texts:
I have a MacBook at home, where I have a webcam connected to.

The problem is I'm not at home and the surveillance software I'm using can't see it.

Is it possible to simulate taking the USB cable out and putting it back in again?


texts: Can't add things to Wallet under Family Sharing

texts: My daughter is on my Family Sharing, and it correctly registers her as 14. However, the "+" button does not appear in the Wallet app on her phone. How do I fix this?


texts: How can I back up the phone numbers on my iPhone?

texts: I've just synchronized my iPhone and backed up contacts in both Outlook and GMail. However, it has saved the email addresses only. How can I back up the phone numbers on my phone?


texts: Can I simply make a partition on my Mac, install an OS to it, and boot from it via Startup Manner?

texts: On my Mac, can I simply create a new partition in Disk Utility, install an Operating System to it, such Arch Linux, and then boot from it by holding alt/option during boot (Startup Manager)?


texts: How can I mount Microsoft OneDrive as a network drive in OSX?

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I have a 50GB OneDrive account which is basically full.

I'd like to store/access stuff directly on/from my OneDrive by mounting as a network share, rather than syncing with my Mac, and therefore using up 50GB of Mac HDD space.

This is possible on Windows, and I can confirm this works on my OneDrive account.

On Mac, I try the equivalent, e.g.:

This correctly asks for credentials:

But then fails:

Any ideas?


texts: Upgrade then restore, or the other way around?

texts:
I'm in a situation where I simply cannot upgrade my Mac – the installer says that my disk cannot be used as a startup disk. This probably has to do with me installing dual-boot partitions, but I'm not sure.

I've decided to just wipe the disk and restore from backup. In the process, I'd like to upgrade to the most recent Mac OS version as well.

My question is simply: what is the most reasonable approach – upgrade the OS using a USB stick and then read back from the backup disk, or the other way around: restore from the disk, then run the upgrade?

Thanks.


texts: How to stream audio to multiple AirPlay devices

texts:
I have a MacBook, two Airport Express devices, a SoundBar with AirPlay ability, and a bluetooth speaker. I want to stream this laptop's audio to all devices from any program - at a minimum all the AirPlay devices.

Through iTunes (still running High Sierra on this MacBook) I can select all AirPlay devices, and this works great:

Using the Audio MIDI Setup program I can also set up a Multi-Output Device which plays audio via the MacBook and the Bluetooth speaker:

I can connect one AirPlay device in Audio MIDI Setup, and add it to the Multi-Output Device, but it does not actually send the audio to the Bathroom. Only the MacBook and Bluetooth speaker.

I am quite happy with just the AirPlay devices, but this only works via iTunes.  As I play most of my music through YouTube Music these days, I am wondering if there is any program that will let me send the computer's audio to all AirPlay devices in this way?  And if possible, to the bluetooth speaker also would be amazing.


texts: iTunes Match error 4010 when adding songs to iCloud

texts:
I have been using iTunes Match for 6 months or so and have been reasonably happy with the service. However over the past 2-3 days I get an error when I try to add new songs to iCloud:

We could not complete your iTunes Store request.
An unknown error occurred (4010).

There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later.

I have restarted iTunes, rebooted my Mac but it made no difference.

Researching online shows lots of people going through all kinds of steps such as blowing away their whole iTunes library to fix this - often without success.  As this is not a new problem I am hoping someone will know the proper fix for it.

Thanks in advance.


texts: MacBook Pro - Mechanical Popping/Clicking Sound

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I keep on getting this Popping/Clicking sound randomly throughout regardless of whether the speaker is on or not. The sound seems to be coming from the physical machine, perhaps the screen or the motherboard-—it is not coming from the speaker.

I did the AppleCare warranty, which they simply stated they could not reproduce the said popping/clicking sound.

This issue had been posted in the Apple.com discussion, and no solutions. There are people saying Apple monitors the discussion forum and delete those posts.

This is frustrating. Does anyone experience this and/or know how to fix this issue?

My extended AppleCare ended after they returned the item to me saying they could not reproduce the said problem.


texts: Why don't new (service) accounts added by `dscl` don't show up in `/etc/paswd` after system reboot?

texts:
I've added some new (service) accounts to my macOS system using dscl with names like _www to run installed services.

However, while the system recognizes the account names in commands (the accounts actually exist), they don't show up in /etc/passwd like the standard _www account.

How can I make my dscl-created accounts show up in /etc/passwd for consistency?


texts: I have run out of space on my 16gb iPad . Over 7.2 go are my photos and video. Is it possible to separate my photos and keep most on iCloud or iTunes, accessing only when I wish to review them.  How can I do so if possible.  I need to free up space. Also, any quick way to delete duplicate photos or files?


texts: iPhone App Update from a Development Point of View

texts: I am doing iPhone development and my first app is in the market. First week was pretty good but now it is loosing momentum. If I provide an update to the app will it improve the app exposure in the iPhone app store.


texts: How to transfer videos from Mac to iPhone so I can post a video to Instagram?

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I created a 15 second video on my Mac and want to post it to Instagram.

I've tried converting it to Quicktime with iTunes and adding it to the iPhone that way, but I can't see the video in the Photos on the iPhone.

I've also tried reducing the file size and emailing it to myself and opening the email on the iPhone and downloading the attachment, but it doesn't load it to Photos so I can't access the video anywhere on the phone. I've even tried opening the mail attachment video in a video editor on my iphone, "videoshop," which supposedly saves the video to my Camera roll, but again, I can't see the video in Photos, so I can't upload the video.

Mac is system 10.7.5
iPhone 5 with iOS 8.3


texts: Is there a macOS alternative to delaycut or eac3to?

texts:
I'm looking to edit some audio tracks for movies without reencoding them.

I've searched online, and apparently delaycut and eac3to would be good for what I'm aiming to do (according to an Original Trilogy forum post).  The problem is that that they're both Windows-exclusive applications.  A possible alternative might be Audio Cutter, but some of the reviews on the App Store have me hesitant to pay for it.

Can anyone suggest a macOS application that can do what I want to do?  (I'd prefer something free, but if there's no free option, that's fine.)


texts: iCloud says that backups are using 3 GB of space, but there are no backups

texts:
My iCloud account shows that I have ~3 GB of backups, but when I check on all devices using this account, backups are off and no backups are showing.

The storage bar.

The backups list... empty!


texts: Is it safe to delete dSYM files on Mac OS X?

texts: I've got a few large dSYM files on my machine, installed by the Qt Framework. As I understand they are used for debugging, however I don't actually need to debug the library itself. Is it safe to delete these files?


texts: Can you fit a 2012 Macbook Pro non-retina display onto a 2015 retina Macbook Pro laptop?

texts: My display is broken but it seems that the cheapest display out there for the exact same display that I used to have is a prohibitive $500.  The 2012 displays though which are not retina, seem to be $130 and hence not an unreasonable purchase.  Does anyone know if a Macbook Pro circa 2012 non-retina display is compatible with a mid-2015 Macbook Pro retina?


texts: Is there a QuickLook preview for plain-text files with unknown extensions?

texts:
A similar question was asked here but the answer refers to something called QL Stephen, which only claims to preview files with no extension.  I need something that will show previews of files with extensions that are unknown to the Finder.  They are all plain-text files.  And, it needs to run on Lion (10.7).

To clarify: I'm not looking for a default QL for any unknown extension, but rather for one that will preview certain specific extensions (e.g., .sps, .fort) as plain text.


texts: Diskutil how to merge unaccessible partition

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I have my main partition, disk0s2, which needs to be enlarged because I am out of memory. My SSD is of 480 GB capacity and is split in many partitions. The ones that I try to merge to the main one (disk0s2) are disk0s6 and disk1s1(which was disk0s5 before but somehow I managed to send it to disk1 (synthesized) using the eraseVolume command.

How can I merge disk0s6 and disk1s1 to the main partition (disk0s2)? I also tried to do it in Partition window in Disk Utilty but it didn't allow me to perform any operations.

Here is the diskutil list result:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         195.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:           Linux Filesystem                         54.4 GB    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED             8.0 GB     disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                93.3 GB    disk0s6

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +195.7 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            187.5 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 42.0 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.4 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.1 GB     disk1s4

And a ss from Partition in Disk Utility:

I have managed to merge the last two, this is my situation now:

The diskutil list result:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         195.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:           Linux Filesystem                         54.4 GB    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         228.5 GB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +228.5 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s4
   1:                APFS Volume OSXRESERVED             938.0 KB   disk1s1

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +195.7 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            187.0 GB   disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 42.0 MB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.4 MB   disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.1 GB     disk2s4

Can I apply the solution presented here? https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/235580/353022


texts: Problem booting from a DVD: How do I eject the DVD?

texts:
I tried to install Windows 7 on Bootcamp, but the Windows 7 boot CD has a boot problem about code 5.
The Windows 7 installation DVD is in the DVD driver. How can I eject the DVD from the drive, and boot normally?


texts:
I'm planning to purchase a printer + scanner soon and want to have one that will be able to work with Mac, as well as Windows machines. I am hoping for one that will have a wireless printing/scanning feature.

There are certain types of printers that I heard that work with Macs, but I'm not sure what differentiates them from other normal printers.

What's the difference?


texts: Terminal commands are truncated when scrolling through history

texts:
Pretty simple question, when I press the up arrow to scroll through previous commands, they show up as truncated, even though the terminal is wide enough (and displays output beyond the truncation point):

[2017-10-02 17:38:34,046] WARN Session 0x0 for server null, unexpected error, closing socket connection and attempting reconnect (org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn)
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)
    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:717)
    at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNIO.doTransport(ClientCnxnSocketNIO.java:361)
    at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:1141)
<er my.zook.com:2181 --list

The last line in that shows the truncated command, which should have been along the lines of ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper my.zook.com:2181 --list. Any help getting it to stop truncating would be great. Thanks!


texts:
I did something mildly dumb and decided I'd finally try updating my old iPod Touch 5 to the latest version of iOS (9.3.5) from the iOS 7.1.2.

