texts: how to get repeating letters on 2019 16" MacBook Pro keyboard

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so, as part of maybe, From which year do MacBook keyboards have no issues?

I have tried different settings w/ apple cs the other day to try and get the I, K and L to duplicate as happens to me sometimes.  Of course they didnt.  However, neither of us could get any letter to repeat when pressing and continuing to hold a key.  I could not see a setting in preferences and the rep couldnt figure out how either.  Can anyone tell me how to get repeating letters by pressing and holding a key?  When I do it in this screen nothing happens.  In pages if I press and hold the e lets say, a tiny window with a  capital "E" opens and closes and while continuing to hold the key, the letter does not repeat.

Tks


texts: "Install Xcode" in Applications, necessary after I've installed Xcode?

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Do I need the Install Xcode after Xcode is installed?

Do you know of any reason it installed an installer to Applications?


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I have a couple CLI utilities I would like to map to key combinations. The scripts take no parameters, I merely need to invoke them.

I've seen how to create keyboard shortcuts to apps, but can I point them to an executable somehow?


texts: Automator to get PDF Annotations and export to Excel

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I'm trying to make a macOS service using Automator to extract PDF annotations and get the information into an Excel file.

I can successfully get the annotations from a PDF, and export them to a text file. But if I try to parse the same information to a new Excel file, all the information is pasted into a single cell.

What would be the correct steps in Automator, to have each text line in separated Excel rows?


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I put the SD card with all the film footage on it, into the reader.

I create folders, and also put the footage on to the SSD and the cloud....typical post-shoot file maintenance.

I eject the SD card from the imac. SD card is now empty.

On my PC, this N E V E R happens!

I want the footage to remain physically on the SD card. Why is this happening???


texts: How can I track/login to stolen MacBook Pro

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My MBP got stolen in January 2017 and is not shown in Find My iPhone but I just found out that it shows up under signed-in devices in iTunes with the serial number and the first name of the new user (Aleksej).

Is there any way to track the MBPs location with the serial number or the sign-in information?


texts: iphone 5c bluetooth pairing with Mac: "the device does not have the necessary services"

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As seen in the screenshot the iphone 5c is discovered via bluetooth; but the pairing is not successful due to missing services.

The Iphone says

  My Devices
       mellyrn     Not Connected

where mellyrn is the hostname of the mac.   So what services are referred to here?

I am on El Capitan.


texts: Is depleting batteries of MacBook Pro 2018 still a thing in 2018?

texts: I was looking for battery related applications in Brew and found Battery Guardian which refers to an Apple page from 2011 as justification why this application matters. Referring an old page as justification it's a bit suspicious for me. Depleting battery frequently - the page says monthly is a good cadence - still something I have to pay attention to?


texts: Command+Tab switches windows in Mac OS rather than the ones inside Amazon WorkSpaces

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I  have latest Amazon WorkSpaces installed which I use to connect to my client desktop.

I previously had Windows machine. There, if I was inside Amazon WorkSpaces and I pressed Alt+Tab, I was able to switch between windows opened inside my Amazon WorkSpaces.

I have now got Macbook, and here when I am inside Amazon WorkSpaces and I press Command+Tab, it switches between windows opened in my Mac OS and not windows in my Amazon WorkSpaces.

How can I get the behavior similar to Windows?


texts: Are these temperatures on non-retina Macbook Pro 13 Mid-2012 normal when browsing?

texts: I wonder if the temperatures on my non-retina Macbook Pro 13 Mid-2012 normal. I browse using Firefox. I tried using Safari but no noticable difference. CPU load is low. OS X version 10.8.5.


texts: Horrible high pitched noise from iSight mic only under OSX

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My old 2008 Macbook's iSight microphone is acting up but only under OSX. In bootcamp running Windows XP, it's fine!

The problem is a high pitched sound, very reminiscent of old radios with the pitch going up and down.

It happens regardless of the app I use
Rebooting OSX did not make a difference.
Adjusting the mic volume does not help.
Turning ambient noise reduction off does not help.
CPU is idle and fans at 3200rpms, same as Windows XP
I've not changed any audio settings or loaded any audio software
It's happening while using headphones so it's not a feedback loop

Windows XP does NOT have this high pitched noise, just the normal background noise and it is usable.

Any ideas?

PS: Not that I think it's relevant but I'm running Snow Leopard.


texts: Why is my approved iOS app, distributed "privately as a custom app for business," not visible to my organization in Apple Business Manager?

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Issue

When I search for my company's internal app in Apple Business Manager, there are no matches. I've tried searching by name, SKU, and App ID. Searching by name returns four results, none of which is relevant.

Why isn't the app found?

Background

This is an iOS app that my company developed for internal use. Before publishing to the App Store, we opted to distribute "privately as a custom app for business."

We copied our organization's name (1) and ID (2) from Apple Business Manager to App Store Connect (3 and 4), to grant ourselves access to the app.

The app was approved yesterday, but it doesn't show up in Apple Business Manager. What are we missing?


texts: I have lots of MP3 files that make 1 book. But they're all only about 5 minutes long. Is there an easy way to concatenate all of these that runs in OS X 10.7 (Lion)?


texts: esc button OS X needs to be released on every command

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In terminal I use escB  or escF  to jump through the words.

If I want 2x back I've to do escB twice. Otherwise I just start typing F or B in Terminal.

The modifier keys ctrl / alt /cmd work differently e.g. I can hit control and than hit AAA EEEE multiple times without a need to release control button. So go to end of line twice would be ctrlEE and this would work (don't mind the fact that this is pointless end of line is end of line)

Is there a way to achieve same with esc modifier?


texts: Creating Standard user to Admin user verses new Admin user

texts: To create a new user is there a difference between creating it first as a standard user then making it a admin user account compared to just creating a new user account as admin? The reason Im asking is because I am wondering if the current admin user account has any influence on what you end up when a new user is created. I want to avoid that. I found my MacBook Pro book and Im going to follow it to learn how to use my MacBook Pro and its saying the folder and files you see on the Desktop are determined by the contents the Desktop folder, which is located within your Home folder. The Desktop folder in my Home folder is empty. So I want to start over and have everything how where it should be.


texts: How does iOS and OS X detect when a Wi-Fi network is a personal hotspot?

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When there is a Personal Hotspot network available, it displays a chain link icon instead of the usual lock icon in the list of available networks on iOS and OS X.

My question is, how does OS X distinguish these networks? Is it specified in 802.11 how hotspots broadcast their SSID's differently?


texts: Stop Excel for Mac (2011) continuing formatting from last cell entered?

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This drives me loopy. Sometimes (see below for when), Excel gets fixated on some cell formatting and starts applying it every time I fill in any new blank cell.

I don't think this happens on Excel for Windows (though it's ages since I used the Windows version much). I'm looking for some way to stop it doing this.

To replicate:

1: Set up a simple excel sheet with groups of, say, columns, and mark them as groups with formatting e.g. background colour.

2: Fill in a row with some data (just type it in)...

Excel decides that it likes that background colour so much, it's going to apply it everywhere from now on.

It's not just background colour:

It picks up the formatting from the last cell it entered text into, or the last cell formatted, then gets stuck and starts applying it after entering text to any new cell, like trailing mud across a carpet.

It doesn't only wreck things like columns: it also causes big problems any time background colour is used for anything meaningful e.g. to mark the status of a project:

In a blank cell... becomes...

Is there a way to stop it doing this? To get Excel to stop applying formats to empty cells I enter text into, and just leave their formatting how it is?

I've hunted through options and browsed online, but can't find anything related.

Some observations:

While creating the examples for this question, I noticed it looks like Excel is looking for patterns, then assuming I want to continue what it has decided to think is a pattern.

It seems to have two rules: "One thing, something else, then that one thing again always means start doing stripes and never stop"...

 ...or...

...and "Two or more of something in a row when there has been a total of three of more of that thing always means carry on doing it forever".

 ...or...

...but not...

Oh, and it does it even if you skip a row or column:

 ...  ... * sigh *

I just want it to stop.

Please, help me make it stop.

Edit - after turning "Autocomplete" off as suggested by Buscar, the same thing still happens, including after restarting Excel after changing the setting (checking the setting is still applied after restart):

 ...  ...


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I want to add a network printer on my MBP13R mid-2013. I open the dialog box Add printer (Addprinter.app). I begin to fill the form for IP adress of my printer (by typing the hostname). I only type a few letters and the window hangs.

The only way to stop it is to use kill -9 PID command in Terminal (using ps aux|grep -i print for obtaining the PID of AddPrinter.app).

After this I obtain the following lines in Console:

02/02/2015 16:32:57,316 com.apple.preference.printfax.remoteservice[3869]: __agent_connection_block_invoke_2: Connection error - Connection interrupted
02/02/2015 21:03:04,973 com.apple.preference.printfax.remoteservice[15832]: remote view marshal proxy failed to forward event to remote due to Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Impossible de communiquer avec un utilitaire." (connection from pid 15827) UserInfo=0x600000477fc0 {NSDebugDescription=connection from pid 15827}
timestamp: 21:03:04.972 Monday 02 February 2015
process/thread/queue: com.apple.preference.printfax.remoteservice (15832) / 0x10e495000 / com.apple.NSXPCConnection.user.15827
code: line 1217 of /SourceCache/ViewBridge/ViewBridge-103/NSViewServiceMarshal.m in __59-[NSViewServiceMarshal remoteViewMarshal:withErrorHandler:]_block_invoke
#communications_failure

02/02/2015 21:03:05,026 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.preference.printfax.remoteservice[15832]) Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9

Do you have any idea for solving this trouble?

Details:

Network: wire connection (thunderbolt adapter) with DHCP
Yosemite 10.10.2


texts: Why is my mouse lagging so much it's impossible to use?

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I've a little logitech mouse, and suddenly, with no reasons, it started to lag heavily, and now it's impossibile to use. I've a MBP mid 2012 13'', and never had problems, but now it is unusable. The mouse is ok, i've tried it on another mac and it works fine. I've already tried to reset the controller, but nothing changed.

I really can't understand what could  be the problem? when i restart the mac it works fine for a while and then restart lagging.

Any ideas or similar experience?


texts: Erase certain messages in Messages on OS X

texts: I like having the Messages app on my Mac, but I have one problem: When I delete a message thread on my iPhone, it doesn't delete from my Mac. In other words, if I delete three messages from the same person, on my phone, I see the previous messages and the later messages but not those specific ones. But on my Mac, they're all still there. And I don't see a place to delete them on my Mac the same way you delete them on the phone.


texts: Migrate a Time Machine backup in terminal

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/Volumes/Original_Time_Machine is no longer being backed up to, but contains old backups that I want to keep.

