texts: Is there anyway I can program Safari to automatically add any Wikipedia article I visit to my reading list?

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Ideally in my browser would store for off-line use every webpage I visit, but since I presume there is no such at the moment, the question remains:

Can I program Safari to save every page I visit (or a subset thereof, eg all from wikipedia.org) to my reading list automatically?

iPhone sparked the question but using my MacBook to do the same thing would also be good.


texts: Run Automator workflow or shell script at application launch/shutdown

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As the title says, I'm looking for a way to run an Automator workflow (or a shell script) when I launch a specific application. When I shut down the application, I want to run another workflow/shell script. How do I achieve this?

Any help is much appreciated!


texts: How to configure Ctrl+backspace Linux behavior in macOS terminal?

texts:
I was using Windows and Ubuntu previously and in their terminal, when I used to press Ctrl + Backspace it used to delete the last word till any punctuation. For example, if I had typed:

ls -l /usr/local/foo

on the terminal and pressed Ctrl + Backspace, then the result would be ls -l /usr/local/.

I am very new to the Mac world and searched a lot of places but I could not find this behaviour. I did find that Ctrl+W deletes the entire word till whitespace and the result would be ls -l.

I would like to keep this Ctrl+W behaviour as well as get back the Ctrl + Backspace behaviour that I had on Windows and Ubuntu.

How can I achieve this?


texts: Use network path without mounting as a drive

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I've recently moved to OS X from Windows, and I wish to point a couple of programs towards a network share. On Windows I could open a program's Settings and enter a path as //my.network.share/path and I'm trying to find out if this is possible in OS X.

I know from this question that I can mount the network share and then point a program towards it, but Windows allows me to enter such a path without the share having been mounted. I had hoped that I could enter the network path prefixed with smb:// but OS X won't allow this.

The reason I don't want to mount the share is that it won't always be present. Therefore, I only want to require the network location when I open a specific program.

Is this possible in OS X or do I need to mount the share first?


texts: Sync contacts with mountain lion mac contact list

texts: How do I sync mountain lion contact list to yahoo contact list?


texts: What parts can you scavenge from a nearly 3 year old MacBook Pro?

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I have an early 2008 model MacBook Pro (17") that went the way of all the earth a couple of days ago. I haven't diagnosed it fully yet, but it appears that it's the logic board that's gone, and if that truly is the case it's not worth it to spend the money to repair a nearly 3 year old machine (and no, I didn't have AppleCare because, apparently, I'm an idiot).

The question is this: besides the easily-removable RAM chips, what other parts could conceivably be scavenged from it and be realistically useful elsewhere? I haven't disassembled one of these before, I'm wondering how easily the hard drive could be removed and placed in an enclosure, for example (a zapped logic board should, theoretically, leave the HD data intact).

Any other bits you'd keep before sending it to the great recycling depot in the sky?


texts: Java issue with osx...installed latest but java apps not working

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I have an odd issue on my MAC. I installed java 1.8 sdk so I can use some Java applications however when I run any java based apps, they look real weird or I can get an error saying to use the latest java.

When I am on the command line and I type in java -version it shows 1.8

Any ideas on why my java apps don't seem to work?

The odd thing is if I run the application from a disk image (before i move to the applications folder) it works completely fine.


texts:
I'm on OS 10.12, and because of some legacy software I'm running, I can't upgrade. I have access to most emoji, but some of the newer icons, like , display as blank (e.g. in Messages) or as a box with a code inside (e.g. in Firefox).

Can I update my emoji set without updating my operating system?


texts: X11 applications don't open after XQuartz update (OS X 10.10.4)

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I updated X11 by installing the most recent XQuartz package, 2.7.9. Now, when opening an application that is supported by X11 (e.g., emacs), my terminal throws an error (while X11 starts in the background):

[lap0988:~] user% emacs test.txt &
[1] 14071
[lap0988:~] user% Error: Couldn't find per display information

Needless to say, the application doesn't open. My hunch is that this has to do with the DISPLAY environment variable.

[lap0988:~] user% echo $DISPLAY
/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.p7v5k8pNT7/org.macosforge.xquartz:0

Has anyone come across the problem? Can you suggest a straightforward fix for this?


texts: Getting Perl DBD::mysql working on OS X 10.7?

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I can't seem to get Perl & MySQL to talk to each other on OS X 10.7 Lion.

I did all the installs by the book, I used Oracle's PKG installer for the latest MySQL Community Server, and I installed DBI and DBD::mysql via CPAN. There were not problems at all during the install, but, when I try to USE DBD::mysql to connect to my local DB server I get the following error:

install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load '/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle' for module DBD::mysql: dlopen(/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle, 1): Library not loaded: /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib
  Referenced from: /Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle
  Reason: image not found at /System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/DynaLoader.pm line 204.
 at (eval 3) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected

After a lot of googling all I could find were suggested hacks, so I gave this one a go: http://arkoftech.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/fixing-dbdmysql-for-mysql-5-5-89-under-macos-10-6-x/

I had to update some of the paths in the instructions since on Lion it's Perl 5.12 not 5.10.

After doing that I got a new error:

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _mysql_init
  Referenced from: /Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: _mysql_init
  Referenced from: /Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

Trace/BPT trap: 5

There must be a simple way to get MySQL & Perl working on OS X? - HELP!


texts: How do I change the icons and labels in the MacOS boot manager?

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I freshly installed Big Sur with Windows 10 Boot Camp on a late-2013 MacBook Pro Retina with a replaced SSD. When I hold down the option button at boot, the options are listed as "EFI Boot" (Windows 10) and "Macintosh HD", but both are using external drive icons instead of internal. Under MacOS, the icons for both drives appear correctly as internal drives. I tried changing drive names in diskutil, renaming the drives in the MacOS Disk Utility and under Windows, placing .VolumeIcon.icns files in various places, and various bless commands.
I'm asking this to answer my own question, I couldn't quite find a correct solution in any one spot. Pay close attention to the folders involved, this was the important part.


texts: How do I delete my notes on one device without deleting them from iCloud?

texts: A friend of mine bought a new iPhone yesterday and wants to give her old one as a hand-me-down. The retail guy transferred her contacts but not her notes.


texts: Why does the updating of the default route entry of physical interface take 1 minute in Mac OS X

texts:
I created a logical interface using my VPN Application and added the default route - in the routing table as my logical interface.
To add the default route programmatically, I have to delete the existing default and then add the new one.

Once added, the system is updating the routing table with the default entry of the physical interface in the following two scenarios:

When the machine is rebooted or the VPN application is launched for the first time, the system takes exactly 65 seconds to update the routing table with the default route entry of the physical interface.
In other normal cases the system is immediately updating the routing table with the default route entry of the physical interface once the application has added the route entry for the logical interface.

Due to the 65 second delay, the system is losing internet connectivity for 65 seconds.

I tried flushing the arp tables and routing tables also but the delay still persists.

Is there any solution to overcome this delay?
Or is it the default behaviour of Mac OS X?


texts: I'm trying to use target display mode with a MacBook Pro (Late 2015) as the main computer and an iMac (Late 2013) as the one to switch to TDM. Both devices are running the same version of Mojave (10.14.5). Following the steps outlined here when I press command + f2 on the iMac nothing happens. I've tried with a razor keyboard which I use regularly as well with an Apple Bluetooth keyboard.


texts: How to set up airport express to be dns server for my home network?

texts:
I currently have an airport express as my router.  I've configured it to look to an external dns server.  on the inside of my network my machines are told to look to the airport express for dns.

This seems to work.  Now:

I have ipfw set up on my macbook.  It seems to me that Bonjour should be the protocol inside the network.  I certainly can't turn off Bonjour, address resolution fails then.

What I think is happening is DNS goes to router, then mDNSResponder handles from there.  Is this acutally the case?

I'm asking this because I keep on having the Airport Express try to connect to port 53 with dns packets.  This is confusing me.  Is this the right way to set it up?


texts: Stop Google Chrome from stealing focus on opening

texts:
Is there any way of preventing Google Chrome from stealing the focus when it is opening?

When I open an application, I often do the following:

Click on the application icon in the dock.
⌥ Option-⇥ Tab away from the application while it has not yet finished opening.
Continue working in another application while the first application is opening.
Eventually ⌥ Option-⇥ Tab back to the first application after it has completed its opening process and is ready for use.

Now Google Chrome misbehaves in step 3. When I have ⌥ Option-⇥ Tabed away from it for working in another application, it will steal focus as soon as it has finished drawing its browser window. Instead of letting me decide to ⌥ Option-⇥ Tab back to it at my own free will, it hijacks the process and interrupts any work I am doing.

I think this is an extremely annoying and intrusive behaviour and I would like to stop it. I do not want Google Chrome to always open in the background. It should just behave like any other app and not interfere with the choice I make by ⌥ Option-⇥ Tabbing to another application.

I can replicate the focus stealing behaviour of Google Chrome in yet another way. When issuing the open command on the Terminal, the -g flag is supposed to tell the application to open in the background:

open -g /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/

Yet again, Google Chrome does not honour this choice. It begins opening in the background all right, but it steals focus as soon as it has finished drawing its browser window. Compare this to the normal behaviour of any other application:

open -g /Applications/Firefox.app/

This does exactly what it is supposed to do: The application opens in the background and stays in the background until I choose to ⌥ Option-⇥ Tab to it. Is there any way to make Google Chrome behave in this way, too?


texts: How to recover data from iPhone backup files WITHOUT the info.plist, status.plist, manifest.plist, manifest.mbdb, and manifest.mbdx files?

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I have iTunes 10.5 and Mac OS X version 10.6.8.

I would like to restore my iPhone from backup.

iTunes detects all my backups EXCEPT one, which happens to be the backup I want.

I looked in the backup directory (~/library/application support/mobilesync/backup) and IT IS THERE along with the other backups. HOWEVER, unlike the other backups, it's missing five files: info.plist, status.plist, manifest.plist, manifest.mbdb, and manifest.mbdx.

I have tried applications that can extract data, like the free iPhone Backup Extractor for example, but they work only if I have the five files.

Is there a way to recover data without the five files?


texts: Dropbox Install in Data Partition between OS X and Windows 7 Boot Camp

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I have a Data partition between OS X Mavericks and Windows 7 Boot Camp. I have my Dropbox folder in the partition. I have tried using it in the past formatted as exFAT. This was unsatisfactory in that it would not stay indexed in OS X, and there were other issues.

