texts: iTunes is splitting one podcast into multiple podcasts. How do I fix it?

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I did not have this problem, until today. A new episode of Cult of Mac came out (#39). It was put into a different podcast folder, even though the episodes before it, have the same metadata. I tried many things; Editing the sorting fields, deleting and re-adding, downloading the #39 again, but none of the methods worked.
How do I non-destructively combine the three folders into one?
(On the disk, the podcasts are in the same folder)
If it matters, I use the Podcasts app on my iPod touch.


texts: Time Machine Could not complete the backup

texts:
I am getting this error:

  The backup disk image "Volumes/Data-1/studio@iphotographic.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error (null)).<


texts: How do I perform a right-click-drag with the trackpad on Windows 7 under Bootcamp?

texts:
I tried two-finger-click and drag. Nope, doesn't work.

I tried clicking in the bottom right corner with one finger, but can't seem to drag.

I'm on a early 2011 Macbook Pro running Bootcamp 4 and OS X Lion.


texts: How to raise the brightness on a computer using terminal

texts: How would I raise the brightness on my computer using terminal? Ideally, it would be done without executing an apple script or downloading external software, but whatever works. Thanks!


texts:
Had this issue for a few years now, but finally fed up with it.
I was changing the ram on my mid-2012 13" MBP but forgot to unplug the battery, then my headphone jack glowed red and stopped functioning with normal headphones. Figured something fried the logic board or turned on optical audio but speaker sound is still functional and all remedies that I have found for turning off optical don't work. At the time I was on el capitan, now I am solely using lubuntu 18.04.
Any help would be appreciated!


texts: Remove entire time machine backup on external drive

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I recently acquired a macbook pro with Leopard installed. All other software had been removed before I purchased it. I wanted to install Snow Leopard. The advice I received was to be safe I should backup up the current system before installing. I did so and then installed snow leopard.

I am now going to migrate files from an older powermac G5 and any software that might be usable on Mavericks. The Time Machine back up is no longer needed. I would like to get rid of the entire backup on the external drive and start over.

Would simply reformatting the external drive partition solve the problem or is something else necessary.


texts: Windows Bootcamp stuck in infinite boot loop

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I have a Mac Mini which I bought a few months ago onto which I installed Windows 10 Pro as a bootcamp partition. Everything was fine until the windows update assistant started to update it the other day. It now boots straight to the windows logo then flickers and says something like 'attempting to restore previous version of windows' for a split second and then says 'restoring previous version of windows' for another split second. Then it just loops constantly like this.

I have tried using the USB key I used to install it and going into the recovery options. It won't let me roll back the version and none of the recovery options work basically. It just reverts back to the above loop.

I have the partition backed up as an image so can restore but would prefer to avoid doing this and just fix it somehow.

It boots into the Mac OS absolutely fine. It's just the windows installation that is currently inaccessible.

Any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions. I still can't get it fixed. Here is a screenshot of diskutil list. There is nothing to boot windows   Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks.


texts: Zsh moves texts when the prompt is too long

texts:
Steps to reproduce:

Resize the terminal to width 80 or less, making it easier for prompt
to wrap.
Temporarily rename /etc/zshrc in case it affects outcome. (Remember
to change it back afterwards!)
Create a really deep folder, like

mkdir -p /tmp/very-deep/directory/very-deep/directory/very-deep/directory/very-deep/directory/very-deep/directory

Run a clean Zsh with

/usr/bin/env -i ZDOTDIR=/tmp TERM=xterm-256color /bin/zsh

Set prompt with PROMPT='%~ '.
Change directory to that folder. The prompt should wrap.
Try auto-complete. For example, type dir then hit Tab key.

On my machine, after the last step the dir was moved one character left. There was a space between prompt and command before I trigger the completion, which was eliminated by dir moving left. In other words, before I hit Tab the line ends with directory dir, but completion makes it directorydir. This behavior was similar to Bash not properly wrapping ANSI escape code with \[ and \], except that in this case there should be no ANSI escape code in prompt.

I tried eliminating all possible variables, including environment variable, configuration files, terminal emulator. What else can possibly go wrong?

In case it matters, I’m using Catalina.


texts: Low Battery Notification for All Devices

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Is it possible to get "low battery" notifications for all the devices that are connected to my iPhone? I have AirPods and Apple Watch connected to it.

I know I can see the battery levels in the "Battery widget", but I like to receive notifications for them.


texts: How can I keep my iPhone headset untangled?

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When I pack away my headset, I loosely loop the cable  around my fingers and then stuff the headset in my jacket pocket. When I retrieve the headset later, it has inevitably turned into a little bird's nest and I need to spend a little while to untangle it. That is annoying.

The cable of my iPhone headsets (both the included standard set, and the in-ear variety) are somehow more "rubbery" than the old walkman cables so they tend to straighten themselves out, which helps to keep them untangled. But it's not working for me, the bird's-nest problem remains.

Is there a special trick, or method, to easily and quickly pack the headset away in such a way that it comes out untangled?


texts: Difficulties with 4k60 support on my Late 2013 27" iMac

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I have a late 2013, 27" iMac with a GeForce GTX 780M graphics card, which I'm trying to get to connect to two 4k displays (Asus MG28U) at 60Hz. When I connect them, I am limited to 30Hz (but importantly, the 3820x2160 resolution does work):

I also have an early 2015 MacBook Pro, which supports these displays at 4k60. This confirms that the cables I'm using (Mini DisplayPort to Display port) are not the limiting factor). Interestingly, the preference pane looks different on my MacBook Pro, offering a bunch of scaling options, with no mention of refresh rate (although I can visually confirm it's 60 Hz):

I am trying to figure out why these two computers treat these monitors differently, and show different settings for them.

There is conflicting information about 4k support on this Mac. According to Apple's official technical specifications for this (iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) - Technical Specifications), its limited to only 2560x1600:

  Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display
  and up to a 30-inch display (2560 by 1600 pixels) on an external
  display

This is clearly (no longer) correct, given then my iMac is running two of these displays at 3840 x 2160 at 30hz.

Apple's page on Mac 4k support (Using 4K displays, 5K displays, and Ultra HD TVs with your Mac) contradicts this, claiming that 4K60 is supported for SST displays (emphasis mine):

  With OS X Yosemite v10.10.3 and later, most SST 4K (3840 x 2160)
  displays are supported at 60Hz on these Mac computers:

  MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) and later
  MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) and later
  Mac Pro (Late 2013)
  iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) and later
  MacBook Air (Early 2015)

...

  Multi-stream transport (MST) displays

  These Mac computers support MST displays at 60Hz:

  MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) and later
  MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) and later
  Mac Pro (Late 2013)
  iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) and later

Assuming this information is correct (I'm skeptical given the contradictions) this iMac can support 4k60Hz for SST displays, but not MST displays. In that case, I suspect that these Asus MG28U displays use MST, but I cannot find any information regarding whether they're SST or MST.

Has anyone gotten 4k60 to work with a late 2013, 27" iMac? Is there some setting or something that I am missing? Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Why does iPhone navigation bar disappear when browsing certain sites?

texts: When I click on the Facebook bookmark I saved to my home screen, m.facebook.com appears in Safari but the navigation bar at the bottom and the URL bar at the disappear.  At first I thought I was launching the Facebook app by mistake but I verified that's not the case.  Any idea why this happens?


texts: How do I do a clean install of Mountain Lion with no disc?

texts: I purchased an iMac in late 2013. This model has no disc drive. It came with Mountain Lion pre-installed. If I ever needed to perform a clean install of Mountain Lion, how can I? I don't have an installer file and no disc came with the computer. What's the official way to deal with the fact that I essentially don't own a copy of the OS my computer came with?


texts: GRUB overwritten Refind/Mac bootloader - Unable to boot

texts:
Getting desperate here, need some help

background:
I have a late 2012 imac, running OS X 10.10
Also i had Xubuntu & OpenSuse running as secondary OSs

I was using refind & everything was rosy.
Recently i updated opensuse 13.1 to 13.2 through a live USB.
This basically zapped my refind & goes directly to GRUB2 bootloader.

Now GRUB shows me options (and advanced options) for Xubuntu & opensuse 13.1 only
Though 13.2 was installed as an upgrade, it doesn't show up.
13.1 doesn't boot either even after choosing it in GRUB.
Xubuntu loads without problems.

Now the issues am having:

The Magic keyboard doesn't seem to be 'active' during the boot process, so pressing the 'option' key does not do anything.
I also think that GRUB is not recognising any other bootable USBs either.

How do i go about restoring OS X or refind?
Refind website says it's recommended to install refind via OSX if running on a mac as installing via Linux will corrupt the partitions...further

is there any alternate to pressing 'option' during boot?
(i have a normal USB keyboard connected)


texts: MacBook Air frequent shutdown with shutdown with shutdown cause -128

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I have an early 2015 13inch MacBook Air.

Initially, One day after putting my computer to sleep, the display didn't turn on and there was no sign of computer working. Pressing power button also didn't work but it was charging when I attached the magsafe connector.

So I left it alone for a few hours and started it again, it turned on.

After this incident Im having frequent shutdowns with the shutdown cause -128. Sometimes while working on it and sometimes while waking up from sleep.

I have reset the SMC, ran Apple Hardware check, EtreCheck app. No issues found.

How can I troubleshoot this?


texts: Activity Monitor not showing correct memory usage?

texts:
I have a strange memory issue: I've been running out of free memory for months now, which I thought was OK, since I use the Creative Suite apps and Xcode regularly, all of them is quite memory intensive.

But somehow the situation seems to be getting worse. Today I logged off to free up some RAM, then when logged back in, all the 4 GB of my RAM was used. (I've uploaded the list to here)

I exported the processes, and added the memory usage, but they add up to 684 MB only.
("All Processes" is selected in Activity Monitor)

How could I check which process is using up the memory in the system?


texts: Connect to Ubuntu machine on local network using Screen Sharing, screen doesn't update

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I'm trying to connect to my Ubuntu desktop from my Mac laptop (10.6.6). The linux machine shows up fine in my network list, and when I connect to it, Screen Sharing prompts me for a password (which is how I have the Ubuntu machine configured).

