texts: I accidentally turned off FileVault on my MacBook when trying to allow downloaded Canon driver software to be opened. FileVault is currently decrypting and I want to stop it as soon as possible. How do I stop FileVault decryption?


texts: How to get Catalina Music library with iTunes Match to re-find a local file

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I have a large music library with iTunes Match.
I had a case of Music losing track of a bunch of my files, and during the file-by-file re-association, I accidentally clicked "Cancel" instead of "Locate"... this song was then seen by Music as not even having a local file, having only "Remote" status. The file location data has vanished.

All I want is a way to get Music to prompt me again to Locate this local file, which I still have. What are my options without adding the song to the library again and losing library history data etc?


texts: "X is not available for FaceTime" on Mac

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Whenever I try to use FaceTime to contact a certain person, it immediately disconnects with the message "X is not available for FaceTime". We are both using a MacBook running Mavericks, not iOS. The same message appears if the other person tries to contact me via FaceTime.

I am able to use iMessage with no problems to contact them, and we have both made and received calls to other people.

Edit: I meant FaceTime calls, yes. I do not know if the other person has used FaceTime successfully with others; by "both" I meant that I have been able to make FaceTime calls and also receive them.


texts: If I have FileVault on, this will encrypt all my data on my HDD. so this said, will this send to dropbox the encrypted files or the original files?


texts: iPhone 5 (iOS 10.3.3) getting pretty hot within brief usage of 5-10 minutes

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I've been using an iPhone 5 for about a year and have never faced this issue. Due to some reason which I am unaware of, whenever I use it in an air-conditioned room, it gets pretty hot from both back and front.

This happens even when I am just using the flashlight or the built-in Camera app.

I checked with a mobile workshop, but it was of no use. Got the battery replaced with a new one, but to no avail.

How do I overcome this heating issue?


texts: Why are some Mail messages shown as empty with "This message has no content"?

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Sometimes new messages come in and Mail (on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion) shows them as empty, with "This message has no content" in the preview column. The message is empty in the full message view window.

I'm connected to Exchange 2010 on the backend.

When I open Outlook for Mac I can see the mail, and it's definitely not empty.

When I quit and restart Mail the message appears in its entirety, but the middle Mail column (with the subject/from/snippet in it) still says "This message has no content".

So a Mail restart sort of fixes the problem, but it's quite annoying.

I didn't have this problem pre-Lion with the same Exchange backend.


texts: Can I stop .DS_Store files being created in certain folders?

texts: Can I stop .DS_Store files being created in certain folders (and ideally their subfolders)? For instance, in a web development project directory and its subdirectories.


texts: MacBook Pro stuck on grey screen with Apple logo and spinning wheel

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The only thing it will let me do is booting to Safe Mode. After running /sbin/fsck_hfs -drfy /dev/disk0s2 it returned with an incorrect number of extended attributes (it should be 486802 instead of 486801) and disk0s2: i/o error. **the volume macintosh could not be verified completely.**

Running the command once more it returns:

**the volume macintosh could not be verified completely.**
volume check failed with error 5
volume type is pure HFS+
primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00
primary VHB is at block 2 0x02
alternate VHB is at block 623463230 0x25294b3e
sector size = 512 0x200
volumeObject flags = 0x07
total sectors for volume = 623463232 0x25294b40
total sectors for embedded volume - 0 0x00
checkHFS returned 5, fsmodified = 1
*****the volume was modified *****
doing update / reload mount for / now
:/root#

sw_vers: Mac OS X 10.9.5

I don't know what to do now. I really am trying to do this myself without spending any money or as little as possible. And I cannot do anything that will wipe out all of the info that is on it.


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In terminal if I type

mdfind -onlyin ~/"Desktop/Shows I Watch" "Bob"

I get the output

  /Users/brendans/Desktop/Shows I Watch/Bob's Burgers

As I would expect. But if I try

mdfind -onlyin ~/"Desktop/Shows I Watch" "Bob's Burgers"

I get nothing. I've tried lots of different escape keys for the apostrophe, but they all return nothing.

Here's a list of everything I've tried:

mdfind -onlyin ~/"Desktop/Shows I Watch" "Bob\'s Burgers"
mdfind -onlyin ~/"Desktop/Shows I Watch" "Bob\''s Burgers"
mdfind -onlyin ~/"Desktop/Shows I Watch" "Bob''s Burgers"
mdfind -onlyin ~/"Desktop/Shows I Watch" "Bob\\'s Burgers"
mdfind -onlyin ~/"Desktop/Shows I Watch" "'Bob'\\''s Burgers'"

What am I missing here?!?


texts: Converting .rtf to .doc/.dox with a service

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I like to write in rich text with textedit and then do more complicated formatting tasks with Pages 5.0. However, Pages doesn't open rich text. To get the text into pages I either have to copy and paste, or laboriously duplicate the file in textedit and save it as .doc/docx. On top of that, I then have re-save to file in the .pages format to be able to edit it with Pages.

What I would like is a simple automator workflow to save the foremost textedit .rtf file to a .doc/.docx format, which can then be opened by Pages and saved to the .pages format.

I think there is a built-in program called textutil which could be used in the workflow.


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I am having an issue with the AppStore, and this is a related, but different question.

How do I find and remove all bits of the AppStore application? Besides the obvious app itself, sitting in the application folder, what prefs, helpers, etc are there that must be removed?

I ask this because when I removed the application file, deleted it, and reinstalled (from 10.6.6 updater image), the app icon showed a pending update the moment it launched, and it showed that I was signed in to my account. This implies there's more stuff I need to delete.


texts: How to report a deceptive in app purchase

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Hoe do you go about reporting a deceptive in app purchase to apple? For example if an app has a purchase that claims to remove ads but it does not remove them as described.

What I mean is the app has 3 types of ads. one is a forced ad that shows from time to time. Another is an ad that is required in order to progress in the game, for example in order to unlock the next item that can be purchased. And the final is an ad that can be watched for a reward.

I am currently on a device with ios 13 beta so I am unable leave a review and there appears to be no way to report a problem with the app from the app store on the device


texts:
I just installed Coda 2 but can't find how to auto-format / auto-indent the code.
In Dreamweaver there is this useful function called "Apply Source Formatting" which basically removes white space and auto indents the code, I can't find how to do this in Coda.
The only thing I found is a plugin called "White Out", but it doesn't seem to work.
Thanks!


texts: Has the retina screen effectively made dead pixels moot?

texts: Now the new iPad has a retina screen, does that mean we can't see dead pixels anymore?


texts:
Since Big Sur, for absolutely anything I put into spotlight, the top result and the selected-by-default result is Safari.

How do I get rid of this row entirely? Or, skip it to select the second row by default.


texts:
How do I know the Apple ID associated with a particular device (Macbook Pro)? How do I change it?

One of my friend gifted me a Macbook Pro as a gift, and we don't know how to change its Apple ID. He has his Apple ID and password which works perfectly with this Macbook. After changing it, will updating to OS X 10.7 or reinstalling online possible?

Does this process completely disconnect from the previous Apple ID and connect with the new one?


texts: Command line argument to "find" and "grep" data inside "xattr -l" atrributes?

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I have a file that an application has set extended attributes for.
$ xattr -l /Volumes/Educating\ Rita\ \(1983\)/Educating\ Rita\ \(1983\).1.eng.srt
net.filebot.filename: 3_English.srt
net.filebot.metadata: {"@type":"Movie","year":1983,"imdbId":85478,"tmdbId":38291,"language":"en","id":38291,"name":"Educating Rita","aliasNames":[]}

I have tried a few different ways to get the value of @type inside the attribute but haven't found a way to search multiple files and grep for and return those values.
xattr -l /Volumes/Educating\ Rita\ \(1983\)/Educating\ Rita\ \(1983\).1.eng.srt | grep @type
net.filebot.metadata: {"@type":"Movie","year":1983,"imdbId":85478,"tmdbId":38291,"language":"en","id":38291,"name":"Educating Rita","aliasNames":[]}

I want to find every .srt file and grep for the value of @type. In the above results the command would return "Movie".
$ find . -iname "*.srt" | while read -r file; do `xattr -l "$file" | grep  "Type" >> /Users/john/Desktop/filebotmeta1.txt` ; done

That gives me a text document with this content:
net.filebot.metadata: {"@type":"Movie","year":1983,"imdbId":85478,"tmdbId":38291,"language":"en","id":38291,"name":"Educating Rita","aliasNames":[]}

But I want to return @type and it's value not the entire contents of the attribute.

I am not sure getxattr or listxattr apply to the command line. They seem to be for internal use only.
I imagine this involves outputting to a .tmp file and then grepping the contents of the file? Or, is there a one line argument I can use to print results in Terminal?
The contents look like json format.


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Possible Duplicate:
  What apps are available for subscribing to podcasts directly on the iPhone

I was glad to see that you can download podcasts directly from the iTunes app on the iPhone, rather than having to keep the iTunes app open to play them, but there's a 20 MB cap on downloads.

I'm looking for a way to subscribe to and automatically download new podcasts over 3G. Is there an app that can do this?


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When I turn on my MacBook Pro it starts with a sound of checking CD inside and the case light detector turns on as usual, and ventilators starts to run, but monitor is still switched off.

At the beginning right after it happened, I just switched off/on the computer once and it started again with all it's processes and a typical beginning sound, but without a screen. Moreover, I was able even to login (in blind mode) and really check if the machine is running, because my Internet sharing has been started as soon as Mac OS starts. So my network has been accessible in other computers and I was sure that the problem has been just in my monitor.

Than I tried to turn the computer on/off manually by holding power button many, many times. And it almost always did the same process, starting with a typical Mac sound at the beginning. But later on, it stopped to make this sound, however turned on with a sound of checking the CD, running ventilators. But I am not able to login anymore and seems login view is not loaded anymore. Monitor is still not turning on at all. Perhaps, this could happen, because I was pushing on/off button too many times or so?!

But right now, I am having it turning on, just with ventilators, case light and a sound of checking the CD, and that's it. Computer is opened and located here on my table ready for any checks...

I already has been in Apple center and they made a 3 days diagnostic, saying my motherboard is broken, but I don't believe them at all. Services are made very bad here in Austria. I was trying to explain that I was able even to login, but the conclusion has been final - motherboard and -$50.

