texts: How do I install applications from a .dmg file?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I install an application from a disk image?

I just got my first Macbook Pro yesterday and one of the first thing I did was to download and install Mozilla Firefox web browser onto my laptop. After I dragged the firefox icon to the application folder, everything was fine except I was left with a "Firefox 15.0.1.dmg" file that I didn't know what to do.

I experimented with it and tried ejecting the "disk" and dragging it to trash and emptying it. After I did that the Firefox icon on my dock went black and there was no response when I clicked the FireFox icon on my dock.

So I had to redownload and reinsintall everything to make it work again.

Are these dmg files stuck in my computer forever? My download folder is getting unnecessary big


texts: When I try to call my iPhone from my Mac having upgraded to Sierra, it keep on asking for my password ... what pass word?


texts: How to run multiple instances of Firefox?

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My Firefox ESR installation has just updated itself to Firefox 68.2.0esr, from the previous version, and now I no longer seem to be able to run multiple instances of Firefox (using different profiles) the way I used to be able to before.

I could start the first Firefox instance from the dock, having previously set it up to ask me which profile to use when it started, and then, when I needed to start an alternative profile, I could do so via the terminal with:

open -n -a 'firefox'

However, this now just seems to open a new window of the already running Firefox, rather than a new instance (which the -n option is supposed to (and used to) start).

Is it still possible to run multiple instances/profiles of Firefox somehow?


texts: Thanksgiving 5k special achievement not showing up

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I completed my 5k on Thanksgiving day. The activity is visible in both my Activity app and in the Health app. But the special achievement never showed up. Not the end of the world, but it does kind of suck. Anybody else experiencing this or have a solution?

More info about the award here.


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I have two external hard drives, WD 320GB and a WD 1TB.

I would like to backup my WD 320GB on a regular basis. Please could you inform me of a good application which could provide these needs:

Backup compression (not just copy and
pasting the files)
Support for FAT-32
Possibly scheduling

The external hard drives are in a FAT-32 format because they are sometimes used on a windows computer.

I have used Get Backup and it doesn't seem to work, as it has an error about copying files with the same name but different extensions

Thanks


texts: Open Zoom meeting email link (URL) on iPad Air

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I am not a regular iPad user. On Windows I can open a Zoom meeting directly from the link I receive with the invitation email. I just click on that link, the Browser opens and Zoom starts connected with that meeting.
How do I accomplish the same on an iPad? What happened in my case was that the Zoom App opened, but was NOT connected to that particular meeting. I had to manually copy/paste the id/password parts to get connected.
How can I directly open a Zoom meeting from the invitation email on iPad?


texts: opened malicious attachment from scam email- what to do?

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My mother-in-law bit on a fake email ("Your USPS package...") sent to her AOL account and opened the attachment with her iMac. She's on 10.5. She called us shortly after she realized that the attachment wasn't opening. No symptoms yet. What is the impact? What diagnostic/recovery/protection steps should I take? (other than making sure in the future she's up-to-date with her operating system and has an antivirus)

No antivirus. There's a partial backup but it's on a hard drive that's connected; can I trust it?


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The new MacBooks are the best

But their processors are pretty anemic. Not a big deal when I'm out and about, but not great for serious work.

What I'd like to do:

Get an iMac with decent specs, use its processor, RAM, etc., and boot from my Macbook's SSD.

What I've tried:

It looks like Target Disk Mode could accomplish this, but several things are unclear:

Would that even boot, or just allow me to browse the Macbook's SSD?
Could I use the Macbook as a secondary display? Feels a shame to waste it.


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I’m on an iPhone 11. I’m trying to share an iCloud calendar with other iCloud Users.

When I type in their accounts, invitations are not sent (or received) and each invitation is stuck in a pending state.

Any idea on how to fix this?

Edit: same problem happens if I try to share a calendar with the iCloud web interface

Edit: I cannnot receive sharing invitations as well

I'm using a yahoo account for iCloud


texts: How do I change the appearance of the window that has focus?

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I find that I frequently close the wrong window or app by accident, because I think that (for example) the Browser window I am looking at has the focus, when in fact another app, such as iTerm really has focus.  (It doesn't help that I am able to scroll windows that don't have focus.)

When I look at the visual appearance of windows, the difference between the one that has focus and the ones that don't is very slight: the focused window has a slightly different shade of gray in the title bar, and the three round buttons at the upper-left are red, yellow, and green instead of gray.

If the title bar was some completely different, non-gray color it would stand out more.  I tried going to System Preferences:General, but changing the "Highlight color" doesn't affect the window's title bar. I couldn't find anything else under System Preferences that seemed relevant.

How can I change the appearance of the focused window so it stands out?


texts: How to access iTunes podcast playlists on iOS 11

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I just upgraded to iOS 11 (took me a while to be ready to say goodbye to some of my heavily used 32-bit non-upgraded apps). Something I use my iPhone for A LOT is listening to my podcast smart playlists... they sync to my iTunes so I listen some on my computer and then continue on my phone. After upgrading to iOS 11, they seem to be gone.

Is there a trick to syncing from iOS to iTunes for podcast listen status?


texts: Why is my mac replacing my name on all my email as "Holiday In The United States"?

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Recently I noticed that on both Spark and the default mail app, my name is being replaced as "Holiday In The United States". This is happening on all my accounts, with various email providers. I have verified my name in both System Preferences, Spark Preferences, and Mail Preferences. Additionally, I have checked my name on each email provider's settings. To clarify, I am only seeing my name as "Holiday In The United States" from my Mac, not online.

Any way I can fix this? It is really annoying having to log-in from the browser to send mail.

I am currently on a MacBook Pro Mid 2014, running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3.


texts: How to listen to iTunes library stored on Time Capsule on iOS

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I know that storing the iTunes library on a Time Capsule isn't recommended as it won't be backed up. But with iTunes in the cloud and iTunes Match this isn't as big a deal. So I figured I'd move my library to my Time Capsule.

However, now that I've moved it, I'm unsure how to watch and listen to the media from my iPhone. Is there any way to start Home Sharing from the Time Capsule, or are there any apps that are designed to play iTunes libraries from NASs?


texts: AppleScript call function in IF statement

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I don't usually use function, but why can't I call a function inside an IF statement?
for example this obviously work just fine
notification()
on notification()
    display notification "just a quick demo"
end notification

but this doesn't :
set myOption to {"demo one", "demo two"}
set selectedoption to choose from list myOption with title "demo" with prompt "What's the story?" default items "Start Prism"

if selectedoption is equal to "demo one" then
    notification()
end if

on notification()
    display notification "just a quick demo"
end notification


texts: How to gather windows from secondary monitor while remotely connected from OS X to Windows 7

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I need to gather all of my open applications running on Windows 7 to one screen via remote desktop connection using my Macbook. How can this be achieved? As it is, one program (Notepad ++) is stuck on the second monitor, which I cannot see on my Macbook screen.

My questions is very similar to this form superuser:
https://superuser.com/questions/216277/windows7-how-to-gather-windows-from-secondary-monitor


texts: Is this display problem of my MacBook Air a GPU issue?

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I have a 2019  MacBook Air and sometimes, this problem happens when I try to open the laptop; it glitches. I think this happens because I restored the Mac and deleted all my old files last week.
But this really only happened a few times in the past week and  only happend twice. I don’t know if I have to fix it or if it’s covered under warranty.


texts: Administrator Password pop up screen does not open

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I have Macpro4.1 running Yosemite. Suddenly I can't do anything that requires Administrator's password. The pop up screen to type in password does not come up.
If I go to Users & Groups and click on the lock, It will say authenticating but just spins and password screen does not open. If I try to access passwords in Keychain the app will lock up and I have to force quit.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem?


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All Apps on my iMac are completely unresponsive. The only one working is Safari.
I tried to repair the volume, repair disk permission, PRAM reset, clearing all caches, running periodic scripts.

The Apps show a UI and load it (i.e. the App Store reloads it's content), but there is no way to interact.


texts: Can I share HBO Now or Netflix while using iCloud Family Sharing?

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If two people use the same Apple ID for logging into "iTunes & App Store" on iOS, then they can share app purchases, including the purchase of in-app subscriptions like HBO Now (or Netflix).

If two people use separate Apple IDs for logging into "iTunes & App Store", but link the Apple IDs via iCloud Family Sharing, then they can still share app purchases. However, they cannot share in-app purchases.

HBO Now (and Netflix) are in-app subscription purchases. So does this mean that, if I use iCloud Family Sharing, there is be no way to share a single subscription to HBO Now so that it can be used by everyone in my family?

Is there a way around this, that allows the family to use iCloud Family Sharing but still allows everyone to be able to use HBO now from their devices?


texts: Hide frequently used Memojis from Emoji keyboard in iOS 13

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I just upgraded my iPhone to iOS 13 and I noticed that, while composing a message, when switching to the "Emoji" keyboard (that now can be accessed through an apposite button), it shows, on the very left hand side of the screen, my 8 most frequently used Memoji. This is very annoying to me, since I almost never use Memoji and I'd like just Emojis to be shown.

Does someone know how to hide Memojis from the Emoji keyboard?


texts: How to maintain focus on app window with AppleScript

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I am trying to launch my scanner application using AppleScript.  I have it launching the Printer app and I know how to send the keystroke command but when the Printer window  opens it does not have focus in Finder so the keystroke I am sending is not working unless I already have the printer window open and in focus. How do I set the Finder focus to my window so it will hear the keystroke?

Here is my code:

tell application "System Events"
  tell application "Canon MX510 series" to activate
  key code 20 using command down
end tell


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On my iPhone, I can put the cursor in the middle of a word in Messages to change spelling, mistakes.  The little magnification bubble appears, which also helps.  Neither my iPad 10.5 nor my wife's iPad Air 2 can do that.  We have to settle for the cursor appearing at the end of the word, and backspacing to erase the word to re-enter it.

Can we tell iPad messages to act like the iPhone on Messages?


texts: Where can I find Steam "Save.Dat" Files? Or Does Mac Not Store It On The Device?

