texts: Eject an external disk after improperly disconnecting it

texts:
I have a repeatedly run into this problem. On the one hand we could say, "always remember to eject your external drives before removing them". However, it's a matter of fact that I will forget, at least sometimes.

On macOS Mojave, this results in a complete system breakdown. What happens is that the disk is still shown as connected to the computer, but it's not actually there.

Any attempt to eject the disk, either with the UI, Disk Utility or commands such as umount -f /Volumes/TheDrive/ fail (hang).

Also, any processes that need to be aware of /Volumes/* will also hang, for example fuser /Volumes/TheDrive hangs, and eventually the Finder hangs.  This means that most software eventually hangs.

Attempting to reboot the system hangs.

The Finder hangs, and trying to restart the Finder hangs.

The system becomes unusable and unrecoverable and can only be fixed by holding down the power button to kill the electricity.

I am looking for a way to recover the system when it is in this state.  Probably, I need to kill certain processes and somehow eject/unmount the (not-connected) external drive that is the culprit.

Research:
This  is a different problem, with no answer Eject / unmount ghost external disk on macOS

This does not work https://www.mactrast.com/2012/07/quick-tip-force-a-disk-to-unmount-in-os-x/

This discussion does not address my issue https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3619092

(and many other dead ends...)

rm -rf /Volumes/TheDrive hangs as well.


texts:
I am running Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" Server and using Open Directory to provide managed preferences and user accounts to the Macs on our local network.

Any AFP shares on the Open Directory server "Victoria" which are marked as "Use this sharepoint for home directories" are automatically added to Open Directory as automounts. But I want to add other automounts, specifically those on a different AFP server, and one on an NFS server.

In 10.6 Server this could be done using the "Server Admin Tools" app. This app doesn't work with 10.8 Server. How do I create a network automount with Open Directory in 10.8 Server?


texts:
How can I make it so Terminal will remember the currently open windows on Quit, and reopen those windows, with all the existing text intact?

I have two machines:

Both on El Cap
Both with identical Terminal preferences, including:

Profiles > Window > Restore text when reopening windows [checked]
Profiles > Shell > When the shell exits [Don't close the window]

Both with identical .bash_profiles (just for LSCOLORS)

On the first machine, Terminal reopens windows exactly as I left them before Quit.

On the second machine, Terminal always starts with an empty bash window.  I can still press up to get previous commands.  (And the scrollbar is different on the second machine, FWIW).

I can't figure out what's responsible for the (desired) behavior on the first machine, so I haven't been able to port it to the second machine.  Any suggestions?


texts: How can I make macOS respect HOSTALIASES environment variable?

texts:
According to the Apple developer documentation, setting HOSTALIASES will make a process look in that file for hostnames instead of /etc/hosts.

However when I tested this with ping and a replacement hostfile, the replacement never got used, only /etc/hosts (according to fs_usage) - I have also seen similar complaints online.

Is there a way to get a process to respect HOSTALIASES or otherwise use a different hosts file?


texts:
Ok, unless I'm missing something, I can't see my podcasts anymore? The only place they appear is in a new "Podcasts" playlist, which isn't much use to me for keeping track of episodes and subscriptions.

Am I just being blind? :-/


texts: Why does my iPhone keep crashing except on low power mode?

texts:
I have a one year old iPhone 5s.  After about six months of use it started crashing and restarting.  This often happens when launching an app, when I imagine power consumption may be at its highest.  Through trial and error I noticed that enabling low power mode prevents crashes entirely.  Without low power mode I get about one crash per few hours.  I have tried wiping the OS and reinstalling to no avail.

What's happening and what can I do to fix the problem?

In case it's relevant I will describe what I see during the crash and reboot.  The normal Apple white startup logo appears on a black screen and occasionally when it crashes there are thin vertical red and blue lines.


texts: Recovery HD present but can't boot from it

texts:
I fiddled with partitions on my MacBook Pro with OS X Yosemite, but now I'd like to reinstall the OS to restore original setup.  Recovery HD is there, but if I press CMD + R at boot, Internet Recovery is run instead of normal Recovery from Recovery HD.  I know that I can reinstall OS also from the Internet, but it would take forever and I need to restore my Macbook within two days (downloading OS X Yosemite from App Store requires other 3 days and counting right now).

Probably I messed up GUID Partition Table (but OS X works flawless). Is there a way to make it possible to boot from Recovery HD and reinstall OS from there instead of using Internet Recovery?


texts: Can the iPhone XS or iPhone X record screen at 1080p via QuickTime?

texts:
I need to record some gameplay of my app at 1080p, and I am considering buying an iPhone XS or iPhone X to do so. I currently record the screen of my iPhone 7 via
QuickTime for better quality, and the output is 750x1334, matching the resolution of the iPhone 7.

Before I commit to buying a new iPhone, I wanted to confirm whether I can record the screen of an iPhone X or XS via QuickTime at full 1080p. Anyone know of this is possible? Thank you.


texts: macOS Mojave (10.14) - how to get a full installer without using the macOS Mojave Patcher Tool

texts:
I just want to install macOS Mojave (10.14) on one of my Macs without an internet connection. Therefore, I need an "offline" installer.

With previous versions of macOS I used the createinstallmedia command without any problems. However, this time I can't use this because when I download the installer from the Mac App Store on another Mac I only get a file that is 22 MBs in size.

I am aware of the "macOS Mojave Patcher Tool" but for my own reasons do not want to use this.

In summary, how do I create/obtain an offline installer without having to use the macOS Mojave Patcher Tool in a situation that downloading from the Mac App Store isn't possible?


texts: Bootable USBs no longer appear at startup

texts: I recently had my Macbook (early 2015) reset after a bootloader mess up I won't get into. When I got it back I found that it would no longer show bootable USBs at startup in the boot menu even though it definitely recognised them as seen in Finder. The BUSBs definitely work as they have been tested on other computers, namely Windows 7, Windows 10 and a Debian box I have. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


texts:
I'm confused regarding what options I have to be able to keep working on my work computer.

According to DiskSweeper, this is how my 500GB disk space is used:

Besides from things that cannot be backed up (applications, library, system...) most of the data is my working files.

In my workflow as a designer, I often open old projects for insight or to reuse previous assets.

If I made a hard drive copy and then deleted it from my laptop, I'd have to plug the hard drive in every time I need to consult an old project or do a search, and I'd have to know exactly what I recently modified each time I want to do a backup.

If I made a Cloud copy and then deleted from my laptop, I'd often have to download very large files just to get previews of large files or videos (for example Backblaze doesn't offer file thumbnails).

If I used Time Machine, then got rid of the files on my HD, some of the oldest versions would disappear after a while when Time Machine runs out of space or notices I deleted them from my HD.

Are there other options out there that are not too complicated, and would allow me to have a full copy of my work as accessible as possible, but not hosted on my computer's HD?


texts: Can I update the flagged emails in Mail 10?

texts:
After upgrading from Mavericks to Sierra, the flagged emails folder in Mail v.10.3 (3273) has been problematic. The folder shows 8 emails but I actually only have 3. I cannot find a way to update the folder so it only shows 3 flagged emails. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12.4), Time Capsule; AGT784WNV DSL Gateway


texts: bindkey not working from inside .cshrc file

texts:
Here is my .cshrc:

echo Enter
bindkey ^Z run-fg-editor
bindkey ^[OA history-search-backward
bindkey ^[OB history-search-forward
bindkey ^[[A history-search-backward
bindkey ^[[B history-search-forward
echo Exit

"Enter" and "Exit" both get printed, but the keybinding is not working.
If I try to execute the same commands, or source the .cshrc again, it works. Can anyone tell me what is happening?

tcsh --version
tcsh 6.18.01 (Astron) 2012-02-14 (x86_64-apple-darwin) options wide,nls,dl,bye,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec


texts: Having Remote Desktop in Full screen view

texts: Is it possible to have Remote Desktop running in Full Screen mode ? Like it is possible to have with Real VNC, for instance.


texts: MacBook Pro 13" OSX 10.12.6 won't control Minecraft access with Parental Control

texts:
I don't want my son to use Minecraft until after he has finished his homework.
Even after applying Parental Controls (Minecraft DOESN'T show up in the list of "Allowed" applications), he can still run it at will !!!!

How do I block it's usage on a restricted account (on which it shouldn't normally run.... !) ?


texts: How to import edited (cropped/filtered) photos from iPhone to Mac?

texts:
I take photos with my iPhone SE running iOS 10.2.1.
I edit the photos in the native Photos app (cropping and filtering).
I sync to my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) using the native Photos app via USB.
Only original versions of the photos appear in Mac Photos. Where are the edited versions? They still appear as edited-only in iOS Photos.

My workaround is to view each photo individually and upload to Dropbox, then download to my Mac and import into Mac Photos, but this is extremely tedious.

Is there a better workaround, or even an actual solution?


texts: How to charge iPad with one or more USB devices connected?

texts:
I use my iPad with lightning power cable, to execute live theater lights show through an ArtNet server to DMX dimmers signals in Wi-Fi.

I need to connect two USB devices to it, one keyboard and one USB buttons tables like the Novation to launch a single light scene from keyboard or button USB table, but at the same time I need to continuously charge the iPad because it will work for 10 hours always connected to lights dimmers.

How I can connect two USB devices to the iPad and charge it the same time?


texts: What devices are supported for bluetooth in OS X Mavericks

texts: I just tried to connect my stereo to my mac via bluetooth. However, my mac does not find the device. Is this expected? Which devices does OS X Mavericks support for bluetooth? Although bluetooth uses a common standard it does not necessarily mean that all devices that supports bluetooth are supported by any other bluetooth device.


texts: What is the difference between OneDrive from AppStore and standalone installer

texts:
Right now there two options for installing OneDrive:

Install from the AppStore
Download and install a standalone installer

What is the difference between the two if any? (but then why there are two options to install it?)

