texts: How to copy a book from iBooks with highlighting?

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I have a book on my iMac at work which has highlighting all over the book. But when I put the book in my Dropbox and open it on my MacBook at home there are no highlights. Is there a way to preserve the highlighting?

iBooks is the app that I use and I made all highlights with it.

iBooks version 1.5 on iMac 1.6 on MacBook

The book is .epub file


texts: How to reset or rebuild application search database in ios?

texts: I am having a strange problem on ios. When i search for any app by typing its name in the search screen, the corresponding app shows up, WITH THE EXCEPTION, of firefox for ios. Its odd to me that my firefox app is completely ommitred from search results and I have to manually find the app each time I want to use it. Is there a way to rebuild the app search database in ios?


texts: How can I change multiple line code indentation in Textmate?

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When I use textmate, I select multiple lines and I press TAB, I would like to change the indentation of my code, rather than deleting it.

Is there a way to change this functionality?


texts: How can I retrieve picture files from the Photos App on Mac OS X (Yosemite)?

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What I am trying to do without success is to find a way to get the files of my photos (edited and original) in their best quality.

So, let me give a heads up first.

I have a DSLR camera and during this time I've imported my pictures to the Mac in two different ways:

automatically, through the Photos App, after plugging the memory card, or
by reading the memory card and saving the pictures to a directory of my own choice.

My problem started when I decided to add my photos to Google Photos (with the best quality available). I stumbled into this problem:

When I try either using the share button inside the App (which is not really an option), or to copy the pictures from the App to a directory (Desktop, for example), the pictures I get are not the best quality ones (a full size picture from my camera ranges from 6 to 14 MB each and the shared/copied versions are around 3 or 4 MB).

Therefore, I tried other approaches:

to go to the Package Content of the Photos App (Finder -> Pictures -> Photos Library -> (right click) -> Show Package Contents -> Masters -> then year/month/day/folder) until I get to the folder that holds the pictures, and
to go to the directory of my own choice (in case I have used the second import approach).

Alright! I got the best original versions! Still needs the edited ones, though.

However, these folders don't have the edited versions of the pictures, so the pictures that I have enhanced in any way will appear in their originals only.

And that's where I got stuck. Up till now, I did not found any other folder (inside the Photos Library) which might contain the edited photos, nor did I find a way to override the originals with the edited versions.

Does anyone have a say on this?

Thank you for your time. I'm open to any clarification.

[Bonus] I suppose this is to be considered a feature, not a bug, however, when deleting pictures that were imported through the App, they go to the "App's trash can" (File -> Show Recently Deleted) and once you've deleted them from there, they are gone for good. However, when the pictures were imported from outside the App, after deleting the pictures in the App, they do not go to the "trash can", they disappear from the Photos App, but stay in their original folders as if nothing had happened. (I'm still trying to figure out a way to get rid of them without having to compare the filenames one by one, but that's another story.)

[Bonus Update] I just noticed that the pictures do go to the "App's trash can", but you have to delete them from the "Photos" view (I was doing that from an Album). However, this does not solve the problem, since the pictures are not removed from the imported folder, even after cleaning the trash can.


texts: Command-Control-Arrow beeps (plays alert sound) in Lion

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I've noticed since upgrading to Lion that if I press Command-Control-Left/Right (and sometimes Down as well; see below), my computer beeps at me (plays alert sound).

It doesn't occur in all applications:

In Console, I can press any of the above key combinations, and there's no beep.
In Mail, it beeps if I press Command-Control-Left/Right, but not Up/Down.
In most every other application, every combination except Command-Control-Up causes a beep.

I can't seem to find any menu commands that it might be trying to invoke, although even if that were the case, applications such as NetBeans and PhpStorm are the proverbial monkey wrench here:  I have Command-Control-Left mapped to "go to last edit".  When I press that key combination, my Mac still beeps at me, but it it also does move the cursor to the last edit location.

What does Command-Control-Left/Right/Up/Down map to that my Mac is complaining about?


texts: Installing Windows without superdrive or USB

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I'm trying to intall Windows 7 on my Mid 2009 Macbook Pro, however I'm running into A LOT of trouble.

My superdrive have been broken for years and I can't boot from a bootable USB. (I created one in Virtual Box using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool)

I then followed this tutorial on how to start the installation from within VMWare Fusion (http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/2011/2156#), which seemed to work at first, but once I rebooted and selected the Windows Partition I got an error saying that windows could not be installed due to "recent software or hardware changes".
I had selected the x86 version, so I figured I might as well try the x64 version and see if that makes a difference.

So I removed my bootcamp partition, created it again, went into VMWare after doing the same process as before, now I simply get a message saying "No operating system found".

I'm wondering with my options are to actually install Windows without a superdrive or a bootable USB.
Can I just copy the installation files to the bootcamp partition and "make it start"?


texts: Mac app to show hard drive consumption/usage?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I find more disk space?

Is there a program or app that i can use to tell me where all of my hard disk space has gone? I'd like a graph (pie chart) if possible, but I prefer free/low cost over the aesthetics of such a program.


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The font choice are on the right side of the screen on Pages. At night I have to click on a font choice for it to be visible. In the day they are easily readable. This just started happening on my Macbook 2016 .

I removed the Night Shift Display but the font choices did not become visible. I have not changed anything on my computer.

How can I have it visible?


texts: Downloaded ios app never shows as purchased

texts: Ive downloaded twitter multiple time and on different iphone6 devices and it never shows as if I have already downloaded it, like its a fresh install every time, why would this only be happening with twitter?


texts: Can I speed up Disk Utility First Aid by running “fsck_hfs” with the “-c” option?

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I ran Disk Utility’s First Aid on a portable hard disk I use for Time Machine, which took around 13 hours (with no repairs being needed). I was wondering whether there’s a way to speed that up. Disk Utility’s output shows that it ran fsck_hfs -fy -x /dev/rdisk3, and so it doesn’t use the -c option, which according to the command’s man page “can result in better performance”:

-c size Specify the size of the cache used by fsck_hfs internally.
       Bigger size can result in better performance but can result
       in deadlock when used with -l option.  Size can be speci-
       fied as a decimal, octal, or hexadecimal number.  If the
       number ends with a ``k'', ``m'', or ``g'', the number is
       multiplied by 1024 (1K), 1048576 (1M), or 1073741824 (1G),
       respectively.

I was wondering whether anyone has experience using the -c option. Does fsck_hfs not use a cache at all when the option is not used, or does it use a default size? How large would I need to set the cache size to see significant, or even just any, performance improvement? I assume this depends on the size of the disk; mine is 1TB with Disk Utility showing it contains around 15.500.000 files.


texts: Terminal speed up doesn't accept command line arguments from outside source?

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From a previous suggestion I changed terminals startup command from default to '/usr/bin/bash' which I created as a link to '/bin/bash' which stops terminal from login in every time I open a tab

This does successfully speed up using terminal and stop it from searching for the login time which is stored in the '.asl' logs.

My problem is it also stops terminal from accepting command line arguments delivered from another program when opening terminal.

Now I could go back to letting terminal login and do the search, especially as I recently upgrade to an SSD and the search is probably a lot faster on it anyway. But I would still like to know why Terminal won't accept outside CML arguments.

I have alfred installed and it has a way of opening terminal by typing ">" followed by a command. With the terminal command set to be /usr/bin/bash it no longer runs the given command though? So I can type '>ls' in Alfred and it opens up the Terminal prompt but no sign of ls. If I switch to '/bin/bash' it works again.

Any way to fix this without allowing terminal to use login?


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I "retired" my old iPhone 3GS when I got my shiny new iPhone 4 and I was happily using it as an iPod touch with camera and compass.

However, I made the mistake of throwing away the SIM inside the 3GS, because I wanted to permanently disable any phone functions, and make sure I didn't have to turn on airplane mode or anything silly like that.

Well, that seemingly worked fine until iTunes upgraded the 3GS to iOS 4.0.2. Now the sim-less iPhone 3GS is stuck at ...

  No SIM card installed
  Insert an unlocked and valid SIM to activate iPhone

What sucks is that I can't figure out any way to get around this!

Apparently, based on the (excellent) How to Activate a Used iPhone the only way around it is to either

Jailbreak
Get an AT&T sim, somehow

I tried to Jailbreak but I was nowhere near smart enough to navigate the maze of twisty passages involved in jailbreaking this 3gs. iBoot too new? ipsw not recognized? ... what?

I feel like an idiot now because apparently an AT&T sim is REQUIRED to make an iPhone work even if you have no intention of ever using it as a phone? Is that true? How can you get around this "No SIM card" issue?


texts: Keynote keyboard shortcut for moving focus between slide canvas and slides drawer?

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In Keynote '09, is there any way to move the focus between the slides drawer on the left side and the main window with the slide itself, without using the mouse or trackpad?

E.g., when I have made a new slide with shift-cmd-N (then this is automatically selected in the drawer), can I start writing in the slide without having to take my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse?


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I would like to search the iPhone app store in such a way that I only see results that don't offer an in-app purchase. I know that Apple offers a data feed of all the App Store's data, so in principle a service could exist that would allow this. However, having tried all the App Store search engines I know of (uQurey, AppShopper, AppAdvice, 148apps), it seems that none of them offer this kind of specific customised search.

So my question is whether there is an App Store search service that allows such specific queries as this.


texts:
I have been rendering a movie using iMovie (10.1.14) on a Mac 10.14.6 with output to a file with some settings (resolution 540p, Quality High, Compression: Faster), but whenever I am trying to play this movie on the command line using mplayer I get the output
           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

I have tried many variations of suggested options like
mplayer -forceidx -mc 0 -nobps -ni -framedrop  -vo gl_nosw -lavdopts threads=4 movie.mp4

but nothing seems to help. This only concerns movies rendered with iMovie! Any other video file runs without the slightest problem with mplayer.
Is there anything I can do to solve this problem? Anything I can adjust for the rendering? Maybe there are some hidden options?


texts: My iMac gets stuck after internet recovery

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Model: Late 2012 iMac
OS: Catalina
CPU: 3.2ghz i5 Intel something
GPU: 675MX
Storage: 1TB HDD
Last thing I did: play TF2
It’s stuck at the progress bar. The recovery partition isn’t available. I tried starting it normally and in safe mode. I have also tried resetting the PRAM and NVRAM. Trying to boot into Apple Diagnostics doesn’t work. I also tried booting into recovery mode (not internet recovery). It also didn’t work.
I tried to boot into a live Ubuntu session from a USB, and it worked. I was able to watch a video on YouTube and browse the internet. I then immediately reformatted it and made it persistent. It didn’t work anymore. The screen just turned black.


