texts: My iPhone with iOS 10.3 is counting more than 300 times more steps than usual. Sensor broken? Or what can I do?


texts: Help I screwed up APFS Mojave partition FFFFFF error

texts:
Apologies for the photo but I couldn't copy/paste because my mac is in recovery mode

Basically what I did was have Windows and Debian installed alongside encrypted OSX
but this morning I was desperate for space and the other operating systems were hardly used on this machine so I used the bootcamp tool to try and delete windows and regain the extra space.
The tool then gave an error but it looked liked windows had been removed so I went to the disk utility and  deleted any other partitions including the linux swap with the intent of merging them all manually.
I then rebooted the machine to find the question mark folder so I went into internet recovery mode but it looks like it can't detect the encrypted OSX partition and repair the bootloader
I am unsure what to do next as I need the files on this machine
Any help would be appreciated


texts: How to edit iCloud Photos Library EXIF metadata on the Mac?

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I'm using the modern Apple iCloud Photos library on my iPhone and Mac.
How can I edit arbitrary EXIF metadata tags for photos in my iCloud Library?
The tags must be edited within the Photos.app / iCloud Photos database. I do NOT want to re-import the images, or be forced to make EXIF edits prior to using Photos to import the images.
I am mainly wanting to edit the photo EXIF on my Mac. An iOS tool that syncs the changes back to iCloud and the Mac would be ok, but a Mac-only solution is preferred.

The "Get Info" window can be used to edit some EXIF data in Photos.app on the Mac. You can add a Title, Description, Keyword, and Location. You can also Adjust Date & Time.
Other EXIF metadata tags such as "Camera Model" are displayed, but seemingly cannot be edited.
In my case, specifically, I have an old digital camera that does not embed Camera Information EXIF. I want to manually add this data to its photos after importing them to my iCloud Library.
I want to eventually use the Camera Model EXIF tags to create a Smart Album in Photos.app on the Mac containing only the photos taken with this camera.


texts: Date format for file's "Modified" and "Last opened" is different than other files

texts:
I have a few files in the same folder and I noticed that the format for the Modified and Last opened metadata fields are the "short" format for most files and the "medium" format for just a few. Why is this and how is this set for a given file?

Example of "short" format date:

Example of "medium" format date:

Just FYI, here's where the date formats are set in System Preferences:


texts: How can I determine where network data is going?

texts: Activity Monitor always reports several kB or MB being transferred. I do not know where it's going or coming from. How can I find out?


texts: How to always insert single and double quotes?

texts: Whenever I try to insert " or ' I have to validate it by space, otherwise strange things happen as with ' followed by an a becomes áinstead of just 'a, similar behaviour with double quotes. I find this annoying and want to disable it. How do I do that?


texts: My Magic Mouse stutters seemingly at random -- but only when using ethernet

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I have a (corporate-issued) 16" 2020 MBP on Catalina (10.15.7). I use it at my desk with a thunderbolt dock. I also use a magic mouse -- the touch-sensitive surface one with the unusable lightning port for a belly button.
Randomly, this mouse will bug out. I'll scroll a webpage, nothing will happen, and then suddenly the page will react as if all the scrolling I did came through at once. I'll move my mouse around, the cursor will freeze on screen, and then suddenly it will go into a frenzy for a split second before behaving normally again.
This behavior is intermittent. Sometimes I can go minutes or even hours without an incident, but other times it's so constant that I plug in another mouse because it's so infuriating to use. One thing I've noticed: it's very rare when I don't have ethernet connected on my dock. I went weeks without an incident, but plugged in ethernet this morning and within an hour noticed this happening again.
What in the world would having ethernet plugged in have to do with a stuttering bluetooth device?! Please send help, I'm losing my mind. I've already tried resetting the bluetooth module (shift+option click bluetooth > debug > reset bluetooth module), factory reset the mouse, disconnected and reconnected it countless times... I'm at a loss. At this point the only thing I haven't tried is another bluetooth mouse. I haven't noticed this behavior with my other MBP (2018, 15"), but I rarely use that computer in this configuration (TB3 dock, ethernet etc).


texts: How can I determine what is attempting to use sendmail/postfix on ML?

texts:
I'm getting console messages multiple times per day that look like this:

8/2/13 5:20:00.119 PM postfix/sendmail[31004]: fatal: chdir /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool: No such file or directory

When I tail /var/log/mail.log I see the same messages. According to the postfix config, the spool is indeed pointing to this directory, and yes, it does not exist.

queue_directory = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool

The thing is, I don't want postfix to be running, and have no idea why it's throwing errors. I'm not listening on port 25 as per netstat and I don't see any postfix processes running.

What's causing the error? Why would I get it if postfix isn't running?


texts: Slow install (hours-days) of El Capitan on 2009 macbook pro SSD

texts:
Ok, the details:
Mid-2009 Macbook Pro, previously running Lion on native HDD just fine. Installed TRION 100 OCZ SSD, booted with external USB El Capitan installer. Used the installer to format and partition SSD. Fixed the date issue in Terminal before install and connected to the internet.

So, every time I get through install (which takes 2-3x longer than the 13 minutes it promises), it reboots, goes to the grey install screen and promises 'Installing: About 19 minutes remaining',yet barely budges. I stopped trying to reboot and install again and let it run this time, and it budged a bit overnight, still less than 20% of the progress bar. At this rate, it will take 3-5 days to install? Can't be normal.

I know third-party SSDs and older macbook installs can take longer (plus I think it's installing over wifi for some reason?), but this is unworkable. Any suggestions?


texts: Cannot open Mail.app Preferences in OS X 10.7.5

texts: I get the pinwheel of death when I try to open Mail Preferences. I'm using OS X 10.7.5 and Mail v5.3.


texts: How do I move a row between two rows in Numbers?

texts: Simple question. In iWork's Numbers, is there any way to move a row of data between two rows, as opposed to just plopping it on top of existing data? You can easily do this in Excel if you hold down the Shift + Command key or some simliar combination when moving a row or even a group of rows.


texts: How to disable Top Sites in Safari on High Sierra

texts:
I've found instructions for previous macOS versions, but none that work for High Sierra. Does anyone have  solution that keeps your favourites, but just removes top sites permanently.

The answers that I've tried and no longer work are:

macOS Lion: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/97533/15131
macOS Lion: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/112554/15131
macOS Mavericks: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/157737/15131


texts: iPod Nano 5th Gen Can't Disable Shake Gesture

texts: I have disabled the "shuffle on shake" feature of my iPod Nano 5th gen, yet occasionally this still happens.  I've noticed, for example, if I have it connected to the aux jack in my car while driving, if I hit a speedbump or pothole, it activates shuffle mode.  I've double-checked the setting to the point where I'm beginning to feel a bit OCD.  I know this is older hw, but is there some way to permanently disable this feature on my specific device?


texts: How can I keep my MBP's battery from charging without removing it?

texts: My battery has expanded and has to be replaced, but I am currently writing my thesis and intend to only keep using my MBP for a few more weeks before I buy a new one. I have heard that it is dangerous to charge the battery once it is in an expanded condition, but I cannot remove the battery myself. Is there a way I can use my Mac with the A/C chord without charging (and without using) the battery?


texts: Why is Facebook missing from the list of ways to share a page in Safari?  That option used to exist before the latest update.  When I'm directed to the extensions box Facebook is not there.


texts: How does App Store Review Guidelines section 11.13 work?

texts:
I work on an iOS app for a company that sells educational courses, to access the app you need an account and paid subscription on the website.
Apple have recently rejected our application (out of the blue) quoting section 11.13 of the App Store Review Guidelines.

Additionally, we found that your app provides access to account registration.
As this also provides the user access to mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, this is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.

While I understand the premise of this rule, I don't understand how many high profile apps with a subscription model that doesn't rely on IAP (i.e. Spotify, Rdio, Netflix) are allowed to exist in the App Store.


texts: High Sierra macOS Installation Error (com.apple.DiskManagement error 0)

texts: After downloading the new macOS for my MacBook pro (mid-2012) with HDD, the computer restarted but continues to fail during the installation. The error I keep getting is com.apple.DiskManagement error 0. I completed a disk repair but no errors popped up there, so I assume nothing is wrong with the drive. I tried to reinstall macOS from recovery mode, but I continue getting this same error. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?


texts: How does disk utility work while the system is live? (e.g. partitioning/resizing the OSes partition)

texts:
How is it that Disk Utility allows you to resize the partition that OS X is botted from live, while the OS is running? Can there be problems doing this? I would have thought that booting into recovery mode to do these things would be a requirement.

Here's what I mean, Disk Utility will allow me to "Apply" this change while booted in OS X:

I'm not sure whether clicking the "Apply" button is something safe to do while the OS is live. Is it? If so, how/why?


texts: How can I prevent the SD version of a TV show from downloading in iTunes when I purchase an HD show?

texts:
When I buy a TV show in iTunes in high-definition, at the time iTunes starts to download the show, it actually begins downloading two versions of the show: one in standard definition, and one in high definition.

This is a waste of my bandwidth!

I only care to have the HD version of a TV show downloaded.  I've tried to cancel the SD version download that's paired with the HD one I ordered, and that temporarily solves the problem, but the next time I use iTunes to download something else, it seems to remember and restarts previously cancelled SD downloads!  Must I completely download the SD version, and then delete it in order to clear the queue?  That doesn't save my bandwidth :-(

Is there any way to prevent iTunes from downloading the SD version of a TV show I buy in HD?


texts: Upgrading my Mac Pro 1,1 to run on El Capitan

texts:
I have the Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.66 (Original):

Model identifier: 1,1
Ram: 32 GB
Graphics Card: GeForce 7300 GT
Hard Drive: 750GB HDD Seagate

I have the Mac Pro currently running Mac OS X Lion and would like to update this to Mac OS X Yosemite or Mac OS X El Capitan if possible. I was wondering what kind of upgrades I would need to do to make this possible and the best way to do it for as low cost as possible.


texts: I've recently started using Path for iOS. I changed the Cover image used, the one behind the activity, but how on earth can I reset it back to what it was when I downloaded the app, I can only now choose from my photo library.


texts: Copy a Time Machine "backup" from the TimeCapsule to a HD

texts:
I'm reading this, but I'm concerned about one point.

