texts: How do I restore an account that was not deleted?

texts:
I recently had to reboot my computer, and when it finished booting my account was gone (it was not showing in the log in screen)! I got onto the admin account and found that although the user was not deleted, there are a lot of red minus signs:

How do I fix this?

I noticed that it does not work quite like what is described here:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22002?locale=en_US

It's more like this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4171806?start=0&tstart=0

I am running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3


texts: Map right shift key to behave like top arrow

texts:
guys I'm a software developer and I use arrows keys a lot.
As long as Apple changed their keyboard layout it is so hard to use the new arrows setup. It' just drives me crazy every time when I try to go line up, or line down in my code editor.

Is there a way to map RIGHT SHIFT key to behave like a top ARROW ?
And map TOP ARROW key to behave like DOWN ARROW.

It would be a great solution for me. Thank you for your help.
I've been trying to achieve this by Ukulele app, but I don't understand this app or I'm doing something wrong.


texts: What are the implications of "Select Your Country or Region"?

texts:
I'm opening an iPhone after it has been reset to factory settings, and I'm asked to choose a language, and then to choose a country or region.

What are the implication of choosing a particular country? Will it lock me out of something? Can I change this setting later? Will it affect what apps I can download from the Apple app store?


texts: It's 2020. Is there any way to get syslog to work on macOS Mojave?

texts:
Questions on syslog on macOS get no answers these days, the reason apparently being that 'it just doesn't work'.
Still, I would like to try one more time.
Is there a way that a syslog opened with
openlog ('apns', 'ndelay', 'mail');

to work on macOS Mojave?


texts: Couldn't open any java .jar application file after installing OS X Capitan

texts:
I couldn't open any java .jar application file after installing OS X El Capitan. The only message after opening always is:
Java-Jar-File "ABC.jar" couldn't be opened.

I installed both jdk1.8.0_65.jdk and jdk1.8.0_66.jdk but doesn't work at all. Also has installed the legacy JDK 1.6 for OS X.


texts: Mac Calendar add shared calendar for email account with 2 letter email address

texts:
One of the meeting rooms at our new offices has a short email address (tv@ourdomain.com).

The calendar sharing function only works on a search for email addresses (I can't type in an address manually) but the search only starts after the 3rd character before the @ symbol (and stops after the @ symbol).

Is there any way around this? Or any way to add the address manually? On adding it manually it says that it can't be found (although sending an email in mac mail finds the address easily and allows sending).

I'm using Mac Mail and Calendar with Microsoft Exchange accounts.

Many thanks


texts: What is the button in the upper right of windows?

texts:
Some Mac applications have this button in the upper right. What is it called? Is there a keyboard shortcut for it?

In the case of MacVim, the button toggles the toolbar of colorful icons you see on the left. Saves some space on the screen. Is that what the button does in all applications?


texts: How do I make passphrase prompts for ssh keys appear in the terminal, not as a graphical prompt?

texts:
I'm SSHing into my mac and doing some stuff remotely through tmux (namely uploading some stuff to github). When I just tried to run a git push, my command kept stalling silently. I found ssh stalling on this message, debug1: key_parse_private_pem: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed, and divined that the password prompt was being caught by the Keychain app and being displayed on the screen. I was able to get it to go through by using teamviewer to enter my password on-screen.

But how do I keep these private key prompts from going to the screen in the future? I'm fine with being prompted for my passphrase, but I would like it to happen in a terminal window in the future.


texts: does there exist an app that can sync to iCloud notes?

texts:
Is there any app,
That iCloud notes can sync to ?
I wanted to have a backup of my iCloud notes
I know iCloud is already supposed to be a backup, but I have heard of people having problems or notes being deleted out of nowhere, so that's why I wanted another kind of backup
That could sync to iCloud so I could keep my notes on iCloud, plus somewhere else
Does such a thing exist ?
Thank you.


texts: Spotlight search stopped working after upgrading to iOS 13

texts:
I have an iPhone 8 Plus phone and I installed iOS 13. Ever since I am always updating to the latest version of iOS 13. Regardless, the spotlight search does not work on my phone.

This is my main way of locating apps on the phone, so this issue is particularly painful. Here is what I do:

Swipe down on the home screen.
Start typing the name of the app, for example, "App Store"
Nothing happens, the result list does not update while typing. The Siri Suggestions part of the screen just remains the same.
Hit the Search button on the keyboard
Again, nothing happens. The Siri Suggestions list is not updated.

I tried restarting the phone on several occasions but did not help. I am also installing the latest update. As of now, the version I have is 13.1.13.

I tried this with other phones with iOS 13, but they did not have this problem.

Any ideas, what I can try to fix this?


texts: Software update on obsolete system: is it real?

texts:
I've got an old PowerPC Mac Mini running Leopard that I keep around to run legacy software.  Today, for the first time in years, Software Update opened up, offering to upgrade Airport Utility from 5.2.2 to 5.6.1.

Is this a genuine update, and if so, why is it showing up now, more than a decade after support for both the OS and the hardware ended?


texts: How to make netcat output verbose information on macOS Mojave?

texts:
I've tried to use various netcat's from Brew, MacPorts, and Apple etc., but neither of them output verbose information, like "Listening to all interfaces":

nc -lvp 443
[No verbose output here...]

How can I make netcat display the verbose information I'm used to, when running netcat on e.g. Ubuntu Linux?


texts: TimeMachine and an External HFS + NTFS HDD

texts: Can I partition my external HDD into 2 HFS + NTFS? and use HFS+ partition for TimeMachine backup. I already lost my info once in this way, this is why I have to ask now, before doing some stupid things again. The NTFS partition is for Ubuntu and Windows machine from my office, at home I am using 10.6.8


texts: How can I position windows with the maximize button?

texts:
I was watching this video when the instructor was able to position a window by using the maximize button and clicking on one of four positioning options, as seen in the image below.

This was also not specific to the program, as it was done in different windows for different applications.

Is this a native OS X feature? If so, which settings were enabled? If not, are there known applications allowing for this feature?


texts: Finder freezes when samba automount not found

texts:
I've added automount entries to my wife's Macbook (OSX - unsure about the exact version as she's overseas) for some shares on our FreeNAS server at home.

Sometimes when she travels for work it can't find the shares so Finder gets stuck with the spinning beach ball and is unusable. This doesn't always happen but when it does, it is persistent. For her current issue I have commented out the automount entries with chrome remote desktop however this is not always an option due to intermittent internet.

Is there some way to change these settings so that this problem does not reoccur? It does not happen every time.

The entries are fairly basic, as below.

/etc/auto_master

/- auto_smb -nosuid

/etc/auto_smb

/Volumes/share1 -fstype=smbfs,sort ://user:pass@10.1.1.1/share1
/Volumes/share2 -fstype=smbfs,sort ://user:pass@10.1.1.1/share2


texts: Performance issues, can I recover memory?

texts:
In the past month I am having some serious performance issues with my MacBook Pro (2008 model).
From the activity monitor, I get that the CPU usage is low (25%), disk usage is low (256 GB SSD drive, 50% free), network activity almost null.
What concerns me is system memory usage; of the 4GB RAM I have:

Free: 35 MB
Wired: 1.1 GB
Active: 1.9 GB
Inactive: 900 MB
Used: 3.99 GB
VM size: 650 GB
Swap used: 11 GB

I have nothing particularly heavy running. Could it be that, since I have not rebooted for a few months, some executables keep requiring memory slowing the system down (memory leak)?

Is it possible to recover unused but locked memory, without a reboot?


texts: Will an external 4K monitor cause performance issues on my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I'm looking to buy a 27" display for my MacBook Pro
(2017 | 15.4-inch 2880 x 1800 | Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB graphics)

I am considering a 4K display, but I've read in multiple places that scaling can cause performance issues. (This article explains the issue: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/)

Will this be an issue with my MacBook?


texts: AppleScript Error using Adobe Photoshop CC to batch convert CMYK profiles

texts:
I'm using AppleScript to process a folder of TIFF images that need to be converted to a specific CMYK profile in Photoshop. The script first asks for a folder containing the images and then prompts for an output folder location. However, I get the following error when running the script:

  Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 got an error: Can’t get current document.

The first thing I tried was to remove current from the save command. It looks Photoshop is actually opening and saving the document(s) after doing this, however, the TIFFs are not in the folder specified in newFilePath. Not sure how I should be handling this since it is supposed to process multiple files. The current script is below:

on run
    tell me to open {choose folder}
end run

on open droppedItems
    set destFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select Output Folder"
    repeat with anItem in droppedItems
        tell application "Finder"
            -- Make sure each item is processed by this script is a folder
            if class of item anItem is not folder then
                -- Not a folder, notify the user of the error
                display dialog "Please drop folders containing images"
            else
                -- A folder, get the Adobe Photoshop files and process them
                set fileList to (every file of anItem) as alias list
            end if
        end tell
        HPConvert(fileList, destFolder)
    end repeat
end open

-- fileList is a list of aliases to Photoshop files
-- destFolder is an alias to a folder where the converted TIFFs are to be saved
on HPConvert(fileList, destFolder)
    set destPath to destFolder as string
    repeat with aFile in fileList
        tell application "Finder" to set fileName to name of aFile
        set newFilePath to destPath & fileName
        tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2015"
            open aFile
            convert to profile "CGATS21_CRPC6 V2" intent absolute colorimetric with dithering
            save current document in file newFilePath as TIFF with options {embed color profile:true, save layers:true, save spot colors:true} appending lowercase extension
            close current document saving no
        end tell
    end repeat
end HPConvert


texts:
I bought an AirPort Extreme to use in my college apartment. The ISP is technically my university, so the device is set in "bridge" mode to avoid double NAT errors. When I check the network diagram when firing up AirPort Utility, however, I can see other AirPorts that my classmates are using in their rooms.  I want to know if it is possible to hide my AirPort from them so they cannot see mine like I can see theirs.  People get bored and nosey at the university.