So, I don't trust in their checking at all and wish to hear your opinions, if this is motherboard or some other stuff could be broken?!


texts:
I installed ping/inetutils via Homebrew inetutils on macOS 11.1 (20C69) Darwin 20.2.0 but can't use ping even as root:
$ sudo ping 8.8.8.8
ping: Lacking privilege for raw socket.

Setting S bit didn't help
$ ls -l `which ping`
lrwxr-xr-x  1 denys  staff  15 Jun 10  2015 /usr/local/opt/inetutils/libexec/gnubin/ping -> ../../bin/gping
$ sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/opt/inetutils/bin/gping
$ sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/ping


texts:
What is the default font and size of the font on the status bar on El Capitan and Sierra?

My guess is: San Francisco size 14?


texts: Where to configure Time Machine quota when backing up to Mac Server

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We use a Mac Server in another subnet as a Time Machine target for some of our MacBooks (macOs 10.13). Despite the manual configuration caused by the server being on a different subnet, this setup works quite ok.

I recently configured a new MacBook to backup onto the Mac Server. Now, after some weeks and still without one finished backup, the client starts to complain that the backup volume is running out of space. I checked the Mac Server, but it has 1.6TB left.

I remember that I once configured a quota of 500GB per backup back on the Mac OS X 10.10 server. But with macOS 10.13 and Server 5.6.1, Time Machine is no longer part of the services provided by the Mac Server. If I got it correctly, Time Machine now backs up to a simple SMB share. However, my client still shows:

  333 GB of 500 GB available

The question is: Where is this 500 GB coming from? Is this a local setting? Or is the Mac Server still more than just a plain file share when it comes to Time Machine?

And the question behind the question: Is this quota a possible cause for the problem? Or are there other reasons for Time Machine to complain about a full disk, even when it isn't full?


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Numbers was installed with a different Apple ID to mine (my bosses), so it won't let me update it (when it prompts for credentials, you can't overwrite the user name). I therefore need to reinstall it using my Apple ID.

I dragged it from Applications to the trash then restarted the App Store. However, it still insists there's an update (which prompts me for my bosses credentials again). I've tried all the tricks I can find to tell the App Store to refresh:

⌘+R
turning on debug mode and telling it to reset
deleting the download cache

Nothing has worked.

How do I blow Numbers away and reinstall it using my own credentials?


texts: How to keep Mac alive during internet connection/download

texts:
Since OS X version 10.8.1, my Mac cancels the wifi connection and switches to standby mode, despite having an active download.

I can remember that the one advantage of the Mac was that I didn't have to do anything for that. The Mac stayed awake during downloads, so I could leave the house and if the download is finished, it would switch to standby mode.

But now, it activates standby despite downloading.

Here are my energy save options:

Is this a bug? How can I keep my Mac from going into standby mode while downloading?

I have Mountain Lion installed (10.8.3).


texts: Can the TV app on Macbooks play movie rentals in 4k?

texts:
I recently rented a movie from the TV app on my macbook, and I see that it's available in 4k.
Is 4k streaming playback supported on the TV app of my MacBook (I'm playing on a 4k external monitor)? How can I verify that the quality is indeed 4k?
I'm using a Macbook Pro, 15-inch, 2018 running Big Sur 11.1, connecting to the monitor via USB-C. On my monitor, it says that the current resolution is 3840x2160.


texts:
In System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Accessibility: Dropbox.app is there and it is checked.

Why does Dropbox need access to the OS's accessibility features? Is it safe to uncheck it, will it keep working fine?


texts: Missing 0 key when change input source from ABC to Hungarian

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I recently got a new MacBook Pro for work/personal usage, the physical keyboard itself has a default US English qwerty layout. In keyboard settings I added ABC and Hungarian. It works perfectly, except for one little thing when I change to Hungarian input there is no way to write 0.
Is there a key combination, or way to configure it? It's very frustrating whenever I write something in Hungarian and have to change the input source back to ABC just to write 0.


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I had a problem with my battery(as I think). Actually I asked the question before about this issue here MacBook turning off suddenly

And eventually, I have decided to change my battery. I opened my MacBook and took a few pictures

And now I would like to buy genuine MacBook a1417 battery, by this search request I can find on eBay a lot of offers, but the question here is how to understand that this or that battery a really genuine(original) and I that I can buy it without any doubts?

For example this two

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202630493472

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202496878288

Both of them wrote Genuine, but price difference in around 10$... and anyway how can I check that this battery really good and genuine one?


texts: What to do (besides rebooting) when Finder won't navigate to /tmp?

texts:
If one uses the Command + Shift + G keyboard shortcut and asks Finder to navigate to /tmp, on occasion instead of being taken to /private/tmp (with appropriate hiding of the /private directory from the user) the user is taken to / as exhibited here:

And if I attempt to navigate to /private/tmp:

What gives?


texts: iTunes download stopped on Mac unexpectedly

texts: As you can see in the image below, the downloads are stopped. I have no trouble download music on my iPhone, but on my Mac, I have a hard time figuring out how to resume the download. Can anyone help me?


texts:
I am trying to install an app in OSX.  But I am getting the below error

  The item “.VolumeIcon.icns” can’t be replaced because it’s invisible.

When I get into the Applications, I'm able to see .VolumeIcon.icns as a hidden item.  I also tried deleting it, however it is again created by the app(by default it is hidden).  Can you guide me how to resolve this error?


texts: How to enable Huawei share in Mac Catalina?

texts:
I recently updated my mac to Catalina, and I share a lot of files using Huawei Share, but since the update I can't log in my phone.

I've read that I have to enable NetBIOS on using terminal:

echo "[default]" | sudo tee -a /etc/nsmb.conf
echo "port445=both" | sudo tee -a /etc/nsmb.conf

When i did that, did nothing!


texts: Arrange different external displays of same model to different positions

texts:
I am running Mac OS X (Version 10.10.5) on a MacBook Pro (13 Inch, Mid 2010) and want to arrange an external monitor of the same type to different positions.

First, let me explain my setup:

monitor at my office: DELL U2312HM (located above the MacBook's screen)
monitor at home: DELL U2312HM (located left of the MacBook's screen)

As you can see, I am using different monitors of the same type (they have different serial numbers displayed in the System Overview window). However, they are located either above or left of the internal screen.

Since the only way I know to arrange an external monitor is draging the blue boxes in the monitor section of the system preferences, I need to do this every morning after connecting my monitor in the office and every evening after coming home. The monitor arrangement does not depend on the monitor's serial number but on the model since saving the arrangement of different models works as desired.

So is there a way, a hidden setting, a hidden setting accessible through the terminal or even a third-party app which enables different monitor arrangements for the same monitor model but based on the monitor's serial number as shown in the system overview?

The behavior which seems to be a system default is very annoying and does not feel very apple-like.


texts: Why is my iPhone 3GS proximity detector not working?

texts:
Whenever I use the phone on my iPhone 3GS, it detects my face's proximity and dims the screen. However, once the call ends and I take the phone away from my face, the screen does not brighten again until I press the power/wake button, at which point the screen returns to normal.

Why is this happening? How can I fix it?

Some basic info: I'm running iOS 4.1, jailbroken.


texts: How to install 10.4 on a partition on a Macbook Pro that was been upgraded to 10.6.8

texts:
10.4 was the original OS.  I have software that wouldn't run on 10.6.8 which I didn't realize until after I'd upgraded to 10.6.8.  I made a partition but restart/"option" won't recognize it.  How can I run the software that requires 10.4?

When I try to reboot, it's as if I'd never made the partition, even though it's on the desktop as a second hard drive.

Why can't I access the partition as an option when I reboot?


texts: Is it possible to *partially* claim an iTunes gift card?

texts:
When I claim an iTunes gift card I am given the option to use it toward an Apple Music subscription. For example, I can use a $150 gift card to get a year of Apple Music for $99 and have $51 left over to buy apps or whatever.

But what if I'm not sure yet whether or not I want to commit to the Apple Music Platform? It may not be an obvious decision for everyone. It certainly gave me a pause, while I considered how likely I am to purchase a HomePod in the near future, and various other factors.

Is there a way to claim just $51 of the $150 gift card and buy some apps and music while I contemplate whether I actually want Apple Music? Or do I have to buy the Apple Music subscription first, and then other iTunes content?


texts: How can I sync notes in iPhone with macbook pro and vice versa by using either bluetooth or using USB cable?

texts:
I have iPhone 4 and macbook pro. I have some notes in my iPhone. I would like to sync those notes to my iPhone.  How can I sync notes in iPhone with macbook pro and vice versa by using either bluetooth or using USB cable which is used to charge iPhone and with out using any external account like iCloud or gmail?

Research that I have done:
I have Googled with the phrase "how to sync iphone notes with mac" and I got below result.
 along with other results.

iOS: Syncing Notes

How ever all those articles discuss the method with iCloud account. But I don't have iCloud account.

The below article seems to be very close to my question. How ever it didn't provide any solution to my problem.

Notes was removed in Mountain Lion

I have searched in apple.SE site also. How ever I found some results. But all of them are suggesting with some of the other email account.

How ever I would like to sync the notes with out Internet by using either USB cable which I used to charge iPhone or bluetooth.


texts: Searching for available Apple Developer account names

texts:
I am about to set up a company but I have a suspicion another developer has taken the name that we would intend to trade under for a developer account.

We're setting up our business in the UK, and the official registration office (companies house) claims the name is available as far as 'the company' is concerned, but is there some way I can check if the Apple Developer account name will be available before actually forming the company? Will it be a problem or can we and this third party both trade under near-identical names? (for example fuzzy games and fuzzy-games).


texts: How to set System Photo Library using the command line?

texts:
I know that I can set the System Photo library in Photos.app in Preferences > Use as System Photo Library

I would like to know how to set this using the command line, giving the new System Photo Library location as a parameter.

The background for this is that I keep my Photos library in Dropbox, and I have found that if I have it set to the System Photo Library on more than one Mac, I get file conflicts due to background processing - so I would like to do some scripting to work around some of these issues.


texts: Permissions for new files in shared directory

texts:
We just got a new iMac are using the /Users/Shared directory to store media assets (pictures, audio, video) that we want accessible to all users on the machine. After copying over all the files initially, we set the desired permissions and then applied the same permissions to all directory contents recursively. This is working fine, except then whenever someone creates a new file or directory, it does not have the same permissions and we have to repeat the whole permissions process before everyone can access it.

