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In order to install Windows XP on Virtual Box at my new MacBook Air, I need to create an ISO file of my WinXP install CD. My Laptop (MacBook Pro / Lion) comes with the Mac Disk Util and that app can create ISO files from CD media. The problem was, after creating such a ISO file with that DiskUtil (using New image... -> CD/DVD-Master -> renaming to *.iso) that file wasn't readable by Virtual Box ;-( I've tried 3 various options but without any success.
After that, I tried it with command line only

dd if=/dev/disk1 of=WinXP.iso

But this file wasn't readable by VirtualBox too ;-( Also my muCommander, which can 'read' plain ISO files by step into like for directories, showing empty content. So something must be wrong with that ISO file. Finally, I come to a real weird solution: I've already has installed WinXP on Virtual Box at my MacBook Pro. I've installed ISOWorkshop, a freeware for creating ISO files from disc media. With that tool, I create the ISO file of the WinXP install CD (under WinXP on Virtual Box at MBP), copied that file to the MacBook Air, and use that ISO file for creating the WinXP VM under Virtual Box.... Oh my god ;-)
But the performance of the MBA is incredible: The whole installation was estimated with the famous '37 minutes' which was a  good approximation in the past for my machines. Today it was finished after 6 minutes !!!

Does anybody know, why the ISO files created by the Mac Lion Disc Utility are not 100% compatible with standard, or at least unusable for Virtual Box ?

Kind regards

Dominik


texts:
I'm one of these people who likes to grab the scroll bar and move it around now-n-then when I'm not using the scroll wheel on my mouse.

But what I find really annoying is I have to scroll to get it to appear, which is fine, but it disappears before I can grab it.

How can I increase the duration that the scroll bar shows before it disappears?


texts: A simple way to replace date created with last opened date?

texts: I have a huge number of files that were copied into an old OS X 10.6 server.  Problem is there are a large number that came over with a time last opened but no create or modified dates.  Is there a basic script to go through and change the create date to the last opened date?


texts: How do you customize Lion Finder sidebar icons?

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I'm not looking to hack resources or use SIMBL plugins, but I would like to be able to show custom icons in the Lion sidebar.

As far as I've understood custom icons on the folder no longer show up in the sidebar and the "built-in" icons that are there are hardcoded to resources pathed in: /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

However, I notice that the new versions of Dropbox now update the "Dropbox" sidebar icon to be a custom icon and it seems to be able to do this:

Without using some code injection thing like SIMBL or needing root access
Without the actual Dropbox process being running

So this leads me to believe that Lion sidebar icons are customisable, but this metadata is stored elsewhere?

xattr -l ~/Dropbox doesn't seem to list anything interesting:

com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000020


texts: My .MobileBackups folder is 32GB. I've plugged in my Macbook Air to the power and have already forced time machine to backup. However, the folder is still 32GB even after restarting...Did Time Machine properly back up the 32GB so I can delete it?


texts:
Freehand Preview Pen Missing
Context:
Essentially preview has two pens - the shape pen, if you will, one which has automatic shape detection and will smooth out your shapes and lines after you draw them, and the freehandpen, one which is freehand, and can vary in thickness depending on the pressure applied to a (force) trackpad.
Why do we use the freehand pen? Well, put simply, personally I find that often the shape detection on the shape pen can get in the way of drawing what you intended, and at some point the frustration of having to switch back to the original drawing in the tab that appears on the top right can be annoying and makes you use the freehand.
Question:
A few hours ago the freehand tool disappeared. Yesterday I was using it fine, now it is gone.
I've also noticed (though I'm not sure if its always been there) that there is now an ability to make a note on the doc. You can see the disappearance of the pen below (on a PDF doc):

Is this indicative of some preview update which has removed the freehand pen?
How can I get the freehand pen back?


texts: automatically change keyboard shortcuts when keyboard layout changes

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I have a MacBook Pro with American keyboard, but I also use a Bluetooth keyboard with Spanish layout.
To cycle through windows I use command+` in the built in keyboard, but when I'm using the Spanish keyboard this does not work and I have to change the shortcut to command+º (this is the key that is in the corresponding position  on top of the tab key).
Is there a way to quickly or automatically change this shortcut so I don't have to open the settings window every time when I change the input source?


texts: Important files and photos saved on Cloud service

texts: What happens if the iCloud/GoogleDrive/DropBox data center where my important files (business info, family photos) are saved ever faces a catastrophic situation like a terrorist nuclear bomb attack? Is my cloud data stored in more than one geo-location?


texts: How to extend the functionality of Open and Save dialogs of OS X applications?

texts:
On Windows there are several third-party applications that can be used to improve the standard Open and Save dialogs.

I am looking for features like:

Being able to delete files from the these dialogs.
Being able to move files.
Remember dialog size or common directories per application (not all apps are able to do things like this).

If the solutions are commercial, please mention the price.


texts: Can I upgrade MacOS X 10.4 to 10.7 Lion?

texts: I want to upgrade my OS to a new level so that I can download Google Chrome. My computer is pretty old and is running Version 10.4.11. The Mac store won't let me download Lion because I need a higher version than I already have. Where can I find that intermediate version so that I can then upgrade to Lion?


texts:
I was trying to add something to my $PATH variable, but I think I made some sort of typo.

Now, I am trying to fix this, I want to remove what I added, but when I type e.g. open .profile, it tells me -bash: open: command not found

How can I fix this?


texts: Strange Macbook 13 Retina MagSafe port problem

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My Macbook Pro 13 Retina only charges (charger lights up and charges) if FIRST I plug the charger to the macbook THEN I join the metal part of the charger cable (see pictures).

If I do it the other way around: first join the metal part of the adapter cable and then plug it to the computer it doesn't charge.

A new Adapter doesn't work because of this reason (it has the metal part soldered from factory)

First I plug it to the laptop:

Then I join the metal part of the cable:

I'm not interested on fixing the charger, it won't work anyway as the problem seems to be the computer's Magsafe port.

Any ideas what the problem can be or how to fix it?

Can you explain me this behaviour?


texts: Unable to create a new Apple ID with previously unused email address

texts:
I am trying to create new Apple ID, but when I enter the details it shows me an error saying my email is valid and ok but it's not available even though I didn't use this email before for any Apple ID.

According to documentation I checked, "not available" means it would be used or associated with any other Apple ID but when I try to sign in and use the option that I forgot the password it shows me that there is no record for this ID.

What do these errors mean?


texts: Copying web page content in Safari to HTML

texts:
Is there an easier way to copy and paste website content in HTML?

What I want to copy looks like this:

Product Information:

Length: S / M / L

Material: Polyester and Elasthane

Brand: Roxana Exclusive

Style: Basque

But when I paste it into my content box it looks like this:

Product Information
Length:
S / M / L
Material:
Polyester and Elasthane
Brand:
Roxana Exclusive
Style:
Basque

Then I need to edit it in an HTML editor to rearrange it.

Is there an app or plugin that will turn the text of the page into HTML so it looks right when I copy it into my content box (if that makes any sense)?


texts: I can't write to a file that I own on /Users/shared

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I am running macos Sierra 10.12.1

It's a plain text file. I've put rw permission on it for all users, but the only way that I can write to it is by having an account with admin privileges use sudo to edit it. It claims to be 'locked' in TextEdit, and I don't have the permission to unlock it.

Here is it ls -l@ entry:

-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 thelma  staff  15424 Oct 28 12:47 addresses
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot     50
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldestSnapshot     50


texts: Why is Facebook app for iPhone so slow to load the content?

texts:
Why is Facebook app for iPhone so slow to load the content (in particular posts comments) and it sometimes doesnt retrieve the posts at all?

The website works quite well and fast but the app is significantly slower, using the same wireless network.

Is something wrong in my phone or does anyone have hints how to debug something like this?


texts: How exactly do I get Facebook to link my friends to iPhoto's Faces tags when sharing from iPhoto?

texts:
I'm preparing to upload an iPhoto event to Facebook for the first time (I'm using iPhoto '11 and my Mac runs Mac OS X 10.7), except I can't quite get Facebook to turn iPhoto's Faces tags into links to my friends' profiles.

Basically, uploading causes the tags on Facebook to show up by themselves without linking to the right profiles. This also means photos of me show up as me... with myself! Like a stunt double, or a clone or something. Anyway, this renders them effectively useless in a sense, as I end up having to manually retag on my browser and remove the tags that came from iPhoto.

Every person's face in this event has been tagged, which is one thing, and I've also tried assigning their Facebook email addresses to their contact cards in iPhoto (which is mentioned in this Apple guided tour). I also found this Apple document that suggests signing into Facebook first, then naming faces using Facebook name suggestions. I tried it and then attempted to upload again, but with no luck either.

What exactly do I need to do to get this to work? Or (hopefully not) was anything changed in iPhoto or Facebook that means this integration will no longer work correctly?


texts: I never want the phone to go to the " lower power mode" even if the phone battery drops to 10 % .

texts:
I entered low power mode on my iDevice and the battery level indicator turned yellow. Now I've plugged it in and it's up past 23% and the battery is still yellow. Does that mean I'm in Low Power Mode still? How do I get out of Low Power Mode? Update: It's at 55% and it's still yellow.

Also, let's say I enter Low Power Mode accidentally, it pops up that alert dialog awfully fast sometimes. If I entered low power mode on accident but don't want to be in it how do I exit out of it then?


texts: sync sent mail between iPhone and mail.app

texts:
Can I set up my mac/iPhone/mobile me to sync the mails I've sent on my iPhone back to my mail.app on my mac?

I use two email addresses: an IMAP (gmail) address and a microsoft exchange address.

