texts: How did the MAS find and update my backup copy of the Mavericks install app?

texts:
I wanted to see if I could get a 10.9.2 installer for Mavericks from the Mac App Store that I could use to clean install a Mac without requiring a patch after installation, so I went to the MAS and downloaded, expecting Install OS X Mavericks.app to land in /Applications as usual.

After the download completed, I could not find the app in /Applications, though it was clearly running.  lsof showed me an astonishing thing: it was running out of the archive folder in my home directory where I had moved the original 10.9 version of the Mavericks installer to prevent it from being deleted!

Further investigation revealed that what I thought was my old 10.9 installer actually had been updated at the time of the MAS download, and contained a new (valid) Apple code signature (verified with codesign -dvvv).

It's been months, but I think I just mv'd the original installer into my archive directory to prevent it from being deleted.

I've concluded that the MAS was able to find that original installer and decided to update it rather than putting a new copy into /Applications.  My question is: how?  And is there a way to protect it short of external media or (hopefully) Time Machine?


texts: How to reset Launchpad ordering in OS X Yosemite?

texts: Previously I can remove the files end with db in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/ to reset the ordering of apps, but now doing the same thing doesn’t help. Do anyone know where the new path that organizes the Launchpad is located?


texts: How to properly setup a reliable roaming WiFi with Airport Base Stations and an existing router

texts:
What are the steps to properly setup a WiFi network with 4 or 5 Airport base stations? I have a mix of Airport Extreme and Airport Express base stations, a switch and a modem/router with VoIP and other features which require to keep the modem configured as a router.

Of course the modem/router is connected to the switch and so should be all the base stations.

Can I get a reliable roaming going between the base stations? What are the things I should configure to make the roaming as seamless and speedy as possible?

X1 Airport Express

X4 Airport Extreme

X1 24 ports switch (with some Gbps ports)

X1 modem router


texts: unexpected ApplicationSupport alias in ~/Library

texts:
I've noticed a weird alias in ~/Library. It's ApplicationSupport (no space), pointing to the good old Application Support (with a space).

$ cd ~/Library
$ ls -l | grep Support
drwx------+ 111 myuser  staff   3552 11 Oct 23:10 Application Support
lrwxr-xr-x    1 myuser  staff     38  2 Aug 11:28 ApplicationSupport -> /Users/myuser/Library/Application Support

I don't know where it comes from, and I didn't create it myself. Does anyone know if it gets created by a specific app installation? Is there a way to verify it?

I guess I could rename it and delete it and see if anything breaks.


texts: keyboard shortcut to jump to the non-whitespace first character in a line

texts:
control-a is pretty close - it moves the character to the first column. command-left does too.

if my keyboard had a home key this would likely move the cursor there, but it doesn't.

similar to this question, i'm trying to get vim's ^ behaviour without moving my hands too far. unfortunately alt-m outputs µ instead of giving me the goods.

i'm hoping for something i can use system wide, i'm not sure if os x has this though.


texts: Can I share my 2TB iCloud storage with my family, using an *individual* Apple One plan?

texts:
Prior to Apple One, I was able to share my 2TB of iCloud share with my family; however it seems if I were to switch to Apple One, then I need to opt for Apple One's family option, rather than the individual one, but still share iCloud space with my family.
Does anyone know how it works?
P.S.: I know I'll have to upgrade to 2TB storage in either case, because individual plan comes with 50GB whereas family plan with 200GB.
Also, in Italy (where I live) "Premier" option isn't currently available, so that's unfortunately, not an option for me at this point…


texts: How to change icon of an app through Terminal

texts:
I want to customize my app icons, but there's a lot of them, and I don't want to be tedious and go through the whole Get Info process over and over again.

Is there any way to write a program, preferably in Terminal using the command line, that will change the icon of an app?


texts: How can I fix '"HPDM.framework" will damage your computer' on macOS Big Sur?

texts:
Since updating to macOS Big Sur, I can no longer print to my HP DeskJet 1010 printer. Each time that I start a print job, I get a dialog with error message that says '"HPDM.framework" will damage your computer'. There is no way to bypass the warning in 'System Preferences' -> 'Security & Privacy' as there might be with applications that have expired or invalid developer certificates.
N.B. I did find a workaround that involved removing the printer from 'System Preferences' -> 'Printers & Scanners' then adding it again with generic print drivers, but this blocked me from using some of the features I typically use, such as printing with just the black cartridge.


texts: MacBook Pro Mid 2009 shows forbidden sign but boots when holding command key

texts:
After upgrading from High Sierra 10.13.x (can't remember) to High Sierra 10.13.6, something went wrong with the boot partition. When turned on the MacBook shows the forbidden sign. However when I press and hold the Command key, it boots normally. So far so good, however in macOS safari and chrome are only showing blank pages, so I guess I re-install of macOS is a good idea. In order to do that you need to press CommandR during boot, but when I press anything more than Command only, the forbidden sign shows again.

fdisk shows:

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
     Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  312581807] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

Diskutil shows:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *160.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Heinen                  159.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

Does anybody know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.
Gerben


texts: Why does kernel_task cpu% grow unbounded until forced reboot?

texts:
I saw an issue with my MacBook Pro running El Capitan with Chrome running that the kernel_task went haywire and started sucking up all the available CPU and the % cpu just kept climbing to where it was in the 30,000+% range and the computer was nearly completely unresponsive.  Eventually, I had to force a reboot, because the shutdown command appeared to be making no progress.  On reboot, it restarted chrome automatically, and again, the cpu started climbing.  I forced reboot a second time, and Chrome did not relaunch, the computer started running more normally, I was able to relaunch chrome and not reload the tabs and all seems ok now.  What was going on?  Was there some kind of malware or virus coming in through a website on one of the Chrome tabs?  I have Sophos anti-virus installed and running on this machine.  Should I be concerned that my machine is somehow compromised now?

Is there a way to determine what program, driver, or plug-in is causing the high CPU load?


texts:
While i generally like the newest Mail.app, i particularly dislike that it groups all messages that i receive from a specific sender. This makes it difficult to remove a specific message and i would like to disable it.

Is there a way to turn grouping off and show messages in single message mode, like the older Mail.app was doing ?


texts: How can I upload all photos from a burst on the iPhone?

texts:
I use Dropbox's automatic upload on the iPhone. Whenever I take a photo, it gets uploaded.

But when I take a burst of photos on the iPhone 5s, only one of them is uploaded. I have to go in and tap Select Favorites and mark each one. How can I change it to mark all photos in the burst as Favorites, or get Dropbox to upload all of them?

I find a computer with a big screen much better suited to the task of comparing photos and picking one.


texts: My Mac 3,1 isn't recognizing one CPU - Dual Xeon

texts:
I have a mac 3,1 with dual Xeon's. It definitely has 2 CPUs because when I bought it I checked system information and is said 2 CPUs and I put better thermal paste on both of them just just to improve thermals which weren't bad but I figured it wouldn't hurt.
When I put everything back together it booted and I think I remember checking to make sure both cpu's where working correctly which, if I did ally check, they both where.
I recently downloaded cinabench and saw that is only recognized 1 cpu but I thought nothing of it and assumed it was just cinabench being weird.
Today I purchased a used hd 5570 and once I had installed the card and booted the computer I saw that in the system info it too only recognized one cpu. (I am fairly certain it had nothing to do with the card because in hindsight it seemed slower than when normal.
If you need any more information just ask, I'm happy to give it to you. I'd really appreciate some help, thanks.

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 12 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
macOS


texts: Automatically move iOS app icons to fill empty slots on previous page?

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On my non-jailbroken iPad running iOS 7.1.2 I'm deleting a number of apps that I've downloaded to try but don't want to keep. As I delete them app icons on the page move up to fill the empty spots. Is there some way to also have app icons from the next automatically move up to fill empty spots at the end of the current page?

Moving them individually is tedious. I could group them, move the group to the previous page, the nun group them but this too is a hassle. I'd prefer not to have to resort to iTunes to do this.


texts: Can I use iPhone headphones with microphone on MacBook Pro?


texts: Messages app on my Macbook Pro stopped sending to Android

texts: The Messages app on my Macbook Pro (running High Sierra) suddenly stopped sending text messages to Android devices. I can still send texts to Android users from my iPhone without a problem, but when sending texts from the Messages app on my Macbook Pro it will not send to Android devices. It just started doing this out of the blue yesterday. I have not had an issue until then. And I have not made any updates to the Mac or the iPhone OSs in that time that might cause the problem, but I did install Microsoft Office 2018 on the Mac. Cellular data is turned on on my iPhone as is Send as SMS.


texts: Fusion Drive Setup: Possible to force the HDD to spin down as long as your reading from/writing to the SSD?

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I'm considering to replace my optical drive in my MacBook Pro with an SSD. When using it as separate Volume, the advantage is that you can spin down the HDD, thus reduce noise and first and foremost, battery consumption. Manually managing the files however is a nightmare IMO.

Setting up a Fusion Drive solves this problem, however it seems that the HDD is constantly spinning whenever you access the Fusion Drive, regardless wether the data sits actually on the SSD portion or the HDD. See here (the mentioned ArsTechnica test was done on a Mac mini, question is whether the Fusion Drive managing behaves any different on portable Macs with different Power Management settings).

Question: Is there any way to force the FusionDrive manager (coreStorage?) to spin down the HDD, when the data comes off the SSD and the HDD has nothing to do?


texts: Update/backup iPod via iTunes on virtual Windows XP?

texts:
All the programs I use on my Mac these days are either in a Linux VM (in Virtualbox), or open-source apps which are also available on Linux.  With one exception: iTunes, which I only use to feed my iPod Touch (4gen).

I'm tempted to switch over to Linux entirely, but I don't want to completely lose the ability to update/backup my iPod, and I don't want to deal with the hassle of dual-booting.  (I can buy apps on my iPod itself, but apparently I can't download MP3s or subscribe to podcasts without using iTunes on a computer.)