/Volumes/New_Time_Machine_Archive is an empty partition

Both of these are on separate physical hard drives.

I was thinking of doing this in the terminal.
Connect both physical hard drives, then:

cd /Volumes/Original_Time_Machine
cp -rp * "/Volumes/New_Time_Machine_Archive"

Would I be able to restore from this if I copy this way? Or is there another way I should do it?


texts: I'm running Sparrow mail client and would love to disable Mail.app, which keeps opening from time to time.


texts: Hi so I have a 2007 MacBook but there's no screen on it and I want to use an external monitor as the main display how would I go about that?


texts: iPhone app that can send emoticons to non-iPhone devices

texts: Please does anyone know any app that I can use to to send emoticons to non-iPhone devices. All the ones I have seen are for iPhone to iPhone


texts: Is it possible the create a pkg that doesn't require root access (user & password prompt)

texts: The title says it all really, is it possible to create a pkg that can install without the user requiring to enter their password?


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I happy accident occurred this weekend when I left my camera's USB cable at work. I discovered that I have an SD slot in my MacBook Pro.

Can I backup to an SD card using a third party back up package? I typically do a nightly local back up as a fail safe.


texts: How to bind specific window to a hotkey?

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On Windows I use a simple Autohotkey script that allows me to easily bind to and switch beetween opened windows.

For example, I'm about to be using a browser, two consoles and a text editor in the next hour. So I open the browser and press Ctrl+Win+1 to bind it to the 1 key. Similarly, I map consoles to 2 and 3 keys, and the editor to 4 key.

And now I can switch to the specific app just by pressing Alt+<number>. It allows me to work literally not touching a mouse for hours. I can't imagine my life without it.

The question is: How do I achieve this on El Capitan? I've tried the Automator and Karabiner apps, but did not succeed.


texts: How to print as PDF using Acrobat 10, when no printer is installed?

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Preview or Acrobat can both print out individual pages of a PDF file, as a new PDF file containing only those pages, but I think Acrobat 10 probably can print out page 1, 10-12, and 5 -- in any order, while Preview can only print out the "selected page" and must be in ascending page number order.

Preview can do that, but if using Acrobat 10, then going to File -> Print will actually trigger a "No printer is installed.  Please install a printer first"...  The thing is, I am really trying to print as a PDF file and there is no printer around... so is there a way to get past that dialog and print the pages as a PDF file?


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I often like to use a non-network specific DNS server (like Google's public DNS 8.8.8.8).  However, many public wi-fi locations won't load their "terms of service, click here" page during the authorization process.  I suppose it is because my Macbook needs to look-up their web page, but is sending DNS requests to Google, which are blocked because I'm not yet authorized.

The quick fix is to delete the DNS server from the Network preference pane (Network / Advanced / DNS / Select / delete / clickety / click /GAAA) ...

... and then add it back after I'm authorized.

So, what I'm looking for is an easy way to specify my DNS server.  I'd love to run some service or app that would clear the DNS server list (ideally without needing me to select anything).  And then run it again to put my DNS server specifications back.

Can this be accomplished with some Applescripting?  Or a terminal command (that I could then wrap with Automator)?


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Is there a simple encrypted file vault for iPhone and Mac that share the same content, w/o third party server?

This is the use-case: I have certain files (texts and images) that I want to be protected. On Mac, I can create encrypted disk and mount when I need the files. This works fine. However, what I want here is an app that works both on iPhone and Mac, since I want to use files on my iPhone as well. Preferably w/o third party, but if encrypted I allow using e.g. Dropbox etc.

Here is a scenario:

I open this vault on Mac. Put some file in there. Close the vault.
Things get synced
On my iPhone, I open the same vault and there I can browse files.

There are many apps that do this, but they are either for Mac OR iPhone. I want a solution that works across the devices.


texts: Making a Bootable Windows 7 USB without Bootcamp

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I recently got a macbook pro with the intention of dual booting Windows 7 so that I can play some old games I still have that don't run on anything more recent, and generally access my Steam library. I was frustrated to find that Bootcamp would not allow me to use Windows 7, despite the fact that my laptop is compatible, and therefore set out to create a bootable USB on my own.

It's been really, really frustrating. I've searched for a couple hours online, but I must be doing something wrong, because all of the tutorials I can find either do not work, or tell me to use bootcamp - Which won't let me doing what I'm trying to do.

I have a Windows 7 Iso that I legally downloaded, I have a USB stick with 8 gigs of storage. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make that USB stick function as a bootable drive, so that my Macbook will let me install Windows.

Any advice, or links to a tutorial that actually works?


texts: Is it possible to "shut off" battery charging in OSX with an application rather then physically. Could this be done with AppleScript (I doubt it) or will need to be obj-c cocoa application? Essentially my idea is an app that'll shut off the charger when requirements are met (like the computer is in sleep mode, or the battery hasn't been drained in a few days)


texts: Trace/BPT trap: 5 and Gnuplot/Text Edit, ... on Mavericks

texts: I need to use gnuplot and a bunch of other stuff, so I installed MacPorts on Mavericks. After installing the packages, if I try to plot something I get the Trace/BPT trap: 5 error. Reinstalling XQuartz didn't fix the problem. Do you know how could I fix this? I tried various methods suggested online but nothing worked. Thanks!


texts: Why do I keep having to reenter the SIM code after each iOS update?

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With my iPhone 5, I've been finding that I keep having to unlock the SIM code every time I update the iOS from one minor release to the next. While this isn't a problem, as I've memorized the code, it is rather annoying.

Is there any way to change this behavior, so that I don't have to keep worrying about this?


texts: I need to export my contacts to my Google account but whenever I select all of my contacts and click export vCard, the website does not do anything.


texts: Cleaning EFI partition after dual boot on Macbook pro

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I'm in the process of setting triple boot (OSX,Ubuntu 20.04,Kali-Linux) and as of now I did a clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 alongside MacOS by following a part of this. However I noticed something weird about my EFI partition and efibootmgr command.
$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 5 seconds
BootOrder: 0003,0080
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0001* ubuntu
Boot0002* rEFInd Boot Manager
Boot0003* ubuntu
Boot0080*
Boot0081* Mac OS X
Boot0082*
BootFFFF*

There are two ubuntu, one windows boot manager, rEFInd manager. I'm pretty sure I deleted my previous triple-boot EFI files, but they are still showing up. How can I safely remove them? Can someone please guide me?
Some Extra information about my EFI partition.
# ls /boot/
config-5.4.0-26-generic      memtest86+.elf
config-5.4.0-37-generic      memtest86+_multiboot.bin
efi                          System.map-5.4.0-26-generic
grub                         System.map-5.4.0-37-generic
initrd.img                   vmlinuz
initrd.img-5.4.0-26-generic  vmlinuz-5.4.0-26-generic
initrd.img-5.4.0-37-generic  vmlinuz-5.4.0-37-generic
initrd.img.old               vmlinuz.old
memtest86+.bin

# ls /boot/efi/
BOOTLOG  EFI

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/
APPLE  BOOT  tools  ubuntu

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/APPLE/
EXTENSIONS  FIRMWARE

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS/
Firmware.scap

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/APPLE/FIRMWARE/
MBP121.fd

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/
BOOTX64.EFI  fbx64.efi  mmx64.efi

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/tools/
gptsync_x64.efi

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/
BOOTX64.CSV  grub.cfg  grubx64.efi  mmx64.efi  shimx64.efi


texts: USB intermittently not working - requires restart - what to try next?

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The USB ports on my MacBoook Pro13 stop working after a while (new devices aren't recognized by the OS, already plugged in devices don't work any longer, the behavior is the same for all USB devices and both USB ports). Doing a restart fixes the problems for a while (about a day of use). The way I'm usually working, the Mac goes to sleep a few times during the time it works. I've tried the standard procedures of resetting PRAM and repairing disc permissions without success.

I'm not sure how long I've been having this problem, it might be related to updating to Mountain Lion or some version change in VMWare Fusion (and no, the USB hardware is not available there, either). As the problem is not occurring directly after a reboot, I'm assuming it is not Hardware-related. Still I'd like to avoid a complete re-install.

What can I do to further diagnose and fix the problem?

UPDATE: Thanks for the suggestions. I wasn't able to try all of them .. interestingly, my USB has been working for more than a week now, and I'm not sure what changed. (Maybe I'm using VMWare in a different way, maybe it has to do with the way I use my MacBook.) So I haven't been able to verify that any of the changes solve my problem (which makes awarding the bounty a bit tricky). I'll update the question when I have new information - but hopefully my USB continues to work!


texts: Time Machine fails shortly after starting to prepare backup

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I have a problem with the Time Machine backup: 1-2 mins after starting the process (Backup is being prepared), it stops.
Console logs:

Backup failed (304: BACKUP_FAILED_PREFLIGHT_STAGE_SNAPSHOT_DIFFING)
Failed to collect events for "Macintosh SSD - Daten" (device:
/dev/disk1s1 mount: '/System/Volumes/Data' fsUUID:
37BA4BE5-ACF2-37EE-81E7-41B277B3CACE eventDBUUID:
E0435E75-595E-4699-A798-47ADB7F3E85A), error Error
Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=304 "(null)"
Failed to enumerate snapshot diffs, error: Error
Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=83 "Device error"

I switched already the HDD, it runs for 2-3 weeks and then I get the same error.
Anybody can help?


texts: How to completely delete and app from iphone (including all the data and history)

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So this problem particularly emerged with the Tinder app. I was using Tinder with a user account (A) and one day I logged out and created a new user account (B) which I never succeeded to activate due to sms verification problems, so I decided to login again with my old account. But even when I delete the Tinder app and reinstall it again, it still shows the B account logged in to the app. This means that IOS is somewhere storing a history for this app. Now I'm looking for a way to delete this history.

Note that this question is not necessarily about a certain app, but rather about where IOS stores historical data of apps and how to delete those histories alongside with the app.

P.S: If there are solutions like changing UUID of my i-phone that wouldn't damage my phone (I'm new to iphone so I'm not sure what I'm saying. For instance this jailbreaking thing which I keep hearing about and I'm not sure what it exactly does to my phone, doesn't sound like an I idea that I like), I'm open to them.


texts: SMC Reset Won't Work on Macbook Pro Retina mid-2012

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I have followed all the correct steps for carrying out an SMC Reset, however my Mac continues to boot normally.

