texts: Is there a faster way to restart macOS Sierra into the bootcamp partition?

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When I'm in windows under bootcamp all I need to do to restart into macOS is

Right click the bootcamp icon in the task bar
Select "reboot into macOS"

When I'm in macOS and I want to switch to windows I need to

Click the apple in the upper left
Select "System Preferences"
Select "Startup Disk"
Click the lock
Enter administrator password
Select "BOOTCAMP Windows"
Click "Restart..."

Am I missing some obvious shortcut to reboot into windows, or is this really the best that Apple can do to support restarting into bootcamp?

If apple doesn't provide an easier way is there an app, script, or something that I can use to make the process of switching from macOS into windows a two click operation?

Note about duplicate:

Please be aware that this is an ongoing issue with macOS, and that over the years Apple has changed things so solutions that worked in the past no longer work now.

The duplicate question how to quickly reboot from OSX to Windows and back does have one answer that may work for macOS Sierra, but it's buried, the selected and most other answers do NOT work on this version of macOS.

I've edited the question title to clarify which version of macOS this question targets, and I expect we will need to have a question for each version of macOS so people can find the answer for their particular system, rather than digging through a long question and trying several "solutions" until the real solution for their setup is found.

 - macOS Sierra 10.12.6 & Windows 7 Pro 64bit bootcamp on MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)


texts: Synced TV Shows Not Appearing in iPhone 'Videos'

texts:
I have tried syncing several episodes of a TV show (from a DVD ripped via Handbrake) to my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3.2.  However, when I open "Videos" and look at the TV Shows tab, I do not see them.  I see other shows I have synced, but not this particular show.  iTunes lists the videos as being on the device.  And, in fact, if I go to Settings->Usage->Manage Storage->Videos I see that they're there!  They just don't appear in the Videos app on my phone.

Anyone seen anything like this before?  Any idea how to fix it?


texts: Prevent someone else from using my iCloud account?

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I am using an Apple iCloud account that was created for me by a friend. I have a suspicion that my friend is now accessing my photos and videos through this account.

When we created the account, we used his email address for the account's rescue email address. According to Apple:

  Rescue Email Address

  Give us a rescue email address where we can send you a link to confirm
  your identity and let you reset your information should any security
  issues arise. This address is only for communicating information about
  your security details. We won’t send any other types of messages to
  this address.

I have changed my password many times but I believe, because of the above, he can still access the account through the rescue email address we used when we created the account.

Can you please tell me, if I changed my password, can he can find the password out using the rescue email address or not?


texts: How to set the Escape key to quit a Service?

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I want to be able to hit the Escape key on my keyboard to stop a Service (that is comprised of a "Run AppleScript" action in Automator) while it is in the middle of running.

Incidentally, if one hits the Escape key while a Service is running, that Service will immediately stop by default. However, five seconds after you hit the Escape key and the Service is terminated, a dialog pops up with an error:

  The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error.

Is it possible to implement the same function, except without the error, perhaps by using AppleScript?


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Ho can I change my Apple ID primary email address.  I do not have access to the one listed

I have been through all the support articles but they all tell you to sign on (which I would have to do with the old details and password and then wait for a verification email which of course I cannot do now.  This is not an iCloud related question, I just simply want to change my email address.
Thanks


texts: Can Apple Mail be optimized to perform well when I have 30k messages in my inboxes?

texts:
I have about 31,300 emails in 4 different inboxes in Mail. Sadly to say, it is extremely slow.

Is there any tips or trips to optimize Mail?  And no, I don't want to delete any, I need them for work.


texts: External DVD reader suddenly not working anymore

texts:
I have a Iomega SuperSlim USB 2.0 8x DVD Writer External Optical Drive that I used without any issue on my Macbook Air.

Now all of a sudden it doesn't work anymore. The DVD spins, a "Audio CD" item pops up on the Finder sidebar and vanishes a few seconds after. Over and over again.

iTunes manages to get the track info after some attempts, so the DVD is readable.

I've tried to plug the same disc and DVD reader on a Windows machine, it worked seamlessly. So I guess this has something to do with the mac, maybe a recent software update?

Is there anything to do to troubleshoot such issues? It's the first time I have a hardware/driver issue (or similar) on my mac.

HW: MacBook Air 13-inch, early 2014 w/ 8GB or RAM and a Core i7
SW: OS X Yosemite 10.10.3


texts:
Here's the error message I get: "An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk." When I try to follow that instruction, I'm informed that Disk Utility is unable to unmount the backup drive. This happens whether I have Time Machine turned on or off, and following ejecting and reconnecting the drive. Selecting Time Machine from System Preferences doesn't make any difference.

I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 on a MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7. My backup drive is a one-month-old My Passport for Mac, 1TB, which has been working perfectly up till now. Backups are using less than 1/10th of its capacity. It doesn't respond to my attempts to "get info," but I'm able to enter Time Machine OK.

Grateful for any help you can offer.


texts: Not enough space to migrate from Legacy FileVault to FileVault 2

texts:
When I try to change from using Legacy FileVault to the new FileVault in Lion, it says that I don't have enough disk space.

What are my options besides having to delete bunch of files? (20 GB in my case.) Is there any way, for example, to hook up a a large capacity USB thumb drive and tell it to use it for temporary disk storage? What about an external drive?

I notice that for each 1 GB of files I delete in my User's folder, the amount of additional disk space I need to free is reduced by 2 GB. I'm guessing that this is because it would no longer need to copy that data to a temporary location.


texts: How to automount a network share once OpenVPN has connected? (Using Tunnelblick)

texts:
Does anyone know how to automatically mount a network share once a VPN connection using Tunnelblick has connected?

Right now I have to connect and then do a cmd+K in the finder to connect to the AFP share. It'd be nice if it would connect automatically.

The share doesn't have a password (TimeCapsule without any passwords, and no, not using it for backup, we use it for a fileserver).


texts: Using Variables with AppleScript Action in Automator

texts:
Hoping someone can help me figure this out. I'm trying to build a Quick Action in Automator that copies three text values, stores them as variables, then pastes them when directed. Right now I built it where it runs AppleScript to copy the first value from a spreadsheet to the clipboard, gets the contents of the clipboard, sets the value of the variable, then repeats that another two times. That part seems to work, but the next step has not. I tried to run an AppleScript where the variable is passed in, the input is set as the value of a new variable, then System Events keystrokes the variable. I either get the error that the variable isn't define or that the keystroke can't continue.
Any Suggestions? Screenshots of my workflow:


texts: How do I see the currently running applications on an iPod Touch?

texts: There is only one button at the bottom of my iPod Touch. To close applications, I press the home button. Does it really close applications, or does it just display the home page and an extra thread runs in the background? Is there any way that I can see the currently running applications?


texts: Issue with WiFi and MacBook Pro when connected to external Monitor

texts:
I have recently been having issues with my WiFi connection (on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks) when my laptop is in clamshell mode and connected to an external 4k monitor. I use a USB-C to HDMI adapter (from Uni). From what I've read, it may be caused by interference created by my adapter (?) or something of the sort, and one solution I have tried to do is to wrap my adapter with aluminum foil (as suggested by some YouTube videos online). None of this appears to have any sort of effect. There are a few rare times I have successfully been able to maintain a connection, but the only thing that seems different in those situations are the position of the HDMI cable and adapter. I still don't have any idea as to what positions clearly allow for a connection, and those that do not.

I should note that I only have these connection issues when I solely use the external monitor. If I connect my device to the monitor, and use the laptop's built-in screen as well as the external monitor, the wifi works perfectly fine.

More information on my system:

Hardware: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4, Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB, Radeon Pro 555X

How exactly should I resolve this issue?


texts: How can I reset my iPhone 1 without using the (broken) power button?

texts:
The power button on my first-gen iPhone is broken. I remember last time I came across this problem I found a utility (for windows) which caused the phone to reset to enter restore mode (the one with the yellow alert symbol), but I can't for the life of me find it again. Does anyone know what it is?

Thanks for any help,
Wyatt.


texts: Transferring contact list from Iphone 4 to a Windows 7 PC and vice versa

texts:
I would like to transfer the contact list from my iPhone 4 to my Windows 7 PC.  How can I do that?  Which software should I need?

After I transfer all my contacts to the PC, I want it to copy back to another iPhone 4.


texts: iTerm2 preferences keep resetting after reboot

texts:
My changes to the preferences in iTerm2 are always reset after a reboot. They will survive a logout, but after a reboot everything is back to the previous state. I checked ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist and my user is file owner and also has write access. Does anybody know how to fix this?

I remember reading that Yosemite is protecting plist files somehow. Could this be the cause? I'm on 10.10.4.


texts:
I noticed extra options pop up in my context menus, I'm not sure how I managed to get it (or how long ago I installed this item), but does anyone know how I can remove it? Particularly the iconStiX item, which doesn't work.
I've tried looking in /Library/Context Menu Items, but there's nothing there

+1 if you can tell me where it came from.


texts: Messages in iCloud on some devices, mixed with old devices?

texts:
What is the behaviour if not all devices support Messages in iCloud?

Do the supported devices sync to iCloud and the older devices continue to receive messages as normal, not synced?


texts: can’t link C++ code to .dylib in Xcode 12.2 (release build only)

texts:
I recently upgraded from Xcode 12.1 to 12.2, on macOS Catalina 10.15.7. My C++ project (which uses OpenCV) compiled without problem with Xcode 12.1. After the upgrade I get a lot of these:
ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/Cellar/opencv/4.5.0_5/lib/libopencv_gapi.dylib, building for macOS-arm64 but attempting to link with file built for macOS-x86_64
(I would have been unable to work but luckily I noticed that changing the “My Mac” Scheme to use Debug instead of Release for Build Configuration allows it to build without issue. Just runs much slower.)
My web searching suggests this might be related to “universal binary” compilation? Apparently the Apple approved solution is to wait for OpenCV to release a “universal binary” version of the .dylib? Until then:

is there a way to say that, for now, I only care about the x86_64 machine I am
developing on?
is it possible to roll back to Xcode 12.1?


texts: iMac tripping breaker just by plugging it to electricity, without even pushing the power button!

texts:
iMac 21” (EMC: 2638)

The iMac was connected to a UPS but through an extension cable, so not directly.

