texts: Macbook pro 13 - Sound comes from speakers instead of headphones

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Recently there appeared an issue when I plug my headphones into 3.5 output, the sound does not come from headphones instead it comes from the internal speakers.

The strangest thing is that Mac recognizes headphones when I plug them and changes the output in the settings automatically as it should, from speakers to headphones. But still for some reason sound comes from speakers.

I have also tried manually changing outputs, it seems to have no effect.

Mac OS 10.15.2


texts: Change the nature of a project with iMovie

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I have created a Movie with iMovie. I have just realised now that in fact I should have created an AppPreview.

Is there a way to convert my Movie into an AppPreview?


texts: What's the difference between OWC's HDD/SSD thermal sensor(s) vs shorting the pins/using an ODD thermal sensor/replacing with a bipolar transistor?

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When swapping the HDD/SSD in a 2009-2010 iMac, the HDD fan will go haywire if the HDD is not an Apple OEM drive, or some trick is done with the thermal sensor such as shorting its pins, replacing it with a transistor or use a solution like OWC's inline thermal sensor solution(s) (they make several variations for different Macs). Below are some images of two such solutions for reference, if you've never seen them before.

OWC's thermal sensor solution for the 2009-2010 iMac - a small PCB with a couple of surface mount components, powered by SATA power:

Original 922-9224 Seagate thermal sensor cable that plugs into the HDD (top), ODD thermal sensor from 2008 iMac (bottom) - looks a lot like a bipolar transistor soldered to a couple of wires:

The OWC looks more complex; it's powered and has a bunch of stuff on it, but the ODD thermal sensor approach seems to achieve the same outcome. What is the technical difference between these four approaches:

OWC inline thermal sensor
Shorting the pins
Using an optical disc drive thermal sensor made for another/an older iMac
Chopping up the original sensor cable and soldering a bipolar transistor to it (say, the 2N3904)

?


texts: iMessage displaying conversation threads out of order on iPhone

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I've been having some big issues with my iPhone lately, but the most infuriating one by far is that my messages are not displayed in chronological order. The usual way is that a new message from a contact brings that thread to the top of the list, but about two weeks ago, my threads got sorted into a completely random order and, worse, when I get a new message, that thread isn't bumped to the top anymore.

So, when I get a new message, I have to scroll quite a ways to even find it. I've tried updating iOS on my phone. I've restarted my phone, turned off iMessage then back on, deactivated iMessage on my Macbook and reactivated just to see, and nothing's worked. Anyone have any ideas what the heck is going on here? This is on an iPhone 6 with iOS 10.3.2.


texts: Possible to do iTunes Home Sharing over ad-hoc network?

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I plan on purchasing 3 iPod Touches and I have an iPhone 4s and an iPad 1.  Can these devices all participate in Home Sharing from iTunes (on Windows) in an ad-hoc wifi network?

I have a test here with my iPhone 4s connected to an ad-hoc wifi network from my Windows machine (only several feet away from computer, certainly within the ad-hoc 30 ft. radius recommendation).  iTunes appears to recognize the iPhone on the network as it does sync the phone, but sharing is enables on the very same itunes account.  Problems:

The "Shared" option appears at most 25% of any given time,
When it does work, I am only able to see playlists (is this expected?),
In any given playlist for music (all songs purchased via itunes) only about 10% of them play, the remainder are skipped by iphone.
Those items that will list to be played (e.g. some video podcasts) will return with a dialog box of "Cannot Open".

Shall I assume these sporadic (though apparently consistent) problems are the result of an ad-hoc wifi network vs. a "real" wifi router network?


texts: Submitting a podcast to Apple results in "Can't read your feed"

texts: I have a podcast that works in iTunes, but when I submit it to the iTunes store via podcastsconnect.apple.com, I receive "Validation failed" together with "Can't read your feed". It works when I open it directly in iTunes, and it appears to be a valid feed. Is there anything else I could try?


texts: Schedule jobs with at or crontab on Mac OS X and some alternatives

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Using the command line of Mac OS X system, are at and crontab the correct utilities to use to schedule jobs/processes/scripts? Especially my own scripts.sh?

I am aware that both at and crontab (actually I am not sure about crontab) comes installed by default with Mac OS X but I have this feeling that I need to use something else in order to have it work properly on a Mac OS X system.  Of course I am aware of third party application/software/mdm etc. but I am interested with what comes installed by default inside the Mac OS X.


texts: I have an unknown network file on my iMac, it appears in the sidebar of Finder, under 'Shared'.  It is called hp3464a93ca02a.  What is this and can I delete it if it is unnecessary?  It has been present for over a year, maybe two and I can attribute no ill effects to it; seems benign, perhaps even helpful.  Just wondering...


texts: how long does it take to synch across devices

texts: I've imported 1,000 photos into Photos on my Mac, and my settings are "Store in iCloud", it is over an hour since I did the import and when I log into iCloud.com via Safari I can see the photos there in Photos however they do not show on my iPhone 6 (logged into the same iCloud account) which has iOS 8.3 and uses Photos. I wonder how long does it take to synch to my devices or is there another step I need to take to get it to synch.


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This happened sometime ago when I wanted to update to new OS and was giving me an error.

Today I tried to install bootcamp and it stopped, telling me to check with diskutil my drive

First Aid found corruption that needs to be repaired. To repair the startup volume, run First Aid from Recovery.

I tried running First Aid from Recovery but was getting same error and that I need to do a backup.

What can be done to fix this without losing all the data I have on the hard drive?

I see everything working fine on the Mac but cannot update OS and neither do bootcamp.

I have an iMac 2017.

These are what I have on disk utility

FUSION DRIVE

Volume type : APFS Container
BSD device node : disk2
Connection : PCI-Express
Device tree path : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/PEG2@1,2/SSD0@0/IONVMeController
Writable : No
Is case-sensitive : No
Volume capacity : 1,027,680,514,048
Available space (Purgeable + Free) : 515,761,975,296
Purgeable space : 0
Free space : 515,761,975,296
Used space : 511,918,538,752
Owners enabled : No
Is encrypted : No
Can be verified : Yes
Can be repaired : Yes
Bootable : No
Journaled : No
Disk number : 2
Media name : AppleAPFSMedia
Media type : Generic
Ejectable : No
Solid state : Yes
SMART status : Not Supported

CONTAINER DISK 2

Volume type : APFS Container
BSD device node : disk2
Connection : PCI-Express
Device tree path : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/PEG2@1,2/SSD0@0/IONVMeController
Writable : No
Is case-sensitive : No
Volume capacity : 1,027,680,514,048
Available space (Purgeable + Free) : 515,761,975,296
Purgeable space : 0
Free space : 515,761,975,296
Used space : 511,918,538,752
Owners enabled : No
Is encrypted : No
Can be verified : Yes
Can be repaired : Yes
Bootable : No
Journaled : No
Disk number : 2
Media name : AppleAPFSMedia
Media type : Generic
Ejectable : No
Solid state : Yes
SMART status : Not Supported

MACINTOSH HD

Volume name : Macintosh HD
Volume type : APFS Volume
BSD device node : disk2s1
Mount point : /
File system : APFS
Connection : PCI-Express
Device tree path : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/PEG2@1,2/SSD0@0/IONVMeController
Writable : Yes
Is case-sensitive : No
File system UUID : D3FA738A-ABA3-3BD3-9262-21EBEC6FCB54
Volume capacity : 1,027,680,514,048
Available space (Purgeable + Free) : 528,256,976,203
Purgeable space : 12,495,000,907
Free space : 515,761,975,296
Used space : 504,694,816,768
File count : 916,360
Owners enabled : Yes
Is encrypted : No
System Integrity Protection supported : Yes
Can be verified : Yes
Can be repaired : Yes
Bootable : No
Journaled : No
Disk number : 2
Partition number : 1
Media name :
Media type : Generic
Ejectable : No
Solid state : Yes
SMART status : Not Supported
Parent disks : disk2


texts:
How exactly does a VPN work for iPad? I mean are all VPN connections (specially the Cisco VPN client) designed to work the same way..i.e. they always require 3 inputs; Host, UserId, Pwd
OR that depends from one connection to the other?


texts: Error when installing El Capitan: disk does not use GUID partition scheme, and I am unable to convert

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I am running Yosemite version 10.10.5. I have a second partition running Windows 10. My main partition, running OS X, is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I try to follow the instructions in the error message, but the Option button is not available.

I do not know how to proceed, and would appreciate some help.

Terminal output:

diskutil cs list:

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0:

gpt show: error: bogus map
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Undefined error: 0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0:

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 29185/255/63 [468862128 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: AF   25 127  15 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  400094952] HFS+
 2: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 400504592 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*3: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 401785650 -   67071375] HPFS/QNX/AUX
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

sudo gdisk /dev/disk0:

sudo: gdisk: command not found


texts: Displaying email size in apple mail Version 13.4?

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Context
In previous versions of Mail one could see the size of an email in Apple Mail.
Question

Is it possible to recover this feature in Apple Mail 13.4 (MacOs Catalina)?

It seems that knowing the size of your email is useful, if only to avoid sending too large attachments?
Alternatively, how does one have access to the size of a given email?


texts: Import multiple photos from Dropbox to iMovie?

texts: I have a lot of photos in Dropbox on my iPad mini that I would like to upload in one go to iMovie.  So far I can only figure out how to export to iPhoto, then I have to import to iMovie. Not very convenient or fast! Any suggestions appreciated.


texts:
I am using an iPhone 6. Whenever I try to open the default Mail app on my phone, it crashes within one or two seconds, rendering the app useless.

The phone was running iOS 8 this morning when the problem was occurring, so I decided to make a backup and update to iOS 9.3.1, just in case 9.3.1 had a bug fix for this problem.

However, after updating, I am facing the same issue.

Any fixes?


texts: iPhone 7, iOS 10.1.1: Missing new wallpapers

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I just got the new iPhone 7 and the new wallpapers which I have seen on ads and Apple's website are missing.

How to get them on my iPhone?