I've heard that you can't run (non-server) Mac OS X in a virtual machine, even on Apple hardware.  I do, however, have an old Windows XP license.

Is it possible to run iTunes 10, including iPod Touch (4gen) syncing, in a virtualized Windows XP on a Linux host?  I've the most experience with Virtualbox (at work and home), but I'd be willing to entertain the possibility of switching to another VM.

I found this article that says it's possible, but is rather old: it only speaks of the iPod Touch 1gen.  This other article has no date but mentions iTunes 8 (which Wikipedia says was shipped with the iPod Touch 2gen).

It doesn't need to be terribly convenient.  If CD ripping doesn't work, for example, I'm happy to rip elsewhere and copy the files to Windows for iTunes.  I really just want the ability to copy data onto my iPod, including iOS updates, and do backups.

Has anyone tried this more recently?  Is it still possible with iTunes 10 / iPod Touch 4gen?


texts: How to set the Display aspect ratio to 16:9 explicitly when using a VGA adaptor

texts:
Background

I was presenting at a venue where the projector supports 1280x720px resolution (16:9) via VGA cable (I've previously used the same room and equipment on an older 2011 MacBook Pro running Mavericks).

Yesterday I used a newer 2014 MacBook Pro Retina running Yosemite, and was unable to set this resolution - the closest I could choose was 1280x1024px.

When the MacBook is mirroring to a projector via VGA cable, the > System Preferences  > Displays panel looks something like this:

In my case the only options were 1280x1024px and 800x600px (this image is from the web - I didn't get a screenshot at the time).

My question

Is there anywhere, other than the > System Preferences > Displays dialog, where you can explicitly set/force the output resolution?

My only options were 1280x1024 or 800x600, yet I'm positive the projector supported 16:9 since I've used it before.


texts: A software update is required to use this startup disk - does not update

texts:
I'm trying to do a clean install of macOS via USB on my MacBook Pro 2019 13".
I have setup the boot security so that:

It has medium security (I also tried no security) on bootable devices
Allows the Mac to boot from an external drive.

I formatted my USB to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with GDUI partition map. The USB with the macOS installer successfully shows on the startup manager. When I try and boot from it, however, I get this message:

I click update and I then get this error after seeing an Apple Logo (yes I was connected to internet):

So in conclusion I cannot boot from this USB.
The USB is of type USB-A that's connected through a USB-C hub, that could be the problem? Maybe a direct connection from a USB-C usb flash drive is better?
Or the wrong formatting on the USB drive.
That's the only two I suspect. But then again, why isn't it updating?
Thanks.


texts:
I'm in the process of setting up my Ruby on Rails development environment and part of that was playing around with RVM. I screwed up a bit though because I deleted the /usr/local/bin/ruby which was required for homebrew.

How can I get that version of ruby back at this point?


texts:
I have a MBP with retina display and run OS X Mavericks.

My problem:  imagine I have two applications open

a document viewer sized half-screen (filling the left side of the screen).  Call this "Window A".
an editor with two windows: one is full-screen because it contains really long lines (Window B) and the other is half-screen (filling the right side of the screen) (Window C).

I want to read the document and take notes on it in the editor, but when I give focus to half-screen-sized editor window, the document reader is hidden behind the full-screen-sized editor window.

Is there a way to make the stacking order independent of the app?

That is, when Window A is focused, I can still see Window C.  When Window C is focused, Window A is behind Window B.  I want to be able to view Window A and C at the same time even in Window C is receiving keyboard input.


texts: Which of iOS apps allow customizing font size?

texts:
Which of iOS apps that allow customizing font sizes:

either through support of DynamicType / LargerText system settings (and BoldText that can be helpful to improve readability)
or have their own settings for font size--and how broad is the size range available?

One of the goals for such a list is to help understanding how font sizes can change when switching between devices with different DPI and resolution--given current variety: iPad Mini/Air, iPhone 6/6+, earlier iPhones.

Ideally I'd be happy to compare screenshots, but doubtful how it can be achieved here at SE with reasonable efforts.


texts: How do I import music from a CD into iTunes on OS X when the dialogue does not appear?

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I am using iTunes on OS X El Capitan. I have a CD with songs on it and I would like to import these into the iTunes library (the local one, not the cloud). For the option in preferences, I have it set to "Ask to import CD", but the dialogue for that does not show up. Is there some way to MAKE it import the songs without having to wait for a dialogue to pop up? Like maybe something in the menu bar that says "Import songs from CD"?

Update: And now, when iTunes is running, the CD/DVD is being ejected right after being inserted.


texts:
It is a well known story about the origin of the QWERTY keyboard. For those who don't know what I am talking about: QWERTY is built on purpose to be not easy to type.

I figured that no one stops me from rearranging my keyboard to one of the more efficient layouts.

Before I do that, any advice or warning?


texts: AppleScript to turn on the Accessibility Keyboard in High Sierra

texts:
How can I write a script to turn on the accessibility keyboard present in macOS High Sierra?

It's of course possible to do this by going to System Preferences > Accessibility > Keyboard > Accessibility Keyboard > "Enable Accessibility Keyboard," but this takes a number of clicks.  I would like a script that can be launched from the Dock, since I frequently use the Accessibility Keyboard.

One idea is to use AppleScript; another idea is to find the Accessibility Keyboard binary and use a shell script to open it.

Here is my attempt at an AppleScript:

tell application "System Preferences"
    activate
    reveal (pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess")
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell application process "System Preferences"
    tell window "Accessibility"
        click UI element "Keyboard" of row 16 of table 1 of scroll area 2
        click button "Accessibility Keyboard"
        click checkbox "Enable Accessibility Keyboard"
    end tell
end tell

This script fails with the error: "System Events got an error: Can’t get button 'Accessibility Keyboard' of window 'Accessibility' of application process 'System Preferences'."

If I remove the last two click commands, the script does not produce an error, but also does not appear to click the "Keyboard" UI element.

What am I doing wrong?  Apologies if this is a stupid question; this is my first AppleScript.

Or if someone knows the location of the Accessibility Keyboard binary, that would be helpful, too.


texts: Is there a way to get the received and transmitted wifi waveform from an iPhone?

texts: I want to get the wifi waveform for a project involving signal processing, I was wondering if one of you heard of a way to get such an access ?


texts: Each time I turn on or off my VPN, it will ask for the permission "trying to modify this system network configuration"

texts: How can I give permission to my VPN once and it won't ask again?


texts: Using 85W MagSafe inplace of 60W MagSafe 2 for MBP retina 13"

texts:
I have 2 MBPs:
1. Personal MBP 2011 15" (with 85W magsafe)
2. Work MBP Retina 2013 13" (with 60W magsafe 2)

So can I use my 85" magsafe for my 13" retina using this converter without any power issues?


texts:
In my project, I have a bunch of music tracks in a directory of my computer.

I want to add them to my iTunes library in an automated way. I also want to group them in playlists depending on the folder they were in, so just moving them in the Library folder won't do it for me.

Also, I can't use the AppleMusic API (I don't really want to buy an Apple developer licence for a small personal project.)

I thought about a bunch of possible ways to do that, but I'm not aware enough to know what could work/would be less tricky to implement :

use a Swift script using iTunesLibrary module
modify iTunes database to create playlists and link songs
use Automator, AppleScript or other software

I don't know how to code with Swift, manipulate iTunes' database or what Automator can be used for. Anyone with experience that could guide me would be greatly thanked.

Edit: some more precisions


texts:
I have downloaded VS Code on my new Mac mini, but the icon seems to be some random dots. My Mac mini has the M1 Chip.
Here is a picture of the icon in Spotlight:

A few steps I have tried:

Restarting the Mac
Reinstalling VS Code
Trying with a different user
Contacted Apple Support, response was, "it is not our product (vs code) so we can no fix it"

Is there anyway to fix this?


texts: Unremovable partition after trying to install ubuntu

texts:
I tried to install Ubuntu on my MacbookPro (mid 2015, OS X Yosemite) dual boot, using the following: How to Dual-Boot OS X and Ubuntu (PDF)

I was finishing up part 3 and Ubuntu was starting to download, until everything froze. Nothing was responding so I force shutdown my computer and now OS X seems to be working fine. However I have a partition disk0s3 (Linux Swap) and a bunch of Free Space I can't get rid of.

/dev/disk0
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            182.6 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Linux Swap                         16.4 GB    disk0s3

I tried getting rid of them through Internet Recovery but that didn't work either. How can I get rid of the partition and the Free Space?


texts: Trash is not getting emptied no matter how many times I click on empty trash option!

texts:
I recently cleared my system caches and as usual moved them to trash and then clicked empty trash. After the cleanup I was designing some stuff when my eyes fell upon the trash icon, it was full inspite of the fact that I have recently cleared my trash, so I opened it and I came across this cache file (com.apple.kext.caches) no matter how many times I am clicking on empty trash, trash is not getting emptied it still shows full and the file still exits in the trash!

The permissions on this file doesn't allows me read/write this file so tried to add myself (admin) via the get info panel and as expected macOS didn't allowed me to change the permissions.

After trying everything to delete this file I though of putting it back in it's original place system>library>caches and guess a same file already exits so I didn't replaced it.

Moving the cache file out of the trash recreates or creates an exact copy of the file within the trash.

Trash is working normal it is deleting everything send to it except the cache file!

And since it's a root file none of the DIY Terminal commands are working to remove the file

I have already tried deleting it in Safe mode, which didn't worked and I haven't yet tried deleting it in recovery mode using terminal because I don't know how to do it!

The message I am getting when I tried to delete the file using a terminal command:

Sayans-iMac:.Trash sayan$ sudo rm -R /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches
override rw-r--r--  root/wheel restricted for /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories/Library/Extensions/KextIdentifiers.plist.gz? Y
rm: /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories/Library/Extensions/KextIdentifiers.plist.gz: Operation not permitted
override rwxr-xr-x  root/wheel restricted for /Users/sayan/.Trash/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories/Library/Extensions?

