texts: Cannot repair disk0s2 with mavericks utility disk on a SSD

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I was trying to repair a corrupted partition (OSX Mavericks) the mac doesn't boot anymore (grey apple logo with infinty spinning gear). I've just tried with safe mode, PRAM restor etc... And the recovery HD partition doesn't boot the UD so I had to create a bootable USB mavericks installation and start there the UD.

When i run, from terminal: diskutil repairVolume /dev/disk0s2 it return an error of bad ref of that file system with this code -69846. after that i can't see anymore the disk0 through diskutil list. also, I cannot erase the partition because it appears unmounted (light grey text on the HD list)

I've tried also to start an install of mavericks directly but it doesn't show me the SSD to locate the installation.

What can I do to fix this problem?


texts: My iPhone 6s is glitching like mad after the iOS 11 update, what should I do?

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Specifically, after I unlock my device many phantom buttons are being pressed and random apps are being opened by accident and things like that. Additionally, many specific clicks that I make have a massive time lag, which mixed with phantom clicks creates sheer havoc.

It's basically unusable at this point, I can't text, navigate any app properly, or even pick a phone call. I have tried restarting more than a few times to no avail.

The way I see it, these are my options:

Somehow uninstall the new iOS, I was perfectly happy with the last one.
Go to iCare and ask them to fix it, need to double check but I think I still have warranty. If I don't, then what?
Keep restarting it and poking it till something happens

Please say that someone has better suggestions?


texts: Can receive but cannot make outgoing calls on an iPhone 5S

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My iPhone 5s which I bought a year ago shows "Call Failed" whenever I hit "send", it doesn't matter which number I'm dialing. I can get incoming calls, FaceTime calls, messages, and apps are working fine. I placed my SIM in another device and mananged to make calls, and I tried putting another SIM in my iPhone, and once again got the instant "Call Failed" message.

Is this more likely to be a software problem or hardware? How can this be addressed?


texts: Cannot see the new SSD drive after installation in a mid 2011 iMac

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I followed this video instruction https://youtu.be/eFHvIrdm9So to add a second, SSD harddisk (OWC brand) to a mid 2011 iMac.

After the installation is complete I rebooted the machine and tried to install using a usb thumbdrive with High Sierra installation image.

The usb thumbdrive is prepared by running the following command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyThumbDrive

However after the reboot, the drive is not visible in the disk utility.

Reboot again and use the original harddisk. The SSD is still not visible.

How can I fix it?


texts: The only thing I can do on my iPhone 6 is make calls

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Today I was in a bike accident. I landed right on my phone (which was in my pocket) and cracked the entire screen. I've even got a bruise on my leg where the phone was sitting.
Anyways, I texted a few people and got back home. Fast forward an hour, I lose internet connection.
My phone still has 3 bars of LTE, it still has 3 bars of wifi, yet I cannot do a single thing on it. I can't load my email, I can't browse safari, I can't get on reddit, etc.. The only thing I can do is make calls.
I've reset my network settings, I've restarted my phone 3 times, and I've done all the basic "turn it off and back on again"

It is an iPhone 6+, iOS 11.0

Does anyone know what could have happened to it or any fixes?


texts: Another ID was used to download a game and now I want to do an in-app purchase with my ID

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Hi I have a problem my friend downloaded games on my iPad with his ID and now with my ID want to make an in-app purchase in that game that he downloaded.

It doesn't work and this friend doesn't remember his account. I'm really advanced on this game and DO NOT WHANT TO DELETE AND REINSTALL and potentially loose my progress.

So I'd like help thank you


texts: iTunes Still Charging per Track While Subscribed to Apple Music

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I'm an Apple Music subscriber but I clicked an iTunes link from a website and now all albums have prices. My Apple Music subscription is active, I can stream all my Apple Music playlists and my phone works as expected, but iTunes is acting as though I am not subscribed.

In preferences Apple Music is selected:

However in iTunes I have a Store link and prices:

How do I get to the Apple Music subscription I'm paying for?


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It's been a while since I used Excel on a PC.

In Excel on a PC, I believe if you have a set of data and want to select all the cells in the same row from where the cursor is to the last cell below a set of data, you could use Ctrl - Shift - ←. On a Mac (Excel 2011) this selects all the cells until the end of the entire row.

Using Excel 2011 (Mac), how can I select all the empty cells in a row until beneath a set of data?

The reason for doing this is if I want to copy the current row and paste that to another row of data. I should be able to copy the current row, then hit down, then (I thought) Ctrl - Shift - ←, then paste and I would paste in another set of data.


texts: I have 10.8.4 OS X and the Canon P-150M scanner does not work with it. Yet my friend has an older iMac where it works. I want to try the new driver and test whether things start working. So how can I remove a driver in OS X?


texts: iPhone Configuration Profiles - Creating / Modifying

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My university has a 'configuration profile' to allow us to connect to the campus secure WiFi - which is great, save for that it forces us to have a passcode (which I neither like nor want). The profile is outdated, as the network now has it's own security on top of the connection, and so it's objective (to stop unauthorised people using the network) is moot.

Is there any way to modify the configuration profile / read it's contents and write my own (it's unsigned anyway) to replace it?


texts: Mac with T2 chip, downgraded from Catalina to Mojave, has anyone got a working Recovery?

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Recovery does not work after downgrade.

cmd-R goes to Internet Recovery instead of internal Recovery
Internet Recovery goes error '-1008F'

I've disabled Find My Mac and not rolled in the beta program

Initially I thought it was because my special steps to downgrade: Cannot boot into Recovery

Later I saw a case even a full-wipe-reinstall won't make Recovery work.

Has anyone got a working Recovery, after downgrading from Catalina to Mojave, on a T2 Mac?


texts: Books not purchased in iBooks Store are not syncing between Mavericks and iPhone

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After upgrading to OS X Mavericks, I added some ebooks bought directly from publishers, such as O'Reilly, by dragging them into the iBooks app. However, when I use iBooks on my iPhone, the ebooks aren't showing up. Is iBooks able to sync books not purchased via the iBooks Store? If so, what am I missing?

MacBook Configuration

13" MacBook Pro Retina with OS X 10.9 Mavericks
iBooks ver 1.0 (build 169)
Settings > General Preferences > Sync is checked
I have performed File > "Move Books from iTunes..."
I have authorized this computer from within the iBooks app

iPhone Configuration

iPhone 4S with iOS 7.0.3 (11B511)
iBooks has both Sync Bookmarks and Sync Collections enabled
I have confirmed that I'm using the same Apple ID on the MacBook and iPhone


texts: I accidentally deleted my bluetooth speakers from my macbooks devices list. Now it will not show up again. How can I get it to show up again so I can reconnect it?


texts: How do I view the list of podcast chapters on an iPad using iOS 5?

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I subscribe to Tiesto's Club Life Podcast, and the episodes are released as very superbly crafted AAC files. Aside from containing audio data, they also:

Define Podcast "Chapters" marked at the start/end of each song.
Define custom artwork per chapter.
Name chapters appropriately by attributing artist/title (and often remixer) of the particular track.

As of iOS 5, none of this appears to work. During playback art never changes, and there is no indication of the chapter information (making it hard to look up the song after the fact).

Has this information disappeared from being easily accessed? Or has it just been moved somewhere that isn't obvious for me to find?


texts: How do I reset Apple's Mail, in Lion, to default settings?

texts: I have been having a bunch of email problems and want to start over.  I have deleted all the IMAP accounts from Mail.  What other files do I need to delete, hidden and otherwise, to make Mail (and only Mail) just like a clean install?


texts: Where are iOS updates in El Capitan located on Mac

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Someone posted this question before giving the following location as the directory

 ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates

I am downloading the latest version right now and it is NOT in this directory. I've tried a system wide search for the .ipsw extention and checked to make sure it wasn't hidden, nothing has worked. Does anyone know where the files are actually being stored? All software and OS are up to date as of 12-15-15..


texts: Automate Fn key switch between finder and photoshop?

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I would like to know if there any script that i can use to switch automatically between finder and photoshop?

I can't install Palua App from my AppStore on El-capitan.


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I used to cause my iMac to put up its lock screen from shell scripts. It was dead simple:
'/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession' -suspend
In MacOS Big Sur, /User.menu/ is not at that location, and I cannot find a file named CGSession. What is the equivalent command line in Big Sur? I would like to avoid using root privilege for this task.


texts: How to remove Trovi malware from Safari?

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I am pretty much 100% certain that I have somehow gotten a virus installed into my Safari.

My homepage and default search engine changes to "Trovi" every time I restart Safari no matter how many times I reset it.

My first thought was to remove all extensions but there weren't any in the extensions folder! However, when I opened the Extensions.plist file, it shows over 368 extensions under Apple-hosted Updates List. Does anybody know where I can find these extensions and delete them? Here are some example extensions in that list:

RedMorph-Browser-Controller.safariextz
pogo_1.0.safariextz
IsItWorthMyTime.safariextz
siulykantraste_1.0.3_6.safariextz

I can't seem to locate these files on my Mac. Any help is appreciated.

ALSO: I would like input on this. While the virus was infecting my computer, I noticed that I thought the dot characters that hide the password I type in to unlock my computer looked bigger than normal. Then after the restore to Time Machine backup, I can confirm that the dots that hide my password to login to my computer are smaller again. Could it be that whatever kind of virus that I stupidly got on my computer was monitoring my login password???


texts: Disk space given back to Mac HD after removing partition, but is not usable

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This looks similar to some other related questions here, but has some meaningful differences. I thought it was worth a separate question for that reason.

Like others I had an error while installing Windows 10 with Bootcamp. I had the error where you select the BOOTCAMPdrive and then click "Format," and then the disk is renamed to "Disk 0s5" (or close to that, if I remember correctly) and there is an error when you select it to install Windows 10.

I then followed the many instructions and exited Boot Camp Assistant, delete the recently created partition, and then started to go through the process again. I went back into Boot Camp Assistant and restored the HD to all being for Mac OSX. There was an error during the process. It said it failed, but the Mac HD then said 839 GB again like it should say. However, the 175 GB I had allocated for Windows in the partition, out of the 839, were not available. So when I go to set up the partition again I only have a total of 60 GB available instead of the 235 GB available like it should say after freeing up the former partition. So the 175 I used for the partition is back on the main disk, but I can't use it for anything, and am not sure how to free it up.

