texts: How do I make the Microsoft RDP client for Mac play nice with Windows 10?

texts:
Been beating my head against a brick wall trying to connect to my Windows 10 Pro workstation using Microsoft's RDP client for Mac. The symptoms I'm seeing (black screen or frozen screen) are very similar to the issues I had using mstsc.exe on a Win 7 machine. The Windows solution to the bug so far is to turn off Persistent Bitmap Caching in the Experience settings. Even this doesn't work for everyone.

Sadly, I can't find any exposed settings to turn off that feature in the Mac client.

It's not exposed in the App or menus.
No mention of it in the plist file located at:

/Users/$USER/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rdc.mac/
Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist

Any ideas?


texts: Is there any way to set a print range in Apple Numbers.app spreadsheets, to print just a subset of cells rather than entire document?


texts: How to close application completely when clicking red button on any app?

texts: I'm a long time windows/Ubutnu user who have recently migrated to Mac OS X and running 10.7.4. One thing which i'm unable to get used to is that  while the red button closes a window, the program will remain open until you quit the application using the Menu Bar. One option to bypass it is use the key combination Command+Q but by doing that all the instances of that program opens up the next time I open that application. Is there a way out?


texts: suddenly key 'p' is doing strange things

texts:
I have macbook pro early 2011 and i have upgraded the os to mountain lion.
Today key 'p' is doing strange things.
p0p0p0
--/p0p0
-/-/p0
\p0

above things came when i am pressing 'p' key, onscreen it shows volume notification and reduces the volume.
so now its working like F11 key and printing garbage things.

How can i trouble shoot this p key problem?
Note: in this post i have used p using copy paste.


texts: Can't use Migration Assistant. Need an update?

texts:
I have had issues with my macbook pro due.  My fault.  I backed it up, and decided to do a fresh copy of the MacOS.
I had so many issues with that.  Recovery didn't work.  It froze.  Repeatedly.  Did Internet Recovery, and that didn't work either.  Also froze.  Found my disc and got that to install.  Couldn't download anything from the app store.  Finally figured out to click the top left apple icon and do software update.  Then app store worked.  Installed the latest iOS I had in the purchased page - OS X El Capitan.  Got all the updates done and caught up and it is running pretty great.  Except - I can't get the High Sierra to install.  That freezes.  I've left it all day and tried several times.  Never gets half way.

When I run Migration assistant, it tells me I can't use my hard drive because it has a more recent version of iOS on it.
The OS on my laptop is currently 10.11.6, and it is a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011), and I don't know how to check what is on the hard drive.  And I can't seem to update the laptop anymore.

Can anyone help?  Is there a way to migrate all my stuff manually?? ugh

Thank you.


texts: Why is /Application/Utilies "empty" in macOS Catalina from Terminal but not Finder?

texts:
Intent: I'm just curious as to what's going on under the hood that explains the behavior I'm seeing. (Detailed technical answers upvoted.)

I noticed that if I use Finder and open /Applications, I see a folder called Utilities (as we have for all pre-Catalina operating systems); opening that shows the usual cadre of utility applications.

However, if I open Terminal and try to list those same files, they do not appear:

$ ls -la@  /Applications/Utilities

My question: What's really going on, and how is this possible?

macOS Catalina v10.15 (build 19A602)

My own experiments before asking publicly:

My first thought was to double check the path -- and right clicking the open Utilities window's icon in Finder showed the machine's name, the hard disk's name, then Applications, and Utilities.

Typing $ ls -la@ into the command line and dragging the window's icon to Terminal injected the very same path; running the command (obviously) gave the same results.

So then I started looking to see if there was any new super-extended attributes or something? xattr showed nothing sneaky tucked away.

Now suspecting this something new with APFS, I started researching and found three surprises:

There's now a thing called a "firm" link, that is neither hard nor soft, that end users can't create, and it seems to be some magic about user-level mount points. Currently, I haven't found much detail on what they really are, what problem they solve, and whether or not I should actually care. Although the engineer in me would love to know what's going on.
Doing a man synthetic.conf brings up a very interesting man page, and make me want to go look at /etc/synthetic.conf, which doesn't exist.
The discovery of a /Systems/Applications directory.  That looks new.

Curiosity caused me to try the following, which got me the filename results I expected:

$ ls /System/Applications/Utilities

So, I'm left wondering:

What was the driving need to move things under /System?
What is this witchcraft, if not hard links, making /Application exist?
Why is Finder showing content (apparently) from one place that's really under another?
Is my ~/Application directory subject to such wizardy? (Is there something else I ought to be wary of?)

I'm not used to the case where a graphical shell shows files in a directory that the raw command-line talking to the file system doesn't ...the reverse, sure.

Why would I be doing this?

I was trying to automate making a list of applications I have installed, just as I used to do for prior versions of OS X (here's the old way):

$ ls ~/Applications /Applications /Applications/Utilities | fgrep .app | sed -e 's/.app//' | sort -if

And the new (ignoring special cases of certain subdirectories):

$ ls ~/Applications  /System/Applications /System/Applications/Utilities | fgrep .app | sed -e 's/.app//' | sort -if


texts: Accidentally almost deleted iPhoto library

texts:
I was emptying out folders and deleting unnecessary items and as I went to my pictures folder I simply just dragged everything to the trash not knowing that my whole iPhoto library was there.

When I hit empty trash a couple of seconds later I had realized what I had done and I hit cancel as it was in the process of deleting. Now when I try to open iPhoto it says "Your photo library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable". When I look at my picture space, it still basically has all the GB there, just a few missing.

Are my pictures still retrievable?


texts:
I have macOS Sierra installed and have an SSD and using the following command to avoid conversion to APFS

/Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --converttoapfs NO

but I get the following error:

  Error: could not get license agreement

Also if I add the parameter --agreetolicense I get the error

Helper tool crashed...

Anyone having similar issue knows how to tackle that situation or my Installer is corrupt? Anyhow, I am able to run the installer and accept the agreement but that would also automatically convert my file system to APFS.


texts: How to view Apple Card account information on a desktop computer?

texts:
My phone died. I need to see my purchase history, receipts, and billing information for my Apple Card.
Can I find this information online? Or can I only find it in the Wallet app?
BTW the Wallet app appears not to be compatible with my iPad Pro 2nd generation.


texts: How do I take a screenshot of the keyboard viewer with modifiers (e.g. Alt Gr, Shift)?

texts: I am used to working on a US/CA English keyboard, but I'm currently based overseas and the keyboard that my workplace got for me has a completely different layout (ISO European). It's especially difficult for me to remember where the symbols are that are being modified by the Alt Gr and Shift keys, so I thought I'd make a screenshot of the OS X keyboard viewer. I know that I can take a picture of an application window with the Apple + Shift + 4 + Space Bar shortcut, but I can't seem to get the modifier key to "stick" so that I can take a screenshot of the keyboard layout with the modifier. How do I do this?


texts: Using iCloud to migrate to a new Mac, and discrepancies in storage totals

texts:
I currently have three Macs:

2019 5K iMac
Early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro
Early 2015 12" MacBook (The tiny one)

In preparation for selling the old laptops to get a new MacBook Pro, I've been updating operating systems and backing up files and cleaning up the laptops. As part of this, I've set the laptops to sync my documents, my desktop, and my photos to iCloud.

All three Macs are on Catalina, and set to automatically keep themselves up-to-date.

The 5K iMac is my new home base machine, and will have the canonical local copies of all my documents and photos.

I don't understand why, in System Information > Storage Management, the reported contents of Documents and iCloud Drive are different on all three Macs. If iCloud is meant to store and sync files between all my Macs, wouldn't iCloud look the same to all three Macs, or is this reporting the local storage being taken up by iCloud?
Why are the Documents storage and the iCloud storage different, if iCloud contains the Documents directory?
Am I just confused as to what Documents is in relation to iCloud Drive?

Thank you for any insight. I find this really vexing. I was hoping iCloud would be a help in migration to a new MBP, but perhaps not? I've seen other migration solutions which involve copying home folders, or using rsync, or using Time Machine, and I could use any of those, but if iCloud can be an automagic solution, then why not try it?


texts: Can't use iTunes songs in iMovie 10? -"protected & unavailable"

texts:
I can't seem to use any of my purchased songs in iTunes - basically, any of my iTunes music - in an iMovie project.

I go to the music/iTunes tab in a project and I just get a notice that x-number of songs are protected and unavailable. Does this mean that now I literally can't use any music I bought in iMovie? I was working on just a personal video and have been able to use all the songs in my iTunes library in past versions of iMovie.

I can't find an answer about it anywhere.


texts:
Is it recommended to encrypt files stored via cloud. For example, although certain cloud repositories encrypt data in transit - should I still use a secondary encryption tool for cloud storage?

thanks :)


texts: How can I disable word completion popup menu in Keynote when esc key is pressed?

texts:
I've been using Keynote (6.5.3) for nearly a month without trouble. Apparently, at some point today, I've mashed a keyboard combination that presents me with a popup dialog with "autocomplete" suggestions as evidenced below.

I've seen comments indicating that I should not be surprised, that this is default system behavior, and that it is not behavior of Keynote in particular. It's surprising because until about 15 minutes ago, hitting escape would remove focus from the textbox and select the textbox object itself.

As it stands, I'm actually unable to figure out how to delete a number of text boxes in my slides. A separate side-effect seems to be that the cursor remains in the selected text box even if I select a separate element. For example, note that the cursor is positioned after the word "Wait" in the title of the slide, while the body content of the slide is selected. If I press "delete", ⌘-X, or any other hotkey that I would expect would remove the selected text object takes effect at the cursor. I promise you these are separate text objects and there is no grouping.

I've looked through all the keyboard settings in System Preferences, including all shortcuts, reset the shortcuts, scoured for anything in the accessibility menu, all to no avail. I found out that this is supposedly normal behavior for option-escape, but I am not holding down the option key.

The suggestion at my first link to use ⌘↩ to remove cursor focus from the active text box does not work.

Restarting Keynote seems to do the trick, so it seems to be related to some option that affects Keynote's behavior with text boxes specifically. I'd be surprised if I ran into this behavior again, and it's good to know restart fixes it, but that's pretty annoying from a workflow perspective.