On the other hand, I can't even see the mails I've sent on my iPhone in the mail app on the iPhone, it only shows mail.app sent mails.


texts: Exclude Music from Matching by Apple Music or iTunes Match

texts: The matching algorithm Apple uses is very aggressive and will many times mismatch music from my library no matter how well tagged it is. This is a nuisance for many and the information on how to remedy this is poor. How can you force music in your iTunes library from not getting matched in the cloud?


texts: I was wondering if there was any relatively easy way to change the carrier text on my iPod touch 3g (running ios 4.3.3). I've tried editing the com.apple.springboard.plist and adding the SBFakeCarrier key, but it appears that has been removed as of ios 4.2.1. Is there any similar solution?


texts: Continue managing external drive backups on a different computer

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I have an external drive with data on it that is shared on the local network. There's another external drive that's daisy chained where backups are stored.
The computer that was originally managing the backups with Time Machine has been replaced and the drives have been moved to another computer.

The Problem
When I select the backup drive for time machine, it attempts to duplicate all the files again since it doesn't recognize the previous backups since they were made on a different computer.
I have tried using tmutil inheritbackup and tmutil associatedisk but have been hit with a couple errors.
$ sudo tmutil inheritbackup /Volumes/BACKUP_HD/OLD_CPU
Unexpectedly found no machine directories for "/Volumes/BACKUP_HD/OLD_CPU" during collision check.
$ sudo tmutil associatedisk -a /Volumes/DATA_HD /Volumes/BACKUP_HD/OLD_CPU/Latest/DATA_HD
Not a snapshot volume.

Attempting to manage the backups on the new computer ends up trying to duplicate the data again, which is less than ideal.


texts: How do I list my unwatched iTunes purchases on Apple TV?

texts:
I'm thinking of "cutting the cord" and getting an Apple TV, and then buying an iTunes "season pass" for each of the TV shows I'm watching.

Does Apple TV provide a good way to list/find the episodes that I haven't watched yet, without having to wade through all the series, seasons, and episodes that I've already watched?  As time goes on, it seems like there would be a build-up of watched shows that would make it harder and harder to find the unwatched ones.

Apparently Hulu has a feature like this called "watchlist", but I can't find any information on a similar feature for shows purchased a-la-carte from Apple.  The closest I've seen is that you can apparently hide past purchases.


texts: Can I limit my dock to only show up on the main display?

texts:
I use 2 external displays with my Macbook. I use the Macbook's display as my main display and only want the dock to ever show up on this display. Is this possible? Right now when I mouse to the bottom of my 2 external displays the dock will pop up there and sometimes push the rest of my windows up. I do not want this.

Thanks!


texts: How to setup and backup in Time Machine when there is only one hard drive showing?

texts:
then other window open which shows internet written their and they says no airpot found searching for it....!2
and if i go to disk utility there is only one hard drive shows "machinetosh hd"!2
i have no idea what to do now.i want backup my pc.need help!
I m new on mac world


texts: Change icns in macOS to gray color via bash or other script?

texts:
I want to change icns (Application icons) in macOS applications to gray color. Is there is any script (bash or AppleScript) to do this?

I need a script because applications folder always changing and no way to change everytime icons in this folder.


texts: Macbook Pro 2016 13 inch - Display turns off whenever I physically adjust it

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Whenever I try to adjust the angle of my screen my display just turns off. I know the Macbook itself doesn't turn off because I can still hear sound and the keyboard is still lit up. But if I try to adjust the screen, the display just turns off and it's a gamble whether or not it's going to turn back on. I've tried closing it and reopening it but sometimes that doesn't work. I can turn it off and back on but again, the display may or may not turn back on depending on how it's feeling I guess.

Googling this hasn't been helpful, and Apple Diagnostics is reporting no problems. Any ideas?

EDIT: I've discovered that after closing the screen, I can adjust the screen to about 90 degrees until it turns off. Strange.


texts:
I'm using iPhone as a modem.

Is there a way to port forward to my computer because I'm using it as a development server.


texts: iPhone to make a sound when it shuts down due to low battery

texts: Is there a way to have the iPhone make a sound just before it goes to sleep due to low battery (i.e. when battery goes from 1% to 0%)?


texts: Character accent menu only appears for some letters

texts:
Although when I hold down 'e' the accent menu appears fine, if I hold down 'r' it does not. This is not due to no accents existing for r - the character I am trying to get is ' ř ' - as I have had the accent menu appear for it before. I do not know what has changed between my previous usage and my current that should have caused the menu to disappear.
 Help would be much appreciated.

(I am currently using a MacBook Air running OSX Yosemite 10.10.5)


texts: I also have an azerty keyboard, but am used to the qwerty and I want to know how I can modify the keyboard to have a "delete" function. Deleting using the backspace is laborious and I miss being able to delete from the front of the text. Any ideas?


texts: f3 Fight Flash Fraud: "f3probe command not found" Mac OS Mojave

texts:
I'm testing SD Flash Cards and my linux machine decided to be rude and stop operating the SD Card Reader (time for a USB device). So I switched over to the reliable old iMac to happily find that F3 can be installed via Homebrew. After the brief installation however, Bash cannot find f3probe, an essential testing tool that is supposed to come together with f3 for SD Card Fraud testing. F3Read and Write do appear, while no commands or manual entries exist for f3probe or f3fix.

sudo: f3probe: command not found

Thanks for your time,

Tmanok


texts: When I have my iPhone 4s on vibrate only mode (side switch down), sometimes I a single vib alert from an unidentified app.  None of my apps have applicationIconBadgeNumber set, so, what the heck is making it vibrate?


texts: Can't delete or move item from trash using sudo rm in terminal, in superuser account, or even single user mode

texts:
At some point in the past I was messing around with the battery menu on my 2012 macbook pro running High Sierra to see if I could it to display the estimated time remaining rather than a percentage. Anywho, I created a copy of the file /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu which I no longer needed, so I trashed it.

Since then I have been unable to move the item from the trash or delete it.

I have tried:

deleting normally
using the force delete option (option + delete)
trying to drag item out of trash (makes a copy, which is deletable)
sudo rm -vrf ~/.Trash/Battery.menu (result: Operation not permitted)
renaming and moving the file with sudo mv ~/.Trash/Battery.menu (result: Operation not permitted)
running the above commands after su in terminal
using the root account to try the above
booting into single user mode, mounting the file system, using above commands. (result: Operation not permitted)
using setfile to try to set the busy attribute to not busy and to unlock the file (though it is not locked) using setfile -a z ~/.Trash/Battery.menu. Result:
ERROR: Unexpected Error. (-5000)  on file: /Users/myuser/.Trash/Battery.menu
repairing permissions, then trying everything again
booting into recovery, turning off SIP, and trying to delete again.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!


texts:
I just bought a 4tb hard drive and enclosure and attempted to encrypt it with truecrypt. I errored with a message saying the block size must be 4096 bytes for >2TB drive.

How do i alter the drive to have that block size?

Currently it says block size is 512

diskutil info /dev/disk2s2|grep "Block Size"
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes


texts: I cannot share contacts through text messages with my iphone 5

texts: I am trying to share contacts through text messages just as I used to do with my iphone 3 but I do not know the correct taps and/or gestures to do this.


texts: Avoiding being locked out of Apple Store - password

texts: Twice I put in an incorrect password. I did not want to be locked out.. so I stopped trying.. I know that I can set a new one.. BUT I would prefer to keep the one that I have for the time being... If I wait a full day.. will I be allowed to try my password again (twice if nescessary)  or will I be locked out if I try it once more - even if 24 hours has passed?  Thanks


texts: I had 250 GB free on my hard drive a week ago, I have done almost nothing and now it's 80GB?

texts:
I have only browsed the internet, and added a few files around 2GB. When I look in / (with hidden files) and take all the sizes together it just becomes about 730, but I have a 960GB hard drive with only 80GB free.

Why is this and how can I find out?


texts: How to open a app in fullscreen via terminal in bash code

texts: I would like to know how you would be able to open a app of your choice in fullscreen by using bash code in terminal.


texts: Certain apps occasionally won't unhide once hidden

texts:
On one of my Macs certain apps, e.g. Safari, Xcode and Disk Utility, sometimes cannot be unhidden once they were hidden by me, and it's quite annoying and disruptive to my workflow. I could use some help figuring out how to fix this.

The symptoms are:

I hide the app explicitly (either by typing cmd+H or option-clicking into another app's window, not sure if only one of them is causing it). This also makes the icon become dimmed in the Dock.
Then, sometimes, when I then click into the Dock's dimmed icon, the app would not react, i.e. it would not come forward, nor would it show its window(s), and the Dock icon remains dimmed.
If there are still some windows visible, clicking into them does not have any effect, either, even though the window might appear to be frontmost (i.e. the title bar is showing the colored buttons on the left).
The window would, however, track my mouse moves inside, just not react to clicks or drag operations (I can tell this in Safari windows where the content reacts to the mouse moving).

Basically, the app (or the Cocoa framework) doesn't know any more in which state it is: Hidden or Unhidden.

I can half-fix this by performing these steps:

Activate a different app, e.g. the Finder.
Right-click into the dimmed app's Dock icon, and choose Show All Windows
Click into any of the offered windows.

With that, the windows behave normally again, e.g. I can click into them, but the Dock icon remains dimmed (even though clicking the icon will bring the app forward again), and the app's Hide command (cmd+H) does not work any more, even though it's enabled in the menu.

Has anyone else seen this behavior and/or has an idea what's causing this?