Current OS: 10.1.1

I don't want to download them from the internet because of quality issue.
New wallpapers look like this.


texts: Can I force Safari on iOS to store a password, though the site disallows it?

texts: For OS X Safari there is a solution to force storing of passwords. Some sites disallow the storing of passwords, and I wonder if I can force this, at least for some sites, on Safari on iOS 7.


texts: Copying and pasting between tmux panes containing vim instances over SSH in Terminal.app

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I use vim to develop Perl code on a remote Linux box running Debian Jesse. The machine is a virtual machine running in VirtualBox. I use ssh and then issue a vim <file> command to start editing the file.

I've been experimenting with tmux on the remote machine to see how I like it. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to copy and paste text between vim instances in two different tmux panes. I'd prefer to be able to use both the mouse and vim-like keystrokes (yy, dd p) to do this.

I've tried just about every recommendation out there for trying to get this to work but I haven't gotten anywhere. I'm running El Capitan. Is there a definitive answer out there for getting this to work?


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Since upgrading to Yosemite, I am having weird issues with sleep mode on my MacBook (mid-2011). Whenever my MacBook goes to sleep, it begins beeping (similar to POST codes on PCs) every 1-2 seconds, and I am forced to do a hard reset. This does not seem to happen when I am not connected to a peripheral monitor (Dell 21" monitor, and DVI adapter), however. Is this a known issue with Yosemite?

EDIT: Sometimes, this happens even without being connected to the monitor. The MacBook just goes into sleep mode, and begins beeping. Only a hard reset remediates the issue. Can someone provide me with a documented cause of this issue, and a fix?

EDIT 2: I've been fiddling with this for weeks, and I still do not know what the root cause is. I've used alternate profiles, eliminated the sleep image (per suggestion below), removed items from startup, and I still get this persistent behavior. Sometimes, after I do the hard reset, the Mac will not start back up after several attempts, but usually does after some time. I have done a hardware test, had it bench tested at a local Apple repair store, and tested the SSD for issues. None seem to be present. None of this happened until I upgraded to Yosemite. I'm out of ideas on this one. Hopefully, someone else has had this experience and can point me in the right direction.


texts: Jittery macOS mouse cursor when hovering over links

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I'm experiencing a jittery/buggy/flickering mouse cursor when moving my mouse over hyperlinks.

This occurs in both Safari and Chrome. It also occurs in other non-hyperlink instances of the mouse cursor changing, such as hovering over the drag handle when resizing Finder columns.
Every time the mouse transitions from the hyperlink pointer to the arrow pointer, the arrow pointer briefly visibly flashes in the wrong position before correcting itself.
This is in macOS 10.15 Catalina on my new 16" MacBook Pro with AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB GPU, provided by work and with a variety of software installed.
I now notice I'm also experiencing it on a Mid 2015 15" MacBook Pro running Catalina with the AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 GB. I don't believe this computer used to have this problem, prior to upgrading to Catalina.
This occurs 100% of the time when the discrete GPU is active. Namely:

Any time an external display is connected.
If "Automatic graphics switching" is toggled off, it will reproduce on the MacBook's display.

The issue has been tested and occurs using the onboard laptop Trackpad, external Magic Trackpad, and an IBM TrackPoint. It is unrelated to input device or tracking speed.

Reproduction steps:

Hover mouse above a hyperlink. (Shows "Mickey Mouse glove" pointer.)
Move mouse pointer off the hyperlink so that cursor changes to the arrow pointer.
Arrow pointer initially flashes at the "top left" position of the mouse bounding box for 1 frame.
Arrow pointer then flashes back to its true position, pointing at the same pixels that the hyperlink glove was originally pointing.

When I create a screen recording via QuickTime, the mouse glitch is not visible in the recording.
Here is an iPhone video of my Mac's screen demonstrating the issue:

Relevant section in slo-mo:

This is driving me nuts. On link-heavy pages, moving the mouse across the screen results in a dizzying blur of pointer motion. Middle-clicking a link also produces a similar jitter.

I've reported this to Apple via their Feedback Reporter:

FB8452310 - GPU causes mouse cursor glitch on 16" MacBook Pro

This bug is also mentioned here:

Mouse cursor flickers when changing states using the Discrete GPU - YouTube
When the cursor transitions from link mode to normal, it moves to the left for an instant before being displayed in the correct location.
Cursor shaking when changing from default arrow to pointer
If your mouse flickers on rollover, it's an OS problem.
Mouse cursor flicker (over links)
Mouse cursor flickering between arrow and hand on web links

OS X mouse cursor flicker (video)
Cursor Rollover 'Jerking'


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What should I do to aggressively lower the memory usage of my Mavericks installation ?

The only things I need to run are XCode and Firefox, everything else can go out the window; I'm not opening any app and yet I already feel the system's slowness, which is understandable because it runs with only 2,5GB of RAM but unfortunately I can't upgrade right now, so what should I disable and where ?


texts: How can I config my Mac to don't scape characters when I copy and paste some text on the console?

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Is there anyway to config my Mac to don't scape characters when I copy and paste some text on the console? Could anybody help me? It is driving me crazy to erase all \ characters inserted after a simple copy and paste on the console.

Many thanks,
Thiago


texts:
I have a problem with slow file transfers from & between 2 iMacs which I'm hoping you can help with.

iMac27 is a 2009 with 12Gb RAM & a 1Tb HDD running High Sierra 10.13.6
iMac24 is a 2007 with 4Gb RAM & a 500Gb SSD running El Capitan 10.11.6

Both the above are connected to a Sagem router by 2.4Ghz wifi. I have plugged a 32Gb USB stick into the back of the router to share files across the network, but transfering the files is very slow so I did some tests using the same file with the following results:

iMac27 to USB stick - 143.6Mb file takes 69 seconds = 16.6Mbps
iMac24 to USB stick - 143.6Mb file takes 73 seconds = 15.7Mbps
iMac27 to iMac24 - 143.6Mb file takes 153 seconds = 7.5Mbps

I have tried this before with a different ISP's router but had similar results so I don't think it's the router.
Any idea what could be wrong and what I can do to improve things as I can't live with this level of data transfer.
TIA


texts: How to change the default app for callto/tel links from Facetime to Skype/other?

texts: Callto/tel links inside Chrome open up for me in Facetime. How can I change the default application used for opening such links? (I'd like to set it to Skype)


texts: What's the best way to share and edit documents between iPhones with separate Apple IDs?

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My wife and I both have iPhones, we also have separate Apple IDs, but we'd like to be able to share and edit documents. We've looked at a couple of options:

Google Docs - Since it's lacking a native app, it seems to be difficult to edit on the phone especially for spreadsheets.
Page/Numbers iOS app - It appears that documents created by one user can not be shared with another one.

We both have dropbox accounts that we could use to share the docs, but is there app to edit them?


texts: Being asked to log into a different account on Mac App Store?

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Just recently I'm being asked by the Mac App Store to log into a different account to update my apps. I've never had a second Apple ID and this computer has always belonged to me, meaning there's never been another account logged into this Mac. Screenshot of the message attached.

  You have updates available for other accounts

  To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it.

I've tried signing out and logging back in, but to no avail. I had to remove Xcode and install it from scratch for it to work, but I don't want to do that with every app.

Any ideas? :(


texts: How do I recover "discarded" files using Pages?

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I was trying to save a file on my Mac and it said

  The document could not be saved.
  You don't have permission

I have papers to write and recover because they decided to delete themselves

How do I fix this "You don't have permission" error when using Pages on OS X?


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How do I make a new terminal window that is a child process of another one?

for example,

If I am in one terminal and I do export zzz=123  then a child process should have $zzz .

If I do cmd-n then I get a new terminal window but it is not a child of the previous one so it doesn't have $zzz

I'd like to be able to make a new terminal window that is a child of the previous one. How do I do that?


texts: Windows VM does not start in VMware Fusion after cloning old Mac to new hardware

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I had an old Mac with Sierra installed. Its screen got bad and I bought a new one with Sierra.

After cloning my old device into new hardware, my Windows VM in VMware Fusion is not working. It mentions " <user folder>/<directory for Windows VM files>/.Windows 7 x64-disk1.vmdk cannot be opened or some dependent files can not be opened". It also says something like disk power on failed.


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I am trying to install Savi-program for monitoring satellites found here via Terminal. I am developer so I have XCode installed. which gcc returns /usr/bin/gcc. Command make ARCH=macosx once in the directory is the code to execute. However, I am getting an error, saying 'X11/Xlib.h'. Where do I get 'X11/Xlib.h' so that the program installs successfully?

This is the full error:

Mains-MBP:savi1.4.9 mainuser$ make ARCH=macosx
making all in manual...
making all in manual/images...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in bin...
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in maps...
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in oogl...
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in data...
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in tcl...
tclsh mkindex.tcl
making all in src...
making all in src/include...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
gcc -O2 -DNO_ZLIB -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -pedantic -ansi -I./include -I/opt/X11/include   -c -o main.o main.c
In file included from main.c:38:
In file included from ./include/tcl_utils.h:40:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/usr/include/tk.h:78:11: fatal error:
      'X11/Xlib.h' file not found
#       include <X11/Xlib.h>
                ^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


texts: Can I change 10.8.2 Mountain Lion window corners from rounded to squared?

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Cosmetically I'd like all four corners of all OSX windows to be squared.

This proposed half-solution failed on Mountain Lion 10.8.2.

I may have seen a mod that was possible at MacThemes forum; alas I fail to recover any such thread.

How can I get corners on windows in Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.2 to be square instead of rounded?


texts: Should I enable TRIM in Crucial M500 SSD over Mavericks?

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I'm wondering what should I do with my Crucial M500 over my Macbook Pro with the last version of Mavericks.

I've read that enabling TRIM also slow down a bit the writting/reading speed of the hard drive, but that it is also needed in order to avoid problems when the drive is 80% used.

Some other people talk about the garbage collection saying that it should be enough.

I've been checking some topics such as this one but I don't have it very clear yet... it seems enabling TRIM can be a bit risky.