The issues I currently am dealing with are:

Slow performance
Battery light on power cable not lighting
Loud fans when just browsing on Safari


texts: Errors in installing OpenMPI on El Capitan

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I'm following this guide to install OpenMPI on my Mac. I think everything is going well, but now I'm at the step where I have to make all. When I try, I get the error Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo., so I can't go further.

EDIT: looking at the downvoted answer here I tried to run Xcode and say ok to license agreement.
Now, when I enter make all I get the error in the following figure

Indeed, I see there's no file named makefile (only Makefile.* files are present).

I don't know why but a second ./configure --prefix=/usr/local solved the problem of make all, which is currently in execution. Maybe the license agreement should have been done before this step.


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I managed to wrongly format my SSD into MBR (Master Boot Record), since then my Mac is stuck starting in Internet Recovery Mode over and over again and I also can't run the Terminal command for example (CMD+S) to erase the SSD by hand.

There would not be any problems to recover it with the Internet Recovery Mode, but as soon as I choose my WiFi network, it will run on an endless loop.
Neither I see any progress bar or ETA for the recovery.
The process looks like this:

I once did run it for 24 hours, but except that fans was very loud, there was no process at all. I also used a different WiFi to see if there was a change (which was not).

The only thing I'm able to do is pressing the 'Option' key to boot from my USB but this is not working as well.
It look like this:

As soon as I select the "Install macOS Mojave", it will start again the Internet Recovery Mode and it will run on endless loop, again.

Could be the USB fault for it?
But if so, why the Terminal is not working?


texts: How to handle click on notification triggered using Script Editor?

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I am developing a simple script that triggers notifications using display notification.
Once the script has been exported as an application using "Script Editor", I noticed that clicking on the notification runs the script again.
I would like to handle this use case differently.


texts: How to change the Admin password from blank on OS X Lion?

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I bought this Mac several months ago, and when it first installed by the people in the Apple store, they set the password to blank.

At first it was ok, but now I can't install any programs because the Mac keep saying that the password is incorrect. Please help me. Thanks!


texts: Bootable USB with Ubuntu does not show in boot sequence options

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I followed this question (How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick Using OS X 10.10.2) to turn the Ubuntu 14.04 ISO to a bootable USB.

I have a MBP (with touchbar) running 10.12.5.

After rebooting while pressing the option key, I don't see the USB drive listed. I only see the SSD listed.

What could be wrong?

Update

The comments suggested my Partition Map was not of the right type. So I erased the USB using Journaled option and select GUID Partition Map. After it's completion (verified with Diskutil list) I rebooted to see that the USB is still not listed as a bootable option.

Any other ideas?


texts: When I read an email on my iPad I am not receiving it on my laptop - how do I sync them?

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I am using YAHOO email on my MacBook Pro and my iPad and iPhone - but when  I open an email on my iPad it is not showing up on my laptop or iPhone. How do I get all of my emails on all of my devices?

Also - when I send a message via my iPad it also is not syncing to my other devices, so when a friend replies, it shows on my iPad but not my iPhone.


texts: Automator help: Creating Sub-folder From the Finder items

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Can you help with this process of creating a sub-folders from results of "get folder contents"?

When we do the finder items, we get all the folder items. In my setup, it's creating a folder on the root folder of the finder items folder.

I"m looking for a way to create a subfolder here.

Before:

├── city1
└── city2

After:

├── city1
│   └── helloworld
└── city2
    └── helloworld


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I have been using the magic mouse for two years. I always slide off the switch under the mouse after the mac shuts down as I have seen it to save battery life to some extent.

Since a week the mouse does not switch ON consistently, it does not show the green light at all.

When I took it to a nearby Apple service center, it turned ON surprisingly.
But, back home it stopped working again. It somehow worked after many attempts. Today it stopped working again.

I have cleaned the terminals, and all looks fine. But I have some doubt on the slide switch.

The mouse has been used carefully and has never been dropped.

Has anyone experienced this, any input?


texts: Installed rEFInd Boot Manager, it seems HD re-ogranized

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Before I installed rEFInd, I believe there were three partitions to my Mac, disk0, disk1, disk2.

Now, when I run in the Command line

 diskutil list

This is what remains:

 /dev/disk0
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
    2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk0s2
    3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

I'm not sure what to think of this. Previously /dev/disk0s2 was Apple_CoreStorage of a size around 499 GB. Then there was a /dev/disk1, which was "Apple_HFS Macintosh HD". Notice that's now disk0s2 above.

Should I worry? Thankfully I have everything saved on an external hard drive.

EDIT: If it helps, my HD used to look like the second screenshot on this web tutorial, after diskutil list. http://www.theinstructional.com/guides/disk-management-from-the-command-line-part-1


texts: 10.9 Contacts.app doesn’t sync one contacts card with iCloud

texts:
Contacts.app in 10.9 says "Some server contacts could not be copied to this address book."

iCloud.com shows 499 contacts
iOS shows 499 contacts
10.9 shows 498 contacts

is there a way to fix this or find this missing contact?


texts:
I'm new to macOS (Sierra) and am searching a simple vector editing tool.

Previously, on Linux I used Inkscape. However, on Mac the base on XQuartz is hard for me to use.

Does anyone know of a better alternative?


texts: Is there a way to completely delete an application from my Macbook? I don't mean to just save the space by deleting it from the applications folder, but to delete all the files that it uses to make it run. I don't worry about the files it produces.


texts: I was under the impression that macOS is closed source. But this opensource domain says otherwise. Is macOS open source or partially open source? I'm confused now.


texts: Problem sharing via email in Photos app on Mac

texts: As of yesterday, I can't send a photo from Photos app on my Mac via email (through the 'share' feature). I've been sharing this way all week and now, nothing. No message, it just doesn't do anything. Help?


texts: macOS Sierra SSH Active Directory login not working

texts:
I have a really strange problem with my macOS Sierra Server. It is connected to the Active Directory server and limited access to the login window only for few people. This is working without any problem. (Really only these users are allowed to login on mac server with their domain credentials)

Now I activated SSH because I need this for GIT repositories. I gave the domain user access rights on using ssh but I always get "Permission denied" when I try to connect. If I use a local account it works.

In the logs I only can find:

  com.openssh.sshd.... Service exited with abnormal status code 255
  com.openssh.sshd.... Service exited with abnormal status code 1

Do you have any idea whats going wrong here?


texts: How do you create a global shortcut to launch terminal or open a tab?

texts:
I am trying to create a global shortcut Command Ctrl Shift + T to launch Terminal and open a new tab (unless terminal was not launched yet and if so do not open a new tab)
I am presuming it's in Automator quick action. I can make it launch Terminal, but I can't make it go "new tab" if needed.


texts: Routing all web 'traffic' via tun device on Mac OSX

texts:
Having checked through Stack Overflow I cannot find a suitable answer, so hope the community are able to help me.

I am using a DNS tunneling program called iodine, on the Mac as a client device and am currently able to connect to the server correctly, create the tun0 device and ping the server as defined, via the tunnel.

I am now trying to route my normal browsing traffic via this 'virtual' tun0 device but am failing to do so. I have seen some reference to amending the preferences.plist but cannot seem to get it to connect properly (presume due to my inability to find or define the UUID)

Anyway, if anyone has any ideas they will all be greatly received.

ifconfig tun0: flags=8851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1130
inet 10.0.0.2 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffffe0
open (pid 447)


texts: How can I open port 443 in Mac OS X 10.6?

texts: I have a local apache running on my macbook pro and I need to run a SSL website on the local host. I have everything configured in Apache, but can't open port 443 on mac. I tried to add ipfw rule to allow 443 but it doesn't work.


texts: OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 Mail keep quitting unexpectedly. This started happening after the last update

texts:
I'm just wondering that why Mail keeps quitting after the 10.10.3 update.
The mail app worked fine and I never had to quit it, but now it happens occasionally.

Sorry I didn't provide those informations.
Here is the User Diagnostic Reports:

Crashed Thread:        18  Dispatch queue: NSOperationQueue 0x7fbff45644a0 :: NSOperation 0x7fbff7e23ee0 (QOS: UTILITY)
Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Thread 18 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: NSOperationQueue 0x7fbff45644a0 :: NSOperation 0x7fbff7e23ee0 (QOS: UTILITY)
Thread 18 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
    0x7fff8d4d9000 -     0x7fff8d4e4ff7  com.apple.CrashReporterSupport (10.10 - 631) <D87A64FA-64B1-3B23-BB43-ADE173C108C6> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CrashReporterSupport.framework/Versions/A/CrashReporterSupport

Let me know if I can provide more info to solve my question.

What I actually want to do is to make the mail app stable instead of crashing 2 or 3 times a day.


texts: Manually disable notification in terminal

texts:
I searched for this, and maybe there's some technical language I am missing or don't understand, but cannot figure it out from previous posts.

I moved all autodesk applications to the trash and emptied it, but I still get more than 5 notifications a day that my A360 account is expiring and my files won't be synced, etc. When I click the notification, nothing happens.

The application is not in SystemPreferences>Notifications, so I cannot disable them from there. How can I (1) find the notification from this app no longer on my computer and then (2) disable it? I'm thinking I'll have to use the terminal, or is there a better way to do this?


texts: Does AppleCare cover physical wear on MacBook Pros?

texts:
I have a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro with AppleCare. I've had a few minor/cosmetic hardware issues:

My power cord recently started coming apart. The rubber/plastic coating around the MagSafe end of the cord has begun to fray a little bit. I've covered it with electrical tape for now. I did find this question which seems to have a satisfactory answer for this particular issue. But more interestingly:
The right-front corner of the body is scuffed and losing its silver coating. I haven't put any particular extra stress on this part of the body, but the silver coating is coming off. The left side is fine.

My left command key is starting to wear through. A layer of the material seems to be chipping away slowly; here's a picture where you can see the backlight shining through a few tiny holes. The right command key is fine.

Is it possible that I could get these issues repaired since I have AppleCare? Is it even worth taking in to an Apple Store? If they wouldn't do this for free, how much would they be likely to charge me?


texts: Using Chrome on macOS without address bar & menu like kiosk mode

texts:
I just want a browser window without the address bar or any menu, with just one tab.

In Windows, chrome.exe --app=http://gmail.com is used. I want the macOS version for it.


texts: How to install, specific version of Java by command line on Mac? It's Possible?

texts:
It's possible to install an old version of Java by command line in Mac, it's possible?

I am trying install java 1.6.0.17, but i can't find this version for Mac OS. I think it's possible to intall it by command line with terminal. But i don't know the correct way todo this.


texts:
The page on Messages in iCloud mentions keeping "all your messages" on iCloud. It then goes on to activate the functionality on the iMessage settings tab in macOS.

