texts: I just ran Etrecheck on my iMac. I got a status report on my internal 250 GB solid state drive. The report stated the drive has SMART capability but that it was disabled.  Is this an issue I should be concerned with?  Does it affect the speed or other functionality of this drive. Most of my software is located on this drive.


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I would like to use a track pad on a Windows machine.

The catch is : I would like to use it through a KVM switch. Thus I cannot pair it with Bluetooth.

I am looking for a USB track pad that I could plug on the switch, but couldn't find one.

Does it exist?

I would prefer an original Apple one, but if it doesn't exist, and the alternatives are good enough, that could do as well.


texts: Port Forwarding From a Shared Connection

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Say I have a local network on which my computer's IP address is 192.168.0.2, and I've setup my router to forward port 80 to that IP.

I also have another device connected through my computer via internet sharing, and it has an IP of 192.168.1.2. Is it possible to forward port 80 from my computer to this other device, if so, how?

I should mention that my router isn't capable of port forwarding to 192.168.1.X, even though it otherwise happily routes the traffic from devices on that network.


texts: My wireless has been set to “inactive”, how do I reactivate it?

texts: I seem to have inadvertently deactivated my wireless in the "Network" section of System Preferences. When I go to the Airport icon in the menu bar it looks like a semicircle that, when clicked on, says "Airport: Not Configured". When I go to configure it, the status is shown as "Inactive", with no "Activate" button in sight. How can I get my wireless working again?


texts: Can I adjust the sensitivity of 3D Touch?

texts: I find that I have to touch more firmly than I would like to activate 3D Touch. Is there a way to make 3D Touch react to a firmer or softer touch?


texts: How do I capture a screenshot of an iPad app that has a lot of HORIZONTAL scroll?

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I have an app that has a lot of product information that scrolls horizontally.

Note: I tried an app called Web Capture but it requires a URL and only scrolls vertically.


texts: Macbook Pro oddly unresponsive to trackpad clicks and keyboard, probably caused by zoom

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I expect I'll have to power-cycle the machine, but asking if anybody has any suggestions for the next time this happens.

Symptoms are:

I can move the mouse around on the screen, but I can't click on anything.
Nothing responds to the keyboard.
I can close the lid, let it sleep over night, open the lid, and unlock it with my fingerprint.
cmd-alt-escape opened the force quit dialog. I can't interact with it or dismiss it now.
The control-scroll gesture works just fine. I'm pretty sure the system locked up while zooming in the first place.
No other trackpad gestures work.

Clearly what happened was that the zoom feature grabbed the keyboard and mouse while I was zooming and didn't let go.

I've seen symptoms like this before, and usually had to power-cycle the machine.

I guess my question is: is there a way to force whatever app has grabbed the keyboard and mouse to relinquish it?

Edit: problem went away while I was fiddling with the zoom feature. Clearly the zoom feature is where the problem was.


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I'm attempting to write my first LaunchDaemon: I think it's pretty simple and meets all the requirements, but it won't run.

The file is at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.noah.supertest.plist

Ideally, it should be running ls and writing the output to ~/test.txt. But nothing is ever written to the file.

I restarted the machine thinking that might do it, but nothing.

<?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.noah.supertest</string>

  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>ls</string>
    <string>></string>
    <string>~/test.txt</string>
  </array>

  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <true/>

  <key>StartInterval</key>
  <integer>10</integer>

  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>

</dict>
</plist>

Permissions are set as root:wheel


texts: Can I sync itunes between my two mac laptops?

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I want to download a music CD into itunes.  My new Mac doesn't have a disk drive, whereas my old one does.  Can I sync my laptops together so that I can get the music from the CD onto the new Mac laptop?

Or... is there another way I can move the files successfully into the itunes on my new Mac?


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I have started to get text messages from bit.ly on my iPhone 6. It doesn't have a number—it just says "bit.ly".

I am confused that how can something which has no number is sending me text messages. I want to block it completely and totally. No one from bit.ly should ever be able to send me a text message.

How can it be blocked?

When I open the text message and click on bit.ly, I see the following options

send my current location
share my location
do not disturb

How to block bit.ly from sending me text messages?


texts: Streaming vs. downloading podcasts on iPhone

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I know that on the iPhone, there's a 20 MB limit when downloading podcast episodes over 3G (if you try to download anything larger, it tells you to connect to a wifi network). However, when this happens, I noticed that it still permits you to stream the episode.

So is there a difference with streaming vs. downloading in terms of how much bandwidth is used? If not, why is streaming permitted when downloading isn't?


texts: Prevent Mac WIFI from being deleted when I delete from iPhone

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When I add a WIFI network to my MacBook Pro, it is automatically synced with my iPhone. This is OK on some networks, but if I am using my laptop at a company that blocks certain ports, such as those for external email (e.g. Gmail), I don't want this to be blocked on my phone too.

So, I removed the WIFI network from my iPhone so I can get my email, but now my MacBook has also removed the network, which I need to do my job.

Is there a way to prevent this from occurring? That is, can I have a WIFI network on my MacBook Pro and not have it on my iPhone?


texts: Transfer downloaded iOS7 installer to home computer

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I am downloading the iOS7 update image for my iPhone over a high-speed connection. I want to update my wife's phone too, which is synched to her computer at home (where we have sloooow internet).

Is there a relatively painless way to transfer the installer to her computer at home on a usb drive, so we can update her phone as well?

Edit: mac on both ends and same model of iPhone.

I found the ipsw on my computer here:

~/Library/iTunes/iPhone\ Software\ Updates/iPhone5\,1_7.0_11A465_Restore.ipsw

I will try placing this in the same location on her computer and see if iTunes will recognize it.


texts: How do I search for a mouse that uses Mac's built-in bluetooth?

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There are lots of wireless mice out there that work with Macs, but most require an extra USB thingy that takes up a USB port on my Macbook (and most Macbooks have few USB ports). What search terms should I use to look for a wireless mouse that uses Mac's built-in bluetooth?

P.S. I am looking for alternatives to Apple's Magic Mouse.


texts: MBP frequent crashes from kernel panic caused by memory faults?

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There are 4 very similar crash reports listed here: http://pastebin.com/y7NUNJt6
The starting lines suggest to me it might be a CRC check failure but what do I know ;-)
This tends to happen with the lid closed and the machine not yet in sleep. Do I have bad/overheating memory? A similar report here was not solved.

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801f209f4a): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7fa0dee3d2, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000008, CR3: 0x0000000022e0b000, CR4: 0x00000000000226e0
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000008, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x0, PL: 1


texts:
What is a good http benchmark program for Mac OS X?

I have Apache's 'ab' installed, but it's buggy and there doesn't seem to be a Mac OS X package for Apache as an upgrade. I don't like compiling and installing from source because it's unmanaged. I use Homebrew as well.


texts: Out of disk space when restoring iPhone backup from iTunes

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Trying to restore an iPhone backup I took tonight, but can't because when it tries, the startup disk runs out of space. I have other drives, but I can't remove anything else off of the startup disk.

What can I do to restore this backup?


texts:
Recently decided to replace my nearly full 500GB HDD with a 1TB SSD to breathe some new life into my mid-2010 Macbook Pro. I used a toaster-style drive cloner (Dyconn Dubbler) to do a sector by sector duplication of the drive. Everything went smoothly but when I booted up from the new drive, I seem to only have around 500 GB of total space, almost all of it full. I fooled around with the partitions a little in disk utility, hoping I could maybe create and delete one, but haven't had any luck. Thought I would be able to drag the partition size but that doesn't seem to be an option. Here is what I see in disk utility with the drive attached/mounted from my other machine:

Feel like I am missing something obvious here, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: forgot to mention, running most recent version of Yosemite


texts: Replace existing duplicate files on APFS with clones

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Is there a way to use the copy-on-write cloning feature of APFS to reclaim space from existing duplicate files?

When you copy a file on APFS, it doesn't actual duplicate the file blocks, instead it just clones the metadata. That prevents it from using any more space until you actually make an edit to the duplicate file. It seems like there should be some tool to find existing duplicates and replace them with clones, reclaiming the space used to store the duplicate.

Related questions on Apple Communities and the MacRumors Forums don't have anything.


texts: How can developers properly fix "App is damaged and can't be opened" errors?

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There are already several questions here on this site dealing with the error message "$App is damaged and can't be opened". The workaround given (which has worked for me) is to use xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine on the affected app package.
The developers of LaTeXDraw, a small open source tool, state that hints about solving this would be welcome. LaTeXDraw shows the problem when installed through their DMG image, as well as through Homebrew. It seems this is a rather old piece of academic software primarily used and developed on Linux, which they just build along for macOS as well, so I would like to help them out.
I thought the "proper" solution to this is just to become a registered developer -- is that correct and sufficient? What is the technical cause of this (very confusingly worded) message, i.e. what would need to be changed in the app package?


texts: The year 2018 disappeared from the Photos application on a Macbook Air

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For some unknown reason, the rather important year of 2018 disappeared from the Photos application on an Macbook Air with the latest macOS.

The owner insists that nothing was deleted as far as they know, just a gaping hole in the years.

iCloud Photos is not being used.

Where can I look for solutions? Is there a remote possibility to recover the photos using some kind of tool?

If I look in the Photo Library in Finder (Right-click -> Package Contents) I have all folders except 2018.

I am considering a file repair service but wanted to ask if there were other ways before paying for a scan


texts:
What font is used in the macOS Mojave GUI? I am specifically looking for the font on the Menu bar.

I did find another post here, but it only showed the fonts for the old MacOS versions.
What's the font in Mac OS X's GUI?

The reason I am posting this question is because I am not sure if the font has changed after Mac OS El Capitan.


texts: Dual boot macOS Catalina 10.15 beta and macOS Mojave 10.14

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I wish to keep my fully working MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14, but I also want to install macOS Catalina 10.15 beta on another drive, so I can choose which OS to use when booting.

I've installed the macOS Catalina beta profile from [Apple Developer Downloads].

Now the Software Update section of System Preferences lets me update to macOS Catalina 10.15. But before completing a 6 GB download, is this going to give me the option to install 10.15 beta on a separate partition or is this going to blindly update my existing 10.14 installation?


texts: Why my Mac book pro shows status 'Battery is not Charging'?

