texts: Adding an Apple TV to the Home app in tvOS 11.4

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tvOS updated yesterday to 11.4 on my Apple TVs, and on startup asked what room each Apple TVs is in. However, it didn't show the list of rooms I have defined in my Home app. It showed a generic list of room names. I selected one, expecting that I could access it and change its name in the Home app, but now the Apple TV is in limbo somewhere and not accessible to the Home app. And there doesn't appear to be any user interface in tvOS to bring that room selection back up.

How can I regain control of my Apple TVs in the Home app?

Addendum: here's a pattern (perhaps) that I hadn't noticed before: My Apple TV 4s did show the correct room list and allowed proper linking. The Apple TV 4Ks did not, and those are the subject of this post. They do show as Home Hubs in the iOS Home app, show up as Airplay destinations, and have all other indications that they should work.

Addendum #2: I factory reset one of the misbehaving Apple TV 4Ks and it allowed proper room selection. It also has a room selection menu in the Airplay settings. The misbehaving Apple TV 4K does not have that menu choice in Airplay to get to any Room settings, so I'll probably factory reset it too. I suspect a bug at this point, but it's not clear why it triggered for some Apple TVs but not others.

Addendum #3: Factory reset of the remaining unit corrected the problem. Why this happened to multiple 4K units and not to any Apple TV 4s is a mystery.


texts: High virtual memory and swap usage on mavericks

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I'm really unsure why the Swap used is that high..

I'm not running anything now except for Firefox and there's still something causing that memory pressure.

Is it normal(I doubt so)? If not, how can I solve it?


texts: Yosemite installer made my account into a guest account

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While upgrading to OSX Yosemite, I quickly skipped forward in the different menus, and must have inevertenly created a new account.
Now my old proper account has become a guest account, with parental restrictions and what not. I cannot edit the account in the System Preferences, the user is greyed out even though I've unlocked it.

I've tried to log out from the "guest" account, but...

No I don't want to delete my home folder, thank you very much.
What to do?


texts: How do I fix a MacBook earphone port, stuck in optical mode

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My 2009 MacBook’s speaker doesn't work (most times).  The digital audio out port gets stuck (a red glow appears from within the socket).  It is an old MacBook with separate headset & mic ports.

I have discounted problems with the speaker as the startup sound goes directly to the built-in speakers.

I think the OS controls which functionality the computer decides to use, but consults some hidden hardware in the socket.  The System Preferences can sense but not control the state of the digital audio.  As far as the computer is concerned, it is outputting digital audio and the speaker is disabled.

I did try to fix the problem by putting in a digital audio connector, but that didn’t help.  I did find suggestions recommending things like poking a toothpick in the hole and trying to ‘unlatch’ some mechanism which (I assume) senses the presence of the plug.

My next step, unless I get a better idea, is to open the computer case in the hope that I can inspect the port from the inside.  Alternatively, I might try to:

look further for software solutions, somehow overriding the computer's belief that something is plugged in; OS X doesn't seem to support this
mechanically probe from the outside (again)
get wireless speakers or headset
get some kind of optical portable or device
re-organise places I go (I carry a phone headset about, and in one office I keep a cheap pair of Logitech wired speakers.  Some places have Apple TVs.)
something else I haven't seen yet

Any ideas about pros and cons?  (I don't have much money to spend and hope to avoid the expensive options above.  I have time, but want to explore more options before opening the case.)


texts: Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition?

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I have a MacBook Pro, Late 2013. I have done a clean install of High Sierra macOS 10.13.3. I am trying to install Windows 10, Fall Creators Update, on my Mac by following Boot Camp Assistant's procedure.

My Boot Camp always halts after creating this partition window. It has been 6 hours and still it's showing this window. What is the solution to this?

Below is the output from diskutil list. This output is from after terminating the Boot Camp Assistant and restarting my Mac.

Here is a list of the files in the root folder of the flash drive.


texts: How can I use Family Sharing for Store purchases if I use a different Apple ID for purchases?

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A key feature of Apple's iCloud Family Sharing is the ability to share store purchases with invited family members. However, like many people, I use a different Apple ID for iCloud and Store purchases (ironically, primarily for the exact purpose of sharing among family).

Can I use iCloud Family Sharing to share purchases if I use a different Apple ID for Store (iTunes, App Store, etc.) purchases? I understand that if I send invitations from the ID I use for purchases, I can share them; but there seems to be no way to do this, given that I use a different ID for iCloud on all my devices.


texts: I have a 1st or 2nd generation iPad and it’s been charging in the wall for more than 24 hours but all I get is the Apple logo. My power button seems stuck as well, It doesn’t move when you press it. I have tried to plug it into my computer to do the reset but it doesn’t appear on my iTunes so I wasn’t able to go that route. Is there anything else I can try?


texts: Why do Ctrl+F2 and Ctrl+F3 sometimes stop working?

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I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, one of my favourites is ctrl+F2 (access the menu-bar with the keyboard).

However, sometimes this just stops working. Whenever this problem happens, ctrl+F3 (access the Dock using the keyboard) also stops working. Pressing ctrl+F2 jumps the selection to the bottom in Finder instead of opening the menu.

This happens in Mountain Lion and I remember that this also used to happen in Lion and Snow Leopard. I suspect it's something weird but deliberate, like accidentally performing an unknown shortcut that changes a setting somewhere.

What causes this, how can I avoid it, and how do I rectify it when it happens?


texts: Is using both wireless/wired charging simultaneously for an iPhone faster?

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The other day my younger sister had her iPhone plugged in via Lightning cable to the wall and she then put the plugged in phone on a wireless charging dock.

She swears it makes the phone charge faster and won't listen to me tell her that the engineers probably didn't design it that way.

Is there any formal documentation from Apple where they mention this use case (and whether or not it would actually charge the phone faster?) I suspect anything but a document written by Apple won't be enough to sway her opinion.


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I have an 8 months old macbook . It has gone little slow I believe because of me installing VMware . Which I have now removed but still performance is not as good I used to be. I would like to reset every thing back to what it was. I do not use timemachine.

Is there a way to format it? Blogs on the web talk about startup disk but there is not one. I have bought lion but that was through the app store.


texts: I can't find otool on my jailbroken iPod

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From what I understand is that when you change your settings in Cydia to developer you should be able to access extra utilities. Otool being on of them.

However, when I attempt to use otool it tells me that the command isn't found. So I look in my bin file and can't find it there. (i'm attempting to use it via ssh from my computer)

Can anyone offer suggestions on where to find the tool for my ipod?


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I am on a iPhone 5s with iOS 12.4.8. The problem I am facing, if I go to Settings > Mobile Data >  and then switch the toggles for apps such as Google Maps to enable mobile data, next time I am checking there, the toggles are switched off again.
Is anyone else facing a similar problem?


texts: What is this Google Chrome icon appearing in the dock?

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When I'm using Chrome browser sometimes two icons appear in the dock.  I know the one with dot (left) but what is the one with Mac icon (right)?  The right one just disappears if I click on it.  If I don't do anything the icon (right) will disappear after awhile.
I think this is handoff feature.

How do I know which device is sending the handoff to my Mac?
Can it be security hole if I click on it?
Since someone can send it to my Mac, can my mac accidentally send the handoff to other device? i.e. I'm concerned if the two or more devices are allowed to communicate bidirectionally.


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I want to use my media keys exclusively for Spotify.
Currently, media keys have undefined behaviour - sometimes they control to most recent active media app (vlc, youtube), sometimes they control two apps together. They are just behaving weirdly. I only need media keys for one app (spotify), so I guess there must be a simple solution. Is there?


texts: Open a URL with parameterized query arguments (URL-encode)

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I need to invoke a custom URL for a macOS GUI app from a terminal (shell) command.
I also need to be able to pass arguments to the URL's query section.
It might look like this:
path=/Volumes/MyDisk
what="some text"
open fafapp://find?loc=$path&inp=$what

The problem is that I need to URL-encode path and what first. How can I accomplish this with built-in commands? It should not be necessary to install extra tools for this and should work on macOS 10.11 and later.
I'd also like it consise. It's for instructions to other (non-Terminal-savvy) users for invoking the app via a short shell script, e.g. from automation tools.
Thus, lengthy bash scripts that convert the strings "by hand" are not really a good result for me. Ideally, the open command would be a one-liner.


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Possible Duplicate:
  Adding gedit to my PATH

I'm very new to OSX.

I installed Ruby with HomeBrew, and the rubygems installer said that I should add a certain path (/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.2-p180/bin) to my PATH variable.

Great, I obviously don't know how to do that, so I used the advice on this site.  However, I assume I messed it up completely, because I think that is the only thing contained in my PATH variable.  For example, ls doesn't work in terminal anymore - I'm guessing that's because it's contained in a folder that used to be included in PATH and now is not.

If I type echo $PATH I only get the one directory back (/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.2-p180/bin).

Have I completely stuffed it now?  Can I get it back?  And how the hell do you edit your path variable?


texts: Internal Mic stopped recording voice, but hears case/keyboard touching

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Since this morning I am unable to record my voice on my Macbook Air 2012 internal microphone but the microphone can hear me touching the keyboard, the Macbook case…

I tried to tweak system preferences, enabling/disabling noise ambient reduction and so on without success. Tried to reboot a couple of times with no luck.

Any idea on what should I try next?

I’m on Mountain Lion (10.8.3).

Screen is


texts: Is it safe to use non-Apple adapter to charge Apple devices?

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Is it safe to charge your apple devices with an international adapter with multiple slots like this one?

Travel Adapter, All in one Worldwide Power Adapter Travel Plug, Fast Charging USB Type C, Smart USB Ports, Auto Fuse, International Plug Converter AUS, EU, US, UK, 220 Countries, AC Power Wall Plug

My concern is that this non-Apple adapter seems to be very compact, whereas Apple adapters seem to be much bigger.
I have iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple MacBook Pro. So I plan to use the adapter to charge all of these devices, potentially at the same time.
international adapter from Amazon


texts: How can I use Touch ID for messages like this?


texts: How to send a template message in iMessages on iOS?

texts: I receive multiple questions a day on my iPhone and need to send the same reply to them. If my phone is on and open and I read the text, is there a way to send the same reply with out having to type it out?


texts: Auto-mount of the contained disk-image, when the external disk is mounted

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I have one external SSD drive that automatically mounts a partition Backup.
Inside Backup there is a sparse-bundle disk image called TimeMachine.