I have now formatted the Data partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then on Windows 7, I have a trial version of Paragon HFS+ for Windows installed.

Here is my issue. OS X creates a bunch of files in Dropbox ending in com.dropbox.attributes. There is at least one of these almost for every file in Dropbox. From OS X these do not sync to the Dropbox server and are hidden. However, in Windows they are visible and sync to the Dropbox server.

I would like to do two things:

Hide them in Windows 7
Prevent them from syncing to the Dropbox server in Windows 7

(By the way, I have already tried running a command in Windows that hides all of these files.  It only worked temporarily. As soon as Dropbox was back up and running they re-appeared.)

Please let me know if you need any more information or clarification.

Update:
I appreciate the input, Rich. After looking here more closely, I can see how it is pretty much a lost cause without Dropbox's fix for it. By my post I was curious if hiding or making them marked as "system files" would make a difference or to see if there were other ideas. I had tested the possibility of running a bat file on startup that did the following (hide and mark them as a "system file"):
attrib +S +H *.dropbox.attributes /S
I learned quickly that the issue is that Dropbox in conjunction with Windows 7 actually creates the com.dropbox.attributes files and that it is not OS X that creates the files. The extended attributes of OS X cause Windows to create them. So, they get created anew every time Dropbox runs in Windows. I will plan to file a bug report.

It is too bad that partitions between OS X and Windows don't play nice. My Data partition at home between two Linux distros and Windows 7 works beautifully, no such issues. Between OS X and Windows the extended attributes of OS X (in conjunction with Dropbox of course) seems to be the main culprit. This was the case when I tried to use this Data partition formatted as exfat. Who knows, maybe one day all OSs will be compatible with all formatting types and work well together.


texts: Why are there two  + I shortcuts in preview?

texts:
I'm used to using Preview for simple edits to images - cropping, censoring, highlighting, rotating - and I try to use shortcuts as much as possible. Previously I would use Cmd + I to show the inspector. A while ago I noticed it wasn't working. Upon further investigation I noticed that Cmd + I also invoked the Show/Hide Toolbar command.

Why are there two shortcuts for the same menu command, and is there any way I can change this for my macs I use regularly?

This is OS X 10.11.6, if it matters. Preview 8.1 (877.7).

Edit to add info: I have no app defined keyboard shortcuts except for "help", see below screenshot...


texts: Is it possible to AirPlay video from my iPad 2 on an Apple TV, but play the audio on my iPad?


texts: Can you tunnel iPhone internet traffic through a local proxy on a Mac computer?

texts:
I want to monitor the requests (and responses) my iPhone is sending via the internet. I have a web debugging proxy called Charles on my Mac, which I would like to use to monitor my iPhone's connections. It basically works by configuring a proxy to localhost and reading that data.

I tried to share my internet connectiong my Mac, but I cannot both share my internet over Wi-Fi and connect to my Wi-Fi at the same time?

How can I accomplish this?


texts: 2012 MacBook Pro SSD missing - Can't install macOS

texts:
I'm trying to reformat a Mac that was handed to me by an employee after being wiped, and I'm starting to think they did too good a job.

At boot, you see the blinking folder + ? icon, indicating no bootable partition found:

Loading the recovery partition (after resetting NVRAM), I tried all this on both the Internet Recovery partition which was Snow Leopard and a macOS Sierra media installer via USB.

First, Disk Utility didn't show the drive:

From there, I tried diskutil list

Which didn't see the drive. Then I tried df -h

Failing anything else, I restarted and held 'd' to get into Apple Hardware Test:

Running the test reported "no problems found". The Hardware Profile tab did not report a hard disk, but I'm not sure it ever does (I don't have any other pre-2013 Macs to test on).

So, I'm left without many options. I can't boot into single user mode, because there's not an install into which I can boot. I don't know how to reformat/repartition a physical drive that's not reported by diskutil or df. And it's clearly not something I can fix with setting up a logical volume in CoreStorage (on the Sierra recovery image, that is) if the underlying physical disks are absent.

Can anything else be done, or is this all pointing to the SSD being dead?


texts: Why would an internal DVD reader eject a burned DVD?

texts: I've sent DVD+R DL to a bunch of PowerPC G4/G5 users and some said the disk was ejected after few seconds.


texts: My iPad unable to open or view video online with subtitles. But when I open the same website with my lappy, the video and subtitles work well. There have something wrong with the website or my iPad?


texts: Disk doesn't boot with firmware pass enabled (High Sierra)

texts:
I'm trying to enable firmware password protection on my Mac. According to HT204455 I can accomplish this by booting into Recovery Mode, enabling the Firmware password there, and then reboot normally.

But if I do this, the internal disk will no longer boot normally. It just shows a question mark as if there's no disk attached (I can still boot to recovery mode, single user etc but wont go to regular login screen).

How can I fix this to enable use of firmware password?


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I have a user named 'tv' (OS X 10.11.5) and I have these files in /Users/tv/Library/LaunchAgents/

# ls -lsa /Users/tv/Library/LaunchAgents/
total 16
0 drwxr-xr-x   4 tv  staff   136 Jun 24 20:46 .
0 drwx------@ 50 tv  staff  1700 May 19 11:05 ..
8 -rw-r--r--@  1 tv  staff   487 Dec 24  2015 com.bittorrent.uTorrent.plist
8 -rw-r--r--   1 tv  staff   559 Jun 24 20:46 com.drzoidberg33.plexpy.plist

I get Path had bad ownership/permissions when I try to load either file. I've rebooted, changed the group to wheel, tried to manually load them repeatedly, but I always get the same error. The permissions look exactly the same as on my normal user account:

$ ls -lsa Library/LaunchAgents/
total 8
0 drwxr-xr-x   8 lbutlr  staff   272 Oct  8  2015 .
0 drwx------@ 63 lbutlr  staff  2142 Apr  2 02:11 ..
8 -rw-r--r--   1 lbutlr  staff   452 Mar 30  2015 com.kreme.home.randsig.plist
$ launchctl load /Users/lbutlr/Library/LaunchAgents/com.kreme.home.randsig.plist
/Users/lbutlr/Library/LaunchAgents/com.kreme.home.randsig.plist: service already loaded`

This link is similar, but is dealing with root permissions inside the /Library folder


texts:
Basically I wanted to open my MacBook Air and when I started writing in my password all letters were in all caps. Therefor, I plugged in my keyboard and it worked on the email Registration but not on my password. I am wondering if someone might have hacked my password and if so what I could technically do to stop him. This is a very urgent problem as I need this laptop for my school work, thank you for anyone answering.
2-3 hours before this happened a small ball fell onto my keyboard


texts: I'm trying to remove apps I'll never use again from my purchase history.  Does anyone know how I might be able to do this? I don't want to just hide them, I want them gone. Realize same question was asked a few years ago which received a response that it's not possible.  Was hoping something has changed.  Thanks


texts: Preinstalled Mountain Lion and iWork is not found for Updates

texts:
My Retina Macbook Pro came with 10.8.0 preinstalled, I also have a normal boxed version of iWork '09 brought over from my old computer.

When the 10.8.1 Update was out I got the Notification box that there would be a new software to install, with the buttons "Details" and "Reboot".
I was curious so I clicked "Details" which brought me to the "Updates" pane of the Mac App Store App.

But here it said there would be no updates.

Since then there were no Updates shown there.

I was able to accept the preinstalled iLife Apps and also buy new Apps.  So the connection to the Mac App Store seems to work.

What doesn't work in addition is upgrading the bought as box iWork '09 apps.

Neither the preinstalled Mountain Lion nor iWork appears in the "Purchased" tab.

Apple Support told me to boot in Safe Mode (holding shift) but unfortunately Safe Mode hangs and doesn't boot.

I tried cleaning up a bit and removed old Startup Items and Lauchd stuff.

There was an article on the net that linked a corrupt Spotlight index to a similar failure so I tried and forced Spotlight to rebuild the index -> noch change in the behaviour.

How can I debug this situation further?  Is there any way to make Mac App Store output some diagnostic info to find the problem?

Is it known how the Mac App Store detects that there is a eligible Mountain Lion on the disk?  Any Ideas?

I'm very comfortable at the shell level, solutions using the commandline are welcome.


texts:
I have been searching for a diary/journal application for the iPad that will encrypt the contents of the journal. Though there is no shortage of journal and note taking apps I have yet to find one that specifically mentions that the user content is encrypted while on the device. Does iOS provide APIs to allow for AES or similar encryption (Blowfish etc ...)? Is it difficult to encrypt user data within an iOS application?

Just to clarify ... I am not talking about simple password protection but rather encryption of the user data such that if the iOS device were compromised the user data would be unreadable.


texts: Are macos Mojave Security Updates Cumulative?

texts:
I had upgraded to macOS Mojave on April 2020 and am still on it.
The Software Installations list on System Information lists the following security updates installed:

Security Update 2020-002
Security Update 2020-003
Security Update 2020-004
Security Update 2020-005
Security Update 2020-006

As you can see Security Update 2020-001, which was released on January 28, 2020 is missing from the list. I don't recall if I installed 2020-002 security update manually on it or through Software Update.
Now that Apple is releasing even Combo updates for the macOS, which are cumulative updates of point releases, is there any clarity on whether security updates are also now cumulative?


texts: Why can I browse with Firefox but not with Safari or Chrome?

texts:
I had a problem a while back where Chrome was working fine but Safari and Firefox were not. This was fixed by unchecking the "auto-discover proxy" box in the network configuration. See my previous question: Why can't I browse the internet with Safari, but Chrome is working?

Today I find myself able to browse with Firefox but not with Chrome or Safari. A select few pages are still working but mostly nothing. Chrome will give me an error:

 Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out.

To help rule out a few things this even happens when trying to browse to my firewall http://192.168.0.1

Thanks for any help in advance!

I'm running OS X 10.7.2.


texts:
The file in question is:

/Users/me/Library/Containers/com.dell.Toad/Data/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/com.dell.toadext.oracle.core/connections.xml

What is wrong with locate?


texts: iTunes Search for a Song X Many Minutes Long

texts: Can I search for a song in my music library that is between x and y start and end times, respectively?


texts: How can I force Photo app on the Mac to scan for faces in a given picture?

texts:
I have a few pictures where the photo app has detected no faces at all.

