texts: Getting error -1426 when trying to transfer files from iPhone via iTunes File Sharing

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I'm getting error -1426 when trying to transfer files from iPhone via iTunes File Sharing. I'm on iOS 12.4 and macOS 10.14.6. iPhone is XS Max 256GB and Mac is MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD (APFS Encrypted).

It's a 1.8GB audio file. I have 22GB free space on the Mac.

Console shows this error when it happens:

error   17:38:08.029393 -0700   iTunes  AFC OpenFile failed (0xE8004001) for "<private>" for mode 1 with connection 0x7ff3b4156e00

Disk utility gives no errors on the main volume.


texts: How can I get the list of all active network interfaces programmatically?

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My objective is to determine the IP address for Ethernet on a device. But assuming that there are connections like WiFi and USB Ethernet, is there a particular way just to get the Ethernet IP ?

On a shell I would do:
networksetup -listallhardwareports

which would give me a mapping of Hardware Port to Device. From that I would grep the device for Hardware Port: Ethernet and then use ifaddr struct to get my IP.

I know the ifaddr part, please suggest how to do the first part programmatically.
Also, is there an alternative approach ?


texts: How to save all keychain passwords and restore them on a wiped computer?

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Once again I ran out of space so I am about to wipe the hard disk of my macbook pro to restart from a clean slate. I have taken a full backup of my home directory to an external hard disk, using rsync in single user mode. For stability I don't want to restore from an Apple-style (time machine) backup. I plan on reinstalling only the newest version of selected apps, as well as specific documents I'm still working on right now. I want to keep my private stuff local and do not want to go through iCloud.

When I did that the same thing a couple of years back, one thing that didn't work properly was restoring the keychain, which of course has all my Safari passwords among other things. I am aware of issues such as those described in this question, and I have experimental proof that save/restore of the whole keychain through Apple's command line utility called "security" does not work as it should (it gives errors halfway through and fails to transfer everything).

Hence the question: is there a RELIABLE way to backup EVERYTHING in my mac osx keychain and all its variants and then restore it on a wiped computer, without using external closed-source utilities and without going through iCloud? (To me this sounds like a very basic thing to want to do with an os and it's unclear why there should be so many hurdles.)


texts: How can I tell if a shortcut is already used?

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I know how to list user shortcuts for an app (in this case PowerPoint) like this:

defaults read com.microsoft.PowerPoint NSUserKeyEquivalents

But is there a way to list the default shortcuts via the command line (applescript is OK)? That way I could avoid overwriting existing ones, and I wouldn't have to test manually every shortcut I want to add.


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I changed the Command Line Tools in Xcode settings, hoping it would solve an error with arm64e, but xcodebuild ended up taking over make command which makes the compiling process slower with my Theos project.
Xcode does not allow me to revert changes of Command Line Tools, is there other way to revert the change? I don't want xcodebuild to run when using make

I readed every solutions I found online but nothing helps, tried reinstalled Xcode, xcodebuild still present with make in Terminal


texts: How can I "link" different files to my folder without using soft link?

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I have some some folders look like this structure:

Buy folder -> state_diagram_for_buy, activity_diagram_for_buy
Sell folder -> state_diagram_for_sell, activity_diagram_for_sell
Search folder -> state_diagram_for_search, activity_diagram_for_search

I want to group all the state_diagrams and activity diagrams in two folder.
So one folder is used to store state_diagram and another one is used to store the activity diagrams.

However, I don't want to copy those file, since any changes in the original files cannot reflect on the copy one. I know there is a Unix command: ln can be used to create the linking. But are there other ways to create the linkings in finder because I don't know to type the commands many time...


texts: macOS High Sierra has a new area in Mail called “Top Hits.” How do I disable/remove it?


texts: How to look up lost iTunes shared library password?

texts: I forgot the password to my iTunes home shared library. I know I can set a new password in the iTunes prefs, but I do not want to update all my home devices to the new password! I cannot find the password in the keychain either.


texts: What file types does Finder search the *content* of?

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I noticed that the Search bar in Finder not only searches the filenames, but also the contents of some types of files. It appears that the search includes the content of all text files, and even some binary file types like .pdf, but excludes the contents of other file types like .docx or .xls.

Just exactly what file types are included in this content search? Does this search simply execute a grep command, and if so, what would that be?


texts: What's a good PDF score reading app for iPad?

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As a chorus and opera singer, I frequently download public-domain scores in PDF form and read them with my iPad. There is a built-in PDF reader on the iPad, and it is serviceable for music performance. But there are flaws:

Some PDF files containing high-resolution scans of the score take a long time to display. The degree of lag is a function of how the PDF file was made. In some scores it seems like the page starts off blurry and comes into focus.
It's difficult to jump to arbitrary points in the score (e.g. director says, "let's skip to page 166", those with books turn easily, I fumble fumble on the iPad)
It's hard to add bookmarks to PDF files to correspond to rehearsal numbers, to speed up jumping to points in the score.
There's no way I know of to make annotations on the score during a rehearsal, even an "x" to say "review this later".

A good PDF score-reading app for iPad would fix these problems:

App should read ahead in the PDF file, digesting the next couple of pages of the socre, so that when I turn to the next page it appears instantly -- for all PDF files, even those with high-resolution scanned images.
Easy ways to jump to page numbers and rehearsal numbers quickly, while rehearsing.
Ways to add bookmarks to scores for rehearsal numbers
Some way of annotating the score.
I can think of many features which would make the app even better.

Can any of you recommend iPad apps which work well for you as PDF score readers?


texts: Why does Terminal not honor preferences?

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Sometime in the last week my Terminal stopped honoring the "New tabs open with: Same Working Directory" setting.  Testing with "New windows ..." gave the same result.
My shell is zsh.
I was able to get this to work by following an answer here from Dan Rosenstark
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/340778/398648
# http://superuser.com/a/315029/4952
# Set Apple Terminal.app to resume directory... still necessary 2018-10-26
if [[ $TERM_PROGRAM == "Apple_Terminal" ]] && [[ -z "$INSIDE_EMACS" ]] {
  function chpwd {
    local SEARCH=' '
    local REPLACE='%20'
    local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
    printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
  }
  chpwd
}

But: I do not know how I could have determined this for myself, or how I could have debugged a similar problem.
Any tips or tricks to figure out what those initial steps of Terminal are would be greatly appreciated.
Things that did not work:

Toggling settings for New Tab or New Window
Renaming or adding return at the first line of .zshrc, .zsh* files
All of the suggestions in Open new Terminal tab in current working directory doesn't work

Other potentially useful info:

The "Same Profile"/"Default Profile" settings are honored when changed
Adding pwd as the first line of .zshrc shows the directory is already /home/<myuser>
I have installed and uninstalled some tools and projects involving nix recently (including nix-darwin)

Metadata:
OS        macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H2)
Terminal  2.10 (433)
zsh       5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0)


texts: Why does pressing the left command key sometimes trigger a window from Virtualbox

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I installed Ubuntu under virtualbox under OS X IN MacBook Pro.

A while ago, I asked a question about how to switch between windows in the guest Ubuntu by keystrokes, and the reply at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/241981/12994 suggested to press the left command key once before pressing alt-tab.

It sometimes works, but sometimes immediately following pressing the left command key, Virtualbox will pop up a window saying:

  You have clicked the mouse inside the Virtual Machine display or
  pressed the host key. This will cause the Virtual Machine to capture
  the host mouse pointer (only if the mouse pointer integration is not
  currently supported by the guest OS) and the keyboard, which will make
  them unavailable to other applications running on your host machine.
  You can press the host key at any time to uncapture the keyboard and
  mouse (if it is captured) and return them to normal operation. The
  currently assigned host key is shown on the status bar at the bottom
  of the Virtual Machine window, next to the ￼ icon. This icon, together
  with the mouse icon placed nearby, indicate the current keyboard and
  mouse capture state. The host key is currently defined as Left ⌘.

and asks me whether to choose cancel or capture.

Why does it sometimes work and sometimes brings out the interrupting Virtualbox window? How shall I switch between windows in the guest Ubuntu?

Thanks.


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I am the owner of an iPhone 4s. One day I tried to put my SIM card into my iPhone and the next thing I saw on my phone was "Activation Required".

Unfortunately, I have forgotten my iCloud Apple ID and Password. I tried to find it with iForgot but it is not finding my name. I created the iCloud email. How can I find it and regain access to my iCloud account?


texts: Is it possible to remove the Dock in Lion?

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Is there a defaults write command to remove the dock in Lion.

I tried the steps mentioned but that does not seem to work on Lion. I can still see the dock. Are there hidden defaults that can make the dock invisible or off-screen on OS X Lion?


texts: Damaged Anti-reflective Layer on MacBook Pro

texts: My MacBook Pro's display has the anti-reflective coating damaged. What can I do about it?


texts: How to access Shortcuts for Forward and Backwards in PhpStorm when using a German keyboard on a Mac

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I currently switched from a PC to a Mac. I'm working a lot in PhpStorm and there use the keyboard-shortcuts for Forward and Backwards - which on windows are Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right Key.
Now I read that this is on Mac Command + [ and Command + ]. Fine ... but since I use a German keyboard, ] is on Option + 6 and [ is on Option + 5. Pressing Command + Option + 6 does not navigate me Forward nor Backward.
Is there a ment-to-be solution for this problem? Or am I supposted to actually reconfigure my keyboard to find something that actually works? There must be more people than me having this problem, so I'm curious, what solutions exist.


texts: IKEv2 VPN on macOS Sierra disconnects after eight minutes

texts: When I establish a connection using the integrated IKEv2 client on my Mac (OS Sierra 10.12.1), I get disconnected after eight minutes. Until then it works perfectly as well. Any idea how to resolve this issue?


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I received several .drv files recorded from a security system's cameras. The disc provided to me includes a player called "GenAVplayer.exe" and a filed named "player.bin" which when expanded contains .dll files, I assume various codecs for the player. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can play these video clips on my Mac?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How can I (reliably) delete only future events in Calendar?

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In Apple's Calendar app, it is not always possible to delete future events as a group.  It seems to consistently be possible when I create a repeating event on my own calendar, but apparently not possible when I have accepted a meeting invitation.

