texts:
I just realised someone sent me an email 6 hours ago. This was an important mail.

I think I was watching a full-screen video in Safari at the time.

Does macOS block notifications when you are watching films? I've noticed this problem before, maybe I'm off the mark but missing notifications has become a problem as of late.

How can I make sure I'm getting all notifications (specifically Discord and Mail.app)


texts: What's the NB30 or MM-TD in an iPhone description in GSX?

texts:
What's the NB30 or  MM-TD in an iPhone description?
I always see these nomenclatures Non block, etc, what does it mean?


texts:
So using terminal I typed in:  nano .bash_profile
I then have access to the following bash_profile :

GNU nano 2.0.6                                                      File: .bash_profile

# Setting PATH for Python 2.7
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

# Setting PATH for Python 3.5
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

# Added by Canopy installer on 2015-09-29
# VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT can be set to '' to make bashprompt show that Canopy is active, otherwise 1
VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1 source '/Users/psa1/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/bin/activate'

# Setting PATH for Python 3.6
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

I would like to completely delete the Canopy line from by bash profile since it is messing up pip or twilio downloads for instance. But I don't know how to do that!


texts: add new item to Automation in Security & Privacy

texts:
I am having a problem with exporting from Adobe XD to Zeplin. On Export, Zeplin starts but does not recognize that it needs to import xd document, so it does nothing.
Apparently this could be caused by Adobe XD not having control over Zeplin.

I'd like to add a new rule to the Automation tab of Privacy in Security & Privacy as suggested here https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-xd/adobe-xd-artboards-not-export-to-zeplin/td-p/11340491.
No obvious add button is visible in the UI. What is the envisioned way of adding new rules to Automation tab? I am running osx 10.14.6.


texts: Will reinstalling macOS delete my data and installed apps?

texts:
My os (macOS High Sierra) got corrupted and login screen doesn't appear.. if I reinstall macOS from recovery menu will my previously installed software and data be deleted?

And if so how can I back them up on a hard drive, the data and the software are very important to me.


texts: How to reset NVRAM on iMac with bluetooth keyboard?

texts: I have a problem with a swipe back in Safari. On my MacBook I could fix it by resetting of NVRAM. I can't find out how to do it on iMac with a Bluetooth keyboard. Do I really need a cable keyboard in order to reset it?


texts:
Whenever I browse my Time Capsule's AirPort Disk, it seems very slow in simply listing the files it has. I am looking in directories with upwards of fifty music files in each.

Scrolling is really slow. I have turned of Icon Preview in the View Options etc. But it's still slow.

Anyone know how I can speed it up?

Thanks.


texts: Can i change the App availability multiple times?

texts:
Can i change the App availability date multiple times?. i.e Making it available for sale and changing it to future, again making it available etc.

Example:
I make an available today, its get on to the sale, people download it and use it.
I realize that there is a use case missed, but to confirm that i need more time, i immediately change the App's available date in Future, may be like 10 days and then test the use case and again make the app available.

If this can be done, i.e making it available and moving it to future, again making it available... Is there a restriction on number of times that you can do it, is there any Apple policy around it?


texts: why my mac opens with do not disturb mode although I didn't schedule?

texts: I don't choose any option on about Do Not Disturb. I added ss to you can see my settings. But sometimes Do Not Disturb mode opens automatically. (MacOS 11.2 Big Sur, Macbook Air 2017)


texts: Is it possible to change the Bluetooth UUID on my iPod?

texts: Is it possible to change the Bluetooth UUID (the 128-bit value) on my iPod (Currently running iOS 5.0)? or is this a factory locked value?


texts: Using Airport Express as a wireless repeater - Significant drop in wireless speed

texts:
I'm trying to extend wireless service to parts of my office that aren't getting a reliable connection. On one end of the office, we have an Airport Extreme, with a 60Mbps internet connection. In that room and the surrounding rooms, I get a pretty reliable 57Mbps or so on speedtest.

I've set up an Airport express as a repeater to carry the signal further down the hall. While near the airport express, I get full wireless connection (full bars), but on speedtest, I'm getting about 18Mbps.

We then tried putting in another Express half way in between, and saw no significant improvement.

Could the Express be bottlenecking the connection that bad?


texts: How to color code individual data points in line chart

texts:
This is a question about using charts in Numbers and color coding individual data points in a series.
I have two series of data (blood pressure readings) that I plot in a chart. The series may contain multiple readings made at different times on a day, or there may be a single reading.
Is there a way to color code the data points in each series to indicate which part of the day the reading was taken? e.g. 6am-10am = purple, 10am-2pm = orange, 2pm-6pm = blue, etc.
The reason I want to do this is to distinguish between readings taken before and after taking medication.


texts: Bootcamp Windows 7 Installation on Macbook Pro Late 2008 with MiniDisplayPort Monitor (Broken Laptop Display)

texts:
I previously had a setup of one SSD partitioned in two (Yosemite on first, Windows 7 on second) and the original HDD as additional storage (two HFS+ partitions). I was going through yesterday to try to clean up and make the HDD have two partitions -- one FAT and one HTS, while retaining my backups on the HTS. Long story short, for some reason my Windows install would fail to boot after these changes (despite being on a different drive from the Windows and macOS installations).

I wiped the Windows partition and have been attempting to reinstall via Bootcamp. Unfortunately, my laptop monitor has been broken since I did the first install and I think that may be my problem. I load a bootable USB and partition through Bootcamp Assistant just fine, but upon reboot to do the Windows installation, I get a momentary grey screen followed by a blank screen (monitor turns off from no signal). It does sound as though the machine is working, so my hunch is that the MiniDisplayPort drivers have not loaded but that the Windows installation is present. If it makes a difference, the monitor is running HDMI to a HDMI-to-Minidisplayport adaptor.

I think that I have ruled out the drive being un-bootable as I just used it to do a fresh macOS install on another machine. Any advice on next steps would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Can I safely charge an iPhone 4S with a 5V 2A source?

texts:
I just bought a New Trent IMP99D external battery, to keep my phone alive while gaming during long-haul flights. It has two USB ports to connect to, one which supplies 1 amp at 5 volts, another which supplies 2 amps at 5 volts.

The instruction manual says to connect smartphones to the 1-amp port, and any iPad 2's to the 2-amp port.

Is there any harm, or do I incur any inefficiencies, if I connect my iPhone 4S to the 2-amp port instead of the recommended 1-amp port?


texts: Force enabling TRIM before setup assistant is run

texts:
Basically, I'm preparing to give a MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X 10.11.4, to someone, but I need to execute "sudo trimforce enable" beforehand, as it contains an aftermarket SSD (fully compatible with TRIM). I wanted them to be able to use the normal setup assistant, so creating a user to run the command is not ideal.

Is it possible to boot into recovery or single user mode and run the command, without having to create a user account?

Thank you.


texts:
I don't trust any SSH app on the App Store to make secure connections.

Any clue if there exist open-source terminals for iPhone or iOS?


texts: Will Apple reject an app with "background fetch" which is used to upload a photos

texts:
Looks like this is the right place to ask.

Basically I'm gonna to build an app which, while suspended periodically uploads photos to server (just like Google Photos uploads new photos to their backend while the app is in background).

I'm thinking of using Background Fetch to get notified of a moment to check if sync is required and to upload any photos if so.

The question is will apple reject the app?

My concern here is that according to the specs Background Fetch is intended to fetch small amount of data from the network while I'm gonna to use it like in the opposite direction - to upload relatively big amount of data.

Probably someone had similar experience.

It's like a different question, however if this approach doesn't work, could anyone bring the light on what an appropriate solution could be? Google got approved with their photos anyway so there should be a way (yes, I'm not Google but hopefully there is a solution for ordinary developer as well).


texts: AppleScript : do a mouse scroll on a Finder window

texts:
How can I do a mouse scroll on a Finder window in AppleScript ?

I know there is keystroke for the keyboard, click for a mouse click, but is there something for the mouse wheel ?


texts: What is the quickest way to send some text from desktop\laptop to iPhone?

texts: I usually send emails to myself, but I wonder if there is a better way to share something quickly from my PC\laptop to iPhone.


texts: What documentation is included in the box with the iPad 3?

texts:
The Apple website states that there is "Documentation" included in the box and several unboxing videos on YouTube clearly show some kind of physical documentation - but don't state what it is. What should this documentation include?

Specifically, I am wondering if there should be some kind of newbie-getting-started-guide included? And what this contains?


texts: Why did changing from gmail to inbox.com delete contacts from an iPhone4s? Can I retrieve the contacts?

texts: I changed my email from gmail to inbox.com on an iPhone4s and discovered most of my contacts are gone. Only recent contacts and Facebook contacts remain. Of course I did not backup the contacts.


texts: How to restore OS X drive to factory defaults?

texts:
I turned off the Core Storage volume manager on my OS X partition (i.e. diskutil cs revert). Now my Recovery HD displays in Disk Utility and in Startup Manager.

I don't like this and would like to undo this change. For example, I can no longer boot from the recovery disk by holding Command+R at power on, instead it boots into Internet Recovery Mode.

I tried diskutil cs convert to change it back but I still see the Recovery HD everywhere.

Is there a way to completely restore the disk (and the partition CoreStorage settings, really the entire disk) to factory defaults?


texts: Does macOS keep a log of all access to the keychain?

texts: I want to see which applications accessed my keychain of my Mac. Do know which apps have access and how often they do. Does macOS keep a log of that somewhere ?


texts: Is it possible to enable "Focus follows Scrolling"?

texts:
I tried out Focus follows mouse and found too many occasions when it really annoys me. Thinking about the cases when I would need focus follows mouse, I realized that it's only necessary when I'm scrolling in a non-active window.

So: Is there the possibility of having the focus switch to a window in that I scroll? Either via some setting or external application?


texts: Host name change notification from System Administrator root@server.com

texts:
Our Mac OSX servers sends me this message every day:

Name: System Administrator
Email: root@server.SERVER.nl
Dept: Support

The host name of SERVER1 has changed to SERVER2. Some services may not work correctly until they have been updated to use the new configuration.

