texts: Macbook and external hard drive : A better solution?

texts: I have an external hard drive. I use windows and macbook both. The problem is, plugging and unplugging from Mac is very much pain. If I accidentally remove it without 'ejecting', Mac doesn't recognise is next time I plug in. This is a very irritating problem and it keeps coming. Sometimes, while moving laptop here and there, connection gets loose and hard drive gets unplugged without 'safely ejecting'. Windows only warns, but recognises it every time I plug it in. Please suggest a solution. I don't wanna do all commandline stuff to make it work each time.


texts: How to open quickly – in a browser – a Wikipedia URL from Dictionary or from the 'Look Up in Dictionary' service dialogue?

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Example

Either:

in Dictionary, I am at the Wikipedia page for something; or
in a Services-capable web browser such as Safari I select a phrase, then use the contextual menu to Look Up "…" (and that thing is found in Wikipedia).

Aim

Open the Wikipedia URL in the web browser. Ideally in a new tab or new window.

In the past, I could do so quickly – without multiple steps.

In Mountain Lion now, I can't do so. I doubt that the feature/routine is lost … more likely forgotten by me (I have used Mountain Lion for a few months, but I can't recall when I last used the Wikipedia routine outlined above).

Question

How can I open quickly – in a web browser – a Wikipedia URL from Dictionary or from the Look Up "…" dialogue?


texts: Why is everything set to immutable and how do I reverse it?

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I can't seem to change the permissions (let alone delete) anything in directories like /usr/local (which I should be). My research has indicated that it's due to OSX automatically setting everything to be immutable. I was able to work through my problem by booting into single-user mode and remounting the partition with -uw. From there I was able to use chflags to remove the immutability.

However, I would REALLY love to not have to do this every time. Is there a way I can disable immutability globally across the system? Is there a reason I shouldn't?


texts: What might break Mavericks "look up" gesture?

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On my main OSX account, the define gesture on my trackpad (three finger gap) recently stopped working. It's checked in System Preferences, but not functioning. This affects both my magic trackpad and my MacBook's built in trackpad.

So far, I've tried:

Deleted com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist.
Deleted and re-paired the trackpad.

This isn't a hardware issue, as an another user account on the same computer works fine.

Has anyone seen this? What might be wrong?


texts: My USB Devices seemingly disconnect at random intervals

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I have a Early 2008 24" iMac.  On my USB ports, I have my wired keyboard, my external Seagate HD (for Time Machine), and I have a joystick. For quite some time, it seems like all of my USB devices keep disconnecting, and then reconnecting. This is particularly bad when it comes to my backups.

What can I do to stop this behavior from happening, and what more do I need to provide to help with this very annoying.


texts: Trying to install Ant but getting -bash: brew: command not found

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I have installed Homebrew using the code

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

it returns this inside the Terminal window

==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
==> The following directories will be made group writable:
/usr/local/.
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/man
==> The following directories will have their owner set to mitchellgant:
/usr/local/.
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/man
==> The following directories will have their group set to admin:
/usr/local/.
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/man

and then I tried all of the following

brew doctor
brew update
brew install ant

Each yields back the line

-bash: brew: command not found

In some other questions similar to mine, some people suggested changing the path but I'm not exactly sure how to do that.
Running echo $PATH yields /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin but I don't know how to change it or if it should be changed in the first place. Any assistance or guidance would be greatly appreciated.


texts: My Keynote version is still 6.5.3 even though mac app store says I installed 6.6.1

texts: I have a MacBook white late 2009, recently upgraded to 8 GB RAM and running on Yosemite 10.10.5. I updated Keynote and Pages to the newer versions. Mac app store says I was able to update to Keynote 6.6.1 and Pages 5.6.1. I restarted my laptop after the update. However, Keynote and Pages still insist that a newer version of the app is available. In effect, the new versions were not installed , but mac app store insists that they were installed. How can I solve this? thanks


texts: Built-in iSight not working after migrating OS X from Mac Mini to MacBook Pro

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Used Migration Assistant to migrate from Mac Mini (which is without iSight) to MacBook Pro (which has iSight). MacBook Pro was installed with OS X 10.6, then Software Update(d) to 10.6.8, before downloading Lion installer from Mac App Store.

What I've checked so far
 - iSight camera is not detected by iChat, Photo Booth, Skype.
 - System Profiler does not detect Camera under list of USB device
 - There are AppleUSBDevices framework installed at the default location
   with proper file permissions

I've also read through Google search results dating from 2006 to 2011.


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It shows in Activity Monitor as "preventing sleep." I have occasion to check that list of processes preventing sleep fairly often, and I don't recall seeing that before. I would guess that it might have something to do with Apple File System, perhaps a daemon started by launchd, but I can find no reference to it anywhere through Google searches.
I'm wondering if it's what is preventing my iMac (macOS 10.15.3) from sleeping or if it's just a red herring. If it is something necessary for APFS, I'm afraid to experiment by stopping the process for fear that the file system could become corrupted.


texts:
I usually have multiple windows requiring to close before sleeping.
(all the contents are saved already)

I attempt to accomplish it in terminal so I can encapsulate commands to some script.

I tried:

$ close -a atom
-bash: close: command not found
$ close -a Opera
-bash: close: command not found

How to solve the problem?


texts: A way to generate a universal image URL that works between Mac and iOS (DropBox, iCloud, other?)

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I'm looking for a way to make all my markdown file universal that is work on iOS, Mac, even Linux/Window/Android.

I want to have a single folder where I stick all my images and then point to that folder from whatever OS/device I'm using. For example

~/img/image.png

would be readable in the .md file from anywhere.

Does anything like that exist? Can I use iCloud or Dropbox for that?  Are there any other solutions people may suggest?


texts: AirPods stuck in 8 kHz instead of 16 kHz

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I got a pair of 2nd-gen AirPods (A2032) running on firmware 3A283.
I know they have different behavior when you only listen to music versus when you listen and record something (like you would on Skype for example). The quality when listening to music is usually very high quality 48 kHz AAC, which is awesome. And when you record some audio, the quality drops significantly.
But when I use them on my own mac to record some audio, the quality is really terrible. Much worse than when a friend of mine uses them to call me.
To try and figure out what happened, I used "Audio MIDI setup" on my Mac. My AirPods' input only give me one option: 8 000 Hz, 1ch 16-bit integer.
Now I've compared with my friend, and she gets 16 000 Hz out of her pair of AirPods when using them from her MacBook. It's still not perfect, but it's a lot better than 8 kHz.
Where does the difference come from? Is there anything I can do on my mac to also get 16 kHz input audio?


texts: Is there a way to recover a word document password?

texts: I have several password protected word docs that I have forgotten the password for. Is there a way to recover them? I am using Word 2011.


texts:
My new retina MacBook Pro(with 16GB RAM) keeps receiving this "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory" message. I have 300 GB of free space on my hard drive, and 16 GB of RAM. This shouldn't be happening.

But it keeps happening, even when I'm not actively using my Mac. I went to lunch, came back, and saw this:  59 GB of swap used.

What is going on?


texts: Applescript to send email messages to the persons with specific in interest and with at least one email address

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I am trying to write a script that filters the persons in the Contacts application whose note include a specific keyword and sending those who has at least one e-mail address an e-mail. I have written the following code but something seems to be wrong. I couldn't figure out especially how to make a null check for e-mails.

property mailSubject : "A bulk message"
property mailBody : "Hi %NAME%"
property keyword : "topic"

tell application "Contacts"
    set theRecipients to every person whose ((note contains keyword))
end tell

repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theRecipients
    set theContact to item i of theRecipients
    set theName to name of theContact
    set theEmail to email of theContact
    if (theEmail is not equal to "") then
        set theBody to replaceName(mailBody, theName)
        tell application "Mail"
            set theOutMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true}
            tell theOutMessage
                make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:theEmail}
                set sender to "o****.g****@gmail.com>"
                set subject to mailSubject
                set content to theBody
            end tell
        end tell
    end if
end repeat

The execution of this script returns following error at the line set theEmail to email of theContact:

Contacts got an error: Can’t make |email| of person id "2827E13D-907A-41C5-A649-2174D1F61093:ABPerson" into type specifier.

Any ideas?

Önder.


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I was using my computer normally when I got a "Updates Available" notification.

On selecting to update, the App Store opened, and I saw 3 updates available:
1) iTunes
2) Java (I have never installed Java myself, as such.)
3) Evernote

I selected the option to Update All.
A few seconds after the update process started, I got prompted to enter the Apple ID password. I typed it wrong the first time. I got it correct the second time, and the update process seemed to continue for half a second, but then suddenly AppStore crashed (and I filled out and sent the error report thingy).

On restarting AppStore/checking for updates, now I only see the Evernote update available.

Should I leave things as they are? Or should I manually try to update Java and iTunes? Are TimeMachine backups helpful in this situation?

I really don't want any inconsistent state/corrupt files/unstable system/etc.


texts: How to share something into a Reminders list?

texts: Suppose you are viewing a webpage and need to set a reminder to do something with this page. How might you go about doing this given that 'reminders' does not appear to be in the Share list in iOS 8.1.3?


texts: Received a FaceTime call from unknown person

texts:
I have received a FaceTime call from unknown source. I'm not sure who this person is, nor do I know the caller's email.

What can I do? I don't want unknown people contacting me. It was from an iCloud email address.


texts:
Whenever I go to my Apple Store it shows an the incorrect email (it show an email that is no longer active)
How do I get my iPhone 6s to show the correct email so I can update my apps?


texts: How can I sleep my iMac's internal display when it's not in use, but not my attached tv (playing video)

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I've got a 2015 iMac running Yosemite, attached via HDMI to a 1080p TV, in extended desktop mode that I use simultaneously as a video server/media player and an occasional work machine.

In short, I'd like to sleep the internal display but not the external on demand.

More detail: I'd like to be able to run a video player (Plex) in full screen mode on the TV (Screen 2), but set the internal display (Screen 1) to automatically sleep if I'm not doing anything else on the computer but playing video on Screen 2.

Apps like Plex have an option to blank the other screen, but that doesn't work here, as I'd like to be able to use Screen 1 some of the time. I used to make this work on my old Mac Pro by simply turning the computer monitor off but leaving the TV on, but that's not an option with the iMac.