Is there a way to force the app to rescan those picture for faces?


texts:
I open an Excel file (Excel 2008) and it opens as read-only.  File info shows that it is not locked and my user account has Read-Write access and it's a LOCAL file.

Please advise on how to get back to editable file?

File name is ca.xls  so all those posts discussing / are not relevant.


texts:
I can't seem to find the equivalent of:

H2:2

In macOS Numbers app. This statement in a formula tells that the formula should take the cells from H2 to the end of the row into consideration.

I can't set it to a constant value, since the rows are constantly increasing, so I need a dynamic value.

EDIT:
This is what I was using in Google Sheets:

=COUNTIF(I3:3, 0)


texts:
I severly suffer from iOS (supposedly) killing my apps all the time although I purpusefully do not kill them. They are also listed in the task manager (double tap on home).

This is especially bad for at least two of my apps:

HID Mobile Access (keyless entry system)
Noke (Bluetooth pad lock)

For the former, all that should need to be done is to shake the phone. Then card reader should activate and open the door. For the latter, only the shackle of the pad lock should have to be pushed and it should automatically unlock if the phone is nearby (i.e., in my pocket).

BOTH nearly never work, rendering them nearly useless (if I need to dig into my bag to find the phone I can also dig for the key or the RFID card).

Both work when I manually start the app (and shortly after) but then randomy fail again after some time.

Both apps have a background app refresh option which I have activated.

The developers of the apps claim that this would be a limitation of iOS and the functionality would not work. I would fine it bold to advertise a functionality that can't even work ...

Shouldn't background app refresh allowing exactly this ... keeping those kinds of things working?

I also have an Apple Watch and there I never experienced communication loss or problems.

How does the background app refresh work exactly for Bluetooth LE? Is there a function to probe for a Bluetooth LE device in the background?

Are the developers of these apps just making up excuses?

(Tile is another Bluetooth LE app with the same problems. However, here I don't mind too much)


texts: What is the "default" font for iPad mail program

texts:
I was playing around with my new iPad. I was in email. Using yahoo
mail but it is a function of email as it is the same for spectrum mail
and google mail in the iPad email icon. I changed the font to see how
it looked without taking notice of the actual name of the font. There
are many to choose from and I simply want to go back. All I can see is
"default" for the one I have. I tried opening an old mail to see what
it was. (It was "default.")

What was it before I changed it? (To get the original font back.)


texts:
The control strip of my touch bar is not working anymore. Even after a full restart or start in safe mode.

There's nothing on the 'screen'. (Neither in Mac or Windows via Bootcamp)
It doesn't respond to taps.
In keyboard preferences the usual touchbar related properties are gone as well, as if my Mac doesn't even have a touch bar.

The Touch ID part (fingerprint) works fine though...

Any steps I can take to diagnose this?


texts: Monitoring the Mac App Store for free applications?

texts:
I use freeappalert to find iOS apps that were made free each day.  I'm not interested in apps that are already free, just those that recently became free.

I haven't found anything similar for the Mac App store yet.  Is there a similar service or way to find Mac apps on sale for free that normally cost something?


texts:
I can't download Apps from the Appstore to my iPod touch 5.
If I want to download an App, I select "get" then "install", it asks for my password which I fill in. After that, it reads "get", but doesn't download anything.


texts: Where on my pc does iTunes store the backup?

texts: I backup my phone to iTunes but need to back up my pc.  I can do pictures as I can just copy those from the phone but what about the contacts, texts etc that are backed up to iTunes? Where is that stored?


texts: Getting music NOT purchased from iTunes to show up on my iPhone

texts: I have an iPhone but just recently bought an iPod. I want to put all my songs on the iPod and just have my favorites on my iPhone but all that seems to show up on my iPhone are the songs i bought from iTunes. How do i get the cd's i imported to show up on my iPhone? I can see them when the phone is plugged into the computer but once i unplug and look up the songs on the phone there are gone.


texts: Wifi option is not available in the interface

texts:
Wifi option is not available in my mac air (model: A1466). I tried to add it in the network, but there is no wifi option in the interface.
Wifi has never been an issue until the last few days. I tried to follow a lot of tips and instructions on internet to fix it, but I wasn't able to fix it till now. Thanks in advance.


texts: Why do I keep receiving my own text messages when I text ONE of the five lines in our family plan?

texts: I received a message yesterday asking something about my Apple ID and concerning one of our other lines that used to be shared on the Apple ID with my phone. We stopped that later and used individual IDs. Since I was in a hurry I just clicked yes and went on. As soon as I did it, now my texts keep coming to myself and when I text that other line it shows in a group message it is from me instead of the other line. And the other line gained my contacts mixed in with that line. What do I do to stop it?  It is driving me crazy!


texts:
Im trying to follow some tutorial where you install OpenCV but they require me to have the output of which python be /usr/local/bin/python. No matter what I try, it's staying as /usr/bin/python/

My .bash_profile looks like this:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
alias python='/usr/local/bin/python'

And my /usr/local/bin/ looks like:

MBP:bin ar$ ls /usr/local/bin/
2to3                idle3.7             pbr             smtpd2.7.py
2to3-2              jpegtran            pip             smtpd2.py
2to3-2.7            lame                pip2                tiff2bw
2to3-3.7            libpng-config           pip2.7              tiff2pdf
apm             libpng16-config         pip3                tiff2ps
atom                lzcat               pip3.7              tiff2rgba
bower               lzcmp               png-fix-itxt            tiffcmp
brew                lzdiff              pngfix              tiffcp
cjpeg               lzegrep             ppm2tiff            tiffcrop
djpeg               lzfgrep             pydoc2              tiffdither
easy_install-3.7        lzgrep              pydoc2.7            tiffdump
exrenvmap           lzless              pydoc3              tiffinfo
exrheader           lzma                pydoc3.7            tiffmedian
exrmakepreview          lzmadec             python2             tiffset
exrmaketiled            lzmainfo            python2-config              tiffsplit
exrmultipart            lzmore              python2.7           unlzma
exrmultiview            mvn             python2.7-config        unxz
exrstdattr          mvnDebug            python3             virtualenv
f2py                mvnyjp              python3-32          wrjpgcom
f2py3.6             ng              python3-config          x264
fax2ps              node                python3.7           xz
fax2tiff            npm             python3.7-32            xzcat
ffmpeg              npx             python3.7-config        xzcmp
ffprobe             opencv_annotation       python3.7m          xzdec
ffserver            opencv_createsamples        python3.7m-config           xzdiff
gdbm_dump           opencv_interactive-calibration  pythonw2                xzegrep
gdbm_load           opencv_traincascade     pythonw2.7          xzfgrep
gdbmtool            opencv_version          pyvenv              xzgrep
idle2               opencv_visualisation        pyvenv-3.7          xzless
idle2.7             opencv_waldboost_detector   raw2tiff            xzmore
idle3               pal2rgb             rdjpgcom

Please let me know what I can do to fix this. Thank you!


texts: On Macbookpro CPU accountsd process started showing 400% usage

texts:
I was on Catalina 10.15.6 on MAcBook Pro yesterday and my fan started making too much noise and the battery was down to 7% from 90% in 20 minutes. I closed all the apps and still it is the case.
Later looking at few similar posts I tried the update to 10.15.7 which was popping up on systems. The build is 19H2.
The issue has not gone. Tried to connect to apple support but didn't get any useful answers.
Can some one please help.


texts: Ridiculous number of unnecessary empty birthday calendars that can't be deleted

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.1.1. My Calendar app is showing me a ridiculous number of birthday calendars ("Friends' Birthdays" under Gmail, "Birthdays" under Facebook, and 8 separate calendars named "Birthdays" under "Other"). This is what the list of calendars looks like:

I have no idea how they got there. I am syncing the Calendar app with Google, Facebook, and Meetup, but I can't imagine how that would produce such a ridiculous number.

What can I do about these? I would like to delete or merge some of them but the app is not giving me the option. Is it possible to delete most of them without losing anyone's birthday?

If I look at the Calendar app on my Mac (which is running Yosemite), I don't see all of these calendars. I only see one under Google that says "Birthdays", another under Google that says "Friends' Birthdays", and one under Other that says "Birthdays".

EDIT: I did some looking around and it seems like the "Birthdays" calendar under Gmail has my contacts' birthdays and the "Friends' Birthdays" calendar has my Facebook Friends' birthdays. But all of those "Other" birthday calendars don't seem to have a single birthday in them. I think I can delete them safely without losing anything. I just need to know how, but I don't see any sort of option to delete them.

I logged into iCloud using the iCloud website. I clicked on the calendar icon and all I saw was two empty calendars called "Home" and "Work". I did not see all the empty birthday calendars. I didn't see anything useful or meaningful, but I wouldn't expect to because I am syncing all of my calendar events with Google, not iCloud.

I noticed that the "Other" birthday calendar I saw on my Mac didn't have any birthdays in it, so I deleted it. But I refreshed the calendars on my iPhone as described here and it didn't seem to do anything. I still see 8 "Other" birthday calendars.


texts: How to override the delay timer on a Keynote slide during a presentation

texts:
Assume that you've set a Keynote (v 6.5.3) slide to automatically advance after 2 minutes:

This works fine - until you realise during your presentation that you've finished early and are ready to move onto the next slide.

How can you override the delay timer, and force the slide to move on?

Keynote ignores any key-press or slide remote, and doggedly waits the 2 minutes before advancing.

(In PowerPoint you can set an auto-advance-after-delay, but override it during a presentation using the keyboard or a slide remote - this is the behaviour I'm trying to emulate)


texts: Which low cost server device is compatible with iOS VPN on demand?

texts:
There is a question on "What is VPN on demand, and how do I get it to work with iOS?", however its accepted answer lacks detail.

Envision a small business usage with only 1 or 2 iPhone/iPad devices needing VPN on demand access. This scenario has a preference for low cost and maintenance, for example it prefers an entry level device with low power consumption, self-signed certificates with long expiry dates.

Which hardware and (specific) firmware, licenses, external certificates, modules, etcetera on the Cisco IPsec compatible routing device are needed?

To make the question more concrete, which of these Cisco VPN boxes would be sufficient?