Is there a way that we can set permissions for all new files/directories created within that directory?


texts: Is the iBooks app sandboxed on Mavericks?

texts:
I would like to know if ibooks app on Mavericks is sandboxed.

I might read some unsecure ebooks (from internet).


texts: Why does my iPhone not have any audio during phone calls?

texts:
My iPhone 5 is having a strange problem that affects phone calls only.  (And yes, I've tried rebooting.)

Regular Phone Call

When I call someone, or someone calls me (whether via iPhone or non-iPhone), the call seems to connect, but there is no audio for either participant.  They can't hear me, and I can't hear them.

The result is the same whether using speakerphone or not.

Microphone & Speaker OK?

The microphone works fine -- I can make Facetime calls (either audio or video), I can have it convert my speech into text, etc.

The speaker you hold up to your ear works fine -- I can hear just fine on Facetime calls.

The speaker you use to broadcast sound to everyone nearby works fine, too -- I can play music and watch videos.

Network Behavior OK?

The phone's ability to connect to the cellular network seems normal, too.  I can make and receive Facetime calls via the cellular network, connect to the internet, and send/receive texts (for both iPhones and non-iPhones).

What can I do to fix this problem?  (Or at least diagnose it further...)

(After months of trying things, I was unable to fix the phone and simply bought a new one.)


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I use a 4K monitor as my main monitor, with my laptop off to one side.  Nearly every app I open opens correctly on the 4K monitor.
But Firefox always opens on the laptop monitor, even when its windows were on my 4K monitor when closed.  Also, when I make a new window in Firefox, it opens on the laptop monitor (even when all existing Firefox windows are in the 4K monitor).  Needless to say, this is very annoying.
How can I configure Firefox (or my Mac OS) to correctly open new windows on the 4K monitor like all other apps do?
This is on Mac OS 10.11.6 and Firefox 78.1.0esr.


texts: What happens if I use a 60W rated USB-C cable to charge my Macbook from the 85W power brick?

texts: Will they still be able to negotiate the correct charging amount of 60W and not overload the cable?


texts:
Today I updated my 2014 MacBook Air to macOS Mojave 10.14.5 as it just released. After the update finished, I checked console logs and noticed in 'System Reports' there's a log named "signpost_reporter[date & details].cpu_resource".

In the console log the path is /usr/libexec/signpost_reporter, a path i've never seen before until today.

I also updated my family's iMac to 10.14.5 but no signpost_reporter log was created after the instillation finished.

What exactly is "signpost_reporter"? What is it's function?  Why did I get a log for it?


texts: ls: : Operation not permitted - Mojave security?

texts:
Is this directory protected by Mojave's new security features?

$ sudo ls -laR /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/
ls: Operation not permitted

It works in High Sierra but not Mojave. How do we view the contents of this directory?


texts: Do I have to create a contact entry for *myself* to use Siri?

texts: Siri keeps telling me "I know nothing of you who are or where you live"


texts:
I'm currently using Late 2008 MacBook (Aluminum). My battery cycle is currently 111 and has went for replacement of battery 6 months ago + warrenty is ending soon. Hence I want to let the battery last as long as possible.

The common question are whether to charge my MacBook when using. But can I charge it for few more hours after it is fully charged? And also charge whenever I found a power source? So that the battery cycle will not increase tremulously.

What are the proper steps to charge MacBook batteries for long lasting life?


texts: Determining what application has BlueTooth AV control focus

texts: BlueTooth headphones often have buttons allowing media control (under AVRCP). Under OS X, how (short of hitting "Play" and seeing which application starts playing) can the application currently receiving these commands be determined or changed by a user?


texts: Can I connect a 3440x1440 display to my late 2013 27" iMac?

texts:
Currently I'm running an external 27"  2560x1440 apple cinema display from the thunderbolt port. I have a second thunderbolt port, so I was wondering if it's possible to also use a thunderbolt enabled 3440x1440 monitor, maybe like the LG 34UM95C. The computer is a late 2013 iMac with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M graphics card.
Thanks!


texts: I've recently bought new iPad 3 and I'm new to use an iPad. I'm trying to find a way to set password asterisks by default while currently when I type password each character is display for 2-3 seconds. How can I set password at asterisks by default?


texts: Requesting help setting up iPhone for Grandpa - coronavirus

texts:
It is April 2020. Grandpa has been willing to practice social distancing and requested to use FaceTime to keep in touch with the family. I switched his cell over to an iPhone 6.

Without having a chance to thoroughly review iPhone functions and apps in person, I was reluctant to hand over the phone. But then we had an earthquake and then he had multiple power outages. So he needed the phone and it seemed pretty important.

He did surprisingly well with it. For about 1 week. Since then he is constantly silencing his phone, putting it into airplane mode, getting stuck in some random app, etc. Without being there to see what is happening, it’s incredibly difficult and time consuming to talk him through these situations.

I think if I could see his screen I would quickly be able to help him through it. Even better: if I could power cycle, change settings, and most of all close open apps, it would save a lot of time.

I have considered 3rd party apps for remote sharing, but I don’t know enough to choose and or set it up in the first place. Looking for recommendations for

1) At minimum allow me to see his screen so I can walk him through steps over the landline.

2) If possible allow me to remotely control his device from my Mac (running Catalina)

3) I don’t know enough about security but I would like to do this safely if possible.


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So I waste too much time on my phone. Checking Facebook and Twitter, browsing to read unproductive things, etc. I should just stop, but I'm curious if there is a technological deterrent to my habit.

I suspect that an unlock delay would be perfect. If I knew that my phone would take 30 or 60 seconds to unlock, then I would be significantly less likely to pick up my phone at all, when I don't need anything. I need to have my phone near me and on for work, but I would like it if the time-wasting aspects of my phone were less convenient.

Is there any sort of setting or app that could help with this?


texts: How do I make symbolic links invisible in the Finder?

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I use SetFile via the terminal to render files and folders invisible inside Finder windows. This does not appear to work on symbolic links: the symlink destination is made invisible, rather than the symlink itself.

I see a number of symlinks in / which are invisible in the Finder (e.g. /etc -> private/etc), so it seems to be possible. Can I duplicate this behavior?


texts: iMac 27" 5K i7 2017 starts to blow like h**l when Chrome Canary is open with just 1 tab

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When I open Chrome Canary (the latest version) it opens on one of my extensions called 'Papier'
It's a note taking extension that I like.
I don't open any other tab and after like a minute, the iMac starts to blow like it's busy doing...
Doing what!?
I deleted all extensions that I didn't need any more, to a stric minimum, but still.
Anyone having an idea on what it could be?
I closed the 'Papier' tab and now I have StackExchange open, still blows like crazy.
I see 'SystemUIServer' in the processes that ask 180% ?!
I only have this behaviour with Canary.


texts: Incoming text message auto filled the "TO" field?

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I received an MMS messages this afternoon on my iPhone 6.  When I opened it, it was clearly a spam text message.

I did not recognize the sender.

I went to the link in the email on a spun up virtual machine and it just went to some Gwen Stefani article.

However, what caught my eye was that the "to" field had several old gmail contacts who I haven't reached out to in some time. (screen shots below) There are 9 email addresses in the "to" field.

Is it possible for someone to compose a text message which then fills in the TO field automatically? I checked with people in the "TO" field and they didn't receive this message.


texts: Applications installed with brew cask install won't launch for other users

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I have two users accounts on my Mac, one for personal use and one for work use.  I use Homebrew to install most of my applications.

However, whatever GUI application I install using brew cask install <app>, it won't launch for the other user.  Every time I try to open such an app with the other user, I get an error like:

I noticed that the application files are installed owned by the installer (in this case the user work):

$ ls -l /Applications/
 ...
drwxr-xr-x@  3 root    wheel   96 Feb 11 20:13 Siri.app/
drwxr-xr-x@  3 work    staff   96 Feb  6 19:52 Spotify.app/

How can I get the apps to launch also for other users on the system?


texts: Applescript and javascript document.querySelectorAll click on a link

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I'm trying to click on the ViewMYMachines link,
I'm not sure how to proceed, I suppose I have to use document.querySelectorAll

here is the link :

 View

here is my code

tell application "Google Chrome"
    tell tab 1 of window 1 to set clickOnTheLink to execute javascript "document.querySelectorAll('data-auto-test-id= > a')[0].click();"
end tell


texts: Correct Syntax to change default Screenshots and Screencapture save location?

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I would like to change the default screenshot location for OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 using Terminal. But this command is not working, where subfoldername = "name of my sub-folder" I want to store my screenshots in.

author$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location -string “$HOME/Desktop/subfoldername"


texts: What HDMI to DVI adapters are high quality?

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When I bought my Mac mini Server (Mid 2011) it came with a HDMI to DVI adapter/dongle. Now I want to buy a similar, high quality, dongle for my retina Macbook Pro. I prefer a HDMI dongle because it keeps my Thunderbolt ports available. How can I determine quality so I'm not just shopping based on price?

from: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3235

And if not, what is a good alternative? I know about the Belkin HDMI to DVI, but I dislike the long cable.


texts: How can I repair OS X Lion's Keychain Access?

texts: I can’t open Keychain Access (the system keychain) to modify; it freezes when I try to open it. How can I fix this problem?


texts: Is there an application for sharing wi-fi passwords?

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There are a lot of public wi-fi networks (diners, restaurants, cafes, universities). They are password protected. The password rarely (if ever) changes (only mcdonalds prints a temp password on the receipt).

I'm so very tired of asking for the password. I need to find a waiter. Sometimes they tell you a password that is not correct. Means I have to ask again.

Is there an application that shares wi-fi passwords between different people?

For example, someone goes to Joe's Cafe, gets the wi-fi password from the waitress, and in the background (ideally) an application puts the password on a server. Then another guy/gal enters the cafe and automatically has the password from the same server and connects, to the wi-fi without having to talk to the waitress.