I finish connected and I'm presented with a view of the desktop in Ubuntu. From the laptop it appears I can't select or do anything. As it turns out, the mouse interaction is working. Its just that the the view itself is frozen. I verified this by having the machines side-by-side. The mouse events are being and as a result I can't manipulate the contents of the Ubuntu screen; its just that the screen updates either aren't being sent back to the laptop or they are but Screen Sharing isn't updating.

Anyone else run into issues connecting to Ubuntu machines from Screen Sharing? It seems like I have it 99% the way there, just needing to resolve the refresh issue.


texts: MBP 2012 retina, OSX 10.13.6 - Hardware Self Check not accessible

texts:
I have noted my MBP (Mac Book Pro) running OSX 10.13.6 seems to have slowed a lot over the last several months.
Holding down the D key as it starts up, one can access the self check hardware test.  There is also an option to hold Opt D to access self check the laptop via an internet connection.
I only get the internet option with just the D key?
If I try the internet option, having no choice, and put in password for my internet connection, I get a error message saying it can not access efi something (should have written what appeared on the screen down), then it froze.
I have previously been able to run the hardware self check on this MBP.
There seems no way for me to access this hardware test function.
Is this normal or unusual?  Any work arounds?


texts: As I understand it, iCloud Photo Library works by uploading the full res photo to the cloud and keeps a smaller thumbnail lower res photo on the device. That being the case, how does google photos backup and sync work on iOS devices? How does it upload a photo I took last year when the photo on my iOS device is nothing more than a thumbnail low res photo?


texts: How to fix 15-inch mid-2015 MacBook Pro overheating issue after Catalina upgrade?

texts:
I upgraded my 15-inch Mid-2015 MacBook Pro to Catalina yesterday and, ever since, my fans won’t stop running.
Nothing abnormal in Activity Monitor and just opened it up and confirm it isn’t a dust issue.
I didn’t notice this before upgrading... Is there anything I can do?


texts: how to install hypre using terminal on OS X 10.9.1

texts:
I want to install the lastest version of Hypre. It must be safe So using terminal is the safest way. I have brew.

My question is : How can I do this using the terminal ?


texts: How do I clear the purgeable area on my disk?

texts:
I cleared space on my disk by deleting files and emptying trash. But, I am unable to make use of the space that I freed up. That is, as you can see the disk reports 142 GB as Available with 83 GB of that as purgeable.

So I should have plenty of space to to copy over a 70 GB file onto the disk. Yet when I try I get an error stating "Not enough disk space to copy", like the following image shows:

How do I clear out the purgeable space to make it truly available for use?

I've tried rebooting in the hopes that a restart clears out the purgeable area, but had no change trying that.


texts: Local User LaunchAgent via SSH: Operation not permitted

texts:
I have a launch agent on a remote machine which runs Yosemite. The LaunchAgent is saved to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and I am the owner:

$ ls -l ~/Library/LaunchAgents
-rw-r--r--@ 1 me  staff  803 Jan 13 15:13 org.my.custom.plist
$ ls -l@ ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.my.custom.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 me  staff  803 Jan 13 15:13 /Users/me/Library/LaunchAgents/org.my.custom.plist
    com.apple.TextEncoding   15

When logging in via SSH (as that particular user), attempting to load the file produces the following exchange:

$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.my.custom.plist
/Users/me/Library/LaunchAgents/org.my.custom.plist: Operation not permitted

Why is the operation not permitted when I'm the owner? It works fine under Sierra.


texts: Why can't i remove the 'All HD' menu item after jailbreaking my 1st Gen Apple TV?

texts: I used ATV USB Creator to jailbreak my 1st gen ATV. I was able to remove all menus that I wanted by deleting the entries from the info.plist files. All, that is, except the 'All HD' item under TV shows. Why can't I delete it? It did not have an entry in the plist like all the others.


texts: Add/Delete/Modify files within a Disk Image (.dmg)?

texts:
I know this may stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of the way disk images are intended to work, but even when full permissions are granted on a .dmg file, I am unable to add or remove files on the mounted disk image. Is there any way (natively or via a 3rd-party tool) to do this?

I know that when a disk image is mounted, a checksum verification is done, so I'm guessing that because modifying the image at all would destroy the checksum, this is inherently not allowed, but I'm wondering if there's a utility that could re-image the disk with a subset of its contents, perhaps recalculating the checksum in the process.

NOTE: Copying all the contents over, deleting, and then re-imaging is not a plausible option, due to the size of the image and the fact that it already fills most of the available space of the external drive on which it resides.


texts:
Is it possible to mount the core filesystem used on the iPad on to my linux box? There is an application named DiskAid which does this for Windows and Mac, so it is accessible, just a matter of how.

I'm looking for the same sort of functionality as iFile (on jailbroken devices).


texts: Boot from CD, make backup, reinstall snow leopard. Good idea?

texts:
My iMac has some problems, and to repair it I thought I'd do as it says in the title. Currently, I'm running (a broken) Snow Leopard, and ideally I'd make a backup (with Time Machine) before I erase the disk and reinstall Snow Leopard.

Is this possible? What happens when I boot from a CD? Do I just reach my desktop? If not, would I be able to make a backup (obviously without later restoring it, just some files one by one) from there?
Can I do this with the CD with Snow Leopard coming in a Mac Box Set? (I couldn't find the apple store page for the Mac Box Set anymore, just the system requirements.)
I never did something like this before. All thoughts welcome.


texts: How is the tab chosen when opening a link from an external location?

texts:
I have Safari open with 111 tabs open.
I clicked on a URL that a friend sent me on Skype.
Safari opened the link in a random tab that wasn't selected, and was neither the first or the last one on the left or right.
The URL that I clicked replaced this tab's content, it was not a new tab.

How was this random tab selected out of the 111 tabs, to be the recipient of the URL I clicked?


texts:
I recently changed my Apple ID from an old email address to my current one. I updated the Apple ID in iTunes and then synced my phone with iTunes. Now, however, when I try to download new apps (or update existing ones), I get the standard notification asking for my Apple ID Password, however the Apple ID that is displays is my old Apple ID. When I enter in my password, it tells me that "Your iTunes Store password was incorrect. Please Try again".

I believe the problem is that for some reason iTunes is not pushing my new Apple ID to the device. Anyone know how to rectify this problem?


texts: Stop iTerm2 from using disk (disk cannot be ejected)

texts:
How can stop iTerm2 from using the mounted disk I cd'd into? Sometimes, even when i cd out, it's still blocking the disk. I have to ⌘-Q the entire program which is very irritating. It's just idling anyway, there is no point in blocking the disk. So how can I disable it? I'm surprised I couldn't find any Google results either.

Force unmounting the disk does the trick for the time being: diskutil unmount force /Volumes/MyVolume, however, I'm looking for a cleaner solution.


texts: Change the default Dock stack content display style

texts:
I love the Dock stacks. But I always use the list view option. I don't really fancy the default "Automatic" option. Do you know if it is possible (maybe using the defaults command?) to set the default way to display the content of a Dock stack?

Thanks in advance for your help! :-)


texts: Xcode completion menu not completing on enter, I have to use mouse/touchpad cursor and click there...

texts: Xcode completion menu not completing on enter, I have to use mouse/touchpad cursor and click there, so its quite annoying. How can I just autocomplete by keyboard ? Is this some miss-configuration of keybindings ? I never used Xcode editor so I am not sure if this is not standard behavior... Coming from App-code so I am used to do everything by keyboard but most of keybindings I had to re-configure...


texts: MacBook Pro - FaceTime HD Camera - Hardware "Failure'?

texts:
System Report>Camera>No video capture devices were found

  USB>Device Tree> No FaceTime HD Camera (inbuilt)listed

What can be the cause for "camera hardware failure"? Could faulty iSight cam wifi antenna cable linkage between logic board and camera board (in display)result in Camera hardware not "found"?


texts: What setting causes OS X to let you resize windows behind the dock?

texts:
I've set up my fair share of Macs over the years, but I've never been able to pinpoint what setting tells OS X that you're ok with being able to drag-resize a window vertically so that it goes behind the dock (assuming the dock is in its default position at the bottom of the screen), as opposed to only being able to resize it vertically so that it is touching the top of the dock's "space".

My work computer is a 21" iMac Core 2 Duo and it drives me crazy because I'll quickly drag-resize a window larger by pulling down and to the right but instead of staying locked vertically above the dock it'll slide behind it which I don't like so then I've gotta jiggle the window around to get it all back into visible space... my home computer (6 core tower) doesn't have this problem even though I've, from what I can tell, set it up nearly identically.

Both machines running the latest version of snow leopard.

Here's a video captured from my machine at home showing the window resize behaviour I prefer. If it helps at all I can do another one from my work machine tomorrow showing the windows resizing behind the dock.


texts: I deleted iMovie by accident, how can I get it back?

texts: I accidentally deleted iMove from my MacBook Air. How can I get it back?


texts: I need help getting the pf firewall to work

texts:
Okay, so I asked this question on security.stackexchange.com and superuser.com and no one on either of those forums answered.  Hopefully someone here will know the answer.

I am running Mac OS X.  I would like to be able to configure pf because it seems to be more sophisticated and flexible than the default Mac OS X firewall that you can access through the System Preferences.  I tried using some pf commands and got some errors that I don't understand.

bash-3.2$ sudo pfctl -s rules
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
scrub-anchor "com.apple/*" all fragment reassemble
anchor "com.apple/*" all
bash-3.2$ sudo pfctl -s states
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled

I looked up ALTQ on Wikipedia and it seems to be a queueing program that does statistical multiplexing of packets at the kernel level.  It is the kernel module that BSD systems use for queueing of packets.  And the Mac OS X kernel apparently doesn't support it.

Okay, so this doesn't really make sense.  Why would Mac OS X include the BSD pf firewall but not include support for the queueing software necessary to make that firewall work?  Isn't that kind of counter-productive?  There must be some way to turn support for ALTQ on, but I have no idea what it is.  I'm not even entirely sure what ALTQ is.  Is it a loadable kernel module that I have to load using the kextload command?  Or is the problem that it's already there but the kernel is just incompatible with it.  I am utterly confused.


texts: How do I reset the audio system when audio can't be heard anymore

texts: Playing music on YouTube in Chrome did not output any sound. Playing video files with Quicktime and VLC didn't work. I noticed this problem before and it fixed itself after a restart. But I wondered if I could reset a process to get audio back.


texts:
I have the problem of installing Windows via bootcamp onto an external Hard drive, I previously installed windows via bootcamp with no problems, Now when I try to do it via online guides to install windows via bootcamp onto my external USB 3 Hard drive, On the select language screen I don't get any function from the track pad or keyboard.

