texts:
I created a partition on my Fusion Drive when I first purchased my iMac running Yosemite, and I would like to now resize that drive ("Data" in the screenshot below), but Disk Utility doesn't allow it (the "Partition" button is disabled).

diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
    2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            121.0 GB   disk0s2
    3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
    2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            2.7 TB     disk1s2
    3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s3
    4:                  Apple_HFS Data                    326.8 GB   disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +2.8 TB     disk2
                                  Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
                                  03BC8817-F05E-4FC3-9A5C-50130CDAB3AB
                                  Unencrypted Fusion Drive

diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group DFD31523-36BE-47AB-A666-54B64038E46B
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         2793817645056 B (2.8 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume FEC1934B-53F8-49A1-ABE6-5155689D9A68
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 4F985EA2-E22B-451F-BEB3-E5EF76D14A59
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     2672828792832 B (2.7 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 27D90160-503D-48B7-B434-798CEE738260
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 03BC8817-F05E-4FC3-9A5C-50130CDAB3AB
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          2787630755840 B (2.8 TB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse

Is there another way to expand the partition? Maybe a third party software solution?


texts: Big Sur keeps asking me to install Command Line Tools

texts:
Ever since I updated to Big Sur (v11.2.3) I am unable to run some tests in Golang that calls /usr/bin/make.
The codebase is: https://github.com/topfreegames/khan/blob/master/cmd/migrate_test.go#L19
Every time the make is called, macOS keeps asking me to install the Command Line Tools, but they are already installed.
Running the make directly from the Terminal works fine.
I've tried removing sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools and also sudo xcode-select -switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools.
Also, installing Command Line tools from the Apple website (.dmg) did not work.
Info:
/usr/bin/xcodebuild -version
Xcode 12.5
Build version 12E262

pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
package-id: com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables

version: 12.5.0.0.1.1617976050

volume: /

location: /

install-time: 1619625638

groups: com.apple.FindSystemFiles.pkg-group

Snapshot:


texts: How to see timer status on lock screen with media playing?

texts:
I want to see quickly/easily how much time is left on my timer while audio is playing.

This was possible in previous versions of iOS by pressing home twice. Now in iOS 10, I have to press home, then lift the Control Center, and tap the timer button. Is there no quicker way?


texts: Can I make Firefox the default browser in iOS

texts:
I really want to use Firefox as my main browser but can't find a way to make it the default browser on iOS: this make it's adoption much more complicated. Is it totally impossible?

Edit - Example of use case: while clicking a link in the Twitter app, I would like it to open directly in Firefox.

I won't jailbreak.


texts: Make Skim save PDF's with embedded notes by default

texts:
I had been reading several papers and highlighting important points, pressing Command-S every so often to save my notes.

But when I opened them back, BAM! All my highlights were lost.

It turns out that I have to do File > Export...  then choose to save the PDF with embedded notes. Add to that, I cannot press Command-S to save with embedded notes on the same file.

That's totally counterintuitive, takes too many mouse movements and keystrokes, breaks my train of thought, and just disheartening.

How can I make Skim save over the PDF with my notes included, simply by pressing Command-S by default? It was the default behavior until recently. It turns out they changed it in Skim 1.3.22


texts: El Capitan Mail.app iCloud email account default email address

texts:
Just upgraded to El Capitan OS X 10.11 and my default email account is no longer ending with mac.com but is now me.com.

When I try to change this it won't let me save it within the mail.app program.

Any suggestions?


texts:
On my IPad I use a GMail app for my email.
However some applications seem to require sending via the built in Email client.
That's question #1 - why doesn't for example my camera app allow me to send pictures via gmail?
And question #2 is - the IPad default email client is not allowing me to create a new GMail account with my Gmail configuration in settings.
I  am doing the following in Settings:

Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Gmail
Enter my Name, email address, Google password and description
It gives me a dialog that says "The user name or password for "imap.gmail.com" is incorrect.

Why? This is the same info I use to configure my gmail client, and it works perfectly well.

What to do?
Signed
Cant move stuff off my IPad.


texts: iTunes movie player loses focus when iPhone starts syncing

texts:
Frustrated by years of iTunes for Windows quirks, I finally bought a Mac Mini as a sort of media server and moved all my iTunes content over, including wifi-syncing my iPhone and iPads. I figured that iTunes would work better on a Mac.

Nope! Now, when watching a movie full screen, iTunes pops back up into the foreground whenever a device starts syncing. And the movie viewer can't be found again -- I guess it's on a different desktop?

Is this just a bug? Is there a workaround? Seems pretty odd that iTunes can't play movies full screen if there are iOS devices in the house. Surely that's not a design choice?


texts: Delete all admin user except administrator

texts:
I would like to delete all the users who have admin privileges except for a user named "administrator"

  dscl . -delete /Groups/admin

I think the above command will delete all admin users, but is there a way to edit the command to accomplish what I want.


texts:
I am using a template from Pages for a document. When I convert it to PDF, it loses its style and font.

I've tried exporting it as a PDF as well as printing it as a PDF.

Any suggestions on how I could keep its format and font intact when conveying it to PDF?

Thanks


texts: Does an iCloud restore on iPhone overwrite iTunes contacts/calendar etc?

texts: If I sync my iPhone contacts, notes, calendar etc with iTunes and then restore my phone using iCloud, then sync again, will my iTunes contacts be overwritten by the restored version? Will my iPhone contacts have the iCloud version of my contacts, the iTunes version or some merge?


texts: Item: "Documents", Kind "Unknown" in Login Items

texts:
In my Login Items on Mac OS 10.11.3 I see an item called "Documents". The Kind is specified as "unknown" and there is a yellow warning sign at the end of the line.

No further information is shown when I hover or click the warning sign or the item. I checked the loginwindow.plist, but couldn't see anything relating to the item in question.

I don't want to merely clear it out.

Does anyone know what this item is supposed to do and how I could further inquire what is wrong with it?


texts: Finder search differentiates between files of kind CSS and Cascading Style Sheets

texts:
when I do a search for files of kind CSS I get 2 results when I should have many but if I search for files of kind Cascading Style Sheet, I get all the results except the other 2...

What's going on here?? I only noticed this after I changed the default app for opening these files...


texts:
Is there any app or trick to color Finder tabs?

Something like this:


texts: iphone podcast app deletes played episodes even if "delete" option is off

texts:
I have "Delete Played Episodes" turned OFF for all my podcasts, both on the iPhone AND in my PC iTunes.

Whenever I finish playing an episode on the phone, the episode name remains visible but the audio content is deleted and a "cloud" icon appears next to the name.

What magic incantation do I need to utter to make the podcast player leave the podcasts on the device?  Clearly "Delete Played Episodes-OFF" must be in some alien language that happens to have certain words matching English but means something completely different.


texts: How do I make my iPad forget about Chrome browser?

texts: I have or rather had Chrome on my iPad but it refuses to update because it was acquired using another AppleID. I then deleted it with the intention to reinstall using my current AppleID. But that is not possible. In appstore the button keeps saying "update" but refuses to do so. I'm afraid to log out from my current AppleID as the system threatens me that it will delete everything on my iPad if I log out. I will probably get it all(?) back from the cloud when I log back on, but then I will probably find myself in the same situation again.


texts: How can I sort by date consistently in the Finder?

texts:
I would like to use the "arrange by date" feature of Finder on Mountain Lion (version 10.8.2, all current system updates installed) and view the result in a consistent manner from "newer" to "older".

In this thread there is an example for what the "arrange by date" option does:

In this example (I found the same behavior on my machine) the table sections are sorted with newer items at the top and older items at the bottom. However, within each table section, the sort order is newer items at the bottom and older items at the top.

Is there a way to way to arrange everything in a consistent order and keep the sections for grouping the files into date categories?


texts: Does auto-unlock in macOS Sierra also auto-lock?

texts: In WWDC, it was announced that macOS Sierra will have an 'auto-unlock' feature using the Apple Watch whereby if you approach your Mac wearing your Apple Watch, the Mac will automatically unlock.  I don't recall seeing anything about the reverse though?  Does macOS Sierra also have an auto-lock using the Apple Watch?


texts:
After updating to OS X El Capitan 10.11 and updating to Xcode 7.0.1 I ran into some issues with the simulator.

At first the simulator would launch but I couldn't register/log in to the app because the ATS Key was needed. That was added, but now there is a different issue.

Whenever I try to launch the simulator, it appears in my dock, but it's inactive. It doesn't ever actually open and if I click on it's options, it shows that he simulator is not responding.

It had worked initially when I opened Xcode using sudo in terminal, but trying that again, I still am running into this issue. I've been looking everywhere online to find if anyone has had the same problem, and I've yet to find a solution.


texts: How to change a Mac/iCloud account the right way

texts:
I'm helping someone who is divorced and needs credentials changed on her iMac. It is using a local account with her ex-husband's name and iCloud account. I would appreciate some assistance with a strategy so I don't overlook anything.

Access point SSID and password have been changed, as well as the router's password (which was still set at factory default!). Her email password has been changed, along with website passwords.

I have created a new account on the Mac with Administrator access and changed the password on the old account. Verified it has no remote access apps. Ready to create a new Apple iCloud account based on her own e-mail address.

The things that are on my mind due to knowing MacOS less than Windows:

What happens to apps purchased on the old Apple ID once this machine is updated to the new one? Must they be repurchased?
iCloud's list of devices includes this Mac, her kids' iPads, and her iPhone. But it also includes his iPhone. Best way to move these devices to the new iCloud account without disturbing his?
Best way to copy Safari and Firefox history/bookmarks/etc to the new account?
Any other important steps?


texts: Folder copy without losing any existing files

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Why does “Copy” replace stuff instead of merging it?