Unfortunately, while it meant that some of my apps worked better, it also introduced a good 10s input lag whenever I wanted to unlock the screen or change songs more than once. I tried using a backup from before the update, but for some reason it kept the iOS version at 9.3.5, so I tried downloading 8.4.1 and updating from that .ipsw file.

The update failed with an error 3194 (presumably, 8.4.1 has exited the "signing window" I saw mentioned when I was downloading the .ipsw and thus won't update properly), and now my iPod Touch is locked into recovery mode.

Is there a solution to circumvent the update verification, or otherwise restore my iPod to its former, functional state? Or am I doomed to either an unconscionable amount of lag or buying a more recent iPod?


texts: Will any AirPrint-compatible printer work with macOS Catalina?

texts:
There seems to be a lot of confusion around which printers can be made to work with macOS Catalina. Now that 32-bit print drivers are no longer supported on Catalina, that seems to break compatibility with a lot of older consumer-grade printers.

But what about AirPrint? Since AirPrint seems to always work from an iOS device without needing to install any driver, does that also guarantee that the printer would work with macOS Catalina?


texts: Graphic corruption in Finder when opening specific directories

texts:
Since yesterday, my MacBook started to have rendering issues in the Finder app when I open specific directories.

I managed to fix some of them by removing the .DS_Store file in those directories. But now I have one that occurs every time.

Do you guys have an idea of how this can be fixed ?
I bought this macbook one week ago so I don't know what to think..

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
2,9 GHz Intel Core i7
16 Go 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Radeon Pro 560 4 Go
Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 Mo
Mac OS High Sierra 10.13 (17A405)


texts: Trying to restart a MacBook Pro that went off by itself with a battery that indicated "Service Battery"?

texts:
My daughter's MacBook Pro (Late 2011 model) just went off while she was using it.

Battery was reporting that it required servicing, so apparently, she was pushing it.

After it went black, it would not turn on anymore, even though it said the battery was full (before it went off) and the charger was plugged in.

Now when the charger is plugged in, the charge light flickers very faintly or is a constant faint green (really faint).  The charger is good because it can charge my son's MacBook Pro just fine and shows a bright orange while charging.

We've tried long power button holds to force a restart, but nothing seems to work.

Update: MacBook Pro was brought to an Apple store. They swapped out the battery and put in a new Magsafe connector which they assumed might be faulty. Neither of those fixed the problem. So they suspected it was the Logic Board and said it needed to be sent out.

This MacBook Pro was sent out previously and received a logic board replacement earlier in 2014. Now it's potentially going to get another logic board replacement. We told the representative at the Mac service desk (aka Genius Bar?), and they said something about there not being a warranty on the logic board and they don't have a "defined lifetime". If it is a logic board, that will make it the third logic board that's been in this MacBook Pro.


texts: Apple "13 2011 MacBook Pro touchpad battery faulty issue. (10.13.6 software problem)

texts:
Recently, my school that gave me that laptop asked it back, and it removed the battery. I'm forced to use the charger but that is not the question right now.
I currently need help because it doesn't actually show the settings in the trackpad settings, instead it thinks i'm using an iMac because it has bluetooth trackpad + keyboard connection.
The issue and the pictures:

You might see this kind of a post alot now, it's an issue on high sierra. I recently re-installed it because of performance slow-down, actually that is not the thing i'm talking about right now.
I currently have no other idea other than downgrading to 10.12 sierra
Any ideas how to fix the trackpad?


texts: Is it possible to mirror emojis on an iPhone

texts:
I would like to use a mirrored emoji() in an imessage  - is that possible?
(I am interested in both mirrored, flipped and rotated emojis)

I have tried to use http://fliptext.net but is does not support emojis. I have tried to take a screenshot, and crop it to only the emoji(and rotate it), but for some reason it also gets stretched. What is the resolution of original emojis? -maybe a mirrored emoji can be prepared on a computer and transferred to the phone?

Edit : I would like the new emoji-picture to look just as nice as the original(resolution, antialiasing and size) - I have had no luck achieving this.


texts:
I accidentally deleted my /bin folder. My computer is now permanently stuck at the Apple screen with an infinite spinning indicator.

I have:

Inserted my Snow Leopard DVD
Held down c - nothing
Held down option - shows me Macintosh HD, but then hangs

I am not sure how I can just start fresh and install a clean build of Snow Leopard?


texts:
I have read several places, that iOS 5.1 is supposed to contain an updated version of the camera app that has a face detection feature.

I have updated my iPhone 4S to 5.1, but can't find any such feature.

Am I missing something, or are the rumors/mentions of the face detection false?


texts: How do I get Automator to process images using ImageMagick in a command script?

texts:
I'm making an Automator workflow that uses the shell script action to process a selection of images with the imagemagick composite command. Only I'm having issues getting it going. According to the results I get when I run the workflow, everything is working however, I know it's not due to the fact that the changes I'd expect to see in the folder of images are not present. I know that the imagemagick command I'm using is correct as it works correctly from the console. (I echoed the composite command to the output & copied it into a Terminal session. Ran like a charm). BTW: The workflow's for processing a fade in on a stop motion movie I made. Yes I know I could use video tools to achieve the same thing, but the ones I have access to screw up the image quality on output.

Here's the script

imagesCount=$#
rate=$(echo "scale=2; 100/$imagesCount"|bc)
percentage=$rate
for f in "$@"; do
    fileName=${f%.*}
    composite -blend "$percentage" -size 1280x720 "$f" xc:black -alpha Set "$fileName-1.jpg"
    percentage=$(echo "scale=2; $percentage+$rate"|bc)
done

At first I thought at the cause of the problem might be spaces in the paths, but I removed this possibility by shifting the files to a path without spaces, but that had no effect.

I'm almost certain the issue is related to something in the bash command but I don't know bash at all, this is my first time writing any bash command scripts, but I am very knowledgeable in Windows console scripting and would have no trouble getting this to work there.

If the error in the script isn't obvious enough to catch, would someone propose a method to debug this so I can figure out why the images are not getting processed even though the script runs without error?


texts:
I've inserted music into the presentation and the song is 5 mins long. There are 21 slides. After exporting the presentation to a movie, and then playing the movie, the song stops playing at 41 seconds, at about the 4th slide. It doesn't matter if I move the slides arounds - the music always stops at 41 secs when saved as a movie.

When I am in Keynote the song continues throughout if I play the presentation from the start. I want the music to play in the movie through all the slides.

The music file is 5 mins long. It is set to play continuously per slide.


texts:
I am running OSX Lion on a Macbook Pro. Some website suggested I put in a command in the terminal to 'increase my graphics performance' by turning off BeamSync. The command was:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Compositor -dict deferredUpdates 0

The performance of this Mac is now utterly pathetic. Animations do not run properly and some of them are missing completely. Its like the GFX card has been disabled.

I tried running the command again with a 1, but it did not help. Does the deferredUpdates setting get cached somewhere, or enable something else thats causing the issue?


texts:
I have an iPhone 5 and need to buy an app which is quite expensive. The first question: if I want to use this app on my iPad (which has the same Apple ID), would I have to buy it again or not?

The second question: I am thinking about buying an iPhone 6 after 2-3 months and then selling my iPhone 5, would I have to buy this app again or not?


texts: iPad Pages: replacing the wood effect theme

texts: Is there any way to replace the brown wood-effect toolbars used by Pages on the iPad with something more neutral?


texts: Problem seeing Macintosh HD under Boot Camp

texts:
I can't see the Macintosh HD partition under Windows 10 in Boot Camp. I've already followed some guides on how to solve this problem that talk about CoreStorage etc...

Now when I get this:

sudo diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

I still can't see the drive from Windows, what should I do?

My Mac is a 13" Mid-2012
macOS Sierra 10.12.3
Windows 10


texts: Is there an easy way (that I didn't find yet) the move quickly from one place to another while listen to a podcast or a song (as it was possible on my provious iPod Nano whith the "wheel" button) ?


texts: How can I apply tags in Mavericks recursively?

texts:
Now that Mavericks removed that ugly colored bar and replaced it with a nice looking dot, I would like to use tags more.

Basically I have work files in different places that deal with different projects and I would like to apply the tag for all the files included in specific folders. The files may move around into new folders (outside of the original folder) in the future so I would like to apply a tag recursively to a folder so that I can find it easier if it gets moved out of its folder.


texts:
I'm running Linux in a VM on my VMWare Fusion. I want to use qemu-kvm within the Linux VM (yes, I know it's not efficient).

QEMU reports the following problem:

Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory
failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory


texts: Can a thief change my Apple ID and password on a stolen iPod touch?

texts: I can't locate my iPod and I know it is being used and has Wi-Fi but when I try to locate it's saying incorrect ID or password. Can a thief change or erase your Apple ID and password? The thief picture has now replaced mine when I look on my girlfriend's iPod.


texts: Completely delete files from Trash on SSD

texts:
I've found a file with my personal information in it and I didn't want anyone to see them. So, I trashed the file and permanently deleted it.

Now, I've found out that when you delete a file from the Trash, you only remove a link to it (a pointer).

How do I completely remove it from my hard drive?

Should I make a very large file full of zeros to overwrite the sectors no longer in use, completely full up my hard drive, then delete it?
Are there any free, open source tools to recover the file so I know it's gone or not?

