texts: Enter on Zagg keyboard with iOS causes message to be sent

texts: I just updated my iPad and now when I hit the enter button it sends messages.  I was used to using it to scroll down. How do I change it back?


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I am looking for a PDF library organizer / tool. The requirements are:

I can create "shelves" where I could sort the PDFs by topics.
I could access it both from my iPad and from my Mac or maybe even the iPhone.
If possible (not necessary), there should be an easy way to annotate it on the iPad with the pen.

I never did find quite an organizer like this. I am looking to do it for school papers that I read.

Thank you.


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Is it possible to trim a number to only keep the last 3 numbers ?

For exemple a phone number save in the variable, and I would like to keep the last 3 digit.

Kind regards


texts: Why is my ipad being charged at low speed and sometimes discharged even when plugged in?

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When I plug in my tablet and use it normally at normal brightness or even not using at all, its battery is often discharging (at 20-2000mA)

and when it charges the speed is very low (only 300-500mA)

The tablet also runs undervoltaged and shuts down at 30% battery discharged and at 15% plugged in. Can you tell me how to fix?


texts: Charging MacBook Air with a fast charger from usb-c

texts: I have a MacBook Air 2020 and forgot my charger at work. Evidently I need to charge it in a few hours. I have One Plus phone with a fast charger which is USB-C compatible (5V, 4A). Could I use it to charge the MacBook Air?  Does this damage the mba ?


texts: Conversion journaled to APFS under Mojave

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I would like to update from Mojave to Catalina.

MAC is late 2012 and OS is Mojave 10.14.2

Update fails because SSD is not APFS.

I have read disk can be converted, using Disk Utility in recovery mode.
Function to convert disk should be either in the edit menu or under a conversion button.

Unfortunately, I Can find neither edit menu nor conversion button.

The system is in recovery mode. There is a convert button which gets enabled selecting disk1, but the effect is different from what I expected, as shown


texts: Upgrading High Sierra to Catalina on 2016 MBP using local webserver

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In the past colleagues (and I) believed it was often a bad idea to install newer OSs on older Macs. I get the feeling that has changed, and that putting Catalina on my 2016 MacBook Pro shouldn't be a problem.
What I'm wondering about is whether my local webserver will survive the upgrade. I have Apache/MySQL/PHP set up in the same approximate manner as we were told to do this years ago - sites running in /Library/WebServer/Documents, custom hosts and httpd-vhosts.conf files in /private/etc and so on. In past os upgrades and moves to new machines it's been necessary to re-set-up all that, which isn't a huge problem but also not a lot of fun.
In the past it helped that I was migrating to a new machine, so I had access to my whole old setup and could do things like export MySQL databases from the old and import into the new. This time I'm thinking about upgrading my existing machine so I won't have easy access to a backup while I'm doing this.
I hate the thought of buying a new machine just so I can upgrade the OS. On the other hand this is my work machine and it's 4 years old (and has a dead speaker) so perhaps it's time to bite the bullet.
Any of you experienced migrators have an opinion about which way I should go?


texts: Are iMessage encryption keys sent to all listed devices even if they're broken?

texts: Are iMessage encyption keys sent to all authenticated devices listed under Apple ID, even if the device isn't powered on and is broken?


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I bought a 3GS in August 2009.  After about 9 months I started seeing occasional precipitous drops in battery level overnight (i.e. from 50% to "dead", as in all you see is the red "charge me" icon).  This would happen every few weeks, even if I made sure nothing was running in background before going to bed.  Since upgrading to iOS 4 and multitasking it's happened once, but in general iOS4 seems to have improved the standby time of the device slightly.  Usually I see a 1-2% drop in charge level overnight.

The question: Does the iPhone run its own battery conditioning cycles when it decides it needs to?  If not, what would cause this effect?

EDIT: Clearly the battery is not going bad:

The rapid discharge first happened when the phone was 9 months old,
The phone is now 18 months old,
The battery behaves normally and holds a charge just fine, and...
The rapid discharge happens only every two months or so, over the course of a day or two


texts: How to synchronize contents of two external drives?

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I have two external hard drives (ExFAT formatted) which I need to keep in sync.  Specifically, drive B must mirror the contents of drive A and drive A must not be modified.  How can I do this without having to do a full copy of drive contents every time?  I'm on OS X 10.10.

This is simply for periodically backing up the contents of drive A.


texts: How to add AAAA flag (IPv6) to DNS resolver configuration on Sierra?

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I have working IPv6 interface with /64 prefix. It means I can connect to direct IPv6 addresses through browser but can't connect to IPv6 hosts like testv6.madore.org.

The issue is in DNS configuration where I don't have flag "Request AAAA records":

$ scutil --dns

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : xxxxxxxx
  nameserver[0] : xxxxxxxx
  nameserver[1] : xxxxxxxx
  nameserver[2] : xxxxxxxx
  if_index : 4 (en0)
  flags    : Scoped, Request A records
  reach    : Reachable

Can someone tell me how to manually add/enable that flag too look like:

flags    : Scoped, Request A records, Request AAAA records


texts:
I seem to have lost my first backups, they disappeared from time machine!....
Is there a way to get back to them?


texts: My apps are using 3.7GB of storage on my iPad, how can I check which app is using what amount?

texts: Is there a breakdown that can be viewed somewhere?


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Running 10.9.most recent.

As of this evening my Mac will not start up normally from the internal drive. The Apple logo appears and the spinning disc as well, but nothing happens thereafter. I have waited as much as 20 minutes.

Starting up in Safe Mode also produces the Apple logo and a progress bar. When the bar is filled, it disappears and is replaced by the spinning disc.

I can start up from the recovery USB. So I have run the Disk Utility and performed a disk repair, which indicated that the all was OK.

I have also started up with D key to perform the hardware test. I omitted the memory test, but all other tests passed.
Finally, I started up in Single-user mode several times to run fsck . It initially indicated "The volume ... was modified." but now reports "The volume ... appears to be OK." From Single User mode there is the option to exit it and to boot the system, so I have tried that, but it is stuck at what appears to be the step following hfs: Removed 0 orphaned / unlinked files and 109 directories.

I previously attempted to perform a normal start up (I.e. from off) after successfully running fsck in Single User mode.

I have reset the NVRAM.

Now I am at a loss for what to try next.
If I must wipe and reinstall the OS, I would like to have tried everything else first.


texts: How do I find password-protected PDFs on my hard disc?

texts:
I'm trying to find password-protected PDFs, using Spotlight (though answers involving a third-party app are also fine). Spotlight has a Security field that describes the "Encryption method used to make the document secure":

When I select this, I have to enter something for it to match:

What should I enter to match password-protected PDFs?


texts: How can I get multiple computers to use my iTunes library on an external hard drive?

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I have two Macs -- on usually at home and one carry around. I'd like to keep my music, movies, iPhone apps, etc. on an external drive so that I can always use the same library regardless of which machine I'm at.

I bought a 1 TB external drive for the purpose.

On my first Mac (the one that stays at home one) I went to settings > advanced and set the iTunes library to the external drive. A long filesystem operation ensued. Afterwards, iTunes on that machine seemed to be playing TV shows from the external drive as intended because I could see the drive activity light flashing when I played something. Also, when I try to play something and the drive isn't connected iTunes complains that it can't find the original file. So I think that part is all good.

However, when I plug the external drive into my other computer, launch iTunes, and go to Preferences > Advanced and set the iTunes media folder location to the external drive, none of my media is visible in iTunes.

How can I get iTunes to "see" the media folder on the external drive and play stuff from it and acknowledge the apps that are stored on it?

Mac OS 10.7.2

iTunes 10.5.2

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.


texts: What would happen if I use a power supply with a different wattage than the system is designed for?

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My girlfriend has a Macbook Air.  The power supply is smaller and lighter than the Pro.  It has an output of 14.85V and 3.05Amps.  My Pro Retina has a power supply that is 20V and 4.25 Amps.

Both supplies have the same Magsafe adapter, so the power supplies seem interchangeable at a physical level, but what would happen if one of us plugs in using each other's adapter?

Could damage result from under-powering my MacBook Pro? (like a brownout)?
Could damage result from over-powering her Air? (like a power surge)?
Will the Macbook Air charge faster with a Pro adapter?


texts: Phone call notification on Mac opens FaceTime app, interrupting work

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I wanted to get notifications on my computer for phone calls, so I set up my Macbook to make and receive phone calls.

When I receive a phone call, FaceTime opens and then the notification appears.

The problem is that in doing so, FaceTime briefly shows up as the current application in the menu bar (although no full window opens, I believe) and I lose focus of my current application for a second or two—interrupting my typing or other activity. Is there a way to eliminate this disruption?

If it's any help, I'm not interested in answering or making the calls on my Mac. I just want a way to get the notification. I've looked into ways of getting ios notifications on mac, but all of the apps I've found appear to be unavailable on the App Store or cost money.


texts: Format usb drive (dmg is on - and show read only)

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I have a problem to format/erase an usb drive with mac os x on it. It shows that drive is read only.

Is there any way that I can format/erase disk to become writable?


texts: Why might my mac be running extremely slowly at times?

texts:
This sounds like a pretty open, multi-possibility question, but I'm at a loss. I continually experience my mac falling behind by several words or characters. I mainly notice it in chrome and adium, but it isn't necessarily specific to those. When it happens I look at menu meters and notice the following.

4 cores at idle
The hard drive is sitting idle as well.
1,000 MB of ram free at a minimum
network usage under 10KB/s

If I look at the load averages I'm generally fairly low as well. This last time I was around .2 on all three numbers, certainly nothing close to 4.

What else could be causing extreme slowness like this? While I mentioned typing, this is not exclusive to typing, I also notice long delays on simply opening another tab in a web browser. The symptoms might last for a few minutes or more and then completely subside to the point that things feel fast again.

It might be evident based off 4 cores sitting at idle, but looking in activity monitor shows nothing taking much CPU at all, and the biggest ram usage for a single app was around 300 MB this last time a few moments ago.


texts: Cannot partition my Disk: Free space in disk utility much smaller than actual free space

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MacOS Mojave 10.14.6
Processor: 2.8 GHt Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB

I want to partition my Disk because I want to try to install Linux-Ubuntu. For this I'm following this tutorial.

In Disk utility I clicked on the main volume > partition > partition but the following message appears:

This container has 915.81 GB used space.
Its minimum size is 1 TB.
This container cannot be split because the resulting containers would be too small.

