texts: Apple Mail: Reply to my own sent e-mail, send to original recipient

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In Apple Mail, if I send a reply to an e-mail I’ve received, my sent e-mail shows up at the top of the conversation. If I then later on send a reply to my own sent e-mail, it used to be, in previous iterations of Apple Mail, that the app would figure out that I didn’t want to send an e-mail to myself, but rather a follow-up to the recipient of the original e-mail.

This seems to have changed for me in Catalina (currently on Mail version 13.4) so that I now find myself often accidentally sending myself e-mails that the intended recipients never receive (until I discover my mistake and rectify it). I can’t find a setting or any other way to get it back the way it used to be.

This question from February 2019 seems to describe the same issue, with the exception that the poster was on Mojave and doesn’t seem to be describe a change in behaviour (it also doesn’t have any answers). Interestingly, at least one commenter mentioned the app working as intended (version 12.2), which agrees with my experience – that’s how it used to work.

Was this a deliberate change in Catalina (or Mail 13, perhaps)? Or is it a random bug? And in either case, is there a way to fix it?


texts: How can I transfer my Google Chrome bookmarks to my iPad?

texts: I have been looking around for a method and haven't been able to find one, any suggestions?


texts: What is wrong in this Perl regex in OSX?

texts:
The code works in Ubuntu, but not in OSX.

I run

perl -000pe 's/\n/\n\\begin{enumerate}\n/; s/\n\d./\n\\item /g; s/$/\\end{enumerate}\n/' lorem.tex

I get

-bash: $: command not found
MacBook-Air:draft masi$


texts: 2011 MBA occasionally drains battery and powers down even when powered

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Sometimes I leave my MacBook running (connected to the charger) and when I return it has drained the battery to 0% and powered off.

This has been happening sporadically for over a year, but seems to be getting more frequent.

(Under power settings I've set it to never sleep when connected to power outlet).

Sometimes I have to turn it back on several times and each time it will power itself down within seconds to minutes.

Looking at my process list to see what is consuming CPU, there will always be some culprit.  Today it was mds (indexing Spotlight) but one other time it was the core kernel process (PID 0).

Googling suggests that occasionally the machine demands more power than the outlet can provide and borrows from the battery. If this is the case I think it is great failing that this technique does not disable itself once the battery goes into the red.

Is there anything I can do?


texts: iMac running High Sierra is very slow — photoanalysisd can't be killed?

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My iMac running High Sierra has become painfully slow.
I suspect photoanalysisd, as it's using a lot of CPU time, but I can't figure out how to get rid of it.
There's at least one other question (What is "photoanalysisd" and why is it using 77% of my CPU?) here about photoanalysisd, but my scenario is different and none of the suggestions in the other thread were helpful to me.
Looking in the Console log, I see odd errors for photoanalysisd, e.g.:
"seekAndRead -- Input/output error"
"error: (266) I/O error for database -- CLSBusinessCategoryCache.sqlite.  SQLite error code:266, 'not an error' errno:5"
"error: -executeRequest: encountered exception = I/O error for database at ... CLSBusinessCategoryCache.sqlite.  SQLite error code:266, 'not an error' errno:5"

Error code "not an error" -- huh?
Using the Terminal, I've tried all of the following:
sudo launchctl remove com.apple.photoanalysisd
sudo launchctl kill -TERM gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl kill -STOP gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl kill -TERM gui/$UID/com.apple.photoanalysisd

BUT photoanalysisd is still running, according to the Activity Monitor. Even after I issue commands to kill the process(!?), it's still there. Of course it also comes back when I restart, and slows the machine horribly again.
First question, then: why don't these commands get rid of photoanalysisd?
Next, I have tried starting in safe mode, but it makes no difference: the iMac is still unusable, until I issue commands to kill photoanalysisd.
Also, the screen updates are incredibly slow in safe mode. The desktop appears very slowly and is painted in bands like venetian blinds opening up from the bottom. Never seen this before.
Again, there is nothing in the Activity Monitor that is obviously eating up CPU or memory. Activity Monitor consistently reports over 90% idle, though the system is beachballing constantly.
Finally, I have already re-installed High Sierra once, but it made no difference.
I really don't care if the Photos app does the person recognition thing or not. I just want my Mac to be useable again.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: 25 days later, I still have no solution to this. My basic question about photoanalysisd (above) remains unanswered.


texts: Does disabling "restart and shut down" under the remote management options do nothing?

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I've got a Mac running Mojave and under the System Preferences > Sharing > Remote Management I've checked "Allow access for: only these users". I've added the account name of my remote user and under "options" set the following settings:

It seems logical that disabling "restart and shut down" would prevent the remote user from restarting or shutting down the machine, however in practice they can freely restart and shutdown the Mac once they've connected to the screen share.

Is this expected behaviour? Is there any way to completely prevent the screen sharing user from shutting down the machine, in case I'm logged in at the same time?


texts: Turn off Macbook automatic hibernation mode?

texts:
I'm having a problem with my MacBook Pro (mid 2012) where by when I lock my machine and then return several hours later (at least six hours) it will not respond to me pressing the keyboard.

I have to press the power button and then it boots up requiring a password.  Once this password has been entered it takes a few minutes to slowly start all of my processes again (I hear skype logging in behind the blue screen) eventually my bluetooth mouse and keyboard are connected.  Finally I can then enter my password to actually gain access to my machine.

This is a problem I've had with OSX since Mavericks was released.

Below is a screenshot of the settings I have tried to change (everything possible) to stop this stupid behaviour and it still persists!


texts: Can one install Automator .workflow services via Terminal without user consent?

texts: I know I can just use open command on these files to run them and the user will be prompted with an option to install them. Can I install such services silently though?


texts: Can I obtain the Source Code for an app from its .ipa file?

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Having an .ipa file, is there any way I can get its source code?

It was possible when iOS apps used to be .app


texts: How can I change the aqua theme in Yosemite?

texts: How can I change the aqua theme/skin to a dark one in Yosemite? I'm referring to the window title bars, scroll bars, buttons, etc (the cocoa aqua ui theme?). Everything is grayish by default, but i'd like a dark theme.


texts: is it possible to open a file with commandline mate without focusing TextMate?

texts: Or if not, is there an easy way to return focus to iTerm/Terminal after opening a file/directory with mate?


texts: Running 10.11 in VM Ware Fusion with 10.10 Host

texts: I run 10.11 public beta in a VM with VMware Fusion 7.1.2 with my rMBP 2015. I have the problem that main part in Finder or the maps in Maps.app are blank. Sidebars and menus are all rendering fine. Is this a known issue? Can I do something about this?


texts: How can I do text-to-columns in Numbers?

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I've got a column where each cell in the column contains two different pieces of data separated by a known delimiter ", ". How can I split each cell in this column around the delimiter?

Given:

COLUMN1
-------
ABC, 123
FOO, 666
ROFL, 411

I want

COLUMN1    COLUMN2
-------    -------
ABC        123
FOO        666
ROFL       411


texts: Do a Click lock and drag using Catalina OS. (Mouse not a trackpad)

texts: How do I do a Click lock and drag using Catalina OS. I am using a Kensington track ball. I have a  disability that makes it very difficult to hold down the button and spin the ball at the same time.


texts: Can't import photos from iPhone 6 to Mac

texts: I have taken a lot of photos on my iPhone. But when I connect it to my Mac, the photos do not show up in Preview. I can see the photos on the iPhone, but they are simply not recognised when I plug the iPhone to the Mac - any ideas?


texts: Here's my problem, I have a PDF document 583KB, and I want to make it under 500KB so I can upload it. What should I do?


texts: What does the arrow with 2 lines through it mean?

texts:
In Xcode, a lot of the shortcuts use an arrow with 2 lines though it:

What is the keystroke corresponding to this?


texts: What is the best way to move Microsoft Office 2011 to a new Mac?

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I've purchased Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Office 2011 (single computer), and have installed and activated on my current Mac.

Given that I've already activated the software for my current Mac, what steps should I do to move the app to the new Mac, without having any problems re-activating the software? Would Apple's Migration Assistant automate the process completely?


texts: I had to go in to single-user mode, how I can restore my data back?

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I had to go in to single-user mode because I couldn't log into my admin account, I made a new account and changed my admin password.

Now, on my first admin account, I can search for my files but everything is like it is factory reset? My wallpaper, and everything. I can only look things up, and once I do, they are on my laptop again. Help? Where are all of my files? How could I solve this?

What's more odd, I only had approximately 7.18 GB before I went into single-user mode. This meaning that my data is still obviously here. Please anyone? I'm clueless.


texts: Accidentally installed a system, how to completely remove it?

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I made an error this weekend and am now not sure how to fix it.  I was cloning my boot hard drive (Sierra) to an image file on an external hard drive, using Carbon Copy Cloner.  No big deal, done it thousands of times before.  But this particular time, I bran farted and neglected to tell CCC to clone to an image file, instead selecting the external hard disk itself.  This means that CCC has cloned my entire boot system, onto the external drive where there is not supposed to be any bootable system.

I'd like to "undo" this, and somehow cleanly remove the entire OS and all its associated files, from the external drive, without impacting the rest of the drive's contents (so wiping the drive for example, is not an option).

Is there any efficient way to do this?  Is it just a matter of manually trashing all the system folders (and the associated invisible folders like /usr, /sbin, etc.) and emptying the trash?