In Windows, if I overwrite a folder abc/doc to def/doc, (1) files existing in abc/doc but not in def/doc are simply added to def/doc; (2) files existing in def/doc but not in abc/doc do not change; and (3) files existing in both folders are replaced. But in Mac, all files in def/doc are deleted and files in abc/doc are copied. I am not talking about which should be the more correct behavior, but was wondering if Mac can be tuned to how Windows behave, because I am more comfortable with such behavior.

I found that Lion now behaves just like Windows, but in Snow Leopard or older version, how can I make Mac OS behave like what I described?


texts: How to have a random background color in Terminal.app

texts:
In X11 days, I had a script that would randomly pick a pastel background color and then open a fresh xterm.  This was easy to do because I could just pass an argument for (as I recall) -background.

Does Terminal.app have such an interface?  I would prefer to do this via a bash script but I can cope with AppleScript if needed.

I tend to use tabs within one Terminal window which may complicate things as well.

I'm currently on Mojave.


texts: More than one banner in Notification Center

texts: My question is simple, but I think, it's impossible. When more than one banner in Notification Center are rises, previous of them are ends and show last banner only. It would be nice if banners shows as a badges. I think we can't to change this, isn't it?


texts: MacBook Pro won't turn on after Catalina update

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I have a 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro without a touchbar.

I upgraded from Mojave to Catalina and left the computer to do its thing. Now about an hour later, my computer seems to be off and won't turn on. It's connected to the charger and had a full battery when I started the update. Now it's basically dead. I've long pressed the power button for more than six seconds and tried short pressing it but nothing. I've tried this several times now.

I'm in lockdown and can't visit an Apple Store either.

EDIT:  Steve Chambers' comment about resetting the SMC worked for me. When it restarted, it had Catalina installed. I still do not know what went wrong but hopefully, this helps others who might end up in the same boat.


texts: Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel sheets?

texts:
OK, this is a weird one. I take my blank Numbers sheet:

...and export it to Excel:

Whoah, that seems a little large. Let's rename the Excel doc to .zip and have a look inside:

Digging a little deeper:

Well, we just found 99% of the file size. But what is it — some sort of embedded preview image? Let's open it:

Nope, just a 635x635 PNG of random noise. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?


texts: I need to delete apps that I have previously purchased and deleted from my account history

texts: I need to remove some apps from my account history forever because I don't want them anymore, and because iCloud keeps a new history format I need to know the process which is doing this.


texts: Is my Time Machine backup encrypted or not?

texts:
As you can see, I use Time Machine to backup on drive "Data" on "ZRH" which is a Time Capsule. To the best of my knowledge, I selected "Encrypt backups" when I configured this backup a few weeks ago. But as I have a look into the configuration, the box "Encrypt backups" is not checked.

I wonder whether my backup is actually not encrypted or whether this is just sort of a "bug" in the configuration menu that the checkbox does not show the actual encryption state.

I have File Vault enabled.

(Trial and error is not an option in this case, since it's a 500 GB backup which would take forever to rebuild.)

It would already help if a few of you could just have a look into their backup configuration and check whether the checkbox is checked for encrypted backups.


texts:
I must attend to edit screenshots for an application, available on iPhone and iPad in 14 different languages.
Each screenshot contains a text explaining the screen in all 14 languages.
As each iPhone requires a different image size on iTunes Connect, so I have to edit: 14 x 5 x 5 screenshots different resolutions. This makes a total of 350 screenshots for iTunes Connect, just for one app.

My question is: there's there a simpler solution, less tedious than having to edit each screen in each size in Photoshop?
Thank You


texts: How do I force a folder to be opened in column view in Finder?

texts:
I'll try to give a general example.

I have the following folder structure somewhere on my local user directory:

Root_Folder
├── Icon_Folder
│   ├── file1
│   └── file6
└── Column_Folder
    ├── file10
    ├── file11
    └── file12

How can I force Finder to open the Column_Folder/ in column view while forcing the Icon_Folder/ (and other possible folders) to be viewed in icon view?

Sounds trivial, yes, but here's where I have problems:

I open Icon_Folder/, change its view to icon view, press ⌘ cmd + J and tick "Always open in icon view" — presto! it works.
Then I open Column_Folder/, change its view to column view, double–check the Finder window's title bar reads "Column_Folder", open view options again — but wait! Finder wants to change the view settings for ~/Desktop/, not Column_Folder/!

NB: I know it specifically wants to change Desktop's view settings because that is where the Root_Folder/ is. If I move the Root_Folder/ to ~/, Finder would like to change, while in column view, the view settings for my home directory and so on…

I'd rather like to know a GUI answer, but if it is much easier via command line, it's OK by me.

All in all, the question boils down to: How do I open the active folder's view settings in Finder while browsing in column view?


texts: Battery not charging at only 35 cycles - recoverable?

texts:
I bought a second-hand 12" MacBook and was disappointed to discover it doesn't charge. I'm expecting to return it, but I'm frustrated that I can't fix it.

The battery is showing at 35 cycles but not holding any charge whatsoever. I presume it's been sat on a shelf for some period of time and has drained, but I can't imagine that it's actually dead at only 35 cycles.

I've reinstalled macOS, run an SMC reset, and reset NVRAM too. I've tried another charger for the same model.

Unplugging instantly powers down and it shows no interest in charging at all. I think it's got to be returned at this point. This is frustrating as it was a present for my wife's birthday this weekend, so I've been trying to fix it. Is there anything else I could try?


texts: Temporarily show location of mouse pointer (without having to move the mouse)?

texts:
I have to work with both Windows 10 and MacOS (Big Sur) daily. I have the "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key" option enabled in Windows. This option is extremely helpful when locating the mouse cursor since it doesn't necessitate having to move the mouse; simply tapping the CTRL key causes radiating circles to briefly appear around the cursor.
I've been unsuccessful in finding a similar feature for MacOS. Mouse Pointer Locator and
Is there a way to temporarily enlarge the mouse pointer like Apple's "Shake to find" does? represent similar requests; the recommended solutions, however, don't seem to provide the feature I describe.
MacOS's built-in 'Shake mouse pointer to locate' (and the Magic Trackpad equivalent) is too disruptive. And many of the suggested apps require toggling into a mode to make the mouse cursor look differently and then toggling out of that mode to return the cursor to the original appearance; again, that's too disruptive. I simply want to press a hotkey to temporarily show the location of the mouse pointer (without having to move the mouse).
Hoping someone can relate ... and can offer a solution. Thanks!


texts: iOS7 why won't the time show up in texts

texts: I downloaded iOS7 and noticed that the time doesn't show up in texts like the older version.  How can I get the time to show up in my text messages when someone texts me? For example, when I receive a text from someone I want the time to show up in the actual conversation


texts: Lost address book contacts in upgrade to Yosemite

texts:
I upgraded from the Mavericks to Yosemite on a Macbook Pro. All the contacts in the address book which is now Contacts in Yosemite are gone and when I try to restore it from the back up it gives a message that all the contacts will be replaced which is ok in this case. However when I close the address book after the import and re open it the address have disappeared. After a few attempts it now gives the same message but now the contacts don't even show in the address book anymore. Is there a solution for this?

Thanks
Usman


texts: OS X Yosemite Xcode update stuck on 'Waiting'

texts:
I recently downloaded Yosemite, and I'm trying to update my Xcode. I hit 'Update' in the App Store, and but it's been stuck at 'Waiting' for the past 30 minutes.

What can I do to fix this?


texts: Cannot open Facebook and WhatsApp after updating to iOS 11.2.6

texts: The Facebook and WhatsApp apps show as downloaded by I cannot open the same. Deleted Facebook app from the usage section. Now the download button is inactive for Facebook app. I have switched off and restarted the phone and still it prevails


texts: How do I make a Windows 7 USB bootable key using os x so I can repair a seperate Windows laptop?

texts: I have a Mac. And a windows 7 laptop... I know, but it was cheap, and I needed it. The windows kernel was somehow deleted. I have a copy of win 7 on my Mac that I would like to make a bootable usb key without installing win7 to the Mac. Every thread I seem to read is directed at installing win 7 to Mac. This is something I don't wish at all. How do I make a usb bootable with windows from a Mac?


texts: MacOS pf.anchor gets reset after OS upgrade?

texts:
I want to add custom network rules to pf.anchor/com.apple instead of pf.conf. I read from https://blog.neilsabol.site/post/quickly-easily-adding-pf-packet-filter-firewall-rules-macos-osx/ that mention that pf.conf will get reset back to its default content (removing any custom rule) once you did a OS upgrade.

Does anyone know will pf.anchor get reset as well?


texts: Documents app hangs on file browser. How to export it's files w/o jailbreak?

texts:
I used Documents app by Readdle, but now when I open it, it shows me the last document I was reading. When I try to switch back to file browser, it hangs, and I can't press anything. The question is how can I save my files and reinstall the app? Currently it has no updates on App Store.

I tried to use ifunbox and iTunes, but i can only see the "Inbox" folder which is empty.
Device is not jailbroken.

PS. This probably happens because the document's name contains unsupported characters.


texts: How can I fix the tiny type in iOS 10 Mail?

texts:
The update to iOS 10 has made type in Mail messages often appear too tiny to read. How do I restore readable type in iOS 10 Mail?

This is not a question about how to globally adjust text size (the text is fine elsewhere) or about how to zoom (that really doesn't fix the problem), but about how to make text that appears unreadably small some mail messages appear as it did in iOS 9.


texts: Applescript: save all open tabs in Chrome to PDF

texts:
I would like to make an AppleScript that saves all of the open tabs in the front window in Google Chrome to a PDF.

Here is my working MWE so far:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set allTabs to tabs in front window
    repeat with myTab in allTabs
        tell myTab to print
    end repeat
end tell

Of course, this simply opens the print window repeatedly for each open tab.