So the iMac was running as usual when suddenly it went off, with all the other devices that are connected to the UPS. And I have no electricity in the room, the electricity breaker tripped, and the UPS is making that loud beep.

After unplugging everything from UPS, and turning back electricity and etc... I found out that it was caused by the iMac.

(UPS and all other devices are working fine now without the iMac there).

I try to plug the iMac to a different socket, but it immediately trips the breaker even before clicking the power button, just by plugging the cable to the socket, trips breaker!!

I tried different sockets in different rooms that are connected to a different electricity breaker, but the same thing happen.

I tried a different cable, but same thing happen.

I unplugged cable from the back of the iMac and tried the 10-sec hold power button thing, but didn’t help, same thing happened.

TL;DR - iMac is tripping breaker just by plugging it to electricity, without even pushing the power button!!!

Any one has any idea what happened here??

the closest Apple service center is hours far from me and I would really want to try everything before going there.

Thank you!


texts: iOS7 iPhone: how to make Siri-initiated calls, SMS text msgs come from Google Voice caller ID?

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When I ask Siri (iOS 7.0.4 on my iPhone 5S) to call or text someone, I want said call or text to come from my Google Voice caller ID.  Any way to do this now that jailbreak apps GVIntegrated & Phone GV Extension appear to no longer be available (at least for my phone, details below)?

All other Google Voice functionality seems to be handled just fine via the Google Voice "standard" app from Google.

I've jailbroken said phone searching for a way, with no success.  GVIntegrated indeed reads "not certified on this device" and Phone GV Extension doesn't even come up in the search list on Cydia.  Phone GV Extension worked well on my iPhone 4S running 5.x (and maybe 6.x), although my iPhone seemed to be a bit less stable (reboot/crashes) in jailbroken mode.


texts:
I had Windows 7 installed via Bootcamp but I messed things up when I tried to install Ubuntu as a third OS. Now my goal is to go back to OS X and Windows 7/8.1 dual boot. However, when I go to Boot Camp Assistant I get the following message when I select the disk where I need to install Windows.

  This disk is your os x startup disk and appears to have been
  partitioned by another utility.

How can I re-install Windows 7 via Boot Camp Assistant?

The following may be useful:

sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0

gpt show: disk0: mediasize=120034123776; sectorsize=512; blocks=234441648
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 234441647
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  162535816      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  162945456    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  164214992       1840
  164216832    3817472      4  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  168034304   66407311
  234441615         32         Sec GPT table
  234441647          1         Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 14593/255/63 [234441648 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  234441647] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

I have a mid 2010 13" MacBookPro running 10.9.2


texts: Why does Preview remain active in the background?

texts: I have noticed quite a few times that after viewing a particular image and quitting Preview manually, Preview still remains active in the background sucking up huge chunks memory/RAM. It only stops after force quitting it. I don't know why this does happen!


texts: Is there a Mac utility to create an executable Zip/archive?

texts:
Is there a corresponding utility similar to the Windows Zip-to-Exe utility?

I would like to compress an archive with a flash presentation (containing a lot of files), and make it executable in Mac, so it starts with a single click.

Is it possible?


texts: Mac asking for multiple "login" keychain app passwords but won't accept them

texts: I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. My husband reset the password for iCloud and iTunes and now I cannot get access to my computer. I can put in the password at login then nothing but a black screen with popups saying "login" keychain for multiple apps like calendar, messages, address book, etc. The password for iTunes and iCloud is not being accepted.


texts: Is there a shortcut to move to the item being highlighted by the search help?

texts:
When I do Help | Search | whatever I see the blue left-arrow pointing to a menu item. I know that if I press Enter, it will execute it, but is there a shortcut that shifts the focus to the item that is pointed by the arrow, so that I could, for example, move to the menu item just above it?

The way I do it now, is I search, I memorize the submenu hierarchy, and I move there manually with the mouse, but I'm pretty sure I saw a shortcut to do this somewhere.


texts: Automator action to run python script on series of files fails in Catalina

texts:
Major edit
I've just discovered that the Automator workflow I'm having problems with works perfectly if I run it by pressing 'play' in the Automator window, and it seemingly only fails when I save it as a Quick Action and try and run it by clicking the button in the Preview pane.
Original post
I have an Automator action that iterates through a list of files selected in the Finder, running a python script on each of them in turn. The workflow receives a list of files or folders in the Finder, and then consists of a single 'Run Shell Script' block with 'Pass input: as arguments'.
for f in "$@"
do
    /path/to/python_distro /path/to/script.py "$f"
done

In Catalina, this fails with an error:
The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: “path/to/python_distro: can't open file '/path/to/script.py': [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
How can I get Catalina to permit this? I've already tried adding Automator to the list of apps that are allowed Full Disk Access, and restarted Automator and killall Finder'd, but that did not fix my problem.


texts: Freehand drawings on PDF with Preview not showing up

texts:
This feature used to work fine. I just tried to use the sketch/freehand tool in Preview to annotate a PDF and while the little "pen point" shows up in blue, the area I sketch remains blank, with only the parameters of the sketch showing (those little dots that show the size of the annotation).

I've made sure that my background color is set to nothing.The little vertical tab that turns up under the Aa on the far left shows the doodle, but clicking on the various options does not reveal the doodle on my PDF. Right clicking on the doodle area offers the option "Send to back," not "Send to front."

I am running Sierra 10.12.6 on an iMac.

How can I get this to work properly?


texts: How do I set it up so when my child uses iMessage I can see the messages?

texts: My daughter has an iPod and I have an iPad.  We both have separate Apple IDs.  How can I see her text message history on my iPad along with my own message history? If I change the Apple ID on my iPad between my ID and my child's, will the iMessage history show up each time I switch IDs on my iPad?


texts:
Is there any Mac OS X tutorial/book that covers the UNIX part of this operating system? Topics like:

Managing daemons from the command-line
Package management
Install/Remove dmg's from the command-line
Environment variables
Users/Groups/Permissions management
CLI utilities
OS Directory structure
Location of dev headers, libraries, etc
Devices names

Most of the tutorials I found out there cover GUI applications and that kind of stuff. Is there any material that covers Mac OS X under the hood?


texts: Is there any application to control iTunes using a GUI over its own dock icon

texts: Do you know any iTunes controller application which uses its own dock icon as a GUI widget to include play/pause, next, previous buttons? Or is it possible to build one easily? If dock icons does not allow placing buttons (I've seen some advanced usages of dock icons like a progress bar or near-real time preview of virtual OS on parallels etc.), we may try to just design a dock icon containing a UI image skin but trying to receive mouse click events by other means (coordinate estimation, etc). I'd also prefer that to have Last.fm support (love/ban the song), rating functionality on dock menu.


texts: When trying to download songs from iTunes to my iPhone, a message pops up saying I have to delete and sync. Will this delete all my photos, contacts, and apps from my phone? Or just the music part of my iPhone?


texts: I have an IMAC that I purchased in Japan in late 2009 annam currently using in the US.  My issue is with Calendar, there are appointments showing up that are in Japanese and that I cannot cancel or delete, any suggestions.


texts: How to decrease logging level reported in Console?

texts:
I think my macOS works in some debug mode, but I'm not sure, because when I open Console, I see a lot of log entries every second, despite not doing much. If I enabled that mode, I don't remember how it was enabled. There are some entries regarding memory allocation,  and some other.

Before I didn't see so much logs, unless it's a Sierra thing.

I don't have any extras in boot-args section when running: nvram -p.

Here is the example:

How do I lower the verbosity of my logs? Or such thing is expected?

I'm aware that I can filter the logs by choosing Errors and Faults, but this is not what I'm looking for.


texts:
Can iBeacons work directly with remote servers? in other words can you store notifications or information you want pushed out to users on a server and have that information retrieved from a server when the user gets within range of an iBeacon?

I am almost done with building my app but need to store information I want pushed out to users on a remote server rather than locally in my app. For some reason I cannot find a direct answer to this or anywhere online that talks about iBeacons working with servers to populate information to users.


texts:
I have recently created a partition on my macbook air running OS X 10.9, and this was to run install another OS instance (Yes, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, but that is an aside to the query I have) on it.

I got the partition running fine, with the OS working fine as well, but now when I go back into Disk Utility, I noticed two things that are wrong:

Firstly, the disk that houses the two partitions has taken the name that I had thought I had given the new partition ("Yosemite"), instead of what it originally said, somewhere along the lines of "125GB Hard Drive" or similar.
Perhaps due to this, I believe, the tabs have changed when I select this disk, and I can no longer resize the partitions. The options are greyed out, and I cannot drag to resize either.

The Disk Utility looks similar to that seen in this question: Unable to adjust partition of USB drive with Mountain Lion Disk Utility though my computer is not encrypted, and it is the computer, not the USB I am having trouble with.

I tried entering Disk Utility from the Recovery Mode (by holding down option at start up), but the problem still persists.
I have tried changing the start up discs between the two, but still nothing changed in the menu.

I believe that a reason for this problem is that somehow the drive is now a logical volume group. I don't really understand what this is, and how to fix it.

  Note, this question is purely about partitioning, I  do intend to
  use Yosemite on the partition when it is working, but at present
  it's a plain Mavericks system with a partitioning problem.

Here is an image of my Disk Utility:


texts: What is the easiest way to play webm in Safari? Perian doesn't work

texts:
I want to play webm in my website but I don't know why it doesn't play. I installed Perian and ffmpeg but none helps. Is there any simple pluging/codec as the one existing for IE?

Well it actually plays the sound I don't hear anything! While I hear it in other browsers.
I also tried the following code but yet I can't hear the audio in Safari https://code.google.com/p/webm/downloads/detail?name=WebM%20Component%20Installer.pkg


texts: Is it still possible to migrate iphone app data to a new account by extracting the .ipa file and extracting the content?

texts:
For various reasons beyond the scope of this post, I must create a new Apple ID and iTunes account. There are a few apps on my phone that I must preserve the content from (I don't mind re-buying the app).

This post from 2013 indicated that I could backup the app .ipa file to my computer, retrieve the 'container' folder, and then restore it to the filesystem once installing the app under my new account.

However, the desktop applications used in that post don't seem to function properly with ios11 and I'm unable to access the filesystem to restore content.

