texts: In iPhoto, convert MJPEG videos to H.264?

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In iPhoto, I've got some old MJPEG videos that don't transfer to my iPod Touch. I've got new videos that I took with my iPod Touch that are in the H.264 format, so they transfer fine, of course.

How can I convert my MJPEG videos so that I can transfer them to my iPod? I assume I'd need to convert them to H.264 somehow. Is it possible to convert them, and keep the metadata associated with them as well, especially the date that the videos were taken?


texts: How can I update my 3rd generation iPod touch from iOS 5.1.1 iOS 6.0

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My itunes keeps on telling me that my iOS 5.1.1 iPod touch is up to date when I click Check for Update:

iTunes 11.0.2
OS X 10.8.2
iPod 3rd gen (MC008LL)

I recall that back in the day I used to get the prompt to update to 6.0.. and then I asked iTunes never to bother me about it again. But now I went to iTunes->preferences->advanced->reset all dialog warnings. that still doesn't work..

I also tried updating my software from within the iPod itself: Settings->General->Software Update, but I get the exact same message still.. Ideas?


texts: Is it possible to use MacBook as a display for Mac Pro?

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I want to use a Mac Pro on the display of a MacBook. That's because I mainly use MacBook and now would like to use Mac Pro only when I need more power.

But since I'm a traveler for all year round, there is no choice to use iMac or MacBook Pro.

So is it possible to use the display, keyboard, and trackpad of a MacBook to use Mac Pro?


texts: My wireless network connection gets lost frequently (OS X 10.10.2)

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I have long periods of time with no working internet because my 802.11 wlan connection gets lost frequently. This only occurs on my Mac. It runs OS X 10.10.2.

When showing the desktop after starting up the computer, the wifi symbol in the superbar shows the network searching for a wlan connection. Very often, every other startup or so, it won't find the connection to my wifi network. Turning the machine off, plugging the power cable for 20 seconds, plugging the cable back in, wait another 5 seconds and turning it back on usually helps.

I don't have any connection issues with the Windows PC or the iPad, it's just the Mac. Checking the web shows some talk about wireless lan driver issues with Macs (Update from 10.10 to 10.10.1 and then to 10.10.2) with nothing really having changed for my Mac.

I've called Apple service, they have a set of procedures they apply, but that doesn't fix the issue permamently.

I tried plugging in another wlan adapter (actually two different ones) and use it instead of the onboard device, but OS X didn't seem to recognize the devices.

I'm somewhat at my wit's end about the issue.


texts: Launch an older version of an application by default?

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There are two sets of applications where I'm running into this issue:

iWork, where I only have the new stuff installed because Software Update harasses you to install the new stuff if it detects you only have the old stuff
Office 2016, which I've discovered fixes everything I liked about Office 2011

When iWork first came out I tried telling the system to open all .numbers, .pages, and .keynote files with the '09 versions of the applications by default, but it ended up ignoring that preference and launched the new versions anyway.  As such I've gotten accustomed to just going to the Applications folder, opening up the old version manually, and then dropping whatever I want to edit into the open app.

Office is a bit more integral to what I do, however, and I'm really not looking forward to having to do more of this.  Is there some sort of setting, terminal command, script, etc. that I can set to force the use of an older version by default?


texts: How to make a Mac harddrive partition non bootable

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Just recently added an SSD drive replacing the optical drive. Carbon Copy the whole partition and now left with 2 bootable drives. How do I make the old partition no longer bootable? I've changed the default boot using Startup Disk utility, but want to make the partition completely non bootable

Thanks


texts: Why can't I access all commands in recovery mode?

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When I'm trying to run terminal commands in recovery mode on my MacBook Pro, most commands just won't work even if I'm root (the last character of the default(PS1) prompt is a '#').
So why is this and can I fix it?


texts: How can I lower the media volume on my iPhone when no media is playing?

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On the laptop it's a one-touch mute button, nice and easy.

On my iPhone there is no mute button, so volume controls must be used instead, which is no problem. When I use the volume buttons when there are no media playing, it lowers my ringer volume.

The issue is that I have to wait at least until the video player loads, and depending on which video player I am using, the both volume slider is grayed out out until the video starts playing.

The combination leads to a nonzero period of time when I am exposed to the audio while I am lowering the volume.

Q: Is there a way to adjust the media volume when there is no media playing [yet]?


texts: Print multiple email messages from Apple Mail to individual PDFs

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My goal is to be able to highlight a number of messages in Apple Mail then run a process to print them each to a PDF.  Right now I can select multiple emails command + P Then select PDF -> Save as PDF but that saves all the highlighted emails as an single PDF file.  I'm looking to get an individual PDF per highlighted email (with the subjst as the PDF file name if possible).

I looked at Automator's Print Plugin but couldn't find a way to create separate documents (can't say I'm any sort of Automator pro so I may have overlooked something obvious)

Is there some way for me to accomplish this using Automator or applescript?


texts: How do I make the folders and files wrap on Finder in Mac OSX?

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The two screenshot below show what I mean. This is a window maximized:

This is the same window but at half the screen width:

Now, you can clearly see that the folders and files are not all showing when Finder is half the width of the screen. The remaining folders and files are still to the right of the screen and if you expand Finder to your right, you can see them.

I don't really like this behaviour. In Windows Explorer, if you have files and folders displayed along the full width of the screen, when you shrink Windows Explorer to half the width of the screen, the folders and file rearrange themselves so everything is still visible on screen.

How can I get the same effect on Mac?


texts: Airport extreme seems to place a limit on gigabit ethernet

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I have a gigabit internet which goes into my airport extreme. Everything is working fine now except the fact that the Gigabit Ethernet port has a limit of 200mb/s when tested. If I plug the main internet cable into my computer and test the download goes to 900+mb/s but when I plug it into Airport extreme and connect to it's (gigabit) ethernet I hit that 200mb/s limit no matter what.

I tried with different cables and whatnot, the ethernet is limited. Any ideas?


texts: Is there a way to view history in the iOS twitter app?

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I read an interesting article in the iOS twitter app about a week ago. I forgot to star or retweet it and now I have no idea how to find it. Is there some way to view a web history in the Twitter app?

I posted a related question on programmers trying to find specific article, but it got closed :/


texts: Can I receive all the messages I missed whilst my iMessage was off?

texts: I shut my iMessage off last night on my iPhone 5s. I turned it back on this morning. How can I get the messages I didn't receive?


texts: Remove requirement of App Store password

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For some reason, I messed up my iPad and now when ever I try to download an app I already purchased, I have to type in my Apple ID password where before hand I could download it straightaway. I don't have this problem on my iPhone and they both use the same account.

Is there a way to fix this so updating an app or downloading a previously purchased app on iOS does not require a password?

Also I set it so that the password requirement is 15 minutes and free apps do not require a password, but they seem to have absolutely no effect (Settings>iTunes & AppStore>Password Settings)


texts: Is there an app that will show me total word count across all applications over a period of time?

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Does anyone know of an application or service that I can enable that will log and record a count of the total number of words that I've typed over the course of a day?

I don't want or need a full keyboard log of all words, and I certainly don't want any of that being stored. I just want to know how many words and characters I've typed over the course of the day, irrespective of application.


texts: Final Cut Express 3.5 HD quits unexpectedly

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I am running FCE 3.5 HD on a Macbook Pro and whenever I start rendering, it (FCE) unexpectedly quits. Here’s the crash report:

http://inventaweb.net/matthew/fcecrashlog.txt

I have no idea if this will even help, as I have no idea even how to read it...but....

UPDATE: I am still having the problem, but not necessarily from rendering. Just moving video around can cause it to quit. Or selecting "Show video filmstrips"

EDIT: I sent a bug report to Apple. We'll see what they say.


texts: Can you add more than one iMovie Theater account to an Apple TV?

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I have a 3rd generation Apple TV and typically have the iCloud account set to mine. However, another member of my family is starting to use iMovie Theater and their videos do not appear on the Apple TV as we have separate iCloud accounts. It seems that the iMovie Theater app on the TV is tied to a single iCloud account.

I know that you can add multiple iTunes accounts to the device, but is it possible to add multiple iCloud accounts? Ultimately, I'm looking to have the iMovie Theater show videos from both of our accounts.


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I hat to bring in my iPhone for repair and I backed up all the data on iCloud and with iTunes (just to be sure). I then got a replacement phone for one week.

I was not able to recover my Health data:

The data seems not to be synchronised with iCloud (no other device as my iPad or the replacement phone see anything)
The data was not backed up. I got everything back but for the Health data

Is there a way to back Health data up?


texts: Mac Mini Server - Windows 7 Laptop VPN to OS X Server error 629, Tried a lot of options

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I am having a hard time connecting to my office server in which I am the admin of. I have recently wiped the hard drive and re-installed os x yosemite with os x server. I use a Windows 7 machine at home which I am attempting to connect to my mac server with. I know the public IP works because I can SSH and VNC in just fine. Up until the wiping of the server I had fully working VPN services so I know they work. That and pings go through to my public IP without trouble. I keep getting as far as verifying the username / pass and it hangs and then gives an error 629 message.

I have...

Pinged the public server IP with 4 successful packets, every so often some have weird times like 9ms.
Flat out turned off my home windows firewall and also tried adding the proper exceptions.
Have tried using os x server automatic wizard to adjust my router port forwarding/opening of ports, as well as tried manually entering my local server ip address and port to open in airport utility.
Tried pinging and then connecting to the local address instead of the public address.
Tried turning off all forms of encryption.
Tried resetting the usernames / passwords.
Checked the accessibility feature of os x yosemite and it says VPN is available publicly.
Turned off automatic VPN type and manually tried both L2TP and PPTP.
Tried adding all OS X VPN port exceptions in airport utility under the network tab.
Tried to VPN into local address instead of public address.
Tried adding a pre-decided key or shared secret and forcing L2TP
Hooking up my co-workers desktop Mac machines to VPN via local/public addresses. Both worked and they also can send/receive/administer file sharing on the server.

The error 629 from my Windows client side gave a report generator which pumped out a 500 page "summary" ... I will cut out the seemingly important details:

Installation Check:
Unable to validate installed Remote Access components.