Edit: Here is my diskutil list output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Media Server            499.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Media1                  8.0 TB     disk1s2

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS TM iMac                 8.0 TB     disk2s2

"Media1" is the external drive in question here, which now has all the files  it already had, plus a copy of the OS from "Media Server"

Edit 2:

total 45
drwxrwxr-x+ 51 root  admin  1734 Dec 22 21:03 Applications
drwxr-xr-x+ 61 root  wheel  2074 May 17  2018 Library
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel    68 Feb 20  2017 Network
drwxr-xr-x@  4 root  wheel   136 Dec 23 11:25 System
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  admin   204 Feb 11  2018 Users
drwxr-xr-x@  5 root  wheel   170 Jan  1 14:18 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x@ 38 root  wheel  1292 Dec 23 11:25 bin
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  4324 Jan  1 13:40 dev
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel    11 Feb 11  2018 etc -> private/etc
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1 Jan  1 13:47 home
-rw-r--r--@  1 root  wheel   313 Dec 21  2016 installer.failurerequests
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1 Jan  1 13:47 net
drwxr-xr-x@  6 root  wheel   204 Feb 11  2018 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 63 root  wheel  2142 Dec 23 11:25 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel    11 Feb 11  2018 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 10 root  wheel   340 May 17  2018 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel    11 Feb 11  2018 var -> private/var


texts: Can Mac OS X distribute applications/processes across multiple intel cores?

texts: Or does efficient usage of cores depend only on whether a given application is written to take advantage of them? I am deciding between a Mac Mini - Intel dual core i7 2.7Ghz vs. one with a quad core i7 2.0Ghz.


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I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) and I'm told it's impossible to upgrade the RAM from the 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 that I have.

However, I recently learned I could upgrade the 256GB harddrive I currently have. I'm thinking of upgrading to this.

However, will the SSD speed up my computer's performance as well as increase it's capacity OR will my expensive upgrade still leave me with a slow computer?


texts: At what point do iPads stop displaying "not charging" when connected to power?

texts:
I am curious if anyone has measured directly or found an authoritative reference that documents at which point the various iPad will display charging and not "not charging" in the menu bar while operating. Apple publishes great information on how it's Computers and Displays will over supply power to select Apple devices well past the normal USB standard, but I can't find iPad specific information.

I presumes this notification is based purely on a set amount of current being detected and not simply a net power surplus (since the load of an iPad can vary based on CPU/GPU, brightness and radio power consumption) calculation.


texts:
I have 13" MacBook Pro (Late 2009) model that is refusing to play sound on the right audio-channel.

Without any speakers connected it still plays fine but once I connect earbuds or a headphone, I only have sound in my left ear. In my right ear I hear a very low white noise sound.

I've tried rebooting, fixing disk permissions (very long shot, I know), same problem if I play sound in a virtual windows machine. And off course I've verified that the sound balance is set to both left and right.

I've "looked" into the mini-jack output but can't see anything wrong with it...


texts: Is it possible to cancel a paused app update? There is no cancel option in the App Store; only resume is there.


texts: How do I create an unified Archive folder in Outlook for Mac 2016?

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I've just installed Microsoft Office 2016 and I can't figure out how to create an unified Archive folder just like it does by default for Inbox, Sent items, etc.

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I'd like my Archive folder to display all elements from the Archive folders in both the iCloud and Exchange accounts, and if possible be displayed at the top just like the default folders are.

(also if someone has a tip on how to change the display order so that the junk mail folder is right below the deleted items that would be awesome)

Regards.


texts: Permanently add a special character to the Touch Bar

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I have a Mid 2017 MacBook Pro 13" and the n key is broken.

Replacement process at Apple would be really complicated since I am far from maintenance centres and I need my laptop everyday (plus I have a non-default keyboard, it's a US international, spare parts are not in stock etc...)

So I wondered, until I get a real fix for my keyboard, is it possible to input the character using the Touch Bar? Could I just customise the Touch Bar to input the character n?

PS: This would be handy, I could also use this to add special characters like ë, ù or € in the Touch Bar.


texts: Find out applications using a lot of bandwidth,

texts:
I have an iMac (early 2009) with El Capitan loaded -- 10.11.6. Immediately upon start up, without starting a single program, something in the system starts producing wifi traffic. A lot of it. A program I got from the App Store called Bandwidth+ indicates the rate is between 400 to 500 kbps. Its eating up the bandwidth to the point its preventing others on the same wifi network from accessing the Internet. I haven't found any kind of Process Manager in the System Preferences.

Is there a way to detect the process that is causing the traffic, something that might be running in the background, so I can terminate it?


texts: macOS (Big Sur) Internet installation fails near the end

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Buying used mac mini 2018 I decided to do a clean system install to be sure that it is clean.
I followed the steps from the Apple docs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

signed out of everything
reset NVRAM
erased disk

then I followed the reinstallation procedure:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
Command-R failed with some 2008F error or something so after some reading and thinking I used Option-Command-R which should install the latest OS available and compatible and that installs Bug Sur.
First it says I will have to wait for some 40 min for the process to finish and everything seems to go fine, but then around 11 mins before the end some problems start and the installation is cancelled with a human error saying: An error occurred installing macOS. You can try again to complete the installation.
Of course I've tried not once not twice, always ends with the same message and in a similar way when checking the logs. And talking about logs I managed to copy them so if anyone can read something useful from them and recommend any action that could solve the issue - here they are:
https://gist.github.com/piotrku/ae887b38ffcb25fad6810d3a7e4c5465
I'm using an Ethernet connection and the Internet connection is quite good (I event connected directly to the modem to bypass the router to be sure that no built in firewall causes the failure) and I tried on different hours for the past 3 days. I also read many pages describing similar problems but didn't found any real solutions.
Installing Bur Sur from USB fails (I think the same way as when installing from internet but fails). Installing Catalina from USB fails at the beginning with error 1008f. Doing Shift-Option-Command-R fails with some error like 1008f or 2008f at the globe stage beginning the process.
I don't know if there are any options left than sending it to Apple repair :(
[edit]
Is this disk erased enough to creat new volume and proceed with the installation?


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Can I use OS X to discover and scrape a web site favorite icon for later reuse? (and I'll deal with any licensing issues if needed - just looking for how to do this for personal use currently)

Similar to the Favicon, the apple-touch-icon.png is a file used for a web page icon on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
According to Specifying a Webpage Icon for Web Clip there are two ways to set the Apple Touch Icon:
One is to put the apple-touch-icon.png on the root document folder, another is using rel="apple-touch-icon" to add a link element to the webpage. However twitter.com doesn't use any of those methods.

How can I find twitter.com's apple touch icon URL using Safari 8.0 on OS X Yosemite?


texts: How can I use an Asix AX88179 with Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

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I'm looking for some one who may have configure the Asix AX88179 to work with OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion.
This chipset (AX88179) is embedded in most of the very new the USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapters.

I bought one of them coming from Digitus and after one day on it, it is recognised by Mountain Lion on my Macbook Air, it seems that the network diagnostic tool is OK, but I was never able to connect on my mails and run any browsers (Safari, Firefox etc...).
There is something wrong in the network configuration.

I'm using the versions 1.1 and 1.2 of the Asix drivers (dowload from the Asix site and coming from Digitus).


texts: Why does my mac drop connection to my network regularly

texts:
I have had my macbook air for almost a year with no problems however over the last couple of weeks it keeps dropping its connection to my network on a regular basis. The only way to fix it is for me to turn Wi-Fi off then on again, then it works again fine - for a while - then the same thing happens all over again. It is very frustrating.

If I ping my router's IP address I get a valid response while it's working but while it wont connect to the network I get "Request timeout for icmp_seq".

No other computers / phones that connect to the Wi-Fi are affected by this problem, it is only my mac.

This is driving me crazy, I've tried stuff on other forums where people have had similar problems but have had no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers


texts:
I own a MacBook which I purchased approximately 6 years ago (I'm not sure exactly what version it is, but I can get that information if needed). It is running OS X Leopard, and I want to install Mountain Lion onto it.

Is this possible? If so, how? If not, what is the most recent OS I can get on the system?


texts: How  I take photo using the MBP's webcam from   command line?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I take a steathy picture with my iSight camera from the command line?

Is there a command line method for taking ?


texts: On resume from sleep, DHCP or ARP on the ethernet is not working

texts:
My mid-2011 iMac running Lion 10.7.5 has an intermittent problem. When I resume from sleep in the morning the ethernet fails to come up reliably. Sometimes it starts working immediately, sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds, and lately the problem seems to be getting worse and it can take minutes.

I can fix the problem by going to a terminal and disabling and re-enabling the ethernet with ifconfig en0 down; ifconfig en0 up. And after sleep I can connect to the same network via WiFi, just not ethernet.

The network is a simple home network with switched gigabit ethernet. There's one Netgear switch and one router: a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato firmware. I don't have any useful logs on the router side about what's going wrong. In general the network works fine, including when booting the iMac, it's just this one resume from sleep that's failing.

On the Mac side, the kernel logs don't have much useful information. Just a lot of lines like this:

Oct  2 06:02:48 iMac kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleBCM5701Ethernet]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,0103,0de1,0300,c5e1,0c00]
Oct  2 06:02:49 iMac kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleBCM5701Ethernet]: Link down on en0
Oct  2 06:02:53 iMac kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleBCM5701Ethernet]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,0103,0de1,0300,c5e1,4c00]
Oct  2 06:02:54 iMac kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleBCM5701Ethernet]: Link down on en0

A packet trace via Wireshark only gives a little more insight. All I see is an endless stream of unanswered ARP and DHCP requests, along with some IPv6 stuff I don't understand. Screenshot below is representative.

When I use ifconfig to bring the network down and back up, the main difference I see in the packet trace is my ARP and DHCP requests get an immediate answer.


texts: Slight delay when bringing up spotlight since booting from an external drive

texts:
I copied all my data to an external hard drive and used that as my main hard drive for a few days. After that I noticed a slight delay when bringing up spotlight, so that when I search for "Safari", it searches for "fari" instead, as I am used to being able to start typing close to instantly.

I just associated that with the fact that booting from an external drive is slower, however, even now when I have copied the data back to my internal drive and boot from that, the delay persists. I have reindexed my drive twice.

The problem also exists on the Guest user and my other user, so the problem does not have anything to do with my user/home folder. I am on macOS Mojave 10.14.3.

EDIT: Even after updating to 10.14.4, the problem still exists.

EDIT: Also on 10.14.6


texts:
I would like to experiment with the arrangement of my apps on my iPod touch. Using folders more extensively. However at the moment I have a quite well working layout. If the experiments proof to be worse than my current layout I would like to go back there easily.