Technically I cannot access their devices because they are password protected and so is my device but I would like to be safer if I can.


texts: How do I make sure that the Yosemite icon for the Time Machine Disk on my desktop shows the updated version and not the Mavericks version?

texts: As you can see in the images the icon for the external drive Quetzalcoatl has update to the Yosemite version, however the Time Machine disk hasn't. Is it possible to force the use of the new icon?


texts: iPhone does not react to charger unless turned off

texts:
I have my iPhone 5S for less than a week. I have charged it fully only once. Cable, charger and phone are new and from the box.
When I connect it to the USB charger it does not display the lighting symbol nor does it charge. However, if the cable is inserted before it turns on or if I restart the iPhone with the cable inserted, then the charging begins. Taking the phone away from the cable for even a second spoils the magic, so you can imagine how annoying it is. I am suspecting this is a software error.

Connection to MacBook does not work either. When cable is inserted nothing happens. No app can see the phone and vice versa. This does not change even after the restart.

Do you have any suggestions?


texts: how to play local video files in thumbnail overlay (similar to skype video calls)?

texts:
I am very new to OSX, so far loving it. I really like how when you use Skype video call on OSX, and you change the primary focus to an app other than Skype, your video call is persistently visible on the screen as a small thumbnail sized overlay window, drawn above all your active applications.

I'd like to be able to play local video files in a similar manner, where the file is played in a small overlay window on top of all other windows, so that it's not covered up by my active application. I'd like to be able to watch some shows/movies while coding :)

Please let me know if this is possible, and how it can be done! I mainly use quicktime and VLC but if I need a different player to do this, that's okay too.

Thanks!


texts:
I am liking the app because it shows gmail conversations in a space efficient format, and its email search actually works.

Also the ability to keep lists of stuff inside of my email is pretty cool.

But it doesn't load images in emails. What's up with that?

Is there an option to enable it? Isn't this a basic feature?

Please don't say "performance reasons". The pictures should load asynchronously after all the text in the email loads.


texts: Bluetooth keyboard not showing battery level and function key not working

texts:
So my bluetooth keyboard function key hasn't been working for a while, the built in one works fine. I bought a new apple keyboard to try and fix the problem but turns out its my laptop. I also noticed that where the bluetooth settings used to show battery levels for apple products, it no longer does.

All the F1-12 keys work fine but the function key its self doesn't work at all or in combination with other keys.

In the bluetooth settings it says no battery but at the time the keyboard batteries were full.

I have tried basic things like un-pairing and pairing again, also some commands to unload and load bluetooth files.

Thanks.

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texts: Open Favourites Page in Safari with Javascript

texts:
I'm trying to make an extremely simple Safari extension that open the favourites page (the equivalent of Bookmarks > Show favourites), as that's what I think of as my home page and I'd like a button on the toolbar to do that, rather than have to do it via the menu.

Is there a javascript command to open this window or, failing that, to access the menu bar button so it can be clicked?


texts: Is there a user-friendly app that can create an archive of system.log files and the like?

texts:
Background

I have this command to create a temporary collection of selected log files –

sudo tar -czf $TMPDIR/archive\ of\ install.log\ and\ system.log\ files\ only.tgz --options='compression-level=9' /private/var/log/*install* /private/var/log/*system* && sudo chmod 666 $TMPDIR/archive\ of\ install.log\ and\ system.log\ files\ only.tgz && open $TMPDIR

– but it's usable only if the user at the command line is an administrator.

A Pacifist view of an archive produced by that command:

Question

For OS X, is there a user-friendly third party app that can create an archive of a comparable collection of log files?

The ideal app:

should work for normal users (and if so, must prompt for administrator credentials, which will be required to access some of the data)
may be relatively system-agnostic (not limited to Mountain Lion).

Approaches that I have ruled out

Console

It's great for many things, but not for collecting and archiving in the way outlined above.

Finder

It's user friendly but I'd prefer something that can perform the collection in a single step, or two – without browsing to the source directory. Moreover:

a normal user can not use Finder to compress the required files.

Apple sysdiagnose

It's powerful and fairly comprehensive, but can be unexpectedly time-consuming.

Only the most recent system.log file is archived.


texts: How can I transfer photos from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy phone with location information?

texts: I'm trying to transfer photos from iphone to my new samsung galaxy note 20, but the smart switch does not work for me somehow (It asks me to retry after I input my iCloud password, but my friend's iphone works on the same cable). I wonder if there's any other way that I could use to transfer photos, if the location and time information could be kept with photos, that would be great. Thanks.


texts: Clocks due to change and sleep prompt goes into infinite loop

texts:
Tonight the clocks change in the UK from BST to GMT. Officially at 2am BST going back to 1am GMT.

At 00:00 my Mountain Lion macbook pro asks me if I want it to sleep.  Usually there's never a problem. Coincidently tonight, all the "cancel" button does is reset the timer back to 10 minutes?!

I decided to press sleep.. thinking it'd get rid of the message. No, it's now worse. I'm guessing the sleep prompt is still loading on the desktop even though I'm on the login screen. I can't type into any input field.

Powering down or restarting doesn't resolve the issue.

Is it stuck like this until 2am?? Any ideas on a fix?


texts: Python quit unexpectedly when running Python programs from terminal

texts:
I am using Terminal to run code on my macOS High Sierra. I use Python all the time on my laptop (all day every day) and this is the first time I have seen this and it's come somewhat suddenly. I haven't used any new libraries that I don't usually use.

The Error

The error is a pop-up when I run code after importing it from another file that says:

Python has quite unexpectedly
Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.

Attempts to Fix

I've tried uninstalling a re-installing Python (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40732280/python-quit-unexpectedly-on-mac) using the following commands:

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force python python@2
unset PYTHONPATH
brew install python python@2

and

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force python python@3
unset PYTHONPATH
brew install python python@3

This doesn't help. I've also quit all processes and restarted them. This also doesn't work.

The only thing I can think of that I've done today that I've never done before is create the ability to open a .xps file in my Google drive.

Where the Error is Coming From

I have a long class called preprocess_in_batches.PreprocessForTopicModelling which has an attribute called preprocess. If I do the following in preprocess_in_batches.py it works fine:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    preprocess = PreprocessForTopicModelling(gpu=False)
    preprocess.preprocess(...)

However, if I do it from another Python file, then I get this weird quitting of Python:

from preprocess_in_batches import PreprocessForTopicModelling
def test_preprocess_in_batches():
    preprocess = PreprocessForTopicModelling(gpu=False)
    preprocess.preprocess(...)
if __name__ == "__main__":
    test_preprocess_in_batches()

I just don't understand why Python is quitting. Firstly I can't see anything illegal that I'm doing with my code. And even if there is a simple bug I'm missing, why is it quitting instead of throwing up an error?


texts: Is the iPod touch 6g compatible with Vista?

texts: I lost my precious iPod Touch 4g. It seems I can't live without an iPod anymore and must replace it. But. The 4g worked with my obsolete Windows Vista. If I buy the state-of-art iPod Touch 6g, will it be compatible with Vista? Otherwise, will I have to go for a 5g? And no, I can't upgrade Vista.


texts: Show videos, animations or text in Mac's touchbar

texts:
Given that the mac's touchbar is an actual display would it be possible to do things like display arbitrary text, a video or an animation in the touchbar?
For example, what would it take to display a text file, an animated png/gif or mp4 in the touchbar?
Is there an API that allows doing it and/or are there apps that implement the API and provide a UI to do it?
Ideally I would like to see the API exposed via AppleScript so that one could do something like
-- pseudo-code
tell application "System Events"
    display touchbar text 'hello touchbar'
end tell


texts: How secure are the different router modes in a time capsule

texts:
I have not been able to find the official documentation of my time capsule. I'd like to know how secure are the different 3 modes:

DHCP and NAT: this is the mode I'm currently using however the airport utility recommends me to use bridge mode.
DHCP only.
Off (Bridge mode)

If I use the bridge more, will anybody connected to the ethernet wan be able to access my network? What about the contents of the time capsule?


texts: MacBook shows flashing question mark in a folder when battery is at > 70%

texts:
I am sure many of you guys know the flashing folder icon which shows up when the Mac cannot find a drive to boot from. My 2017 MacBook Pro has this issue for some time now, but recently I found something interesting.

The MBP won't find the boot drive, as long as the battery level is at > 70%.

The Mac boots just fine at lower battery levels; no issues whatsoever. Now, the problem is, I don't want to run my MacBook via battery the whole time or keep on disconnecting the AC power when 70% is reached every time.

Does anybody have similar symptoms and did find a better solution? Do you think there is a hardware issue with my device?

I've been to the Apple store before (when I didn't knew this was connected to the battery level) and they couldn't find anything. They suggested I reinstall macOS, which of cause didn't change anything.

Edit:
One detail I forgot to mention was that when I charge my MBP and close the lid, it crashes and gets really hot (fans turn on slowly). I'm not totally sure on this, but I think this also happens with lower battery levels.

Battery Info:


texts:
In Numbers, is there a way to get the row instead of the value when using a MAX or MIN Function?

For example, let's take this sheet:

bread  10
cheese 20
meat   35

What I am trying to do is to show the most expensive food by comparing all price values, getting the row number of the MAX value and then print the respective food on that line.


texts: How to access LAN devices and files from iPad, iPhone?

texts:
Are there any free iOS applications that let us browse LAN devices, so we could access files from devices in same network.

I use ES File Explorer to do the same in Android phone but I didn't find any free application on iOS. Most of the file explorer for android mobiles include this functionality.

Any such free app?


texts: Activity Monitor missing process arguments

texts:
Is there a way to tell Activity Monitor to show me the process arguments the same way ps does for example?

So instead of this (Activity Monitor):

I would like to see this (ps):

If this is impossible in Activity Monitor, is there any other application that can do it? I have tried the latest htop from http://hisham.hm/htop but interestingly it is having the same issue. htop on Linux however was always showing process arguments similar to ps.


texts: Why does Finder see volumes which are not under /Volumes?

texts:
If I navigate as high as possible in Finder (under 10.10.2, but this did not appear only recently), I see this window, with many volumes which are long unmounted, ejected and erased.

But if I tried to look around in the Terminal to potentially delete these, it only found the reasonable ones:

Laszlo-Sandors-MacBook-Pro:Volumes laszlosandor$ ls -la
total 24
drwxrwxrwt@  5 root          admin   170 Dec 28 09:04 .
drwxr-xr-x  47 root          wheel  1666 Dec 26 10:57 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 laszlosandor  admin  6148 Jul 17 18:33 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root          admin     1 Dec 26 10:51 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx   0 root          wheel     0 Dec 28 10:51 MobileBackups

Disk Utility only sees Macintosh HD.