RVS4000
RV180
RV042

And are there step-by-step configuration setup guides, starting from how to create the Cisco IPsec authentication certificate on that device, to creating the corresponding profile in the Apple configuration utility?


texts: File has different name in terminal and Finder

texts: I've just downloaded the driver for my preferred trackball from Logitech. In the Finder, the Installer's filename is Logitech Control Center Installer.app. In the Terminal, ls shows LCC Installer.app. How did this happen?


texts:
After upgrading to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro, I noticed an update was available for iPhoto '11 (version 9.4)  I went to App Store -> Updates and it downloaded and than hung.  The message I received was

  iPhoto failed to download - Use the Purchases page to try again

I tried going through Purchases and get the same message.  I'm caught in the "loop" and don't know how to get out. Now there's a red letter message beside the UPDATE button that says "An error has occurred"...

How can I download this upgrade?


texts: Backing up individual files with encryption

texts:
In addition to local Time Machine backups, I would like to automatically backup my working data  from my Macbook to a remote FTP space. Because it's  a location I don't control and sensitive data, I want to use encryption.

There are some approaches floating around the 'net how to achieve this, for example this tutorial that uses duplicity and works great (I've tested it).

However, all these approaches generate file archives of some sort (tars in the latter example). I would like to have a  backup where I can access every file individually, but encrypted. So the backup structure would look something like this:

 Work
  Documents
     Letter to Mr.T.doc.encrypted
     Expenses.txt.encrypted
  Images
     Sunshine.jpg.encrypted

does anybody know a tool that can achieve this?

Alternatively, is there a stand-alone OS X command that can encrypt files? I might be able to use that in combination with rsync to build this on my own.


texts: Mac App Store has become dog slow after 10.6.7 update on latest MacBook Pro

texts:
Ever since rolling out the 10.6.7 update on my latest MacBook Pro (15", i7), I have found that Mac App Store has become awfully slow. Starting it alone takes anywhere from two to four minutes for the application to become functional and start responding. During that time, the application seems to get lost into the 'not responding state', with the spinning beach ball showing up.

I looked into the output of Console.app, hoping to find any clues as to what's going on. I found a series of entries to the effect of:

5/6/11 1:55:58 PM   [0x0-0x95c95c].com.apple.appstore[16533]    Fri May  6 13:55:58 mbp App Store[16533] <Error>: CGBitmapContextGetBitsPerComponent: invalid context 0x100610e10
5/6/11 1:55:58 PM   [0x0-0x95c95c].com.apple.appstore[16533]    This isn't a bitmap context. Forcing destination format to ARGB_8 for CGContext.

What is strange is that I have a late-2009 white MacBook model which is booting the same version of OS X: 10.6.7. Mac App Store loads quickly on that machine. However, in the output of Console.app on that machine, I also see similar errors. I am wondering whether these errors have anything to do with the sluggish behaviour of Mac App Store application on my MacBook Pro (clearly, it works fine from the sluggish point of view on my slower, older white MacBook).

If you require any specific, particular information, I'd be more than happy to provide it. I'm looking for any insights, clues as to what is going on, and what I can possibly do to fix it.

Many thanks.


texts: How can I select a password for a website with my keyboard?

texts: I store passwords for websites in my safari keychain and when I visit a website there is the key icon in the username field.  I can click on this key and autofill the username and password, but I hate touching my mouse.  Can I use a keyboard shortcut to click on that key icon?


texts:
I'm trying to set up AirDrop to send files between my macbook and my iPhone.

For some reason it doesn't work at all. I turned it on both on the macbook and my iPhone SE and my iPhone is not shown in the Finder nor my macbook on iPhone's screen.

How to set this up?


texts: Get out of range error from monitor after rebooting from working monitor config

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I have a Mac Pro 3,1 w an nVidia 8800 GT running El Capitan.  When I reboot, the monitor shows the apple logo with the progress bar. It then goes blank and the monitor reports an out of range error. If I plug another monitor or the same monitor in to the second DVI port without the other monitor being on, the monitor in question displays the login screen without issue.

I'm confused as to what is going on as when I shutdown the monitor is fine.
Any thoughts as to what is being triggered when I plug in the cable to the second DVI-D port?


texts:
I'm connecting to a work VPN through cisco anyconnect and remoting into my work computer via Mac's native Screen Sharing.

My work computer (iMac 2019) AND home computer (macbook pro 2014) both have dual monitors but I seem to only be able to view the remote desktop on 1 (either just the primary screen or BOTH work screens on the 1 home screen).

Question:  Is it possible to screen share a dual monitor setup on 2 monitors?

Thank you so much!


texts: It seems that the vnc compatibility mode of ARD defaults to raw, which makes it very unsuitable for VNC clients as NoVNC. I wonder if there is some other VNC server supporting more formats, particularly the ones supported in noVNC:  raw, copyrect, rre, hextile, tight or tightPNG


texts: In Numbers, how can I find all references to a cells?

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I got B3=B2÷B1 and when I click B3 the B2 and B1 get highlighted with the colours you see.
I want B3 to be highlighted when I click on either B2 or B1.

My search engine and StackOverflow did not return results for for "macOS numbers find cells referencing a given cell", "find cell references"; nor the Number's manual.
Is this at all possible?
Bonus question: how to update all references to a cell to point to another cell?


texts: Is it possible to setup user/device management without enrolling in a paid Apple program?

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I am using macOS server and a couple of macOS and iOS devices.

I want to start managing settings centrally with Profile Manager (e.g. mail settings, VPN settings, parental controls) but I have gotten stuck. Years ago I used to do this with WorkGroup Manager with earlier versions of OS X Server. Now I am supposed to use Profile Manager for the same. When I tried this many years ago, it did not work so I stopped using it and I have been managing settings locally on each device since. But now it turns out that I cannot locally manage Parental Controls for accounts that are Mobile Accounts, so I need to get to work with Profile Manager again.

Can I do that without enrolling in some paid Apple program?

Secondly, how do I start with a simple thing like distributing Mail or VPN settings to macOS and iOS and how do I get Parental Control settings distributed to macOS devices? I have been reading Profile Manager information on Apple support site, but nowhere is there a kind of start guide telling me how to create a payload, how to create a profile (other than creating it, but how do I get useful things into it) etc. Hours spent so far and not a step further.

Can someone point me to a useable step-by-step introduction?


texts:
I'm getting some text from Safari in a column.

I used to use this script to add all text from this column in a list :

PS the class is class="sortable null"

tell application "Safari Technology Preview" to tell document 1 to tell (do JavaScript "
    [...new Set( document.getElementsByClassName('sortable null') )]
    .map( x => x.innerText.trim() );") ¬
    to set xID to every text

However, now, there is a another column which the same class  class="sortable null"

So when I running my script, both text (column 1 and column 2) are add in the list .

e.g :

{"column1", "column2", "column1DATA", "column2DATA", "column1DATA", "column2DATA"}

I'm not sure how can I only get the text from the column 1 (and in a another not, remove the column 2

If I'm using this text for deleting the column, that will just delete both as they have the same name.

tell application "Safari Technology Preview" to ¬
    do JavaScript ¬
        "document.querySelectorAll(\"[class=\\\"sortable null\\\"]\").forEach(el => el.remove());" in current tab of window 1

Coming back to my list, I'm guessing that the only option is to created two new lists, one with the even items, one with the odd items and them just keep the 1 list, is that the only solution?


texts: How do I find and kill an application which keeps restarting?

texts:
I am writing an application in Swift and I have attempted to allow it to launch at login by following a number of tutorials. This involves creating a launcher application and enabling it using SMLoginItemSetEnabled.
Things have gone horribly wrong. I followed the instructions to remove the main storyboard, but neglected to remove its reference in Info.plist. I think that as a result the launcher application crashes.
However the real problem is that I am now in an an endless loop. I get an alert that the launcher quit unexpectedly. Ignore simply restarts it, and Report… does the same. I cannot get it to stop restarting.
I have logged out, restarted, and also done so without reopening windows. I cannot find anything in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/, and, indeed, I can’t find the application anywhere.
In my /var/log/system.log I get:

Service exited due to SIGABRT
Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

How do I go about finding this process and killing it once and for all?


texts: Can't print with MacBook Air on a Wireless Printer

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My printer is HP LaserJet M15A connected via USB to my router. Currently, I'm running on macOS Catalina version 10.15.13.
I can see and add the printer under "Printer & Scanners" - "Windows" - workgroup - fastgate - "HP_LaserJet-M14-M17_VNC3B87838".
The add seems to be done correctly (using the correct driver), but when trying to print I see "Unable to connect to printer".
My router is Technicolor MediaAccess DGA4131FWB. I tried many stuff to fix the problem, but nothing works:

Added the following lines to my nsmb.conf

[default]
port445=both
smb_neg=smb1_only
signing_required=no

Tried to set manually the ip of the router (192.168.1.254) and ports (80,139,445,631 and all the other opened ports) from CUPS but no result. The output of nmap 192.168.1.254 is:

PORT      STATE    SERVICE
53/tcp    open     domain
80/tcp    open     http
139/tcp   open     netbios-ssn
443/tcp   filtered https
445/tcp   open     microsoft-ds
631/tcp   open     ipp
5000/tcp  open     upnp
8080/tcp  open     http-proxy
8888/tcp  open     sun-answerbook
49152/tcp open     unknown

I can also print correctly from my Desktop PC with Windows 10, and from my Android smartphone using PrinterShare. But not on Mac.

Anyone have any idea what's wrong?
Thank you


texts: External display, keyboard & mouse connected to MacBookPro. Good or bad?

texts:
Whenever I have a fixed place to work, I like to use my MacBook Pro as shown:

Connected to an external display in mirror mode, not extended screen mode.
Connected to external keyboard (Wireless Bluetooth, by Apple) and mouse (ThinkPad, Wired).
Lid closed with the keyboard placed above it.

I have had this habit for a while and I haven't any doubt about it until recently when I observed something very weird happening to the MacBook's screen.

Is this a good or bad practise for the MacBook's lifespan?


texts: How to remove your name from the menu bar after 10.7.5 update?

texts: After the 10.7.5 update to Lion, I'm getting my name to appear in the menu bar. I don't particularly like it there. Any way to remove it?


texts: Good free audio converter for OS X Lion?

texts:
Am trying to find a simple audio converter to convert various m4a, wma, mp3, and flac files to standard mp3 128KB VBR (for an ancient mp3 player with limited storage).

I'm probably only going to use this once and this is the one thing it needs to do however if it comes with additional features that'd be great too.

After looking into it a bit more (I've come from Windows recently so I know mp3 very well) I've discovered the benefits of m4a files over mp3. So I think I'm looking for a program that supports m4a output as well. Just wanted to throw that in there.

