texts: Why are switches grayed out in the iPhones Settings app with iOS 8.3?

texts:
In 'Settings' > 'Cellular': all the switches under 'Use cellular data for:' are grayed out. Some are ON and some are OFF but none can be changed. These are the switches that control cellular data usage for individual apps. Why are they disabled?

In the same panel I have 'Cellular Data' turned ON and "Enable LTE" turned ON.


texts: Importing photos into Photos app and overwriting previous import

texts:
I have previously imported some pictures into the Photos app - however I found the files had become corrupt. Now I have gone back to the original source and used a more reliable drive to import them from. They now seem to not be corrupt.

Now I want to import them into the Photos app and overwrite the corrupt photos. It recognises that some have already been imported, meaning if I import all it will create duplicates which isn't what I want.

What is best to do?

Thanks


texts:
Does anyone know of a way to get modifier keys to work across USB devices in OSX?

I have a USB footswitch that sends a left control key.  It sends the signal as expected but does not register shortcuts.  Pressing it and then pressing "left" does not trigger the appropriate shortcut, but when I hit control and left on built in macbook pro keyboard it works as expected.

I found the following on the kinesis website:

  Note: Modifier actions from one USB device cannot modify the input of
  a second USB device due to limitations designed into the Apple
  operating system. Example: Shift, Control, Command, or Option
  keystrokes programmed into the footswitch cannot modify the input of a
  separate USB keyboard or mouse. However, a key sequence like ‘Cmd-W’
  or ‘Cmd-Shift-left arrow’ will work on a Macintosh if the entire
  sequence of keystrokes has been pre-programmed into the footswitch.
  (Footswitch can only be programmed on a Windows PC).

This explains what I am experiencing.  I tested it by trying the same thing with an external usb keyboard.  I would press the left control on the external usb keyboard and the "left" arrow on the built in keyboard and it would not register.  BUt when hitting the "left" arrow and the control key on the usb keyboard it registered as expected.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?


texts: Strange problems with MBP (flickering Safari, popping noise, accent menu)

texts:
I already asked for help today in another posting: MacBook Pro 2018 Battery not correctly working

I don't know if this problem does relate to my new problem so I'm writing a new post.

My MacBook Pro from December 2018 has a strange problem: Sometimes when I'm searching things via Safari it suddenly shows (while entering the search words) the accent menu. Then it starts making a popping noise which does not stop. When I hover over the Apple symbol to shut down the Mac the items in the menu flicker. I can shut down the Mac and then everything seems to act normally for a while, but eventually it starts again. I reset the SMC and now it's acting normal.

Do you have any idea what could be the case with my MacBook? I have already searched in the internet but I could not find anything. What could I do?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I have a MacBook Pro 2018 with Touchbar. The current operating system is macOS Mojave Version 10.14.4. I did already run hardware diagnostics (pressed "D" while starting) and it said that there are no problems.


texts:
I'm installing Windows via Bootcamp but during the partitioning, my MacBook Pro crashed and now after the reboot I'm seeing that I only have 15GB of free space left. I had 33GB before partitioning.

Since I need at least 30GB to reinstall Bootcamp I'm stuck here and need to find out where the 18GB went during partitioning. Any ideas where to look/what to delete?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!

MacBook Pro 13" Retina 2014, 128GB, Mac OS X 10.10.5

Edit: It's probably worth mentioning that the new Volume does not seem to be created as I only have one, which still has the same total size of 120GB


texts: Rescue light red Time Machine backups after El Capitan Update

texts:
Here is my story:

Oct 2: I have Yosemite Installed and configured Time Capsule taking regular backups.
Oct 3: I update Yosemite to El Capitan
El Capitan installation halts at 14% for 2hrs
I force-restart my machine several times but the update never goes through
I format my primary OSX partition and want to setup my mac again.
I start recovery process from boot
try to find my time machine but it shows my ONLY FULL Backup is 18th Sep (which is not what I want)
I use the same, restore using that 18th Sep backup.
When the restore process completes, my MAC is somehow updated to El Capitan with my data from 18th Sep backup
Now I configure my Time Machine again, it shows my last backup of 4th Oct but its light-red bar (slowly blinking from very light to light red bar)
I can't seem to access that 2nd Oct backup

Can anyone share if they have felt same, attaching screenshots for reference.


texts: Yosemite install app won't download after being corrupted

texts:
I tried to download the Yosemite install app and make a bootable usb with Diskmaker X but it failed and told me the install file became corrupted. This caused an endless Finder crash loop that I could only fix by deleting the Install file from the bash prompt in single user mode.

Now the app store shows "an error has occurred" and I can't download the app at all:

I tried deleting the app store cache to no avail, now I'm stuck. Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks


texts: Web Sharing Apache Localhost - Access permissions

texts:
I want to install phpMyAdmin on the native Apache webserver that is bundled with Mac OS X 10.6. I turned on Web Sharing in System Preferences. Yet, me fear is that my computer is granting access to everyone on the web.

Where are the user access restrictions for the Web Sharing / Apache webserver within Mac?
How to I restrict access for all computers except my own so that I can run applications on the localhost webserver (like phpMyAdmin).


texts: How can I get Apple Mail to pick the correct From: address?

texts:
I own a mid-2010 MacBook Pro running Lion (I know -- but don't want to upgrade!)  When I am responding to an email, just below the 'Subject' line there is a field called 'From' followed by two separate drop down boxes.  The first comes up automatically with the correct email I am using for that particular gmail account, but as of about a month ago, the second box comes up with my husband's gmail address rather than mine.  I have to manually change it (or else responses go to my husband).  If I delay in sending my email (for which I've manually changed the second box) I can literally watch it default back to my husband's email address.  It is maddening!

Don't know if this is related or not, but at about the same time, I began having problems with my gmail accounts being listed as 'offline' even though I'm able to send and receive messages.

Any help welcome!


texts: Is it safe to store a mac pro at a tilt?

texts: MY daughter is going to college and I have been looking for a safe to store it. Most safes are 12.6 inches wide and her mac pro is slightly less than 13 inches, is it OK to store at a slight tilt?


texts: If time capsule can not be set up to log the web sites that users access, is there third-party software that will accomplish this for time capsule?  Ideally something that would work through the time capsule and not have to be installed on each individual device, but would allow analysis by device.


texts: iTerm2 cursor doesn't return to line beginning

texts:
I'm not sure if I'm missing some sort of configuration here, but occasionally my cursor is unable to return to beginning of line where command starts. If I press FN+leftArrow, it goes few characters after beginning of command, if I press FN+rightArrow, ot goes way behind end of line. It seems like it thinks that whole line is shifted to the right. See screenshots attached. I was unable to reproduce this on purpose. It happens woth all kind of different commands pretty nondeterministically :-(. Any ideas are welcomed, thanks.

Matthew


texts: I got a newsletter to go to store.kagi.com It's an offer to buy an update to the discontinued video converting software Visualhub by Techspansion. What makes it a bit suspicious that there is no contact whatsoever to ask if this is the real deal. I'm a fan of Visualhub no question but an anon update to a discontinued product? Would you buy this though?


texts: Disabling the "keep pressed" function of OS X sticky keys

texts:
I use the accessibility feature called sticky keys in OS X, what it does is that if you press a command modifier key (Ctrl, Cmd, Alt, Shift, Fn), it stays "pressed" until you press another key. This is very useful if you often use your keyboard with one hand, and actually quite convenient even when you use two hands.

The thing is that if you press a modifier key twice it stays "pressed" until you press it again. While it is sometimes handy, for me it would be preferable if this aspect of the functionality could be disabled, since I trigger it accidentally every now and then.

I realize that if this is at all possible it probably means fiddling with some system file somewhere, that's fine. I just want to see if someone out there might know where to look? :)


texts: How can I repair missing referenced photos in Photos.app on MacOS Catalina?

texts:
A while ago I moved many photos from my Mac to external storage. However, I forgot to consolidate the library before performing this change. And now I can't remember the original folder structure I set up in the first place.

In my library I now have a set of photos which I can't repair the link to. No Finder window pops up, which means that the folder they were originally residing in, no longer exists.

Is there a way to reveal the file name and folder location of these "lost" referenced files so I can repair my Photos database?

Note: since the internal storage structure of the Photos Library changed dramatically in Catalina, I'm explicitly referring to Catalina in this question as I suppose it might affect the answer.


texts: Download iPhone pics via shell (terminal)

texts:
I've recently upgraded my iPhone from an SE to a SE2, and notice that the "Image Capture" app has trouble importing some of the photos. I've been holding off from using the "Photos" app as I keep all my photos on a separate drive (NAS) which is filed by Year/Month/Day since my first digicam in 1999 (a Kodak DC290).
For me, "Photos" does too much, I don't need all that functionality - so I've pulled all the photos from the Library in their UUID renamed state, ran an EXIF renamer over them, and have put them onto my NAS that way, however it made me wonder whether there is a way to simply do a "mv" in Terminal to remove the photos from the iPhone into my local DCIM folder (which has a script to then rsync to the NAS).
Anyone know a way to interrogate the iPhone from terminal? (Mac OS 11.0.1)
Thanks
Richard


texts: How to share photos from Photos.app to Flickr retaining title, description and tags?

texts: In the new Photos.app application, the export of photographs to other services is via the OS X extensibility feature. Sharing one picture to Flickr shows the picture's filename as the title and empty description and tags even though the pictures had these three fields filled in the 'Info' window. This metadata was exported fine with iPhoto which had its own sharing mechanism so this issue is either with Photos.app or with the extensibility feature of OS X. How can I upload pictures from Photos.app to Flickr without having to retype all the metadata for each one of them?


texts: How to make Google Chrome launch in incognito mode on an Ipad?

texts: It's possible to launch Google Chrome in incognito mode on a PC by adding -incognito to the end of the desktop shortcut. Is it possible to launch to Chrome on an iPad in incognito mode?


texts: MacOS Catalina: access subdirectories on iPhone

texts:
When iTunes had to be used for file transfer from/to iPhone, the user experience might have been confusing, but it was functionally achievable.
Since MacOS Catalina - 10.15 - Finder seems to be the only option for file transfer.
Unfortunately, only the top level entries seem to be available. In this example, the "mapillary" directory has many sequences, and I'd like to move a few of them only from the phone.