Ive tried to connect USB2 keyboards and mice and it still doesn't work.

If I am to install Windows onto the Hard drive via a Windows machine, and then install bootcamp drivers onto the Hard drive, Will I be able to boot onto the hard drive on my mac?


texts: Can I disable the MS Word import warning in Pages?

texts:
Every time I open a MS Word file in Pages, I get the little warning window that says the fonts aren't going to be perfect or whatever.

OK, Pages!  I get it.  You might not be perfect.

Is there any way to just get rid of this warning forever?  It's pretty annoying.


texts: Clean install of El Capitan on an older iMac?

texts: I have an old iMac (Mid-2007 Core 2 Duo, A1225) that our workgroup is retiring. My colleague wants to use it for her son. I migrated all data to a new iMac, wiped the drive, and initiated reinstall from the recovery partition. After AppleID verification the iMac states El Capitan is "temporarily unavailable".  Apple help states to use Cmd-R to avoid having my AppleID associated with the computer. I can't progress to installation point without an AppleID sign-in. Apple help states to use Internet Recovery instead. This model apparently doesn't support Internet Recovery. I can't get any further. I am at a total loss. I've tried resetting everything that can be reset, a different AppleID, finding another identical computer running El Capitan to sign into and download El Capitan installer to verify that the macOS version is associated with the purchase history of the AppleID in use... this is utterly ridiculous. I have an identical 2010 model iMac at home that MY son uses as a Minecraft box. I acquired it used, wiped the drive, and did an install from recovery partition. I cannot understand why it worked then, but fails now. What am  I missing - or has Apple made changes such that it is now impossible to actually install this OS even on hardware that supports nothing higher?


texts:
I have my 3rd gen Apple TV connected to an xfinity hotspot (that's the only wifi I have right now) and the remote app from my iPhone 6 Plus S isn't finding it on the air play menu? They are both connected to the same xfinity hotspot. I can mirror air play but my remote app just won't find my Apple TV. I tried three different apps too and none of them are working.
Some help would be best appreciated.
Thanks


texts: Set image from iTunes Extras's gallery as desktop picture

texts:
I just bought Mad Max: Fury Road from iTunes and wanted to set my desktop picture as one of the stills from the iTunes Extras's gallery.

How can I do that?


texts: Suddenly "Safari Starts With: A New Window" Setting Is Missing

texts:
I have a macbook pro 13" from 2015 running Mojave at the moment. Recently something odd happened and selection of how safari opens has two options."All windows, and all non-private windows". It used to have one more option called "A New Window" and now it is missing.
I would really love to get rid of anxiety I have each time I open my laptop in a cafe or something because of obvious reasons.

Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
~bio


texts:
In the most recent update to macOS Server 5.6, Apple had removed quite a number of services from the Server application in favor of built-in services in the system itself. However, now that the Website service's panel is removed, I can't find a way to turn on PHP for the Server.

I tried the default apache config in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, but that didn't work.

How do I do that?


texts: does anyone know how to login without credit card informations

texts: I have already made my Apple ID through Game center instead of doing it first on the App store. Now I want to download another app so I have to log in my apple ID to app store then when I have logged in something popped saying "This apple ID has not yet been used in the itunes store" then theres options Cancel or Review when i click the review one theres this terms and conditions then agree or back only. i chose agree then the credit card billing appear how can i login without entering credit card informations? And can i use the apple id i made at the game center? i think its just the same, isnt? Thanks!!


texts: iPod nano 7th generation does not pair with any Bluetooth device

texts:
My iPod nano 7th generation is giving a lot of trouble in pairing with other Bluetooth devices (headphones, car audio, speaker). I cannot even pair it with my iPhone. I turn on the Bluetooth option and just keep going and going looking for devices, I put them close together and nothing.

Any solution?


texts: Are there any SSD drives not from Apple for which you can enable TRIM without hacking OS X's kernel?

texts:
I would like to see if there is a way of getting TRIM support on SSD drives gotten from other manufacturers.

As far as I know, Apple does not produce SSD drives so if I get a similar drive not from them it should work? Or maybe they have custom firmware?


texts: Grapher is an application that is installed on macOS by default. Can I find its source code, or is it proprietary?


texts: TextEdit not responding after zooming in

texts:
Recently, i noticed TextEdit on macos bigsur(M1 chip) taking more than 3GB ram and is not responding after I try zooming in.
Even though my .txt wasn't very big(just 4KB, barely 50 lines of text). Anyone experiencing the same, please respond? Is that a bug ?
The ram consumption is increasing exponentially unless I force quit the app. Its working absolutely fine if I don't zoom into it.
Edit : It happens with any text file with TextEdit which is a bit large, e.g more than 50-60 lines. For .txt files with lesser content, its not happening.


texts: XQuartz crash and infinite loop on Mojave

texts:
XQuartz is crashing constantly and going in an infinite loop on macOS Mojave.

On doing a xinit in the terminal I get:

xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to Xserver : connection refused
xinit: server error

However, if I use it as root with sudo xinit it works.

How do I resolve this?


texts: Got errors when changing a readonly file (the CSS of pop-out dictionary) on OS X

texts:
When I tried to edit a CSS file to adjust the pop-out font through vim in terminal, I got
W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file. Thinking sudo could be used to tackle that, I went editing the file anyway.

body {font-size: 12pt;} → body {font-size: 14pt;}

But then I couldn't save the change.
I tried a command suggested online :w !sudo tee % and got

/bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

shell returned 2

How to improve that command?

/System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX/3300e8c78ceb9a7ceeb617334b1df9018e6b46b8.asset/AssetData/Oxford\ American\ Writer\'s\ Thesaurus.dictionary/Contents/Resources/DefaultStyle.css

macOS Sierra 10.12.6


texts: Disable notifications for a particular account on macOS mail app

texts: I have multiple internet accounts linked on macOS for calendar, mail, contacts etc. I wish to disable notifications for a particular account on the mail app. Is it possible to do so?


texts: Will Apple service secondhand iPad still under warranty?

texts: I bought an iPad on eBay a few weeks ago. It's still covered under the original Apple warranty. There's a clear problem with the battery. Will the Genius Bar staff look at and service this device if I'm not the original owner? Do I have to disclose that I'm not the original owner?


texts: Is there a way to share a file over AirDrop via Terminal on Mountain Lion? How so?


texts: Help creating zip files with 50 files in each

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I have a folder containing 7.000 images that needs to be zipped into zip files containing only 50 files each.

Any way of doing this automatically? Any script, Automator workflow, batch whatever would be helpful.

I am not very experienced in using either, so please be specific.

I am running OS X Yosemite.


texts: How to backup files from black screened iPhone

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I dropped my iPhone 6 today; even though there is no noticeable harm on the outside, my phone screen is completely broken. Actually, the phone does not even vibrate when I turn it on. The only reason why I know that it turns on (I think), is that my iTunes say "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone 'my iPhone' ... because the passcode is not entered." I have tried holding home + power button for zillion seconds, and it does not do anything for me. I think the display is really gone.

Although it stinks to have my phone broken, I am more concerned about the data I have inside. I have many text messages with my girl-friend and voice memos that I do not want to lose. I have a program that can obtain these data, but because I cannot unlock the phone with my screen completely gone (I think touch is not working either), I do not know what to do.

Could you please help me?


texts: How to upgrade iPhone 4 baseband *without* doing a Restore

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I recently unlocked my AT&T iPhone 4.  Before then, I was always preserving the baseband when doing jailbreaks.

So my question now is this:
How can I just upgrade the baseband to the one that ships with iOS 5.0.1 and still keep the untethered jailbreak?
Is there a command line tool to do only a baseband image upgrade?


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Cheers!

I have an iMac 27" mid 2010 with Intel i7 2.93Ghz and MacOS 10.9. For now it have 8GB stock 4x2GB RAM but I want install at least 16GB+ RAM.

All official documents and data-sheets (especially Intel's chipset data-sheet) tells me that I can't install more than 16GB RAM with 4x4GB plates. But experience of all other users tell me that I can successfully install up to 32GB RAM with help of 8GB plates. Who is right?

I want to install 2x8GB of this Kingston: KVR1333D3S9/8G with 2x2GB of stock memory and get 20GB in total (smth like this this).

So, will it fit and work?


texts: View files on PC from iphone backup without itunes?

texts: I need to view files from an old backup that i put a password on but cant for the life of remember the password. Is there anyway i can view these files on PC? I need text msgs and emails that where on the phone at time of backup.


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This was working earlier today, but suddenly didn't work when I tried to play music in iTunes.

I open iTunes, select a track, click play, the track doesn't play. The play button toggles between pause and play, but there is no sound and the position status bar does not move.

So I dropped a little lower level:

$ afplay audio.mp3
2011-12-13 12:28:51.446 afplay[30725:903] AQMEIO_Base::DoStartIO: error -536870184
2011-12-13 12:28:51.519 afplay[30725:903] AQMEDevice::StartIO: error -536870184
Error: AudioQueueStart failed (0xe00002d8)
[exited with 1]

Tried restarting the coreaudio daemon.

$ sudo kill -9 `ps ax|grep 'coreaudio[a-z]' |awk '{print $1}'`

Still nothing.

Failing applications:

Quick Look in Finder
Quick Time
Youtube content in Google Chrome

It would seem to be either some low-level issue, or hardware? Any way I can confirm?


texts: Connecting an external mic to MacBook Air (13", 2017), with MacOS 10.15.5 Catalina

texts: I am trying to connect my new RODE wireless mic to my Macbook Air. Tried headphone splitters, but the computer does not recognize an external mic. (does not switch from internal to external mic). These MacAirs have USB ports and headphone jacks. So should I try a USB splitter?


texts: Automate Duplicating and Renaming Images

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I've got an image and I need to duplicate it 800 times but add a new prefix every time I duplicate it. I've got the prefixes in a CSV file (or spreadsheet) and I'm wondering if there's a way that I can have Automator (or some other automation) program duplicate the image but rename the image with the different prefixes.