What would you guys suggest me to do?
Thanks!


texts: How to convert the cable in my photo to USB?

texts: I have an external hard-disk that doesn't have a USB port. It works with my MacBook. Now, I'd like to connect it to a PC machine, so I'd need to know how to convert the cable to USB. I'm not sure the name of my Apple cable (but it's definitely not a USB cable) and I don't have any idea whether the conversion to USB is even possible.


texts: Factory App (Music.app) not opening due some old "prevent from open" command

texts: If I guess well I was searching for a method to prevent the music app from opening, when bluetooth device connect to the mac. I tried many commands to find the way and probably this caused the side effect, that the music app not opening at all. (Jump once on the dock and thats it). I would like to get some advice, any command to force open the app, or just make it able to run. As it is a factory app, I am not able to download from appstore, even if I find the way to delete it. Ofc if I reinstall the system it will work, but I searching for a less painful way. Thanks in Advance


texts:
The latest git installers linked to from http://git-scm.com/download/mac all seem to be for snow-leopard http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/git-2.2.1-intel-x86_64-snow-leopard.dmg/download

I'm using a mac 10.9.3 (which I believe is Mountain Lion). How do I obtain the security update for git (the need for which is described here http://wptavern.com/critical-git-vulnerability-patched-update-your-git-clients-immediately)


texts: Why is a command line change to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist not effective immediately?

texts:
When the Info window of Finder is used to associate files of a particular type with an application:

the preference is effective immediately.

When Terminal is used to make a comparable addition to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

the preference is not effective immediately.

Question

Why does Launch Services not immediately respect a write to the user's com.apple.LaunchServices.plist?

An ideal answer might be a reference to a page in the Apple Developer area.

Answers need not involve running a command.

Background

Agent or daemon?

Wondering whether a daemon or agent makes changes to that .plist effective, I ran:

sudo launchctl list

In the list, under the label heading, I see nothing that might relate to Launch Services.

References

An answer to Stack Overflow question How to set default application for specific file types in Mac OS X? suggests:

  … to be reloaded. You can logout, wait a few minutes or force launchservices to restart …

In my case:

log out did not have the desired effect
I used the lsregister approach, but that type of scan is time-consuming.

The accepted answer to Super User question Is there a faster way to change default apps associated with file types on OS X? suggests:

  … restarting the OS to apply changes (logging out and back in isn't enough) …

— if a restart suffices, that's probably less time consuming than killing then seeding the Launch Services database.


texts: How do I get my Mac to receive iMessages sent to a phone number?

texts:
I love the new messages app on Mountain Lion. Ideally, if another iPhone user sends me an iMessage, I'd like it to appear on both my Mac and iPhone. Currently this only works if someone sends a message to the email associated with my Apple ID.

Since Apple does know both my phone number and email, is there a way to have all iMessages appear on my laptop?
If not, is my only solution to ask people to text my Apple ID email so it appears on both devices?


texts:
I updated my iMac to 10.14.5 and seem to have some problems.

The folder “Documents” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.

The permissions look OK (not sure what default should be)

~$ ls -lad Documents
drwx------+ 735 ian  staff  23520 22 May 09:53 Documents/

Finder says I have Read & Write access

EDIT1

I used Finder to give everyone Read only access, and now I can open it.

EDIT2

~$ ls -leO@d Documents
drwx---r-x+ 737 ian  staff  - 23584 25 May 11:39 Documents/
 0: group:everyone deny delete

EDIT3
I used Finder to revoke everyone access, and now I can access it normally.

~$ ls -leO@d Documents
drwx------+ 737 ian  staff  - 23584 25 May 11:39 Documents/
 0: group:everyone deny delete


texts: Can data be recovered from a water-fried iphone?

texts: My daughter has a 5s that was submerged in salt water and then attempted to power-up prior to the phone fully drying out. The phone shows no signs of life even when plugged into a power source and no computer recognizes the device. My question is whether data (specifically information in the Notes file) can be retrieved and, if so, by whom? These data are not backed-up anywhere; they only exist on the phone. Thanks in advance for any guidance.


texts: What should I look for when buying a used Macbook Pro?

texts: I had been a Windows guy for a decade and I am planning to buy a used Macbook Pro (2009 model).  What should I look for and check when buying a used Macbook Pro?


texts: Write a comment or description for an image in Aperture

texts: I have a ton of new pictures in Aperture (from a vacation.) I am trying to figure out the most productive way for me to crank through them and add a comment or new title. What I have seen calls up a dialog box for each image which will take a long time. Thanks


texts: Remove delay in updating order of recent windows of the same application?

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I'm loving that Command` allows user to switch between open recent windows of the same application, I am bothered by the fact that there is a delay in updating order of recent windows after I release both keys.

For example, I opened window A, B, C, for Chrome, in this order. Now, the order of recent windows for the application Chrome is

C, B, A

Now, when I press Command`, active window switch to "B".
If I release both keys, after some unknown length of delay, the order will update to:

B, C, A

However, if I immediately press the keys again, too quickly, before the delay expires, the order didn't change, it would bring up "A", which is not what I expected. I want to bring up "C". I know I probably can do that by CommandShift`, but the order is governed by this delay, which I have not control of and no knowledge of when order is updated reliably.

What I hope is that order is updated immediately after I release both keys - remove the delay so that quickly invoke of this feature jumps between most recent two windows of the same application reliably. And of course, if I don't release Command key, the order doesn't change, allowing me to go further back in the history.

Is there a way to configure this delay to 0ms to achieve what I want?


texts: Cannot change permissions on /System/Library

texts:
I am running OS X 10.11.8. I am attempting to change some settings in /Library/Filters/. I am logged in as an administrator (verified in System Preferences > Users & Groups). When I go to Finder > Get Info for /System/Library/, I am able to click the unlock icon, and my password is accepted.

However, when I try to change the permission for "everyone," I get the following error:

  The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission.

How can I resolve this?


texts: Headphones plugged in text messages make no noise

texts:
I am running iOS 10.  So when I receive calls with my headphones plugged in I get a ringer.

But when I get a text message with my headphones plugged in I get nothing.

Both "Do Not Disturb" & "Silented" from the orange side knob are disabled.

How can I make the text messages make a audible room noise even with headphones plugged in?

I am the latest supported version on my iPhone 5.


texts: How can I get OS X to challenge me for password after sleep?

texts: I'm running version 10.6.8. Where do I go to enable password challenge after sleep?


texts: Mail.app doesn't show the email body on my MacBook Pro

texts:
Sometimes Mail.app doesn't show the body of the mails. It appears just for a second under the sender and the objects but then it disappears.

When I close and reopen the App the problem is fixed (sometimes it requires several relaunches). The body of the mail is also shown if I double click on the mail and open it in a separated window.

I'm using the latest version of OsX and I've installed the plugin Mail Act-On 2.4.2.
Mail.app is configured for

How is it possible to fix this problem?


texts:
I have a customer who has used Entourage 2008 on High Sierra for his email. Entourage 2008 has since stopped working. So I can't natively export to mbox.

I have since installed office 365 for his use - but it will only import from Outlook 2011.

I tried installing office 2011 for mac to do the import and it will not install.

I have the database file just no way to export from it. Any suggestions?

Many thanks.


texts: Where are force click preferences stored?

texts:
Similar to others, I experience the issue where Force Click does not work to bring up the look up window, even in native Apple apps such as Safari. However, in a secondary user account, Force Click works as expected, while the System Preferences pane looks exactly the same.

Where does macOS (10.13.1, in this case) store the preferences for force touch and how to reset them?

Might this be related to the fact that sometimes Cmd+Ctrl+D does not work in my account (despite there not being a conflicting entry in Keyboard→Shortcuts)?

As far as I'm aware I don't have 3rd party programmes modifying trackpad/keys.


texts: MacBook Pro 15" mid 2014 shutting down during boot (after failed macOS Catalina update)

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I recently updated my Mac to macOS Catalina and it was going well until I installed the recent update and got stuck in the restarting installation process because there wasn't enough free space to finish the update.

What I tried to fix this includes:

using startup disk utility to select my disk to reboot from it (I read that this should bypass the installation and let me log in to my Mac to free some space before redoing the update) but it didn't work.
holding Cmd + R while restarting to get access to the repair utility where I deleted my Boot Camp partition where windows was installed.

What's happening now is that when I'm trying to log in a progress bar appears and after reaching a little more than halfway my Mac suddenly shuts down. So I've now tried:

resetting the SMC (System Management Controller)
resetting the NVRAM (Non Volatile Random Access Memory)
mounting and repairing my volume (but it didn't).

I can mount my disk and open terminal to navigate on it, so I was thinking that maybe the update was preventing my Mac from booting and that deleting the files that are being launched to perform the update when booting would probably kill the process but I wanted to share my problem before doing this and risking to erase important filesystem files that could corrupt my drive.

All my data is on this Mac and reinstalling the macOS is my last resort.

What else should I try to resolve this?


texts:
Revised Question

I am getting errors that mds cannot be started:

9/18/12 9:04:45.262 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.metadata.mds[4720]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11

Crash Report: PasteBin

Original Question

I ran cd /System/Library/LaunchDaemons
sudo launchctl load -w com.apple.metadata.mds.plist which returned com.apple.metadata.mds: Already loaded but when I go to my Activity Monitor and change my filter to All Processes and search for mds I don't see anything, is there a way to force mds to start?

I've tried everything on these sites:

https://superuser.com/questions/420068/spotlight-refuses-to-be-enabled-on-lion
http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/15/spotlight-wont-work-fix-a-broken-spotlight-menu-with-these-troubleshooting-tips/


texts: Can the list section shown in Day view in Calendar removed?

texts:
Now I've upgraded to Mountain Lion, when I look at Calendar in Day view, there's a ruddy great list in the middle of the window. I have 30 subscribed calendars that I need to be able to see and the list is not at all helpful.

As it only shows in Day view, can I change Week view to be a week of one day?

Anyone have any other ideas?


texts:
Updated to Mavericks: Now get following message for specific apps in Applications Folder: "you can't use this version of the application "DVD Player" with this version of OS X."
It then lists the version of the app that I currently have. This has affected 16 Apps on my iMac.  Some of them (Safari, Photo Booth) have updated version on my desktop that run.
With all of the other affected apps, do I have to purchase updated versions?
Also, how do I delete the non-functioning versions from my Applications folder?


texts: If I delete photos from my current iPhoto library which have been backed up on time machine, will it be possible to recover these photos from my time machine backup once they've been deleted from my hard disk/iPhoto library? or will time machine eventually delete them next time I backup?  does time machine keep my backups for a particular period of time before deleting them to make room for the next round of backups?


texts: I can't upgrade my Mac from macOS Sierra to macOS Mojave. Admin password required

texts:
So because of the quarantine my school sent me a computer to do my work and I want to upgrade the OS. It's running macOS Sierra, and I wish to upgrade it to run macOS Mojave. I can't do so as it keep asking me for administrator name and password.