What is going on, and what is there to do?


texts: AppleCare on the prizes from the new iPad contest?

texts:
This question could technically go on meta, but I think it makes more sense here on AskDifferent proper. So the new iPad contest was awesome. I even won something.

Here's the question: When I go to an Apple Store for a Genius Bar appointment, they often will look up the device's serial number and match it to my Apple account. Since the prizes were purchased by a StackExchange employee, ware the devices attached to his or her Apple ID? Can I go to an Apple store and add AppleCare, or do I need to transfer ownership, or are the devices registered to the winners individually by virtue of the fact that it was shipped as a gift, with a gift message?


texts:
I'm having issues identifying what type of PowerMac G4 Quicksilver I have.

Looking at the stickers on the machine, I initially come to the conclusion that the machine is a Power Macintosh G4 800 DP (Quicksilver)800 MHz PowerPC 7450 (G4) x2 (that's taken from everymac.com) however when going to About This Mac the machine shows it only has one processor, making me think its a Power Macintosh G4 800 (QS 2002)800 MHz PowerPC 7455* (G4). The case itself has these two notes:

In the first of the two it is clear that the case is copyrighted 2001, but in the second it only seems to specify one processor. Since I got this machine second hand and don't know its history, I have considered the fact the logic board or the CPU board may have been replaced. Still I am not sure exactly what machine I have.

Why does all of this even matter? I want to be able to start the machine up with a universal OS9 install, however the 2002 Quicksilver apparently doesn't allow this, and has to be installed from original install discs. I have wheat I believe are the correct discs coincidentally, and OS9 installed fine, however hangs upon a successful boot, unless extensions are disabled.

I really don't know what this machine is, and how I can find out. I have not started up the Apple Hardware Test CD I also have, so if you'd like me to do so and maybe get some info from its report please do ask. I don't even know if it will start up. I'll update this once I have tested it.

Thank you for any replies.


texts: Macbook pro restarts when gone to sleep for several hours

texts:
I have a late 2013 macbook pro running Mojave (10.14.5). When I put it to sleep for a longer period of time (it seems to happen overnight), it restarts after about 8 hours or so. I have no idea why this happens. When I start it back up, it tells me that it shut down because of an error.

This is the output of pmset -g:

MacBook-Pro-van-Robin:~ robin$ pmset -g
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 standbydelaylow      10800
 standby              1
 womp                 1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             1
 gpuswitch            2
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 sleep                1 (sleep prevented by CineRenderNEM)
 autopoweroffdelay    129600
 hibernatemode        3
 autopoweroff         0
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 highstandbythreshold 50
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

I have turned off autopoweroff, but this doesn’t change the behavior.

This is the output of log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --last 24h:

MacBook-Pro-van-Robin:~ robin$ log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --last 24h
Filtering the log data using "composedMessage CONTAINS "Previous shutdown cause""
Skipping info and debug messages, pass --info and/or --debug to include.
Timestamp                       Thread     Type        Activity             PID    TTL
2019-08-07 08:01:20.340196+0200 0xaf       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: 3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Log      - Default:          1, Info:                0, Debug:             0, Error:          0, Fault:          0
Activity - Create:           0, Transition:          0, Actions:           0

Interestingly, this time it's 3 (hard shutdown), when the previous times it's been 5 (correct shutdown).

When it happened today, it was not plugged in overnight. Battery was at 100% when starting up, though.

I have reset NVRAM and the SMC, but that didn't change anything.

In system preferences > security and privacy > advanced, I have turned off logging out after 60 minutes of activity.

What could be the cause?


texts: Why won't OS X Mountain Lion remember smb password on login?

texts:
After mounting an smb shared drive and putting in my username and password, OS X will ask me if I want to save password to keychain.  I can say yes but it will not save it.  The drive has also been added as a login item.

My username requires the domain, so it's like:
mydomain\firstname.lastname

On login, the window pops up and has forgotten the mydomain\ leaving firstname.lastname and the password field is, of course, blank.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Can't bind cmd+\ to "Move focus to next window", but I can bind it to other actions... why?

texts:
I just reinstalled OSX 10.8, and I've encountered an incredibly odd behaviour: binding cmd+\ to "Move focus to next window" doesn't work (if I hit it, I get the "pop" error sound). However, binding it to other actions works, and binding other combinations to that action also works.

This makes no sense to me.

I would rather keep using this shortcut, as I'm quite used to it and I hit it often.

Does someone have any clue?

P.S. in case it might help: this did work in my previous 10.8 install.

Update: doesn't work in 10.10 either: I don't get the "pop" error sound anymore, but it just does nothing.


texts: Reinstalling software on a brand new (non-formatted) drive - MacBook

texts:
My sister gave me her old Macbook that had a bad hard drive. I replaced it with a non-Apple drive and tried to install her software on it, but had no luck at all.
I did successfully load/run Ubuntu, but I already have 3 computers running that. :)

I read somewhere I needed a USB thumb drive to boot from. Booting from the original 10.4 CDs doesn't work.


texts: memory footprint of 4k monitor on 2018 13" Iris 655

texts: I'm thinking of getting a 2018 MBP 13" to connect two 4k displays simultaneously.  I assume that once that happens, the system memory footprint is going to increase in order to buffer these displays, reducing the amount of unswapped/uncompressed RAM I have available for other tasks.  Please contribute with practical measurements of memory usage before and after plugging in the extra 4k display.


texts: When mirroring my Macbook Pro with an ultra-wide external display, can the resolution be set to the external's native resolution?

texts: To emphasize again, this question is about mirroring. I'm looking at buying a 3440x1440 (or higher) resolution monitor, and I'd like to use it as the only display with my MBP while keeping the MBP open. From my research, it doesn't seem possible to do this. The workaround I found, was to mirror the displays. So, if I do that, will the resolution match the external display?


texts: Terminal flashes on empty backspace with Yosemite

texts: Since using Yosemite, I've had the annoying problem of my current Terminal window flashing when backspacing on an empty line. I know on previous versions of OS X this flashing was not default, and could be toggled in accessibility settings, but I cannot find the same setting and I'm dying to get this turned off. Any known ways to get rid of it?


texts: My number is associated with iMessage on other phone, how to remove it?

texts:
Good day everyone. For only 1 hour (!) I used my relatives iPhone with my sim card and that's it, he keeps receiving all of my iMessages. I tried checking in iTunes all devices associated with my account and his device is not listed. I tried to log in and log out to/from iMessage on his phone with his apple ID, still won't help. How can I stop this nightmare!?
When I go to iMessage settings>Send & Receive on his device, there is only my phone number listed, how do I remove it without smashing phone to the wall?!
Thanks and have a great day

EDIT. After talking to apple support for some time, they removed my phone number from my friend's iMessage. So I guess if you are facing same problem you have to contact support.


texts:
Unlike Windows, you cannot maximize a window in Mac with a click of the button. The little green (+) button next to the red and yellow buttons at the left of the windows does some strange stuff sometimes when you click it and doesn't do the expected operations.

How would you fully maximize a window on a Mac?


texts: How can I view/inspect my Mac’s Parameter RAM (NVRAM)?

texts: Inspired by this question I started looking for apps that allow to read the data saved in my Mac’s Parameter RAM. Aside from a very antique (pre OS X) application for Classic, I could not find any. Is there any way to access the info stored in the PRAM on current Macs?


texts: Mail: keyboard shortcut to move email to trash?

texts:
I'm on macOS Mojave, Mail is version 12.4.

Problem

I've just realized that cmd + delete is deleting (ie irretrievably removing from my machine and server) my emails instead of moving them to the trash. I want my emails to go to the trash so I can recover them later if needed. I would like to change the behavior of that keyboard shortcut, but I doubt that's possible on macOS so I'd settle for adding a new shortcut. However, I can't figure out how to do that.

What I've tried

I've tried changing the mailbox behavior, which is what others have suggested, but there doesn't seem to be an option (see screenshot below). I'm using MailFence if that's important.

I've tried adding a keyboard shortcut specific to Mail (see screenshot below), but it isn't doing what I want. Note that I have tried to name the shortcut 'Move to Trash', 'Move to trash', and 'Move to Trash Foo' where 'Foo' is the mailbox description and when I use the menu to move a message into trash I select Message -> Move to -> Trash -> Foo


texts:
I am getting a "macOS could not be installed on Your computer" message while installing OSX Mojave (the error comes up after Mojave asks to restart to proceed installation).

How do I install Mojave without erasing and performing a clean installation?

I've got the error log of that installation here. Regarding the keyboard messages at the end, I have an English International keyboard on my MacBook Pro 15" 2016.

I pasted the Installer log on Github because it blew the 30000 character limit here:
https://gist.github.com/mxmzb/68a643a5cc1ee4f6d0f88b84599909ad


texts: Daisy-Chaining a DVI Monitor on a Thunderbolt Display?

texts:
I currently have a mid-2012 MacbookPro that is connected to a 27" Thunderbolt display. I also have a 17" Samsung Syncmaster that only has VGA & DVI port on it. So I bought the MiniDisplay-to-DVI converter and tried hooking it up to the TBD's thunderbolt port.

It didn't work. The TB port doesn't recognize the monitor at all. When hooking the monitor up directly to the MBP, it seems to work fine. Are there compatibility issues when using the MiniDisplay-to-DVI converter?


texts:
In previous versions of OSX I've been able to take a picture using the Photobooth app and upload it to the internet (by using a website's "choose file" button, navigating to User\Pictures\Photobooth or similar and selecting the picture I want).

Now, since I've upgraded to lion I haven't been able to do this.

Now the Photobooth folder in my Pictures directory is disabled and I cannot get into it.

So how can I use Photos from Photobooth in every day life? (ie: not just in photobooth?)