(in which, SERVER1 is the old host name and 2 the new host name of our server). What does it mean, and what could I do to solve this (get rid of this message). The server seems to work just fine, just as it did before.


texts: Is Lion's new "Date Added" field supposed to work in the Trash?

texts:
One of the little things in Lion I was most excited about was the Finder's new "Date Added" field. I wanted it for two folders in particular, for obvious reasons: the Downloads folder and the Trash.

Well, it works in Downloads, but as far as I can tell, not so much in the Trash. Now, when I first booted into Lion, Date Added didn't work anywhere. I suspected that it was because Spotlight wasn't done reindexing yet. Now that it's finished, Date Added is populated on new downloads, but still not in new Trash items.

Looks like it simply doesn't work. But maybe Spotlight is not the only thing involved. Am I missing something? Or am I doomed to futilely hoping they incorporate this in a point update?


texts: How to monitor multiple macOS system usage?

texts:
For GNU/Linux systems that runs as a server, we can get a dashboard with system information like cpu, memory, network usage etc. What software is used to collect this information?
For macOS, is there any similar application where I can see all the system health of macs. I am basically looking for running a couple of macs as a server and would want to monitor the system health.


texts: Create bootable USB disk with Bootcamp 6

texts:
I have OS X El Capitan with Bootcamp 6 in an Early 2015 Retina Macbook Pro. I want to create a bootable USB disk with Windows 10 to install it and then completely remove OS X. I have read different answers:

Can i remove OS X completely and install Windows?
Creating A Bootable USB Of Windows 8.1 On OS X?
Bootable Windows 7 USB won't boot
How to Create a Windows 10 Installer USB Drive from Mac OS X

But I can't get my USB to show when booting and pressing the "Option" key, only my external disk with the Time Machine backup and the internal SSD is showed. I tried using Bootcamp to create a USB disk as shown here:

But with Bootcamp 6 it just asks me for an ISO and then proceeds to repartition my disk, I can't create a bootable Windows disk. I also tried using RUFUS to create a bootable Windows USB disk but it is not detected neither. Any solution or alternative?


texts: Workflow for Transferring Data from One App To Another

texts:
The purpose of this question is to find out whether there is a way to create a certain kind of program to run on macOS.
Basically, I need a program that can look at data streaming on a screen in an app installed on macOS.  I have no access to the data except with my eyes looking at in through this app.  I am wondering if there is a way to make a program to save a copy of the data as it streams in (inputs).  While that is going on, the program needs to manipulate a block of records of that data, create one output record using rules I can program, then enter the output data into a form within a different app from a different software maker, completely separate from the app streaming the data.
In other words, the program I need will bridge data from one app, process the data, and enter results in another app by putting the data into a form on the screen.  The program receiving the data cannot read data from my computer anywhere except through the form on the screen.
A robot could be built to do this, but this would be nuts.  The robot would need a camera to see the data on my screen, software for translating what it sees into data files, a processor with software for manipulating the data to determine the output data, and a mechanical arm for moving the mouse to select the other program, and for typing the data through my keyboard into the other program.
Is there a way to program this without using a robot?


texts:
In macOS, do hashing tools (shasum, crypto libs, openssl, etc), only consider the files' data forks when calculating a digest?
Does the resource fork just get ignored? If so can it be included?


texts: How to rewind/fast-forward audio messages in iOS

texts: Is it just me or is there really no way to rewind or fast-forward audio messages received with the Messages app (iMessage)? I have iOS 13 on my iPhone.


texts: Where are the temporary passwords located on mac

texts:
When I try to access my Mac Pro Desktop from my MacBook Pro, it doesn't let me connect to Mac Pro anymore , I think I've changed the password without ticking the box: "Remember this password in my keychain"

The problem is, I cannot find the password in order to connect to Mac Pro Desktop.

I have researched this problem on the forum and have looked at my keychains, on which no item exists relating to this problem. I also created a test account on the Mac Pro Desktop  and tried to connect to the  Mac Pro Desktop as a registered user, but that user name and password was also deemed invalid.

Does anyone know where the passwords which are not saved where they are stored on a Mac or  creating a new password or making the Mac Pro Desktop to see the MacBook Pro  as a new Machine?


texts: Default sender in Apple Mail when replying and more than one account

texts: Using Mavericks Apple Mail, I have two Exchange mail accounts, one for myself and one for Jane Doe.  The accounts are organised in the left hand mailbox list with mine above Jane Doe's.  If I reply to mail sent to both myself and Jane Doe, the default Sender that Apple Mail uses (unless I change it with the pulldown menu of email addresses) is Jane Doe, but it should be myself (since I am writing the email).  Is this a bug, or behaviour that I can change?  Note that on Preferences > Composing I have set "Send new messages from:" to my email, but this doesn't make a difference (and indeed the setting says it is for new messages, while I am concerned with the Sender of replies.)


texts: spotlight does not find text in .docx files

texts:
On my MacBook Pro running Sierra I have this problem:  when I look for a text string in a MS Word ".docx" file the search function does not find it although it can be found all right when I save the same file as ".doc".
What can I do to also find strings in .docx files?


texts: How to synchronize password with macbook safari and iphone3gs safari?

texts:
I would like to use the password generated by my macbook safari while I am using my iPhone 3gs safari...

Is that possible somehow?


texts: Problems importing an calendar event into iCal

texts:
I'm trying to import a calendar event from an ics file into iCal/Calendar:

Event details

SUMMARY:Class: ACCT 1001 1 Lecture(1829)
Start date and time: 30/08/2012 and 3.00 PM
End date: 12/12/2012 and 3.50 PM
MO,WE,FR only these days need to set in the date range(doesn't need to set all day).

ics file

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//bashmoblie v0.1//NONSGML iCal Writer//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120830T150000
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20121212T155000;WKST=SU;BYDAY=MO,WE,FR
DTSTAMP:20091130T213238Z
     UID:1285935469767a7c7c1a9b3f0df8003a@yoursever.com
     CREATED:20091130T213238Z
SUMMARY:Class: ACCT 1001  1 Lecture(1829)
LAST-MODIFIED:20091130T213238Z
     EQUENCE:0
     STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Class: ACCT 1001  1 Lecture(1829)
LOCATION:Title:  Introduction to Accounting(Lecture)
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Problem

The problem with this is doesn't correctly import the end time (gets set to 3PM in iCal). How can I fix this?


texts: How do I remove all the menu bar icons from MacOS Big Sur apart from cmd + dragging?

texts: I want to remove all the menu bar items like wifi, spotlight, Bluetooth, etc. Command + dragging works but it's not a feasible option since we have a lot of terminals. Is there any other way to do the same via the terminal?


texts: Does the presence of Diagnostic Data mean someone unauthorized is checking my phone?

texts:
What does Settings > Privacy > Diagnostic & Usage Data mean?

I think there is a chance that I am being watched.


texts:
macOS Catalina has a feature where you can use your iPad as a secondary display for your Mac. I have a Macbook Pro 2016 and a 10.5 inch iPad Pro 2017. Both are officially supported for the latest versions of macOS and iPadOS and support Sidecar.

I installed the latest version of iPadOS and macOS and tried using Sidecar and it kinda works but it's extremely laggy and blurry and almost unusable and if I turn wifi off in my mac it disconnects and complains about wifi being turned off.

As far as I know this feature can work with wired connections as well and I tried connecting iPad to Macbook using a (Lightning -> USB A) to USB C adapter and also also tried using a USB 3 hub connected directly to the laptop using USB C and it still does not work.

Is there any way I could force Sidecar to work over a wired connection?


texts: /dev/tty.usbmodem disappears after Mountain Lion upgrade

texts:
I just upgraded from 10.6 to Mountain Lion.  Prior to the upgrade I was using an Arduino and talking to it via /dev/tty.usbmodemmfa141. That device does not appear to exist anymore.

When I plug in the Arduino via USB, the Mac should detect it and add /dev/tty.usbmodemXXXX for communication, but it does not. How can I force the Mac to see the Arduino or search for USB devices?


texts: Magic Keyboard Number Keys 0 - 9 NOT Working

texts:
The number keys 1 - 9 are not responding
0 and Enter do work
As a result I cannot enter the pairing code
( mouse keys are not enabled )
purchased off eBay and the magic keyboard came with it. I have plugged in a cheap standard USB keyboard and that works fine. It is the older magic keyboard so only has number keys at the top. Can I rest this keyboard somehow?
Please advise


texts:
I found a bug in the latest version of Safari, how can I report it to Apple?

They no longer have the menu option to submit bug reports. I've tried searching Google but all the results are outdated.


texts:
If I have a Preview window with multiple tabs inside, then after I restart my mac (Catalina version 10.15.7), all the tabs "unmerge" into their own separate windows.
Is there a way to stop this from happening?
I know how to merge all Preview windows into one window composed of multiple tabs. This is not ideal because sometimes I want to have certain windows kept separate and it is quite annoying to have to manually redo this after every restart.


texts: Script to move files under their first letter name

texts:
i've a lot of files (1000+) in a single directory, and i would like to organize them into sub directories, according to their first letter.
So i've 200 files starting with A, and i would like to move them into subdirectory "A", then all "B" files etc. etc.

How to do ?


texts: How do we extend trackpad touch area all the way to the edge in OS X?

texts:
For example, when touching on the very edges of the trackpad, OS X ignores gestures. In Linux, I can use the full trackpad.

How do I use the full trackpad in OS X? How do I tell OS X not to ignore the edges of the trackpad?

EDIT: oops, looks like I posted a duplicate: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/233928/how-to-enable-touch-on-the-bottom-edge-of-the-trackpad, but no responses there yet. :(


texts: Screen Time shows 24hr usage for several weeks

texts:
Screen Time on my iPhone 8 (iOS 14.2) is reporting that the Wikipedia app has been running 24hrs a day for a few weeks. I don’t even have the Wikipedia app installed on my phone.
What’s going on and how can I fix it? I’m trying to use Screen Time to limit my usage, but now the statistics are completely messed up.


texts:
Until 2 December by home security camera sent email alerts to my iCloud mail accounts from another home email account which I also use on my Mac. Since then emails have been returned undelivered, apparently blocked by Apple.  Test messages from my Mac to my iCloud account are similarly returned, though traffic is still being received in the iCloud account from other sources.  The CCTV alerts are not being sent to the junk folder.  How can I find out what is going on?