I am using MacBook with a SSD drive. If this question is not suitable, please merge it.


texts: Mac Mini with lots of I/O errors and related issues, trouble identifying culprit

texts:
Setup:
Mac Mini 2011 with two drives:

SSD with OS X Yosemite and admin account home folder
HDD with my user home folder

Symptoms:
It began as many months of seemingly random slowdowns/beach balls, but the issues would go away (often after reboot, Safe Boot restart, or reinstall of OS X) then resurface periodically.  Recently (last week), problems escalated to being completely unable to login to my user account (logging into the admin account works fine).  When I try to login to my user, the loginwindow process crashes and it returns me to the list of users.
In Console, I’m also seeing lots of 'kernel: disk1s2: I/O error's (this is the HDD with my user home folder).  By lots, I mean it ranges from 1 per minute to 1 every 10 minutes or so.  Obviously the 3 big suspects are the HDD, the SATA cable, and the logic board.
Troubleshooting:

From the Admin account, I created a new user account stored on the
HDD.  I have been able to login to it, but it is exhibiting similar
symptoms to what I observed in my primary user account (extremely
slow, lots of beachballs).
I reinstalled OS X and tried multiple Safe Boot reboots (both of
which have previously helped when encountering slowdowns and random
beach balls).
I replaced the SATA cable with no improvement.
I removed the HDD and used it as an external USB drive on another Mac
and was able to access/scan the whole drive with no observed issues
or slowdowns and no I/O errors.
Disk Utility ‘Verify Disk’ comes up clean every time and the
S.M.A.R.T. status is Verified.
I ran the Disk Warrior hardware test and it said the drive is
functioning normally.
I ran the Apple Hardware Test (Diagnostics tool) multiple times (both
quick and extended) and it has never reported any errors with the
drive, logic board, RAM, or any other hardware.

It sort of feels like a hard drive problem, but I have no proof of it.  Since everything else comes up clean, I'm left with the logic board, but no way that I know to test it other than the Apple Diagnostics tool (which shows no problems).  I’d hate to waste money on replacing the hard drive or on repairing the logic board without knowing which is failing (if either).
Any suggestions on further troubleshooting steps, particularly to determine if it’s the hard drive or the logic board?
Side note - yes, I have backups to restore from :)
Thanks


texts: Migrating from Linux to OSX and have a few questions

texts:
I've read this question and still have a few concerns.

I've been using linux for a number of years and was wondering if some of the features I have learned to rely on are present in OSX (on a Macbook Pro, if it matters).

Is OSX's terminal still BASH? And if it isn't, how easy is it for me to install it on my system?
Will I be able to compile software (usually designed for Linux) on my mac and use it?
How easy is it for me to dual-boot on a macbook (OSX & Linux)? Is it even possible?


texts: Belkin USB-C LAN not functioning on MacOS

texts:
I have a 2018 Macbook pro with MacOS 10.13.6.
To have a more stable connection (compared to WiFi) I got a "Belkin USB-C to Ethernet Adapter".
Initially, the adapter had a self-assigned IP which I fixed by changing how the IPv4 in Network settings is configured from DHCP to DHCP with manual address. Now the status is green and the device is assigned an IP address. However, there is still no connectivity through this device.
Any help is appreciated.


texts:
I need to use mkfs.jffs2 command on Mac OS X. On Linux, the command is installed with mtd-tools package, but I can't find it from homebrew.

I tried to build from the source, but I have numerous compilation errors including some linux headers, so I didn't try further.

I also found http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#mkfs.jffs2, but the link is gone.

I installed e2fsprogs with brew install e2fsprogs from How to erase and reformat SD card to ext3 on my macbook to prepare it for my raspberry pi, but it installs only mkfs.extX commands.

Why there seems to be no mkfs.jffs2 on Mac OS X? Is there any equivalence on Mac OS X?


texts: 3 finger swipe gesture while on guest user account

texts:
Firstly, I have the latest OS X installed (10.11.2) and when I log in to the Mac with my administration account everything regarding the trackpad gestures works smoothly.

What impresses me is that  when I create a guest user account, then I cannot resize any window with the 3 finger swipe gesture (yes, I have checked the settings). However, if I press hard the trackpad and swipe, then it works.

Does anyone have a similar problem?

I have already tried SMC/PRAM reset and deleting/disabling the account but the problem persists.

UPDATE: This problem occurs no matter the type of account I create (i.e. even if I create an extra administration account).


texts: I gave my old iPhone 4 to my friend and it has been unlocked however we seem to be linked as she receives all my shared photos. Now she wants to set up Gmail on her phone and it seems locked on my email address. Can you help please.


texts: iPhone backup error - BackupAgent2 - Error uploading "" to "":

texts:
I have an iPhone 6s and I'm using iOS 11.2.5

I tried running a backup from iTunes, but got the following error:

  iTunes could not back up the iPhone "[iphone name]" because an error occurred while reading from or writing to the iphone.

I've tried multiple computers, OSX, Windows, older iTunes, but always got the same error.

On OSX I've opened the Console app, to see what's going on in the background, and found that the following lines are logged, when the error happens [image]:

error   [date]  BackupAgent2    <private>
error   [date]  BackupAgent2    Error uploading "<private>" to "<private>": <private>
error   [date]  BackupAgent2    Backup error - <private>

I found on some forums that this error log message used to contain a filename instead of <private> (which usually were a corrupted image file) and as a user removed it on the phone, the error disappeared. But it looks like Apple suppressed a lot of things in logs.

I also found a command sudo log config --mode "private_data:on" to force display these <private> data, but this seems to work on OSX apps only, not on iPhone logs.

So unfortunately here, I came to a dead end.

Can someone help me identify the corrupted file(s), force displaying more detailed errors, or tell me anything else I can do?


texts: kernel_task uses up over 50% cpu usage until I open Activity Monitor

texts:
My mac is slower than it used to be a week ago. I may have downloaded some sort of malware, but I did a Malwarebytes scan and it found absolutely nothing on my computer. I also personally scanned through all the files and found nothing suspicious.

The problem is that when I open Activity Monitor, it displays a very high cpu usage for a second, then it immediately goes down. I have seen examples of this where the virus only activates when the cpu usage is not shown.

I am completely up to date with my OS and software updates, so I am very certain that the operating system itself is not the problem.


texts: I want to play one podcast only on iPod Touch, but they play in series one after the other

texts:
I download multiple podcasts from one source, eg, five episodes of Naked Scientists.  I want to listen to one only, but when the first finishes it automatically goes to the second, and third etc.

I want to listen to just one episode at a time and have the iPod Touch turn off when it is finished (this is a sleep-aid for my insomnia...I don't want it playing all night !)

A "Genius" suggested making playlists, but although you can make a podcast playlist, it does NOT sync.


texts: I was trying to jailbreak my iPhone 4 (OS 4.3.5) but

texts:
I was trying to jailbreak my iPhone 4 (OS 4.3.5) using this link http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-4.3.5-ios-iphone-4-3gs-ipod-touch-4g-3g-ipad-1-using-redsn0w-how-to-tutorial/

The problem is that when I followed the steps, it isn't working

It has unrecognized specified IPSW.

The IPSW I downloaded from http://www.redmondpie.com/download-ios-4.3.5-for-iphone-4-3gs-ipad-2-1-and-pod-touch-direct-links/ iPhone 4 (GSM).

Does anyone know what's happening here?


texts: Time capsule wired backup transfer slow with fast "bursts"

texts:
I have recently bought a 3TB A1470 Time capsule (the latest, 'tall' ac model) to replace a 2TB A1409 (the 'flat' one, n model).

The Airport utility was helpful in moving the network settings over from one device to the next.

I would also like to transfer the exiting backup as per these instructions, i.e. by connecting the old time capsule to the new one and connecting my macbook to the old time capsule.

Everything works but according to the estimates, copying over 1.4 TB of backup would take 2 days over what is supposedly all Gigabit Ethernet connections...

Finding this a bit ridiculous I decided to look at the troughput over my connections using Activity Monitor:

300 GB in, the results are quite odd: most of the time, throughput is quite low, hovering around 5MB/s but every few minutes or so the speed will increase dramatically (as pictured) but these higher speeds can never be maintained.

Both TC's are on the latest firmware, as is my macbook Air. Wireless on both TC's is disabled and the computer is not doing anything else and fully up-to-date.

Could it be that the TC's are throttling their CPU's or something?

EDIT

I also noticed that with increasing throughput, the CPU usage on the macbook goes up, but this might be normal as I am using the Thunderbolt GigE adapter.

EDIT 2

After giving rsync a try as outlined here it seems that my concept of what a .sparsebundle is, is wrong.

After running rsync, it started to secures through thousands of files... so probably, the sparse bundle is not treated as a single huge file that needs to be copied but rather like a directory of files. This might explain variations in transfer speed? (just thinking out loud here)


texts: iWork Numbers increase column size for sum

texts:
If I have columns that sum at the bottom, how can I have the sum function automatically include a newly inserted row.

    a
  +---+
1 | 1 |
2 | 1 |
3 | 1 |
4 | 1 |
  +---+
  |=sum(a1:a4)|

Then when I add row 5 the sum function should be

=sum(a1:a5)


texts: How to enable OS X screen sharing (VNC) through SSH?

texts:
I forgot to turn on "VNC viewers may control screen with password",
to enter on my working Mac,
is there way to turn-on this feature remotely via SSH (I'm on WindowsXP now)?


texts:
Using sudo find has randomly stopped working for me. It used to work as expected but now just hangs forever and just says:

  find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
  find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory

ls -lOeR /dev/fd/* says that /dev/fd/0, /dev/fd/1, and /dev/fd/2 are character special files and that 3 and 4 are directories, all owned by root.