In the Check the format section, it says the drive has to be Journaled HFS+ and have a GPT map. My drive is AppleAPFSMedia and the map is Unknown. My drive also has Ignore Ownership turned ON.

I do not want to back up to this drive, I simply want to use it one time during Migration Assistant as opposed to pulling things over Ethernet. I will not do any future backups to it.

Does anyone know for sure what the deal is here?


texts:
I'm running OSX Mavericks 10.9.2 and iTunes 11.1.5 on a 2012 Macbook Air. My iTunes library is, due to its size, stored on an external drive which is connected to my Time Capsule.

The problem is that every time I close iTunes (and sometimes even when I haven't closed it) the computer appears to forget where the library is stored. Sometimes it will revert to the default location on my SSD, but most of the time it just goes blank, with no file location stored at all.

It's easy enough to re-set iTunes so it can find its library again, but given the library's size it's rather time-consuming for the computer to scroll through everything and tag its file address. And I might end up having to do that every couple of hours while iTunes is running.

I've already ruled out the strength of my wifi connection as a possible cause. Has anyone else ever heard of this? If so, how did you resolve it?

Thanks in advance...  :-)


texts: Compare any checksum with proposed checksum by website

texts:
I often download files from the Web and many websites suggest to compare a proposed checksum with what I obtain from my computer (usually in Terminal).

However, as the checksums tend to be quite long 64 characters for sha256 or 32 for md5 for example, I was wondering if a universal Terminal line could be created to use what a website might propose as a checksum?

I found askUbuntu question that is similar to mine, however restricted to md5sum. What I would like is a little bit what the contributor suggest but with any checksum algorithm (e.g., sha1, sha256, md5, etc.):

$ echo "checksum_suggested_by_site_to_be_put_here  filetohashA.txt" | md5 -c -

Any ideas?


texts:
Is it safe to delete the file Caches, in the Library of the Mac OS X Hard Drive?

It's a pretty big file, 3.56 GB, Caches reminds me of logs i don't need or browser cookies.

Is it safe to delete the folder "Caches"?


texts: Does anybody has experience with using built-in Apache/PHP in a High Sierra? Does it have any drawbacks if compare to homebrew apache/php? I plan to use it with Laravel or GravCMS. Any thoughts?


texts: Which OS for a 2GB RAM MacBook Air from 2011?

texts:
My Macbook Air from mid 2011 has 2 GB RAM, its processor is 1.6 GHz i5, 64 GB of flash storage. Its OS is the one it had originally, Lion.

Many apps require to upgrade the OS - e.g Slack. Yet I don't think going for Sierra with 2 GB RAM is a good idea, and I can't upgrade the RAM as it is impossible on new Macbook Airs.

Which OS would my MBA handle, would Yosemite or Mavericks be manageable for it ?


texts: How to create smart playlists on iPhone?

texts:
I have a problem: each time I create an album in a smartplaylist in iTunes and sync it with my iPhone, I have multiple items of the same album with different artists names.
I'm wondering how to create smartplaylists so that I can unify my albums.
Have you heard of Smartplaylists? Which app would you suggest me?


texts: Why can't Siri add the relationship for an account?

texts:
I'm using Siri in German, and one of the examples mentions the command:

  Meine Mutter ist Diana Pelzl

That is, My mother is Diana Pelzl. So, I say something similar to the above German sentence, and Siri comes up with:

  Okay, should I remember that Diana Pelzl is your Mother?

Of course, I tap Yes. Now, Siri replies:

  Sorry, I can't add the relationship for this account.

Why would it say so?

iOS 5.1
Contacts are currently synced with Google through an Exchange account, following the procedure here: Setting up Google Sync with your iOS device - Google Mobile Help


texts: Now that I have iCloud, what benefit does Time Machine provide?

texts:
For a normal Mac laptop user, it would seem that almost everything important (Documents, Desktop, photos) are backed up on iCloud. Most apps needs to get downloaded again anyway.

Does iCloud retain versions?

What would you lose if your hard drive died?


texts:
I recently got a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.7. I installed the software update that was available, and when I tried to restart it, it seemed to be going well until it froze on the original space background.

I tried turning it off and then restarting again, but I was faced with the same problem again.

How might I troubleshoot this further?


texts: Is there a better way to update the photo metadata for pictures in the Photo.app rather than hitting "Get Info" on every single photo, such as weill a clever app or something? My goal is to add tags to my all of photos.


texts: iOS Enrollment of device with a PIN code sent by e-mail

texts:
In my company, we would use the Apple MDM software linked to Active Directory.
We would use the self enrollment system of iOS devices proposed by OS X Lion Server.
The main problem is that to log-on, the user must input their password on the  (/MyDevices web app).
But our users don't know their password, because we use a biometric system for the logon on our windows machine.

Is there a way to logon with a PIN number sent by e-mail?
Do you have any advices?


texts: Set Today View as default on Lock screen in iPhone

texts:
Is it possible to make Today View as the default on the iPhone Lock screen?

Currently I need to swipe right on the Lock Screen to see the Today View screen (security is not an issue because Today View is accessible to anyone without logging into the iPhone).

I want the Today View screen to be the default on the Lock Screen when the iPhone is locked.

I am using an iPhone 7.


texts: Can I add guide lines or background elements to my Pages document to assist with layout?

texts:
I'm currently using Pages '09 on OS X 10.10.5. I have a document in portrait orientation that I occasionally print (8.5" x 11"), and fold into four equal vertical sections, like a spreadsheet with one column and four rows. Here's an image matching what I do with the printout.

The document consists of several text boxes. The text box layout is fitted to the content and this does not correspond to the page folding. Is there some way to add guide lines to my document to see where the folds will be? This would be for layout purposes only, the lines shouldn't appear in the printout. I looked through the menu options and the document inspector, but didn't see a way to accomplish what I want.

I believe any of these options would work, but I'm not sure how to accomplish them:

Add guide lines manually
Display a vertical ruler for the page (menu item references rulers but this document only displays a horizontal ruler)
Create a background image with the guide lines (easy with Pixelmator) and add it to the document

I am willing to use a newer version of Pages.


texts: 12" Macbook battery health at 88% even with only 53 Load Cycles. Is this normal?

texts:
I have a 2016 12" Macbook that's only a little over a year old (and therefore out of warranty) and I'm noticing in Coconutbattery that the battery is 88.5% of it's design capacity even with only 53 load cycles.

The stats are as follows:

Design Capacity: 5550 mah

Full Charge Capacity: 4844 mah

Manufacture date: 2016-04-06

Cycle Count: 53

There's no way this can be normal. At this rate my battery will be below the 80% "bad battery" threshold within a year. I do have extended warranty coverage through my CC until November and if this is a problem I'd like to take care of it before that expires, but I know it's going to be nearly impossible to get Apple to condemn the battery as defective since it's still technically a "good" battery, even though I think a "good" battery shouldn't be showing wear like this with hardly any cycles. Should I try and pursue this with Apple or am I likely wasting my time?


texts: Make AppleScript delay a random number between x and y?

texts:
set DelayTime1 to {18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58}
set DelayTime2 to some item of DelayTime1
delay DelayTime2

Is there any way I can clean this up so that if I want the range to be larger I don't have to type a bunch more numbers? i.e. set DelayTime1 to 18 thru 58


texts: Manual edit of SyncedRules.plist not sticking

texts:
I have a number of Mail.app rules whose action is to move the message to mailbox A. I just created a new mailbox B that I want them to move to instead.
Doing this by hand is very tedious. Also, there's a bug in the rule editor that causes the list of actions to shift up each time I edit one of them, and after doing a few rules the dropdown with the list of rules is moving out of the little window so I can't click on it.
So I quit out of Mail.app and loaded ~/Library/Mail/V5/MailData/SyncedRules.plist into a text editor (Emacs in my case) and went through this, changing
        <key>CopyToMailboxURL</key>
        <string>imap://username@mail.company.com/A</string>

and
        <key>MailboxURL</key>
        <string>imap://username@mail.company.com/A</string>

to
        <key>CopyToMailboxURL</key>
        <string>imap://username@mail.company.com/B</string>

and
        <key>MailboxURL</key>
        <string>imap://username@mail.company.com/B</string>

in all the relevant rules.
But when I restarted Mail.app, all the rules I modified reverted to their old actions. How do I get my manual changes to be used?
I don't have iCloud syncing enabled for Mail, so I don't think it should be in iCloud.
Every rule has a field like this:
        <key>TimeStamp</key>
        <integer>96332387</integer>

with the same number.
Do I need to increment that so it will know that the rule changed on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6?
UPDATE:
I tried using
defaults read com.apple.mail

This has lots of preference settings, but it doesn't include the rules.


texts: Reminders no longer move to the top when you uncheck them?

texts:
I'm hoping that I've just got a setting set wrong somewhere or something.
For years I've used the Reminders app for various things but one of the most regularly used is a shopping list.  Our household tends to pretty much always buy the same things, so basically at this point I have a list of everything we ever buy and I just go into it and uncheck whatever we need, do the shopping, and check stuff off as they get bought.  Anything I uncheck, automatically popped up to the top of the list and stuff maybe we stopped buying, would gradually move down the list further and further.
I recently upgraded my iPhone SE from iOS 12.x to iOS 14.4.2.  I hate upgrading because you can't roll back if you don't like it, but there was an app I needed to use that required a newer OS.  And now I've run into this problem with Reminders.  They now seem to remember their placement in the list so that when I check off an item, it disappears back down into the bowels of the list wherever it came from, and becomes hard to find again.
This has made Reminders basically useless for me and has me thinking I'll need to turn to a 3rd party app for something so simple and basic.  Hugely disappointing since it's always worked great, until this nonsensical change.
Is there any way to gain the old behavior back again?


texts:
I recently purchased a 15" MBP.
The unit is set up and fully operational, but I am uncertain about Outlook set up.
I have MS Outlook '11 installed with 3 POP accounts created and receive mail into the inbox folder.

I have imported my old .pst files from my Windows PC and those folders appear below the inbox.