Is there anyway to get around this?


texts: Older MacBook Pro doesn't see new modern Bluetooth speaker, why not?

texts:
MacBook Pro Mid 2012 readily connects to all my modern Bluetooth devices except it doesn't see my new Sony SRS XB43 speaker.
I turn off any devices that my MBP tries to connect to so only the Sony speaker is available with its Bluetooth light blinking to indicate attempting to pair, but it has never shown up on the MBP Bluetooth list.
The speaker readily connects to my iPhone 6 Plus.
From the Sony specs page:

Bluetooth
Communication System
Version 5.0
Compatible Profiles
A2DP/AVRCP/HSP/HFP/SPP
Supported Codecs
SBC,AAC,LDAC

From MBP system report

Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 7.0.6f8   Hardware, Features and
Settings:   Name: Mr’s MacBook Pro
Address:  14-10-9F-D0-3B-20   Bluetooth Low Energy
Supported:    Yes   Handoff Supported:    Yes   Instant Hot Spot
Supported:    Yes   Manufacturer: Broadcom   Transport:   USB
Chipset:  20702A3   Firmware Version: v156 c5918   Bluetooth
Power:    On   Discoverable:  On   Connectable:   Yes   Auto
Seek Pointing:    On   Remote wake:   On   Vendor ID: 0x05AC
Product ID:   0x8286   Bluetooth Core Spec:   4.0 (0x6)   HCI
Revision: 0x171E   LMP Version:   4.0 (0x6)   LMP
Subversion:   0x229C   Device Type (Major):   Computer   Device
Type (Complete):  Mac Portable   Composite Class Of
Device:   0x38010C   Device Class (Major):    0x01   Device Class
(Minor):  0x03   Service Class:   0x1C0   Auto Seek
Keyboard: On

Is there a way to manually enter the device address of the speaker to my MBP?
I have restarted MBP, debug Bluetooth on MBP to reset module, restarted again, turned speaker off and on etc.
Is the MBP so old now it cant see modern Bluetooth devices?
I havent been able to test this idea yet with a modern Mac to see if it can discover the speaker.
Any help much appreciated thank you


texts: Xcode 5.1.1 cannot run on device with iOS 8.0 version

texts:
I am using Xcode 5.1.1 as I require an app which supports iOS 6.1 and Above with base SDK iOS 7.1. I tried upgrading Xcode 6.0 but it is not able to run iOS 6.1 simulators. So I reverted back to Xcode 5.1.1 with a backup that i had kept.
As I upgraded my device to iOS 8.0, I am not able to run the same on the device with Xcode 5.1.1.

The following is the screen shot of what I See in the organiser.

Is there any way to run my app on iOS 8.0 Device using Xcode 5.1.1?


texts: Pressing CMD + Folder from dock opens finder at bottom page

texts:
When I press Command and click on a folder in the Dock, Finder should come up and show me it's location there. However, Finder shows up and the page is scrolled all the way to the buttom. So I have to scroll up to find the folder. The files are supposed to be arranged by Date Added. So new files are on top, and finder always starts from the bottom when a Folder is opened from Dock.

Why does this happen and how can I ensure that the folder accessed through the Dock is always shown in the first page of Finder ?

Please let me know if I should clarify further.


texts: Brother MFC Scanner not recognized any more

texts:
I have a Brother MFC-1910W connected by WIFI (multi functional wireless b/w laser printer, scanner and fax). Since a few days I cannot use the scanner any more.

In the first place the scanner icon was disabled so I decided to remove and add the printer. Since than the whole scanner icon disappeared as if the MFC has no scanner capabilities.

I have Brother driver 4.0.5 installed. I found a scanner 4.2.0 on brother support site (sorry, page not available in english). From that installation on I cannot connect using bonjour any more but using IP but still no scanner available.

Now the best: Accessing from another MacBook (both running 10.13.2) there is no problem. It seems some printer driver installation or preferences are broken.

Any idea how to fix, cleanup, whatever (maybe an option to reset all printer driver info would be fine)?


texts: How to get rid of the "Other..."-Account on the login screen?

texts:
Suddenly my MBP shows an "Other..."-Account on the login screen. I searched for a solution to get rid of it and found a couple of answers that say I have somehow activated/enabled the root user. All I did was using a couple of trivial sudo-commands at the command-line, but nothing experimental or which I am unfamiliar with...

The suggested solutions said I need to deactivate the root user in the Directory Utilities but it was not activated.

Are there any other solutions to get rid of this "Other..."-Account?


texts: USB Keyboard not working after Macbook wakes up from sleep

texts: I have a standard Windows PC-compatible USB keyboard plugged into my Mac. It works just fine, but whenever I wake my Mac up from sleep, I am forced to unplug and replug the keyboard from USB to get it to work.


texts: I received an notice on my iPhone saying, "iPad is now using ####@hotmail.com". This is my email address but I don't have an iPad. What does this mean? Thank you.


texts: How to disable certain Apps & access to PIM data on iOS

texts:
Anybody can describe how to disable certain apps on iOS and disable access to PIM (calendar, contacts, reminders, email) data? I've looked at the Restrictions feature and find that it limits access to apps by rating instead of disabling particular apps.

The reason being is that I'm prepping up for a trade show and will be handing over my personal iPad to a colleague (we're a tiny business) for use as an interactive display in the show. I'm OK if he use it to browse the web or even play some games, but I don't want him to go around looking at my e-mail, calendar, and financial records (hence, disabling PIM and some apps that owns critical data).

This event will last a couple of days and thus erasing my iPad just for this is a bit too much – I've had missing apps the last time I had to erase and restore due to an OS upgrade. Not to mention that we need some specific apps and data to be loaded on the device for use in the event (that is, a blank iPad won't be sufficient).

Thanks in advance


texts: What options does Terminal pass to bash on startup?

texts:
In the Terminal preferences, I'm able to configure the Terminal to "Open shells with:" -> "Command (complete path):" /opt/local/bin/bash.

What options is the terminal passing when invoking this command?  Terminal appears to run each shell as a login shell, so I'm assuming --login is being passed?

Is there any Apple documentation that gives an overview of exactly what is being run when you open a terminal window?


texts: Slow login (Active Directory User + Filevault2) - Mountain Lion

texts:
Two of our users have been getting this weird issue where their login to the computer seem to take "ages".

The issue seems to go away if you turn off FileVault.

However we need to keep FileVault on, but as this only effects a small number of users it seems like this is some specific issue with just their computers.

Info about the computers:

MacBook Pro (Retina) - Early 2013
Mac OS X 10.8.2
FileVault 2

Connected to Active Directory (Network Account Server)


texts: How to determine what an app does and if it contains malware?

texts:
How can we know on iOS and OS X what an Application really does?

On OS X you always can do the following: right click on an .app and "show package". Contents -> MacOS and double click the executable Unix file. Terminal opens and somehow tells you what the app does.

I don't know if you've heard but it seems somebody modified Xcode's compiler to add malware to apps. This modified compiler is as the media says widely spread in China so many apps are affected. So also as the media says a company has detected about 400 apps that seem to be infected.

My question now is, how you could tell what an app does on iOS? How to determine if it contains malware or something else harmful.

And is there another way to tell what apps do on OS X than starting the exacutable Unix file located in the app's package?


texts: How to kill and restart input language in macOS?

texts:
These days I have been stuck in a painstaking case where an input of language is not switched to some languages. I usually use English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese, but Japanese input language input has suddenly been unable to be switched on.

This can be fixed on restart, but it is a pain to restart every time so I would rather like to know a way, if any, to just kill and restart the input language.

For example, a command such as killall Finder or killall Dock.


texts: Lost all files after installing Yosemite

texts:
I upgraded to OS X Yosemite and I have lost all my files or I don't know where they are or how to get them.

I didn't realise that upgrading would delete all my files. Is there a way to go back to retrieve these files? All my business files, pics and personal files are gone.


texts: What is the position of HD Heads during a spin down?

texts:
So I'm debating between powering down and sleep mode when toting my macbook around in my backpack.  Apple says the HD 'spins down' when in sleep, which obviously means is not spinning.  But are the read/write heads completely removed from the platters as in power down or still poised at the last read/write position?
If they aren't cleared of the disc, I'm not dragging it around in sleep mode.


texts: Are there compatibility issues with Lion and VMware 2.0?

texts: I currently have a OS X Snow Leopard installation and Windows 7 as a virtual machine on VMware Fusion 2.0. Has anyone tried to upgrade to Lion with a similar setup? Are there any problems or compatibility issues?


texts:
I installed gdb via brew and also code-signed it. But even after doing that I am getting this error.

Error in final launch sequence
Failed to execute MI command:
-exec-run
Error message from debugger back end:
Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 14291: (os/kern) failure (0x5).\n (please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8))
Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 14291: (os/kern) failure (0x5).\n (please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8))

Any suggestions as what is going wrong and what I should do?


texts: Keyboard Shortcut to manipulate window position

texts:
I'm looking for a 'Bring all to back' command.

In fact, I'm using Magnet and I have many superposed windows, and I would like to put the front window A to back in order to see the window B just below the window A.

Actually, I'm using Mission Control (http://imgur.com/Or1bi5e) to select the window B but I'm sure that is not the fastest way and I would like to create a Keyboard Shortcut to put the window A to back.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Edit:

I can resumed by: "How to put a window back of the screen" instead of the feature "Bring to front"

Edit 2:

Screen aspect:

[Back A B C D E F G Front]

Screen content:

[] is screen
A B C D E F G are windows
A & C are from Finder
B D F are from Safari
E is from Notes
G is from Reminder

Then:

G is active
Put G to back
Get F on front

So:

If I put successively G F E D C B A to back I will retrieve G on front


texts: Open Keychain Access safety notes on iPhone?

texts: Is it possible to open Keychain Access safety notes on iPhone?


texts: How do I stop purchased music appearing on my iPhone with iOS7?

texts:
My Mac has everyone in the families music on it.  We have a playlist each that we sync to our various devices.

Since iOS7, all the music I've ever purchased from iTunes is now on my phone, not just my single playlist.