Here's the response when I try to delete an event I created:

But here's a failure on Apple's part to give me that ability:

Both give me the option to only delete the individual event, but only one gives me the option to delete future (and not past) events.

Is there any way around this?  Is there anyway I can delete only future meetings, without spending hours and hours doing them individually?


texts: How to have terminal close tab when shell exits?

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I just recently upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8. On 10.6 I could set the terminal to close the tab/window when the shell exits.

Mountain Lion's terminal just says the process is completed and the tab/window stays open:

bash$ exit
logout

[Process completed]

I find this very annoying, but I no longer see the preference to change it.
Is there a way to set Mountain Lion's Terminal to close when its process exits?


texts: Enable calculation history on OS X Calculator app?

texts: Is there a way to display the calculation history, like what is done in real calculators with a register tape?


texts: What is the optimal way of using a Mac with an ultrawide screen?

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I have an ultrawide screen (similar to this), which is connected to my Mac. I am looking for a way to split this screen into two or three virtual screens when needed, for easy multitasking. OSX does support screen splitting if you hold on the green button at the top of any screen, but it's very inconvenient because it takes a lot of clicks to switch which applications are currently displayed.

Is there a better way to make efficient use of such a big screen?


texts: Convert read-only sparseimage to read-write

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I have a big sparseimage on an external harddrive (HFS+) which I use as a backup place for some special files. After re-installing my laptop, the image is mounted as read-only. How can I convert this back to a read-write?

/dev/disk5 on /Volumes/foo (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners, mounted by me)

I'd like to avoid copying the files over to a new sparseimage, as moving hundreds of gigabytes over usb2 is not much fun.


texts: View Mac app files like iOS apps using iFunBox

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I have some apps installed on my iMac and would want to view the contents of the app using iFunBox. I am having great difficulty doing so. I can view the contents of apps on my iPhone using iFunBox but can't seem to do same for apps on my iMac.

Do you know if I can do this using iFunBox or what alternatives do can you suggest?


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I have an external 2TGB HD which I use as a TimeMachine backup.
This developed problems and could not be repaired.

Repairing file system.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Invalid index key
Incorrect block count for file permStore
(It should be 17 instead of 0)
Incorrect block count for file shutdown_time
(It should be 1 instead of 0)
Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
Disk full error
The volume Time Machine Backups could not be repaired.

I bought a new 3TB disc, created a 2TB partition, and attempted to copy Backups.backupdb.
Finder spent 24 hours "Preparing to copy"; then failed due to lack of space!

I reformatted and created a 2.5TB partition, Finder has spent 24 hours "Preparing to copy" and is now copying files.

I really don't need all the backups (which go back to 2012) and I don't want TimeMachine to use all the space on my new drive. Ideally I would like to restrict the size of the backup.

My questions are:-
How can I reduce size of Backups.backupdb? Is deleting the oldest directories OK?
Is there any way I can get TimeMachine to restrict the size of Backups.backupdb, other than resizing the partition?

UPDATE
  My attempt to copy failed after about 30% of the disk was copied.
  I attempted to use rsync but while this appeared to run could not create any new files Operation not permitted (1).
  Even though I had used sudo I probably should have used a root terminal.
  Ultimately this too failed, due to lack of resources.

I then use Disk Utility to copy the image and ran First Aid. This found a number of issues, but ultimately failed.

Repairing file system.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Invalid index key
Incorrect block count for file permStore
(It should be 17 instead of 0)
Incorrect block count for file shutdown_time
(It should be 1 instead of 0)
Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
Rechecking volume.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Incorrect block count for file permStore
(It should be 17 instead of 0)
Incorrect block count for file shutdown_time
(It should be 1 instead of 0)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking multi-linked directories.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Volume bitmap needs repair for under-allocation
Checking volume information.
Repairing volume.
Rechecking volume.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
The volume Time Machine Backups could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 8.
File system verify or repair failed.
Operation failed…


texts: Music not starting from last played position

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I use the default Music app of my IPhone to listen to podcasts. I want the podcasts to restart where I left them. Sometimes it does, but sometimes it restart at the beginning of the song, which is very annoying. Is there something that explains this behaviour ? When does a song restart from start, and when does it restart from the last played position ? If a consistent behaviour is impossible to achieve in the default app, which app would you recommend ? I just need that feature, I do not need a fully featured podcatcher, because I download the podcasts from my PC then transfer them to the IPhone.

I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 8.3.


texts: Should I use the adapter or the battery?

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I want to know when my MBP's battery was fully charged it's better to unplug my adapter and use my battery power or still let use adapter power?

I somewhere read that when MBP's battery was fully charged it's just use adapter for power and don't use battery, if it's true it didn't hurt adapter and reduce it's lifetime?

I have Macbook Pro 13" dual core(2.53)


texts: What tool do I best use to automatically cleanup / correct / complement the song info of all songs in my iTunes library?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there any features like winamp auto tag exists for iTunes?

Please suggest both mac and windows tools.
Please also tell us about your experience with this tool.


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If I put an entire Windows 7 (bootcamp) partition using dd into a single archive, will a restore still be bootable?

I just received a new machine with both OSes pre-installed, and I want to get a “pristine” backup before booting Windows.

I can’t use TDM because I have no other machine to read it with.

Related but not duplicate:
How do I copy an NTFS partition to a writable disk image?
Backing up a Boot Camp partition


texts: How to manually "file" files into folder, quickly, only using the keyboard

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I'm working to set up a paperless filing system. Although I've got several pieces in place, one of the parts that slows me down the most is putting a scanned file into the right folder. Find the folder and then dragging and dropping the file over is really tedious when I'm staring at a mound of papers that need to be filed.
What would be much much better is if I could "file" a file without having to touch the trackpad, i.e. only using the keyboard, but I'm stumped at how to do this.
My setup
Inspired by the ebook Paperless, I'm using the following:

Fuji ix500 scanner
Simple folder structure using MacOS and finder (with the OCR capabilities of the bundled software of the Fuji scanner coupled with the search capabilities of Mac OS, I can find pretty much any file I need just using search)
Hazel, for automatically extracting dates from file contents and sometimes moving files.

What I've tried
I started going down the path of setting up Hazel rules to capture the majority of documents that I file. The benefit of this is that if the Hazel looks inside a file with, say, the name of my mortgage company, the rule will have the file automatically moved to the folder for my mortgage company.
The drawback to this approach is that it's tedious to set up each rule, and there's a long tail of documents that are unique enough to not justify making a rule. So then the process comes down to two things:

Name the file
Put the file in the correct subfolder

I can speed up naming the file with tools like Text Expander, but I'm stumped at how to speed up putting the file into the correct subfolder.
What I'd like to do is something like this:

Have the file selected in finder.
Press Spacebar to preview the contents to know how to name it.
Press Enter to edit the name.
Edit the name and press enter.
[this is the part that doesn't exist yet....] Press a shortcut to bring up a text box that asks where I want to move the file.
I start typing and autocomplete starts narrowing down the folders.
I arrow down to the correct folder and press enter.
The file is moved to the folder I chose.
The next file in finder is now selected so I can quickly file it (back to step 2).

I'd be open to trying Apple Script if it helped me accomplish my goal, but I'm not even sure if Apple Script can help with this sort of thing.
So to restate my original question, what's a quick way to "file" a file manually into a folder on my machine only using the keyboard?


texts: prevent Mail from checking for mail if VPN is down

texts: My employer insists on using a VPN when people access email via Exchange. Is there any way to prevent Mail from checking for mail if the VPN is down?


texts: CPU cores have a temperature near 80 °C and then the fan starts to work. Is it too late?

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I have MBP 13, 2015.

When I watch some videos CPU Core 1 and 2 have a temperature near 70-80 °C. At this time the fan starts to work with some 1300 rpm.

Is it a bad temperature in the meaning of long term condition for the cores' life?

Should I configure my fan to increase the rpm at lower temperatures?


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I have a 2020 iPhone SE on iOS 14.4.1 and it seems when I tap and hold on the brightness or sound bar (or really anything in the control center) it always makes a keyboard click sound.
I’ve attempted to make this stop, but it seems that the only way to do so is to put my phone on silent.
I’ve looked everywhere in settings and can’t seem to find it. System Haptics seemed like the most likely cause, but it wasn’t.
Is there any way I can mute those control center clicks without putting my phone on silent?


texts: How can I view and copy an email address in a message header within iOS' Mail.app?

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If I reply-to-all on an inbound message with multiple recipients within iOS' Mail.app, I can't view or move/copy the email address of any recipients - I can only view the a 'bubble' which contains their name.

Curious if there is a way to view the actual email address while composing, and ideally, copy the address (in case I wanted to move it from the TO: field to the CC: field)


texts: Kill process as root: Operation not permitted

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I'm trying to kill a process by a user other than myself on macOS High Sierra, but still getting an error even with sudo:

$ sudo kill 108
kill: 108: Operation not permitted

The PID does exist:

$ ps ux -p 108
USER        PID  %CPU %MEM      VSZ    RSS   TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
_sentinel   108   3.6  1.5  5364180 245992   ??  Rs   23May19 149:15.88 /Library/Sentinel/sentinel-agent.bundle/Contents/MacOS/sentineld

How can I diagnose why sudo kill is failing? Is it because of System Integrity Protection? If so, how do I disable the relevant attributes on the process so that sudo kill succeeds?

I'm not looking to disable SIP globally, since the process in question belongs to SentinelOne (not a core macOS pre-installed application).


texts: Incomprehensible information in system diagnostic report

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When I open Console app and go to the "System diagnostic report" I can see awdd files. In the file while I can see for example:

  ($0éÞÊ ú©åÞ)ÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÚÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ (08@HPZða ¨ü1 ªÿÿz ¿´åÞ)($0ß     ¾´åÞ)
  System Profile:
  AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x112), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0

what is that mean the characters?! I can see this in each awdd file. What can I do?


texts: I have a jailbroken iPad1 that is still using iOS 4.  I want to upgrade it to iOS 5, but I cannot get it to go into DFU mode in order to do so.  Can anyone identify the exact steps needed to either put the iPad into DFU mode, or upgrade via a different method?


texts:
I'm not an iPhone user, but help support them at work.