Does anybody have the slightest idea how this might happened and how to turn off that behavior?


texts:
After a botched arch Linux install, my whole ssd got wiped. I used a bootable USB drive for Ubuntu to see what happened and saw that all my partitions from the SSD had vanished and the drive was showing up as free space. I am loading up internet recovery but I am not sure what I'll do there.

Everything went to hell after I typed
parted mklabel gpt /dev/disk2 or something similar along these lines.

I don't care about recovering my data but all I want is my MacBook to boot up again

System: MacBook Pro Retina Display late 2011


texts: Steam keeps asking for accessibility features even though is has access?

texts: This only happens to me on Yosemite. I gave Steam access as per my previous question. Steam worked fine until the upgrade to Yosemite. What may have changed, and has anyone a clue how to fix that without deinstalling a few terabytes of video games?


texts: How can I remove "Where from" information from downloaded .mkv file?

texts:
I have downloaded an .mkv files from Safari. When I open "Info" in Finder on the file, I see the following link to where it was downloaded from:

How can I remove that metadata from the file?


texts: Should diskutil list an unmounted drive?

texts:
diskutil list showed the presence of an external drive.  But nether Finder nor df showed it.  And there was no "oops" pop-up when I unplugged it.

Is diskutil list supposed to show everything plugged in even if not mounted?


texts: My Mac is invisible to my iPhone on AirDrop

texts:
I want to send a photo from my iPhone (iOS 8) to my Mac (Yosemite) via AirDrop.
Though my iPhone appears on my Mac,
Mac does not appear on iPhone.
How can I fix this?

On both devices, I've selected "Allow me to be discovered by: Everyone".


texts: Temporarily disable screen time restrictions

texts:
Is it possible to temporarily disable screen time restrictions? I have specific restrictions set for the weekdays and want to release them or have other set of restrictions then. Currently I can only turn off screen time but it resets all the configurations I've made already and the next time I want to set them again, I need to start from beginning.

Can I save these restrictions somehow?


texts: I'm on a fresh 10.9 install and the default Apache server is org.apache.httpd: Already loaded after each startup. Is there a way to disable that autostart?


texts: Archiving emails locally outside of Apple Mail/Server

texts:
I'm migrating from two very old (the oldest from 2004) Gmail accounts to one iCloud Mail. Unfortunately both accounts have, together, around 30k uncategorised emails in their inbox, from which probably at least 70% could be deleted.
My goal is to have those email accounts completely empty and clean, and check them every once in a while in case something important (old acquaintance, etc.) pops up, or in case I use a service linked to that account (which I would change to my new email).
I gave up the idea of going through all 30k emails and picking up things that I might want to keep. I don't want to get rid of old emails of friends, family and other loved ones, so I'm looking for a solution to download the emails to my MacBook Pro (probably directly from Apple Mail) and store them in the hard disk in case I ever need to look for anything that might be of interest from the past, just feel nostalgic and want to go through old emails, or I happen to have the time and energy in the future to sort the emails out.
Is there any method you would recommend to export all emails and attachments and store them in a way that I can easily browse or search for keywords?
Thank you


texts: Copying from X11 to other applications no longer works

texts:
I'm running Lion with the latest updates, and the X11 clipboard has been working for some time now - Select some text in a terminal, press ⌘-C, change to for example Firefox, and press ⌘-V. This simply doesn't work anymore. I've tried enabling and all of the X11 Pasteboard preferences, but no luck. It will take some time to get all the terminals up to speed if I have to restart X11, so "restart/reboot/reinstall" is not an option.

Copying between terminals and between GUI apps works, and also from GUI applications to terminals. Only terminals → GUI doesn't work.


texts:
Does the newest model of Mac-book pro 15 inch 256 GB (mid 2015)
support Samsung's 950 pro NVM-E M.2 storage (512 GB)?
Will it also improve  sequential Read & Write speed of the system as
the later form of storage is NVM-Express ?

NOTE: I tried to look it up over google & SE but I couldn't find any mention of MBP Mid 2015.


texts: Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1 File Sharing services off after restart

texts:
I have a late 2014 Mac Mini, running Mojave 10.14.1, which I'm using as a file server to a few users in our lab.  The server will occasionally see power outages due to weather.

The machine reliably restarts after power outages, but the "File Sharing" service is deactivated.

Is there a way to reliably start the File Sharing service, at boot time?
Does anyone know of a work-around, to activate the service from the command line? Ideally, I'd like to script a check -> inspect the service state, and start it if it's not running.
I'd use "cron" to run the check every so often, unless someone has a better recommendation.


texts: When I add a file to iTunes library, does iTunes make a copy of it? If yes, where is the copy saved?


texts: How to prevent non-root load of a LaunchDaemon

texts:
I want to prevent a LaunchDaemon (/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mycorp.service.plist) from being loaded by a non-root user.

Running sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mycorp.service.plist starts the service. Running launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mycorp.service.plist without sudo will load the service, but because my service exits immediately when not run as root, it doesn't actually do anything other than reload repeatedly.

Is there a way to prevent a non-root user from running launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mycorp.service.plist? The following do not work:

chmod 600 com.mycorp.service.plist (not readable to non-root)
chmod 000 com.mycorp.service.plist (not readable to any user!)
Using the UserName key in com.mycorp.service.plist - apparently this is ignored when launchctl is not run as root

With the above changes, launchctl load still works (uselessly) as non-root.


texts: Family Sharing working on iOS 8 but not on Yosemite

texts: I have set up a family group and added my husband. From his iPhone running iOS 8 he is able to see and download my purchases, but it is not working from iTunes on Yosemite. There is no trace of my account on his Purchased page.  We've logged him out and in of iTunes, the App Store and even iCloud, and restarted the computer,to no avail. He has only one Apple ID and is logged in under that ID on all devices. All is working in the other direction; I can see his account in my iTunes on Yosemite.  What can we do to fix this, or even troubleshoot it? Nothing is written to the console when I load the Purchased page in iTunes on his computer.


texts: Name: Tags: Where: image frozen on my Mac Air desktop

texts:
I took a screen shot using Command +5 and apparently tapped "Record Selected Section".  That screen shot icon is frozen on my desktop.
I have tried opening Terminal and typing:  Killall finder. Didn't work.
Then I did same:  Killall Docks.  Didn't work.  I can't trash it. It's frozen.
Thanks,
Valerie


texts: Can Automator pass multiple lines (e.g. from a shell script) to the New Mail Message action?

texts:
I have Automator running a shell script that ends with cat "tempfile.txt". The cat command should output the contents of tempfile.txt. The file tempfile.txt contains just the following three paragraphs over five lines:

1st paragraph Lorem
2nd paragraph Lorem ipsum
3rd paragraph Ut enim

I have this chained in Automator to the "New Mail Message" action. The instructions for this action say that "If text is received from a previous action, the text is appended to the message."
The expected behavior is therefore that the body of the email message contains those three paragraphs. Instead, it contains only the third—shown here:

Below is the relevant part of the workflow. In it we can see in the Results for the shell script that all three paragraphs are being passed to the "New Mail Action." Why does this not put all of the input text file into the message body?

Update (further info): If I swap in the "Create New Outlook Mail Message" action in place of the Mail.app action, all three paragraphs are successfully passed to the body of the new message in Outlook. However, they are passed without line breaks.


texts: Apple App Store continues to show Xcode 4.1 "Installed" even though I have uninstalled it.

texts:
Ok, so Xcode 4.1 was working fine and I did the incremental update to 4.1.1 at the App Store when it came out a few days ago.  Nothing has been stable since that update.

So I found on Stackoverflow to use the command:
      sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
in uninstall the environment.

It seemed to work as expected. After that, I deleted the remaining empty subfolders in the /Developer folder, emptied the Trash, and rebooted.

At this point I have in every real sense uninstalled and revoved Xcode 4.1.x. So I go back to the App Store to re-download the full current 4.11 package.  Yes, I am on Lion. But the Xcode page in the App Store continues to state that I have the package INSTALLED ! And so, does not provide me the ability to re-download it.

Why will the App Store not permit the re-download of a free product in its entirety, as a registered Apple Developer, even if I did have it installed ?  Which I don't.

What to do ? Thank you, I am in a bind here. I need to affect some setting on my Mac that will not indicate a false-positive that I have Xcode installed.  Ideas ?

-Ric


texts: Unlocking iPad 2 (iOS 7) with the Apple ID credentials

texts:
Someone set a passcode to my iPad, and he can't remember what it is. Now I can't open it, I'm always asked for 4-digit passcode. But, I do know my Apple ID credentials, and my iPad is connected to my Apple Account.

I know that in Android based devices there is an option to skip the passcode screen using the Google Account of the device, but I can't find similar way in my iPad.

Is there a way?


texts: How to integrate Third Party Sign-in without getting rejected by Apple?

texts:
We are building an application where we have single sign on process in which the user from our app can use features of other websites.

For example: There is as image of a book on our application. When user clicks it app takes user to a Third-party website in a Web-view.

I did this before but my app got rejected.


texts: MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) dual UHD external monitor

texts:
I plan to run a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) with two external UHD screens 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz using a dock.
My desired setting is:
Screen: LG 27UL850-W-4K https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27UL850-W-4k-uhd-led-monitor
Dock: OWC thunderbolt 3 dock (https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/docks/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock).
According to Apple, this MacBook suppors two external Monitors up to 4K (https://support.apple.com/kb/SP754?locale=en_US)

Up to two displays with 3840-by-2160 resolution at 60Hz at over a
billion colors

I found some posts reporting problems with dual external monitor settings with

the same screen https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250066564
other screens Dual monitor flickering: the secondary monitor does the flicker

Question:

Should this setting run stable office work (Word, Excel) and video?
Which cable and port do I have to use to connect the thunderbolt 3 dock with the monitors? Dual External Monitors on a (late) 2017 MacBook Pro mentioned:

Monitor A: Connected to mini-DisplayPort port Monitor B: Connected to
daisy-chain Thunderbolt 3 port

I am not sure what is meaned with B.
Could I also connect each screen with one of the TB3 of the dock? If yes, would a TB3 -> HDMI or TB3 -> DP cable lead to a better result?
This question is similar to Dual 4K monitors with 2017 Macbook Pro base model, however more specific.


texts: Why is my ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist "damaged"?

texts:
I'm trying to edit my Safari bookmarks programmatically. When I try to open the file ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist, I get an pop-up with the error:

  “Bookmarks.plist” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

If I try to preview it by pressing space, it shows thousands of lines of this kind of nonsensical content:

Despite of this my Safari bookmarks are working normally though.