Ideally, I could save each one to a distinct PDF, something like this (using some made-up commands here):

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set myFolder to "/Users/nnn/Desktop/PDF/"
    set myCount to 0
    repeat with myTab in allTabs
        set myCount to myCount + 1
        set fileName to "pdf" & myCount & ".pdf"
        set outputPath to myFolder & fileName
        export myTab to outputPath as PDF  -- obviously, this does not work.
    end repeat
end tell

How would I get this to work?


texts: Opening a new tab in Chrome makes all bluetooth devices disconnected

texts:
I have an issue using the following versions

Chrome 65.0.3325.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)

MacOS Sierra 10.12.6

When I open a new tab, sometimes all my bluetooth devices (headphones, mouse, keyboard) become disconnected. They come back in ~5 minutes, resetting devices or the bluetooth module doesn't help


texts: Why defaults read can't read some domains?And why is there an plist that stores all my information?

texts:
defaults read will output all domain contents and defaults domains will output all domain names.
However, I found that when I manually specify some domainsdefaults read com.valvesoftware.steam.helper, I get an error that domain does not exist but the file is there. E.g:

~/Library/Preferences/com.valvesoftware.steam.helper
~/LibraryL/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.ImageSizingPresets
~/LibraryL/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.ViewState
~/LibraryL/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.bookmarks
~/LibraryL/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.PreviewLegacySignaturesConversion

Two files in same folder but only one of them get an error.

~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Excel/Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Excel.plist
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Excel/Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Excel.securebookmarks.plist

And why is there an plist that stores all my information  even my keyboard model.
co.twopeople.mate.plist contains even more information than Apple Global Domain


texts: Computer will not allow iCloud log in or iCloud account

texts:
Logging in to any iCloud app gives me an error message:
'Verification failed this action could not be completed. Try again.'
My other 4 computers take my login and password and function normally. Mojave 10.14.2 on all computers.


texts: MacBook Stolen and locked remotely through Find My Phone but unable to locate it

texts:
My MacBook got stolen and I put it in lost mode  in Find My Phone, locked it and got email it successfully locked, but the app couldn't get its location.

How is this possible?

Is it that the thief has disabled location services on my laptop? But I am wondering how can he disable the them if it's locked with a 6 digit code?


texts: Is there an alternative to the five-finger swipe out gesture, allowing me to copy things to/from the desktop?

texts:
On my MacBook, I frequently end up with lots of overlapping windows on the screen, obscuring the desktop. I recently discovered the five finger 'swipe outwards' gesture that displays the desktop. Unfortunately this doesn't do exactly what I want; as soon as I select an application (typically a Finder window) from the dock, all the windows swipe back into place. Normally I am wanting to copy a file to/from a Finder window that's already open, via drag-and-drop, to the desktop - but I can't do this as the desktop is once again obscured.

Are there any other shortcuts which could help me? For example, minimize/hide all windows to show the desktop?

I should add I'm using OS X 10.8, if it's relevant.


texts: How do I print webpages to PDF on Big Sur?

texts:
I can't find any way to do this for free.
Is there any free virtual printer for Big Sur so that I can print webpages (from chrome/firefox) to pdf?
I learned about cups-pdf and pdfwriter but homebrew doesn't seem to support cups-pdf and pdfwriter is old, doesn't work.
Any pointer will be helpful.


texts: Why does Keychain ask for the login password twice to show a password?

texts:
Whenever I want to view a password in my Keychain, it asks me the login keychain password twice:

First like this:

Then like this:

I'm having trouble understanding why. I am running macOS High Sierra.


texts: CHM reader with Dropbox/Google Drive support in iPad?

texts:
I would like to find some CHM reader which you can use to read CHM files which are located in Dropbox or Google Drive.
I could not open books of those cloud services in CHMate premium, although there is a piece of advice about Dropbox how to do it: Offile storage > Open in but no CHMate button found.

How can you read documents of cloud services in iPad?


texts: Opening terminal from command line, starting bash and got to the same location where the original terminal was

texts:
For example, I have a terminal (running /bin/bash) opened at a certain folder. Now what I want is when I type trm on the terminal, it will open another terminal at the same location where the first terminal was.

In my .bash_aliases I am doing like this --

_openTerminal()
{
    pdir=$(pwd)
    /usr/bin/osascript << EOF
        set pwd_ashell to do shell script "echo '$pdir'"
        tell application "Terminal"
            do script "/bin/bash && cd \"$pwd_ashell\""
        end tell
EOF
}

and setting alias as:

alias trm='_openTerminal'

It opens a terminal but always ends up in the $HOME folder.


texts: Is it possible to play a Blu-ray Disc on iMac?

texts: There is no any drive with my iMac and I know apple doesn't have program that could play Blu-ray until now, so can anyone give me some ideas about how can I make my iMac play Blu-ray disc movies?


texts: How to restore System Preferences.app without reinstalling?

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My younger brother decided to sudo rm -r /Applications/System\ Preferences.app. Yeah, it was a pretty stupid thing to do.

(In his defense, it's probably my fault for giving him bad habits--whenever I set up new macs, I always forcibly remove iTunes, Chess, and other preinstalled applications that I consider useless.)

He is currently running MacOS Sierra, and aside from the fact that he can't change any settings, his computer appears to be running fine.

I told my brother to redownload the Sierra installer from the Mac App Store, use Pacifist to extract the System Preferences application, and copy it back to his applications folder.

He did so, but the newly-extracted System Preferences app doesn't work. It opens, but displays a blank window with no preference panes to click on. I advised him to do a reinstall, but he doesn't want to.

How can my brother get System Preferences back?


texts: MacOS Sierra Launch Daemon won't start VPN service before login prompt

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I'm trying to get a new MacBook Pro running the latest version of Sierra to connect to my corporate VPN before the login screen. My machine is connected via Ethernet so I don't have to try and start Wi-Fi service prior to login. My command line script to connect to the VPN works fine in terminal. I know the file needs to be placed in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ but I'm not sure how to make sure it's processing before getting to the login screen. I'm new to writing plist files, so any help would be appreciated!

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
    "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.vpn_at_boot</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>sh</string>
    <string>-c</string>
    <string>sudo /usr/local/Cellar/sstp-client/1.0.11_1/sbin/sstpc vpn-hidden.hidden.com --user <hidden> --password <hidden> --log-stderr --cert-warn require-mschap-v2 noauth refuse-eap noccp</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>


texts: I am considering adding a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle to my 2011 Mac (to enable Airdrop). Will my Magic Mouse 1 still work?


texts: What displays are capable of displaying full resolution from the new MacBook Pro with retina display?

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What displays are capable of displaying 2880 by 1800 pixels from the new MacBook Pro with Retina display?

The current Apple Thunderbolt Display is only capable of 2560 by 1440 pixels.


texts: Data transfered from old iPad to a new iPad and iPhone; will a reset of the old iPad, wipe the data from the new devices?

texts: Will factory reset of my old iPad2 remove my transferred data from the new iPad and iPhone? Everything's on the same account. Do I have to unsynch first?


texts: What is the maximum number of spaces on Sierra?

texts: My MacBook runs Sierra 10.12.4 and I have 16 spaces, but there appears to be no way to get more. I find 16 spaces too few. Is 16 the absolute maximum or can I get more? If so how?


texts: How can I copy my music from iPod Nano (model A1446) to iPhone 5s?

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I am trying to somehow extract the music from my iPod and also transfer all the playlists the way I arranged them on the iPod before. The iPod is a 7th generation iPod Nano and I am using iTunes 12 on Windows.

It appears that the only option iTunes offers me that is obvious would be to wipe my iPod and then start synchronizing data from the PC to the iPod. This appears to be due to setting it to manually manage music and videos (see below). Effectively this would remove the data from the iPod and thus not leaving anything to copy to the iPhone.

Now I do know that I could transfer the files from iPod to PC in my file manager (iPod_Control). If I then import those files with their meaningless naming scheme iTunes will likely pick up all the song metadata. However, this won't aid me in any way in transferring the playlists over to the new device.

So how could I accomplish this without first wiping the iPod, then building an iTunes library from scratch, then transferring everything to both devices again?


texts: iTunes: How to find backup corresponding to a particular version of iOS?

texts:
I have an iPhone 8 Plus, which I upgraded to iOS 12.3.2. iOS 12.3.2 was a special bug fix release which is available only for iPhone 8 Plus models.

I want to downgrade it to iOS 12.3.1, but I think I already did an iTunes backup for iOS 12.3.2.

How can I find a backup in iTunes which can be restored to iOS 12.3.1?


texts: What do these Apple ID notifications mean?

texts:
I get these very often and I am not sure what they mean.
This morning, while only my MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and iPhone are powered, I received these on the MacBook Pro and the iPhone:

I have not turned on the MacBook Air or the iMac in a few days, but I've owned them since 2016 and 2009 respectively, so there's nothing new about them being linked to my Apple ID. I am also not sure why there is a 2 after the name of the iMac - I only have one iMac but it doesn't work very well so I don't use it very often.
These notifications are extremely upsetting, because they indicate that security of my Apple ID might have been compromised by one of my own devices, and they offer no explanation or options, just "OK" to make the notification go away.
How can I find out why these notifications appear, and make sure my accounts are not accessed by other people than me?


texts:
I have been using a Vodafone mobile broadband(modem) and decided to get rid of it then everything went wrong. I dragged the app and dropped it on to the trash but its menu bar is still there but inactive. I searched for multiple help to rectify the problem but still the menu bar was there. I used easy find to look for everything related to Vodafone and deleted it still the menu bar was there. Nothing in the PC has Vodafone related files except that its menu was present.

Guys is there any way I could deal with this or is it a more larger problem than I thought.


texts:
I am using a simple Numbers spreadsheet to track an expense that only comes up a few times per year. I want to be able to have Numbers automatically add the values that come from each year.

For example,

Column A    Column B    Column C    Column D
DATE          AMOUNT    2015            $500
1/15/2015       $500    2016           $1000
1/15/2016       $500
6/15/2016       $500

In other columns, I would like Numbers to sum all Amounts from 2015. Then below that, sum all Amounts for 2016, etc.