I would like emails to be automatically delivered to the relevant folder for that account and not all collectively in the inbox.

Is there any way of setting this up?


texts: Adding The Delete Option To The Right Click Contextual Menu?

texts:
In Windows it is possible to permanently delete a file or folder from the right click contextual menu. The right click contextual menu in OS X, does not by default give the option to delete a file or folder in this way, only the option to "Move to Trash", which means you then have to empty the trash manually in order to delete the file or folder.

Is it therefore possible to add this option to the contextual menu, to aid quick deletion ?


texts: Can the SSD from a 2013 Macbook Air work with an adapter in a PC?

texts: I happen to have a spare SSD from a 2013 MBA and I'm wondering if anyone knows of an adapter card to use it in a PC? There are boards like this (http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe/OWC/Mercury_Accelsior/RAID) or this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820249042) that superficially look like they're using the same type of slim SSD card. But on closer inspection, the connector is different.


texts: Black display - MacBook Pro 13" Function Keys 2017

texts:
This happened out of the blue. Screen went black and I haven’t been able to get it to come back on.

Prerequisites:
 • No liquid damage
 • No drops/impacts recently
 • Nothing out of the norm leading up to the issue
 • Capslock key lights up
 • Charging sound when cable is plugged in
 • Trackpad clicks
 • No keyboard backlight
 • No startup chime

What I’ve tried:
 • SMC Reset
 • PRAM Reset
 • Removed bottom cover and reseated battery connectors and other connectors that were easily removed. Nothing looked out of the norm.
 • Booted laptop without battery connected using AC adapter

What I haven’t tried:
 • Plugging into my own external display.

Apple’s brief diagnosis:
 • Nothing shows on external display
 • Likely logic board
 • $500 to replace logic board

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. A $500 repair is not in the budget right now. Thanks!


texts: Where is macOS's incompatible apps blacklist stored?

texts:
TinkerTool 5's System Maintenance pane has an app blacklist tab:

https://www.bresink.com/osx/300644207-2/Docs-en/pgs/0110-Info.html

In this menu is a list of apps Finder will refuse to launch, because Apple thinks they're incompatible with the newest version of macOS. Apple is sometimes wrong—some of these apps will (mostly) work if launched via the Terminal. (One prominent example was iMovie HD in macOS Yosemite)

Where in the file system is this blacklist actually stored? Could a SIP-disabled machine make changes to it?


texts: Is there a good alternative to Preview specifically for viewing PDF textbooks?

texts:
Preview is great for working with documents, but it isn't very good at handling large textbook navigation and reading. Performance is surprisingly bad, especially compared to viewing the exact same ebook in iBooks on my iPad. It can't seem to figure out when I want to turn the page and when I want to pan around the current page, even when it's zoomed out completely. Zooming is slow and choppy, and can even crash the app on occasion (this is on a brand new MacBook Pro).

It's also quite difficult to open and close the table of contents. Cmd+option+3 to open, cmd+option+1 to close? That's pretty janky, considering I'm opening it almost every time I open the textbook. The shortcut to go to a specific page is also fairly complicated (cmd+option+g), and as far as I can tell there is no way to tell Preview to start numbering pages at a certain point, so all the page numbers are off due to the copyright, table of contents, etc.

Is there another app out there that solves these problems?


texts: Is there a searchable list of applications that support OS X's resume/autosave/iCloud features?

texts:
I just upgraded to Lion and I'd like to know what applications support OS X's resume/autosave/iCloud features. Is there a searchable list of applications that support these features?

Update: This question also includes Mountain Lion.


texts: Macbook pro boot with kernel panic - can't perform kext scan

texts:
I was trying to swap command and option key for my external keyboard following the instruction in
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110529094802391.

When I'm done with change and I restarted, my mac booted with Kernel panic message. I'm sure I've messed the info.plist file. Now I cannot boot in safe mode as well.

I know if I get a way to change the file it should be fine.

The message shown in screen is

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002c4794): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80005eae1e, type 14=page fault, registers: ...
Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Addressd
...
...
can't perform kext scan: no kext summary
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48PM
Kernel UUID: ...
System uptime in nanoseconds: 11...

The error specifies the problem in kext as well.

Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to use FileVault 2 on a non-primary boot partition? (Dual-boot setup)

texts:
To be more specific yet still brief, I'm looking to use Filevault 2's entire partition encryption, for a partition other than my primary boot partition.

Ideally, I want to have 2, or in the future, maybe even more than 2 bootable partitions. What I want though is to have an unencrypted partition be my primary boot partition. So that you hit the power button on the computer, it starts up to a standard login screen without you ever seeing a password prompt.

I still want to have a protected bootable partition, however. Ideally, I'd like to be able to choose this partition under the boot manager (hold Alt/Option at startup) and have it proceed to the password prompt after choosing it. But it's important that this partition only boots when chosen, and that during a normal boot, the unencrypted partition boots.

I'm aware it's possible to choose an unencrypted partition from the boot manager while having an encrypted primary partition with FV2. As this is popular with Bootcamp dual-boot setups. What I couldn't find any information on though, is whether or not people were able to set their Windows partition (or other unencrypted partition) to their primary boot partition. However I don't imagine this is a very common thing people want to do either.

What I want is different than the usual for dual-boot situations. I want to have 2 OS X partitions. I don't see why this should matter. Any bootable OS should work fine on any partition. And I don't see why OS X would try to touch an encrypted partition it isn't told to at any point. However, if you know of any problems with this setup, please let me know.

And one more note. I don't see why it would interfere, but it's also important to know that I use a firmware password. Yes, I'm aware that if my proposed setup would work, it would require me to enter two separate passwords, one to bypass the firmware lock and another to boot the partition. I'm perfectly okay with this.

Please and thank you for any help, advice, or possible tidbits of information you may be able to provide!


texts: Cannot set boot-args even with SIP disabled

texts:
I have installed macOS Big Sur as a guest system in Parallels Desktop 16. I disabled SIP. However, I'm still unable to change nvram values for boot-args. Is there another security feature that I haven't disabled?
>sudo -i
>csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.
>nvram boot-args="amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1"
nvram: Error setting variable - 'boot-args': (iokit/common) general error
>nvram test=test
>nvram test
test    test
>nvram boot-args
nvram: Error getting variable - 'boot-args': (iokit/common) data was not found


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I just installed a menubar application and would like to assign a global keyboard shortcut to one of its operations. Is there any easy way to determine if the key combination I want to use conflicts with an existing one? Do I need to look at each category in the Keyboard Preference pane?

I am running OS X 10.6.7.


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I was using Radium on OS X Mojave. When I upgraded to Catalina, it stopped working.  Unfortunately, it appears that the developer has stopped working on it.

Is there a way to get this working?


texts: Factory Reset macOS Sierra partition greyed out and no drop down

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This question is just a sanity check.
I wanted to factory reset a MacBook Pro (mid 2014) model.
I first searched the standard tutorials and such, and have the core steps down:

back up stuff
log out of everything
command + R on restart to get to the startup menu
click disk utility
click your partition
erase and reformat (to macOS Extended or APFS)
reinstall macOS (need internet for this)

In the myriad of tutorials for this there are a few images showing each process.

In particular when selecting one's partition it often has the little arrow drop down and the partition is not grey-ed out.

When going on this mac to the same screen, there is no arrow, it just has
"Internal", then Macintosh HD (with no drop down arrow). This partition is greyed out, but I can still erase it...

Before doing so I just want to make sure that this isn't something abnormal.


texts: MacBook Air keyboard stops responding - forcing Finder to quit/restart fixes it. NSA or time for update?

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Roughly once a month my MacBook Air's keyboard stops responding. I have use of the trackpad/cursor but I can not type. I've found that going to Activity Monitor and forcing Finder to quit (and automatically restart) solves the problem.

Is this a known behavior? I'm currently running El Capitan 10.11.6, am I being hacked, or just the victim of an outdated system, or something else?

I'm not sure if I should use the hang tag - it is not application specific, rather it seems to be input device specific.


texts: How can I forward all my iCloud emails to a Gmail address?

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As the title of the question states, I would like to forward my iCloud email to my Gmail address. Specifically, I have an iCloud email that I made with my Apple ID as well as a Gmail address I made back in 2012 or something. Most of my emails go to my Gmail address, but I would still like to use my iCloud address for a few specific things. I know the easy answer is "go into your mail app and set up a filter to forward everything to your Gmail address," but the only Apple device I have is an iPhone and (as far as I can tell) you can't make filters from there.

Given this information, how can I forward all my iCloud email to my Gmail address?


texts: How to configure Xcode to fetch swift dependencies over ssh using a private key which is stored on a Yubikey ( HSM , gpg --card-status )

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Problem currently is that I find no way to simply configure or instruct Xcode to check out source code or dependencies over git+ssh using ssh agent.

Does Xcode at all supports using the ssh-agent?

I have not found any possibility to configure it without refering to its private key. (usually referred to ~/.ssh/id_rsa etc around on the web)

Sadly I have no way of referring to the private key in Xcode when it is stored inaccessible for anyone else then the Yubikey (HSM).

Meta information:

My gpg-agent is configured into my environment and works flawless in the terminal with some simple setup:

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye
unset SSH_AGENT_PID
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)

(See https://www.engineerbetter.com/blog/yubikey-ssh/ for details on yubikey setup)

gpg --card-status lists that my keypair is available, and it works in the terminal as ssh-agent -L lists my public key and I can use it to ssh into remote hosts accepting my ssh key or issue git clone.. in the terminal.


texts: Dark spot appearing on the Screen , MacBook Pro 13

texts: When screen brightness is low I get this dark spot in my screen. Is this something serious ?


texts: Is there a single window application that can read CHM, PDF and DJVU?

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I discovered recently that Preview.app can be configured so that it's using only one window for all documents, instead of one window per document. The drawback is that you can only read one document at a time, but I'm fine with this limitation.

I often have 5 to 10 text documents (CHM, PDF and DJVU) open at the same time, and I hate to have each document eat space in the Dock.

I'm looking for a way to gather all the text documents in one application, with only one window. Is there a software which handles the three formats I mentioned, and limits itself to one window ?


texts: How can I connect to one server using two user names - at the same time?