Thank you.


texts: Mac mini mid 2010 stuck on Apple logo with full progress bar

texts:
I bought a used Mac Mini mid-2010 server. When it arrived I turned it on and it booted regularly into macOS High Sierra, since this is the last version supported by this model. I verified that everything was working and then turned off the machine.
The problem is that now it won't boot. The Apple logo appears and the progress bar underneath goes all the way to the end, but it does not go beyond that point. Is is worth mentioning that the bar progresses relatively fast until it reaches the middle and then it goes really slowly until the end. I tried to boot into the Recovery partition and the same thing happens. I tried Internet Recovery, both using Option+Command+R and Shift+Option+Command+R (however, this last option yields a slightly different outcome: it gets stuck in the screen with the apple logo, but instead of the full bar, I get the spinning wheel). I also tried safe boot, resetting NVRAM and PRAM, and an installation USB thumb drive. The result is the same. Just display, keyboard and mouse connected to the Mac.
Funny thing is I had an old SSD where a Windows distro was installed and if I plug it to the mac via USB adapter and select its EFI file by holding the Option key during boot, it goes right into a fully functional Windows environment, making me think that there is no hardware problem with it...
EDIT:
I booted using verbose mode and the boot seems to hang at this point:
busy timeout[0], (60s): ´IOFireWireLocalNode´
EXC_RESOURCE -> sftwareupdated[210] exceeded mem limit: ActiveSoft 500 MB (non-fatal)
hfs: mounted Recovery HD on device disk1s3
hfs: unmount initiated on Recovery HD on device disk1s3
busy timeout[1], (60s): ´IOFireWireLocalNode´
busy timeout[2], (60s): ´IOFireWireLocalNode´
busy timeout[3], (60s): ´IOFireWireLocalNode´
IOConsoleUsers: time(0) 0->0, lin 0, llk 1,
IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLockState 3, hs 0, bs 0, now 0, sm 0x0

So, by my understanding there are two main issues here, possibly. The FireWire timeout and the exceeded memory limit related to software updates. No more text appears after these lines.
If it helps, I can also successfully boot into Single User mode, where I have access to a sh terminal.


texts: Add a record in /etc/hosts, flushed DNS, why the domain is still not pointing to the desired IP?

texts:
Just added a record in my /etc/hosts but it doesn't work. I also tried to clear DNS via this way:
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

When I ping that IP, it's still the IP in the real-world.
What can I do with this (so that the domain will go to the IP in my hosts file.


texts:
Before upgrading to High Sierra, for many years prior, it was possible to highlight text (e.g. in Chrome), drag it over another application (e.g. Preview), and then hit escape without anything happening. I'm a web developer, and I did this dozens of times daily to compare the text in the browser to the text in the design: I could simply overlay the text I drug over the design and see if sizes, letter spacing, line spacing, etc. were lining up. Really quick and really convenient.

In High Sierra, it's now shrinking down that text arbitrarily as soon as it's over a new application. I imaging this is just a visual indicator that you might be able to drop the text and you're in a new application, because I can think of no other practical reason for the text shrinking.

See the demo here:

So... is there any way to get that to stop shrinking again? Might sound nit-picky, but it was so extremely useful on a consistent basis to be able to do this. I'm fine digging into shell or editing plist files or whatever.


texts: Odd keystroke sequence cant be deactivated?

texts:
So I turn on my computer today and try to type the letters "php" but it automatically turns to this "₱", the Philippine currency symbol. So far Ive tried:Checking keyboard settings and regionTrying my wired apple keyboard and logitech wirelessTested the Keyboard viewer and noticed something change in the function keys really fast, i recorded it and noticed the F16 key appeared which is not even used on my Logitech, my main keyboard Tried turning Fn keys off and onTried Resetting NVRAMReinstalled OSX SierraTried remapping with two programs, Karabiner and Better Touch Tool, which when recorded in Better Touch showed the actual keys being hit as phpv  This is driving me nuts. Anyone with a clue whats going on?

Examples:
 https://satori-design.d.pr/ldRMcJ
 https://satori-design.d.pr/QHy1Lr


texts:
On my Mac-book pro 2019, Touch ID does not hard shut down MacBook Pro.
I have tried multiple options for resetting smc but they don't seem to work.


texts: Is it possible to write to the Boot Camp disk in OS X?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp and sometimes I want to update information on the Windows partition but currently I have to boot in Windows and read from the Mac partition.  I don't want to leave OS X to organize files.


texts:
I have a script to temporarily mount an SMB share and copy some files that get generated for my team.

It works find locally, but fails to mount the remote share when run from cron. I am not including the script as the commands in question should be evident from the outputs below.

Local operation output:

$ get-reports.sh
Tue Feb 18 16:14:05 EST 2020
+ whoami
gtarsa
+ id
uid=1234567(gtarsa) gid=1234567(#######) groups=1234567(#######),<usual Apple groups>
+ /sbin/umount /Users/gtarsa/reports
+ /sbin/mount -t smbfs //engsrv/reports /Users/gtarsa/reports
+ find /Users/gtarsa/reports -iname '*gtarsa*' -exec cp '{}' /Users/gtarsa/Downloads/reports ';'
+ /sbin/umount /Users/gtarsa/reports
+ set +x
$

Cron result:

$ cat ~/Downloads/reports/copy.log
Tue Feb 18 12:20:00 EST 2020
+ whoami
gtarsa
+ id
uid=1234567(gtarsa) gid=1234567(#######) groups=1234567(#######),<usual Apple groups>
+ /sbin/umount /Users/gtarsa/reports
+ /sbin/mount -t smbfs //engsrv/reports /Users/gtarsa/reports
mount_smbfs: server rejected the connection: Authentication error
+ echo '? Unable to mount Reports Share'
? Unable to mount Reports Share
+ exit 1
$

I have tried explicitly specifying connection credentials (as described in man mount_smbfs) with no success.  I am running script manually when I need it, but would prefer to have it run periodically on its own.

Something is different in the cron environment from my interactive environment, but I have not been able to discern what. Google searches for answers come up with lots of "How to mount a share from the command line", but not from cron. Ideas and insight welcome.


texts: My mom just recently got an iPhone and I recently got an iPad. Now, I used to receive my mom’s texts, I took care of that, but I don’t know how to not get my mom’s photos from her iPhone and to keep them off my iPad without deleting from her phone.


texts: Unable to run/upgrade iPhoto after upgrading to OS X Yosemite

texts:
I just downloaded OS X Yosemite on my Macbook Pro.  When I try to open my IPhotos I get a message telling me the version on my computer is not compatible with OS X Yosemite and to download a new version from the App Store.  When I search in the App Store I'm told there is no version available for Canada.  Does that mean my photos are all lost?

Not really good with computers so would appreciate exact instructions if anyone can help
Linda


texts: slim black object on 1st generation macbook air case

texts: This is just a curiosity: what is that slim black part (see picture) in the Apple Macbook Air 1,1 (Early 2008) case?


texts: How can I slow down scroll on mac more than the system preferences let me

texts:
I've gone into system preferences and made scroll as slow as it allows me to, but it's still way too fast.

I'm using a logitech mouse, but logitech's software doesn't seem to work.  What I'm wondering is whether there's some way to set the scroll speed to slower than the bottom of the slider, perhaps using terminal or something.


texts: Are the Carrier IQ daemons installed on iOS devices other than iPhones?

texts:
For iOS 5, are either of the Carrier IQ daemons installed as part of the base software on any non phone device image such as the iPad, iPod Touch or Apple TV ?

On iPhones (iOS 5) these programs are /usr/bin/awd_ice2 or /usr/bin/awd_ice3

If yes, what causes them to run and to where does their data get stored or forwarded?

I am aware of the work @chpwn is doing and publishing on the chpwn blog but that is iPhone specific so far. I'm looking for hard evidence that the software is or isn't on the base OS for non-phone devices as well as if they actually generate local log files (presumably only when the collect diagnostic data switch is turned on since on iOS that is an opt-in service that does let you know data will be collected).


texts:
Is it possible to disable automatic rearrange of background apps in iOS 8?

For example if I open ibooks notepad and skype, when i answer to skype message app stands in first place, after switching to ibooks skype will be on second place, but it's not comfortable because I want go with swype to notepad and write note. it is become more complicated if open more apps.

So is it possible to lock background app positions (or pin like in browsers)?


texts: How to fix when connecting to any server results in "Connecting to '...'" window that will leave up all day?

texts:
Along with myself, a couple other people in my office are having the same issue as I. Below, I will go through all the steps I've taken thus far (it's been a long time) and the results if I have them/can remember them.

Issue: When connecting to any server (smb, vnc, doesn't matter) the connection never initializes. It stays at the "Connecting to '...'" window. I can leave it up all day and it won't complete nor will it error out.

Current workaround: Create a new profile on the computer, and either User Switch or Migrate to that user.

Troubleshooting steps taken:

Ping. I can ping all and any servers fine. It returns with reasonable times, and resolves the host fine. If it's a webserver, I can go to it from any browser no problem.
Log. I can't find anything relating to when I first attempt connection, or anything during the duration of the attempt. Checked all logs that seemed relevant, and got nothing.
Netstat. Routing tables match the new user account fine.
sysctl.conf. Added the following:

net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
net.inet.tcp.mssdflt=1440
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=250000
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=250000

Rebooted, still nothing.
Reset PRAM. Nope.
Reset SMC. Nope.
Connect to server on new account, then try to access it on the broken one. Drops connection to the server and dissapears from finder.
Delete Finder.plist. Didn't help.
Disable local firewall. Nope.
Connect using static IP and DNS name. Nope.

I've probably tried more along the way, but have forgotten.


texts: How do I get my system preferences to show up?

texts: How do I make my system preferences show up again?  I tried logging in as another account on the same system:


texts: How to change title font color/style/etc for all Powerpoint slides?

texts:
I'm using Office 2011 on a MacbookPro.

How do I change the font color for each slide in my powerpoint presentation?  I inherited a presentation that has been edited by multiple people, each using different fonts, colors, backgrounds, etc.

What I'm trying to do is unify the presentation so that it looks nice by using one background, one font, etc.  However, I'm having a lot of trouble getting the title color to be uniform and I don't know if it's because I'm incompetent or the previous users did something advanced that is preventing me from doing so.

This is what I've done thus far:
I read on the internet about using something called a Slide Master in Powerpoint.  I tried using it to change the background for all slides (worked for me), changing all fonts to be Arial (works), and changing all fonts to be black (didn't work.  Header is still whatever the original color was).