Phone Book Files:
Device=WAN Miniport (IKEv2) <-- Weird because I don't think this should be IKEv2

Remote Access Event Logs

Event Type:     Error
Event Source:   RasMan
Event Category: None
Event ID:       20276
Description:
: The connection attempt failed on port: VPN3-1 because of the authentication protocol selected. Check to see if the authentication protocol is supported in the operating systems at the client and server ends of the connection

Anything else needing to be copied from that error report, lemme know.


texts: Late 2015 iMac 27 freezes than crashes and restarts - often and apparently randomly

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I purchased this late 2015 iMac 27 with built in 8GB of memory in September of 2016.  Shortly thereafter I replaced the original memory with Adamanta 32GB (4x8GB) Apple Memory Upgrade for Late 2015 iMac 27" DDR3L 1867Mhz PC3-14900 SODIMM 2Rx8 CL13 1.35v RAM from Amazon.  I also cloned my internal drive to an external SSD drive, and use that as the startup disk.

Everything worked fine along with significantly better performance.  I did however, start experiencing freezes, and after 20 seconds or so, a reboot.  These appear to be random, although mostly while using a web browser - usually Safari, and they continue to this day.  I may go a week or so without a crash, but sometimes I get several in one day.

Not sure if this would have happened without the third party additions as they were done about a week after purchase.  I suppose I could reinstall the original memory, and possibly clone back to the internal drive and see what happens.  But the computer is still under warranty, and I purchased Applecare+ (something I wouldn't have done in the past, but my own experience with a MacBook Pro and friends' experiences with Apple products, it seems they're not what they used to be) so I figured I'd take it straight to the Apple Store.  I saw this site and decided to give it a try before I do that though.

I'm running under El Capitan version 10.11.6.

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.


texts: Does the iPhone 8 have any sort of water resistance or waterproof manufacturing?

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I recently got the iPhone 8. After some research, I found that it had the IP67 rating. I'm not sure what this means though especially for a steamy room.

Does this rating mean that it is fully waterproof, or is it only waterproof for a certain number of meters?


texts: While I was using my MacBook, the screen suddenly went to black. I restarted it, but every time after I login the screen is black again. This doesn’t happen when I open it in safe mode though. I’ve tried a PRAM reset and even reinstalled macOS, but am lost at what else I can do to fix it


texts: I'm currently rescuing my 2TB HDD using DDRescue to a brand new HDD and still have a long time to go, I also use a DDRescue_GUI (Mac user) to navigate the process since I'm not good with the manual code myself. I wonder what can I do when it's done? In terms of reading the data off of the new drive, I read through a lot of threads and info but couldn't find a detailed version of viewing/reading the data after, much appreciated for all helps!


texts: How can I prevent jittery video playback on High Sierra?

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I have a 17-inch MacBook Pro with 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3. I purchased some kids videos from iTunes in 2015/2016 to entertain my kid. Those videos played flawlessly then.

Today, in 2018, I was trying to play exactly the same videos again on the same computer but with latest macOS High Sierra. The videos playback becomes jittery. The sound is still smooth, but the video is like several frames per second, not watchable at all. I've heard Apple deliberately slowed down the iPhones. I'm wondering whether they did the same thing with MacBook Pro.

Update:

I installed El Capitan, and played the same video. It was smooth as it should be. Here are the evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fogEmqSE0ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBljv5YnjnY


texts: What is the normal fan speed on Mac computers

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I have noticed that fan speed on my Mac is 499 rpm. Now this is a computer with installed OSX El Capitan, Xcode 8.2.1... I have noticed this when Xcode got crashed few weeks ago (the information was provided in Xcode crash log). Now, today, when it crashed again, I have noticed the same fan speed, which is 499...That is a bit odd I must say, because rpm are very low, and I got same number twice.

I wonder is this accurate info actually and what is the normal fan speed for MacPro3,1?


texts: Is there a way to leave a Keynote slideshow running on the second attached monitor while doing other things on the computer? I use my MacBook Pro to run the projector at my school assemblies and I'd like to be able to switch away from the slideshow without it disappearing.


texts: Airdrop won't send files, says recipient has declined request

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Airdrop on my 8mth old iMac has stopped sending docs through airdrop. It can receive ok but when trying to send it comes back with a message saying recipient has declined the request. No messages are being received by the recipient or any actions being made.

Apple won't help unless I pay £35!!!!!

Any else experienced this?


texts: macOS overall slow UI when running (Adobe?) apps

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I do have an almost new iMac (27", i9, 32gb ram, 512gb SSD, middle of the GPU options, 5k display + fullhd second monitor, Catalina, all up to date).
using it to do graphics design (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, all CC2020 versions) and webdesign (code editors, FTP, browsers of all kinds).
after a fresh boot, everything is fine and responsive. opening some code editor, finder, browser, ... is good.
doing some work in acrobat, InDesign, illu, photoshop and having some more complex files open, the whole interface (including finder, typing text in the editor, animation or scrolling in browsers, opening save dialogs, ...) gets very unresponsive, like low frame rate in macOS animation, spinning wheel when selecting text, and the Adobe apps themselves too are slow on display changes.
I can't see big CPU loads in the activity monitor, but it's hard to see what's going on on the GPU level.
closing the bigger apps again seems to make things a bit better after some minutes, but only a reboot cleans everything up.
currently it's so bad its inhibiting my will to do work - I'd expect that kind of computer to run some mid-level graphics design tasks smoothly ... the documents are not simple, but they are nothing exceptional (and my older Mac from around 2015 actually did manage that, but but it was not with Catalina).
As it is a problem even when the Adobe apps are only waiting in the background while I'm in a browser or code editor, it may be connected with macOS itself, not only an in-application performance problem where Adobe would be the clear culprit. Something to do with the graphics subsystem (driver, ...?) that is under some stress when using the Adobe applications?
Any idea is welcome ...


texts: Bluetooth headset the other party can't hear me on any internet calls

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I have iPhone 4S, I bought new bluetooth headset, it is working fine on normal calls, but when using it on internet calls like WhatsApp calls or Messenger calls etc… the other party can’t hear me but I hear him very well, and the Audio button is flickering between (Audio symbol with 3 brackets) and (Audio symbol with bluetooth logo) I have attached gif image showing the flickering.

By the way, I bought another one, it worked for the first time but after charging it it makes the same problem.


texts: How can I install vpfit on a 64 bit macOS?

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I am trying to install the Voigt profile fitting (vpfit) program on a 64 bit macOS machine.

I'm stuck on this. Kindly help if anyone had any luck with the installation.

Here is what I did:

*Port Install pgplot - https://guaix.fis.ucm.es/~ncl/howto/howto-pgplot (This part is working)

sudo port install xorg-server
sudo port install pgplot
sudo port -f activate libgcc9
• After the installation, make sure that the expected environment
variables are properly set (at least PGPLOT_DIR must exist;
PGPLOT_DEV is also quite useful). One can check this by executing:
echo $PGPLOT_DIR
echo $PGPLOT_DEV

Install Cfitsio - This part is working

sudo port install cfitsio +gcc7

Install VPFIT - THIS IS WHERE I'M STUCK

Go to working directory you are working out of (my case Downloads)
Create vpfit folder
cd vpfit
wget http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~rfc/vpfit10.4.tar.gz
tar -xvf vpfit10.4.tar.gz vpfit

• Edit makefile

cfitsx =        /usr/local/lib/cfitsio.a

pgpltx =        /usr/local/lib//libpgplot.a

make vpmac

I am getting undefined symbols for architecture


texts: There are a few apps that I found online that I'm trying to download, but my phone isn't letting me. When I click the link and it brings me to the app store, I click the "get" button, and then the "install" button, but instead of recognizing that, it just reloads and I have to click it again. I've tried it many times with many different apps, but it just keeps reloading until I give up. It didn't even give me an error message. I know I have plenty of storage, so that isn't the problem. Thank you for any insight.


texts: How can I enable backspace to go back in Safari on Mojave?

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There are other questions and answers about how to enable the key Backspace to go back to the previous page in Safari, but none of them work on my newly installed Mojave even though it used to work on High Sierra.

How can I enable this behaviour in Mojave?


texts: How do I install macOS 10.11 El Capitan on a Mac mini (Late 2012)

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I have an older Mac mini (mid 2011) which runs macOS 10.11, 10.12 and 10.13. It did not allow me to install macOS 10.14, so I had to order another (used) Mac mini (late 2012) that now runs macOS 10.13 and macOS 10.14 in separate partitions. Because running

$ hdiutil create -size <size>b <.dmg-file> -srcfolder <directory> -ov -format UDBZ

on macOS 10.14 creates a dmg file that can't be opened on macOS 10.11, we need to bundle our applications on macOS 10.11.

I've tried to create an image of the macOS 10.11 partition on the old Mac mini and restore it on the new one - it failed and reported about not having enough permissions.

I've tried several ways to download the installer of macOS 10.11, e.g. using the link on https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886, but the App Store on the new Mac mini always tells me that my machine is too new, and the App Store on the old Mac mini simply tells me that macOS 10.11.6 "cannot be installed on this computer".

Is there a way to install macOS 10.11 on my newer Mac mini?


texts: Macbook Pro won't load desktop on user account

texts: My Macbook Pro (running El Capitan) will not load my main user account. After I enter the password it just looks as though it's loading but never displays the desktop. I am able to log into the guest account without a problem and I have even created a new administrator account, but I need to access my old user profile. Any suggestions much appreciated.


texts: How can I alter the spotlight category spreadsheets to include ODS

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In Lion, the "All My Files" smart folder in finder is based on spotlight search categories. While I can see how from System Preferences->Spotlight->Search Results I can alter the order of these as well as enabled/disable categories, I cannot see how to alter the file types that go into them.

I specifically want to add the Libre Office ODS file type into spreadsheets, but a generalised answer I can use for other file types is even better.