We have a user who has a large amount of SMS messages for having the same iPhone for quite a few years. He's trying to delete old SMS messages.

On my Android (Galaxy S3), I'm able to set a Text message limit: 200 messages per conversation, so only the most recent 200 messages are kept for each conversation.

Is there something similar for iOS?


texts:
I'm updating our catalog and one of our products is available for the iPad.
I'm looking for the log for that. I've found "Made for iPad" but I'd like just simply "iPad".


texts: How can I get a formula to apply to every cell in a column? (i.e., I want to subtract a number I just entered in one cell from a total I have in a previous cell and I want to do it each subsequent cell I enter)


texts: Sending All Traffic Over VPN Tunnel (IKEv2) in OS X 10.11.5

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I recently setup VPN connections on my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.11.5 via the Apple Configurator. However, I am having trouble sending all traffic across the VPN Tunnel rather than through the regular Wi-Fi Connection.

Although the default route is created when the VPN is connected, no traffic is sent across the VPN (the VPN has been confirmed to be working in Windows and Linux).

Here is the output of:

  netstat -rn

    Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            10.0.0.1           UGSc           43        0     en1
default            link#8             UCSI            0        0  ipsec0
10/16              link#5             UCS             8        0     en1
10.0.0.1/32        link#5             UCS             1        0     en1
10.0.0.1           <EDGE ROUTER MAC>  UHLWIir        47      194     en1      1076
10.0.143.243/32    link#5             UCS             1        0     en1
10.0.143.243       <MBP MAC ADDRESS>  UHLWI           0        1     lo0
45.32.180.111      10.0.0.1           UGHS            0        0     en1
127                127.0.0.1          UCS             0        0     lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH             18   781055     lo0
169.254            link#5             UCS             0        0     en1
172.11.22.1        172.11.22.1        UH              0        0  ipsec0
224.0.0            link#5             UmCS            1        0     en1
224.0.0            link#8             UmCSI           0        0  ipsec0
224.0.0.251        1:0:5e:0:0:fb      UHmLWI          0        0     en1
255.255.255.255/32 link#5             UCS             0        0     en1
255.255.255.255/32 link#8             UCSI            0        0  ipsec0

There is no option to enable/disable forwarding all traffic over the VPN like there is with PPTP.

How can I forward all traffic over the VPN when the VPN is active similar to how Windows and Linux already does this?

The more I dig into OS X and VPN Networking the more it seems like it would be easier to host a dual VPN of IPSec for the Windows and Linux clients and OpenVPN for OS X and iOS.


texts: Is logic board from Macbook Air 11" A1465 2015 compatible with Macbook Air 11" A1465 2014?

texts:
I am thinking about buying this logic board and putting into into my Early 2014 11" Macbook Air, which has much lower specs.

Will it work?


texts: How can I create a USB installer of OS X - El Capitan on a computer that is running macOS Sierra?

texts:
I've downloaded a copy of the OS X - El Capitan Installer, which I want to make a bootable USB of.

However, it requires you to run the installer on whatever machine you are running, and installs it as an app.

But I cannot run the installer (to create the app) because I am using the computer running macOS Sierra.

It just gives an error "this installer is too old to run on this computer."


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I'm having problems using ´fastboot´ in high sierra.
When I run the command:

fastboot devices

it tells me:

ERROR: Unable to create a plug-in (e00002be)

Now, I've googled a lot and a lot of different users seems to have this issue, since Mountain Lion.
I've tried rebooting my machine, unplugging and plugging again my phone and running it as superuser, but no luck.

What can it be?


texts: How many items are stored in an iPad clipboard?

texts:
In iPad how many items can be stored in the clipboard?

How does one select from one of the past entries?

Where does it get stored and how to access it?


texts: Increased capacity purchased on iCloud isn't available for photos

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I signed up to the standard 5GB iCloud plan when I purchased my iPhone 6. Just a few days back was advised I needed to increase iCloud capacity to receive more photos. I have paid to increase to 50GB, and this now shows as available storage. However, I still cannot upload photos into this increased storage.

Does the extra capacity have to be activated? I've signed up for a monthly billing. Do I have to wait for this to happen? Surely this is covered by iTunes payment setup. Has anyone else had the same problem, and if so how to fix?


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I always kept all the photos on my laptop. Now my space is getting low and I decided to switch to "Optimise Mac Storage"

How can I trigger the optimisation?

The disk is full

Filesystem   Size   Used  Avail Capacity   iused  ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1  699Gi  695Gi  2.9Gi   100% 182360388 765264  100%   /

but the size of the Photos library is not changing. Opening and closing Photos does not seem to change anything. Keeping Photos open for a long time does also not bring any effect.


texts: Will Mountain Lion run on an early 2008 MacBook White?

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I know it isn't in Apple's list of supported Macs, but I want to know if anyone has tried it.

Also, my Mac has 4GB of ram and plenty of disk space. It currently runs Lion.


texts: How can I show the battery as a percentage on my iPod Touch?

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On the iPhone, to show the percentage of battery left, I can go into Settings > General > Usage and toggle "Battery Percentage" on.

My daughter's iPod touch doesn't have a Usage category.  Is there a way on the iPod touch to display the battery percentage?


texts: Mac Pro + Dual 27" Cinema Displays brightness & brightness control

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Hardware:

Mac Pro 4.1 (circa 2009)
AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072 MB graphics card

I have just connected dual 27" Cinema Displays.

Both work, lots of display space ;-)

Two problems (perhaps related):

F1 & F2 keys only adjust brightness on the primary display.
2nd display about (purely estimated) 92% of the brightness of the primary display and just a bit too dim to feel comfortable.  While perhaps just the difference in ages and use of the 2 displays, I wonder if something else might have gone awry?

Any way to adjust brightness of both displays from my keyboard?

Any other adjustment I can make to the brightness of the 2nd display.


texts: iOS - how to "save as a copy" for annotated photos

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Ive taken a photo on my iPhone (iOS 13.x) and drawn over the photo using iOS's in built annotation tool.

I would like to also have a copy of the photo where i have not drawn over it.

Is it possible to get the annotation tool to save the annotated photo as a duplicate so that i can have both copies ?


texts: Having trouble connecting via 3G network using my iPhone 4

texts:
I'm having trouble using the 3g network I do believe it was a day or so after apple software update 7.1.2 IOS. I can use wifi but not 3G network for some reason.  So I did all of the stuff people were saying reset the  phone. So did and then I even did the airplane mode on and off, then shut off the phone. Nothing seems to work. When I'm at work I have no Wifi and resetting the phone over and over has me extremely frustrated.

I have searched for a solution and everything I have been finding about this problem was last year in 2013. Are there different troubleshooting steps or ideas to solve this problem?


texts: Jailbroken using yalu102 without Cydia and can't install Cydia because "already jailbroken"

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I recently jailbroke my iOS 10.1.1 iPad mini 2 with yalu102, and I erased all content and settings for some weird reason. I didn't backup my device when it had Cydia on it, so now every time I use yalu and press go, it will respring, but there will be no Cydia. It just says "already jailbroken".

I cannot use Cydia Impactor because it says

  Provision.cpp:81 listteams=1102 This Apple ID cannot be used for development with Xcode

Any idea how to fix this?


texts: How to disable the 'Offload Unused Apps' option in iOS?

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I have turned on the 'Auto deletion' option in iOS which will remove an App from my phone if it is not frequently used.

The screenshot shows how the home screen looks on my phone. The icloud download icon mean the app has been offloaded.

I find this feature very inconvenient but now I am unable to find a way to disable it.

Once it is activated the option disappeared

How can I stop the auto offload?


texts: macOS keyboard shortcut for correcting misspelled words?

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In a Mac OS X native textfields, misspelled and typo'd words are underlined with a red squiggle.
Is there a standard keyboard shortcut that will correct a mispelling by selecting the most-likely correction?
This should work in all native textfields. The solution should not be limited to a single app.

It's already possible to Right Click a misspelled word. I'd like a keyboard shortcut to bring up a similar feature, so that I don't have to manually Right Click each word individually.
The feature could correct each word, one-by-one, allowing you to select each correction. Or, it could use the best guess for all misspelled words in the document.


texts: I just upgraded my machine to Lion to see if the project works on the new OS, but I else need to support users using the program on machines running OS X 10.5, but Xcode 4.1 doesn't come with the 10.5 SDK, where can I get the SDK & how do I install it on my system?


texts: Alter inertia scrolling behaviour in Mountain Lion

texts: I like how with inertia scrolling you can swipe harder to scroll further down the page, but what I don't like is how the scrolling speeds up quite a bit as you scroll. This was not the behavior in Lion, and it is causing me headaches while scrolling around my text editor trying to edit code as it will consistently scroll right past where I'm trying to go. I can't find any settings for this, any ideas?


texts:
I have some photos of notes that have been sent to me, and I would like to "fix" them in order to have a scanned-like pdf like the one that I get when scanning with Camscanner app (on Android or iOS).
I've done some research but I've found only a discontinued app, doxcan.
 Is there a maintained app to do so?
 EDIT: from the comments, here's a more detailed explanation of what I need:
I need something that allows me to "flatten" the photo and make it in white and black. Just like when in Camscanner you fix the corners of the document and it warps the image in order to make it as it was acquired from scanner. Then it performs a conversion from color to b/w (probably applying some filters too, but nevermind of that) doxcan does it but I cannot find anywhere to download, since it's discontinued...
here is all I found about doxcan


texts: Make login screen show on external monitor without closing Macbook Pro

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I have a 2019 Macbook Pro 16". I am trying to get the login screen to show on an external monitor but I do not want to close the MBP.
Once I log-in then the external monitor is primary but I want it to be primary before login, such that the login screen is on it.


texts: Disable the Dock in all but one Desktop/Space only

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On My iMac I usually have several desktops that I use for separate things.
While I prefer to have the Dock on my main space to access apps easier, I much prefer to have the Dock hide on all other spaces, except for the main one.
I know, that I can just do Option-Command -D to hide/unhide the dock whenever, but is there a way, to have different Dock settings in different spaces?


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I have a NetBoot server to manage all the Macs in my office. However, when I started a weekly backup of one of my iMacs last week, after rebooting and holding N, I saw the blinking globe for a few moments and then the system booted from the hard disk.