How do I expand a directory to move (copy, delete) sub-items?


texts: How did TechCrunch get in my notifications center?

texts:
I have begun to see notifications from TechCrunch when they publish articles.

My notifications center is full of the settings for extremely useful applications (Calendar, Evernote, Maps, Skype, Dropbox), and then… a website I sometimes read.

I can easily set their notifications to "None" but I want:

To know how they got there in the first place. I'm sure I never opted in to this.
How to completely remove it from my system

Anyone?


texts: How do I recover and set my ringtone to the lollipop guild, a song I had already purchased?


texts:
When I try to open the Terminal app in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 I get the error:

The application "Terminal" can't be opened

I tried to restart the system and updated the OS to the last version but didnt't work. I also tried to find the preferences and cache files for the Terminal app in /Library folder but couldn't find any.

Is there any solution to this problem?

EDIT: I've also realised that happens the same when trying to open the console: the application "Console" can't be opened

Also, if I see the systemlog I can see this error:

  com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Terminal.6980[3227]): Service
  could not initialize: 17G65: xpcproxy + 11476
  [1524][B5FFE99F-CD7F-3AD0-8C3B-A06EF069275A]: 0xd


texts: How do I transfer my iPhone photos/videos to a NAS with afp-protocol?

texts:
How do I transfer my iPhone photos/videos to my NAS?
I can connect to my NAS using afp-protocol.

My current solution is to mount the NAS on my MacBook using cmd-k in Finder, then by using Image Capture I can move them from the phone to the mounted NAS.

Is it possible to transfer directly from iPhone to NAS using afp, or do I need to go indirectly through my MacBook?

I use iPhone 5S with iOS 9 and I do have a MacBook Pro with Yosemite.


texts:
I need to emulate a keystroke using applescript for double time shift press.

Adding Part of snippet..

tell application "System Events"
    keystroke shift
    keystroke shift
end tell

Even tried

keystroke shift
delay 0.1
keystroke shift

still doesn't work. Any ideas?


texts: Do YouTube videos buffer for offline playback on Google's iOS app?

texts: I want to preload a 58 minute youtube video on my free home wireless and listen to it later while i'm jogging (so that i can listen without streaming on my limited data plan). Can this be done?  Will the youtube app let you prebuffer an entire video and let you watch it offline?


texts: Downloading and uploading files through Safari iOS

texts:
I am aware that iPad does not have a file-system in traditional sense.

I want to know how Safari for iOS behaves when trying to download/upload files from/to a website.

Suppose I go to sourceforge.net and click on a link to download zip file? Would Safari download it? If yes, where does it get stored and how do I access it (without using iTunes to first move it to a PC).

Does Safari on iOS allow the downloading of only some files and reject others, or does it allow downloading all of them or rejects all of them?

Lastly, if a webpage has a file upload control (input type="file"), how does Safari behave (would it allow upload, allow upload on only some sites or the download control does not work at all)?


texts: Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionary for Dictionary app?

texts:
For quite a while now, I have been looking for English and Spanish conversion dictionaries (both ways) for Apple's native Dictionary application. So far I have not had any success.

Is there any free, decent quality solution such as "New Oxford American Dictionary" and "Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française"?

Any links or information would be highly appreciated.


texts:
I'm missing handoff icon in dock. I remember that when I had open safari/messenger on my iPhone, I could easily click on the icon that showed on left side of dock.

It's not there anymore. What could be the issue?
Handoff is working correctly, I can copy text from mac->iPhone, and iPhone -> mac, I can open website on iPhone from Mac.

The only issue is that I am missing the icon.
Video: https://youtu.be/--MMBRgPvFs


texts:
Is there a way to remap keys in foreign layout by modifying existing layout or creating your own?

Yosemite (as well as Mavericks before that) has "Russian-PC" and "Russian" layout, both missing "ё" letter. PC layout normally would map it to '`' key, to the left from 1.


texts:
I'd like to try FFserver. I've installed FFmpeg (4.0.2) with Homebrew. I've got ffmpeg, ffplay and ffprobe in my path, but no ffserver. In fact no files on my entire hard drive relate to ffserver.

Typing brew options ffmpeg does not mention anything about ffserver, neither does brew search ffserver. Searching the web for "ffserver missing" does not suggest anything.

So how do I install FFserver? (Or has it been deprecated or replaced or something?)

Update: On http://ffbinaries.com/downloads there seem to be no FFserver binaries for FFmpeg 4, so that may hint that FFserver is simply not available for FFmpeg 4. Any information regarding why, when it will be available, and any way to install FFserver with Homebrew is appreciated.


texts: Can I see if/when someone opens Messages on my Mac?

texts: I'm concerned my roommate is looking at my text messages via the Messages app on my computer. Is there a way to know if/when the Messages app is opened on the computer? Maybe a notification or email to my iPHone?


texts: I am using MBP running yosemite(10.10.1) retina 15inch mid 2014, it is not showing correct time. It just started time from the time i closed the lid. even why do auto synch with time server or apple time server. it doesn't.


texts: Messages won't let me sign in to iMessage

texts:
On my OSX laptop (10.8.5) I've recently been unable to sign into iMessage. By recently I mean approximately a week. I've not done any updates that I recall lately.

Coworkers are able to send me messages and my phone gets the messages directly over iMessage, so my account is working on this network (wifi and wired go through the same set of equipment out to the internet, so it's not a port blocking issue, and we're a small network of about 50 users) and my account is working in general.

I can login to https://appleid.apple.com just fine from my computer. I'm logging into the computer and my phone with the same gmail address and password in both places.

Next steps?

One solution on the internet was "do you have a serial number in "About This Mac" and I do.


texts:
Are there any tricks to provide quicker access to the camera in iOS on an iPhone?

The drag-up-from-bottom on the lock screen takes multiple attempts. By the time I can access the camera, my photo opportunity moment has passed.

Perhaps some combination of hardware buttons can be set to bring up the camera?


texts: Is there a service that allows distributing iOS builds per git branches?

texts:
All the beta services I've looked into (TestFlight, HockeyApp, Fabric beta, Test, DeloyGate, ...) seem to only allow one "active" build per app, or one per version (the actual x.x.x version and nothing else).

For QA purposes, I would like to be able to publish builds per branch of my github repo. Ideally, testers would have an interface where they could install the last build of branch feature/money or feature/coins, with everything else that is already offered by regular services (push notifications, UDID handling if not using enterprise certificates, ...)

Does this exist?


texts: Macbook shows question mark folder on boot, can't boot to recovery mode

texts:
Recently I upgraded from Mojave to Catalina and I decided to encrypt my macbook's SSD, and also its firmware (it showed a long password after encryption and I wrote it down).

After Installation I realized one of my corporate softwares doesn't work and I decided to downgrade to Mojave again.

So I tried to use Startup Disk (in system preferences) to load from Mojave's bootable USB stick, but it didn't show up in there.

So I decided to enter recovery mode, but key combinations didn't worked.

Then I used terminal to force entering recovery mode, I executed:

sudo nvram "recovery-boot-mode=unused"
sudo reboot

Finally I entered the recovery mode!

I deleted Catalina's both partitions on SSD to install Mojave, then accidentally took off my usb stick, after connecting it again, recovery mode wasn't able to run from usb stick.

I rebooted the macbook, and it now shows a folder with question mark which means can't read from bootable disk.

All I can do now is powering on and off the macbook. Can't reset nvram, can't reset pram, can't reset SMC, can't boot into recovery mode. All key combinations fail to work just after Catalina installation. I tried using an USB keyboard but that didn't worked too.

Also it's impossible to send macbook to apple for service as I live in overseas and there is no way for me to send it for service.

It's my work laptop, what should I do?

If you know how to reinstall macOS, boot to recovery or even boot from USB stick (to load macOS installation or linux/windows), please help me.

System: Macbook Air 13" (early 2014)
Available bootable USB sticks: Mojave, Catalina, Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows 10.


texts: Can I use a different language wireless keyboard?

texts: My Macbook pro is Japanese with a Japanese keyboard. I want to get a wireless bluetooth keyboard, but I am currently living in the UK and cannot get a wireless Japanese keyboard here. If I bought a US wireless keyboard, would this work with my laptop?


texts: How did a process with an url as a name executed at my macos?

texts:
Is it some sort of chrome malfunction? - The process seems inactive, it has "http://www.imore.com/, ..." as the name, with a lego-like plugin icon, a default icon

I suspect it might have been an orphaned chrome-flash process, yet I haven't visited imore.com, which makes the situation very suspicious

(It's using 145MB Ram, it seems to be inactive with no disk/network/cpu operations)

Any ideas? (I don't have any chrome extensions/plugins, I also don't execute any web content)

Edit: After trying to kill the process, I see that it's a "Spotlight Web Content", haven't killed it yet to inspect the issue further

It seems to be a webkit process, I just hope it was from the spotlight, I disabled several spotlight features after the issue, here are ps/top info about the process:

58056 ??         3:41.21 /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A

58056  com.apple.We 0.0  03:41.21 21    0    238   141M   0B     4744K  58056 1     sleeping *0[12383]       0.00000 0.00000    501  479108    777


texts:
I got the following strange image on both low corners of 2 application windows:

Firefox (22)
Preview (MacOS X)

This strange image is following the windows corners when I move them.
This is occuring on a MacBookPro6,2 (mid 2010), running MacOS X 10.6.8 fully updated.
This image can be captured (cmd ⌘+shift ⇧+4).

Context

The mother board and video card were replaced by an Apple Store.

Since I got it back 3 days ago, this MBP has been up and running and heavily tested. It went through many graphical use without a problem during 3 full days.

This event happened a few minutes after an exit from hybernation
where the battery was totally exhausted.