I could not find any explanation on Microsoft website.


texts: Cannot connect to Apple and iTunes Store

texts: I own an iPhone 4S with IOS 7.1.1 and started to use iCloud 2 days ago. Today, I couldn't connect to iCloud and the iTunes Store. It appears that I need a wi-fi connection to connect, but I've using my wi-fi for some time now without a problem. I can still use Google and What'sapp, but the iPhone is saying I need to have a good connection. I can use other apps that need an internet connection, but every time I open Safari it says that I need to have an internet connection. I even tried some methods to troubleshoot the problem by changing the date and time and rebooting and resetting my phone. Can anyone pls. Help me???


texts: How do I clear disk space on Mac OS Catalina?

texts:
diskutil shows

Container Total Space:     250.1 GB (250135076864 Bytes) (exactly 488545072 512-Byte-Units)
Container Free Space:      10.1 GB (10112528384 Bytes) (exactly 19751032 512-Byte-Units)

Finder says I have 48.56 GB available. Any suggestions for the 38 GB difference?

Catalina beta 4 won't download until I clear more space.


texts: Terminal redirection not working on MacOS Mojave?

texts:
System: MacBook Pro (early 2013), running up-to-date Mojave.

To analyze CPU utilization when an application is running I'm doing the same I've done over and again in a Linux system; running the following command on terminal:

top | grep idle

This works as it should, screen output is:

MacBook:Desktop Peregrino69$ top | grep idle
CPU usage: 13.14% user, 15.97% sys, 70.87% idle
CPU usage: 10.94% user, 8.53% sys, 80.52% idle
CPU usage: 10.95% user, 6.94% sys, 82.9% idle

However if I do

top | grep idle | tee ./utilization.txt

... unexpectedly there's no terminal output at all, and the resulting file is empty. This failing I tried

top | grep idle >> ./utilization.txt

... with the same result.

Testing redirection with a simple echo command echo hello | tee foo works as expected; the word "hello" outputs both on screen and in foo.

What's going on?


texts: Touch Bar Server shows up in Activity Monitor, but no Touch Bar on my Mac

texts: I have an early 2013 13" Retina MacBook Pro. I was checking Activity Monitor and noticed that TouchBarServer is usually at the top of the list for both CPU and Memory. Mind you, the 2013 MacBook Pro doesn't have a physical touch bar. I tried stopping the process and it warned me that it is a root process, but I went ahead and force quit it. A moment later, it popped back up.  I'm curious if anyone else has done anything with it? Any way to delete it completely?


texts: Syncing my iMac and Macbook Pro - All Data and Files

texts:
If I'm wanting to sync my iMac and my MacBook Pro so that I don't have to connect it every time or back it up through time machine what would be the best way? I want a true sync. So If I save something on the iMac it populates on the MacBook Pro and vice versa.

Would that be through a cloud structured database? Or is there a better way?

Thanks in advance of course!


texts: I can't remove items from the sidebar in Finder

texts: I'm having trouble removing items from the sidebar in the finder window. I can right click on Applications, and ill have options for it saying "remove from sidebar". However, I have a lot of things on my sidebar that don't even let right click on them and remove them. How do I go about removing things from the sidebar?


texts:
I am a web developer and am wondering why os x comes a long with a lot of gnu tools (nano, bash, vim). How can apple provide them in their closed-source system when the GPL forbidds this?

Regards,
Bodo


texts: Is there a way of increasing the width of the LaunchBar bar? Especially when I enter something that results in a web page, this width is insufficient for showing the full title, not even talking about what I entered.


texts: Siri's language choice (Settings) - does it affect speech recognition?

texts:
If I prefer to hear US/Canadian Siri, will she understand my Australian accent?

Sorry Australian-voiced Siri, but you sound too much like the Telstra automated bill payment system voice. And I'm used to hearing the US/Canada Siri so I would rather select that language option in Settings.

Apple's Siri FAQ page says:

"the more you use Siri, the better it will understand you. It does this by learning about your accent and other characteristics of your voice. Siri uses voice recognition algorithms to categorize your voice into one of the dialects or accents it understands"

I am curious about whether it will correctly categorize my voice as being from an entirely different region to the one I have selected or just pick an accent from within the region I have chosen and maybe never achieve the best potential accuracy. It seemed that after I switched to "English (United States)" accuracy went down. I haven't been using it long enough to decide whether it is improving.


texts: Can't backup broken iPhone 6 without entering pin

texts:
I have recently broken the screen on my iPhone 6 and want to back everything up before I take it into apple to be repaired.

My problem is when I go to back the phone up in iTunes, it wants my pincode. I can't put my pincode in as my screen is broken!

The screen seems to be responding to key presses as it vibrates when I touch the screen where I think the numbers are, but this still doesn't work.

Does anyone know a way I can get a backup of my phone despite this issue?


texts: Controlling MacMini volume with MacBookPro volume keys?

texts:
I have a MacMini which I use as a server and DVR so it constantly has shows and movies playing on it. I'd like to be able to delegate the volume keys on my MacBookPro to the MacMini and control it's volume from my MBP.

Both devices are always on the same network with static internal IP addresses.


texts: Does "Secure Empty Trash" securely delete the hidden version files for documents in the Trash in OS X Lion?

texts: The new Versions feature in Lion creates hidden files that store old versions of the document you're working on in case you want to revert back to some older version of the document. If I drag a document to the Trash, then select Secure Empty Trash from the Finder menu, do the hidden version files get securely deleted along with the document?


texts: iPhone or Apple Watch as an external keyboard for an iPad

texts:
I'm interested in using a 3rd party app (GoodNotes) for a presentation on my iPad. When a keyboard is connected to the iPad, clicking the right arrow will advance to the next page/slide. However, I do not want to carry a full bluetooth keyboard while presenting.

Is there any way to emulate a bluetooth keyboard from my Apple Watch or iPhone such that I can control the iPad? Or, is there another way to control the iPad with an AppleWatch or iPhone?

I've found one possible solution called WeBe++, but I would like to do this without jailbreaking the iPhone.

I realize that many keyboard and mouse emulation apps are available, but these require a host application to be installed and therefore do not work on the iPad. They do work well between an iOS device and a Mac.

In case no solution to the above is available, I would consider other solutions that combine the AppleWatch and iPad, or iPhone and iPad. I also looked at PowerPoint and the WatchOS app, but it requires the iPhone to be the presenting device. I will need to the ability to draw on the iPad during the presentation with an Apple Pencil and I would like to save the notes after the presentation.


texts: Does resetting the rating on an app also reset the top "Most Helpful" rated reviews?

texts:
I have an app that hasn't had the ratings on it reset in almost a year. During that time it has accumulated a large amount of healthy 5 star ratings/reviews. However, the top review that shows on the app store product listing is a 1-star lengthy review. This 1-star review was at one time a 5-star and managed to accumulate enough "Helpful" votes to land it's way to the top of the reviews for the app. In a stroke of what I see as bad luck, the owner of this top review changed their rating to 1-star. So now when you visit the app page, you see this 1-star review. I am now trying to figure out a way to remove it. Reporting it does not do anything.

So my question, if I reset the rating when I submit a new update, will it also reset the top "Most Helpful" reviews?


texts: How to stop downloads from being organized by date?

texts:
Many moons ago I installed an application that moves downloads into a desktop folder with today's date as the title. I would like to stop this behavior.

However, I cannot remember what I did to cause this behavior.

Specs:

10.7.x
Mac Pro.

Things I've tried:

I checked System Preferences and Activity Monitor, and see nothing
obvious.
I made a separate test user account, and this behavior does not occur
in this account.

Any other ideas what to look for to get rid of this, would be most welcome.


texts: App crash after a long time loading iOS12?

texts:
Normally, I can launch these apps. But after a point of time, all of the apps will crash after a long time loading.

I have tried to restart my phone, and clear all recent apps. But still not working.

My environment iPhone 7, iOS 12 with all apps update to latest version which compatible with iOS 12.

I have recorded a video here.


texts: Why won't Special Characters display certain characters?

texts: When I access Special Characters (⌘+⌥+T), many groups of characters will not display any characters. Coptic, Glagolithic, Runic, Gothic, etc. (Mostly more obscure characters) I'm running OS X Lion.


texts: Is there a standard delay for consumer ratings of apps on the App Store?

texts:
I have an app that's been out for a couple of weeks. Its not exactly selling like hot cakes yet, but I'm pretty sure I've gotten a rating or a review by now. But nothing shows when viewing either in iTunes or directly on the AppStore on the iPhone.

Is there a standard delay as to when ratings/reviews show up, that Apple imposes, especially for new apps? Or do you think there is some problem with Apple's system?


texts: Is it possible to publish a movie from iMovie to youtube if you have two factor authentication on?

texts: I want to publish a movie I made in iMovie to youtube but i have 2 factor authentication on.  When i enter my username and password, the login fails.  Is there any way to support this without removing the extra security?


texts: Has there been an end date established for the Maps app on iOS less than iOS 6?

texts:
It has been reported that the contract between Google and Apple to supply maps for iOS has not been renewed (or perhaps already has or is about to expire). Furthermore, it's clear that Google charges significant amounts of money for businesses like Apple to use the maps API so it's not clear to me that this data feed can continue to older OS indefinitely.

Has anyone seen a credible announcement if and/or when the map data might stop working for people that choose to stuck with iOS 3, 4 and/or 5 and the Google-data-fed integrated iOS mapping app? (And by choose, I mean the devices are not even supported on iOS 6 so the choice is more to buy new hardware or keep running what you have.)

I'm not looking for an alternative (like running Google Maps on iOS 5.1) - just an announced or a real end date of the map tile feed to iOS.


texts:
Activating iTerm2's "hotkey window" (i.e. drop-down console) also brings to front all other iTerm2 windows. Is there a way to avoid this, making OS X treat each window as a separate application rather than as a group of windows?

Aside: Deactivating/hiding the hotkey window again makes it retain focus (only) if the previously focused window was also an iTerm window, otherwise hiding the drop-down console correctly refocuses the previous window. Seems like that might be related to the issue above.


texts:
I have a USB stick of thousands of songs which I want to be able to play on my work laptop (macos).
Ideally I want to set up the "Music app" (renamed iTunes) so that it will monitor the USB stick and automatically detect if new music has been added to it (on my personal windows PC foorbar2000 does this for me). Is there a way to do it in mac music?
What I have tried so far. In the "Music App" I have:

Disabled option to "copy when adding to library"
Disabled option to "keep music organised"

Then I use "Add folder to library" and it kind of works. But it seems to stop, after a while and does not add all the music. It seems to run in alphabetical folder (Artist) order. First time stopped during "A". If I do "Add folder to library" again it adds more music, I have repeated a few times and got to "D".