Thanks,


texts: How to add a website to Safari Top Sites manually?

texts: How to add a website to Safari Top Sites manually instead of viewing it so many times that Safari chose it for you?


texts: Blocking internet access for a specific application on Mac OS X

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How can I block internet access to a specific application in Mac OS X? I need this to be done from the command line and hopefully use the ipfw terminal command.

Specifically I am looking to toggle the internet connection on and off in the iPhone simulator application since there is no airplane mode.


texts:
Spotlight Search on iPhone 4s doesn't show any results.

Everything is checked under Settings -> General -> Spotlight Search.

Restart doesn't help. New contacts don't appear.


texts: Terminal not working after Yosemite installation

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I installed Yosemite now and after the installation the terminal is not working. It used to work before, but after installation of the new OS X on Mavericks it is no longer working. How can I resolve this?

If I open the terminal this message is shown:

Last login: Sun Dec 28 00:42:15 on ttys000
login: /usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory

[Process completed]


texts: Where are screen recording saved in macOS Mojave by default?

texts: I made a screen recording as mentioned in this Apple's support article. Can someone let me know where are the screen recordings are saved after pressing "Done" and with what name it is saved?


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Was using the MacBook Pro a few days ago without any issues. Shut the lid in the middle of working, went to a coffee shop, and upon opening it back up the display was blank even though the computer was on. All typical manner of restarting it, recovery mode, power in, etc. changed nothing. External monitor in the HDMI port, also nothing.

Eventually, I realized that the display was on but extremely faint (could barely make out some lines). I was able to log in, close the alert box that said my Mac had turned off unexpectedly, and launched the terminal. After that day I've never been able to make anything out of the display since.

I was able to turn on remote screen sharing via the terminal and connect via my other computer over the network. This let me do some further troubleshooting.

Plugging in an external monitor via HDMI, or ThunderBolt2->HDMI adapter and then HDMI do nothing, do not register another display or in the System Report it says nothing is plugged into the Thunderbolt port
The display was listed as "Built-in Display, 23-inch, 1280x1024, Intel HD Graphics 4000" in About this Mac. In the display menu in the top right it refers to it as "Connected Projector: Built-In Display". In System Report it's "1280 x 1024 (SXGA - Super eXtended Graphics Array)" and listed as Main Display: Yes
After swapping out HDMI cables into a couple different monitors and different ports to cover all use cases, it eventually referred to the display correctly, as a 15.4" Retina Display. It still didn't work, though, and after rebooting it went back to the erroneous label.
Casting the display over Air Play does work
The only issue I noticed prior to this is the fan was a little "choppy" (it would still get louder/quieter as normal with more work... but it sounded choppy like it was dirty though compressed air didn't resolve it).

Does this point to any issue in particular? I've had the display fail on an old MacBook in the past, but an external display didn't have any problems. I've been quoted a logic board replacement but I'm worried about spending ~$800 on a laptop that might be worth ~$1200 new and then run into other problems in the future.


texts: Why iPad can't open an email with 'open in mail' option?

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I have a stored email (.eml) file that can be downloaded and open with Mail.app on mac.
When I tried to open the same email in iPad, I clicked 'open with mail' to launch mail app, but nothing seems to happen; the mail app doesn't show the downloaded email.

What might be wrong? Do I need to make additional setup for reading emails downloaded somewhere?


texts: Any Script to move windows from one monitor to the other

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MacOS has an annoying bug that is completing a 10 year anniversary: If you have multiple displays, the contents of displays that are not the main one, are switched after coming from sleep.
This annoys the hell out of me.
Is there any application or script I can run to move windows on display 1 to 3 and vice-versa?
In my case I have 2 HDTV used as displays 1 and 3 and the main system, an iMac, is displays 2 in the middle.
thanks.


texts: Multiple display setup mac, ignore separation between displays

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I am currently setting up my workstation, and I want to use the set up pictured here:

As you can see, the display on the top is turned sideways, and that is the way I want it.

The question is this: how can I make the cursor jump between the left and right monitors and the top monitor smoothly (rather, at all), as if the top display was just as wide as the bottom center display? Right now, the cursor can't cross directly over the separation between the top and the side displays.

The desired behavior is that which would result if the top display was just as wide as the bottom, so there wouldn't be any disconnect between the displays. However, I want to keep the top display oriented at its current orientation.

I am using a retina macbook pro, early 2013, on OS X 10.10.1.


texts: How to stop messages from opening when I touch the icon

texts: When I only have one unread message (or all from the same person), it opens that thread when I open the Messages app. I don't want the thread to open automatically when I touch the message icon, and would rather it opens the list of message threads. What can I do to stop this automatic action of opening the thread?


texts: Battery status shows background activity but background app refresh and location permissions are off

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As an iOS developer, I am extremely curious about this case: Battery usage on my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.1) shows that the main reason of battery draining on my phone are Facebook and Twitter, both have a label "Background activity" below their names.

I used to think, that this label is shown when the app does background app refresh, but that option is switched off on my phone. There is one other way to have the app run in the background: background location updates. Since neither of these two apps have this authorized at me, this can't be the reason. (And GPS icon was not shown either.)

So my question is: How is it possible to have Facebook and Twitter app running code in the background without background app refresh and location permission?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to organize or align two finder windows?

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I know that there were some 3rd party apps that could do this in the past, but with each new version of Mac OS X, it seems that many of those 3rd party apps stop working or the project ages and loses it's maintainer.

I'm wondering if there is a Mac OS X built-in keyboard shortcut to do this.  I suppose this wouldn't be limited to finder windows, but for windows of any application.


texts: Radeon Vega20 Macbook Pro with eGPU Radeon RX Vega 56 for Create ML

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I'm trying to figure out if the eGPU will actually help with CreateML on a maxed out Macbook with the Vega20 GPU.

For NVIDIA, I understand that both graphics card have to be the same - so I am not sure if the Vega 20 and Vega 56 would run together?

Would it help with the Create ML app?


texts: My friend gave me Mac mini Server saying its Mavericks. When I switch it on I see 2 hard drives only and no operating system. I tried to use my Apple ID but it doesn't work. In disk utility I saw 1st hard drive has partition named "os" which I am not able to delete. How do I completely format both the hard drives and re-install Mavericks on that. I have a very slow internet and I don't have another mac, of course I have Linux and Windows dual boot machine.


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I have a Macbook. Forever I’ve had mysql server installed and running on start (using El Capitan).

Well now I’ve installed Wine. Since then mysql server fails to start on reboot. If I manually run ./mysqld from /usr/local/mysql/bin
it works fine. Here’s where things go weird: if I use launchctl list then pipe that using grep to see the list of running processes I can’t see the mysql (but I know it's running!)

Terminal window running mysqld:

Terminal window running my grep search to show no mysql processes running [searched for GPG as a control group to show what it should look like when working:

Back when I got the setup running before, I used this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35445024/2226328 with no problems nor issues. Now since installing wine using: brew install wine I can’t get mysqld to load on start. Any ideas?

Since this I've uninstalled wine and had the same problem,  I ran brew update as well but have since determined that I installed mysql separately.

Edit: Some final followup here.  Once I ran sudo launchctl list | grep mysql it showed my mysqld running ...looking at the system.log for mysql entries showed it was failing to start which led to creating an error log plist entry mentioned in the answer below. changing permissions on the mysql folder recursively fixed the issue. This command will show you the name of your mysql user on the system:
   dscacheutil -q user | grep mysql


texts: Remapping the way that I switch betweens spaces

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I'm a former Linux user who just switched to a new mbp and I've got a spaces question.

On my linux box I could remap the keys that would move left and right between virtual desktops (spaces).

Is there a way to remap the keyboard in OSX?  Specificlly I'd like to be able to move to the space on the left of the current one with  CMD + H and move to the space to the right of me with CMD + L.

How can I do this?

Thank you,

Joe


texts: What happens to an iOS app when a provisioning profile expires?

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Question.  What happens to an app when the provisioning profile used to build it expires?  Does the app still launch on the device? Dos the app ever "call home" every few days/weeks to Apple to see if it is still valid?

I would assume that it would not (once its installed, its there), but if the phone was ever lost, and needed to be restored from backup, I would assume that the app would no longer work in this case, as when it calls back to apple, it is deemed not valid.

Forgive my simple question, but is my assumption correct?


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I have a newer (2009 I believe) iMac, running Yosemite.

It powers on, the Apple logo and progress bar appear, as well as the mouse cursor, but then nothing happens, the screen just stays on and illuminated. Any ideas as to what's up?


texts: Terminal sometimes scrambles initial output

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I switched to iTerm 2 a while ago, but would like to fix this small problem that I have with OS X's built-in Terminal.

Terminal is supposed to look like this when it first opens on my machine:

However, I am frequently met with the following output:

And more infrequently (but still reproducible enough):

My .bash_profile file consists of a bunch of aliases and one defined function for calculating battery life from the shell. I am able to reproduce the issue with no .bash_profile at all. .bashrc is empty.

What is the cause of this issue, and how can I fix it?


texts: Deleting Stuff Off Of Camera Roll And Photo Stream

texts: If I were to delete all of the pictures on my photo stream, would I still be able to keep the copies on my camera roll, or would they also be deleted from there?


texts: Hide Applications from other Spaces in Application Switcher

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With System Preferences->Mission Control->"When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" disabled, I would really like the application switcher (cmd+tab) to hide applications from other spaces.

Is this possible in Mavericks or is there a third-party application that provides this? Note, I would prefer the application switcher to remain as it is, just hide the applications only active on other spaces.


texts: How can I use a newly installed font as an input source?

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I just installed a new font, and I'd like to be able to type in it, system-wide, and not just within the confines of some application (e.g. MS Word.)  I already type in other languages using the Language & Text preference pane.  Is there any way to use the TTF as a keyboard?

Thanks


texts: I upgraded to macOS Sierra. Now my disk utility doesn't show what types of files are taking up space

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I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro (non-retina) running macOS Sierra and I recently upgraded the hard drive to a 240GB SSD and moved the 500GB HDD to the CD bay, and then more recently upgrading to MacOS Sierra. Now in disk utility it does not show what file types are taking up space like it used to in all the previous versions of OS X. Am I being stupid or is this a glitch?

Screenshots:


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I am very frustrated by the equation editing capabilities of Word on the Mac (such as I have been able to discover them). While it is possible to create nice looking equations, it takes an enormous amount of clicking of the mouse.