In the Slide Master View, I highlighted the header of the slide.  I changed the font size to be 8 and to have strikethough in the title.  When I look at the ppt file, all titles are font size 8 and have strikethrough.  When I go back to Master View, I change the font size to 44 and remove strikethrough and all titles reflect this change.  However, when I change the color to be blue, the titles do not reflect this change.

I can go to each slide to manually change the title color, which does work, but that's very, very cumbersome, especially when Slide Master seems to be able to change other things for all slides in the presentation.

Does anyone know why this is or what I must do to fix this?  Is this a bug with Office 2011 on Mac and the workaround is to find a Windows machine to change this?  Am I incompetent and will be shamed for asking an obvious question?


texts: Apple IPhone 5c does not allow incoming or outgoing calls

texts: My IPhone doesn't allow incoming or outgoing phone calls. Starts to dial then just goes back to the contacts screen  I can receive messages and send messages BUT only to people with an Apple device. Please help.


texts: Phone lock app for ios other than assistive touch

texts:
I would like to use an app to lock the screen instead of using the lock button. Right now I have set the tap on assistive touch to lock the screen but I don't like it always hovering above all other apps.

Is there any app that can lock the phone or make assistive touch appear only on the home screen?


texts: OS X El Capitan downloaded form apple claims installation is successful, but new OS is not installed

texts:
I have a compatible macbook pro (late 2008) for OS 10.11 and wish to upgrade from OS 10.8.5

The download was fine (6.2gb) and the installer began by saying 'will take 7mb of space'.  I ran the installer from my downloads folder anyway thinking there might be a mistake in the notification, but alas it hasn't installed the new OS (despite saying 'installation was succesful').

How can I see the log file when I run the installer to find out an error to fix?


texts: How do I enable multiple phone numbers for iMessge and FaceTime?

texts: I have a couple of active SIM cards in a couple of different countries. How can I set my phone up to receive iMessages and FaceTime calls from all those numbers, even though there's obviously only one SIM in my phone at once?


texts:
In Server Manager, you can set predefined limits for the caching server. Is it possible to set a custom limit? Maybe through Terminal? How do I do this?

I want to limit caching to 100GB but my options are 25GB or 270GB or 755GB or Unlimited.


texts:
Is there an app to assign actions (such as shortcut keys) to mouse button chords?

For example, button 1 + button 4 = Cmd+C, button 4 alone = Cmd+V, etc.

I have tried a few utilities, but none of them support assigning a custom action to two buttons pressed at the same time.


texts:
Is there a ways to prevent people from changing wireless networks and other networks?

Does Apple have any kind of ACLs or something like Windows where you can control what the users can do?


texts: Can't create an outlet by drag and drop ,Xcode 6

texts:
I'm new to IOS XCODE6 ,trying to create a single view app .
When I try to create an outlet connection to the label by drag and drop ,
nothing shows up as you see in the picture below.
I did search the web all over to find an answer but nothing worked.
I'm working from a text book which is made for beginners,following all instructions and nothing there mentioned about this issue.
Any help will be appreciated.Thanks .


texts: Why does the News app lose the article you're reading when restoring

texts:
This is super, super annoying.  If I open the News app on my phone, start reading an article and then, say, reply to a message; every time I restore the article the News app just goes back to the home screen.

I'd expect this if my phone was running out of memory but it's not.

Is there anything I can do to prevent this?  Seems like a bug.


texts: Can I, perhaps with Cydia, on my iPhone, with out using iTunes, back up an app before updating to the newest version?

texts: There is an app that I currently have that I like, an update is available, but I haven't updated the app because while the new version adds some features I like, it also removes some features.  I would like to run both versions on my iPhone, so that I can use the old version when I want the removed feature, and run the new version when I don't.  Can I, Clone an App to a new name/directory on my iPhone, and then run the update, leaving me with two icons on my home screen, one that launches the old version, and one that launches the new version?


texts: Where can I find release notes for Yosemite beta releases

texts: I'm enrolled to receive OSX Yosemite beta update (AFTER the official release of Yosemite). I installed OS X 10.10.1 (14B17) without problems and now have IB423 available in the app store. I would like to view a list of changes / release notes relating to the build. Is this available somewhere?


texts: Google Chrome for OS X not detecting update

texts:
My version of Google Chrome on OS X doesn't seem to detect updates properly:

There is a new version (40.0.2214.93 as of this writing), as the Google Chrome release blog shows.
It doesn't give an error code. How can I resolve this?


texts: Is there an easy to use Bible program for both OS X and iOS?

texts:
Is there an easy to use Bible program, preferably with dictionary, concordance as well as text for maybe more than 1 translation.

My PC has PC Study Bible and it's great but I've grown to hate Parallels.

Tried Macsword and bombed out, too complicated for me.


texts: Google Voice messenger notification problem

texts: I have an iPhone 4 with the Google Voice messenger app. However I don't get notifications at all; I've tried everything! If I want to check if I recieved a text I have to go into the app and press the refresh button. Any suggestions?


texts: Want scan-only virus removal, not real-time

texts:
I'm running Little Snitch to catch real-time transmissions, but I do want to scan at off-hours for latent problems.
Which of the best anti-virus products support scan-only with all real-time checking disabled?
I was running Sophos but their real-time checking cannot be 100% disabled despite turning it off (they confirmed, and you can see it running non-stop in Activity Monitor, and it was slowing down development).
Thanks.


texts: What is this mysterious floating menu bar?

texts:
Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, a mysterious, floating menubar has appeared on my desktop. As you can see from the two screenshots below, it is there when I have many apps open and when I exit as many things as possible. It appears immediately after boot up, and interestingly, when I restart or shut down, it remains visible even after the system leaves the desktop view during the shut down process.

The bar can be moved, but not resized. Right clicking it does nothing.

Any ideas, it is quite annoying, especially when I am not using an external monitor.


texts: Using AppleScript to launch specific tabs in System Preferences panes

texts:
So I'm new to this and I might be overlooking something simple, but after failing to figure it out myself I attempted to follow the instructions from grgarside's solution to this question:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/250276/220050

What I am trying to do is open 'System Preferences > Keyboard > Dictation' (in Sierra, 10.12.2) using an AppleScript saved as an Application I've created via Automator. I've managed to open all of the other tabs within the 'Keyboard' pane (Keyboard, Text, Shortcuts, & Input Sources) using their anchors as part of an AppleScript but not 'Dictation', the 5th and final tab.

This is my current script, which opens 'System Preferences > Keyboard' but then halts with no error message. (I did note that it activates the Search field within the Keyboard pane though, which it does not do when scripted for the other 4 tabs)

tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell

Any advice?


texts: Is there a command line equivalent to pressing ctrl-space to toggle the keyboard layout? (I need this because I want to use Karabiner to tap shift to toggle.)


texts: How do I create a permanent snapshot of a Time Machine backup

texts:
I did a clean install of my Mac and continued to use my same Time Machine drive. I want to preserve the last backup before I did a clean install, but Time Machine will delete old backups as the drive gets full.

How can I copy a backup without worrying it will be deleted?

My first guess was to just perform a copy, but I'm not sure this will work due to the structure of a Time Machine backup.


texts: Is it possible to execute the package (located in FTP) from terminal of Mac

texts:
I have a scenario where I don't want to allow end-user to download the file but I want for them to install the required tool on their Mac machine using the package of FTP. Is there any way that allows the user to run the command from Terminal and execute the package without downloading it. While googling, I saw the option of wget but I am still researching to know whether it is doable or not.
Kindly share me your opinion on it.


texts:
I have a table featuring some outcome (column B) versus the day it happened (column A):

and I would like to produce another table with the unique dates in the first column and the total outcome of the day in the second column, looking like this:

I want the aggregated table to update itself automatically as new data are added to the first table, and I therefore tried to do it using formulae but it evaded me.


texts: On MacOS is there a way to change all Finder background images for icon view back to default?

texts: Just upgraded to Mojave and am using dark mode but I realise that many of the Finder windows have a background set to a light background that does not match the new Mojave look.  I can go into the view options and change the background to Default and that works.  But how can I do this for all my folders at once.  I have lots of folders that are customised in this way.  Thanks in advance for your help!


texts: Drivers for Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF: Any third-party options?

texts:
I have a lovely USB webcam, namely the QuickCam® Orbit AF. It's the type of webcam one often sees at Customs checkpoints at airports around the world. It also looks a bit like HAL.

The problem is that it's only fully supported under Windows. I'm after a third-party solution because:

  Your Logitech camera must be UVC
  (Universal Video Class) compliant in
  order to be used on your Mac OS 10.4.9
  and above computer. These standard UVC
  drivers are provided by the Operating
  System and will only provide minimal
  camera support.

  [...]

  NOTE: With the exception of the
  QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac and the HD
  Pro Webcam C910, all other UVC cameras
  are not officially supported on the
  Mac and some features or application
  support may not work.

I wonder if someone can point towards a third-party driver that'll make this thing run like it does on Windows?


texts: OneNote attempts to open on OneNote on Mac but under a different account

texts:
Odd title but please bear with me on this!

I have a O365 Business account with 2 users with active Microsoft 365 Business Basic
(formerly Office 365 Business Essentials) licenses. The issue exists only on my Mac machine (10.15.5), as my Windows box (1903) is working as expected (something in the Keychain possibly)

First user, for examples sake, shall be alpha@test.com (this test domain is used for everything that I have)

Second user (different domain) beta@anothertest.com (this domain was recently added to my O365 account in the past 60 days)

Both email accounts are in Mail.

So many moons ago since, I've made several dozen OneNote files for my note taking, studying etc. In the last 60 days, I've purchased a new domain and added that and made a new user within my 365 account. I intend to use this user account purely for email.

Here's where the issue starts, when I visit portal.office.com, and open up one of my OneNote notebooks and request to open it with the full fat client (OneNote from App store) it then prompts me to login with my second user (beta@anothertest.com). At this point I can either proceed to login or change user. I do the latter, and states that I do not have access. I then retry and sign in with the (beta@anothertest.com) account and states also I do not have access.

Could something have been modified within my Keychain once I had added them into Mail?