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Today I tried to rename a few hidden files with the following command in terminal (might be a hint for the solution):

for f in .*; do mv "$f" "_$f"; done

Now I wanted to start vlc and all I got was the messagebox to ignore, report or relaunch.
Most application are not startable, except the few that are loaded (with the dot mark in the dock under the icon).

Non-startable applications:

Messages
App Store
Mail
Calendar
iTunes
Terminal
Notes
Chrome
Safari
VLC
Console
Boot Camp Assistant

Startable applications:

X11
QtCreator
JDownloader
Grapher
Disk Utility

In addition, the attempt to run Mail from XTerm resulted in LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/Mail.app with error -10810.

My system is a MacBook running Yosemite 10.10.5.

My guess is that I for some reason renamed system files and I am afraid that after reboot the system won't start.


texts: Is it possibile to disable phone traffic while still allowing cellular data traffic?

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Sometimes (especially when playing games) I absolutely don't want to get incoming phone calls, but I need to use cellular data traffic, thus I can't simply put the phone in airplane mode.

Is it possible to disable phone traffic while still allowing data traffic?

IOS 10.1.1 on iPhone 6s.

P.S. Disabling phone traffic altogether (f.e. by locking the SIM card) and using only WI-FI is not a solution; I explicitly need cellular data traffic.

P.P.S. I know I can simply reject an incoming call; but this is often enough to create troubles in a game (and the phone call also causes the data connection to drop briefly, which for some multiplayer games equals to an instant loss).


texts: Remapping keybinding not workin in Firefox for MacOS (mojave)

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Coming from Windows, I wished to change the Open Location... keybinding for my browsers. I was able to do it for Chrome by following the suggestions here, but the same process does not work for Firefox.

I looked at the other answers where they suggest an Add-on called Saka but it is really complicated for me. All I wish is to have the following Keybindings.

 Cmd ⌘   D   for Open Locations...
 Cmd ⌘   L   for Bookmark this Page...

I am using MacOS Mojave (10.14.5) and Firefox (67.0)

I would be grateful if someone could help me figure this out.

Thanks,


texts: How can I flip desktops between two displays in OSX

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I have a multi monitor setup, and I want the ability to flip the desktop being displayed on my primary monitor and the desktop being displayed on my secondary monitor.

I know this is a strange request, but I'm often engaged in video conferencing, I want the ability to remain looking at my camera while moving to work on related tasks. Is there anyway to code this type of macro, or is this a feature in OSX?

Thanks!


texts: Does an iPad last in a public exhibition?

texts: I want to use an iPad as an interactive part of an exhibition. Will it last or will it break? Does anyone have experience?


texts: How to transfer iMessages to the computer for archival?

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My iPhone storage space is almost all used up, mostly because of my messages. I don't want to just delete all my conversations.

Is there a way I can transfer my messages onto my PC?


texts: Opening Terminal shows a list of ttys - unable to use

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Having the latest Mavericks installed, I tried to update PATH using nano and creating a .bash_profile file. I'm not sure what happened, but now when trying to run Terminal all that shows is a list of ttys000 messages followed by a wtmp begins message.

And finally says:

-bash:<computername>:~: command not found

[Process completed]

I've downloaded a program to find hidden files but there's no sign of the .bash_profile file.

Any ideas how to rescue the Terminal program?


texts: I just recently replaced my SuperDrive with my Mac's HD and put a new SSD into HD spot. How can I download and install the OS into the new SSD and copy all my files there? The SSD is smaller in size, so I want to only copy certain things.


texts: How to minimise the terminal automatically when it is running a shell script?

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I have a shell script which runs a Python Program. I created the shell script so that the users of my program may simply double click it to run my program.

When the shell script is executed; the terminal loads in front of the GUI of the Python Program and that is bothersome. Is there anyway to ensure that the Terminal is minimised by default when the shell script runs?


texts: I recently got a new phone and made a new Apple ID (which had my new phone number connected to it). I then logged into this new account onto my iPad, but then when I went to ‘send and receive’ in messages, it only showed my e-mail as an option; same with FaceTime. How do I add my new number?


texts: Hide Everything For Cmd+Space Spotlight Search but Applications

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I am trying to use Spotlight as a way to solely launch my most used applications.

A lot of them have similar names, so for me Spotlight displaying in a linear down list works much better then lets say Launchpad which displays them in something like a column/row combination.

Anyways I am trying to both speed up Spotlight and prevent it from displaying false positives by hiding everything but applications.

I did this by effectively unchecking everything but Applications in System Preferences → Spotlight → Search Results, and then by preventing indexing of my home folder directly.

The problem is now I can't search my Mac for anything. This solved 1 issue while creating another.

Is there a way to feasible make Spotlight search only applications while everything else search globally?


texts: Multiple "copies" of audiobooks in iTunes

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I am using iTunes on Windows 10.

There are multiple "copies" (air quotes) of most (not all) audiobooks in iTunes. I used air quotes because when I search the PC for the books, there are only single instances.

Another post (Why does iTunes create multiple exact copies of my music files and hide them from view in Finder?) asked a similar question about music files. The answer for that post alluded to a playlist problem.

But (a) I do NOT have any playlists for my audiobooks, and (b) that post is old, dating to Sept. 2012. I am running version 12.7.2.

When I select a copy of a book and drag it to my iphone, I can see that the copies are numbered 1, 2, 3, ...

When I try to delete any one of those copies, then all copies are deleted.

What can I do clean up the lists so that I only see one copy of the book?


texts: Bluetooth network loses connection and must be restarted every few minutes

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I use an iPad as Bluetooth hotspot and connect my Macbook to internet via the iPad's mobile network. However, every few minutes I have to restart Bluetooth on my computer because the connection seems to stall. The BT icon in the menu bar indicates that the connection is up but nothing loads. Restarting BT fixes this but it is very annoying to be interrupted like this.

Any ideas what might be wrong and how I can fix this?

Edit: The devices are next to each other. No WiFi, last time this happened I was in the middle of the forest.


texts: Vertical and horizontal workspace switching

texts: Mac has horizontal workspace switching, which is great. However, I find it very useful to have a 2D workspace grid (which I am used to from Linux) and I can switch both horizontally and vertically. Is there a way to do the same in Mac?


texts: How can I install/run apps that use Rosetta on Lion?

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Is there a workaround to install/use apps that are using Rosetta on Lion?

I'm still using Zend 5.5 and I don't want to switch to a new IDE right now.


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I recently had my iPad stolen. I immediately marked it as lost in case it ever connected to the internet again (it is cellular enabled, so there is a favorably good chance). I clicked "erase iPad" but stopped when the prompt said "An erased iPad cannot be located or tracked any longer."

I began to wonder: how secure is my iPad's data? Is there any risk that the device may be hacked and its contents exposed? Passwords, credit cards, emails, etc.?

A simple google search found that iPads are very secure by virtue of the passcode (https://www.macworld.com/article/1160313/iPad_security.html). So, if left unerased, what risk remains? Certainly, I want to be able to track the iPad if it does ever come back online. But by not opting to erase the iPad, am I leaving myself potentially exposed?


texts: Can't install OS X on blank HDD on a Macbook Pro 2010 13" - Stuck on white screen

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I have a 2010 MacBook Pro lying around that I wanted to revive.

The problem is that I've lost the original DVDs. The original HDD is now blank and this version doesn't boot via USB.

I tried using a 2008 MacBook Pro DVD but it booted to the white screen and now it won't eject it. Boot shortcut keys (Opt ⌥+R etc.) won't work either.

How can I proceed on this?

I have a HDD caddy, which is the DVD replacement, at my disposal if that helps.


texts: Dropdown menu navigation by the keyboard

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After getting to the menu bar (which in OS/X is already a hassle) we can use the first letter to access the submenu - ‘w’ for ‘Window’ in the screenshot below:

Subsequently the ‘b’ was typed to access the ‘Background’ sub-submenu The question here is: how to expand it - without resorting to the arrow keys that are a big jump for the fingers and get them out of home row position?

What I tried: tab space enter. None of those work. Only right arrow: but once again that is inefficient - almost as costly as using the mouse.  Is there any way to do this quickly i.e. with hands remaining on or near home row?


texts: iPad 3, web pages and pixel-specified sizes

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The iPad 3 is a big step forward in screen resolution from earlier models, which is good.

However, I'm curious about how this interacts with webpages that specify the size of elements in pixels. If it took such instructions literally, presumably you would need a magnifying glass to read the results (or more practically, to use the zoom function on every page).

Does the iPad web browser take this into account and multiply specified sizes by some reasonable conversion factor to end up with element sizes that work well on the high-resolution screen?


texts: Unable to open a folder that contains a . in finder

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I have a hand full of folders that contain the .service in the name.  When I attempt to open these folders in finder, it shows an icon that indicates that the file cannot be opened.

Is there a way to tell finder that these "files" are in fact folders so I can browse them?


texts: Is there a Mac diagnostics utility for troubleshooting hardware issues?

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Is there software that helps identify problems, issues, conflicts, etc. with the hardware of a Mac?

I came across Tech Tool Deluxe, which was apparently used in Applecare. Wondering if there was any other hardware diagnostics tool out there.


texts: Is iphone 5 apps scale down on ipad mini retina display?