Is there some reason the "Add folder to library" is not working properly? Does it have limits? Or does it give up if in background for too long or if laptop goes to sleep?

But even if add does work, its will not automatically monitor for changes like foobar does right?
I also tried changing the setting of where the music app keeps media to the USB stick, but that didn't work either, nothing shows up.


texts: Data not backed up, System not booting, Getting Error: -69845 after trying to fix bad Partition Type

texts:
A few months ago someone installed Linux on my computer using rEFInd for a project. I am using a 2015 13" Macbook Pro with 256GB SSD. The partition for linux was made to be 60GB. After the project I somehow deleted rEFInd and completely forgot about the rest.

A few days ago I noticed that I had only 190GB of fully usable space and remembered that Linux was probably still there. After trying to use diskutil I thought deleting the Linux partition and resizing the Apple AFS partition everything would work. But sadly after deleting it,the partition with my data on had type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF on my main bootable drive. Now after restarting my computer I get a black screen followed by GRUB Minimal Bash screen.

After following instructions on Data Not Backed Up, Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF I tried the commands to change my partition type to a normal OS-X partition. After doing that verifyDisk didn't give me any problems but verifying that volume returned

Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed.
Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

These are the photos of $ diskutil list and $ gpt -r show disk0.

I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to commands like this so any help is appreciated. I have important data on the disk that I hope is not erased and won't be erased that is not backed up anywhere else.


texts: How can I make Apple menu shortcut keys work more like Windows?

texts:
I recently converted from Windows to Mac, but one thing that I really liked on Windows was how easy it was to traverse the menu bar and the associated submenus with the keys.  Effectively, I would push the magic menu button and then type letters corresponding to menu options.  With Mac the analog is an awkward button combination followed by repetitively hitting up, down, left, and right.

So, is there any way to make my Mac behave like a Windows computer in this respect?


texts: How do I avoid inadvertently switching workspaces?

texts:
I keep accidentally dragging windows into other workspaces on my Macbook Air running OS X Lion.

Can I disable dragging into other workspaces or make doing so more difficult?


texts: Not sure whats happening here (cant update past 10.15.1 - late 2012 mac mini)

texts:
Consider the image

So I downloaded the delta and combo 10.15.2 update for mac osx. I first started noticing something odd when I re-installed catalina on my mac mini 2012 - which is supported.

As you can see I have over 900 gigs of space on this SSHD - it is a hybryd drive, never had an issue with updates previously, never had an issue till today.

For context, I did reinstall, what did that entail:

Erasing the HDD that contained the OS (the one highlighted).
Installing the OS to that HDD

I am not on beta preview or anything like that and the regular software update states:

I tried installing in safe mode, wouldn't let me. For the reason described above in the first image.

As far as I know there should be nothing wrong with the HDD or no "compatibility issues" with the HDD, previously I was on beta for the last OSX installation High Sierra and all the updates came through including the beta catalina updates and so on and so forth, the reason I decided to reinstall after so long was Catalina beta updates felt like windows vista - nothing would work properly.

I do use home brew and home brew cask to install things but out side of PHP, MYSQL, Atom, Imigmagick and a few other things related to web development I have not installed any software that would be "incompatible" with future updates.

I did originally try to go from 10.15.1 to 10.15.3 but someone on another stack question said no, go in order 10.x.1, 10.x.2 and so on.

So can some one tell me whats going on?

Please tell me this will not require me to erase and reinstall I would be very sad. While it wont take me long to get up and going again I would rather avoid that situation if at all possible.

PS: I don't know enough about bootable USB's when it comes to macs, and while I do back everything up.  I would also like to avoid that route as from other stack questions it seemed dangerous or could fail. If reformatting is the only option is there any steps I need to take to make sure the disk is compatible with future updates?


texts: How do you pronounce the clover-like key (⌘)?

texts: How do you pronounce the clover-like key ⌘ ?


texts: How do I get archive to work in Mail.app in Lion?

texts: I can't get archive to work on Lion. When I choose archive in Mail.app it creates a folder called Archived. That's not what I want. When I choose delete it doesn't remove the message from my inbox. It is just greyed out. Right now I leave the messages in the inbox and archive them from my iPhone, which works great. Please help me get this working.


texts:
Whenever I try to download an app it will buffer forever and on my home screen the app will only say waiting.

Why is this and what is the solution?


texts:
I have a 32GB USB. I recently used dd to write a Linux image to the USB. Somewhere during dd my Macbook froze.

When I plugged it back into the laptop after rebooting it wouldn't show. I left it 20 minutes and it finally said the disk cannot be read.

It shows in disk utility, but the drive name is 0958342385823429 and the info on the drive is as follows:

Name :  Generic USB Flash Disk Media
Type :  Disk

Partition Map Scheme :  Unformatted
Disk Identifier :   disk1
Media Name :    Generic USB Flash Disk Media
Media Type :    Generic
Connection Bus :    USB
Device Tree :   IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14
Writable :  Yes
Ejectable :     Yes
Location :  External
Total Capacity :    0 Bytes
Disk Number :   1
Partition Number :  0
S.M.A.R.T. Status :     Not Supported

I can't format the drive, I've tried partitioning within disk utility and in the terminal using fdisk to no avail. Here's some more information:

fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 0/4/63 [1 sectors]
Signature: 0x0
     Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

fdisk:*1> disk
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 0/4/63 [1 sectors]

sudo fdisk -d /dev/disk1
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0x00,-,0,0,0,0,0,0


texts: How to fix menus and windows in macOS 10.14.6 that do not show any items?

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I am using a 13-inch MacBook Pro with macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave) installed. I am trying to utilize the Terminal, however, I cannot see any information in the terminal window. For example if I type vim and press ⏎ Return, I can see that the program is open; it's identified in the window title, but nothing is displayed.

I have tried to restart my computer but this had not effect. To make matters worse the Apple menu with the shutdown commands is now blank when I open it and I am unable to shut down the computer safely.


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My work computer's RAM is broken. This isn't allowing it to boot properly. So I've got my personal mac tethered to the work mac via data transfer. I can see the notes DB files, and have transferred them to my personal computer, but I'm not sure how to access what is in there without wiping out what notes I have on my personal computer.

This has been asked in a few questions which are at least a year old, but I'm unable to comment on them, so forgive me for the re-ask. here's the one I was referencing to try to solve the issue: Can't restore my Notes Mac OsX

I also see this Importing Notes from one mac to another? but i'm afraid of doing it on my personal computer as I have notes currently there.

From another mac, I have transferred the notes files from the Containers folder (notesv7.storedata, notesv7.storedata-shm, notesv7.storedata-wal) as well as the notestore.sqlite file to the exact same version macos on my mac and want to look at the contents of these files / notes from a different system.

I tried to down load the mac-apt program [from where / what version] but my macOS [what version] won't run it [what precisely does won’t run look like].

I changed to run from that developer but it just doesn't launch. (Needs to be deleted or clarified)
I've tried both versions they have available for mac as well.  (Needs to be deleted or clarified)

As I understand it, the notes application stores notes as a DB so I need some way to get into that DB and export the info as a .csv or similar. I don't mind retyping/copying and pasting the data, but I do need to get to the data.

These files are from my work computer, where we couldn't use iCloud, and the RAM has gone bad and the whole logic board has to be replaced...which means if I can't figure this out I loose all of the information in my notes.

I have no backups of the work mac so I’m hoping I can figure out how to restore them to another computer.


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This is not a duplicate of the questions posted here  and here

It is a duplicate of the question posted here however there is no answer to that question and one of the commenters is wrong about the direction of sharing. I am posting this again to hopefully get a solution for this.

I have enabled internet sharing in OSX via settings -> sharing then clicking on internet sharing. I have tried this using wifi which works just fine, however I am no longer allowed to create a wifi network because security.

My new plan is to use the iPhone USB option to share my Mac's ethernet connection with my iPhone. The setup seems simple and I have selected "Share your connection from: Ethernet" "To computers using: iPhone USB". I don't currently have a connection to the internet. Is there something else I need to do?


texts: Transferring Files After a Clean Install

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I am planning to do a clean install of Mountain Lion (on a Macbook Pro that was updated to Yosemite) after being told that I have some corruption in my hard drive. The computer (only 3 years old) has slowed down significantly in the last few months, especially when opening directories containing large amounts of files and when loading large documents in Photoshop and other applications. I had doubled my RAM (as a bandaid solution) and that seemed to make a difference for a while, but I now I need to do something about it.

The question is, after I've backed up all of my files onto an external drive with Time Machine and performed the clean install, how do I know what files are safe to copy back into my system? Thanks in advance for the help.


texts: Mac Mini 2018 Kernel panic bug_type 210 after Security Update 2020-002

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Since installing the Mojave Security Update 2020-002 I do get a message that my Mac Mini 2018 was restarted because of a problem even I shut it down normally. The Mac Mini 2018 was running fine for 3 months. The Apple Hardware Check does not show any errors. Also tried to reset SMC and PRAM.