As a test, I've created a Time Machine back and reloaded another Mac to break fix it and so far what I've done is searched for all traces of Office or beta@anothertest.com in Keychain and wiped them out, even went to /Library/Containers and wiped out any folders of OneNote, no change.

So StackExchange, where else can I look to stop this goram bug and get back to my note taking!


texts: Force-disconnect all remote users from Applescript or shell?

texts:
I have a mac that I want to automatically restart every night, but it is regularly accessed remotely from other machines in the house, and if anyone is still connected when it needs to restart it displays a prompt that it will disconnect remote users if the restart is allowed, and then just sits there waiting for a response.

Is there any way, possibly using Applescript or shell, to force a restart and automatically disconnect any remote users?


texts: Where is the "Send to Archive" option in High Sierra

texts:
I have recently updated to Mac OS X High Sierra and noticed that there is no longer a archive or compress option in the context menu in finder.

Has this feature been removed or is a there a setting to enable to use this?


texts: iCloud sent mail (from Gmail web interface) not listed

texts:
I trying to use the Gmail send mail as feature in which I use the iCloud mail credentials and smtp.mail.me.com.

It works, I was able to send mail from Gmail web interface while the sender was my iCloud account.

But when looking for that mail in the iCloud Sent folder it is not there. So it seems there is no log in the apple side of emails sent using Gmail send as feature. Or I'm missing something?


texts: Can Firefox 4 and Firefox 3.6.15 coexist on the same OSX machine?

texts:
Firefox 4 is out and I'm a little bit worried about the lack of compatibility of my loved Addons on this new version.
Can I install Firefox 4 to try it without the need to upgrade the 3.6.15 version?


texts:
The MPlayerX (latest version, 1.0.22.1) video controls used to be at the bottom of the window, where they were easily accessible. Some time ago (on the order of weeks or months), despite MPlayerX not having changed, the video controls have changed to go at the top somehow. There, they are partly obscured by the title bar. I know I can turn the title bar off, but I rather want the controls to go back on the bottom of the window...

So far I've tried just restarting MPlayerX as well as removing the preferences associated within my user account (by removing org.niltsh.* files from ~/Library/Preferences). Any suggestions?


texts: Normally there is a "favorites" tab on the left side where I can easily navigate from folder to folder...where did it go? Not sure if this is just me being stupid and accidentally disabling it, or if it disappeared on me when I updated to El Capitan.


texts:
I have a failing SSD in my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro (5,4) that I'd like to install OS X on. It's only temporary because I'll be ordering a new SSD in a couple of weeks.

The OS X installer rightly alerts me that the drive is failing so I should replace it - but I'm wondering if there's any way to get around this alert and install it anyway?


texts: Why do my apps open in a single space when resuming?

texts:
When I restart yosemite and I select 'reopen windows when loggin back in' I have a lot of apps that open in the same space.

For example when I have sublime text and libreoffice open in a space and restart, the space they they were on will be empty. They will all be on a single space but only in the mission control view and not in the actual space.

In contrast to safari and other osx native apps. I would just like to be able to shut down my macbook and resume in the exact same way. Is there a setting for the apps to resume in the space there were on, fully openened?


texts: Why didn't I receive this two-factor authentication code?

texts:
I logged into a MacBook to complete an app purchase and was asked to enter a 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) code, with the dialog stating that I needed to verify from a trusted device (presumably the iPhone on the account). However, no 2FA code never popped up, and I had to get a text after several retries.

What went wrong, or am I doing something incorrectly? iPhone is Version 11.2.6, Mac is OS X 10.11.6.

Two-Factor Authentication is enabled.


texts: I just purchased a ticket for a movie tonight using the Fandango app on my iPhone 4S running iOS 6. I know that Fandango is one of the current few Passbook supported apps. What I don't know is how to ensure that my tickets will show up in Passbook. Is there anything special I have to do? The Walgreens app prompted me to put my card in Passbook so I was expecting similar behavior from Fandango. Will the tickets just show up in Passbook closer to showtime?


texts: In iOS 9 why is some text from speech to text underlined in blue?

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When I dictate text to my phone, sometimes to avoid having to type it, some of it is underlined with blue dots.
It looks real pretty, but the purpose of this is lost on me: if these words are treated differently from other words, or if the underlining means something, I have no idea what it could possibly be.

At first, I thought that it was because during voice dictation, the software had understood a couple of different things and that I could then chose between different options, but that's not what it seems to be.
If I click the words that are underlined, it doesn't give me anymore options than when I click non-underlined words.

Maybe it's app-specific? Although it looks like it would be system-wide. The app used in this screen cap is What's App.


texts: Mac os x 10.5.8 Can't download Flash Player!

texts:
I am having issues installing Adobe Flash Player on my 10.5.8 Mac. I uninstalled the previous version. My understanding understand is that i need an older version of flash player as this is an older Mac.

I've been to the archived flash player page and tried downloading several older versions. In each case, it starts to download, then after say 19% it says "Installation Failed". I've tried loads of times, and tried loads of different ways of doing it and i'm at a loss!!! Please Help!


texts:
I recently upgraded my Mac Pro with 24Gb of ram, quite the nice feeling.

When I booted up the system again, I got this message :

Quite nice I thought, seems the memory is working as it should. And apparently, it is.

But now, every time I reboot my computer, Memory Slot Utility feels the need to tell me this again. Ive been trying to find a setting or app for this Memory Slot Utility, but with no luck.

Does anyone know how to silence this on start alert forever ?


texts: Is there a manual for JavaScriptCore shell (jsc)?

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MacOS ships with a JavaScript shell jsc in the JavaScriptCore framework.  The easy way to run it from Terminal is to link it into a standard directory:

ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Resources/jsc /usr/local/bin/jsc

What built-in JavaScript functions does jsc support?

The manual page documents some JavaScript functions like readline() and run(filename).   But it's out of date — it's missing the command line options printed out by jsc --help.

I found the the source code to jsc.  It sets up more JavaScript functions.  Most of them look like testing and benchmarking hooks, but there some useful-looking functions like read and print.  Are they documented anywhere?


texts: Read old/previous/past console log entries from an iPhone

texts:
I know there are plenty of ways to receive real-time log messages from an iPhone - e.g. the Console app on a Mac, Apple Configurator, and cfgutil syslog. But is there a way to look back at older messages, say from an hour before I plugged the device into my Mac?

I have macOS 10.13 and iOS 11.2


texts: How to download roblox without being caught by auburn school district iPad 6th generation

texts: How do you download roblox without it saying it is restricted


texts: Why does iCal always show days of the week and months of the year in English?

texts: I have iCal open in Italian, and for some reason the months and days of the week continue to show up in English. Is there some way to get it to run entirely in Italian?


texts: How to get back the "Login Window..." icon in the menu bar?

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Once I've upgraded to Lion I had a new icon on my Menu Bar next to Spotlight. It was an outline of a mugshot similar like one of the Guest account.

When I clicked on that icon I was able to select "Login Window..." which basically locked my Mac.

For some reason this icon is gone. I don't use it frequently so I can't clearly say when it went missing but I'd say within last 10 days probably.

How do I get it back? I have no idea where to re-enable it.


texts: HFS partition fails to mount on Mac after being mounted on Ubuntu

texts:
I recently followed the instructions here to mount an Apple-formatted HFS external drive on Ubuntu. I transferred the files I needed, then unmounted the drive. Now the drive won't mount in OSX. In Disk Utility, the volume (top level) and partition (bottom level) for the external hard drive show up, but the partition will not mount. First Aid on the top level completes without error, but running First Aid on the partition level fails.

What could be preventing me from mounting the drive after following those instructions?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

$ diskutil verifyVolume disk2s2
Started file system verification on disk2s2 WD My Passport
Verifying file system
Volume is already unmounted
Performing fsck_hfs -fn -x /dev/rdisk2s2
File system check exit code is 8
Restoring the original state found as unmounted
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: Exec format error


texts: Where and how are the extra columns available for list view in Finder defined?

texts:
In an answer to an earlier question I found out that the available columns for Finder's list view are relative to the folder path. This means that one could choose to add a Dimensions column when browsing under ~/Pictures or Artist under ~/Music or Codec under ~/Movies.

Where and how these are defined?

Is there a centralised file that links a path ~/Pictures, column Dimensions and action "get file's dimensions" together?

Or is the column and the action defined in a centralised location and then a folder's property (like "this is a folder for pictures") enables the columns?

Or are these all defined relatively under the folder path? Or something else?

I think I'm indirectly asking whether or not it is possible to customise the columns (add own) and enable them for different locations.


texts: Installation of Yosemite is interrupted by a white screen at ⅓ of progress bar

texts:
The loading of the installation from a Yosemite USB installer drive is interrupted by a blank screen about ⅓ into the progress bar. The same USB drive works on another (older) MacBook Pro.

The MacBook (8,2 which should be early 2011 but on the back it says 2010) is equipped with a blank SSD drive.

The following boot options had some effect:

alt (boot select) allows me to select the USB drive.
cmd-alt-P-R (NVRAM reset) had some effect (screen is brighter now), but did not solve the problem.
alt-R (internet recovery) loaded all-right, went into the phase where there is the Apple logo and the spinning lines below, and then went blank.
alt-D (internet HW test) is executing, but does not find anything but the disconnected battery (battery is dead).

following boot options do not have an effect:

cmd-V (verbose)
cmd-L (log)
D (hardware test) - no surprise since nothing is installed on the SSD

Any clues as to how I can get the machine working?


texts: Change characters in press and hold popup? Seems changed in Yosemite?

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Does anyone know where the pressandhold.app file is in Yosemite? I used this answer (How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?) to customize mine, but lost the customizations upon upgrade. Now the System/Library/Input Methods folder is empty.