Does it apply to SMS messages?

Does it only apply to SMS messages under certain conditions, e.g. only after enabling receiving SMS on another device?


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i have saved one card details with my app id as it does not allow u to browse the itune store without that .

Now i try downloaidng few free apps for ipad . After sometime i recivied notifcation from my bank that a purchase has been made on my card for the same FREE app .

Why if a app is free , am i charged for the same ?
or if it is not free , why does it say free on the itune store .
Not a very good itune store experience :(


texts: Can I delete the logs in the /private/tmp folder?

texts: Seems like there are around 5,000 wifi logs, each 2MB each, totaling nearly 10GB on my disk in /private/tmp. Can I delete these logs, or will macOS automatically delete them itself? I tried making a file using the mkfile command until I had about 2GB of disk space left, but nothing was automatically cleared.


texts: Do these iPhone log messages indicate spyware?

texts:
I've seen these messages in my iPhone log and I was wondering whether someone is using spyware on my iPhone:

{"message":{"Accel":1,"Baseband":1,"Bt":1,"Duration":1,"DurationExitFromNoHints":1,"Gps":1,"VehicularDuration":3300,"Wifi":1},
"name":"VehicularStateDetectionLatencyStats","uuid":"6101aa5f-34b5-456c-b761-e4dea7fcd935"}
{"message":{"Accel":2,"Baseband":2,"Bt":2,"Duration":2,"DurationExitFromNoHints":2,"Gps":2,"VehicularDuration":3360,"Wifi":2},
"name":"VehicularStateDetectionLatencyStats","uuid":"6101aa5f-34b5-456c-b761-e4dea7fcd935"}


texts: Is there a way to fix the slow space switching animation in Yosemite?

texts:
I'm a developer and use spaces extensively. I have my terminal in one space, my editor in another, etc.

When I use ctrl + arrow key to switch to the left or right the animation is incredibly slow (better than in older versions, but still). This is killing it for me.

Is there a way to turn this animation off or influence its speed?

I know there was a command in Snow Leopard that could do that

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool YES

but it doesn't work anymore. Does anyone know a trick to fix this?

Thanks!

Edit:

I filled a bug for this with Apple. The Radar number is 19169435. I would encourage you to also file the report at https://bugreport.apple.com/. Note in your description that it is a duplicate of the above bug report number to help the support staff categorize and prioritize this bug.


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I have not found a way to locate the placement of an app in my many pages of folders on my iPhone home screen, short of looking through every single folder on every single page.

Before you say "use the search feature" let me point out "search" does not actually allow you to find anything—or, if it does, it's very hard to figure out how.  The so-called search feature gives you an alternate launcher, but if it can be used to tell you where your app icon is in the many pages of your home screen, buried in the many folders on each page, I have not figured out how to make it do that.  If all you want to do is launch the app, then "search" is okay.  But if you want to move it to a certain folder, then (as far as I can tell) you're out of luck.

At least as of March 2020, when I'm writing this.  Apple has finally given us the ability to delete things from the App Store, so they're on the right track.  But I am failing to find a way to find things.  Is there a way to do it?

Update:
See my answer below to connect the dots between the problem and jmh's solution.


texts:
I've delayed updating to Catalina due to a few applications which I will lose access to, due to them being compiled for 32-bit architecture. While the third-party apps are not overly difficult to address, there is one Apple app which I still use and rely on, Pages '09, and cannot go without.*

Are there any ways to find 64-bit ports of 32-bit Apple apps, like Pages '09 ?

*Before anyone comments, yes I know that there are newer versions of Pages, but when I'm writing, I much prefer the UI of the older version, so newer versions are a non-option.


texts:
I don't know whether I should update my iMac to El Capitan or not. I'm planning to use it daily as my primary computer for the next 5 to 7 years (yes, seriously) and too afraid to update to the next OS because I think it will not be as fast as it is now. I value speed and efficiency much more than the cool new features. My question is: will updating my iMac to the new OS every year decrease its performance over time or not?

iMac is used mostly for web browsing and Adobe apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Lightroom; in that order). I have very few files on my iMac because I keep everything in the cloud (~150 GB/1 TB) and there are ~25 programs installed.

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)
OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (latest)
4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 (will upgrade to 32 GB in the near future)
AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2048 MB
1.12 TB Fusion Drive

Thanks.


texts: Installing Xcode 4.1 and Xcode 3.X on Mac OS X Lion

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I need to install both Xcode 4.1 and Xcode 3.X on Lion.
After installing Xcode 4.1, when I tried to install Xcode 3.X in ~/Developer, I find that I can't install Xcode Toolset with the installer.

Does this mean one can't install Xcode 3.X on Lion? Is there a way to install Xcode Toolset?


texts: How do I restore a backup created by 'brew cask upgrade'?

texts:
I just upgraded VMware Fusion on my system:

brew cask upgrade vmware-fusion
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
vmware-fusion 10.1.3-9472307 -> 11.5.0-14634996
==> Upgrading vmware-fusion
...
==> Backing App 'VMware Fusion.app' up to '/usr/local/Caskroom/vmware-fusion/10.1.3-9472307/VMware Fusion.app'.
...

Alas, I only now noticed that I lack a license to use the new version, so I'd like to restore the backup which was created in /usr/local/Caskroom/vmware-fusion/10.1.3-9472307/VMware Fusion.app. How do I do this?

I suppose I could uninstatll vmware-fusion and then manually copy-back the backup -- but that supposedly fails to restore all kinds of symlinks which Homebrew created in /usr/local/bin. Is there maybe something built into Homebrew?


texts: Use external USB 3.0 SSD with 2012 iMac for the OS?

texts:
So it is possible that I can get a good deal on a 2012 iMac. The only thing that scares me is the slow 1tb hard drive in it. I searched on how to replace it but it is extremely complicated because the iMac is glued together, I'm not ready to go down that road.

So my idea was to take a SATA3 SSD, put it in a SATA USB 3.0 HDD enclosure and then connect that over USB 3.0 and install MacOS on it.

Q: Is it a good idea to run your OS on an external hard drive? Does anyone have experience with this or alternative solutions?


texts: Show thumbnails of AVI and WMV files in finder

texts:
In OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, I could view thumbnails/previews of .wmv and .avi files in Finder through the software Flip4Mac. However in Mavericks, I cannot see previews although I've installed the newest Flip4Mac (3.2.0.16) software.
Did something in OS X 10.9 Mavericks change for previewing in finder? Is it possible to get a preview of .avi and .wmv files?


texts: How to prevent OS X from automatically deleting fonts after restarting?

texts:
Environment

System version: 10.13.6 (17G65)
Device: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2015)

Actual Behavior

After system restart, certain fonts will disappear in Font Book.

All these fonts are "downloadable fonts" which occupy positions in the index in Font Book but do not actually exist on the device until the user downloads them.

Some "downloadable fonts" disappear but some remain. It is uncertain whether a certain removal pattern exists.

An incomplete list of fonts being affected:

HeadLineA
Hiragino Sans CNS
LiHei Pro
Wawati SC
Wawati TC
Weibei SC
Weibei TC
BiauKai

Expected Behavior

These fonts remain intact after each system restart.


texts: nfc option for NFS mount on Mavericks doesn't work

texts:
I have updated MacOSX to 10.9 (Mavericks). I want to mount NFS shares from a Linux server with the nfc option because I have filenames with non-ASCII characters. But when I mount the network share it seems nfc is not working:

$ sudo mount -t nfs -o resvport,async,nfc 192.168.1.12:/media/disk1/downloads /Users/me/download/
$ mount | grep downloads
192.168.1.12:/media/disk1/downloads on /Users/me/download (nfs, asynchronous)

And the character issue (accents, ñ...) is there: they are shown as ??


texts: Toggle "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" via script

texts:
I toggle the "Use all F1, F2 as standard keys" setting very often and would like to automate it via a script (or a keyboard shortcut). Is it possible? I've tried to Google the right arguments for defaults write ... but unsuccessfully.

Update: I ended up creating https://github.com/jkbrzt/macos-fn-toggle based of the answers here.

Update II: There's now also — https://github.com/Pyroh/Fluor — a really nice menubar app that allows you to automatically change the behaviour of the keyboard's fn keys depending on the active application.


texts: New iPhone 6s lost the new photos after synching to iTunes (restore old back up of iPhone 5s)

texts:
I have new iPhone 6s with lots of holiday photos. After synching to itunes, with only intention to sync the contacts, iTunes prompt me 2 question: Set as new iphone and recover old back up. I chose the latter, and lost all my new photos.

I have tried few software to recover data directly from ios, itunes back up. None of it working. I disabled icloud, so theres no back up in icloud too.

Is there anyway to recover my lost photos?


texts: Remove hyperlink formatting from address

texts:
I have created a Numbers spreadsheet containing a set of data including email addresses.

Some of these addresses appear as hyperlinks, and I can't seem to edit or change them.
Every time I try to select one it jumps to my Mail application.

I have tried to change formatting to "Text", but this seems to have no effect.


texts: How can I skip the Trash when deleting a file?

texts:
I frequently connect different external USB hard drives and flash drives to my computer and I would like to facilitate deleting files and regaining disk space from them.

If I simply delete the file, it will be kept in a hidden trash folder on the external drive until I empty the Trash. This also forces me to empty my local trash simultaneously while the external disk is still connected to regain the disk space, which is undesirable.

At the moment, the only other "solution" I've found is moving the file to the internal hard drive and then trash it. This is not optimal because I waste time moving files from one drive to another (I regularly deal with 20GB+ VMs).

How can I permanently delete a file from an external drive, bypassing the trash?


texts:
At random times, there is a red discoloration in the corner of my screen that varies in size from nonexistant to stretching across the right edge. It is similar to the following thread except that thread mentions the whole screen and my issue only covers a single corner:
MacBook Pro display suddenly has a very faint warm/pink tint

A couple of observations I noticed was that when you take a screenshot, the discoloration is not in the screen shot. When I physically press the cloud with my finger, it goes away for a short time but comes back.

Does anyone know what is going on and what to do about it?

Edit:
This photo was taken yesterday. As of now, there is no red tint on my screen.


texts: iPhone 4 doesn't show up on devices list

texts:
According to this page: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205064
and this:

  To see any devices running iOS 7 or OS X Mavericks or earlier, you need to be signed in to iCloud on the device and you need Find My iPhone turned on.

I need to be signed into iCloud and have Find my iPhone turned on. I have done both of those things and Find my iPhone locates it as well, but the device doesn't show up on my iCloud or AppleID account even though it backs up on iCloud.