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Can i test my iphone 5 apps on ipad mini retina with 4 inch screen?
I heard that iphone 5 apps scale down to 3.5 inch screen in ipad mini retina.
is it true?


texts: Error when using pkgutil to flatten an application bundle into a flat package

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I have an application bundle that I need to convert to a flattened package.  In my case, the application is a simple bash script that has been bundled into an application using Platypus.  To flatten the bundle, I used the following command on a machine running macOS 10.15.3...

pkgutil --flatten /path/to/application_bundle /path/to/flattened_package

When then attempting to run the flattened package, I receive the error, "You can't open the application because it is not supported on the type of Mac."  However, the bundled app runs without any issue.  Any ideas on how to convert a bundled app to a flattened app that will run?


texts: How do OS X terminal sessions persist through reboots?

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Being an avid Linux user prior to buying a MacBook Pro, I typically have several terminal tabs open at any one time.

In the past, crashes and reboots would generally trash my workflow, and the majority of my respective tab histories. I searched for ways to solve this problem but always came up empty; aside from various techniques that utilised combinations of tools like ssh, screen, tmux, and required a virtual private server (or similar).

One of my favourite things about using my MacBook Pro for writing scripts, and using CLI tools, etc; is that my terminal sessions persist beyond crashes and reboots by default. In fact, I just restored a backup from almost 2 years ago, and when I logged in for the first time, I was presented with my old desktop and three bash shells that comprised a project that I was working on all that time ago.

I would like to know how OS X makes this feature possible. Does anybody here have insight into how it works?


texts: Songs show up as individual albums in iOS Music app

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I manually manage my iPhone's music (iOS 11.1). I use music from my hard drive, not from my iTunes account. When I drag music to my iPhone, all metadata of my music shows up in iTunes (iTunes 12.7.1.14) correctly. But on my iPhone, an album is broken into individual albums. So a 12-song album is turned into 12 1-song albums. This is the case 100% of the time. Every time that I add any album to my iPhone, every song will show up as separate albums.

Also, the artist is missing from every song on my iPhone.

I am 100% sure that my metadata in iTunes is correct. Artist, Album, and Album Artist are all identical down to the capitalization and everything is correct on the Sorting tab. The Compilation box is not in play here. I have verified my song metadata with a 3rd-party ID3 editor.

The only thing that works is to delete the music from the iPhone and then re-add the music. When I re-add the music, the music now is grouped together and labeled correctly on my iPhone.

Can I fix this issue without having to delete and re-add the music onto my iPhone every time?


texts: How to delete the Java installed shown in the "System Preferences" dialog?

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I have MacOS El Capitan
About Java, in the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines path I have:

All works fine.
But I did realize about the following in System Preferences:

Observe in the bottom the Java icon.
If I do clic in there, it opens:

And finally

Observe it is Java 10 and is not listed in the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines path.
Questions:

Where is installed? or where is its location?
Is safe to remove it? All my customs apps (IDE, programs uses according the case any JDK avaiable from the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines path).
How to delete? I am assuming deleting some directory. But perhaps it requires a special approach. I want avoid problems.


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I have an URL as: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-calculator-free/id398129933

Is it possible to download that app in my PC and then unzip or see what's inside?

I haven't Apple Computer nor iPad nor iPhone.


texts: macOS Catalina v.10.15.5 Insufficient storage problem

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I have a MacBook Pro 2017, 15". I recently performed a clean install (via USB) of the latest OS X at the time and then I've updated whenever an OS X update was available. Currently I am on v.10.15.5. The last month I started receiving alerts for insufficient storage. I have a 256Gb SSD and I'm using about 80Gb. On Disk Utility I see a strange volume which seems like inactive. Whenever I restart my machine it reports about 200Mb available and as I'm using my machine it drops slowly to about 30Mb available, which makes my machine unusable. I've tried the First Aid of Disk Utility without any results. Time Machine is not enabled by the way. I've also tried various disk management apps which do realise that I'm running out of space but only see my files (the ones included on the 80Gb).
Anyone knows how I might solve that? I'm attaching some screenshots for more information.


texts: Internet recovery fails with different error codes - macOS Catalina

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I tried performing an internet recovery (Catalina) on my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and each time I get a different error, for example: -2000f and -1005f.
I have tried this with different WiFi connections. I also tried to use my phones hotspot (4G) and it downloads, but gets stuck at a white screen.
Furthest I got was 2 minutes remaining on installation.


texts: Does Apple refund prorated cost to people who cancel their personal storage plan to join family plan before end of billing period?

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Thank you so much in advance, and sorry if I made any typos. English is not my first language.

My siblings and I (4 people) are using their storage plan individually and each is paying $2.99 per month for 200Gb. Meaning we are paying almost $12 a month. Now we want to include our mom in, and save some money, so we would like to upgrade to the family plan at $9.99 per month for 2Tb. I understand that one of us will have to upgrade their plan and then share the plan with the rest of the family, and Apple will charge that person the price of the higher tier plan, minus the prorated cost of their previous plan. My question is, will Apple refund the prorated cost to 3 other people who will cancel their personal plan to join the family plan - or they will be charged for the entirety of the billing period just like what usually happens with other Apple services such as Apple music?


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I have an old Mid 2010 Mac Pro running Yosemite that I am using as a server, and have a shared folder that should be accessible by anyone on the network.  Well, it's accessible, all right...but any file put there can only be opened by the user that put it there.  This is the exact opposite of what I'm looking for with this shared folder.  Is there any way to set the permissions such that anyone with access to the folder has read/write permissions for everything in the folder?

I tried to create a test document on one of my other machines (a Windows 10 Pro desktop) and put it in the shared folder.  This is the error I got when I tried to open the file, logged in as the server administrator.

EDIT: I was asked to put terminal readouts of the permissions for the shared folder as well as its contents.  So, here they are:

Shared folder:

drwxrwxrwx+  6 admin  wheel  -           204 Aug 16 08:29 Share
0: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit
1: user:user1 allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit

Contents (test.txt does not work; the two folders do work and are provided for comparison):

drwxrwxrwx+  6 admin  wheel  -       204 Aug 16 08:29 .
0: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit
1: user:user1 allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit
drwxr-xr-x  33 root   wheel  -      1190 Aug 16 08:24 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 user1  wheel  -      8196 Mar 20 16:18 .DS_Store
com.apple.FinderInfo      32
0: user:_spotlight inherited allow read,execute
1: user:user1 inherited allow read,write,execute,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x+  6 admin  wheel  -       204 Jun 24 18:40 Backups
0: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit
1: user:user1 inherited allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit
drwxrwxrwx+ 27 user1  wheel  nodump  918 Jun  9 15:04 Videos
0: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit
1: user:user1 inherited allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit
-rw-------+  1 user1  wheel  nodump   20 Aug 16 08:03 test.txt
0: user:_spotlight inherited allow read,execute
1: user:user1 inherited allow read,write,execute,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity


texts: what is Siri consuming? is Wifi enough? or 3g celluar data is involved while Siri searches online?

texts: So I am concerned if I can save data usage(I have only 200M per month on my account..) by using Siri at home(with a wifi connection)??


texts: Codesigned application is crashing on reboot of Catalina with “EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)”

texts:
I've got an application that is codesigned properly that starts up and runs without issue -- unless/until some macs (in this case Catalina 10.15.5) reboot.
In this case the mac was shut down with power button so when it reboots it attempts to restart open apps. When it restarts my application I get the crash report below.
Restarting the app manually works, because it is properly signed. I just can't figure out what the problem is on boot - I have no information to go on as you can see.
Just to be clear on my architecture: I have a parent application "Ggui" that runs a background service "GService". "Gservice" spins up an app that goes into a socket listen mode  - this is the app that is crashing. It is called "Vchat".
Ggui
  |_____ Gservice
  |           |______ Vchat
  |           |______ UpdateCheck
  |
  |_____ Dservice

Crash report:
Process:               Vchat [685]
Path:                      /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/Vchat.app/Contents/MacOS/Vchat
Identifier:            Vchat
Version:               ???
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [521]
Responsible:           Ggui [431]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2020-08-17 09:55:32.890 -0400
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15.5 (19F101)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     4.5 (17P5300)
Anonymous UUID:        2E8B1B09-530B-660E-2690-AE512687AE94

Time Awake Since Boot: 170 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        Unknown

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Killed: 9
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x9
Terminating Process:   Gservice [521]

kernel messages:

Backtrace not available

Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000000  rbx: 0x0000000000000000  rcx: 0x0000000000000000  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000000000  rsi: 0x0000000000000000  rbp: 0x0000000000000000  rsp: 0x00007ffeeeee4b28
   r8: 0x0000000000000000   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x0000000000000000
  r12: 0x0000000000000000  r13: 0x0000000000000000  r14: 0x0000000000000000  r15:     0x0000000000000000
  rip: 0x0000000107d68000  rfl: 0x0000000000000200  cr2: 0x0000000000000000

Logical CPU:     0
Error Code:      0x00000000
Trap Number:     0

Binary images description not available

External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 144
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

Model: MacBookAir8,1, BootROM 1037.120.87.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.15300.0.0,0), 2 processors,     Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 1.6 GHz, 8 GB, SMC
Graphics: kHW_IntelUHDGraphics617Item, Intel UHD Graphics 617, spdisplays_builtin
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, LPDDR3, 2133 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x483943434E4E4E435054414C42522D4E5644
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, LPDDR3, 2133 MHz, 0x80AD,     0x483943434E4E4E435054414C42522D4E5644
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x843), wl0: Feb 28 2020     15:31:19 version 9.30.357.35.32.5.42 FWID 01-9d05982a
Bluetooth: Version 7.0.5f6, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
USB Device: Apple T2 Bus
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: Headset
USB Device: Ambient Light Sensor
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Apple T2 Controller
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Air, Apple Inc., 47.4


texts: Brother MFC-J6720DW "not connected" to MacBook Pro

texts:
Yesterday I suddenly found that I could not print to my Brother MFC-J6720DW from my MacBook Pro (running Mac OS 10.12.6), nor could I use the scanning function. The other Mac on the Wi-Fi network cannot print on it either

The printer was connected by Wi-Fi and as far as I know nothing has recently changed on the network. My laser printer on USB is working fine.