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I have a MacBook Pro early 2015.Recently I am facing an issue with the battery.
It's not charging.
The MacBook works fine when connected to charger, but it turns off when the charger is removed.
I did a SMC reset, tried another charger too no results. I also tested my charger on another Mac which works just fine.
I took it to the Apple service centre and they said I need to replace the logic board which costs tons of money.
I am confused, do I really need to spend this much money if my laptop just works fine with charger plugged in?
Here is my battery status

Also status indicator

Please  suggest me what could be the best solution. Thanks in advance.


texts: How does iPhone manage duplicate photos?

texts:
I end up with quite a number of duplicate pictures on my iPhone because of Photostream. For example, I take a picture which is saved in the Camera Roll. It is then automatically uploaded to my Photostream. Then, I share the photo to three different Photostreams. As a result I can see the same picture in 5 different places. I'm really tight on space on my device and wondering if this would make it more pronounced?

Is iPhone smart enough to manage duplicates? If not, is there an alternate way to manage duplicate photos at least somewhat?


texts: MacBook Pro Screen Flickering when using HDMI to VGA adapter to connect to external monitor

texts: My MacBook Pro 2014 keeps flickering when I plug in a HDMI to VGA converter to it. I am using HDMI to plug in the HDMI to VGA converter (which is plugged in to my monitor). The screen is just black and then the Mac starts flashing. The external monitor does not have any effect. I tried out the wiring and monitor on another windows computer and it worked smoothly.


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Is there a method for associating file types with applications via terminal? I thought ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist might do it, and I also have seen: Why is a command line change to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist not effective immediately? but I can't seem to get it working.

I guess I'm looking for a way to imitate what the GUI does when someone uses it to change association types, it seems to work instantly there...


texts: I forgot my local backup password to unlock the iPhone backup file

texts:
I just received my new iPhone from Apple after I had my old one changed due to it being a rather bad specimen. Now I'm occurring a rather irritating problem, as I connected my iPhone with my iTunes to back up my last iPhone settings etc. it asks me to enter a password I never remember entering myself.

All my important contacts, notes etc. are on my last backup and I am not happy just starting "from the start". So I badly need to enter the password to do the backup.

I have already searched for some knowledge, but it's useless due to the fact, I have a PC. I know there are ways to see the password with a Mac, but have not yet a solution to figure out the password with a PC. I have tried randomly some numbers, my previous passcode, my password for the SIM-card, nothing. As I also understood, the password has to be a number code from 0000 or 1111 to 9999.
I would be really glad if someone figured this out and let us know, who are occurring this same, rather an irritating problem.


texts: How do I delete events in my iPhone calendar posted by Apple

texts: Apple puts events in my Calendar like "Flag Day"  Is there a way to delete such events?  When I see a "dot" on a date, and go check what it is, it's a waste of my time if it isn't an event that I've posted. Really annoying.


texts: Mac HDD very slow running xcode and iOS Simulator

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We have a 500GB HDD on a iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014):

1.4 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB
224GB / 498GB available

We have spoken to Apple who said we cannot upgrade it to an SSD Drive, because it could break the motherboard.

We cannot afford a new Mac at the moment so I am looking for a solution to make these programs run faster.

Anyone have an tips/tricks to make it run faster?
Possibly install them all on an external Thunderbolt drive?


texts: Mac wakes up after a few seconds: System Wake Reason not found

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For the last few weeks I've run into issues with my 2017 MacBook Air on macOS Catalina 10.15.1. (Edit: it also happens on 10.15.2 and 10.15.3.)

Whenever I go tell it to sleep (either through closing the lid or the context menu or CMD + Shift + Q) it wakes up after about 2 seconds.

I've already tried the following things with no avail:

Reset SMC
Reset NVRAM
Boot into safe mode
Disconnect any devices
Log into another user
Disable wifi
Disable waking up the mac from lid opening
Disable hibernation
Disable boot on lan

I've got the following log outputs

pmset -g assertions:

2020-01-19 23:19:43 +0100
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
pid 133(powerd): [0x000009910009a039] 00:00:01 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.powermanagement.wakeschedule"
    Timeout will fire in 0 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease

# This line is repeated with incrementing hex numbers within the
# brackets literally thousands of times

Timeout will fire in 2 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
   pid 176(hidd): [0x0000002600098dfc] 00:00:00 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle serviceID:100000337 name:AppleHIDKeyboardEve product:Apple Internal Keyb eventType:3"
    Timeout will fire in 120 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
No kernel assertions.
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

And log show | grep -i "Wake reason" (shortened):

2020-01-19 23:12:44.154039+0100 0x3a0      Default     0x0                  204    0    airportd: systemWokenByWiFi: System Wake Reason not found
2020-01-19 23:12:44.154170+0100 0x3a0      Default     0x0                  204    0    airportd: systemWokenByWiFi: System Wake Reason not found
2020-01-19 23:12:44.154277+0100 0x3a0      Default     0x0                  204    0    airportd: systemWokenByWiFi: System Wake Reason not found
2020-01-19 23:12:44.240592+0100 0x5dbc     Default     0x0                  204    0    airportd: systemWokenByWiFi: System Wake Reason not found

Activity monitor shows kernel_task with by far the most idle wakeups but that bit of information seems somewhat useless


texts: Is there a way for Snow Leopard to remember previously unidentified USB keyboards?

texts:
I have an arbitrary Dell USB keyboard that I use with my MBP running Snow Leopard.  Everytime I plug the keyboard in, or reboot my computer, Keyboard Setup Assistant pops up saying the keyboard needs to be identified before it can be used.  Once I follow its instructions, I can proceed to use this keyboard.

Is there some way my computer can automatically identify this keyboard in the future so I don't have to run Keyboard Setup Assistant?


texts: Automator use current directory location

texts:
my goal is to use Automator to open an application with arguments

open ./MyApp.app -arguments

via running a shareable Buddy.app with Myapp.app (the Automator/workflow). both apps should be shareable together with anyone so they run straight off.

the simplest way to do so, seems to be to run the Buddy.app from within the same folder as MyApp.app.
then i can move the Buddy.app with MyApp.app anywhere, and they will still work together

to set up the relative file locations in bash script,

open "$(pwd)"/myapp.app -arguments

only problem is that Automator uses the home directory instead of the application directory.
ie pwd is the home directory, and not the actual file location.

in Automator the output from

echo $(pwd)

is my home directory, /Users/User

so the question is, how to get Automator (Buddy.app) to detect the current folder location and run MyApp.app ?


texts: Enable Function Key Lock when using external keyboard/Disable when using internal keyboard on Mac Book Pro

texts:
When I'm developing I almost always have an external Bluetooth keyboard connected to my Mac Book Pro, and prefer the function lock to be active so the F1-F12 keys work without having to press the fn key. But when using the internal keyboard, I tend to be doing more casual things and brightness/volume etc are more commonly used.

Can I enable/disable the function lock depending on which keyboard I am using?


texts: View individual artists in compilation albums?

texts:
I can't seem to set up my music collection so that when opening a compilation album on my iPad it shows a list of songs on the compilation album along with the artist of each song.

In iTunes on my computer it displays as expected - the song name appears with the artist below it in the compilations album:

When synced to my iPad and clicking on the same compilation album it displays without the artist name:

Note also that the album artist name below the album thumbnail is one of the track artists.

The settings for this album in iTunes on my Mac are:

Each song has their artist name and song name completed.
Album artist is left blank
Compilation is ticked.

Why are the results correct in iTunes on the computer, but not on the iPad?


texts: Jailbroken iPhone 3G Wi-Fi is greyed out, no 3G, need to open a mobileconfig file or load pan editing

texts: I have a friend’s iPhone 3G that does not and has not at any time had the Wi-Fi connection available. It is greyed out with "No Wi-Fi". I have restored it a dozen times to no end. He wants me to put his phone on Straight Talk, but to do so I need to open a mobileconfig file which is usually emailed, or edit the APN with a tethering app through Cydia. I have installed the apps into Cydia through Cyder II, but Cydia still cannot load them without internet. Help me please, I've been hunting for and trying work-arounds for hours.


texts: Preventing an app from retrieving iCloud data

texts: I have an app that was previously downloaded on a different device but on the new device, I don't want that data, I just want to start from scratch. How can I prevent an app from retrieving that backed up iCloud data?


texts: How am I supposed to know if SMC reset has taken place?

texts:
I have a Macbook Air (mid - 2013) which means non - removable battery and currently it's running El Capitan OS X. I tried to do some SMC reset by pressing

shift + control + option + Power button

but there light indicator on the MagSafe adapter does not change any color. It used to do so when I first got it. But not anymore. So, how am I supposed to know if SMC reset has taken place?


texts: Disable battery warning for bluetooth keyboard and mouse

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I would like to disable the extremely annoying notification popups when my bluetooth mouse or keyboards batteries are getting low. I have enough rechargeable batteries in my drawer, so I do not need a prior notification.

Basically my problem is similar to this older question, but in newer OS versions, the notification center is being used instead of a blinking bluetooth icon.

I've already checked Notification Center's preferences, but could not find any entry to disable the battery warnings. The Keyboard and Mouse settings do not seem provide any options either.

To clarify: I never want to see this part again:

(image from here)

[edit 2018-10-20] I just returned from vacation and had an email notification about an answer here (the email preview suggest to unload a Launch Agent). The answer got deleted in the meantime, so I assume this would have some unexpected side effects? I’d still be glad about a quick feedback by the answer’s author, why it didn’t work as expected.


texts:
when this message appears the hostname is changed to the machine, the text of the message says

Your computer name "C - " is already used on this network. The name was replaced by "C - + 1"


texts: My Macbook Pro Retina 15" has a 250G H/D which is full. How do I identify what I can remove

texts: In The about this MAC- under storage- thedrive is full. The colour bar named "other" takes up 170G. I want to clean my hard drive to open up some operating space


texts: I need to do a full backup of a Mac running Tiger. If I use Time Machine will it capture everything I need to restore a user's data after a clean install of Lion? Are there other better mechanisms I can use to perform the backup?


texts: My iPhone 4 was submerged in water weeks ago.  It will turn on, but the slide to turn on/enter password is not working so I can not access anything on the phone. I want to recover pictures and videos before I throw the phone away. I thought they were backed up to my iCloud, but they are not. When I plug the phone into my computer to download them, says there are no pictures or videos on my phone. Any suggestions on how to recover these?


texts: How do I fix this sudo permission issue - UID 503, should be 0 - El Capitan

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Whenever I try any sudo command whatsoever in terminal, I get the following error message:

sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 503, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting

I have tried logging into single user mode and typing in the following commands:

mount -uw

chown /private/etc/sudoers 0

After typing in the chown ownership line, I get an error message saying “illegal username”.