I am using FileVault, but shouldn't all the files be unencrypted when the computer is open?


texts: Can I put a Time Machine backup hard drive directly into a MacBook?

texts:
My original hard drive in my MacBook Pro is 250 GB. I used Time Machine to backup that original hard drive onto a 500 GB hard drive.

This might be a stupid stupid question but can I substitute the cloned 500 GB hard drive into my MacBook Pro? Will it function as the original hard drive did, that is to say will it boot up into Mac OS X Lion and be fully functional or can it only be used as a backup?


texts: Cannot Install or Update Apps in App Store - Error 13

texts:
I can currently no longer update or purchase software in the Mac App Store.

I have cleared Safari's cookie cache, cleared ~\Library\Caches\com.apple.appstore logged in and out again, but none of these help.

The error message is:

We could not complete your request. There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (13).

Anyone else experienced this? Any fixes?

In the console I am seeing:

17/08/2011 15:30:15.384 com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize
right 'system.install.software' by client
'/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/installd'

[6043] for authorization created by '/Applications/App Store.app' [9337]

Update: I logged in as admin and the App Store works fine. So some sort of Prefs file is hosed in my main user. Does anyone know which one it would be?


texts: Touchbarserver process running on a non touchbar mac

texts: I have a process in the activity monitor named TouchBarServer and it's eating up to 1.5 gb of ram, the problem is I'm using a 2017 macbook pro without a touch bar, so I don't need this process. Is there a way to get rid of it?


texts: How do I selectively turn off video to monitors?

texts:
I'm running a 3 screen setup currently.  2 nice matte Samsungs that I do all my work on and one glossy Apple screen that has the camera and microphone on it.  I want to continue to use the camera and microphone on the Apple screen for my video conferences, but I don't want video to go to it any more/have apps see it as a valid screen and pop up on it.  So, ideally I just disable it in the display control panel, but I don't see any options to do so.

Ran across a GitHub project that claims to do so, but when I tell it to power off one monitor they ALL power down, so that's not going to work...  Any other ideas?  Even if it's a shell script I have to run on each boot I'm fine with that.  I basically never want video to go to that monitor so I don't need a fancy UI.


texts: How can I assign custom colors to groups in a dispersion chart in Numbers?

texts:
I have a table with measurements of the runtime of different sorting algorithms. This data should be shown in a chart, with the number of items on the X axis and the runtime on the Y axis. To make the X axis on scale, I used a dispersion chart.

Numbers automatically picks some colors for the different groups of data. However, I'd like to choose different colors. I was only able to change the color of the trend line, but this didn't change the color in the legend.

How can I change the color so that the change is visible in the legend as well?


texts: How to clear cache of a specific application in iOS?

texts:
Are there any ways/methods for clearing application cache in iOS? (I am not asking about Is there a quicker way to clear cache on Safari mobile? )

In Android OS, after taking application manager and then selecting a specific app, there's an option to clear cache.

I would like to know if there is any way (like in Android) to clear cache other than closing the application and reopening the same multiple times or uninstalling the application and then reinstalling the same.


texts: When restoring disk in DiskUtility.app, showing error “the volume on device dev disk2(source volume) is not of type Apple_HFS or Apple_UFS”

texts:
I got a new MacBook and now I’m trying to make an exact copy(clone) of my old Mac to the new Mac. Tried migration assistant, but I found it not reliable since there are still a lot of settings in my iTerm.app are lost, let alone some configurations of the system such as login iterms.

So I’m thinking to put my old Mac to target disk mode and connect two macs and use the disk utility app in recovery mode to restore my new mac’s hard drive from my old Mac.

While doing this, the disk utility returned an error showing “The volume on device /dev/disk2/ is not of type Apple_HFS or Apple_UFS. Could not validate source - Device not configured”. Note that /dev/disk2 is the source volume, namely my old mac’s disk. I then tried using asr and it showed me the same error message in Terminal.

I guess this thing should be related to this Apple’s new file system APFS or what, but the main question is how I can solve this problem?

Ps: tried dd copy also, but the new Mac won’t boot after the clone.

Thanks guys!


texts: Changing the shortcut for highlighting text in Preview

texts: How do I change the keyboard shortcut for highlighting text in Preview (OS X Yosemite)? By default it is Ctrl+Command+H, but I'd prefer a different combination (maybe Ctrl+E) as that’s easier to use. However, the following method does not work. How do I resolve this?


texts: iPhone differences in different countries or carriers

texts: Is there any difference between software/hardware of iPhone 6 devices in different regions/carriers or all iPhone 6 devices around the world are exactly same from applications perspective ?


texts: Is Private Browsing broken in Safari 5.1.4?

texts:
From the release notes for Safari 5.1.4:

Allow cookies set during regular browsing to be available after using Private Browsing

What?

Doesn't that mean, to give an example, that if I go to Amazon in Private Browsing mode, Amazon will still know who I am, and all the things that I look at will appear as "recently visited" when I go to Amazon later (even on a completely different computer)?

If so, what good is Private Browsing mode?

Am I missing something here?

Note that secretly buying gifts as a surprise for loved ones is the "official" example often given for why one would want Private Browsing. Of course, If I actually buy them, I will have to tell Amazon about it, and it will enter my profile, but all the browsing before that could be hidden.


texts: Turn off notification for certain messages

texts: Is it possible to turn of notifications for certain mail messages (ex. newsletters)?


texts: Is there a way to automatically forward text messages to email?

texts: Is there a way to automatically forward text messages (received on my iPhone) to email?


texts:
I have an iPhone 6 iOS 8.0. And I want to restore it. So I downloaded the iOS 8 firmware for iPhone 6 from this link then I opened itunes and pressed shift+click on restore button and then chose my downloaded ios 8.0 firmware, but I get the below error message:

The iPhone couldn't be restored. An unknown error occurred (3194)

I searched the internet and some people suggested modifying the hosts file found in this location C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc by removing or commenting the apple.gs lines. But I still get the error. So if anyone could please advise how to restore to the currently installed iOS 8.0 without updating.

Hosts file contents:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
#       127.0.0.1       localhost
#       ::1             localhost
#74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
#127.0.0.1 gs.apple.com


texts: Using Migration Assistant corrupted Time Capsule hard drive

texts:
Recently, I tried to migrate a Time Machine backup to a new Mac. The Migration Assistant completely messed up. I ended up with a scrambled hard drive and completely empty Time Capsule. Called Apple, they could not help in recovering the Time Capsule.

Is there any way to recover my Time Capsule hard drive after it is completely formatted to its previous state?

I know that there are file recovery solutions like Photo Rec, Disk Drill, etc. But the results will give me lots of scrabbled files, my goal here is to retrieve the Time Capsule to its previous state, and go back to recover my computer from it.

Few clarifications (from comments):

I do not have my previous Mac to re-backup and recover from
I am able to retrieve files, but the time machine contains a large amount of mess, it had backup of 3 separate computers
Searched online for "Using Migration Assistant lead to an empty Time Capsule", but it doesn't seem to be a know issue

Update: few days later

I have mounted the Time Capsule hard drive on a docking system, recovered most of the data on it using Disk Drill.
It seems that somehow, while using the migration assistant, there was some kind of error which damaged the Time Capsule hard drive filesystem and/or partition.


texts: MacBook Air forgetting display arrangement

texts:
My Mac seems to be forgetting display arrangements for external monitors. It doesn't matter what type of connector it is (Tried Apple converter to VGA as well as non-apple to DVI). Within only a few hours after unplugging the display it will be reset.

Has anyone seen anything about similar issues? Is it maybe Mavericks-related?


texts: Utilize "burner" user accounts to sandbox specific "sketchy" apps

texts:
There's some apps that are sort of irreplaceable for a user, yet at the same time unwanted by them, (due to violating privacy, controversial history etc.)
In my case that is Google's Android File Transfer¹, which is irreplaceable (to me), yet like any Google product, behaves literally like malware when installed on your computer.
When it comes specifically to an app that is:
(i) simply "drag-to-Applications-folder" to install (rather than through a .PKG installer²),
and (ii) on a computer that hasn't already launched/used that "sketchy" app (now or in the past), can I:
(a) Make a burner Standard-type User Account → logout from my Admin acc → login with that burner one → download and use the "sketchy" app there and then, but making sure I don't use my Admin credentials at any time, if/when asked while logged in the burner one → logout and back in with my Admin acc → and just erase the burner one?
Would that leave any traces of the "sketchy" app behind, or is it as if it's never been on this computer?
(b) Instead of deleting that burner acc, can I just keep it for future use, so that it permanently works sort of as a sandbox, for when I need to use "sketchy" apps? (Since I haven't been able to find a built-in or 3rd-party macOS feature which sandboxes apps for you)
Or would it leave my computer susceptible to those apps?

¹ The reference to that specific app is purely indicative; my inquiry applies to any app that one might deem "sketchy".
² i.e., app related files will inevitably be installed in /Library/ (and not just ~/Library/) for the app to work properly, when installed through a .PKG installer. Examples: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, etc.


texts: Forward a bunch of emails individually out of Apple Mail

texts:
I'm  using Zapier to parse ~1000 emails I have in a folder on Apple Mail. I have set up a Zapier parsing template using 1 sample email. To my knowledge, the next step is to forward the 1000 emails from Apple Mail to Zapier's specified parsing mailbox.
But I have to forward these individually, like basically I need to forward 1000 emails, rather than 1 email with 1000 emails wrapped up into it.
How do I do this? In Apple Mail, if I Select All and forward, it sends 1 email with 1000 emails wrapped up into it, which isn't what I want. If I create a rule, it only applies to future emails, not retroactively to the emails I have already saved in this folder.
Thanks


texts: How can I easily add a batch of files to the HandBrake queue?

texts:
How do I add multiple files into the queue at once in HandBrake?

I heard that multiple files can be added to the queue by selecting the folder. But when I select the folder as source, only the first file is added, rather than all the files.

Am I missing something?


texts:
Upgraded the OS on my Desktop PC. Fixed the issue with lost folders in finder and Email.