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Problem: I'm Banned In This Game "Pixel Worlds MMO: Sandbox" And I'm Trying To Delete My Safe File On Steam, As to reset the game.
The Admin has said I'm allowed to create a new account and play fairly as before (Long story, I was banned by fault)
However, I'm unable to Log Out of the game due to it's "Ban Feature"
So, I'm wanting to reset the data of the game via steam, so I could create a new account,
Question (Again + Reworded)
Is There A Way I Could Delete Steam Game Data? or Save Files?


texts: Is there a way to change back to standard Voice Control when there is no internet connection?

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I have just got an Iphone 5 and love Siri, but, it is annoying that it only works when internet is available.

... I was surprised to see that when I turned Siri off, the phone went back to the standard voice control that was on previous devices.

As I spend a lot of time on the underground/transport where there is no internet connection, and, when standing/holding on, it is not very convinent to get the phone out and start messing around - I used to love the fact I could say "play song x"... well, you know!

After going through the options, I saw that when you switch Siri off, it says it deletes your whole profile/history and more which is not ideal - nor is switching every time I get on the train.

... I think the answer is no, but, is it at all possible to automatically switch to standard Voice control when internet is not available?


texts: Install and import site-packages for Python 2 and 3 on Mac

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I installed brew and then

brew install python
brew install python3

Install flask with pip

pip install flask

Try

python -c 'import flask'

But I got exception

ImportError: No module named flask

Set and export PYTHONPATH

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

So far so good. But when I tried to install a package with pip3 for Python 3, I got error message

Your PYTHONPATH points to a site-packages dir for Python 2.x but you are running Python 3.x!
     PYTHONPATH is currently: ":/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
     You should `unset PYTHONPATH` to fix this.

How to use site-packages without the PYTHONPATH trick to make both pip and pip3 usable and both Python 2 and Python 3 able to import site-packages?


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I'm a long time Windows and Linux user giving an old Macbook I brought back to life a fair shake.  I'm running Snow Leopard.

One of the frustrations I've had over the past couple weeks is that I can't easily navigate large numbers of windows.

I'm used to alt-tab and the task bar.  I'd use alt-tab to go to the most recent windows, and the task bar to go to very old ones.

On MacOS, I've been using command-tab to switch between applications, then command-backtick to switch between active windows, but command-backtick is inconsistent, and command-tab isn't consistent in Firefox with multiple virtual desktops (it seems to take you to the most recent window on the active desktop, rather than the most recent window in the app).

While Expose shows me my three-dozen windows in a neatly tiled, seemingly random mosaic.

Somebody who grew up on Macs might be able to tell me the secret.  What am I doing wrong?


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Sometimes while driving or washing the dishes some idea pops up in my head while I am listening to music.

How may I record voice without touching the phone?

(Sometimes while driving in remote places I do not have Internet connection so using Siri will not work)


texts: preview merges pdf and result in huge file size?

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I used preview to merge 5 pdf files, of total size of 800k. All pdf have no graphs. However the resulting file size is 10MB...

I then tried Acrobat, under similar simple method I got a combined pdf of 750kb.

So why is preview so inefficient? Or Have I just misconfigured sth.?


texts: Signed application cannot be opened once downloaded - ("unidentified developer") error

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I have developed an application for OS X. As changes to this application are pushed to my code repository, a build server (Jenkins) automatically detects those changes and kicks off a build process. As part of that build process, I sign the generated binaries with a certificate I have received from Apple. Once that process completes, I am able to verify that the application has been properly signed by running:

$ codesign -v ./MyApp.app

Here is the strange part: If I download those binaries directly from Jenkins and copy them over to a Mac, I can run them without issue. However, if I host those binaries on a web server and download them via HTTPS, I receive the "can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" error and am unable to proceed.

Can anyone shed some light on what might be happening here?


texts: I just got an "Infection Blocked" alert from Avast when I went to the Macworld site - 8:40 pm eastern timeAug 2nd

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From a macworld URL ending in . . . ads/prebid.min.js.

Is this something to be worried about? Should this be reported to someone?


texts: MacBook not recognizing Wireless N USB Adapter

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I have an aluminum unibody (2008). I recently upgraded RAM & downloaded all software to get my baby up to date. THEN the wifi card died. I tried to fix that myself but thanks to Apple's almost spot-welded screws, I had to change directions. I got the usb adapter's drivers installed & when I inserted the adapter, I got nothing. NOTHING. Can someone please help this old lady? I just paid $35 to the local computer guy to remove a stripped screw. I'm trying really hard to not have to see him ever again. All I want is to use my MacBook again & throw this PC back in the corner.

HELP!!


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Apple's store web pages began saying some time ago that cell-enabled iPads include an Apple SIM.

I have a barely working iPad that I had a data plan on in Korea in February.  But because it is broken, I bought another about a month ago.

The new one is interrupts me with annoying frequency to tell me it has no SIM card.  To make it shut up, I decided to transfer the SIM from the broken one.  Popped out both trays, and NEITHER contains a SIM card.

Is the SIM that the store claims is included built-in somewhere?  If so, why does one of them say it doesn't exist? and does the tray indicate it is a dual-SIM device?


texts: how do I reconnect my mini mac to wireless keyboard and mouse after a reboot

texts: after a reboot my mini mac seems to have lost pairing with both wireless keyboard and mouse. How do I go forward from here?


texts: MacBook Pro Input/Output audio not found

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I have an audio problem on my MackBook with the following specifications:

MB Pro Retina (13 inch Early 2015)
Operation System: macOS Sierra 10.12.5

Here is the chronology of the problem: Initially, everything was okay. I could hear music from iTunes on my MBP connected with a cable to an external speaker. Then I accidentally unplugged the cable on the speaker, so I plugged it in again but then I couldn't hear sound from my MacBook anymore.

I have tried the following solutions to address this:

Restarting my MacBook
Reinstalling my operating system
Resetting both NVRAM and SMC
Plugging and unplugging to/from the audio jack on the MBP
Killing coreaudiod on Activity Monitor
Deleting the apple.bezleservices.plist file at ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.BezelServices.plist
Taking it into Apple Store Service near my town

The Apple Store said it was a hardware issue, but I'm not sure on this. So, I went home to try the various "non-hardware" approaches above.

FYI: My iTunes and Siri also don't work. Playing a song in iTunes shows no song progress. If I try to use Siri I get a "no audio found" message.

Below are various screenshots of my problem:

My questions:

How can I troubleshoot this further?
Is there a way for me to narrow down whether or not this is definitely a hardware issue?


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Possible Duplicate:
  When I plug my iPad into my computer USB ports, iPad displays “Not Charging”.  What can I do?

Newer MacBooks provide enough juice through the built-in USB ports for the iPad to charge quickly, and one can use the wall outlet to get the job done as well. However, there don't seem to be any hubs out there that do anything but trickle-charge...

Is anyone aware of a USB hub that can charge an iPad? I'd really like to be able to sync & charge at the same time without having to plug in directly into the MacBook.


texts: How to distinguish multiple OS X installations from each other in the bootloader?

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I read with interest this post about setting up a flash drive with multiple OS X installers.  It confirms what I've suspected by my tests with just one OS (Lion).

However, a question occurred to me:
How do you avoid multiple instances of "Mac OS X" appearing as possible boot choices?  In other words, how do you know which one is which?

EDIT:  I am referring to the situation when booting with the "Option" key held down, showing all available boot sources.

Does the boot loader distinguish between them somehow?
If not, can I (safely) rename the string in the "SystemVersion.plist" file on each partition?


texts: Mail application captures huge disk space

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I found my startup disk free space to be very low and decreasing every minute without any files be downloaded or copied to my Macbook pro. I stopped running programs one by one and found when I stop Mail application (the original apple Mail) my free space is not decreasing anymore.

I had two email accounts assigned to my Mail application to be synchronized: my Gmail and the academic email account. I just removed Gmail from the Mail application and at once 40GB was restored to my free space!!!

And my question: While GMail has only 10GB quota (and I have used much less than this quota) how the Gmail account on the Mail application can capture 40GB of disk space? Is there any solution to use Gmail account active on Mail application, but with small disk space being used?


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I want to activate the NTFS support.
But I can't find the /etc/fstab on my mac.
osx 10.11.5 El Capitan


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Let me preface this by stating I did look for a similar board handling similar situations but couldn't find one either in topic or response that covered me needs. I apologize deeply if I have broken a rule. That was not my intent in posting this

My first thought with my Mid 2011 iMac was a graphics card failure that apple announced a recall for and then later ended approximately one month before I had my unfortunate event. I was using a low end application (Diablo II) when I hit an orange screen followed by the WSoD. I didn't panic (yet). I had a lot of boot option to try to fix this. I ran through everything I could find on the web regarding various boot options and disc repairs. These would all start to work but die with a small percentage of the progress bar left to fill. This would be met with a full-width artifact just before WSoD.

To this point, and after a lot of struggling, I joyously was able to boot main drive through target disc mode. So I am at a worst case scenario of transferring all my data to an external drive and then (hopefully) clone the drive for further use.

I am experiencing the protracted "Stopping" on transfers that I have seen all over the net without much help.

What should I do next? Any ideas? All help will be welcome.

And assuming it is the graphics card (AMD Radeon HD 6970M), and ballpark ideas on repair costs? The sell and buy new may be an option if the numbers work right.


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I have a 2008 MacBook Pro (last one before the unibody ones) and have been monitoring a the laptop temperatures for almost a day. I used Temperature Monitor to graph the changes in temp and correlate them to my typical usage.

Aside from obvious considerations (GPU getting HOT while playing 3D stuff), I noticed that when I unplugged the laptop from the AC adapter the temp dropped down by 15-30 °C.

I think this may be related to some energy-saving mode of the CPU/GPU but I didn't find any setting or hack that allow me to turn it on on purpose. Is there a way to do so?

PS: One may ask, why do you care about temperatures: well, first of all it's summer and this laptop is damn hot. On the other hand, I'd much prefer my laptop to use only as much resources it needs for common tasks and then turning it on when I need more computing power.


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I have an iMac connected by wire to an external (non-Mac) hard drive which is used to store back-up images via Time Machine.  I want to buy a second iMac and network the two together.  As far as I understand it, this will mean that (subject to permissions) any user can sit at one of the machines and see/use the contents of both hard drives.

How do I now back-up both iMacs to the same hard drive? I can't afford to buy the expensive Time Capsule.

Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.


texts: In what ways can I separately manage entries in Contacts.app and SIM card contacts?