As far as I know, no configuration changes have been made to the NetBoot server. Other iMacs still can netboot fine.

This particular iMac had the iMac EFI Update 1.7 installed whereas none of the other Macs have. I suspect that is the culprit especially given Apple's description:

  This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection [...]

Does the iMac EFI Update 1.7 change how NetBooting works? If so, how specifically? Does the vendor-class-identifier of the DHCP request change?

(I'm happy to edit the question with additional details about my configuration if it will help)

UPDATE: I confirmed that the vendor-class-identifier in the DHCP request did not change after this update:

And indeed, the server is sending back the proper booter filename and image path:

So there's something else at play here...


texts: Why aren't my songs from iTunes actually syncing to my iPod?

texts: I just put a bunch of songs on my iPod, and most of them worked. But now there’s two more that I need to download and when I drag and drop the files to the "Music" section of my iPod, the songs show up there, but they have that symbol next to them that suggests they are still syncing, and they are gray. But it's been like that for like three hours. So I know they are not actually syncing. Why is it doing this and how can I fix it?


texts: How can I solve false duplicate in Mail.app?

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I recently switched to Mail.app from Outlook 2011 and have been importing some of my archive messages.  The problem is that for many of the messages, Mail.app seems to think they are duplicates so it only shows one of them.  However they are NOT duplicates, they are not even close.  All the messages are there, I can search in spotlight for them, however if i want to scroll through a folder they will not show up.  I can see certain messages have a '8 Duplicates' or similar written on the top right corner, and when you click that all the messages show, but it is only temproary, as soon as you move to a different folder and then come back all the messages are hidden again.

How can I turn this off?  And any ideas why Mail.app thinks the messages are duplicates?  they are on different dates, different subjects, 100% different as far as i can tell.


texts: How to create single-click/-keystroke shortcut to start recording on Mac OS?

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I want to record landline calls at my desk with one-click or similar. For example, say I get a work call that I want to record, I just hit one key on my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard or one button on my multi-button Logitech mouse and the Mac (Mac Mini running El Cap/OS 10.11) just starts recording. No steps, just one button or keystroke, regardless of what application is open or running.

I currently have a landline phone recorder adapter, which outputs a standard 3.5mm jack. I have an Olympus digital recorder, which works fine. But I want to remove the Olympus from the system and just record directly to my Mac's hard drive using something like Quicktime to record the audio calls. Now I have plugged the adapter's 3.5mm output into the Line In input on the back of my Mac Mini. It records in Quicktime and Audacity fine, but I want it to open either audio app and start recording with one-click, etc.

How do I do that? Keyboard Maestro the best way? Anything cheaper or free? Thanks.


texts: How to format cases properly in MS Word? I am desperate

texts:
I am trying to add a case using the equations of MS Word.

These are two different ways I have tried.

The first one was obtained by adding a left Curly Brace, then a 3 row by 1 column matrix. I have aligned everything to left, right and center the result is the same.

The second one was obtaining by adding a 3 line case.

Both are incorrectly aligned.

What I want is this, everything beautifully aligned by the operation signs and by the numbers, considering the signs.

Can this be done in Word?


texts: Mac silencing consuming / stealing notifications from my iPhone / Apple Watch

texts: When my Mac is turned on, my iPhone / Apple Watch refuse to ping me for iOS Notifications such as Calendar notifications. I get the notification on my Mac but my Apple Watch will not ping me. From what I can tell everything is setup correctly to receive notifications on my phone and my watch but when the Mac is on, it steals notifications. How do I disable this so that my watch still buzzes me even when my Mac is on?


texts: Delete an old icloud account with defunct email and forgotten password

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I have an old email/id apple iCloud account on an iPad mini that I can't delete because the email is totally defunct and I cannot remember the password.

I have a newer iCloud account that I use for everything and have no problem with it, except that I cannot use it on my iPad mini because it keeps asking me for the old account's password. I have read through the boards and am stuck!

So, defunct email and forgotten password and I don't care if I have to reset the entire mini as long as it wipes out the old iCloud account. I haven't used the mini for a while so it doesn't have anything that can't be synced.

HELP- please. Soo frustrating to realize mistakes in hindsight!
Thanks,
Alison


texts: How to reorder highlights in Preview according to page numbers?

texts: I read a book, while reading it, I highlighted some parts of the text. Now, in the side bar, when I choose the highlights and notes option, I see the highlights shown in random order, i.e the highlights are not in the same order as the pages. I would like all highlights in page x to come before page y, if x < y. How to do this?


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Can I stream things from an iPhone to an Apple TV with no additional equipment (i.e. no wireless router)? Will they be able to talk to each-other just like that (like Lion Mac Books apparently can for Air Drop), or do I need to also set up a WiFi network?

Assuming latest versions of all devices and software.


texts: Time Machine Backing Up Large Amounts of Data Each Time

texts: I've got 2 time machine drives. I have one at home that gets used on the weekend and another that gets backed up to during the week.  I recently replaced the one at my office.  The only thing that is weird is that it's backing up 3-4GB of data each hour. It goes super quick, so it doesn't feel like its actually backing up that much data, though. I've ran disk utility on the disk and it doesn't find anything. Any thoughts? Is it just something weird or is there a problem with the drive?


texts: Will I loose iPad application data when I switch Apple ID?

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I have borrowed iPad2 from a friend. It does have iOS5 currently installed.

I do want to install (with friend's permission) few free apps from App Store. However, even installing free app require entering password to my friend Apple ID. Since obviously friend does not want to share it, he allowed me to log out of his Apple ID and log in to my own. However I am afraid that switching accounts on iPad might result in loosing data like photos or application data.

Will switching Apple IDs on iPad cause any data loss? If so, will that data be restored automatically when friend log in back to his Apple ID?
Will I have access to apps installed with other Apple ID?
Will updating system from iOS5 to iOS7 cause any data loss?
Can I log in to multiple Apple IDs on one iPad? If so, will it cause any data loss?


texts:
I am curious if there is a way for me to hide certain objects in the menubar when they are "inactive." Some examples:

Bluetooth hides when Bluetooth is off
Wifi hides when wifi is off
Audio/sound hides when sound is muted
Battery hides when it is 100% charged

These are some examples. I use Alfred Workflows to work with these objects most of the time so having them in my menubar sometimes is useful but sometimes isn't. I use Bartender but was unable to find this option within it's settings. Admittedly, this is a pretty esoteric question.


texts: Cloud storage options for iPhoto's primary storage (not for backups)

texts:
My wife and I both have Macbook Airs with relatively limited internal hard disks. If we could just offload our iPhoto libraries, we'd be fine.

What are some of the cloud storage options for iPhoto? Meaning, when I open iPhoto, everything feels local, but is really stored in the cloud.

Note:

This thread talks about wireless NAS as an option, which might
be a better way to go.
I'm talking about using the cloud as primary storage, not as a
backup.


texts: What is the effect of the choice to "set up as new iPad"?

texts:
My daughter wants to rename her iPad mini, and I told her I thought the only way to do this was to connect it to iTunes on a computer, but when we connected it to my laptop, we got

This is disturbing, since obviously I neither want to set up the iPad as new again, nor do I want to restore over it with a backup from another device.  Both would wipe it, and would make absolutely no sense.

There is a page which claims this does not actually set up the iPad to be as new, but instead simply adds allows it to start syncing with iTunes.  I'm hesitant to believe this—normally Apple is not so careless in their choice of words, but since StackExchange site usually give more reliable information than other forums, I'm hoping someone can confirm or deny this claim FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.  Thanks.


texts: Powerpoint 2011 - Selection of Shapes does not work anymore

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I have a totally weird problem here and I am close to tears, because that strange bug is in heavy conflict with my timeline :/.

My Problem:

I click on a shape (no problem with images).
the shape is displayed as selected with resize handlers etc. (the edit shape mode in light blue, not the edit text mode in light grey).
But I can't copy or delete the shape. CMD+C or DEL don't trigger any reactions (normally the menu flickers briefly to indicate that shortcut worked).

My guess is that it is a problem with the selection mechanism, because:

When I select a shape by encircling it with the selection marker (click mouse, keep the button down, draw the selection mask over the shape) CMD+C or DEL are working.
The selection of the shape is displayed as described above.
The same applies if I click on the shape and drag it around. Afterwards I can use CMD+C and DEL.
When I select the shape with a simple click and click in the menu on "Edit" the selection instantly switches into the text edit mode. But when I use the right mouse button (or the touchpad equivalent) I reach the context menu and can select the copy-command from there (it just costs so much time to take these workarounds).

Because of that and the fact that CMD+C works in any other program flawlessly it seems to be no shortcut issue.

The problem did occur spontaneous from one moment to the other within the same PowerPoint session.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS 10.10, PowerPoint 2011

UPDATES:

When I select a shape with one click and then press the ESC key I can
use the CMD+C, DEL etc. normally.
The arrow key are affected as well: I click on a shape and press an arrow key to move  it, but it does not move. Instead the shape switches into textedit mode (I get a I-Beam Cursor).


texts: Danger in not maintaining known_hosts file?

texts:
I am not sure what all hosts I have accumulated over time under my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file are.

Is there any risks in keeping all hosts' addresses or doesn't it make any difference?


texts: Thunderbolt ethernet adapter ist not appearing in netwoks tab

texts:
I have bought an Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter and can't seem to get it to work.

It simply does not appear in the Network section of System preferences, even though the System Information dialog shows it is connected.

Here is how it looks: http://imgur.com/a/WUfbD

I have tried everything from here already.

I have el capitan and a retina macbook pro.

EDIT: I took it to the store and they confirmed it works fine. So it seems to be a software issue.

EDIT2: I solved it by reinstalling from scratch.


texts: Does constant charging harm my Macbook Pro?

texts:
I usually connect my macbookpro with the charger 12-15hour/day and 7 days a week. I'm afraid the battery could lose capacity over time. However, I believe modern electronics should be able to handle this kind of scenario and automatically stop charging the battery once it's full. Does this apply to macbook pro? Or do I need to continue disconnecting it once its fully charged?