My question is there any way to get back the Today, yesterday and week folders in the finder slide bar. When working with a large number of folders it was a very quick way to mover around them.

Also the folder size resize slide bar is not appearing in the new folder anymore, which was place at the bottom right of my screen.

Now you have to go right click, select Show View option Slide the icon size tab to required size. Then right click again to select arrange by name to get them all to fit back into the screen size.

Just a painful process when jumping between folders and pics etc.


texts: Can I force password protection of specific apps on the iPad?

texts:
I am unable to find out how to force the iPad ask for my password when I want to use certain applications (e.g. e-mail)

I want to be able to share the iPad but I don't want anyone to have access to my e-mail account. The only way I can see to do this is to create and delete the account every time I use it, but this is an extreme hassle. Ideally it should simply ask for my password whenever I want to access my e-mail. How can I do this?


texts: I was using my macbook air 2013 to create a youtube video on iMovie. When I started I had 55gb of space left. I recorded everything used handbrake to convert it and edited it in iMovie. I then exported it and put it on youtube. I then deleted absolutely every file from iMovie and the event. But my remaining space had gone from 55gb to 44gb. What is taking up this space?


texts: Two Finder processes are open. Neither works. What gives?

texts:
I can't get Finder to do a darn thing. Specifically, it won't open new windows, show files on the desktop, or be the app in focus when I click its dock icon or the desktop.

Weird! Fine, I'll relaunch Finder. That usually clears it up.

Er:

I can hit 'relaunch' on both of those Finder items, and it changes nothing. Neither did restarting the computer.

Apps can still manipulate files, and Alfred can open them - but not find them.

There are zero Finder processes open according to Activity Monitor:

What are my next troubleshooting steps?


texts: Integrating Active Directory into our Mac Mavericks Open Directory Domain

texts:
Help... :)

We are adding an Active Directory server to our network, to assist with larger groups and email issues.  Problem is, through searching I've found people who say it is easy and others who say it will just fall apart.  But...  Nothing concrete about how to properly go about making sure it works the way it is supposed to...

Anyone know of any good articles or documentation about adding in a AD server?  Eventually we need to promote it to the master and still have the mac servers as replicas (or at least still part of the system, so we can update them as needed).

Any thoughts?


texts: How can I install the latest Google Chrome on Mac OS X Mavericks?

texts:
Google Chrome updated itself as 67.0:

and then, when I restart, Google Chrome reports itself as "outdated" and brought me to a download page, and let me download a .dmg image.  After I mount it and drag the image to the App folder, it then said it is version 65.0.

How do I install the latest version of Google Chrome on OS X Mavericks?  (I kept Mavericks because I like the iBooks highlighting of simulating a real highlighter, but actually, I found that in Mavericks, that feature was gone, and yet I still may update later, as in the past, upgrading the OS have caused my machine not able to boot up and one time I spent close to 8 hours trying to fix it and eventually had to restore it from the backup).


texts: Can I set a delay on Mission Control Hot Corners? Or maybe change how they’re triggered?

texts:
I love using Hot Corners, but I regularly trigger them by mistake when performing other tasks, so I disabled them for a while and found I couldn’t live without this functionality.

This got me to thinking - what if I could set a delay (0.5 secs) before the Hot Corners get triggered, or maybe set it so it’s triggered by a right-click action?

I had a look at the Mission Control system preferences but didn’t see any way to do this instead of just accidentally moving the mouse..

Can I do this? Maybe a terminal command? Other suggestions welcome too.


texts: How to cd into my local git repo from an AppleScript?

texts:
I am running a Mac using OSX Yosemite v10.10.5.

I want to push my local git repo to my remote using AppleScript.

So the git code would be:

shell

git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/myusername/my-project.git
git push -u origin master

But in order to run this from the terminal, first I need to cd into my local directory.

cd my-directory

So how would I do all this from an AppleScript? Or the JavaScript option in the Script Editor would also help.


texts: Messages not sending all my texts to one specific user

texts: I upgraded to a new iMac running Catalina. Since I've done this I'm having a problem sending messages to my daughter and maybe others. At first she received no messages from me, but other people did. I fixed that problem using a solution from Ask Different. I thought the problem was solved. But now I found out that about a third of my messages don't get delivered to my daughter. We text several times a week and before my new iMac everything went thru fine. I text from my iMac, my iphone, and my iPad and in the past all three worked fine. Now they don't. It could be my daughters phone but it only happens with me. and likewise, as far as i know it only happens when I send to her. She doesn't receive it at all. Has anyone else had this problem or does anyone know what is maybe causing it?


texts: I recently did a backup on my phone and then proceed to delete all my photos, contacts etc. after the backup was completed. Another backup never took place after this and when I went to restore my information to a new iPhone all my pictures and contacts were gone but all my apps were still there. I went to my iCloud account and it show that I have no photos as well. Is there any way I can get at least my photos back? I’ve tried restoring older backups but no photos or contacts are on any of the backups. And yes my I set my settings to upload my pictures and contacts to my iCloud during backups.


texts: Make an external monitor from broken MacBook Pro

texts:
I have an early 2011 MacBookPro 13" with a dead motherboard.

I would like to detach the screen and use it as an external monitor.

Has anyone ever done that? Does anyone have information about pins on the video connector which goes from the display to the motherboard?
Any information is welcome :)

Thanks.


texts: Is there a free program for easily managing network locations?

texts:
I move around from the office and elsewhere quite a lot. When I'm in the office, I need a static IP, elsewhere I don't. I have network locations set up, but it's extremely tedious opening up Network Preferences to change it essentially every day.

Ideally I'd like an app where I can just select from the taskbar menu, like I can with Wireless networks, or a way to apply the IP config whenever I connect to that specific network.

I've found paying apps, like Sidekick, which are massive overkill (I don't want to shell out £20 for an app I'll only use one function of), I just want a tiny utility. Is there such a thing?


texts:
Chrome prevents my Macbook from sleeping. See screenshot:

Some websites say it might be due to a chrome extension, but I've installed no new extensions in the last two weeks (I've only had this problem for two weeks). Neither did I update OSx, Chrome, or the Energy Saver settings. How do I fix this?


texts: Is there a solution for preventing battery drain on the 5s after the iOS 7.0.6 update?

texts: I have tried a hard reset, removing Outlook email account, and closing all apps and turning off Background App Refresh.


texts: Is it possible to remove the "Shared" folder under Users?

texts: Under "Sharing" in System Preferences, I do not have anything shared. However, I have a "Shared" folder under "Users". Is there a way to remove this folder?


texts: Is there a way to access a previous version of a Note?

texts:
I've been using Notes to keep track of billable time. I just realized that I accidentally deleted some text within a Note (not the Note itself, so it won't be in Recently Deleted) that I still need. Is there a way to recover this info? Command + Z won't take me back far enough.

Would restoring from Time Machine work? (I'm thinking not, since Notes are in the cloud?)
Could I maybe just access it somehow via Time Machine?


texts: I turn the monitor off (using control+shift+eject) while listening to music on my iMac 27". But recently it has starting coming back on almost right away, which I assume is from the vibration of the speaker nearby. Is there some sort of sensitivity adjustment to avoid the monitor from turning on (until I turn it on myself)?


texts: How can I regularly move movies in iTunes to an external drive?

texts:
I have been adding a lot of movies to iTunes lately. Problem is, the size grows very quickly. I appreciate having the metadata in one place, but I would want to move the actual files to an external drive. Preferably, I'd be able to have unwatched movies on the main drive and move them to external drive once they have been watched. The link to iTunes must be kept, and metadata kept, as is.

I have my folders organized by iTunes, and I know the trick to "Hold Command and Option keys and drag the file(s) to the main iTunes window". For this case however, I want to add movies as normal and just change the internal pointer to an external drive, probably through a script. Anyone know if it's possible or any other workarounds (e.g. symlinks).


texts:
I'm trying to force TimeMachine to point to an smb location. The smb share is on a Ubuntu server and I followed this guide (mostly - it's a little outdated) to setup the smb.
However, I do not see my smb in TimeMachine, so I'm running:
sudo tmutil setdestination 'smb://myusername:mypassw0rd@myserver/timemachine'
and I'm getting back:
The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied (error 13)
The backup destination could not be set.

How do I go about troubleshooting this?


texts: Latest iPhone iOS Mail app client size attachment size limit

texts:
Our Exchange Server with ActiveSync used by mobile clients has a 300 MB attachment limit.

We noticed that the Mail app on the latest iPhone removes attachments over a certain size (20 Mb??) before sending emails.

Other software (ex. AquaMail on Android) manages to send attachments up to 80 MB with the same email account.

We are 100% sure there are no iPhone specific smaller limits on the server side.

Does anyone know where to find the official maximum attachment size usable by the Mail app on iPhone?

I found this - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202305 - but that's specific to iCloud mail accounts


texts: Can I use my @me.com address as my primary email address?

texts:
Is my @me.com address a good candidate for my primary email address?
I'd like to stop using my old yahoo address.
I also only use Mac products. (MacBook, iPhone, iPad).


texts: MacBook pro - External screen flickering after reconect

texts:
I have MacBook Pro late 2011. When I am at home, I use it with my external monitor, when I connect external monitor for the first time (after reboot), everything works fine, but when I disconnect the external monitor and reconnect it again, the external monitor starts flickering and external monitor screen starts turning on and off. The MacBook's default screen works fine. If I reboot macbook and then connect monitor, everything works fine until I disconnect and reconnect it again, then it starts doing that weird things again.

I don't want to reboot my MacBook after every time I disconnect external monitor... I am thinking, maybe I am not disconnecting the external display right. I just disconnect the cable. Should i be doing it another way?

Does someone have some experiences with that? Could someone suggest me any solution?


texts: How do I connect an iPad to a projector?

texts: How do I connect an iPad to a standard overhead projector? Currently the projector is connected to my laptop via standard cable.


texts: Events change back to default values in OSX Calendar

texts:
I have a problem with my Calendar on my Mac OSX 10.9.5.
I normally double click on any date and create a new event. I give it an appropriate name and the correct time and after 2 to 5 seconds some of my settings are reset to the default value. So the time is set again to all day event, or the title is set to "New Event" or other things are just lost.