Backup is not mounted to /Volume but to a specific folder (synced with a cloud service), via /etc/fstab:

UUID=4E5D0103-741G-46DA-A79E-F923E5C951D1 /Users/myuser/Cloud\040Folder/Backup apfs rw 0 2

How can I trigger the automatic mount of TimeMachine, when detecting that Backup has been mounted?

Something like hdiutil attach /Users/myuser/Cloud\040Folder/Backup/TimeMachine.sparsebundle, being run when detecting that /Users/myuser/Cloud\040Folder/Backup is present.

Maybe the /etc/auto_master file might help? (I've never used it before)


texts: How to make iTunes video window float on top?

texts: In iTunes you can play videos in a seperate window. Is it possible to make that window stay on top? Preferably without any 3rd party apps?


texts: Finding all places where a paragraph style is used?

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When attempting to delete a paragraph style in Keynote, one can get the dialog that reads:

  The style you want to delete is used in the document. Choose a style to replace it:

How can one go about finding where in the document the style is used?


texts: Best, or best supported, USB-Serial adaptor for OSX

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I have various devices to connect to my iMac using good-old RS-232.

Of course, I only have USB connectors on my machine.

I have a couple of Prolific PL2303-based cables, and they seem to work OK, but the kext provided seems a little flaky and I'm not sure about long-term support.

What is the most-stable, best-supported USB-Serial chip-set or cable?


texts: Run Minecraft Server using OSX Lion Server?

texts: Is it possible to run a Minecraft server using an OSX Lion server? I know that this is a very basic question.


texts: How to "speed scroll" by holding mouse wheel down

texts: On windows you can scroll both vertically and horizontally very fast by moving the mouse while holding mouse wheel down. Trying to do it on mac doesn't work and I see no preferences for it. How do I set it up on Mac?


texts: Images appear green in photos app after update to Catalina

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I opened the photos.app in Catalina today and noticed that most thumbnails appear as green pictures.
Upon double-clicking it show the image correctly, so I'm thinking maybe something is wrong with the caching, but deleting both the com.apple.Photos.plist as well as com.apple.Preview.plist in ~/Library/Preferences didn't do anything.

Any suggestions?

Update: I noticed that a lot of my portrait photos are a bit messed up as well (they are all blurred out), but clicking on edit fixes the photo, but not the thumbnail


texts: Used MPB 16 bricked after seller remotely erased it

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My recently purchased MBP 16 (used, from eBay) suddenly crashed and upon restart, would not find the internal SSD to boot up. It would show the questionmark-folder icon flashing. After rebooting and pressing the option key, I didn't see anything. Not my internal SSD nor my connected Windows Bootcamp drive. I had previously asked the seller to remove the device from his "Find My" App. I quickly gave him a call, and indeed that was what had happened.
TLDR;

MBP is bricked and won't recover from the Internet (error 2004f, 2003f and 2005f)
Won't start Bootcamp
Doesn't "see" macOS Big Sur installation drive (for manual recovery by reinstalling the OS)
Recovery Mode doesn't work at all
Resetting NVRAM won't help
Seller pretty much remotely bricked it by accident

The seller called Apple Support and they told him that he probably remote erased my whole machine, which is usually done after theft or losing a device. He did it by accident via his iPhone, which did not distinguish between the option to simply remove a device and completely erasing (and locking) it.
After contacting the Apple Support Chat, we didn't really come closer to finding a working solution. He told me to try and manually install it via a removable drive to run the macOS Big Sur installation or to bring it in for repair.
All of this pretty much happened, because the device wasn't properly reset and prepared to be sold per Apple's official documentation.
Does anyone know what I can do on my end to repair this?
Any feedback and/or help is very much appreciated. I do hope that this thread can serve as a reference point for others encountering the same issue in the future.
Related: "How I sold an old Mac and unknowingly had access to its location for over 3 years"


texts: Why does touch -t replace the modification time with the year when I ls?

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When I use touch with the -t option to change the modification time of a file, for example:

> touch -t 201702160701 ABC.script

Then the file that appeared as such before:

-rwxrwxrwx  1 timruss  staff    0 Oct 21 23:12 ABC.script

Will now appear as:

-rwxrwxrwx  1 timruss  staff    0 Feb 16  2017 ABC.script

Why is that?


texts: Determine which application the media keys will control

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When you press e.g. the pause key, the Mac OS will send that to whichever running application is playing media. How can I programmatically find out what application this is? And is there any other information available, such as the name of the currently playing media?
I'm looking for a command line tool, an API, or a scripting interface; I'm not picky.


texts: Open source alternative to Adobe Edge Inspect

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I finally got around to trying out Adobe Edge Inspect today and was extremely disappointed.

I found an alternative named Ghostlab but am trying to find a free or open-source alternative.

Anyone have suggestions?


texts: How do I make windows save their position on screen after re-attaching a display?

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When I attach a second monitor to my MacBook, I drag many windows onto it.  When I detach the monitor, all the windows move back onto my MacBook's display.  How can I make it so that when I re-attach the monitor, all the windows automatically move back to their position on the second monitor again?

I use my personal MacBook at work where I have the extra monitor.  But this means I need to detach and re-attach the monitor every day.  I have many windows I leave open from the previous day's work, so this is a real pain.

I know about an app called Forget-Me-Not, which is almost exactly what I want.  But I need something that works on OS X 10.5.


texts: MacBook Pro mid-2008 freezes or causes file system problem

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I have an old MacBook Pro (mid-2008, 15 inch). Apple replaced the main board and I upgraded RAM and replaced HDD.

When I use OSX on it, it freezes randomly and I have to reboot it.

I installed Ubuntu on it, it never freezes but sometimes it hangs for a while. And the other day, I copied many files to it over from network and the files are set read-only mode. I can't delete them even with sudo.

When I use the MacBook, usually it's very hot.

It might be too old to be useful now. However, I like it very much especially the keyboard (the metal one).

What do you think cause the problem? Is there a cheap way to diagnose it to find the problem part? I wouldn't mind spending 100 bucks to revive it.


texts: Mac Pro 2,1 updates and firmware question:will the firmware from the older work with the newer and vice versa?

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I'm pursuing an  alternative boot drive so i can explore a yosemite or elcapitan environment from my old mac pro 2,1 currently in the last version of snow leopard. (with legally purchased soft ware from our new laptop) I have the pikers boot.efi files swapped out in my yosemite clone disk and am going to put it into the mac Pro 2,1. I know the video card may have an issue showing verbose boot language but it's a 512 MB nvdia so before i purchase a new one i'm going to try that first.

If I want to be able to have two different OS versions (and keep old software tools functional) running on two different boot drives in the same machine and be able to choose which system with each boot using the option key held down- will that be possible with the existing firmware (it is 64bit capable) or will i be flummoxed by firmware or other factors?

Any advice on hazards to the machine and reverting  again if experiment fizzles appreciated. This would be a very clunky cheese grater.

thanks


texts: How to get “Subl” to work in my terminal?

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Whenever I enter "subl" in the command line of iTerm it tells me that the command is not found. I have seen many message boards pertaining to this and nothing seems to work.

I have tried entering "ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/.rvm/bin/subl" but iTerm tells me there is no such file or directory.

This post (https://gist.github.com/artero/1236170) is also a popular solution but when I enter "open ~/.bash_profile" in my command line, it opens the generic text editor and "export PATH=" is NOT found at the top.. there really isn't much in there

I've read about bin files and home directories and this and that and now I'm just feeling a bit lost and don't know why this seemingly small issue has turned into such a problem. Just trying to do simple things like "subl ." and have my whole directory open in Sublime Text 2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How can I stop com.apple.launched from attempting to start a service we uninstalled?

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My office used to use JungleDisk Workgroup service to exchange large files. We've moved on to a new solution and I uninstalled the client according to their instructions, but I noticed today in the Console that com.apple.launchd is trying to start JungleDisk every 10 seconds. It fails, but I can't help but think this is causing some performance issues.

Where/how do I remove a background service launch?

8/31/10 7:47:03 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jungledisk.workgroupservice[4172]) Exited with exit code: 1
8/31/10 7:47:03 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jungledisk.workgroupservice) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/31/10 7:47:13 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jungledisk.workgroupservice[4173]) posix_spawnp("/Applications/Jungle Disk Workgroup.app/Contents/Jungle Disk Workgroup/Jungle Disk Workgroup.app/Contents/MacOS/Jungle Disk Workgroup", ...): No such file or directory


texts: Is there anything special about the “Utilities” folder?

texts: I download a third party app, e.g., Carbon Copy Cloner. Since I think of it as a utility, not an normal application, I want to put it in the /Applications/Utilities folder. I notice that I'm asked to authenticate to do this differently than I would be if I put it in /Applications. What, if anything, is special about /Applications/Utilities?


texts: Stolen iPhone and can't see on find my iPhone

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Someone stole my iPhone yesterday and Find my iPhone was on. We were tracking the place and then they might have turned the phone off because it appeared offline. Today I couldn't find my device on Find my iPhone. I was using two phones with the same Apple ID, and I can only see one phone now.

What does this mean? Did they just erase my phone and set up as a new phone? I blocked IMEI number and it was passcode protected as well.


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Using the screen keyboard on iPad, is their a way to delete the character after the cursor?  That is, behavior like the Windows delete key?