And I cannot click on the + button to partition the disk

I then tried the following:

I then tried to make some space and deleted around 300+ GB of data and have now 439 GB (when I go to apple button (above left) > About this Mac > Storage). However, in Disk utility the amount of free memory didn't change and is still only around 85GB and it is still not possible to partition the disk.
I deleted 2/3 automatic time machine backups with

tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots ...

deactivated the automatic time machine backups with

sudo tmutil disable localsnapshot

What should I do?

EDIT

Here is the screenshot from diskutil where the problem is appearing:


texts:
Last morning I turned on my laptop and the screen stuck in this view.
Does anyone know what kind of problem it might be?


texts: File storage is full, got spinning wait cursor when trying to access files to delete them, rebooted and now I can not get past the user login.  I enter password but cannot login.


texts: Is there a reason to not use VPN all the time on iOS?

texts: I have setup a VPN connection by using my FritzBox WLAN Cable Router. I'm using this on my iOS devices to protect me from Wifi honeypots. Just by coincidence I switched VPN on on my device while on the 3G network and didn't notice it. Now I'm wondering: why would I if I want to switch off this great feature? Does it have a negative impact on performance, battery life or network speed?


texts: excessive cpu usage from kernel_task after accidentally ripping Facetime HD camera connector off the logic board

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Accidentally ripped off the Facetime HD camera cable of the logic board. Now whenever I boot into OS X kernel_task hogs all the cpu (500%).

I could be wrong here, but my hunch is that because no facetime camera is connected, a process is going crazy trying to detect the Facetime camera.

I've taken it to the apple store. Unfortunately they are telling me to replace the logic board. Seems like there must be a hack to disable Facetime HD detection. Not concerned if I don't have a camera. Thanks in advance


texts:
How do I get textmate to remember what project i had open last and reopen it automatically?

Right now I have to select it from the menu.


texts: How to get rid of the malware which creates folders

texts:
Recently I encountered some weird folders in the names of my files (including extension) which prevents some files being called. e.g. a file named index.html has been moved to a folder named index.html

How can I remove this malware?

Note: I'm using Bitdefender 3.5 already updated, but it doesn't solve the problem.

File info:

ls -laO /Users/myName/Projects/myProj/build/ios-r/platforms/ios/www/index.html/index.html
-rw-r--r--  1 myName  staff  - 1787 Jan 13 15:16 /Users/myName/Projects/myProj/build/ios-r/platforms/ios/www/index.html/index.html


texts: iTerm2, zsh and .zshhistory - how to have separate zsh history

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I installed iTerm2 on Catalina 10.15.6 on a MacBook Pro bought in early 2020 and have two profiles - Default and MyUser.
For MyUser, I set a custom location of /Users/john-doe/iTerm2/zsh (copy of zsh from /bin/zsh) and set a custom .zshrc file via the command
touch .zshrc

The default zsh file (/bin/zsh) saves to .zsh_history in Users/john-doe (home directory)  but I am not sure how to with zsh, or iTerm2, set a custom location for that profile's installation of zsh.
If anyone could help I'd appreciate that!


texts: Delete photos on iPad without affecting photos on iPhone

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I saw my iPad had uploaded all the photos the same as my iPhone. When I delete the picture from my iPad, the picture in my iPhone is also deleted automatically.

Is there any way for me to only delete the iPad photos without affecting my iPhone photos? I want to keep the photos in my iPhone only.

In the future, how can I avoid my iPad automatically uploading my pictures?


texts:
Is it there any tool that I can use in order to export the battery usage from my iPhone SE?

The device is running iOS 13.2.2.

Thanks in advance.


texts: My Mac Book Pro was purchased in 2010.  Using a Mini Display Port to HDMI cable yields no sound. "System Preferences"  "Sound" "Sound Effects"  "Play Sound effects through" has no TV icon.  Can you help.


texts: Screen flickers, stops after brightness change

texts: Whenever I am using my 2006 Macbook for a while, the screen starts flickering, from one shade of brightness to another. When I change the brightness, it stops. It also occurs right after startup or when coming out of sleep mode. It is running the second to latest version of Snow Leopard, though the problem has been occurring ever since Tiger.


texts: How can I select a single photo form a photo burst using Photos.app on MacOS Catalina?

texts:
I have a few photo bursts in Photos.app version 5 (MacOS Catalina), and Photos.app identifies them as bursts, but I cannot find any tool in the interface to select one picture in the burst or even to view them all. I don't remember if the bursts were taken with my iPhone or with a Sony a6000, and surprisingly, it does not tell in the info of the photos.

UPDATE:
Also, there is no Make Selection... button when I open the photo burst that appears, as was suggested in an answer below, or as I have seen in some tutorials. I don't know if this is caused my something particular with my pictures or if Photos.app version 5 is different.


texts: App to stream photos from my Network share to SmartTV via iPhone

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I have photos on my network drive. I want to stream them to a SmartTV;  something like:

On my iPhone
Open network share
Find folder with pics
Stream to DLNA/SmartTV

The only app I've found so far is iMediaShare. However, it is an old app - and have an issue with the slideshow: you need to manually list all files in the folder,  then start the slideshow (otherwise it will stream only first batch of files).

All other streaming apps do support streaming of my local iPhone Camera Roll, which is fine, but I don't need it.

Why do I need it?

The software in my TV and media player works slow, and are less responsive. It takes time to navigate to next photo.  It takes time to load stuff. I need to sit in the front of TV and see what is going on. I need to handle different remote controls/apps. Moreover, some of my shares are private, and I don't want TV to access them; but still want to stream some images from it. So, at the end: it is much more convenient for me to use it like described above.


texts: Pre-approve upgraded software/applications for users under parental control

texts:
I am responsible for keeping the software on our Mac at home up to date, and some software is updated rather frequently. This includes Firefox.

FF is one of the applications our kids are allowed to use, but after each upgrade they are unable to use it before I approve/allow it again. I usually do the upgrades at night, and when I leave for work early in the morning this means the kids can't use FF before I get home to approve it the next evening.

Is there any way I can approve applications without logging in to each parental controlled account, starting the application and approve it with my own username/password?

I.e. I want to do it in one step (from my admin account) instead of in several (by logging into each restricted account). I also don't have the passwords for my kids accounts (I can get it if I want to by asking them), since I'm trying to teach them to keep their passwords safe and secret.


texts: How to update my jailbroken iOS 6.1 iPhone to iOS 6.1.2?

texts:
I had jailbroken my iPhone last month when I was using iOS 6.1, and currently iOS 6.1.2 is available, which solves some battery issues (I am really suffering from these), so I want to update to iOS 6.1.2.

Would you kindly give simple steps to do that so I don't damage my device? I am not much of an expert on this, so your help is very welcome.


texts: It is the 2020 Macbook Air good for Adobe suite?

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I want to buy a 2020 Macbook Air but I don't know if it is convenient. I want to use the computer to edit videos and images with the Adobe suite.
13-inch MacBook Air

Retina display with True Tone
1.1GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i5 processor
Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz
Intel Iris Plus Graphics
8GB 3733MHz LPDDR4X memory
512GB SSD storage
Magic Keyboard
Touch ID
Force Touch trackpad
Two Thunderbolt 3 ports


texts: Can't perform a factory reset on AirPods Max

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According to Apple's instruction factory reset is performed by pressing and holding both NC button and Digital Crown until the indicator light flashes amber and then white. However, in my case the light only flashes amber and nothing happens next. I tried holding buttons a little bit longer but the white flash never happened.
Headphones are around 90% charged, so it's not a battery issue. Tried in/out of case and with/without power cable, nothing worked.
Any ideas?


texts:
The physical screen is damaged on my MacBook Pro, so I'd like to RDP (or similar) to it from Windows 8.1 Pro, and use my two 24" monitors for a better experience.  While I found Microsoft Remote Desktop in the Mac App Store, that's merely a client for connecting to other machines.  I need a server component on the MacBook to allow RDP connections and translate the desktop experience to the client on the calling machine.

Or, any alternative.  VNC might only provide the exact experience being served by the physical machine.


texts: What causes all iWork apps to have blank, unusable documents after a reinstall?

texts:
After deleting and re-installing the apps, I can't use iWork. Specifically, the document area is always empty, no matter if I create a new document or open an existing one. This applies to Pages, Numbers and Keynotes.

I can guess there's something in the document, because the mouse pointer changes when I move it over the empty area. So it seems like a display error. What can I do to resolve this?


texts: Why is my MacBook going to sleep when it's configured not to?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro running High Sierra. Except when I travel, I use it in clamshell mode, with an external monitor and keyboard. It's also plugged into to a UPS.
In Energy Saver > Power Adapter, I have the following options checked:

Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
Wake for WiFi network access
Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter (I just enabled this last week because I'd noticed that Time Machine was sometimes not restarting each day, but the problem I'm having predates this change).

Despite these settings, it appears that the computer is going to sleep at night. I used the Terminal command
pmset -g log|grep -e " Sleep  " -e " Wake  " -e " DarkWake "

and the output for today is
2020-11-05 03:04:35 -0500 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Clamshell Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 3634 secs
2020-11-05 04:05:09 -0500 DarkWake              DarkWake from Normal Sleep [CDNPB] due to RTC/Maintenance: Using AC (Charge:100%) 287 secs
2020-11-05 04:09:56 -0500 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 4270 secs
2020-11-05 05:21:06 -0500 DarkWake              DarkWake from Normal Sleep [CDNPB] due to RTC/Maintenance: Using AC (Charge:100%) 85 secs
2020-11-05 05:22:31 -0500 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 4789 secs
2020-11-05 06:42:20 -0500 DarkWake              DarkWake from Normal Sleep [CDNPB] due to ARPT/Network: Using AC (Charge:100%) 70 secs
2020-11-05 06:43:30 -0500 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 1422 secs
2020-11-05 07:07:12 -0500 DarkWake              DarkWake from Normal Sleep [CDNPB] due to RTC/SleepService: Using AC (Charge:100%) 69 secs
2020-11-05 07:08:21 -0500 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Sleep Service Back to Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 3553 secs
2020-11-05 08:07:34 -0500 DarkWake              DarkWake from Normal Sleep [CDNPB] due to RTC/Maintenance: Using AC (Charge:100%) 73 secs
2020-11-05 08:08:47 -0500 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 2066 secs
2020-11-05 08:43:13 -0500 DarkWake              DarkWake from Normal Sleep [CDNPB] due to RTC/Maintenance: Using AC (Charge:100%) 69 secs
2020-11-05 08:44:22 -0500 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 3988 secs
2020-11-05 09:50:50 -0500 DarkWake              DarkWake from Normal Sleep [CDNP] due to XHC1/HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:100%) 0 secs
2020-11-05 09:50:50 -0500 Wake                  DarkWake to FullWake from Normal Sleep [CDNVA] due to HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:100%)

Why is it going to sleep due to clamshell sleep? Isn't that supposed to be disabled when there's an external monitor connected?


texts: How can I remove the Reading List column in Safari?

texts: How can I get rid of the Reading List column in Safari when I read a webpage?  It takes up too much space on the page.


texts:
I have my first iMac and cannot get the migration from my PC to work.