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I have some basic questions in my mind and ofcourse, I should ask them to know the things.

Can I import/export contacts from/to sim card?
Is it possible to view the contacts that are stored in sim/iPhone separately?
Is it possible to choose the default memory storage for contacts?
Is it possible to delete all contacts from sim/iPhone (or maybe both)by one click?


texts: Mac Pro Tower, randomly hanging convinced its a hardware problem but Apple think otherwise

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Just about ready to launch this machine out the window it's driving me crazy.

Ok so a rundown of what has happened thus far.

Bought a Mac Pro Tower around 2010, worked like a dream for 3 years then due to circumstances it had to be put into storage for the past 2 years.

Anyway when I got it out of storage a few weeks ago and fired it up I noticed that it keep randomly hanging and nothing would allow me to resume control. Due to the age of the machine I figured it could have been a failing HD, so replaced it with a new one and done a clean install of Snow Leopard.

That didn't make any difference, so after asking around on here I got told it could have been the PRAM battery, so I then replaced that too and again it made no difference.

At that point I took it into the Apple Store, it crashed twice when they loaded their own OS on it so they kept it in for further investigation. They then called me up to say that they couldn't find any hardware faults but that they did install a newer version of Snow Leopard.

So I have just got it home, set it up and it crashed yet again.

Any ideas what I should do now?


texts: BootCamp Partition Error!! Help. Deleted EFI Partition

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During my Windows 7 installation (via BootCamp) I came to screen that looks similar to this picture.

I chose to delete and format the EFI partition (~200 MB) and and the other small partition (~629 MB). I was confused why I had those partitions in the first place so I just wanted to get rid of them. I did not delete my main Mac OS X partition though. Just the two small partitions, thinking nothing of it.

After the install of Windows 7, I realized I could no longer get back into Mac OS X. The only OS I could boot into (when I held the 'option key' at start-up) was Windows. My Mac OS X system had vanished!

I really need to save the files on my computer. I tried to research this issue with many other articles. Through many troubleshooting acts of desperation, I now can't even boot into my Windows installation.

It appears that the data should all be there. It's currently showing two partitions within my SSD. One is about 88 GB (would be my Mac OS) and the other is about 35 GB (would be my Windows OS).

Verify and Repairing the disk does not help... I have tried. I am currently accessing Terminal and Disk Utility thru the Apple Online Recovery feature.

In the Disk Utility image below, my Mac OS is 'disk0s2' and my Windows is 'disk0s4':

Additionally, here are some terminal pictures that showcase my disk:


texts: Problems with reinstalling El Capitan using DVD

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Let me preface that I am a total apple noob. I only used iMacs at work, and that was only for about 20 mins a day.

My workplace upgraded their computers, and I found out my laptop decided to die. Due to lockdown I can't really go and get it fixed (ie. Can't do my training they're paying for,) so they allowed me to take the old iMac. Of course they've erased everything but forgot to reinstall macOS.

Following the steps I found online I tried to reinstall but not knowing the apple ID, I can't do it (and seems like El Capitan needs it), and can't find anyone that's not furloughed and would have the knowledge of it. I did manage to get a working bootable DVD with El Capitan. I can see the disk recognised when in os utilities, but when restarting and pressing whichever combination of keys (one website said to just press C, another one to press Option) I just get the apple logo on a white background, the normal loading screen. It does load up to the end and then just gets stuck there forever.

I don't really know where to go from here.

I am probably just missing a very obvious step somewhere, and I'm more than happy to be proven on my stupidity and inability to follow simple instructions. I've never been great with computers but frankly, this is way beyond my brain power.


texts: Is Disk Utility very accurate in S.M.A.R.T. status?

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So I have a simple bash script which checks whether my S.M.A.R.T. status is Verified if not it throws me a pop up alert. But is Disk utility very accurate when a drive is failing or not. Like suppose if my  OEM SSD is failing one day will it show me the S.M.A.R.T. status as "Failing"? I have high Sierra on my Mac.
EXAMPLE


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I have an mid 2009 MacBook Pro 13" (processor: 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, memory: 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, HDD: 160 GB SATA) and it has started giving me trouble a few months ago. It runs on Max OS 10.7.5 and has been getting excruciatingly slow. Additional software is Adobe CS4, Skype and OpenOffice.  I mostly use it for OpenOffice work, internet research, Skype, and movies.

The cost to fix it with a new battery, new RAM and new HDD which would get me in the price range of about $300 to 400 in my estimates.

What reasons should could help decide between fixing it or rather save up for a replacement. MacBook Pro 13" again with a non-retina display?


texts: Is there a Mac OS X Terminal version of the "free" command in Linux systems?

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On Linux, I often use the free command to see the current amount of free and used memory in the system. For example:

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       7264256    1010952    6253304          0     371892     189088
-/+ buffers/cache:     449972    6814284
Swap:      8126456         28    8126428

It does not seem to exist when I enter free in Mac OS X's Terminal. Is there an alternative?


texts: How to convert an epub package to regular epub?

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I have some epub files in my iCloud Drive that are essentially packages.  I can show package contents and then it shows me a hierarchy of files and folders.

How can I convert this structure to a standard epub that any regular epub reader will understand?


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I have been trying to find an application to create a database (preferably sqlite) And I would like to create relational databases and query, however, I haven’t found any on the App Store to enable me to do so.
Does anyone know any way that I could manage a database on my phone?


texts: How do configure Skype For Business to not start when macOS starts?

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Skype For Business 16.2.145 automatically starts and sign's in when my machine starts.

The usual solutions for Skype don't work for Skype for Business. I cannot change this setting in the dock or in the app's preferences.

How do I change this setting?


texts: 17" MacBook Pro (early 2011) 16GB RAM, 1600 MHz?

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Crucial and OWC both say that the 17" MacBook Pro (early 2011) supports 16 GB. But both only offer 1333 MHz when I select to buy.

Rightnow I've got a single 8GB 1600 MHz chip, have had it for years and it works fine.

Would this model have issues with two 8GB 1600 MHz chips?


texts: What is the power output of the FireWire 800 port in the Late 2012 Mac Mini?

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The Mac Mini (Late 2012) has a FireWire 800 port on the back.

How much power can this FireWire port output? I was only able to find the data speed (800 Mbit/s) on Apple's tech specs page for this Mac mini, but wasn't able to find any information elsewhere.
For reference, the (now discontinued) 13 port Thunderbolt 3 docking station from OWC contained a FireWire 800 port that could output 7 watts of energy.


texts: Macbook Pro Mid-2014 trackpad not working

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My mid 2014 13" macbook pro (retina) has been acting really weird.

Two days ago, after I powered it up, the mouse started going crazy, moving all over the place, and eventually stopped moving, and my trackpad hasn't worked ever since. I'm using an USB mouse which works flawlessly.

My keyboard is also strange ever since, often not registering my key presses. After searching several forums, I found some users who reported this happening when their battery started swelling, but my trackpad still clicks fairly normally, which didn't happen in some of the cases I've seen. My battery is infact in 'Replace Soon' condition, with 1200 cycles. I've posted a screenshot of CoconutBattery bellow.
I've ruled out sending it to Apple, since they charge me 300€ because they have to replace the entire bottom frame.

I'm thinking about ordering a battery from iFixit. Do you think this might fix my issue? Do I also need to replace the trackpad/keyboard cable? Any experience regarding similar situations is highly appreciated.


texts: Migration issue - duplicate user account

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I've got a situation that I don't know how to resolve. I've had a Mac setup and all worked fine. I've bought an SSD drive, installed Mavericks and used the migration assistant to move all the stuff from the previous system to the SSD disk, including the user account.

The problem is, now I've got both disk on the same machine, both with the OSX and the same user account. Sometimes it feels like I don't know which user root folder I'm using (the one on the SSD or the one on the previous HDD). I'd like to keep the OSX in both as a backup option (the SSD is plugged via USB3), but I don't want to format the HDD as I've got stuff in it that I don't want move around so I though about renaming the user root folder ~/user in the HDD to another name. Would that cause any conflict/issue?


texts: Reset my Macs password? I still have SSH access

texts: I recently changed my password and promptly forgot it :P What is the best option for resetting it? I can still access the mac via SSH (ssh key auth method), can I do anything with that?


texts: How can I use AppleScript to type text into a new window?

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I'm trying to make an applescript that will write itself into a new window of Applescript Editor. But I can't figure out how it will paste itself with quotations. The code I have right now is

tell application "System Events"
    keystroke "n" using command down
    keystroke "tell application (System Events) keystroke (n) using command down end tell"
end tell


texts: How to open files from unknown developers without a warning in OSX?

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I believe I have too much security on my mac. Whenever I try changing a file name or install a program I have to enter my laptop's password. Moreover, I cannot quickly access downloaded programs because they are from unidentified developers, and I must right-click > open in order for me to run them. That is really frustrating.
Do I need to my laptop to be THAT secure (due to recent malware attacks on Macbooks ? ) Can I chance the settings to have it a bit more flexible ?

Platform : Mountaion Lion Retina Macbook Pro


texts: MAC Catalina Upgrade error : The disk doesn't use the GUID partition

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I have this problem  when I want to upgrade my MACOS from Yosemit to Catalina

My pc specs are as fallow:

When i'm going to volume I can't select anything

And if I go to erase, the same problem happens

When I diskutil list & diskutil cs list

ADMINs-MBP-2:~ ADMIN$ diskutil list & diskutil cs list
[1] 641
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
ADMINs-MBP-2:~ ADMIN$ /dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS Untitled                251.0 GB   disk0s1

[1]+  Done                    diskutil list
ADMINs-MBP-2:~ ADMIN$


texts: Finder can‘t connect to iPhone via Wifi (Catalina)

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So is seems no matter what I try I can’t get Finder on latest Catalina (10.15.4) on MBP 2018 to see my iPhone in Finder after initial setup and sync.
I did turn on the show this iphone when on wifi option.

All I get is a spinning wheel:

Any idea how to resolve this?


texts: iPad E-Mail Attachments are destroyed on the Exchange account

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I have a problem with my ipad Air iOS 7.0.4. When I receive E-Mails on my Exchange account, which contain for example a .pdf, the pdf is destroyed an can't be opend. If I forward the attachment, the attachment is still destroyed on the other recipient. I also receive my exchange mails on my PC and there are the attachments fully functional.