Since I've been suffering from this for many years, and over several OSX versions, here's a few things I've tried and considered:

It does only happen with a certain set of apps. So far, most if not not (not entirely sure) are made by Apple. And they're all Cocoa (not older Carbon) apps. Most apps do never show this issue.
It doesn't seem to be caused by a 3rd party system extension, as I've disabled practically all of them to rule them out. This includes: Little Snitch, DragThing, iClip, Default Folder, TotalFinder, SizeUp, Timbuktu.
I just now even did a complete re-install of macOS 10.12.6, then using the Migration Assistant to clone my previous system. This did reset some stuff (e.g. got rid of old Brew, Fink and MacPorts installation), but the problem persists.
Oddly, I've also used the Migration Assistant to install 10.12 and 10.13 on my other Macs, and none of those show this issue.
It's not that particular Mac hardware, either - I used to have a MacPro 2008 until yesterday, but now it's a MP 2010 model, yet I see the problem on both (running the same system).
I suspect it's one of the many "secret" (i.e. unsupported) preferences I've set over the years in order to keep old behavior enabled that Apple has changed in newer systems. I had a look at many prefs using Prefs Editor, but could not identify anything related to this behavior.

One thing that may be of significance (though I also use this feature on other Macs where I don't see the issue): I am using 4 desktop spaces, and often switch between them using keyboard shortcuts. I wonder if the issue is a combination of switching to another space while hiding or unhiding the app, causing the app's "hidden" state to go into a permanent limbo state.

The only obvious thing where the problematic Mac differs from all unaffected others is that it has two monitors whereas the others only have one.


texts: Does copying a migrated iPhotos library use extra space, given that iPhotos and Photos Libraries are hardlinked?

texts:
If I have migrated an iPhoto Library to Photos (on an external disk, so independent of the computer with the apps), and then make a copy of the iPhotos Library, will I be using additional disk space?

I understand (now, but not when I did this) that the iPhoto Library and the Photos Library in effect share space because the photos referenced as being "in" both are hard linked to the same location (see Does migrating to Apple's new Photos app actually double my storage requirements? and  If I've migrated from iPhoto to Photos, can I safely delete the migrated photo library?). If I make a copy of the iPhoto Library, does that make a copy of the hard links in the iPhoto Library or does it make a copy of the underlying photos as well? The copy is on the same volume, but may or may not be in the same folder (i.e. both alternatives apply).

If copying does copy the underlying photos, is there any way of telling which libraries are now sharing linked photos?

(The problem arose because I had migrated an iPhoto Library to Photos under Yosemite. I then opened the Photos Library under High Sierra, which migrated it to the new HS Photos format (something I had not anticipated), without also creating a pre-migration (Yosemite) version. The problem is that I want to use this Library on an older computer under Yosemite/El Capitan. I then tried to do my own investigations about whether the various libraries contained the same data, not being entirely sure whether there had been any changes made to the Photos Library.  Additional complication: I think there were already two iPhoto Libraries: iPhoto Library.migratedlibrary and iPhoto Library copy.)


texts: The iOS Reverse Sync: Urban Legend or Real?

texts:
My MacBook was stolen a couple of weeks ago...along with my iPad, ThinkPad, wallet, and all I hold dear (besides my wife, thankfully). Also stolen was my 2TB backup hard drive...yeah they got ya boy good huh?

Anyway, I got a new MacBook, and on my iPhone is all (most of) my media. Not all of it was purchased in iTunes, so I can't download it from the store. I can SSH into the phone, or use iPhone Explorer to steal my files back....from myself.

Here are my issues:

Music - easy. Copy from device, then import to iTunes. The funky file names don't mean anything since the iGods speak ID3.

Also, when I DID hit "Transfer Purchases" in iTunes, it put all my purchases on my MacBook, but now they won't show up on my iPhone. They're still there though. I can tell because the space is being used (feels kinda like "I know you're there; I can hear you breathing, fool...")

Pics - They're all in weird folders (F00, F01...Fxx). Importing to iPhoto doesn't organize them as nicely as iTunes does music. Does anyone know of a script that will put them all in one root folder? Then I could go from there. I'd rather not navigate through hundreds of folders, or have hundreds of unorganized iPhoto events.

Contacts - This is probably the easiest one, I admittedly just haven't researched how to reverse sync contacts. Seems possible, since they sync contacts in the Apple Store without attaching their computer to your newly-purchased iDevice. ::Alt+Tabs to iTunes:: Yeah, I actually just figured this one out. Checked "Sync Address Book Contacts" duh, Thomas. I've actually never seen the "Merge Info" option before. Maybe because I've never had my syncing computer stolen before.

Anyway, thanks for partaking in my ramblings. Any suggestions for my actual issues would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Thomas


texts: Can I use my iPhone's 18W adapter on my MacBook Pro? And vice versa?

texts:
Are the new 18W power adapters for the iPhone 11's compatible with the MacBook Pro 13-inch (2019)?

Is it safe? Anything to watch out for?

What about using my MacBook's adapter (with the correct cable) on my iPhone 11 Pro? Is that safe


texts: Removing gray part of BBEdit/TextWrangler

texts:
How can I remove the gray part in BBEdit/TextWrangler.
I want it to be white as the other part.

Screenshot (see part marked with red square):


texts: Installing Imagemagick leads to weird error involving OpenCL

texts:
I'm trying to install ImageMagick on Mac OSX 10.7 and I'm getting the following errors:

When I try to run the suggested verification

$ convert logo: logo.gif
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenCL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libclparser.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/convert
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

$ identify logo.gif
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenCL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libclparser.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/identify
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

When I try pretty much anything...

$ identify -version
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenCL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libclparser.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/identify
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

I've followed the path and it looks like the libclparser.dylib is missing from the OpenCL.framework, but I'm unsure of where to find that or how to replace it, or even if that's the right thing to do.


texts: My Photos & Camera storage decreased drastically, but how?

texts:
Photos & Camera took up somewhere around 2.5 GB of storage a week ago. I check now and it is at 700 MB. Does anyone how this is possible?

I remember having the option that makes a small video of each picture taken, turned on, and turning it off for each photo that I had stored. That did not reduce the storage of my Photos immediately, perhaps it updated just now? However, when I go to my Photos I still see the option to turn it on for my photos. I think this is weird: I turn it off for my photos but for some reason it is still available to be turned on at my photos?

Photos and Videos is now 1.1 GB on my iCloud: more size taken up than on my iPhone. I also remember turning on the option 'Optimise iPhone Storage' for my photos, but this did not change the size of my Photos storage immediately either at that time.

Anyone who has a clue how the size of my Photos and Videos on my iPhone SE suddenly decreased from 2.5 to 0.7 GB? Is it the change of a setting that takes a while to kick in?

Kind regards


texts:
This is a strange one & only seems to affect text entry [questions, answers & comments] on SE sites. I've not really noticed it anywhere else, but this is where I do most of my web-site typing.

As I start to type into a text field, all is well, but the longer I type, the slower the input gets, until eventually I can be  half a sentence in front of what's appearing on screen. [It's doing it now, as I type this question]

First thoughts would be RAM/paging, CPU busy, overall computer speed - however, I have 64GB RAM, about 12GB in use, swap is 0 bytes; CPU is doing about 2% right now; machine is a Mac Pro 5,1 3.46GHz 12-core.

I've tested using a completely clean admin account, in case of any legacy prefs/extension issues etc [as this is a migration from an older machine], with the same results, typing lag after just 2 or 3 lines of text.

This also used to happen on my old machine, Mac Pro 3,1 2.8GHz 8-core, so it's not machine-specific.

I just discovered it doesn't appear to affect Chrome, so I'm suspecting Safari itself more than anything else.

I've tried disabling all Edit > Spelling & Grammar and all Substitutions with no improvement.

OS X 10.10.4 Safari 8.0.7 - though it's not been exclusive to those versions, it is getting worse over time.

I'd appreciate any further troubleshooting ideas, or even just confirmation that anyone else may have seen this behaviour.


texts: Is there a convenient way for me to use my other macs audio output?

texts: I have two macs, one of them is plugged into speakers. Can I use the mac that isn't plugged in to use my other mac for audio output in some convenient fashion?


texts:
My computer crashed few days ago, I took it to computer store and they told me that the logic board is damaged but the hard drive is fine. So they migrated all files from old mac to a new mac. All users are there as before, hard drive data are there for all users, except one user-"User1". when I log in to User1, there are no files, as if it has been erased. After digging into hidden files from main Admin user, I found "User1.sparsebundle" file that has 137GB. So one thing that came into my mind is that the account for this particular user were stored as in image disk with name User1. When I open the "User1.sparsebundle", I get the following error:

" image not recognized "

Is there a way to open it and see the content of the User1.sparsebundle image?
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you


texts:
According to this answer over at SuperUser, OS X's terminal app should use Alt+Mouse Click to send mouse events to applications running in the terminal. I tried that with the Midnight Commander, but it does not work. I am running OS X Mavericks.

Is there any way to enable mouse support in the terminal app, short of switching to iterm2 or something like that?


texts:
I updated my iMac and now I get dark blue and light blue color on the “dots” to close fullscreen instead of the normal green, yellow and red dots.

Can someone help me or this is or is this how the new OS looks?


texts:
I'm going to be away for a few days and will be taking both my Macbook Air and my iPad away with me.

Whilst we're stuck in a hotel room I may not have internet connection (I'm not willing to pay for hotel wifi) but would like to be able to share the iTunes library between my iPad / iPhone / Air

Without being connected to a router can I do this?  Can the Air host its own private network just for local devices?


texts: Can I script actions while screensaver is engaged and a USB device is attached?

texts:
I have a Mac mini running Mojave that starts a screensaver at login.

The screensaver is with password prompt, meaning that until a password is entered, it will not show the desktop.  I only have the screen saver enabled; power saver is set to not go to sleep.

I'm checking the machine with a Remote Desktop service (DWService) and browsing the file system. The USB Drive I attached did not mount.