Is there another clever way to do this?
If I switch accounts and try to re-install the app, will it locate the old data?


texts: Why I can't see the “price” tab in itunes producer

texts:
I'm submiting my first book to the Ibook store.

Problem : In Itunes Producer, I can't see the "price" tab ? Do you know why ?


texts: Remove separator and last opened apps from the dock

texts:
In my Mac on the Dock is a separator which keeps the last open programs. How I can remove it? I didn't find any place in the Dock settings...

I don't want to see any apps on the right of the separator.


texts: Can I get paid for releases of new versions of my app in the App Store?

texts:
Suppose that I develop an app for the iOS platform. The app is a huge success and 80% of my target audience buys it. My customers understandably expect continuous development of the app, but my situation is difficult, because with the market saturated, I can hardly acquire new customers.

Is there a possibility to offer my existing customers a paid update of my app (e.g. buying Office 2010 does not entitle the customer to Office 2013, only to service packs, security updates, ect.) or do I need to release the update as a separate update (and is this allowed in Apple's ToS)?


texts: Help with waiting while a process is running

texts:
I'm looking for a bash script that checks if the Installer process is running and waits/pause if it then proceeds once the process is no longer running.

Here is what I have so far:

 #!/bin/bash
 PROCESS="Installer";
 PID=$(ps -A |grep -m1 "$PROCESS" | awk '{print $1}');
 while s=`ps -p $PID -o s=` && [[ "$s" && "$s" !='Z'  ]]; do
     echo "$PROCESS is Running, waiting for it to close"
     sleep 1
 done
 echo "$PROCESS is not Running";
 SCRIPT HERE


texts: What are the differences between the various Mac video "compressor types"?

texts:
Video
H264
Animation
DV - PAL
Apple VC H.263 etc.

I know H.264 is pretty much the default video codec nowadays, however it seems to be a bit choppy on older machines. And from experience,  "video" seems to offer better playback with bigger files sizes. But I've never properly learned the technical differences between Mac OS's default codecs and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this?


texts:
The better way to take a screenshot is Command-Shift-4.
But since switching to Big Sur on an M1 Mac, I am seeing that this key combination produces a delay before seeing the crosshairs.
When a computer doesn't do what I ask right away, I do the same thing again and press harder. So how do I prevent this delay and reduce RSI?


texts:
I'm creating my first iOS game and I use Xcode 6.1 now. I want to update to OSX EL Captain because it has Quicktime where I can make a video of me playing from the Device instead of simulator.

Would updating to EL Capitain, force Xcode to make me upgrade to Xcode 7?


texts: Use custom .M4A as an alert tone in iOS 12

texts: I have a .M4A file on my Mac that is like a second long. I want it to play when people text me. How can I add it to my iPhone as an alert tone?


texts: Can the an American iPhone 5S work in Europe and vice-versa?

texts:
Background

I live in the USA and I have an iPhone 5S (version A1453).  It was bought under contract to Sprint and is currently locked.
My girlfriend lives in the NETHERLANDS and has an iPhone 5S (version A1457).  It was bought for full retail price and is unlocked, but currently on the Netherlands' T-Mobile network.

We are thinking about switching phones, because I have more gigabytes of storage and I don't use that extra space.

Questions

Will her European iPhone 5S (version A1457) work in the USA (and on which major carriers)?
Will my American iPhone 5S (version A1453) work in the NETHERLANDS T-Mobile network?


texts: Activity Monitor showing significantly less memory than About This Mac

texts:
I've noticed this has been asked many, many times in the past, but I think my question/problem might be slightly different.

Over the last year I've found my Mac has slowed down to a point where it's virtually unusable to all but the simplest of tasks!

So, I did a fresh OS install on a new drive, which I'm running on now. Still the same problem!

On further investigation, I noticed this slowness is down to a memory problem (too much being allocated to the hard disk), and therefore the HD is working overtime to make up for a memory error.

My question is this; I have 5GB of memory under About This Mac/Memory, but only 1GB when profiling within Activity Monitor. Surely, this isn't correct? I know there is small discrepancies, but not this much. Surely there must be a memory error here, as in the computer is not using it's full quota of available memory. Instead, it's only using 1GB.

Please see the attached image, and notice the memory types and slot's I am using -

Is there anything someone can help or spot here on the memory setup, or errors that would cause this either with hardware or software?


texts: Screwed up administrative name on sudo when trying to change usernames

texts:
Disclaimer: I am NOT at all fluent in coding or its jargon, so bear with me.

I recently downloaded a software and wanted to remove it. I tried to do it via sudo on the MacBook terminal. I was trying to follow the advice from this website: http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/06/add-user-sudoers-file-mac/

Incidentally, I literally typed "username" instead of my actual username for my actual account. Now I can't even touch sudo or do anything with it.

I try to type visudo and it says "permission denied." I try to type sudoer and it doesn't give me the prompt to type the password like it did before and it doesn't respond to any input I place in, whether it is spam or a helpless help command.

I followed the advice here and it still doesn't work. Now I have two admin accounts. I am beyond lost now as to how to revert my sudo thing.

Edit: I ran the code ls -l /etc/sudoers and the results were -r--r-----  1 root  wheel  2306 May  7 02:21 /etc/sudoers

Inputed cat /etc/sudoers command. Embarrassing username from middle school inbound:


texts: Exchange contacts do not appear in iCloud

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On my iPad and iPhone I have several email accounts: three Gmail and one Exchange account. I stopped using the Exchange account and tried to remove it from the iPhone, but also all my contacts were deleted. On the iPad the Exchange account is still configured and the contacts are still there.

Is there a way to transfer all contacts into iCloud and distribute it again on the iPhone (and my MacBook)?


texts: Uncheck "Reopen windows when logging back in" by default

texts: The shutdown/restart dialog has a check-box Reopen windows when logging back in which is checked by default. I need to change its behavior to be unchecked by default. Is this possible? If yes, how can I do that?


texts: Why can I not make a hard link to PkgInfo?

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With bash as my shell, a simple way to demonstrate my question is this:

mkdir -p foo.app/Contents
cd foo.app/Contents
echo -n 'AEgxFXTC' > PkgInfo
ln PkgInfo f

The ln will fail with ln: f: Operation not permitted

I am on 10.10.5 with a Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) file system.

There seems to be some magic squirreled away in the file system for files named PkgInfo inside a directory named Contents.  The contents of the file does not seem to matter.

What is the magic specifically?  Are there other magic names besides PkgInfo?  Why is it special?  etc.


texts: MacBook chrashing after running sudo npm install in root directory

texts:
I did a very stupid thing and executed "sudo npm install" in my root directory of my MacBook.
It also asked for a lot of permissions (like Desktop and Documents wich I granted)
Now I get a lot of errors from some Apple Services, my Desktop is gone, my top Bar is gone, my Bottom Menu has been reset and I cannot open finder and other things might not function right.
Any other did the same stupid thing and / or can help me out of my misery ?
Disk Utility -> Repeair sadly didn't work.
Thanks in advance
Alex


texts:
I have a PDF file on my Mac and I want to copy it into my iPhone and then read it.
How can I do that?

I already tried to plug the iPhone cable into my Mac, but it seems Finder doesn't let me save a file onto it. Before I had an iPhone, I used a Windows phone and could simply transfer my file to the phone and view it.

Do I need additional software? I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1.


texts: Bash autocomplete in Terminal stops working after a while

texts:
Bash allows auto-completion using the tab key:

If you type cd ~/D on Terminal, followed by the Tab key, you ear a beep, but if you follow by a second Tab key, the Terminal display the suggestions Desktop/ Documents/ Downloads/. If you type "e" followed by Tab, the auto completion displays cd ~/Desktop/, that is (here) the only folder in Home folder who begins with "De".

For whatever reason it stops to work for me after a while using Terminal or Iterm2. How can I diagnose and fix this?


texts: Do I need to keep Calendar app open in order to be notified about calendar events

texts:
I think this question can be very trivial, but for some reason it seems extremely difficult to find a clear and explicit answer to this.
If I close the Calendar app (by selecting "Quit") and therefore its icon disappears from the Dock, is there still some daemon process running in the background and therefore I will still be notified about Calendar events? Or do I need to keep the app open?
For example, some apps like Microsoft Outlook must stay open in order to be notified about e-mails, therefore this is not necessarily something which is not needed to be said.
Ideally, is there any official or reliable source that says this? (e.g. official documentation)


texts: Use clamshell mode without power adapter

texts: One of the requirements to use clamshell mode is to have the power adapter plugged in.  Is their any file modification or app that will work around this?  Like to switch throughout the day from a sit down desk to stand up and bringing the power adapter back and forth, is becoming more of a hassle.


texts:
My MacOS and Acrobat Pro version are as follows.
Mac OS X 10.7.5
Acrobat 10.1.6

When I'm printing PDF documents, I can never set 'duplex printing' as a default setting.
I think I could do it in previous versions.
What should I do?


texts:
A family member's iPad 2 (WiFi), which is connected to my old Apple ID has been locked with a message that says she has to pay $30 to someone online. I said not to pay and I went online, logged into the iCloud account that was attached to the iPad, and removed the Lost status so she could unlock it again.

However, the iPad is still in Lost mode because it can't connect to WiFi (to receive the 'unlost' command from iCloud) and to connect it needs to be unlocked.

There is an option to enter a passcode but the old passcode didn't work.

Any ideas on how I can recover it? Wiping is an option since there isn't much on it anyway.


texts: I downloaded malware called extended icons from skype - removal?

texts:
I got this as a skype message:

"Your skype does not support extended icons. Please download the extension here: " (skypemoticonscomplete dot com)

And then went to the url and downloaded/installed...which I immediately regretted as it became quite clear this is a malware/trojan/virus.

So far it has:

added this icon to my firefox:

It also has opened 2 drives under the devices section in finder:

skypEmoticons
maccaptain

I found windows removal advice for windows, but not for mac.

But, nothing for mac - was hoping somebody had a solution :)


texts: Terminal won't find command of custom script since Catalina update

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I have a very simple script to hide the icons from my desktop

#!/usr/bin/env bash
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
killall Finder

It is located in $USER/bin. Since the update, when I try to execute it using only the name of the script as a command, it doesn't work, the error being zsh: command not found: icon. Same for the other script located in the same folder.
If I execute the script by double clicking, it works.


texts:
Every so many typestrokes Aquamacs tries to auto-save. Unfortunately where it autp-saves is a folder that doesn't exist.