I'm aware of how to duplicate multiple images with the same prefix but is it possible to duplicate one image multiple times with different prefixes. Thanks for your help!


texts: High rate of ping timeouts & packet loss

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I've been experiencing a painfull low internet speed on my Air 11" Late 2010 with the Sierra 10.12.2. Neither my phone nor other user's computers on the network are experiencing this issue. Prior to this problem occurring, I used a non-official network cable adapter.

I've already tried to reboot in safe mode, recreate the wifi interface. For illustration, I got

PING google.com (172.217.29.46): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=17.265 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=26.402 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=9.201 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=18.831 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
Request timeout for icmp_seq 8
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=27.363 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=7.736 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 11
Request timeout for icmp_seq 12
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=13 ttl=56 time=21.891 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 14
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=15 ttl=56 time=10.362 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 time=14.790 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=17 ttl=56 time=21.166 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=11.302 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=19 ttl=56 time=16.252 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=20 ttl=56 time=6.880 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=13.668 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=22 ttl=56 time=9.033 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=23 ttl=56 time=25.206 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=24 ttl=56 time=10.746 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=25 ttl=56 time=11.445 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=26 ttl=56 time=7.018 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=27 ttl=56 time=15.381 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=28 ttl=56 time=6.940 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=29 ttl=56 time=9.572 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=30 ttl=56 time=13.075 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=31 ttl=56 time=10.607 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=32 ttl=56 time=18.697 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 33
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=34 ttl=56 time=16.847 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=35 ttl=56 time=16.268 ms
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=36 ttl=56 time=11.843 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 37
Request timeout for icmp_seq 38
Request timeout for icmp_seq 39
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=40 ttl=56 time=12.897 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 41
64 bytes from 172.217.29.46: icmp_seq=42 ttl=56 time=12.243 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 43
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
45 packets transmitted, 30 packets received, 33.3% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 6.880/14.364/27.363/5.655 ms

From Facebook:

PING facebook.com (157.240.12.35): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
64 bytes from 157.240.12.35: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=29.464 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.12.35: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=23.190 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.12.35: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=14.754 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.12.35: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=21.304 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.12.35: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=21.721 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.12.35: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=14.804 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 8
Request timeout for icmp_seq 9
Request timeout for icmp_seq 10
64 bytes from 157.240.12.35: icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 time=24.932 ms
^C
--- facebook.com ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 41.7% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.754/21.453/29.464/4.906 ms


texts: Is Mission Control an addition to Exposé & Spaces UI or a replacement?

texts:
Lion has Mission Control that combines features from both Exposé and Spaces. Do the old Exposé and Spaces UIs still exist in Lion or does Mission Control replace them?

I've heard mixed rumors about whether Spaces/Exposé exists or not; and all the YouTube et al. videos/reports concentrate on featuring the Mission Control but won't tell straight if it is an addition or a replacement.

I understand, though, there are spaces—called desktops—on the top of the Mission Control UI.
There definitely are spaces, but is there Spaces?


texts: Moving an application window to another desktop or screen using the keyboard?

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In Windows, when I press the windows key + any arrow button the current application window moves. For example: windows key + left arrow key: the application window moves to the left of the display.

I want to know if this feature is available in OSX. If yes, how do I use it? If it's not a native feature, is there is a free third party application that might enable this feature?


texts: Mail.app accidentally deleted (OS X 5.8)

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How do I restore Mail.app after it was accidentally deleted?

I have complete time machine backup of system, but can't find Mail.app in it.

I tried optional install from original disks, but Mail.app was not recognized on there -  possibly because it is out of date?

I also tried updating Mail.app on top of original Mail.app, but that failed with an error message something like:

  "Update couldn't recognize original app."


texts: What time is shown for received push notification?

texts: When a push notification is shown on the sleep screen, there is a time attached to it. What time is this? Is it when it was received on the phone?


texts: Windows installation through bootcamp and SSD error

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I have a Macbook Pro 2017, and I've been trying to install Windows 10 on it for quite a while through Bootcamp, but I was advised to purchase an SSD (Samsung T7 500 GB). However, that also did not solve my issue. Every time I try to install Windows, the first time the Mac boots from the external startup disk, I am faced with a BSOD error saying 'your computer ran into an error, please restart'. I have tried multiple Windows 10 ISO's 1909, 1809, 1607, and the current version 20H2 available on Microsoft (30th October 2020). I also reset PRAM before every installation.
To install Windows, I followed this 9to5Mac tutorial, as well as the accepted answer to this question.
Can someone PLEASE HELP ME :(((


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I have a Macbook Air set up for dual-boot (Lion & Windows 7) and am planning on buying a newer model. How would I go about cloning the entire hard drive to the new machine?

Do I need to separately clone the Mac & Windows halves? Or is there a tool to move the whole thing verbatim?


texts: How do to hibernate OS X in order to reboot to Windows 10

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I have Yosemite and Windows 10 installed on my Macbook Pro 2015.
On Windows 10 I can hibernate. Then press the power button and hold down ALT key to boot from OS X.
However, I can't do the same thing the other way around.
I have to shut down Yosemite or restart, in order for the ALT key to work for booting options.

I tried the pmset hibernationmode 25 thingy with 1 second of standbydelay - when I press the sleep button and after that the power button, holding down ALT key doesn't give OS boot option menu.

Is there a way to achieve with OS X what Windows does?

I am trying to find a working way to do that for a few days now, browsing a bunch of topics here on stackexchange and different articles over the internet - nothing seems to work.
I haven't tried third party paid applications though.
Tried DeepSleep application - it's hibernation feature also doesn't bring up the boot menu when holding down ALT either. I am not even sure if it even hibernates.


texts: Remove "RE: " from Mac OS Mail subject line

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I have this annoying problem where when somebody responds to my email their mailer application adds "Re: " in front of the subject line and Mail can not group the messages in that thread.

Is there a way to delete "Re:" from all subject lines? There is this thread from 2012 but I can't make that plugin work.


texts: Split screen divider stuck on Desktop, not actually dividing any windows, distracting - how to remove?

texts:
How can the split screen divider be removed, please?

When not using a Desktop workspace/area, I can see the vertical divider over the Desktop, but this isn't serving any purpose and is therefore distracting.

See screenshot:

MacBook Air 11" 2015, 1366 x 768 screen, 8Gb RAM, 2.2 Ghz i7, 500Gb SSD, macOS mojave 10.14.2

Additional screenshots:

Notifications pop-up goes over the split divider (Answering question in comments from @bmike )

On opening e.g. Chrome, this goes on top of the divider, but the divider can then be dragged over the window as shown.


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Is it possible to run a Java applet in any browser in MacOS 10.9.2? Chrome does not work with Java applets because it's a 32 bit app and the Java plugin is 64 bit only. Firefox and Safari both should be able to use Oracle's Java plugin, but it does not seem to work.

The official java.com download from Oracle is "Version 7 Update 55". It installs via a .pkg installer but the plugin still does not work in Safari or Firefox. I did verify that /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin exists, but it is not showing up in Safaris' list of plugins.

Oracle's installer adds a new "Java" system preference, with a security tab with a checkbox "Enable Java content in the browser". This is checked off. I check it on, click "Apply", and am prompted for my password. Then the dialog flashes and the box remains checked off. The plugin still does not work. I do note my console has a log line FAILURE: Job com.oracle.java.deployment.Helper is not loaded in launchd. There is an unresolved bug against OpenJDK for this problem that may be why it's not working. It is several months old.

Some searching frequently turns up advice to re-enable Java 6. I really do not want to do this, but I am interested to know if it works in Mavericks.


texts: Deauthorise Apple ID from the Mac App Store

texts: I have Xcode installed using an Apple ID that I want it to be detached from. How can I login to the Mac App store using a different Apple ID and then have Xcode reattached to the new account in order to be updated? Not too sure if Mac App store and iTunes are using the same Apple ID.


texts: How do I disable automatic app switching?

texts:
I recently encountered this scenario: I had Evernote open, and it was updating itself. When I clicked "Update and Relaunch", I immediately switched back to Ommwriter. What I didn't expect was that upon relaunching Evernote, Mac OS would automatically switch to Evernote's window. The microsecond distraction was quite irritating.

I remember this being a distinctive pet peeve of my time using Windows, and in the early days of Mac OS, this wasn't an issue at all. It cropped up in some version that I can't remember... Is there a way to disable this auto-context-switching behaviour?


texts: Find the target of an alias or link in Quicksilver

texts: Can I find the target of an alias or symbolic link using Quicksilver? I don't find a way to do so on this Quicksilver reference which is the best source I know of at this point.


texts: Add invitees to mac calendar without sending invitations

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I'd like do add people to events in my calendar only to have easy access to their contacts when browsing events from my phone.

Is there a way to add invitees to a calendar event without sending them invitations?


texts: I was updating to watchOS 4 beta 3 and its got stuck at this screen


texts: CalendarAgent (CoreData) creating hundreds of errors in the console

texts:
CalendarAgent is having some kind of issue and is creating hundreds (no exaggeration) of errors in the Console. I cannot find a way to resolve it.

Functionally, the Calendar app itself works fine so this is not urgent. I would just like to fix this issue with CalendarAgent because it is spamming the Console. I just "discovered" the Console recently and would like to learn to use it to troubleshoot issues, and this seems to be the biggest issue. However, I can't find any solution online.

Here is a sample of the error description from Console:

And this is what the error log looks like:

Things I've tried to fix the problem:

Update to the latest version of macOS (Currently on 10.12.4 (16E195))
Update Xcode to latest version.
Delete all internet accounts except my iCloud account, which I just disabled from syncing in calendar.
Delete the Calendar Cache, Calendar Cache-shm, Calendar Cache-wal, and all the calendar preferences I could find, according to these instructions.

After this, I opened Calendar back up but it still produced errors. I checked "enable this account" for just my iCloud thinking that because it's an apple product, it should work at the very minimum. Nope. More errors in the console. Keep in mind I have no events in any of my iCloud calendars. They are empty. But I get 50+ of these errors just by refreshing the calendar...


texts: How do I connect a late 2013 MBP Retina to two DVI monitors?

texts: I thought this Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter would allow me to connect two of these monitors to my Retina MBP.  Does "Dual-Link" mean that two monitors could be connected?  It had not occurred to me to question that before I bought the adapter.


texts: How to Convince IT to Let me Use MacBook at Work

texts:
My company (about 130 people) is almost exclusively a Windows shop.  There is a small number of designers who use Macs due to business need.  I asked my boss and the IT guy if I could use my MacBook instead of the Windows 7 laptop they gave me.