On my iPad I have a second GMX Imap account, and if I send a attachment to this account, I also receive it fully functional.

I already tried to delete the Exchange account from  the iPad and added it newly.


texts: 2011 iMac12,2 Windows 10 BootCamp SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys)

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During the setup process of the Windows 10 install (where it says stuff like "getting your pc ready" or whatever), my mac BSODs with the error:

Stop Code: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
What failed: igdkmd64.sys

I searched google for igdkmd64.sys and it appears to be an issue with Intel iGPU drivers, but iirc (and according to system profiler), the iMac12,2 doesn't have an iGPU, just a dGPU (HD 6970M).

I booted into safe mode and opened Device Viewer and it showed an Intel iGPU, and a AMD dGPU. I tried to disable the iGPU, and then restarted, but then, Windows would not boot at all.


texts: Will one get in trouble for taking a jailbroken device through airport security?

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My brother is worried that he may get in trouble if the people checking bags at security can see his jailbroken device when he enters the US.

Are there any documented cases or specific experiences with this where people got into trouble due to a jailbreak modification?


texts: Restore an older version of iCloud keychain

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I saved an important password in an iCloud keychain, then deleted it there, and then forgot the password. Pretty dumb, I know.
Still, is it somehow possible to get an older version of that keychain that still keeps the password?


texts: Chrome is very slow due to "Resolving host in proxy script..."

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I'm using a proxy script to connect to the Internet. I've set it, system wide, in :

System preferences -> Network -> Advanced... ->Proxies -> Automatic Proxy Configuration

and it works well.

I've also set it in Firefox

Preferences... -> Advanced -> Network -> Connection -> Settings -> Automatic Proxy Configuration URL

and it works well too.

In Safari, which use the system proxy configuration everything works well.

BUT in chrome Version 54.0.2840.87 (64-bit), which should use also the system proxy configuration everything is very slow and I always see, in the status bar, the message :

Resolving host in proxy script...

I've found the following thread about Proxy Pac and Sierra but it doesn't help.

Any idea?

P.S. I'm using macOS 10.12.1


texts: Pages keeps deleting empty lines when I change the font style

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I am running the latest version of Pages (5.6). The problem occurs whenever I position the caret on a new, empty line.

If I change the font style to bold (or turn off bold), Pages automatically highlights (selects) the empty line, which reveals an invisible format character. If there is text below the line the caret is positioned on, after I start typing, Pages deletes the entire line and moves the text up because the line was empty to begin with.

Screenshot to better illustrate this. The caret is positioned between the two lines of text. When I, for instance, turn bold on or off, the following happens:

The new line is selected, so once I start typing, Pages deletes the entire line and the new format style is cleared. This is really irritating because every time I change the font style now, I have to deselect the new line manually by clicking away from it, using the arrow keys, or something like that so it won't overwrite the new line.

Is there any way to stop this from happening?


texts:
How does Disk Utility repair corruption?

When you run First Aid, it logs things like "checking fsroot tree", checking the EFI jumpstart record", etc. How does it know if something is broken, like does it have a correct version to compare things to? What if the correct reference gets corrupted as well?


texts: 2009 Mac Mini HDD as an External Drive for a 2011 Mac Mini HDD

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I have a unique plan:

I have a 2009 Mac Mini mid-2009 with 10.6 OS X.  I just got the 2011 Mac Mini with 10.7.  But I am planning to use the hard drive from the 2009 Mac Mini with 10.6 OS X as an external USB drive for my new 2011 Mac Mini.

Question:  Can I boot from the external USB with 10.6 from my new 2011 Mac Mini?  (Using the Option key when turn on the computer, etc.)  So, that I can boot into either 10.6 (on the external USB drive) or 10.7 (the internal drive) from my mini 2011?


texts: Can iPad be upgraded to iOS8 if desktop is running lion?

texts: Question: Current hardware is a 2007 Mac mini running Lion. From what I read, I cannot upgrade to Yosemite (if incorrect, please let me know) but the question is that I also have an iPad 2 and will I be able to upgrade to iOS8 if only have Lion on the desktop/mac mini?


texts: How can I delete Mail.app's cached e-mails that are saved to disk in OS X Lion?

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I am running out of some disk space, and noticed Mail has about 30GB of emails stored.

What is the best way to delete these emails? I don't need them as a server has a copy.


texts: "No Local Dictionary Available" error from dictionary after upgrading from Sierra to Catalina

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I have a late 2013 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which I just upgraded from Sierra to Catalina. Overall, everything still seems to work, but the dictionary popup that shows when I triple-tap on a word is messed up. This is what it looks like:

I tried clicking the "Configure Dictionaries" button and I don't see the choices I usually see. It looks like this:

I tried restarting my Mac, and searching on Google and this site for solutions, and I couldn't find anyone who ran into quite the same problem, or any fix for this.

Does anyone here know how to make my dictionary work again?

Update: I found this thread on Apple's message board.

The Apple-recommended solution didn't work for me. I'm using an external hard drive as a Time Machine backup, and I found a backup of my /System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX folder that is recent but from before upgrading to Catalina. My laptop's hard drive has a /System/Library/Assets folder, but it does not have a com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX folder within it, and Finder is not letting me create one. I don't see the "New Folder" option like I usually do. I tried dragging the folder from my backup and nothing seemed to happen. I tried using the Time Machine app to restore the folder and I got a dialog saying "“” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS.".

I also tried the suggestion in the thread of restoring my /Library/Dictionaries folder, but I can't find it anywhere on my built-in hard drive or my backups.

Update 2: I disabled System Integrity Protection as described here, and looked in my /System/Library/Assets folder, and most of the stuff was missing. I hope I didn't mess up anything. I managed to copy the com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX folder from my Time Machine backup, and it seems like it didn't fix anything. I restarted my laptop and triple-tapped on a word, and the Dictionary app came up and said it was preparing the downloadable dictionaries (or something similar; I don't remember exactly), which gave me some hope, but after that finished, the same things were happening ("No Local Dictionary Available", usual dictionaries not showing). I restored my /System/Library/Assets folder from my latest backup (from before the upgrade), re-enabled System Integrity Protection, and restarted my laptop again. My Dictionary app is still broken.

Update 3: I created a new user account and logged in with it to see if the dictionary worked. It was still broken.


texts: Is it possible to "lock" and prevent adding new columns in Numbers?

texts: Is it possible to lock the number of columns in a Numbers sheet so that no new columns are added on the right when tabbing through cells? The problem is when I tab through cells from left to right, Numbers adds a new column to the right if I hit tab while in the last column. I'd like to find a way to prevent new columns when tabbing left to right and have hitting tab take the cursor back to the far left column A.


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We have users with multiple shared calendars and created a new user with the calendars we would like to publish, but I don't want that the people have to enter credentials to access it. I want to embed it google-style on our website.
Does anyone know of a way to embed a list of calendars for a user on macOS Server High Sierra on a company website?
I have tried every creative solution I can think of.


texts: iMac display goes to sleep randomly during use -- how and why? Are there event logs?

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Over the past month or two the display on my old iMac 27-inch ("late 2009", running High Sierra 10.13.6) would randomly and suddenly go to sleep (sudden dead black) while in use (while typing, mousing, scrolling, etc.), but only about once a week or even less.

The first time I thought it had crashed (having the display go dead black while typing is very disconcerting) and I power-cycled it.  The second time I realized the system was still running, and I logged in remotely with SSH to find everything "normal".  I finally realized I could simply wake the display again with Control-Shift-Eject and then wiggling the cursor or hitting another key.

These past few days it started doing this very frequently -- every few minutes, or even more often for periods.

At first I thought it might be a software bug as it seemed to only happen when using the browser (perhaps a GPU bug).

Then, because it seemed OK for a short while after being idle for an hour or more, I thought it might be something to do with overheating, and I played with fan speeds (to the great annoyance of my ears).  At first this seemed to make some difference, but I never really could make any strong correlation.

But then I realized it was probably being put to sleep under software control as apps were fully refreshing their windows upon waking the display (just as they do when returning from the screen saver, for example).

Finally I tried changing the Energy Saver settings to "Never" let the display go to sleep.  This seems to have worked!

Now I've also quieted the fans, and so far (an hour or two of constant use) I have not had the screen suddenly go black since.

Does anyone have any deep understanding of how exactly the system controls display sleep, and whether or not there's any way to see logging of the events controlling display sleep?


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I just completed my first ever Time Machine migration… or I thought I had.
I just got a new 1TB SSD & PCIe mount to lift my speeds up to full SATA III on an old Mac Pro normally limited to SATA II speeds.
I decided now would be time to clean up a bit so I'd do a fresh, clean install then migrate, rather than my usual trick of simply cloning it with Carbon Copy Cloner.
All appeared to go well. Install went smoothly, I was presented with the Migration tool & asked it to migrate from my Time Machine drive [also internal, last updated only 30 minutes prior]. I selected everything - about 500GB, half full drives, old & new.
It busied itself with the copying for a good while, then presented a very long list of esoteric things it couldn't copy - no explanation was given. The list was far too long to give more than a cursory glance to.  I thought I could probably get away with missing a few bits, so long as the main stuff had transferred, so I stepped on to the next part of setup, signing into iCloud etc [there was no other choice but to accept the list of fails, it was OK or nothing.]
On finally arriving at the desktop I quickly realised that absolutely nothing had been migrated at all. No Apps, no docs, no music, pictures… zero.
So, I'm currently making a new CCC clone.
Anyone have any idea what may have gone wrong, so much so that absolutely nothing happened after a good half hour of 'being busy'?
Mac Pro 5,1 Mojave 10.14.6 [both old & new installs] 2 x 1TB SSD, 4 other HDs inc one for Time Machine.
Further updates
I've now tried this perhaps 7 times using different strategies. The slimmest version was a brand new Time Machine with a single manual backup, restoring just one account to a wiped SSD. No other drives connected. Both drives on the regular SATA bus, no PCIe card. SIP disabled.
No Joy.
Single file restoration is fine now, though was really broken before I disabled SIP. All apps showed as 'grey with a no-chance sign'.
Migration just will not work, neither will a direct Restore from Time Machine to a blank drive.