I am aware that the convention is to use Fn+delete on Macs.  If there is no such convention on iPad, it might be nice to use shift+delete.


texts: osascript to trigger a hot key with multiple modifier keys in OBS Streamlabs is not working

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I want to activate a hotkey in OBS Streamlabs with applescript/osascript.
So this works perfectly fine and as expected using the F17 key (I have a larger keyboard with a numpad):
osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to key code 64"
But trying
osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to key code 13 using {option down, shift down, command down}"
...doesn't work.
When I type option-shift-command-w manually on the keyboard, however, the hot key is triggered.
Here's the strange thing: I can trigger the hotkey if it's simpler, like "command-w":
osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to key code 13 using command down"
Running this command will trigger the command-w global hot key and closes out the current app.
Quoting the curly braces used with the compound modifier keys did not help. I also tried a simpler, 3-keypress combo:
osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to key code 13 using {control down, command down}"
This did not work either.
So how can I use multiple modifier keys here?


texts: The spotlight search UI on my mac seems to have broken. It doesn't have a rounded corners. Nothing seems to solve it.


texts: Change to an different keyboard layout when entering passwords

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I've just bought the Ipad 2, all my existing passwords that I need to use (mails web services etc) are in Arabic characters.

I have added the Arabic Keyboard and am able to use it in normal text fields, but I cannot switch to it when I try to type into a password field.  If I already have the Arabic keyboard selected when typing a username, it switches back to the normal keyboard when I move to the password field.  Because of this I am unable to log into anything which uses an Arabic password.

I tried with Safari and Opera Mini browser.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: iCloud: How can I create a calendar event for next 3 days for a specific time?

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Is there a quick way to make calendar events for 3 days in a row for like 8am to 4pm without having to make 3 seperate events?

Eg.  Make event for 8am to 4pm and repeat for next 3 days ONLY.

Can't see anyway of doing this using the iPhone interface or the iCloud interface.


texts: Disable ESC key yielding list of word suggestions when pressed in Preview in OSX 10.11.2

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In preview (and apparently also in other Apple apps like Keynote, although I cannot reproduce), I get the unexpected behavior of getting a list of words when pressing the escape key in an empty search dialog.

If I type something in the search box, select it and then press the ESC key, the search dialog is closed (as desired). With text in a newly created text box, behavior is similar only that I get these suggestions also when pressing ESC on a selected text.
I don't know why I'm getting these things and my attempts to turn this behavior off have been in vain so far. (like "system preferences - keyboard - text - automatic correction -> off" didn't seem to have something to do with it)

Anybody an idea 1. why this could ever be desired (cause to me it doesn't seem like a kind of spelling correction, it just gives me high frequency German (in my case) words.) and 2. how I can turn this off?


texts: How can I tell that a certificate is a root certificate?

texts: Are these certificates root certificates or not and how can I disable them if they are?


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I would like to have a script to delete all my groups in my Contacts.
Somehow I got a kind of replication bug resulting in over 500 groups.
Delete them one by one is not an option.

Tried this script, but it does not do the job, I have to enter to many group names and after a while the sript stops even when not all groups have been deleted.

tell application "Contacts"
repeat 50 times
set theGroup to group "MyGroupName"
delete theGroup
end repeat
save
end tell

Any help will be much appreciated.


texts: iCloud save support in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

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I've been playing on my iPhone and iPad, and it appears that in order to do a "cloud save", I need to actually find a save point on one device and then do a save. Then, on my other device I need to manually load that save.

I was hoping this would be a little more automatic - is there something I'm doing wrong? I'd expect the game to just pick up where I left off on the other device.


texts: "Today summary" widget in notification centre displays strange behaviour

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I have upgraded from El Capitan to Sierra a couple of weeks ago. Today, I have been experimenting with widgets in Notification Centre and came across this puzzling issue. I am not sure whether it is a bug or intended behaviour hence I decided to ask a question and confirm.

This is what my Notification Centre looks now

As you can see, "Today" has no frame or border around it. However, when I try to edit widgets, it appears

Prior to me removing and adding "Today" widget, it had border/frame both, when displayed and when being edited.

Is this a bug in Sierra or intended behaviour?


texts: What are the main technical obstacles to running macOS on iPads in the near future?

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Since the new Macs have ARM chips, there is now access a build of macOS that technically could run on a device like, say, the iPad Pro? The architecture should be pretty much the same, I guess?
Clearly some tinkering would be required, but what are the main technical obstacles to it, even with the right skills and tools?
I suppose this would be something similar to what the Hackintosh community has been doing for over a decade with macOS on Intel computers. Only instead of creating Clover bootloader etc. to make macOS "think" it's running on a Mac, the same would be done on a jailbroken iPad, making macOS think that iPad is a Mac.
Obviously one would pair a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to get that desktop experience. Heck, maybe even a second monitor through the thunderbolt port on the iPad Pro?
I figure the coolest thing would be to have a dual-boot of both iOS and macOS on the same iPad. I guess virtualisation on top of iOS may also work, but I think the performance would be way better if running bare metal macOS.
Another cool idea, Imagine having macOS as a dual boot option on your iPhone 12. All you would need would be a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and an adapter to plug it into a TV, and your phone could be your computer to go wherever you needed it.
I am mainly talking about a fully function version of macOS here, with GUI, Bluetooth support, etc.


texts: List wireless connection information in terminal

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In OSX if you hold down the Option key and click on the wireless icon in the menu bar it will show details of the wifi connection - speed, BSSID ,channel etc.

Can this information be listed in the terminal?


texts: 13" MacBook Air Terminal says " (base) UNKNOWN

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Usually when I open the terminal, the first part of the command line says (base) john-doe-air, but when I opened it up today, it comes up with the following.

What should I do to rectify this issue? Thank you.
NB: For privacy reasons, I have changed the name to John Doe.


texts: How to install QuickTime 7 without overwriting the currently installed version

texts: I purchased a Intel MacBook Pro from a colleague with installed OS 10.8.5. I do not own the OS disks therefore do not have the disks to re-install QuickTime. QT 10.2 is on this "new" 2008 MacBookPro. The question relates to the need to install QT 7 which has the dialog box to register the key code to unlock the Pro features (QT 10.2 lacks the ability to enter the Pro key hence the need to install QT 7 then upgrade). How might I install QT7 and still retain the QT 10.2 version on the MacBook Pro, as I don't have the option of reinstalling 10.2 if written over. (I don't want to risk "losing" QT 10.2 on OS 10.8.5 because it will block the ability to use Final Cut Pro 7 or X). Please advise. Thank you.


texts: iPhoto Smart Album for non-geotagged photos?

texts: Is it possible to make a Smart Album in iPhoto that gathers all the photos without any location info, to facilitate geo-tagging them?  I can't seem to find "lack of location" as a filtering option on its own for Smart Albums, but I'm hoping someone can finagle a sideways solution that comes out to the same thing?


texts: I recently changed from iphone to android and i have been having trouble recieving messages from my iphone friends since my iphones screen is broken i cant do anything on it. Any way to fix this problem through icloud or something?


texts: MacBook Pro: "Zero bytes left on iCloud" even after upgrading storage plan

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I am facing an issue with my iCloud Drive. My MacBook Pro does not want to sync up the files anymore which are on my machine.

My iCloud storage was full so I upgraded my storage plan.
I can see the storage available when checking iCloud in system preferences.

See screenshot below

When I open the finder and navigate to iCloud Drive. The following message appears in the bottom of the finder window.
1 of 20 selected, Zero bytes available on iCloud.

These are the things I tried.

  killall bird
  cd ~/Library/Application\ Support
  mv CloudDocs/ OldCloudDocs

I killed bird via the activity monitor.
I updated macOS currently on version: 10.15.2 (19C57).
I went to system preferences->iCloud-> iCloud Drive->options and toggled the Desktop & Document folders option.

All with no result..


texts: How can I uninstall the FTDIUSBSerialDriver?

texts:
How can I uninstall the FTDIUSBSerialDriver and FTDIUSBSerialDriverInstaller from my MacBook Air with Yosemite? They are shown in System Information → Software → Installations.

The files are highlighted in blue below:


texts: How can I fix Firefox's jagged scrolling on Lion?

texts:
I noticed that scrolling in Firefox on Lion is not very pleasant experience.

Is there a way to optimize it for better performance?

I tried smooth scrolling setting - but it didn't do anything.


texts: Where does launchpad store folder information? (database, etc?)

texts:
So i've been searching around and trying to figure this out but can't seem to.

I know that the launchpad SQLite db is stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/some-uuid.db (ref), but as best I can tell it doesn't seem to include any information about folders created in launchpad.

Does anyone know where this information is stored, and in what format?

Edit: Found the location, details in my answer below. The only bits I can't figure out now are:

How to programatically create a new folder and move apps into it (using this db)
What the db-shm and db-wal files are used for.

SQLite temp files (write ahead log & shared memory files)

Whether ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/some-uuid.db is used at all anymore, or if it was just leftover from an osx upgrade.


texts: How do I get rid of errors for disconnected networked drives?

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Every time I log into OSX 10.9.4 (and several slightly older versions since I've been updating) I get several pop-ups asking me to connect to a remote/networked drive that I've previously configured, yet deleted:

Enter your name and password for the server "my_remote_server".

..followed by the error about connecting, but that's fine because the drives have been deleted on the server side, so there should be no way to actually connect.

There is a pair of pop-ups per drive/server (each drive has its own server, and I configured several drives). I also get a similar message when opening my Chrome browser.

I removed these drives (using Finder->Go->Connect to Server) and the problem is still there. I've also checked /etc/fstab, /Volumes, and used the df command although that's pretty much the same as checking fstab.

It appears that the drives are completely disconnected/unmounted, so the problem is that I'm still getting the error pop-ups. I tried this but it didn't work: http://whatsamknows.tumblr.com/post/37368603810/get-rid-of-server-connections-interrupted

How do I fix this?


texts: Which filesystems support symbolic links?

texts:
I'm copying a big archive of files from a Linux host to an external USB hard drive, that will then plug into a macOS host.  The copy should preserve the archive's many symbolic links (ln -s).  What filesystem should I format the external disk as?

Not exFAT, because that doesn't support symlinks.
ext4 can be mounted only read-only, via e.g. ext4fuse.
Something else, that can mount read-write?  (Must also be writable by the original Linux host, Ubuntu 16.04.)


texts: My iPhone X was stolen. Will my iCloud be logged out if the person resets the iPhone using my phone's password?

texts:
The person who steal the iPhone knows the phone password. If they manage to reset the iPhone using my phone password, will my iCloud be logged out? Will it reset my Face ID?