I don't fear cracking out vi and editing system files.


texts: IMac will only boot in single user mode. Everything else it shuts down

texts: I have tried everything. Also on the far left it always says Disk1s1. When I look at other pictures and videos it will say root or something else. I have tried a formatted usb but nothing


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On the first of January every year, I move the previous year's mails from INBOX, to 'all', which is an actual 'physical' folder in Mail.app - in other words, off the server and onto my Mac.  I do this by selecting the last message of 31 December, and then scrolling to the 1 January of the previous year, and holding down SHIFT whilst I select that message.  I then right-click on the selected mails, and choose 'move to' and 'all'.

In 2018, there are over 13,000 messages, so when I perform the above operation, I wait for a little while.  They appear to have vanished from INBOX, which is good.  I click on ‘Sent’, intending to do the same with 2018’s messages in there.  But if I switch back to INBOX, hey presto – nothing has been moved.  Worse, if I go and look in ‘all’, I see copies of the messages that I thought I had moved.   If I did it ten times, there would be ten copies of those e-mails.

I know that there is also a ‘copy’ option on the contextual menu, but I do not click on that.  I click on ‘move’.

Why are my messages not moving?


texts: Quick and easy way to batch convert multiple HEIC to png or jpg on macOS?

texts:
Is there a quick and easy way to convert many HEIC files to png on macOS?
Example
Suppose we take some live photos on iPhone, airdrop them to MacBook, and we want to upload them to a site that only accepts .png files.

I've noticed if you simply change the extension from .HEIC to .png (e.g. in the above image), then as far as I can tell, the image file is treated accordingly by programs and it 'works'.
However, I guess the underlying file hasn't changed, so it could still contain live photo information (I think), which a normal png wouldn't have, which, in a worst case, could be a security risk or in less severe cases simply be an annoyance.
What I know so far
The best I can do right now is go through the files one by one renaming them. I would really like to know what other solutions are available (via point and click and terminal), and have a strong preference for not having to download any external software.


texts: Random podcasts appeared in the podcast app

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I recently reset my iPhone and restored it using my latest iCloud backup. I noticed in the podcast app that four Christian podcasts appeared under a "Not Subscribed" section (seemed interesting that all of the podcasts had the same general theme). I had never subscribed to, or even heard of, the four podcasts. I deleted them and closed the podcast app. Now each time I reopen the podcast app, one of the podcasts continues to reappear and attempts to start downloading an episode.

I found this question that sounded oddly similar, but it had no answers.

Update

I tried removing all podcasts and syncing with iTunes on my computer (which shows no current podcast subscriptions), but this random podcast still appears.


texts: How to toggle AutoShowToolbarInFullScreen via terminal?

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I need help with hiding/showing the toolbar in Safari by using the terminal.

I already found out that there exists a key within ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist called AutoShowToolbarInFullScreen that is either false or true and it changes when clicking "Always show toolbar in fullscreen mode" (Safari->View->Always show toolbar in fullscreen mode).

I tried setting the property using defaults:

defaults write com.apple.Safari AutoShowToolbarInFullScreen -bool true (or false)

That worked, however, the UI did not update or layout itself after setting the property.

Is there any way how to hide/show the toolbar in Safari or to update the Safari UI via the Terminal?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance.


texts: Why would plugging in my iPod Mini via FireWire hard crash my Mac running High Sierra?

texts:
I have a MacPro3,1 that I've recently upgraded to High Sierra using the patch. I also still use an older 1st gen 64GB iPod Mini (yes, upgraded) that I've always connected to the machine via the FireWire 400 cable. Up until I did the High Sierra upgrade, the Mac and iPod had no issues.

If I plug the iPod into the Mac with the FireWire cable the screen immediately dies and the Mac reboots. If I leave the iPod plugged in, the computer will go into a continuous reboot loop (several seconds in between). I did notice in one of the generated Apple problem reports that it is a FireWire related kernel panic.

Any ideas why this would be happening? Is FireWire no longer supported on High Sierra perhaps?


texts: How does Apple fix the sleep-wake button issue on the iPhone 5?

texts:
What do Apple technicians actually change when they take the iPhone 5 for repairing the sleep-wake button issue? Do they just replace the outer button or something else too?

What parts are actually replaced with new ones?


texts: How to get the first name of the recipient to be auto-added to new messages in Mail.app?

texts:
I'd like new messages that I create, including replies to messages I receive, to automatically get a "Hi <name>," inserted in their first line. <name> should be the first name of the first recipient.

How can I create such an automation?


texts: How can I change the resolution of a PDF

texts: I have scanned a document into a PDF at 300dpi.  The document file is larger than I would like.  Is there a simple way to down-sample the document so that it has a lower resolution?  Or do I just need to re-scan the original document?


texts: Can Pages '09 create a list inside a list?

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Is there a way to create a "sublist" inside a list item from an outer list in Pages '09?

More specifically, I want to do this:

Example made with HTML (should look like this):

First category

Second category:

    Here is a text. And a list:

Point

Another point

    Proceed with text. Perfect.

Third category

Here's a screenshot of Pages where I'm trying to do this.


texts:
I'm disappointed to see that http://www.globaldelight.com/ are discontinuing support for Boom1 and charging users to upgrade to Boom2. In fact their smallprint suggests they intend to charge for Boom3.

As a software developer, it would be against my conscience to charge multiple times for a simple utility that the operating system should have supplied.

So, I am looking for alternatives.  Is there any other way to increase the volume on a MacBook?

PS Is it just my imagination, or has the most recent OSX (El Capitan)  increased the maximum volume level? Since Boost stopped working, I haven't really noticed a problem watching movies.


texts: How to solve it when the iPhone is going to be locked for 48 years?

texts:
A mom gave her iPhone to her kid to play with (or possibly watch cartoons on YouTube), and the phone was auto-locked probably due to some time of inactivity.

Then the kid just randomly entered some passwords and then when the mom saw the phone again, the phone showed it would be locked for 25,114,984 minutes, before the user can try to enter the password again.

That's 48 years. How can it be solved, if the mom doesn't want to wait for 48 years?


texts: Having small video files from iphone videos, either compressing large ones or recording them so they are small in the first place

texts:
tl;dr I want to compress very big video files and start recording them small in the first place.

My goal is to have my video files be small enough that they don't take up all the space in my Mac (and thus can be upload to youtube at some point). Currently they are around 30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes long. I record them with the built in iphone video recorder and they are around 5 to 10 GB of size.

I don't need them to be extremely high quality. In the way youtube has quality, I would be fine with something around 480p. Depending on the size of the video 720p is also good, but if the video is to large its not useful for me.

I am not sure if its because the iphone just automatically records in HD, but I would like to turn that off and have videos of size less than 5GB. One way to solve my problem could be to start recording them with no HD. Is it possible to turn down the HD quality from the automatic recording in iphone? Maybe there is an iphone app that already does this? Its crucial that I am able to save them to my actual computer, so whether the app is free or not, I need to upload them to youtube and save them on my mac.

Another route to have small videos from iphone recording could be to compress these videos after I record them. Since, I already have a large collection of extremely large videos of size 5GB to 10GB, compressing them such that I can still watch and listen to their audio is crucial for me. Is there some kind of software for MAC that does this? Free software is always desirable, but I care that they remain watachble, a software compressing software that costs money is also option that I would want to consider.

Are there other ways to achieving these goals:

1) Recording videos and having them be small in the first place? (the length of the videos are going to be around 30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes. I am willing to compromise on quality but not size, 30 videos of each 1 minutes size is not a solution to my problem).

2) Compressing the video files that I already have on my MAC book pro?

To get a better sense of what my goal is, I would like to have videos of the quality of the following:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/presentation/corbett

The video looks fine and if you download it its of around 123.8 MB and its 30 minutes long. Something of comparable quality (seems like 480 to me) and that size would be perfect. My videos are presentations and stuff like that, their intellectual content is more important than viewing them HD, so something comparable to that quality and size is my goal.


texts: Does OSX support (importing) OpenVPN profiles?

texts: Is there some way to import the settings of an OpenVPN client into the built-in VPN client in Mountain Lion? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?


texts: Keyboard extremely sluggish on iOS7 with iPhone 4s

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I've upgraded to iOS7 on my iPhone 4s.  The keyboard, regardless of what I am doing, either texting or entering email, is extremely sluggish - 5 second interval between keystrokes.

What are some ways to troubleshoot this problem?


texts: Getting Data back from damaged .pages file

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This question is not duplicate as this thread didnot solve my problem since I cannot upload my data on Icloud. I am trying to restore data from a folder which I later found is similar to .pages package contents. It has subfolders Index, MetaData, file.zip and some jpeg images as preview. I also came across several other threads 1 2 which all suggests to change the folder extension to .pages or copy contents first and then change etc etc. I have done all that, but Pages [10.3.5] still wont let me open this file. Data in folder is also some encrypted format .iwa. I also searched to understand this format to extract data but it is some kind of compression (Snappy) which I guess can only be read by application (please correct me otherwise).
So far I have tried changing extensions and copying contents into a new folder and then change extension. I cannot upload data on Icloud. Is there any other way around to get data back? Is there any editor for .iwa files to read data?
Thanks.


texts: OS X Lion, Safari: could not turn off antialiasing

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I had the antialiasing disabled in Safari (5.0?) in Snow Leopard, by setting

defaults write com.apple.Safari AppleAntiAliasingThreshold -int 200

Now I have OS X Lion with Safari 5.1, and that option does not work anymore. How should I disable antialiasing in Safari 5.1?


texts: Fusion Guest OS Opening Files In Host OS

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MacBook Pro Early 2011 - Mac OSX 10.7.2
VMWare Fusion 4.0.2
Guest OS is Win7 64-bit, all the latest updates.  MS Office 2010 w/latest.

So, basically I'm using the Win7 guest OS for Outlook only (I need to run Taglocity, which doesn't work with Mac Office 2011).  Anyway, when I get emailed a URL I can click on it and the URL is opened in my default browser on the Host OS.  Love it!  I want to do the same thing for documents that I receive.  I want to be able to open an email attachment that is a PDF, DOCX, PPTX, etc. and have it open in the host appropriate Mac OSX app.  I feel like I should be able to do this, but can't quite get my mind around it.