This is the print out of diskutil cs list:

<my-imac:>~ <my-account-name>$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 37905FD6-6AA8-4E49-BB1E-B19031E8101E
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         838904774656 B (838.9 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 923BC4E2-174B-4C6E-B604-72C4A7263521
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     23553724416 B (23.6 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 7F30C1AF-0F14-4F43-9AF0-6058373887DA
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     815351050240 B (815.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 74B7428F-8D10-4BB8-87D3-19B8F73C2844
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume F3D44897-0134-4C19-871A-72E258AECDA8
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          837958688768 B (838.0 GB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse

When I run DaisyDisk it also does not show the 175 GB that I should have reclaimed after deleting the partition as being available. It says I only have 60 GB available out of the 839 GB.

Since daisydisk agrees with the cs list how can I add ~175 GB to get my fusion drive back to 1 TB total capacity?


texts: Can I make a call from iPhone 5s via WiFi?

texts: I have an iPhone 5s that ATT will not unlock.  Can I make calls via WiFi if the SIM card is still in it but I have no cell carrier? Phone is at IOS 8.1.3.


texts: Correctly removing the default Python installation

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I intend to replace the default Python installation with the one from Homebrew. Below is a list of steps that I want to take, but I first want to make sure that I'm not doing anything destructive, which is why I'm posting this question. :-)

The Python.framework folder is located in /System/Library/Frameworks. Is it okay to remove it? Being under System I worry that I might break something.
Remove all Python related files from /usr/bin. In my case (and probably everyone else's), I'll be removing everything given by ls -l /usr/bin | grep python:

python
python-config
python2.6
python2.6-config
python2.7
python2.7-config
pythonw
pythonw2.6
pythonw2.7

In my case I also have pip installed. The only reference to pip I found is in /usr/local/bin. To also uninstall pip I'll delete the files given by ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep pip:

pip
pip2
pip2.7

Is there anything else that I should be doing to do a complete and correct uninstall? Are there any dangers that I should be aware of?


texts: brew couldn't upgrade after upgrade xcode 7.3.1 to 8.1

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I upgraded xcode from 7.3.1 to 8.1 and also I update homebrew using [brew update]. after that I could use [brew upgrade]. It shown the following warning message

Warning: You are using a pre-release version of Xcode.
   You may encounter build failures or other breakages.
   Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.

I used [brew config] and it shown the following info

  HOMEBREW_VERSION: 1.0.8-54-g8019afb
  ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git
  HEAD: 8019afb60ad321b0f14f60b00c23d7fb098d35c2
  Last commit: 6 days ago
  Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
  Core tap HEAD: 83f73d73fac8229ac523bf839b8a5913de05bf08
  Core tap last commit: 3 hours ago
  HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
  HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /usr/local/Homebrew
  HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
  HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN: https://homebrew.bintray.com
  CPU: quad-core 64-bit haswell
  Homebrew Ruby: 2.0.0-p648
  Clang: 8.0 build 800
  Git: 2.9.3 => /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git
  Perl: /usr/bin/perl
  Python: /usr/bin/python
  Ruby: /usr/local/bin/ruby => /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.3.1_2/bin/ruby
  Java: 1.8.0_25
  macOS: 10.11.6-x86_64
  Xcode: 8.1
  CLT: 7.3.1.0.1.1461711523

I think the last line of above info [CLT] means command line tools and its version is 7.3.1..., I think it should be 8.1 because Xcode is 8.1. How can I upgrade CLT from 7.3.1 to 8.1?


texts: How to assign a keyboard shortcut to create an empty text file in Finder?

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I like that Cmd+Shift+N creates a new folder in the current directory in Finder.
I would like to have a similar command like Cmd+Control+N or Cmd+Control+Shift+N that creates an empty text file in the current directory.

There's quite a bit of discussion on SuperUser and on this site, here and here.

However, some of the solutions seem out of date, others are mouse driven, or involve somewhat elaborate multi-click processes.

How can I assign a shortcut key like Cmd+Control+N to create a new empty text file in Finder on OSX?


texts: Is there any way that we could load disk utility or any disk repair tool from a USB in mac?

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Recently my Mac crashed due to kernel panic. I tried using disk utility to repair the disk but the parent disk couldn't be repaired. And I opened up the terminal and erased the current boot disk. And after that the terminal couldn't execute anymore as I guess the resources for the terminal was deleted when I erased the disk.
Now am stuck up. Internet recovery won't work maybe because the SSD isn't formatted in apple compatible format.
And I was wondering if there's any way we could load disk utility or any other disk repair tool from USB so that I could repair the main SSD of the MacBook into a compatible disk for reinstallation of macos


texts:
Whenever I activate "reduce transparency" in the accessibility menu, the onscreen keyboard keys stop moving. Normally they make an effect that seems as if they were actually pressed down.

Does anyone else have that issue?


texts: Repeat AppleScript if User Confirms a Pop-Up Dialog

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I built a script that selects and copies all text from the front Safari tab, closes the tab, and pastes the text into the front BBEdit document with a couple blank lines of padding.

I'll run it when I have several tabs I want to grab text from, dumping it all into one document, so I'll need a repeat option.

I don't want to hard-code the number of repeats, because that's unpredictable (and I don't want to close Safari tabs willy-nilly). So I want the script to complete once, pop up a choice of "Repeat?" or "Done!", and then repeat, including the pop-up, until the user chooses "Done".

I don't know how to code the repeat. Here's where I'm at:

tell application "Safari" to set the clipboard to (text of current tab of front window) as string
delay 0.1

tell application "Safari"
    close current tab of front window without saving
end tell
delay 0.1

tell application "System Events"
    tell application "BBEdit" to activate
    key code 36
    key code 36

end tell

tell application "BBEdit"
    activate
    paste
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell application "BBEdit" to activate
    key code 36
    key code 36

end tell

set theAlertText to "Repeat?"
display alert theAlertText as critical buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button "Yes" cancel button "No"
--> Result: {button returned:"Continue"}

--need repeat code here


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My 2009 27" iMac i7 has several problems, however, the main one is the visual artifacts. They are large areas of black and grey bars, and text displays erratically. Spacing is also affected - the apple menu and all the toolbars are on top of each other

They don't show in safe mode, and the machine is still responsive (albeit very slowly) in normal mode.  is what the screen looks like.

Trying to open apps causes it to partially open like this:

I can't run AHT because I no longer have the original disks - I'm going to try the github copy linked shortly.
I believe the problem is related to my graphics card, since the symptoms are similar to those affected by faulty graphics cards in the 2011 model.
However, that doesn't explain why the issues would vanish in safe mode.


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I have an aging 15" MacBook Pro from 2007:

Model ID: MacBookPro3,1
Model No.: A1226

In an attempt to squeeze a bit more life out of it, I've replaced the battery, upped the RAM, and I'm about to move to an SSD. BUT, I'm a bit stumped by what type of SSD to buy. MacTracker lists the specs for the hard drive as a "1.5 Gbps Serial ATA (SATA)". Interestingly, I've found that SATA2 and SATA3 drives are just as cheap as SATA (if not cheaper sometimes).

Will one of these newer drives work? Will this old MacBook benefit from SATA2 or SATA3? Will it be worse off? Do SATA1, SATA2, and SATA3 all have the same connection type?


texts: Iphone 3G internet disconnects frequently

texts: I have an Iphone 3G with ios 4.2.1. I am using internet on my phone using Cellular data turned ON. It works fine for some time, but after then it disconnects and does not work untill i restart my phone. What is the issue.


texts: Chrome 79: https sites don't load while http works fine

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Just upgraded to Chrome 79 from 78 via its internal updater. Now only http sites load, not https.

I am on Yosemite
Chrome v 79

Chrome says "This site can’t be reached" and "ERR_FAILED". Including for
some of Chrome's own help pages.

Like the one used when trying to report this:
"https://support.google.com/chrome/go/feedback_confirmation"

And the one that is used to get per-page security report: "https://support.google.com/chrome/?p=ui_security_indicator"

My research shows:

"HTTPS sites won't work on Chrome, others don't work at all on Yosemite"

cross-browser problems with https but Safari still works for me.

It says something about "change the account profile settings to allow it to administer". I don't know what that means.

How can I apply that information or just fix https on chrome 79?


texts: 2009 4,1–5,1 Mac Pro Upgrade Only Shows 1066 on RAM. NVRAM Reset Didn't Work

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So I just finished my 4,1–5,1 build. I installed a pair of X5675's along with two sticks of Samsung 16GB DDR3,4RX4 PC3-10600R 1333MHz 240-pin ECC REG Server Ram, for 32Gb. Trouble is, it's showing up as 1066 instead of 1333.
Now, the machine is running fine, but I'm curious as to why my memory isn't showing full speed–I triple checked the specs on that RAM before I bought it and thought it should work, and it does, but not at 1333. Tried zapping the NVRAM, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?


texts: If I delete my WhatsApp data, will my data disappears from my iCloud backup, too?

texts: I want to delete the WhatsApp data from my iPhone in order to make some free space. But If I will do it, at the next backup, will my old backup disappear too?


texts: Texting without the chain of previous conversations

texts: How can I send a text to someone without all of our previous texts attached and without deleting the previous conversation?


texts: I want to make my Iphone in German Language , Which is currently in English Language,how can i make it ? Currently German Language option is Not available in Settings/others/languages.


texts: How are the apps on iPhone organized when deleted?

texts:
I am looking to find out how the apps are organized when you look under the App Store go to purchased and not this phone. Are they organized from
Recently deleted or is there another random
way that is done?


texts:
I've seen a few posts around wifi problems with Yosemite, especially after an update from Mavericks. I've only started seeing WiFi problems about 3 days ago (update was 3-6 months ago), and my issues are happening on a number of routers.