Graphic cards:

Intel HD Graphics: rev 0x0018
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M: rev 0x00a2

This problem occured arround 08:20. Here the nearby content of /var/log/kernel.log:

Aug  6 22:48:49 my__MBP kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
Aug  6 22:49:26 my__MBP kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'FR'.
Aug  6 22:49:26 my__MBP kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140
Aug  6 23:03:31 my__MBP kernel[0]: hfs: Initializing the journal (joffset 0x3000 sz 0x80000)...
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 4294967296, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000 ssd 0
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 5
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_alloc_pages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_setup(0) took 0 ms
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
Aug  7 08:00:13 my__MBP kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall start 0x450cb000, 0x450ea000
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall time: 397 ms
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: pages 988881, wire 137387, act 328832, inact 12950, spec 0, zf 9189, throt 0, could discard act 130843 inact 255304 purgeable 25377 spec 88999
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall found pageCount 488358
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml_get_interrupts_enabled 0
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: writing 486856 pages
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: encryptStart 541a70
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: encryptEnd 4e56560
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_machine_init: state 2, image pages 137257, sum was 7d2d0110, image1Size 9911400, conflictCount 403, nextFree 996
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_discard time: 265 ms, discarded act 130843 inact 255304 purgeable 25377 spec 88999
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(), ml_get_interrupts_enabled 0
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_machine_init reading
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: PMStats: Hibernate read took 9038 ms
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: hibernate_machine_init pagesDone 488202 sum2 c5a58d42, time: 9038 ms
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: Wake reason =
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: System SafeSleep Wake
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: -60
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -60
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: com_apple_driver_AppleUSBCardReaderUMC:: Stop::Controller Reset
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'X3'.
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 132 136 140
Aug  7 08:19:17 my__MBP kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 000000009833 0x5ac 0x8403 0x9833


texts: launchd: Confusion on semantics of bootstrap and bootout etc. after reading manual pages

texts:
I've read the following manual pages on launchd: launchctl, launchd, and launchd.plist.

However, nothing is really said in these manual pages regarding what the launchctl boostrap and launchctl bootout (sub)commands actually do (see below). Is it to be inferred from their names?

Futhermore, I cannot find information in the man pages, regarding what user/group the service (agent/daemon) runs as. However, launchd.plist mentions UserName/GroupName for controlling the user/group for the system domain. So, what user are per-user services in /Library/LaunchAgents or ~/Library/LaunchAgents run as?

Finally, I would expect I need to bootstrap/load my daemon's .plist, but after putting the .plist in /Library/LaunchAgents or /Library/LaunchDaemons, it was automatically loaded (run) at system boot. Indeed, RunAtLoad=true, but what's the purpose of bootstrap, if services run anyway?

man launchctl:

 bootstrap | bootout domain-target [service-path service-path2 ...] | service-target
          Bootstraps or removes domains and services. When service arguments are present, bootstraps and correspondingly removes their definitions into the domain.  Services may be specified as a series of
          paths or a service identifier.  Paths may point to XPC service bundles, launchd.plist(5) s, or a directories containing a collection of either. If there were one or more errors while bootstrapping or
          removing a collection of services, the problematic paths will be printed with the errors that occurred.

          If no paths or service target are specified, these commands can either bootstrap or remove a domain specified as a domain target. Some domains will implicitly bootstrap pre-defined paths as part of
          their creation.


texts: How to sync folders outside of the usual OneDrive sync folder?

texts:
I am setting up a OneDrive account on my Mac (macos 10.15.7). The OneDrive local folder is at ~/OneDrive/. I would like to sync other folders as well, e.g. ~/Music/, ~/Documents/, etc. OneDrive for Windows 10 has this feature built-in, but of course this is lacking on the macOS version. (OneDrive will not allow your sync directory to be your home directory.) Are there any tricks to get these and other locations to sync here on the Mac?
(FWIW I do have "Premium OneDrive" through my Microsoft 365 Family subscription.)


texts: No shared Links available in iOS 7 Safari

texts:
New with iOS 7 is a "Shared Links" tab in Safari. I have twitter accounts setup on my device (TweetBot shows them). However I don't see any content in the Shared Links tab. Just this message:

No Shared Links
Links shared by your contacts from select social networks will appear
here.

How do I link my twitter account in Safari so that content appears here?


texts: Apple Configurator 2 - How to edit an installed Configuration Profile?

texts:
I wish to modify an existing Configuration Profile installed on an iPhone, but I do not have a disk copy of it, nor can I download it again from the source (no longer available).  Using Apple Configurator 2 there appears to be no way to export to disk, or modify, the full contents of an already existing and installed Configuration Profile.  Nor indeed to inspect its contents (which would provide a tedious but manual way to re-create a new profile by inspecting the contents of an existing one)

Is there a way of extracting an installed Configuration Profile from an iDevice to disk so that I can then open it and modify it using Configurator?  Thanks.


texts: I'd like to use my F3 and F4 keys for a different purpose, but I can't seem to disable the hotkeys on my Mac. Here's what I've tried so far:


texts: I'm not able to search for specific files in a folder saved on SD card on Macbook air

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I have a folder saved on my SD card with many different files. When i go to search in my SD card, and search for a specific file in that folder the page shows completely blank & that file does not show up! Even-though the file i'm searching for is in that folder and can be found manually.
Is there any solution for this ?
Thanks


texts:
Is there a way to customise keyboard shortcuts for a Java executable? I cannot add it in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts as it's an executable and does not end in .app.

It's part of the JRE (Java SE Runtime Environment) bundle in Contents/Home/bin/java.


texts: Producing/archiving an overview of a directory structure

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I try to find a way to make an archive of my ~/ directory so that I can go back in case I've lost something. I've found several recommendations for this. The first being OS X Hints saying a simple ls -aR or re-writing a tree.
The problem these two solutions have is that the output doesn't help very much in terms of getting an overview where something was.

Is there anything that is able to produce a visual representation of a directory structure that allows to see what contents were in which directory? A Terminal command? A SVG generator?

EDIT: No GUI tools for the generation of the file please. Viewing the large outputs of find ~/ and ls ~/ is cumbersome. Or is it possible to make it easier to view a 70MB text file?

EDIT2: I should probably clarify what I'm trying to do. I recently had my hard disk crash. Fortunately I had an off-site and on-site backup. In the restore however I chose to set the machine up from scratch, which means I had to very specifically pick what to restore from where.
Now that I'm done with that, I'm investigating whether it's possible to save the directory structure in certain periods of time in my backup, so that restoring becomes a bit easier. (In case I ever lose a couple days of work, with two different backups at two different stages.)

Thanks in advance,
Zettt


texts: View original full-resolution image in Aperture 2.0

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I want to do the comparison of image quality of 2 lenses, with different settings. For this purpose I need to do the pixel level comparison.
But Aperture stores originals of the files internally showing to the user only previews, that are generated according to the Aperture preferences. Currently I have it set to maximum quality and half of original resolution.

But I want to compare not previews but originals, to see the difference most precisely, at full resolution. Is there any easy way to look at originals and not previews? Or do I have to change the Aperture preferences to full resolution and then regenerate previews? And if I change preferences, will the previews for my whole library get recreated, or only the ones that I manually force to regenerate previews?


texts: Invite to share screen (iMessage) - Automation - How?

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How can i automate an "Invite to share screen" from iMessages.

I share screens a lot with my colleagues and it would just make sense to have an option to quick ask someone to view my screen. Yet now, i have to look the user up in the imessage window and "target practice" the small icon, then Invite ..

Would be easier if i could automate it, or somehow create a desktop shortcut.


texts: How do I disable the Java updater on OS X?

texts:
I've disabled automatic checking for Java updates the Java Control Panel, but my changes are always ignored, as I can confirm by checking the control panel after making and saving my changes:

How do I really disable automatic checking for Java updates?


texts: How can I right click on a Mac using only the trackpad in a dual-boot environment?

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I am absolutely new to Mac OS and can't determine hot to issue a right click on my Mac. If I want a shortcut menu to appear I can ctrl + click to get the same effect or I can use an old mouse that has two buttons.

How would I right click if I don't have a mouse and I have only track pad and my laptop is dual boot with Windows or Linux?


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What exactly does jailbreaking and unlocking doing to an iPhone?

I'm aware that hackers are using baseband crashes for unlocking, but how are they exploiting these crashes? Even if they inject their code into memory, how they are keeping it even after a reboot?

How these guys finding the crashes? Can I find the crash log too?

As an iPhone developer, I'm interested in some technical answers.

I've gone through some interesting links from here, but haven't found anything about how the hackers are doing it (especially unlocking).

Any references will be extremely useful.


texts: What causes Time Machine to perform a non-manual verification?

texts:
Since verification takes a LONG time, I am naturally curious as to what the criteria are that causes it to occur.
Time since last verification?
Amount of data added since last verification?
Failure of some data validity check (parity bits or the like)?


texts: System Images with different Model Identifiers

texts:
I have been tasked with creating a default system image to use to both back up and use to deploy to new systems.

After checking the stats on the 7 systems in question I've found that there are multiple model identifiers.

Would I be correct in my assumption that a system image made for one model identifier would not be useful for a system with a different identifier?


texts:
So, I downloaded Chrome, and I put it in the Applications folder and from there a shortcut to the applications bar on the bottom of the screen. All is fine, but now there's an icon on the desktop that looks like a harddrive with a Chrome icon on it. I don't want it there, but I don't know what to do with it. I also have the DMG file from the download in the Trash, but it won't let me delete it.

So, how do I get rid of the downloaded file which I thought was 'installed' in the Applications folder?
Also, how do I get rid of the Chrome HDD icon on the desktop.
And, in the end how many copies of an application does OS X keep just to make it work? It's rather annoying coming from Windows, where there's only one...

Anyway, help would be appreciated!


texts: Figure out which command is bound to a keyboard shortcut in TextMate

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I have a shortcut key conflict between TextMate and LaunchBar. I use ⌘+⌥+\ to call up LaunchBar's clipboard history. And it works great everywhere except in TextMate, which has this combination bound to some Bundle action.

I'd like to unbind this combination in TextMate so I can get to LaunchBar's clipboard history view when I'm in TextMate and pull things off the stack.