In Fusion Preferences > Default Applications I have checked "Open your Windows files and Web links using Mac applications".  The second part of the "Web links" works fine.  But not the first!

Edit: I should also say that VMware tools are installed!

Can anyone help me out here?  How can I get my Host apps to be associated with file types in my Windows guest?


texts: Why can't I copy and paste web content into a Pages document?

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For some time I have been able to copy content from a web page and paste it into a Pages document and it would accept both text and images. But since the last update to Pages it will only display the text and if I want to include images I have to copy them and paste them individually.

Is there another way to do this that I am not aware of?

I am running Pages 5.2 (1860) on OS X 10.9.2

Thanks


texts: Downloading High Sierra to a Mojave-capable iMac

texts:
I have a late 2014 iMac that is running Yosemite and is ccompatible with Mojave. But I want to upgrade the OS to High Sierra, not Mojave.

How do I do this?


texts: Is there a Java IDE for iPad which can compile and run Java locally?

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I'm about to have a coding session with some buddies. Problem is, one doesn't have a laptop. He's pretty new to programming so I was going to set him up something either on a rickety laptop or my iPad with a bluetooth keyboard / mouse.

Is there any app that would give me these capabilities:

Java IDE
compile java locally
run java locally


texts:
I have a lot of photos in which I have tagged people, given it the right information and so on. Sadly, I lost all these photos when I did a clean install of OS X Lion. The photos were being synchronized to my iPad and my Apple TV and therefore I have the photos on both of those devices with faces and all the correct information.

Does anyone know of a way to extract the photos with all the information (especially the faces) from the iPad or the Apple TV and into iPhoto?


texts: install windows 10 via bootcamp not on the main drive

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I did repair my early 2009 mac pro 4.1; and after installing a gtx970 I did realize that I may use it also for windows gaming.

Although my main drive is just a boot for OSX, which is a 90 GB SSD drive; the rest of my home directory and application support is on a SATA mechanical drive. Is possible to install Windows 10 via bootcamp, on a drive that is not the main drive? I am running 10.11 (el capitan), which is the highest OS that my machine seems to be able to run.

EDIT
No, I am not using an external drive, but an internal drive (the Mac Pro has 4 internal SATA bay for drives)


texts: Automator shell Script works, except inside dropbox

texts:
I used Automator to create a service that runs pdf2svg from the context menu in Finder.

for f in "$@"
do
    /opt/local/bin/pdf2svg $f ${f%.*}".svg"
done

It works fine, except it does not work on files stored in my dropbox folders.

How can I fix this?


texts: MB Air: connect, update App Store with broken Wifi/Airport via USB WiFi

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On my MB Air 2,1 (mid 2009) the wifi is broken. Connecting with the internet is possible via an Apple USB-Ethernet-adapter.

When trying to install an app/update via the App Store (e.g. to OSx El Capitan) the message in App Store is:

  Your device or computer could not be verified.

It seems to me a working Wifi Airport Card is a prerequisite for connecting/authenticating with the App Store.

Can anyone confirm this is the issue?
Is a work around available?

Otherwise I've googled a bit and as far as I can tell the options for this 6 year old machine are either to have the wifi repaired (€125) or buy a USB wifi dongle (€22) and accept that OSx will not be able to update.

Cf. e.g. this post:

  A NIC (network interface card) is needed for authentication purposes to make sure the computer is what it claims to be.

on forums.macrumors.com reads like a sound argument.


texts: Error while creating OS X Mavericks bootable USB

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I am running on OS X Mavericks GM and now that Mavericks has finally released, I downloaded it from App Store. I wanted to make a bootable USB of it so I followed This Tutorial but when I tried to run the command for copying the files from .app to USB I got the following error

Ankurs-MacBook-Pro:~ Ankur$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
--volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app -nointeraction
Password:
sudo: /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found
Ankurs-MacBook-Pro:~ Ankur$

What can I do to resolve this issue?

EDIT
Using DiskMaker X I got the same error


texts: iPhone X Activity and Health app: Doesn't work - shows spinning wheel instead

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I just switched from iPhone 7 Plus to iPhone X.  I have Apple Watch Series 3.  Everything worked great until I switched to iPhone X.  Now the Activity app on the phone (not the one on the watch) just gives a black screen with a spinner in the center and never does anything.  Things I've tried/verified:

I went to iCloud > Devices and verified that the old iPhone 7 Plus is no longer tied to my account.
Before I shipped the iPhone 7 Plus back I erased all content and settings.
I've tried resetting the watch and setting it up as a brand new watch with the iPhone X.
Everything is turned on under Settings > Privacy > Motion and Fitness.

Running iOS 11.1.1 and watchOS 4.1.  I'm stumped.

What else can I try to resolve this?

UPDATE: It appears the Health app on the iPhone X has the same spinning wheel that never goes away:

Another thing, not sure if it matters but want to give as much info as possible.  This iPhone X was restored from my iCloud backup of a iPhone 7 Plus that was part of the beta program.  It was at version 11.2.(something).  But I could not put backups from that version on my new iPhone X.  So I had to downgrade my iPhone 7 Plus back to 11.1, then do an iCloud backup, then I was able to activate/restore my new iPhone X from that.


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I did a All Setting Reset and after the reset the data via cellular is not working ( 3G & LTE not showing in the status bar ) only via wireless , tried to reboot the device ,reset network setting but still not working ....

Any Solution from your side ? Note i don't want to update my iOS


texts: Prohibitory Symbol after Login [iMac Pro, Catalina]

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after a clean install of catalina I have this weird problem that my mac shows the prohibitory symbol after I enter my password. However, if I enter it fast enough it will continue startup as normal. I don't know if thats a weird coincidence or some software messing with me. Confusing enough, the problem persisted after I made a new clean install (erase hard drive, boot from usb, install catalina).

After entering password => Prohibitory Sign
Clean installed twice
Ran hard drive repair twice
No weird kext installed (apart from cisco, dropbox and intel energy)

Looking forward,
Markus


texts: What is a combo update and how is it different than the regular update?

texts: What is a combo update and how is it different from a normal update?


texts: How can I know the top dowloaded apps in my country

texts:
How can I know the top downloaded apps (by category, say games, messaging, etc.) from the App store in my country?
How can I access Apple's Kids App Store?


texts: I have a few photos from one photo “shoot” that are always listed as most recent in the iPhone Photos app even though they were taken months ago.  Why do they not sort by date as with other photos?


texts:
I am experiencing an odd bug that I haven't seen anywhere else.

When I use Cmd+Tab, it seems to stick on whatever application it lands on when I release Tab. It should open that application, but instead the app switcher remains active.

Then, I can either hit Enter and it will open that app (like it should have when I released Tab), or I can press Tab once more and it will move to the next app then open that app.

This happen every single time, UNLESS I perform the keystroke VERY quickly.

I submitted a bug report to Apple a couple months ago, and (to no surprise) I haven't heard back.

This has happened since I upgraded to Mavericks on release day.

I have tried various third-party applications, but Apple has made it impossible now to relinquish the keystroke from the system.

I'm at my wit's end, any ideas would be appreciated.


texts: Movie Recording in Quicktime plugged into iPad stuck in square proportion

texts: I am sharing the screen of my iPad using Procreate in Quicktime and I want to just show the white  Canvas, however even when changing to full screen it is stuck in this square shape. 'Panoramic' option is greyed out as well as other 'View' options. Any advice?


texts: Armenian HM QWERTY keyboard - where's Շշ (sh)?

texts:
Here's screenshot of available keys in Armenian HM QWERTY keyboard:

The thing that bothers me a lot - I can not find the "Շ" letter ("sh").
For instance, here's screenshot of the second keyboard available - Armenian Western QWERTY (Շ is marked with red dot):

So, the question is, how should I time sh on HM QWERTY?


texts: Patching the KRACK WPA2 Vulnerability in Airport wireless routers

texts:
Will Apple provide firmware updates for Airport routers to patch the KRACK vulnerability?

Apple's abandonement of the Airport product line has me worried.


texts: Looking for a pdf reader that show meaning a word in whole document when you highlight

texts:
I am looking for a PDF Reader for IOS that when you translate a word in the document then I want to see meaning of word in whole document with same word so when I click same word I want to see the meaning of the word straight away.
Sorry about my English guys. Also might a complicated feature that I want

Edit: I think same feature in Moon+Reader app but this is a Google Play store app.


texts: Why can't Spotlight in El Capitan easily find the obvious?

texts:
Spotlight in El Capitan is supposed to be more inclusive and "smart" by helping the user find what s/he needs. However, since upgrading to El Capitan, I've found that the only way to get Spotlight to display Safari bookmarks whose name includes the string "Class roster" in its results is to put the string in quotes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Invoke Spotlight via command-space
2. Type "class roster" (without enclosing quotes)

Expected Results:
My two bookmarks named "Class Rosters" and "UT Austin Class Rosters" should be at the top of the hit list

Actual Results:
These bookmarks are not displayed unless "Class Rosters" is enclosed in quotes. However, if I click on "Show All in Finder," the bookmarks do appear under "Bookmarks and History", so they're definitely being indexed by Spotlight.

Bookmarks and history results do not even appear in this short list. If I query ‘kind:history class roster', the bookmark is displayed at the top of the list.

Another data point. Recently, I started with a brand-new MacBook Pro and configured it from scratch. Initially, the "Class roster" bookmark would appear at the top of the Spotlight list of hits, so I concluded that there must have been some sort of corruption on the earlier machine. However, after a few days, Spotlight no longer simply lists the "Class rosters" bookmark when I search for that string in the Spotlight search field; I have to type "kind:history class roster" or choose "Show All in Finder."

Does anyone understand what is happening and why Spotlight is missing the obvious?


texts: Calling a script right after opening a type of file?

texts:
Does any one of you know if it's possible to call a script right after opening a file.

For example : I want to relocate QuickTime in the top-left corner right next to my dock.

I  know how to do it with AppleScript (the location thing) but how can I call this script automatically ?


texts: Why does iCloud have a different timezone for my calendar events than my devices do?

texts:
I set an appointment on iCal from 19:30 to 22:00. In the iCloud calendar it shows as 18:30 to 21:00. In iCal on Macbook Pro, on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 it shows the correct time i.e. 19:30 to 22:00!