Something akin to an off switch (or hotkey) for the the internal display (that doesn't disable the desktop) would be perfect, as I often remotely control Screen 1 from another computer while video is playing on Screen 2.

Have tried SwitchResX, which is great, but it doesn't seem to have the right combination of settings/features to meet my goals (or I've failed to figure them out).

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!


texts: WhatsApp web option not displayed in WhatsApp iPhone

texts:
I have an iPhone 4S with WhatsApp.

I install WhatsApp Web on my PC. It starts, and displays a QR code.  I'm supposed to use my iPhone's WhatsApp to scan the Qr code. The menu item to do this is supposed to be in "settings". When I open "settings" I don't see the option. It's supposed to be below "tell a friend".

What do I need to do to get the option to appear?

The option should be appearing in the iPhone software "WhatsApp"; it is missing from that software as installed on my device.


texts: How to move my iBooks library from one mac to another?

texts: I have a lot of books in my iBooks Library. They are not purchased from iBooks Store so it is impossible to do it automatically via iCloud. What should I do? Some backup? How? Maybe should I copy one file and then move it from one computer to another. Is there any way?


texts: Safari and other programs using too much RAM with barely any tabs open. Happens daily since Yosemite

texts:
I've noticed a drop battery life as well as performance from my macbook since the new Yosemite update a week ago.
The performance slows down greatly, even with my 8gb of ram. Animations are very choppy and the entire system just slows down.

This Safari issue as well as Preview happens daily for school. Any ideas?


texts: how can I diagnose the root of the problem when my mac starts freezing for 10 sec each time I switch to an app?

texts:
At random points during the day (but not every day), when I've been working quite a bit, MacOs gives me continual freezes for 10-15 sec. This especially happens when I switch between apps and when I perform certain actions such as trying to reboot, switch a tab in chrome, etc.

The freeze is not a typical rainbow-ball-freeze, but literally, the screen is frozen. The music does keep playing (buffer?) but does not respond to commands, nothing does.

I run Mojave 10.14.6 and own a Macbook Pro 15" mid-2012 in which the primary drive is an SSD and I replaced the DVD-drive with a 7200 rpm Hitachi.

Most of my data, documents, videos, images, etc are on this second hard-drive. MacOS and apps all run on the primary SSD disk.

I'm not sure, but the freezes somehow feel faulty to the hard-drive.

I tried running First-aid on the data-disk but it's unable to unmount. I will try a reboot later, but in the past, the first-aid was unable to find any faults.

How can I proceed to find the root cause of these freezes?

I did the etrescan and although beachballing is not the right description, I thought it most closely resembled the behaviour.
I removed something that might've been adware.
I checked unsigned files, which are mainly developer tools I use.

I pretty much always run Activity monitor on the side to see if my CPU starts spinning up like crazy by some app. This is not the case when I have concurrent freezes.
I also did a safe-boot and ran disk-utility health-aid and it did so without reporting any problems.

I just had the freezes again. It was very clear that the freeze happens whenever I do an action (switch app, open run, delete a file, type admin pw, etc). If I stayed in the same application, it almost all run perfectly smooth...

Etre rapport (1 week expiry date)
console report (1 week expiry date)


texts: Unable to access WhatsApp web on Safari for iPad

texts:
WhatsApp Web (https://www.whatsapp.com/) works as epxected on Firefox running on Ubuntu Desktop and Safari for macOS.  At one point in time, Whatsapp web functioned on the iPad Safari browser.

Attempting to summon it on an iPad doesn’t return the desktop website. Summons are invoked by long tapping the reload button in the address bar and tapping on Request Desktop Site.

What can be done to summon and return the WhatsApp QR code on Safari running on iPad? The goals is to use WhatsApp Web in Safari on iPad.


texts: How to keep Night Shift™ enabled indefinitely on macOS 10.12.5+? Settings only have "turn on until tomorrow"

texts:
I want to keep it turned on until I turn it off, not until some fixed date. How to achieve this?

(I know about the option to use f.lux, but I'd prefer to not depend on it now that macOS is so close to being able to do it itself)


texts: Invisible folder after usage of trash-cli

texts:
Recently, I decided to install trash-cli on my MacBook Pro after using it successfully on my Ubuntu machine. To set it up I ran the following commands.

git clone https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli.git
sudo python setup.py install

After installation, I decided to delete a folder using trash-put. So I run trash-put ~/anaconda/. However, this folder has never arrived in my .Trash folder, yet it disappeared from my Finder (see below, sorry for the mess of files).

So far so good, the folder disappeared. However, when running locate anaconda in a Terminal window the folder Anaconda is still there (only the first couple of lines are shown in the screenshot below).

Now, my question is whether any of you guys could have an idea on how I can delete this folder or at least make it re-appear in my Finder?

So far, I've tried restarting my MacBook without success. I've also tried to run rm /Users/admin/anaconda which failed, too.

Running 10.10.1 on a MacBook Pro Mid-2012. I do have administrator rights and full access to all files.

UPDATE 1

rm output

rm: anaconda: No such file or directory
felix and admin are the same user. I have renamed it for my own convenience purposes, but they are the same!


texts: How to remove a nonfunctional folder from the Finder sidebar with Paragon installed?

texts:
I drag-and-drop 2 folders to the places group in finder's sidebar. Now i want to remove it. However, there was no option for remove it from side bar, although the other things (application, desktop, documents...) have the option to do so when you right-click on them.

(in short: i want to delete the folder "study" in the above screenshot)

Actually those folders are on an ntfs partition. This problem happened after i install paragon ntfs driver. It works fine before that.

Do you have any suggestion to solve this problem?


texts: can i put this ram into my imac 21.5 mid 2010 corsair cmso8gx3m2a1333c

texts: After installing computer wont boot up, just beeps. Uninstalled and put original 2x2gb samsung back in and computer booted up just fine.. Reinstalled the corsair and still nothing but beeping. Tried installing on top slots then on bottom slots. Computer tech at best buy assured me it would be compatiable with my iMAC


texts: Upgrade Mountain Lion to Mavericks, with DMG file obtained from unofficial source?

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I am trying to update from Mountain Lion to Mavericks using a DMG installer that I obtained over BitTorrent.  I don't want to download it via the official App Store as I don't have good enough Internet connectivity to download the 5 GB file.

How do I install from this DMG file?  I tried double clicking the DMG file, double clicking OS X Install Mavericks.app, then clicking install; I am shown the software license agreement, and I accepted it, but nothing happens after accepting the software license agreement.


texts: Customize external HDD spindown timeout?

texts:
It's possible to enable spinning down of mechanical hard drives using the "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" option in Energy Saver, and it's possible to customize the timeout period with sudo pmset -a disksleep MIN.

However, if I understand the man pages correctly, this applies to all hard drives connected to the system. Is it possible to only target one HDD (ideally, by UUID)? I have no objection to installing a 3rd party app to accomplish this functionality.


texts: How to install Google Android image in Parallels

texts:
How to start an original Google Android image in Parallels Desktop?

If I just try to create a new virtual machine from the img from Factory Images for Nexus Devices (e. g. for Pixel C), it tells me: „Unable to detect operating system“:

And if I continue selecting Android manually, it tells me: „No boot device is available“:

How to install this image as a virtual machine in Parallels?

Or how to find the right Google Android image which is possible to install in Parallels?

I'd like to use an official Android image from Google without a risk the image will contain any Adware etc.


texts: Someone keeps sending me a link via bluetooth - how to stop them without disabling bluetooth?

texts:
In my Macbook, I keep getting a popup about a website link sent from an iPhone:

I didn't even know about that feature, but anyway - the link is some random chinese website every time. Whenever I open it, the popup appears again as if there is some sort of long queue of the same link.

If I disable bluetooth, the popup stops. But as soon as I enable it back, the stream continues.

When I got to the advanced Bluetooth settings, there doesn't seem to be an option to block this kind of thing. The only device that shows up are my BeatsX.

How can I stop this, without having to turn off bluetooth?

I am using macOS High Sierra, 10.13.2.


texts: How do I setup a guest network with Time Capsule

texts: Since I bought my Time Capsule (only a few months ago) the AirPort Utility app has been changed/upgraded and the instructions that I got with the product on how to setup a guest wifi network no longer apply or make any sense..  So my question is how do I setup a guest wifi with apple's current software: Airport Utility v 6.0 on OS 10.7.4


texts: How to diagnose Finder losing icons for folders?

texts:
After a reboot several strange issues come up from nothing.
Suddenly all system directory lost their icons: Desktop, Home, Downloads, Pictures, Movies... have the normal folder icon. Even in Finder's sidebar.
In console.app I noticed this when Finder opens:

09/06/14 16:17:44,722 Finder[250]: Could not find image named '357D167A-6053-47A6-BD22-B028736F98C1'.
09/06/14 16:22:14,810 Finder[250]: Could not find image named 'D54AFEF0-1EF4-43D6-8F3F-84A181AC04B2'.
09/06/14 16:22:14,810 Finder[250]: Could not find image named '357D167A-6053-47A6-BD22-B028736F98C1'.

Every time I open Alfred 2 preferences these are reset to default. Themes, workflows, everything is reset.

At last Safari won't connect to service hosted on localhost through https

Safari can't open the page because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server. I tried:

rebooting
repairing permissions
resetting safari
reinstalling Alfred
deleting com.apple.finder.plist
removing every login item and launch agent

The problem persists and I don't know what causes this or how to fix it. Is there a way to restore the custom folders Finder shows for user default folders?

Here there is the log of the boot taken from console.app.


texts: Could my data have been accessed on my lost iPhone 4 with iOS 7?

texts:
Yesterday, someone stole my iPhone 4 (it was updated with iOS 7), but iCloud backup was not enabled. My iPhone was locked with a 4 digit passkey.

I have confidential personal data on my iPhone, and I dont want this data to be accessed. I did quick search with 'Play sound', 'Lost mode'. After almost 1 hour I decide to use the 'Erase iPhone' option.

One hour later it shows me that my iPhone was erased.

I have the below questions:

Is it possible that my peronal data was accessed by the thief? even before I started the Lost mode and Erase iPhone options?
Is it possible that my iPhone was accessed through iTunes?
Since the iPhone was shown in iCloud as 'Erased', does it mean the iPhone was for sure connected to Internet? How does he enable Wi-Fi if there was a required 4 digit passkey?
Is there any extra protection with iOS 7?


texts:
I use an iPhone. What would happen to the Offline videos on the YouTube app once I delete/uninstall the app and want the videos (offline ones) back, after I install it again later?