The result is that it freezes for several seconds.

How can I configure it - be it the frequency or turing it off, or the save location?

I've tried to find where but no success.

Can you help please?


texts: Constant prompts for FaceTime Password, iCloud Password and iMessage Password

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I don't use any of these services. Currently there is a dialog box permanently on the screen prompting for a password. If I press cancel, it's replaced instantly by another dialog box, prompting for a password for one of these services, apparently randomly chosen.

Sometimes, it's the same service several times in a row. Sometimes there is a pause of maybe half a second before the next dialog pops up.

Is this a known issue with Mavericks? It's a 2014 rMBP.


texts: How to get Apple certificate to sign files?

texts:
I was tasked by my boss to handle new project at work - JAMF to manage our MacOS devices (we are mostly Windows corporation, so it isn't easy).

We bought it, had some training. I want now to use ProfileCreator i found to deploy some settings. Bad thing is, that I don't know, how to get a certificate? I think, I need to become a developer and confirm my identity with Apple, am I correct?

Anyone have a detailed instruction, how to proceed? Sorry, if this is a silly question, but after years with Microsoft OS, this is a little overwhelming.


texts: Copy Files to SMB Mount (says it's full but it really isn't)

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I'm trying to drag and drop a file from my Mac to an SMB server but it's saying there isn't enough space.  When I do a df it's showing only 20 MB when I know it's a 3TB server.

sora:~ steve$ df -h
Filesystem           Size   Used  Avail Capacity  iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2        112Gi   87Gi   25Gi    78% 22767615    6644753   77%   /
devfs               183Ki  183Ki    0Bi   100%      634          0  100%   /dev
map -hosts            0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0          0  100%   /net
map auto_home         0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0          0  100%   /home
//admin@riku/media   20Mi   20Mi    0Bi   100%        0 18446744073709551615    0%   /Volumes/media

Why is it showing up this way? Is there a way I can ignore it and copy the file over anyway?


texts: Manually Sync iCloud Drive on OS X 10.10 Yosemite

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Is it possible to manually update the iCloud Drive folder on OS X?

Sometimes the folder does not update for ~10-20 minutes after establishing a good internet connection, so I'm hoping that there is a keyboard shortcut or menu action to refresh the iCloud Drive folder and download any documents made on another computer.

Google has so far proven itself useless. Thanks!


texts: Using iPad as second screen without sidecar

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I have a MacBook Air 2017 which is not compatible with sidecar, and since I upgraded to Catalina it doesn't work with the third party service I had been using (DeutDisplay).

Does anyone know a way to use my iPad Air 2 as a second monitor for my computer?


texts: MacBook Pro icons damaged after Sierra Update

texts: Some icons in Launchpad are damaged since I've updated to macOS Sierra, like DVD Player, Mail, Image Capture, Contacts. How can I fix this?


texts: Setting up mail on my iPhone, I didn't see an option for MS Live Mail/Hotmail.  I understand (due my mastery of search engines) that there are a few options. What's the best?


texts: Undoing calendar sync between iPhone and Outlook

texts: I was trying to save the calendar data on my iPhone to my Outlook calendar. I connected via iTunes and the sync caused all my iPhone calendar data to disappear, overwriting it with the data from the Outlook calendar. How can I restore my iPhone calendar data?


texts: Since it's a "virtual drive" is Parallels Desktop unaffected by system restore on a MacBook (2009)?

texts: I used a free trial of Parallels Desktop 11 on my 2009 MacBook and the trial expired before I deleted my files from Windows. I'm going to restore the computer to factory settings before selling it using "clover leaf + R". But if the buyer installs Parallels Desktop will they get "my" Parallels Desktop (with all my files) because it's a virtual drive unaffected by system restore? If so, how can I erase my files from Parallels Desktop as well?


texts: Is there a way to have Siri make a web call?

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I can use the Google Assistant app to make a web hook call to IFTTT.  It’s just a simple URL.  This calls IFTTT with the hashcode at the end to authenticate.  This then runs a recipe which tells my pinhole ad-blocker to shut off for 2 minutes.

http:example.com:1969/admin/api.php?disable=120&auth=abc123

I’d like to say, Siri, shut your pie hole which calls that URL.

Is this possible? Unfortunately Google Assistant doesn’t run in the background or I would just use that.  Can Siri open a favorite link in Safari?


texts:
Ive got a 2017, 15" MBP, running OSX 10.15.7 but it will not go into sleep mode.
See screenshot from system preferences, any ideas ?


texts: Can Automator download many generated PDFs from a web page?

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I've never used Automator.

Is it capable of "clicking" every link on a web age, clicking the download icon on the PDF that appears in a new tab, then closing that tab?  And also to go to the next page (because there are only twenty per page of generated output)?

These PDFs contain data on our daily hospitality registrations.  I need to pull previous years to generate some statistics, and there are probably around 200 PDFs per year.

For more detail, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50513038/how-to-automate-download-of-generated-pdfsthere are


texts: iMac hard freezes intermittently after booting off an external SSD

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I have hooked up an external USB3 Samsung T5 SSD to my iMac model iMac14,2, formatted it as APFS, and installed macOS High Sierra on it, to use as my primary system drive.

I can use the system for a week, maybe a week and a half, at a time, but after a while my machine will hard freeze as I am using it - as in, can't move the mouse or type with the keyboard, screen is frozen.  It usually happens when I'm doing something disk-intensive, like opening the fuzzy file browser in Visual Studio Code, or opening a file browser, but I have a suspicion that it has frozen and then rebooted on its own while I was away from the system at least once.

I checked the console and didn't see anything jump out at me in that span of time where the system froze.  I ran First Aid on the disk itself and the disk container, but the only warning I got was warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (7723705+1) bitmap address (10e2e)

The only other thing that might be relevant is that something that I noticed that happened once or twice in the past week is that my keyboard suddenly stopped working - no keys would cause an action - but my mouse that is hooked up to my keyboard would continue to work.  Strange.

I am currently using three of the four USB ports available in the back - one has the Samsung SSD, another has the keyboard/mouse hooked up, and a third has my Time Machine spinning-rust HDD hooked up to it, which does not have its own power cable.


texts: Is there a Fortran compiler/emulator for iOS?

texts: Has anyone come across a Fortran 77 emulator or compiler for iOS devices?


texts: How to restore Chrome "size-to-best-fit" zoom functionality?

texts:
Chrome for Mac used to have the behavior that clicking the green "maximize" button would resize the window to best fit the page content. For example, if your Chrome window wasn't wide enough horizontally to fit the text of the webpage, clicking the green button would expand the window horizontally until it perfectly fit the text. It seems in recent versions of Chrome this was discontinued in favor of the green button full-screening the window.

I prefer the old behavior... I'm using Yosemite and short of reverting to an old version of Chrome, is there any way I could get it back?

Any advice is appreciated, thank you!


texts: Will time machine wipe out my old time machine backups if I move it to a new mac (or upgrade os x)?

texts:
I recently had the IT guys here at work wipe my hard drive and upgrade my mac to 10.8 from 10.6. And other than spending a few days getting it up and running again and spaces being jacked it is going ok.

I was using Time Machine to keep it backed up for a long time and I want to use it again on the same external drive. But I am concerned that my most recent backup from my old backups will be lost if I set it up using the same drive. Will Time Machine wipe all my old data or just the oldest stuff?

Thanks!


texts: No entry grey screen with spinner with new SSD

texts:
My hard drive bit the dust rather spectacularly on my 2011 15" MBP. Luckily, I have a model without torx screws, so I popped it open, put in a 240 GB SSD I had lying around, and did and Internet boot into Lion recovery.

I used Disk Utility to format the drive, one partition, Mac OS extended, encrypted. It downloaded Lion, but after that first reboot, I've got a grey screen with a no entry sign and a spinner. It's not changed for 20 minutes.

Is there anything I can do? Is it not possible to us an SSD? I have other hard drives. Was encryption the mistake?


texts: .plist returns: Invalid property list, plutil says ok!

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I'm trying to create my first .plist. I want to mount a ssh drive on login so i don't have to enter the command each time I start my Mac!

The command is: sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions user@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/user/ /Users/user/Desktop/Website/ -o reconnect

The plist looks like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple$
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>name.plist</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/usr/local/bin/sshfs</string>
                <string>-o allow_other,defer_permissions</string>
                <string>user@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/user</string>
                <string>/mnt/User</string>
                <string>-o reconnect,volname=User</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

I've followed a tutorial saying when done with the .plist I have to run these 2 commands:

launchctl load ~/path/name.plist
launchctl start ~/path/.name.plist

It then returns Invalid property list

I saw Launchctl says plist is invalid, plutil says it's OK, where it says i should replace the first few lines but no change?
plutil return ok when run so I'm lost!

P.S.

I've used the template below posted by user3439894. This time it loads properly but when I start it nothing happens

When I look at the systemlog there is nothing posted about it....

About the path to sshfs i've tried 2 things:

I've left it as it stood in the example given below.
I've done a suggested and added the path again /usr/local/bin/sshfs


texts: MacBook Pro 2009 doesn't boot without charger

texts:
I have bought a used MacBook Pro 2009 from eBay.

I have charged the battery to 100% (worked fine), and booted it. Everything worked, except that I can't boot when on battery. The battery itself is fine, so I can connect the charger, press the start button, and it starts. I can then disconnect the charger, and it will keep running. But without the charger, it will just not recognize the power button press.

I tried resetting the SMC (Shift+Ctrl+Option+Power Button), and resetting the PRAM (Cmd+Option+P+R like 5 times), but nothing changed.

Any ideas?

Update: Now it won't turn on even with the battery inserted, and it also does only charge if I try several times to connect the magsafe adapter


texts: Getting duplicate iOS notifications from IFTTT

texts:
I use IFTTT to send me iOS notifications for some of my recipes, but for some reason, every time it sends me a notification, it sends it twice. So every notification I get from IFTTT is duplicated.