Other things I have tried:

Reinstalling the OS X (El Capitan)
Disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP).
Calling Apple Care who say that sudo commands have been disabled in El Capitan.
Logging in under Single User mode and typing in the following code:
chown root:wheel /private/etc/sudoers This produced the error message “Operation Not Permitted” in my Standard, Admin, and Root accounts.
The error message “Read-Only File System” came up when I logged in in Single User Mode.

FYI

When I run ls -la /private/etc/sudoers in Terminal, I get the following:

-rw-r-----@ 1 MY-ADMIN-USERNAME staff 67 18 Feb 14:03 /private/etc/sudoers

Note I’ve replaced my actual admin username with “MY-ADMIN-USERNAME” just so you know what’s showing.

I need sudo commands to work for a range of reasons, one of which is to get CrashPlan to work.

My hardware is a 2010 iMac, 3.2GHZ, 16GB Ram and 500GB SSD which was installed about a year ago.

These problems have only come up with El Capitan. I didn’t have them in the past with Yosemite.

Looking around online, I can see the many people have had similar issues but the resolutions unfortunately have not worked for me.


texts: How to delete or track the sign-in information on an iPad?

texts:
I have used a couple of Adobe apps on my iPad. Following the first time I logged in to my account, it just remembers the details. I’m not sure if it remembers the password as well since they were just randomly used email/usernames and I was redirected to the verification page.
Similarly, I logged in to Gmail and now it remembers my google account details which I suppose makes sense as I can go to “Manage account settings” and set things.
How do I delete the information from Adobe cloud? Where exactly and how does Apple store these information? I do not have anything in the Autofill section or Password Manager (Keychain/Website and App passwords).


texts: Can I buy iOS apps on a computer, and then gift them to the end user?

texts:
In my organization we have different employees who use iPhone in their work. Sometimes they need to buy applications.

In order to make that process smoother, I (as an administrator here) would like to be able to have one account that buys the apps and then sends them with the "gift" function.

I would also like to be able to do so on a computer, and not on an iPhone, for convenience reasons, sometimes we need to buy quite a few apps here.

Is that possible? When I go to https://apps.apple.com/ it only says "This app is available only on the App Store for iPhone and iPad."

Thanks!


texts: Why on iPad or iPhone, the $0.99 click is so easy, but to download my purchased songs, it is so XYZ tough?

texts:
I bought a song on iTunes on my iPad, but the song is greyed out. How can I get the song back?

Also, how can I download the song to my iPad or iPhone?


texts:
When I try to block websites on terminal (etc hosts..) it works. But when I try to do it with Youtube, it doesn't.

Typing youtube.com as a url won't open it, but if I search youtube on google for example and then click on it, it will work (redirections.)

I tried to type all forms of "youtube.com" , with https/www, without, I cleared cache, restarted my mac. Nothing worked.

Is there a way i can fully block Youtube?

Thanks


texts: Install an older OS X version on an external volume

texts:
I am using 10.9 and would like to install 10.7 on an external volume. I have the “Install Mac OS X Lion” application, but when I run it, I get the message

  This version of Mac OS X is too new to run “Install Mac OS X” from Mac OS X 10.7.

Well, I do not want to downgrade, I just want to have a way to boot into 10.7. Is there any way around this?


texts: Run a script based on sunset and sunrise info?

texts:
What is the best way to run an Applescript when my current location's status changes from night to day and day to night?

Thanks!


texts:
I live in an apartment complex with a single network connection. The address is given to me from the complexes shared router as a DHCP address - this is where the ISP has our complex's modem. My neighbor also has an AirPort Express and I think I may be getting conflict with his... in my AirPort Utility, I can see his "horizontally" in line with mine connecting to "Internet", not vertically.

If I connect straight from my computer to my network wall jack, I can browse to my hearts content... I have a solid speed and all is well. If I plug in my AirPort Express to the jack, I get solid green on the Express as well as on the "Internet" icon in my AirPort utility (hardwire connection from my laptop). As long as my laptop's wireless radio is off, I have a solid connection. If I try to connect WiFi from my iPhone 4 or turn on my WiFi radio on my laptop, I get an intermittent wireless connection and spotty internet.

I also keep getting this DUAL NAT message on my screen.

Let me know if you think you may know.

[10/15/2012 - I will do my best to get a screenshot]


texts: Find all hidden ".idea" folders in system

texts:
I am using PHPStorm 8 for programming. PHPStorm automatically creates a hidden folder called ".idea", where all project-specifiy settings are stored.

How am I able to find all these ".idea" folders in the entire system?

(I like to find and remove all of these folder)

Thanks!


texts: Testing an iOS app using Appium without paid Developer account

texts: I am very new to iOS - I am an android person, and I have been given an app to test which is already installed in our iphone. I am using appium as a testing tool. Is it required for me to have a developer account - paid - just to be able to test apps on a real device?


texts: 1 key faulty on Macbook Pro Retina - is a replacement keyboard, battery etc the only fix?

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I have a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina which had a cup of tea spilled on it.  The machine works perfectly except for the 3 key which is not responding.  I've taken it in to an Apple Authorised Repair Centre who said they needed to replace the keyboard, battery etc to fix it at a cost of £600.

Is there any other way to get this single key working for less than £600?


texts: Damaged iPad - what do I need to back up?

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I have an iPad Mini running iOS 9 that has music, photos, apps, etc on it, and I dropped it an shattered the screen. It still will connect to the computer. I have an appointment to get it "repaired" at the Genius Bar, but they really replace it with a fresh piece of hardware.

What do I need to do to completely back up my iPad so that the new hardware will be as seamlessly like the old one as possible? Ideally, I'd like to have the same playlists, photos, settings, stored passwords, high score in games, etc. I have a Mac to back up to (and restore from).

This is an iPad with cellular service, so I plan to transfer the SIM from my current device to the new one.

I've done a "full backup" in iTunes, but I want to be sure it really backs up everything. Does it? If not, what else do I need to do to make this as seamless as possible? Are there some things that I can't back up no matter what I do?

When I spoke with a Genius Bar employee today, he indicated that playlists that I created on my iPad would not be backed up by any of these procedures. Does anyone have any experience with how to make the music on my iPad transfer as exactly as possible to the new hardware?


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Can I get the text from a submenu in machine-readable form?
I guess I could try OCR on a screen-shot, but is there something better?

You see, I have this program where some sub-menus come out in Japanese.  Now if I could get them in machine-readable form, I could try Google translate on them and see if I can figure them out.


texts: Add a Proxy to your computer via terminal

texts: How would I add and activate a proxy for my computer via terminal (without going into System Preferences.) Can I do that with scutil --proxy somehow?


texts: Is too much charge time bad for your iPhone?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can I safely charge my iPhone 4 overnight on a regular basis?

Is leaving the phone on the charger overnight really really bad for your iPhone?


texts: How can I play chess over Game Center in Mountain Lion?

texts: I've looked in Game Center on Mountain Lion and in the Chess game, but I can't seem to see a way to play Chess over Game Center. Does Chess for Mountain Lion  support turn-based play? If it does, how can I enable it?


texts: Where in System Preferences do I find how to enable system extensions?

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A friend of mine has a Mid 2012 MacBook Air running Catalina, and he's trying to get the Android emulator BlueStacks running on it.  He gets an error saying

System extension blocked.
Enable the extension from Security & Privacy System Preferences pane by clicking 'Allow' button and BlueStacks will launch again.

I looked in that pane, and couldn't find anything like that.  I'm obviously missing something here but I don't know what!
A screenshot of the error is attached:


texts: Can a website change Safari’s default search engine?

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My child’s MacBook had it’s default search engine changed to Yahoo. I did not do this, my child did not intentionally do this.

So I see two possibilities.

My kid downloaded and excecuted an app that changed it. Meaning nefarious code left the sandbox.
A website popped up a request to change it, and he clicked yes. Meaning just the search engine got changed and otherwise all is well.

Any thoughts on possible ways it could have flipped to Yahoo would be appreciated


texts: If I change my iTunes payment method after making a purchase, which one is used?

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As explained here, there is often a delay of anywhere from a few hours  to a couple of days between an iTunes/App Store purchase being made and the payment going through.

If I change my payment information after making a purchase, but before I am billed, which one will be used?


texts: Clicking on folder in iTerm2 opens in web browser instead of Finder

texts: I have iTerm2 v1.0.0.2 and I am correctly able to open folders in my home directory if command-click on them.  However I am not able to open folders on my Desktop or Documents if I command-click them, instead it opens the folder name in my default web browser. How can I change this so it opens a Finder window as well?


texts: How to change opera for mac's search engine for special dial page?

texts: I can change the address bar search engine but it doesn't effect the special dial search engine. I like to know where to find its setting. Here is a screenshot.


texts: How can I map shift+hyphen (the underscore character) to an unused function key?

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I wish to produce the underscore ("_") character without any significant slowness from an unused function key.  I'm intrigued by this answer provided by username Danny last year.  If a modification of the code they wrote is possible for my needs, I'd be grateful for anything you can offer (I don't know code myself).  I am not interested in fee-based software i.e. Keyboard Maestro if there's a way to do this natively or through shareware.  Thanks in advance!
Edit: I should add, I'm using an external 104-key keyboard, and F16 is the key I'd like to configure to trigger the underscore.  Thanks!


texts: Pass parameters upon invocation of Applescript

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I am writing an applescript to automate some iterm-related repetitive tasks.