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I am struggling to find a way to allow users to connect to two different shares on a server at the same time. It seems like it should be possible, but no matter what I try I am always forced to disconnect one user to connect as another.

I have tried using aliases like this:

afp://user1:password1@ServerName._afpovertcp._tcp.local
afp://user2:password2@ServerName._afpovertcp._tcp.local

The first one connected works, and the second one ignores the name/password when connecting and just offers to connect as the first user again.

Is there a user friendly way to make this work?


texts: How do I clean the apple mouse so that it can scroll down?

texts: My current apple mouse works fine for moving, clicking and scrolling down.  The scrolling functionality with the tiny ball on top is not working while going down.  I had the same issue back in 2008 at a different company with a similar mouse.  Does anyone know how I can clean the mouse?


texts: Files copied from Windows to Mac have very limited permissions

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I have a shared folder on my Windows 8 computer, and I connect to it on my Mac. When I copy a file from the Windows to Mac (while I'm on the Mac), the file has very limited permissions. "gary (Me)" can Read & Write, but "Staff" does not appear, and "Everyone" has "No access".

For a normal file, the permissions allow "staff" and "everyone" to "Read only".

I know I can manually modify the permissions to allow "everyone" to "Read only" (although it's not possible to add "staff" to a file/folder's permissions, once it's gone, as far as I know), but I'd like to instead make the permissions default to the ones for "normal" files, rather than the limited permissions that they are now.

How can I go about doing this?


texts: 2010 iMac with new firmware IM112.0057.03B (2015-002) can't install windows 7-10 anymore

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So I've been installing and uninstalling windows 7 and windows 10 since it came out on my iMac for a long time! My iMac does not have a dvd drive because I took it out. I've been installing windows 7 and 10 from a bootable usb stick for years

All of a sudden I can no longer do it. I recently formatted my Mac because I wanted to go back to windows 7 since I was having issues with win10 turning off after an extended sleep period (I know my iMac was not compatible with windows 10 as per apple) anyways I been trying to re-install windows 7 for a while now and it just does not appear as a bootable hdd when you restart and hold option! It does appear with win 10 stick but then when I choose the EFI BOOT that pops up nothing happens or it freezes.

I've been doing a lot of reading and frankly, I am lost. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with a new firmware or bios update that is blocking whatever the hell!

My iMac has 3 hdd's installed and no dvd drive. I did buy a dvd drive and tried doing a dvd windows 7 install but that does not work either.

What gives and how do I fix it?


texts: Help identifying music format used in classic Mac OS games

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Until QuickTime Musical Instruments came along, classic Mac OS didn't have much support for MIDI. So many games would pack the MIDI data and samples into resources in the resource fork of the application. They then interpreted the MIDI data and mixed the samples together at different pitches to make music. There was a developer who released a library that made this all possible. Some games that used this library were:

SimCity 2000
Lemmings
Wolfenstein 3D

Some of the instrument samples were saved as SND resources while others were in a proprietary format (to the library) and were LZW compressed if I recall correctly. 20 years ago, as a hobby, I used to rip the MIDI data out of the resource fork along with the sample data. Then I would put both through a MIDI software sampler and record the resulting music.

However, I can't seem to recall the name of the library the games used or the developer who wrote it. Using this description of the library, can someone recall and tell me the name of it and the developer? For some reason, "csnd" rings a bell, but that hasn't turned up anything on Google.

I'm also pretty sure a shareware version of the library was on the CD in the back of a book entitled Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus. I've since gotten rid of the book.


texts: How to switch focus to the app based on its PID from CLI?

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I've started using Firefox with multiple profiles, however sometimes I'm lost and I can't find the right window.

For example given I've the process with PID 1234 such as:

$ ps wuax | grep -w Foo
kenorb           1234  /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P Foo

how can I switch the current focus to it based on its PID?


texts: How do Icon? files work and how to create your own

texts:
I recently noticed that in folders with special icons (eg. on the desktop) have a file in them named Icon? (its a hidden file btw).

I tried opening one up using my text editor (Atom) and it comes up as an empty text file, yet it has a file-size (for the desktop one it was 346KB).

I understand the purpose of these files, but how do they work and is there any way to make your own?


texts: El Capitan with Network Authentication Change Password not working

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OS 10.11.4 : When trying to change password of my user i am getting the following error

The password for the account was not changed
The server is not available. Change your password when server becomes available

Things i verified

I am connected to VPN
I rebooted and left it alone on VPN for sometime
i am able to ping my Active Directory Domain and Forest as mentioned in the following screenshot when i am on VPN. and it's ping the IP it should be pinging which is my AD


texts: Printing to HP DesignJet 4000, no official or open source drivers?

texts: I want to use an HP DesignJet 4000 (Not the PS version). I don't find the way to print on that device because it prints the actual postcript code instead of the image or text itself. Is there a way to send "raw" or bitmap file to the printer ?


texts: I've formatted my pen drive in FAT format but it's not showing in a Windows laptop, so I'm thinking the formatted pen drive through OS X is not compactible with other OSs. How can I format a pen drive through OS X El Capitan?


texts: Archive utility hangs at 5 seconds remaining

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I'm using OSX El Capitan (v10.11.2).

The compression task was begun about 24 hours ago and had reached the About 5 seconds estimation after a couple hours. But it does not complete for whatever reason. What are the possible reasons for this issue?


texts:
I run om-my-zsh and my prompt usually says

   gregg@Gumby $

where Gumby is the name of my Mac.

Today it said

   gregg@Michaels-iPhone $

I was not connected to any iPhone. All sharing features in system preferences sharing are off.

what is going on?


texts: upgrade to 9.0.1 disabled App store and other apps

texts: latest update not only disallows cellular settings to stay set but also disabled the App store. (iPhone 4S) I can't even begin to figure out how to fix this.cannot set "do not disturb" to manual, like it was before the upgrade either.


texts: Is it possible to save http-hosted MP3 files directly onto an iPad?

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Is there a way to save an MP3 from a web server directly onto an iPad?  I can stream it through the browser, but there is no obvious "save" capability.

Would it make a difference if the MP3 were an email attachment?


texts: How to stop Microsoft Skype For Business for starting after reboot

texts: How do I stop Microsoft Skype For Business from automatically starting every time I rebook macOS?


texts: Accessing a terminal when an interactive desktop session is unresponsive?

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On linux distributions one can simply press the following keys in order to access the shell:

Ctrl+Alt+F2
Ctrl+Alt+F7 to exit and return to the GUI.

Is there a similar capability in OS X that would let me access a terminal when my interactive desktop session is no longer responsive?

If anyone wants to know why, read below

I have a reason for needing this, and mainly because I killed the wrong process id, which in term ended the launchd daemon.  As now I couldn't run Terminal.app, or type in my existing shells I needed to gain access of the main shell (my session is running in) which was active because Spotify still worked!  In order to start-up that daemon again to rectify my problem - annoyingly I had to restart which for Unix operating system is ridiculous - ONLY time a linux/unix system need be rebooted is after kernel updates are installed, otherwise it doesn't need to be.


texts: I can make and receive phone calls from everyone and anyone except for my boyfriend. All it says is my call can not be completed and the same goes for him. So what's causing this?


texts: How do I forcibly shut down a specific application at a pre-determined time?

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I don't know if there's an available app or perhaps a terminal command, but I'd like to forcibly shut down a specific application at a specific time, without the option to cancel.

I'd like it so I can choose the time.

To make a long story short, there's a game that's incredibly addicting and if I don't force quit it, I can totally see myself getting lost in it for extra hours.

I'd rather just have the application quit, regardless of where I am in the game, so I make sure to follow through on my allotted time period for playing.

There's something similar, but not entirely applicable here (The info here could help in forming an answer):
How can I forcibly shut down my Mac at an appointed time?


texts: Reinstalling Mac OSX Lion on Locked Disk

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I have a 2011 vintage MacBook Pro which is not booting at all. It gets to the gray screen with Apple logo and does not move ahead from there. I pressed Command-R at bootup to enter the disk utility screen.

I ran the disk check utility on the HDD and it returned OK for all checks.
The verify/repair disk option for the boot drive was greyed out.

When I try to re-install MacOSX Lion by using the internet, it gets to a screen where both the disks to install MacOSX on are greyed out and there is an error message that says "This disk is locked". I went through this question that suggests re-formatting the hard drive to create a new partition and re-trying.
My questions:

Are there any other options I can try without needing to reformat the hard drive?
Is there a way to back up the hard drive before I try the above?
In the Disk Utility section, the boot drive was greyed out disallowing any repair. Any reasons why?


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Mail program on my Mac Pro (early 2009) doesn't want to start, or rather just was quitting after I tried to start it multiple times.

I deleted it and tried to re-install old mail program from Snow Leopard disk, now I don't have mail at all. Can anyone help me to deal with the problem?

Important: I installed Mavericks two days before it happened.


texts: Can't Spotlight search mounted server volume: Unable to perform operation. (-403) Server search enabled

texts:
I am trying to get Spotlight to search files on a AFP-mounted NAS on my home network.

Per the advice in this question, I run the following command to activate indexing:

mdutil /Volumes/name -i on

But this yields the error:

  Error: unable to perform operation.  (-403)
      Server search enabled.

When running the command to show the current status, it appears as if search is already enabled.

mdutil /Volumes/name

  Server search enabled.

What can be  done to resolve this situation? I have seen that there are some other questions about the (-403) Server search enabled error, but I'm not sure how they would apply to my situation.

Searching the NAS in Finder works as intended, however.


texts: How can I remap the play/pause key to Grooveshark?

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I like to listen to Grooveshark while coding on my mbp.  Since it's a website, every time I want to pause or continue I need to find the tab in my browser and click with the trackpad.

Is there a way to remap the F8/Play-Pause key to provide this functionality?

Hitting this key currently brings up iTunes, which I never use.