So would the Offline videos(I downloaded on YT) stay, or they’ll be deleted once I install the app again later?? As I am willing to delete the app, but I want the videos to stay when I reinstall the app later.


texts: How to access apple support forum on "This username ... is already taken, please choose another. Another has been provided" message?

texts:
See screenshot: This username "***" is already taken, please choose another. Another has been provided.

If I enter a different forum username it tells me that the account is already associated with another user ID (I suspect the first one I tried).

How am I supposed to continue?


texts: Why does my computer itself show up on Shared in Finder?

texts: I am not sure this is a problem but it might be a symptom. The image below is from Finder (on Mavericks) on a Mac Pro. Notice that in the image below, you see MacPro-0025...(3) What is that? Why is it there? Otherwise the system works fine.


texts:
I just finished an install of my debian (7.8) on parallels virtual machine and I'd love to be able to share the linux folders with the osx platform. Any ideas on how that might be done ?
Problem with google is that most people talk about windows or doing it the other way around (which is easy).

Context: the company I'm working for installed their development environment on a VM on my mac. I can access the localhost of the VM from osx but I also have to work on the files, which would be easier if I could do so in osx for thousands of good and bad reasons.

Any ideas ?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports), running Sierra 10.12.3.

I am often having difficulties selecting some text, for example for copying it. This applies to all applications (email, text editor, etc.).

It's a bit difficult to explain what exactly the issue is, but about 50% of the time after selecting some text, the selection is reset after I release the mouse button.

Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce this, but maybe someone else has had this issue after upgrading to a new MBP recently? I have NOT had this issue on my previous MBP, so it must be related to either some change in the software or the trackpad.

EDIT: Upon further testing, the issue mostly seems to occur when I start the selection and then move the cursor to the right with the touchpad pressed down. If I start and then move the cursor to the left, I can 100% select the text as expected.


texts: Cannot add an Exchange account to Outlook 2016 on OS X El Capitan

texts:
I recently installed Office 2016 on my MacBook Pro Late 2011, OS X El Capitan. I'd like to add my Exchange account to Outlook. My domain is @ofsl.ie.

I added the email and password and I clicked on add account. I got an error message error saying:

  Outlook for Mac cannot add this type of account; to open your account please open your browser and open an Office 365 session and then use the Outlook web app.


texts: iTunes stucking on “installing” when installing .ipa files

texts:
i have downloaded an .ipa file (My app). when I trying to install it form iTunes to my device, it is stuck on installing: like below screen and it's installing in my ipad but not installing iphone

in my iphone 75% it's installing then app is disappearing why this problem is coming please suugest me some one


texts: Slow download on my MBpro, only via browser

texts:
Since last week, whenever I try to download things through my browser it starts at the usual speed (up to 18 Mbps) then starts to slow down until it reaches about 500 kbps and stays at that speed. All other sorts of downloads as well as internet speed are fine.
I've done a number of experiments: first I tried three different browsers (Chrome, Safari and Firefox) and they all behave the same.
Then I tried downloading with my VPN on and off, sill no changes.
Speedtest shows nothing wrong.
I've also run a full antivirus scan which returned nothing wrong.
Any solutions? Could my ISP be limiting download speed? Or is it something else?


texts: Does overcharging an iPhone degrade its life?

texts:
I often like to charge my iPhone for long periods at a time (like say when I'd get home I will just plug it into the charger regardless of how much battery there is left).

Will this spoil my phone by overcharging or will it in any way, degrade my phone?


texts: How can I see a list of my reviews in iPad Apple Store?

texts: I want to see a list of my rewiews so I can keep track of apps I have reviewed and perhaps share them to my friends. So, how can I preview my reviews, i.e. the feedback, feature-request and such things for developers to get better, in iPad Apple Store?


texts: Prevent Active Directory Users From Locking Screen

texts:
We've been having trouble with students in our new iMac lab not logging out, which ends up locking the screen and preventing anybody else from logging into the machine. While figuring out how to get the "Switch User" button to show would be a solution, we'd prefer to just disable the lock screen entirely.

Is there an easy way to both prevent users from locking the screen (^⌘Q) as well as disabling Sleep and Screensaver when users are logged in?

If there's a better way to approach the problem I'm all ears.

Thanks!


texts: Messages brings macOS to its knees with soagent and callservicesd

texts:
When I launch Messages on macOS and attempt to do anything at all with it (or even, it seems, if I just wait a while until a message is received) the two processes soagent and callservicesd start maxing out CPU and don't stop until Messages and they are all force quit.

Messages is in effect now unusable on my Mac. My iCloud account is the only one that syncs contacts and the only one used in Messages (the use of multiple accounts in either case is suggested as a trigger of the bug).

What can I do to fix this? Deleting and readding all of my Internet accounts is not an option.

Update: The trigger for this behavior seems to be Apple's (terrible) spell check. I can use Messages without soagent taking over my machine until I mistype. But one mistyping, and Messages hangs for a while, and then soagent takes off and can't be stopped except by force quitting.

Searching for errors containing "contacts" I get:

error   08:33:58.523010 -0500   accountsd   "Cannot check access to a private account type: <private>"
error   08:33:58.526106 -0500   accountsd   "Cannot check access to a private account type: <private>"
error   08:33:58.561595 -0500   accountsd   "Cannot check access to a private account type: com.apple.account.AppleAccount"

and

default 08:38:32.371678 -0500   AppleSpell  Rebroadcasting external notification ABDistributedDatabaseChangedNotification from process accountsd (<private>)
default 08:38:32.405900 -0500   suggestd    Rebroadcasting external notification ABDistributedDatabaseChangedNotification from process accountsd (<private>)
default 08:39:33.801123 -0500   ContactsAccountsService There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}


texts: Upgrade to iOS 9 Final from Public Beta?

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I've been trying out iOS 9 Public Betas on my iPad and I'm pretty happy with it, but yesterday I got a prompt to update to v9.1 beta... Which is probably a bit too tender for my tastes :-)

Anyhow I was wondering what'd be the process to move from the public beta to the final version when available?

Will removing the beta profile and rebooting mean I'll get the prompt to update to final when available next week? I think that's what make sense (I don't think Apple really expects all Public Beta users to restore from Backup)

Or do I have to wait until 9.0.1 as some answers in this site suggest? (These answers were mostly related to moving from GM to final; in that case the build # is likely the same so it makes sense that you don't get a prompt to update).

Really hoping that update doesn't entail wipe and restore

Thanks!!


texts: i tried reseting all of my data on my ipod touch to unjailbreak now stuck black screen after apple logo

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ok so today i wanted to reset my jailbroken ipod touch 2g because it was having some issues. i went into settings, general, something like reset, then something like reset all data and content. after i pushed that it did the regular loading bar thingy and when it restart, i got the apple logo then a black screen. no loading circle of death, just a sad lightish blue black screen. now, before that, my ipod just went to recovery mode, so i thought, why not rejailbreak it, so i did that and thats how i got it working again. then the whole reset stuff and now this. i have tried just about everything, dfu mode, recovery mode, ipsw restores on both itunes and redsn0w, and when i do that, in redsn0w, when you think things are going good, it brings up a loding bar and does nothing. itunes dows the same. please help. alll ideas are appreciated. thankyou
daniel


texts: Mail.app keeps asking for Google password

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I've a Google account set up on a Mac of mine. OS X version 10.8.4 and everything else is up-to-date. And my Google account uses 2-step authentication.

I'm having a problem with my Google account on this Mac in the native Mail app. The problem is that when everything was working fine, one day, all of a sudden Mail asked for my Google password. I simply created a new application specific password. But after some time the same happened again and I ended up creating another application specific password.

Now it's happening again and it's kind of getting annoying.

Why does it keep asking for passwords when the one before was right and working? Has anyone else ever had this problem?

Also I should mention that my iCloud account, also set up on this Mac, functions perfectly.


texts: Why does my Keyboard not allow me to finish writing my e-mail, but work otherwise? Video Link

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MacBook Pro (Late 2011), OS X 10.10.4.

Increasingly Mail.app (Ver. 8.2) and Chrome (Version 43.0.2357.130 (64-bit)) do not allow me to type the rest of my input.

This evening it happened and was able to take this 9 second screen capture. (YouTube Link).

You can see that despite furious typing (shown on the Keyboard viewer) I simply cannot type the rest of my sentence.

Switching apps with alt + Tab, however, works fine.

Where do I begin to investigate this?

Still to try:

• Replicating under safe boot
• Replicating with different user
• Resetting PRAM (or whatever it is called nowadays)

Who can help?


texts: How to fix app store Mountain Lion download that stops at 45%?

texts:
I have tried to download Mountain Lion from the app store only to have it show up in my dock and begin "downloading". Except it never completes the download. Each time I begin the download again, it gets a bit farther, but after about 45% it won't download any more data, even after waiting 12 hours. My Mac is most definitely compatible and my colleagues on the same model/version of the machine I am using have downloaded and installed Mountain Lion without any issues.

I have:

Repaired permissions
Installed all the most recent Mac updates for Snow Leopard
Restarted the computer
Cleared my App Store cache

No error messages, just won't complete the download. I'm afraid if I call Apple for help they will charge me for a product I have paid for, but doesn't work.

How to completely download Mountain Lion from the app store?


texts: MacBook Air 10.15.2 Shuts Down on Startup, falsely indicating 0% battery

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I have a MacBook Air, with Catalina 10.15.2. When I start it up unplugged, with a full battery, most of the time it starts up and then immediately shuts down. When I hit the power button again, it shows the red power indicator with 0%. I plug it in and it launches just fine.

I brought it into the local Best Buy and they ran hardware diagnostics and said everything looks fine.

How can I get it working without cord ?


texts: iOS Simulator is unable to boot up on my new Movaje MacBook Pro

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I have a brand new MacBook Pro.

I have Xcode 11.x installed.

I have react-native-cli installed.

why doesn't it want to obey me with react-native run-ios?

--verbose is not giving me anything helpful.

node is installed, npm is installed

I have even tried, npx react-native run-ios.