"Back in the day" (I got my first Mac, a 512k, in 1987), you could type cmd-option-backslash, and this would get you into "inline equation editing" mode.  You could then type your equation (with intuitive words for common symbols). Klutzy, but fast. Fast forward, it seems that Word on the PC still has such a feature, although the keyboard shortcut is Alt-=

I am quite familiar with the equation typesetting available on some of the sites here on the stackexchange network, where typing something like $\sum{\frac{\alpha_i x_i}{\sqrt{\beta}}}$ will produce a nice looking equation. For people who have good keyboard skills, this is vastly better than a graphical interface.

So here is my question: does this feature (still) exist in Word for the Mac? If it does, how do I access it? If it doesn't, is there an add-in that I could use instead? Or should I just abandon using Word and write in LaTeX... I have to admit that the more Word "evolves", the less I am able to use it. It makes me feel like a dinosaur.

I did see this answer to an earlier question which goes some way to what I want - but I would very much prefer not to have to store my equations in one document, and copy/paste pictures into Word (and don't get me started on the non-intuitive way images, image placement, captions and word wrap are handled in Word...). Can't I just have it all?


texts: When shutting down, how to automatically override an app prompt that interrupts the process?

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I've scheduled a daily 1:00 AM shutdown of my MacBook but an app interrupts the process with a prompt that I need to manually answer before the shutdown can continue. How do I force an automatic override of this prompt or prevent it from appearing in the first place so the machine can shutdown successfully?

The app in question is Audio HiJack on macOS - Sierra.


texts: What is the difference between cron and lauchd? I have always used cron, but I have recently heard that launchd is better. Why? In what ways is cron better? In what ways is launchd better?


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Whenever I unlock my macOS machine, I want it to play a sound effect from an mp3 file.

So I created an automator .app to play the sound using Afplay
shell command.
Tested the app successfully.
And added that app as a login item under Users & Groups.
Granted the system permission to access the mp3 location when it prompted me to do so.

However, I fear that it is only being triggered when I do a full logout. Not whenever I unlock the lock screen.

Catalina 10.15.6 (19G73)


texts: Turn Off macOS Mojave Screenshot Preview Thumbnails with defaults write command

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I'm reading this article, it works.

But how can I turn off macOS Mojave screenshot preview thumbnails with defaults write command?

I just don't know the key value to use.


texts: Cmd-` with full-screen windows on one monitor

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Command-` switches between windows of the active app, but it doesn't work if the windows are full-screen.

According to this question, this was added in Yosemite if the windows are on separate monitors. Great!

Is there any keyboard shortcut that switches between full-screen windows on a single monitor?


texts: Avoid desktops switching between monitors on re-connect

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I use my MBP with 3 displays (the MBP display itself, plus two external monitors).
Whenever I disconnect (or close) the MBP, and reconnect it later, the "Desktop 1" (and its additional fullscreen spaces) always ends up at the same monitor, which is good.
But the other two ("Desktop 2", "Desktop 3") regularly switch between the second monitor and the MBP display. I'd say it happens more often than not, but have not statistically measured it. Then I have to manually move all the windows between those two displays, very annoying.
Is there a way to tell it to absolutely stick the desktops where I want them?
There are quite a few similar questions here already; but those seem to be mostly concerned with non-"desktop" spaces, which are different (for example one can move those extra spaces between displays, which does not seem to be possible with the "Desktop X" default spaces).


texts: What is the name of the Automator application process?

texts: I want to kill the process of the Automator application, but i can't find the name of it in the activity monitor.


texts: Share a wifi connection via another wifi connection

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Having just recently discovered how easy it is to share a wifi connection via Ethernet, I wondered whether I could plug in another wifi USB stick and get another "WLAN" entry on this screen (my apologies it's in German)

which would allow me to select it in the dropdown on the left here:

Unfortunately I was not succesful with the USB wifi stick I had at hand (it is capable of creating a hosted network - at least on Windows and on my Raspberry).

What do I have to do what I want to achieve with OS capabilities preferably?


texts: Added music not showing neither in the library, nor in the recently added

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I've got a 1040 MP3s to add to iTunes (not bought before).

I dragged them to the iTunes window, it processed/copied something (only 953, huh, why?), they even appeared in the iTunes Media/Music folder and in the iTunes Music Library.xml file. But I can't find no one of them neither in the library, nor in the recently added. Interesting thing: there is a new album cover on the cell with the name of the artist existed before. And if I search a random song in the search bar I'll find it but I can't go to it or add to the next playing.

I haven't the iTunes Match option.

What is happening?


texts: In Mail's conversation view, by default, quoted text is hidden and can be shown by clicking "See More from XXX" in the bottom of each message. After clicking that, how can quoted text be hidden again?


texts: I re-downloaded the OS X Lion installer app to burn a DVD.  After burning the DVD I put the installer files in the trash.  Now when I try to clear the trash, I get a message basically saying I only have Read Only permissions on the file, and can't delete it.  The permissions don't appear to be editable.  How can I get rid of the file?


texts: Half of keyboard backlight dim after soda mishap

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I somehow managed yesterday to spill some soda over part of my 2010 MacBook Pro's keyboard - it stayed mostly in the keyboard area, touching the F8-F12 and 8 through equals keys. I shut down the Mac, cleaned it up, made reasonably sure nothing had drained into the keyboard itself, then rebooted. The computer itself seems to be working fine.

The issue is that the right half of the keyboard, including the couple rows below the spill, is now significantly diminished in terms of backlight. I've tried grabbing Lab Tick, and the brightness does seem to adjust when I alter the setting, just not up to the same amount that it had pre-spill. Before I go resetting my SMC, I'd like to know - are there other alternatives for cleaning the keyboard or restoring the brightness? The keys aren't sticky at all, just dimmed, and the laptop is still covered under AppleCare.


texts: iPod Touch Passcode doesn't work after restore from backup

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My son entered too many incorrect passcodes on my iPod Touch and apparently forced it to wipe my iPod clean.  Sadly, this has happened before.  I connected to iTunes and restored from my latest backup and then sync'd.  When I went to unlock my iPod, instead of being presented with the usual numeric keypad, I was given the full qwerty keyboard.  This was alarming, but I switched to number mode and entered my numeric passcode.  I was told "Wrong Passcode, try again".

What has happened?  Why won't my passcode work, and where did this qwerty keyboard come from?  And most importantly, how do I fix this?


texts: How to send the right-click event to a tab-chosen control from an application or service?

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This is what I want to achieve: to not need to touch the trackpad/mouse at all.

Why? I'm at least 10x faster on keyboard.

I want to use TAB (or other hotkeys where appropriate) to select a desired GUI element (or select some text in an editor), and then to send the right-click event to it - by virtue of a keyboard shortcut. Without touching the mouse, nor the trackpad.

This shortcut can evoke a service, or an app, daemon, angel, whatever :-) I don't care how it's done.

Any ideas? Do you know of any apps that can simulate mouse events?


texts: Can I backup my ICloud documents with TimeMachine to my TimeCapsule?

texts: I want my docs en pics in the cloud but also a backup. Want to backup to a TimeCapsule with TimeMachine (or if necessairy an other softwareprogram). Wonder if that’s possible.


texts: iMac 2017 Catalina: camera won't work but seems recognized

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Our camera light is steady green when activated by a camera app but only shows a black window for FaceTime, Photo Booth, QuickTime, and every other app tried.
This is what I've learned/tried so far:

Built in FaceTime camera is recognized in hardware
SIP is enabled
tccutil reset for camera & microphone got QuickTime to ask for permission and then show up in Security > Privacy> Camera & Microphone. Microphone then works in QT but black window for camera and then QT crashes when I try to record video.
Restarted background assistants in Terminal (sudo killall VDCAssistant/AppleCameraAssistant)
Updated OS
NVRAM reset
SMC reset
Safe mode boot still does not allow video to draw
Diagnostic mode: no issues found
No luck with new user account

I saw someone suggest checking launchctl list | grep -i com.apple.tccd. I got back 349 ) com.apple.tccd but am not sure what that means or if it's relevant.
You think this is fixable in code or do I just need to buy an external camera/deal with repairs?


texts: iPhone 6s Plus Home Screen rotates on tilt

texts: On my iPhone 6 Plus, the home screen rotates on tilt, but on my iPhone 6s it doesn't rotate, is it ok? My iPhone 6 Plus is running iOS 8.1 and my iPhone 6s is running iOS 9.


texts: Disable and hide all keyboard shortcuts for one application

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I would like to disable and hide from the menu bar all shortcuts for one application.  Is there a way maybe to output all shortcuts for a specific application so I can mainly and them under System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts->App Shortcuts.

I have been creating duplicate shortcuts and when there is a duplicate it just displays nothing(no shorcut).


texts: Is there a way to execute on applescript when a server becomes available?

texts:
I am trying to execute a script when a server becomes available (a bit like when the OS detect the presence of a time capsule device and it starts the backup.)  I didn't find a simple way to attach an applescript to an system event. Is there a way?

I am not looking for anything that requires a compiler. I am simply looking at attaching to an OS event (a bit like "Folder Actions" I guess, but for a server.)


texts: Is it faster to resize a Time Machine partition, or completely wipe it and back up again from scratch?

texts:
I have a ~500GB Time Machine partition I'd like to shrink slightly. My internal source partition is around 400GB.

Resizing the partition would be extremely slow, since Disk Utility has to check all the hard links Time Machine is using behind the scenes. On the other hand, simply wiping it and backing up again from scratch would also be extremely slow.

Is one or the other generally going to be faster? Is there some disk size tipping point at which it becomes more economical to switch strategies?

(I'm using an SSD internally and a spinning hard drive externally, connected over USB 3. Both the source and the destination are encrypted. Also, I have a second backup disk, so if I wipe and back up again I won't be temporarily unprotected.)


texts: Where can I find specific Apple firmware like early 2011 SMC 1.69f3

texts:
I would like to load a specific firmware from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201518
My research shows the MacBook Pro early 2011 SMC 1.69f3 seems to be stable. I use links on apple website shows "page not found" when clicked on the update 1.5. Can someone please help me provide the SMC 1.69f3.
Are there places to download this software?


texts: Is there an iPad app that allows me to use a desktop game with an important audio component? I'm looking for a pleasurable music-like experience on the iPad.


texts: How is an iPhone able to hold more than its stated capacity?

texts:
What’s going on here? Why the huge discrepancy? And why can I still keep writing data to my iPhone?