I checked under the Bundles menu for an option that would show me all Bundle commands bound to a particular key combination but couldn't find anything. Short of searching through every single command, or looking at the Bundles -> Select Bundle Item... list, is there any way to figure this out?


texts: Transfer file from iOS to macOS without internet, natively?

texts:
Let's say that I have a large file on my iOS device. Let's also say that:

I don't have internet (or the more likely scenario, AirDrop isn't working for some reason)
I don't want to download third-party apps to get this done
I have a cable that can connect my iOS device to my Mac

How do I transfer this large file from my iOS device to my Mac, without using AirDrop or the internet? Is there a way without having to resort to third-party apps on either my iDevice or my Mac?


texts: How can I keep track of source code changes with git and box.net?

texts: I have a school project where I have to make a program(java), therefore I need some way to keep track of the changes I make to the sources; I decided the best way to do this it to create a git repository on my box.net account. How is this done?


texts: What is the most powerful Mac capable of running Mac OS 9?

texts: I know that there was a period of time after Mac OS X came out that new Macs still shipped with Mac OS 9 for a number of reasons (OS X was buggy, better compatibility with Classic apps, etc). This is more of a curiosity than anything, but I'm wondering what the most powerful Mac capable of running Mac OS 9 is, and what the maximum specs are.


texts: Disable window split on notification bubble click

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When switching between a fullscreen app (terminal emulator) and another non-fullscreen app (Mail.app) by clicking on an email notification bubble, Mail.app opens as a split window. As a bonus, this messes up the layout on Mail.app so that I have to manually adjust it every time this happens.

Is there a way to disable that behavior, so that by clicking the notification bubble, the screen switches to the main Space and Mail.app is brought forward, like before this whole split screen thing?


texts: Figuring out bad sectors in my Macintosh HD

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As the title suggests, what's the best way to go about doing this?

I'm talking about figuring out bad sectors in the hard drive that already has OS X installed, and that I'm using right now to do stuff.

Of course the correct answer would be some software that runs from a USB, and that's compatible with Mac, or something like that. Could somebody point me to this?


texts: How do I get the latest drivers for boot camp and windows 7

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I have read the setup guide, but what is either not clear or I just missed, is how the updated drivers that I download via the apple update get to my windows partition.  All I read is that I have to have the original Mac OSX DVD and that I get the drivers from that.

I know that my Mac is up to date and I have both my windows 7 ultimate and OSX 10.6 DVD in hand and USB keyboard and mouse.  The partitioning is proceeding as advertised.  But I am skeptical of what should happen next.

How do get the latest apple drivers.

(mac mini 4gb from 02/2010)


texts: iPhone 5: How to upgrade from 7.0.4 to iOS 9 and above?

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I have iPhone 5 which is running iOS 7.0.4, in Software updates section, it is showing I can upgrade to iOS 8.4.1, I've read on other sites that iPhone 5 can be upgrade to iOS 9 and one user on Apple forum even said that it can be upgraded to iOS 10 as well.

So why it is not showing me the last supported version? Or I have to first upgrade to 8.4.1 and only then it will allow me to upgrade to iOS 9?


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I've a weird problem with my MBA (2011 model) since the upgrade to Mavericks. There is a certain set of hotspots to which I can't connect anymore. I'm not sure which ones specifically, but there are several. Works well on the phone and tablet (both Androids).

I've got the feeling that it has something to do with the IP configs I receive - has anybody seen similar behavior and found a solution?

I've now found some more info on it, and it seems that the route is somehow mangled:

On the non working connection my routing table is:

Shu:~ blitz$ netstat -nr
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
169.254            link#4             UCS             0        0     en0
#somehow, the next line is duplicated
192.168.182        link#4             UC              0        0     en0
192.168.182        link#4             UCSI            2        0     en0
192.168.182.1      20:4e:7f:8b:36:81  UHLWIir         1      208     en0    992
192.168.182.240    127.0.0.1          UHS             0        0     lo0
192.168.182.255    ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWbI          0        1     en0

On a working connection, the table is this one:

shu:~ blitz$ netstat -nr
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.1        UGSc           33        5     en0
169.254            link#4             UCS             0        0     en0
192.168.1          link#4             UCS             2        0     en0
192.168.1.1        84:7a:88:66:c5:79  UHLWIir        34       66     en0   1170
192.168.1.150      127.0.0.1          UHS             1       25     lo0
192.168.1.255      ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWbI          0       16     en0

Any clue where the duplicated line got there and how i can get rid of it? And matter of fact, what does it even do?

[EDIT]
Some Debug infos: the BOOTP response as printed from dhclient

  IME: 2014-02-20 19:38:48.818
  IP: 192.168.182.1 (20:4e:7f:8b:36:81) > 192.168.182.245 (10:40:f3:81:df:32)
  OP: 2 (BOOTPREPLY)
  HTYPE: 1 (Ethernet)
HLEN: 6
HOPS: 0
 XID: c9ab89bc
SECS: 0
FLAGS: 0
CIADDR: 0.0.0.0
YIADDR: 192.168.182.245
SIADDR: 0.0.0.0
GIADDR: 0.0.0.0
CHADDR: 10:40:f3:81:df:32:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
SNAME: .
FNAME: .
OPTION:  53 (  1) DHCP message type         5 (DHCPACK)
OPTION:   1 (  4) Subnet mask               255.255.255.0
OPTION:   3 (  4) Routers                   192.168.182.1
OPTION:   6 (  8) DNS server                192.168.182.1,83.169.184.225
OPTION:  15 ( 19) Domainname                frederix-hotspot.de
OPTION:  51 (  4) IP address leasetime      600 (10m)
OPTION:  26 (  2) Interface MTU             1500
OPTION:  54 (  4) Server identifier         192.168.182.1

The leases file, compared between working and non-working is - with the same access point:

10c10
<   <date>2014-02-23T16:23:13Z</date>
---
>   <date>2014-02-23T16:17:40Z</date>
13c13
<   AgEGACHWzY0AAAAAAAAAAMCotokAAAAAAAAAABBA84HfMgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
---
>   AgEGAMmrigAAAAAAAAAAAMCotokAAAAAAAAAABBA84HfMgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

However, some more observations I've made:
- the error only comes up in very specfic envrionments
- It only happens after I've used the mac for a certain amount of time, usually after a work day (time is probably the wrong thing, but maybe programs I've used for work)
- A reboot fixes things - so it strongly points to my machine being the culprit here!


texts: iOS - set a specific wifi connection as a portable hotspot

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If I use a portable hotspot or share Wi-Fi through another mobile device, is there a way to set that Wi-Fi connection as a data connection so that it won't try to upload stuff it only does on Wi-Fi like photos and updating apps and so on?

I ask because my other device with Android has this option and it has been life saving a couple of times.


texts: Migrating to new iMac, what does Migration Assistant actually migrate?

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I've got a new iMac (Santa must have thought I was a good boy this year) and I want to move data from my 3 year old MacBook (Intel, running Snow Leopard). I realise I have a few options for this, but migration assistant is currently looking better than either starting from fresh or Carbon Copy Cloner etc.

What I would like to know is if migration assistant will bring across everything from a 3 year old system, including all the remnants of applications I have installed and deleted etc. If it does has anyone got any hints to stop it doing this?


texts: Playing sound on web pages isn't working on iPod Touch (using Safari)

texts: I've noticed that the embedded mp3 file on this page won't play at all on my iPod Touch (using the Safari web browser), even though it seems to be working properly in Google Chrome on Windows 7. Is there any way to allow embedded mp3 files (in web pages) to play properly on an iPod Touch, using Safari?


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Mail.app opens spontaneously. Not on startup, but during my work. Even if i don't touch keyboard or mouse mail.app can open a half window.

I'm working with IDE in fullscreen mode and Mail.app splits screen spontaneously.

Is there a way to detect, who is opening Mail.app?


texts: I have an Omnigraffle canvas sized at the exact size of U.S. letter format (8.5 X 11 in). I want it to print out without any margins, but can't seem to find the correct settings to do so. I have set the canvas size and page setup properly, but the page always prints out with a small margin on all four sides.


texts: Notes App on El Capitan: Change Default Format

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The Notes app on El Capitan now has a number of styles, such as Body and Heading. How do I change the fonts associated with this?

I tried to make changes to the DefaultFonts.plist file, but it appears that the new System Integrity Protection has locked that down. Notes, of course, doesn’t have a preferences setting.

I really don’t like the font that’s showing up, and I don’t want to have to individually change all of my notes.

  Note: This is not a duplicate of How to change the default font and size in Notes on El Capitan?. (a) I am referring to the release version; (b) I want to change the font styles; (c) It hasn’t been answered anyway.


texts: Massive .dmg file in /Users/username/firmware/ folder: any ideas what the heck it is?

texts:
So, I've discovered that there's a 2.57GB .dmg file in the /Users/username/firmware folder on my Mac (High Sierra v. 10.13.6). The filename is <058-97232-130.dmg>. There are a couple of other dmg files there too, closer to 80MB in size.

I was thinking that it's some kind of firmware update for my phone, except it's a .dmg file, not an ipsw. I've googled the filename and the folder location, and found nothing at all. Any ideas?

EDIT: Oh, one more weird thing: the file's creation/last modified date is "January/9/07" (which is the same date for the other .dmg files in the folder). But I got my computer in 2013, so I'm not sure what that tells us.


texts: How to record on CD my Album from Photos App?

texts: I have an album with some photos (almost 8 GB, lot of movies) in my Photos App on Mac. Now I need to save them on DVD. How to do this? Is there a simple way? How to find aprioprate album in Finder?


texts:
I'm working with iMovie 11 and try to show a text list with ten rows. The viewer should be able to read all text, so the list is displayed for 20 seconds. As you can think, that will be very boring. Therefore y tried to show the list dynamicly, line per line (the previous lines will be kept, the new one will be added). The viewer can read the text and also knows how fast he should read to get the whole information.

My solution is now, to create ten titles and arrange them one after one. The first title page will contain line 1, the second page lines 1 and 2, the third page lines 1 to 3 etc. Every page will be displayed for two seconds and after this time the next page will be placed on top.

That will be much of work (i have numbers of text lists to show in this film). Does anybody knows a better way to solve this issue?


texts: Create a Terminal command to open file with Chrome

texts:
I want to create command in terminal that would allow me to use

chrome index.html

and have the the given file open in Google Chrome.

How can I get this working?


texts: Is there any way to watch live news on an AppleTV? This is the only thing that's preventing me from cutting my cable.


texts: How strong is mac login password protection?

texts:
I am trying to strengthen the login password i use on my mac as i feel its the weakest link in all my password.  I use 1password for all my website passwords, but of course i need to be able to remember my login password so its a lot weaker.