Looking on the console, I see a number of the following messages:

> 06/06/2015 17:07:03.691 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
> 06/06/2015 17:07:04.443 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
> 06/06/2015 17:07:07.277 com.apple.WebKit.WebContent[2260]: dnssd_clientstub write_all(16) failed -1/64 32 Broken pipe
> 06/06/2015 17:07:07.277 com.apple.WebKit.WebContent[2260]: dnssd_clientstub write_all(16) failed -1/28 32 Broken pipe
> 06/06/2015 17:07:19.113 discoveryd[2360]: Basic DNSResolver UDNS Send(): UDP Sendto() failed to DNSNameServer 8.8.8.8 Port 53 errno 65, fd 53, ErrLogCount 1 ResolverIntf:0
> 06/06/2015 17:07:19.114 discoveryd[2360]: Basic DNSResolver UDNS Send(): UDP Sendto() failed to DNSNameServer 8.8.8.8 Port 53 errno 65, fd 51, ErrLogCount 2 ResolverIntf:0
> 06/06/2015 17:07:19.477 discoveryd[2360]: Basic DNSResolver UDNS Send(): UDP Sendto() failed to DNSNameServer 8.8.4.4 Port 53 errno 65, fd 52, ErrLogCount 3 ResolverIntf:0
> 06/06/2015 17:07:20.177 discoveryd[2360]: Basic DNSResolver UDNS Send(): UDP Sendto() failed to DNSNameServer 8.8.4.4 Port 53 errno 65, fd 37, ErrLogCount 4 ResolverIntf:0
> 06/06/2015 17:07:20.178 discoveryd[2360]: Basic DNSResolver UDNS Send(): UDP Sendto() failed to DNSNameServer 8.8.4.4 Port 53 errno 65, fd 37, ErrLogCount 5 ResolverIntf:0

WiFi otherwise "appears" normal (wifi symbol in the status bar shows no error, and network config says I'm still connected); however, no connectivity (not even through ping).

I can at this point disconnect and reconnect to the wifi, which will work for about 1 minute before disconnecting again.

Only long-term solution is to reboot. Unsure what triggers it!

I've tried, but no luck with,
- restart discoveryd
- clear safari cache
- change dns servers

Help would be appreciated - I'd rather avoid having to fresh-install the OS!


texts: Setting up my AirPort Express with no ethernet cable

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I have a MacBook Air, and an AirPort Express. Currently, I have my AirPort Express in a different room than my wireless router.

How do I connect to my Airport Express wirelessly from my MacBook? When I go to the AirPort Utility, it does not find my Airport Express, and the AirPort is flashing amber/orange.


texts: Repeating a formula for every row in Pages

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I'm working on a simple formula in Pages where I have a table with 4 cells per row.

Product Name, Purchase Price, Quantity and Total.

I've created a simple formula that multiples Purchase Price with Quantity and displays the result in the Total row.

My problem is that I am at this time unaware of how many rows I will be requiring. So my questions is, is it possible to every new row I create inherit these properties / this formula when added?


texts: What sorts of apps should I grant Keychain access to?

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Some apps ask me for Keychain access when installing them, configuring them, and/or using them. As with anything related to computer access, permissions and security, giving the app access could be a great convenience to me or a security hole. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the process to give informed consent. I don't want to grant an application more permission/access than it absolutely needs.

Assuming that I'm installing software that is not overtly suspicious, how can I evaluate whether or not I should grant an application's request to access Keychain?


texts:
I run Contact Sync for Mac to keep my Mac contacts in sync with my Google Contacts.

Occasionally this will delete contacts on the mac, that have been deleted as duplicates in Gmail. After Contact Sync deletes them - they can no longer be found in Contact Search.

But the duplicate contacts are still in my calendar as birthday entries. And when you click on the birthday the 'zombie contact' reappears in the Contacts (where they couldn't be searched before).

My question is: How to remove Zombie birthdays from Contacts/Calendar?


texts: ColorSync profiles are not appearing in color matching dialogs

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I am trying to print a business card design, and the printers recommend using the 'Coated FOGRA39' ICC color matching profile. At first I thought I didn't have this profile, so I downloaded it for free from Adobe. It turns out that the same file already existed in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Recommended.

In any case, I cannot get the ColorSync Utility nor any programs that use ColorSync profiles to "see" the FOGRA39 profile. I've tried a variety of installation locations:

~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles

When I launch the ColorSync Utility, the only place I can see the FOGRA39 profile is buried under Other > /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended. This is clearly a profile that existed before I began tinkering, because that is not a location I've tried. So it's good that the profile appears in ColorSync, but in any case, I can't access this color profile from, for example, Pixelmator or from Pages.

Can anyone suggest how I can get Pixelmator or Pages to use the FOGRA39 color profile?

(By the way, I'm using Mac OS Lion.)


texts: How to enable USB tethering on your Android phone to Mac OS X Lion

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I want to tether an unlimited data plan on a Nexus S (with Android 2.3.6) via USB cable to a MacBook Air (with OS X Lion).  Both on Windows and Ubuntu, it works like a charm, so I'm wondering if there's something I can do it OSX to make it work.

The articles I read imply that given Apple's restrictions, it's imposible and OSX only supports tethering an iPhone via USB.
On Android Enthusiasts, I found a a couple of solutions:

one tethering from Froyo and
one tethering on a Snow Leopard,

but they all rely on third party Android apps. Is there any hack to make OSX work with it out of the box?


texts: How does Big Sur determine execute permissions

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In trying to add programs to the Full Disk Access list it is not clear how Big Sur determines which files are executable and thus addable to the Full Disk Access list.  For instance I have files in /opt/local/bin/automake*
Initially I have automake and automake-1.16 which are hard links to the same inode.  They are thus identical.  Both have exactly the same Unix permissions and no file ACL's.  However in the Finder or in the File browser in System Preferences looking to add executables to the Full File Access list "automake" shows up as a Unix executable and "automake-1.16" shows up as a Document.  Now it gets even more confusing.  If I had a hard link to "automake2" from "automake" then "automake2" shows up in the Finder as a Unix executable.  But also if I make a hard link from "automake-1.16" to "automake3" then "automake3" shows up as a Unix executable in Finder while "automake-1.16" is a Document.
Now there are lots of files in /opt/local/bin which show up as Unix executables and lots that show up as Documents even though they have identical Unix perms (755).  If a program in /opt/local/bin shows up as a Unix executable it can be added to the Full File Access list, if it only shows up as a document it can't.  But there does not seem to be any logical reason for what Unix executable files are considered as such and which are considered documents.
What is going on?


texts: How do I remove what appears to be malicious cached javascript?

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I was recently using someone else's iMac and came across some rather strange behaviour.  Searches (from google and yahoo at least, I didn't test other search engines) were being redirected.  After searching, then clicking on a link in the search led to a new window being opened with some redirected link in it (the redirection went through a few variations before settling on the final link).  Going back to the original window and clicking on the link a second time led to the correct site.  This happened with both Safari and Firefox (I didn't test other browsers).

Searching on the internet suggested that this was a piece of malicious code, but I couldn't find it in the process lists.  The key symptoms were:

Turning off javascript removed the problem.
Creating a whole new account removed the problem (for the new account).
Booting in safe mode did not remove the problem.
There was no obvious process that the original account (with the problem) was running that wasn't being run by the new account (without the problem).

So guessing that there was some malicious javascript somehow cached on the machine, I tried deleting everything that looked cache-like (in particular, in ~/Library/Cache - if I remember right).  That seemed to fix it, but the owner told me that the next day it was back again.  I couldn't find a "get rid of all temporary files, no I really mean all temporary files" command.

My real question is: can someone identify the problem and tell me what steps to tell the machine's owner to do to get rid of it?

(Note that I'm no longer in front of that machine, unfortunately, so further diagnostic tests will be tricky; add in to the mix the fact that the owner is not a computer ... nerd.)

Perhaps a more answerable question (if the above isn't answerable) is: what steps are needed to clean out temporary files from a user's area on an apple?  I'd prefer concrete steps rather than "download (and pay for) iKillTempFiles".

Lastly, I don't know the versions of the software involved, but I suspect they were all fairly old.


texts: Multiple non-thunderbolt monitors to MBP-r '12

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Does anyone know if it's only possible to add 3 external monitors if at least one of these is a thunderbolt display?

I'm asking since I would love to hook up 3 Dell monitors to my macbook at work. Connection options are HDMI, DP VGA and DVI only.

Currently I have one connected with HDMI and one with VGA - works both with the built-in HDMI port and the minidp -> hdmi adapter.


texts: "No administrator was found" in Startup Security Utility

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My friend got a new MacBook Pro from office, later on he resigned and in a hurry erased the "Macintosh HD", now we are trying to install Mojave using Bootable USB but it won't allow because "External Boot" is not allowed, also when we try to access "Startup Security Utility" it shows an error saying no administrator was found, so we can't enable "Allow booting from external media". Somehow online installation from recovery mode is also not working and throws 202 error at the end.
Is there any luck?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs at Safari?

texts: At Photoshop, you can use command+~ to switch tabs, is there a keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs at Safari?


texts: Family sharing not working on any device

texts: I have an Iphone 5c and Ipad air 2, wife has an Iphone 5c, we set up the family sharing, everything looks right, i even see her name listed in the store and vice versa, but for both of us it says the other person has no purchases. I cant seem to find a reason, I have tried every remedy I could find on apple's site.


texts: Copy "Artist" into "Album Artist" in iTunes?

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In iTunes, Is there a way to automatically populate the "Album Artist" metadata with the "Artist" information, for all songs where the "Album Artist" field is empty?

Obviously this is for songs from various artists. This is easy to do manually, but it gets tedious quick.

The reason why I want to do that is that on the iPhone, the field "Artist" under "Library" refers to the field "Album Artist". The song where this field is not populated are not listed under the artist name...


texts: Cannot install applications: error code -60008

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I am trying to install new applications, but I keep getting this error message from the "Copy" application:

  The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred
  (error code -60008).

The applications I am trying to install are:

git from git-2.2.1-intel-universal-mavericks.dmg
SourceTree from SourceTree_2.0.5.2.dmg

The message is given after I drag the application on the destination directory, and after being asked if I want it to replace the old one.

In the past I had no problems with them.


texts: How to disassociate AppleID from an old iPhone?

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I have given my grandson my old iPhone, but all the messages sent to my current one are still being received by that phone as well, even though it's a different number.

How can I prevent my iPhone to do so?


texts: How do I automatically open a subfolder on a SD card when mounted?

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My camera has a complicated path to the video files, and I'm constantly plugging it in, and then digging to get the videos.  I just want find to automatically popup to the specified subfolder when the card is mounted.

I've install DSW (Do Something With from Azarhi), but I'm not sure how to set up Automator to open a new finder window with the specific location?

Any thoughts?


texts: Make the Menu Bar never show while in Full Screen

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Pretty much every application I use in full-screen (including Firefox, MacVim and the Terminal) have tabs on the top of the screen.