Below is the returned mail message I typically receive, Proofpoint tells me that the sovision SMTP mail server address, 109.228.41.85, is not blacklisted.

*********
This is the Postfix program at host sv0.sovision.net.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

            The Postfix program

<colinmccleery@me.com>: host mx5.mail.icloud.com[17.172.34.68] said: 550 5.7.0
   Blocked - see
   https://support.proofpoint.com/dnsbl-lookup.cgi?ip=109.228.41.85:
   colinmccleery@me.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)
Reporting-MTA: dns; sv0.sovision.net
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: B95E877C147
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; colin@mccleery.org
Arrival-Date: Thu,  3 Dec 2015 11:10:00 +0000 (GMT)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; colinmccleery@me.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mx5.mail.icloud.com[17.172.34.68] said: 550
   5.7.0 Blocked - see
   https://support.proofpoint.com/dnsbl-lookup.cgi?ip=109.228.41.85:
   colinmccleery@me.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)

From: <colin@mccleery.org>
Date: 3 December 2015 at 11:11:51 GMT
To: <colinmccleery@me.com>
Subject: 00626E4841B8(Front) motion alarm at 20151203121146

************


texts: Is there a program I can install to make title/header bars attach to the window?

texts:
I've been using Windows since the 80's.  A month ago I got a Mac for a side project I'm working on.  Despite my best efforts, I haven't gotten used to the fact that the menu bar of windows aren't attached to the window and instead are on top of the screen.  Also haven't gotten used to the close/minimize/maximize buttons being on the left.

If this were Linux, I could change that and have it look and behave like Windows. Is there a way I can do it on a Mac?  Either by downloading and installing a program, or through some preferences modifications?


texts: How to tell can I tell if my iPhone 5c is 3G or 4G?

texts:
I ordered an iPhone 5c for 4G usage. However, the phone I received displays a 3G on the top left of my screen.

Does 3G on the top left mean I'm using 3G?

Does this convert to 4G through proper configuration?


texts: Mavericks Internet Sharing Ethernet to Wifi suddenly stopped working

texts:
I'm using Internet Sharing to convert Ethernet into a wifi hotspot through my Macbook Pro. I'm using the latest version of Mavericks, and today suddenly my internet sharing stopped working. I tried looking for people with similar problems using Google but couldn't find any completely similar stories. Things I tried:

set up Internet Sharing again using a different setup (e.g. different channel)
checked

  sudo launchctl list | grep bootp

in the terminal (found that using Google), but it was set on anonymous already

unplugged my ethernet cable, although my internet on the Macbook works just fine

Maybe something that helps: whenever I try Internet Sharing the corresponding icon very briefly appears but then goes on into a icon indicating looking for wifi.

ifconfig gives me:

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=10b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,AV>
    ether a8:20:66:4b:c1:8d
    inet6 fe80::aa20:66ff:fe4b:c18d%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
    inet 192.168.0.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect (100baseTX <half-duplex>)
    status: active
en1: flags=8823<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 5c:96:9d:91:4c:53
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
    status: inactive
en3: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=60<TSO4,TSO6>
    ether d2:00:12:7b:27:00
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
    lladdr 10:dd:b1:ff:fe:27:b2:70
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
    ether 0e:96:9d:91:4c:53
    media: autoselect
    status: inactive
bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=63<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TSO4,TSO6>
    ether aa:20:66:b4:91:00
    Configuration:
        id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
        maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
        root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
        ipfilter disabled flags 0x2
    member: en3 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 0 path cost 0
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: <unknown type>
    status: inactive

Please let me know if you need additional information!


texts: How to use screen capture UI standalone, to edit existing images?

texts:
When doing screen capture in MacOS, you get a pop up in bottom right corner. If you click on it, you get UI for simple edits on this image. Nevertheless, I love it! It looks like this

But how can I use it for existing files?


texts: What is the keystroke code for space bar in applescript?

texts:
I am trying to create a applescript which utilises the keystroke spacebar I have this code

tell application "System Events"
    keystroke {Space}
end tell

But When I play the script "space" just doesn't work. I don't receive an error message or anything
(the whole code opens a recording software within the script that when spacebar is pressed recording stars but the script doesn't start the recording.)

Make Applescript press LShift

This post shows how to hold a modifier key left shift and send it to system events, but is the syntax above correct to press the space bar?


texts:
I i initially installed node via the package download at https://nodejs.org/en/.a
This has served me well as I have built numerous projects. However recently I have been reading a tutorial that instructs me to install node via "brew install node"

Do I really need to? Is this considered a separate installation of node? does it serve a different purpose than the one I installed via a package?


texts: When I go to download free apps it says it wants a payment method. I have already changed my settings to "none" like everyone says to do. But it still asks for one. How do I get it to stop asking for this after I already changed everything?


texts: I can't disable find a phone on my iphone 5

texts: My iphone got wet and although it is switched off and the sim card is removed, it is still showing as online on icloud so I can't disable the find my phone to enable me to claim on the insurance.  If I erase the phone from icloud, (by clicking on the x next to the device) what does that mean to my data on my phone when I replace my phone?  Does this action of deleting the device from icloud just mean that I have only disabled the find my phone app?


texts: How to remove duplicate devices in "text message forwarding" on my iMesssage setting (iPhone)

texts:
I have reformatted my MBPr/MBP (have both) multiple times and now, they are also appearing multiple times on my iPhone (Setting => iMessage => Text Forwarding).

Any ideas on how to remove duplicate/unused ones? Thank you


texts: Actual stereo sound with bluetooth headset

texts:
I have a bluetooth headset (Logitech UE9000), I always found the sound quality on OSX to be less than when connected to my android phone.

Further investigation leads me to believe that there is no stereo sound being outputted. A simple youtube stereo test (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAOQWSmkofA) has the result of left or right channel to be outputted simultaneously to both earspeakers.

This is not an quality issue, the sound is clear, as such, the advise which is littered everywhere on the web to up the quality by doing some command line magic is not helping:

defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "Apple Bitpool Min (editable)" 200

By alt-clicking on the bluetooth icon I can see that my active codec is "AptX" which should be the correct codec for high quality.

Do others have successfully connected their headsets with real stereo/separate channel audio?


texts: Is there a way to log all incoming Push Notifications in OS X El Capitan (v 10.11.4)?

texts: I need the ability to write all incoming Push Notifications (APNS) to a log file. Basically, I would like to end up with an ongoing record of all the Push Notifications that I receive. What is the best way for a newbie to do this in El Capitan?


texts: Bootcamp partition not showing up after OS partition resize

texts:
I have a MacBookPro mid 2012 with OSX El Căpitan and yesterday I resized my OSX partition in order to make more room for the bootcamp partition (Win. 8.1). After I decreased the OSX partition I tried to log into the bootcamp partition but it didn't show up anymore, even if it appears Ok in finder. Would you please help me to recover it ?

Thanks a lot,

Emil


texts: Force Preview to use freehand mode by default in Big Sur

texts:
How do I force Preview to use freehand mode by default?
This question is asked before but there seems to be no answer
Force Preview to use freehand mode by default
It's super annoying that everytime I draw in Preview, I have to revert my drawing because it insists on smooth drawing.


texts: What are api.smoot.apple.com and other hosts my iPhone is secretly talking to?

texts:
Looking through some log files today I found something strange :

TCP_MISS/200 4931 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.253 -
TCP_MISS/200 4656 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.253 -
TCP_MISS/200 4656 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.253 -
TCP_MISS/200 4931 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.253 -
TCP_MISS/200 4629 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.253 -
TCP_MISS/200 4656 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.250 -
TCP_MISS/200 4930 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.250 -
TCP_MISS/200 4656 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.250 -
TCP_MISS/200 4931 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.250 -
TCP_MISS/200 4656 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.248 -
TCP_MISS/200 5206 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.248 -
TCP_MISS/200 6959 CONNECT bookkeeper.itunes.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.217.226.217 -
TCP_MISS/200 6959 CONNECT bookkeeper.itunes.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.217.226.217 -
TCP_MISS/200 1041 CONNECT bookkeeper.itunes.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.217.226.217 -
TCP_MISS/200 6959 CONNECT bookkeeper.itunes.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.217.226.217 -
TCP_MISS/200 1057 CONNECT bookkeeper.itunes.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.217.226.217 -
TCP_MISS/200 22836 CONNECT init.itunes.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.217.226.217 -
TCP_MISS/200 22868 CONNECT init.itunes.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.217.226.217 -
TCP_MISS/200 5155 CONNECT xp.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.154.66.107 -
TCP_MISS/200 5155 CONNECT xp.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.154.66.107 -

Apparently api.smoot.apple.com is used for Spotlight search suggestions in Yosemite, except during the timeframe the log was taken I didn't even pull down on my home screen to open the search, and the spotlight suggestions are disabled in the phone's search settings - for the other hosts they are linked to iTunes but no info on what they do exactly...

I did some testing and it seems like every time I unlock my phone after a bit of inactivity, or shortly after I lock it again a request to that host is fired and gets a response with an average size of 5kb...

All these URLs were called when the device was idle, freshly unlocked and on the home screen with no apps in background.

Can anyone shed some light on this ?


texts: Today & Tomorrow Summaries re-add to Notifications on reboot.

texts:
Every time I reboot my computer, Today Summary and Tomorrow Summary re-add themselves to my Notification Center. I remove them (click Edit, click the red block button, click Done), and they only stay removed until next reboot.

I'm the only user on my machine. My account is admin. I sync with iCloud, but I don't use these widgets in iOS either, and they don't re-appear there ever.

Is there perhaps a pref file I should trash, or a cache I should reset?

MacBook Pro
macOS 10.12.5 Sierra


texts:
Whenever I try to download an app in iOS, the icon goes onto my Home screen, but then it gets stuck on loading.

What do I do to resolve this?


texts: How to Export Google Calendar Events That Have Not Synced and are Stored Only on iPhone

texts:
My wife has been using the Calendar app on her iPhone to store many important events under a calendar in her Google account. That Google account stopped syncing with her phone months ago, but she has continued to add events under that Google account on her phone. Now she has many events that only appear on the phone. They are not visible on calendar.google.com.