I also forgot to turn on my Find My iPhone.


texts: Executables in /bin and /usr/bin are not found in path

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Somehow I can’t execute files in /bin or /usr/bin without providing the full path.

This isn’t happening when running from Terminal, but, for example, iTerm can’t run bash (only /bin/bash), OnyX can't run sw_vers.

.profile: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
.profile: export PATH=$PATH
.bash_history: export PATH="$PATH:"'/Users/gilstrauss/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin'
.bash_history: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
.bash_history: export PATH=${PATH}:/bin
.bash_profile: export PATH=/bin:$PATH
.bashrc: export PATH=${PATH}:/bin:/usr/bin


texts: Mac Pro suffering from kernel panics almost daily

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After running flawlessly for 2 years, my 6 Gig Mac Pro has started to suffer a kernel panic about once a day. Nothing really has changed as far as I know. Two details, probably irrelevant, I installed Lion about a month+ ago. And I have had an Android tablet attached via USB and enabled for remote debugging.

I ran a memory diagnostic (rember) and it didn't find any problems.

This is what I find in the Kernel log just before the crash:

Sep 22 15:27:59 monster kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
Sep 22 15:28:00 monster kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
Sep 22 15:28:32 monster kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
Sep 22 15:28:34 monster kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS

I've seen a variety of messages mentioning these errors but nothing conclusive.

If there's a hardware problem, is there a definitive diagnostic that I can run to prove or disprove it?

Any tips or troubleshooting guide will be appreciated! Thanks,

Pito


texts: Why are my DVD disks in the wrong format?

texts:
I'm trying to play DVDs on my MacBook Pro however the disk doesn't play it doesn't even mount.

When I check Disk Utility it shows the format as Windows NTFS 3G.

If I try the same disks on another macbook it shows as Universal Disk Format (UDF) and plays fine.  How do I fix this?


texts:
My intel-based mac mini (Model A1283, EMC 2336) refuses to boot. When I plug it in, the fan spins up very loudly, but then nothing happens when I hit the power button. I don't get a boot chime, and the power light on the front doesn't turn on.

I've followed the directions here for resetting the SMC, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.

What are my options? Do I need to schlep it in for some applecare attention?


texts: Can my daughter charge my credit card from her Apple ID?

texts: If I set up an individual account for my daughter can she charge my credit card with an app purchase?


texts: Is it possible to install Mac OS 9 on a VM?

texts: Recently I got hold of a Mac OS 9.2.1 retail CD and would like to test drive it in a VM.  Is that possible?


texts: Why can't I delete old AppId Identifers from my Developer account?

texts: I have 3 unused App Identifiers that I want to delete from my developer account.  However, when I attempt to delete them, I get an error that they cannot be deleted as they are in use by the Appstore.  However, I can 100% guarantee that these are not in use.  Why can't I delete them?


texts: How can I create a custom behavior for a URL scheme?

texts:
I would like a specific URL scheme, magnet:, to run a command in Terminal.

For example:

magnet:?xt=urn:bKKH

Would execute:

myCommand "magnet:?xt=urn:bKKH"


texts: Where is the private forum for the Universal App Quick Start Program / Developer Transition Kit (DTK)?

texts:
I've signed up and been accepted to the Universal App Quick Start Program and received my Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit.
One of the featured benefits included in the program is access to a private forum:

Private Forums
Ask questions and connect with Apple engineers and other members of the Universal App Quick Start Program.

However, upon receiving my DTK, I cannot seem to find these "Private Forums" anywhere.
The new Apple Developer Forums are arranged under "tags": https://developer.apple.com/support/forums-tags/
But there is no tag listed for the Developer Transition Kit or Universal App Quick Start Program. The closest tag I can find is "Universal Apps" for Apple Silicon.
Where is the private forum for the Universal App Quick Start Program?

This seems to be a common source of confusion:

Where is the private DTK forum?


texts: Insert vector-based PDF to Powerpoint WITHOUT losing resolution

texts:
It seems there is no solution for inserting a vector-based figure (e.g. PDF) into MS Office (Word and Powerpoint). Others have suggested converting the image into a high-resolution raster image first, e.g. here and on the Microsoft support forums. However, none of the workarounds will keep the inserted image as a vector-based figure (which has many advantages over a raster-based image, e.g. you can select and search text). My workaround is to save the PowerPoint as a PDF after inserting the image. In that way, you can keep the image in a vector-based image. Does anyone know of a better solution?

I’m a Mac user, so I’d be more interested in a Mac solution here.


texts: Completely erased my Leopard machine from another computer, how do I install an OS on it?

texts:
I started up my computer in Target Disk Mode and erased it from a friends Mac thinking that I could then install Mountain Lion without installing Snow Leopard. Do I have any way of getting my machine to work again?

It currently powers on and display a blinking folder with a question mark.

What can I do to install an OS?

I have a Mountain Lion install disk which gets spit out.

I also made an Ubuntu disk as per instructions on their site, but that gets spit out as well.

Any help?


texts: How to select or autofill all distinct elements from a column in Numbers?

texts:
My home banking App can export to Numbers. It will give me a table with date, category, description and amount. I want to extract all the categories automatically in a second sheet. How can I do this?

Example screen:


texts: MacBook Pro won’t connect to the Internet

texts:
I have been using my MacBook Pro for about 5 years with zero problems (running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6).

I was using my iPhone XR as a Wi-Fi hotspot (as I’ve done millions of times before) two days ago and when I was done, I shut down my machine while it was still connected to the Wi-Fi hotspot from my iPhone (this is the only thing that I can think of that was out of the ordinary, as I always disconnect/turn off the hotspot off before shutting down).

Yesterday, I tried to connect to a neighbour’s Wi-Fi router (which I’ve connected to a million times before as it usually remembers the password), but it wouldn’t connect and it kept telling me the password was incorrect even though I was looking right at the router and typing the same password I always do. Eventually I gave up and decided my neighbour’s Wi-Fi was the problem.

Today I’ve turned on my laptop and it connected to the Wi-Fi in my apartment fine at first (as per usual) but then I realised that my browser wasn’t allowing me to access websites other than Google/Gmail, Facebook and YouTube. I was trying to log onto my utilities company website (as I’ve done a hundred times before) and it kept returning an error saying  the website could not be reached (even though it exists because I can access it on my phone using my apartment Wi-Fi which clearly works fine). I cleared my cache and deleted all known Wi-Fi networks and restarted my machine.

Now I can’t connect to my own Wi-Fi network (that I’ve never had a problem with in the two years I’ve had it) - it won’t recognise my password. I tried connecting to my iPhone’s Wi-Fi hotspot (as I did 2 days ago as normal) and it won’t recognise that password which I’m looking right at on my phone.

I have no clue what’s going on or how to fix it? My laptop is rejecting all Wi-Fi connections ever since that day I shut it down while still connected to my hotspot (I did nothing else differently since it was last working fine).

Does this sound like something anyone else has figured out in the past?? I’m a super basic Mac user, the built in diagnostics keep telling me I’m not connected to the Internet (i.e., useless), and I have no idea where to even start looking for solutions other than hoping to click my needle in a haystack solution out of the millions of hits on Google.


texts:
I imagine Time Machine is an incremental backup tool.

So while restoring it probably:

Restores to latest full backup
applies incremental changes since than

is this correct assumption?


texts: How to "scroll" a clip so that it stays the same length but shows a different part of original video?

texts:
Analogy: the clip as viewed in the timeline is actually a window, behind which the entire original clip lies.

I want to move the original clip side-to-side behind this window, so that the window's size and position don't change, but it shows a different part of the original clip.

I have imported 3 videos into final cut pro. Each video is, on its own, at least 20 minutes long, but I've cut them all to be 15 minutes, 5 seconds, 5 minutes in order. There are "straight" (the most basic) cuts to transition from one to the next (i.e., nothing fancy).

The second clip, in-between the two other clips, is the right length but I'd like to show a different part of its video. I.e., instead of the 5 seconds it's currently showing, the first 5 seconds of that video (the original video that was imported), I'd like it to show a 5 second clip from the middle of that video.

Is there a way I can do this easily?

In my real project the timeline is full of audio and some other videos so I don't want to stretch, re-cut, delete etc. the middle video.


texts:
I powered off my iPhone (sample instructions). I see the progress wheel for a few seconds after holding down the power button and sliding the 'slide to power off' and then I see the silver Apple logo as if it powered on immediately.

Is this a reset and not a power off? Did this before going to sleep and woke up with a dead battery.

I've struggled with low battery life and did the full replacment of operating system. If I have to go through that again, I'll get a new phone.

Version: 6.1.2


texts: Restart screen features a progress bar: what is it?

texts:
Sometimes (and in particular the last two times I restarted), a strange bar looking like a load bar or a copy bar appears on the restart screen, as in the image below.

I am running Mac OS X 10.9.5. What is it? Is it just the installation progress of updates (that install without me saying anything but that is another story) or is it something else?
Note
It has oftimes happened to me that I saw this:

Is it correct to call that "freezing"? If not, what is the correct name? And is it any different from hibernation aka deep sleep?


texts:
I'm setting up a centos Server with usage of netatalk.
Installation showed no error, afp.conf seems to be ok, service is running:
 netatalk.service - Netatalk AFP fileserver for Macintosh clients
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netatalk.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-07-09 18:22:23 CEST; 21h ago
     ...
  Process: 32631 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/netatalk (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 32630 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/netatalk.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 32634 (netatalk)
    Tasks: 4
   Memory: 3.8M
   CGroup: /system.slice/netatalk.service
           ├─32634 /usr/sbin/netatalk
           ├─32635 /usr/sbin/afpd -d -F /etc/netatalk/afp.conf
           └─32636 /usr/sbin/cnid_metad -d -F /etc/netatalk/afp.conf

When I try to mount the volume specified in the afp.conf on a mac client, I get the error:
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -1069

What can be the reason for this?


texts:
I needed an app that would control the ringer volume of an iPhone. According to a developer I have been talking to, this is all good and possible on an Android phone but not on iOS. I just wanted to confirm if this is the case that it is not possible in iOS?