I have tried playing around with SUMIF and SUMIFS and cannot seem to get it right.


texts: Adding metadata for films/TV shows in iTunes

texts:
When I purchase videos from iTunes, I get a lot of metadata information on the movie. For example, like this:

But when I add a DVD I own, I only get this:

I understand that on OSX you can use Subler to add iTunes metadata for videos, but how can I do this in Windows?


texts:
I'd like to list all images in a folder (and subfolders), but I get no results in Finder for any search unless I search 'This Mac'.

I select the folder I wish to search, select 'images' as the 'kind' in the search box, top right, but although it says 'Searching "foldername"' nothing ever gets returned, unless I select 'This Mac',  what am I doing wrong?


texts: Run and build Visual Studio project on Mac OS X

texts: Can I open a Visual Studio C++ project on Mac OS X and run the app?


texts: no sound coming from external speakers, that are plugged into jack on my macbook pro

texts: haven't touched any settings, or downloaded any new software. I just started up my computer and the headphones jack that power my external speakers aren't working?! I get no sound at all. Yet, when I unplug it from the jack, the sound from the computer comes on (3 sec) later. I've been reading the different posts and trying to follow the steps that are given, but it's not working.


texts: how to find out the start time of last sleep

texts: Is there a command to find the date and time at which a Macintosh computer last entered the sleep mode?


texts: why does my macbook wifi not recognize my att mobile hot spot on first try?  Sometimes I need to turn wifi on and off several times before if finds the hotspot when scanning for it.


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Assuming I have an external monitor plugged into my laptop and a projector - I now have three monitors.

I want to be able to see what is on the projector from the second monitor and leave the primary monitor for controlling the presentation.

My question is: Can I mirror my second and third monitors but not the first for a presentation?


texts: Antennagate: how much of the phone's side should I not touch?

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Antennagate indicates that I should avoid touching that spot of the iPhone where the two metal pieces nearly touch each other - touching here would electrically bridge the two pieces and decrease antenna performance... but it's nearly impossible to hold the phone and not touch it there! So here's my question:

Question: Should I not touch the two metal parts simultaneously at all, or just not put a finger precisely over the gap? It is okay to touch one centimeter from both sides of the gap? Two centimeters? Half a centimeter?

If I were to just put a little bit of tape over this side, how long should that piece of tape be?


texts: iOS7 new/updated apps, NOT showing blue dot. Any one know why?

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I have just noticed on my friends device (running iOS7) blue dots next to the app name on the home screen. I have done some research and found that these now replace the "new" banner in iOS6 as well as apps that have been updated but not opened yet.

Only my iPhone 5 running iOS7 does not show these dots!!?

Does anyone know why or how I could change this?

Thanks


texts: Why doesn't iOS 4 have any apps to match Locale on Android?

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Locale seems to be one of the coolest apps on the Android devices.  Lets you reconfigure multiple aspects of your phone depending on location.  I for example would like to change my default calendar depending on if I'm at work or not.

I've done a lot of digging to see if iPhone has a similar app.  And all I can find are old articles saying that since iOS doesn't support background tasks (Which it does now), that this feature isn't even possible.  Now that we have background tasks, I can't see whats holding this back, especially in the jailbreak community.

I'm posting this to see if anybody out there has an app in progress, or has anymore information that I haven't been able to dig up.

Thanks


texts: In a Macbook, I'm ready to change the boot disk and replace the superdrive with an SSD. How will Migration Asst work? Use APFS?

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In a mid-2012 MacBook running Catalina, I'm first going to replace the DVD SuperDrive with an SSD. Boot-up and then make sure the drive is recognized and wifi, Bluetooth, camera, etc. still work. ok.
Next, I want to replace the current drive with an SSD. However, I've looked over Migration Assistant and I don't understand my best option. Here is situation:

each of the new internal drives are 1-tb Samsung 860 EVO and will be formatted APFS.
the current drive is a 250-gb Samsung 840 EVO with 80-gb free space and is formatted APFS.
a TmeMachine back-up exists on an external usb-drive formatted HFS+.

note: I have an external monitor connected via USB. The Catalina upgrade required some difficult security configuration to get it to work again and I don't want to redo this. I've also got a mysql database that I don't want to reconfigure with this upgrade.

Do I need to do a fresh install of Catalina? And thus have to re-configure my usb-monitor?

Can I mirror the current 250-gb drive onto the 1-tb SSD that replaces the DVD superdrive, and then mirror back that image onto the second 1-tb drive that will replace the 250-gb drive? My usb-monitor and mysql database shouldn't need re-configuration.

Will APFS not supporting TimeMachine effect this migration?

Or, just what is my best migration option? My current MacOS, app, and data arrangement are just like I want. Now, I just want to replace the disk it is on and add an additional disk. I've got plenty of cloud and extra usb drive storage to work with.


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Not even sure what question to ask, other than "what should I do next?"

UPDATE: Reinstall didn't work!  (Details at end)

MacBook Pro (MBP) 2012 (approx.) with one-terabyte SSD and 10.12.4 was working fairly well, until suddenly I can't log in.  Boot-up appears normal to the login screen.  But then, whichever account I select goes to the desktop background and nothing else.  No dock, no icons, no menu bar.  Sometimes a spinning beachball, sometimes not.  When the beachball isn't there, the Finder shortcut to log out makes it appear (but not logout).  Three different accounts.  Guest account is not enabled.  "Other" is available but since I am not on a network, I can only type in one of the local accounts (which did the same thing as selecting by mouse).

Boot the recovery partition and select Disk Utility.  Select the disk and first aid.  "Seems to be OK". Select the volume within the SSD and try that.  "Could not be unmounted for repair."

This started not long after I left a college.  I did not install any of their software, but I did automount two directories from their Windows network.  However, the MBP worked for more than two months after I got off their LAN, and I think I removed the automount lines before this failure.

Unfortunately, I had worked about a week without backups when the failure occurred.  The MBP is under warranty, but the SSD was transferred from an older machine.

UPDATE: Bought this machine because the old one's CD died, it's WiFi was flaky, and it had dents on the case.  But it was bootable.  Put this SSD back in the old one, and now it won't boot.  Just three beeps and nothing on screen.

Put everything back and booted into Recovery again.  Disk Utility still can't unmount; says it is in use.  Terminal, lsof shows notifyd is using it.  Kill notifyd and it restarts but doesn't re-open the SSD.  But Disk Util GUI still can't unmount.

Terminal, diskutil unmount fails because the kernel (PID 0) objects.   diskutil unmount force works.  GUI first aid claims to have changed some things.  Reboot; still can't log in.  Login screen shows four accounts, but I checked /Volumes/ISSD/Users while in recovery, and one of them does not have a home directory.  That one, I don't remember password, but the others can't log in either.

None of the users are in /Volumes/ISSD/etc/passed, and the recovery partition no longer has the ability to fix user accounts.

UPDATE: I bought another external disk and used the recovery partitions terminal to copy files I wanted into it.  Then I reinstalled MacOS, but after it rebooted, instead of going into setup, it looks no different than before!  All the accounts are still there and can't log in!


texts:
I was at the Apple store yesterday and I wanted to purchase an HDMI out adapter for my new iPad. Oe of the employees said to wait becaus they're getting in newer ones for the new iPad, which should handle the retina display better.

Is it really true that the adapter an make a difference? Isn't HDMI going to be HDMI? Does the iPad 2 HDMI out adapter work with the new iPad?


texts: Install Sierra as guest OS in VM with Parallels 12

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Trying to install the official version of macOS Sierra, released today 2016-09-20.

When I use the Parallels Wizard to create a new VM, I selected the Install macOS Sierra.app application as listed. Next step is saving the OS X image file.dmg file with its default name in a folder I choose. Then I get the error:

  Failed to create a bootable disk image file for this version of OS X.

Running Parallels 12.0.2 on a MacBook Pro with El Capitan.

Ironically, I successfully did this same operation with the second, and last, GM seed from Apple using Parallels 12.0.1. Now, a few days later, I cannot install the official Sierra release with Parallels 12.0.2 (.2 update of Parallels is last day or two). So I suppose either (a) Apple changed something with the installer last-minute, or (b) the Parallels company changed something with this week’s new Parallels 12.0.2 update.


texts:
I am using 10.8.5 with Preview V 6.0.1(765.6).

When I use Tools->Annotate->Highlight Text to select texts in order to highlight them, I expect it to be a rectangle region. But it is not, see the picture below.

Personally, I don't like it being this way (if this is not a bug). I tried 3 different PDF files, and I got the same results.

Is there any option to change this?


texts: 13" Macbook Pro running Lion loses battery fast?

texts: I bought my 13" MacBook Pro last March 27, 2011. It's 5 months old now. coconutBattery shows that I've lost 12% of the original battery capacity in just 5 months with 238 load cycles. I read in some of the questions here that one MacBook user just lost 1% of his battery capacity in 2 years! How could I have lost such a large percentage of my battery capacity in just 5 months?


texts: OS X 10.10.4 (14E46) - How do I get 'å' character on US keyboard?

texts:
I've just moved from an older US MacBook Pro running Mavericks, and I've been able to write the Norwegian 'æøå' characters by using alt-', alt-o and alt-a.

On my new US MBP running Yosemite, all of these work, except for alt-a, which just writes '¯' instead of 'å'. I know of the option to hold down keys to get a list of alternative characters, but the alt-variation is much faster to work with, and I'd really like to get it to work. I've installed the latest OS X update.


texts:
I face very similar description as in this post here
50GB of disk space missing

I did post an additional question in that thread and was recommended to open a separate question .

After migrating to Catalina, I ended up with multiple containers and disks. I removed 1 container but fail to recover the space that was used by this extra container.

When trying to fix the issue here was my situation.