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I continually hit ⌘-P and ⌘-S while Terminal is in focus, due to alt-tabbing between my text editor and other programs.

Does anyone know how to disable these keys in Terminal.app?


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I am trying to write an Automator Script which involves, among other things, getting the GPS location data from an image. This will be a Finder Service.

From what I have been able to discover so far, it involves running some AppleScript and talking to the Image Events headless application.

From here, how do I actually get the Latitude & Longitude of the image?

I know there are applications which can read this data, including on the command line, but I wondered whether it was available to MacOS without adding anything.


texts: When I delete "Watch Me Do" from Automator, does it get deleted forever?

texts: Is Automator's "Watch Me Do" action permanently deleted when it is removed from the action sequence?


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I have an office/studio setup with MacBook Pro 2017 with 2 external monitors attached to it.

I'd like to have a second (non-primary) laptop, no need to be as powerful as my main machine and I'd like use it for remote access to the primary machine from anywhere in the house at any time.

I know I can use a Screen Sharing option, however, I can't remotely connect when the primary machine is in a sleep mode.

Let's say that if the sleep mode wouldn't be a problem then I'm facing another problem and that is the two monitors. If I remotely Screen Share to the primary machine my secondary machine will see two screens.

Is there a way to Screen Share/Remote Access to the primary machine and to see just one screen that adjusts its resolution?

Or, is they a way that I can remotely connect to my primary machine whilst my machine is always in a sleep mode and that when I'm connected to it then the two monitors won't get activated at all or the computer would not wake up? Maybe a thin client?

Many thanks in advance


texts: bash not finding executables on Catalina: why & how to fix?

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As I was typing the title, I saw a suggestion that this might be a duplicate of.  But the suggestion vanished before I could click on it.

'sh' is actually bash

sh: sleep: command not found
sh: dirname: command not found
sh: dirname: command not found
sh: sleep: command not found
sh: dirname: command not found
^C
sh-3.2# echo $path
/usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin
sh-3.2# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
sh-3.2# which dirname
/usr/bin/dirname
sh-3.2# which sleep
/bin/sleep
# the command that got those error messages was:
sh-3.2# grep -v copy /tmp/tmp | while read PATH; do dirname "$(dirname "$PATH")"; sleep 1; done

All available updates installed. 10.15.2


texts: How do I sort albums alphabetically in Photos.app?

texts: I would like to know if I can alphabetically sort albums in Photos.app. The iPhoto method for doing this did not work.


texts: Clean partition map before installing High Sierra

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I'm about to do a clean install of High Sierra on my iMac and I have a Bootcamp partition with Windows 10.

I've checked the partition map, there are a lot of partitions I don't know about and I would like to delete all the unnecesaty ones.

Here is my diskutil list result.


texts: How to prevent table moving to the next page in Pages?

texts: I'm using OS X Yosemite and in Pages table jumps to the next page (and leaving text on the first page) when it gets too big, how can I stop it?


texts: how to sync videos from PC hard disk to iPhone with itunes?

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I don't know how to sync videos using itunes, it is appreciated if you tell step by step to get videos from pc to iphone.
IOS version is : 7.0.4
itunes version : 12.0.1.26
thanks guys


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I can't sign into iCloud because the account is set up under my OLD email address and I don't remember the password. How can I change the iCloud account to new email address so that it is useable?

I am using an iPhone 5s with iOS 9.2.


texts: Is it possible to Move a bootcamp partition from one drive to another?

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When I got a new MacPro last year I formatted one of the additional (i.e. non-boot) drives with Bootcamp and installed Win 7 x64 on it. This set up has been working well these last 12+ months but I recently realised that the drive I've installed Windows on is a slow WD 'Green' eco-drive. Its rather slow at times as is only really designed for backups or storage rather than heavy use (I'm a .Net developer and use VMs extensively.

So what I'd like to now is move the Bootcamp partition onto the boot drive that came with the machine and keep everything running as it currently is. Is this going to be possible or am I looking at a day's work re-installing Windows and all my apps onto  a fresh Bootcamp partition on the main drive?

(Please say its possible) :-D

UPDATE August 2011:

I tried Winclone. Its no longer supported and fails everytime. Also not easily usable on OS X 10.7 Lion.

I've tried using the built-in Windows 7 backup functionality but this only seems to restore my files, not the OS environment.

Please help!


texts: I just got a new iMac and after going through setup it no longer seems to recognize my password. I was stuck outside my account so I reinstalled using recovery hoping it would reset everything including user information but I still get prompted for my initial password. I wonder if this is happening because I changed the username to lowercase at one point and somehow the change didn’t properly register in the OS? Anyway, is there any way around this problem?


texts: Can I still use a damaged Magsafe power cable?

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My rabbit chewed on my Magsafe 2 power adapter. I can see the silvery wire where the rabbit peeled off the isolation yet it still works.

Can I just duct tape it and continue using it or is there any danger of damage to my laptop?

Edit:
Rabbit was objurgated otherwise he is fine.


texts: Is there a way to reopen last windows when you launch TextMate in Lion?

texts: I know TextMate isn't Lion optimised, but is there any way to do this?


texts: Is it possible to to replace MacBook Pro Touch Bar keyboard with a regular keyboard?

texts: I got the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) with Touch Bar and I really don't like it. Is there any way to have it replaced it with a regular keyboard?


texts: User can't save any changes on an SMB share

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We run a mixed environment of Mac/Windows. Our Macs are on High Sierra and using Windows Server 16. This is issue is only happening to this domain user. Our permissions are very flat, everyone has access to everything.

We use SMB://filesharedrive to connect and use our AD credentials to verify.

I have a domain user who can't make changes to a file (doc, excel, txt, etc.) on our company drive hosted on Windows Server 16. They get a
<"Alert: Your changes could not be saved to "Filename" because of a sharing violation. Try saving to a different file.>

$UserA = problem user
$UserB = another random user, sometimes even me.

Both are domain users

Things I have tried and have figured out

If $UserA creates a file, make changes and save on said file, no error
If $UserB creates a file, make changes and save on said file, no error
If $UserB makes a change to that file $UserA created, $UserA receives error
If $UserA duplicates file and saves changes on duplicate file, no error
If $UserB makes a change to duplicate file, $UserA receives error
If $UserA uses a Windows Machine to save changes, no error
If $UserA uses original Mac and save changes to the same file that worked on the windows machine, $UserA receives error.
If $UserA signs into another Mac and tries to save changes $UserA receives error
$UserA can delete, rename and move files whether created by $UserB but can only save changes as long as no other $UserB has saved any changes


texts: Inkscape like tool in Mac with latex rendering capabilities

texts: I'm looking for some Inkscape "like" application for MacOS where you can insert latex text/symbols and modify your figures to some extent. Inkscape with Xquartz is not working out for me.


texts: Aircrack-ng Makefile error with ‘#include ’

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I'm trying to install Aircrack-ng on my MacBook but I've hit a brick wall.

First I tried with MacPorts as suggested on Aircrack's homepage but I found that some tools were missing like Airmon so instead I decided to try the more traditional way of installing the .tar that I downloaded from the homepage aswell.

Now running the command sudo make install Makefile produces the output:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C src all
sh ../autocfg gcc ..
gcc -g -W -Wall -O3  -mavx2 -DJOHN_AVX2 -pthread -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REVISION=0  -fstack-protector -Iinclude -DSIMD_CORE   -c -o aircrack-ng.o aircrack-ng.c
In file included from aircrack-ng.c:65:
./crypto.h:43:10: fatal error: 'openssl/hmac.h' file not found
#include <openssl/hmac.h>
         ^
1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [aircrack-ng.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Reading that, I see that it's missing the file hmac.h from the openssl folder so I tried to include it in the file the best I could (I have no idea what I'm doing I'm new to all this)

Here are the lines around where I added the include and the include itself:

AC_ROOT     = .
include     $(AC_ROOT)/common.mak
include     /opt/local/include/openssl/hmac.h

DOCFILES        = ChangeLog INSTALLING README LICENSE AUTHORS VERSION

Running the Makefile again I get the following:

/opt/local/include/openssl/hmac.h:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.

I have Googled the problem and seen loads of suggestions to fix this and that its' probably due to whitespaces but I've been unable to fix it. I've used tabs and no whitespaces.


texts: How to filter logs via processImagePath?

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Given the following log entries (which I run in other Terminal to compare my filter):

$ log stream --level debug | grep -w Google
Activity    0x80000000003a7a20   75676  Google Chrome Helper: (CoreFoundation) Loading Preferences From System CFPrefsD For Search List
Debug       0x0                  75676  Google Chrome Helper: (CoreFoundation) [com.apple.CFBundle.resources] Resource lookup at <private>
Debug       0x0                  11599  Google Chrome: (Security) [com.apple.securityd.handleobj] create 0x7fd130d2677a for 0x7fd130d262e0

Note: Removed datetime column for above example for better visibility.

Now I'd like to filter log based on the Google keyword to display log entries from Google Chrome Helper, Google Chrome and Chromium processes.

However the following command doesn't display these entries:

$ log stream --level debug --predicate 'processImagePath contains Google'
Filtering the log data using "processImagePath CONTAINS Google"
Timestamp                       Thread     Type        Activity             PID

I'm following the man log docs page logic as per this example:

$ log show --predicate 'processImagePath endswith "hidd" and senderImagePath contains[cd] "IOKit"' --info

Timestamp                       Thread     Type        Activity     PID
2016-06-10 13:54:34.593220-0700 0x250      Info        0x0          113    hidd: (IOKit) [com.apple.iohid.default] Loaded 6 HID plugins

What I'm doing wrong? Why processImagePath contains Google filter isn't working?


texts: Where is the sender name for iMessages set? I need to change it on an iPhone 4 (iOS 5)

texts: The sender id as it displays on the recipients iMessage is what I would like to reset. However, I cannot find where it is set on the sending device (iPhone 4). It seems to be device dependent as sending iMessages from my iPad 2 displays a different sender name although both devices use the same Appleid.


texts: Why hasn’t the size of my “Mail” folder reduced after upgrading to macOS High Sierra?

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During the WWDC 2017 keynote, it was mentioned Mail in macOS High Sierra would use up to 35% less storage space. An article on thenextweb.com also says: “After installing High Sierra, Mail will begin the arduous process of compressing every message it stores. When done, old messages will reportedly take up 35 percent less space on your computer.”