Can I somehow save the current layout of my home screens?

Regards
Mike


texts:
Sample numbers file

B4 contains CONCATENATE(B2,B3)

In the file above, I am getting syntax error on B4, despite the formula seems correct. Can anyone reproduce the problem? How can I solve it?

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Numbers version: 3.6.1 (2566)


texts: Applescript causes long error messages to be logged in system.log

texts:
I have this very simple script...

tell application "System Events"
    set activeApp to short name of first process whose frontmost is true
end tell

tell application activeApp
    repeat 5 times
        display dialog "Hello world" giving up after 2
        delay 2
    end repeat
end tell

and it works fine, but every time the dialog is displayed the following errors are logged,

27/07/15 8:32:48 PM    AppleScript Editor[43002]   -[NSCarbonWindowFrame aspectRatio]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x116411470

27/07/15 8:32:48 PM    AppleScript Editor[43002]   HIToolbox: ignoring exception '-[NSCarbonWindowFrame aspectRatio]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x116411470' that raised inside Carbon event dispatch
(
.... trace ....
)

which is flooding my system log. This happens regardless of the active application.

Any idea why and how to stop the errors?


texts: Need a bit of help running a couple lines of bash in applescript. Maybe straight bash is best?

texts:
Preface this by saying I will be launching this script whether it be applescript or bash script with Alfred.app.

Sorry to be so blunt and unknowledgable but I need to run a couple lines of bash in an applescript. I think a simple bash script is capable but I do not know for sure. Here are the details (note that the commands should probably be different so if you have suggestions, please feel free to state them as they are probably correct):

I want the script to

rm ~/Library/Vidalia/vidalia.conf'
unzip ~/Library/Vidalia/vidalia.conf.zip'
launch Vidalia.app

Step below I do not believe is possible since the Vidalia.app is not scriptable and I don't want the applescript/bash script to be running until Vidalia quits... but if it's possible to implement without the script needing to stay open:

4) On quit of Vidalia.app rm ~/Library/Vidalia/vidalia.conf

Is this possible. I can use bash or applescript whatever is easiest for you guy's & gals to help me with. If I could get the first three steps to run I would be plenty happy! Thanks for your time and sorry for my lack of knowledge. Any tips or pointers are welcome.

Heck, I don't even know if those are the "proper" shell commands to use, they did the job but if they are "sound" I do not know.

Thank you for your time and patience.

UPDATE - Question: How to move unzipped file into different directory?

Okay I have one last question. How would I do this same sort of action, but I wanted to keep vidalia.conf.zip in another directory?

Say, for example, an external volume named tor - I moved into the mounted volume named tor with pushd, but when I go to extract the file with what I think should work -d I get the error that I  cannot create extraction directory

Which is good because I don't want to replace the directory, just move what get's unzipped into the pre-existing directory. Yeah, I will probably have to remove the file already there depending on what I am doing so what I have looks like this...

pushd ~/Library/Vidalia/
rm vidalia.conf
popd
pushd /Volumes/tor
unzip vidalia.conf.zip -d ~/Library/Vidalia/
popd

I haven't quite tried this too much once I ran into the error with plain old -d. As I was typing this I realized that I had to be navigating directories more with pushd and then out with popd.  Originally I just had lines 4 and 5 but added the top 3 to remove the .conf that currently is there ... if ... it is there...

Which bring me to one more question… Is it harmless to tell bash to remove a file that doesn't exist? I would have no idea where to even start with if then statements.

Lastly, can anyone recommend a good beginners intro to Bash book? I'd love to actually learn this stuff instead of just having to google and then turn around and bug you all. Thank you again for your help. You solved my earlier problem perfectly, I even learned a lot from the simple example (I think.)

Cheers!


texts: Is WiFi calling supported on ios 8 on iPhone 5?

texts: I have an iPhone 5, and I don't have good reception at home, so I was hoping to use wifi calling after upgrading to ios 8, but I can't find an option to enable it.  BTW I'm with T-Mobile carrier.


texts: Change keyboard shortcut for cycling application windows

texts:
Bear in mind this is a different issue to the following:
Changing keyboard shortcut for cycling through windows? (Lion)

As I am looking to change the shortcut that cycles through different applications, rather than different windows of the same application.

So the keyboard that is currently ⌘ CommandTab

I can't see this listed anywhere in system preferences however? I've never had trouble customising keyboard shortcuts until I wanted to change this one


texts: Running a script with administrator privileges from a standard client terminal

texts:
I have the strong feeling I'm trying to reinvent the wheel, but I did spend some time without finding an existing solution.

I have an already working shell script with several sudos.
Its first target was admin users, so everything was ok.
But now I'm hitting a roadblock for standard users.
Sudo won't work, and as I must run this script on any machine any time, editing sudoers is not an option.

How can I rewrite this script so that it asks for admin user and password once, and then uses this credentials to run as many su as needed? What I'm particularly trying to do is feed password to one-line su but, security risk aside, I've never been able to use something as 'echo  | su ...', as seen on forums.

Thanks


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I use an iPhone 6 (16-GB) and it's up to date with iOS 12.4.8 (it does not support running iOS 13).
Does the App Store just identify my phone as iPhone 6 via a physical identifier in the phone, and that prevents me from downloading any iOS version beyond 12.4.8? How might I get around this?
Maybe the drivers for the camera and fingerprint reader in the iPhone 6 are not in iOS 13? But, I might be ok without both of those. Losing GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth would not be ok.
So, I'd like to just give iOS 14 on an iPhone 6 a look and learn something by doing this. But, I'll probably buy a new phone.


texts: Moved iPhoto Library: Need to point iMovie in the right direction

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my friend has moved her iPhoto 08 Library from an external HD. She has some iMovie 08 projects which reference iPhoto movies.

How can I update iMovie to the new location of the iPhoto library. We no longer have access to the external HD.


texts: How do I change the default font size for reading in Mail 6.0?

texts: How do I change the default font size for reading the body of messages in Mail 6.0? I know that I can use ctrl++, but I want the reading pane to default the body of the message to a larger font without lowering the default resolution.


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I was looking into getting a Macbook Pro 15 inch with Retina Display. I've never owned a Mac so I did some researching while looking at what to get. I saw a lot of articles saying to wait for the 2016 Macbook Pro to be released, since the 2015 version hasn't had many updates over the years. The only notable difference between the previous years has mostly been the CPU.

The 2015 version uses the 4th Generation Intel Haswell CPUs. The 2016 version will have the 6th Generation Skylake CPUs, and probably some other sort of hardware upgrades.

Since I'm new to the Mac world, I was wondering if there would really be any benefit to waiting for the 2016 models to come out? I was also wondering about the price difference. At the moment I can get the 15 inch retina display, with the 512 GB SSD upgrade for $2169.

I'm only going to use the laptop for basic use and programming (nothing graphically intense). In my perspective an i7 Haswell is by no means a bad CPU, and I could only see maybe up to a 10% increase in performance with the Skylake CPU, and maybe some minor increase in battery performance.

So I ask the Apple people, do you really thing there will be a big enough increase in hardware performance to wait for the 2016 release? I have a feeling the price may increase substantially, for a slight performance boost.

If I'm too off topic feel free to migrate to Hardware Recommendations


texts: How to skip OS X VNC connect password requester?

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I have an Ubuntu server which I tend to use via VNC from OS X. For this, I have saved a .vncloc file from the built-in Screen Sharing client. When I click this icon, Screen Sharing connects to Ubuntu, but shows this requester already filled in:

Since I saved my password in my Keychain, I just have to press enter every time. Is it possible to skip this requester somehow and connect immediately using the saved credentials?


texts: Does a M.2 2280 SSD fit in a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)?

texts:
I have a standard 256GB SSD right now. I would like to upgrade that to a 512GB or higher. When I was looking around I found this SAMSUNG 950 PRO 512 GB SSD that has a huge performance in write and read speed.

This SAMSUNG 950 PRO 512 GB has a M.2 2280 connection.
Is it possible to fit this inside my Macbook?


texts: how to stop krisp.ai app from starting on boot

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The Krisp app (a noise filter for skype calls) starts automatically on boot, and even if I remove it from the list of startup items, I keep finding it there.

This is annoying and intrusive. I like the app and I need it, so I won't uninstall it just yet, but I'd like it to start when I want, not when it wants.


texts: How to speed up screen refresh on MacPro + Bootcamp?

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I'm a .Net developer running Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) on a 2010 MacPro (2.27Ghz/6GB RAM) using Bootcamp. Until about a month ago its been, imo, the ultimate dev workstation. However recently I've noticed that Visual Studio 2010 takes a very long time to redraw its windows. This is most noticeable when switching to it after its been in the foreground.

I don't get this problem with other Windows apps and am baffled because the machine has more than enough grunt to handle a few MDI'd windows yet grinds for up to five minutes sometimes when reactivating the VS environment - the screen update seems to slow everything down. My colleagues are using identical hardware and software but running Windows under Parallels on their Macs does not lead to this behaviour.

I'm getting desperate (and I've asked this same question at StackOverflow.com) - does anyone know why this might be happening and whether there's a fix ...?


texts: Display facebook profile pictures full size on call

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I synced my friends' Facebook profile pictures with the facebook iPhone app. When I get a call from someone it has the picture displayed in small in the top right corner.

When someone calls whose contact photo I've taken with the iPhone itself, however, it looks like this:

 — the picture is "full screen".

Is there a way to (automatically) get the Facebook profile pictures displayed this way? My iPhone is a 3G jailbroken on 4.2.1, so a Cydia tweak would be absolutely fine.


texts: Finding the directory an application uses for temporary files

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Is there procedure or tool that can be used to find the directory in which an application stores its temporary files?