The problem is, when I move my mouse to reach the tabs I'll often accidentally touch the top of the screen, bringing in the OS menu OVER the tabs:

Is there any way to change this behavior? I'd prefer it if the menu bar would stay hidden when I'm using a full-screen app, even if my mouse does touch the top of the screen.


texts: How to access internet on an Apple iBook G3 without Airport Card?

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I got an old Apple iBook (second generation G3 if I'm not mistaken) without an Airport Card.

Are there any other options to access the internet on it besides the ethernet port?
Could I share the WiFi from a smartphone with the iBook or something like that?


texts: Kernel Panic when booting into Mac OS. iMac 27 2017

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A few months ago, I was using the iMac and opened up spotlight search and there was my first ever kernel panic. It restarted then I logged back in and everything works fine.
(The report is at the end)

After a month, I had 2 QuickTime player windows open, a Final Cut Pro window, a Chrome tab with only 8GB RAM. A kernel panic happened and I was able to log back in and opened up chrome and started watching a YouTube video, after a minute or so, another kernel panic happened and another one after reaching the login screen. It kept restarting (it's like the Kernal panic countdown started getting shorter to the point where it wouldn't even reach the login screen. After a few restarting, it showed a ''prohibitory sign'', after 30 seconds it shut off. I tried booting into Recovery mode but no luck. I tried booting into internet recovery, the globe did a quick spin and went into the same apple logo and progress bar and it did a kernel panic. I pressed Alt at startup and selected my BootCamp drive (Windows) it booted with no problems at all.

It's been a few months since my last interaction with Mac OS. Every time
 I boot I have to hold down alt and select BootCamp. I'm currently writing this post on my BootCamp drive with no problems at all. Video editing works better than Mac OS. The reason I got an iMac is to use mac os and not windows or I could've just got a PC instead. So I would like to fix the Mac OS portion of this iMac.

SPECS:
Mac OS Version: 10.14.2 (I think)
iMac 5K 27'' 2017
3.8GHZ core i5
8GB Ram
2 TB Fusion Drive
Radeon Pro 580 (8GB) Graphics Card

Kernel Panic Report


texts: Can you apply jailbreak tweaks to a non-jailbroken device using a file browser such as Phone Disk?

texts: Is it possible to use an iOS browser for Mac such as Phone Disk to apply a jailbreak tweak to a non-jailbroken iOS device?


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What is the easiest way to take a powerpoint or keynote presentation and a video of me giving the presentation and put the two together so that they can always see the slides and my video of me giving the presentation.

It would be nice if I could zoom into each and shrink the other has I wanted to focus on the slide or the presentation, but just being able to put the two side by side would be good enough!


texts: Plugging iPhone 5 into computer resets USB hub and devices

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Recently upgraded an old iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 5. Shortly after plugging in the iPhone to a new Windows laptop (usually under 10 minutes), the entire USB hub will reset, disabling all connected devices.

(A USB thumb drive once was the sole survivor, and continued operation even though an external hard drive and USB mouse shut off.)

The laptop is on AC power and has two discrete hubs, one USB 3.0, the other USB 2.0. The same thing happens to either hub, and in both cases, the other is unaffected.

As the 3GS never caused this issue, I am assuming the iPhone 5 draws more heavily on the USB power.

Is there anything I can do to eliminate this issue, other than get an externally-powered hub? (Which I plan to do!)

Update: If I plug the iPhone in fully charged, there seems to be no issue. This seems to indicate that it is indeed related to power draw.

Screenshot of the USB hub properties when the phone is fully charged:


texts: How do I perform a factory reset of my iPhone?

texts: I am giving my iPhone to my daughter. How do I clear my information and set up hers? I want to make sure I do not lose any of my information from my accounts that I use on my current phone.


texts: How to ensure separate pathways of each instance of Python

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I recently upgraded to High Sierra on my Macbook Air.
I installed the latest upgrade of Python: 2.7.14 from python.org. There is documentation and a Read Me file for 2.7.14 in the Applications folder.  The Read Me file for the user-installed python states:

  As of Python 2.7.0, user-installed Python 2.7 versions from python.org installers added the system-wide site-packages directory for the Apple-supplied Python 2.7 to the end of their search path. This meant that packages installed with the system Python 2.7 could also be used by the user-installed Python 2.7. While sometimes convenient, this also often caused confusion with the implicit coupling between the two Python instances. Separately, as of macOS 10.12, Apple changed the layout of the system site-packages directory, /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages, in a way that can now cause installation of pip components to fail. To avoid the confusion and the installation failures, as of 2.7.13 user-installed pythons no longer add /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages to sys.path. If you are using a package with both a user-installed Python 2.7 and the system Python 2.7, you will now need to ensure that separate copies of the package are installed for each instance.

I am not fully comprehending the meaning of this. I want to be sure that I have everything set up properly before proceeding. Is there a command I can type into my terminal that will point to the pathway of the Python 2.7.14 I just installed?  I want to be sure there are separate pathways for each instance of Python.


texts: Is it possible to temporarily remove margin from iTerm2 window?

texts: I just wondering whether its possible to remove the left, right and top margin (or just all margin) temporarily in iTerm2 windows. My goal was to make the vim-airline looks better in iTerm2 by removing those margin. Here's the screenshot of the margin I want to remove..


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Last year, I created a Fusion Drive in my 13" MB (2008) by replacing the optical drive with a SSD and link it with the internal HDD by some terminal-magic from a computer magazine. It worked like a charm and was really fast.

Needing fast and big storage for video, I was thinking about creating an EXTERNAL Fusion Drive - preferably a HDD and a SDD within one enclosure - and connect it to the thunderbolt-port of my MBP.

Can this be done? Has anyone have experiences? A Google search didn't yield much information.


texts:
I received a PDF by e-mail which is unreadable on my Mac (Lion 10.7.3) and on my iPhone (iOS 5.1.1) but the same PDF renders perfectly on Windows. If I use Chrome on my Mac, (which has its own built in PDF renderer and doesn't use the OS X one), it renders correctly as well. So far it's the only PDF I've ever encountered with the problem, but others are having similar problems.

I've attached a screenshot of the rendering problem, which is best described as rendering most text as a series of grayscale stepped gradients. Note that the grayscale 'bars' don't correspond directly to the missing lines of text. There's much more text than that.

Anyone have any ideas?


texts: How can I install both Snow Leopard and Lion on the same machine?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Can I dual boot Snow Leopard and Lion?

I want to install two operating systems in the same mac pro. Is it possible to  install snowLeopard & Lion on the same macPro like snowLeopard & windows XP?


texts: App cannot create folder when needed, needs permissions

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I'm trying to use Unity to export the app I'm creating. It gets about halfway through the process before showing the message:

"Creating directory. Creating directory Library/ScriptAssemblies failed. Please ensure there is enough disk space and you have permissions setup correctly."

There's 60GB of free space. I don't understand permissions well enough to know what to do here. I could really use some help, I only know Windows.


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I have three languages in macOS Sierra. I want to set a default one, when I open new window in browser, for example, English.

Usually it's so but sometimes it's another one that I use rarely. And I can't understand when it's English and when another one.
I'm new to Mac, in Windows there is default language option. Is there some option like this in macOS?


texts:
I've enabled root user in my mac using the latest Mojave. I am trying to delete a folder with it but for some reason I get the error "Permission denied". I thought root could do anything on a unix system?

sh-3.2# whoami
root
sh-3.2# pwd
/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library
sh-3.2# ls -lhart
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  admin    96B Sep 24  2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  admin    96B Sep 24  2016 .
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    64B Oct 13 18:54 Preferences
sh-3.2# rm -rf Preferences/
rm: Preferences/: Operation not permitted
sh-3.2# whoami
root
sh-3.2#


texts: Data still syncing with separate apple IDs

texts: So I moved to college and decided it was time for me to make my own apple ID. Up to that point I shared an account with my mother. Since updating my phone all of her contacts are on my phone. I created a new apple Id to keep all of our content separated. I now have a mac and want to use the cloud to get data from my phone but do not want to share everything with my mom. Everything on my phone that requires apple ID has only my account not hers. Help?


texts: app that reminds to take a break at times

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I am looking out for an app (for Mac OS X) that reminds to take a break (gives out a message) at pre-scheduled time.

Free (or low cost) app will do, as I don't want to spend my hard earned cash on this simple app.


texts: Remove macOS and Install Windows 10 Only

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How do I remove macOS completely from my MacBook Air 2015 and install Windows 10 only after?

I have tried formatting my drive to GPT and tried booting a Windows Installation USB however I'm stuck at the installer not being able to find any drives.


texts: I need to connect a female end of a lightning to the male end of a mini USB. I have found one online, but its out of stock. How would I go about splicing these together? Would it work? Just match the wires together?


texts: Where is the OS X Volume Change Feedback Sound File located?

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I upgraded Yosemite, and turns out they changed the "pop" sound that plays when you change the volume. I have another Mac, which is on Mavericks, and I would like to get the old sound back.

I saw Where are the Mac OS X alert sound files located?, and it is NOT there in Macintosh HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ Sounds

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Is it possible to restore OS X .dmg file to External Drive?

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I recently traded in my iMac with 1TB HDD for a MacBook Pro with a 256 GB flash drive.

I want to restore my previous hard drive but obviously it won't fit on the new hard drive.

Is it possible to restore the .dmg to the external hard drive where the .dmg file resides? If not, how do I restore these files?

I have some very important files on there so I don't want to go testing something and then accidentally wiping that backup.

I think the attached image will do what I want but I would like to make 100% sure.


texts: How to set Outlook 2011 as the main contact manager?

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When I installed Microsoft Outlook 2011 Lion asked me if I wanted to use it as my main Mail client. How can I make Outlook be my main contact manager in OSX?

For example when I open FaceTime my contacts are empty, but I have all my contacts within Outlook through Exchange (Office 365).

Is it possible?


texts: I am using macOS 10.12 Sierra on a MacBook Air. How do I silence the clicks on my keyboard. Pressing the mute button does not mute the clicks.


texts: Switching "TrackpadMomentumScroll" on and of using a script

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I'd like to switch the accessibility preference "Scroll with inertia" on and off for a Magic trackpad. The preference can be found in the accessibility preferences/Mouse and Trackpad/Trackpad Options/Scrolling "with/without inertia" (see here: http://de.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2rw00wg&s=6#.U_NrJrx_ulA).