Anyone know why this happens, and how I can fix it?


texts:
Few versions of OSX ago, the project name was shown under the XCode window, when app expose was used... now just the open file name is shown, which totally useless

I cannot navigate to my open project and it's irritating as hell

How to show Xcode project name under the expose opened window


texts: Can't restore mavericks backups in time machine

texts: I'm trying to restore a time machine backup onto a new machine, however the only options are backups done prior to mavericks. The backups done under mavericks don't come up but I am sure they are on my external hard drive.


texts: Is there a way to force AAC on bluetooth headphones?

texts:
Macos will connect to my headphones for the first time and use AAC.
 On further connections, it will switch to SBC and the quality is beyond terrible.
The only solution I have found is to 'forget' the headphones in question and then reconnect them, as a brand new connection pairing brings the quality back to AAC.
I have double-checked with Bluetooth Explorer that my options are correct and also checked with other headphones.  It happens on both pair.
I suspect that it has to do with the headphone microphone, but have had no real permanent luck trying apple's vague advice to quit offending applications and switch sources etc, advice I found here.

Does anyone know a permanent fix to stop the continual audio codec downgrade?

I'm not sure what version of OS X this began on, but it has been several months now at a minimum.  I am currently running 10.15.1 on a 2017 touchbar macbook pro.


texts: Finder and Spotlight not returning the expected results when searching

texts:
Am I right to think that Spotlight or Finder should search through the contents of a file?

When I search in Finder or Spotlight for a word inside a text (.txt) or rtf document, it doesn't return anything.
Example: I have a simple rtf or txt file in Documents that contains the word "car".

Neither of these returns anything:
car
contains:car
kind:rtf contains:car
kind:txt contains:car
kind:text contains:car

the document has been there form weeks so it should have been indexed.

All spotlight settings are the defaults (everything selected).
I'm using Mojave in a Mac Mini 2014.

Any help welcome.


texts:
I see there have recently been several products released that offer to give an iOS device access to local mass storage on the order of terabytes via WiFi.  It appears that most if not all of these devices only allow access to the drive through a special (and very limited) iOS app for THAT product.

Via jailbreaking or otherwise, is there a way to use ANY iOS app (for example, photo, audio, and video editing apps) with local Wifi-connected storage?


texts: How to detect if OS and Machine fingerprint has been corrupted by malware?

texts:
Spoofing a MAC or IP is easy:

  For Apple OSX the OS Fingerprint will be the MD5 hash of the
  filesystem UUID for the root file system (i.e. ‘/’). For example a Mac
  with a root UUID of “de305d54-75b4-431b-adb2- eb6b9e546013” would have
  an OS fingerprint of “c001163fbbaaadabeb733e1e9ceb95e6”.

(found in: (S//OC/NF) Network Operations Division
CNE Operational Data Exchange Format
(Codex) Specification, page 9)

If there are no logs or disable, how would you detect if the fingerprint file has been corrupted? altered?

Would spoofing the fingerprint.codex.xml force the malware to be non-functional at boot?

Is it possible to generate a secure hash with sha512k instead of md5 for the fingerprint?


texts: I have MacBook 4,1 early 2008 and i've made usb bootable (in bootcamp created with iso) and once i reboot, i get "No bootable device -- insert boot disk". After some search, i installed "rEFIt", and when i reboot, and selected my usb, i get the same message. I found answers that says i need disk, not the usb, but i belive there is a way to install windows from usb. Currently i'm running windows 7 on virtualbox and it's very slow because i have 2gb of ram.


texts: Is there a way to sync contacts between an android phone and an iPad without using a computer?

texts:
If I use a computer, then I can log into iCloud to download all my contacts, copy them to google and sync between gmail and the android phone.

Is there a way to do this without a computer and just extract all my contacts from iPad and then send the file containing all my contacts to myself as an email, so I can download the file from gmail? Without a computer, it seems all I can do is extract contacts one at a time.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Application refused to start because of local storage

texts:
I am using application TopTracker on my MBP

My Mac have frozen and i have forced it to restart.

Unfortunatelly, when i'm trying to restart the App, i have this error :

  Failed to read from local storage. Database error:  Driver error:  The
  application will now exit.

There is any way to reset this database?


texts: Can't Boot from Snow Leopard anymore after having installed mavericks on an external HDD

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.

I wanted to test how mavericks works on my computer so I downloaded the OS and then I installed on a external USB HDD. Everything work as expected. I can now boot from the USB device with mavericks and I still see my internal HDD (containing Snow Leopard) with all the data untouched.

The problem is that I can't boot anymore from my internal HDD, even if the usb drive is not connected, I can see that the boot is "mavericks-style" and then fails because it doesn't find the drive. It seems that the installation procedure not only installed mavericks on the external drive, but also overwrites the boot sector of the internal HDD?


texts: How can I launch a GUI app in Applications folder from command line?

texts:
I would like to launch a GUI app that is in the Applications folder from the command line as opposed to clicking the icon in the Finder or in the Dock.  The reason I want that is to be able to launch it as root using sudo as opposed to launching it as my default user.

When I went into the Applications, this is what it looked like:

/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 13 CE.app@16:16:42>ls -la
total 40
drwxr-xr-x@ 10 myuser  admin    340 Dec 17 14:07 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 68 root           admin   2312 Jan 20 18:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x@  6 myuser  admin    204 Dec 17 14:08 Contents
-rw-r--r--@  1 myuser  admin  11358 Dec 17 14:06 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r--@  1 myuser  admin    127 Dec 17 14:06 NOTICE.txt
drwxr-xr-x@ 14 myuser  admin    476 Dec 17 14:09 bin
-rw-r--r--@  1 myuser  admin     10 Dec 17 14:01 build.txt
drwxr-xr-x@ 85 myuser  admin   2890 Dec 17 14:06 lib
drwxr-xr-x@ 29 myuser  admin    986 Dec 17 14:06 license
drwxr-xr-x@ 30 myuser  admin   1020 Dec 17 14:06 plugins

Funny thing is, in the Finder, IntelliJ IDEA 13 CE shows as a clickable icon which launches the app.  But at the terminal level, it is actually a directory with contents I do not know how to navigate and manipulate to emulate a GUI click.


texts: How to stop Apple Watch from unlocking a Mac with lid closed

texts:
I am using the Apple Watch to unlock my Macbook Pro Retina (Late 2013) and it works reasonably well, almost too well:  When I stop working with the Macbook and close the lid, but stay in proximity, I will very soon get a notification that the Mac was unlocked using the Apple Watch. Then a minute later I will get another one, and another one.  I have gotten up to 7, but most of the time it stops after two or three.  Opening the lid right after one of these notifications confirms that the computer is unlocked.  I suspect that this has something to do with Powernap.

I do not want to disable either Powernap or Unlock with Apple Watch.  Is this a bug I just have to live with?

How could I debug the issue?


texts: Chinese characters in boot args in crash report

texts:
These Chinese characters showed up in the boot args field in a crash report.  Is this common?  I have an iMac Pro.
Boot args:        媔娮翼


texts: Yosemite Grey Screen with 3d Party SSD not a trim issue

texts:
I have a MacBook 7,1 which i recently installed a PNY 250 SSD and added some RAM. The laptop was running awesome with OSX 10.6.8, lightning fast.

Then I installed Yosemite. There was a bit of hang during the install, but Yosemite came up no issue when I rebooted. Here is the problem:

Every other time I boot the MacBook it hangs at a grey screen with the prohibitory sign. Verbose reveals a "still waiting for root device" error. Now if I reboot from that hang, it boots fine, but then will hang again the next time. It keeps alternating like this. Any ideas??

I am not running any third party trim software, so that's not the issue.


texts: Why does the USB-C Ethernet adapter get hot, even when unplugged from ethernet?

texts:
The new MacBook Pro have a bunch of USB-C ports and no ethernet port, so you have to use an adapter.

The issue is that as long as the adapter is connected to the MacBook, it gets very noticeably hot, even more than the power adapter.

This happens both when the ethernet cable is plugged into it or not.

Now, from reading other comments this seems to be normal behaviour, but I'd love to understand why! From an user's perspective, this does not seem right, and looks like it could cause the adapter to fail faster than it would without heating up.

I have a USB-C to Ethernet Adapter, model belkin F2CU040. It gets hot as soon as plug the 100 Mbps Ethernet connector. As you can see in the figure, we are more than 20°C above the ambient temperature.


texts:
I have a Mac Mini, 2006 (upgraded firmware to 2.1, upgraded CPU to Core 2 Duo, upgraded RAM to 4GB).
With another Mac Mini (2009), I prepared a USB installer of macOS El Capitan patched with MacPostFactor tool.
I used the USB installer to try and install mac OS El Capitan on the Mac Mini (2006) but after a few minutes of the install process it crashes and the Mac Mini restarts with last officially supported macOS 10.6.8.
Does anybody have a working El Capitan on Mac Mini 2006, with instructions on how to get it working?


texts: Do application leftovers have any impact on performance?

texts:
Apparently, uninstalling an app by dragging it to the bin may leave application leftovers in some folders (such as Library/Preferences/, Library/Applications Support/, Library/StartupItems/ etc...). Several sites explain how removing such leftovers can increase disk space.

However, I have no problem with storage. So, this is my question: apart from taking up disk space, do these application leftovers have any negative impact on performance?


texts: Can I restrict download when my macbook is being hot spotted?

texts:
I plan to stick an NFC tag on my macbook so that I can just click my phone on it to create a Wifi Hotspot which my laptop will automatically connect to.

The only problem I can think of though is that I have restricted data on my phone plan therefore I don't want the laptop to be doing anything like syncing with my dropbox, downloading system updates etc.