I have been told that it is difficult if I have already started using my computer. Can I just start from scratch from when I took the computer out of the box? Can I delete anything I've done and use the migration manager. My emails and my husband's music has transferred? I am not real computer literate so please keep that in mind when answering.


texts: Click on a button using mail rule & Applescript

texts:
I wrote this to push on a button, and it's work fine when I run the script,
however when I run the script from mail (trigger from a email rule) nothing happen.

Is this due to an Applescript limitation or am I doing something wrong?

try
    activate application "app"
on error
    delay 1
    activate application "app"
end try

delay 0.5

try
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "app"
            click button 2 of window 1

        end tell
    end tell
on error
    --
end try


texts: Internal name for "Scheduled" List in Reminders App on iOS

texts:
I try to connect Do Note with the iOS Reminders app and add a new Button to add Reminders to the "Scheduled" List but everytime I try to create a Note from Do Notes I get a new list in the Reminders app called "Scheduled" and it won't add it to the internal "Scheduled" list (which shows up in the Notification center and sends push notification when a scheduled reminder comes up).

So my question is: What is the internal name for the "Scheduled" list in the Reminders app, so that I can add a Reminder from Do Notes

Btw: I am using iOS in german so the german name for the Scheduled list is "Planmäßig" but even with this name set up in Do Notes it won't add it to the correct list


texts: How to select mutiple songs from iTunes on Mac with Windows keyboard?

texts: Why I have a Windows keyboard for a Mac mini, I have no idea. But I know that my key that would open the Start menu on windows is Control... yeah. Anyways help me with this pleez.


texts: I have just swapped from an Iphone 6s to an Iphone SE. I reset my old phone and and erased all contents and settings but I forgot to remove my icloud account. I've logged on to my icloud account and looked under 'my phone' but all i can see on there is my new phone. When I go into account settings I can see my old iphone 6s and there is an option to remove it from account. If I do this will that mean that my icloud had been removed? Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: Am I able to get Spotify on my Apple Watch?

texts: Is there a way to get offline Spotify playlists on an Apple Watch?


texts: After disconnecting an external monitor, windows are not resized correctly if the Dock is on the right. How to workaround?

texts:
I have Dock attached to the right of the screen.
My Dock is always visible (does not disappear automatically).
When connected, an external monitor is the main screen, so that dock is shown there.

After disconnecting the external monitor, the applications that were occupying all space of the screen, keep occupying all space, but now also size beyond the Dock boundary, so I get part of the application rendered behind the dock.
The only way to work around it is to manually switch to each application and double-click its bar, so that it re-sizes to take full screen again. This is very annoying.
The question is: is this a bug, or am I doing it in a wrong way, or is there a particular setting in MacOS that would automatically resize applications after monitor disconnection to not be rendered behind the Dock?


texts: How To Stop Sticky Notes From Flickering?

texts:
This is really weird, but I tried to open up a new sticky note to paste in a link, and when I tried, the new sticky note started to flicker really fast and I can't right click, close it, or write on it or any other notes either. If I'm on the sticky notes, they won't let me go back to the thing I was on before. Also, the little keyboard icon (next to the battery and wifi connection icon) that tells you the language of your keyboard flickers at the same time.
I really need to put some things on the sticky note!
Can anyone help?
Thanks!


texts: Is it safe to delete python and pip versions 2 and 3

texts: Considering mac only requires version 2.7 of python, and any version of 3, is it safe to delete to delete pip2, pip3, and python3 completely from my mac when I have v3.9 and v2.7. I found them in this folder /usr/local/bin


texts:
I have a 27" iMac (Snow Leopard) that has four accounts.  Two admins (my wife and I) and two kids.  With one of the kids being a restricted account (locked down for 8 year old).

Anyway, I also have a MBP that I use for development.  100% of my code is in my DropBox folder.  That folder is also on the iMac.  So when I update my code, the changes get synced to the iMac.

However, there are many problems.  First, the DropBox location on the iMac is in the Shared folder.  But I STILL get permission problems with the other accounts.  Even the other admin account.  I have gone in and told the OS to give read/write permissions (and all sub folders) to all accounts in the DropBox folder.  Still doesn't work.

I constantly get access denied on the other accounts accessing that folder.  My guess is because I am creating the file on my MBP and sending over with MY account.

Should I create the same users on my MBP and give them access?  That seems ridiculous.

Any other suggestions?

EDIT
By DropBox, I mean the SERVICE DropBox.  I want the DropBox folder to be read/write for all users because we also use it for photos, etc.


texts: I do not want Xcode, I only want Simulator. Are they different apps? Can I uninstall Xcode but keep Simulator?


texts: Microsoft Word on MacBook Pro: Tab problems

texts: While working on an existing document (a simple three-column Word table), the document has stuck on the "Table Layout" tab. When I try to open another tab eg Home, or Document Elements, the toolbar sort of bounces up and down and stays stuck on "table layout". I've tried closing down Word and re-opening it. No luck. I tried shutting down my computer and restarting it. No luck. Any other ideas?


texts: Any way to have windows be restored to the correct space when opening an app?

texts:
Every time I open an app and it restores the windows that it has open, they generally restore to whichever space is currently active, rather than to the space the windows were originally on before I quit the app. For example, if I have several terminal windows open on different spaces, quit Terminal.app and relaunch it, then the terminal windows all reopen, but do so on the current space. TextEdit, Xcode, iTunes, Messages, all of the apps I use have this problem. The only one that reopens its windows to the correct space is Finder.

This is annoying, because it means that every time I reboot my computer I have reorganize all of my spaces again. And I have lots of windows open, and they're all organized across six different spaces. It's getting tedious.

Is there a trick, hack, or something I can use to fix this?


texts: Why does email from an iPhone have the wrong time zone in the Date field?

texts:
Whenever my daughter sends me email from her iPhone, the email arrives with the wrong timezone in the headers. However, the timezone seems to be set correctly on her phone.

Her correct timezone is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). However, look at the headers on the email I received (sanitized to remove identifying information):

Received: from my.example.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by my.example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DDBF60347
        for <myname@localhost>; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:19:59 -0400 (EDT)
Envelope-to: myname@example.com
Delivery-date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:15:44 -0400
Received: from another.example.com [11.22.33.44]
        by my.example.com with IMAP (fetchmail-6.3.26)
        for <myname@localhost> (single-drop); Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:19:59 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from njbrspamp10.vtext.com ([69.78.129.155]:23060)
        by another.example.com with esmtps (TLSv1:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256)
        (Exim 4.87)
        (envelope-from <6175551212@vzwpix.com>)
        id 1bNiMZ-0008Nw-LM
        for myname@example.com; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:15:44 -0400
Received: from 5.sub-69-78-32.myvzw.com (HELO m04.vzwpix.com) ([69.78.32.5])
  by njbrspamp10.vtext.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2016 15:15:42 +0000
From: 6175551212@vzwpix.com
To: myname@example.com
Subject:
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:15:42 +0000

As you can see, the final "Received" line has a timezone offset of +0000 (GMT), whereas all the others have offsets of -0400 (EDT). As a result, the "Date" line in the email (used by my email client) has a +0000 timezone offset instead of -0400, which is confusing because both sender and recipient are in the Eastern USA (-0400).

Is this a problem at Verizon (myvzw.com), on my daughter's phone, or somewhere else, and how can it be fixed?

Thank you very much.


texts: How can I remove Windows 7 from my Mac mini

texts:
I recently bought a Mac mini with the latest version Yosemite op system. I installed Parallels and then installed Windows 7 pro using the Windows install disc. I now want to remove Windows 7 all together and just have the Mac op sys but every time I go on Google or Youtube all I see is them talking about Bootcamp. Unless I am mistaken, I do not have bootcamp on my computer.

It should be noted that I am new to Macs so I am treading lightly.


texts: AppleScript: move a folder to library (to root) in iTunes

texts:
Does anybody know how to move some folder to library playlist in iTunes?

I can move some folder to another folder using the following script:

tell application "iTunes"
    move folder playlist "3" to folder playlist "1"
end tell

The initial state is:

1
|--2
   |--3

After executing the script state will be:

1
|--2
|--3

But I don't know how to move folder "3" on the same level as folder "1". Folder "1" is located in library. I mean the following structure:

1
|--2

3

You can see picture what I want to do using AppleScript


texts: How to stop my Mac from cloning MP3 files on my USB stick?

texts:
Whenever I move my MP3 files to my USB and play it in the car, the files get cloned. For example:

Sia - Chandelier

Then the clone looks like

.Sia - Chandelier

The clones don't actually work. They're simply the MP3 file names. Whenever I select them in my car, it skips to another song that doesn't have . before it. So on my Mac OSX, the MP3 look normal, and have no clones, but once I plug in the USB to my car, every song has its own clone.


texts: Is there a Google Calendar Mac Desktop App?

texts: Is there a native OS X app that allows me to see my Google calendar?


texts: How to type floating point numbers in Apple Numbers in Persian?

texts:
When I want to insert a floating number in Apple Numbers 3.6.1 in OS X 10.10.5 while my primary preferred language in Language & Region is Persian(فارسی), the number is interpreted as a string value.

In these screenshots the right cell has the formula of B2 ÷ 2 while B2 is the left cell. I typed ۱.۲۳ (that is 1.23 in Persian) in B2 with Persian keyboard layout and an error is occurred.

The result is the same when i type the number with English keyboard layout.