Is this a known bug? Just curios wether Mac mini 2018 users who also installed Apple's Security Update 2020-002 do see the same error message?
November 15th, 2020: I am pleased to confirm that BridgeOS firmware version 18.16.12561 fixes the Kernel panic bug_type 210 on a Mac mini 2018. Take a look at my answer.
October 19th, 2020: Apple released Security Update 2020-005 and macOS Supplemental Update. The bug has STILL NOT been fixed on macOS Mojave 10.4.6. On cold reboot "Your system was restarted because of a problem" message still shows up.  I
July 16th, 2020: Apple released Security Update 2020-004. The bug has STILL NOT been fixed on macOS Mojave 10.4.6. On cold reboot "Your system was restarted because of a problem" message still shows up. No status update on Apple Bug Report. I am kind of surprise on how Apple seems to ignore Mac mini users. They messed up the T2 chip BridgeOS and simply don't care. I guess this bug will never be fixed. Users should rather invest in a new Mac mini model with their latests Apple processor. I am not willing to spent more money on any Mac mini.
Update May 28, 2020: Apple released Security Update 2020-003. However the bug has NOT been fixed on macOS Mojave 10.4.6. On cold reboot "Your system was restarted because of a problem" message still shows up.
No status update on Apple Bug Report. Mac Mini users do not seem be relevant for Apple. Such a disappointment.
Update April 24, 2020: Workaround: Do not use Safari until Apple fixes the bug. Also make sure to set the default browser to Firefox, Chrome, Brave... which prevents opening Safari by accident. The shutdown message no longer shows upon a cold boot.
Update April 11, 2020: I did some further testing regarding my initial issue. I have restored from a previous system backup using SuperDuper. This backup clone does NOT include the Security Update 2020-002 Mojave and Safari 13.1. Surprisingly the shutdown message still shows up sporadically when I power on the Mac mini. I have completely shut down my Mac mini 2018 around 10 times. I have waited 5-10 minutes. 4 of 10 times the crash report showed up. It's really difficult to debug. What's interesting is the macOS Mojave Software Update does not show the Security Update 2020-002. So it seems to be already applied. I guess it is definitely related to the T2 BridgeOS Update or other firmware settings which have been patched during the Security Update 2020-002. Restoring from a 4 weeks old system backup does not resolved my issue.
This is a really bummer. I wish Apple would spend more time on testing. So far I haven't heard back from my Apple Bug Report #FB7646566.
Update April 2, 2020: I did a clean install macOS Mojave 10.14.6 without the Security Update 2020-002. As soon as I install the Security Update 2020-002 the annoying crash report shows up when the Mac mini has been shut down.
The Diagnostic Report reads as follows:
{"caused_by":"bridgeos","macos_system_state":"shutdown","bug_type":"210","os_version":"Bridge OS 4.4 (17P4263)","timestamp":"2020-03-28 22:10:39.00 +0000","incident_id":"907CAD79-9364-4588-A25A-3810D0E72F8F"}
{
"build" : "Bridge OS 4.4 (17P4263)",
"product" : "iBridge2,5",
"kernel" : "Darwin Kernel Version 19.4.0: Mon Mar  2 20:38:56 PST 2020; root:xnu-6153.101.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8010",
"incident" : "907CAD79-9364-4588-A25A-3810D0E72F8F",
"crashReporterKey" : "c0dec0dec0dec0dec0dec0dec0dec0dec0de0001"


texts: iphone 5 hangs when connected to MBP as an Audio Input Device

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Connecting my iphone 5C to my MBP 17 early 2011, macOS HighSerra 10.13.6, with a Lightning cable to USB, opening Audio MIDI Setup I can see the device. The moment I enabled it, it hangs with a spinning wheel. But it worked once, two days ago !

Before: ￼

After:

P.S.: after contacting Apple Support and making a Remote Diagnose on my iphone, they think it is my battery ("just" 64%).I disagree.


texts: Is there a way to disable the concept of a lock screen on the mac and instead use the switch user screen?

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I create a lot of user accounts and I like to switch between them a lot. I do this for focus/productivity reasons. I want to be forced to choose the right account when I go away from my mac and come back. I don't want to be tempted to just log into the account I was last logged into.
Is there a way to configure my mac so that when I go away from it, using the hot corners or if it "locks" automatically after xxx minutes when I leave the mac, that it uses the switch user screen instead of the lock screen?


texts: How do I navigate around text fields on the iPad?

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From time to time I need to edit some text in a text box on my iPad. One example is adding a bookmarklet to Safari; many techniques suggest you add a bookmark then edit it afterward. Clumsy, but it works.

However, I often struggle to edit the text, and I wonder if I'm just missing something really basic. In the case I just had, I needed to remove a few characters from the beginning of a long bookmark. On my PC I would hit Home and then Delete a few times. I'm sure the Mac is similar.

I can't figure out a non-clumsy way to do this on my iPad. The only way to even navigate in a text field (I.e. move the cursor) seems to be to select text and then move the selection box left; that seems clumsy at best as the select point is often lost. This is especially difficult when there's a long block of text in a short edit box but even in a full-screen editor cursor placement often seems approximate at best.

Am I missing something?


texts: How do I undo this setting on a MacBook?

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Turns out cats' paws are not a very reliable input method. The cat walked across the keyboard, and now I am stuck in a "secure text field". It looks like this:

How do I get out of here?

[question asked on this person's behalf, since I couldn't find them an answer myself]


texts: How to tune the iTunes and App Store to remember the password for a very long time?

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By default iTunes and App Store are remembering your password only for 15 minutes and this is really annoying for someone that keeps the access to his computer safe anyway.

I am almost sure that these could me change by tuning a plist files from the command line. What is the secret command to make it -1 instead of 15? ;)


texts: How can I hear my iPhone's audio while recording its screen on my mac using QuickTime Player?

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I know how to record my iPhone's screen on my mac using QuickTime Player (while the phone and mac are connected via lightning cable), but when I do that, my phone's sound goes off. I even installed Apowersoft's virtual soundcard and chose the input microphone to be Apowersoft_AudioDevice on QuickTime Player's movie recording, but my phone is still mute.

Is there a way I can hear my phone's audio while recording the video on my mac?


texts: Change the sleep icon in login window (loginwindow.app)

texts: I would like to change the sleep icon in the login window. I've found loginwindow.app (/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app) and replaced Sleep.tiff with the desired image with identical file dpi and size wise (yes that is the superhot logo). I then ran sudo killall loginwindow, thinking that I would relaunch the app and it would use the new icon. Instead, it logged me out and didn't use the new icon. Is there any way to replace this icon?  ^when it logged me out


texts: AppleScript - How to click a UI element without Actions

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You can click a button easily by use "click", or "AXPress", "AXShowMenu", "AXOpen". But for UI element without Action, None of these methods worked.
Like some "Image", or "Group", you can set its state to select by clicking the left mouse button or call up the menu by clicking the right mouse button. But "Actions" for these Image or Group is empty, and they don't respond to any send event in Applescript like "click"(click at position also).
I used Automator to record click events, the transfer code in Automator is:
"set uiScript to "click image 22 of group 1 of scroll area 1 of application process 1"
the "click" it uses take effect.
then I tried record left click and right click the image, and all the code in Automator is exactly the same, I don't know how it distinguishes between a left click and a right click, there must be some other mechanism.


texts: Cannot reinstall OS X. Will Apple Store do it on the spot?

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I installed Windows on my MacBook Air 2015 and erased the SSD in the process because it's only 128 GB and because I thought it would be easy to create a bootable USB key to reinstall OS X should I need to do that.

I then found out that power management under Windows is lacklustre to say the least. Right after that I had to realize that creating a bootable USB key from Windows is difficult to say the least requiring (paid) third party software. What is most strange though is how difficult it is to get the actual file from a Windows PC. I had to download one for OS X El Capitan from a shady website.

The stick I created with TransMac did not show up as a boot option even though I made sure it was formatted the right way (as per an online guide). Internet Recovery gives me error "-4403F" which Google doesn't seem to know.

So I'm stuck.

My question is if any Apple Store (I'm in Germany now but will be in Thailand next week) will reinstall OS X for me on the spot (as I would think they'd do) if I just walk in with my laptop?


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I'm on Catalina 10.15.2 on a MacBook Pro 16-inch from '19. I don't have slow keys activated. Is there any way to measure and most importantly lower the latency of keystrokes in the laptop keyboard itself?

I suspect the default latency is in the order of ms, but still somewhat noticeable if you type fast.


texts: How to highlight errors and warnings on iTerm terminal output?

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I am looking for a solution that would allow me to use color highlighting to a set of important output messages inside iTerm terminal application.

Things to highlight:

application logs file warnings, errors and fatals (apache, nginx, tomcat)
compiler output
other similar errors/warnings


texts: bootcamp: automatic change of audio output device like in OSX ? (if headphones plugged in, mini toslink, ..)

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I don't really know if it is like that for everyone or if there are some bootcamp driver issues on my machine, but:

Every time I plug in headphones, a mini-stereoplug or a optical mini-TosLink cable and want the sound to be played via the attached device, I have to open the output devices settings and choose the desired one and "set it to default". (windows 7 64bit, bootcamp w/ most recent drivers)
Is there some possibility to have an app do this automatically on (un-)plugging the cables or at least something that changes audio output device via a hotkey/combination?
Or should it change automatically out of the box and something is nessed up with my bootcamp drivers?

macbook pro 15", i7 late 2011


texts: Why the difference in audio volume via bluetooth?

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I hope I'm in the right spot for this.

I have my volume on the phone set to 100%. I connect via bluetooth to my car. My car's radio volume goes from 0 to 45. Now, when I listen to music, my car's volume is set to 10-15. However, when I listen to a book from Audible, or make a phone call, the radio volume needs to get at 37+ to be able to hear it. Is there anything I can do to equalize the volume between apps?


texts: How to use multiple audio outputs from one device

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I have an USB Interface with 16 in and outs. Now i would like to send all my system sound to output 1,2 and 7,8. I could only select one pair in the "Audio Midi Setup" --> Configure Speaker.
There are some tools like, Loopback but i don't like to have an "virtual" audio out. i only want to use my interface with multiple outputs.
Thank you for your answers!


texts: How to remove 'phantom' iCloud account from Apple Mail

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I am trying to remove a duplicate copy of my iCloud account from Apple Mail that seems to have managed to get stuck there.

I cannot remove it from the Internet Accounts or iCloud panels as it does not appear there, just in my account listing for Mail. If I try  to remove it there I am told to use the Internet Accounts panel (where it isn't).

I have tried changing the name and gripping the contents of Preferences and Application Support for the unique name, but no luck.

Where does Apple Mail store it's account information and can I remove the account from there?


texts: Execute terminal command "rsync" from BetterTouchTool

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I have created a Bash command that will copy the contents of one folder into another, and it works as expected from inside Terminal.

rsync -r /Users/owendostie/Dropbox/Ohouse /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Ohouse

However, when I attempt to create a hotkey to execute this command using BetterTouchTool, nothing happens. I found another user who has encountered a similar problem, but I do not know enough about Terminal for his answer to be helpful. What do I need to change about my command to get it to run from inside BetterTouchTool?