Here's the calendar on her phone that I'm trying to get events from:

I'm trying to restore the syncing of her phone's calendar events with Google Calendar.

I've tried restarting the phone and adding a test event and forcing a refresh, but that didn't work.

My next step is to delete the Google account from her phone and re-add it, but how can I first back up the locally stored calendar events so that we don't lose them?

I tried syncing calendars with iTunes, but iTunes doesn't let me choose calendars from the Google account - it only shows some default calendars like Home and Work and Calendar that she doesn't use. I synced and verified in the Calendar app on her Mac that it did not sync the calendars from her Google account.

Here are the calendars from her phone that are available to sync with iTunes

iOS 10.11.1, MacOS 10.12.6, iTunes 12.7.5.9


texts: How do I configure a Smart Playlist to show songs not in other Playlists?

texts:
I have a ton of songs that I classify in named playlists, and would like to have an easier way of knowing if a song has been previously classified or not. The thought occurred to me to make a Smart Playlist that will show me songs that meet the following requirements:

Media Type must be Music (excludes Music Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Podcasts, etc.)
Must not exist in any playlist within the parent Classification folder.
Must not exist in the "Unclassifiable" folder.

I can't get the Smart Playlist to populate with all remaining songs:

Is it possible to create a Smart Playlist showing all songs not in another playlist?


texts:
Why can't I watch my purchased itune movies offline on my MacBook Pro?
no wifi no movie yet I have purchased all of them.


texts: Is there a way to auto "put back" everything in Trash?

texts:
My wife saw the folder 'all documents' in Finder and decided to move it all to the trash.

Now we have over 9,000 files in the trash and I haven't been able to find a way to put back everything with one click.

For some reason it will only let me 'put back' one file at a time.

Is there any way to automate this?


texts: OS X: Is there a way to change the default behavior of copy/move overwrite?

texts:
Problem: Many of my friends are moving to OS X and are frustrated that, unlike Windows and *NIX systems, copying/moving a folder (with sub-folders) deletes the destination folder if a folder of the same name already exists at the destination.

Question: Is there a way to hack the system (or install a plugin?) so that it by default copy/move operations merge the source and destinations instead of outright wiping out the destination and everything inside (with no option for recovery)?


texts: How to enable/disable grayscale mode in Accessibility via Terminal/App?

texts:
I'm wondering what would be the process of enabling/disabling the grayscale mode in the Accessibility panel in System Preferences?

I would like to run a simple script, either by clicking on an app in the Dock or by a Terminal command, and have it switch from grayscale to regular mode.

Any ideas?


texts:
Some of my friends said that OS X sucks because you only have to choose one theme on every device that have OS X. I searched, but I didn't find any feasible solution just one little thing that cost money (and I didn't want to risk it).

Is there a easy way to change OS X themes that is free? Please don't tell me that the theme doesn't need to be changed; I really want something like Ubuntu that can change anything, I really love my Ubuntu desktop (KDE and Gnome).

If OS X doesn't do this, are there any 3rd-party utilities that can?


texts: How to play a dvd movie with external subtitles?

texts:
This is not about authoring the DVD (not similar to this question): just want to insert the DVD in a laptop, start it in a video player, and then add a separate subtitle that I have myself found. (Some DVD movies contain no subtitles - or some subtitles may be needed that are not on the DVD.)

I know how to do that in Windows and in Linux - without VLC: it can try but has bad results in this respect. - Every time I try it, external subtitle display for a DVD in VLC is erratic; usually subtitles are not always displayed, or they disappear after a while, namely after pause/play or after going back and forth. (See here, here, here, here about this old bug that is not yet completely gone, afaict.) Here it says VLC is the only Mac player that can do the job. But is it?

Are there some Mac video players that could achieve this task - like MPC-HC (Potplayer, etc) can in Windows (and MPV and SMPlayer in Linux)?


texts: Mail showing incorrect number of flagged emails

texts:
As you can see from the screenshot, Mail has a problem with flagging emails. All emails in here were once flagged, but now only two of them actually are. Yet these emails persist in showing. Sometimes the total count is different to either number.

I have tried the basics: quit Mail, restarted my Mac. Any thoughts?

macOS 10.15.2


texts: Can I receive emergency alerts on an IPad through WiFi?

texts:
I have an iPad Pro with iOS 12.1.1, WiFi only (it has a cell modem but I never activated it), in USA. Can I enable wireless emergency alerts somehow? Like the NWS and AMBER alerts I get on my phone.

All internet instructions (example) refer to a "government alerts" section at the bottom of Notification settings, but I don't have that, there's nothing below the app list on that page.


texts: Presentation Without Mirroring on MacBookPro

texts: I know this is similar to other questions, but not quite. I'm used to Windows and now I have a MacBookPro at school. In Windows I can show a slide from a presentation while working on another application on my laptop. I know it interferes with the slideshow, but I really just want to show that one slide to my class. I can do that with Windows, however, on the MacBookPro I use at school, after clicking off mirroring and going to the slideshow I immediately get the presenter's view so I can't do anything else but the presentation. I am clicking on View Slideshow not clicking on View Presenter's Tools. The screen has the slide and my desktop switches to presenter's view. Am I missing something or will my Mac not allow anything else but the presentation to work at the same time? As I said, I went to settings > display and turned off mirroring.


texts:
I have an iPhone 5 - not yet jailbroken - running iOS 7.0.6 (via recent OTA update). I heard about the 7.1 update today and thought if I would ever jailbreak, this would be the time. evasi0n's page states "Over The Air updates of iOS 7 are known to create an issue and make the jailbreak fail." So, I download the appropriate 7.0.6 IPSW and try to restore through iTunes. But it appears Apple has already closed this SHSH blob (today, drats) and iTunes errors out with the "This device isn't eligible for the requested build" error.

I plan on not upgrading to 7.1 until this answer is a definitive "no".

My question: Is there a way for someone in my situation running 7.0.6 (OTA) to Jailbreak?


texts: Mac as wi-fi hotspot: how many devices can connect?

texts: Is there a theoretical or practical limit to the number of devices that can be connected to a Macbook Pro sharing its internet connection as a wi-fi hotspot?


texts: I have an early 2011 MBP running Lion. Is there a way to let screen not switch off  i.e, a keep screen on software? I heard several recommendations of a application named coffee for Mac but I can't find it anywhere.


texts:
I just reinstalled mountain lion and seem to have lost git in the process. I tried following this post : Why is Git not found after installing OS X Lion? but although I can cd into /usr/local/git I get /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/binwhen I echo $PATH

How can I change the path so I can go back to using git? Sorry if this is an obvious question, I'm fairly new to git/terminal commands.

Update:

I tried as suggested in another post and it seems to be working again:

sudo -s
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
ln -s /usr/local/git/bin/git /usr/local/bin/git
exit


texts:
I unpacked my new MacBook only 2 days ago and it showed 9-10 hours of battery life (as advertised). I didn't calibrate it, since it is no longer necessary (I was told).

Today I noticed that it started to show only 4 hours of battery life with 98% charge. I am a student and it shows me these stats when I run nothing - I am not editing photos, watching movies, etc. I only had I tab in a browser (Chrome) opened.

Do you know, why is that? Should I check with Apple if my battery is somehow faulty?

I am a first time MacBook owner.


texts: Can i change the default Mac App Store install folder?

texts:
I prefer to have all applications installed per-user, to ~/Applications/ rather than globally. The default location for apps installed from the Mac App Store is the global applications folder located at /Applications/.

Is there a defaults write com.apple.AppStore command I can run in the terminal, or perhaps a .plist file I can edit manually, to change this default preference?


texts: Re-Merge El Capitan Recovery with Original Mac OS

texts:
Due to recent partitioning mistakes I was unable to boot up my Mac OSX or my Bootcamp on my Mac since. As a last resort I went to recovery mode and downloaded a new El Capitan OS.

Unfortunately this OS created its own partition. Once I was able to delete the problem partitions, I found I no longer needed the El Capitan Recovery partition.

I am looking for a safe way to merge my Fusion Drives back to 1 whole partition, preferably without losing any of the data on my original Mac OS X.


texts:
So I've been getting an issue where my computer will randomly create untitled folders on the desktop, last night as much as 12! This has been going on for weeks now.

I am a software developer and am using MacOS Sierra Version 10.12 with a Mac Pro (Late 2013), 3.5 Ghz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 with 16GB 1866 Mhz DDR3, AMD FirePro D300 2048 MB.

I've read some issues of people having this problem here (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5555689?start=0&tstart=0), but the discussion is outdated.

1.) I disconnected from internet and left the computer on all night, the folder appearing still occurs.

2.) I have no screen sharing computer control apps

3.) I've looked into a fix where you delete the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist but that file does not appear to exist??

Please any ideas are appreciated as its very annoying how it fills up the desktop every morning.  I'm not sure how to reproduce the error on command yet.

Attached is only plist files I could find.  I'll upload screenshot of untitled folders tomorrow or when it happens again.


texts: What should i do when pIctures on my iphone are not rotating when i rotate the device,?

texts:
I have a relatively new iphone 4s and suddenly the other day when i rotate the phone nothing on the device (pictures, etc) don't rotate anymore.

What is the best way to figure out what is going on?  I tried rebooting the device but that didn't seem to fix the issue.

any suggestions ?


texts: How to install OS X on a Windows only Mac?

texts:
I tried to use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on my MacBook Air. Long story short, due to installation issues, I wiped my MacBook Air drive.

I couldn't get my Mac to recognise a bootable disc of Yosemite made using this guide. After some more fidling I managed to install Windows 7 on my Mac but now I need to find a way to install OS X.


texts: Unable to copy OSX Installer from external drive to Mac

texts:
As usual I wanted to prepare bootable USB with OSX. Some time ago I've made a copy of my Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan to external drive.

I wanted simply to drag & drop El Capitan to prepare USB drive.

After dragging El Capitan app file to desktop I get

The point is, that my Desktop does not contain this file. What's wrong? The same happens to all 3 files. I cannot copy them. Are those files corrupted? In a meanwhile I'm downloading new file form App store...