Next I removed the EFI disk

sudo diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" %noformat% /dev/disk0s1

When running the command :

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0

error reply remains : Started APFS operation
Error: -69743: The new size must be different than the existing size

So I'm stuck in this situation with half of my disk storage capacity missing.


texts: bi-directionally sync Google Photos on external drive

texts:
I see in this post (Any way to auto download or sync all Google+ photos to my Mac?) that there's a good solution to bi-directionally syncing photos between my laptop and my Google Photos account (which would also sync photos uploaded from my phone, which occurs automatically).  B/c this storage can potentially become a bit large, I'd like to store my Google Photos on a 256GB SDHC card that is always plugged in to my computer.  The problem is, it appears I need the Google Photos folder to reside within my Google Drive folder, which is not on this external storage.

Is there a good way to point my local Google Photos folder to external storage without messing up my other Google Drive folders?


texts: OS X Yosemite & Time Machine: identity of the backup disk has changed

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From time to time (I did not yet figure out a systematic way to reproduce the error) I get an error message when a new Time Machine backup begins: it says that the identity of my Time Machine backup disk has changed (see also this article from the Apple website). I recently made a clean OS X Yosemite install. I also noticed that my Computer name changes automatically from the name I gave it in the first place, MyName, to MyName (2). I am not 100% sure but I think the number in brackets increase with every such error occurring. Is anyone having similar problems? If so, what is the reason, can I avoid it?
I am using a 3 TB Time Capsule (current model) to backup my HDD.
The following are the (I hope) relevant error messages from the console (I think you can see that the name of my computer has changed and the sparse bundle needed was renamed appropriately):

20.10.14 07:23:59,664 com.apple.backupd[14231]: User continued after being warned of changed destination volume identity
20.10.14 07:23:59,676 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Error (-43): Getting volume ref for volume at path /Volumes/Phil-1
20.10.14 07:23:59,678 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Backup failed because the network destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly!
20.10.14 07:23:59,685 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Backup failed with error 26: The connection to the server was interrupted.
20.10.14 07:24:50,391 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Starting manual backup
20.10.14 07:24:50,392 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Attempting to mount network destination URL:
afp://Phil;AUTH=SRP@Phils%20TC._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Phil
20.10.14 07:25:13,042 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Phil-1 using URL:
afp://Phil;AUTH=SRP@Phils%20TC._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Phil
20.10.14 07:25:27,239 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Renaming /Volumes/Phil-1/Phils MBP.sparsebundle to /Volumes/Phil-1/Phils MBP
(2).sparsebundle
20.10.14 07:26:03,934 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Disk image /Volumes/Phil-1/Phils MBP (2).sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time
Machine-Backups
20.10.14 07:26:05,647 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Backing up to /dev/disk4s2: /Volumes/Time Machine-Backups/Backups.backupdb
20.10.14 07:26:48,008 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Will copy (47,28 GB) from Macintosh HD
20.10.14 07:26:48,012 com.apple.backupd[14231]: Found 93019 files (49,19 GB) needing backup
20.10.14 07:26:48,021 com.apple.backupd[14231]: 61,52 GB required (including padding), 2,64 TB available


texts: You can only install this software on the disk that is running os x

texts:
I have 2 disks in my Mac - a new SSD which is my boot drive, and the original disk which came with the mac, which still has OSX installed on it (I haven't figured out what to use this drive for yet).

I noticed when installing an application I got this message and I was surprised because I was sure OSX let you do this.

Can anyone help me understand? Is it not possible to put applications anywhere except on the boot partition?


texts: Macbook Pro 2018 battery not charging dodocool 7-in-1 hub suspected

texts:
I am having a version of the battery not charging issue on my Macbook Pro 2018 (13-inch, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports). The symptoms are somewhat different from related issues, such as in this post. I am experiencing the following symptoms:

While power adapter is plugged in, the battery drains, and my system battery indicates "Battery not charging..." even when there are no apps using significant CPU cycles.
The system continues to list the power adapter as the battery source even after I have unplugged it.
I no longer hear the power chime when connecting to a power source.
Battery condition is normal.

I have already tried:

Resetting NVRAM and SMC as suggested here, multiple times.
Attempting to power with different adapters and combinations of third-party USB-C hub accessories.
Booting in safe mode

Bottom line, nothing works. Is there something obvious that I haven't tried?

Update
Apparently some of my USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports have ceased to function as well. This is starting to look more and more like a hardware issue related to the USB-C/Thunderbolt controller.

Even further update
A trip to my local Apple authorized repair shop (after my battery had completely drained) revealed that:

a. the battery was able to be charged after some period of "rest"
b. Apple Hardware Diagnostics indicated nothing technically wrong with the machine

Classic bizarro intermittent problem. The only other common thread I've discovered is this: every time this behavior has occurred, I have been using an accessor hub called "dodocool Aluminum Alloy 7-in-1 Multiport Hub with dual USB-C Connectors, model: DC53. I'm starting to suspect that this accessory is at least a necessary cause of the behavior.

It looks like

I will update if the problem persists in the absence of this hub.


texts: Mac App Store Upload Fail: Validation Error (SFML)

texts:
I'm working on a SFML App in Xcode 7.2, and I'm trying to upload my project build to the Mac App Store, and I'm getting the following error:

An error occurred during validation
Couldn't find platform family in Info.plist CFBundleSupportedPlatforms or Mach-O LC_VERSION_MIN for A

I've tried, among other things, adding a new entry to my Info.plist for CFBundleSupportedPlatforms with an entry for OSX. I've tried changing dylibs vs frameworks, i've tried universal vs standard architectures. All of these modifications have yeilded no success.
This question is following a previous problem with freetype that I fixed. Is it possibly still a problem with freetype? any suggestions?
UPDATE:
OK, I've gone through and reset up a whole new project following the App Distribution Guide. I Did see some issues with some of my build settings, and fixed them. But I'm Still getting the same error. Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong?


texts: Automator treating App Packages as folders

texts:
Automator treats .app files (Application Packages) as if they were folders. This might be useful in some instances, but for what I want to do - Periodically make a list of the contents of my Applications folder - it is extremely frustrating.

I just want a list of all the applications I have. I made a two step workflow, with "Get Folder Contents" and "New Text File". This would work perfectly, if not for the fact that I have a number of subfolders in the Applications folder with apps in there (for organization/sanity purposes).

In theory, this would be solved by checking the "Repeat for each subfolder found" option in the "Get Folder Contents" Action, but this gives me a huge problem: it lists every single file in each App Package, which I'm sure you'll understand is totally useless for my purposes.

Any Ideas?


texts: Dell monitor randomly goes blank on Mac mini

texts:
I have a Mini late 2012 (i5 16GB RAM). It was running Mavericks and now running the Yosemite Beta. A Dell U2414H and an older Dell E207WP

My problems is:

My Dell U2414H randomly says there is no signal and goes black. The only way to get it back is to reboot my Mac.  This happens randomly, it could happen 10 times in one hour or once in 2 days. I have the monitor connected via Display Port to my Mac's Thunderbolt connection. My other monitor (E207WP) is connected via HDMI to DVI (woks fine).

This problem started on Mavericks and continued to Yosemite. I have performed clean installations of each but the problem persists. I do not have any other computers available to test the monitor on.

I have ordered a few Display Port and HDMI cables from Amazon hoping that will help.

If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate the help. Restarting my Mac all the time is killing my productivity.


texts:
There's a much despised bug in OS X wherein iTunes unexpectedly opens and in some cases, starts playing music, a podcast, or whatever the user was listening to last. The bug can be triggered in a number of different ways but it's not the bug itself that I'm asking about today; It's an implementation of the recommended solution.

It turns out that the only way to eliminate the bug is to completely disable iTunes. The well-documented steps for doing so are:

Go to Applications folder >> highlight iTunes app shortcut >> select 'Show Package Contents' from context menu >> Contents >> Mac OS; from within this directory, rename 'iTunes' to 'iTunes-disabled' and rename 'iTunesHelper' to 'iTunesHelper-disabled'

The solution works perfectly. It's a shame to disable iTunes completely but getting some relief from iTunes randomly starting up and interfering with my workflow far outweighs any benefit that iTunes provides so I just leave it disabled and use other options for audio/video playback.

The thing is though, these days I occasionally need iTunes to stream downloaded TV shows to my AppleTV box. And each time I do, I have to undo the steps described above in order to reenable iTunes. Which leads me to my question:

Is there some way to automate the process of disabling/enabling iTunes using the method described? Like maybe some sort of script or something? Ideally, I'd have a couple of shortcuts on my desktop which when double-clicked, would disable or enable the product by renaming the relevant files. Any ideas?


texts: Reactivate AFP von Mac High Sierra OS X Server (10.13)

texts:
I am having trouble with my High Sierra OS X Server's file sharing volumes. Sometimes the connection is very slow. Other times I can't connect. Then I sometimes have multiple mounted volumes of the same share, but I can't write to any of them.

I don't have any hard drives converted to APFS, so my question was, is there a way to activate AFP from Terminal?

sudo serveradmin fullstatus afp shows that there is something still there and I can start the afp demon without any error message with serveradmin start afp.

My only question is where do I configure the settings?

Thanks for any suggestions. ;-)


texts: iOS 10 photos removing individual photo from people folders

texts:
How do I remove a photo that has accidentally been put in the wrong people photo album?

I have a photo of my dad (who is now deceased) that has appeared in the album for my father-in-law (who is very much alive). I can't find a way to remove an individual photo from the new people album once it is in it. I don't want to hide the whole album of my father-in-law, just remove this one misfiled photo.


texts: Cycle through windows with keyboard in Adobe Acrobat

texts:
I use Adobe Acrobat Pro a lot, and often keep multiple documents open. Does anyone know of a way of cycling through the open windows of this application without resorting to the mouse?

(Cmd+` (backtick) does not work.)

I use OS X 10.6.4 on a 13" MacBook Pro.


texts: Sudo works for a whole day and then stops working until a reboot

texts:
I currently have admin access to a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.8.4.  I have been sudoing at the terminal for the whole day with no restart until sudo stops working.  I rebooted the operating system and it is working again.  Is there a configuration that is preventing sudo from working after certain number of hours?