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I'm looking for "the best" SVN GUI/manager for Mac OS, allowing things like line by line comparison, merging, branching, ...

I tried Versions for a few days but now I found that Cornerstone might be a good alternative (better ?).

I was wondering if anyone would have some feedback on these two apps (or on others ...).


texts: Which 15 inch macbook with USB has the highest repair score?

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I'm doing research into MacBooks and would like to pick the one which is easiest/cheapest to repair. Can someone point me to a list which has some metrics like "repair score" or reliability? I know lists like these exist for iPads and some of the latest ones receive horrible grades, like 0 for repair score. I read about keyboard issues and high costs of repair for the newest 2016-17 models as well.

Which pre USB-C MacBooks have the highest repair score?

Ideally I'm looking for information on how easy it is to replace faulty components, like memory or keyboard (apparently I need to replace the entire board on MacBook Air to change memory and entire upper body to replace keyboard, or send it to specialized repair shop)

I would like to have one with traditional USB ports, as I want to use it for traveling abroad, where new USB-C? devices are still very rare, and genuine Apple stores are few and far between.


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I miss the old OmniDazzle product from The Omni Group that let us transform the mouse pointer in a variety of ways, some silly but some quite practical. Worked well for highlighting areas of the screen to focus the attention of the audience during a talk or presentation.

I'm looking to make the mouse pointer more obvious, or darken the screen while keeping one region bright, or drawing colored crayon/marker lines, and so on.

Accessibility features

I'm open to accessibility features in macOS that could work to focus the audience’s attention.

Keynote features

Mainly I use Apple Keynote for presentations. If Keynote has dynamic tools for focusing the audience’s attention, that would be helpful.

I also show other apps such as programmers’ IDEs during a talk, so using it outside of Kenote is ideal.

Other solutions

Are there other ways or other apps to accomplish this goal?


texts: Dealing with ads blocking application functionality on iPad

texts: I've noticed some applications on my iPad have advertisements. The problem is that the advertisement covers lower part of the screen where some applications place buttons and other UI elements, and the ad blocks there elements and prevents me from properly using the application. Is there any way to solve this - like move the ad somewhere or temporarily remove it? It's OK when the ads are just annoying but when they actually prevent me from using the application it's bad.


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So, I have a 13" 2009 Macbook Pro that I've upgraded as far as I can go without changing the motherboard/processor (8 GB RAM/2 SSDs). My question is, since the unibody case is the same, is there anything stopping me, other than common decency, from getting a replacement motherboard and processor from a newer model and throwing it into my 2009 vintage MBP?

Thanks


texts: Suspected hard disk failure - Is it possible to boot from just a USB drive?

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In theory can someone tell me if I should be able to at least boot from the USB created by following a Mavericks install USB guide ? I suspect HD fail but I don't have a lot to go on. On a pc I can always use what is called fdisk to check the HDD.

So in theory I can remove the hard disk and get at least some kind of terminal (fdisk equivalent) or other to try to work out what is wrong with the system.

[I have tried to use other similar answers but moderators are forcing me to start a new question.]


texts: Should I update to Sierra 10.12 if I already have it?

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I am confused by my macOS: it proposes to update itself to the same version it is already.

Should I do that?

There was Sierra beta version installed on the iMac some time ago; maybe that's the cause.

Current system version: macOS 10.12 (16A323) and I don't know if it's beta or not.


texts: Data lost on macbook Catalina, hidden in other volumes?

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I have a macbook air with Catalina installed.
Working in data science,I often run intensive processes. This time, it caused the laptop to restart, and when it came back to life, it looked like brand new : asking for apple id, all standard mac programs installed. All my data and customization had disappeared, except for few chunks here and there.
Restarting in recovery mode, I could not get a time machine recovery (error while rolling back).
So I looked at the disk utility and noticed that 'used' accounts for 11GB, 'free' for 17GB,and 222GB for 'other volumes'.
I have the strong feeling that my beloved data lies behind these 222GB, but I don't know how to check that, neither how to recover them.


texts: What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard?

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I would like to call for a place to list some little things that surprise you about Lion. There are so many articles and lists of all the new features with information overload, I would rather focus this spot of the site on tiny delights with a note why it makes a difference to you.

Please one topic per answer, this isn't a race to enumerate everything that changed. This isn't the place for massive topics like the implications of FileVault 2 on your entire workflow - just a stroll past some little gems, fun oddities or subtle changes specific to Lion.

Answers must relate to why or how you use the feature - links to official tips and tutorials are great, but the intent is to collect little gems that affect how the system gets used. Expect answers that are not specific to lion or lack a personal use case to be heavily edited or deleted.


texts: How do I find Preferences in bittorrent or utorrent on a Mac?

texts: I can't find Preferences in utorrent or bittorrent on my new MacBook Pro. How do I find Preferences on a Mac?


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My MacBook Pro (early 2009) doesn't detect when the power supply is connected and doesn't charge. It behaves as if the power supply was not connected to the MBP. It has 56% battery left and runs fine otherwise.

I also noticed that the date was set back to before 2008.

I've tried to reset the SMC, but this didn't change anything. To reset the SMC, I've

Turned off the computer
Held Shift+Ctrl+Options(Alt)+ distinguished power (not a normal key on keyboard; see here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21477516/in-iphone-simulator-how-to-type-the-sign-on-a-macbook-with-german-keyboard )
Released all keys
Turned on the computer by pressing power button again.

I've done this 2 times to no avail.

Update 2015-07-22
I noticed that I can make it charge by unplugging the power supply from both, the wall outlet and the MBP, and plugging it back in. Usually, I have to do this 2 or 3 times before it starts working and I need to have it unplugged for a minute or two. If I plug it back in after only 10 seconds, it doesn't work.
This sounds like a loose contact in the power supply or its cables, so I've also tried bending and shaking cables and parts while it didn't work, but that didn't have any effect. Thus, I presume it's not a loose contact.


texts: Is it possible to make iTunes write rating on the file itself?

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I'm on Yosemite (10.10.2) and using iTunes (12.1.0.50).
I read that iTunes saves the rating of the songs on its own database, not the audio files tags themselves. Is there a way to make iTunes to write the ratings on the files? Because if I move the audio file to any other place, the rating won't be recognized.


texts: How do I tell Safari not to change the active tab on the error console when I reload a page?

texts: When I reload a page on Safari 9.0, El Capitain, with the developer tools open and the "Console" tab active, it will automatically switch to the "Resources" tab. How do I stop this deliberately stupid behavior?


texts: can't commit network settings via command line

texts: I'm writing a Python script that changes network settings with commands like networksetup -setv4off 'PANTECH UML295' and networksetup -setdhcp 'PANTECH UML295'. When I enter these in Terminal, I enter my root password, and then nothing changes in Network settings. Enabling/disabling WiFi using networksetup setairportpower en1 off seems to work fine, however. Any idea on what might be the problem? Can't seem to find anything through search. Thanks.


texts: i'm currently using the Homebrew package manager and my question is: is possibile to write a bash's script in order to execute brew update and eventually brew upgrade whenever opening a shell for the first time? I'm using iTerm at the moment.


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I have a really slow iMac that I bought 2 years ago. I've been so annoyed about how I have to wait for the rainbow circle to stop loading. I did some research and found out it's about the hard drive. My iMac had an HDD drive. I didn't want to buy an SSD so I thought why not do something to make the HDD as fast as an SSD.
Can you please help me on making an HDD as fast as an SSD?

Here are my imac specs


texts: DST adjustment error in iOS 7 Weather app?

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Is anybody seeing a DST adjustment error on their Weather app?
The time adjusted just fine (see top), but the times for other cities in my time zone (like Chamonix and Zermatt) have not been updated. Is this a bug (or a feature) or have I missed something?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.3, all location services for system services are off (switching on the "setting time zone" option makes no difference).


texts: Is it legal to use content from Apple developer site for internal training documents?

texts: Apple developer site has lot of content for someone who is learning iOS/Mac Development. Is it legal to use that content to prepare a training document for freshers in our company to help them learn things better? The use of the content will be completely non-commercial.


texts: How to prevent loading some LaunchDaemons?

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I just took a look into /Library/LaunchDaemons and was wondering how many different things I opened up there :)

Can I easily remove strange one? How can I disable them during system boot?

I see the next list

at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist
com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
com.bresink.system.securityagent3.plist
com.google.keystone.daemon.plist


texts: Cleaning my Macbook screen *under* the shield

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I have a Macbook Pro 13" Unibody Early 2011. In the last few months the transparent shield protecting the screen has separated at the bottom letting dust in. It's still attached at the top.

How can I safely clean the screen under the shield?
Once I've cleaned it, how can I keep the shield from separating?


texts: My iPhone is no longer on I'm using it as an iPod for now but I cant connect to the wifi ; like the wifi is greyed out. I restarted and rest it , it's not on air plane mode or anything. How do I fix my phone?


texts: Transferring purchases to different store

texts: I made some purchases on the Egyptian store, now i'm on the US store and the items that i purchased is no longer available unless i switched back to the Egyptian store. Is there a way that I can use different stores but still can download the same items that I purchased in different stores ?


texts: Really, REALLY strange behaviour when editing text files on a OS X host from a windows client over SMB

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I am working on some python projects.

The files are hosted (and run) on my mac-mini, which is running OS X 10.7.2.

I am editing the files from my windows desktop (It has a bigger screen(s)).

If I keep a file open for a while, the file-handle seems to get "lost". Netbeans, the editor I am using, cannot open the text file again, and if I try to save the open file, it fails. I actually have to completely exit and reopen my text-editor.

Furthermore, and much stranger, if I add text to a file, save the file, delete the text again, and save again, the reduction in file size seems to get lost somewhere, and whatever was past the end of the new file size gets appended to the new file.

E.g. if I have a python file:
print ("Hello there, world")
I save it, and then edit it so:
print ("Hello world")
and save it again, what gets written to disk on the Mac is:
print ("Hello world")world")

Obviously, if you are doing programming, this is a big issue.

Furthermore, there is even more weirdness if I use SVN on files on the share.