If not, then is there a way around controlling the ringer settings? I'm not into developing iOS apps yet so I personally have no clue.


texts: Deselect text using keyboard shortcut or prevent selection of word/link on right click

texts:
I often copy links in Chrome with the context menu, to paste into a chat window (Adium). This process selects the link on copy. When I cmd+tab back to my browser window, the text is still selected and it interferes with keyboard control of the given website. This forces me to move my hand back to the trackpad, find some non-active space (page bg usually), and click to deselect. I'd rather not have to move my hand from the keyboard to do this.

I've tested this in Chrome, Safari, and TextEdit. I could maybe solve it in Chrome with a userscript, but I'd like a more general solution for other programs as well.

edit Another way of looking at this problem is that OSX selects the word or link on right click with a context menu, but doesn't clear the selection when the context menu is closed. Is there a way to force deselection of text on context menu close?


texts: Weather information on the notification pull-down is useless

texts:
For example, it's nearly midnight now.  Look at the information I am provided.

Is there any way I can have it show useful information instead, like perhaps...

the low tonight
the temperature tomorrow morning
will it be rainy tomorrow?
the high tomorrow afternoon


texts: Can I suppress the Setup Assistant When Creating New Users on macOS?

texts:
I wanted to create a new user using Terminal and managed to do so by finding answers on StackExchange, but I was not able to figure out how to skip the setup assistant that comes up when you login to your newly created account.

I wanted to do this via command line as well if possible.

Does anyone know a way to skip setup assistant?

EDIT - (Screenshots)
There are 6 steps but i included two only. The rest are, turn on siri, setup touch id, choose theme (dark, light), true tone display.


texts: Can Garageband Loops be removed after removing Garageband?

texts:
I have just removed Garageband Loops via System Information > Manage; these remained after I'd uninstalled Garageband using AppCleaner.
Can I remove them manually or will this impact other functionality in the system?


texts: I have a computer on network A that I would like to backup via Time Machine to a drive connected to a computer on network B. Can this be done? Would I need a VPN? I just need the network B computer's drive to show up as Shared to the computer on network A.


texts: Disable MAC quarantine to distribute customized Firefox ESR by network

texts:
I am preparing Firefox ESR build with custom default addons. The problem is that after I follow the instructions from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/deploying-firefox-customizations-macos and:
1. Upload customized Firefox.app into cloud server
2. Download it on the client machine
It can not be run until removing "quarantine" manually from terminal with  (same step as required to be done to edit container)

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine Firefox.app

But this ff with plugin supposed to be used by managers and highly likely to evade this technical step. Such build runs without facing quarantine on any machine if quarantine was removed and app was copied from e.g. usb drive (looks expected for me)

So, is that possible to evade custom ff to be 'quarantined' after downloading?


texts: Find out which Homebrew formula gave a shared library file

texts:
I installed Homebrew cask package sequel-pro, but when I try to use it, it complains in a dialog about a failing dlopen() naming the shared library (/usr/local/lib/plugin/caching_sha2_password.so).

I think this is maybe a missing dependency, and requires reporting, but my first question is:

Is there a way to find which Homebrew formula provides a missing shared library not found in my system?


texts: How can I get iTunes to use iTunes Store Album Art?

texts:
Some of my music in iTunes won't get Album Art via "Get Album Art".  (These might be tracks from physical CDs, or that I've purchased a long time ago from other MP3 stores.)  I'd like to use the iTunes Store's Album Art whenever possible, because when it exists, it's usually a better quality image than from those from web searches.

What do I have to do to my tracks to get the iTunes Album Art?  What properties of a track does iTunes use when matching Album Art?


texts:
I have an older Apple laptop and want to load iTunes match. When following the directions the "Match" tab, trying to "Enable iCloud Music Library" or any other reference to the path that I can sign up for the service is never presented.

What am I missing?


texts:
In some video such as

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csjXiu9HLrA

I see that it looks like the iPad video is captured... but it is also said that the Component cable for iPad only works for movies and photos, but not for apps...  so how can it be done?


texts:
I want darker colors to be brighter on my MacBook Pro 2015 (retina display).

Every frame displayed should be as if it's gone through photoshop and the "shadows" slider has been increased.

How can I do this?

I already tried creating a new color profile in display preferences but couldn't seem to get the effect I want, maybe someone knows how I need to set those values etc. to achieve this.


texts:
I would like to permit a login to my MacBook Pro using a Linux PC via Remote Desktop like rdp. I need to use my Mac while a linux user can execute his session on my machine and the session are in parallels both with GUI.

Is this possible?


texts: Can I set up Contacts phone numbers format

texts:
iPad iOS 9.  I use AT&T.  iPad Air 2
I spend a lot of time in Mexico where the phone number format is completely different from the one in the States, and in Contacts.  Also, Contacts will not let me add extension numbers.  Contacts' format is so frequently different from what I need that I really want to change the format preference to let me enter the phone number the way I want it to look.  I've  spent a reasonable amount of time over the years since I first bought the original iPad 2 trying to find a way to solve this problem.  I finally just put the numbers the way I want them in Contacts/Notes.  Is there a way to set up Contacts phone numbers the way I want them, even if I want them to be different every time?


texts: How can I know if RAM is compatible with my iMac?

texts:
I want to buy a new iMac:
Link

And I need to upgrade the RAM. How do I know wich RAM is compatible with the iMac, for example:
This RAM


texts: If I try to use either of the two usb ports on my macbook pro, I get the following message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." and I don't have a disk inserted anywhere... I have the option to eject or ignore the message, and either option does not solve the problem. Can't use the usb ports without getting this message.


texts: Adium is displaying only Facebook contacts who message me first

texts:
When I look at my Facebook contact list in Adium, I can see only people who write to me first. When I enable show offline contacts I can see all of them displayed as offline, however when I go directly to Facebook, many of them are displayed online.

I've done little search and it looks like many people are having issues with Facebook chat in Adium, but I didn't find any fix.


texts: Is there a config option to maximize widows that are minimized when you select them via cmd+tab

texts:
Is there a config option so maximize widows that are minimized when you select them via cmd+tab?
I understand why this might be not possible, since technically the selection involves the app, not the window. And you might have multiple windows in various states of maximized/minimized. And you don't necessarily want to maximize all minimized windows...
BUT, that said, I often just have one minimized window of an app open, and it would be very useful for it to maximize itself when I select the app with cmd+tab.
Thoughts?


texts: Why are my music tracks when burned to CD from iTunes thru the Playlist feature shorter than the originals?  I have tried on multiple albums all with the same result.  A song might be 4:58 in iTunes and when I burn a CD, the song is now 2:58.  There does not appear to be any logic on the difference, just that the entire song does not copy.  This does not happen with all songs, just random ones.  Typical 5-8 minutes of music is deleted from several tracks.  It is not an issue of capacity on the CD.  I am well under the limit there.


texts: Filevault (or something else) preventing Nvidia drivers from loading

texts:
I attempted to migrate to a new mac pro, in preparation I did the following :

Using Carbon Copy Cloner, clone my primary drive to a new drive. The source drive was using file vault 2 and I ensured a recovery disk was created on the new drive.
Moved a Nvidia GTX 680 from my old machine into my new.
Booted up.

Here everything was working fine. However, then I turned on filevault as I had on my previous system. Then when I booted I just got a black screen. I slotted in an old NVidia GT120 and seemed to be able to get the login screen displaying and after log in the GTX 680 would start working again (It would only ever work after login when filevault is turned on).

I have tried quite a few steps to try and get the card work at boot; zapped the PRAM, reset SMC, reinstalled the NVidia web drivers and CUDA however I was still unable to get the card to put out a signal until after login.

I then turned filevault off and the 680 started working again during boot. I have replicated this twice, turn filevault on - loose the 680, turn it back off - get the 680 outputting.

What could be causing this issue?

Additional info :

MacPro 4,1 OS X 10.8.4
I recently installed more RAM
Using a samsung 840 evo as the new drive.
When I say the GTX 680 worked at boot I mean it will display the login screen.


texts: How to prevent uTorrent from autolaunching at startup?

texts:
When I start my Mac each time I am faced with uTorrent opening automatically. I went to Share Preferences -> User -> LoginApp to check if this app is chosen, but no...

So how to remove this app from autolaunch?


texts: Open Ports and Network Config Needed For Home Sharing

texts:
At work, I cannot get home sharing to work with the iOS Remote app to see my Macbook Pro's iTunes instance. Both the laptop and the iOS devices are connected to the same network (have tried both wi-fi and Ethernet for the laptop)

Going into the app, no devices show up and it says to enable home sharing.

Home sharing is enabled in iTunes and as soon as I go home and connect to my home network, I can see the MacBook Pro's iTunes install via home sharing.

So my question is what port(s) configuration would have to be done to make it show up at work? Our IT people said it's not an intentional blocking of the service and would like to help if we can figure out what ports need to be opened to make home sharing work.


texts: Trying to upgrade, OS X installer can't find hard drive

texts:
The hard drive in my mom's MacBook (2,1) was dying so I got her an Adata SSD and replaced the original hard drive with it. I booted it up with her original Mac OS 10.4 install CD and used disk utility to format the SSD to have a single HSF+ partition and successfully installed Mac OS 10.4 on her laptop.

Next I tired to upgrade the OS using my Mac OS 10.5 install CD, but the installer reports that it couldn't detect Mac OS 10.4 on the computer. This is not true, when started, the laptop can boot right into Tiger.

When I turned on disk utility, in the OS 10.5 installer, no hard drive could be found. When I ran the command "diskutil list" in the terminal, in the OS 10.5 installer, no hard drive was found. However when I ran System Profiler, in the installer, I could find that under

Hardware > Serial-ATA

there was an "ADATA SP900" under "Intel ICH7-M AHCI" so the installer knows there is a drive there, even if it isn't detecting it.