They're considering the request, but the vibe I got is that there has to be a really compelling reason to allow it (and "because I like Macs better" isn't good enough).   They cited "infrastructure concerns" and "business needs" as reasons why most people are on Windows.

I counter-cited efficiency, productivity, and a more secure OS.  I hate having to work on Windows - keyboard shortcuts are different, the mouse wheel scrolls the opposite way, and it just doesn't "feel" as solid as Mac OS.

Has anyone else run into this situation and managed to convince the "powers that be" to let them use a MacBook at work?


texts: I just got OS X Mavericks and the new notification bar (as seen in the right of this link) in the top right is bugging me. Is there a way to remove or move it, so the search bar is the first thing in the top right?


texts: I can´t receive an app transfer on iTunes Connect

texts:
I´m trying to receive an app transfer on my iTunes Connect account, but I can´t be able to do that, because the form to accept the transfer is throwing me this error:

  The phone number must be in a valid format. Preface the phone number
  with ‘+’ followed by the country code (for example, +44 844 209 0611)

It is impossible to continue and I don’t know how to get more help.


texts: Alfred command: switch finder directory in same window

texts:
I am an avid user of the launch application Alfred. I already have key bindings to open specific directories but when initiated, they always open the directory in a new finder window.
Im looking for a method to change the directory of the existing finder window rather than opening a new one. Im open to native or workflow-based solutions.

Any help or ideas are appreciated.


texts: Does Safari have the feature "Select an element in the page to inspect it" as Chrome does?

texts:
In Chrome, there is a very useful feature:

But I can't find it for Safari Browser. Is it possible to do that in Safari?

Thanks,


texts: In Disk Utility, what advantages do "read/write disk image"s have over "sparse bundle disk image"s?

texts:
If I want a read/write disk image, then aren't sparse bundle disk images always the way to go? They start at 0 kb in size, and grow to accommodate whatever you add to them, and if you delete stuff, they don't shrink automatically, but you can run a command to shrink them manually to regain space.

So what advantages does a writable .dmg have against a writable .sparsebundle or .sparseimage?


texts: Some man pages missing from apropos / whatis database

texts:
I used apropos and whatis to look for some command, but didn't find what I needed. But there is actually a command that does what I wanted (it's sharing). It does have a man page (/usr/share/man/man8/sharing.8), and the man sharing command displays it as expected.
However, this command and presumably many others don't appear in any of the 2 whatis databases that I seem to have. The files I have are /usr/share/man/whatis and /usr/local/share/man/whatis. The whatis and apropos commands seem to search both.
So I tried to refresh them by running sudo /usr/libexec/makewhatis. It did update the /usr/share/man/whatis file, but this particular man page (and others I guess) is still missing.
I tried this on 2 different machines. One running High Sierra, and the other running Mojave.
Why are some man pages not listed, and is there anything I can do to have a reliable whatis database?


texts: Upgrading late 2011 MacBook Pro to SSD drive

texts: My MacBook Pro currently has OS X Yosemite installed. I am upgrading the hard drive to an SSD. I understand you have to download the software to a bootable USB. Which software should I download, Yosemite or the original software that came with the MacBook?


texts:
Ever since updating to iPhoto '11 it has become incredibly slow to launch. Using it is acceptable performance wise, but launching is terribly slow. I just closed it and reopened it to get an accurate time, and it too 3 and a half minutes! BTW, it only does the bouncy thing for a minute, then it just sits there. At first I ended up launching it multiple times because I thought it wasn't opening.

It is a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro with 5 GB of RAM.

Everything else launches in an acceptable amount of time. Even iMovie is much faster. I have a fairly large library (75 GB), but it isn't any larger than it was before.

I've emptied the iPhoto Trash. Anything else I can do to speed it up, specifically launching?


texts: IPv6 dns resolution on macOS High Sierra

texts:
My ISP provides me only with an IPv4 address.

After setting up a connection to my university OpenVPN server, I get an IPv6 address.  With an example IPv6 address www6.fit.vutbr.cz

I can:

host www6.fit.vutbr.cz
ping6 www6.fit.vutbr.cz
traceroute6 www6.fit.vutbr.cz
open http://[2001:67c:1220:809::93e5:916] in a web browser (safari/firefox)

BUT, I cannot:

open www6.fit.vutbr.cz in a web browser

i.e. web browser does not resolve an ipv6 dns address.

If I add the following mapping to /etc/hosts

2001:67c:1220:809::93e5:916 www6.fit.vutbr.cz

the web browser finally works.

I think it has something to do with scutil --dns showing:

DNS configuration

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : lan
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.1.1
  nameserver[1] : 8.8.8.8
  nameserver[2] : 8.8.4.4
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00020002 (Reachable,Directly Reachable Address)

I believe, I should see Request AAAA records.
Why does host and traceroute6 and ping6 resolve the DNS, but the web browsers don't?  Any suggestions?
Thanks


texts: External Display not displaying full OSD function tech said solution is HDMI Adapter?

texts:
I would like to start off saying I have 0 tech knowledge and this staying at home period has forced me to learn alot!

So recently I bought a new 4k monitor to upgrade my work at home experience.  Previously, an employee at a store helped my set up my Macbook Air (13inch 2017) to an external display monitor via a cable that one end connects to thunderbolt and the other to DP.  Everything worked good.

Then I bought this new monitor that has more options such as blue screen filter, change contrast etc etc (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/lit_files/152620.pdf).  Following what I had done before I connected the two but discovered I am missing the full display option to change this blue light filter and others.  Google didn't give me an answer so I called the tech department of the store and they said this (https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/insignia-insignia-mini-displayport-to-hdmi-adapter-ns-pd94592-c-ns-pd94592-c/10294299) is the magic solution to everything?

Is this true?  I know next to nothing about DP and HDMI and my question is as I only have 1 thunderbold if I buy this adapter does it mean there is no need then for my current thunderbolt to DP cable?

If what the store employee said is true would someone be so kind to link/explain why this would solve my problem, and if not what is the solution to my problem.

Thank you and have a great day :)


texts: BigSur - Location of plist for Finder Sidebar

texts:
This seems to have been moved in bigsur. It used to be located in:
~/Library/Preferences/sidebarlists.plist
Im trying to back up my finder sidebar configuration. Copy and Pasting this plist file from Mac install to Mac install used to be the way.


texts: Is it possible to re-route a Firewire DV Input as a webcam to use it in Google+ Hangouts?

texts:
I'm trying to use a Firewire DV input in a Google+ Hangout in order to do Hangouts on Air. Currently, it appears that Hangouts does not support DV inputs, which makes things difficult (essentially, the DV input goes to a tape deck which is passing through final video from "upstream" in our studio).

Are there any good solutions out there that could perhaps "route through" the DV camera as a webcam so that it shows up in Hangouts? I'm aware there's bound to be some latency/quality issues (the former is less of a problem as we can work around it), but the solution we've already tried (I'll update if I get the name of the program) clipped our video badly. I've run across this program CamCamX which seems like it could do the job - does anyone have experience with it or other similar programs for Mac?


texts: What angle do I insert iPad SIM eject tool into new iPad to get the tray out?

texts:
I've found lots of videos on how to eject the SIM card holder from an iPad 2, but the location is different on the New iPad, and no matter whether to put the pin in parallel to the screen surface, or at the sort of angle shown on the card that holds the SIM eject tool, I just can't seem to make the the card holder actually eject!

I haven't yet been able to find any video demos online, yet, for the new iPad.

I'd appreciate any tips, to avoid my breaking it.


texts: I have 3 MacBooks and I made a Time Machine on one of them e.g macA and then restore it on the others macB and macC. Now I did some changes on macA (added files, deleted apps,...) and did a Time Machine backup again (incremental on the previous one). Is there a way to restore these changes on macB and macC without having to do a full Time Machine restore? Like I want the 3 Macs to be synchronised and similar to each other. Any advice?


texts: How can I launch a printer scanner from Spotlight?

texts:
I can go to the "Printers & Scanners" panel from Spotlight, but I cannot call the scanner directly. Is there any way to make Spotlight index a shortcut to the default printer's Scanner app?

It would save the 2 to 3 clicks it takes to click on the correct printer if needed, click on the "Scan" tab and finally on the "Open Scanner" button.

(It's rather counter-intuitive to have to go to a System Preferences panel to be able to scan a document)

[Edit: I mean this app:]


texts:
I recently purchased a used 2017 iMac 27". It has a 2TB HD and the guy who previously owned ran Windows on Bootcamp. I tried to use the Disk Utility app to merge the partitions but no luck. I keep getting an error message saying there is corruption. I would like to have all 2TB for my MacOS. Not being familiar with terminal, I don't want to erase anything important.

Thanks


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I recently got a Mac, and am transferring files from my old Windows laptop which had kept freezing with very high hard-drive activity, and may or may not be infected with malware. I'm wondering if there's a chance of my Mac being infected by malware from photos, documents, videos and music transferred from a Windows machine?

If so, which antivirus would you recommend me to get on my Mac? Are Sophos and Avira any good?


texts: iPad 2 Wifi + 3G With iOS 4.3.3 has no multitasking gestures?

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I recently bought an iPad 2 Wifi + 3G. It is not Jail broken and it is completely genuine. It has iOS 4.3.3 pre-installed. I have not updated my iOS yet as I have just bought it today.

I didn't find any option like "Enable Multitasking Gestures" under the General tab of Settings.

Has Apple disabled it in iOS 4.3 now? Or is something wrong with my iPad?

Thanks


texts: Why preview is showing a black box instead of an image?

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I just updated from El Capitan to macOS Sierra and I found a problem with preview.

When I open certain PDF with images in it, sometimes the image appears black and sometimes I see it. For example:

As you can see, the image is embedded in the PDF because you can see it in the thumbnail. Also, when I use the magnifier, I see the image.

I can reproduce this with other PDF.