1password has the option to generate "four word" passwords, that are random words that are memorable as a login.  In their documentation is says that these are very strong because they are well hashed.

So my question is, if i use their generator to generate a random 4 word password for the login of my mac, is that just as strong?

As far as i understand it depends on the hashing a mac uses and also how long it makes the computer wait between attempts right?

Thanks for any help!


texts:
I have enabled iCloud storage in iBooks on my Mac(s), iPad and iPhone. I have been slowly importing PDF and ePub books into iBooks on my macbook again so that I have a central location to store them(and can access from iPad, etc).

Whenever I import though, iBooks gets about half way through processing the books I am importing and tells me that my iCloud storage is full. From that point on, it will tell me it is storing the books on the local device only.

The problem is, I have 200GB of iCloud space with only about 40GB used. 30GB or thereabouts would be books and the rest would be photos, backups, etc. i have checked from multiple devices and ensured my billing is ok(and it is, I definitely have 200GB space).

So my question is, does iBooks have a percentage limit of how much iCloud storage it can take up? Or maybe even a hard limit?

For context, I have tried system restarts, application restarts, different internet connections, etc. iBooks does not upload any additional books after the app is opened again unless I do another import, in which case it will get about 20-50% of the way through the files before it dies again.


texts: I've seen it mentioned several times to fix issues with some packages, that it installs newer versions of packages somehow. But I've been unable to find a clear explanation of what that option really does, when to use it, why some packages have a --HEAD version to install and why its necessary.


texts: Strange watermark on a iPhone photo taken in Target

texts:
My friend recently took a photo with iPhone 5 in Target's changing room and a watermark automatically applied over it saying "You look goooood. #UniversalThread #TargetStyle".
It wasn't written on the mirror, it's clearly watermarked on the photo after the capture.

How did Target even do that? It raises some serious privacy issues. Data/wifi was off during the taking of the picture and the stock camera app was used. I found zero info about it online.


texts:
I have hit various unknown thing
My iPhone is now very dark and unreadable.
How do I get it reset to normal
I suspect if I could change brightness that might work


texts: Can't run python script from Automator on Catalina "Operation not permitted"

texts:
I have a service in Automator that I pass a folder and it runs on every file in the folder. It uses a python script to read the album field from an mp3's id3 tags and write it to the Finder comment field:

This worked fine in Mojave, with each file's album being written to its comment. Now with Catalina when I run the service, every comment gets set to the following:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file '/Users/thompcha/Documents/Scripts/album.py': [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

The script works fine if I run it manually from the terminal
I granted Automator, Terminal, and Python full disk access in System Preferences
I installed python via Homebrew as suggested in responses to similar questions
I made the script chmod 777 and changed the owner to myself

The answer found here does not work for me because I need to pass the output of the python script to the rest of the shell script for further execution.
What can I do to make automator successfully execute my python script?


texts: Backing up an External USB Drive to TimeMachine then Restoring Without Drive Connected?

texts:
I have just configured my iMac to backup my external USB harddrive in addition to the internal drive.

I have just tested restoring some files from the TimeMachine backup, by selecting the USB drive down the LHS under TimeMachine, selecting the file I want to restore and that all works fine.

However, I'm wondering, what if my external drive one day dies - It won't show down the LHS as a device under Time Machine (I simulated this by simply disconnecting the usb drive a moment ago) - How do I then point to the files that I need to restore?

I'm sure there must be a simple answer to this, but am a newbie to TimeMachine.


texts: Temporarily disabling RAM to mimic a lower spec machine?

texts:
I've got two 2009 Macbooks. One has 4 gigs of RAM and runs os 10.10; one has 2 gigs and runs os 10.5.

I'm considering upgrading the latter machine to Yosemite (10.10), but I'm worried that it will run slowly with so little RAM. In order to get a sense of what the performance would be like, I'm wondering if there's some way I could "turn off" half the RAM in the higher spec machine. If I did this, I could get a sense of how Yosemite would run on the 2 gig machine before actually doing the upgrade.

Is there some way to temporarily disable RAM without physically removing the chip?


texts: How to fix the error: "This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition"?

texts:
I get the following error and cannot start Bootcamp after accidentally deleting the EFI-partition of my main drive.

  This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition.
  If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk.

Here is my diskutil list result :

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macbook Pro            *498.9 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 A6AC962B-74A5-42E8-B84D-B5A7A6325432
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:        CD_partition_scheme                        *154.1 MB   disk3
   1:     Apple_partition_scheme                         134.2 MB   disk3s0
   2:        Apple_partition_map                         1.0 KB     disk3s0s1
   3:                  Apple_HFS BOLT! 4G E5372s         8.5 MB     disk3s0s2

And here is my sudo gpt -r show disk0 result :

start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
     409640  975093952      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  975503592    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  976773128          7
  976773135         32         Sec GPT table
  976773167          1         Sec GPT header

The currently installed OS is Yosemite.

How do I fix that error?


texts:
Today I was about to send an email when I've noticed that on the Compose screen most ribbons were missing. Ribbons like 'Insert', 'Table' (IIRC), were just not there. All I got was a super simple compose window with a handful of formatting options.

Do you know how can I re enable all the lost formatting tools?

Current Compose Window, note how many formatting options are not present

Thanks!


texts: How to find your stolen mac on a network using the MAC address/Serial number

texts:
The important stuff:

My Mac got stolen in a public library (unsecure Wifi).
All I have is the MAC address and the serial number.
Can I use another laptop to get onto that network and list out the machines and lookup their MAC addresses? (Let's just assume that he/she dares to return to the library and uses the laptop).

Less important stuff:

The laptop was password protected and I think the thief would have had to do clean install of the OS to use it.
It did not have any post-theft-recovery software or iCloud or MobileMe configured on it.
None of the internet applications have autologin configured so I cannot track the use of the laptop through them.


texts: Lion to El Capitan upgrade stuck on restart

texts:
I'm upgraded an late-2011 MacBook Pro from Lion to El Capitan. The install itself seemed to go fine. It got to the step where it restarts after the install and now it just hangs on this screen.

I've tried restarted a few times and it keeps coming back to this. Tried booting in safe mode as well, with no luck.

I get the startup chime, then this. It's sat on this for a few hours at this point with no additional progress.

Machine specs:

2.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 Processor
4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500 GB Hard Drive, 8x DVD/CD SuperDrive


texts: How to clear the cache or do a hard refresh in mobile Safari?

texts:
On OS-X it's Opt+Cmd+E or Cmd+R or certain menu options (How to clear the cache or do a hard refresh in Safari?).

Is there a way to do this for Safari on an iPhone or iPad?

This seems like a duplicate? What do you think? I really don't like force-quit: Can I force a cache refresh in Safari running on iOS?

This sounds better: How to clear browser cache for just one specific site in Mobile Safari?


texts: Where is the NFSHomeDirectory attribute stored?

texts:
I have 2 Mac Servers, each of them set to be an OD Master, but are looking to a Sun LDAP server as well.  The same user has a different value for the NFSHomeDirectory value when doing a dscl read on the user with LDAPv3/My.LDAP.Server .  I assume this means that some of the info provided is coming from a local OD DB or a cache or something, otherwise it would be exactly the same on both servers when querying the same datasource (my LDAP server).

Question:  Where is the NFSHomeDirectory value stored?  OS X Lion (on one server and 10.5.8 on the other)


texts:
So I've had a Samsung Evo 840 in my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) for years now, but suddenly it became unusably slow, so I went ahead and tried to reinstall macOS.

However it seems that it only runs very slowly with that specific Mac. If I run diskutil info disk0 within recovery mode on the MacBook Pro it takes 1-2 min to display the information. Further it displays SMART as not supported and a macOS install if initiated was estimated to take days.

If I on the other hand install the SSD in another MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010) and run the same command within recovery mode the SSD information shows up instantly with SMART verified.

I also tried installing both a different HDD and SSD, in both cases the diskutil work as expected and I was able to install macOS on the HDD.

Any suggestions on what the issue might be?


texts: How do I move a deleted App to my old iPhone?

texts: So, I got an iPhone 6s and an iPhone 5. I've got an app on my new iPhone which unfortunately got deleted from the App Store and it stopped working recently on my phone. I somehow hope that it is going to work on my old iPhone but I have not found a way to convert a deleted app to another iPhone. Is there any way to do it?


texts: Late-2007 Mac Mini (A1176) Unsoldered Mystery Connector on Interconnect Board

texts:
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever done a thorough probe/exploration of the interconnect board in late-2007 Mac Minis. I'm specifically curious about the 14 unsoldered pads on the back of the board (J27 if the silk screen is to be believed?), to the left of the audio ribbon cable connector.

There's so much extra capability locked away in the chipset, I'm just wondering if there's something extra there that would be accessible with a little soldering. 14 pins is a strange number, but it looks like it's designed for a ribbon cable connector like the audio one.


texts: Are app-related trademarks allowed as keyword for an app in the App Store?

texts:
I'm building an iOS 8 iPhone app that lets user upload photos to Facebook.
Can I set the term Facebook as a keyword for my app in iTunes Connect or will that lead to a rejection by Apple?


texts: Prevent mobile Safari from loading the last page when started

texts:
Whenever I open Safari on both my iPhone and iPad, it starts loading the last webpage that I visited in the past, which is not very convenient.

Is there a way to stop it from doing this?


texts: Using mobile data while connected to WiFi.

texts:
I've just been asked by the wife why her iPhone 5s (iOS 9.1) is not connecting to the wifi. I've just checked the router and it shows that her phone is connected and given an IP address, however it still shows 3G.

Things I've tried.

Turn her phone into airplane mode and not.
Reboot the router.
Repeat step 1.
Restart the phone.

I know the phone is connecting to wifi because when I disconnect the phone it disappears from the connected devices list and when I connect again it shows up again. It also shows up in the phones settings menu with a blue tick next to our wifi connection.

Any Ideas?

Mark


texts: iPhone 3g (iOS 3.1) screen rotation problem

texts:
One evening, the screen of my iPhone 3g would no longer rotate. It was working fine that morning.