How can I get the installer to recognize that I have Mac OS installed on my mom's laptop?


texts: Names not appearing in Messages on Watch

texts:
On Watch, I suddenly see no names for people in Messages. Instead I see the address (e-mail or phone number) they are sending from, even though the senders are in my Contacts and have the addresses associated with their entries.

This was not the case before a recent update (I'm not sure which one).

How do I get contact names to appear in Watch Messages?


texts: Do I need a sine wave UPS for late 2013 Mac Pro?

texts:
The support person at CyberPower told me that my late 2013 Mac Pro has a PFC power supply therefore,  I would need to get an UPS with sine wave output.

Is this a correct statement?


texts: I used to have 2TB of iCloud storage then for several months of not paying, I was downgraded to 5GB free storage.  What happens to the data I previously had?  Will it get deleted?


texts: How to: Automator, launch an app, as if I dragged n dropped file on App's dock icon?

texts:
Using automator, I know how to "Launch an App".
I would like to know how to "Launch an App in a specific way".

The app I want to launch, acts differently depending how its launched. If one:

clicks the dock icon.. then gives you a menu to select file etc..
drop the file onto the dock item.. then automatically performs an action

Using automator, I want to Launch this App, option 2)
Any ideas?

thankyou


texts: Upgrading macbook pro to mavericks - performance question

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My MacBook Pro:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53 GHz, Mid 2009)
Memory: 8 GB
Currently run Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and also in a partition I have 10.8.x installed.
The most of my work is being done in 10.6.8, which I feel, it performs faster overall.I feel 10.8 to be a bit heavier in a bunch of operations..., so I haven't make the full switch to it.
But time has come and I started considering to fully migrate my working environment to a newer OS X version.
The question is, will Mavericks operate faster than Mountain Lion on my MacBook ? Will my hardware be able to run 10.9 efficiently ?


texts: Using Car Speaker As Music Player in iPhone

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I have an ordinary bluetooth speaker.

I connect to the device using bluetooth and when someone calls me I can hear my ringing tone through the car's stereo and hear the caller's voice through the car's stereo.

Problem is, I can't use this device to play music through the car's stereo. The device only uses the car stereo if someone is calling me.

Is there an app (maybe something from cydia) that can fix that problem? I basically want every sound from my iphone to be played through the car's stereo INSTEAD the iphone's speaker.


texts: Can only use custom keyboard layout in certain apps?

texts:
I'm using a MacBook Pro with MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.2.

I used Ukelele to create a custom keyboard layout. I installed it (using the Ukelele installer), and it works fine in some apps, but not others. I can use it in Chrome and in the Terminal (and I am using it to type this description).

But when I open certain apps, like Mail, Notes, Microsoft Excel, and others, it does not work. When I try to select the layout from the drop-down menu like I would in the other apps, it appears like it does in the others, but when I select it, it does not change.

The keyboard layout I created does not have special characters, it is an english layout (abc...xyz) with most characters in different positions than on QWERTY. It is just an obscure layout, so I had to create it myself.

Any suggestions? I am not as familiar with MacOS, as I am coming over from Linux.


texts: Logitech MX Keys connects to dock but does not connect to mac

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I have a Logitech MX Keys keyboard, a 2018 MBP running Mojave, and an OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock.  The keyboard is connected through USB C to the dock.

If I had the keyboard working and then unplugged the mac from the dock, when I plug it back in, it works fine.  UNLESS I had opened the laptop and used the built-in keyboard in the meantime.  Then when I plug it in, the keyboard does a slow flash and the mac shows no evidence that it can connect.

Some arbitrary, looong amount of time later, maybe 20-30 minutes, it finally gets around to connecting, taking no action on my part as far as I can tell.  Attempting to manually pairing it in the bluetooth settings doesn't do anything, nor does pressing the button to connect on the keyboard (referring to the source-1, source-2, source-3 buttons to the right of the F-keys).  The keyboard has only ever been used with this machine.

My guess is that it's only connecting through Bluetooth.  Is it not designed to actually be able to connect through USB-C to the computer itself?  Like, is that cord JUST for power?  That feels like a pretty moronic design choice.  But if that's so, is there anything I need to do to make the keyboard reconnect quickly and automatically?


texts: Can automator run when Macbook lid is closed?

texts: If i set an automator scrip to run each evening at 23:00 but my Macbook / Macbook Pro is closed (not off, but the lid has been closed) will / can the automator script still run ?


texts:
At some point this year I noticed that my camera was not working. (Skype, Google, Facetime)

I tried this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2090

But under devices for Camera it says no devices found.

Mac OS 10.10.4


texts:
I have a folder with files on my Time Capsule. As I know I can set the tags for files and quickly find all files by tag just clicking on the tag on the sidebar of Finder.

All works fine except the files on Time Capsule.  I can set a tag for a file on Time Capsule, but when I am clicking on the Tag on the Finder's sidebar, Finder don't show me my tagged files.

Is there any way to fix it ?


texts: Photo app stuck on "restoring..." after iOS upgrade

texts:
On my iPhone 4, after I updated the software to iOS 5 beta 6 by restoring it and importing a backup of my data, the Photo app is stuck with a spinning wheel and the "restoring" message:

Everything is working correctly otherwise, all my albums, events, faces and places have been synced to the phone and the photos are showing without problems.

I'm wondering what the "restoring" message means, it's stuck on "0 of 444" since yesterday.


texts: Edit Font Metadata so FontBook will put it in English smart collection?

texts: Some of my third party fonts don't show up in Yosemite Preview's font menu in the toolbox. I'm pretty sure that the only fonts available for Preview to use in annotation have to be in FontBook's default smart collection called "English," which cannot be edited. When I compare the information of fonts that appear in "English" vs. those that don't, the common thread is that English appears in the "Language" metadata field (under "information") in fonts that show up in the English smart collection. I've used several free font editors looking for a way to add language metadata to fonts I'd like to have available in Preview, but I can't figure out how to do what I want. Can anyone help?


texts: Whole disk encryption with a Windows only Bootcamp

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I've purchased myself a Mac Book Pro Retina (Haswell) and after giving Mac OS a fair shake have decided to go full Windows 7 and Bootcamp. There is no Mac OS install left on this system.

I am now looking for a way to encrypt my entire hard drive. My requirements are simple:

AES based whole disk encryption (to take advantage of AES-NI)
Ability to boot by just entering a password

I've looked at the following:

Truecrypt is a no-go because it is not recommended for use with SSDs
Bitlocker is a no-go because there is no TPM in this system and I
don't want to haul around a USB thumb drive with me every time I have
to boot.
Symantec Whole Disk Encryption appears to meet all of my requirements

Before I drop $100 on Symantec I figured I'd ask the exerts if there is any other software out there I can use. I prefer Open Source but understand that might not be possible.


texts: How do you change the name of your system home folder?

texts:
I recently got a new MacBook, and used my old MacBook to transfer all of my previous files and configurations to the new machine using Apple's migration assistant.

In the process, it gave me a wonky new home folder name. Previously, it was  Users/timisenman/ and now it's Users/timisenman 1/.

I'd really like to just delete that [space] 1. It's annoying as hell and I worry it's going to mess up file access later.

I can't find a reliable way to do this. Any tips?

Thanks!

(I'm using macOS Mojave)


texts: How to create an Alias with a Variable inside?

texts:
I want to create an Alias for my Terminal to quick-search inside files.

In Ubuntu is was: alias gre="egrep -rnw ". I used it like that $ gre 'my search string'.

Now I want this for my local MacBook-Terminal. I found out that I have to use grep only like this grep -r 'search string' .

How can I add an Alias like the one in Ubuntu?

I think it's something like this: alias gre="grep -r $theTerminalParameter ."

If I test it in the Terminal: alias test="grep -r $var ." and check the "content" of that alias with alias test i get that information:

alias test='grep -r  .' so my Variable doesn't appear in the alias.

How can I use an Alias for that task.


texts: AppleScript basic date/time format and filename

texts:
I'm trying to wrap my head around AppleScript. I have a simple project to capture screenshots every several seconds and save them to a folder.

I found this helpful script on GitHub:

https://gist.github.com/jonobr1/a91c166a94a65e64c9b7

I've altered it a bit in an attempt to change the file name to this format:

screen_shot 2019-04-05 at 5.23.13 PM.jpg

Yet, I end up with a filename like this:

screen_shot0Thursday

I could use some help sorting out how to properly use the date and time functions within the script.

Here is the script:

set dFolder to "~/Desktop/screencapture/"
set theDate to current date

do shell script ("mkdir -p " & dFolder)

set i to 0
repeat 960 times
    do shell script ("screencapture " & dFolder & "screenshot_" & i & theDate & ".jpg")
    delay 5 -- Wait for 5 seconds.
    set i to i + 1
end repeat


texts: Always show menubar in full screen applications

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to always show menubar with fullscreen apps?

Is there a way to force full screen applications to show the menubar without having to mouse over it? I am irritated by the way that full screen chrome will have its tabs sometimes covered up by the lowered menubar when I didn't intend to open the menu.


texts: Acronis True Image / Noron Ghost equivalent for Mac

texts:
What is the equivalent software for Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost on a Mac?

I really need to know the equivalent software at the two levels:

Disk imaging that allows one to restore the entire bootable system, along with the applications quickly.
Allow for incremental image creation with scheduling options. In this case one base image is created initially and subsequent deltas are then created with backup schedule.

I have been using Acronis TI for several years to create block-level disk images of my Win 7 (and prior windows) successfully. I have been able to restore my windows system within minutes of crashes.