These are all iCloud calendars. It looks a little bit like the sync with the cloud is not working properly. Like on double click it creates an event and sync it to iCloud. After my edits, it doesn't get synced into the cloud, but after a few seconds it gets the already since event (with default settings) from the iCloud and overwrites my changes to the event.
(not sure if this is really the case, it is just my theory)

I search this community already and found a similar problem which was closed due to low quality answers but in the end, there was no suggestion at all. (similar article)

So my work around is do just one step at the time, changing time, name, etc, but even this is not always working and it is really annoying.

On my iphone, everything works fine without an issue.

Thanks in advance for any hints tips and tricks.


texts: Messages showing "Tap to Download" instead of images

texts:
Lately when someone sends me a picture via iMessage, I see a box that says "Tap to Download" instead of an image. Most of the time when I try tapping the box, it says "Downloading" but it is stuck at 0 bytes out of about 2 MB. Other times it will actually download after I tap it and show me the image.

This seems to be tied to the user sending me the message. E.g. I can view all photos I get from Alice perfectly (no tap to download required), I can view all photos from Bob (after tapping to download), I cannot view any photos from Charlie (I get a tap to download box, but it's stuck at 0 bytes).

If I view the conversation on another device (e.g. a MacBook), I see the image just fine.

Why is this happening, and what can I do to resolve this issue on my iPhone?

I tried restarting my phone, but that doesn't help.


texts: I have a Mid 2010 MacBook. Is it possible to make the external display into the only one, so that I can close the lid and keep working on my MacBook with an external keyboard/mouse and monitor?


texts:
Does Pwned DFU mode allow an iPhone 4 to install any version of iOS?

I have read

http://blog.nialbarker.com/824/dfu-pwned-dfu-soft-dfu-iphones-demystified
http://www.blogonerd.me/2011/02/how-to-enter-pwned-dfu-mode-and-use.html

and watched

Sn0wbreeze 6.1 / 5.1.1 Jailbreak & Hacktivate iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4, 3 & iPad

Then I come up with a question: Since Pwned DFU mode allows the iPhone to download an customized ipsw created from sn0wbreeze, does it mean that Pwned DFU mode allow an iPhone 4 to install(upgrade or downgrade) any version of offical iOS without requiring an SHSH blob for the corresponding iOS?

A screenshot to show the ipsw difference, using iPhone 4 ipsw with sn0wbreeze Simple Mode.


texts: What can I do if my MacBook isn’t charging but already ran out?

texts:
My 12" 2017 MacBook suddenly stopped charging, and I tried an SMC reset. However, the MacBook already ran out on the battery, and thus I think even the SMC reset did not work, since when I did it, it was just that the battery icon flashed, yet it didn’t start at all.

Unfortunately, I live in a city where there is no Genius Bar, and I stay here for a few more months. Is there anything I can do to make the charge work?


texts:
Is there any ability to start playing and set pause for video in quicktime by keyboard hotkey.

Now i'm doing window switch and then clicking on space key to achieve it. Is there any hot-key for that?


texts: Cannot login or unlock FileVault encrypted volume after a Big Sur update gone wrong

texts:
I am facing a little nightmare here after trying to update a FileVault-encrypted two-port 2017 Macbook Pro from Mojave to Big Sur.
During the update the following error ocurred: An error occurred preparing the software update.
There were not many options at this point. A restart led to the login screen. After successfully logging in the update was again attempted with the same error.
The UI tells me that at least parts of Big Sur have been installed.
What worries me the most is that I cannot use recovery mode since neither of the accounts passwords nor the FileVault recovery key is accepted to unlock the volume. (also not possible in target disk mode via another Mac - error: The supplied password failed to unlock the disk.)
I also tried (among other things) booting into internet recovery and SMC-, NVRAM-Resets with no luck. Single User Mode with access to terminal seems to be no longer present on this OS version.
After all this messing around the update is no longer attempted when logging in. The screen just turns black and the Mac restarts, leaving me in an infinite loop.
Is it possible the Keychain that holds the FileVault encryption info is damaged/gone or that encryption was somehow interrupted?
My backup on a network share also seems to be borked. (sparsebundle damaged)
I have been trying to get my employer to provide an external SSD to make a bootable clone (like I do on my personal machine) for quite some time before this all happened which will probably finally happen now that it's too late.
Next steps on my list are cloning the drive, trying to (re)install the OS via a USB drive and if nothing helps trying to erase the Mac, losing all data, keys, notes ...
I would be greatful for any tips helping to recover the machine with my data on it.
Update:
Ended up using iBoysoft Recovery Software to recover the most important files and erased the machine, since nothing else seemed to work.


texts:
I have a quite large zip file with archived documents and I want to add a new file into it.

How to do it quick and easy? The archive is quite large, so extract+add+compress+delete is not preffered option.


texts: macOS Sierra is downloaded but can't install

texts: I have downloaded the macOS Sierra from app store but unable to install it. It's not displayed in updates section...


texts: How do I sync an iCal calendar across Lion, Lepoard, and iOS 5?

texts:
My Dad wants to be able to sync his iCal calendar across a Lion MBP, a Leopard MB, and an iPad running iOS 5. Since the Leopard MB doesn't support iCloud, I can't use that. How can I sync an iCal calendar across all these devices?

I've tried to use Google Calendar, but with no success. Maybe it's the way I'm importing it, but I can't get the colors to show up correctly in iCal. When I link iCal to Google Calendar, I want the calendars to look the same in the sidebar. It is a bit confusing with out a screenshot, but I will post a screenshot as soon as I have my Dad's laptop.


texts: Shortcut to create/remove desktop in Mac OSX 10.8

texts: To switch desktops, one can use < CTRL >-i or < CTRL >-[< left >< right >].  Are there shortcuts to create and remove desktops?  If not, how can I make them?


texts: iPhone4s turned itself down then turned on by itself then turns off by itself again and again

texts: While I was charging my iPhone4s it turned itself down then it turned on again by itself then it turns on again then off then on and so on. How will I fix my phone?


texts: Mac OS X, install another keyboard layout?

texts:
I'm a developer and I'm just so used to using Spanish (Argentina) as my keyboard layout on my PC both at home and at work. Now I want to develop on my Macbook Pro too, but the only Spanish layouts available are "regular" and ISO, both of which are basically the same as the one I use, except I have to press the alt key to input characters that are very common for me, like {}[].

How can I set my keyboard layout to Spanish (Argentina)? Thanks a lot!


texts: How do I force intergrated graphics on a Macbook Pro 2011 while using internet recovery?

texts:
I've got a Macbook Pro 2011 with a failed discrete graphics card. I've been able to install ubuntu on it with some modifications through it's GRUB interface to run on integrated graphics. I followed this guide:

I want to get Mac OS working on this macbook again but I've been told the only way to do that now is through internet recovery during bootup. Unfortunately, when the internet recovery loading bar finishes loading, the screen goes black and doesn't do anything. I think the macbook tries to use the discrete GPU and it fails.

Is there some way to force the mac to use it's integrated GPU like in the link I posted but DURING internet recovery?


texts: Is it safe to drill a hole in an Apple TV (3rd gen) remote?

texts:
I'm not talking about the end where the buttons are, but rather the other side. This device gets lost several times a day by children who hold on to it and misplace it on a regular basis. What I want to do is attach a hub cap to it like gas stations do with bathroom keys.

Is there anything at the back end of these remotes? I just want to drill a 1/4" hole.


texts: Can someone explain how to find and use kext files?

texts: The post I found on this forum: "Apple Cinema Display Brightness no longer works in Mavericks or Yosemite" explains how to fix it using kext files but I can't figure out how to get the kext file to use with the KextBeast program. I bought a used Apple LED Cinema Display and need to be able to adjust brightness to calibrate it.


texts: How do I write folder-agnostic shell script on Mac as I can do in Windows?

texts:
I would like to write a set of shell scripts which would execute smoothly on Mac disregarding where they are called from.

I am currently struggling about how to implement this.

On windows, I could write three batch scripts

A.bat in folder A
B.bat in folder Subfolder, which is subfolder of A and which path is A/Subfolder
C.bat in folder Subfolder, which is subfolder of A and which path is A/Subfolder

In A.bat I could write

call Subfolder/B.bat

in B.Bat I could write

call C.bat

and both scripts A and B would execute successfully.

On Mac, however, I have to prepend ./ to every script so that it is recognized as script.

So when I write in a.sh code:

Subfolder/b.sh

and then in b.sh code

./c.sh

when I execute ./b.sh from terminal it is executed successfully.

However, when I execute ./a.sh from a parent folder in terminal, it fails with error

./a.sh
Subfolder/b.sh: line 1: ./c.sh: No such file or directory

Is this possible on Mac to write a code in b.sh which would execute disregarding if it is called from the current folder or from the parent folder?


texts: iTunes on my iPhone used to start playlist via bluetooth where it left off. Now it always starts at the beginning of the playlist when it reconnects. How to I get iTunes to work properly again?


texts: Can you remove PDF's after you add them to iBooks?

texts:
I have iCould sync on. So all my books get sync across my devices. Great!

Now, my question is: can I remove the PDF's (from my Downloads folder) after I added them?

I tried it, it seems to work, but im not sure. Unlike with music you can right click on the book (in iBooks) and click Show in Finder.


texts:
I have a 17" Macbook Pro from late 2011 and recently it's been shutting down randomly, but almost always when I try to move the machine. Nowadays it's happening once every few hours and it makes it very hard to use the machine.

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB

I'm hoping people can tell me what to do. I have AppleCare till March 19th, 2015


texts: Is bootcamp 6.0 supporting Target Display mode of an Imac to a Windows 10 OS?

texts: I have a 2014 iMac with a Bootcamp version 6.0 installed. I want to use it as a display for a MacBook Pro running windows 10 via thunderbolt to thunderbolt cable. Is that possible? or only works from OS-X to OS-X? Can someone refer me to a official documentation that states that this is supported or has done it themselves?


texts: Can't Login to App Store, iTunes , Xcode , iClouds on Mac 10.12.5

texts:
On my mac I can't login to App Store, iTunes , Xcode , iClouds. Tried using different Apple id but i keep getting error.