What can I do to fix this?


texts:
I made a program to generate contracts in bulk based on data from an .xlsx file. I originally made it for PCs, and now I'm trying to create a mac version. Everything seems to be running smoothly, but there's one method in my program that relies on win32com.client, so I need to figure something else out for this. I'm wondering if there's an analogous package for macs, or a way to perform the same basic tasks without too much of a headache. I'm open to learning a bit of AppleScript; I'm just not quite sure how to employ AppleScript in Python, or where to start looking.

Here's the method I'm working with:

def PDFconverter(self, filePath, contract):
    folder = filePath
    file_type = 'docx'
    out_folder = folder + "\\" + getIssueCode(self.GUI)
    if not os.path.exists(out_folder):
        print('Creating output folder for PDFs...')
        os.makedirs(out_folder)
        print(filePath, 'created.')
    for files in os.listdir("."):
        if files == contract:
            out_name = files.replace(file_type, r"pdf")
            in_file = os.path.abspath(folder + "\\" + files)
            out_file = os.path.abspath(out_folder + "\\" + out_name)
            word1 = client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
            doc1 = word1.Documents.Open(in_file)
            print('Exporting', out_file)
            print(' ')
            doc1.SaveAs(out_file, FileFormat=17)
            doc1.Close()
            word1.Quit()

The for loop at the bottom checks to see if each word file in the folder matches the specified contract name, and then calls client.Dispatch to open the relevant file, and saves it as a PDF.

Can someone point me in the direction of a way to accomplish this on macOS?


texts: I'm traveling to Hong Kong and I want to install an app on my iPhone which will allow me to text for free to non-smart phones in Hong Kong (specifically, to this provider: +852-90207 XXX). Is there any app or service that would allow me to do this?


texts: How can I modify Info.plist under EI Capitan 10.11.4 or Later

texts:
This problem bothers me since I tried to add a hardware(smartcard device) information to the support list, so that I can use this smartcard device under my macintosh. But I don't have permission to modify this list file(Info.plist) on EI Capitan 10.11.4 or 10.11.5. Before 10.11.4, there is no this permission thing, I can't see why apple doing this.

Anyone knows how to modify the Info.plist(directory: "/usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle/Contents/")?


texts:
I'm having no luck adding my icloud email account to either the Evolution, Geary or Thunderbird clients. They all seem to complain about "IMAP username or password incorrect", or similar, although I have confirmed I use the right password by logging into the web interface at icloud.com with my apple-id credentials.

I'm following the directions in apple's support article, where they themselves sound unsure on what to do (!), e.g.:

  Username: This is usually the name part of your iCloud email address (for example, emilyparker, not emilyparker@icloud.com). If your email client can't connect to iCloud using just the name part of your iCloud email address, try using the full address.

...usually?

This support article is basically referred to or reflected in every QnA thread out there (except one that claims that omitting @me.com from the username also works for SMTP - not that @me.com directly applies to my case).

I'll concentrate on Thunderbird since it's easy to test it its UI:

Incoming

Host: imap.mail.me.com
Port: 993
SSL: SSL/TLS
Auth: Normal password
User: user.name

Outgoing

Host: smtp.mail.me.com
Port: 587
SSL: STARTTLS
Auth: Normal password
User: user.name@icloud.com

Thunderbird tells me "Username or password invalid" (the Geary client does the same).

I have tried both user.name@icloud.com and just user.name as the username for IMAP and SMTP. I have
even tried myAppleId@otherProvider.com in desperation even though I'm clearly instructed to do otherwise.
I have written my password in plaintext and pasted it in.
I have tried STARTTLS instead of TLS (Thunderbird edits the port automatically when I change).

I thought I had followed the (unassertive) instructions to the letter, but I must be overlooking something very basic here that I can't see.

Sometimes I get an Error Creating Account alert when trying to connect, doesn't seem very relevant to me though. It has had two different messages:

  Incoming server already exists.

  [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIMsgAccountManager.createIncomingServer]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/accountcreation/verifyConfig.js :: verifyConfig :: line 60"  data: no]


texts: iTunes home sharing videos with iOS 10.2 TV app

texts:
I have videos in iTunes on my Mac desktop (in the TV Shows and Movies sections) that are shared using Home Sharing with my Apple ID. Home sharing is turned on and working; I can watch the videos on my Apple TV.

I used to use Apple's Videos app to watch on my iPhone. As of iOS 10.2, Videos seems to be gone, nominally replaced with TV. Apple's instructions for Home Sharing, published Dec 6, 2016, refer to Videos and don't mention TV at all.

I don't see any obvious way to watch shared videos with the TV app. I went to its Settings pane and signed out of my Apple ID and back in, but still nothing. The Settings pane does explicitly list Home Sharing, which suggests that it should be possible, but I am stumped.

How can I watch videos shared from iTunes using Home Sharing on my iPhone with iOS 10.2?


texts: How to add sites to the Safari Power Saver exclusion list?

texts:
In Safari, a feature I really like is that flash plugins are automatically blocked by default and you have to click in order to start the flash plugin (see, e.g., http://mac-fusion.com/manage-the-safari-power-saver-feature/). I found, however, that it prevents Google Play's "play music" buttons from working, so I had to temporarily disable the feature (uncheck the "Stop plug-ins to save power" box) and restart Safari in order to listen to music on Google Play.

There is some sort of exclusion list. I currently have 3 sites listed, but I do not know how they got there. How do I add a site, e.g. play.google.com, to this list?

I don't see a UI to do this, but perhaps there is a way of editing a plist to insert a new entry?


texts: How to control apache service on OS X (start/stop/restart/graceful restart)?

texts:
I have Apache installed on OS X and I want to know what command I can use to:

start apache
stop apache
restart apache
gracefully restart apache

Also I want to know if the commands were successful or not.

Apache seams to be installed as org.apache.httpd or at least this is what sudo launchctl list|grep apache shows.


texts: How to have "say" wait when used in a series of pipes?

texts:
I'm trying to figure out how to be notified that multiple stages have been reached in a series of piped commands.
For the sake of discussion, lets say I have a command like so that any part of it could take a long time. I want to be notified when each "stage" has completed by having the script say something.
netstat -a | stage_complete.sh "netstat" | grep -v WAIT | stage_complete.sh "grep done"

where stage_complete.sh is a simple bash script to say the argument text, and pass stdin to stdout.
stage_complete.sh
OUT=$*
say "$OUT"
cat /dev/stdin

This idea works fine - except that say doesn't "wait" for the word to complete - it just starts to say the phrase, and then immediately continues on, so if my commands run quickly, then it says "netstat" and "grep done" at the same time, overlapping each other.
How can i make say wait? or have it queue up text, and only say it once the previous text has completed? Note that I've noticed that commands like so wait for each other to complete:
say one && say two && say three
but can't see how to make that work in my pipes!


texts: Switch from Outlook 2016 Mac to Apple Mail

texts:
I have been using the mac for a long time, earlier I used Entourage as my email client, then came the Outlook 2011 for Mac and now its Outlook 2016 for Mac.

Due to some official guidelines I now need to switch over to Apple Mail. This includes transferring my database from Outlook 2016 Mac to Apple Mail.

Question
As I am completely unaware of this process, I am looking for some help in terms of what I need to do to migrate to Apple Mail. A simple and faster approach will be more preferable.


texts: is Intel Iris 1536 MB better than NVIDIA 8600M?

texts: I was looking at a few games on steam and came across one that read "ATI Radeon HD 2400 or better / NVidia 8600M or better", my macbook has an Intel Iris 1536 mb (8Gb DDR3) and I was wondering if it's good enough to run the game


texts: In Keynote is there a way to lock a presentation in slideshow mode?  I work at a children's museum and want the kids to interact with the iPad and be able to switch between slides, but not be able to exit into editing mode or do anything else to the slideshow. I have tried Guided Access and limiting certain areas they can touch, but there are still certain finger gestures, swiping down with two fingers and holding down one finger, that will allow kids to exit into editing mode or go into "drawing mode" on the iPad.  If Keynote doesn't allow you to do this, is there another slideshow app that can?  Thanks!


texts: Most-efficient way to copy iPhoto events between computers?

texts:
I experienced a hard-drive crash recently.  While I was able to recover most of the lost photographs from Mozy, some where lost.  Fortunately, the missing photographs are located on another machine.

** edit **

Computer A: MacBook Pro with Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5.1
Computer B: Mac Mini with Snow Leopard and iPhoto 9.2.3

I want to preserve the existing photos, faces, and events on computer B (the recovered items), but copy the photos, faces, and events from computer A (the missing items).

What is the most-efficient way to do this?


texts: "Family" (shared) reminders in iOS 13 are not working - how can this be fixed?

texts:
I spent over an hour updating devices to get "Family" (shared) Reminders working again....and it still isn't. Then I find this, which is a bit infuriating:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/10/01/apple-iphone-11-pro-max-upgrade-ios-13-reminders-app-iphone-xs-max-xr-update/#51aaac7e57b8

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/30/20892460/apple-ios-13-reminders-broken-icloud-sync-macos-catalina-delay-upgrade

...but these articles are from September. SURELY this is fixed by now....right?! All devices are on iOS 13. When I send the invite to my wife's phone we accept it but then...nothing. There was a yellow exclamation point on the "Family" reminders previously (which I erroneously assumed upgrading to iOS 13 would fix), but after the upgrade didn't fix it, I tried re-creating and re-sharing, but no luck so far.


texts: Can I toggle Do Not Disturb on/off on my Mac as easily as I can on my iPhone?

texts:
On my iPhone I can use the Control Center to toggle Do Not Disturb on and off whenever I want.

On my Mac I checked in System Preferences > Notifications and I can set it on a schedule, but there’s no option to show a Do Not Disturb icon in the Menu Bar.

How can I easily toggle Do Not Disturb on/off on my Mac without going into System Preferences or having to use Terminal?


texts: Mail.app - Shortcut to switch signatures?

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut (or way to set one) that allows to easily switch between different email signatures in mail.app ?


texts: Searching by artist name for imported music

texts:
I imported a CD to my iTunes library on my computer.  It automatically detected the name of the artist and name of the CD.  Then I synced my iPhone to my computer and when I search the artist's name for the CD it does not show up. However, when I search the songs they do show up.

How do I get the album to appear when I search the artist name?


texts:
When I search in Finder there are no results.