It then says:

  /dev/fd//3:
  ls: 3: Not a directory
  ls: 4: directory causes a cycle

/dev/fd//3 has two slashes before the three which I don't understand either. Does anyone know what is going on with find and why this randomly started. I'm not able to use find anymore and had previously never even heard of /dev/fd.


texts: Bash shell script to locate and remove substring within a filename

texts:
I am trying to write a bash shell script (which is called by an Automator Action) to rename TV show DVD rips that I have named badly over the years. I want to remove part of the text in the filenames. I want to remove the text that appears after a specific series of characters that I know will always appear in the filename. But I do not know how many characters will appear before or after the known series of characters. I also don't know if the before or after text will contain multiple periods or dashes. An example would probably help:

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.xxxxxxxx.mp4

I know that each file will always contain a string in the format of SxxExx where the x's are always numbers. But I do not know what the numbers will be. I want to get the filename up to and including the SxxExx string and the file extension but strip out everything else. So for the above example I would end-up with:

The.Big.Bang.Theory.S01E01.mp4

I have tried using bash's built-in string replacement commands. I thought the expr index command would give me the integer start point of the SxxExx string and then I could use ${filename:offset:length} to extract only the required part of the filename (i already know the extension so that can be re-added). But it seems the OS X version of expr doesn't include the index functionality. I have only scripted in Basic and LotusScript before. In those environments this would have been fairly easy using commands such as 'Like' and 'Instr' or 'Mid'. But in bash I just can't figure it out. I have spent hours googling trying to understand how to use regular expressions to locate the 'SxxExx' substring in the filename but I just can't figure it out. I hope some clever UNIX scripters will be able to help me!


texts: How to switch language of OS X dictionary?

texts: In Mountain Lion the OS X internal dictionary that you can fire up by right clicking a word, or by using the dashboard widget, seems to have gained at least one new language: German. Since German is my main language, but I also read a lot of English texts and website, I'd like to switch the dictionary languages on the fly. How can I do this?


texts: Lots of inactive memory after watching HD/DVD movies

texts:
I'm the owner of mid 2010 iMac (core i7) with 16GB memory installed.Normally, Mac OS X (SL and Lion) never uses swap (that is page ins/outs = 0), there are always 3-8GB of free memory. But after watching a few DVD/h264 movies, there are only 50-100*MB* of free memory and swap is used actively. Looks like video files are mapped into system memory, since the amount of inactive memory ~= size of files. The only workaround is to use purge utility.

I'm looking for a solution which is better than running purge every time I looked a movie.

uptime:

4:08  up 3 days,  7:35, 5 users, load averages: 0,71 0,76 0,71

vm_stat:

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free:                         738409.
Pages active:                      1715722.
Pages inactive:                     536891.
Pages speculative:                  857329.
Pages wired down:                   344323.
"Translation faults":           1067897384.
Pages copy-on-write:               6068992.
Pages zero filled:               591232281.
Pages reactivated:                 1906255.
Pageins:                           5019598.
Pageouts:                           861857.
Object cache: 16 hits of 1354202 lookups (0% hit rate)


texts:
Which DLNA Server do you recommend to install on my mac to make it work with my Sony Bravia?

UPDATE: Mainly interested in support for mkv videos.


texts:
I've been speaking into my Mac for the last couple of years.

I'm starting a fresh OSX.

If I understand correctly, the speech recognition improves over time.

Is it possible to migrate my old profile, so it doesn't have to learn from scratch?


texts: iPad still makes faint noise even though silent mode is turned on

texts:
I use an iPad pro 3rd gen 12.9 wifi 256 GB.

I turned on silent mode from the Control Centre and even turned off system volume from settings.

I also turned off the volume of music or video

But, still, faint noise leaks from my iPad's speaker when I play video or music on this condition

How can I turn off the sound perfectly, or is it a flaw of the iPad?

If it is, how can I solve this problem?


texts: Best way to check in bash if Command Line Tools are installed?

texts:
Using bash, I want to check if Command Line Tools are installed.

Currently they are and when I type xcode-select --install I get:

  xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use
  "Software Update" to install updates It appears Homebrew is already
  installed. If your intent is to reinstall you should do... blah blah
  blah

Basically my problem is that I have several methods to check in bash (using if / fi) but I don't know which solution is the best one.

1) I can do xcode-select -p and that returns the path /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools but then how I should build the if statement? I don't know what will be presented when CLT are not installed.

2) I can do xcode-select --version. Should I then grep for a phrase version since I get

  xcode-select version 2343.

3) I can do which xcode-select but again, in all cases I'm not sure how the if should look like. I also think that grep is not the best way, since in the future the output may be different in future version of OSX.

To sum up I would like something like

#!/bin/bash
if [ no idea ]; then
    #installed, nothing to do...
else
    xcode-select --install
fi

Thanks for any suggestions.


texts: Can an app that was removed from the Mac App Store be re-downloaded?

texts:
I do a clean install whenever I upgrade my OS to a new major release.

I know Coda 1 is no longer in the App Store and isn't supported by Panic anymore but I'd like to keep using it because it works for my needs. I am curious whether Coda 1 can be re-downloaded on the Mac App Store under "Purchases" after I install a clean OS (particuarly Mountain Lion later this month)?

If not, can I copy the App to a USB drive and put it manually in to a cleanly installed OS and will it work?


texts: How can I get my laptop's existing system onto a new replacement drive?

texts:
I'm planning to swap out my early 2011 MBP's drive for a larger capacity one. I'm running Mac OS 10.7.5.

I have available a 1 TB external USB-connected drive that I'm using for Time Machine backups.

I also have a SATA-to-USB adapter.

I'm pretty sure I have a compatible OS X install disk that I could boot from.

So given all that, what would be the most efficient way to get my old system onto the new drive? Should I copy it onto there before or after putting it into the machine?

Would the Time Machine backup help me out in any way?


texts: Using Magic Keyboard + Mouse with 2 MacBook Pros (MacOS Catalina)

texts: I have two MacBook Pros running MacOS Catalina. On my desk, I have an external monitor and a Magic Keyboard & Mouse. I'd like to easily switch the keyboard & mouse between the two laptops when I connect them to the external display. Right now, I have to re-pair the keyboard and mouse everytime I want to switch. Is there a way to automatically have the keyboard/mouse pair to whichever computer is awake and running?


texts:
I have a 3TB external HD that works both Mac and PC for storage. I understand the "best" way to back up the Mac would be partition the external as explained here: Time Machine - can it share external drive with Windows backups?

However I do not need to back up a PC, just the Mac OSX.

Does this allow to still be able to transfer files from the Mac and PC using the NTFS partition? I've never had luck with externals working both Mac AND PC, so I'm a bit nervous about reformatting it right away.


texts: Can I upgrade my iPad 2 to iOS 9 after the release of iOS 10?

texts:
With the imminent release of iOS 10, I'm wondering if I should upgrade my iPad 2 to iOS 9 now. Specifically, I'd like to know if I will still be able to do that after iOS 10 is released? (Currently at iOS 7)

I know that I'll be forced to upgrade one day, as some app I like won't support iOS 7 anymore, but I'm also aware that it will make my iPad even slower, so I'd like to hold off as long as possible. But, I don't want to end up in a situation where I can't upgrade to 9 anymore, e.g. because Apple stops signing for 9 after the release of 10?


texts:
I use iMessage/SMS on my Mac linked from my iPhone, I have been having issues with it on my Mac lately with the unread count being incorrect.

It says that there is a message unread when its been read on both my phone itself and my Mac. I have even deleted the conversation from my Mac but the count is still there.

It seems to be from the SMS messages I receive, I have tried enabling and disabling iMessage on Mac but that did not fix it.

(I have the latest versions of Mac OSX and iOS installed)


texts: What is the latest OS to which I can upgrade an early 2015 MacBook Air running Sierra (10.12)?

texts:
My daughter has an Early 2015 MacBook Air running Sierra 10.12.
In addition, she has Office 2011 installed on it as well (used through her GCSE's and A'Levels).
We now need to upgrade Office, but before I do that, I would like to know:

What's the latest OS to which I can upgrade her laptop?
Can the upgrade be performed in a single upgrade, or will I need to upgrade gradually through increasing OS versions?

Looking online, it seems I can upgrade to Big Sur. When I open the Apple Store, I can search for Big Sur, but I cannot download it. (No Get option is available.)


texts: MacBook Air not contacting Wi-Fi with NETGEAR Extender

texts:
My MacBook Air is not connecting to Wi-Fi through NETGEAR Extender whilst all other device do, such as MacBook Pro, Apple TV and iPad.

I tried to:

Delete all Network configurations from System Preferences.
Reset SMC.
Reset PRAM.
Change channel on NETGEAR to channel 48.
Disable password access on NETGEAR.

MacBook Air OSX 10.8.5
13 inches
Ending 2010

Any help please?


texts: How do I access my google chrome sync'd bookmarks on my iPhone while I'm out n about?

texts:
I once used Foxmarks, then delicious and now google chrome bookmarks.

I think each one has sucked in different ways, but i'm at a stage where i'm using google for hosting all my core info, it makes to put bookmarks with them too.

Delicious just never innovated in chrome, and stayed a FF thing.

I like google chrome bookmarks cos they're with my google account and they sync nicely and quickly. Organization is nice too. Oh, and free

But how do I access it from afar?


texts: Disable shape recognition in Notes on ipad

texts:
I just updated to iOS14 for iPad.
There does not seem to be an option anywhere to turn off shape recognition.  Besides downgrading back to iOS13, is there any way to turn this off? Turning off Scribble does not disable shape recognition.  I could not find any answers on the internet.
I have been using Notes to keep track of long mathematical derivations in my research.  Notes was working perfectly to keep everything organized, without heaps of scrap paper everywhere.
With the update to 14.2, the shape recognition keeps trying to turn different symbols into shapes.  Some marks it simply ignores.  It did not use to do this.  I need a way to disable this.
Thanks, whoever answers this.


texts: What photo management application can I migrate to that would preserve iPhoto's face detection data?

texts:
I've used iPhoto for many years and found that it was suitable for what I wanted to do. Since Apple has discontinued iPhoto and Aperature in favor of their new Photos application, I'm seriously considering switching applications for my photo management since I'm just not happy with the direction they're taking the software. All well and good, but the annoying thing is that I've spent hours of my time working with the face detection feature of iPhoto and I'd hate to lose all the work tweaking the exception cases (i.e. iPhoto couldn't make out who someone was and I had to manually tell it).

For what its worth, I'm still on iPhoto '09 as iPhoto '11 didn't seem like that much of an improvement to me; in fact, the removal of the LAN sharing and obfuscated context menu items (e.g. reveal in finder type functions) stopped me from upgrading.