  This action could not be completed. try again

I have also tried using the same id on other machine it works but doesn't work on my mac. I am even able to login with the same id on the browser. How can i fix this?


texts: Can you downgrade a 2021 iMac to Mojave?

texts:
We work on an older SAN that will not run on OS beyond Mojave.  And yes, if money was no option and I could replace 400TB with a more modern system I absolutely would.  However, it is what it is and I would like to get the best system I can for our current environment.
Any advice would be much appreciated.


texts:
I have a late 2014 Mac Mini, with the i7 option, 3 Ghz turbo boosting to 3.5 Ghz according to Apple. To give the system some work to do I am running a ray trace:

$ time povray --benchmark +WT1

This should max out one core with some intense floating point calculation. But when I check as it runs:

$ sysctl hw.cpufrequency
hw.cpufrequency: 3000000000

Why isn't Turbo Boost kicking in? The machine is otherwise idle apart from the Safari window in which I am typing this now, this is the scenario as I understand it that Turbo Boost was designed for?

Just for interest, this machine completes this benchmark in 13m25s and our iMac 3.2Ghz i5 completes in 12m58s - I'm not seeing that paying the premium for i7 was worth it :-(

Update: Well having done some more research, I am getting some boost, according to the Intel Power Gadget:

But I still can't match a 3.2 Ghz i5.


texts: How do I include my own zone file in /etc/com.apple.named.proxy.conf

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When I enable internet connection sharing, a local named DNS nameserver is started that uses the file /etc/com.apple.named.proxy.conf for configuration.

My internet connection sharing is configured such that my Mac gets address 192.168.2.1

On my Mac, I have a local web server with several development vhosts. I would like to make their names known to devices that connect through the shared internet connection. I try this by including this section into com.apple.named.proxy.conf:

zone "local" IN {
    type master;
    file "vhosts.zone";
    allow-update { none; };
};

My problem is that the file /etc/com.apple.named.proxy.conf gets recreated on every new sharing session and any modifications I make to this file are lost.

Is there a source or template file from which com.apple.named.proxy.conf is created?


texts: Three-finder side swipe between apps lagging, swiping up for mission control and then side-swiping produces no lag

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I am experiencing something like a 1-3 second lag only when side-swiping with 3 fingers between apps/desktops.

However, if I first swipe up with 3 fingers to enable mission control, then everything is fine and I can swipe between desktops seamlessly.

I've noticed that if I run 3 fingers across the trackpad, then I'll eventually be able to switch between desktops.  At that point, if I keep the motion going I can switch between multiple desktops.

Any suggestions welcome - I've changed my display color profile and reset my nvram as other mojave threads have suggested.

EDIT: Changing my energy saving preferences to only use the dedicated graphics card doesn't show any differences. Using Mojave in light mode instead of Dark mode doesn't change anything either.

EDIT2: I've discovered that switching user accounts completely resolves the issue.


texts: Terminal command to change Privilege of "everyone" to "No Access"

texts: I want to change the privilege of a specific folder for the "everyone" group to No Access. I have tried chmod o--- that doesnt seem to work but I am most likely doing it wrong. I know that If I click "get info" I can manually adjust it but I want to be able to do it in Terminal so I can deploy this command to numerous Macs. Thank you!


texts: Search e-mail message data not including a specific phrase in Outlook

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In Microsoft Outlook on MacOS - How do I search for e-mail messages that do not include a specific phrase in the message data, including the header?
Example: I could do a search for "stack" and it gives way to many "hits".
To reduce the number of messages, I could remove all hits that contain "stackexchange.com" both in the header and body, but as far as I can see, this is not possible.
In "Advanced Search" there is an option to search the body data, but not the header data of a message.


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Safari uses too much memory on my system (rMBP 2013). By 'too much' I mean tens of gigabytes of memory. I experience constant memory pressure which leads to Safari freezes (it's freezing constantly even now while I'm typing this, and I have a single tab opened). It doesn't stop using memory until the entire SSD is full.

The are no extensions installed (they are disabled in fact).
I can't tell whether the issue is caused by any particular website; sometimes it happens when I don't have any seemingly "heavy" websites open.

How do I resolve this issue?


texts: Why is Mac-to-Mac screen sharing just hanging?

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I have my iMac set up with:

Firewall off
Screen sharing on for specific user, no general VNC password
File sharing on (with liberal access)

I want to connect to it's screen from my MBPro. Whenever I try to start a screen sharing session from the MBPro to the iMac, either via Finder's screen sharing dialog or by calling the Screen Sharing app directly, it just hangs. And hangs. And hangs. And eventually the "Connecting..." window just quietly disappears and no screen is shared.

I checked Keychain to make sure there isn't a bad password set for the iMac and, nope, nothing there. I'm not being prompted for a user name or password from Screen Sharing when it runs.

I don't have a central user authority on my network. Each Mac has its own local user settings. But the user names and passwords are identical.

I can connect successfully using Jolly's Fast VNC. It actually finds the iMac via Bounjour broadcast. But this software, technically, is not free and I'm perplexed as to why the built-in Mac approach isn't working for me.

Update: here are the screen sharing settings on the iMac.

And this is what I have set when you click on the 'Computer Settings...' button:

Jolly's Fast VNC continues to find (via Bonjour) and connect to this machine without any issues. I have to give it my user name and password for the iMac when I want to connect. Finder, on the MBPro, can connect to the file shares (using my iMac user name and password) just fine. Clicking 'Share Screen' in the Finder window wakes up the iMac -- the display turns on and what not. But the connect times out.

Are there log files for Screen Sharing on the MBPro I can look at to debug this? What about log files on the iMac for Screen Sharing? Something that might shed some light on why Screen Sharing says it's connecting and then just mysteriously stops?


texts: Blank rows/ spaces when copying and pasting from Excel to Keynote Chart

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When I copy from Excel for Mac (version 16.11), and paste into Keynote (version 7.3.1), the formatting jumps every time. This means I have to paste individual cells one by one instead of the whole table of numbers, which is time consuming every time.

Eg 1:

Copy(CMD+C) this from Excel:

Paste (CMD+V) and get this in Keynote:

Eg 2:

Copy(CMD+C) this:

Get(CMD+V) this:


texts: Can I schedule startup and shutdown with different settings for weekdays and weekends?

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Everyday, I usually start my Mac Mini at 16:00 and shutdown it at 2:00 using the Energy Saver schedule settings.

I would like to be able to set a different behavior on the Weekends starting Mac Mini at 9:00 for example. Do you know any way to achieve that (third party software, cron job, superuser trick)?


texts: I try to use full potential of my display, but it seems like connectors don’t want to

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Context:
I have bought a 34" ultra-wide 100Hz 2K display (AOC 34" LED - CU34P2A).
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 13" running Big Sur with 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports.
For work, I have a top-level Dell laptop with HDMI.
AOC display has 2 HDMI and 1 DisplayPort input.
Issue:
Connecting directly to my Windows laptop with HDMI uses the full potential of this display: 3440 x 1440p and 100Hz frame rate.
Connecting the AOC to my Mac using a hub (Thunderbolt 3 -> hub’s HDMI -> display’s HDMI input) sadly gives a poor (and blurry) image: 2560 x 1080p and a maximum 60Hz frame rate.
What I need is to get same resolution and frame rate I see using the Windows laptop.

I have a free Thunderbolt output on the Mac.
I know Thunderbolt 3 is compatible to DisplayPort 1.2 but I don’t know if DP 1.2 allows 3440 x 1440 at least at 60Hz (or more if possible, up to 100HZ). In fact, frame rate isn’t a priority.
Could I plug a Thunderbolt 3 to DisplayPort and plug this last to the display using this dongle?
https://www.startech.com/en-us/audio-video-products/cdp2dp14ucpb
Do you have any idea of how to fix this issue? Do not hesitate to ask for more details, if needed!


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I am able to rearrange the dock icons for a period of time after each restart, though I have not been able to determine the length of time. Then I am not able to rearrange the dock icons again.

I have tried the solutions found here: Can't rearrange Dock icons

The killall Dock command did not do anything.

Deleting the com.apple.dock.plist file only seemed to work due to the restart because after a while the issue came back.

Is there a way to fix this issue so that I do not have to restart every time I want to rearrange icons?


texts: Simple On-the-fly keystroke macro recorder?

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What I really want is a simple tool which has two keyboard shortcuts: The first starts/stops a keystroke recorder.  The second then plays back that recording.

I don't need anything else and though I'm open to more useful features, I don't want it to conflict with Alfred's brilliant multi-clipboard or Dash's brilliant code snippet macros.

Any ideas? Many thanks...


texts: What is the complete upgrade path for Mac OS X version 10.7?

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I went to the Apple website, and they only talk about the upgrade to 10.7 from its previous version, 10.6.x. (and I know 10.8 is coming out soon).

I am the new tech who tries to support a small number of Mac users in my office, and although they all want to upgrade to 10.7, I know they have different machines with different specs that they do not all run the version 10.6.x of Mac OS X. Do I have to upgrade successively to each version of the OS, up to 10.7, or can I get them all to the latest version in one step (given that their hardware will support it)?

Also, are the OS upgrades reliable, or is there a history of data loss when performing such an upgrade? Is there an upgrade map, along with models of Macs that I can look at? On the Apple website, they talk about upgrading from 10.6 to 10.7, but nothing for prior versions.

Thanks :-)


texts:
As shown in the screenshot when I do a command-F (Find files ?) all of the files in the directory just do not show anymore (there are hundreds of files in the /shared directory)

Update Of course / naturally I typed in values to the search field. E.g pdf  I also used the dropdowns (type PDF). No change - i.e. nothing shows up.

So what is going on with the command-F.

BEFORE command-F

AFTER command-F  (nothing??)


texts: High Sierra - Switch focus on windows when switch workspace

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I would like to change the current behaviour of my high sierra OS.

Below is the process of what happen:

Open Mail on Workspace 1
Open Safari then open it in full screen mode (you have two workspaces now: Workspace 1 and Safari full screen mode, ctrl+cmd+f)
Go back to Workspace 1
The focus is still on Safari and not Mail.

What I would like to change:
-> The focus is on Safari and I would like to have the focus on Mail, the current workspace where I am. The goal is to use my shortcuts on Mail and not Safari without clicking on the window.

Is it possible to have this behaviour ?
On other multi-desktop OS, it's working like that.

Thanks for your help


texts: Is my own application on macOS allowed to delete it's cache from Library?