That wouldn't be so bad if the purchased music wasn't dominated by all the rubbish that I've bought for my kids.

I think it's just streaming, but it's still really annoying because my car shuffles between all the songs on the device by default.

Edit: Daryl's suggestion to turn off "Show All Music" in Settings got rid of all the purchased songs I hadn't played.  Ones I was foolish enough to play remain firmly stuck on the phone.

Furthermore, these songs cannot be deleted by swiping left to reveal a delete button.


texts: How to resolve dropping wifi issue since Yosemite upgrade?

texts:
As of today I experience random wifi connection drops on my MacBook Air 2012 that force me to reselect the network every ten minutes. The only recent change to the system was an upgrade to Yosemite. A google search indicated that others have the problem as well, yet as of yet I could not find a solution.

How to fix this issue?


texts: iPad repeatedly asks for WiFi password although unchanged

texts:
Sometimes our Internet service (terrestrial wireless funneled through our router to all devices in our house) temporarily stops working, but comes back up within minutes. During and after the outage our Windows and Android devices never report a problem with the WiFi password, just network issues, and never require the password to be re-entered to re-establish connectivity.

On the other hand, our iPad Air 2 (Version 11.2.6 (15D100) Model MH182LL/A) frequently requires the user to re-enter the WiFi password, on some occasions many times. This despite the fact that the Internet interruption has nothing to do with the WiFi password. Once I "Reset Network Settings" on the iPad, and naturally I expected to have to enter the WiFi password once more, but as before I must enter it again and again.

The router is an ASUS RT-N66R and I have changed little of its defaults other than of course the password, but I changed the password shortly after buying the router and haven't changed it since.

How can we avoid having to re-enter the WiFi password on the iPad every time there is some kind of Internet interruption?


texts: If I remove my SIM card from my iPhone, will iMessage still be connected to my phone number, or can I only be reached by my Apple ID email?

texts: I'm traveling internationally and I'm removing my SIM card. Even if I don't have my phone number connected to my iPhone by the SIM card, will it still be connected to iMessage for people to contact me through? Should I tell them to text my Apple ID email(s)? Or well I still be able to receive the messages if they text my phone number?


texts:
I want to connect to my home mac using screen sharing from another point in the world. But even though I can connect to my home mac from the local network with my macbook (which is nonsense to me). I could not manage to connect it from another network.

I read articles about screen sharing, watched some youtube videos and also installed Screens app. At the end, I am totally confused with the network jargon and app usages.

Could someone help me to sort it out? All I want is to use screen sharing(if applicable) to connect remotely.

Best Regards


texts: Mac Mini with OS X Server v. a dedicated NAS

texts:
I'm debating on whether or not to get a Mac Mini, install OS X Server, run it headless, with storage attached v. Thunderbolt and use that for network access of photos v. a stand alone dedicated network attached storage device.  I'm not interested in streaming videos.

Thoughts about the speed of one configuration v. another?


texts: How do I take apart an Apple iPod Connector?

texts: The cable, not the part on the actual iPod.


texts: How do I get rid of a menu extra that I installed?

texts: I am on a limited functionality school account with no access to System Preferences. I am a curious child, and I opened the folder Mac HD -> System  -> Library -> CoreServices ->Menus. I copied all the .menu files to my desktop and opened a few of them. I now want to get rid of the menus from the notification area. I can move the .menu files to the trash, but I can't delete any of them that I already opened. I get a "File in Use" error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: How to download WWDC 2011 session_310__whats_new_in_instruments

texts:
I can not download WWDC 2011 session_310 whats_new_in_instruments well. I do not know why.

Other WWDC sessions are downloaded as expected , As you can see

Any Tips?

I guess to inspect element and adjust JavaScript is OK.


texts:
I downloaded a Java library and noticed, that for every file and directory there is a binary file of the form ._<name>. It contains something like:

  "Mac OS X ... com.apple.quarantine ... com.google.Chrome"

Have those files been added by an Mac OS X IDE (I'm an Ubuntu user planning to use the library with Eclipse)? Can I safely remove those files?

TIA for your help!


texts: Is there a way to enable "Services" menu for an application?

texts:
Almost every OSx Application has a service menú like this:

But I've found that my HipChat for MAC doesn't have. I don't know if there is a setting that will enable this menu or it is something related to the way the application was created.


texts: What is the font used on Console.app in macOS Sierra?

texts: Looks like Console.app went through some changes in macOS Sierra. I really liked the font used in that app but can't find it anywhere in the app (probably they disabled changing the font altogether).


texts: Can the Mavericks install binary be shared between two different apple accounts?

texts:
My question is similar to Re-use Mavericks install file, but instead of re-using the Mavericks install file on my own Macs, I would like to make a copy for a friend (so he doesn't have to download such a huge file over his slow connection).

Is this legal?

A side thought; Does this question even make sense if the binarys have the same checksum?

Is there anything unique to the install file? (e.g.: My app store account details.)

I was thinking if we dropped it in place in the /Applications dir and then he went to the app store and "bought" it, it would detect the file was already in place and proceed as if it had been downloaded.

(Not trying to do anything dodgy, just trying to save him from downloading a file that I already have.)


texts: "One-way synchronization" between Mail and Gmail?

texts:
In the past (say, with Snow Leopard, although I don't remember exactly when I set up my old client) it used to be possible to have a "one-way synchronization" between the Mail client and a gmail account in the following sense: the Mail client would download any new messages that were sent to my email, but would not notify gmail of any changes that I made locally.

The main advantage of this setup is that I could have an unofficial "cloud storage": my local client would be where I actually did my work. It would contain the emails I actually needed to respond to, and my drafts, etc.  But I could recklessly delete things locally with the knowledge that if I ever really needed them, even years later, I just had to log into my account online.

Is there any way to do this with El Capitan? or at least to simulate the effect somehow?


texts:
I did not find the command in Brew of Yosemite 10.10.3.
I am reading the command developed from here:

pv -s $(blockdev –getsize64 /Users/masi/Dropbox/1/r3.raw)

I think blockdev is Linux specific command at the moment and not existing directly in OSX.

How can you install Blockdev in OSX?


texts: How to delete images already imported into iPhoto?

texts: I have a large number of random folders of photos on my hard drive, some of which have been imported into iPhoto. How do I figure out which photos have been imported into iPhoto, so I can delete the non-iPhoto copies?


texts: Unable to open multiple documents in Word or Pages using Command-O in OS X 10.9.4

texts: When using Microsoft Word 2011 on a Mac PowerBook running 10.9.4 I am unable to use the Command-Open command to open more than one file at a time. I can open each file, one at a time, but if I drag several files and drop them on the Word icon or use Command-Open, only the first two files open.


texts:
I am using Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro and have Windows 7 installed.

Unfortunately, due to the changing nature of my work, I need to switch to full time Windows, and encrypt my laptop.  I'm going to delete my OSX partition, leaving only my Windows 7 partition, and install Truecrypt, but I get the message saying that the first 32 kB of my system drive needs to be free in order to use TrueCrypt.

With the Macbook Pro, it looks like there is a 200MB GPT partition at the beginning of the drive.  If I'm going to use Windows 7 exclusively on this MBP, can I delete that 200 MB partition, or will this cause me booting issues?


texts: Do users incur any charges for receiving push notifications on iPhones, even if indirectly?

texts:
I was always under the impression there is no charge associated with using push notifications but this suggests otherwise:

http://mashable.com/2013/07/03/mobile-data-travel/

If a user receives a push notification, especially when in a roaming situation, is there a charge associated with that, even if indirectly as a consequence of the push bumping up the amount of data they have used and thus potentially incurring data overage charges?


texts: Time Machine Backup to drive shared on BTHomeHub3?

texts:
I have a Freeagent GoFlex Drive hooked up to my BTHomeHub3 router. My Desktop PC is backing up to it fine but I'm having troubles with Time Machine.

My Mac can mount the drive perfectly fine and use it but it won't show up in time machine's list of disks.

I've enabled showing unsupported volumes on my Mac to try and make it appear but it won't appear.

Any ideas how I can get it to show up in Time Machine?


texts: How to access the "Deleted Photos" Album on an XR running iOS 13.3?

texts:
I would like to delete the photos in my "Deleted Photos" album right now. I have found several websites advising how to do this, but they all say to open Photos and then to click on the Albums tab, and my problem is that when I click on Photos I don't get an Albums tab! When I open up Photos, I can see thumbnails and then at the bottom of the screen there is an icon that enables things to be done to a selected photo (greyed out because no photo is selected), the words "Select Items", and on the right there is the bin icon. There is no "Albums" tab.

I am able to see the names of some albums by selecting a photo and then clicking on "Add to Album", because that gives me a list of albums in which I can save the photo, but the list doesn't include the "Deleted Photos" album.

How do I get to this Album tab that people talk about? And if it no longer exists in iOS 13.3, how else can I delete the "Deleted Photos" album?

Note: I do not use the iCloud.


texts: Screenshots getting piled up in the folder on Sierra

texts:
When using Yosemite and El Capitan, I set up a folder where screenshots are sent by default. Once screenshots were taken, they'd be added to the bottom of the folder, all in a grid and such.

Ever since I upgraded to Sierra, however, the screenshots, even though sent to the right folder, are put in some random position in it. As a result, they get piled up on top of other screenshots that were already there. Is there anyway of fixing this? What could be causing it?

I realized this is happening on all of my folders, not just the screenshots one. Whenever I used to add new stuff to a folder, it'd get sent to the bottom on that folder, and now it gets piled up on top of the item on the left side of the fifth row (the bottom-most row on the window before I resize or maximize it).


texts: How can a malicious video get into my FaceTime call?

texts:
Apple's recent update (10-Dec-2019) deals with fixing the following security issue:

  Impact: Processing malicious video via FaceTime may lead to arbitrary
  code execution

If I call somebody via FaceTime video, how can a malicious video get into it? I mean, my video call is a video but it is not malicious. Where from does some other [malicious] video come?


texts: Why is my site getting error reports from users with iOS7 on a MacBook?

texts:
I've asked this question already on Stackoverflow though got referred to this forum here.

I got a list of Safari bugs that happened on a MacBook running iOS7. I am a bit confused now as afaik iOS7 is an operating system for iPads and iPhones only - or am I wrong?