My cloud backup service reports how many files remain to be backed up. This number increases by an order of magnitude whenever I open a particular application, and decreases when I close the application. Methinks these are temp files. To prevent my backup from wasting its time indexing and uploading them, I want to exclude that application's temporary file directory. I just need to figure out where it is. Rather than rooting around in the file system like an animal, I'd prefer to use a thoughtful tool or procedure to watch where the system (or the application) is putting these temp files.


texts: My Mac Pro 1,1 won't boot from any type of usb stick

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I tried to install several unsupported versions of OS X on my Mac Pro 1,1 but no matter which method I use, after choosing the usb device in the boot manager the mac would just boot into os x lion as normally. I even tried sudo bless and using another usb port but it still won't work.
Can anybody help me with?

tober


texts: Cursor won't populate in input field when trying to unlock mac HD

texts: I'm updating my mother's macbook because she was on el capitan. I initially tried directly updating to Catalina to no avail. Then I updated to mojave to try to update to catalina. That worked and when I tried updating to catalina, the screen went black with the not allowed symbol on the screen. I tried doing the command+R to redownload mojave again but when I get to the point of where I want to save mojave, input field won't work. Anyone know how to fix this?


texts: USB 3 Lightning Camera Adapter to Roland MIDI UM-One interface on iPhone with iOS 12

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I am running iOS 12.1.2 on my iPhone X. I am trying to use GarageBand with a Microkorg synthesizer, and am connecting them using a Roland UM-One Mk2 MIDI interface and a USB 3 Lightning Camera Adapter.

This setup seems to work fine on my iPad - also running the most recent version of iOS 12.

But when I plug everything into my iPhone, I cannot play the GarageBand instrument with the synth.

Also, the expected lights on the MIDI interface are on in both cases.

Is there a setting on the iPhone that must be changed? I literally just had to plug in to the iPad to make it work - no extra effort there.


texts: Not Receiving Standard SMS on iMessage for Mac

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I have a new Retina Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and an iPhone running 6.0.1.

On my iPhone I can send and receive text messages from my email test@example.com and +1 (555) 555-5555. On my phone it has iMessage turned on, Send Read Receipts is on, Send as SMS is on, Send & Receive (2 Addresses which are my email and number), new texts sent from my number.

On my Mac iMessage I'm logged into my Apple ID and it says I can be reached from my email address or number (which are same as on my iPhone).

If an iPhone user texts me, it shows on my Phone and Mac and I can respond on my Mac or Phone.

My issue is that I cannot send or receive texts on my Mac to/from non iPhone users as I've been able to with Google Voice. I had thought with Mountain Lion you would not be able to at least receive texts sent to your phone number. Or is it still limited to only iPhone users? I would think if a non iPhone user sends to my iPhone number it would sync that message to my computer.


texts: I have had my IPhone 4s for a few weeks and I try to add contacts and events but I can't. There is no + (add) button on the contacts and the + (add) button is grey and when I press it noting happens.


texts: Someone made a FaceTime call with my number

texts: My husband told me that he received a FaceTime call from my number but he missed the call. I never called him and I don't have any outgoing calls in my phone or anything. Is my Apple ID compromised?


texts: empty list of windows version while installing using bootcamp

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I tried installing Windows 10 through bootcamp for the first time. All went well and windows installation started booting. But after the first language setup, the installation asked to select the windows version I wanted to install but it gave an empty list and I couldn't proceed. Anyone who knows an answer for this?
I am using:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
Processor: 2.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
OS X Version: Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76)

Windows I am installing is
Windows 10 Pro x64
Language en-US
File Size: ~3.63 GB


texts: OS X: Set up one folder as "extension" of another, symlink-style?

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I have two folders on two different Volumes:

/Volumes/SSD/my-important-folder
/Volumes/HDD/my-extension-of-important-folder

In the second folder I put large files and folders so they do not take up all the space on the SSD. In order to have everything in one place I create symlinks from the first to the second folder, like so:

/Volumes/SSD/my-important-folder/big-file is a symlink to /Volumes/HDD/my-extension-of-important-folder/big-file

This is useful because big files get stored on the HDD yet they are available as if they were stored on the SSD. But this has the disadvantage that I have to create a symlink for every file oder folder that I add to the folder on HDD.

It would be really useful if I could say to the OS: if I call a file that is not in /Volumes/SSD/my-important-folder, please look it up in /Volumes/HDD/my-extension-of-important-folder.

The folder on the HDD would then be a real extension of the folder on the SSD.

Can this be done? I am running OS X 10.9.1


texts: How do I fix the "auto-reboot" bug on my iPhone X without resetting it to factory?

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Here are some backgrounds:

I've got my iPhone X in early 2018. The device model is MQA92CH/A. I have NEVER Jailbroken it. I only install apps from the App Store. I have dropped it to the ground for about two or three times but the screen is not very broken. There is a very light crack on the screen which almost could be ignored if you don't watch it carefully. This (dropping it to the ground) happens about 10 months ago.

About 6 months ago, I've got a problem which was a bit indifferent at first: The phone would reboot itself sometimes. That happened when I switching from one app to another. Here is a gif to show how it reboots:

At first, it would only happen 1-2 times a week, and later it would happen 1-2 times a day. Recently, it happens 5-10 times a day. Sometimes even when I'm NOT switching between apps.

What's more annoying is that I often use a map app on my Cap Play when driving. When this happens, I would lose my navigator for around 30-90 seconds, which is extremely dangerous when I'm in an unfamiliar road or on the expressway.

I would always upgrade my iOS version to the latest one. When I'm posting this, the version is 12.2. The issue keeps happening without having any mitigation from upgrading the iOS version.

I have a lot of apps installed so I prefer not to have everything reset to factory. Thanks for any kind of tips that I could try.


texts: Is there a way to archive Live Photos to the filesystem on macOS?

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I like the ability to take Live Photos on my iPhone.

I bought a Mac and I can see them in the Photos App, but when I transfer them to my personal folders in my account, the live effect is lost.

Is there any way to transfer them to folders without losing that Live feature?


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My issue is that I left my Mac on with an external (as an extended) display.  When I came back the secondary display denies coming live.  There is an application there (Word) which I cannot reach it with a mouse to drag it to the primary Macbook pro display to continue work.  The application is live since I can see it in the Task manager (Command+Tab)  I wonder if there is something that I can do from the Terminal command line.
Please, no external apps suggestions, if possible!
Thanks.


texts: Siri Windows API: Make Windows PC print a document via voice command to Siri HomePod

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I have a Apple ecosystem in my apartment along with a Windows PC.

I am wondering whether Apple offers making a Windows PC on my WiFi network controllable by my Siri enabled HomePod?

If I could make my PC a HomeKit device, for example, I should in theory, be able to teach Siri to carry out predefined Actions on my Windows PC (for example, printing a page to my printer from my Windows pc)

"Hey Siri, print the page I am browsing on my PC".

Has Apple provided an API for this kind of thing? Or not (yet)? Does anyone know of any other non-Apple ways to do this?  (e.g., something similar to this).


texts: Is there any Mac OS X software I could use to learn keyboard shortcuts?

texts:
I saw a program on Windows that helped the user learn keyboard shortcuts in various applications by reminding there is a shortcut every time he used a mouse to particular task.

Is there some similar software available for Mac OS X?


texts: Getting the "prohibitory" symbol on startup

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I have a mid-2004 PowerMac G5 that until recently was running fine.  It had OS-X 10.3.5 installed.  At one point the screen froze, no mouse, no keyboard.  I powered it down and back up again.  That's when I got the prohibitory symbol on screen.

I have re-seated the hard drive cables, optical drive cables, the Video card, and the RAM chips.
I  have reset the SMU and the PRAM (repeatedly).
I have removed the drives and re-formatted them on an external dock, they're fine.
It will not start in safe mode or recovery mode.
I was able to start it in Startup Manager, I ran the Apple Hardware Test (from the disc) and all the Hardware tested OK.  I was able to start in Single-User mode, however it got stuck on "Still waiting for root device".
Last resort was to again format the drives, start in Startup Manager, and run the original installation disc.  It got partway through installation and locked up again. It will no longer even start the install.

This is where I ran out of talent.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: Mount folder as another folder in iOS (darwin17), like mount -o bind or bindfs?

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I have to communicate folders from one app to another in a Jailbroken device. Unfortunately my app cannot deal with symlinks, and I have too many files to do hard links on all of them.

The only way to do it (as I know) would be to mount the folder as a Volume, like mount -o bind /dirsource /dirdestiny (in linux), or bindfs in MacOS. But iOS didn't have such tools.

I cannot do what they said in
Mount folder as a volume (OSX) because it only comprises MacOS.

Note: I have Python 3 installed with c compiler, so I'm able to install almost any pip3 package. If there is a way to do it using python would be good too.

How is the way to do that on iOS?


texts: Debug why USB drive is ignored as a bootable device?

texts:
I created a USB drive with 'El Capitan' on it, as described here, which uses mostly these directions, "option 2: Use Disk Utility."

I now have a USB key with "Mac OS Extended" format and 7.8G of stuff on it.

When I boot up (Snow Leopard) holding down the option key, it doesn't show any menu to choose where to boot from, it just ignores my USB drive. When I open the "Startup Disk" system preferences dialog, it does not show the USB drive (even though it is mounted). It is plugged directly into this mac mini, not through a hub or keyboard.

I looked around for related questions (e.g., here), and found nothing relevant.

Edit 1: This is a mac mini (model identifier "Macmini3,1") with an Intel Core 2 Duo running 10.6.8 (snow leopard).


texts: Drag application window to another space

texts: In OS X Mavericks how do I drag a window to another space?  I was able to do this in Mountain Lion.


texts: Is there any way to reattach an 'orphaned' Windows installation?

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I have a Windows installation in a partition on my hard drive. The problem is, it's not showing up when I startup holding alt.

I installed Windows through VirtualBox, linked to a physical partition on my hard drive. It all fully installed and boots in VirtualBox, but it doesn't show up on the boot drive selection.

I installed through Vbox because my Optical drive is broken, so I can't use the actual Windows installation disk I have. I tried creating a 'bootable' Windows installation USB key with Boot Camp Assistant, but when it actually came to installing Windows, it wouldn't work.