This disk was plugged into Windows multiple times. Is it possible that Windows damaged app files? I've noticed that Windows treats app files as folders so maybe it changed the content?


texts: How can I prevent an exFAT volume from mounting on OS X?

texts:
I have two partitions, one is HFS+ and the other is exFAT.

I'm used to opening the /etc/fstab file, and inserting this line:

UUID=NUMBER none hfs rw,noauto

Note: The "hfs" stands for HFS+.

Now I want to automatically unmount the exFAT volume. I tried this:

UUID=NUMBER none msdos rw,noauto

So, my question is; which keyword should I use for unmounting an
exFAT volume/partition?


texts: Is imklaunchagent virus or Apple system file?

texts:
My client suspects the imklaunchagent damages his computer. I did some research but found two explanations. One is Apple's system file and the other is virus. Which one is true?
Apple System File?
claim 1

man imklaunchagent" in Terminal.app says:
imklaunchagent is automatically invoked to launch input methods that
are selected via direct user inter- action. It is not intended to be
invoked via other means and must not be terminated. imklaunchagent
monitors abnormal behavior and will disallow an input method from
launching if it repeatedly terminates unexpect- edly within a short
timespan.

(Reference: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251183015)
claim 2

Do you happen to write in, say, Chinese or Japanese? I think the
process you are mentioning is part of Apple's Input Method Kit
framework (
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Cocoa/RN-InputMethodKit/index.html),
which is used to support languages that use complex scripts.
The program itself is located in: /System/Library/Frameworks/InputMethodKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/imklaun
chagent
(Reference: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1463920)

claim 3 (see answer, not the question)

It's a standard macOS process. If you ever google a process name & all
you get are 'malware removal sites trying to sell you something'…
think twice about why. If the threat was real, the make-a-quick-buck
sites would be far far down the list, well below real issues faced by
real people.
The process is inside a protected area, in the System folder on the
System partition. You'd have to try very, very hard to overwrite it
with a malicious component - including rebooting to Recovery &
manually disabling SIP. macOS simply will not let a random process
anywhere near that area, even with admin permission.

(Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/1578763/how-do-i-remove-the-imklaunchagent-malware)
Virus?
(Reference: https://sensorstechforum.com/imklaunchagent-mac-remove/)


texts: Newly-created contacts in Outlook don't sync to iPhone

texts:
I hope someone can give me some guidance relative to syncing contacts between Outlook and my iPhone 5. I can sync contacts I load on my phone to Outlook, however when I enter new contacts into Outlook those contacts do not sync to my phone.

Why do my new contacts created in Outlook not sync?


texts: How do I spoof my en6 (wired ethernet) connection?

texts:
For reference:
MAC - Mac Address
mac/Mac - Macbook
I am trying to spoof my MAC ethernet connection. I use a node.js package called spoof, so I can easily spoof the MAC of my wireless connection, which is on device en0 like usual, but if i try to run
sudo spoof randomize en6

I get an error, just like if I used a ifconfig command directly. The error is:
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Operation not supported on socket

I'm not sure how to solve this - my specs are M1 Macbook air, MacOS 11.2.


texts: How do I create a virtual machine with a disk size different than the default?

texts:
I'm trying to create a virtual machine for Windows 7 x64. However VMWare Fusion automatically decides that the disk size can be 60GB and no smaller.

How do I create a virtual machine with a smaller disk?


texts: Are there QuickLook plugins that show more details about Applications? (.app)

texts:
Is there a better QuickLook plugin than the built-in for quicklooking applications?

Something that would show more of the info define in Foobar./Contents/Info.plist, like version number and bundle identifier for example would be ideal.


texts:
I found this gif/video on a blog post about the Macbook Pro 2019. It shows its cooling system.

I am curious about how this works, because in the animation, cool air comes from the side, but there is no vent on the sides nor the bottom of this device chassis.

Anything I'm missing here? How does this work?


texts: Anyone knows how to restore the print PDF to Evernote in Lion 10.7.2?


texts: Reduce size of 'bottom corner' for seconday click

texts: Is there a way to reduce the size of the 'bottom' corner of the touchpad that responds as the secondary click?  It's way to big and I would like to make it the bottom corner, not bottom quadrant.


texts: What causes the popup alternate characters from showing?

texts:
I have the latest version of Mountain Lion 10.8.4 but can't use the new hold key to show variations option. So, when I press the n key and hold it down, it would be nice to see the two alternate ñ and ń characters.

I press but nothing happens. Does anyone have ideas on how to fix this?


texts: Why does the iOS Health app sometimes drop my step count by hundreds of steps?

texts: I use an activity tracker 3rd party app that syncs with Apple's Health app, and I have a daily goal of 10,000 steps. Sometimes (not frequently, but once in a while), the step count in the Health app drops by at least a few hundred steps, e.g., it was around 9,400, and then dropped to 8,674 steps. This happens seemingly at random. Any idea about this?


texts: How to search installed application based on functionality?

texts:
My Applications folder has 486 entries, applications that have accumulated in the 30 years I'm using Apple hardware and software. Sometimes I'm looking for "that great application I have installed a few monts ago" but I am unable to remember its name, and I can spend a long time searching for it among hundreds of other apps.
Typical example: I installed Snagit during my last Parallels upgrade (it came as a bundle). It's a really great screen capture application, but how can I remember that "Snagit" is a screen capture application? As for its icon, it shows a white "S" on blue background, which isn't very helpful either.

On Unix there is apropos, but under Mac OSX this command only finds command line applications.
Of course, there is the Web, but it is rather cumbersome to search the Web to find an application which is already on my harddisk. Not to mention the fact that some applications are hard to find even if you know exactly what they do.
Take for example OmniDiskSweeper, I doubt I will ever find it through the query "application that calculates the size of folders".
I thought of adding comments to applications, but I'm afraid they will disappear at the first update.

Is there an application that will combine the information found on the Web with all applications I have on my disk, and be able to answer queries based on keywords or on a description of the task I need? (for example "application, screen capture, installed in the last six months"). I.e., an intelligent Spotlight ("intelligent" in the sense of the semantic Web).

So here is my need: find an application that does a specific task in an overcrowded Applications folder, out of a few keywords or out of a sentence describing it.


texts: How to make AirPods connect automatically to the correct device?

texts:
I answers calls/Skypes on my iPhone/Watch/iMac/MacBook, all same Apple ID.
If the call does not immediately start on the AirPods Pro (which are always in my ear and are always charged when something rings) then I click connect under audio or bluetooth settings.
Out of 10–20 calls per day about 5 of them never switch onto the AirPods. Or they switch on but then immediately switch off back to speaker. (Perhaps some other device has "stolen" them back.)
P.S. I do not have music/YouTube/music on Safari or other audio happening on those devices. And my car is off and out of range. No other devices are on my Apple ID or have Bluetooth connection.
These calls disturb my coworkers (I work in emergency medicine, still at office). Is there a reliable way to get the audio directly into my ears?


texts: How can I get photos from my DSLR (with a CF card) to my iPad wirelessly?

texts: I can shot tethered to my MBP (using LR3) but then how do I get them to the iPad wirelessly or better yet bypass the MBP altogether?  I know they have a wifi card for SD cameras but my dslr only uses CF cards.


texts: How do I turn off Avast AV entirely, without uninstalling it?

texts:
Just tried Firefox Dev and everything returns invalid certificate issues.  One possible cited cause are AV software, so I'd like to suspend Avast and see if it clears up.

Suspend/stop - not "turn off shields", that doesn't do much - Avast is still on the menu bar and still shows up on pgrep.  At the end of the day, I don't really care about live shields anyway - more interested in scanning downloads and the like.

I guess I could look at system services and turn Avast off there, but is there no way to tell the app to shut down?  Unusual to have such a badly behaved app on Macs.

edit:  all the launchctl fu I tried to apply didn't work and it even re-appeared after a reboot.  I think I'll have to de-install it if I want to truly stop it.  Not helping my trust either with a spammy "your system is wasting x GB storage, do you want to fix it?" popup of theirs.

As far as Avast + Firefox Dev edition goes, looking at Connection is Untrusted, I saw that the user uninstalled and reinstalled to accept the Avast cert.

So... I:

went to regular FF preferences searched for 'certificates' and exported the Avast cert.
went to FF dev version and imported the cert I had just exported. Its trust only needs to identify websites.

FF Dev works now.

Still not sure I will keep Avast around.

Uninstalled, this whole "can't be paused or disabled" is arrogant and annoying, especially as the main reason for wanting it was on-demand scanning of downloads, not constant running.


texts: Fans kick in very late after ssd upgrade

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Recently I replaced my MBP Mid-2010 HDD with a Zotac 480G Premium SSD. Things are really faster now, but one thing I noticed is that the CPU rises to peaks quite unprecedented with my original HDD. In video conversion, the CPU temperature soars to 95 degrees Celsius but the fans seem sluggish to kick in before the CPU temperature is 85 or so. The GPU temperature is also quite high. Of course, after they start spinning up they both work around 6000, but they cannot lower the CPU temperature below 92 degrees Celsius. I have stared to think of putting the HDD back. In idle mode while I am not working with my mac, the CPU temp is around 49, but on startup and when working with apps like pages the temperature is around 66 degrees.

What do think? When do your fans usually kick in while you are having a cpu-intensive process running in your mac?

Update: Here are two images related to CPU usage and temperature. I hope it helps.

Regards


texts: How to paste Chinese/Unicode characters to Terminal?

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I'm trying to paste these Chinese letters: 你好世界 to my Terminal, but instead I've got "^L" or some other weird characters.

The same happens for other unicode characters (such as £āēīōūśṣṭēīōū) when pasting or pressing Option+e, then a for á, e for é, i for í and similar, then I've got C!C)C- instead.

In Terminal Settings, I've got Character encoding set to Unicode (UTF-8) (Preferences/Settings/Profiles/Advanced) and in Encodings tab I've UTF-8 enabled.

I've LANG=C, however setting it to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 doesn't help.

However it works when I run echo:

$ echo -e "\xE2\x98\xA0"

My Terminal settings are:

I'm using Terminal v2.4 on OS X Mavericks (10.9.5). My shell is bash.