However, despite having upgraded and having had Mail running continuously for over a day, I’m not seeing much, if any, reduction in the size of the “Mail” folder (inside the “Library” folder) as reported by the Info window in Finder. The window shows a total file size of 6.75GB with 6.87GB used on disk. Within a Time Machine backup from right before the upgrade, it’s 6.7GB with 6.9GB used on disk.

Why am I not seeing any reduction in the size of the folder? Is there something I need to do to get Mail to compress the messages? Or is this feature not available on all Macs?


texts: MacBook Pro wouldn't turn on, new charger got it on a few times but won't turn on again

texts: I bought a Mac off eBay. Bought and installed Logic Pro X and was using it with much satisfaction until one day it stopped turning on. I took it to Mac Choice and they identified a faulty charger. I bought a new 85W charger for AUD$119 and it was working. But I had forgotten my password. I called Apple and the technical support got me into Terminal to change my password but after saving a password it wouldn't turn on after an attempted reboot. The charger is plugged into the wall correctly, the magnetic end is secured properly and the green light comes on but it just does not want to start or boot up. Any suggestions?


texts: Receiving "USB devices disabled: Unplug the device using too much power" upon login. Built-in keyboard and trackpad sometimes become unresponsive

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Hardware

Macbook Air 13" mid-2013 (running macOS Sierra) with no USB devices plugged in (except a Logitech wireless mouse that I never have plugged in while the laptop boots up).

Problem

I receive the message USB devices disabled: unplug the device using too much power once upon startup or logging in even when nothing's plugged into the USB ports.
The built-in keyboard and trackpad sometimes stop working. I suspect a logic board failure of some sort (but I'm no expert on hardware). However, they are always working upon starting up the machine, but only fail occasionally once I'm logged in to my user account.

These issues only started after recently recovering from a water spill (so that may have something to do with it). The laptop was dried with a fan for 5 days and works well still otherwise.

Here is one of the messages Console gives me:

  default   08:11:00.752541 -0500   kernel  000790.147865 HS02@14200000: AppleUSBHostPort::interruptOccurred: **overcurrent detected with port status 0x4000**, localSimulatedInterrupts = 0x0

How I've tried to fix it

I have taken it to the nearest Apple Store and had a Genius Bar employee run diagnostics. They told me that there were no apparent hardware issues, and that I would have to send the Macbook to a repair factory if the issues persist.
After cleaning the PCB with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol to remove any visible residue/dust, the keyboard/trackpad issues do not occur as often. However, they still happen once in a while.
I have also reset the SMC and NVRAM multiple times to no avail. I also deleted my Preferences.plist file as a friend suggested a corrupt Preferences.plist file can cause issues with the keyboard and trackpad.

Question

What can I try to fix my issues? I think these issues are probably a result of the water damage, but repairs can go up to $750 USD (so I was told) and the Genius Bar employee could not tell me what specifically was wrong with my Macbook. I would like some more info before I go and dump another few hundred dollars onto this thing, because if I have to pay $750, it may be more worth it to go and buy a new laptop instead.

TL;DR by @owlswipe

My Macbook's trackpad and keyboard spontaneously stop/start working after some water damage, and the USB ports spontaneously shut off too. What's the cheapest way to get this thing back into working order?

Also

This is what happens upon logging back in after a restart:


texts: Safari on iOS 9.2.1 / 9.3 won't open links

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Update 2: Fixed in iOS 9.3.1

Update: Apple has confirmed the bug and is working on a fix for a 9.3.1 release.

My Safari on iOS 9.2.1 (update: and now 9.3) won’t open most links anymore, i.e. tapping on a link on a page does not do anything. Worse, other apps like Messages, Chrome are having issues when they try to open URL/Links.

The common issue is pauses when tapping links and even Mobile Safari tap and hold (to get the app open a link in a new tab), the device freezes and eventually crashes.

Looking at the html source for the links causing issues, it seems all scheme absolute links are affected (e.g. http://example.com/something), while relative links work (e.g. /some/page.html).
This makes me think third party registration of URL handlers (or what they are called) is related to the bug
All apps that can open links, such as Mail or Spark, are affected. Tapping a link freezes the device. Tap & hold and then selecting copy link, switch to Safari or Chrome and paste URL sometimes helps/works.
It happens mostly on Google and DuckDuckGo result pages. On some other pages it works.

I tried things to rule out a simple setting error:

disable all content blockers
delete website data from Safari (in preferences app)
kill all apps, restart iOS.
Tried Chrome, and it doesn't work there on simple taps, but tap and hold works, and I can open them in a new tab at least.

My conclusion is that this bug relates to iOS 9.2 and third party app updates triggering bad behavior, I saw constant crashes of the swdc process in my iPhone logs and I reported a bug with Apple. Suspect apps include:

Wikipedia
Booking.com

Is there a way to list these apps that change link handling so I can selectively uninstall them?


texts: How to stop Look up from changing spelling/fuzzy matching

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I'm learning new languages, so I often force-click a word to see if it comes up in the dictionary.
Lately my dear computer thinks I just misspelled an English word, and searches for that instead. The rage within me in unreasonably high. Is there any way to stop this fuzzy matching/spellchecking and just look up the exact word that I'm clicking on?


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New computer, fresh start. Was installing bower from terminal and got this ERR! message in return. Seems common, but i'm hesitant in forcing it with sudo.

OSX 10.10.3
git version 2.3.2 (Apple Git-55)
npm (2.9.1)
node v0.12.3 are installed.

  npm install -g bower

npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /Users/username/.npm/bower/1.4.1/package.tgz
npm ERR! Darwin 14.3.0
npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower"
npm ERR! node v0.12.3
npm ERR! npm  v2.9.1
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower']
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower',
npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower',
npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
npm ERR!   fstream_stack:
npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53',
npm ERR!      'FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:95:15)' ] }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/username/npm-debug.log


texts: I would like to access my old reminder notes from 2018, 2019. I have time machine and I know MacOS used to keep these files in a folder in the Disk rather than the cloud in old days. Your help would be much appreciated.


texts: Can a normal SIM be modified to work as a nano-SIM?

texts: I just puchased an iPhone5 and want to use my current SIM from my existing phone. Is there a way to convert my existing SIM to nano-SIM?


texts: How can you make a Mac (2015 Yosemite) hibernate? (Hibernate like Windows PC, ie. save state to disk and fully power down)

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Please note: Whilst the older question (4 years ago) Do MacBooks have a true "Hibernate" option? has answers that show a hibernate option exists for Macs, it doesn't detail how to make your Mac hibernate. Perhaps this is because that answer was sufficient for older machines (Pre-2015 MacBookPro Retina or pre-Yosemite).

I've been a longtime Windows user and was told Apple's Macs were better. I recently bought a MacBookPro Retina 2015 15" OS X 10.10 Yosemite (SSD). I have not been able to make it hibernate.

I have already enabled the hibernate mode number 25 (as can be seen in the settings below).

I was told that the grey screen with the progress bar upon wakeup indicates the machine was hibernating. I managed to get this grey screen to show up after disabling standby.

sudo pmset -a standby 0

I was also told I could check what state the machine woke from via the following command:

pmset -g log | grep -i "wake from"

I ran the command but it still shows that I have always been waking from Standby. This is the case when waking from both AC and Battery. E.g.

  Wake from Standby [CDNVA] due to EC.PME/User: Using BATT (Charge:92%) 303 secs

I am assuming that if my machine did indeed hibernate then the grep command should show Wake from 'Hibernate' as opposed to 'Standby'.

This makes me wonder if the OS X man pmset command, which brings up the pmset commands manual which is dated 2012 is still valid today. Or perhaps I'm just too new to this.

I have also tried 2 deep sleep apps/widgets. Both end up putting the MBP to Standby instead of Hibernate.

pmset -g shows the following:

Active Profiles:
Battery Power          -1*
AC Power               -1
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         3
 standby              0
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 darkwakes            0
 gpuswitch            2
 disksleep            10
 sleep                1
 autopoweroffdelay    1
 hibernatemode        25
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         2
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

PS. Next to sleep it sometimes shows "(sleep prevented by AddressBookSour)"


texts: Reduce transparency and Lock-screen Background

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I'm running El captain public beta but I think this also applies to macs running Yosemite. I really like the look of the reduce transparency + increase contrast in Yosemite/El Captain. Unfortunately those options also force the lock screen background to be a boring grey colour instead of the blurred version of my desktop background :(

I am aware that you can change the lock/login screen background by navigating to /Library/Caches and changing a file. I checked and the file is as it should be - the blurred version of my desktop background.

Is there a way to set the lock screen background to something other than the grey colour while still keeping reduce transparency and increase contrast on? Perhaps something to do with changing system files?

EDIT: I did some research and it seams like this behaviour is unique to El Captain. Yosemite has the desired behaviour of the lock screen being the blurred background even with reduce transparency and increased contrast turned on


texts: Exiting/Starting the Terminal (El Capitan)

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In the latest Mac OS X Terminal version I noticed that if I type exit and the press Enter, I get the following:

Last login: Wed Jan 27 09:18:48 on ttys000
Ian-iMac:~ Ian$ exit
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]

As far as I can remember, previous versions of the terminal, simply closed the window when you entered exit.

Is there anyway to restart the same terminal after [Process completed] displays? Or should I completely close the window and restart the terminal? It looks like I can't type anything after entering [Process completed] displays.


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After update from Mojave to Catalina one of my external displays determined by system with the wrong native resolution. I use Samsung C43J890DK which is have resolution 3840x1200 pix. But Catalina determinate 1920x600 as native resolution for this monitor. I scale it to 3840x1200 from system preferences, but every boot or exit from sleep mode, system resizes resolution 3840x1200 (got it from NVRAM) -> 1920x600 (because Catalina think this is native resolution for monitor) -> 3840x1200 (after resizing by system). As result, all opened windows scaled to 1920x600 pix.

I tryed to disable HiDPI, but this not help. All what i can do, its return standard preferences with frequency and resolution selection using IOGFlags.  How i can change native resolution for this monitor to  3840x1200?