Occasionally, after running a SVN operation on files on the share, SVN will fail, and the only way to make it work again is to run sudo chflags -R nouchg . from the directory on the Mac. It will then work for a bit, before locking up again.


texts: How to import photos/videos from iPhone 7 on Windows when moving fails with "A Device attached to the system is not functioning"?

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When I try to move photos off my iPhone 7 on Windows 10 it suddenly stops saying "Error Moving File or Folder: A Device attached to the system is not functioning."

The error occurs on only some specific pictures or videos.

How can I get these photos/videos off my phone? I want really to keep them.

This is what I have tried:

I have connected the phone via USB/lightning cable.
I have tried using various different cables as well as different USB ports.
I have tried powering the phone off and on again.
I have tried hard reseting the phone by holding in the volume and power buttons.

The photos and videos work just fine if I view them on the phone itself.
I have tried sending the videos and images to myself using Signal. Then importing them on Signal on the PC.
However, Signal seems to compress the files (lossy) so this is not really a viable option.

I would like to avoid uploading them to Google Drive or similar and then importing them from there because I do not want to share my photos, etc. with Google or any other cloud provider.

I have captured a video of what happens here:

One more thing to add: I bought a completely new original Apple ligning-to-USB cable just to make sure it was not the cable.


texts: Airdopped notes from Ipad to Mac disappear

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I am trying to send some notes taken on an iPad mini 5th gen, latest iOS, to a 2019 MBP, latest macOS, using airdrop.  The two devices see each other correctly, the Mac correctly accepts the note, Notes.app opens, the note flashes for a nanosecond, and nothing remains there.
Sharing with Airdrop does work on a much older 2013 MBP with Mojave, the notes are sent and received with Airdrop, and the notes correctly display.
Any suggestion for fixing this would be welcome.


texts: Can't find my Automator service action in the Keyboard Shortcuts list

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I've made a very simple Automator service (moves some selected files into a new folder). It works fine via the Services -> menu.

So now I'd like to add a keyboard shortcut to launch this action from Finder, but I'm unable to. According to every person on the internet, I can go into System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts, select 'Services' on left panel, then scroll to bottom of right hand list and my service will be listed in the 'General' section. But it's not listed; I only see three items relating to unarchiving.

I've searched the web for people with this same issue but can't find any advice.


texts: Refresh timing of Google Contacts Sync on iOS?

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I'm working on a CRM (based on web application), using Google Contacts API.

My iPhone’s contacts are linked through my Gmail account.

I tried to find the refresh timing between my iPhone’s contacts and the Google servers, but I can’t find it.

Does anyone know what it is? Under Settings, it says: New data will be pushed to your iPhone from the server when possible.


texts: How does Apple's Power Nap interact with File Vault?

texts: If a machine is periodically waking up to check for updates with Power Nap, does this also mean the disk encryption keys are always in RAM? If so, this makes a DMA attack against a "sleeping" Mac possible.


texts: I had a ton of problems with my iPhone 5. I backed it up and took it to the Apple Store. I got a loaner while getting it fixed and put the latest iPhone backup on loaner phone. Then I got my iPhone back and went to restore from same backup, butd it's not in my options in iTunes. Where could I find this restore point as it has everything in it? Any help would be great. Thank you.


texts: How to prevent all usb mass storages from mounting at boot

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On a Mac Lion 10.7.5 I have 5 USB external disk and I'm not using them all the time so I want to prevent it to mount at boot and only mount the one I need when needed.

How can I achieve this ?

Thank you


texts: Why does three-finger swipe gesture not support natural scrolling?

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There are three page swipe gesture options in Lion:

Scroll left or right with two fingers, which is new to Lion, has a neat animation and is currently supported only by Safari.
Swipe left or right with three fingers existed in Snow Leopard and doesn't have the animation, but is supported by other applications.
Swipe with two or three fingers enables both of these gestures.

Now, I would be happy with the third option, however it seems that three-finger swipe gesture completely ignores natural scrolling preference.

If you disable natural scrolling, all options work identically, but if you turn it back on, two-finger swipe changes its direction, while three-finger gesture stays the same.

This leaves me utterly confused because to go Back in Safari with natural scrolling I can:

swipe right with two fingers, or
swipe left with three fingers.

This gets just as confusing in Mission Control or any other application that supports navigation.

Can I override this behavior and “invert” three-finger gestures, too, and should I?
What was the idea behind this design decision?


texts: iPad as Home Hub: Option not available under iPad settings

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I've given up on trying to make my once working Apple TV Home Hub respond again. So I logged the apple tv out of the appropriate iCloud account and decided I would make my iPad the HomeKit hub. Much to my chagrin, there does not seem to be a "Make iPod Home hub" option showing up under the iPad/Settings->Home (where all the instructions tell me to go an enable the iPad as the hub)

Per instructions, two-factor authentication, keychain, and Home are all enabled under the iPad/Settings//iCloud settings.

Suggestions are welcomed. Being unable to share lighting control with other household members is causing a great deal of irritation.


texts: Screen Capture tool that allows me to use keyboard?

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There are many screen capture tools, but every tool I've tried expects from its user to click and then drag the area to capture.

Is there a tool that allows me to use the keyboard for both operations, such that I can do precise captures in a relaxed manner - without holding anything? I do not want to capture just windows, but any rectangular region.

Example of usage:

press hotkey to enter capture mode
move cursor (cross, loupe, whatever) around using mouse/pad and keyboard.
when I find a good starting place (top-left corner), click or press some key to enter marking state
now, move cursor to other corner (bottom-right) of the area I want to capture, but without holding anything! Just move cursor with the mouse or using the keyboard, as before.
when I find a good spot, click again or press some key to finalize capturing.

There is one such tool on Windows that worked this way: FastStone Capture

For me this is an essential feature. I simply want to have precision, without holding any buttons or keys.


texts: If you're blocked as a contact on a iPhone can you still contact them by FaceTime audio?


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I have some questions about Photo Stream:

Are the photos that I take with my iPhone kept in the camera roll and PhotoStream folders? (Sometimes I take a photo and it appears in camera roll but not on Photo Stream, why?)
Are all the photos I take on my iPhone automatically uploaded and saved on my iPhone? How can I be sure?
What happens when I delete a photo from the camera roll or Photo Stream? Do they disappear from my iPhoto library?


texts: Word for mac: shortcuts to access Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon

texts: I am wondering what is the shortcut to access the Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon in Word for Mac (Office 2019, 16.29.1). In windows you press Alt. How do you do it in Mac?


texts: Time Machine sparsebundle mounting problems

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Problem

I have a Time Machine backup which contains a lot of valuable information and I'm trying to access it. What's the problem? I'm trying to mount it and nothing1 happens.

Nothing happens? So I tried to eject the network disk containing the sparsebundle and I got an error saying:

  "The disk backups couldn't be ejected because finder it using it"

What??? My guess is DiskImageMounter is mounting but is ridiculously slow?

Notes / Updates

  Note: installd is eating up my CPU usage, is this in anyway related to DiskImageMounter

  Note 2: If I go to "Browse Other Backup Disks" it finds the sparsebundle but none of the backups show.

  Update: Seems like mds is going crazy on the backup drive. I'll try to disable spotlight and see what I can do

There must surely be a better way to browse a Time Machine backup on a network disk

If not, how can my problem be fixed?


texts: Solving bootcamp error message to erase windows partition

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I have a Windows partition created with Bootcamp that I would like to delete but when I launch the Boot Camp Assistant I get the following error message:

I have a looked at several threads/articles surrounding this issue and I am uncertain if the proposed fixes from articles like this one are applicable in my situation and would like some advice on how I should precede. Running diskutil list gives the output below and diskutil cs list only returns No CoreStorage logical volume groups found if that is of any help.

/dev/disk0 (internal):
#:                       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 BOOTCAMP                70.2 GB    disk0s3
4:           Windows Recovery                         489.7 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE
IDENTIFIER
0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +180.0 GB   disk1
                             Physical Store disk0s2
1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            99.3 GB    disk1s1
2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.7 MB    disk1s2
3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.0 MB   disk1s3
4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

..


texts: Is it possible to upload iPhone apps to iPhone on an expired dev certificate?

texts: As the title says, is it possible to upload iPhone apps to iPhone on an expired dev certificate? Do we need to extend our dev certificate once it's expired and pay another 99$?


texts: How to delete all but certain values from many JSON files?

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I've used youtube-dl to download all my videos from Youtube. With these, are created a JSON file for each video file. inside these JSON files is a LOT of junk. but there are 3 items/values/categories(?) that i want to keep, the rest can be deleted.
Those things are
{"upload_date": "value",
"fulltitle": "value",
"description": "value"}

So I either need to:

delete all but these 3 items & save the file, or
extract these 3 items to a new file & delete the old one.

How can I do this with Automator or with shell tools in Terminal?


texts: OS X Cannot be Accessed After Windows Install

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I have searched around but cannot find an anser to my specific issue.
I recently installed a fresh copy of OSX Catalina on my old iMac.
I used BootCamp to split the 2tb HDD in half, and install Windows 10 on the new partition.
Everything went well and Windows installed without issue.
However the machine will now always boot to Windows.
Using the Options key when powering up, I only see Windows as an option:

Using a bootable Catalina USB drive I used Disk Utility to 'repair' the drive.
Unlike most reports of this issue it was not greyed out:

When exiting I was given the option to boot to the Mac partition:

This did not help, and Windows remains the only option.
Below are the results of the disk on terminal:

Any advice would be appreciated!!
My main priority is the Windows inatllation. I have set this up for my son's home schooling and do not want to lose it.
The OSX install is fresh, and I have no issue with having to reinstall, but do not want to compramise the Windows inatll.
As far as recovery cares, the Macintosh HD partition is fine.
Is it just that the MBR no longer recognises the Mac partition?
Thanks in advance for your help!


texts: I downloaded Teach Tracks to learn songs and I like to add them to playlists.  How do I add these to my Apple Music cloud library so that I can then add them to playlists in iTunes?


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I am using tags to label all my documents in Finder, and Smart Folders to organise them, but I'm running into a roadblock.