I think, that this preference resembles the key "TrackpadMomentumScroll" in either the com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad or com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad domain.

Using the defaults command doesn't seem to change the preference. At least, OS X doesn't react to the command and the preference in the GUI isn't reacting either.

I guess, I need to restart some daemon to apply the change.

Can somebody help me here?

Thanks.

Kind regards
Dennis


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After some overseas travel my imessage conversation with my contact (also an iPhone user) switched from blue (iMessage) to green (SMS) - due to problems with international roaming.

We're back in our home country, but the message conversation persists in SMS (green) and we'd like it to go back to iMessage (blue). I don't know how to click it back over.

My question is: How to get an iMessage conversation to go back from green to blue?


texts: I am planning to buy the Navionics app for iPad: does it require a Wi-Fi or cellular connection to use the Navionics maps for navigation?


texts: User required in Profile Manager Exchange settings

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I'm working with Profile Manager in Lion Server 10.7.2

I want the user to be prompted during the installation, not set the value here. To have the user prompted both fields need to be left blank. The User field, however, requires a value.  Is there a workaround?

Also we are using Google Exchange as our exchange server.


texts: I recently plugged my iPhone to my Mac. Ever since I did that, every time that I text on my iPhone it shows an icon pop up on the Mac screen, however I am not set up through messaging on my Mac. I am wondering if there is a way to stop the computer from showing that I am typing and showing who I am texting. It does not show conversation or any details, just who I am texting. It is pretty annoying.


texts: Automatically typing a password into terminal

texts: I want to be able to change the password of a disk image, but fully automated. Is there a way to enter a string as a password instead of plain text? Or can I have a .txt file with nothing but the password, and somehow import that into the password field? Thanks very much.


texts: Does iPhone need to be Unlocked GSM to work in Cuba?

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My sister who lives in Cuba, wants me to bring her an iPhone on my next trip.  I am looking at ones that are unlocked, open box as they are less expensive, but I need to know if it has to say "GSM unlocked."

Thanks for any help. I just don't want to take one that won't work on Cuba's cellular network.


texts: How can I edit Address Book distribution lists?

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In Snow Leopard there was a way to select which address to use for each contact in a group, for sending group emails or printing address lists. This was done by selecting the group in the groups column and choosing Edit → Edit Distribution List…

In the (horrible) Lion Address Book, the feature is still in the Edit menu, but I can't figure out why it's always dimmed. What are the circumstances when this menu item should become available, or how can I choose the addresses for my contact groups in Lion?


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Firstly to let you know I am a mac dummy/newbie and I'm hoping
to get some advice on a 2nd hand mac I purchased on ebay
(while I wait the 3 weeks for my appointment at my local Genius Bar.)
20inch (Mid 2007) - From googling I think it shipped with Tiger os ?
I can't seem to load/reinstall the operating system.
Every time I start it up I get taken to OS X Utilities(Recovery?) for Mountain Lion.
If I select reinstall OS X I can't get past the appleid/password prompt
(I'm entering my details but I think I need the appleid of the previous owner as he was the one who upgraded to mountain lion??) This is not possible
I don't have original installation discs either.
Do I have any other options or have I bought a large and expensive paperweight(joke).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks


texts: Macbook 15 mid 2010 screen goes black and shows panic kernel screen

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I have a problem with my Macbook 15 mid 2010.
The screen goes black and shows the kernel panic screen

sometimes immediately,
sometimes after a few minutes while using the macbook eg chrome

I have noticed it does not do this

while downloading and installing update of high sierra
in recovery mode
safe mode
Home screen showing but not using the Mac

What have I done

Resetting SMC and NVRAM
Installed a new SSD and I updated high sierra
Disk utility → first aid

This is as far as I can tell the only problem of this Mac
Who has suggestions where I can look for a solution.
Thanks in advance


texts: Can I restore a Lion Time Machine backup from a MacBook Air onto a MacBook Pro (currently) running Snow Leopard?

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My MacBook Air w/Lion is getting sent in for repairs, and IT gave me a MacBook Pro w/Snow Leopard. I have a current backup of my Air, and I'd like to get this MBP to run Lion with all my apps, files, settings, etc...

We were theorizing that we need to wipe the hard drive on this MBP and then try to boot from the Snow Leopard disk and do an install from Time Machine backup. And since that is the Lion install with all my stuff, everything will just work.

Does that sound like it will work?


texts: Open file dialog doesn't allow to select tagged folders

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I use the latest OS X El Captain on MacBook Pro Retina, and I had this issue since Yosemite.

When I try to select a file to upload in browser (same problem in Safari and Chrome, but not in another applications like Photoshop) - it HIDES all the folders when I click on any colored tag on the side panel. Folders just disappear right after a half of second. So, I am able to select a tagged file but I can't go to tagged folder and select a file there.

I have tried to delete com.apple.finder.plist, I have also tried to create a new user, but the problem remains :(


texts: Faulty 2006 iMac - what is it useful for?

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I own a 2006 iMac, which, alas, has a known manufacturing fault. Because of the poorly-designed cooling system, the graphics card (soldered to the motherboard) has become defective and the system shuts down spontaneously minutes or seconds after being turned on.

I have used a different computer for three years and I have really no need of this iMac at the moment.

However, I'd like know if I can nevertheless do something with it. It has a processor, lots of RAM, and a good hard disk. Can I use its computational power and its hard drive without employing the graphics card? I'd like the idea of turning it into a file server and being able to run non-graphical programs in it. The best would be being able to run X11 programs in it and see their graphics on another computer.

Everytime I turn the computer on it only worsens the problem, damaging the graphic card even more. So far, it didn't shut down when I put it in "single user mode", but I am afraid that even this little workload could damage the graphics card more and more. Basically I do not want to use the graphics card at all. I am prepared even to install a different operating system. (But how would I do so when the computer keeps shutting down?)

Edit: The problem is also reported in this petiton


texts: I cannot maintain Bluetooth connection between old MacBook and new iPhone, because standard has changed so much in 8 years?

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I have a 2012 MacBook running Catalina and an iPhone 12. MacBook requesting to connect never works. iPhone making the request works. But, the MB then disconnects after a several seconds or minutes. Some Bluetooth speakers can connect and be used by both with no problems. An Apple Watch connects to the iPhone but the MB does not see it.
So, there is nothing I can do to reliably connect the new iPhone to the old MB? The standards have changed too much?


texts: Apple Mailbox appearing in trash and in inbox

texts:
This morning I got the message "An error occurred while moving message to mailbox (null)".

I discovered my entire mailbox is duplicated under Trash and under my Inbox. Anybody got any ideas on how to repair this?


texts: How to install tar.gz file directly from URL efficiently from terminal?

texts:
Suppose we have a web url to a .tar.gz file.

We could download it, unzip/tar it, and install it.

Is there an elegant way of doing all of the above from terminal, preferably with a one-liner?

Example tar.gz file: https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.5.0.tar.gz

Note: I don't mind using a program to do this, but much prefer everything done from the terminal, mostly for efficiency, fewer steps, and being able to give reproducible instructions to others


texts: What is the oldest version of Mac OS that can be used on retina displays?

texts:
For development (backward testing with older OS versions) I need to install older mac OS versions.  Ideally I'd want to go as far back as Snow Leopard.

I have an iMac with retina (model  iMac15,1).  Before I hunt and dig around for old installation media and experiment, I'd like to find out what is the oldest version that properly supports retina displays (i.e. allows for a properly readable screen)?

The web says Retina was introduced with Macbook Pro 2012 which would be around Mountain Lion.

Expierences (first hand) anyone?


texts: Why my macintosh hd hard drive has less capacity than it should?

texts:
Please look at this:

and this:

Why here is only 160 instead of 250? What is wrong? How can I reset this?

I have tried to use Boot Camp Assistant to install windows on a partition with 80GB but there was some error, and macbook crashed. How can I solve this?


texts: Uninstalling Java 6 to replace with Java 8

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Every single time I try to install the Oracle Java Runtime Environment... I keep being stuck with Apple's Java 6. I have no idea how Apple's Java 6 ended up on my computer in the first place.

I keep putting "java -version" into the terminal and it comes out telling me I'm still running 6...

How do I remove Java 6? All I want to do is manage to run a Minecraft server, but it demands Java 8.

(I'm running Mac OS X Yosemite, in case that is relevant, because I can't find any up-to-date tutorials on how to do this)

Thanks in advance.


texts: Attempting to fresh install Ubuntu dual boot rEFInd does not recognize live boot

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Attempted to do a fresh install of Ubuntu by following the procedure found here: Clean install Ubuntu on a dual boot with Windows

I assumed that the fact that it was for Vista instead of OS X was inconsequential. My base OS is Yosemite.

Now when rEFInd starts up, I still see the option for OS X and Ubuntu but no option for installing Ubuntu.

When I click the Ubuntu option it says "error: no such partition. entering recovery mode"

Any ideas on how to resolve this? Any and all input would be greatly appreciated!

UPDATE:

I attempted to start up GParted again to see if I missed something and now rEFInd isn't seeing it either? Don't know if this is useful info? Does Gparted depend on the presence of Ubuntu?

FURTHER UPDATE:

1) Base OS: Yosemite

2) What media device you are installing Ubuntu from: DVD+R

3) Your method before it stopped working: Not sure exactly what you mean by method. I was attempting to get my WiFi working (It works for OS X but didn't work for Ubuntu, GParted, or Tails. but I'll cross that bridge later). I used rEFInd to load it, and used GParted to delete it.


texts: Internet connection in Germany for iPad 2nd gen

texts:
I have to say first, I am clueless about it all, including the jargon. I have just spent phone time with ATT, and I have learned I will not be able to tether (that means create a hot spot from my iPhone 3GS, right?). I have the lowest data plan now, but am willing to change to the highest limit for the trip. but, apparently that won't make a difference in the ability to tether.

I have to be able to tether with my iPad. I can't even understand if I will be able to use my cell at all, muchless live stream or upload. I just don't know enough about any of this stuff. A numbered list of exactly what to do as well as some definitions would be so helpful. Tech jargon related to this subject will not make sense to me, keep in mind. I'm not stupid, I just haven't been exposed to it all.


texts: Installing ruby to specific directory/usb

texts:
I am trying to install ruby to a specific directory, a USB stick, so I can move the usb back and forth without having to install ruby on each machine I get to (I need ruby 2.0+). How can I do this?