How can i enter a floating point number?


texts: Is there a way to force Mac OS X to close all the applications when restarting?

texts:
I sometimes shut down my Mac, and I cannot wait it shuts down because I am urgently requested to do something in another office that would require some hours. In some cases, an application that opens a dialog box asking if I really want to close the application blocks the shut down, and when I return I find the Mac still on.
Is there a way to force the Mac to close any applications, instead of blocking the shut down?


texts: OS X Mountain Lion: Change resolution automatically when on battery

texts:
I have a rMBP running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

I normally use the display at a 1680x1050. Is there a way to have the display automatically change resolution to the default retina when on battery, and revert to 1680x1050 when power is reconnected?


texts: How can I log Messages out of a Google Talk account in High Sierra?

texts: High Sierra removes Google Talk support for Messages. That's not really Apple's fault, as Google is migrating all Google Talk functionality to Hangouts and doesn't allow third-party clients to connect to Hangouts. But after upgrading from Sierra on a machine that was logged in to a Google Talk account, Messages is still connected to that account and receives messages but can't send them. How can I log Messages out of this account which is now useless? It doesn't show in the Accounts tab of the Messages preferences.


texts: why does my ipad not sort series properly

texts: I have several tv series on my ipad mini running ios 7.1.2 and itunes is on windows 8, now my ipad has started to sort the seasons so that a few episodes are under 1 season tab and the rest of the season is under another which is very annoying as for example it shows me having 2 tabs for the 1st season of something. I have tried using itunes to change it but cant see how too and I deleted and re-downloaded all the series I'm having problems with but nothing has worked, please help me sort this


texts:
The Basic Question:
I'd like to send notifications from my Mac desktop to my phone. I'm familiar with Growl and Prowl, but neither of those projects has been updated in years (understandably at this stage) and all the threads I'm finding (this one for example) are from several years ago as well. Has there been any developments in this area, or is this still really the only way to go to get desktop notifications to iOS?

Non-Essential Details:
I got a Martian Notifier watch for Christmas, which gives my wrist a buzz any time I get a notification on my phone. This has drastically cut down on "Oh crap, my wife texted me like an hour ago!" moments and so I'd like to be able to do the same thing with Adium chats at work. I'm assuming the best way to do this is to push the notification to my phone, but I'm definitely open to other solutions as well.


texts: How do I create a Mac OS install hard drive from InstallESD.dmg

texts:
I have the InstallESD.dmg file for Mac OS El Capitain, and external Hard Drive with more than 200 GB.
I have no idea how to burn the InstallESD.dmg into the hard drive because I tried to burn it but it's not bootable not working.

How do I accomplish this ?


texts: MacBook Pro Retina 15" (Mid-2015) New battery has weird metering

texts:
New battery installed.
Charges up to 100%, runs down to 50% then suddenly instantly drops to 7% and stays there for about 2 hours. Battery seems to continue to work but metering is wrong. Tried all the usual tricks (Battery conditioning, SMC, PRAM, NVRAM, Reboot, Reinstall MacOS...etc) with no solution in sight.
Any ideas? Just a crappy battery?
Apple asked for $700USD for a replacement so I bought an aftermarket one for 1/10th of the asking price.


texts: Move files from a single folder to multiple folders, based on filename

texts:
I have batch of files named A-01.pdf, A-02.pdf, B-01.pdf, B-02.pdf.... Then I have folder structure 01, 02, 03,.... How can I move all the files with 01 in there name to folder 01, all with 02 to folder 02 and so on?

There are a lot of scripts on the net but none of them seams to fit my case.


texts: How can you send the same text to multiple people without it being a group message?

texts:
I want to send "Happy Thanksgiving!" to 35 different people, but I do not want it to be treated as a group message. How can this be accomplished on the iPhone 4S (with or without jailbreak applications, such as biteSMS) with iOS 5.1.1?

The reasons that I would not want it treated as a group message are:

I do not want the recipients to see the numbers of other recipients
I do not want the recipients' replies to go to multiple people
I do not want the recipients' replies to be grouped in a group message, but to instead be part of each individual thread
depending on the message, I may specifically not want a given recipient to know that other recipients received the same message.

Optimally, the solution would also allow pictures to be attached and would automatically send iMessages instead of text messages to iOS users - but those parts are less important than being able to send plain text messages.


texts: Curl not working on brand new install of Big Sur

texts:
I'm trying to run curl in the command line on a relatively new install of MacOS 11.2.3, and I'm getting the following error:
curl: (58) could not load PEM client certificate, OpenSSL error error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory, (no key found, wrong pass phrase, or wrong file format?)

If anyone knows how to resolve this it would be grand


texts: Unable to reactivate cancelled MobileMe trial account

texts:
I tried MobileMe a while back but never subscribed.  I have since used the same Apple ID to enable Find My iPhone and this works fine.  I log in at me.com and get redirected to me.com/find.  However, no matter what I try there doesn't seem to be a way to reactivate a paid-for MobileMe account.  Am I missing something?

The support sites tell me to go to me.com/renew, but if I do this I get redirected to me.com/find.  I've checked https://appleid.apple.com and there doesn't seem to be any option for viewing or upgrading my MobileMe details.

Can anyone help?


texts: Parenthesis don't show in built-in iPhone calculator app

texts:
When you open the iOS's built in calculator app and rotate iPhone you get the scientific calculator.

I am trying to use parenthesis ( ) to write something like (2+2)/4 but the parenthesis don't appear!

How do I enter that expression?


texts: How can I verify that my Photos and iPhoto library are hard linking to the same disk data?

texts:
So I've discovered Apple's mystical implementation of hard linking with the new Photos app library and the old iPhoto library. Although Finder reports that both take up a significant and similar number of GBs on the disk space, they apparently are pointing to the same data on my disk, so data hasn't been duplicated.

Question is, how can I verify this? If I check the size of the parent folder, it's also reporting double GB. I imagine I can check all the folders at the root level and find that the total adds up to more than what I have based on free space... but that doesn't actually pinpoint what files are hard linking.


texts:
I downloaded an album from iTunes Store on my MacBook (macOS 10.13.6).

One of the songs, only the first 17 seconds play. Then it jumps to the next song.

The total time of the song is displayed correctly (4:06).

When I navigate to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music and find the album, the m4a file that the song is stored in does the same thing:

QuickTime shows it's 4:06 long, but only plays the first 17 seconds then freezes. Trying to skip with the scrubber past 0:17 in QuickTime causes the song to be unplayable, unless I put it back before 0:17.

How can I fix this? I want iTunes to play the whole song.


texts: Difference between enabling Time Machine's "Encrypt Backups" option, and encrypting from Disk Utility?

texts:
I'm setting up Time Machine backups on a new external hard disk.

I chose to first encrypt the disk via Disk Utility:

But I also see these options:

Is there any difference between an "Encrypted" format via Disk Utility and selecting "Encrypt backups" in the Time Machine preferences? What happens if I do both? Or if I encrypt with Disk Utility, but then don't select "Encrypt backups"?


texts: Why does this shell-script dim my bash colors?

texts:
My ~/.bash_profile contains this:

function rgb {
    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#8-bit
    let "sum = 16 + 36*$1 + 6*$2 + $3"
    # echo "\[\e[${sum}m\]"
    tput setaf ${sum}
}

  BOLD=$(tput bold)
   DIM=$(tput dim)
 RESET=$(tput sgr0)

BRIGHT=$(rgb 5 5 5)
  BLUE=$(rgb 1 1 5)
YELLOW=$(rgb 4 4 1)

PS1="\n"
PS1+="\[${DIM}\]"
PS1+="\u@"
PS1+="\[${BRIGHT}\]"
PS1+="\h "
PS1+="\[${BLUE}\]"
PS1+="\w "
PS1+="\[${YELLOW}\]"
PS1+="\$(git_branch)"
PS1+="\n"
PS1+="\[${BRIGHT}\]"
PS1+="> "
PS1+="\[${BOLD}\]"

echo ${BOLD}

If I just execute the above as a separate foo.sh file, it leaves my bash window dim:

(Edit: Screenshot fail, . foo.sh behaves the same)

Even upgrading my bash version thru Homebrew fails to shift this.

What's going on?


texts: No internet when booting from Windows to OS X

texts:
I installed Windows with Bootcamp and have an Airport Express. Every time I boot from Windows to OS X it connects to the wireless network but not to the internet. Other devices still keep their connection to the internet.

So, the only thing that makes this work is to turn Macbook's Wi-Fi off, turn Airport off (!) and turn on everything again.

The same problem also happens when I boot from OS X to Windows, but in this case is easier, since I only have to turn off and on the Wi-Fi.

The problem doesn't happen with my Linksys router.

I'm using Moutain Lion 10.8.2, Windows 7 x64 and I think I have the last Airport firmware version: 7.6.2. I'm using DHCP.

Do I have to click on the Bootcamp tool and chose Restart in OS X... option or can I simply restart the computer using the Start button?


texts: How to keep apps from adding themselves to login items?

texts:
Today, I noticed that there were several "login items" that I'm 99.99999% certain I did not add.  I figure those items added themselves when I installed them (they were probably installations that required authentication).

Of course, I can always check "login items" every time that I install an app (if the installer asked for authentication), but I'd prefer to lock "login items" altogether.  Is that possible?


texts: Can I "peek" my MacOS through VirtualBox while in Windows 10 (Bootcamp)?

texts:
MacBook Pro 13' Late 2019.

I have a Windows 10 installed in my external SSD, which I installed and ran via Boot Camp (Tutorial I've Followed). I know that Boot Camp does not allow switching between both systems, you have to restart the machine to switch and boot the one you desire. (Ref: Running OS X and Windows Simultaneously).

What I want to do is:
While in Windows 10 (BootCamp), launch Virtual Box and run my Macintosh HD virtually, so I can do some simples tasks without having to shut down my Windows boot.

Expected result: I would see through VirtualBox my own MacOS, with my login, my configurations, my files, folders, etc...

Is that possible?


texts: Protect changes to plain text file written by standard user's execution of bash script

texts:
I have written a simple bash script that I want to use as a time clock for employees (work-studies) in my computer lab. The script works great.
1. Each work-study has two icons (two separate bash scripts) on their desktop, one to clock in and another to clock out. They both write to the same .txt file.
2. When they click the clock-in icon, the script writes CLOCK IN and the current date and time to a plain text file in a shared Dropbox folder (shared between me and the work-study computer).
3. The script pauses for five seconds so the .txt file can update on Dropbox.
4. The browser opens with the work-study's updated time clock log. This is done via a Dropbox share link.

Here is the script for clocking in. The clock out script only says CLOCK OUT instead.