There are no results as I am typing, nor after pressing return.
There is no loading spinner which usually appears at the bottom of the window.
The loading cursor will sometimes appear, while hovering over the Finder window, after attempting a search.
Spotlight searches work with no problems.
On another account, both Finder searches and Spotlight searches work fine.

My troubleshooting:

I rebuilt Spotlight's index for the entire Mac, relaunched Finder, restarted, but there was no change.
I trashed Finder's plist (com.apple.finder.plist) and relauched Finder to no effect.
I reset Spotlight with the "sudo" method in Terminal mentioned here, relaunched Finder but it didn't have any effect.

Specs:

iMac, 2009
Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 8GB
Storage: 1TB SATA Disk
OS X Yosemite 10.10.3
Finder Version 10.10.4


texts: Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition? Catalina 10.15.3

texts:
I am having a similar issue to the following thread:

Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition?

Except as shown below I'm stuck on 45% and there are some error messages I do not understand. Originally waited over 6 hours and then reached 45% in 30seconds.

Can anyone help? Thanks heaps in advance


texts: iOS: block ads in Apps without Jailbreak and VPN tunnel (normal 3G/4G network)

texts:
For example in RT app there are annoying ads. There is no way to pay subscription without ads.

Howto block ads in Apps (in Mobile Safari I block them all)? I found only apps that offer a VPN tunnel (you need 100% to trust them) and solutions for iPhones with Jailbreak. Are there other possibilities?


texts: My MacBook Pro (13" Mid 2012) keeps crashing with a blue screen and I got a panic report

texts:
So for the past few weeks, my macbook pro (13-inch, Mid 2012, 2.9Ghz intel core i7, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3, intel HD graphics 4000 1024MB, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5) seems to crash randomly with a rapid blue screen and then restarts as if normal. The last time it did this (about ten minutes ago), it produced a panic report as follows. I took it to the apple store today. They plugged in an Ethernet cable and said the hardware was fine within 1 minute. They looked at the panic report and said that the panic report says it is a CPU issue and I might have to replace the logic board. On the other hand, it could be a software issue and I could try updating to el Capitan with a fresh install. So basically they said it's either a software or hardware problem but they can't be sure: what do I do??

Thank you for any help that you can give me. My panic report is below at this link (couldn't get any answers on the apple forum)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7574180

Any help would be greatly appreciated


texts:
Is there some way to force Photos on Mac to sync with iCloud? Many times when I import pictures they do not get uploaded to iCloud. It's very flakey. I checked my iCloud storage space and I have plenty of remaining space so I don't know what the cause could be. I've lately been resorting to uploading the images to Google Drive then downloading them to my phone.

EDIT: I believe I found the cause. If the photos are too big in size (over 2MB) they won't sync. Is there some setting to adjust this?


texts: How to mix fonts in a way that doesn't change line spacing?

texts:
I'm trying to use Pages to write a technical document. The text has mix of normal font and a fixed width font (aka "monospaced") to represent computer code. For example:

The problem is that when there are multiple lines I can see that the fixed width font pushes the line height out and makes the text look bad. It does this even though both the fonts are the same point size. It even does it when I reduce the fixed width font size a little. Here is a larger screenshot to show what I mean.

Some fonts are worse than others. Courier for example, moves the line, but barely. I don't like the looks of it though – its letters appear significantly shorter than the surrounding Helvetica. I like the Fira Code font, but it moves the line a lot. I had to shrink the Fira Code all the way to 7pt before it stopped disrupting the line spacing.
Shouldn't fonts with same point size have the same line height? If not, is there some way to choose fonts that do? Is there a certain kind of font, or property of the font, that I should be looking for?


texts: How do I change my macOS user account UUID to stop Apple tracking me?

texts:
I have read that the user accounts on a Mac actually have a UUID associated with them and this means Apple is tracking every action performed with that user account.

I’ve already deleted all Facebook and Google apps, and I also don’t want Apple tracking me. Searching online reveals that I can stop Apple by refreshing or changing this UUID so that Apple has no way of tracking me, as the UUID no longer matches their records.

How can I do this on my iMac Pro?


texts:
I'm unable to eject USB drives. When I try, I get this error:

  The disk "Untitled" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may
  be using it.

  To eject the disk immediately, click the Force Eject button.

Additionally, when I use Disk Utility to erase a USB drive I get this error:

  Disk Erase failed with the error:

  Couldn't unmount disk.

This happens on my account and my wife's account. I can partition USB drives, but I can't erase or eject them.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?


texts: Email Client Software that Limits Number of Downloaded Emails?

texts:
I'm searching for an email client (MacOS - I'm running Catalina) that limits the number of downloaded emails onto my macbook. Such as limiting to say 10000 emails, or limiting to emails in last 30 days. I don't want to bog my machine with too many emails so I currently use the Office 365 web client. It would be great if I could use a local email client, which would provide more features than the web interface I'm currently using.
Apparently the mail app doesn't have an option to limit the number of downloads. Is there another email client for MacOS that will allow control of how many emails are downloaded?


texts: OSX Server: _www user emailing itself every minute

texts:
I'm new to OSX Server, and this has me stumped.   For some reason _www user is emailing itself every minute.

I've tried to restrict it in postfix config, both sending & receiving, i've removed _www as the user from apache.  From the email below is seems to be cron generated, but I dont know how to find the job.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The email is:

Return-Path: <_www@mail.mydomainname.id.au>
Delivered-To: _www@mail.mydomainname.id.au
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mail.mydomainname.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A28F2405596
for <_www@mail.mydomainname.id.au>; Sat, 17 May 2014 12:04:01 +1000 (EST)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.mydomainname.id.au
Received: from mail.mydomainname.id.au ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (mydomainname.id.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
with ESMTP id CtqSyJmASaym for <_www@mail.mydomainname.id.au>;
Sat, 17 May 2014 12:04:00 +1000 (EST)
Received: by mail.mydomainname.id.au (Postfix, from userid 70)
id E9EE9240558C; Sat, 17 May 2014 12:04:00 +1000 (EST)
From: _www@mail.mydomainname.id.au (Cron Daemon)
To: _www@mail.mydomainname.id.au
Subject: Cron <_www@mydomainname> sh /tmp/sess_f652da7dd28dce7baeeae54a46ae4099
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=_www>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=_www>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/Library/WebServer>
Message-Id: <20140517020400.E9EE9240558C@mail.mydomainname.id.au>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 12:04:00 +1000 (EST)
sh: /tmp/sess_f652da7dd28dce7baeeae54a46ae4099: No such file or directory*

SMTP log says:

May 17 12:04:00 mydomainname.id.au postfix/pickup[58709]: E9EE9240558C: uid=70 from=<_www>
May 17 12:04:00 mydomainname.id.au postfix/cleanup[58801]: E9EE9240558C: message-id=<20140517020400.E9EE9240558C@mail.mydomainname.id.au>
May 17 12:04:00 mydomainname.id.au postfix/cleanup[58801]: warning: recipient _www uid falls below minimum allowed: 70 < 501
May 17 12:04:00 mydomainname.id.au postfix/qmgr[58710]: E9EE9240558C: from=<_www@mail.mydomainname.id.au>, size=600, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/smtpd[58896]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/smtpd[58896]: warning: recipient _www uid falls below minimum allowed: 70 < 501
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/smtpd[58896]: 1A28F2405596: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/cleanup[58801]: warning: recipient _www uid falls below minimum allowed: 70 < 501
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/cleanup[58801]: 1A28F2405596: message-id=<20140517020400.E9EE9240558C@mail.mydomainname.id.au>
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/qmgr[58710]: 1A28F2405596: from=<_www@mail.mydomainname.id.au>, size=1046, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/smtpd[58896]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/smtp[58806]: E9EE9240558C: to=<_www@mail.mydomainname.id.au>, orig_to=<_www>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.17, delays=0.01/0/0.01/0.15, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 1A28F2405596)
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/qmgr[58710]: E9EE9240558C: removed
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/pipe[58812]: 1A28F2405596: to=<_www@mail.mydomainname.id.au>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.06, delays=0.01/0/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service)
May 17 12:04:01 mydomainname.id.au postfix/qmgr[58710]: 1A28F2405596: removed


texts:
I have a MacBookPro with macOS Sierra v.10.12.1.  I downloaded gprolog from this link and installed this using MacPorts.

Now, given that Prolog does not work like I wanted, I decided to remove it, but I don't know how.

I tried to remove it using Homebrew, running:

:~ dario$ brew remove gprolog

but this gives me

Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/gprolog

If I run gprolog command in terminal, it gives me

-bash: gprolog: command not found

The only way I have to run gprolog is writing gprolog in Spotlight and clicking on gprolog's icon.
I also tried to run which gprolog and whereis gprolog, without any results.

How can I uninstall gprolog from my Mac?


texts: My iPad is showing my old Apple id, so I am unable to sign out of iCloud or turn off "find my iPad" I need to sign out so that I can type in my new Apple id. The system is only allowing my to reset my password or find my apple id


texts: Prevent display from turning off with certain applications

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro, and during media presentations, my screen automatically turns off according to the settings app (which of course is operation as usual, to be expected).

I'm looking for an Applescript, setting, app, commandline command, etc. that could disable the auto screen shutoff per app rather than constantly having to change the setting globally. I've already looked for a setting within the app itself (ProPresenter, in this case) with no luck. I'm also okay if the solution bases its action on the presence or absence of a second display.


texts: When you decline an airdrop, does it go to recently deleted?

texts: When you airdrop a photo,  does it go to your recently deleted photos? I was wondering for a purpose.


texts: How can one save iTerm2 hotkey-window settings (size/dimensions, computer monitor/display, and relative display position)?

texts:
How can one save iTerm2 hotkey-window settings (size/dimensions, computer monitor/display, and relative display position) so that the said hotkey window re-appears with the same (above) settings?

I'm looking for some sort of "saving current window settings" button/feature.

I'm finding the iTerm2 hotkey window also "auto changes" its dimensions undesirably when I move said window from one computer monitor/display to another, I'm guessing to match the Arrangement settings, or maybe something else.

I'm an iTerm2 newbie, and iTerm2 Arrangements and Profiles management do not yet behave in the way I want.


texts: Does iCloud Keychain require 2fa in macOS 10.15 Catalina?

texts: I've installed Catalina on a partition on my 2012 MacBook Air. However, when I go to set up iCloud Keychain, it asks me to set up 2FA, and then when I decline, it just says "Setting Up" and eventually goes to sleep. Is this a bug or a security feature?


texts: TimeMachine Backup of APFS SSD in Mojave Never Completes

texts:
I am trying to setup up TimeMachine to a network attached storage (NAS) drive. My setup is successful, but like many others with an APFS partition (instead of HFS+), TimeMachine never completes the first backup and just fills the backup location.