Lets say I have a bunch of documents with the tag "fruits", and some -- but not all -- documents also have additional tags like "apples", "oranges" etc. There is an unknown number of additional tags.  I want to create a Smart Folder containing file that have only the fruits tag, and nothing else.  How do you do such an exclusive search?


texts: Why iPad Music app says "No Content" and I cannot download music to it

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Firstly, I have been using iPad for a few days and this things may be very nooby for you. But funny, I cannot find similar info on Apple forum.

Namely, look at this image. This is how my Music app looks like when I open it.

I was offered to download iTunes U app, which I did, but I cannot seem to find music in it, only video lectures. Next I tried going to AppStore app to Music section, but there I found only apps.

Is this app maybe limited to some countries so I cannot use it? If not, what noobish mistake I have been doing?

EDIT

There is iTunes Store app on my iPad but it looks weird. all I have is a link to use iTunes U. Check it

I searched for the term "music" but it lists podcasts from iTunes U app only.


texts: How to use tabs in Textmate 2 for files opened via Transmit

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When editing multiple files from Panic's Transmit, in TextMate 1 they'd open themselves in tabs instead of separate windows.

How can I restore that behavior in TextMate 2?

This was the workflow for achieving this in TextMate 1: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/06/13/use-tabs-in-textmate-for-remote-files-opened-by-transmit/


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I upgraded from a MacBook Pro with Windows 7 in Boot Camp to an iMac with Windows 10 in Boot Camp.

In Windows 7 my I had read access to my macOS volumes (no write access), however, in Windows 10 I can only see the Windows Boot Camp volume in Windows Explorer.

Are the Mac volumes no longer accessible from within Windows?


texts: If we don't add NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription for saving images to Photo library in our app, would it be rejected during App Store review?

texts:
I am trying to save photos to Photo Library from my app. While saving I am checking whether user has given permission to do so, otherwise I am asking the user to go to Settings and turn on the permission. Only if the permission has been given only, I am saving the photos. For this I am using PHPhotLibray's requestAuthorization() method and NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription key in my app's Info.plist.

Because of these checks that I do in my app, there is no chance of crash even if I don't add NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription key in app's Info.plist.
But my concern is whether it will be rejected during the App Store Review?


texts: delay after opening lid display dark until key pressed

texts:
okay so my MBP Mid 2010 was took a little tumble (it was in a felt sleeve which was inside a backpack) today and since has been acting weird.

when i open the lid, the login screen does not come back on automatically, i have push a key, move a finger or two on trackpad and only then does the display get powered

what to do? I am on OSX 10.8.5 and non SSD, 4GB Ram.
Plz help!


texts: How to mimic Safari 5 Activity window with Mountain Lion, to save FLV video files?

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With Safari 5 in Lion, I used the Activity window to save video files.

Safari 6 has no Activity window.

With Mountain Lion, what is the best way to replicate what I could do before?


texts: Playlist questions for new iTunes update

texts: I recently upgraded to the new 7.0 iPhone/iTunes update and am aggravated because my purchased music is included in playlists when I do not choose them. I have a lot of music that I have purchased just to complete a collection. I want only to play what I choose. How do you get them off the playlist and keep them from playing?


texts: iOS 10: Clear 'Up Next' Queue in Apple Music

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I like to use Up Next in Apple Music on my iPhone, and sometimes I want to clear its contents to add new music to it. Earlier in iOS 9 it was possible but now I don’t see any way to do this in iOS 10.

Is it possible to CLEAR the Up Next queue?

(I know how to delete a single track from the queue)

Using iPhone 7, iOS 10.2 (Public Beta)


texts: How can you unlock a Sprint iPhone 6 Plus? It was paid in full without a contract

texts: I purchased a Sprint iPhone 6 Plus 64gb off contract. I paid the full amount which was about $1,000. As of today (2014-09-24), how can we unlock the iPhone 6 Plus which is on Sprint? I am a Sprint customer.


texts: Multiple IP addresses for same host name in /private/etc/hosts?

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I have a corporate mail account (exchange 2007) that uses a self-signed SSL certificate.  No matter what I do, Mail always complains about this when I connect.  If I look at the details it always says the certificate name post does not match the dns name I used to connect.

I had the bright idea to add an entry in /private/etc/hosts that mapped the name post to the external IP of the server.  This works beautifully and the certificate error is gone and everything works when I am out of the office.

The problem with this is that when I am in the office I need to access the server by its internal address, and the only way I could connect was to remove the line I added to hosts, or to change the IP from the external IP to the internal IP.

Now for the question: Is there a way I can format multiple entries in the hosts file for the same host name, but with different addresses?  I know this is done with real dns servers, but it appears not to work in a hosts file.  The idea is for the name lookup to return both IP addresses and Mail will fail over to the second address when the first does not work.

I know there is a setting in Mail for internal and external names for the server, but using this brings back the original certificate errors. After some thought, I also wondered what would happen if I make a second entry for the same name but using IPv6 instead of IPv4?  Should have IPv6 some time later this year, and if I understand correctly you can have one name listed twice in hosts when one address is IPv6.


texts: Select whole words using single finger tap gesture

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If you double click a word to select it, and keep the mouse held down, you go it starts word selection mode, meaning it will select whole words as you move the mouse over them.

This only works when using the physical click on the trackpad. The problem is that I want the same behavior using a tap (i.e. the One Finger Tap to Click feature is enabled). When I try to use a tap, though, it goes into character selection mode rather than word selection.

Is there ant way to perform word selection using tap gestures on a trackpad?


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I have configured a user crontab file as follows:

*/2 * * * * /Users/[my user]/Dropbox/htdocs/auto-update.sh

But it won't execute. I waited for, like, 10-15 minutes. Why?

Command auto-update.sh runs easily if executed manually. How can I break apart the chain of execution and get my script running from cron?


texts: Mail (Catalina) started printing some emails recently with very small text size but view okay?

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Some emails I have composed and sent in Mail (13.4) in MacOs Catalina (10.15.7) has started to physically print with a very small text - virtually unreadable.
This is also reflected in the print preview pane before I press print.
It is not every single email I have sent - but the majority of the recent ones.
This is also repeated in a number of incoming emails - more so ones responing to my earlier emails sent (but not all).
Scaling sends text off the page to multiple pages.
CMD+'+' does make the fint size increase for printing, however, the paragraph layout is corrupted.
Any idea on what has happened and a fix please?
Many thanks.


texts: H4N connected to MacBook always results in input of 48 kHz

texts:
When my H4N is connected to MacBook pro it always results in input of 48 kHz, whereas on the device is 41hz I have to manually set it in the Midi each time to 41.

any way to stop this?


texts: My iPhone won't show any Discord iOS push notifications, yet it will show them from other apps

texts:
I've already tried checking all of my settings, and everything is in order.
Notifications enabled both in and out of Discord, yet I still don't get any notifications.
Help? I've already uninstalled and reinstalled discord, and restarted my phone a few times.


texts: How can I troubleshoot an Epson Perfection 1260 scanner that won't play nice with Mavericks?

texts:
I'm trying to get an Epson Perfection 1260 scanner working with Mavericks.

When I connect the scanner to my Mac it shows up fine in Printers & Scanners in System Preferences. It also shows up in Image Capture, and quite often it will allow me to do an overview scan. However, at some point the (usually green) light on the front of the scanner turns red, and the scanner disappears completely from my Mac.

How should I start troubleshooting this?


texts: How do you cancel an automatic connection to a once joined wi-fi network on 10.7.4?

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I wish to no longer log on automatically to a wi-fi network that I once logged on to access the internet.

I have tried everything in the advanced tab of the Network preference panel to no avail: the computer never "forget" the WEP password no matter what I do.

Any further reaching solutions I would not be aware of?

THanks.

Paul


texts: No output in right channel audio headphones

texts:
The right channel output cuts off and on when using headphones. The laptop speakers work fine.

I have tried 3 known working headphones, a USB headset (connected via USB not using the audio jack), cleaning out the audio jack, nothing fixes the problem.

The only fix I have discovered so far is twisting and moving the cords for all the headphones I have used, only problem with that is all these headphones work fine with other devices such as a PS3 a different PC ...


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I recently reinstalled my computer because I got a new hard drive. After the reinstallation my Safari started to act weird.

It replaces some text with an A in a box, please see images below.

I use OS X 10.8.5 and Safari 6.0.5.

I hope that someone can help me to fix this.


texts: MacBook connects to network over Ethernet but not WiFi

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I'm visiting my relatives and trying to get my MacBook on their network. If I connect over Ethernet, everything works fine and I can get online without a hitch. But if I connect over WiFi, I can't actually get on the Internet.

In System Preferences > Network, under AirPort, it says that it's using a "self-assigned IP address" and "will not be able to connect to the Internet." Furthermore, under Advanced > TCP/IP, the settings don't look correct when I compare them to the other computers in the house - the format of the IP address is different, the subnet mask is different, and the IP address of the router is blank.

I've tried copying the settings when connected over Ethernet (IP address, etc.) to use as manual settings for the WiFi, and it still doesn't work.

Other than this MacBook, there are two Windows laptops and two iPhones in the house (one theirs, one mine), and all of those other devices can get on the Internet over wifi with no issues. I'm stumped!

UPDATE: I never solved this, but the situation recently came up again – this time with a totally different computer – and I had the same exact issue: connects to the local network without a problem, but no Internet connection. So that tells me it's something wrong with the network/router, not the computer, but I still don't have any idea what it could be.


texts: Delay of keyboard strokes when using VBA

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When using my MacBook Air with VBA (Excel 2016) the keyboard input behaves strangely.  Some keys (not all though) need to be hit twice before the character appears. Only with VBA does this happen otherwise no problem at all.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

The problem is with certain keys and I'm not sure with only certain Macros. Certainly in many I've used.


texts: Macbook Pro w/ USB-C and multiple monitors occasionally swap non-main screens

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My Macbook Pro (15", 2017 model) running High Sierra has a multi monitor setup involving my laptop on the left, an external monitor to its right (and configured to be the main screen with the menu bar and dock), and another monitor to the right of that. Both external monitors (same brand and same resolution) are connected via HDMI cables that attach to Thunderbolt/USB-C plugs that go into an Elgato dock which then connects to the laptop via a Thunderbolt/USB-C cable.