I need to find out what is the appropriate way of accessing parameters from the script, say as in

on run {input, parameters}
    set appName to "iTerm"
    if application appName is not running then
        tell application appName to activate
    end if
    tell application "iTerm"
        tell current session of current tab of current window
            write text "cd {param1}"
        end tell
    end tell
    return input
end run

...where I should be able to perform (assuming the above is saved in myscript.scrpt) sth like

./myscript.scrpt /path/to/somewhere

and the corresponding line would execute

write text "cd /path/to/somewhere"


texts:
I've just upgraded to El Capitan from Mountain Lion, and now an Other... icon appears right next to my usual user-account (admin account) on the login screen.
When I click on it, I can log in, as another user, but I only have one.

My first thought was, that it could be the root user, which could have been enabled (I don't know how though). But from the Edit menu, in the Directory Utility, it only says "Enable root user", which should indicate that the root user is disabled. I then tried to enable it, and disable it again, but the Other... still appears on the login screen.

I've even tried to disable it from Terminal using this command, with no luck:

dsenableroot -d

After some search on Google, I found a thread with people having the same problem.
A lot of them solved the problem by following this guide:

Enable the root user from Directory Utility and then log out.
Log in as the root user account and change the password.
Still on the root user account, disable and then enable root user from Directory Utility.
Log out from the root user account, and log back it to the usual account.
Now disable the root user once again.

I have done all this, but it still doesn't work, and I am almost going mad about it.

Anyone have any idea why this is happening, and how to fix it?


texts: Mac Books blocking one another from Internet

texts:
A couple of months ago, I migrated the data from my Air to a new MacBook Pro with migration assistant and shelved the Air.

Recently, we recomishioned the Air for family surfing but noticed that when the Air connected to the Internet through Wi-Fi, the Pro wouldn't connect and vice versa.

In both cases the machine that won't connect says that the Wi-Fi connection is functioning properly. Ive followed all of the standard wi-Fi troubleshooting tips on both machines to no avail.

Both machines have current updates. We also have 4 iPads and 2 phones that can connect with out issue.

Any ideas on how to get both machines connected simultaneously?

Thanks!


texts: macos: change default "zoom in" for any application?

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Many applications I use, like Vim, Safari, and Chrome, support "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" to magnify the size of the screen, or return it to standard size.
Every time I start some applications, I zoom them "in" a bunch of times, and would like to set a default zoom level for them, so I don't have to do this all the time.
Is there a way to do this? I'm ok with using 3rd party tools!


texts: This webpage is using significant memory: how to stop it appearing?

texts:
This webpage is using significant memory. Closing it may improve the responsiveness of your Mac.

This banner appears at the top of some websites I use sometimes.

If I close it, it reappears again momentarily.

How can I force it to either

never appear
or only appear once and not re-appear after I've manually closed it


texts:
I want to paste <TAB> into command line, in order to execute cut command with <TAB> as the delimiter. Everytime I try to do it, it simulates clicking the tab key and completes the command with some file(-s) from the current directory.

Is there any solution (I've tried copying straight from text editor)?

Mac OS X 10.7.5, running bash.


texts: broken EFI / missing space after re-partitioning — using mavericks 10.9.5

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I have a few problems with a 2012 era macbook air. the first problem, and i'm not sure how to go about fixing this, is an issue i'm dealing with re: EFI.
When i select the hard drive in disk utility and attempt to verify it, I get the following error:

"Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting
Error: This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk."

the second problem is trying to reclaim a missing 20GB of space that went missing when i deleted a failed Windows partition. The space just vanished, poof! You can see it in the diskutil list below.

 diskutil list

returns

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
       1:       Microsoft Basic Data EFI                     208.7 MB   disk0s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS MacOS                   479.0 GB   disk0s2
       3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

and running

gpt -r show /dev/disk0

shows

  start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34       2014
       2048     407552      1  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
     409600         40
     409640  935546880      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  935956520    1269544      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  937226064   39878963
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header

EDIT:

I ran diskutil  resizevolume  disk0s2 limitson the two volumes (disk0s2 and disk0s3 respectively) and they returned as follows:

For device disk0s2 MacOS:
        Current size:  479.0 GB (479000002560 Bytes)
        Minimum size:  446.3 GB (446258642944 Bytes)
        Maximum size:  479.0 GB (479000002560 Bytes)

For device disk0s3 Recovery HD:
        Current size:  650.0 MB (650006528 Bytes)
        Minimum size:  650.0 MB (650006528 Bytes)
        Maximum size:  20.9 GB (20933816320 Bytes)

am i correct in reading this, that the missing 20 GB somehow ended up on the recovery HD?

so what's the first thing i should do? i want to keep my OS running on 10.9.5. I have a diskImage i downloaded from the internet, put onto a USB boot drive. I attempted to reinstall from this boot drive, to see if this would fix anything, but when i try to select the macOs, i get the error, "this disk cannot be used to start up your computer"

Besides this, the computer seems to operate fine, and has been working since april with this broken EFI and missing partition space.

any ideas?


texts: Front camera on an iPhone 4S no longer works

texts:
The back camera works just fine but the front one does not. When I select it, it just freezes. When I quit the app and select it again it presents just a black screen; no image. I tried closing and resetting the phone but that hasn't helped.

Can anyone help me fix this in some free way?


texts: In iTerm, why is a command shell's command not picking up things on my $PATH?

texts:
I've got a script in my ~/.bin directory that changes iTerm's background before starting an SSH session (as detailed here, script slightly modified from this version).

If I start a regular login session and run my command, sshb servername, it works fine! The background image loads and the SSH session starts.

However, if I set up a profile to start a session with that same command, it errors out and says it can't find sshb. If I make my command ~/.bin/sshb servername, it runs the command, but says it can't find the ImageMagick convert command used in that script.

It seems as though the command shell command doesn't know about my $PATH. I suppose I could figure out where convert lives and edit the script to use the full path, but that seems to be treating symptoms, not the problem. Is there a way to make the command shell load my environment variables before it runs that command?


texts: What is the formula on the OS X version of Excel 2016 to add a number in a column with a markup percentage in another column.


texts: MacBook Pro screen broken and was using 2nd monitor fine until I started the process of turning FileVault on

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I have a MacBook Pro 2015 with a broken screen (most of it is black and not visible).

Before I had it set up where I would just turn it on, connect my HDMI cable to TV or Monitor and it would show up on the second monitor and I would enter my username and password and log in.

I made the huge mistake of turning FileVault on and, when I saw it was taking hours I turned the computer off to resume next morning. In the morning I came to connect the HDMI cable to the TV and nothing - it says signal not detected and I cannot see the login screen on the second monitor or type in my password or user name to get into the laptop.

I've tried blind typing and nothing happens either. I also tried a remote keyboard and a USB connected one.

What can I do to get my laptop to display on the second screen so I can log in?


texts: Safari showing border of transparent PNG

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A website I work on has a partly transparent png image overlying parts of the website. The image is resized to 100% of the browser window width. In all other browsers the transparent parts behave normal – but safari shows a thin outline whee the image should be transparent.

I hope the screenshot makes the problem clear:

Now I'm wondering if this is this a bug – or a feature? And of course I would like to get rid of that zigzag line – so any suggestions and pointers are welcome. Thank you!

EDIT:

Yes, I checked if the image has a grey line – but it does not.
Also this problem anly appeared after I updated Safari to 11.0.2.
And when modifying the img's width in dev tools first to the actual width (7000px) and then back to 100% the grey line disappears.
Here is a link to the website where the problem appears.


texts: How to test hard drive - diskutility reports defective drive as perfectly fine

texts:
long story
I have an USB drive to copy data between Mac, Windows (personally I don't own any) and PS4 - it is exfat formatted.  Recently I noticed my Mac would freeze when I plug in this disc - also there is a directory in the top hierarchy that I could not open.  Since this drive moves around a lot I suspected an unlucky disconnection caused corruption. Checked the drive and the only partition with disk-utility "first aid" - which report everything is fine.  Despite this in the system log there are plenty of I/O errors.  Looks like I need to trash it.  But I sure had loved it if my mac gave me any warning that I was using a bad drive (I kinda forgive the PS4 that she didn't warn).

So for the future what check should I use?

I see that there are older questions discussing a similar questions, though they are 5 years old and also some of the link tools are dead now.  Also this question is not about data recovery, but how to asses a drive.

tl;dr What program (on mac) can I trust to check my discs?


texts: iCloud PreferencesPane crashes after upgrade to Yosemite

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I just upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.

During the final step of the install, my network connection dropped while trying to set up the iCloud settings. As it says that I can skip this step and configure it later, I did.

Now, I am trying to set up iCloud and upgrade to iCloud Drive.

When I click on the iCloud icon in System Preferences, the App freezes (beach balling) and I am forced to force quit it.

In the Force Quit window, I see System Preferences (not responding) and right below it I see com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice (not responding). If I Force Quit System Preferences, naturally, the whole app quits. If I force quit com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice then I get a notice in the System Preferences app that says Preferences Error: Could not load iCloud preference pane.

In Activity Monitor, I can also see that both System Preferences and com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice are not responding.

In console, I see the following crash report:

20/10/2014 01:46:04.026 System Preferences[4901]: ### com.apple.preferences.icloud instantiatePrefPaneObject exception:service com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice failed to init an instance of iCloudRemoteViewService on behalf of <NSRemoteView: 0x7fb885309930> due to proxy-communications-error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (The connection from pid 0 was invalidated from this process.) UserInfo=0x618000467100 {NSDebugDescription=The connection from pid 0 was invalidated from this process.}

I am guessing something got corrupted when I skipped the iCloud setup during the last steps of the install process, and perhaps I need to reset/delete the iCloud preferences and let the system regenerate them.

How can I resolve this issue?


texts:
Ran into some peculiar behavior in the midst of my developing antics. I have my developer tools set to appear in a separate window - I noticed if I right-click and inspect an element, close the developer tools window, then inspect another element, the first element remains targeted in the DOM inspector.