I have reset the printing system as advised to another person who had a similar problem. However, when I try to add the MFC printer I get an error message. So, I connected the printer to the MacBook with an ethernet cable and found that I could now add the printer and actually print to it.

However, I cannot figure out how to add the scanner functionality. I downloaded the latest scanner driver from Brother & installed it, but I can't see how to add the scanner to the printers/scanners list. (I had no trouble adding my transparency scanner which is on USB.)

I'm sure the answer must be really simple but I'm somehow missing it. It would be good to know why I can't add the printer over Wi-Fi - I could connect to it with Safari and interrogate the administrative functions over Wi-Fi.

in friendship

Rowland


texts: Batch command to lock multiple files using Box Drive

texts:
My company uses Box.com and Box Drive to host collaborative files. Box gives the ability to lock files so multiple people can't work on them at the same time.
With Box Drive I can right click individual files and select lock, but this is annoying if there are a lot of files at once.
I was wondering if there was a script/service that could run the command on multiple selected files at once.


texts: Permission denied error when opening Terminal

texts:
I'm using a clean install of 10.8. I wanted to add a couple of directories to my path. I tried adding them to /etc/paths using

sudo vim /etc/paths

Now when I open a terminal window I see this:

Last login: Wed Jan 23 15:42:57 on ttys001
/etc/paths: Permission denied
pcp067952pcs:~ myLoginName$

This doesn't affect usability, however it is something I would prefer to fix.

Any ideas?
-Austin


texts: iPhone repeatedly asks me to sign in with old family Apple ID

texts:
The message shown comes up on my screen almost every time I use my phone. The Apple ID shown isn’t mine, but my father's. I am signed in with my own Apple ID everywhere on my iPhone, so I don’t know why it asks for my fathers password?

My father is no longer a part of my family plan, though he used to be. How can I get it to stop asking?


texts: What kind of mouse has best performance to use with a Mac?

texts:
I recently got a Mac upgrade to a new MacBook Air (10.14.6), which only has two new small USB-C connections. I therefore bought a USB-C to old USB adaptor to be able to connect my harddrives, USB sticks and the wireless mouse (working with a USB receiver).

But now it turns out that the mouse input is lagging a LOT compared to the old Mac (where I could use the USB receiver directly in a USB post). Also the mousepad itself works perfectly normal.

The lag is not only very disturbing when playing games (such as minecraft), but also with normal operations (finding and clicking on an app, dragging files etc). The lag is clearly a result of the USB C adaptor.

So how to avoid this problem best? Should I

buy a new wireless mouse with USB-C receiver
buy a bluetooth mouse
buy a wired USB-C mouse?

Which is the best option to maximally reduce any lag?


texts:
I can't find my Trash folder on my Mac — it isn't on my Dock and I really don't know where to find it. I'm new to OS X.
Does anyone know where I can find my Trash? I can put items in my Trash, but I want to empty some files not all of the files that are in there.


texts: Why isn't my Bluetooth printer appearing on iPhone but is appearing on Android and PC?

texts: I'm trying to connect a thermal printer to my iPhone but its not showing up in the list of Bluetooth devices. However, it is showing on my PC and Android smartphone. Has the advertising only got certain compatibility? The Bluetooth thermal printer is a DPP-350 from Datecs. I am using an iPhone 5s and have also tried an iPhone 7 but neither of these phones can see the Bluetooth device being advertised.


texts:
My imac bluetooth keyboard had some keys broken so I bought an anker keyboard.

It's the one mentioned in this review:

http://ziacomputers.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/anker-bluetooth-keyboard-reveiew/

My problem with it is the same as the problem #1 in the review, the keyboard doesn't have a escape key.

The place where esc should be is an empty box symbol which you can see in this image:

You have to press fn + box to escape. I'm trying to remap it with KeyRemap4MacBook but I can't figure out how. The review mentions that it should be possible. Any assistance is appreciated thanks.


texts:
I'm considering getting a Macbook or a Macbook Pro (I use Windows on my desktop computer), and I'm thinking about how note taking could be done.

Most I'm thinking would use Microsoft Word/Pages, but OneNote seems to be loved a lot of people, especially for education purposes, and it's mandatory for use for people in Years 9 and 10 in my school thanks to the NSW Digital Education Revolution.

But OneNote isn't in Office 2008, nor is it in Office 2011. So what I'm asking is that if I take the plunge, will there be any alternatives, apart from the obvious of virtualisation, Wine or CrossOver? I'm fine with using Wine/CrossOver, it's just that I would be expecting a native experience to be better.

According to a friend of mine, Word has a notebook feature, although I can't find anything about it through Google.


texts:
Where can I find 'open' command?(OS X 10.9.3)
I think there may be some issues in my environment or I may remove this tool by mistake.

➜  ~  open
zsh: command not found: open
➜  ~  which open
open not found
➜  ~  echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
➜  ~  sw_vers | grep 'Version'
ProductVersion: 10.9.3
BuildVersion:   13D65

Thanks


texts: FTDI USB to serial module doesn't work in Catalina

texts:
I can see FTDI module in system report

But in arduino it doesn't show up

I read that macOS comes with USBSerial.kext which can handle this but I don't see it working for me.
I have tried installing FTDI driver and I can see .kext in /system/library/extensions and still doesn't work.
Response from FTDI regarding signed drivers

Apple are moving from what are called Kernel Extentions (.kexts) to what are called Driver Extensions (.dexts) for the implementation of drivers starting in macOS Catalina (10.15). Currently .kexts are still supported in macOS Catalina, however after the beta release they issued an update which stopped our driver from loading. This update required our driver (FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext) to be re-signed and notarized, we completed this process with an updated Apple Developer ID (as they lapse every two years). Unfortunately when Apple issued our new Developer ID to re-sign and notarize the driver package they did so without the .kext support option enabled (as .kexts are being deprecated it is no longer automatically included). This is why there is a code signature issue with our driver, currently we are waiting on Apple issuing us with the correct Developer ID to be able to sign .kexts for macOS Catalina.
As such our current VCP driver available on the website has a signature issue and wont load. However if the device you are using implements a default FTDI VID/PID combination it should be picked up by the inbuilt AppleUSBFTDI.dext driver and present accordingly in the ‘/dev’ folder on your system in the following form:
/dev/cu.usbserial-xxxxxxxx
/dev/tty.usbserial-xxxxxxxx

UPDATE: Module works with High sierra 10.13.6


texts: use some apps on ethernet, others on wifi?

texts:
Is there any way to tell an application to use a specific network interface?
I'Ve got the problem that iMessage and other apps need to run on the proxy-free wifi network while other apps such as Xcode need to run on ethernet to connect to the repository in the wired network.

Is there any way to do this?


texts: Have a friend that's running OSX 10.5.8 and claims it's still supported by Apple and has the same security patches as needed as any other version of OSX. Does Apple still support 10.5.8? What if any know security holes are there? Does Apple have a public statement on which OSX versions are supported, how, and what this means to the user, in the context of  OSX 10.5.8?


texts:
While looking at Activity Monitor processes, I noticed a process whose name started with "http://".

Shortly after observing and screenshoting the process disappeared.  This morning, it briefly re-appeared and then died.

lsof and dtracte indicate the process is looking at standard system libraries, one of which is /private/var/db/mds/messages/se_SecurityMessages.

Any ideas on:

Whether this is a normal process?
How to find where and how it's launched? (Mac doesnt have /proc...?)
How to investigate what its doing?


texts: Can I still boot into Single User Mode if I disable the shell for root?

texts:
It's been suggested that, since the root account now appears in the accounts database on macOS 10.13.1+ by "default" (by accident it seems), it might be a good security measure to disable shell access for that account.

Will doing so disable the ability to boot into Single User Mode?


texts: How to create diacritical characters with the Dvorak keyboard on Mac?

texts: I configured the Dvorak keyboard and its almost working. I need to write chars like 'á' typing two keys, but when I type the first the ' char already shows. How to fix this?


texts: Tabs not reopening when closing Safari on iPad with iOS 13.1

texts:
Since upgrading to iOS 13.1 on my iPad (5th Gen, 9.5"), whenever I close the Safari app or turn off iPad, my open tabs are NOT restored.

This was working fine before the upgrade. Anyone else or any suggestions? I keep tabs open till I’ve dealt with them. This behaviour is a blow for me.


texts: macOS: How to take a picture from camera after 1 minute

texts:
I normally take pictures using Photo Booth. But I now need to take a picture in which it takes quite a while for me to get into the right position. Once I am in the right position, it is fine, I can stand as long in that position as I want to. But it takes me at least 30 seconds to get into it and I need both my hands free.

So how do I take a picture with my Mac after 1 minute?


texts: When I take a picture using my iPhone's camera, it attaches the current location to the image in the metadata. Does it also do this for screenshots that I take?


texts: "There is no connected camera" - Macbook Pro 13" 2017

texts:
Does anybody have any alternative solutions? Seems like my computer no longer detect my built-in camera. I can't detect it in any application.

So far I have tried:

terminal killAll commands -> doesn't do anything and I get a 'No matching processes were found' message
Restart both SMC and PRAM
camera in safe mode also does not work
webcam on Secondary account does not work

I am at the end of my wits here.


texts: I CANNOT get my mouse to easily move from one monitor to another. I literally have to wave the mouse in the direction of the other monitor and that sometimes works, though it's very clumsy. I can't understand this weird problem. The mouse just does not want to go the other monitor, no matter which monitor. If I'm on one, I can't get to the other .


texts: How to replace an MP3 or M4A in iTunes with a higher quality file, without having to re-do playlists containing the track?

texts:
I have in my iTunes library some songs that, years ago, I ripped from CDs at bit rates of only 128kbps.  Storage is cheap now and I'd like to replace those songs with higher-quality versions (e.g. 320kbps for the MP3s.)

I do intend to re-rip some of my source material (the music I listen to most often) at the higher bit rate.  I don't use iTunes itself for my ripping; I use another ripping tool.