Is there a way I can configure the macbook so that if using a certain WIFI network, it will restrict the traffic to only web browsing traffic.


texts: MBP dedicated GPU stuck in high power state - system kexts not loading

texts:
Here comes another dedicated GPU (dGPU) issue on my Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro!
Problem:
My NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M is not able to go into its lowest power state once automatic graphics switching is toggled on and then back off (iGPU being used, then dGPU).
This is confirmed by the reported power use by the "GPU Rail" metric in HWSensors (HWMonitor) at idle of 17W. When first booting with automatic graphics switching disabled (dGPU on), the idle power draw is 3W. After toggling automatic graphics switching on and back off (dGPU on), the card is at 17W idle forever until the next reboot.
This is also confirmed by the idle temperatures rising from low 40c's to high 50c's once it's stuck at 17W.
This is a problem because it also heats up my CPU +10c when dGPU is enabled and just idling, due to the fact that they share a heat pipe. The extra heat is also problematic when connecting an external 4k monitor which makes the whole computer get too hot. Many people have reported issue with overheating trying to run a second high resolution monitor. Finally, an extra 13W of unnecessary power draw has a huge negative effect on battery life.
UPDATE:
I discovered this problem is due to some system kernel extensions not loading. I installed Catalina fresh on an external drive and that fixed my dGPU being stuck in a higher power state.
I compared the system kernel extensions loaded on the fresh Catalina install with those loaded on the problematic install and made a list of all the kexts that did not load in the problematic Catalina install. The problem is that the system is not loading these kexts from /system/library/extensions:
IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/contents/plugins/x86platformplugin.kext
IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/contents/plugins/ioplatformpluginlegacy.kext
IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/contents/plugins/acpi_smc_platformplugin.kext
IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/contents/plugins/x86platformshim.kext
applegraphicspowermanagement.kext
appleplatformenabler.kext
In fact my issue is fixed by simply just loading x86platformplugin.kext:
sudo kextload IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/contents/plugins/x86platformplugin.kext

However it's probably best to load all of those that are present on a clean Catalina install and not present on my problematic install.
After loading x86platformplugin.kext manually, toggling on the 750M dGPU results in it being able to use its low power state, consuming just 3W at idle compared to 17W otherwise.
Why aren't these kexts loading on my problematic Catalina install? How do I get these kexts to load automatically after reboot?


texts: Can I turn pages in ebook with single touch?

texts:
I am considering the purchase of the iPad2 and among other things, the one that bother me is this -- you can turn pages when reading an ebook with hand gesture, i.e. moving finger from left to right with nice animation. This is cool for starter.

But I want something 100% traditional -- just touch of the finger on left or right edge of the screen, and I would get just next/previous page. No animation, no moving hand.

Is this possible on iPad? If yes -- is it device settings, or given app?


texts: Disable HTML5 video auto-play in OS X Safari?

texts: I want to disable videos in Safari, as I have to pay for each byte downloaded.  Some videos I may want to watch, but I want to decide whether I use my precious bandwidth, rather than have it automatically play.  Is there any way to accomplish this?


texts: Mac Sounds are greyed off when headphones plugged in

texts:
I have a problem with my mac.

When i am using internal speakers everything works fine however as soon as i insert headphones , the sounds icon is greyed out and there is no sounds to hear. Happening to all kind of headphones.

The preferences say " Digital out : The selected device has no output controls."


texts: I want to connect my macbook pro to my tv.  I do not have a hdmi cable but I do have a dvi cable.  I also have a usb to usb cable.  Is it possible to connect my macbook pro to windows laptop then connect that to the tv and be able to see the macbook's desktop on the tv?


texts: How can I temporarily disable my MBP's keyboard?

texts:
I sometimes bring my external keyboard with me on the go and use it with my MBP. I would like to lay it over the macbook's current keyboard without having to worry about it pressing other keys.

Is there a way to temporarily enable/disable the onboard keyboard?


texts: Mavericks calendar events longer than 3 hours

texts:
I am using Mavericks.

I use Calendar in monthly mode and with times in 24 hour mode.

When I enter or edit an event in Calendar.app it seems to be limited to 3 hours.
First you have to deselect the whole day then the list of end times only goes to 3 hours, which I can live with. But if I close the drop down and try to edit the end time end time directly as if I put in a later time Calendar changes it to 3 hours. However only sometimes (about 50% success)

How do I enter an entry longer than 3 hours?


texts:
I recently updated to Catalina, and am now unable to open books (ePubs/PDFs alike) via Books. These books are there, I can drag them out to my Desktop or sync them to my iPad, but they do not open in Books.

Instead, an alert is displayed with the following text:

The operation couldn’t be completed. (BKAgentServiceErrorDomain error 8.)
A black-HUD-ed spinner appears on the book's icon, spinning indefinitely.

How do I resolve this issue?


texts:
I have a first generation Apple TV (with the 40 Gb hard drive) lying unused, in a storage box at home. I'm unsure if there's anything useful I can do with it, so was considering getting rid of it.

I understand that there are various ways that the device can be modified or jailbroken, but I don't know if these are still worthwhile or still supported in any way. After doing some research they just seem to install other media playback software.

I'm more interested in being able to stream content - ideally from services like BBC iPlayer, YouTube or Netflix. Is there any way the device can run or stream from any of these services? (I'm aware there is a YouTube client installed on the device already, but it's very old).

Apologies if this seems a strange question, but is there any point in keeping one of these, in 2016? Can anything useful or interesting be done with them now?


texts: Can you set up a table format on Pages documents from the beginning?

texts: I want to set up a Pages document with a specific format, a certain table with a certain number of cells on each page, of a certain size. Instead of just copying and pasting this table into multiple pages, is there a way I can set up the document in the settings so that it knows to automatically put such a table in every page?


texts: How to make one app never update? It's the old Ingress version. New is very bad, even if has some better management things that previous needed, but it's strangely weird.


texts: Why is FAT16 limited to read-only with TrueCrypt on Snow Leopard?

texts:
I'm experiencing a problem with TrueCrypt. The problem is described elsewhere but not resolved for me.

When attempting to mount encrypted containers, the following error is generated:

  hdiutil: attach failed - no mountable file systems

Other resources indicate that the problem is related to the version of MacFUSE.  I have tried a few versions but have been unable to find a pair that work for my system.

It would be great to:

get any fix suggestions
learn which version of MacFUSE is used successfully by someone in my situation.

My System:

Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
Mac Mini 1.66Ghz Core Duo
2 GB RAM
TrueCrypt 7.1A

Update 1

After switching from MacFUSE to FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE), as suggested in answers:

TrueCrypt volumes could be mounted read only.

Attempts to mount with write access continued to fail with the above error.  I can't be sure whether this is new since I changed over.

Update 2

Read/write succeeds for a TrueCrypt container formatted as Mac OS Extended.

The container I wish to open was originally created on a Windows system.  diskutil info describes it as FAT16.  The size of the container is 10.5 MB on disk when not mounted.  When mounted as read only:

(Dates are a bit quirky?)


texts: Can I make macOS Sierra not notice when I turn off my monitor?

texts: I'm having this problem where my computer performs some weird behavior when I turn off my external monitor. For example, I have to run some programs and I'd like to have my screen off because they take many hours to run. However, when I turn off my monitor it seems to stop the program. How can I make my  computer not notice when I turn off my screen? I have a Dell monitor and a Mac Mini with macOS Sierra.


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TL;DR

Asked the same question on Apple communities, nothing useful.
Find the post here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8123614

bash-3.2# fsck_apfs -d -l /dev/disk5
fletcher64_init:58: Selecting AVX2 implementation of fletcher64
** Checking volume.
** Checking the container superblock.
** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
** Checking the space manager.
** Checking the object map.
** Checking the APFS volume superblock.
warning: apfs_sb at apfs_fs_index (0): apfs_features has unrecognized features (2)
** Checking the object map.
** Checking the fsroot tree.
error: btn: key (2) compare error: 22
   fsroot tree is invalid.
** The volume /dev/disk5 could not be verified completely.

Hardware iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), 256GB stock SSD, nothing special, nothing fancy.

Standard issue hardware and I am certain that this hardware is flawless- since I run Linux/Freebsd on it.

Drive is a default single partitioned GPT for fresh install of High Sierra. I simply erased the whole drive, set a new GPT scheme, formatted it as HFS+ and started the installer from USB. This went ok, but after a few days I checked the Volume after power outage and found that I can't repair it anymore...

Disk Utility.app says the same what fsck does. Disk Utility is basically executing fsck in the background anyways, if you think it's not then start Disk Utility directly through Terminal and you will see it in stdout.

I couldn't find any useful documentation, just some marketing flavoured mambo-jumbo without any technical depth.

I installed the 10.13.1 Public Beta release with hopes that maybe it will recognize the unrecognized features, now it says more or less the same and still can't repair the volume - although it does not complain about unrecognized features.

I read somewhere that APFS is close related to ZFS, so maybe one can work with ZFS tools or other software that explicitly is designed to repair APFS similar to a back story here: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/

Sub-topics

Is there a way to opt-out of APFS on SSD?
Is there a way to convert back to HFS+

During installation the installer didn't asked about conversion (or maybe I missed it) and now im stuck with a drive I can't use.

Update II:
After reading a bit about ZFS and then references from Wikipedia entry about APFS (correct me if I am wrong) APFS implementation should take care off any faults on it's own, and, theoretically there is no need for a fsck command. Well, thinking of it, I never had to fsck a BTRFS volume either, if there were some issues there were scrubbed at boot time, guess this is how APFS is supposed to work as well - since fault tolerance is one of it's core features.

More technical details by reverse engineering APFS are here

Update III (07.01.2018)

After some weeks of APFs testing on native Apple and non-Apple hardware by doing a lot of common and some not so-common testing - I recommend to stay away from it until the Linux kernel is able to mount an APFS volume in R/W mode. From my experience one can expect to have a really bad day if your APFS based storage crashes for some reason and won't be able to self-heal. In most cases it does the job and can repair itself - however in 8 weeks I landed in more then 5 cases where it couldn't- despite no hardware failure. I was not able to repair/reuse the volume without reformatting therefore I'm not using APFS until it's well documented and mountable in Linux in R/W mode for anything else then system files.

SSD vs. non-SSD
If you are running APFS on non-SSD: it will be slower then HFS. Period.
APFS is (currently) only reasonable on internal SSD drives and on can be on  hybrid drives (although Apple installer won't agree). Magnetic hard drives don't benefit from APFS in any way. External SSD drive performance is not really comparable since the amount data you can squeeze through USB-C is limited and HFS+ wont't be a bottleneck.


texts: How to get a fall-through behavior in case statements in bash v3?

texts:
I just tested the following syntax on Linux:

case "$OSTYPE" in linux-gnu*) ;;& linux*) echo $OSTYPE; ;; esac
case "$OSTYPE" in linux-gnu*) ;& linux*) echo $OSTYPE; ;; esac

which works without any problems (See: Can bash case statements cascade?) with GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu).