I haven't updated or installed any applications.


texts: How to run a shell script from an AppleScript?

texts:
I am using a Mac running OSX Yosemite v.10.10.5.

When I try to run my shell script from my AppleScript, I get the following error message:

Error message at AppleScript Script Editor

error "sh: /Users/path/to/file/myShellScript.sh: Permission denied" number 126

myShellScript.sh

cd /Users/myusername/Git/myproject/
git remote remove origin

myAppleScript.applescript

do shell script "/Users/path/to/file/myShellScript.sh"

What am I doing wrong?


texts: How to get wiki and profile manager to run on different port

texts:
Currently the wiki and the profile manager runs on port 443 (ssl).

We have other services using port 443 on our network, and therefore I cannot port forward that port to my Lion Server.

How can I get the wiki and the profile manager to run on a port other than port 443?


texts: How to find devices on my local network through their IP address

texts:
I have a local network powered by a Time Capsule, and connected to 4 or 5 macs. There are other devices on the network too. (Printers, IP Cameras, etc). Is there a way to list the devices on the local network - and their IP addresses?

I've seen this Q/A How do I know the IP addresses of other computers in my network?

but the responses do not show what is what - just a list of IP addresses.


texts: Wi-Fi connection breaks up with two devices

texts:
Since a few days I am encountering very strange Wi-Fi/Mac problems. I already Googled (but it is kinda hard to describe and search) therefor I try to explain the problem as good as I can.

I am owning some Apple products - this includes my iMac (2012), MacBook Air (2013), iPhone SE and Apple TV (2013). All of them are well connected to my WiFi. Now, As soon as I am booting my Imac and activating the Wi-Fi, I am no longer able to connect to any other website with my other devices. It simply doesn't work and times out - but as soon as I deactivate my Wi-Fi on my Imac, it works immediately and properly. More strange, If I deactivate and quickly activate the Wi-Fi on my other devices, it works for aprox. 10 seconds until I am no longer able to connect to a website again. Wi-Fi signal and connection is still available and connected on all my other devices. My router settings are also telling me that everything is alright and online. I really don't know if this is an internet provider problem or an Apple device one. I am owning a good bandwidth connection.

Other notable information:

Every device is up to date
Already restartet and reconfigured my router
About 3 months ago I completely re-setup my Apple devices
Already tried some different frequencies and Wi-Fi channels but didn't gave me anything
I am using the o2 Homebox 6641https://static2.o9.de/blob/13175994/v=3/Binary/kurzanleitung-o2-homebox-6641-englisch-download.pdf
The router configuration for LAN tells me that I am using a DHCP Server (DHCPv4), DHCPv6 Server is set to stateless for WiFI see settings in the picture below (sorry it's German language).

I don't have the "internet sharing" option activated


texts: Find out if my iPhone is unlocked without purchasing another SIM

texts:
Is it possible to determine if my phone is unlocked without buying another SIM card?

I don't know where it was originally purchased or what the original terms of the phone service were.

All my relatives are on the same network, so it doesn't help to borrow their SIM.


texts: External Hard disk 500 GB free but can't copy 8 GB data

texts: I have WD external hard disk, which was working fine. Its MS-DOS formatted. I have downloaded a file in .mkv, which works fine, and isn't corrupted. Upon copying the 8 gb file, it says "The file is too big to be copied", whereas its only 8 GB being copied on 500GB disk. I tried formatting it. still nothing. What else can i do?


texts: Why won't disk utility let me remove a partition from my external hard drive?

texts:
I have an external 1.5 TB hard drive split evenly with a partition for backup and a partition that was used for Time Machine on my previous computer (OS X Lion).

Now I'm using this hard drive with a new computer (OS X Lion), and I don't want the Time Machine partition anymore. I should also point out that I've never configured Time Machine on my new computer.

I'm trying to remove the Time Machine partition, but the minus (-) option isn't available. Does anyone know why or how I could get the (+/-) options un-grayed?


texts: How can I use Mighty Mouse Swipe Gestures for Back/Forth in Mac App Store?

texts:
I have the latest mighty mouse bluetooth wireless thing. (Hate it.)

In Mac App Store, I'd wish to be able to swipe left and right to be able to go back and forth, such as in Safari, Chrome, etc.

How can I achieve this? Preferably by native/OS means, without resorting to 3rd party solutions (BetterTouchTool, etc).


texts: Sounds on my MacBook Pro I can't identify-

texts:
There is a sound constantly playing on my MacBook Pro laptop.  When I connect to the internet, this sound which seems to be a bouncing ball with a spring is always playing in the background.  I can be listening to a song, a lecture, or nothing.
I have turned the sound off on any games I play because I thought the sound was coming from a game.  I have closed out every open window.  I have checked my settings.  I have turned the computer off and when I turn it on, the sound is still there.  I don't know how to stop the sound.  Thank you for any suggestions you might have to help me get rid of this sound.


texts: How can I reset the PRAM if Recovery Mode keeps overriding the PRAM command?

texts:
Lion uses the ⌘ + R to boot into recovery mode. Resetting the PRAM in anything less than 10.7 was ⌘ + ⌥ + P + R.

Recovery mode now seems to override the PRAM command. Does anyone know if there is a new way to reset the PRAM now that Lion is installed?


texts: Is there an archive of old FileMaker Trial installers somewhere? I have a legit (seriously!) license for FM12, but the installer is nowhere to be found.


texts: Finding the path of a folder inside another script bundle

texts:
I am new to Applescript. I am trying to write a script to record an audio file and save it to a different script bundle - "PlayPro.scptd" - with the name passed to the script from an Excel file. The path - savePath - seems to be correct but it doesn't work. It does nothing when I run it. Here is my script:
on RecordM4a(RecordName)
    tell application "Finder"
        set r to POSIX path of ((container of (path to me) as text))
        set r2 to "PlayPro/Contents/Resources/AudioFiles/"
        set savePath to r & r2 & RecordName
        display dialog savePath
        tell application "QuickTime Player"
            activate
            set doku to new audio recording
            start doku
            delay 4
            stop doku
            set newDoc to last item of (documents whose name contains "Untitled")
            export newDoc in file savePath using settings preset "Audio Only"
            close newDoc saving no
        end tell
    end tell
    tell application "QuickTime Player"
        if it is running then
            quit
        end if
    end tell
end RecordM4a


texts: Why quarter step increment on brightness, volume and backlight is not working on a Touch Bar MacBook Pro?

texts:
Previously on my MacBook Air 2013 I was able to increment/decrement screen brightness, volume and the keyboard backlight in quarter steps when pressing  ⌥+⇧ and a media key. This doesn't seem to work anymore with the Touch Bar on my 2019 MacBook Pro 16" running macOS Catalina.
It seems to work for some people as can be seen from https://youtu.be/_MQFS-0eqtk and https://youtu.be/dTCbKYIqLqs, but it does not work for me. I've tried on a 2019 15" on Mojave and on my personal 16" and work 16" on Catalina.
Okey, I have tried two of my colleagues 16" MacBook Pros and the feature works fine for them. This must be something just wrong with my system.


texts: Change smb://new-host-4.workgroup to smb://whatiwant.workgroup

texts:
For some reason macOS won't obey my preferences for host name. If I set my computer name to whatiwant, then change the NETBIOS name to whatiwant and workgroup name to workgroup under WINS configuration in Network settings, when I go to Sharing in System Preferences, I see:

  Other users can access shared folders on this computer, and administrators all volumes, at smb://new-host-4.workgroup.

I don't know where else I need to change the host name to stop making it use new-host-4.

I tried rebooting, but that didn't fix the problem.

This is a MacBook Pro, connecting to a home network and being assigned an IP address via DHCP on a typical broadband router. Here's the DHCP config. Perhaps the issue is related to the highlighted checkbox.

I tried renewing my DHCP lease but that didn't change the SMB hostname.


texts: Disk space not free up after photos and videos are deleted from Photos app

texts:
In Photos app of my MacBook, I delete hundreds of photos. Then I go to Show Recently Deleted screen, click Delete All.

However, my disk space is same as before as shown on Finder.

How can I get the disk space back?


texts:
My provider asks for a PPPoE authentication for internet and I don't know how to do it with Airport Extreme in order to have the wireless working. I can connect to the internet via ethernet using the provided credentials, but the wi-fi has no internet connection, probably because there's no bridge between the wi-fi and the ethernet on Airport Extreme.

Any idea how I can make it work so I can have both ethernet and wi-fi working?


texts: How to sync fonts across Macbooks? Extended question

texts:
I'm bouncing on a question posted here a while ago: How to sync fonts across Macbooks?

The question is about how to store all fonts on a cloud folder (i.e. Dropbox), and load these fonts on other Macs, using this cloud folder as a "font repository".

User ProGrammer had posted a great answer based on the following this blog post.

I did this on my source computer and successfully moved my fonts to dropbox. I then plugged a map, and folloed these commands:

  DESTINATION MAC
  (Any Mac you want to copy your Fonts folder to. NOTE: This will DELETE your user Fonts folder.)

  Launch Terminal in Applications/Utilities/
  Run cd ~/Library to open your user Library.
  Run sudo rm -r Fonts to delete your user fonts folder.
  Enter your password when prompted.
  Run ln -s ~/Dropbox/Fonts to create a symbolic link in your User Library.

Point 5 is what I suspect tells the mac that my fonts are not in the Library/Fonts folder, but in the Dropbox/Fonts folder; here's what happens:

On my source Macbook, when i install a font, it properly goes to the Font Book, and the font file goes  Dropbox/Fonts folder
On my iMac though, when i install a font, absolutely nothing happens. Nothing is added to either the font folder nor Font Book.
Edit When i drop a font on the Dropbox/Fonts folder, it becomes accessible to all machines through Apps such as Illustrator, etc...

I can't seem to figure out why...!