Optimize storage is not turned on. iCloud is off.


texts: How can I use Automator Service to create a .zip file from two original files using the same name?

texts:
Look at the image above. What I am trying to do is create a service in Automator that will allow me to select two of the files, such as

3LW And Loon - I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) (Duet).cdg
AND
3LW And Loon - I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) (Duet).mp3

And compress those two files into a .zip entitled

3LW And Loon - I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) (Duet).zip

And then be able to move down to

38 Special - Hold On Loosely.cdg
AND
38 Special - Hold On Loosely.mp3

and compress them into a .zip entitled

38 Special - Hold On Loosely.zip

Is this at all possible? I have no idea how to do this. Any help at all will be appreciated. Thank you.


texts: 100 GB Missing after failing to install Windows 10

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After I tried to install Windows 10 on my MacbookPro 2017 (High Sierra 10.13.3) my mac was frozen on step when bootcamp assistant was creating partitions (I had to reboot). After that i lost 100GB of my space. Somehow i realised how to remove this new partion but now I'm still missing my 100 GB of hard drive on primary partition.

Can you please help me to figure out how can i get everything back to normal ? I would like to have just one 500GB partition as few hours ago.
Here is my disklist:

And when I try to install windows again bootcamp assistant is giving me this message:

In case that you need to see my diskutil i will upload that image from application as well:

Thanks in advance!!!


texts: Iphone 4S screen and aux replacement costs

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I smashed my phone, all the screen is completely smashed but I can still receive calls and can hear when someone messages or emails me. Also my aux plug hole is out of coordination so I can't plug in ear phones.

I just want to know how much Apple will charge to get that fixed.


texts: Why I'm unable to do backup on an iPhone 7 from a hotspot network given by iPhone 5 SE?

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I have iPhone 5 SE and from it I give hotspot to my computers and other phones. On other devices it works fine, even for all the purposes it works very fine for iPhone 7 too. But when I get backup alert on my iPhone 7 and I connect it to my hotspot given by iPhone 5 SE (although it says "Low Data Mode" like this

but with this low data mode everything works fine, I can even do the software update, and to be honest there are no options of iPhone 5 SE to toggle ON/OFF the "Low Data Mode"). After the connection gets established I got to Settings -> [My Name] -> iCloud -> iCloud Backup -> BackUp Now
The BackUP starts

but in just few seconds it gets over and two messages appear below the Back Up Now button

The last backup could not be completed because of poor network conditions

iCloud Backup will occur later when connected to power, locked and on Wi-Fi.

I tried almost every sort of things, I tried plugging in with lightning, I tried restarting the phone and even checked up the current iCloud storage and storage needed for next backup and found them to be compatible. But nothing helped. However, a wifi from another phone (Samsung A7 Plus) do the task quite properly. Any other wifi is doing good (I haven't checked the Wifi of other iPhones but all the android ones are decent) but not the one from iPhone 5 SE. What could be the issue and how to fix it?


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Is it possible to develop an app only for me and my friends?

Just make the app and upload it directly to my iPhone.


texts: High memory usage on iMac MacOS Catalina

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I'm not a Mac power user by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm hoping for some help from someone here that is.  There are similar questions being asked, but the answers seem to all be similar... that the person asking the question doesn't have high usage.

I have a iMac Retina 5K, 27in, 2017 with a 3.4Ghz i5. Purchased a year ago and barely use it, so it's basically brand new. I just recently upgraded to Catalina version 10.15.3. my iMac has been unbareably slow since the Catalina install. it barely worked with 8GB of RAM and an Apple support person took a look at my iMac and saw that I was using 7.6GB of memory and suggested I downgrade to Mojave or install more RAM, so my first step was to remove the 8GB and install 32GB. My iMac is running only slightly faster with the 32GB installed. It stopped crashing on a daily basis, which is great, but things still take a while to open after I click on them. I still get the spinning beachball and if I look at Activity Monitor my memory pressure is in the red even when I have nothing running (except for Activity Monitor).

The attached screenshot is taken about 5mins after turning on my iMac and the only thing I have running is Activity Monitor.

Is there something wrong with Catalina? Is something wrong with the memory I installed? Why  is my memory pressure in the red?  Does it have something to do with sharingd or suggestd? They are always at the top of the list.

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks


texts: Restricting a user to a specific source network IP address

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Assume my Mac Mini (Sierra/High Sierra, doesn't matter) has two defined users: user1 and user2.

The machine has two IPs assigned via Ethernet:

en7: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=4<VLAN_MTU>
...
inet 192.168.1.24 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet 192.168.1.25 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
...
status: active

Is it possible restricting user1 to 192.168.1.24 and user2 to 192.168.1.25?

i.e, when user1 performs any network actions on the machine, the source IP would be 192.168.1.24.

Both users can be logged in to the machine at the same time via SSH.

UPDATE

So it's possible to perform source IP NAT translation by adding the following rule to pfctl

nat on en0 inet from any to any -> 192.168.1.24

But nat-rules do not support filtering (by specific user) - in contrary to block/pass rules, so I need to keep digging


texts: How can I get the load average (and only the load average) on Mac OS X?

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On all linux boxes /proc/loadavg contains the raw load for 1, 5, and 15 minutes. Nothing extra. On OS X machines this file does not exist.

Is there a file or a terminal command which will give me the 1, 5 and 15 minute load averages under OS X, similar to /proc/loadavg on Linux? I know top and w display the load averages but they have a lot more information too. I want just the load averages.


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I bought a used iMac G3 recently and I am trying to get it at max performance. Atm I am at the phase of replacing the HDD.
I read on some places that 7200 RPM drives may have overheat problems in the G3 is that true? I probably wont be stressing the drive too much since most files come from network but its good to know. Also what type of drive do I need ? The ones I am considering have :

EIDE ATA100

IDE Fast Ultra DMA ATA/133

Both are 7200 rpm refubrished drives at 80 gb and 2mb catche.
Is one of those better choice ?

As an alternative if 7200 rpm is not good idea/ interfaces not compatible i got this :

ATA/133 HDD Hard Drive IDE

Thanks and hope I didnt put too many questions there ^^.


texts: Purchased a macOS app on a since-abandoned iTunes account, but don't know which account

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I purchased Magic Window a few years (5+) ago using an iTunes account I've since abandoned. The app is prompting for an update, but I cannot remember any details about the account. How can I see what account was used to install this app?

If I can see that, maybe I can try a password reset to be able to log into that account, and get the update.

But I need to see the email address.

PS. The windows that pops up at the moment when I try to update asks for password of an email that is my work email (2 years old) - which is NOT the mail I used to purchase this app.

MacOS Sierra MBP 13 2012.

EDIT: I contacted the company, and within a few minutes the issue was solved. WOW!


texts: Mystery computer appearing in the Finder's source list

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On my MacBook, in the Finder's sidebar there's a machine appearing under "Shared" that I don't recognize and definitely doesn't exist on our local network. When I attempt to connect to it, I get this message:

The server "otseeley-remote" is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally.

What is this and how do I get rid of it? I already checked Disk Utility and there are no extraneous volumes mounted or anything.
EDIT:
Additional information based on the questions below:

There are only two computers on the network, both running Mac OS X - this MacBook, and my PowerBook. The PowerBook shows up in the source list as a separate item from "otseeley-remote"
There is no Time Capsule on the network, though I do have a Time Machine drive plugged into the PowerBook (not shared, though)
No VPN
One wired printer, connected to the MacBook
Two other wifi networks other than my own appear in the wifi dropdown, so I suppose it's possible that the mystery machine is on a neighbor's network (though why would it show up in my source list?)

EDIT 2:
The mystery computer shows up on both my MacBook's and PowerBook's source list, but not always at the same time. Sometimes it appears on one and not the other; other times, it appears on both.
EDIT 3:
I have two user accounts on the MacBook and both accounts show the "otseeley-remote" item in the Finder. Not sure if that means anything, but just wanted to add another data point.


texts: I'm using windows 10 on my MBP, and my trackpad (Bluetooth) won't work, unless I disable the bluetooth, then it works... So, how can I have both trackpad and bluetooth?


texts: Good documentation about securityd,SecurityAgent and loginwindow

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I am looking for good documentation about securityd,SecurityAgent and loginwindow. I am particularly interested in as to how these processes work in unison during Mac OS X login and authenticate the user for both local and network login. Google search does not seem to produce good results. Any links regarding this would be most helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Ramkumar


texts: Multiple menubars with external monitors

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How can the menubar (with the Apple icon, active program name, and options. like File, Edit, View, History) be displayed on each monitor at the same time?

Update:
In the same desktop Space.


texts: Trouble creating directory from script run by launchd

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I have a simple script that creates a new directory based on the date then copies a set of files to that directory.  It runs fine from Terminal.  When I set it up to run as a UserAgent it fails.  The error log shows that has changed to paths from /Users/Study/xxx to /var/root/xxx. I've tried running it as root from Terminal and it still works.  I've ensured root is not the owner of the script file.  I've changed my original path of ~/xxx to the /Users/Study/xxx  but for some reason when run from launchd it changes the path.  Any ideas?

script:

!/bin/bash

MO=$(date +%d%B%Y)
mkdir /Users/Study/Dropbox/SPID_backups/$MO
cp -r /Users/Study/WebDevelopment/SPID/*.* /Users/Study/Dropbox/SPID_backups/$MO

launchctl plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.spidbackup</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/Study/Library/Scripts/spidbackup.sh</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/com.spidbackup.err</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/com.spidbackup.out</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>17</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>11</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/Users/Study</string>
</dict>
</plist>


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Now first of all, I assure you, there is not a single issue like mine. Let me list the steps taken with corresponding error messages/new problems to each step taken.