The file can be found under this directory

And I am getting this error when I am trying to delete the cache file using this command rm -rf path to the file.


texts: What keyboard command can be used to move the cursor to the end of the next word on the Mac?

texts:
In Windows and Ubuntu one can move the cursor to the end of the next word in text by pressing ctrl+ left or ctrl+right.

What's the equivalent of this on the Mac?


texts: How can I expand the number of special characters I can type using my keyboard?

texts: I am aware that when I press ⌥ or ⇧⌥ on my Mac, I can type a variety of special characters. I also know that I can insert special characters using the character palette. Is there a way to expand the number of special characters I can type while using the keyboard? I am particularly interested in solutions that work in Lion and Mountain Lion.


texts: OSX App Store updates with multiple users

texts:
My mac has several users. If I want to "update" an app, it says only the original user can do the update. But I don't have access to his account!

How can I either:

Update apps from another user
Download my OWN apps instead


texts: 10.10 updated and my internal camera not working

texts:
I have just updated my 2013 MacBook Pro 13 inch with 10.10 Yosemite, but now I can't webcast.

How do I turn the camera back on?


texts: Can any one tell about what kind of issue I am seeing in my Macbook pro 10.12.1, i am seeing verticle lines in one part of screen?

texts: When i tried to take screenshot of issue, it is not getting captured.Screen is turning black and then white


texts: Saving PDFs from Safari to Files app in iOS 12

texts:
After upgrading to iOS 12 it seems that I can no longer save PDFs from Safari directly to the Files app. When I hit the share button, it doesn’t give me the option to Save to Files. The only available option is Create PDF which just creates a blank file screen with the file name and data. If you save this to Files app, it doesn’t open.

Anyone else encountered this issue and found a fix?

Currently I am saving PDFs to Google Drive and then transferring them to Files afterwards which is a pain.


texts:
I have a mac that is hooked into a sound board, I have external sound card that interfaces between the computer and the soundboard, this works great.

However, whenever the computer restarts it sets the input & output to the 'internal microphone' and the 'built in output'.

I'd like to default to the other soundcard. How can I do this?

I'm running OS 10.6.3


texts: How to connect iPhone with MacBook using AirDrop?

texts: I have MacBook pro and iPhone 5S. when I tried to send file from MacBook to iPhone using AirDrop my laptop not finding my iPhone. Is there is any solution or additional settings needed?


texts:
My 89 yr old Dad just died.  Before I catch static, yes, I have a death certificate.  He was somewhat forgetful and would often forget passwords and reset them (and forget those too).  I have his phone and I know his iCloud ID but I do not know his phone unlock code nor his iCloud ID.  When I try to reset his iCloud ID, it wants to notify his iPhone (which I cant unlock).

Can I:

erase his iPhone -- so it will be unlocked
have iCloud send the password reset to the iPhone
get into his iCloud and then restore the phone?


texts: Inserting blank lines into RTF file with AppleScript

texts:
Can someone tell me what is the best way that I can automatically insert a blank line at the top and bottom of these newly-created .rtf files, for these two separate pieces of code?

First piece of code (for when the clipboard contains rich text):

try
    set richTextfromClipboard to get the clipboard as «class RTF »
on error eStr number eNum
    display dialog eStr & " number " & eNum buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution
    return
end try

try
    set fileHandle to open for access theRichTextFilepath with write permission
    write richTextfromClipboard to fileHandle
    close access fileHandle
on error eStr number eNum
    display dialog eStr & " number " & eNum buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "File I/O Error..." with icon caution
    try
        close access fileHandle
    end try
end try

Second piece of code (for when the clipboard contains HTML):

try
    do shell script "osascript -e 'try' -e 'get the clipboard as «class HTML»' -e 'end try' | awk '{sub(/«data HTML/, \"3C68746D6C3E\") sub(/»/, \"3C2F68746D6C3E\")} {print}' | xxd -r -p | textutil -convert rtf -stdin -stdout > " & quoted form of theRichTextFilepath
on error eStr number eNum
    display dialog eStr & " number " & eNum buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution
end try

The blank lines do not have to be of a predetermined font type or font size; the blank lines should simply match the style of the surrounding .rtf file (that is, the style of the rich text on the clipboard).


texts: Cursor changes position in input line after I highlight some text to overwrite it

texts:
My problem is that when I highlight some text (doesn't matter where or in which application) in order to write over it the cursor, sometimes, suddenly changes position causing a lot of typos.

Let's say I've searched the phrase "stack exchange apple" in Google.

Now I want to search for stack overflow so I first highlight "exchange" and "apple" this way:

and then I simply type "overflow" in order to write over the highlighted text. What I sometimes end up with is this:

And I can assure you that I didn't press any arrow keys or trackpad or mouse button of sort. I simply wrote in the keyboard "overflow" but what happened is that after I pressed "O" the cursor changed position and the word ended up like this.

I'm running macOS Sierra v10.12.4 on a Mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro

Are there things that can fail or settings to help with this?


texts: concerned that my app developer wants private information

texts:
I have a freelancer creating an iOS app for my website.

He's asked for my apple developer account username, password and UDID.

Is this legit? It sound like EXACTLY the sort of thing you're not supposed to do. However, though I'm competent in a website/db environment, apps and mobile dev is a sealed book to me (hence needing a freelancer).

Should I provide this information?


texts: Add text substitution for all words ending with certain letters

texts:
I’d like to have automatic spelling correction in MAC OSX 10.7 for all words ending with certain letter sequences. It would help me a lot in my typing if all words ending with "...ao” were substituted by “ão”, for example.

Is it possible, or do I really have to add every word in Text and Language —> Text menu?


texts:
I want to quick switch to the other user in the system, but this login screen has stay there for almost half an hour

Can I cancel the login via command line or other keyboard combination? I can ssh into the box as an admin

/EDIT: I want avoid reboot or shutdown


texts: A more efficient way to manage photos/videos between computer and iPhone

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How can I manage photos on my iPhone 4S such that I can sync the photos to my computer, leave them on my computer and yet selectively remove photos from and leave photos on my iPhone? Simply said, What options exist for heavy duty (12 GB photo library to start with room to grow) and more efficient way to manage photos and videos between my computer and an iPhone.

I am asking this because recently, my iPhone is complaining to me that I have no more storage space. I have a lot of photos and videos shot on my iPhone and I usually leave them on my iPhone. I back up my precious photos and videos via the back-up feature in iTunes and that's all. But iTunes doesn't allow me to view the photos that it has backed up and removing any image from my iPhone is going to do the same to the back-up copy. I have depleted the storage space, I need to clear some of the photos from my iPhone.

I could back up the photos by copying them from the iPhone icon under My Computer. However, this method gets confusing in the long run, especially when I am selectively removing photos over time and putting them back.

So I'm starting to ask myself if everyone else does it this way (the confusing method). What is a way to manage photos and videos more efficiently between my computer and iPhone, such that my computer is the main library of all the photos and videos -- that's deleting items from iPhone when sync'ed with computer does not remove the copy on my computer and new items on my iPhone gets transferred to the computer?

The leading solution of using a Cloud service may be too expensive. It would be great if I could transfer between just an external hard drive and my iPhone.


texts: How to stop TextWrangler changing the text file icon?

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I use a several text editors, but every time I save with TextWrangler it changes the file's icon in Finder to a TextWrangler icon with the following extended attributes;

  com.apple.FinderInfo
  com.apple.TextEncoding

How do I get TextWrangler to stop doing this? I can't find a settings that seems to fix this.


texts: Increase double-click cursor movement sensitivity

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(Note: I think this is new in Yosemite, as I never had this problem before updating, but it's possible I just never noticed.)

In Accessibility preferences (formerly Mouse/Trackpad), it is possible to set how much time delay can occur between the two components of a double-click.

It seems OS X also allows a certain amount of cursor movement in this interval (~15 pixels, I think), and I would like to decrease the allowance to about 2 pixels.

Why? I am fairly fast with the mouse, and even at the minimum delay time, sometimes when rapidly clicking several things in a list OS X thinks I'm double-clicking on one item and opens it instead.

If you haven't experienced this, try increasing the delay in Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad and clicking on two adjacent items in the Finder.


texts: Message, Phone apps started showing only phone numbers, not names

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About three days after upgrading from iOS 11.4 to iOS 12 my messages and phone apps (recents & voicemail) started showing only phone numbers, not contact names. In some cases, they would display "Maybe: [name]".

Trying to figure this out, I noticed that my contacts app was not formating numbers correctly.  Instead of (123) 456-7890, it would show 1234567890.

I tried a lot of fixes that were suggested on the internet (edit one contact, restart, stop the apps and re-start, etc.) but none worked.

How can I fix this?


texts: Looking for workflow or script for saving Kindle documents

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I'm using a Kindle DX (3G, no WiFi) for reading documents saved from the web with Readability.  Because Amazon charges a conversion cost for these documents I'm forwarding the documents to my foo.baz@free.kindle.com account.

Amazon then forwards these as emails to me where I use Gmail or Mail.app to click on the link inside each message and laboriously save the corresponding foo.azw download to my Kindle.

I'm wondering if anyone has created an automator workflow or an Applescript that can visit a group of unread Amazon emails and use the links in each to download the corresponding .azw files?

If there's a better way to go about this I'd also be delighted to hear about it.


texts:
Has anyone else noticed that Chrome refuses to quit instantly when using CmdQ?

Happens with one or several tabs open...

All the other apps I run can be ended by typing / tapping briefly CmdQ, but Chrome insists that I have to hold for an appreciable period of time.