The error I am getting in the terminal is as follows:

info Found Xcode workspace "NFIBEngage.xcworkspace"
error Could not find "iPhone X" simulator. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

I am on Mojave OS

I thought the issue might be that I need to install Cocoapods, but after installing it, I am still getting the same error message.

I thought it was CocoaPods because I was able to create a brand new react-native application and it asked me for CocoaPods and I was able to boot that one up successfully.

I removed Xcode and reinstalled to a lower version of 11.1 from the original 11.2 that I had, but still had the same issue.


texts: Cannot pair Cochlear implant hearing device to Apple Watch

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I am using a Series 5 Apple watch with the newest iOS, 6.1. I have a Nucleus 7 Cochlear implant sound processor which pairs fine with my iPhone. However, the Apple Watch cannot find my hearing aid. When I try to pair, the watch just keeps searching for devices.

Likely this is related to this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8566538?answerId=33972634022#33972634022. I tried following the advice in the reply, but it was not very applicable and did not help at all.

Has anyone had success pairing a hearing device with an Apple Watch?


texts: Not able to search installed Apps anymore

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I use iphone 6s. whenever I need to run an app on iphone, I just search for the app. (using flashlight).

Off late I have noticed that whenever I search for an app, it doesn't show the installed app anymore.

I am pretty sure that this earlier the search on iphone used to show installed apps as part of search results.

Now it only shows
* suggested websites
* wikipedia
* twitter
* itunes store

Why did this behavior change?


texts: Sort songs within an Apple Music Playlist - by Artist, Song Name, etc

texts:
There was a post on reddit about tracks sorting within an playlist in Apple Music app for iOS but it seems this method doesn't work anymore (at least for me).

When I delete or add songs to playlists using iTunes, yes, it automatically syncs with my iPhone (Apple Music app) but sorting seems to be ignored, whichever sorting/order I set in iTunes it doesn't reflect in Apple Music app.

How can I solve this problem?

I just want to sort my track by release date


texts: can't add my present account to folder > Get Info > Sharing & Permissions on Macbook Pro

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I want to access MacBook Pro OS 10.11.15 files from a Windows 7.  Can read files ok but writing causes permission problem.
ERROR AT WINDOWS IS:  "You need permission to perform this action. You require permission from the computer's administrator to make changes to this file."

At MacBook, I cannot enable Read & Write for my MacBook account.

I select my hard disk.
Open Get Info > Sharing & Permissions.
But + button is grayed out.

So then I tried going to the folder I'm working with;
open Get Info > Sharing & Perm..;
my present account is not listed;
the + is enabled so I click it;
the list shows my present account, but disabled (grayed out)

THINGS I'VE TRIED SO FAR, THAT DIDN'T WORK:
opening Windows File Explorer with "run as administrator."
At Mac > Terminal window:  set permission of root to read & write (chmod a+rw *)
Set permission of target folder to read & write:
cd to folder
chmod -Rf a+rw *
Turned off Mac and Windows Filewalls.


texts: I am trying to iMessage an iPhone 4S using its phone number. When I press send, the sending progress runs to ~90% and pauses. Then, after about 1-2 minutes, a red exclamation point appears. This happens every time. My WiFi connection is great. What's the problem? I have a 16 GB iPad WiFi running iOS 5.


texts: The account does not exist in bugreport.apple.com

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I am about to file a bug, but I can not login...

When I open the url https://bugreport.apple.com, It asks me to login. OK, I tried my three different AppleIDs, and all of them give me the same error message: The account does not exist.. This is very awesome.

I CAN use the three AppleIDs to login icloud.com without any problems. So what can I do to login bugreport?


texts: How can I show the "Dimension" column in Finder?

texts:
I clearly remember seeing Dimensions column in Finder to show image dimensions (width x height) but I can't find it now.

Does anyone know how to show this column?


texts: AirPlay enabled speaker disappears from iTunes

texts:
I have the AirPlay enabled B&W Zeppelin Air all set up correctly on my local WiFi. However, quite often when waking my iMac from sleep it will have disappeared from the list of AirPlay devices in iTunes to stream to.

I am not sure what the problem is. The speaker still shows up on all my other iDevices, and in iTunes I still get my AppleTV in the list of devices. I also can ping the IP address of the speaker from the computer without a problem.

So far the only solution for me has been restarting the computer. Just restarting iTunes does not do the trick. Disabling and re-enabling my network interface (it is connected through cable) also seems to work. However I am looking for a more elegant or permanent solution.


texts: Can MacBook Air (2020) be charged from airplane USB?

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I read somewhere that the new MacBook Air computers (the ones with USB-C) can be charged slowly from any USB source using a USB-C to USB-A adapter.
I'd imagine that a plane USB port delivers 5W or 10W power. When doing light tasks on the Air, I would imagine that, even when not charging, would allow to extend the battery life significantly.
Can anyone confirm that this works? What cable do I need?


texts:
I keep company with night owls. Also, I have an iPhone 4s. Oftentimes, my friends include me in group ichats that start at a reasonable hour, but continue into the middle of the night. Every time I get a group ichat, or any text, my phone vibrates. I want to keep it this way -- except for late night group chats.

Is there any way to mute or leave group ichats?


texts:
I just bought a MacBook Pro from a buddy. He wiped the HD for me and returned it to factory settings. So now when I start it, it says I have to redownload OS X Lion. So once I start the download it asks for my Apple ID and when I type it in it says I never bought the software and stops downloading. So now I have a computer that doesn't technically work at the moment.

Any way to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated!


texts: macos x terminal cursor is 1 posisiton righter then it should be

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When I start terminal the cursor position is 1 position righter then it should be and there is a gap between last symbol and the cursor.

How can I fix it?


texts: How to force iMovie to create iPhoto video thumbnails in the background?

texts:
I import my videos from my camera into iPhoto along with the stills. Then I use iMovie to create videos from them. Unfortunately every time I open iMovie to get some work done it wants to go through and update thumbnails. Sometimes it is quick, but sometimes it takes quite a while.

Is there a way to get iMovie to make these thumbnails in the background so I am not forced to wait when I open it? I know I can skip it, but usually those thumbnails are for the video I want to work on.


texts: Drag and drop only going one folder deep in Finder

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I have a Mac Mini late 2012 running MacOS Catalina (10.15.4). I have a weird issue with drag and drop in Finder. When I drag a file/folder into a new folder to move it there, it does not let me hold down the mouse and navigate through the subfolders. I can drag and drop "one folder deep", but Finder does not open the folder that I drag on top of.

For example:

In this case, I could drag the "Database" folder into the "System Admin" folder" (Whoops that name lol) but not into the "Linux" subfolder inside "System Admin". Finder will only let me drag "Database" one folder deep. It will not open the "System Admin" folder and show me the subfolders where I could then drag on into "Linux".

I'm not exactly sure long this has been like this, since I usually use other methods than drag and drop to get stuff done, but I think that it has been like this since I upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave.
I am using the Magic Mouse 2 if that helps. I have been using is ever since I got this mac though, back when drag and drop still worked fully. And if I use other mice the problem is still there.

Any help is welcome!


texts: How can I make my Macbook Pro's headphone jack stop "humming"?

texts: Switched recently from a Lenovo PC and one thing on my mac bothered me. Headphones plugged into my Macbook pro 13" (latest version) "hum" with static when there is no audio playing. Then after a short period of time, they stop humming, as if all power to the port is turned off. When any sound plays, it starts again. Anybody know of any setting in the Mac "bios" (or whatever they call it) or with drivers or software to get it to stop humming? It's rather annoying.


texts: iPod 5th gen not showing in iTunes after error-check

texts: I have a mate's 5th generation iPod 30gb from 2005. It kept popping up saying "check for errors" on my Windows 7 so I finally ran the check. I then loaded it up in iTunes, but it froze and I shut it down. Now it's not showing up in iTunes at all! It shows up in Windows but not iTunes, any ideas? I've got all the most up to date software. Did all the error checks, service checks, emptied temp folder etc and still no luck.


texts:
I am an IT guy in an all Mac school and our SIS has provided a backup of our data but it is a MS SQL backup file.  All I want to do is read it.  Are there any good apps for reading MS SQL backup files on mac?  Thanks!

You can see that I selected the correct answer below, but for the future reader, it was this step by step article that walked me through it and made the whole things easy:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/tutorial-restore-backup-in-sql-server-container?view=sql-server-ver15


texts: iCloud has space but iCloud Backup says that I don't have enough to complete a backup

texts: I use 120 MB of iCloud storage space for iCloud Backup of my iPad & iPhone. There is still 4.8 GB free from 5 GB, but I have a notification in iPad's backup window that I'm lacking space to back up to iCloud and would rather not buy more space to back up today.


texts: Unexpected behaviour when using 'Center' option for the desktop wallpaper in Mountain Lion

texts:
In Mountain Lion (10.8.2) the 'Center' option does not scale and centre wallpapers correctly.
The preview is correct, but the wallpaper is the same as 'Fit to Screen'.
All other options work as expected.

Desktop with 'Center':

Desktop with 'Fit to Screen':

The screen resolution is 1024x768 and the image size is 3200x2000.

Shouldn't the 'Center' option display the centre of the image at 100% zoom? Is there any way to change this behaviour?


texts: On Mac, ⌥ S types ß (beta). What about alpha?

texts:
I can use ⌥ + S to type the greek letter ß (beta) in any application, which is very useful.

However, what about poor α (alpha)? Is there a shortcut for it?

Currently, I either copy & paste it from another source or switch the keyboard to greek temporarily. Both methods take a lot of time, and copy & paste often results in formatting problems as well (the source format is preserved).

Is there a shortcut to quickly type alpha, or a way I can create it (through an app or messing with hidden system settings for example)?

I am using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5


texts: Can I safely remove the QuarantineRoot folder?

texts:
in El Capitan there is a nice folder called QuarantineRoot (the Ars review on this matter) that contains stuff that was in /usr in Yosemite but had to be moved (because /usris now protected by SIP).

/Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-(some UUID)/QuarantineRoot/

Can I safely delete it?  I sorted the symlinks to texbin that are there, reinstalled Prey etc... is there any risk of a snafu later on?


texts: How to connect dualshock3 (PS3) controller when it cannot be found

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I want to connect my PS3 controller to my MBP 2015 however my MBP does not seem to detect that it is there, or at least I cannot view it in the menu.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

If it helps this is what I have done so far.