PS: I am aware that my question might sound a bit odd but I am used to Windows (cough, cough) and don't know much about Macs and their operation systems.


texts: Why my iMac is not allowing me to sign in with a new Apple ID?

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I have already signed in with ten different Apple IDs on this Mac this was the 12th time I was trying to create a new Apple ID and sign in to this Mac, and it was then when my Mac (system preferences) gave me an error that this Mac can no longer be used to make a new Apple ID please check myappleid.com, so I went over to my appleid.com and created a new Apple ID then tried to sign in to iCloud with this new Apple ID, it was then when my Mac/system preferences gave me this error that this mac can no longer be used to sign in with a new Apple ID!

I am stuck, please help!


texts: iTunes Library problem - how to search and delete for similar filenames with different extensions?

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An iTunes error (documented in this AskDifferent thread) has left my library folders full of duplicate files, but with different extensions. Over time, when I have found an album that iTunes can't find I have deleted the local files and downloaded from iCloud. This has left me with the downloaded m4a files but also the original 'lost' mp3's - the files were never actually missing, but the links in the iTunes database were corrupted somehow.

I could delete the entire local library and then download from iTunes Match/iCloud but it's a very large library and this could take many days on my internet connection.

Trying to convert the 'known' mp3's to m4a's and deleting any left over 'lost' mp3's would take far too long.

Could a terminal command or applescript search within a folder and match identical base file names but different mp3 and m4a extensions and then delete the corresponding mp3 file when found? It would need to do this recursively down into each folder and sub-folder within the music folder.

example
Music Directory:

Directory1:

file1.mp3
file1.m4a

Directory2:

Subdirectory1:

file2.mp3
file2.m4a
file3.mp3
file3.m4a


texts: I have an iPhone 4 that I shut off with the touch assist because my lock button is broken. How do I get my phone to turn back on?


texts: Use iphone or android as external mic for macbook using bluetooth

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Is there a way I can use an iPhone/Android phone as an external microphone for my Mac? Ideally without a cable i.e. bluetooh/wifi.

Edit:

Since this hasn't been answered yet, I would be okay with using cables too if people know how to do that.


texts: iPhone won't boot after installing higher capacity battery

texts: I wanted to upgrade my iPhone 5 to a higher capacity 2680mAh battery, but when I installed it the Apple flashes on and off and the phone will not turn on. I had to reinstall the old battery. Any solutions?


texts: Can I download a version of iWorks from Apple that will work with 10.6.8 before I upgrade to 10.7 or above.  I have a lot of Appleworks files I want to convert before I upgrade the system.


texts: Automatic downloads in iTunes & App stores UPDATES on

texts: In my iPhone 6 iTunes and App stores there is automatic downloads in which my Updates are on. Can I keep these Updates on or shall I turn off to prevent mobile data usage on roaming, or will these updates only happen on Wifi?


texts: How to identify a corrupted file system early

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I recently had an external hard drive develop a corrupted file system.  At first, I started noticing some errors when trying to open certain files on it, and now OSX has told me that it has frozen the disk as read-only.  I have everything backed up, so it is not a catastrophic problem.  But, it is still a hassle to deal with.  I would like to find a way to identify such issues sooner.

I'm not concerned about identifying bad sectors or failing hardware issues (such as discussed here: How to identify and fix files with corrupted / inaccessible disk blocks), as I have other software in place already to deal with those.

My naive approach to this would be to either:

(a) write a script that goes and tries to open all of my key files periodically to check for errors and/or (b) periodically doing full checksums against my backup.  Both of these, however, seem both slow and troublesome in terms of the extra wear they put on disks.

My ideal solution would:

Identify file system corruption early
Pinpoint precisely which files/directories are affected (so that I can address just those affected locations).

If that second point isn't really achievable (I'd need to have a pretty high confidence in getting every problem file and location identified), then I'd at least settle for the first.

I know that there is some third party software (e.g. Diskwarrior) that advertises an ability to diagnose these problems early, but I am unclear about how effective it actually is at that.


texts: Can two different App with the same name exist in App Store?

texts: Is it possible I use same name but different icon for an App I sumbit to App Store?


texts: OS X attempting to connect to non-existent server

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My wife's Mac is acting up and I've been trying to sort it out for a while with no success.

Anytime she opens a new Finder window, tries to upload an image to Facebook, exports an image from Lightroom, or does any other file related task. The system hangs for 1 to 5 minutes before popping up an error that says "There was a problem connecting to the server "Steph's Mac". Everything then proceeds to work normally.

Here's the thing. The computer that is having the problem is called "Steph's Mac". There is no other computer with that name. There never was a server called "Steph's Mac"

Here is what I've tried:

Sharing settings: disabling SMB
Disabling file sharing completely
Finder / Connect to server: clear recent servers...
Changed computer name to "Studio Mac" Error window still reads "Steph's Mac"
Signed out of iCloud account
Sys Prefs / Accounts:

Login Items - removed all of them
Login Options / Join... / Open Directory Utility... searched mounts. there was none

disabled Bluetooth
Ran First Aid from Disk Utility on all the drives.

Edit: Added more checks

cleared ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cleared /Library/LaunchAgents LaunchDaemons & StartupItems
cleared ~/Library/Preferences
Disabled Dropbox Finder integration
Turned Adobe Creative Cloud Sync off

End Edit

I figure somewhere deep in the preferences it's finding something that's telling it to connect to a server. But I can't figure out were.


texts: iMessage sync with computer after deleting

texts: If you send a text on your iphone and then immediately delete it while the synced Mac computer and ipad is off/not connected to Wifi, will the messages still appear in chat on the Mac when you connect it?


texts: I have MacBook Pro and in Lion for zoomIn I used control + trackpad up. now it has changed. How can I changed it back?


texts: Are USB ports on a Thunderbolt dock inherently more reliable than USB ports on a USB dock?

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This question refers specifically to the use of external 2.5" drives, spinning or ssd.

External drives on usb hubs we all know are very flaky, even for powered hubs.

Surprised I couldn't find an existing answer to this question. Quoting experience is one thing, but a technical reason why usb hubs are unreliable and why thunderbolt is better (if it indeed is for this use case) would be excellent.

It's a thunderbolt 2 dock I'd be looking to get, for a 2015 mbp, if that helps.


texts: Hooking up a MacBook Air to a traditional stereo system

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Premise:

This machine: 11" MacBook Air 2012
This amp: Pioneer A-209R
Cable: 3.5mm jack ↔ double male RCA connector

Goal question: How do I get this hooked up properly?

I’ve tried simply hooking the MBA to the amp’s Line In. Doesn’t sound good. I assume that since it’s a headphone port it’s pre-amplified whereas Line In expects a plain un-amplified Line Out signal, ergo distortion. Yes?

If so, does one of the amp’s other inputs expect a signal pre-amplified as per the headphone port’s output, so that clear sound will come out the other end?

Or is there no place on the amp where the signal from the headphone port is suitable, meaning I’ll need extra USB hardware? If so, what keywords am I looking for? Is a DAC what I’m after? Those seem to usually come with a headphone amp built in, though? (That is useless to me.) Or should I be looking for something else – e.g. is a “USB soundcard” the thing I’m after? Or maybe I want something entirely different?

I’m finding that my grasp of all this stuff is at a level just sufficient to give me leads – and then leave me confused about which direction to choose for what case.

So:

What’s the done thing here?
It would also be nice to get enough of a glossary intro that I understand the choices.


texts: iOS Audiobook player without iTunes media library

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I would really like to find an audiobook player that works on iOS without using the iTunes media library.

Here is my problem: iTunes (on Mac) mixes audio and e- books together.  I have a fair sized software development library in e-book format and I can't begin to say how annoying this is when I am trying to manage (or use) e-books.  I can't say enough how I don't want audio books appearing in alphabetical order mixed in with my developer library.  Removing the "audiobook" designation will make the impossible task of separating modern and classical music on iTunes that much more aggravating.

I used to have a similar problem with podcasts being in the same app as everything else, and I solved that by switching to an iOS podcast app: it downloads podcasts, stores them outside of the media library, remembers my place even after I have been listening to music, and is far easier to operate than the Music app.

Unfortunately, every iOS audiobook player app I have found seems to use the iTunes media library for its storage, solving only half of my frustration.

Any suggestions for audiobook management and playing alternatives on iOS?


texts: Create keyboard shortcuts for touch bar's functions

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I have broken the touch bar in my MacBook Pro 13". Only the ESC key keeps working.

Replacing the touch bar may be expensive so I'd like to know if it is possible to replace its functions with keyboard shortcuts.

The functions I am highly interested in are:

volume
screen backlight
keyboard backlight


texts: How to back up my text messages from iPhone to computer

texts: I have my many precious messages on my iPhone. How can I back up to computer freely without using iTunes?


texts: Destroyed user account on OS X with dscl; how to restore?

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I was trying to create a new user on my OS X Lion machine, and somehow managed to destroy my own user's account. Here are the steps I took; hopefully someone here can recognize what I did, and maybe identify some way around this.

First, I ran these commands:

sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/elasticsearch
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/elasticsearch /bin/bash # mistake!
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/elasticsearch UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/elasticsearch RealName "Elastic Search"
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/elasticsearch UniqueID 503 # MY uniqueID
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/elasticsearch PrimaryGroupID 1000
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/elasticsearch NFSHomeDirectory /Local/Users/elasticsearch

The big mistake I made here was using "503", which was my user's UniqueID. Immediately my shell username changed to "elasticsearch". I fiddled around, tried to change the current user with sudo su -u sritchie, but this didn't work.

On restart, only the "Elastic Search" user was available. I logged into the Lion Recovery partition and reset the root password.

After logging in as root and checking on the terminal, I made the remarkable discovery that my home folder was totally empty. I deleted the elasticsearch user, but it made no difference. I don't see anything in Deleted Users either.

The odd thing is that when I log in now as myself (sritchie) I can see desktop icons with previews. I can even open a few text files from the Downloads folder if I use the dock alias to Downloads.

Could this data be hiding somewhere? Any help would be REALLY appreciated!

Thanks,
Sam


texts: How to configure the colors for Terminal Profiles

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I thought it might help me to color code some of my terminal windows, e.g. made my Redis terminal red.