I frequently will disconnect the laptop to go to a meeting and occasionally when I reconnect, my leftmost and rightmost screens become reversed, what I used to see on the laptop screen is now on the right external monitor. This goes for not only floating windows but also full screen apps. I then need to go into Mission Control to move the windows and full screen apps back to their preferred positions.

So firstly I want to know why this is happening and secondly how I can prevent that from occurring or a tool I can use to restore the windows as expected. I have seen some mention online that it could be related to which monitors are recognized by the computer first, and for sure for about 20 seconds after I plug in the cable I see a crazy dance of windows being resized and sometimes they all restore correctly. Could this be an issue with the dock or is it related to the OS and how it recognizes external monitors?

Thank you in advance!


texts: Can you transfer iPhone backups made on Windows to a Mac?

texts:
I made an iPhone backup on someone else windows computer and now need to send it to my Mac to restore my iPhone because it got bricked. If I simply send the file over a torrent and put it in the backup folder on my Mac's iTunes, will I have any trouble with restoring my device? I'm worried the format that iTunes on windows uses is different then on Macs'.

follow up question: Is there a better way then a torrent to send a file about 50gb?


texts: Reattach magsafe connector on logic board

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I accidentally removed the dc connector socket  while cleaning the logic board of my macbook. I can no longer put it back (it doesn't stay on or falls off immediately). Is it possible to reattach or do I need a replacement part?

Here's the part I need (It used to be soldered on)


texts: AppleScript editor to connect and disconnect again to specific server

texts:
I's trying to write an AppleScript to disconnect and connect again to specific server:

    tell application "Finder"
        mount volume "smb://serveraddress/sharename" as user name "username" with password "password"
    end tell

But it is connecting only. I'm trying to do both: to disconnect and then to connect again.


texts: Is there a way to transfer an iPad 2 to a different user without losing the game scores?

texts: I just bought a new iPad and would like to give the older iPad 2 to my kid. He's used the iPad a lot to play a variety of games, all under my user account. Is there a way to create a new user account for my kid (I'll make it part of Family Sharing, etc) without losing the game scores?


texts: How do I remove a directory that has a file with colon in it

texts:
I am trying to delete a directory with rm -rf however I keep getting the error Directory not empty.

If I do an ls on the directory I see this message ls: HTML : CSS: No such file or directory.

So it sounds like there's a file or directory that has a colon in it. Is there anyway I can delete that file or directory with the colon in it?


texts: What is the canonical directory in which to install parallel versions of LLVM?

texts:
I am looking to build and install several versions of clang simultaneously, including a build from svn. I do not wish to interfere with the existing Apple LLVM which I would keep available as the default clang, clang++, c++ et c. invocations. So where would the logical place to put these multiple versions be?

I could place it in something like ~/llvm/svn/ but placing them under ~/ seems mildly unaesthetic.


texts: Wrong number text that resulted in Maybe?

texts: I got a text from a wrong number saying "This is Adam...off tomorrow". Why did my phone say Maybe: Adam?


texts: I am using multiple desktops on my Mac. Depending on how I use them, the desktops seem to switch around. For instance the place where 'Terminal' is (second from the left) moves one to the right.  Where 'Terminal' used to be is now 'Desktop1'. The screenshots below hopefully clarifies what I mean. How can I keep them static at the same location?


texts: Search for link in Mail and click on it without using the mouse

texts: Sometimes I receive an e-mail, which contains a link that I have to follow. I would like to be able to follow this link without having to reach for the mouse. I can locate the link with a search (cmd + F), but how do I follow it by pressing keys?


texts:
I noticed, after updating I believe, that the inbox of the mail app in IOS 8.1 only lists emails coming in, so making out the back and forth conversation that often replies turn into is impossible.

On my mac, it still groups in and outgoing emails in the same thread (ordered by time) so that the conversation becomes apparent.

I've been looking into turning on the "send hidden copies to me" option, but it doesn't seem like a very sustainable option if I'd export my mail to some other client some time in the future. And also, it gets naggy having it notify you for an incoming mail every time you send one out.
Does anyone have any other ideas of how to fix this?

Thanks!


texts: how can i change the apple id on App Store?

texts:
On my 2009 MacBook, my friend signed into his Apple ID to check it. Now, I can't sign back into mine to download things.

Does anyone know how to get my Apple ID to sign me back in?


texts: iCal Google Sync -- how to get rid of folders (delegates)?

texts: I've got my calendars in Google, but when I sync them with iCal I get all these ugly folders. How can I clean this up?


texts: Mojave Stacks feature: More specificity for grouping

texts:
I am trying to use Mojave's new Stacks feature that can group files on the desktop.  I have it set to group by "Kind". It created a stack called "Documents". But the contents are very heterogeneous: this stack absorbs everything from Markdown documents through Mathematica notebooks to MS Word files.

I would much rather have these types separated. Is this possible?

For my use case, it would be sufficient to make the system consider Mathematica notebooks not to be "documents" (and let it mix the rest of the types).


texts: Why does macOS create file mounts for each app?

texts:
I installed a lot of apps on my new MacBook, and I can see my desktop is filling with file mounts for each app. The Finder is also listing them like this.

Can someone please help me understand why that happens? What is the use of those mounts? Is there a way I can control/hide/stop that?


texts: 2017 MacBook Pro - USB-C to Display-Port not working?

texts:
Recently purchased a USB-C to HDMI cable for my 2017 13'' MacBook Pro with 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports. All was working well until I plugged in my charger and I noticed the charging icon flashing on and off, then I got the classic "USB Accessories Disabled" message, and the monitor stopped displaying. I couldnt' get the cable working again on any monitor so I gave up and decided to return it.
Today I decided to purchase a more expensive USB-C to DisplayPort adapter. Again, all was working well, so I assumed it was a dud cable. I plugged my charger in again and the same thing happened - monitor stopped working and the same "USB Accessories Disabled" message.
Just wondering if anyone has experienced any issue similar? It seems like it might be a fault with my laptop. I reset the SMC and PRAM but nothing changed. I've also noticed now that one of my USB-C ports is no longer working, which I'm not sure is related to this or not.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Grabbed a USB-C to USB-A adapter and tested the voltage on the back left port, and when the charger is plugged in the port outputs 20V, which explains the problems. Out of warranty so guessing I'm out of luck?


texts: How to fix a completely unresponsive MacBook Pro 2018 keyboard?

texts:
I have a 2018 Macbook Pro 13” with Touch Bar running MacOS Catalina. Today my keyboard suddenly stopped working after sleep. It simply would not output ANYTHING. I foolishly restarted my computer before even trying to look into some settings. After that I was unable to login, connect a bluetooth keyboard, nothing. I could not even hold the option key to boot into bootcamp. I’m simply in shock right now, as my MacBook really cost a ton and is extremely vital to my studies and hobbies.
Thank you so much for any help!


texts: Unable to tap an on-screen button in Safari on iPhone

texts:
As shown in the screenshot, I am unable to tap the Done button in Safari on my iPhone. When I attempt to tap it, the tap isn't registered and the Safari toolbar is displayed instead.

I can't scroll the webpage to move the back button upwards.


texts: Why does Mac OS include both ABC and US keyboard layouts when the two perform the same functions?

texts: The ABC and US keyboard layouts on Mac OS appear identical in layout. Is there any reason why Apple chose to include two identical keyboard layouts that perform the same functions?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro without admin or sudo access, but I need git. XCode is not installed, so I don't have access to make, so I cannot build from source. /usr/local is locked down, so I cannot use MacPorts or Homebrew either.

How do I get a working git binary?


texts: How to enlarge the reading pane font in Office 365 (Outlook)?

texts: The font is too small on the reading pane of Outlook 2016. Is there a hack to enlarge the reading pane font? I've had Macs for years but then Helvetica Neue font is too small for me.


texts: I can't add videos to my video playlist after upgrading to iOS 5

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I want to add a compatible video to my videos app on my iPhone (using iOS 5),  but when I sync my iPhone with iTunes, the video doesn't show up on the device.

The video is already added to the iTunes library, and in the "video" section of the used space, there is video content, but there's nothing in my video playlist on the phone itself.

Did I miss something? Is there something I don't know about the usage of separated video and music folders on iOS 5?


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I just started using enthought's canopy to manage my python packages; thus I want to disable and/or uninstall all of my macports python packages.  Nominally, I'd like to deactivate them first - make sure things still work - then uninstall and delete them.

I've tried doing:

sudo port deactivate py-*

but that returns the error:

Error: port deactivate failed: Image error: port py-abjad is not active.

I've tried to uninstall all inactive ports (sudo port uninstall inactive), but that didn't seem to resolve the issue.

Finally, if I try

sudo port deactivate active py-*

that just starts to deactivate everything...

edit:  e.g.

sudo port deactivate active py-*
--->  Deactivating py27-pygtk @2.24.0_1+x11
--->  Cleaning py27-pygtk
--->  Deactivating libglade2 @2.6.4_7
--->  Cleaning libglade2
--->  Deactivating gtk2 @2.24.22_0+x11
--->  Cleaning gtk2
--->  Deactivating atk @2.10.0_0
--->  Cleaning atk
--->  Deactivating autoconf @2.69_2
--->  Cleaning autoconf
--->  Deactivating automake @1.14_0
--->  Cleaning automake
--->  Deactivating bash @4.2.45_2
--->  Cleaning bash


texts: macOS Calendar app stopped syncing with Google Calendar

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My Google Calendar account has stopped syncing with the Apple Calendar app on macOS (High Sierra 10.13.4). I've tried turning Google Calendar off and back on in the System Preferences -> Internet Accounts panel and i've tried removing the account from the Calendar app. Neither have made any difference. I don't see anything unusual in the system logs.

Everything is up to date in the Google Calendar web app.

Anyone else have this problem, or creative solutions? Are there more advanced things i can do to force a reset on the syncing of these calendars, like command line settings or Library file deletions?


texts: Have had my iPad reset due to being disabled and when setting it up again it has asked for the old password to restore some apps.I am not sure exactly what it is so can I find out somehow as I don't want it to disable again?