I am using a Macbook Pro now and before I upgrade to Mavericks, I'd like to create a disk image of my MBP HD, so that if something goes wrong, I can easily recover from it in a snap.


texts: Headphones with inline mic mute button hangs up the call Any way to mute instead?

texts: I just have a cheap pair of wired headphones with an inline mic with a mute button. I'm using an old iPhone 5 since I just broke my Nexus 6 screen. In Android, this button was a very quick way to mute and un-mute calls, crucial during conference calls. I just tried this for the first time on the iPhone and it hung up the call instead. Is there anyway to change this behavior to mute instead?


texts: Can you get a line-in port on a MBA via an external device?

texts: I have a macbook air and I really want to plug in my guitar to garage band, but unfortunately the air doesn't have a line-in port. My question is, is there an external device that can provide you a line-in port? Just like the way you can plug in headphones and use the headset's mic, instead of the built in one.


texts: How can I stop my iPad from asking me about logging in to iCloud?

texts: I do not want to use the iCloud in any way. I do not want it running at all. I want it gone. How do I stop it from asking to log in? It is asking every 10 seconds. It has made my iPad unusable. How do I get rid of it so I can use my iPad?


texts: Reload menu bar from terminal (not SystemUIServer)

texts:
I am looking for a way to reload/refresh the "apple symbol" menu in the upper left corner from the terminal.

Searching for ways to refresh the menu has only led me to find the command

killall -KILL SystemUIServer

this only reload the "widgets" on the right side of the menu and not the content on the left.

I am looking for a way to do this since I have emptied the "recent files" menu programatically (by removing the info from the com.apple.recentitems.plist file with defaults delete com.apple.recentitems RecentDocuments) but it doesn't show up. (I know that it is possible to turn off the recent files menu completly but that is not what I want).


texts: How can I remove the new imessage apps and drawing options

texts: I've just updated my phone to iOS10 and my message app is feeling a little overcrowded. Is it possible to remove these icons from the message app?? It's  a little annoying have a shortcut to the app store forced upon me every time I want to send a message, I guess with the intention to sell animations and gifs to be able to include in messages.


texts: How do I mirror my iPhone screen to my MacBook Pro for free?

texts:
I am using a 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro with Yosemite and an iPhone 4s with iOS 9.

I want to record game tutorials.
I've tried to use the QuickTime Player to screen record but the little arrow on the right side of the record button doesn't show my iPhone video, only the microphone.

Is there any good, free way to do it?


texts: How to copy file/folder beginning with dot from Mac to PC without hidden attribute?

texts:
I have Mac (OSX Lion) and PC (Windows 7) with a shared folder. To mount Windows shared folder I use "Connect to Server" in Finder. All files and folders are copied ok except for the files that begin with dot (e.g .htaccess). In Windows these files are created with hidden attribute.

How to copy file/folder beginning with dot without hidden attribute?


texts: "The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk" error in bootcamp macOS Sierra

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Problem:

I can no longer boot Boot Camp partition (BCP) running Windows 10 Pro 1703. I am also unable to start Parallels 12.2.0 Virtual Machine based on the same BCP macOS side. Problem occurred suddenly without warning. I cannot isolate any action from user side that could have led to this situation. I did not try to resize partition. I would like to boot from internal BCP as I was able to a few hours ago if possible. I do have a backup saved disc image (WinClone 6) from a few weeks back and a backup I made after the issue began. I would like to avoid a solution where I have to clone BCP to external SSD and transfer it back to notebook.

Mac Notebook Specs:

diskutil list Output:

diskutil cs list Output:

Disk Utility Report:

Virtual Machine Output:

BCP is Not Visible at Startup (was few hours back)
BCP is Visible in Startup Disk in Preferences without
Paragon NTFS for Mac 15.0.828 installed (but cannot restart from BCP disk)
BCP is Not Visible in Startup Disk in Preferences with
Paragon NTFS for Mac 15.0.828 installed (but cannot restart from BCP disk using NTFS for Mac)
BCP is mountable/visible on Desktop
Disk Utility not allowing me to verify/repair disk (grayed out/dimmed selection for applying First Aid to BCP)

Troubleshooting Steps:

HOLD ALT at Restart (x3) -> Only macOS partition visible
CMD+R (Recovery Mode) + Verify + BCP select restart -> "The bless tool was unable to set the
current boot disk"

ALT+CMD+R+P (Reset NVRAM) -> No resolution
Verify disk using Paragon NTFS for Mac 15.0.828 -> Success:

Repair disk using Paragon NTFS for Mac 15.0.828 -> Success:

ALT+CMD+R+P (Reset NVRAM) -> No resolution:

Google
Made post on stack exchange
Made appt for Genius Bar

07/05/17 Update:

diskutil verifyDisk disk0:

Started partition map verification on disk0
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking the partition map size
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition's size
Checking the EFI system partition's file system
Checking the EFI system partition's folder content
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking booter partitions
Checking booter partition disk0s3
Verifying file system
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking extents overflow file
Checking catalog file
Checking multi-linked files
Checking catalog hierarchy
Checking extended attributes file
Checking volume bitmap
Checking volume information
The volume Recovery HD appears to be OK
File system check exit code is 0
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
Verifying storage system
Checking volume
disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Logical Volume Group CAF0EF87-18B3-429E-B956-071C41913E1E on 1 device
disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify ABA4E795-98B7-41CB-B45B-2A85180C8204
Load and verify C37D4F73-4CF7-4E22-BD12-732A22ECD7EA
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
Load and verify Segment Cleaning
The volume CAF0EF87-18B3-429E-B956-071C41913E1E appears to be OK
Storage system check exit code is 0
The partition map appears to be OK
Finished partition map verification on disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0:


texts:
Since I recently upgraded my iPhone, I wanted to try the Continuity features that the Apple ecosystem has to offer. However, since I have a mid 2010 iMac, Handoff is not supported. I've been looking for unofficial resources, and have reached no conclusions.

Has anyone achieved this, or know how to? Thanks a lot!

P.S: Here are some articles I've found, just in case they can be useful for you:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/get-continuity-handoff-airdrop-on-old-mac-3582632/
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/23/continuity-activation-tool/


texts: iPhone 4S restarting 20x a day since iOS 8.4.1 was installed

texts:
I have an iPhone 4S it is restarting 20x a day since iOS 8.4.1 was installed.  I have the Apple Music service turned on. I am going to turn it off because it keeps causing problems with playing iTunes, but I wonder if anyone else has experienced these restarts, and if so, what configuration options cause it or make it go away.

If it turns out turning off Apple Music solves this issue, I'll post that as an answer. Any other idea?

Update: The backup/reset/restore suggested in the answer below also cleared up 20 gb of JUNK/crap in the "Other" category from my iPhone:


texts: Does SSH on Mac keep a local cache of data?

texts: If I'm say, editing a file in VIM, the state of the remote machine needs to be sent to my Mac. I know that browsers cache images and such. Does SSH do the same? Are there any programs for Mac that do that? Would I be able to use that data to recover remote files?


texts: How to merge MBR mapped external drive partitions using macOS High Sierra?

texts:
Background: I got a new computer recently, a new MacBook Pro running High Sierra. My old computer was a 2011 MacBook Pro, and I used an external drive to back it up with Time Machine. The drive has two partitions, both Mac X Extended (Journaled), and one contains my backups (Mac Daddy) while the other is empty (007). I no longer need two partitions on the drive, and would like to merge them without losing my backups.

Problem: Disk Utility is being less than helpful, as you can see it won't give me an option to do any partitioning on them, and in fact it doesn't even recognize the two partitions as part of the same drive in the sidebar, though under "Device" info it does say they are both "disk2". I've already erased 007 and run First Aid on both just in case, but nothing changed. I imagine I may have to use Terminal, but I don't know how. Any help would be appreciated!

P.S. I know this is similar to other questions, especially this one which never got solved, but I figured I'd redo it with my specific info.

Thanks!

Results of "diskutil list":

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            57.7 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 20.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS MAC DADDY               1.5 TB     disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS 007                     499.9 GB   disk2s2


texts: Impossible to redirect subprocess stderr on macOS

texts:
Running following in Terminal on macOS Mojave

php -r 'foo();' 2>/dev/null

Produces

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function foo() in Command line code on line 1

Error: Call to undefined function foo() in Command line code on line 1

Call Stack:
    0.0002     390016   1. {main}() Command line code:0

But on Ubuntu Xenial and FreeBSD it produces no output, which is expected, as I am silencing the error. I tried with zsh 5.7.1, default bash 3.2.57 and bash 5.0.11. I'm interested why is this the case on macOS.

Another interesting thing here is that when redirecting both stdout and stderr, then there is finally no output. But redirecting neither stdout nor stderr has the silence effect.

Some more info:

➜  ~ type php
php is /usr/local/bin/php
➜  ~ file $(type -p php)
php:                cannot open `php' (No such file or directory)
is:                 cannot open `is' (No such file or directory)
/usr/local/bin/php: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
➜  ~


texts: How do you search a non-indexed folder in Finder?

texts: Is there any way to search a folder in Finder that hasn't been indexed? I have an external HDD that I don't need indexed, but when I am search for a file, it brings up no results because it isn't indexed.


texts: How do you delete albums (or large groups of songs) from your iOS device using iTunes Match?

texts: I forced my iPhone to download everything in iCloud (create All Music playlist, download, wait...). Now I want to delete about 25% of my music from the device. iOS 7 only allows you to delete one song at a time. How can I delete albums or ideally large groups of music at a time?


texts: Why is pip3 referencing Python 2 instead of 3?

texts:
When I try to install Python pacakges using pip3 on macOS (Catalina) it searches Python 2 instead:
vger:~(61)+>- sudo -H pip3 install xattr
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Requirement already satisfied: xattr in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python (0.6.4)
vger:~(62)+>- which pip3
/usr/bin/pip3
vger:~(63)+>- file /usr/bin/pip3
/usr/bin/pip3: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
vger:~(64)+>- which python3
/usr/bin/python3
vger:~(65)+>-

Which means of course that I can't install extra packages on Python 3.  Why is a utility dedicated to Python 3 accessing Python 2 paths?


texts: Is is possible to multiply ranges and the sum over the new range in pages?

texts: I want to multiply the price times quantity and summ it up. Obviously multiplying columns is not valid. I know i could make a second column where the "price X quantity" is represented and then summ it up. But I dont want some additional space be used, and I beleive numbers should be smart enough to handle this request. Is it possible?


texts: How to make iCloud stop syncing documents without erasing from Mac?

texts:
I've never turned on "sync documents and desktop to iCloud" but a friend says she never turned hers on but it's on.  When she tries to turn it off, the "are you sure" popup says that it will keep the documents on iCloud but delete them from the Mac.  That makes absolutely no sense!