EDIT: (Reply to comments from @nohillside & @benwiggy)

One of the iMacs gives me this, after i run the ls -l ~/Library/Fontscommand (note: Dropbox on this one is installed on an external drive - other iMac is local and has same issues)

lyly@Ly-iMac ~ % ls -l ~/Library/Fonts
lrwxr-xr-x  1 lypnguyen  staff  65 Mar 11 15:13 /Users/lyly/Library/Fonts -> /Volumes/3TB/Dropbox (GCPH)/Sales & Marketing/Art Direction/Fonts

Also, both iMacs were having a sort of random behavior on building font lists, with irregular installed font numbers, disappearing fonts, etc...


texts: Upgrade Operating System Snow Leopard to OS Sierra

texts:
I know I must upgrade first to El Capitan before upgrading to OS Sierra.
But my question is will I loose installed Adobe Photoshop CS5 and my Bootcamp where I have 2 other costly programmmes installed.


texts: Is there a way to cycle between full screen windows on OS X?

texts: I have multiple Safari windows in fullscreen mode and I'd like to cycle through them using the keyboard (pretty much like command + ` works when windows are not fullscreen'd). I know I can control + ->/<-, but that will make me pass through all my non Safari windows. Is that even possible?


texts: How to install Ubuntu on original APFS Mac SSD?

texts:
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro 12,1 and I replaced the original 128GB SSD with an OWC Aura X2 1TB SSD. I was able to put the original 128GB SSD in an enclosure that they provide. I would like to use this original SSD as a bootable Ubuntu linux hard drive. I'm following this guide here: https://florisvanbreugel.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/installing-ubuntu-on-an-external-ssd-drive-on-a-macbook/
It says I need to erase the SSD and format it as MacOS Extended, but does not give me the option since it is an original startup SSD in APFS format. Will the process work for this drive? Anything I should change to make it work?


texts: How can I run a script when the room brightness has changed? In particular I want to run a script when the lights have been turned off in the room that my Macbook is in.


texts: How to modify app expose to show only open windows of current application on current desktop?

texts: I have OS X 10.8.5. I typically have several windows of some applications open on more than one desktop. When using App Expose, it shows all of the open windows of the current application on all Desktops. Mission Control shows all open windows, regardless of application, on the current desktop but the windows are overlapping. I want to have a way to show just the windows, without overlapping, of the current application on the current desktop.


texts: Homebrew, list all packages which are no dependency of other installed packages

texts:
There is the awesome vanilla list:

$ brew list | cat
[...]
libevent
[...]
net-snmp
[...]
openssl
openssl@1.1
[...]

Let's say I want to check which packages can I remove because I no longer need. I would need a way to forge such list, because if I try to randomly remove a package, e.g. openssl@1.1:

$ brew remove openssl@1.1
Error: Refusing to uninstall /usr/local/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.0f
because it is required by net-snmp, which is currently installed.
You can override this and force removal with:
  brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies openssl@1.1
$ _

So my desired output would be:

$ /PATH/TO/brew_dependency_tree_leaves_list.sh
[...]
libevent
[...]
net-snmp
[...]
$ _

I don't know if net-snmp can be depended by any. It is not in my scenario. libevent is also depended upon by something else, but please abstract that.

How to?


texts: Editing Hosts File to Redirect URL to different IP Address

texts:
When I edit my hosts file to redirect a URL to a specific IP address, nothing happens.  My hosts file looks like this - 199.204.138.195 zionica.com this is in the directory /private/etc/hosts.  I am not all that familiar with the Terminal nor it's commands so I'm having difficulty troubleshooting my problem.

The one thing I can think of is that I followed the following tutorial in an attempt to have SwitchHosts work in Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchhosts/reviews/286862/  Is there a way to reverse these steps?  Would that even solve my problem?


texts: Why do some numbers in the call history have a share contact option but not others?

texts:
If I tap on the (i) for numbers in the call history then some have Share Contact displayed as an option but others do not.
None of the numbers are in the address book so why should there be any difference in the options available when the different numbers are selected?

For example here are two numbers in the call history:

The -0280 number has Share Contact and Share Location as an option, but -5420 does not. Instead it has Ignore Contact as an option which the previous number does not.
Why is there a difference?


texts: Can iOS apps be distributed in a closed app store without requiring a jailbreak on each device?

texts:
I have an application available to all comers on the App Store and I would like to restrict access to the application. The app is free and because of this, some people download it then find they can't use it and leave bad feedback. Although the description clearly says you need to be an existing customer obviously not everyone is reading it and the bad comments put off our actual clients.

I've looked into the Enterprise account but from what I understand you can only distribute to in-house staff. These are our clients so do not fall under this category.

Can Apple's code signing requirements used to allow select customers to see certain apps?


texts: How do I change my apple id country without a credit card?

texts:
Man, what do i do?

This happened I don't have money in the account but my relative gave me some money but it's in USD and I am in India.

When I change my apple id country it says "give billing option".


texts: Screen Artifacts at Shut Down when using scaled display on 15" rMBP mid 2015 running Sierra 10.12.5

texts:
I am having an issue on a week old rMBP 15" mid-2015 running Sierra 10.12.5. I use the scaled display option and have noticed that there is a concerning screen artifact that occurs when I shut down the system. Other than that, it works perfectly. Does anyone have any idea how I should approach this? I have not reinstalled the macOS, but is that the only viable solution?

What shutdown looks like with normal scaling

What happens when I shut down with screen scaling


texts: Can imac G3 DV 400 be booted when PRAM battery is empty?

texts:
We have an old imac G3 DV 400 MHz (at the moment I do not have access to the machine and want to prepare for my visit.)

My goal is to save the data from the hard disk to an external drive and reset the machine.

According to the user of the imac, it does not boot any more (screen stays black).
As it was not used for a long time, I assume that the PRAM battery is empty.

Do I necessarily need a working PRAM battery to boot the imac, or is there a way to save the data on the hard disk another way?
Could I access the internal hard disk in Firewire target disk mode? (maybe even with low battery)?


texts: There is no connected camera message with built in FaceTime camera

texts: Anyone run into "There is no connected camera" message while using any of the camera applications (Messages, PhotoBooth, Skype, etc.)? I tried force quitting all the applications that use the camera but with no luck. Even tried sudo killall VDCAssistant without any luck. Restarting the machine fixes the issue, but it is highly annoying to do so every day. I am running 10.8.1 on 2012 MacBook Pro.


texts: How to get last active tab in Safari using AppleScript?

texts:
I'm pretty new to AppleScript and wanted to make a simple script for Safari.
In fact, I want to activate the last active tab after closing the current tab.
This is where I'm stuck

tell application "Safari"
    close current tab of front window
    set current tab #(some code to get last active tab)
end tell


texts: Play music on iPhone via a mixer with wireless connection

texts:
I want to play musi from my iPhone on a sound system but connected to the mixer wirelessly.

What interface an I get to plug into the mixer that would receive the music output. Looking at distance of about 25 yards and no wi fi hotspot available.

Or can I remotely control An iPad or Mac hard wired to the mixer wirelessly with an iPhone.

Thanks


texts: how can i block email attatchments from downloading?

texts: i just got the iPhone 5 and connected my Gmail account to the mail app. however Verizon charges through the nose for data, and i realized that the most data that i chew up is through email attachments. this would normally not be a problem, but the iphone seems to download attachments automatically! i know this because i opened an email with a JPEG attached, and then set the phone on airplane mode. after that i was still able to open the photo from the email app when i went back in, so i know it downloaded to my phone somehow. is there any way to stop this somehow, and save myself the data charges?


texts: How can I download my app package directly from app store connect?

texts:
I had an ios app created, which has been uploaded but not yet released on the App Store.
However, I have not been able to get hold of the original files used to create app from the developer who made it.
Is there a way to download the files directly from my App Store Connect account- I want to be able to run the app locally via XCode.


texts: I was interested in what the “profiles” tab found in “system information” displays. Is it the same thing as “profiles” in “system preferences”?


texts: What is this usernoted process in my Macintosh?

texts:
I've got a warning saying that I'm running out of my memory and had to "kill some process" today. I've been using this Mac for over 3 years and this is the first time I was warned this way.

I've noticed that there is a process named usernoted in my Activity Monitor. It seems it's eating a lot of my memory. What is this?

BTW, why is Finder and Dock eating so much memory?


texts: How can I guarantee that audio only from my media player hits the speakers?

texts:
I'm DJ-ing and I want to make sure that my music and nothing else is getting pumped out the speakers.

Undesirable things that may hit the speakers include:

Calendar.app reminders
Messages.app alerts
Calls (e.g. via FaceTime or Continuity)
Media playing in other applications, such as YouTube in my browser
System sounds (such as when you change the volume)

Of course, many of these things can be mitigated by turning WiFi off or fiddling with settings here and there. But it would be better if there was an explicit way to somehow specify that only audio from my media player gets to the speakers.

Is there a straightforward way to do this?


texts: Prevent iTunes from Opening with Windows Start?

texts: Everytime I boot my Windows 7 x64 PC, iTunes loads. I have iTunes 12.2.1.16. No iPad or iPhone is connected. I removed all iTunes entries from MSConfig startup, boot, and services. I also ran CCleaner just in case. I also use the Autorun Windows program to check on what's booting and running. Only Bonjour Services and the Apple Mobile Device USB driver are still active. It's not in the task scheduler either. Where the hell is it?


texts: Cannot delete a .sparsebundle on / with permissions drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel

texts:
Even running commands as sudo I cannot change the permissions or delete the folder.

sh-3.2# xattr -l filename.sparsebundle/
com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |........ .......|
00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

OS version

sh-3.2# sw_vers -productVersion
10.15.1

Adding requested information.

sh-3.2# ls -al
total 11
drwxr-xr-x   24 root  admin   768 Oct 31 00:49 .
drwxr-xr-x   24 root  admin   768 Oct 31 00:49 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 root  admin     0 Aug 25 00:20 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin    36 Oct  8 13:23 .VolumeIcon.icns -> System/Volumes/Data/.VolumeIcon.icns
----------    1 root  admin     0 Aug 25 00:20 .file
drwx------  124 root  admin  3968 Oct 31 00:55 .fseventsd
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel    64 Aug 25 00:20 .vol
drwxrwxr-x+  80 root  admin  2560 Dec 12 19:27 Applications
drwxr-xr-x   70 root  wheel  2240 Oct 31 00:51 Library
drwxrwxrwt    3 root  wheel    96 Dec 15  2018 Secomba
drwxr-xr-x@   8 root  wheel   256 Sep 29 22:23 System
drwxr-xr-x    5 root  admin   160 Sep 29 22:22 Users
drwxr-xr-x    5 root  wheel   160 Dec 12 22:04 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x@   6 root  wheel   192 Oct  8 08:27 filename.sparsebundle
drwxr-xr-x@  38 root  wheel  1216 Oct 31 00:49 bin
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel    64 Aug 25 00:24 cores
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root  wheel  5579 Dec 12 21:39 dev
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 root  admin    11 Oct  8 13:18 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel    25 Dec 12 21:39 home -> /System/Volumes/Data/home
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel    96 Oct  8 13:27 opt
drwxr-xr-x    6 root  wheel   192 Oct 31 00:49 private
drwxr-xr-x@  64 root  wheel  2048 Oct 31 00:49 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 root  admin    11 Oct  8 13:23 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@  11 root  wheel   352 Oct  8 13:23 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 root  admin    11 Oct  8 13:23 var -> private/var

Error when attempting to delete

sh-3.2# rm -rf filename.sparsebundle/
rm: filename.sparsebundle//token: Read-only file system
....