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I couldn't find a clear answer on the web and I don't know if there is any guideline from Apple that would disallow such functionally.

I'd like to know if my own application is allowed to clear it's own cache from the Library folder for both scenarios (AppStore vs. downloaded from the Web)?


texts: Why do I see this port as a leave? How to know if I really can get rid of it?

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Once I've installed an svn, I need it.

$ port echo requested
...
subversion                     @1.8.1_3

As I understand, this port is important for subversion:

$ port echo depof:subversion
...
curl-ca-bundle

Then I take a look on what is important for it:

$ port echo depof:curl-ca-bundle
perl5

So as a conclusion, svn needs perl5, right?
But:

$ port echo leaves
...
perl5                          @5.12.4_0+perl5_12

How is that possible? Doesn't leaves: installed ports that are unrequested and have no dependents. mean I don't need perl5? So I need it for svn to work or not?


texts: iTunes wont sync items to iPhone after Family Sharing set up

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I ran into issue where my iTunes on Windows wont sync any data to iPhone 6 after I set up Family Sharing. Any ideas how to fix this?

There are no error messages, photos sync just ok but music does not appear on the iPhone after syncing or clicking Autofill button. iTunes version is 12.2.1. iPhone is on iOS 8.4.


texts: "Turn display off after" setting is not saved

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I have a 16" Macbook Pro which is suffering from a common bug that causes it to kernel panic every time it sleeps. Until Apple fixes this (presuming they actually do), I am trying to work around it by telling the Mac not to sleep while plugged in:

However, every time I restart my computer (because I have to unplug it sometimes and then it sleeps and crashes), it forgets this setting and resets it to 5 minutes! Why isn't this setting saved?

I'm using MacOS 10.15.5.


texts: I can only get a capital P with caps lock on, mid-2014 Macbook Pro

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So, when I hold the Shift key and hit p,nothing happens. If I select Caps Lock and then p, I get a capital "P".

What gives?  I've looked in System Preferences and don't see that key combination as a shortcut.

Any ideas?


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I've installed Xcode and MacPorts on a brand new mid-2013 MacBook Air, but MacPorts doesn't work, saying that it cannot find anything.

mba:~ cnst$ sudo port install wget
Warning: The Command Line Tools for Xcode don't appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build.
Warning: See http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.xcode.html for more information.
--->  Computing dependencies for wgetError: Unable to execute port: can't read "build.cmd": Failed to locate 'make' in path: '/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it?
mba:~ cnst$

And, indeed, there is no make or clang in the path, but it is definitely installed, though:

mba:~ cnst$ find /Applications -name "clang" -or -name "make"
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/lib/clang
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make
mba:~ cnst$

Why is there no make or clang in the path?  Why MacPorts doesn't work?

I notice that http://www.macports.org/install.php#pkg mentions that you have to install something from ADC, Apple Command Line Developer Tools, but ADC doesn't work since last Thursday or Friday due to their security breach, so, the developer tools are nowhere to be found.

What's the proper solution here?


texts: How fast should my MBP internal drive be?

texts:
I'be been experiencing an ongoing (if not precisely measurable) feeling that my MBP is underperforming, and it seems to be related to disk IO. I recently downloaded a disk benchmarking tool, to see how the disk is performing. The issue, however, is that I don't know from that how the disk should be performing. Where can I find numbers to set my expectations?

This is a late-2010 17" MBP with a 7200RPM Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 drive.

I'm also not sure 100% if the issue is in disk I/O; I'm trying to narrow the problem down. Other slowdowns, for example, include text entry in this form; typing the word "slowdowns" back there, for example -- I'd completely finished typing it before the text appeared in the form field. So, it seems likely that there are other things going on.


texts: Best free application uninstaller on Mac

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Any recommendations for a before&after software installation scanner/uninstaller?

What is the best free software "uninstaller" for OS X?


texts: Can apps use different Twitter accounts on iOS?

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Now that iOS has Twitter integration, and many apps use these credentials rather than asking you for the Username and Password, I was wondering if there was any way to tell each app which account to use.

For example, in Settings > Twitter, you can sign on to multiple accounts. Now let's say I use 2 apps that both have Twitter integration. Is there any way App A could use one account on Twitter and App B could use my other account?

Furthermore, I notice that at the bottom of the Twitter settings page, it shows a list of apps that have access to Twitter. Is there any way to allow each application access to only a specific Twitter account?

I noticed that the Twitter app itself has a


texts: It seems to me that the macOS Preview app's purpose is to edit existing images. I'm wondering if it's possible to create new images from scratch. For example, I would like to create an illustration with some paintbrushes. Instinctively I'm looking for File -> New Image, but it doesn't seem to exist in Preview. Please advise.


texts:
I thought I was reasonably early to the party, but the first Mac I owned - an SE 30  - was running System 6.06 when I got it & after a brief foray with 6.06 we had 6.07 with actual multi-tasking…

…but what machine ran System 1?
…& was it even called that at the time?


texts: Program Icons bounce, but won't open on Apple MacBook Pro

texts:
I just got an Apple MacBook Pro that is 5 years old and I have no idea how to use it or if something is wrong with it. I have 10.9.5 and it's supposed to be compatible and it didn't work. Since then, I've gotten 3 more programs from a total of 4 different places and they all do the same thing, so this isn't a problem just with one program or place. 2 of them had to be unzipped, then there was a rar file inside them that had to be extracted. The other 2 programs were marked7z; I unzipped them, then used the rar/zip extractor I got from the Apple store(i've used 4 different ones). Everything seems to work fine until I try to open the programs. I click or double-click on them, they say verifying, the bar fills, then the icon just bounces up and down on the desktop dock and the programs never open. I've uninstalled and erased everything, then downloaded them again and still same problem. They all just bounce, but never actually open. After waiting 5-10 minutes, I right-click and select force quit. I've inspected contents and everything looks fine; hash is correct; I can't figure out what's wrong. One of the programs has a .dmg and an .iso and when I click that them, they both say it isn't recognized. Am I doing something wrong with the extract/archive?

I've never had an Apple before, but it seems like it should be easier than this to just download install and open a program.


texts: Can a "normal" user see all processes with htop?

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Can I see all processes with "htop" or does it make sense to use "sudo htop" ?

I use htop in the terminal (installed via brew / homebrew). My useraccount on the macbook is a default user no special rights restrictions. OS-Version Mojave.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/htop


texts: "o" before recent phone number, what does it mean

texts:
I just realized I got some recent contacts who have an "o" before their phone numbers when I'm adding a recipient after writting a text message, what does it mean?

I'm sure it's the letter "o" and not a zero because it appears when I search for "o" when adding a recipient. And it doesn't appear as capital letter before the number, it appears like "o961231234" and those contacts are not on my list, but they do appear as recent contacts.

Please, I'd really appreciate if somebody could answer this


texts: When I log into App Store on my iMac I get a notification on my iPhone saying someone's trying to log in. But the location is wrong

texts:
So I want to buy something on the App Store on my iMac.

I logged in and I instantly got a notification on my iPhone saying that there's an iMac trying to log into my Account (I don't know why. That's the first time since forever). However, the location is wrong. It says that the iMac is about 200km away from my actual position (which is wrong).

I'm afraid that someone kind of bypassed my login? Is that possible? Or is it just a bug that it's showing the wrong location?


texts: How do I disable inline PDFs in Safari 5.1?

texts:
Today, Apple updated Safari to 5.1 (6534.50).

In Safari 5.0 or below it's very easy to disable opening pdfs inline, you simply say

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

and it never bothers you again.

In Safari 5.1 this no longer works. Does anyone know an alternative to prevent Safari 5.1 opening PDFs in the browser rather than as a download and then in Preview?


texts: How to enable routing in OS X El Capitan

texts:
I've got a Linux VMware virtual machine (guest) configured with a NAT adapter on a 192.168.56.0 subnet. Its IP address is 192.168.56.128 and my Mac (host) got 192.168.56.1. Guest's default gateway is automatically set to 192.168.56.2 and is able to ping google from the guest. Host's Wi-Fi IP is 192.168.0.2,

I've configured my Wi-Fi router with following routing table to forward packets of 192.168.56.0 to 192.168.0.2 (my Mac)

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         172.16.4.1      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
172.16.4.0      *               255.255.252.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0
192.168.56.0    192.168.0.2     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 wlan0
192.168.57.0    192.168.0.2     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 wlan0

But I'm unable to ping guest from any other device on the Wi-Fi network (192.168.0.0). So it's obvious that my Mac running OS X El Capitan is not forwarding the packets from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.56.0


texts: Safari lost half my extensions and passwords after a system crash

texts:
The crash was logged into console
and it caused logout from my system.
After I've logged in again Safari lost most of my passwords and extensions.

I've already looked at this and it didn't help.

I'm using iCloud Keychain and I've checked on my phone - the passwords are still there. I also looked into ~/Library/Safari/Extensions/ and all my extensions are still there, just not visible in safari preferences.

I've tried using Time Machine on ~/Library/Safari/ but it also didn't work.

I have to say that this is very annoying since it happened to me at least 3 times in past 2 years.

1) What can I do to restore all my iCloud passwords?

2) What can I do to restore all my Safari extensions without installing them again one-by-one?

3) What can I do to stop this from occurring again?

I guess 3) is too much to ask for, but I need at least a reliable procedure that can restore everything to the state it was before.
I'm also not the only person affected by this problem - my cousin turned to 1-Password exactly because of this behaviour.


texts:
I love iMovie and used it to create several projects on my wife's iMac.  I'd like to move all my iMovie resources (from an HD camcorder and my iPhone) to my Macbook Air but I don't feel there is enough hard drive space for me to do so.

Has anyone here used iMovie sourcing documents from an external hard drive?  Could you comment on the performance?  I am not sure if I should be looking at an external thunderbolt hard drive, a usb3 drive, or if even a usb2 drive would suffice as I am not a heavy user.


texts: Can't remove the heatsinks on a MacPro 3,1 (earily 2008), even though I have the screws out?

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I have a MacPro 3,1 and the screen keeps going black and the fan starts blowing at high speed.

I ruled out that it was my OS by running Clonezilla and attempting to clone the harddrive, and during the clone it eventually exhibited the same symptoms.