Also if it helps any I'm using a Late 2006 iMac, Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM, OS X 10.7.5.


texts: Have recent updates caused the iPad battery to not last as long?

texts: I'm noticing my iPad battery seems to be going down very rapidly, even when not in use. Has anyone else seen this behaviour and what would be the most common causes?


texts:
I get a popup "The contents list can’t be created for compressing."
every time when I try to compress a file.

And also thumbnail preview is not working.

I am sure if both issues are related but they both happened today.

I've tried repairing disk permissions, deleting finder plist, restart but none of this works.

I am running Yosemite 10.10.1

Any suggestion?

=================================

I went to Apple Store and they can't fix this.
They reinstall the Mac for me.

Thanks for all answers.


texts: How can I monitor an installer as it modifies the filesystem on Yosemite?

texts: fseventer does not support Yosemite until further notice and the suggestions here don't work for me so how can I monitor an installer as it writes files to the file system? I also tried Sloth but it only shows currently open files at a specific point in time.


texts:
I recall iOS5 beta1 does not do this which cost me scores of saved wifi passwords on my iPhone.

Also another question says application keychain data is not backed up, just want to check if there's exception for Wifi password cause they are pretty often used but hard to remember.


texts: Lost password on Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) Drive. Want to reformat it

texts: I am using a Seagate Free Agent Desk external drive as my Time Machine on a modern iMac running Lion. I made the mistake of encrypting the drive, and I do not remember the password. I dont mind losing the data on the disk, and I just want to reformat it if possible in order to use it as a non encrypted drive. Any ideas on how to do this?


texts: How to use SquidMan and force apps to go through it?

texts:
I have installed SquidMan and gave it the following details:

General tab:

HTTP Port: 8080

Parent tab:

Hostname/IP: 10.18.1.3 (work proxy)
Port: 8080 (work port)

Username: myUserName
Password: myPassword

Then I clicked save and Status: Squid is running

Now, How can I force my installed applications to use it for all HTTP and HTTPS connections?


texts: How to batch Delete all disconnected BlueTooth Devices on MacOS?

texts: I need some assistance here. I have hundreds of bluetooth devices previously connected to my MacOS which it's automatically remembered by the system. Is there a way to batch remove all of them instead of painstakingly remove them one by one ? It's really getting on my nerve because we uses the Mac to transfer photos for printing and regularly get about 4-8 new device connected to the system every day.


texts: Does `ps` command on MacOS have permission for non-admin user?

texts:
I am creating an app using the following command to get CPU and memory usage:

ps -A -o %cpu,%mem | awk '{ cpu += $1; mem += $2} END {print cpu , mem}'

I wonder whether all users have permission to run it and get the same results? If there is an admin process, whether the ps command outputs it for a guest user?


texts:
I am using the default mail app both from macOS and iOS. I use accounts from GMail and Microsoft Office 365.

If I "Move to Junk" in macOS and iOS, what does actually happen? A few related questions:

Does Google or Microsoft know that I marked those messages as junk, or such information just remains within macOS or iOS?
If it only remains within macOS or iOS, do they share information so that my experience in macOS and iOS are the same?


texts: Is there a way to delete text in front of the caret using the iOS software keyboard? The small wireless hardware keyboard accomplishes this with a fn+delete, so there might be a way to use multiple keys to accomplish the same task in iOS?


texts:
Judging by the label in the Wi-Fi menu at the right of the top bar, my MacBook is connected just fine to the Siemens Gigaset SE567, which I'd like to use as a wireless router.

Judging by the lights on both the router and the cable modem (Motorola SB5101 Surfboard), that connection is also good.

But I am unable to ping anything outside. I'm also unable to ping the modem (if I connect to the cable modem directly by ethernet, pointing a browser to http://192.168.100.1 is all that's needed).

What's a good way to debug this problem? I "can't open the application TELUS High Speed Install Wizard" (the one that came with the modem) "because PowerPC applications are no longer supported" on Lion.

Edit

According to
http://www.networkoverload.com/forum/networking/turn_your_gigaset_se567_modem_wireless_switch_bridge_mode
one can indeed configure the SE567 as a wireless router, though I don't understand whether  more than one computer could then connect to the network.

After resetting the router, I was able to connect to its configuration at http://192.168.1.254/ (strangely, resetting did not wipe out the previous SSID name).

As the page above suggested, one needs to switch to the "bridge mode", but after doing so, I can no longer connect to http://192.168.1.254/

Since this is looking more and more like something that can be resolved by accessing the web servers on the two devices rather than by tinkering through System Preferences \ Network, it is not quite the right thing to ask on this forum. I will delete the question if it turns out the mac is incidental to the setup.


texts:
I have a table like this,

I need to sum all fields above (exclude the header), the following formula works:

=SUM(C1:C5)

When I add more rows I must rewrite the formula, then I tried something like this:

=SUM(C)

Because there's a header in column C, SUM function failed as expected.

What should I use? Number does not support =SUM(ABOVE) and MS Excel is as stuck as it can be.


texts: Resize screen of windows 10 using virtualbox in bootcamp windows

texts: I use Windows 10 using bootcamp on Macbook Pro (16, 2019). I installed VirtualBox (6.1.4), and installed windows 10 in it. Then, the screen of guest windows 10 is small. I installed the guest additions, but still screen option is like only up to 1280x... I use (two) 24 inch 4k monitor. How can I enlarge the screen size?


texts: PC-like keyboard emulation on Mac OS X 10.6.3

texts:
I got myself a Mac Mini and started using it with a PC keyboard as I don't have the time to learn Apple keyboard shortcuts at the moment.

I was wondering if there is some kind of keyboard emulator that will make Home, End, ^→, and ^← work as they do in Windows.


texts: How to Repair 15" Mac Book Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16 Ghz That Won't Power On?

texts:
I'm attempting to revive a non-working 15" Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro purchased early 2007. The laptop suddenly powered off (or so I was told). Attempting to power on gives only a few signs of life.

Magsafe lite works when power cord plugged in
Hard drive spins up when power button pressed
No chime, no back light, no power button light, no fans
Holding the power button for 5 seconds will spin-down the hard drive
After drive spinds down, hitting power will turn it back on.

Please give me your best suggestions on getting this system booting again.

In attempts to fix, I've reseated the RAM and most internal connections. I'm willing to replace any internal components if economically viable.

Update: a reset of the system mgmt controler brought the fans back online


texts: Repackaging .pkg files without installing/unpacking

texts:
Recently I was tasked with finding out a way to prepare OS X applications for automatic distribution to multiple machines.

Most applications require some tampering with their preferences before deploying. I have done it for Windows machines before, and usually I could just replace the preference files/registry entries right inside the .msi installer, using tools like Orca, Wise Package Studio and so on.

I am new to macs, but when I try to look for something similar for OS X, all I find is software to make packages from scratch (PackageMaker, Iceberg, etc.), but nothing for editing already created .pkg files.

So here is the question: is there a way to easily edit the content of .pkg file (replace some files, add a script, etc.), without having to install/unpackage it and then package the configured stuff back?


texts:
I am using Sierra 10.12.6 and by using Homebrew, vsftpd is installed so that I can set up an FTP server my iPad can connect to.

However, I can't run the command vsftd:

zsh: command not found: vsftpd

But when I try to install vsftpd again, i see that

*Warning: vsftpd 3.0.3 is already installed

I can do man vsftpd and that works fine.

I run which vsftpd at root, this returns vsftpd not found

I went to the vsftpd config file and also set listen=YES

So how do I run vsftpd?


texts: Connect to remote Server with macOS Sierra through sftp

texts:
I recently moved from Ubuntu GNOME (16.04 LTS) to macOS Sierra and I wondered how I could mount a Folder, located on a remote Server, using the sftp protocol.
Ubuntu GNOME (16.04) comes with Nautilus as a File Manager by default, so I used that one for the purpose of having a gui for viewing remote folders.

[Setup with Ubuntu GNOME and Nautilus File-manager][3]

My workflow on Ubuntu was to open the Nautilus File manager

Click "Enter Server Adress"
Selecting the Connection (for example: sftp://user@example.com)
Click "Connect"

I like to have a similar or even simpler solution for these steps on Sierra. However, the Server shouldn't always be mounted. I just want a simple way to connect to certain remote Folders with different usernames when I need to, through a save Connection.

Any Ideas how to do this with Finder on macOS Sierra? I am kind a new to the whole Apple ecosystem, I don't even have a an idea where to look for recommended 3rd party software.


texts: Is there any way for apps to view your Itunes email address?

texts: Is there any way for apps to access your iTunes email address, in order to use this as a unique identifier to identify a specific user? I'm trying to figure out how certain apps can uniquely identify users outside of IP, Device Name, and Advertising Identifier. Is this a possible way?


texts: How to store password for Logical Volume in keychain?

texts:
I have a Logical Volume with UUID 73D724AB-9999-9999-9999-8F1E1F5DF83F and it is password protected. The volume name is Workspace.

The password is very long. Thus, I would like to create an password entry in Keychain Access to mount the password-protected volume automatically.

Question: What should I put in:

Keychain Item Name
Kind
Account  (UUID? or the mount directory)
Where  (UUID? or the mount directory)


texts: Is there an actually secure VNC iOS app for use with OS X Screen Sharing?

texts:
All iOS VNC clients I have tried use regular VNC authentication. This is insecure because of the 8 character limit on the password, and so on. Some apps such as RealVNC's VNC Viewer, does have info panels that report whether the connection is encrypted, and it never says that it is, even when I turn both checkboxes in the System Preferences under Screen Sharing's Computer Settings... off.

So, I am definitely taking the accepted answer to this question with a grain of salt.

It seems that the only way to go about this is to switch OS X's native Screen Sharing option off entirely, and then use some other method to host VNC securely. This is not a free option, though.


texts: Hard drive defect? Help me recover my music!

texts:
I've an old iPod Classic with 80 GB of Storage, suddenly it stopped showing any music. I can still access the files on it (with Windows Explorer). Copying all files is possible but it stops at a certain point. I need help, I don't have a backup of my music. Is there still something you can do? (Maybe a program which skips bad files or sth.)

I tried "chkdsk" but it stops after 4% with "Wrong Drive" (Falscher Datenträger). iTunes recognises the iPod but wants to restore to factory.