Are there any applications out there which I can migrate to which would preserve all the face data from iPhoto '09?


texts: I have a Mac OSX.  My network is not showing up on my list of networks. I am able to get online on this computer but not on the other computers in the house connected wirelessly.  This has been the case today but was not this way before.


texts: Is the App or the iPhone causing the issue?

texts:
So about a month ago I started using the Nike+ GPS app and everything was working fine until a few days ago while using it, my ipod starts skipping and the voice control automatically pops up. At first I thought the app had glitches but then even after i close the app, my ipod was still skipping and that voice control thing popped up. So should I restore? Is there a problem with my phone itself? Or is the app the one that caused this issue?

Thanks in advance for your input.


texts: How does memory management work in Mac OS X?

texts:
I am a university student who has been trying to write a compare and contrast paper between how Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X manage memory.  For instance, with Windows, it's physical memory (RAM) and virtual memory (paging file).  How does a Mac do this?

So far, the only information I've found on the topic has been people screaming about one of the releases for Mac OS X and how it had memory leaks.  Please keep in mind, I am not a Mac user, so I'm not looking for instructions on how to check memory being used, etc.  A link to an article or document that explains how it works would be most appreciated.

I found this: http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/memory.html, but it deals more with garbage collection in Objective-C than the OS's internal memory management.


texts: Yosemite focus indicator animation & highlight standard behavior

texts:
I'm not exactly sure how to describe this, but in Yosemite, it seems like the indicator for the currently focused field seems weird. I'm not sure whether it's a bug or intended behavior. When switching between UI elements that allow for interaction, there is some attention grabbing animation, and after the animation, the indicator seems so large that my assumption is that this is unintended. I've included some pics below

From xCode:

from notification tray:

Is this normal behavior? If not, should I open a radar?


texts: Is there a way, in Apple Photos, to convert a lot of RAW pictures into JPEGs and delete the RAW version, to save space? I'm looking for an automatic way of converting all RAW pictures into JPEG as I have several thousands.


texts: Password protect MacBook while keeping iTunes running

texts: So I want to prevent anyone from messing with iTunes, or anything on my MacBook actually. How can I password protect it without losing the sound?


texts: Gmail calendar do not receive answer from iCloud calendar

texts:
Problem: I do not see whether an iCloud user accepted/declined my invitation which I created in Gmail Calendar.

My steps:

I create a new event in Gmail Calendar. Add them user with  iCloud email wich use iCloud Calendar.
iCloud user receives invitation, which he accepts.

I expected that iCloud send an *.ics file to Gmail with this answer.
But actually Gmail calendar does not show whether the iCloud user accept this invitation.


texts: Notarized and stapled app can't be opened by other users

texts:
Used to get users to simply run chmod, but recently I got an Apple developer account and set up by signing, notarizing, then stapling the application.
Although, on a friend's laptop I'm still getting "The application <App> can't be opened".
Running
xcrun stapler validate "<App>.app"

returns

The validate action worked!

And it was a succesful notarization according to the e-mail from apple as well as well as the UUID check. Did I miss something?
I signed, then zipped up the app and submitted for notarization. After successful notarization, I ran
xcrun stapler staple <App>.app

on the signed app. Finally, zip the stapled app to github releases.
I feel the area that was wrong was perhaps stapling the notarization - was I meant to staple it to the zip or something?


texts: How to disable iTunes from playing Voice memos?

texts:
I have the latest iTunes 11.1.2, and is sync'ing the iPhone 5s with it.  However, one thing I found disturbing is that, I may record Voice Memos on my iPhone 5s, either as a personal diary or even for business summary.  The Voice Memos, however, will be sync'ed and added to Songs in iTunes.

That means, even if my Mac is locked by the screen saver, any person can press the Play button (the F8 key on the keyboard) and start playing my songs and be able to hear all my voice diary or business summary.

Is there a way to not let the Voice Memos be added to the "Songs"?  They are not songs by nature any way.


texts: How can I make the trackpad (not mouse) significantly faster?

texts:
Context

I run a three screen setup and it takes forever to get from side to side when using the trackpad even when set to max in settings. I'm looking for (and thought I had found) a solution that will allow me to set the trackpad tracking speed as arbitrarily high as I want.

What I've Done So Far

I've already tried the solution laid out here. The problem is that no matter how high I set the number when running defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling x the sensitivity still isn't high enough for me.

At first I thought this might mean that there is another limit imposed besides the one dictated by the GUI. Proceeding on this hypothesis (and the assumption that if Apple throttled the trackpad they would do the same to the mouse) I ran defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 1000 (note the 'mouse' instead of 'trackpad').

Result: My mouse is now so sensitive that if my cursor happens to land where I intend I can only ascribe it to the will of God.

Remaining Problem

No matter how high I set the number for the trackpad, one motion across its surface isn't enough to get from the left edge of my first monitor to the right edge of my third. Note: The goal here is not to set the trackpad speed and mouse speed separately (as in the question marked as duplicate). I simply wanted to indicate that the analogous steps that work for a mouse do not work for a trackpad. In addition, the selected answer in the duplicate provides a dead link (so not much help).

The goal is to be able to set the trackpad speed significantly faster than allowed by the GUI in settings. I'm open to downloading a third party tool, but would prefer a command line solution (or explanation as to why the one I've tried doesn't work as expected).

I realize this is probably a pretty niche question, but your help is much appreciated.


texts: Cannot partition internal drive to install bootcamp because of APFS/High Sierra

texts:
When I run Boot Camp Assistant, the attempted installation of Windows 10 fails, giving me the error "An error occurred while partitioning the disk." Have already tried First Aid on both my macOS boot volume and in recovery mode. Also tried /sbin/fsck -fy in single user mode. Both didn't work.

Here's the catch - when I make my own partition on my internal disk via Disk Utility (recovery mode and boot volume Disk Utility both have the same result) the partition will fail if I set the partition for over 15 GB. When I make a partition (not APFS container) that is 15 GB or less, Disk Utility will make it without problems. When I attempt to make a partition over 15 GB, the process will fail.

Now, A few days ago, I restored a Time Machine backup of my entire main internal drive via recovery mode and turns out that after that restore Macintosh HD reverted back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) instead of APFS. After said restore and my internal disk being HFS, Boot Camp Assistant was fully successful in installing Windows 10. So I know that (hopefully) that process will work again if I want to install Boot Camp again. Since then, I deleted the BOOTCAMP partition and deleted Windows from my MacBook Pro (why I did that is a complicated story). I now want to re-install Windows 10.

However, I have an additional Time Machine backup of a clean High Sierra install which I restored to an additional APFS container on my internal disk just before writing this. When restored, this backup did not revert back to HFS after the restore, which in turn means bootcamp assistant/disk partitioning for 15 GB+ failed. I'm willing to restore the backup of my entire main drive from before all these shenanigans started in an attempt to get APFS to accept a partition, but I would like to know more options.

The main point - What are my other options to force APFS/High Sierra to accept a partition of greater than 15 GB and/or make Boot Camp Assistant actually go through with it's job. I’m open to all options to solve this problem. High Sierra has a lot of bugs in it and they're getting on my nerves. Apple needs to up their QC.

Anyways thanks to everyone for reading/helping me out - much appreciated :)


texts:
I'm a systems admin for a company and was thrown into a horribly configured server. In the midst of my refactoring I was adding users to my /etc/sudoers file. I seem to have accidentally removed my server admin account from the sudoers file access.

I know what I did wrong (i accidentally commented out the %admin line) question being, how can I reinstate my server admin access in the file without having to restart anything.

Here's how it looks right now:

##
## User privilege specification
##
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
#%admin  ALL=(ALL) ALL
%superuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
"user1" ALL=(ALL) ALL
"user2" ALL=(ALL) ALL

Also note that my users do not have permission for sudo for some reason:

Realtor-Station-3-27:~ user1$ sudo -i

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:
user1 is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
Realtor-Station-3-27:~ user1$


texts: macOS High Sierra, Messages won't search at all

texts:
I just got a new 2018 Macbook Pro, so I'm in the process of migrating from my 2013 MBP to the new one.  I don't trust the Migration Assistant due to numerous bad past experiences, so I do this kind of thing manually.

To move my Messages content over, I copied the entire ~/Library/Messages/ directory over to the new machine, and Messages generally seems to work fine - all my messages are there, Text Forwarding from my phone works, etc.  The one thing that doesn't work, is search.  I can't search for anything at all, no matter what it is.  100% of attempted searches results in "No Results Found".

Is this a Spotlight issue?  Is there some trick to make Messages' content searchable?


texts: Google Chrome shuts down when my MacBook Air goes to sleep

texts: No error messages come up and upon initiating Google Chrome again, it goes to my homepage.  I have gone into System Preferences and then to Security & Privacy and auto logout is disabled.  Any other suggestions?


texts: Can no longer email myself a .epub file and open in iBooks? (used to be able to)

texts:
I used to email myself some .epub files (using Gmail), and then on the iPad, in the email program, click on the .epub file and then choose to open in iBooks, and read, highlight, and add notes to the ebook.  What is amazing is that all the highlighting and added notes will sync across my iPad and iPhone whenever I have the same .epub file on that device.

However, recently, I tried doing the same for the new iPad (3rd Gen), but it can download the .epub file alright, showing it as 5.5MB, but when I click on that file after the download, it won't ask me to open in iBooks any more (and won't open anything or ask what application to open it).