I have timezone support switched off and I have the UK as the timezone. How can it be that iCloud (where the devices get the times from) is showing incorrect times, yet all the devices are showing the correct time?

Has anyone else experienced this problem?


texts:
I work at a small international NGO.  We are looking into file sharing options.  The Apple Time Capsule has come up as a suggestion.  However, the catch is that we have people in NY, Argentina, and Thailand and we are all on different networks.  I would need something which we could all share/upload/retrieve files from/to.  We need a lot of space at low cost which is why we are looking into the TC and not file sharing options such as sugar sync, dropbox etc.  We are looking at 2TB of storage.
Are there any other low cost alternatives to the TC?  In terms of being able to share and backup files AND most importantly everyone from different networks have access to the same information.


texts: A fast encryption for external hard drive

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Is it possible to set up encryption such that backups are still
reasonably fast? I will accept a 25 to 50% degrade in performance,
but not a 10x blowup in time to completion.

I have an 4 TB external hard drive, and I would like to use Time Machine on it to backup my 1 TB MacBook Pro (with SSD). The backups will happen manually every couple of weeks or so. Let me stress that leaving the external disk plugged in at all times is not an option.

Apparently I have a few options:

Normal hard drive, click on "Use Encryption" when connected with Time
Machine. (configuration I had until now). Seems way too slow; also,
every time I connect it I have to wait for ages until the drive is
decrypted and I can actually use whatever is on disk. Way too slow.
Format the drive and use Mac OS Journaled Extended, Encrypted.
This will encrypt the whole drive, as I understand it. But will it be
faster than option 1)? How do the encryption of 1) and 2) work
together? I am quite confused at this point.
The third option is to format the drive, use MacOS Journaled Extended
(not encrypted) and just use time machine without encryption.

Backstory

The first time I connected it to TimeMachine, it asked me if I wanted to encrypt the data. I thought "Sure, why not" and agreed. I waited for ages the first time (as it had to back up tons of data). A couple of weeks later I come back to backup again; this time it was about 20 Gb of data. It again took ages, and most of the time it was stuck on encryption.

I left it on the whole night, and the morning it was still encrypting (probably something went wrong in this particular case though, as it was 56% at 23:00 and 57% at 09:00 in the morning). But anyway it takes several hours for the decryption process, then there's the actual backup, and then several hours again for the encryption process. Honestly, I cannot have backups taking a whole day. I need to plug it in, wait 3-4 hours, then go on with my life. If I can do this with encryption, good. Otherwise I will have to remove encryption.


texts: I was wondering how big a document (picture, voice, video) can be "iMessaged" from an iPhone. Also, would the iMessage data size be any different if you are iMessaging from within Mountain Lion.


texts: Different Apple ID contacts appear on my device

texts: I got a new iPhone for Christmas and made my own Apple ID/iCloud so I could use it between my devices (I also have a Mac & an iPad) without sharing with my family. Today I realized that many of my parents' email & phone contacts have synced to my phone & iPad. When I try to deselect their groups on the contacts app, all of my contacts are removed. I have been using iCloud to backup pictures, etc., and it is all my own - no one else uses my Apple ID. I want get rid of the extra contacts without individually deleting them.


texts: Siri shortcuts stopped working after deleting Shortcuts App

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I was testing something out, but in one of my apps I can set a voice command for a shortcut. I manage the shortcut in that app and don't use the Shortcuts App. But after I deleted the Shortcuts App those shortcuts I created in app stopped working.
I can see click the add button but Siri just says she doesn't understand.
Do I need the Shortcuts app to be able to use in app shortcuts?


texts: File sharing between OSX Lion (10.7) and OSX Tiger (10.4)

texts:
I recently purchased an iMac with OSX Lion already installed. My parents have an iMac running 10.4 Tiger. I have been trying to file share between the two but when I try to open the dropbox (from Tiger) it says I do not have permission, yet I cannot find anywhere on Tiger to grant the permission.

I'm sure there is something simple and easy I am missing but I can't find it?


texts: How do I delete a single file from the Trash?

texts:
I'm trying to free up space on an external drive, and after deleting a bunch of stuff, it's still showing very little actual free space.  I went to the trash can, but can't seem to delete the files there other than by emptying the entire trash.

Am I missing something?  What's the point of having a "staging area" for stuff you (probably) want to delete, if you can't get rid of the files in it individually?  The drive will be used on an embedded system, so just "putting files in the trash" doesn't actually make space on the drive, as far as the consuming device is concerned.


texts: Are there any Thunderbolt 2 external DVD drives?

texts: Sorry if this is off-topic or just a dumb question. I've got a Mac Pro with plenty of free Thunderbolt ports, but I'm using all the USB ports - are there any Thunderbolt external DVD drives available - I've been googling for about an hour but only found one really expensive Sonnet drive - which has way more functionality than I need.


texts: I interrupted a transfer with Migration Assistant (wirelessly)...am I in trouble?

texts:
This is my first post...I was attempting to help a friend with my first-ever data transfer using Migration Assistant.  Before I was expecting it to start copying (I was expecting it to allow me to name a transfer file on the target location), the transfer started!  I suddenly panicked, thinking that all the data on my friend's target Mac might be overwritten!  There was no "cancel" button - so all I could do was shut the lids on both MacBooks.  At first, everything seemed fine. But when I tried to go back into the Power Saver panel to reset the energy saver on the target computer (instructions had told me to set it to "never"), it would not load the energy saver panel.  The sending computer seemed fine in every way.  All that was being transferred were files - no applications.

Did something in the OS get corrupted in this interruption?  Thanks for any help!

Mike


texts:
Was trying to update to the latest version of OS Sierra (10.12.6) and Mac suddenly shut down.

It gives me question mark on a file when trying to boot.
Power and then command - opt - R gives nothing, the same question mark.
Power and then command gives mouse cursor only.

I have Macbook Pro Mid-2010 (A1278)

What to do next?


texts: How to access FTP with read AND write access in finder?

texts: I just read that finder has purposely restricted access when it comes to connecting to FTP sites. Not sure how any apple exec could possibly think this is acceptable. Simply put, I need to find a way to force finder to allow write access for a FTP server. Transmit no longer provides this functionality. Im not looking for any third party software. There should be a terminal command that forces finder to allow access?


texts: Can I use nearest-neighbor scaling with Intel Iris and Windows 10?

texts: I have been looking into purchasing a 15" MacBook Pro. The problem is that I'm not too fond of Retina display and need to dual-boot Windows and be able to see the resolution without any blur caused by bilinear interpolation. The only solution is through nearest-neighbor scaling from 2880x1800 to 1440x900. Is this possible with Intel Iris, the graphics device listed on Apple's specifications for the MacBook Pro?


texts: Brew cask install emacs takes control of the emacs command line command

texts:
I'm currently using Homebrew to install both the command line version of Emacs and the GUI version of emacs, with the following commands:

brew install emacs
brew cask install emacs

When I first install the command line version, I can launch it via the command line with the command emacs <filename>, but after I install the GUI version, using that same command, it causes the GUI version to open.  I would like the command line version to continue to open from the command line command.  I posted this in the homebrew forum, but the only answer I was given was to check my shell config file.  I'm on macOS Catalina, so I'm assuming .zshrc is the file, but this contains nothing relating to Emacs at all.  Any suggestions for how to keep the GUI version from being launched from the command line command would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Can I force my MacBook to only charge from the USB-C device I select? Or forbid it from charging from devices I know to be unreliable?

texts:
For some reason, my MacBook keeps trying to charge off of my external display's USB Type-C ("USB-C") link even though I have a more powerful source connected.

I care because the monitor is apparently unable to provide the 45W it reports, and after a few seconds the system switches to battery power, and then immediately back to AC power, over and over. This has the effect of flashing the screen on and off, and causing mouse / keyboard interactions with my remaining screens to momentarily pause. Overall, it makes the setup useless.

Here is what pmset -g ac has to say about the monitor when it is the only device connected:

# pmset -g ac
 Wattage = 45W
 Current = 2250mA
 Voltage = 20000mV

and the same for when my power source is the only one connected:

# pmset -g ac
 Wattage = 60W
 Current = 3000mA
 Voltage = 20000mV

When they are both connected, it reports 45W as though the monitor is the only device.

Log showing the endless loop. Initially I am truly on battery, and then I attach the monitor which triggers the first Now drawing from 'AC Power', everything else happens by itself after that:

# pmset -g pslog
Logging IORegisterForSystemPower sleep/wake messages
pmset is in logging mode now. Hit ctrl-c to exit.
2018-03-06 14:45:01 +0000 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
Now drawing from 'Battery Power'
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=4128867)    94%; discharging; 6:10 remaining present: true
2018-03-06 14:45:08 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2018-03-06 14:45:08 +0000 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
Now drawing from 'AC Power'
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=4128867)    93%; AC attached; not charging present: true
2018-03-06 14:45:08 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.percent
2018-03-06 14:45:08 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.source
2018-03-06 14:45:08 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:08 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:09 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:10 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:25 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2018-03-06 14:45:25 +0000 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=4128867)    93%; charging; (no estimate) present: true
2018-03-06 14:45:25 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:31 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2018-03-06 14:45:31 +0000 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
Now drawing from 'Battery Power'
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=4128867)    93%; charging; 0:00 remaining present: true
2018-03-06 14:45:31 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.percent
2018-03-06 14:45:31 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.source
2018-03-06 14:45:31 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:32 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=4128867)    93%; discharging; (no estimate) present: true
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
Now drawing from 'AC Power'
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=4128867)    93%; AC attached; not charging present: true
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.percent
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.source
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:33 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:34 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources
2018-03-06 14:45:34 +0000 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2018-03-06 14:45:34 +0000 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource

So: Can I force my MacBook to only charge from the device I select? Or forbid it from charging from devices I know to be unreliable?