I'm open to any scripting and/or coding solutions, if it comes to that.


texts: deleting java from system library on mac

texts: I can't delete java from my mac. I tried deleting it from system/Library, but it says the os mac system needs it. I want to install an older version because a specific website needs it, but it keeps using the newer version that i can't uninstall.


texts: Macbook Air Running version 10.7.5 won't connect to wifi but connects via Ethernet

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I have a MBA and I have connected to my home network before. I went on holiday and on return, I cannot connect to Wifi anymore.

It tells me "connection time-out occurred". But my Ipod Touch (4th Gen) and Samsung Galaxy S2 can connect to the home wifi network and everyone else (I live with friends) has no issues with the wi-fi.

I already tried removing all the "Preferred networks" and tried to do an SMC reset on my Macbook Air. Nothing worked. I also went into Keychain and removed home network from there. Still not resolved

I then tried tethering my MBA to my Samsung Galaxy S2's wifi and I could connect and surf normally. (so I concluded nothing is wrong with my laptop's Airport/wifi utility)

Finally I decided to try and connect my MBA to the router via Ethernet cable, and I am able to surf and go online as normal

I updated all my software on the laptop and it is still not working. I can find my home network and click on it but when I input the password, it says "Connection Failed". I also tried setting up the network manually and inputting the password but again "Connection Failed"

I am unable to get into the router as I don't have the IP address for it. Does anyone else have a similar problem?

I have yet to try to connect to a neighbour's Wi-Fi but I will try that tonight.


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I am thinking to Purchase iPhone 6. The problem is that in my country there are no Apple Stores. I need to purchase it through shops who import iPhone's from UK or USA. My friends are telling me that iPhone's that are sold in some shops are Refurbished or opened to replace original parts with duplicate that are similar to original.
The cost of an iPhone 6 16GB in my country is around £480 or $750 which is comparatively high than original price on which iPhone are sold in Apple Stores.

I do not want to waste my money on purchasing a refurbished or repaired iPhone. I want to ask that is there any way to detect that the iPhone have been opened or it is refurbished?


texts: Is there a tool or an app to automatically sort home screen icons?

texts: Is there any way to automatically sort all apps across all screens?


texts: screen recordar for old ipad and ios 10.3.3

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I have an Ipad from 2013, with what I think is the most updated version possible for it which is IOS 10.3.3. I need to record the screen to have videos of my writting in notability, but unfortunately this version does not have screen recorder incorporated.

Does anybody knows how to do it? I checked before, and apparently using AirShou was a good solution, but I could not download it for some reason.


texts: Is is possible to install iOS 5 on a 3rd Generation iPod Touch?

texts: I've seen a lot of posts out there that say that iOS 5 causes 3rd Generation iPod Touch's to no longer function. Is this true? Is is safe to install iOS 5 on my 3rd Generation? Is there a special way that i need to do it?


texts: Mac Pro ATI 5770 with 3 monitors - what active adapters needed?

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I just bought a Mac Pro 2010 with an ATI5770 that has 2 x Mini Display Port (DP) and 1 x DVI.

The current configuration is as follows:

Mini DP A > passive HDMI adapter > 1920 LCD
Mini DP B > passive HDMI adapter > 1920 LCD
DVI > passive DVI to HDMI adapter > 1920 LCD

In this configuration, only two out of the three monitors will work at any given time.  From reading up on the topic, I understand that I'll need at least one active adapter in order to get all three monitors going together.

What is the minimal number of active adapters I need? i.e. do I need one or two, and on which port(s)? If that matters.

A recommendation for suitable non-Apple adapters would also be appreciated.


texts: How to remove a user from staff group in macOS?

texts:
How on earth do I remove one of my local user accounts from the default "staff" group in macOS? I've tried many of the obscure commands in the command-line to no avail, i.e dscl, dseditgroup.

This is what I tried:

dsmemberutil checkmembership -U someuser -G staff

Response:

user is a member of the group

Tried removing:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d someuser -t user staff

Checking membership:

dsmemberutil checkmembership -U someuser -G staff

Response:

user is a member of the group

How come?

I want to remove a particular local account from the staff group so that it doesn't have access to the contents of home directories of other local accounts, amongst other things.

Any commands and/or GUIs that you can recommend for this?


texts: How to remove the sidebar in Apple Preview (presentation mode)?

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Preview suddenly displays a sidebar on the left-hand side in presentation mode. I do not know how to disable this.

This answer mentions

Always Show Sidebar

in the View menu, but this does not seem to exist in Preview version 10.0.

Update

Even in full screen mode, I do not find this item in the View menu. This is what I see:


texts: Recover Deleted Data from Malfunctioning Hard Drive

texts: I deleted some data accidentally on my Macbook a while ago, and then a couple weeks later the hard drive failed. Now my Macbook can't start normally. I took it to an Apple store and they told me they could replace the hard drive but I need to go somewhere else to extract the data. Is it possible for me to recover the data I deleted? Thank you in advance!


texts: Is there a way to color parts of the man pages on the terminal?

texts:
I would like to color some parts of the output of the command man, specifically I would like to be able to change the color of the most important things, for example the options or the first introduction to each command.

Is it possible?

I know I can change the color of the prompt and of the output of the command grep and ls, so I thought we could actually customise more things (if yes, in general, could you please show me a complete guide?).


texts: Unable to remove login item from Users & Groups startup list

texts: I have an item in my "Login Items" list (System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items) that refuses to be removed. When highlighted, the minus button grays out. The "hide" toggle is also grayed out. There is no option in this specific app to disable load on startup. Why is it showing this way and is there a general way (override) to remove such apps?


texts: Can I list all the Bonjour-enabled services that are running?

texts: I would be interested in knowing which programs advertise themselves using Bonjour on my machine. Is there a way to do that?


texts: How to mass-delete text messages by partially matching phone number on iPhone?

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Is there a way via an app on iPhone or Mac, to select and delete messages originating from a phone number that matches a pattern?

Specifically, I get many text messages every day from my ZWave deadbolt lock. The number the device uses starts with "1-100", but the remaining digits are always different (but sequential). This makes the messages not cluster together into a conversation which could be easily deleted.

Alternatively, maybe there exists a way to group multiple senders based on a range of numbers, as I can't foresee the actual value of the numbers.

Any ideas?

EDIT:
This one-year-old thread asked a similar question about matching a pattern within a message from same sender. There were no answers, and I wanted to see if there had been any new developments in this direction?


texts: Is it possible to cancel the revert core storage operation?

texts:
Something is off here.

I issued diskutil cs revert /dev/disk6 and in the second, my macmini's USB controller stopped working and hard ejected (like pulling their plugs) all other attached USB devices.

Then I opened disk utility, and it repeatedly tried to mount them again only to see them immediately ejected again. This only happens with disk utility open.

Still, the USD interface seems to be completely unusable, not even keyboards are recognized, once the conversion process starts.
The reversion process seems to be active, but the affected HD's drive only blinks slowly and rhythmically. This goes for 24 hours now, and I have no indication about actual progress. sudo diskutil cs list gives me this (disk id changed due to the unplugged other drives)

Disk:                  disk3
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          2999772905472 B (3.0 TB)
            Conversion Progress:   Converting
            Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:               Backup (Seagate)
            Volume Name:           Backup (Seagate)
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

I get no percent indicator as it seems to be visible, at least when encrypting or forward converting (according to several posts). Anyway 24 hours allows me to start worrying.

I wonder if it would not have been better to just copy the contents of the disk somewhere else, format the disk the way I want it and then to copy the data back.

The disk isn't mounted during the process and I do not know whether changes are live or are committed only at the end of it. Anyone with an idea, of what to expect (maybe that's normal) or of how to continue.

The disabled USB interface currently hinders me to do my job, which is worrisome.


texts: This may seem like a odd question since most people would want to know how to start a program on boot. I was wondering if there is a way to have OSX launch an application when the restart button is pressed from the apple menu.


texts: Why doesn't Microsoft Office/2008(& later) support RTL languages?

texts:
I have Microsoft Office/2008 on my MacBook Pro. Office doesn't support RTL languages like Farsi and Arabic, and I know that Office/2010 (for Windows) also has the same problem.

Do you think the lack of support is because of business competition, or some other reason?


texts: iPhone productivity app that tracks hours worked with an efficiency parameter

texts:
I'm looking for an iPhone app that tracks "effective" hours worked over time.
Say I feel half efficient. Then two hours 'effort' amounts to 1 hour of 'actual' work done. If I'm at say 33% efficiency, for example, then when 3 hours go by, I know I've done about an hour's worth of real work.
And perhaps it plots time worked on a line graph over the long term. So I know how many hours I've worked today, or the past week, or in January.
The efficiency aspect is key, and it's the main feature I'm looking for. Does an app like this exist?


texts: MacBook Pro internal display resolution wrong

texts:
I've got an early 2013 MacBook Pro with an external display connected via HDMI to the in-built port. The system shows that the resolution of built-in display (15-inch Retina) is 2880 x 1800, while the external display max reso is 1920 x 1080. So if I have a large picture / application on the external display, I should be able to drag it to the internal one and have still screen estate to spare. This isn't happening. Here are images of this very page, first on the external screen, then without resizing dragged to the internal one:

I can't change the resolution of either display in Display Preferences. OS is Mojave 10.4.5, and as far as I am aware everything is up to date. Can anyone suggest what's wrong, and what could I do to fix this?


texts: What are the differences between minimizing and hiding an application?

texts: Coming from a Windows background, I'm confused about the concepts of minimizing windows and hiding applications. What are the differences between the two, and when would you want to use one method over the other?


texts: How to backup an iPhone when the screen is broken, the home button is broken, and it says "Unlock iPhone to use accessories?"

texts:
I'm trying to backup my old and (very) broken iPhone so I can restore it on a new phone. The home button is broken, and the top half of the screen is broken (so I cannot enter my password). I also cannot access the menu you get when you swipe up, and Touch ID doesn't work. I have tried plugging it in to do a backup from iTunes, but I get the message "Unlock iPhone to use accessories" when plugging it in. I do not have "Hey Siri" enabled and I can't use the home button to activate Siri (I read about a trick to sign in using Siri). My phone is connected to WiFi and to Find My iPhone. I have access to a Mac and PC.
It is an iPhone SE model A1723.
Is there any way I can back it up still (iTunes, iCloud, or some other method) to restore it onto a new phone? If there's any more relevant info I forgot to add, let me know. Thanks in advance!


texts: How to jump to 'input' bar in a website dictionary with shortcut in Chrome?

texts:
In website dictionaries such as Cambridge,Oxford,and Merrian-Webster Dictionary.Is it a must to use mouse to jump to the search input bar
? How to achieve it with keyboard?


texts:
I've got to send my MBP in for the infamous GPU problem (2011-2013 models) and I would like to back up or at least gain access to my HDD to save some important-ish files.