This is becoming annoying, any ideas?


texts: Trouble identifying "Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting." in ipad logs

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Playing around with my apple device logs and getting interested in identifying different events.  Many I seem to be able to figure out with a google search and a bit of reading.  However, this one is eluding me.  This is only a small snippet of these events.  The log was compiling at a decent pace, when these particular lines began to appear in a much more rapid manner.

-The device is not jailbroken, running out of the box ios
-No apps running at time of log
-I do not use Icloud

 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.
 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.
 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.
 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.
 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.
 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.
 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.
 Jan 17 22:40:03 A-iPad suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[388] <Notice>: Tombstone exists for queued item; deleting.```

This was also referenced immediately after the above
```MobileSafari(CoreMotion)[326] <Notice>: {"msg":"CLGyroBiasEstimatorClientRemote::unregisterWithGyroBiasEstimatorPrivate", "event":"activity", "client":"0x111b2e550"}```


texts: Problems Accessing (Synology) NAS over AFP directly over the finder and time machine with Mavericks MBPr

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we have two Macs, an older iMac and a MBPr both with Mavericks (10.9.3). Only one of them has a very annoying problem with our new synology ds214+.

With the iMac I can access the NAS over the the finder symbol (both AFP and SMB). Also time machine finds the time machine folder on the NAS which was configured over the synology dsm software.

The MBPr on the other hand can access the NAS over different ways: AFP from the browser "afp://ip.adress", smb over the finder symbol.
But there is no way I can get it to work with time machine or AFP over the finder symbol. I just get a message saying something like "While connecting to 'DiskStation' an error occured. Maybe the server is not available anymore".

I have a hands off! firewall installed, but it doesn't matter if it is turned on or off.

Due to the fact that it worked for one night with the first backup i am kinda driving crazy, cos ever since I can't get it to work again. I even tried to reinstall OS X from a backup with no success either.

I am wondering if there might be any connection to the fact, that my MBPr doesn't connect to the apple software update server either.

I am thankful for any advice.


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Let's say I installed an app from the App Store, and my Apple ID is johndoe@gmail.com. Is it technically possible for the app developer (a random person, not an app developed by Apple) to see information such as:

App installed by johndoe@gmail.com 24 April 2015 at 12:05 PM
App uninstalled by johndoe@gmail.com 20 December 2016 at 2:08 PM
App reinstalled by johndoe@gmail.com 15 February 2017 at 5:53 PM

Or is gathering information on which Apple IDs installed your app blocked by iOS? (I use iOS 10.3.1 on iPhone 6).

Further, if I deleted an app (for example, a game), and reinstall it, will the app be able to infer that I had installed it before (assuming my dynamic IP has changed because I turned Airplane mode on and off (I use mobile internet), that I reset the Advertising ID under Settings-->Privacy-->Advertising, and no other apps by that developer are also installed on my device)?

Thanks!

PS - Sources for any answers you give would be much appreciated!


texts: How do I tell iTunes not to back up apps?

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I found that the apps I have stored in iTunes take up more than 10GB of space on my computer. Since I have a 128GB SSD I'd like to tell iTunes not to backup apps. I can download them again for free, anyway. If I uncheck the Sync Apps box, I get the message:

  Are you sure you do not want to sync apps? All existing apps and their
  data on the iPhone "kPhone" will be removed.


texts: Inconsistent results when getting folder size in AppleScript

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I'm using this line to get the size of a folder:

set thesize to physical size of folder x

The problem is that sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, and it's very annoying because there doesn't seem to be any kind of logic to it. The same folder path can return "missing value" at first, then return the number of bytes later, without any code change. It seems to start working more often after I "Get Info" on the folder in the Finder, but even that doesn't always work.

How do you make this reliable? I can't send my application to other people with this kind of unpredictability on my own computer.


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Is there a button combo you can use on a locked iPhone to view it's owner info?

I once left my phone at airport security, and they called me on the PA system and showed me how they pressed a button combo to view the owner info.  I don't remember what the combo was.  I've found someone's phone now and would like to do the same to see if I can return it to them.


texts: How to keep an SSD in shape on Yosemite?

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As of OS X 10.10, Apple uses kext signing. Ever since it has become difficult and dangerous to manually activate TRIM for third-party SSDs on OS X. That means users with non-Apple SSDs will sooner or later see degrading write speeds.

So I am wondering what are my options to avoid this situation. Some approaches I could think of imply additional problems:

Are you aware of any alternative approach, that does not require disabling kext signing?
Are there tools or tricks to manually clean up a SSD (i.e. issue a TRIM command)?
If I decided to temporarily use a tool like TRIM Enabler how long would it need to be activated, in order to clean the disk?

To summarize: No TRIM on Yosemite. What can I do?


texts: HDR color problem on MacBook Pro 16" 2019

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I am watching same video on a Mac and two phones, iPhone 12 and Android.
There is abnormal glare on the Mac. For example in attached pics the Mac shows too much glare on girls face, clothes.
This happens when I play this video in HDR in Chrome, it does not happen if HDR not enabled in Safari.
How do I solve this problem ?


texts: Weird issues ejecting external hard drive

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I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups (and storage of a few other large files). Recently (since Mountain Lion, I think) I've been getting the following message when ejecting the drive:

  "Time Machine Backups" is a partition on a disk that has 2 partitions. Do you want to eject "Time Machine Backups" only, or both partitions?

I haven't partitioned this drive myself, and I didn't get this message before a few months ago. According to Disk Utility, there is only one partition occupying the entire drive.

This isn't really a problem in itself (I just choose "Eject All"). However after ejecting the drive (all partitions) and waiting for it to disappear from the Finder, I still get the following message when I physically unplug it:

  The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off.

I don't want to damage my drive, so can anyone shed any light on what's going on? It's worth noting that neither of these problems seem to occur if I eject before Time Machine performs a backup.

Update 1:

diskutil list gives the following output:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         168.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows                 80.9 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *168.0 GB   disk1
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         999.9 GB   disk3s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk3s3
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                 Apple_HFSX Time Machine Backups   *999.5 GB   disk5


texts: identify if Filevault is enabled on remote Mac

texts: I need to do remote checks to verify OSX has filevault enabled.  When you enable filevault, does it create / change something on the HDD that I can check for on VPN login using my posture assessment tools?


texts: Time Machine - "tmutil" syntax to inherit backup set for new drive

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My iMac had an SSD startup drive (called SSD) and a 3TB internal hard drive (MacintoshHD) duplicating the SSD as well as containing the User folders and all data.

MacintoshHD died last week. I reinstalled the original 1TB hard drive (also called MacintoshHD but not currently being used) and bought an external Thunderbolt 4TB drive. Onto this I've copied my home folder (at root level  so the supplied LaCie setup software is untouched in the root too).

I have successfully restored everything but my Movies and Downloads folders (which stupidly I excluded from TM because of space issues!) by copying the contents of the .../Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/Users/operacentric folder to the new drive. Thus the new drive doesn't duplicate all users and system folders that the original had.

I want Time Machine to continue using the existing backup set (at least until I can afford an 8TB new drive when I can start again!) It has backups for SSD and MacintoshHD until the last backup but one (which is when the HDD failed). So the Latest folder contains an SSD backup but the previous one has folders for both drives.

Having read the manual page and various guides here and elsewhere about TMUTIL, I believe I can use Associatedisk to relink the backup to the new drive. However, they don't deal with the issue of having two drives in the backup. I am not quite sure of the syntax - do I use the root drive name (LaCie), the Users folder or the operacentric folder?

sudo tmutil  associatedisk [-a] mount_point snapshot_volume

Is the mount_point:

/volumes/LaCie or
/Volumes/LaCie/Users or
/Volumes/LaCie/Users/operacentric ?

Can I use the actual snapshot volume rather than the (missing) link in Latest?, so

/Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2017-12-24-000806/MacintoshHD

or do I enter the same point of the hierarchy

/Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2017-12-24-000806/MacintoshHD/Users/operacentric?

All the posts I've seen here relate to a single drive - not sure how to work with the internal and the external...


texts: How to replace rather than add tags in MacOS?

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I've been scratching my brain on this one for a while. In macOS, it's easy to add tags to a file (whether right-clicking on a file, using the toolbar shortcut button or using the File menu). In each case, this opens the Tags menu which allows you to choose a tag that you want to add (for example, the default color-based tags). It's equally easy to remove any currently assigned tags.

However, I can't find a way to replace all existing tags with a new one. Let me explain my case scenario:

I add a tag "ToDo" (Blue) to a file.
Once I begin work I have to replace the "ToDo" tag with an "In Progress" tag (Orange).
When I complete the work, I have to replace the "In Progress" tag with "Completed" (Green).

Currently, for steps 2 & 3, I have to open the Tags menu, manually remove any tags assigned to the file/folder, and finally add the new tag.

Is there a way to simplify that process by removing all assigned tags and replacing them with the new tag, all in one go? I assumed that holding down the Option key (or another modifier) may change the "Add Tag" action to a "Replace Tag" action, but no success.

I know I could achieve this with Terminal Scripting or Keyboard Maestro, but I'm trying to see if there's a native way to do this.

Thanks!


texts: iPhone 3GS has color depth of 24-bit color or 18-bit color?

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I don't understand why Apple did not disclose all the detailed specifications. On apple site, it only tells the most basic specs not all specs so Wikipedia has to search iPhone specs in other sources.

For example, rhe wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone said iPhone 3Gs has
color depth of 18-bit color while http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_3GS said 24-bit color.