Plugged my ps3 controller into my MBP 2015 with the cable
Looked in the Bluetooth menu (cannot see it)
I have also tried pressing the 'PS' button while connecting the controller to my Mac. All this does is make the lights blink faster.

I need to connect my PS3 controller by Bluetooth and not USB because I want to sniff the Bluetooth packets so I can make a Python library to control my PS3 with my Raspberry PI.


texts:
My Time Machine recently stopped working. When it tries to create a backup, it quickly fails with the error:

  "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the
  backup folder."

The drive has plenty of space and I have not updating my operating system. Actually, due to software compatibility issues, I'm still running 10.9.5. Everything I've found on google says to remove the .inProgress file, but when I try to delete it (drag it to Trash) I get this error:

  "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in
  "file.inProgress" can't be read or written. (Error code -36)"

I've tried tmutil delete and it returned the error "tmutil: delete requires root privileges." I don't even know what that means. Can someone give me another suggestion? Manually backing up my hardrive is a huge pain and I forget to do it more often than not.


texts: What could cause my password to become incorrect?

texts:
My MacBook Pro (Late 2013) running Yosemite (10.10.3) seems to have decided my password is incorrect and fails to log me in. I have managed to change the password via my Apple ID but I'm concerned that the system has somehow been compromised.

The previous password was typed correctly, numerous times, on the built-in keyboard and a wireless keyboard.
That password had successfully allowed me to login several hours prior to the problem.
To the best of my knowledge, no software was installed and no system settings were modified during the session prior to the problem.

Is there any known issue that could have caused this? Is there a way to see some kind of system change log so I can audit previous activity and make sure nothing malicious has happened?


texts: How can I remote control music on my computer from my iPhone?

texts: I want to change, play or pause my music using my iPhone while it is playing on my laptop.


texts: How to disable auto menu showing on fullscreen on Yosemite?

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So when using full screen on any app is there a way to disable the top menu from auto showing when you hover over it? It's pretty annoying because when it pops open it shifts down the entire screen.

I have a 2014 MacBook Air running Yosemite.

Edit:
So far it looks like that's just a built in feature of Yosemite (maybe previous flavors too). I guess you just have to train yourself to not go that far up when you are in full screen mode.

As an aside, I learned that when the dock is hidden in full screen mode it works in a funny way. If you want the dock to show, you have to move the cursor on it while still having your finger on the trackpad. If you just move the cursor to the dock location and immediately remove your finger, the dock will not show. This is actually a pretty good design because when you want the dock to actually pop up you tend to keep your finger on the trackpad. If it's just an accidental swipe that happens to land the cursor over the dock location, this probably means you didn't intend that movement!


texts: Can't format drive to APFS on older machine prior to 10.13 install

texts:
I have a Mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro that I've just put a new SSD into.

I didn't format the SSD prior to putting it into the computer, my plan was to boot into "recovery mode" (not sure of Apple's term for it) by using command+R and running disk utility from there.

I want to load High Sierra onto the SSD, which I would install via creating a USB installer.

I understand that High Sierra runs best on APFS, but Disk Utility in recovery mode doesn't give me that option.

If I go ahead and install from the USB, will part of the install process format the SSD to APFS, or do I need to format the SSD to APFS prior using another machine capable of formatting drives to APFS?


texts: Sync photo albmus between Mac and iPhone

texts:
I am having this problem already a few months now and I wonder why there isn't any solution for it because it belongs to the basics of photos. I am talking about photo albums. And by an photo album I don't mean my hole photo library, I mean albums which I create on my iPhone with titles like New York, Los Angelas or Europe Trip which contain only selected photos I took. Thats an photo album. So, I can have many photo albums within my photo library.

Apple simply doesn't support to sync those photo albums. I do have an Apple MacBook Pro and sync my photos between the iPhone and the MacBook with the Photos app provided by Apple. However, whenever I do this, I just have all the photos on my MacBook but not the albums. That is so annyoing because it just doesn't make sense to me... Also, I want to have this working in both directions.

Do you guys know if this is possible and if yes, how?


texts: How can I revive dead pixels on my iPod Touch (second generation)?

texts:
I've got lines on the top of my iPod Touch (2nd gen) and they won't go away.

I've checked some other forums and they told me to:

Turn the brightness all the way up and go to some funky strobing website for 6 hours.
Put it in the freezer (never again)
Press down on the screen, but the lines are too near the top to do that (without breaking it)

Are there any other old wives tales relevant to fixing dead pixels.  I've seen some come back and go away so I think it's not a totally lost cause.


texts:
I recently purchased a used 2015 MacBook Pro. The machine is in excellent condition, and they did a factory reset before I took the device.

Every time I shut down the machine, all of the users have disappeared and only the default "test" account appears. I have to log into single user mode, run /sbin/mount -uw / and rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone so I can go through the device set up.

This is frustrating, as I have to go through this process to create a new admin user just to use the device. Once new user setup is complete, I can log out and all of the other users appear.

Any ideas on what is causing this or how I can fix it?


texts: Finder doesn't show thumbnail previews for RAW files

texts:
Since I upgraded to Lion (10.7.5), Finder doesn't display thumbnail previews of ARW files. ARW is a Sony RAW image format (in my case files were produced by Sony NEX-5 camera). Finder used to display the thumbnails under Snow Leopard (10.6.8), but not anymore. ARW files are opened as usual by the Preview app, their previews are shown in the Finder preview column and by Quick Look. Only the thumbnails are not shown.

I've googled and found this is a well-known issue but unfortunately there is no reliable solution. Somebody fixed it by removing Finder preferences files (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.*), somebody by installing latest versions of iPhoto and "RAW Compatibility Update" and somebody reported it was only fixed for him in ML 10.8.2 update.

So far I have:

Fixed the permissions on system drive
Removed Finder preferences files and restarted the Finder
Installed updates for iPhoto (9.4.3) and RAW Compatibility Update (4.05)
Danced with a shaman's tambourine

But still no luck. Any thoughts? Is upgrade to Moutain Lion my only choice? And will it indeed help?


texts: Differences on modifier keys between US and International Keyboards

texts:
I'm aware of the differences in layout, character placement etc however I have always wondered why the modifier keys on the US layout use the full word such as command instead of cmd. Similarly the same can be seen for function and control.

Any idea why? The only reason I could think of is that the abbreviations suit various languages, whereas the full word e.g. function as opposed to funktion in German would be wrong but fn makes sense in both.


texts:
I'm on OS X 1011.1 and am looking at MacPorts. Should it be installed as root:wheel, or should it be installed as me?

Everything in it's directors is root:wheel, and it looks to me like nothing will work unless it is? But its docs make no mention of this.

If not root, how do I fix it?


texts: FaceTime on macOS cannot connect to camera, but all other apps can

texts:
MBP 13" 2017, macOS 10.15.7, FaceTime 5.0
After about 10 seconds of trying it pops up the message below:

Restarting my computer does fix the problem.   However, even without restarting my computer, other apps are all able to use the camera.   Photobooth, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom all attach to the camera and use it.  They all do so simultaneously.   But without a reboot FaceTime cannot, even if I quit all those other apps.  The problem recurs from time to time, with weeks in between sometimes.
I have an external USB camera, and the laptop lid is closed.  In the camera menu for FaceTime AND other apps, the internal camera is greyed out, and only the USB one is available, and selected.
[ Edit ]
In response to comment from @IconDaemon here is the state of Facetime's camera menu when this error occurs.  USB Camera is selected and active.
Built in camera is grey (because lid is closed).  This is AFTER a reboot.  Again, Facetime cannot access camera but ALL OTHER APPs can.  Photobooth, Zoom, Teams, Camtasia ... they all work perfectly.


texts: Which OS X is the fastest for my old MacBook?

texts:
I am going to do a clean install of OS X on my old MacBook (Late 2008), but the computer will only be needed for:

tabbed web browsing (Safari/Chrome),
word processing (Office/iWork),
and maybe some iPhoto work.

The most important factor is speed (operating, startup, etc.), and all the added features of each OS X are secondary.

Which operating system — the latest Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, or Lion — will run the fastest on this MacBook?

Computer specifications:

2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
120 GB HDD 5400-rpm
Currently with OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard)


texts: How to disable ellipsis autocorrect on macOS?

texts:
Every time i write ... in a text editor like TextEdit or Coda, Lion has started replacing it with a single Ellipse character, which doesn't encode to HTML. This started after I upgraded to Lion and happens across multiple programs. This persists in the latest Big Sur betas.
Any idea how to stop it?


texts: DIY repaired iPhone won't boot fully - flashes Apple logo when powered via USB

texts:
I recently tried to do a screen repair on an iPhone 4.

It won't boot fully, so I may have managed to break something else. Basically it wont turn on, and I only get a flashing Apple logo when plugged into a computer. I believe it could be the motherboard, although I have visually inspected it extensively to determine if i could have physically broken anything. I could not detect any fault. When I use the suspect motherboard on another iPhone frame I get the same problem.


texts: Most program icons look the same after high sierra update

texts:
After an update to high sierra most program icons look the same.

Any ideas how to fix that?


texts: 2010 Macbook pro makes intermitten beeping sound

texts:
It seems like every time I press a button or scroll on the touchpad I can hear little beeping noises coming from the hard drive area.

How can I know what this noise is and whether it's a problem?


texts: How can I sync deleting my emails across Macbook Ipad & iPhone ?


texts: Calibrating battery on a Macbook: am I supposed to keep the computer running all the time?

texts:
I've been advised in a lot of places (for example: https://www.lifewire.com/calibrate-macbook-air-battery-2260856) to calibrate my Macbook Air's battery from time to time: every three months or so, keep it running until the battery dies, then turn it off and charge it completely again. This allows the battery to give you more accurate readings of the power left.
But it has just occurred to me: when doing this, am I supposed to keep the computer running all the time? Or can I close the lid and let it sleep (without plugging it in) for some of that time? After all, it's kind of hard to keep the Macbook on for 11 hours...


texts: What is the purpose of the scale at the top in TextEdit

texts:
What is the purpose of the scale at the top of TextEdit.

What are various ways one can make use of that scale?


texts: Can the mac's bluetooth name be changed without changing the computer/network name/hostname?

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I have some bluetooth headphones which read out the name of the devices it connects to. My corporate MacBook Pro has a specific hostname, so when I connect to the headphones I hear a really long, random alphanumeric string.