I've hooked the drive up to my PC, but only the Windows 7 partition shows in My Computer.

When I go to Disk Management, the whole drive shows up as seen in this picture:

I've got HFSExplorer and that doesn't seem to help. Any ways I can go about gaining access?


texts:
I have a setup script which creates links between my dotfiles repo and the files at the root of my Home directory. Generally speaking, the process looks like this for each file:

ln -s ~/Documents/Dotfiles/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile

Is this linked in the correct direction? E.g, I want to be able to keep my customizations in Documents and just point to them. Most of the documentation I've read seems to assume a traditional Unix or Linux environment, so I'm not sure this is correct.

The relevant part of my setup script is below

#!/bin/bash

set -e

function makeLinks() {
  ln -s ~/Documents/Dotfiles/.bash_aliases ~/.bash_aliases
  ln -s ~/Documents/Dotfiles/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
  ln -s ~/Documents/Dotfiles/.bash_prompt ~/.bash_prompt
  ln -s ~/Documents/Dotfiles/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
  ln -s ~/Documents/Dotfiles/.gitignore_global ~/.gitignore_global

  read -rp "This may overwrite existing files. Are you sure? (y/n) " -n 1;
  echo "";
  if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
    makeLinks
  fi;
}


texts: Automator's Finder Actions: "Unable to search with Spotlight"

texts:
I created a workflow like this after asking another question:

It should delete downloads older than 30 days, and has been working fine until today; today I updated to macOS High Sierra.

Now whenever the Application tries to run I'm getting the error

  The action "Filter Finder Items" encountered an error: "Unable to search with Spotlight"

How can I fix my workflow so that it works with this latest version of macOS?


texts: iPhone dropped from the top on my Desktop

texts:
I have a desktop that I put on the floor. I put my iPhone on top of the desktop, and accidentally I stumbled on the desktop and the phone dropped to the floor.

When I picked it up the screen was OK, the phone was still functioning as normal. And it appeared as if it never dropped. But what I worried is that it may suffer internal damage that I can't see from the surface.

Is my fear warranted?


texts: Do larger desktop photos use more resources?

texts: Does using a larger sized photo for one's desktop hinder performance? My new desktop photo is 3MBs, does it use more resources than say a 1MB sized photo?


texts: Can't resize shrunken boot partition to fill empty space

texts:
I needed to make room on my Windows 7 partition to install a new program, so I did some searching on how to resize a partition and it told me to shrink the OSX side and then expand the Windows one into the free space from Windows.

That didn't work, so now I have a 245 GB boot partition (my main OSX one), then roughly 10 GB of free space, then a ~61 GB Windows partition.

I tried to just drag the corner down on the OSX partition and click apply, but all it does is unmount and re-mount Windows 7 without changing anything.

I don't really care whether I expand the Windows partition into the free space as I originally intended or just re-expand the Lion one into that dead space, but there's about 12 GB of space there that's not doing anything, and I'd like to use it.

Any ideas?


texts: Connector for the various part of the MacBook

texts:
What type of connector used to connect the various parts Apple MacBook? The connector of which I speak is like this:

This type of connector is used only by Apple or other companies are using? It is their patent?


texts: iPad Other Storage - what is it and how to clear it up?

texts:
iTunes reports my iPad has 4Gb of "other" storage (yellow). It was 6Gb before I did a sync.

What is this and what can I do about it?


texts: How to add shortcut to directories to OS X menubar

texts:
I have several directories that I want to quickly access in Terminal. And sometimes even in the finder. I would like to be able to hit an icon in the menu bar and have it drop-down a list of folders and files. When I release the mouse I would like the path to be typed out in terminal or a text editor if that's what I am using. If I am in the Finder, I would like the enclosing folder to open.

Is there an app for that? I tried writing an AppleScript but am not having luck.


texts: Is it possible to create a user without a home directory?

texts: I want to create a user to run tomcat on my system and was wondering if it is possible to create a user without a home directory like it is possible in linux.


texts: Erased Macintosh HD and installing OS X Lion again

texts:
I erased my Macintosh HD from Disk Utility with a journaled encrypted format and I wanted to install OS X 10.7 Lion. I left it to download and install overnight because it took about 16 hours.

When I checked it again it gave me a weird screen that has a circle with a slash inside it, like a stop sign. What can I do?


texts: Excuse me for being completely confused about how AirPrint works.  I'm aware of AirPrint activator on a PC.  But is there a way to use a generic router (or Airport base station/Time Capsule) to attach an HP ethernet Laserjet printer to AirPrint?


texts: Text messages from contacts going to Unknown Senders

texts: Running iOS 12.1 on iPhone 6S and have messages from people in my contact list show up in Unknown Senders. These are people who text often and it happens randomly with 4 contacts and 3 groups. To “fix” it when it happens I have to restart the iPhone. It’s been going on for months and have done all iOS updates except 12.2. Any ideas on how to fix permanently?


texts: How do I transfer or sync u2 songs of innocence from My Library to my iPod?

texts: I have U2's Songs of Innocence in My Libray of my iTunes. I have a PC. How do I transfer/sync this album to my iPod? Clicking the "sync" button does not do it; it only syncs up all other albums. And, I have an iPod 5th Generation, not and iPod Touch.


texts: Why is there an active progress wheel ("turning worm") in the right hand corner of the Finder status bar?

texts:
In Lion, everything is working but i am puzzled by the presence of a "busy" wheel in the far right hand side of the finder window status bar.  What is it indicating is happening? I have no search in process, no file size calculation, or any other process that I am aware of that would account of the "turning worm".

The "searching" or "busy" wheel (the one with radial bars, not the spinning color "pizza wheel") is not always present, but does appear in every finder window eventually. Activity Monitor shows nothing obvious, and CPU usage is not high... so what is it showing?


texts: The AppStore is temporarily unavailable. Please try again

texts:
This is very frustrating. We are not able to download apps from App Store, as we keep getting error message "The AppStore is temporarrily unavailable. Please try again". I falied also to login to App Store.

I log in to Member Center, but fail to login to "iTunes Connect-Submit and manage your apps on the App Store."

It it app store which has issue or it is the app.


texts:
I would like to use my Apple watch during patient assessment as an EMT. In order to do so I need a sweep second hand that is always displayed, otherwise I'll need to wear an analog watch for assessments.
I've tried using the Infograph watch face but when the watch face dims to its always-on status the second hand disappears. I need to reactivate the watch with a wrist-flick in order to get it displaying again.
Are there any watch faces that will continue to display a sweep second hand while the watch is in its dimmed, always-on mode?


texts:
I pulled my phone out of my pocket today, and noticed that it was greyscale.

I went into the accessibility options, and oddly, color filters are not turned on.  In checking some other things, I realized that the colors were inverted, too, but that wasn't selected.

I've since turned on 'invert colors' so at least its a functional greyscale for images, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what happened.

It's an SE, still on iOS 11.  I was doing some tool maintenance in my driveway, so I was crouching down a lot and it's possible that it might have detected something on the touch screen, but my phone's set to lock with no grace period, so it's unlikely.  I had my home button set to smart invert on three presses, but that wasn't actually on.

Anyone have a clue what I might've done and/or how to fix it?


texts: Is the i7 2.3 Ghz CPU significantly faster than the 2.2 one?

texts:
I'm shopping for a 17-inch MacBook Pro and trying to figure out my minimum specs.

From the Apple website it appears these are the two procesor options...

  2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 6MB shared L3 cache; or optional 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 8MB shared L3 cache

Do the additional .1 Ghz and 2 MB of cache make the 2.3 Ghz model noticeably faster?

(I do understand that HD access is usually the biggest bottleneck, but for my particular tasks CPU speed does make a difference.)


texts: Wifi Calling portability between carriers

texts: As I understand it, the major cellular carriers in the US support wifi calling. If I purchase a late model iPhone from carrier A, and I decide in the future to migrate to carrier B: is it reconfigurable to be used with carrier B's wifi calling system? (ignore CMDA / GSM compatibility)


texts: How can prevent certain senders from going to Junk Mail without creating contact?

texts:
I am running Mountain Lion 10.8 and use Mail.app for my email mostly.* I recently purchased a product from Amazon, somewhere I order from frequently, and noticed that I didn't receive the usual sales receipt - or so I thought. I looked in Gmail's All Mail folder and noticed it there. Mail.app had deemed it Junk and put it in the Junk folder (which I don't believe is accessible from iOS devices with typical IMAP email set up on them).

This is what my Junk Mail preferences look like when this happened:

Is there a way to tell Mail.app that a certain sender (preferably something such as "all senders from @example.com are not junk" vs. the actual xyz@example.com) is not Junk without actually putting the sender into my contacts?

* I now use AirMail because Apple Mail was using a lot of disk space (among other reasons).


texts: Efficiently organize 100s of externally stored ebooks within iBooks for iPad without doing it manually in collections?

texts:
I have hundreds of ebooks stored on an external drive of mine. I don't want them on my MacBook Pro because I don't want them taking up space due to the fact that I don't read ebooks on my Mac. I just bought the new iPad so I can read these books.

In iTunes, I tried creating folders to put the books into in an attempt to organize them properly but they all just appear in the same huge list within the iBooks app on the iPad and I have to manually create collections and put the books in there.

Surely there has to be a better and more efficient way of doing this? I have tried Googling all over no question is specific to mine with a viable solution.