The Hard Drive is formatted with FAT32.

This is the SMART data from the drive:

Retracts: 16
Reallocs: 320
Pending Sectors: 192
PowerOn Hours: 1340
Start/Stops: 66331
Temp: Current 32C
Temp: Min 0C
Temp: Max 53C

HDD SPEC:

SNO: 97M4S655S
FW Revision: VQ110A
LBAs: 0x950f8b0

I don't have access to a Mac.


texts: OS X Sierra - Force focus follow click events?

texts:
Some questions I found that I think are similar just not asked in the same context and the answers are not too promising:

Can I remove the useless click when switching monitors?

macOS windows requiring an explicit click to make active, before UI elements inside can be clicked

For simplicity, from here on out I'll refer to "primary" click events as left clicks and "alternate" click events as right clicks. Sorry, I don't use a magic mouse.

The problem:
In OS X, when right-clicking, within an application that does not have primary or top-most focus, the right-click context menu for said app is still provided and even left-clicking a menu option provided within the right-click context menu executes, but it does not bring the app to focus and often has dangerous results (more on that in a sec).

For example, coming from windows/linux environments of 30 years I have now have a habit that is terribly difficult to break.  Typing after I click in an app window because I assume it is now focused because I clicked within it.

In OS X, it doesn't work this way.  One has to explicitly left-click in the application window to gain it's focus first to be able to pass keyboard input.

The most common mistake I make is between my email client and my web browser.

Example:
I'm working in my email client (it has the top-most focus) and I move the cursor into the web browser and right-click on an open tab and choose the option "Open a new tab" of which immediately opens a new tab and is present with a fresh new url field.

So, in review real quick, I right-clicked, then left-clicked, then began typing...in the browser...or so I thought.

I quickly realize after a bunch of flashing non-sense going on in my email app that I have inadvertently devastated my inbox with unknown shortcut keys because I never truly had focus of the url field in the web browser to begin with even though it had the last 2 click events, both right and left, before I began to type.  Now I have the unfortunate task of troubleshooting what I've done to my inbox and where all those messages are, considering I archived some, deleted others, marked some with special importance and God knows what else.  Undo to the rescue right?...well sometimes, really depends on how long I was typing before I realized what I had done.  Sometimes the undo history doesn't go back far enough.  This is terrible folks!

I realize this is a long read, but I've yet to find anything of a preference or app alternative to specifically address this exact issue and I can't fathom that I am the only one.  Again, I'm not asking for "click-through" or "focus follows mouse", I simply want focus to follow all "clicks" right or left.  Does this even exist in OS X as a customizable setting?

Also I realize many fanboiz will likely jump in and tell me I'm doing it wrong and everything Apple is always right from the get go and that I should truly focus on fixing my bad habit behavior.  Trust me, I've tried but failing hard even after a year because my brain just expects "clicks" to focus the apps and for some reason I cannot un-learn this!!!

Those of you with patience and understanding, knowing that software's only real purpose is to assist humans in the first place, thank you for being kind to me and offering any suggestion(s)...or condolences otherwise.  TY


texts: How to set the default folder for saving a Word document when the option is missing in File Locations?

texts: I want to set the default path or folder for saving Word documents, which should be possible according to an answer to How can I change the default save location of Office for Mac?. However when opening Settings and clicking on File Locations there is no option to set a folder for Documents. It is missing and I cannot add it. Logging in as an admin doesn't change it.


texts: Is it okay to use the cord from a Magsafe adapter with a different wattage?

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I have a 2011 Macbook Air.

The original Magsafe cord was getting flimsy, so I cut the old cord, got a spare one from eBay and soldered it to the power adapter.

However, I realised the wattage rating information built into the connector's chip is 60W in the new cord (which was probably obtained from a dead 60W adapter), as reported by "System information" and CocoaBattery, while my adapter's actual rating is 45W.

So far the Air seems happy with this new cord, but I wonder what risks this might incur, especially since 60W adapters are supposed to deliver 16.5v, instead of the 14.5v the Air needs.


texts: How do I tell if there is an iPhone backup in my iCloud account without the iPhone

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A couple of months ago I had an iPhone.
That iPhone was never connected to iTunes. It was configured to make backups to iCloud. It was stolen.

Now I'm getting another, used iPhone from a family member. It would be nice if I could restore the backup of my previous iPhone to the newer iPhone.

But since I no longer have my previous iPhone, I don't know if there still is a backup to restore. If there is none, I don't want to reset the new iPhone.

Is there a way to tell if the backup is still in my iCloud account?


texts: Airdrop between newer and older macs without clicking the "Search for an older Mac" button

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I have a new MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.3 and an older Mac Mini running Lion 10.7.5.

Airdrop works in both directions, provided that if I am transferring from my MBP to my Mini, I click the "Search for an older Mac" button so that the MBP can see/find the Mini. After a few seconds of waiting, the older Mac Mini appears.

I am wondering: any way to make it (via the Terminal most likely) such that my MacBook Pro is always searching for an older Mac? Why do we have to click a button to find older Macs? This seems like something that should just work.


texts: Make QuickTime player ignore mouse gestures and touches

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I like my Magic Mouse, but I often touch it "incorrectly" while watching a movie in QuickTime Player, and QTP then moves the video position forward or backwards or makes a pause or ... . It can be annoying :-(

I'd like to make my QuickTime Player ignore mouse gestures and touches. Is it possible?


texts: Is it possible to reduce memory usage by iTunes 11 on Mac?

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I have iTunes 11.0.1 running on Mac OS 10.8.2 with quite a large music library, some podcasts and my iPhone connected. According to Activity Monitor, the iTunes process is taking 1.6 GB real memory, and 4.26 GB virtual. How can this be? Of 16 GB in my machine, I have 60MB free. Is it automatically grabbing all free memory?

Does anyone know any tricks for reducing this and/or making iTunes less greedy?


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So I can close a conversation in Messages on my Mac and it handily disappears.  I can't seem to figure out how to re-open that conversation manually (as opposed to getting a new message in that conversation, that is).

Closing means on the left panel of Messages. Hover over a person. An X appears in the middle of their "card" on the right. Click it. This closes the conversation and does not delete it.

Does anyone know if reopening these conversations is possible?


texts: Will I be able to receive my WhatsApp chat history when i change my phone

texts: I have been using a sim for two months on my iPhone and now I gave that sim to my cousin. What I am worried about is will she recieve my WhatsApp chat history when she downloads WhatsApp to her phone.


texts: Late MBP 2015 vs MBP 2016 gaming experience (WoW, HotS)

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I fully understand these machines are not designed for gaming at all, but I was wondering if you guys can tell me approximate FPS for these games:

World of Warcraft
Heroes of the Storm

with let's say low-medium details with somewhat better resolution (not needed to be Full HD). What will be the difference in performance and FPS between a MacBook Pro 2015 (Iris 6100), MacBook Pro 2016 (Iris 540) and MacBook Pro 2016 (Iris 550)?


texts: Why is my iPhoto Library size so much bigger than its contents?

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I've stopped using iPhoto and want to extract my Originals and trash the library itself. After I pulled out my originals, I noticed that they're nowhere near the 8GB iPhoto Library size Finder is reporting. So I checked the package contents, and selecting everything including hidden files, the total size is only 1GB. I copied everything out to be sure, also 1GB. du -hs from Terminal, also 1GB.

Any thoughts why Finder thinks it's taking up 8GB of space?


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Does anyone know how to prevent the iPad from going to sleep / stand by when in the iBooks app?

I'm using the iPad as a music stand with my charts, but while I'm playing the song, the screen goes black... this (as I'm sure you can imagine) totally blows.


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I would like to back up and clear the contents of my iPad before I sell it off and buy an iPad 2.
What is the best way to do this?


texts: Can applications purchased through the App Store be used after deauthorization?

texts: If I deauthorize a computer from the account used to purchase a certain app, will that app continue to work as usual?


texts: Can an iPad Mini with cell phone service SMS another phone?

texts: I understand that the iPad mini is Data Only, but does that mean it's impossible to send/receive a SMS from the device?


texts: Is it safe to use frayed MagSafe with outer insulation part is broken

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I have a frayed 60w MagSafe with outer insulation / coaxial part is broken where some wires are cut (some are not). There's no problem with inner insulation part and the MagSafe working just fine when plugged to my MBP (I seal up the broken part with electrical tape).

My question is, is it safe to use MagSafe with broken outer insulation (some wires are cutted out)?
Will it damage my MBP especially the logicboard in long term? What the purpose of the outer insulation part?

Update : I have already sealed the cable when I created the post, so I will use image I found on the net to illustrate the situation.

This is my magsafe look like after sealed by electrical tape


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I have this issue on my Macbook Air that happens often if I select a gadget on the dashboard. I get forced away from the dashboard to the Desktop. I noticed if I previously selected one gadget and I select a different gadget it will do this. For example:

I use the dictionary gadget
Move away from dashboard to do something else
Then go to the dashboard again to use a calculator
Forced away from dashboard

Is this a software problem or is it normal? If it is normal, can I stop this from happening in "system preferences"?

Version 10.7.5


texts: OS X 10.11 CardDAV with self-signed certificate

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The CardDAV server I'm trying to connect to uses a self-signed certificate. Unfortunately I cannot do anything about it.

In previous OS X versions, when connecting to this server the system asked if I want to connect using this insecure certificate. I could accept and continue.

When trying the same thing in the current OS X version, this does not work. The Contacts.app only show a connection issue.

When looking into the logs in Console, I could find this error:

02/12/15 00:55:39,637 Contacts[39186]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -getPrincipalInfo:[_controller discoverServer https://user@host:port(null)]
    Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain
    Code=-1200
    "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made."
    UserInfo={
        _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-9801,
        NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Would you like to connect to the server anyway?
    }

No alert, no asking for proceeding anyways.

Now I thought I might be able to download the certificate, add it to the keychain and set the default trust to "Always Trust".

echo -n | openssl s_client -connect host:port | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > carddav.cer

Got the certificate, added it to the keychain, set the trust and tried again – bummer:
Same error again and still no confirmation dialog.

Now my question is: Is there any way to allow Contacts.app to connect to my server or to bring back the confirmation dialog?