Checking extended attributes

sh-3.2# ls -laOe filename.sparsebundle
total 256
drwxr-xr-x@  6 root  wheel  -         192 Oct  8 08:27 .
drwxr-xr-x  24 root  admin  sunlnk    768 Oct 31 00:49 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  -         499 Oct  8 08:27 Info.bckup
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  -         499 Oct  8 08:27 Info.plist
drwxr-xr-x  85 root  wheel  -        2720 Oct  8 08:27 bands
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  -      122368 Oct  8 08:27 token


texts: Microsoft Remote Desktop Server for OS X

texts:
Is there any solution that would allow ke to run a Terminal Services or RDP server on my Mac?

I'd like to be able to access my Mac via Microsoft's Remote Desktop application
I am aware of Screen Sharing fir OS X

Also, if there is no specific way to do this, is there any way to use the linux xrdp package on OS X?


texts: I'm a novice user FYI. My messages used to be synced so that the conversation kept going on iMac iPhone and iPad mini. Then perhaps after a trip to Alaska it stopped doing that. I'm not 100% sure if that's when it stopped. I've noticed that my iBooks content syncs between phone and iPad but not iMessages. This is very inconvenient. All three, actually I have 2 iMacs so 4 devices are with same Apple ID. THANKS!


texts:
I use OS X El Capitan. I installed Xcode 7 from AppStore and macports from an official website.

When I'm trying to install something using macports: sudo port install nodejs4, I'm getting the following warning: Warning: The Xcode Command Line Tools don't appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build.. But compiler (cc) works, make works, and I actually installed few macports packages without any problems.

Now if I run xcode-select --install, I'm getting dialog to install Developer Tools. But I think that Xcode already has all those tools:

$ xcode-select -p
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

So the question is: is it some bug in macports or is there some tools not included with Xcode 7 which must be installed separately using xcode-select --install? I don't want to introduce unnecessary clutter.


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I have two external USB drives connected to my 2012 Mac mini, and am finding transfer speeds between the two to be really slow. I need to transfer 38GB of stuff. With rsync, I was getting ~60MBps. Canceled that and moved to Finder and am getting an estimate of ~9 hours to complete the operation.
I did restart the Mac mini hoping it would improve things, but no change. Thoughts on how to improve this?


texts: What is the easiest (fastest) way to get direct link to MP4 video on YouTube?

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My Mac is rather old and has issues (many dropped frames) with playing YouTube videos in HD on fullscreen, whether in Flash or HTML5.

However, playing them in VLC makes no drops whatsoever, and what is even better, it plays them fluently even remotely, so I don't need to download those videos. All I need to do is open network file in VLC and paste here link to YouTube .mp4 or .flv file. Works like a charm.

Right now I get links by copying them and letting jDownloader pars YouTube urls. This gives me direct links to all available formats and sizes. Here I pick one I prefer, copy url and paste it to VLC.

Is there any faster way to parse those urls without the need of 3rd app like jDownloader? I tried some Safari plugins but none of them gave desirable results to me.


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I have a one-terabyte Time Capsule (third generation, 802.11n) that's served me well since I got it a few years ago (I don't remember exactly when). I use it mostly as the primary router in my home network, and also for backups (though I haven't run one since May or so). It also holds some TV shows and other things that won't fit on my Mac's hard drive. I haven't had any problems with it, and it's always been nice and fast for my purposes.

A few days ago, though, I decided to move everything I had there (not including the backups) to an encrypted sparsebundle, and I noticed that, while my network seemed as fast as it usually was, file transfers to the Time Capsule's internal drive were slower, and stalled often. Usually when there's disk activity, if I put my ear by the Time Capsule, I can hear a humming and lots of soft clicks (which I assume are the disks spinning and the read|write head moving). This is normal as far as I know; it's happened since day one whenever I do anything with the drive. Now, I don't hear the clicks when copies stall, though the humming continues as long as I'm trying to do anything.

Various programs have stalled on me trying to copy to the disk (cp, scp, dd, etc), and in the case of the Finder, it will freeze entirely while the operation is stalled. Programs with stalled disk operations show up as U (in uninterruptible wait) in ps, and if I try to use ^C, E appears too (trying to exit).

What's the likely cause of this? Is it just that the Time Capsule is getting old and I'll have to buy a new one soon? Is there anything I can do to help, or a possible software-based cause?


texts: Is there a way to write with FTP using the Finder

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I'm aware of this question Built in FTP client (cmd + k) - can't upload files (Mavericks), but my question is specifically targetted to anyone who has used Ubuntu, and fully understands how seamless FTP can be.

I'm looking to natively connect to an FTP server and be able to read and write. And open up folders in Atom or Sublime Text and just start editing files on the server.

Here are the options that I am aware of and have already tried, but none of them are as elegant as Ubuntu where you can just open a remote folder and start editing. If anyone knows of something, please let me know?

At the moment transit is the best option.
 - Transit

None of the others can edit whole folders in Sublime by importing the folder structure into the sidebar.
 - FileZilla
 - Cyber Duck
 - Forklift


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I have the iPad Pro 12", original model (when it first came out), along with the Apple keyboard/cover.
This error message appears randomly, and searches so far have blamed it on an OS update, but those notes are from a few revisions back. The current iOS is what I've installed 11.3.1 and the error still occurs, making the iPad virtually unusable even using this as a cover, not even typing. Any hacks/fixes to this issue?


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How is Safari updated in OS X? I know this seems like a simple question, but I cant find any good documentation on it. I know of a software update tool that would prompt you for updates on windows, but I would like to know how this is currently done on OS X.

The reasoning for my question is I am comparing browser auto-update functionality and am working on documentation to support plans to guarantee certain extents of browser compatibility for a product. The documentation for Safari seems a little lacking so pointers to an authoritative source would be most welcome in addition to an answer from experience.


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Often, when I'm typing in a super long command(usually ruby on rails console code), I decide that I need to do something else first and therefore, have to delete the command which I just typed(but not executed) on the terminal. Is there a shortcut to do this? command+delete and option+delete do not work. The down arrow works sporadically.

If it helps, I'm on The El Capitan Developer Preview 3 but I've noticed this behaviour on Yosemite as well.


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I have been using a late-2009 iMac (21.5") (it was running the latest pre-Sierra update, I do not remember the exact OS version) for somewhere in the area of six months now and have, overall, had no issues with it. However, two weeks ago, it failed. The story surrounding this apparently sudden failure is that I was running an update of Safari that involved needing to do a restart. Immediately after doing the restart, the electricity for our home went out, it was only out for around a minute. Luckily the computer was plugged into a surge protector... Or not.

Later that day, when I tried to turn it on, it turned on but wouldn't boot passed the Apple Screen with the small, gray progress bar.

It is still basically in that same state. However, after some reading on the internet and trying a variety of things booting to "Command+S" as well as "Command+R". What happened when I ran "Command+R" was somewhat depressing. The Mac is completely unaware of the fact that it has a 500GB Western Digital HDD in it (which I can hear turning) and if I run Disk Utility, it will spend hours looking for that drive.

What I tried today was reinstalling the OS (failed), booting it with SpinRite and booting it from a 64GB external drive (worked). Once I booted to the external drive, I ran disk utility which I started at around 1400 hours, it is now 1500 hours and it just now found its hard drive. A warning popped up and indicated that the drive could not be repaired. I am now running First Aid on it, just curious to see what if anything it can do there.

I do not totally know what my question here is. Other than, if what I am trying right now doesn't work, what should I do? Should I just give up and drag the thing to an Apple Store? I have data on it that I must recover (sadly I had nothing backed up).

To Summarize: If what I am doing right now doesn't work, what - if anything - can I do next? Are there any other at-home fixes I can try before taking it to an Apple Store?

Note: I own one other Mac that is exactly the same as the one that is not working, I also own portions of 38 other older Macs and part of a broken one that is also this computer's twin. (I added this in case anyone recommends any form of testing, or needing certain parts).


texts: Has anyone else seen "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it"?

texts: Just now, upon taking my iPhone 4 out of my pocket where it lives, I was faced with a screen saying "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" (see below - screenshot mysteriously still worked). The only thing it would let me do was dial emergency calls. The phone was not noticeably any warmer than usual when idle. Are there any known issues with this?


texts: How to subscribe to particular IMAP folders in Mac Mail

texts: I use Mac Mail to work with an IMAP account. Is it possible to subscribe only to a set of folders, e.g., synchronize only the folder "current" and all its subfolders, but not the folder "archive"? I tried right-click on folder > Account Information > Abonnements/Subscriptions but there no folders are listed.


texts: How to prevent iPhone from auto-connecting to unknown Wi-Fi?

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One thing I never do is to connect to foreign Wi-Fis. But my iPhone decides to automatically connect to those.

Translated:

  Welcome to the Telekom HotSpot (german network provider). You are connected to the internet via your SIM over Wi-Fi and are using your HotSpot flatrate. There will be no additional cost.

Unfortunately I've seen the message half an hour later so I assume I already sent data via a foreign Wi-Fi in the background. How do I stop the phone from connecting to new, for me unknown wifis, without turning Wi-Fi off completly? Is this a general 'feature' or only in branded iPhones?