But setting the color seems to have zero effect on the actual color of the terminal window

The result when the window is activated is still grey

Thanks for any info


texts: Can I revert a new MacOS X installation using a Time Machine backup?

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I regularly use Time Machine to create backups of my current macbook.
I am trying to upgrade to MacOS X Big Sur, but I was wondering what happens if I don't like it?
Is it possible to downgrade back to my current version of MacOS X using a Time Machine backup from just before upgrading the system?
I do not use any specialty boot up situation. I do not boot up from external drives.
It's just my laptop with its SSD. I keep larger files in external drives but OS X doesn't get installed to those drives.


texts: In OSX Mail, how do you type an address without completion/correction?

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Aside from manually removing items from Previous Recipients, is there a way to type in an address in Apple Mail exactly as I'd like, without autocompletion?

For instance, address completion often uses a "pretty name" that differs from what I'd like for an outgoing email (e.g., if another person has sent me mail with the name formatted differently.)  When this happens, it's genuinely difficult to find a way to enter the address exactly as I intend to.

(I don't want to disable autocompletion completely, just when typing certain addresses.  That said, I don't believe there is a preference to turn it off completely either.)


texts: How to disable Game Center process (gamed) on OS X 10.11 El Capitan?

texts:
It seems I can't edit the plist file from LaunchAgents — even if I sudo, I'm prevented from any deletion/alteration.
Do I have to necessarily disable SIP to do this?


texts: Can the function of the iTunes shuffle control be changed in iTunes 11?

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I just updated my iTunes to 11.0. I just want to know how I can make the songs in my playlists in shuffle mode, but not the songs in my Library. Before with iTunes 10, you can have that option where you only shuffle songs in your playlists but not the library. But with iTunes 11, I can't seem to find that option. When I have songs in my playlists in shuffle mode, it also shuffles the songs I play from my Library.

So, can shuffle only affect a playlist and remain unset for general library play?


texts: What to do if you forgot your lockscreen password?

texts: How would I go about forgetting my lock-screen password? What can I do to get back in? This is about the iPhone 4, 4S and 5. More of a How-To question, someone I know forgot their password.


texts: COUNTIF using two conditions from data inside and outside the dataset

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I'm struggling to use numbers to do a function. Specifically, I want to use COUNTIF to check two things within my data set table and put that information into another table that we'll call "query set". I want to check for one variable that is within the first column of the query set is the same as the first colum in the data set and that the value is the same as the query set's first header.

I just don't know how to do that because using COUNTIF("Raw::January::1st:31st", $A2) works for making sure that one query condition. I guess the question is how do I filter COUNTIF so that it uses the second query as a check as well? I kinda want to do something like this, want it to only COUNTIF(January::$A:$AE,$A2, January::$A:$AE,"$January::$A:$AE = B$1").

You can take a look at the spreadsheet here ...

https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BALRr1zYI0yyan4pV9yBoRCulAUCthE6_niE/Ask_Different

So what I want to do is check that the value of the cell is equal to $A2, and that the header of that cell is the day of the week I'm looking for as well.


texts: Diskutil & Bootcamp couldn't remove Windows 10 partition

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I've installed windows 10 latest build on my mac using Boot Camp Assistant, And I'm trying to remove windows 10 now.

I've tried uninstall using Bootcamp Assistant but it could not recognize my windows installation.

My windows works well and BitLocker is not enabled.

Then I tried Diskutil in terminal, diskutil list command output as below

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         180.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         60.7 GB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +180.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume                         91.6 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume                         82.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume                         529.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume                         1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume                         11.3 GB    disk1s5

Which windows is installed on disk0s3.
But when I tried sudo diskutil eraseVolume free free disk0s3, I encountered error below
Started erase on disk0s3
Unmounting disk
Error: -69879: Couldn't open disk

After above attemption, I've checked my Diskutil app and found below.

My total storage is about 256GB, and I could only see a 180GB partition under SSD.
What should I do to fully remove windows installation and restore my mac storage?
Thx in advance.


texts: Jumbled block instead of mouse pointer in login window

texts:
This jumbled block to the left of my login screen is my mouse pointer:

I've lost the little arrow.

I'm having trouble determining what the cause could be. I'm not sure if it's the data display cable or the GPU but I'm hesitant to say that those are the causes because everything else displays just fine.

I was hoping somebody has seen this before because I'm a little stumped.


texts: Force installing untrusted Safari extensions

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Before Safari 9, I was able to install any extension on Safari without any problems, but after Apple updated its Developer Program, it seems that I can't install extensions not already signed by Apple and in Safari Extension Gallery. I had two untrusted extensions installed and working, but had to remove those and I can't install them again.

I'm still having hope, because when I double click the extension file, Safari shows me a dialog like this:

But nothing happens when I click on Trust. It just dismisses the dialog and won't install the extension. Is there any way I can install this extension?


texts: What is the maximum/optimized size of the OSX photos.app library?

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I was using aperture with referenced images. The aperture library is about 20gig, the folder containing the referenced images is 200gig. I exported versions of a selection of my pictures (6000) and imported those into photos.app for a trial run. The settings (checked) in photos.app are: iCloud Photo Library, Optimized Mac Storage, My Photo Stream, iCloud Photo Sharing.

Right now my Photos Library has a size of 23gig. Which is used mainly for Masters as seen below:

When checking my iCloud-Setting (in System Preferences) the size of photos in the cloud is 16gig.

I use a MacBookAir(late2010) right now with 128gig of storage. So I was hoping photos.app would upload all the pictures in full-res to the cloud and keep low-res pictures locally. Right now it seems the local copy is even larger. I had my mac book on wifi (and connected to power) for some days now (only 78 pictures left for upload).

So my questions are:

What is the target size Photos.app is optimizing for?
Is there any way to change/adapt this target size?


texts: rMBP - Keyboard + trackpad unresponsive at random, reboot fixes

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I've had this issue twice today and is troubling me a bit. As the title already summaries; without notice, the keyboard and trackpad seem to get unresponsive. The system is actually still running (seeing animations and other stuff still happening). The keyboard power button does actually work, pushing it will summon the screen to logout, restart or shutdown, but I can't actually hit any buttons (ofcourse). So I eventually hold down the power button to power down and then power up again, after this, the problem seems to be resolved.

I don't know if this would be a hardware or a software issue. And I'm wondering if someone knows this problem? I've updated my Macbook recently to 10.8.2.


texts: Is it possible to create an invisible rule in Mail?

texts: I'd like to apply a mail filtering rule within Mail without it appearing in the rules list. Is there any way to make this happen, either from within, or from outside the app?


texts: using chrome os as client in vmware fusion

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I've been wracking the net for several days on this topic. i want to run Chrome OS virtualized in VMWare Fusion on my mac. While it seems Parallels Desktop has a quick and easy method for running Chrome, the same can't be said for VMWare.

the most common resource for Chrome OS builds is http://chromeos.hexxeh.net, but it hasn't been updated in years. Meanwhile a new source — http://arnoldthebat.co.uk/wordpress/chromium-os/ — provides images for VirtualBox and as .img, neither of which I've had any luck getting to work. despite attempts to dd the images to USB disks, or convert the .vdi files to .vmdk, the results are always the same: "no operating system found" when VMWare tries to boot.

it would seem there ought to be a community resource for providing containers, or appliances, that VMWare can run with the latest builds of ChromeOS. if anyone knows of such a source, I'm all ears.


texts: How can I automate changing the quality of several photos?

texts:
I would like to be able to reduce the quality of the photos I have in a directory through some sort of automation.  One of the requirements is that I cannot change the dimensions of the photo.  The way I have been doing it so far is just by

opening each photo in preview
choosing save as
selecting jpeg
selecting a low quality
saving

This can take a long time when I have over 100 photos.  Is there an easy way to automate this with AppleScript, or through any other sort of means?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to format as subscript in PowerPoint 2011?  Most sources point to command-= but this zooms out.  Is there a way to customize these shortcuts, or more importantly to discover them without spending a lot of time googling?


texts: How do I add VTT subtitles to a MP4 video to view on an iPhone iOS?

texts: I have a .mp4 and .vtt file with the same name. I tried to synch both the files to iTunes by importing them at the same time, but when I play the video, there are no captions. The video plays in the browser (Chrome) with captions fine. How do I add the .vtt subtitles to the .mp4 video? I would prefer a raw, native way to do it, without using a third-party app (except for iTunes). If not possible I would be OK with FFMPEG if needed.


texts: My phone number has been “ghosted”. Is there anything I can do about that?

texts: I’m now receiving phone calls from my own number. This ghosting of numbers has gotten completely out of hand! Is there any way to fix this?


texts: Applescript to check for the existence of a file

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I record radio programs during the night and then run an applescript to rename the files.  I have the script working unless there is no file named that I am attempting to call and rename.  Here is my code that is working:

set Yesterday to (current date) - (24 * 60 * 60)
set myYesterday to (date string of Yesterday)
set y to year of date myYesterday
set m to month of date myYesterday
set d to day of date myYesterday

set newMyYesterday to m & " " & d & ", " & y as text

set newHourOne to "Recording1 - " & newMyYesterday & " - Hour 1.mp3"
set theFile to (POSIX file "/Users/Administrator/Recordings/Recording1.mp3") as alias

tell application "Finder"
    set the name of file theFile to newHourOne
end tell

set newHourTwo to "Recording2 - " & newMyYesterday & " - Hour 2.mp3"
set theFile to (POSIX file "/Users/Administrator/Recordings/Recording2.mp3") as alias

tell application "Finder"
    set the name of file theFile to newHourTwo
end tell

Can someone please show me how to check to see if the individual file ("Recording1.mp3" or "Recording2.mp3") exist before trying to rename the individual file?  Thanks!!


texts: NO LOGINS: System going down ... stuck and won't shutdown

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I issued a remote SSH shutdown command to a headless Mac server. However, the server is not shutting down and I can no longer access the server with SSH, I get this message:

  NO LOGINS: System going down at 08:16

This was nearly 20 minutes ago. What can I do now that the machine won't shut down and I cannot login?