The problem started when the SIM card was changed at a Movistar branch, 3G for 4G. Mind you, the phone is brand new, 2 months on it.

  iPhone continually searches for signal "Searching...".

  a. Attempted to soft reset iPhone, with/without SIM card. No visible effect.

  b. Removed SIM card and it was not installed again after this point. Attempt at a Hard Reset from Settings in iPhone (Erase all content and settings) Strangely, apps+contacts were not erased. Attempted again. No visible effect

  c. Attempt at a iTunes managed complete factory setting restore. Newest iOS as of Today, 15 minutes ago.
  After step 2a the iPhone prompts a "connect to iTunes" message. There is no functionality enabled. It stays in this state throughout the rest of the steps.

  a. New problem. During restore an error was encountered (Error 1). Progress bar freezes for 3 hours, finally decide to disconnect it.

  b. Attempt it again after downloading and installing new Windows updates(Restarted computer), same results as mentioned with slightly different error message (Error -1)
  a. Attempt to install earlier version (iOS 8.0). (Error 3197) Failure.

  b. Fix Hosts file in respect to what Apple support says about the error. Disable Firewall, attempt to install iOS 8.0. Same Error.

  c. Attempt to install latest iOS, new error (Error 1671).

  d. Read similar question , followed the top answer's guide to putting iPhone in DFU mode and only then restoring. Recieved same error as step 2a around the same part of the progress bar. This was the point I gave up.

Special thing about this error (Error 1671) is that it does not appear among the specified "unknown" errors on Apple support page. It is a new kind of unknown altogether.

Back the the question, How do I fix my iPhone

SPECS

  iPhone 5s (GLOBAL) A1533


texts: Saving space by thinning universal intel/arm binaries

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I have no ARM CPUs on any of my laptops or desktops.  If ever I get a computer new enough, it will already have all the binaries it needs or will get them from updates.  So there is no justification for them to consume 90 GB¹ on my internal drive.
I can reclaim that space by disabling SIP, using ditto to thin them while copying to somewhere else, copying them back where they belong, and re-enabling SIP.  Pretty clumsy to have to do after every software update.  Is there a better way?
¹assuming an ARM binary is about the same size as an Intel.


texts: My SSD Drive has been converted to a Core Storage drive and cannot be erased/reformatted?

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I put an SSD drive into my macbook pro.
I should say that this drive hadn't been formatted and was a bootable drive with Yosemite OS on it, taken from another macbook pro...
I booted the system up in restore mode and began the process of restoring from a time machine back, on an external plugged in via firewire 800 caddy.
It said, "erasing drive", it asked me for a password, I wasn't sure why so typed my usual system password. I received the message, "drive could not be erased"
Since then the SSD drive has only show up in disk utility, not on deskop or in finder, and it cannot be erased in disk utility.
I gather from speaking with a few more enlightened apple people that it has been converted to a core storage drive...
I will post up a couple of helpful terminal read out pictures.
How do I get my SSD drive back??
Thanks in advance,
Chris


texts:
Is it possible to select all of the hyperlinks in a document?

I want to change the colours for every link in the document but it seems a bit odd that i have to go through all of them manually.


texts: I used to rebind Cmd-Q to invert colors to prevent quitting from programs, but it seems that after Catalina it keeps reverting to quitting after reboot (and it likes rebooting a ton). Is there an alternative? I have cmd-w in Atom to close tabs, now I constantly accidentally close my editor :-/


texts: How to set or change the desktop background in configuration profile in Big Sur

texts: Is there any way to set the desktop background picture in a configuration profile in Big Sur? This is when using local profile, rather than one set by a server or MDM.


texts: Maps for iOS is not giving me the option to allow location access

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The Location settings for both my iOS Google Maps and Apple Maps apps are currently set to "Ask next time". However, when I open up either app, it doesn't always give me to option to allow the app to access my location. If I try to manually get my location within the app, it says that I need to set my location to "Always or While Using". This is annoying because I don't want to give it permanent location access while I'm using the app, and I know that's not necessary because sometimes it correctly asks me for location access permission. I don't think the app always realizes when I've started a new session.
Is there a way to force a session restart, or otherwise get the app to actually ask for permission to use my location data during this session like it's supposed to?
iOS 14.1


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I have a simple binary file needs to be executed. So I opened terminal and navigate to the folder where the binary file is. Then I gave the command ./bclock and got the following error,

-bash: ./bclock: cannot execute binary file

After some research I though it has something to do with echo $PATH. Can someone help me out?


texts: Font Book reports "serious problems" with Code 2000?

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I just downloaded Code 2000 from Wayback Machine but when I tried to install it Font Book reported a serious error but no further details.

Anyone know what might be the problem? Are there any online resources that allows me to verify a font's integrity and hopefully could give me some more details about any potential issues?


texts: My Mac doesn’t help an admin user?! Help!

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I have two Mac Book Pro's laptop with me.

In one of the laptop, I am getting the following popup prompting when I try to change the login options.

It is prompting me like this:

In my another Mac Book Pro, it's simply showing the prompt like this. So I guess, it should show the same prompt message in first Mac Book Pro too.

How to get administrator name to login into the first laptop?  I tried with possible usernames & password (I have never changed my password) that I am aware of but they are not working.

  How to find/get the administrator name back so that I can log in with my password.


texts:
(Not talking about Settings ➙ Accessibility ➙ Reduce Motion ➙ Reduce Motion)

Is there a way, on iOS (10+) and specifically iPhone (6+), to suppress the Fade-in/Mixing effects?

Especially pressing the HOME button to go back from an app to home, there is a small delay to which is added the fade-in effect.

I don't mind a fade-in effect, as long as it's barely noticeable, but with newer iOSes, an iPhone gets slower and slower. The 6+ is not that bad, yet, but still, some effects are annoying.

Suppressing obtrusive effects to get a more responsive device would be great!


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I can update to iOS 10 betas with OTA Updates, but I want to update using my computer through iTunes because the it is connected via ethernet so download speeds will be faster.

Is there any way to do this?

Edit: I am not a developer.


texts: How do I move a Chrome window to my secondary monitor which is on top in the layout?

texts:
My question is almost the same as this question except on difference. In that question the OP was facing trouble moving any window to the secondary monitor, which is on top in the layout, whereas in my case I can move all windows above except Chrome browser.
The issue does not appear when the display layout is side by side.. It only appears when the layout is top above.
My Macbook has Mac OS Mojave.


texts: iPhone iMessages don't arrive after restart and before entering passcode

texts:
This is the timeline:

iPhone runs out of battery and powers off.
Connect the charger to the iPhone.
iPhone powers on automatically. I'm not paying attention to it so I don't enter the passcode yet.
iMessages are not delivered.
Enter the passcode.
iMessages start arriving.

Is this the expected behaviour?
I would like to be notified if someone sends me a text, without having to explicitly check my iPhone. Can this be done?


texts: Does iOS 8 allow me to share URLs without opening them first?

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Does iOS 8 allow me to share URLs from eg the built in mail app (or any 3rd party mail apps) via the new sharing extensions, without actually opening the URL first?

I'm particularly interested in sharing URLs to getpocket.com or similar services; their app supports the new sharing features, but the only way I've seen to be able to share a URL is to load it first in eg Safari or Chrome; casual tinkering with an iPhone 6 in the Apple store suggests it won't do this (I still only get the standard "save to reading list" options), but maybe I'm doing something wrong...


texts:
I'm new to PHP and Apache and I think I've messed some things up that I don't know how to fix. After following a tutorial I managed to update to PHP 5.5, and then started having problems. I went to downgrade to PHP 5.4, but then I had more problems, so I tried to re-update to PHP 5.5 and now it's saying it's already installed. However, when I reload my my_phpinfo.php (localhost address) in Firefox, it only shows that I'm running PHP version 5.3.15 which is what I started out with originally.

Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to go in and delete all the PHP 5.4 and 5.5 files I've updated so I can just start over with a clean slate and re-download PHP 5.5 and start again?


texts: How do I restore default perl in macOS Mojave?

texts: Is there a way to restore default perl5 and cpan modules in Mojave without rebuilding the OS?


texts: How to copy Finder path to Parallels Windows Explorer?

texts:
I often have deep nested files. For example:
Users/myname/topic/subtopic/project/aspect/subaspect/myfile.pdf

It's easy to navigate to this folder in Finder by using programs like Alfred which can do a quick folder search.

Occasionally, I need to do something with a file using Windows Parallels.

I have mapped my home directory (i.e., Users/myname)to the Z drive in Parallels.

However, it is quite tedious to navigate to the required folder in Windows Explorer. I'd like to be able to quickly navigate to the folder in Windows Explorer by for example dragging and dropping the Finder path into Windows Explorer or copying the Finder path into the Windows Explorer path. But neither of these actions work.  dragging the folder into windows Explorer, copies the folder, and OSX paths don't work directly (OSX uses slash / and windows uses backslash \, and there is the issue that the paths are remapped).

So in summary, my question is as follows:

Is there a quick way of making the Windows Explorer folder in Parallels the same as the path in a designated Finder window on OSX?


texts: Your system has run out of application memory: /tmp directory of tar command

texts:
I once extracted a huge tar file in terminal, but it was too big. So, in the middle of the process, my computer ran out of memory, and everything crashed. I rebooted my system, hoping that things get fixed, assuming that the /tmp directory gets wiped at reboot. However, the problem still persists and I often get “out of application memory” nag box for no true reason.

Can someone help me find and erase problematic files created by tar command?


texts:
In Activity monitor, what do App Memory, Wired Memory, and Compressed mean?
For example,

I am used to the columns in the output of free from procps-ng under Linux.
By the way, how can I install  procps-ng under OS X?

Thanks.


texts: How can I get calendar events to consistently sync across all my devices?

texts:
I just recently set up iCloud to sync calendars between my iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sometimes it works perfectly and sometimes one or the other of the 3 devices is missing a particular event.

What gives? Is there configuration details that I can check?


texts: Trusting my computer with my iPhone no longer unlocks it for access (iPhone 5 w/iOS10, and Mac OSX 10.7.5)

texts:
Ever since I upgraded to iOS10 my computer doesn't recognize when my iPhone "trusts" my computer. My computer recognizes the device, but it's not allowed to access it.

In Image Capture: Please unlock iPhone

In iTunes: iTunes could not connect to the iPhone because an invalid response was received from the device.

In XCode: Received an unexpected response from the device. Please check your setup and try again. (0xE8000013).

How do I get my computer to recognize my iPhone is unlocked and trusts the computer?