If I was able to change the Computer name in the Sharing preferences pane it will rename the Bluetooth name, but is there a way to rename the bluetooth name only, leaving the computer name and network hostname alone?


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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I stop spaces from switching automatically?

Is there any way to disable the "feature" wherby when I'm in one virtual desktop and something happens in a window in another virtual desktop, OS X automatically switches to it?


texts: Other IOS devices ring when my iPhone is called and I cannot turn that off

texts: How do I change other iOS devices that ring and receive messages when near my iPhone receiving calls?


texts: Batch convert text to audio files, retaining file names

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I have a folder with hundreds of text files. I'd like to batch convert them to audio files but make sure each audio file retains the file name of the text file From which it was created.

I am newer to Mac, so this is proving difficult.


texts: How can I remove an unwanted Just Join app from Mac.?

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Trying to remove Just.join app. without success message states "can't be removed because it's open" when I tried to open it states"can't open because it may be damaged".
can anybody tell me how to proceed please.
System High Sierra (10.13.6


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My iPad 2 keeps asking for my Apple ID and iCloud login, cleared Safari hx, reset my iPad. I was contacted by Apple that my ID was reset by IE on a Windows PC. Changed my Apple ID from my iPhone. iPad keeps asking for Apple ID and iCloud login. I believe I have a virus on my iPad.
Suggestions?


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Currently the default application for mp3 files on my Macbook Pro (10.6.8) is iTunes. I want to change it to QuickTime. So I right click on an mp3 file, select Other, check the Always open with box, scroll down to QuickTime select it, then click Open. The mp3 file plays with QuickTime. Bueno.

However, when I click another mp3 file, it plays with ITunes. I want all mp3 files to always play with QuickTime. How do I do this?


texts: Wi-Fi network created but not allowing connection to the Internet

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I am able to create the Wi-Fi signal through my MacBook Pro, though it doesn't connect to internet when I use it in other devices.

I am using OS X Yosemite and I tried to use the Wi-Fi created from my Mac in my Lenovo tablet and Samsung smartphone.

I called Apple service and they say they cannot help for I am not using Apple tablet and Apple smartphone.


texts: Does the El Capitan upgrade save the downloaded upgrade files locally?

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I'm trying to upgrade my Mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro to El Capitan. Currently sitting on Yosemite (although both Yosemite and Mavericks are in my Purchased Apps, with Download next to them).

My connection is spotty at best, so I didn't expect to finish the download in a day. However, I noticed that the download doesn't progress very far at all. It says it downloaded say, 7.5 MB of 6.17 GB, then something happens and it says calculating, then it goes back to 2 MB of 6.17 GB. I can pause and resume downloads, but I've never gotten too far before it goes all "calculating" again, and starts back from zero.

It might have something to do with minute disconnections, but does it erase everything and start a new download every time I get disconnected?

On a side note, there's a blue dot on the bar now, where there previously wasn't yesterday, despite having gone back to zero at least five times now, so I'm not sure what exactly is happening.

4:29 PM:

4:33 PM:


texts: I know Apple doesn't officially support installing operating systems that predate the one that ships with the hardware, but is it possible (perhaps through adding drivers?) to run Snow Leopard on a mid-2011 Macbook Air?


texts: smb not working for me on 10.13.6 (dtruss inside)

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my Finder is not able to connect to ANY smb-share. It doesn't matter, if the network-folder

is on linux (SAMBA 4.1.17)
is on OSX  (10.11.6)
is on Windowsserver
is public for everyone or in a ADS

It simply stops in the Finder with "Couldn't connect"

In the terminal you see the following

$ ping server
PING server (192.168.0.123): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.123: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.017 ms
^C
$ mount_smbfs  //johndoe@server/johndoe test
mount_smbfs: server connection failed: No such file or directory

on a Debian-VM on the same macbookpro following command works perfectly

$ mount.cifs -o username=johndoe //server/johndoe test

In the logs is nothing, despite having kloglevel=15 in /etc/nsmb.conf and i have already tried 'configureLocalKDC' to reset the krb5.keytab

So i disabled System Integrity Protection and made a dtruss for the first command.

dtruss -cf mount_smbfs  //johndoe@server/johndoe test >& mount.log

mount.log has 2050 open-calls for the /dev/nsmb..

15734/0x1b2bd3:  open("/dev/nsmb\0", 0x2, 0x5F719DF8)            = -1 Err#2
15734/0x1b2bd3:  open("/dev/nsmb0\0", 0x2, 0xFFFFFFFFE84BC430)           = -1 Err#6
.... 2050times ...
15734/0x1b2bd3:  open("/dev/nsmb3fd\0", 0x2, 0xFFFFFFFFE84BC820)                 = -1 Err#2
15734/0x1b2bd3:  open("/dev/nsmb3fe\0", 0x2, 0xFFFFFFFFE84BC820)                 = -1 Err#2
15734/0x1b2bd3:  open("/dev/nsmb3ff\0", 0x2, 0xFFFFFFFFE84BC820)                 = -1 Err#2

/dev/nsmb0 exists .. the other ones not.
smbfs-module is loaded

$ kextstat | grep smb
  184    0 0xffffff7f8700b000 0x63000    0x63000    com.apple.filesystems.smbfs (3.2.3) 8BD2FFC5-F081-3B29-B2AB-BEF58E24BAAD

Has anyone hints, what I could do? I already tried mb_neg=smb3_only, protocol_vers_map and so on

Thanks


texts: Will syncing iPhone delete existing photos on iPhone? I want to sync new songs but not sure if it will delete my valuable photos.


texts: iTunes output goes exclusively to Airport Express when it should not

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My AirPlay setup is messed up since a few days : I have headsets plugged to an Airport Express (AE) and it used to play music synchronously with my macmini, as expected.

One day, while I did not do anything special, the macmini stopped to play music as soon as I switched on the AE headset, as if the music stream was redirected exclusively to the AE.
Yet, iTunes is properly configured in multiple sources mode :

If I uncheck the Fabrice's Airport source from iTunes and leave Computer as the only source, the problem remains : music still played exclusively by the AE ! Only switching off the AE makes the macmini emits the music again.

I tried unplug/replug the AE with no success.
Next step would be to reinitialize it but I'm open to others suggestions.


texts: Recover Time Machine without the password

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I'm having a issue with a Time Machine backup made on an external USB drive.
The TM backup is encrypted and I can't remember the password …
Does anybody know a tool to brute force the password ? (I remember the password is about 10 characters and alphanumeric (except for a "!" somewhere).

I'm running Mavericks.


texts: Search for all files whose parent is a specific folder

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I'm trying to create a smart search which will match the top-level contents of all folders with a specific name. E.g., imagine I apply this search to "foo" in the following folder structure:

/foo/x
/foo/y
/bar/foo/z
/bar/foo/z/a
/bar/foo/b

I would expect to get

x
y
z
b

I naively tried searching for "foo/*", but MacOS search doesn't support wildcards. Any ideas?


texts: Why on Apple TV 4K, using Siri with "Move forward by 2 minutes" moved the movie back to near the beginning?

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When I was watching the movie at 00:50:00 (about 50 minutes into the movie), and I said to Siri on the Apple TV 4K, "Move forward by 2 minutes", it moved the movie to 00:02:00 (near the beginning of the movie), but if I was at 00:50:00 and I said, "Move backward by 2 minutes", it moved to 00:48:00?

I found that I could solve the problem by saying "Skip forward by 2 minutes", but why didn't the word "Move" work?


texts: Sync Mac & Windows user profiles to OneDrive

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I'm running Parallels 11 with Mac El Capitan and Win 10, and Office 365 plus OneDrive installed on the Win side.   Am natively sharing my Desktop, Documents and Downloads folders between Mac/Win thru Parallels but I'd also like to sync them both with OneDrive.

I don't want to use symlinks as OneDrive can't accept these, and if possible want the ability to shutdown my Win and run Mac on its own - so I'm thinking I need to customise the Win locations of each folder to OneDrive, and then use Offline Files or similar to sync with the Mac.

Am not wanting an external sync program because from what I've seen they're not real robust unless its a service and watching for changes at a low level like OneDrive does, and I don't want scheduling.  Also need to run a large search index on the Win side as I have over 0.5m files including 50Gb email, and need this native to Win - so I can't run OneDrive on the Mac.

A tough one.!  . . . . . . . any suggestions.?


texts: When syncing books on iPad, library shown in iBooks also contains books no longer in iBooks

texts: I add and remove books en PDFs to en from iBooks. When wanting to sync my books and PDFs on my iPad, through iTunes, the list of books and PDFs available for my iPad (from iBooks) shown under 'Books', gets larger and larger, as it does show the books and PDFs in and added to iBooks, but does not remove from that list the ones removed from iBooks. So, the list gets larger and larger. Very annoying... Does anyone know how to solve my problem?


texts: Can Time Machine remove some files completely, and/or sync only to within 6 months?

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I wonder for Time Machine, if I delete 3 files on the hard drive that I will for sure never want to use again (for example, that are 1GB each), can I tell Time Machine that please don't archive these files and remove them from the history so they don't need to occupy any space?

Can Time Machine also be configure to keep history for up to 6 months (or 4 weeks)?  Or otherwise, how does Time Machine handle it when the backup hard drive is full?  (will it automatically delete the oldest history?)  thanks.


texts: Faulty power button on an iphone 3g and upgrade to 4.1

texts: I have a jailbroken 3.1.3 iPhone 3G with a faulty power button. I would like to upgrade it to the newest version of iOS possible, but obviously it needs to be done without using said power button - can it be done? And if so, what would be the best way to approach it?


texts: How does iOS change file system format during upgrade to iOS 10.3?

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During upgrade to iOS 10.3, the file system format will change from HFS+ to Apple File System (APFS).

How can the process retain the user data when changing file system format (how reliable it is? sounds risky)? Is the process reversible (when I try to downgrade back to iOS 10.2)?


texts:
In the stock OSX firewall settings I can add applications to the rules table, and then give them a red dot (block) or a green dot (allow).

I've got 6 apps in the table. Some green some red.