Contents of /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c2d/DisplayProductID-f5b

<?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>DisplayIsTV</key>
<false/>

<key>DisplayProductID</key>
<integer>3931</integer>

<key>DisplayProductName</key>
<string>GNUSMAS C43J890DKI</string>

<key>DisplayVendorID</key>
<integer>19501</integer>

<key>IOGFlags</key>
<integer>3</integer>

<key>default-resolution</key>
<data>
AAAPAAAABLAAeAAA
</data>

<key>dspc</key>
<array>
    <data>
    jOkAUPCwR0AIIJgMAAAAAAAa
    </data>
</array>

<key>scale-resolutions</key>
<array>
    <data>
    AAAPAAAABLAAeAAA
    </data>
</array>

My ioreg for this display

| |   | | +-o display0  <class IODisplayConnect, id 0x100002a5e, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 6>
| |   | |         "IOProviderClass" = "IODisplayConnect"
| |   | |         "IODisplayEDID" = <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>
| |   | |         "IODisplayPrefsKey" = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IGPU@2/AppleIntelFramebuffer@0/display0/AppleDisplay-4c2d-f5b"
| |   | |         "IODisplayParameters" = {"bgsc"={"min"=0,"max"=65536,"value"=65536},"pscn"={"min"=8800,"max"=10000,"value"=10000},"rgsc"={"min"=0,"max"=65536,"value"=65536},"cmod"={"min"=0,"max"=4096,"value"=1},"ggsc"={"min"=0,"max"=65536,"value"=65536},"cyuv"={"min"=0,"max"=268435456,"value"=268435456},"vblm"={"min"=0,"max"=196608,"value"=65536},"ownr"=4294968793,"colr"={"min"=0,"max"=18446744073709551615,"value"=257}}
| |   | |         "IODisplayAttributes" = {"IODisplayAttributes"=<676174760000000073676c6603000000726c6f63010000006364670080808000676c666401000000>}
| |   | |         "IODisplayConnectFlags" = <00000000>
| |   | | |   "IODisplayParameters" = "IOFramebufferParameterHandler is not serializable"
| |   | | |       "IOMatchCategory" = "IODisplayParameters"
| |   | | |   "IODisplayParameters" = "IOFramebufferParameterHandler is not serializable"
| |   | | |       "IOMatchCategory" = "IODisplayParameters"


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I've got ~100GB of photos that I've imported into Photos. Photos stayed in place because they are in date related subfolders. I would stay with original sorting as it is more usable with other photo apps.

I decided to add geocoding to photos manually (without gpx track). Photos app does its job. I also rotated couple of the photos (my old camera doesn't have orientation sensor). So I would like to save back changes to original photos (overwrite them).
The problem is that I'm not able to export photos into the same directory structure that I've used originally. So it is a real pain to export than overwrite images manually. Other issue is that I will lost the original file dates of the photos (Photo app creates file with current date).

Is there any app that able to hand this situation?


texts: Is there a way to show the release dates of System software updates?

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I was previously hit by the Thunderbolt Update that made the iMac not bootable, so as a precaution in the future, I may check and see the release dates of all the Software Updates, and if the update is more than 2 to 3 days old, then I will install it -- if less than 2 to 3 days old, then I will not install it.

This is because if a software update has any issue, by the 2nd or 3rd day, it will be known and any correction will be made, or the update may be pulled from the update list.

But is there a way to see the release dates on the list?  Right now only the version is displayed, such as 3.0.6, but the release date will be more useful.

We can click on the link to see the details on a webpage, but it is time consuming if there are many updates, and sometimes the webpage doesn't show a release date.


texts: How can I find the location of a Terminal command and how can I select a different version of it?

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If I type dart in my terminal, this will access my dart terminal app.  What does this point to and where can I change it?
My $PATH variable is as follows:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/[USERNAME]/installs/flutter/bin:/Users/[USERNAME]/installs/connectIqSDK/bin


texts:
With Mac OS Mavericks and Chrome 35 : everytime I start my computer, the first time I launch Chrome, it starts in fullscreen mode. If I exit fullscreen, quit Chrome and then restart it, it's normal. If I reboot (I don't check "open my apps on startup") and re-launch, it starts again in fullscreen.

Why does it do this ?

Thanks

Edit

Actually after further testing, it doesn't always start in fullscreen after a reboot, it seems pretty random.


texts: Missing keyboard shortcut in El Capitan 10.11.5 to switch between windows within app

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I've just started running El Capitan (10.11.5) and one of my favorite keyboard shortcuts seems to have disappeared: the keyboard shortcut that let you move between windows within the same application. It used to be  Cmd ⌘   `   (tilde) but now that shortcut doesn't work and I can't figure out how to get it back.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance.


texts: Missing icon styles for Vanilla LibreOffice after update

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As title says, my installation of LibO (from "Collabora" -- the one in the Mac Appstore) is now missing several icon sets with the recent upgrade. Info:

Version: 5.2.1.1
Build ID: 4afc24bb8402fb220914e41da1503f86441578cb
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.5; UI Render: default;
Locale: en-US (en.UTF-8); Calc: group
machine is MacBook, early 2015, 10.10.5 Yosemite

What I see:

But this is what I have for my 5.2.1.2 installation on Ubuntu:

Prior to the latest upgrade, the icon sets were the same on both installations. Any help on how to get the missing icon sets?


texts: Now that iCloud is available, I don't need to backup my iPad to my Windows PC. Is it possible to remove backups from my PC or do I have to uninstall iTunes?


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Possible Duplicate:
  Why does Finder use 59GB of swap space?

So I have a regular (fresh) install of OSX Lion on my 2009 MBP, and I installed an SSD as the primary HDD prior to installing Lion. It's a 128GB SSD drive, but the system is using 52.6GB of this for it's swap files, which regularly results in zero space remaining on the drive and the system locking up.

Any idea why it would be using so much space for this (please see the visualisation screenshot, above)?


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I'm quite a new OS X user and come from a linux background - usually to debug my problems I consult the logs as per /var/log/syslog however with Yosemite i'm not sure what i'm looking for.

Any way my problem is that I will load Skype and video call someone which works fine but the moment my mac is locked or goes into hibernation mode the next time I try video call the web cam is not detected - if i attempt to use Photo Booth this too doesn't detect a webcam.  Some google searches has revealed it's a conflict where the camera is "in use" when it isn't - and other articles seem to point towards AirParrot which i do not have installed.

How would I determine where the fault is?
How do I then resolve this fault?

Rebooting does seem to be a solution but IMO theres a bug that needs fixing because rebooting to get a cam to work is just simply absurd - even Windows can function more reliably.


texts: Need help!! My MacBook was working perfectly until I tried to factory reset it through disk Utility. I’m not sure what I deleted but now when I turn it on a little folder pops up with a question mark and nothing else. But if I turn it on and hold down the “option” key it pulls up a scroll to connect to WiFi and then after that it brings up a “internet recovery” tab, then it brings me to “OS X utilities”. Not sure what to do from here, I don’t want to take it somewhere to be fixed if I can fix it with someone’s help, thank in advance


texts: Has anyone had success configuring Surfraw on OSX? How do I get a working configuration for OSX? http://www.surfraw.org/


texts: No geolocation data in my photos even though location services are on for Camera

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It turns out none of my photos on my iPhone 4S (ios 6.1.3) are geotagged. The location services are on for camera and GPS works (confirmed in Maps for example).

I downloaded an image via image capture, and it's not geotagged when viewed in iPhoto on my Mac.

How do I fix this?


texts: UNIX Script to Change Desktop & Screensaver in 10.8

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I'm setting up LaunchAgent .plists that start up UNIX bash scripts to automatically change the desktop and screensaver for various different users for a Mac image that will be deployed to multiple Mac types.

I've got the system working fine in 10.10 and 10.9. Works like a charm every single time. However, 10.8 is being evil. (We need to run 10.7-10.10).

Here's the script:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to set desktop picture to POSIX file "/Pony Files/Pony Backgrounds/7.0 Default Backgrounds/OSX08 - Default Large.png"'

I get an Applescript Error -10000 (Which I cannot find an origin for)
I've also tried this variant

defaults write com.apple.desktop Background '{default = {ImageFilePath = "/Pony Files/Pony Backgrounds/7.0 Default Backgrounds/OSX08 - Default Large.png"; };}'

Neither work in 10.8. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?


texts: How to add a disk to the Win10 on the Mac?

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I used Boot Camp to create a Win10 system on my Mac 2017.

But you see the C disk only 37.8G usable (40G), how can I divide a disk from the Mac to add a D disk to the Win10 system?


texts: Fixing MBP battery which has been sitting

texts: I have a new battery that has only 3 or 4 cycles on it, that I got as a replacement a year ago. The battery and the machine it's in, a late 2008 MBP, has been sitting for the last year unused. I tried to boot it up today and it appears the battery is toast. OS X reports it as "Replace Now". I tried to charge it for a few hours but the machine shut off as soon as I unplugged it. Is there a way I resurrect this battery?


texts: Using formulas in conditional formatting in Apple Numbers

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I'm using Apple Numbers in macOS, and utilizing its conditional formatting feature to compare some numbers, however I want to compare the numbers' absolute value.

The numbers I work on are estimations, and the sign signifies whether the value is an under or overestimation, but I need its distance from the actual value while comparing the two. I wanted to do it in conditional formatting to not to add more columns to the table. Is it possible in Apple Numbers?


texts: Trying to set a F8 pause/play dictation command

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So I'm what one would describe as ridiculously disabled. I've recently taken a liking to using the dictation functionality due to only having the use of one hand and often having to lie on my back.

I'd like to add the F8 play/pause key to the list of dictation commands, but unfortunately the dictation custom commands don't take single keypresses. It seems the solution is to create a workflow. However, upon trying automator to record the keypress I seem to have discovered that it doesn't recognise that key for some reason.

Just as a note, I use this play/pause functionality for iTunes AND Chrome Youtube videos at the same time. For example, I'll start iTunes playing, then start the Youtube video. Since the Youtube video was the last to be interacted with the play/pause affects Youtube, and not iTunes. That functionality I would like to keep if possible. So I guess if you can't just do a simple keypress it'd need to check if Youtube or iTunes is the current/last interacted with active app and act accordingly.

Does anyone have a possible solution or workaround they can think of?