EDIT

As requested, here are my SSL connection details:

CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=0 CN = , O = , OU = , ST = , C = , L = , emailAddress =
verify error:num=18:self signed certificate
verify return:1
depth=0 CN = , O = , OU = , ST = , C = , L = , emailAddress =
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/CN=/O=/OU=/ST=/C=/L=/emailAddress=
   i:/CN=/O=/OU=/ST=/C=/L=/emailAddress=
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=/CN=/O=/OU=/ST=/C=/L=/emailAddress=
issuer=/CN=/O=/OU=/ST=/C=/L=/emailAddress=
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 1198 bytes and written 658 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is AES256-SHA
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : SSLv3
    Cipher    : AES256-SHA
    Session-ID:
    Session-ID-ctx:
    Master-Key:
    Key-Arg   : None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    SRP username: None
    Start Time: 1449069604
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate)
---
DONE


texts: "sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be uid 0" message, but sudo works fine

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Running Mojave on a MBP 2012 13" and I get that message every time I use the sudo command. It isn't preventing me to use sudo, but I get the feeling it'll bite me in the butt at some point in time, and rather have it fixed now then later.

I have tried many of the solutions from other questions asked before but none of them remove the message. I have two account, my main with my name, and an administrator account I used for a work around to get my account admin permissions (it was so long ago I forgot what the problem was before). Both of them can use sudo.

When I run an ls -ln command with sh I only get a ts account listed.

drwx------  3 0  0  96 May 27 12:40 ts

And an ls -la command gives me only one account with an account name I know I've made before, but don't remember where exactly.

drwx--x--x    3 brushie  wheel    96 Sep 24  2018 .
drwxr-xr-x  106 root     wheel  3392 May 27 10:21 ..
drwx------    3 root     wheel    96 May 27 12:40 ts

I've heard you should see your account somewhere in both of these lists, I'm pretty sure my issues are here but I don't know how to go about fixing it without screwing something up.


texts: How do I add the LaunchPad Icon to the Dock after upgrading fom Snow Leopard to Mavericks?

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I have upgraded a Snow Leopard system to Mavericks. I expected to see the LaunchPad icon (spaceship icon used to launch installed apps) on the Dock, but it is not there.

How do I add that icon? I have it on a Lion system and I also see screenshots of Mavericks that have it so I don't think it's gone.


texts: On an iPhone 6s running iOS 11.2.5, suddenly 3D Touch is triggered at the slightest touch. For example, swiping to go back always opens the 3D touch app switcher and holding an app icon on the home screen opens its 3D touch shortcuts menu. Resetting the phone’s settings doesn’t help. What else could I try?


texts: Cleaning my Macbook Pro Retina leaves greasy 'streaks' across the screen

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I try to clean my mid-2015 Macbook Pro with Retina display by wiping the screen with a damp cloth and then immediately drying.

However, there seems to be left some residue/streak marks, which look very oily. Sometimes these disappear after a few minutes, but they are still very unsightly, and a bit worrying (is there something wrong with my screen?)

I'm wondering if there are other cleaning techniques which avoid this issue, or whether this is completely normal behaviour.

Thank you!


texts: How to use Chrome and Apple's Screen time parental controls set to 'Allowed Websites Only'?

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Setting screen time: Content & Privacy: Content: Web Content to 'Allowed Websites Only' results in frequent prompts for Chrome Helper to access specific IP addresses.  Granting for various sites doesn't last, as following visits generate more.

The prompts appear as "Google Chrome Helper attempted to access these secure websites" and then a list of IP addresses such as https://1.234.56.789

I was expecting I would navigate to example.com and be prompted to add a rule for example.com.


texts: How can I 'reset' the inertial scrolling in Chrome?

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Chrome 17 on Lion has inertial scrolling like Safari 5 does. However, sometimes it reaches a point where the top/bottom edges are not bouncy anymore. This happens on a user profile in Chrome without any installed extensions.
The inertial scrolling is still there, but without the bouncy edges. The latter can be restored by restarting the computer. Just restarting Chrome does not fix it.

Is it possible to restore the bouncy scrolling in Chrome without restarting the computer?

I've issued at bug report at code.google.com.
Issue 120188The inertial scrolling is not bouncy at the top/bottom edges after some use

I've made two screen recordings:

Scrolling OK
Scrolling BROKEN


texts: Can I upgrade the carrier settings without the original SIM?

texts: I have an iPhone 4 that I got from my uncle (it's a little used), but I don't have the original SIM that came with that iPhone, and I want to unlock it, can I ask the old carrier to unlock it with only the IMEI and others information that do not depend on the SIM card? Will it be able to receive a carrier settings update on iTunes?


texts: I'm on iOS 7 and I'd like to make the folders' background transparent so I can see the wallpaper behind it. Is there a way to do this?


texts: Can an iPad screen be displayed on a Windows PC for accessing iMessage?

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I am new to Apple ecosystem of devices and services. I am trying to find a way to use iMessage service at work.

So far I only have an iPhone XS Max and an Apple Watch Series 4. I have a PC running Windows 10 at work, that is about 8 years old, and a Windows laptop that is about 6 months old.

I wish to use my desktop to communicate with people with images from the PC or texting, so that my workflow could involve not picking up the iPhone constantly.

I was considering getting an iPad Pro 2017 and plug it up to the PC, then display the image as a window on my Windows 10 PC. Is there a way of doing this?

The main goal is just to continue to use iMessage on my Windows 10 PCs.

Any other suggestions would also be considered. I have read articles about getting a Mac mini and use remote desktop from Google Chrome to do that, or run macOS in a virtual machine on windows. My Windows 10 PC is too old and limited to only 8 GB of memory.


texts: Laggy MacBook Pro on High Sierra and 2 external displays

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I've got a late 2013, 15-inch retina MacBook Pro.
Since a couple macOS upgrades ago, my system has become randomly slow, borderline unusable. I've come to realize it spikes when using 3 displays (2 external 1080p and laptop's retina screen). If I close the laptop and only use the 2 external displays, CPU usage instantly drops. And then, if I open it again, rises up and kernel_task can report over 150% CPU usage and transitions, typing, everything becomes laggy. This can happen even on a fresh boot.
I'm clueless, since 3 displays should be effortless on the GPUs task and by no means take over the CPU. I read kernel_task might spike in order to prevent other processes to hog the CPU and overheat. Even then, closing the screen interrupts no CPU consuming processes, so that shouldn't calm kernel_task down. And the laptop should be even hotter while closed than open.
Is there a step that might help resolve the slowdown?


texts: I have a MacPro 1,1 and am considering putting an SSD in it to give it a boost. Can I safely assume compatibility or will its ancient  hardware and architecture cause issues? It cannot, as I recently discovered, run Mountain Lion so I'm not sure if I should even try bringing it up to date.


texts: how to activate yadr after installing `ho my zsh`?

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I have installed yadr and then ho my zsh

how do i revert and activate yadr ?

I have googled and found only how to uninstall ho my zsh:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9813983/troubles-uninstalling-oh-my-zsh

but i only want to disable it for a while

and use yadr.

I'll try to remove, but I have thought maybe you have a more elegant solution?


texts: SSD not selectable for Yosemite installation

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When I try to install Yosemite the SSD is not found. the Disk Utility lists the SSD, but does not give me the possibility to erase the disk.
Any advices?
Thanks


texts: How can I disable 2FA for a specific iPhone?

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How can I make a certain iPhone not require 2FA when logging in with my Apple ID? I have a phone that never asks me when I login with my Apple ID, but on a new phone it will ask for it every time I log back in.

Is it based on how long you're logged in for it to trust the phone or something?


texts: I have a portable power bank and I can charge devices via USB on it. Is there an adapter to change a 3 prong charger to a USB, so I can plug my Mac into my power bank? A Mac air charger that can plug into a USB port would work as well.


texts: Screwed up my macbook pro built in camera - Need help in command line

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http://osxdaily.com/2017/03/01/disable-mac-camera-completely/

Following this advice, at one point I have used cmd lines to either disable or deleted the components...(such an idiot)

While sudo chmod a+r /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMediaIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/VDC.plugin/Contents/MacOS/VDC
still works, I get "No such file or directory" when I do next four commands to restore webcam.

1)sudo chmod a+r /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AVC.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AVC

2) sudo chmod a+r /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer

3)sudo chmod a+r /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/AppleCamera.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AppleCamera

4)sudo chmod a+r /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/FCP-DAL/AppleCamera.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AppleCamera

I don't know how to fix this issue. Can anyone enlighten how to tackle this issue. Thank you in advance.


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Rofi is a fuzzy searcher for linux (select one entry from a set of entries quickly by typing a substring). fzf is a similar tool for the shell.

This is useful for quickly producing hacky GUI interfaces.

Is there a similar way to easily select one of several strings with a gui from the command-line in mac?

Example of what rofi is useful for

Searching and playing audio files from a known location.

cd music
ls | rofi | xargs vlc

You might bind this to a key. The key point is that you have complete programmatic over control and the input and how the output is used.k


texts: Set Alias for Terminal Window in Applescript

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After opening multiple terminal windows and running commands in them, it becomes difficult to send another command to a specific terminal window.

How can we set an alias for each terminal window so we can specifically target it later? Heres a code snippet of what I am trying to do (apparently the code doesn't work)

tell application "Terminal"

    activate

    do script "./start-1.sh" in window 1
    // then set an alias for this window: 'start1'

    do script "./start-2.sh" in window 2
    // then set an alias for this window: 'start2'

    do script "/monitor.sh" in window 3
    // then set an alias for this window 'monitor'

    // send command to a specific window using its alias
    do script "shutdown -n 0" in window 'monitor'

end tell


texts: Recreating photos library from external photo library after clean install

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I've had no end of corruption problems with my photo library ever since the transfer from iPhoto to photos.

I've completely recreated a new machine and I am trying to re-create a fresh photos library by importing the photos from my old library (I've got a direct backup and a Time Machine).

I'm assuming that if I just import the original photos then I will lose meta information such as favourites, projects, books, calendars etc.

Is there a 'clean way' to import (most of) the photos with their meta information?

I don't want to simply copy-paste the library from the external drive to the new computer.

I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.2.

Any help much appreciated.


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I have a 'slight' issue with my macbook and was wondering if anyone could help me please.

Model: A1278 (EMC 2419*)
MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.3 13" Early 2011
OS: Yosemite

The machine one day abruptly switched off while in use. The power button is ineffective and gives no response. To power the machine up, I removed the battery and attached the power cable.