Have anyone who did use both 3Gs & 4 or 4s?  Did u see the picture clearer in 4 than in 3GS?

So which color depth does iPhone 3GS have?

24-bit color or 18-bit color?


texts: Menubar turns solid white or transparent

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I have an interesting problem for quite some time now. My menubar turns all sorts of states on external monitors.

I have a 3-monitor-setup on an iMac 5K. I use two external Dell displays to the left and right of the built-in screen. On my right display, when it is inactive, the menubar turns completely transparent, except for the status icons. On my left display, everything stays normal, whether active or not. On my main display the menubar turns opaque white (including status icons) when inactive.

Here's a screenshot of the situation on the main monitor:

And here it is on the right-most-display (icons blurred for privacy):

Several reboots and even a macOS update (it happened on 10.13.0, too) didn't fix it, neither did manually killing SystemUIServer. What can I do?

Installed tweaks affecting the menubar (no difference when disabling): Bartender, BetterTouchTool

OS: macOS High Sierra 10.3.1 (17B1003)


texts: Is there a way to start one game on the iPhone and continue it going on to your iPad?


texts:
My 15" MacBook Pro, running macOS Sierra freezes frequently. This happens randomly, it freezes and only a force-shutdown (hold the power button) works. First, the Beachball just spins, then sometimes a black screen appears without any description or explanation. At this point, other buttons do not respond.

I tried DiskUtil, CleanMyMac and OnyX to check the SSD, tried reparing permissions and other decisions. But my MacBook continues to hang, although now a little less.

Please recommend me other programs for testing and troubleshooting. Is my MacBook dying? Which devices can cause this problem?


texts: Is there a downside on using APFS on a conventional HDD when using macOS 10.13 or later?

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I'm using Superduper to make a copy of my system disk to an external conventional harddisk (HDD, not SSD). Superduper wants to convert the disk to APFS. Until now I've used HFS+. Is there a downside on using APFS? I know the advantages of APFS are mostly lost on a HDD, and that older systems don't work with APFS, but for me that is no issue.
Are there downsides on using APFS that I should know of?


texts: Where does a large file go when I delete it from a volume?

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I deleted several files around 1 GB or more from an external drive with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I cannot see them in ~/.Trash and Finder refuses to go to /Volumes/<volume name>/.Trash by saying it does not exist, and it refuses to complete the location starting with /Volumes/<volume name>/.Tr.

Where did the files go?


texts: iPhone 5 screen appears to be using one screw and glue instead of two screws

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My iPhone 5 was used when I got it about a year and a half ago, but it appeared to be in perfect condition. However, today I was trying to take the screen off and at that point I noticed it only has one screw on the bottom, and the other screw-hole (the right-side one) is empty. The left side of the screen pops out just fine, but the right side is somehow stuck in there, as you can see in the picture below. If I try to force it out, it starts pulling the "inner shell" thing out with it. The right-side screw-hole is absolutely empty.

Is it possible that when they were getting the iPhone ready for re-use, they noticed that a screw was missing so they just glued the right side instead? I can't imagine they didn't have extra screws lying around...


texts: Change Ctrl+Arrow and Ctrl+Shift+Arrow to jump/jump+select a single word rather than the whole line?

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In order to change the way home and end function on OS X so it matches other devices I frequently utilised this 'hack'. Is there a similar way to override the way Ctrl+arrow and Ctrl+Shift+arrow work?

I appreciate that if I was completely moving to OS X it's silly, however, when all other devices use these keys in this fashion it makes sense to reconfigure them on the one device that doesn't match.

In short, I want to make ctrl+left/right arrow jump by word/punctuation separator as it does on Ubuntu and Windows rather than to the end of line.

I would prefer to use a native override rather than installing an app to perform this task, but if that's not possible then please let me know of any apps.


texts:
When migrating to a new router I remarked my iPhone (7Plus) had lousy TX performance compared to the other 80211.ac Apple devices connected to the same wireless SSID as revealed in below screenshot:

Since it was a new router, I figured maybe there was some inconsistent configuration going on somewhere. Reviewed everything; all good.

Comparative analysis: what's different about this iPhone than the other devices that are working correctly?!?!?

I remarked my iPhone was right next to the router. So I moved it about 4 feet away (in same room). Still terrible TX performance on just this one device. Other than proximity (which I just checked) which can affect wireless performance, why was this iPhone non-performant?!?!?


texts: Is it safe to to upgrade OS X 10.7 to 10.8 on a productive system?

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I was wondering if there are any implications to upgrading my iMac web development machine (which is highly configured MAMP (Apache, MySQl), customized hosts file, custom Network Card settings, etc... from OS X 10.7 to OS X 10.8?

Will I loose everything 9apps/files/MAMP config, etc...


texts: How to enable ssh proxy every time I resume desktop

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I start ssh proxy by a command similar to the following when I login to the desktop.

ssh -N awsproxy.vpc

Also, I need to type this every single time I resume my desktop from sleep mode. Can you tell me any automated way to switch ssh proxy on if you know, please?


texts: Segfault when switching to a custom keyboard layout from Touch Bar

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I am using a custom keyboard layout, created by Ukelele. It was serving me well for years, until I started to use it on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I added the "Change Input Language" button to the Touch Bar's Control Strip and whenever I press it, the language is switched. It worked fine for weeks, but suddenly it is just not switching from the Touch Bar. But it does switch from the top menu bar and keyboard.

Now some technical details. I've tried to use both a .keylayout file as well as bundle file. I've tried to install it both in /Library/... and in ~/Library/.... When the problem appears, it's not easy to recover it, even with reboots. Removing/adding my custom layout again doesn't work most of the time. The Touch Bar does switch using built-in languages.

I've contacted the developer of Ukelele, but he couldn't test it due to not having a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and had no clue.

So I looked into logs and found a Touch Bar crash:

Jul 23 21:45:17 xxxx com.apple.DFRSystemExtra.InputMenu[763]: objc[763]: Class TIMLog is implemented in both /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/TextInput.menu/Contents/SharedFrameworks/TextInputUI.framework/Versions/A/TextInputUI (0x102c88858) and /System/Library/CoreServices/ControlStrip.app/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.DFRSystemExtra.InputMenu.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.DFRSystemExtra.InputMenu (0x102c64958). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jul 23 21:45:18 xxxx com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.DFRSystemExtra.InputMenu[763]): Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11 sent by exc handler[0]

I noticed one difference - built in languages show a 2 letter language name on the Touch Bar button, while my custom layout shows an icon. I haven't found a way in Ukelele to make my custom layout show a 2 letter language abbreviation—maybe someone can suggest a way that I can try. So my guess is that it happens due to the custom layout icon, but it was copied from a built-in layout.


texts: Webcam Conference // Software to modify picture

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is there any software to modify my webcam picture? I tried to find something, but only found software that has "fun" filters.
The Task
I need the software to run video conferences and do workshops that were planned to be on-site. These need to be done remote now. In order to have a professional appearance and help the team to focus, I need a tool to help me by having features like the following:

Clock Timer for Countdowns or Count Ups
Put my logo into the webcam picture (like a watermark)
Put other graphics into the webcam picture (like moderation notes "enough, lets move on!" etc.)

I will probably use MS Teams as conferencing software most of the times, but this will not always be the case. So the perfect solution should generally override the webcam picture, which would make it able to use with every conferencing tool.
It is also okay, if the software is quite hard to get into, since I plan to use it a lot. It will be worth the time. The technical expertise is quite high since I am quite proficient in using and configuring software tools.
What I already found
I already found OBS (https://obsproject.com/), but it requires a windows-only plugin to be able to stream directly to the webcam (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/).
It is also okay, if the software is not for free.
Does anybody know a solution for me?
Thanks a lot


texts: Where can someone buy a refurbished iPhone?

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When I go to Apple's webpage for refurbished and clearance products, I can find links to buy Macs, iPods and iPads, but none for buying refurbished iPhones.

Is it possible to buy a refurbished iPhone:

online, on the Apple Store?
in a physical Apple Store?
online or offline with a phone carrier?
other options?


texts: Rename mounted volume for dmg file (permanently in the dmg)?

texts:
I have a DMG file for an application. Created with some list of scripts that are not readily accessible for quick re-run. The content is fine but it mounts a volume name that is broken. It is broken because a specific format is expected by other scripts.

Is there some way to edit this existing DMG file to rename the volume it will mount as?

To illustrate:

DMG file name: my_macos_image.dmg
I doubleclick on my_macos_image.dmg
DMG content is mounted at "/Volumes/my_mac_image_oops_this_part_is_too_much"
I wish to edit DMG file to change "/Volumes/my_mac_image_oops_this_part_is_too_much" to "/Volumes/my_mac_image"

How can I do this? (or can I..)


texts: Why is my compile time in Eclipse so long on an older iMac?

texts:
I have an iMac 27" from mid 2010 with 2,8 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU and 10GB RAM. It is running macOS High Sierra and things are okay on it except the browser gets a bit laggy when opening too much tabs.

I know this is an old setup for developing code but still I have this in my room and want to use it with Eclipse 4.13.

This works fine except for compiling even small pieces of code like the one below. Compiling it takes about 10 seconds each time.

I was wondering if there is some setting that I miss. I know that first compilations make take time, but then the following ones should go faster.

public class Klient {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Subjekt subject = new Stellvertreter();
    subject.operation();

}

}

abstract class Subjekt {

    public abstract void operation();

}

class RealesSubjekt extends Subjekt {

    public void operation() {
        System.out.println("Hier wird jetzt erst ausgeführt");

    }
}

class Stellvertreter extends Subjekt {

    RealesSubjekt realesSubjekt = new RealesSubjekt();

    public void operation() {
        System.out.println("Stellvertreter delegiert...");
        realesSubjekt.operation();
    }
}


texts: How does iOS detect the version of an installed app?

texts:
How does iOS detect the version of an installed app, to figure out whether or not an update (release with higher version) of the app is available?