Thank-you


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On iOS 10 - I could regularly enter the health app to enter my weight each day. Each day the weight graph would come up when I opened the app and I could enter my data with a single tap.

On iOS 11 - the health app 'forgets' that I was last at the weight graph, and when you open it goes to the health app home screen. This means two more taps to get to the weight graph, which I didn't have to do on iOS10.

Is there a way to fix this? It seems to be a feature regression.

My question is: Is it a bug that the Health App in the iOS11 upgrade 'forgets' your last place in the app?


texts: Alfred Terminal / Shell Command does not work

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In Alfred, if I type > ls must open iTerm2 with that command. Well, does not work for me.

In Application if I select Terminal instead of iTerm2, works.

If I select Application → Custom, it shows the applescript code you can see below and works.

If I select Application → Custom and modify the tell application line replacing Terminal with iTerm, does not work.

If I open Script Editor and type the following applescript code, does not work:

tell application "iTerm"
    activate
    do script "ls"
end tell

If I remove do script line open iTerm.

Any ideas of why do script line does not work with iTerm?


texts: Windows resize on primary monitor when I wake up the computer. Dual monitor setup

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I have the following setup:

MacPro 2013 (trashcan)
Primary / New Dell P2715Q monitor (2560x1440)
Secondary / Acer H213H monitor (1080p)

Problem:

When my monitors go to sleep, I wake up the computer, login, and all of my applications have resized to fit within a 1080p size on the new Dell monitor. I then have to resize all of the windows to make them fit the Dell P2715Q monitor. Is there something I can do to eliminate that hassle?

Thanks!


texts: Macbook Pro GPUs: overheating and noisy fans

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I'm sure everyone with a Macbook Pro has experienced the heavy heating and the fans sounding like they are about to take off. It's totally understandable when I run a GPU-heavy process such as video editing or gaming. My problem is that this is happening even with simple tasks such as web browsing or watching a video...

My understanding is that it is due to the Intel CPU doing all the work to save energy. Am I wrong? Then why even have a dedicated GPU! It's a shame that the algorithm to switch from CPU to GPU is not smart enough to avoid the overheating issues.

So I have two questions:

I've read that the Automatic Graphics Switching box in Parameters>Energy Savers lets you control if you want CPU/GPU or only GPU for all graphical computations. In the CPU/GPU mode, some algorithm (whitelist?) decides whether an application should run on the Intel or Dedicated GPU. Apparently it can't tell that Chrome should run on GPU rather than burning my laps... Is there a way to edit that list?
What is your software of choice to monitor/control this behavior?
Do you manually check/uncheck the box throughout your day? I'm trying out iStats Menus which seems great for monitoring usage. I've heard about gfxCardStatus, is it usefull? And finally i've read about various fan control apps but is it really a good idea to prevent the CPU from cooling down?

This seems to be a case of Apple trying to hard to simplify something that really wasn't complicated: nowadays if you're buying a laptop with a dedicated GPU you probably understand well enough the difference between the Intel on-chip GPU  and a dedicated GPU performances to make this kind of decisions.

Thanks for your help!


texts: Desktop icon for mounted NAS volume changes location and it annoys me

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Question relates to the desktop icon for a mounted networked drive.
MacOS 10.14.6 - Seagate NAS SMB - Computer stays on and is set to never sleep.  Airport Extreme.
I mount the drive/volume and I get an icon.  I put the icon in a specific location and then at some point it moves to first available location on desktop.  How can I make it stay where I put it?  It's not a huge thing but it is annoying.
Every other icon on my desktop stays where I put it (Time Capsule drives, Time Machine USB drive, internal drive, files, folders, etc.)
My hunch is that the connection to the drive times out and then automatically reconnects, during this process the icon goes away (connection to drive ends) and then comes back and goes to first open location (connection to drive is re-established).
Any ideas on how to keep my NAS drive/volume icon where I put it?


texts: Help, I can't search from the App Launcher anymore

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I used to be able to start typing an application name in the App Launcher (F4) to filter the list. But at some point, this stopped working for some reason. I can't click the search box, nor does typing produce any characters into the search box.

Is there a setting I can flip, or could this be an issue with a corrupt system file?

Mac OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks
MacBook Air mid-2013, Intel Haswell Core i7


texts:
Despite being a "subjective" question, it is a useful one for newcomers to the Apple platform, and serves to aide the lacking gaming community.

What are your favorite OS X games?

Rules:

Limit to one application per answer.
Add a short description for the application
Add a link to the website in the name of the application, if possible (no direct downloads).
Use ## [game name](link) when citing the game.

Only Mac OS X games please, iOS games will be in another question.


texts: I bought a Mac that did not come with recovery media. Can I reinstall my original OS?

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For the last few years Macs have not shipped with recovery media. Instead, you could boot into a mode where the Mac OS X installer is downloaded from the internet.

With OS X Mavericks now a free update for ANY Mac that supports it, does the internet installer still install your original OS, or does it helpfully (or, perhaps, annoyingly) just install Mavericks?


texts: Cannot remove wrong autocorrect/predicitve text language

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I want my iPhone keyboard's autocorrect and predictive text to be English only, but it somehow it is set to both English and French at the same time.  For example if I type "tress" then it shows "très" as a prediction.  If I then press space it autocorrects to "très".

French is not selected in my keyboard settings (Settings -> General -> Keyboard) nor in my dictionary settings (Settings -> General -> Dictionary).  These are the two places that one needs to change according to online resources.


texts: Mac OS Catalina - Bluetooth audio output issues (WF-1000XM3, Bose QuietComfort 35)

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I have new Macbook Pro 16' with Mac OS Catalina (obviously I can't downgrade)

From time to time, music stops playing inside the headphones (WF-1000XM3).
The headphones are still connected, but sound output switched from the headphones.
Changing sound output to the headphones will produce spinning wheel, but will not actually change it.

Turning off and on the headphones sometimes fixes the issue.
Resetting BT module temporary fixes the issue (SHIFT + OPTION + click on BT in menu bar)

It's was really frustrating, How I fixed it is below.


texts:
I would like to remove Malwarebytes from a friend's macbook.
There is nothing in

Applications Folder
/Library/LaunchAgents (or in /System/Library/LaunchAgents)
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/StartUpItems (or in /System/Library/StartUpItems)
System Preferences > Users & Groups

and yet, it is still in the top bar:

Also, please somebody tell me, whether it is a normal program or a virus, because my friend didn't ever want to install the program and it should not be so hard to uninstall a program ever.

Some websites suggested installing CleanMyMac3, but I don't want to install any more software unless I am sure that it is okay, because I also read some bad reviews about CleanMyMac.


texts: Spawning multiple instances of applications via shortcuts

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So I'm using BetterTouchTool to set up shortcuts, and I have a bunch that are dedicated to opening various apps. The problem is, if one of those apps are already open, then hitting the shortcut pulls that instance into focus, rather than spawning a new one.

This is especially annoying since I use multiple desktops heavily-- If I'm on desktop 6 and want to spawn a terminal window, but one is already open on desktop 1, then it moves me back to desktop 1 rather than creating a new terminal instance. I'm used to working on Ubuntu, where I have many terminals open across my virtual desktop.

I do realize that questions to this effect have been asked before, but I'm looking for a general solution that could apply to, say, Chrome, just as well as Terminal. On second thought, I don't need a truly general solution; I only need this to work for Terminal and Chrome.

I'll stress that this question is asking how to achieve this with keyboard shortcuts, rather than solutions that involve any mouse actions on the Dock.


texts: Where do I go for help when purchasing an iOS developer program and the payment is refused?

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I am trying to buy paid membership for one year to the iOS developer program, but I could not complete the activation step.

I have a gold visa credit card and I tried to use it to buy the program.

Well, I put my credit card number in the purchase form. But there is only a credit card number field. There is not any security code field in the form.

My credit card number has 16 digit and the security code has 3 digit.

I have received an email from Apple asking me to send a fax because my credit card number is not complete.

Well, Is it necessary to inform the security code? How can I inform my credit card information in the purchase form?


texts: How can I control the audio chain within macOS?

texts: I have an audio signal coming into the Mac from an audio interface. I want to be able to control the signal flow within the Mac, routing the signal through different applications, in the order I want it to, before going out from the Mac back into the audio interface.


texts: How to suspend a virtual machine using AppleScript (when hibernating the Mac)?

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I need an application, which will:

Activate Parallels Desktop
While holding Opt, select 'Actions > Suspend'
Activate SmartSleep
Minimize SmartSleep
Click 'Hibernate' of menu item 'QuickSleep' of menu
After resuming the Mac, resume vm also.

Here is my try:

    tell application "Parallels Desktop" to activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Parallels Desktop"
            click menu 1 of menu item 5 of menu
            delay 1
            tell application "System Events" to keystroke option
            delay 1
        end tell
    end tell


texts: How can I download macOS High Sierra's full installation file?

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I've installed the macOS Developer Beta Access Utility (.pkg file) from Apple Developer's official website. Upon completing installation, it opens the Mac App Store to the macOS High Sierra installation page automatically.

Under the 'Information' section, it's stated that the size of the installation file is 4.90 GB.

However, when I downloaded it, it didn't download the full installation file. Instead, it's only 7.8 MB large.

The installation file looks the same as a usual one.

So,

Why are some users getting the 4.90 GB file while others are getting the 7.8 MB file?
Is there any way to get the full 4.90 GB installation file?

Fyi, my Mac is currently running on macOS Sierra 10.12.3 (16D32).

Update

I appreciate the two answers that I've received and both can be reproduced. However, I'm not sure on why are some users getting the 4.90 GB file while others are getting the 7.8 MB file.

This thread from MacRumours suggests that it's something to do with the amount of disk space available on the Mac.


texts:
On most (all?) Linux terminals (eg gnome terminal, tilda, guake etc,..) and the virtual consoles you can browse up through the terminal's scrollback buffer using the keys (ie without the mouse).  Is this possible in OSX's terminal?

eg:

In Gnome Terminal you enter ls
oops - 50 lines of output on a 48 line terminal
Ctrl-Shift-UpArrow scrolls back to see the first few lines of input (and eventually your command invocation

On VC's switch UpArrow for PageUp - is there anything equivalent on OSX?

I'm using OS 10.10.5