But on OSX I've the following errors:

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'

It's GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13).

Any clues how to achieve the same fall-through behavior on bash v3?


texts: Can Spotlight search for text within Safari for iPhone?

texts: Is there a way to search text within Safari by doing a Spotlight search on an iPhone? There currently is no such way to run a find/search within Safari (boo), so I need a work around.


texts: Can I share a 3G connection from an iPhone/iPad by creating a Wi-fi hotspot?

texts: I've been wondering about this for awhile. So, is it possible to create a Wi-fi hotspot from an iPhone or 3G iPad?


texts: Can I select only a few specific folders to back up with Time Machine?

texts:
Can I backup only specific folders with Time Machine?

If there is not an "official" way to do this, does somebody know a trick to do so?


texts: iMac 2008 (24") Running Windows x64 BootCamp - NVIDIA Driver Crashes Everything

texts:
I have a 24" Apple iMac with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics card running Windows x64. Everything runs beautifully save one problem...if I install graphics drivers - any at all - the computer crashes like crazy.

I've searched innumerable websites for some kind of solution, downloaded various different versions of drivers (including betas), booted into safe mode, and tried a clean boot - but nothing I've tried resolves the issue.

Perhaps the graphics card is just fried and I don't know it (and I'm too much of a perplexed coward to actually remove it), but the Windows side is working better than the Mac side, because booting into OS X causes the iMac to crash within 10 seconds no matter what I do; at least on the Windows side, the computer will survive even though it has no drivers installed.  Too bad that using the integrated graphics in Windows isn't an option.

Can anyone suggest other options for me to troubleshoot this?


texts:
The iOS calendar app doesn't sync iCloud calendars anymore.

Example: I add calendar events on a mac, which uses the same iCloud calendars, and add a notification for in 5 minutes. In the past, my iPhone would notify me about this event though the set notification. This doesn't happen anymore as I now have to manually open the calendar app on my iPhone in order to make it sync the calendar events.

How can I fix this?


texts: Why are other and system storage taking up so much space? and how do I clear it

texts: I deleted all caches from Finder/Library/Caches and that barely did anything, how do I clean this up? please help


texts: How to decrease the font size / zoom out in Chrome on a mobile device

texts:
I prefer very small fonts: on my MacBook I use full retina 2560x1600.  My iPhone7 Plus can show a lot - if I can force chrome to stop making huge fonts on it.  But how to do that?  The desktop chrome allows to decrease magnification by hitting Command-Minus. There is no keyboard on the iPhone so then .. what is the equivalent?

By the way I already have the Text Size slider set to absolute smallest in the general Settings| Text Size


texts: Force iPad/iPhone to use specific location for services

texts:
Is there any way to force an iPhone or iPad (jailbroken) to use a different location other then my actual current one. For searching... Say I am in NY, NY and do a search, I want location services to think I am in Miami, FL to give me results from there as if I am in that location.

I've looked under location services. Only obvious things are to turn it on off along with enabled/disabled for other apps.


texts: How to export an email from Mail application?

texts:
I would like to export one particular email to .eml , so I can save it on my disk and then manually attach to another message.

I am aware of those two options:

export whole mailbox
forward email as attachment

Neither of them meet my requirements, and this seems like really basic functionality.


texts:
I know this question is a poor one but I don't know what happened to my iphone i am using it from past 2 years but its microphone suddenly stopped working and i am having problem in recording voice notes and calling. But mic is working in Videos. I am not understanding the problem. It is my one of the favorite phone that's why i don't want to get rid of it.

Here is list of problems i am facing in my phone.
 1. Having problem while calling
 2. Not having problem while recording video
 3. Having problem while recording a voice note
 4. Microphone starts working when i switch my call to SPEAKERS.

I hope everyone understood my problem. Waiting for the possible easy solution.


texts: Booting iMac in Recovery partition takes forever

texts:
I'm trying to boot the recovery partition on my Mid 2010 iMac 27 to do a Time Machine recovery.

OSX is installed correctly already and I can boot that quickly. However, when I try to boot the recovery partition I get the grey screen with apple logo and a progress bar. This one is so slow I have the feeling there is no progress at all, while my machine sounds like it is doing a lot of stuff. What can this be? Is this normal?

Or is there also another way to recover my mac without recovery partition?


texts: Install OS X inside a VMware ESXi server (hypervisor)

texts: Say you have a apple hardware, that you installed a VMware ESXi server, is it legal and possible to install a Mac OS X on that hypervisor, and access it remotely, say with RDP or Logmein or whatever to use it as a remote desktop environment?


texts: Can not create files on samba share for Time Machine

texts:
OS 10.14.2 / ubuntu 10.04/ samba 4.9.2

My ultimate aim is to use a samba share with Time Machine.  I have built an up to date version of samba (4.9.2) which has the necessary support for Time Machine and installed it on my linux system, and I have it sharing a volume which I can mount from my Mac.  A good start ;)

The problem is that I get permission errors whenever I try and create any files or directories:

henry-crunn:timemachine rful011$ id
uid=501(rful011) gid=20(staff) ...
henry-crunn:timemachine rful011$ ls -l /Volumes/
total 64
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      1  3 Feb 10:43 Macintosh HD -> /
drwx------  1 rful011  staff  16384  3 Feb 12:04 timemachine
drwx------  1 rful011  staff  16384  3 Feb 12:04 timemachine-2
henry-crunn:timemachine rful011$ touch  /Volumes/timemachine/test
touch: /Volumes/timemachine/test: Permission denied

The permissions as shown by ls -l look fine but I still get permission denied on any operation that creates files on the volume.

I get the same error when I tried to use tmutil to add the volume to the backup list -- this is when I first realised there was a problem.

Here is the smb config:

[global]

Mac OS support

vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr
fruit:aapl = yes

[timemachine]
    comment = Time Machine
    path = /mnt/macmini-bb/timemachine
    browseable = yes
    writeable = yes
    create mask = 0600
    directory mask = 0700
    spotlight = no
    fruit:time machine = yes

Any thoughts on what I have screwed up or things to check?

update after more fiddling and research:

It seems to be a locking issue.  I created a file on the linux side of the share and then opened it with textedit on the back.  All good until I tried to modify the file and then I got a popup saying that the file was locked -- would you like to duplicate it.

After a bit more googling I found lots of post concerning locked files and shares, mostly suggesting that the issues are related to MacOS trying to create previews on shared drives

What is event stranger is that Get Info does not show the file is locked.

The suggestion is that finder tries to create previews of the contents of the drive and leaves locks in the directory.


texts: Should I play games natively on Mac OS when they are available?

texts:
Lots of games are available for Mac:

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=&sort_by=_ASC&os=mac&page=1

Should I play them on Mac or should I boot into Windows 10? (I have a copy of Windows 10 already so buying it is not an issue).


texts: Magic Keyboard on Windows - How to get Media keys to work

texts:
I'd like to purchase a magic apple keyboard for my windows pc. Do media keys like playing music, volume controls, and so on work on windows?
Is there a way to map keys correctly on windows for all media/functions to work?


texts: Hide/Fix Macbook Pro Retina Screen Scratch

texts: I noticed that I have a small scratch on my Macbook Pro Retina's screen.  When this has happened on my desktop LCDs I've used some Vaseline to hide it.  While I know that doesn't actually fix it I am looking for a technique to make this scratch less noticeable.


texts: After i downloaded the new iOS 5 for my iPhone 4 safari isn't any different?

texts: i downloaded the new iOS 5 for my iPhone 4 and safari is the same as it was and i was under the assumption that it would be somewhat different?


texts: What is the most accurate method of testing batteries for A1278 MacBook Pro?

texts: I have about 20 batteries I want to test. I'm trying to find out if they will read "replace" or "service" in the OS. Usually, I'll stick the battery in long enough to collect a cycle count and condition. However, it seems that a lot of the batteries shortly after show "service" or "replace". Maybe,  once booted for the first time in a while, the computer assigns a new battery condition to the battery. If so, I should install the battery turn on and then restart a second time before collecting the battery info. I'm curious if maybe it takes macOS a while to assess the condition of a battery and, if so, how long it takes. What do you recommend for quickly assessing the condition of a battery? Thanks.


texts: How can I distable coub.com weekly notifications

texts:
Every week I receive a Mac notification about Coub.com weekly. If I click into it it will take me here on Safari browser.
I was trying to disable it by changing the preferences -> notifications -> Safari. But it didn't help. Any ideas?


texts: How do I check to see if my computer is infected with the OSX/Crisis Trojan?

texts: Just recently, a new trojan for OS X was discovered. Apparently it only affects Snow Leopard and Lion. Whether it does/doesn't affect Mountain Lion is still unknown. The trojan sits on your computer and hides, doing nothing so far. How do I check to see if this trojan has been installed on my system? If it is, how do I remove it?


texts:
When I arrange my folders with the Sort by option (I mostly use Date added) it will sort the files by the most recent one being the first and the oldest being the last.

I want to reverse this that the most recent added will be the last going back to the oldest being the first.

I would like to have this in the icon view


texts: Encrypt external USB thumb drive on MacOS High Sierra

texts:
I'm unable to encrypt an USB thumb drive on MacOS High Sierra. Although I tried different approaches, it never worked:

Use Finder (right-click, then select "Encrypt Drive"): this option is not visible on my machine
Use Diskutil (no option to use encryption)
Use diskutil command line tool: unable to reformat as APFS, no clue what to do next…


texts: How to monitor which apps are "calling home'?

texts: I want to monitor one app on my phone to see what webservice it is accessing when it first launches.  I remember seeing an article on TUAW a while ago that detailed using Charles snooper, or something like that to set up a network to detect that.  However, I can't find it.  Anyone know where it went?


texts: Forward events / notifications to other phone

texts:
I would like to forward my iPhone notifications or alerts to an Android phone.

Is there a way/app to do this?


texts:
Today I noticed something unusual on my MBP's audio.

When I played some music on youtube today, I noticed that something was different. The sound is noisy, like when in a car, you put the volume very high, it starts distorting. But, on low volume on my Mac, it creates the same effect.