I restarted my computer but it's still not working. I was told to repair the permissions under Disk Utility, but still not working. Do you have an idea to fix this?


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My wifi drops out multiple times per hour. It says it is connected but it goes to 1kb/s up and down and nothing works until I turn wifi off, then back on. Then it will work until it doesn't.

I want to log the speed and strength so I can diagnos and maybe use to convince my ISP that they have an issue (they provide the connection and the wireless router).

What app can log the speed and strength of a wifi connection? I googled but only found Windows bloatware type apps.


texts: How to prevent OSX from allocating as much virtual memory as there is space available on the hard drive?

texts: I recently had data loss because the hard drive was completely used up by virtual memory and some programs couldn’t handle zero free space on the hard drive. How can I prevent this from happening (besides always keeping a few GB as a buffer)?


texts: App Approved but IAP's Waiting for review, not getting reviewed

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We have had an App go through the approval cycle several times and while the status went into "Pending Developer Release", our IAP's never changed out of the "Waiting for Review" status.  We have tried resubmitting and also creating new product ID's and then resubmitting.

Both times yielded the same result.  Are we missing something or is there something we are missing?


texts: Is there a workaround to pay for several years (stock up) with in-app annual subscription?

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Usually subscription services let you stock up subscriptions ahead of time. You can buy 3 annual subscriptions at the same day and have 3 years of subscription.
App Store in-app annual subscription doesn't let you to buy ahead. If you pay for 1 year, you have to wait till the end of that year to pay for the 2nd year. You can't buy the second year at the same day you bought the 1st, nor can you buy a 2nd year if there are still 4 months of the first year.
Is there a workaround to bypass that limitation?
It says at subscriptions page that I can cancel at any time and continue to use my annual subscription until it expires. If I cancel and there are 4 months of subscription left, will I be able to re-purchase annual subscription right away? Will this new subscription start after the first one or will it overwrite the 4 months that I had left?


texts: Upgrade mac pro 4.1 to 5.1 does not work (it just reboot normally)

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In my quest to update my mac pro 2009 (4.1), I did encounter a roadblock, since the last OS that I can run on 4.1 is 10.11.

Now; I found a method to flash the machine so it becomes a 5.1; which allow me to install up to Mojave I believe. The problem is that after following the instructions, the machine won't update. This is what I did

mount the firmware update DMG and run the app, it create a ram disk on desktop
Once done, it ask me to shut down the computer and restart it.
I restart as per instructions; holding the button until the light flash and the machine beep, but it just boot in the current os, and no update is done

I did check the following

my 4.1 mac has the latest firmware available officially from Apple
I have the original GT120 that came with it, in the bottom slot (not the 16x, since that card is garbage); also the only other devices plugged in, beside the mouse and keyboard are 2 extra hard drives.

So far, after reading forums and tons of huge posts, I found no way to solve my problem. So I hope anyone here has experience with the procedure and can point me to the right solution. Once I get this done, my second step will be to go for High sierra or  Mojave, and then try to install windows via bootcamp, but one step at time.


texts: Big Sur introduced and 1Password supports Password Autofill extensions (Similar to iOS now on macOS). I can see the option when I search for it in System Preferences but it doesn't show up under Extensions when I click through. This is a managed computer and I have a feeling it's disabled. How do I query the policies to see if that's indeed the case?


texts: Save and upload PDF files with browser with iPad Pro

texts: I wonder if there is a simple way to download and save a pdf from a website and then upload the same file to another website through an HTML5 form.


texts: built-in isight camera on early 2008 macbook air 1,1

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Does the (camera + internal microphone) system use a single internal 2.0 USB interface that connects to logic board?

This seems to be the case according to Wikipedia, and ifixit, even though I cant get 100% sure. Also, is LVDS cable involved here?

Edit: looking at ifixit pictures, from step 19 it seems the internal microphone cable is connected to logic board, while all other input from display (ie. also the USB part from isight) goes through display data cable in step 23


texts: Is iWork for iOS a real office document editor?

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Can I use iWork on my iPhone and iPad as a complement to my employer issued Windows PC? I know that iWork boasts some Microsoft Office compatibility but how is it implemented? If office documents are imported and converted to a iWork format and then have to be exported to a Office format on save, isn't there a risk for dataloss?

Ideally iWork would edit actual office documents but I'm not sure if this is the case.


texts: How do I get the calculator button on a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard working?

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I'm on a MacBook Pro using Microsoft's Ergonomic Sculpt Desktop (i.e. keyboard, mouse, and number pad). The Number Pad looks like this and as you can see has a Calculator button. Unfortunately, on Macos, it seems that Calculator button does nothing. I would have expected it to ideally have opened the Calculator app, but it does nothing.

Incidentally, I happen to use a separate tool called "Better Touch Tool" (similar to Karabiner I think) to remap certain keystrokes, and I thought that perhaps I could use this tool to map whatever button press this Calculator button generates to a custom action that would open the Calculator app. However, BTT doesn't even detect a key press at all when I press the Calculator button. I don't see that Microsoft has made any drivers for Mac for this keyboard available so does that mean I'm stuck?

Does that mean this button is just totally unusable on Macs?


texts: sysmond using 100% CPU usage, but only while on the Memory tab

texts: I used to have no issues with this, but all of a sudden sysmond is using 100% CPU while I have Activity Monitor set to the Memory tab. sysmond runs normally while in any other tab (CPU, Energy, Disk, Network). The problem only occurs on the Memory tab. Turning down the update interval does nothing. I've already restarted and had no other apps open except AM but nothing changes. It still uses 100% while I'm on the memory page. I am using macOS 10.14.6, on a MacBook Pro.


texts: If someone blocks my number on their iPhone, can I still iMessage them through a linked email on my Messages app on macbook?

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So basically, my sister blocked me on her iPhone (iOS8) because she's being immature and I really need her to read my message. If I iMessage her through my Messages app, and start the conversation from one of my linked e-mails, will it go through to her? I just don't know if when someone blocks an iPhone number, it automatically blocks all linked accounts... I kind of feel like it's not that advanced.

If anyone knows, could you please let me know? Thanks!


texts: I bought an apple wireless Bluetooth keyboard on eBay and I can't change its name to mine. I'm using the latest Catalina. Actually I can change the name thru the Bluetooth panel but the name does not stay changed. Can anyone help?


texts: Using TextEdit is there a key board shortcut to move the current line up/down? (similar to how code editors like Sublime Text works)


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I have set my 27-inch iMac on a desk on a wobbly floor with a thick carpet. When people walk in the room, the desk tends to shake, and so does the iMac.

I worry that the joint between the iMac and its integrated stand might be damaged due to the vibration. Could this be a problem?


texts: OS X App store hangs when trying to open it

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This is in the preceding El Capitan Beta (15A278b). I found lots of references with google to hanging app stores but none of the fixes apply to me.

What happens is simple. I click on the App Store and the spinner spins indefinitely. I have tried:

Rebooting
Using the "debug" menu in app store, reset the app, clear cookies
Killing the softwareupdated process
Running softwareupdate -l, which says "no new software available"

All and in different order and combinations.

Any tips? Thanks!


texts: Should I care too much about battery cycles?

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I bought a MacBook Pro 13 inch 2017 two days ago and it’s been already 4 cycles

Is it something that I have to care about?


texts: Tools, languages, libraries and API's for development of a MacOS wide application

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Please just assume that the user has accepted whatever permission are required.

Is it possible to listen to window actions under MacOS? In Swift
preferably?

For instance, if a window moves, is resized, minimized and etc.

Preferably without polling and comparing states.
Is it possible in Swift language get info on windows, or manipulate windows of other applications? Or do you have to rely on using something like the dreadful AppleScript?
How well does Swift stand on its own when developing MacOS applications? What fallbacks are required?
Is LUA and hammerspoon perhaps better suited for this kind of task?
Is it possible to draw around windows to add buttons and what not under MacOS? Would this be possible in Swift, AppleScript or Objective C?


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I have a certain structure in my files (YYYY-MM-DD_name of file_MYINITIALS). I could rename existing files in batch but to do so I would have to know where they are, as they are in different folders this doesn't seem to be right solution for me.

Is there then way to add the above structure to each file I save? I.e. each time I create a new file a script or so would add YYYY-MM-DD_ before the file name and MYINITIALS right after/before I click "save".


texts: Facetime overloading my computer's scheduler

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Running Mac OSX High Sierra 10.13.6.
Many times when I'm on a facetime call, and when doing other video things, my whole computer gets hangy about 15 minutes in.  I'll throw in specs on my machine:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro9,2
Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:  2.9 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores:    2
L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory:   8 GB
Boot ROM Version: 230.0.0.0.0
SMC Version (system): 2.2f44
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:    Enabled
I'm trying to pinpoint what the holdup is, since in the past it was able to do facetime well.  Looked at it in Activity Monitor, but couldn't find any one culprit.  I copied the console logs from that hour, and I'll look through it for more info.  Just wanted to get the question started.


texts: Override the command+tab shortcut in macOS Catalina when using Chrome

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Most Chrome shortcuts I use, use the command key: command+T, command+W, etc. However, the shortcut for switching tabs is control+tab (and control+shift+tab). I'd like to have all Chrome shortcuts use command.
There are 2 issues:

How do I disable macOS's native behavior, which is to switch apps using command+tab (and command+shift+tab)?
How do I get chrome to switch tabs using command+tab (and command+shift+tab), instead of control?


texts: Windows on an iMac: unable to change keyboard layouts

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I dual boot Windows 7 and MacOS X on my iMac.

Recently I needed to type some text in a non-English keyboard layout in Windows. I installed the second keyboard layout the way I usually do, but when I pressed Alt-Shift to switch, nothing happened. After playing around with the settings a bit more, I was able to switch to the other keyboard layout, but not back to the regular American English layout. No language bar either.

alt+shift does not work, nor does Ctrl+shift, nor does specifying a separate key combination for each layout like Ctrl+0 | Ctrl+1 | Ctrl+shift+0

Interestingly, the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box dies with I select the United States (Apple) layout and click on Properties.

I am running W7 64-bit on an 20" early 2009 iMac. I have the version of the wired, USB Mac keyboard without the keypad and the middle group of keys. Bootcamp is up to date.

