it's in place, I know how to change the color, but is it possible to change the default color from black so that I don't have to change it every time?


texts: How to change the current directory in a file/open requester [file-picker] by clicking an open Finder window below?

texts:
Years ago I've seen a great UX solution on a Mac:

in a program, say, a text editor, I choose File/Open menu,
the file open dialog comes up, with a default directory, e.g. Desktop,
I click on a Finder window, or the desktop itself, and the open dialog directory changes to the clicked window.

I found it pretty useful, because the user opens directories in Finder because he or she actually works with them, and it's trivial that he or she will open/save stuff in one of these directories.

Is there such extension out there, or my false memory is kidding with me?


texts: Using find in terminal after upgrade to Catalina

texts:
After upgrading to Catalina, I am unable to use find command in iterm2. Here is the error:

--- ~ » sudo find / -iname mysqld.sock
Password:
find: failed to read file names from file system at or below ‘/’: No such file or directory

I added iTerm2 and zsh to "Full Disk Access" group in "Security & Privacy", but this did not solve the problem.

What else should I do?


texts: Process "warmd" keep busy mac after upgrading to macOS 10.14.4

texts: After upgrading my Mac mini to macOS Mojave 10.14.4, every time I restart the computer the process "warmd" keep busy CPU and hard disk for 10-15 minutes, with great "spooling" noise and slowing down all the finder. What's happened? Its a well known bug of the upgrade?


texts: Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard doesn't work on macOS Sierra

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I have a MacBook Pro 2010 and I bought the Sculpt keyboard but I can't get it working!

The keyboard just doesn't exist for macOS Sierra.

I searched for drivers, tutorials, etc., but all I found were people trying to remap the keys. I wish I had this problem too, because that could mean that the keyboard at least was recognized by OS...

Does anyone has any tip or trick to make it work? Where to begin?


texts: Yosemite - Can't add text note at arbitrary position in Preview?

texts: Previously, when selecting the "text" tool in preview in order to add a note to a PDF, I could specify where to add this text note by clicking on a particular place of the pdf before actually typing in. However now it seems to be not the case anymore: The text box automatically appears exactly in the middle of the current page. This is incredibly inconvenient as I have to drag the them around after typing to put them exactly in place. I can't believe they have dished out such an un-intuitive design. Is there a way to revert to the old fashion, or do I have to change software for PDF?


texts: My iPhone 6s Plus doesn't want to download apps. Whenever I touch get it says that my request cannot be processed

texts:
My iPhone 6s Plus doesn't want to download apps. Whenever I tap on GET as per the above screenshot, I get an error stating:

  Your request cannot be processed. Error code: 1009.


texts: Mac OS Big Sur - mouse stutter (not a Bluetooth problem)

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I'm experiencing really annoying mouse stutter on my MacBook Pro 16 inch. When I move the cursor it's smooth for a few seconds and then it suddenly stops for a split-second before moving again. This stutter/lag is there all the time.
It started about a week ago and it doesn't stop. I restarted the computer, reset everything that is to reset on a Mac (except reinstalling the os) and it still persists.
I googled that problem and almost all posts I found relate this to the Bluetooth connection. That's not the case for me because the stutter is also there when I use the built-in trackpad.
Any ideas?


texts: Prevent Calendar on Mac from removing old entries

texts:
I'm using El Capitan, and I went to my Mac to check my calendar (which is sync'ed to iCloud). I needed to check the details of an appointment I had 3 years ago. I went back, opened that month, and I saw all my entries. And then after a second, they vanished.

Why did this happen, and how can I stop this from happening?

And, can I use Time Machine to retrieve my old Calendar entries?


texts: What is the CategoriesService daemon doing?

texts:
The CategoriesService daemon by Apple is trying to connect to the internet as shown by the Lulu firewall on my Mac. I have not found any information about this daemon online and would like to know what it is doing, why it needs to be online and if there are any downsides to blocking internet access for it. Please share if anyone knows something about this. Thank you!
The executable for MacOS 11.1 is at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Categories.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/CategoriesService.xpc


texts: I used to use nautilus . command to open the graphical folder / file viewer in red hat linux. Now I moved to mac and it seems that there is no nautilus support in it. Is there any equivalent command that I can use. My scenario is like this, I open a Terminal, go to the folder I want let's say /Users/user1/myapps and I do want to use a command that by typing it in Terminal, it bring me the graphical folder / files view where I am.


texts: Apple TV doesn't play some youtube movies

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I put this Samsara movie into my youtube favourites.

There are two unexpected issues here.

If I try to play that movie either from iPad or iPhone and display it to my Apple TV my Apple TV said that it can't play this movie.
The other strange issue is that the above movie isn't shown amongst the favorites on my Apple TV. However the youtube web interface clearly shows that it is my favorite.