Anyone with the same problem? Anyone knows how to fix it? It didn't do it earlier... Maybe some SO update messed up the audio drivers/codecs?

  Update:
  I performed a PRAM and NVRAM reset and a SMC reset and it didn't solve anything.

  Also, deleted the *.plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/Audio as suggested here and again, it didn't solve anything.

  I'm getting desperate...

  Update2:
  Got in recovery mode, started Disk Utility and used the options Fix disk and Fix disk permissions and once again, it didn't solve anything.


texts: How can I close apps properly/shutdown the system via ssh?

texts: I need to know if there's a proper way to close apps via ssh and if it's posible shut down the system without the sudo halt or sudo init 0 (because I think those ways are not good for the system when there are apps running)


texts: How to make autocorrect to correct "i" to "I"

texts: "i" in english is always "I". Is there a preference to autocorrect that auto corrects  small "i" to capital "I" in macOS?


texts: How can I put a Lion installer on a Flash Drive?

texts: Could someone please list the steps to make a backup Lion install on a flash drive? Is it as simple as copying the Lion installer?


texts: Is there a way to request iMessage history from Apple?

texts:
Recently there was a famous case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute

I was wondering if a regular citizen (US or non-US based) can apply to Apple and request all the iMessage history since the creation of my AppleID?

(random thought: I should read T&C and privacy policy to learn who actually owns the right to my own messages)

Alternatively - is there a service that would retrieve all the history without any involvement from Apple?

Caveats:

I've been changing devices so not sure if that would work: How can I locate an iMessage from 1-2 months ago? Possible?
I'd would the material to be admissible in the court


texts: Problems with iOS reminder notifications behaving inconsistently

texts:
I have a new iPhone 7 and reminders are not acting consistently. Sometimes when a reminder is marked as done it won't be removed from the notifications (remains on lock screen and badge remains on).

Also, as of this morning there are 2 reminders that were set to go off at 7am this morning and didn't, and there are no notifications listed for the reminders. The badges for those reminders do show, and the app does show that there are 2 pending reminders.

The proximity functionality has also seemed to have stopped working for reminders.

The phone is 3-week-old, and the removal of completed reminders from the lock screen was a problem on the old iPhone 6 as well.

Any suggestions for how to remedy this would be greatly appreciated. Alternatively suggestions for a reminder app that is more reliable are also welcome.


texts: Problem with 1 Mac (out of 4 different Macs) having issue connecting to Airplay

texts:
In our office we have an AppleTV 4th gen, 32gb, hardwired to our switch which in turn is hardwired to our router.

For Wi-Fi we have a Ubiquiti access point hard wired to the same switch as the AppleTV.

For 3 users running a mixture of Yosemite and Sierra connecting, disconnecting,  etc. from the AppleTV when their computer is connected to Wi-Fi works fine.

One user always has issues where they can connect. The icon in the top bar goes blue, and the AppleTV either stays on the home screen or goes black, but their screen is not mirrored. Sometimes it connects fine, but sometimes it doesn't.

Info on the Mac in questions :

Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13" (non 4k, one of the last ones with user upgradable RAM)
i7, 16GB RAM
Was running Yosemite, so I upgraded them to Sierra, but the problem still persists.
The Mac itself doesn't seem to have any other Wi-Fi related issues. In fact, often when the issue occurs the Mac is connected to Wi-Fi, running Google Drive,  Dropbox, etc. absolutely fine.

The Wi-Fi AP is a Ubiquiti UAP AC PRO c. 450mbps 2.4ghz throughput, c. 1300mbps 5ghz throughput.

At all times the laptop is <6m away from the AP. All other devices that work fine on the Apple TV connect to the same access point and have no issues. At most there are <10 concurrent devices (inc. phones and tablets) connected at any one time, but usually one or a few devices are active (eg. currently connected and being actively used for browsing etc.).

Any ideas ?


texts: Blank dock, command+tab menu icon for application - RubyMine 7.0

texts:
I'm having a problem with the application icon for Jetbrains' RubyMine 7.0 not showing up in the dock.

This used to work just fine before I cloned/renamed the user accounts on my Mac, running Yosemite.

One of my user accounts is able to see the icon in the dock, the other is not.  I believe the problem is with the account that was cloned from the original account.

Things I've tried:

Fixing permissions through diskutility
Uninstalling application, deleting all ~/Library files for the app and reinstalling.
`chown -R  ~/ (to ensure proper file ownership after account clone/rename)

Help is appreciated.

EDIT: Just to add a few other things:

Sometimes, for seemingly no reason, the application icon will reappear in the dock.  As strange as it sounds, there is no obvious action that causes it to come back.  It will certainly disappear shortly after.
The icon is also missing from application dialogs and from the command+tab switching menu.


texts: How do I move application windows between desktops?

texts:
If I have an application open in desktop 1, what's the simplest way to move it over to desktop 2? In snow leopard I could do this by dragging the window to the edge of the screen. After leaving it there for a second or so it would move to an adjacent desktop. This doesn't seem to work in Lion.

Does anyone know how to move windows between desktops in Lion?


texts: I have lost the prompt on Terminal on my Mac; unable to get commands to work

texts:
I was trying to launch a few Java applications using the terminal. The command that I was instructed to launch it with (I was following a guide) was the following:

#!/bin/bash
cd "$( dirname "$0" )"
java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar

It worked the first time, which was a test run, so I hide the terminal window to work on some other things. But when I opened the terminal window back up again, I noticed that I had lost my root@pcname:~$ prompt that usually starts with my terminal opening up.

I have tried to kill anything running in the background but nothing seems to work. When I enter a command it just moves me to the next line without executing anything. Please help and answer in simple terms, as I am not incredibly Terminal-savvy. Thanks!


texts: Ugly graphical glitches in High Sierra 10.13.2

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recently I noticed that MacOS has become pretty unstable, in particular there is a new bug that is annoying me a lot.
Since the computer has been started, it starts to collect some glitches on the screen, some of them blink and is very annoying, the situation get worse until the computer block it self or the OS crashes, this happens after two days usually.
I was used to let my Mac powered on for weeks and now I have to restart it also three or four times in a week...
I noticed also that sometimes the OS crashes due to video player in Safari, it happened some times that I was watching a video on the internet and suddenly the OS crashed causing reboot.
I'll attach a picture of my screen to this message.
These problems occur on my iMac (21.5" min 2011 with High Sierra 10.13.2) but I saw some other graphical problem during login on another my Mac (MacBook Pro 13" mid 2015 same OS version).
There is a solution? Can I solve this problem without a clean installation of the OS?
Thanks very much and have a nice day!


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I have an iPhone 6s with iOS 10.  In the Photos app, there are Albums and each Album has a cover photo.

How can I change the cover photo of an Album?


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The charger that came with my iPad Air the square adapter that plugs into the socket stays warm even when nothing is connected other than that it works perfectly fine.

I was wondering if this phenomena is normal or is not good worse yet. My biggest fear is it a fire hazard?

While my iPad is connected the charger stays the same warm temperature. It doesn't get hot per se, or else I haven't noticed get too too hot but it stays warm whether I'm charging my iPad or not.

So what's up? Is this normal? Should I be concerned? Is is safe to leave the iPad charger plugged into the socket all the time?


texts: MacBook Pro will not boot - shows "low battery, charging" screen

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I have a 15" MacBook Pro (2015 Retina). On Friday I closed the lid, disconnected from power and put it away. Today, I tried turning it on but I got the low battery screen.
Little surprising but I've had it happen before that it would go in sleep mode (instead of hibernation like it's supposed to) when I close the lid and then empty the battery in my bag, so I thought nothing of it and plugged it in.
The screen changed from the "low battery, plug in" icon to "low battery, charging" icon. Usually this would let me boot within a couple of minutes, but this time it's now been hours on charge and still won't turn on.
I have tried ^ Control⌥ Option⇧ Shift⦿ Power to reset the SMC, no effect. The LED on my original Apple adapter stopped working a week ago or so, but it was charging fine so don't think that's related.
Why would the MacBook recognize that it's plugged in and charging, but still refuse to turn on because of low battery? Is there any way to fix this without taking it for servicing (almost impossible in the middle of lock down)?


texts: Calendar alert sound on the iPodTouch isn't loud enough is there some "mobile" way to make it louder?


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I've suddenly lost all my Gmail notes on my iMac Pro. By lost, I mean I open the Apple notes app and see no items.

I lost them on my iPhone last week and was unable to find a good documented process to follow to fix - so the notes do not sync with my iPhone today.
I could still see them on my iMac Pro.

I decided to go and forward them to iCloud Note so I would never lose them again, [Here is the process I used to “forward them - please describe what you did or better - link to an online article explaining what process you followed]

Usually, they are in my email files (mail.app? A screenshot might help us help you here) and also show in the notes app.

How do I retrieve my critical Gmail notes?


texts: Finder Problem - USB drive opening in separate window for every folder

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Whenever I connect my USB drive or insert a disc and view the contents every folder is opened in a separate window, how do I prevent this?

'Open folders in tabs instead of new windows'  in the Finder Preferences is ticked.

Im using a MacBook Pro Yosemite 10.10.1, I also experience the same issues when using my works iMac.

I should mention that the USB drive was formatted on my former computer which was Windows 7 and also the CDs that I have inserted have also been created on Windows.

Could this be the issue?

Best regards

Elbow


texts: I installed the iTunes U app on my iPad and subscribed to a couple of courses. Now my iPad is in repair and I wonder if I can see the courses somewhere in iTunes? When I click on iTunes U I can just see the video collections, but not the courses.


texts: MacBook Pro Mouse and Keyboard freeze after opening the Lid

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So recently my MacBook Pro 2018 Touchbar (4 USB-C and Intel I5 Quadcore) has been having a really weird problem after waking up from Sleep. Every time I open the Lid and log in, the screen wakes up like normal and sometimes I can see new notifications from Firefox.
However, my Mouse and Keyboard stay completely unresponsive.
I see the mouse cursor, but it just won't move. CTRL + Arrow key also won't change screens. It's exactly as in this post here from 7 years ago and sadly no fix.

It occurs from only for a few seconds to up to 30 seconds sometimes.
It also happens always for at least a few seconds, no matter where I
am or what state I closed the lid in.

What could remove or resolve these post sleep freezes?