Thanks!


texts: I cannot change the individual colors in my charts. Under "Chart Colors" there is only this list of 12 predefined color swatches called "fill sets". Most of them are ugly. Not being able to change individual colors means no ability to add the company's brand colors to documents and that sort of thing. How can I change the colors of my chart?


texts: Some iCloud events not showing up in iCal

texts: A few weeks ago, I noticed that some of my events in Calender was not showing up on my mac (which is running Mountain Lion). I looked and they show up fine on icloud.com and they work fine on my iPad and iPhone. I tried removing the calender from my mac and rebooting and then readding it and the events still did not show up. I noticed that events that I would add or change since then are showing up, but there are a few that still will not show up, only ones that have been recently updated will "reappear". I have tried quitting and restarting Calender on my mac as well as removing icloud calender from my mac and readding it which did not fix the problem. I have also checked that the calenders listed were correctly trying to link with icloud and that tried to manually refresh those calenders. I also checked to make sure my software was up to date. Nothing seems to be working. Does anyone have any ideas?


texts: SSH port forwarding not working in macos catalina (10.15)

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Something in macOS Catalina (10.15.1) is interfering with ssh port forwarding (needed for localhost debugging and developing against a web server system deployed in AWS).

I assume something with the enhanced security features, but I've been unable to figure out what from searching and poking around.

The tunnel seems to start up fine, but when a client tries to connect the connection is denied.  The tunnel & app startup commands are the same as what was working fine in all previous releases of the os, afaik, but are failing on this new 10.15 install (nothing ported, fresh setup of tools.  I did change my default shell back to bash.)

Network configuration:  There is a redis server in an AWS VPC that's not publicly routable.  We have a bastion server that is publically routable that can forward the connection via ssh.  I can connect to the bastion server for an interactive session, so the keys and passphrases are all ok as far as I know.  There's no VPN to AWS, so the bastion host is the only way into the private subnets.

Here's the command we use to start up the tunnel (prodbastion is defined in .ssh/config):

ssh -v -N -L 6399:redis.<HOSTNAME>:6379 prodbastion

This logs verbosely in the shell, here's the end of the supposedly successful authentication startup, followed by the repeated client connection failures

debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to <bastionprod hostname> ([<bastion prod ip>]:22).
debug1: Local connections to LOCALHOST:6399 forwarded to remote address redis.<HOSTNAME>:6379
debug1: Local forwarding listening on ::1 port 6399.
debug1: channel 0: new [port listener]
debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 6399.
debug1: channel 1: new [port listener]
...
debug1: channel 2: free: direct-tcpip: listening port 6399 for redis.<HOSTNAME> port 6379, connect from 127.0.0.1 port 51454 to 127.0.0.1 port 6399, nchannels 3
debug1: Connection to port 6399 forwarding to redis.<HOSTNAME> port 6379 requested.
debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]
channel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
debug1: channel 2: free: direct-tcpip: listening port 6399 for redis.<HOSTNAME> port 6379, connect from 127.0.0.1 port 51457 to 127.0.0.1 port 6399, nchannels 3
debug1: Connection to port 6399 forwarding to redis.<HOSTNAME> port 6379 requested.
debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]
...

The client is a nodejs web app, needing data from redis.  the logs there just say more or less cannot connect:

2019-12-09T17:13:51.286Z - info: Client Redis connection: {"host":"localhost","port":"6399","database":"4"}
2019-12-09T17:13:51.299Z - info: mongoose connected
2019-12-09T17:13:51.332Z - error: Redis error occured: AbortError: Ready check failed: Redis connection lost and command aborted. It might have been processed.
2019-12-09T17:13:51.473Z - error: Redis error occured: AbortError: Ready check failed: Redis connection lost and command aborted. It might have been processed.
...

It seems to have the same failure with the system ssh or openssh installed with brew.

Update in response to questions:

It was my error all along, the hostname in the tunnel command didn't exist but my bash history led me to believe it did
firewall was off
telnet could not connect to 6399 with the tunnel up to a bad hostname
telnet (and our redis-using app) could connect with the right hostname.
argh and sorry about the confusion!


texts: Can an iPhone be backed up when its screen has been damaged?

texts: I have an iPhone 5s and I dropped and smashed it the other day and now it has just stopped working. The screen is fully black and I cant see anything nor touch the screen but it charges and vibrates when i get messages. I want to back it up before getting a new phone but when I try and back up it asks for me to put my  passcode in which I can't do. Is there any possible way I can actually  back up my phone?.


texts: iOS / ipadOS app with share action for SCP / SFTP?

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I've tried a few clients that come up with a search, notably

WebSSH
SCP Client
FTPManager

All of which have the basic functionality of transferring stored files from the Files app, but from my testing none of these have implemented a the share action (i.e. it's not an option when you click the share button and you're presented with AirDrop, Messages, Mail, etc.). Do any of the other apps out there have this?


texts: If I get an app that contains a monthly fee and I delete it, do i still have to pay?

texts:
I got a palm reading app, not knowing that it included a monthly fee of $9.99. I have the iPhone 7 so I put my fingerprint in my phone. My fingerprint lets me pay for stuff, download apps, and open my phone. I accidentally gave the app my fingerprint not even thinking and I was so used to it. After I gave the my fingerprint, I saw what I did. I deleted the app right away and viewed its description, it said that it has a free 7-day trial so technically I didn't buy anything, I just allowed it to take money from me every month without my saying.

I don't have a Mac laptop and all the results I searched needed an Apple computer. I tried canceling my Visa card but it wouldn't allow me. I don't want $9.99 being taken away from me every month, is there anyway I can cancel it?


texts:
So to start off I'm ridiculously disabled. Can only use one hand (among many other things). Have started experimenting with the dictation accessibility functionality. So far its mostly in the form of using keyboard shortcuts.

Have been creating my own shortcuts for applications that allow your own shortcut config files. For example the IINA media player. This has worked wonderfully.

However, there are numerous applications, well, most of them, that don't allow this. They use single buttons such as D or ESCAPE which it seems you cannot create voice commands for. So, I was wondering, does anyone know of a workaround for this? Or perhaps an alternate voice recognition app (preferably not in the price range of Dragon Speech)?

I am relatively experienced with the command line if that helps open up some options.

Thank-you!


texts: My computers hard drive is full, and while I edited a .h file in xcode it said it can't be autosaved (obviously), but then the file name in the navigation area turned red and I wasn't able to get into the file. This happened to two files, and one of them went available again after deleting some files but one isn't even though I have cleared space. I can't seem to find it in the project directory neither. What has happened, is my file deleted?


texts: /var/lock doesn't exist in OSX, so where do the lock files / PID files go?


texts: Pages for iPhone: how to add a page break?

texts:
I am using Pages on an iPhone (iOS 10.3), and I can't add a page break. Apple's support page (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18098) says to just press the "" key in the format bar above the keyboard, but I don't see it in my iPhone. What I see in my keyboard is just this:

As you can see, there's no format bar above the keyboard anywhere. Maybe it does show up on an iPad, but as I said, I'm on an iPhone.


texts: Apple MacBook Pro 2013 with 512Gb SSD cannot install OS X

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I had an issue running an App and the vendor suggested I should revert to the earlier OS X 10.10.3.

I located on Time Machine the backup version I needed, waited for the format and restore. I then needed to repeat the process of restoring from Time Machine, but now the MacBook is in a stupid state.

The system starts with OS X Utilities. Restore from Time Machine backup gets me to the point where it wants to know the destination drive, but my SSD doesn't show up.

Same thing if I choose Reinstall OS X.

If I select Disk Utility, I can see the SSD as "Macintosh HD" and I can see "First Aid" and "Partition" but no "Erase". If I select "Verify Disk" or "Repair Disk", the log shows that everything is working fine....it is 499.42Gb in size. The OS X Base System volume is also there....

So without seeing "Macintosh HD", I cannot recover from Time Machine or Reinstall OS X.

I am stuck, any ideas folks?

Follow-up:

Thanks for your kind reply.  To explain again:

I restored a Time Machine version of OS X 10.10.3, then I did some work and then decided to recover the same version of Time Machine backup a 2nd time.
The second restore of OS X 10.10.3 failed.
Using Disk Utility, I can see the "Macintosh HD" volume, but only the tags "First Aid" and "Partition" are shown.

I followed your procedure described above to create a USB boot system.  The following happened:

A 4Gb USB stick was declared by the system as being too small.
I eventually found a 16Gb USB stick and the download proceeded, but when the system was in "Setting up...." mode, I got a warning that the memory was too small and that memory was nearly full.  A short while later I got a "Memory Full" error!!! and nothing further other than the spinning wheel and a waste of time.
Next day I went to the store and bought a 64Gb USB stick.  When I started the system copy process, the Internet was having issues it I received a notice that the process would take around 738hrs!!!!
Eventually I got to a 2hrs15min download and the process completed, except the notice that my system would restart in 10secs never happened....I clicked the "Restart" soft key and off we went.  10hrs later I was still seeing the "Setting up...." message and the occasional flicker of the USB LED.
I then found a bootable OS X 10.8.2 and restarted my Macbook Pro.
Using the Disk Utility, I can see the "Macintosh HD", but again only the "First Aid" and "Partition" tabs are shown.
This time when I do a "Repair Disk" I get the messages:
"disk0s2 has CoreStorage features not supported by this fsck_cs version"
"Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map"
"Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk."
Clicking "Repair Disk" just brings me to the same messages.

If I could just "Erase" my "Macintosh HD" volume, I would be good to go.....frustrating!


texts: I can’t remove my old phone number from iMessage or FaceTime

texts:
I had an old phone number on my iPhone 8 carrier free. I recently switched to another carrier but I cannot use my new phone number to activate iMessage. Furthermore, I cannot remove my old phone number which still appears on my iMessage settings.

I tried inserting the old sim from the old number to see if it would remove the number, I tried changing my Apple ID password, trying the web based iMessage removal, erase network settings but I still can’t activate iMessage.


texts:
I have Jenkins running on my computer and occupying port 8080.

I'm unable to kill it.

Something like ps -9 PID would kill the process, but Jenkins will restart with a different PID.

I thought maybe when Jenkins was started, there was also a user "jenkins" created. I searched for that user in "System Preferences > Users & Groups" but I couldn't find it.

Any idea how I can terminate Jenkins? Maybe I need to delete the user "jenkins" ?


texts:
I have a MacBook Air, I want to disable the CMD+E keyboard shortcut to eject because I want to assign it to another application and I really don't need to eject anything as I don't have a CD drive.

I've searched in the keyboard preference but that shortcut is not there.