So yeah, is there a way to tell EFI that the Windows partition actually exists?


texts: How to shrink Recovery HD on macOS Sierra

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After removing a Windows partition, my Recovery HD has increased in size to about 70 GB. I'd like to reclaim this disk space into my main HD, but cannot figure out how. What is the easiest way to do so?

The output of diskutil list gives:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            429.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             69.9 GB    disk0s3

My machine is a 2015 MacBook Pro.

And the results of diskutil resizevolume disk0s3 limits give:

Resize limits for partition disk0s3 Recovery HD:
  Current partition size on map:              69.9 GB (69933821952 Bytes)
  Minimum size (constrained by file usage):   553.4 MB (553422848 Bytes)
  Recommended minimum size (if used for OS):  5.9 GB (5922131968 Bytes)
  Maximum size (constrained by map space):    69.9 GB (69933821952 Bytes)


texts:
I have a large library on my iTunes and I want to stream the sound to my iPad over wifi. I tested home sharing but it don't load the library, it blocks to the half (iOS 7) and it's quite long (nothing after 10mn). I also use Remote on my iPad to control my iTunes, but I can't get the sound from it…

On my Android I just use the Retune app to control iTunes (like Remote on iPad) and the georgous AirBubble app to receive stream from iTunes. But on an iPad? Why Apple doesn't permit to use AirPlay to do this? I don't want an Airport Express…

PS: I also tested Airfoil but it's another app to launch on the Mac and I don't need it with my Android.


texts: How do I make a contact in Google Contacts show up on my phone?

texts: I have my Google Contacts synched with my phone. I see all my contacts except the one that I need. I can go to https://www.google.com/contacts/#contact/18f963d78b764fd6 and see the contact in my account, but it is not showing up in my phone! I killed the phone app, turned off Google Accounts then back on, changed from Fetch to Manual then back, searched by name (both first and last), but no luck.


texts:
I'm very puzzled that when you click "Info" for a SSD drive connected with USB in Disk Utility, it says:
Solid State: NO
Any way to know if a USB attached drive to a Mac is HDD or SSD?  Best if you can know in macOS, without third party tool.
It's a 2.5" SSD connected to a USB port.
Any help much welcome.


texts: Where are system environment variables set in Mountain Lion?

texts:
In Lion (and previous releases) it was in .MacOSX/environment.plist. After upgrading to 10.8, the file is still there, but the variables aren’t taking.

I’ve also tried adding them to /etc/launchd.conf and they’ll show up in  Terminal, but not GUI applications (like my IDE).


texts:
There are many webpages given over to listing defaults commands in order to configure various parts of the OS. Some of them include the flag -currentHost.

The man page for the defaults command documents the option -currentHost, as "restricting preferences operations to the host that the user is currently logged in on."

Similarly, the -host flag allows a hostname to be specified for the preference.

What is the purpose of explicitly setting these flags? Under what circumstances would a preference affect some other host? (Or indeed, when would a user be logged in on a different host?)


texts: What is the keyboard combination for the ⌘ symbol?

texts: There are many handy shortcuts for exotic characters in Mac such as Option + 7 for ¶ and Option + G for ©. Is there one to yield the command key ('⌘') sign?


texts: OS X Mail App - How to send an email at a specific date and time

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Just for my curiosity and knowledge, is there any way to create different emails and have them delivery automatically at a specific date and time?

As provider I do use iCloud.com and Gmail.com and I have OS X 10.10 Mail App.


texts: CalendarAgent wants to connect to wunderground

texts:
Odd one.
Without (knowingly) changing anything (of course SOMETHING must have changed) when I booted up Apple Calendar the other day I got this alert from Little Snitch:

  CalendarAgent via com.apple.WeatherKitService.xpc wants to connect to
  api.wunderground.com on TCP port 443 (https)

Any idea why or how that would happen?
I don't sync to any Calendars that I know of, and use the Calendar infrequently.

OS X El Capitan 10.11.6


texts: Hook up 3 monitors to Mac Mini Late 2014

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I have the Mac Mini late 2014 and want to hook up 3 monitors in total.
It works great with 2 displays (1x Thunderbolt + 1x HDMI). Once I add a third monitor to the second Thunderbolt port, just nothing happens. What can I do to get my third monitor working?


texts: Automator to execute shell script with an input text file, copy it to specific directory

texts:
I'm simplifying making a .deb file with Automator. I currently have a shell script that does some simple actions -

Ask the user for text input
Do some directory parsing
Execute a command with the text input as a variable
run the dpkg-deb program and output to the desktop

That's all well and good, but .deb files must have a "control" text file with some fields filled out, and the file has to be in a specific path, with the control file residing in a DEBIAN subdirectory like so

AppName/DEBIAN/control

What I would like to do, is create the control file, and drop it on the Automator workflow and have it run the script with the control file as an input parameter. I would need the script to "copy this file to AppName/DEBIAN/ and create the DEBIAN folder if it doesn't exist.

Where AppName == A specific line from the control file

Can anyone help?


texts: What option should I give the sudo command to have the password asked through a graphical interface?

texts:
This problem has ben bugging me for a while now.

Every now and then, I need to write a script file that should execute sudo commands. I do not necessarily know in advance that I will run as sudo so I am sure there is a way to open a nice graphical interface (such as the one popping up when installing software) but how ?

The man sudo says:

-A          Normally, if sudo requires a password, it will read it from the current terminal.  If the -A (askpass) option is specified, a (possibly
            graphical) helper program is executed to read the user's password and output the password to the standard output.  If the SUDO_ASKPASS
            environment variable is set, it specifies the path to the helper program.  Otherwise, the value specified by the askpass option in
            sudoers(5) is used

So I am pretty sure the solution resides in that -A and SUDO_ASKPASS tuple however I've managed to find what to put into those.


texts: What causes some Network Drives using SMB no longer connect to macOS Catalina?

texts:
Running the release version of macOS Catalina some SMB shares will not connect when they did on Mojave. I noticed this first after updating to the Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A487l), I am no longer able to connect to my network drive via SMB.

This is the error:

  There was a problem connecting to the server "ServerName". The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again.

However, I am still able to connect to the network drive from a Windows 10 machine and a macOS Mojave machine.

Is anyone else having this issue? Is it an issue with Catalina or is there something else I can do to try to resolve this?


texts: Can I boot from a "bootable clone" on different Mac models?

texts:
As part of my backup process I create a bootable clone of the HDD of my iMac. I have booted my iMac from the backup to test it works, this would be fine in the case of the original drive in my iMac failing.

However, would I be able to boot a MacBook from this backup?


texts: MacBook Pro 13" (2018) cannot drive 4k display @ 60Hz from right-hand USB-C ports

texts:
I have a new MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2018 Touch Bar). I'm connecting an LG 27UD88 external display directly via the supplied USB-C cable, which is also used to provide power to the laptop plus allows the display to act as a hub for USB-A devices.

The screen achieves 4K @ 60Hz via the USB-C ports on the left-hand side of the laptop. However, when I connect it via either of the ports on the right-hand side, it maxes out at 30Hz.

I have tried resetting the PRAM/NVRAM and SMC, and tried the cable in different orientations.

When I option-click Scaling in Display Prefs, the refresh rate is limited to 30Hz with the right-hand ports.

I have found other questions which describe 60Hz/4K issues with dongles (1, 2, 3), and mention of this left-hand/right-hand disparity on Reddit, but there is nothing concrete about whether this is a universal issue.

My question is: is this a fault with this particular unit, or is this a known limitation of all 2018 13" MacBook Pros?

Update: I have found that it is able to drive another 4K display at 60Hz from the right-hand ports, via a USB-C to DisplayPort cable. I'm wondering if the problem above is associated with the fact that the laptop is also drawing power and USB hub functionality from the LG display.


texts: iMessages show not delivered on mac, but show as delivered on the same thread in my iphone

texts: I've tried deleting the messages cache (if that's what it's called. The history through the library). It fixed the problem temporarily, but it started doing this again.


texts: What causes Firefox to not show me a new tab? Can this be fixed?

texts:
I am using Firefox 7.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7. Often times when I make a new window, the tab bar contains only a single "+" tab, even after I got to a URL:

If I make new tabs, then I cannot get back to the first tab I created. This is extremely annoying. Is there a fix for this?


texts:
I have the late 2008 edition of the unibody MacBook. It has a built-in HDD which became unbelievably slow. The other tech-specs are:

Now, since its not too bad regarding the processor and the memory is ok too, I thought about speeding it up a bit by giving it an SSD.

[#1] Do you think this SSD will work for the MacBook? Or do you have another recommendation?

EDIT

[#2] I found an even quicker one for just 10$ more, might that one work as well?


texts:
I am trying to import my entire folder structure from Entourage 2008 to Mail on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8.

First I tried to export the whole email database from Entourage to the Desktop as a .rge file. The export aborted with a message saying that my Entourage database is corrupt and that I should rebuild it.

I then went over to Mac Mail and imported the Entourage folder structure through File > Import mailboxes… > Entourage. The bulky import did take some time and the progress bar never reached its full length, but at the end the import said it was successful.

When I checked the imported folder structure in Mail I noticed that quite a few subfolders were missing. I checked Console and saw following message:

Mail[2899] Applescript Error:
  aliasForMailImporter got an error:
  AppleEvent handler failed.

What does that mean and what can I do to move my subfolder structure over completely?


texts: Does plugging iPhone into iTunes automatically update iOS?

texts: If I plug an iPhone that's running an old version of iOS into a computer with iTunes, will iOS on the iPhone automatically update when the phone is plugged in?


texts: How to evoke Preview's title bar saving dialogue by shortcut?

texts:
Preview shows the currently opened document’s name in its title bar. When hovering over this name, a arrow appears at the right. After a click, there is a dialogue where you can chance the file name, the file tags, the directory and set the file as protected. This is quite handy if you want to add a tag without opening the file's preferences from the Finder view.