Currently I have to

Enter screensaver password
detach USB
reattach USB

I would like to avoid this behavior, as I use folder action automation to start some process when I plug a USB storage with a magic file present on that drive.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts:
I can't find any data on Big Sur market share among Mac versions.
The only source that covers this is https://gs.statcounter.com/macos-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide
However on that source there is no data for Big Sur - if you download .csv you will see that all values add up to 100% and there is no 'Big Sur' or 'Other' category. I would assume that Big Sur has similar to what Catalina had in this period of year (41%) and that all other values should be corrected by multiplying with 59%.
But that is just a guess. Does anyone have any data? Including from his own site if nothing else just if it has at least 1k Mac users a month?


texts: After Yosemite, can't print; CUPS error_log: "/bin/bash: gs: command not found"

texts:
My printer stopped working since I upgraded to Yosemite. The print queue window says only "Stopped - 'Filter' failed". From /var/log/cups/error_log:

...
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] PID 3334 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftops) exited with no errors.
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Wrote 1 pages...
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] PID 3335 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops) exited with no errors.
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Flushing FIFO.
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Starting renderer with command: "gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pxlmono -r600x600 -dMediaPosition=0 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792 -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3 -_ 3>&1 1>&2"
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Starting process "kid3" (generation 1)
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Starting process "kid4" (generation 2)
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] JCL: -12345X@PJL
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] <job data>
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Starting process "renderer" (generation 2)
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] /bin/bash: gs: command not found
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] renderer exited with status 127
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Closing renderer
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] kid3 exited with status 1
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Process is dying with "Error closing renderer
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] ", exit stat 1
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Cleaning up...
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] PID 3336 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 1.
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Sent 0 bytes...
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] STATE: +cups-waiting-for-job-completed
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] Waiting for read thread to exit...
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] PID 3337 (/usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb) exited with no errors.
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] End of messages
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] printer-state=3(idle)
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] printer-state-message="Filter failed"
D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] printer-state-reasons=none

/bin/bash: gs: command not found looks interesting, as does PID 3336 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 1. I assume the first error led to the second.

GhostScript has long been installed. I just installed the latest (9.15). Running gs in Terminal launches the GhostScript command line tool. which gs tells me /usr/local/bin/gs.

I tried restarting CUPS (sudo launchctl [stop/start] org.cups.cupsd). I also symlinked gs to /usr/bin and /sbin.

Why can't it find gs when I actually try to print?


texts: Can Airport Time Capsule encrypted backups be hacked open from internet?

texts:
Can Airport Time Capsule encrypted backups be hacked open from internet ?

How secure are the encrypted Airport Time Capsule backups exactly ?
Any official docs anyone knows of ?

Thanks !


texts: "Format" menu in TextEdit or Note with changed shortcut

texts:
Something happend in my Big Sur macOS and the shortcut for "Format" -> "Text" -> "Center" is changed in the "down" key!

So for example every time I press the down key in TextEdit or Note (and I suppose in every app that use these system menus) I got the text centered instead of move the cursor down.
I tried to restore default shortcuts and nothing changed. Rebooted, nothing. CMD + OPT + P + R not resolved the issue...
—— update ——
I reset the shortcut in sys pref -> keyboard, but with no success. I tried with another account on the mac and the problem is the same. So it’s not a user setting, but a system one.
—— possible workaround——
In the apple forum someone had the same problem related to BigSur update:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252054589
Any idea how to restore system shortcut for this type of menu?


texts: Can I make iPhone 5 screen shots without an iPhone to test with?

texts:
Given an html5 application that I have access to, Is there a way to get a screen shot of how it would look on the iPhone 5.

I do not have an iPhone 5, so is this possible?


texts: How do I find a RSS URL for a podcast in the Apple Podcasts directory?

texts:
I have both a Mac (macOS Catalina) and an iPhone (iOS 13.5.1). When I find a podcast in the Apple Podcasts directory I'd like to be able to subscribe to that podcast in any RSS reader, which requires having the RSS URL. Since, not all "podcatchers" have complete/up-to-date directories, having the URL of the actual feed would make it easy to subscribe to any particular podcast.
Given that having an RSS feed is a requirement for a podcast being listed in the Apple Podcasts directory, there must be some way to find the RSS URL.


texts: 6GB of "System Storage" on iPhone 6 - Reset Doesn't Clear It

texts:
I have had issues with my iPhone's System Storage category taking up anywhere from 6 to 9 GB of storage.  This is a huge problem for me, as I have a 16GB phone!

I have backed up and wiped my phone in every possible combination multiple times over the last year or so and nothing helps.  Plugging it into iTunes and letting it sit open for a few minutes will clear less than 500 MB, and eventually that gets racked back up again.

Any ideas on how to fix this, or is my phone just screwed?


texts:
I have trouble using Google DNS under my 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave.. I want to point in advance that:

I don't have access to the router settings.
I'm using kind of host network that my landlord provided to me. I would like to avoid to contact him.

I can ping the DNS server I want to use:

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from
8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=120 time=11.034 ms

I can resolve names without Google DNS:

$ nslookup www.apple.com
Server:     192.168.179.1
Address:    192.168.179.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.apple.com   canonical name = www.apple.com.edgekey.net.
www.apple.com.edgekey.net   canonical name = www.apple.com.edgekey.net.globalredir.akadns.net.
www.apple.com.edgekey.net.globalredir.akadns.net    canonical name = e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net.
Name:   e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net
Address: 184.25.247.151

I cannot resolve names with Google DNS:

$ nslookup www.apple.com 8.8.8.8
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Setting up the DNS addresses in a new location does not help.


texts: How to correct the exclusion list for Time Machine backup? Music is not listed for exclusion, but is excluded

texts:
I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and have noticed the Music folder is not listed for exclusion. However, this folder is not actually backed up, as I can see this by going into the backup disk, it is not there.

This is confirmed by looking at the exclusion list which has Music there for some reason:

Any idea what went wrong? A bug? Or the exclusion list somehow inherited this from previous settings of the Time Machine I must have had in the past, I may have excluded Music some years ago? Is it possible to rectify this?


texts: Is there a way of swiping between single spaces on a multi-monitor setup?

texts:
In Lion, being able to swipe between desktops with the trackpad is great. However since adding another monitor to my setup, what I really want to be able to do is swipe desktops across monitors. E.g. if I have the following setup:

Desktop 1 | Desktop 2 | XCode | Chrome

Instead of swiping left from Desktop 1 replacing the contents of both screens, Desktop 1 is displayed on the left hand monitor and Desktop 2 on the right. Swiping left moves Desktop 2 to the left hand monitor, and full screen Xcode to the right hand monitor. This would be especially useful as XCode/Chrome etc. just blank out the second monitor when in fullscreen mode, which is really annoying!

Is there an app or setting that can achieve this?


texts:
I have tried installing windows 7 on my MacMini.

I followed following steps.

Setup went perfectly But while installing I thought of not installing it.
So, I just restarted mac mini.
Pressed Alt key while booting
Started OSX
Launched Disk Utility
Removed windows partition.

But after doing all these stuff, I am facing new problem. Each time when macMini starts, I always have to press ALT while booting, otherwise it goes in indeterminate state.

Please guide me.


texts: App Store keeps asking me to type in verification code after password, but I'm receiving no verification code

texts:
The title is the question. I only own a MacBook and whenever I try to log in to the App Store I get the message: "An Apple ID verification code is required to sign in. Type your password followed by the verification code shown on your other devices."
I'm not sure what this means. If the message makes sense, shouldn't I have received a text message on my (Android) phone that's connected to my Apple ID?
I'm able to log in to my Apple ID on the website perfectly fine. What am I supposed to do here?
The OS that I'm using is Mavericks btw. Thanks!


texts: "Could not locate device support files" with Xcode version 11.3.1 and iOS 13.5.1

texts:
I have the latest version of Xcode (11.3.1) for Mojave installed, but it seems that it doesn't support iOS version 13.5.1. I cannot download later versions as the latest version of Mojave is 10.14.6, and Xcode 11.5+ cannot be downloaded here.
Is the only possible solution downgrading my iPhone back to iOS 13.3? If so, how do you do that?
Edit: It seems like Apple no longer allows downgrading to lower iOS versions, which is a hot load of [expletives], and so the only solution to this problem if you have it is to upgrade to Catalina, unfortunately.


texts: How does iPhone's facetime work even when the phone function is off?

texts:
It's a bit inconvenient that iPhone's FaceTime can only be used on WiFi. And yet you call people by using their numbers.

But my mom's iPad only has wifi and she has no number, and I call her iPad via my iPhone by using her email address. I don't quite understand how it knows her iPad and makes the connection? Is it through her Apple ID?

What's doubly confusing is when I traveled to Europe for a couple months I put my iPhone account on hold; so text and phone did not work. I kept the wifi on though. But I was blown away that mom could still call me from her iPad. Somehow FaceTime worked though WiFi with my phone number even though my phone account was turned off? I'm assuming it somehow associated my number with my Apple ID, but wow, I'm confused?


texts: Why does iTunesConnect ask for export compliance for every iOS app submission?

texts:
Although I like the new iTunes Connect interface, there's a massive let down on my app: it will ask for my encryption compliance form each time I submit a new binary.

In the "old" iTunes Connect website, it was only asking if the encryption scheme changed (and required a new form, which is understandable), here I have to provide it for every single binary I want to submit.

This slows down the validation process for about 3-4 days each time, which is really frustrating.

Does somebody have the same issue?
Is there a solution to skip this step ?


texts: How do I turn the echo service on in Snow Leopard?

texts: I'd like to temporarily turn on the echo service (TCP and UDP port 7) on in Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).  I guess this involves using the launchctl/launchd?


texts: Image dimensions infos on Lion Finder Columns view

texts:
Since updating to Lion, none of my image show their dimensions in Finder column view. I tried highlighting a file for a while or opening it with Preview, as suggested by this anser without success. Here is a screenshot to visualize my problem :

How can I see any file dimensions in Finder, like I did with Snow Leopard ?


texts: In Excel, how do you delete line breaks?

texts: In Excel, how do you delete line breaks globally? It's totally messing up my text-to-column I need to do.


texts: How to back up two internal hard drives using Time Machine?

texts:
I upgraded my macbook pro and have now two internal SSD drives (I removed the old drive and also the DVD drive).