I have been looking after stuff like setting RVM install directory and so forth, with no luck. The closest I found was this description telling me how to move the entire RVM install, which I don't want. I just want a simple ruby version on a usb stick.

On windows this was very easy: Run RubyInstaller, and point it to the USB. On OSx, well, that's another story.

How can I achieve this?


texts: Windows vs OS X temperature, Windows runs hotter

texts:
I could see about 10 degrees celsius less when idle in OS X, compared to Windows 8.1, that's ~49 °C compared to ~38 °C.
I've seen that, according to Macs fan control, the fan is shut down in idle, but after googling, some people say macbook should always keep fan running at around 1200 rpm.

Should I leave it as is or would it be safer to use a custom fan management to keep it running at 1200 rpm?

Specs: MacBook Pro Retina 13" 2015


texts: How do I prevent OS X 10.8 from autoconnecting to a specific wireless network?

texts: I have two wireless networks at home. I want my Mac to autoconnect to one of them, but not the other. However, I do not want to remove the other network from my preferred list, since I want to keep the SSID/password saved for when I do need to connect to it. I've listed the network that I want to connect to at the very top of my preferred list, but my Mac still chooses to connect to the other network about 50% of the time. Is there any way to prevent it from connecting to that network while still keeping that network's credentials saved?


texts: My iphone 6 plus is bent and not powering on, need to retrieve data not backup to cloud

texts: First, thanks in advance for any help. I got the new iPhone 6 plus four months ago from AT&T. The phone has been working great the whole time until i sat on it when getting into my car last Friday evening and my phone bent and went dead. I made appointment in the Apple store to set up repair service and they told me they could not retrieve any photos or data that was not backed up to the cloud. I took a family trip to Hawaii to see my son in the military the day after the last back up due to the cloud being full. I cannot lose these photos. I am willing to send in the hard drive somewhere to retrieve this data but cant find where to do this or get the phone repaired enough to power on to retrieve the data. Any thoughts on how to best get this accomplished?


texts: MBP USB-C charger can't keep up when busy. Is that normal?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 15" (2016 with Touchbar).  The 87 W USB-C charger doesn't keep the battery from discharging when the CPU is working hard (baking lighting for Unity in this case).  This limits the amount of time it can work at this level to maybe an hour until the battery runs out.

Is this normal, or is my power adapter or some other part of the charging system under-performing?

The Activity Monitor graph shows the CPU about 80% utilized.


texts: When logging into hotmail on the mail app, do all contacts save into the contact list on the iPhone? Or only certain ones? If so how?


texts: how to remove "/"s from my text in a variable

texts:
Okay so I have a code that grabs text from somewhere and stores it in the variable "answer" but it has / symbols mixed in with the text... how do I get rid of them...This is the code

tell application "Safari"
    quit
end tell

set defaultAnswer to ""
set cancelButton to "Cancel"
set buttonResearch to "ReSearch"

display dialog "Query: " default answer defaultAnswer buttons {cancelButton, buttonResearch} default button buttonResearch cancel button cancelButton with icon 1
copy the result as list to {button_pressed, text_returned}

tell application "Dragon Dictate"
    set listening to false
end tell

if (button_pressed is buttonResearch) and (text_returned is not "") then
    set a to "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i="
    set b to encode_text(text_returned, true, false)
    set c to a & b

    tell application "Safari"
        activate
        open
    end tell
    repeat
        if application "Safari" is running then exit repeat
    end repeat
    delay 1
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari" to set visible to false
    tell application "Safari"
        tell window 1
            set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:c})
        end tell
    end tell
end if

say "let me look that up for you now"
delay 6

tell application "Safari" to set theString to (source of document 1)

(* Strip the text and only return the last line*)
set input to do shell script "echo " & (quoted form of theString) & "|sed -n \"/stringified/,/mInput/p\" | sed '$!N;$!D'"

global answer

set offSet1 to "\"stringified\": \""
set offSet2 to "\",\"mInput\""

my strip(offSet1, offSet2, input)

set mywordcount to count of words of answer

if mywordcount is greater than 50 then
    display dialog x
else

end if

tell application "Safari"
    quit
end tell

tell application "Dragon Dictate"
    set listening to true
end tell

on strip(offSet1, offSet2, thedata)
    (* Use the offsets of the pattens to match the text # thru # *)
    set textNumber1 to (offset of offSet1 in thedata)
    set theData1 to text -1 thru (textNumber1 + (count of offSet1)) of thedata
    set textNumber2 to (offset of offSet2 in theData1)
    set textString2 to text from word 1 to (textNumber2 - 1) of theData1
    set thedata to theData1
    set answer to textString2
end strip

-- encoding high-ASCII characters:
on encode_char(this_char)
    set the ASCII_num to (the ASCII number this_char)
    set the hex_list to {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
    set x to item ((ASCII_num div 16) + 1) of the hex_list
    set y to item ((ASCII_num mod 16) + 1) of the hex_list
    return ("%" & x & y) as string
end encode_char

-- TEXT ENCODING: encode spaces and high-level ASCII characters (those above 127)
-- encode_URL_A = encode most of the special characters reserved for use by URLs.
on encode_text(this_text, encode_URL_A, encode_URL_B)
    set the standard_characters to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
    set the URL_A_chars to "$+!'/?;&@=#%><{}[]\"~`^\\|*"
    set the URL_B_chars to ".-_:"
    set the acceptable_characters to the standard_characters
    if encode_URL_A is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_A_chars
    if encode_URL_B is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_B_chars
    set the encoded_text to ""
    repeat with this_char in this_text
        if this_char is in the acceptable_characters then
            set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & this_char)
        else
            set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & encode_char(this_char)) as string
        end if
    end repeat
    return the encoded_text
end encode_text


texts: Black screen after login with user and password in MacBook Pro

texts: After login I get a black screen, if I connect a external monitor with HDMI it works in the external monitor. If I go in safe mode, the screen of the macbook also works. I already format the HDD and reinstalled IOS High Sierra and I still have the problem after login.


texts: Big Sur 11.1: AppleScript to Automatically Change Wi-Fi Networks

texts:
So, like a user reported here on Stack Exchange, the built-in "networksetup" command in terminal is pretty unreliable at times. It's slow, and I've found for some reason dot1x never actually establishes properly for some types of Wi-Fi networks in my home. The solution: Create an AppleScript to simulate mouse clicks on the menubar to change between Wi-Fi networks.
Why is networksetup so slow compared to manually changing Wi-Fi networks?
The below script has worked fine for me until Big Sur:
use application "System Events"

property process : a reference to application process "SystemUIServer"
property menu bar : a reference to menu bar 1 of my process
property menu bar item : a reference to (menu bar items of my menu bar ¬
    where the description contains "Wi-Fi")
property menu : a reference to menu 1 of my menu bar item
property menu item : a reference to menu items of my menu

to joinNetwork given name:ssid as text
    local ssid

    if not (my menu bar item exists) then return false
    click my menu bar item

    repeat until my menu exists
        delay 0.5
    end repeat

    set M to a reference to (my menu item where the name contains ssid)

    repeat 20 times --> 10 seconds @ 0.5s delay
        if M exists then exit repeat
        delay 0.5
    end repeat
    click M
end joinNetwork

joinNetwork given name:"my network ssid"

The reason why it broke is that Wi-Fi is no longer technically a direct option under the main menu bar. Instead, it's relegated to the Control Center in Big Sur, and I think there may even be another sub-module it's technically nested it within the UI. I've been reading for hours about people trying to overcome this challenge in Big Sur, for example, to automate a click on specific Bluetooth device, but many AppleScripts people wrote apparently broke in the 11.1 update, and I have no easy starting point here for how to figure out how to accomplish what I am trying to do for Wi-Fi.
Any help here would be tremendously appreciated.
Side note: I know the same user also posted a method using AppleScriptObjC, but as people pointed out, it's a huge security risk because you need to put your password somewhere as plaintext. The UI script is therefore the better option in my mind, so I'd like to get it to work again.


texts: why isn't iMovie letting me save my video?

texts: My sister and I have a YouTube channel, and I edited a video and wanted to save the video to my camera roll. However, I deleted it from my camera roll & my recently deleted. Now I want to save it to my camera roll but iMovie won't even let me play it because it says that I'm missing files. Is there anyway I can recover these?


texts: Could I take a Core i7 form a 2012 MBP and put it into a 2018 MBP?

texts:
I know very little about computer hardware so I thought I might as well ask.

I have an Intel Core i7 in my MacBook Pro Late 2012. I am considering getting a 2018 MacBook Pro. I was wondering if it is possible to purchase an Intel Core i5 2018 model and then just take the 2012 Core i7 and put it in the 2018.

I am wondering if this is realistically possible and also if its technically possible (like could the 2018 hardware accept a 2012 core i7 or would there be other hardware compatibility issues).

I am also wondering how a 2012 Core i7 processor compares to a 2018 Core i5 (would it be worth it).


texts: Open an Application after minimized to dock with shortcut?

texts: Is it possible to open a minimized Application in dock with a shortcut? Or maybe something like: Open last minimized Application in dock with shortcut?


texts: What is "Two system dialogs displayed" message?

texts: I was using the VO learning in System Pref and went away from my computer for a few min. My screen was black when I got back and I clicked the mouse to wake it. Then it went black again and I clicked the mouse to wake it again it said “Two system dialogs displayed “. What is that?


texts:
I'd like to be able to share websites I'm developing with other users in my network using Web Sharing. I don't develop in my 'Sites' folder though, I have a separate folder for all my projects.

(Note: web sharing is working generally. If I visit http://[my-local-ip-address]/~[myusername] it shows the default local Site that I never touch.)

e.g. I use apache's httpd-vhosts.conf file and /etc/hosts to setup local domains that can be accessed by me like so:

http://mytestsite

So.. can I configure OS X Lion & apache to allow other to see them around the LAN like this?

http://[my-local-ip-address]/~mytestsite

Thanks!
Ben


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I'm new to OSX and running Mountain Lion in a Virtual Box VM. Xcode was running fine and I managed to create a simple Hello World App. I restarted the VM and when I tried to reopen my project Xcode crashed. I didn't think anything of this at the time but every time that I have relaunched Xcode since, it has frozen at this stage:

The CPU goes up to 95%ish usage and I have to force quit Xcode.