Basically to summarize:

I have all my iBooks on an external drive which I want to sync with my iPad but without having them stored on my computer. What is the best way to go about this?
How can I keep my collection organized so when I sync, I don't have to keep searching for new books I added to manually add them to an existing or new collection?


texts: Will iMessage be re-delivered when the recipient attains wifi access?

texts: I went into Settings > Messages > Learn More and it says that iMessage only works in Wifi mode. I am on Wifi and I have been trying to send iMessages to another person. Each time I send it "delivered" appears under the message. The other person calls me saying that she has not been receiving my iMessages. However, when I turn off iMessage in Settings > Messages, she starts responding to me, implying that regular SMS messages work. I am wondering whether the iMessages that I've sent have disappeared forever or will she start downloading the undelivered iMessages them when she attains wifi access?


texts: Voiceover troubles in the latest iMovie update (August 2019)

texts:
5 months ago, I recorded a song on iMovie by rapping into a voiceover while the beat was playing. I did this by importing the beat into iMovie and then chose the voiceover function and rapped into my mic. While the voiceover was recording, the beat was playing, so it was easy to rap to the beat.

Today, I tried the same process, but whenever I start a voiceover it mutes all other audio so I can’t hear the beat!

Does anyone know how I can listen to the beat while recording the voiceover?


texts: I need information specific to CPU core. Is there any api exposed for mac

texts:
Suppose we have one CPU with 2 core , then I need information about no.of.Processes , IO time,IDLE Time, System Time, Name of core for specific core Level and not to CPU Level etc.
So I would you like to know is there any api expose for mac.


texts: After Lion installation, Safari occasional unresponsive, won't take input

texts:
Since installing Lion, I've had Safari 5.1 become unresponsive to input several times on two different machines (both iMacs, in different locations).

I don't see anything in the forums I quickly checked. Any ideas?

(Safari becomes responsive again after quitting and restarting. Input device -- mouse, trackpad -- makes no difference.)


texts:
Back in 2008, Linus Torvalds famously said in an interview that "OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." I've looked for more details about why he feels this way about the OS X filesystem (HFS+ presumably) but I haven't been able to find anything.

Linus surely doesn't dislike the basic Unix filesystem model, and I doubt he hates HFS+ for being case-insensitive. And despite how provocatively his comment is phrased, I doubt that it's completely without merit. Since the comment was in the context of programming for OS X, I suspect his opinion may have been based on performance, robustness, the operating system interface, or something along those lines. Does anyone know what complaints 2008-era Linus might have had with 2008-era HFS+?


texts: iPhone 8 randomly locks the screen while I'm using it

texts:
Sometimes when I'm actively using the phone the lock screen pops up and I have to unlock.

145 others have upvoted this problem at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8127644 . I tried the only suggestion, which was to set the time to the past just before upgrading iOS, but the problem persists. I'm on 11.3 now.

Help?

Any logs I can look at to get a clue?


texts: Will there be issues if I install RAM modules with different sizes in a Mac mini?

texts:
I have a Mac mini late 2012 with 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) RAM. I bought another 8 GB RAM module and installed it in the Mac. Should I leave the 8 GB module alone or should I install one of the two 2 GB modules in the vacant RAM slot?

Will there be any issue if there are different RAM modules in the slots (8 GB + 2 GB)?


texts: I would like to know if there is a way to have the dock always there when running an App fullscreen in lion?


texts: How can I copy songs from an iPod to a Mac without using iTunes?

texts:
my friend has an iPod Touch and she cannot use it with iTunes anymore.

is it possible to save those songs somehow on another computer and then reset iPod and copy songs back? or in general have a backup on a computer?


texts: Move complete Lion installation to another physical drive

texts: is there a way to completely move my OSX Lion to my new SSD without reinstalling? I came from Windows and Linux to OSX and i thought maybe it is possible to simply change the bootloader config after copying all system files to the SSD like in GRUB?


texts:
My 2008 iMac's Superdrive (DVR-K06PB) is not releasing discs.  I've opened the drive itself and found the spring loaded lugs on the spindle don't seem to be allowing the disc to release - the mechanism pulls the spindle down, bending the disc slightly, then reloads the disc because it can't release it.  Turning the disc upside down yields proper eject operation (?!).  I've tried various different CDs and DVDs, all seem to have the same problem, some less than others.
I'm wondering if the lugs are protruding just a little too much and will need a bit of a file down to help the release, or even a bit of lube.  Thought I'd come here and get some advice before I did anything.  The drive works just fine in every way except ejection.


texts:
I would like to translate the following command, which works in linux Ubuntu and CentOS, to work in MacOS:

  echo $(pgrep -c -P$$)

This is designed to be called from within a python script:

  subprocess.check_output("echo $(pgrep -c -P$$)", shell=True)

and run new jobs within a loop when the number of processes falls below a threshold.

The issue is that the MacOS version of pgrep does not have a -c option.

Many thanks for your help!


texts: Formatting HTML signature in Mail (Lion)

texts:
I have created an HTML signature with a local image. I have formatted the signature using a Table.

I have tried to add my signature to mail using the method described here, i.e. open the sig in a browser, Cmd+A on the browser and Cmv+V on the mail signature pane.

This appears to work, but when I go to use the signature the image formatting went bananas on me. Like shown on the pic bellow (mail on top and safari on bottom).

I am not very knowledgable of HTML. But here is my code in case I have something wrong there.

        Tiago Veloso
          / Junior Software Engineer

          t:
             [+XYZ] 555-555-123

          e:
         mail@example.com

        adding possibilities

          w:
               www.website.com


texts: Command + Tab Not Working on Fullscreen Apps When Finder Is Active

texts:
I have recently upgraded to MacOS Catalina, and since then, this problem started.

Every time I attempt to switch between programs using the Cmd + Tab, only when currently viewing a Desktop / having Finder as active application, switching fails. Same goes for using the similar Spotlight Search method of Cmd + Space and typing the desired open program. Clicking the program in the Dock works, but it's relatively tedious to do.

I've already tried killall Dock multiple times. This question seems to come close, but I can summon the 'Cmd + Tab list' and Spotlight bar – they just don't switch applications. Help!


texts: What are the best WBS and Gantt chart tool working cross platform?

texts:
I am searching for the good tools for creating Work Breakdown Structure and Gantt Chart that work cross platform because other people in my team use Window. So, this forces me to find cross platform tools.

What have found so far are :

OpenProj : I have used it. The behavior is so quirky that why I gave up.

GanttProject : Cool tool! It can be used to create Gantt along with PERT chart. However, it cannot generate WBS chart.

I have searched a lot and I didn't find the one that I love.

Could you please share your great tools that you are using along with advantages and disadvantages?


texts:
I'm looking for a description of what the firmware update actually does.

I have a MacPro (Desktop) 2010, and it's loaded with multiple drives, to be able to run every OS from Snow Leo to Sierra. This is the first I've seen an OS need to update firmware, and I'd just like to be sure I'll have no issue booting into the older OSes after this update.

Note: I've had this machine since it was new, mid-2010, and I've never seen a firmware warning when updating any OS.


texts: Photos can't be viewed although thumbnails are visible

texts: I had an iPhone 5 with photos on it, and it was backed up on iCloud. My iPhone 5 got stolen and I got an iPhone 5s. I restored everything on to my new one, but some photos are there in thumbnail form but I can't view the full pictures. It just shows a blank page and says it is loading... 20+ photos are like this.


texts: Various random website cannot be reached (cannot allocate memory)

texts:
With process of elimination and testing the problems on 2 different Macs, 4 different networks, and many different browsers, I have isolated the cause of my network issue to be the actual Mac.

Certain sites, even though they are up, are completely unreachable by one of my Mac. Visiting on Chrome says:

Error code: ERR_OUT_OF_MEMORY

Safari says:

The operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory

ping says:

ping: sendto: Cannot allocate memory

I have no idea what to do next. I check my Network setting and no proxies are on. Is there any way to reset my network settings? Or any commands to provide more information to allow more diagnostic?

Thanks.


texts: Where is the Safari's History.plist file in iOS 7

texts:
I need my Safari history from the backed up file in iTunes.  I was able to extract the backup data but in iOS 7 there is only Bookmarks.db in the directory.

It not in here anymore?

  /Library/Safari/History.plist


texts:
It's long been telegraphed that 32-bit apps will no longer work in upcoming versions of macOS. This is rather annoying, because my go-to games when I want to waste 15 minutes are all 32-bit from companies that no longer exist.

Does anyone have any ideas whether there will be any way to run these apps, perhaps in a wrapper? No, booting another OS is not a solution. Is there any info on this issue at all?


texts: Continuity not routing audio properly for calls

texts:
I just set up my new Mac/iPhone combo, and am having trouble getting phone calls via continuity to work properly.

I can both initiate and answer phone calls from the Mac, and the status popup shows correctly, and allows me to control the call. However, as soon as the call connects (either incoming or outgoing) the audio only comes out of the iPhone. This happens regardless of whether I am attempting to use the computer's internal mike/speakers or my attached Bluetooth headset.

I suspect that I am missing a setting somewhere, but have no idea where to start looking.


texts:
With Mojave, I use to open multiple pdf at once with the old Preview9.0.app  (version of Sierra)

It doesn't work anymore with Catalina because of a conflict between Preview9.0.app and the new PDFkit framework.

Is there any way to embed the old PDFkit framework in Preview9.0.app ? Or redirect PDFkit calls to the old one ?


texts: Can't open text file from Finder without extension even though execute flag is not set

texts:
Running Big Sur 11.3.1
I've got loads of text (UTF8) data files coming in from another Mac that I'd like to just double click or drag and drop to BBEdit or TextEdit. The files have no file extension and I'm not supposed to be changing the names unless I work from duplicates. The files can be opened from a file dialog but that's a bit tedious. When I drop on BBEdit I get messages that say the file cannot be opened because the developer is unknown and "macos cannot verify that this app is free from malware". That's an absurd message for a text file. Any thoughts on fixing this? (already tried chmod -x)


texts:
After the latest updates (iOS 13), I can't find a native to crop a vertical image to 4:5 — I need that to upload photos on Instagram.