I often inspect elements just for quick reference on a value or stylesheet location, and close the window out of habit because it crowds my limited screen space. At first this behavior was just a mild annoyance, but it's becoming maddening when I have to right-click twice on anything I want to inspect. I'm now doing this dozens of times a day - is this bug known/documented anywhere? Is there a fix for it?

I'm deeply considering switching to Chrome, but Chrome has it's own deal-breakers that irk me slightly more than this bug. Any suggestions are welcome!


texts: Changing my primary email and thus Apple ID Fails. Can anyone help?

texts:
My email provider and thus also email address are changing.  Thus I carefully followed the procedure Apple provide to change the primary email used for Apple ID.  I used the "Managing Apple ID" Web pages.  I had already, as instructed, signed out of and closed all services and devices using the existing Apple ID.

However when I click "edit" and enter the replacement email and click "continue" but nothing happens.  The progress circle continues turning and eventually the page times out.  I have tried many things over 2 days!

It appears to be stuck but why?  There is no verification code email delivered (even in "junk" etc) and no popup to receive a verification code anyway.

Have others encountered this frustration and if so how did you overcome it?


texts: Are there any keyboard shortcuts for using El Capitan Split View for Mac?

texts:
This question is about Mac El Capitan SplitView

I am a fan of using splitscreen views as in i3 for linux.

Or when I am on Windows I use snapping

With the new feature is there a way to use it without touching the mouse?

So far I've only seen that you can use it by setting it to fullscreen-mode and then use Mission Control for it. new-split-screen


texts: What is this folder? It's huge and I can use the extra room. I've read sleepimage isn't necessary—is this true? Should I just deal with it? Is the "private" folder emptied automatically, or would I have to do it manually? If it isn't useful (or needed), is there any way to prevent it from reappearing in the future?


texts:
My iPhone was only charging when turned off whether I used an original cable or not.

Today it stopped charging even when it is powered off.

Can a battery replacement fix this? If not, what else could be the issue?


texts: "The operation can’t be completed because the item is in use" when deleting from Samba mounted drive

texts:
I have a USB drive plugged into my Asus RT-N66U router and shared over SMB. I originally formatted this drive on a Mac. I have two Trendnet TV-IP572PI surveillance cameras that records snapshots/video to this drive over SMB. Sometimes when I mount the drive from my Mac ('Connect to server' @ smb://192.168.1.1) and attempt to delete old directories off of it, I get this error:

  The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.

This is extremely frustrating since I have to unplug the USB drive, plug it back into my Mac, and format it to get it working again. I assume this is some kind of permissions problem, and when these permissions are messed up, the cameras aren't writing to the drive. I may not notice this for days if I have been out of town.

Searching Google for this error mostly turns up results about disabling a unix extensions setting in smb.conf on the server you are connecting to. I have no way to do this since the Samba server runs off of the Asus router. Email support from ASUS has not been helpful so far, with recommendations to upgrade the firmware and do a hard reset on the router (have latest firmware already). I believe this problem stems from mounting the drive from my Mac.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
I have attempted all the suggestions listed in Apps on my MacBook Pro but I still can't  find the app I am looking for: Find my iPhone.

I have checked Applications, Downloads, Spotlight, Finder, and Launchpad.

I went to download it, iTunes says I have already downloaded it, have tried everything to find it on my computer. I can't find it and I cannot apparently download it again. I am completely stumped with this one and desperately need to find my phone.


texts:
I replaced standard fn key by left control, left control by another useful key.
And as far as I don't use Caps Lock key in everyday life, I decided to replace Caps Lock key by fn.
I use for this purpose PCKeyboardHack.

I just inputed number 63 (which corresponds to fn) in Change Caps Lock row.
But now my Caps Lock don't do nothing: neither CapsLocking nor fn key work.
When I change Caps Lock key by forward delete for example (117 code) - it is ok. And Caps Lock starts work as forward delete key.

But I need to set fn to Caps Lock key.
UPDATE
I have noticed in KeyRemap4MacBook EventViewer: when I press Caps Lock...

... I get control_l keycode. But in fact it don't work even as control_l (I checked).
Why it shows control_l? Maybe because I have changed fn key to left control in KeyRemap4MacBook app.

When I uncheck this checkbox and watch in EventViewer on Caps Lock clicking again: I see Fn code on output.

But in fact it does not work as Fn (I check it on fn+delete)
Update 2
I disabled CAPS LOCK

In PCKeyboardHack set F19 to Caps Lock

In KeyRemap4MacBook remap F19 to fn
<item>
    <name>f19_to_fn</name>
    <identifier>f19_to_fn</identifier>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19, KeyCode::FN</autogen>
</item>

And now Caps Lock works as fn except f1 - f12 keys. For example when I press default fn + f11 I see Launchpad. When I press remapped fn +  f11 I see volume down. So f11 not working with remapped fn.
In other combinations like fn + delete = forward delete remapped fn works well.


texts: Will apps fail to download if I'm still on iOS6?

texts:
I am still running iOS 6 on my iPad.

I have several apps that are failing to download right now (error message is "unable to download update at this time") and I'm wondering if it could be because I am not on the latest OS?

I have done the following troubleshooting:

Reset home network
Reset the iPad
Tried to tap on the app needing updates so that it triggers it to start
Verified that my account works fine
Verified free space (10+ gb)

I'm not sure what other troubleshooting I can do, so I thought I'd see here if my OS version was a potential problem or what else I should look into next.


texts: launchD runs script every hour in between 8:00 to 17:00 on weekdays

texts:
launchD runs script every hour in between 8:00 to 17:00 hours on weekdays Mon to Fri.

8 to 17:00 = 9 times in a Day.
Mon - Friday = 5 days
Do I have to add  StartCalendarInterval 9 X 5 = 45 times or is there any other easy sensible way to it?

<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Weekday</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>08</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>00</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>

Sorry if qus make you confuse. I just want to run a script every hour in between 8AM to 5PM on weekdays Mon to Fri.


texts: Photos appear on iCloud but not on computer

texts:
I have 120,000 photos and videos successfully backed up on iCloud.
They however do not appear on my computer in my Photos library. In the library only about 20,000 appear and nothing after 2018.

iCloud is turned on.
I am logged in with the same Apple ID.
No deleted photos.
No hidden photos.

What am I missing? How can I solve this?


texts: How often do my Mac contacts sync with Gmail?

texts: I set up my Contacts in OS X Mountain Lion to sync with Gmail. I just went to Gmail and made some contact changes. How can I determine when this will sync?


texts:
I am trying to print using a HP LaserJet Enterprise M609 connected with spoolss (i.e. smb).  I can connect and authenticate with other printers that way, and they all print using the 'generic postscript driver', but this printer does not work with this driver, for reasons unknown.  Apple lists it as one of the printers that would be able to use AirPrint, but this is not an option I can select.  Any idea how to tell the printer to use AirPrint?

The steps I need to follow are the same as these, and work for other printers.


texts: Why does it take so long to sync photos for my iPod touch  in iTunes?

texts:
When I sync my iPod touch with iTunes, it stays on

 Syncing Photos to "My iPod touch" (Step 4 of 4)
 Importing Photos . . . .

for about 10 minutes each time (even if I have synced it an hour ago and have no new photos to actually sync)

It then goes to

 Syncing Photos to "My iPod touch" (Step 4 of 4)
 Optimizing 3 of 193 . . .

Again, even if I have no new photos since last sync.

Would any know why this takes so long and it there a way to make it faster?


texts: Will a 32 bit intel app run on Mountain Lion?

texts:
I have Lion, running on a 64 bit kernel

$ uname -a
Darwin dyn1158-144.insecure.ic.ac.uk 11.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0: Mon Apr  9 19:32:15 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

but I have a number of 32 bit apps (among which, to my surprise, Google Chrome) that run perfectly fine.

I am not overly concerned about Chrome, but there are a few things I'd loathe to lose, either because they cost me money (Photoshop CS3, which should actually work), or because I like then (Luna menu, RapidoSerial, which are not on RoaringApps).

Is there a final yes/no answer to the question, will a generic 32 bit intel app run on ML?


texts: When is the nano-texture glass Pro Display XDR better than the standard one?

texts:
I've seen both the glossy and the nano-texture version of Apple Pro Display XDR in real life, and the image quality of both is stunning.

I did notice that while the glossy version reflected the bright lights in the Apple store, you could see hardly any glare on the nano-texture version of the display. However, the text displayed on the nano-texture version was perhaps a tiny bit less crisp and the colours were not as vivid as on the standard glass version (I did look really close, though, which I wouldn't do under normal circumstances).

So I wonder, except for the obvious case where one works in an environment where there's plenty of bright lights, are there any other contexts where the nano-texture is better suited than the standard glass? I.e. video editing, working with text, photography, etc.

Or is it simply the question of personal preference and whether someone likes to see their reflection in the screen or not?

In your answers, please assume that while I have plenty of experience using Apple displays to work with text/code, I have only beginner-level knowledge of video and photo editing, so any observations you share are valuable.


texts: How do I get the full path for a file in finder?

texts: I look for a file in finder, finder finds it.  But, I'd like to find it's full path. How do I do that?


texts: iOS Shortcut to shuffle-play all songs by a specific artist in my library

texts: I would like to create a shortcut in iOS 14.4 Shortcuts which shuffle-plays all songs by a particular artist. I can figure out how to specify an album or a playlist, but not songs by a specific artist. Is there anything short of creating a Smart Playlist, to be able to do this?


texts: Can't connect to shared folder on the network because the "original item can't be found"

texts:
I am running OS X 10.9.5. I have been using a shared hard drive on a home network for over two years.  Recently, one of the folders started giving me the following error when I try to connect to it:

  The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “foldername” can’t be found.

I don't recall changing any permissions or anything.  Other folders on the same drive work fine.


texts: Why am I not prompted to 'Keep notes on iPhone' when I disable Notes in iCloud settings?

texts:
Other things like Contacts, Reminders, Calendars, and Safari data all prompted me to 'keep data on iPhone' when I toggled them off in iCloud settings, but not Notes!