System: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) with 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB RAM


texts: Can I use and external monitor even though my Macbook 5.2 screen goes dark even though I can still see images when a flashlight. The entire system works and I did bring it to Mac in Portland, Maine and the entire display would have to be replaced for $500. So can I use and external if the screen goes dark. I would like to keep this running for another year.


texts: I receive a notification indicating I have a new text from my husband - showing his name/contact.  After clicking on the notifcation from him and reading the text, my Messages show the text came from me, my name/contact, but have the content of his text message.  We are on the same family share Apple ID.  Only my number is in Settings/Messages/Send & Receive and checked.  Not enjoying what appear to be text messages from myself.  lol.


texts: There are two little computer icons on my menu bar and it keeps blinking. When I click on it, it disappear but again come back in a second. Can anyone please tell me what it is and why is it blinking? Thanks!


texts: Photos.app no longer detecting SD cards for import

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Lately, when I try connecting any of my cameras' SD cards, either through a USB-based SD reader or by connecting the camera itself, Photos.app does not automatically launch when the card mounts, and if I manually start Photos (either before or after inserting the SD card) the Import tab does not appear. I cannot find any settings anywhere for controlling this behavior, either - as the Photos Import tab isn't appearing I never have an opportunity to check/uncheck the "launch Photos automatically for this device."

I have tried formatting the card both from my camera (a Sony ɑ6000) and from my computer, and shooting in both RAW and RAW+JPEG - but to no avail.

This setup used to work just fine, and I don't know what's changed. What settings might I need to dig through? I know that in the past, SD card behavior was controlled by a bunch of different weird things (including iPhoto and Aperture, neither of which I have installed anymore). The device doesn't appear in Image Capture either.

What might be going on, and how can I go about fixing this?

EDIT: I should add, the SD card mounts just fine and shows up in Finder - it's just that neither Photos nor Image Capture see that it's an SD card with photos and/or video. The manual import process does work but I'd like to be able to import and erase all photos and videos in one step as I used to be able to (videos are especially annoying to do manually as my camera uses AVCHD which is stored in an opaque "clips" database).


texts: Is it possible to download the previous version of OneNote for mac

texts: I cannot upgrade to Yosemite- company policy- but would still love to use OneNote. Does anyone know a link where I can download the older version? thanks


texts: Stop OS X From Auto-Pasting Clipboard Text Into "Find" Field

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Whenever I have text copied to my clipboard, this text gets auto-pasted into the field of the "Find" command (Command + F) with no interaction from me. I don't like this behavior, as most of the time that is not what I wanted to search for and then I have to go in and delete it before I can search. Even if there is already text there from a previous search, the clipboard text will replace it when I hit Command + F.

This happens to me in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, TextEdit, Sublime, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers but not in Microsoft applications like Outlook and Word. These are just the apps I've tested, I don't know about others, but I can check if that becomes relevant.

I am on OS X El Capitan (10.11.6). This occurs on both my desktop and my laptop, so it's not isolated to one computer. Both computers are running El Capitan (upgraded from Yosemite via the App Store, so no weird installers) but other than that have fairly different setups/app installations.

Does anyone know how to disable or prevent this? I found this link to someone asking a similar question about Firefox, but their solution (an extension) only applied to Firefox copying text selected in Firefox.

I don't have any utilities related to the keyboard installed or any keyboard remapping or even any custom shortcuts at all.


texts: Can inexpensive prepaid plans for iPhone work in the USA?

texts: How can I minimize total cost of ownership (primarily means low monthly rate) for an iPhone if my voice and data usage is light?


texts: How to configure Mac screen sharing to ONLY listen on localhost?

texts: I'm tunneling through ssh, so I would prefer screen sharing to only listen on local host for additional security. Is there a configure file I can edit to specify that ?


texts: Problems when trying to delete/uninstall Xcode

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I'm trying to uninstall Xcode. I dragged the application to the trash and tried to delete but it hung for a while and then said it couldn't be deleted because some of its files were in use. However, now the icon looks like this:

I searched and found another answer here that says to run:

sudo <Xcode directory>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

I just want to confirm that this won't cause any issues with my existing Xcode projects. I'm really just trying to uninstall Xcode to free up space on my hard drive in order to download the newest version of Xcode (I don't have the free space to simply download the new version/update).

Thanks for any help.


texts: What Is Graphic Switching & Are There Reasons to Turn It Off?

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I was tinkering about in the System Preferences of my Macbook Pro yesterday, when I came across "Automatic Graphic Switching" within the Energy Saver pane as exemplied below:

What exactly is Graphic Switching, and are there any reasons or instances when it shouldn't be automatically enabled & switched off ?


texts: I know some apps in CS6 work and others don’t in Mojave. Has anyone tested Dreamweaver CS6 specifically?


texts: Does installing a second hard drive in my Mac Mini 2011 void my Apple hardware warranty?

texts: I just installed a second hard drive, and I'm wondering if that voids my warranty.


texts: So I did a screen recording with QuickTime using OSX 10.9.5. I was recording a video with sound. However, when I played it over from QuickTime, the sound was gone. How do I make it that QuickTime also records the sound?


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I tried booting my mac today as usual but it turns out that almost immediately the nasty prohibition sign appeared.

I tried the usual stuff: resetting PRAM, SMC and nothing.
I tried safe mode, but I got that prohibition sign again, so I booted in verbose mode and got the following message:

efiboot file path: \System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi
 Mach-O file has bad magic number 0x75b873e9
 ERROR!!! Load prelinked kernel with status 0x8000000000000001
 Error loading kernel cache (0x1)

I'm currently using an external HD with an alternate OS install, and my previous HD appears ok, I can access it, copy files, etc... which leads me to a software problem.

Any ideas???


texts: iPhone 6 Plus all SMS/iMessage Disappear, but still show up in Storage, I haven't backed up my phone for over 8 months :( and the messages mean everything to me.. It's nearly a decade worth of messages (shows how I've travelled with an iPhone since first launch).. I have never had problems of such and I want a fix.. Tried contacting Apple but they are no help.. They make me go through troubleshooting.. If it works it's worth it but it's not and I'm really upset.. I've spent over 12 hours trying for a fix and over 3 hours with Apple Telephone Support.. Do you think the guys at the store can do anything? Please HELP!! I'll actually reward the person that can help me in this dilemma.


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I started up Disk Utility to mount an external HD and noticed an image file decryptedFile.dmg

Any idea where this file could have come from ls -l@ shows:-

-rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel  15643651 17 Feb 11:21 /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/decryptedFile.dmg
    com.apple.diskimages.recentcksum          81

It appears the download was Flash Player. I never use this, but it is not my computer, and apparently Flash had automatic updates (and other undesirable privacy breaches) enabled. (I am very reluctant to open any .dmg I haven't actually downloaded.


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When I leave my MacBook Pro idle for a while (either login or logout), it will automatically go into sleep mode. After I enter my password and wake it up from this mode, I usually see all the windows moved to a different place (usually at left top corner).

I use two external monitors and they always stay connected to my MacBook Pro.

Is there a way to keep all the windows in the same location? It's very annoying to have to adjust the windows back to the correct location every time I wake up the computer from sleep.

I'm using High Sierra 10.13.5


texts: Attempting to purchase iTunes for iPhone 6 from Apple Store. Download response indicates iPhone not enabled for iTunes. What does this mean?


texts: How to change the escape style when dropping paths into Terminal

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If I drop a file from Finder (or another file source) into the Terminal, the system helpfully escapes characters like spaces: Dropping a file named /Lorem Ipsum.txt yields /Lorem\ Ipsum.txt.
I would like to change this behavior to use quotation marks instead, so that /Lorem Ipsum.txt would yield '/Lorem Ipsum.txt' instead (note the single quotation marks and the missing backslash).
Is there a way to do this using the standard Terminal.app? If not, is it maybe possible with iTerm or something else?
Edit
The reason why I want to do this is that I am using xonsh that parses the backslash as a literal character, echo /Lorem\ Ipsum.txt prints /Lorem\ Ipsum.txt.
Most of the time I will just manually delete the backslashes, and sometimes I use the following workaround:

Enter @(r"
Drop the file – this will fill a string literal with the path using backslash-escapes
Enter ".replace("\\",""))


texts: my iPhone is show only white screen and black apple after erase on icloud

texts: I saw on some website if forgot restriction pass code erase the phone so I do it then my phone show only white screen and black apple for along time till now what should I do


texts: How to connect wireless keyboard on login screen

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My keyboard has discnnected from iMac when I used it on linux system and iPad.
I cannot find a way to connect it because there is no Bluetooth option on login screen and I cannot login because I cannot enter the password. Mac doesnt have on screen keyboard.

Is it possible that Ill need a separate hardware (keyboard) to fix this issue??


texts: Does jailbreaking an iPhone have an impact on performance?

texts: I'm using iPhone 6s plus 64Gb with 9.3.3. Does jailbreaking have an effect on performance/speed?


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I have just upgraded to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and am attempting to use Facetime and iMessage.  Upon entering my Apple ID into the respective applications and attempting to sign in, I receive the following error message:

  The server encountered an error processing registration.  Please try again later.

Whilst I assume that imagent proceeded beyond the authentication stage (as providing incorrect credentials results in a different error message), I am unable to ascertain exactly what went wrong.  I cannot find any log file (nor any option to enable logging) that shines light on the subject.  Is it possible to audit imagent activity?

I have found various suggestions, some of which appear to have worked for others:

Force quit the imagent process;
Reset /etc/hosts to default state;
Enable ntp;
Fix permissions and/or delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imagent.plist;
Delete certain Apple-issued certificates from the user's login keychain;
Use Google's public DNS resolvers;
Disable all firewalls and packet filters;
Delete the contents of /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration;
Reset NVRAM/PRAM;
Reboot.

I have tried all of the above, with no improvement.

I have tried using two different Apple IDs: one a simple MobileMe account (ending @me.com) that has been transferred to iCloud; the other an old .Mac address (ending @mac.com) with which additional non-Apple email addresses have been associated and verified.  The computer is connected to iCloud with the former account; and I have previously used the latter account successully with Facetime on the same computer (when running Lion) and with iMessage on my iPhone and iPad.