What's the alternative?


texts: What are all of the URI Schemes Available on macOS

texts:
This question comes as an offshoot from this question Can MacOS Dictionary be invoked by a URI?
I remembered that there are a number of URI schemes that can utilized in macOS, but I couldn't remember how to list them.  For example, there is x-man-page:// that allows you to create a link to any particular man page and open it up in a Terminal Window with it's own profile: How to open the Apple URL protocol x-man-page:// in iTerm and not Terminal (default)
This existing question:  How can I see what custom URI schemes are registered? relied on a now defunct tool called RCDefault App that would allow you to not only list all available URIs but associate them with any particular app (i.e. telnet:// with iTerm2)
So, in attempting to answer the question, I couldn't remeber the URI scheme and needed a way to find them. Is there a way to list all of the registerd URI schemes?


texts: On Debian I managed to change it using dpkg and now UNIX commands, manual pages and supported packages are in my native language. Is there a way to do this also on OS X? I already have the locales set to my native language but everything is still english.


texts: After I delete an app on my iPhone, iTunes copies it over on next sync

texts:
On my iPhone, I go to the App Store. I download some app. It's crap, so I delete it, by clicking the 'x' when the icons start wobbling.

Some time later, I turn on my mac, and iTunes starts syncing with my iPhone. For some reason, iTunes copies the APP I DELETED over to my iPhone, so I have to delete it again. Only when I delete it again will it stop copying it.

I find it hard to believe this is a design decision. It would be understandable to keep the app on my computer, but why does it copy it over to my iPhone even though I deleted it there?

Specs: latest version of iTunes on latest version of Lion, and latest version of iOS on iPhone 4.


texts:
I would like to develop iPhone apps without using Mac OS X.
Is it possible to do this on Windows OS?


texts: Degraded wireless performance on MacBook Air

texts:
I have a Mid-2013 MacBook Air that has been acting up lately. I initially started seeing issues with ridiculous jitter(100s of ms) half a year ago, but since I do not game a lot, I ignored them. However, for the past few months, I've started seeing more and more degraded WiFi performance on my Air.

For instance, if I run speedtests within seconds of each other(after the first one has completed) on my Mac and on my phone, I get ~3x higher ping, 4x slower download, and about the same or better upload speeds(which I think is a limitation with my phone).

I have tried doing an SMC reset, deleting the following files:

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
com.apple.network.identification.plist
com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist

preferences.plist

from the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ directory, as was suggested by a guide named Fix Wi-Fi Problems in OS X Yosemite on osxdaily. None of these showed any improvement for me. I have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter, and when I use that, I see the speeds like they should be.

I suspect this is some issue with my wireless card, unless its a problem with OS X itself, which is kinda likely given that I am using 10.11 Beta (15A215h), but the issue has been present even before I upgraded to the Beta OS. Does anyone have any ideas of what the issue could be, and how I could resolve it myself?

EDIT:

Screen cap of Network

Clients are an average of 4, sometimes more, sometimes less

Screen cap of performance test with only the Air connected to the network

Also, I've tried with different routers, with only my Air connected, and I ALWAYS see the performance degradation, no matter what network I connect to.


texts:
I am having trouble installing dsniff with Macports.
$ sudo port install dsniff
[....]
--->  Configuring dsniff
Error: Failed to configure dsniff, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_net_dsniff/dsniff/work/dsniff-2.4/config.log
Error: Failed to configure dsniff: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_net_dsniff/dsniff/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port dsniff failed

Log from: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_net_dsniff/dsniff/main.log
:info:configure checking for ether_ntoa... yes
:info:configure checking for Berkeley DB with 1.85 compatibility... configure: error: Berkeley DB with 1.85 compatibility not found
:info:configure Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_net_dsniff/dsniff/work/dsniff-2.4" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man
:info:configure Exit code: 1

macOS Catalina


texts: How To Remove iMessage Icon On Toolbar (MacBook Pro)

texts:
How would i remove this icon in my toolbar on my MacBook Pro?
I have never really used it and would like to remove it from the toolbar.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.


texts:
I am searching for a good font manager for Lion. It should work especially with google web fonts.

I need a good overview of non-alphabetic unicode characters. And activating/deactivating would be great i.e. to check, if web pages I work on work well with fonts being installed or not.

So basically I need a font manager, that supports me for developing websites.


texts: How do I restore the default folder icon?

texts:
I build web sites on a Mac and after the recent upgrade to Mavericks, the icon for all of my web template folders have changed from the standard Mac folder icon to the Parallels icon. I can change it using Get Info, but this has to be done one folder at a time and is unnecessarily tedious.

Has anyone else encountered this, and more importantly does anyone know how to reset the default to display the standard blue Mac folder icon?

Here is what it looks like right now:


texts:
I had been doing this

sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

but it doesn't work in Mojave

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist: No such file or directory

How can I start an ftp server on my MacBook?


texts: How can I teach Siri how to spell my child's name correctly in texts?

texts:
When I text my husband something like "I picked up Hailey from school and am on my way," Siri always misspells my daughter's name as Haley (with no "i"). I have an entry in my contact info identifying who my daughter is, but when I'm dictating a text or other message, that appears to be irrelevant.

I'd like to teach Siri that any time I refer to my child's name it should always be spelled a certain way. I feel foolish sending messages with my own child's name misspelled.


texts: MacBook Pro integrated GPU drawing too much power when CPU monitoring app is running

texts:
Main problem:

When I run an app that monitors CPU temperature, it rises from 40° to 76° in 3 minutes. Even though the CPU usage is 12%, CPU package power draw maxes out at 31W. I checked the clock speeds and temperatures from iStat Menus. The CPU core power draw was only 7W at maximum and integrated GPU power draw was at 21W.

My Question: How do I fix this?

Additional information:

But GPU frequency was at 0MHz. When I use apps like Macs Fan Control that only displays temperatures as numbers not graphs, temperatures don't rise. Also, when using Intel Power Gadget, temperatures keep rising up to 92°. And when I close the lid of my Mac, it overheats, exceeding the CPU temperature limit and crashes. But when using iStat Menus, temperatures hover around 70°.


texts: Does the iPhone 5s have any built in water protection mechanisms?

texts:
I seem to have dodged a bullet.

Last weekend my iPhone 5s managed to make it into the washing machine. I think realized my mistake about 10 minutes into the wash and dug out a thoroughly waterlogged device. It was powered on when it was submerged, but powered off when I pulled it out.

I took the internet's advice and left it sealed in a plastic bag of uncooked rice. I powered it on today and all is apparently well apart from some interesting display artifacts (those are not reflections - this is how the display looks from just about any angle):

Fingers crossed it hold up till the end of the contract.

Given the thoroughness of this submerging, I'm actually quite surprised at how well this device has faired.  Not only was it in for 10 minutes or more (dripping when it came out), but the water was far from pure - laundry soap + whatever dirt was coming out of the laundry load.  I assume such grey water has a much lower electrical resistance than pure water, and would therefore be much more damaging to electrical circuitry.

So, does this iPhone have any built-in water protection mechanisms?  It did power itself off, but perhaps this was just undefined behaviour.  Or did I just get very lucky?

Side question - I'm about 6 months into my present 2 year contract.  Whats the likelihood this phone will make it to the next upgrade cycle?


texts: Bootcamp - How to always load the boot selector screen on start up

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Is there something I can do so that when I turn on my computer the boot selector screen shows up, without me having to press alt.
I've seen this answered, but that was 2012 and it doesn't work anymore.


texts: How do I make an exact back up of one iPod Touch to another iPod Touch?

texts: I want both iPods to be identical- including the folders and organization I have already made on the first iPod.


texts: Visualizing Data on a Mac? (MySQL db is source)

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I'm having difficulty finding a promising OS X app for connecting to and visualizing data which resides in a MySQL database; it seems like there are various options for Windows, but not so much for Apple?

I'm hoping however that there are some gems that I just haven't discovered yet

I would like to be able to publish these charts to the web; I have heard of people using Excel for this, but I don't own Excel for Mac and I'm not sure if the same abilities are present in the Mac version of it


texts: Unable to convert certain keywords in record to JSON

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I am using JSON Helper to convert record to JSON. I have run into difficulty that using certain words inside the record produces empty JSON. As you can see from the screenshot, first two variables (test1 and test2) silently fail and produce empty JSON. Here's source to the script in question - link. My question is simple - why test1 and test2 produce empty JSON?

Ps. I am using these names as a part of 3rd party API which I have no control of (including naming conventions for variables) - link.


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I have the MacBook Air 2017 and until today it was working fine. Now, when I plug in the Mag Safe connector the light doesn't turn on nor does the computer detect that I've plugged the cable in.

I've tried resetting the SMC using different sockets and cleaning out the ports. I've also noticed that when plugged into certain outlets I can feel an electric "charge" on the cable and MacBook body.

Any ideas on what might be wrong?


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My son uses my iMac for school stuff and some gaming. I have caught him playing games during school hours when he isn't supposed to be playing games.

I know that I can use parental controls to set this up, but we both just use the same user. (so he knows the passwords.)

Is there a way I can use terminal to "lock" the game (or application) so that it won't open unless I unlock it via terminal?


texts: Can I perform inverse trig functions in Spotlight?

texts: Is there a way to make Spotlight return the sin-1, cos-1, or tan-1 of a given number without opening Calculator.app?


texts: Can't see list of screen resolutions anymore when Option-Clicking the Scaled button on macOS 10.15.4

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I used to be able to Option-Click on Scaled button in the Display Preferences window to see a full list of resolutions, e.g., 1920x1080, 1280x720, etc.

But recently (started with 10.15.4, I think) this action does NOT reveal resolutions.  Instead, it gives me an option to select the different refresh rates.

How can I get the full list of resolutions again?


texts: Keyboard for IPA, open back rounded vowel "ɒ"

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I need to write/modify a keynote using many characters from the international phonetic alphabet (IPA). Currently, I am doing this on an iPad within Keynote.

I started by copying and pasting the characters, since many of them don't appear while keeping press a key like for example the "Open back rounded vowel a" ɒ.

Is there any keyboard that could be used in order to allow entering these characters by just keeping pressed key a?


texts: I erased my stolen iPhone instead of putting it in lost mode

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Recently my iPhone was stolen, and instead of putting it in lost mode, I erased it via Find My iPhone.

Is there any way to switch it to Lost Mode? Can I see its last location? And will the thieves be able to use my iPhone now?