I want to keep my notes on my iPhone when iCloud is disabled.


texts: Pending Transaction doesn't disappear out of Apple Wallet

texts:
I made a purchase through the Apple Store app using Apple Pay and my Apple Card. After 45 days the pending transaction still appears along with the final charge. All of my reports in Apple Wallet show the total of both charges even though I only made one purchase.
How do I remove this duplicate pending transaction?


texts: Trying to recover data from an external RAID drive

texts:
I have a 1 TB Western Digital external hard drive that is old but works fine, I also have a 4 TB WD RAID (2 x 2 TB hard drives in one casing) that stopped working which I'm trying to recover. I must say it turns on when I plug it, but mac doesn't recognize it.

I pulled out HDD #1 from the 4 TB RAID, then connected it via the SATA connection to the housing of the 1 TB. Physically, it connected without a problem, but my Mac doesnt recognize the "new" drive.

Any ideas what I should do in order to see the data from the 2 TB HDD?


texts: I have a mac laptop running 10.14.6. For some reason, in the last week, the cursor has started  disappearing every time I go full screen and then leave full screen. So I have to hit Mission Control every time to bring it back. Any idea why this is happening?


texts: Install program on external HDD with Mac Book Pro

texts:
I'new in the Machintosh world. I'am running out of space on my Mac, so i try to install Epic Games and Fortnite on external HDD.
Is it possible? How can I do?

Thanks


texts: SourceTree: how to show commit information panel if once hide?

texts:
On one of my machines, I have somehow hidden the panel which shows commit information, such as the commit hash and the full commit message.
I'm sure it's just a setting somewhere to bring the commit panel back, but I can't find it. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks!


texts: Are the 2 cameras of the iPhone 4S of the same quality?

texts: I wonder if the 2 cameras inside an iphone 4S are of the same type?


texts: How can I mark all emails as 'Read' after IOS Update 5.0 on iPhone?

texts: I just updated to iOS 5.0 on my iphone and when it started up for the first time, all of my emails in a POP account are now showing as unread. The total is 79 emails and I don't want to go one at a time marking each one as read. Is there a way to do it in one sweeping motion?


texts:
I'd like to have a notification displayed in the dock every time a new song is played. Unfortunately, this doesn't exist as an option in the program preferences, but there are ways to do it, see this article for example.

However, for some reason this doesn't work for me. Can you guess why? I'm using a MacBook Pro with iTunes 10.6.1 running on Mac OS X 10.6.8.


texts: Repairing a Partition that doesn't show up in Disk Utility

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I have a friend's flash drive that has been acting very strange. I am able to get the Sandisk factory partition that is 64 MB to show up, but not the actual 8GB partition with all of his files. Nothing has been intentionally formatted.

Anything I can do in Disk Utility to solve this issue?

Thanks for your help!

Scott


texts: Replacing rubber spring/cup under Tab key cap

texts:
To make a long question short: What's the proper way to replace a rubber spring (inverted cup-like thing) under a keycap, specifically the Tab key on a unibody design MacBook Pro or Air?

Details: I just bought a used MacBook Pro (so it's out of warranty), and noticed the Tab key felt spongy. Also, after first opening up the laptop, the key seemed to be stuck down until I tapped it a few times.

I had a replacement rubber spring from my old MacBook, so I tore the one off the new laptop and put that one in its place, without gluing it down or anything. Right away after that I noticed that pressing Caps Lock would sometimes trigger a tab; maybe one time in seven or eight presses. Worried I had shorted something, I shut down, repositioned the spring, and booted back up, and things seemed normal again.

Satisfied with the way the Tab key was now behaving, I decided to superglue the spring as instructed on laptopkey.com:

Squeeze a small amount of super glue onto a sheet of paper. Then dip the
edge of the rubber cup into the super glue. Then place the rubber cup in
its place. Let it dry. You want to have the minimum amount of glue on your
cup, just enough to make the cup stick while installing the hinges onto
your keyboard.

I let the glue dry for a few seconds before putting the key cap back on, and while I was waiting I pressed on the spring a few times to make sure it was still springy. Unfortunately, I got way more glue on the spring than I had intended, and it oozed out a little. I also later realized the spring was displaced a little from where the original one had been (as evidenced by the still-visible metal circle under it).

When that was done and I booted back up, I found the key to be better than before, but it still seemed to require a little more pressure than other keys, and it didn't make the same clicky sound when I hit it. I decided to live with that. However, when I opened the laptop again this morning, I found that the Tab key, although it still works, moves up and down very slowly; it takes a second or two to pop back up after I press it. There really isn't any tactile feedback to speak of, so it's worse than when I started. Tapping it quickly a few times didn't cause it to release, the way it used to.

I'm about to order a new rubber spring and hinge kit (and maybe a key cap). How should I install the new spring to make the Tab key act like new again? Is there a specific way I should clean off the old rubber and super glue?


texts: What is the difference between "restore backup" and "restore iPhone" in iTunes?

texts:
Connect the iPhone to the computer, click on the device in iTunes, and under Summary there are two buttons as described in the question.

What is the difference in terms of what is actually restored?


texts: Can iPhone 4 use GPS when out of cell tower range?

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There seems to be some dispute on whether the iPhone can still get a GPS signal when out of cell tower range, see this archived Apple support thread, for example.

I had a friend out in the woods hunting this weekend, and he said that he couldn't get a location via gps, it was just giving errors.

Does this depend on how the app is coded? Are there specific location-aware mapping apps (like the built-in maps tool) that someone can firm either do or don't work properly with no wireless signal?

Update: I guess its kind of obvious that it entirely depends on how the app is designed. The built-in maps app tries to download map tiles from the internet, and won't be able to do that, so that probably explains his errors.

So my underlying question really is: If I'm going camping, do I need to buy a dedicated "wilderness" GPS like one of these? Or is there an iPhone app that can do the same things when away from a wireless/cell signal?


texts: What is the support of AVX-512 in MacBookAir9,1

texts:
This could be checked if you have the new 2020 MacBook Air by using command:

sysctl -a | grep cpu

I am not in possession of this Mac and can not find this documented by Apple or elsewhere online.


texts: Does iCloud keychain stores FileVault passwords?

texts: My MacBook Air drowned today and it was connected to an external hard drive encrypted with FileVault. I can't remember password for it. Will new Mac sync that password from iCloud or is the encrypted partition lost?


texts:
I have an iPhone 7 and the Photos App is on my phone and it works just fine, but I have a few issues with it:

1) When I search for it in the iOS search tool, it does not show up.

2) There are photos that will not open on other devices and cannot be shared any other way. The other devices will read them as corrupt or unreadable.

I have tried restoring my phone and then restoring it from backup, and I have the exact same issues. I also had this issue in both iOS 12 and 13. My phone is currently up-to-date (As of September 26, 2019, iOS v13.1) because I have been trying to fix this issue.


texts:
In TextMate 2, how can I create a new Bundle?

I´m using a programming language which so far doesn't have a bundle (so no syntax highlighting, snippets and so on). TextMate 1 used to have a Bundle Editor, but where do I get started in TextMate 2?


texts: Reveal each bullet by opacity in Keynote 6.6?

texts:
This question is an exact duplicate of How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote except that I am asking for the current generation of Keynote (version 6.6.1, rather than Keynote '09).

I want the slide to initially appear with all bullet groups translucent (dimmed by opacity set to low number). On each click fully reveal each bullet group by becoming opaque (opacity set to 100%).

As seen in this animated gif:

I want the same effect as Build In > Appear & Move > Dissolve with Delivery set to By Bullet Group, but I want the initial display of all bullet groups to be translucent rather than hidden.

My motivation is so that while giving a presentation I can see all the items immediately to remind me how to properly phrase my speaking, yet keep the audience’s attention on each bullet point.


texts: How can I log the IP addresses of SMB login attempts?

texts:
I want to automatically ban IP address which attempt to login to my file server unauthorized.

I can log SSH login attempts including IP address in macOS to a syslog format file for further processing with fail2ban like so:

log stream --predicate '(process == "sshd")' --style syslog --level info --type=log >> /opt/local/var/log/logstreams/sshd.log

However, the smbd process doesn't seem to log IP by default. How can I achieve the above for smbd?


texts:
A couple years ago, I learned my lesson. I had bought a WD My Book Thunderbolt external RAID. I didn't have a backup plan of course; it failed within a year, and I lost everything—this was about a year ago.

I went out and bought two 8TB Seagate Expansion Desktop Drives, one as my main storage, and one for backup. I signed up with Crashplan, a service that would backup my files to it's cloud as well as do the job of backing up to my local external backup drive.

A couple of months ago the backup drive died. Within the same week one of my wife's external drives died.

I invested in a Synology NAS and set up a RAID 6 to throw all my files onto, with plans to attach a 2nd external drive to back up the NAS—but of course, before I get a chance to back up my main Seagate drive to the NAS, my Mac is telling me it has a problem (unfortunately I didn't write down what it said), that it has been set to read-only, and I need to back it up before it fails completely.

It feels like this is happening a bit too often to blame on "Well sometimes ya just get a bad one!", and I'm wondering if I am overlooking other factors?

Could it be an electrical issue? My house is about 120 years old, but we had the knob & tube wiring replaced when we moved in and a new breaker box installed. All my computer hardware is plugged into a couple surge protectors which are in turn plugged into a UPS batter backup/surge protector.

Could there be a problem with my computer, doing something to the hard drives to mess them up?

Am I just overusing or overfilling the drives? My work is in graphic design, photography, and video editing, so I'm typically working with some big files, lots of caches, etc. Also I know when Crashplan was backing up to that one external it was telling me it was nearly full. Perhaps I need to be running First Aid on the drives, or rebuilding the directories with Diskwarrior on a regular basis?


texts: BetterTouchTool: Is it possible to use a context-menu item with a gesture?

texts: Example: I want to attach the "TipTap Left" gesture with "Save Image As..." from the context-menu in Chrome. Possible?


texts: Where does Mac OS X store the ssh passwords?

texts:
Some time ago Sourceforge forced everybody to change the Passwords. A real pain since I use a lot of automated scripts.

One of them uses ssh connection to upload the newest passwords. This one is not asking for the password for every operation. And there are quite a few of them: Start Session, copy files, close session.