I realize I can push the power button, but I have some Drobos attached that could loose data if don't gracefully shut down.


texts: Invalid certificate for a specific website

texts:
When trying to navigate to a specific website (amazon.com in my case) I always get the "NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID" error in Chrome (and equivalent errors in Safari/other browsers). When clicking to see the cert I can see that it's trying to associate it with the wrong website (register.be.xfinity.com instead of amazon.com) - see screenshot:

The background story is that my internet access modem was temporarily disabled and always routed all access to that xfinity "activation" website and I guess at some point I clicked approve to update the cert from that fake website. I tried removing the cert from keychain and adding it back (importing exported one and marking it as trusted) but it didn't help.
How can I fix the issue? Help!
Thanks!


texts: Does a factory reset also format device, or just delete and remove indexes?

texts:
I am just wondering when using the option erase all content and data how this is done from a system side, does it format a partition on the memory or does it just delete it remove indexes like a normal delete? I would imagine the system files are pretty much untouched? Example scenario I am imagining here is;
A) system partition 2GB ish
B) recovery partition, no idea
C) user space, everything else
So when a factory reset happens does C have it's data deleted or just totally formatted?
If the later would it skip empty cells on a format?
For example Joe Bloggs gets a new iPhone, usage is 20gb/120gb. 3 days later factory resets it, does it use one of the flash memories finite writes on the entire partition  using limited writes or skip over it and write over just the 20gb? I am assuming here that the memory in each iPhone cell can take around 20,000 wipes anyway, so would each cell go down to around 19,999 on average or just the cells that used to have data on before the format if there is one?


texts:
I am trying to enable autocomplete for git on my mac (currently running El Capitan) but I am having troubles with Homebrew.

So far, I have installed bash-completion and added the lines in my bash_profile, as seen in this post The problem comes when doing brew install git (although there must be another git installed in my machine sin I have used it).

After reinstalling brew, I get that git is installed but it's not link:

Warning: git-2.7.3 already installed, it's just not linked

I try using the command brew link git and I get this:

Linking /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.7.3...
Error: Could not symlink share/git-core/contrib
/usr/local/share/git-core is not writable.

Have anybody faced this situation before? How can I link git and what's exactly the "linking" problem?


texts: How can I ensure that iBooks in my Library are up-to-date?

texts:
Like me you may have seen updates available for some of your iBooks, and that might have made you assume that when a book gets changed in the Store, it gets updated in your Library. This appears not to be the case. I’m not sure why some books do get updated that way; but not all do.

Apple's own documentation for the Swift language, for example, had changed since I originally purchased the iBook; but no update was produced in the Store (causing me to rely on out of date information) and the only thing I could do was to delete and re-download the up-to-date iBook (which removed all my annotations, of course).

Is there some mechanism that I'm missing for ensuring that iBooks in my Library are up-to-date?


texts: A better way to navigate my music collection

texts:
In the Apple Music app, I like the Artist view, because it allows me to navigate to an artist quickly. But if I have a lot of albums from the selected Artist, I might have to scroll quite a bit to find a certain album. That's because for each album all songs are displayed next to the album. Is there a way to truncate the song list in the Artist view?
I kind of like the Album view too, its quite compact, but there doesn't seem to be a way to show albums only of a certain Artist. Ideally, I would like to select an Artist, and then have the Album view with albums only for that artist. Is there a way to customize either the Artist view or the Album view to do that?


texts: How to Gift iTunes Songs from United States to friend in Vietnam

texts:
I have a friend in Vietnam. I tried to gift her an iTunes song, paid for it. She got the email but could not access the song.
How can I send her iTunes music when she is residing in Vietnam? Any suggestions?


texts: Location of Account/ Login picture on Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra

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I used this solution -

sudo dscl . -read /Users/$USER JPEGPhoto | tail -1 | xxd -r -p > ~/Desktop/$USER.jpg

Is there any other better way to locate the filesystem storage location for this picture?


texts: Can still move and edit files on a hard drive, even though the permissions are set to Read Only

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I'm running the latest version of macOS Catalina.
I'm trying to make it so that someone can read all the files on my hard drive, click on them and look at them but not move them, edit their names, or copy them into any other folders. To my understanding, this is the purpose of Read only.
When I go to the drive permissions, I can see that I can set custom permissions depending on the user. So I set "Read & Write" for the Admin (me) and then "Read only" for everyone else.
Here's where I'm confused.
When I log in as a Guest on my own computer, I can see under permissions that indeed, I can only "Read" my harddrive. BUT that doesn't seem to mean anything because logged in this way, I can still rename move and copy all I want.
So where am I going wrong? Is read only a myth?? Is there different way that doesn't involve mega computer skills? How can I make it truly Read Only?
Pictured below: This is the Get Info window that pops up if you right click on the hard drive I'm trying to change the permissions of, taken when I log in as a Guest. You can see that the permissions for everyone else is set to Read only, and it does say "You can only read". Even so, I can still edit and move files as normal.


texts: Interface Scaling / Independent Resolution per Application on MacBook Pro Retina

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I have a MacBook Pro Retina and I run it on the unsupported/non-HiDPI 2560x1600 to be able to work on multiple windows at the same time.

This resolution increases the DPI allowing a large screen real estate. Everything seems fine, i sometimes need to Zoom to a particular window (Ctrl+Scroll) but it's not bothering me.

I find an issue using Microsoft Office (Excel and Word), where I'm constantly having to zoom in at 200% inside the document to be able to read and write.

Pre-Retina, there was an Interface Scale Factor that could be increased System-wide or Application-wide. The Application-wide would let you decrease/increase the DPI per application such as iTunes or Safari.

The command was something similar to:

  defaults write /theapp/ AppleDisplayScaleFactor 0.85

This command doesn't seem to work on my system (Retina/Mavericks)

My question is whether it exists something similar for my Retina (Mavericks)?
Basically I want to increase the Scale Factor/Independent Resolution/DPI per Application and try to get the UI of Office (or other applications) to be larger, which would help a lot in a 2500x1600 world.

Thank you,


texts: Ext4fuse usage to see and browse the volume in Finder

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I want to copy some files of my old encrypted SSD with ubuntu.

I installed ext4fuse and done sudo ext4fuse /dev/disk3s1  /Volumes/Linux, although I don't know if it is the right partition number (where can I see them in Disk Utility?).

How do I open then the disk in Finder? Possibly in the "devices" section. I navigated to /Volumes and didn't see Linux (or whatever it is).

MacBook-Pro:Volumes mbp$ ls
Linux       Linux2      MacintoshHD
MacBook-Pro:Volumes mbp$ ls -la
ls: Linux: No such file or directory
ls: Linux2: No such file or directory
total 8
drwxr-xr-x@  5 root  wheel   170 Jul  4 15:38 .
drwxr-xr-x  29 root  wheel  1054 Jun 22 05:43 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     1 Jun 22 06:01 MacintoshHD -> /


texts: How active is my mobile phone when I'm not using it?

texts: I wonder whether there is any study/website/research work or a place to check how much data my phone is sending when I'm not using it. My question is: when my phone is off, but I'm not actively using it (just left it on my desk) do any of the apps on my phone send any network data to servers, etc.? Can I somehow check this information on my phone (I have iPhone 7) or maybe someone already did such an analysis?


texts: Anyone know of an "Office Timeline" plug in for Powerpoint on Mac?  I love https://www.officetimeline.com, but it's for Windows only. Mac must run Fusion or such to support Windows Office, not Mac Office.  I'm looking for suitable functionality for Office Mac Small Business Premium SP3 (build 14.3)


texts: Linking Outlook.com mail account and Mac Mail via Active Sync

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I've setup a new outlook.com account and I'm trying to add it to Mac Mail. In the past when I've had Gmail account they've allowed me to use IMAP, but with Outlook.com you don't have that option - only POP3 or Active Sync. I don't want to use POP3 as it doesn't sync the back to the server, so I want to use Active Sync, which works in a similar way to IMAP in terms of syncing everything.

How can I add an Active Sync account to Mac Mail? I've had a look around but could find any info on it, any ideas?


texts: How do I gain access to wireless network logs in iOS (iPad Pro)?

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I have an iPad pro that will connect to my 5GHz wireless network, gets an IP from the DHCP server (verified on the iPad and on the router itself), and then after 10-20 seconds it disconnects for no apparent reason. It repeats this in a cycle if I have auto-connect turned on. There are no error messages that I can see which would indicate the reason for the disconnect, and examining the logs from the wireless access point it appears that the iPad just decided to disconnect on its own. I have tried forgetting the network on the iPad and reconnecting. I have tried rebooting the device. All to no avail.

I am hoping I can enable logging on the iPad and determine the reason for the disconnect. This iPad is the sole Apple device I have. I do not have a Mac, so am unable to use XCode. How do I get to the logs? Is there any other way to determine what's happening?


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While showing items as icons (not in a list, in columns or wit cover flow).

In order to know file size I right-click the file then select Get info then a window opens full of info and I have to look around just to find file size.

Is there some way to make it easier? May be hold Command while hover over file..


texts: I have a 4 years old iPhone 3GS that suddenly stopped working 1 and a alf years ago. It was already out of warranty so I preferred getting a new phone instead of reapiring it. But now I need to get its MAC address, however both on iCloud and using the backup I did on my pc some time ago, but I couldn't find any way to recover it? Is it written phisically on the board and opening the phone could be useful? I still have the serial number if that could help.


texts: Is there a way to stop downloading an app without restarting the iPhone?

texts: Is there anyway to stop downloading an iphone app without restarting the phone?


texts: (icloud photo sharing) Two phones, two cameras... one unified place to upload?

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all I want is for photos from my wife's iPhone and my iPhone to background upload to the same place?

My preference is to stay within Apple's ecosystem, but I will happily consider anything reliable.  My impression is that Google Photos, Carousel/Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. are flakey with automatic background uploading, but I would love to be corrected on that impression.

Sharing the same AppleID isn't optimal for a variety of reasons.  I think my primary beef here is limitations with iCloud Drive and Family Sharing both still feeling like beta features, but photos is really where it hits me.  Even if I could just assign Photos to something other than the primary AppleID on the phone, that would do it.

Similar questions have been asked, but not for a while (certainly not since ios9 that I have seen-- I did look), and I don't think they are exactly the same.  That said, it blows my mind that this isn't easy, so maybe I am just being stubborn.  I can't be the only person who thinks this should be easy, can I?