How can I open this dialogue using keyboard shortcuts?

Thanks for help.


texts: Why can't I access files in my home directory?

texts:
I am running a terminal script that simply reads files and it will not read certain files with out an error.

I have tried 3 things

Using sudo - sudo node getInfo
Setting macOS to allow terminal full access to disk - see this SO post
Verified that the files are not protected by SIP - ls -lO some_apth

Here are a few of the error codes and paths:

Enoent means error no entry and applies that the file is not there - see here which is odd b.c. the file system is reporting them as there.

I can also cd into the directories and view the files.

  ENOENT
  ../../../Library/Containers/com.apple..NowPlayingWidgetContainer/Data/Documents/iChats

  ENOENT
  ../../../Library/Containers/com.apple..NowPlayingWidgetContainer/Data/Library/ColorSync

  ENOENT
  ../../../Library/Containers/com.apple..NowPlayingWidgetContainer/Data/Library/Components

  ENOENT
  ../../../Library/Containers/com.apple..NowPlayingWidgetContainer/Data/Library/Filters


texts: Add specific services to network location with terminal

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I want to automate the creation of my network locations (say Home and Work) and was looking into networksetup -createlocation <location name> [populate]

Adding populate adds default services to the network location (USB LAN, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth PAN, Thunderbolt Bridge) and without leaves the location empty.

Is there a way to add specific services to a network location? networksetup -printcommands | grep -i location is not coming up with anything helpful.


texts: How can I make earphones with full inline controls work with VLC/Spotify?

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I have a set of earphones with full inline controls (mic, play/pause, vol up/down) but they only seem to work with iTunes (and I'm not sure the mic works at all).

How can I make them work with VLC/Spotify?


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When I am watching a YouTube video, the video will pause and freeze for about one second, every 10 seconds on the dot. I've timed it. I have also tried watching activity monitor but it doesn't show anything out of the ordinary spiking. And it's not Flash or the browser in particular, though they show the worst effect. But even as I type this, every 10 seconds it freezes. In other programs too I'm pretty sure I have seen this freeze. (lately I haven't used many other programs, to be honest, so I'm not 100% sure)

I am trying to avoid the brute force approach of removing things one by one and seeing if it stops. Before I resort to that, is there anything sort of like activity monitor but maybe that will graph usage so I can just look at a spike in usage from a single process? Or is there some other method you can recommend for finding out what is causing this every-10-second freeze?

This, by the way, is a few-month-old 17" MacBook Pro with a 2.8ghz i7 and 4gb of RAM and all updates.


texts: How do I create a new user in Lion from the Terminal?

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The older method of:

dscl . -create /Users/username

doesn't work because /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist can't be found. From what I gather, OSX Lion doesn't use this method anymore.

How can I create a new user solely from the Terminal?


texts: Where to find list of downloads in Safari 13.1 for macOS Mojave?

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I am using Safari 13.1 on macOS Mojave.

The Downloads icon button in the upper-right corner of Safari's toolbar is now gone. The Customize Toolbar feature does not offer any such widget.

Is there some other way to see a list of recent downloads and where they went?


texts: Macbook pro 13" mid-2012 not turning on, no battery leds (battery ok)

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My MacBook pro 13" 2012 won't boot up. The battery leds on the outside aren't indicating anything either and the charger won't show bright green or amber led.

Is my logic board the cause?

Things I've tried:

Tried a SMC reset
A different, working battery
A different, working charger
Using the MacBook without the battery connected to see if it would start up
Trying to connect the power pads on the logic board

Attached a few photos of the board and connectors.

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texts: Ok I got this Iphone4 and it s already got a apple ID and it wont let me sign in for my apple ID so im waiting to see what happened.


texts: URL of calendar running on mac server (to subscribe in google calendar)

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I am running OS 10.8 server on a mac mini. I have the calenddar service enabled and created an extra user for calendars.

I have no problem subscribing to those calendars by creating an OSX server account on other macs using the "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" setting in system preferences.

Is it possible to subscribe to such a calendar online, using google calendar? Google Calendar has an option to "add via URL" (right click on further calendars at the bottom left) -- how can I figure out what the URL of my calendar is?


texts: How can I mirror my iPad display wirelessly?

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I am looking to display my iPad screen wirelessly to an external display to demo applications.  I found this video showing exactly what I want to do with an iPhone but no explanation as to what the hardware dongle used was.

The main thing is that there isn't a wire tethering the user to the external display.


texts: Internet recovery of 2015 MacBook Pro fails due to unavailability of Yosemite

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I recently purchased a second-hand 2015 13" MacBook Pro.  It came with High Sierra installed, but I wanted to make sure the system was completely clean (in case it had been compromised), so I:

Booted into internet recovery mode by restarting and pressing ⌘⌥R.
Used Disk Utility to erase the entire internal drive.  Unlike the internal recovery partition, internet recovery did not allow me to format it as APFS, so I chose HFS+ Journaled instead.
Attempted to use the "Reinstall OS X" option to do just that.

The installer was for Yosemite; that would be just fine with me (I can upgrade later).  After clicking through the licence agreement, selecting the target drive, and clicking "Install" I was prompted for my Apple ID and password to log into the app store, after which I received the following error message:

  This item is temporarily unavailable.  Please try again later.

(Needless to say, trying again later has not helped.)

I am pretty sure the problem is that I never "purchased" Yosemite; by the time I went to install it on a previous machine only El Capitan was available in the app store, and unfortunately there seems to be no way to retroactively "purchase" Yosemite, which is a bit of a problem in this case.

How can get macOS installed on this machine again—ideally without needing another machine (both because it is inconvenient, and because of the risk that the other machine might be compromised)?

(I am not too fussy about which version I get, since I probably want High Sierra in the end and can upgrade easily enough.)


texts: Cycle through pair of spaces for two screens with one keyboard shortcut

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I have two displays and created for each display with Mission Control several desktops (also known as Spaces):

Display 1: Desktops 1-5
Display 2: Desktops 6-10

I have following related settings adjusted

Disabled: Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use
Enabled: Displays have separate Spaces

I want to treat the desktops of each display as 5 pairs:

Desktops 1,6
Desktops 2,7
Desktops 3,8
Desktops 4,9
Desktops 5,10

I have already changed the keyboard shortcuts as following (from here):

This works fine after I have deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist.

How can I cycle through the pairs of desktops with one keyboard shortcut, e.g. ctrl-left/right?

I am actually testing Amethyst and want to use mod1+n/p (mod1=ctrl+shift). I am hoping that I could use AppleScript to increase/decrease the desktop number 'modulo 5'. I am on macOS 10.14.5.


texts: Downloading large photos from Photo Stream on iPad

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Downloading from Photo Stream gives me a small size picture (approx 200 KB) and I want to download the full size (1 to 2 MB) file. How can this be done?

What is the criteria for deleting my iPad photos? I have lost a lot of older photos without any notification or approval.


texts: Purchased Logic Pro X not showing up in updates

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I purchased Logic Pro X on the app store. It's never showing in the updates, I just realised I still had the 10.3.1 version and I cannot update it to 10.4.6.

I use Catalina, so the update should have been done automatically. How can I get it done?


texts: Does Lion allow locking screen on computer sleep and screen saver but not display sleep?

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In Leopard, you can configure it so that a password is required when waking the system from computer sleep (i.e. close the lid) or returning from the screen saver, but not display sleep. This allowed me to easily lock my screen by activating the screen saver with a hot corner or have it lock automatically after an extended period of time when the screen saver kicked in or the machine went to sleep.

In Snow Leopard, however, this changed to require a password even for display sleep. This is frustrating because I'd have constantly type my password. A detailed discussion of the issue is available on Apple's forum.

I'd like to know if Lion 'fixed' this problem? Or does it behave the same as in Snow Leopard?


texts: Can I use iOS 13+ without creating a passcode?

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I was given a hand-me-down iPhone and I just installed the update to 13.3 and upon booting after the update it's prompting me to create a passcode. I do not see any option to skip creating a passcode as I saw previously when I first set up the phone.

Is there any way to skip creating a passcode entirely, or is it required by newer versions of iOS? Is there any way to bypass the requirement?

Screenshot. After the update I get the "Hello" screen followed by a "Software Update Complete" screen with a "Continue button" which leads to the "Create a Passcode" screen below. If I select "Passcode Options" I get only what is displayed here. The phone was factory reset last week and I never created a passcode. Tapping cancel takes me back to the "Create a Passcode" text or number entry. I can't seem to bypass this screen in any way and notifications are blocked. I assume that this is a thing in iOS 13 that now requires a passcode full stop, but I couldn't find any confirmation of that in my searches (everything that comes up is nonsense about bypassing a passcode if you forgot it, which is totally irrelevant).


texts: Is it possible to transfer images from iPhone to SD card directly?

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There is: http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MD822ZM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-reader

It’s easy to download photos and videos from your digital camera to your iPad or iPad mini
After you insert the SD card into the reader, your iPad automatically opens the Photos app, which lets you choose which photos and videos to import, then organises them into albums.

Description mentions only iPad (not iPhone)
Description mentions copying from SD card into the device

What I'm trying to do?
Travelling. Don't want to take computer with me. I'd rather rather use a spacious SD card and use it a storage to offload photos / videos to keep my internal memory free (allowing me to shoot / record more)
Possible?


texts:
I'm tring to write a shortcut script in spark for opening the terminal.

on run {input, parameters}

  tell application "Utilities/Terminal" // tried Utilities:Terminal and Terminal too
    reopen
    activate
  end tell

end run

how can make this work? I'm using 10.10.2 as OSX version.


texts: Microphone & Headphones combo port does not work on Win 8 Bootcamp on MBP Retina 15"

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I have a macbook pro retina 15in and I have windows 8 installed via bootcamp.

I have bootcamp v5 drivers installed in windows 8 and everything works well except my external headset mic.  It is a Dr Dre Beats Solo with the mic integrated into the cable.  The mac os has no problem recognizing it and the fact that the audio jack has the mic on it as well.