Is there a way to solve this (or is this a bug).  Can Dropbox or Box.net solve this? Although, it is best if email can be used, because then not additional app is needed besides email which is always there.  (I label the email as "ebooks" using Gmail's label function, so that all the files can be easily listed out of thousands of emails).


texts: Does Apple Pay require an internet connection?

texts: Do I need an internet connection on my iPhone 6 to use Apple Pay?


texts: How to I make my text messages go as iMessages

texts: When I send a text to my brother's iPhone from my iPhone it goes as a text.  When I receive a message from him it is an iMessage and my responses go to him as an iMessage.  His is the only iPhone to which I cannot send an iMessage.  How do I reslove this. His number is listed as an iPhone in my contacts.


texts: How can I run a command that requires user input through oh-my-zsh alias?

texts:
I'm trying to add Reminder.app items through the command line by invoking an alias. I use the Automator workflow solution from this question: How can I add reminders via the command line?, which invokes a basic workflow containing an empty Reminders item, via the following command line input:

automator -i remindertext add_reminder.workflow

This works perfectly, but is clumsy to type, so I want to set an alias for it. My question is: how do I set an alias in .zshrc that allows for me to set the reminder item text when I invoke the alias? It would basically need to be able to replace 'remindertext' with a variable, like so:

alias reminder='automator -i <variable> add_reminder.workflow'

Is this possible in zsh/oh-my-zsh?


texts: How do I delete pictures of my iPhone which wont delete?

texts: My iPhone 5 has an album which has been saved onto it through iTunes from another laptop, when I try and delete the album through iTunes it doesn't seem to give me the option to do so. If anyone could be able to inform me on how to complete the action of deleting the album I would appreciate it, Thank you.


texts: My calendar icon accidentally got deleted. How do I recover & restore that icon to my screen.


texts: Are number of desktops affecting memory?

texts: I use 8 desktops on my MBP for my different apps. Do you know if it can affect memory use?


texts: Elderly Father Wishes to have YouTUBE GUI from AppleTV 2

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This is a follow up to Workaround for YouTube to appear in Apple TV

I got my father AppleTV 3rd generation and he HATES the YouTUBE User Interface.

He says if YouTUBE API for old Apple TV (we purchased in 2012) is 100, the new YouTUBE UI is 5.

He is even willing to pay $20/month to use the old UI if Apple is offering it.

He is so frustrated and angry at this. He's not computer literate at all, and YouTUBE from old AppleTV was the best he could do.

I was thinking of Google Chrome, but I'd like to see a demo of it before purchasing it.

Any ideas?


texts: Combine multiple PDFs into multiple PDFs

texts:
I'm trying to take a set of PDFs (that I'll have already separated into one page files) that I want to combine into multiple PDFs. As a teacher, I want to be able to scan a stack of tests into one big PDF file, split that into single pages (I already have the Automator service for that), and then combine the results into a separate file for each student. So if I had 10 students and a 4 page test, I'd want to be able to combine those 40 files into 10 separate PDFs, ideally labeled by student name (if there was a way for me to input that list of names into Automator). Worst case scenario, I just run a combinePDF service for each individual student, but I didn't know if there was a way I could do that all in one fell swoop?

Thanks for your help!


texts: How can I keep apps on my iPad after I removed all apps in iTunes?

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I have an iPod Touch and an iPad and use one iTunes account to manage them. Recently there is little space in my MacBook and it turns out there are too many apps that I already removed from my iDevices but still stay in iTunes. I took it for granted that I can remove all of them in iTunes and those still on my iDevices will be copied back to iTunes when I sync it next time.

Unfortunately this does not look correct. I've just synced my iPod Touch and now all apps on it are gone! I tried to restore it from a previous backup but seems the apps were not restored.

I dare not connect my iPad to iTunes again. How can I make sure the same wipe will not happen? Is there a way to tell iTunes that removing apps in it does not mean I want to remove them on my devices?


texts: Bluetooth headphones are cutting out a lot

texts: I have Sony WH-1000XM3 Bluetooth headphones and they are cutting out frequently when I'm more than 1m away from my Mac Mini 2018. Disabling WiFi on Mac helps a little but the problem still persists.


texts: Does high-availability VM for Mac OS X exist?

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I seek rock-stable, production-worthy virtual machines capability with macOS.
I'm relatively a noob when it comes to VMs. High availability clusters are all the rage, and I can see why. I took over as the sysadmin for an SMB and we have 7 Mac Mini's in the machine room; each one running one thing, each obviously underutilized, and each without redundancy.
If I ran Win services, a good strategy would be to deploy up to 7 instances on a pair of servers in a high availability configuration, active/passive failover, etc., correct? And until Apple changes their mind, that's an impossibility in OS X Land?


texts: Force Re-Download of El Capitan from the App Store?

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I'm trying to download the latest version of El Capitan (10.11.4) to build an updated flash drive installer. I fire up the App Store, click the OS X El Capitan link on the right, then click the Download button. A pop-up warning asking:

  Would you like to continue? OS X v10.11.4 is already installed on
  this computer. Use the Updates page to install the 10.11 update or if
  you would like to download the full OS X installer click Continue.

Since this is indeed what I'd like to do, I click the Continue button. The pop-up goes away and the spinner in the upper left keeps going. Eventually, I get tired waiting for the spinner to stop, so I'll go to a different desktop and do stuff or minimize the App Store window. When I return to it, the spinner is gone, nothing is downloaded, and I can no longer click the Download button. (The text appears slightly less dark.)

I can exit the App Store, restart it, go back to the El Capitan page and do the whole process again, but nothing seems to let me download the full, latest version of 10.11. Even if I use defaults to enable the debug menu on the App Store, bump the logging level up to 4, there's not a lot of info shown in Console.

Restart didn't change behavior. Disabling the Little Snitch network filter didn't affect anything.

Any suggestions for how I can d/l this version to build an updated install drive?


texts: Why do I have 8.3 GB mail on my hard drive even when using gmail?

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I am short of space on my 128 GB SSD so I've been using Grand Inspector to see what has been using up all this space. I found that in Library/mail/v2 there is 8.2 GB of email.

What is this and how can I get rid of it considering that I use Gmail and have all my email in the cloud?


texts: How do you access the user library on a time machine backup

texts: With Lion 10.7, how does one access the user library on a time machine backup through the Finder?


texts: How can I change AirPod volume with one hand? (while riding a bike)

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I need to adjust the volume of the AirPods while riding my bike.  This could be because the audio is now in "loud commercial mode" or because I need to pay closer attention to my surroundings.

What is the quickest, most immediate, way of adjusting volume on the AirPods, aside from removing one from the ear?  (and pausing the audio)


texts: Black rectangle covers up most of screen, after disconnecting external display

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I connected my MacBook Air to an external projector (using a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adaptor) to give a Keynote presentation, enabled screen mirroring, gave my talk, then disconnected from the external display.

Now I have a black rectangle that covers up most of the screen, on one of my workspaces.  The black rectangle covers up the menubar at the top and most of the real estate where the application is, so now I can't use any of the applications on that workspace.  If I switch to another workspace (using three-fingered swipe right/left), the other workspaces don't have a black rectangle covering them -- only the workspace that was being displayed when I was connected to the external VGA projector.

How do I get rid of the black rectangle and restore my display?

Here's how the black rectangle looks:

And if I zoom out to view all workspaces, here's how they look (you can see that the black rectangle is present on only the one that was active when I had the external display connected):

The native resolution on my MacBook Air's internal LCD display is 1440x900.  The project was displaying at 1280x800, I think (so when I connected to the external projector and mirror displays, my resolution changed to 1280x800, I think; when I disconnected, it switched back to 1440x900).  I'm running Mac OS X 10.8.4 Build 12E55.  This is a 13-inch mid-2012 MBA, with Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB graphics (according to About This Mac).   Nothing jumps out to me in my system logs (viewed with the Console application).

One big honkin' clue is that the rectangle appears to be exactly 1280 pixels wide and 800 pixels high: which exactly the same dimensions as the resolution of the external projector, i.e., the resolution that was auto-selected by display mirroring when the external display was connected.  It's like the area that it was using to draw on, when the external display was connected, is now blacked out and unavailable once I've disconnected the external display.  This feels like it just has to be significant somehow.  Does it give you any ideas?

Rebooting it makes the black rectangle go away, but this happens pretty much every time I use an external projector, so it's annoying to always have to reboot.  The rectangle shows up reliably after using an external projector, but if I don't connect to an external projector, the black rectangle never shows up.  As far as I can remember, I think the size of the black rectangle has consistently been the same as the resolution of the external projector, but I haven't checked super-carefully every time.


texts: Fully disable power chime on MacBook Pro 16" (2019)

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I have a MacBook Pro 16,1 (16 inch, 2019) and want to fully disable the power chime.
Before this I had a 15" from 2016 and was able to fully disable it with switching the ChimeOnNoHardware to true.
defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnNoHardware -bool true
killall PowerChime

I ran the command on my new 16ich and it partly disables the power chime but only when the MacBook is not in sleep mode. So there is no power chime when the Laptop is running, the display is locked or display is turned off. Once the Laptop is in sleep mode however and the power cord is plugged in the power chime sound appears.
In theory I could replace the sound file of the chime with one that has a signal with no amplitude stored in it, but want to truly disable it and not make it play a mute sound.
This bothers me and I'd like to be able to fully disable the power chime. I am thankful for any help.


texts: AirDrop from iPhone to MacBook stopped working (other way OK)

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I have an iPhone 5s (iOS 7.1) and a MBP (Retina, late 2013) (Yosemite). I used to exchange files over Airdrop in both directions. Now sending files only works from the MBP to the iPhone.  Sending from the iPhone automatically says declined by the MBP. (I don't even get the download prompt.)

Also, not sure this is relevant, but before the devices used to be able to see each other with the "Contacts only" setting.  Now I have to set them both to "Everyone" for them to see each other.

What can be the problem? How can I debug this?
I've restarted both devices, stopped Little Snitch, nothing changes.

Update:

Found this message in the Console app:

AirDrop failed to validate Apple ID certificate of sender

So I signed out and back to Apple ID on the phone and reset the network settings, still doesn't work.


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Recently upgraded to Mojave (10.14) and I'm having a problem creating X apps from the terminal.

OSX 10.14.6
XQuartz 2.7.11 (xorg-server 1.18.4)

[08:44][{501}]% printenv DISPLAY
/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.fBkW7BwtJl/org.macports:0

If I switch the X and open a terminal window from the 'Applications' menu I get an xterm window and its display variable is set to :0. However, when I try to open any X application from the Apple Terminal window, which has the display listed above, the application hangs without producing any output or any window and I have to kill it.

This is a pain for me because I routinely run IDL (a programming and display language) from within an Emacs buffer (the MacPorts version, which uses  the native MacOS windowing system), which requires a connection to the X system for displaying plots.