Update

I did a bit more troubleshooting and discovered that for some reason, ctfmon.exe, which I believe is the process that handles switching between keyboard layouts and displaying the language bar, isn't running. I also encountered several other posts on the Net with people complaining of similar issues when running Windows under Bootcamp, but unfortunately no solution.

Anyway, trying to run ctfmon.exe manually (from the start menu or Run dialog) or adding it to the Run section in the registry does not fix the isssue because ctfmon.exe simply refuses to run.


texts: Skipping battery level screen when powering on MacBook Pro with Touch ID button

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My MacBook Pro used to turn on automatically when I opened the lid. I didnt like that so I disabled that feature. Now I can manually turn on the macbook but it requires a couple button presses and a few tries. The intended method of turning it on now is via the touch id button. However when I press that it shows the battery level. I then have to press it again once or twice to get the machine to power on.

Is this the intended way to get the machine to power on with the touch id button, or is there some way I can skip the battery level screen to make the machine power up immediately? I tried log pressing the touch id button but that didnt seem to do it either.

Edit: I just did more testing. After I open the laptop, if I wait a few seconds (without pushing anything), the battery level appears by itself. If I wait for that to disappear, then push the touch id button, the laptop powers on. If however, I open the laptop and immediately press the touch id button (before the battery level has appeared), the battery level appears, but then nothing happens after the battery level disappears. I have to push the power button again after the battery level screen in order to power on the laptop.

Is there someway to skip that battery level screen so I can power on immediately?


texts: OSX Partition won't mount. Permissions seem wrong

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OS X was spinning and spinning when trying to shutdown so I held down the the ⌽ Power button to force shutdown.

Current Situation:

I cannot boot to OS X directly, I first have to boot to single user mode and manually mount the OS X partition (/sbin/mount -uw /) then reboot and it works.
Folder permissions on the Windows side are all screwy, even as admin can't save file to desktop etc.
I remote to desktop (XP) via Citrix and when I try to copy folder to OS X from the Citrix XP desktop (OS X drive appears in Windows) it will create the folder then say it cannot write to it. A check in OS X  shows the folder is created as read-only for everyone.

2(*) and 3 may be unrelated and require an alternate thread (happy to create such) but I have them here for completeness.

Possible Causes:

My computer was slow to sleep so I ran the following commands in Terminal based on an article about Mavericks issues and then I repaired permissions.

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.coreservices.appleevents ExitTimeOut -int 1

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.securityd ExitTimeOut -int 1

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder ExitTimeOut -int 1

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.diskarbitrationd ExitTimeOut -int 1

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication ExitTimeOut -int 1

Recent upgrade to Windows 8.1

What I have tried:

Disk Utility from OS X, recovery partition and TechTool edrive (10.9 compatible version). Results:

  Incorrect number of threads but cannot fix.

Repairing permissions just has a problem with one printer.
Techtool Pro (refuses to do a volume rebuild)
fsck

*) Sometimes I can get the OS X to mount in these programs and sometimes not.

Is there a permissions or partition table issue or something else? Does anyone know how to reverse the command line settings back to their original values?

My setup:
MacBook Pro 2011 17" (GPU fail seems imminent)
Bootcamp with OS X 10.9 and Win 8.1
MacDrive (on Windows side)
Parallels 8


texts: Tracks that should be played as an ordered group

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The "Overture/Prologue" and "The Launching" from the musical Titanic is six tracks totaling 16 minutes.  I want to make them available for inclusion in a Smart Playlist, but they need to be played as a group, and in order.

Similarly, the Canadian Brass "All You Need Is Love" has four "Intro to ..." tracks, about a minute in length, that should be played together with the song they introduce.

Is there any way in iTunes to mark multiple tracks which a Smart Playlist could pick as an ordered group?

Example:

Track   Name
  1     Song of Jasmine
  2     Intro to Kittens
  3     Song of Kittens
  4     Song of Humor
  5     Intro to Geology
  6     Song of Geology Part 1
  7     Song of Geology Part 2

Jasmine, Kittens, Humor, and Geology are not especially related and can be played separately and in any order, but it is not pleasing to hear just the Intro, or just one of the parts of Geology.

How do?


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I need to factory reset a MackBook Pro.
Every time I start it up it takes ages to load and then I see this:
Your computer is disabled. Try again in 60 minutes.

I tried to restart the Mac with CMD + R but it won't boot in repair mode.
Any alternative command?


texts: What should I expect about the battery for a new macbook pro

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I bought a new 2019 MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5. I feel like the battery is not as described.

I tried with open only one Youtube video on chrome, set the brightness to 75%，and the battery drained 30% in one hour. Usually, it only lasts for 5 hours if I keep browsing on chrome. I also checked the system report, the Full maximum charging capacity is now only 5020 out of 5088.

I only used this new laptop for 2 weeks.

How can I measure energy use to determine if this is normal for a new MacBook?


texts: PowerPoint presentations won't open on mac but I can see their preview on Finder. It says password-protected but it is NOT password-protected

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Below is the powerpoint presentation I am trying to view. I can see it through Finder, as you can see below, but when I try to open it on OpenOffice or LibreOffice I get the dialog below. Again this file is not password-protected in any way, it is just one of those powerpoint presentations that people send by email.

Any ideas?


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I opened up Dropbox and received this error:

I am on an Intel i5 MBP running 10.6.8. Dropbox is version 1.1.45.

Console log:

11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  [0x0-0x156156].com.getdropbox.dropbox[2434] 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  [0x0-0x156156].com.getdropbox.dropbox[2434] Traceback (most recent call last):
11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  [0x0-0x156156].com.getdropbox.dropbox[2434]   File "Resources/__boot__.py", line 103, in <module>
11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  [0x0-0x156156].com.getdropbox.dropbox[2434]   File "Resources/__boot__.py", line 101, in _argv_emulation
11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  [0x0-0x156156].com.getdropbox.dropbox[2434]   File "Resources/__boot__.py", line 7, in _get_argvemulator
11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  [0x0-0x156156].com.getdropbox.dropbox[2434] zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  Dropbox[2434]   Dropbox Error
11/1/11 9:54:56 AM  Dropbox[2434]   Dropbox Error An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script
ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
11/1/11 9:54:58 AM  com.apple.launchd.peruser.504[607]  ([0x0-0x156156].com.getdropbox.dropbox[2434]) Exited with exit code: 255


texts: Using DisplayPort hubs, splitting the massive meta-screen

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I've recently started a programming company with my girlfriend and we're doing a lot of pair programming. I'm looking into the various solutions for driving multiple external monitors from a MacBook Pro. It looks like the solutions are to either find a DisplayPort 2.0 monitor and daisy-chain them (too expensive / rare), use a USB video card (lol, lag), or use a DisplayPort hub.

The problem with DisplayPort hubs like this one are that they apparently show up to the computer as one big display, X times as wide as each of the individuals. My question to you, AskDifferenters, is if there is a way to make the system believe that they are individual monitors, either in hardware or in software.

Thanks!


texts: Can Quicktime Player (11.1) create a movie mixing still images and video?

texts: Can I create a movie that combines still (photo) images and video imagery (from iPhone) using Quicktime Player (I am running 11.1)


texts: How to maintain a Mac protected on the Internet when any sharing is on?

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Mac with Internet door closed
When a Mac is connected to the Internet
but no sharing is activated it is correctly protected on the Internet side.
A protection situation one can check with a tool like nmap:
#   far-away-Mac:/Users/bob        % nmap -Pn my-home-Mac
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-08-19 19:18 CEST
Nmap scan report for my-home-Mac (12.23.34.45)
Host is up (0.0051s latency).
All 1000 scanned ports on my-home-Mac (12.23.34.45) are closed (500) or filtered (500)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3.04 seconds
#   far-away-Mac:/Users/bob        %

I would schematize this situation as:
Mac with Internet door open
On the other hand, as soon as some sharing services are activated,
ex: System Preferences… > Sharing > File Sharing,
many access are opened on all interfaces and what is most annoying on the Internet side.
A much less secure situation one can check once more with nmap:
#   far-away-Mac:/Users/bob        % nmap -Pn my-home-Mac
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-08-19 19:42 CEST
Nmap scan report for my-home-Mac (12.23.34.45)
Host is up (0.0016s latency).
Not shown: 992 closed ports
PORT     STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp   open     ssh
80/tcp   filtered http
88/tcp   open     kerberos-sec
443/tcp  filtered https
445/tcp  open     microsoft-ds
631/tcp  open     ipp
3283/tcp filtered netassistant
5900/tcp open     vnc

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8.72 seconds
#   far-away-Mac:/Users/bob        %

I would schematize this situation as:
Mac sharing with Internet door closed
How to use sharing but only for my "Home" network and not for the rest of the Internet
so as to stay in the initial situation with an Internet door closed?
I guess this can be achieved with packet filter and I am working to build a complete
solution, but I would like to know if anyone has a better idea or suggestion?


texts: Icons remains the same after I have changed the default program for opening the file

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I have just uninstalled a program from my new mac. The program was making itself default to open all .r files. I installed a new program, and I maked it default for opening .r files, but the old icon of the files remains. The icon of the old program is stil at every .r-files.

How can I update the icons of the .r-files, so they view the icons of the new program? And why do this icon still exist at my mac, can I remove the icon of the old program?


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Though it doesn't happen often, I sometimes find myself in the situation where OSX will not respond to any commands.

The last time this happened I was closing a fullscreen VM - the app went away but then I was on an empty screen and wasn't able to switch away (the mouse still worked but not the brightness/volume keys).

Is there any way to escape from such a situation other than holding the power key?

(I only found a few shortcuts that are supposed to force quit but none of them worked. Some mentioned an "EJECT" key which I do not have on my MacBook Pro keyboard.)


texts: Folders in iCloud Drive change their permissions

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I am experimenting with moving Documents and Desktop into iCloud Drive. I have a website document root in a folder under Documents. For the website to run on my local machine the permissions of ~/Documents folder must be 755.

As soon as I change a file in the website, the permissions on ~/Documents immediately changes from 755 to 700, causing the website to give a "Forbidden" message.

I am guessing that the iCloud sync function is resetting the permission of ~/Documents. How do i prevent this from happening?

I have tried "chflags uchg Documents", but it still resets to 700.


texts: How to change the font size of the Reminders app?