Windows 8, no dice.  The headset works but the mic does not.

Do I need to download drivers to fix this issue?


texts: I received following message after I restored my iPhone OS to 4.2: The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported. How can I use my SIM?


texts: Symlinked MobileSync folder but still "not enough free space"

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I have an external hard drive and I plan to put iPhone backups on it.

I did symlink to it this way:

ln -s /Volumes/external/Backup ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync

When I'm trying to do a backup of my iPhone normally from iTunes, I get an error:

However my drive has 1 TB of free space. What's wrong?


texts: Is there a way to make paste as text only the default action in Office 2016?

texts: I hardly ever want to paste with formatting when copying into Word 2016 or Excel 2016 (seriously, who wants fonts when copying into a spreadsheet?).  Is there a way to set the default paste to paste text only when I hit Cmd+V?


texts: 4k Display Limited to 30hz MacOS. SwitchResX LG 32UD59

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I'm using SwitchResX to use a custom resolution of 3840 x 2160. But it's capped it at 30hz. Whereas if I switch to 2560 x 1440 I'm able to use 60Hz.

I have purchased SwitchResX but I'm unable to create a custom setting to enable 60hz. I keep getting "Not activated - Invalid"
What do I need to do to find out the correct setting for 60hz use on this monitor.
LG 32UD59

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro, Im using a DP1.2 cable and it fully supports 60hz, I am able to use it on Bootcamp @ 60hz, but not MacOS


texts: How can I neglect a update in App Store?

texts: How can I neglect a update in App Store since it's annoying?


texts:
I'm searching for an iPad App where i can write and proceed SQL Statements.

I want to connect to my own Server.

Are there any Apps out there? I can only find MySQL Apps which are offering GUI-Editing of my Database.


texts: My phone will not hard reset. I have an Iphone XR and I have pressed the volume up volume down buttons then held the sleep/awake button and the phone shut down. I continued to hold the sleep/awake button but instead of the connect to Iphone thing it just shuts down. I have run out of options please help.


texts: Will Mac Mini i5 OSX 10.7.5 Boot in 64 Bit Mode

texts: Considering buying a mid 2011 Mini i5 OSX 10.7.5 (16GB) to run Lightroom 6/CC and Photoshop CC.  They require 64 bit systems.  My Air (4GB) doesn't have enough RAM to run efficiently. Will the Mini boot in 64 bit as is, will I need to hold down 6 + 4 during start up, or do I need to upgrade to Yosemite?


texts: How to insert ALT character with Edit -> Emoji & Symbols

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I want to insert the Apple's Alt key symbol into a document.

So I fired up the 'Emoji & Symbols' window and use 'alt' as the search term.

The symbols are not 100% as I expected but close enough. I want to
use rightmost character in 'Font Variation'

However after trying a few times, the tool will only insert the leftmost symbol ⎇.

How can get the character that I want?


texts: Music Tracker Software allowing Keyboard Input for Playing Piano

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I'm looking for a piece of software that is a tracking studio, that allows you to use your keyboard to perform at least piano parts, or at best, any instrument.

Needless to say I mean keyboard as in my QWERTY keyboard I'm typing into right now. MIDI support is optional, but probably already there on any piece of software like this.

I've used LMMS in the past, which (aside from the hard coded AZERTY input method) was a wonderfully simple program that offered plenty of high-end VSTs and features to grow into.


texts: Use AppleScript to search for message by subject

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Does Applescript provide a mechanism for me to search for a message by subject; or do I have to write a loop and examine every message "by hand".

The code below generates this error:  Mail got an error: Can’t get subject of mailbox.

tell application "Reminders"
    set snoozeList to "Snooze"
    set notCompleted to reminders in list snoozeList whose completed is false
    set numNotCompleted to (count of notCompleted)
    repeat with index from 1 to numNotCompleted
        set reminderName to name of item index of notCompleted
        tell application "Mail"
            set theMailbox to mailbox "Snooze" of account "GVSU"
            set foundIt to (message in theMailbox whose subject is reminderName)
            display dialog read status of message foundIt
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell

The error message suggests that whose is being applied to the mailbox and not the messages; but, I can't figure out how to rephrase that line of code.

(For context, I would like to write a script that will iterate over all Reminders and move the linked email from the "Snoozed" folder back to the inbox.  First, however, I have to figure out how to get a reference to the linked email.)


texts: How to check how much RAM a program uses?

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Is there any recommended way of checking for this?

There is another thread:

How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying?

I ask this question because I was under the impression that disk space is not the same as RAM. My computer is running slow and I would like to get to the cause, and the first thing I want to tackle is finding out which programs are taking up the most RAM.

Thanks!


texts: How to open current folder in ForkLift from command line?

texts:
I know how to open it in Finder:

open .

But, how can I open it in ForkLift?


texts: is there a way to delete all the photos shared to my iPad from my iPhone (done through iCloud), but keep all my original iPad photos?

texts:
So I just turned on iCloud photos for my iPhone and it shared all my iPhone photos to my iPad camera roll, and I don't want all those photos there, and I don't want the photos from my iPad on my iPhone either.
is there a way to put it back to the way it was without turning off iCloud?


texts: Is there a secure shell client for Mac similar to Secure CRT for Windows?

texts:
I have many servers to manage and I don't want to use Terminal on my Mac to keep and manage server lists.

I want to know if there is a secure shell client for Mac similar to Secure CRT on Windows?


texts: Could not log in; restarted MacBook Air; icons exchanged position; Got a login warning at my iPhone

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I took my MacBook Air offline and put it to sleep. After some 4 hours, I opened the lid, entered the password wrongly, corrected it and hit enter. The password field and the "next" arrow were greyed out. This remained for some 10 seconds when I tried clicking on cancel button but nothing happened.Battery was at 35%.

Then I held the power button, it went to whatever state it goes into. I pressed the power button after a minute and logged in normally. A box appears asking if I want to open the applications that were open before the computer restarted because of a problem. I said No. Nothing more than Safari was open as far as I remember. I do have Ps, Acrobat, Lr, Tor VSCode, Spotify and a lot of RAW photos. I am at 15 GB free out of 128. Three windows of Finder opened when I reached the Desktop. Battery at 33%.

I noticed that the menu buttons of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in menu bar exchanged their positions with all others at their original places.

Then I turned on Wi-Fi hotspot in an other android phone and connected both of them to it. I got a notification on my iPhone about my Apple ID being used somewhere but I didn't read it completely and pressed the only button shown "OK" by mistake.

Then to open Safari, I pressed cmd + space bar, typed "Sa" and it took time as it was indexing. I waited for the process to complete(for no reason).

Year and a half old MacBook Air running MacOS 10.14.2.

How to change the position of the aforementioned icons?

Expected behaviour would be:

1 Smooth login

2 Icons as they were

3 No notification on my iPhone as I have done the same sleep wake cycle so many times already.

4 No indexing time in spotlight as no major changes on disk were made.


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I downloaded an app for "watching FREE online tv shows" and obviously the app didn't worked, so I uninstall this app and now every time I click on any link in safari (most of the times in youtube) i get a new tab with publicity.

Im really worried about this because its something new for me, I can't find a solution, I installed an ad block from safari extensions and restored safari and nothing works.

Please help me!

Thanks.

PS. If you need screenshots, log indo or something let me know.


texts:
My VPN provider offers different profiles to connect to by putting in a path after the server address.  I'm able to do this with the Cisco AnyConnect client but using the native VPN I get an error saying the VPN server could not be found.

Is there a way to setup the native VPN connection to accept/use a server address in the format of myvpnserver.com/profile1?


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My (mid 2011) MacBook Air’s been working perfectly fine, but today decided to 1) crash 2) throw me the “startup disk not found” error.

I know it’s an old computer, but still I run disk verification in Disk Utility decently regularly, and in Recovery mode it doesn’t indicate any issues with the hardware. Somehow the data volume’s become corrupted.

I plan to find a hard drive, make a disk image from the volume & then reinstall.

Is there anything else I can do or any way to check whether this will happen again?

Do I need a new computer?


texts: Macbook Pro unresponsive while opening applications

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I have had an 240gb Corsair SSD in my 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 Macbook Pro (OSX 10.6.8) for about 8 months. The computer has 8gb RAM. It has been great for most of that time, but in the last month or so, I have experienced the following problem:

Whenever I open an application, the computer becomes unresponsive for about 5 seconds. I can move the mouse but clicking has no effect, and the keyboard does not work. The screen continues to behave normally (it shows the application opening screen, background applications and iTunes will continue working, etc), I just can't click or type anything.

What can I do to get to the bottom of this? Nothing immediately jumps out when I look at Activity Monitor.

There are 50gb of free space on the SSD, and RAM is maxed out at 8GB. The computer is otherwise fine, though seems to freeze a lot when using Chrome (I hear this is not uncommon).

Update: I had the same problem on a clone of my hard drive running on a standard HD (non-SSD), so the SSD is irrelevant.


texts: How does the iPhone 7 plus dual camera work?

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I just bought the iPhone 7 plus and of course the first thing i tried was to take some pictures with the new dual camera.

I was then wondering how the transition between the two cameras works since while zooming it looks as smooth as the standard digital zooming on any other phone.

So i tried to put a finger in front of only one camera to check when the transition occurs. If you put the finger in front of the right camera (watching the screen) you see your finger no matter how much you zoom, if you put your finger in front on the left camera then you will never see the finger.

At this point i thought that maybe the preview was taken only from the right camera and then when you actually take the picture it gets the image from one or the other according to how much you zoom.

But the picture that i took gave the same result that the preview did, finger on the right camera -> you get a black picture, finger on the left camera -> you get the image without the finger, no matter how much you zoom.

How does it work?
Is it an issue with my iPhone or do i just not get something?

Thank you everybody!