Is the app's info.plist taken into account or does the App Store app do some bookkeeping?


texts: How to select buttons in a dialog using the keyboard?

texts:
Times ago I setted my Mac (in system preferences) to use, when an alert appear, enter key to choose OK button and tab to scroll other possible button and space to select one of them.
Now I initialized my Mac and I can't find the preference again, does somebody know where is it? Thank you!


texts:
So, I had my 12 inch MacBook plugged into an external monitor (with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse) and was working on it normally, when suddenly everything became really slow and unresponsive, after waiting for a while for Force Quit to work and with nothing happening I decided to force shut-down the machine.

When it was starting up it asked me for a password after entering it the login screen froze after waiting for 5 min I force shutdown this as well.

But now the machine just won't turn on at all. What can I do?


texts: iOS administration: Fleet Management / remote setup / remote control **without jailbreak**

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I have a fleet of more than 10 iOS devices (iPhones 3GS, 4, 4S, iPad2...) to manage, setup, etc.

Often, users are very lost with configuration and usage (device configuration, e-mail, calendar sync, Apps installation and usage... I even have question like "How can I send my photo by e-mail?", or "How to transfer this PDF?" sic.).

I cannot allow me to jailbreak professional devices, so it's a prohibitive constraint.

I seek a solution to guide them simplest, that in trying to explain to them what to do by phone.

So far I have found nothing better than to send them screenshot through IMessage, and it is very laborious.
Moreover, even with detailed pictures, users make regular errors, which can further complicate the matter!

So, if there is a secure and legal way, without jailbreak, to get a remote access, or the possibility (even limited) of a remote setup of an iOS device, it would be an deliverance for me.

Although the ideal would be to take remote control (like VNC or TeamViewer), I'm interested in every little thing, with idea like the ability to send auto-configuration files by iMessage.
Or anything else to what you might think...

Even commercial applications, because all of this is very time consuming.

I almost regret the days of Windows Phone 6.*, which it was possible to send Security Policies and use other corporate tools very helpful in such cases...

Anyway, thank you in advance for any help you could provide!


texts: Do I need an internet connection to update iOS on my PC?

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I've downloaded the IOS5 IPSW from Apple's site and want to update it from within iTunes. So,

Does the update require an Internet connection?
Does the iPhone switch off/reboot just as the update is initiated?

I ask because I'm at my new place where I'm yet to setup an Internet connection & my iPhone tethered to my laptop is my only Internet connection. I don't want my phone to be bricked because it cannot verify the update or what-not because there's no Internet connection.


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I don't want to erase all my existing apps. I just want to install the .ipa file and KEEP all my existing apps. However iTunes says

  Are you sure you want to sync apps?
  All existing apps and their data on
  the iPhone "Simon Strandgaard's
  iPhone" will be replaced with apps
  from this iTunes library.

I really don't want to click the "Sync Apps" button.

I could go home and open iTunes on my own computer, but I'm at my friends place. How to do get the .ipa on my iPhone?


texts: Can you stream photos from a PC to an iPad?

texts: I have more photos then I want to download onto the iPad.  Is there a favorite app that allows users to browse photos from a Windows7 machine to view on my iPad over wifi?


texts: How can I convert HTML/Rich Text to Markdown in Automator?

texts: I have an Automator service that takes selected text and saves it in a file. However, bold, italics, and linked URLS aren't preserved. Is there a way I can convert it to Markdown before I save it? When I searched Google, I only found guides to convert plain text to HTML.


texts: How to transfer entire iTunes library from one iPhone to another?

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I got a new iPhone, and restored it from a backup of my old iPhone. Then I noticed that the iTunes library was empty excluding the stock U2 tracks.

If I move the entire "iTunes_Control" folder from the old iPhone to the new one, the music library seems to be there on the new phone, but none of the songs are playable "in my region". None of it is Apple Music, from iCloud or whatever online service, all are mp3 and m4as from my computer.

I want to restore everything from the old iTunes library to the new phone, including playlists, statistics, album art as a backup should.


texts: Make apple id from iphone - new region , no credit card

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Okay - i know Apple say you must put in credit card info etc when you change region and try to log in -> sign up a new apple id. And i know there is no "None" option when you try to do this.

Now that we have settled that: - how is the work around this problem? How can i make a new apple id when i have changed region?

Virtual Visa Card? does this work? anyone have a guide? I have seen some pages having this service - but then i need to transfer money and that is not an option. Does anyone know about a "commen" fake credit card info i can put in?

Btw : i do this to get the pokemon app outside Austrailia.


texts: Automator workflow only works when clicking "step"

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I am trying to write a workflow that will use Shell to apply SHA256 to cells in an Excel spreadsheet.

The Workflow (which may be a bit of a hack) is working, but only when I click through it using "Step" - if I try to Run it or Loop it, the output is not the SHA256 hash but the original input.

Any ideas? As this seems really weird.

EDIT: Thanks to @Graham Miln I eventually got this working in AppleScript alone without Automator.


texts: iCloud Backup Restore 6.0 to 7.0 but not 7.0 to 7.1

texts:
Just for my knowledge and curiosity, not using iTunes backup but just over Wi-Fi:

Why is possible to do an iCloud backup and restore from 6.0 to 7.0 and is not possible to do an iCloud backup restore from 7.0 to 7.1 (they must be 7.0 to 7.0 or 7.1 to 7.1)

It is a software requirement? It is a hardware requirement?


texts: Dual monitor DELL P2415Q MacBook Pro 13" early 2015

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Does anyone know if I can connect two 4k monitors running at 60Hz to my MBP 13" early 2015, 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB). Specifically, I am interested in the DELL P2415Q.

My understanding is that I can connect 2 monitors with res 3840 x 2160 via the two thunderbolt ports, but only one can run at 60Hz, the other must run at 30Hz.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!


texts: Which app distribution method I must use for this app?

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Im making an app for my enterprise but we dont know yet which ditribution method to use. The app is for employees, <-- This is not a problem, we can use Enterprise Membership, the problem is that the app is also going to be used by the family of the employees, so Enterprise is not an option because we wanted to upload the an into the intranet but that way the families couldnt have access to the app.

So my question is: With enterprise account, we can upload the app into the public enterprise page? Or for this situation, is better to use a normal Developer Account and publish the app into the App Store?

Thanks.


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A few weeks ago I was trying to give a lecture on Zoom by sharing my iPad screen using Airplay.  My Zoom session was through a Mac computer so the connection to the iPad was over the WiFi.  The issue I had was things were very laggy.  An audience member asked if I was connecting the two devices over WiFi and suggested that was the problem; I should use a cable to connect them.
I'm working on preparing for future lectures and I noticed that the presentation mode in Goodnotes does not work as intended if you go to Zoom, share screen, and "iPhone/iPad via cable."
When I go to the Goodnotes website, they suggest the following:
1. Connect your iPad to your computer via USB-C or Lightning cable
2. Start or join a Zoom meeting on your computer and click “Share Screen”
3. Select “iPad/iPhone via AirPlay”
...

I am playing around with my iPad and computer and it seems like, indeed, if the two are connected by a cable, the AirPlay connection will work even if the WiFi on my iPad is off.  That just seems counterintuitive to me: you don't choose the "iPad via cable" option, but instead choose Airplay even though they're connected with a cable?  I also haven't seen anything online about Airplay working with a hard connection in the event the WiFi is off.
Am I understanding this right?  I guess this is more than a solved problem by now.  Was the audience member right that for Zoom lectures over Goodnotes, it's best to use a hard connection (with Airplay)?


texts: Cannot Uninstall Application for Desktop Wallpapers

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I installed an app for desktop wallpapers on a site called Kuvva.com.  It shows up as Purchased in the Application Store but has an option to install it, even though it shows up in System Preferences as already installed.  When I try to click on it, either in App Store to install or in System Preferences to send it to trash, it continues to say cannot delete because it's still open, but I do not see any options to allow me to close it.
I've tried to go over to Desktop/Screensavers where the picture keeps showing up every morning, but there's no way to get rid of it or close it there either.


texts: Installing Ubuntu Virtual Machine on macOS using Native Hypervisor?

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I have Mac Book Pro running macOS High Sierra (10.13.5). I want to run Ubuntu in a virtual machine so that I can ultimately run it as a Kubernetes node.

I realise I could use a Type-2 / Hosted Hypervisor such as Virtual Box to do this. I was just wondering if there was a Type-1 / Native one I could use for OS X? In other words what is the Hyper-V equivalent for OS X? And is this possible or do I just use Virtual Box and be done with it?


texts: Which URL does Apple request when connecting to a Wi-Fi network to look for redirects?

texts:
I remember reading somewhere that when you connect to a Wi-Fi network, Apple tries accessing their own URL which is guaranteed not to follow any redirects. (E.g. http://apple.com/no-redirects). If it sees a redirect, it assumes you are on a Wi-Fi network that needs you to login, so it presents the login screen. Otherwise, if it was able to reach that URL with no redirects, it will just assume you are connected to the internet normally.

What is this URL, and where can I get more info about the mechanism Apple uses?


texts: How can I get more information about Servers under Recent Items?

texts:
There are a number of Servers under Recent Items. The usual trick of holding down on command does not reveal any other information.

Can more information be obtained from this list of recent connections?

e.g. last time they were used, what operations happened, other details perhaps


texts: iPhone 11 with Exchange accounts does not have the "Never" option under "Auto-Lock"

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I bought a new iPhone 11 and restored the backup from my iPhone 6.

It's great except for this issue; I can't get a longer auto-lock than 5 minutes.

I spoke to an Apple support rep and we worked out it's something to do with the exchange accounts I have set up on it.

I have one Office360 exchange account and 6 AWS exchange accounts, all used for email only.

If I disable the AWS exchange accounts, for some reason I get the "Never" option back. The Office360 account doesn't affect anything.

However we weren't able to work out much beyond this.

Why could this be?


texts: How do I change the default boot option on rEFIt?

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I have two copies of OS X (10.6 and 10.7). By default rEFIt boots 10.6. However, I want to make it boot 10.7 instead.