How I can configure Terminal to support Unicode characters?


texts: I gave my daughter my old iPhone but I forgot all the information about the apple ID. I want to create a new one and disable the other one, or just delete the entire ID. Any ideas?


texts:
It possible play web video content like a Flash or HTML5 file in external player like a QuickTime player or VLC player.

Play video like it made in iphone when using safari.


texts: asr restore - Couldn't set up partitions on target device

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I want to create a copy of a volume with asr restore.
First I create a .dmg file and attach it:
hdiutil create -fs APFS -size 30MB image.dmg
sudo hdiutil attach -nomount image.dmg
> /dev/disk6      GUID_partition_scheme
> /dev/disk6s1    Apple_APFS
> /dev/disk7      EF57347C-0000-11AA-AA11-0030654
> /dev/disk7s1    41504653-0000-11AA-AA11-0030654

When I want to copy the volume with:
sudo asr restore --source /dev/disk1 --target /dev/disk7 --erase --sourcevolumename "Preboot"

I get the error Couldn't set up partitions on target device - operation AddAPFSVolumeToContainer, line #5368 - Fehler 49186
Output of diskutil list is:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
  #:                  TYPE NAME            SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0: GUID_partition_scheme                 *240. 1GB disk0
  1:                   EFI EFI             209.7 MB  disk0s1
  2:            Apple_APFS Container disk1 239.8 GB  disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
  #:                  TYPE NAME            SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0: APFS Container Scheme -               +239.8 GB disk1
                           Physical Store disk0s2
  1:           APFS Volume  SSD - Daten   41.7 GB   disk1s1
  2:           APFS Volume Preboot         27.6 MB   disk1s2
  3:           APFS Volume Recovery        525.4 MB  disk1s3
  4:           APFS Volume VM              2.1 GB    disk1s4
  5:           APFS Volume  SSD          11.2 GB    disk1s5


texts: Can I get non-iBooks Store ePub files into my iCloud iBooks library?

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I buy quite a few ePub e-books from sources other than the iBooks Store.

I used to use iTunes to sync these to my iPad and iPhone. However, I’m trying to set up my iPad and iPhone to purely sync through iCloud, as syncing with both iCloud and iTunes gets a bit confusing.

Can I get non-iBooks Store ePub files into my iCloud iBooks library, so that they live there? (i.e. so that if I do a restore on my iPad or iPhone, I’ll be able to download them from iCloud again.) If so, how?


texts:
So, since I updated iTunes to version 11.1, my podcasts library went a little crazy. Some episodes were deleted from my Mac and all episodes are now marked with the little blue pin  (saying they're unwatched/unplayed). I'm not sure this is the default behaviour now in this iTunes version, I hope it's just a bug.

So I decided I want to get rid of everything and just start over. I unsubscribe from all podcasts and delete all the episodes from my MacBook and iPad. The problem is that it seems iCloud is still holding info about my podcasts and brings back the weird situation mentioned above. How do I wipe out everything iCloud knows about my podcasts and start again freshly?


texts:
I would like to run a script at wakeup. So my laptop is sleeping, I open the lid, and the script should run immediately or within the minute after wakeup. This script should run at startup as well, as that is essentially the same situation.

How can I run a cronscript at either wakeup and startup?


texts: External monitor goes black for short periods on MBP mid 2010 but not on same machine running Windows

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Can anyone advise on how to stop this happening.

The external monitor attached to it goes black for a few seconds but then comes back to show the Desktop etc.

When I boot into Windows 7 64 bit Pro (via Boot Camp) this never happens. So I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Please advise.

Update

Removed OS version from title as issue occurred in several versions. Added versions where seen as tags.

It never happened with Mavericks (but did following the upgrade to Yosemite, went away, then came back after a while after upgrading to El Capitan (I think) but also Sierra).


texts: "Automator could not convert the input data to the desired type." in quick action

texts:
I want to be able to view a location embedded in a HEIC file quickly by using 'quick action'.
It is how it looks like when I tried to use the function via finder.

Here is the definition of the quick action in Automator.

However when I run the quick action, I got this error message "Automator could not convert the input data to the desired type."

What does it mean and how can I fix it?


texts: Where is the file systems table in OS X?

texts:
I can see the following mounts on my MacBook:

> mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

Where are these configured? I see this file apparently does nothing:

> cat /etc/fstab.hd
IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases.  Do not depend on this file or its contents.

If this file "does nothing", what configures all the things that are currently mounted on my system?


texts: How do I move an application from Launchpad into Applications folder?

texts:
I purchased Pixelmator 2 from the Mac App store. The app appeared in Launchpad, but not in my applications folder. The problem is that I don't use Launchpad.

I can't find where Pixelmator is actually installed on my hard disk, and I want to move it into my applications folder.

How do I move it from Launchpad to the Applications folder?


texts: Can the mid-2010 Macbook support more than 4GB of RAM?

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I know of sites that sell 8GB sets for the MacBook. Apple states that they can have up to 4GB. One of my co-workers got her first gen MacBook to 6GB. Can anyone confirm that 8GB is recognized in last year's MacBook?

EDIT: My model is MacBook7,1.


texts: Can iOS-devices take sound in and send to Airplay?

texts:
I plan to find an old iPhone to make my record player connect to Airplay. Is that possible?

What I want to do is to take stereo line signal and "input" it into the phone and then playback it on the phone to an Apple TV. Is that possible? What hardware do I need to get the stereo signal into the phone and what software would allow me to redirect the in-signal to Airplay?


texts: Going back to Mac OS X after installing Ubuntu

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So a while ago I made the step of going completely over to Ubuntu on my laptop and I completely removed Mac OS X and just had Ubuntu going.

Now I want to re-install Mac OS X - I remember having snow leopard on my machine previously, but do not hold the install disks any longer. My CD drive has also broken, so I cannot use a disk anymore.

I have seen on eBay and other websites that you can buy a USB stick with OS X Lion 10.7 booted on and then boot this from the USB.

Is this possible, without the need of the first ever install disks?


texts: What is causing the iCloud "You can't sign in at this time" error on my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I noticed that I wasn't able to view my iCloud storage usage on my MacBook Pro running OSX Yosemite 10.10.5. To attempt to fix the problem I signed out of iCloud, but now I'm no longer able to sign back in – it displays You can't sign in at this time. Try signing in again. I also cannot sign in with another Apple ID.

Additionally, I haven't been able to install anything from the App Store for a few days as it doesn't ask me for my Apple ID and password, and perpetually displays the 'throbber':

Reading lists and iCloud tabs are not syncing between my Mac and iPhone 6s either. Strangely, Messages and FaceTime are still signed in and working correctly, and iCloud itself appears okay – I can login to iCloud.com, where I can view and update the files there, seeing the changes on my phone.

So far, I've attempted to delete my iCloud password from Keychain, and delete the ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts folder – both with no success. I've checked Apple's System Status, and everything is up and running. I've also followed the advice given in this question, again with no success.

Furthermore, I wanted to create a new Apple ID to test a fresh user, but the Create Apple ID link is greyed out and unclickable:

As I stated earlier, trying to login with another existing Apple ID brings up the error also. Finally, logging in as a different user also doesn't allow me to create an ID, or sign into iCloud.

To sum up:

I can't log into my iCloud account.
Reading lists and iCloud tabs are not syncing.
I can't download anything from the App Store.
I'm not able to create a new Apple ID from my Mac.
Messages and FaceTime are not affected, and are still signed in.
I've attempted to delete my iCloud keychain entry, and iCloud
account folder, with no success.

What else can I try? I've installed no anti-virus software, and am sure I haven't downloaded anything suspicious to cause a virus or malware issue.


texts: So I made the mistake of upgrading to Yosemite and I can't revert back to Mavericks. I bought this SSD and am trying to clone my HDD. However Carbon Copy says it does not support Yosemite, are there alternatives to Carbon Copy ?


texts: Reason for perpetual dynamic DNS updates?

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(Crossposted from Serverfault)

I'm using dynamic DNS (the "adult" version from RFC 2136, not à la DynDNS), and for a while now I've been seeing my laptops with MacOS 10.6.x churning out updates about every 10 seconds. And seemingly redundant updates at that, as the IP is more or less stable (consumer broadband). I don't remember seeing that frequency in the (distant...) past.

The lowest time-to-live that MacOS pushes on the entries is 2 minutes, so I have no clue what's going on.

...
Jan 12 13:17:18 lambda named[18683]: info: client 84.208.X.X#48715: updating zone 'dynamic.foldr.org/IN': deleting rrset at 'rCosinus._afpovertcp._tcp.dynamic.foldr.org' SRV
Jan 12 13:17:18 lambda named[18683]: info: client 84.208.X.X#48715: updating zone 'dynamic.foldr.org/IN': adding an RR at 'rCosinus._afpovertcp._tcp.dynamic.foldr.org' SRV
Jan 12 13:17:26 lambda named[18683]: info: client 84.208.X.X#48715: updating zone 'dynamic.foldr.org/IN': deleting rrset at 'rcosinus.dynamic.foldr.org' AAAA
...

Additionally, I can't find out what triggers the updates on the laptop-side. Is this a known problem, and how would I go about debugging it? One of the machines is freshly purchased and installed. The only "major" change was installation of the Miredo client for IPv6/Teredo, but even disabling it didn't make a change (except that AAAA records are no longer published).


texts: AppleTV 4 - how to disable Bluetooth needed to pair AirPlay device

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In our large auditorium, an A/V rack which contains an AppleTV 4 for use as an AirPlay device to our humongous projector, sits in the back of the room in a closet. The ATV4, with the latest tvOS, uses a combination of Bluetooth and Wifi to establish a Conference Room Display connection from an Airplay-enabed device (laptop, iPad, etc.)

Naturally, Bluetooth's limited range makes it impossible to connect with AirPlay from the presenter's lectern on-stage, being almost 150' distant from the ATV4. One can connect when in range of the ATV4, and then move the AirPlay-enabled device to the lectern, but that is extremely non-optimal.

I've searched for quite a while on how to disable this function, but it doesn't seem to be possible. I've also searched for Bluetooth extender devices, but they seem be designed to extend audio connections to BT headphones & whatnot.