I have been using Time Machine to back up the 1st drive to an external drive, and I now wonder if there is any way I can also use Time Machine to back up the new second SSD drive.

Hope it makes sense..

so I back up my main SSD-1 drive to an external drive called Backup1.

and now would like to back up my second drive called SSD-2 to a second drive called Backup2.

Is it possible to use Time Machine for that?


texts:
I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina Display and recently I've had some issues with it. Firstly it began to not charge properly - the charger light would stay orange and never go to green, and it wouldn't boot up (I imagine the battery was discharged and was failing to charge). This seemed to resolve itself but lately it has been unusable due to the system being extremely sluggish (taking 10 minutes just to open Safari), and the fans being at top speed constantly.

After some research I discovered I could run the Apple Hardware Test to diagnose any hardware failures/issues, and it indeed find a failure with the code below

4SNS/1/C0000008: Ts0P--124

After some research I discovered this is an issue with the palm rest temperature sensor - which makes sense as obviously the system is running away with itself and running the fans at max speed. I've tried resetting the PRAM and SMC to no avail.

I'm unable to get an appointment at the Genius Bar for at least a week and I do not drive so I can't drive to one with more availability so I'm wondering if there is anyway to fix this myself. If not, would this likely require a full logic board replacement or is the sensor quite simple to replace?


texts: Can I separate app download stats to see one app vs. another?

texts: We have released two apps under our iTunes connect / developer account, and it looks like the day by day reporting includes both apps and I can only see it broken down by app for the previous day. Unless I check stats daily and track it elsewhere, I can't see how each Indiv is doing.


texts: Manage iOS automatic connection to public Wi-Fi

texts:
I use Skype to make some international calls. This works well if I am at home/office and connected to Wi-Fi.

However if I am on move, I prefer to turn off Wi-Fi to prevent connection to public Wi-Fi networks so that it won't affect my ongoing calls.

Sometimes after calls I forget to turn on Wi-Fi and start using some other app which can consume substantial amount of data.

Is there is any way to disconnect Wi-Fi for just a few minutes (the estimated duration of the call)? Or to force app calling features to use cellular only?


texts: Cisco IPSec forgets password (Mavericks)

texts:
Cisco IPSec seems to have no way to store the password of the connection permanently. I have found on the web some solutions for the Mountain Lion release, but none for OS-X Mavericks.

Is it impossible, or has someone found an answer and didn't post it?


texts: Upgrade OS X operating system from the command line

texts: You can upgrade software with sudo softwareupdate --install --all. Is it possible to upgrade the OS itself from the command line?


texts: How to delete / mark as played multiple podcast episodes played in iOS11

texts:
My podcast app decided to mark as unplayed 200+ episodes of a podcast I have listened to for years. In iOS11 I'm not even sure how to mark these as unplayed individually anymore, let alone altogether. Is there a way to do this? I am currently trying to go through and delete each, but that doesn't seem to have any effect.

Thanks!


texts:
When connecting to hotel WiFi, the WiFi login page doesn't appear on macOS. When trying to go to a standard webpage I get an error about my network connection.

After reading a lot of documentation and articles online some common suggestions include:

Navigating to http://neverssl.com or http://captive.apple.com in a web browser to see if a non-SSL site will trigger the login page to appear
Try navigating to the router IP address (listed in System Preferences) in a web browser. This did redirect me to a different site, but that page had the same error as everything else.
Flushing the DNS cache
Restarting my computer
Ensuring that there are no custom DNS Server addresses
And more

None of these solutions triggered the login page, and none helped me establish a connection to the internet.

What is strange is going into recovery mode (the mode where you can reinstall macOS), and going into the Safari browser there shows the WiFi login page perfectly. But I don't want to stay in recovery mode forever, I want this to work in my normal system.


texts: iCloud Photo library and photo stream - deleting photos from phone only

texts: If I turn on iCloud Photo library, it tells me "Photos and videos synced from iTunes will be removed." From where? Which photos and videos? I just want to delete photos from my phone because of storage issues. I'm fine with turning off photo stream, but someone said I should first "link iCloud Photo library." Which takes me to the first problem. Can someone clarify? I don't want to permanently lose anything! Thank you!


texts: I'm on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and iOS 14.1.  This AM when I connected my iPhone to Mac, I got this pop up.  It is not something I see re: regular updates - never gotten it before.  I just X'd through it and continued as usual. I recently synced the other week with all the same software and didnt get it.  Have not made any os or ios updates or changes to warrant message.  I did use the Learn More linkbut did not get any useful info from Apple other than then saying its needed to connect - which is is NOT as i X'd through it and was able to connect.  What is it for?  Whats it mean?  Anyone else get one?


texts: Are the mid-2012 Macbook Air compatible with older MagSafe adapters?

texts: Will the mid-2012 Macbook Air models be compatible with the MagSafe power supply of the previous generations?


texts: Is there any software like 'Network Magic' for Mac?

texts: I really like Cisco's 'Network Magic' software; but the site says they no longer support Mac.. Does anyone know of any software like it, that is supported on Mac?


texts:
I am not sure if this is the right forum for this, but here goes.

I have a 2011 Thunderbolt iMac which I love dearly for it's beautiful display. Long story short, I know that there is no way that I can use it as a monitor for my gaming PC, but I was wondering if it would be possible for my iMac to control my gaming PC via the Remote Desktop Application or would there be too much lag? (both machines are on the same network so this would be done locally)

I cannot try this yet because I am still in the process of getting my PC back, but I am seeing this as the only viable solution at the moment other than just purchasing a monitor for it.


texts: Preparing my MacBook Pro in case it is ever stolen

texts:
How might I best prepare my MacBook Pro in case it is ever stolen?

I hardened my security by flipping on FileVault (home directory encryption) and enabling the password prompt after waking from sleep or screensaver. My account has a secure password.

But then if a thief steals my laptop, they'll be completely locked out. So then they will be forced to reformat, and any potential security measures I have will be thrown out the window. Should I then create another user account or something, to allow them a way into my laptop without compromising my home directory and let something like Prey run in the background?

Can I enable some sort of guest account for this purpose, is it a good idea, and what is the security implications of doing so? And then what else should I do to protect my laptop and allow me to potentially recover it? What are my options besides Prey for sneaky background things? How do I prevent the thief from reformatting my laptop and bypassing everything entirely? (is there a BIOS-level theft prevention program?)

How can I best ensure that I can recover my MacBook Pro if it is stolen or lost, while also keeping my physical security of passwords and such to prevent anyone from walking up and using my computer when I'm not looking?

(2010 MacBook Pro, OS X 10.6.5)


texts: How can I set a default "Mirror Displays" resolution?

texts:
I have an iMac running at 1920x1080 resolution with a second monitor connected that is running 1920x1200 resolution.

Whenever I enable "Mirror Displays", OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (14E46) will always set the resolution of both the second monitor and iMac screen to 1920x1200. It always sets the "Optimize for" drop down menu (under display preferences) to the external monitor.

Is it possible to default both the iMac and the second monitor to 1920x1080 when I enable display mirroring? Essentially, I want the "Optimize for" option to default to the iMac screen.


texts: How to remove aux jack from Macbook Pro?

texts:
Recently I've got an aux jack stuck in the headphone port of my Macbook Pro 2015. (see photo below)

The entire jack broke off, as opposed to just the tip which is usually what happens for most. The jack is really wedged in as far as it will go and it's also at an angle.
I've tried using a bit of super glue and sticking the end of the jack back on to the old cable and then pulling it, but that didn't work and I think there might even be some super glue in the port now.
Ive tried using pliars to get it out, but that doesn't work because there is hardly anything for it to grip on to.
Would anyone know how to deal with this please? Any advice would be really appreciated!
Thanks,
Sam


texts: Is there an iOS / OS X to-do app that can manage multiple people's To-dos?

texts:
There is no lack of to-do apps designed at least somewhat around Getting Things Done - just see the answers to this question, for example. I'm a user of Things on iOS and have heard a lot about OmniFocus, but I've never gotten a good recommendation for an app that can manage to-dos for more than one person.

My wife and I are looking to adopt a GTD-inspired workflow for a variety of personal projects, some shared, some individual, and it would be ideal to manage these projects side-by-side.

Short of us each running our own instance of a given app on our separate devices, and including iOS / OS X synching among my requirements, do any of the flagship GTD to-do apps offer the concept of projects and to-dos that belong to a specific person of several?


texts: Flashing folder with question mark, spinning beachball when wakes up

texts:
My MacBook is acting weird recently. It starts to show flashing folder with question mark during bootup and spinning beach ball when it wakes up from a long sleep. When these happens, I will have to power it down, then it works perfectly again. They occurs quite frequent, about once in every 5 bootup/wakes up.

Running Lion 10.7.4, and I just replaced the HDD with a SSD 2-3 months ago. The problem starts to occur about a month ago.

I suspect it has something to do with the SSD, but I can't really pinpoint the exact problem. I'd already reselect the startup disc multiple times in system preferences.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Update: OWC just came back to me, telling me it's probably due to SATA incompatibility and is offering me a refund. The refund is 50 dollars less than the purchase price (current value price, he said) and I am responsible for the shipping cost. I am considering if I should just keep it, as I am not located in the states and shipping back is really an hassle, plus the cost.


texts:
I'm a little new to Enterprise Mac management but have 10 years experience as a Mac tech.  I am in charge of deployment of 3k + macs for a LARGE international corporation.  We are using Casper Suite.

To use VNC right now I have to ask people to get their IP then enable sharing so I can ask for permission.  For some people, this is really annoying since they are "higher ups" and only has a couple minutes at a time.