Any ideas?


texts: Minimum charging voltage for an iPhone 6

texts:
I am creating a solar panel charger for my iPhone. For the charger I need to know the minimum charging voltage for the phone to begin to charge.

What is the minimum voltage required for an iPhone to begin to charge?


texts: Inserting Equations in Pages - Keyboard Shortcut?

texts: I use the "Insert > Equation..." feature in Pages quite frequently. Is there a keyboard shortcut to open this box faster than clicking through first "Insert" and then "Equation..."?


texts:
I've got a mid 2012 MBP 13" in which I inserted a brand new MX100 in the place of the old HDD. I've put the old HDD in a case in the superdrive place and tried to install 10.10 but the install failed.

I then tried with th SSD in an USB case, managed to install & boot 10.10. Then I put the SSD back in the Mac and got the stop sign at boot.

At first I thought it was the Firevault on the HDD which was causing the issue but even after turning it off, the mac didn't want to boot...

Which brings me 2 questions:

Why does it boot when plugged in an USB case and not from inside?
How can I fix this thing?


texts: Lost iPhone not connected to Find My iPhone!

texts: Lost my iPhone and it wasn't connected to Find My iPhone, how can I find it?


texts:
I'm looking for a solution to read/write raw data from and to mifare classic tags. On Android, there is NFC Taginfo, NXP TagInfo and MIFARE Classic Tool.
Alternatively, I would be willing to program my own macos application if somebody could point me to some good resources on how the pc/sc and nfc communications are supposed to work.
PLEASE NOTE: NDEF is NOT raw data! NDEF Apps like e.g. NFC Tools for Desktop are no use to me, because they only support reading/writing NDEF records but not raw data.


texts: How do I get these Internet/Wi-Fi details to give to tech support and is it safe?

texts:
I have been having Internet connection issues for weeks and my ISP sent me a new Modem/Router today, but the issues are still there. The tech has opened up an online case I can respond to and attach screenshots if need be.

Now the tech is asking me for the RSSI, Noise and TX Rate values.

How do I get these details? And are they safe to give to him?

I’m using an iMac with macOS High Sierra installed.


texts: How to let MacBook Pro recognize my external hard drive as internal hard drive?

texts:
I'd like to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, but as the internal hard drive cable is not working, I'm using it with an external hard drive plugged in which OS X is installed on.

When I try to install Windows 7 it says that I have to have an internal hard drive to install it. So I'm just wondering if there is a way that can make my laptop think that the external hard drive is an internal so I could install Windows, or is there any other way to install Windows?

I don't want to install Windows in a Virtual Machine.


texts: Do I need the latest version of macOS to run Xcode and publish macOS/iOS apps?

texts:
To release an app to the App Store or build one you need a Mac. So my sister offered me her 13" 2013 MacBook Air (128GB) for €200 (~$230). It's still running pretty well, so price-wise it's worth it (I guess).

But I heard that to use Xcode, you need the latest version, which is usually bound to the latest OS version.

Is this true? Do I need the latest OS version (High Sierra as of now) to develop and publish Mac/iOS apps?


texts:
Is there a way to add applications/processes to the Power Nap function on a Mac? In other words, instead of just the default Time Machine, Mail, etc. you can make it run other applications too. I am running a Mac Mini with OS X Yosemite.

Thanks


texts: How can I change notification sounds on iOS?

texts:
When I get a notification, my phone has the standard "message received" sound for e.g. Twitter.

iOS 5 has sound settings for Text, Voicemail, Mail Received, Sent, and Tweet.

However, the Tweet sound seems to only apply to outgoing tweets, not received ones. In Notification Center settings, I can turn on "Sound" for each application, but is it possible to change the sound for app notifications globally, or better yet, per-application?


texts: Recording multiple midi inputs to separate tracks on garageband

texts:
Is there a way to record multiple midi inputs to separate tracks simultaneously using garageband?

I'm holding an interview tomorrow and want a microphone for the subject and myself. I need to separately edit the tracks.


texts:
My iTunes library is on an external disk.

I forgot to attach the external disk once and now I have some iTunes files locally.

How do I merge these local files with the external library?


texts: How do I fix macOS Mojave httpd syntax error in a localhost setup?

texts:
System details:

OS Host: Mac OS Mojave
PHP: 7.1.23

I am trying to set up my local server on a new Mac. I have been following the following instructions on https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-13841.

After enabling PHP, perl and personal websites, I check  the configuration with apachectl configtest and the terminal returns the following:

httpd: Syntax error on line 511 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 16 of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf: No matches for the wildcard '*.conf' in '/private/etc/apache2/users', failing (use IncludeOptional if required)

However, I am expecting syntax OK. What should I do to fix this?


texts: Quickest way to change "Output Device" while html5 video is playing?

texts:
While playing html5 I am unable to reliably change the Output Device:

changing the Output Device while the html5 is playing never works.
pausing the html5 playback, and changing the Output Device setting never works.
waiting until the html5 finishes, then changing the Output Device sometimes works.

Once I start playing an html5 file, the only sure fire way to change the OutputDevice is:

pause the html5 player;
launch iTunes or QuickTime and start playing something;
change the Output Device;
stop playing video / music on iTunes or QuickTime;
un-pause the html5 player.
the sound for the html5 player is now coming out of the correct Output Device setting.

So, what is the quickest way to change the Output Device while an html5 video is playing?

[using OSX v10.11 with Chrome v47.0]


texts: iPhone Email - How to prevent a datestamp from being turned into a Link to Create an Event

texts:
I have an email that has something like:

XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa
XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa
XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa

The iPhone keeps turning 4:20pm Feb 11 into a link to create an event on the iPhone which looks real ugly, dark blue link.

Is there a way to prevent this, and tell iOS to ignore this in the Mail App?

Thanks


texts: My iphone X with latest iOS says 'Location Shared by another device' but I have no other device

texts:
My iphone X with latest iOS says 'Location Shared by another device' when I open Find my Friends, but I have no other device.
I also have 2FA enabled so I'm not too worried about someone logging in as me, just curious how to go about solving it.


texts: MacBook Pro stuck in gray screen when booting

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I've got a Late-2011 15" MacBook Pro stuck in the gray screen when booting AFTER login.
I've tried removing the drive (it's non-retina) and booting from a working bootable Yosemite installer, no luck. (it sees the startup USB drive, the progress bar progresses, but stuck at the gray screen again even without a drive.

Tried NVRAM reset (cmd option P R), it has reset (the login sound's volume changed) but nothing changed.

Tried holding D on startup, AHT doesn't start, instead, it tries to boot into the OS.

Tried Cmd V, it sometimes works and displays the verbose output, sometimes, it acts like I haven't even pressed. Again, stuck after login.

Tried booting again from USB, I select USB (after seeing both drives correctly), but no luck, it's also stuck.

I've stumbled upon this:

Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install)

I've tried booting into single user mode with Cmd S, it worked ONCE, I've disabled the graphics extensions just as shown at that post, restarted, but again, nothing changed.

More weirdly, now the Cmd S doesn't work either. It just takes me to login screen without showing the terminal, just as I haven't pressed anything.

Why would this happen? Why would a Mac refuse to enter hardware test mode, single user mode, or refuse to boot from a working bootable Yosemite drive both with or without the main drive installed?

UPDATE: I've run the AHT and got an error:

4MEM/66/40000000: 0x84e0ec98

It looks like a memory issue, but I'm not sure.

UPDATE 2: I've tried reinserting the RAMs and the the problem is not reported anymore. However, the Mac still won't boot.


texts: File » Revert to Previous: Where are versions stored?

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Over time you learn some tricks on your Macbook. TextEdit has this really neat feature, where it takes care of autosave and allows you to revert to nearly any prior edit stage of a document.

Question: Is there a way to save all the previous versions of a .txt document accessible through this feature, ideally with a datestamp for each?

Perhaps using some sort of Automator or AppleScript?


texts: How do I prevent getting several alerts for a calendar event?

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I am a Helicopter Pilot, the company I work for utilizes acuity scheduling for scheduling flights, all the pilots utilize google calendar but I am the only one with the problem. So we had a flight scheduled at 7:15. Just before the appointment I received 3 email alerts from iCloud and 1 alert from google.

Why do I get several alerts and how can I stop this?


texts: Capacitor discharge for replacing broken iMac power supply

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A friend has offered to give me an iMac (either 2009 0r 2012 model but I haven't seen it close up yet). It works, other than a broken power supply.

This ifixit page details the power supply replacement process:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2308+Power+Supply+Replacement/1771#s9148

However, this guide warns you not to touch the exposed face of the power supply as the capacitors can shock you if they have retained a charge.

Now I'm no stranger to the inside of a computer, but I haven't replaced a power supply with exposed capacitors before. So to avoid the risk altogether, how long would it take for the capacitors to discharge if it's simply left unplugged. How can I safely test for discharge with a multimeter?


texts: How to change the color profile of the OS X login screen?

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I'm using a calibrated version of my monitors color profile.
The monitor is calibrated inside of the OS X System Preferences on a Mac Pro.

The standard color profile of my Samsung monitor "Syncmaster" is very yellow/dark and pretty much unusable.

When I boot up, the login screen looks horrible because OS X loads the unmodified color profile, when I type in my password to log in the color profile changes to my calibrated profile ("SyncMaster Calibrated").

How do I force OS X to always use my calibrated color profile?


texts: I have OS X Mavericks and I want to try to learn Objective-C(++). For this, I need to install the gobjc compiler, how do it (I've tried to install gobjc from sources but it's still not present)?


texts: LibreOffice error: "Either another instance of LibreOffice is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked"

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When I try to open LibreOffice, I get the following error:

  Either another instance of LibreOffice is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked.

  Simultaneous access can lead to inconsistencies in your personal settings. Before continuing, you should make sure user 'macowner' closes LibreOffice on host 'new-host.home'.

  Do you really want to continue?

I don't know why this started.  Also, there is only one account on this computer, I changed its name from "macowner" to its current name over a month ago.  Edit: I found out my computer kept the same file directory structure when I changed the username of my account, so my account's directory is called /Users/macowner.  This may be where LibreOffice gets the string for its error message.

I'm running LibreOffice 4.1 and OS X 10.7.5.

How do I remove this error?