(I'm not a native speaker, so please feel free to edit this question to clarify my words.)


texts: OS X Mavericks scrollbars appear even without external mouse

texts:
For about 2 weeks now are the scroll bars appearing permanently at my mac. I know that they appear when you have an external mouse connected. It was normal that they appeared only when I scrolled, but now they don't disappear anymore.

MacBook Air Late 2010, OS X Mavericks 10.9.2


texts: Flash Player 11.8 install fails with error code 30 listed in console

texts:
I am installing the most recent Flash Player 11 for Firefox/Safari, and after running the .pkg from Finder the installation always fails at 50%. I find this error in the console at the end of installation:

8/11/13 12:46:07.911 PM [0x0-0xf30f3].com.solidstatenetworks.awkhost: 2013-08-11
12:46:07.910 Adobe Flash Player Install Manager[1628:707]
Install failed with error code: 30.

This has happened for the past few minor releases, not just current (11.8.800.94). How can I complete the installation? I am running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to queue a selected song so that iTunes will play it next?

texts:
Is there a keyboard shortcut to queue up a selected song to the "Up Next" playlist that was introduced in iTunes 11?

I like that new feature but having to alt-click or select from a panel isn't fast enough to queue up a few songs rapidly.


texts: What is LPSS Serial Adapter in my network tab

texts:
Recently I have found that there are a network device called LPSS Serial Adapter (1) and LPSS Serial Adapter (2) in my network settings on my 2016 15" MacBook Pro, it has a phone (modem I guess) icon:

I tries to delete it, but it just comes back in a reboot. This doe not appear in any other Macs that I've own.

What is it?

P.S. It appears both on macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2659) and 10.12.2 (16C67)


texts: In the Notes app (iOS 12.4), how to remove "All on my iPhone", "Notes", and "Recently Deleted" folders

texts:
In the Notes app, which I am using offline, say I write a note and I put it in a folder I create called "Ool's Folder". Say I then delete the note and create another one.

At this point, I have four (!) folders showing, namely "All on My iPhone", "Notes", "Ool's Folder", and "Recently Deleted".

How can I get only a single folder showing, namely "Ool's Folder". I have tried the method of swiping left to delete, but this only works on "Ool's Folder" and not on any of three folders that I would actually like to delete.


texts: How to reverse the F keys default functionality

texts: I am newbie Mac user and I recently stumbled upon this annoying F6 problem: when I debug in Xcode or Eclipse, I must use fn+F6 to run the debugger. By default, F6 is the function key to adjust the keyboard light. How can I reverse its functionality, in order to use F6 for the debugger and fn+F6 for the keyboard light?


texts: Forward or redirect email with attachments using Apple Mail to another email address

texts:
I'm on MacOS Sierra. I'm using Apple Mail with Exchange Server. I want to set a rule that when an email is received from a specific sender, then redirect the email to another email address. I'm trying to use the "forward to" or the "redirect to" options but both only forward the email without the attachment.

Can anyone please tell me how to set the rule to send the email along with its attachment to the specified email?


texts: Blender requires F-keys such as F12 and numpad. The numpad emulation works for me, but I am unable to get the function keys such as F1, F4 and F12 working. For example, F12 should do rendering. So how can I use Blender with a MacBook?


texts: On a MacBook Air, running OS X El Capitan, can two different Users login to their own User Account while accessing their own individual and different iCloud Accounts?


texts: How can you forward delete all in macOS?

texts: If you type a sentence and hold command then press delete then it'll delete the whole line. What if I want to insert the cursor in the middle of a sentence and forward delete the right of the sentence?


texts: Download MacOS Mojave to USB-Drive from a Windows PC [MacStore not accessible without Mac?]

texts:
I'm having a very hard time repairing a broken Mojave->Catalina update on a MacBook Pro from 2015 for a friend of mine.

This is what happened:
After doing the Update, the Mac wouldn't start up anymore (stating "couldn't install Catalina").

I tried to finish it in internet recovery mode without success, couldn't even do a backup. I did the backup via Terminal onto an external hdd.

Hardware check states all hardware is OK.
There are sadly no timemachine backups available as the user didn't backup.

Order of what i have tried so far:

#1 installation of Catalina fails at bootup with message "error creating kernel caches"
#2 recovery mode attemps to finish Catalina install, after finishing bootup again fails with message "error creating kernel caches"
#3 resetting NVRAM does not help
#4 internet recovery mode: same error
#5 use DiskUtil to backup Data - after running for some time fails with read/write error
#6 why did DiskUtil fail? 'DiskUtil list' shows 19 volumes - googling points me to Catalina-Installer bug which creates spurious additional drives
#7 how to fix this? no idea
#8 backup files using terminal to a external hdd
#8 try Catalina Install from USB
#9 realize there is no way of creating a Mac-OS USB from Windows or Linux
#10 realize it isn't even possible to download the image from win/linux
#11 being frustrated with Apple

It seems that during the update, the Catalina-Installer made spurious additional volumes, like stated here. I have no idea how to fix this besides trying a clean install from a USB - which i don't even know if it will work.

Im stuck at this for far too long, Apple support hasn't been helpful either.


texts: mid-2015 MBP, 16GB, upgraded from 2.5 to 2.8 model. Benchmarks are almost the same, even worse for the 2.8 in some tests

texts:
Any thoughts on why this would be? I migrated everything at power-on on the new mac after formatting its Samsung EVO 970 plus, so they have identical drive contents and OS. Also, the 2.8 gets hot quickly (during use it hovers at around 50 or 60 degrees, where the 2.5 sits around 30) and the fan comes on loudly. Running Mojave.

RESULTS

SINGLE CORE SCORE

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Intel Core i7-4870HQ 2500 MHz (4 cores): 895

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Intel Core i7-4980HQ 2800 MHz (4 cores): 965

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Intel Core i7-4980HQ 2800 MHz (4 cores) AFTER PASTE REPLACEMENT: 962

MULTI CORE SCORE

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Intel Core i7-4870HQ 2500 MHz (4 cores): 3605

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Intel Core i7-4980HQ 2800 MHz (4 cores): 3382

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Mid 2015) Intel Core i7-4980HQ 2800 MHz (4 cores) AFTER PASTE REPLACEMENT: 3519


texts: Disk storage graphic and usage amount inconsistent?

texts:
I have a Macbook Air(6,2) with 120 GB SSD. When I checked About This Mac --> Storage, I see inconsistent information.

It says 87.89 GB free but Apps take up 92.65 GB. So there should only be about 30 GB free according to the graphic. However, I believe the graphic is wrong because OmniDiskSweeper says Macintosh HD is ~30GB.

Why do the graphic and numbers disagree?


texts: I got an iPhone 3G from a friend and it is showing "no sim card" and I know the sim card is good and it won't let me do anything but phone start up. Can anyone help please?


texts: Recover a deleted contact without iCloud backups

texts: When I was deleting contacts on my iPhone yesterday, I mistakenly deleted another one with similar name! Any idea how to get it back? I don't have any backups to iCloud.


texts: Unable to visit websites after deleting SelfControl app

texts:
I downloaded the self-control app, blacklisted some websites, then changed my mind. I deleted the app and modified etc/hosts.

I still can't visit the websites. I've tried refreshing the browser but the problem still persists.

How do I fix this?


texts: Macs on wireless network can't see eachother

texts: I've got an iMac and Macbook Pro, both running Snow Leopard and both on my home wireless network (running off a Linksys E2000). They both can get online fine, both have file sharing enabled, neither have a firewall enabled, and they both have IPs on the same subnet (192.168.1.144 & 146). Yet neither one can seem to see the other. If I open the network browser in Finder it's empty, attempts to go to the other machines IP directly fail after a long timeout, and even trying to ping the other machine fails. Yet, strangely, I've been able to get services like Synergy working just fine between them. Any ideas as to why these two machines are so inconsistent about talking to eachother?


texts:
After updating Yosemite on an iMac 2011 for some reason my F keys on my magic keyboard stopped working.  When I researched the only question I was able to find was "Function keys Magic Keyboard not bound correctly" but that is for Mavericks.

I've gone into settings and tried Change Keyboard Type.. but that hasn't changed the beeping behavior when I click an F key.

I've tried both wired and wireless connections and I've removed the keyboard from the Bluetooth.

When searching I found Why are my top-row keyboard buttons not working on Mac Lion? but I dont have all those options:

Diving deeper I found Top row of keyboard isn't working so I unplugged my iMac and let it sit for an hour.  Logged in and re-connected the keyboard and the same issue occurs.

Mac system specs:

OS: Yosemite
Version: 10.10.5
iMac 27-inch, Mid 2011

App Store says no more updates available. How can I get my F keys back?


texts: The date on my iphone is a day ahead and creating the wrong dates for emails and tests and such.  Anyway that I can reset it or rewind it?


texts: How to remove MRT (Malware Removal Tool)?

texts:
Note: I have already read MRT Process using large unbounded amount of memory (but here the context is different: "I'd rather not remove it") and a few similar questions/articles like MRT is peaking my cpu, but a good complete solution was not easily findable.
On my Macbook Pro with High Sierra, the CPU fan was making a loud noise, and after doing top in Terminal, I noticed that a process called MRT was using ~100% CPU.
So how do I remove MRT (Malware Removal Tool)?


texts: What different non-bluetooth keyboards exist for the iPad 2?

texts: I am in the navy, and am restricted in the use of RF emissions such as WiFi and Bluetooth.  Is there a keyboard I can use with my iPad 2 that will plug into the 30-pin connector?


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I have a handful of Calendar Alarms I created in Automator to run at various times on my MacBook Pro (mainly overnight).  However, it looks like if the machine is sleep then the Calendar Alarm is simply skipped.  Is there a way to set it to execute any missed Calendar Alarms when the machine wakes?

(Note that iCal used to do this with events that would "run a script" as a reminder.  But Mountain Lion seems to have deprecated that reminder type, so I'm trying Calendar Alarms from Automator now.)


texts: Remove Problematic File from Drobo5N (NAS)

texts:
For some reason I have some files on a Drobo5N, which is a NAS, that were copied over from my Mac.  They have a filename issue:

alpha:bravo:charlie.txt

That filename structure messes with all of the Linux commands that would deal with said file, including rm, cp and mv.  So I'm not sure what to do.  I'm using the terminal as well as the Mac GUI.

Any ideas how I can delete these files?  I don't have sudo access.