I am at a loss to understand how I should proceed.  Whilst I would be grateful for any suggestion that fixes the problem, I would be far more grateful for a canoncial answer that describes how imagent issues can be debugged in the future: e.g. how to enable logging or similar.


texts: iPhone: why is the Add Call button disabled for 15 seconds?

texts: When I make a phone call, the add call button is disabled for 15 seconds... I.e. it's grayed out. Then it becomes active and works as I expect. But how I can set up conference calls without this delay every time?


texts: How to hide or remove useless network names from the wifi menubar icon

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I have obnoxious neighbors that think its funny to use offensive words for their SSIDs.

I would like to remove those SSIDs from, at a minimum, the wifi menubar icon.  If its easier, hiding/removing them from the OS completely (menubar icon and system prefs) would be acceptable.

I'm an OS X newbie, so I don't even know where to start with this.

I prefer built-in solutions (read: free), but solutions < $10.00 would be ok too.


texts: Is it possible to always show hidden/dotfiles in Open/Save dialogs?

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It is possible to show so-called dotfiles/directories like .git or files/directories that have the Hidden attribute in the Finder by running

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 1

from the command line (then running killall Finder to restart it). However, this only works in Finder, not in applications' Open/Save dialogs. In those, one can use the ⌘⇧. keyboard shortcut to show these files, but you have to use it each time you open a new dialog as the settings aren't saved.

Does anyone know of any kind of way to make this setting permanent? It could involve a Terminal command, editing a .plist or other file on an application by application basis, anything. This question was asked a while ago with no satisfactory answers, so I'd like to see if there have been any changes in Mountain Lion, or if anyone knows an answer that just missed the first question. I'm currently running 10.8.4, if it makes any difference.


texts: Kingston Predator showing up as "External" Drive in Disk Utility, Blocking Boot Camp Install

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I installed a 480GB Kingston Predator PCIe flash SSD in a 2009 Mac Pro. It worked great after installing macOS Sierra. Boots fast and is very snappy.

Went to install Windows using Boot Camp and I couldn't get past the error:

  You cannot partition an external disk, a RAID disk or an internal disk on which FileVault encryption is in progress. Restart your
  computer using an internal disk that is not part of a RAID set or try
  it again after FileVault has completed.

For some reason either Mac Pro or macOS Sierra sees the PCIe SSD as an external drive.

Is there any way to make it appear as an internal drive or any way I can dual boot into Windows if I cannot get past this error in Boot Camp?


texts: Preview copies aliens. How to change the encoding/make it work?

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Preview copies aliens! Literally. Here is a screenshot:

The text selected on the pdf was copied (Cmd+C) and pasted (Cmd+V) from Preview to TextEdit. What did I get? A bunch of aliens.

I'm guessing this is an encoding issue. Is there a way to change encoding in Preview or something? Is there a way I can check what encoiding it is using and then choose the appropiate on TextEdit? Here is the text, just so you can see the squares for yourselves (No aliens, apparently that error character only appears on native OSX apps and not browsers).

(I must admit OSX's error character is pretty amusing).


texts: permissions keep changing in git repository, anyone can tell me why?

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This started happening about 2-3 weeks ago.
I'm on Mac OS X Yosemite - 10.10.5
I have a git repository for a pretty big project ( there are three developers on the project), and every now and then folders and files that I had permission to write to get their permissions changed so I can't write to them anymore.

It is not always the same files.

I edit files using Brackets editor.

For example right now I have a path in the project resources/javascripts/external/resource_loader.js

every folder along that path has my profile with read/write permissions but when I get to the individual file it no longer has me there.

When I look at a file at the same level that I have not touched in a while it still has me as a user with read/write.

The file I can't edit has
system - Read and Write
staff - Read only
everyone - Read only

the file I can edit has
me - Read and Write
staff - Read only
everyone - Read only.

it's just an annoyance to have to go reset the permissions in the middle of writing something all the time.


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I just upgraded my harddrive for my Macbook Pro mid-2009 running High Sierra to a solid state drive. My old harddrive is now in an enclosure and I'm trying to access my old Notes from there, I forgot to back that up. I never connected that laptop to iCloud, and from seeing other articles/answers, I tried to find the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.notes but I could not even find this Library folder.
For curiosity sake, I tried finding it on my current SSD and at first I couldn't, but then I clicked Show View Options and added Library to the view. I then went back to the old harddrive folder where Library should be, clicked Show View Options, but adding Library to the view wasn't an option. Any idea where/how I can find my old Notes data?


texts: Keyboard shortcut (hotkey) for switching keyboard layout on iOS

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I use iPad mini 4 (iOS 10.1.1) with a Logitech bluetooth keyboard (k380). I often need to switch the keyboard layout because I use more than one language in my writings.

Currently I have to turn off the keyboard and click on the "world" icon on the screen keyboard to change its layout. Then turn on the keyboard. Not practical.

Is there a keyboard shortcut for switching keyboard layout on iOS?


texts: Delay in keyboard responsiveness after wake with Mountain Lion?

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After upgrading to Mountain Lion, now when I open the lid to my 2010 13" MacBook Air, there is a 3-5 second delay between when the screen powers on and when the keyboard will respond to key presses in the login dialog box.

This did not happen for me under Lion.

Is this a known bug?


texts: Batch Video Transcoding for the web OS X (GUI, not command line)

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Is there a way to batch transcode video files to mp4 and webm for HTML5 videos in OS X?

Our video department needs to hand over a lot of videos in multiple formats consistently. Workflow current consists of utilizing Adobe Media Encoder for the MP4s and Miro Video Converter for the WebM files.

The video guys are all very familiar with Adobe Media Encoder, so the ultimate solution would be to have everything run through there, but Adobe doesn't look like any time in the near future they're going to support WebM -- still pushing Flash player.

Miro Video Converter works great, but is lacking a way to queue/batch files.

I've Googled but have yet to come up with a good GUI-based solution the video team can use for batching the multiple formats need to ensure videos work on the web everywhere.


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So my iPhone (6s, Verizon) became stuck in a boot loop and I had to restore it to a clean build of iOS 11.0.1 last night. I had no backups of it, because iTunes hasn’t worked with my iPhone for the longest time.

I use Straight Talk for my carrier. Before I wiped my iPhone, I installed a configuration profile back when I setup this phone with ST a couple years ago. It worked fine until I restored my iPhone and now trying to access any webpage over cellular data results in “Could not activate cellular data network”.

Now, I’ve found the website where I can download and install the APN settings again, however upon tapping install the seconds time, it says the profile cannot be installed because there is already an APN profile installed. There isn’t.

I think it’s not letting me install it because either Verizon or Straight Talk won’t let me change carrier settings, but it needs the APN profile to work.

I called ST before I posted this and they gave me some nonsense about how I needed to buy a new SIM, because the one I have (and have used for over 2 years without any problems) is linked to a different IMEI. I might have better luck with a different rep, but when this happened to me when I first got my 6s, ST gave me this same link to the profile, I downloaded it, and everything was fine. I think this has more to do with iOS than a carrier.

All I want is a way to install the APN profile, or manually configure the cellular settings so I get data again. I prefer to not use any 3rd-Party apps on my Mac or iPhone.

Update: I’ve tried resetting all network settings and then resetting all setting and it still won’t work. This is very frustrating.


texts: Option to choose reply from address on mail.app in Lion

texts: My default position is to stay within the OS X ecosystem unless their is a compelling reason to use use a 3rd party product. Gmail (with Sparrow) has long been keeping me from using mail.app on my desktop, but I'm thinking it's time to reconsider. I'm hoping someone can answer this to save me doing the work just to find out - Can I choose which of my accounts to reply from or am I limited to the address it was sent to ?


texts: Recovering files from an iMac G3 hard drive (Mac OS 8.6)

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I recently purchased an iMac G3 (M2452) running Mac OS 8.6 from eBay for a project I'm working on, and was hoping to recover system sound files (such as startup sound, error sounds, etc) to use in the project. The machine booted fine, but once it was running I was unable to open the hard drive in Finder, which was likely related to TechTools Pro claiming there was an issue with the volume structure. Attempting to open it would freeze the machine. I didn't hear any disk activity, and let it sitting for at least an hour just to see if it would follow through, no results.

I kinda got ahead of myself and disassembled the machine to continue with my project, and now have the intact hard drive separated. Is there any way I can connect this to a modern computer, and if so, would I even be able to recover files? I can't find anything but the startup sound after a bit of digging around online, and I'd love to have the original files anyway for authenticity's sake.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Why do I have to pair my devices again after changing the Bluetooth adapter?

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My computer runs Yosemite and has no working internal Bluetooth chip.

I therefore connect a Bluetooth adapter through USB.

Recently, this USB Bluetooth adapter broke. I bought a new one, and inserted that instead.

The interesting thing is that my previously paired devices still appear in a list, but they are not paired anymore. Instead, I get an option to pair them again.

My theory is that this happens because the USB Bluetooth adapter has some sort of ID number or something and that the devices are paired to that, not the computer itself.

Is this true? If yes, what is this ID number called?


texts: Run a standard unix process (not an app) on iPhone from OS X command line

texts: I'm working on improving iOS cross-compilation support for ghc, which has a metaprogramming feature which requires running code at compile time. One mechanism for this involves running a process on the target and communicating with it from the compiler via pipes. This is a standard unix process (one compiled for iOS), not an iPhone app. How can I launch this process on a connected iPhone from the OS X box where the compiler is running? For the simulator I can use simctl spawn but I don't know of anything similar for real devices.


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My 3G can't seem to handle Netflix streaming; it stops to buffer constantly.

The quality seems to be way too high -- it seems to be trying to do HD, without the connection for it.

Is there a way to lower the quality, down to maybe YouTube-level, so I can actually stream anything?


texts: Japan iTunes gift card with US Apple ID?

texts:
I'm using US Apple ID and got a gift card from Japan.
I can't redeem it. How can I redeem the gift card?


texts: A recent update brought multitasking gestures to my original iPad. I hardly use them because swiping left never works and swiping right seems to launch random apps. What are the rules behind them?


texts:
Is there a reason why nowadays, even in warm conditions, my iPhone freezes and restarts?