But iCloud is full, so she can't save anything.  Being a college student, that is a serious problem.  And losing the documents, then having to log in to the web interface to get them back is equally ridiculous.

What is the easiest way to get the documents OFF of iCloud and keep them on the computer?  She doesn't have another computer to make the sync worthwhile.  She does have an iPhone but no one wants to write research papers on an iPhone.  (Especially someone who depends on VoiceOver)

I know we could make a backup, and restore after the delete.  Or re-downlonad from the web interface.  But it's hard to believe Apple would make a process that user-hostile.


texts: Is an iPhone call recorder theoretically possible?

texts:
NOTE: I know neither the iPhone SDK or Objective C, just wondering if possible.

I know obviously it would have to be on a Jailbroken device anyway, but it is technically possible for a iPhone call recording application to be made, or is it not possible to hook into the calls or the audio input/output?

I know obviously there would be no 'official' way of doing it and certainly not from an App Store application. And I know there are call recording apps which place outgoing calls through their own servers.

Just wondering if the reason it doesn't exist yet is just because no-one has coded it or if it's not actually possible?


texts:
I am looking for an application which would allow me to encrypt either a file or a folder. Something like right click on a file/folder, select Encrypt, give it a password and ready.

Of course, it should also be able to afterwards decrypt the said file/folder.

Is there such a thing?


texts: Is there a mail app handling maildir format on one's mac in a reliable manner?

texts:
I need to handle, i.e. read, write, store and search, mail in maildir or maildir++ format.

Mail must be stored on my mac, that is, reading and storing maildir on a server, via IMAP would not be good for my use case.

I am aware Thunderbird can handle "almost-ready" maildir format, but it still has a few bugs.

Also, Thunderbird is still non completely maildir-compatible.

I am aware of this question, but it does not apply to my case, as I need to be able to store messages in maildir or maildir++ proper format on my mac.

Is there a mail app handling maildir in a reliable manner, without resorting to the terminal?


texts: TRIM won't turn on Samsung 256GB 840 Pro

texts:
I've just changed to a SSD and am trying to enable TRIM by following this guide - https://digitaldj.net/blog/2011/11/17/trim-enabler-for-os-x-lion-mountain-lion-mavericks/

Everything executes fine but when I look in "System Information" TRIM support says no. Tried running the commands twice and nothing. I am on 10.9.5


texts: So I bought bourne legacy a while ago, and now I am trying to put it on my 4th gen iPod. When I do so, it says that it doesn't work. However when I try to convert the file through iTunes, it has all of the converting options disabled.


texts: How to log in to turn off Num Lock on a MacBook Pro when you can't login?

texts: How do I turn off Num Lock on my MacBook Pro when I can't log in to get to System Preferences?


texts: How to change the GPT partition type of an EFI partition?

texts:
I have a perplexing problem with the EFI partition on my boot SSD. The GPT partition type is "Microsoft Basic Data". On all other drives in my system, including my Carbon Copy Cloner clone of my boot drive, the partition type is "EFI" (see below):

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk0
   1:       Microsoft Basic Data EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Tims Boot SSD           498.7 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Users                   959.9 GB   disk1s2

...

/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Tims Boot SSD Clone     511.8 GB   disk4s2

My system boots just fine, but it appears to be loading the bootloader (Clover in this case) from the /Users drive (disk1) instead of from the boot SSD (disk0), and I think the incorrect GPT partition type is to blame.

I tried to update the partition type using the "asr adjust" command as outlined at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/58705/mac-os-x-partition-type-problem, but it doesn't work and gives me a very unhelpful error message:

$ sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s1 --settype EFI
asr: Volume adjustment failed: Unknown error: -123

I have found information about other possible ways to set the GPT partition type through Google searches, but all the other methods seem risky, with warnings about erasing the partition in question, etc.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?


texts: Infection (according to ClamXav) in "/private/var/db/PreviousSystemLogs.cpgz"?

texts:
How do I fix this? What does it mean?

I'm not sure what do to, I am very good at OS X and Mac Software, but I've never gotten an infection notice by ClamXav and let alone in /private/var.

EDIT: Also, infection name: Html.Exploit.CVE_2012_1537_1.


texts: What is the expected/acceptable accuracy level of Apple Watch distance measurement? We have two series 4 watch - one mine and one that my wife wears. When we go on hike together and start "outdoor walk" exercise on both of our watches we're getting ~5% discrepancy for distance tracked. Is that expected?


texts: Fixing error 73 AND Open Directory without Internet

texts:
I have been messing with an old PowerMac G4 running OSX 10.5 Leopard Server trying to get Open Directory running on a small network I set up for testing purposes. I can't find anything useful online about my specific situation.

My network hasn't got, and never will have, an internet connection, but I have multiple Mac machines connected either through Ethernet or WiFi.

I found on the internet that I would need a DNS server with a forward and reverse lookup name and so I set the DNS service up with a hostname I randomly picked. I don't think the fact I randomly picked a name matters because the network will be offline. Is this wrong?

When I try to set up an Open Directory master, I get:
"This server has not been configured as an Open Directory Master. Error has Occurred! Error value = 73"

When running sudo changeip -checkhostname I get:

Primary address = 192.168.1.15
Current Hostname = PowerMac.exampledomain.net
DNS Hostname = PowerMac.exampledomain.net
The names match. There is nothing to change.

I do not get dirserv:success = "success". Does this cause error 73?

Am I doing something wrong?


texts: Pendrive bootable not showing after trying to reinstall Mavericks

texts:
I did the steps to reinstall OS X Mavericks. I created a bootable Pendrive but it doesn't show when I hold down "Option" at boot. I already erased my HD, so I'm stuck now!

How can I reinstall OS X Mavericks from nothing, if the bootable drive is not working?


texts: Taking over old iPhone 4, updated to iOS 6, but can't activate?

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I have borrowed/taken-over my girlfriend's iPhone 4 that had iOS 4.x installed. She has changed phone carrier, so I don't have any active iPhone SIM card at present.

Anyhow, I updated to iOS 6 and gave it a Wi-Fi connection for its configuration. However, it just states I should contact customer care, but I don't really believe I should need activation? The phone should not be locked as far as I know, but is that the problem? Or is it the change in iTunes account?

I am not sure how to progress from here... So I am hoping someone here recognizes the problem, so I can explain the problem properly over phone and/or contact the right ones


texts: How to create an apple script that forwards a flagged email

texts:
I want to create an apple script that will forward a flagged email to x@mail.asana.com

I have tried this script:

on run

 tell application "Mail"
    repeat with _acct in imap accounts
        --Look For Flagged Messages in the INBOX
        set _acct_name to name of _acct
        set _inbox to _acct's mailbox "INBOX"

        set _msgs_to_capture to (a reference to ¬
            (every message of _inbox ¬
                whose flagged status is true))

        repeat with eachMessage in _msgs_to_capture
            set theStart to missing value
            set theDue to missing value
            set theOmniTask to missing value

            set theTitle to the subject of eachMessage
            set theNotes to the content of eachMessage

            set theCombinedBody to "message://%3c" & message id of eachMessage & "%3e" & return & return & theNotes

            tell application "OmniFocus"
                tell default document
                    set newTaskProps to {name:theTitle}
                    if theStart is not missing value then set newTaskProps to newTaskProps & {start date:theStart}
                    if theDue is not missing value then set newTaskProps to newTaskProps & {due date:theDue}
                    if theCombinedBody is not missing value then set newTaskProps to newTaskProps & {note:theCombinedBody}

                    set newTask to make new inbox task with properties newTaskProps
                end tell
            end tell

            set flagged status of eachMessage to false

        end repeat

    end repeat
end tell

end run

However, this script opens OmniFocus instead of just sending an email.

How would I change this script or start with a new one so that it will automatically forward a flagged email to x@mail.asana.com?


texts: Why are my iMessages being sent through my Apple ID?

texts:
This had never been a problem until around an hour ago. A friend texted me and it showed up on all 3 other iPhones my family has (we all use the same Apple ID). I tried turning my phone off and on, then turning off iMessage, then sending it through my own email (which didn't work, because her texts just sent to everyone but me).
This has never happened before, please help!


texts: When opening a new tab in Safari, the browser immediately changes page

texts:
I have an older iMac running macOS High Sierra. Safari is my browser of choice. Safari is set up so that when I open a new tab using the + sign shown below circled in red, it opens the Favorites page. See figure below:

Recently it has started going from Favorites page immediately to the one shown below with the following link open:

http://search.searchttv.com/?page=newtab&subid2=sfnt&ap=appfocus157&i_id=tv__sfnt_&source=bing-bb8-sfnt&uc=20190501&uid=839d16d3-94de-4a63-9a6a-c3f8e8742948

How do I stop the new tab from going to the link above? Creating a new tab has worked fine for years. Now a new tab goes to the link given above.


texts: Why do Application Shortcuts in System Preferences disappear?

texts:
I have a longstanding issue with Application Shortcuts (ie. in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts). I can set up a new shortcut to a menu item of a specific application, eg. VoodooPad, and it shows up as expected, like so:

This works correctly in the application.

But every such shortcut I have ever set up later disappears -- I'm not sure exactly when, but at some point the prefs pane reverts to the defaults (ie. just one entry for 'Show Help Menu', and the newly-added shortcut no longer works.

Anyone have any idea why?


texts: Send/receive SMS (text messages) and place/receive calls from an iPad

texts:
I'm looking for a solution to receive/place calls and SMS over the cellular network.
For now, my best solution would be Skype, but i can't receive SMS with it. Is there an equivalent ?

Thanks.

Edit: it might be important : I'm in France, not in the US.


texts: I have LG HBS 730 Bluetooth headphones. I would like them to automatically connect to my Retina Macbook pro. How can I achieve that?