I was able to clone the hard drive on another machine with no issue.

I also plugged in, only a single stick of ram while trying to clone the hard drive and got the same results, so that leaves the logic board, the PSU and the CPUs.

I'm attempting to go the CPU route, but I can't get the heatsinks off to repaste them.

I've unscrewed all 4 screws on the heatsink for CPU A and I still can't lift it off the CPU, I hear alot of creaking down there, but it still won't lift off.


texts: Image capture "import error (-50)" images import fine, but won't delete from phone?

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My iPhone 5 recently broke, so I got an iPhone 5s. I restored from a backup using iTunes, and configured any remaining settings fine.

Usually to take images from my phone's camera I plug the phone into the computer and use Image Capture, then drag the images from Image Capture to the file I want. I have the "delete after import" setting selected so that the images are removed from my phone after import to save space.

Now when I try this with the new phone it works fine on importing the photos, but I get an error (see attached screenshot) and the images don't auto delete from my phone.

Any ideas how I can resolve this?

UPDATE - Laptop & Phone Spec

My computer - Mid 2012 MBP 15" running osx 10.9.5

My iPhone - 5s running iOS 8.3


texts: How to force a new app to be placed on the main home screen section (iPad 6)

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Specs: 2018 Ipad 6, latest iOS

When installing a new app, the app is sent to a new section of the home screen.

I prefer to have all my apps on a single home screen.

How do I force the app to be installed by default on the only section of the home screen instead of creating a new one?


texts:
My Apple Watch series 1 can play music stored offline without being in wireless proximity to my Apple iPhone 6.

My Apple watch connects over Bluetooth and Wifi, and my AirPods connect over Bluetooth.

My question is: Can I connect my Airpods to my Apple Watch Series 1 for music whilst running without my iPhone?


texts: Dual Monitor on MacBook Pro 13 inch Touch Bar

texts: I have recently bought 2 Dell monitors (S2419H) and would like to use them as two additional screens with my 13 inch TouchBar MacBook Pro. However, when I connected both screens using an HDMI/USB C adaptor, the two monitors displayed the same thing i.e. only 2 desktop screens are being shown. I have  tried fixing this on the arrangement tab but only 2 screens are being shown there. Is there a way I can have 3 distinct screens?


texts:
My Macbook Pro was broken and I had to fix it at a Apple support.

Afterwards, I noticed that the wifi symbol is not showing up on top of the upper task bar.
I opened system preferences and went to network, & noticed that the wifi and the bluetooth tab is gone, it shows only ethernet and firewire, so I set a service order and no wifi tab pops up, only the ethernet tab and the firewire tab.


texts: Is it possible to exclude different volumes from Time Machine between two macOS systems that run on the same machine?

texts:
I'm currently switching between two different macOS installations on a single MacBook Air. One is 10.14 installed to my MacBook's internal drive and is my main system, and the other is 10.15 beta installed on an external drive for testing software.

I have both systems set to back themselves up to two different Time Machine network disks. However, I'd like to exclude the other system volume from each of those backups, i.e. the 10.14 backup does not include the 10.15 volume, and vise versa.

However Time Machine seems to save which volumes get excluded to the volume itself, so if I exclude one of these system volumes from a Time Machine backup, it will be excluded from all Time Machine backups! I haven't found a way to do what I want.

Currently I'm dealing with this by not mounting the other system volume in whichever system I'm running. But every now and then I need to copy files between them, and if I mount both at the same time and forget to disable automatic backups, I run the risk of Time Machine suddenly trying to back up the wrong volume, which would be something of a disaster. (It'd take hours to complete and totally fill up my Time Machine drive, among other problems.)

Is there anything I can do to get Time Machine to behave how I want?


texts: Increasing The Size Of The Mouse Pointer In OS X Mavericks?

texts: Is there a way to change the size of the mouse pointer to make it easier to see, as sometimes when "surfing", I find it smaller than it needs to be on the screen ?


texts: Is there an app that will scan a document and upload it to Google Docs?

texts: Is there an iPhone app that allows me to take pictures of documents and then upload them to Google Docs?


texts:
A Terminal newbie here.

I had downloaded and installed Git, but when I typed "Git --version" I would get illegal instruction. I tried to uninstall Git and now my Terminal window in blank.

How do I get Name$ as a prompt again?

Thank you!


texts: Why can't I FaceTime to a Gmail account from my iPhone?

texts: I am trying to FaceTime my daughter through her Gmail account from my iPhone and I cannot get it to work. I don't understand why I cannot connect to her mail.


texts:
I'm a programmer, so it'd be useful for me to have access to F1, F2, etc.  while working on my laptop (a 2013 Macbook Air).  That said, I'm not really willing to give up the music or volume control keys.

Is there a way to bind F7-F11 to their respective OS X specific features?


texts:
I have a cloud drive folder where I store my documents, pictures, etc. I want to change the documents, pictures, etc in home to point to my cloud drive folder. I was able to rename the Documents folder just using sudo mv and then create a symbolic link for the cloud drive Documents folder, but for some reason I cannot mv/rename the Pictures folder. I always get "Operation not permitted".

I already moved the photo library bundle out to another location and set that as the system photos library in the Photos app.


texts:
The rMBP dropped the infrared receiver making Apple Remote useless with it. It's a shame, since Airplay + Apple TV + Apple Remote would have worked as a perfect combo.

So, while playing a movie with Quicktime / VLC and streaming it to the TV, how can I control the playing (pause, skip, rewind...) remotely? Is the iPhone or an iPad of any help? Is there any remote-control app?


texts: How can I avoid Time Machine starts to back up files right after the Mac is restarted?

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Sometimes I have to restart my Mac Mini because an application blocks it.
When I restart it, Time Machine starts to back up files right after 10 seconds I restarted the Mac, and it makes it slowly (I have 4 applications/tools that are opened at login).

Is there a way to avoid Time Machine starts to back up files, if not after X minutes I restarted the Mac (X could be a value between 10-30 minutes)?


texts: How do I create El Capitan installer on a Catalina (or post-El Capitan) installed Mac for use on USB boot installer

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I have downloaded the El Capitan dmg file (InstallMacOSX.dmg) provided by Apple. The expanded dmg image contains the package "InstallMacOSX.pkg" which should be run to create the El Capitan installer but fails with the following message "This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer." presumably because quite reasonably it would not make sense to install on top of a later version of the OS. However in this case I want to create a boot USB drive for an installation on another Mac.

I am stuck in a chicken and egg situation where I need another machine running El Capitan or earlier to create and El Capitan boot installer.


texts: Why is the Lock feature not working on my folder?

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I have a private folder on my drive that I keep personal docs in and i want to make it password protected. So I thought I would click Get Info > make it write only in the Sharing & Permissions section > lock it in the General section, then click the padlock at the bottom corner to prevent changes, which means if anyone wants to get access to the folder, they would have to click the padlock, type in a password, uncheck the Locked tick and then change the permissions to read & write.

This worked for a while, but now when I access the folder, I go through all those steps and when I click the padlock, I don't hear the locking noise and I can still make changes to the folder.

Is there a setting somewhere that I need to fix/unfix? Is there something in Terminal I can do to make this folder password protected?


texts: Does macOS 10.15 Catalina no longer support aptX?

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On version 10.15 Beta (19A558d) I can't seem to get aptX to work anymore and was wondering if anyone else has aptX working still? Could this possibly have been removed?

Hardware: Late 2018 MacBook Pro 15, Bowers &  Wilkins PX.

Trying to force aptX via Bluetooth Explorer from Additional Tools for XCode 11 GM Seed doesn't seem to be giving any results either. I have tried the following combinations, restarting Bluetooth each time:

☐ Force use of aptX ☐ Disable AAC
☐ Disable aptX ☑ Enable AAC
Result: Active Codec: AAC

☑ Force use of aptX ☑ Disable AAC
☐ Disable aptX ☐ Enable AAC
Result: Active Codec: SBC

☑ Force use of aptX ☐ Disable AAC
☐ Disable aptX ☑ Enable AAC
Result: Active Codec: AAC


texts: How do I use dictation paste with applescript?

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I am trying to make dictation code snippets/templates with applescript because I want to add multi language functionality and toggle between languages to change syntax.

What's the programmatic way of using the built in dictation's paste feature?

Also, is there any command for cursor placement after paste?

Thanks!


texts: How can I remove Chrome app (not Chrome itself)?

texts: Once I've installed Postman app for Chrome. Then they deployed native mac os app and Chrome version was deprecated. The problem is that I don't have Postman in the list of installed apps in Chrome so now I have no idea how to remove it. Both native app and Chrome version now is shown in my Spotlight


texts: Unmount fails with: "failed to clean up smb mountpoint(s)"

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I have mounted an SMB share and I want to disconnect, but CMD-E just dims the share disk symbol on the desktop but never completes.
System log says:

  förval    10:09:00.748510 +0100   lsd SecTranslocate: DiskArbitration callback: failed to clean up mountpoint(s) related to volume: /Volumes/myshare

What could be the reason?
How can it be avoided?

If I logout, the share is back in the desktop when I log in again.
To get rid of it, I have to reboot.


texts: Apple Mail 8 shows welcome screen on every launch

texts: I recently upgraded from Lion to Yosemite. Now using Mail 8.2 the welcome screen shows up with every launch of the program. Dis- and reenabling the IMAP account like proposed here did not fix it. What can I do?


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I use IntelliJ IDEA and the shortcut I am using to "extract a method" seems to be blocked by another application. The shortcut itself is mapped by IntelliJ IDEA.

OS X: 10.10.2, MacBook Pro with english keyboad (and layout)
the shortcut: alt+cmd+m

When I press this combination nothing happens, no other app is reacting either.

I already unchecked all shortcuts in the system preferences that could block IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts. I also quit almost all running applications, no success.

Is there a way to find which program could be blocking this shortcut. I am pretty good with the shell in case there is some find/grep stuff to make this happen.


texts: What filesystem should I use to share across Mac (Yosemite) and Linux?

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I need to move large files (5-5Gb) from a Mac to a Linux machine.

Network transfers are too slow, so I wanted to use USB drives.

However filesystems seem to be a bit of a nightmare: HFS+ is hard to read on Linux, NTFS and Ext4 are hard to write on Mac.

Any advice on what's the best way to do that?