EDIT:
I tried both pinching the screen to zoom and using the "1x" button to activate the "2x" zoom, and i got the same result


texts: How do I know if my iPhone device is using WiFi 6

texts: I have an iPhone 11 and a new Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite AP. I can’t see any way to know from the phone (or the AP) if the phone is using a WiFi 6 connection or not.


texts: MacBook Pro early 2011 hangs at “white screen”

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I tried the following, but at each one except the single user mode, it is stuck on the white screen. This problem occurred after I shut down the MacBook Pro using power button after the screen froze

I tried booting from external USB, CMD+R, CMD+OPTION+R, OPTION,

While it is stuck at white screen it overheats, and sometimes restarts

I cannot reinstall MacOS or enter recovery or internet recovery or even erase the hard disk because it always ets stuck at the white screen.

Is there any way to fix it using terminal at single user mode?


texts: I installed Windows only on a MBP, unable to boot from removable

texts:
My Mac decided to go weird and got a kernel error and won’t boot anymore. Looking around in desperation mode I figured that maybe I could use that Bootcamp pendrive I once setup. Now it turns out it’s not compatible with my model (2017 tMBP) and while windows has installed successfully and I can use a usb mouse and keyboard nothing else works. I installed because I though I would be able to boot it, get online and then create a bootable Mac install from it. Perhaps more threatening is the fact that now the computer doesn’t boot from removable drives at all (including the flash drive I installed it from).  Would I be able to reinstall macOS?
I’m thinking that maybe I could get a bootable install shipped to me and reinstall Bootcamp from there?


texts: Has anyone used a lightning + Micro USB to USB-C cable

texts: I just purchased an USB-C to Lightning cable, but when it came I realized that it has also a micro USB right in the Lightning connector. My fear is that the short circuits will damage the iPhone if I insert it the wrong way. The iPhone itself has pins only on one side. Are this cables safe? Should I remind myself every time that I need to insert it in a certain way?


texts: Screen backlight does not turn on during bootup, but turns on when accessing recovery partition

texts:
I have a late-2011 15" MacBook Pro running Mavericks.  I normally don't reboot my computer and can leave it logged in for days on end.  I decided to reboot my computer and when it was booting, the screen backlight would not turn on, although I could faintly see the login screen where I could type my password.

I tried resetting the SMC, but that didn't do anything.

I also tried resetting the PRAM, but I'm guessing because I have a firmware password and the computer is FileVault-encrypted, instead of actually resetting the PRAM, I have the prompt to type in my firmware password (also really faint since the backlight isn't on).  If I type in my password, it boots into the recovery partition and the display backlight finally turns on. However upon reboot, the backlight will stop working again.

I tried using Disk Utility to check for any permissions/disk errors but didn't find any issues.

I haven't tried logging in with the faint login screen, only because I can't find my mouse cursor to select my account to login.  I've tried rebooting with both the power cable connected and disconnected.

How can I get my screen backlight to turn back on again?


texts:
I'm looking for a Mac app that will accomplish the following:

Switch between two full-screen mac apps - Tweetdeck and iCal, automatically on a timed interval. Back and forth without stopping.

We have a Mac setup as an office information kiosk. Staff can see quick Twitter updates, then take a look at our shared Exchange calendar in iCal.

Currently I am running an Apple Script using the keyboard shortcuts in Lion to scroll left and right between the two full screen apps. This is great, but from time-to-time the script crashes, or scrolls too far to one side. Looking for something robust and simple.


texts: I'm trying to share my MacBook Air's wireless connection to my PS3 via ethernet and internet sharing. In internet sharing the share to options are iPhone USB, Thunderbolt Bridge and Bluetooth PAN. If I buy a USB-Ethernet adapter will I be able to share my internet connection through it or do I have to purchase the more expensive USB-Thunderbolt adapter? Thanks


texts:
I recently stumbled upon Pentadactyl. Its power is making me think about switching from Safari to Firefox. However there are some Safari extensions I really find useful.

ClickToPlugin
Reddit and MacRumors Minimal

I can live without the minimal extensions, however ClickToPlugin is really useful. It for once disables all flash content on the webpage, and when clicked transforms the flash content to an HTML5 video.

Do we have an equivalent ClickToPlugin extension for Firefox?


texts: Headless OSX Server: "Not allowed access to the window system right now"

texts:
We have a Mac Mini that we use as a server for a Node application.

The Node application launches some other native Mac apps and interacts with them. One of the apps is reporting kCGErrorFailure: This user is not allowed access to the window system right now and refuses to launch - until we RDP in and (presumably after initializing the window system) the whole thing starts working as expected.

It seems like some apps just freeze until the window system is 'nudged' by the RDP login.

Is there a way to get the window system working without having the sign in all the time?

The systems run headless and with as many as 16 users per box running simultaneously, with a Node app and associated software running under each user account.


texts: How to enable iCloud Photo Library on new computer without losing existing photos in iCloud

texts:
We got a new iMac and would like to enable iPhone Photo Library on it so it can download photos onto it from our existing iCloud Photo Library. However, since this is a new computer, our Photo library on it is empty, so before I enable iCloud Photo Library, I wanted to make sure my iCloud Photos are safe.

If we enable iCloud Photo Library on our new iMac with the empty photo library, will it download our existing photos or will it try to sync the empty library to iCloud and possibly wipe out our photos?


texts:
My iPad shows the Apple logo, and then it turns off.

I tried reinstalling iOS with iTunes (update) and it returned error 27?

Any ideas of what to do?


texts: Connect NAS with static ip over ethernet with MBP

texts:
I have a WD MyBook World NAS with the set static ip 192.168.0.102 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0) - it might be also defined that the router ip is 192.168.0.1 but I can't remember. It works great on my home network.

Now I took the device with me somewhere else and want to connect it directly to my MBP (running Mavericks) with ethernet cable. I just can't ping the NAS.

I have tried sharing my internet connection from the wifi to ethernet. Nothing.

I have tried setting the manual ip on the ethernet port in NetworkSettings to 192.168.0.1 (subnet 255.255.255.0). Nothing.

Can anyone please help?


texts: A calendar embedded in OS X desktop that allows me to cross off days I workout - does something like this exist?

texts: I'm getting into an exercise routine and in the past I've found it helpful to cross off the days tha I do exercise on a calendar. It occurred to me that I spend far more time looking at my macbook desktop than at my bedroom wall and would like to know if anyone is aware of an application that will allow me to have a calendar with at least one full month showing at a time embedded on my desktop, and allow me to cross off the days that I work out?


texts:
I have a very annoying problem with Apple Mail. I have used the app ever since 10.2, until now, which I have for the time being changed over to Unibox, which is very nice, although quite slow.

Anyway. My grief is this, the unread count is very slow to go down. F.ex. now I have 0 unread emails, but the icon on the dock says there are 75 unread.

This hasn't been a problem, until 10.9.1 or thereabout. I have gone in and ran vacuum on the email database, but to no avail.

I could of course delete all accounts, all email, but I can't see that fixing the problem, I have also a more than a few GigaBytes of emails, and some accounts that are no longer active, though the emails are still in the app.

Any help is appreciated. I know this might seem a minor, but having unread count on the icon does bother me and in the folder view. I only want to see the unread count, when there are unread emails. Right clicking on the account/folder and choose mark all as read does nothing, and rightfully it is often greyed out.

And lets not forget that an account might have new email, that is not showing up inside the unified inbox.


texts: Trouble accessing ntfs drives in mac os x

texts:
I installed tuxera-ntfs in mac os x and am able to mount my external disks and use them without any issues.

I can delete files, copy files to my external disk and from my disk

But I am not able to cut the files(use the cmd+X) . Any files that I copied from my external disk to my mac, I face the same issue.

Also I am not able to change user permission by using chmod for any of the files.

I have two disks and the behaviour is the same in both of them

I want to know if this is a default behavior of using ntfs drives in mac or I am missing something.


texts: Has file copy dialog disappeared in OS X Yosemite?

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I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite, and I noticed that the file copy dialog in Finder seems to have disappeared. Instead, I am shown greyed out entries of the files being copied in the destination directory, with the successfully copied files turning to black.

How do I cancel a file copy, especially if the copy operation consists of multiple large files and I want to cancel the copy midway? The file copy dialog seems to have disappeared.


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I'm trying to compile PHP 5.6.1 on my MacBook Pro but I can't seem to get pass all the problems.

I get stuck with the error message at make:

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
Makefile:138: recipe for target 'libs/libphp5.bundle' failed
make: *** [libs/libphp5.bundle] Error 1

I compiled the Apache v. 2.4.10 from source with configure options:

sudo ./configure --prefi=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-so --enable-modules=most

Apache is working normally.

My configure options for PHP:

sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --disable-ipv6 --enable-dtrace --with-zlib --with-curl=/usr/local/cURL --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --with-mcrypt=/usr/local/libmcrypt --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --enable-opcache=no

I can't get pass the make process. I've tried everything: sudo make clean doesn't help. I've reinstalled Xcode and CommandLineTools. And tried everything that I could find searching the web but to no prevail.

Does anyone know why it doesn't work?

My last resort would be reinstall mavericks (if anything was overwritten or broken) but that is the last resort I want to take and start over again on a fresh copy.

Thanks for all your help.

Pending my research: PHP only throws the error when trying to configure it with mysqli.

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_dns_free", referenced from:
      _zif_dns_check_record in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_record in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_mx in dns.o
  "_dns_open", referenced from:
      _zif_dns_check_record in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_record in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_mx in dns.o
  "_dns_search", referenced from:
      _zif_dns_check_record in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_record in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_mx in dns.o
  "_res_9_dn_expand", referenced from:
      _php_parserr in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_mx in dns.o
  "_res_9_dn_skipname", referenced from:
      _zif_dns_get_record in dns.o
      _zif_dns_get_mx in dns.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [libs/libphp5.bundle] Error 1

What am I missing?


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I recently installed a fresh (erased my HD) install of OS X El Capitan 10.11.3

During my first log in I skipped sign in to my apple id

Now when I open my Mac App Store and try to Sign In, it gets stuck after I press Sign In button

I am using proxy authentication from my university