Cheers


texts: I cannot remove Sound Booster Driver in Audio MIDI Setup

texts: I had removed the Sound Booster Driver from my Applications folder on my Mac. For some reason the Sound Booster Driver is still in my Audio Devices and I cannot remove it. I have tried searching all my folders/Applications/Etc. and I cannot find it in any of my folders. Does anyone know how to remove this from my Mac?


texts: Mac Mail Limits (messages and mailbox size)

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We use Google Apps and with users approaching 250K email messages and over 25GB of storage Mail App is getting ever slower for most users.

Are there any guidelines on how large we should let the mailboxes grow?

I have not been able to find any information on limits (even from user experience) online.


texts: I have a movie/video on my iPad.  It is located in the video file (not the photo album).  When I go to Keynote presentation to add this particular video and click on media, all that comes up are photo albums so I can't seem to access this video in the video file and therefore can't add it to Keynote.  What to do?


texts: How do I connect my PC to a Thunderbolt Display?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Are there adapters to use Thunderbolt Display with non-Thunderbolt computers?

So, I have a MacBook Air and a 27" Thunderbolt display. I was under the impression that I could connect my PC (Asus Laptop) to the Thunderbolt display by using a HDMI to Mini Displayport converter. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Is there some technical limitation as to why this isn't working?


texts: Resetting Mountain Lion iCloud login request

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The first time you log into a new account with Mountain Lion, a special iCloud login screen is shown. Once you "skip" this screen it is never shown again.

When setting up an account I like to add a few things (like a welcome note of my own). But I'd also like to leave the iCloud login screen intact for the first time the intended user logs in.

Is there any way to reset this login screen so that it will be presented on the next attempt to login to a given account?


texts: iOS: Multiple GMail send-form addresses, using S/MIME

texts:
I tried to setup my GMail-Account including my various send-as-addresses that I set up in the Webmail interface using this great tutorial.

However, I have two issues:

I cannot setup multiple S/MIME signing certificates, so only one address can send signed mails.
The iPhone has it's own idea which address should be the default from-Address.

Is there any way to setup a GMail-Account so there is one inbox, multiple send-as-addresses and an S/MIME-signing-certificate set up for each address, and a user-selectable default address? Apple Mail on OS X can do that.


texts: How to read ePubs on a first generation iPad

texts:
My father has a 1st generation iPad. I can't seem to find a single eBook reader that is compatible. iBooks should have a compatible version, but it won't install it.

I have read about using iTunes to sync older versions, but his Mac mini is so old it won't even 'see' the iPad on iTunes.

Any ideas?


texts: 32-bit or 64-bit version of Microsoft Office on Windows 7 64-bit bootcamp?

texts: I wanted to ask which version I should download and install. First, I need to tell you that I use Windows 7 64-bit bootcamp on my Mac. I access it mostly via a virtual machine (VMWare). My Macbook has 8GB RAM and an about 3.1 GHz processor. I have about 10GB of free space on my bootcamp. Which version of Microsoft office should I install, 32-bit or 64-bit? Does 32-bit even work on my bootcamp?


texts: Can't turn on wifi on Mac OSX Mountain lion MBP 2012

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The WiFi interface won't turn on when i press "Activate wifi" from the preferences neither from the status bar.

I tried restarting the mac,and reset the pram.

The Ethernet works fine and this is the result of ifconfig in the terminal:

en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=2b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4> ether a8:20:66:37:81:d9  inet6 fe80::aa20:66ff:fe37:81d9%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4  inet
192.168.1.131 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control>) status: active

en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 5c:96:9d:89:fe:09  media: autoselect (<unknown type>) status: inactive

Is there anything I can try before initialize OSX?


texts: Automatically connect to shared device when detected

texts:
Here is my need : I want my media center to be mounted in the /Volumes of my Macbook as soon as I turn it on.
So, I need to automate the Connect as action.

Users & groups > Login items only resolve one part of the equation : mounting the macmini on laptop startup.
How to silently establish connection if I boot up macmini while laptop is already running ?
Update:
http://www.kristijan.org/2010/11/automount-afp-shares-in-osx/ explain how to mount a volume using automount command.
Still, is there an event "Share just appeared on network" emitted somehow by the system that I could plug into to trigger when to execute the automount command ?


texts: Which application changed Mac OS X [Option]+[D] keybinding

texts:
When I press Option+D key in OS X, the current application loses focus. And if I press it again, the current window gets focus back.

How do I know which application bind that or how to avoid it. I checked the shortcuts in System Preferences and there isn't anything like Option+D keybinding.

System version:

ProductName:  Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.11.4
BuildVersion:   15E65

This annoys me so much.


texts: How do I get Finder to remember the size and location of the window?

texts:
Why doesn't Finder remember the damn window size and location? I keep reading crap about holding down Option key while dragging but that doesn't work. It just reverts back to its microscopic size the next time i open it. It's useless and very tedious and it really aggravates me.

How do I make this thing thing stay the way I want it to? I don't mind playing around with system stuff or running scripts - so long as I only have to do it once only.

Any help will be much appreciated!


texts: Why does my iPhone turn on when I plug it in to charge?

texts:
If my iPhone 4 is turned off and I plug it in to charge, it automatically turns itself on again.  Anyone know why this happens?

It appears to happen with all three iPhones in the house (a 3G, and 2 x iPhone 4).  All the chargers are the chargers that were bundled with iPhones.

The cable on the chargers range from the original iPhone cable, the original dual charger cable for the iPhone and Apple Bt headset, and the newer low profile connector cable that came with the iPhone 4.


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If you run 'security find-identity -v /Library/Keychains/system.keychain' command from your terminal, you can see available/valid identities from your macbook with these private keys.

What are these private keys?

If i expose them, are my certs any good?

I am writing a script which collects certificate information from macbook. Is there any way to collect these info (Issuing CA, Issued-to User Name, Expiry Date, SHA1 or SHA256)?

Thank you.


texts: Safari Back Button goes to old cached page, os X El Capitan, iMac

texts:
On certain websites I visit Safari has a consistent problem.  Using the back button brings up an old cached version of the page.  Refresh works fine.  An example is http://forum.porsche356registry.org/viewforum.php?f=1.  If I read the threads on that page and click back, it will eventually start bringing up an old cached view of the page without refreshing the list of threads.

I enabled the Develop menu in Safari and watched what happened in the inspector's network tab, when clicking back vs. clicking refresh (of the same page).  They do different things.  Refresh always runs the script viewforum.php, which I assume refreshes the list of topics.  Clicking back often did not run that script.  Looking for an explanation...


texts: I would like to find a way to hide all the *~ files in Finder, which are used as backup files by Emacs. Is there a general approach to make Finder hide all the files with their names matching certain patterns? Thanks.


texts: Show text in large type on the screen via terminal

texts:
I can put large text on the center of my screen with certain apps, such as Address Book (click on a phone number and choose "Show in Large Type") or using Quicksilver (type some text and choose the "Large Type" action).

Is there any way I can invoke this functionality from the terminal, to show arbitrary large text by writing, say, Applescript or a bash script?


texts: How to execute javascript from an applescript (Yosemite)?

texts:
Since Yosemite, the Script Editor allows using javascript.

What is the best way to execute javascript from an applescript?

My use case is an existing applescript which needs to send some parameters over to a piece of javascript code, which makes a complex calculation and returns a result to be used as part of some appplescript-powered automations.

For clarity, I'm looking for an alternative to a tell application [browser] to execute the javascript using the new native javascript support of Yosemite, NOT for an alternative to a do shell script.


texts: PHP won't include files properly since updating to Mojave

texts:
On our office Mac, we have a local Apache server running through the software AMPPS. Prior to updating to Mojave, everything was working correctly. Now, after updating, there is an issue with using PHP include or require.

Our system uses an object for storing settings, and one of these is the document root path. This value is usually the same as $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], however using that is not an option for various reasons.

An example of the issue that is occurring:

include settings::$documentRoot . '/fileToInclude.php';

This will resolve to the path "/Applications/AMPPS/www/fileToInclude.php" and will fail with the standard 'not found' error:

Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

However, if I change the include line to the following:

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/fileToInclude.php';

which resolves to the path "/Applications/AMPPS/www/fileToInclude.php" it will work without a problem.

As you can see, both include statements resolve to the exact same path, but only one works. I have done testing to confirm that both paths match exactly using a strict equality check (===).

Does anyone have any idea why this would happen in Mojave? As I mentioned, it was working perfectly fine in High Sierra, and it works fine on all our Windows machines.

EDIT:
The server error logs output the following when trying to use the failing include.

PHP Warning: include(/Applications\xe2\x81\xa9/AMPPS\xe2\x81\xa9/www/fileToInclude.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/AMPPS/www/index.php on line 14


texts: Apple ID password not being requested before installing an app from the App Store

texts:
Why isn't my Apple ID password being requested before installing an app from Apple Store ? It always has before now.

I changed my password the other day and I have a feeling I must have done
something else to screw things up. I have an iPad 4 running 8.x


texts: "Apply Rules" to Sent Mail folder in OS X 10.9 Mavericks does not work

texts:
Any idea why in Mail 7.0 (part of OS X 10.9 Mavericks,) when I select a group of messages in the Sent Mail folder and do Message --> Apply Rules command, nothing happens?

(In prior versions of OS X back to 10.5, my extensive list of 70+ rules automatically moved messages from my Sent folder to various other sorted folders. I have several plain POP3 accounts set up in Mail.app, not leaving messages on the server.)


texts: Why does "ls -l" display the year of my (jar) file as "16:18"?

texts:
I was looking through my file system and noticed that the date of mysql-v5.jar is formatted incorrectly.

~/Dev/Lib$ ls -l
total 29128
-rw-r-----@ 1 johndoe  staff   2256213 Mar 16  2015 guava-18.0.jar
-rw-r--r--@ 1 johndoe  staff  11684781 Jan 30  2012 kuromoji-0.7.7.jar
-rw-r--r--@ 1 johndoe  staff    968670 May  4 16:18 mysql-v5.jar

What is going on?

(So far, all 3 jar files have worked just fine for me. I can't remember where I downloaded those files from.)


texts: Why is Finder adding .app extension to .service file?

texts:
Reproduce:

$ nano example.service  # (add some text to file and save)
$ ls example.service
example.service

Looks good so far.