#!/bin/bash
# Write to .txt file
echo " CLOCK IN - $(date '+%x - %r')"  >> /Users/Username/Dropbox/Joe-Time-Clock.txt
# Give Dropbox a chance to sync.
sleep 5
# Open in browser so student can see clock in time.
open -a Google\ Chrome "https://www.dropbox.com/s/7vbgpc9x29d0z98/Time-Clock.txt?dl=0"
exit 0

Here is the plain text output:

Joe Smith - Time Clock
 CLOCK IN - 08/17/2015 - 06:00:25 PM
CLOCK OUT - 08/17/2015 - 06:00:48 PM
 CLOCK IN - 08/17/2015 - 06:00:52 PM
CLOCK OUT - 08/17/2015 - 06:05:14 PM
 CLOCK IN - 08/17/2015 - 06:14:51 PM
CLOCK OUT - 08/17/2015 - 06:15:11 PM

As of now, the student can simply open Joe-Time-Clock.txt when they are late and change the information. The work-studies are on a regular account on the Mac (10.6 Snow Leopard), and I have an admin account to which they do not have access. I would like for them to be able to execute the script on the desktop that writes to their time-clock file. However, I do not want them to be able to edit the script or edit the clock-in / clock-out log (Joe-Time-Clock.txt).

I fiddled with the permissions today. If Joe-Time-Clock.txt is synced by Dropbox and has root ownership enabled, then Dropbox, being a per user application, would not be able to sync it because it would lack the permissions. Otherwise, I would try this solution. Any ideas are welcome. Much thanks in advance.

Side note: I am much more used to working with permissions and command line in Linux. Today, when I spent a bit of time on CLI in OS X it felt a bit foreign, so the more details the better. Thanks!


texts: I have the Macbook Air, Retina 13-inch 2020 which I bought a little over a month ago. Today I took it out and tried to plug in my headphones into the headphone jack but they would not go in. There appears to be nothing stuck in them and I have tried to use a toothpick to try and take dust/dirt out but that didn't work. I've also tried shoving the wire in with force but that did not work either. If anyone has any other ideas they would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Why is my wired keyboard's Eject key no longer working after OS upgrade?

texts:
Though it sounds like a duplicate of this question, it isn't; the difference is that my eject key works when I connect it to another Mac, so the hardware is good.

The situation is that I have a MacPro3,1 tower with an optical drive that I recently upgraded to El Capitan. The eject key always worked before, but after the move to El Capitan it no longer works and I either have to use the menu bar command or press the physical button on the drive (it is an aftermarket BD-ROM from MacSales).

The keyboard is directly connected to the Mac, no USB hubs or anything in the middle. I have not changed any settings for Fn keys. I do have Karabiner installed to re-map the right-option key for Citrix sessions, but using its "display all keyboard events" tool, it seems that the eject key has no event associated with it. I would have thought this meant it is a hardware issue, but seeing how it worked with no problem on my other Mac, I'm guessing the key isn't mapped like the rest.

Any ideas?


texts: 2018 MacBook Pro experiencing very poor battery life (<4 hours) with light usage

texts:
I bought a new 2018 15'' MacBook Pro with Touch Bar a couple weeks ago. So far its battery life has been abysmal, reaching 0% after less than 4 hours of very light usage (only web browsing).
I decided to test the battery life today by having my regular applications (Safari, Firefox, and a few others) open and just letting the MBP sit on my desk. I should emphasize that there are absolutely no intensive programs running whatsoever; just a couple of web browsers and things like iMessage.
Right off the bat, it tells me at 100% charge that I have 2:07 remaining.
Around 20 minutes later, I checked again it is already down to 90% charge with 3:36 remaining.
Another 10 minutes later, it is down to 85% with 3:04 remaining.
After 3 hours and 46 minutes, the battery level reached 0% and the machine went to forced sleep.
Considering that Apple's advertised battery life is 10 hours, I find it extremely perplexing that my MBP is getting less than 4 hours of battery life doing nothing except sit on my desk with a couple web browsers open in the background. During this test, there were just nine tabs open between the two browsers, and they contained only mundane sites like Wikipedia and Gmail.
Has anyone else experienced issues with battery life on the 2018 MBPs? If you are getting close to the advertised 10 hours, what kind of activities are you doing?
UPDATE:
After further testing using gfxCardStatus, it appears that having a program using Java open in the background forces the graphics card to stay at the high performance discrete option. Is there any workaround for this? It is frustrating to have to close a bunch of applications every time I go out so that my battery lasts throughout the day.


texts: Macbook Pro doesn't recognize USB devices through hub

texts:
I have a power delivery USB hub that I use to have a single cable I plug into my laptop to connect power, an HDMI monitor, and USB devices. It all works on other devices of mine, and mostly works for my Macbook Pro (i.e. PD and HDMI work), but the Macbook Pro doesn't recognize any devices beyond the USB hub, in particular mouse movements and keyboard strokes are not recognized by the laptop.

When I look at the System Report (Apple Logo -> About This Mac -> System Report...) in the USB section I can see what I believe to be the USB hub in question (when I unplug the cable and refresh it disappears), but nothing beyond the hub is listed. It lists the hub as a "USB3.1 Hub" when the Amazon listing for the device only claims 3.0. I do not know if this is related, but I currently don't know how I could take action based on that.

My laptop is up to date (macOS Catalina 10.15.3). I have tried plugging the USB devices "directly" into the mac (USB-A to USB-C converter) and they work fine. Plugging the hub into a different port on my Macbook does not fix the issue. As I mentioned, these peripherals work through the hub on every other device I've tried. I have tried restarting the Mac with the cable in and with the cable out. I have also tried unplugging the power delivery from the hub and plugging it back in just in case it's stateful. I also followed Apple's guide for when USB devices don't work, but this did not resolve the issue.

How can I get this to work? What else should I do to troubleshoot?


texts: Reinstalled Mac OS X on my MacBook Air & now it won't let me install iMovie and iPhoto?

texts:
I get this weird error message after reinstalling Mac OS X on my Macbook Air

  These apps cannot be accepted by your Apple ID. These apps were
  recently assigned to another Apple ID, and they will be available in
  that Apple ID's Purchase list. If you don't have access to that Apple
  ID and want to receive future updates, you will need to purchase the
  application.

I don’t even know what these apps are, I've never used them, although I might
one day.

I’ve got one other machine, which I bought myself—the MacBook Air is for work—and I sign into the app store on my account; I buy software and expense it.

But the error seems strange and the update behavior seems a bit wrong. As you can see I've already upgraded to Yosemite, yet the app store is getting busy, downloading all 5GB of the update all over again.

I've seen some really strange behavior with the app store over the last while so I'm curious if this is a bug, or just some policy I don't understand or am unaware of.

Any ideas appreciated, thanks!

update

It's was just a glitch in the App store, the applications had been installed, it seems one hand doesn't know what the other is doing.


texts: How to send email from "different accounts" in Outlook iOS app (Outlook.com account)?

texts:
And by "different accounts" I mean other email addresses (and aliases) that have been setup as send (or send/recieve) accounts within the one outlook.com account.

For example, within my <me>@outlook.com account at outlook.com I have configured the following accounts/email addresses from which I can send email, one of which is set as the default:

<me>@example.com (Default)
<me>@example.org
<me>@example.net

However, when composing a new email on the Outlook iOS app I can only select from other accounts I have setup with the iOS app itself (by tapping in the "From" field).

On the Android Outlook.com app (and on the website) I can easily select from any of the above accounts/email addresses, as well as select the default account from which to send (in settings). However, on the iOS app, I cannot find this information anywhere, nor the ability to select the default account?

The Default account: However, when I send email from <me>@outlook.com in the iOS app it does "magically" send it from my default account (ie. <me>@example.com)! However, there is no indication of this in the iOS app (it simply shows <me>@outlook.com in the "From" field) and there does not appear to be anywhere to configure this - as far as I can tell?

Using the latest versions... iOS 8.3, Outlook App 1.1.9

So, in summary, when using an Outlook.com account in the Microsoft Outlook iOS app:

How do you send From other addresses (and _aliases) configured for this account?
How do you configure the default send From address for this account?


texts: How to make Siri on AppleWatch not connect to my AirPods and not interrupt my music playing?

texts:
Who didn't get it from title, here's my case:
I often setup timers and add items to my reminder list using Siri on my AppleWatch. But I also often listen to music (from AirPods, using my iPhone). But each time I use Siri on my AppleWatch, - it interrupts my music to handle the request using AirPods mic... Instead of using built-in AppleWatch mic :\
When timer initiates vibrations, - it also stops music :\
I haven't found anything related in settings. Is it possible to overcome these interrupts? I don't like my music being interrupted.


texts: How can I stop sharing Find/Replace fields between apps?

texts:
For some baffling reason, Apple thinks that whatever I search for in one app will be the same thing that I want to search for in another app.  This results in my actual search terms being overwritten in (for example) my text editor just because I searched for something on a web page or in iTunes.  Having my carefully-craft regex replaced with "Pink Floyd" is aggravating, to say the least, especially when using a text editor without a search history. The user-interface thinking that led Apple to this decision is beyond my ability to comprehend, but I really would like a way to turn it off.  How can I disable this?

PS: Why does a find field value in one application show up in a the find field of another application? raises a similar question but the answer offered there only applies to the specific scenario of the question, and to BBEdit as an application. I‘m looking for a way to control this behavior in general.


texts: Login and password in Safari private mode

texts: Is it possible to auto-fill or save passwords for certain sites in Safari private mode?


texts: Is OpenOffice for Mac OS X ready for use?

texts:
I am helping a friend set up a brand-new MacBook. She is migrating from a Windows environment and is used to OpenOffice. I have very little OS X experience.

OpenOffice 3.3 has a native Aqua port for OS X > 10.3.

Is this port regarded stable and ready for end users? Is it fully integrated into the OS X environment like Apple's own iWork, or are there shortcomings or compromises one needs to be aware of?


texts: Why is screencapture taking the screenshot of the desktop image and not the windows on top in Catalina?

texts:
Why is screencapture command only takes the screenshot of the desktop image and not the windows on top in Catalina?  I keep on trying on Catalina compared to High Sierra or Mojave where this is not the case with screencapture command.

Here is the link to the shell script on my Github: https://github.com/shyamalschandra/screenshot2speech The relevant command is

screencapture -s ~/Downloads/screen.png

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/11/take-screen-shots-terminal-mac-os-x/


texts: How can I get mail.app to go to the item below a deleted item in my inbox?

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When I'm reviewing mail, I like to have my most recent on top, and I work backwards in time (i.e., down the list).

But when I delete an item, rather than going to the next lower item in the list (like Outlook does), it goes to the closest item that's newer.    Because it's based on always going to the closest item that's newer, I can't even get the desired behavior in going from new to old by reversing my sort order.