The following is in Xcode_Timestamp.hang:

Date/Time:       2013-06-07 12:02:37 +0100
OS Version:      10.8 (Build 12A269)
Architecture:    x86_64
Report Version:  11

Command:         Xcode
Path:            /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
Version:         4.6.2 (2067.2)
Build Version:   2
Project Name:    IDEApplication
Source Version:  2067002000000000
App Item ID:     497799835
App External ID: 15055625
Parent:          launchd [121]

PID:             353
Event:           hang
Duration:        0.88s
Steps:           9 (100ms sampling interval)

Hardware model:  MacPro3,1
Active cpus:     1
Free pages:      433637 pages (+16260)
Pageins:         1 pages
Pageouts:        0 pages

Process:         Xcode [353]
Path:            /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
Architecture:    x86_64
Parent:          launchd [121]
UID:             501
Task size:       175291 pages (-18383)
CPU Time:        0.456s

And in system.log:

Jun  7 12:16:07 imorelaptop.hkc2k3.local Dock[136]: no information back from LS about running process
Jun  7 12:16:17 imorelaptop.hkc2k3.local WindowServer[86]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Xcode" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
Jun  7 12:16:31 imorelaptop.hkc2k3.local WindowServer[86]: disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Xcode" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
Jun  7 12:16:39 imorelaptop.hkc2k3.local WindowServer[86]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Xcode" after 23.15 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
Jun  7 12:17:11 imorelaptop.hkc2k3.local sandboxd[461] ([38]): mds(38) deny mach-lookup �#�:�*��;�j�Z��=�����~�הz�Q�F���N�m�mR���>wD+֍�T#���)�`�ثw�T78۲��r���-�j�&��ň����P�6EAM-�0b
    ���Q��Xh�R��S�^��
Jun  7 12:17:11 imorelaptop kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(461) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
Jun  7 12:17:11 imorelaptop.hkc2k3.local sandboxd[461] ([38]): mds(38) deny mach-lookup �#�:�*��;�j�Z��=�����~�הz�Q�F���N�m�mR���>wD+֍�T#���)�`�ثw�T78۲��r���-�j�&��ň����P�6EAM-�0b
    ���Q��Xh�R��S�^��
Jun  7 12:19:51 imorelaptop.hkc2k3.local WebProcess[306]: CoreAnimation: unhandled combiner function: 11

I have tried restarting my VM, increasing the RAM to 4GB (from 2GB) and reinstalling Xcode but still experiencing the same issue. I have also tried opening specific apps and files in Xcode, but the application still hangs at the same point.


texts: Download iOS app IPA file from App Store

texts:
I have an iOS app in the App Store that I have to make some changes to. I lost part of the source code. I would like to download the IPA from the AppStore and then try to decompile it.

Can I download the app IPA file from the iOS App Store or my developer account? If yes, how?
How can I decompile the IPA if I manage to download it?


texts: iPhone slow to complete an unsecured Wi-Fi connection

texts:
I have an iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 12.3.1.

Have been through a few posts about Wi-Fi problems, but this is quite peculiar.

When connecting to a free/unsecured Wi-Fi access point, the checkbox ✓ (shown to the left of the SSID) comes quickly. But then, the Wi-Fi symbol (that replaces the 4G) in the Status bar takes always about 2 minutes to get set.

Irrespective of whether the connection requires a logging-in, this would take around 2 minutes. Connecting to a secured network (WPA2, etc.) is much faster.

I thought that might have something to do with captive.apple.com (used to trigger a login page) and tried to set manual DNS addresses (e.g. 8.8.8.8), but the connection takes that 2 minutes anyway.

Other people around could connect much faster to an unsecured network.

Is that a known problem? Is there a way to fix it?

Here's what I have already tried

"Forget that network" from the Access point menu.
"Reset Network settings" from general settings.
Reboot iPhone.
Toggled auto-join.
set manual DNS for the connection


texts: New iPad Home Sharing for Purchased Content

texts:
Here's my setup. I purchased a HD movie (my first ever!) from the iTunes Store onto my Mac mini. iTunes on this Mac mini is configured for Home Sharing. Now, when I launch the Videos app on the new iPad, it lists my Shared Library correctly together with the movie that I just downloaded. However, when I tap the Play button, the screen goes blank for a moment before displaying a "Cannot Open" error message.

I am bedazzled by the fact that I can't play this very same movie on my HDTV which is connected to the Mac mini via Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable (HDCP error, but that's another story for another question), I'm now totally flabbergasted that I can't even play this movie via a channel that Apple has been shouting about.

I tried playing the movie on my MacBook Pro and it works correctly, therefore the file is not corrupted. I am also sure I can sync the entire movie (all 7GB of it) into my new iPad, and watch it from there, but why?


texts: My iPhone 7 rings once and answers by itself. I checked the settings and find nothing to help solve this issue. Does anyone have any suggestions or idea on what's going on besides it is possessed?


texts: Find my Friends displaying email addresses, not contact portraits or names

texts:
In the Find my Friends app, some of the entries in there no longer show the portrait from that person's entry in Contacts. The email address is displayed instead. I would like to have the portrait back (or initials where there is no portrait).

This appears to have been happening for some people since 2011. Further threads 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Advice from those threads include:

Ensure Settings -> Privacy -> Contacts -> Find Friends is On.
Add the email address to the Contacts entry for that person.
Restarting app and/or phone.
Deleting the app and reinstalling.

I have tried all of the above, except deleting the app. I am hesitant to do this, as this will require me to pester all of my friends again upon reinstall.

It all used to be fine, and then one day it wasn't. I always had the correct email address in Contacts. The privacy permission was always correct. I don't know what changed. The latest person I've added has their portrait fine, but not so for the others. Even "my" Find my Friends details are "unknown".

Is there a solution that will fix this short of deleting and reinstalling? I'll do that if there's no other recourse :(


texts: Desktop background of second screen randomly changing

texts:
For some reasons the background of my second screen keeps changing. I set it to a colour of my liking but once I unplug and plug the screen back in, the colour gets replaced by a picture.
Anyone else facing this problem?


texts: How do I exit python in the Mountain Lion Terminal?

texts:
I'm having a couple problems with basic command line stuff in the terminal of Mountain Lion.

control + D does not exit Python as it does in Lion; instead it splits the screen.

Meanwhile, I also haven't figured out how to continue writing after having viewed the contents of a text document - the terminal doesn't allow it.

Hello hello hello!
ex12.txt (END)

So far, no matter what I push after this, I get a nasty little beeping sound


texts: iTunes Syncing Files information - Total MB, Speed of Transfer, etc

texts:
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get more information on the syncing process - i.e. speed of the transfer, MB remaining, estimated time, etc.

I ask because I was syncing some iTunesU files which are pretty big - 3.2GB - over Wi-Fi, and thought it would be useful to know exactly how quickly they're being transfered, and how much I've got to go. All there is normally is a bar that slowly fills up. Surely there's a way to access this info, perhaps in a terminal window?


texts: Can a disk's catalog directory be recovered after a Quick Erase?

texts:
A disk's data directory seems to me to be the most vulnerable Achilles's Heel to protecting data.

With the 2 clicks of an accidental quick erase and format via Disk Utility, the roadmap to potentially multiple terabytes of data gets erased.

Even if zero data files were overwritten and all of the data files get recovered (though it may take days), (please, please correct me if I'm wrong) data recovery software can't retrieve the filenames, folder names, and the organizational, hierarchical structure, which then can only be painstakingly rebuilt by hand.

Relative to the size of the data, the directory is tiny. Wouldn't recovering a backup of the directory (that should always be automatically made as a fail-safe whenever an erase/format is done) make complete recovery fast and easy?

This seems waaayyyy too obvious to be overlooked, but everything I read indicates that with 1 click, it's gone and can't be recovered!

Is there any way to recover a disk's catalog directory after a Quick Erase?


texts: Why is macOS forcibly renaming my USB drive?

texts:
I have a USB Drive named "Cuthbert", and various apps use paths starting with /Volumes/Cuthbert when it is plugged in.  However, my laptop is putting it at /Volumes/Cuthbert 1, and won't let me rename it, even though there /Volumes/Cuthbert leads to nothing.  (It shows up when I ls, but does not show up in the Finder, and there is nothing there.)

What is going on?  How can I fix and prevent this frustrating situation?


texts: Is it possible to keep a MacOS application window "Always in the Back"?

texts:
There seems to exist options for keeping MacOS application windows 'Always on Top'.

But is it possible via some method (e.g. a third party utility) to set an application window to be 'Always in the Back', having all other windows float on top of it, while still enabling the cursor to be editing/browsing the application in the back?

For example in the screenshot below, to edit the Microsoft Word document in this window configuration, I would have to click on its window, and that would hide the TextEdit window.

NB: I realize that setting TextEdit to 'Always on Top' would achieve the same effect, however the question is if an application can be set to be in the back of all other applications – preferably not to set all other applications to 'Always be on Top'. Also, please note that I'm not asking about splitting the screen real estate between the two apps (that's off topic).


texts: Remote management and allow network account to use screen sharing

texts:
I remote manage some macOS machines, and I have remote management enabled on them.

I also have network accounts able to login into the machine via an OD server that I administer.

What I am unable to do, however, is allow the network connected accounts to use screen sharing to access the machines.

This is possible under the normal screen sharing options, if you select who can access the machine you get the option to allow network accounts, but this option is not there under the remote management settings.

Does anyone know a way to enable this?

Should I look for another VNC/remote connection method.


texts:
I have a Mid 2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Display. As of a week ago, occasionally when I plugged in the MagSafe Adapter, the LED doesn't light up. The problem is fixed by unplugging the power adapter from the MacBook and plugging it back in.

Should I worry with this? Is it an indicator for something wrong?

Last time I remember with my previous MBP, I had the same issue and it was getting worse, and then the logic board died.


texts: stuck booting into broken Bootcamp (Win 7) volume. any ideas on how to get back to OS X?

texts:
I've got a 10.11.6 (El Capitan) tower with separate drives for OS X and Windows 7 via Bootcamp, which I also use via Parallels. I went to shut down the Win 7 VM via Parallels yesterday and it wanted to 'finish' installing a bunch of Windows Updates. I let it run for hours and it was still stuck on 1 of 32(ish) so I reluctantly killed it. After this it was failing to boot up again, so I figured I'd reboot the entire machine into Win 7 to fix it... big mistake apparently.