Is there a way in iTunes for me to replace the lower bit rate version of a track with the new higher bit rate version, without having to re-add the track to playlists already containing it?  Could I just slip in the new version of the MP3 (assuming same name) with a filesystem copy, or is that liable to cause problems in iTunes?  How can I avoid having to manually copy metadata or manage playlists affected?

p.s. I already know about iTunes Match.  Please assume (for the purpose of this question) that I'm not interested in the automatic upgrading it can provide. Looking for a solution that will work without Match, or when Match can't upgrade a track.  Thanks.


texts: Will erasing a Macbook Pro via the FindMyiPhone site erase Windows partitions?

texts:
My mac was stolen, I requested that the mac be erased on this portal: Find My iPhone.

I used Windows 10 via Bootcamp. Will this partition be erased as well? The 'erasing' was triggered last night so someone definitely used the computer to access the internet. It's quite important to know if the Windows partition will be erased or not.


texts: Can I disable the trackpad on a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a mid-2007 MacBook Pro, the one with the trackpad that had the physical button on along the bottom edge. The trackpad is not well and using it can cause it to stick and freak out OS X.

Is there a way to disable the trackpad that's a little more low-level than the method outlined in this question and answer? A BIOS setting perhaps? I'd like the trackpad to never be useable on the unit, whether an external mouse is connected to it or not.


texts: Typing on my iPhone: how to change input method when typing from an external Bluetooth keyboard

texts:
I need to type in two languages on my iPhone but can only do so easily when typing from Apple's "Magic Keyboard". I am looking for potential ways to make typing on an iPhone easier for other Bluetooth keyboards that were not made by nor for Apple devices.

I should be running the latest iOS software.

The Trouble: For now, after I paired the iPhone with an Always-On Bluetooth keyboard at home, I am forever bound to such keyboard: it won't quit, as the keyboard is powered by a set of AA batteries and there is no switch on it to turn it off, and it won't let me change input method!

What the "Magic Keyboard" does when paired with iPhone

Thanks to the integration of Apple products, there are two ways:

At the far right corner of the Magic Keyboard, there is a key that can show/hide the on-screen keyboard. One can use this interface to switch input method.
Moreover, the default "Mac-OS" keyboard shortcut still works: holding opt + space shall get me to loop through the input methods

Yet, I only have bought one pair of Magic Keyboard and have kept it at work. Over the years, I should have a good number of generic Bluetooth keyboards, 2 among which are fancy mechanical switch ones. Unfortunately, they are "generic Bluetooth keyboards" ==>

What generic Bluetooth keyboards do? And, can we avoid buying

Well, when typing, I did not find a way to summon the on-screen keyboard at all. This bans all graphical interface tweaks: there is simply no button to click on.

Question 1: Can I devise finger swipes to change input methods? I have only two in total.

Then, Alt + space does not register on iPhone. This may have to do with how these generic Bluetooth keyboards are dealing with issuing keystrokes, and I wonder if there is a walk-around? Say:

Question 2: Is it possible to define keyboard shortcuts for iPhone to loop through input methods?
Question 3: Or, can I spare a F1 key if key-combination is not allowed, solely for iOS to change input method.


texts: SystemUIServer and other processes crash repeatedly on login

texts:
I don't know what I did wrong (it could have been related to rebuilding the Launch Services database), but yesterday after I restarted, multiple processes (like SystemUIServer, NotificationCenter, Alfred, and TextEdit) kept crashing on launch or repeatedly. The Notification Center icon and other icons on the right side of the menu bar kept disappearing. I couldn't make Time Machine backups either. When I tried making another account, it had the same issues, and text in the UI was shown as characters from the LastResort font.

system.log contained repeating messages like this:

Feb 23 17:29:59 Lauris-iMac com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.04000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[1545]): Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
Feb 23 17:30:09 Lauris-iMac.local SystemUIServer[1543]: *** Assertion failure in -[MDFileTypeImageCache setImage:forKey:timeToLive:], /SourceCache/SpotlightUI/Spotlight-707.3/menu/Application/MDImageMemoryCache.m:268
Feb 23 17:30:09 Lauris-iMac.local SystemUIServer[1543]: image should not be nil
Feb 23 17:30:20 Lauris-iMac.local NotificationCenter[1567]: registering /System/Library/Fonts/*, /System/Library/Fonts/Base/*, and /Library/Fonts/* locally
Feb 23 17:30:21 Lauris-iMac com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131] (com.apple.notificationcenterui.agent[1567]): Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11

I tried deleting {~,}/Library/Caches/ and /var/folders/, repairing permissions from the recovery partition, starting up in safe mode, and running sudo atsutil databases -remove and sudo mdutil -E /. I think I solved it by just reinstalling OS X, but in case it happens again, does anyone have better suggestions?


texts: Can't install El Capitan update 10.11.3 because can't restart normally

texts:
I've got the typical problem that OSX can't shutdown/restart normally. I'm on El Capitan but it happened in the past with Mavericks etc. Don't know why they can't fix this...

Anyway, now I want to install El Capitan update 10.11.3, the final step is it wants to restart the system.

I click the 'restart' button but the restart fails.

I can hard boot by holding down the power button... but then the update doesn't finish its install - it still says I need to restart if I go into App Store.

Restart or shutdown from the Apple menu don't work.

I tried a shutdown -r now from Terminal... this successfully restarts but the update still 'needs restart' when I go back in after booting.

MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012)
El Capitan 10.11.2


texts: RSS app: How to get approval for App Store?

texts:
I submitted a RSS reader app, but it just got rejected from the App Store, with this cited:

8.5: Apps may not use protected third party material such as trademarks, copyrights, patents or violate 3rd party terms of use. Authorization to use such material must be provided upon request

We found that your app contains features that may infringe on rights owned by various news and media outlets.

Specifically, we found that your app provides users with a news feed generated from them.

Please provide documentary evidence of your rights to use this content.

Acceptable documentation includes a copy of your contract with the copyright holder or a detailed authorization letter from the copyright holder to your company. Please make sure the documentation you provide specifies the rights for commercial use as the App Store is considered a commercial environment, even if you choose to offer your app for free.

I'm wondering how all of the other many many RSS reader apps got approved, so that I can figure out what to do to get mine approved too.

My app just generates a feed based on interests you select.  And that feed pulls from RSS.

Would greatly appreciate any help at all, thanks!!


texts: Changes to SD card do not persist after unmounting

texts:
I have a couple of 128GB Samsung EVO+ micro SD cards.  I have two different means of connecting these to my mid-2012 MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.13 High Sierra: a micro-to-fullsize SD adaptor, which I insert into the MBP's card reader slot, and a Lexar microSD-to-USB adaptor, which I insert into a USB slot.

I can read from both cards without issue (save that the OS only seems to notice a card in the card reader slot about a quarter of the time).  The exfat volumes on the cards mount and files on them can be accessed.  Disk Utility shows "Writable: Yes" in the Info window for the mounted volume.  mount shows that the volume is mounted properly, with no read-only flag indicated.

Yet, if I make changes to the volume, for example by entering

cd /Volumes/S7;
mkdir tmp;
echo 'testing' >> tmp/test;

these changes appear to have been made successfully, but upon remounting the volume, neither the file nor the directory it was created in are anywhere to be found.

I have similar problems when using fdisk to change the partition type (my actual goal right now) so I can use the SD card (and its contents) in my Android phone: changes to the MBR partition table appear to be written successfully, but then are not apparent when the partition table is displayed immediately afterwards.

Other USB volumes (for example, an external hard drive) work correctly.  I haven't tried using any other SD cards yet.

These problems occur with both SD cards, whether connected via the fullsize adaptor or the USB adaptor.

I upgraded from 10.10 relatively recently and suspect that these problems have started since the upgrade.  Are there any similar known issues with using SD cards under High Sierra or other MacOS versions?


texts: List users on remote mac for SSH / VNC login

texts:
I have a mini-mac on my local network with remote login and screen sharing turned on, and have the password to one of the users login. Problem is, I can't currently connect it to a screen via HDMI (to see the user names), and I don't remember the correct user name.
Being able to list user accounts given the mac's Host Name / IP would be really handy.

Is it possible to list the user names of a remote mac before having remote shell access?


texts: How can I change the orientation of a picture in the printer menu?

texts:
In the printer menu I can change the orientation, but that only rotates the paper not the image on the paper. How can I rotate the image itself?

I already tried rotating the image itself, but that did not help. It still wants to print the image with the wrong orientation.


texts: What are the default QuickLook plugins in /System/Library/QuickLook/ under OS X 10.8?

texts:
I want to see if I have any extra .qlgenerator files there, or if I'm missing any.

If someone with a recent or (better yet) new clean install could list the files in that folder, OR if anyone knows where I could find an official list from Apple, that would be great.


texts: Why is my MacBook Pro quitting and/or failing to start up?

texts:
This is an issue that started today.

Last night I shut down the machine. This morning I switched it on and got the initial sound but not the chime. The sleep indicator light would blink in groups of 3 blinks. I checked the battery. And also tried some tips on the Apple site for troubleshooting a MBP that won't turn on. Anyway, after looking at a couple of forums, I wound up removing and re-seating the memory. Ok, then it works for about 45 minutes, but then the screen went black and again the 3-blinks of the sleep light.

What should I try next in troubleshooting this machine?

I have had no problems in terms of performance or other issues til today. The MBP is from early 2008. There was an iTunes update yesterday and otherwise no new software or updates. Also no external devices plugged in.

However it did have the power supply connected. I did notice this morning that the power supply had come loose from the power strip -- possibly caused by a cat. This is the only thing that seemed to be a variance from usual.

Thanks.

Anyone? Links or tips on MBP diagnostics would be appreciated.


texts: Does applescript's 'delay' function work when the computer is asleep?

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I'm trying to make an alarm clock for myself with AppleScript after my old (physical) one crapped out. I've got a script that'll schedule a pmset wakeup at the requisite time. There's just the matter of making the script actually make noise at that moment.

To that regard, does the actionscript delay command count time the computer was asleep? It'd be nice to say

delay (# of seconds between now and when I have to wake up the next morning)

, but if delay doesn't count down when the computer's off (or, rather, retroactively decrement the countdown upon wake), then I'll need some other way of doing things.