My sudoers file has with username theuser:

Defaults    env_reset
Defaults    env_keep += "BLOCKSIZE"
Defaults    env_keep += "COLORFGBG COLORTERM"
Defaults    env_keep += "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"
Defaults    env_keep += "CHARSET LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE"
Defaults    env_keep += "LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME"
Defaults    env_keep += "LINES COLUMNS"
Defaults    env_keep += "LSCOLORS"
Defaults    env_keep += "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
Defaults    env_keep += "TZ"
Defaults    env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORIZATION XAUTHORITY"
Defaults    env_keep += "EDITOR VISUAL"
Defaults:theuser timestamp_timeout=30

# Runas alias specification

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
%admin  ALL=(ALL) ALL

EDIT

The issue is happening again and after tailing /var/log/system.log, I see the following message:

failed to create secure channel: STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT (0xC000018B)

Any idea what the above might mean?


texts: Is it allowed for an iOS app to run volunteer computing projects?

texts: I’m wondering if it is technically possible for an app developer to allow running BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) projects directly on iOS devices.


texts: Possible to Recover Files from Remote Volume?

texts: Is there any software that will allow you to recover files from a remote volume? I have a NAS, and one of its volumes lost all its files. I can't just plug the NAS into a computer so I need to be able to do it over the network.


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I need to print web pages from Safari to a mobile printer in the field using an iPad.  I can't seem to figure this out - any ideas, suggestions?

As I understand it, I cannot connect to a printer via bluetooth - iOS does not allow this.

I won't be in an area with WiFi - so I can't connect that way.

I have two thoughts....

Can I use the mobile hotspot on the iPad to create the WiFi network and then print to the Wifi printer using this network? Would that work?
Using the camera connection kit/USB attachment to print to a USB connected printer.  Would that work?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be so appreciated.

Thank you!


texts: How can I access my time capsule through ssh?

texts:
I am trying to reach the time capsule on a remote network. After following the advice of another question I realised the router/network doesn't support NAT-PMP/UPnP and thus I get to configure the time capsule as available through icloud, but I'm never able to reach it outside of the network.

However, I am able to ssh into an old powerpc I have port mapped on the router to a static IP. Is there any way to tunnel the time capsule backup through ssh? I've also tried sshuttle which works perfectly to forward dns/http requests. But it doesn't seem to make time capsule backups available, since the finder doesn't show any shared devices on the network.

I would gladly try a solution like FreeLan but unfortunately their support goes back to 10.7 and the old PowerPC machine inside the remote network serving as entry only has 10.5.x.


texts: What alternatives for reporting OSX Server Web Stats do the same job as AWStats?

texts:
I need a replacement tool or script to generate stats from the logfiles OSX Server generates while it runs.  I have spent way too much time on AWStats and it's had nothing but permissions issues from day 1.

Any chance anybody knows any reliable web stats packages for Mointain Lion?


texts: RStats particular key combination in Karabiner

texts:
I'd like to edit this

<!-- change left command to control, send command+space when left command is pressed twice. -->
<autogen>
  __DoublePressModifier__
  KeyCode::COMMAND_L,
  KeyCode::CONTROL_L,
  KeyCode::SPACE, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L,
</autogen>

so that I can obtain %>% when pressing BACKQUOTE twice. I cannot succeed with that key.

Ideas?

Many thank thanks in advice !!


texts: How can I find all the files on my Mac that have any named forks?

texts:
How can I, from either the command line, any of the included tools, or some third-party tool, go through all the files on my Mac and list any that use "named forks".

Such files should be very rare but I'm interested in this now-deprecated feature of the OS. Files with resource forks might still be around, but I'm interested in files that have other forks besides the main/data fork and the resource fork.


texts: How can I burn a CD from iTunes and include CD track names and cover art image

texts: I want to burn a CD from iTunes and include a picture of my own as the cover art. So then when people stick the CD into their computer, it shows a picture in iTunes in the cover art section.


texts: Recovering data from a micro SD card with missing partion after unsafe eject

texts:
I am currently stuck trying to recover data from an unsafely ejected 64GB micro SD card that was inside a smartphone.
Windows's diskpart utility would not recognize the device at all, so I am trying to recovery from my MacBook on Big Sur.
Using diskutil, I at least could find the device and at least one partition (disk4).

The diskutil command could not find the second partition where all the data should be.
Moving over to fdisk, I am able to find out that there are still some blocks.

So, my conclusion is that the MBR might be non working. So, I tried updating it using fdisk -u /dev/disk4 which will only fail with the following error

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Is someone able to support me?


texts: Input validation, expect error on null input

texts:
I expect the code to display an error and then ask the question again when the user enters no text
set tname to ""
repeat while tname is equal to ""
    set tname to text returned of (display dialog ¬
        "Hello" buttons {"next"} ¬
        default button 1 default answer "")
end repeat
if tname is equal to "" then display dialog "error"


texts:
When issuing the command pmset -g in macOS (tested on El Capitan through High Sierra) the first two lines come up about the active UPS and AC profile:

Active Profiles:
UPS Power       -1
AC Power        -1*

What does the negative one (-1) refer to and what is the asterisk (*) denoting?

The question "Default settings for pmset -g?" makes references these values, but doesn't explain what they mean.


texts: MacBook Pro 2018 Windows Boot Camp with FileVault 2 and Bitlocker without TPM

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I just got my new MacBook Pro Mid 2018, encrypted my Mac OS Mojave partition with FileVault 2, installed Boot Camp and Windows 10 Pro and wondered if it is possible to encrypt the windows partition as well.

I tried using BitLocker and was able to successfully "encrypt" the Boot Camp partition after disabling TPM in gpedit.msc. I relogged a few times, and it seemed to work. After holding option key and choosing Windows in the Boot Screen, the typical BitLocker Bootloader appeared. On the other hand selecting Macintosh HD lead to the FileVault 2 Bootloader appearing.

However, I coincidently figured out how to skip the BitLocker bootloader.

At Mac OS Logon Screen I chose Guest user. It did the obligatory reboot and I was in the Guest OS. After rebooting again it wasn't possible anymore to enter the boot option menu by holding option key on startup. Booting lead me straight to the Guest OS every time. I couldn't even set another startup volume, because apparently there was no. At first glance I was shocked and I thought I had destroyed my bootloader completely.

So after resetting my NVRAM/PRAM by holding option+cmd+p+r on startup something very unexpected happened. The standard boot option menu was back, but when I chose Windows, the BitLocker bootloader was gone. I was able to start Windows and get into the OS and filesystem without entering my BitLocker password. In Windows settings BitLocker was deactivated and I was also able to see the full contents of Boot Camp drive from Mac OS, which of course wasn't possible before. It looks like BitLocker hasn't encrypted my drive ever, although it said it successfully did and showed me the bootloader with the password prompt before when I tried to boot from Windows.

The questions I have now are basically:

Is this a bug or is it logical somehow because of Apples new T2 architecture? Which leads me to the next question:
With that new T2 architecture, isn't it impossible to encrypt the whole system partition because resetting will reset the bootloader and boot menu every time?
How can I encrypt my Boot Camp partition completely?

TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt doesn't work as well. Obviously.

And yes, I thought about using FileVault 2 alongside with a firmware password and Windows Boot Camp without encryption. But I think this is rather not an option or safe because Apple, or more importantly the staff in their stores, are able to reset the firmware password which is kind of a big deal in my opinion. And also as far as I know, soldering out the RAM and doing other sneaky stuff still works to bypass the firmware password.

So what can I do? I do not want to use encrypted containers within the file system. I just want my Mac and my Windows Boot Camp partition encrypted, both standalone and completely. In the perfect case I could even use VeraCrypt for Mac OS instead of FileVault 2.

Tell me what you guys think :) But please no virtualization suggestions.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
I have Fedora 17 installed on VMWare Fusion 3 on my Macbook Pro 2009. I run Fedora 17 in CLI mode and find I cannot enlarge the window size. The small terminal window size causes text to wrap and hard to read.  But when I try to size the window it doesn't let me.

How to resize host windows in VMWare fusion?


texts: Why system takes up so much space on Mac?

texts:
How can I reduce system space? I removed from trash everything, what else I can do?

Reinstall again computer?


texts: How to know app(from AppStore) is still installing and didn't just hang?

texts: I am trying to download Xcode and it says "installing" but has not done anything different for an hour(just sitting there).  How do I know it is still installing?


texts: Alternative to F3 for moving a window to a different workspace

texts:
Instead of pressing F3 and then dragging a window to a different workspace,
how else can I move a window to diffeerent workspace?


texts: Using AppleScript to Send Email from Mail.app to Multiple Addresses

texts:
I am able to successfully send out an email with an attachment to a single email address using the code below:

on run argv
    set theSubject to (item 1 of argv)
    set theAttachmentFile to (item 2 of argv)

    tell application "Mail"

        set theAddress to "recipient1@domain.com" -- the receiver
        set theSignatureName to "Sig" -- the signature name

        set msg to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, visible:true}

        tell msg to make new to recipient at end of every to recipient with properties {address:theAddress}
        tell msg to make new attachment with properties {file name:theAttachmentFile as alias}

        set message signature of msg to signature theSignatureName

        send msg
    end tell
end run

However, I can't figure out how to change this code to send the email to both recipient1@domain.com and recipient2@domain.com. Does anyone know how I would go about doing so? I'm very new to AppleScript, so I'd greatly appreciate the help!


texts:
I have got an iMac (EMC 2638) here, with 1TB hard drive. I have read that there is a PCIe SSD slot on those iMacs as well, originally for the fusion drive. Is it possible to upgrade my iMac with such a SSD module? I don't care if it would work as a fusion drive, or simply have it as the main drive for OS and programs.