Am I missing a preference somewhere, or do I really have to either hit the down arrow after each delete, or work from oldest to newest if I want to save those precious keystrokes?


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I have an LG Ultrafine 5K (27MD5KA-B) monitor. I finally wanted to fix the volume issue and just found out that there should be a firmware update that is supposed to be installed through the LG Screen Manager software.

I've installed LG Screen Manager and it says that my monitor is up to date with version 3.01.,1.11, 5234,3.00

From what I've gathered, there should be at least version 3.04,1.13,5237,3.04,0.1e

I've also tried to find a firmware file to manually download, but all links I could find are dead, e.g.:

http://lmu.lge.com/ExternalService/lgscreenmanager/mac/FW/27MD5KA_MP3/MODEL_27MD5KA_SV3.04_CV1.13_HV5237_NV3.04_AV0.1e_20170705.zip

http://lmu.lge.com/ExternalService/lgscreenmanager/mac/FW/27MD5KA_MP3/FWLatestVersion.txt

The monitor is from January 2017, so it is one of the earliest models that also suffered from the shielding issues (which has been fixed). It's attached to a 2016 MacBook Pro 15" Touchbar, still running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6

I would appreciate any hints on how to update the firmware or links to the firmware file.

Update: I've just poked around LG Screen Manager with Charles Proxy and realized that it tries to fetch FWLatestVersion.txt link above.


texts: In the past, Soundflower has been a great way to record audio generated by applications on my Mac. Soundflower's GitHub page indicates that it does not (yet?) support M1 Macs. In the absence of this great utility, how have M1 Mac users gone about recording computer audio?


texts: How can I open application's windows on dock separately like Windows 7?

texts:
I'm new to OS X.

If I open multiple Excel workbooks, how can I see each workbook opened separately on the dock?

Any help?


texts:
So some time ago i used boot camp to install Windows 8 pro.
Now i want to switch back to my mac/osx but there is no osx partition

Screenshot of boot camp on windows: (Ingore the langauge, it's in Danish)

I have searched around for an answer but i can't find one.

Thanks for reading

Note 1
I have tried ALT at the start-up of the computer but there is now OSX disc. Only a windows one. And i have tried to reinstall OSX on one of the discs, but i gives me a error (Can't remember the error, but i couldn't delete the disc either)


texts: Retrieve the Apple ID used to download a given app (in iphone)

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I have an iphone, which has some apps installed. The Apple ID used to sign in (to iTunes store and App strore) is, say, ID1.
When updating apps, in some cases it asks for the password of another ID, say, ID2.

Is there any way to know what Apple ID is associated with each app?

I know that I can remove an app and purchase it under a different ID (which may have cost), and I know that there exists Family sharing, but that does not answer the question.

This is a related question.


texts: How to run remote applications on OS X like X11 does?

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Is there any application that can be installed in OS X (Lion) that will allow a person to run applications from the host system on a guest system, displaying only the windows for the application? In other words, can Cocoa applications display their windows on another OS X Desktop than the machine on which they are running?

X11 allows you to run an application remotely without sharing the whole Desktop.

I am currently using VNC (Screen Sharing), but because of screen resolution differences, it isn't ideal.


texts:
I recently received a iPod Nano 6G for my birthday.  I very quickly found out that headphones/earbuds are required for radio reception.  My dad proposed the idea that the iPod uses the headphones/earbuds as the antenna.  Is his hypothesis correct?

Does the iPod Nano 6G use the headphones as an antenna?


texts: Does Photos 4.0 from Mojave work on a High Sierra installation?

texts:
I have a Mac that cannot be upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave because of the graphics card. While I am happy to exist on High Sierra for now, I would like to upgrade to the latest version of the Photos.app to take advantage of any improvements there might be.

Would this work or did they lock it into requiring Mojave?

In the past, you could run mixed versions of iPhoto and other OSX/macOS applications on various macOS builds. Unfortunately, once a new version of macOS is released nowadays I gather you can't even run Chess.app or Calculator.app without matching the OS version!

thanks


texts: A single app showing retina-ready and not windows

texts: I noticed that in TortoiseHg ver. 4.4.2 some elements of the main window are "retina-ready" (revision list, changeset line) while some are not (diff and console). I wonder if there is some setting that would make all of them fine. I would also like to understand why this is happening.


texts: Microphone not working in Mac Mini after system update

texts:
I have a Mac Mini Mid 2011 Model. Earlier when I used OX X 10.7.5 my microphone was working fine.  I updated my system to Yosemite 10.10.2 and my microphone stopped working. In System Preferences-->Sound-->Input, I am getting Line In (Name) Audio Line-In port(TYPE).

I am using Iball headphones.


texts: How to move an iPod or iOS device from one computer to another without losing anything?

texts:
I have a new (Windows) PC and I am fed up with booting up my old computer just to sync my iPad and iPod, so I have just decided to install iTunes and sync with my new one.

Music, Pictures and Podcasts are not a problem to sync, I have them all on my NAS and they are in my library.

However, Applications are another matter.

I have right clicked the device (My iPad) and done Transfer Purchases. I have authorised my computer and all the apps that were on my iPad are now on my iTunes.

However, when I did sync, it still will not copy any new apps in my iTunes. I went to the device/Apps page and clicked the Sync Apps button, but I got the message that it is synced with another library and to sync apps will wipe everything.

I proceeded because I don't have anything important on my iPad... The only thing that was annoying was it lost the order/groups.

It did lose all the app data, but apart from a few high scores, I do not mind.

(I then performed an update and it did this again... I really don't understand that).

Anyway, Now it is time for my iPod and I really do not want to lose the order, grouping or the app data and I was wondering if anyone knows how I can sync with my new computer without losing anything?


texts: How to transfer music from friends iPhone to my laptop

texts: I have been trying to transfer music from my friends iPhone to my laptop but I can't seem to do it. Is there any way to transfer the music from his phone to my iTunes?


texts: How to install GIMP resynthesizer on Mac OS?

texts: I'm running El Capitain and have GIMP installed but can't figured out how to install the resynthesizer. I copied the files from the linux version of the plugin into the plugin folder of GIMP but GIMP does not seem to detect it.


texts:
I am new to Mac (from Linux/Windows background), I find the modifier keys very confusing. I have tried different combinations of modifier key settings but didnt get it to work as expected.

Managed to get Ctrl+C/P to copy/paste but how do I do Alt+Tab to switch Windows.

Also, I like how I can press the Windows button to enter the dashboard/launcher in GNOME 3. How might I do the same in Mac?


texts:
I don't know how it happened -- I was reviewing my email on my old MacBook Pro, running Sierra, and somehow managed to send all of my Apple Mail Inbox emails to the Trash, and then they disappeared. Unfortunately, I did not back up the MBP. But, I have email being stored in the Cloud and am constantly backing up with Time Machine on my iMac, running Catalina. I am trying to restore Mail using Time Machine from the date before I noticed all of the emails were gone.
When I clicked Enter Time Machine, and selected the date I need to restore, Mail did not appear in the list of applications in the Finder. I went to the hard drive and found the Applications folder there, and found the Mail application, selected it, and clicked the Time Machine Restore button. This error message popped up:
“” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS.
I checked the Trash and did not find the emails there.
Is there any way I can restore all my emails using another method?
Apple Discussions have not directly answered my question, given all the steps I have taken.


texts:
I tried to remove Chess.app from my Mac:

Moving to Trash: “Chess.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS.
Trying to change permissions for everyone in Get Info: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission.
chmod 755 Chess.app/ in Terminal works, but then doing sudo rm -rf Chess.app/: long list including rm: Chess.app/: Operation not permitted

So how can I remove it?


texts: How to clean install OSX without formatting drive?

texts:
What's the best way to clean install (not upgrade) OSX (from 10.10 to 10.11) without formatting my drive?

This is a MBPr with a 1TB internal, where I have 700GB of media that I would like to leave on there, all within 2 folder at /

Can I just delete everything except those 2 folders then install OSX?

I'm thinking I have 2 options:

Boot from a bootable USB with 10.11 installer
Boot from a CCC clone external of my system drive

... and then delete everything except those 2 folders, then run the OSX installer.


texts: Can I put a MBP (2012)'s hard drive into a Lenovo laptop and continue using MacOS?

texts:
My 15inch 2012MBP has just died. The screen is gone and I want to keep using my old settings but I dont have money to buy a new MB right now. So I'm just wondering what happen if I put my old Apple Hard drive into another laptop that is not a mac. Do I risk losing data or will the OS not load at all?
Please help!
Thanks!


texts:
Cmd-w closes the current window on MacOS Catalina. This conflicts with my muscle memory of using M-w in Emacs.

I looked at Disable Command-W in the terminal, but the accepted answer does not work on MacOS Catalina.

How do you disable Cmd-w?


texts: Using iCloud Photo Library and Google Photos Simultaneously

texts:
Does anybody have experience with this? Any best practice suggestsions? In my own research, I've learned the following:

Desktop Uploader for Mac

Seems oblivious to iCloud Photo Library.
It offers to upload my "iPhoto Library", but this is no the same as the "Photos" library. The best I can apparently do is to point it to the "Masters" directory of the Photos (not iPhoto) library.

iOS App

Seems more "aware" of the iCloud Photo Library, even offering to sync deletes on Google Photos BACK to the iCloud Photo library.
Biggest issues here is the Google Photos iOS App seems to forget the connection between the Google version of the photo and the iCloud version, displaying a "merged" version of the libraries. This has the appearance of MANY duplicates, where iCloud versions are identified by a small cloud icon.
The upload process is incredibly slow from iOS. I suspect this is due to the fact that it must first download the photo/video from iCloud prior to uploading to Google Photos.

Numerous Google searches have not turned up any solutions. Has anybody successfully integrated these two services? If so, can you please share your solution or best practices?


texts: Apple Keyboard with numeric keypad problems

texts:
I have a very strange issue with my wired Apple Keyboard with numeric keypad. When I try to type the large letter Q by pressing the left Shift key, it doesn't work. However, when I use the right Shift key, it works. The left Shift key works with most letters, but not all. The option key works in some shortcuts and in others it doesn't. The next (F9) and the mute (F10) button don't work. Typing some diacritics works, but not in all cases. It's seems totally random.

First I thought something's badly configured in macOS (newest Sierra release), but the keyboard has these same issues with every other computer. How is it possible, that some key combinations work and others don't? I do understand that keys stop working, but key combinations?