How do I do this?


texts: Why does my Mac not see my external drive as a boot option unless connected via an Apple-branded dongle

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I'm running into this odd issue where my external drive (Windows 10, Bootcamp) will only appear as a boot option if connected via the Apple dongle, and not via my regular off-brand dock/dongle.

Odd thing is, it works even if I connect the drive to the Apple dongle, then to the off-brand dongle, but not if I connect it to the off-brand dongle directly.

I've managed to boot from it (holding Alt/Opt on start), but that was with it connected directly to the Mac with the Apple-branded dongle.

I'm on an MBP 16" 2019


texts: Unable to format internal disk: disk is read-only

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I'm having a strange issue with my MacBook Pro (13" early 2015 running macOS Catalina 10.15.7): few days ago I was using my computer when it has suddenly shut down, when i powered it back on and provided my password it has shut down again and it keeps doing this every time I try to log into the system, plus, it seems that the safe mode is unavailable.
I'd like to format the internal SSD drive (currently formatted as APFS encrypted with FileVault enabled) and proceed with a clean install of the OS but as I can see the internal disk is in read-only mode and when I try to format it from recovery I get permission denied.
I also tried to boot from a bootable USB drive having Big Sur on it but I'm unable to format the drive nor install the OS. I tried running the built-in diagnostic routine but no disk issue was found.
I finally tried to remove the SSD drive and put it on a Thunderbolt case in order to format it from another Mac but I get a similar error even if the "Ignore ownership on this volume" option is ticked.
I managed to copy some of my data from the internal drive to an external one using the terminal in recovery mode, now I would like to wipe out all the contents from my internal drive and install a fresh copy of macOS (Catalina or Big Sur), how can I format a SSD drive in this condition?
I described this issue on Reddit too and I added a link to another Reddit post where I listed some other software related issue I had and I though they were related to the disk or the filesystem, maybe this may be helpful. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/kpafn0/unable_to_format_internal_disk_disk_is_readonly/


texts: Programmatically/Script-atically changing the default Open-With setting

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Is there a way to change what app opens a file type programmatically/with a script?

Basically, sometimes I'm working on a web site, and I want to set all web files to open with a text editor (*.php, *.html, *.htm, etc...).

However, other times, I want to just view the files, so I want them to open with a browser.

Right now, I'm dragging items onto dock icons, which works, but is slow, particularly when I'm going through a large number of files with the keyboard only.

Basically, what I want is a small applescript/whatever that changes all the open-with settings.
That way, I can have one script for each open-with program, and change back and forth.

Thanks.


texts: Has anyone updated their bootcamp win7 to win10?

texts: As the title states has anyone successfully updated their bootcamp install of windows from 7 to 10 with the windows update tool? Is it useable? Do the drivers work? Does it mess up the bootloader?


texts: Can I use Shift, Alt and Control Modifier Keys Together With the Function Keys on the Touch Bar?

texts:
I've configured my touch bar to always show function keys in one program where I use those frequently (IntelliJ IDEA, code editor). Many hotkeys in IDEA are triggered using a function key together with shift, alt or control, e.g. for renaming a variable, I use Shift+F6.

With the emulated function keys, this does not work, the program acts as if I had just hit F6 without holding down the alt key.

It was no problem with the hardware function keys on my old MacBook.

Is this a known bug, or a limitation one has to live with? Or is there some way to work around it? Perhaps I'm just to stupid and missing something obvious?

This is a major pain for me as a software developer…


texts: After 10.9 upgrade, settings keep getting deleted

texts:
Got an exceedingly odd one here.  I have installed 10.9 on four machines now and each time I have seen it wipe out the login.keychain and sometimes after that it also wiped out some preferences, but after a reboot and restore of some of them things seemed to settle down.  Fortunately I've been able to restore the backup on all except one.  I've hit an odd wall with one of the MacBook Airs in particular where the system not only wiped out the login.keychain but snowballed into wiping out all of the other preferences it appears to all apps.  This included the Dock and most application preferences.  Some things seemed to remain such as Desktop and Screensaver settings, so it was quite queer.

This particular problem machine went so far as to have the iPhoto and iTunes databases continually corrupted.  After turning on and off iCloud, many reboots and about 20 rebuilds of the iPhoto database, I've reached the end of my tolerance level.  The most reliable way to corrupt the iPhoto database and iTunes has been to connect a new iPad Air to it.  I finally got it switched over to sync via wireless and to not trigger iPhoto and iTunes automatically on connection and so that is calmed down, however the other settings such as Dock's and Finder's are being obliterated yet still on each reboot and seemingly at random times.

This is quite odd for me as I'm usually the guy that tells the Geniuses at the Apple store what is going on as I have 20 years of Unix, etc. experience, but this is just a baffling situation and I wanted to see if anyone else has seen anything quite like this.  I have not yet been able to find the same scenarios with quite a bit of searching and so I felt it was time to pop on over here.

FYI, I also did reset the keychain entirely multiple times as well as run repairs, which rebuilt it since it was being deleted too apparently.  Filesystem and permissions also were fine.

Any thoughts or anyone seen something similar?


texts:
I’m fairly new to Automator, in that I’ve used it only once before. What I’m trying to do is clean up a bunch of Android app assets, which are named like so:

01_something
1_something_else
002_something_too

What I want to do is remove the leading digits + underscore, i.e. any leading non alphabetical characters. I imagine this can be done either by having a script that’s smart enough remove them, perhaps by some manner of regex, or by having a prompt that asks me how many characters I want to remove, if Automator even supports that.

Secondly, I’d like to add a prefix to the files, like tile_ or ab_. Again, if I could select some files in Finder, and choose ‘Add Prefix’ or something, and enter some text into a prompt, that’d be optimal.


texts: How to find the IP of a device connected through Ethernet Sharing

texts:
I often share my MacBook Pro's Ethernet connection with devices like a Raspberry Pi to log in via SSH and configure files  without using a screen, keyboard, etc.

My current method to find the IP is to ping the hostname. Example: Ping raspberrypi.local.

Recently, I have ran into problems where the hostname is unknown of the device, and I need to login, finding it's IP.

So, I try the command-line utility fing, which scans for devcies on your local network, but I had no luck finding the device. Fing seemed to only show devices that were on my wireless network.

Are there any suggestions to find local IP addresses of devices I plug into my Ethernet jack?


texts: FreeDOS USB drive does not show in option key boot menu on Macbook Pro (Late 2011)

texts:
I've been struggling for two days to dual-boot FreeDOS along with Mac OS X on an old MacBook (late 2011)  that I have.

I've tried doing the live CD option and flashing it to the drive with Rufus.
I've tried following the instructions on the FreeDOS website for the USB drive and copying the contents of the .img file to the disk.
and I've tried using Boot Camp which gives me an error that the Windows installer isn't found.

Nothing works. Does anyone have any idea of what is going on?


texts: Why is my external HDD failing to mount on my MacBook?

texts:
All of my MacBook Pro 13" 2017 backups are kept on my Toshiba External HDD. I decided to update my MacBook to macOS Big Sur developer beta (because I am a dev) and test it out. I backed my MacBook up onto my external hard drive before installing macOS 11 Big Sur beta, expecting to be able to use it just in case I need to go back to macOS Catalina.
After I installed the beta:
Just about a half a week ago, after using the drive completely fine in macOS Big Sur, I plugged in my external hard drive and found that it did not appear on my desktop or in Finder. I opened Disk Utility to find that the disk was displayed as not mounted. I tried to click Mount, which was not greyed out, and I received an error that the disk could not be mounted:

Could not mount “TOSHIBA EXT”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 0.)

I automatically assumed that this was just a bug in the new beta update and I reported it to Apple. However, I soon came to find out it was also happening on another MacBook Air that has macOS Catalina 10.14.2 installed. So it was obviously not the beta, it was the disk.
Why exactly did this happen on a disk that was working perfectly fine the day before? Was the disk affected by something in the macOS Big Sur beta or is it a completely unrelated issue? I was searching for solutions for this issue and found that it was somewhat common, and that people recommend using DiskWarrior to repair the disk, however, I cannot justify spending $100 to repair a disk when I might as well just buy a newer and faster SSD. Are there any other cheaper and even free solutions to this?
And in terms of data, I do not have data on the disk that is vital except for my MacBook Pro backups, which I was hoping to have on hand if something went wrong. If I bought a new drive, could I back up that from macOS Big Sur, erase Big Sur and install Catalina with the data from Big Sur?


texts: How do I type a tilde in spanish keyboard?

texts: It is difficult work with the Terminal if you can't type the tilde. Does anybody know how to do this using a Spanish keyboard?


texts: Create new Apple ID solely linked to new @icloud.com email?

texts:
I am attempting to create a new Apple ID for use with an Organization Apple Developer Account.
I want this new Apple ID to have a new ____@icloud.com email address.
I do not want to use any existing email address for this account. The Apple ID should be entirely new, with no links to any 3rd party email address.

When I go to Create Apple ID via the Mac App Store, it prompts me to provide an email address that will "become your Apple ID".
It seems to want an existing email address; it's not creating a new email address for me.

Create Apple ID
Email - This email address will become your Apple ID.

If I attempt to type a new @icloud.com email address into this field, I'm given the error:

You cannot create a new Apple ID using an existing iCloud email address. If you have an iCloud account you can cancel and Sign In using your iCloud account information.

Is there a way to create a new Apple ID with a new @icloud.com email address, without signing up with an existing 3rd party email address?


texts:
I accidentally brought my iPhone 7 into my university examination and was wondering if I would be able to produce a log (record) of iPhone app access, to show that I never used it during that particular period?

Already found out about something called iosloginfo but not too sure if that's relevant to my problem.


texts: Keyboard shortcut swap/move individual desktop spaces

texts:
I tend to just use one "Desktop" Desktop, then my other Desktops are full-screened apps. I frequently close & open Desktop spaces, like when I decide to open a new browser window.
My question is: How can I swap the Desktop spaces around with just keyboard shortcuts? Currently, it can only be done by going to Mission Control and clicking & dragging the space.
A third-party suggestion would be fine. I tried Spectacles and SizeUp, and neither can do this. SizeUp can only move a window into the next Desktop, not move the whole thing.


texts: Bluetooth keyboard not working after update to Windows 10

texts:
I updated my (native) bootcamp instance to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, but now the apple bluetooth keyboard doesn't seem to work anymore. The bluetooth screen says 'driver error' on the device.

I've tried:

Ran Apple Software Update and updated boot camp
Uninstalling the device
Unpairing + pairing again

Can someone provide guidance to get this to work?


texts: Wireless with 802.11r, 802.11k and 802.1x

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I was recommended to seek for assistance here from the Networking/Stack Exchange site towards OS X queries, do hope someone has the answers.

Have El Capitan on a testing iMac and deploying 802.11r/k with FT-dot1x from a Cisco WLC showed no issues with wireless connectivity. Though one client showed up with a MacBook with wireless issues. Turns out the OS X version on the Mac is 10.7 "Lion"...that is apparently old and obviously doesn't support 802.11r/k. Found a good page within Mac support for iOS (Wi-Fi network roaming with 802.11k, 802.11r, and 802.11v on iOS) but not a support matrix for OS X.

Is there any available support matrix/table/information for listing which versions of OS X hardware and operating system versions towards 802.11r/k support?


texts: How do I find any and all delete-able files on my Mac that are classified as other? My brother installed games on my computer, and even after clearing out "Downloads" and deleting the game applications I have 30 gb of "Other" files that I have no way of deleting because I don't know where they are on my computer.


texts: windows 10 - I have the "Create a Windows 7 or 8 version install disk" but there's a problem

texts:
I followed instructions in this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh667JSvymU showing me how to install Windows on my Mac and showed me how to get the "Create a Windows 7 or 8 version install disk" option. But, when I check it and continue in Bootcamp, it's showing me "There is no USB drive connected to the system. Please insert a USB drive to continue". I don't have a USB Drive and I already have the ISO image thing installed on my Mac. Here is what it shows:

Beneath the option "Create a Windows 7 or 8 version install disk", it says that I can use the ISO image downloaded from Microsoft but it always says that I need a USB drive. Can someone help me, I have been watching videos and researching on google for an hour but I cant find anything.


texts: How to choke network preformance on OS X

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to simulate slow internet connections on the mac

For testing purposes I would like to choke the performance of the network on my OS X 10.8.2 machine.
I have currently Little Snitch installed, which I can block access to certain hosts with... however I would like to lower the network performance as if I would be using an 56k6 old-school modem.

How can I accomplish this?


texts:
I couldn't partition my hard drive because FileVault was turned on. I then started decrypting, but it got stuck on 90%. After 4 days at 90%, I can still access my device, but it's laggy and frustrating.

What is the solution to make it continue or at least to revert back without wiping my drive?

I tried sudo fdesetup disable and force restart, still, nothing is working.

I am using High Sierra MacBook Pro mid-2012.

Thanks.


texts: The new iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular model will work with one of these wireless carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon. But, when I travel internationally, can I use a nano-SIM card from another local GSM carrier?


texts: iOS 5.0.1 (iPhone 4s) unable to synchronize with Internet Calendar File (ics)

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I make use of an ics file that is hosted on my own iron on the Internet for various reasons, most importantly that I make use of Tasks, which Google Calendar is unable to synchronize with any WebCal client.

As for WebCal clients, I make use of Mozilla Sunbird on my main Windows workstation, Mozilla Lightning in my eMail clients, and iCal on my Mac laptop. I am able to use that single ics file to keep them all updated with not only events but also tasks (which, as I said, Google Calendar cannot do).

I host on my own iron. I run and operate my own servers under my own static IP address. I have a number of domain names pointing toward it, so it hosts web sites. I have created a single WebDav account in a directory on the “catch-all” http account (which is used to display a generic message if there is no website set up for that domain name). Any web browser or device is free to download the ics file, but the directory itself is password protected so that WebDav updates cannot be done by anyone except me.

All my WebCal clients can connect to the file, and can update it without fail, except the Calendar app on iOS/iPhone. iCal on Mac OS X 10.6 is also able to synchronize (read AND write to the file), so I know it isn’t an Apple-specific problem.

I am running a brand-new iPhone 4s, which is updated to the latest iOS 5.0.1. It is NOT jailbroken.

If I bring up the url in Safari using a standard http:// connection, it asks to import the entries -- but this is NOT what I want. I want to be able to synchronize with the ics file, and NOT just have a one-way import. I want to make entries in my Calendar app, and have the changes come up on my workstation under Mozilla Sunbird -- and that requires synchronization, not importation.

If I replace the http:// in Safari with webcal://, I get a “Cannot Subscribe. Could not subscribe to the calendar X from Y”.

If I go into Settings, go into “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” and add a new Subscribed Calendar, this also fails. Putting in the full url causes an error message, “Calendar Subscription: Unable to verify account information”. This is particularly confusing because my ics file is freely downloadable by ANY internet-connected client, be it web browser, WebCal client or anything else that can make use of an http connection. My iPhone is the first ever client that has been unable to access the file.

If I select OK I can put in some more information, but adding the username and password does nothing to improve the situation (SSL does not exist on my server, and is turned off by default anyhow in these settings).

So I am very badly confused. I would like to have my iOS Calendar synchronize itself with my Internet-hosted ics file so that I can make both events as well as tasks on my iPhone and have these items show up on any other device that I have a WebCal client set up on. How do I go around doing this?


texts: How to connect a detached earbud back to Apple Earphones?

texts:
I have ~3 year old Apple Earphones that come with iPhones. One of the earbuds, the one with volume controls, broke off with ~1 inch wire attached to it.

Can I get this physical damaged earbud be repaired to a working state by connecting the wires and then using heat shrink wrap over it to protect the wires?


texts:
If I click an RSS feed in Safari on iOS 8, ie. from this page, the Podcast app is mysteriously opened, showing the feed as if it were a Podcast. The feed cannot be read however.

I would expect the feed to open in Safari itself, since it has the same "Shared Links" section as Safari on OS X. But there seems to be no way to use this section for reading RSS feeds.

I can't even delete the Podcast app either, as it seems to be an integrated part of iOS now.

So how can I read RSS feeds using native iOS functionality (save from installing a third party RSS reader)?


texts:
Adapters for USB devices to the new USB C ports on MacBooks are well-known. But what about the reverse?

I am currently thinking about using a MacBook Pro 15", which has only USB ports. In case I had to use an USB C device, would it be possible for me to find anything to connect it to my USB ports?


texts: What are the key differences between the Shazam and Soundhound Apps?

texts: Both seem to do roughly the same thing.   What, if anything, are the relevant differences?


texts: No green light on Mid 2011 13" MBA, continues to charge. Why is it not on? Could this be an issue with the SMC?

texts:
My magsafe charger has no green light, but my mac is charging.

I have tried a SMC reset and still, no green light.


texts: Is it possible to use Remote Desktop to control a Mac Lion Server without monitor and keyboard attached?

texts:
I never used Remote Desktop for Mac OSX so before buying the software I would like to know if I can fully control my Mac Mini with Lion Server installed without any keyboard or monitor attached.

Basically I would like from my Mac Book Air to use Remote Desktop to see the graphical environment of my Mac Mini server and control it, without a KVM.
What I'm concerned, and I didn't find any clue inside Apple website, is the fact that when I'm trying from my MacBook Air to open a Remote Desktop session on my MacMini server some sort of acknowledge is required to the person at the console of that machine, but in my case that machine would be fully unattended and without any keyboard and display.

So I'm asking this question to someone that succeeded in using this software (or other software, any suggestion is welcome!) in this configuration.

Finally, the software admin guide says: "Apple Remote Desktop replaces the need for KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) switches for accessing Xserve computers without a monitor attached.". So it's ok for XServe, but what about MacMini?

thank you


texts: Cannot delete partition (minus greyed out) - non-encrypted, no core storage

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When trying to install Windows 10 from scratch on my Late 2013 MacBook Pro, I was unable to remove the old BOOTCAMP partition through the Boot Camp Assistant.  I erased the partition with Disk Utility, but was unable to join it with my main partition.  Now when I run Boot Camp Assistant, I get the following message: "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition."

Running diskutil core storage list returns: No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

Additionally, FileVault is turned off.

I can add new partitions to the drive manually and delete them, but every time I try to resize the main partition it adds a new Untitled partition that is not deleteable (minus button is greyed out).  Any ideas?

$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  244140624      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  244550264    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  245819800       1640
  245821440   10921976      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  256743416     262144
  257005560   10920264      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  267925824     262144
  268187968  221784600      6  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  489972568     262151
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header


texts: Does screen sharing work when not on the same local network?

texts: Does screen sharing (System Preferences > Sharing > Screen Sharing) work when the computers are on different networks?  For example, if computer A is using Wifi in Texas and computer B is using Wifi in New York, will this still work?


texts: Disable the internal keyboard of a MacBook Pro

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I'm looking for a solution to completely disable the internal keyboard of my MacBook Pro 13" Model A1278 (MacBookPro8,1).

I have no idea how it happened but when it is on, randomly, some letters are pressed without interruption for several minutes. So it is pretty much impossible to use it unless I find a way to disable the internal keyboard and use an external one (wired or wireless).


texts: How to crop odd and even pages differently in a PDF?

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I have a large PDF I want to crop/remove all the whitespace with software that  runs on Mavericks

The PDF in question is designed for print; therefore, odd pages have different margins from even pages. I tried following the tip mentioned in the 3rd comment to this answer, but it seems that feature was removed from Apple's Preview app.

Any ideas? I prefer using free software but any solutions are welcome.


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On an older Macbook from 2008 the DVD is stuck in the tray.  Unfortunately, GRUB isn't booting properly so there's no OS.

How can I eject the disk?  It's a slot loaded disk, so no button or tray.