If this is possible, where can I buy such a SSD module? iFixit has repair instructions, but maybe I can let this be done by my local Mac shop.


texts: AppleScript and Finder - How to detect an "empty" selection when copying paths to the clipboard (Expanded Question)

texts:
I'm trying to build a Service that does the following:

If some folder/files are selected in Finder, copy (all) the paths to the clipboard
If nothing is selected, copy the "Path" of the window.

Digging around and getting inspiration from posts such as Copying the current directory's path to the clipboard and MacYourself's Copy file or folder path to the clipboard in Mac OS X Lion I've got to the point where I can get the paths of the selection, but I seem to be stuck when trying to get the path of the current window if selection empty.

UPDATE 13-Dec-2013. I've got some useful feedback (see https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/113612/7488; thanks @Flavin) so I have updated the code to the one below:

    on run {input, parameters}

        set l to {}
        tell application "Finder"
            set sel to (get selection)
            if not sel = {} then -- there are some file/folders selected

                repeat with f in (get selection)
                    set end of l to POSIX path of (f as alias)
                end repeat

            else --no stuff is selected, get the current location path

                set end of l to POSIX path of (insertion location as alias)

            end if
        end tell
        set text item delimiters to linefeed
        set the clipboard to (l as text)

    end run

The logic seems solid, and it works as long as I have "something" selected in Finder.

I suspect that the Service might not be "Active" when there is nothing selected, (that is, when the desired result would be to copy the current path to the clipboard).

In this situation, the Finder window appears thusly:

But trying to active the Service shows an "empty" service list:

When I have something selected, the Services list is populated:

The "Copy File Path" that I've defined is associated with "Files and Folders" in the Services Preferences -- what might be the issue?


texts: Low brightness setting doesn't "stick" in iBooks

texts: I like to read in iBooks with the brightness turned down, but I have to re-adjust this every time I open the app.  Is there a way to make my brightness setting "stick"?


texts: How can I print this PDF and fill an A4 page?

texts:
I have this PDF. It's a simple grid created in Pixelmator with lines every 500 pixels. I want to use it as a template for drawing over a Wacom tablet.

For some reason, no matter what I do, print preview won't display the full grid. I've tried changing scaling, etc to no avail.

The image is 2880 x 1800 (the resolution of my MacBook Pro Retina 15").

This seems like a really simple thing to do...


texts: Bash script to run command with prompt for input

texts:
How can I create a script using the following command?

mmap -sn -n x.x.x.x/8, /16, /24 and so on. I would like the script to run the command when I type in "sweep" and then prompt me for the subnet that I would like it to look on.


texts: Two way sync a single folder between two Macs via local network

texts:
I've got two Macbooks and would like to two-way sync the ~/Music folder (200 GB).

Is there reliable GUI tool that can do that automatically in the background when both computers are connected to the same network?

Why I need to do this:

It contains my iTunes collection. On my "daily" Macbook I manage the files and sort the library. The "old" Macbook is my DJ notebook where I use the exact same collection. Sometimes I may change the tags so I need two-way sync.


texts: Deleting iTunes folder after Catalina update

texts: Is it okay to delete the iTunes folder (~/Music/iTunes/) after updating to macOS Catalina? There is also a Music folder inside the Music folder which has the 'Music Library' file in it. I am assuming this corresponds to the new Apple Music app. The iTunes Media folder also has a "Apple Music" folder inside it. Thus, I am totally confused if the files are required or not for the proper functioning of the new Apple Music app. Can anyone tell if it is safe to delete this iTunes folder such that the new Apple Music and Apple TV apps remain unaffected?


texts: How do I get rEFInd working with OS X 10.11 El Capitan?

texts:
I noticed that I could not install and use rEFInd after upgrading to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. This restricts me to OS X so I cannot boot my Linux partition.

I get the following error: error "Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc"


texts: Cannot print anymore since upgrade to Macos 10.13.6

texts:
I was using Macos 10.13.4.

When I upgraded to Macos 10.13.6, I noticed my print jobs got stuck in the print queue so I deleted those print jobs and then I installed a newer version of the printer driver from Ricoh: http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc3/model/mpc3004ex/mpc3004ex.htm

and I recreated a new printer called Test1.

Now, I can print some small pdf files but I cannot print this 45 page pdf file: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/053.pdf because the print job is stuck from half an hour :

Cups says this on http://localhost:631/printers/Test1 :

Test1-536   Unknown     Withheld    3550k   Unknown     processing since
Fri Jul 27 13:17:17 2018
"Copying print data."

$ lpr -P Test1 053.pdf
$ lpq -P Test1 +2
Test1 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  mansfel 536     053.pdf                         3635200 bytes
Test1 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  mansfel 536     053.pdf                         3635200 bytes
Test1 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  mansfel 536     053.pdf                         3635200 bytes
....

Can you help me ?

EDIT1 : Cups WebInterface is enabled

EDIT2 : The job is stuck for half an hour :

$ time lpq -P Test1 +2
Test1 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  mansfel 536     053.pdf                         3635200 bytes
Test1 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  mansfel 536     053.pdf                         3635200 bytes
Test1 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  mansfel 536     053.pdf                         3635200 bytes
....
Test1 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  mansfel 538     053.pdf                         3635200 bytes
Test1 is ready and printing
lpq: Undefined error: 0

real    29m4.571s
user    0m4.278s
sys     0m4.707s

EDIT3 : Test1 is connected to a Ricoh MP C3004ex printer via the lpd protocol.

EDIT4 : Cups GUI (http://localhost:631/) listens to the ipp port but not the printer server (x.y.z.t) :

$ netcat -v -z -w 5 x.y.z.t 631
islande [x.y.z.t] 631 (ipp): Operation timed out

The printer server (x.y.z.t) listens on the LPD port :

$ netcat -v -z -w 5 x.y.z.t 515
islande [x.y.z.t] 515 (printer) open

EDIT5: I need to check my loptions, but I cannot do this because I don't have the MacBook anymore as my internship is finished.


texts: Reassign CTL + Backspace on External Keyboard?

texts:
I have an external Apple Keyboard. I am used to using FN + DELETE to invoke Backspace on my laptop, but this keyboard does not have the Function Key in the same location.

There in an actual Backspace button on this keyboard, but my instinct now is to hit FN + Delete.

I've been looking at the Keyboard Shortcuts in the Settings Application, but it is not letting me set a Backspace combo, and/or it is not letting me set a CTRL + DELETE combo.

I have also looked at "Modifier Keys" in Keyboard Settings, but that does not provide access to the Function key.

Any ideas how I can set this up?

Running El Capitan.


texts:
I have a bunch of iphone apps inside Itunes, one of them automatically tries to install itself whenever I remove it from the phone. (Its button in the App itunes list shows "Installing")
If try to delete it from itunes using this method, the delete button just doesn't do anything. How to remove an app from Itunes 12.2.x ?


texts: Where to force Catalina upgrade and not Big sur upgrade from Mojave?

texts:
The current link from Apple Support article is not working.
Apple try to force us to upgrade to Big Sur everywhere.
Where do we find the Catalina upgrade link ?

Thanks


texts: Having this weird issue where it's like my APFS container that I'm booted into is not mounted? (hackintosh)

texts:
I had this partition setup (I only have one SSD) that was something like this. This is not a direct copy of what it looked like, I am doing it from memory:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   0:    GUID_partition_scheme
   1:         Windows Recovery
   2:                      EFI
   3:     Microsoft Basic Data
   4:               Apple_APFS Container 1

Basically I ended up creating free space between 3 and 4 here, but I couldnt find a way to expand my APFS Container because Disk Utility could not detect the free space at all. If I remember correctly it was about 275GB of free space. I basically created an unformatted partition in the free space (using GParted) and then it appeared in Disk Utility next time I booted.

I started messing around with different strategies, trying to turn it back into free space so I could expand my APFS, but nothing was working. I ended up in this state:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   0:    GUID_partition_scheme
   1:         Windows Recovery
   2:                      EFI
   3:     Microsoft Basic Data
   4:                Apple_HFS

with the typical /dev/disk1 (synthesized): block below, outlining the APFS container that I am booted into.

I am almost 100% certain that this Apple_HFS partition is empty, but I am confused because I am also pretty sure it is the exact same disk label as my APFS container (disk0s4). So much so, that when I use iBoysoft Data Recovery, it gives me the option to recover TWO separate disks after selecting the disk0s4 partition.

I guess I am mainly curious

Is it possible for there to be two partitions with the same diskXsY type of identifier? Or does anyone know how to resolve my issue?

I think my computer should still boot, but I am sort of afraid to shut down just in case I can't. There is no way I could have accidentally deleted my main partition, right? Since I am actively using it right now?

EDIT: If I run first aid on the container it even refers to itself as disk0s4. Could the HFS thing literally BE my Container but it is mislabeled?? It is approximately the same size as well. The only weird thing is my disk is missing like 275GB of space if you run diskutil list


texts: Retina MacBook Air: External Monitor lag issue

texts:
I have a new 2018 Retina MacBook Air, 1.6Ghz i5, 16GB memory, Intel UHD Graphics 617 1536 MB. I am connecting this to an external monitor, a Dell P2415Q, using an HDMI cable and a Targus DOCK412USZ

My issue is that the output on the external display is very laggy and noticeably slower. The screen also flickers occasionally.

I have tried using a different resolution on the external monitor, which did not solve my problems. I've also tried using a DisplayPort to Thunderbolt cable, which also did not solve my problem.

What can be done to resolve the lag issue?


texts: Why is Adobe Acrobat using only one core for a heavy task, and how can I make it perform faster?

texts:
Adobe Acrobat is performing Optical Character Recognition on a document with thousands of pages. This is a heavy task which will take hours.

Activity Monitor tells me that Acrobat is only using one core. Could it not speed up its performance by using two or three cores? My CPU has four cores.

Does it simply want to save some resources for other processes? What is the logic behind this limitation?