I am using Mac OSX 10.7.5, and I have an iPhone 5 with iOS10. I refuse to upgrade my OS to fix this problem, because if upgrading my old iPhone hardware to new software was any indication, all it will do is slow it down. My computer is a 2011 MacBook Air.


texts: Excel - unable to open spreadsheet for writing

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I have a new iMac which I am setting up. I used Migration Assistant to transfer my files from my old MacBook. Both Macs are running High Sierra.

I was attempting to open Excel2008 to edit a couple of spreadheets, and got a bizarre error message
    Mercer.xlsx is being modified by (my name).
    Open as Read-Only, or chose Notify to be alerted when it is available.

I have tried a number of things.
I went to my MacBook, made sure the files and Excel were closed, copied to a portable HDD.
I tried replacing the files, same result.

I opened one of the files from the HDD, and saved it to the Documents directory, and actually modified the file by adding a new line.
When I tried to re-open I got the same error.

I cleared all extended attributes, but this did not seem to help.
    com.apple.FinderInfo       32
    com.apple.lastuseddate#PS      16
    com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags    42

Does anyone have any ideas. These spreadsheets contain more than 10 years worth of data.


texts: Lock down a device address in AirPort Utility?

texts: I have one device on my network that does not use any form of rDNS or Bonjour, and I have to access it primarily through ssl. So I'd like to to stop moving around in the IP listing so I know where it is (instead of, as I did yesterday, assuming it was broken). Is there a way, through the AirPort Utility, to give a particular device, as identified by MAC, a specific non-changing IP address?


texts: Sync Services error on Windows 7 when iPhone 4S is plugged in

texts:
I am currently running iTunes 10.5.1 on a Windows 7 Home PC and when I plug my iPhone 4S into my computer via the USB cable it freezes. iTunes in Task Manager shows up as not responding and after a few minutes it displays the following error:

  iTunes was unable to load data class information from Sync Services.
  Reconnect or try again later.

What causes this issue and how can I resolve it?


texts:
I know option o comes out to ø? So I have been using that as my theta.

But I would love to know how to type Theta for a mac?


texts: With Latest MacBook Pro and Radeon 460 Graphics, How To Tell How Much Memory in Use?

texts:
I've got the latest MacBook Pro with the touch bar.  4GB Graphics memory and I'm trying to figure out how much graphics memory is in use when I run certain apps.  I also run Parallels which dedicates part of that memory to itself so I want to make sure I don't starve it for my normal mac use.

I can see in Activity monitor that what I'm running requires High Perf GPU but I can't tell how much memory is being used.

Where can I see that memory usage?


texts: I was trying to solve a stupid nagging problem (doesn't matter what at this point!) on my iMac (mid 2011), and one of the things that kept popping up is resetting PRAM. I have done this many times (over the years) and it is always a frustrating task (and getting harder as my coordination gets worse.) as I have hand/finger difficulties. One hand (the right) is cramped and mostly useless while the other is somewhat shaky. This combined with trouble with eye/hand coordination makes hitting the command + option + p + r at just the right time and all the way through the boot process very difficult for me. I would love to be able to set a keyboard shortcut to do that but don't think it is possible. If I could use one hand (the LEFT) to do that it would be great. I have looked in System Preferences under Keyboard and Accessibility as well as Googled but an easier solution has not revealed itself. Maybe there is none.


texts: iOS 12.2 Control Center Remote Control Finds no TVs

texts:
We have two Apple TV 4s and a number of iOS devices. After the iOS 12.2 update, my iPhone XS would not find the TV called LIVING ROOM but would work with PORCH just fine. I uninstalled the Remote app, and restarted my Apple TV and my phone. Now, my iPhone does not see any Apple TVs in the house, even after reinstalling the Apple TV Remote app (which does work without any problems).

LIVING ROOM shows up just fine on my iPad. Both TVs show up on my wife's iPhone X.

I am open to suggestions for further troubleshooting that are short of restoring my iPhone from backup. I would prefer not to reset iPhone Networking Settings unless somebody is pretty sure that is likely to fix the issue.


texts: Why can't you create/open multiple instances of iTunes?

texts: In terminal, the open -n ~/Applications/iTunes doesn't create a new instance of iTunes, just switches to the one already open.  Why?


texts: MySQL service doesn't start in Catalina OSX

texts:
Installed MySQL 8.0.18 from a dmg file downloaded from the official site. The service won't start when manually started from the new Preferences icon added by the installer. Running sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start dies with this error message:

  Starting MySQL .. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file

I tried setting file and dir ownership of /usr/local/mysql/ to the _mysql user, and giving write permissions to /usr/local/mysql/data/ as per other answers suggested but that didn't fix the issue.

Edit: Forgot to make clear this is on macOS Catalina, I think this is highly relevant as this version brought revised security policies setting how/if each app can write to disk.


texts: How do I prevent kernel panics and failures on my MacBook with a Thunderbolt display connected?

texts:
My MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) running macOS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G73) will inevitably kernel panic while in sleep mode when my external display (LG Ultrawide 34UC98-W) is connected via an Apple Thunderbolt USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter.
The issue appeared a few weeks ago and since then has become a daily occurrence. I am able to disconnect my external display from power via a smart plug but I generally forget to, and when I do I end up coming back to a MacBook that has panicked and restarted.
More recently, my MacBook has started waking from sleep correctly but not detecting the external display anymore. This is even more frustrating because no amount of fiddling with the cable or the settings will fix this. Only a restart will cause the MacBook to detect the screen again.
What can I do to stop these issues from occurring?
EDIT: Here is an example panic log.


texts:
I'm running El Capitan (macOS 10.11.6, 15G22010) with Safari 11.1.2.

The ADDTrust External CA Root certificate expired today. This broke Safari navigation for many sites. Firefox and Chrome work fine on the same sites.

Can Safari navigation be fixed?


texts: How do I install Quartz Composer in Mac OS X Lion?


texts: Two different notification settings for one iMessage contact?

texts:
I have a problem with iMessage notifications from some contacts. If I turn off their notifications entirely, I'll miss some important messages. If I leave them on, I'll get bombarded with a dozen notifications every day. This is doubly a problem for some of my closest contacts where I have enabled emergency bypass for them because they gave me listed as their emergency contact.

Only the occasional message actually demands my urgent attention, and I trust the sender to make that decision properly. But it doesn't seem like there is any way to give the sender the ability to specify whether a message is urgent and should create a notification.

Basically, I want a way that friends and family can notify me, independently of messages which are sometimes urgent and sometimes not.

I looked for apps that could do this, but it seems like Apple doesn't let third party apps have permission to punch through the silent/do not disturb settings. The only bypass seems to be for iMessage and phone calls.

Is there any way or workaround that I can use to get notified about some (urgent) messages from my close contacts while suppressing notifications for all the rest?


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I'm running different applications for development purposes: Apache, MySQL, Tomcat and a couple of other products. I would like to set up the logging verbosity of all applications to debug, but when doing so, the disk gets a lot of activity.

Therefore I would like to create a RAM disk, for example 512 megabytes and get it mounted at boot time, so I can set the path of the log files to the RAM disk.

I looked into /etc/fstab, but there is a notice that this file is deprecated.


texts: Problems with macOS path on Synology NAS (SMB)

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I am having issues with macOS where, after mounting a drive it will mount new drives instead of just jumping to the sub-folder path within the mounted drive.

For example, I'm seeing where I send someone a path for in the "Video" drive on a Synology (smb://HAL9000/Video).  Instead of mounting the "Video" drive (smb://HAL9000/Video) and going to a sub-folder within the video drive labeled "GoPro -IMPORT", it will create a new drive on their desktop labeled "GoPro - IMPORT".

If I create a new sub-folder within "GoPro - IMPORT" and send them a link to that like (smb://HAL9000/Video/GoPro%20-%20IMPORT/Test), instead of taking to the sub-folder in the "Video" drive that they already have mounted on their desktop, it will create an entirely new drive labeled "Test" on their desktop.

I've tried reaching out to both Apple and Synology and had no luck with this.  I would appreciate any kind of help/support.


texts: I want to triple-boot Lion, El Capitan, and WIndows. Howto?

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I have a late-2011 MBP that currently has two operating systems on it. Those two operating systems were Windows 7 and Lion, for a long time. However, I have to use Yosemite (or newer) for some applications for work. So I blew out my Windows partition and set up Yosemite on it.

Now, I want to install Windows again. However, 100% of the triple-boot tutorials I find assume that I want to install Linux as my third OS, so I can't just follow someone else's recipe. I recall Core Storage hassles when going back and forth between Yosemite and Win7.

What's the best approach for me? I can't use Boot Camp, because I already have the Yosemite partition. Should I blow out Yosemite, repartition to have one full-disk Lion partition, use Boot Camp to install Windows, and then... something else?


texts: Black screen, perhaps from login/lock system, after 'closing the clam'

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I make use of the rather clumsy 'closed clam' mode of operation. I close up my macbook pro, bring it to work, and plug in a USB keyboard and a monitor.

80% of the time, all is well.

The other 20% of the time, things proceed as follows:

Unlock box appears on external monitor
Enter password
System unlocks
30 second later ...
Go to black screen with mouse cursor

It looks just like the 'unlock' environment, only, of course, missing the unlock dialog box.

I've also seen the system momentarily display the unlock dialog box. If the system was idle long enough to power-save the display, but not to go into lock, wiggling the mouse will sometimes result in my desktop reappearing with the unlock password box appearing, as well, and then disappearing.

Any ideas?


texts: Change primary display through command line

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Is it possible to change the primary screen for a Mac through command line?

The traditional way of doing this is from System Preferences > Displays and dragging the white menu bar on the top, between screens.

I have different setups at home and work and sometimes I need the primary display to be different. Rather than having to change this by dragging/dropping as explained above, I would like to run a script through a program like Alfred/QuickSilver and then just toggle/switch my primary displays.

If i could do this through command line, it would be awesome. There is this program called cscreen that allows me to do this, but it only runs on PowerMacs.


texts: Cannot login to OS X 10.9 because password field disappears after clicking username

texts: I didn't add or do anything to computer except reboot. When the login screen appeared with my user account I clicked it as usual and the password box briefly appears and then disappears stopping me from logging in. How can I fix this? I do have a guest account with limited capabilities.