My question is this.  Is there a good Enterprise solution to VNC quickly?  Maybe where I have a special login that either automatically logs me into their computer or asks them for permission without having them go through the annoyance of getting me the info and checking the box.

FYI, I was told that automatically checking that "anyone can request access" would be a security loophole so I can have that checked at deployment.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
Firing up the terminal today gave me a surprise, since it said I have mail.
For the first time in my life on a Mac I ran the mail app and it was a bounce e-mail for an unknown user:

From MAILER-DAEMON  Wed Aug 22 09:39:35 2018
X-Original-To: boro@Boros-MBP.local
Delivered-To: boro@Boros-MBP.local
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:39:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: MAILER-DAEMON@Boros-MBP.local (Mail Delivery System)
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
To: boro@Boros-MBP.local
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
    boundary="8BFCC13E86B1.1534923575/Boros-MBP.local"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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Anybody got a clue?


texts:
How can I give my router a hostname?

So that at the terminal I can type stuff like ping router and it instantly resolves 192.168.0.1.

I can't just edit /etc/hosts and hardcode router 192.168.0.1, because then when I take my laptop to another network it will no longer work.

I would like router to always reflect the System Preferences-found router IP,

It should automatically update whenever my router's IP address changes.


texts: How do I create new albums within my iPhone 3GS camera roll?

texts: I'm looking for a way to create new albums within the Photos app on my iPhone 3GS, preferably without having to connect the device to iTunes. Is this possible?


texts: A process called sdmd is using huge amounts of resources...!?

texts: There's a process called sdmd running which reads gigabyte after gigabyte from disk and is slowing my computer to a crawl. What is that, and how can I get rid of it?


texts: Do MacBook Pro compatible Thunderbolt external GPUs work with Boot Camp?


texts: 2nd Generation Apple TV to get UI/1080p update?

texts: Now that the Apple TV has been announced and is available, will Apple be releasing a software update for the 2nd generation Apple TVs? I'd like to know if the new UI will be supported on my ATV and whether or not 1080p support will be made available as a software update or if it is dependent on new hardware/processing.


texts:
I'm traveling and hoping to quickly obtain a very old adapter in order to plug my 2006 MacBook Pro into a modern display. The laptop has a DVI port, which I believe is the only display output for it.

So I'm trying to obtain something like this DVI to VGA adapter or a DVI to HDMI adapter. The tricky thing is I need to obtain this in 32 hours for a job interview, so it looks as though mail order is not an option. Transferring files to another computer might be an option, but it would be a little more awkward.

Is there a brick and mortar store that carries mac adapters that are this old? In case it is relevant, I am in the Boston, MA area. Not sure if the official Apple Store would carry them anymore.


texts: Sending a product on the Apple Store as a gift to a friend?

texts:
I want to make a purchase from the Apple Store as a gift to my friend. The purchase is a physical item (e.g., iPhone), rather than an app to download.

Because I live far away from her, I want to use my Visa credit card and send it directly to her address with the option of "Gift" selected. Would that be possible? I will be using her address instead of mine. So, what would the transaction look like when I check my Visa transactions at my bank? Would her name appear on the transaction? Would I still be able to send it to her directly with her information, or do I have to send the package to myself, and send it to her after that?


texts: Use Textmate (or any arbitrary application) with Lion's "Versions" feature?

texts:
I'm writing a thesis in LaTeX with TextMate. I want very simple, very automated version control. Nothing complicated! Just, every time I save, a new version is created so that I can easily go back in time and look at previous versions. Lion's "Versions" feature is perfect for me but doesn't work with TextMate.

Is there a plugin I could use to get this to work? Alternatively, is there a different form of version control that's super easy to use?

I realise TeXShop now has Versions support (courtesy of this question Which text editors take advantage of Lion's Versions feature?), but I'd rather stick with TextMate if at all possible.


texts:
I have one app supported on both Android and iOS. The app needs a background service which hits a remote server every minute. The job is simple for Android app but since background tasking is not supported in iOS I need to employ push notifications for iOS app. Apple says that the delivery of push notification is never acknowledged. I cannot afford push notification failure since I need to send a very crucial message through notification. My questions are:

1) What is the failure rate of push notifications?

2) Are push notifications always reliable to send important messages?

3) Assume that the server which is supposed to send push notifications sends a large number of push notifications every minute. What are the chances of push notification failure in such a case?

4) Which circumstances cause push notification delivery to fail?

If you have any useful resources please provide the same. Thanks.


texts: iMac hangs when waking up with MAMP running

texts:
I recently installed the latest MAMP version on my iMac running Yosemite 10.10.4. MAMP runs fine, used it all day and left it running overnight. Upon waking up the iMac, I have noticed the system is hanging:

Websites not opening in Chrome
Stopping servers in MAMP doesn't respond
Force quit Chrome and tried to restart but doesn't work
Opened Safari but it won't open any URL
Beach ball appears when hovering over the Wifi icon
Restarted Mac but system gets stuck on a black screen with a white, spinning icon as if something is in progress
Only way to reuse iMac is through holding the power button and powering back on

I'm relatively new to OSX so not entirely sure where to look and how to diagnose. The only theory I have at the moment is that MAMP is somehow hanging the system (it's the only recent change to the system other than Ruby on Rails and a few other development frameworks installed but I haven't used these in a few days).

Any ideas on where to look or how to diagnose?


texts: What hidden features have you found in iOS 6?

texts:
This is the required hidden gems questions for iOS 6.

Here are the rules:

One feature per answer
Also include how you use the feature or why it is useful
Must be an under-documented feature. No "flag pole" features like VIP's in Mail.


texts: MacBook Pro (Late 2011) sound issues in Windows 10 (no Bootcamp)

texts: I recently installed Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011). I installed the drivers I could find from the internet (I installed this package https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1721?locale=en_GB) and everything is working fine (kind of very bad performance) but the sound. I can't get it to work, the speaker in the menubar (in windows) shows a red cross and when I hover the mouse over it it says: No Audio output device installed. In Device Manager, the internal speaker appears but it displays an initialization error (code 10). I wiped macOS during installation so I have no access to it (or to recovery mode). Please Help.


texts: Why are FTP connections read-only when I use "Connect to Server..."?

texts:
I'm just trying to connect to the server hosting my website through Finder, but it's always read only, even though I'm logging in with my username and password.

Obviously, I can connect with an FTP client (Fetch), and through the terminal, etc. – but what's the trick to FTP-uploading with Finder?


texts:
On VLC Player iPad Pro, when I pause and re-play, for a second the video has no sound.
I have the last beta version of iPadOS, but this problem was there even before that.
How do I fix this? VLC seems to be the last version too.


texts: Yosemite moves all desktops to one display on startup

texts:
I am using 2 displays on my Mac Mini (late 2013), and have 6 desktops on each of the displays.

Primary display: 6 desktops
Secondary display: 6 desktops

However, after upgrading to Yosemite, it adds 1 more desktop and moves all additional ones to the primary monitor on startup:

Primary display: 13 desktops
Secondary display: 1 desktop

This was working properly on Mavericks. I can do it manually, but don't want to do it every single time I boot the computer.

I couldn't find any related options in "Preferences -> Displays".

Any ideas how can I fix this?


texts: I sync'ed twice for my iPhone 4S and my iMac, but it still asked me to transfer purchased content to my Library?

texts:
iOS 5.0.1 is out and I want to do any upgrade, but when I click Update, it will pop out a window that says:

So I sync'ed the iPhone 4S once, and it pop out the same dialog.  I sync'ed again and it was the same thing.  Is it not good enough to just sync?  What should be done to "transfer the purchased items to my Library"?


texts: Is there any way to translate words in Safari on iOS and Mac?

texts:
I am currently reading a few websites in European languages (Spanish, Italian, German and French), and I'd like to be able to quickly translate words that I don't know (not the entire articles, which is why I don't want to use Chrome's translation). I know there's a "define" feature, and it is nice, but it only gives definitions in the same languages as the word of interest, so it is not exactly useful for someone unfamiliar with the language.

So, maybe someone knows a feature or an extension similar to the "define" one, but that would allow me to quickly look up a translation for a word? I'm interested in solutions for both Mac OS X and iOS (latest versions). Maybe there are third-party Italian-, German-, and French-English dictionaries for Apple's "Dictionary" application?


texts: When and how I will be paid in iTunes Connect Developer account?

texts:
For some months, I have on my account almost 16$, but I am not paid yet.

What should I do to receive those money from Apple?
What is the payment schedule?
How do I get paid by Apple for App sales?


texts: I uploaded a garageband song-file to iCloud on my iPad. Unfortunately i deleted it from iCloud (on my iPad) and its gone on both my iCloud drive and iPad local storage. Is it possible to recover my deleted file on iCloud or iPad?


texts: Opening a file with command-line bin through Finder

texts:
I wish to use mp3blaster (installed through MacPorts) via Finder. I want to double-click an mp3 file and get it opened in mp3blaster. But I haven't been able to do so. I created an app and, in another try, a service in Automator, using the following script:

/opt/local/bin/mp3blaster $1

Any ideas?


texts:
When I connected MagSafe power cable to Mac and close lid, secondary display become a primary and dock migrate to it. But when I disconnected MagSafe power cable - the primary and secondary monitors both are turn off.

How can I set external display as primary and turn off internal display without connected MagSafe power cable?

I has Mac OS X 10.9.3


texts: Does the two-fingered secondary click not work in Windows8.1/Bootcamp?

texts:
I just setup a Windows 8.1 installation on my 2012 MacBook Air using Bootcamp (5.1.5640). I've noticed that the two-fingered secondary click doesn't appear to work even when configured via the Bootcamp Control Panel - however two-fingered secondary tap seems to do it. I've verified that the trackpad doesn't seem to have any hardware issues - the two-fingered click works just find in OSX.