Now my guess it that the system is trying to log in with the old password and is not storing the new one after I enter is. Correct me if I am wrong.

Now could anybody tell me where in the key chain Mac OS X is storing the passwords.

And yes, I have a public key set up as well. That is what I used when I was still using Linux. But that does not work either.


texts: How to Partition New Bootable Drive to Include Recovery Partition

texts:
I just completed a restore from Time Machine to a newly partitioned drive and discovered that the Recovery Partition wasn't created. Other than that, the restore went well and the new drive runs fine.

I discovered that my SATA drivers don't support this new drive. It only works as an external drive. So I am going to restore to another drive, basically repeating the process. While I have a recovery partition on my original drive, I want to know how to create a restored drive that includes the recovery partition.

Other similar questions on SE don't seem to address this question, except indirectly. This one -Add recovery partition back onto drive after drive change [duplicate] - points to another, where one answer says:

  you can make a new Recovery Partition by performing a clean install
  but if you do this via a new partition, beware that erasing that new
  partition in the future may also erase the Recovery Partition.

I was going to try doing a clean install to create the Recovery Partition and the main partition, but I'm not sure about this, based on that comment.

I have the following that I can start with:

Time Machine backup (for restoring)
OS X install dmg file (Lion in my case)
a working Recovery Partition on a USB stick
My original bootable hard drive with an old image with OS X 10.7.4 and a Recovery Partition (working)
My latest restored hard drive (working, but only as a USB drive) with OS X 10.7.5 and no Recovery Partition
My target hard drive, which is essentially blank (was my previous working drive, until I upgraded)

So what is the most straightforward way to restore to a virgin drive from Time Machine AND
include a recover partition?


texts:
A friend sent me a PDF with a UI mockup claiming it is 1024x768.
It is, indeed:

However, View > Actual Size (⌘0) zooms in so much that the PDF takes up almost all 1920x1200 screen estate that is available.

How do I view the PDF at its original size?


texts: Migrating local accounts to locally stored network account

texts:
We have local users running on stock MacBooks, but it's time to move up and start managing things.

Active Directory accounts are created for all users, and OSX Server is pushing the AD config profiles down to our hosts.

Our local users have rather complex development tools and environments installed locally to their account, so it would be preferred to preserve them.

Simply copying files over from the old account to the new mobile account does not work (as expected).

While I've seen suggestions to try Migration Assistant, it does seem to want to work for local accounts, and is instead expecting a time machine backup, or an import from a different machine.  Both of these might end up being rather time consuming, when a better operation would be to simply rename the ~ directory to the same short_name of the AD user.  But of course, this causes issues with keychains, application plists, and who knows what else.

I can accept having to recreate keychains and plists if necessary, but it would be preferred to have a short script that can be written to solve the migration with minimal user impact.


texts: Wi-Fi connection randomly disconnects on 2012 MacBook Air

texts:
My 2012 MacBook Air has problems with Wi-Fi – random disconnections, every few minutes.

The problems occurred with Lion, and persist after an upgrade to Mountain Lion.

It seems the Wi-Fi drops occur more often when I walk with the MacBook Air, or when I have it on my lap. With it on a table, the connection drops much less often.

After the network connection drops, I have to click the name of my network in the list again – the system does not reconnect automatically.

Things I tried include:

testing other computers on the same network (all computers work fine)
using the MacBook Air with a network in a different country (the same problem occurs)
a new network location
changing the MTU value for the Wi-Fi chip
replacement of the Wi-Fi chip (no improvement)
a fixed IP instead of DHCP
re-installing OS X
Windows on the MacBook Air - Wi-Fi works fine.
Using other Wi-Fi channels (both fixed and auto-channel-mode)

I have contacted Apple Support five times but it seems they can't or don't want to help me (they promised to 'look into it' but I haven't heard a thing in three weeks).

Anyone any other ideas? I'm getting desperate – since I got my MacBook Air three months ago I haven't used it a single time without Wi-Fi dropping.


texts: What Software was Bundled with My Old Mac?

texts:
In the beginning of 1995, we bought a Macintosh Performa 5200. I remember that after registering the machine, we got a box with some bonus software on CDs. I certainly know that The Daedalus Encounter came with it. This happened in Germany, if that matters.

What else came with this?


texts: Creating and modifying tags hangs Finder in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

texts:
When I create or modify a tag in Finder on Mavericks, the Finder application stalls with a spinning beach ball and cpu goes up to 100% usage for a while (from 30 secs to 2 minutes).

I've found that if I force quit Finder, it will restart and function normally.

Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?


texts: Problem installing IguanaTex on Mac (can't find `.dylib` file)

texts:
I'm trying to install an experimental version of IguanaTex on my Mac.  I'm stuck and need some help.

Here are the directions:

install AppleScript (IguanaTex.scpt)

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Scripts/com.microsoft.Powerpoint
cp ./IguanaTex.scpt ~/Library/Application\ Scripts/com.microsoft.Powerpoint/IguanaTex.scpt

This worked fine for me.

install IguanaTexHelper (libIguanaTexHelper.dylib)

sudo mkdir -p '/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office365/User Content.localized/Add-Ins.localized'
sudo cp ./libIguanaTexHelper.dylib '/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office365/User Content.localized/Add-Ins.localized/libIguanaTexHelper.dylib'

This is where I'm having an issue. . I can't seem to find the file "libIguanaTexHelper.dylib" anywhere, and I can't find anything online about it.  I've already made sure that my computer is showing hidden files.
 Can someone please help me clear this up?


texts: Apple Wallpaper gone in recent versions of iOS?

texts:
Has Apple been replacing their Wallpaper images during updates of iOS 7, 8, and 9?

My iPhone 5s has an image of a blue-green aurora borealis that I assume was Apple-provided. I don't recall installing from outside. But now I do not see that image listed in Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a New Wallpaper > Apple Wallpaper in iOS 9.2.


texts: Shared iCloud Account and Photo Stream, but no longer want to share iCloud accounts

texts: My husband and I share an iCloud account.  With Family sharing now available, we want our own iCloud accounts, but don't want to loose the photo stream we both have of our shared pictures.  We also both need to back-up our phones to the same Mac.  What is the best way to split this and maintain back-ups and photos?  Is there a way to set-up automatic sharing of photos once our accounts are split or both import our images into the same iCloud Photo Library?


texts: Windows draggable under menu bar after second display

texts:
Using OSX 10.8.5, I recently attached a second display to my 2013 Mac Air via the Thunderbolt port. Since removing this display I can now drag Finder and other windows under the menu bar. They pop back into viewable space on release, but this is visually annoying. How do I get the standard 'solid' menu bar behaviour back?

I have tried switching resolution but this doesn't work.


texts: Is there a way to sleep your mac through iPhone/iPad?

texts: In the remote that comes with Apple TV, if you pair it with a mac, you'd be able to press and hold the play/pause button and your mac will go to sleep. Is there a way to do the same with iPhone/iPad Remote app?


texts: Is there any keyboard shortcut for Play Later option in iTunes?

texts:
If you right click a song in iTunes you will be able to select the Play Later option that adds it to queue.

Is there a keyboard shortcut for this?

I was also not able to find this command in Apple Script's dictionary for iTunes.

(I just switched from Winamp on Windows, where I had to simply type J to add the currently highlighted song to queue)


texts:
I have the AppleTV connected via WiFi. I tried AirPlay via WiFi using my iPhone and it mirrored perfectly. The next day, the AppleTV was sleeping before I turned it on using the Apple Remote. However, the option to mirror my iPhone (or even my iPad and MacBook) is not there anymore! I tried using the AppleTV via the remote and works fine, it's just that the AirPlay option is gone.

Why is that?

Unplugging the AppleTV from the power source and plugging it back in got the AirPlay option back. Is there a way to make sure this doesn't happen again ?

Edit: Using an Ethernet cable fixes the problem, however I do not wish to keep it wired. Why would the AppleTV have problems only on wireless?


texts: xattr com.apple.quarantine on Mail folder constantly reappearing

texts:
I have a weird problem. I realized that new e-mails in Mail app haven't been indexed in Spotlight anymore. I discovered that the reason for that was an xattr com.apple.quarantine on the Mail folder:
ls -ld@ ~/Library/Mail returned the following result:
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 dave staff 256 17 Jan 2020 /Users/dave/Library/Mail
com.apple.quarantine 19

I tried to remove those attributes with xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Mail and checked the effect with ls -ld@ ~/Library/Mail and got:
drwxr-xr-x 8 dave staff 256 17 Jan 2020 /Users/dave/Library/Mail

But when I restarted Mail app I got after ls -ld@ ~/Library/Mail again:
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 dave staff 256 17 Jan 2020 /Users/dave/Library/Mail
com.apple.quarantine 19

What could be the reason for this weird behaviour? And what could be a solution?
Many thanks in advance for your hints and thoughts!
(Btw: I'm on 10.13.6)


texts: Is there any study on how which services/sensors consume the battery?

texts:
I am looking for some study/comparison on how battery-consuming are specific services/sensors (3G, Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometer) in the iOS devices.

Has anyone stumbled across something like that?


texts: Can I upgrade from 10.6 to 10.7 for free?

texts:
When I bought my new Mac at the end of July, 2011, the dealer (Microcenter, Marietta, GA) Renee told me I had 4 months to upgrade to Lion. I calendared the drop dead date at the end of November, and now discover I only had 30 days.

Is there a way to upgrade for free at this time?


texts: OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?

texts:
I like to read course material on Kindle. I merge all lecture slides with Automator and then send them to my Kindle email. Earlier, I have used Readle's Documents app (a spinoff of PDF Expert) where I had a search. If no OCR, then DjVU Reader in OS X to PDF and then ABBYY's FineReader Express to add OCR. Kindle has one failure with this: it cannot search despite the OCR of the PDF. It needs to be in a correct format: PDF is not a correct format but some Kindle's own format.

  So does there exist any app in OS X to make material such as lecture slides suitable for reading in Kindle? Lecture slides are technical containing mathematical formulae.