Does anyone know about this behavior, and any workarounds if the answer is 'it doesn't count time asleep'?


texts: How to read data from an unreadable drive formatted by a GoPro?

texts:
I formatted a 128 GB micro SD card from the factory in a National Geographic Explorer 4 4K 30 fps (a camera like a GoPro). It recorded video and I can play it back. On macOS Mojave 10.14.6, I get the warning:

The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer

Initialize Ignore Eject

I am confused because I have transferred data from another micro SD card and the same camera, and because the disk on Disk Utility shows as

disk3s1
USB Internal Physical Volume • ExFAT
127.85 GB

and ExFAT is a format offered by Disk Utility when formatting a drive.

I have run Disk Utility First Aid on the Apple SD Card Reader Media, which succeeded, and on disk3s1, which failed with this log:

Running First Aid on “” (disk3s1)

Repairing file system.
Volume is already unmounted.
Performing fsck_exfat -y -x /dev/rdisk3s1
Checking volume.
Checking main boot region.
Main boot region is invalid.  Trying alternate boot region.
Checking alternate boot region.
Alternate boot region is invalid.
The volume  could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 1.
Restoring the original state found as unmounted.
File system verify or repair failed.

Operation failed…

How can I recover the data from the disk?

Update: I tested the formats on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and the camera:

macOS cannot read the ExFAT format when a card is formatted by the camera
the camera cannot read the ExFAT format when a card is formatted by macOS
the camera can read and write to a card formatted in MS-DOS (FAT) by macOS
(launch Disk Utility, click on the volume, click Erase, then choose
Format: MS-DOS (FAT)).

I will format every card on the computer first before using it on the camera. For the current data on the card formatted by the camera, I will try on a windows computer this weekend.


texts: iPod 4th gen screen does not work after replacement

texts:
I cracked the screen of my iPod 4th gen, and bought a replacement kit to replace it. I replaced it, and before applying adhesive, I checked to see it work. It worked fine, it was responsive, etc. But I couldn't close the case because the digitizer extended to the top part of the screen, and needed to be put into place. While doing that, the screen attachment came off -- while the screen was still on, and it went pitch black. Now it does not respond to anything. It's not recognized by the computer and iTunes either. What could have happened? Could it be fixed after this point?

Edit: connecting to power does not turn it on either.


texts:
Safari 12 improved the security of the browser by killing off the older API. Unfortunately in doing so it killed the very handy Sessions: https://sessions-extension.github.io/Sessions/

I can easily go find the tabs I had open when I upgraded.

My challenge - where do I find a robust tool that remembers all of your tabs even after a crash?

(Yes I know of the preference "reopen open all windows from last session" - past experience says that this doesn't work if the browser crashes).


texts: macOS Mojave download problem from Mac App Store

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Anyone has any solution for macOS Mojave download problem? When downloading the installer app from the Mac App Store, the download resumes fine, but just when it's about to complete, it disappears, and the download button shows Download again. I've tried it 5-6 times, and not being able to download the installer successfully.

I am currently running macOS High Sierra.


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I  want to be able to see a preview of what is being shown on the second monitor attached via VGA on the Macbooks screen. In other words I want to monitor what is being shown without having to look at the other screen (it is not facing me).

Surely presenters want to know what the audience is seeing?


texts: I have been using the Time Machine backup utility wirelessly. I'd now like switch to wired. How do I do that? What problems should I expect?


texts: When I check for update in macOS, are the software from other sources checked for updates as well?

texts:
So far as my experience goes, some software are available directly from  Mac App Store, others are installed from other source e.g. gimp for Mac.

When I check for updates in Mac, does it check for updates for the second category as well?

If the answer is no, how do I know whether a new version for gimp has been released?


texts: My battery is not charged. The only way to operate is to plug the computer in

texts: My battery says 0% charge, there is no x over my battery icon. The MacBook runs fine on corded power but dies as soon as I unplug.  What could be the problem?


texts: How to change the size of a Google Hangouts window in AppleScript?

texts:
Using AppleScript, I want to set the bounds of the window for the Google Hangouts desktop application.

The application file is located at:

  /Users/Me/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized/Default knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl.app

(I have no idea why the application name is knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl.)

I've tried the following

tell application "Default knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl" to set bounds of front window to {405, 23, 1037, 633}

but I am given the error:

  Default knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl got an error: Can’t get
  window 1. Invalid index.

So, then I thought, "The Hangouts application must not be scriptable."

I tried the method provided in this answer to change the window size for a non-scriptable application via System Events:

set theSBounds to {{405, 23}, {1037, 633}}

tell application "System Events"
    set size of front window of application process "Default knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl" to item 1 of theSBounds
    set position of front window of application process "Default knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl" to item 2 of theSBounds
end tell

but I am given the error:

  System Events got an error: Can’t set application process "Default knipolnnllmklapflnccelgolnpehhpl" to {405, 23}.

After opening the dictionary for the Google Hangouts app via Script Editor.app, I realized that the app is in fact scriptable and can respond to bounds. The app is compatible with both the standard and text AppleScript suites.

Does anyone know how to set the bounds for this application?


texts:
Something very bizarre has happened.

Today I upgraded to Mavericks. Before the upgrade my 64GB SSD reported about 5GB free. After the upgrade it reports 18GB free.

While this is fantastic, could someone tell me what is going on?

My initial thought is that there may have been 8GB swap space (I have 8GB RAM) which the upgrade may have freed,  but closing the lid and subsequently opening it again has not made any impression. I still have 18GB free.


texts: How can I hide the unread counter from Outlook 2011 Dock icon?

texts:
I find the unread counter on Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac distracting. Whenever it's there I feel the need to click on it. How can I hide the unread count?

Mail.app provides an option to disable it, I'm hoping there is a setting in Outlook too.


texts: Used Disk Utility to resize Macintosh HD partition on Boot Camp-enabled machine - now can't boot Windows

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I have a late-2013 MacBook Pro running the latest Mac OS Sierra (updated this afternoon). I have Windows 10 installed on a Boot Camp partition.

I decided to decrease the size of the Mac OS partition as I'm running low on space in the Boot Camp partition. So I used Disk Utility to shrink the Mac OS partition, then formatted the unused space as FAT32.

There were no reported problems.

I then restarted the MacBook. It's set to boot directly into Windows, but when I restarted all I got was a blank screen. I waited... but got nothing.

So I forced the MacBook off (holding the power button) and restarted again, this time holding ⌥: I got to the partition selection screen, from where I clicked on "Windows". It froze. The pointer becomes unresponsive. Again, nothing.

I can still start up and select to boot into Mac OS but I can do nothing with the partition from where I do my job, leaving me in a bit of a panic.

In Disk Utility, I've clicked on the top-level disk, "Apple SSD", and selected "Repair", and after ~2 seconds it said something like "OK". I don't have an option to click on "Repair" when I click on any of the partitions.

I haven't used any third-party software, using only Disk Utility for its own purpose, and haven't touched the Windows partition.

Please, can someone tell me how to get my Windows partition booting once again.

I've since removed the empty partition which I had cerated, merging it back into the Macintosh HD partition.

Here is the output from running diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:     TYPE NAME                       SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     GUID_partition_scheme           *500.3 GB  disk0
   1:     EFI EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:     Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD  249.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:     Apple_Boot Recovery HD          650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:     Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP   249.6 GB   disk0s4
   5:     Windows Recovery                471.9 MB   disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:     TYPE NAME                       SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_HFS Macintosh HD          +249.0 GB  disk1
          Logical Volume on disk0s2
          EAD39943-E2B3-41BA-94C4-319E53324ECD
          Unencrypted


texts: How do I get rid of the Notificationexec error in OS X Lion?

texts:
I made the mistake of attempting to run the Maxtor Hard Drive Manager Installer on OS X Lion. It doesn't run because it is a PowerPC app. I uninstalled it but I still get a popup alert every 10 seconds which makes the Mac impossible to use. I looked up forums but nothing helped. Best suggestion was to go to the Library folder and remove the relevant files under Driver Support folder. Unfortunately I don't have such a folder. I removed a dmg file with Maxtor name but it still didn't help.

I would truly appreciate any on this matter as it seems that I am stuck.

Thanks.


texts: MacBook Pro (2018) stopped detecting external monitor

texts:
My new MacBook Pro suddenly stopped recognizing external monitor (Dell U2515H) after 2 days of normal usage.

Yesterday, after I was done with my work, I closed the lid as usual and today, I opened the MacBook and the external monitor didn't get detected.

The monitor is connected via USB-C -> HDMI cable (cost about 20$).

I have already tried restarting my mac, reconnecting the monitor and detect monitors in system preferences.
I have also tried reseting SMC and NVRAM. Unfortunately none of it worked.

Detailed info:

MacBook Pro (2018) - 15", i7
Mac OS High Sierra - 10.13.6
USB-C to HDMI cable
Monitor: Dell U2515H

Any help is highly appreciated as I really need my external monitor for work.


texts:
I'm using OS X 10.8.3 and I want to change the refresh rate of my display, but I can't. When I go to System Preferences-> Displays, I have two options for resolution: Best for Display and Scaled. The first one is default. A little bit lower, I see the Refresh Rate option at 60 Hertz. When I click it, I can see there is also a 75 Hertz item there, but it's greyed out and unavailable. If I change Resolution to Scaled, then I'm presented with a list of resolutions I can pick. For some resolutions, 75 Hertz is available, but then another problem arises - the entire screen becomes stretched, so there's no point of using 75 Hertz with it.

How do I change the refresh rate without stretching the screen from a Mac Mini MD387 and display LG E2242T?


texts: Any free way to transfer pictures from an iPhone X to any other PC via wifi

texts:
I've attempted to do task of just downloading all of an iPhone's pictures to a PC over WiFi.
Is there a way to do this for free over WiFi without going through iTunes or at least with very lightweight software?
iTunes runs extremely slowly on my computer (borderline un-usable) and prior attempts at using it to transfer the files through USB had failed.
As a temporary stopgap measure, I've been sharing the photos via multiple emails, up 20MB at a time (Gmail's limit).


texts: Does turning on WiFi on iPhone use battery?

texts: Does turning on WiFi (without connecting to any wireless network) use battery?


texts: How can I view Image Dimensions in Finder List View?

texts: How do I view image dimensions in List View in Finder? I found this but I don't find this option on my machine. I'm running Snow Leopard; is this a Lion only feature?


texts: How to install a public Beta version of macOS in a Fusion VM?