Is this a known issue or have I set this up incorrectly?


texts: How to cycle through recently *used* tabs in Safari?

texts:
I want to cycle through recently used tabs in Safari 7.1.3 (MacOS 10.9.5) like one can in in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. I predominantly run Opera 11.64, and it exhibits the best behavior for this recently-used-tab switching. Is there a way to do this in Safari, even if it requires an extension/plugin/addon of some kind?

Note: cycling/switching between tabs in most-recently-used (aka "visited") order is different than simply cycling through all the tabs as they are listed at the top of the browser; the latter seems more-commonly discussed.


texts:
When I try to save a new file in TextEdit, I always get a popup saying I can't save with ".txt" at the end of the file name.

I want to save a plaintext file, but TextEdit insists on saving as .rtf instead. It also lists .doc, .odt, .html, and some others.

How can I save a TextEdit document as plain text?


texts: Strange duplicate Chrome icon with a display icon within in just popped up

texts:
This is on the latest version of OSX:

I have never seen this separate dock before, and I don't know if it's something native to OS X, Chrome, or maybe something else (Parallels perhaps)?

It has not right click context menu and I cannot drag it.

This is on a new MBP.

Any ideas?

EDIT: My wife has a macbook as well, and she is seeing one for Safari. Oddly enough, when I clicked on the icon a couple times, one of the tabs my wife had open popped up on my computer. What is this I don't even.

EDIT 2: It only pops up when both of our bluetooth is on and we're next to eachother, even though we have not chosen to Pair with eachothers computer.

This leaves me with more questions than answers.


texts: Unity: How can I run Unity builds created in High Sierra & Verify they run on Mojave without a Mojave computer?

texts:
I have Unity 2020.3.0f1 Mac apps that were created on end-of-life High Sierra computers. I recently purchased a Mac Mini M1 computer. The apps run on both computers. I have to execute a terminal command on them to get them to open on the M1 computer.
Apple changed the App Store Upload process so that now we have to notarize that new apps will run on Mojave. I don't have a computer that runs Mojave. From my understanding you can't test Unity builds using the Apple Simulators. Is there another option to test my apps to see if they will run on Mojave?


texts:
I have connected a 21:9 external monitor to my 2017 MBP w/ Touch Bar through a usb-c to hdmi adaptor. The display appears blurry and almost like low resolution scaled up, does anyone know of any fixes? The display looks perfectly sharp when I connect to it with my windows PC.

Monitor model: LG 29EA73 29 inch 21:9 UltraWide IPS Monitor

This is the USB-C to HDMI adaptor I'm using: https://www.amazon.co.uk/uni-Adapter-Discount-Compatible-MacBook/dp/B075V68NVR/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=usb+c+to+hdmi+adapter&qid=1583099211&s=computers&sr=1-6


texts: Sync iCloud Photo Library to Mac while not logged in?

texts:
Is it possible to sync photos from the iCloud library to a Mac while not being logged in that Mac?
I am asking because I am using an old Mac as a server (always on) and would like to have a backup of my photos / my wife's photos and my daughter's photos  on that Mac?


texts: How to turn on Intel VT in MacBook Pro 2011 (MC721LL/A)?

texts:
I used to turn on virtualization on my PC by turning it on from BIOS. But how I do it on MacBook Pro, as I am using WinXP on VMware Fusion 4.0, but its very slow, and both Windows XP and Mac OS starts lagging.

Is there any way I can turn on virtualization for Mac so that the lagging stops? It's really driving me crazy.

[Note: it's a 2.0 GHz Intel Core i7 quad-core processor ("Sandy Bridge") with 6 MB shared L3 cache for excellent multitasking.]


texts: Force Messages to use SMS for specific contact rather than iMessage?

texts:
Essentially, I would like to set my phone so that all my outgoing messages to a specific friend, with whom I currently text back and forth over iMessage, are sent out over SMS, never iMessage. Additionally, I would like to block any incoming iMessage texts of his and (hopefully) they'll fail and be resent via SMS.

Let me restate that: I would like to force SMS for both parties, going both ways, for a specific individual contact.

Is this possible? Blocking any usage of iMessage between myself and this other individual, so they must either send and receive any texts to or from me via SMS (or the texts fail/never arrive).


texts: Apple developer company account with offshore company

texts:
So I am an individual developer and have an app on the app store. A week ago I tried to submit another one but it was rejected because this kind of app requires a company account they said.

My plan is to open an offshore company in the Seychelles, Belize or Panama because it is just too complicated and expensive to do it where I live.
Will Apple accept this kind of scheme? Better can I have a company account without being a company? The app is for free and I will probably not make any money with it anyway.


texts: Recommended Remote Desktop clients (Windows RDP)

texts:
I'm in search of a good Mac RDP client for connecting to Windows machines. I've tried all of the ones I can find (CoRD, MSFT RDP, Thinomenon). I like CoRD the best, but it doesn't work for me any longer due to lack of NLA support.

I have over a dozen Windows machines I connect to regularly, and CoRD's tabbed interface was the best I'd been able to find for quickly connecting to machines and switching between them.

Any other suggestions from the hive mind?


texts: How do you set the TCP congestion control algorithm on OS X?

texts: I would like to set the TCP congestion control algorithm to Westwood+. Is this possible in OS X?


texts: What Macbook have you tried QuickerTek QCard2 with?

texts:
I wonder which versions of Macbook Air/Pro is QuickerTek QCard2 (2-port) compatible with?

Anyone tried? With which Macbook? Did it work flawlessly? Any compatibility problems?


texts: Is it possible to purchase an iPhone app now to download later?

texts:
I was wondering if there is a way (or at least if it is possible) to purchase an app from the app store now, but do not download it now (to save on disk space) and download it later when required.

Often there are apps on sale (e.g., Lonely Planet city guides) that are not immediately useful. These are great apps, but not immediately useful. So, instead of downloading the app right away and use up disk space, it would be nice to purchase the app and download later when required.


texts: Is there anyway to invert left and right in iOS, such that the phone looks as it would in a mirror?  (Yes all text would be backward, this is a desired effect.)  Not just a specific app that displays itself in reverse, but a system-wide effect like inverting colours.  It would probably not be a generally sought feature, one that apple would likely implement itself, but perhaps a third-party app exists?


texts:
So far as I know, I don't have any Microsoft applications on my MacBook Air. I had installed Microsoft Teams in the past, which I later uninstalled by dragging the app to the trash (after I first saw this prompt) as it wasn't in use. Still, I get the 'Microsoft AutoUpdate' prompt often.

How do I get rid of this permanently?


texts: App offering audible alarm for low battery on Mavericks?

texts:
I installed the update to Mavericks a few days ago, and while it's mostly been great there is no longer a sound that goes with the low battery warning. I have several programs which suppress the visual notifications, which makes for very unpleasant interruptions when the machine goes into standby.

I contacted Apple support about it and they said that there is no way to add a sound to the notification using settings available in the operating system. They suggested I use a 3rd party app, but although I have found some which offer low battery pop up windows, I'm having trouble finding any offering an audible alert.


texts: How do I remove or disable AdobeIPCBroker?

texts:
A new unstable resource-draining Adobe process that has recently appeared on my Mac is proving more difficult to hunt down and kill than the numerous other processes that Adobe creates. Generally following instructions here and elsewhere to disable the launching of these processes has worked, but I can't seem to figure out how to disable the latest: AdobeIPCBroker.

I've found instructions for Windows, but none for OS X.

How do I get rid of and permanently disable AdobeIPCBroker on OS X?


texts: Can I add actions to control automator to automator?

texts: Is there any way that I can add automator itself to the list of services I can automate? For example right now I can go and add a launch application action to the workflow and within that action launch automator. Effectively this creates a level of control over automator but only by routing it through the utilities action item. I know that you can add new application action libraries to automator to control any app that releases a library for it. So is there one for automator? Where is it if there is?


texts:
I'm trying to create a shortcut in Terminal and I need to provide the file path to the folder I want to jump into. To find out the file path, I dragged the folder into terminal and the output was:

/Users/myname/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com\~apple\~Pages/Documents/Filmmaking/Non-VR/Feature

However I feel like the spaces aren't going to be allowed, and I'm not sure if I should be including the parts like "/com\~apple\".

For the record, this is a folder within iCloud so I'm not sure if that makes a difference with the file path.

How can I format this file path to get it right?


texts: How can I find out which program is trying to restart my Mac?

texts:
From time to time I log into my server through screen sharing to find this warning:

There is a program trying to restart my server, and I can't for the  life of me figure out which one is the culprit. Sometimes the restart attempt gets blocked by the OS when other users are connected through the file sharing service, but other times (e.g. at night and during the weekends, when no one is in the office) the restart goes through. This drove me crazy when performing long backups overnight and coming to work in the morning to find a failed backup and no trace of what went wrong in the logs.

So now I'd like to get to the bottom of it.

pmset -g told me that autorestart was set to 1. I manually set it to 0 with pmset -a autorestart 0. This was a couple of weeks ago and I thought to have fixed the issue this way. But today I logged in to the same warning above, so something is still trying to restart the computer. autorestart is still correctly set to 0.

I have to confess I don't know where to look. Is there any tool I can use to find out where this warning is coming from?

Running macOS 10.12.4 and macOS Server 5.3.

I'm thankful for any pointer.


texts:
On my Retina MacBook Pro, the Python IDLE development environment has blurry, non-retina text.

Is there a way I can make the text retina?