This version of Baraka which is not Full HD can be played, but still doesn't show amongst my favourites despite the fact that it is there on the web UI:

Any explanation?


texts: Hard drive is failing, iMac is freezing?

texts: So this is my third hard drive that I installed on my intel Mac OS X desktop (made in 2007), and I installed Western Digital Black Caviar (which is supposed to last 3 yrs, I believe). But the hard drive is already failing: I hear tapping noises, occasionally, the hard drive clicks just once, and there's been some freezing lately (for example, when waking up my Mac from sleep mode, it freezes on black screen and finally turns on after 15 seconds). Sometimes, Safari freezes, sometimes, I get a scrambled screen with Safari open, etc. Do you have any idea why this is all happening? This Western Digital drive was installed barely two weeks ago, and now it's failing? Maybe the hard drive is not the problem?


texts: Is it possible to change the way Mac OS Mojave renders emoji from the Mac versions to the Windows versions? I prefer the darker, more vibrant Windows emoji.


texts: Install a graphics card in a MacBook Pro 2015

texts: If I buy the $1900 MacBook Pro, would it be possible to buy the AMD graphics card separately, and install it myself? I can't afford the $2499 MacBook Pro but really need a new MacBook Pro.


texts:
I have a Mac desktop computer and use Safari as my Browser on a Comcast account.  Comcast just sent a notice that they will shortly discontinue their Calendar application.   I have used this service for a long time and this is devastating to me as I depend on the calendar for notifications of important upcoming events.

Is there something comparable to the Comcast calendar service that will send me email reminders of upcoming events?

I am not the most computer literate person and will greatly appreciate any assistance in how to get this done.


texts: I cannot log in due to changed keyboard layout

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My (Danish) keyboard on my 2016 MacBook Pro has changed layout after crashing. My password contains a pipe charecter but this cannot be accessed via the normal way (alt + i) or the US Way (alt + 7).

How can I determine the keyboard layout or change it without logging in? It would also help if I could type in a non password input field to test. Is this possible?


texts: 2012 macbook pro 15 inch display into a 2012 macbook pro 13 macbook pro

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I have a 2012 13" macbook pro with a broken display and i want to know if i can fit a 15" display 2012 to the computer.
I dont care if the laptop does not open , I just need to know if the conector is the same and if it will work or have power issues.
Thanks, have a good day.


texts: Running "do script" synchronously in AppleScript

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I have the following AppleScript that I run on login:

on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "Terminal"

        do script ".../MyScript.sh"

    end tell

    return input
end run

I run MyScript.sh like this because I want the output and prompts of the script displayed in a terminal window I can see and interact with. The external terminal window is required because the script is interactive and I need to provide it with non-static input (i.e. the input I give it is different each time the script is run) each time it is run.

The problem is that do script is run asyncronously, so if I simply add quit after the do script line the terminal window is closed right away. What I want to do is to block until MyScript.sh completes execution, then quit.

Bonus point if I can somehow store the exit code returned by MyScript.h and use it later in the AppleScript, and if I'm able to somehow force the quit so that I don't have to confirm that I want to close the terminal every time.


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I am running El Capitan 10.11.3 with bash version 3.x so I decided to update bash via:

brew install bash

Brew places the new bash under /usr/local/Cellar/bash:

brew info bash

bash: stable 4.3.42 (bottled), devel 4.4-beta, HEAD
Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
/usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.42 (59 files, 7.3M) *
Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/bash.rb
==> Dependencies
Required: readline ✔
==> Caveats
In order to use this build of bash as your login shell,
it must be added to /etc/shells.

As you can see brew mentions that I need to update /etc/shells in order to use the new bash. But after closing/reopening the current shell bash --versiontells me that now I am already using 4.3.42 so I wonder what happened under the hood that the new version is automatically used?


texts: How do I disable "modern login items" (shared helper applications) which don't show up in system login items?

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Spotify auto-launches even if I tell it not to from within its own preferences.
It does not seem to be started through any of the "classic" means of auto starting a program - i.e. Login Items or user or global launch agents.
Is there any way to turn off this sort of 'modern login items' in general? (official name: shared helper applications)
Extra points for preventing auto-launching of any apps, especially after MacOS crashed.


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I want to start developing in Swift. I already own an apple developer account, yet am struggling to download Xcode (n) beta.

How can I do this?

Thank you in advance.


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For a fair amount of time I used to use LogMeIn for remote logging in but their prices are becoming to expensive lately with the Canadian dollar for it to be worth it for me.

So I decided to give the built in Screen Sharing a try. It was a quick setup and am accessing it remotely from a Windows machine using VNC viewer but my internet connection appears to be a huge bottle neck.

In VNC Viewer I only have a few options for quality, it is currently set to 'Best Compression' (8 colors) and I could do with much worse quality.

With Logmein It was possible to go even further with black/white, which would be fine with me as well. Is there any way to do this with the built in Screen sharing?

Any other suggestions to speed up the experience?

EDIT - Specs:

15in rMBP(2013?) running OS X Sierra
Using VNC Viewer on Windows 7 to access it


texts: How to protect an iPhone 4s from Internet access?

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Is there a way to disable/lock the Wi-Fi network access on an iPhone 4S?  Crazy question, I know.  But I got my son an iPhone and do not want him to have an Internet access. I disabled his data through my account with Sprint.  But with Wi-Fi he can still get on the Internet when he is within reach of open hotspots (we do not have open Wi-Fi at home).

I want to be able to disable the Wi-Fi capabilities of his iPhone so that he cannot access the Internet.
Any suggestions?


texts: How to i update an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3.5 offline

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i was able to update my iPhone 4S and iPad via the option on the settings menu however i iPhone 4 which i use as my music player doesn't have that option, my computer with itunes doesn't connect to the internet so i can't download it via itunes

i am wondering if there is an offline installer i can download that itune can detect to use, that way i can download it on a separate computer then transfer it to my main computer