What's this?


texts: How do I find what my DPI setting is in OS X?

texts: I don't have a retina display, and display settings doesn't show any relevant info. How can I see what my DPI in OS X is?


texts: iCloud Drive taking up space on local drive?

texts:
My computer seems to be keeping a local copy of my iCloud Drive folder. Is there any way to disable this?

I know this because in my "Library" folder, there is another folder called "Mobile Documents" that links to the contents in my iCloud Drive folder.

Also, when I click on "About This Mac", under "Storage", it includes the iCloud Drive folder's contents.

Is there a way for me to not keep a local copy of the iCloud Drive folder? I don't want it taking up space on my hard drive...


texts: Mac OS menu clicking slow, numbers down the side

texts:
I am running Mac OS 10.15.2. I rarely reboot my computer, but I had to turn it off to move it home due to Coronavirus, and I when I rebooted I found I had received an unwanted change.

Now, whenever I click a menu item (that is, the menus in the top left corner, for instance at the moment I am in Chrome so I have the items Chrome File Edit View History Bookmarks People Window Help), it gives little numbers on the left alongside each drop down menu. For instance when I click the File menu, I get a little 1 alongside New Tab, a little 2 alongside New Window, etc.

And, clicking these menus is really slow. Even when I select something which does almost nothing (e.g. I click File, then change my mind and click File again to close the drop down menu), the little numbers stay around for about a second, and during that time I cannot do anything else. This ~1 second delay is really annoying, like I am running an overloaded or outdated computer (which I am not). Even worse, Cut + Paste takes several seconds.

I suspect these little numbers are the cause. So now for my question: how do I disable this feature?


texts: Some USB devices work, some don't on Macbook

texts: Some older USB devices such as flash drives or mice work on my Macbook 2007 model, but newer ones are not recognized. Any ideas about the diagnosis and the cure?


texts: iPhone 8 proximity sensor not working after display switch

texts:
so I've changed a splintered display including a new flex-cable with front camera, brightness and proximity sensor of an iPhone 8 for my first time and it is working nearly as wanted... nearly!
The proximity sensor does not work anymore but everything else: The front camera, the display, the home button, the automatic setting of brightness and also the earpice is working without a problem. The sensor is plugged in its place and can "see" through the cut-out.
My question is: Is there any step missing? Do I (which I doubt) have to activate again because it is a new hardware component?
Thanks in advance!


texts: Connecting 3 monitors to macbook pro 2018 via thunderbolt 3

texts:
I looked for 20 minutes for a post similar to mines, and couldn't find one. Which is interesting to me, because I don't understand why people want to use the display to HDMI instead of using thunderbolt USB-c port natively instead. Before I get to this...I shall ask my question.

I plan on buying a MacBook Pro-2018 15 inch for my home-based business. I need to connect 3 monitors to this laptop. I understand the 15 inch MacBook Pro comes with 4 thunderbolts 3 ports. I plan to buy 3 24-27 inch monitors that are 4k display. Also, I understand that the charger for this laptop uses a Thunderbolt 3 port, which leaves me with 3 left. Will connecting 3 monitors that have Thunderbolt 3 ports leave me with performance issues? Will the refresh rate lower?

Finally, why do I see a lot of post with people using old 2.0 display port to HDMI; why they can use Thunderbolt 3 port natively?


texts: Multiple SMS, Marketing campaigns through iOS?

texts:
I've got a little business with around 1000 customers and I like to take advantage of a mobile plan that lets me send a lot of SMS messages per month.

I've got my customers' emails and phone numbers on a spreadsheet. I'd like to export that phone list to the iPhone and create a "customers" group on my address book, and from there be able to send this group offers and news through SMS from my phone.

Is there some iOS app that would let me this, or maybe another parallel solution that combines my desktop PC on my iPhone to perform this task?


texts: How to change preference pane unlock dialog language?

texts:
During the Mountain Lion installation I have selected the English language as the system language. However, the dialog asking for my password – that appears when you need to install an application, or when you want to unlock a preference pane – is in Dutch. I'm currently in The Netherlands, but I don't see how this might be related to the language of one type of dialog.

Here below an image of the dialog. As you can see there's even a mix of Dutch and English:

I haven't been to other countries yet with this MacBook Pro, so don't know if it's actually dependent on location.

How can I fix this issue?


texts:
Some international fonts (such as Devanagari and others in that area) are apparently missing some glyphs.

Checking the lower left of wikipedia I get squares ("missing glyph symbol"), and going into that site I get only squares too; however, checking in other sites it appears many glyphs are there, but a few are missing.

What can I do to fix this? What could be the problem?


texts: Manage Finder favourites with defaults write or similar?

texts:
I've been unable to find any preferences list file with the locations for the 'Favorites' list shown in the Finder sidebar. No luck from likely candidates com.apple.finder and com.apple.sidebarlists.

Is there one, such that I can edit this list with defaults?

Failing that, is there a way of managing this list via AppleScript?


texts:
I have a fresh install of Snow Leopard on a 32bit Core Duo.

Ever since I installed Snow Leopard, I have random crashes when compiling:
i.e. - during brew install imagemagick. While brew installed dependencies (tiff and little-cms) it finished just fine, but when it went to compile imagemagick itself, it crashes.

During make install for imagemagick, the system fans just spin up then my computer shuts down.

I've looked at mkmf.log and CrashReporter, but nothing is in them about this install.

I'm using Xcode is 3.2.6 with iOS SDK 4.3.

Any other log files I can view?  Any ideas?

EDIT - I noticed that this was happening during compiling only.  Also noticed that fans started to spin up before crashes but never got a chance to spin to max speed.  I guess somewhere along the way, either one of my fans went out, or something of the sort.

So I did the following:

I downloaded and installed MenuMeters, then smcFanControl.

I set the Higher RPM in smcFanControl to max.  Right before I started to install apps which needed compiling like imagemagick I turned smcFanControl to max and monitored CPU temp.  So far I've been able to install without crashes, but now I know I need to be replacing my mac soon.


texts:
I'm working on a friend's iPhone and every time I turn VPN off, it turns right back on.

Have you ever seen this before?

Any suggestions for what I could do to keep it turned off?


texts: MacBook battery won't charge but powers on either battery or direct power source

texts:
My MacBook won't charge. When I plug the magsafe adapter it doesn't light up (no amber nor green). I tried using a friend's charger to check if the adapter is at fault but the result is the same. So I removed the battery then magsafe lights up and powers the computer. I check the battery cycle and it is normal with 515 count. While computer is turned on and while the magsafe adaptor is plugged to the power supply I put the battery back, then it started charging again. I unplugged the magsafe adapter to check if it is finally working and it went back to not charging and no green or amber light, but the MacBook is running from the battery. So I  bought a new battery for replacement but I still have the same issue.

Has anyone experienced this or any insight to what might be the problem?

Is this a battery problem or charger issue?


texts: Is it possible to buy an iOS Developer Program for an IBC that was formed in Belize?

texts: I am thinking about buying an Apple Developer Program through an offshore company. It has many tax advantages. Is it possible? I have heard registration requires a DUNS number, so will I able to get it? What risks are there when using an IBC?


texts: Some process is slowly taking over disk space...how do I find out what this is and how do I deal with it?

texts:
I have a Mac Book Pro, first generation.  It is running 10.6.4.  I usually keep it running.  I put it into hibernation mode (i.e. it writes the state to disk and powers down) when I need to put it to sleep.

I have a ~100GB hard drive.  Now I only have about 3.5 GB free.  I've noticed that recently i get the low disk warning quite a bit and when I check sometimes it dwindles down to a few MB.  I figured that it might have been my browsers (Chrome, Safari) caching stuff. I clear the cache and it frees up some space.  But I never get back to 3.5GB.

So, I decide to shutdown and restart.  Every time I do that I see that indeed I get back to about 3.5GB free.

My question is how do I figure out what is slowly eating up my disk space?  Have people out there experienced these symptoms?  What was the cause and how did you deal with it?


texts: How do I power off my Mac with the Mavericks OS?

texts: Since downloading OS X Mavericks my power button just puts my Mac to sleep. I want to know how to power off and restart.


texts: Can't turn on FileVault after restore from Time Machine

texts:
I have bought myself a SSD and replaced the internal disk with it.
I was running Lion before (latest patch level).
I'm using Time Machine to back my laptop up.

When I was done replacing my HDD I booted up a Lion installation USB stick.
I created one partition on my SSD and told it to restore from my Time Machine backup.

This worked great,
however I also want to again turn on FileVault and I'm getting the error:

  FileVault can’t be turned on for the disk “Macintosh HD”.
  Some disk formats don’t support the recovery partition required by encryption.
  To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted disk.

I've read that this is because I'm now missing the recovery partition (Didn't even know I had that).

What are my options here?
Can I create this partition manually?

Do I need to reinstall Lion again (cleanly), patch it, and then restore from Time Machine?


texts: iTunes Connect data not updating since 2 days?

texts:
UPDATE: "Please note that data for Feb 3rd and Feb 4th is currently incomplete.  We are working to correct the issue and apologize for the inconvenience."
Sometimes pops up now. In the notification, only the 3rd was mentioned before, but now apprently they updated the message.

former question:

The statistics in iTunes Connect seem to be stuck on the 2nd of February. Am I the only one to experience this? Haven't found any other recent posts about this yet.

I already tried another browser, this is what I see:


texts: How to submit a bug report to Apple's bug tracker?

texts:
I managed to write a piece of code that made Xcode 5's LLVM compiler segfault. Xcode prints a message that asks me to submit a bug report at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/. I try to do that, but all that site does is tell me what makes a good bug report, with no link or button where I can actually submit one. I have a developer account already.

So how do I submit a bug report to Apple's bug tracker?


texts:
Strange issue on OS X Safari - visit Skiplex UK and you will receive an alert 'Safari can't verify the identity of the website "www.skiplex.co.uk".'.

I have been advised by Comodo and our hosting provider that SSL is setup correctly multiple times. The SSL is indeed working perfectly on all other browsers and operating systems including iOS.

It just seems to be an issue with the SSL on skiplex website. I can connect through to other websites using SSL, such as apple, google, etc.