What is the solution here? It seems like APFS doesn't play well with TimeMachine, and Apple has been reluctant to acknowledge it. Essentially, there is no good incremental backup solution that is amenable to secondary backup in the cloud without resorting to a 3rd party solution (which is undesirable to many for myriad reasons) because TimeMachine is broken on APFS SSDs. I've caught chatter about excluding directories and files, but I haven't always been able to locate those files in the Finder window that TimeMachine brings up because Apple likes to hide files and directories in its GUI browser, even though they show up find on the command line.

Please help! I am looking for assistance from the crowd or anyone at Apple who can admit there is a problem here that bears a response. I am not interested in attaching an external HDD to my laptop everyday since A) that requires parking the computer next to a drive (no longer portable) and B) requires the use of a dongle since pretty much every external HDD has a USB-A connector, requiring conversion to USB-C (and is oftentimes a flimsy and easily broken connection).


texts: Open ePub in iBooks for Mac without adding it to the iBooks library

texts:
(Possibly a duplicate of Preference for adding epub to iBooks)

Is it possible to use iBooks on Mavericks to open an ePub without adding it to the library?

Possibly through defaults?

(defaults read -app iBooks spits out

{
    BKAlreadyDisplayedWelcomeExperience = 1;
    "BKBookViewerPlugInInstanceDescriptor.1849B0F38A4F4340765773EE6EB5BFA6" =     {
        NotesPanelVisible = 0;
        "saved-window-frame" = "353 94 1075 782 0 0 1680 1028 ";
    };
    "BKBookViewerPlugInInstanceDescriptor.A73B9E1E327A40C8EE40A9A12DF688AA" =     {
        NotesPanelVisible = 0;
        "saved-window-frame" = "302 125 1075 782 0 0 1680 1028 ";
    };
    "BKBookshelfCategoryManager~012384" = 0;
    BKBookshelfViewControllerFilterAction = 5;
    BKBookshelfViewControllerSortAction = 1;
    BKEPubViewerColorTheme = 0;
    "BKStyleManagerLastFont-" = "Iowan Old Style";
    CachedStorefrontID = "143441-1,22 ab:BKDB";
    CachedStorefrontRedirectID = "143441-1,22 ab:BKDB";
    CachedStorefrontRedirectURL = "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGrouping?cc=us&id=27820&mt=11";
    CachedStorefrontURL = "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewEbooksMain";
    "IMPlugInInstanceDescriptor.7" =     {
        "saved-window-frame" = "541 130 1024 724 0 0 1680 1028 ";
    };
    "IMPlugInInstanceDescriptor.8" =     {
        "saved-window-frame" = "328 238 1024 724 0 0 1680 1028 ";
    };
    LibraryCountDate = "2014-05-06 02:34:49 +0000";
    "MZBookKeeper.LastDsid" = 1026970190;
    "MZBookKeeper.LastDsidText" = "hawkrives@gmail.com";
    NSPreferencesSelectedIndex = 0;
    "NSToolbar Configuration NSPreferences" =     {
        "TB Default Item Identifiers" =         (
            General,
            Store,
            Parental
        );
        "TB Display Mode" = 1;
        "TB Icon Size Mode" = 1;
        "TB Is Shown" = 1;
        "TB Item Identifiers" =         (
            NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem,
            General,
            Store,
            Parental,
            NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem
        );
        "TB Size Mode" = 1;
    };
    "NSWindow Frame Preferences" = "66 164 593 390 0 0 1680 1028 ";
    "primary.WebKit2AcceleratedDrawingEnabled" = 1;
    "primary.WebKit2DeveloperExtrasEnabled" = 1;
    "primary.WebKit2SuppressesIncrementalRendering" = 1;
}

but I don't see anything that looks useful.)


texts: How can I boost the performance of my MacBook?

texts:
I know that upgrading my MacBook with extra RAM can help boost the general system performance.

Recently, I upgraded from OS X 10.5  to OS X 10.6.8. I thought that my RAM upgrade would speed up my MacBook, but it didn't.

What measures can I take to boost the performance of my MacBook?


texts: Upload pics to iCloud from old iPhone not primary iPhone

texts: I purchased an iPhone 5S and it was turned on at time of purchase.  However, I did not completely back up all photos to iCloud from old iPhone 4.  I cannot get the iPhone 4 photos to upload to iCloud in order to put them on new laptop.   Help


texts: Do Safari private tabs stay open after iPhone shutdown?

texts:
Does Private Browsing in Safari keep private tabs open when you restart your iPhone 6, or do they get closed automatically?

If private tabs remain open, when opening Safari will you see the normal tabs or the private tabs?


texts: "Hold down power button until it turns off" - diagnose kernel panic?

texts:
What could be wrong with my MacBook Air laptop displaying "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off, then press the power button again.

The same message still appears even when I reboot.


texts: Setting up new iPhone 6 issues and major headaches

texts:
Old iPhone 5 16Gb all backed up on iCloud. Tried to set up my brand new iPhone 6 but turned out the last (manual) backup attempted on the 5 hadn't fully completed. Reinitiated a new mail backup on my old 5 to iCloud (18 mins), just attempted to set up new 6 using iCloud but get "error connecting to iCloud". Reset new 6, finally logged into my Apple account but showing zero available iCloud backups with which to restore new 6.

Over an hour and I still cannot even use my new 6!  Currently getting out windows laptop to do it all again manually via iTunes. Just feel like taking the 6 back to the shop.

What can I do to ensure a good restore?


texts: What key code maps to external USB brightness up/down keys?

texts:
I am writing a script and I need to figure out current key codes for brightness up and down with an external keyboard.

I know the standard for a MacBook is 107 and 113, though as soon as I connect a different bigger apple keyboard, those changes to 145 and 144.

I need to be able to get this information out of the terminal as I'm scripting things there.

Is this possible?


texts: Is there a way to "swipe" between lists in Reminders in iOS 6?

texts:
In prior versions, you could simply swipe to switch between lists.

The default setting in the iOS 6 version has eliminated this gesture, which means that you have to click on the lists icon, then click again on a specific list.

Is there a setting somewhere that lets you turn swiping back on to switch lists?


texts: Stress Testing Your Mac For Optimal Performance?

texts:
Stress testing maybe considered a useful way to determine if your Mac is performing at its optimal level of performance & may also be an indicator of faults of any components within your Mac.

What methods exist (ideally free if possible) to stress test to the max the following components:

CPU
Hard Disk
Ram

Thereby identifying any problem(s) that may exist & if your Mac can handle them ?


texts:
When a friend uses the Share button in Safari to send me a link by email, the email I receive is a huge (and very buggy!) reconstruction of the Webpage including pictures and everything.

How can I reconfigure macOS to only share a single line with the link itself and nothing more?


texts: Does Apple Care+ provide International Warranty on iPhones?

texts: If I buy an iPhone 8 from USA with AppleCare+ warranty plan, then would the warranty hold in India?


texts: Mac Pro 1,1 OSX 10.6.8 corrupted display

texts: On startup, I see a corrupted video stream as above. Recently replaced stock video board because I wasn't getting any video output. Any ideas on what might be wrong and how I can fix it?


texts: Disable viewing or require password to access Google Chrome History

texts: Often, because of various reasons (mostly to show other people a webpage to view or edit on which requires some sort of setup or login), I need to give people physical access to my fully unlocked laptop. That means they can see my browsing history, and I don't want that to happen due to privacy reasons. I already have a script that allows me to stop the Dock process (thereby eliminating the ability to navigate to other applications except the current one), so other application is not a concern. How can I temporarily disable access to view history or protect it with password without having to restart Google Chrome?


texts: When does it help to restore an iDevice using iTunes, as opposed to "erase all content and settings"?

texts:
There are two ways to factory reset an iDevice:

On the iDevice, open Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings. (Reference)
Plug in the device to a computer, open iTunes, and click the Reset button. (Reference)

One difference between these two is that (2) causes iTunes to download and install a fresh copy of iOS. Obviously, you'd use this technique when your iOS installation is so messed up that it doesn't even boot.

What are the other situations in which there's a difference between these two techniques for performing a factory reset?

Concretely, my iPhone suffers from poor battery life. I've exhausted all the other options I can think of, and I'm about to do a factory reset. Is it better I do it using iTunes in case my iOS installation is corrupt in some way?

I don't want to be in a situation where I do a factory reset on-device (technique (1) above), find that it still doesn't solve the issue, and then have to (2) anyway. If there's a chance of that happening, I'd rather go straight away to (2). Thanks.


texts: Applescript change folder and terminal commands

texts:
I have tried the following but cannot seem to get this to work:

do script "cd ~/desktop/test; for x in ls -1 | sed -e 's/^\(.\).*/\1/' | sort -u; do mv -i ${x}?* $x done"

I'm wanting to perform this command in applescript. I run this in applescript and I get an error regarding "" marks but am not sure how to correct it. I'm a complete newbie to applescript. willing to learn just a little lost.

Thanks


texts: How do I identify adware when browsing Apple's App Store?

texts:
I'm new to iOS and setting up a new iPhone. Can someone please explain how to avoid adware when choosing apps in the App Store? I will not install adware on my devices, and I'm happy to pay for apps that are free of any advertisements.

For context, here is a screenshot of adware in Google's Play store which clearly labels it as such:

And here is the same app in the App Store, which fails to mention ads:

I'm looking to install a few games and so far I am unable to do so due to a lack of information...have I overlooked something?


texts: Are there any up-to-date rsync frontends or similar for OSX?

texts:
For my work as a media professional I have been using the rsync frontend arrsync to back up my work, as time machine doesn't have the features I need. Arrsync, however, has not been in development for some time, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent alternative.

Specifically I need something with arrsync's "unidirectional merge" function, which basically just adds new files or overwrites old files with newer versions to my backup hard drives.
This allows me to remove projects from my computer I don't need immediately in order to save space, but still keeps them in backup. In other words, the function does not simply create a snapshot, but an ever-growing collection of all my past projects.

I also need something with an easy to use and understand UI. I realise I can create custom scripts for rsync, but there are other less computer literate people in my office who rely on this program as well.
I have also tried simply copying things across using finder, but this becomes incredibly tedious, even with some of the smarter copying capabilities of OSX, as directory structures can be quite complex.