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I'd like to run the latest public beta of High Sierra (10.13.4 Beta 1) in a VMWare Fusion VM.

I already have a Fusion VM running High Sierra 10.13.3, but trying to upgrade it to 10.13.4 with the App Store gets stuck just showing a black screen with the Apple logo after downloading and initiating the upgrade process (see Screenshot).

Normally I would just set up a new VM with the version I like to use. But I can't find a way to just download the public Beta to use it as an installation medium for the VM. Of course I can find the public Beta in the App Store of my macOS host system, too, but the App Store is only giving me the option of downloading and installing it, which is not what I want.

Does anyone know of a way to get public Beta version of macOS installed in a Fusion VM?


texts: El Capitan Mac: /usr/bin/login tries to run /bin/false

texts:
Just upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan, and I started out with an Emacs problem: it wouldn't launch from the Emacs.app icon, complaining that it couldn't find /bin/false.  I tracked this down to the fact Emacs.app was trying to run /usr/bin/login, the default for the "Terminal" app.
I can switch "Terminal" to run /bin/bash, but that doesn't solve the Emacs.app problem or similar problems for any other apps that try to run /usr/bin/login.

It looks like I need to fix /usr/bin/login to run /usr/bin/false and not /bin/false, but I have no idea how.

I tried to trick the programs backwards,

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/false /bin/false

and I get "Operation not permitted."  I tried

sudo cp /usr/bin/false /bin/false

and I get "Operation mot permitted."

I'm stuck looking for "the right answer" or for other work arounds.


texts: I need to delete a game app data from iCloud but not my iPad

texts:
I have a game where a glitch in the system has caused the Game Centre data in iCloud to be out of sync with the game on my iPad.

I want to delete the iCloud data and then reconnect the game so it then loads the data from the existing progress in the iPad back to iCloud / Game Centre - any ideas.

Please do not post on tips how to delete the app from the iPad.


texts: I bought movies on iTunes before, and when I saw it on iTunes or Apple TV, and it asks me to purchase again?

texts:
Let's say I purchased 300 movies on iTunes, and then sometimes I browse the iTunes store to see if there are some new or movies I can purchase.  I would then see a movie, and iTunes says I can purchase it, but only that when I check my email searching by
<that movie name> itunes receipt

Then it shows that I have already purchased it before.  If I go to my movies Library tab, I can't find it there either.
Today I tried it on my MacBook Air, and then I checked my iPhone, and it is the same result: nothing found.
So I tend to communicate to iTunes support, wasting 15 minutes to get back a $4.99 or $9.99 movie.
This time, the online chat support said at first the purchased movie has an expiration date, so I have to repurchase the movie.  I asked her "why did I purchase a movie and it can expire?" And she searched and found the following.
One "Solution"
However, it seems more apparent that there is "one way" to solve it, which is to find a way on the UI of iTunes or Apple TV to go to
Account -> Purchased

and search for the movie.  Now the movie is found and you cannot just watch it, but have to download it to watch it.
This time, this movie happen to be a movie that is on Apple TV that is part of "Try it for free on Cinemax" on the iPhone, but doesn't show such line on the MacBook.  But both places asked me to buy it again.
So is that it?  Always follow this "trick" to solve it?  This problem has been happening for close to 10 years and still it is not fixed.  If it happens merely 5, 6 times every single year, it is enough to make it annoying.


texts: Some dvorak shortcuts aren't working. 10.8.2

texts:
I just got a new Macbook Air, and was all excited to code: but then wham.

For example I cannot do command + / Which is pretty valuable when coding. It treats it as Command + {

I'm trying to use standard dvorak, not the Dvorak-Qwerty (not that I want to either) though it has the exact same issue.

It happens in both Netbeans and PHPStorm which leads to believe that this may be a mac issue and not an IDE issue. It's pretty frustrating trying to code when some keyboard shortcuts aren't working. While some like Command + C,V,Z work just fine.

How do I get these keyboard shortcuts to work as they do in any other operating system?


texts: Free or Cheaper Alternatives to Apple Remote Desktop 3

texts:
Apple Remote Desktop isn't a bad program. It's a bit overdue for an update, has some issues, but is an otherwise solid program. The big downside to ARD is the price, however.

I'm trying to find an option for teachers in primary/elementary classrooms to have all the computers in their class up on the projector (which you can do with remote desktop) but I don't want to pay the US$499 unlimited seat option (education pricing is a bit cheaper, but still too much). I'm aware you can VNC using the Finder in Snowleopard, but I'm hoping for a tidy program that can simultaneously show (view) several macs. VNC Control would be nice, but isn't necessary. Ideally (almost essential) it will use the existing screen sharing engine in Sharing.preferences.

Update
It's important that the product can show more than one screen at the same time. Logmein free is a great product but doesn't do this.


texts: Is there a way to find and replace a word only in the selected text in BBEdit? For example, if I have a large document, is that possible to select only one function which the matching words will be replaced in?


texts: Ran chown -R user /var and most things are broken

texts:
As the title says I ran sudo chown -R user /var and now most things on my machine are broken. I've fixed some permissions manually (in /var/folders) by checking against another machine but it still freezes after 10-30 minutes of use.

I tried to reinstall OS X but the installation hangs at a certain point and doesn't look like continuing. "Repair Permissions" runs but does not fix the problem. "Verify Disk" completes but "Repair Disk" just fails halfway through.

There are messages in the Console that look concerning but it's hard to tell which caused the freeze and harder to correlate the error message with a program or a permissions issue.

I don't have a backup or I would restore from it.

Curious about your thoughts,
Kevin


texts: Why is an album in Apple Music marked with an "E" and grayed out?

texts:
In the new Apple Music app, which came with iOS 8.4, some albums are grayed out and marked with an "E". I cannot open them.

I did a Google search. In some posts, I read that Apple uses an "E" symbol for explicit material. However, I did not find any information specifically related to the Music app.

I've looked for settings both in the Music app as well as in the Settings app under Music but could not find anything related to this question.

My questions are:

What does the "E" symbol mean?
Is there any way to open such albums?


texts: I accidentally deleted an iMovie project, but I recovered it. Now it is too blurry to see!

texts: I accidentally deleted an iMovie event with an important school project within it, but I recovered it by going to Finder, then clicking Movies. I re-uploaded them to iMovie but now they are so blurry, I cannot see the video! Please help me revert it back to its original state of clarity in time for presentation date, being Monday!


texts: Slow High Sierra after restore from Time Capsule

texts:
So I had a hard drive (SSD) failure some time ago (it lasted 5 years of intense use, so I kinda expected that to happen).
Luckily I had my Time Capsule running all the time, so it was a no brainer to buy a new SSD for my Macbook Air and restore it.

However after restore I found out that my laptop wasn't quite as fast as it used to be, moreover I'd get frequent freezes & beach-balling that would last up to 20 seconds. Needless to say, I was quite concerned - I was running many system diagnostics, tried cleaning it up, did SMC & PRAM reset, but nothing seemed to help much.

What was the issue?


texts: AES-IS support and processor architecture in 2010 iMacs

texts:
Which processor architecture was used in mid 2010 27'' iMacs? (iMac11,3 - EMC 2390)

The CPU is an Intel quad-core Core i5 CPU, 2.8 GHz.

I'm trying to find out if it supports the AES Instruction Set natively at the hardware level, because it would significantly speed up File Vault encryption.

So far I've found that it could either be Clarkdale or Lynnfield, but only the first one should come with hardware support for AES.


texts: How to install Apple's Game Center app on iPad

texts:
How do I get Game Center app on my iPad Wi-Fi?

I am unable to find the app on the device as well as the App Store.


texts: 2009 Mac Pro running with fans at full speed after CPU tray upgrade

texts:
The fans on my 2009 Mac Pro are running at full speed after upgrading the CPU tray to the tray from a 2012 12 core.  Temperature monitor reports that the CPU temperatures are steady 32° and 34°c, and all other temperatures are within that range, and other than the howling noise my Mac Pro is running perfectly normally.

The firmware has been upgraded as per this site http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,852.msg5004.html#msg5004 and the OS is Sierra.

I've currently dropped back to the factory fitted 2.66GHz quad, albeit with the same firmware, and all is quiet and peaceful again.

I can't run AHT or diagnostics because neither are installed on the machine - and I don't know what I've done with the installer disk. I have reset the SMC and NVRAM to be sure it's not a simple software / configuration fix.

Can anyone suggest a fix?  I'm at a loss because the temperatures report as being entirely healthy!


texts: Find my iPhone shows phone offline, when it's in my hand, right by the other one...NOT off

texts:
All the answers to the find my iPhone being offline do not apply to me. The "offline" phone is in my hand. All the settings are on, just like the phone in my other hand.Yet, it shows the first one to be offline. I'm right by the hotspot, so it has internet. Should be no problem. It also does not show to be offline when I look on the iPad that pairs with that phone or from the desktop.

I also can't get the other iPhone or iPad to show up on that same phone when I set them all up. Any help there?
thanks!


texts: Can I use my early 2009 iMac as an external screen?

texts: I have an early 2009 iMac (24" version). It has a mini display port in the back. Is it possible to use it as an external screen? If so, how do I do it? And can I attach all kinds of devices, e.g. a Raspberry Pi (with an appropriate adapter cable)?


texts: Recurrent error during sync: "The certificate for this server is invalid"

texts:
Recently, I restored my iPhone from backup using iTunes 12.5.5.