Feel like I'm getting no where with this issue. Any ideas much appreciated.

Additional Info

I'm using Safari Version 9.0.2. I also know others experiencing same
issue (on various versions of Safari) so unfortunately issue not
local to my machine.
As far as I'm aware this issue does not occur on Safari for Windows.


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Today I suddenly had my new tabs overidden by the "buenosearch" website with no new extensions or apps installed.

I have followed all steps I can find online to remove this but it continues to come back. I have run Bit Defender's Antivirus for Mac, and am now running MacScan and Clam Xav to try and remove it.

Any help is appreciated!


texts: Remove the Notification Center icon from the Menu Bar

texts:
I would like to remove the Notification Center icon like I could in Yosemite.

I'd like to not see it in the menu bar (to the right of the spotlight icon).


texts:
I have two Macs on the desk and want to use one set of microphone/speakers with both. One machine, a Mac mini, has a Focusrite audio interface (Scarlett 8i6, love it) connected by USB-C and that has an XLR microphone and powered stereo speakers connected. I want output from a nearby MacBook Pro to play on the main speakers (not its internal speakers) and to send microphone output from the audio interface to the MBP as input (instead of using internal microphone).
No problem getting output. A simple stereo - double TS (mono) cable lets me connect it to the Focusrite box as one of the inputs. I can mix levels in the Focusrite application, plays on main speaker outputs. Sounds good.
Microphone output from the Focusrite is mono. A TS-TS cable connects the output to the mic input of the splitter cable. Doesn't work!
Here's the wiring of my splitter cable - it follows "iPhone headphone" in the picture. Output cable, plugged into the headphone jack of the splitter, follows "Standard stereo headphone". Ignore "iPod AV Cable", it just happens to be in the picture:

That's verified by meter testing. As soon as this cable is connected MBP lets me set output to "External Headphones". However I never get the option "External Microphone".
The output from the microphone is good, if I connect it to the microphone input of a nearby PC no issues at all, good levels, clear audio from microphone. I just never get the option to select it on the MBP.
Just what is the input on a MBP 15,1 for if not for this?
Is the Mac doing some tricky resistance or 1-wire interrogation of the connected device and refusing to allow anything but a device that gives the right answer?
If I had a set of TRRS AirPods with included microphone would that microphone work? Does anything work as input on MBP?
I really don't want to have to use another USB interface for this.


texts: How do I access and view cache HTML5 videos located in Safari or Chrome cache?

texts:
I want to view and possibly remix a video on youtube.  I have seen many demos and articles describing where the cache is on older versions of the browsers, but now it seems that Safari is stored in a .db file, and I haven't figured out chrome.

How can I extract and save an HTML5 file in a way so that I can view it later, or edit it in a video editing program?


texts: There's something clogging up my Startup Disk space, I can't find it even using Disk Inventory X

texts: For some reason there's something clogging up my Startup Disk space. I can't find it even using Disk Inventory X.


texts:
When I try to SSH to my computer, ssh fails with this error:

Mothership:~ kuyan$ ssh kuyan@localhost
Connection closed by ::1

This also happens when I attempt to SSH to my user from another computer.
This message appears in Console when I attempt to connect:

12/12/12 3:44:30.468 PM sshd[2576]: fatal: ssh_sandbox_child: sandbox_init: dlopen(/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib, 261): image not found [preauth]

Relevant information:

I'm using a different version of sshd than OS X provides, installed via brew install openssh - but this error occurs with both versions.
/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib exists:

Mothership:~ kuyan$ ls /usr/lib/libsandbox*
/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib /usr/lib/libsandbox.dylib

Here's my /etc/sshd_config. The relevant line seems to be UsePrivilegeSeparation: when uncommented and set to yes instead of sandbox, everything works A-OK.
Though I'm not using MacPorts, the error I'm getting is essentially the one here.
sshd version: OpenSSH_6.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011


texts:
I need Oracle Java 7 for software running on my Mac, but do not wish to have the plug-in available in my web browsers.

How can I accomplish this configuration and maintain it across Java upgrades?


texts: Is there a way to launch uTorrent and not display the GUI window?

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Since uTorrent to my best of knowledge doesen't support a daemon/server mode, I would like to add it to launchd to start upon login (and restart after a potential crash), but without the app window opening.

Is there a way to do this?


texts: Two different audio inputs go to two different audio outputs on Mavericks

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Is it possible to have two different audio sources go to two different audio outputs? For example, can I have Spotify output through my mini Jambox while having YouTube videos play through my headphones plugged into my audio jack?

I've seen this question but it seems to only address the case of multiple inputs to one output or one input to multiple outputs. Same with this article.


texts: Why does my iMac go to sleep while I am using it?

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My iMac (2014) running OS X 10.11.3 goes to sleep every now and then several times a day while I am using it.

I do not lose any work, but it is very annoying.  I do not have any hot-corners for sleep, or Energy Saver settings that cause the behavior.

After monitoring my machine using Terminal:

pmset -g pslo
2016-03-08 17:52:48 -0600 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...Sleeping...

When the event happens, I checked out the logs:

Console.app > System Log Queries > All Messages

  3/8/16 5:52:48.206 PM CommCenter[299]: Telling CSI to go low power.

Why is CommCenter telling CSI to go to low power while I am actively using my iMac?


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I want to setup wake-on-demand as described here so I can remote wake up my computer and ssh into it while I am oversea.

My iMac did not have ethernet connection and I want to wake-up it using Wifi.

Thats what I have:

iMac 27-inch, Mid 2011, Software  OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)

AirPortExpress, version 7.6.4

Raspberry-pi

ISP-provided router (Technicolor TG582n)

My Raspberry-pi is always on so it is fine if I need to ssh into it first to wake up my iMac.

I have follow the instructions provided in the article for iMac. But I don't know how to actually wake up my computer.

From Bonjour Browser, I can see that my AirPortExpress is publishing _sleep-proxy._udp so I think it have Bonjour-Sleep-Proxy on.

For some reason, I found this line in the log

  mDNSResponder[47]: BeginSleepProcessing: en1    not capable of magic packet wakeup

whereas en1 is my wifi interface. But from System Information

en1:
  Card Type:    AirPort Extreme  (0x168C, 0x9A)
  Firmware Version: Atheros 9380: 4.0.74.0-P2P
  MAC Address:  04:54:53:0f:c9:b1
  Locale:   APAC
  Country Code: ES
  Supported PHY Modes:  802.11 a/b/g/n
  Supported Channels:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140
  Wake On Wireless: Supported <--- is this lying to me?
  AirDrop:  Supported
  Status:   Connected


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I installed gnuplot on my yosemite system using brew. When I try to plot cos(x) the way I would on ubuntu, I get this:

gnuplot> plot cos(x)
WARNING: Plotting with an 'unknown' terminal.
No output will be generated. Please select a terminal with 'set terminal'.

I also notice that when gnuplot loads, it says Terminal type set to 'unknown'. I would like to load the graphs in a new window, so I tried set terminal xterm, which seems to work at first glance, given the message Terminal type set to 'xterm'. But then I try plotting again, and it produces garbage:

How do I get the terminal to function correctly, as it does on ubuntu?


texts: Mac Calendar has stopped allowing events to be entered on Sundays from month view?

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Mac Calendar has stopped allowing events to be entered or viewed on Sundays from the Month view.  If I double click on a date on the month view, for a Sunday, nothing happens but if I go to the day view there is a default New Event on the day.

If I enter an event from the day view it does not appear on the Sunday in the month view.

Having been a Windows user for a long time I did wait to ask this question until I had turned the machine off for day and then back on the next day.

Is any one else experiencing this issue?
Is there a setting somewhere that got changed?


texts: Can I trigger a series of keyboard shortcuts with a single action on iOS?

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For example, on an iPad with iOS 13, if I want to automate the following (in the app Notes):

Command Shift Down

Command X

Command Up

Down

Command V

Is there any way to trigger that sequence of keyboard shortcuts in a single way, such as a Shortcut or some other way?


texts: Move files using shortcut keys in Forklift for Mac

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Does anyone know here how to move files using just shortcut keys in Forklift for Mac? I just don't like to click File > Move to, to move files/folders from one tab to another. I think there's a short cut key or I think I can set a shortcut key, but I just don't know how to do it in Forklift. It's not even in their FAQs and I cannot find any post online regarding Forklift shortcut keys.

I just want to select files and copy/move from one tab to another fast, without pointing my mouse to the move to link under File in the top menu.

I hope somebody here is familiar with Forklift and would share some tips of how to move files fast from one tab to another. :D


texts: AirPods: listen to audio + record video + use microphones?

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I'm trying to record some sing-along videos that will later be merged.  This is for a school musical during quarantine, and we will be making a lot of these clips, so a good capture process would really help.

It would be super slick if I could do all of the following at the same time:

Use AirPods with an iPhone or Mac.
Listen to a song through the AirPods.  (I can arrange to stream it in almost any imaginable way.)
Record a video.
Use the AirPods' microphone(s) as the (only!) audio source for the video.

Many thanks in advance if anyone knows a recipe.  I'm happy to buy an app if that will do it.

Plan B is to use the iPhone and AirPods only for listening, and use a separate camera.  But I don't have a separate camera that has a good microphone, so I'd have to live with the lousy audio, or buy new camera & mic hardware, maybe a vidcast setup.


texts: Change volume on a multi output device - Mac

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I have a small problem...
When creating a multi output device in the application "MIDI" on the mac, i don't have any problems at all. Now i want to make Videos (YouTube) and wanted to output the computer audio to the "Build in output" and to "Soundflower". It works fine, but the only problem is, that if i want to change the volume with the volume keys i can't because its locked (view Image).

So I went to google and searched for solutions and found the way to just change the volume on the different devices manually. But isn't there a easier solution?
I just want to be able to change the volume with the keys again and use that multi output device.

Greetings

PS: please don' mind my english because i am from Switzerland... ;)


texts: Select text field that is not focused without losing selection

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Lets assume I selected text in a text field and focused another (in the same application, e.g. Xcode's assistant editor), so the first one is no longer the first responder. The selection will appear gray.

Is there a way to return focus to the first text field without losing the selection?