Has anybody figured out how to disable the peer-to-peer Bluetooth AirPlay configuration and use just Wi-fi?


texts: MacBook Pro 2011: vibrating horizontal dotted lines all over the screen

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I have had the well known AMD GPU failure on my 2011 MacBook Pro. Thanks to the instructions of Nimesh Neema, I have successfully disabled the AMD GPU and enabled the onboard Intel GPU. Fantastic!

Next I rebooted my MBP about 6 times, and all was working and normal. When I unplugged the power cable to move the MBP to another location, the screen went black. Touching any keyboard button or the power button, did not reactivate the screen. So I pushed the power button for 4 sec's, waited a bit and then powered the MBP up again.

Unfortunately, immediately after booting when the screen turns on, it showed vibrating horizontal dotted lines all over the screen, as in the attached picture (not the well known grey/pink vertical lines). The booting works normal, logging in works, all applications work. But the screen is terrible with these lines.

Does anyone recognize this?

Is this a malfunction of the Intel GPU?

What can I do?


texts: Creating SHA-2 certificate using keychain assistant

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I am trying to enable https on my localhost (for testing).  Using Keychain Assistant, I have created both a self-signed CA and a certificate issued by that same CA.  I have enabled trust on the CA in Keychain Assistant. I have placed the certificate files in my MAMP folder and have updated both the httpd.conf and httpd-ssl.conf files.  When I access my local website using Safari, I get a message warning me that certificate is not trusted and a link to instructions on how to trust the certificate via Keychain Assistant.

I thought the purpose of setting trust on the CA was to not need to explicitly trust the certificates it issues.  I came across the following while trying to understand the issue.

Why does iOS 13 not trust my own Root CA?

It states that the hash must now be SHA-2 rather than SHA-1.  When I review the certificate info, its fingerprint appears to be using SHA-1.  I cannot figure out how to create an SHA-2 certificate using Keyboard Assistant.

Can anyone tell me where this hidden capability lies?  Or did Apple create a certificate requirement that its own tool cannot comply with?


texts: OS X randomly asking for NAS login after using mount_afp on Terminal

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This is a very weird issue that is apparently so rare Google hasn't been any help in finding a clue as to why this happens or how to fix it.

I use mount_afp on Terminal to mount the music directory of my NAS into my user's home directory because my music library is too big to store it locally in its entirety. It is not permanently mounted whenever I use my MacBook and I don't always mount it after a reboot, only when I actually need my music library or want to start up iTunes.

I would use a command as follows: mount_afp afp://username:password@my_nas/Multimedia/[userdir]/Music ~/Music to mount the music directory of my NAS directly into the Music directory of my home directory (so iTunes can use its default paths and everything)

(I also get asked when I'm not in my home network)

Now, whenever I open the Photos app on my MacBook when the music directory isn't mounted the system keeps asking me to log into my NAS twice in a row and again two times after some time passes. As of recent, the issue is no more just restricted to the Photos app, it's asking me in random parts of the system to enter my NAS credentials. I can only assume it is somehow connected to me using mount_afp on Terminal to mount the Music directory of my NAS directly into my home directory when I want to listen to music via iTunes or Sync my iPhone. I'm assuming something wants to access parts of my home directory that the system is aware is on my NAS and asking me to login.

I don't understand why it's asking me to log into my NAS because the photo library is actually stored locally and iCloud sync is on and when the NAS isn't mounted it should fall back to the default Music directory which is empty on my hard drive.

Since OS X is UNIX based I thought mount_afp set a mount point in /etc/fstab or something but the file was empty and included a note not to edit it.

Somewhere the system has to record where to go in order to poll my NAS on its own. Since I also tried a complete reinstall of OS X the strange behavior was gone but it came back right when I used mount_afp again. Permanently mounting it is not feasible as I take my MacBook with me a lot when I'm out and about.

I'm out of ideas.


texts: For the lifetime of a battery, is it better to shut down or sleep an Mac book Pro? Could anyone be able to explicit a full answer to this question?


texts: iOS using wrong public key to encrypt mail

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I've recently updated most of my certificates as they've expired at similar times.

It appears that iOS mail is encrypting mail to one of my recipients using their old certificate, as such they cannot decrypt it when they receive it.

I checked in the one profile that is installed and it only contains my own certificate and key. Where are my recipients public keys kept? I need to check them and delete the old ones. Otherwise how do you tell iOS which public key to use when encrypting mail?


texts: -bash: 1: command not found - Immediately on loading Terminal

texts:
Upon loading my terminal (since trying to install composer globally) I'm being spammed with countless amounts of -bash: 1: command not found before I even type any commands.

I'm not quite sure what to do, but this is all that happens, I load up terminal and get;

-bash: 1: command not found
-bash: 1: command not found
-bash: 1: command not found
-bash: 1: command not found

for an unlimited amount of times until I close the terminal.

Can anyone help me fix the issue, or reset my terminal, or anything?

Update:

Trying to run rm -i ~/.profile ~/zsh* ~/.bash* like advised in the comments I got the below:

-rm: ~/.profile: No such file or directory
-rm: ~/zsh*: No such file or directory
-rm: ~/.bash*: No such file or directory

I still get the command not found error.


texts: With multiple displays: how best to keep the Dock to one side, and on the same display as the menu bar?

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I currently have the Dock to the left.  In the Displays pane of System Preferences, I have the external display (if present) configured to be on the left side of the main built-in display; and the menu bar on the built-in display.

Problem:

when I connect an external display, the Dock jumps to it, separating it from the menu bar.

How can I configure the Dock to stay on the main display with the menu bar?

Some things to keep in mind:

I prefer the Dock to the left.
I don't want it on the right, since that would interfere with the disk icons on the desktop.
I don't want it on the bottom, since I have widescreen displays and that would be wasteful of vertical screen real-estate.
I can't unusably configure the external display to be on the right side, since it's actually to the left, given the way my desk is setup.

I'm using Mac OS X Lion on a Macbook Pro.


texts: macOS System Integrity Protection Configuration

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I was looking to lock down the configuration on some macs, and wanted to know if there is any way to change the files and folders that SIP protects.  I know it can be disabled, and its current rules viewed, but is there any way to add your own protected directories?

Thanks


texts: How can I back up apps which are no longer available?

texts: I have an old iPhone 3G I'd like to repurpose.  I've got some apps on it which work fine, but the current versions in the App Store won't run on a device this old.  How can I back up the phone and the apps on it in such a way that I can restore and continue using those apps?


texts: Auto or manual refreshing of mounted volumes

texts:
I use Transmit to mount a Linux server disk on my Mac.

The issue is that when I do something on the remote server with ssh, the change is not reflected in the mounted volume in my mac.

How can I manually/automatically update the changes?


texts: Problem with mounting NTFS USB HDD via Tuxera in Lion

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I've just updated to Lion and noticed that I cannot mount my NTFS USB HDD. I'm using Tuxera and it gives me the error listed below.

Has anybody encountered this error? Any working solution will be appreciated, thanks in regards.

Tuxera NTFS could not mount /dev/disk1s1
at /Volumes/MYHDD because the following problem occurred:

CBCIO activated with:
  cp.fildes=3
  cp.blockSize=524288
  cp.items=32
  cp.mode=1
  cp.flushInterval=1000
/Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) link error; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
the MacFUSE file system is not available (71)
__ntfs_volume_release(): Inode 9 still have 1 references.


texts: How do I install Windows 10 on a Mac Mini that is booted from an external SSD?

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I have a Mac Mini 2018 that is booted from a 2TB external SSD. I would like to install Windows on the internal 256 GB SSD. Preferably using the entire internal disk. When I run Boot Camp  Assistant it complains External storage device Attached. The two alternatives that I have considered:

Run Windows 10 in a VM - I've done this in the past but was not satisfied with the experience.
Boot from the internal drive and install Windows 10 on a partition there. - This would be a waste of the limited space on the drive.

I take Apple at its word that I can't resize the Windows partition after I create it. I don't expect to use Windows a lot, but when I do, I want it to behave itself. Can the process be completed without Boot Camp Assistant?


texts: How to force restart an iPhone with broken home button

texts: Earlier today I was on my iPhone and it randomly froze so I turned it off. When I went to unlock it it wouldn't move. I couldn't unlock it or tap anything. So now I can only stay on the lock screen. I read on the Apple website that I should "force restart" it by pressing my home button and power button at the same time. The problem is my home button is stuck and doesn't work. What should I do?


texts:
I was in the process of installing Wine on terminal (via Macports), and encountered this hurdle while "computing dependencies":

"--->  Verifying checksums for xorg-libpthread-stubs

Error: org.macports.checksum for port xorg-libpthread-stubs returned: libpthread-stubs-0.3.tar.bz2 does not exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/xorg-libpthread-stubs

Error: Failed to install xorg-libpthread-stubs
Please see the log file for port xorg-libpthread-stubs for details:

/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_x11_xorg-libpthread-stubs/xorg-libpthread-stubs/main.log"

Not sure how to proceed from here. Am far from adept at this.

Thanks,


texts: Run a Cocoa application on Lion as another user

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I'm trying to run an application as the user 'steve' with the window displayed on my desktop ( brendan ).

This is what I have been doing so far.

sudo -u steve open -a /Path/To/MyApplication.app

No matter which application I try, it always runs with my privileges and not steve's, which is not what I want. The process is owned by me, even though I executed open under 'sudo -u steve' .

How can I simply execute a command from the console that will open any application with different user's privileges ( steve being the owning user of the process )?

Also, GUI tools such as RunAs and Peek-A-Boo ( I think that's what it was called, very similar ) are not an option. This command must be launched from a bash/zsh/python/whatever script.

Thanks!


texts: iMac late 2015 running Mac os 10.15.4: Connection Logging file is to big to delete - not enough storage available. It is 53GB. Available storage is 43GB. I have moved as much user data as possible to external drives. How do I get round this?


texts: External SSD drive, problem restarting Mojave

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Here is a situation:

iMac 5K from 2014 with Fusion drive, fusion drive is formatted as APFS, volume is called DATA and there is nothing on it.
Firmware password is set.
External USB drive (SSD) is connected, formatted as APFS and has Mojave on it. Drive is also encrypted with Filevault.
SSD is selected in System Preferences as the startup disk.

When I turn on the computer, it works fine, boots from USB drive.