The automatic repair options in Windows are all failing to correct the problem. Rolling back to a previous known good state fails. System restore fails. Safe mode blue screens at login. I have a Windows 7 install CD but can't get the system to boot to it and restore the OS. Tapping F8 at startup gives me some more options but restore via CD doesn't seem to be one.

The worst part is that holding the option key down at boot leaves me with a black screen so I can't select to boot back into OS X. I tried using 'X' from the list here but no dice on that either (just proceeds to fail to boot into windows again).

Would love to hear any other ideas about repairing the windows installation or getting back into OS X.


texts: Does the new Air (2012) support Daisy Chaining to two Thunderbolt Displays?

texts: Does the new MacBook Air (mid-2012) support Daisy Chaining to two Thunderbolt Displays?  I'm trying to decide between a fully-loaded MacBook Air and a Retina MacBook Pro, and this is a big breaking point for me.


texts: Is there a shortcut to expand all folders in Finder's list view?

texts: I have my Finder window set up to display in "list" view so that it shows all folders with triangles on the left to click to expand. I have a number of levels of nested folders. Is there any way (keyboard shortcut, menu item, etc.) to expand all, so I don't have to click through each level to see the files contained?


texts: Incorrect synchronized time – how do iPhones know what time is it?

texts:
This year my country decided we no longer needed summer saving time, and since the date when time was supposed to change to summer time, my iPhone has had the wrong time.

I have an iPhone 4. I believe newer phones don't have this problem.

My phone thinks it is summer time and is 1 hour off if I set it to synchronize automatically. I resorted to somewhat convoluted tricks to keep it synchronized correctly. If I fixed the offset time manually, Whatsapp went wrong.

How is it possible? What does it do when I set the time to synchronize automatically? I previously thought it synchornized with the phone service provider but it appears to not be the case.


texts:
I want to create a little bash script that restart my mac and boots from another partition. Of course I could do that with changing the startup partition, but that would cause that it would always boot from it. It should only do that if the script will be executed.
Is that possible? And if so, how?

Thanks for your help


texts:
I have been trying to get my iterm2 terminal colorful, but I am having very little success. I tried adding the following to my .bash_profile
# Set CLICOLOR if you want Ansi Colors in iTerm2
export CLICOLOR=1

# Set colors to match iTerm2 Terminal Colors
export TERM=xterm-256color

which helped get the ANSI colors at least, but my iterm2 terminal is still pretty boring-looking...
I am trying to get my directories to look one color, my files to look one color, and the stuff behind the $ sign on iterm2 to be one color, and my cursor to be one color. So far, I have managed to pull of changing the color of my cursor and directories, but everything else is still a boring plain white color.
I did this my going to Preferences->Profile and then messing with the colors there. Any advice you have is appreciated.
Any advice you have is appreciated.


texts:
This works:

$ echo "$Foo" | grep "Android SDK Build-tools" | grep -Eo "\d+(?:-)"
4-
5-
6-
7-
8-
9-

This does not:

$ echo "$Foo" | grep "Android SDK Build-tools" | grep -Eo "\d+(?=-)"
grep: repetition-operator operand invalid

Can I use lookahead if I want to with the OSX supplied version of grep?


texts: Can I clone my existing MacOS and Windows partitions onto a new SSD in my Macbook Pro?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2012) with Lion and Windows 7 installed on the internal HDD. I use Bootcamp to swap between them when booting the machine.

I want to replace the optical drive with an SSD. There are lots of instructions online, but my question is this: can I just install the SSD in the machine, then use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my HDD to the SSD, then afterwards wipe the HDD to be partitioned as storage space? The HDD is 750Gb but the SSD is only 256Gb - but there is minimal data on the HDD at the moment.

What I'm thinking of doing is:
1. install the SSD in place of the optical drive.
2. Clone the HDD to the SSD.
3. Boot from the SSD (how?)
4. Wipe and partition the HDD to be shared as storage space 50/50 Windows/Mac.

Thanks for your help,

David


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From a .plist loaded to Launchd I run a bash script which displays a notification using terminal-notifier.

The notification is displayed fine, but when clicked the message "terminal-notifier.app is not open anymore" pops up.

I tried to set a system app to open with -sender 'com.apple.Terminal' but the error message will still show up.


texts: How does windowing system work on MacOS?

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I'm really interested in computer graphics and I would like to know how windowing and graphics systems work on MacOS.
I've started to learn how to create a window in objective-c but then I told myself that it doesn't explain what does objective-c "ask" to the hardware exactly. So I've read about X11 but I still had to install another program 'XQuartz'.

Do you have any suggestions to learn how to create a window from scratch without using any framework or library on MacOS, if it is even possible? And if it's not possible on MacOS, do you know what makes it impossible (or complicated) on MacOS?


texts: How can I disable music videos in Apple Music in iTunes?

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Music videos are autoplayed if they are part of an album. Which is kind of annoying because iTunes puts itself into fullscreen mode when they are played.

Is it possible to disable auto play of music videos?


texts: Display and change ratings in iTunes Mini Player

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Is there a way to display a song's ratings from the iTunes Mini Player? I know that I can right click in the display and view/change the ratings from there.

Can the ratings be added to the Mini Player view in some way? This would allow me to see the rating and check whether I have already rated that particular song.


texts: How do I stop emails highlighting dates (with links to my calendar)?

texts: On my iPad, how do I stop emails highlighting dates (with links to my calendar). I find this distracting.


texts: Is there a way to lock a folder's icon without making its contents Read Only?

texts: I have a network share that is used by a large group of kids. They love changing the icon of this folder, which causes a lot of debate. I know that there is a hidden file that specifies the icon; can I lock this file so the icon of the folder can't be changed anymore?


texts: Macbook crashed now iMessage not working correctly

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So my computer crashed due to a power cable issue. Now that that's resolved I was attempting to send messages to known iMessage users (ie people I've sent iMessages to prior to the crash) and now something doesn't accept other users as iMessage recipients. It says I'm sending an iMessage and it failed because the user is not registered for iMessage.

How do I fix this?


texts: Mount network share (AFP/SMB) for multiple users (fast user switching)

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i'm having the following problem with my network shares from my NAS (Synology 415+ if it matters) in Yosemite.

At home, we have an iMac with two different users. I moved all of our media (music & photos) to the NAS, so that both users could use the data with the according apps.
I thought, that it would be easy to mount the network shares for both users, but actually it isn't - or i'm doing something wrong.

I'm using a simple Applescript in the following form

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    mount volume "smb://ipaddress/sharename/"
end tell

that is started automatically when my user logs into the system.

That works fine for me. But when my partner switches to her user account, the mounts aren't accessible for her. Moreover, when she starts the same script as i do, the paths are getting messed up:

If two users mount the network shares, two different folders exist on the system: /Volumes/music for the first user and /Volumes/music-1 for the second user, which messes up all file paths (especially in iTunes, but also in Lightroom or other apps).

Is there ANY way to mount a network share for both users? I really don't care if i use AFP or SMB, i just want a network share which is usable for multiple users. Seems like a common scenario for me.


texts: Remove list of recently updated apps in Mac App Store

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How would you remove the list of recently updated applications in the Mac App Store?

(the part selected in red in the screenshot)


texts: I'm planning to buy MacBook Pro 13" 256GB SSD but i find it too expensive. I thought that it would be better if i buy 128gb SSD and upgrade it with an HDD storage. Is that possible? If not, is Apple still selling the old MBP?


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Is there a way to open two views of the same PDF in Preview (without creating two copies of the file), or perhaps split the window and show two different pages at the same time?

This is very useful when reading a paper which refers back to equations on previous pages.


texts: An unknown modem appears in network device list - evidence of tampering?

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MBP, OSX Sierra

Today while looking at the network preference panel I saw a modem device with a name 'MT67xx Preloader' which googles to some generic mediatek device name - this macbook doesn't afaik have a modem and none was connected via USB or bluetooth pairing as far as I know, is it possible that OSX somehow installed device drivers for it as I was (physically) browsing the smartphone section of a large retail store or should I suspect someone has physically tampered with it ?

How can I link this device to drivers / executables / processes on the system ?

What log files can be expected to contain info about it being installed ?


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With iTunes Wi-fi sync in iOS 5, it seems that the host iTunes machine and the iOS device have to be on the same LAN. Is it possible to circumvent that requirement by accessing the user's LAN (with the host iTunes machine) via the iOS VPN? What steps would you take to set this up?

--UPDATE--

I've been researching this for nearly another hour, and the sticking point seems to be Bonjour. The clearest description of the difficulties I've seen being in this Apple support discussion:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1549218?start=0&tstart=0

Obviously there are ways around this with various third-party VPN solutions, but as far as I can tell, all of those require some sort of software on the client side, whereas on iOS devices, built-in support is limited to L2TP, PPTP and IPSec, none of which seem able to pass Bonjour packets.

Is there some way around this? Ideally, a solution would only require modifications on the home end of things, so you'd only need an iOS device on the remote end to make it work, but if you have a creative solution that involves a MacBook on the remote end and connecting the iOS device through that, I'd certainly be open to the idea.


texts: How can I get Time Machine to back up the contents of a FileVault while logged in?

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Disclaimer: this question and answer are targeted to the Snow Leopard implementation of FileVault where the user home folder is only encrypted in a bundle. Lion's implementation of FileVault doesn't limit Time Machine thusly.
I'm currently using Time Machine to back up my MacBook. However, I had to disable FileVault in order to be able to back up when I'm logged in (which is all the time). Recently, this decision has been nagging at me, and I've been looking for ways to re-enable FileVault or some other similar encryption while still retaining my ability to routinely back up via Time Machine or other similar backup scheme.
I found a note on Wikipedia that it's possible to back up with FileVault if the destination is Mac OS X Server:

With Mac OS X Server as a Time Machine destination:

backups of FileVault home directories occur whilst users are logged in.

Unfortunately, this tidbit is not externally sourced and I've been unable to find any other place where this is mentioned. Is this true? Does anyone have experience with it?
If not, what other solutions are there, either for 'tricking' Time Machine to back up the contents of a FileVault, other Time Machine-compatible encryption systems, or FileVault-compatible backup systems? If it matters, I don't need to have the backup itself encrypted, just the MacBook.