Sorry this has gotten quite long (I realise I have some frustratingly specific needs!)
Does anyone know of a program, be it standalone of as an rsync frontend, that has these functions and is relatively up-to-date?
Cheers!


texts: Blocking calls with no SIM card automatically on new?

texts: If I block a number from my old iPhone without a SIM card, does that block the number on my new iPhone with SIM card? This is a replacement iPhone for my broken one.


texts: Mount Drive based on connection with if else statement (applescript)

texts:
can someone please help me out with this script.  Where am I going wrong?
Try
set ping to (do shell script "ping -c 2 " 192.168.1.240)

if ping contains "64 bytes" then
tell application "Path Finder"
    try
        mount volume "smb://192.168.1.240/home"
        mount volume "smb://192.168.1.240/shared"
        mount volume "smb://192.168.1.240/video"
        mount volume "smb://192.168.1.240/music"

Display Dialog "Mapped Drives to 192.168.1.240 Network."

Else
tell application "Path Finder"
    try
        mount volume "smb://192.168.0.240/home"
        mount volume "smb://192.168.0.240/shared"
        mount volume "smb://192.168.0.240/video"
        mount volume "smb://192.168.0.240/music"

Display Dialog "Mapped Drives to 192.168.1.240 Network."


texts: My iPad mini 2 won't update. It is stuck on 9.3.5 Is it because my iPad is too old? Also, when I look at my storage stuff, the update isn't even there.


texts: "Click restore to remove the Windows partition and restore the space back to MacOS"

texts:
I made a Windows partition on Bigsur install to make Windows quicker and easier to install later. However, when I run bootcamp the only option I'm given is to get rid of that partition and get it back to OSX. I don't trust that since last time I tried something like this I couldn't even boot and lost everything.
Is there a safer way? For example, can't I burn Windows to a USB drive and then boot directly from that to reduce risk.... then install to the spare partition.
The only problem is that UUByte doesn't seem to work on Bigsur (greyed out drive selection) and Etcher can't get that Windows ISO into a bootable state.
Meanwhile, Parallels would need messing with ktexts and I don't like the potential instability of that.
What's the safest way to proceed? I have to run a Windows program to downgrade my phone via USB.


texts: Missing Visual Basic tab Microsoft Excel

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Brand new install of 365 Excel/Word/Etc. I'm trying to open the Visual Basic editor that is supposed to be on the Developers tab; however, the option isn't there.

Enable Developer Tab

This is how my developer tab looks, and it looks like there should be some more options to the left of the "Add-Ins" button. Any idea where it went?

This is how it should be...


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We have a dance competition approach and the song we've chosen is 3:54. The rules say the song cannot be more than 3:30. We have to provide copies of the song on a CD, a USB stick and an iPod/iPad/iPhone which means we cannot rely on realtime slow-down software on an iPhone alone to make the tempo adjustment.

We must record it and save it as a new file and then copy it to all the medium.

I have a friend with a Mac who is willing to alter the file for us -- what does he need to do to change the tempo of the song so it fits in to the 3:30 run length requirement?


texts: How do I disable the mail app from keep appearing on Mac when I'm in full-view of a screen?

texts: From everywhere I’ve read, they say that I’m suppose to uncheck the “Prefer opening messages in split view when in full screen” option and it’ll go away but it doesn’t. Any help?


texts: What can I do with an iPad Bluetooth-paired to a Mac?

texts: I have successfully paired my iPad Gen 3 to my Mid-2012 MacBook Air. What can I do with this connection?


texts: AirPods microphone volume is extremely quiet

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I have used my 2 year old AirPods simply for listening previously, but I would like to use the enhanced iOS 12 Siri.

Alas, the microphone on both AirPods does record only very muffled audio - the iOS dictation feature does not register anything, and Audio Recorder records extremely quiet audio.

Back when they were new, Siri could pick up my voice without any problem.

Things I have tried

Cleaning the microphone holes at the bottom - with a toothpick and with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol
Blowing through or sucking on the microphone holes
Using different devices - iPhone 7, iPhone Xs, MacBook Pro
Resetting the AirPods by pressing 15 seconds on the case-button


texts: What corrupted TextEdit's rendering of RTF files?

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When opening RTF files with TextEdit, they appear garbled. For example:

{\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}\f0\pard
This is some {\b bold} text.\par
}

Is TextEdit corrupted?


texts: Why does running Luxology Modo cause a marked increase in performance for other 3D graphics apps?

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Original post is at the bottom, newest update at the top. ;)

I didn't think to add this before, but you can download a 15-day trial of Modo for free if anyone want to try this for themselves. If you do try it, please take the time to report your results, even just to say there was no noticeable difference. Thanks! Here's the demo download page: http://www.luxology.com/trymodo/

I'm going to ask Luxology if they can shed some light on the situation...

I was searching around for ways to improve graphics performance on OS X and I found an article about disabling an Apple GPU power management kernel extension (I checked and this is loaded on my Mac).

I also noticed that the same games run much better in Windows 7 under Bootcamp on the exact same hardware. These are OpenGL apps and do not use DirectX. Windows also runs much hotter. The case is hot to the touch and the fans run at their max 6,000 RPM pretty much the whole time Windows is running.

In light of these two things—the Apple GPU power management kernel extension and Windows performing better and running hotter—it looks like there is some software layer imposed by Apple that is reducing performance to keep the hardware cooler. -Edit: It seems the GPU power management extension only has to do with dual GPU models, so it wouldn't effect me. Still, it's obvious there's some software-level restraint on performance.

I have not yet tried removing the kernel extension because obviously running Modo gets the performance boost without removing it. There is still something simpler going on here that allows Modo to boost performance (without abandoning power management and melting the components :3 )

I've noticed that, with no other changes, Urban Terror and Second Life (both use OpenGL) will have double their usual framerate if I run Luxology Modo and use it to render a preview image first. I first noticed this effect a few years ago when I started using Modo. Without changing any settings, Unreal Tournament 2004 would be faster and render effects that just didn't show up at all before.

Any ideas why this might be?

Urban Terror, Second Life, and a fully-functional demo of Unreal Tournament 2004 are all available free online if anyone with Modo wants to try for themselves.

I'm still using Modo 301, but I imagine whatever they did to optimize performance has survived. I'm on a MacBook Pro 3,1 (this model only has one GPU; no dual integrated/discrete GPUs) running OS X 10.7.4 (though this was happening before Lion):

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:  2.4 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache: 4 MB
  Memory:   4 GB
  Bus Speed:    800 MHz
  Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B07
  SMC Version (system): 1.18f5
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:    Enabled

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT:

  Chipset Model:    GeForce 8600M GT
  Type: GPU
  Bus:  PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:  x16
  VRAM (Total): 256 MB
  Vendor:   NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:    0x0407
  Revision ID:  0x00a1
  ROM Revision: 3175
  Displays:
Color LCD:
  Resolution:   1920 x 1200
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display: Yes
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Built-In: Yes
VK246:
  Resolution:   1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Rotation: Supported


texts: Time Machine not automatically deleting old backups

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My MacBook is currently using around 180GB of its internal drive. However, when I plug in my 250GB external drive to make backups of my Mac, I incessantly get the error "your backup drive does not have enough storage to perform the backup."
My backup drive still has 15GB free. From my understanding, older backups should be deleted to make space for newer ones. Is there any reason why Time Machine does not automatically delete the older backups to make space for the newer one?


texts: Unable to use external monitor's full resolution using Macbook Pro

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I recently bought a new 2019 MacBook Pro. It working as expected. I use my HP 22Es for majority of my work. Very unfortunately, my MBP is unable to detect the 1920x1080 resolution of external display.

I did some research and came to know about SwitchResX and some information about EDID data. I tried everything I could. But still there are limitations like Disabling the System Integrity protection etc!!

I wonder if some has a easy to read guide or a blog post! It would be great help.

My configuration is like below:

Mac - MacBook Pro 2019, 13 Inch, TouchBar
OS - MacOS Mojave
External Display - HP 22ES
Display Adapter - Apple's USB Thunderbolt to HDMI converter
I use Belkin's HDMI to HDMI converter


texts: Search across networked drives that are only sometimes connected

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I've got networked drives at work and networked drives at home. What's a way to set up search so that it automatically applies searches to each drive when connected without having to rebuild the index each time I switch?

I've tried Spotlight, Quicksilver, and Launchbar, and don't see where any of them handle this well. (I use sidekick to change all my other settings, so something that integrates with that could work.)

One thing that would work would be Launchbar or Quicksilver with Roo Switch. But that means maintaining three separate catalogs -- one for home, one for work, and one for everywhere else (i.e. not connected to either set of networked drives). Lame.


texts: Why can't I see my Numbers spreadsheets on my new iPhone?

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I had been using Numbers on my iPad and on my iPhone 4.  The spreadsheets were synced perfectly over 3G and wifi.  However, I just bought an iPhone 4S.  The spreadsheets are missing when I open numbers.  I've tried the following to remedy:

1.) Checked Settings -> iCloud to make sure that my account info was correct.

2.) Checked that Documents & Data were being synced.

3.) Checked that Settings -> Numbers -> Use iCloud was ON.

I'm out of ideas.  I've tried turning these settings off then on again while Numbers had been killed.  Still, I see no spreadsheets on the iPhone.  I can see them on iCloud.com and on my iPad.  What gives?


texts: How should I fix keyboard problems on iOS?

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Since I started using custom keyboards on iOS (I'm using SwiftKey) I get an intermittent problem whereby Messages freezes. Also, other apps sometimes can't access the keyboard at all.

Is this a recognised bug for iOS 8? Is there a known solution?


texts: Open Terminal.app with directory from a given URL?

texts: With the URL <file:///Library/Fonts> (for example in a note in NV) I can open the finder with the given location. Can I do something similar for the terminal? That is, if I write for example (doesn't work, that is the question!) <terminal://Library/Fonts> the Terminal.app should open a new window and cd to that directory.


texts: Sublime Text 2 in OSX: all fonts are bold regardless of theme or font

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I have a weird problem on mac (OSX 10.7): any theme or font I choose - all fonts appear in bold. I sync all settings with Dropbox and on Windows 7 and Ubuntu the fonts are normal.

Don't know if it's an OSX problem or sublime, but did anyone run into this issue?


texts: Mount sparse bundle with a WD My Cloud EX2 NAS

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I use Time Machine with a NAS. It works well and it mounts a disk image when doing backup or when I enter Time Machine.

When the disk image is mounted, I can access all the directories of my backups.

However, I can't mount the disk image from the sparse bundle. If I try to mount it, Finder shows an error after few minutes (I don't know what is the exact name of the error in English).

Is there a simple way to overcome this drawback?

I have a WD My Cloud EX2 NAS and a
MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.