The work around is to launch Xquartz and then an Xterm from it, then launch Emacs.app from that.

But I'd rather have a more native solution.

Any suggestions?
TIA


texts: Is there a way to go back to a previous state of an APFS Partition on an external drive?

texts:
My question sums it up. I would like to go back in time on a partition on an external drive which is formatted on APFS. Decrypting a VirtualBox image, VBox crashed (as it does all the time in Mojave) and since then the disk image is corrupt. I was wondering if there's a way to go back to a previous state using APFS Snapshots.

Thanks!


texts: I can't run Eclipse on Macbook on Yosemite: "Version 1.6.0_65 of the JVM is not suitable for this product." and I have Java 1.8 (shows in settings)

texts: I can't run Eclipse on Macbook on Yosemite: "Version 1.6.0_65 of the JVM is not suitable for this product." and I have Java 1.8. When I open settings I can see that version of Java is 1.8


texts: How to disable the power management of the CPU on a MacBook Pro?

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Since few days the battery of my MacBook Pro (Retina 15 inch, running macOS Sierra 10.12.4) is not working anymore.

Since then, my computer performance is really bad: everything is slow and freezing, a bit like when the battery is under 5%.

I tried to disable this power consumption feature. After some research on the internet I found the command pmset -b reduce 0 which is suppose to disable the reduction of the CPU consumption.

sh-3.2# pmset -b reduce 0
Usage: pmset <options>
See pmset(1) for details: 'man pmset'

But as you can see it's not working. Any idea how could I disable the CPU reduction?


texts: can I use my OS X Lion upgrade on a different machine?

texts: If I buy a new mac that comes with a free upgrade to Lion, can I use the upgrade on a different machine instead of the new machine, or is it tied to the new machine? The upgrade site requires the serial number of the new machine. I prefer to have Lion on the old machine and Snow Leopard on the new one, then maybe I will buy Lion for the new machine if I decide I like it.


texts: How to I access documents saved in iCloud with Mountain Lion on my iOS device

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I know that I can save a pages document in the cloud in Mountain Lion and then open it in Pages for iOS, but how do I access something saved in iCloud on TextEdit or Preview.

For instance, with Preview on Mountain Lion I could save a pdf in the cloud, but is there anyway to view that pdf on my iPhone?

Is this coming with iOS 6?


texts: When logging in, screen flashes then kicks back to login screen - Cannot login even in Safe mode

texts:
I know this is similar to another post here but it went unanswered.
Previous Thread

I have a Late 2010 13" Macbook Air with Mavericks installed since launch.

I was trying to use an external monitor which was giving me fits.  I unplugged it and ended up getting logged out of my user account.  When logging back in my screen turned a bluish tint then flashed and returned to the login screen.  At the time I also had a keychain problem pop up which I was able to fix.  I have tried the suggestions on the other thread other than transferring the information to a new user account as this happened yesterday.

I need to know if anyone has found a fix for this as the previous poster hasn't returned to the thread.  This is my work computer so I need to salvage as much as possible and hopefully fix it completely.

Thank you for any help!


texts: Why does Apple not recommend storing your iMovie library on an external drive?

texts:
I want to try keeping my iMovie library on an external drive because I use both my Imac (at home) and my MBP (when traveling) to edit my videos.  Ideally, I would like to use a SD card so that it doesn't draw power from my MBP, but it may be too slow? It will also free up hard drive space on both computers. But when searching about this, Apple's support page says it's possible but advises against it:

"You can store your library on an external storage device such as a USB drive, FireWire drive, or Thunderbolt drive formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled). Apple doesn’t recommend storing iMovie libraries on external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or drives shared on a network."

Does anyone know why this is so? I want to make sure it's not damaging in anyway.


texts:
When do some apps (like preview) auto close when I stop giving them focus? Whats the difference between those and others that don't close?

thanks


texts: Requiring user input in order to run a script which controls Safari

texts:
Using Script Editor, I've created the following script to close tabs and open a particular window:

tell application "Safari"
    repeat with i from (count of windows) to 1 by -1
        repeat with j from (count of tabs of window i) to 1 by -1
            set thistab to tab j of window i
            set foo to name of thistab
            if foo is not equal to "bar" then close thistab
        end repeat
    end repeat
    do shell script "open -a Safari 'https://www.google.com/advanced_search'"
end tell

Works fine, but when I save it as an application, it requires the user to allow it to work, which ruins my functionality.
The error message displayed is:

  "Tabulator app" wants access to control "Safari". Allowing control will provide access to documents and data in "Safari", and to perform actions within that app.

Is there anyway to override this message within the script?


texts: Does the Microsoft Intellipoint software work with Mountain Lion?

texts: I've been using the Microsoft Intellipoint software with Leopard, Snow Leopard, and currently Lion, to provide mouse cursor movement that feels a lot more like Windows. Has anybody tried installing this on Mountain Lion, and found it to be compatible or not?


texts: Recovering photos deleted from iOS devices

texts:
I deleted photos from my iPhone when the phone memory was full. I subsequently deleted them from my iPad too. Now I can't find them anywhere.

I checked on iCloud but I can't see all of them. How do I recover the photos on my iPad?


texts:
DriveDX Won't Load On MacPro5,1 Internal SSD on PCI Card
I have a license.
Dialog box says won't load because not allowed to run DriveDX from an external drive. OSX does flag my internal SSD on PCI card as an external drive but it is internal. 2 weeks and NO Response from developer BinaryFruit. Infuriating.


texts: Can I free up space on my iPhone 3GS taken by application data?

texts: I click general> usage> under storage I see apps with memory usage, how do I delete these to free up space to increase available memory?


texts:
Motivation

I have a proprietary java application which used to work under Snow Leopard but fails under Lion with the following backtrace:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid display mode
    at apple.awt.CGraphicsDevice.setDisplayMode(CGraphicsDevice.java:472)
    at apple.awt.CGraphicsDevice.setFullScreenWindowSynchronized(CGraphicsDevice.java:363)
    at apple.awt.CGraphicsDevice.access$000(CGraphicsDevice.java:25)
    at apple.awt.CGraphicsDevice$1SetFullScreenAction.run(CGraphicsDevice.java:326)
    at apple.awt.CGraphicsDevice.setFullScreenWindow(CGraphicsDevice.java:331)

The call to setFullScreenWindow only passes null, i.e. it attempts to restore from full-screen to windowed mode. The error only occurs when a beamer is connected and thus the screen resolution is adjusted to 1024x768. Looks like a bug in the Java VM to me.

Looking at the code, it seems to me that OpenJDK 7 might have addressed this issue. So I want to give that a try.

Failed approach

However, even after downloading Java SE 7u7 from Oracle, I can't use it to execute the application, as the application uses some 32bit native code, which this JVM doesn't support:

> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_07.j/Contents/Home/bin/java -d32 -version
Error: This Java instance does not support a 32-bit JVM.
Please install the desired version.

Core question

So my core question is this: is it possible to install a 32 bit build of a recent version of OpenJDK 7 on Mac OS X Lion? Preferrably as a precompiled package, but if that isn't available, then a well-written instruction how to compile that myself would serve my purpose as well.


texts: Keyboard Shortcut for Notification Center not working

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The keyboard shortcut "Show Notification Center" you can set under System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Mission Control stopped working for me after a restart.

I tried resetting to defaults, changing the short cut and finally exiting all running apps and processes - nothing seems to bring back the short cut.

Does anybody know how to debug this or a plist where I can manually edit this?


texts: How to remove "Google Search" icon in Launchpad permanently?

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Recently, I find this icon "Google Search" appears in my launchpad, I searched online and located this app in this "Chrome Apps" folder, deleted it. However, it appeared again the second day. This is really annoying. How can I delete it PERMANENTLY?

I don't even know how it happened, I've been using Chrome for a really long time, but this happened only a couple of days ago, didn't install any google related apps recently.


texts: How does the iMac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX compare to Desktop cards?

texts:
I'm considering buying a new iMac and am wondering what the GTX675MX will do (have a hard time finding comparisons or tests with that).  I plan to use it for gaming (part with bootcamp/Windows7 if games not available for MacOS)

I think it's a mobile card and with the space restrictions it can't have the same power as (lets say) a PC GTX 670, so next to which PC GTX cards does it fall (I have a GTX 560 in PC for example which now tends to move towards falling down the cliff on the weak side).


texts: How do I setup 1Password on a second machine to use a shared Agile Keychain file in Dropbox?

texts:
This should be so straightforward but it's not working for me. I've followed Agile Bit's help guide for setting up a new Mac but it's not working.

I have 1Password installed on one machine. It's completely populated with passwords and a master password on the agile keychain as been set. The keychain is stored in ~/Dropbox. The Dropbox sync occurred and I can see the same keychain file on my other Mac. MD5 checksums match on the files.

When I go to setup 1Password on the new Mac I have two choices when I first run it:

I am a new user
I have already used 1Password

If I take choice 2 I get a file finder window. I navigate to ~/Dropbox and select my agile keychain file. 1Password flashes a loading dialog window and then...nothing. It doesn't show me the Master Login window. Command 0 doesn't bring up the window. I can go to 1Password -> Unlock... and it will give me a small dialog window asking for the Master Password, but the password I used for that agile keychain gets rejected. I just keep getting recycled back to enter password dialog box.

If I take choice 1 I get the option to find information from a previous install. Again, I navigated to that agile keychain in ~/Dropbox. Again, 1Password does some quick loading and then...nothing. Same story as above.

Both of those actions above could conform to what the Agile Bit's documentation says for setting up a new machine and using an existing, sync'ed agile keychain. Neither of them work.

I hesitate to fill out a new profile on the new machine because I don't want to over write my existing agile keychain file and all the passwords in it.

How exactly am I supposed to setup this second machine with the shared agile keychain?


texts: Get folder tag recognised by Automator within Photos library file

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I am trying to back my entire Photos library to OneDrive, following this early 2016 tutorial: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/share-pictures-OSX-photos-app-OneDrive/

When I step through the "Find finder Items" step in Automator however, it executes the step, but does not find any files or folders tagged as blue. These are not shown underneath the button "Results" either.