But what about the hundred other apps on my mac? Are they blocked or allowed?


texts: Is there any way to connect my iPhone to the internet through my MacBook Pro?

texts: I'm going to be on an aircraft for a long time, but the aircraft offers an ethernet cable, which I can connect to my Macbook through a USB to ethernet cable, however, I would like to get internet access on my iPhone 5S. Is there any way to do this? Like through a lightning cable? Is there a cydia tweak for this? (I'm jailbroken)


texts: Is there a web viewer for photos stored on iCloud?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I view my iCloud Photo Stream online?

I am new to iCloud. When I open iCloud.com and login with my Apple ID, I couldn't find my photos there. Is it possible to view photos on iCloud.com itself?


texts: Crop video that has been taken the vertical way on iPhone

texts:
I frequently capture video holding my phone as usual, which means vertically.
But when I want to watch it on a computer screen, I would like to have it full screen - even if it means loosing the top and bottom of the scene.

I'm sure there a lot of softwarz that do this on a mac but I wanted to be able to do it directlty in my picture library of my phone.

Is there an app that makes it ? Or is this an hiddent trick to do it with the Photo App?


texts: App to transfer the files by shaking the iPhone?

texts: Is there any iPhone app that allows me to transfer music to another iPhone by shaking the iPhone nearby?


texts: What makes OSX say that it's low free space on the boot volume for the program memory?

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I had 3 GB of free space on my 32G SSD drive when I decided to do an index rebuild in my apple mail. It ate up all the free space. I connected an external drive and moved some applications to free up another 3GB. I redid the rebuild and it ate up another 3GB. Then I moved the V2 folder from my
 home library (mail folder) to the external drive and created a symlink. I relaunched the mail, launched 'rebuild' and during reindexing it popped up a window saying that my boot volume doesn't have enough free space for the system memory, while in fact I have somewhat 15 GB of free space on my main drive. And 1.5TB on the external drivre. How do I fix this?


texts: How do I clone the local drives' Users directory ACL to an external drive?

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My local drive (Macintosh HD) runs out of space so I want to setup an external drive (External HD) with the same /Users directory and associated ACL as on the Macintosh HD drive and offload some of the more data-heavy directories there (Photos, Music, Movies).

Get Info on the User directory of Macintosh HD shows these permissions:

I've tried to use the [+] button (after authorising with admin privileges), but it didn't seem to allow me to add 'special' users. How do set 'system' to have R&W access, for instance?

Before making such a fundamental change, I wanted to see if I should use sudo chown -R system:system system to this directory. Though this would only change the owner and not necessarily let other users also have access to it. AFAIK, users 'system' and 'admin' are in different groups too.

Also, if I do a Get Info on a user I see this "Fetching..." line, which never seems to go away. What is this meant to fetch? A list of users who have access to this directory?


texts: How to open TIFF file created in 2001 on Mac

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I have recorded CD on Mac in 2001 (TIF, EPS).

But I cannot open files from this CD on Windows.

TIF files are not in valid format (first 2 bytes neither 4D4D nor 4949). But in file I found "TIFF8BIM" at the beginging and end of file ("EPSF8BIM" for EPS).

How can I convert these files on Windows? Thanks...


texts: How to prevent MacBook pro heating when using external monitor, which causes the internal monitor to flicker after hours of work

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Problem:

It is well known that when MacBook Pro is connected to the external monitor, the GPU gets involved and the system heats up. The common advice is to just live with it because the system will prevent overheating.

On my MacBook Pro 2017 15" (A1707), however, after a couple of hours of use on (arguably) high temperature, the internal monitor (not the external one) starts to flicker badly, like this:

The screen keeps flickering until I shut down the laptop, (or I close the lid and work with external mouse and keyboard, and after 1 an hour, the screen is OK when I open the lid.)

Possible solutions:

Bring MB back to the store and perhaps change the cable or whatever: It's hard to reproduce and Apple stores are closed due to COVID-19 :|
Buy a cooling pad: I tried it and it didn't work. My 5-fan cooling pad substantially cools down the aluminum body of the Mac, but the issue still appears.
Not letting the laptop warp up to that stage. Obviously, the MacBook Pro's fan controller is not tuned for this scenario and does not speed up the fans soon enough, because it ASSUMES that the laptop is doing well in the current temperature, which is actually not.
Use fan control software and put the fans on full blast (6000 RPM) all the time, which would work, but then it could significantly shorten the fans' lifetime (does it?)

What could be the cause of the issue and what is the proper solution?

Ideas that come to mind:

A Driver issue? Shouldn't I trust Apple's default and install the NVIDIA one?
Buy a new HDMI cable? Could my non-Apple USB-C to HDMI cable cause such an issue?


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I just opened my new iMac, and the bluetooth keyboard is terrible.  When I press a key, it can take up to 3 -  5 seconds to respond, and sometimes, the keyboard acts as if I've been holding the key down.

Is there any known way to fix this?  It's extremely annoying.

Note: I'm on Yosemite


texts: Why does ls -a not show files that finder does show?

texts:
When navigating to /usr/local/bin a file called "R" can be seen:

But when cd /usr/local/bin and ls (or ls -a), we see a long list of files, but no file called R:

I was surprised by this - apparently finder can see files that ls cannot. Why doesn't ls -a show all files that finder does?


texts: Is it possible to backup iOS devices to an external drive?

texts:
I have a new Mac Pro with a small 256GB SSD. I have a larger 2TB drive that I run backups to.

My girlfriend has a MacBook Air with a tiny 128GB SSD.

Our problem is our iPhones have 50GB of music, pictures and apps, so backing them up on iTunes on our boot drives would be a suicide. Right now I have an old Mac Pro with plenty of disk space I use for my iPhone but I would like to use my primary computer.

Whats the best way to have everything with iTunes/iPhoto just go to an external drive? And is it possible for both of us use the same set of drives? Could we just use an Apple Time Capsule for both of our machines? And then couldn't we just figure out how to make iTunes and iPhoto to look for that network drive to work?


texts: I no longer have the photo I used for my iPhone lock screen, and I would like to retrieve a copy of it, or a full screen shot of the lock screen without the slider bar and time/date display.  Is there a way I can do this?


texts: How can a process have 970% CPU usage on a dual-core computer?

texts: My MacBook has a dual-core processor with hyperthreading, so 4 software cores. Seems like the maximum CPU usage would be 400%? I missed the screenshot, but today kernel_task shot up to 970% CPU for a split second. How is that possible?


texts: How do you fix an app icon that got associated with a file type in spotlight?

texts: When I try and search for something using spotlight, all application results show the .c file extension icon instead of the actual app icon you would expect to see for FireFox, Safari, Mail etc.  Very annoying.  I have tried Cmd + I to change the file association there, but it does not address the problem correctly.  Any ideas?


texts: repaired disk/permissions, now imac won't boot into login

texts: My iMac has been running horrendously slow the past couple days, so I booted into the Snow Leopard CD and ran a disk repair and a permissions repair.  Now I can't get past the spinner.  It's been going for about 4 hours now with no shows of progress.  Does any body have any ideas on what else I can try (I already tried doing the repairs again) or is there any way I can debug this?


texts: How to delete certain cells from Numbers?

texts:
So I have a large dataset with a lot of "noise" in it. I need to get rid of all these cells that have either "-999" in it or "888".
How can I programmatically do that using the numbers app so I am not doing this all day long?


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I have an external hard drive that was making an odd sound, and I wanted it to stop. I found out that navigating the contents of the HD in the Finder would make it stop temporarily. I set up a shell geeklet that ran ls /Volumes/ExtraStorage and that fixed the problem.

My question is if this can harm the hard drive if I use it over an extended period of time.


texts: Itunes sees, but won't load other user's shared library

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I'm stumped.

My computer, Lothlorien, shares my iTunes library to the local network.

My wife's computer, Gutenberg, can 'see' my library in the drop down ribbon top left (Music...) but if she selects it, there is a spinning icon for about 20 seconds, then it pops back to her normal view.

The book keeping computer, Fibonacci, can see and load the library on Gutenberg, but doesn't even see Lothlorians.

Lothlorian's console shows:

2019-05-18 8:21:10.864 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

2019-05-18 8:21:11.185 PM com.apple.iCloudHelper[68679]: objc[68679]: Class FALogging is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyCircle.framework/Versions/A/FamilyCircle and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyNotification.framework/Versions/A/FamilyNotification. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

2019-05-18 8:21:11.192 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

2019-05-18 8:21:11.566 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

All three computers are running Yosemite current.

The errors were logged within seconds of attempted access (I can't be at two machines at once...) and were similar for each attempt.


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Recently I've been trying to become more efficient at the command line, and stumbled upon iTerm 2 a couple days ago.  One feature of iTerm 2 is that windows can appear from the top of the screen, so if I press Contol-Command-T while I'm using any other application, I can have a transparent command line appear from the top, which has proven itself to be quite useful.

However, I have often brought up the terminal window from the top of the screen, and later, while editing some code in vim or during an ssh session, wanted to switch to fullscreen or a normal window, while keeping my current window's state.  Is there a built-in way to switch the style from top of the screen to normal window without having to type in all of my previous commands to get to where I was before?

Thanks in advance for any help.


texts: Environment variable for a user's Documents folder?

texts:
When I'm developing with Xcode or maybe using tools like gulp or grunt I notice that the tools try to access resources from an incorrect path. I've observed the problem in more that one program so clearly these programs are using some kind of environment path or shared configuration to attempt to discover the full path to the project folder. The path these programs try to use is both consistent and always wrong.

For example:

Looking for JS files in /Users/username/Documents/Documents/AwesomeProject*

The repeated Documents folder in the above path is incorrect.

What environment variable might these programs be using to divine this path?


texts: What extension exist for Safari to watch Youtube videos using a foreign IP?

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In Germany many (music) videos get blocked on Youtube because Youtube and the GEMA have not yet managed to agree on a deal for copyright fees.

This struggle has been going on for years now and there exist plenty of legal solutions for Firefox and Chrome to use a proxy service - provided by an extension - that will enable you to watch the video using a foreign IP (preferably, US or UK).

Are there extensions for Safari that enable you to watch Youtube videos using a foreign IP?


texts:
Basically, my school is apparently having a network 'update' and are telling us to go to keychain access and trust a certificate. This is what they sent us.

Exactly what will happen if I do this any? Do you have any recommendations for what I should do?


texts:
Apologies in advance if this has been answered.