Now, every time I sync my iTunes, I receive this message:

Is there any way of getting rid of it?


texts: Mac keeps asking for VPN authentication information

texts:
After updating my MacBook Air (MacOS Mojave) a window keeps popping up with the following message:

When I click cancel the window pops up again directly. I'm using Cyber Ghost VPN but I can't connect because it says there isn't any connection. In my keychain I searched for the Cyberghost password and tried to use that one but that doesn't work either.


texts: message: drag dmg file to applications folder keeps repeating

texts: I have downloaded stellarphoenixmacdatarecovery.dmg file. I dragged the file from downloads folder to applications folder. I double click on the file in the applications folder and I get a message: 'drag stellarphoenixmacdatarecovery.dmg to applications folder'. When I double click on the dmg file, I expect it to install, but the message continuously repeats itself. Can someone help me with installing the dmg file?


texts: How can I make auto-hide/show for the dock faster?

texts:
I really like the auto-hide feature of the dock in Mac OS X.
However, the animation for the dock to reappear is just a bit too slow for me. Since this is quite annoying, I disable the feature.

  Is it possible to manually shorten the time for the dock
  to reappear?

Btw: I am aware that one can use the key-combo ⌥⌘D to toggle auto hide/show for the dock. But I want solution without using the keyboard.


texts: How to make a dump of my iPhone so as to make forensics

texts:
I would like to be able to run a forensic analysis on my iPhone from a disk dump copy made on my Mac or any kind of Unix as I would from any external disk with a dd command.

For those who are curious: why do I want to perform such a forensic analysis?
I would like to detect malware, data leaks, to check what is encrypted, what isn't…, this is a method I would like to be able to
run easily and as frequently as I need as a security audit.
I only trust what I understand!

I am open to any software method I can replay.

How may I proceed to see my iPhone as a normal disk?

How may I decrypt the dump obtained since I know my password, but not how is built the AES key from it?


texts: Cannot enter "app wiggle"/delete mode on iPad Air, iOS 11

texts:
I recently charged and turned on my iPad Air (Wi-Fi, US, 1st Gen) that I hadn't used for a while. It was on iOS 11.2.6 and after using it for some minutes, downloading and managing some apps, I noticed that the iPad refused to enter "app wiggle" mode upon holding apps. I can still delete apps from Settings, but not from the home screen.
I am also able to move apps around by holding and dragging them, similarly to an Android phone, but I can't get the apps to wiggle and have the "X" delete button. I have to hold and drag each app, while on other iOS versions I could just hold down once for ~1 second and then all apps would be draggable without any additional holding down.

I tried fully restoring the iPad to 11.4.1, the latest and the only signed version, with iTunes, and I even tried manually downloading an IPSW file and repeating the full restore. What surprises me most is that even after a full reset, the device still exhibits this bug.

On the other hand, all my other iPhones all work with wiggle mode in iOS 11. I couldn't find any information about this type of issue on the internet. Is this normal/expected behavior on iOS 11 iPads, or if not, what can I do to fix my iDevice?


texts: Replacing a cracked MacBook Retina Display with third-party hardware?

texts: I need to replace a cracked Retina Display on a 15″ MacBook (2015), but I do not want to buy Apple's expensive replacement parts. Is there third-party hardware that I could use? "Retina Displays" are simply high-PPI IPS or OLED displays, which many other brands of laptops also use.


texts: MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018), no sounds

texts:
I've MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018),
and sometimes when I close the MacBook (not turn it off), like closing the lid and open it back. I found out there's no sounds anymore. I checked the volume and it's at 100%, I checked the output and it's MacBook Air Speakers. but still no sounds at all. like the MacBook Air is in mute mode.
however, I contact Apple Support and they asks me to do NVRAM Reset and this should fix the problem. will it didn't.
The only solution for that is to restart the Mac every time. which is not convenient solution.


texts: My emoji popup behaves erratically on El Capitan

texts:
Previously, the Ctrl-Cmd-Space keyboard shortcut would pop up the Emoji overlay on my computer, but sometime recently -- I can't exactly point at where -- it stopped working in some apps and started behaving oddly in others.

In Chrome, it flat doesn't work. I hit the shortcut, and the "Edit" menu flashes as if it's been selected, but nothing happens. If I choose the menu item directly, then nothing happens either.

In Tweetbot, the picker appears fine when composing a new tweet, but as soon as I close the window for the new tweet, the Emoji picker reappears except in the unanchored form with the close icon in the corner, as if I'd dragged it off of the edit control.

In TextMate, it behaves the same as in Chrome. In the Textual IRC client's message entry window it behaves normally.

What's going on? How can I fix this?

Remedies I've tried so far:

Reboot
Upgrade El Capitan to the latest version
Upgrade Chrome (didn't expect this to work, but...)


texts: Does a ThunderBolt cable increase resolution on a monitor or just frame rate?

texts: I'm curious what does having a ThunderBolt display over others mean?


texts: Macbook Pro 2018 13-inch screen protector

texts:
Do I need a screen protector for long term usage because after 1 year of purchase , I have started noticing keyboard impressions on my macbook screen which are impossible to remove and also leave very tiny black dots on screen. Which is the best screen protector for Macbook Pro that won't damage the screen if removed?
I am really worried about the screen for long term usage.


texts: mail and mailx fail to send emails to gmail

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Quite frequently I have to send the outputs of my work on terminal (e.g. when compiling code) to my colleagues via email. I was wondering if it is possible to pipe (|) the output of a terminal command directly to email and I realized there are mail and mailx that can be used for this purpose.

The problem is, when I try a simple message like this

ls -laF | mailx -s 'generated files' colleague@gmail.com

nothing is sent. How should I tackle this problem? In this post a very similar situation is asked and something is suggested but it's not the solution anymore.


texts: rsync in cron on Catalina no longer working

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I have various rsync entries in crontab that worked reliably right up until the moment I upgraded to Catalina.

00 04 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync --archive /Volumes/FOO me@remote.example:BAR

Here rsync is installed via brew install rsync (and it is still the correct version post-upgrade). And it doesn't much matter where rsync is going: from a remote server to my local disk, from one local disk to another local disk, from my local disk to a remote server. The jobs simply do not work.

Copying/pasting the exact command out of crontab and running it directly does work, though.

Adding -vv to the cron job, I see that the list of files being evaluated simply isn't complete. Whole directories are excluded. Some files are listed... some files are not listed.


texts: Mac does not recognize iPhone when it is connected by USB

texts: My iPhone fails to connect to my mac via USB charger. The USB port and the cable are working. System Information shows that "unknown device (...not been configured)". I don't know why this happens?


texts: Can I recover a deleted Whatsapp conversation in iPhone?

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I deleted a Whatsapp conversation around 10 days ago (dragged the conversation > more > delete chat) on my iPhone.

iCloud backup was turned off at the time. I guess I’ve definitely lost it. I wonder if it may have been saved to the Google servers?

Is there any way to recover it?

Any help much welcome.


texts: Does the new 12" MacBook (2015) allow for dual displays, or just display mirroring?

texts: I have been unable to determine if the new 12" MacBook (the one with the USB-C port), when hooked up to an external monitor, will only mirror its retina display, or if it has the ability to use the external display for separate content.


texts: SMB protocol supports remote hard links but mount_smbfs(8) doesn't?

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I've been using the excellent Link Shell Extension tool on Windows 7 to create hard links remotely to files on the same mounted volume on a Windows Server 2008 R2 drive [not symlinks — I included this in the tags for the question as I can't tag it with hardlinks!].

I note in LSE's documentation that:

  It is little known, but the SMB networking protocol supports operations to create remote Hardlinks, Junctions and Symbolic Links within SMB mapped network NTFS drives.

On both MacOS Sierra and High Sierra, however, I can't create hard links using ln(1) when I mount this volume using Finder.app -> "Connect to server… -> "smb://windows2008r2.example.com/Files"

$ mount | grep Files
//damon@windows2008r2.example.com/Files on /Volumes/Files (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by damon)
$ cd /Volumes/Files/
$ ln source_file destination_file
ln: destination_file: Operation not supported

So to my questions:

Is this a limitation of Apple's implementation of mount_smbfs(8) or am I doing something wrong?
If the former, does the SAMBA project's SMB client have the same limitation?


texts: Rsync is terribly slow (0,5MB/S) on Catalina but the same rsync job is much faster (50MB/S) running from a Debian VM on the same mac?

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i'm reaching out to you guys because i'm at my wits end.
I've been trying to figure out why using rsync over ssh is so slow on my macbook (15inch from 2015).
Basically i'm trying to backup my home folder to a remote server over ssh, and it runs veeery slow.

First thing i did was monitor the remote server to check for cpu/disk usage and it's barely doing anything.

Then i tried all sorts of combination to lighten the already non-existent cpu overhead of the ssh transfer but to no avail. Speed remained at around 0.5MB.

I tried the same rsync job from a wired debian server and it uploaded at 100MB/S (i've got a fiber connection at home). So clearly the remote server can take it.

So i thought it must be a wifi limitation, but just to make sure i booted up a Linux Virtual Machine on the very same Macbook Pro that couldn't reach 1MB/S upload speed with rsync and guess what ? 50MB/S upload speed to the server.

btw i tried both rsync versions, the one that came with catalina and an updated one from homebrew.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what is making rsync so god damn slow on my macbook when a vm running on the very same macbook reacher speed 100x superior !

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you all :)


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I have downloaded macOS Mojave from some other website due to Mac App Store download problem. So now I have to boot the installation file, to do so the help box of the website says I have to press and hold Option key on system restart.

Does this action erase my whole mac hard disk?


texts: how to buy apple developer membership outside US?

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I'm trying to buy one-year membership of apple developer program for 99$. I can shop everything else from Apple store. but when I try to buy ADP there is a field that needs zip-code for a state in the US and I don't have it!
I have VISA and I can buy everything else but ADP! so how can I buy it?


texts: MacOS USB Device Plugged In Hook (API) ioreg alternative?

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I have a process that needs to run whenever a USB device is detected. Currently I'm using ioreg -p IOUSB to check whether my device exists and then executing a command based on that. This is very rudimentary and involves a pull process. I would like to find a way to create a hook when new devices are discovered as opposed to polling ioreg on a regular cadence.
Any suggestions or ideas welcome! Thank you!