Also, is there any way I could ask Acrobat to use more cores of the CPU, in order to decrease the time taken for this task?


texts: Renamed external drive still appearing in terminal with both old and new names

texts:
I have an external drive connected to my MacBook Air via USB 3.1 Gen 2 through a TB3 hub.
A few weeks ago I changed name of the drive from Mercury 1TB to just Mercury.  This was done in the Finder.
I find that when I in Terminal ls /Volumes I unexpectedly see both the the old name and the new name listed.
I can cd into the old volume but when I try to ls I get Permission denied.
In Disk Utility I can only see the new volume (Mercury).  First Aid function finds no problems to repair.
I have restarted many times but have not taken any other troubleshooting actions.
I also occasionally have KPs when the machine is idle, but this is likely unrelated as they started before the renaming.
Why is this old name still appearing and what can be done about it?
See screenshot from terminal:

Update to add:
The mystery volume does not appear on the desktop.  It appears in the /Volumes directory even when the external drive is powered off.
When I sudo ls -al the only file that is present is .Spotlight-V100.
Here's there result of diskutil list as requested in comments:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.3 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     167.3 GB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 82.0 MB    disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.9 MB   disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume VM                      5.4 GB     disk1s5

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         1000.0 GB  disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1000.0 GB  disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s2
   1:                APFS Volume Mercury                 11.0 GB    disk3s1


texts:
How to make fullscreen app's space appear next to the current space?

Normally it goes to the end of the list of spaces.


texts: Prevent page reload in safari due to excessive power usage

texts:
How can I prevent Safari from refreshing the page showing the message "This web page has been reloaded because it was using significant energy"?

I would like to leave the coinhive miner running when my machine is idle but it always gets stopped by the Safari refreshes.

Thanks


texts:
A coworker just asked me if I could help him script iPhoto, but I'm totally inexperienced with iPhoto and with scripting apps. He has thousands of photos and he needs to filter out those that do not have faces, and for the remaining photos he has some sort of template that centers the faces in a nice frame. He then saves the results to disk then repeats. It is painful to watch it do it by hand and I really want to help him out as it seems like something that could be automated, however, I have no idea where to start.

Does anyone have any ideas on a good way to go about this? I searched here but didn't find anything that helped. A high level overview would be great, but I wouldn't overlook anything with specific details! Thanks!

UPDATE:

Maybe a better question is: Does anyone know of an easy OSX solution for finding all photos in a collection that have faces and then to crop them around the face and save out a new image for each face?


texts: Preventing Safari background tabs disconnecting from server

texts:
Safari puts background (i.e., currently not selected) tabs to sleep.  If that tab is on a website that requires an active connection to its server, such as chat apps (Slack, Google Talk, etc.), then that app will disconnect from the server.  Most of them will show you a brief "reconnecting" or "retrying" message when you select that tab again.

Not only this is annoying but it also causes that tab to not update or refresh constantly so I would miss a notification, if there is one, or even lose the session from the server requiring me to type my user credentials again. That happens very often with my company's e-mail web app.

This is not what the App Nap technology does.  I've already tried disabling that with

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES

to no avail.

It isn't the "Stop plug-ins to save power" preference either, as that is disabled and those websites don't use plug-ins.

Does anyone have any tips?

Safari 10.1
macOS Sierra 10.12.4


texts: Erase iOS device with recovery mode without updating to latest iOS version?

texts:
I have an iPad 3 (A1430, on iOS 9.0.2) that I lost the passcode for. I know the iCloud/Apple ID account that iPad has and I can see an iCloud backup of it online (on the iCloud website). I tried following the recommended recovery options for a lost passcode but it seems my computer was never used to backup this iPad. Find My iPhone also doesn't work because the iPad doesn't seem to be connected to the WiFi network.

From instructions, my option is to use Recovery Mode to reset everything.

My problem is that it seems it will also update to the latest iOS version which I don't want do to.

Is there any way to unlock this device or do the recovery mode reset without updating the iOS version?


texts: Running 32 bit apps in Catalina using Mojave libs and frameworks

texts:
I recently read this post on netkas.org about running 32 bit command line apps on Catalina using Mojave 32+64bit libraries and frameworks, adding to the nvram boot-args the option no32exec=0.

I extracted with Pacifist the /usr/lib, /System/Library/Frameworks and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks folders from the Mojave installation app to ~/.mojave and then tried to run this 32 bit macOS app with the following terminal command:

$ DYLD_ROOT_PATH=~/.mojave /Volumes/Lazesoft\ Mac\ Data\ Recovery/Lazesoft\ Mac\ Data\ Recovery.app/Contents/MacOS/Lazesoft\ Mac\ Data\ Recovery

Here is what I get running it:

2020-06-08 17:26:18.630 Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery[1881:56237] /Volumes/Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery/Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery.app
2020-06-08 17:26:18.630 Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery[1881:56237] /Volumes/Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery/Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery.app/Contents/MacOS/ifsui
2020-06-08 17:26:18.632 Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery[1881:56237] Error Creating Initial Authorization: -60008
2020-06-08 17:26:18.632 Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery[1881:56237] AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges failed!

Trying to run ifsui from the same app bundle I get the app to open in the dock but nothing appears on screen and this is what I get on the terminal:

_RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO REGISTER PROCESS WITH CPS/CoreGraphics in WindowServer, err=-304
2020-06-08 17:21:38.555 ifsui[1836:52747] *** WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSView is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.

I know I'm probably asking something that cannot really be done, but is there any way to make this workaround work with more than command-line programs?


texts: Updating the Wi-Fi/Ethernet toggle script for Mavericks & new MBP

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So I used to use this script from MacOSXHints to automatically toggle my Wi-Fi whenever I connected my OS X 10.6 and 10.8 MBPs into Ethernet or my 27" TB Display:

Ever been annoyed to be on both wireless AND wired network at the same time, without the opportunity to automatically disable AirPort when plugging in a cable?
Well this little script and launchd agent will auto-disable AirPort on active ethernet.

Since installing Mavericks on my new Late 2013 retina MBP 15, even after editing the interface names to the new system's (en5, for example) the script no longer works; I think that the old /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration folder is no longer used or working the same in Mavs as in previous releases..


texts: Apple Thunderbolt display not turning on when connected to ASUS Z87 motherboard

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I recently purchased custom build PC with Asus Z87 Expert Thunderbolt motherboard, Intel i7-4790K processor, Sapphire R9 270X 2 GB graphics card, etc.

It's not working with my Apple Thunderbolt display 27″. I have installed Intel Thunderbolt driver as well.

When I connect this PC to the Apple Thunderbolt display, the display won't turn on. I am very disappointed now. Does anybody know how to make it work?


texts: Water spilled into the keyboard of my Macbook - would this affect the quality of the files saved on it?

texts: Water spilled into the keyboard of my MacBook Pro. It still works the way it used to, but the pictures saved on the computer seem to have gotten pixelated. How could I recover the original quality of those photos?


texts: In Terminal, how can you determine which shell is actually running?

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Using Terminal on OS X 10.11.4, initializing Terminal opens a new window running bash (by default). As I understand it, inputting echo $SHELL should output the shell that said command is submitted to. So, why do I get this output after switching from bash to tcsh?

[<dir>] <username>$ tsch
[<dir>] <username>% echo $SHELL
/bin/bash


texts: MacBook Pro experiencing random restarts and buggy behavior while running programs

texts: My MacBook Pro (15inch Mid 2014) has been displaying odd behavior (slowdowns, problems running certain software packages including jGRASP, beach balls, delays in expected restarts, as well as unexpected restarts) for the last few weeks. The only thing that I can think of is I updated it to Big Sur. However, my issues started several days before I updated it. I reset the PRAM, SMC and ran Malwarebytes but the issues persist. Could someone please advise me on additional steps to take?


texts: Best choice for Microsoft Paint for Mac?

texts: Are there any Mac apps that are very similar to Microsoft Paint besides Paintbrush and Paint.net? I've tried those apps but found a lot of quirkiness and am looking for something more polished and user friendly.


texts: Finder sidebar flashing text and high CPU load since El Capitan

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After update to OS X 10.11 I started having these bugs:

Finder sidebar text flashing
Video
Very high CPU load:

I have Macbook Pro Retina 13" Mid 2014

I reset NVRAM.

I deleted com.apple.finder.plist, it didn't help.

Also I did this: link, no longer flashes.


texts: Cloning a directory in terminal, using ZSH

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I'm trying to clone a directory which holds a git repo.
i.e., I have /Users/me/someFolder - someFolder has ALOT of files, like over 250k.
It's also a git repo, with a .git directory, and many other hidden files.
Additionally it contains a number of other sub-directories (folders).
So, to clone this, preserving all permissions, copying recursively, and including ALL files/directories in ZSH on Big Sur, do I simply do:
cp -a /Users/me/someFolder /Users/me/otherFolder?
I ask as I've seen other syntax such as:
cp -a /Users/me/someFolder/. /Users/me/otherFolder? (note the .).
Thanks,


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I have noticed a pill shaped object in my dock. When moving the doc it stays in the same place.

Restarting didn't resolve the issue.

Does anyone have an idea what this object might be and how I can get rid of it?


texts: What is the difference between formatting a volume partition and a disk of which the volume partition is a part of?

texts: Ok suppose I am reinstalling macOS in recovery mode using a bootable usb stick so in recovery mode when I format macintoshHD should I format the volume partition I mean when you click on the downward arrow beside macintoshHD(The Disk) a second disk/volume partition appears below the name, should I erase that one or the disk itself what is the difference?


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I am currently using Twitter.

I would like to receive growl notifications for a particular twitter list. However it seems like the current preferences allow notification on a all/none basis.

Do we have an alternative app that offers such an option?

Otherwise I will just create another twitter account and use that for growl.


texts: Where can I get formail for OS X El Capitan (10.11)?

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I was using formail in a utility script, but it disappeared when I upgraded to OS X El Capitan (10.11)? Apparently, it and procmail are gone.

What's a good way to get formail? Build it from source? It's not in homebrew (yet).