All this happened after a routine cleaning of the keyboard with a moist cloth. It happened to me once, a few months ago. One button stopped working temporarily, but a month later it started working again.

Is it possible to fix this somehow or do I have to buy a new keyboard now (the warranty is up)?


texts: My friend installed Bittorrent and got viruses on her mac

texts: So my friend wanted to watch "50 shades of grey" (I know) and so I showed her how to install Bittorrent and download a torrent file. 2 days later (today) she messaged me saying that her browser settings have changed, the mackeeper icon is in her dock and that she couldn't even open google drive. I am mostly concerned about the mackeeper icon since I have heard very bad things about it. What is going on?? This didn't happen to me (also on a mac). How do I fix this without any kind of damage?


texts: 502 Proxy error when trying to use Homebrew php72 with Server.app websites

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I'm having a puzzling issue with a website on macOS server (server.app 5.6, High Sierra 10.13).

All works fine when the url length is below 70 characters. 70 and up and I'm getting a Proxy error.
The actual absolute path char count respectively <= 94 - works, > 94 - Error

Can there be a limit set somewhere?

EDIT

Seems to be related to change of the PHP from system to Homebrew.

EDIT 2

The OS PHP version shipped with the Server.app is 7.1.32 – it works but is missing the intl extension that I need for a Magento 2.3.3 project
(I think intl is shipped with the Server.app or MacOS/Xcode but inactive by default)

The Homebrew PHP version that I was trying to use: 7.2.25

The MySQL version: 8.0.16 (Oracle community)
The MySQL actually says that it's compiled for MacOS 10.14 and I run MacOS 10.13, not sure if that is important)

EDIT 3

After more testing I noticed the error pops-up also with shorter, simple urls, random pages, without any pattern really (when using Homebrew PHP).

I've compared the php.ini from OS and Homebrew installations with a diff but failed to find any significant differences. The error appears even on a simple Wordpress websites that don't use any of the advanced php extensions.

I've got the same Homebrew PHP installed on my other Mac, same OS but also Homebrew MySQL and without the proxy – it works fine.


texts: I set up a cronjob a long time ago that now doesn't exist. Whenever I open up Terminal, it now says "You have mail". I have something like 100 messages that all say the same thing. How do I mass delete all of the messages?


texts: opening two remote screen sharing on the same client

texts: I have a macbook and I connect to my linux accounts with screen sharing. I would like to connect to two different linux accounts from the same client (my macbook) at the same time, using two different instances of screen sharing. Is this possible? How?


texts: Protocol used by iPhone when connecting to a stereo via USB?

texts: What is the protocol used by iPod/iPhone when connecting to a stereo via USB?  Is it PTP or some other proprietary protocol?


texts: how to rotate the orientation of my monitor in OSX 10.8?

texts:
My girlfriend just bought a great monitor (EIZO CG223W) for her macbook, which you can rotate 90º in portrait mode.
The screens didn't flip along, and I couldn't find a setting in the system preferences.
I remember (in pre 10.8) there used to be a setting in the screen panel, but it's vanished.## Heading ##


texts: Force to install profile unsigned on MacOS Big Sur

texts:
I'm working on a scenario on Macdeploystick to deploy 200 imacs this summer.
But with Big Sur, my profile unsigned isn't install. I can do it manually but have to go to Preferences / Profiles to say "yes, i wan't to use this thing !"
is there anyway to force that with a script or something ?
Thanks and have a good day !


texts: Is it hard to transfer contacts from one iPhone to another iPhone?

texts: I just bought a new iPhone 6s, and want to move all the contacts from the old one to the new one. Can iTunes or iCloud help me do this, or are there any other ways?


texts: Do not show Mac Mail headers when forwarding, but do show in Inbox

texts:
Is there a way to view the detailed header of an email in Mac Mail without having to include all that detailed info when forwarding an email?

I am periodically interested in the header information from emails so I want to keep the option of viewing those details in my Inbox. However, I do not want to have Mail include that information in forwarded emails.

Most solutions posted online suggest going to Preferences → Viewing → Show header detail but this prevents me from viewing header details in my Inbox. Is there a way for me to have my cake and eat it too?


texts: Is it safe to delete "~/Library/iTunes/Mobile Backups"?

texts:
Good morning-

Is it possible to delete the contents of ~/Library/iTunes/Mobile Backups?  This seems to be where backups were stored in older versions of iTunes/iOS?  It appears like it is every backup of iPods, iPhones, etc. I've owned since 2003.

It seems like backups of an iPhone/iPad done locally are now stored in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync and that it would be safe to delete the contents of the other folder (~/Library/iTunes/Mobile Backups) but would appreciate any confirmation that this is accurate :)

Thanks in advance for your help.


texts:
My calendar app has become super slow (possibly after the OS X 10.10.4 upgrade). Every action, like clicking on a calendar item or scrolling to the next week, will result in approximately 60 seconds of OS X beachballing. The app syncs with 8 different calendar servers (webdav, google, exchange, and ical). This usually works very well.

I had this issue some years ago but forgot how to fix it. Any ideas?


texts: Does Yosemite Beta update itself to the final version?

texts:
The title says it all, I think.
I am installing Yosemite onto a MacPro, and doing it from a Yosemite Beta installer I moved to a thumb drive. It looked like it went well, and it updated itself about 8 times, version 2-6, and then an "OS X Update Combined Version 10.10.5". Does that final update mean I have the full regular install, or is it still a Beta?


texts: This xue drives me crazy, I don't know where it come from, how can I change it?


texts: How to open a .app which is inside the Contents/Resources/ of the script?

texts: I am trying to create a applescript that when I double click on it, the code activates an (or multiple) application/s from inside it. e.g. I just click on this script and it opens Photo booth and COD.


texts:
A couple of days ago I noticed that Photos on El Capitan shows already imported photos as new photos, when I select an iOS device. The iOS devices are synced with the Photos library and contain the albums local. This happens only for a few photos, not all of them.

My Photos library contain a couple of thousand photos. You will notice in the screenshot below that only 11 photos on my iPad are new. However, those photos are years old and got already imported into an album.

I tried following:

Started Photos with ⌥ + ⌘ and repaired the library
Imported the photos to a fake album and deleted them afterwards

Unfortunately, nothing helped. Does anyone have an idea, what I can do, to get rid of the old or new photos?


texts: Where's the iMessage contact icon stored?

texts:
Where is this empty avatar

stored on
macOS Catalina?


texts: Do you need to activate an iPhone 5s with the original carrier sim card before you can factory unlock it?

texts: I bought an iPhone 5s and gifted it to a friend abroad without opening it and activating it. I was wondering if it's possible for that friend to unlock the iPhone without having to activate it with the original carrier sim card since he doesn't have that sim, and can't get it in his country.


texts: How can I download a webpage to a PDF in Terminal?

texts:
I am trying to find a way to download an URL and convert it into a PDF.

I have found lots of suggestions on how to turn PDFs into HTML or HTML into PDFs, but that's not the same as what I want to do.

Basically I am looking for the same result as if I had opened the page in {insert browser of choice} and selected "Print" and then PDF » Save as PDF…

But I want to be able to do it all from Terminal, automatically, so that I can feed it a handful of URLs at once and have it do it all for me.

I don't need or want recursion to additional pages.

  [Note: I have tried wget --page-requisites --convert-links but it does not always actually fetch images which are loaded from a remote server. Also, assume for this execs that the URLs are not behind any sort of login requirement.]


texts: chunkeddownload error in trying to upgrade to Mac OS Mojave

texts:
I have a Mac Mini Late 2014 model on macOS Sierra. I'm trying to upgrade it from macOS Sierra to Mojave using App Store. After clicking on installer, it gives me an error -

The operation couldn't be completed.
(com.apple.installer.chunkeddownload error 6.)

How can I fix this issue?


texts: How do I do a right click on a 'magic mouse'?

texts:
We’ve just won a brand new iMac. It came with an Apple keyboard, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad. The keyboard works well, although it's weird not having a numeric keypad. The trackpad also works well.

But while the mouse seems to connect fine and I can scroll and click ok, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do right-clicking on the mouse?

I did try looking for a Control Panel to try and fix this, but there isn’t one.


texts:
Apple released several firmware revisions for the external iSight camera:

iSight 1.0.3 Update

Improved audio performance

iSight 1.0.2 Update

Improved auto exposure
Improved auto white balance
Enhanced IIDC compliance
Better overall performance

How can I update my iSight to the latest firmware revision?


texts: IpadOS connect lightning to hdmi and usb together

texts: I've got the ipad mini 5th generation. I want to connect it to my monitor, it has usb-c/hdmi ports, also I want to use my usb devices, I've done this with apple tv, but picture is not so good on 4k monitor, and i think about some wired solution, I've got adapters: lightning to usb, lightning to type-c (But it doesn't show picture on my type c monitor) is there any way to use usb+hdmi via lightning together? (maybe some wireless hubs or something else?..maybe someone has a good idea to do it? I think it'll be helpful to a lot of people.


texts: Can one slice of a "Disk Utility" RAID mirror be moved to a new computer?

texts: With a 2-disk RAID mirror created in Disk Utility, after one disk fails, can the remaining good disk be moved to a different Mac and used successfully?


texts: How to push streamed music from iPad to TV

texts:
I have a Samsung UA46D8000, which is a really cool TV. It is plugged into my router and understands DNLA protocols.

The TV is great, however the remote is unsuitable for selecting music.

Here's what I'd like to do, however I don't know if it's possible.

I'd like to be able to select music on my iPad (which has a fantastic user interface), and then that music is pushed to the TV (either from a separate server or directly from the iPad over wifi)

Does anyone know how this can be done?

Cheers
Rich

p.s. I have tried AirMusic, but that creates a pull DNLA server, which is not what I want.


texts:
I'm doing a project for school and it involves running a java program which sometimes crashes. In order to kill the unresponsive program, I'll go to my dock, right click on the program and press "Force Quit":

The program it kills has a window with a title "Planet Wars Visualizer", and the top menu for the program in the top left says "CLViewer":

Instead of having to press "Force Quit" every time, I want to just use the killall <name> command. However, when I go to my activity monitor I don't see any processes with the names "Java", "Planet Wars Visualizer", or "CLViewer". Even when I try killall with those names I just get No matching processes belonging to you were found.

How can I find out the actual name of the process just by the clues I have?


texts: What are the most modern browsers available on Mac OS 10.4

texts:
I have two old Mac Minis both running OS X 10.4 Tiger.