When I then press Restart... from Mojave, the iMac restarts and shows me a blinking folder icon with a question mark.

I can press the power button for 3 seconds to turn the iMac off, and when I turn it back on it boots fine.

Can I do anything to make it reboot as well?

I attach screenshots from Disk Utility.

Thanks!


texts:
Is there any simple way to install Unison (text version), on OSX?

On Ubuntu it's 'sudo apt-get install unison'.
And that's it.

I have read the following guide: http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/freebsd/distfiles/unison-2.45.28/unison-2.45.28-manual.pdf
it's on page 8, lower half. But it strikes me as strange for they claim unix systems to need this complex procedure for installing as I have clearly seen none of this is necessary on Ubuntu. Therefore I wonder if there is not a comparably simple procedure available for OSX.


texts: How to add some additional DNS search domains without ignoring the DHCP ones?

texts:
I just want to add my own list of Search Domains but without overriding the ones returned by the DHCP?

As anyone would imagine I already tried to add them to Network > Advanced > DNS but adding them there it will override the ones from DHCP, which is not my intend.

It would be perfect if I could add them after the ones form DHCP, but I would also accept a solution that adds them after.

2nd try would be /etc/resolv.conf but the message from the file is as clear as it can be:

# This file is not used by the host name and address resolution
# or the DNS query routing mechanisms used by most processes on
# this Mac OS X system.
#
# This file is automatically generated.

Personally, I would send the guy who wrote this message to do some phone support for two months. So, he would learn to add some hints next time he documents things: where are you supposed to tune the settings? or include a link to a knowledge base article.

Still, I don't want something that is lost on minor OS X update.

How can I do this for OS X 10.7 ?


texts: High Sierra contacts disappear immediately after creation

texts:
I add a contact (Firstname, Lastname, Phone, Email) and save it.

After a few seconds, presumably when macOS tries to sync it to Gmail and/or iCloud, it disappears.

I have a Gmail account and an iCloud account synced, when I add the contact via the Android app, it stays in the Gmail address book and it gets synced into macOS.

At first it seemed to work again, when I disabled the iCloud Account. But: I now try to add a new contact and while typing in the contact details, the editor window simply disappears.

What can I do do make macOS contacts work again?

macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C88)


texts:
When I open a text file with TextEdit, Dragon Dictate scan the file:

It often ends up being unresponsive if the file is large. How to configure Dragon Dictate so that it does not scan files upon opening?

I use Dragon Dictate 5 with OS X 10.10. If I open the file SublimeText, I do not have this issue.


texts: imagent constantly sucking network bandwidth, won't die

texts:
Since installing Mountain Lion and configuring Messages, I've noticed a trickle of network activity that is basically constant.

I installed Little Snitch and discovered that a process called "imagent" is connecting to my work Jabber server, pushing about 45Kb/s up and pulling about 75Kb/s down. Research seems to indicate that imagent has something to do with chat or Facetime availability.

Killing imagent stops it momentarily, but it relaunches itself almost immediately. Logging Messages out from the Jabber server stops it entirely.

I'd like this not to be doing this. Google doesn't seem to know anything about it, though it does show various other problems people have had regarding imagent being hoggish about memory and disk space. Activity Monitor does show it running between 9% and 12% of the CPU, which seems a bit much for a background process. No idea whether it's eating disk space too. A previous question here talks about memory usage by it, which I don't seem to have a problem with.

How do I stop this crazy thing?


texts: How to remove old bootcamp partition in terminal

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I needed to remove my old windows bootcamp partition, which took up 50GB. Bootcamp itself would not let me do this, as it kept requiring me to have 40GB of storage, which I could not make (my mac is at full capacity, due to the 50GB empty windows partition). I do not understand why i need 40gb of space in order to free up space, but regardless, I ended up doing the (risky?) brute force removal of the partition through disk utility. (I erased the partition contents, and then converted it to an APFS container, since i thought that would let me merge them together, but it did not. Right now, im not really sure whats going on, as disk utility shows i have a "APFS container" with 50GB?

Here is the print out when running diskutil list in terminal:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         200.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         49.9 GB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +200.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            192.0 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 20.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +49.9 GB    disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s3

How can I merge disk0s3 with disk0s2 so I can have only 1 disk partition with the full 250GB storage capacity of my SSD?


texts: Make gmail in chrome the default email application for Yosemite

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I love my MacBook but I'm not a huge fan of Mail. Can I make GMail in Chrome the default email application for Yosemite so that when I click on email links I am sent to a new draft there?

I've done this before on other systems.


texts: Mac Mini is slow when keyboard and mouse are detached

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I use a very basic and cheap unit to switch one USB keyboard and one USB mouse between a PC and a Mac Mini. The unit is an Aten CS22U.

It all works fine, albeit with a few seconds delay when switching to the Mac, for whatever computer the input devices are connected to.

However when the devices are not connected to the Mac it appears to affect the performance of the Mac. Background tasks and any processes slow right down.

The PC (Linux based) works fine with nothing connected.

I have observed this behaviour on all OS versions from 2011 onwards (I can't test Catalina as this Mac Mini isn't supported).

Is there a setting in the Mac to disable this behaviour?


texts: Will I have a degraded roaming experience with the AT&T iPhone 7?

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I read that the AT&T version of the iPhone 7 does not support CDMA.

I am trying to understand what that means for me if I upgrade.  I get that it means that I will not be able to switch to Verizon and keep using my same iPhone.

But I don't know if it means that I will have other issues while using my iPhone 7.

For example, as I understand it, if I go to a place where AT&T has poor coverage, then my phone roams and gets coverage from other carriers.  (At least this is how it used to be.)

Do I lose this ability if I get an AT&T iPhone 7?  Are there any other drawbacks to the intel chip in the iPhone 7?


texts: Two computers. Three screens - one control?

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I have a setup at home, where I have a laptop permanently connected to a screen, and another laptop that I take to work with me. Recently, I've started doing a lot of work using both machines at once - with the independent laptop sat underneath the major screen.

Anyway - I'm looking for software that will let the independent laptop treat the other computer like an extension of its screen (when I want it to) which can be easily disabled and will cope alright with multiple screens. Is this possible / does a solution for this exist already?

I've tried Apple Screen Share, which is cool but just doesn't quite cut it.


texts: Is there a way to make QuickLook display a hex dump preview of files for which no other preview is defined?

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This question has two parts, I suppose.

Is there a way to assign a default case to QuickLook (if no other preview applies, use this one) and
is there a good hex-dump QuickLook preview?


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I have a 10.2" iPad with the apple pencil. As I need to use the pencil lots of hours per day, I'm a bit worried that the screen may deteriorate. I was considering to buy a protective film, and I have two questions:

does it have a bad impact on the writing experience?
if I don't use it, will my screen deteriorate in time?


texts: Keyboard shortcut for right-click in current cursor position on OS X? ('Menu Key' on Windows)

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On windows computers there is often a key for this. Called the 'Menu Key'

There is also a keyboard shortcut in windows, when the key is missing. Shift + F10

A similar request was made here  but the question was not sufficiently clear and the answers provided demonstrate how to make a right-click where the mouse pointer is on the screen, which is not useful.

What we need is a shortcut to make a right-click where the cursor is on the screen. The same as the windows functionality.

Mouse pointer:

Cursor:

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texts: Cannot copy directory in MacOS with terminal

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Input
$ pwd /Users/kylefoley/library/containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/data/library/Autosave Information

$cp /Users/kylefoley/library/containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/data/library/Autosave\ Information /Volumes/old/QT_screen_recs

Output
/Users/kylefoley/library/containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/data/library/Autosave Information is a directory (not copied).

I don't understand why this is not working.  I've also tried:
$cp /Users/kylefoley/library/containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/data/library/Autosave\ Information/* /Volumes/old/QT_screen_recs

Which yields:
/Users/kylefoley/library/containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/data/library/Autosave Information/*: No such file or directory


texts: slow boot (and slow EFI?) in brand new MacBook Pro 16"

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I have a very new Mac and it seems far too slow to boot in both Catalina and now Big Sur perhaps it’s worse.
Device :
MacBook Pro 16 inch (MBP 16.0)
CPU 2.3 8  Core intel i9
16GB DDR
GPU Intel UHD Graphic 630 / AMD Radeon Pro 5500M
SSD 1Gb

I bought in July a MBP 16.0, from the first time I boot I had a very slow boot

UFI was very slow (the screen remain black and the Apple logo won't show up before a good 17 secs)
the full boot time is over a minute start to finish
nothing in the user login item at all (no apps launch)

The long EFI is very frustrating too as I want to press the power button a few times thinking I missed the button but no.
I’ve researched and resetting the NVRAM/PRAM and SMC have shown no improvement in start duration.
Any idea where the issue is from?


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I've been having this issue for the past few months, where my Mac will echo type whole/partial words while I'm typing. This isn't the same issue as double typing keys, but rather whole phrases will appear again in the middle of me typing. It looks something like this:

"Hello ello world!"

Sometimes it will execute a command to close a window twice.

This goes away when I'm in "Safe Mode". Does anyone have any clue where this is coming from?

I don't think this is a keyboard issue, honestly. Well, maybe a buffering issue? I contacted Apple Support and they didn't have much to say. I reinstalled the operating system, and it still comes up. Though, it did seem to largely go away for a few days.

Additional Details:
Running Catalina 10.15.1 (Happened on previous versions of Catalina too)
MacBook Pro 2017 13inch


texts: How to disable notification badges for the iPhone Mail app (iOS4)?

texts: Any way to turn the notification badges for the Mail app off without turning all notifications off?


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When I last upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS 5, I later had to install another version of iTunes on my macbook to synchronize my files between my computer and my iPhone. This new version of iTunes required a new version of Quick Time, which took me a long time to find available on the internet.

Now my iPhone says that I need to upgrade to iOS 6. My macbook runs on Mac OS X leopard (10.5.8).

Which issues should I be aware of when upgrading to iOS 6, given my macbook's limitations?


texts: How can I check for Power Nap event history?

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I'd like to see when my Mac is waking up with Power Nap. How can I check the event history to see when Power Nap is causing my Mac to wake up? Especially interested in wake-up events while on battery power.

I'm using macOS 10.15 Catalina.