With the cable attached, the machine turns on. I have password protected the hdd, so the first thing it reaches is a pre-boot user selection. It allows me to use the trackpad and keyboard to enter this information.

From here, the machine begins to boot. It displays the apple logo and progress bar but abruptly shuts off around half way through the boot sequence. Once it has shut off, the power button is once again ineffective. To restart I have to remove and reattach the power cable.

Resets:
I have tried resetting the smc, pram, nvram to no avail.

I have run an extended diagnostic hardware test which found no problems

Recovery:
I do not have a recovery partition.
I have tried internet recovery. I can enter the wifi details and it downloads the software I assume. Once it begins to boot, it shuts off before it gets to the recovery menu.

I have also tried recovering from a USB, the machine shuts off before the menu.

HDD:
I have removed the hard drive and have attached it to my iMac via USB > SATA, I have found no issues there and can access the data.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How can I run newer Unity games on OS X 10.9 Mavericks?

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Most games built with Unity 2018 and Unity 2019 do not work on Mac OS X 10.9. They will launch initially, and occasionally even get as far as the main menu, but invariably crash before entering gameplay.
Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: _getattrlistbulk
  Referenced from: /Users/USER/Desktop/Sayonara Wild Hearts.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/UnityPlayer.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

How can I run these games without updating to an ugly flat version of OS X?


texts: Is Thunderbolt backwards-compatible with mini-DP for both input and output?

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How compatible or not is the new Thunderbolt connection?

If I have a MacBook Air with Thunderbolt, can I use my existing mini-video cable to connect it to a VGA overhead projector?

If I buy a new Cinema Display with Thunderbolt, can I connect my existing Mac Pro to it?

Are there special cables, convertors needed, or are there any fundamental incompatibilities?


texts: How can I archive automatically on reply in mail?

texts: I'm using Mail with Google Apps (Gmail). My goal is to archive automatically the email I've just reply. Leaving me with a clean inbox. How can you that exactly? (I'm using MailTags and Mail Act-On a lot.)


texts: How to increase the amount of time the wifi waits before timing out a connection?

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I'm currently traveling abroad.  Sometimes when connecting to a very old or a heavily used router, the connection will timeout after 2-3 seconds.  I think some of these routers just need more time to respond to my connection request, I would like to increase the wait time to 10-12 seconds before the wifi times out the connection.

Such things do not appear to be configurable through the networking GUI.  I'm quite handy with the terminal but not familiar enough with networking to know where to look.


texts: How do I move existing notes from my iCloud to another folder (gmail, etc)?

texts: I was looking for some help.  I have a mac and an iPhone.  I have 200 important notes in my icloud.  I am scared that something will happen to my phone or mac and I will lose all my notes because my icloud is not backed up.  I am looking for a way to relocate all of my notes to something more universal that does not need to be backed up (Gmail).


texts: Allow read-write access to subdirectory in first local account to second local account

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I have two accounts (one for work, the other for private stuff) on a Mac, which is running OS X Yosemite. I would like to share a directory, say ~work/Documents/SomeDirectory/SomeSubDirectory/, such that the other account (say ~home) can read from and write to it.

I know how to do this with Unix access control, but I don't want to go through the trouble of creating groups and checking all the parent directories.

Is there a simpler way to achieve this by using OS X Sharing & Permission settings (those accessible under Get Info in the Finder). If so, how would I go about sharing SubDirectory between the two accounts with minimal effort (yet also minimal exposure to third accounts and esp. remote users.)


texts: Difference between US QWERTY and International QWERTY Apple keyboards?

texts:
What exactly is the difference between US QWERTY and International QWERTY Apple keyboards?

I’m talking about the hardware keyboards specifically, not about keyboard layouts (in System Settings).


texts: I received notification that Find iPhone's remote erase had been started on my lost MacBook on a specific time. I suppose someone brought it online, Apple detected it and initialized the remote wipe request I had set up. Somehow It's not showing the last location, which is weird to me. Any idea why last location is not shown?


texts: Getting Time Machine to only back up when idle

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My TM backups are causing some disruption to my work while they're running, be it a backup to a network drive that's taking up all available wifi bandwidth or a backup to an attached zfs volume which causes very heavy cpu usage (due to the gzip-9 compression settings I use...)

I'm looking for some way, even a dirty hack, to get TM backups to only start while the computer is idle for over a few minutes and to stop when mouse/keyboard activity resumes.


texts: iTunes splitting albums containing songs from multiple different artists

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As seen here, my iTunes is splitting my albums up. More specifically, albums that contain songs that have different artists names in the tags. Those "Avengers - Age of Ultron" albums are supposed to be one album.

Rocket Music player, as well as every other multimedia application I have used besides iTunes, all recognize and sort my albums correctly.

This is extremely frustrating and I was wondering if there was a way I could solve this without resorting to incorrectly tagging my music with the same artist as other songs in the album.


texts: The screen shows inverted colors, noise in some parts. Can someone please tell me what to do?


texts: I have some wireless earphones which I want to use with my Macbook Pro, iPad and iPhone. Every time I want to switch the Apple device to connect to, however, I need to turn off Bluetooth to the previously used device. Is there any way to avoid this?


texts: Teams meeting link gets stripped from calendar entry when accepting in Apple Mail.app (connected as Exchange account)

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I have an email account connected via Exchange integration in Apple Mail.app and Calendar.app
I activated all sychronizations (mail, calendar, notes etc.)
Now when I receive an Outlook meeting including a links to a Microsoft Teams meeting, the meeting gets added to the calendar correctly but all the other information gets stripped from the calendar entry (e.g. the link to the Teams meeting).
How can this be fixed?


texts: Is it possible to stop the calculator in notification centre resetting to 0 when opened?

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When using the calculator in the notification centre I often type some numbers, close the notification centre to check some notes on another window, then re-open notification centre to add the next operand to a calculation.
However, when I re-open the notification centre the calculator always resets to zero!

Is there any way to persist the current calculation and stop the calculator resetting every time the notification centre is opened?

System Info: High-Sierra 10.13.6


texts: Catalina: Purpose of /System/Volumes/Data/Previous Content/?

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After the update from Mojave to Catalina I noticed that the used disk space has increased from about 1TB to almost 2TB. And there is hardly any free disk space left.
A closer inspection of the file structure of the whole system shows that about half of the data is in the folder /System/Volumes/Data/Previous Content/Users/myusername. It seems to be a mirror of my user data that was created during the upgrade. This would explain the sudden doubling of the disk space used.
I can't find any clear information about the purpose of the folder /System/Volumes/Data/Previous Content/Users/ neither here in the forum nor on the web. Is it possible that after upgrading and setting up all user data from the backup, the contents of the folder /System/Volumes/Data/Previous Content/Users/ can be deleted without problems? Since it does not seem to be necessary for the operation of Catalina?
(Note: this question is not about the general purpose of the APFS partition /System/Volumes/Data/ of the new APFS)


texts: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) HDD showing space used, but empty in finder

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I have a 1 TB Toshiba USB External HDD that I formatted to Mac OS Extened (Case-sensitive, Journaled). (I'm not sure why I did the "case sensitive" part, probably an accident).

When I open the drive in finder it shows as empty (see photo below).

Yet in disk utility, it shows that 653 GB are used of the total 1 TB.

Listing the hidden files using terminal shows some hidden things, but nothing huge.

Finally, I ran DiskDrill on the drive (but I think that only detects deleted files/damaged files, but worth a try). Regardless, I only found some 300 GB of data (all of which was random/unnamed).

I'm not sure what to do, and I'm not sure if I'm missing anything obvious. It's been plugged in for well over 3 hours now.

To clarify: I formatted it to Mac OS Extended, added data, and then had this issue. Now I've been scanning it.

I've tried unmounting/remounting
I've tried ejecting/remounting

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I currently get a text message for every voicemail I receive on my iPhone, how do I turn that off?
I already have visual voicemail within iOS, so there’s no need for an additional transcript of my voicemails.
On Android, they offer an app for managing voicemail but their support pages and forums don’t contain instructions for how to turn this off on an iPhone. This is a common problem that many customers complain about having a hard time fixing.


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Any idea how would you go about drawing a 3x3 matrix in iBooks Author?

My Latex formula which works on other platforms is

$$\left[\begin{array}{ c c c }1 & 1 & 1 \2 & -1 & 1 \ 1 & 2 & -1\end{array} \right]$$

iBooks simply says "invalid equation".

Cheers

Nick


texts: How can I tell what kind of iPod Touch I have if the case can't be removed?

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I'm buying a gift that requires an iPod 3 or newer and I'm trying to get my brother to tell me what kind of iPod he has, but he is unable to open the case it's in.

How can he, using software, tell me what kind of iPod Touch he has?


texts: Changing OS X Spotlight priorities for specific applications

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I'd like to fiddle with Spotlight's priorities so that when I enter 'photo', my first returned result is Adobe Photoshop, and not Photo Booth.

I understand how to change priorities for or disable entire file types, but I'd rather just remove Photo Booth from Spotlight search.

Failing that, I could just delete Photo Booth. I don't use it. I think Photo Booth can't normally be deleted on Lion, so what's the command to delete it via Terminal?


texts: Is it possible to do conditional formatting in Numbers for iOS?  I'd just like to change the text or background colour depending on the cell's contents.


texts: How do I export the URLs saved on an iPad homescreen?

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Is there some way to export the URLs for all of the bookmarks added to my iPad's Home Screen (i.e. saved as icons on the home screen)?

I want to export them as HTML/XML/CSV/text, not sync them to another Apple device or just create a backup that can only be restored back to an iPad.


texts: Macos opens Instruments when I press "Command" + "~"

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The default combination to switch between windows of the current app in macOS is ⌘ Command `. Unfortunately when I have opened Chrome and I want to switch between its windows, ⌘ Command ` opens Instruments.
If I switch windows in the opposite direction with ⌘ Command ⇧ Shift `  - everything works fine.
Is there a way to disable Chrome behavior so switching windows would work in it as well?


texts: How do I create a loopback adapter for Parallels VMs?

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I have several windows VMs that needs to connect to the OSX host in Parallels.  Rather than hard coding all the VMs to use an IP that my Wifi router uses, Id rather have something that works even while WIFI is down.

How can I have network communication between my VM and my mac while disconnected from all other networks? (wifi, lan, etc)  I


texts: How do I restore the contacts that my kids deleted from their ipods but is connected with my Mac so I lost them too.