What is the exact procedure to reset Net-SNMP to "factory defaults" on, say, OSX 10.10 - or any other OSX flavor?

A number of our Xserves were upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8 to 10.9 or 10.10 and in the process appear to have their Net-SNMP executables and/or configuration corrupted - e.g. snmpd daemons crashing frequently, not reporting CPU/mem loads, etc. Tried comparing folder structures between affected and unaffected nodes and haven't gotten too far.

Edit: just to be clear, this isn't about snmpd.conf - but about snmp executables, MIBs and what not.

Appreciate any ideas!


texts: Canon SLR photos not uploading from iPhoto to Photo Stream

texts: I uploaded photos from my Canon SLR camera to my iPhoto library last night at 7pm and it is the next day (3pm) and my photos have yet to show up in my Photo Stream album.  I have taken pictures with my iPhone since last night and those have uploaded just fine to my photo stream album but NO photos from non-Apple devices.  It is very frustrating because it has worked just fine before but now it is not.


texts: Number showing on photos in iPad days view for photos

texts: iOS 13.4.1 on iPad photo app, days view. There are some photo that have a number on them, I.e., +3, +12, etc...  What do these numbers mean?  I can’t find an explanation anywhere.  I was thing that maybe it might be additional number of photos taken the same  day or place but I can’t figure it out.  If I click on a photo with a number and count additional photos on same day it doesn’t add up.  Attached is 1 ex of 1 picture with a number that I’m talking about. Tks


texts: How to bring OS X native Digital Camera RAW support from 10.11 El Capitan to 10.9 Mavericks?

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I work on an old Mac Pro and Mavericks 10.9 seems the best system for me.
However Apple is not updating Digital Camera RAW support for Mavericks and so does not support my new digital camera, a Nikon1 J5 that is supported in El Capitan.

A lot of programs that make catalogues are based on Apples native Digital Camera RAW support.

So I am looking for a solution to get native support for my new camera on Mavericks.

I have the idea that native support is handled by two files in the OS X system:

/system/Library/coreservices/RawCamera.bundle
/system/Library/coreservices/RawCameraSupport.bundle

I tried to replace these files in Mavericks with those of El Capitan.

But my mission was not successful.

Any help much appreciated!


texts: Can using GfxCardStatus, v2.3 strictly on Integrated only cause damage to a MBP?

texts:
Surprise, surprise the graphics card on my mid-2010 MBP failed or was corrupted. Seems there is a definite trend with these MB's and their graphics cards failing. Anywho, Found out it was out-of-warranty and took it to the geniuses who quoted me at 310$ to have the motherboard et cetera repaired. I opted out and read that I could simply use GfxCardStatus, v2.3 on Integrated graphics only. Since using it, I haven't had any intermittent shutdowns or the others issues associated with such. However, this seems to good to by true. What is the caveat to using this software? will it eventually ruin my computer or cause any adverse side-effects?

Thank you


texts: Using a dyn.com dynamic host name with an AirPort device

texts:
I have an AirPort Extreme base station with firmware 7.6.1 and would like to access it remotely using a dynamic hostname registered with dyn.com (e.g. example.dyndns.org).

An explanation is given by dyn.com on how to do this using zone updates and how to configure an AirPort device. But from reading the explanation I'm not sure whether this is only possible for domain names (like example.com) that use dyn.com's name servers or also for dynamic hostnames.

Is it possible to use the AirPort device's DNS update capability to update a dynamic hostname registered with dyn.com and is it also possible to advertise service over Bonjour over this dynamic hostname?


texts: I just purchased an iPhone (on Sprint), my first one, off of Craigslist. However I am having a problem: I get home and connect it to Wi-Fi and it says I need a SIM card. I looked online a bit to see if I can buy one, but I've heard if you go to Apple you'll get into trouble with them. I took a screenshot of the Craigslist ad, just in case. I was wondering if there's a way to buy a SIM card. I think it's a used phone, but on the ad it says new but out doesn't look new, if it makes a difference. I really want to know where can I get a SIM card, how will I be able to use it, how much it is, etc.


texts: Connect to macOS based system over serial console?

texts:
Does anyone know whether it is possible to connect to a macOS based system over a serial port to get a console?

This was possible over the XServe DB9 connector but I’m wondering if it can be done over a USB port on a modern Mac?


texts: Changing Mac Book Pro 2012 admin Password

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I purchased a fairly used Mac Book Pro 15" mid 2012 which works well, however, I noticed that the past user is still logged to the system which I don't have the password.

Is there anyway I can change the admin password without the access to the current password?

Thanks.


texts:
Just upgraded Mavericks server to 10.9.2 and my virtual hosts partially work. We have four... wiki.blahh.org, crm.blahh.org, server.blahh.org and helpdesk.blahh.org. All of the web files are on the server and all A name records in DNS point to server.blahh.org's IP address... 192.168.1.5. wiki and cdm resolve properly and show the proper website, server.blahh.org shows the default (which is also correct) but help desk.blahh.org also shows the default server page and doesn't show the proper website.

What is going on?

All of the virtual host directives look okay but I can't figure it out.


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How can I replace a updated eBook (not via iBookstore) in Apples iBooks-App (on OS X or iOS) without loosing all the associated notes, bookmarks etc.?

For example: Some of O'REILLYs eBooks update quite frequently. I can download the new ePub-Version from their store (NOT Apples iBookstore) and add it to the iBooks-Library. But than I have to delete the old version manually — and loose all the notes, bookmarks etc.. How can I replace the old version with the new one without loosing all my notes etc?


texts: OS X: Can I track what files are being accessed on a disk?

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I have several external hard drives.  They're consumer drives which "go to sleep" (spin down) automatically when unused; I can't (and don't want to) run them 24x7.  I use them strictly for backup and long-term storage.

Very often, I'll use some irrelevant feature of a program (like "Undo" in Microsoft Word on a doc that's on the main drive) -- the application will freeze, and I'll hear an external hard drive spin up.  (Or every single drive spin up, one at a time.)  Then the program will unfreeze.   The program does not seem to be bothered if I unmount the drives; it simply stops doing that.

And I am wondering: What on earth is it looking for?  So I can figure out how to stop this annoyance.  For instance if it's tapping fonts it found on the external drive, I can make sure they're inaccessible inside ZIP files.

My question is: How can I have a persistent log of accesses to files by applications? I've tried using lsof | grep /Volumes/ but it is only a snapshot of currently open files; it always seems to miss the moment when that app has that file open.

I tried the fs_usage approach, got bursts of this message: fs-usage: buffer overrun, events generated too quickly: 123456  But eventually this surfaced:

23:32:47  getattrlist       /Volumes/Teeny/RSreorg                                                         0.000006   Microsoft Ex
23:32:47  getattrlist       /Volumes/Teeny/RSreorg                                                         0.000002   Microsoft Ex
23:32:59  getattrlist       /Volumes/Teeny/RSreorg                                                         0.000005   Microsoft Ex
23:32:59  getattrlist       /Volumes/Teeny/RSreorg                                                         0.000002   Microsoft Ex
23:32:59  getattrlist       /Volumes/Teeny/RSreorg                                                         0.000003   Microsoft Ex
23:32:59  getattrlist       /Volumes/Teeny/RSreorg                                                         0.000002   Microsoft Ex

This happened as I was closing an Excel spreadsheet.  That's a scratchpad disk, and that directory was deleted years ago. The spreadsheet was a new file that had nothing to do with that location.

Searching the drive for the text string RSreorg revealed only 2 files, both ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist, one with gibberish at the end (temporary file?)... Web search reveals Microsoft stores my license keys there, but text scan reveals hundreds of other useless and wrong directories.  What on earth is Microsoft doing?

And apparently this answer endorses deleting the file outright.


texts: Reboot application without restarting Mac

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Whenever I try to open Preview on my MacBook, the application doesn't work and I need to force quit it. I would usually restart my Mac to resolve the issue, but I have some code running on the same Mac, which will be done in several days only. Is there anything I can do now?

What caused Preview to freeze was trying to open several EPS files simultaneously, and whenever I try to open Preview now, I see all those EPS files as currently open (their names are shown if I hover over the Preview icon).


texts: One month old Macbook Air does not power on

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I have an almost new Macbook Air. I started to use Time Machine for the first time with a brand new "My Passport" hard drive. I had to unplug it during the process and it was left unplugged for quite some time. Then it went to sleep probably or maybe not, but I plugged it. Then unplugged again (one charger was shared between two Macs).

Cannot turn it on now! The light on the plug cord is green as it is fully charged.
I changed the socket just in case. I tried with USB My Passport drive plugged in and not. Nothing happens.


texts: Permission needed to change icons of native Apple apps

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Okay so here's my problem. I want to change the icons of the Dashboard, Launcher, Quicktime, Notes, Mail etc. But when I paste my icon to the top left mini icon in the preview window (on the Get Info page) it won't let me.
Then I tried to change the permission settings to be able to edit the icon or change anything in the application folder but it tells me that i do not have the permission even tho I'm the sole user of the Mac.

I'm on El Capitan so I don't know if it's because of the new upgrade.


texts: How do I set up 3 monitors to a Mac Mini

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I have 3 monitors which I want to connect to my Mac Mini. 2 x HP and 1 x DELL. All 3 monitors have HDMI cables.

I already have a Thunderbolt adapter but it only has one HDMI port.
The adapter is plugged into the back of the mac using the thunderbolt connector.
I currently have one HP monitor connected directly to the mac mini, via HDMI cable and port.
I have the second HP monitor connected to the adapter via HDMI cable, using the adapter HDMI port.

I want to attach the third monitor now. Thought I could just buy a new adapter which would have 3 HDMI ports and connect that directly to the Mini, but can't find this type of adapter on the market. After reading some of the previous queries on here, not sure that will even work.
My third monitor is a DELL and has the following ports:
DP In
DP Out
HDMI (which is what i wanted to use as i already have cable)
3 x USB slots

My current Thunderbolt adapter has a VGA port but no VGA port on the DELL monitor so can't use that. It also has HDMI port, which I'm already using for another monitor, and then it has a DVI port.

So think I need to purchase a new adapter to connect all 3 monitors, but can't find one on the market. Is there a different solution? Any ideas?


texts: Find out if account is locked using terminal

texts: I need to detect if a user has locked their account on Catalina ( for example by typing an incorrect password x times). Any ideas how can I do this?