My suspicion this has something to do with the step where you have to right click on the library file and select "Show Package Contents", and that Automator now ignores any subfolders in this file.

The tagged "Master" folder can be found by filtering by blue tag in Finder.

I could not find anything on getting folder tags visible within these "packages"/library files.

Any suggestions are appreciated!


texts: Where the captured signature is stored in my mac?

texts: I just captured a signature using Preview. Where the signature image is stored? I want to have it.


texts: moveWordForward: on ⌥-f in El Capitan doesn't repeat

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I've used Jacob Rus' cocoa text system bindings for many years to give me more emacs like bindings in cocoa text fields (apple doc here. Since El Capitan I find that option-f which does moveWordForward: only works once and doesn't repeat if I hold down the keys. option-b (moveWordBackward:) does repeat as it always has and so does option-rightarrow (which I assume also does moveWordForward:).

I played with KeyBindingsEditor and found that option-control-f is bound to moveWordForward: in /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict and it repeats (also that option-right is bound to moveWordRight:). It also confirmed that option-f is bound to moveWordForward: in the Standard and my user KeyBinding.dict.

I've checked for other bindings on option-f in System Preferences and haven't found any. Anyone know what might be wrong or how I can debug this further?

OS X 10.11.1, 3.4 GHz i7 iMac, 24GB RAM, 1TB Fusion, Apple Wired Keyboard


texts: What accounts for disk space discrepancy in Finder vs About This Mac?

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I've got a Macbook Pro with 500 GB , well, 499.96 GB, with Catalina 10.15.7 on a 2020 machine.
I used About This Mac and it said I had 461.27 out of 499.96 GB in System Report, but in Finder it says I've got 465.65 GB left (partially due to Spotlight turned off for everything apart from system folders so App Store updates can be applied).
I've not disabled Spotlight on Macintosh HD since App Store can't update system apps like Pages etc. if it's disabled entirely, am I right?
What's causing this discrepancy?
I noticed after upgrading Catalina it went from 461.36 to 466 GB straight after the security update (001 I think it was), and now 465.65 GB.
Would be interested to understand since I've done some light Google-ing but am not sure.


texts: Podcasts app "disappearing" from background?

texts:
I'm trying to give the new podcasts app by Apple a go.
Every morning I listen to a podcast and then pause it when I get to work. When I want to keep listening a few hours later and just press on play again in my earphones, I see that the podcasts app is no longer the active playing app and I have to open it again. This used to work easily in the regular Music app, but with Podcasts it's like the fact that it's the last-played app gets lost after sometime.

Any help?


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I've started virtualizing Windows 7 on my Mac and I've realized 4GB of ram simply isn't enough for listening to music, surfing the web, virtualizing Windows, and running a compiler all at once.

The first thing I did was look on Apple's site and see what specs I needed to look for..I bought my iMac in the spring of last year so the specs for new ram are as follows:
1333MHz DDR3 (PC3-10600)

So I read that and thought, okay, and then I read their price, $ 200.00 for just 4 GB. Wait a second, maybe a little out of my price range. Then I hit up sites such as NewEgg, and found some pretty good deals; however, I found that some of them were labeled SDRAM and some SO-DIMM, and I guess my question to you folks is: What are the differences between SDRAM and SO-DIMM RAM, and which should I use for my iMac?


texts: New drive + new OS, but will Time Machine restore old OS?

texts:
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro and it was running OS 10.7. I use Time Machine regularly. Just had the harddrive replaced with an SSD and OS 10.11. If I restore from Time Machine instead of Migration Assistant will the restore revert to the old 10.7 OS?

If I use Migration Assistant to pull files from Time Machine, what will I lose? Apps? 'Date created' metadata?

(It's possible I haven't understood enough to state the question clearly.)


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My media keys are not working on my Mac. Pressing play doesn't open iTunes automatically. This issue occurs across all users, even newly created users, and all applications.

Here's what I've done so far:

Checked to ensure "Use all F1, F2 keys as standard functions keys" is
disabled. I've enabled and disabled this also.
I don't have chrome installed. I did, but did not use Google Play (I see this is common).
Booted into known good operating system, the keys work here.
Deleted most preference files from the system preferences that I feel could be affecting it
Copied across the rcd.app from my known good install, along with the associating launch agent
Unloaded and loaded the rcd kext from launchagent
Used safe mode and Onyx to clear all caches.
Ran fsck and used Onyx to reset file permissions
Reset ACLs for my user
Removed Plex, iControl and Adobe Premier Pro

I'm running 10.11.5 beta 4 (build 15f31a). This issue has been occurring on non-beta releases as well. I cannot think of when the issue begun, just that it's been ongoing for a few months now. I'm getting to the point where I should probably do a fresh install, but wanted to see if anyone else had any suggestions first.


texts: My macbook pro hard drive seems to be corrupted, should I replace it?

texts: I have a 2,26GHz  mid-2009 macbook  pro  with 8Gb Ram and mountain  lion (mac os x 10.8.2).  Recently  my  computer doesn' t  stop freezing  and  I have to force the computer to shut down. Then  I cannot boot  at all the computer shows a flashing folder with a question mark. When I run disk utility from the installation cd then I am able to boot from the drive again but it will eventually starts lagging  after a few minutes of utilization with software's such as safari, skype or even the finder. I wanted to get a ssd recently. Will it fix this issue or the problem might lie elsewhere? I tried to boot from different sessions it always freezes at a moment, I have been able to run a virus scan disk and I didn't  find any virus nor trojans .


texts: Some SMB shares unavailable from Mountain Lion?

texts:
I've recently upgraded one of the machines in our office to Mountain Lion.  Since doing so, when connecting to (or browsing to via Finder) our Windows 2008 R2 file server, some shares no longer appear in the list of available shares on that server.  Not all shares have disappeared, only five out of approximately fifteen shares are not visible.

This does not appear to be a user rights issue, as the shares do not appear for multiple administrator and non-administrator accounts.  Additionally, the shares were perfectly accessible from the machine pre-ML upgrade, as well as still being accessible from all other OSX machines in our environment.  In other words, the issue appears to be confined solely to our single machine that was upgraded to Moutain Lion.

Has anybody discovered a solution?

Additional information:

MacBook Pro upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion
Server is a member of our AD domain
Machine is not a part of the Active Directory domain
Credentials used to connect to server include Domain Admin credentials, user account with domain admin rights, and multiple user accounts without admin credentials but with credentials to view the missing shares
Server is running Window Server 2008 R2
Machine has no trouble accessing files on our XServe running 10.5 Server
Essentially, all other variables seem to be constant with no known changes to the network and server infrastructure involved


texts: Define additional shortkey with the same effect like RETURN in Safari.app

texts:
I'm working with MacOS X 10.6.

I'd like to define a keyboard shortcut Ctrl-m, which does the same thing like RETURN does, without deactivating RETURN.

How can I do that in MacOS X 10.6. In the keyboard control panel, I can only assign menu commands to shortcuts, but RETURN is not a menu command, but a key that does different things in different locations.

How can I do that?

Remark:

I would prefer a built-in or at least free solution. I'm using Quicksilver already, so if it would be able to define such a key/trigger, that would also be helpful.
If you wonder, why I want to do it, you'll find the explanation here: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3544/is-there-a-more-convenient-key-binding-for-return


texts: Torrent client for OS X that can be shared between multiple user accounts

texts:
I am looking to transform my macMini into a media server that is shared by all my flat mates.

I want to fully share: the torrent client, the media centre application and the media library.

Now the question is what torrent client can be used between several accounts and preferably from Guest account also. If Guest account cannot be used, I will create a generic user instead of goest.

Still, I would strongly prefer a torrent client that is able to run as daemon, without requiring you to login.


texts: Fastest and safest way to copy massive data from one external drive to another

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I need to be able to copy about 2TB of data from an external drive (single USB external disk) to a another external drive (Drobo attached via Firewire).

Finder is not an option. If it hits any problem, it stops the process and I have to figure it out why it failed and start over. It could take me months to get through it.

I've read about CP and RSYNC but I'm not too familiar and I'm afraid I might get some of the switches wrong and miss files, or screw up the file dates, or worst...

Can anyone suggest how I might pull this off with minimum risk and cost?


texts: iOS 8.1 Settings "Handoff & Suggested Apps" doesn't exist

texts:
I am having difficulty getting Handoff and Continuity working correctly. Devices are iPhone 4S (iOS 8.1) and Mac Mini 2013 (Yosemite 10.10 14A389). Here is what I have done/confirmed:

Both devices are logged into the same iCloud account
Both devices are connected to the same WiFi Network
Both devices have bluetooth enabled
OSX > System Preferences > General > "Allow Handoff" is checked

My problem is that on the iPhone, Settings > General > Handoff & Suggested Apps does not exist as an option in the list.

I have deleted Bluetooth preferences on OS X as suggested on this answer.

Anyone know why this option is not presenting itself?


texts: How can my iPhone know my location whilst in airplane mode?

texts: I've been curious about this for awhile. I've seen this happen for multiple versions of the iPhone with multiple apps, but to be specific, today with the iPhone 5s, iOS 9.0 and the Galileo map app, I was in a foreign country walking around, and had put my phone on airplane mode to avoid extra data charges. I had expected to use the Galileo app like a digital copy of an ordinary map, which is to say I did not expect it to know my current location. And yet, every time I moved 5m or so, my location was updated in real time. How is this possible? Was the phone getting signals from nearby WiFi, or cell towers, or what?


texts: Does switching the keyboard language (literally) works?

texts: I’ve used US format keyboard along all my life, a couple days ago I bought a Macbook Pro 13’ mid 2012 in in Mexico it was way more cheaper and with no issues at all with the computer, but I’m not used to that keyboard keys, I wanted to know if it’s possible to swap the keyboard language not just on software but in hardware as well.