By this I mean it freezes for a while and then restarts into a black screen for 10-20 secs followed by the Apple logo and then the Home screen. This can happen when taking pictures, starting an app, or just opening a link in Safari. It seems to be a software problem and only started this year.

I've tried:

Updating iOS to 11.2.2
Taking it in for checking - the battery was replaced and they said the logic board was ok.

It's an iPhone 5s running iOS 11.2.2.


texts: Skype for Mac doesn't remember my password

texts:
Since my password is stored in a password manager, this also involved opening up the password manager vault to get to just the Skype password and sign in.

How do I get Skype for Mac to remember my password?


texts: How to evaluate the state of the OS X Server.app from a shell script?

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I need to evaluate if the OS X Server.app has been installed and if it has been started or not. This I need to do from within a shell script.
I could check for existing folder names, but I would expect it cannot truly make sure that the Server.app is installed and up and running so that I can run the serveradmin command.
Anyone with a suggestion?

This is a follow-up question to my previous question: Configure the OS X Server from .pkg postinstall script


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MplayerX, not only remembers what I've watched but also is able to resume playback at a later invocation.

As stated here "MPlayerX saves playback positions in plist file ~/Library/Application Support/MPlayerX/bookmarks.plist"

Can someone please explain what the values in the plist file mean?

<key> file://localhost/abc.m4v </key>
<string>33.795867</string>

clearly one is the name of the file but what does the numerica value signify?  How can I translate 33.79... to something meaningful like "70% viewed" or "50 minutes viewed".

Thanks!


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as a "switcher" I have discovered one functionally that I like in Windows and I don't see in Mac.
I want to play all the media files in a folder with VLC with the right click and "Play all" but in this case I need to first open VLC, then click in "Open" and then browse through the folders to finally play the files. Is there any way to play a entire folder with only the right button?

Thanks in advance, best regards.


texts: Is there free real time app to protect my Mac that are not dangerous for Mac or its user?

texts:
Do following real time protection apps for Mac harm Mac technologically or spy after the user?

AVAST, Avira, Sophos, AVG


texts: Mail.app crashes, after Exchange server rebuild

texts:
Our Exchange server was rebuilt following a hardware failure and this has resulted in the mailbox ID changing. Mail.app doesn't like this, and crashes as soon as it tries to check for new messages:

Process:               Mail [1174]
Path:                  /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:            com.apple.mail
Version:               8.2 (2102)
Build Info:            Mail-2102000000000000~1
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Mail [1174]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2015-07-14 08:59:48.324 +0100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.4 (14E46)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        4F6F2F84-F869-25C2-1C87-B1246982BFD7

Time Awake Since Boot: 2200 seconds

Crashed Thread:        2  Dispatch queue: MFEWSAccountRequestResponseQueue :: NSOperation 0x600000697340 (QOS: UTILITY)

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Root Folder Id changed from AAMkADA5M2EyZWFiLWY1ZTctNDJlMS05MzQ1LTkyMDBkNTY2ZWEyMQAuAAAAAAA87sBtlAlTTJOPv8b7pvr6AQAUpHXDFMbMR5FSnLwG4BOUAAAAiMo7AAA= to AAMkADM0MjZkNGU4LTcwZGUtNDZhYi1hNjg4LTk0MGI5NWM4NzU3MgAuAAAAAAAcQlpkIwGwSb0hc5q+A04eAQB+EaxIvJoGTJt2RsDw05zJAAAAlpk5AAA=: once an account is created, the root folder id shouldn't change on the server'
abort() called
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

What's my best course of action? I have tried removing the 'Envelope' index files and rebuilding but with the same result. I don't want to completely wipe everything unless I absolutely have to, as I don't want to lose my local cache of messages (especially as they are no longer available on the server).


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When I write a letter my workflow is like this.  I type sentence.  Some words end up underlined red.  I right click on the underlined words and select the correct spelling.

The problem is that the quality of suggestions that I get is really low.  Often, the correct spelling is not suggested even though it's one or two edit operation away.  When I paste the same misspelled word into google, it finds the correct spelling immediately.  That, of course, is prohibitively time consuming.   I mean, if general search the internet performs better, the built in algorithm is really awful

So, how can I improve the quality of spelling suggestions?  Is there a way to plug in a different algorithm or a different dictionary?


texts:
Sometimes when opening apps I get duplicate icons in the Dock for that app. This isn't really a problem, however I'm curious why macOS does this (I suppose this is more of a technical question).
This happens a lot especially with VS Code where I often launch the app with the code utility in the Terminal.
Why does macOS think these are different apps when they're the same binary?


texts:
I'd like to be able to mount an nfs NAS mount point whenever I connect to my home network and initiate an rsync to it.
I saw the post for "How can I automount afp volumes at startup? ", although there are some similarities, my trigger is quite different.
Would appreciate any help figuring this one out with automator. Apologies if this is already answered elsewhere.


texts: Mac Dictation - How to select backspace?

texts:
Using OS X 10.9 and 10.10 dictation, I can find/use the various grammatical commands as shown here. Is there a way to select back, erase, cancel?

When I try these words, they are typed not implemented.

Thanks


texts: After installing iOS 11 public beta, then deleting profile, will I receive the official release of iOS 10.3.3?

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I'm currently using an iPhone 5S.

I installed the iOS 11 Public Beta a few days ago, and found that downgrading would risk my phone being stuck in recovery/DFU mode. I was wondering, if I deleted the profile (which would opt me out of receiving beta updates), would I get the update for the official release of iOS 10.3.3? And would I be able to install it, even when my phone is running on iOS 11?


texts: Back to Factory settings except one folder

texts:
I would like to give my mac to another person after a few years.
The mac is full with private and cached data that I obviously can’t find/remember, and a lot of wasted memory usage.

I would like to delete everything and back to a "new mac", but to leave only 1 folder with some data that I want to keep on desktop.

How would I do that ?


texts: How do I Launch an Applescript with a Hotkey Without Automator?

texts: I'm running Yosemite and looking to launch Terminal with a keypress in any application. One solution was creating a Service in Automator that launched terminal and assigning a key to it in System Preferences. However there is an annoying delay before launching Automator services, I'd like something immediate. Is there a way to do as such, preferably without installing software that runs in the background?


texts: How to get list of all Wi-Fi networks available in iPhone 5

texts: My laptop is showing 4-5 wifi networks available in my area. But my iPhone is just showing 1-2 wifi networks. Even when I'm trying to add/search manually, then it is showing error couldn't find network. Anyone have any idea why?


texts: can't get into encrypted .dmg files even though I could the day before and I am 100% certain the password is correct

texts: I needed to encrypt a few folders on my MacBook (one of the first of the 'just MacBooks', running High Sierra now, though the problem started under the previous OS). I followed the instructions on https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/encrypt-mac-folder/, basically using Disk Utility to create a .dmg. Right after I created it, I unmounted it and then re-opened it to make sure the process worked as advertised. It did, so I deleted the original, unencrypted folder (which is the whole point of the encryption exercise). The next day, I tried to access this .dmg. It asked me for the password, just as it had the day before. The password is absolutely, positively correct, but it wouldn't accept it. I also tried every way I could conceivably have made a mistake. It just gives me an authentication error, as if the password is wrong, which it 100% is not. I've looked through everything I can find for answers, but they're all either talking about external hard drives (with answers involving wiping them completely or unplugging them), or talking about versions of Disk Utility that offer far more options than mine does (many answers involve sparse bundles, which wasn't an option for me). I desperately need these files - and, as a separate problem, my Time Machine has been acting up for ages, so I don't have a recent enough backup to restore from. Please help!


texts: How to add wiktionary as a source to the default dictionary.app?

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How to add wiktionary to dictionary.app?

For older versions of OS X, there is a method available here Dictionary.app: how to change from wikipedia.org to wiktionary.org. But in the latest system, there are only one field available, as mentioned in the last post.


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On OS X Yosemite, I can't rearrange my dock icons. I click one, and drag, but it just stays in place and stops highlighting.

Here's a demonstration

This has been so ever since I upgraded to Yosemite

I've tried killing it with

killall Dock

To no avail. It just stays stuck.

After restart, I can drag once or twice but I'm not sure what event causes it to stop. If I wait too long after reboot, that privilege is taken away from me.

Any idea what can be done?


texts: The title say it all... Is it possible to use an apple TV2 with standar tv (composite). The apple tv 1, the original have a composite connector, but the tv2 dont. You will ask me to get an HD tv, but i dont watch TV, i like to use it for music only.


texts: Which software should I download to generate GNU GPG Key on mac?

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I am registering to Keybase and they need GNU GPG Key. I uploaded the SSH one but it did not work. Can you help me in this regard?`

I am using 10.11.6


texts: How can I backup an Application in the applications folder?

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I was wondering what will happen if I copy the content of an application in the applications folder, compress it and move it to another hard drive. Will it work if I put it in the Application's folder again, uncompressed? Will it work in other macs?

EDIT: Ok. Now I understand there are at least two kind of applications; One kind uses an installer and the other simply a copy mechanism.

The second kind can be backed up my copy the Application.App. But, for the former one, how can I get a backup for Photoshop and stuff like that?


texts: How can I stop Homekit devices being unresponsive in the Home on iOS (but not macOS or vendor apps)

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I have a bunch of Homekit devices (some plugs and lightbulbs), and they're all happily configured in the Home app on my iPhone (14.1). Periodically (daily), some of them will stop being responsive in Home and just say "Not Responding". This will happen on multiple iPhones in the house, not just mine. Typically it'll clear up later in the day several hours later.
However, the devices are always just fine using either the vendor app on the same iPhone, or using the Home app on my Mac.
I've tried killing the app to make it refresh, to no avail.
All devices have been upgraded to latest firmware. All iOS and macOS devices are on the latest OS releases.
Devices are:
Yeelight bulbs
Wemo plugs
VOCOlinc plugs
Wifi signal in the areas they're in is strong, and they're controllable just fine if I don't use the Home app, so it's not a signal issue either.
Any other tips or tricks?
It's pretty irritating to have scenes only half work when a bunch of the devices just fail to respond.