IDLE:


texts: Would you be able to see from my iphone if someone is reading my imessages on an ipad I lent them?

texts: I let a friend borrow my ipad that has some imessages saved. I signed out before lending it to him, but I got a notification that my ipad is signed into my imessages now. When I asked if they signed into it, they said their kid hit the button on accident, but if it's signed in now, will I get a notification if they are reading through my messages? Or is there a way I can find out?


texts: How do I retrieve previous iTunes purchases

texts:
I wish to download previous iTunes purchases on my iPhone, but there is nothing showing up in my purchases.  When I go direct and search on iTunes for the music I have downloaded it says I have purchased but wont let me re download.

Any ideas?


texts:
I have iPhone 5s 16gb ios 10.2.1 still under warrenty.
I'm facing some random restarts from past few weeks. I went to apple service center, where they kept my phone for few days but didn't face any restart problem, but i faced the same problem the same i got my phone back.
I talked to apple support and they said either i have to replicate the restart problem in front of them as my device is not creating any kind of crash log report or I have to make a video of my device while it randomly restarts.
Both of the tasks seems impossible as niether I'm able to make a video as its happens randomly and in fractions of second nor I'm able to replicate the issue, because if I could have, I would have done it already.
Now Im stuck with my iphone and apple support is not ready to help me.
Im writing here with my best hopes.
Thanks in advance if you can help me in any way.
How it restarts: Black screen suddenly with red thin line over it > black screen without light(energy)>apple logo screen
but from last few times its restarting 3 times in a row(restarts when on apple logo screen).
how it restarts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnrDCshkZiQ


texts: "Fetching..." Behavior in Finder "Open With" Menu in Yosemite

texts:
I don't know if other people have notice this in Yosemite:

With a file in Finder in focus, when you move the cursor to "Open With" entry, whether from context menu or menu bar -> File, a "Fetching..." subentry appears.

A moment later, the usual suspects show up, as they did in previous OS X versions.

This behavior, I assume, is supposed to be an improvement. Since /Application/***.app/Contents/Info.plist is live-fetched, an user no longer need to reset LaunchServices for related changes to appear. This is my conjecture.

However, this causes a problem for me. I create keyboard shortcut through applescript or BetterTouchTool to invoke Menu Bar -> File -> Open With -> Certain App.

This way I programed FN+SHIFT+1 to open the file with TextMate, FN+SHIFT+2 for Writer Pro, etc.

The 1) need for cursor over "Open With" to trigger fetch, and 2) the delay in fetching cause my scripts to be invalid.

I was able to verify this theory by: 1) Right clicking a file, 1) Hover over "Open With" entry, 3) Wait for the submenu to fetch, 4) Click outside the Context Menu to have it disappear, 5) and invoke the keyboard shortcut.

And the shortcut worked.

So these are my questions:

1) Obviously, can I revert to pre-Yosemite behavior?

2) Does anyone have clever ways to open a file type with multiple apps on demand cleanly and efficiently?

UPDATE:

So far, I have one workaround, that is to create a Automator Service. Here is an example with TextMate:

I can run this without delay through 1) Menubar -> Finder -> Services -> Open With TextMate, 2) top level of the context menu, or 3) a keyboard shortcut if I choose to.

This comes with two caveats:

1) The items received into the service have to be in the broadest definition possible, e.g. files and folders. Finder doesn't recognized, for example, .plist files as documents. If you set the service to only receive documents, Open With TextMate would not show up when you want to use it on a .plist file.

2) Because of (1), this menu entry shows up on every item in Finder. It's innocuous enough if there is only one or two custom entries. If there is six or seven, this group of items is going to take over the context menu.


texts: Cannot access a specific remote IP address on Mac Os X 10.7.5

texts:
I cannot reach a certain remote IP address from my Mac. Pinging it gives "Request timeout" and after 4 or 5 pings "No route to host" and "Host is down".
The weird fact is that other Macs on my same local network can access it without problems.
I don't have any firewall active, nor Little Snitch or similar, nor proxies, nor /etc/hosts tricks (which deal only with host name resolutions, anyway, but I have to reach the IPv4 address).
I have a 2011 13" MacBook Air with OS X 10.7.5.
Can you point me to some other obscure network settings or blocking lists that may be active on Mac Os X or maybe some software that may interfere with network settings?
Thank you.


texts: Strange Issue with "Recent" Stacks in Mountain Lion

texts:
After my recent upgrade to Mountain Lion I accidentally dragged the "Recent Applications" stack off the dock and it "poofed" away... not that big a deal, I just went into Terminal and used the following command

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

followed by resetting the dock with

killall Dock
exit

Then emptied the trash, shut down, and reboot for good measure...
A space for the Recent Apps is now present on the dock, but it doesn't contain anything, no matter how many apps I open.  It is right clickable to get the context menu. The same is true no matter which kind of "Recent" stack is selected.  If selected the Favorite Volumes or Favorite Items stacks work normally.
Looking through the Library there is no recent items plist.
What's my next step?


texts: My iPad has a popup saying I have a virus

texts:
When I went to a website in Safari, it opened up another website with popups claiming my iPad has a virus.

I deleted some of my apps to try and get rid of the virus, but the popup keeps showing up every time I open Safari. Can someone help me?


texts: I downloaded Office 2011 to my old computer that crashed and no way to retrieve HD contents. I lost everything. Now I have a new computer MacBook Pro and I have the key number that I had printed out before.  Maybe this sounds dumb but can I download the program again on this new computer since I have the key number? How do I do it?


texts: GarageBand sound holding/freezing when multiple notes are played on USB keyboard

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I just bought a MIDI to USB cable so I could connect my electronic piano/keyboard to my mac mini. I open GarageBand and the keyboard will play one note at a time just fine, but if I play two or more notes at once, then the sound will kind of spaz out, with the two or three notes just lasting forever and no sound from any new notes being played. The sound only stops if I hit the spacebar about two or three times (to press play and stop).

The keyboard and mac mini I'm using never did this with the last MIDI to USB cable I had been using previously, I only stopped using that one because it was borrowed and I had to return it. The new looks pretty much the same as the old one though, are MIDI to USB cables not all created equal or something? How can I get GarageBand to play/record what I play even when I press more than one note?


texts: Why is iTunes showing books that don't exist, and how can I delete them?

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When I plug my iPhone in to sync I have a "Books" section in the menu of items on my device. In there are some old books that are no longer on my phone, at least that I can see. If I remember correctly, these are just PDFs I originally added, before the days of using iBooks to manage your books. When I click it I see the "Sync Books" section. Ticking the checkbox allows me to select these books but I have no idea why they're still on here -- as I mentioned, I thought these had been deleted long ago.

Even when I choose to sync all books or select particular ones, I don't see any appear on my phone. I am presuming I'd see these in iBooks.
What I do see in iBooks is all the books I have synced using the iBooks macOS app. I see these on all my devices with no issue.
Another, probably related, weirdness is that when I add new items to my library, it inherits some meta data from one of these books in question. For instance I added a PDF in iTunes, and it came up like this in recently added:

This doesn't happen when syncing through iBooks. It looks to be wholly an iTunes issue.
I don't particularly care why it's doing this, although it would be interesting to understand it. Mainly, I'd like to know how do I remove all references to these old books in iTunes so they're no longer in my library?
For completeness, this is what I see when selecting the File > Move Books from iTunes... in iBooks:

I am using a recent version of iTunes (12.7.3.46) on macOS High Sierra, though this issue has been present for a while after upgrading the OS and transferring my iTunes profile to a new MacBook.
I can provide any more information at request.
Update
When plugging in an iPad I see the following:

Update 2
This is what I see when searching my iTunes profile for PDFs or EPUBs:


texts: How to change Company Name in App Store?

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I have successfully uploaded an app to the App Store.

The app is showing like this:

I want to change the Company Name text from By eGInnovation to By eG Innovations.

What can I do?


texts: iMac will not boot with anything connected via USB

texts: I have a 24" iMac running 10.6.6 that will not boot if anything is connected to the usb ports on the back. If they are removed, it boots fine. It has been to the Genius bar once but they did not find anything wrong hardware-wise.


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I backed-up my mac, then I decided to format it. After recovering my photos from the backed-up library, the pictures are all messed up - not in the right order and some are missing/corrupted.

Is there something I can do to recover well my pictures?

thank you


texts: Running a cleanup of icloud desktop on load

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I have the following launchd saved as an agent in: /Users/my_name/Library/LaunchAgents
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>local.desktop.cleanup</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>zsh</string>
            <string>-c</string>
            <string>/usr/local/bin/trash ~/Desktop/Screen*</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>3600</integer>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/local.desktop.cleanup.err</string>
        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/local.desktop.cleanup.out</string>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <dict>
            <key>NetworkState</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</plist>

It runs a very simple program that moves, instead of removes, the selected files to the bin. I've only been testing the launchd's success with RunAtLoad and I cannot get it to work. I get the following error in my log file after each time I log in:
zsh:1: no matches found: /Users/my_name/Desktop/Screen*

My Desktop is actually one of those icloud folders that I suppose MacOS just has symlinked. My theory is that maybe these files do not exist locally at the point the program is run. If this is the case, or not, I would appreciate any ideas or solutions to make this specific use case work.
N.B. You'll noticed I left KeepAlive NetworkState in to show I attempted to delay the run until the network was "alive", however, this wouldn't account for downloading any files.


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I want to have my photo library to sync all the pictures on the HDD, which I can easily reference them by deselecting "copy items to the photo library" and import them.

but I want that if I delete the photo in the photos.app, then it would delete the referenced file too. Is that possible?


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I felt that my iMac late 2012 became pretty slow, above all after login. Now when I look into disk utility, it seems that my disk doesn't behave as Fusion Drive any more:

An output from terminal:

➜  ~  diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Untitled                121.0 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            3.0 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

➜  ~  diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

How can I repair this?


texts: What's the recommended way to set the default size of a Finder window in macOS Mojave? I've tried following advice like that given in How to set default finder window size?, but no luck. It's annoying how hard Apple make this, but even if I could edit a plist file, that would be sufficient for now...