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Is there a way to increase the font size of the Reminders app? It was easy in Mavericks, by changing a text file inside the app package, but I can't find it anymore on yosemite.

The text is just too small, isn't it?


texts: iCloud/iPadOS not displaying thumbnail image for one specific file type

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I have been dealing with this issue for a few months now and I am still confused about what the exact cause is. I'll try to explain it the best I can. I use Affinity Designer on my iPad daily and I create a lot of projects throughout the week and I rely heavily on the file thumbnail images to find projects as my file naming system is disorganized. But a few months ago when I updated the Affinity app, it changed the file thumbnail image from the artwork contents to the default Affinity Designer logo as you can see in the screenshot image. This screenshot is a few months old but the problem is still persisting. I spoke with Affinity support and they stated that the file thumbnails need time to load, but it has been months and they still haven't "loaded". But they also stated that this issue is not related to the Affinity app itself rather iPadOS.

Here are some troubleshooting tests I did to fix the issue:

Unsync and resync iCloud
Delete and reinstall files app
Delete and reinstall Affinity Designer
Factory reset iPad

I should note that only saving my project files via iPad causes this issue. If I open the same project files on desktop and save them, then I am able to see the correct file thumbnail image in iCloud. But if I open that exact document on my iPad and save it again it reverts the file thumbnail to the default Affinity Designer logo. I am really stuck on what to do next. Do I have to create an entirely new Apple ID and move everything from my current Apple ID to the new one? I can't figure out if iPadOS is causing this issue or if iCloud is, your help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Does Apple keep track of iOS app opening?

texts:
We would like to know if Apple keeps track of iOS App opening by users.

For example, Facebook keeps track of Facebook app opening to collect data of Facebook Insight.

Does Apple keep track of user behaviours like iOS app opening by users? Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to update any iOS 6 device to iOS 6.1.6?

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Apple have just released software updates to fix a rather serious security problem where a valid SSL response wasn't checked properly to ensure it matches the site actually being browsed. I have an iPhone 5, but unfortunately I have a strong personal aversion to the iOS 7 look and feel, so this far I've kept it on iOS 6.1.3.

Other users have better reasons than I to stay on iOS 6. For example, some people might be reliant on an app that has no iOS 7 version (as per bmike's comment), or the device might not have enough memory for the upgrade (as in this duplicate post).

Apple have released iOS 6.1.6 ("Available for: iPhone 3GS, iPod touch (4th generation)"), but my iPhone 5 gives me no option to upgrade to any iOS other than 7.0.6. Similarly, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, iPad 2, [new] iPad (3rd gen), iPad Mini and iPod Touch (5th Gen) all ran lower versions of iOS 6 but do not have builds of iOS 6.1.6 to install.

My iPhone is not currently jailbroken, but I would consider doing so in order to avoid having to use the iOS 7 interface. I'd rather not have to choose between the iOS version I prefer and this security patch for SSL. What options are feasible?


texts: MBP 16 Graphics Performance External Monitor

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My MacBook Pro GPU Benchmark score/ render times & game performance very quickly get slashed almost by a factor of 2 when I connect an external monitor. I'm seeing the same behaviour on MacOS as well as Windows. Performance returns to normal almost immediately after switching the the built-in screen.

Do you guys have any ideas what might be causing this/ what steps can be taken to mitigate this issue?

I tried connecting the monitor using:

Display Port <-> CalDigit dock <-> MacBook
Thunderbolt 3 to HDMI Cable <-> MacBook
HDMI <-> USB-A/C/HDMI Dongle <-> MacBook

The (perhaps relevant) hardware specs of this particular unit are:

32 GB Ram
Core i7 6-core base
Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB


texts: How to avoid macOS for keep asking for the passphrase for key ~/.ssh/id_rsa while remotely operating via ssh?

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If I remotely log on to a Mac via SSH and then use it to access another machine (such as doing a git pull) via SSH, it will keep asking me for the passphrase for key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.

If I operate on the same Mac locally using the very same user (let's say admin) it will not ask me for the passphrase if I added UseKeychain yes in the remote Mac's ~/.ssh/config (I also added the same setting for the local Mac btw).


texts: What are the various auto launch paths mean in OSX?

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I'm trying to track down sneaky apps that launch upon reboot. They are not in System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login items and the in-app preferences for auto starting is disabled too for them. I did find them here:

~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/System/Library/LaunchAgents
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

What do each folder mean? Does removing the file from here simply mean the OS is won't find it on startup?


texts: Will an AT&T iPad purchased from Best Buy US work in india?

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I am planning to purchase iPad Mini wifi + cellular from Best Buy. The Best Buy representatives were not sure it will work in India with different service provider or not.

They are selling iPad with the service provider locked with AT&T or Verizon (as I was told, anyway).

If I purchase, from Best Buy, a wifi + cellular AT&T iPad, will that work in India or do I need to buy an unlocked iPad from Apple store?

I never have heard that iPads are locked. Are they?


texts: OSX Big Sur Window UI turns purple when moved to desktop two

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The UI on my Macbook Air M1 turns into purple beautifully when the window is moved to Desktop 2.
This does not seems to be the tinting feature of Big Sur, since the color turns to black again when moved back to desktop 1.
Does any one know what's going on?
My purple safari

My purple settings


texts: No devel block is defined for automake? Error when using Homebrew

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I'm getting an odd error that google seems to only have a handful of (unhelpful) results for.

When I use homebrew to try and install some dev libraries or tools, it's coming up:

brew install -v --devel --fresh  automake autoconf libtool wget libimobiledevice
**Error: No devel block is defined for automake**

Any ideas on how to fix this or what I'm doing wrong?


texts: Stop app from showing multiple icons in Dock

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is showing up multiple times in the Dock. It's only open once. How do i stop this?

I have opened an app once, but it shows up two more times in a different middle section between two lines.

Is this an app misbehaviour or an macOS one? I can't tell and I'm not sure where to troubleshoot. This is the only app it happens with.


texts: Macbook Pro: Battery draining and CPU throttling or overheating with OWC dock

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Yesterday my 2018 15" MBP slowed to a crawl near the end of the workday.  I use it with an OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock, which is driving two monitors, an ethernet connection, and a USB hub.  My biggest CPU drains were Eclipse and Chrome, nothing particularly intensive, but checking Activity Monitor showed that kernel_task was using over 1000% CPU.  Research indicated this was most likely due to overheating.  I was about to buy a cooling pad before finding out that it probably wouldn't make a difference due to the vents all being on the sides.  However I did realize that the vent on the back was completely blocked when the laptop was closed.  So I left it open, sprayed the vents with some canned air, and tried again today.

Today, with the laptop open and using my external peripherals through the dock, it was running fine until about 3 PM again.  This time kernel_task was at 700%-1000% again, but I also noticed that the battery was at 0%.  I did confirm it was 100% in the morning.  Now I'm wondering if this has something to do with the dock.  When I unplugged it and immediately plugged in the stock charger, it rapidly started charging and kernel_task almost instantly disappeared.

Note that I am using the right-side ports for both the dock and the charging cable.

Is there any further diagnostic to do to see if this is in fact a dock problem?  Is there something I need to do, some configuration change or anything like that that will solve the problem?  Could this be as simple as using both the charging cable and the dock simultaneously (assuming that's possible)?  Do I need to return the dock and get a new one?  Is there a way to check if it's the cable without just buying a new one?


texts: Does high sierra eject external USB drives upon logoff?

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I have both a USB hub that has a flash USB and an external USB drive. A family member often pulls it out without ejecting, and I'm trying to ease the effects of that. I put an AppleScript on the Desktop in hopes that they'll use it, and am now looking for auto-eject of both drives upon logoff. It's not foolproof, but better than nothing.

Does anyone have a good overall solution to this problem--and more specifically, can someone tell me if the drives are ejected upon logout?


texts: Healthkit data: Is the XML data you manually export from the iPhone the same as the Healthkit data

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I want to know if the environmental noise data from Apple watch (or for that matter any health data parameter) has a higher resolution if you access it via Healthkit (or from iCloud) vs. manually export xml file. The noise level data I exported from the phone is in 30 sec increments and want to know if the watch is collecting the data at a higher sample rate, e.g., 1 Hz
Thanks


texts: After upgrading to macOS Sierra I've noticed that my mouse cursor tends to lag, grab or stick to links when traversing over a web page. The effect seems mostly pronounced in Safari but is exhibited in other browsers as well. Anyone experience anything like this and know how to change or disable the effect?


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I've searched but cannot find the exact situation I have with Apple ID and App Store.

On my work iMac I have signed into App Store and downloaded software (El Capitan, Microsoft Remote Desktop to name a couple) with my personal Apple ID, but now I want to use a work Apple ID I have created. I cannot perform updates with my work account (as it didn't download the apps originally), is there a way of transferring these downloads from my personal account to my work account?


texts: Changed iPhone Backup File Type. What to do?

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I was browsing through File Explorer on my Windows 10 laptop, and I located my iPhone backup files.
I thought that they were my photos, so I converted (just) one of them into a .jpeg.
I can't revert them back as the iPhone backup files just show up as a 'File' on my Windows 10 laptop.
It's not fatal (I can just backup my iPhone again), just wondering if I can convert the file back to the original file type that Apple used for them.
(:


texts: Requirements for restoring a Time Machine backup from a sparsebundle?

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I have a Time Machine sparsebundle backup on an NTFS volume on a USB drive. When I wanted to restore from it I connected it and the volume was mounted as read-only, but  I was unable to mount the sparsebundle and migration assistant didn't offer it as a source to restore from.
After copying the sparsebundle to a read-write HFS+ volume (on a USB drive) I was offered the option to restore from it, leading to my question.
What are the requirements to be able to restore from a sparsebundle? Is it that the containing volume is writable, or something else?
Background
I'm doing my backups over SMB, so I want a file system that's journalled on Linux (i.e. I can't use HFS+) and from which I can restore when using it as a USB drive (so far not NTFS). I'm aware of paid drivers for NTFS on macOS, but I'm initially looking for a free solution for Mojave.
The ntfs-3g project seemed completely dead judging by its website, and the install/compile instructions seemed lacking and outdated (packages from 2015 as opposed to the latest release in 2017).