It requires many steps already over OS X with Automator, DjVU Reader, ABBYY -- to make searchable in one way. I am trying to find an easy way with Kindle and Apple OS X.


texts: I can't get Messages to work on my Macbook Pro (retina).  One day it just went offline, and I can't get it back online.  When I try to login I get this screen and it won't accept the password, even though I input the correct password. Can anyone help get it back online?  I've tried all the suggestions listed here so far without luck :-(


texts: Will the Battery of my MacBook Pro 15" 2016 deteriorate if it is plugged in charging all day?

texts:
I am using my MacBook pro 15" 2016 everyday and attached to it I have got a DELL Monitor 25" QHD. In order to use the monitor as main screen my MacBook pro needs to be plugged in charging all the time.

Will the battery of the MacBook deteriorate because of this?

Thanks


texts: "App of the Day is a feature of Pet Match" on each page of Safari

texts:
Just today-yesterday I started to see the following text almost on each second page I open in Safari. How to disable this?

  "App of the Day is a feature of Pet Match and uses visual search technology to find you relevant and related content from thousands of sites across the web. Just click on or hover over the orange InSite icon to open this window and discover related content. To disable this feature, click here. If you wish to share any feedback on this feature, contact us at feedback@similarproducts.net
  App of the Day"

P.S. Opera looks fine meanwhile.
P.P.S. Also Safari now opens some pages much slower then Opera.


texts: How do install OS X El Capitan onto a VM

texts:
I am spinning up a VM to do some ruby development. At this point I am trying to install OS X 10.11 to it. I have looked into several ways, but they are not working because I have a bad network connection. How is this done?

Here is one link that I looked at: OS X on OS X


texts: How to set a default folder when opening Finder

texts:
I am new on MacOS, would like to set a default folder to open Finder, instead of Recent items folder.

I tried:

defaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTargetPath -string "file:///Users/path/to/folder"

But didn't worked...

Is there a way to do it?


texts: iOS 10 Messages sending the incorrect music track

texts:
Me and my friend just updated to iOS 10. I've sent him a music track via iMessage.  He says that the sent track is a different track from the same artist.

When I tap the Play button to play the track within Messages, it's the track I've selected, but when I tap the album, it takes me to Apple Music with the incorrect track selected (and my friend sees that incorrect track). This seems to be a very serious issue, how do I get rid of it? (and can someone please add the tag ios10?)


texts:
I have an 16G iPhone 5s with iOS 10.1 that is very quickly eating up space to "Zero KB". When checked in "Manage Storage" the apps definately doesn't add up to 11.9 GB.

When I try to remove some of largest apps, free space appears but shortly after is back to "Zero KB".

When connected to iTunes Audio + Photos + Apps + Documents & Data + Other + Free adds up to less than 7GB only.

Has anybody experienced anything similar or has any clue about where to look for a solution?

Edit:
Found similar symptoms described in https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/538v68/after_ios_10_update_storage_available_keeps/

Edit 2:
I tried to delete some of recently updated apps to see if anyone of the could be causing the issues. The apps were: Pokemon Go, Hooks, Skype, 9GAG, Twitter, JIRA Cloud, Audible, Endomondo, Netflix, Google maps, Instagram, Taxify.
It looks as uninstalling an reinstalling them might have restored small part of the lost storage space, but definately not all.
Will continue to investigate and report


texts: app to manage symbolic links and move files automatically?

texts:
I have about a terabyte of media files on an external hard drive. At any given moment I need a subset of these files locally on the SSD for faster access. Some times the hard drive isn't even available, but when it is I should still be able to use the files on it from a symlink path on the SSD. Is there an app that will automatically move groups of files back and forth, creating symlinks for the ones on the hard drive in the process?

I was able to find something like this for Windows: http://ozuke.comoj.com/ but have had no luck for OSX.  Would really like to find an existing solution before I start hacking away at python to make it myself.


texts: How can I disconnect from all WiFi networks, yet leave WiFi antenna on so Internet Sharing will work properly?

texts:
I would like to have my MacBook's Wi-Fi antenna on, but not be connected to any wireless network. Instead I would like for my MacBook to share its Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet connection so my iPhone can get a taste. (My office was built on an ancient Bermudian triangle sanctuary.)

I am using the same settings, toggling things hasn't worked yet:

[x] Internet Sharing
Share from: [_Thunderbolt_Ethernet___]
To computers using: [x] Wi-Fi

(green light) Internet Sharing: On

However the Wi-Fi icon in the notifications area usually shows a vertical arrow when it is working properly. Right now it just connects to the nearby networks (public and login walled) and refuses to broadcast, even though the green light still says 'On'.

Anyway I suspect that my computer's trying to connect to Wi-Fi networks, it indefinitely forgoes its opportunity to broadcast its own SSID. How can I make this work again?


texts: Camera not working again on mid 2013 Macbook Air after the second 10.8.5 upgrade

texts:
As mentioned here, the first 10.8.5 upgrade made the camera unavailable for Skype. This being totally unacceptable to me, I applied the fix that was around on macrumours, I backed up the AppleCamera.plugin under /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/, deleted it, and put the 10.8.4 version of the file there. This fixed it until yesterday, when I applied the second 10.8.5 update. The update didn't complain about anything, but now the camera doesn't work again. I've tried using the backed up file, the 10.8.4 again, and the new version that a friend who didn't apply the fix got from the new update (which I didn't). His AppleCamera.plugin is 2.3MB in size, while mine is 2.2MB or 2.4MB (backed up / 10.8.4).

I'm sure everyone who applied that fix is now with the same problem, but I can't find anyone mentioning anything anywhere. Help!


texts:
I am noticing an interface on my system called ipsec0 but I can't figure out what is creating it.

I have no VPN software installed or VPN connections configured on the system. Back to my Mac service is disabled as well.

Below is the output from ifconfig

ipsec0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 50000

The MTU of 50000 is very strange as well.


texts: Where is the True Tone ambient light sensor on the 2018 MacBook Pro?

texts:
The 2018 MacBook Pro has an ambient light sensor for its True Tone display. Where exactly is this sensor? I'm hoping for a diagram so that I know where exactly to position a webcam slider cover without blocking the sensor.

According to MacRumors:

  Apple says the new MacBook Pro has a multi-channel ambient light sensor, next to the FaceTime HD camera

but that isn't specific enough to tell which side or how far from the camera.


texts: I would like to create a calendar from my iPhotos and mail it directly in a country different from my billing country (to reduce delivery cost). Is this possible?


texts: Where do provisioning profiles live in my iPhone XS?

texts:
Apple Developer Program Information says:

A Development Provisioning Profile must be installed on each device on
which you wish to run your application code.
Each Development
Provisioning Profile will contain a set of iPhone Development
Certificates, Unique Device Identifiers and an App ID.

So where are provisioning profiles in my iPhone XS?
Can I see them?
Can I download them?
Can I beam them to any other device via bluetooth? airdrop? email?


texts: How to remove Preview.app on-screen navigation toolbar?

texts:
When I open a picture in fullscreen, it has an overlay like this:

Is there a way to permanently disable it?


texts: Quick Look video scrubbing on macOS High Sierra

texts:
Previously, when previewing a video in Quick Look, scrolling right and left on the trackpad would scrub forward and backward, but after upgrading to macOS High Sierra, this seems no longer to be the case.

Is there any way to re-enable this setting? Or, if not, are there any alternative ways to scrub? (Dragging the line on the progress bar is not nuanced enough, especially for longer videos.)


texts: Mail app unable to verify account name or password

texts:
Lately, I 've been experiencing a problem with my hotmail account when I try to get connected through the mail.app on my Mac (I have the latest version of MacOS installed). It cannot get connected and actually this is the error message that pops out.

I have also tried to delete my hotmail account and re-add it, without any success. Also, I have tried Microsoft Outlook for Mac and I experience the same problem. IMAP settings seem to be correct.

All my other accounts work properly.

P.S. I can get connected to my hotmail account when I use a browser.


texts: Switching from a Mac Mini HTPC to an Apple TV: what solution for watching these mkv files?

texts:
I use a 2009 Mac Mini. I almost thought it had died but false alarm. Regardless, it got me thinking about the future. I currently use my Mac Mini to, in no particular order:

watch the occasional DVD (no longer Netflix but RedBox from time to tie)
stream TV shows from Hulu, Netflix
download stuff via torrent
watch said stuff via VLC (it's usually a mix of mp4 and mkv)
do some web browsing

Clearly if I move to the Apple TV, torrenting is off, but that can be done via another computer. DVD watching is not a big deal and could be replaced by iTunes or Amazon rental, and rip some of my own DVDs. The biggest problem is how to watch the stuff on the Apple TV. If I attach a drive to my Airport extreme, any chance I can stream at least the MP4 to the Apple TV? Any chance to Airplay from another computer using VLC? Will this be solved when Apple opens up the Apple TV to developers (VLC,Plex)? Can these be installed on a jailbroken ATV? It looks like it for Plex. Anyone has any experience with it?


texts: Installing Xcode 7.x on El Capitan 10.11

texts:
I am on an old MacBook (mid-2009) that is not supporting Sierra. When I go to the App store to install Xcode 8 (only option available) it says that it is for 10.12 (Sierra) only. That means that if someone has El Capitan only and didn't install Xcode 7 before, cannot start developing apps for macOS / iOS? That seems absurd to me, El Capitan is still a modern OS... I might understand if you are on Leopard, but El Capitan is from 2015!

Is there any way to (legally) bypass this problem?


texts: Can I move my logic board between different models of MacBook Air?

texts: If I take out my logic board in my MacBook Air 2011 11-inch i5 2 GB RAM and put in a MacBook Air 2011 11-inch i7 4 GB RAM, will it work? If not why?


texts: Downloaded apps do not start, error -10658

texts:
When I downloaded an application (e.g. RubyMine) and transfered it to the Applications folder, the application wont start (nothing happens). It is not limited to the Applications folder, it appears for every directory I unpack the downloaded app (out of the .dmg).

When I type open RubyMine.app in the Terminal, I get:

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10658 for the file /Applications/RubyMine.app.

And it happens with more apps then only RubyMine.

What can I do about this? At the beginning i was asked to allow the startup of the downloaded app, but now this appears every time.