One is a G4 so I'm using TenFourFox for PowerPC.

The other has an Intel processor and I'm having some trouble with Opera 10.62.

(The point is I want to use trello.com and old browsers like FireFox 3 or standard Safari from the 10.4 OS won't work).

What other options am I missing?


texts: Show all flagged items in Archive in Mail (iOS 7)

texts:
I am using Mail in iOS 7 on my iPhone 5.

I was wondering: The "Flagged" Mailbox under iOS 7 only shows the flagged items which are in the Inbox, but not in the whole Archive.

However, in Mail for OS X, the Flagged-Mailbox shows ALL flagged items, also when they are any flagged mails in the Archive.

  Is there a ways to get this functionality in iOS 7 and Mail?


texts: How to disable annoying voiceover on power up

texts:
Every time I press the power button for a bit too long, I hear this annoying voiceover:  "Use the tab key to navigate ... to press an option"
How do I permanently disable this?


texts:
My dad just gave me his MacPro for me to test it, since I never used before. Since I wanted it cleaned, I follow some tutorial on the Net that said I needed to reboot it with Command+Option+R, delete the disk and reinstall it.

Now the trick part, everytime I try to do that, I get a message saying my ID Apple was never used before and won't let me to proceed.

I created my ID Apple just because the the reinstaller asked me an ID.

So, basically, I can't log into the mac since the disk was already erased and I can't reinstall it because my ID was never used before.

I have NO IDEA how to solve this. Is there any way to bypass the ID Apple problem in my case?


texts:
Recently I enrolled in Apple developer program. I'm looking for a link through which i can get all my apps that I developed/published.

How i get all apks under one link in app store ?

I've found one developer link in this format:

https://itunes.apple.com/<country>/developer/<developer–name>/id<developer-ID>?mt=8

From where i get developer-ID for my app store ?

I've app-ID of all my app, through which I can go to single app not my all apps.


texts: Are there any way I can have a Dashboard Widget visible all the time on the desktop?

texts:
A thing that I like with Windows 7 is that I can have the gadgets (widgets) open and visible all the time, e.g. a small RSS reader in the corner of the desktop.

I would like to be able to have a small RSS reader in the corner of my Mac OS X desktop too. I already use a RSS reader as Dashboard widget, but I have to press F12 every time I want to chek it. Are there any way I can show the widgets all the time while I'm working in other applications? I haven't used the Dashboard that much before.


texts:
I'm comparing two large directories on two different external FireWire 800 disks using

diff -r /path/to/directory1 /path/to/directory2

The size of the directory (and its subdirectories) on one FireWire disk is 118.2 GB for 30,000 items and 119.56 GB for 30,031 items.

I was surprised about the many differences reported in the output, like

Binary files /path/to/directory1/with/subdirectory/file_xyz and /path/to/directory2/with/subdirectory/file_xyz differ

and started comparing some of them individually. When I compare them with

diff /path/to/directory1/with/subdirectory/with/subdirectory/file_xyz /path/to/directory2/with/subdirectory/with/subdirectory/file_xyz

or even

diff  /path/to/directory1/with/subdirectory/ /path/to/directory2/with/subdirectory/

diff doesn't report any differences between these files or directories.

What could be a reason why the "large comparison" reports so many differences (or seemingly fails), while the smaller chunk comparison doesn't?

Edits since original post:

The version of diff I'm using is GNU diffutils 2.8.1.
Just a wild guess here, but could it have something to do with the fact that these directories are on external hard drives that could experience some sort of timeout?
I ran another comparison and was again presented with lots of differences between those directories. I then set the system preference's Energy Saver to not set the display to sleep for 1 hour, because I had measured with time diff -r /path/to/directory1 /path/to/directory2 that it takes between 45 and 50 minutes for the diff to finish. My hard drives and the Mac never go to sleep.I then unmounted both drives and remounted them. Ran the diff again and voilà no differences found apart from one file. I manually compared that one reported differing file and found it to be identical.This seems to confirm what I found by comparing smaller chunks before. It also seems to confirm that there is something going on with a timeout as previously suspected, but I still wonder that if a FireWire drive would become unavailable or whatever, diff should not report a difference, but rather say "file not available" or "Only in /yada/yada/directory: file_xyz".Interestingly, the diff before the remount took 28 minutes, after the remount it took almost 51 minutes.In the light of that: What can I do to prevent something like that from happening?Of course one could say to never set the display to go to sleep or whatever, but that hardly seems to solve the underlying issue. Something else must be going on, I just can't figure out what.As an aside, on previous other occasions, after some time of inactivity on those FireWire hard drives I was trying to write to a file and got this *error code -50" message (mind you I didn't see any of that during the diff operation). I could always "resolve" the issue by unmounting and remounting the drives, but I believe there must be an entirely different solution to that:Solutions like those presented here hardly seem to be tackling the underlying problem.


texts: How to show file extensions in finder for all files

texts: I'm using the Finder Preferences option, but it still won't show the extensions!


texts: Itunes 12.2 format playlist as songs not working

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I am aware that there is supposed to be a little dropdown in the upper, right-hand corner of Itunes that allows one to change the format of a playlist. However, my Itunes looks like this:

How do I get my formatting dropdown back?


texts: AirPlay to Apple TV not displaying at full 1080 resolution?

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I can successfully AirPlay from my M1 MacBook Pro to my 4k Apple TV connected to a 1920 x 1020 display... but I can only get a resolution of 1280 x 720:

When I'm not AirPlay'ing and just using the Apple TV as one would typically use an Apple TV, I get full 1080.
How can I AirPlay at full 1080?


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Ok, this is a simple one that has been bugging me for months. I've searched here, Google, everywhere for an answer. There is plenty of info about creating tags, changing the names/colors, assigning tags to Finder folders, even customizing the right click menu itself.

My tags just disappeared from the right click, not the tags section, just the tag color bubbles themselves. I could always click on the 'Tags...' button and that would load a tags dialog that I could then select the tags I wanted, but to more quickly tag I should see them below that.


texts: Finding the right directory to install applications into?

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I just downloaded the MS Teams app for MacOS and upon installation was asked if the app should be for all users/ current user/ installed on hard drive.
I understand the first two, but was wondering what is the difference between installing for all users and installing on the disk (I am using the pre-installed disk with no modifications).
If i install the app in the main disk, wouldn't it simply equate to installing for all users as the memory is shared?


texts: Do any of these Steam software titles run without internet connection?

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I'm having difficulties playing games without a live connection to the internet (actually to the steam servers).

Is this a configuration issue or a limitation in the following game titles:

Tomb Raider 2013
PAYDAY 2
Dead Island

I'm hoping to host multiplayer games with my friends without needing Wi-Fi or LAN that connects to the Internet or an external / central game server.


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I am updating my iPhone from a 6 to 8.
I wanted to move everything including passwords from the old phone, and I understood that I needed to perform an encrypted backup.

The file is 23.33GB vs the 53GB storage used on my phone. Is the file compressed to account for this or does the full backup not include everything on the iPhone?


texts: Does WhatsApp keep a backup copy on my iPhone?

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I made the mistake to get a 16Gb iPhone and now I'm running out of space pretty much all the time. If I'm trying to do a WhatsApp backup it tells me that I need 3 GB of storage. It isn't at all clear where this backup will live.

If I clear that much space, and do the backup to iCloud, will this permanently take up 3 GB on my phone's internal storage or will it just be in the iCloud?


texts: Yosemite Time Machine not backing up (existing and new backups)

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I am having an issue with Time Machine. Since upgrading to Yosemite Time Machine has not been working. I have seen this seems to be a common issue but have not seen reference to my specific case.

I noticed my backup drive (formatted on Yosemite for backups) was not backing up content (although it said it was). I tried formatting the drive and setting it up as a backup drive again but to no avail.

When I run the backup I get the following message for about 5 seconds, Backing up Zero KB of 1.85 TB, and then it disappears saying finishing backup. Obviously the data is not being backed up for some reason.

I have:

Verified the disk (OK)
Repaired the disk (OK)
Formatted the disk (OK)
Re setup time machine (OK)

I am running:

Yosemite
Server 4.0
SmbUp
External Drive with work content (to be backed up)
Backups are set for only the external (other drives are excluded)


texts: How to change how long notifications stay on a Mac?

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I have a webpage that will display notifications to OS X's notification (system notifications).  But it will disappear in 10 to 15 seconds.  Is there a way to change how long it stays?  (and what about change to not disappear at all?)

I found several pages dated 2014, which suggested using

defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui bannerTime 60

or use 3 instead to make it 3 seconds. But this method doesn't work for my Mavericks and El Capitan OS X.


texts: Run applescript after specific application launch

texts: VLC can't autoload extensions, so I write applescript to load extensions, now I need make run it every time after VLC start, any suggestions ?


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I have a 2018 iPad Pro and a recent MacBook Pro (with USB C). Is there any way I can control what charges what when I connect the two? If I connect the two with a USB-C charger, my MacBook automatically starts charging my iPad. Can I have it work the other way around? Can I have it not transfer power, and just be used to transfer data (like for Sidecar)?

This poses a more general question about USB-C: How can you control what direction power goes? I have a USB-C Battery that automatically charges my laptop or iPad when I plug it in, but as soon as the battery dies, the MacBook/iPad will start charging the battery!


texts: Why I have not the option to open the web Inspector interface - Safari?

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I want to open this interface to look the source code or response, like below:

But, when I want to open the localhost:8080/xxx's page, I found I do not able to open that, it is gray:

So, how to resolve it in Safari?


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"All My Files" option in Open/Save dialog get 100% CPU on Mountain Lion for a couple of minutes?

How to solve this?

Mainly this happens twice: once before drawing anything on screen and once again after displaying the files.

After about two minutes you can use the dialog, but the problem reapers every time you click on All My Files.

I do have a SSD+HDD setup on my machine. Console does not say anything interesting.


texts: Deploying a python application in OS X Server 2.0.23 (aka Mountain Lion Server)

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OS X Server 2.0.23 (aka Mountain Lion Server) already has python 2.7.3 and wsgi installed.  What is the procedure to install a python web application on that server to run under its own domain? Assume the web application has no other dependencies other than what is already installed.

I have searched the web, but almost all instructions I'm finding refers to manually installing WSGI, python and configuring apache. I'd like to understand how to use the tools provided to deploy the application.


texts: Where is the Spotlight .app file located?

texts: I want to use some custom keybindings to access spotlight using skhd and I  need the location of the binary or .app file to do so. Where can I find it?